diff --git "a/test.csv" "b/test.csv" new file mode 100644--- /dev/null +++ "b/test.csv" @@ -0,0 +1,16326 @@ +text,label +"Any proof for these comments. Trudeau has given no indication that anything you say in your comment has validity. Name one incident. Anything at all. No, huh.",0 +i am!!,0 +I know first hand what this man has done .He made it impossible for me to get clean and try and become a asset to the community I had cared about so much.He did not care one bit that i was productive for 11 years as asst produce manger. at sarrs market place.That when it closed my life went upside down.HE only cared about my sickness. I have bin in a long term treatment center out of town to try and get some kind of life back but my heart will always belong to Port Angles.Its not all his fault but I feel he has don more harm than good.And Karma always comes around.,0 +So if my investments decline is Morneau going to let me deduct the loss against my employment income? Why take any risk if Morneau wants to extort the profits?,0 +"Are you really naive enough to believe that no charges equals no corruption? But I could settle for ""lying"" and ""self-serving"".",0 +Exactly. I was just reading a story about how Ed Norton made a fraction of what Brad Pitt did in Fight club. Equal parts. Equal face time doesn't warrant equal pay. Their greed about what OTHERS were making will now undermine their whole bottom line. Smart.,0 +"Man o man, what has our media become, and who hires these writers, for lack of a better word. + +Starting an article with stating such an alarming problem, without any proof or context, just IT IS believe me...and then going on to lecture what should be done... + +What happen to just reporting the ACTUALLY, FACTUAL news as it was happening in reality... + +Why Hype and make everything so Alarming..? + +Can not wait for media to regain a level of professionalism again... + +Hire some writers with integrity instead of many fancy degrees from gender studies classes...",0 +"ICE chief's statement says its annual budget will be $7.9 billion, including ""$4.9 billion to expand detention capacity."" Do we really want to pay that much money to detain people, most of them productive members of society who start businesses, pick our crops, mow our lawns, etc.? What happened to small government?",0 +"""If you think sports followers are intelligensia then you are wrong"". + +Hmmm, interesting comment considering you repeatedly post here.",0 +"That's great. You know he's just aching to have a few of those! Sieg heil, Kim Jong Drumpf.",0 +"You did not, or can not, read my comment. So how about having a literate friend read it to you? + +Despite what Sean Hannity said, the investigation staff is still being hired, so it's idiotic to already expect results. + +None of the investigations underway have released any kind of report. Nothing. So you might consider rethinking your confidence that nothing will be found.",0 +"The Texans seem to have grit which is certainly lacking these days among those who would prefer to see them all suffering. The fact that the Federal folks were well organized and working well with the state and local folks must be driving those of you who want this to be more of a disaster so you can pin it on Trump. People should be marveling as I am at how all those folks are reaching out to help one another no matter skin color, flags, or political bent. +I can't get over the people who want to see this turn into a worse disaster then it is just so they can crow about Texas getting what it deserved or how Tump failed. So far, people are co no together and helping each other.",0 +"If the media had had its way, Donald Trump wouldn't have been invited to a single deabate....until they discovered the difference in their ratings when he was there and when he wasn't. OLive is just trying to game the system; nothing to see here, just move along. Business as usual. We know best which candidates ""clearly stand out from the crowd"".",0 +In the unlikely event Nafta collapses will Canada sign a free trade deal with Mexico with its low cost labor?,0 +An altar server is not an acolyte. That's been a misuse or collapse of categories for some time.,0 +My veracity was not only proven but upheld by SCOTUS. Yours on the other hand is in tatters and you’re stopping to ad hominem attacks.,0 +"So, they're saying that non-white people are the same, and just any old""PoC"" will do? ""Your beliefs, experiences and opinions don't matter, we just need to tick off your colour on our rainbow chart. Oh, would you mind posing for a photo?"" I would have thought institutions of learning would prize diversity of thought over anything else (""black people all think the same, just make sure we've got a couple to show off"") + +...and do they realize they're all chasing the same very small pool of candidates? Look, I know they don't mean East Asians when they say diversity (they're honorary white people because they're successful despite all this white supremacy), so that leaves about 10 % of the total population of Canadians. And that's just raw numbers, not filtering for age, accreditation, geography, etc. Black Canadians are about 3% of the total population. It's simple math, all of our universities will not be able to be as diverse as they want to be.",0 +I'd feel the same if I had Stalin's autograph; and his death count seriously approached that of Hitler!,0 +"Surely the Queen of radical, alt-Left, anti-American, socialist, Progressive Democrat hubris either breathes only through her far Left nostril; or else, delusionally self-identifies having two far Left nostrils.",0 +"You are free to believe what you like. However there is a burden of rationality inherent in conversation particularly public ones. Advancing arguments of a god should require that you engage with the following: + +1. Posit a set of axioms that exclude sought proof. +2. Define god. +3. Define existence. +4. Show objective evidence that a god meets that criteria. +5. Show that the result is significant! + +IMO. Morality, just like god is likely a construct. It is an very important one, but a construct none the less. Arguments that rely on the most good, or the absoluteness of good are flawed. Humans certainly do not seem to be divine or special in any sense. It seems likely that we are simply cleverer animals. The initial formation of the universe is outside the boundaries of concrete knowledge. However the formation of the universe while including randomness, is not random.",0 +You first AKWolf1.,0 +And there will be those who will claim that every single one of these was justified.,0 +"Indeed it is a Canadian topic, but oz as you would know, and Canada, are very similar, and lived in Canada for some time, I can't help drawing a comparison on social issues like this one. Maybe Canada is more progressive than oz, afterall Multiculturalism is one of your greatest exports, and if the legal dope regime works out, maybe we'll stumble down that road as well. As for the ''riot''--tongue in cheek mate. No Australian government, federal or state is that brave.",0 +"Disagree. Helicopter parents are putting their own needs first...the need to be seen as uber supportive and perfect parents. Helicopter parents tend to love posting to social media to document it. But it's really about them, not the kids. Helicopter parents protect their kids from failures and hurts, rather than teaching resiliency, lest it be a reflection on them as parents. This is how we get snowflakes with glass jaws who fall apart when life throws them a punch.",0 +So Conoco bought it? Well then she has no claim at all.,0 +"I looked it up for you james - + + ""On days when Mr. Trump is not in the city, the department estimates that it costs $127,000 to $146,000 a day “to protect the first lady and her son while they reside in Trump Tower.” On days when Mr. Trump is in New York City — he has not yet returned since his inauguration — the Police Department anticipates “an average daily rate of $308,000.” + +Tht's less than 1/3 of james' bald faced lie. http://www.snopes.com/melania-trump-nyc-costs/",0 +"Oh well, if they can move the price by couple of bucks just by opening their mouth then why not. +Talk is cheap, nobody really knows how much oil they pump anyway...",0 +"It's misogyny! No it's Russia. It's Comey! It's Macedonia! If only more illegals and dead people made it to the polling places! Well, she may not have said that last one out loud. + +Did you hear her talking about her email scandal being a ""nothing burger""? Sure Hillary! That's why your staffers took the fifth, others were granted immunity, you had cell phones smashed with hammers, and you wiped your server (you mean like with a cloth?) No, like with BleachBit. All for a little nothing burger.",0 +"I'd like to understand how we've changed in our approach and treatment of certain injuries, compared to yesteryear and see how that has had an impact on Emergency Room usage (and the appropriateness of said usage). + +I'm not that old (south of 40), and I recall as a kid, if you bumped your head, it was no big deal. ""Walk it off, son. Walk it off"" and you'd be right back out there playing 15 minutes later. Would something like this in the present day be treated much differently, with a call for an ambulance and a rush to the hospital with concussion fears? Just an example. Tl;DR: are we treating some injuries much differently, and with much greater urgency than in the past and how is this impacting emergency rooms? Is there a better way?",0 +I'm sure he will.,0 +"Seems like common sense, right? That's something I've heard over and over from voters who want to stay informed. The only thing the state did, as far as I can tell, is post the amendments on its website with links to the original bills, which are not exactly reader friendly.",0 +"Because Trudeau needs to spend more money before doing anything (see $30B budget with no infrastructure spending yet). Likely a couple of plum consulting contracts for Liberal buddies, then even more money committed after the study for an action plan. Justin's spending problem, stalling, and broken promises if starting to affect everyone.",0 +"""Sadly, the vile hatred of the Le Pen family is already manifested in yet another generation, as the granddaughter of Jean-Marie, and niece of Marine, Marion Maré​chal-Le Pen, is active in the party and has been hailed by Steve Bannon as a ""rising star."" This last point is vital: For all the particularities of French politics and culture, the Le Pens are part of a global movement in which the chief strategist to the President of the United States is a principal. If that doesn't scare you, it should."" + +It does scare us. France was instrumental in the United States becoming a country. The thought that both of these countries that have given so much to the world culturally and politically could, in the twenty-first century, be run by two racist regimes allied in hate should frighten everyone.",0 +They have access at a shelter just need to be a non-meth freak.,0 +"Lingenfelter is that you? I guess it's true that Wynne still has some support, even if it's around 14%... +Brad Wall is one of the most popular premiers in Canadian history (poll after poll throughout his 14 year tenure) but it's true last year's election was closer with the NDP taking 11 of 61 seats.. (close one indeed!). The Last Honest Clown Shoe...",0 +"""Delighted dictators, bolder attacks on a free press, expanded Russian influence and betrayed dissidents and exiles."" I wish I could show how he's wrong.",0 +"Ms. Troll, I have never read any ISER report, seen a video, nor listened to any ISER representative say cutting Alaska's state budget will result in massive job losses. I have heard, seen and read where they said, cutting the PFD is the absolutely worst thing government can do to solve this crisis. I have heard them say that cutting government jobs is not the answer, either. We have $9+/- billion in the Earnings Reserve (ER), up from $6.91 billion in 2015 (even with low oil prices), which the legislature can access with a simple 2/3 vote. As ISER has said, with managed budget reductions over 3-5 years, and use of the ER to fill the $2-3 billion gaps during that process, Alaska will be in the black again. Since the International Energy Agency is forecasting $80/bbl oil by 2021, the crisis is averted. Not only that, we won't send another 12-15,000 Alaskans below the poverty level, nor will we severely weaken government.",0 +"Wow. I made a little star for you because A) you know all that and B) you took the trouble to type it. +Go to Toronto from where I live and right away you will think a disaster has +struck. Nope! The air is like that all the time. +When Americans visit Toronto, they think the air is clean.",0 +"A truly appropriate (or accurate?) public manifestation and representation of the current administration. +The now ""head"" messenger of the GOP. +American leadership making ""America Great Again"". +What an unmitigated embarassment. +Everything we THOUGHT the Fonz actually was when he wasn't with the Cunninghams is now the person that speaks for the US government.",0 +The quote went zing right over their heads,0 +"Not WWII; these were built as part of the DEWLINE system in the 1950s. The radar sites also had these and used them for comms because they pre-dated satellite telecom. Most of the radar sites had one or two bowling lanes and they also used the White Alice system to pass on the scores. A cold war bowling league, if you will.",0 +"Huh? Atlanta has only about 500K people, Houston only 2.3M + +Whereas GTA has 5.5M by the very same sites that show the above populations + +Remember their definition of city center = GTA not just toronto proper",0 +""" incomplete stories that include unfounded accusations of disregard of victims rights on the part of the police."" + +If you read these case studies, the tactics used by police in interviews in which they actively ignore the main complaint, or try various ways to dissuade the complainant from pressing charges, are actually quite shocking -- and, since videotapes and transcripts are used, hardly ""unfounded"".",0 +"Everybody knows that the fight was fixed. +The poor stay poor. +The rich get rich. +That's how it goes. +Everybody knows. + +- L. Cohen",0 +Contract work may seem appealing to those wanting to have flexibility or a diversity of roles but the reality is that in an economic downturn they are also the first jobs to get cut as there are generally no/few termination costs.,0 +"I believe people should always pay to be rescued from something they chose to do. If one is injured and taken to an ER, he is charged for that, right? Why is this any different? Actions have consequences. In this country, many are entitled and think everything should be ""free.""",0 +"""Based on the authors examples of Trump and vaccines, the author is talking about sympathy and compassion, both of which require of us to take sides."" + +That's incorrect. There's nothing about either sympathy or compassion that requires taking a side. + +The taking of sides is a strategic act, typically informed by both cognitive and emotional factors. Once a side is chosen, it tends to interfere with normal feelings of empathy and compassion. For example, when a player on the opposing team is injured, you're less likely to feel empathy for him than you would if it was a player on the team you support. + +At least from a Buddhist's point of view, compassion can take no side. It's not an emotion. It's a state of being that's given freely to every living thing, without moralizing or politicizing the circumstances. Empathy on the other hand is an emotional connection between you and someone else, typically due to difficult circumstances the other is experiencing.",0 +"The Pentagon, The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission and the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee all have national security concerns about this sale. + +Why not just do a full national security review? There is no reason whatsoever to avoid doing one unless you are trying to sell allied military tech to China without transparency.",0 +Great article on best Blue Jay ever. Fans don't have to like the best but you know who they are. In NY or Boston would have carried them to multiple world series wins.,0 +"Robert, I can't believe you are still trying to outrun those whales still. It didn't work in the early nineties, why would it work now. The next generation is upon you and they have learned from their parents. Good luck my man. + +Oh, and 4000 gallons, really? Seems like you could travel from Dutch to Seattle in the Oracle with that amount of fuel. + +Aside from the fact that the whales are pretty much taking money right out of you hand, it's something when they swim right up to the boat and look at you as they are doing it.",0 +"Funny....from the comments read on this site over the years, it would seem that it is ""libs"" that are looking to shut down discussion with anyone who disagrees with them...as evidenced yet again by your last paragraph.",0 +"Great Education System. And no-one can explain where overcrowded prisons come from. +There are three kinds of people in the world. Those who are good at math, and those who aren't.",0 +"family reunification? +which groups are asking for that? aside from free day care for those families, how does importing parents and grandparents solve the ""aging population"" problem?",0 +Should the city legalize meth and cocaine and opium..... To stop crime.....and save money.....??,0 +Pot meet Kettle.,0 +How does one get information on these home? I want to buy one.,0 +"I like this store, but no way is there ever 40-50 people in it.",0 +"Why doesn't the UN provide some food from the billions recently handed over to the them by Junior on behalf of the taxpayers of Canada ? Or will it never make it to people and just get re-appropriated on the way down the bureaucratic chain ? Like any charity, what percentage actually makes it to the people in need ?",0 +I had the same problem with a C6 Corvette. I replaced the cap but the problem returned the following summer so I vigorously cleaned/lubricated the cap and washer with a lot of WD-40. This worked for me and was a permanent solution. A daughter is having the same issue on a 2015 Forester XT. I will give the WD-40 a go this weekend.....,0 +"I know it hard to understand this, but Jaded, you have no idea what my world view is. Maybe you should ask. But frankly you and the others here demonstrate clearly that citizens do not think. They react. I cannot change human nature and knee jerk judgment is just as much a part of human nature as obsessive behavior and stalking. I always look at situations in terms of long term making society better rather than casting blame which is basically worthless. I believe adverse effects can be reduced through careful analysis of situations and, which is unpalatable to many, ascribe some responsibility on all people to make things better. The perp and victim model only gets us to where we are - no further. Ever heard of no-fault auto insurance. Drivers in each accident are assigned a percentage of fault. Good system because it motivates all drivers to do everything the can to avoid crashes. Anyway, Jaded, it is amazing how people with similar objectives can tar one another.",0 +"The opinion essay being commented on brought politics into the discussion. +Who cares? When our president uses the vocabulary of an 6th grader its challenging to avoid. Even his Twitter rants are rittled with gramatical errors. It's embarrassing when political allies across the Atlantic communicate with better English when it's their second (or thirds) language.",0 +"Definitely not the type of article I want to read first thing in the morning. + +This is a terrible idea. + +This has to stop.",0 +Seriously. Stop your whining. You would be fired if you had a real job. So fast your head would spin. Lousy and entitled. Get rid of unions then let's talk.,0 +"I see the Denver Post has found yet another continuing source of letters. +Ms. Klein, my wife and I have never declawed our cats. But at the same time, we have never had a cat who ""somehow got out"". It's called being responsible. +The answer is simple: Advocates can educate the public on why they feel declawing cats is wrong, but banning it is overkill.",0 +At least Dolan was able to give his blessing. Having to look up to Dolan was both odd and sad at the same time. Neither Dolan or Trump are inspirational to me. Hard to believe their inflated egos fit on the stage at the same time.,0 +"hahaha, i concur. Come on now are you that shielded from the what may happen with roadrage? this is not a 1st roadrage of an incident. You may be living in the past with fisticuffs, bats, chains, etc., nowadays you may get shot at, who knows but I understand taking my chances displaying my disgust. I'd display that face to face at this stage in my life. Someone do me wrong and I'll tell them of my disgust, nothin wrong in doing so and it doesn't mean I deserve a crack. I'd sue the hell out of em if so and still alive",0 +I just cannot wait until Beltrami gets elected! He will darn guarantee that we public union workers (aka hard working middle class families) get ours. I can use that 1/2 of the PFD to help offset my loss of COLA this year. Thanks Vinny.,0 +"It's impossible to prove a negative. +Regarding small farmers, depending on the pest (and Hawaiii is continuously subjected to more all the time; note the vectors of rat lungworm), any farmer may need to use a RUP at some point during the year if all other methods fail. Also, the bill did not specify any particular quantity threshold of RUP used. And again, why would this only apply to farmers?",0 +when will the Liberals introduce a national pharmacare programme?,0 +"Loan or equity, it doesn't matter how you label the start up capital. + +If you're like most family start ups, if your business fails you would have lost your house or at the very least a good portion of your family savings. The new tax proposals don't recognize that there is risk in starting a new business that is borne by the whole family. + +This is bad policy.",0 +I hope the democrats show up with fishing rods and fishing vests and Dynasty Ducks in their hands.,0 +"In the words of this ""so called"" President...""nobody knew health care was so complicated""...really? Apparently EVERYONE knew it but him...sheesh.",0 +"Sure they can. Think: inability. ""In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability..."" (Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the United States Constitution)",0 +An average of one 'rally' per month. The only things missing are the Action Plan signs.,0 +"Then you should be finding common ground with conservatives, including those in this room, that want honest representation. Just a suggestion from a friend.",0 +"I will tell you one thing - the conspiracy theorists are STILL #triggered about talk of that YouTube video even to this day. I have a co-worker that to this day will go apoplectic over BENGHAZI!!!!111 and start ranting about that video in particular. I still lots of it online as well. + + +I just don't get why that part of it sticks in the Republican/conspiracy theorists' craw so much. I think it's another example of them feeling that xtians are ""persecuted"". I'm unsure how much messaging there has been about it on the usual fake news outlets -Faux,Breitbart, and other such filth, but I'm sure it was(is?) a lot.",0 +"You are wrong about the courts, one has to take criminals there sins the police and NPA will not. You are right about grassroots activism.",0 +"Yes, ""antifa"" was used before WWII, specifically by mass murderer Vladimir Lenin (before bigger mass murderer Stalin used it). It was used to define anyone not on board with not only Soviets but soviet expansion. Lenin had the goal of expaniding across europe and the world spreading his brand of murderous enslaving communism. The ""Communist International"" fomented communist revolution and they used the IDENTICAL flag, motto, and mission statement as ""Antifa"". Don't believe me? Search for ""Communist international"" and hit images. Make sure to read the goals of ""Communist International"" while you're at it. + +The left has been using the ploy of characterizing everyone but themselves as ""antifascists"" for almost 100 years. They, of course, have a far bigger death count and a far longer reign of terror. + +These ""antifa"" are the same.",0 +Constitutions were written before the age of terrorism so it will be interesting to see if one part of a Constitution can be over-ridden by another part as the Supreme Court has ruled in the Canadian past. Some parts of a Constitution could be considered more important than others.,0 +Really happy that this company chose Federal Way for their latest store. Asset to the community,0 +"You have turned your own assumptions into specious claims and made it clear in the process that you lack the necessary knowledge to make such claims. You can avoid this if you begin your statements with qualifiers like, ""I believe..."" or ""It appears to me..."" You can also use quantifiers like ""Too many..."" or ""Some...""",0 +"Meh, could be worse. I've got teenagers and it's hard to keep them from eating and drinking worse things, like Monsters and Red Bulls. Frito Pies twice a month isn't so bad. If this was the 1950s, they could be selling cigarettes. Even if it wasn't the healthiest, at least teens have metabolism on their side. Fast forward a couple decades, it certainly changes.",0 +"Illiteracy becomes you, geek.",0 +"Just because something is firmly entrenched doesn't make it immortal. + +And the campaigns wouldn't focus on battleground states because if the winner of the popular vote received the electoral votes, then there are no battleground states. + +Instead, campaigns would focus on their likely voters, regardless of the state they lived in. Politicians would be forced to campaign for all our votes, not just those in the toss-up states.",0 +"Why isn't Communism hated as much as Nazism? + +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUGkKKAogDs",0 +"YUGELY sad! Tremendously sad! All the tragic broflakes, mindlessly tuning in every week to read the columnists they can't stand!",0 +"It's good to hear that the whole country is moving up regarding of solar energy. Here in Alberta do we believe that renewable energy will keep growing in our province. Greetings from Kuby Renewable Energy Ltd. +http://kubyenergy.ca",0 +"Good informative essay by writers Morrow and Cardoso. I don't live in Onario, but if I did, I would be voting against the Wynne Liberal government in the next election.",0 +"I hope our Russian allies invade Europe. I want to see Russian soldiers in the cafes of Paris, barking ""bistro! bistro!"" at the waiters, demanding their coffee or their apertif right now! I want to see pretty German girls strolling along the Rhine, arm in arm with their Russian boyfriends, describing how the German men all became homosexuals. And best of all, thanks to the Trumpster, the USA won't be involved.",0 +"""Crushing defeat for the harbingers of hate."" Sounds good. Like to believe that. + +""A battle not seen since World War Two."" Nope. Didn't see it then, either, moon. See my comment re: D-Day to Paris. + +The ""best-trained"" Iraqi forces STILL lost 40% to rag-tag bands of guerrillas who rely mainly on small-arms fire?? Coalition could ask pretty uncomfortable questions about training and the will-to-win. + +And spare us the rhetoric about ""human shields"" and ""protecting the civilians."" The people of Mosul were given ample opportunity to escape--WEEKS AND WEEKS of it, (Only 1/3 of the city's population saved themselves by leaving.) They had an advantage the people of Cherbourg didn't have. Did that stop the Allies? No. War is war, sacrifices must be made. + +I suspect ""human shield"" stuff--while possibly true-- a handy excuse to AVOID fighting. Also suspect that war has truly become a way of life...and provides a good life for Iraqi troops: feed, housed, clothed, in a destitute land.",0 +"That's not a rational argument, Researchers. The protesters are protesting the BUILDING OF A NEW PIPELINE IN THE HEART OF RESERVATION LAND. The tribe doesn't want to be forced to live in an environment that may contaminate their way of life. It's their political fight and I hope it's one that they win. I have my grave doubts once the tRump administration moves in. Click, click.",0 +Imagine the number that slip through by people who are not targeted for a search.,0 +"They are also extremely anti-Catholic, so it is quite amusing to see them defended by our rank and file right wing Catholic wing nuts.",0 +Not sure what game you were watching or how much pot you smoked during it but the Buffs looked awful. Montez was bad. The defense was bad The running game was bad. The refs won the game for CU.,0 +Have you ever walked (perhaps with a walker) to mail a letter? Nine-tenths of a mile is very different than in a car.,0 +"I hope ""upscale"" doesn't mean higher prices. If you cut out the little guy, you lose a lot of business. Eugene is not known for high rollers. We're mostly working people who live hand to mouth.",0 +"Why is anyone reporting this? If they murder people, that does have to be reported. But why give publicity to what they plan to do. Why let thugs know there are other thugs like them. Let them do their own networking.",0 +"Where there are two, there is always one.",0 +"Bravo, Bill Wielechowski! +Bring it before the Usual Suspects get their greasy clutches on it!",0 +Teachers negotiated salary is for the school year they are contracted for. The yearly salary is distributed over the nine months. If teachers were to work over holidays and summer they would be paid more.,0 +"Welcome to Oregon...yep, indeed there are actually individuals such as Renee who think this way...""wasn't hurting no children so get over it."" Always a curiosity...are individuals such as Renee born here in Oregon or did they find their way here to partake of the left wing culture?",0 +"Even if one agrees with what you think is the cause, you still have to live with the fact you don't care about the plight of disabled people. Maybe you have no problem living with that, but that is sociopathic.",0 +oh how i'd love to have an ice cream cone with you,0 +"Oh, is that the standard now, it must be ""survivable?""",0 +"Wow!! ""Perfectly diversified."" Can you share with all of us your correlation analysis to support that assertion?",0 +"STO...your comment I referred to specifically stated you are living at 200% BELOW the poverty level. I remember it because another commenter called you out on your claim in a related comment. It's completely impossible for someone to live at 200% BELOW the poverty level. In fact, the information you just linked to describes people who live at up to 200% of the poverty level which is possible because it means their income is 2 times the poverty level. Obviously you don't understand the difference which I find to be both funny and sad.",0 +"You really can't teach tolerance and brotherhood in that fashion. + +Parents teach this mainly through example not words.",0 +"NCR continues to ""clericalize"" the Catholic Church, in this case carrying the water for cUPICH as he lionizes Francis. + +Every article is about clerics or religious or rabbis!",0 +Haley was a great one. A hugely talented star within the team. The entire country will miss seeing her play. Thank you so much Haley for all you did and good luck in school.,0 +You're a non sequitur.,0 +"http://www.ekospolitics.com/index.php/2017/06/canada-150-the-national-mood-and-the-new-populism/ + +Liberals only held a 2.3% lead over the Conservatives with 35.3% popularity just before Canada Day. + +The recent Khadr decision will certainly drop the Liberals further + +How I wish Eric Grenier still had his 301.com website updated. I miss his offerings. + + +And Captain Crayon's popularity is plummeting Cassandra. He was only at 53% in late June and likely far below that now due to the Khadr decision. Remember he was once as high as 72% until Canadians finally realized his high level of incompetence is permanent and irreversible regardless of how much time he's given to learn the ropes. + +Scheer (46%) isn't far off from Ambrose's (51%) numbers considering the limited amount of time he's been in the spotlight",0 +"Lots of moving parts...I agree. +Here is the simplified version; +Look at a 5 year chart of ENB in $US on NYSE.... +. +Ouch...",0 +"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.",0 +"One interesting question that Saunders touched on is at what point can you stop subdividing a country? In a British context London voted against BREXIT, can they become independent of Britain and remain in the EU? If so can a smaller portion of London then choose to go the other way? + +As traditional nations become less significant within the EU this question becomes more relevant. That might become the big political question to be sorted out over the next twenty years.",0 +"P.Dhal - You are right about things being a whole lot saner 15 years ago. +Things changed big time when the Feds took resources away from border security dealing with money laundering / organized crime after 9/11. +Opening a country's door to shady, wealthy foreigners will cause a city's housing market to go up 500% in just 15 years.",0 +"LOL You are hauling an EV! It has an inverter/charger and you have to plug it in. The RV post is the EV charger. Anywhere you parked, an EV could recharge. Unless you stayed for less than 3 hours at each park.",0 +"Pope Francis. Embodying his name sake St Francis of Assisi in the quest for peace and nonviolence in the world. And embodying the life and teachings of Christ in the Sermon of the Mount when he says ""blessed are the peacemakers"" and to ""turn the other cheek"". People also said Jesus himself and his teachings were unrealistic and yet he preached what he preached anyways. And as Vicar of Christ for Roman Catholics it makes sense for Francis to embody the pacifism of Christianity's founder.",0 +"True, don't fly United...............apologize (only) come on United you still owe Ms. Yamaguchi and her son $10,000.00 plus the full return of each tickets..........ask the supervisor to pay up or go to the CEO, he holding the funds! sad!",0 +"History is made as Hilary Clinton becomes the first woman presidential candidate of a major party. BBC News here notes that of 50 US newspapers only 19 had photos of Hilary Clinton on the cover. Why? + +The photo for this story is a ""cut out"" photo of Hilary on a sign; the front page of the RG has a photo of two Hilary Clinton supporters embracing; and back page A10 has photos of BILL C. speaking and of CHELSEA C. smiling with wealthy hubby Marc M. + +But on the day Hilary Clinton broke the political glass ceiling, THERE WAS NO PHOTO OF HER IN THE RG.* +Why? +(*there was, at least, a sketch of her on the editorial page.)",0 +"His popularity skyrocketed for me. He's the only politician who has demonstrated any backbone to make the hard, unpopular calls on our budget train wreck. Every single member of the legislative majority, and probably some from the minority as well, should be fired in 17 days. Unfortunately not all of those in the senate are up for reelection this year. Mark down their names for elimination in 2018.",0 +Celibacy is a choice that nobody rationally claims is equal to that which it excludes.,0 +no,0 +"This piece presents limited facts about ""numerous"" (really?) African people owning white slaves, freed slaves, etc. It really needs more substance than these highly interpretive comments about numbers. What exactly is ""numerous,"" etc., and compared to how many millions of slaves who didn't own white people, but were instead treated with a brutality for which we would now imprison someone for a very, very long time? + +So, capitalism made slavery a huge effort that was an international trade. How, exactly, is that illuminating? Water is wet, too. + +We won't unlearn bigotry by talking about how discoveries of crops ""changed"" slavery. People changed slavery. People are the active agents, not ""discoveries.""",0 +"Thanks, as ever, for the hemispheric update. The impact of these emerging dynamics will require a coherent response from our government and ourselves. We will be called upon to look out for our neighbours and each other in the days ahead.",0 +"Ahhh, I have my very own ADN troll. How cute.",0 +There is no data to support your contention that 1 in 5 sexual assault allegations ARE unfounded; it's just that police officers have DEEMED them unfounded. The dramatic differences in the rate of allegations DEEMED unfounded certainly suggests that the personal prejudices of individual police officers is at play here and that many of these allegations should be tested in a court to determine guilt or innocence.,0 +"This misleading article refuses to die. Here is why this is bad advice: +1. Both defroster and heater take time to start working. If you start driving right away you will get foggy windows and no hands-free way to clear until the car warms up. +2. Cold oil does not lubricate as well, it is bad idea to apply load (start driving) the car until fluids had a chance to flow. Synthetic oil, plug-in oil pan heaters, heated garage and so on help with this. Unless you have one of these, wait a minute or so before you start to drive. +3. For cars sitting outside you should scrape ice from windows and clear the snow. There is no reason not to start the car while you are doing this.",0 +"I really agree with you (""athletic supporters"" - heehee). When I first started college I blithely went to the gym to work out, only to have a coach tell me I couldn't work out there because that was for the ""athletes only."" So our mandatory sports fees went to treating athletes like they're special, whilst 4.0 students like me had to take the crumbs left over. + +Sorry, I'm just not in support of athletic programs tied to colleges. It's not appropriate.",0 +"Actually, we only really owe the Guptas once they manage to rid us of the cANCer by killing it like the disease it is..",0 +"Unfortunately, as a society we have legitimized feelings so that they are equated with actual consequence. Not liking something is a feeling. Those at the UO would argue that the feeling is the reality. They see the feelings of some as the harm suffered. It will be difficult to convince them otherwise. The equating of feelings with reality is evident in many aspects of current affairs in USA. How often have we heard ""I felt afraid"" as a justification for action even murder.",0 +"I think Ozawa wants them to be City Parks rangers. Their jurisdiction would be for city parks. I know what would happen, homeless just going move to State Parks or other areas where there is no enforcement. They would just be moving the problem around, just like what city cops do now if they are forced to respond to a complaint.",0 +Possibly so they can get on with their lives and responsibilities and delegate this to a professional who can put a quick end to it.,0 +GREAT! They've got my business from now on!,0 +"had np years back at va suggest waiting til later in year was best for me regarding protection. maybe was because of my advancing years. not sure, but that's what i've always practiced since. so nov/dec i i get my annual many shot list updated. ymmv.",0 +"We'll need to start cutting education and healthcare now, just to make sure we have enough in the kitty as the defence budget gets bigger over the next few years.",0 +"if you look at a graph from 1950 to the present and plot soft drink consumption along site the rise in gastrointestinal malignancies--esophageal, gastric, pancreatic, heptobiliary etc---the rate of increase in both are absolutely parallel to each other. Cigarette taxes have been around for years--its absolutely time to tax sugary drinks as they clearly have just as much a cause vs affect profile",0 +"It's no secret within the medical community that when a politician gets sick, strings are immediately pulled to bypass the system. Hypocrisy from beginning to end...",0 +"Why doesn't our political leadership apply kaizen to government? That's a leader/party I would support. But no, seem to be content to have for every front-line service provider (which I don't begrudge--unless the function can be automated or online) at least 10 backoffice utterly useless admin and policy staff, to say nothing about layer upon layer of managers, senior managers, directors, executive directors, etc etc, all doing little more than shuffling paper on the public dime.",0 +I have never met a Trump supporter that could honestly say that Trump Knows what he is doing or saying. I am however glad that there are many people that truly support Trump unconditionally but I ask you in the coming month's please take the time to think for yourself. Both sides have filled us with B.S. And you defending him no-matter what he says or does is dangerous.,0 +"If I were a Republican I wouldn't want to appear anywhere until the Donald issue is dispensed with. If I were her, I'd just stay out of sight until November 9th. + +But, not to worry; Lisa will be re-elected by Alaska's voters until she decides to quit. I write that based on the fact that we still have that clown Donnie sitting there in his museum of dead animals after all of these decades.",0 +"""Kitzhaber and former first lady Cylvia Hayes remain under federal investigation relating to influence peddling allegations."" Why do we care what these people have to say?",0 +"OMG, I drank from the fountains at Sheldon in the seventies, I'm suing!",0 +I wonder what other secrets are hiding under her big Texas hair?,0 +"You continually deny these events occurred. They are not just historical events, they are not even just recorded on video, the Obama Administration took great effort to publicize them to the public through the media. White House Rose Garden ceremony with President Obama to honor Bergdahl on 31 May 2014 and welcome him home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm6u4voY44g + +Note all the details Obama has and even emphasizes, after the scandal started about him deserting. The thing he does not highlight is all the information he already has accumulated FOR FIVE YEARS on Bergdahl's actions and the resulting consequences. The world is STILL being impacted by Bergdahl and Obama, with the five exchanged Taliban commanders in Qatar impacting Qatar's perceived support for terrorism and the current Gulf States' Qatar blockade. + +On 1 Jun 2014, the Obama Adminstration spinning the scandal investigation, saying Bergdahl ""Served with honor and distinction"". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdGe0uP7W-c",0 +"I absolutely agree we as a Church should address the issue of racism in this country, in my native country, and everywhere else. I'm not sure what role removing statues should have in that process, because the racism obviously runs deeper. In some cases, removing statues may do nothing more than create an illusion. In my opinion, if the removal of statues is not accompanied by a systemic effort to uproot racist ideas and attitudes, we won't have accomplished anything. So perhaps the removals should come at the end of a process, as a sort of culmination of a national effort to excise a cancer, and their presence till then should serve as a reminder of what remains to be done. +Will our bishops take the lead in bringing an end to racism? They could....but I too have some dubias.",0 +And yet no plans for rapid transit over the new Massey Bridge.,0 +"note that there's a difference between ""meat product"" and animal product.",0 +Why isn't being wealthy and not sharing your wealth with others a mortal sin? Didn't Jesus have something to say about this? And the issue is that you can be a good wealthy person but you can also be a pious remarried person who is the innocent victim in the relationship. The issue is that remarried people are summarily barred from Communion while wealthy CEOs aren't. This includes wealthy CEOs who are actually bad and greedy people.,0 +"A memory jogger: + +""Incoming premier Gordon Campbell misled British Columbians when he claimed the NDP had left his government financially in the hole... In fact a freedom of info request showed the NDP had left a $1.5-billion surplus, a figure eventually confirmed by B.C.’s auditor general."" + +""An independent review launched after the 2002 (death) of 19-month-old Sherry Charlie in foster care blasted the BC Liberal government for “wrong” cuts to Ministry of Children and Family Development that “took the knife too far.” + +""The coroner’s inquest into her death criticized the government for closing the Children’s Commissioner. The subsequent independent review, headed by retired judge Ted Hughes, urged a new independent advocacy and oversight body, the Representative for Children and Youth, among 62 other recommendations to safeguard children in provincial care. + +The BC Liberals followed by crafting a bill to hide future such inquiries’ recommendations from the public.""",0 +"""Sources say"" Yep lets run with that!",0 +Winning doesn't make you right.,0 +"Excellent observation on the obesity rates. CU researchers issued a recent report indicating that the obesity epidemic is playing a critical role in premature deaths. That said, I'm responsible for own health.",0 +"We aren't a country if we don't have borders, and don't respect them.",0 +"Agreed. I listened to him on the TV this morning as he announced his candidacy .. his voice gradually got louder and louder as he tried to talk over the interviewer, getting more and more excited about ""the mess"" Canada was and how he could straighten it all out. Despite his denials... he sounds just like Trump; leave it to me, Im so clever I can fix anything! Duh",0 +"Disgusting pay for play Liberal aristocrats , whose only concern is for Red aristocrats. What about the 1000s of innocent political prisoners in China who didn't spend decades using connections to steal from the poor like despicable Mr Xiao? Let's lock up Trudeau and his croneys asap! Instead Canada is trading whatever leverage it has so Mulroney can get paid.",0 +"These yahoos won't be satisfied until the US, which supposedly has a separation between church and stage, becomes a theocracy like Iran or Saudi Arabia. God help us all!!!",0 +"Attention cry-bully snowflakes; +The new neocons are those of you bullying millions of fellow dems who voted for Trump as all being; Nazis, KKK's, rapists and hate mongers, bigots and racists. + +YOU have become everything you said you hated so much before Trump. + +REAL progressives always follow the only radical voice and never defend old world power.",0 +"' +…yeah, … mebbe not approaching the 'problem' from the right perspective. + +Increasing participation isn't a function of the method of recording votes, + +….that's a function of the voter. +. + +Bringing back civics education, stressing citizen responsibilities, stopping voter disenfranchisement, stopping voter suppression. Destroy gerrymandered districts. + +You want to solve your stated 'problem' ? + +Fix what caused the problem. + +Don't get sidetracked into trying to re-invent the wheel. + +. + +These voting schemes have been looked at and tested. They create another whole set of problems, + +and they don't address the problem. + +. + + +You want better outcomes? More participation? You want voters to be involved? + +Work with and for those voters. + +Fix gerrymandered districts. + +Work against voter suppression, …work against voter disenfranchisement. + +Educate the electorate. +. + +Attack the actual problem. + +…don't create a whole new set of problems, + +…and ignore the real problems. +.",0 +"Drugs don't generally start the trip. They do speed it along. As do booze, gambling, eating, and other addictions.",0 +More FAKE posturing from Trump apparently. A good thing in this case! It should remain. Of course if Udall was still Senator I wonder what would have happened.,0 +"One sailed East! +One sailed West! +One Scud flew over +Da @RealDumbOldTrump's nest!",0 +"Mark.. + +Will you address the question of why the recent warming is no different than warming cycles in the past?",0 +"To understand the share structure takes very little time, or some quick advice from a securities person. +In short, it stinks. Shocking that the Teachers Union (pension fund) would even consider this as an ""investment"". +The managing directors, and major shareholders (preferred shares) who control the votes are all part of the Laurentian Elite.......So is the Trudeau family. +Note, every time Bombardier receives government loans (handouts) the controlling shareholders PAY themselves a bonus. And they are doing it again. +Government bailouts are acceptable in reasonable circumstances. Not with Bombardier.",0 +O' Callahan's on Coburg Road was never the same after that and Pontiac took a hit with an over stock of Trans-am's.,0 +"Exactly right. An organization that never really has to win (the fans keep coming no matter what) never does. And because of all the dough from Leaf Nation it attracts over-rated guys (Shanahan, Babcock, Lamoriello being the current examples) who are good at promoting themselves right into that sweet vault. But it's an important industry for Toronto and gives the folks something to do during the winter in Toronto.",0 +"Original ""subject"" in the comment is about ""reliability"" of Corvette. How to handle the car is obviously a different ""subject"" Not long ago, you said ""change subject"" = ""wrong"", not me. Now, you seem to prove yourself wrong using your logic in your comments That's interesting.",0 +"Of course the same can be said of every other established nation up until the very recent ""free movement"" experiment, for which the EU unwisely volunteered. + +""The has a sordid history of racist, exclusionary laws meant to keep out non .""",0 +If 'flooded' is truly the accurate description than we might have to multiply the 'way' 😬 I only hope that might have been an exaggeration.,0 +Time to ban crude oil takers from the Gulf of St Lawrence.,0 +Good,0 +"The United States represents about 4.4 percent of the world's population, yet we incarcerate around 22 percent of the world's prisoners. Non-violent drug offenders comprise 50% of all federal inmates. In the US each year, there are more than four times as many arrests for drug possession than for drug dealing. +There are better ways to combat the drug problem in the US than to more aggressively pursue criminal prosecution of non-violent drug offenses, but AG Sessions chooses follow the Trump administration's pattern of creating public policy based on personal biases.",0 +"If one maps the spread of early Christianity, it overlays very faithfully to the Roman lines of communication. Makes sense. + +God also ""used"" the Roman and Greek ethos for logic, laws, order (and hierarchical decision makeing) to develop the Church and its teaching.",0 +"The bill has been publicly debated truly publicly online and in the media, throughout the country, since 2006. + +The U.S. Constitution says ""Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors . . ."" +The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly characterized the authority of the state legislatures over the manner of awarding their electoral votes as ""plenary"" and ""exclusive."" + +The normal and intended way of changing the method of electing the President has been by changes in state law. + +Since its origination in 2006, the National Popular Vote bill has been introduced in legislatures in all 50 states and DC. + +More than 3,080 state legislators (in 50 states) have sponsored and/or cast recorded votes in favor of the bill. + +The bill has been debated in legislative chambers in 35 states. + +It has passed 35 state legislative chambers in 23 rural, small, medium, large, Democratic, Republican and purple states with 261 electoral votes",0 +"Well ....a quick fix would be to encourage conversion of homes to multiple units ....and have 2 versions of rent control ...one for large corporate interests and one for mom and pop rentals ...think about it ...if individual owners could , quickly and easily ( ie no red tape , few regulations and charges ) convert part of their homes to a rental unit .....there would be thousands of new units available with in months .",0 +"Yeah, but it is not a big deal. +Basically, as you said, unless promised to do more heavily subsidized (and it is already heavily subsidized) for 30 years, no way a utility is going to add coal. +And by first of the year, it will be obvious that ICE cars are done for. + +Heck, look at what he has done WRT illegals, China, and H1Bs. +Has he pushed to stop China from cheating and dumping on America like he promised? NO. Now, CHina is his best friend since they paid off his FAMILY (amazing that nobody called it the direct bribe that it was). +Did he push for e-verify to be phased in so that illegals go home? +NO, instead, he hires a few more ICE that will accomplish NOTHING. +Did he kill the H1B and perhaps re-do visas geared for America and not for foreign businesses and gov? +NO. He just IGNORES IT. + +So, all in all, he is doing nothing other than stroking a bunch of far righties egos, and they go along with it. Amazing.",0 +"Because recounts get ugly and ballots tend to ""go missing"" between the real vote and the recount once partisans get their mitts on them. + +Why no recount in states Hillary won if all they want to do is verify the results? After all she won New Hampshire with a much smaller margin than Trump won these states they are recounting. Why no recount there? + +Lets stop pretending that this is an attempt to verify that the election was clean.",0 +"We did not have this so-called homeless situation when we had vagrancy laws that were enforced. Enter the ACLU, homeless advocates and liberal judges who declared the laws unconstitutional and wallah! We have a major problem. Vagrants can sleep on sidewalks, in public parks, on beaches, under freeways and wherever they want on public property, defecate anywhere, leave their trash everywhere, and there is little we can do about it. We still may have vagrants if the old laws could be enforced, but it would not be the monumental problem that it now is.",0 +They should do what we do and auction off the gift tickets and donate the money to charity.,0 +Similar to what Bombardier B class shareholders is experiencing.,0 +He's a member of the teachers union. Competency is not a requirement to maintain one's position.,0 +"The Constitution has three branches. Not one, not two but three.",0 +I'm again convinced. Trump wanted to win the election. He didn't want the job.,0 +"Actually, I believe you both are right, depending... The question is to what ""this"" is referring. If ""this"" covers all the 2017/2018 regular season games to date, then Chatham is correct. If ""this"" refers only to the last game, then Goathair is correct. + +I believe that Goatahir was referring to the style of play in the last game but the sentence is not explicitly clear although most would likely interpret it as such.",0 +"moon howler +""helped a bit by Mr. Kent"", if he wasn't being paid by the public purse +he might have an ounce of credibility..... not so. +This story started ""outside our borders"" in war.",0 +Imagine the uproar if FBI and/or DOJ take the fifth.,0 +"""with a very good chance for 12 years."" + +Only if you repeal the 22nd Amendment first. It was mooted in hope that St Ronald could run again, but of course went nowhere. If you want a 12 year ""presidency"", try Russia; or maybe place your bets on Turkey.",0 +¯\_(ツ)_/¯,0 +So they can listen to their own echo chamber rather than have the mental fortitude to hear points of view other than their own? Is that why?,0 +"One thing Canadians will not stand for is other Canadians... + +So now there are two levels or set of Canadians? You Liberals are an arrogant bunch assuming you all talk for all Canadians.",0 +"Very surprising that the sentence, ""He/she were also charged with possession of methamphetamine,"" was not in this story. It's in just about every other crime account in the Register-Guard.",0 +"Yeah, it was wire-tapped by his sons, Uday and Qusay, who were trying to extort money from him.",0 +"""There’s a long history of British Prime Ministers working closely with U.S. Presidents. President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher fought the Cold War together, while President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair led the coalition against Iraq. And while those relationships proved controversial at times, they lasted for years."" + +I'd say these are rather spurious comparisons. People might have disliked previous presidents but 45 is a completely different kind of beast. Of late his own pick for the supreme court has come said his attack on the judiciary arm of the government is 'demoralising' and 'disheartening'; that's putting it mildly. He has now railing against nordstroms from both his personal and the presidential twitter accounts. And, who doesn't understand that he is very much involved with the running of his business? And the arrogance and disdain that oozed from one of his brietbart transplants to the white house on cbc this morning was scary.",0 +"Mr. Beers joins the ranks of those who don't distinguish between acknowledging history and celebrating it. + +It's the latter when it's depicted heroically in the public square.",0 +"But the other CCR's are still enforceable because you agree to them when you buy the property. In my subdivision, I am required by the CCR's to only display brass numbers (size specified) to reflect my address. And there are also rules on the colors the houses can be painted.",0 +"Or...they could spend a few years in the military and be fed regular meals, but that might be a little too inconvenient for them. I'm glad I had a box of Kleenex handy while reading this story.",0 +"1. Yep, and this isn't a new law. It's a parliamentary motion. +2. It doesn't single any one religion out for special treatment. + +I'm really tired of saying this: READ IT!!!",0 +"Oh, but they are that simple. The left's negative coverage of Trump's remarks and soft coverage of Hillary is typical and expected of a media that is primarily leftist. Look at CNN admitting, ""we've done what we can to help Hillary""e + +The coverage of Trump's remarks about Trump and how it was an ""attack on goldstar mom's...."" Which it clearly wasn't and while supposedly defending the attack on a gold star mother they go on the offensive to attack Patricia Smith. + +Sleazy? yeah not seeing the swift boat ads as sleazy, How about Bush's awol? Which was a complete lie and crock. He didn't go to a medial appointment, SO WHAT??!! . Kerry ran on his record which clearly wasn't what he said it was. So the swiftboat ads were fair",0 +"Did the liberals at the Star-BirdCageLiner just form this opinion. They sure don't seem to mind the elimination of LOTS of farmland to make room for West Oahu's Hoopili mega-development. Gotta say, the ""Keep farmlands for actual farming"" editorial headline seems like comedy rather than a sincere belief.",0 +"it's not only doctors but restaurant owners,variety store owners people that don't have pensions and benefits.",0 +"Illegal aliens, not undocumented workers. They're here illegally. + +Anyway, when the biblical justification is shelter for those who ""accidentally"" committed manslaughter....the bible may be trying to tell you something.",0 +"Ahhhh... Action, not words my friends. I don't agree with what he did but he did do what he felt was in his conscience. + +I pose the question to many out there condemning him. How many are you willing to sacrifice watching Monday Night Football? Purchasing NFL merchandise? Refusing to frequent businesses that advertise during NFL games? Write letters to the school board? Boycott sporting events and supporters of the events? Start a grass roots movement based on your beliefs to let these people know that you do not approve by hitting them in the pocket book and in ballot box? Not many... As long as your cell phone, internet, social media is not screwed with, all of you will continue to be sheep or play the keyboard commando and complain but not act. + +JFK said it best and it should be the mantra of these difficult times for America: + + ""And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.""",0 +"Honestly, Canada lags behind China in efficiency and technology a few streets. For example Canada has to import this (TBM) and that makes subway construction cost astronomically high, while Chinese can make them themselves. +motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bmbz4d/this-chinese-company-wants-to-be-the-best-at-boring +It is time for you to beg for being bought.",0 +"I tried voting. It didn't work. + +Any other suggestions, Mr./Ms. Profound?? (""Democracy isn't a spectator sport"" - very original)",0 +"With the ability to make that stretch you should either be a 1st baseman or a stand in for Gumby. Not sure how you drew that conclusion, but you certainly proved my point through your post.",0 +". . . in the context and way Trump has created and/or exploited. + +Why? + +Because, jumping on Trump's little passion play, and worse, echoing the words of Trump in response to Trump follows and enables Trump. + +Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Carlos, Smith, Ali, King, and Kapernick. + +NONE of them, to my knowledge, pursued the interests of Russsia, or the interests of any other enemy of the United States of America, in the same way Trump has. + +None called for the exclusion of peoples in the US based on RACE, or RELIGION. + +None did, nor I think would have, called Nazi sympathizers ""fine people"". + +And all, I believe, sought what THEY BELIEVED, was a stronger United States of America. . . + +Just like Trump apparently believes he is creating a stronger America by maneuvering for the loss of health insurance by millions of Americans, + +. . . and the revival of burning coal for energy. . . + +. . . and again, by calling Nazi sympathizers ""fine people"". . .",0 +"I am a 77-year-old lady. My Parkinson's disease appeared at the age of 55. My symptoms at the beginning were fine tremors and rigidity with joint stiffness. I was taking Entacapone with Levodopa, Carbidopa, and Pramipexole. My Parkinson's disease is not under control. I lost touch with reality.I started on Health Herbal Clinic Parkinsons Disease Herbal formula treatment in September 2016, i read alot of positive reviews on their success rate treating Parkinsons disease through their PD Herbal formula and i immediately started on the treatment. Just 7 weeks into the Herbal formula treatment I had great improvements with speech and coordination, my hand tremors seized and the stiffed, rigid muscle had succumbed. I am unbelievably back on my feet again, this is a breakthrough for all Parkinsons sufferers, visit Health Herbal Clinic official website www. healthherbalclinic. net or email info@ healthherbalclinic. net.",0 +"I don't have statistics about how much offshore money is coming into my Toronto neighbourhood but nobody else does either. What I can say is that in Willowdale I know of dozen upon dozens of examples personally. Here's a couple: An international student in my building complex owns a million dollar townhouse and a 265 thousand dollar car. She has no job, and according to current tax treaties does not have to pay income tax on 'her' funds coming into Canada. Another permament resident owns another million dollar townhouse and has no job here. Her husband is a non-resident so does not pay income tax here. Talk to any realtor or banker and they will tell this phenomena is dominating home sales in the area. What will happen to homes prices as more newly arrived residents come to place family members while not contributing to the income tax collection? Meanwhile average income earners (of all backgrounds) are increasingly excluded from the market while increasingly paying more income taxes.",0 +"I don't think religious fanatics should be given a platform to tell us what the think about internal matters of CSIS. Christian Jew whatever, if you are a true believer who constantly pushes your beliefs upon everyone NO RESPONSIBLE NEWSPAPER would allow this unless they were a Religious Newspaper pushing belief upon everyone.",0 +"Eichmann had the attitude ""superiors must be obeyed without question"", you have the attitude ""the magisterium must be obeyed without question"". Both of you have exactly precisely the same attitude: ""let other people make moral decisions for me"". It should be obvious that abrogating moral responsibility is not how a morally responsible person behaves. Yet that is what you insist must be done. + +Given that HV says that, according to ""natural law"", the ""primary end"" of sexual intercourse is procreation. Essentially all sexually active persons know this is untrue -- it's certainly not why they have intercourse. Worse is their justification: HV 4 says ""No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law."" Which amounts to ""we know this is true because we say this is true, take our word for it"". Sorry, but I've given up circular reasoning for Lent. Saying this whole thing is twaddle is being kind.",0 +"Attacking the three branches of government? Nonsense. The President has the power to fire the FBI director, period. That action is entirely consistent with the separation of powers. Fake news.",0 +"""I hope the suit she is “planning” to file bankrupts her."" I bet that the attorney representing her is working on contingency, thinking that he'll take in 40% of several million dollars.",0 +"Given the semi-surreptitious release of this “document,” it may have been intended as one of the Trump mis-administration’s trial ballons; they may have wanted to see how bad the pushback is. Or it could just be intended as a sop to their “economically anxious” basket of deplorables, even if many in that group would bitterly reject any of their own kids who betrayed Heartland values by so much as applying to an institution full of soft-handed globalists and probable sexual deviants…",0 +The hypothetical question would more appropriately have pertained to North Korea.,0 +"Gosh, remember the ""outcry"" when a ""target"" was used in Sarah Palin's political ad? The only problem with this one, is that it's not art, it is only a political statement. And political statements are protected, although placement anywhere that is publicly funded might be questionable. Those in favor of this kind of display, just remember that, when you question the 'political correctness' of political statements in the future.",0 +"So Byrd, who was an actual LEADER OF THE KKK is cool, because he ""renounced"" it? Yet Trump is a nazi sympathizer with no evidence what so ever? A born and bred new yorker is a staunch confederate revivalist? + +Do you guys hear yourselves?",0 +"Before the Republican Party existed, there was a party called the Whigs who were certain they would never go away either. But in 1856, they lost an election to the Democrats ... an election in which the brand-new Republican Party acted as spoiler. In 1860, the Whig Party had ceased to be and the Republican Party won the White House and good chunk of Congresional seats. The South promptly seceded from the Union because they could see the handwriting on the wall.",0 +"Candy Rohrer, your sentiment is spot on. Whether I agree or disagree with Paul Seaton, he is exactly as you describe him to be, and a good number of our legislators could and should take lessons from him. Pete Kelly is at the top of that list, but there are several ""close seconds.""",0 +Putin is the best.,0 +"Go outside and see for yourself. Do you live in a dark place, because you sure come from one.",0 +"Fake new alert!!! + +Bush didn't create that recession. It's causes can be laid squarely at the feet of the previous Clinton administration. Clinton relaxed banking and mortgage lending laws specifically with the aim of making it possible for people who would not qualify for a mortgage, to get mortgages. Everything else followed from that.",0 +"I see no problem with investment in commercial real estate, Canadians do that outside Canada as much as any other nationality, but I wonder whether the time has come to limit the purchase of domestic real estate to Canadian residents?",0 +"Once again Roy please read dnad understand; + +“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize, ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.” +― Frantz Fanon + +Another quote I like applies to both the left and right: + + +“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” ― Napoléon Bonaparte",0 +"In the 1990,s most if not all public employees unions did indeed accept per,s promises instead of pay raises. +We knew what was going to be the numbers down the years. Don't make the mistake of blaming the unions for putting the PERS noose around all Oregon taxpayers necks. All unions had to do was collect all the the offers vote it into a contract. +Despite warnings to Oregon,s mostly liberal elected leaders and their pet judges this bunch treated pers as a pot of gold that was going to solve all budget worries. Your union bashing is misplaced unions didn't do pers to you, Pers put a smile on county contract negotiators faces and a spring in their steps when we told them it's approved. +Some of those smiles disgust me still. +Unfortunately the unions and politicians each side with their pet judges in tow just a few years later are wearing those same smiles usually in a private I love me moment . +Even if someone has a solution there is absolutely no so called leadership in Oregon poloti",0 +"Sounds to me like this guy has his head screwed on right when it comes to family values. + +Why then are some Ontario Conservatives upset at this?",0 +"The Secretary of the Interior (or most any other high position) need not, can not, know everything about the job or issues. What is required is an experienced, excellent manager who knows how to use experts, distill information, & make pragmatic decisions & have the courage to stick with them, no matter the howl & cry from the press, etc. + +Certainly, Bob Gillam demonstrated all that in his efforts to defeat the rape of salmon & wilderness that we know as the Pebble Partnership. + +I believe Bob Gillam would make an excellent Sec. of the Interior & I believe his taking the job would be a personal sacrifice to him, for the good of Alaska and the Country,",0 +"As a parent, I will reserve and protect my right to instill values in my children. No school or government has a right to impose moral values on my children and I will protest when they presume to do so.",0 +"Jemele Hill revisited the Trump family history. Fred Trump had Donald seek ways to remove blacks from his apartment building. Anyone watching Donald placing blame ""on both sides"" in the Charlottesville mayhem would reach the conclusion Trump is bigoted.",0 +"Crimea had been a part of Russia since the time of Catherine the Great after Russia took it from the Ottoman Turks. It was an accident of history that Crimea wound up in Ukraine when Khrushchev granted the Ukrainian Republic. Go back and check maps of Europe dating back 2000 years and no country by the name of Ukraine exists. It was only in 1991 following the fall of the Soviet Union that a republic of Ukraine finally existed. Oh there were Ukrainians for sure but they were always a part of some else's empire - Poland, Lithuania, the Austrian Hungarian and Russia .At one time the capital of Russia was Kiev. Not even after ww1 or ww2 did a country by the name of Ukraine even exist. There was ancient Galicja which was the basis of the Ukraine.But as noted Galicja became a part of everyone else's empire through the centuries from at least 1400 onward. Today Galicja is a part of the Ukraine. The Ukraine should exist but it is the western part only. Eastern Ukraine is primarily Russian.",0 +Very interesting idea. It would work with a regular petrol engine too. It would certainly for a big tractor truck.,0 +"It's not just Pillay. She did the honourable thing and resigned after the fact, but thereafter the Shelley Garland author was tracked down and surprised at his place of work. Not unlike what the Apartheid-era's secret police did to people back in the not so good old days. + +It's disingenuous and it insults everyone's intelligence to try and make this out as his error for pointing out the procedural problems in many of our not so reputable media franchises. + +Ultimately, the editor could have just contacted the real author and asked for a follow-up op-ed to set the record straight. This as an olive branch and as an attempt to restore some of its reputation. Now it appears that the author pointed out egg on their faces and they turned themselves into omelettes.",0 +"Larry Ellison hasn't exactly been a friend to Lanai or anyone else. Some of the things he's done, like planting palm trees in front of the Lodge at Koele, are silly, but other shenanigans have had a more serious impact. Like closing the hotels for extensive renovations that were unneeded. That wiped out the number of visitors to Lanai and put all the small local businesses that relied on the tourist trade in serious trouble. The plan seems to be to raise the room rates to prices that only his fellow billionaires can afford. If the hotels suffered from low occupancy before, imagine how empty they will be at $1,000 a night. Meanwhile room rates at Hotel Lanai have similarly soared. If you are a local Hawaii resident who used to enjoy going to Lanai then it's time to start looking for somewhere else to vacation. Thanks a lot Larry. Not.",0 +"Same biased poll surveys the last election that had Ms. Clinton winning by a landslide, respectfully SYLVIA WYSS. Remember their signature line touted over and over from beginning to end by the mainstream media? ""If the election were held today, the polls show Ms. Clinton winning handedly the election...."". +The designed purpose was that if the mainstream media an polls were repeated over and over, the election would be seen as a slam dunk forgone conclusion Ms. Clinton was going to win, thus many conservatives would think it doesn't matter if they vote, and discourage them from doing so. +It does work, which is why the 98% of mainstream media that supported Ms. Clinton employed them daily. But as we saw, the polls and mainstream media, with some like CNN even helping Ms. Clinton cheat debates, could not be further from the truth. The mainstream allowed itself to be owned by one side, and thus skewered the presentation of the election and their projections. +Who won? It backfired bigtime",0 +"42% of 13,300 ballots. The majority of votes being against Trump. A lot of support for Trump coming from those he brought into the party. If that is the base, the base is not very large and it is not the majority.",0 +"I base my comment, “in all likelihood” guilty, on what evidence was presented in the original story of the encounter. That and the fact that he was, at least in his own mind, a big testosterone filled stud on a sports team. Life displays the all too common scenario. I say so based on real life, not the courtroom. My opinion and nothing more. + +Although certainly not the whole story I am sure, I have sat on enough grand juries and trials to know that ""all"" evidence is not always presented because of legal challenges outside of the courtroom. But be that as it may, he was acquitted and apparently the PC, feminist police want to 'punish' him. Totally wrong.",0 +"The US exports 11% of GDP. That's a big enough chunk that loss of it, or any large portion of it would hurt, badly.",0 +"If the protesters outside Saffron Colonial really wanted to make amends for past colonialism, they would get their hands dirty and join the Peace Corps. That way they could do something about CURRENT sufferings in African nations and in India. The young fascists I encountered outside Saffron Colonial were more interested in grandstanding. + +http://www.heldtoanswer.com/2016/03/young-fascists-colonize-portland/",0 +"MSW's and many other armchair commenter's rejection of the grassroots, mostly lay correction of the pope seems very ""non-NCR"" + +grassroots +lay action +the challenge to the male dominant hierarchy +underdog +""speak truth to power"" + +right? Has all the elements of an NCR revolution, minus the colorful protest signs. + +NCR should be all behind this correction, or at least sympathetic, from a power to the people point of view, yes? + +Why not? + +but instead we get coarse dismissiveness. + +""small numbers"" +""old"" +""out of date"" +""lesser"" types +or far worse. + +What would MSW have said about St Catherine of Siena's approach to the pope? + +""peasant"" +""N of 1"" +""uneducated"" +etc. + + +Where's the ""open minded dialog"" now? where's the ""encounter"" + +Doesn't anyone want to be ""surprised by God""?",0 +"I am assuming the people being shredded on this thread was the Hispanic family in the picture? + +I'd protect those kiddos too.",0 +"Is this like re-arranging the deck-chairs on the titanic? + +I have a real sense of deja vu here.",0 +"If I remember correctly, Oregon had a big problem in the late 70s or early 80s with galvanized pipes imported from Taiwan, that were leaching lead. A lot was put into houses, and probably into commercial and public buildings also. I think only some of the pipes were able to be tracked and replaced. Maybe Page Elementary got some of the bad pipes.",0 +"It's frightening when you think about it, isn't it? That ""Just in Time"" system works well for manufacturing and retailing. But if those big trucks don't come rolling into the local Safeway every night, we'd get hungry pretty quickly. Our system is fragile.",0 +"When i moved up there with my young family in '94, I was shocked at how many parents were stoners. My kids were rarely allowed to go to anyone's house - everyone had to come to ours. It seems there are still some child-raising challenged people up there if the teens are turning out like this. What a sad statement about young people today. I agree with capital punishment - some people's lives aren't worth saving.",0 +"Actually, as Jade corrected, they were ""fine"" people according to Mr. Trump. I will contend, however, that just as ""good"" people don't march for white supremacy, ""fine"" people don't either. BTW: I didn't ""make that up"".........Donald J. Trump did. Gary Crum",0 +"The liberal elite impose their will. There are serious issues with Obama's ""program"" which acutely limits the rights of the accused. CU is oblivious and defiant in keeping Obama's policy in place. This is just another example of how far Left even our public, taxpayer supported universities have plunged.",0 +US intelligence DOES NOT agree that the reports are salacious slander. They simply stated that they are currently unsubstantiated and that they were not leaked by the security services.,0 +Jerry are you volunteering to lead us by example??,0 +"It's not just about the ads, but seeing the original telecast in tact all the time. We pay for American networks, let us see them. So many times there's other problems with simsubs such as poorer audio / video, scrolling issues with the picture, snipes placed overtop at the worst times possible, pixelation, and live events that overrun their allotted time being cut-off due to an automatically scheduled simsub to take place by the BDU at the top of the hour. + +Enough is enough, it's time to abolish simsubs altogether. If CTV and Global can't come up with their own content to compete, then get out of the TV business!",0 +Too true!,0 +"It's clear that some readers have not seen Dinesh D'Souza's ""Hillary's America"". Whether you're liberal, conservative, or whatever, it really is educational in an entertaining way. I've even heard D'Souza dare anyone to name one Republican slave owner. The point being, Democrats were the slave owners, and Lincoln's Republican Party fought the Democrats to free the slaves. In addition, it was Democrats Robert Byrd and Al Gore's father who filibustered against the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Republicans favored the Civil Rights Act by a far greater margin than Democrats did.",0 +"Now, imagine being able to do away with all of that, replaced by a simple and straightforward system called UBI. What do you think the cost savings would be of doing away with all of those layers of government? Plus it solves the problem of right wingers constantly complaining about the less advantaged mooching off their hard-earned tax dollars, because EVERYONE would be receiving the same thing. It's a win-win in my opinion.",0 +"Sorry to break it to you Lynn Porter but you still didn't escape the choosing the lesser of two evils because when you threw away your vote by voting for a candidate with literally no chance of winning you simply opted out, abdicated the little power you do have. +Bruno is being melodramatic and I venture to say would not make the same statements about President Obama who is not all that different as a candidate and politician than Obama is policy wise. In fact, she's more to the left than Obama is. The obsession with personality is a mark of political immaturity. It's understandable in a high school kid but less so in adults who have been around for decades and is an indication of a misunderstanding of both US history and politics.",0 +"""Transgender people, Jenkins said, aren’t asking for special rights – just the “human rights” allotted to all American citizens."" +Yes, they are. Besides when the left leaning media celebrates a win, that usually means more corruption, higher crime rate, more drug abuse, and more poverty for those neighborhoods. See south Chicago and Baltimore for examples.",0 +a,0 +"From your link: +Young debtors aged 18–29 account for 14% of all insolvency filings, up from 12% in our previous study. +Senior debtors aged 60 and over now make up 12% of all insolvencies, continuing the growth trend begun in 2011. +Student debt is a factor in 15% of all insolvencies, up from 13% two years ago. +-- +While student debt is a rising factor, the listed groups' percentage increase can be mostly accounted for by the decrease on overall insolvencies. Looking at the more detailed tabs, the comparisons are still % of debtors rather than number per capita. So the study and report is written to be alarmist, rather than analytical.",0 +"I agree that it has to be more than a simple majority of votes cast, but I think the voting threshold should be even higher than you suggest (maybe 60% by population)? It is so fundamental a change, so expensive and something that is almost impossible to undo. The experience of independence could be great, but could turn out to be awful. There is no guarantee that Catalan will be let into the EU, if they want that, or be allowed access to the Schengen zone. They may have to negotiate trade treaties with the rest of the world from a position of weakness. These things could all give a serious case of regret to the populace. Given that downside risk, I think you need a solid super-majority to show that people truly want it before it can happen, because there just seems to be practically no going back. The spurned rump of Spain is going to be in no mood, for likely decades, if ever, to let a remorseful separatist Catalan back in if things don't work out for them.",0 +"Thank you, Brett. + +There certainly is a lot of ""spin"" going on. These days political and popular figures can fabricate story lines on any issue to create distraction from salient issues. National tv media is often very quick to respond to any news breaking tweet or comment. In the past, being first to break a story indicated a lot of time and investigation behind the scenes. As you pointed out...""speed isn't the most important factor"". + +People in general avail themselves to media that supports their beliefs, whether it is well researched or not. What or whom we support is based more upon emotion than we like to think. What media reporters cover or how they chose to present a story is no different than what media consumers chose to absorb (or not). + +Your thoughts on giving time before responding to comments is well taken. Perhaps looking at our own emotional responses to comments before writing online would promote the civil discourse that Civil Beat encourages.",0 +"As if we needed more, here is more proof that Trudeau doesn't have a clue. He doesn't understand the Canadian economy, he cares not for Canadians' prosperity. His duplicitous carbon tax will erase any middle class income tax roll-back that he promised, and cost plenty more. + +This knot-head of a prime minister will cost us all dearly by the time we get rid of him in 2019. Just wait till he has to go toe-to-toe with Trump, when Trump is steering our largest trading partner's economy in one direction and Jr. is determined to head in the other. + +Sunny Ways indeed!",0 +Dumping Wonder Woman is a horrible capitulation to the patriarchy.,0 +just start him and get on with it already. trevor's an epic fail waiting to happen,0 +"""But it’s not our job to tell our friends and allies what they should do or shouldn’t do. It’s our job to make sure we’re doing what we know that we should do, that we can do in terms of creating opportunities for Canadians, for Canadian companies, but also opportunities for Cuba to continue to develop, to modernize, to improve in the many areas that it’s building success in.” + +--- + +I love this guy, I really do. Lets all practice our vapid bromides. + +""You know as PM of Canada, I've always believed that if we don't work together in a collaborative fashion to accomplish what we came here to do, how can we ever work together in the spirit of friendship if our successes are not mutually focused in a bilateral way."" + +Thank You. +---- + +Does Justin give out free bobble head dolls of himself, or all access passes to Kim Kardashians website when he attends these events?",0 +"You tell me where you got the idea that Russia is evil, was it through actual experience or reading biased articles and news reports. The US has always needed to have friction with other world powers to promote spending and keep a strong military. Have you been there, do you know any of the people? I'm not an authority other than what I've seen but where do you get NATO undone other make them come up with their fair share of paying the costs. +What has Russia to do with the EU breaking up other than possibly make the leaders of the EU countries use their heads. Will the nations on the periphery of Russia mind being on their own?",0 +It is a fact Jack.,0 +"I agree--when a vehicle goes up on a sidewalk, that's inexcusable carelessness and probably involves a high level of distraction.",0 +"Yes. If they are the oldest mammals on earth, then show them some respect and stop killing them.",0 +"If you leave Canada, you don't have access to the welfare system here. + +You have to update your facts, for your rants.",0 +"If you remove the word 'mistakenly' , you have summed up my reading of the article and the news release Xavier quotes below.",0 +"Not much logic or deep thinking being shown by ISIL in any of its actions. Not much judgement being shown by MSM in giving credence to ISIL. Still, such is the hatred the MSM has for ""all things Trump"" it will blindly print anything it can find that is anti Trump even if while doing so it gives ""support and comfort to the enemy"".",0 +I'm sure the FBI will subpoena any doctors' records in an attempt to find out why. In the meantime we wait for the press who will use every sly means to get the same info plus any new ones the FBI will not share with us. Interesting how the CNN press was able to get and show us photos of the Mandalay Bay Hotel's shooter's room with all its arsenal. The cops are pissed about this. Good job you press people. The cops are now investigating every cop who entered that room with a body cam or cell phone. Some dude got a couple grand for his generosity. I think there was a court case forbidding any prosecution of any reporter unwilling to reveal their source of information. Confidentiality rules protects first Amendment rights. Hahahaha!!!!,0 +"Let's be honest, every city and town in this wealthy country has a 'homeless problem'. +Most people are but a paycheck away from their new adventure of living on the streets. It is but a short time now untill the pitchforks will be out hunting and nations wishing us harm will be in to harvest the pieces.",0 +Prego.,0 +"Speak for yourself. If African Americans , or anyone for that matter, resists arrest , I won't side with them. Ever.",0 +"Any guesses as to why ""Civil"" has a limit on characters?",0 +"Worst yet, his approval ratings will be up next week simply because he managed to talk for an hour+ while sounding somewhat presidential. It's still a populist message in many ways and many of the things said are not practical. How is congress going to do all of these things without increasing the deficit? + +Sorry buts he's been a raging lunatic for the last year and it's going to take a lot more then one argubely decent speech to convince me he's changed.",0 +"Mr Lee was BROUGHT UP on the reserve, he was adopted by his step-father. His is a very special case and top marks to the band for taking him on as a member. Since he is not a status Indian, he doesn't get the benefits that those who are do. Those benefits were negotiated with the Crown in exchange for relinquishing ancestral lands, etc. so there is nothing more special than any other legally negotiated benefit.",0 +"Yes indeed, the list of fake scandals that have been thoroughly investigated and dismissed for a total lack of evidence goes on and on and on and on ... @_@ + +Just because you irrationally fear and hate her does not make her a criminal, guys. She's still the most investigated and exonerated woman on the planet. Stop wasting taxpayer money looking for what is not there.",0 +Dan and Don make a great team. Last of the big spenders.,0 +"Canada would be more self-sufficient selling In Canada than us subsidizing export to the USA. California even buys BC's Hydro, however our prices go up because the USA wants everything for free. If California were to be cut off, we could lower our prices for our own people.",0 +"It was not Scooter Libby, it was Richard Armitage and nothing happened to him. Scooter Libby was convicted of lying to the FBI during the investigation. Libby had nothing to do with outing Valerie Plame and neither did Dick Cheney.",0 +"You really don't understand the term ""white supremacist""? Or are you just being coy and intellectually dishonest, which is the typical M.O. for right wing commenters?",0 +"No, it's not a fact, it's a lie. Eric is a patriot with an open mind, a man you could clearly learn from while you're wallowing in the molasses of trumpian hate and disgust.",0 +Why does the legislature want to allocate $10m for a road in Cold Bay when this highway is in drastic need of funding? Everything from pullouts to more patrols. Get real legislators.,0 +"au contraire + +The left is always demanding scientific evidence that their crazy schemes don't work..that abortion causes depression, that traditional families on average work better than ""new configurations"", that pornography is a health hazard, that...you name it.",0 +"""Atmospheric levels of CO2 are now at about 410 ppm. Within 4 years at current rates w will have surpassed a 50% increase from the 280 ppm that existed at the start of the industrial revolution."" Steve Erickson aka Chicken Little + +So what? + + ""In less than a decade after that we will have surpassed the remaining ""buffer"" that would keep warming under the agreed on 2 degree Celsius. Impacts of climate change are already being widely seen and felt. The longer we wait to act the more severe our actions will have to be."" Steve Erickson, aka Chicken Little + +Oh really? + +""Despite record increases in CO2 concentration, there has been no global warming for almost 13 years (mean of GISS, HadCRUT4, NCDC, RSS, & UAH temperature data: Fig. 5), or, by satellite measurements, for more than 17 years (RSS, 2013: Fig. 6), and no warming distinguishable from the combined measurement, coverage, and bias uncertainties for 18 years (HadCRUT4, 2013: Fig. 7).""",0 +"Frank- I agree with you on the death penalty- but I'm still scratching my head that there is only one person charged in this crime when it seems pretty obvious that at least 3 were deeply involved and perhaps a number more than that. There needs to be consequences for assisting in hurting David, disposing of his body and perhaps covering up the crime.",0 +"Speaking of Laura Miller, Clark's campaign chair, she is said to go on trial this September over the destruction of records in the McGuinty gas plants cancellation investigation which cost taxpayers around $1 B.",0 +I am so so sorry for your loss. I'll be climbing Bird Ridge when it reopens in Jack's memory. Grace and peace to you.,0 +"I watched the whole session; concise answers to concise questions and telling it like it is. No long winded this or that, straight forward and very well prepared. + +As far as Trump goes, he had a lack of credibility before he started his presidential run, that is before the media started to do more than scratch the surface and it has been a steady downward slope ever since.",0 +"part of the rise may be people ""disclosing"" now that they partake, where as before they did the same thing - just kept mum. and there is probably the novelty factor that will wear off. personally i am very disappointed in the marijuana veg offerings at the dispensaries. i don't want some ""altered"" product that may have remnants of some nasty chemical still present. and for some reason, none of the bud looks like good old fashioned bud and it doesn't have the impact either - regardless of some number claiming to be the quality of either the recreational or medicinal component in the plant. smells good - looks funny and is meh quality. i'll stick with the old fogey's that seem to still grow the best... my best advice to a young whippersnapper - go buy from an old fogey...",0 +"How about taking away their ability to fly anywhere, make them drive.",0 +"Canada used to be a country of hard working, simple living, and saving citizens. +Now its just a bunch of spoilt yuppies and their kids all living on public sector cheques and flipping real estate. + +All the socialists have left to build an economy is real estate bubbles. We know from history where that goes.... +Look around you, count the number of people in your sphere who live off real estate somehow its truly scary. For me it's 7/10 people are connected through construction, agents, etc. Historically its around 2/10 +Also ask yourself this question - If I wasn't flipping real estate where would my wealth come from??? +At some point all provinces will tax foreigners specs. Your bubble will pop. +Scary stuff +This is your Canada. You're just hoping you aren't the last sucker in the room. +I hope Oleary doesn't get in. I want the people who created this nightmare to wear it",0 +"ThomasJ ""your spot on drill the sobs If the Gupta leaks did not surface would they ""SAP"" have gone in for self inflicted pain?"" +Perhaps the DOJ and the SEC could come up with a fine approaching $2 to $3 Billion dollars. +And pass that lovely lolly on to NGO's in South Africa. That would be justice.",0 +"Let's see, progressives favor abortion, which is similar to some of the ways fascists treated people. Progressives want to ban the Bible from schools, even though to some people it is just literature, which resembles brown shirts. I won't back down from my thoughts on the progressive agenda. And I would have never gone down the fascism road if someone had not posted ""men who wore belts that said ""Mitt Gott"" systemically killed 6 million people..."" first. I think the Nazis were the worst thing that ever happened in world history. I truly believe that any comparison to Nazism is wrong. But I won't let a liberal make a false comparison to Nazism and conservatism without pointing out the truth. Go back and tell the person who posted ""men who wore belts that said ""Mitt Gott"" systemically killed 6 million people..."" that their words were unconscionable before speaking to me about what I posted.",0 +"The fact that the ""religious liberty"" crowd never uttered a word of disapproval when Donald Trump declared that he wants a moratorium on all Muslims entering the country revealed their rank hypocrisy. Anyone who's genuinely concerned about the preservation of religious freedom would have been appalled at such a statement, Catholics especially, since there was a time in this country when ""No Catholics need apply"" signs were rampant. What the religious liberty folks really mean when they talk about religious liberty is freedom to practice MY religion the way I see fit at everyone else's expense. That's not religious liberty, it's just plain old selfishness. + +Muslims are justified in their worry about a Donald Trump presidency - he gave them every reason to be afraid - very afraid.",0 +"At best, putting such a question on the ballot was a waste of time. Of course, the city has the “power” to build rail. So what? The relevant question—should it build the current proposed project?—was not plainly asked.

+ +Worse, it was a sham. As Honolulu Star-Bulletin reporter Laurie Au noted in 2008, even a “no” vote on that ballot measure, “would have [had] no legal power in stopping the city from continuing to build a mass transit system.”

+ +Something to keep in mind when the city tells you rail was all your idea.""

+http://www.honolulumagazine.com/Honolulu-Magazine/July-2011/Editors-Page-Training-Day/",0 +"Yes because repressing one's sexuality has done so much good in the world. + +And singers don't have to ""talk"" about being straight when so much of the content of the songs they sing is about being straight.",0 +Now that this columnist is more mature why don't we retire her? She was once kind of cute but now she is disturbing. I pity her kids exposure to her fears.,0 +"Pacquiao can now have his name joined to that of Penn at all the local UFC gyms and the membership will triple, at least, knowing that the his ethnic group makes up the biggest minority in Hawaii. Heck, they can have a special match here pitting him against Penn, touting it as the match for the aged. I watched the whole fight, and for an old man, he was game and put out a good effort but for the most part, it was all about missed punches, groping and grabbing, and obvious lack of power and diminished skills.",0 +"Dear Gus, +It was a normal day, but sunny as you mention. I don't tend to bottle things up, as may be obvious and I'm not even slightly entitled; more of a Calvinist, actually. I simply have no respect - not a sliver - for people who make THEIR safety someone else's problem. That extends to drivers, cyclists - the runners of reds, the wrong-wayers, and the casual cutter-offers of cars, peds, and me (worst of all!), the speedy riders on sidewalks - and peds equally. + +Similarly, I don't impose on others' rights of way. That means i don't blast through a gaggle of peds crossing the street lawfully (at a crossing, the only place it's actually legal for a ped to set foot on a roadway), run through a red like it's not there, go the wrong way up a road, change my positioning in a lane in rush hour without knowing what's beside/behind me, etc. But i don't tolerate people imposing their will on my rights without saying something about it. Just like now.",0 +"I didn't know that 'cooks' are dangerous.....well, learn something every day....",0 +"Forget your local hire comments. Even the governor doesn't believe in that otherwise why is he having the engineering work for his LNG project being done down in CA? The oil companies already hire locally when the workforce can supply the people because it makes sense and it's cheaper. And many of us are now unemployed, or have already left the state in search of work. And the environmental regulations here in AK are very strict, and that's good. The environment for oil exploration and production here in AK has gotten very toxic.",0 +"No I didn't . I don't flag anyone's free speech . You and I have written back and forth enough that you should know my straighten up comment was light hearted. Same with the guy claiming Trump is like Hitler. As for Trump , I included cash for return postage to get the books back . Both times he signed the books , returned my cash , and paid for the return postage. As for O' Reilly , I have a number of his books signed too. I met him last September in Denver and will meet him again in Tacoma this March . I've even shaken hands with LBJ , along with many other famous people. For being one of the ""haves "" you sure complain a lot about what others have.",0 +"Anyone care to have these people be their next door neighbor? If your answer is ""yes"", then there maybe some credence to your argument. However, if your answer is ""no"" then leave the issue alone and allow the people in charge of our penal system to decide where an inmate is housed.",0 +Surely this is preferential to the Chinese actually living in the homes?,0 +"This bill that just went down in flames today would have done NOTHING to lower your premiums OR deductibles. It would make them higher. + +The is not what the Republicans have been promising us for the last 7 years. They told us their own health-care plan would come out very soon and it would lower premiums and expand coverage. The plan never materialized. They never had one. Seven years of lies. Today proved it!",0 +And the skeleton of the customer who died waiting....,0 +"It took 2 months to wipe out 12 months of equity, this is correct. +What you describe as tail end of panic is called a ""bull trap"" research it. +DEFINITION of 'Bull Trap' +A false signal indicating that a declining trend has reversed and is heading upwards when, in fact, the security will continue to decline. + http://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bulltrap.asp#ixzz4nHAgSNns + +It's not only the interest that matters it's also the lose of liquidity in the market. +Home Capital and all their peers are no longer lending just renewing. +The worst part about a home purchase today is that even if you put down 20% the bank may only value the home you bought at 85% of what you paid and loan you 80% of that amount. On 1M dollars that means they will only lend you +$680,000 because they know equity is dropping and they need a ""margin of safety"". +The fact also remains: no investor will pay 10% transaction cost(5% on purchase 5% on sale) for an asset with a negative cash flow which is losing value.",0 +"Hey, relocating goats don't come cheap. What's the current rate on the ONP goat herd up to these days? $5,000 per goat or higher? Bet they can work that up over $10,000 per head by the time they get the last one.",0 +"Silly me - when I first starting seeing the side guards a few years ago, I thought they were for aerodynamic purposes ... +A good idea, mandating them, but they don't look as if they are substantial enough to stop a car moving at highway speeds from going under a jack-knifed truck - I thought they were designed to push cars away from the rear trailer wheels in the event of an accident where both vehicles are traveling roughly in the same direction ...",0 +"But didn't I read somewhere that they are a ""Non Profit"" Group?",0 +"Voter fraud and voter suppression are very, very different things. Voter fraud...persons who do not have the legal right to vote and vote anyway has been repeatedly shown to be statistically non-existant. This is not a secret. + +Voter suppression is a very different animal. It is the systematically applied strategy of using every available tactic to keep people who have the legal right to vote from voting. It has been documented again and again across the Red States in our country. Tactics like ""voter roll purges"" wherein everyone having the name of a felon is removed from the rolls and has to prove they are not that felon in order to get re-registered. Tactics like having fewer voting booths in precincts which are ""Democratic""; tactics like shortening hours, closing the polls even though there are citizens waiting to vote; tactics like refusing to have early hours so individuals can vote w/o having to take time off from work. The list goes on...the editorial is on target GCrum",0 +"We've experienced lows before, but they always led to war.",0 +If both those roads had been built (and I don't remember ever hearing about an elevated highway on Bloor) the problem would be even worse. Where do you think all those cars coming off an expressway to downtown would go?,0 +"Re: #3, Jeff Sessions doesn't like diversity because he is from genetically homogeneous Alabama, where everyone is related to each other. There's a joke that in Alabama a family reunion is viewed as an opportunity to get dates. + +Re: #4, Jeff Sessions is still steamed that Hawaii has produced a US President. Alabama still hasn't produced a President even though it has had a 140 year head start on Hawaii in becoming a state.",0 +I recognize that you are much more smarter than the rest of us but can you simplify (dum down) your quote by pretending you are talking to someone educated in the penal community?,0 +What exactly makes that statement liberal?,0 +"I would have thought that if Kapolei would truly be a 2nd city--with its own downtown business district--that there would be much higher density with high rise buildings, wide streets, and that such density would ensure some control of urban sprawl. However, all I see out there in Kapolei are countless low-rise structures.",0 +"How soon they forget. +Mr. Taylor has forgotten that the Dems had open discussions with the Re-pubics and asked them for input. However, the Re-pubics would only obstruct because their goal was for Obama's presidency to be a failure, so to have a successful healthcare program established during his term(s) was considered by them to be a nono. As it was, their obstruction caused Obama to water the ACA down a bit in order to demonstrate some appeasement to the Re-pubics and their constituents (BTW: that turned out to be a big mistake). +If you remember, Dan, the Dems started working on healthcare in February 2009 and it was not signed into law until March 23, 2010 (more than a year later). Also, they tried for nearly a year to get honest participation from the Re-pubics ... to no avail. +Obviously, they were not working on the ACA ""behind closed doors"", and they certainly didn't rush it or ram it through. + +Best, + +RTD",0 +"Are you kidding me ? Who in the heck cares about the Isobel cup or wants a picture of it ? Now if the Real NHL cup is in town , lets get photo's . This event is a million miles from when Scott Gomez brought the real cup to town . Now that was something to celebrate.",0 +"Ed, I agree with you 100%, with both your sentiments and your candidate choices. You yourself are a good example of civil, thoughtful community engagement, even (or especially) when I don't agree with you. You are absolutely right that a change in political tone needs to begin at the local level. Looking forward to seeing you at more community forums.",0 +"He had flaws and made major mistakes. But unlike twittler, he's a decent human being.",0 +Kool-aid,0 +"I would hasten the end date. Make it June 2017. After all -- cleansing is cleansing, right? But the Church should be obligated to give each and every priest beyond a certain age a job and pension and provision for elderly care. The Church could sell of some of the bishops' mansions to find this.",0 +"Sᴛᴀʀᴛ ᴡᴏʀᴋɪɴɢ ғʀᴏᴍ ʜᴏᴍᴇ! Gʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴊᴏʙ ғᴏʀ sᴛᴜᴅᴇɴᴛs, sᴛᴀʏ-ᴀᴛ-ʜᴏᴍᴇ ᴍᴏᴍs ᴏʀ ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ɴᴇᴇᴅɪɴɢ ᴀɴ ᴇxᴛʀᴀ ɪɴᴄᴏᴍᴇ... Yᴏᴜ ᴏɴʟʏ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴀ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴜᴛᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ʀᴇʟɪᴀʙʟᴇ ɪɴᴛᴇʀɴᴇᴛ ᴄᴏɴɴᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ... Mᴀᴋᴇ $90 ʜᴏᴜʀʟʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴜᴘ ᴛᴏ $12000 ᴀ ᴍᴏɴᴛʜ ʙʏ ғᴏʟʟᴏᴡɪɴɢ ʟɪɴᴋ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴏᴛᴛᴏᴍ ᴀɴᴅ sɪɢɴɪɴɢ ᴜᴘ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ғɪʀsᴛ ᴄʜᴇᴄᴋ ʙʏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴅ ᴏғ ᴛʜɪs ᴡᴇᴇᴋ... + ++++++++++ http://www.earnmax6.com/",0 +"Rather than issues of lift, I suspect that this will happen because of the amount of emissions generated by aircraft. If countries take climate change seriously, as they should, aviation should be hit hard. There is an awful lot of unnecessary air travel. The downside is that I'll miss my annual warm-up trips to Cuba or the Mayan Riviera and I'd better fit in one more visit to Australia to visit my brother, his kids and grandkids while I can afford it and I'm not too old!",0 +Maybe it is due to the fact that if one tried to grab a newborn as a joke they might get shot.......,0 +"Asked how the party was outmanoeuvred, Mr. Johal, a novice former candidate said, “I wasn’t there for those 16 years."" And ""He is considering a leadership bid."" With a statement such ""I wasn't there""? So which is it--Speak no evil or genuinely clueless? In any case, he's missed an opportunity here to start his leadership campaign. Suggestion: forget it, be content to just thump the desk with colleagues when the new leader pontificates in the House. + +Inane statement #2"": the Vancouver Lib. candidate Garfinkel knocked on 8,000 doors and, when asked ""What happened?"" STILL says, “Beats me...I am not too sure.” This, from a former PR/lobbyist who likely attempted to influence Liberal decisions and legislation on behalf of business. My guess? Garfinkel DOES know. Just not sayin'. He was beaten soundly (33% to 54%) by NDP candidate George Hayman. So, it's back to PR. Saying ANYTHING publicly could be bad for biz.",0 +"Good for these three young men and for all of the other students who are choosing to act on their beliefs. The fact that their actions are resulting in conversations is most encouraging, because this is the way that change gets implemented.",0 +"Let's remember he has not been convicted. + +And I will go a little further. Forgive my cynicism, my conspiracy view. I am not just an Italian, I am a Roman who has seen the filth of Vatican finances up close and personal. + +Pell was rocking the boat. He was making a lot of very powerful (and very rich, money disappears on a regular basis from Vatican coffers, recycled and laundered in a number of clever ways) men nervous. These same men (and the vast money they control) could have easily concocted a way for charges to appear in Australia. + +Pope Francis has been trying to clean up centuries of curial impropriety. Don't expect the curia to go quietly. Don't assume Pell is guilty.",0 +"Nope, that's not how it works. America is a constitutional free Republic complete with free and fair democratic elections, and POTUS TRUMP was democratically and fairly elected, period. +Terribly sorry to inform but America spoke in November and if you reside in America then like it or not Donald Trump is your president too. + +Your rhetoric comes across as childish, vitriolic, and uninformed. Trump can no more dictate who supports him than I can. + +Also, I've been a responsible gun-owner for decades, I have a conceal-carry permit in my state. And, I bought an AR-15 right before the election.....""IN CASE OF HILLARY, BUY AN AR"", as it were. + +Again, this atmosphere of division and nastiness is eight years in the making......a direct result of a post-Obama-AmeriKKKa, by design. +But we're gonna #MAGA, so no worries.",0 +"Agree, and also best known for his improper use of the phrase ""average locals""",0 +HAHAHAHAHAHAAH ur funny,0 +"That doesnt change the fact that your claiming there were ""NO anti-police agitators"" was dead wrong. + +Does it?",0 +I agree. Trump's behavior toward women is unacceptable. Hillary has not sexually harassed or assaulted anyone. N-O-B-O-D-Y. Not a single person. The message is clear: No perpetrators will be elected president.,0 +Read the article; the Prime Minister's message is quoted in it.,0 +"ADN is using the ""TRUMP"" is a meany. While sweat little ""HILliarY"" is being picked on. ADN is slanting the topics in typical Yellow journalistic fashion. Bad reporting.",0 +"The original purpose of Armistice Day (changed to Veterans Day by President Eisenhower in the early 1950s) was to celebrate Peace at the end of WWI. It has morphed into a celebration of militarism and defense spending, which is too bad. If there was a Chapter of Veterans for Peace in Anchorage, I would hope that the organizers of the parade would welcome them as participants.",0 +"""Nobody knew [insert policy topic here] could be so complicated.""",0 +"As far as I am aware, uranium recovery from the Witwatersrand gold mines ceased many years ago, largely on economic considerations. With the current decline in nuclear weaponry, the world-wide demand for uranium is considerably below production capacity, and serious doubts have been expressed about the commercial feasibility of any local uranium mining, even considering the once-off fuelling demand for the proposed new SA reactors, plus their (fairly small) annual fuel top-ups.",0 +"I disagree. I think multiculturalism is just the interim, temporary stage between the old dominant group and the new one. History has almost no examples of different tribes living in harmony without a dominant group or groups except for in interim periods, as far as I can tell.",0 +The only confirmed fact in this piece is that a lawsuit was filed. Be interested to read about the facts when the trial begins.,0 +"It's pretty simple, work and save. Buy into the equity ladder, a small condo is where my wife and I started. We made the move from FL with nothing but job offers. Renovated the condo piece by piece over the course of two years and sold for a nice profit. We turned that profit into a house with a nice yard in West Lakewood. Denver West to the foothills is an amazing place to live. To build a life here takes hard work. I'm 32, my friends in down town want out, but they've played too much to save for a down payment. They go out multiple times a week, I might meet them at a bar once a month. Priorities... Why would anyone leave the Denver area for Dallas or Chicago?",0 +"What's with this rating system after every comment?? What if my peers don't like what I have to say? If I wrote 200 years ago that I don't believe in the Witch burnings in Salem Mass., I would have 3 thumbs down and never be allowed to post my fact based belief that the Salem Witch Burnings were all about mental Illness. Yet no one would be allowed to hear my point of view? This reeks of McCarthyism in the first degree. Get off this stifling free speech now Denver Post!",0 +The remarkable thing about Trudeau isn't that he answered the questions badly - it's that he showed up and was able to find his seat.,0 +Great letter Thomas !!,0 +"Naturally you conveniently overlook the fact that during President Obama's two terms in office the stock market increased by 140%, as though nobody can Google and find that out for themselves.",0 +"While they are looking at this flawed system of housing sales, perhaps taking a look at the way real estate agents are paid for a transaction would be useful. How is the current percentage of sale a reasonable way to recompense an agent? This further pushes the price of housing as agents set up bidding wars to increase the price of homes and line their pockets! It's true that the seller benefits to some degree, but the commissions that agents make on sales are obscene!",0 +Tending to his sheep.,0 +"How does this possibly rate a ""Disagree"", Alceste? Imprisonment following a false accusation of sexual assault is not an injustice? Or is it just a trivial one?",0 +"If in fact the two recommendations by the electoral reform are true, then many in this forum have been vindicated, as this would be exactly what they called for when this debate and process first started. There is a general feeling that has emerged from the various polls that indicates that the majority of people would like to keep the status quo. If you knew that referendum was likely to end up having the status quo be the top choice, it would seem logical not to have a referendum and save millions. In the end it is likely as was predicted a year ago, the whole thing will be shelved. Trudeau in fact doesn't lose on this although some people will say he is breaking his promise. he also said he will listen to the people and the people's representatives in Parliament , and he will be on safe grounds if he chooses to keep the status quo.",0 +It sounds too good to be true.,0 +"Please explain why this event requires an endorsement for any kind of protest. Campaign visits to Eugene by presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Barack Obama were met here with lollipops and rainbows (and in the latter case, ice cream cones and a basketball jersey). Upon each's somber return in the wake of the Thurston and UCC shootings, protestors were derided for not respecting the office; you were near the front of that parade of criticism last fall. + +I'm not 73, have never protested anything and have never believed telling others how to live is being a good neighbor, never mind a responsible citizen. However, I've long had a fascination with successful people, regardless of their political stripe, who somehow possess the mettle to move mountains. That includes Clinton and Obama, among many others. + +Like it or not, Trump has accomplished something quite remarkable. That flaccid guarantee of contentiousness for his visit is not.",0 +"you realise this IS NOT a LAW, right?",0 +"Rich, you do realize that the republicans want to do some major screwing around with social security and medicare, right? As long as you're comfortable with them privatizing SS and doing away with Medicare, replacing it with vouchers, then more power to you. I suspect you're in the distinct minority of seniors.",0 +"Great reporting! I am happy that you report the numbers each month, showing the state is slowly picking up speed and thriving in this new exciting industry! Good job Alaska.",0 +Finicum won't be possessing any firearms.,0 +"Dyslexic Klastri got her honorary law degree at Trump University, hence her bitterness towards the Donald after realizing that Trump University never offered any legal courses. LOL",0 +"Great place to shop, great prices and friendly people, one stop shopping. To answer another comment about getting it yourself at garage sales, think of the time invested searching for that certain item, gas used, time and energy spent cleaning, repairing, well worth the ""marked up"" price",0 +"I found it quite troublesome how they intentionally flipped the graphs to incorrectly show Quebec as always having paid more in equalization distribution when they have always been a recipient benefitting from the formula. + +What is even more troublesome is the federal government didn't take punitive measures against Quebec for ramming their own revisionist history into their student's heads. + +It had been so easy for the Liberals to throw prairie farmers in jail for crossing the border to donate grain to US 4-H clubs and threaten to hold back health care transfers to Alberta when Klein was exploring private clinics even when Ontario, Quebec and BC already had their's well established.",0 +Just re-elected and the RINO is showing its horns.,0 +"If you aren't a lawyer, you can't be a DA. You can't be a lawyer without passing the Bar Exam. + +There is no 'conspiracy'! + + It's just too expensive to run for an office no one really cares about that the incumbent usually wins. + +Most attorneys make more money in private practice than either the DA's office or as a Judge. A lot of them start in the DA's office for the trial experience and then join law firms. + +Most Judges are appointed by a Governor most often because of political favors.",0 +"Life, no parole.",0 +"' +Always good to find out what the home folk think of Zinke. + +. + +http://missoulian.com/news/opinion/columnists/montana-veterans-disappointed-by-zinke-s-failure-to-lead/article_0b76a475-bb9c-53e4-a846-3edf3e1065ea.html +. +http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2016/05/03/is-ryan-zinke-lying-about-common-core-or-does-he-just-not-understand-it/comment-page-1/ +. +http://billingsgazette.com/news/government-and-politics/zinke-to-pass-campaign-contributions-from-man-under-investigation-to/article_bf487e56-eab9-5bd8-8362-c26de31f0b82.html + +. +https://intelligentdiscontent.com/2016/10/01/ryan-zinke-and-paul-vallely-lied-about-their-ponzi-scheming-friend-to-the-missoulian/ +. +https://reptiledysfunction.wordpress.com/2016/09/28/is-ryan-zinke-a-putin-loving-cold-war-starting-terrorist-josh-manning-combat-veteran-wants-to-know/comment-page-1/ +. +http://intelligentdiscontent.com/2014/05/30/his-former-commander-exposes-ryan-zinkes-navy-seal-career-and-defective-moral-make-up/ +. + +Yep. Read these rave reviews. +.",0 +The bait will NOT be taken.,0 +"It is too bad the understanding of most people in regards to energy generation, distribution, and use remains in the last century with little understanding of where things can and need to go. +Distributed generation and storage will evolve to much more reliable and inexpensive systems that we have been used to. The concept of storage should not just be thought of as just batteries, for instance. We have had grid storage in nuclear systems that run best at relatively constant output. Pumped water storage was economical then as it is now. Thermal mass and phase change storage allows electric use at none peak times with making ice at night. Other forms of storage can be seen in phase change crystals in drywall. We will likely see a lot of grid stage as hydrogen which may be converted to things like ethanol for more convenient use in transportation. +HVDC lines are planned for moving energy from one part of the country to another.",0 +"Good one; thanks, RangerMC! ...",0 +"It sounds like, and is possible, that part of the submarine was sealed off. If no water got in there and they were trapped, its possible they passed from lack of oxygen and were entombed. If it's cool enough it could even prevent bacteria from taking the flesh because there's no air. So they could exist in a vacuum. Or they just found skeletons.",0 +The Star is the only paper with real investigative journalists in Canada. They destroyed the Ford family with facts. They even found the video. Thank goodness someone is looking out for the public.,0 +Like to know where the public money went?,0 +You knocked the bar down trying to clear it Chris.,0 +"The purpose of all advertising is to influence and persuade. But virtually nobody admits it worked on them. + +""No one wants to talk about"" the fact the media was pro-Clinton? + +I don't know who you're trying to kid, but it's not working on me.",0 +"You should have put ""presidential in quotes."" A good number of those straw-graspers are Repuglicans.",0 +"Golfing back at Mar-a-Logo eh? (basically Spanish for sea of lakes, or ""swamp"").",0 +It can't be undone by executive order. Only congress.,0 +"IF the USA doesn't lead, there will be no progress on climate change. It's not just our emissions--though they are considerable, especially per capita--it's our national attitude towards the crisis that causes the trouble. + +Since WWII. it's been an article of faith in the American main stream that the US is the world's ""one essential nation"". If anything, this has been a bedrock conservative view, underpinning, for instance, the ""coalition of the willing"" in Gulf War I and Bush II's Iraq War. + +It's only on climate change that conservatives dismiss this otherwise undeniable American singularity. Why is that? This is what Krugman want to know. How does this unaccountable thing happen.?",0 +"If you read my post carefully I am taking the appropriate steps to assess the situation. However one of the first steps is to ascertain if there are any guidelines established by the AOAO BOD. My point is there should at least be step-by-step play book / process along with standards and specifications to allow those who want to explore this option. This would avoid a myriad or variant submissions all of which would need to be scrutinized by the BOD as we would want to have properly maintain the aesthetics of the project. As for resources, we simply utilize the Property Management, licensed electrical contractors and those who have volunteered and committed to serve on the BOD / Building and Grounds to facilitate same. I've served on several AOAO / BOD's and it is not a daunting task to get this done...but more on just getting it done. :)",0 +"I'm also confused by the purpose of this piece. It's a great idea - bridges and maintenance are extremely important. But it really seems to lack an understanding of all the factors involved. The purpose really seems editorial to take hits at Caldwell. So if the point is political, then it should look at Djou's record as well. As you mention, he has voted against every single bridge maintenance project in his 8 years on the Council. Not just that, but he also proposed signifiant cuts to the budget multiple times, which would have decimated CIP funding for projects like this. Now that he is proposing a tax cut for the wealthy, which City programs would he propose cutting to pay for his luxury tax break? Caldwell fixed 22 bridges (by this article's report) / how many would Djou's #notaxesever do if he had the chance? Hopefully we don't find out.",0 +"Now why would these model citizens be so anti-cop? +Could it be they are trying to protect themselves from the consequences of breaking the law? +Seeing as how an NFL player is arrested every 7 days, that sounds quite possible. + +http://nflarrest.com/ + +Are these the people we should be listening to regarding social justice? +Are these the people that should be telling us how live?",0 +"I clicked on it Gary, then it showed a big pic of smiling Obama, but I couldn't make it play and i Clicked on everything, I think.",0 +"Can you give some examples of how Sen. Sullivan has failed to represent Alaska and Alaskans and ""thrown them under the bus""? Or are you just whining, hand wringing and hyperventilating because Sen. Sullivan is a Republican Senator? And, as to your unsupported insinuation that Sen. Sullivan is improperly aligned with the Koch Brothers, can you provide any proof or evidence that is the case, or do we just have some more overwrought bloviation by the unhinged? Objective readers can probably already come up,with the answer.",0 +"All the more reason for McCain to retire. If he veers ""off-course"" so easily why is he entrusted with +being a Senator.",0 +Yikes! I think you've had enough liberal kool-aid.,0 +"Yeah, it kinda was. I don't need to read that particular bit of history. I remember.",0 +"It does on base schools, funded and staffed by DOD",0 +"Not everyone around a university knows or cares about its traditions. Remember one of their leading spokesman blurted out ""our tradition is to have no tradition."" + +One of the UO decisions that angered a lot of faculty some years back was the removal of our Great Seal from faculty stationary and replacing it with the ""Autzen O"" on the grounds our out of state athletes were confused by the difference between the athletic department O and our university motto. It was a ""branding thing"" as pioneered by toothpaste ads. +Some saw it as a rejection of tradition and our history, others saw just more ""dumbing down."" I think the faculty, using their minds to move dull matter, got it back. + +Motley, have you thought about the fact that a university has an odd contrast in goals, between supporting both ""tradition"" and cutting edge scholarship and progressive thought. +I believe this is one reason we're having trouble dealing with Deady.",0 +"Yeah, agreed. + +I saw huge Chinooks carrying comparatively tiny buckets of water to dump on the big raging 30,000 acre Columbia fire. Total waste of money and time.'These Chinooks don't fly cheap even without forest fire inflated hourly rates. It looked to me like part of a helicopter sweet heart deal between the Forest Service and a couple of helicopter contractors they favor.",0 +"I think the likes of Carl Lewis, Hank Arron, Mac Danzig, Robert Cheeke, Murray Rose, Martina Navratilova, Venus and Serena Williams, David Carter, John Joseph, UFC Nick and Nate Diaz, Jake Shields, Bill Walton, Ricky Williams, Prince Fielder, Robert Parish, etc. etc would disagree.",0 +I am going to ask you the same question you pose to everyone else when you reply to their comment. Where is your evidence?,0 +"For any American harboring the delusion that intelligent patriotic people populate our government, I offer exhibit A. This sack still scratches his right ear with his left hand.",0 +It is getting old.,0 +There is no new evidence. The lunatics in PiS have been throwing conspiracy theories around for years. Macierowicz at one point even spoke of cloud/fog making machines. It was a tragic accident which PiS are politicising. Your headline is misleading at best and fake news at worst.,0 +To say Jerome Iginla's heart and hunger is superior to that of most NHL players is just silly. The NHL is increasingly a young man's game. Iginla's 8 goals (half on PP) despite receiving 2nd line minutes and significant PP time is telling. Sadly it's 2017 not 2007,0 +"I suspect that the word ""Jingoism"" is no longer taught in the public schools. + + If so, the Trump rhetoric would have produced it by now. + +And it is such a useful word when you have the likes of Putin, the North Korean regime, the Chinese and so forth running amok and Trump pursuing his international agenda. + +I also believe that the internal US focus on multi-culturalism as opposed to international concerns after the fall of the USSR accounts for that. Then, when you get a Putin or a Kim or even a Trump, you have no context for evaluation.",0 +"Again, don't forget Hawker.",0 +"Negative. It is 90/10 now, then drops to 10/90.",0 +Another example of good reporting in the public interest. Since the local government is inept it it up to the public to stop any unreasonable encroachments. The public has the power to overcome irresponsible commercialism motivated by greed.,0 +That article literally has nothing at all to do with either climate change or my article.,0 +Would love to see a copy of the playbook. I guess you can't face the fact that he is exploiting your white racial anxiety.,0 +Satire...right?,0 +Is two bucks a reasonable price to pay for a fair election? I think so.,0 +"""the funding of the rail should not be contingent on any audit results of past experience."" + +That's the same as saying if a crime was committed in the past, those involved in the criminal activity, can't be prosecuted because the crime has already been committed. + +Mr. Yamachika, you are right - we would certainly appreciate seeing a Federal audit triggered by issuing construction bonds!",0 +Speak for yourself!,0 +"The state needs to cut their loses and pony up . They signed the agreement . Like it or not , our state reps signed the deal . We might as well pay now , before it's more later. You don't special order a car and months later get to take it back. Same with this building . We ordered all the bells and special paint job . We owe the money . The state will lose in court and be required to pay damages above what we could have settle for. Like it or not , the owners gave us the building we wanted. They shouldn't be left holding our bag.",0 +"Itsssssssssss................... TIME for the Indians to CIRCLE THE WAGON TRAINS..............""DAGAWALODI""",0 +Our AK state employees continue to conduct business on private email accounts. Should we report each and every one?,0 +Great article Wente!,0 +"A reliable fire alarm system and awareness by residents about fire safety will prevent deaths too. There are many to do and not to do in case of a fire. If everyone knew those, lives can be saved and fires prevented.",0 +"CycleWest, + +I agree that, rather than concern for BC and its people generally, Premier Clark is motivated primarily by fear that the BC Liberals will lose power and that she will lose the BC Liberal leadership shortly thereafter. + +My earlier comment simply tried to assess how she appears to be going about achieving her long-shot objectives.",0 +"http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/content/suspect-soldiers-troubled-pasts-troubles-service + +Bush's illegal invasion and occupation resulting in the military significantly lowering its recruiting and retention standards.",0 +"Charles: please see my response to GBA above. I can only speak for myself...... I can't change the past....I can't ""un-do"" what has been done. I can't change that my ancestors (some of them) were slaveowners. I can't undue the past Jim Crow America. I did, along with millions of other Americans, work for the Civil Rights Act, for voter equality, for equal opportunity laws and fair treatment. I do what I can today to support fair treatment for everyone....including as we've discussed, Ms Shurtz. No one should have to wait one single moment for equal and fair treatment. No one should have to tolerate slurs. No one should have to endure racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, etc insults from anyone. You know that, I know that, millions of other ""Americans know that. On the flip side, millions of other 'Americans disagree....they do see you as a ""second class"" citizen, they see women through the prism of misogynism, they see others as inferior to them.... my regards to you",0 +How are the media lying about being shut out?,0 +Love the comments!! When I think it's time to throw in the towel Canadians surprise me and wholly reject the clap trap The Globe & Pail Leftards are selling.,0 +"I still don't see why we need a city hall. I have not seen any analysis about the cost of the scattered services in leased areas vs. the cost of a city hall that will only address a small portion of the needed space. Indeed this may be an example of hubris not what is the most respectful of the taxpayer. + +It is both the city manager and the city council who seem to be at fault here. The city council has ultimate authority over the budget and these decisions. They don't seem to ask the best questions and demand accountability. The citizens need to ask for more business savvy people to run for council.",0 +Wouldn't be awesome if Trumpster did a Playboy interview right about now?,0 +So very sad. A rotted tree finally falls and kids playing just happened to be in it's path at the time. I can't imagine what the family must be going through. God bless you all.,0 +Harper did this solely for PR. He was lowering scientific funding--for other than the oil sector--all the time. Prove me wrong.,0 +"Trudeau has no choice but to refrain from saying anything against Trump, because Canada has to do its best to get along with the US government, like it or not. + +Incidentally, Canada's situation in relation to the US reminds me to an extent of when I was in Portugal and I asked the tour director on our bus trip how his country gets along with Spain. He said the two countries get along ok, and I then pointed out (and he agreed) that Portugal has no choice but to do so, since Spain shares its sole land border. Well, that's pretty much what our position is like with the US.",0 +"There is no legal requirement for citizens to stop and talk to police unless you're the driver of a vehicle when they ask you. If the police forcibly stop you otherwise it is a 'detainment' and they must have articulable suspicion of your involvement in a crime. Given the propensity for cops to shoot first and ask questions later, 'just keep walking' is the best approach to any law enforcement trying to talk to you.",0 +Murthy is as insane as Caldwell -- let's extend the system in both directions and -- then go to the North Shore. How about a Chunnel System to every neighbor island?,0 +"Political reminiscing etc is not solving anything. +Canadians need ? an impeachment process or something...there is zero accountability....no matter what party has the reigns......just buck passers.",0 +"Governor Walker didn't ""snatch"" more than half the PFD. He capped it at $1,000.00. As recently as 2013 the PFD was less than $1,000.00.",0 +That's why you don't talk to law enforcement. If they are detaining you they must have reasonable suspicion. Unless something happened that lead them to have a reasonable suspicion that you were fishing without a license just tell them to piss off. They don't have the authority to press further. If they try to cite some state or local law just remind them the US Constitution trumps whatever silly law they cited.,0 +"Critics of the program, however, argue DACA recipients take jobs that should go to unemployed Americans. What do you say to that issue?",0 +"After the uprising maybe... but dictator's always disarm a populace during times of peace. History is full of examples... from Hitler to Franco, And while I agree it is highly unlikely... it could happen here.",0 +"Author Bill Tammeus asks a question of ""Why does it require a seminary degree and ordination to be able to baptize people and to oversee the Eucharist?"" It doesn't; In the Catholic Church anyway. According to Catholic.com, baptism does not require an ordained priest nor a degree to baptize. The quote: The minister of this sacrament is the priest, to whom it belongs to baptize, by reason of his office. In case of necessity, however, not only a priest or deacon, but even a layman or woman, nay, even a pagan or heretic can baptize, provided he observes the form used by the Church, and intends to perform what the Church performs. The link: https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/baptism + +As a metaphor, whereas, generally one would prefer a licensed Doctor to save a life, in the case of emergency, CPR and Heimlich maneuvers ought to be performed to save a life. Therefore a death bed baptism with no priest, I would argue as being legitimate.",0 +"Well, whether Jerry69 is worried about bias or not (he might want to try looking in a mirror), the gist of the article is not how did we get here, but ""how do we go forward without a war and the deaths of thousands of innocents?"" The cooler heads in our military and the one or two sane people surrounding the president need to clamp down on his uninformed solipsistic foolishness, de-activate his twitter-finger, and preferably lock him in a closet in the White House basement and forget where they put the key. Then they need to go about a process of de-escalation that specifically takes ""regime change"" off the table, but tells North Korean that while we aren't about to de-throne the Kim Dynasty, if KJU doesn't ""cool it,"" we are prepared to respond in kind.",0 +"Beware of bankers that tell you not to worry. English translation is ""we haven't a clue, but its probably gonna get bad"". And ""we're not worried because we are to big to fail"" +Watch ""The Big Short""",0 +As a Canadian I am appalled by the oppression and violence of the Spanish state. The EU's silence is deafening and the true colours of the unelected power structure is beginning to show. It is increasingly clear that the super-state will stop at nothing except total control. This situation could spark yet another war in Europe.,0 +"People don't seem to realize that thanks to interest rates at generational lows and foreign speculation and money laundering, Canada has had the biggest and longest bull run in housing in many people's lifetimes. The long term average rate of real estate appreciation has historically been something like 2-3%/ year. In Vancouver and TOronto, housing is severely overvalued and anyone who bought in the last few years if they expect things to appreciate like they have in the past 10 years, I think they are in for a big shock. Average house prices in these cities have far exceeded even average professional salaries, so if prices continue to climb, you have to ask yourself who will be living in these cities. Vancouver has already changed for the worst, and it looks as though TO is headed in that direction.",0 +What does this have to do with the ID change for the bases?,0 +"""Yahweh"" as used in the Old Testament is translated is ""I am"" which sounds directionally the same as ""Godself"". Should we also not take the writers of the Old Testament seriously too?",0 +"Trudeau decides it’s just not worth appeasing Trump in foreign-policy shift +----- +the lap dog rebels ? +so Justin will continue to admire China +and visit Cuba?",0 +"I'm not part of a demographic that is being threatened with brutality and erasure, so I withhold judgement because I am not in their shoes. While I prescribe to non-violence, if someone were to come to my door and threaten my family I would find it very difficult to stick to my non-violent beliefs.",0 +Dull life ? I'm living the dream . I fly all the time around the world. I'm the voice of all those innocent people who died because of the pilots bad judgement and risk taking. It's beyond pathetic that even supposedly professional pilots in Alaska are making such terrible mistakes . Many have the same attitude as you---that life is a risk---so it's no big deal that so many pilots are taking so many innocent people to their deaths. That you and I are writing about this subject means we have been lucky so far to have flown with pilots who did it right. These pilots just don't seem to realize the responsibility these innocent passengers put in them . If they did they wouldn't pull all of these stupid stunts . In the past 60 years look at all the innocent people who have died because of these cowboys. There must be a way to end the madness in Alaska. How many innocent passengers will die in Alaska this year ? How many innocent people will have to risk their lives searching for them ?,0 +I have to agree with this. Obama got stuff done. Trump can't seem to get it in gear.,0 +"Correct palani, the sneaky folks in the DHHL have changed the whole ""experiment' (and yes it was to be an experiment not something that could not be stopped if it didn't work) was to put some, NOT ALL, 50% or better Polynesian-Hawaiians back on land to FARM. +They know that once people are put in homes you can never get them out again. A farm you can evict someone from if they are not farming as agreed. Once in a home on a property the home is a permanent thing. This is what they are setting the public up for. The deeper we allow DHHL to just put people in homes the more impossible it will ever be to unwind the race based, and questionable constitutionality, program. +Perhaps, then, we should just call it a day, give free title to everyone with just a property with a home, and stop it now. +Remember, Price Kuhio argued before Congress it was to ""save a dying race"". That reason no longer applies as they are the fastest growing race in the U.S..",0 +"""If all he does is clean out the crime and corruption in TCHC…"" + +He couldn't even deal with his own brother's illegal drug use, man.",0 +"Quebec doesn't allow all wines in their grocery stores, and the main condition is that must be bottled in Quebec. The wine arrives by tanker and you used to be able to go down to the dock area, with your own bottles and 'fill up"".",0 +"And all other ethical messes. As someone else here so wisely said recently, ""When Trump leaves the White House they'll have to fumigate it"".",0 +"I like this guy too, anyone know his jail address I want to send him a card. For real",0 +"Given the persecutional and genocidal treatment of Jews in Europe over millenia by Christians, the treatment of Muslims, and the elimination of the Earth-based religions of early Europe, to avoid mentioning some kind of religious partnership and mutual respect in the designed future of Europe is irresponsible and gives the impression that Christians are unaware of the perils inherent in being triumphal, intolerant, and without a caring vision of diversity. ""Proclamation of the Gospel"" all too often implies evangelization, structural discrimination, and forceful pressures to hold people down who are different from those in power. Have we not seen enough of what that yields?",0 +"Trever Siemian is Gary Kubiak. Kubes was a nice backup QB who knew the offense, was prepared and could come in during the middle of the game and operate the offense. He also could start a game here and there as needed and give the Broncos a chance for a win. A solid backup QB is a good commodity to have. It's the fact we don't have a franchise QB that is the problem. Paxton Lynch and his abysmal work ethic and lack of dedication is what our problem is. He is supposed to be our QB of the future rather than a guy who looks lost in pre season games.",0 +"""...we find no peace"" + +The question is : Can we find no peace from you? There are other places to build your cemetery. Normal people of all other faiths and ethnicities would look elsewhere for a pleasant place to bury their dead. You want your cemetery in the middle of an established largely Catholic community. . It is a portent of mass Muslim influx to St Apollinare. You are preparing for a perpetual law-fare war on others to get the land you want. Imagine how Israel feels.",0 +Of considerably more interest would be asking all of the presidential primary candidates their views on the Bundy family incursions into criminal and domestic terrorism behavior and the FBI and Justice departments very slow response enforcing the law in Nevada and Oregon. I have asked these candidates. So far no responses. Perhaps we can all put the question to them again when the Oregon primary rolls around.,0 +"In 2011 they took only 5 seats in Quebec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Results_of_the_Canadian_federal_election,_2011#Quebec + +Still a majority with 166 seats total, though. The only reason they pulled it off was that the Orange wave in QC shattererd the usual Liberal walk there. If they'd been able to field a decent candidate, it would have been a very different story for little Stevie.",0 +"Sorry, but most of us will never show respect to Nazis, fascists or racists. Our ancestors fought against them, not so they would be respected, but so they would be put down forever.",0 +"And she got more votes than either f them. In fact, she has never lost an election on votes.",0 +"Amazing to see a guy who is heralded as a ""rock star"" in law and order circles being smeared and denigrated by a CONservative because of Trump. + +I guess racism trumps (pun intended) law and order values for CONs every time though.",0 +Only can if a Vagrancy law is Re-Enacted Bedam the ACLU,0 +"SO: Of course you do. No one wants to own the ACA with its flaws but those who created it, the Dem's, own it no matter how much you or they wish that were not true. The Dem's can either offer serious reform or they can watch it die. By the way I don't think think the R offered plan was any better but since that is no longer on the table it is back in the Dem's court.",0 +After Governor Hammond and Arlis Sturgilowski the Republican party died.,0 +"Get over yourself. Some environments are worse than others. This kid grew up in one of the worst the US has to offer, he did it without a Father for his teenage years. Nothing wrong with talking about it.",0 +"""Groking"". Bot that was a good book, timeless! As for Obama's 2 V 8 years, that's true enough. And to date Trump has the mirror image of that. Obama, in his first 2 years did a tremendous amount of damage. Trump in his first 2 years will be hard pressed to undo very much of it but he can try and maybe have some great success. And, at this point, there is no reason to believe that he won't get a 2nd 2 years in 100% control. + +One problem I do have with Trump is that he, like Obama seem to think they have to use tax money to make private business thrive.",0 +How is free speech hard for 'the libs' to understand?,0 +"Thanks for taking me down Memory Lane, back to the 60's when my dad would spontaneously decide to take us on a summer evening outing to Spada's Feed and Seed (they had resident store cats!) and Sutton's Greenhouse. I remember Anna at school. I wish her and her sister a happy retirement.",0 +"Each radio station tends to play six songs over and over. Pop stations loop pop songs, Hawaiian stations play the same Hawaiian songs. No variety! Why do you think streaming services and MP3 usage has shot though the roof? I only listen to radio stations in the morning and afternoon for the radio personalities, not the music.",0 +"But all you guys were so sure it was ISIS! =( To slightly plagiarize D.L. Hughley, the only place far right terrorism doesn't exist is Fox news and the conservative echo sphere.",0 +Not a problem. I'm pretty sure that Jared has gills under his skin suit.,0 +"Thank you Heather, + +I was convinced that once the Post Office wrenched the mailbox out of the Edgewood Shopping Center parking lot, it was a done deal. I have used that box and I have seen many others use it all year long, for years. I appreciate your and others' efforts to resurrect this convenience. You have proven that at least at this level, you can fight ""city hall"".",0 +McLaren got her job through mumsie and presumably holds on to it for that reason.,0 +Just think if they tossed the whiskey n weed and actually lived a subsistence lifestyle.,0 +Absolutely! It's hard to imagine ANY party playing things so callously and cynically as Republicans have over the last seven years.,0 +"I sure would like to know why Rand Paul and Bernie Sanders opposed the amendment. That's an odd couple, to say the least.",0 +This will upset most people in the country..,0 +"In a values scale of one to ten, where does this rank? Maybe, minus one.(?) +In my book +Burke messed up the Churches Center for Land and People and the National Catholic Rural Life Organization, as a onetime head of both organizations.",0 +"Apparently, ""ever"" began in 1981. Who knew that the world began with the advent of satellites?",0 +"Yes he could have been stopped. In fact he was already behind bars. But Portland, being the liberal forgiving society it is, let him out. And they'll do it again, and so will he.",0 +"especially... bad laws we celebrate as good are especially destructive. +Time to examine church laws and faith profession. Where is the Gospel message urging trust in ways and means of violence?",0 +"Seems like some facts are ""rejected"" at this site.",0 +we all make occasional mistakes. Some of us make more than others; some make them continuously.,0 +"then, janine, you have never been a victim of a vicious assault. people use many weapons.",0 +"The Russians or Syrians who comment here in defense of the Assad regime's crimes should relax and chill out. Since international justice is dead, neither Presidents Putin nor Assad have anything to worry about. Since they will never be brought to justice, defending them seems to nothing more than an odd public relations exercise.",0 +"Ray and the entire Harvey Family represent the very best of The Spirit of the San Juan Islands. +We are all lucky to have Ray in that position! + +Jack and Kiki Coe +Orcas Island",0 +The scene of the Philando Castile shooting. http://www.slideserve.com/reillygraves/the-scene-of-the-philando-castile-shooting,0 +Tricky Ricky getting his head around the name of his job still.,0 +"Move your business elsewhere. + +Bye now!",0 +A program is how not to kill yourself?,0 +And then it was the 4th quarter!,0 +"Every country buying aircraft has many things to consider not just the price of purchase and operation.Canada because of its size needs a long range reliable aircraft that can operate from austere northern air strips,Ability to detect and kill possible threats at distance.What are these threats ,principally Russian Bears ,Blinders and Backfires with cruise missiles. coming at North America over the pole.They will be possibly acompaniedby fighters and be aerial refueled.So we need a long range plane supplemented by aerial refuelling.We currently have justtwo converted Airbus aircraft. +They must have long range kill,Meteor missile is probably the best. +For operation elsewhere in NATO they should have a strike capability be able to defend themselves. As to offsets Magellan is already building and has a contract for 1000 horizontal tail surfaces for the F35. Boeing the is already buying components from Canada and I'm sure any future purchase will come with offsets .",0 +"di-m0ndz, here's the outrage: + +http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/attawapiskat-four-things-to-help-understand-the-suicidecrisis/article29583059/ + +http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/little-to-no-fire-protection-in-almost-half-of-first-nations-reserves-report/article27892329/ + +http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/native-school-conditions-in-canada-are-shocking-panel-chair/article557527/ + +http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-still-failing-to-provide-adequate-health-care-on-reserves-report/article33746065/ + +http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/manitoba-needs-2-billion-to-fix-mouldy-crowded-first-nations-homes/article28476330/ + +http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ottawa-has-human-rights-obligation-to-provide-safe-water-on-reserves-report/article30323837/ + +http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/why-is-canada-denying-its-indigenous-peoples-clean-water/article31599791/ + +There's much more coverage.",0 +"This is what is called a liberal-fascist police state. Given that the German authorities tried to hide the events of NYE 2015-16 where 1,200 women were raped & molested for five whole days, in collusion with the national media, it does not surprise me that they now want to intimidate everyone into silence, so when this happens again, women will not post what happened to them on facebook, twitter and other sites, which is how it got out in the first place, prompting more victims to come forward out of solidarity and with confidence that they will not be alone. This is what this measure is about.",0 +"That's not what 'attenuated' means, and your genetic superiority argument is purile. That means its a belief you're supposed to grow out of.",0 +"All polling is suspect and biased. The results are often based on a question being asked in such a way that the results are pleasing to the paying client. As we have witnessed in past provincial elections, Brexit, and the recent US elections, pollsters were enormously wrong over and over again, proving what a roll of the dice polling is, and not an advanced science at all.",0 +"Or I'm not a mind reader, a skill you apparently possess. + +I define racism by words and actions. And I never, ever use the word, unless I can cite words and actions that conclusively prove racist intent. + +I know, how radical!",0 +PC ALREADY had student housing which SHOULD NOT have been torn down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,0 +"What strikes me as most significant is that water drawn from the ""high-level aquifer"" is already brackish and approaching the point of not being drinkable. That most likely indicates that the Ghyben-Herzberg freshwater lens under Lanai is relatively small and thin -- probably an ongoing natural condition (since Lanai sits somewhat in Maui's ""rain shadow"") and partly due to historic long-term depletion for agriculture. + +It's an obvious fact of nature that one can't continue drawing more fresh water from this lens than it receives from natural ""recharging"" processes, without depleting it. Excess withdrawal causes the ""mixing zone"" of brackish water to rise upward, and eventually freshwater wells start turning brackish. + +That the high-level aquifer water is brackish is great cause for concern -- and fiddling with the definition of ""potable"" so it can continue to be used for golf course irrigation is turning a blind eye to the problem and will only make it worse and more intractable.",0 +"""Equally important""? + +Are you are opposed to abortion as a matter of moral principle, regardless of a woman's choice or her social and economic circumstances?",0 +I've been more embarrassed by our president elect's antics than anything President Obama ever did.,0 +It makes their humor even funnier since it becomes forbidden fruit. Total comedy gold.,0 +"DD, + +A person who is gifted by the Holy Spirit easily recognizes and respects when another is gifted and their experience with God enables them to see quickly when a person is not gifted. Thinking that a person can be gifted by the Holy Spirit without having a testimony about their experience with the power of God is the first evidence that their concepts are based on theory rather than scripture and experience with God. Second is their persistence in arguing with those who are gifted and ministering using the gifts that are in them. Please, get experience with God, discover the gifts He has promised to give all who believe and find the ministry He wants you doing. Then come back and let's celebrate God's greatness together.",0 +Agree!,0 +"Maybe you are the one who needs to read the constitution again. The full line is +A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed. The ""people"" is what it says. +The citizen militias were regulated by the officers and already had a structure in place. The militia were not National Guard or reserves or Army, they were citizens or what we call civilians today.",0 +"In Canada we too have a problem with property rights; it is all owned by the Queen of England. +- +That is why our property is sold to foreign buyers and we can not afford it because the property rights for Canadians are very weak. It should be that only citizens can own land as it is in most other countries in the world. +- +That is why rent is so high; it is control by the state communists and nobody want to be a landlord puppet for the state. +- +This is why why we have snooping in our houses by the state because we don't have strong property rights. They can just enter your house, look around and even arrest you for any number of things. This includes by-law officers, private land surveyors, building inspectors, fire marshals etc etc. If you call the police for help they too will enter your house without a warrant are arrest you if they can. +- +There are stronger property rights in most other country than in Canada, it is not surprising in a country with no real identity or culture.",0 +Your teeth. Carry your teeth.,0 +Talk about making stuff up HG. That's a real whopper. Can you find anywhere here where I said she was innocent? Better can you find anywhere here where 'lying was uncovered' because I just read the article again for updates and no such line exists.,0 +"It is their constitutional right, but only your employer can define what you are free to do on company time without consequences. I know the Broncos want to keep this low key, and would likely be the subject of a lot of unwanted attention if they told the players publicly not to do this at a game. It's challenging, now, because unlike Jerry Jones, the Broncos did look the other way and murmur platitudes about freedom when they didn't have to. Undoubtedly they thought it would be a one-time thing and that they'd be in the clear once Marshall did the intelligent thing of talking to police and working with organizations that actually do something, not symbolism over substance. Now they are in a precarious position, and frankly I think that Elway needs to have a private talk with his employees about what is expected in the business he's running.",0 +It is BECAUSE the crop is illegal that there is so much criminal activity surrounding it. I doubt if the average tobacco farmer needs to worry about people with guns coming to steal their crops. The federal government can best ensure that all Canadians are safe from grow rips BY legalizing.,0 +"keonimay, that's a good point. HART was created to oversee Da Rail as a semi-autonomous, independent agency, and we all know what a fiasco that has been. How would a similar airport entity be any different? But It is out bloated state bureaucracy that's the problem. + +“It’s our showcase,” he [Dunkerly] said. “It’s the first place people see on arrival..."" + +Even the potholed approach roads and sidewalks leading to the airport are a disgrace. How long have the temporary construction barricades been in place? And the weeds along Nimitz constantly encroach upon the sidewalks. When even the little things are ignored, you can be sure that the big things will be as well.",0 +"""..but failed to see the potential political backlash (e.g. reduced federal funding) and now the reported Social Media boycott Hawaii, which in all likelihood could impact tourism way more than the AG claimed as a reason to challenge the limited and temporary travel order"" +So are you saying he should have based his decision of the possibility that Hawaii might lose federal monies and not the US Constitution? +Many people out there voted Trump and asked that taxes and federal expenses be cut so here it is and you complaining about losing federal monies?..and he should have known that someone was going to do a social media campaign to boycott Hawaii, right? +""The public should be able to question and if necessary challenge their products and motivations.""....We do have the right to appeal to a higher court. I trust you know this?",0 +"Clearly , you have no experience or knowledge whatsoever with the medical cannabis industry, the rules, regulations, and very, very strict chemical compositions of the various strains, ALL of which have very specific guidelines. Clearly you understand nothing about the various medicinal components of cannabis, the CBD and THC levels which need to be precise in order to achieve very particular results for the user. +This is one of those times when educating yourself would be time much better spent than would writing ""witty"" comments on the Globe & Mail's website. The science...yes, science...is much more complicated than you think.",0 +"While, like many of the world's people I listened to the Presidential election last night, my eyes were on the U.S. elections page. That's right, I listened on the radio and watched what I was also interested in on the Net. What I was watching was the marijuana revolution. The voters again, gave the establishment the finger. The results in California and Massachusetts were overwhelming. In Nevada, too. Even in the redneck south, Floridians ok'd medical pot. Arkansas, too. + +My interest in pot, other than the personal freedom question, is the medical uses for this substance. I see pot as a partial answer to alcohol and narcotic abuse. We will never keep people from using, but we can surely do better. We will know when this substance is de-scheduled and proper academic studies can be made to answer this question one way or the other. + +Surely, Congress must now act on this question if the new president does not. Real life experience e leads me to believe my hunch is right. What about you?",0 +i COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE ANY HAPPIER with President Trump than I am right now. Go through his list of campaign promises and start checking them off. Democrats take notice that this is what keeping your campaign promises looks like since you have never seen it from any of your candidates in your lifetimes...except for maybe old soul,0 +"Obo, you are always good for a laugh! It is you that are uninformed. Rural preference subsistence, in areas, is the law. You have no excuse, except, perhaps for low-watt intelligence, to distribute your personal yo-yo myth.",0 +"Most of that list is just plain moronic. For starters, when you throw a lit cigarette out the window, wherever that happens to be, it's loitering, and it's dangerous near forested areas, that's one. Camp fires? Really? Who'd a thunk it. 'controlled' burns? And they haven't learned from past experiences? Please.",0 +"It's unfortunate that our team had to play under this condition set forth by the NCAA. Coach Ganot should be praised for keeping his team focused on the task at hand and at the moment, having a team that was picked to finished 8th or so, sitting in a tie for 3rd with 2 games remaining. Thank you to the UH Men's Basketball Program for delivering a great season thus far! So many of the Faithful expected so much worse with all them departures that took place! Would UH ever consider taking the helm but suing the NCAA? I'm sure we'd have the backing of so many other high profile Universities but again, our ability to poorly manage funds will answer that rather quickly. Win the whole ****Ing thing! Go Warriors!",0 +"The actual cost o the patient is the useful information, not what is charged . Insurance companies can waiver on ""allowables"" for any billing whenever they want . All insurance companies and plans are different. +The pressure and attention should be focused on the insurance companies. They are driving all behavior that drives up the ""billed"" costs. +Our system is complex and even our lawmakers and the public at large may not understand this.",0 +"""eating the seed corn for another meal rather than planting the seed corn,"" he said, or, in a more Alaska-focused analogy: ""I'm a big fan of sourdough pancakes. And if we treat our Permanent Fund like we treat sourdough starter, we'll be fine. No one would ever use up all the sourdough starter. The first thing you do is you take it out and leave it for the next batch."" + +Really Bill?! Like the State has already eaten all the Constitutional Budget Reserve funds, (their share, from the Permanent Fund Program) intended to be used for emergency budget ""shortfalls"", but instead--how should I say this nicely--""taken"" by the State to pay for its ever increasing and completely unjustified size? Seriously?! The largest per capita spending in the country, and on exactly what infrastructure and systems? + +Now yours is gone so you take 1/2 of our shares from the past 5 years avg.?! those should not even be considered as the payout # is based on past years! OUR money is there!! Not yours! SMDH!",0 +Justin has to be naive because no one could be this out of touch with everyday working people.,0 +Were they wearing helmets or not? More weak and incomplete reporting from the SA...,0 +"To Emily Tousaw - I agree, the use of the word ""charm"" for a women, particularly Chrystia Freeland, is offensive. Better use would be: ""Canada's embarrassing joke of a Prime Minister built his reputation on his ability to charm the gullible"".",0 +"Finally, a country that does something meaningful to reduce the chemical weapons threat and mistreatment of innocent civilians. Well done Israel",0 +CIA Captured Putin’s Instructions to Help Elect Trump,0 +"This is almost a form of a Ponzi scheme.... + +You might have a bit more credibility if you refrained from using absurd terms like Ponzi. I am sure there must be some kind of financial Godwin's Law equivalent when the Ponzi card is played. + +A company that issue shares in lieu of cash payments to a shareholder is able to retain that cash to reinvest in the company. Resulting in the ability to fund capital inputs leading to further cash flow growth. Clearly it is up to the shareholder to decide if they feel the company is deploying their capital in the most efficient manner. + +Alternatively they could go directly to the market, or a banking syndicate to fund those needs incurring significant costs in the process.",0 +"I believe we should remember history, in the fervent hope we will not repeat it. It's important to remember the history of slavery, and the Klan, in Oregon. It seems Blacks would want that, too. Maybe a better move would be to leave the names in place and add a plaque detailing the history of the person.",0 +"Right, giving a front page to the Moreau schedule was just a head fake. Like the Globe's endorsement of the CPC the last few elections. Do you only see what confirms your biases?",0 +"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.",0 +"No intention to be funny. +The pink hats look like underpants & wearers made to look stupid. +You were used + + +Pls research methods of mass propaganda; Edward Bernays; & how PR agents can manipulate people as a means of achieving some larger agenda that supports their interests at the cost of your well-being -- i.e. Bernays was hired by Big Tobacco to get women to smoke: On Easter Sunday he got women to march down Fifth Ave in Easter finery, smoking cigarettes. It became chic. Sales soared. The cancer did not come until later. + +Same with Women's march -- you were seduced to join a mob, and now you are defending the mob's vacuous non-agenda, while real issues, like prosecuting Clinton for deliberate destruction of Libya & Syria & deaths of 200,000, becomes invisible. + +REAL women support Tulsi Gabbard who visited Syria and interviewed 14 yrs old raped by ISIS, which US arms & supports. +Now, ""Congress disgusted w/ Gabbard."" Google it. +Will you come to the defense of Tulsi Gabbard?",0 +"""Now I read Trump just signed legislation permitting the coal industry to dump mining waste in streams and rivers (undoing the Office of Surface Mining’s Stream Protection Rule). "" + +Wrong, it does nothing of the sort. You are getting your news by reading headlines.",0 +Since when has Trump been concerned whether something is constitutional?,0 +The goal is always ideological victory and Votes. Free market solutions for everything except military spending. All uteruses must be controlled by the federal government with laws written by males only. Choose your own doc as long as she doesn't work for Planned Parenthood. Health care only for US Congress. The rest need to use their own $ to redirect into a government controlled savings account. Cap Medicaid to states but not congressional premium imcrease allowances. Reduce annual support for those making $20k per year from $3k to $2k. Increase penalty for insurance lapses by $3k per year on $10k of annual premium cost. Pay for it all by price signals coming from across state lines.,0 +"The last I heard, she was a Senator for the State of Alaska, not the State of the Republican party. I didn't vote for her, but her backbone on this one, will make me think twice next time and not just dismiss her. Party over People isn't a good way to govern.",0 +"Yet you are posting here. +Hilarious!",0 +Trump wont sit on his hands like obummer,0 +"uh the Tri-Cities is Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody. (Originally referred to as PoCoMo) Burnaby is not part of the Tri-Cities.",0 +"There is no credit to be given. +He is doing what his boss, the Russian stooge in the White House, wants, and that is to disintegrate American links with friendly nations and destroy the inner structure of American government. That is what Yanykovych did in Ukraine, when Putin and Manafort installed him to run Ukraine into the ground so Putin's Russia could steal land. +We haven't seen Putin's end game yet, what he is planning while he still has the Trump clan infesting the White House. It is Putin's style to hide in the darkness and arm groups who can disrupt and kill and open the doors to Russian military. +I think of that picture of Trump and the Russians in the White House, and fear. +Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon",0 +"I agree with this comment, even though I flatly disagree with what you said and was held to be uncivil -- which it wasn't.",0 +She has also been put on an immigration hold due to her illegal status. She is being held for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Chin should be writing to his buddies in the 9th circuit court to stop her deportation and welcome her to the sanctuary state of the Banana Republic of Hawaii.,0 +what about the root cause?,0 +"So if America was determined by the UN to be violating the human rights of blacks that would be no big deal to you? +Carding still goes on. +George Washington owned slaves, something in fashion at the time. Macdonald committed genocide and began the institutionalization of people resulting in sexual abuse, medical experiments and god know what else. Leave it to Canada to end up with the founding father starving people to death and that's a fact. +Sorry, I'll take George W.",0 +"I agree that the time were pretty limited, but then it comes off as not really sincere and calculated to bring the soft NDP vote to the Liberals. I never entertained the notion that they would alter the system unless it favoured them, and since that was a non-starter, they have spent the time since the election trying to get out of it. If I was a Liberal I would be glad that they ended it, as the Liberals have won many times in the past without having to resort to gimmicks or gaming the system.",0 +"God ""stated"" that homosexual acts are sinful? Really?",0 +https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2015/crime-in-the-u.s.-2015/tables/expanded_homicide_data_table_8_murder_victims_by_weapon_2011-2015.xls,0 +Worked in the industrial environment for 40 years. Definitely a hot place in the summer. Extra hydration is always a concern and employees are watched closely during the hot days of summer. Anyone who has been around industrial plants in the summer knows the dangers.,0 +"Translation: + +steve_d1 has no argument that the court decisions dealing with how Khadr was treated are wrong, or that the recent negotiated settlement isn't legally advisable. + +Instead of sticking up for the decisions and the courts that made them, or the settlement, he's going to try to justify inflamed public opinion by making fun of the ""cloistered variety that seemingly lives exclusively within the interpretations of the Charter."" And by pointing to ""the Khadr family members."" + +It's a deeply cynical approach.",0 +JJ - Why are you berating someone who is struggling with ESL?,0 +I'm thinking that every story that questions the antics of the Donald are now coming down Trump supporters thinking they are all lies and innuendo. It's going to be a common occurrence as his supporters fight off the buffoonery coming from the Donald.,0 +"All about me? Yeah, that's whole reason I quit smoking cigarettes right after I got married way before I had a child, the reason I spent months eating really well, taking supplements and vitamins, not drinking and not smoking pot because it was all about me and I totally didn't care about the future of my ""baby"". Goofy huh? Oh that's a nice thing to say but you're telling me fetuses is an inappropriate term? Truth is that morning sickness or rather HG which is what I had, can be dangerous to both the mother and baby. It is in no way selfish to smoke pot if it's helping you which in turn will help your baby. Don't let people take away your medicine. It's probably safer than the pharmaceuticals they'll give you that are involved in lawsuits over birth defects, it's safer than starving, getting anemic, malnourished, anorexic and dehydrated. I believe it could prevent post partum depression too and is a safer alternative to drugs used to treat post partum depression.",0 +No way she beats Ige.,0 +"Be careful what you wish for. + +You may get it, good and hard.",0 +"Mr. Gee states that the object isn't to make drivers miserable, and yet I don't see a single constructive suggestion in this article. Every suggestion seems to be aimed at making driving slower, less convenient and more expensive. + +Here's a thought - this driver would dearly _love_ to get out from behind the wheel. I suspect many, even most drivers are the same. The problem is that there _is_no_better_way_. + +Rather than taking up more of drivers time and money, rather than increasing drivers frustration, how about focusing on useful suggestions? How about trying to give drivers a better way? How about making transit at least comparable in time taken? I'd happily pay as much as it costs me to drive if I could let someone else drive and not loose at least half again as much time every day.",0 +"Both Bee and John Oliver provide comedic commentaries that are just too energetic at times and they offer Canadian/British ironic, sometimes moronic, humour, which finds a very enthusiastic, but rather narrow appreciation in the US. +They and their ilk preach to very small, ""nichey"" choirs, never unfortunately, resonating in the mainstream. + +Trump and his GOP world, as successful as they may be right now, are completely devoid of any humour. In fact, are there any conservative comedic commentators, ie right wing versions, of Bee, Bill Maher or John Stewart etc. ? + +.",0 +"If Michael Porter Jr. was Lebron James coming out of high school (an obvious slam dunk hall of famer), then you keep Romar. Porter is deserving of the #1 rating in his class, but he’s not a transcendent player like James was in high school. What’s the best case scenario for UW next year if everything goes right – get a 6 seed in the NCAA tourney? Then what, Porter and maybe one other player leaves the program. If UW can get a high-end coach, they should cut ties with Romar at season's end. Ironically, Missouri has been mentioned as a landing place for Romar should he leave. Porter played in Missouri prior to his recent move to the NW. UW and Missouri are often brought up as two of the sleeping giants in college hoops.",0 +"Would you car Sir, for the even more generous offer that Olmert gave Abbas 7 years ago, and was rejected out of hand. + +The Palestinians don't want peace with Israel, period.",0 +Illegal abortion in Poland is like in Ireland. It doesn't save any lives. It just makes women travel to Germany or England. Free demagoguery for right-wing zealots.,0 +"Eric: I considered flagging the ""Chuckles"" comment. It was certainly condescending and patronizing. Thank you for flagging it. If we all are going to have hope for any genuine imporvements in racial relations in our community the ""civility"" issues is really important. This goes for ""both"" sides. As polarized as the stances are, it's easy to ""throw bricks"", but accomplishes nothing. regards, Gary",0 +"Right, I think what gave it away was the tag ""Social Justice Facilitator"" -- what, you mean like, not a Warrior exactly, but part of the Women's Auxiliary maybe?",0 +"I get nervous when I see the word ""amnesty"" - we want to see these people go to JAIL.",0 +"""The vote count/Electoral College is just a memory to Americans at this point, it's effect if any, long past."" + +Tell that to all the people who keep protesting Trump. + +And SirJohn can certainly be taken to task. The irony of him calling out the MSM as fake news when he provides his own spin is rich indeed.",0 +"that is what Eucharist is all about. all the rest is just a distraction,,,not important.",0 +That's the way the First Amendment works.,0 +"Rick, this is another well researched column. Thank you. + +This sentence is worth repeating: + +""According to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, the net economic value of wildlife viewing to the state is five times higher than hunting."" + +The current, unbalanced, BOG has killed the buffer zone around Denali National Park to make a handful of trappers happy. This has contributed to a significant reduction in the wolf population IN Denali National Park. + +Tourists come from around the world to see the landscape and wildlife of Denali. Last Summer- thanks in part to the unbalanced BOG- 98% of the tourists never got to view a wolf in the wild. + +These tourists spend extraordinary amounts of money in Alaska and help diversify our economy. When they go home and report what they did NOT see, it does not help bring more tourists back to Alaska. + +Gov. Walker was right to try and restore some semblance of balance on the BOG. The current BOG is hurting the Alaska economy.",0 +"Ms. Wente, everything has a downside. Where do you stand? Should people be put in jail for smoking marijuana? Everything else is detail.",0 +You should care. He's 49 years old and right of Genghis Khan. He's appointed for life. 35-40 years of setting the tone of debates that may unravel the the very fabric United States of America.,0 +I don't want Kaepernick but it is because he holds the ball too long just like Lynch and relies on his feet instead of being a QB.,0 +"no, we want to be informed, unlike you RWNJ's",0 +"The Eugene Board is kind of clueless giving out such a big raise I think. This is the guy that is having all the new hire teachers write an essay in defense of their jobs, with the layoff decisions I assume, being at least partly based on what they write. Really? What a cruel thing to do to people. The district is putting their incompetence directly on the backs of those who have no power to change anything. How about foregoing the raise, and shift the money to the classroom, where it actually makes a difference in a kids life.",0 +Who? 😁,0 +"Is this ""benefit"" worth the cost?",0 +"America will make sure it starts a MAJOR War, a Win-Win American corporations make Lots of money and , well ""Population control? !!!!!!!!!",0 +"This technology has already been tried in the Arctic; read about the Airship Norge and Italia. +The same limitations exist almost 100 years later.",0 +"... and food stamp recipients are up 42% since 2008, and the national debt is up by 116%. I suppose you think that was all due to Trump.",0 +"Since this is supposedly an adult discussion we need to take into account two factors involved--sexual arousal involves two parts of the brain--the brain stem-vagal nervous system over which we have no direct voluntary control--and the neo-cortex, our higher brain that is involved in our ability to love, our social behavior and our rational decisions. Men are more quickly aroused and also, as a group, give each other facile permission to act on that arousal--and this has been true for thousands of years. Men don't get pregnant, carry a baby for nine months and form a bond to their babies even before birth. And this is especially true if a man isn't in a loving, committed relationship. +The question is--why haven't our religious/moral leaders--bishops in this case--never held laymen accountable? Maybe sex isn't society's business, but children without fathers and a healthy support system are society's business because we all suffer the consequences.",0 +"Don't forget to ask for an expense account to pay for the ""sneakers on the ground"".",0 +"I don't believe HAARP is working on mind control or turn people into zombies, but one thing is for sure since they start working on suppose study research the wheater has dramatically change not only here but other parts of U.S.",0 +"“Conservative leadership hopefuls engage in lively debate amid crowded 14-person field” +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +It was not a debate. It was 2 hours of the candidates reading their scripted monologues. Even during the rebuttal segments, they largely ignored anything their opponents said and went back to their talking points. They couldn’t even get a rise out of O’Leary, who was the target of several jabs. The verdict..... a lacklustre performance by all concerned.",0 +Now you get it!,0 +"You have a point in that some feminists have muddied the waters and totally confused a lot of men with their emphasis on women's sexual ""empowerment"", supposedly limitless sexual voracity, ""slut shaming"", etc. + +Many men have interpreted that as meaning women are, just like them, always ready and willing to have sex with anyone available, or would be if not repressed by society, and so are ready to interpret a woman's refusal as either old-fashioned coyness or evidence of ""repression"", which could be overcome with a little forceful ""persuasion"". ""Try it, you'll like it!"" ""You know you WANT it!"" + +The alternative would be to accept that the woman just does not find them attractive...and their ego can't handle that.",0 +That will cost all them their campaign including Jaci Augustin's. I can almost guarantee it! Shame on the Republican Party!!,0 +Two wrongs does not make a right.,0 +"Great article. + +I'm opposed to purging Canadian history (as all non-Native Canadians should be). The author supports it (as all First Nations should). This is the point we should be starting the Truth and Reconciliation debate from. HONESTY. What's good for the FN is often bad for Canada and what's good for Canada is almost always bad for the FN. We are a nation built on their suffering. + +The views about slippery slopes and respecting our history are the common sense Canadian views. + +The views expressed in this article are the common sense indigenous views. + +The common sense indigenous viewpoint and the common sense Canadian viewpoint need to talk rationally, without fake-left self congratulatory politicians making promises they know they won't keep and the media constantly pushing stories on statues and parking lot Islamophobia, instead of Thunder Bay, land rights and suicide epidemics. + +We need to start discussing reconciliation in an honest way not built on white guilt lies.",0 +"That is why the spruce bark beetle got spread far and wide on the Kenai, The Division of Forestry in their wisdom opened up firewood cutting for free and every one flocked to get it and stacked it nice an neat underneath their healthy live trees. The beetle larvae can live up to three years in the ""dead"" firewood. When they flew at 50 degrees next summer... they flew into the nice healthy trees and radiated out from there. voila infestation",0 +It seems like almost everyone is trying to find an excuse for her behavior.,0 +"No pete this is not a non-issue. This man was appointed by the so called president to be his National Security Advisor and would still be there in spite of his illegal behavior( that the administration knew about) if the truth as we know it so far had not been revealed to the media. No retired military person is allowed to take financial compensation from a foreign government and Flynn knew that or worse after a career in the US military he didn't know the plainly stated rules. This is all connected to the investigation into how deeply the Russians penetrated and disrupted our election system and how many of trumps appointees and top advisors were complicit in that act of war. Stay tuned pete, more is about to be revealed. It will be the Mother of all Inconvenient Truths before the investigations are half way through.",0 +No Democrat ever went that far.,0 +"Oh Rochy give it a rest will ya. First off you have never read Marx or Gramsci and the fact you keep devoting words to a thinker from 150 years ago is tiring. Marx helped usher in a lot of the rights you as a worker enjoy today. And a lot of it is very dated for sure. But what I don't get with you low effort types is the anger and hostility and the child like arguments. +Now just what did Thomas say that was wrong rochy? Is he increasing military spending? I heard he was, so that increases debt; is he cutting taxes on the wealthy? I heard he was so that is also increasing debt. And the wall rochy the wall.... he says he is going to pay for it up front and bill them later...will that add to the debt rochy? Trump has gone bankrupt 5x and stiffed people for large sums of money and could care less. What are your thoughts on that debt rochy? Is that a good way to do business? You can do it rochy you angry man-child. Where are the cost cuts coming from rochy?",0 +Pigeons flying through rural Texas is the 140 degree summer heat. What could possibly go wrong?,0 +"This is from the parents in Iowa during Dr. Glass's tenure. +http://www.iowalive.net/dedirectorglassfailedtoserve.htm",0 +"Firstly, the LCBO should be shut down and let the private sector sell alcohol. Secondly, the last thing we need is for Wynne/Trudeau to further control anything. It's all about the taxes for these folks.",0 +Funny how the StarAdvertiser descibed above how the ENTIRE Hawaii Republican Party was there to greet Trump.,0 +"I don't agree with your assessment of the Omar Khadr scene, formerlyrbfromcalgary, but I do agree with you that some people are using their opportunities to assess civility to reject postings they disagree with. Frustrating but, I guess, no one is getting hurt as a consequence (smile).",0 +Put in a sales tax.,0 +"Does this video show Heather Meyer violently attcking the car with an Anti-Fa mob right before she was killed? My guess is Heather Meyer was not that bright. + youtube.com/watch?v=9mnywjPPDtU",0 +"I am sure that those same law professors and Masuma Khan herself would be equally quick to defend the same statement made in reference to Muslims, black or aboriginals on the grounds of free speech. Excuse me while I roll on the ground laughing.",0 +"I agree. + +I would also suggest that rail be sold to a developer, carte blanche to build however it sees fit, so long as it follows basic guidelines for timeliness, capacity, safety, and route. The real estate, rights to develop the stations, tax incentives, and other inducements could be used. + +It would still cost the city/state tremendously, and would almost certainly require significant subsidy, but it would rid the state of a project that it is incapable of managing, and pool additional capital, and limit everyone's future exposure to this unmitigated disaster.",0 +"Bethel and our region is so proud of Natalie Hanson. She comes from a great family who has always been involved in competitive sports from basketball, softball wrestling and more. Keep doing great things NAT",0 +"Here's an idea: As we celebrate the great man for all seasons who taught humanity what freedom of conscience really is (if it suits your whims it must be right), how about renaming this publication National Lutheran Reporter in his honor?",0 +"Perhaps, Mr tRump, the problem is that those with mental health issues have access to guns that are designed to kill people, as many as fast as possible. Perhaps, Mr tRump, taking away health care, including mental health care, is not the right thing for our country. Perhaps, Mr tRump, guns are the problem. Perhaps, Mr tRump, you have contributed to, gave permission to and escalated this craziness with your behavior, words and actions. Perhaps, Mr tRump, YOU are the problem. + + We need to restore some element of sanity but that won't happen while Russian installed tRump occupies the White House. It is just going to get worse. How much can we take before we break? All this makes me even more furious at the DNC with their biased support of Hillary AGAINST the will of Democrats. We had to hold our noses to vote for her. The DNC also bears responsibility for tRump by putting forth an uninspiring candidate with excessive baggage and who could not have governed. I am now unaffiliated.",0 +"So if the Democrats had just pledged their loyaty to Trump, there would be no problem? But instead they opposed him and now Trump is careening down the road? + +Dang, those Democrats are good considering they don't control a single branch of the government.",0 +"Painful fact to some: +We are more friendly and generally smarter than our southern neighbors",0 +"The OPP already has dedicated Highway patrol units and officers, at least in the GTA they do.",0 +"Q - What kind of loser loses $100,000,000.00 in 2005 ??",0 +"Wente is the ""Scourge of the Left"" and ""progressives"" of the left + +as Oliver Twist said ""Please sir, can i have more?""",0 +"""Legitimate, law-abiding citizens don't carry pistols in their waist bands or pockets; they carry them in holsters."" Not true. After getting the money to get the gun, didn't have the money for a holster. Keep dreaming of it, though. ;)",0 +"Yes, a manual with authority, meaning that it is NOT just the words of some ancient people with their own ideas and opinions. We do not have to follow it, we can follow our own way and will, but then, we should not be surprised if we find ourselves lost and in darkness.",0 +"I'm sure Tulsi does realize that and that's why she has tried to propose a peaceful solution to end the war; the war never would have even happened if the US hadn't seen literally millions of weapons to the Syria jihadi ""rebels.""",0 +DGRO is so big (it has 450 holdings) that it basically tracks the S&P500. Is it worth bothering to buy?,0 +"Reasonable decision by the Court, although it would never had been challenged in the first place if the previous president had issued the order. Bottom line hasn't changed.......anyone entering the US with intent to harm have lots of other entry points",0 +Great news. Thank you. Also true that MLB players don't get in trouble with the law as often as NFL players. Makes me proud to be a baseball fan.,0 +I wonder if he wishes to dry hump their leg while he smokes.,0 +And I can only give this outstanding comment of Wolf Eagle's 1 star - (SIGH),0 +"Horde, Please explain how the president can unilaterally change and act passed by congress? Perhaps you know about something I missed in civics class.",0 +That is what the leftist agitators always do and unsurprisingly you always support them. What a surprise.,0 +"It violates the due process of law clause in the constitution. As a justice famously said, ""how do you stop discrimination by discriminating?""",0 +"Why are your unkind comments the topic of all these comments! It sounds like pure hate, not a discussion of facts or even opinions that seem to make any sense. Maybe the comment should be about the article instead of, ""change the subject"", and say hateful things! Why act like KellyAnne.",0 +"I wish I understood their logic. They say that they want to make sure that vaping is accessible to adult smokers, and I believe them, but this bill removes important characteristics that make vaping successful. Every vaper I know has a collection of different flavours, because adults like fruit, candy and dessert as much as young people, but this bill would ban such flavours. Vaping has spread quickly through word of mouth and Facebook, but the bill would make it a criminal offense to say that it's safer and more pleasant than smoking. They say that they want to make sure that Canadian regulations reflect science, but ignore much of the international research showing that vaping is vastly safer than smoking to both the individual and his/her surroundings and that vaping is not proving to be a gateway to tobacco. +Every senator and every MP should be required to visit a vape shop and learn some basic facts before voting on Bill S5 -- they owe it to the Canadian public.",0 +they will buy them or find away around it and get LR card w.o much fuss or another way ! They always do . We fail to understand who we are dealing with these days ..... Too bad for our kids or the next generation. The politicians and/or the bleeding hearts have canned for them ! Ironic,0 +"Yeah, really, Kon. But than again that's the extent of your intellect.",0 +"Current Ontario electricity rates range from about 14.7 cents/kWh off-peak to 21.7 cents/kWh on-peak, so the prices you quote are actually $8.82 to $13.02 for a full 60kWh charge, maybe a couple dollars more when you factor in efficiency losses in charging. + +Remember you pay for delivery, regulatory fees and taxes in addition to the straight-up electricity rate. + +Still a cheaper energy source than a comparable gas powered car, particularly for high-performance vehicles, but it will take a lot of driving to make up for the higher up-front cost. A Chevy Bolt, for example, will set you back almost $20,000 more than a similar sized and equipped Chevy Sonic (before subsidies), so even if all charging is done off-peak you're still looking at 275,000km+ before the cheaper fuel cost offsets the higher upfront cost. + +The economics of electrics make a lot more sense when comparing a Tesla Model S vs. a BMW 7-series or some such, but most of us can't afford either a Model S or a 7-series.",0 +We shouldn't erase him but present him accurately rather than the watered-down garbage we're fed. The man was likely a radical Marxist as his entourage were. You're known by the company you keep.,0 +"Early voting probably played a huge role in this. There are reports that between 50 and 70% of the ballots were cast before this happened. Montana is a pretty reliably red state, so a good number of votes were probably already cast for the R.",0 +...and are still only taken seriously by the moonbattiest moonbats.,0 +"Excellent! I say every nation on the planet, must enact their own version of the Magnitsky Act like Canada, not only as a way to penalize and hopefully prevent serial human rights abusers worldwide, but most especially as a way to cripple if not completely undermine, the murderous autocratic fascist despotic Putin regime's systematic rape and pillage of Russian State assets, ALL at the expense or on the backs of the Russian people (and in other occupied states too) !!! Why!? Because crucial to the Putin's regime survival/success, IS the ruddy ability of Putin and his oligarchs to move themselves and their ill-gotten gains freely and unencumbered anywhere in the world, which of course, IS severely curtailed/torpedoed if as many nations as possible follow Canada's, the US's and others lead and adopt their version of the Magnitstky Act ASAP!!!!",0 +For a pile of brown dust?,0 +"Yeah, people with businesses drive pickup trucks and liberals expect them to pay taxes so that a government employee can collect the trash on their behalf. That's not environmentalism. That's enslaving your neighbor to your agenda.",0 +"The American bombings of the civilian cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was cowardly. At least when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, it was a military base which had a chance to defend itself.",0 +"We've kneeled to many over the last 50 yrs, Ho Chi Min, the terrorist in Mogadishu, the terrorist at Kobar Towers and now the terrorist in N Korea. I know we talk tough but has anything slowed them down.\? Also the terrorist in Iran, again tough talk. Do any of them act afraid. Tell me when is the last time we won. + You are an academic who taught in the lower third of universities. Basically you were the guy the community colleges didn't want because you couldn't think for your self. + It's like my daddy used to say, if you want to build houses be great at it, if you want to dig ditches just work your a$$ off. But if you want to be worthless, go to some 3rd rate institution and teach, but make sure you get tenure so they can't fire you",0 +I'm at a loss... could someone explain the flaw in my logic?,0 +says the guy collecting welfare entitlements....,0 +"On Joe leaving the Republican Party--you say that the party is no longer the one you recognize and give a number of good reasons for that. But what you are leaving out is the thread that connects all Republican Presidents and Congresses for more than a century after Theodore Roosevelt--and we know how they rejected him. Under the guise of small government and giving power back to the people, they have ALWAYS been for replacing government with unlimited power of corporations. The Trump administration has been more blatant than some, stocking the Cabinet with corporate executives and lobbyists, and removing protections (""regulations"") of air, water, land, worker safety, toxic substances and most of all our very survival in the face of climate change, with unbridled greed and no thought of the future. They are reversing 50 or more years of progress, but the theme and the plan hasn't changed.",0 +"Congressman Charles Djou voted to repeal "" Don't ask don't tell"" discrimination against gays in the military. He did this while serving as an officer in the military. He did this against Republican leadership, and I believe he was the only Republican to do so . +This is non-partisan leadership. I believe he will be just as fair as Mayor and as consistent to his values. +P.S. there are more issues than rail like an out of control police department that our mayor washes his hands of responsibility. And than Carlisle believes we need to crack down on homeless people; because as a former prosecutor he sees evil among the poor and expects them to behave as criminals.",0 +"Please tell this to the baiters in their $60,000 pickup trucks, who are huffing and puffing after walking 300 yards into the woods.",0 +"Not quite. +Here is a summary of that same study +//www.autismspeaks.org/node/10901 + +To quote (not the first sentence): +""In other words, we now have strong evidence that, on top of genetic heritability, a shared prenatal environment may have a greater than previously realized role in the development of autism in twins."" + +It is true that the study found evidence for some environmental connections, but the evidence is not conclusive. Also, studies since then (in the last 5-10 years) are zeroing in closer on an apparent strong connection to genes and physical development of brain tissue.",0 +"All fired FBI Director Comey did yesterday was add to the mountain of evidence he is weak, confused, makes the FBI look bad and is guilty of election tampering.",0 +"I disagree with the editorial. As someone who has always rented, I have seen enormous rental increases almost every year- and at a time when wages remain stuck in neutral. Even if you sign a lease, the rent goes up after the term, and you are either forced to move, or stuck paying whatever they want. This has to stop. Not only should rent control be mandatory, there should also be accompanying legislation which prohibits ANY landlord or developer from converting existing rentals into condominiums. The days of slumlords must come to an end....",0 +"The complete lack of compassion, caring, and decency that is echoing in this thread is truly disgusting. Somebody dies in prison (which has to be one of the worst possible things to go through) and instead of showing some compassion for the unfortunate individual and his truly suffering family, everyone here decides to condemn him as society's worst human or something. (Bury him at the landfill????) Then someone else decides to promote drug legalization and gets verbally bashed and has their criminal history blasted here??? How awful! What you are doing is heartless, lacks any empathy for anyone, and is disrespectful to the deceased. I really hope those involved aren't as cold and shallow as these posts make them seem. Please take a moment to think about it. Thank you.",0 +"That even cows had to die in order to satisfy the avarice of the Gupta's and the ANC sort of boggles the mind. +There is irony in the fact that even though Mosebebi bent over backwards for the Guptas, he was bent over the other way, as well. He now has the training and experience required to work in the prison laundromat which is to be his place of future employment..",0 +"Typical Canadian Mindlessness , let's tax ourselves more! that's the answer.",0 +"WelfareState, Corporate Edition, I came to Alaska and invested in the 1983 State Cook Inlet oil and gas lease sale and won my first oil lease. Since 1983 we have spent millions of dollars in Alaska with the state and local Alaska business owners and never took one penny from the state or anyone in Alaska. + +I have never ""whined about wanting more money but be clear we do spend our risk money in Alaska, I can give a long list of Alaskans we spend money with for the work they do that helps us make Alaska more productive! You are being abusive with your reference ""carpetbaggers""! + +I want the abusiveness of some to stop and that is why I feel Alaskans should control the land and the money not controlled by bad people that abuse people, ok? + +I add value to the Alaska business community but some want to stop investment in the state, why? + +I helped cause over 4 million barrels of oil to be produced from a old abandoned discovery at Redoubt, 25% of this oil money goes into the Permanent Fund!",0 +"Russia is off the table so, the media needs another negative story about Trump. They'll classify him as a bigot and a racist through innuendo wherever they can. Cleverly, they will insert opinion into a page of facts as often as they can, so to make opinion morph into fact.",0 +"On Molokai we have GMO FIELDS across the street of Molokai High School, Kualapu'u Elementary School, CPC and Kualapu'u town and ""surrounds"" the Molokai Irrigation System which provides public drinking water as well as water for Ag. crops. (see my facebook page for pictures). This announcement does nothing to alleviate these problems, the governor and his departments (DOA, DOH, DOE) needs to do more than just lip service.",0 +"I think their work is excellent. Great stuff! + +To the awful trolls on this site, do you not have anything better to do than to say negative things to some fellow Canadians who are brave enough to start their own business and do great work? Why don't you focus your energy on trying to be a better person. By the way, I'm a caucasian male and I'm happy as heck for these entrepreneurs. Don't listen to these folks ladies. Keep doing what you're doing!",0 +"Not true - elected officials have minimal involvement in negotations - professionals do that. And our trade officials are considered best in class in the world. + +To your second point - obviously yes we are much wealthier due to FTA. Some simply don't realize how much worse off we'd be without it. But look at the massive job gains and GDP Growth we've achieved as a result. It's not coincidence.",0 +"You have firsthand knowledge of the Bundy family finances? I know Ammon owns a truck maintenance company, how many trucks did ""we"" buy him?",0 +Yawn.,0 +"All they had to do all of these years is to fix the ACA, as was the original intent, but noooooo. ""Obama Did It"", so they have to destroy it and ""redo"" it. By the way - remember when they said they HAD a replacement and it was sitting on Harry Reid's desk...?",0 +Anyone notice a pattern here where US institutions get off light whilst the US regulators put their heel to the throats of the European banks GOLDMAN ALWAYS ENDS UP AS THE LEAST PENALIZED! Connections do pay.,0 +"Really? Please explain how the wold stage gives a flying fig about language preservation compared +to the heady issues in Europe or the Middle East.",0 +"Traddies aside (they're not who I've had in mind), the parishes that have at long last gone not pre-V2 or post-V2 but exactly V2--the ones at long last doing exactly what Vatican II called for in sacred art, architecture, liturgy, and lay involvement / common priesthood of the faithful--seem to be doing better than congregations still stuck with the disorders and wreckage Eugene Walsh, Rembert Weakland, Virgil Funk, and countless others imposed in defiance of the plain letter of Vatican II. + +I have in mind congregations like OLOP, the cathedral parish in Santa Rosa, Cantius, or Sacred Heart in Grand Rapids. + +These congregations produce vocations, keep their 20-somethings, have a much more even ratio of men to women in the pews, and they evangelize. Of course, one would need some hard data to rule out a self-selection effect, and bishops are reluctant to collect such data for the obvious reasons.",0 +"Oh Boy, Hollywood strikes again. You know how many times I've been stopped by the COPS while I was walking in the last 10 years? 4 Times! 1 guy, 1 time, patted down pants and asked me why they were damp near the ankles - turns out I'd walked through a patch of grass 1/2 an hour after a rain shower, and that was Suspicious? Whatever. Do you know how many times I've been mistaken for an Employee at Loblaws, Bestbuy, or Leon's? More times than I can count on 1 hand. 1 time 20 odd yrs ago I was sitting in a Psychiatric interview session with an old friend who'd been hospitalized after a suicide attempt, and I'd told the (white) shrink about how I was aiming to get the highest Grades in at least 5 of my Grade 13 (OAC) classes, and she said quite incredulously (& rudely): You think you're smart enough to do that? So... the only difference is, that I didn't immediately attribute all this to my Whiteness, I guess since Hollywood hadn't Clobbered me over the Head with Race-War-Histrionics.",0 +"Art, Don't you have a military (i.e. government) DB pension fully indexed for inflation?",0 +"Fishing is hot today! Gotta throw another one back. Small fry. + +Glad you enjoyed the bait.",0 +"I was kind of wondering why the would-be Dr. Gallagher attracted MSW's attention. Does not seem to be a lot of ""there"" there.",0 +"No, the real reason is that a few misguided influentials are guided by their religious beliefs. Put the issue before the general public to vote on in the next election. Let the public decide -- not a few.",0 +"46.00 a pund for Halibut??? That is flipping nuts. I""ll have the Black Cod, thank you. If not that, just good old P. Cod. 5.99 a pound any day.",0 +I see the Rail Station to nowhere in Waipahu is making progress with more sprouting up like weeds along the Route. Just amazing.,0 +"You're still talking about the ""deep state""? Ha, ha. What about a desperate shot at ""the swamp"" or how about a few rounds of ""lock her up"" while you're at it? Ah, the good old days, eh, Acalpeius?",0 +Prayers are more useless than votes...,0 +"Yes and yes, but putting an end to the UN does not put an end to many of the conventions that Canada has entered into with other nations. Further, some of those conventions have more substance, merit and value to the country than anything we have seen from the PMO over the past 17 months. Let's put an end to that overpaid elitist political bureaucracy first.",0 +There is no reason for most of these villages to exist period. The majority of villages contribute nothing towards the state's economy but instead siphon away a disproportionately sized amount off the budget for their size. Just because people decided to permanently settle in their seasonal hunting and fishing camps doesn't mean it was a good idea. The state can't afford to keep building and maintaining all these schools in remote locations with student populations hovering around 10 people. What is the point of it anyway? There are no jobs in the villages so no future for the kids being schooled there. It's time to stop the madness and quite throwing money away into the remote bush communities.,0 +"I've had that same thought. But someone countered my argument with ""renters pay property taxes. They just do it through their rent payment to their landlords."" I couldn't disagree, although I can see where, if someone wanted to run down bunny trails, they could take that argument to the extreme.",0 +"Dear Zoe, +Please read Atlas Shrugged, if you haven't yet. When I read it the first time, there were four times that it got thrown against the barracks wall to lie still on the floor for from 4 days to a week. This is just to warn you that you should continue after any such rejection of something said by one of the characters.",0 +I think this reporter is making a mountain out of a molehill. he asked Sen. Wilson what he thought of article; Wilson gave him a tap..It seems to be like it was a tap or a playful gesture in response to the reporter's question.,0 +"Nothing really changed with Dahl - the Rockies just moved him because they needed his 40-man roster spot. The move is retroactive, so Dahl can still be reactivated whenever he's ready. Not that this will be anytime soon, but he won't have to sit out any longer than he would if he was still on the 10-day DL.",0 +this was a apple & jay concept started when they had no concern for winning programs.,0 +It's kind of amazing that the owner often seems to be the only person that doesn't hear his own dog barking.,0 +"If someone calls themselves an ""alpha male""....they usually aren't.",0 +"Right no evidence at all.... + +https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/03/report-finds-alumni-giving-among-other-areas-correlated-football-success + +I understand you're against the stadium for whatever personal reasons, but atleast acknowledge the facts.",0 +"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?",0 +"Geez + +And to think Harper was raked over the coals by the media and Canadians who always suggested he was selling out Canada to China for even having to face this decision ...... and eventually not allowing the sale. + +Now it's a good thing? Unbelievable! + +Double standard. Drain the swamp + +Double standard. Drain the swamp + +Double standard. Drain the swamp",0 +"Vatican II has not replaced Lamentabili, to my knowledge.",0 +Good news.,0 +Obscene...,0 +"This is the problem with how most people view PERS. Instead of thinking about the average PERS retiree who receives about $29k in annual benefits, they focus on the few outliers who receive very large payments. Of course news media like the Oregonian and the RG fan the flames. + +Having said that, I completely disagree that the football coaches and physicians don't deserve their PERS retirement income. They were public sector employees, albeit very highly skilled and specialized ones who were compensated accordingly. They earned their retirement benefits just like the teachers. + +Envy is such an unattractive human trait and we have a letter writer who exemplifies it.",0 +And did squat the whole time but he had nice hair,0 +I am disappointed that Climate Barbie will not pivot and is insistent on imposing a tax that could have a significant multiplier effect (I.e. applied multiple times throughout the supply chain). The market is already moving us in the right direction without another tax.,0 +"Not a bicyclist, but I recall well the throttle of ""purist"" recreational types in Juneau, who shut down snow machine usage and managed to absolutely prevent anyone from riding a four wheeler (atv) anywhere. And other restrictive measures. This ""political activism"" sort of activity has crept insidiously into many spheres of life in the greater USA, and slowly, quietly, measures are passed and life becomes complicated, and more expensive. Unreasonable building codes, restrictions, and more. Governments profits from fees and become bloated, typically with an attitude which is unfriendly. + There are nicely balanced responses here. The point brought forward is certain lobbyists need to be watched very closely. Strange stuff has been pushed quietly into law and regulation. Responsible recreational folks find themselves spending vast amounts of free time fighting often unreasonable restrictions, while other extremists of both ilk create hard feelings and can denigrate quality of life.",0 +"When did you become the spokesman for ""WE""? I was born here, use the word ""folks"" and have no issue with Texas or Texans.",0 +"""and now is the time for the ANC to have a female deputy president."" This statement puzzles me. The only time to have a female president, is ""anytime"", not necessarily ""now"". What makes the present, i.e. right now so important in your view? If, at anytime in the past, the present, and/or the near future, a suitable ""person"" is considered to be presidential material, so be it, male or female. Unfortunately for us, the SA cupboard is very ""old mother Hubbard"" right now, (of any gender).",0 +"In Jeffco, an entry level teacher (Step 1) makes $38,000. In the military, an entry level officer (O-1) makes $36,000. Yet you don't see any stories about a shortage of Second Lieutenants and Ensigns. As you might say, ""compare, contrast, and explain.""",0 +No this was a case of hyped up outrage after the fact without paying any attention to what happened leading up to or during the entire rest of the encounter.,0 +I'd keep the Marine Highway and definitely sell the AK Railroad Corporation. Music to my ears...thank you Jack...,0 +"That reminds me of when I was a commercial fisherman: When we got to port we spent our money on liquor, fast women, and cigarettes. Whatever was left over, we just spent foolishly.",0 +I would suggest that Mr Butts like Ms Wynne are destined to become Senators within the next 12-18 months.,0 +It is good that the world starts to understand the racist mentality of Israel after more than 70 years of suffering occupations of the indigenous Palestinian land.,0 +"Divorces are pretty common these days and they often get acrimonious. I cannot see what value there is to Canada or Canadians for the news media to wallow in the details of Ms. Payette's divorce. Titillation, anyone? + +.",0 +Maybe there was only two citizens there because the rest were working during the week? I know I personally couldn't get home during lunch hour while at work. I live in the neighborhood and it's full of hard working people. Many people here work more than 40 hours a week and don't have time to go to stuff like this.,0 +"I think this old ex Alabama governor's plumbing is all worn out and pulling down one's pants would be pointless. Seems he just needed some spicy phone sax and saxting with his aide since his wife was not into that. His boo boo was that he did not understand all of the taxpayer supported Ipads he and his wife used all had the same ICloud account that shares email, texts and pictures across all of his Apple devices. If the buggah was not so cheap and bought an Ipad for his wife with his own money, his Ipad would not have been 'connected'. Will give his wife credit for divorcing her dirty old man husband UNLIKE Hillary Clinton who stuck with her serial cheating husband cause she wanted to ride Bill's coattails to the Whitehouse which later twice gave her a chance to be Pres of the US.",0 +"I think u meant "" when cougars start killing livestock, not wildlife",0 +No worries. J. Recktenwald will be retired in 9 years or less and then he'll be a shoe in for governor. He can straighten out the mess created by the legislature at that time.,0 +Simple solution.. Vote the bums out. From a former born and raised Ontarian now living in a fiscally responsible western province.,0 +"Personally, I'd hire the person who seems most interested and capable of doing the job, irrespective of whatever I might think their income/family background might be. + +And it might just be the kid that ""checks all the boxes"" as they've been socialized in a household that valuest such cultural things as ""showing up on time"".",0 +"True dat. That's where real justice takes place,",0 +When I was growing up transgendered people were known as in local vernacular chicks with d##ks.,0 +"Obviously no ""grammar checker"" for your headline writer...",0 +"Right, no sense trying to out-Liberal the Liberals for the minority vote.",0 +"OS, I know in the old days of e-mail, all caps was said to be shouting. But since we can't bold or underline here in ""CC"", caps is really the only thing we can do to emphasize. So I don't see it as shouting, just emphasis. But his Vote Trump-Pence did get lost in all the caps.",0 +"Franky. this ""Barrabas"" story sounds like a WHOLE lot of guesswork, speculations,and theorizing,and has such I wondering at its practical application,if any. I thought you Catholics had stopped manufacturing so-called""saints""...?",0 +"The Tongass is a rain forest, for now. Global warming can quickly turn it into a dry tinder-box. The no-roads rule will mean that fire crews won't be able to get in close enough to stop the fires. With local labor and overhead, ""Cants"" are about the only cost-effective way to sell the timber. And I fished out of Ketchikan. The Seattle-based seiners hired their crews out of Seattle. On the Carl R. I was the only Alaskan, in a crew of Yugoslavians. Just like Bristol Bay, the lion's share of S.E.Alaska fishing money goes South. Ship-building shows some promise, but that is very iffy. Electrical power generation is perhaps Ketchikan's greatest weakness. Without an abundance of power, you can't attract clean industry.",0 +Stephens was a real nice guy. Just the kind of guy that should be put to sleep,0 +I see the do ti yourself fallout shelters making a comeback. Returning to a duck and cover world.,0 +"What a lightweight archbishop. A joker. Who can take anything he says, does, or prays seriously.",0 +I'd like to see the evidence before passing judgment.,0 +"That would be economic suicide. +The entire Free World would boycott China.",0 +"Putin played Trump, his chief suckee, like a balalaika and the mentally impoverished sociopath fell for the Russian lullaby.",0 +"If you are ""fighting"" in a war, you are a soldier. +Which side are they on?",0 +"Any organization or person that tries to prevent a showing of the middle of the road informative documentary ""The Red Pill.""",0 +"Next, a 1% sales tax for alternative energy assistance. Then 1% for urban bird houses. Then 1% for suspenders for youth with sagging britches.... If the public likes art, it will buy art. It doesn't need gov't forcing its taste on them. If this was going towards something that truly alleviated human suffering, like homeless shelters or public health clinics I could see it, but art is in the eye of the beholder. Will graffiti ""artists"" be subsidized now? Why not? To many of them what they are doing is beautifying their environment. Forcing others to pay for your idea of beautification is tyrannical and despotic. Shame, shame, shame.",0 +"A lot of adjectives can be employed to describe Trump. Mesmerizing is not one of them. If you mean that a person derives Schadenfeude from watching the spectacle then yes, because you see the spectacular train wreck and know what will happen. The particular crash and pileup is of curious delight. + +I prefer to leave mesmerizing for phenomenon like the Northern Lights, Alaska's birds and the return of the salmon each year.",0 +"""paperwork""? why not call it what it is - BUREAUCRATIC INEPTITUDE! everyone knows governmental workers have no incling of what the personal character trait descriptive words moral and/or ethical mean - let alone apply! they have no shame - when they collect their paychecks! they just laugh all the way to the bank!",0 +So did you actually read the story or just go with the headline? He wasn't accused of loosing his gun. He was accused of not telling anyone about it. Look back at the police reports the RG published. He even told the state police he didn't know where it was yet it turns up in his office. Perhaps he should be the one to apologize?,0 +"SBG's lament about so many people getting all their news only from Fox is already out of date. With the evisceration of testosterone from Fox, the viewership is turning to MSNBC. You lefty journalists should be thrilled with that.",0 +"“To find he’s a danger or a flight risk now doesn’t make any sense.” Anyone who makes a Molotov cocktail and throws it at any building is a danger to the public. He received his break for servicing in the National Guard and in Iraq when the judge let me go in 2013 with the warning not to get I trouble again, a warning he did not heed. Life is pretty good in South Korea. I hope he enjoys it there.",0 +"Fair enough -- I shouldn't have called your accusation ""dishonest,"" and I apologize for that. I still believe that accusation is ill-founded, but again, agree to disagree. I don't expect to change your mind, but I hope that I might show others that it's possible to defend a point without resorting to sarcasm and personal jabs. + +In fact, I do think it's possible to support both the NRA and aspects of gun control -- Wayne LaPierre himself supports enhancing our ability to restrict gun sales to the mentally ill. And I do think it's possible to be pro-life and support aspects of Planned Parenthood -- Planned Parenthood does much more than perform abortions, and of course it's possible to support their non-abortion aspects while maintaining pro-life principles. + +My point is that portraying these issues and organizations as black-and-white does the debate a disservice. Sure, navigating these contradictions can get a little messy, but we shouldn't reject somebody for attempting to do so.",0 +believe.,0 +"Your claims of social disorder, anarchy and mass chaos haven't seemed to come to fruition in other states that have legalized it. The only thing that has happened is they have crushed tax revenue projections and life outside the industry has continued as usual. What happens RR when you fear the boogey man and he never appears? +Your only option is to move along with everyone else you claim will be leaving. Please.",0 +"Chris, do you just BLINDLY make comments? Re: social conservatsm. This week the conservatives voted unanimously for the anti-islamophobia motion. Doesn't sound socially conservative tome. Just admit it: you are a Liberal partisan and would NEVER vote conservative. So ahead, we will still accept you.",0 +The domino effect needs to spread well beyond Hollywood. It's a start though.,0 +not when you can make up your own as you've done here.,0 +What fake news? Can you give us one example? I read RT daily and I doubt any Republicans do and there is nothing in there that is not 1000X worse on Fox or our own Sun newspaper chain. Just one example please and I ask this as a Trump detester.,0 +"Honestly, I pay little attention to what pundits say. There is a difference between the two for me. My fear of Clinton is rooted in her governmental actions so far. My fear of Trump is rooted in his rhetoric and, to a lesser extent, his business history. + +My perception is that they would both be roughly equally damaging to the nation, but the nature of the damage would be different. I think the next four years are going to be rough no matter which one of these people we get.",0 +"I can't imagine that there would be a valid Constitutional claim against the business for enforcing a dress code, save for if the dress code itself was per-se discriminatory. If, and it's a big if, the dress code was put in place because the intent of the dress code was to keep a specific class or demographic group, who is protected under the 14th Amendment, out of the establishment, then that's a different story. Either way, if the APD used the language, as the article purports, and it was the officers' intent to remove him based on his ethnic, religious, etc... status, then it could be an interesting case. If the proprietor actually did ask the officers to remove him, and based their rationale on his dress code alone, then they were likely performing a trespass removal, under the color of law, and aren't liable for those actions. The fact that the establishment denies asking for assistance in removing an 'unwanted patron,' doesn't put the APD in a good spot.",0 +"Are you serious, SJSJ? ""better to make sure all the ducks are in a row"". Good advice so how can you actually defend the botch up that Trump just engineered? Is it really Trump at any cost or do even people like you have a limit? Trump's incompetence will guarantee a Democrat resurgence in two years.",0 +"Making cuts to the state government is NOT complicated. Just look at the list of state agencies, see: http://alaska.gov/akdir1.html. Then ask the question, which of these agencies can be handled by the private sector? Ask why the State of Alaska is in the mortgage company business (AHFC), in the investment banking business (AIDEA), in the oil company charity business (oil tax credits), in the gas line development business (AGDC), doing the jobs of non-profits in health and education and in the fantasy retirement management business by isolating state retirees from (oil) market reality (and cutting their benefits). The state hasn't cut a single agency yet (except maybe KABATA) ... so anyone (Walker, Cole, Dems) saying the state has cut significantly is flat out lying.",0 +"I remember reading somewhere several months ago a caution about what is likely when The Dragon, The Lion, and The Eagle sit down to come to terms. + +Heaven help the poor Beaver.",0 +"Because electricity can also come from solar and wind. But even if it comes from oil, you won't be using as much oil to get around and you don't have to stop at the gas station. :-)",0 +"The Big Kahuna'a company consults on journalism, Native Hawaiian culture, music, and traditions. Sounds like Apo is working every facet of local culture schtick. He should be teaching at UH Manoa.",0 +Dan Rather the guy who delivered FAKE NEWS ABOUT PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH.,0 +Eva Aariak was elected premier in Nunavut.,0 +OS - why are you so fixated on groping women?,0 +"In theory, yes. But do you think this particular essay is likely to change anyone's mind? If it doesn't, you could argue that Trump supporters are so closed-minded that nothing will sway them. An alternative explanation is that this essay was short on empirical data and logic and long on name-calling. Such an admission, however, would require far more self-awareness and introspection than this author appears to have.",0 +"Behind home world there is a ton of trash stacked up, and tents line the path on both sides. It's a mess and you have close calls every time you pass through there.",0 +"Kathleen Parker is a conservative Republican, given highest grade for conservative punditry in 2012...",0 +"I just sold my Leslieville house last week well over asking after receiving 8 offers. The sale was unconditional (clean) + +We are not quite at the madness we were back in March but The idea that there is a crash is fiction. + +In any event I will be taking my winnings (my house doubled in value in 6 years since I bought it) and renting for a while as I move out of the GTA. We will see what happens but right now it still feels like a seller's market and the sales (including my own) bear that out.",0 +"""Knock knock"" + ""Who's there?"" +""Brian Molefe!"" + ""Brian Molefe who?"" + +That's politics for you.",0 +"No, it was the city who failed miserable in S. Willamette by presenting a lousy plan (which would have impacted livability, and affordability) and who pursued a EXclusive process. The ""NIMBY"" is a cope-out, a rationalization. + +Yeah, I'll braced for all the ""wonderful"" things the city will dream-up. But so far, their not doing so good in that department.",0 +Wow. Dumass of the day!!,0 +"Bishops don't attend conferences/courses designed to introduce them to other models of community. Many of them don't really read anything about this. And at the USCCB meetings [and I know this for a fact], they don't discuss this in general and few engage even in private discussions about declining numbers of Catholics and other models of either: +1) running parishes +2) alternate communities + +They are too tied into ""We HAVE to do it this way"" [says Who and Why]. Bishops' Synods can come up with alternatives. Of course, having the laity invited---not as auditors, but as participants is a major KEY. But the Bishops would have to change their attitudes---sadly, in which it would be easier for leopards to change their spots.",0 +Best comment of the day. Thanks for the good laugh!,0 +"From ADN reader Edgar Bennet today replied to your comment ""Lisa Bloom is a Legal analyst for NBC News and Avvo, atto..."": + +“You don't have to post it THREE times. Try putting down the fire water before posting next time.” +That’s about the 3rd “firewater” comment this month so far. + +My email to Alice Rogoff, ADN owner, last month. + +...I got into this fray some time back after I read in your newspaper a comment from a young Native girl who said her friend had committed suicide after reading, day after day, words of hate and bigotry by Alaska's non-Native residents. At that time I sent an email to David Hulen to put a stop to the falsehoods being bandied about by cruel people in this town.” + +It never stops and has been this way ever since I can remember, from the ""NO Eskimos and Dogs Allowed"" signs I used to see in Nome in the 1950s to todays almost daily slamming of our people by your readers. It's a shame. It's and outrage and it can and should be dealt with.”",0 +Another gun tragedy in a nation plagued by gun tragedies. When will we finally say Enough!,0 +"The journalist community is not the only group with influence. If you want stories on the Washington Power brokers, who lobby and pay for influence on legislation, then we should encourage 'new' media or whatever you see as an alternative, to look closer. + +I'm OK saying the top media companies have access to power sources that most people don't, Corporate ownership seems to assure the media focuses on the operation of the public institutions, but never in corporate boardrooms. + +Media has demanded transparency in all government process, yet we all know the increasing power multinational corporations have a lot of access and influence on legislation in all nations. Money always has influence. + +Who holds the strings in the Congress/Major contributors relationship? + +https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2013/05/11/freshman-lawmakers-are-introduced-permanent-hunt-for-campaign-money/YQMMMoqCNxGKh2h0tOIF9H/story.html",0 +"The silly thing is you're getting mad at the wrong person. They are working less due to burnout and being attacked by government and now people like you. Provincially MDs are paid less than 50% of recommended fee. Your family doctor is paid $30 for a visit, they keep about $15 after expenses to the clinic. They work 70+ hours/week to see people like you at the expense of their health and family. Now they're being penalized by the Federal government for putting in more hours..what incentive is there to keep going at the expense of your own health and family when now the government will take 73% of every paycheck. It's outrageous.",0 +I prefer knives . more up close and personal,0 +"Two of the 6 who quit the GOP are Shannon Connelly (Palmer), and Dave Bronson (ANC) + +http://www.alaskapublic.org/2016/09/13/gop-officers-ditch-party-roles-to-back-miller/",0 +"That statement from the Jan 6 is exactly what I mean. ""The US Intellegence Community is charged with monitoring and assessing the intentions, capabilities, and actions of foreign actors;"" And in the end, all they could do was give estimates of confidence, which a few times differed between agencies, that somehow pointed to Russia. If there was evidence, Trump would have not been allowed to be President. Obama would not have allowed it. The second statement, ""it does not analyze US political processes or US public opinion"" is confirmation that the belief that Russia somehow influenced the outcome of the election is just that...US political or US public opinion. No sly form of dishonesty.",0 +Didn't realize traditional Native Alaskans wore jeans all those centuries ago.,0 +"liberals hate the truth.shame on you for taking out my comments. look at wiki and you will see the world has been at war since 1980. across the world, from europe to the far east to australia to the US, the world is under attack by islam. the faith has been at war with itself and everyone else for 1500 years. it has never been a religion of peace. if the man running for political office is associated with a questionable group, it should have been brought to light. and he should have been named. you can look at both wiki for a list of attacks, and to study what we are discussing, answering-islam.org.",0 +Our country involves corrupt and powerful people who enjoy and nothing really happens to Kpmg and Gordhan....,0 +"RangerMC, Your quote say that DACA ""was never about being humane."" My quote says that it was all about being humane. Obama said that DACA gives ""a +degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people,"" and that ""it’s the right thing to do because I’ve been with groups of young people who work so hard and speak with so much heart about what’s best in America..."" Now it's your turn. Support your quote that DACA ""was never about being humane.""",0 +Too many cooks in the kitchen...,0 +Reminds me to send another contribution to the Alliance Defending Freedom.,0 +"Are you not quite awake? Your narrative sounds much like a dream you just had and as most dreams, virtually impossible - unless of course, rewrite of the Constitution was in your dream, too?.",0 +"The repeal of prohibition may not have stopped alcoholism, but neither did prohibition. The repeal did reduce the death from alcohol. Do you remember learning about the dangers of moonshine and bathtub gin? +This doesn't even touch on the violence of the criminal aspect. Prohibition has been a failed and costly experiment. Look at the States. They have double down on prohibition. How is that working for them?",0 +"Imagine that.... someone's using my name to like what I say, you can't like yourself twice... to prove it check out my previous post... yup TWO likes by me. Some snowflake likes what I say!!! Awesome",0 +It reminds me of the scene from Apocalypse Now when Marlon Brando lies dying after being hacked apart by Martin Sheen and his last words were-----The Horror-----The Horror-------our rights and freedom are being hacked apart by Trump and our country is dying.....,0 +Remember this. The Arctic Ocean has not been ice free for 2.5 million years. The only Arctic Ocean we have even known as humans had a layer of ice keeping it flat when the wind howls. With no ice this ocean will get swells. Really big wind driven swells and they will severely erode all of the surrounding shores which we have see in only small ways so far. Of course the sea level will be much higher too. It will become the most dangerous and destructive ocean on the planet. So when the last bear dies so does Prudoe Bay.,0 +HRC is 100 times worse than Trump.,0 +"There you go, making assumptions and accusing others of being Pharisees.",0 +"Having gone to law school and practiced with a few attorneys who later became Judges, and actually having served as a pro-tem judge a few times in minor cases, I am unimpressed by your deference for their opinions. + +A big black robe didn't turn me into an omniscient arbiter of all that is holy; nor did it for any of them. + +The ones in Oregon could, at least theoretically, be removed by the voters for being stupid. + +Those with Federal appointments serve for life just because a couple of Senators liked them and a President appointed them. + +That does not give them any more brains than they started with; and certainly didn't anoint their opinions with Godlike qualities!",0 +I didn't even go to the ADN's website until 2014 and your claiming I said crap about Palin's crowds....yes she drew good sized crowds but they were minor compared to the size that OBummer got.,0 +"Who do you think is paying for people who can't cover their healthcare costs now? Everyone else that uses the system or by lost tax revenue for write-offs from providers who cannot collect on receivables. They're getting the care usually not preventative but when they are in dire straights and on disability which costs significantly more. Why not help people beore they get ill? Regulation of fees, both goods and services is desperately needed. You are burying your head in the sand if you think a public option is not the answer.",0 +"cont.:, as Rover's Run goes alongside Campbell Creek with direct access to the creek the entire time. To put it buntly, Rover's Run is ""danger close"" to the Creek. So we, as responsible trail users, pay attention to bear sightings, reports and the recommendations of the park and we simply don't ride it at certain times of the year. That's a pretty easy mitigation strategy. Wildlife corridors are the first thing you've actually said in this entire article that has any credibility. These are important and should be considered, however, data should be used, not just one's feelings. How many bear dens are up there the last time they were counted? How does this compare with the other areas? Do more bear dens mean more negative encounters? Is it significantly more density than other areas where trails exist? If this is just something that you feel, that there are more dens up there than scattered in lower areas of FNBP or across the creek, then you need to admit you have no data.",0 +"I've seen a few but not the worst. The ones I've seen are enough to make the argument. Not enough for you? Read the stats on domestic violence, suicide rates and drug addiction for first nations on reserves or in urban communities. Strictly a third world performance by Canada over decades. We have no right to tell other countries what human rights are. + +It is like us lecturing the world on carbon emission reductions when we have very close to the worst record in the developed world. I'll say it again - all done for the cameras to influence the gullible. + +Cheers, +John Meyer",0 +"Whoosh, hear it?",0 +"Where to start? Trump's idea of ""draining the swamp"" is to put in place a legion of notable swamp-dwellers, the Wall St mob, and his faithful billionaire hangers-on. His theory of smaller local government is perfect if you want all the power centralized on a president-dictator. He has no interest in preventing abortion. He was pro-choice until he wasn't. If it weren't too laughable, some folks might attribute his recent conversion to a ""come to Jesus"" moment, except that Trump would never admit that that he'd been wrong and had to change his mind. Lastly, he is a pathological liar (his picture is in the dictionary next to the definition), whose lies, especially now that he's president, are not only hateful, they're dangerous to us all. Hillary's ""lies"" (I'm assuming you're referring to Benghazi and her server) pale in comparison.",0 +"Thousands in our community went on their own Climate March yesterday behind lawnmowers, or in groups of two or three along sidewalks and trails, to avail themselves of the suddenly abundant solar power. Another 36,000-plus marched into a football stadium to see a meaningless scrimmage when they could have watched it at home, and 2,400 more marched to another stadium and then paid to see a softball game that also was televised. Some people . . . +That several hundred folks gathered yet again to clear their throats in unison for their latest feel-good cause of the week only means it was another slow news day in Eugene. Perhaps the paper should apply the same rationale to start covering church services.",0 +"My point simply is that regardless of who won what, stores should cater to their customers. Catering to the loudest who may not be your customers, defeat the entire purpose of staying in business.",0 +"why buy bottled water at a price higher per litre than gasoline, when tap water is available to most Canadians?? Insane.",0 +"I don't think ""antifa"" consists of a majority of ""people of color"". They're a confusing bunch and don't exactly seem well organized but at least they don't seem racist. + +They seem angry and they are often violent. They are also ill-defined. I'd probably be called ""antifa"" if I had shown up in Charlottesville with a sign that said ""It belongs in a museum"" (referring to the statue of R.E. Lee). + +I think many are anarchists. Can you even vote Democrat and claim to be ""antifa""? I think hardcore antifas would disagree. + +They've existed for years and have never had a clear message except they hate those with wealth and power so they burn things in the street and smash the windows of their local Starbucks but they'll probably buy coffee there again as soon as it re-opens. + +BLM is NOT ""antifa"". ""Antifa"" are extremists. They are violent. And they are confused. And not everyone who protests is ""antifa"".",0 +"No sympathy for his victims - just himself. I feel sorry for them, not him.",0 +"You said it much better than I did. There isn't an ""anti-Christian card"" at play here, but rather an anti so-con card. But for Harper's former communications director to try to convince people that there is an anti-Christian agenda must have been too tempting to resist.",0 +"""determined since 9/11 to have regime change "" needs correction. It was not ""since"" but ""before"" 9/11, hence 9/11.",0 +"So now you're resorting to speculation and innuendo? + +Pathetic, even for you, Larry. + +With Trump we don't have to speculate. We have it on tape.",0 +"Actually Ukraine lost more civilians in the Second World War than Russia. But you wouldn't understand that, since you obviously believe the war started only in June 1941 - it actually began in September 1939 when Uncle Joe Stalin and Adolf were allies, and dismembered not only Poland but sustained each other as France and the Low Countries were over-run and the Battle of Britain joined - not to mention that the gates of Auschwitz also opened up during the Nazi-Soviet dalliance. You Russians paid for your slavish servitude under Stalin. You are going to pay for playing Putin's game - you are already well beyond the pale of civilized Europe.",0 +Not sure what your point is? Are you saying we should go back to teaching drivers education and ignore the issue about sexual consent?,0 +"You weren't at his campaign rallies. + +You relied on excerpts which did not fairly present entire messages in context. + +And you'll selectively pick and choose what to read or listen to from here on. + +And you call that being a ""mindful citizen"" ....",0 +"Did you bother to read the article what was discussed? Sounds like a pretty constructive meeting, with human rights, adhering to the rule of the law, fighting ISIS, and what to do with N. Korea. You realize that Asia diplomacy is Gardner's responsibility, right? + +And what the heck is this ""liberal democracy"" you keep talking about? Our democracy is defined by the Constitution.",0 +LOL...let's discuss the Lexus' top ranking in YOUR 2017 JD Power bible in the luxury segment and Toyota winning most segment awards. You have used this segment winners to cheer for the best brand not long ago.,0 +Same with Christy Clark while homeless were and are still dying in the streets of BC,0 +"Yeah, this may very well ""blow people away"", but not necessarily as intended.",0 +"No, you don't. People lived quite well for centuries without emotional support animals. Grow a set!",0 +Also a rapist and lyre under oath,0 +"This is a problem in every legal state and it won't go away by making more draconian laws or pretending that it's not a problem because it's already against the law to smoke in public. The fine in Nevada for instance is $600 and there has been widespread public use there already despite the threat of a heavy fine. In most states people can walk into one of a hundred different places at 10am and get sloshed on liquor to the point that they are a threat to public safety but smoking in public is treated as a worse public threat then that, its all just so absurd.",0 +"Slofstra, I have been reading through your various comments and in my capacity as a working Certified Financial Planner, I feel I must advise you to stay away from any form of currency that does not have ""Monopoly"" written on it.",0 +"Dennis +If Donald Trump opposes mandatory health care , then I am with Donald Trump. Our health care is an example. There is no incentive to not use the system and thus we have the debt ridden system. If health care is in the private sector there is an incentive to not use it, rather use it as necessary. + +I have seen no evidence that suggests that medical insurance must be mandatory. + +Another similar system is social housing. What an expensive mess. Imagine if that was replaced by money so that the poor would have some selection in where they live, same as people with money, namely live where you like, where you can afford. Cities/communities would not have to build and maintain housing. + +We have thousands of examples of the private sector working well. There are now some examples of private/public working. in health care. Give it time. The US with private, medicaid and medicare is really a combined system, one of its own.",0 +A non articlt,0 +"Canoutchie I'm not suggesting anything of the kind. What a ridiculous assertion. Facts are facts and whining doesn't make them go away. + +You snowflakes all but assure the truly evil will rise again because your'e not calm enough to learn history, nor assess modern reality and surely you cannot speak truth to power. + +BTW are you also Vote4Me and whether or not you are, could you please stop having my posts deleted.",0 +"Here is the bottom line: The oil company's have one fear that they could never let happen and that is that Alaska is rich enough to do its own exploring, drilling, producing and exporting our own oil that would make Alaska worth 100s of billions of dollars. But that will never happen as long as the oil company's control Juneau! +Just look at S.B.21 that gave billions to the oil company's that used to go to us thanks to the corruption in Juneau!",0 +"How many pipelines were built under Harper? + +TransCanada's Keystone pipeline (not to be confused with Keystone XL), Enbridge's Alberta Clipper, Kinder Morgan's Anchor Loop pipeline and Enbridge's Line 9 reversal. + +Start doing some research before you post Gabriel",0 +Sigh. Google Elliot Spitzer and Dominic Strauss-Kahn if you honestly think this sort of thing is limited to Russia.,0 +"can we start with Teresa of Calcutta, Pope John Paul II great abuser and Josemaria Escriva, Pius XII, etc.",0 +"The sociologists do seem to be including any ""unwanted advances"" as a form of assault. That will rather broaden the definition compared to that in the criminal code.",0 +"Again, the difference between a service dog and an emotional support dog. The laws are different and, albeit loosely, governed by different branches of the law. Service dogs laws are from the ADA, the emotional support dogs would be governed the Fair Housing Act https://esadoctors.com/fair-housing-act-emotional-support-animals/ It still does not require a landlord to allow a pet that causes a real problem (not cleaning up after a dog's poop on the property, showing aggression and other restrictions as outlined by the FHD). The pet (and it is not limited to dogs) does not require the same extensive training that a service dog does.",0 +Does it get any more BORING than that!? No wonder the NHL now belongs to The Toronto Maple Leafs!!!,0 +get real...China is moving aggressively to build SUV's and coal plants,0 +"It is unfortunate that the Globe does not lead the way. As Japan, the US and 21 other developed countries have shown, GDP/person is not a significant factor in our quality of life. + +Japan? An economic basket case and one of the best places in the developed world to live. The US? The wealthiest country in the developed world and one of the worst places to live. The quality of living for the 23 developed countries correlates, not with wealth, GDP/person, but with income inequality (income of top 20% divided by income bottom 20%). The lower the inequality, the better the living conditions. + +Increasing GDP/person results in the wealthy getting wealthier. Income inequality getting greater. Let them keep Report on Business. Lets have a Report on Quality of Life",0 +T: You are a waste of time. Come up sometime and see how real people live.,0 +Smells like it's time to shovel more taxpayer money into the bottomless pit.,0 +It should be clear to everyone that there is no single problem in this matter. The factors involved are numerous and extend well outside the criminal justice system. Tinkering with the rules of evidence or retraining investigators is not going to fix it.,0 +Good for people whose innovative approaches work!,0 +"You would lose that bet. What will happen if ICE keeps up this reckless and lethal behavior on our streets is that crime will go up, criminals will gain the upper hand and we will all be in more danger. What happens, you see, is witnesses to and victims of crime will stop coming forward, fail to show up to testify against criminals and fail to cooperate with police for fear of deportation. Criminals will walk free or never be caught. It will go deeper into the shadows and make local police work much harder. You will be in more danger.",0 +"RWNAK wrote: ""His technical expertise was well-known, his management of Alascom and ACS solid, his philanthropic giving extensive, and he was extremely quick-witted. "" + +. + +Chuck was a white guy from out of state - smart enough to ""play a system"" designed to extract Alaska's resources for outsiders. When he'd made his share, he took the money that he ""made"" here, in Alaska, down to North Carolina to raise horses. ""Chuck"" was/is a perfect example of why Alaska is ""America's last colony."" There are, no doubt, many more just like Chuck, though many of them have recently left with our treasure or are preparing to depart. Watch your backs Alaskans.",0 +Looks like Sunny Ways is about to become Corruption Ways.,0 +"I'm not religious at all but I would just hope that both sides can simmer down here. I can see the arguments for and against abortion, now that I have a child. I used to be pro-choice all the way, until we found out it was so difficult for us to have children (we have one child now). Again, I can see both sides of the argument here. Please, let's have some respect for everyone's opinions. What this Minister says is vitriol and vile and really demeans people.",0 +No need to guess.,0 +"I just want to clear up an opinion some of you might have regarding PPS maintenance workers. The reason it appears that we don't work, or have a gravy job is because we have a Sr. Manager telling us that we have to ""do things half assed."" Don't get me wrong, there are a fair share of lazy workers, but the majority of us want to do good work and be able to take pride in our work. It's just extremely hard to do that when your manager won't allow you the materials or time to do it.",0 +Do you have any evidence for either of these statements? No. That is because they are both lies.,0 +77 million dollars worth of bigotry and disparagement against men. Why do I pay taxes to be denigrated? I should stop.,0 +""" .. and any new developments should be closer to the planned rail line."" +. +Kimiko, the powers-that-be are doing this in reverse. They will use the development at Koa Ridge as the reason to justify extending Rail from the existing line up the H-2 corridor to Schoefield ""to relieve the traffic congestion"". They're just not telling you about it. Rail construction will be a continuous way of life on Oahu for decades and decades to come.",0 +"I have considered the merits of Helen's suspension. Firstly, it has emerged that the DA's own process wasn't followed properly. Secondly, Zille is quite right that the DA was trying to force her to admit guilt before she had a chance to state her case, which also contravenes the DA's own process. + +Now ask yourself: Should you entrust a party that seems ignorant of their own internal procedures with running your country? + +I for one never voted DA nor am I a supporter of Zille, so I'm just laughing at their implosion here.",0 +"Not a word today from Trump, who found time to compliment Fox & Friends, plug Luther Strange, flog Graham-Cassidy, excoriate “Crooked Hillary,” retweet knob-slobbering from MAGAts, etc.",0 +"Jane Fonda, what did the previous presidents do about N Korea? If they did something, we wouldn’t be in this situation today.",0 +"LOL. First, your suggestion that calling out BOTH SIDES really means it's only calling out ONE SIDE is laughable. + +Second, violence wantonly perpetrated by ANYONE (and make no mistake -- BOTH sides had many that did just that here) should absolutely be called out and condemned.",0 +"It would appear that today we have democrats on one side of the aisle in congress, and democrats on the other side of the aisle in congress.",0 +"Admired is right, but don't let the facts bother you. Sheriff deputies in Denver are not POST-certified.",0 +"Cant empathize with people in flip flops and a tank top. When i suggested they consider weather changes and water needs they told me to gfms. Ok, empathy done.",0 +"Kilmer's vote for Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) or ""fast-Track"" on the Trans Pacific Partnership is the reason I won't support him. He clearly is following the president's lead and will vote for the TPP. This disasterous trade deal will further the impoverishment of American workers in service to global capitalism.",0 +"Sorry Heimel, you can't revise history to suit your bias. +The Confederacy was founded on the tenets of white supremacy, +Alexander Stevens, vice president of the Confederacy is quoted in documents: +"" Our new government's foundations are laid, it's cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man, that slavery - subordination to the superior race - is his natural and normal condition."" +Throughout the war, the protection of slavery had been and remained the central core of the Confederate purpose.",0 +"Good article - now if the G&M could PLEASE dump the laughable ""Prototypes"" comics and focus on real science and technology, engineering, mega-projects ...",0 +"Are we 'forgetting?' Do you not understand that Clark's problem is that memories of her cash-for-access and other corruption are very, very recent - as in 'ongoing'. +When the fox is in the coop now, you don't worry about last decade's fox. +BTW, $15K is peanuts - Clark has taken more than that in sealed envelopes in one evening's meeting.",0 +"High tax rates on corporations and the rich in the 1950's built the middle class and helped millions up out of poverty, just as the Scandinavian nations have done for 60 or 70 years. + + FDR warned that corporate takeover of government was the essence of fascism. Mahatma Gandhi said in the 40's that Western governments were diluted fascism. + + Republican Eisenhower built modern America with high tax rates. But he knew the forces of fascism were too powerful for progressive prosperity to last. When he left in 1960, he warned against the corporate backlash, saying, Beware of giving unwarranted power to the military-industrial complex. + + All the best ideals and admonishments of all the best statesmen were no match for the onslaught of global corporatism. Thus the world again slides down the muddy slope of economic fascism.",0 +"Why does RT(RoTflol), globalresearch and zerohedge all have the same delusionally funny ""news""?! + +Is it plagarism or much rubles from Putin's ""Mafia State"".",0 +It's the FBI's fault for not allowing the militia time to clean the place up.,0 +"Funny how no one here was seemingly concerned when Mr. Comey testified that charges would not be brought against Clinton - then he seemed to be a hero to many here. + +Interesting.",0 +The occupational force in Gaza is Hamas.,0 +A lot of people come to Alaska because there are opportunities for certain types of crime. Most of their activity is in Anchorage and the Mat-su. And Fairbanks. What's needed to deal with these mobile scum s totally different that what is needed for criminals from the Bush. How do we resolve this?,0 +"Senate President not wanting to cooperate and release more funds for the investigation. His wife, Elaine Chao, is in Trump's cabinet. We need to find out the truth on Russia's meddling. The Republicans should put our country first.",0 +After all... doesn't a fellow have a right to know who's friend and who's foe? Huh? HUH?,0 +"G Wellington, + I disagree. The subway is also subsidized by multiple state levels and was built with public money so you are using a public service. And that said, anyone who contributes to the tax base should have access to public services whether they are wearing a veil or not. Judge people on their actual conduct not their clothes.",0 +"Let's be clear. During the campaign, Candidate Trump routinely charged that the election outcome would be ""rigged."" Mr. Obama's measured response to the alleged Russian intrusion was not to serve the ends of any particular candidate but instead to preserve the integrity of our electoral system and to assure the public's faith in the same. It is now up to Mr. Trump's Justice Department to investigate the matter and take appropriate action, providing that action is executed with competency and without the meddling triggered by external political calculations.",0 +"It is called a loss of civility. Erna Paris' recent article describes the social and civic consequences of relating to each other in this manner. + +https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/what-happened-to-respectful-debate-in-canada/article36837244/",0 +MSB 23.05.050,0 +"Was just about to write a similar comment on his lengthy diatribe about ... nothing, really. Should not let little things like that bother him so much, but the Mop and Pail has never been fussy about news sources.",0 +"Totally agree except with one bit: + +""And countries like New Zealand, which dominate Sanzaar, have the innovation on the field, but are lacking off it."" + +No they haven't - they have effectively squashed anything that affects their type of play. Take for example the excellent proposed changes two years ago to the pathetic breakdown, where they managed to stop the one metre offside line 'because it led to reduced turnovers'. Of course they would, because that's the last thing they'd want so their lumbering - and offside - forwards can continue to destroy any attempt at running rugby! They'd love to turn the game into rugby league. They are to blame for the state of rugby right now, and the sooner their influence is reduced, the better for the game.",0 +Where'd he say Oahu??? How big of a population does a state need to overrule he Presidents EO??? #MAGA,0 +"Herz' story is relevant because it shows what seems to be a growing "" **** you!"" attitude toward average constituents among state politicians, from per diem paid under questionable circumstances to intentionally pushing the state budget so far out of control and accountability that nobody outside of the legislator-lobbyist cabal knows where (or to whom) the money goes. + +One expects the situation will change only when ""sentiments in Juneau"" are provided incentive to change. + +Two such incentives may be referenda for moving the capital to Anchorage and conducting an outside, forensic audit of state finaces and management practices. + +And maybe a question to the IRS hotline about tax consequences of collecting ""per diem"" in one's hometown... + +It could happen.",0 +"deflection? you act like a parrot that repeats things without thought. My post is about the staggering shameless hypocrisy of the left, and how once again it is only evil if anyone else does it. I am intellectually honest to a fault, it is evil when any one does it. Therein, let's put on our thinking caps like in 1st grade, and answer me this grade school question: what logical reason would I have to deflect from that which I say is evil for anyone to do? here's another grade school question for you to consider: could it possibly be my point wasn't to deflect, but drive home the point it is evil when everyone does it, and let's stop this double standard you always puke on this board? + There will be attest this Friday Mr. Teacher",0 +"Cheap buggahs!!! Das it why UHM is a steppingstone, and will never, ever be considered a dream job. I wouldn't blame anybody for leaving to pursue better opportunities. + +This is embarrassing for the athletic department, the university as a whole.",0 +"The best may be yet to come. +Watch for APD overtime costs going through the roof, but you'd never guess why. +Read ""Mayor Berkowitz Balancing Salaries on Backs of Taxpayers"". (http://alaskapolicyforum.org/2017/08/mayor-berkowitz-balancing-salaries-on-backs-of-taxpayers/) +And don't forget, it might be time to give the union's $3,000-per month-lobbyist a raise, too.",0 +".02, If the state needs to pony up the oil entitlement payments then shouldn't the underpayments from the oil industry also be paid instead of waiting for an audit to catch them? I believe the oil industry has shorted the state of Alaska every single year.",0 +"The article missed one important point: Kathy depends on the ignorance of the Ontario electorate. The less she has to disclose, the better her odds of getting away with it. No question, the more corrupt the politician, the less they divulge to the people they are (supposedly) responsible to. + +And don't forget: the Liberals are still in power because they were RE-ELECTED. Yes, the public servants and the unthinking Toronto voters may be happy, but their narrow views are killing the province.",0 +Really? It's crazy that she's trying to get aid for her country and her city! What is she thinking? They have water to drink from the EPA cleanup site. And 20% of them have electricity. It's only been six weeks. Give Trump some time.,0 +"Those children born into a single parent household didn't get here because the partners were engaged in same sex activity. Heterosexuality can be as intrinsically disordered, if you will, as same sex activity. When it is not ordered to faithful, spousal love it is disordered.",0 +"Your reasons are valid. They've all been ""political"" wars that didn't have the full backing of the American people. They do love their wars, though, just like they love their guns and violence.",0 +Uku pau in action.,0 +I have been to Halifax and have heard zero about this? Must be just a commercial to sell jewelry.,0 +"Its very important to remember when using basal metabolic rate calculators online that they are not accurate. Fat requires almost no calories for the body to maintain and has a poor blood supply. Muscle on the other hand is the opposite. When you punch in ""sex/height/weight"" the calculator has no idea if you are 300lbs of fat or muscle. The article said the 300 lb man had a BMR of 800 calories less than a normal man of his size. The only way this massive deficit is possible is if they are comparing him to a bodybuilder. Its very rare for a 300 lb man to have a normal body fat composition.",0 +"People who patronise the smaller stores paid a price for convenience. Whatever else you can say about Walmart the price of living dropped by 10% to 15% when the 1rst Walmart opened in a Region and broke the Family Compact / Chateau Clique cartel that used to set supermarket and department store prices. Eatons, Simpsons, Woodwards, ... just a memory, thank goodness.",0 +"Obama's approval rating is a lot better than your hero, George W, was at this point in his second term.",0 +It's just the usual Carrick schadenfreude; denigrating homeowners and homeownership because he still lives in his mother's basement.,0 +"The usual action of the die-hard partisan voter who decides to vote in an open primary not their own, is to vote for the opposition most likely to lose to their own parties candidate--- + +It would really be best if there were more swing states---assuming people want that---by making internal state politics more competitive. Lets reduce the power of the parties in favor of a wider look at possibilities. We should always be more concerned with the nation or state than the party politick. + +Personally I am glad for the relative paucity of presidential campaign in Oregon---in today's media world I wish they would save the money and stay home altogether. I also wish that every candidate had equal portions of a federally mandated weekly media exposure either self-generated or in the name of news coverage with the exception of truly news-worthy unplanned occurrences reported by someone other than the paparazzi that hangs around all the time anyway.",0 +"Or to be even more historically correct, what about ""No Colored, No Dogs, No Irish.""",0 +"Except for the part where people are literally none of those things, and still support the death penalty.....",0 +Like building on a major earthquake fault.... and then rebuilding again on an earthquake fault?,0 +I don't remember the Globalist and Mail or any other Canadian mainstream media publication showing this much concern about Canada's tens of thousands of homeless people.,0 +"First of all, I am not an Amy Demoski fan. Shannyn, I suggest you practice what you preach. ""Be careful with your words."" How about your words in articles you have written. 1 Calling Pete Kelly a clown, 2 How about Rats butt and +Rats Patootie. Your negative words about Republicans over the years is beyond the pale.How about Ohio Dan? In my opinion, you have called people more names than any other columnist in the dispatch. In fact after 38 years in Anchorage, I have cancelled my paper. because of your attitude. I am 1 of more than 6000 subscribers less since the Anchorage paper has become the Anchorage Dispatch. Again How about taking a closer look at that a person actually says before you jump to your own negative conclusions.",0 +Exactly.....u see only what they want you to see ...,0 +"""DG: what a load."" + +The load is what you carry. I hope you let it go.",0 +"You do realize that Johnson only signed the civil rights act, don't you?? It was introduced and supported in 1959 by the republicans. Percentage wise more republicans than democrats passed it in 64. Johnson used it as a political tool. Read up on him before he was the Vice President. You really think he changed that quickly??",0 +Hugh Hefner ideas about sexuality were rather far out and radical but they were no worse than the reactionary idea of the RCC Bishops about the same issue. Fact is that our bishops reactions were even worse than Hefner....,0 +ROTY and COTY!,0 +"tigerwarrior, + +Newsflash for you: the overriding reason the Assault Weapons Ban was allowed to sunset after ten years was because there was no persuasive evidence that it worked. + +Quite simply (from Wikipedia.org) : + +""The Task Force on Community Preventive Services, an independent, non-federal task force, examined an assortment of firearms laws, including the AWB, and found 'insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence'."" + +It goes without saying this is very old news. + +Now granted, if by reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban your intent is to keep bureaucrats employed and to support the passage or continuation laws that don't work, that's one thing, but by all means be explicit about it. Just don't claim your intent is to prevent violent crime. That would be disingenuous, if not an outright falsehood. + +Now, care to try again?",0 +You don't need to keep liking your own comments. If you didn't like them you would not make them. Are you a bit insecure?,0 +Trump is putting Generals in the WH because they are already trained to be yes man to the Presidents and will be loyal to the President. So he drained his own people from the swamp and now have yes men. To obey and not refuse any order from him.,0 +What about the MEN. More indigenous MEN are murdered than women yet the GM does not report it!,0 +and healthier....mannn,0 +"Justin is sweating over this,or at least the person who gets paid to sweat for him is sweating.The left is a sell out to the loyal citizens,and so are those who support it.",0 +"I'd be fine if they were humane like the nuns I had in parochial school. They were the most selfless & decent group of people I've ever met, unlike so many of their fellow believers.",0 +"""Real estate assessments for single-family detached houses in the Vancouver region soared 50 per cent in value over only a one-year period"". + +Yes, the feeble new tax on foreigners is doing exactly what I predicted (applause here, thank you) on Vancouver house prices. + +Which is it is doing nothing. + +House prices in Vancouver were dozens of times the average annual local salary a year ago, they were that six months ago, they were that six days ago, and they will be that six months from now. + +It was NEVER the intention of government to lower house prices by meaningfully addressing overseas money flooding in (most of it through investor immigrants/passport buyers, NOT ""foreign purchases"" by people without Canadian citizenship).",0 +Why not Tomahawk the oil pipeline and train tracks running down from China ? Dare them to respond.,0 +"Cajay, That is exactly the point. NO ACCOUNTABILITY for deplorable mismanagement. +The Party of choice has now become a legal MAFIA. +Who do they have doing their cost projections, Cat in the Hat? They have now been wrong 4 times to the tune of 400% over original projections costing $9 Billion more than Mufi sold to the public. It's is absolutely criminal.",0 +"Scandinavian governments don't face well-financed and armed thugs blocking streets, attacking government offices, causing deaths and setting fire to food stocks (then blaming the government for food shortages).",0 +It is up to you the Ontario voter to kick your nanny state socialist wind bag to the curb like we did.,0 +"Paedophilia for the perpetrators would most probably not rate as sin in the first place, let alone a crime. It is 'normality' for these people and should be recognized as such if the ever approach the Sacrament of Reconciliation. If there is any residual sense of guilt for 'sin' they need to be told that absolution is contingent on them handing themselves into the police or to an agency which has the mandatory duty to report. +The Australia Bishops should know this and stop playing PR games to impress the Royal Commission and Australian Catholic laity and priests who came to the conclusion long ago that they (bishops) have lost their moral authority.",0 +It's time for the era of Munoz reign in Juneau to be put behind us. Alaska needs a better legislature.,0 +"No, you just confirmed HRC is one.",0 +"Interesting Green Jeans. +Your comment asked people to "" stick with the program"" but you are using another ""program"" from JD Power to argue with a ""program"" about survival rates.",0 +"""What actions is the girl supposed to be held to? She was unconscious."" + +The question here isn't whether SHE could consent, because that was established. The question is whether HE could. His friends indicated that he was stumbling, barely coherent, and his recall of the night in question was clearly compromised. + +Any fairly applied standard would allow for the possibility that BOTH parties couldn't consent. Either you're not a legal actor or you are a legal actor. If the standard is applied one way for women, because they are presumed to be the one acted upon, and another way for men, because they are presumed to be the actors, then it's a firmly subjective standard. + +You can't compare a murder, where there's clearly a victim that died, to a sexual act where both parties typically mutually consent and there might not even BE a victim. You cannot presume her victimhood OR his guilt.",0 +"I doubt that as the Executive Director of Courage would stand up for the Church's teachings in their fullness, including on chastity. + +Also, being uber Catholic is a bad thing? Shouldn't we all strive to be as Catholic as possible?",0 +"What discontent is happening in this country is also happening around the world. People are angry with politicians as a whole not only here but in Europe as well. What is a common theme is those who lack insight and knowledge of history are the lemmings who blame someone else for their misfortune, unemployment or lack of opportunities.",0 +"we've seen false accusations in the past and going forward I believe we will see more - I wonder if this isnt the politics of exaggeration cuz she cant have her own way on something - she wants to do politics differently, until we know the source of the woman's discontent we will not know the whole story..... and about the threatened lawsuits.... could the Globe do some investigative work to find what they may or may not be ..... somehow I doubt it though ..........women good men bad",0 +"You are 100% wrong. He had paid for his ticket, he was in his seat. The airline had no justification to tell him to leave. The fact that their terms of carriage allow them to, does not in itself provide justification.",0 +"I know of a Christian muslim who accompanied two Clergy to their favorite muslim owned restaurant. They bragged they were great friends with the muslim owner....The Christian spoke the same language as the owner, and asked him what he really thought of the two 'christian men' -Not knowing this man was also a Christian, the owner laughed and told him when the Mahdi comes they will chop off their heads. Their book says it is forbidden to be a 'real' friend to the people of the BOOK (Bible)They will pretend to facilitate the outcome they desire. This is why a person can work for a year at a company and then murder everyone there at a party with no conscience as happened in California.",0 +"The most concerning thing about this article to me is what Mr. Gallagher's ideas reveal about academic rigor at Catholic University. If this is the level of reasoning and writing going on in a doctoral theology program, that is troubling. But I also think that whatever article he wrote doesn't deserve as much attention as NCR is giving it today. +It is a fact of life that language changes and evolves over time, usually in response to new discoveries about the world and human nature. I am in a book group that is studying the women Doctors of the Church and we sometimes have to step back and investigate how the meaning of words in the documents have changed over the centuries, and how to ascertain the writer's original intent. Our most amusing example is that for Teresa of Avila, ""gay intercourse with friends"" meant an encouraging and lively verbal exchange of spiritual ideas with like minded souls. In today's language it would mean something quite different!",0 +"The NAFTA renegotiations will probably drag on into the summer of 2018 (the Mexican Federal election) and fall (US midterms). This will make the political context in all 3 countries increasingly complex as it relates to NAFTA. + +Increasingly many progressive Democrats are campaigning on a protectionist platform while centrist anti-Trump Republicans support NAFTA. Thus, there will be no consensus in either US Party around which NAFTA debate can rise above the simplistic populist level. + +Mexicans want a change of government and the NAFTA stance of the US fuels the left wing populist cause making the negotiating options of the current government increasingly narrow. + +In the increasingly chaotic negotiating environment just described, our government likewise little room to manoeuvre, especially with a general election scheduled for 2019. + +Increasing rhetoric and rigidity on all sides is likely.",0 +There you go again . . . pulling me into a conversation that I was not part of. You just can't resist. Get that chill pill.,0 +Theft and piracy is not within their rights.,0 +Ms. Renzetti - for the record I agree with you.,0 +"Apparently it's still Harper's fault: +“We can’t make a direct link per se but ... certainly it was a factor.” +As evidence goes, that's about as unconvincing as it gets.",0 +"Officially the Catholic Church does not recognise the validity of Anglican ordinations - male or female - considering them to be ""absolutely null and utterly void"" and, for this reason, does not consider the Church of England to be a ""Church"" because it lacks a priesthood and therefore the Eucharist.",0 +They knew or should have known it was going to happen when they invited him. But it doesn't seem they made any efforts to minimize Trump's offensiveness. It probably would have been wasted effort to ask Trump to stay on message or at least keep the self-backpats to a minimum but at least it would have provided some rhetorical CYA. Nor do I give them a pass for their appeal to tradition. If there is one defining characteristic that can be said about Trump's administration is that it breaks from traditional norms.,0 +"Canadians are very capable of moving beyond the Indian Act. The question is, are First Nations ready, and willing, to move beyond?",0 +"It isn't amazing. + +Perpetual outrage and whine. + +So easy to see the Gospel in their hysteria. + +It's in fact great charity to not listen to them any longer.",0 +"A look at Trustin Dudeau's Tweet's: + +--Took selfie in new jeans +- Went for cupping, smoked a bowl, feel so much fresher now +- Read my horoscope, collected some more taxes today....every thing sunny... +- Hired more unqualified women, cause men are ouached. +- Went snowboarding will old drama school students +- Donated to Mascupathy.org +: +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWFV0McIf0w",0 +My heart goes out to all Gabe's family and friends. He was a good man and will be missed by many! My condolences to his family.,0 +"""The fact is that sex plays a very limited role in the lives of many married men and women after their children have been born anyway."" +Sez who? If that is your reality, then it may have something to do with your denial of your own sexual orientation. If that is the case, I am sorry for your spouse. It is not the way a thriving marriage is meant to be.",0 +"So in other words, you are covered - don't worry about anyone else. + +A lack of access to certain types of care is a major contributor to why Canada as a whole doesn't measure up.",0 +If a motor home has air brakes and is as big or bigger than a box truck they should have a class B CDL once it is bigger than 40Ft they should have a Class A CDL Just Sayin,0 +lol,0 +"Has to be careful the comment heres. With pipeline to ocean, oil can sold to latin america too. Should use TPP to exclude China from the new asia tigers.",0 +I don't understand the reference to Nova Scotia. Random choice?,0 +"Noted by me for one. I suppose I could go find some cites. But it's sorta the whole point of the social contract and rule of law. We surrender our right of private violence against those who wrong us in return for the assurance that the state will use its monopoly on retributive violence to seek justice for us. Eliminating legal private vigilantism and replacing it with public law enforcement doesn't really protect the vigilante, they are by definition capable of doing so themselves, this rule of law primarily protects the accused offender. Again, this is Philosophy/Criminology 101 stuff. I can recommend some reading...",0 +"Yes, they are openly against voter ID laws because there is no evidence for widespread fraud of the type you suggest. And they cite several studies. So rather than simply accuse them of bias, refute the studies. + +And no, the tiny number of occurrences do not merit ""inconveniencing"" everybody, especially when proposals for ""inconvenience"" nearly always target minorities (something that even the Supreme Court recognized recently), make it more difficult to many to vote (again, I cite the long lines that happened even in Denver), and therefore make the US less democratic. You seem to be a gun rights advocate - should your right to own a handgun be restricted because some people use handguns to commit crimes? + +Finally, I don't understand why any Coloradoan would be in favor of giving up the mail-in ballot, unless he/she is unemployed or retired. There have been times in my life when, because of work and school, it was impossible for me to vote on election day. That's not ""inconvenience.""",0 +"Hey fakestream, this nonsense didn't work during the election and it ain't going to work now. It's Just like Trump's tax returns -- nobody cares. Going on about it just shows how out-of-touch and isolated the fakestream is from the real world.",0 +You mean professional leftist of course!,0 +"Indeed Mr. ricknro. Your last paragraph is worthy of a thousand likes. The heart and soul of the nation has been sickened by the poisonous bile emitted from Fox and the rest of right wing media. Trump is nothing more than the evil face and result of the Limpbaugh/Hannity/ O'Reilly bloviators ability to normalize the obscenity that is the entirety of Donald Trumps lifestyle. + +""Donald J. Trump received more Republican primary votes than anyone in the history of the Republican Party. He is a 2016 Republican to the core. He is the chosen leader of our time. This is who Republican voters admire. He is the Republican party.""",0 +The hacking took place during Obama administration!!!!,0 +Nobody would accuse Trump of making moral or ethical decisions.,0 +"""When the Americans and the Germans were starting to significantly buy into Victoria years ago, there was a significant spike in the prices of homes on a similar proportional basis now as Vancouverites and new Asians buying here. No complaints because they were white buyers."" + +There it is, the boring and ridiculous race card. + +Y-A-W-N. + +The gig is up, dude. It has nothing to do with RACE and EVERYTHING to do with the reached pricing levels. When all those Americans and, um, Germans (roll eyes) were busy buying en masse just like the Chinese (in your imaginary Southwest BC), they did NOT get houses up to several dozen times the average annual local incomes. This is a WEALTH flood that is up-ending the balance, not a race thing as you desperately pretend. + +I am all for having EXACTLY the same levels of immigration we have had from China and Hong Kong the past 30 years, but from wealth strata THE SAME as the average of Canada, and NOT favouring the rich. There is no racism in this.",0 +The song Hey Man Nice Shot from Filter comes to mind...,0 +"If you voted for Trump, that's a definite ""no."" You did, didn't you? 🤡",0 +"There are states that do all of their elections through the mail, costs much less for the states and no voter fraud reported. Here is a letter written by the Montana republican party chairman to his members which explains exactly why the GOP is scared to death of mail in ballots: http://newstalkkgvo.com/files/2017/02/ESSMAN-LETTER-TO-GOP.pdf",0 +"The early release was probably granted due to the fact a tranny is now involved, you know society has a soft spot for the gender confused these days. Bradley, uh, I mean Chelsea should not have received clemency.",0 +Where are they. I have yet to see any chargers.,0 +How about Ole Trevor Orton's game today?,0 +"Here we go again...""my Senator"" speaks and we are suppose to support his obvious anti-Trump mantra? Per prior comments, it's apparent Schatz tows the partisan party line. Vote policy not party...""Drain da Swamp""",0 +I agree!,0 +"The eagerness of Da Skier to shoot someone's property over whatever they perceive to be an invasion of privacy is damn-near mind boggling. + +To the assemblyman's remark about a drone buzzing 20 feet away, I'd be surprised if it was truly that close. Anyone that has operated a drone knows that anything bigger than a Tiny Whoop sounds more like a weed whacker than a distant buzzing at 20 feet. + +Ultimately, the idea of legislating a problem that doesn't exist is absurd. We have peeping tom laws and private property laws. If there's a problem, deal with it under existing statutes.",0 +"“Intended Consequence”: Tax the wealth in small business + +“Unintended Consequence”: No more wealth in small business - although this end result may also be the Liberal’s “Intended Consequence”",0 +Perhaps while wavimg them through we can offer a gratis cup of Timmies to begin the Canadianization process.,0 +"There they go again as liberals know no shame. When the federalists gave Patrick Henry a congressional chair to draft the constitution he turned down this power stating: ""I SMELL A RAT!"" When the federalists penned a constitution that omitted a Bill of Rights we saw the rats Henry smelled. it was Henry who drafted 40 amendments in the form of a Bill of Rights, rallied the antifederalists, and in the end Henry won us 25 of the 40. Henry, the author of the 2nd amendment, warned us that the tyrannical scum amongst us will come after each of these rights, and they will all stand on their own merits save one, the 2nd amendment. Henry warned if these rats got the one they get them all, and warned us to guard the 2nd amendment as if our lives depended on it. Leo Quirk op-ed letter is pure deluded drivel, and one of the rats Patrick Henry smelled.",0 +"For the latter, my apologies; I misunderstood you (and retract!). + +For the former, my assertion has nothing to do with my ""beliefs."" I never said the data ""assumes"" all Trump voters are racist or uneducated. I said it suggests level of education and racial views are strong indicators of support for Trump.",0 +""" it isn't too difficult to convert a semi-auto weapon to automatic"" + +It's much harder than you think.",0 +"An accident is, by its very definition, an event that was niether intended nor predictable, therefore it is random. +This does not deride the skill, knowledge, or judgement of any victim, Andy my intent was certainly not to upset you.",0 +"If you dress up like me, I see no insult. What's the problem?",0 +"Ken Flynn, Really? You're going after someone because of their HAIR? Wow.",0 +"What the???? Taylors. That place is trouble and should be off limits to Uof O athletes. Who owns that place anyway?? This all started IN THE BAR!!! Based on this and recent news of a bartender ruffying drinks, it's obviously not being well managed. Making declaratory statements and personnel changes after the fact?? Shut it down if they don't get it together and provide the kind of environment that protects college students from themselves. Obviously, Heard is one that evidently can't manage himself.",0 +This is the price you pay to play gangsta deala. Should have stuck with fishing. The lure to be cool claims another kid. I hope he at least had a cool nickname.,0 +"Ok, that's weird... my earlier post was initially judged ""uncivil"" but now it seems to have been resurrected (the one 4 hours prior to this one)... never had that happen before, credit to the NCR moderators for seeing the value in my post.",0 +This news story isn't at all about whether or not Sarah Palin will or won't be speaking at the RNC. The bigger story is about what tRump isn't willing to say about Palin's absence and would rather make up a fricking lie to save political face. tRump is doing nothing but showboating and doesn't have a problem being an open face liar.,0 +Shouldn't need a new chief to nuture future department leaders. Just get a warm bottle of milk and tuck them into bed each night. That'll do the trick.,0 +"Let's see what you left out of Canon 212: + +Can. 212 §1. Conscious of their own responsibility, the Christian faithful are BOUND TO FOLLOW WITH CHRISTIAN OBEDIENCE those things which the sacred pastors, inasmuch as they represent Christ, declare as teachers of the faith or establish as rulers of the Church. + +They have a right to make their statements. They did this two years ago. Their pastor and bishop did not see it their way. There is a canonical procedure they can follow, although with the picayune complaints I cannot imagine them getting what they apparently wish. + +Can. 223 §1. In exercising their rights, the Christian faithful, both as individuals and gathered together in associations, must take into account the COMMON GOOD OF THE CHURCH, the RIGHTS OF OTHERS, and THEIR OWN DUTIES TOWARD OTHERS. + +Roman Catholic Women Priests is not Roman, is not Catholic, nor Catholic priests. All participants in their ordinations have been excommunicated. + +F.",0 +". + +""That it has played out this way, despite the Conservatives voting in favour of a similar motion condemning Islamophobia just last fall,"" + +Actually, it's pretty ""impressive"" to see/witness what level of stupidity the Cons will and did sink to. It is as well most telling to realize the Cons are void of all intelligence, integrity and common sense. + +On the other hand, ""go Cons go"", it's not like we want to see you in government anytime soon + +.",0 +"black_dude, prez o is more like a dictator. It is incomprehensible that someone would compare him to Truman. If prez o would have been in office back then we would all be speaking German and Japanese right now. Because obama has no backbone for the hard descisions that had to be made back then. Do not compare him to Truman, compare him to Mussolini. One only need look at the fantastic amount of executive privileges he has invoked, more than any other president, and the staggering amount of new regulations he has foisted on corporate America, again more than any other president, to see it. Not to mention obamacare. His policies have cost the American taxpayer trillions, and he has raised the ire and disdain of many world leaders, again, more than any other president. Truman? You need sign up for a college history lesson or something. Im sure tha prez o would gladly finance it, for a small fee!",0 +since when does breaking the law give you status in the states? enough already!,0 +"As I see it, I can choose whom to believe. I can believe that the BC Liberals will suddenly become less self-serving, less corrupt, and more democratic, or I can believe that the NDP will keep their promises. I have no way of knowing in either case, but the Liberals have been in power long enough that I can guessed based on their recent activity. If I'm unhappy with the NDP later, I don't have to vote for them again. Nothing done over a 4-year term is irreversible.",0 +Just astonished that the paper would acknowledge the brutality to which you refer.,0 +"You need to be contacting the Aestheticians in town. This woman has had a LOT of work done. OMG, can you even imagine what she looked like before all the botox, scrape, peels, laser treatment an plastic......Ewwwww.............",0 +The drug trade kills more Americans than do Russians. Just a point for reference since you're trying to be snarky,0 +So what you're saying is that we should keep drug dealers and prostitution IN Waikiki?,0 +"This boy took my father's life! If the shoe was on the other foot and this was your parent that was brutally murdered you would agree that 60 years is more than fair, but at the same token it will never bring my Dad, my mother's husband and or my childrens Grandfather back.",0 +"Like the poor, protesters will always be with us.",0 +"Give me a break! President Trump is going to slow down on supporting oil development in Alaska. I don't believe it, and I don't believe Dan Sullivan does either. If he really is ""troubled"" by Trump's threat, he ought to stand up for Senator Murkowski who's doing right by Alaskans! He ought to stand up to our bully President; he ought to stop cowering and start governing like Murkowski. And, while he's at it, he ought to look at how many people in his real state are going to lose coverage too. Thank you Senator Murkowski! Your constituents are with you! Stay Strong!",0 +"“I think the public will be happy with those that we selected,” he said. +I can't remember the last time the public was happy. It concerns me when he uses the word ""think"" in a sentence.",0 +"What is true democracy? And surprise, surprise, media have a bias. When did they not?",0 +Believe that Clinton had to give up his law license because of his perjury. Nixon got pardoned before anything legal could be done about his.,0 +"""If you are born with great privilege, I think you have a moral obligation to chip in to pay for the roads that helped your business and the schools that educated your workers,"" Gara said. + +Let me tell you a little something Gara.....I started at the bottom scrubbing floors and picking up after people. I worked hard to get to this point in my life and my career and sure did not come from a privileged family. I need not a politician such as you telling me anything let alone what you deem as a ""moral obligation"".",0 +"Well, it looks like the trolls got through.",0 +Get out the shovels boys and dig that hole deeper...,0 +"This is hurtfully true. Jacob Zuma is just a puppet for the already rich people & businesses that use political power to have first hand access to information & state funds. Zuma is not the peoples president, he is a man with no intellect to lead. Your comment is a voice for many.",0 +"A 2013 Princeton University study concluded that the tipping point has already been reached; that even if humans stopped emitting all C02 (and other GHGs) into the atmosphere today, the temperature would continue to rise for at least the next 200 years. + +https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S38/51/51I69/index.xml?section=topstories + +Canada could have been the world leaders in carbon capture and storage technology, but climate change deniers and their powerful right-wing masters took the argument, saying that there was no such thing as climate change, therefore few resources went into capture/storage technology. + +We missed the boat. Now we're trying to play catch-up in a game that is already over. + +Move to higher ground. And invest in pharmaceutical stocks that focus on tropical diseases.",0 +"GST is applied on top of the ""carbon tax"" (which isn't applied on carbon leakage from hydro dams etc. only fossil fuels) so this is a huge windfall for the federal government""s coffers. ""all carbon tax money stays in the province it was raised"" is not true unless Ottawa also sends the extra GST back to the provinces too. + +Also, the cap and trade is a floating market mechanism so making sure that each year is a certain price per ton is nearly impossible...this could be a big warm on national unity if the cap and trade provinces don't have the same price as the carbon tax province every year.",0 +So your guns aren't making it more secure? There goes another argument in favor of guns.,0 +Boots> If hat's what you think????,0 +"Like how the Dems worked with Repubs by freezing them out, and then lying about and ramming the hopelessly flawed ACA down American's throats? + +Like that charles?",0 +He might if he can find a way to write of the cost of moving them and then having them gold plated and placed on marble pedestals so they don't look out of place in their new surroundings.,0 +"The attacks in late Aug. by a small group of Rohingya insurgents are understandable given their abuse over several generations by their own government. + +The government has the right to respond to these attacks, by pursuing the perpetrators and bringing them to justice. Which they did - the attackers were killed. THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THE COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT OF AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY. And *that* is what the government of Myanmar is doing. They've been persecuting the Rohingya since the 70s and are now using the Aug. 2017 attacks as an excuse to conduct what the UN has classified as ethnic cleansing: + +https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/11/un-myanmars-treatment-of-rohingya-textbook-example-of-ethnic-cleansing + +So I'm sorry, 'DMOnt1', but YOU ARE DEAD WRONG. There are no 'aggressors on both sides' as you stated - the Myanmar army & Buddhist mobs are the aggressors, the Rohingya are their victims, and have been their victims for almost half a century now!",0 +"SO Illegal is Illegal > How hard is that?? And now you will not follow Federal laws?? Oh wait that is what the 1st civil war was about > States Rights > But these liberals only want dependent people brought in, so they can swell the ranks of Dependent on Government assistance VOTERS - >>>>>>>> BUY THE VOTE much???",0 +"Alaska has less than 1% of state lands in private ownership. The feds own most of the land in Alaska, followed by the state and then Native corporations. Very little land is available to the general public, even though Alaska has more land than several states combined, starting with Texas. + +If you need to rob me in order to continue bailing out corporations then at least allow me to apply my confiscated dividend toward a state land purchase.",0 +"All of the drugs, treatments and hand holding isn't going to do anything if the addict doesn't want to stop. Spend a year or two at the VA domiciliary. Where drug addicts check in to have a place to stay and get free meals during winter till it warms up. Then they run out to start again. Or people who have come back up to 5 or 6 times. I stopped smoking 10 or 12 times but never really quite till I wanted to.",0 +"Speaking of rants, ""resistance"" to what?",0 +"Your attempt to compare professors who are there to teach the curriculum of the specific class to a preacher who is there to teach the word of God is lame at best. + +People are required to pay money in order to get the credits required to graduate with a degree. People go to church voluntarily to hear a preacher teach the word of God. They are free to leave at any time and there are no repercussions for doing so. + +But then again... I think you knew that. You just wanted to try to take a cheap shot at Christians.",0 +"Every society has public holidays, based on various excuses for one, including cultural tradition. These are ours, based on 2000 years of tradition. + +In reality, there is little that remains religious about them today. Government-run operations may have a long weekend because unions negotiated those, but mostly life goes on as usual in the rest of society.",0 +It's not blame the white people. But it is true that government around the turn of the century forced many Alaska Natives to stay in a single location. Before that they where basically transient following the food supply.,0 +"I have no idea where these challenges will go but I can feel the growing frustration that many Canadians feel with regard to 'First Nations'. While I believe there is still much empathy for aboriginals as a people, I believe that respect for the 'First Nations' leadership is dwindling rapidly. Their opposition to these projects does nothing to help most rank and file native people. It is simply a self-serving shake-down scheme wherein the few get wealthy and the remainder are relegated to the status quo. It is not good for Canada and it is certainly not good for indigenous Canadians.",0 +Hence my comment below. Conservative mayor gets blamedwhen a conservative mayor is in office. Guns get blamed when a liberal mayor is in office. There's your liberal bias proof.,0 +I hope ole Brandon has gotten over his case of the yips.,0 +"I think it's rude to insert oneself into a website and pretend to be a Church with no rules, when the reality is he has a church with no people. Check out the website. Like it or not, rules becomes necessary when a population multiplies over time.",0 +"This shows the folly of being in a grand coalition. Had the SPD been in opposition, it might have picked up votes of the discontented, and might have taken power. Instead, they are seen to be part of the problem, and lost votes. + +A similar situation occurred with the British Liberal Democrats, who were a one-term wonder in a coalition. + +Meanwhile, would the Greens find enough in common for the FDP for both to be coalition partners? Or would there be an impasse, leading to quick re-elections?",0 +"Sure, go tell that to the family who's house blew up in Firestone.",0 +"Lets look at this...... the street crews are union. They have a great contract. They can't be fired, so why would the do a good job. Not like the private contractor doing Eagle River and Chugiak that does an awesome job. So why no privatize the rest of it.....Well we would keep all the current employees on and not save a penny, but the roads would be plowed.",0 +"As the mom of the child allergic to wheat, dairy, eggs, peanuts, tree nuts and shellfish, I would like to respond to your comments. (a) While it poses challenges, I would not call it ""awful"" but thank you for your compassion. Stress results from the implication that he should manage this by himself. He is a child who needs support & guidance from the adults around him, especially at school where he spends most of his day. (b) all of his allergens are not restricted in his school. Together with the school staff, we have applied strategies that reduce his risk of exposure to allergens. Each child's needs are different & 1-size-fits-all approach is not the way. Factors such as age, maturity, where kids eat (cafeteria vs classroom) should be considered. Steps to limit risk of exposure & education are not mutually exclusive; to be effective they need to go hand in hand. The issue is the lack of guidance to Boards and schools about practical and realistic steps needed to keep kids safe.",0 +"There is a concept in economics called ""information cost"". The cost to a student of obtaining accurate information about the comparative qualities of different colleges is enormous. A far better answer would be to simply ensure that all colleges provide high-quality education. + +Hint: The way to provide quality education is to focus on the actual teachers. Administering a college or university does not require administrative brilliance; bureaucratic competence is all that's needed.",0 +"Jack Roberts April 2013: ""No one told me why they wanted me gone or why they were unhappy with my performance,"" Roberts' memo read. ""Nonetheless, I've spent enough time in politics and in government to know that these things are often as much about personality and other people's ambitions as about merit."" + +Jack Roberts April 2016: ""But he [Roberts] said the governor's office questioned his management only once: When Brown's chief of staff, Kristin Leonard, asked him Monday afternoon to reinstate the employee accused of harassment. The next day, without further discussion, Leonard told Roberts to resign or he would be fired, Roberts said."" + + +http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2013/04/struggle_in_lane_county_underw.html",0 +Please cite a source for your bogus claim.,0 +"Mr. munger is justifying violence because he doesn't agree with something. Sad, very sad.",0 +"CNN thought they were invincible in pushing their 'fake news' agenda. With the alleged firing of reporters on the 'Russian' fantasy - this is just the beginning of their demise. Sponsors will begin pulling their ads. + +Instead of reporting factual/responsible news to the American people they have turned to retribution to achieve their irresponsible goals. Over 90% fake news reporting ? Who in their right mind would turn to them to get the facts?",0 +"Annnnd for the most inane post so far today, what do we have for him, Johnny?",0 +"There's an obvious solution to this problem- increase teachers' salaries and benefits. But, in all seriousness, poor math students equal future Liberal voters. So, perhaps, our government knows what it is doing.",0 +Attention Kevin Meyers: Are you missing a staffer?,0 +"We must fight the ""Environmental Apocalypse"". + +I’ve seen the Earth spirits. I pray to them and have had them help me carry out successful attacks against the Earth's enemies. ""Mother Earth First""",0 +"To Bob Lopetrone: those vast supplies of jail cells and corrections officers were sacrificed for oil company tax breaks, two new LIOs and PFDs. Your outrage would be best addressed to your legislator.",0 +"Look, M'a: no drug.",0 +That is an interesting argument and probably explains why the Navy is evasive when accepting blame for the recent contamination from fire fighting chemicals. If they can use your argument and get a court to agree that Island County is partially responsible then millions of dollars of clean up will be foisted onto the property owners of Island County and their tax bills. Since there is a small population living in Island County one can only imagine how much would be attached to property tax for clean up. And if you don't pay the county for three straight years they will seize your home and sell it at a tax auction.....,0 +"The ""Bigly"" Chicken has been a hot seller in China , there's even a shopping mall that has a solid 20ft version in front , they find it amusing.",0 +seems those oaks standing sentry earned safety for residents?,0 +"It means to be injured by the device that you intended to use to injure others. Petards were explosive devices used to blow holes in gates or walls during the sixteenth century. In Shakespeare's Hamlet it was originally written as follows: ""For tis the sport to have the enginer Hoist with his owne petar.""",0 +"It is not art. A monkey can decorate a cake. +If you offer custom cakes to heterosexuals under Colorado law you have to offer that service to all. + +Jack Philips has made many cakes for gay weddings, he just didn’t know. +Only one of the betrothed gay people showed up. They created the custom cake with Jack. Jack made the cake. It was bought and paid for and then it was used in a gay wedding. + +Jack Philips did not know, otherwise he would have illegally refused to make the cake. +Is Jack going to go to hell now? He made a cake for a gay wedding! Jesus must be steaming mad. + +If for some reason Jack wins his case and is legally allowed to discriminate, is he goi g to ask people if the cake is for a gay wedding in advance? + +Will he put up a big sign that says, “No Gay Wedding Cakes”? +Nah, it would probably be easier to just judge them by appearance and refuse service to people that look gay. They might be trying to get a gay wedding cake, sneaky gays.",0 +"Sorry, was not in the IPCC report.",0 +"I actually did check out Breitbart. +Yes, it is an alt-right, fake news site. Thanks for playing..",0 +Agreed. My ideal preference in 2019 would be a Liberal minority government with NDP Official Opposition.,0 +"Well you used the correct word to describe carbon pricing( really CO2, apparently few no the difference). It's a scheme alright.",0 +Do some research instead of taking the talking points that are being fed to you.,0 +"""You mean reinstating a policy in effect 50+ years"" +""Transgendered anything were considered to be mentally defective and were housed in mental institutions."" +So, +You're okay with that?",0 +Hillary playbook. She added this as a contribution. tks,0 +LOL...professionally trained law enforcement officers are threatened by this guy and unload on him? Classic.,0 +"Ah yes. But the carbon tax is going to be returned to the provinces, except the GST charged on that carbon tax. A sneaky way to generate more GST revenue without raising the rate. Although a rate increase is coming, especially as interest rates rise on the debt.",0 +I was very saddened to hear of Mickey's passing. We were in school together from K thru 12. He was a good friend and fellow athlete. I sat next to him for four years in band as second chair trumpet. He was a great guy and my condolences go out to his entire family. I'm sure he will be greatly missed. May he Rest In Peace.,0 +Germany can't rely on Merkel.,0 +"Good strong gal this Loretta Sheehan. Hopefully she can succeed where Jeff Portnoy tried. Welcome to Hawaii, Supergirl.",0 +"The point is moot, as soon as you type ""if he becomes the next PM"". +His chances were always around zilch, but comments like that put him well into negative territory. Maybe he should stop digging?",0 +"Republicans are guilty of the Patriot act, secret evidence, killing without trial, tapping phones and emails, etc etc. Blame Obama for not stopping it, but Republicans made those laws, do not forget this.",0 +Gutmacher more or less bears this out.,0 +"Too bad beautiful creatures in nature must pay for the mistakes of humans, humans that are clearly not that bright, I am sorry you were traumatized lady but it's your own fault, you should just stay out of the woods so no more animals have to die as a result of your ignorance.",0 +"American emissions have fallen 20% since the 2005. Meanwhile Chinese emissions have DOUBLED in that same time period. + +Under international agreement China has not committed to lowering their emissions by even 1%. + +Who is being duped here?",0 +"Getting a Dr. to give you a prescription for marijuana is friggin' stupid. I know i need it, and don't need some doctor telling me I do, especially a doctor who's alternative is some opiate that will destroy my liver after 2 years....No thanks. + +If the cops want to TRY and bust me for having marijuana without a dr.s note, I will simply tell them I have iatrophobia ​(fear of doctors) and politely tell them where to shove it. I'm more than happy going to court, so a judge will tell the crown prosecutor where to shove it as well.",0 +"I think you've got that bit about the ""mob"" backwards.",0 +"Agreed. Per diem should be by receipts only, up to the monthly max, for starters. There is absolutely no reason that Juneau and/or Anchorage legislators should receive the same per diem as say, someone from Bethel. All salaried and hourly state employees (including legies) should have their pay cut 10% before they cut the non-state people's income. There needs to be an out-of-state travel ban, except for emergencies. We are in a recession, and protecting state workers comes at the price of job loss and income loss in the private economy. That should not happen. Do we want to have private citizens demonstrating and pointing at the state workers and saying, ""YOU ARE THE CAUSE OF OUR POVERTY?""",0 +"To clarify not I am technically anti Navy nor Anti NAS Whidbey for that matter. Nor am I anti Base expansion, NOR anti Coupeville OLF expansion but I want everything but amends as it is done. I want the mess cleaned up. +I have had a lot of dealings with the DOD in the last 30 years and they seldom do the right thing. +It is refreshing to see you post something sensible.",0 +"This sentence does not make sense: ""Both foundations make indirect investments such as index or mutual funds, whose managers may or may not invest in fossil fuels."" + +You don't ""make"" an investment such as an index. You don't make an investment such as a mutual fund. You invest ""through"" or ""in"" these things. + +Someone may invest in or through an index fund, but who makes an investment such as an index? + +Either poor editing or understanding of the subject matter",0 +The New Deal was about creating infrastructure-based jobs that were either directly or indirectly paid for by the government. Where do you suppose the money for these projects came from? As far as bankers: Banks were failing in 2008-9. They were propped up by Obama's stimulus package. Where do you suppose that money went?,0 +Agreed. And if the Rockies stick and go deep in the playoffs this year maybe they can get him to ink a couple of year deal.,0 +Becoming the leader of a minority opposition party is not such a disaster for Canada. He might be a disaster for the CPC. First things first.,0 +"Like when Russia banished the Jew in 1891? Or Nuremberg in 1498? They used the Troopers also, just like the United States. Just in Europe and Russia alone, the Jews have been banished 47 times in the last 1,000 years.",0 +"Our responsibility in the courtroom is to seek truth beyond a reasonable doubt, but the article is not about criminal trials. + +Our responsibility in society is to listen to people when they allege to have been harmed and to believe, at the very least, that something happened that left them feeling violated. That's not the same thing as assuming what the other person did was criminal. It's to accept that not all unethical behavior is criminalized, that some people are nasty, and that they too leave a trail of victims and are worth keeping an eye on, albeit informally.",0 +"Repetition without substance. + +Again. + +Repeating a mantra does not add to its credibility, persuasiveness or actual truth. + +Obamacare with all its warts was invented, drafted and passed solely by the Democrats. They stole the basic idea from Romneycare, but no Republican touched Obamacare in any way. + +No one else is 'responsible' for fixing their incompetence and hubris, even though Chief Justice Roberts tried. + +If you buy a car that is a Lemon and give it to a friend, it isn't my job to fix it. + +Man up!",0 +"Yes, and he did his 3 month tour in his pick up truck as he was still collecting his MP salary. +----- +Did Olivia Chow collect her MP salary when she was campaigning for Mayor of Toronto? + +There are many similar examples of politicians doing similar",0 +"No, we are part of nature, not apart from it.",0 +"McKenna makes no sense. If the lack of data makes what the province is doing a shot in the dark, then McKenna himself presumably can't say anything either. He has no basis to either criticize or for any alternative. + +Instead of sitting and watching like McKenna while the bubble keeps blowing up and pricing Canadians out of their own cities, at least the province is doing something. And if unaffordability and asset bubbles are the result of having decent places to live in a globalized economy, then I'd rather keep the decent places to live and shut the door on globalization.",0 +"Comments like this make you look unknowledgable in the actual sport. If you look up Muay Thai Ontario rules and regulations, all fighters under 20 fights require head gear and shin guards. These are amateur fighters, not pro. It takes a dedication beyond no other to train for a fight, and until you do it, you have no grounds to critique it. If you wish to continue critiquing, I invite you to a training session to see how tough we really are.",0 +Does the IOC pay golfers or tennis players to attend?,0 +"Scotia Bank........""we are richer than you think""",0 +I am still waiting for an answer ... yes or no. Anything beyond this ...,0 +"An old racist portland urban myth, how charming.",0 +"Jerry Prevo is an intelligent man. +if I were Jerry Prevo and i had a pawn in the assembly, i would have that pawn write the legislation that allowed my paid ""community organizers"" the ability to limit my retail competitors license renewal, by any means necessary, thereby growing my tax free empire exponentially. +yep, thats what i would do.",0 +"My parents were teachers ... public school teachers ... you know, as in ""maximum salary at retirement after 31 years of teaching of $41K/year"". And they raised three kids, put us all through college, and retired at age 55 and were financially independent. How did they do this? They lived below their means and they had a good, competent financial planner. That's a powerful lesson I learned from them. I own a nice house thats only what I need, not was I could actually have afforded. I bought a new car only when my old one finally was falling apart and unsafe. And I have a competent, certified financial planner managing my money, and I'm doing very well for a person who is 44 years old. Apparently I have more money saved for retirement than 95% of people my age. I'll retire to the bland boonies to land I'll inherit (free!). But I still feel it isn't enough, so I keep at it. ... The people in this article didn't plan to fail, they failed to plan.",0 +Ahh you were asleep for the last 8 years?,0 +"It's not illegal or unusual to ask for loyalty. And Comey agreed to be loyal! + +I'll tell you in advance what the Russia investigation will uncover: nothing. + +They've been ""investigating"" for 6 months and they still have nothing. If there was something going on they would have found it by now.",0 +giggle...,0 +"Goes to show where Conservative politicians heads are at. Not all politicians are as nasty, corrupt and dishonest as the Conservatives., +------ + +I jolly well would never hang a man by saying this as long as + +Kathleen Wynne and Dalton McGuinty are still around",0 +"One of the more unreliable sources of information known to humans is the White House, where the concept of ""alternative facts"" was invented. + +Stephen J. Remington",0 +"“I’m not terribly worried about the adequacy of the pool. I just want to get the show on the road.” + +That says it all...""not terribly worried about the adequacy of the pool."" This attitude that the commissioner just ""wants to get the show on the road"" is disgusting. ""Getting the show on the road,"" no matter what the outcome, plays right into the good ole boy mind set. Never mind the competence of the company and ultimately candidate for Chief selected, at least we got the show on the road. Contentment with mediocrity or worse is the name of the game in Hawaii, from the top down. We get what we deserve.",0 +"I think China (and some other nations) is getting fed up with this rookie President Trump's abrasive and directionless leadership, even his people is speaking out against his uncensored impulsive tweets. Absolutely entertaining. +Best is to return it to Trump on Jan 20 with a note: Gotcha!",0 +"That's why I said stiggin it to Obama, but nice of you to project.",0 +"This court WILL treat Track Palin differently - because Governor Palin appointed the judge - David R. Wallace - in early 2009. Why do you think there were so many delays, resets, and continuances with the Criminal Court? How else could being Remanded Into Custody just be - disappeared? The Palin's KNEW this judge was at this court, and they'd get special treatment for Track there.",0 +"If you read the breathless coverage of the issue in the Calgary Herald and Calgary Sun newspapers (both papers share office space and ideological opinion) and the outrageously ignorant Letters to the Editor that they published, you would assume a riot was a logical outcome.",0 +"President Trump denied the report...gosh, maybe because it wasn't true? Loved watching Chief of Staff Kelly today, answering the press questions--they didn't get to first base with their BS nonsense.",0 +"If doctors were salaried employees with the provincial government taking responsibility for office space, equipment and unionized staff the cost of health care would double overnight because we all know how efficient government is.",0 +There will be no place for him in an enlightened Canada. She might just destroy her child's future.,0 +"I voted for Nenshi in the first two elections and I didn't in the last one. Did I become a racist over the past few years? + +I don't think so - I just got tired of a mayor who wants everyone to know he is the smartest guy in the room in every meeting and yet has no answers to Calgary's issues (except raising taxes). + +A little humility would go along way, but unfortunately you'll never get it from Mayor Nenshi.",0 +Between football and wrestling I believe he has taken too many hits to the head or else he believes his own made up Hollywood fantasy.,0 +It's why every Chinese person is desperately trying to get their money out...,0 +Nice,0 +You need to go back and read the text of M103 again. While it does refer to Islamophobia specifically it is also clear in that it is to address discrimination as a whole.,0 +What if you're not a Scientologist? Can you still purchase a condo and live there?,0 +"Baloney. We have more agricultural land on Oahu then we know what to do with. + +And the seed companies are a 300 million dollar industry in Hawaii. At that rate much of our agriculture return is from the seed industry. IIRC landscaping is the biggest but much of it goes to hotels. + +We should be expanding the seed industry in Hawaii. They have the money to invest. And hunger is an important demand from the rest of the world.",0 +"1.)""That’s not the definition of homosexuality. "" - I said +2.)""It_is_not."" - You said +3.) ""It_is_a_definition_of_who_is_at_risk_for_abusing_children"" - You said + +1. & 2.) Then we agree. Why are you arguing then? + +3.) The male/female adult is at risk abusing children? Or, I imagine you mean the child is at risk being abused? Because, the subject doing the abusing is the adult, not the child. And thus wouldn't, I imagine mean what you mean/intended to come to that conclusion. The error is in logic/reasoning. You have your argument outlining a direction to the conclusion you do not intend, I believe. So, can you refine that statement?",0 +The first time I saw Portlandia I figured that the idea of Portlandia's days were numbered.,0 +"Where did you read ""everything"" in the original comment?",0 +Unless of course he's clever and does the unthinkable and changes clothes.,0 +He needs to go for trying to convict these people not for his inability to convict them,0 +"Says the guy posting this at work, smh.",0 +"""Teachers only care about themselves."" That is one of the biggest lies I have ever heard! Many educators have been using their own money to purchase supplies for their students and chose their careers to help build our country. As classroom size increases and children's needs along with it (behavioral problems, lack of proper nutrition & housing, neglect, abuse, etc.) teaching becomes more and more difficult. Teachers are one of the least appreciated professions. Let's look at administrator's pay and benefits, NOT the teachers.",0 +"I suggest you are both right and wrong. Don the Con is not mad like George III, for he appears to have been psychotic (the technically correct and polite word for ""crazy,"" for stark raving mad). The Donald is not psychotic, but he is severely neurotic, IMHO. The character flaws you list (incompetent, unprepared, incurious, etc.) are just some of the symptoms. There is a difference between the delusions of a psychotic and Trump's delusions. The core difficulty is that when confronted with a psychotic, most people recognize the condition as mental illness; but with neuroses, opinions vary.",0 +"Rightontheleft: + +Dream on with respect to Syria. + +The Syrians show little disposition to reconciliation in their homeland, in the model of South Africans after apartheid, Liberians after Charles Taylor's rule, and Chileans after Pinochet. And now, convinced that they can push their adversaries into welfare rich Western countries, the Syrian belligerents and their Syrian civilian allies seem as committed as ever to sectarian war fanned by religion based animus.",0 +"Whatever that means, Berg.",0 +What?,0 +"As were many who were ordained before that...and they were more ""progressive"".... + +Or are those who disagree with the Left the only ones to be considered ""childish and immature""?",0 +"Charles -- I quoted the pertinent section from the 1965 Report which updated the Subcommittee's findings from its original report in 1963 when it reported that the Society was ""sustained on a high degree of emotionalism"". + +Since you do not dispute the accuracy of what I quoted from the 1965 update, there is no basis for you (or any other Bircher) to claim that there has never been any evidence of anti-semitism within the JBS. + +More importantly, it is significant that other conservative organizations did not have this problem so the overarching issue which you never want to address is WHY was the JBS so attractive to racists and anti-semites? In other words, WHY did racists and anti-semites think that the JBS would be receptive to them? + +Incidentally, the 1963 Report is available on Internet Archive website for review by anyone who wants to know exactly what the Subcommittee concluded.",0 +Ha Ha That's what she said.,0 +Did the security guard follow the rules? Did he speak calmly or yell? Maybe the entire incident will be published after the investigation.,0 +"And this is why the state is broke. People moved to King Cove when there was no road, but now it's some injustice there is no road? Don't like it MOVE. I would rather not live in Anchorage, but I do it for access to many things. How about the state build me a personal bullet train from Anchorage to some rural site so I can have it my way. People in urban areas make the choice and compromise all the time, that is why people commute from the valley. People in rural AK just cry about things until someone gives it to them for free. Shut down King Cove if they think it's to unsafe to live there.",0 +Have you seen any of the videos where eye-witnesses in Charlotsville talk about there being several buses lined up behind each other with people in both KKK shirts and BLM shirts coming off the same buses?,0 +They might have had to shoot the plane down if he took over the cockpit. Could have been a Anti-Trumper crashing into Trump Tower.,0 +hahahahahaha. Nice humor piece!,0 +"Well, that would be sociology/social psychology and even anthropology rather than political science. And it would be a social science theory rather than an ideology. + +Nor do most sociologists/social psychologists or anthropologists hold the theory that gender is completely independent of biological sex, yet they can provide evidence that it is fluid and certainly influenced by culture, calling into question simplistic biological determinism.",0 +"That's a pretty long drive, but in what other MLB park could you could buy bleachers seats for $2 then sit just about anywhere ?",0 +"Canada? That's it man,send them a real estate tax bill.",0 +"I think the hospital would be better for patients as a local organization. It would probably be cheaper as well, but my main thought is that a manager who lives here in Fairbanks must face his neighbor every day and so is more likely to see a patient as a person who might talk back than as a gold mine to be exploited.",0 +"So stealing money in Alaska is illegal? And people get arrested for it?! Hey troopers, I know someone that stole $670,000,000 in PFD funds! His name is Bill Walker and you can find him in Juneau.",0 +"You guys still don't get it. Remember when Trump couldn't possibly be the Republican candidate because he was crazy? And then they all laughed until election night because he was so crazy? + +There's a lot of us out here who Liberals think are crazy. We put Trump in office. We think you are crazy.",0 +"I agree with you that the SJW snowflake mindset is too much, but unfortunately there's a lot of votes there. I think Raitt can walk the fine line of not causing significant divisions on either side of the spectrum, but rather focus on key issues of finances, health care and transportation that virtually no one would argue are not priorities.",0 +"Thank you for this article. I was very sorry to hear about Ms Peacock but after reading it I will be very cautious. I've been on 4 snorkelling holidays over the last 15 years so not very experienced and have been through 2 sets of snorkels. I'm always adjusting it bc I feel I can't breathe (bit sensitive about this bc I am asthmatic) and have been planning to buy a full face mask. +Thank you again, from Australia",0 +"No kidding. +Couple that with Wynne's renewable energy fiasco and tripled electricity bills. ON will self-destruct.",0 +The legislative buildings have armed guards and metal detectors. The university does not. That makes the two completely different.,0 +"""Dialogue is not a dirty word; it's our word"" +As a public servant, I recall vividly being followed in a large group presentation by a wise man. He began his with these words: ""Beware of well-intentioned bureaucrats."" He was right of course. A ""light""...even a dim, itty-bitty one... in a field of darkness is as much or more a warning of what lies unseen, in opposite, in opposition, as it is a beacon. +Let's be real. ""Dialogue"" is not the mantra of the Roman Catholic Church. It may be rampant in its diplomatic corp for mutual institutional advantage, or with justice systems, with its people as pawns. It is certainly not the ""word"", ""spirit"" or mantra of successive Popes since John XXIII, of hierarchy. +Absolutism, infallibility, legitimate teaching authority, compliance and submission are more properly ""our words"". Ask anyone. +Agreeing with Cupich is a radical shift. Following him - and Pope Francis - a trepidatious pilgrimage about which we have little understanding or standing. +I'm in.",0 +"Thank you for that link. It had not previously sunk into my obviously confused brain that Palestine as a ""nation"", at least the huge West Bank, is a group of disconnected enclaves. It appears the only contiguous land in which a state could be formed based on the wishes of a majority of the people is the Gaza Strip. The Oslo Accords did not make a Palestinian state possible - perhaps it made possible disconnected city states with local popularly elected government - but not a national government. + +I do not see peace coming out of the moves by the Trump Administration - and fear fodder for those prone to violence in a Middle East that is already in turmoil.",0 +Cello is more interesting to us than Theroux. But I agree that a more literary content in SA would be welcome.,0 +"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!",0 +"da ""Filipino guy"" - ""ABAM""? sorry could not pass it up, LOL!",0 +"The Roman culture embraced slavery, infanticide [exposing unwanted infants in hostile environments], suicide [it was manly for a man to kill himself if by his jailing he would be demeaned], etc. Our Western Rite still calls itself the Roman Catholic Church---and it embraced Roman law for much of its model of Canon law. + +But today, we no more belong to the Roman empire than we do to the planet of the apes. It is time for the Church to stop allowing ancient understandings of language or custom [which gave rise to shape how we minister to PEOPLE OF TODAY. Study and learn from the past, but don't be shackled by it.",0 +"And yet SO MANY people are A-okay with the ethically confused mayor and his $200k++ ""service"" payment ALL WHILE STILL GETTING a taxpayer funded salary as mayor to ""serve"" the People of HNL. + +Yes, yes, it was deemed to not be an ethics violation...technically. But are the People really THAT clueless? Perhaps. + +But how does this LOOK? It's just down right dirty and brands ""our"" mayor as purely driven by money lust with no moral compass and thick skin. As Joan Parsons said above, there's a new class of ""criminal elite"" and at the top of the list in HNL is a Caldwell.",0 +"Very inspirational. Best of luck in your recovery, Kristin!",0 +"So Trump is critical of an agency that helped lie us into the Iraq War, committed a campaign or war crimes and human rights abuses, whose officials have perjured themselves during Congressional hearings, and who were ultimately caught violating US law by spying on members of Congress . . . and we're supposed to rally to the CIA's side?",0 +"Super Spin Doctors ! Take bad news and say, ""Better than expected"", and voila, its now good news.",0 +"Which is undoubtedly why Trump's weasel words were crafted the way they were, Mr Summers. + +He's the President. He had 6 weeks to ask.",0 +"The oil companies have been making record profits from Alaska for 40 years, and now that they are not making such profits from the sale of our oil , they are being gifted billions of dollars of "" state "" monies while they cut their labor force and slow down production. + They are still a very wealthy corporation , and no one is suggesting that we ask them to pay more to Alaska. What is needed, however, is a complete end to "" credits ""going to the oil companies while they are de-mobilizing, and downsizing their operations in the state. + We have a Republican Legislature that works for the oil companies, and against the best interest of the state's residents. They are asking the states residents to pay for all of the services that they are charged with providing, but continuing to fund the profit margin of a declining industry simply to maintain their personal wealth and please their oil cartel bosses. + Oil company maintains profit , while residents lose services, PFD,and pay taxes",0 +"The ""civility standard"" that the ""community"" who are definitively NOT my peers finds that I violate is my saying something truthful that lefties don't like. You'll probably censor this too, but at least some of you will have to endure reading it before you run off to your safe space.",0 +"No, you never said, ""Let the courts decide."" Your first post stated it was the aggressive left again, based on speculation. And, let's consider: + +1. The reporter never raised his voice. Audio evidence. +2. The Republican struck first. +3. The eyewitness from Fox said the reporter did not act aggressively as the Republican's people stated. + +Your stretch is much bigger than mine.",0 +"Tried and True and still #1 on the hit list after all these years..... +""Ana one....ana two...."" +♫ It's Bush's Fault ♫",0 +"Gee Larry, where are the citations? 97%? There must be at least one.",0 +How about if they camp in areas where there are garbage containers and toilets. It's basic and dignified.,0 +Would. If it were real. But it's not.,0 +"“This isn’t a jail in Turkey or somewhere. This is America.” I wrote a 50 page letter to Sarah Palin and sent it to legislators, the Ombudsman, the ACLU and others. Then I posted parts of it on line in 2009. Here is a subtitle, ""AM I AT ABU GHRAIB? No, they have decent health care there."" I had to write the thing twice because I had a mysterious hard drive failure after the first one. That letter was about injustice, an incompetent, dysfunctional bush hospital, some other crazy things, what I experienced and observed in the prison system when they had me wrongfully arrested on a false charge to try and use that as leverage to get me to drop an appeal and shut me up. Does it seem like it worked? Instead as a retired RN who had several specialties but the relevant ones here are critical care, ER and psych, some prison infirmaries and prior to being an RN worked with mentally ill legal offenders, so I began a campaign of trying to get something done about what went on. They ignored me.",0 +"Hockey is not a uniting force for the nation it was 30 years ago. +Number 1 watched sporting event in Canada is Super Bowl, number 2 World cup of soccer and number 3 the Euro cup. All three have nothing to do with Canada. +GTA is more into basketball (people under 40) then hockey. Changing demographics blacks, chinese, Jews, Phippinos all watch basketball.",0 +"This is the same kind of arrogance that Kirk Caldwell does .. Keoni and Kirk yes may have not broken the law but they think their untouchable and very arrogant !! Keoni spent recklessly and kirks million dollars he gets from banks and lying on his disclosure may or may not be illegal but sure is unethical and dishonest .. +You may not be able to do anything about Kenoi but you can vote Kirk Caldwell out and send message to these self centered mayors !! Kick the out !! We deserve better",0 +The first thing they need to record is why they think a part time admin job merits $200K per year.,0 +"For all you know, Trump may be dealing with huge egos, who are popular and powerful and working feverishly against him. + +But let's just blame Trump, right?",0 +"Why would anyone leave a goat country for a non-goat country? + +It makes no sense.",0 +"I am stunned and kind of in denial regarding trump and his impact. ok, assuming the awful and he does beome president....he has to divest himself financially of darn near everything or is he going to be the first president to openly twist the tax laws and loopholes to avoid paying money. this guy is so corrupt, it will be just a matter of time before he is impeached... really, objectively look at trump....he is who he is...",0 +"MP's should condemn anti-Muslim, anti-Christian, and anti-Jewish behaviours and get on with more important matters. Our existing laws should be able to handle any contingencies.",0 +And so....you did.,0 +"I challenge you to find a single piece of high tech hardware that is manufactured in the U.S,, THAT is trump's exact point, its not and the usa is changing now to get these made in the usa",0 +"So the ""artists"" in the union and the tax payer subsidized CBC oppose broadcasting the US advertizing - what about the other 99.9% of the viewers? Most of whom pay the the taxes that support the CBC.",0 +"""ALL"" options are on the table! +I figure it be a couple of months more to get more anti-missiles gear into S.K. and Japan before doing a military strike. +As it is now, the North has everyone by the Olo Olo's with conventional weaponry as it is near the South. +Sad day with the North having joined the Nuke Pac Party. It's a given",0 +"Leave it to the reactionary Trump to make an unfounded claim, followed by at total absence of a plan to fix anything. Leadership at what level? Does he have any life experience to understand the black community, or for that matter, ever worked closely with a police agency anywhere, let alone taking ZERO time to understand the tension in Baton Rouge? Judgement without facts. Judgement without empathy, Judgement without knowledge or experience. Judgement with no concern for the people he targets. + + +Worse, no personal self examination that would lead Trump to change a thing in his' shoot from the hip' opinions. He is what he will always be, a borderline sociopath. (You may sociopaths in the mental hospital, the boardroom, the family. It's seeking personal power without regard to the consequences to others.) If you want a life free of guilt/conscience, here's your man. + +http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sociopath",0 +"Of course she'll start a family - that way, when immigration authorities finally try to deport her, she can run to all the media, crying that these heartless monsters are about to deport her CANADIAN CITIZEN children!",0 +"""The Senate Intelligence Committee"" does this term qualify as an oxymoron?",0 +"Ya right, so I guess you also think that is someone is a racist conservative that it's ok?",0 +Still bummed about hilly 😂,0 +"Ordination of males only is not dogma, it is simply a rule which an be changed. The only dogmas are the Creedal statements and any statements issued ""ex cathedra"" by the pope.",0 +"Alaskans are some of the biggest hypocrites. They're always whining about congress and ""Washington"" but every two years they keep sending the same guy that's been in office since the Nixon administration back to DC. + +Supposedly Alaska has a whole bunch of so-called ""independent"" voters who ""vote the person, not the party"". But the independent voter in Alaska is a total myth . Otherwise, how can the same republican has hold office for 43 straight years? In reality independent in Alaska means a republican who's trying to pretend to be a sophisticated voter. Its like the Tea Party...which was nothing more than a rebranding exercise by republicans who were trying to skip out on the responsibility for rabidly supporting and twice electing George W. Bush, the worst president in American history. + +PS. Apologies to those of you who are truly independent in your voting habits...I know there are a few of you out there.",0 +"LW1 - You sound like a good person, and your siblings and your community are lucky to have you. + +I hope that if a check is returned to you or donated, that you won't be sad or offended. It has nothing to do with whether your sibling loves you, and it's not a rejection of you as a person. Some people feel weird about receiving money, and a lot of people dream of being self-made. Even if they don't accept your gift, they may still appreciate the sentiment. + +Another option is perhaps you can ask the siblings what they'd prefer? One may want cash toward a mortgage. Another may want a contribution to a child's college fund. Another may have no needs at all, and then you can ask if they have a charity that's dear to them.",0 +"And Steve, I did like your letter, there are too few recorded instances of police helping others in their line of work. There are many, but we get inundated with racially motivated justice, like the Fairbanks Four, or the militarized police protecting the NDPL against Native protesters, lying about the Natives in order to justify the harsh justice dispensed for Natives",0 +"Ooh, the dreaded rogue DemLibs. When I want my nieces to quit being rambunctious, I just mention the rogue DemLibs and they calm right down.",0 +"SkeptiCat, +Your argument about ""convincingness"" doesn't convince me. It seems more like splitting hairs. Your example relating to people raising their hands when a gun is pointed at them, not because of the gun, but because their desire to live motivates them, seems a bit porous. If the desire to live convinces them to raise their hands, wouldn't they go about with their hands raised during that portion of their lives when they desired to live? Probably (obviously?) not. The presence of the gun is the convincing catalyst that makes the desire to live come to the forefront of attention. +As to convincing criteria, are you saying it is subjective? I'd agree with that. Some people are more easily convinced by a given argument than others who are more skeptical. +I also agree, that the inclusion of facts tends to make for a better argument. I disagree that convincingness is not in an argument. In some cases, adherence to logic is sufficient.",0 +Ronin keep on chasing your tail but hint you'll never catch it.,0 +"Actually it's fairly easy to work with anyone who has self esteem and a direction in life. Conversely, it is always going to be difficult working with the opposite kind.",0 +"Good idea. Why should teachers have to be credited teachers to teach? Lets just let any one that wants to, teach our children their personal beliefs. Please read the bill. The main idea for it is to make sure REAL teachers are giving the classes.",0 +"Except, it was the Republicans who lost both Senate and House seats in 2016.",0 +Why is MR afraid of Free Speech? Is he worried that students might question his narrow agenda? Or is this just a political stunt to try to convince others that he is not racist? Either does not bode well for him.,0 +Especially for the two authors of this piece who will be at the front of the line when money starts getting doled out.,0 +None of these vehicles make sense if you never go off road? Gas mileage on these vehicles is on the brutal side? unless you have a business and write off 50% of the expenses......,0 +"There were three beautiful Gabor sisters- Zsa Zsa, Eva, and Magda. They had the most wonderful accents. Very interesting women, charming, and blessed with joi de vivres.",0 +"Strange Love, + +I am sincerely sorry you choose to act like the hall monitor. It's not a good look. + +Sincerely, +The sincerest guy on the block",0 +Said one of many who wants to bring back Hitler. What's next? Auschwitz?,0 +"I was only a PFC then, so I could only pick cig butts, paper and plastic bags. Sorry. DU projectiles, etc. was not in my MOS. + +You talk like you're above my rank. Why don't you give Mazie a call? I'm sure she'll listen to you, and prevail on Obama to act on your concerns.",0 +"Yeah ... I was wondering about my punctuation there :-) I am well aware of the history. +Perhaps to be more specific for any future readers. ""the so-called ""coloured"" peoples; the Indian population ...."" + +I could also have said: ""And of course there are other very large cultural groups that you do not mention: the so-called ""coloured""; the Indian population who arrived here as either slaves or indentured labour."" But that sounds a little clumsy. And I only had limited characters! + +I'll have to update My Grammarly. https://www.grammarly.com + +One would hope that readers of the DM would be aware of the history but my question remains: ""And how will you change it?""",0 +"Trump again made a promise he can't keep: bring back coal jobs. He's using jobs as an excuse to roll back environmental protections, but coal has not fallen out of favor because of regulations. It just costs too much. Most utilities are moving away from coal to LNG, not because the latter is cleaner and emits less CO2 (which it does), but because LNG is cheaper and will continue to be for the foreseeable future. It's an economic decision by utilities. But goodbye and good riddance to coal.",0 +"Many of us including the administration to the legislature have fallen into the Reaganomics trap of less taxes and smaller government. Closer scrutiny shows Reaganomics hurts the poor, working and middle class while benefiting the wealthy. We have lived this lie for so long the idea of raising taxes and pouring money into public infrastructure like public schools,public transportation, public safety and the like is seen as an infectious disease.",0 +"Kagan, the only thing that they missed and couldn’t do anything about, was a Mafia-style, we-can-buy-and-bully our way into the White House with a little help from our Russian ‘Friends’ - they are so experienced at it, after all - esp. with the benefits of modern day info-technology too!",0 +another islam denier,0 +"The al-qaeda members were sued under the US anti-terrorist act (ATA), including Omar's father, Ahmed. + +Damages under the ATA are automatically tripled. + +Breakdown was $31.5M to the Speer family ($1.5M lost wages, $10M pain/suffering, $20M to widow & kids + +$5.2M sought by Morris and family - $2.7M awarded ($200K lost wages, $2.5M pain/suffering) + +Triple these amounts and you get the $100M+ figure + +Note that the posthumous pain/suffering amount to Speer is roughly equivalent to that received by Khadr.",0 +"If they have room for one woman not getting entry, then I don't see one single reason why they can't put in a story affecting 6 Canadian girls! I guess if a Muslim girl was assaulted, they would have not only run the news as the main cover story but also would have had follow up articles and taken up 'the precious space' that you mentioned for the rest of the year! What a shame",0 +Since we're on a roll to rewrite history how about renaming the Montreal Airport - we can certainly do better than the current name?? I propose Stephen Harper Airport.,0 +"Trying to equate racial discrimination with transgenders is a weak argument. Public toilets since the beginning have been based on either being a male or female sexually, not on what one claims to be or wishes they were. If nothing else it is common sense and most parents do not want young children exposed to the transgender or opposite sex bathroom experience. Public toilets are available based on the physical sex of each individual, or in some cases facilities with limited access that have locks on the doors. Why is this not perfectly acceptable? What of the rights of millions of people whose religious or personal beliefs reject the transgender life as sinful or immoral? Why insist everyone using what ever toilet that he or she wishes to use other than to force an issue that should be obvious in it's solution.",0 +Shep is heading to CNN or MSNBC soon,0 +The cons are behaving like a crime family.,0 +"A lot of us don't sing. We stand with respect. In Hawaii, people are kinda shy and don't want to sing if they sing junk. Thats respect! Mr. Hatakeyama has the right spirit and heart. We need a lot more like him.",0 +"Once again....people of Oahu, HI will be charged more money for bags, thereby increasing profits for the businesses. I repeat, the cost of bags have already been factored into the prices/cost of goods. Have these businesses lowered their prices? NO, they haven't....yet, politicians keep making laws to allow business to charge more and more, hurting the pockets of the people of Oahu. The only ones that benefit are the businesses...more profits for them. Might it be that these politicians need more political contributions from business? So...everytime you are charged for bags, think of it as a political contribution to the politicians who raise taxes/fees to fill their pockets. This is absolutely disgusting! VOTE them OUT!",0 +"Long ago I gave up putting any stock in the opinions of Toronto-centric newspapers and how they see things running in Alberta. + +It's not up to the government to ""diversify the economy"", and when I hear that it's a sure fire sign of high school level analysis. The government reaps benefits as it collects royalties from where the private investment went.. should they have been like Ontario and tried their best to stop all that investment? No, the job of the government should be to manage public finances in a prudent manner to handle the variability of that income stream. Why no one at the Globe can make this simple point isn't really surprising.",0 +I can (and do) use Google. I'm simply pointing out that it's not all non-profits that you believe should be immune to the tax/political silence restriction. I'm pointing out the hypocrisy of this. You're just failing to see it. And see this reasoning doesn't even require Google to think it through. Just a willing and rational mind.,0 +"There have been a few elections in Canadian history where the party with the most seats trailed in the popular vote. + +British Columbia provincial election, 1996: The NDP is re-elected with 39 seats, 6 more than the Liberals. However, the Liberals received about 37,000 more votes than the NDP. + +Quebec provincial election 1998: The PQ is re-elected, winning 76 seats to 48 for the Liberals. This is despite the fact that the Liberals outpoll the PQ by over 27,000 votes province-wide. + +New Brunswick provincial election, 2006: Shawn Graham's Liberals win 29 seats to the PC's 26 seats. However, the PCs carry the popular vote by a margin of more than 1300. + +Federal election, 2000. About 152,000 more Quebecois vote for Liberal candidates to represent them in Ottawa than those who vote for the Bloc Quebecois. Nevertheless, the BQ squeaks past the Liberals in terms of seats 38 to 36. + +There are numerous similar cases from past elections of other countries, including those that use FPTP.",0 +He can't be allowed to make ridiculous statements. His popularity is 20%. The economy is collapsing. Corruption is blatant. Investors are leaving. Unemployment at records levels and protests daily. Nothing works under this Gupta Government.,0 +"""Truth and facts are not hate speech."" + +Yet as you pointed out, the truth doesn't belong to you. So what is it, exactly, that you're offering? + +It's trivially correct that truth and facts alone can't be hate speech. It's also true that the best propaganda always contains facts. What propaganda doesn't do is give ALL the facts, presented in a balanced way. Hate speech does the same thing. It hammers on the faults of a group- which are typically the same ones you can say of any group- over and over. After a relentless barrage of selectively chosen negatives comes the kicker: ""We have to push back. If we don't, we're done for."" + +I could write you a litany of facts about Western Christians that would whiten your hair. And if that's all you ever heard, you would come to fear Western Christians. From that point, encouraging you to act against them would be easy.",0 +"If true, the PM is on the right track. I wish he would also discontinue our participation in US led provocative training exercises. How would our jingoists react if, say Russia, conducted so-called training exercise on our boarder.",0 +"The modern republican party has been appealing to its racist base for more than a generation. I know it once was the party of Lincoln. But Ronnie Reagan signaled his intentions toward minorities when he opened his campaign in a town that was infamous because a black man had been recently lynched there. Bush Sr. defeated Dukakis by appealing to racial fears with the Willie Horton ads. And Bush Jr. ( aka the disaster) totally ignored a minority community after it was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. White people are very fond of calling minorities racists. And it's true that some minorities are racists. But white racism is institutionalized and affects lives. I'd like to have an alternative to the democratic party. However, republicans have more than demonstrated that any minority who votes for a republican needs to have their head examined!",0 +"I assume you feel the same about Beltrami's intent to run for elected office, no?",0 +"Don't have to have 100% pure, just a known purity. I've been an analytical chemist and test pharma for a living. I am working on getting a cannabis lab consulting and auditing business together, because these people need to know how to do what they're doing, and in a lot of cases, they don't.",0 +"you keep saying Mandan, what Indian tribe are you from.",0 +"Again, you choose to not have a conversation and just hurl insults like a child would.",0 +"Start making cash right now... Get more time with your family by doing jobs that only require for you to have a computer and an internet access and you can have that at your home. Start bringing up to $8012 a month. I've started this job and I've never been happier and now I am sharing it with you, so you can try it too. You can check it out here... + + +---------------->> http://www.cash-spot.com",0 +"""nobody's buying your charade anymore."" + +I wish you were right. + +I'll lay money he gets another term",0 +"And yet, according to an article in today's New York Times, + + ""On a range of issues, Mr. Trump seems to be taking a page from the Sanders playbook, expressing a willingness to increase the minimum wage, suggesting that the wealthy may pay higher taxes than under his original proposal, attacking Mrs. Clinton from the left on national security and Wall Street, and making clear that his opposition to free trade will be a centerpiece of his general election campaign. + +As Mr. Trump lays the groundwork for his likely showdown with Mrs. Clinton, he is staking out a series of populist positions that could help him woo working-class Democrats in November. But in doing so, he is exacerbating the trepidation some Republicans already feel about his candidacy at a moment when the party typically rallies to its nominee."" + +Can he out-politician Hillary?",0 +"Apparently, it's the place where they watch people in the bathroom stalls.",0 +"One would think that Adventists who are liberal in the classical sense (I include myself in that category) rather than progressively liberal would appreciate the importance of keeping church and state separate. But when your political beliefs take on the characteristics of religious values, and you start using the Bible to support those values, the distinction is pretty tough to see and maintain. + +This dangerous proclivity is conservative in the sense that political powers tend to stamp out religion as a source of legitimate authority and/or invoke religious symbols to reinforce their values. Those who seek radical transformation sound quite liberal until they have succeeded. Then they become quite repressive and conservative when the roots and fruits of what they have planted are threatened. + +Does anyone think for a second that, if liberals were in charge of the G.C. non-ordination of women would be an policy option anywhere in the world church? Not a chance!",0 +"Ah... didn't take her long to play the race card, did it?",0 +We are paying for more immigrants and homeless bums from the mainland. How about some tough questions for the rail now.,0 +"Fact #2. The 'civilized nation poisoning this group of people' is the native peoples' poisoning themselves with alcohol from the village store, one of which is operated by Bethel Native Corp. Unless you don't want to call Alaska Natives 'civilized'. I suppose then you could try blaming the alcohol issues, now rearing their ugly head(s), on 'da ebul White Debbul', where it seems to land far too often. In fact, the blame is squarely on those who are drinking and the owners/operators of the stores, both of which are apparently native owned or operated by, and employ large numbers of native peoples. + +It's no surprise that the 'legal' stores are now operating as a staging ground for alcohol-fueled disruptions and violence. This was warned about, and ignored, by people in Bethel who wanted to drink and to hell with the surrounding areas. Big noise was made about how 'Bethel was maturing' and 'prohibition was lifting'. Now we get to see the results.",0 +"""What caused the impact is not known."" +Alright all you Sherlock`s out there..what could have been the ""impact"" that the crew said they felt at 11:20am? +Some come to mind; +One might first think ice. Were large chunks still surging in and out with the tide? Was the tide running at that time? +Could a structural cross-member beam have finally rusted through and broken loose, or been struck by something damaging the leaking oil pipe attached to it? It sounds like some critical infrastructure on the bottom of Cook Inlet is reaching it`s designed end of life and beyond. Do we just keep patching that tenuous infrastructure because nobody wants to get the bill, like musical chairs only musical failing pipelines under Cook Inlet? That doesn`t sound like a wise policy to this Alaskan. Who assures the integrity of all those lines under the Inlet? Is there an agency who can or does regulate them for engineered structural soundness on behalf of the people of Alaska? Or is it hodge-podge..",0 +"Where did that come from?! I'll humour you Rob, you are correct the people on food stamps need greater selection of halaal food at their local supermarket and more competition for the manufacturing jobs Justasgood will tell us are ""all going to be automated anyway"". + +ps: There was no Muslim ban per the 9th court of appeals.",0 +People don't think they will ever be homeless until they are. So face facts people at any point in life we could all be homeless. Deal with it. The homeless do,0 +Authentic history research proves ownership . Look at Indigenous land claims in Canada for example and land survey border disputes settled by historical and geographical evidence.,0 +"Not a typo, I wish it were.",0 +"Yes, exactly correct. However, that gun you buy on line will be shipped to a gun store and you will be required to pass a federal (and maybe state) background check as well as the gun will be verified to be legal in the location of your residence.",0 +"The problem is that Republicans can recognize that Trump is unstable and veering further into madness, so they're liable to ask anything of him now. + +Our President is a psychotic. People need to admit that now. It's unfortunate but very, very obvious.",0 +"The NEB, during Harper's tenure, also approved the Northern Gateway and the Line 9 reversal.",0 +"The Sisters project along Hiway 22 is a long term public and private endeavor using corrections clients for cheap labor. The Fremont project is a stewardship contractor, with cash outlay by the USFS. But, if the litigating public wants to have yellow belly pines a hundred years from now, the myriad regulations created by men of good will actually work hard to prevent that from happening. EPA will be the leader, and the ESA will be next in line. The old McNamara reasoning that you have to destroy the village to save the village is alive and well in Federal land management principles today.",0 +"While I partly agree with you, the UPX is going to have interesting by-products. + +Weston is turning into a bedroom community with a spur of townhouse development surrounding Weston station. The St.Clair and Liberty Village stops that are part of Tory's Smart Track plan will most likely be serviced by UP. It's underused currently but has the potential to be highly used commuter rail. Amusingly, that would make getting to the airport more hassle than it's worth",0 +"That's the problem. Russia sees Poland in a different light. Kala! There's money to be made, no different than how China sees NoKo. Money talks. They don't cast Poland aside because it's rubbish, it's has a potential to be a Cash boon. +You don't have to like whats going on with the Country but if there's money to be made, make it. They not being picky about it, money is MOney",0 +"Money is not the only factor - add in the lack of respect for teachers by students AND parents, the testing overreach by the federal and states, the cost of living combined with salaries that are now 8% LOWER than they were a decade ago, and the declining value of PERA as a ""benefit,"" and it's no wonder we have an ever increasing teacher shortage. + +This is just the tip of the iceberg ... it's going to get worse - MUCH worse.",0 +"Actually, no, the poll's MOE was 2.5%. But I understand how they were off so much: Because it was Her Turn. She was obviously going to be Madam President! + +Except she wasn't. Thank God that corrupt, Chicago politician wasn't elected.",0 +"Leader, you make me laugh out loud! Obviously, you are not a leader!",0 +"It doesn’t matter because she's hot, so who cares?",0 +"I guess I would agree with you so far as the government is not of the people. +That our government is of, by, & for the government.",0 +"Here's the real numbers: + +Votes for Clinton: 65,853,516[ + +Votes for Trump: 62,979,636 + +You're welcome. + +Glad I could help.",0 +"No, you don't ""got it."" We've been deciding such things for centuries. But the fundamental principle of jus soli cannot be violated. It would be completely unAmerican to do that.",0 +"I remember all the ethics complaints. +I remember those that loved her, were rabid about it.",0 +"Comparing smoking to slavery? Good luck. Slavery isn't abhorrent in Africa where it is still in major practice among their own, JS. + +An accurate comparison would be to the tune of...alcohol, which is not even compatible as the consumption of alcohol in public is prohibited.",0 +"I don't care if you live under a rock, everyone knows smoking is bad for you. And no one wants anyone to tell them they can't smoke. As far as light cigarettes go you just figure they won't kill you as fast. I mean I got friends that catch a buzz on non alcoholic beer. It has a small percentage but everyone wants to hear some thing bad is ok. These lawsuits should never happen, you smoke long enough, you will die from them. Period. Will these same people like the government to tell them they can't smoke and fine them if they do? No.",0 +"Mainly because of compassion for the unborn, whose very lives are at stake. For them, it's not merely a question of whether the U.S. is a better place to live. It's whether they live at all.",0 +"There's a 'forest-fire' in our housing market that is destroying the chance for our young citizens to ever own a residence. +So... the Govts. have agreed Not to pour gasoline on it, but just let it continue to burn and destroy.",0 +You must never have had a job. Businesses make decisions based on anticipated political decisions all the time.,0 +"I was prescribed Tramadol over 30 years ago as a last resort for pain resulting for a cervical spine strain. It did nothing for pain and made me feel nauseous. Ended up in physiotherapy and my pain eventually resolved. From experience I believe this particular pharmaceutical has low addictive properties. I've also been prescribed codeine-based pharmaceuticals as well as oxy-pharmaceuticals for post-op and acute pain and, in addition to pain relief, experienced a mild feeling of euphoria. So I can understand why opioid based pharmaceuticals are addictive and why it's important to follow the physician's instructions in terms of transitioning to anti-inflammatories, aspirin or low-dose codeine for pain management ASAP.",0 +"@Richard Davidson: I've seen that at the VA Med Center I go. There are guys I've seen that are slackers, are not there anymore. I get around that place.. I thought they just got reassigned.... There was one guy at one station +That was alwAys on the phone calling for a courier(usually a volunteer) to run s'thing just down the hall a couple hundred feet.. like he thought they would miss him for a couple minutes. The replacement is a Silver Star Vet(he has a miniature medal on the collar of his shirt) . He got up and took another patient's slip to another station for the patient who looked to. Be frail and close to 80. When he returned he told the elderly Vet that that they know he's waiting to see the docs and it's alright, whenever he gets there, they'd take him right in. He didn't sit on his arse and call a courier., he took the paper there himself for the the older Vet. There's a new director also and he's all over the hospital.",0 +"Perhaps the quote about ""bringing back the neighborhood"" was incomplete, which wouldn't surprise me...could be referring to having kids around again...I think of that area as being largely retirees.",0 +"My reply to Beckster was to dispute his claim of 1/2 million registering to vote on a single day was ridiculous and citing a Youtube video to support his statement was even more ridiculous. This was about voter registration not turnout. From the Website of Steve Simon, MN Secretary of State, between 2013 and June 2016 approx 51,000 new voters were registered. This does not include a slightly less #that updated their voter info. That 10x that number would register on a single day is a real stretch. + My statement about a herculean task was not meant to be derogatory but rather that you have set a lofty goal for yourself. Particularly with posters like the afore mentioned. I enjoy and generally with your posts. If you have better luck finding voter registration numbers for election day please let me know and if I'm wrong will delete my post.",0 +Tommy - by The Who.,0 +"I've got a better idea: How about Trudeau stand up for Canadian autoworkers, who are about to get slaughtered over the next four years?",0 +"""Blackmon had 203 hits, had scored 134 runs and racked up 373 total bases entering Monday’s game. The last center fielder to match those numbers? Yankees Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio, in 1937."" + +I love Charlie Blackmon. But if only he had had one of those hits last night....He did put the wood to that ball (in the ninth) but the Marlins first baseman made a great play. + +I'm sure they exist, but if stats emphasizing batting performance in clutch situations were to be emphasized, I'll bet the Rockies problems would be clearly illuminated. Of course, one big stat is RISP (runners in Scoring position. What about a similar statistic that also factors in the run differential at the time the AB and also perhaps, when in the game that it happens. That is ninth inning carried more weight than first.",0 +"This is fine exegesis of the ""render unto Caesar"" incident in Matthew. However, Mark and Luke also report the exchange. I think a composite of all three brings us closer to knowing exactly what transpired. In that light, you may consider minor alterations in your view. + +""If Jesus said, ""Pay,"" he implicitly acknowledged the legitimacy of the Roman occupation, pagan rule over God's people."" + +Many Church scholars since Eusebius say the question was designed to trap Jesus however he answered. This is wrong. His enemies knew Jesus would never endorse Caesar's tax, nor any tax collected by force or coercion. Luke's account is clear: the only answer his enemies expected was, ""No, don't pay!"" Then they could hand him over to Pilate for execution as a ""tax denier."" (IRS term) Indubitably, ""repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar,"" means give him nothing that isn't his. And what belongs to God also leaves nothing for Caesar. No wonder Rome's chief tax collector for Judea murdered him. (seeLK 23)",0 +"When I hear there are lectures on ""How to grow rich flipping real estate"" it is obvious to me that this section of the tax code needs attention, and it's not foreigners who are doing this but our own home grown Canadian scam artists.",0 +Rest in peace.,0 +"when there volt wont run in minus 10 c cold, they can watch us drive right on by!",0 +"IRT ""Consumer Advocate ignored activist"" +Perhaps the Consumer Advocate answers to Connie Lau and brother in law Jeffrey?",0 +I'd like to know at which bar he spent the money?,0 +But who is buying.,0 +If: Fuhs and Joe Smith handed you your hat. You got called out and were slam dunked. Reverting to childish ad hominem attacks is what losers do when confronted with facts.,0 +"If there was ever a crime report needing a mug shot, this was it.",0 +"Maybe someone can help me. I've seen all this back and forth, and people saying that we're running out of money. But on the PFD website, it seems to say that we're making money. So... what's going on?",0 +Unless you consider a Skor McFlurry a healthy menu offering this is a bad business move.,0 +"Just think...government power USED to be ""with the consent of the people"".",0 +"BC under the fiscal policies of Gordon Campbell has some of the lowest debt per capita in canada, despite weathering the 2008 meltdown. Subsequently BC has enjoyed 5 consecutive surplus budgets, increasing the credit rating and saved reserve monies BC will need in future, especially for health care. The NDP's plans will only run us into ruin like Ontario and many other provinces doing heavy spending, heavy borrowing and higher taxation. Finally, because the debt is low and taxes kept in check, BC now enjoys unemployment at a rate nearly half what it was under the NDP! People never had it so good in the province as they have today - fact. NDP will put at least a half million out of work, like they did before",0 +"In a ""perfect world"", that extra $13,000/yr would be added to your W2. Then the tax deduction transferred from employer to employee. +Or better yet, add the $13K to your paycheck, to be used to purchase insurance in the independent market.",0 +"Let's hope Mudiay isn't traded and becomes another Chauncey Billups. Coming into his own after several years, and winning titles. Steph Curry didn't light it up his first few years either. Not to say Mudiay will have a career like them, but it's too soon to give up. + +The trade with Portland was bad. No doubt.",0 +"Too many white men live in fear. They need their guns to feel safe. Other wise they are just equal to the rest of us. The nation was built on murder as much as democracy. The 2nd Amendment was design to support white supremacy. Like the Electoral College, they are both doing what they were designed to do. The original Constitution was never intended to benefit the rest of us.",0 +Nick it makes me truly sad that facts make you cry. If you were here I could pull you on the sled or push you not eh swing like I do for my grandkids when they are sad or in a bad mood.,0 +McDonald's advertises Canadian beef and no lie.,0 +"Can you prove that this fire was not caused by a local Donald Trump supporter? + +Policemen and firemen are often right wing conservatives. This could thus very easily be a right wing conspiracy. + +I find it most suspicious that this would just happen to take place at 2am, when everyone was asleep. That is just way too convenient, in my opinion.",0 +Was this your first draft?,0 +"From wiki: ITEP, as well as the associated Citizens for Tax Justice, has been characterized as liberal. + +There's a real shock.",0 +"Wikipedia defines a “Eugene chicken” as “laying GMO and Gluten Free eggs, sustainable and having a low carbon footprint.”",0 +See reply to comrade Guilbert above.,0 +"""I find protesting the flag and the national anthem offensive."" + +Trump's tweets and his followers' cries of offense ring hollow given the efforts to rid our society of its ""PC"" shackles. When you constantly disrespect others and then claim to be offended by someone simply kneeling during the national anthem, there is a disconnect. It's also just a form of identity politics that the alt right constantly rails against.",0 +"The freedom for all individuals, regardless of race, religion, etc. the opportunity to strive for the American dream, whatever it may be for each individual. No one is entitled to the so called dream without working for it.",0 +Everyone in Boulder is happy - with the exception of the Ramseys.,0 +"Not me man, not me.",0 +"The premise of the article is essentially artificial because it's impossible to discuss immigration without discussing the social, political and economic circumstances that have impacted immigration policy. In the West, immigration restrictions proliferated in tandem with industrialization, the rise of labour rights and, most importantly, the emergence of universal suffrage and the associated transformation of the role of the state. Is it surprising that people will vote to protect themselves against unrestricted competition, particularly when they're experiencing hardship or are anxious about the future? The very idea of citizenship focuses on the notion that membership has its privileges, one of which is the understanding that a primary purpose of the state is to promote and protect the interests of those living within its boundaries. This is the basis of the ""social contract"" that emerged following the Enlightenment. To believe otherwise is to fool yourself.",0 +"FS28: Read Flyguy's comment. I couldn't say it better myself. PS: I don't know where you live, nor care. You were the one that said you are not a resident.",0 +No sane person would want to be president.,0 +"Its an editorial....not reporting of news. You may disagree, but it is not ""fake news"".",0 +"I'm so happy to read their whale hunt was successful! I wish they could have gotten three more as I'm sure they are very yummy. From what I've read the more rare a species is, the better it tastes. Little known fact, whale blubber is also a natural aphrodisiac, better than endangered rhino horn or tiger meat.",0 +Religion has ALWAYS involved rituals.,0 +You do not believe some babies being born who otherwise might not have been is positive?,0 +"What a shame, the name calling and insulting. We have different opinions about budgets and rights. I see this as parents who want good things for their child. No shame in that. Play nice, please.",0 +"Completely irrelevent...as far as I know, there's no blood alcohol level limit for having a gun...something I hadn't thought about until your reply, and now won't be able to forget. +Thanks, sort of...",0 +"Interesting that you would accuse Marty of hubris...or thinking you know more than he does *lol* + +Here's a little something to consider.... +""There are some people so full of pride that they cannot subject themselves to anyone or suffer anyone to say what they really are. They want to be preferred to everyone, and they esteem themselves more learned and erudite than any other, and it seems to them they never need a teacher. + +Actually, such people are really extremely ignorant, but no one dares to tell them that, for they suppose themselves to be veritable marvels. Oh, God humbles such as these...."" +St. Francis de Sales",0 +"I completely agree. Criticizing the President, now, with the country at war, is unamerican.",0 +"Freedom of speech is being killed off in Canada. It's time for Canadians who believe in freedom of speech to consider emigrating to the United States of America. By electing Trump, Americans have guaranteed themselves freedom of speech for at least four years.",0 +"Trump knows he cannot bring manufacturing jobs back to the rust belt for a whole host of reasons like automation and the changing demands of the global economy. But he can certainly give his supporters a target, like immigrants and Muslims, to blame for all their problems and that is what he is doing. It is populist authoritarianism 101. + +The most important thing that we can do is keep protesting and make it uncomfortable as possible for the people who voted for Trump. Don't let them, especially suburbanites who voted because of the Supreme Court or they didn't like Hillary, ignore what is happening. Make sure they are reminded of people like the little refugee children who were harmed by Trump's orders.",0 +Comparing Imago Dei to the KKK is hateful. You have no proof to show that anything ever said in that congregation constitutes hate towards those they disagree with. Not a single shred.,0 +"Numbers don't lie. we do know a 50% increase has taken place without a buffer. you can only perceived or guest how many more may have wanted to come. Coming to Alaska and visiting the park is an expensive venture. A venture for more of the upper middle class and wealthy. I remember in 2010 when the buffer was open, there was a cry the ""sky is falling"" and tourism would cash in DNP. Guest that did not happen!",0 +They backed her because she's not Joe Miller. That's what she gave them.,0 +"I think he wants it for his CV ... ""Oversight of world's largest nuclear weapon hoard.""",0 +"Libya is largely a tribal society. Qadaffi was the only one who could keep it all together: keep everybody happy through compromise. + +Now that it's a democracy, or trying to be, the largest tribe will take power and oppress and discriminate against the lesser tribes. + +Britain gave Zimbabwe its parliamentary system of democracy. Result: President for Life Mugabe, because his tribe will always vote for their chief, and his' is the biggest tribe. + +Democracy by itself just means that the biggest block of voters can discriminate against a visible minority block. Republicanism gives people individual equal rights. But that isn't compatible in a tribal system. And we keep on destroying their societies in the expectation that Jeffersonian democracy will emerge. Something Einstein said about repeating the same mistake over and over again producing the same result (insanity).",0 +I want to correct an error in my post. The T shirt had Malcom X and Castro on it with the quote Like Minds Think Alike. Sorry I usually am better at fact checking. It still doesn't change the hypocrisy of someone protesting police violence wearing a T shirt with Castro on it.,0 +Who cares! All the issues we have here in Canada that need to be dealt with and all these comments about other countries. Maybe if we put some of this energy into Resolving our own issue might be of better use of your time!,0 +"The Republicans have begun using the phrase Deep State to demean the traditional separation of powers, rule of law, and the Bill of Rights. + +Trump has ignored Congress. He has not formally nominated many offices. We've known the name of the ambassador to Canada for some time, but only this week was her name put to the Senate. + +The president is not a dictator. The president presides. The Supreme Court, the House, and the Senate are all separate entities. And there's an independent civil service as well. + +If Newt thinks this interferes with the will of the people, so it should. The Constitution was designed to avoid Mob Rule. That's why the House is elected every two years and only a third of the Senate. That's why most of the president's appointments must have the advice and consent of the Senate. + +And that pesky Supreme Court is there to make sure the rights of the people aren't infringed because some populist lucked into the White House. Trump's contempt for Democracy will undo him.",0 +LOL!,0 +Good job!,0 +And its going away. LOL,0 +"So G&M, no mention of your false stories yesterday that immigration levels were going to be drastically increased today?",0 +"IMO the SCC decision in Jordan should be left untouched (at least for the time being). Unless governments have their feet held to the fire, they will continue the culture of complacency and underfunding the criminal justice system that create the delays. + +The underlying principle is simple and it should be bedrock in everyone's mind: if the Crown can't bring every charged person to trial within a reasonable time, it shouldn't charge in the first place. It has absolutely no right or justification to hang a criminal charge over someone's head indefinitely.",0 +"Spot on, Turner. As TD said of Mr. Bowlen, “He doesn’t get the credit, and a lot of it is because he didn’t want the credit."" In stark contrast to the media whore that jones was, is, and always will be. jerrah really believes that he is primarily responsible for the very dated successes of the cowboys. Mr. Bowlen has always understood its about the whole organization, but mostly about the players.",0 +He acted like it was Yalta when repeal passed the house. He's still on a reality show playing someone actually accomplished.,0 +"Well, it reduced my benefit (which is fine, we didn't need it? It went straight into kiddo's RESP anyways), so it went down for higher income families. +It also increased my sister's to the point where she was able to leave her abusive partner and rent a basement suite on her own. + +It might have some flaws, but I can think of two circumstances where it worked as intended.",0 +"You missed the point by 1000 miles. Better get back to your ""friends"" on Facebook!",0 +"With entitlement programs consuming 67% ($2.5 trillion) of the $3.9 trillion federal budget, even more important would be the percent of GDP that is spent on federal entitlement programs.",0 +"Mark, what about Bjorn Lomborg's critical analysis of the inefficiencies of ""climate change"" puffery? Billions wasted on the short-sighted ignorance of politicians like McGuinty, Butts, and Wynne - with nothing to show for it. Solar and wind are terribly inefficient on an industrial scale. Smug leftwing career activists fly around the world for a living and think buying carbon offsets makes any difference other than making them sleep better at night. Why do climate change activists ignore population growth in Africa and the Middle East? Perhaps because the UN's pious leaders (OIC for example) are hostile to the point of violence against contraception, but we can't talk about that, it's not politically correct. What about the positive externalities of ""global warming"" to Canada? Longer growing seasons, higher industrial productivity... crickets from activists, it's all doomsday apocalypse and negative hyperbole.",0 +But Alaska is a state. Reality: Try it sometime Trumperbelle.,0 +You rode that short bus hu??,0 +"I couldn't agree more about the taxes part of your post, mayconnie. Our religious institutions would be stronger if they paid taxes because they would become more outward looking and less concerned with worry that they might do something taxable. + +As for schools and hospitals, there is some work that can be done there and other work that is probably at the must-change-constitution-first stage. I am not sure why people ould want to go there. Better to operate creatively in the present moment. + +There is something about religions that are about how we ""be"" in the world. In history they have properly belonged to the poor because they have the potential to empower people who lack power, but power classes have tried to co-opt them. Right now, in the West, they are clubs that serve the wealthy. It needn't always be that way.",0 +The politicians like Junior are just as much to blame!,0 +If God were interested he would have intervened. God doesn't care.,0 +"A careful read of the Committee Report provides a lot of background to the many ways ranked ballots work, pro and con, and how they compare to what we currently use. It's a good report in that it provides a lot of depth to the various alternatives. It should be mandatory reading before commenting.",0 +"We will focus more on theft when you clean up your property, stop for stop signs, and put an actual roof on your airport heights home and not a tarp. It called neighborhood blight.",0 +i'm reading down the comments and get here and can't stop laughing - thank you... everybody.,0 +"You mean the god who won't allow you to wear mixed fiber clothes, demands that rebellious children be stoned to death, directs you to take the wife of a man you killed as a slave, won't allow anyone with a physical deformity approach the alter... that god? I see you failed to mention Christ in your rant. You know, the Christ that directs you to turn the other cheek, love your enemies, don't seek wealth, throughs the money-changers out of the church, give away your worldly possessions to those who ask... You don't sound like a Christian to me. Not sure why you are.",0 +"We elected Carter, and then forgot what a disaster liberals are. It will be a generation before another liberal is elected president",0 +"Taking the federal funds means supporting Trump's vision of a racist, authoritarian society that disrespects the courts and the rule of law, that ridicules journalism, that doesn't care about poor and marginalized people, and encourages staggering wealth inequality. All states that subscribe to that vision are kowtowing to Trump.",0 +"Really? Whether he acted within a distorted set of rules, his actions demonstrate a clear breach of ethics. By any definition of ethics, one cannot take part in decisions from which they can personally benefit. The fact that a finance minister would take advantage of such a cheap loophole in the conflict of interest rules is unbelievable. The fact that you or Trudeau would choose to defend him is also unbelievable.",0 +"Nor is Ms. Slade an economist. I find many Libertarians have had introductions to economics, but not the advanced studies that would enable them to understand by Stackelberg's ologopsonies are not free markets in spite of multiple ""competitors"" or why the tragedy of the commons requires government regulation of resources.",0 +Great idea! I was in California last week and saw this first hand. Seems to work very well.,0 +"I don't know, O77 . . . I kinda doubt that those officers are Bernie voters. + +OH! Silly me! I thought you meant the brutal tactics of our men and women in blue. + +Nevermind.",0 +"So much for ""inclusion"".",0 +Michigan is one of the states I have never been to.,0 +"Extortion is extortion no matter who is doing it. Once we accede to the concept of having to grease the hand of government and special interest groups to carry out business, we will be no better than communist China. We are simply encouraging corruption.",0 +"Thanks for your thoughtful and considerate reply. I don'y really need to ""read"" more about them and UHURU!!!!",0 +"Ironic that those who do not recognize the United Sates as the government of their ""sovereign territory"" and claim indigenous ownership seek protection from the Constitution they flaunt. Perhaps a close reading of the Fifth Amendment's Takings or Just Compensation Clause is in order.",0 +"Ah, the ""real folks"" argument! + +As in everyone who isn't just like me with my beliefs and attitudes and habits isn't a 'real' person and is thus a lesser being. + +Strut away!",0 +also hats off to Hunting and Nageak for being there with deWilde... that's what it takes on these situations we are all too familiar with: teamwork,0 +"Names?How about Nike and George Soros?So what?How about the EPA releasing 3 million gallons of toxic sludge into the Colorado River, now that's a big deal. You try paint some of us as not caring a bit about the environment. I will state again, we want clean air and clean water but not based on fear mongering. If someone or a company screws up, then fine and/or jail them. So far nobody at the EPA has paid any consequences,ZERO. +WEAN killed the sewer proposal in Clinton, tried to kill the church parking lot in Langley because of blackberry bushes. You kill projects by sucking down resources of those who want to improve things. Why?Because you are no-growthers&NIMBY's. +I'll remind my neighbor how horrible we are for the environment as we clean up the toxic mess left on our properties and pay for it's safe disposal by paint huffers, meth tweakers, heroin users, squatters. We'll think how horrible we are as we clean up old tires and appliances, once again paying for their safe disposal.",0 +"""it is important to continue to encourage families to be involved, to volunteer, to be the “squeaky wheel” and report on shoddy service and to participate in Family Council meetings."" + +Do you honestly think that this has not ALREADY been happening? Instances are being called in to a NON-RESPONSIVE govt entity. THAT'S what people need to be doing is LOGGING when they called and WHO they spoke with and WHAT they were told. Publish THAT info.",0 +Yup.,0 +Watching this will hit home hard with so many. Have we learned?,0 +"Trump is a paper tiger. All bluster and threats. No action. +If he actually punishes Alaska maybe our spineless senator, Ohio Dan, will finally stand up for us and withhold his support for other legislation Trump wants passed. That's how it works.",0 +see underoos right here is your morning jab. all tied up with the leafs ready to leap frog you,0 +"Apparently, Trump did pay what was required of him, as shown from the leaked 2005 taxes. + +Are you going to pay more than is legally required? + +Tax avoidance is prudent. Tax evasion is a crime.",0 +"The apparent issue of stiffling free speech on certain campuses should be a bigger concern. But wait, stiffling free speech fits well in the Liberal playbook.",0 +Too many people when times are bad is just as awful as too many people when times are good. There isn't a single reason CO needs to try to attract more people here...,0 +"It's pretty well-known in political circles that Comey has been toying with the idea of running for president one day, and involving himself in numerous political scandals was part of the strategy. He built up much more name recognition than any of the past directors in modern history, which is what you need to run for the big seat. Agency directors with huge name recognition can definitely run for POTUS (think GHWB), so Comey rolled the dice, pushed a little too hard and this time he lost. + +But don't go feeling sorry for Jim. He a month he'll be sitting on the boards of numerous defense and intelligence corporations, having gone from a low six-figure salary to a high-seven, and if he really plays his cards right and pens an expose tell-all on what he learned about Bill and Hillary, the mere advance on that bad boy is going to make an eight-figure man. + +When you fire an agency director you're truly doing him/her a favor. He'll be smiling on Fox News next week.",0 +"""The leading purveyor of uselessness was, of course, U.S. President Donald Trump. When compassion and solidarity should have been his priorities, he instead used lies to falsely accuse the mayor of London, who is Muslim, of being soft on Islamic extremism. And he seized on the killings to push pet agendas."" + +Trump is a huge problem, but let's not pretend this is not typical of the alt-right generally, including our own Reform Hater chickenhawks. These are the people we must also stand on guard against because they threaten who we are from their own outrageous perspectives.",0 +"Dan: +Another point I find amusing is he equates Trump with the government, when Trump hasn't even been elected to office yet. + + While I haven't been a Trump supporter, and still think he will be a huge mistake for the GOP, one that may take years to repair, he does seem to instill a lot of fear in the other side, and for that very reason alone, I am going to enjoy the show, it's been a hoot so far, and has all the earmarks of putting any SNL skit to shame.",0 +"Except it's not that simple. That science stuff gets in the way. Here's the simple counter-argument to your ""simple"" analysis: More access to birth control = much more sex = more failure of birth control = more abortions. +The actual complexity of the analysis is far greater given all of the uncontrolled variables (e.g., acceptance of single-motherhood, government funding of single moms, changing attitudes about sex) involved in any attempt to analyze the statistics on the subject.",0 +She was Zuma's nomination. Need one say more?,0 +"Please oh please tell me these are available online. The meme's from the millions of Canadians disillusioned with this government would be priceless. + +At least tell me I can get one of these made of my own image, for when I skip my taxpayer funded job to attend a play in New York. For $30,000. + +On the taxpayers dime.",0 +"Bubbles, + +Just so you know, both of my sons have passed away as young men because of their significant disabilities, so there is no ""I"" want my Medicaid. If you read the article, you would see that Medicaid funding provides employment supports for people with disabilities who want to have the opportunity to work. As a result $48 M in wages earned and less dependence upon government supports. Not looking for a handout, but a hand up!",0 +"Plus, as an added bonus, it relieves you, and people who believe like you, of any responsibility. If global warming is God's punishment for an evil Supreme Court decision, then ""good Christians"" don't have to do a thing except wait for God's giant vacuum cleaner to Rapture them into the clouds. +No need to be more energy-efficient or advocate for alternative fuels. That would defeat God's plan.",0 +"Evidence-based fact is the pinnacle of neutrality and those that attempt to criticize and obfuscate this truth, like John Ibbitson and Andrew Scheer, deserve unrelenting scorn.",0 +"And actually, to follow up on my question (does anyone remember ANY such opinion about comparable Canadian matters making it past an editor)... + +... well, ask yourself a second question, was the Canadian article in question sitting beneath a paraphrased version of today's actual headline, as in: + +""Will Liberal Party take long to make Canada less white?"" + +If that headline above an opinion piece makes you bristle, if that headline seems glaringly offensive, if you are feeling outrage against the words you see in print... + +... then ask yourself a third question: + +When it comes to opinion pieces, why is the Canadian media so comfortable hurling provocative and pungent spit-balls and molotov cocktails on issues of immigration and race IN AMERICA to provoke stark, uninhibited discussions about race and immigration matters in AMERICA... + +... but not comfortable using the same approach with immigration and race matters in Canada? + +It is totally bizarre!",0 +....look at Wynne's polling numbers! Your connection make little sense.,0 +Code enforcement is a joke in this county. Many of the egregious violators are politically connected and code enforcement won't touch them. Many violations involve the county's critical areas that can have an impact to many properties but again county won't touch them. Let's hope that one additional code enforcement officer gets hired and a fund created to abate these problems.,0 +Gene will be missed but so many of us carry her in our hearts that she will never be forgotten.,0 +"The ""head scarf"" is called a hijab. I'm interested to hear the full story here.",0 +"I actually think this is a good idea. It's time America stop viewing historical figures as one-dimensional heroes/villains, and understand the context of the time in which they lived. I am against the removal of the Confederate monuments, just as I think it's a bad idea to get rid of monuments to Union generals and soldiers--after all, some of them went on to the wars with the plains tribes. I wouldn't dream of demanding that a Native American tribe remove a monument to Crazy Horse simply because he killed a lot of settlers and cavalry troops. The tribes had many great leaders, who deserve recognition and a place in our history.",0 +"This article belongs in the general news section, not the business section...this is, essentially and importantly, a political story.",0 +"Ideally... +For the interstate highway system it would be all federal funding. +For state highways it would be all state funding. +For city streets it would be all city funding. + +But instead, we have this bad tendency to send a bunch of our taxpayers' money to the feds for laundering, and then have to go begging to them to get it back.",0 +"Had Sloter struggled against 3rd and 4th stringers you might have a case, but he looked just like he did at UNC...throwing strikes all over the field. Certainly he has a lot to learn, but given the chance he took full advantage. Give him credit where it's due.",0 +"Come 2018, I predict another Liberal majority for the simple fact that there are way too many people employed or otherwise dependent on the Liberals for their livelihood. + +It's utterly apparent that Ontario is heading the wrong direction but with so many people making their livelihood from government I don't see any chance this will change. + +If this is what it means to be progressive, I'll pass.",0 +Let's name it hurricane Walker.,0 +"Conway defending Trump's transition-team choices. ""You can't just appoint novices. You have to have people who know what they're doing."" + +Odd, that is the same reason some of us used in our reasoning to vote against Trump",0 +"Just say ""Napoleon""",0 +"What comment, it was only a piece of matter.",0 +"How is anonymous leaking of highly classified information ""taking their job seriously""? They're not protecting anyone by leaking that info. + +If these officials had any ethics or morals or a solid case, they wouldn't stay anonymous. They'd do the same thing Snowden did. + +This is just another hit job by the Deep State. They're going after Trump because he fired Comey. And the Fake News is going along with it. The fact they are so afraid of Trump proves that Trump is the right President at the right time.",0 +Totally freakin' agree!!!,0 +"Faith and science are intermingled everyday in the field of healthcare. From brain surgery to childbirth to cancer treatment to saving lives from accidents to intentional harm from criminal activity. Surgeons, nurses, orthopedists, cardiologists all do their humanly best with the skills and advancements and treatments and techniques and pharmaceuticals available. Once their job is done, faith, hope, patience, divine intervention is depended upon by most including the patient, the staff, and the specialists.",0 +"It's all very simple. They ordained Osweiler the heir-apparent to Manning. And then failed to do what was necessary to keep him here, thinking they could rely on an unproven second-year man or a rookie. It was all about ego--John Elway's. He was jilted, and wasn't going to stand for it.",0 +the usa has every moral right to change it's immigration rules any dam time they want regardless of circumstances. in case you missed it ISIS has said they will take advantage of lack us immigration laws to infiltrate into the usa. nothing is imaginary.,0 +"What about all the Obama officials like Eric Holder who used GOV planes for personal business? This is just more pile on by the left and Never Trumpers. + +Every day it is another nit pick against something this admin is doing or is not doing. Enough!",0 +"so, your argument is because you are little and Canada is insignificant, that we are entitled to do nothing?",0 +"Not apples and oranges at all. Regular programming on pay TV, even broadcast IS falling as my link shows. + +I've already explained this to you before but I'll do it again. Right off the bat you're admitting that up to 13% of NFL games can't be watched by cord cutters. We also need to take into account that Thursday games are atrocious in general, hurting ratings. Assuming all cord cutters have a good enough antenna to get games, that limits their options to at most two games for the morning and afternoon games but usually you only get one game when the local team game is on. So now we're down to at most a cord cutter can watch five of 16 games or 31% of games. + +""The...platform competition just doesn't exist for NFL"" I think you're wrong there too. People have been showing for years that they don't want to sit through three plus hour games in general and now there are multiple places you can go to get highlights. + +Nope, that doesn't explain any rating hits at all./s",0 +"how are they greatly affecting you, or the public? any solutions?",0 +"I understand the sentiment behind your column but Trudeau played it the only way he could. Found common ground, included Ivanka and didn't embarrass Trump. Yes we'd all have loved to see him land one on his nose but not the time or place.",0 +The Dems have Access Hollywood and grope victims. The Repubs have WikiLeaks and the FBI has found a missing device or new source.. Lets just call things even.,0 +"not opposed to industry - opposed to polluting industry ... closed containment won't offer foreign countries get-rich-quick deals but they will employ people and generate taxes ... remember how we used to use horse and buggies? well that was a big change when the internal combustion engine came around (and now the electric will replace that) but we can do this! we can change! we can adapt and learn to do things differently ... don't be without hope Ellis Ross, otherwise indigenous rights will continue to be violated (maybe that is why you were asked to do this interview?) and salmon will continue to ""collapse"" (remember the cod)",0 +"Of course, the fact that the 7 1/2 year sentence was mandatory under measure 11 had nothing to do with it, right? + +http://www.crimevictimsunited.org/measure11/measure11sentences.htm + +He only got the mandatory minimum. A longer sentence is sometimes given for especially deserving criminals.",0 +"All the more reason to follow the LEO's lawful instructions. + +And never mind that they were smoking pot in the car with a child, huh?",0 +"Current federal policy regarding lost lands of the nearest kinship group is not assimilation as it is mistakenly practiced by the state agency administering this federal law, badly. It is self determination. Meaning native Hawaiian commerce as well as housing. It doesn't mean the state legislature gets to determine return of the native nearest kinship group to the lost land as per the intent of Congress. The SA persists in using the wrong language, capital ""N"" Native Hawaiian when the federal law applies only to native Hawaiians, as defined 50-100. A capital N is defined as anyone having ancestry. It is an unconstitutional interpretation of the original law based on that it is the same definition used by KSBE to decide who to permit to apply for entry to the school. The Hawaiian part of the capital N is a racial group according to Rice and federal funds cannot be allocated by Congress for it. Land not homes was the intent of congress. It is not a state law.",0 +"The GM just recently had an analysis from Stats Can showing where the big salaries are in Canada, and not surprisingly it is in the oil and gas sector in the west. When our economy started to rebound earlier this year , it was due in large part to the resource sector. The huge transfer payments that Quebec gets some where past $11B, comes the oil and gas rich west, which explains their current anger. We have resources which have allowed us to be the envy of countries around the world, and our strategy is to put as many obstacles in the way as possible to extract these resources. Perhaps oil is on the way out and new technologies will replace it, then all the more reason to make the money while you can. If you were holding a stock that if sold now would generate substantial profit, and you knew that eventually it would be worth little, why would you then hang on to that stock. That seems to be the current position, oil is going to replaced so lets leave the money in the ground.",0 +"I posted here few hours ago with unacceptable words, sorry. But I think you (Tom Rogan and others) are worthy of these words. ""Brutality or violence "" are the attributes Washington's policy. It is you who stick your nose with your interests, and your interests are everywhere in the world, but if there are anybody with own interests then he have ask permission in Washington. BUT THIS TIMES ARE ENDED, it's very sad news for you, but it's REAL. We are very loving you so much, and will be love next !!!!",0 +"Part 11 of 12 +F. Panders to the loudest voice of the mob. +Jules Bailey heard a very small group of disruptive know-nothing attention seekers who noisily demanded rent control. Unable to resist the call to pander, Jules Bailey, who had never as a legislator nor county commissioner sponsored or publicly called for a bill to change Oregon law to allow rent control, had a miraculous epiphany revealing his newly found belief in rent control. Again, no facts nor data nor research nor defensible reasoned arguments nor public debate were used in the commission of this craven capitulation. + +Bailey said he would lobby legislators for rent control. Not a single member of the Oregon Legislature has come forward to support Bailey’s pandering proposal for Rent Control. + + +Richard Ellmyer +Portland voter and citizen activist since 1975",0 +"I think he may be referring to the fact that Hillside doesn't get patrolled and has minimal emergency services. Though that was over 10 years ago since I lived up there.... Or he really meant it, which is an ignorant thing to say. who knows.",0 +"ROTN: Hey, I didn't realize I had a stalker. Thanks for the compliment but I'm already taken.",0 +"The thing is, they don't care.",0 +I accidentally fired a Glock also. Nobody's fault but mine but I don't see it as a safe weapon.,0 +"Many here recognize the value of open discussions, so naturally it is disappointing to see someone attempting to mobilize posters to attack another poster, merely because the poster disagrees with the organizer's positions. One cannot help but be surprised the poster in question has thrown out the oft-used threat of going to the ""CC"" and seek censorship...sigh....but really, how many are sick of the snarky, nasty, harassing...etc....postings from well, you know who? Interesting how those with a frequently demonstrated lack of regard for the truth are so often quick to question the truthfulness of others...",0 +"Nixon and Reagan are turning over in their graves. An American presidential candidate who praises a Communist strongman, a man who turned back the clock of democracy? A man who has had journalists and opponents murdered? And who has invaded and massacred many Ukrainians? +One wonders what is keeping GHWB silent. Is he such a slave to party loyalty that he puts it ahead of his country? +Trump is walking a tightrope of villainy and betrayal of his country. Would anyone reading this trust this man to keep secrets shared with him by the CIA (part of candidate security briefings)? Imagine this scenario, ""Hey, Vlad, get me those emails and I'll tell you some juicy security facts!"" +Unbelievable that Republicans have fallen so low. When one thought W was the nadir, the bar keeps getting lower and lower.",0 +Lies.,0 +"All employers should be fair and treat people with dignity, male, female, that just does not bother me in the slightest, never has.",0 +"Is anyone in the Legislature watching market pricing for higher education and examining how this will affect future UAA and UAF enrollment (and revenues)? As a father with 4 kids who will enter the higher education somewhere within the next 7 years, cutting out the performance scholarship, adding on a 10-15% tuition hike and taking into account higher costs for room/board and everything else in Alaska.... UAA and UAF don't look very competitive. I know we have a fiscal gap, but fortunately unlike most states, we do have many options to address it (and oil prices will not stay where they are in the longer term). The cuts the Legislature is contemplating look to me like cutting a quarter now to lose a $1 in the future, through declining enrollment. Like it or not, running a university is a business, and a business can't cut it's way to prosperity.",0 +"Canada's Climate Change Policies under the Federal Liberals (as near as I can tell.) + +Let's kill the Kyoto Accord.... Yea, Canada ! + +Let's build export pipelines to send tarsands to China.... Yea, Canada ! + +Let's tar and feather a NDP/Green from BC for not voting for Crusty.... Yea, Canada ! + +Let's blame Donnie for withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement.... + +Booooooooooo, Donald !",0 +"""What is wrong with the Republicans that they don't quietly replace him."" + +There's no quiet way to do it. Impeachment is very noisy and painful. It's a kind of legal, bloodless regicide.",0 +"in his own mind, trump IS god. never wrong. NEVER - even when he apologizes for being ""inaccurate"" it's always not his doing, or he's not responsible for the mess and clean up. his stance on Puerto Rico is just short of obscene. + in his mind, he is king solomon AND adonis, zeus,, apollo, hermes. + in actuality, he's more the war monger ares, the crazy and unstable dionysus, and mostly chaos ... (wiki) ""The personification of nothingness from which all of existence sprang. Depicted as a void."" sounds about right ...what kind of existence can come from that? + in truth, he is no god and most like nero, who golfs while the world is lurching, starving and doing unspeakable things to one another. + Our ""King"" has no clothes, he is so morally corrupt, he has virtually nothing",0 +Businesses need to be able to run on their own or not BE in business.,0 +"Koncerned, I will have to not agree with you. Having been raised on the tinned delight, to the point having that one year for Thanksgiving because Turkey was out of reach economically. It was the greatest ever! Mom fixed it with a few slices of canned Pineapple, and some cloves and we dined like royalty! It is one of my go to meals, breakfast, lunch or dinner. Gotta love the Spam mystery meat special.",0 +"Although your assumption about not reading the story is inaccurate, your suggestion to restrict the Constitutional Right to Free Speech based on flawed conditions seems so Unamerican, doesn't it?",0 +"It's both government and companies. + +I photographed a derailed RTD Light Rail Train one block from where I got hit by an RTD Light Rail Train that ran a red light. + +Please Google: Denver Light Rail Train / Ambulance Collision / Derailment",0 +These greedy home owners should donate their homes to the homeless instead of selling them for a profit. It's unconscionable! Next thing you know they will want to keep the money they earned instead of giving it to the government to take care of all the unfortunate people in the world!,0 +A Steely Dan reference hidden in there.....,0 +"The state budget is 44% smaller than it was two years ago. The inflation argument held water back then, but no longer.",0 +"If ever there was an article that should have been vetted by a farmer, this is it. While interesting and well-written in general, a farmer see the holes, such as. ""Josh Proctor tended the rows of tiny shoots poking from his cornfield at all hours of the early summer night, picking his way through the dark to check on irrigation channels easily choked by trash and weeds in a season of unusually abundant rainfall."" One doesn't irrigate tiny shoots of corn with gravity flow irrigation. The corn has to be tall enough to not drown. Then there is this, which even a city person should have thought through: ""He had spent the winter using borrowed tractors to plant corn, alfalfa and wheat on about 300 acres."" You don't plant crops in the winter in Colorado. I do thank the writer for trying to get the word out. Just a little more attention to detail would have helped.",0 +Outta sight man!,0 +And most people don't even remember which president got that done. We should have cut our losses right then and there.,0 +"Adult supervision like Gerry ""death by a 1,000 cold cuts"" Ritz? + +You can't possibly miss Harper' cast of half witz. + +Freeland's doing just fine and the Liberals have been very diplomatic with a very difficult situation.",0 +Are you talking about carbon tax? Like BC has had for the past ten years.,0 +No income tax unless based on gross earnings so everyone pays instead of only half of the people.,0 +I know you but what am I,0 +"Party at Chis's place, bring your own tepee.",0 +"If the legal speed limit is 100 km/hr and I am doing the legal speed limit, which no one is supposed to exceed, why does it matter what lane I am in? No one should be overtaking me. My brother drives in the left lane all of the time at the legal speed limit and no one ever passes him. He thinks it is because most people are law abiding, I believe it is because of the RCMP markings on his cruiser. I guess we will have to agree to disagree.",0 +"Yes, we had the # of days of remission set out too; but the holy sisters never ceased to remind us the 117 days or so from a measly ""Confiteor,"" were not even a drop in the bucket considering the hundreds of thousands of years we were going to spend there.",0 +OK snowflake.,0 +"And you go back to one of your default positions; anyone who disagrees with you should quit commenting, go to another State or go to another country. + +Since there are so many more of them and only one of you, the simplest 'solution' would be for you to self-deport. + +Your problem is not his 'groveling'; it is that he is right and you are wrong!",0 +"Its too bad this paper (and others) did not inform Ontarians 10 years ago where this was all headed, some people knew, but only the financially literate ones. It was left to the Working Families Coalition to tell the story about how scary the PC's were. The most important election on Ontario's history was the election between McGuinty and Tory, and Tory screwed it up by promising to fund religious schools, which McGuinty played up to the max (you don't want religious schools, do you... hint hint). I held my nose and voted Tory. Smitherman and the Green Energy Act soon followed. Ontario is now circling the drain. Thanks a lot, liberals.",0 +"@rollandx I think you are failing to differentiate between dictators and non-theist. Dictators don't like competition in the telling you what to think department, that is why they abolish religion. The dictator wasn't put in power by these evil atheists you speak of, they took power. There have been many dictators in communism, socialism, and capitalism. All of these non-religious societies suffered not because of lack of religion, but because of enforced totalitarianism. Non-theists view religion as cancer of the mind; it keeps growing and extending its self from past generations. Some are able to free themselves of it, but many aren't so lucky.",0 +Let's put in our thinking caps: UAE and Turkey are in principle not enemies. We've needed Turkey's airspace.,0 +Just in time for Halloween; a mask is a must.,0 +Ultimately this play on 'evil' small business owners (tax cheats) has really backfired against the rich entitled liberal leaders. Looks good on them. They should be ashamed of themselves and embarrassed. The went about this the wrong way. Canadians do not appreciate being bullied.,0 +"Hillary Clinton didn't ""sign off"" on transfer of any uranium to Russia; what she did was approve the sale of private mineral rights to an international mining consortium in Canada, which Russia subsequently bought from the Canadians. This makes no difference because yellowcake, the uranium ore in question, can't be sold to anyone outside the US without state department permission. Furthermore, as Twyford should be aware, Russia and the US have traded yellowcake and uranium back and forth legally for years. This deal was primarily a propaganda core for Putin. Given sanctions, Putin likely won't get any of that ore. + +James Comey is no longer an employee of the US government. + +The FBI got Clinton's emails from two sources. Nothing that was found merited recommending charges by the Justice Dept. + +In what way do these half-baked conspiracy fantasies merit publication in anything other than a trash tabloid?",0 +"I strongly disagree with the conclusion of this article. +I wonder who I would have been if I had been born in the time of Deady-Dunn. All about would have been signs and attitudes that said that one belonged if one hated Native Americans and non-whites. Odds are I would have been a Klan member, and would have laughed at the most horrible of racist jokes. +Today, I am grateful that I live in a culture that doesn't allow public agencies or officials racist behaviors. It has allowed me to think and grow and expand my thinking to include all who are different as fellow humans. Change happens when children aren't bombarded with images and pressures to remain ignorant and racist. +It would be better if the names of Deady-Dunn were taken off the buildings, and the names of slaveholders like Washington and Madison were taken off all federal buildings. It has to do with the non-verbal learning that children undergo...they don't need to pick up a hint that racism is ok. +Hugh Massengill, Eugene",0 +"Instead of kicking a politician who's already down and on his way out, CB should watch for those hands are still in the cookie jar and abusing their positions as we speak. There's nothing new Billy Kenoi was caught doing that wasn't already done by other politicians before. This state has a history of corrupt politicians using their positions for personal gain, just Billy was caught this time. He's not the first nor will he be the last!",0 +Voiding your bladder into the wind.... Another giant AK pork barrel project... Shan't we ever learn???,0 +More like she can have freedom of speech but I cannot not.,0 +"Called it yesterday. Kendro is the best candidate. He's a very active person ,""boots on the ground"" type of guy. Even when he was Major of different departments, he was always at major scenes whether crime scenes or legislative issues. He should be Chief.",0 +"Good points. +""...to what extent is practicing one's religion parallel to a game?"" I would suggest that it has value rather as metaphor, if only because the ""difference"" is or should be so clear that the lessons are or should be obvious. Fact is, some, actually treat life as a game and ""rules"" are tools, weapons, weaknesses even. +I see the article more about how one approaches rules rather than their source or of questioning them. For example, does the ""legitimate authority"" own them, as in umpire or referee. One could go a bit further with the more recent introduction of ""challenges"" and ""replays"" that suggest that ""arbiters"" of rules and authorities are indeed accountable - under certain conditions, of course . +I think ""we"" have a problem. Self-appointed intellectuals tend to begin with lofty concepts and pseudo commentaries and fail to recognize the real-life sources of learning of fact, principle, reason and conclusion, not to forget collegial discussion. Seems ""edict"" suffices.",0 +Guess that depends on whether I consistently commit minor crimes.,0 +Thank you for the enlightment.,0 +"Helluva job, Nick...but always watch yer six in this town...",0 +Free preschool for needy kids.,0 +"Is corruption ever identified during any govt administration? +Are you going to deny tammeny hall? +How come pena was a middle class average guy before being mayor, and worth a half billion after +Think about it. Or close your eyes and go back to sleep",0 +"""...and a new bill that would combine several separate bills by Walker to institute a personal income tax and increase taxes on consumption and natural resource extraction."" + +What exactly do they mean by a consumption tax? A sales tax?",0 +". + +SteveBoy writes: + +""BTW, how do you like Jr's broken promises"" + +-- + +Tell us why, when backed into a corner on Trump, you immediately deflect to ""Jr""? + +Weak.",0 +"Dear alaska: even though you are stone broke, keep paying for my pet social program no matter what. Just print more money and make me happy. +Signed. A 3 month alaskan.",0 +Keep on spinning in circles. It gets you nowhere.,0 +"Pot and Tobacco two quite different products, and different results by the Body!",0 +Also to Michael: Gary is correct.,0 +"British newspapers are outraged over his firing, and are saying that a white woman accused Halls of being a racist, after overhearing him privately joke with an African American friend of his: the famous singer Reginald Mobley. Mobley himself, made no complaint at all. + +What a terrifying environment exists at the U of O. Sounds just as frightening as the world described in the novel 1984 + +Our country appears to have gone insane since the Charlottesville protests. The hysteria of 1692 Salem, Massachusetts has returned to our nation. + + http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/09/british-conductor-sacked-us-music-festival-joke-labelled-racist/ + +.",0 +"I kinda like that old Pointers song. Something about ""a slow man with a slow hand"". + +http://www.metrolyrics.com/slow-hand-lyrics-pointer-sisters.html",0 +"LOL, one born everyday, consider my response outside of the civil comments allowance. Please go away had I wanted your output I would have flushed the toilet",0 +"Its' all about the hair I tell ya. + +Kim, Trudeau, Trump, even Macron and his $10,000 per month stylist.... + +Good, bad, stylish, unbelievable, its' all about the hair! + +Kim on the other hand, has elevated things to a Steve Jobs/Zuckerberg level of ""mono-style"" with the suits. Yes the suits! + +They are the most - the collar-less shirt jackets and matching pants...I am thinking of cleaning out my closet, and sending to Pyongyang for oh, 20 or so identical midnight navy outfits. Get my tailor to fit them properly, and I will be stylin'",0 +It was pretty obvious Nebraska will do well at home this season.,0 +"An apt description of the status quo and its' failings. Personally I would not call it an education, but rather indoctrination. And personally I'd like to see the curriculum changed. How about you? You do appear to have a handle on the limitations of the present system, but I don't picture you reaching for the golden ring of a real education. Maybe teach critical thinking and rhetoric, then look at content and issues through those lenses.....just for a start. What do you think? Or should we just roll over and accept the pathetic status quo?",0 +"The end results are telling of the personalities involved. ""Normal"" people don't spit their beverage on other people. Discerning teenage girls with wisdom and commonsense don't approach 51-year-old men on a street corner and initiate conversations that culminate in physical assault. + +You're assuming that Mr. Naval was the only ""foul name(s)"" calling individual in this scenario. You're assuming that these little ladies are pristine and fine citizens...that they've incurred no culpability in the confrontation, that they're the victims...yet, I ask you again...has Mr. Naval every been charged with a similar incident in the past? + +Witnesses claim that Mr. Naval has been frequenting this area in protest for quite some time; therefore, if he is predisposed to confrontation, surly such a predisposition would have manifest before now...especially considering the ""innocent"" victims are two young pristine PA residents who are obviously cultured and kind ladies. Yes? + +Rick",0 +The gas tax in Eugene did not go towards the roads. It was determine that it was not enough and went elsewhere. This was reported in the paper.,0 +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.,0 +"so i am an investor and build a condo building and decide to give first chances to sell my units to those who regularly buy etc,, its NONE of the governments business!!!",0 +"""independent outside parties"" lol.",0 +"Yikes...for a few minutes I thought you were going to pull another ""lost cause"" out of a hat... +Ackman is certainly not starving to death...but VRX shareholders might still move from cat food to shoe leather.",0 +Thank you.,0 +The good people at crisis pregnancy centers and the support organizations for young mothers and their children certainly do.,0 +"How the life crushing gears of family law were gonna come down on him,,,like Darren Mack, OJ, Ramon Salcedo, Robert Blake etc",0 +"'till his dying breath as President Obama continued doing what he has done for the past eight years, sow the seeds of divisiveness and hatred, all in the name of tolerance and inclusiveness, of course.",0 +"He says its so easy, .... to make 5-15% a month which is really 60-180% a year. Easy in a raging market perhaps and what so called gurus predict to suck people in. (they disappear during bear market) AND his 4 mentioned are sooo risky, APPL too as it is priced to perfection. 12% is fairly easy per annum but 6% more likely if you want to invest successfully. This is not attractive to the get rich quick crowd though.",0 +Are you hearing voices? Because I did NOT say that.,0 +"""a wall that americans will fund and mexico will pay for in tarrifs"" + +I'll say it again and maybe it'll finally sink into the heads of Trumpettes... + +Mexico won't pay the tariffs. US consumers will. Full stop. Clean and simple. Can you understand that? + +Try and keep up... + +US gov't applies 20% tariff to washing machines manufactured in Mexico. + +Therefore, manufacturer of washing machine pays 20% extra to get it across the border. + +Therefore, manufacturer of washing machine raises price of washing machine by 20% to cover extra costs. + +Trump brags that the Mexicans are paying for his wall. Trump supporters dance in the street. Then run out and pay 20% more for a washing machine. + +Mexican gov't shrugs and has a shot of tequila.",0 +"I'd go one step further. Maybe it's time for small businesses, farmers and professionals to go on strike.",0 +"Bloomberg or the NYT had an interview with Trumps 'Art if the deal' co-writer + +He believes things are getting desperate around Trump, as 'he has started to yell at Jarrod' + +Sounds like this is not good for the Butts/Trudeau government or its strategy",0 +"Could not agree more. If the left didn't have ""double standards"", they wouldn't have standards at all. + I would hope the Herald would endorse the very common sense abhorrence of hate, intolerance and more importantly, violent acts, from either side. That is the only 'correct' position to have, that I can see.",0 +"This is great if you are 75 years old and set your thermostat at 24C in the winter and 20C in the summer or the finance companies that will make plenty of interest off this. But if you are young or less luxurious with your thermal comforts, you lose.",0 +"For one that our history is complex, messy and full of imperfect figures that cannot simply and crudely be judged on different standards from a different future century. My point is if we do, by the same standard the Democratic party should be dissolved.",0 +"Actually, it is a pretty good yardstick to judge the objectivity of the paper. That's not to say the NYT has never been caught up in biased reporting. Just look back on how biased their reporting was when cooperating with the Bush Administration and the breathless but overplayed articles on WMD that helped pave the way for the disastrous Iraq invasion. That was some bis we could have done without.",0 +"I argue that the ACA was never INTENDED to be the solution. +It was a clumsy compromise between free market principles and universal health insurance. +But it had to be that way to take the first step towards the goal that's been put forth by presidents from Truman to Nixon to Clinton to Obama and now trump/mcconnell/ryan. +Which plan covers the most people, most effectively? +Which plans enriches the wealthy at the expense of everyone else? +We're not home yet.",0 +"If emotion plays no valid part in any decision, then we don't need national parks, national monuments, or scenic overlooks, or anything else that exists only because we 'love' it. Reduce everything to numbers and dollars. No thanks. That's not how my America works- not until now, anyway. + +The horses aren't starving. MOST of the herds are just fine. Fit and fat. Do some research and you'll see the pics of the horses now being gathered. Not a skinny one in the bunch- and the bunch is made up of thousands of horses. The 'starving horse' routine if pure propaganda. + +There are other solutions that work, and are more desirable in every single way than mass shootings or slaughter of thousands of perfectly fine horses.",0 +"The settlement amount seems odd but the US forces should not have expected otherwise from Omar Khadr. The US forces (along with Canadian and British) are an occupying force in a land that is not their own. Thus, it is not surprising that the locals resist. The British, Soviets, among other groups tried to occupy and conquer Afghanistan for hundreds of years. The locals fought invaders then and they will continue to do so now, if anyone undertsands history. Soldiers went to Afghanistan as soldiers, not civilians, armed, and aware of the soldiers's lot. Had the soldiers invaded south Ireland, Ukraine, or Russia, it would not be surprising to encounter resistance. The issue with Khadr is that he is of Arab origin and an Islamist, our 'villain du jour'. The Geneva conventions apply to all, not just Europeans or those of European origin. Afghanistan is an example of failed foreign policy, a proxy state used to fight Soviets and abandoned when they served their purpose. Reap what you sow.",0 +@thats that then. And exactly which books have you read that were based on Current Oil tax and production compared to past tax and production based on the effects of SB-21.. Must have missed tho books,0 +"Work Farce: + +Your point regarding the need to be aware of the costs and consequences of the First World War is valid. However, you generalize to the point of absurdity when you make a statement such as ""that Germany was immediately determined to wage a war of revenge (WWII)."" + +What is ignored is twenty years of German domestic politics and developments in international affairs, all of which could have produced a much different outcome. Decisions made in Berlin, London, Paris, Moscow, Washington, Rome, and all the other major seats of power - including Geneva, home of the League of Nations , and New York, centre of world finances - all had a bearing on how the world shaped itself after the treaties were concluded in 1919. + +At first glance, history appears to be written by the victors. Look deeper and you will find that there is a chorus of voices, both nuanced and bombastic, on such subjects. Expect more as we approach the centenary. + +I'm a trained historian, but only one voice.",0 +HRC lost to certain degree because of the false guidance of Robbie Mook.,0 +"""By denying god, they thi...."" + +As soon as evidence shows up that suggests the gods exist, atheists will stop ""denying"" that the gods exist. It's been at least one million years since humans started believing the gods exist---- just how much longer must we wait for evidence showing the gods exist?",0 +"I guess English Canada has found its champion! + +""I like him cause he say's it the way it is"". + +Where have I heard this one before? And all of this whilst your government has just passed a bill limiting free speech in the case of anti-muslim discrimination. I guess anti-québec discrimination is A-Ok, though. The same as it's always been to be perfectly fair.",0 +"Really? ""the indigenous people in Canada traded with the colonists and adopted and appropriated many of the ways of the colonists. Was that wrong?"" + +Is this a serious question? Is that all there is to the history of colonialism in Canada, 'trading'?",0 +"Good info, thanks. Kaiser needs to step aside. + +Can it be willed?",0 +LAnce Wilson: The Washington Post released this story. ADN just wisely reprinted it,0 +"This government is on autopilot ... is it going to simply coast for 4 years? No big initiatives and no follow-through on campaign promises. +Democratic reform? Nope +Cannabis Legalization? Backburner +Infrastructure? Nope +Tax reform? Nope +More ethical government? Neutral + +How does the middle class benefit? Who knows.",0 +"Funny Timmy..... + +I wonder why the US Military hasn't been able to stop ISIS, who are largely armed with rifles, with their fancy Hellfire Missiles? + +Could it be that you know as much about Military Matters as you know about history or the Constitution? + +Technical Weapons have NEVER won a war by themselves. Yes, yes, we dropped two nukes on Japan, but it has always been Boots on Soil (my men with rifles) that ultimately decide the issue. + +That is why the Founding Fathers gave us the Second Amendment.",0 +"Nice story, Charles. Thank you.",0 +"Good one, muckamuck. The little guy/gal is getting sillier by the minute. Must be all the Kool-aid.",0 +"As soon as the next Wikileaks article and leaked DNC scandal of lying, cheating, and criminal activity surfaces, she'll be down again. What's your point, here?",0 +"""40 years ago I read an article..."" + +It must be entirely true then, because no medical advancements whatsoever have been made in the past 40 years.",0 +"During the time Lee had the Pig War Museum on Tucker & put her play on there, a couple of tourists came in to the store where I work in town. They had wandered into the museum & were aghast to find themselves locked in & unable to leave. Lee had locked the door behind them & refused to unlock it until they'd watched her play.",0 +"with this type of leadership at mayor, writing a report 4HS, developing a social network for homeless bums + +many people including my family and I will intentionally leave after having intentionally moved to Eugene + +this mayor is intentionally encouraging people to live on our streets, spew human waste and trash in our public parks, and everywhere else + +more bums will intentionally be bums here and unless your family has a doctor in it, why would you intentionally move here?? + +we need folks to move here that are economic drivers, have educations, and support our tax base...I see none of that happening with this lack of leadership at mayor and city council...what a bunch bums themselves.....when you can't do anything else, run for office, just look at Ward 1",0 +"Mandering, roger that! At 68 years old, I'm STILL a recovering catholic and will be be until I croak.",0 +"The term ""orthodox"" is just as biased as 'conservative'. Are they a cult---like ""orthodox Jews"" are?. The term ""heterodox"" implies that 'anything goes'---which is not necessarily what liberals believe. Liberals are not arguing with what is stated in the Nicene Creed---which defines the basics of what we as Christians believe. + + +In the 'marriage/family life teachings' of the official church since the 1930's, it is both the 'manner' and 'area' that liberals oppose---most of which are focused solely 'below the belt'. +And it is the fact that those who 'lay down the law' are 'professional eunuchs' whose only REAL experience of married life was when they were children still living at home before going to the Junior Seminary at age 13/14. Most of these cardinals have no idea how to even approach a woman as an equal [as in married life].",0 +"darn right, if you love suburban sprawl you'll love this initiative!",0 +A half wit?,0 +Just crazy! I'm glad some realize they will b out when their election comes..most don't seem to care in the senate..glad my rep hears us!! WeThePPL will remember this issue come NOV! Refusal to cut spending but give run around excuses for taking the PFD..smh,0 +Trump's racist rhetoric is making these creatures come out from under their rocks.,0 +"At a campaign event in Virginia on Tuesday, Trump accepted a Purple Heart from a veteran in the audience. + +“Something very nice just happened to me. A man came up to me and he handed me his Purple Heart,” Trump said. “I said to him, is that the real one, or is that a copy? He said, ‘That’s my real Purple Heart. I have such confidence in you.’ And I said, ‘Man, that’s big stuff.’” + +“I always wanted to get the Purple Heart,” Trump continued. “This was much easier.” + +Another day, another Donald. Breathe, lie, breathe. + +By this point, the verdict is in—Trump is the most disastrous major party candidate in modern history. There are serious concerns being expressed about his mental state; this is unprecedented in my lifetime. + +To those who continue to try to mask the stench of this vile blowhard by equating him in any way with his opponent: phone a friend, buy a vowel. You lack the ability to distinguish between politics and pathology. This isn’t a referendum on Trump anymore, but on you.",0 +"Police Commission - another city office that really lacks introspection. Silvert is doing the job he's paid to do. Applaud!! Kealohas and supporters need to take a lesson. This, another Grube digital guide to an unfolding, long, drawn out, now made for Mangieri TV sitcom.",0 +"God is the absolute Good, it is therefore impossible for Him to be potentially evil. +'Choice' was your word not mine, I would have used the word 'will'.",0 +"When it comes to trash removal, it is city policy to ""Double Tax"" all those living in Condos, Townhouses, and apartments not served by city trash service. + +Everyone pays the same property tax yet those not served by the city are hit with another tax. City willfully charges a ""Tipping Fee"" on the private companies hauling away resident's trash to the landfill. Why? + +City has endless shibai excuses for the tipping fee. Suffice it to say there is no need for it. Just another in an endless example of the utter incompetence of the city's bureaucracy, greed of elected bureaucrats for funds to cover their special interest projects.",0 +"Clean shirt, new shoes +And I don't know where I am goin' to. +Silk suit, black tie, +I don't need a reason why. + +They come runnin' just as fast as they can +'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man.................",0 +"President Trump did try to repeal and replace but was shot down without enough votes. Democrats would not get behind him as expected so they still have the plan that they created and shoved down our throats. If you're not happy with it you can thank former President Obama and the Democratic party that created it and forced it upon us before anyone even knew what was in it. +it will now become the dysfunctional behemoth it was destined to become and continue to be a drain the working people of America as planned.",0 +"Don't get stuck on Soros, he's not a 'lone wolf' himself. Singer and Kapor have tipped their hands as well. We're all the rest of the school caught in the middle of a slugfest between the nation's football and basketball teams, and the coaches and principals that give them their blessings.",0 +"If people wrote and commented less dramatically about SA's history there would possibly be less hysteria in the country and people could get on with pulling the country straight. + +“violence, after all, was part and parcel of centuries of white domination – and despite the country’s relatively peaceful transition, violence was also crucial to overthrowing apartheid”. + +""Centuries of white domination"" - always amuses me. The Great Trek into the bulk of South Africa started in 1835 about 180 years ago. + +There were wars between both invading parties - the Blacks from the North and the Whites from the South but no huge massacres as happened in other parts of the world. + +To blame the increasing crime rate today on Apartheid is purely blame shifting. The ANC mismanagement of the economy is making people poorer. Apartheid lasted for about 40 years (1950-90). The ANC has had power for the last 22 (1995 - 2017) years. That is where the blame for the current situation lies.",0 +"""It simply does not matter what Bevirt or anyone else thinks about the project."" + +This is not only incorrect, it's the sort of argument that people should be cautious making. Mr Hargreaves might not be bothered by this particular project, but it's entirely possible that a different, equally legal, project could come around that is less acceptable to him. + +We have a right to speak out about what is happening in our communities, and we have a right to petition the government with our grievances. The opinions of the citizenry must matter. To argue otherwise is to argue for tyranny. + +I expect that Mr. Hargreaves agrees with this, as he took the time and effort to express his own opinion. He wouldn't have done that if he thought it didn't matter.",0 +"Couldn't she keep her knees together for the photo, at least?",0 +"Thank you, Tim. This, to me, is pure optics and is a typical socialist ploy to be perceived as gauging the nasty, rich business folk whilst helping out the average Joe. For which brownie points for Trudeau but for the average Joe nothing ultimately in it for them. + +I currently do a lot of business in the US and it is growing. I have been contemplating moving my business there for a number of reasons (most for practical purposes) but proposals such as this just add motivation for me to get out before I have nothing left. All because I work for myself and risk everything but am buried in red tape and more seems to be coming. The US is just so much more business friendly.",0 +"Not at all confusing. McCain knew very well that this would surface and he could end this repeal effort. So, he voted for debate and then when this came up, because it was addressing the house version, he voted to end it. He is nothing if not a seasoned politician and this time he decided to vote country over (nasty partisan, destructive GOP) party and to try and restore bipartisan political conversation and action. THANK YOU JOHN MCCAIN!",0 +"The silly post again Gerald, how predictable.",0 +"Justin Trudeau will get along with anyone, for a price. And since there is no reward to get along with Russia, in his mind, we have this new bizarre realpolitiks being played. I just hope that Justin Trudeau's sense of values has nausea because he has to be a ""friend"" to a mysogist, anti-gay, etc..... man like Donald Trump. I hope when he is old, he will have regrets about doing that..... Narcissism has it's price M. Trudeau. I guess you are ready to do anything to feed it.",0 +He recovered and got most of his function back - one of the lucky ones.,0 +Gordhan will not suspend their license because his own interests are being protected by KPMG.,0 +"Sᴛᴀʀᴛ ᴡᴏʀᴋɪɴɢ ғʀᴏᴍ ʜᴏᴍᴇ! Gʀᴇᴀᴛ ᴊᴏʙ ғᴏʀ sᴛᴜᴅᴇɴᴛs, sᴛᴀʏ-ᴀᴛ-ʜᴏᴍᴇ ᴍᴏᴍs ᴏʀ ᴀɴʏᴏɴᴇ ɴᴇᴇᴅɪɴɢ ᴀɴ ᴇxᴛʀᴀ ɪɴᴄᴏᴍᴇ... Yᴏᴜ ᴏɴʟʏ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ᴀ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴜᴛᴇʀ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ʀᴇʟɪᴀʙʟᴇ ɪɴᴛᴇʀɴᴇᴛ ᴄᴏɴɴᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ... Mᴀᴋᴇ $90 ʜᴏᴜʀʟʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴜᴘ ᴛᴏ $12000 ᴀ ᴍᴏɴᴛʜ ʙʏ ғᴏʟʟᴏᴡɪɴɢ ʟɪɴᴋ ᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴏᴛᴛᴏᴍ ᴀɴᴅ sɪɢɴɪɴɢ ᴜᴘ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ғɪʀsᴛ ᴄʜᴇᴄᴋ ʙʏ ᴛʜᴇ ᴇɴᴅ ᴏғ ᴛʜɪs ᴡᴇᴇᴋ... + +========>>>> http://www.cashapp24.com/",0 +Beer truck? How ironic...,0 +Please provide evidence from reputable sources before presenting this statement as a fact. Thank you!,0 +"Look at the price of college, with the Federal Gov't being in the loans business. Colleges can charge what they because the cost becomes hidden AND if the borrower tries to default, they can't. + +When the gov't subsidizes ANYTHING, the price of that thing goes UP.",0 +"Everyone should know right now that the only beneficiaries of these "" free trade"" deals are the multinational businesses that can quickly move their operation to the cheapest source of labor. + +The oligarchs who are controling our bought and paid for politicians have by stealth derailed democracy . +Their only interests are profits and dumb compliant politicians. + +And we have a real dumb one.",0 +"Fox's country is in shambles, his people flee over our border, and he praises our state for taking the problem off of his hands. + +Take care of your own people, what a dillweed!",0 +"Drain the swamp! Drain the swamp! + +Is Pruitt next? + +Is there going to be an original member of trumps cabinet left by next year? + +So many questions, so little time, for some...",0 +Wonder if Anderson bringing up his concerns about this planned condo development is just a signal to the developer to pass out more brown envelopes of appreciation.,0 +"Um, I don't think that is true. Neo liberal typically refers primarily to trade deals, rather than social agendas. Globalization and free trade are considered 'neo liberal'. His campaign certainly was not that, although he himself may well like those policies. But there is no such thing anymore as 'liberal', unless we just mean 'generous'.",0 +Like what? Riots? School shootings? Lynchings?,0 +"Yet another royal edict via twitter by King Twit. No doubt issued while perched on his porcelain throne, otherwise known as his think tank.",0 +"The house was never worth 4.2 or 3.6. + +someone only wanted to buy the opportunity to make 20% gains on 4.2 and hand the bag over to the next investor within 6-12 months of deferring mortgage payments while claiming 'primary residence' without ever stepping foot into the country.",0 +Oil prices are low and holding so why does it keep going up?,0 +"Maybe they should ban body lice, beards and dreadlocks from downtown. Then turn the EWEB super fund site into a homeless camp.",0 +"Wow...sounds familiar, like a Law & Order episode. As much as I dislike her motives/ways, it's still not a crime to be a jerky meany baby. They'll need more evidence of ""collusion"" to convict. Hmmmmm...sounds familiar, again.",0 +"Roy, All of them.",0 +Earth First. We'll drill the other planets later.,0 +Thank you.,0 +"Sex, death, religion should be things we can discuss at the diner table.",0 +"Replacing fluorescent bulbs with LED bubs is cheap. Costco sells 2 four foot LED replacment bulbs for under $20 and should just come out of the DOE's own maintenance budget. What DOE & the State should be doing is purchasing PV panels outright and installing on all DOE buildings the way Ala Moana Shopping Center is completely covered in PV panels. Then DOE's yearly electric bill, paid by Hawaii taxpayers, would go down MILLIONS of dollars and will greatly support the PV installation industry in Hawaii. Of course HECO does not want millions in lost revenue FOREVER so this manini energy savings of LED bulbs, making sure refrigerators are properly maintained, etc. Also another reason why HECO was so in favor of the Oahu train to nowhere project becasue they will make many millions to build & maintain a new fossil fuel electrical generator plant to power the train & the many hundreds of millions HECO will make to relocate power lines and all electrical infrastructure along the route.",0 +Obama has only a month left to go as President and he introduces this measure as if he can make it permanent? It's not backed up by any action of Congress. Most likely Trump will revoke it as one of his first orders of business. As he will most of Obama's executive orders. Obama should realize that he is a lame duck president and just leave quietly rather than trying to do anything important at the last minute.,0 +"Well it looks like Trumps ""cruel"" budget will start compensating for Obama's cruel VA Programs which syphoned money to social re-engineering programs leaving many vets to commit suicide. + +Didn't see the USCCB making any noise about the Vets.",0 +This is unfortunate and unsettling! But comforting to know that Alaska Airlines will investigate and take all necessary precautions to ensure this does not happen again and treat their employees and passengers properly throughout this ordeal. I've always been impressed with Alaska's operations. First class airline.,0 +"Instead, we get third rate comedy like...Cheech and Chong?! +I might not be in favour of a cannibis cup-like event, but the music in the last 5 years needs some improvement. And something needs to change for the better at the fair. +The same ol' thing for 30 years is getting...well....",0 +"holy cow. I reference a line from an old SCTV skit and you go off about Trump turning the US into a dictatorship like North Korea. Loosen the strap on your tinfoil hat, it's affecting the oxygen to your brain.",0 +I would be happy to order at a kiosk and have it cooked by a robot- less exploitation and drug addled cooks. Sit down restos are a drag-I like in and out and satisfied.,0 +"On their current course, South Korea and Indonesia will be considered 1st world countries thanks to Capitalism, and Socialism is theft, no matter how you spin it or what modifier you put in front of it. +. +Job opportunities are not ""dismal,"" and no one is forcing anyone to either go to college or take out loans to do so. I pay 0.00 to attend UAA if I graduate in the top 10% of my class, and I cover its cost in one summer of work.",0 +"One. Really, out of the 150,000 in the U.S.? How meaningful!",0 +He grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory...,0 +Leave Trudeau out of this.,0 +Another great article by Debby Fawcett. It's time for the residents of Hawaii to exert pressure on a runaway tourist industry. . If this huge influx of tourists continues call the Island Disneyland and costume the residents in Mickey House outfits. It's simply GREED that motivates the industry and a Bannana Republic attitude of the government. It will take an emphatic public protest to bring a measure of control to this takeover by swarms of tourists effecting our daily lives.,0 +You'd need more mass transit first. Perhaps a subway?,0 +https://www.flydenver.com/sites/default/files/petCards/frontBack/2017/Xeli.jpg,0 +"Now the IRS should concurrently remove all tax exemptions for all religions and their greedy enterprises led by the Catholic ""healthcare"" monopoly. They are all leeches on the nation contributing nothing in return except hot air filled with absolute lies from bible to Koran to pulpit. The most dangerous entities in the nation and the world. Time for a Revolution.",0 +shouldn't you be back teaching your class.,0 +i am heart broken - i loved this store and it's staff.,0 +"I'm curious if you think seven years later if it was a good decision for the USA. IMO, money corrupts and indeed, we have seen plenty of that post CU. + +The first amendment protects "". . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble"", but makes no mention of protecting an assembly's ""free speech"", only individual people's. It certainly doesn't classify spending money as ""free speech"" or such assemblies as ""people"" deserving that right. + +Most importantly however, the stockholders / private owners and the members / employees of these corps and labor unions already have the right to free speech and to contribute politically to a campaign. So in effect, CU simply grants the exceptional rights in addition to the rights the owners already have. Do you think the employees of Koch industries have any input into the corp's so called ""free speech""?",0 +"Another fake issue. The good folks of Toronto, Ottawa and Atlantic Canada have never had a problem with Liberal corruption, they will always support Liberals.",0 +"When some folks make a choice which they are free to do, they do not want to accept the consequences of that choice and will find someone or something else to blame. AA works for folks who choose to follow the program, it is by a large percentage that folks who choose to go back out and drink after being in AA have quit going to meetings and quit following the steps. AA is about living life on lifes terms, life sometimes sucks but AA folks learn to deal with life without relying on substances to alter their brains. I find alcohol and drugs of any kind to be in the same boat, a person uses to deal with the inability of dealing with the reality of life. Sad really that so many folks use drink, pot or other drugs because they are so unhappy with reality. AA allows folks to grow and live life on lifes terms. Just my two cents worth.",0 +"Things will be bad, but unlike the 90s the other places to move so aren't so attractive. The US has Trump whereas if they had Clinton or an establishment Republican it might be more attractive. Alberta and Ontario had governments on the political right during the 90s, today they have left wing ones like BC will and are in a deeper mess. Only Saskatchewan and Manitoba have centre-right governments and both being landlocked and small populations will mean less moving to them. Now yes if Brown wins in Ontario and Kenney in Alberta you could see this change, but people don't change on the whim of a change in government, they change after a government has been in for a while and its policies have had an impact meaning it will more be if the NDP gets a second term this might happen.",0 +I think that appraised values are not the same as the assessed value. We need to carefully about confusing the two.,0 +Goodbye Notley!,0 +"""Alaskans need a well rested & better informed legislature!"" + +Agreed. Let's give them their well-deserved rest in November.",0 +"Remember for the Mass to ""count"", you have to be there when the priest uncovers the chalice at the offertory and stay until he covers it up again after communion!",0 +"The ""silty water drags you down"" myth is just like the ""traffic driving over a snowy road drives the frost deeper"" one. No science involved, but go on believing it if it makes you happy.",0 +We need someone like Trump to start cleaning house in Canada. America is fortunate to have a patriot as President after eight years with an appeaser.,0 +"Altogether, the House Budget would cut close to $3 trillion over the next 10 years in government services that meet the needs of low- and moderate-income households – ranging from food and housing assistance to education and job training programs. Why? To help make room for trillions of dollars worth of tax cuts for large corporations, hedge fund managers, corporate lawyers and real estate magnates like Donald Trump himself. And to pour billions of more dollars into a military industrial complex that is not keeping us safe, and a border wall that will be a mockery of our values and a symbol of hate.",0 +"Come on, everyday is a weekend at the the government offices. They even have time to take on 2nd jobs like Caldwell which only proves they don't really work at all. LOL",0 +"Are you sure it's Trump, or better, the Al Sharpton's, who would like to keep racism alive to hold the black voting block.",0 +I find Acting Mayor Amemiya’s comments pathetic. Show some class. I also find it interesting that after all these years of showing ZERO leadership on the HPD AND Police Commission controversies that the Mayor now wants to sit-down with Chief Ballard. Leadership that it’s not....,0 +"There was stories about how the women who make her awful, overpriced clothing overseas didn't receive maternity leave.",0 +"Thank you, Erin. Sometimes people use information in other people’s comments without realizing they’re not quite correct, so just for clarification, you were referring to the surcharge (which would go directly to Maui county), and the rate would be .5%.",0 +"Nicely done, Layla4.",0 +"Personally I will not listen to Pro-Abortionist UNLESS they work to change laws that would allow mothers to euthanize children who are born to the poor, inconvenienced and unloving homes. +These are the reasons most (vast majority) give for being Pro-Abortion. Whether the child is 8 months or 12 months, what's the big difference. +What's good for the goose...............",0 +"""I believe the vast majority of this ""Russia thing"" is made up fanciful stuff..."" + +Do you accept that the Russian successfully interfered in the 2016 election by, at the very least, successfully breaking into the DNC computers, downloaded emails, and causing them to be given to Wikileaks by a third party? And that this operation was directed by Putin, and its objective was to get Trump elected rather than Clinton?",0 +"Someone mentioned HUBs for schools...we need a regional jail, larger area for equipment, building material, apartments, homes, flight terminals and more, but they can't expand an eroding 3 mile community surrounded by water. Try finding a place for a tiny storage area....won't. Our region is fast growing, but because the State and mining companies need Kotzebue to continue advertising Red Dog Mine, we live in poverty.",0 +Many names at http://www.civilbeat.org/2016/01/civil-beat-database-of-public-employee-salaries /?appSession=77890027440047254542941318282436474073882628698601127137173775369449259914947413610474224272628758984351093084835311045994334046,0 +You would be surprised at the wide range of demographics that visit a public library--I believe you're incorrect.,0 +We do not need to protect free speech on campus; we need to enshrine free speech as a fundamental right in our constitution.,0 +"So you can't refute them either, and come back with only insults. + +How ""intelligent"" of you.",0 +"I'm not certain that the judge who issued the bench warrant was sending the right message. A failure to appear is in essence contempt of court which is dissing the judge him or herself. As it was shared with me even if a traffic violation(s), failure to pay accumulated parking fines, etc. Multiples of ""failure to show"" can get some judges ""upset"" and a bench warrant(s) is issued. No one really goes to go after those with outstanding warrants, however if you get pulled over and they see outstanding bench warrant(s) you can be arrested. Then you post bail to get released and suppose to show up at your next hearing. An acquaintance who had a couple of outstanding traffic violations was pulled over for a traffic violation and taken to cell block and held overnight until someone posted bail. In my opinion, it's best to make sure everyone makes sure that traffic violation(s) and/or warrants are addressed. Just saying...",0 +I wasn't aware that Ravi Zacharias is attempting to accomplish what you're alleging. Please elaborate.,0 +"Here's a start: + +https://www.ewtn.com/library/ISSUES/CTOA20.TXT + +An interesting insight into the root causes of dissent that started in the mid-1960's.",0 +"So disappointing that most fake street media blatantly ignores all negative stories regarding the Left, they have lost all credibility, ought to be ashamed. Exactly where are the hundreds of million of dollars funneled to Clinton Foundation? Who does the checks and balances within this organization? Chelsea? This is unbelievable, CNN to embarrassed to report story, they're so illegitimate.",0 +Check the URL - it's supposed to be .org,0 +"The problem I have with banishment is that it just makes one groups problem a burden for another group it seems like the majority of the time. + +I can only remember a single case of when banishment was enough of a reality check that it made the individual get their crap together.",0 +"Well...first off I dont see it as disrespect, these are the freedoms vets like me fought for. + +But leave them in the locker room and just remove them from thier stage, issue no longer there.",0 +Women can cook only if they were taught how to or cornered to cook. There are plenty of women who are clueless in a kitchen as many men are. I met a few women proud they could not cook.,0 +"Small, stuffy & crappy. Oh they have different door mats. I stand corrected.",0 +"I'm disappointed. The Post is leaving out the biggest beneficiary of occupational licensing: politicians. See, in exchange for writing occupational licensing laws, industry associations write politicians big campaign contribution checks, which inevitably favor the incumbents who write the laws. + +Without occupational licensing the opportunity for graft drops, reducing the likelihood that the incumbent politician will be reelected. + +So occupational licensing laws have a moral side too: Even if it saves the reelection campaign of just one politician, aren't licensing laws worth it?",0 +Hmmmmm I saw the word gala I saw who I expected to see but NO ONE who SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE..... OUR HOUSELESS!!!!! WHY & HOW do these people think they know whats best when they no ask or INVOLVE THE HOUSELESS?!,0 +"Sure, trucks are a nuisance unless you have a commercial reason for owning one.",0 +"Deflect and delay. Exxon must be desperate for money....hahahahahahaha! Oh, I crack me up!",0 +"Who would think that someone could actually defend the GOP controlled legislature? + +Very impressive, Ms. Downing. Preposterous, but impressive.",0 +WHAT is with the hair?,0 +"Apparently that is a good fraction of the American public that believe they would be better off when America becomes a third world country. This is just another indicator of what they believe the American dream is - if you are poor and get sick you should go away and die. They don't believe that decent health care is right (like clean air, clear water) and that the wealthiest country in the world should spend taxes on helping anyone but the very rich. The rest of us are trying to figure out how they took over the government and what to do about it.",0 +But are there ANY photos of him that don't seem to force an unaffiliated institution into the middle of a national news story?,0 +"""We the people, will now additionally suffer the loss of federal revenues to the tune of millions of federal grant dollars."" Those dollars were ours before they were the federal government's, right?",0 +I'm just gonna leave this right here... https://www.facebook.com/AnchorageCommunityWorks/,0 +Please provide proof of your assertions. Make me a believer.,0 +There is a total misunderstanding about what has transpired in Syria. It is similar to what transpired in Iran. Why did the Shah so brutally suppress elements of his society? He was opposed by elements who disapproved of women voting and other Western secular trends He dealt with these elements in the most brutal manner. We see what happened when these elements took over there.,0 +The only radicals are those that have taken the authority of The Almighty to end life!,0 +"""The Wassermann test or Wassermann reaction (WR) is an antibody test for syphilis, named after the bacteriologist August Paul von Wassermann, based on complement-fixation.""",0 +Because it's 2017.,0 +"Never made any money, yeah okay. Avg. attendance the last two seasons has been hovering around 3,500, if that gives a loss of $1 million, that would probably mean when the avg. attendance was 4K-4.5K they probably broke even if not made a little profit. What about the seasons above 4.5K, and the deep post season runs? They made money, and don't forgot then they also had more corporate sponsorship's, and NHL/AHL affiliations. The owners don't care, all they care about is what's on the financials at the end of the month.",0 +"Twas (almost) the night before Christmas and all through the house +Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse (meow) +The TSX wish list was hung by the Chimney with care +In hope that those pipeline permits soon would be there + + +Investors were nestled all snug in their beds +While visions of Trumpflation danced in their heads +While SFI in his ENB and I in my gold +Had settled our feuds which were getting old + +When out on the market there arose such a clatter +I sprang from my laptop to see what was the matter +Away to the brokers I flew in a flash +Tore open the trade window and laid down the cash +......... +When what to my wondering eyes did appear +But a miniature correction and 6 figures of fear +With a little old Loonie,so lonely and sick +I knew in a minute I must not get sick + +More rapid than falling rocks,its pattern it came +I whistled and shouted and called it a name +Now Bell,now Telus,now NPI and (etc) ! +On Enbridge,on Emera on AQN and BAM ! +To the top of the market.. +etc",0 +"When trust is gone, no excuse like polygamie can make that right. +You deserve respect Honesty and more, if he cant talk About another woman, you can question a lot more than that. + +Be safe, take the pain for now and move on, you deserve more than a man who had a lot more than most men, but still has the needs to cheat on you. + +You are going to be ok, dont settle for less and trust youre instincts. + +Wish you the best you deserve, cheer up, head up and shine like never before ;-)",0 +"The study was done an an accredited university and published in a reputable journal, but it was still (as the reports are saying) a study with inaccurate/tampered data. If this latter part is true, it is a ""bogus"" study and the fact that it was from any particular university or published in any particular journal is irrelevent. + +Any good university or researcher would pull such a study when the tampering came to light. This is the right thing to have done.",0 +That's the sound of the Pro-Trump justification bar being lowered yet another notch.,0 +"The article paints a picture of a market where new Vancouver housing developments are advertised first in venues in Shanghai and Beijing and Hong Kong, where the overseas money buys them up en masse before people who actually have jobs in Vancouver get a chance to try to buy one. + +This has got to stop. + +It is shocking how enfeebled Canadian politicians, from city hall to Ottawa, have shoved an entire generation of young adult Canadians into a big garbage bag, tossed them into a garbage truck, and scurried them off to the hinterlands so that greedy real estate industrialists can sell their dreams to the highest bidders overseas. + +Hello, Justin Trudeau? How does it feel to be the one shoving young adult Canadians into garbage bags and discarding them, along with their culturally traditional Canadian dreams of buying a house from which to go back and forth to work? + +Why are you not ending the Quebec investor immigrant program? Why are you expanding visas for ultra-rich foreigners?",0 +"thats because the loudmouth big babies in kotz squealed and got their way, just like babies in a crib",0 +22 years.... You sure?,0 +Dude: That is the badge that all Lane County Sheriff Deputies wear. And the Sheriff's Department runs the County Jail. So that is why it is on all inmate photos.,0 +"""What an absolutely blatantly sexist editorial."" + +Just one more prime example of how 'propaganda media' by design seeks to reshape the direction of women and incarceration by use of public persuasion in playing the 'sexist' card no less.",0 +Lisa loves bipartisan support for everything. She is a Democrat who runs as a Republican.,0 +"hey protesters, get a life & a JOB.",0 +"I support every project that will improve quality of life for everyone. And as simple as it seems our vote will determine whether we travel by rail or bus. The rail is something new for the islands, but it is a decades old norm for cities and countries throughout the world. +When we filter out the Grey matter it still comes down to rail or bus. Caldwell or Djo U.",0 +"When I read this article I let out a sigh of relief that I didn't realize I was holding. I had started to believe that I was one of the only sane people left when thinking about this topic, but saying anything might produce a lynch mob. A friend of mine has a step-daughter who decided one day (and it seemed to everyone that it was just that fast) to have gender re-assignment. Three years later, he is depressed and miserable, not understanding why the dynamics in his relationships have changed. He was seeking the attention and the 'special status', not realizing that this would be his life. He is an individual who needed soft experience before the drastic measures but the system not only allowed him but almost encouraged him to do as he wanted. Now the family is in turmoil. Thanks for his article - it's bringing the sensible people to the table.",0 +"I would hardly call golf an elitist game in Canada. Play at any public course this summer - including the Don valley course in the center of Toronto, with affordable green fees - you are more likely to run into teachers enjoying their summer off, college students, broader public service employees -active and retired - and the ubiquitous Korean golf addicts taking a day off from their convenience stores.",0 +"""Amazon, or any other employer that brings high-paying jobs here are providing opportunities for people already here.""--Except Amazon isn't importing 50,000 jobs, they're importing 50,000 people to work those jobs. And if by ""opportunities,"" you mean working in the inevitable strip-mall service job, I think I'll pass. +""Additionally - those 50,000-plus people are moving here whether Amazon will be here to provide jobs or not.""--I guess if the boosters have to sit in 24-hour rush hour traffic, they might end up rethinking the fallacious notion that growth pays for itself.",0 +"Here's a disturbing example of why they call cats their ""furr-baybeez"", and will always call for the extermination of all humans, while in turn saving the lives of their vermin parasite-infested cats instead. Reinforcing Rick Sinnot's parasitic wasp analogy. Here's a photo from one of their main TNR promoter's websites (she replaced her own unwanted and abandoned human child's face with her vermin cat's head). This is just as she presented her adored cat named ""Furby"" and her own never-mentioned child to the world. This is what she thinks of her very own daughter today. That's her infant daughter in the photo long ago that she will have nothing to do with today. The only thing added to this photo was the text explaining the reason why they see cats and humans this way. + +They now value the lives of their vermin cats EVEN OVER THE LIVES OF THEIR OWN HUMAN INFANTS! + +https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/86de62d24a6271016936db028f18d1ac6ac6b81cb0901f889f6fd3a792eee6b7.jpg",0 +Sounds like McCain's plan is just to send more personnel. Hummm…,0 +"There you go again....This is not Hillary Clinton, so I'll leave the rest of the name-calling to you. Funny thing for a retired federal prosecutor to be into, but seems like a good time for you to retire. Relax while you're at it...",0 +"It's here: + +http://www.adn.com/politics/2016/06/29/walker-budget-vetoes-include-capping-permanent-fund-divdends-at-1000/ + +But why go off topic?",0 +"what is ""rarely"" and where are these countries? +. +egypt, no pedestrian right of way, but 20% of traffic deaths are pedestrian. india, no pedestrian right of way, estimates are 10-20% of traffic deaths are pedestrian. +. +that's just pedestrian deaths. the number of pedestrian injuries from traffic collisions would be much higher.",0 +"In the Trump Administration Schatz is a nobody. Trump could care less what Schatz or Lazy Mazie has to say. Schatz should be a good little boy and not further alienate +Hawaii from the Trump Administration.",0 +"Of course Jeff Sessions is not going to resign. Unless fired. And even then, they will have to drag him out screaming. + +Sessions, like many free enterprisers--most of the Harper-ists that thankfully are no longer our government...all these rightwingers.... who decry the state, all government programs....have had their mouths grafted onto the teat of public renumeration, fabulous benefits, all expenses paid, occasional celebrity, complete health care at hardly any cost, and cadillac deluxe pensions....all at the taxpayers expense. Pierre Poliviere comes to mind. And many others. + +Free enterprise for the poor. Free enterprise for everyone. But state socialism for them.",0 +There goes you last shred of credibility.,0 +It would be interesting to see what the fallout if the US passed a law stating that drug companies could only sell drugs in the US for 2X of the lowest cost they sell the same drug for overseas.,0 +"My fellow Trump supporters, this is a Hillary forum. These people that vote for her are dangerous to a free republic. It would be ok for them if Hillary barbecued a baby & ate it on the White House lawn. They will give her a pass for literally anything! Trump is winning low-lifes, like it or not, ha, ha! She can't get more than 100 people at her rallies. Hillary in Ohio appeared on stage with Jay-Z, right after these performers denigrated women! You people with your pc good intentions will pave this country a road to hell!",0 +"You are so right, Kidding! There is more than enough blame for everyone regarding this mess. +Our state leaders (current and many past) and, yes, voters and citizens are all responsible. The State has gone from the highest credit rating to almost the lowest (only Illinois and New Jersey are lower). And yet, the legislature continues to do almost nothing, and even Governor Walker doesn't seem too bothered by this. +I wish there was some way to kick every one of the current legislators out and start over with some who can work things out diplomatically, reasonably, and effectively--you know: like statesmen. Sickening!!",0 +"Roe vs. Wade isn't going away... Roberts will rule in favor of it because he doesn't like rocking the boat on these things. He ruled how he did with the ACA case for the same reason. And people are probably going to suggest that Ted Cruz get the Scalia appointment. He will be an easy confirmation because it means getting rid of Ted Cruz from the Senate. + +And yes, Trump is likely to appoint Souter or one of his NYC buddies to another one of the openings.",0 +"This is also a jury selection problem. + +From the article: +""The inherent, powerful bias to back the badge is instilled at an early age and almost impossible to undo, experts say."" + +There is a community that has to instill a different message about the badge, ""Remember that you are always a target and that in order to survive contact with the police, you have to obey every command, no matter how unjust or unfair, and even then you still may not live so try to avoid them as much as possible."" + +Of course anyone expressing the latter concerns to their children will automatically be passed over for consideration as a juror. + +The ""I feared for my life"" defense is just another way to say shoot first and ask questions later. The more we let these cops off the hook the more they think they have open season on the community they ""serve.""",0 +Meaningless slogan,0 +more bad news for honolulu,0 +"Self-serving? Where is your evidence for this? You don't have to do a lot of research to find out how much she has given, still continues to give and will continue to give to better the lives of South Africans of all races. What have you done? + +Responsible and accountable South Africans don't have to be in power to make a difference in this country? + +Where is your input other than making a loud noise like an empty can? + +Address the points raised in this article like what some of the comments here addressed. Don't go for the person because you know anything about her and if you did, you would realise that you don't have and most importantly have not demonstrated the integrity that she carries in her smallest finger. All that your comment does is to bring your ""person"" and the resultant contributions or lack thereof into the debate. + +This is a public forum and inasmuch as her ipinions are in the public and should be responded to, so are yours. + +So, here is a mirror, now self-reflect!",0 +"Hmm, looking at the atlas and seeing who would likely be China's pawn in their chess game against world politics, if it weren't for the horrific consequences of those types of weapons, I'd say it was just a dog and pony show. But I do believe that China has the last word when it comes to supervising their little brother.",0 +"Not foolish. It would be a smoking gun to end Trump as soon as it is released. Why wait?? Would we really need an investigation if someone is caught red-handed? Comey should've ended it the moment Trump said it. He didn't. That's on him. Now to bring it up after he gets fired says ""disgruntled worker"" not ""hero"". It lacks credibility even more now that he testified under oath to congress that he does things outside of the chain of command without informing his bosses if he feels not inclined to do so. And still all this is only allegations. Like middle school all over again with the he said she said. +""Tapes"" - Scotch tape, duct tape, video tape, two way tape, packing tape, masking tape... what ""Tapes""? Trump is smarter than people gives him credit. He tweets better there aren't ""Tapes"" and now everyone is looking for paper and tape. Crazy!",0 +I guess now we need to change the name from Bear Creek to Chicken Creek!,0 +"I attended Vic for four years (South House) and then was a Don at St. Mike's for a year while I was in professional school. First, neither Vic or St. Mike's are satellite campuses. Those of us who attended those colleges think that they are rather the centre of campus life. While it is possible things have changed over the years (I admit its been a few decades) since I was there, I found the students at St. Mike's far more willing to engage in rigorous intellectual debate about all sorts of topics, even abortion, than those at Vic. As the only non-Roman Catholic Don in the residence I was impressed with the students receptiveness to ideas that were counter to Roman Catholic orthodoxy. That is not to say that there aren't students who have racist and Islamophobic ideas at St. Mike's, but I wonder whether the members of student council (who are often more interested in padding their resume than actually doing anything substantive) are reflective of the St. Mike's student body.",0 +Do you read your own comments on this site? You might quickly come to that conclusion!,0 +"From the Stats Canada reporting: Expressed at an annualized rate, real GDP rose 3.7% in the first quarter. In comparison, real GDP in the United States grew 1.2%",0 +"In 1907, William Randolph Hearst's newspaper chain was battling President McKinley, just as the media is at war with Trump, today. In a nationally published editorial, Hurst implored, “Will somebody please put a bullet in president"" Three days later McKinley, visiting the Buffalo World's Fair, was assassinated. The killer said he read it in the newspaper and thought it was his patriotic duty. Of course, Hurst claimed he had nothing to do with it. Only after that was uttering death threats deemed illegal without violating the right to free speech",0 +"Little, if any, of this has been substantiated Mr. Pitts. But I guess you won't see this comment as this is but one more imported-from-outside America-hating article that ADN feels compelled to publish.",0 +"Since banks are virtually a protected monopoly in Canada with high barriers to entry for competition, it would seem a ""no brainer"" that the gov't who gives such a one sided advantage to the banks should side with the consumers in an attempt to level the play field just a bit. While we are at it, bank deposit insurance should be reviewed too.",0 +"Trump Attacks Democrats For Not Helping Repeal Obamacare + + +Trump lives in a truth-free bubble. + +He's trying to pull the rest of us in. + +I guess he was standing too far away from the teleprompter he never uses to see the script he never read with his aging eyes, which are in the best shape of any President's eyes, ever, in America's past 1241 years.",0 +BustMode!,0 +A sad day for the families of the missing sailors.,0 +But Obamacare was sold to the sheep as a fix to the ER problem. So why has Obamacare not solved the issue allie?,0 +...define 'too much',0 +"I agree. Previously the US financial markets were looking at a single credit card that would house all your credit card products on a single card. +Mobile will make this happen and eventually the physical credit card and debit cards will become obsolete. Asia has had this technology for a long time and unfortunately US and Canada are slow to adopt. +US has still not adopted chip card technology due to resistance from US retailers. We shall see what the future has in store for us,",0 +"the zone of mutual interest just got smaller + +doesn't mean negotiation is impossible or ineffective",0 +"So how how much % of the population would you draw the line at? And why would you want to keep lowering the standards to become US citizen? And most importantly, why do you want the USA to become a third world country?",0 +And so the downfall of the failed Trumpian vision of America begins. Good riddance.,0 +"Ed, where were you when our Legislature was majority Republican THE LAST TEN OR TWELVE YEARS? Oh- wait -- They still are!! Well - maybe if we had had a republican Governor- Oh - Wait!! We did!! Hmmmmm -",0 +"""The contractors involved in the renovation have . . ."" +. +. . . got to be very nervous right now.",0 +"Has anyone heard Leonard Cohen's ""Closing Time"". That about captures it.",0 +"if the farming, ranching, hunting, fishing & skiing industries would only band together in response to the direct shots being fired across their bows, Colorado might yet grow a pair. instead it's being left to grassroots citizens' efforts to slay the marauding dragon that is the oil 'n gas industry.",0 +"""It's own particular brand of Greek family entertainment."" What does the writer mean by that? Sounds pretty racist.",0 +It makes it hard to drain the swamp when the alligators are in charge of everything above the PLUG!,0 +Make it so say we all!,0 +"Sorry I don't follow - no one is forced to retire at any age. Work until 80 if you want. + +The discussion is around when is the MINIMUM age that people should have the OPTION to retire",0 +Grow up.,0 +wish i had said that...,0 +"That was great, really great, it might have been greatliest of all comments tonight.",0 +"And? +If you think China has profound respect for Trump, you're smoking what Jeff Sessions doesn't approve of.",0 +"True but city won't put resources back into airport. Placing HPD back in there extents the county's liability. If a PD officer shot the dog, both State and City would be the deep pocket. Last year there was sexual harassment case that ended in descsion for complainant, she was K9 handler for Securitas, fellow K9 harassing, final decision although she was employed by a private company at airport, was a State contract, therefore state also liable. She got $30.000.00, which was small but decision was a warning. Securitas settled right away to keep themselves out of the lime light.",0 +"Securitas could not do a complete background check because the are not law enforcement when they are off, or when they leave the airport complex. Military Police or DOD are not obligated to disclose why he left DOD. Not making an excuse just pointing out a fact and a vulnerability when you go with private security doing law enforcement work. By what was published he was doing his job and was authorized, why Chin is not pursing.",0 +"""My daddy owns the Broncos"" isn't enough to beat a traffic ticket anymore? What is the world coming to?",0 +Radir does whine a lot. But please quit calling him Jesus.,0 +All the republicans in the state legislature keep road funding at a 20th century level for a 21st century state. Sigh.,0 +"""Hillary Clinton had a cough – a nasty, recurring cough that she could not kick after a week of trying."" Seems like group that wrote this article is trying to spin this a recent issue. Hillary has been hiding her illness for months if not years: +http://www.insideedition.com/headlines/14747-why-does-hillary-clinton-keep-coughing",0 +"Well on the upside when it comes to intellect neither of them will have a commanding lead . Trump favours Russia, Trudeau China - so both would prefer to act in a fully authoritarian manner another draw. Finally Justin should also inform Trump that if he appoints Sarah Palin his ambassador to Canada, Trudeau will appoint his mommy as Canada's ambassador to the US. That way everything would continue to be in pretty much perfect balance.",0 +"As president, Trump would probably spend most of his time cooking up new fraudulent money-making schemes like ""Trump University."" He would then target his most passionate supporters because they the only ones who would willingly give their money to this con artist.",0 +"Sorry, didn't attend 4J, but apparently students there were taught to spell. I certainly know which 'there' to use, and not to use 'half' when I mean 'have'. Again, any evidence of your contention?",0 +"Just how vulnerable is Canada right now without having the most advanced (on paper) attack jet? Is it that Canadian forces might not be able to attack the latest third world country on America's ""axis of evil"" to do list?",0 +Ikikii! Quyanaqvaa!,0 +"No, I do not. As a matter of fact that waste is part of the reason I am against government run healthcare. That being said, the military budget has been cut too much to satisfy liberal sensibilities.",0 +And they wonder why we hate them.,0 +"Referencing this statement: ""She is American though and through by this point"" ... + +She is most decidedly NOT American. + +She lived illegally IN America but she is not American in any sense of the word. + +Illegal Mexican citizen illegally residing in America is an acceptable description. + + Darn shame she and her mom were not deported immediately upon arrival.",0 +"IRT ""... why wages aren’t rising,"" It is a numbers game. If your business model/plan goes with a percentage allocation and your labor runs at say 25% .... well then all of the other expenses will affect that number. It is all interrelated. The biggest unknown variable is often the income side. With more and more money going to the government in taxes it is hard for the private sector to keep up. I know lots of people whose goal in life is to get a government job.",0 +"The Star Advertiser did not publish any of the stories about this scandal that were being published everywhere on the mainland for three days, and then it finally had a pang of journalistic guilt and decided to run this story. With most Star Advertiser readers being oblivious to the previous stories published on the mainland, it probably has most of them saying “What the hell is Trump talking about?” The Star Advertiser once again succeeded in suppressing anything negative about Hillary.",0 +Um... wot?,0 +"Seems a shame that a museum, maybe like the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle, couldn't take possession of the boat, finish restoring it, and open it for public tours...it would both showcase a piece of Seattle history and the ticket sales from the tours would undoubtedly pay for the restoration and upkeep for years to come.",0 +Conservatives seem desperate to find something- anything that will stick to Trudeau. They hate the fact that Trudeau is the first liberal leader in 13 years they can't destroy with mindless attack ads and fear mongering.,0 +Melissa Mar-Viverito is wrong by saying ”We are going to become this administration’s worst nightmare.” She and her anti-law associates already are the country’s worst nightmare.,0 +"I think the author needs to reread Naomi Klein's ""The Shock Doctrine"".",0 +"If you love the Donald's America, move there, close the door on your way out.",0 +You mean like reducing the size of the federal government? Long overdue. Trying to eliminate entitlement fraud? Common sense. Enforcing immigration laws? Long overdue and common sense.,0 +"""I have an idea."" + +You mean you have an original thought, RD! Are you sure it isn't just another thing you read on breitbart?",0 +"So 100 more people will lose their jobs so some psychopath can watch his name creep up the Forbes richest people list. + +And people wonder why Brexit and Trump happened. Our leaders are failing us so we strike back the only way we can.",0 +"""Rebels said they attacked government forces with suicide car bombs."" + +They are not rebels, they are holy warriors. For the Globe to call them anything else, even if there is nothing holy about what they do, is misleading. + +""And there are those who do not want to stop. Here's a sample comment from the top JFS [Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as the al-Nusra Front]-aligned cleric, Abu Yaqzan Al-Masri, in Aleppo: 'We won't compromise over our religion. We'll leave Aleppo on our own terms.'"" +BBC News Dec 14, 2016",0 +"The judicial branch is part of the checks and balances in the system...and yeah when the people vote in something that is unconstitutional, the courts can toss it out...the founding fathers were wary of the tyranny of the majority...like the two wolves and a sheep voting on dinner... + +There are pretty fundamental rules about who you can sue and when...You'd likely need more than just an underage driver to hook any negligence on the retailer...and youd still need to show somehow that the sale of the weed was a contributing factor in the collision...which could be difficult to impossible...Now the state may attempt to create something similar to the dram shop/liquor liability laws...but again it would be difficult to prove what you'd need to prove to prevail.......and in Alaska you have no direct action against a 3rd party's insurer....so they would be out in the first 10 minutes of the lawsuit....and billing you for their expenses....so would the state...and the feds...",0 +"Long before doctors connected the dots between smoking and cancer, they knew from the very beginning it caused emphysema, yet in the same breath the Surgeon general suggested smoking was in fact good for you. While I'd like to believe times have changed with government being more truthful, here we sit decades later, with our current government on the one hand saying they indeed recognize the dangers of drugs and their addictive properties, yet allowing the sale of said drugs within our community in the name of profits. So what kind of lesson is that teaching? If we want kids to understand the difference between right and wrong, good or bad, then I strongly suggest we get them out of public schools, because they will not learn those things there, nor is it the job of government to be teaching such things in the first place.",0 +"Apologies are empty if the fault is still hidden. One wishes they would come clean about the causes. What was going on in the seminaries, and who was protecting and promoting whom?",0 +"The entire concept of insurance is protection against catastrophic loss. With medical care costs in the U.S. at levels which would bankrupt any average person or family due to a single health crisis, it is incomprehensible that approx. 50% of the U.S. population would not support a government sponsored plan which pools the risk of the entire citizenry.",0 +"My folks did much the same in the late 1940's, again a Willys Jeep. Tanacross north of Tok was the first job for my dad and later on to Anchorage. Eventually he got on with the CAA (forerunner of the FAA) and we bounced around Alaska from Annette Island to Northway to Biorka Is off of Sitka and finally Gustavus. Built character.",0 +Look at the disagrees you have. There is no further point in negotiating with North Korea and the United States has to whack em and whack em good. It won't be much of a war if the Americans flatten them first.,0 +"Fascist Leftist? Appropriating alt-words again from the Breitbart- Bannon lexicon, whaler31?",0 +"I don't understand Grantham's point. The lawmakers will have been called to Denver, the session will already have started, the money to have the session will already have been spent ... so why not finish the job then instead of saying we're going to adjourn the special session and wait until January? Seems like that would be more wasteful!",0 +"It is difficult to see how reducing emissions from buildings could be considered ""low hanging fruit"". + +I venture an estimate that 85% of buildings in Canada cannot make much of an improvement in insulation efficiency due to being relatively new or being upgraded in previous programs. + +If the intention is that the government will mandate emissions reductions by requiring electric space and water heating the results will be limited to areas that have a surplus of non emitting electricity available. + +Reducing emissions from 12% of Canada's total to 8% might be feasible but it is hardly 'low hanging fruit'.",0 +actually that was Soros through his puppet,0 +"The Silver Shadow +That non denominational christian group isn't there any more, it was banned. Instead the muslim prayer group took over and it's there, menstruating girls at the back with other girls. Now tell me little silver, you call that systematic muslim introduction , a ""nothing happened""?",0 +"Mr Morneau should allow others to participate in the same plan that his & some other public companies use. Turn regular income & dividends into the lowest taxed capital gains. Fact! Using DSUs, directors can even 'transfer' DSUs to others & vest them immediately should the Board so decide....and get this....all without shareholder approval!!! Are we being duped? Morneau said in 2015 he'd change that but everyone is going down other rabbit holes...Billy & Co. are still protected. Fact. Do the file their T1's in Alberta at a 20.3% tax rate?",0 +"“It’s not for me to tell you what’s in the president’s mind,” Miller said. + +I'm sure Mr. Miller is not the only one in that position. I wonder if the president knows himself.",0 +"I hope Cardinal Burke is correct, but I'm not holding my breath.",0 +Ironworkers Union executive endorsed the Liberals,0 +"They compare it to a good many other vehicles but without a price this comparison is mute. If it's 15% less than most of those others then it's probably a good buy, if its the same then it's debatable and if its more then forget it.",0 +"Bring this activist court to heel. + +Our Constitution doesn't need a re-write.",0 +The foreign fleets were a minor factor - our very own made in Canada mismanagement nailed that coffin shut !,0 +I want to copy/paste your comment!! I agree wholeheartedly. I hope this is the start of a snowball effect to get this line built it would be an economic revolution for our state.,0 +"This is what this forum has stated to me, + +""You have 1 of 1 comments remaining for the next 24 hours."" + +Wow, I feel highly blessed to have the privilege to post one comment every 24 hours. + +If I wait 7 days, can I post 7 comments?????? + +Just curious to know.......",0 +We must be using different calculators. Mine says that $2732 divided by 12 comes to $228 per month.,0 +"changed the comments section - hard to read - not many intelligent comments anymore + +just saying",0 +"Such wise words, Michael! Dropping that rope is great advice. Funny how it takes so long before one realizes it's time to let go. I think it's time for me - thanks for the validation :)",0 +"I like that she tells it the way it is in a straight forward way and that she stands up for herself, the President, the administration and what is best for the middle class, which is the majority of the country.",0 +"Names, please - which two ""Canadian provincial ministers""?",0 +"T Rogers writes...""Two female Liberal ministers = one male Conservative minister."" + +And Thomas Conway who has been chastising several posters here for using nicknames responds to T Rogers with...""Typical Hater world view. + +Keep talking. All the better for people to see the real you."" + +I believe Thomas Conway (whichever real one you are :), that those of us who can make up our own minds don't need need you throwing ""hate labels"" at anyone here for any reason at all...it gives us all ""hiding behind"" pseudonyms a bad reputation when you who so obviously are the real Thomas Conway and take the bait offered by those posting for free speech while lighting their Tiki torches...just let them earn their own reputation and not sully ours by scuffling with them!",0 +Sounds okay to me.,0 +"Actually that's a topic many on the left don't fully grasp. Obama is a president, not a king. He has done nothing at all but hurt oil development on federal holdings. Anything that has occurred happened on private lands that typically don't have split-estate issues. Because it was all on private lands (Texas and the Dakotas) President Obama, or King Barry as the liberals know him, couldn't do much of anything one way or another. He can't unilaterally make a decree that there will be no more oil and gas developments or extraction on private lands. Likewise he cannot say that all oil and gas development from henceforth must occur on private lands. I know it's a difficult concept for liberals to grasp, ......which might explain why they keep electing the totalitarian types.",0 +"I like the ""semantic"" angle that York presents here -- that the donor could be a Democrat who donates to both parties, just as many wealthy donors do. It wouldn't be the first time the NYT wasn't a reliable source when it comes to Trump. OR it could simply be a lie. And/or it could be a lie started by Deep State operatives. Maybe players in the US Intelligence Community used Fusion GPS as a front to try to smear Trump on Clinton's/Democrats' behalf. + +In any case ""wealthy Republican donor"" could just be an attempt to deflect from or mitigate Democrats' involvement in underwriting the discredited dossier. After all, the Russian Narrative was initially cooked up by Brent Budowsky and campaign chairman John Podesta in December 2015 (according to a Podesta email published by Wikileaks). The book ""Shattered"", written by Clinton supporters, also mentions Podesta's and Mook's post-election plan to save face for the colossal loss by pushing the Russian Narrative.",0 +"i will have to say, your tie to disease and alzheimers is spot on. maybe not with toxo- but i was indeed intrigued with both herpes and oral spirochetes.",0 +"Because as the poster a few comments above said it, telescopes are fake.",0 +What's wrong with Islamophobia? Is it not common sense and well justified?,0 +"Hillary funded her campaign with large corporate donations including 250,000 speaking fees to Goldman and other Wall Street firms. She is stealing the election from Bernie Sanders with super delegates who are super wealthy corporate and political players. Bill Clinton and Hillary have been extorting world leaders around the globe for donations to the Clinton Foundation. This column must be from the twilight zone. Recommending voters select Hillary and 50 co conspirators to save the nation from Corporations. Such a travesty.",0 +"You would think the POTUS would have more important things to do than defend his daughter's clothing line. He even has Spicer addressing it. +What a total PUTZ!",0 +"Here's an idea. How about expanding benefits for current Canadians to encourage larger families here. The current balance works okay, however, this new policy is out of hand and will end up replacing the current population with 3rd world underachievers who do not share our values and culture. Within a few generations this will turn our country into a corrupt mess like the countries these new immigrants mostly hail from these days. This globalist nonsense needs to stop. Canadians need to come first and politicians also need to look at the long-term consequences of their actions.",0 +http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user12162/imageroot/2016/07/18/iq%20race.GIF,0 +"The Klan did not really disappear from Oregon. They are still here, just not as visible (no headquarters). Many have also melded into different hate groups. We have a multitude of white supremacist groups here, all who had their start with the KKK. Portland and Eugene have headquarters for some of the most vocal hate groups, including white nationalists, black separatists, and general hate groups. There are a lot more than what are nationally recognized. https://www.splcenter.org/hate-map",0 +Re-Post until it stays. That's my system. Illigitimi non carborundum!,0 +"I think they will just bus them to Colorado Springs, Denver, and Boulder.",0 +History will always show that the worst president in history was Little w.,0 +The Russian connection was an invention by Hillary to blame her loss on something other than her failure. I heard her say she would stand by the election results. Guess she lied again.,0 +"You need to go a little deeper than that. Rights are not absolute. The usual example regarding free speech pertains to yelling fire in a crowded movie theater when there is no fire. Does that person have that right? To proclaim certain values that hurt others and that are in opposition to American ideals and that are fueled by intense anger and hatred of legally protected groups, maybe not so much.",0 +"To Alan Lawrence: Trudeau never flip-flopped over proportional representation. He wanted ranked ballots, which is quite different.",0 +You are just proving you know nothing.,0 +thank you for the anti hunting out of state opinion.,0 +"Really?? You've missed the point, palani. It's unfortunate that you didn't comprehend the gist of her commentary. Her last paragraph stated it, clear and simple to understand. Let's just agree to disagree! Aloha!",0 +Sinking subs....that's quite the metaphor for the Liberal Party.,0 +"So-called “free trade” agreements have decimated entire industrial communities throughout Canada. The Council of Canadians reports that over half a million jobs have been lost due to corporate trade agreements like NAFTA. + +If we really want trade agreements that create jobs, defend workers’ rights and protect our environment, we need FAIR trade that puts those concerns first. + +Sid Ryan believes that the NDP and the labour movement can lead the struggle against CETA and the TPP, and ensure that fair trade, not “free trade,” actually creates jobs, raises living standards and protects our water, air quality and ecosystems, for all Canadians and future generations. http://www.sidryanforndp.ca/sid-ryan-calls-fair-trade-not-free-trade/",0 +"NW Lynn, +Conspiracies are difficult to prove or rebut. For instance, Lincoln's and JFK's assassinations. Unfortunately, Trumpet is a master of conspiracy theories and his worshipers still do not believe Obama was born in the USA. so it is easy to convince them that California's voter security laws are allowing illegal voting by the millions. FOX news ignites their delusions regularly. +Facts and truth really get in their way. Again, your input is appreciated.",0 +"Trudeau had another option for spending the $347,000,000. He could have given every Canadian $1,000,000 a piece to make every one millionaire thus having the largest possible stimulus for the economy and generating tax revenues back to Ottawa. No this is not politically promising as filling the pockets of 2 canadian families. See you in 2019 at election time.",0 +"I think the problem is too many people ARE doing just that; watching them. Don't get me wrong. The current crop of news avenues in our state all give us the problems. Sound bites aren't long enough for long form discussion/analysis/discussion/resolution process. I get that. But if Fink or Blangiardi or Huffington really wanted to report on the options we have to correct the situations, then THIS media is probably one of the better places to start. However, if it is frontloaded or appears to be frontloaded with a one-sided agenda from the get-go, readers may opt for other avenues for consumption. That's why Bulletin and Advertiser and NY Times et al are struggling...and losing. If da ice cream no moa taste, den nobody going buy, dey going bye.",0 +"he does, i do, i have. GO TRUMP!",0 +The UN will not do anything because it is ineffectual and Canada can't do anything for the same reason.,0 +"No, Francis just accuses people who disagree with him of coprophagia. Oh, feel the mercy.",0 +"Justin endorses NFL players taking a knee during the American national anthem as freedom to express their views. For backbenchers, however, there's a different party line.",0 +WWW.RECALLGOVWALKER.COM. ...... Has a nice ring to it.,0 +Don't recall these fires under the last two Mayors.,0 +"""...Of a Canadian team winning the Stanley Cup: 28 per cent..."" + +No, actually this has been shown to have no correlation to the number of Canadian teams in playoff contention, or even in the NHL (not 28%, but in the ball park)....(I think it was Nate Silver who ran the numbers, the article was in the NYT and re- printed in some Canadian papers as well) + +I give the same as the 20+ years - 0%",0 +Interesting view but false.,0 +You 'll notice that lots of black footballers stand in respect for the national anthem.,0 +Western white liberal/conservative nations with a Christian heritage are better for women than any other system you can identify. Women and gays under Islam ? There are feminist and LGBT who actually think that's preferable despite all the bloodshed proving them wrong.,0 +"""Sweat the little things"" is still a very effective philosophy.",0 +"Stopping the move to mailboxes instead of door to door delivery was one of the worst things the Liberals did when they got elected. They can spin this all they want but the numbers don't lie and we the taxpayer are on the hook for it. By the way, the mailbox for my house was installed the week before the election and there have been no issues since it was put in.",0 +You don't need to wear a hair-shirt or see it as a big sacrifice. If everyone simply prioritized their flying for a net reduction we would be fine. If Cuba was important then you could do it but maybe you wouldn't fly to Dallas for a weekend to see a football game. We'd probably all be better off to just say no to destination weddings anyway.,0 +"""I love Wikileaks...""",0 +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRPzkB5mr1U,0 +Churchill is a hero of the British people (the man who stood firm against the Nazi) and Lloyds of London is a famous bank which is a still a major name in The City.,0 +"After reading through a whole bunch of words, apparently the big reveal as to how to keep #metoo from being ""just another hashtag"" is simply more men and women need to work to end sexual harassment and intimidation. Excuse me for being underwhelmed. Regular men and women should not engage in this kind of abhorrent behavior and should absolutely call out this stuff when it occurs (which definitely wasn't happening in the past, based on the accounts coming to the fore now). Beyond that, the only people who can truly change this behavior are the ones committing these offenses. And it's a good bet most of these people are clueless and not self aware enough to be an agent of change. So, in essence, Parker is just preaching to the choir and #metoo will remain "":just another hashtag"" because good intentions can never replace direct action.",0 +"Wow, 36% approval. That's only a few points higher than Republican's approval of getting Ebola.",0 +"SailFish2, the El Paso, TX and New Mexico Police and the Mental Health Facility they placed Kelley, and later he escaped in 2012.",0 +Thanks Alex Jones.,0 +"Not sure we can call a man who refuses to have dinner with anyone other than his wife an ""adult."" I have serious reservations about Pence too.",0 +"So in fact the definition of ""hate speech"" used is a lot broader than simply calling for extermination or genocide, after all, Alceste?",0 +"Behold the neo-facists are out in the open now, giving free voice in North America to their holy trinity -- state power, nationalism, militarism -- expressed relentlessly by their prophet, Trump. +Firmly in place in France, UK, Italy, Hungary and Greece, evidence that the movement has now gained a toe-hold in 'socialist"" Canada is best found in the comments posted in The Globe, Canada's ""national newspaper.""",0 +"That is what democrats do,",0 +"Superb column. Thank you, Mr Aguilar.",0 +"Conservatives agree it's a cruel bill with no reason for being other than to provide a whopper of a tax cut on investments and to stick it to Obama. + +https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/opinion/the-gop-rejects-conservatism.html",0 +"I said constructive. Massive debt and fueling the middle east nuts like Hussein with chem weapons technology isn't constructive, unless you hate America.",0 +Unquestionably McCain is an Establishment Republican and one of the better known members of the Anti-Trump Faction.,0 +"If a dog is barking at people, it is probably not a real service dog. I've also seen ""service"" dogs knock over a display in a store, pee in a store, and lunge at other dogs. My neighbors had a ""service"" dog that they left alone to bark and howl all day. There are reputable organizations that train service dogs. It shouldn't be hard to license them.",0 +Just enough snow so we Alaskan's can enjoy playing in the snow. Thats all we ask.,0 +"Bill Morneau never mentioned his dealings in the Bahamas, why is he allowed to shelter money?",0 +"It wasn't ten (though it should have been) who got ""jail."" Cowdery got house arrest due to his age and health. Kott, Kohring and Anderson, got prison time. Masek just got six months. Jerry Ward and Ben Stevens, who should have gotten a bunch of time, got off scot free. It was a regular Republican parade. Bruce Weyhrauch, who had very minimal involvement, won at the Supreme Court and 9th Circuit, and got probation for a state offense. I'd hoped that Robin Taylor and Eldon Mulder, and maybe Loren Lehman, would get prosecuted, but didn't.",0 +News alert: evangelicals are Christian,0 +"That explains two ships crossing, but in a busy place like the Straights, maneuvering and changing speed and direction can cause a chain reaction affecting other ships. Just one of many examples-- assume the McCain was moving at top speed crossing in front of the tanker, but another ship accelerated into the McCain's path beyond the freighter. You need to make quick calculations because as soon as the tanker passes behind The McCain going at top speed, it will need to slow quickly and maneuver to follow rules of the road and avoid a collision with another ship X that imay also be changing course or speed. Iif X is a large ship, it may mean the McCain had to slow and if it did so too soon it could be hit by the tanker. Othe maneuvers were possible for the McCain-- it could have turned to Starboard then accelerated in the same direction as the tanker. But what if there was another ship Y in front slower than the McCain?",0 +Paul Reed just tried so hard and failed so miserably. He seems to have a lot in common with Trump with exception to trying hard.,0 +"Keep your pants on ! + +It happened Sunday night and this is only Monday morning. +The names have already been announced.",0 +"POTUS TRUMP will get'er done! +#MAGA",0 +"Pork, anyway.",0 +5000 registered non-profits in Hawaii?/ Is this accurate?,0 +"Yes, I think there is a concerted effort to keep this under the radar from people. City government officials are not publicly honest about the crime because it makes the cities look bad even though it already IS bad. + +Reminds me of when I heard awhile back that the city of Lakewood WA didn't want the TV show COPS to do anymore filming there because ""it puts the city of Lakewood in a bad light"" city officials said. LOL!",0 +"Am I missing something here? This seems to be a fairly provocative speculative piece of reporting and for what purpose? Two vehicle deaths, albeit with possible criminal implications allegedly due to drugs and alcohol (an all too common situation anywhere nowadays), and a one off arson that got of control caused by a disgruntled and/or troubled patron. That leaves two gun events, one of which you can squarely lay at the feet of law enforcement and the other unsolved to date. Hardly a crime spree despite your attempts to characterize it as such. What's the KR agenda here? Who's agenda is KR trying to further? This just doesn't pass the smell test. Me thinks this may be an effort to garner public support for once again more police activity using the age old scare tactic. Shame on KR.",0 +"Thank you, Angelica, for an excellent commentary. Some of us forget that each generation faces its own challenges, in its own way. May I add one thought? When I read the sentence ""However, these stereotypes contrast with the way Gen Zers perceive themselves,"" I thought I could insert ""any generation"" for ""Gen Zers"" because no matter who we are, we struggle to make people see the real person, not just who they think we are. Please keep writing. The world needs good thinkers who can express themselves.",0 +"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/11/obama-to-visit-berlin-and-join-merkel-at-protestant-church-event +Obama's most recent overseas trip did not support Trump. I suppose you consider law-breaking a high standard of behavior? See DACA, and spying.",0 +"Just finishing up the Colorado Springs Seminar. Very enlightening! Many excellent speakers.. Senators, Governors, football star, Rehab advocates, authors, etc! Nothing said about supporting Planned Parenthood or businesses providing Maternity Leave which are very important to and for women. They go right along with equality in the workplace. The talks on bringing the power back to the family, neighborhood, town and people were moving. Our Government is a conduit to but not the answer to FREEDOM. Supporting free enterprise and business gives the unemployed and downtrodden the chance and choice to find work and pride of giving to society.",0 +"Globe and MAil, look outside your own bubble and do some better research (""The surcharge proposal, which was developed by B.C. researchers"")... here in FLorida, non residents pay much more in property tax and have for YEARS... should have been Canada-wide a long time ago. But, obviously at the very least in large metro centres.",0 +Actually leafs 14 w in last 20 compared to habs 9w in last 21,0 +Suicide is a hard thing for people i have tride but people should talk to peopel,0 +That shows the caliber of women's soccer yet they want fair compensation?,0 +"Your sarcasm is rooted in truth at least in part, sanctimonious. There is no Supreme Court justice who has ever come close to being as far from the centre as Harper's last pick, Russell Brown.",0 +"Despite the daily gun violence, lack of universal health care, failing educational system and nut cases being seriously considered for President, many people still say and believe that this is the greatest country on Earth.",0 +"Let me, + +You don't help your case by excessive overstatement.",0 +yes it is,0 +"Then Netflix is already paying taxes in Canada, eh! + +You do know what a server is right? + +The G&M is hosted on U.S. servers.",0 +"I hope, Wavemaker, that the ADN shall be brave enough to publish mine own letter that I just submitted, and that YOU shall be brave enough to take up said challenge.",0 +"Amazing! $2,595,000 buys you a 20-minute commute to anywhere! Funny...didn't see the Elon Musk Hyperloop in the basement — it has to be there right!?!",0 +"err....that's Bull Currier, Chair of the ORGOP, not Bill Post.",0 +I like when Jesus taught us to build a giant government.,0 +They need to create a valid test for marijuana DUI. They're already talking about using some of the profits from taxes on this.,0 +"""Instant runoff"" would have prevented a polarizing election like we had for Mayor of Anchorage. In ranked voting, one votes for first choice, second choice, etc., and the winner is chosen by the highest number of votes. But this would be expensive to implement at this time, so just eliminate the SOA Primary..... much cheaper!",0 +As sad as the previous killing. Why people kill animals is beyond me. I cant imagine of what value a dead lion is. Much-more valuable alive. People do get a thrill out of killing; that's for sure.,0 +"Me thinks you have very little idea what Marxism is? Of course, it is non-uncommon for those of the right to seen anything left of centre in extreme terms.",0 +See the latest news on Kevin Spacey? More people are coming forward. The man is sick and needs help.,0 +"You know you could read the article to find out, right?",0 +"Failed in parenting? His daughter is a college student and doing well. Don't you think it's more possible that at 19, she's just your typical ungrateful kid who thinks she has all the answers. You must not be a parent, huh? LOL...",0 +"To Sher Hindustan + +according to MARGARET WENTE Sweden does not look too rich + +Swedish welfare ghettos - social strains - $4-billion a year on settling new refugees + +""Sweden’s fantasy is that if you socialize the children of immigrants and refugees correctly, they’ll grow up to be just like native Swedes. But it hasn’t worked out that way. Much of the second generation lives in nice Swedish welfare ghettos. "" + +""The social strains – white flight, a general decline in trust – are growing worse. The immigrant-heavy city of Malmo ... is an economic and social basket case."" + +""Sweden’s generosity costs a fortune, at a time when economic growth is stagnant. The country now spends about $4-billion a year on settling new refugees – up from $1-billion a few years ago, Mr. Sanandaji (himself an immigrant, a Kurdish-Swedish economist) said. + +""Sweden’s ugly immigration problem"" - Margaret Wente - Globe and Mail - Sept 1, 2015",0 +"We should know by now that the White House crew has a real problem with comprehension. Starts at the very top and it isn't a ""trickle down effect"" it's more like a vigorous shower. Hence ..... they are all wet!",0 +Nice try but no one cares what you have to say. There is nothing you can say to change the fact that the civilized world will eliminate this savage stone age ideology one way or another.,0 +"http://thefederalistpapers.org/us/libs-complained-over-and-over-again-about-rigged-elections + +Rigged Elections?",0 +"You are much more influenced by corporate media than me, and thank you for exemplifying my point.",0 +No need to postpone anything. The Trump presidency is doing just fine. The only thing that got postponed tonight was the rebuilding of the Democratic party into a viable political force.,0 +Where in my OP did I identify myself as a liberal? I'm only referring to the excessive media attention Mr. O'Leary will likely attract in relation to the others in the leadership race.,0 +"heart? (ha!). Not one word of compassion from you about the 40,000 displaced? Or houses burnt down? Or the cattle and horses killed by fire? Nope just a dumb comment about the PM who has sent millions of dollars to help the displaced, sent Canadian troops to help fight the fire, and will now raise more dollars. +And your only comment is about somebody's socks. Sad. Very sad.",0 +"True Story..... I really wonder why the brothers and their friends keep feeding the public with nonsense , do they honestly believe that even the loyal ANC voters will swallow this one",0 +"That's funny. I've owned a Chevy Volt for a bit more than four years now and while I've not been entirely satisfied with my Volt, it's almost a certainty that I'll never buy another pure-ICE (gasoline) vehicle again. In my region, where we burn almost no coal to generate electricity, the Volt is far better for the environment than a gasoline car. The Volt is a joy to drive: it's quiet and quick and handles very well. And the Volt's range-extending EV design means there's no ""range anxiety"" whatsoever; we've taken it on very long holiday trips. + +Now that high-range Battery EVs are starting to appear at reasonable prices, I'll never go back to gasoline. And if the Volt ever wears, then for those rare road trips where the BEV wouldn't do, I'll rent a conventional car.",0 +"You're not (not ""your"") the arbiter of what's polite. You're not (not ""your"" again) special for using your (not ""you're"") real name nor for being a season-ticket holder. You're (seeing a pattern yet?) just a guy who thinks too much of himself. +Also, Ems (not EMS) is short for Emeralds, who've been drawing fans of all kinds for all kinds of reasons for decades. My kids liked the ice cream served in batting helmets the best. The Bebans did a great job back in the day. +Bethel Park? Heard of it but wasn't around here back then. Still doesn't make me any less qualified to comment than you. Try getting used to that.",0 +Send some Punahou kids to patrol the area. They LOVE outdoor activities...,0 +"Kag....I am pretty sure I can hear this guy saying....patiently, ""Look_________, funding for public schools is already thoroughly inadequate"" AND you are arguing to further reduce this very inadequate funding by splitting it up between public schools desperately in need of every last dollar and other institutions.....your argument further imperils the kids left in the public school...do you really want to do that? + +What we need is greatly enhanced public school funding itself""...and Kag I checked the school pop figures and came up with 51-2 million kids...",0 +"With the players returning the talent is there to be a contender again. The wildcard is the new coach. The new coach is not coming into rebuild, but rather is inheriting the team that posted the best record in the Western Conference. The heat will be on Davidson to hire a coach capable of maintaining and building on what Constantine established over the past 3 seasons.",0 +So how much have the prices of houses dropped in Vancouver with the new foreign buyer tax in place.,0 +"Yes, I use the term to describe yours and Sylvia Wyss's attitude towards women who want a hormone treatment for more than simply sex with unintended consequences. Regardless of the reasons that women and doctors choose to use the hormones, it is none or yours or my business. +btw - Healthy people in the 21st century can and should enjoy themselves in consensual adult relationships without the worry of unintended pregnancies. Also none of your or my business. +I say that as a paying member of Kaiser. My payment does not give me leverage to comment or judge other peoples' choices.",0 +"What a remarkably partisan review. Seemingly written by a Canadian ""Republican"" who, among other things, does not understand the difference between George W. Bush and Donald Trump. Al Franken does. + +Read other reviewer perspectives if you want to know the truth.",0 +"Medicaid for all is a great idea: right after Democrats permit that we cut Medicaid spending to Canadian/ European levels. + +What Sanders wants, however, coverage for all at levels of spending of US private health plans, is simple crony capitalism favoring big pharma and the medical lobby. + +So: cost controls and cuts before expansion!",0 +He'll leave sooner than that and I doubt it will be by choice.,0 +"The ""undercover St. Louis police officer and an Air Force lieutenant"" should have obeyed orders. Nothing wrong with the police arrests.",0 +"It appears the OMA leadership is in a difficult position. They have some Doctors who are happy with their high incomes and preferential tax treatment, and others who are unhappy because they want the big pay increases that other public sector unions have received over the past 12 years. + Unfortunately for Doctors, they don't run and finance the Liberals election campaigns like the teachers and other unions do, so they don't get the paybacks. And the OMA has some specialists who refuse to have their pay lowered, even though they have had huge pay increases because of technology, and their ability to perform more procedures in a much shorter amount of time + Either way, the pay increases the public sector unions have been receiving are unsustainable with a $300+ Billion deficit and $1 Billion dollars going out the door each month in interest. So the government has to clamp down on costs, especially on health care and Doctor's salary's are a significant component of this expense.",0 +There is plenty of evidence that he is a racist and an anti-semite...,0 +Sad that the only GOP members being honest about the Trump presidency are the ones who have nothing to lose. Apparently the rest are cowards who would rather stand on someone's neck for Trump or to maintain their ideological pulpit rather than stand for sanity and justice.,0 +"Yeah sorry about this one Sphere, I knew Somebody just had to make the false equivalent statement - interpreting the vehicular murder thing anyway as reference to everyday personal and commercial driving. Actually I was referring to people who get behind the driver's seats of 18 wheelers for the express purpose of running people over with them. 1 guy doing that, kind of more effective than 1 guy with a semi-auto, as recent events have demonstrated.",0 +"""Canada and China do not have a formal extradition treaty, and the Trudeau government has signalled that it may not complete such a deal out of concern about abuses in the Chinese justice system."" + +""Complete"" is a poor choice of word; better would be ""do,"" or ""who initiated..."" There was no such treaty or even the thought of one before Trudeau. It would have been unthinkable under Harper, Martin or Chretien. Only a Trudeau, who ""admires the Chinese... form of government,"" could possibly think that an extradition treaty with a totalitarian, Communist regime would be a good idea. Only someone lacking any understanding of history would think that justice is served by handing over people to the Communist Party kangaroo courts. Justice requires an independent judiciary; when outcomes are decided before the trial begins by Communists, that is not a real trial or justice. + +It is truly bizarre that these decisions are being made by someone with a grade 7 level understanding of history.",0 +"True, except we aren't talking about unwanted facial hair, warts or cysts. Or even your kidney for that matter. This is another human life. Not yours.",0 +"But many here say crime isn't a problem in the USA, it has come down 41%, ha ha!",0 +"Thanks for your comment. The same post got rejected the first time as ""uncivil."" To me, that implies abusive toward other participants in the discussion, which my post isn't. Your word ""insensitive"" is better, since making any joke about a tragedy is going to have a shocking effect. But it really wasn't ""insensitive,"" either, because I intended it to shock. Jocularity is a timeless reaction to tragedy. You can find it in Greek tragedy (e.g., Prometheus Bound). Jonathan Swift's ""A Modest Proposal"" is a classic of the genre. For contemporary examples, watch some of Quentin Tarantino's movies.",0 +"It will be interesting to see the response from the defendants' lawyers. That will tell us whether the legal kooks, or rational attorneys, are going to be in charge of the defense. If they mention the ""enclave clause"" of the Constitution in their response we know it is the legal kooks who are calling the shots.",0 +"The Ottomans are back. +And 'friends' with the Russians. +Isn't Great Britain 'friends' with Turkey too? +United in their dislike of the EU. +What`s somewhat surprising is that London is home to so many Russian Oligarchs.",0 +"I wonder what motivates Mr Fisher to feel that anti-nuclear sentiment is wrong. Renewable energy is almost cheaper now, as some published studies have shown, and will definitely be so by 2037. In fact, by then the current centralized electric power provider (nuclear or not) will be replaced by may small community-based plants based on renewable energy. For instance, Germany has dismantled all of its nuclear power generating facilities quite some time ago.",0 +"Focus on Facts. +Abdulahi Sharif was ordered deported by the U.S in 2011 then he shows up as a refugee with obviously no deep vetting done, arrives in Canada 2012. Three years later was brought to attention of RCMP but "" was not a threat"". +Seems he does not speak English or French after all these years in U.S and Canada +These are the facts. + Interesting, our Immigration Minister is silent and has to use a spokesman wonder why.",0 +"We know that “conservative” Catholics think doctrinal development aims to reverse teaching, but I don’t know why you would think “progressive” Ccatholics agree with them. + +You already know the contortions that have surrounded “false witness.” White lies. A little fib. Etc. +You know, and I think endorse, much of the development of “You shall not kill” into self defense, just wars and capital punishment. I dont know why the other commandments would be excused from similar development. +Generally, progressives are progressive because they think things can be handled better than they are now. Sometimes that means taking an existing law, and identifying exceptions to it. Eventually the law changes to accomodate the many exceptions. There are other ways this can happen- internal forum, legal leniency, etc.- but development seems to be the most honest. Projecting your fears anto progressives, or any opponent, is rarely a good idea.",0 +"Keep this in mind: This ""new"" GOP tax plan is a revision of a revision of a revision of the original one.....that The Denver Post lambasted...very clearly. +- +If the editorial board at The Denver Post found some things - some things - in this ""revision of a revision of a revision"" of the GOP tax plan that they like.....and said so....and defended....then that is to their credit. +- +The tax code is too complicated....and, as the editorial noted, it is not ""fair"" that only ""the savvy, well-informed taxpayers who are experts at avoidance and evasion"" can play the current tax-game.....while the rest of us get screwed. +- +Anything that makes it simpler....tends to make it fairer....to the vast majority of us....who can't afford to hire lawyers and CPA's to avoid and evade paying taxes.",0 +"Actually that's computer code for a keystroke, most likely the foward slash key option. Just a coding error most likely and it shouldn't make you lose any sleep over it. Let's test my theory though.... Next I'll type a foward slash / then I'll type a backwards slash \ and now I'll type the code for the return function on the keyboard
. If the period I typed at the end of the last sentence is below the actual sentence then the code worked as programmed. If the glitch is still affecting keystrokes then my foward and back slashes should look like the ""amp"" garble. + +On a side note, I say send there ass back to their country if they really are a refugee. That or let them got for a walkabout in our fine backcountry...say 50 miles from the nearest inhabited space...and we'll see if they cause any more trouble for ""society"".",0 +"As long as the ""Kealoha issue"" remains in the news and not resolved, the Commission will find it hard to find anyone even willing to put their name into the hat for consideration.",0 +"When the liberals first entered into the solar market (98c cents/KWH if I remember correctly) members of the German government told them they were drastically overpaying and actually likely do damage the solar panel market by supporting such a high price. We are now on the hook for a series of twenty year contracts ranging from that price down to some 28 cents/KWH. Bear in mind none of these prices include delivery just production. They have driven many high paying metals processing jobs out of the province and caused all businesses and in turn consumers unwarranted price hikes.Their next big thing is carbon Cap & Trade starting in January, is everyone ready for a hike in pretty much everything else they consume? They need to in the very least defer Cap & Trade. +They say you get the government you deserve, let's not vote them in again.",0 +"The difference is that Critical Reader is not POTUS or Jared Kushner, senior advisor. Is that not obvious to you or are you some 13 year old on your daddy's computer?",0 +"There's a much bigger issue inside Quebec's petty fatwa against facial coverings. It's about IDENTITY: what that means, when it's necessary to reveal it and how it may be discerned. + +I suggest that 99% of the issue is taken up by the first point: what does it mean to have an identity? And conversely, under what circumstances may a government require you to reveal your identity.",0 +"This is just saving face. +After years of asking NATO members pay more 'America' lowered the boom and said pay up or else there's no more defense umbrella for you. + +So now Canada is going to increase its military budget but the reason has nothing to do with being a NATO laggard but it's because Canada doesn't want to become a client state of the U.S. by depending on American military power, freeloading as a human right so to speak.",0 +"Also as a tax professional that recommends these techniques to clients, these techniques do result in lower taxes than the average employee would pay on the same income. However, it is apples and oranges - employees and small business owners are not the same given different risk profiles. + +However, while trying to go after the worst of the ""bad apples"", the changes will impact most small business owners, not just the 1%. Most of these small business owners are middle class. The changes will result in their personal taxes increasing and to a level that is typically HIGHER than the average employee (based on the same income level). Further, these rules will discourage savings in a company (for both expansion and to ""weather"" the next downturn) and are overly punitive to inter-generational transfer of businesses (substantially increases the tax cost if you were to transfer a business to your kids versus selling it to a third party). These rules will hurt small businesses!",0 +"Let's stir a little ""Uncertainty Principle"" in with your ""Chaos Theory"" and add two or three dissimilar butterflies to the mix at random locations and times. + +Now then we will have something!",0 +There you have it. Vote no on these bonds that want more money. I do every year and every year almost all pass. It is because renters want more stuff and think it is free yet they gripe about how high their rent has become. Just vote no on all bonds asking for more money.,0 +"MMA, tattoos, ISIS, feds.....man, turn up the volume and pass the popcorn, please.",0 +"And the CO2 is only a portion of the picture. Yes, a great deal of CO2 was pumped into the atmosphere previously during the Permian extinction, and that was due to nature. We have now done the same, more CO2 than has been in the atmosphere for hundreds of thousands of years. But we haven't merely pumped catastrophic amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, we've also deforested a great deal of the planet and damaged remaining forests with encroachments, we have eradicated wildlife, sealife, fisheries, arable land; we've dumped tons of radioactive waste into the environment and much of it is leaking, and we have around 440 active nuclear power plants that all need constant energy and half a century to shut down; we've polluted the oceans beyond description with giant gyres of plastic and dead zones and sewage and agricultural runoff, and so on. + +This is not going to end well, and it's later than most people think.",0 +"Gary--we need prisons that help as they incarcerate. So many inmates are seeking treatment for substance abuse and it makes sense to provide this option...and perhaps this would be cheaper in the long run. And many more folks might avoid criminal charges if their abuse was treated better beforehand as well...the same could be said for mental health issues that we don't deal with till the police are called. My last comment...please assure that the building get's painted...it's a bit of an eyesore...at least grass green would blend in. +Keep up the good work!",0 +Hmm.. And what would that do to South Korea? Are they prepared to take in millions of refugees?,0 +"He got pretty flustered when they asked him about the propriety of releasing an internal memo (remember he characterized his conduct as an 'investigative interest') to his friend at Colombia. +Rightly so, I should think. It's clear he's smarting over the circumstances of his dismissal -- looks like he went a bit too far in the heat of things.",0 +"Gov. Walker, Pres Obama to meet new Crown Prince in Saudi Arabia this Month.",0 +Most of the social and financial problems that we have in the USA stems from Federal ideas and laws. How about taking an old law off of the books when we enact a new one?,0 +"Well, Oregon is the only State that allows totally nude 'dancing' that I have heard about.",0 +This is shameful. It is not an investment it is just another bleeding of the taxpayer to benefit the heavily subsidized dairy industry. This has to stop Mr Trudeau. Consumers and taxpayers have been taken advantage of for too long to subsidize this industry. Why isn't every other sector impacted by CETA been invested in?,0 +"Rosenstein is also a witness in Mueller's investigation, which means he shouldn't be supervising the case. There's a lot of indications that the criminals are running their own investigation.",0 +How do you expect to be taken seriously when you whine and throw a tantrum like a 2 year old? Your POUTrage has about as much effectiveness as the Cleveland Browns have a chance of making the playoffs in any given year.,0 +"John Buchanan's old home in Roseburg is one of the historic houses which make up the Mill-Pine Historic District, center of the old railroad neighborhood. It's on Mill Street facing west, and it's easy to imagine him dreaming of Oregon's beauty as he gazes up on lovely Mount Nebo. + +But question: does anybody remember the lyrics he wrote?",0 +Exactly! VOTE NO ON PROP B1! We need the jobs and all the economic gain that we can get in the Mat Su.,0 +"More of Hussein Obama's "" Change you can believe in"". +23 days. +It's the most wonderful time in 8 years !!!",0 +"Do away with civilian flight attendants and replace them with military or law enforcement personnel. Stewardesses are almost useless these days, they don't even do the duties they once did like serving meals and drinks as airlines have eliminated those services except in first class and international flights. Just put in a few mini fridges in the galley of a plane and make it self service.",0 +Grow a set and use your real name . What are you afraid of ?,0 +"As long as the Liberals control Ontario, there will always be boondoggles akin to the Pan Am games that he can profit from.",0 +"And it is his savior in the White House whose comments give him hope for ""relevance"".",0 +"Carl, those figures are incorrect. All the most recent data shows that global warming, if anything, is happening faster than first predicted.",0 +we won't even ever become united amongst ourselves dems vs reps again. And thats the way politicians on both sides want to keep it to demonize an enemy all to get reelected. And it works,0 +"(cont) Schools have huge responsibilities today.....far more than when you and I were students. There are more single-parent families with increased stress on that single-parent; there are more parents involved in drug/alcohol abuse; there are more kids who are homeless; there are more kids who, themselves, are drug/alcohol involved; then, of course, we taxpayers have decided teachers are overpaid, class sizes too small, and we need to ""cut some corners""..no more music, no more vocational classes; no more PE; etc... we've eliminated many of the very programs which helped marginal students ""stay"" in school and graduate. + + .......I apologize for ranting and rambling....but, as I look at today's schools, I get really depressed.. C'est la vie.....Gary Crum",0 +pee pee tapes,0 +Nobody deserves it but it was made for the people to be able to survive how insanely expensive it is to live up here. Now I dont know all the laws by any means but ak has always been expensive to live and has only gotten worse. I don't like how they are lying to us that the pfd money is running out when it's the highest it's ever been (again don't know all the technicalities but I even been paying enough attention) despite that our greedy government has a HUGE spending problem and need to be voted out and I personally feel a sales tax will handle the rest. I know everyone hates tax and hates it but if we are being honest here. The government isn't going to stop spending and we have to many idiots with lined pockets up here for them to be voted out for example murkowski who has constantly screwed us and don young?really people do you research do just fill it in clause it works for you. Leave it blank if you don't know. Anyways my point I don't think walker so much deserve governor as,0 +"The African American community cannot bring itself to admit THEY have failed their youth. Don't wait for society to fix your issues......this time, it is not ""whitey's ""fault.",0 +"""These wayward theories have a tendency to allege that the Hawaiian Islands are under a belligerent U.S. occupation and that a simple trip to some international forum, be it the International Court of Justice, Permanent Court of Arbitration, or International Criminal Court, will result in a forceful withdrawal of U.S. interests. Yeah, that’s not how it works."" + +Well said. So sad to see our people pinning their hopes on something that will never, ever happen.",0 +no we just don't want those who are trying to jump the queue,0 +"What BC do you live in? Carbon tax has been effective at getting Lower Mainlanders to beetle over to Blaine Wash. to fill up their gas tanks, maybe. Everything that requires transportation becomes more expensive. Everyone pays.",0 +so what!! these cuts and changes mean no changes to anyone with cancer but nice try with the meaningless scare tactic bs as usual from the alt left,0 +"Quite right, Mr.Zenger. By a socialist minister who wrote it WITHOUT the ""under God"" nonsense (that was later forced into it by McCarthy-era theocrats).",0 +"So? The way they structure their own internal leadership is irrelevant. Electoral reform wasn't their policy. Take it up with the Selfie, it was his promise.",0 +"Actually Neato Neil, it does seem rather difficult for you. It's not like you have anything that resembles an intelligent argument. You just parrot the same phrase every chance you get. It's not like you think anything through, you just throw up meaningless numbers attached to your meaningless opinion. + +So, in your opinion, is every gun owner a ""neato gun owner"" or just the ones that do bad things? Is it possible that anyone would ever need a gun to protect themselves? Is everyone who gets killed with a gun an innocent victim of some heinous crime because a gun was used? + +Neato, your numbers are meaningless out of context. When in context, your argument has no teeth.",0 +"It's their 'freedom?' to disrespect our anthem and flag? Well, Mr. Joseph, tell them this, 'respect our anthem and flag or be gone immediately' They are Wearing your uniform, Working for the Broncos, they are Not on their 'own time', they are at WORK, representing a NFL team and city, kneel and BE GONE!",0 +"Indefensible. ""He's not your typical politician"" does not apply. He's an uncaring opportunist. Anyone have actual evidence to refute that?",0 +How about 30% of EVERYTHING.,0 +"I' guessing the US Securty agencies will have a thing or two to say about how ""Loose Cannon"" Trump functions. These people are not fools. +Go ahead Mr Trump, keep trashing them, we'll see how well that will work for you in the long haul",0 +"What happened to ""Government, by and for the people""? Now it's, ""Government by and for monetizing the people""",0 +"Marty I have attempted to correspond with you sometimes seriously, other times in jest. But my realization is that no matter whether incontrovertible evidence is provided to you it will have no affect...truth is not being sought, but a strong grip onto a belief held is a must and solely the issue, not whether it has any validity. It is absurd to say; Original Sin would appear in a DNA sequence...that is contrived myth. Evolution is change over time with gradual modification. The evolution of life forces from primitive forms to primates disallows for a special creation of Adam and Eve. Science tracing the DNA of the genes of the human primates, determine that its origin could not have been from one couple but multiple couples. Mind you, this information has not originated from me...I am only conveying the findings of science, which you refuse to accept...that is anti science. When I disagree with the church, I do not misrepresent it, you do to science though continually.",0 +"Legit people who are in line to get PR card, who are highly qualified, are held back for years. Lesson learned, NEVER ever do anything the right way!",0 +"Do the Alaskan Legislators understand these complicated oil and gas laws they pass for the people or the major oil companies or oil and gas monopolies? + +Maybe the people of Alaska should have a new law that provides that ten Alaska University Professors shall give them all a pop quiz on each Bill after they pass it and a majority of the Alaska legislature must pass this quiz with at least a D- or 70% before the Governor can sign it into law? Can we hear any yea's or nay's on this?",0 +Why are we following the US and UK? Why not follow the South Korean or Chinese example? Don't innovate just copy and steal with government supported loans. Western companies are giving this high tech stuff away in China for market share they will never see. So much for Canadian jobs.,0 +"The DP needs to get off the Liberal Band Wagon , with there Opinions , and just report unbiased NEWS !",0 +"Here is what she actually said: + +""You know, as a medical doctor, there was a time when I looked very closely at those issues and not all those issues were completely resolved. There were concerns among physicians about what the vaccination schedule meant, the toxic substances like mercury, which used to be rampant in vaccines. There were real questions that needed to be addressed. I think some of them have been addressed. I don’t know if all of them have been addressed. At the same time, we have a real compelling need for vaccinations....."" + +https://shadowproof.com/2016/08/02/jill-stein-smeared-anti-vaccine-crank-sanders-supporters-consider-alternative-clinton/ + +You really shouldn't buy into smear campaigns from an establishment that is afraid of the left. Although it sounds like you are too.",0 +According to Wikipedia the number is up to 27 now who have claimed sexual misconduct by Trump. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_sexual_misconduct_allegations,0 +"http://www.thundercreekhunting.com/wp-content/uploads/prairiedog1.jpg + +you gotta admit, if you squinch your eyes a bit or are blowing by at 60mph, they sure look alike :) just saying...",0 +It's a kind of scientific enquiry called Paleontology.,0 +"Unwanted pregnancy is correlated with increased crime, poverty, need for medical and psychiatric services and the use of public assistance. + +Programs like this support core conservative (and liberal) values, improve our communities and save taxpayers money. Like the kerfuffles about Planned Parenthood, this is just another stupid, wrongheaded appeasement to the religious right. + +Isn't it high time we stop allowing bad policy decisions based on some group's idea of morality? This was an evidence-based program. We need more of those, not less.",0 +"Even the G&M movie reviews are politically correct! + +This newspaper needs an intervention fast!",0 +"Push for a Constitutional Amendment if you don't like it. Otherwise, spare us the empty rhetoric.",0 +"no + +double no in montreal and ottawa",0 +Because the government makes bank by taking away people's rights and selling them back to us. I don't mind it. If people are dumb enough to buy the license let them. I myself will continue to fish without a license under the protection of the 9th amendment.,0 +"Of course it's your vote. No one, to my knowledge, has suggested otherwise. However, in states where the vote might be close, a third party vote is, in effect, a vote for the candidate LEAST like the one you vote for...ie. you would have voted for A, not for B and you voted for C....you cost A a vote by doing so........idealism vs pragmatism.......",0 +"This reminds of a friend that worked in the oil patch - was adamant and railed about climate change, yet let his pick up truck idle all night in 30 below so he wouldn't get cold starting it up in the morning..... When I asked him about a few of his contradictions in life style, he said ""you're missing the big picture""..... Ha ! Reminds me of the do gooders jetting around in various forms air conditioned transport......",0 +"An elephant is not mentioned in the article. + +Mainstream media has failed (hello CBC, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail) to assure viewers they are receiving reporting that aspires to be balanced and objective. + +Look, no kidding, when viewers realize, from everyday observations, the big media outlets are not giving straight goods, they will naturally seek alternative (often dubious) information sources. + +Examples of media bias? + +1. Selectively reporting protests. I favour liberal abortion access for Canada, but city drivers know anti-abortion activists hold periodic protests. The media ignore them - yet activists from Black Lives Matter (and various minority/gender groups) get covered all the time. Why so SELECTIVE? + +2. The South China Morning Post investigating, YEARS before ANY Canadian journalists, the connection between Vancouver house prices and overseas money. + +3. CENSORING away race/ethnicity identities with crime, EMPHASIZING them when good works are done. + +Other examples, anyone?",0 +"Make an educated decision, do the research, look for facts, statistics, peer reviewed. You're making decisions for the your Childs life that may or may not have significant consequences. I highly recommend watching this movie of direct experiences and facts of vaccine injuries. It is $4, the same as a latte, it will be well worth your time and money. + +http://vaxxedthemovie.com/stream/",0 +"I grew up in this neighborhood in the 1970s, and plenty of hot-shot weekend warrior pilots would buzz the area at well below 400 feet AGL. It was a matter of time before someone crashed on the Hillside. It got to be a real problem, with neighbors calling the FAA with tail numbers, and a few brandishing shotguns. Not everyone, not every day, but often enough that it became a topic of neighborhood conversation. It's way to early to know what the cause was of this crash, but my money is on someone getting too sporty with their plane and losing control.",0 +"It obvious that the two of you come from opposite sides of the political spectrum. I'm a centrist. So let's try this - find some common ground. Sara, you don't have to be excited about trump, but he is going to be our president for the next four years. So let's at least give him a year or so before fully judging him - campaign politics are unfortunately not the same as real politics. He won't be the first or the last politician to not accomplish things he stated he would on the campaign trail. If in fact he DID accomplish everything he would be the ONLY president to ever do so +But opinions about him aside, we need to treat each other well. We are all Americans.",0 +"At this point in this entire zoo all I can do is remember, and paraphrase the ""great"" Mitch McConnell. +. +""We are focusing on the email server of Candidate Clinton, because it is an issue. If she did not want it to become an issue, she simply should not have had a personal server handle classified communication""...point taken.... +. + +to which I say. +. +""If Trump did not want ""Russia"" to be an issue, his campaign, and people he has surrounded himself with, should simply not had so many secret meetings with Russians, which many of them then denied"" +. +They did not have meetings with other adversarial countries like China or Iran, or even allies, like Italy or Denmark. There was even a paucity of meetings with countries with Trump hotels....so why all the meetings with Russia? +. +No Trump ally has even said ""hey I had meetings with people from Poland, and Vietnam, as well""..its' all Russia. +. +Looks like a duck, quacks like a duck....",0 +Name one false accusation about Trump made by the media. I have yet to hear one verified lie about Trump made by a mainstream media source.,0 +"I suggest that you read up a bit on the history. There is a mnemonic about the fates of Henry VI's wives: ""Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived."" Henry VIII beheaded two of his wives, Anne Boleyn (on trumped-up charges) and Catherine Howard (on quite legitimate charges -- adultery by the queen was treason under the statute). Of the others, two were divorced (one for non-consumation), one died in childbirth and the sixth outlived him. + +Henry actually had solid grounds for an annulment. His father, Henry VII, arranged a marriage between his eldest son, Arthur, and Catherine of Aragon. A few months afterwards, Arthur died. The king wanted to keep the Catherine's dowry (over a million in today's currency, which would have had to be repaid out of the Privy Purse). So he decided to marry his second son, Henry, to Catherine. There was a problem: Under Church marriage law, one cannot marry one's deceased spouse's sibling.",0 +"A wonderful suggestion, Monica. I agree with you that the ""love is all there is"" argument breaks down not only when children are involved, but with respect to the integrity of certain kinds of relationships. For example, a relationship can be legal but exploitive and bad for one or both parties. Churches are required to speak out about relationships in which one party is being injured, coerced, or otherwise harmed.",0 +"Your knowledge is flawed. + +I did not say that money is what drives elite performance, but it is certainly a factor when you are a college student deciding whether to join the Greco Wrestling or football teams. + +I did not say that the successful women swimmers are in their forties. I said that women peak physically at 40. Yes, most successful female swimmers are in their late teens and early twenties. That is my argument. There is very little scope for a career in swimming, so once college ends, they are generally gone from the sport. Are you really going to argue that this statement is wrong? + +""People and organizations driven by monetary rewards are rarely successful."" Possibly. It is rare that a student from any given high school will get to the NFL, but that does not mean that the NFL does not exist. The NFL, by the way, is driven by money, and it is a very successful organization.",0 +Better check your facts the ratings for Sunday night were 10 points lower than last week. The NFL is making a big mistake by pissing off the paying customers! Money talks bullsh*t walks.,0 +Harper crafted the current ruleset for the Ethics and Conflict of Interest Commissioner.,0 +"Suddenly the Seattle Weekly, who had to be shamed into jettisoning Backpage, is concerned about children.",0 +Naughty! Naughty! Naughty! You would think at least one of those three family members would have stood up to the others to stop to it.,0 +"Mr. Craske, judges know the police lie under oath all the time, yet, as one told a lawyer friend of mine, they allow it to go on ""because the system wouldn't work without it."" In my opinion, that statement demonstrates the ""just us"" system is already broken and hasn't worked in some time.",0 +"oh so YOU were the OTHER black guy here in 1975. i commend you for bravery charles. i had a friend from san francisco come up, he wasn't here an hour and looked around ""where are all the black people? my husband said You're looking at him.""",0 +"Ok, new topic- Elmore, who do you support? + +I don't know why I'm asking, you'll just dodge the question. You can't even acknowledge that Obama doubled national debt and that FORBES acknowledged how much Obamacare has caused the debt. + +And I didn't ""act like a tough guy"" until you started in with ad hominem attacks.",0 +"You still can't find your village, can you?",0 +"Sounds like Mr. Scaramucci has the President's ear. They needed (1) a scapegoat; (2) send a warning to leakers (3) stability. So given the legislative struggles Mr. Priebus seemed to be the obvious guy to throw overboard. He was of course ""establishment"" but giving him the ax only serves to alienate the ""establishment"" guys who run the Senate. Let's assume for a moment that Mr. Priebus did leak to the press, is he responsible for the torrent of leaks coming from the White House? Of course not, will it stop others from leaking? Time will tell, but why would it? Gen. Kelly seems like a good guy, but how do you reconcile a Chief Of Staff who is on the record saying Russia did meddle in our election to help the President with a President who thinks otherwise? Further the President's current fave (Scaramucci) is the kind of guy the General would loathe, a loud mouth who wants to draw attention to himself. I don't know what the future holds, but it will be interersting.",0 +Why don't you investigate and report back to us.,0 +"For many women, it is, indeed, medicine. It reduces the growth and symptoms of endometriosis (a very painful condition that occurs when the uterine tissue grows not only in the interior of the uterus but in other areas, such as the fallopian tubes, ovaries and the bowels). Endometriosis causes infertility",0 +Susan is spouting typical victim industry propaganda. The victim industry does a disservice to crime victims by promoting perpetual victimhood to justify lifelong punishment.,0 +"Bombardier shareholders need to follow BP shareholders and cut exec pay. +http://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKBN178186-OCABS",0 +"But she is a puppet, she is merely the pretty head it is her who guru controls her mind and her mouth.",0 +"""Soviet"" counterpart? ""Soviet"" meddling? Geez, Michael -- talk about revealing slips. The cold war is over. Russia is not our adversary. Godless communism was. Putin is no worse than Erdogan or China. Russian actions are explained by US/NATO provocations Check real liberals like Chomsky, vanden Heuval, Cockburn, and Matt Taibbi, who recently spent years in Moscow. On this issue, Trump is the moral choice. Regime change is not in the catechism.",0 +"' +yeah, you got that wrong Kelly, + +…it's thanks to Obama that they can afford it in Washington, + +Washington chose to participate. +. + +it's no thanks to Parnell and the Republican Majority that it's overpriced in Alaska. + +You must have forgotten that Parnell and the Republicans chose not to participate. + +Our higher rates are a result of that mindless obstruction. +. + + + +When you seek to tell other people where to lay blame, + +…it is a big help if you first learn who really is to blame. + +Send your thanks to Parnell and the Republicans.",0 +"You beat me to it!!! I don't own Mawer funds, but have owned EdgePoint since inception (and Cymbria). But to your main point -- totally flawed ""analysis"". Another excellent fund is PH&N Hi Yield Bond for those looking for a fixed income position. I fully understand that it's returns last year were an aberration, but I think the 10 year return is around 6.5% -- net of fees, of course.",0 +"""It was based on $150 dollar oil"" + +That is what they are waiting for. It's insane. + +When discussing the oil tax bill and all of the deductions before they start paying taxes, no one in the legislature even knew why they added on an extra $8 ""Progressivity credit"" per barrel.... + +""$50 per barrel taxable value, SB 21 assigns a 35 percent base tax rate, or $17.50 per barrel. Subtract the $8 per barrel “progressivity credit,” when production tax value (PTV or cash flow) is less than $80/barrel, and the resulting production tax is 19 percent. The SB21 production tax on “new” oil at this PTV is reduced another $5 per barrel to a production tax of only 9 percent. In addition, the Gross Value Reduction of 20 percent applied before calculating the production tax on “new oil” reduces the production tax to only $1 per barrel or 2 percent."" + +When it was explained w/SB21 we are losing $$, GOP refused to believe it. + +& Does anyone know why the ""new oil"" is a secret? + +This is called organized crime.",0 +"The real ""danger"" in the digitization/automation movement, included in what Mr. Wadhwa writes, is artificial intelligence. It seems we are in reckless pursuit of all three. +There's no telling how the confluence of computer sciences, genomics, prosthetics, robotics, alternative energy sources, high density energy packets, broadband communications, and AI will shake out. But I think there will be at least two major consequences. The first will be humanity's loss of purpose. After all, if the computers and robots are doing everything for us, driving cars, shopping, cooking, learning, and having fun, then for what reason(s) does mankind continue to exist? +The second will will be a new dominant species. Again, there's no telling in how it will manifest. However, it won't be long before it concludes that humans are not only inconvenient, but inimical to its purposes. + The overall effect will be that mankind will have stepped aside to let the AI entity rule. It's evolution on steroids.",0 +So which domestic and foreign policies is it Afghanistan is supposed to adopt in an effort to stop all these terrorist attacks?,0 +"I already told you that experts say it IS doable - with today's technoloy EVEN if you have to finance it and pay interest on the cost. +That's literally how solar panels and batteries are going up in every office park and high-rise in the country right now ! +Do you seriously think all those businessmen would be spending this money if they weren't expecting a return on their investment ?",0 +LOL they've used it so many times before... good luck trying to find that crash.,0 +Hahaha stopped TMT lol using your court system,0 +"Andy Hollenman. And you have the best interests of children in mind? Gimme a break. You who have ""valued"" children in your NEA negotiations with the ASD? Why do you offer excused for a labor law violator? Makes no sense. He should be censured by the Assembly.",0 +Price gouging is evil. Market forces that are supposed to regulate costs are so distorted in the U.S. by the third party medical insurance system that they are virtually non-existent.,0 +"AnonAJ, deep gratitude for sharing that about your husband dealing with his physical problems with ""a lot of class."" I find that inspiring. I was dealt a very severe blow this year healthwise and have really been knocked for six. I'm going to try and follow your husbands example. Thank you!",0 +"Yes, you still follow the norms and dictates of the local bishop or conference, but you don't have to! If a decision of the local bishop conflicts with that of Opus Dei, then Opus Dei takes precedent. That after all is what a personal prelature is all about. +And why does Opus Dei ""hide its light under a bushel""? Why don't OD priests put ""O.D."" after their name? +I am fine with people who want to wear spiky chains and so on, but one area in which Opus Dei oversteps the mark is the requirement that its members go to Confession only to an Opus Dei priest. This implies that OD priests have a special power to forgive sins which other priests do do have.",0 +"My mother used to give me a headache, too. +But I let time and nature run their course.",0 +"Great news! Canada has gotten a free ride with 'free' trade with the U.S. and the chickens are finally coming home to roost. Instead of protecting our local industries,both major political parties sold out to Communist China,TFW slave labor,and flooding our country with cheap trash at inflated prices. Businesses have to wake up from snooze land and develop new markets and pay more than lip service to the local labor force. President-elect Trump is doing Canada a great favor that will hopefully force Mr. Selfie to spend more time in his country and focus on the economy and not giving away taxpayers money abroad! Canadian businesses and many of their lazy politicians, like Manitoba's premier on two month 'working' holiday, out of the country, on the taxpayers dime, need a swift kick where the sun doesn't shine!",0 +I was replying to another post not the article.,0 +"And who exactly are the ""Global Science Community""? Do they rent out timeshares? Are you the mayor? Where do you fit in that community? The only agreement is that of the politicians since any decent scientist will tell you the science is always an open book. Exactly how many scientists working on Climate Change, do you know personally? How many do you know of? How many professional, peer-reviewed papers, and technical publications relating to the issue have you read? Please enlighten me.......",0 +I wonder how much cheering the Alabama peeps would do if the athletes of color should all decide to go play for another team.,0 +"When the government says someone put lives at stake wha they really mean is someone told the truth on us and what we were doing was bad. Chelsea Manning did not sell her documents or give them to another nation big difference. Snowden should receive a pardon too. They said Eisenberg was dangerous and putting lives in danger too it baloney, good for you Mr President.",0 +"From: Casablanca ;-) + +Ugarte: You despise me don't you? +Rick Blaine: Well if I gave you any thought I probably would.",0 +"Yeah, that's all they did. Sure.",0 +"Great response. +Well stated.",0 +"So do you think the majority of voters are clued in, informed, and educated?",0 +"MA: Don't forget to add that it was those same white guys that saved the whales, sea otters and walrus from extinction.",0 +"From my point of view I would never call it a nightmare to spend some quality time with my children during vacation. It´s also not busy at all to keep them active if the weather is good.",0 +All I can say is I would rather be lucky than good!,0 +"I think they were totally transparent. Their costs went up specifically as a result of the minimum wage hike so they explained that. To subtly raise their prices with no explanation would have been deceptive. What a backward world. + +That being said, paying tipped employees less than minimum wage or an alternative minimum wage is a bunch of crap. If we have a minimum wage, that is the least per hour any employee should make.",0 +"""said Colorado first baseman Mark Reynolds, who has played in Baltimore and Chicago, where baseball has really mattered for generations."" + +Dear Kiz - Mark Reynolds never played for either Chicago franchise. He has obviously played ""in"" Chicago, as has every MLB player, but never for Chicago. Did you mean to say St. Louis?",0 +Roll Monarchs!!,0 +You can pick up a geiger counter on amazon for $100. Go buy one and report back your findings if you want to disprove the scientific community. Maybe stick one down a salmons throat since they roam the radioactive seas!,0 +"You are probably correct about the tax haven issue. Probably most are legal. +However Trudeau ran on the issue of ""tax fairness"", what ever that is. He even foolishly raised the tax rate on people making over $200,000 in a meaningless gesture to ""help"" the middle class. How chasing entrepreneurs out of the country helps the country is beyond me. And the Liberals admitted right after the election that this was going to be a money loser. + +Then they go after small business. +Then they threaten to tax employee discounts. + +All they have done so far is raise the debt and collect more taxes.",0 +"Yes, it's an important book for many reasons. It's extremely well-researched and annotated almost to the point of tedium -- except, of course, that the documentation is essential for credibility. We need a similar book to give us a fuller picture than we have now about Pope Pius XII. Pope Francis should act immediately to make all of the relevant archival material available to historians and researchers. +The religious leaders of our day, especially in the United States, would do well to remember that a future generation of historians will study the resurgence of Nazism, fascism and racism under Donald Trump. A good exercise for them would be to write the chapter they hope will be written about them. History will ask: Where were you, what did you say and do, to stand against the reemergence of fascism?",0 +"Trump and his supporters-- like yourself--were happy to hang Clinton high on ""allegations""-- and allegations with little substance. Chants of ""lock her up"" come to mind.",0 +"Trump now ports a white head of hair instead of that rusty orange. Oh, the dignity… his adorers just love him. And, that warm sense of altruism from all that giving to himself must be very rewarding.",0 +"looks like these comments are still censored by the jack booted, brown shirted goose steppers of the far left Post.",0 +And our government and media are actively punishing and denouncing white people for their privilege and colonial crimes. Seems everyone and every organisation has their biases.,0 +"This article is incoherent. What kind of assault are we talking about? Sexual? Physical assault while a robbery is taking place? Something else? Why the secrecy around his name? The motorcycle belonged to him or not? If the police are protecting his name, then why? That's a story. And how, in the name of all that's holy, can that many resources be used and the perpetrator isn't captured? That's a story too. Who. What? When? Where? How? Writers are supposed to ask questions. Do it RG.",0 +Wow! Jughead figured this all by himself. Not to mention that he is the boss and should have been paying attention. Guess he was too busy traveling with his buds. Deciding whom to give the cash to.,0 +"Enforcement here needs to be proactive, not reactive. 24/7 enforcement, 24/7 presence until the scum leave. Clean up the graffiti, bring in the pressure washers before the vermin drop their pants, not after. Why is the City abdicating its responsibilities here?",0 +"""all the facts coming out of this are unrelated to the campaign""?? True enough, but an unregistered agent of a foreign government was campaign chairman for the fellow that got elected President of the United States of America. Is there seriously nothing wrong with that?",0 +"6000 thousand miles away! Why are we not trading with them now if ""they would love to trade with us""",0 +Why is the paper now a department store wannabe? This is an Amazon.com header,0 +"The only intolerance I've seen is from the Alt- Left progressives normally known as communists. But since that term and ideology is so hated they have changed the noun to progressives. As if they think we wouldn't catch on??? Duh? + +College campuses, unions, media, CNN, MSNBC, G@M all exhibit extreme intolerance. + +So no the right simply questions it doesn't beat people up or shoot people. + +iT THE LEFT WHO DOES THIS HORRIBLE STUFF",0 +"No, no extension.....trump can't make a decision if he's locked up in a Leavenworth, KS prison, and the dufus republicans are going to lose all around.......less than two years to go to throw the repubs' out!....Hooray!",0 +"At the height of the McCall era many of us had bumper stickers that said, ""Don't Californicate Oregon"".",0 +"At the current rate of descent, it will only be two years. The Dems will regain control of both houses and immediately begin impeachment proceedings. IF (and it's a big IF) Mr. T. can hold on that long.",0 +"Having no information or evidence, I'm not going to speculate idly but there are a lot of suspiciously strange things about this whole story. I hope there is adequate and timely investigation of the circumstances.",0 +"Go Rogoff!! You media people are so disgusting. We understand you love this amoral lifetime politician, we just want to know why??",0 +"Short of General Mattis none of them would be considered ""champions"" for the middle class who get up every day; go to work and try to keep their head above water. The DOW might soar some and corporate profits might rise but that ""warm trickle"" down ain't gonna be what they were expecting.",0 +"The site is ""unavailable"" at the present time. + +Must be millions of Canadians that can't wait to answer the questions. But the question on a referendum was strangely left out for some reason......",0 +Paul: I have NEVER liked nor supported the Unions. UNIONS=INFLATION. The Union leaders are laughing all the way to the Bank..........,0 +I want to know who made that quiz???? Whoever did should be fired! No questions asked!! It's this type of incitement of violence that is harming our children and our country. Stop it!,0 +"Canadian tech companies don't want to train anyone. What does that mean for Canada, when the only experienced people will be foreigners?",0 +"Canadians, being the capitalist haters they are will never be happy with anyone short of a bona fide radical socialist for Ambassador. If you are rich and actually earned your money and are not a drug dealer, hockey player, Hollywood degenerate or an heir, Canada hates you.",0 +"Your statement that the Tongass has 17 million acres may be true, but is not accurate if intended to imply that much land is available for timber harvest. The 17 million acres includes all the mountaintops and glaciers in the Tongass. The potentially suitable lowest land is 2+ million acres. If you eliminate the acreage of forest land located within land use designations (LUDs) that do not allow timber harvest, etc, you get to an existing timber base- including second growth, I believe- of approximately 600,000 acres. A far cry from 17,000,000 acres comprising the total forest. + +http://www.merid.org/en/TongassAdvisoryCommittee/~/media/Files/Projects/tongass/Ecological/Working%20Forest%20Group%20Old%20Growth%20Land%20Base%20Analysis.pdf",0 +What has Russia done that you think is so bad???,0 +"This is keeping with the long list of phony Faux News scandals that the GOP has been pushing for the last eight years, like Solyndra, Fast and Furious, and the IRS. None ever got any traction, and neither will this. There's no there, there.",0 +That in itself is judgment.,0 +"IRT Robert Holub. Thank you for your service, and I agree 100%. Besides the lantern ceremony, too many of us see Memorial Day as a day to party as the beginning of summer fun. I would like to see Memorial Day observed on May 31, the day that was set aside to honor the great Americans who served. ""Without Memorial Day, there is no other holiday."" _ Joe Mantegna",0 +What an arrogant reply. As if everyone who can barely afford heat is throwing money away on expensive coffees.,0 +"So you think Russia's hacks and leaks are A-ok and Putin should be an honored guest at the White House, but Manning should get a 35 year sentence and/or death?",0 +"The city actually covered up the graffiti, without asking or telling anyone. Also- the owner of the businesses in question is NOT the owner of the building. Writer needs to get her facts straight and should have a moral obligation to report the truth. This does not appear to be the most valid journalism.",0 +"How 'bout you start with Dickerson vs United States, when your finished with that one, I can give you a bunch more.",0 +Mostly the spread of infectious diseases has nothing to do with immigration. Way to try to inject some baseless xenophobia and racism into the conversation where it doesn't belong.,0 +"Under no circumstances do I want the Springfield School District entwined with Eugene 4J! + +That would be almost as bad as being entwined with the City of Eugene and their disfunctional regime. + + Only South Eugene schools are semi-functional; the rest are on the bottom of the curve.",0 +"Hey don't forget HBC... +Retail Dog of the Great White North. +I see its down 10% this AM...:)",0 +"Yes, long and short range tasers were used eventually and from the evidence after the officer was cut and stabbed. Still doesn't explain why the officer ended up in a brawl.",0 +He thought he was ordering a pizza.,0 +Anti-Trump Ranters Unite ! All three of you ;),0 +"The environmentalists, the NIMBYs, the lefties, the Indegenous people and the anti oil crowd will never let this happen. Nothing ever will,get accomplished within this country when we let all,of these special interest groups run the country. It's sad.",0 +testing,0 +"If the powers that be could actually sit, discuss, and fix that would be great but generations of time and and an unwillingness to compromise suggest otherwise. With that said, unless the OIA is truly willing to do whats in the best interest of the student athletes they will always be the biggest stake holder because of the sheer numbers hence the bully in the sand box. Maybe each league should only have one vote - with five votes there will never be a tie. + +Sounds like a selection committee should select. I suppose no selection committee will ever get it right for everyone's taste, hence the same issue and conflict all over again. It could be as simple as league champions only, but for the parents of the ""everyone gets a trophy"" generation, even that won't be good enough. At the end of the day I say let only league champions play for a crown. Like in the college game, other inconsequential ""bowl games"" could be played for exposure, etc.",0 +"Thanks for specifying passages. I see what you mean about lightening sentences but two issues: One it is manufacture not distribution/dealing and it is a reduction of minimums and maximums rather than, as you originally put it, a broad ""not putting dangerous criminals in jail."" There are some circumstances, such as the zero to two year sentence for class b or c felony being suspended. However, it should be noted that it is only for first time offenders. Second offenders of both c and b felonies are sentenced to a minimum of one or two years respectively. Also for Sec. 91 and 92 while they lower minimum sentences they do not provide for any new avenues of avoiding jail time altogether.",0 +"You're talking out of both sides of your mouth. You say the white supremacists should be condemned. Then you say the counter protesters ""lose credibility"". In what way, then, do they lose credibility? What part of the white supremacists platform isn't wrong?",0 +"It's already started. Look at TDionne Banks new rates, even before the BoC has done anything. US Federal just raised theirs, that'll affect the fixed rates.",0 +Blame the victims. You're all class.,0 +I am glad and proud to be leading the charge against this madness in my F-350.,0 +I'm African?! I hope the police don't shoot me..,0 +"With 6000 homeless passing through the Mission each year, it would seem a stretch of resources to allow no time limit for staying. Also, I don't have a problem with the ones that are trying to turn their life around getting better chow than the ones not in the program. It's good for morale. So what changes are you suggesting? And why should they answer to you?",0 +"Fox presents both sides of an issue. I can't understand why someone would find it interesting or informative to only hear one side of an issue. The press has special privileges but with that comes a responsibility to report the facts fairly. The MSM unfortunately has an agenda and has taken sides. While to date there hasn't been shown anything with Russia that effected the outcome of the election, the MSM reports and speculates every day, while only Fox reported on the MSM providing questions to Hillary for the debates. The MSM omits news not favorable to Democrats. Maybe you like what CBS has to say compared with Fox, but it's not reality; there's more to the story. At least Fox has an equal number of liberal/ conservative pundits on the air. You can't say that about the MSM.",0 +If Bombardier's credit is so good why not go to a bank for a loan like the rest of us? Why not sell more shares?,0 +"I realize that I've been critical of Obama in the past, but when I step back and look at what he's accomplished I have to admit I'm impressed. Obamacare is a huge advance over what we had (nothing). Serious action to address climate change. Appointed highly qualified supreme court justices that aren't hyper political and conservative. + +He was far from perfect. Too much militarism, too cozy with big business and all that. But given the congress he had to deal with he made more progress can I expected. And just think if he had lost either election. + +The republicans deserve Trump. And they deserve the drubbing they're going to get. Bernie or Hillary will crush him.",0 +"But the ones still selling heroin and meth to the 'poor black folks' and the rich 'white folks' are still going to prison. + +And the ones killing their rival drug dealers and pimps (mostly black victims, of course) are still going to prison. + +And none of that has anything to do with personal responsibility or lack of moral values being taught while they were growing up.",0 +"I'm not really sure how it is that you're equating the idea of ""civility"" as being ""progressive"" as opposed to ""conservative."" I've seen plenty of uncivil discourse from progressive/liberal people, just as much as from conservative people. I don't care what political ideology one believes in: namecalling is ugly & counterproductive.",0 +"I kinda regret not getting into the super bowl, because football bit is the only bit of it that I am not particularly interested in. I am interested in snacks, and American commercial. Sadly, I have also never figured out how to turn on our tv. (There are 35 remotes and a converter box, even though the TV is some sort of high end digital thingy. To me, you should be able to turn on a button, twiddle a dial, and land right in the middle of a sexy scene involving Tudors unlacing bodices). I also rather like the american commercials; usually it involves someone throwing a sledgehammer through a big TV screen in some sort of dystopian universe. Next year, I plan to stream all the commericals, maybe see if I can find Lady Gaga's half time show on the internet, open a bottle of wine, make wings and chili, top it with grated halapenjo cheese, and put it all in a big bowl. A super bowl. Then, I will either have a nap or crochet something.",0 +"Wow, offering survival strategies for the criminals. The sharply dressed corporate criminals get this while the common are deprived of their welfare and livelihoods on the former's account. Interesting.",0 +The real challenge to Canada's health care system is Canada's health care system.,0 +"He's done a great job on the Council and he's got a great grasp of the issues. Tough call on this seat but after meeting with him and watching him work, I'm voting for Beusch.",0 +Muted? That'll teach him. AHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAA,0 +"I don't see any problem letting Russian's vote in American elections..They can join the 30 million Mexicans,2 million Cubans,1 million Puerto Ricans,Iraqi's,Somalians,and Arabs already voting in the elections..",0 +"Dear America, +Your eyes are Liberals and are not to be trusted. Before you believe anything you see, please check with the Alternative Facts Department. + +Donald Trumper +World's Most Honest Human Being Ever - True Fact",0 +"Correct. +If my memory serves me right, Mrs Trevor Manuel, aka Maria Ramos, also played a part in the decisions that impacted the pensioners.",0 +"The dude was born in Manchester. Homegrown hater. Being a sanctuary city or not would probably not have made a difference as the dude was already there from birth. Europe is strange in that most of the terrorist are homegrown. You can ban travel from all the predominantly muslim countries you want, but the real issue are the terrorist radicalized in Europe who were born there or otherwise have citizenship.",0 +"The ignorance and laziness of these authors is astounding. +Nobody has to buy manufactured goods from China - it can all be had elsewhere. Despite their strength as an exporter, they are vulnerable to any shift in purchasing towards alternate suppliers. Conversely, we have foods and raw materials the world needs ever more badly, and we don't need a trade deal to sell such things. We have apparently issued a million-odd visas to this country - why? They should be cancelled ASAP. That amounts to a huge change in immigration policy without legislation. Holders of such visas should not be allowed to buy property here - citizens and PRs only. If we can sell a few things to China - fine. But not military technology, for heaven's sake! Finally, China will try to affect the next election to keep their puppet in power - we have to prevent that interference.",0 +"Forget the Charter of Rights -- all it ever did really was limit rights by putting goalposts on the Common Law. + + It's clear there is manipulation and there are people using these laws to get away with things that are not in alignment with the principles of rights and freedoms. This is extremely dangerous legislation.",0 +"R control Senate plan, cut education and public safety, take the PDF and use it to pay tax credits to the oil industry. I guess you have no problem paying for the corporate welfare people.",0 +"I completely disagree with Mr. Saunders. +Motive is of the utmost importance and to find the motive for a horrible act, like a mass murder, is a must for it will and should determine how law enforcement and intelligence agencies deal with it. A lone wolf act is one in a thousand, violent acts carried out by individuals motivated by radical religious and/or political beliefs are carried out in a systemic fashion and deserve an entirely different response. +What Saunders is implying is that as western societies we have no right to make a 'value' judgement as to who is carrying out the terror against us. We do. We can easier accept that mental health issues can bring a person to psychosis where +he carries out a violent act, but it is more difficult for most of us to accept the pre-meditated violence carried out by for example ISIS. As a society we hav a duty and a right to differentiate between different kinds of violence. It is our +duty to understand the underpinnings of it.",0 +"Well, ya gotta start somewhere . . .",0 +"Nope. Trump himself said that shipping corporations were against it, so he didn't do it. + +Gotta watch out for the rich and well connected first.",0 +"The plan also calls for at least doubling the standard deduction. That would benefit all but the very richest people and those in the high-cost states on each coast. As a homeowner with house value above the median for this area, I would still welcome this plan as I would save a ton in taxes after swapping my interest deduction for the larger standard deduction.",0 +"You don't even believe that desperate call for help. + +Trumpism failed. + +He's done. + +Best get yourself some popcorn and get ready to watch the fall. + +Clovis just withdrew after his grand jury testimony. + +The net is drawing tighter and your pal Trump won't escape the net.",0 +"Perhaps prisoners should have the choice of life imprisonment or the death penalty. Some might consider life in prison to be the more cruel and unusual punishment. In fact at some point in the future I predict that a prisoner will request a medically-assisted death, arguing that the depression associated with endless imprisonment is intolerable. + +It means nothing to me either way.",0 +"and ""calice"" as in ""chalice"".",0 +"The weird thing is that the 81-year-father would have received a longer sentence if he had ""groped"" his daughter rather than killed her.",0 +"The most important work exprience on the PM's resume was that he was qualilified and trained to teach drama. + +A quote of Marc Antony from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, + +""Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war"" + +The PM, when implementing this deal, knowingly or unknowlingly, did a disservice to world peace. And there is no getting around the factual evidence, reported by this and other newspapers.",0 +So does this mean that we as a society are regressing back to the pre-1776 days when inalienable rights were only guaranteed to property owners? Did the USA turn into an oligarchy or a plutocracy when nobody was looking?,0 +"For crying out loud, wake up! They are not ""investment advisors"". They are commission salespeople. Until they are definitively prohibited from flogging any financial product or service in which they have a direct or indirect interest, there will be no ethics. + +And notice that I did not add a qualifier about it being OK so long as they disclose their interest. They will find a way to weasel past that. Absolute prohibition. + +And by playing along using the polite euphemism ""advisor"" this author is enabling them.",0 +Thoughts and prayers out to the victims of the reckless driver. Some of us grew up around here and remember Gabe as a rude and violent predator. I am still haunted by 30-year-old memories. Many of his former employees say that nothing ever changed. Every coin has two faces.,0 +And people wonder why we say millennials are soft......,0 +Hamilton is cutting PS managerial and looking at the rank and file too,0 +Politics and money. Oil always rises to the top.,0 +"No, comrade. I just said that Tubby's opinion was worthless.",0 +You are gutless!! I din't think it's racist one bit!! I agree with Terry as well. A Japanese driver winning OUR Indy 500 on OUR memorial day!! Not very American. He didn't call him any names nor make any reference to race he just feels that if an American won it would have been a better feel for the day!! Shame on you liberal lady's,0 +"I worked multiple times with mellow, chivalrous, charming and ultra-patient Mr. Sugarman. He was a very fine gentleman, and I will remember his good work fondly. THANK YOU, STU! R.I.P.",0 +Texting or on the phone?,0 +Not if he is using a HEAT PUMP,0 +"That's true about fault tracing using remote sensing (satellites), Dunthorpe, but those fault traces don't have the sensitivity to detect fault blocks small enough to be displaced by human structural forces in a specific way. Neither does seismology, an inexact science requiring experienced interpretation, similar to polygraph interpretation.",0 +"It's way overdue for the U.S. to withdraw from the hapless, ineffective United Nations and kick them out of the U.S. Their numerous toothless Security Council resolutions have done nothing to reduce the North Korean threat while China and Russia continue to discreetly support their North Korean ally and Kim Jong Un and the North Koreans laugh at yet another ineffective Security Council resolution. + +If China really wanted to, they could stop North Korea, but they have deliberately chosen not to. + +Time to give both Japan and South Korea their own nuclear weapons to restore the balance of power in the region.",0 +"So what now? We're going to be deprived of future books by this excellent Canadian author because of the Identity cops? One thing I hate is art being promoted for something other than it's quality. Literature should stand on its own feet regardless of its origin. You see the same thing happening with Canadian music getting air time in favour of better non-Canadian music. There are also parallels here with language laws promoting dying or less popular languages. Point is that Identity politics, the CRTC and language police are all impediments to evolution - the human quest for excellence.",0 +"Sometimes, if it turns out that someone actually was negligent.",0 +"What an inane reply. Some people take up just causes because it is the right thing to do - there is no consideration of an monetary benefits - many are volunteers, They are compassionate and want to help those in desperate need of help. +I feel sorry for you.",0 +"They couldn't poll the Electoral College- a remnant of the civil war, and an oddity in a so-called democratic country. +The popular vote was spot-on the polls.",0 +"There is little to no evidence of your claim. Millions of healthy Americans are paying a penalty rather than the thuggishly aggressive Obamacare coverage: birth control for post menopausal women, chiropractic care, smoke Enders. Meanwhile, true catastrophic care is limited because there are so few affordable options. Democrats have nothing but spending our money and dividing us: black against white, women against men, rich against poor. Medicaid expansion does nothing to improve the health of our nation, 2016 was the first year to see life expectancy decrease (!), and since the top 1%, which though despite lavish incomes both Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama managed to escape the appropriate tax rate, pay the most taxes should get the most cuts.",0 +"Senators don't really have the horses to play at the SidPens' level, but made a gallant effort in this series. + +One more Penguins' win and then it's onto the Cup Finals. + +Mark Streit and Ron Hainsey have done a tremendous job playing on a decimated defence. + +Murray is a money goaltender. + +Haven't seen Uncle Fester's predictions here for some time..... strange.",0 +Ok Trump we heard yor anti free tade message.,0 +"""In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread..."" + +Working to produce or earn food and shelter is the human condition. If you have a problem with that, take it up with biology. If you cannot earn a living, there's plenty charity to go around for the deserving, assuming of course you don't live in a communist disaster zone. If you think you're *entitled* to live off the work of others, as socialists do, then *you* are the one engaging in slavery. + +And yeah, other dictatorships also sucked. That doesn't mean the Soviet one is worth celebrating.",0 +"The copy editor must have cut the final two sentences to fit space. Here they are for your reading pleasure: + +_""The leadership that's so desperately needed won't come from a new mayor who is nothing more than a proxy for Kitty Piercy and who will continue to let the City Manager fail with no consequences. The City needs an experienced mayor, like Mike Clark, who will hold the City Manager and his staff accountable to the citizens of Eugene.""_ + +-- Paul",0 +"Yes, thank you Mr Callan for your ideas on what do with rail. Your proposal makes so much +sense that our political ruling elite will never support what you propose as they have already +received too many brown envelopes of appreciation and stand to personally benefit +in other ways so they are all going to walk us all lockstep into a financial disaster of a rail project +no matter what.",0 +I sure hope he pulls the plug on it and he loses both ways not only with the ego he has but also with Congress.,0 +"Always easy for a well informed man to stay within the letter of the law but avoid the ""spirit"" of its intention altogether.",0 +"""That sound like “victim” to me, much to your chagrin."" + + You may make any inference you wish, and your insinuating implications and or opinions are just that, without any further knowledge of me or my position regarding logging or the death penalty, both issues which are off topic, I might add, your simply guessing. Keep it up, I simply don't care.",0 +I know a few retired people that do this to supplement their retirement. Most of the people I know have been trapping in the valley for 30+ years before all these anti-people came here.,0 +At the rate the federal Liberals are imploding I can see Kenney as PM in 2021 and the Liberals back to third place for keeps.,0 +"Exceptionally well put! + +The referenced royal commission on taxation was an extensive, comprehensive exercise in its scope and research and input from a broad cross section of Canadians - in particular groups most affected by potential changes - but the More Dough Morneau effort seems as you say to have been hurried along and written on the back of a napkin. + +Rumour has it Lincoln wrote his immortal Gettysburg Address on the back of an envelope but surely even the trust fund twins would agree that our tax system is rather more complex than the Gettysburg Address which was essentially poetry not prose. + +The arrogance of this PM and his finance minister seems to know no bounds as evidenced by this rushed exercise in the most complex and sensitive area of government and its interface with citizens. + +If a comprehensive and independent royal commission on taxation was required in those simpler tax days of 1966, it is even more required now instead of a partisan tax scavenger hunt.",0 +"If you expect adoring God 'to do something for you' then it is not adoration, it is a form of self-gratification.",0 +"We spend 53 cents of every tax dollar on our military. Better ways to kill people to protect corporate access to foreign resources are always going to be a big seller here. We sell more weapons than any nation on earth. +Hillary Clinton signed off on a record-setting $200 billion arms sale to the Saudi dictatorship. Moral? We doan need no steenking morals! All the better to destroy Yemen & control the approach to Suez and the Southern hemisphere. One more potential Iran ally down. +This is about building empire. As LBJ's att'y gen'l Ramsey Clark said, ""There is only one thing the rich want, & that is everything."" Now, if the port can just find ways to make drone bodies from recycled carbon to use those cooling systems.... Locals are salivating over those jobs, no matter who has to die as a result. Love of money feeds all evil. +Arms are the only thing we build better than anyone else in the world, so war is always going to be popular here, no matter how many innocent lives it costs.",0 +78% of all statistics are made up on the spot!,0 +Funny how Trumpsters don't understand that...,0 +"Your first point is short sighted as anyone who wants can brew their own beer or wine but how many do? Less then 10% I would guess, it takes effort and experience to do it well. +Your second point is blatantly racist and should be retracted.",0 +"Completely different than Hitler. Hitler hated Jews and wanted to kill them. + + The residential schools were set up to train the indigenous community to become good British citizens with a modern education, They did not understand the negative consequences of residential school at the time. + +Its hard to judge people in the past with modern ethics. At one time even slavery was considered acceptable.",0 +Have you ever checked out the percentage of Palestinian who are Christian? Of course not.,0 +"Sewing chaos is an integral pillar of the Zuma Inc corrupt project strategy . It keeps the opposition focussed on ""the sideshows"" while he and the entire ANC get on with looting the state under the guise of the NDR.",0 +"500 million plus or minus dollars sent to Ukraine to help against ""Russian Aggression"" (totally false) +Dogs ""rescued"" from China (not a bad thing but apparently we register dogs and keep track but not the total amount of homeless people) +Horrendous problem (not challenge) of people dying in BC from drug overdoses. +We can pray to the plaster gods and sing a song for a six penny Santa or even dance for the royals but Canadians need to face up to the truth + +Diane",0 +"it was all done legally +no one has the right to enter any sovereign country + +if you don't like the questions, then simple, don't go +everyone knows the border guards are acting legally + +I heard an immigration lawyer on TV today, basically you are at the mercy of the border agents",0 +"Your Jays only have to play .650 ball after the All Star break to get to roughly 90 wins required to see the post-season. + +Good thing that all except one of them have an extended vacation upcoming.",0 +"There is another part, immigration. The foreign buyers understand mass immigration to Canada better than Canadians. That is why they invest in Canada , because they know people will continue coming and coming from Asia, there are billions of people living in smog and dust. One millionaire leaves and another taxes their place.",0 +"When I was a computer science student 15 years ago at UofT, computer science was predominantly male (25% of female students sounds about right), and top of the class was even more predominantly male. Back then, graduate schools were focused on recruiting female students to help the field become more diverse, so it's not the lack of opportunities. + + If I fast-forward to today, about half of the female computer science students I knew left the field, largely because the opportunities in the fields they left for were better. + + From what I here, there is less computer science students now that there were 15 years ago. Where will all these female CEO's come from?",0 +"Really cannot understand why many are so upset about the election in the US when we have so many problems here a home. I really think Canadians like to poke fun and belittle the US to take the heat off our own shortcomings. +So, how are the NDP polling, not that great I think. Bereft of any leadership or good ideas, the Liberals will again win the BC election.....thankfully. Why not cut the lefty condescending crap, it shows how little you know. I read the Economist.",0 +"The best adventure book there is bar none. That men in their predicament survived is exceptional, that the had the mental fortitude to stage plays while trapped in the ice shows incredible discipline of mind and that they had the courage to sail to South Georgia in a lifeboat is beyond epic. These men are legends.",0 +"Two hours ago I said pls stop with the Hate posts here. People died. Innocent people at the hands of a mass murderer. + +But some have not stopped. So let me tell you'll something. + +Years ago I watched a President (who was no 'pick' of mine) speak the day of 9-11. The deep sorrow in his eyes, his words, his sadness for the victims broke my heart for him AND them. His sadness was deep. And real. + +Today, I watched live as this President spoke. The deep sorrow in his eyes, the sadness in his voice, his broken-hearted message for the victims is heartfelt-and again my heart broke for the victims and for this President. + +You people who hate-those whose vile hate is triggered by the mere word Trump-understand I pity you. +I pity you as people & sad for those whose lives are impacted by your mere presence. + +Do not mistake my pity for feeling sorry. I do not feel sorry for you. I just hope you do not spill your absolute miserableness on too many others who are near you. I find you deplorable.",0 +"We really need some sort of re-call legislation, both provincially and federally in Canada.",0 +Notice The Left always accuses everyone else of what they are most guilty of. Microaggression is term invented by aggressive people to distract attention away from themselves.,0 +"I would agree. We are in a transition phase from the economic impact of Harper's policies to the impact of Trudeau's. + +Certainly economic performance to date has has been largely the result of Conservative policy. We are transitioning into seeing the effects of Liberal policy. I would say that 18 months from now we will be living fully within the Liberal economic reality.....just in time for the election.",0 +"I've switched to Judaism from Christianity, but needs to have A Rabbi officially convert me.",0 +"Just this morning I heard Colleen Hanabusa say on the radio that the legislators in DC have the very same Obama Care medical insurance that everyone else has. There is no special health care for elected officials. Just reporting what she said... no, I don't believe it either. LOL",0 +"But why should he have to? Having all drugs legal would still leave choice and we need more choices in life, not less. Alcohol use is an accepted part of biology or the liver wouldn't be able to do its job.",0 +that's a big part of cutting weight for fighters,0 +"""No one has high confidence that the U.S. missile defence system would have anything approaching 100 per cent accuracy in shooting down incoming missiles."" + +Correct me if I'm wrong but to date the only successful anti-missile tests have come when the defenders have plenty of warning and the missile's trajectory is known in advance. So, in reality, nobody has the slightest idea whether these things will work in real world conditions. That's a lot less than ""100 per cent accuracy.""",0 +"in all seriousness, and to be fair, hillary has really gotten the shaft on this one. the balls were in her court, but now they are in the court of the fbi's. this must be really hard for her.",0 +Worst Congress ever.,0 +"Washington Post fact checker gave ""Three Pinocchios"" to Senator Cassidy's rebuttal to Kimmel — he flatly claimed that “more people will have coverage…. There are more people who will be covered through this bill than under the status quo.""",0 +"Um, wow, a minor bylaw infraction is violence? And, also, um, you refer to a supposedly violent Left in the immediate aftermath of the recent mosque homicides carried out by a devotee of alt-right websites? + +Say it ain't so, Joe.",0 +"What BS. +There is no ""Iraqi Government"". +Just a US colonial administration.",0 +"What an amazing competitor she is! Keep on truckin, Allie!",0 +"Dear Sheryl, Zuck and Company; +Show the ads and the dates and locations that they were displayed and let people make up their own minds. There is only one possible reason why you would not, since you cannot violate the privacy of what you have already determined to be a fake entity, and that is... #nothingburger",0 +"We are not having babies because we are selfish? Really? + +It is usually the other way around. Impoverished countries tend to have larger average family sizes due to the lack of affordable birth control and lack of a social safety net when parents get old (they rely on multi-generational households). + +So, like most first world countries we have a negative population growth. Thank god. With the world's population expected to grow to nearly 14 billion in the next 20 years we are going to have a real challenge feeding everyone and avoiding large scale warfare over resources. + +The UN expects population to level off at about 14 billion as more people are pulled out of poverty assuming globalization is not reversed by the recent political trends.",0 +The anti-nepotism law came in after the Kennedy presidency was over..,0 +"It been years since the Clinton's were in the White House as President and First Lady. They didn't stop working during that time. They've had plenty of time to make money and invest it. As for the Obamas: well, I heard they made a multibook deal for which they'll be paid in the area of 26 million. That's money made after leaving the White House after a long, hard job well done.",0 +"It's immaterial if his purchase is technically legal or not, what counts is he was able to walk right into a store and walk out with guns. + +What this points out is the process isn't as rigorous as it should be, and buyers aren't really thoroughly vetted enough to eliminate these kinds of mistakes. + +It demonstrates that the process of purchasing guns should be better managed and more tightly controlled.",0 +"This has really turned in to a circus !!! This people are getting ""PAID"" good money and they can't even put a grocery list together . Such a shame our representatives are so incompetent.",0 +"Paraphrased from the 2017 columnist: + +""Too often, gene advances provoke hysterical responses about an imminent race of super-babies. We saw it when in vitro fertilization was pioneered, when three-parent IVF was done and now with genetic editing. We need to keep our wits about us, to consider the promise of this technology as much, if not more, than the potential perils."" + +Paraphrased from the 1930 activist Edith Keeler in Star Trek: + +""The years ahead are worth living for. One day soon man is going to be able to harness incredible energies, maybe even the atom. Atomic energies that could ultimately power cities and hurl us to other worlds in some sort of spaceship. And the men that reach out into space and use the atom will do good, there is no need for hysterical predictions of a planet whose nations become armed with thousands of nuclear bombs designed for destruction. We need to keep our wits about us, and consider the promise more than the perils, the future of the atom is good.""",0 +Wouldn't that be an alternative fact?,0 +"I agree with you on how the number of publications is not important... it was just a first look at her productivity compared to others. Streisinger (of UO zebrafish fame) went years without a publication, I'm told. Embarrassingly, I don't recognize any of the Medal of Science winners. Richmond has been awarded nearly every possible honor, though, so she has convinced nearly everyone of the significance of her work.",0 +"Lawsuit stands no chance of success, as others have pointed out, the seats are sold to individuals and you can't arbitrarily put somebody else in them. Why did the father not have a ticket for the toddler? Trying to save the money he spent on the ticket that the teen never used. Sorry but it's his loss if the teen left early and he had a ticket he couldn't legally use.",0 +"Great facts, Ronin006. +Our politicians should have hired companies from Japan. They know how to do things right and efficiently. Unfortunately this project was seen by those in the know as a huge financial windfall where many could get to +wet their beaks at public expense. As we can see, this has resulted in a disaster of a project which will indeed make Honolulu, the laughing stock of the nation. It stared with the selection of Ansaldo to build the trains +a company which then had to declare insolvency even before the first train was built and the selection of Dan Grabauskas of the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority and the ""Big Dig"" project in Boston which went from +an estimated build cost of 2.8 billion to 14.6 billion and 9 years late by the time it was finally completed. Interestingly the consortium involved there was Bechtel, Parsons, and Brinkerhoff who also may have had a +hand in our rail project. What a coincidence.",0 +"Source: Look up Diefenbaker's National Oil Policy, 1961, which created a protected market for Alberta's oil industry. All provinces from Ontario west paid above market-prices for Alberta oil for about 10 years to support development of Alberta's young oil sector. + +Because Quebec and Atlantic Canada have easy access to oil by sea, they were exempted from the NOP and continued to buy oil in international markets. The expense of an oil pipeline east was considered foolish. + +The spike in global oil prices in the early 70s then gave rise to the NEP, when government wanted to pay Alberta less than market prices to help even out the price shock. But as we know, Alberta was suddenly all about free markets, and any attempt at a made-in-Canada oil policy pretty much ended with the epic NEP dust-up.",0 +"""....Roberts, who created ""Wild West Alaska"" and is looking for new ideas here, said pitching shows today requires a shift to better stories with authenticity, more ""Making a Murderer"" and less ""Duck Dynasty.""..... + +Well, if it's more ""Making a Murderer"" that he's looking for, he's certainly in the right place, there's a lot of murderin' going on in Alaska these days",0 +"Yeah, that was a little creepy, him saying ""you're about due for a lesson in humility."" Actually not a little creepy, a LOT creepy.",0 +"Being wealthy is not a measure of business success, part of that wealth may have been because of insider trading, besides drug lords are wealthy too, should they be prime ministers?",0 +Would be better if all the autistic high school kids got together and had an exclusive prom of their own. I'll bet you they will like it better.,0 +"""MSW should have spent more time reading it than writing another shallow and negative piece."" + +Really, R.D? Yet again, you are projecting.",0 +Nope. No background check required to purchase a car or truck.,0 +"Sounds complicated. Here's another way to eat healthy: +Eat roughly equal parts carbohydrates, fat and protein +Eat your veggies +Chose the food from the farmer down the street, not the PC box. +Get off your couch and do something. + +And you don't even need a calculator to figure it out.",0 +"Let's just accept reality. We, as a free people must accept whatever anyone else wants to do if we want to stay a free people. They can sleep with whomever they want, dress however they want, eat whatever they want, marry whoever they want, pray to whoever they want. We can however draw the line at bomb whoever they want. +On the other hand, as a free people we can not, dislike whoever we want, disagree with whoever we want, not take pictures of their wedding if we don't want to, not bake them a cake if we don't want to, not tell them to use the bathroom designed for them.... Man, this whole Liberty thing. It sure is tough. No wonder it's concept is fading from our lands.",0 +"""You mean like you did? And encouraged others to on your behalf?"" + + +These things are not truthful.",0 +"Great column, Nicholas Kristoff, thanks for digging up all those fabulous quotes. It's hard to imagine any of these jokers now trying to defend Trump with a straight face. +But as my Dad used to say, ""It all depends on whose ox is gored."" (No doubt some Ds are capable of such extreme flip-flopping as well.)",0 +There's a new world order on the horizon and it doesn't include Liberals.,0 +"I'm incredibly skeptical that anyone would seriously expect both the BCHAF and a doubling of the foreign-buyers tax province wide to be introduced. The BCHAF model advocated by Davidoff has always been an alternative to the foreign buyers tax. The Green Party platform advocates the foreign-buyers tax. The NDP advocate the BCHAF model. + +Personally, I find this article slightly irresponsible because poorly communicated policy forecasting will only contribute to contagion in the market.",0 +"Exactly, Roy. While I have found Jeff's advice almost always useful over the years, I found this article about as relevant as ""After years of research, doctors come to shocking conclusion: hunger can be alleviated by eating"".",0 +Alaskan_2016.. I just heard that too on NBC.. (That he had been living up here anyway),0 +"sorry, I have re-read your post several times, the first 3 lines, is not making sense. +. +Great, you have been studying the idea for 30 years. Then you should be able to explain this since you understand it, as I would love to. +My and most peoples question will be, Who pays for it ? +Where does all of this magic ""free money"" come from ? +I mean, personally i think it would be an awesome thing to know that people have their basic needs met. I run a non profit org and work with the homeless daily. To know or think that with this we could eliminate most homelessness once and for all ? freakin awesome! It would free up so many other resources to focus on bigger and better things, higher education, cures for diseases, real renewable energy. +But even as a non profit org, we get money one of 2 basic ways. 1) or we earn it (which is most of our money) or 2) someone gives us some - someone else earned it. We have no governemtn grants, those are all tax dollars. +Who pays for A Minimum Income?",0 +"What game were you watching? Not to mention you just contradicted yourself saying this is all on the coaches, but then said this GROUP Bartlett. Which means you shifted your focused back to the players. The Coach should be able to question the flags and apparently in Alaska you can't. This game was the worst officiated game I've seen in my life. It was as if they were trying to hand Dimond the game. Not to mention the staff that were there stooped to a childish level telling the players we're getting all your numbers and names and reporting you because you briefly stood on the track. I suggest the school make signs to bring awareness to their track rule. I also saw another staff arguing with a Bartlett family. And to think she is a teacher and a coach. It seemed as though everyone was mad at this game. I see why Bartlett would be mad during the game. But Dimond, I don't see it. Sorry but Bartlett was far from classless, they deserved this win and played their heart out for it.",0 +"Good, wordy descriptions. Would have been nice to learn more about the boat itself. Like, you don't carry enough fresh water to wash your hands and face once in awhile?",0 +"The woman who made the charges made clear why she came out with the charges now. She voted for Trump, as well, so Moore's attempts to spin this all as just politics rings hollow.",0 +"LOL...nice anti Trump/Sessions/American screed. Apparently, Waldman doesn't comprehend the REASON we have a government is to PROTECT our citizens. That's #1. We're NOT here as a country to see how many illegal aliens, or even legal immigrants we can take in in a year's time. We have ENOUGH problems of our own. Unemployment, burgeoning welfare and food stamp rolls, etc. The cost of education and healthcare keep going up, as schools MUST take illegals, and hospitals MUST take illegals. They are educated and treated at the expense of the American taxpayer and worker. How about we take care of OUR OWN people first! Consideration of illegal aliens should ONLY top one list, and that is enforcement of our current immigration laws. We have a huge national debt, not even CONSIDERING the unfunded liabilities the feds have created. It's time we took care of ourselves! Common sense SHOULD prevail!",0 +"Despite the incredulous nature of these incidents, I don't think you can rule out the deliberate aspect and it still needs to be considered and investigated. Would a terrorist organization or a rogue state use such a method to disable and take out of commission one of our most powerful and needed warships? It is still possible and perhaps the crew on the other ships involved might sacrifice their careers to make a political statement if so radically motivated and if they will be paid under the table later. Call me paranoid, but stranger things have happened. Also, how come no injuries on the other ships? As if they were anticipating the collisions? Maybe the Navy brass needs to take a closer look at the assumption that their people were exclusively at fault. Not the first time crew were ""railroaded"" to excuse the higher command.",0 +"""Single-ride bus fares are slated to soon go up to $2.75 from $2.50;"" Remember, these are without transfers. If a transfer is needed, the fare is $5 (and will apparently be going up to $5.50).",0 +"And then what, Janette? What do you do with the information? Keep your children away from them? But if they are not people in your family's social circle, would your children have been playing in their yards to begin with? And virtually all sexual abuse of children is committed by those people who are in the family's social circle, often family members themselves, not by someone you don't really know who is on the registry and happens to live in the neighborhood. Certainly you need to and want to protect your children, but this is best done when you have the facts.",0 +"Donald's campaign is in meltdown mode. He is down 15 points in the polls. Republicans are deserting him in droves. He has a BIG mouth, and spends more time attacking Republicans than he does Hillary. The GOP is fractured. A party that's not united, can't win. Donald does not have a snowballs chance in Hades. He simply can't control himself.",0 +< this comment did not meet civility standards >,0 +"The Skinny repeal that was voted on would have jeopardized two of the most important features of the Affordable Care Act. The irony of KellyAnne Conway blathering on about "" just get a job that offers insurance"" while the repeal bill would have purged the requirement that businesses provide insurance would be laughable if not so sad. And, the ACA requirement that individuals carry insurance makes everyone responsible for themselves. In the 1980's Ronald Reagan signed the Emergency Treatment and Labor Act which requires hospital emergency rooms treat all that walk through their doors regardless of ability to pay, nationality legal/illegal alien status. Mitt Romney callously referred to this bill when he implied people don't need insurance...they can go to the emergency room. Hospitals are offered tax breaks for their charity...recently hospital charity levels have dropped off due to the ACA. We tax payers should renegotiate the tax breaks they receive to better even the playing field.",0 +"I don't get it - why point/wave a fake gun at cops? What is the purpose of it - do they actually think the cops are going to put their guns down and back off and let them escape? Or is it a method of committing/instigating 'suicide by cop' because they don't want to go to/return to prison? + +Or - {a hypothesis just to pi** off the cop embracers} - perhaps because pellet guns are untraceable as to who bought them, they are an easy plant after a shooting? 8^} + +Gotta say, though - quick research shows that this particular pellet gun does look realistic and threatening ... and they are sold at Walmart. Was this what he shoplifted?",0 +"I think what Dimbulb Donnie also doesn't realize is that when he ""ran"" his ""businesses"", he could act pretty much as tyrant, firing people at will, and just because he had the money. + + +It doesn't work like that in government. I think Donnie will find the metaphorical knives will be out from those in his own party that he has constantly humiliated and bullied. + + +Donnie may never have gotten his comeuppance in his little playland of ""running"" his ""businesses"" that he only had because of Daddy's money, but he may finally get a lesson in the school of hard knocks out here in the real world.",0 +"Not that I want to give the communist party of China any ideas, but when will it learn that silencing sources of dissent can only be accomplished by removing the senses, disabling speech, the ability to write, to see, to be mobile, to think. mao all ready tried to convert populations in China to human forms of machinery when he worked and starved so many to death with the policy of the great leap forward. A policy that wanted to change people's names to numbers. What did China fail to learn from the stalinist policies such as The Holodomor and the soviet political pogroms of the 30's. What part of, intimidation does not work, is the ccp failing to grasp? + +Here is a novel concept. The issue is the inability of communism to separate itself from the horror of totalitarianism to hold onto power. Their incompetence is governing a population by intimidation to enforce compliance. The problem is communism. History has shown that a controlled people can turn on a controlling government.",0 +Was just down at the Library. I think both are working now.,0 +"I don't know, but I'll ask.",0 +"Jane the patsy is the guy that gets framed or takes the fall. The patsy is the set up man or in a poker game often referred to as the mark. The pasty is usually a dupe that can be fooled easily. The Chief is no patsy. The Chief is the target. Also known as (aka) a person of interest and often referred to as the suspect. I will admit that you got some of it right. Now, you got to learn the good guys from the bad guys, That will come with age.",0 +"Hi Larry you raise 100% legitimate points. But I suspect a similar question was originally raised of Messianic Jews. The first step was to try and divorce biblical Judaism of the Torah from later Judaism of the Talmud. Then Messianic Jews could distinguish what was is really a religious issue and what is a cultural one. + +The same with Islam. Many things we associate with ""Islamic"" are actually manifestations of Arabian culture, or the later Haddith, and not the religion of the Qu'ran. So a Messianic-Muslim shouldn't, for example, feel obliged to where a Burkha. + +And funny you mentioned head dress. The only religion with explicit commands about wearing head dresses is Christianity, in 1 Cor 11. Yet we explain those texts away today don't we? + +Muhammed was a deeply flawed person - but any more than OT prophets? His fundamental message was for Arabians to abandon paganism and worship the God of Abraham. Judge him by his time and place, not ours.",0 +"Though we are in the minority, our disenfranchised voices are nevertheless living, breathing voices. However, we are devalued in a one-party rule where valid ideas and input never make it out of committee and to the floor. Balance in our legislature will help address that violation.",0 +"I don't really worry about the overall portfolio value but that my monthly income from dividends and interest keeps increasing (up 14% over first 4 months of this year compared to last year). Just have a diverse selection of dividend paying stocks with some debentures or preferred share thrown in. When the market goes way down, it is just a good opportunity to buy!",0 +"""Claire Syrett, meet the Black Market, Black Market, Claire Syrett and the tens of thousands of people who buy and use cannabis in Eugene."" Do you really think people are going to consistently pay 20% more or go to the source they've used for years?",0 +Mel you are a hoot. And I echo the comment above that suggests that the reality of today's progressive movement has become so extreme it is indeed very difficult to distinguish it from parody and satire.,0 +"How long did it take POTUS to start a twitter rampage on immigration when 6 people were killed on the sidewalk in NYC? +This? 27 people? Just good patriots making the necessary sacrifice for our 2nd amendment rights. +He's probably busy on the links somewhere in Asia.",0 +It's time to vote Don out. He hasn't shown up for work for years and when he opens his mouth toads leap out. I was hoping he would gracefully retire. Not.,0 +"Why not? A chance at better balanced reporting, a less political agenda, etc.",0 +"I've worked all my life and never made it ""rich,"" nor did I live on entitlements, Bradley. Quick grasping at straws by blaming liberals. + +I'd rather see the former House Speaker finish his life out in prison. A lot of people that knew Hastert helped him cover up being a child sexual predator. How sick is that? Those same people sat by and said nothing while he oiled his way through Republican election after election, and then dared let him sit as House Speaker.",0 +"Alie: Other than ""The Bruins laid back to much in the third"" I agree with you all the way. Habs actually pushed more than the Bears expected, that late in the game. The Bears wanted to win it more than the Habs, and they did. Tough loss for Habs but they did get a point.",0 +"Call me cynical, or conspiratorial, but Trump's Syrian missile attack does not pass the smell test. Too many coincidences. This is all about optics: sending a timely message to multiple listeners. First, China and North Korea: President Xi Jinxing is informed of US attack over Floridian dinner? We saw that scene on TV's West Wing. The most urgent US-China issue is North Korea with Trump wanting China's cooperation - but claiming he might act alone if necessary? FBI and Senate/House: Russia-Trump ties under investigation and seen - at best - as too friendly? Suddenly not anymore. Baby-lovers: why was Trump emotionally moved now, but not by previous photos? Everybody else: why would Syria drop just one single Saran WMD when an entire squad of jets attacked? And why now, just when Trump needs a symbolic win both at home and abroad? Can we rule out the possibility that Russia did this to aid Trump? Heaven forbid - might the US have done this?",0 +"YESSSS BUT. it doesn't give people to the rite to fiscally block him from speaking or behaving violently if they don't get their way!!!!! + That's called fascism and the last time I checked is was still illegal. +Back to your safe space snow flake.",0 +"I'm basically a liberal except on immigration. + +But, no matter if Trump moves to the far left or not, I say we still need to have him removed from office. + +He's really dangerous. Maybe even more so right now than ever before. He's actually playing his last hand. The GOP won't trust him after this, and the Dems simply will not embrace him unless he's giving them clear wins. + +He can't give ANYONE a clear win for too long. It's not about ""winning"" as he so dishonestly and ironically coined during his campaign. Except, to the extent ""winning"" means his Narcissistic impulses and needs are fulfilled. + +What he does today could turn on a dime. Just like what he was doing, literally yesterday, did. + +What that means, for all of us, liberal or conservative or in the middle, is that we are at grave risk due to the guy's condition caused instabiity. + +Congress needs to act. Mueller needs to hurry. Pence needs to learn lessons about bipartisanship in the meanwhile. + +We need to come together..",0 +"And they would like you to believe that they would intervene ""quickly"" if there was a leaking pipeline!",0 +"you want local kids to come to eat breakfasts? dump the American style food, how about local style food? how about poke and poi? forget the eggs and bacon.",0 +"You know, to steal something one must deprive the rightful owner of its use. Writing from the vantage point of someone from different cultures/sub-cultures or expressing views with respect to different cultures does not deprive members of such cultures/sub-cultures from expressing their own views. In any event, the sad reality is that such ""appropriation"" has also been beneficial to the cultures appropriated. Non-aboriginal writers writing with an aboriginal voice have made many aware of the systemic abuses against aboriginals. Just as white musicians--by ""appropriating"" the music of the black community--brought attention to that community and were instrumental in ensuring that black musicians were recognized and honoured. One could argue that it is lamentable that such ""appropriation"" was required in the first place, but the unfortunate reality is that it was, and that it did have a positive effect on recognition of the cultures appropriated.",0 +In a sense haven't they already done so by accepting ordination?,0 +Q: How is it OK for Kurdistan to break away from Iraq but not OK for Crimea to separate from Ukraine?,0 +Great job to those who did this :),0 +"complaints are made to City and HPD, including 911. common response is that the law does not allow them to take action. hallelujah!!",0 +"I don't think we disagree on these fundamental issues, but I think you are broadly painting most journalists as the worst kind, when there actually are many more good journalists than bad ones. ...",0 +"Populism, like political polling, seems fine when it works for us -- left or right -- and lousy when it doesn't. In the current circumstances, with the blustery demagogues and their mobs, I'd prefer to use the term ""right-wing regression"" or even ""redneck reaction"" (but I'm reminded with alarming frequency that these fall somewhat short of civility standards).",0 +"Instead of offering solutions and action, we’ll just keep saying “prayers”. If automotive engineers had just said “prayers” every time someone died in a car accident we would never have crumple zones, airbags and collision avoidance systems. Prayers don’t do a damn thing.",0 +"Right, so instead of proving your claim about the Hawaiian haters in this thread, you instead respond with the typical racist Hawaiian stereotypes about haoles. + +I see racism in Hawaii because ignorant racists like you pretend that your blind hatred is something other than what it is. + +The fact is I have said nothing different than the kanaka maoil who were arrested outside of the Na'i Aupuni convention, but the difference is, you can not stand hearing it from someone who you assume does not have the magic blood. + +News flash. Every single person on this planet is indigenous. Get over yourself.",0 +Lock him up.,0 +"Unlike coal, the wood we export is used for building, not for energy production. It is much greener because it is renewable (every tree harvested is replanted) whereas coal isn't, and, alternative building materials (steel, bricks etc) require the use of coal burning kilns or furnaces.",0 +"This is good news for democrats, Libertarians, and Greens. Jonah is essentially asking all the ""smart"" republicans to vote another party. My guess is it is code to vote for Hillary. My one fear is that these folks with lots of money will co-opt the Libertarian Party like the they did the Tea Party movement.",0 +"The status quo has resulted in nations piling up more and more debt and economies that do not distribute wealth evenly amongst their citizens. I don't know if pulling out of free trade agreements and renegotiating will be good or bad for the US or Canada. I don't think anyone really does (the so called 'experts' seem to get a lot of things wrong these days). However, something has to be done. It's going to be an interesting four, maybe eight years.",0 +"Nobody tell Doug Saunders, he just declared Germany one of the last glowing symbols of liberalism in the world!",0 +"""Father Figure"" was by far and away his best...beautiful and haunting...",0 +"I remember ""Workfare"" - a model of why rampant socialism should terrify everyone.",0 +"You sound like Trump, ""This election is rigged and corrupted!!!"" +...until it isn`t.",0 +"Thats easy, 700 million insubsidies to big oil compliments of the Elephant, I would say that was more.",0 +This makes sense. There are homes that sit empty or partly built for very long periods all over the city.,0 +"Well, Sen Gattis actually your wrong, you see the problem with this silly point of view as is trickle down economics is many on the right hold onto them even though they have been proven to be about as real as a Unicorn. Can't tax your selves into prosperity, lets see when the flaming LIberal Eieenhowerr was President the top tax rate was around 90%, and it was among the most prosperous times in our nations history. Can't tax our way into prosperity, well sombody better tell Norway, last I looked they were doing WAY better than us. Can't tax our way into prosperity, well lets see Minnesota recently raised taxes and ijvsted it in education and all that terrible government stuff and they are kicking but. Meanwhile Kansas, Oklahoma, Mississippi cut taxes or refuse to tax corpoartions and they are in the toilet, sound familiar? Mississippi is like the worst at every thing, education life expectancy, teen pregnancy, hmm wonder why?",0 +You are absolutely right. Law makers making the case for lawlessness.,0 +"It's quite simple really- she wants the State to control the RB, and the printing of money. + +This can only be a Zupta plan, beautiful in its simplicity. Why even tender, when you control the printing press. + +A second plus is the noise that this will create if a court battle ensues and the State loses, as it probably will. WMC vs the People. + +Must give it to them, they are applying themselves...",0 +Andrew Scheer has the Toronto-centric commentating class tut tutting already. Trudeau's selling out Canada's technology and security to Chinese $$$ and his love of Khadr are going to be huge albatrosses in most of the rest of Canada. It's nice there is at least one national leader who takes stands on principle and not filthy lucre or vacant moral equivalency.,0 +"No, there were many absences. Doyour work",0 +Still no one has been fired can't believe it.,0 +"""Palestinian Arabs are far more integrated into Israeli society than Indigenous Canadians are integrated into Canadian society."" +Carr, you've neglected the 4 million Palestinians in the occupied territories, who have no rights (they can be arrested and held without charge indefinitely, for example. As a result, prisoners are now on a hunger strike.). +Within Israel proper, the better comparison with Palestinians is the French in Canada. Both make up about 20 percent of the population. In Israel, there are serious restrictions on where Palestinians are allowed to live; and people of different religions are not allowed to marry. Israel spends about three times as much on Jewish students as on Palestinian. It's easier for a Jew who has never visited Israel to become an Israeli citizen than it is for a Palestinian refugee to visit. And while Arabic's official status has, in practice, meant very little, Israel is about to strip it of even that.",0 +"For some people, facts are ""liberal talking points"", but it's the height of independent thinking to end a comment with: ""not just fostering class warfare not only economically but also socially. Sunny ways my friends. Sunny ways."" + +Lol.",0 +Well said ctheorist. The prime ministerial attitude you observe is a serious risk for national security and Canadian identity.,0 +"can hardly wait until we blow the lid off the afghan detainee scandal + +some high ranking FSO heads are going to roll",0 +"So, are you saying this fact check is incorrect?",0 +"At the dire risk of sounding overly cynical, the situation as it exists is simply because we desire a representative form of government. Consider: if the Hawaii electorate, on average, isn't expected to think critically before casting votes for elected representatives, should we be at all surprised when poorly conceived rules and regulations escape intelligent scrutiny and are passed into law? We see this happening over and over, with the much criticized (by all sides) plastic bag ""ban"" being just another example. + +Sometimes as a society we get the results we rightly deserve.",0 +"Yeah blame Walker because these guys only want what they want for their agenda, instead of doing their job which is supposed to be for Alaskans. Blame Walker because they're incompetent and can't do what's asked of them because most of them are a bunch of over paid leaches making money and taking vacations and days off 50% of the year even during sessions were paying them for. Just another example of milking citizens for pennies that equal millions.",0 +"Exactly - a ""passive investment"" by our honorable Finance Minister and redistribution of wealth (what wealth?) Prime Minister. +Morneau would not call his foreign investments ""passive"" but rather diversification investment.",0 +We shouldn't have to feel thrilled when we are let off the hook from getting ripped off.,0 +"I was Cinematographer on this movie and have sent an email to Ms. Spitz requesting a correction today. Will update and let you know how it went. + +This was my very first experience working on a film and am honored to have worked with such a great cast and crew! Long hot days in the high desert, parkour leaping across boulders, balancing on cliff edges, and braving tarantula-killer wasps and rattle snakes, and even (on the last day of shooting) torrential rains. But it was all worth it all to get the perfect shot! + +I served two primary roles including PRODUCTION ASSISTANT and ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY (credited as ""Cinematographer"" on IMDB). I also contributed to still photography, location scouting, script/dialogue development, and even got to do some of the special effects (blood splatter). + +All in all, it was an amazing experience under a talented, demanding-but-fair visionary new director named Isaac Medeiros. + +IMDB: http://imdb.to/1rw3xYg + +Eric Lee Hepperle",0 +"Ohhh I love playing...""Spot the Justin Lie"" + +Lets play along. + +Statement #1 - The Trudeau government has sent its strongest signals yet that Canada does not plan to bow to U.S. pressure to dramatically increase what it spends on defence. + +Rather, in separate comments, both Trudeau and Freeland repeated the government’s previous argument there are ways other than money to measure Canada’s military contributions. + +Statement #2 - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the Liberal government will make a “substantial investment” in the military + +Of course Justin, our hyper-partisan sock puppet, just caved to the Donald and wasn't man enough to own it. He sent in another junior MP to do the heavy lifting for him and blame Trump for Justin caving to Trump. + +Can you spot the Justin lie?",0 +"What are you talking about? This is not about democrats. It is about power run amok. As a friend used to say, absolute power corrupts absolutely. At least with Weinstein, he was chasing the opposite sex while with republicans with the exception of the Donald they tend to chase members of the same sex. lol",0 +"Start with the Bishops, exclusionists to the hilt.",0 +Don't forget a couple of weeks ago veterans had visited the WH.....Meanwhile....The previous admin had tea and crumpets with BLM THUGS....,0 +"In order to be eligible for DACA a person goes through one or more background checks. So no, not DACA.",0 +why would they need to wiretap? Please explain. Still requires a warrant. Sorry to pop your delusional bubble. Please go back to the ties Manfort has/had to Putin's oligarch which now no longer can be denied.,0 +"Those have all been proven right. If you doubt, provide a specific example of a story that you do not believe is accurate? I bet I can show you it was proven after it was printed.",0 +"Yeah, that's what puzzles me. Infrasonics' amplitude would have to be so ridiculously high that you'd knock the building down, first. Ultrasonics would, in theory, get blocked, but you can't pinpoint the effect with EM. + +The localization of the effect would be dependent on the wavelength (frequency), which is also what made me think it had to be ultrasonic. In thinking about it more, you'd have to have three sources of audio generation, or you'd have multiple affected zones. + +This one's got me stumped.",0 +"I agree that the Donut Shop comments are probably not an accurate stereotype and I also agree that they spend too much on the non-essentials you cited. However, the real reason it's open season on law enforcement is because many citizens are tired of law enforcement excelling at intimidation and generating revenue (speed traps, event enforcement, parking fines, etc.). They are very poor in critical areas such as neighborhood patrolling to deter crime, timeliness and follow up of non emergency crimes, outreach and immersion into the community and being genuinely friendly. We pay these people, we are their employers and yet it seems their focus is to collect money from us for piddly violations.",0 +"What a refreshing change, Denise. Seems you can write about something other than identity politics. Congratulations",0 +"Not the right time to discuss gun violence? +Okay, let's watch some NRA propaganda instead! +http://crooksandliars.com/2017/10/its-perfect-time-re-watch-dana-loeschs-nra +Remember kids, right after a mass shooting is never the time to discuss gun violence. +(… right on cue, the Trump White House has already issued a statement.) +White House: 'Premature' To Talk Gun Control In Wake Of Las Vegas Shooting",0 +"There is a health care tax repeal that the liberal establishment is trying to kill, can we get this in place tomorrow so we can be sure to vote on that repeal? The liberal establishment hate this idea because they know that it would make it harder for them to steal more money to waste.",0 +"The Not Withstanding Clause is the last resort of the desperate. Brad Wall is the latest to call for its use. And what he really won't admit is that he's underfunding the public school system, so parents have been sending their children to Catholic schools.",0 +"Not really, no. That message tells Assad that the conventional bombs he has been dropping on schools and hospitals are OK. And Assad's barrel bombs are also just fine. They don't use chemical agents or nuclear materials. + +Seems like you thought this through as carefully as Mr. Trump did. Meaning - not at all.",0 +Are you kidding ! It's the Ram 1500 Rebel!,0 +"Poor health reporting. + +Report cases per 100,000 population not absolute numbers. The cost savings from reducing the pap screening frequency would be useful information, as would the approximate cost of annual chlamydia screening being proposed. How much would it cost to prevent each additional case? + +More testing means more lives saved, but there are cost tradeoffs. If women got paps every wednesday we'd catch even more, but it's silly to propose that. Give people the context they need to properly assess public health stories.",0 +These people would take your lives if they had the power to. Finally a president that has the courage to speak his mind and the truth. Continue to encourage your base supporters Mr. President and we will reward you again in 2020.,0 +"""... never received a nickel from the Koch's..."" Didn't the Alaska Policy Forum receive most of its initial funding from Donors Capital Fund which has direct ties to the Kochs? So, if you're the Bob Griffin: Education Research Fellow at APF, then ...????",0 +I guess a middle class american just figured out how to get the GOP's attention. Sad they have been ignoring everyone's calls to get rid of the administration. Maybe this will be a wake up call. You would think the report on 39 states voting machines being hacked would be a wake up too.,0 +"IRT Rod B. Catiggay: Rod, stock-up on tinfoil! Think ""hats"".",0 +He's doing it wrong... Real gangbanger eyelid tats are on the inside of the eyelid. Hope he goes away for a long time.,0 +"A friend's daughter was on that Ukraine training mission for 3 months. They just cut the grass at the base and drove visiting dignitaries around. To train them effectively we would need to first be trained on their equipment and know their language. + +Back in the 50s and 60s we could either stay out of other people's conflicts or act as an honest peace broker, but not anymore. There are Ukrianian-Canadian voters to be pandered to and we are now perceived globally as just another US vassal state.",0 +"Non-stop and daily flights, great! It’s like gift from American Airlines to travelers. You can book tickets for this route with Voyages Booth.",0 +Canada aims for higher standards than Saudi Arabia.,0 +"Well better to support good jobs and a living wage than starvation wages don't you think? +Did you ever see the documentary inequality for all? If you haven't, you should. + +I mean wasn't that what the Donald was pushing for during the campaign?",0 +Looney,0 +"Down with Buzzkill! May is for hay, song and dance!!!!",0 +"Folks about to point fingers at only American kids gone wrong... + +... might want to think about two words: Reena Virk.",0 +"Agreed. Give them the drugs, one way or the other, and cut out all the middlemen and expense.",0 +"Why apply for citizenship? Just move there. That's what the Trumpophobes say is OK to do here. But when you do, make sure you pay your taxes, because that excuses being an illegal.",0 +"Big Deal. 25 bps isn't going to do anything. + +If the bank of Canada signals a series of bank increases that could get interesting - good for savers but bad for borrowers. + +I would like to see how much this is going to increase borrowing costs for those big spenders Wynne and Trudeau. + +Canada, the new Argentina",0 +"Exactly - when has any government been honest enough to admit the potential of a shrinking economy ?! +Every election promise is based on more social spending to be paid for by an ever increasing economy ,,, "" This is a recording ..This is a recording .... This is.. """,0 +"Get over it, two men took to the ring and one of them knocked the stuffing out of the other. It would be interesting to hear what Trump would have said if he had of been in, Justin's shoes.",0 +"Sprawl, Gridlock. Conspicuous consumption. + +Who calls this 'good' for society?",0 +"The American system of check and balance works so well that Trump administration almost couldn't get anything done and every its step is hampered. +This author just talks nonsense.",0 +"I prefer the Supreme Court's decisions as to what is legal in this country. + +Don't worry, when I want to get your opinion on what is or is not legal, I will be in touch. + +Wait to hear back from me. I promise to write.",0 +"I have not heard of this happening locally where I live but I have no doubt that it happens. +Maybe the reason it doesn't happen here is because some of the OCS workers are regular patrons of the pot shops !",0 +"RD, next time I'll use words that hopefully you can understand.",0 +"Or Valley Of The Moon Park, why go all the way to LA",0 +"Affordable housing? Eliminating tolls? Killing big projects? Transit? I don't see much here for rural B.C., which is hardly surprising: Horgan made few trips north of the Fraser Valley during the election (I live in Fraser-Nicola, considered one of the tightest ridings in the province, and Horgan didn't show up once to support the NDP candidate), and has almost no support north of the Fraser in terms of seats; the Green's three seats are on the island. + +A lot of people in rural areas are counting on those good-paying pipeline and Site C jobs. What will the NDP/Green partnership replace them with, to prevent a further exodus from rural areas? Affordable housing isn't much of an issue outside the Lower Mainland and southern Vancouver Island. As for tolls: the Coquihalla was tolled for more than two decades under a succession of parties (including the NDP; the toll was removed by the Liberals). And transit is, again, only an issue in the Lower Mainland. Rural BC gets ignored again.",0 +I'm not complaining about you posting anonymously. I'm pointing out your lack of intestinal fortitude for doing so while attacking others who have the courage to use their own names.,0 +"Right ON, Elise! It is astounding how many men think this still today! In the 21st Century! It's both appalling and amusing, if it wasn't so pathetic.",0 +"Pointed out by whom and with what facts? Your saying's it's so doesnt make it real. You were under the false impression that Clinton voted against the partial abortion bill becuase it had no ""life of the mother"" exception, but in fact, I pointed out --- citing a Supreme Court case --- that it DID have an exception for the life of the mother, and she still voted against it,.",0 +"So Trump and Cruz are capitalizing on fear. I'm sure Obama, Clinton, and Sanders have never done that. + +What is Patty doing when she says that Trump “raves like a wild drunk …” and compares his rants to those of Hitler? Is she perhaps capitalizing on our fear of encountering wild drunks and our fear of genocide? + +With more than a month until our primarly and then several months to the general election, dozens of letters and online comments have equated Trump to Hitler. Certainly dozens more are still to come. I would suggest that the first measure of a lack of intelligence is to fall back on that tired comparison to try to discredit Trump. There are certainly other evidence-backed ways to try to discredit him and his record, but the feeble-minded just want to scream Hitler.",0 +"??? +Podesta's own words in his emails are 'nonsense'?",0 +Jake just explain why it was acceptable for the Republic majorities in Congress to alter ethics rules and make more collusion allowable. It now almost accepted for lobbyist to publish what they are paying to buy what they want while the recipient stands and get applause in either chamber for taking the bribe. You can not put this on the Democrats.,0 +Well I'm a BCer first and think it's absolute insanity to build more pipelines to the coast. With the first pipeline of KM we just didn't know any better. When the big earthquake happens (a question of when not if) it's going to be a disaster.,0 +"Us ""Gruberites"" were familiar with the old system which was worse and spiraling out of control. ACA was an improvement over the insurance companies self regulation. BELIEVE IT OR NOT! You may just be too young to have paid those double digit increases every year but us old people with good paying jobs saw it.",0 +"I had recently asked someone that same question and was assured that there is a huge difference between the totality and ""close"".",0 +"Natural law is one thing. Its about sin. Dogma is about what we decided at Nicea, Chalcedon and Ephesus in the fourth century. Democratically by democratically chosen bishops. For a great history of the latter, read Christianity, the First 3000 Years by Dairmind MacCullocgh. Don't let the fact that he is an Episcopal priest scare you off.",0 +"NAFTA is not killing us. Rich business people are killing us! Blame them for moving their cheap labour across the world so they could have bigger houses, fancier cars, charity foundations! How many millions is enough for a millionaire?? The wage gap between owner and employee has become deplorable.",0 +Two fake PMs are better than one.,0 +"LOL I sympathize you. Calgary is a rough place in winter, a normal person would rather go to jail during this season, instead live there. Too much fantasy when you're in a horrible environment.",0 +"Haven't we had Republican Governors and Republican majorities long enough to control reveues and spending?? Have they been THAT inept and powerless? If so, why keep them??",0 +"""As far as the verbal attacks go"" in my opinion deriding the First Lady because she wore high heel shoes on the plane doesn't fall under fair game. Neither does going after his son Barron. + +As for this--surprised we can write this wording- ""bunch of crooked a**holes"" but that stood when posted by you.",0 +The current bulk pickup plan was Mayor Muliufi's brilliant idea. This curbside process leaves the option open for people to just dump things on the sidewalk. Bulk pickup should be scheduled by the person requesting it like how it was prior. If you call & schedule pickup they would come on that day/time. There was no confusion.,0 +"Many people today have blissfully lived beyond their means on cheap credit their entire adult lives. They don't know their true standard of living, because they've never lived it. They don't plan financially for retirement because they've never planned anything financial. Spend now. Pay sometime later, if ever. In our schools and in families, education has been sorely lacking. Consequences will be harder to bear later in life.",0 +"Our very own Islamic Supremacist is back! I knew I'd find you at this article Frederick M'in sha all(ah). You need to switch it up and be less predictable now, come on.",0 +"ricknro, you might be interested in this little history lesson--from a source not universally known as friendly to Republicans: http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/politics/civil-rights-act-interesting-facts/. A larger proportion of Congressional Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats. It was a conservative Republican who played a key role in getting the bill passed. It was the Virginia Democrat Chairman of the House Rules Committee who fought hard against the bill. Makes you think differently about Republicans, doesn't it?",0 +"A few physicians make money. The DA's and the medial boards need to take care of those crooks. They get away with it because of a lack of monitoring. People in need should not be victims of broad restrictions. Lock up the pill-pushers for five years and that will take care of the problem. However, the addicts will turn to street heroin. I think that was one of the points made in this letter.",0 +"Imagine if an inmate died while COs stood around outside his cell waiting for ""backup."" Or a woman was allowed to die from neglect, all the while other inmates were begging for help for her, or an inmate got assaulted by an officer and the other COs covered it up; imagine a CO lost his temper and broke a mentally challenged man's nose by smashing his face into a concrete floor then was allowed to ""retire"" early with full benefits, was hired back and only fired (no charges filed) after he brought a gun to work and threatened a fellow CO. This actually happened at Spring a Creek.",0 +"RG, thanks for the article on the ""Wine Trail"" with the six local wineries flourishing in their ""unique microclimate in the coastal foothills."" +However, it's time we take a closer look at the geography there. Several are described as being in Junction City, but that is only their official address because it's the nearest city. However, all are actually to the west of JC, and in fact are west of Territorial Highway and the Long Tom River. Your directions of driving north on 99 to JC are OK for those who live in Eugene, but not for all of us in Central and Western Lane County. We simply drive north on historic Territorial Highway, which Eugeneans and Springfielders can also do after driving west to Veneta, to ""enjoy the country drive with beautiful scenery all around."" + +While ""Prairie Mountain"" is a special area, you'll find a scattering of fine wineries and a few restaurants all along Territorial by the Coast Range foothills south to Lorane. +Think NS, not just EW!",0 +good point cate arriola!,0 +"Thanks to the scientists and engineers who continue to improve this fallback if diplomacy fails. Thanks to the military and civilian personnel who work to maintain it, and thanks to our late president Reagan for pushing the concept in the first place.",0 +"And yet the profits that accrue from the employment of the truck driver go to the driver and the owner of the company of which in part some will trickle into the greater economy (but also to the benefit of the worker and the owner) and into the tax coffers for the general good of all (including the two aforementioned individuals). The ECE worker provides an emotional and educational foundation for the youngest members of our society who will grow up to become the next generation of tax paying citizens and continue to provide infrastructure, support, and services for the good of all society, including the truck driver and the company owner. They also provide a means for the parents of the children to go to work to earn a living, to consume products, and pay taxes for the betterment of all. So in this scenario, who is providing a more beneficial service, the truck driver, the company owner, or the ECE worker, and who benefits the most financially",0 +"this seems to be another limited on-the-cheap showpiece to make it look like officials are on top of a disaster while merely focusing on the few families who, as with Housing First, 'qualify' with a verifiable income of limited sorts and the myriad paper work many on the streets don't and won't have, then transition into ill termed 'permanent' housing in a market that is largely failing to provide any housing at all for even those with more solid finances and personal stability. those that pass thru this program will be a statistical success on a tenuous basis where the recidivism rate can easily become routine due to inabilities to consistently cover monthly costs of the most meager existence in an unrealistic best case scenario. $Millions are being spent on ventures which ultimately may prove to have done very little for very few. typically, there are too many unanswered questions, and nothing addressing the masses who'll never 'qualify' for any kind of help. sadly, I call it shibai.",0 +"Yet, you continue to ignore the hundreds of millions of dollars in profit she collected through pure corruption and tried to hide through having a private, illegal, email system.",0 +I hope SO!!!!,0 +"In other words, all that this tax (fee) will accomplish is the hiring of one government employee whose extended expenses will need be subsidized by taxes. Nothing will actually be accomplished, all heat and no work.",0 +"Instead of judging whether the form of their response is acceptable, let us judge the substance of their response. The Bishops called for a special prayer at Sunday Mass regarding the terrible acts in Charlottesville. They've now formed an ad hoc committee about racism. They Bishops are definitely not perfect and there have been other instances where committees were established without real results. My Cardinal has stood with local refugees and stood up to president Trump on matters where his actions are unacceptable. Could they have done more? Sure. But let's not condemn this just yet.",0 +"Terrorism must be fought, yes. But National aggression against neighbours must also be stopped. This is a lesson of world war II. And make no mistake about it. Russia has been an aggressor.",0 +"Hey Gomer, how about some pork for us islanders?",0 +"Do you own a Doctor? That would be your analogy. You don't understand your own analogy. What you would actually own, to make the analogy work, would be the doctor's outfit. Did you go to medical school? Do you have a degree? Did you pass your exams? The medical profession is highly regulated, you know, like those that the 2nd Amendment proscribes.",0 +"Keala and Lex Smith , + +Just showing how dishonest your answers are , Keala first you said it wasn't the Dennis francis, then you said it's a person on the other side of the island ? Now your saying it's a computer glitch that they put the name in without verifying ? It's very funny you would pay 20k two run that article and not vett the names .. sounds like how you operate rail and cbdg funds, sewer spills we are getting fined for and the list goes on! + +Bottom line you got busted and it's sad that Denis looks bad a publisher of the paper , who appears to be rigging the system too.. + +Their you have it guys I was right t Kirk rigging the system and looks very bad for star advertiser too. It just show the closeness the two have !! + +Chad Blair you are one of the good guys posting that article and being a fair journalist !!!",0 +Do crackheads normally own cars nice enough that other people will pay to ride in them? They'd have to be very patient crackheads to drive long enough sober to get enough money for a fix.,0 +"Guaranteed, no matter how many billions Liberals spend, there won't be much to show for it. Does anybody honestly expect a fighter jet that will make us proud?, or an awe inspiring navy fleet? Of course not. The next decade will be just more of the same Keystone Cops style national defence, but $30 - $100 billion poorer..",0 +"Actually, it was a pimped-up, beater 757. Of all the airliners you can get cheap, beater 757s are one of them,",0 +Time for us to write O'Leary's name under Stop signs.,0 +"Really? Christy Clark has always been a card carrying member of the Federal Liberals. Her father was a bigwig in the original BC Liberal circles when that party still existed. Where exactly do you think all the Liberals in BC went when the coalition formed? Certainly not to the NDP so... what, did they just all cease interest in politics?",0 +"You have no way of knowing whether Herbert is the real deal, and as Meek pointed out, no QB is going to salvage this season because the Ducks' issues extend far beyond QB play. + +I do agree that there's no point in starting Herbert against UW. Maybe let him play a series or two against their second string defense if the Ducks are trailing big late in the game, but at this point they should work to build his confidence in situations where he can be successful.",0 +"Well Bobby, you are such a defensive driver you can avoid the stoned driver that is going to be swerving into your lane. Then I knew exactly who you will blame when it is you or one of your loved family who are maimed or killed. ""Where were the cops"" why didn't they protect me. Well you want someone stoned like you driving at you in the opposing lane? I sure don't and I have pulled dozens of dead and maimed out of car wrecks, and always there is some person innocent and someone not. + +And to #28 Whose miss-spelled crap is just another sign of his low intellect. It was a fight for 35 years working for incompetent politicians at all levels within and out side the agency.",0 +"The dreamers are the only illegal immigrants that deserve an opportunity to stay in the US. They should be granted green cards and permanent resident status at a minimum. The rest can be deported and apply to enter the country again after 10 yrs. +That should get many to go back to their country of origin on their own. If they're deported, it'll be a 10 year wait before theyre eligible to re-apply for a visa.",0 +"My fav vinyl cafe episode was the octogenarian who met Dave on a cruise ship, sailing away his last few months of life. + +One of those made you laugh, made you sigh moments. + +Mr. Mclean was always at his best during those times.",0 +"Taking sexual advantage of a seriously intoxicated woman is a legal and moral offence. But is it worse to intoxicate a woman deliberately and then take advantage of her? + +I'd say it is because it involves premeditation rather than giving into impulse, which matters in law at least.",0 +"I can only imagine the look on a mother's face when the Canadian Aid worker tells her, about her 2 sick kids, ""sorry, we can't save your son, only your daughter, our mandate is to help women and girls only"".",0 +God no.,0 +You keep up with who is dodging the draft in Slovenia?,0 +"Lots of people never understood Hillary Clinton. Here's the secret: Every decision she makes has its roots in the question ""What's good for Hillary Clinton?"" - including getting newspapers all over the country to publicize this book. Think deeply about it and you will find it true...",0 +Perhaps educate those men to keep them off the 12 year old girls?,0 +"Our country needs a serious, honest, intelligent, and - ideally - experienced president. We really blew it this time around.",0 +"True, even the HPD ex-police chief would drive by your mailbox and steal your lottery check and claim it belongs to him. ;-) LOL",0 +"They come here because Father Z and those like him encourage his/readers to come here and troll. However, you would never get by with saying anything there, like they do here.",0 +Mahalo Barry! for putting Hawaii on the map,0 +"The truth hurts doesn't it? Can not find anything so make it up, and because you ego is bruised just keep trying. And they want to know why the American people are so fed up with present day government.",0 +63 years old. Time to grow up.,0 +"TIM, +You suggest a glaring contradiction: +1. American Citizens must be armed with weapons capable of resisting a Totalitarian State. +2. Those weapons should be harmless to the American Citizens they are meant to protect. + +I'm not quoting you....but inferring from your words. Would you mind clarifying your thoughts?",0 +Thank you Dee for standing up for the silent majority here who are afraid to speak their minds. As for the Editors Note what did all the 19 have in common?,0 +"Sorry, but those ideas are only for those who really don't know Church history. First of all Vatican II is a real bona-fide ecumenical council. It has more authority than any pope alone. This is because the bishops of the world---who are the successors to the apostles VOTE on documents proposed there. NO pope has a right to repudiate any ecumenical council. But JP II and Benedict XVI did their best to circumnavigate the V II. That's not fake-history. Pope Francis is bringing back many of the Constitutions and Decrees of Vatican II which were 'side-stepped'. + +It's a good thing that there is a written history of not only the documents passed at Vatican II but also copies of all the debate and discussion on the floor of the council---that gives 'flesh' to what was passed.",0 +Ill bet your a hit at parties 😃,0 +It's just another in what will become a very long list of Junior's failures.,0 +"Thank you very much for giving those of us who are not Liberal shills in Ottawa permission to read the omnibus budget bill. + +I am surprised that you have deigned to do so in our rapidly evolving transition to a `guided democracy`. + +On the negative side, I notice that you are all over this thread and have posted over a dozen specious and transparently misleading defences of this, Justin`s latest bimbo eruption. + +I also notice that my single detailed expose post in this thread has gathered so much support that it has `mysteriously` vanished from this thread. + +So have other popular posts critical of the Liberals. + +Are you being paid by the Liberals for your non-stop posting here? + +Are you a moderator here as well or just connected with one or more of the moderators? + +In any event, the censorship here is disgracefully partisan for the Liberals in Ottawa and your part in it is reprehensible. + +Not coincidentally, every time I criticize a Chris in Ottawa post, my post is deleted.",0 +The mentally ill account for a fairly small number of gun homicides. This is the usual malarkey.,0 +"If the pipeline people did this kind of trashing of the environment they'd be in court, fined and held accountable. What I find ironic is that a pipeline is far safer moving oil than the trucks and trains now doing it.",0 +Encouraging to see that the regulars are taking sexual harassment seriously.,0 +"Smoot-Hawley raised tariffs on a small number of goods approximately 6%, in a time when trade between countries was far lower than it is today. US imports/exports were in the low single digits as a % of GDP. It's a point of contention, but many economists will point out it didn't help, but was a minor factor in the Great Depression.",0 +Sales tax time.,0 +"Hancock's friend, a convicted felon and former gang member, gunned down and paralyzed a gang member. He got off, for reasons unknown and NEVER WAS CONVICTED OF POSSESSING A GUN even when its a mandatory prison sentence for a felon to possess a firearm. No jail time! How about enforcing EXISTING FIREARM LAWS?",0 +"Thanks for admitting the UK and USA press are so biased. And Canada too. + +LOL + +Only China's media is unbiased and truthful.",0 +If it's a crime then why are there no charges? And what about the NDP and all the union dues deducted that flow to them without members even knowing about it never mind approving it?,0 +"Congress is in the process of attempting to close gunshow loophole, no registration required, and Internet sales. Sorry but gun enthusiast don't have the corner on America's safety. Congress should without the arm twisting from the NRA.",0 +"""Entitled"" ILLEGALS are now attacking Americans & making Demands. +DACA isn't ""enough""..... they want the other 11 Million ILLEGALS to get amnesty too. +Pay attention Americans. This is scary stuff.",0 +I believe he was talking about coal trains passing through East-of-the-Sound cities. How does that apply to P.A.?,0 +"A shame that luciferian leftists don't fight for American citizens the way they fight for foreign invaders + +Of course if they did they wouldn't be luciferian leftists, they'd be republicans (for the 1/2 wits I'm not talking about rinos) + +Save humanity +Eradicate leftists",0 +Yes because Tlingit fisherman have been driving their pickup trucks to this spot for thousands of years...smh,0 +"Die before 70 and your estate gets a Max $2500, that's all. Turns out it was just a Tax.",0 +when will they activate the GUARD?,0 +Perhaps if you had managed to stay awake in High School maths you would realize that it is the people who aren't getting their kids vaccinated are the ones playing Russian Roulette.,0 +"NO. + +The Swiss and Swedes have studied it, and a growing population is not needed to maintain a prosperous society. + +And Japan is leading the way with a declining population with everything from robots, to experimental living arrangements. + +So no, you do not need an ever expanding population to keep a country prosperous.",0 +You couldn't make up a story like this.,0 +"Richard, The FBI first said there were no crimes committed. Today they repeated there were no crimes committed, where exactly is the flip-flop here? If you have the time and money to pursue this be my guest. + +BTW, I don't think either side right or left has exclusive use of english. Move on man!",0 +"""ALASKA VIRGIN""?",0 +https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9709327ab781b747487a039a863c8a08402282b1fac5479f6baf9e9856eb511c.jpg,0 +"There were 0 buyers between Nov 2008 and Feb 2009. I went to see an agent and he said ""I have never witnessed a time when there were 0 buyers"". A real correction would have occurred if banks and gov allowed it to happen. It's now much worse. + +Sorry but incomes are reported as income from ALL sources. Unless you deal with cash and are not reporting (this only applies to mobster/mafia/hell's angels crowd). + +Supply and Demand is a great text book story but sadly doesn't work in the ""real"" world. We know that most people are irrational, which is why you can sell a piece of crap for $1.3M to someone earning 150k. Unemployment is low because you have hordes of people earning $15/hour... What house are they buying?",0 +"Plenty of spin, lots of hope, no substance. Trump continues to defy conventional logic, but that doesn't mean he's not going down like the Titanic. Face it, he won't be President by the time the 2018 elections roll around.",0 +They can shovel snow...,0 +"And if the roundups don't achieve the desired results, Kristal Nachts will follow.",0 +At any given time some businesses (10%) are operating at break even or withstanding modest losses in hopes of better days ahead. Changing the minimum wage and increasing CPP have now put these businesses and ALL their jobs in jeopardy. Labour costs should NEVER be assessed in isolation from all other business factors.,0 +"Home inspections can not tell you if there is mold or asbestos behind the wall. It is only what they can see. Home inspectors have no liability, good luck on suing them. Many times they work hand in glove with the realtors as do the RE lawyers. Sometime the realtors will get home inspection done and present it to the potential buyers (this scam actually works!) +>",0 +"Oh, the power of rhetoric, through which the politicians play the populace. As does Margaret Wente, who can often be found firm in the grasp of established prejudice. ""Would you apologize to Omar Khadr"" is a loaded question because it does not state what the apology is to be for. It can be made to mean anything. For example, unrepentant apologists know this all to well, using the trick that when called to make a public apology, they will apologize for essentially nothing. In this case, we need to consider carefully what this apology is for. If the hangman steps on a murderer's toes on the way to the gallows, should he not say ""sorry, I stepped on your toes""? Of course, he should. I don't care who our country was complicit in torturing and not suffering due process. If we have done injury we need to apologize for that injury, regardless of who the person is. Nice try, Ms. Wente. I do so dislike when those who can influence opinion leave principle behind and cater to the crowd.",0 +Khadr killed a US military medic both Micheal Rempel and Peter Kent had every right to inform Americans of this deal that Trudeau authorized.,0 +". . . about the very existence of the planet, but cares only about increasing his wealth and power . . . the earth and all its inhabitants be damned. That's just plain goofy. No credibility at all, these people.",0 +"I agree with almost everything you wrote, Jean. I don't want to see my neighbors or friends or loved ones devastated by healthcare costs, either. I wish everyone had the kind of healthcare SCF and ANTHC offer. Everyone could have it, as evidenced by the all the other developed countries that offer single-payer, government funded healthcare to their citizens. Every other developed nation pays a fraction of our costs and exceed our statistics on morbidity and mortality by huge numbers. We are the lowest among all developed nations for most major measurements of health, but we pay the highest costs by far. This IS us. Things are this way because of who and what we are. If enough people wanted different, we would have different.",0 +No use trying to rationalize with a Chumpster. Fact is their world is imploding along with the Chumps so they are extremely delusional.,0 +"A decade ago, the Whiteaker tried to make the quiet zone happen. The city literally laughed them out of the room. Then the Obies (and other developers) found that it would help their bottom line to get a quiet zone and this thing was brought back to life. In the meantime, the people of the Whiteaker have moved on and no longer want it for a variety of reasons. (One of which is the fact that 82% of Whiteaker residents are renters and do not want any additional rent increases.) + +If we are to have a QZ, it should be the east end only and it should be paid for by a combination of the developers and the riverfront (slush fund) urban renewal district. Very few people west of the station want anything to do with this, especially those of us who live near the tracks. While they're at it, they can close the Pearl crossing instead of closing one that is used by pedestrians and cyclists for their new crossing into the EWEB property.",0 +"what about all the clients of MEP ( maintenance enforcement) who have been forced to overpay their court orders, but no one in the justice department is liable? Many lost livelihoods, driving licenses, 70% never see their children anymore etc. Maybe they can start suing now too...? A group no one talks about in Canada, and around 30% of the population or so.",0 +"The British health care system is slightly better....it has its National Health Care system ( from which I was a refugee) ...but it also has a private health care system with private insurance, that would not be tolerated in Canada....the majority of unions have private insurance built into their contracts in order to access superior care + +Disgruntled UK MDs tend to migrate to Australia much as disgruntled Canadian doctors move to the USA.",0 +"Thanks, John, what are your thoughts concerning the ground level rail depicted route?",0 +"""After the federal government introduced Bill C-56 in late June that would restrict how long inmates can be placed in solitary confinement..."" + +That statement is incorrect. Bill C-56 does NOT restrict how long a prisoner may be kept in solitary confinement. This includes younger offenders and prisoners with mental health issues. Bill C-56 simply requires that the warden who sends the prisoner to solitary confinement shall file a report on the matter after 15 days. After that, there's no limit to the amount of time a prisoner may be kept in isolation. + +You can see the facts for yourself at the following link: + +http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-56/first-reading",0 +"Not really. +What the new is all about is that US companies are not outsourcing 15,000 but that the DHS is offering 15,000 H-1B. +- +On April 17, 2017, Trump issued an Executive Order to revise the H-1B program to HIRE AMERICAN FIRST (this EO stops companies from outsourcing when Americans are available for the jobs that foreigners are to fill up)",0 +"To the Liberal party machine + +Na Na Na Na Na",0 +"It is crazy, and that is their reality. House rich, cash poor in many cases.",0 +Whats going on in Florida?,0 +"Joe, this EIS was never designed for speedy response which you have to assume will happen with requests for copies too. The PR. Gent said fall decision time frame. Which fall Joe did he state? + +""Be thankful we are not getting all the government were paying for "". Will Rogers words ring true today more so than when Mr. Roosevelt offered a hand up to a nation in peril behind a benevolent smile. + +Which list Naughty or nice, will you find your name on Joe?",0 +"The author has shown us good reason to use collective bargaining, it works to balance the huge imbalance of power between ownership and any single employee. But private unions turned to the government and found a friendly hand, at least part of the time. Instead of negotiation for profit share, unions negotiate with a government institution, but not private ownership. The federal government abandoned it's support mechanism for unions, and unions abandoned the workers in low wages that needed their support in favor of trying to find new 'opportunities' to leverage concessions out of large corporate entities, and of course Government contracting. + +Worse Unions chased the money the could find in higher paying jobs that did provide a good standard of living, and forgot about organizing those who aren't even earning the deeply devalued current minimum wage. This is an area ripe for collective bargaining. but without corporate financial transparency - difficult to do,",0 +I was wondering the very same thing. For every action there is a reaction. Can somebody explain a downside to me if there is one?,0 +"I wrote the short comment. It would take the utmost crassness for me to label something here not civil, so the previous comment was removed somehow by some others. And, frankly, I did not think it at all an uncivil comment; my response is simply that I didn't agree. I wish all comments were kept, really, except those purely mischievous.",0 +"How. Is. It. Always. Three. Stars!!! +Sweet fancy Moses ADN! Review a four star restaurant! Review a two star restaurant! For journalistic integrity award SOMETHING OTHER THAN THREE STARS!!!",0 +"Ms. Harder met every criteria the House of Commons demands. Yet the Liberals shut her voice down on a House of Commons' committee that begs for a young woman's perspective. + +Doesn't pass the smell test, Justin.",0 +"hard to believe but now listen. I was next door at 24 hr fitness. It was crazy but I didnt realize it would be this close to me. I had complained to the Thornton police dept,,, ya you cop guys go thru your records , Im the guy that called to complain TO THE SARGENT that shit was out of control and we got robbed, keys * wallett's jacked and managers might be in on it and that guns and gangs are involved , poss hostage, ya that nut job guy who called you guys. +Cops couldnt catch the gang, cpl hombres robbing club members so we caught him, yup, sh*t broke out and he was arrested , so its been retaliation now on this area. They're tagging, spitting gum everywhere, walmart-24 hr fitness-and local biz have been hit last wk. 24 hr gym members been packing pistol and AK in the trunks. +How do I know it before it happens, photoshop forensic expert, class is rite here in denver. Go to car race each lap get faster, cars start sliding you know a wreck is about to happen.",0 +"Liberals in Canada have the arrogant idea that we can reverse global climate while the rest of the world including China, India, USA, and Brazil, are doing absolutely bobcus. +This is NOTHING but a money grab by the Liberals to spend on their pet projects. +Thanks for helping destroy the Canadian economy more than all the damage you have done in the last few years.",0 +"With all due respect, your comment makes no sense. Yes, the students have other obligations, so what, so do the students that work off campus jobs, where the employer is required to pay minimum wage. The issue here is, should the University be exempt from the minimum wage law? I seriously doubt that these jobs are ""supplementing the students education"" anymore than any job would. They more likely are on-campus service jobs.",0 +My it is cold outside tonight. I can already feel the cooling effect of this decision.,0 +"Can you obtain a signed pledge from Murkowski that's all she's after, Gegonos? I await breathlessly.",0 +Not sure I agree that this raises to the level of mediocrity.,0 +"What term would you prefer to use for people who automatically assume that all Muslim's are potential terrorists, that all want to impose Sharia law, that Muslim's should be banned from Christian countries ... these are real things, as a short trip through comments on this article will show. It seems a name for this belief system would be useful. Is 'homophobia' a term that is acceptable to you?",0 +"The Swedes have history of appeasing terrorist cultures, preferring to engage in political correctness rather than addressing the problem. What goes around, comes around.",0 +"Justin's Priority people + +First nations +LGBT +Muslims +anyone of diversity +not necessarily in that order + +bottom of the list is +Anglo Saxon and other white men",0 +"The true face of liberalism is starting to show. They know which groups are too busy to organize protests and use these same groups as an escape goat to divert attention away from their own ideology and incompetenance. Unions, left wing groupies and those that won't work can organize protests on a moments notice and are rarely picked by liberals...disgusting that the harder you work, the less free time you have, the more your attacked by this government.",0 +Bwahahaha. Poor little snowflake firearms.,0 +"There's plenty of in-depth material out there, but instead of reading it, the usual suspects are here kvetching about the Post. It's really what they like.",0 +"Would you want the principle at your child's school to be of such character as to need supervising to keep them in line? Yet we accept that the president of the US requires ""managing""?",0 +"With girls now joining the ranks of cub scouts and boy scouts it won't be long before the girls start complaining about harassment and discriminating behavior at the hands of the boys. It will be the same as in the military or the RCMP or male locker rooms or wherever: the girls will go where they don't really belong and aren't really wanted, and then somehow will feel miffed and put-out because they're not ""fitting-in"" and the organizational structure of, say, the boy scouts isn't being completely revamped to suit their particular needs and desires.",0 +"Homemade bombs aren't used to kill convenience store clerks in two-bit robberies. Gangs and drug dealers don't pack homemade bombs. Children don't accidentally kill themselves or others with homemade bombs. Suicides don't do with with homemade bombs. Domestic murders aren't commit with homemade bombs. + +Get the point?",0 +Thanks Lawrence for being another tool to ensure Trump's dominance. Maybe you should lead the widespread indifference with more letters to editors all over the country.,0 +"“We were looking forward to well-­paying jobs for a lot of people,” Piercy said. “That’s very discouraging, and I look forward to finding out why it occurred.” + +Maybe, and maybe not. Perhaps when Broadcom and their management team learned that Oregon Public Schools are ranked third from the bottom nationally, Broadcom was faced with a revolt on their hands from management refusing to reside in Eugene whereby subjecting their children to such a pitiful level of education.",0 +"Well, it's not denial when it's a prediction. Nothing has happened yet, has it? Politics is not Calvinist theology. BC has the NDP in the lead heading into May's election. Most of the votes that fled the Alberta PCs went to Rachel Notley's NDP, not Wildrose. So I'd wait for the 2018 polls before I began popping the champagne corks. The European Union isn't Marxist. Where'd you get that idea? Angela Merkel is a conservative. As for Trump, he's made a royal mess of things in 30 days; I don't see him recovering in 1000 more. And my uncle's family lives in France and they aren't about to leave the EU any time soon. LOL. That's just Fox Fake News.",0 +"(c)""In September, CUPE served the Ministry of the Attorney General with a notice of intent to sue Premier Kathleen Wynne, Finance Minister Charles Sousa and former Energy Minister Bob Chiarelli for misfeasance."" +~ `` ~ +Sure seems like Mr. Fred Hahn is a Canadian Patriot... because this Wynne gov't is out of control. + +Oh yeah... How benevolent of Hydro One to ""restore service for the winter to 1,400 customers who’d been cut off for not paying their bills."" . . . so, the Poor get to Live with light & heat & cooked Food over this Cdn Winter. + +Suppose that cuts into the 'Vendors Cocktails with Deb Mathews' budget, eh? or perhaps the $70 Million blown out the doors for the new Vendor; 'mr. cutie pie vendor', who had been (tee hee) 'mentored' by Girly Ha Ha Director, who had her ambitious 'thug manager' hack down the competition with dirty lies & grand mal manipulation; earned him a promotion.. Nice eh . + +The Snake Pit that goes for the Wynne Gov't Needs To Be Cleaned Out & Sanitized + +/ ..",0 +"Interesting correlation, gay men and divorcees. It kinda pains me to ask, but would you mind explaining that one?",0 +"A third episode may be the worst. Price accepted a special offer from an Australian drug company to buy discounted shares, as The Wall Street Journal and Kaiser Health News reported. + +He told the Senate that the offer was open to all investors, although fewer than 20 Americans actually received an invitation to buy at the discounted price. The stock has since jumped in value, and Price underreported the worth of his investment in his nomination filings. + + +Price has devoted much of his political career opposing expansion of health insurance. His preferred replacement of Obamacare would reduce health care benefits for sicker, poorer and older Americans.",0 +I'd guess that it's because Mexico didn't ask Guatemala and Belize to pay for it.,0 +"https://www.facebook.com/events/410753199280659/. + +here is a FB event I am hosting to raise awareness about the issue in our community....I'll be performing please attend to continue the conversation.......thank you + +rodger p + +https://youtu.be/I2KeQxAjL6M +http://iamhomelessinseattle.blogspot.com/",0 +"That is no consolation since the Republicans are set to pass an entire slew of laws that are as destructive as they are unAmerican. If Trump does deport eleven people, are you going to perform their labor that is vital to our national economy?",0 +"Perhaps I should have said ""Your statement, while true *today* is not accurate...."".",0 +Now U R a theologian ? Pleeeze !,0 +"Obama created this mess when he issued an illegal Executive Order establishing DACA, which in effect made immigration law. Congress and only Congress can make or change laws. Several law suits filed by states challenging the constitutionality of Obama’s EO are currently working their way through the courts and ultimately will be heard and settled by the Supreme Court. Trump’s best course of action would be to issue an Executive Order extending DACA pending the Supreme Court’s decision or until Congress changes the law to allow those effected by DACA to remain permanently in the U.S., whichever occurs first.",0 +Nothing demanded a personalization of the point I made about the 3 popes back to me. About the thinnest remark I've seen all week. Get a stronger one. One can hear the high frequency component.,0 +"You mean letting them camp by the creek isn't helping? /s + +It should be obvious that evaluating people as individuals with specific problems to be addressed is the way to deal with homelessness, not just let them be free to live wherever and however they want, with no attempt to understand who they are or what they need.",0 +"http://augustafreepress.com/poll-americans-back-trump-impeachment/ + +Are the Koch bros. in agreement with this idea ?",0 +Can you imagine if the FDA took a similar approach such as yours?,0 +HiLIARy should be back in the news as her protector has been fired and the new Attorney General can now lock her up. President Trump is up to his a$$ in alligators but he continues to drain the swamp. Eight great years ahead.,0 +"tD: Glad to hear it. Yes. So what (kinda like the PFD, unearned)? What does that have to do with those who work, earn and invest?",0 +"How much does North Korea have to do to prove to Mr Lind that no, it hasn't been American foreign policy that created the most recent nuclear threats to our state. I guess it's going to take a nuclear warhead just 10 minutes inbound on a ballistic trajectory onto Oahu to convince him that his 1960's flower-child view of the world just doesn't protect our islands in the 21st century. I guess all those concessions and millions of dollars of aid we funneled into North Korea since the 1990s wasn't enough to prove to Mr Lind America is trying to relieve tensions on the Korean pensisula--for South Korea's sake if none other. I guess our withdrawal of American forces in Korea to a secondary, reserve force, allowing Koreans to defend their own pensiula, wasn't enough to convince our cumbaiyah-signing journalist we're serious about changing our status on the peninsula. No, when you're lost in the hippy mind set of the 60's, America is always the enemy,",0 +"I didn't think Etobicoke still existed as a municipality. I thought it went away with that fantastical cost saving move called amalgamation. + +Is this another example of amalgamation cost savings?",0 +You just have to shake your head at the brainwashed masses. No hope.,0 +"He also said things like this about race: + +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scQ4sPZldgU + +Not a great man at all.",0 +Just call me Your Majesty.,0 +Except everybody on the left likes to forget that it has been shown the state took in more revenue under SB-21 than it would have under ACES.,0 +Who paid the attorneys to write the proposal?,0 +"People still watch cable news shows? Who? Who actually watches junk news like CNN or FOX or CBS? Let me guess, people over 60 and who else? Exactly. Can't wait to see national dinosaur-media outlets go out of business. Internet and youtube is where the real media is now. To pretend otherwise is to believe that one must have a worthless journalism degree in order to analyze current events. Nothing could be further from the truth.",0 +"super hero +you made one great choice +their were 15 nonswimmers that went in the trip +spare the dead your judgement",0 +"First time Ive had to disagree with you, Petrus. (smile.)",0 +"Are the ""untouchables"" in India Liberals?",0 +"I walked through it about a month ago, yes the tree is still there, but all the character of the place, tacky or not, is gone. Now it's just another concrete mall with a tree in the middle. But don't go by me, I'm not a fan of Waikiki.",0 +"You didn't shut anyone up. Who cares what you think or write. By the way, are you going to change your spots and sign up for the upcoming online subscription? Can we rational thinkers be so lucky and shake a bunch of you off?",0 +"I think you're confusing the Baltic nations with the Balkan nations. Take a look at where the Baltic nations are on a map and convince those nations NATO is really going to come to the rescue, that Europe would risk anything for them. Are you ready to go and fight in the Baltics?",0 +Great work guys! Proud of you!,0 +"Pretty slimy but typical. Hackers unable to attack Trump attack innocent victims. Disgusting. Perhaps they would be better off using their skills to do something useful - like trace the money that made the Clintons worth more than $100M, like figure out who and what the leaders of the large foundations controlling about 1/7th of the US economy are doing to manipulate and control the US political system (any hackers with the stones to tackle the Soros foundations?). But doing that would require skill. Attacking hotel guests does not demand skill.",0 +"If it was a 'Draft', doesn't it means exactly that? +You create one, then another and so on, until such time you decide which one to make it official. +So why many take this, as the final word, The world is Ending, Trump is Hitler, Trudeau is intelligent. +Again, It Is Only a Draft. +Capiche?",0 +"This OPINION is listed on the world ""News"" page directly under a line that says ""Latest News"". + +Why does the Globe persist in this kind of misrepresentation? Are there no rules? Have they no sense of propriety or integrity? (Wait, what am I even asking this for?)",0 +Ask a lawyer and he/she will tell you how out-of-court settlements work Hint: They're always confidential.,0 +"He / she lies on here constantly. All day, every day. Aren't you used to that yet?",0 +"I know of people who don't bother talking regularly with their advisers. In those cases, it is the clients' fault for low service.",0 +"In her opening statement, Chair Yellen said “Core inflation…has been little changed in recent months at about 1-3/4 percent.” PCEPILFE, the US Fed’s preferred measure, was at 1.7% in January, unchanged from December. However, if one looks at a more current measure of inflation, the annualized three-month rate of change, it almost doubled from 1.1% in December to 1.9% in January. So the core inflation data really also support the case for an interest rate increase. The PCEPILFE inflation rate was lower or equal to the corresponding rate for CPIX, the Bank of Canada’s operational guide until this year, from June 2014 to September 2016. Since then it has been at the same level or higher. The US Fed’s preferred core inflation measure is now showing a higher inflation rate than that of any other preferred inflation measure of a G-7 central bank.",0 +"This person (who is one of the people) is not interested in the House getting ""that ruling"".",0 +Salute!,0 +work faster,0 +"A walk off home run to complete a series sweep. This is what fans of MLB would regard as pretty fine play of the game. The boo jays would find fault with the Jays getting themselves out of the cellar and approaching the middle teams. From a terrible start to back into contention. Four and a half months to go to get back into this. Sadly another injury to a starter- Pearce. He was hitting very well. The Jays injury bug continues. The good news is the talented replacements. Pillar's home run was a sight to behold, timely and convenient for the GO Train fans.",0 +"Private industry does this when they are in trouble so why should the public sector be immune. Bob Rae the great socialist cut public sector wages using Rae days......grow up, stop whining and accept the fact you will be better off with no debt.",0 +"Chris, are you sure you can't find a Harper connection here? Are you not trying hard enough? + +Butts may be taking Sundays off...don't panic, I am sure he will give you a talking point tomorrow morning... + +Must be frustrating when there are no answers to your texts, or the phone goes directly to VM...",0 +No optimism here. What I hope and what I think will happen are two different things.,0 +How about Circle sentencing?,0 +"George Box, is that you? Your assertion is a reflexive talking point that is completely unsupported. + +https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoYiOVQWYAA3K0d.jpg +https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8GbMlTXQAASBnX.jpg:large",0 +"I'm an atheist but I sure don't think it's ""the"" solution ( unless you like the solution as implemented by Mao or Stalin). Nor do I think that religion is the problem. I think selfishness is the problem.",0 +You must be smoking' the same weed as Jr.,0 +"It's almost as free as Alaska, and their weather tends to be a bit warmer. It's Big Sky country. Beautiful scenery, rich in history, and not full of concrete.",0 +Typical Russian style of harassment.,0 +"How can you say ""cheating and using the law""? Same rhetoric the government is using. These issues are part of the current tax system. No one is ""cheating"" and these are not ""loopholes"" regardless of our opinions.",0 +"Yes! Mandatory ACA for all members of Congress and their Families. Let them pay their own premiums. But don't worry we'll give you fair and equitable flex $ that you can distribute to pay for your life insurance, disability insurance, etc. like the common people.",0 +"True, JJ, we sometimes read about people who tried to walk out but failed, and rescuers find the car first- but the media usually don't bother to write articles about all those folks who safely walked out. + (I can immodestly state that with all my adventures and misadventures I've never had to sit and wait to be found. Closest was on a high ridge over the N. Umpqua where w'ed suffered two flat tires, but my buddy had his bike and rode miles downhill to a phone in a store on the highway where he called a tow truck.) +Ah, Judy, the log truck driver's daughter--we were going up a steep gravely road when the car slipped sideways and ended up stuck with a big boulder behind a rear wheel so couldn't back up, and though we tried putting down branches etc. we couldn't get traction to go forward--- +Judy gets her little car jacked up, we push it sideways and it moves as the jack falls over; we do it again and voila, we're clear of the boulder, we back up, and find a way to go forward.",0 +"I agree with you! People need to do more research on the subject. Climate Change is really accelerated by all of the metals they are spraying! There are scientists that do speak up on it! There is a lot of disinformation put out there, trying to cover up the obvious. Thank you for speaking up! There are few people that do. In 2013 at the Atlanta Music Liberty Fest, Kristen Meghan, former Air Force Bio-Environmental Engineer gave a ground breaking presentation of what she had discovered about Chemtrails while serving her Country. She was very brave for that whistle blow!",0 +"my god another brain washed sheep in the cult of climate change,,, here for your education, watch and get help +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXxHfb66ZgM +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyUDGfCNC-k +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmc5w2I-FCA",0 +"James Mason 771, can I give you a couple dozen more ""like"" stars for this comment? You are right on the mark with this comment.",0 +"Jeremy Corbyn would do a better job--after all,he actually cares about workers' jobs.",0 +"I don't remember a politician with this much previously unrecognized genius since rail interests poised to make fortunes of the rail project realized former city councilman Nestor Garcia was expert at ""workplace safety"" and ""secretary-ing"" and threw money at him that dwarfed HIS city council salary for HIS part time job. Funny how his ""expert"" status faded away the day he left office. + +What's going on here with Mayor Caldwell and his newly found financial genius is probably something completely different though. That whole Nestor Garcia thing seemed really shady. + +Maybe we get the independent and ethical Chuck Totto to take a look. Oh, that's right.... + +http://www.staradvertiser.com/2016/06/16/hawaii-news/embattled-city-ethics-chief-steps-down/",0 +"With the exception of income sprinkling (which I'm sure in some cases is quite legitimate), no one is saying - at all - that 1-2 million will not be taxable....quite the contrary....instead there would be an initial lower rate on income going into the PC with deferral and residual tax on removal form the PC, the full tax is paid. +Unfortunately the LPC wants you to see otherwise.",0 +how is a pledge a debt?,0 +"With this one it's 32. That would 3 over the record. Hopefully just a couple drug-thugs. No loss in that case. 1 down, 1 for jail for a long time",0 +"I agree that Robert Rotenberg takes too long between books, especially given how many he anticipates in the series, but they are surely worth the wait. Good review of an excellent book.",0 +"If you haven't yet learned that the ""babies in a septic tank"" thing was a hoax you should check it out. Associated Press retracted the claim. Forbes, New Republic, and (the Jesuits') America Magazine, and others, gave more detail. E.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/eamonnfingleton/2014/06/09/that-story-about-irish-babies-in-a-septic-tank-is-a-media-hoax/#723d7e453637",0 +"Couldn't agree more. The cons have been laying the groundwork for this divisiveness and un-American attitudes for YEARS and YEARS with their fake news platforms, ever since Ronnie Raygun's crew dismantled the Fairness Doctrine. Before that, they were consigned to John Bircher pamphlets and the like. + + +This president* didn't create this situation; he's the most obvious symptom of the disease, though. He even looks like and acts like the typical Faux consumer - even down to the same age of that demo.",0 +"If there were 100 guns in the house properly secured, a child would not be in intensive care. A gun can't secure itself, a person has to do that. The problem is, an adult didn't secure the gun. + +This is a negligent parent issue, not a gun issue. We're done here.",0 +"You're right. I should have worded it as ""communist"" instead of democrat. Anybody that supports a party that throws an ambassador under the bus along with the Americans that died attempting to get him out of danger, thinks that illegal aliens are ""undocumented immigrants"" and have broken no laws; really should re-examine why they live in the U.S. instead of packing up and moving to Venezuela.",0 +For the last 8 years I quit breathing with all the lawlessness being ignored and even encouraged. Our President bowing to dignataries that hate everything America stands for. Stealing money without Congress approval and giving it to a country that thumbs their noses and progresses with nuclear capability. That allowed soldiers and our people in Benghazi to die. To name just a few things.,0 +"""I saw it in the window and I just had to have it!"" Classic Carol Burnett.",0 +"Richard, all one has to do is peruse this thread & read your comments to see whom deals in insults and childish remarks. It is rather ironic that you are calling others out for ""acting like a 3-year old' when all I see from you is a barrage of insults towards a number of other posters.",0 +"Remember Loony Thabo the AIDS denier? Not a peep from any of them including Trev. An absolute disgrace, all of them.",0 +"I suspect R&R is not all that familiar with Baum's theology. The fact Baum admitted he was in a gay relationship negates anything the man did in his entire life. As mystikali notes, for the conservative Catholic there is no forgiveness for those gay 'disordered acts'. I pray that when I die, I will find out that God is not a conservative Catholic.",0 +"Tiresome lib propaganda piece. Notice that the tides in the West are changing, the majority is more concerned about ultra liberalism, socialism, globalism, marxism, green communism, mass immigration and the religion of peace. Libs as usual, have no insight, delusional and clueless about reality. They still did not figure out how they furhter alienate themselves from people with Trump bashing and Trump supporter shaming. They don't want to notice that the lib MSM propaganda machine is broken,, no longer effective, because people reject propaganda and exchange ideas via social media, bypassing them.",0 +Thanks Jason!!! I voted for you and I am counting on you to brighten Alaska's future!!,0 +That was a normal regulation.,0 +I think this is a great plan that compliments Oregon's increased Minimum wage and increased utility costs with our growing dependence on renewable wind and solar projects. It's well past time Oregon's big businesses paid their fair share in supporting our Oregon communities. Let's bring Oregon into the new age of prosperity and growth!,0 +"tip2 writes: + +""You really think the information released was critical intelligence? I suspect this story is more about the NYT getting the scoop on a story the UK police promised UK papers."" + +-- + +Not according to the Prime Minister of the UK: + +http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/theresa-may-to-confront-trump-over-media-leaks-as-u-k-police-stop-sharing-information-with-u-s",0 +Chin should resign and fly to New York to defend this guy Pro Bono.,0 +"""I for one am getting sick and tired about hearing about some biker..."" - recovering hemorrhoid +Sick: I can recommend some fine physicians. +Tired: Naps can do wonders. +Hearing: Tuck those earbuds in and crank up the rock-n-roll. No more hearing about anything. +Problems solved. You're welcome. Glad to help.",0 +"how many fence sitters made up their mind when the head of the FBI came out with their ""new"" revelations while early voting was in progress? How many of them were swayed by the e-mails? And now we're stuck with Comrade Trump.",0 +"wouldn't it be more like ""MANDAN HUN MANDAN HUN MANDAN HUN""?",0 +"Omar Khadr is a victim, not just once at the hands of his father, but twice when the Harper government did nothing to help him. + +Omar's father was the terrorist, whether his mother is a terrorist or simply the result of indoctrination remains to be determined. + +Omar deserves far more than $10 million for the years of mental abuse and neglect he has endured. And continues to endure given the ignorant nature of the comments to this article.",0 +"Believe and say what you want about President Barack Obama, but he's the first and likely to be the last president to ever show the intense kindness and respect to Alaska's first people: Alaska Natives. For that gesture alone, President Obama has my undying respect.",0 +"In 1971, the International Synod in Rome published ""Justitia in mundo"". It states ""action on behalf of justice and participation in he transformation of the world fully appear to us as a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the Gospel. For the first time, the church stated that IT had a need to bear witness to justice in its own life if its call for justice in he world is to be credible. +-------------------------------------- +David J. O'Brien and Thomas J. Shannon, eds., CATHOLIC SOCIAL THOUGHT: THE DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE [Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis, 1992) p. 289.",0 +"A private enterprise trying to build a non-resource extraction business, that would bring in money from outside, improve Alaska's brand, provide an amenity that a young, educated workforce might enjoy and add another arts venue to the state? Yes, please!",0 +You really think Rona had no say? At the time she was a minister... even if she wasnt what is to stop her form giving a friendly hint? How naive!,0 +I recall that after President Clinton met with AG Loretta Lynch she stated that she would defer to whatever the FBI decided.,0 +"Shilling for Countess Hillary, eh? You getting paid for this, or are you volunteering your services (servitude)?",0 +"We tried one of those bans. + +The Volstead Act. and the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. October 1919 through December 5, 1933. + +Other than making millionaires out of the Kennedy family and other such bootleggers and introducing the tommy gun to organized crime, it was fairly unsuccessful. With that history, I wouldn't hold my breath on that one. + +With 330 million firearms in private hands, the odds of repealing the 2nd Amendment looks a little dicey, too.",0 +"As long as it is labeled ""sponsored content"" I don't mind. Newspapers can't produce content for free, and the business models are changing. But you are spot on about real estate agents!",0 +"He was 57YearBroncoFan for 3-4 years now. + +That's like someone saying they are a ""former"" life long fan but aren't dead yet.",0 +"champagne budget, beer taste.",0 +"Some people said Hillary was running a child sex club out of a pizzeria, too.",0 +"A decision made in a last ditch effort to save the premier's political career. A decision made for the sake of political opportunism to secure a vote deserting her en masse. She is trying to project that she represents the interests of all the GTHA and not just the city of Toronto. The problem she cannot shake is that she has succeeded in being untrustworthy and unpredictable- the hallmarks of unstable governance. + +She made the only decision that could be made which is to stop penalizing the nation's economy by grifting employer and employee, interfering in the making of product and getting product to market, creating further gridlock, and treating Toronto as if it was a bedroom community. This is what drives jobs out of the country.",0 +"The World Health Organization says most burn deaths are related to open cooking in undeveloped nations. How 225,000 Americans die from fossil fuels cannot be true. Paul Walker was killed by an idiot who couldn't control his sports car. +http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs365/en/ + +""...An estimated 265 000 deaths every year are caused by burns – the vast majority occur in low- and middle-income countries. +Non-fatal burn injuries are a leading cause of morbidity. +Burns occur mainly in the home and workplace. +Burns are preventable..."" +Too bad these poor people are not blessed with gas fired power plants to power electric stoves.",0 +"I had to speak up. We all know the truth. We all want to help but there is a difference between helping and being taken advantage of. I am not cold hearted but when I am struggling and my PM (can't stand him) puts me last always and he gets away with murder with his personal useless agenda and I see so much tax payer waste, I seriously think that I should go on welfare - is that what we are teaching our kids? Seriously these refugees should not receive preferential treatment over tax payers. NEVER.",0 +Nice outfit!,0 +"No, no, no, no, no! Very bad form on Perlmutter's part. We always need new people in Congress and now there will be a spillover effect in state house and senate races for the legislators who were vying to replace him.",0 +The Wynne government is totally clueless on this file and many more.,0 +Khadr was essentially handed over to this situation by his dear papa,0 +Definitely not a face that will launch a thousand ships... Perhaps not even one leaking dug-out...,0 +Except it wasn't a cold winter outside of central B.C.,0 +Its okay though for tourist boats to park near them? Sounds to me someone with an agenda against PWC (personal water craft) exaggerated things a bit. For accuracy of story those are not jet skis. Jet ski is a registered trademark of Kawasaki and a vehicle you stand or kneel upon to ride. Get your facts straight Mr. DeMarban!,0 +"I count the scientists' empirical evidence as better quality analysis as opposed to your ""quick look at a map.""",0 +"Mainstream media and network comedy made the same mistake. They felt confident they could indoctrinate their audiences and ""deliver"" them for their preferred candidate. They forgot to consider that a lot of people would simply hit the off switch.",0 +"Yes, stopping more often increases total travel time. The A line doesn't have trolly type trains, is on time around 90% of the time and improving. But no, I doubt these would be the same Silver V commuter cars as they top out at 79mph. For this project to be worth it, they would need to be at least 110mph.",0 +"Some questions for the judge who may as well be wearing a white sheet with eye slits. +http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/some-questions-for-the-canadian-judge-who-wore-a-make-america-great-again-hat-in-court + +Yes, judge, the KKK endorsed Trump and plan marches celebrating his rise to power. Minorities in the US are reporting being bullied and harassed by Trump supporters. The Atlantic editor's life has been threatened by Trump supporters because he's...wait for it...Jewish.",0 +Libertarians will scrap the bottom of the barrel to get political recognition. Now they have Piller.,0 +"Gun control is a moot issue. American citizens currently possess approximately 350 million guns. Its too late! There is no way that additional government ""controls"", short of totalitarian measures, would hinder a would be killer from securing what is needed to commit crimes. Liberals know this. The end game of gun control advocates is government confiscation of all firearms.They are willing to employ totalitarian measures to accomplish this. The problem with this idea is that Americans possess 350 million guns. Get my point? + +We would expect that Catholics would view the problem of mass shootings on a more profound level. We hear little to nothing about how secular liberalism has hollowed out the Christian content of our culture. When there is no heaven and hell. When there is no formation of individual character and conscience. When morals become relative we should expect more violence from soulless creatures like Pollock.",0 +"I'm not a financial supporter of HSUS or PETA. I would love for all animal organizations to be perfect, but am grateful for many things they ARE doing , calling attention to things that need to be seen and addressed. + +Corruption is rampant, but to a MUCH greater extent in governments, and corporations that run those governments. To those entities, people are only important as consumers, but otherwise mean nothing to them, and, like D.D., they don't care at all about the animals.",0 +"See that is the issue with liberals. You have been so focused on digging for dirt on Russia you have missed all that he has done. He has dismantled Obama's legacy. Almost everything he stood for will be erased year 1. He has a good chance of selecting a second Supreme Court justice. + +Trump will have a longer legacy than Obama ever dreamed of.",0 +"Or why they don't block pipelines in Iran or Saudi Arabia... oh wait, because they would be shot on sight. + +— Hambone678 +___________________________________________________ + +Saudi Arabia and Iran is how you envision to change BC, for oil? + +Are you threatening that people should be shot for an american-owned company known as Enron in the USA operating as Kinder Morgan here, lobbying to transport sludge to a foreign country known as China ...and shoot Canadians opposed for stealing our lands for treason?",0 +"In retrospect, Obama and Clinton were not good. At least not internationally. Obama got pushed around by Putin. And Clinton screwed things up in the former Jugosalvia.",0 +"Nope. + +Lincoln disregarded Dred Scott, the Constitution, and settled law. + +Yank terrorists such as John Brown further inflamed the crisis. + +And Southerners fanned the flames instead of trying to work out a compromise -- e.g. Crittendon. + +The Fugitive Slave Law was clear and Lincoln enforced it until 1862. + +You do not dispute the fact that Grant was a rabid anti-Semite who pursued a strategy of Total War to murder innocent, defenseless Southerners and Plains Indians. + +It is a complex story with plenty of blame on both sides. + +You are not interested in facts, only pushing your political agenda.",0 +"There are 17-18 K employees in the Executive Branch. About 15K are union, including all the State's supervisors and confidentials, and even including the State's labor negotiators. So, 2-3K exempt, partially-exempt and elected/appointed who are non-union. Last I looked there were a couple hundred division directors or similar positions, a C step director is about $110K. There are several hundred non-union AAGs in State Ranges 20 - 24 or so, $80 - $100K, and there are also lots of clerks and technicians who for one reason or another are non-union, mostly because of who they report to. + +The quasi-governmentals have some union employees, e.g., AHFC, but most are non-union and most have salaries set by a board or commission. Some in the quasis cut a really fat hog. All are exempt from the State Pay Plan but some have adopted it. The 24K employees number that gets bandied around includes the Legislature and the Judiciary as well as the partially union University.",0 +"My goodness, Saunders is actually producing articles I agree with! + +I would add one more thing. If we need an expedited process for these people, surely we also need one for all those existing refugee claimants who do go through those months and years of appeals, for the exact same reasons. + +Why should these new claimants get quicker hearings than those already in the pipeline? That already has all the downsides Saunders enumerates. + +BTW, I recently heard the child of ""refugees"" marvel at how much hardship the earlier immigrants were willing to go through when they came here, with the terrible climate, etc. He was in incredulous. Indeed, his own parents got free healthcare, a three-bedroom apartment in a central part of town, welfare, free education, etc. Why would anyone want to come here before any of those were available, was his question...",0 +Deplorables popping up all over the place lately.,0 +"Reagan Republican, uber pro-lifer (I had my own plan to end abortion, with JPII declaring the unborn Vatican subjects and Reagan agreeing to protect them, they did not want it because it would have worked), pro-defense, worked as a cost analyst for the Air Force. Left when George H.W. Bush, who was neither a governor nor a senator ran for POTUS, when Jesse Helms was too much of a racist donkey butt to ignore and because the whole contention that the doctors who do abortions were in it for gain rather than to prevent self-induced abortions proved false. I also ran statistical models comparing GOP and Dem economic policies and found that the GOP plan was always worse. The Dems may have been too into dependency, except people work their way out on their own in most cases. The Dems favor more education than low wage jobs and with Bernie, there won't be such a thing with a $15 minimum wage.",0 +It's about time! Good for the new GG. Science is about thinking and religion is about mindlessly obeying. No more opium for the masses. We need more thinking in this world. The longest lasting pyramid scheme is collapsing at last.,0 +another result of promoting the minority and not the majority,0 +"Indeed! When healthy, was one of the best Broncos lineman they ever had.",0 +A city income tax is nothing new. Denver has had its Occupational Privilege income tax for as long as I can remember. The Mayor should modify this to a Seattle wealth tax and then there will be plenty of housing available for the low income population.,0 +"I thought we were discussing transgender people and they are not the same as gay. Transgender people, despite having a biological penis or vagina, ""feel"" they were born in the wrong body. Even for Rachel Dolezol who pretends to be black, her race/ethnicity is not biological. You can't ""feel"" you are one race when you are biologically something else. ""Gender assignment""--what an odd expression--is based on science. A penis equals male; a vagina equals female. How society deals with these issues depends on the prevailing social mores and the requirements or restrictions of its institutions. We now live in a culture of moral relativism instead of moral realism, and that affects the whole society from politics to education to social issues. I accept a person's right to do whatever to his/her body, but it is my right to not approve. My acceptance never seems to be enough. And then there are transgenders who change, then change back, then change again. Google that.",0 +"""This partisan bill is an ACA-total-repeal bill that takes insurance away from millions of Americans – including hundreds of thousands of Coloradans."" This statement is totally distorted! And, please remember, Obamacare was a partisan bill!",0 +"Low productivity levels present an enormous challenge for Canada’s future economic prosperity. In 2012, Canada’s level of labour productivity was US$42, much lower than that of the United States, at US$52. This earned Canada a disappointing 13th place among its 16 peer countries on the level of labour productivity. Only Finland, Switzerland, and Japan were lower. Worse still, Canada’s labour productivity level has fallen to 80 per cent of the U.S. level from a high of 91 per cent in the mid-1980s. Despite a broad and growing consensus that Canadian productivity needs to be improved, the gap with the U.S. is widening, not narrowing.",0 +"Nonsense. Go back to ""scanning school"". I suggest you brush up on metre and rhythm while you're at it. Of course you can always respond with a Limerick of your own.",0 +Yu vs Yuri....karma baby!,0 +"The previous government spent all tax revenue collected for the benefit of the people of Alberta. As it should be. And the province was debt free. + +Oil revenue has declined and Comrade Notley has been digging a ten billion dollar hole every year since accidentally stumbling into power. + +See the difference? + +Oh.....and no pipelines either.",0 +Look everybody.... idontgetitatall is down voting math...,0 +"obviously, you don't know dick",0 +"There was an example of this on a tv show few years back where they put up a 6 foot fake monster in the dark on the side of the road and asked them what they saw. The descriptions varied from like 10-20 feet, teeth and movement exaggerations, even adding wings and glowing eyes. + +It's due to the fight/flight mode, you really have to be trained or train yourself to concentrate on details in a sudden/frightening situation.",0 +"Has President Trump made America great again? I dunno—but I do know he has somehow managed to make Wall Street great again. Usually, I can buy stocks because they go down in value here and there. However, ever since Mr. Trump became Commander-in-Chief, the stock market has seemed to go only one way—UP! Now, my stocks are doing very well. But, at the same time it’s hard to find anything “on sale.”",0 +I'm sure that the thousands that Bombardier has laid off will agree with you.,0 +"Please keep us up to date on the progress of cold fusion. + +And thank you for your kind thoughts regarding your fellow citizens.",0 +"Thank you for the compelling post. I love it when you guys troll. Tells me Im saying all the right things. + +Not just this article, a lot of them. If you cant see the Denver Post is WashPo West, then youre either blind to it or just dont care.",0 +"The announcement was that it had no effect on ""tallies""....meaning they had NOT hacked into voting machines and impacted the tally of the votes. A very different thing from saying the Russian interference did not impact the election. Of course you likely know that. Gary Crum",0 +"Canada will be fine... Have no fear, Canada will be fine... Trust me,, for the 3rd time.. Canada will be fine.",0 +"Yes I did predict that with the Donald the stock market will soon crash. I still stand by this. I have liquidated some stock but not all of it. Soon is a relative term but I suspect the market will take a dive sometime later part of this year or beginning of next year. + +As for the Donald being so much better what do you like most about him? + +That he is Buddies with Putin? +That he is buiding his wall? +Thathe has locked up sweet Hillary? +That he has fired the person that is doing an investigaton of him? +Just curious have you ever read 1984? Just curious but who do you the heros were in the book? + +I frankly don't see how you can come to the conclusion that the Donald is better than Hillary.",0 +"Of course people on the far right don't like equality, racial, gender, sexual, or otherwise. But if you want to minimize racism in yourself, one effective way is to suck up less so that you feel the need to kick down less. + Honest. Try it. You might like it.",0 +"Perhaps restricting Israelis from worshiping too close to Palestinian Muslims is understandable. When the Ashkenaziim fled the pogroms of Christian Europe, the Muslims then ruling Palestine invited them to pray on El-Shabbat in Masjidul Ibrahim--the mosque build above and adjacent to Abraham's tomb, telling them ""He was your father, too."" And in 1994 Barukh Goldstein repaid Muslim kindness by shooting them in the back while they prayed the dawn prayer during Sharul-Ramadhan. The ""official"" count is given as 29, but the Society of Friends published a list of 51 names of slaughtered worshipers two or three days after the attack. And Zionist fanatics honor Goldstein as a martyred 'hero' for slaughtering children--rabbi Edo Elba eulogized him, saying that it was 'a mitzva' (a good deed) to kill every person of a nation fighting the Jew, even women and children.""",0 +"Besides, I'm what the missionaries and the white teachers said I should become. Like us, they said. Damned if I do and damned if I don't huh.",0 +"That's one of those 'odds' questions that is interesting to speculate about. When someone is killed or injured by either the speeding car or use of the illegal firearm, however, the 'odds' don't really matter to the person who was injured or killed. Then we will have the absolute certainty of the armchair police officers with 20-20 hindsight that the other possibility was the proper choice. And we will also be guaranteed the views that ""the police are all intentional killers"" contrasted by those who assert that ""the police can do no wrong"". I can predict the names on these threads for both of those positions right now.",0 +How much of the 573 million dollars of spending power is staying in the state? How much is getting sent back home? How many family members do they bring over that could potentially drain states social services and schools budget? What is the cost of crime for their wonderful youth we see in the paper? My guess is they will not offset the 1600 high paying jobs leaving the state.,0 +"Awww, still trying to spin it any way you can! It's fun to watch you guys meltdown! Please, keep it coming! 2018 will be so hard for you, you ""big scary Liberal"", you!",0 +Claude you need to be careful because atatcking people like whazzie is going to get you banned so take ur mustang and git.,0 +What makes you think the victim was homeless?,0 +"I said ""Trump is right."" Period. 14 hours ago. + +You are responding to the wrong person.",0 +The FBI has ruined any reputation it had for non partisanship. Hoist by their own petard.,0 +"If NCR had accomplished nothing other than its reporting (and commenting on!!) the clergy sex abuse crisis, that would have more than justified its existence. It's difficult to imagine how that crisis would have unfolded in the absence of the persistent, courageous work of NCR reporters and editors.",0 +"I love department stores. I remember the first time I went with my mother into Simpson's at Queen and Yonge in Toronto. It was exciting. Looking around at all the beautiful items for sale, I was amazed that we didn't have to pay to get in. When I started working, it was worth a trip to the 7th floor to admire and dream over what was on display in Treasure House. + +As for Sears, it's been good to me. Over the years, I got attractive, good quality children's clothes for half price or less at a nearby clearance centre. Currently, a local Sears store has had amazing sales and selection in women's clothing. I'll miss the Tradition and Jessica brands, but judging by the other shoppers you see at the mall, there certainly is a diversity of taste. In many ways, this is a weird and unpleasant time.",0 +Just what we need another monopoly. Utilites will go up higher due to this. Try paying $800 dollar light bills that PG&E sticks to its customers due to having monopoly.,0 +Blaming everyone and everything but themselves,0 +Thank you Bellevue Reporter for getting the facts right.,0 +"I love it when wingers invoke Ronald Reagan +----------------- +Ronald Reagan raised taxes 11 times in an attempt to fix his tax cuts for the wealthy. +The national debt rose from $900 billion to $2.8 trillion during Reagan's tenure. +Public debt grew three fold during Reagan's tenure. +Reagan didn't reduce the size of government, government grew under Reagan. +Reagan's tax code created the Savings and Loan debacle which cost the public 160 billion dollars. +Reagan funneled billions of dollars, along with top-secret intelligence and sophisticated weaponry to the Talbian and Osama Bin Lade. +Ronald Reagan's administration was marked by multiple scandals, the Iran Contra scandal being the most prominent, all told the administration's misdeeds and criminal actions resulted in the investigation, indictment, or conviction of over 138 administration officials, the largest number for any US president. +Yeah, bring up Reagan, St. Ronnie of the hagiography. +Wingnut idol, Ron Reagan. …..Doh.",0 +"Is that Chord or Hole?? +A majority wants no more of Captain Crunch and the Lie-berals.",0 +"And Chuck & Eric play the victim card right on cue. After posting for years as an alt-left female under the moniker JJP58, this is not surprising.",0 +You're NOT supposed to remember that.......,0 +For a minute I thought you were describing a Trumplethinskin Klaven!,0 +As opposed to the sub-third world taxi service we have now? Bring it on.,0 +"What a man! A person who puts his children first. Wow, just wow. Hang on to him because he is a real one -a real good one. Having a one year anniversary dinner is a nice thought, but a cozy dinner anytime would be just fine. You are both past the teenage, college years and not looking at , ""Say Yes To The Dress"" just yet. Enjoy the time you have with this modern gentleman. Many in my generation [Zoomers] would have been happy had the ex husband sent a birthday card to our children with a $5. bill in it.",0 +"I watched an interesting documentary about the growing modeling school industry in Siberia, where parents sent their daughters to learn how to walk, use body language, use makeup and attractive hairstyles, and dress sexy, with the main objectives to become high paid models (mostly in Asia), and/or to land a wealthy husband in the West. The Russians are realists. + +Here in America, why do women shave their legs and armpits (and other places), wear high-heal shoes, short hemlines, and show cleavage, if not to look sexually attractive to attract a better class of men? It's Mother Nature's way of improving the gene pool. Capitalism through sexuality.",0 +Looks like Climate B is getting flack on both sides: eco-warriors and carbon tax opponents. Should contribute to getting rid of Trudeau of 2019.,0 +"Sure, and the fact that the richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined is fair too. It would be Marxist if it wouldn't...",0 +"Oh come now, we all know you didn't read anything beyond the headline. Conservatives by and large suck at humour so I certainly wouldn't want you picking out anything for the Globe.",0 +I'm a fool for thinking it's ok to have a couple glasses of wine with my dinner when I'm out with friends? Rigghhhht.,0 +"The imagery you describe is opposite of what would be more accurate, much more accurate. Hillary flanked by American Flags would compare better with Hitler flanked by swastika flags, both are left wing ideologues.",0 +It depends on which month he said it. A fair number of campaign claims have been reversed or ignored. (Which is not necessarily a bad thing),0 +No it won't.,0 +Exactly Mark and all the tributarily thoughts that flow from that.,0 +He will go down as one of the best POTUS. All the chatter about his legacy is just that for sure. His place in history will be preserved in the record books. The facts don't change.,0 +"I give it a 50-50 chance I will be disappointed with President Elect Trump; after all, I have been disappointed in the past with Bush41, Bush 43 and then with the wannabes that lost, McCain and Romney. +I gave it a 100% probablity I would be disappointed in a President Hillary Clinton. Just like I was with the first (and hopefully only) President Clinton and then with President Obama. + +I went with the odds.",0 +(https://thetyee.ca/News/2017/04/11/Methane-Leaks-from-Energy-Wells-Affects-Groundwater/),0 +"Is there one set of laws for the elite and another for the people in South Africa? + +Are not all people equal under the law? + +Will justice be done in South Africa? The world watches.",0 +"There there poor baby Donald, don't be afraid of the mean press.",0 +"If Alaska's Independents, non-partisans, or undeclared give a hoot about ethics and protecting Alaska's best interest, then you must help remove the lack of leadership that 's going on in our capital. We removed Parnell, now let's finish the job and put ethical Alaskans in our capital.",0 +Privacy could be inside an officer's home or in a public restroom. But not on the street in the line of duty.,0 +"But of course, people of your ilk believed Iraq had WMD.",0 +"It's good to be pastoral, as long as he never says 2+2=5, or that two contradictory statements both can be true. That would be an invitation to insanity, which is not a pastoral thing to issue.",0 +"Get 'em, Gov!",0 +"How is seeing the truth stereotyping? Also, why the derogative ""little man""?",0 +"Wishful thinking. The constitution needs strengthening by making the electoral system individual rather than party centered, and to significantly curtail the executive, particularly the president, to hire and fire, as well as create portfolios and ministries on a whim. + +We are currently a dictatorship run by a thief, and our so-called Parliament is powerless because no individual can be called to account for their malfeasance because they are not an individual but a mere cog. + +Currently only the judiciary are individually responsible for their pronouncements being in line with the law.",0 +"You mean because the Republicans refused to work proactively with the Democrats on our behalf instead of throwing roadblocks up on behalf of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries? + +Those pieces of legislation you referred to were achieved because legislators on both sides of the aisle worked cooperatively with each other, versus what the GOP has done since the Clinton administration and their first attempt to shut the federal government down over their personal war with the Democratic administration. That behavior by GOP legislators and their blue-dog Democratic henchmen has only steadily increased, paralyzing our federal government in an attempts to serve the people equitably.",0 +"The way I see it, the white man should be thanking the Alaska Natives for the rich bounty of natural resources they so freely enjoy. Alaska wouldn't have been successful against Soviet rule without the Alaska Native villages defending American interest and serving in the armed forces in the Arctic. I haven't forgot the ongoing tragedies of imperialism around the world. Don't forget the Indigenous guides and whalers that provided the backbone of the young Americans fighting against the British imperialist in what is called the American Revolution. When the British controlled the Atlantic whaling fleets of oil, colonial dependency on the Pacific and Arctic whaling fleets helped the American colonies overcome the embargo and seized whaling ships in the Atlantic. Honor Native Americans for there is no America without their ongoing presence. There is no such thing as white supremacy anyway. Hitler tried and failed.",0 +"Clearly this is the fake ""legitimate"" news we're supposed to buy into and this would be the government approved version. For some proper context, its worth giving the National Posts coverage of this a read. As usual...",0 +"BTW, just for clarification, I do NOT think what this man did was OK. I simply don't think it's that big a deal.",0 +Japan tried that a few years ago and it didn't turn out to well in the long run for Japan. This time however the USA is more than prepared.,0 +Oh I see. Its not funny because youre the insurance company rep. Or...wait- youre on the Board of Directors who have a deductible to pay. Next time: clear the snow load. Durrr.,0 +You seem to forget that what has been missing from government is leadership. Each of these choices are acknowledged leaders. It is their organization that will define what is to be done. These choices will outline direction and strategy based on input from their staffs. Or we could just keep doing what we have been doing by selecting political careerists and hope for a different result.,0 +"SK recovers NK missile test parts all the time to assess the level of technology. They are still using rivets, which haven't been used for missiles since World War II. They aren't even flush rivets, invented by Howard Hughes. https://www.wired.com/images_blogs/dangerroom/2012/12/AP590482977794.jpg In 1996, a NK Sang-o spy submarine floundered on the shore of SK. The crew committed suicide rather than be captured. More World War II technology. http://b-29s-over-korea.com/A-Complete-History-Of-The-North-Korean-Navy/images/Sang-o-Class-N.Korean-Submarine.jpg NK has launched two 3-stage orbital rockets, the first one with a payload of about 50 lbs and the second with a payload of 440 pounds. Both satellites failed. Going orbital is only 200+ miles straight up. An ICBM needs to travel 7,000 miles and they only have the atomic bomb, WWII vintage, about the size of Fat Man, about 10,000 pounds. They are still using rail cars to transport their atomic bombs. NK can't reach Hawaii.",0 +"When they do this in during congestion it slows traffic more and also causes ""steals"" spaces from the traffic that is already on the highway or freeway. The way it should work is you go to the end of the merging lane and then alternate with the people on the highway letting one person in ahead of them. When someone jumps in before the end of the lane then they will be letting an additional car in ahead of them and everyone behind loses an extra couple of car lengths.",0 +"If the USA were to simply disappear, how long would it take for Putin to send troops, ships and planes over the North Pole all the way to the 49th parallel and Great lakes? A week? +- +would one of those morally superior leftist pacifists care to answer this question? +perhaps one of those moral preening Iraq-Afghanistan-Syria anti war activists of the left?",0 +"Laughable definition. Where was the discussion of ""real science"" or ""non-real science""? The ruling was pretty clear, she took it on herself to diagnose her son. She did not provide a healthy environment to live in. She did not take any action to address his illness even as it grew more and more serious over a prolonged period of time (2 weeks). That is plain and simple negligence. There was no science involved at all. There weren't any practitioners of any sort involved. If there was a science of basic parenting (like not letting your kids stay up to the wee hours of the night) then maybe there was fake science, but there is no science in parenting. I know many parents that bring their kids to the doctor that would fail that parenting science test.",0 +"Richard Phillips wrote, in response to my suggestion that a state income tax would have the advantage of getting revenue from those who live out of state but work here, ""The courts already ruled against taxing out of state residents."" + +This is completely wrong. There are many people who live in one state and work in another. If both states have an income tax, then taxes are paid to both states—to simplify somewhat, the state where the individual works but doesn't live is entitled to tax on only the income earned in that state, while the state of residence is entitled to tax on all income earned, but with a credit for income tax paid to other states. + +Yes, it can get complicated, but it's a pretty common situation (just look at how many people live in New Jersey or Connecticut but work in New York City, for one example). There is no basis to a claim that out of state residents wouldn't be subject to income taxes here.",0 +"Yes, it's a dying art, and I'm proud of you for writing letters even when you might not get a paper and ink reply.",0 +Bayer buying up Monzanto...what a cheery merger.,0 +I's not fair to impose your views or mistakes on everyone else. Everyone is not the same and just as she state's the doctor had good intentions. ..his own intension may have an adverse effeCT ...on opioid pain management. I am on management and because of all the media hype..people who need it are already struggling to simply maintain their own legitimate pain management. . I have a human right to maintain my own medical needs. There doesn't need to be anice iron fisthe over doctors head..merely education. This infuriates me....I want to sue assholes trying to use my body as a pin cushion to avoid prescribing opiods..doctors should not have to live in fear. .thus being forced into substandard care...what's good or right for one person isn't for another. .and shouldn't be forced to live in agony because of laws created by healthy people who have never experienced pain..,0 +"Actually Clayton, he did comment on the Oregon protest. He sided with the civilian group.",0 +"That may be the case with the local chapter where you live. I'm in Fairbanks; the Tanana Valley chapter has run a booth for many years at the fair where they conduct a straw poll. We've caught them doing exactly what I described numerous times spanning over a decade. + +I mentioned elsewhere that I've been on a hunt this summer for old images of Alaska which have fallen out of copyright for various reasons or were never under copyright (read: works of the federal government). One shows an Alaska Railroad box car with a banner announcing ""Alaska's New Voting Machines"" from 1962. This came about after Warren Taylor championed ridding Alaska of its blanket primary, or decades before anyone ever heard of Jim Zawacki or other Republican sockpuppets. Or back when Diebold as a manufacturer wasn't quite known for specialties such as voting machines. Anyway, Taylor's objective was to allow people to basically cast a straight party vote without having to give it any thought. Sound familiar?",0 +"Bigzim + +What you say is true, but these scenarios should be discussed and considered before investing. Example, this exact situation should be on paper inside every equity investor's IPS. It is included in mine, and my plan is to 'back up the truck' in the event of a major correction.",0 +The_whole_Real_Pressence_thing_is_a_huge_difference.,0 +"Amen, bro. Sometimes a guy's girls are his only real friends.",0 +"psst bud,, in case you missed it, canada particularly ontario is loosing full time jobs,, because of costs and taxes and regulations + +Jan 27, 2017 - General Motors is cutting 625 jobs at its assembly plant near London, Ont., as it shifts some production to Mexico",0 +"Correction: ""THIRD world"" airport.",0 +"I hope she's reading all of this, maybe she'll catch on",0 +"One BILLION dollars has been sent to the Green Climate Fund ( tax payers money) thanks to Obama. What approval process did he go through? Thankfully, the other 2 BILLION he committed isn't going to the fund. +http://www.greenclimate.fund/how-we-work/resource-mobilization",0 +"""Prayers for the repose of their souls?"" Please! Tell me how many more times are we counseled to pray for the repose for the soul of innocent children, people who came to their house of prayer to worship? People having a night out to enjoy the music they love and to have a good time? Enacting laws against mindless mass shootings has to happen. Make it sooner, rather than have more of these terrible tragedies.",0 +"Planned Parenthood, a TAX EXEMPT organization offering relief to pregnant women receives over $500M per year in taxpayer support. Millions of Americans are offended by that.",0 +"Glen, when people come to America legally they never mention their extended ""family"". Once here they almost immediately start all paperwork needed to eventually bring their entire family= Mother and Father, Sister and her Husband, and five children, etc.. The United States is being worked by folks that know once their ""family"" hits American shores they will receive everything for free. And, whether some people like it or not, it is happening as we speak. And yet, we have NO money to spend on our homeless and get them the help they need. + + Where are our priorities as a Nation?",0 +"Roy Moore’s Neo-Confederate Sugar Daddy Has Deep Ties To Secessionists +Alabama Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore’s top supporter is a hardline Confederate sympathizer with longtime ties to a secessionist group. +Here's Moore with the worlds tiniest handgun he whipped out while campaigning on a public stage. +https://dawm7kda6y2v0.cloudfront.net/uploads/2017/09/roy-moore-gun-654x362-60b3295.jpg +He's a real peach.",0 +Not in that sentence.,0 +"Outsider: Stop worrying about them, and focus on the other outsiders. Become friends with *them*. Don’t try to copy the clique-y ones to get back at them. Just use the opportunity you have to make new friends with the other ones who are open to it. Heck, those guys could be your friends, too. It doesn’t have to be divided into men in one group, women in the other. + +Also, like someone else said, they were friends already. They may not be doing it on purpose, they just have a history together. Sure, they could be more inclusive, but, like with the bachelorette party - why would anyone invite acquaintances to an event that’s meant to be for your closest friends? + +You can’t force a close bond with a group of people whose main thing - or only thing - in common is that their significant others are friends. If it happens naturally, great, if it doesn’t, oh well, don’t take it personally. Make friends with those you can - girl or guy!",0 +https://www.change.org/p/lisa-murkowski-don-young-recall-alaska-s-governor-walker,0 +"uh no. +Actually, Tesla, Volvo, and BMW have all announced that they will be held responsible for the times when their APs were in use and there was no interference by the driver.",0 +"Business risk? + +For a Canadian doctor? + +Funniest post on this article, and the misinformation here today is mind boggling.",0 +They already have 280%,0 +"Hey everybody, did I miss anything? + +....... Barack Obama",0 +"Hillary hasn't taken a question in a press conference in 6 months. Like trump or not, he has the guts to face the press. Hillary needs to put on her big girl pants and take some questions",0 +"No freaking way!! +Donald Trump is going to have a field day with this. Enough already. +Not Good!",0 +"It's simply incredible not one Alaskan has ever produce oil and sold it at a profit. + +Why is that?",0 +"I think also that the interpretation of the song requires that it be taken in its context, where possible. For example, the first movie performance of the song was by Esther Williams and Red Skelton, in Neptune's Daughter,in 1949. I know that in some of her movies Esther is being chased by men, and sometimes her role indicates that she is not really interested but doesn't want to alienate the people who can help her career, as her career as a synchronized swimmer was often the main subject matter of the film.",0 +Did he accidentally press publish while it was still a draft? Because it reads like a bunch of random scribbled down notes,0 +"You do realize that the Democrats in the Senate voted no on restructuring the Permanent Fund and the Republicans voted yes. So vote out the minority in the Senate and you will have your restructured Permanent Fund. Opposed were Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage; Berta Gardner, D-Anchorage; Johnny Ellis, D-Anchorage; Bill Stoltze, R-Chugiak; and Mike Dunleavy, R-Wasilla.",0 +"Awesome! What a forward-thinking, benevolent and cool guy he is! So hard to imagine any of the Trumps doing the same.",0 +"Let's try this again, Little Larry. + +Hitler was a right wing extremist. All your blather won't change that.",0 +Any time you can get Sen Cantwell to agree with provisions that are good for Alaska is a win-win. She hasn't been a good neighbor.,0 +"Thanks. Maybe we will, but we might also go the civilian way also. You are also proving a point of mine because the same thing has happened to presidents. That is why I chuckle at the thought of impeaching Trump. It is hard to get 2/3rd of the Senate. It might be different with Hillary, I suspect even some of the Democrats are mad at her because of the the dirty tricks she pulled during the election.",0 +"Is that what they teach you in your farm school? Inbreeding good, foreigner bad?",0 +"Shame Travis Jonsen didn't stay, he could have helped save the season. Or Morgan Mahalak for that matter. Half the issue here are the QB's who thought Herbert was too solid and decided to play elsewhere.",0 +"The US export to China has been growing 468 percent over the last decade. China already is the world’s largest auto market. American big three autos sell more cars in mainland China than in the US. Apple, Boeing, agricultural producers and many many others, their largest market is not in the US but in China. The US exports more than 160 billion dollars of goods to China each year. In addition, the US profits 150 billion dollars annually from Chinese service sector( not take into account in trade figures). Besides all above, Chinese tourists spent 25 billion US dollars, Chinese students and Chinese investors spent 110 billion in the US just in 2015. The trade war can contribute 10 million job losses in the US. The factories, department stores and other sectors will also have to slow or shut down or mass layoff due to a lack of parts and components cross the country. China can also dump the US bounds in the open international market. The US can slip into recession for decades to come",0 +Yep if North Korea does bad things the shiny pony will throw selfies at them,0 +"Super start to the week,CB. Mr. Friedman has a fast New York style of speech, but some good points.",0 +Funny we pleaded when they occupied Caledonia and it never made front page news.,0 +"David Lane, oh brother. Another ridiculous, bloated settlement. + +It seems to me that a lower bunk wouldn't have been adequate, and he should have been on a mattress on the floor. Sounds a medical staff assignment error or something. Or maybe inadequate facilities?",0 +"No, actually, we are paying the Americans to take it off our hands.",0 +"Sajjan does look a little like Medusa, so maybe there is something to the story.",0 +These are the same clowns that gave Taj Mahawker the go ahead to swindle the $40 million buyout deal with the private owner. I want to know why the non-partisans and independent voters will continue voting these riffraff back into office.,0 +"It must be your self-contained information bubble. The polls show (and I'm talking scientific polls, not garbage online polls) shows Hillary winning + +""Six in 10 likely voters who watched the debate said Clinton had won. Just 22 percent chose Trump. Another 12 percent called it a tie."" + +http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2016/10/clinton_was_big_winner_in_first_debate_fox_news_poll_shows.html",0 +"US workers won't directly benefit. Trump will court US CEO's to return manufacturing jobs to the US (one possible means of averting increased tariffs). + +Why did US corporations leave? Higher costs of manufacturing. + +But, higher manufacturing costs will be passed on to US consumers (who are workers, not necessarily in the same manufacturing sector, but workers nonetheless.) + +So Henry Ford's ideal of ""my workers can afford a Ford"" may work. But they'll be immense re-structuring of the US economy prior to that occurring. + +Can the US afford that in such global, economic conditions, where economic power is concentrated in a few individuals?",0 +So-called assault weapons were banned for a time during the Bill Clinton years. Leftists move their agenda incrementally and are never satisfied.,0 +I don't know. The leader of the Scottish Conservatives is unenthused - but staying in power is a mighty strong incentive for the Tory MPs to work with the DUP.,0 +"I'm a transcelebrity then - with the cool, hip descriptor label, trans-celeb",0 +Seen his actions had no effect on the election as the general public despises the press.,0 +"Lisa Bloom also said: Lynchings continued until the 1950s, as thousands of black Americans were hanged for offenses like “disputing with a white man.” (A much smaller number of whites were lynched as well, often for taking the side of a black person.) Is that why you are so angry at me? I dare enter a dispute with you???? Suffice it to say ""I have no umbrage with you."" (Good line from the film: Gone with the wind…LOL)",0 +"What about the local families who spend hours a day on the H-1 trying to get into town? Don't they count for anything? Tired of all these people complaining after they have received some traffic relief. But when it comes to west Oahu, let them eat cake I guess. I wish we could bring people back from the dead as we really could use Fasi today.",0 +"To whom are you referring as ""you people?"" Careful how you talk. It could all too easily come back to bite you.",0 +What FREE Trade?,0 +"an uneducated response. yes, much of Canadian tv blows, but much of American tv blows.",0 +"A good history lesson for you... +https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/alt-right-a-primer-about-the-new-white-supremacy",0 +"Beginning of the end. Locusts spreading across ME and everybody selling them weapons, uniforms and access.",0 +Alaska doesn't have casinos because we don't have the population to support the industry. And you'd only be robbing Peter to pay Paul since legalized gambling would mean the end of charitable game across the state. And I don't think folks are going to fly to Alaska just to gamble like they might do in Nevada.,0 +"It is truly sad and says something about the motivations of the bloggers when the highest rated post does not meet civility standards. These blogging sites are not representative of the general population and will attract and large number of extremists and ""trolls"".",0 +"It's seated under the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic DEVELOPMENT.",0 +"A good question. + +I don't have a problem with people who actually use their own time and resources to do good. That's called charity. + +I do have a problem with clean finger nailed social justice warriors who shout and twist arms and shame and shake down elected officials and social-crats to do what they want just to allay their own white guilt. + +There's a difference. + +The Church implores us to ""do good and avoid evil"".",0 +"The Liberals have been saying that thanks to them Canada has the fastest growing economy in the G7. We are, until next July, when the UK ONS publishes a May 2018 real GDP(O) estimate, the only G7 country that publishes monthly real GDP estimates, but the US has a monthly index of industrial production. The annual increase for August was 1.2%, whereas the industrial production component of Canadian real GDP went up by 1.1%, so it seems that the American economy is now growing more strongly than ours is.",0 +"150 stores! Ouch, expensive. I would rather they just develop an amazing website, sell it through the internet, ship it. Much, much easier.",0 +"The self absorbed are always tooting their horns. Who really cares if you leave the party. He just sounds vindictive and like he swallowed some sour grapes... Go do something good and positive, that's all....",0 +"Shades of Boston's Cardinal Law ... when Law went to the Vatican to explain what would happen during the discovery phase in an American courtroom, the Vatican decided to pull the plug on Law. This maybe the death knell for Pell?",0 +"Not true.. +Nosotros no estamos con trump",0 +"Sharp satire in Canada? What would Stephen Colbert have to ridicule if he was in Canada? There is so little news in Canada that the CBC news is forced to recycle old documentaries to fill the time. The Canadian icon is Anne of Green Gables, so Rick Mercer, 22 Minutes, Kim's Convenience and Corner gas all fit this kinder, gentler nation. We have serious warts, but who is going to satirize missing Native women, residential schools, city shootings and such? Rick Mercer is fine with me - it shows me part of Canada I don't know, and I feel better for it. No need for fake attack dogs here!",0 +Obamacare is now more popular than Mr Turnip.,0 +gee why shouldn't fuel be more expensive for in Alaska sure Alaska has lots of CRUDE oil but no refineries...... have to ship the oil down to the lower 48 then ship the fuel back to Alaska and then get it out to the gas stations what a shock,0 +"Provided the current administration stays in power, I predict that will happen on or about February 30th. If they lose in 2019 (unlikely), I still think it is a fairly safe bet that Canada will remain a signatory. + +And we are keenly aware that Trump wasn’t thinking about Canada when he made the decision. + +While he doesn’t care, many of us do, since the issue is global.",0 +"What % of votes did Merkel get? +What % of votes did the non-Merkel parties get?",0 +"Love the article, shop small, shop local.",0 +"I would add that immigration expense last year cost the government 2.5 billion dollars directly. It has been found to cost taxpayers as a net, 23 billion dollars annually because our new immigrants are not doing so well so pay less in tax than they receive in benefits. If you add in all the unemployed that could be employed if immigration levels were reduced, the overall cost of immigration to Canadian taxpayers is probably around 30 billion dollars a year. Reducing immigration levels is fiscally sound policy.",0 +"for those don't know about this incident + +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rummel#The_Desegregation_of_the_Archdiocese",0 +Swing voters from the NDP maybe but not from the Conservative camp - it was adamantly opposed to electoral reform because FPTP is the only way the current CPC can get re-elected.,0 +"McKenna has deliberately stated that the money will be returned to the Provinces. She has not stated that the money will be returned to the Province it was collected in. + +She has left the door wide open for wealth distribution which is a key feature of all of the national level programs around the world.",0 +"This road crosses over 40 avalanche zones and still will require ferry access. It's pork for engineer and contractor lobbyists. Period. Sweetwater Hydro, Kensington Mine, and most significantly MacKinnons' investment property adjacent to Kensington Mine. Legislators who go along do so for pork for their own pet pork projects. Deals are made. I'll support you if you support me. Whoosh. There goes Alaskan's PFDs.",0 +"The IRS maximum for HSA Employee+Family is $6750/yr. + +""Your catastrophic major medical policy would be covering your wife's costs"" + +You'd think that, but in Colorado we're on a tort-based system. While our auto insurance picked up the initial $5K, it's been significantly out of pocket for us since. + +My kids are now recovered (credit their young bodies), but since the accident my wife suffers from constant jaw-pain, neck-pain, headache, and facial numbness (she can't feel half her face). + +Due to the nature of her injuries, much of her treatment, such as physical therapy, is going uncovered by our insurance. For example, United deemed her jaw pain to be TMD, and swiftly cut off payments to the jaw specialist. To be fair, other things, like neurologist appts (and the imaging they've ordered) *have* been covered. + +(Continued)",0 +"Under the GWBush administration, the budget deficit may be the highest in the history of the US at $1.413 trillion for FY2009. +However, the $1.413 trillion included $253 billion from Obama's Stimulus Act.",0 +"All churches are full of sinners. + +That is a common phrase for pastors who feel the hypocrisy of self-righteousness. Please don't make the mistake of assuming all Christian or even all Christian evangelical churches are the same. + +Any person of serious faith would know that Christian have all the same human frailties that non Christians have. You might agree with that? + +My pastor regularly sited studies that showed Christian behaviors, as a large group, are almost identical to the behaviors of those of with no religious faith. He said it with a touch of sadness, knowing this is true, but also as reminder that faith requires deep understanding and commitment. Behavior does count.",0 +Is this a serious comment?,0 +"Even in New Russia, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela and Toronto.",0 +"I'm curious, is Colbert leasing from you directly or is that a sublet type arrangement?",0 +Who knew coming up with a national budget could be so complicated?,0 +"It is fiction to say that Oahu taxes suppliment Maui Island. While those of us on Maui send our taxes, GET, TAT and income to Oahu. If accounted for correctly, it will reveal that Maui has been paying more than it gets back for years. But when we are talking about funding for State projects, that is OK because we are ONE State. But the rail is not a State project. It was never debated at a State level. It is a project that the City and County decided was good for a small segment of that island. And it should remain a project funded 100% by the City and County of Honolulu.",0 +"Yes, Bill ""Slick Willie"" Clinton, who was very successful in avoiding the draft during the Vietnam War.",0 +Great for him. Funny they mentioned Tua in this article. I think Tua made a wrong choice going to Bama. He won't play very much. Also heard the number 1 high school QB also leaning to Bama. Anyway this article is about Milton. I like this him as well. UCF should do good this year.,0 +Good Luck ! Next Man Up.,0 +I hope the US presses Canada on our dairy marketing monopoly. Give it up and most Canadians will cheer with glee.,0 +"#1 Not so. Most contacts made by G&M wouldn't say anything. Heard from Whitehouse? Pentagon? One ""congressional watchdog"" said it advised Pentagon and ""clients"" to review purchases. So much for ""extreme concern."" + +#2 No, PM didn't ""cancel"" anything. His minister responsible didn't, either. nothing to cancel. Consensus was an in-depth wasn't needed. + +#3 Maybe you mean those ""former"" security experts? Pls. quote their ""deep concern"" statements for us all, because up until now, we haven't heard or read any except in an editorial. NDP is another matter, however. No...that was concern about AMERICAN concern. See #1. + +#4 True. To learn more about the foundation, see CBC news ""8 things to know about the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation"" and the fact that the PM has not been involved since 2014.",0 +How many were visible minorities Chris?,0 +"Poor Pifco. You just looove this guy, don't you. Please tell me where you got your pink glasses!",0 +"Way to draw unwanted attention Fawn Sharp!! Racial slurs? Not one person in all interviews said anything of the such, but you state that doesn't mean it untrue? And it's been an issue throughout the years? We are not hear to listen to your babble about the past, we are seeking justice for a crime that occurred, quit drawing lines in the sand!",0 +As a self employed individual. It must be nice to be able to get paid and picket. Not show up for work. Demand more of everything. Be happy with what you have and think about those who have less benefits. Or none at all,0 +"Obviously you have no desire to engage in a pleasant discussion and your attack has become personal. I raised my child just fine, and because I was lucky enough to have a dad who helped me get an education I'm making enough to go part time. If you don't like Sanders just don't vote for him and let the rest of us do what we want. Do you think you're winning over any converts with your rude banter? I done discussing this with you, Mr Civility",0 +". +Burnt cinder orbiting our sun. + +Yep, Pretty important. + +Who could have ever guessed?",0 +"That money didn't go to Trudeau. As far as I know, he has no involvement with that law faculty and no access to the funds in his father's foundation.",0 +"I think to get a better understanding of the entire context, try watching Kate McKinnon's portrayal of her, in a very interesting skit from SNL ---- it is life imitating art and seriously an uncanny perspective. +Not sure what else can be said about this crude, willing to do anything for Trump woman......unique!",0 +You are lying. I have watched an extended Tlingit family beach swinging sockeye as a bear approached. The eldest spoke to one of the children who walked to the skiff and returned with an empty 5 gallon bucket and a salmon gaff. Thus equipped with a drum he walked the bear back up the beach and into the woods.,0 +"Identify which public servants, McLeod.",0 +"""Virtue signalling"" is dogwhistle for ""let's carry on as long as we can and the heck with the rest of the world."" A shameful attitude, given how high our per capita emissions are. And futile in the long run-renewables are cheaper than fossil fuels right now. All that is needed is integrated power grids. (Read The Economist, not The Rebel...)",0 +"Kahn lives is the Islamic political world of half-truths, deceptions, and secrets called “taqiyya"". In any other religion telling lies and being deceitful is a sin. In Islam, telling lies to protect the name of Allah is a pious duty. We in the west have no comparable ideology and most western people have a hard time believing such a thing is even possible. That is why so much of what Muslims say compared to what they do confuses us.",0 +"Researcher - other than the investments made at point thomson, none of these costs can be deducted. They aren't lease expenditures and they are not made by the lessees. + +Why would Exxon have their top talent working on this project if they weren't serious? + +Again - why spend so much? +Here's the thing with net profit systems: the only reason why we have billions in savings is because we went from a gross system (no deductions) to a net profit system that allows deductions to incentivize investment to get more production.",0 +"Not if we pass new laws that are stronger and stricter. + +It is most clear that there is much new legislation for our state legislature to work on, when it comes to the subject of young people and weapons. And parents who allow their kids to have access to weapons need to be held accountable by the law as well. + +The legislature really needs to roll up its sleeves next year, and do more to protect our schools.",0 +"If ever there was an indication the rot in FIFA is not cured, this is it. There is no logical reason to expand the tournament. The qualifying is cheapened, and the quality of the group matches will be poorer. Pure money grab by FIFA and the corporate sponsors, for the ill of the game.",0 +"In the United States it is a felonious act to fail to report child and adolescent sexual abuse to the authorities immediately. +Considering this almost all of the men who are clerical leaders i.e. Cardinals, Archbishops, Bishops and diocese vicars of the Roman Catholic Church are criminals.",0 +"The Sask CCF (NDP) ended up losing the 1964 provincial election due to the rifts over the Medicare debate that were exploited by Ross Thatcher's Liberals. It should be noted that the Federal Liberals ended up implementing Medicare at a national level, never being shy to steal ideas from the Left or the Right. (I was there at the time).",0 +"For the belief system, would you be referring to Islam? As far as demeaning a white European, you do it similarly as you do anybody else. You accuse them falsely of any manner of crimes and misdemeanors. You spit on them. You promote other races ahead of them.",0 +"Yes he was alone on the top of a truck but as I came closer he jumped down and came right over to me. I fed him kibbles in a cupcake which he snarfed right down. The other two kits peered suspiciously out the cat door until a barking down scattered them throughout the house. I left my name and phone # on a note that said call me and I'll bring cat food to you so you can feed them. + +I am concerned about him being outside with the loose dogs in the streets. He does seem to have some street smarts so that is good. If Animal Control doesn't feel ok with them being there they may want to move them to the ASPCA shelter until Mr Nelson makes it home again. + +ACAT will be checking in on the kits daily. Thanks for your concern for Mr. Nelson's cats. You are very kind!",0 +"Fair enough, and I would like to see that kind of transparency from the KofC paid leadership. I suspect both of us will be waiting quite awhile before NCR feels compelled to match the transparency of the KofC leadership.",0 +"People can disapprove of Trump because of his personal behavior, and still want a more protectionist country.",0 +Or to point out that a fraction of a percent are used wrongly. https://www.google.com/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwjtuv-Eyf3WAhVOXH4KHdrWCiEYABAAGgJwYw&sig=AOD64_1B3OGQhgZySahJkCoiUPIa30ZyPA&q=&ved=0ahUKEwiLm_qEyf3WAhWHxVQKHdKpCJcQ0QwIJA&adurl=,0 +"This service animal scam is out of control and claiming PTSD is out of control. Used to be you had to fake a back injury to milk Uncle Sugar. Now you just say you saw a dead guy once and you're on the gravy train for life. Let's just make all parking spaces handicapped parking, allow all animals everyplace, and give every veteran lifetime full disability benefits. That way we save money by cutting out the lawyers.",0 +I do spare a thought for first responders but not because they have to miss Christmas. Wish I could join them.,0 +"And thats your opinion and right...as it is the opinion and right of the players...and anyone else in America...to stand up for theirs...or kneel...or sit...the US army are not exactly freedom fighters anymore...more like freedom takers. Make love, not war.",0 +"From reading this article, it sounds like HA overreacted but there must be more to the story than what's been reported. Turning the plane around and having to dump it's fuel isn't a decision they would make lightly.",0 +"You appear to have dodged the question. Please explain why being tortured to death was ""necessary"" for the forgiveness of sins. + +Since I never suggested a cruel death is necessary to show us how to live a good life, I don't know why you would ask.",0 +"It is too bad that there was no question in the debate about the dysfunctional renewal of the inflation control agreement last month. It would have given Maxime Bernier an opportunity to set himself apart from the other candidates again. He is the only candidate who favours a reduction in the Bank of Canada’s target rate of inflation from 2% to something lower. Our incompetent Finance Minister, Bill Morneau, agreed to an increase in the effective target rate of inflation with the renewal agreement, as there has been a substantial reduction in the upward measurement bias of the CPI inflation rate since the 2011 renewal agreement.",0 +Mueller is conducting a criminal investigation. The congressional investigations are security investigations.,0 +Best wishes to this young man and his dreams.,0 +nuff said,0 +"I am told it's called ""Chateau de no ethics""",0 +Maybe we should convict on the bell curve?,0 +"Nah-Americans (we Americans are diversified in race, ethnicity and our 'roots') are resourceful, hard working, innovative and persevere. That is the spirit of Americans and what sets us apart from most other countries. + + Yes, we have been teaching our newest generations to be totally reliant on government, but once the Americans (described above) realized that, they turned to other forms of education for their children. Once you invite government in your personal lives, they tend to not leave. At least not quietly.",0 +"“The border is complicated, as far as building a physical wall,” Zinke said at an event held by the Public Lands Council, according to E&E News. + + +He went on to say, “The Rio Grande, what side of the river are you going to put the wall? We’re not going to put it on our side and cede the river to Mexico. + + +And we’re probably not going to put it in the middle of the river.” + +Zinke’s answer to that problem was similar to Bannon treating the members of the Freedom Caucus like a child who can be ordered to comply with your wishes. + + +Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke proposed Tuesday that the U.S. build its border wall on Mexico’s side of the border. + + +Of course, there is that little problem of sovereignty to contend with! + + It was easily one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard from Trump or any of his associates. I doubt that Mexico will respond any differently to that idea than the Freedom Caucus member did to Bannon.",0 +"That's an untruth. Show us the text with context. By the way, dogs aren't humans.",0 +"If you want to learn about the other ""deep state"" establishment read about Roger Stone and Lee Attwater and the lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly.",0 +"And people celebrate St. Patrick's Day every March 17, but you don't complain about that.",0 +"A bully can never be appeased. Maybe a ban on US diafiltered milk imports would get Orange to shut up. And I totally agree with the commenters who pointed to American subsidies as proof that those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. As far as Maxime Bernier goes, someone should tell him he happens to be on the north side of the border.",0 +All they are doing is figuring out who is going to play Bob Dole to Trudeau's Clinton in the next election. The prize for being the winner is to be the loser in 2019. The leadership campaign after that will be the one to watch.,0 +"""...This was nothing more than a publicity stunt by the House..."" + +It was nothing of the kind kiddo. It was the House doing the only thing it could do to save the PFD program from being raided and destroyed by Micciche and the Senate. +It was,..what`s a good word... ""Brilliant"" and ""Honorable"" come to mind. +Publicity stunts, as you term it, don`t cut it in the real world of Alaska politics. The people who will lose jobs, lose education and career opportunities, from a Senate refusal to act like adults are not a publicity stunt I`m afraid. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trickle-down-economics-is-a-nightmare-kansas-proved-it/2017/06/12/c2d7aae0-4fa6-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html?utm_term=.dde925b15ecb",0 +"Being totally suspicious of anything related to health insurance companies I am deeply skeptical, but on the face of it this is a terrific move forward towards 'health' care vs sick care. As we age monitoring health becomes really important (easily done remotely), but can take up way too much time and turn life into a series of doctor visits. Yuk. And this model leaves more time for primary care doctors to really listen and determine when patients need extra and referral care. Great news!",0 +"Morneau is using the left wing buzzword ""fair"". Thus whole exercise is about inflamming opinion in the hope that the "" soak the rich"" crowd votes liberal instead of ndp, which makes your position particularly hypocritical",0 +"It ain't like hand picking coffee beans. Not everyone signs up to be a ""swabby""... +;-)",0 +"Boots, stay on topic, man... We’re talking about guns and you’re throwing in topics that have their own unique set of problems and solutions... The problem with you is that you think you can approach every problem the same way... which is the democrats’ way... So do you propose to regulate liquor and lower the speed limit...? And you think all of the problems will go away...? Grow up, man...!",0 +"I was taking to a Private equity guy last night who turns around small companies, and he was walking us through some of his investments. + +Quite literally, he went ""There was a lady who picked up and inspected the product, then put it in a box; One lady per line, 3 lines - 3 Ladies. Even on minimum wage it's cheaper to automate, so I automated. We can now run the lines faster. It is SOO much cheaper to automate than people realize, and it's getting cheaper all the time.""",0 +#NAME?,0 +And people worried about Barry Goldwater having the nuclear codes...,0 +"I get taxed up the ying yang on purchases and pay massive room rates when in Tokyo BUT at least it's a cosmopolitan place with no end of amazing things to see/do/buy and I won't be accosted by homeless panhandlers. + +HNL has its charms but a Rail Fail (the way it's currently conceived and pushed) ain't gonna help make it any better for anyone...visitor and local alike.",0 +"Interesting article and subject. And, the pictures worth tons of experience in dealing with the large amounts of ""stuffs"" our country's processing plants deal with. The scope, content and magnitude of those wastes are not easily visualized by the public. Few know what they mean. +The farmer in this article has done his homework, and seems to have something of great use in the public good. If his facility were to go out of business, the public would ultimately pay the cost of cleanup. An appeal for public funds could include those costs as avoidable through the farmer's project, but would need open minds to preclude it being viewed as a threat. Think Willows Run GC, and UofW Bothell. +We all would have been better off if Scott Paper, so many years ago, would have had Mr. Visser's foresight and concerned actions about what was left for the City of Everett to deal with at the Port decades later. +Am pleased with the Stillaguamish Tribe and others foresight in being involved. Thanks to them!",0 +"Interesting and curious turn to Russia. I guess I thought we were past that when it came out that the majority of the ""russian"" bought influence on social media was in favor of Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein. But, you don't seem to dispute that Mr. T 89 failed with his comment. Let's try to stay on topic here. The excessive use of executive orders by the Obama administration was/is an overreach and power grab by the executive branch that has very real and dangerous implications, regardless of party affiliation, for years to come unless it is rolled back now.",0 +"Excepting the native population we all moved here from somewhere else. You seem to be cranky in all your posts, and obviously you would rather be elsewhere, so why don't you leave? I believe Oklahoma or Texas would welcome you.",0 +"Good for Trudeau! Leitch should continue to be ""disparaged"" (I would say challenged) on her nasty views. Since right wingers treated us to daily does of ""Trudeau will choose a system that most benefits the Liberals"", he is quite right to have dropped the ranked ballot system although I like that system - it does not guarantee the Liberals permanent presence in second pale votes on ballots because there is nothing stopping the Conservatives from making themselves more palatable to centrist voters!",0 +"I'm a Canadian and I'm not fearful of Middle Eastern immigrants so you don't speak for me, anyway. Who are you speaking for anyway? And what gives you the confidence to do so, exactly?",0 +"Hi there, +I beg to differ back. :) +You can use whatever semantics you like but again Comey had no spine. Couldn't even give the notes to NYT himself. Where were his notes on Hillary's meetin + +Donald Trump can say whatever he wants to whomever as he is one of the few that has the right. I am not the biggest fan of Donald (did not vote for him 1st time. As a soldier, I can tell you he is running circles around the last guy in office who was basically toxic and in fact had to put an order out to his troops to stop talking trash about him. First time I have seen that in 26 years. As far as Russia goes, they may not be our friends but in many ways they are our partner. Lastly, if the D's keep up Trump, they will get a real conservative Christian who will take many things away the D's hold so dearly such as roe vs wade. On the flip side Trump cannot be impeached until after the midterms as the D's dont have anywhere close to the votes and Ryan would never bring it to up for debate.",0 +"Indeed a great and much needed discussion. Living a healthy and balanced life requires care of mind, body, and soul. Hypnosis for management of stress, ease fears, weight loss management, and healing support of the wellness and betterment of the whole person. https://www.curo.net",0 +"Yeah, I'm still confused about how she got into that situation in the first place.",0 +"Recognizing who gives it to them, it's more of a redirect, and not as important as the two coins of an old widow for either one. Sad for WB, and glad for BG for his wife. He's a fortunate man because of her.",0 +"Don't waste your time. Trump can do no wrong, simply because he isn't Hillary or Obama (even if it's illegal....and yes, he admitted it).",0 +"At Church this past weekend, found out we sent the homeless guy that was hanging around and tired of the Aloha State, back to his hometown in the Mid-West........and he wasn't even a member of our faith! WWJD?",0 +Can anyone here explain what the booing of Team Canada at the half-empty Bell Centre in Montreal tonight was about ?,0 +I read the court order.,0 +"""“Quit Bitchin’ and Do Something: The only person holding you back from sharing your music with the world is you!” Oh please. If the quest for a livelihood in the arts used to be a turn at the roulette wheel or a flutter at the track, today it’s more like wishing on stars."" + +Wishing on a star was a good line for Walt Disney! + +I totally agree that it is not just quality of product that counts. Today's mediums for promotion are much different than in the past, where you had to have a sponsorship from a Doges of King (and we all know how rare those were). As mass-media blossomed you needed an agent to align you to a distribution chanel, such as a record label. Now each of us can access YouTube, Vine, etc. to post my latest creative idea, but I need facebook, Instagram, etc. and a network of friends to help promote it. + +As for the government, they need to support those that become successful, not try to pick the winners. And the more successful, especially internationally, the more.",0 +"I'll willingly concede that homeowners are part of the pricing equation, though I suspect most go with their realtors recommendations. If your thesis is that the many well-documented unscrupulous tactics used by some realtors have nothing to do with the state of the market in Vancouver, then we will have to disagree. Have a nice day.",0 +I'd like to see how his campaign funds leftover after his 2010 campaign were spent.,0 +POLITICAL problems like the BARROW shake-up IS amplified in the smaller 2nd class cities--PEOPLE DONT EVEN VOTE anymore--so whoever is left in office--APPOINTS their faves--relatives--nobody wins--and LAWS continue to be broken and flouted---,0 +"A tour through the pages of history would find that Americans do not celebrate those with whom they would engage in war. On July 9, 1776 a statue of King George III in Bowling Green was pulled down. All British coats of arms were ordered removed from public places and destroyed. The difference between a statue erected to celebrate a person for treason against his country and historical landmarks which contain artifacts of slavery as it existed before 1861, should be self evident. In fact, Monticello was built in 1772, before there was a Declaration of Independence, Constitution or United States. And, the heroes of the revolution did not fight to specifically to preserve the rights to own others. In fact, the Revolutionary war can be seen as a step in a social evolution that led to the freedom of slaves. (Read the history of battles in Congress to end it). So, the comparison of Washington and Jefferson to the traitorous racists of the Confederacy is not apt.",0 +"Some people just like unique firearms. I have a friend who bought a device that makes his .22 caliber rifle 'automatic.' + +You can write your name with it because of the speed, accuracy and lack of recoil! + +And it's a LOT cheaper ammunition, too!",0 +Jerry: nothing worse than a sore winner.,0 +This anti-military attitude has become a minority position. Time to get out of the 60's mentality......,0 +"If Mr. Bozievich wants to change state law to allow him and his cronies to veto initiatives before the fact, or even permit a Circuit Judge to do so to avoid the evils of potentially unconstitutional initiatives, he has the means to do so. Passing an unconstitutional ordinance is not that means, however.",0 +"The argument is not we don't need to do something because the other guy is worse...it's about not needing to institute specific policies that cannot be shown to be effective in addressing the problem from a global perspective while at the same time, imposing a disproportionate local burden on the societies which take those ineffective actions. + +Rather than the professor's chocolate bar moral argument, which is flawed simply because stealing always has a victim, irrespective of whether the amount stolen is large or small....a better way to judge the global warming action argument is the 2 trains speeding towards each other on the same track analogy. If the trains are already so close that both need to apply the full brakes to avert complete disaster , and yet one engineer refuses to do so, there is no moral reason to stop serving lunch in the dining car of the other train.... + +climate change is a technical global issue, it requires an enforceable co-ordinated technical response",0 +"Well what has happened since November is a bull run in the stock market, jobs going back to the US and hope that has not existed since Obama came into office. What is about to happen is that uneducated lefties will finally wake up and realize that politicians like Obama, Wynne, Trudeau, Vaughan, etc is all talk and have destroyed the US and Canada.",0 +"Get ready for: +David Suzuki Elementary +Maude Barlow Middle School +Naomi Klein Collegiate +Peter Mansbridge High School",0 +"so what is the real big deal with all of this. its just a bunch of nosey neighbors or jealous neighbors. I can see if there is criminal activity going on like drug dealing, meth labs, abuse, prostitution etc etc, but i don't see why a homeowner can't rent out a room or part of their house to short term renters. One day they gonna pass a law that you can only flush your toilet 2x a day and these nosey neighbors will be listening to the flushes. LOL +Mind your own business folks, unless they are doing criminal behavior.",0 +Anyone on either side should be unseated if they mislead voters or change their stance after being elected. Period.,0 +"Glad to see Hugh mention how Ellen Fairclough deracialized our immigration system in the Diefenbaker government. Something most Conservatives today don't seem to know as they rail about Pierre Trudeau. + +Next they can learn their history and realize how it was Conservatives (particularly from the Ukrainian-Canadian community like Conservative Senator Paul Yuzyk ) who were a political force instrumental in the development of multiculturalism as official government policy. Indeed, the late senator is often referred to as the 'father of multiculturalism'. Albeit, the charge was led against Diefenbaker's preferences.",0 +How do you set that thing to disregard the severe background noise you must give off?,0 +And does your business have and contracts with the government?,0 +"The same lying CIA that deals heroin and cocaine? + +http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/SMALL_CIArussiahack2.jpg",0 +"Oh my god, please bring back Obama, NOT!",0 +You're a poet now,0 +"I'm all for responsible resource development, but the possibility of another Deepwater Horizon catastrophe in Arctic waters is scary.",0 +"Have you listened to her speak? +I thought JT would be a fantastic speaker (in the vein of that great orator, Obama), until I heard him deliver a few speeches that might have been less rehearsed, and responses to media questions. +""Uhhh"" and ""ummm"" seemed to be his favourite phrases. + +In contrast, Ambrose can deliver polished, coherent, and engaging responses to media questions, and strong speeches even with light preparation.",0 +"Thoughtful, well written and wonderful story. Thanks.",0 +"Did you post that with a straight face V? + +I sure didn't have one reading it....still laughing (at you).",0 +I would believe a former diplomat before believing any of the posters here. Experience counts.,0 +"""Telescope attorney Douglas Ing says there’s no rational reason why Native Hawaiian religious rights would be affected by developing the project""",0 +"Outsider, You are on to something I think. :)",0 +I commented! 3 years ago. Still being peer reviewed though. I'll sit here patiently.,0 +"That's what happens when dope is legalized. From alcohol to dope to pills we have too many messed up people in Anchorage . Unless we vote to criminalize dope , crack down on other drugs an alcohol , the death toll will continue to rise unchecked.",0 +"Trump got more Electoral College Seats, but Clinton got 3 million more votes. That reflects an unhealthy state of democracy in the USA. Time for them to learn from France about voting for Presidents.",0 +"Athletes actually pray for victory, and thank God when they win. That, no doubt, comes from nations at war. You are so right, Peter, that God doesn't take sides. Yes, each of us has a soul which is an extension of the Divine, so God is within each of us and always present. It is our free will and ego that cause some of us to go wrong, but God is still within all. There is nothing anyone can do to change that. We, in this country, have the unique view that our country is ""god-ordained,"" as being the chosen one above all others. That is so sad.",0 +But the Donald has expanded the swamp ten fold. lol,0 +"Every day we need more people with technical knowledge that they can acquire in a multitude of schools throughout the country. There is employment waiting for anyone motivated to learn a job after some school. So what's the problem? No one applies that's hireable. They either want too much for knowing nothing or their drug and alcohol problems are very visible, or there is obviously no hope. Kids that show up from the village have an advantage. For the most part they had dads that made them work. It can take a bit longer to get them going on the technical side and with the people skills but once they make it over the hump, the sky's the limit. The world doesn't need ditch diggers anymore,but it's a good way to start ! Now, repeat after me; >I don't drink or do drugs. I'll never be late for work, I'll work as long as you need me too and I'll work hard. Look your future employer in the eyes and watch him or her light up. Now, just shut up and listen. That means stop talking.",0 +Steep learning curve. Glad it didn't cost him his life. The people who get ahead in life take risks and learn from their mistakes and what doesn't kill them makes them stronger.,0 +"Wonder how much more are using a ""Canadian"" front buyer but are in fact foreign buyers?",0 +"thank you Christian...since you are here and speaking of clarifying a story by adding to it when it launches - the story last week on the Ruby Ave house in santa clara was terrible. it was misleading from the very beginning and it shocked me that after all the additional comments that would have likely led a reporter to some people directly involved in the story to clarify and define the story...it was left as is. it was truly awful that another, accurate story wasn't run.",0 +Trump may be the catylist but the Republicans began to implode years ago. The Dems aren't too far behind. The two party system is in its death throes.,0 +"I don't need to explain my actions to you, so I really am high on your target list, huh ? I am getting it now. WOW for you: + +1Co 1:18-31 For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. (19) For it is written, “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart.” (20) Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? (25) For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. (25) For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.  (26)  For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. (27)  But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;",0 +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.,0 +Do you really think such nonsense? Or is that what the Kremlin told to to post?,0 +"PDN, are you EVER going to retire this story? + +Your dateline claims it's from Aug 12, but Civil Comments tells the truth -- you published this a week and a half ago. + +Give it a decent burial, please!",0 +"Is Barry, Al, Jesse or Fredericka in Seattle yet?",0 +"Trouble is, he was nominated by the highly unpopular Ige.",0 +Perhaps you should read the numerous Pentagon reports that failed to find a single soldier's death that was directly attributable to Bergdahl's rescue operation. But I guess you think with your feelings rather than with information so it's not going to matter anyway.,0 +"Pack of anti American racists. End the DemoRats subversion of the Constitution, if an Indian can have a casino so can a white man. Except in America.",0 +What do you expect from TWO Democrats....................,0 +50 point bonus for using all seven letters!,0 +Trump goes after another staff member to blame?,0 +Sure looks like a road. No construction happening and state is broke to pay for more. Go look yourself,0 +"@ TDM +No, they didn't cite Washington Post, New York Times, or The Economist, or the runners up in fake news, Globe & Mail. +I haven't heard of zerohedge having a reputation for fake news. Also, it would be odd if they had such a reputation, since they are primarily aggregators of news from other news sites. Rather, I thin they've established a bit of credibility for accuracy.",0 +"@ sirencall + +Interesting that you single out US/UK. + +The origins of Haiti's problem are clearly France. In 1804 the Haitians basically slaughtered all of the French masters and left the country completely without leadership or organization. France did not set up any system of governance like the British , Dutch or Spanish. + +France has never paid Haiti back the 21 Billion (40B in todays money) that France illegally took (90 million gold francs) to let Haiti declare independence. Haiti has never recovered from the weight of this debt. + +How lucky we in Canada are that we fell under British colonization after the British victory on the plains of Abraham in 1759. + +There are no successful French nations that are now prosperous countries and many disasters. Haiti, Vietnam, Cambodia, most of Africa. + +Even in our own country... Quebec is using French civil law governance rather than British parliamentary system and is forever a have-not province.",0 +"Don the brains of young people are far more prone to concussion than you understand. There is already enough evidence to ban football in young children. You are correct that a person, especially a child, can get concussions from virtually any sport. All Lacrosse players in reputable programs do wear helmets already. Yes it is a rough sport and concussions can occur but they occur less frequently than in soccer where heading is part of the sport. Helmets currently are being resisted in soccer not Lacrosse. + +If we quit glorifying football to young children, perhaps this will go a long way in encouraging other more interesting and less dangerous sport and perhaps there will be less fodder for the NFL....",0 +Obama was great at that...,0 +"And yet, most of the gov spending is from the far right. +Compare Medicare part D vs Obamacare. Part D cost more than ACA, helps far fewer ppl, esp the young that need it, and the gop not only did not find it, but then insisted that part D pay American average price for the drugs, rather than actually buying them at lowest prices.",0 +"True, but good enough for me. Tried to give Boots a good rebuttal on a different post, but his/her rebuttal didn't make sense with no substance or facts to back it up.",0 +"I can just see Mr Rosenberg warming up in the bullpen (oops;bear pen) +Shades of ""Casey at the Bat""; + +""Come on 2017...I am gonna nail this US market forecast....right out of the park !""",0 +"The criteria for doctors to force someone to be confined to a psychiatric hospital against his or her will is determined by state law. In almost all states that means the individual is deemed to be an imminent threat to self or others on the basis of a mental illness. Imminent is held to mean, and is reflected in the standard of care, that the mentally ill person has very recently made such an attempt or communicated their plan to soon carry out that intent. Yes, this very sick individual committed a heinous act consequent to a mental illness, but there is no report that he communicated his intent to anyone and the hospitalization in question occurred weeks earlier I do believe. The treating doctor and hospital are required, by law, to release that person once the imminent threat is deemed to no longer exist. The key word is ""imminent."". The law determines the criteria, not the doctor.",0 +"How many of these professional Activists invite the homeless to camp in their yard, none I'm sure. The homeless could easily go deep into the woods where no one would even know they are there, but no booze or drugs in the woods.",0 +Who was the contractor?,0 +It seems you like to make a lot of assumptions. I don't want to shield the unethical trappers because they give trappers a bad reputation. If you think about how many traps and snares are in the woods right now it is a tiny fraction of a percent that have caught domestic animals.,0 +"Medicaid expansion will not help working middle - class Alaskans find affordable health insurance. It has helped the working poor for sure, but has left tens of thousands of others struggling with high deductibles & high premiums.",0 +What are you trying to say here? What language is that? Greek?,0 +Most of deep ecology madness is based on lies.,0 +"need a statewide initiative which bars their pay if they don't do their job within the 90 days. Look at Eastman, completely unproductive and yet whooo boy he's collectin' that per diem. Per diem the fentanyl of the Alaska Legislature.",0 +"It will probably happen next year. Osama will be resurrected, and become the Caliph of Sweden in 2018.",0 +"Probably not a penalty shot, but I suggest you have succumbed to Shoalts' hyperbole on the call. NHL ref's have been instructed for some time to call a penalty anytime a defender lays his stick on the hands of someone with the puck. Hunwick did that. Or at least got close enough to Chimera's hands to justify the call. Whether he was free-and-clear enough to justify a PS, that's debatable. But ""the worst"" call? or ""a most egregious injustice"" according to Shoalts? That's a bit over the top. +Also, Andersen could always have stopped the PS... Shootout stats suggest goals are scored on about one-third of all attempts Not sure if penalty shots have a higher success, no real reason to think they should be. So odds were in Andersen's favour. Ultimately it didn't really matter.",0 +"""With the confirmation of Trump’s Supreme Court pick earlier this year, the court retains a 5-4 conservative majority, while the lower courts that have ruled thus far have been more liberal-leaning."" + +Especially if Trump wanted the tougher Executive Order to be the one put before the Supreme Court, I wonder if he expects the SC to rubber stamp his EO, rather than actually dealing with legalities.",0 +"You wish isis, it was just a disgruntled redneck.",0 +"Justin Trudeau is very big on talk. In fact, you could say that he is engaging in a form of brainwashing. Canadians constantly hear Justin repeat the same rhetoric over and over again, ie. the liberals are working for the middle class and those working hard to join it; the liberals are lowering taxes for the middle class and raising them for the wealthiest 1%. He now really needs to ""walk the talk"" on the tax fairness issue.",0 +"Lindemuth already found the way to reduce prosecutions and incarcerations. Instead of court just make them political cases like in Fairbanks. Why bother with a court of appeals that deal in fact and evidence and conclusions of law, or the Supreme Court for the same reasons. We have seen how loud rabble can intimidate in a criminal case and get it removed from court and other politicians refuse to allow the retrial. See how that saves cost for trials, expensive well trained judges and incarceration. Just let the rabble and politicians decide the criminal cases. See problem solved.",0 +"I make no distinctions between the park and preserve, unstated or otherwise. The two are both managed by NPS, and the differences between management practices of the two are largely semantic. As is your well-informed correction to my comment. + +My intention was to draw attention to the diversity of Denali's heritage. It is doubtful that Denali would have become a national park if miners hadn't built the access roads to the mines in Kantishna. If no person that cared about the preservation of natural resources had been able to see the wonders of this area, we wouldn't have the treasure that is Denali National Park. + +It's all good.",0 +So we have the options of creating a single payer national system or we can pay for the deadbeats without insurance again. I hear the single payer thing works great in 37 countries with better care than the USA and it costs a third as much.,0 +Can you say Madoff?,0 +"The Irish ambassador gave him a good telling off, but dummy donald probably didn't get it as per usual.",0 +"So Grace Park was a submarine? Definitely, not a ""baby boomer"".",0 +"70%?, please list the programs that have been cut that much. The only items cut that much are capital projects. No state department has taken a cut anywhere near that. And if all these workers were ""covered"" by federal money we wouldnt have a deficit. Your numbers dont add up. +P.S. I work in one of those capital projects that has taken over a 70% cut.",0 +What are they? Samos? Flipflops? Spic'nSpans? What are their races?,0 +The age difference between the two might deserve some consideration.,0 +"Medics in civilized countries don't execute the wounded, even wounded enemies. Netanyahu supported the medic's actions, calling his parents to offer his support and sympathy. + +That is Israel today.",0 +"Nice one Stevens, you Sacred Cow Oiligarchy SOB.",0 +"It started with Mr. Gerry, a DEMOCRAT, I do not need to cite a source. Democrats started it. That's a fact",0 +Michelle Kretzer nailed it. Hunting is a mindless blood sport and hunters are delusional. She also forgot to mention that they're compensating for something missing in their lives every time they peer down a barrel.,0 +Preventing inappropriate harvesting in national parks makes sense and is within the scope of rangers' responsibilities. Destroying 234 pounds of delicious food makes no sense and is at least as inappropriate as the harvesting was.,0 +"Seems to me every time we do a 'major' project 'we' have to bail it out. If you're going to raise all of the above, but the money to good use not 'bad' use, so to speak. Yes, I agree to 'tomuchpilikia'. Last, but not least, the same mismanagement people keep getting elected, how come? Aw, I know, we're the blind and their our guide dogs. Makes sense to me!!! Have a nice day.",0 +"No way it would have all puked out in the air, with that many cylinders on a recip engine, sucked a valve maybe",0 +Marvelous. Thank you for these additions.,0 +Hahahahahahahaha. You're funnier than Louis C.K.,0 +"As a p.o.'d conservative, I didn't vote for my local Conservative candidate. Or Liberal, for that matter. Having said that, I was okay with seeing Harper gone because I was certain if J.T. started messing up and making Liberals look bad, the grown-ups would take over and install a competent leader like Goodale or even Garneau. + +Boy, was I had. + +Would somebody please let Kevin O'Leary on the phone so we conservatives can clean the Liberals' clock next election?",0 +"I'll ask the question I always do when Tulsi breaks the mold and inevitably gets the ""why wasn't she fixing healthcare or something, something, else"" treatment. + +What did Brian Schatz, Masie Hirono, and Colleen Hanabusa do last week? + +Representative​ Gabbard, +Thank you for introducing some sanity to our national drug policy before it wastes more precious resources, ruins more lives, and erodes our civil liberties further. You are great American and I am so glad you are in office.",0 +Carbon tax and cap and trade must be the right strategy. Witness the last by- election Liberal victory in Ottawa. More accurate than any Nanos poll.,0 +"Nobody has a problem with immigration, illegal immigration is the issue.",0 +"Uh, it was a Democrat that did the harassment and if by acting on morals, you mean waiting a year and a half, and only doing so after other women came forward, then sure, that's what it looks like.",0 +"Everything but the most important thing for a moat, water! Most of the wall would be in a desert. The Rio Grand and Colorado rivers are over exploited already. It wouldn't work anyway, moats are easily breached by existing technology known as boats!",0 +"Actually, fish for a week in the sun does not have a strong smell. After a week, it is pretty much like jerky. +It is when it sits on shoreline going back and forth, or is not exposed to the sun, that it smells horrible. + +Just correcting the fake news.",0 +Bravo! We're going to build our own wall.,0 +"I think mr hudaks previous political role as well as his current one are adversely affecting his perspective. + +People shouldn't get mortgages because they want them, they should get them because they deserve them. We have seen what happens stateside when people get in over their heads due to poor underwiting and low credit standards. + +Anybody with a decent down payment and good credit and sufficient income will get the funds they need, and there are wide variety of financial companies out there who are happy to lend to qualified individuals.",0 +"""...: even the much maligned Apple Watch""... is pure balderdash. The CEO stated that it is by far the best selling smart watch on the market. He also mentioned the customer satisfaction rate, I think that was north of 98%. On my second generation one now, it has built-in GPS and when I change locations it provides the weather forecast for the new location on the watch face. Try that with a Rolex. Just an example. No, the watch is a standout success for Apple. And for its users, most of all.",0 +"Thus the Republicans are doubly responsible because they let AIDEA continue, grow, and survive after campaigns against ""socialists"". Many of these projects are huge now....the Ketchikan Shipyard is owned by AIDEA thus the State of Alaska and it was all under the Republicans watch. Owned by the state and supported by the state and financed by the state with ferries purchased by the state and will be used the the state. Sounds like communism to me and all done by Republicans. Because the shipyard is owned by AIDEA/Alaska it does not pay property taxes and the electricity it uses is subsidized by the public utility in Ketchikan where all the politicians in power claim they are conservative republicans...what a laugh. They are socialists if not communists as defined as late as 1988 by Ronald Reagan himself.",0 +"Hey, that's original!",0 +Communist China has no loyalties....only interests.,0 +"The article points out "" a disturbing level of excuse-making and willful blindness"". I agree, but on the part of whom. + +""Let’s not forget that there are three times as many Indigenous children in foster care today as there were First Nations, Inuit and Métis children in residential schools at their peak."". This fact is stated as an accusation, but who should it be directed at? + +Most of these problems could and should be solved at root causes. With local leadership.",0 +I know you believe that the Donald is draining the swamp but he isn't. I believe you are wrong about Obama hiring more government workers than any president. I believe your hero G W has hired more workers. The Donald is making the swamp 10 times bigger with all his hires from Wall street and retired Generals.,0 +"I find it interesting how the SOLE mandate of the Bank of Canada, with regards to monetary policy, is to keep inflation in a range of 1 to 3% with a target of 2%. + +Yet if you read the statement inflation targeting gets only a cursory mention and that is mostly to explain why the Bank of Canada is ignoring inflation in their rate setting decision. + +That isn't to say that I think the Bank of Canada is wrong here (more specifically: I think the inflation range should be changed to 0 to 2% with a target of 1%, which would have supported a rate hike), I just find it interesting that they are largely ignoring their mandate, presumably with full support from the government.",0 +"""I can walk, Mein Fuehrer! I can walk!""",0 +"Obviously the innumerable and interminable experiences of hellish suffering aren't sufficient to get Jesus to return. There seems to be a sense that an Adventist level of holiness has to be reached to actuate the Second Advent. Jimbob7, you imply that Adventist failure is purposeful. + +Yes, it's that simple, but with a psychological twist. There is a sub-conscious realization that holiness is unachievable so it is a convenient cover up for what can't happen under any circumstance. His non arrival is expected. A false aura of hope necessarily preserves the myth on which Adventism was born, indelibly recorded on the Seventh-day logo, ""Adventist."" + + ""Hope"" and ""soon,"" are artful reinterpretations, both of which ignore the fact the Adventist self-anointed role of end time directors was a farce. But Seventh-day and Adventist are Siamese twins, inseparable even by Dr. Carson. On separation one dies, the other, Seventh-dayism, lives as an unattractive orphan, doomed to gloomy homelessness.",0 +This would have made international headlines if the situation was the other way around.,0 +Coming from Haiti they better be given an AIDS test before anything else.,0 +"200 vacancies in the PD. Training normally has 30 vacancies which they use to fill attrition rates , but with 200 vacancies they are far behind their allocated strength. What this translates into, no recruit classes or they are very small under 20 and they are only filling priority uniform patrol slots. After graduation recruit is assigned to FTO-16 weeks of OJT with a rater. When they complete this training, they are assigned to 4th Platoon, Waikiki, and work foot beats alone or in pairs but because of the shortage, when they complete FTO, they go out into the patrol districts to fill motor beats(white car drivers). CRU Units(plainclothes patrol officer usually assigned to target property crimes in the patrol district) are also impacted meaning a commander will put those resources back into uniform to fill patrol beats. It is probably getting worse because lots of recruits are quitting while in recruit school, not cut out for the regimentation, new generation entering work force.",0 +"Hey why wouldn't China continue to want free trade ? +- it could bend the rules whenever it sees fit +- communist country with horrible human rights record +-unlimited slave labour to exploit +-largest trade surplus in the world + +They've been the primary benefactor of the modern era globalist trade scheme. +Seems to me like they have the cake and are eating it too.",0 +"Not a fan of Mr. Bieber's music, or how he conducts himself, but his net worth is some $225,000,000, most of it income from outside of Canada. + +That would mean that he's brought a serious amount of wealth into the country. + +A large net transfer of money from other countries into Canada, probably in the range of $200,000,000. + +And how much wealth have you brought into our country?",0 +"This is in answer to Bot. I had commented already, then saw a dreadful typo, but no way to edit. Once deleted, I couldnt comment again, so here is the edited comment: + +Although I agree that politics do not belong in church, I must disagree with this child's statement being referred to as such. It is, instead, more her following her own calling to witness to others. She felt called to tell her own story, to help others in her situation. That is, after all, what witnessing is all about.",0 +"""It’s the same reasoning that went into building Oahu’s highways, which connect East Honolulu to West Oahu, Central Oahu and the Windward side. "" + +Ahhhh, the great canard. Will Rail allow my plumber to bring his tools and pipes and replacement sink to my house? No! Will Rail allow me and my family to travel seamlessly from one side of the island to the other? No! Will Rail allow Matson to haul a 40 foot trailer to the local Safeway? No! Will Rail transport the logistics and personnel of our military when they deploy? No! + +Using an integrated network of highways to justify Rail is nonsense. Nothing can compete with an integrated highway network for the volume and types of traffic it can transport with complete diversity of origins and destinations and at low ongoing cost per vehicle supported.",0 +"Yep...they had that opportunity. It seems to have been overlooked, but I guarantee you it will be touted in the next election campaign. + +The bigger issue here is how long Clark will stick around, and whether she'll leave voluntarily or will be pushed out. There was a group or right of center libs ready to dump her on the eve of the 2013 election but she surprised everyone with a solid win and they couldn't act. Now they can.",0 +"Now, maybe it's just my sense of humour (admittedly, ""warped,"" much of the time, by what I read on these pages), but I suspect that writer Caroline Alphonso is really have a chuckle. Her choice of final two lines is classic. Student quote: ""I think if you read those traditional books, the school isn't touching on everybody's interest...It's not super relatable."" + +I THINK I understand what the student means. But the point is this: if students aren't taught to articulate their thoughts any better than this, then educators (not to mention parents) have bigger issues than the choice of reading material provided to teenage readers. Yes, yes, I know: it's a verbal comment, not a written comment. And the written work may be much better. Sure.",0 +"I agree to your thoughts. I guess there was a time for better and for worse where there was a culture that was 'there."" It is ""there "" no longer for the reasons you described.",0 +As we lose jobs by the thousands the ASD wants to spend money like drunken sailors . Throwing more money at the broken ASD is blown money. This town is headed in the wrong direction thanks to liberal thinking . Most of that thinking starts in the ASD and how they are brain washing our kids.,0 +"yup drained the swamp of millionaires, rinsed it out and got more millionaires, added a few billionaires, all who hit the ground running, filled with the joy, patriotism, and morality to help the ""little people"", even if it means throwing some crumbs the little people who voted for Trump",0 +"Hardly a pastoral approach, that, but all things being equal, I don's see that much of a point is being made here. It seems more an attempt to buttress opinion with questionable cites (I hardly think USA Today's pop psychology is science) and air personal grievances under the guise of a legitimate discussion of religious beliefs. Perhaps it would benefit all to resist the urge to accuse others of being trolls, and avoid labels like ""bullying."" I understand you are only trying to be humorous, and accountants do seem to have a hard time with humor, don't they, but perhaps it is time to move on? Not all here will appreciate your wit with the same relish as I. *lol*",0 +It’s so precious when Republican senators pretend they give a damn about their constituents:,0 +"MR GB + +The NDP will stop all infrastructure upgrades in my area of the province. No more desperately needed highway upgrades. No new hospitals or schools like have already been built. + +Can you drive to work unhampered by trucks spun out on a hill that is the only road out? Read HILL, not mountain pass, just a hill. A hill that has been ingnored by all governments for the past 50 years save the Liberals. + +Is your industry under attack by the NDP government? Page 62 of their platform shows me they are at war with my industry. + +There in NOTHING in the NDP platform for me or my neighbors. + +Boatguy + +The Tyee is a biased source of information. I do not consider anything published by them to be credible. Try again.",0 +"Roughly the last two weeks of his 37-day stay in Providence was unnecessary, hospital records show. Mitchell said it was closer to a month. + +But of course the last two weeks were unnecessary...The American health care and insurance system is a for profit scam. More worried about rolling in copious amount of money than providing good medical service to those that need it.",0 +"What is it? +India Call Centre funded by the globalists Day? + +Britain will prosper as millions of people and ideas flood into the region. +It already has had massive expansion of its economy in a few months. + +Lies and other things eh?",0 +"""Democrats 'need to come to the table and talk,' GOP Alaska House speaker says"" + +Said the spider to the fly.",0 +"I hate seeing people giving money to these people. Stop feeding the fire, people who don't help themselves are a lost cause. Your money is being used for drugs/alcohol and the person isn't really even poor. +Create energy generation locations for the poor to ride a bike or spin a hand crank so the can earn a honest dollar and give something back to the community.",0 +"Haha, Batchi.",0 +"Its easy to sum up. Choose states/cities that are responsible in taxes, spending and balanced(per parties of governance). I could compare HI to Detroit, PR, any Cal city to show you spending and choices over the cliff with Lib-Dem autocracies. Most important, here, if you have a SURPLUS of 1B$ in tax revenues that means you are already totally overtaxed. Give it back and control spending!!",0 +"""Jesus"" is not running in this election. If a metaphor is what you need, it is the Parent, the big No.I who is running, and we the Christian voters are the Jesus who will or will not stand - with our brothers and sisters - for what is in the image and likeness of the Creator: civilization, civility, ethics, morality, decency and love, compassion. This core of civilization is integral to humanity, regardless of religious affiliation +The author pleads that we drop political affiliation, but retains religious affiliation exclusionism. From my limited reading, every book of the Koran begins with a call upon a compassionate God as is the call to Christians, Jews, etc. +Regardless of how we abuse and disabuse our fundamental calling, we must continue to call in what we ALL share.",0 +Got a link.,0 +The Holy Spirit was speaking especially strongly and boldy and confidently in small font footnote #351!!,0 +"Alceste: You focus on the difference between the Commission and the Tribunal, but ignore the main point - the clear bias of the Chief Commissioner. This is from the Commission's website: +""The OHRC has unique legal powers under the Human Rights Code. We may conduct inquiries, make an application (a complaint) directly to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario to allege discrimination and seek a Tribunal order, or intervene in applications before the Tribunal. The OHRC may also take part in cases before other administrative tribunals and courts."" One of its ""unique legal powers"" is to launch prosecutions before courts and tribunals. Apparently you have no problem with the Chief Commissioner/Chief Prosecutor with ""unique legal powers"" being so obviously biased. The Tribunal is a separate organization that does hold hearings, including adjudicating prosecutions launched by the Commission, and does levy financial penalties to be paid by those convicted to those judged to be aggrieved.",0 +OUTSTANDING Brandon!,0 +"What's wrong with this guy? He must come from a wealthy California family with that kind of money. He has more money than brains because he could have gone down to any STRIP Club, picked out a HOT Panuni and for $1,000.00-$2,000.00 taken her home and made some hay while the sun shines, and afterwards, NO Questions asked, NO Drama, NO JAIL TIME...........Dooooooohhhhhhhhh. This guy should have talked to Homer first...................",0 +"You've already told me? Yeah, you've been trying to rationalize your selective outrage.",0 +"Maybe you missed a few issues but he is suing the government, and that government is currently liberal.",0 +How many police officers are killed every year in the USA?,0 +"The RCMP and Revenue Canada should've done their jobs and cracked down on money-laundering years ago. But their corrupt political masters ARE bankers, like John McCallum, who must be sweating today even though it is -20 in Ottawa.",0 +"' +…randy, ….I couldn't demean you. No need. + +I need only leave you to your own devices. +.",0 +"So in summary - Liberals,many of whom got personally rich, embraced policies that inflated the housing market - a dump townhouse rental is now worth a half million plus - landlords expect a rental return that justifies not just cashing out and putting it in the bank - Liberals claim to help while continuing to levy higher property taxes on renters than homeowners. + +That cover it?",0 +Don't worry--we'll never be able to say that about you.,0 +What can they say? They fracked up.,0 +Only one of us referred to Scott's with that phrase?,0 +"""""Putin publicly blamed me for the outpouring of outrage by his own people,"" ... It is extremely risky to destabilize a regime that has thousands of nukes. If the ensuing unrest in Russia had gotten out of hand, Putin and his cronies could have decided to take America down with them, and started tossing some. Russia has far fewer checks and balances in their government/military. I remember JFK speaking publicly on television, in great detail, of how our safeguards worked for our nuclear weapons ... so that Russia could have a clue as how to modernize theirs.",0 +"Actually , it is the imams that preach hatred in mosques all around the world is what we care about. + +Easy to ""not provide service"" now, happened to catch an interview on TV, where it was stated that an imam had noticed one of the terrorists had reacted angrily over Al Qaeda negative remarks (imams own interview to another media outlet). Why didn't he notify the authorities then? + +If i was to give ""kudos"" - it would be that Australian imam that spoke about the flaws and need of reformation, not swiping under the rug and sugarcoating with platitudes.",0 +"Rote memory has been decimated in education and replaced with nonsense feel goodery terms like ""inquiry"" and ""global citizen"". Translation: examine and explore your western privilege and feel guilty about it OK? Because we're working hard on removing borders and we don't want you to defend or be proud of your country. + +For reference, the first goal in the Ontario Geography curriculum is this: +• developing an understanding of the characteristics and spatial diversity of natural and human environments and communities, on a local to a GLOBAL scale; + +Ctrl-F + global on that pdf, it's all over the place. See an agenda?",0 +"Unlike your hero Trump, who's tremendously altruistic.",0 +"When you think something you use and depend on is bad don't battle those that supply it unless you are willing to take the risk and do the work these Alaskans do to bring you a safe supply unless you want to depend on the Middle East or OPEC! + +Let's put Alaskans to work and let Alaskans drill and produce oil so we can keep the oil wealth here and not there! + +Give Alaskans the work! Why buy oil from OPEC and put Alaskans out of work and leave the state without oil royalties! Do you choose Alaska over OPEC?",0 +"I'm seriously alarmed at the corruption and dishonesty in our federal government at the hands of Democrats. That we have to rely on FOIA to get the truth, while Obama and Clinton drag their feet and delay and can't seem to recall simple answers elected officials should be obligated to provide. How can educators ignore media collusion with the DNC against Sanders, Clinton Foundation donations and access to the State Department. How can we trust these people when they deceive at every level. Obama lied about the Affordable Care Act. He fails to enforce immigration laws and targets the opposition using the IRS. Obama and Clinton lied about Benghazi. Their staffers plead the Fifth to avoid telling the truth. The NSA lies to us. How can we trust their drone strikes. How many innocents have been killed with no accountability. We don't know and we can't trust. Who really believes Hillary can't recall mishandling her emails? She exemplifies dishonesty. I vote the opposition.",0 +"If it bothers you so much Denim, quit looking in the mirror. Karma has a way of payback.",0 +"If Donald were my daddy, I'd hang my head down and go far, far away. I'm sure others would take advantage of the situation, make zillions of dollars off Daddy's coattails and unethical overseas deals. But I have to look at myself in the mirror every morning...",0 +If all he had to do was top your bigoted and boring rejoinder I think he did ok.,0 +Who cares!? Make them leave our country already!,0 +"I'm of the opinion that examining what made us who were are today, no matter how ugly or distasteful to those faint of heart, has ever turned anyone into a pillar of salt.",0 +"Or, it could be that UH's first year DC needs some help. After the UCLA game, UH is ranked the 3rd worst defense in the Nation at 127 out of 129 teams.",0 +"So much for Congress and this administration claiming to support freedom of religion. It is a farce -- the Republicans show their true colors - discriminate against the poor and people of color, to hell with civil rights, but oh we must give tax cuts to the wealthy. Shameful Paul Ryan. And all who continue to support his sham.",0 +"Then you didn't listen to the homily. He most certainly does refer to scripture, he refers to God, and offers a solid homily concerning the right to life in accord with Catholic teaching and does exactly what you accuse him of failing to understand - that in fact, he IS educating the conscience. + +He also does not say he is going to withhold Communion - why would you and John ever say such a thing? Giving false information is also a form of lying, isn't it? MSW came closer to the truth when he said Fr. Lankeit said they should not present themselves for Communion - at least until receiving the sacrament of Confession. + +By the way - EWTN is growing worldwide. Best check your facts before making such statements, don't you think?",0 +"Rex, + +Canada has generally avoided reactionary pronouncements and actions against the former third world countries and this will serve Canada well as China, India, etc., etc. rise economically and geopolitically in the future. + +The alternative of trying to stand against and exclude the large majority of the world's population and productive capacity is demeaning to our true self-regard, will not impede the rise of those nations in question and is contrary to Canada's long term interests.",0 +Prayers and peace be with all of APD and officers around the nation.,0 +"E-mails are not really secure, too; assume the whole world is reading them.",0 +"So what are we suppose to do, just keep extending the boundary until the whole state becomes a park? Denali is big enough, no matter how big you make it animals are going to leave the park.",0 +"Don't forget some other catch phrases, Gomery, Carbon taxes, Pay for Play Access, Lying, Breaking Promises.",0 +"Not a big blunder. He should have said it differently, but the reaction has been a little too hysterical, and from too many suspect corners, that most Canadians - good-hearted, commonsense people, whatever their political affiliation - will eventually discount it. Any event, the country will move on, and quicky, as the government starts to address issues much closer to Canadians' own interests, such as economic issues and protecting our interests against an inscrutable new government in Washington.",0 +"The ""huge difference"" is that Eldarboy agrees with one but not the other. + +Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.",0 +"When will it end? The clerical abuse crisis has been in the news in the US for over thirty years. Bishops and their associates, both ordained and lay, have lied, stonewalled, spent millions on lawsuits and lobbying, while telling the faithful and the media that the crisis is long past. And yet, we see priests arrested for computer porn, solicitation of minors and rape. The crisis continues, dear Bishops, stop lying to us!",0 +"Like the bill that passed the House in May, the Senate measure would cut off expanded Medicaid funding for states — but at a more gradual rate, by phasing out the higher federal spending between 2020 and 2024. But it would enact deeper long-term cuts to the program, which provides health-care coverage for 74 million Americans. + +Rick Pollack, president and chief executive of the American Hospital Association, said in a statement that the plan “moves in the opposite direction” in terms of providing health coverage and that “Medicaid cuts of this magnitude are unsustainable and will increase costs to individuals with private insurance.” + +https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/senate-gop-leaders-set-to-unveil-health-care-bill/2017/06/22/56dbe35c-5734-11e7-a204-ad706461fa4f_story.html?utm_term=.8a61ffcdd651 + +It's insane to complain about the national debt and give the rich almost a 1 T tax cut. The rich are fine, They don't need a tax cut. Talking in percentages is very misleading.",0 +Unfortunately for Richard Nixon the people who worked on uncovering his misdeeds weren't compulsive liars. Fortunately for Obama ...,0 +"typo--was supposed to be ""protect their and their children's health..."" etc.",0 +"This is an enjoyable read, however: +It's easy, & far too common, to look back at history & criticize actions taken, which seem egregious by today's standards. But agonizing over past events which would not likely take place today serves no useful purpose - rather it tends to polarize different racial/cultural groups. +Times & acceptable behavior of nations & individuals change. +Cultures change as the times demand. No viable cultures are static, dynamism is required to adapt to the world as it, too, inevitably changes. +Clearly the technological advantages of the ""western societies & nations"" led them to gain land and influence, while the cultures less advanced in weaponry, organization, etc. lost many battles, land, & influence through ""cultural default"".",0 +"Prime Minister Trudeau is doing what no other Prime Minister in a century had done: returning the Senate to its original purpose and goals. + +The Senate has a noble purpose and it can now assume its intended place as a brake on House excesses and as a watchdog on the government. + +Well done, sir.",0 +I think the Scripture is describing a hypothetical situation as Jesus was in a state of contemplation in the desert for 40 days. It is more important to understand his rational to follow God as the focus of his life.,0 +"In fact he once wrote (in his memoirs) ""emphasis by repetition gains acceptance for an idea,""",0 +"NASCAR was down 20% last year alone. TV ratings are falling because people are getting their shows from streaming services, not because they are watching less.",0 +"Seems to me that the only ""mining"" going on here is,as usual,the mining of investors $$ and credulity. +The business seems to consist of endlessly ""acquiring assets"" these days and then talking them up to investors +""Proven reserves""...""under development...great potential""... +Meanwhile its all a leveraged play on the (eternal) hope that gold is going to regain its lofty valuations of $1500-$1700/oz. +Years from now, these get resold for 25 cents on the dollar...""written off"" etc etc +. +Furthermore...it looks like the $US and the US economy/stock market $ is where folks are putting their bets...not on gold.",0 +"The legal actions will not be decided by who donated to whom, but rather by the facts and law. + +So, your comment is pretty irrelevant.",0 +"My Dad, of blessed memory, was a policeman. He was the finest father a kid could ever hope for. A wonderful husband to my mother of blessed memory. The best grandfather for my kids. A caring great-grandfather for my kids kids. He helped make the city where I grew up a great place to live. We did not live in fear. My Dad, along with the rest of the Department, had the backs of all the residents of the city. I knew many of Dads' fellow policemen and policewomen. They were all people of honor and integrity. A finer friend you could not have, lowlyrepub. Me thinks you are seriously confused, lowlyrepub. You are the trash.",0 +"And what about the health care needs of the elderly, the sick, and children in the time period between repeal and replacement? +Soylent Green? +The only sane replacement for the ACA is single payer financed through taxation.",0 +"Was there hate speech at the meeting in question? Surely it would have been reported if there was. + +Not every Trump supporter is a racist or a misogynist, especially now that this means virtually every voting Republican. I don't have a problem with stopping hate speech, but proactively stopping a gathering on the assumption that there might be some feels baseless.",0 +"The flag is not the President and never has been. The Broncos and other NFL players may think they are getting back at Trump but the average fan sees this as a slap in the face to them. I've never seen a more tone deaf organization than the NFL, when it comes to stuff like this. People want to sit down and watch football, they don't want politicized messages from either side. You already see the ratings declining. This is pretty much 100% on Roger Goodell who refuses to do anything about this, but fines players for wearing shoes that commemorate 9/11 or the Dallas Cowboys who wanted to wear a patch for the slain police officers at a BLM protest.",0 +"To say it's ""common sense"" is asinine when we don't know the facts. Perhaps the ""shooter"" was a fraile person fearing for their life. Common sense is that an instigator ought to know the potential deadly results if they push too far-all per law.",0 +"Sorry ricko if everyone doesn't want to support you for the rest of your life, try getting a job other than min wage and come back and then tell everyone to fork over more.",0 +"""...transparency is the only way to win trust."" + +Amen, Kathleen. If Dolan wants money from parishes, he needs to be talking to parishioners and he needs to be showing the good that is done with the money that is given to the archdiocese. So much news is about parish closings, school closings - and what was spent to refurbish St. Patricks. But what was done for the poor and those in need in all these parishes? I don't relate very well to millions spent to defeat legislation that would extend the statue of limitations on child sex abuse. I wouldn't relate well to money spent to defeat gay marriage or money spent to ""protect"" the Little Sisters from having to include contraceptives in health insurance for all the non-nuns who work for them. Or money spent on lawyers and press spokespersons when a good member of a parish is fired from a job for marrying his/her same sex partner. + +He needs to find out what parishioners want to spend money on. Don't think it is culture wars.",0 +You can be sure he had some corrupt help from the DNC and the Clintons!,0 +The confluence of oil and religion is a slippery spot,0 +"if the democrats want to win they need to + +1) Stop being pro-illegal immigration and start promoting legal immigration instead. Get tough on illegal immigrants who murder people. Instead of finding excuses or justifications. Promote legal immigration and stop encouraging or excusing illegal immigration. + +2) Stop with the social justice warrior nonsense. This is just becoming attacks on free speech and killing the exchange of reasonable ideas that promote a country to grow intellectually. + +3) Related to #2... but stop searching for things to be offended by + +4) Stop hating/disrespecting the military. Even Obama warned his side of the spectrum to stop doing this in one of his final interviews. + +5) ISIS/Al-Qaeda and Boko Harem are NOT your misunderstood friends. And everybody knows that All Muslims are not terrorists. But be realistic about the threat. and make this CLEAR to the public you feel this way + +If they did this... then the Republicans would have nothing to stand on and would lose",0 +"Ham, Yes, I still hold BPF.UN, PZA, KEG.UN and SRV.UN. +Sold AW.UN when the price got north of $35 and yield fell down to that of a couple of the big banks. Will buy back in if it drops below $30. +Are you back to Mexico this winter? Sounds like it's getting more and more dangerous down there.",0 +"Not very committed, is he?",0 +"Palestinians have never recognized Israel's right to exist. They have recognized Israel's existence but not its right to exist. In fact Abbas has said the PA will never sign an agreement which includes recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. Recognition of Israel as a Jewish state is no different than recognizing Egypt as an Arab state or Iran as a Muslim state or Syria as an Arab state and so on. Non-Arab and non-Muslim rights in those countries can be maintained and protected, unless of course you are implying that non-Arab and non-Muslim rights are not maintained or protected in Arab and Muslim countries, which would be a heck of an admission by an Arab and Muslim toady.",0 +"Classical lies. Nobody is threatening to bomb Jewish kids people. + +The call came from within the office. This isn't some sophisticated prank. Its typical Zio behavior.",0 +"May is shameful. She basks in the orange glow of Trump the Magnificent when it suits her. And then she distances herself when the baying left applies some pressure. If you want to play the role of junior partner (e.g., Mussolini), you need to show some loyalty to the senior partner. Trump may need to look elsewhere for a decent sidekick. I hear that Putin would make a good dance partner. And cozying up to Putin would have the added advantage of keeping under wraps Trump's cameo in ""On Golden Pond"".",0 +"Ham for everyone, I have no immediate objection to him, although I question if he's had enough time to learn French or familiarize himself with the various First Nations and their cultures. + +To allow him time to play catchup, I nominate any of the following: + +David Suzuki +Judy Rebick +Naomi Klein +Sunera Thobani +Maude Barlow +Linda MacQuaig +Harsha Walia",0 +Guess reverse discrimination is an accepted practice in Canada now.,0 +Well if you understood the 3 names portion of the comment you know my feelings on Trump. In Canada I am a PC member. Trump however is not a political party affiliate from what I gather he is a money man...although he has pissed away a lot of his inheritance and filed for several bankruptcies.,0 +"Who is going to do the casting? You? If so, who gave you that task?",0 +"I'm for creating good jobs, but not for ""vanity edifices,"" like the proposed City Hall and the laughable Federal Court House. -- Paul",0 +Hawaii attorney general is wrong. The US constitution is to protect its citizens not foreigners. These are immigrants who want to enter the US. They need to be vetted more accurately.,0 +"AH the dream that within minutes of this appointment I will receive such a large voucher that allows me to put my kids in that private school does come with a price. There is the simple math of cost involved for maintaining the public schools facilities and programs. Waite until the sports at any cost group demands the little private school builds a football stadium. A voucher for the federal school revenues is not simply going to be the number of students divided into the entire school district budget. + +The Alaska legislature will have to legislate the same vouchers. And those school bonding initiatives will be a hurdles when it come to funding facilities for these alternatives at both the State and local levels.",0 +Hmmmm. You sure about that?,0 +Stop this madness. The Yukon Quest and the Iditarod must be abolished.,0 +"Let's start by conceding that this was an unusual situation. Ottawa is not equipped to handle large international flights. + +However, you'd think an airline would have a set of procedures for when a plane has to be diverted like this, which would include provision for deplaning passengers and/or ensuring their onboard comfort if there is a long wait.",0 +"""Weather experts blamed the extreme weather on climate change."". + +So who are these ""weather experts"", who understand climate cycles that may take centuries or more to manifest themselves? + +They have enough to do getting weekly weather right, most of the time.",0 +"I'm all for diversification of revenue streams, but not at the expense of changing the Permanent Fund account. The Body has no restraint in its spending habits, no matter which party is in control. Changing the PFD and handing the Body the keys to the account is a terrible idea. The stage is set; the brainwashing is complete. Too bad.",0 +"In fairness, the article did point out that sometimes it helps and sometimes it doesn't.",0 +CBS wants to have a monopoly in blood and blood components supply in Canada. They lie just to keep this position. The US has more than 400 paid plasma collection centres and yet it is self-sufficient in blood for transfusion supplies. CBS is clearly lying to get their funding from the provinces and fill their high-paid staff pockets.,0 +"Don't count Melania out of the reject pile yet. She's 46 and the Donald thinks 35 is ""checkout"" time.",0 +"The muzzling of scientists appears to be a uniquely liberal desire... + + If Stephen Harper muzzled federal government scientists, then Justin Trudeau has failed to lift the muzzle, a federal public sector union says in a memo obtained by Postmedia Network. + +Mind you, data quietly tabled in the House of Commons earlier this summer suggests that Harper's ""muzzle"" appeared to be ineffective. That data shows that federal government scientists gave nearly 1,500 media interviews in the 12 months prior to last October's election. + +Nonetheless, the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada (PIPSC) -- the union that represents tens of thousands of federal government scientists -- says the Trudeau government is continuing a Harper government communications policy that prevents scientists from participating in conferences. - canoe",0 +"Gee Ezra you have proven to be the worst kind of ""journalist"" - corrupt, prone to baloney, and a poor judge of character. You are no doubt a welcome addition to the Unite the Right movement in Alberta. Hope things don't work out for you.",0 +Kellie Leitch offers absolutely nothing. All she offers are solutions to non-existent problems. She's had virtually nothing to say on any issue other than her so-called 'Canadian values'.,0 +"No one gets bombed, simply for being different. The word racism has been so overused and incorrectly used it has virtually lost all of it's thunder and is completely ignored by a large number of individuals. White guilt just isn't working anymore, time of new insult.",0 +"Thank you for putting your hat in the ring, Ron.",0 +"Barbara. Alaska much richer when Lesil's Gravy Train comes to an end? + +Not very likely with another Lesil clone - Natasha Von Imhof - up at bat to take over that senate district. + +While Princess Lesil's self-entitled and lavish lifestyle will soon be paid by the Rasmussen Foundation, if all goes as previously negotiated by their respective families, Princess Natasha's sense of entitlement will dwarf Princess Lesil and her staff's extravagant use of our public funds.",0 +The operative word is history. How long is this going to be used as an excuse for contemporary grievances?,0 +"My dream is that someday people will release the shackles of religious belief and instead, use logic and compassion when making choices such as how to treat each other, not books of fiction that demand killing of those who think differently.",0 +"And, as in this case, the airline better be ready to deal with the consequences of its actions -- including millions in lost revenues, potential criminal charges against individuals and huge stock price drop. Stockholders are not going to be happy.",0 +Shame on you.,0 +"Alternate facts? Yes he did. As all PMs forced to travel on gov't aircraft, he reimbursed equivalent of economy fare. Only fight to the island itself which doesn't have commercial flights.",0 +this isn't the first time Troopers begged for attention by pulling the plug. it's all about getting more money from the state budget at the expense of human lives,0 +"""The World is Flat"", Thomas L. Friedman, laid all of this out starkly for Gerald Butts - a decade ago. Gerald is stuck reading - back in his undergrad mentality, still really, really hoping that the Soviet Union ... . +Mr. Butts scoffs at Friedman. +Meanwhile the dangerous Mr. Butts is having fun with his Canada play-toy. +------------------ +We WILL adjust, as this article's author sets out convincingly, or we sink. +Gerald Butts thinks sink is something in the bathroom. +Watch out Canada. Look at Ontario in the early 90s for the prototype. +Floyd Laughren blew many billions then, on socialism. Then: sink!",0 +...pssst...just to quibble it's aisle and not isle.,0 +"""with the intent to influence, solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation"" + +So standing for our national anthem is now a partisan issue? If you stand your a republican if you kneel your a democrat.",0 +Can we see no more of Chatwood? 15 of 75 losses on his record. And he was to be the #2 pitcher?,0 +"Thank you. +Like the deeply flawed ruling from that idiot judge in Seattle, this will not stand. +From the piece "" Trump's plan will likely evolve during congressional negotiations before it becomes law.""",0 +"No, they are elected positions, and in the most recent past election, we had the opportunity to shake things up a little. Did we? No.",0 +Lewis is right. Clinton was sabotaged by Comey and Russian hacking. She was ahead until all of that. Trump's successful use of dog whistle politics for people willing to chant inane messages worked too.,0 +Chuck Schumer and Democrats like him are people that Republicans need to keep in mind on voting day.,0 +"Mark Cuban said recently that Trump is interested in only two things and I believe him: His image and his bank account. By 'image' he needs to be adored or you are his enemy and by bank account, I mean he's after ours. +He cares a whit about running a government, it's just an inconvenient means to his ends.",0 +"IMHO, you are SO wrong in your rant. Every one of those qualities you say Trump lacks is EXACTLY the qualities he used to win in a landslide in electoral votes, and he also won the popular vote. He worked tirelessly visiting inner cities and stops Hillary's team smirked as ridiculous, and in every venue he had massive crowds and delivered the same message of hope and change. If you LISTENED at all to Trump's speeches (which I did) you would have heard a RATIONAL message of understanding, hope and change for the millions who felt left out. Hilliary delivered ZILCH. She even snubbed the Amish, which might h ave sealed her fate in Pennsylvania. The “hook or crook” DNC will be history after the 2018 mid-term elections, especially if Ellison leads. Since Obama came to power until today he is responsible for the HUGE disparity in lost congressional seats. TRUDAT.",0 +"Re: ""The only evidence is some pictures."" + +See argyle5663's response with the OTHER ""evidence"" that you (and all Trumpsters) choose to ignore. + + +Conway and Spicer LIED when they said the National Parks service posted numbers. They did not. They simply published two pictures taken at the same time and from the exact same location. They let people with eyes to see decide which had the bigger crowd. + +That T-rump's entire stance is built on ""the biggest"", ""the best"", ""the most ..."" is infantile. And, contrary to reality.",0 +"@Catou1403 take a quick peek at your atlas, Manitoba does have tidewater.",0 +typically knee jerk reactions. soon it will be rectified by next gen design. Hoeverboard is useful for short distance travel and fun to ride. accept it. the future is here.,0 +"An appropriate one, considering you just wrote that calling diversity a marxist plot was ""an accurate analysis.""",0 +"And the G&M continues with it's policy of fomenting open trade. Consider for just a minute that Canadian inflation adjusted median incomes fell from 1981 until 1998 as trade expanded and flourished. Yet trade as a percent of our GDP maxed out in 2000 and has dropped ( a lot) since then while median incomes have risen. That tells you all that you need to know about why people reject free trade - they reject it because it hurts them. Our government and it's various cheerleaders, G&M included, want to put us back onto a bad path.",0 +"No one should drive after consuming cannabis, alcohol, pain killers or when they are extremely tired. My sympathies to anyone who lost a loved one in an accident - no matter the cause. However, this article states ""Positive test results reflected in the NHTSA data do not indicate whether a driver was high at the time of the crash since traces of marijuana use from weeks earlier also can appear as a positive result."" In other words positive test results are almost worthless and this article is yet another example of many anti-cannabis article the Post has written since legalization. Alcohol is the real problem.",0 +"Maybe he would if he were given the opportunity for a dialogue rather than a side-swipe through the media. Very little demonstration of knowledge that illegal immigration is DOWN so the 11 million didn't happen in the last year and would include the next generations. But that's facts, which are inconvenient.",0 +"""but lets not let our imaginations overrule the facts!"" + +And yet that is exactly what you did. + +Obama did't impose economic sanctions, he applied sanctions aimed at specific individuals. + +Banks don't deal with Venezuela because they don't get paid. Multiple companies have pulled out because they are losing billions of dollars on overdue payments- Ford, GM, American Airlines, Air Canada, Colgate,.. + +Meanwhile Venezuelans are starving whilst Maduro's cronies loot the treasury and dine of Fois Gras, Caviar, - and buying mansions in Miami - until Obama put the sanctions on them.",0 +"What kinds of comments are removed? + +Personal attacks: Attacks against our writers, against each other and against the subjects in our articles will be removed. Name-calling, threats and verbal abuse is not tolerated.",0 +"And remember, if the oil companies hadn't pumped it out of the ground and made their profits, then there never would have been a PFD and you would still be paying State income taxes. Is that what you're supporting?",0 +"Read this quote from the very story on which you are commenting. The quote can also be found in the OP's comment to which I replied. “Because you’re basically taking away a constitutional right to freedom of speech,” he told reporters. I am at a loss to explain how you could miss such a clear clue, but perhaps facts are less important to you than an agenda? + +The players themselves have said that, many, many of their supporters have said that. TV and radio hosts have said it. So, yes some people are missing that point. + +No, I'm most definitely not a republican. The GOP is as pointless as the DNC, though probably not as corrupt.",0 +"In all due respect Sir...If you kill the oil industry and run drillers out of work in Alaska who will provide them jobs and the 90% of the cash they provide to run the government that many good people work for and want to keep their jobs? Based on what you write I can guess you don't own a home or any land in Alaska because your ideas would make homes and landowners to lose over half the value!! + +It seems you don't like oil workers, but know this they don't want to be out of work because of foolish ideas!! HB 247 will cost lots of jobs and the state will be broke with a shut down TAPS! Alaskans want jobs and more oil production because going broke is bad for all Alaskans!!",0 +"Paul Manafort owed 17 million dollars to pro-Russia interests before he became President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman last year. +Aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska is a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin; according to the report, he alleged in 2015 that Manafort and his partners owed him $19 million in connection with a failed investment. +The news reported that Manafort closed several bank accounts with the Cyprus Popular Bank after it launched an internal investigation into possible money laundering. +Can you say indictment?",0 +Do you think Kansas or Alabama put State secrets on an unsecured server in a bathroom?,0 +They will if they follow precedent.,0 +Proof ?,0 +"His first Name rhymes with Forge, and his last Name rhymes with Soros.",0 +R-G SOP.,0 +"Sorry but THAT is an over simplistic statement of obvious ignorance!!! Please see my reply to Oregongal 2 + +To understand HOW you ended up this ignorant (that does NOT mean stupid) please see: + +""The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"" by Charlotte Iserbyt (pub.1995) available on Amazon and several great interviews with her +on YouTube. She is a former Senior Policy Advisor at the National Department of Education.",0 +"If she can bring Trumps attitude to Canada, +I'll vote for her. It's what we need.",0 +Correct!,0 +"Liberals know how to get elected, but don't know how to govern.",0 +The same crooked AG that met Bill on the tarmac in Phoenix probably brought that fix in.,0 +"I doubt it's logistically possible to give 3 quarterbacks enough reps to adequately prepare them for games and to compete for the top job. It's hard to do it with 2, and the delay in figuring out the starting quarterback is going to show when the season starts. An NFL quarterback needs lots of reps with his team to truly be effective. Splitting practices, which are already strictly limited, into 3 groupings, would be irresponsible.",0 +I imagine the info they gain on the K of C brass is also from required public disclosure. Donate or don't. I'm moving on.,0 +who the heck is Dana Lenham?,0 +It's official!!! ADN = CNN . . . Congrats!!!,0 +"You may not realize this, but ""Chinatowns"" are historical and cultural landmarks which are very distinct from ""Chinese communities"" in various cities.",0 +"OR they can not send their money to Quebec, and live the high life that Quebec has been living all these years off of Trudeau 1 guaranteed Transfer payments.",0 +"Exactly our Elections were influenced by the US but our dimwitted media can only talk about Trump and Russia. + +I think they just copy and paste stuff from Rueters and are unable to actually put together their very own story.",0 +There's a difference between being prejudiced and grievance based on bitter experience. Just sayin'.,0 +"""So, was the Congressional Budget Office really “way, way off … in every aspect” of how it predicted that Obamacare would work, as the White House claims? No, it wasn’t."" + +http://www.factcheck.org/2017/03/cbos-obamacare-predictions-how-accurate/",0 +"The whistleblower regime implementation has been fraudulent. People are told that they will be severely punished for whistleblowing and they have to sign annual undertakings related to it. + +In reality, firms treat whistleblowers worse than dirt and the government is no better. + +The whole thing is a ""racket"" worthy of Scientology or est.",0 +41 points and -34 +/-...yikes. No reason for Duchene to be unhappy with his situation. Sometimes it's better to say nothing than to try to say things you don't believe.,0 +"As a non Christian and unaffliliated voter, I say that the Republicans for the most part, put their political party above American interests in favor of their corporate masters interests. The Democrats run a close second. Clinton may be a crook, but she isn't the one who was in contact with Russia to manipulate the 2016 election cycle. +As far as the Republicans being a party of Lincoln, The Republican Party, my grampa supported, has morphed from working for the American working citizens, to working for their corporate masters and themselves, as a result of the 1964 American Civil Rights Act, when the Democrats were drug kicking and screaming into supporting it, and as a result, the racist and corrupt, Southern Dixiecrats jumped from the Democrats and took over the Republican Party, then the neo conservatives took over, then the tea baggers, and now the trumpsters.",0 +"Following years of massive cuts, mass firings, direct interference, and political appointments by both Liberal Conservative-In-Name-Only governments, the CBC has been hobbled and its ability to function effectively - most notably in the area of news - has been undermined, and has resulted in a huge shift to the right, so in this regard, it has certainly lost its way (or perhaps it's more accurate to say deliberately led astray), but the opposite of what's proposed here is necessary to repair what's been so badly damaged. + +Konrad, unsurprisingly, never acknowledges that actions of the bloated private media corporations in creating their own situation. Throughout the 90's and early 00's, hard-right ideologues like the Aspers and Thomsons bought out the bulk of the Canadian media in order to stifle diversity, frighten those left working into acquiescence, and push their own ideology in an effort to alter the tone of debate in this country. + +But Canadians are not American, and reject this.",0 +And Charlottesville took the headlines away from North Korea. Which in turn took the headlines away from...,0 +And their lackeys who are rewarded handsomely for their efforts.,0 +"Might be problematic... Alaska's nearly broke and federal matching funds decrease in 2021. + +Recall the Legislature sued the Governor over expanding Medicaid without their approval. + +Lawsuit died... state law says the state must cover all mandatory coverage groups. + +Obamacare expanded mandatory coverage to poor Alaskans without children. + +Under the Senate bill that group becomes optional in 2020. + +So expansion may be reversed if legislature re-challenges governor’s expansion. + +Under Alaska law, legislature must approve adding optional Medicaid coverage groups. + +Seems unlikely with declining federal funding for expansion and a population too small to be taxed enough to make up the difference... + +There is, and will be, no deficit reduction. + +Basic human rights notwithstanding, costs will rise to soak up every ""federal dollar"" partly because Medicaid grew far beyond subsidizing just clinical services and medications. + +Now what, you may ask...",0 +"Yeah, George Bush, George W Bush and Jeb Bush wouldn't do anything like that on the Republican side.",0 +"As a practicing physician I find several things about this situation to be questionable. The regulations about tramadol changed almost 2 years ago. To be prescribing it and not to be aware of this is an error of exceptional proportions. It suggests that the prescriber is not adequately familiar with the medication. Tramadol is not a risk free medication. It has been known to cause seizures and induce delirium. Using it to treat opiate withdrawal is not medically supportable with the current information base. It is not approved for this purpose and there are no studies of adequate quality to justify its use in this way. +Additionally, having a provider with no DEA certification prescribing medications for the relief of substance withdrawal is not acceptable practice. The medications used to treat alcohol withdrawal, in particular, have ALWAYS required it. +More investigation needs to be done regarding the safety, validity and effectiveness of the treatment that these clinics provide.",0 +Cadwell did a great job with Maya? Hey if you want to bring the kids into it...this is the chick who was with her friend setting fire to Ben Cayetano signs with a bong. Great job? Not that day baby...,0 +"The Fraizer River salmon run is just a shadow of what it use to be. Has only had enough fish to Commercially fish it twice in the past ten years. I have a friend who is the president of the Sturgeon Society of the Fraizer River.....he says the health of the River has been greatly compromised over the years....Mining, industry, Farmed salmon.....Anglo American had put forth a plan in the beginning. But when all the opposition showed up they withdrew their plan. Now Northern Dynasty is trying to sell the people of Alaska that Its going to be the same plan only smaller.......Yeah Right......Wrong Mine In The Wrong Place....This will always be the Fact...",0 +"You know something (anything?) about what facts the judge considered? You actually have some evidence, of any kind, that the Colonel thought about President Obama? + +That is actually what you are suggesting?",0 +"He is an amazing Dr and people such as myself need him so those praying for jail time enjoy your health because trying to keep as much of the money you work your butt off for is something everyone should be able to do. And why are people sonl worried about how much he earns? You could too if you spent half your life in school paying a dang fortune to learn how to save lives . I for one need him as do many others I've had the privilege to share stories with during long infusions . Long daily ordeals where he come and sits and visits with you every chance he gets between patients. I'll bet most of those who comment have never filed Thier taxes perfectly. And the charges are alleged not proven by the way. This a kind caring man aND I pray I'll be able to continue to treat with him. He spares no exoense to keep us comfortable . And as for costsale mentioned...I see my insurance eobs and the bulk of the cost is the medications , the actual physician charges are normal standard fees .",0 +"I'm waiting to see what kind of bait and switch the Republicans pull. Obamacare is horrible to everyone except the 6 million recently subsidized. But whatever the Repubs come up with will surely be worse. + +Watch your wallets people.",0 +"Well, THAT's gonna work ... 🙄",0 +"If it was so bad he ended up discharged from some branch of the military, it was probably worth a pretty good sentence. Maybe if he'd been even sentenced to therapy or something he'd have made better choices.",0 +"It is upper-class privilege. + +Once you have reached that stratum, it is almost impossible to slide back down the social ladder. Your connections will always get you another upper-class job.",0 +Try it and get back with us.,0 +"Be patient. BCE is fine... it went up less than Telus because its been over priced all year. Fair value is approx. $53 according to Morningstar.ca and profits are very good. + +I will say it one more time. Be patient and keep the stock... don't worry",0 +"Sounds like a busy ""retirement""! Be well, and thank you for continuing to minister into your retirement years.",0 +This is definitely insanity at work. Get ready for WW 3 and Mississippi of the north cause here they come. Unreal.,0 +If al-Assad is not allowed to use chemical weapons should he be allowed to use napalm? Or just barrel bombs or other conventional weapons against US backed rebels.,0 +"Young people are thinking for themselves? They are? + +Young people are the ones most likely to crumble under peer pressure. Young people are the ones most likely to parrot what they have been told by the media and entertainment industries. It is one reason why advertising is geared to them...it is relatively easy to tell them what they think they want...and they will buy the product and the concept. + +And although you refer to your book often and claim pre VII is the fear to be avoided...Perhaps the fear that is being inculcated into them now is what should really be avoided - the fear of bucking the system that offers such pressure, the fear that to truly think for themselves will ostracize them, and the fear of a secular world bent on obliterating Truth & belief that does not line up appropriately with its agenda. + +What say you? Although it doesn't fit your narrative.....",0 +Not a kid. An adult. Would be interested in knowing if Lindsay Young's organization is getting donations from Damon Estate,0 +I think we should hold tribal seminars to remedy this problem...:),0 +"May I suggest you study up on Sex Offender statistics instead of listening to everything you hear in the media? Like the fact that of all types of crimes, sex offenders are least likely to reoffend. Look at this Vukovich guy, he has been in and out of prison on a wide verity of crimes that cost tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars and also hurt victims.",0 +"An excellent article on this issue. The U.S. should go to great lengths to use diplomacy, instead of provoking as they do with North Korea and Russia.",0 +Article 25 Section 4.,0 +"A love letter to Fidel Castro, approved arms sales to Saudi Arabia to slaughter civilians, botched electoral reform, pay to play access to Chinese Communist billionaires to directly lobby Trudeau and his ministers, ten fold increase in foreign donations to Trudeau Foundation since Justin became Liberal leader, admiration for China's ""basic dictatorship,"" out of control spending and huge increases to national deficit, etc + +Yup, great progress............",0 +"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.",0 +"the highest grade medical is 15$, I doubt recreational will come anywhere close.",0 +"Roy, you *do* realize that things aren't *real* just because *you* declare them to be, yes? + +Sort of like, ""if I '*like*' my own comment, that's the same thing as a real person liking it and agreeing with me!"" + +Oh wait, you do that, as well. How awkward....",0 +"It's only in the Fourth Gospel, the latest of the canonical gospels, that Jesus says, ""My kingdom is not of this world."" By that time the generation who was to witness the Parousia had passed. + +In the Synoptics, Pilate asks Jesus whether he is King of the Jews. Jesus, of course, says, ""It is you who say it."" This king was to be an earthly king. Jesus was executed for a crime against the state.",0 +"re ""Many do not report violent crime out here as nothing is done."" +That statement is patently untrue. +Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. +What evidence outside of your mind do you have to support that claim? +Problem is once you say something is fact that flies in the face of fact you lose credibility. +Your opinions have been racist, low & now just outright bizarre.",0 +As it should be. Just a matter of time before she hurts someone...if she hasn't already.,0 +"Hello Franklin Galvin, + +Thank you for beaming your comment from way back there in 1998. + +Let us know when you reach 2017, where the computer age has long been a part of health care.",0 +"re ""Donnie Dump couldn't get elected either if it weren't for white supremacists, eighth grade dropouts , and gun nuts"" and this? ""Because it's the truth? You have to admit, the Trumpeteers have not acquitted themselves well."" [Joe end quote] + +Not gonna argue, just request a definition of what a 'Gun Nut' is (Theater shooter? Columbine? CC permitted citizens? NRA members? Or?) + +2nd, percentage of eighth grade dropouts that voted for Trump please. May well be the majority! Just show us. + +3rd, percentage of actual declared white supremacist's who voted for Trump. Again, may well be the majority. I have no idea but I am interested in the data actually.",0 +"""I don't understand why a return to the 1958 liturgy would be an artificial and selective reconstruction?"" +It shouldn't be. At least not if a return the some selectively-imaged Second or Third Century liturgy wasn't considered such when updating the mass post-Vatican II.",0 +"As the daughter of a WWII Pacific Theater veteran and the niece of an Army medic who treated Bataan Death March survivors, I can understand the deeply personal context in which Frei’s statement was made. However, the problem is that Frei was fulfilling his professional responsibilities as a reporter for the DP at the time and, as such, his words represented his employer as well. Perhaps a suspension +would have been more appropriate under the circumstances, but, as a long term subscriber, I regret to observe that there is not much left of the DP anyway.",0 +All day today felt like Sunday to me...,0 +"Have you considered a new hat? + +http://zapatopi.net/afdb/",0 +"Hold it. How many people, I mean ""super criminals"" did Bill Clinton put in jail during his stint as president? Do the incarcerated count towards the employed or the unemployed? Just wondering. Bill Clinton has even conceded that his policies caused the prison population to explode. + +http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/06/politics/bill-clinton-crime-prisons-hillary-clinton/index.html",0 +just another liberal,0 +"The Americans have a military base of some 30,000 soldiers just North of Seoul and the North Koreans have thousands of artillery pieces pointed directly at it at all times.",0 +Were you asleep the day when supply and demand were discussed in economics. They are interrelated not separate.,0 +Excellent! A hefty promotion and pay raise for failure. Only in (Liberal) government. Your tax dollars and mine.,0 +"The derivation of the 50 per cent is 20 per cent when you earn the income and 30 per cent when you pay the dividend to take the cash personally. Before the changes you could use a section 84.1 ""pipeline"" to eliminate the dividend and instead pay 25 per cent capital gains tax on the shares over the CGD limit. This is being eliminated, pushing the overall tax rate to over 70 per cent. As a kicker, life insurance proceeds for the first time become taxable, which is another double whammy because the premiums were never deductible. + +Get up to speed: + +https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/draft-tax-changes-put-families-partners-of-deceased-business-owners-in-legal-limbo-experts/article36139857/",0 +"And he was elected because the working people of American deserted the Democratic Party in droves just like they did when Reagan was elected. Who really cares what this lefty academic says anyway. You know what they say: Those who can't, teach.",0 +"Soros , Buffet , Gates , to name a few are part and parcel of the Illuminati.",0 +"This adds a new wrinkle. So, to be competitive racers who can afford it will have a satellite phone to call a friend who is monitoring the race tracker... There's plenty of time to make calls even from a moving sled.",0 +"The focus of the analysis of the Las Vegas shooting has now become bump stocks—and the gun lobby is seizing on it as a solution. It is a red herring and banning bump stocks will accomplish nothing. +The real culprit in this situation is allowing magazines of 20, 30, and 50 rounds. Who other than the police or the military needs that many rounds to be fired in rapid succession? Bump stocks just make use of these large magazines to approximate a fully automatic weapon. Bump stocks are actually unnecessary as these weapons with large magazines can be bump fired without the bump stocks. +If Americans are truly in search of a solution to mass shootings of this order, then it is magazines of more than five rounds that should be banned.",0 +"Chaput has forgotten that Christ calls his leadership (bishops) to seek out the lost sheep; to leave the 99 behond and go look for the one that left the group. Chaput's ideas are to just want to say, ""Forget about em""",0 +"With rent control and required payments to tenants for no-cause evictions, we will see more rent increases, more for-cause evictions, bigger deposits, and tougher screening by landlords. +Rent control doesn't lower the cost of buying, building, and maintaining rental properties. It does not defray the costs to replace carpets, screens, appliances, vinyl, or fixtures, nor does it reimburse the property owner for paint and cleaning after a tenant trashes the property. That will get passed on to future renters. +Yes, rents go up. So do taxes and all costs associated with buying, owning, and maintaining property.",0 +"ducks not kings, year 1 of the rebuilt",0 +It's all about skin color with you people .....,0 +"He was not ""swindled"" by the State of Alaska. Each piece of property for sale has a general description and then the survey description which is quite detailed. Had he done any sort of research on his land, he would have known what it was like.",0 +Good article - thanks !,0 +"Over and over we hear warnings about the overheated market but nothing is being done to address the unacceptable risks that this type of speculation brings to the nation's economy. Vancouver took action, although it was arguably too late. A tax on ALL real estate transactions would bring the market back into balance. Prorating the real estate tax based on years of ownership would preserve equity for long term owners.",0 +I will bet there are people posting in here who weren't even born when the republicans started investigating the Clintons. The republicans are proving Einstein's theory of insanity. The they will turn around and blame Dems for being the divisive party.,0 +"During that 2 May 17 Senate testimony, several Senators asked him directly to say whether Trump was under investigation. Each time he weasel worded the answers…declining to give a straight answer based on some convoluted doublespeak. + +STEPPED ON IT: If Comey was so upset over Trump’s supposed obstruction of justice, why didn’t he resign or take his concerns to the DOJ? + +Obviously, nothing really was a concern coz NOTHING was wrong. After all, all along, we were told how upright and righteous Comey was… + +Comey even set his own precedent by acquiescing to Lynch’s request(?) that he call the Clinton email investigation, “The Clinton matter”. + +Why didn’t he resign then? + +BTW: What the liberal media fails to report: Comey, Mueller and Schumer are long time associates and friends…and then there is the Comey-Clinton connection…",0 +"On many job applications even for government jobs there is a” voluntary "" sectional ""Self Identification"" There is no obligation so there don't' be concerned. + +Are you Male/ Female / Other? +Are you White / Aboriginal / Visible Minority? +Are you over 50 / under 50 +Do you have any recognized handicaps or disabilities Yes/ No +Are you a born Canadian? + +Its purely voluntary but if you don't volunteer you know your application will be rejected. The able bodied, but unfairly privileged 56-year-old white guy from Toronto looking to be a store clerk at the Bay, for the princely sum of $11.40 / hour, may as well apply for welfare.",0 +"I want to own a huge casino. But I can't afford one and I don't know how to build or run a casino. Should I hire a $700,000 consultant to help me design a casino that I can't afford and will never build? + +Now switch the word ""casino"" with ""LNG gas line"".",0 +"Here's a few facts about the Kansas debacle... +The sales tax was increased....including taxes on food. +State spending INCREASED in all years except one (2013). +Instead of eliminating tax loopholes and broadening the tax base, the most common elements of tax reform, the state created a huge loophole by eliminating the tax on pass through entities. This caused a huge movement by businesses and individuals to restructure to take advantage of this 0% tax rate. Bill Self, the Kansas basketball coach, took advantage of this to avoid taxes. +The Kansas tax plan demonstrates that humanity behavior is heavily influenced by economic incentives.",0 +Ari can tell which side of his bread is buttered.,0 +"""..or the lady who handed out a condom while saying no."" + +Actually, Mulcair understood and therefore did not pursue this. + +It was Justin who put the the poor Liberal who was entrapped out of caucus.",0 +He's probably still using it.,0 +I'm a little more interested in the quality of the food than in what label management gives its staff.,0 +"Aw. You didn't go to college either, did you? Jealousy is so unbecoming.",0 +http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/corporate/promo/pension.html,0 +"Agree. Trump has badly divided America. For him, it is all entertainment and fun. For us, it is a nightmare.",0 +"Actually, it's common. Cold Bay was an alternate runway for the space shuttles!",0 +You hit the nail directly on the head with your comment Gonzo. Not only are you working hard to support your self and your family but money is taken from what you earn to support so many who refuse to work. There are many people here in Alaska that receive race based lifetime welfare and never have to work ever for their entire life. The Taxpayer is forced to provide everything they need. The only responsibility they have is to go to the Post Office and pick up their welfare check that the Working People provides them with. Not much stress at all living like that. You are working hard to provide free health care for so many who just plain refuse to work becausecof pure laziness alone yet you have to deplete your savings for your own health care. The military is always hiring and if eligable people should have to join or they get no free health care.,0 +"If your polls are accurate Sheriff Joe should stay out of it, period. He is way too old too. Part of having good judgment is knowing when to hang it up. He is 85 and it's time for him to hang it up. He did a great job for all the years he spent in government but he has reached the point where it is time to let go of it and let someone younger, say a 70 year old take over the control. It's time and it is the right thing to do. It looks like Kellie is going to win the primary big time. Let her do it. Don't split the vote and give it to Flake. She can win the general too. Please. Who wants a senator with the name 'flake'. It sounds stupid.",0 +This government is opening its eyes to the reality that significant pot use will continue with or without legalization. And they will be rewarded with tax dollars.,0 +There is something unseemly about the intense persistence of Arkansas to execute these people. As someone else noted on a different thread: it is high time for the US to join other civilized nations and to stop imposing the death penalty.,0 +"""said Hummel, whose county’s natural beauty belies a reputation for misdeeds by its own lawmen"". +What? AP wrote this? No wonder. Didn't the Oregon State Police current place kicker, Lt Edwards, move to Bend with a promotion after assaulting a motorist and losing in court? Maybe the ""county's natural beauty"" will help Edwards change his new reputation.",0 +Please contact the FBI in Anchorage. It is important for whistle blowers to come forward. The FBI investigates white collar crime.,0 +I believe this was the 'meilleur' décision given the circumstances.....,0 +"OK, Donald J Trump!! LOL",0 +I just received their fundraising e-mail .Sweet!!,0 +"The reason for the war was because Southern leaders refused to accept the results of an election that brought in an anti-slavery administration. But even before that administration took office, they passed ordinances of secession that -- uniformly -- mentioned the preservation of slavery as their key goal. And yes, Lee fought to maintain that. + +In response to all of this, Lincoln fought to preserve the union. Over time, he realized that freeing the slaves was a key step to victory. But since he didn't start the war, his motivation wasn't the reason for the war. + +Indeed, try reading history.",0 +"The real question for me is, just because something makes you safer does that mean you're happier?",0 +Not many actually apologize for anything in these comments sections...this seems to be a genuine realization.,0 +Are you saying a developer should build the bus rapid transit lanes on Colfax Avenue with his money? How exactly does that work?,0 +Better hitchhike then.,0 +"the more negative press he receives, the bigger his smile. SMH",0 +George Boosh was pilloried by the left and by the media for doing the same thing Obama did.,0 +"American political rhetoric has always been close to blood sport. That is why the founders created the electoral college. Oops. + +In Europe, families with Downs Children recieve support, indeed all families recieve support that they don’t get here. Their value added taxes raise the revenue necessary for this, which is why the GOP resists such a tax so vehemently. The pain capable argument is valid as the fetus reacts to the procedure, which is rare, even if it cannot perceive the pain. This argues for requiring anasthesia or maybe induction, not a mandate to continue the pregnancy. Few have an abortion that late because they simply decide that they don’t want a child. + +I suspect the hierarchy is on the wrong side of the gerrymandering case because of right to life movement coalition politics. Sadly, that does not include passing a VAT and a higher child tax credit.",0 +"Except, it IS the answer for the people who want to burn coal, baby, burn coal. +It IS the answer for people who want to pretend humans have no effect on the planet on a mass scale.",0 +"People migrate from low per capita resource countries to higher per capita resource countries. Britain is massively overpopulated. It is resource negative in virtually every area you can name - energy, food etc. This happens in most countries - population exceeds the resource base and the population declines through migration and starvation and lower birth rates. + +Cheers, +John Meyer",0 +#getnancyhome,0 +"I've never understood where Trump got the reputation or idea that he was a good negotiator. Trump's idea of negotiation seems to be to promise the sky and the moon when he needs your co-operation then stiff you once the deal is done. If he doesn't need your co-operation then he tries to strong-arm you. What's worse, Trump thinks of negotiations as zero-sum contests where only he can win. The best negotiations are where everyone leaves happy but Trump only participates in negotiations where he leaves happy. + + +After getting rid of Obama's negotiations nobody will negotiate with Trump in good faith, because they know any agreement with the USA will only good until the next president comes in. Don't expect any big trade deals while Trump is in power, and even if he does succeed in one don't expect it to go well for the USA.",0 +"The GOLD STAR comment on the article Steven. The republican brown shirts ""can`t add"",.. like the Emperor with no clothes on ""couldn`t see"" he was naked. Neither was factual or credible.. it ""didn`t add up"". +But the state republican machine, the party of ""no"",.. doesn`t care as long as they can spend our savings, and as long as it stops progress in this state, for the sake of a special interest`s SUBSIDIZED bottom line. https://www.adn.com/energy/article/public-comment-alaska-oil-tax-cut-conoco-wants-secrecy-new-oil-incentive/2013/09/03/ +https://www.adn.com/politics/article/series-conoco-employees-help-ease-oil-tax-bill-through-legislature/2013/03/28/",0 +Glenn I agree with you here,0 +"Condolences to Amy's family, friends and companions",0 +"No, we want to attract people who follow the law. You will have a hard time trying to enter Canada as a tourist if you have a criminal record or even a DUI. + +And how do you know her entry two decades ago didn't delay entry for any alien gaining citizenship? Are the millions here in the US illegally not taxing the US support system? Does that not limit the capacity of how many can hence legally come to US? + +So if someone steals from a grocery store, are you going to argue it's not making anyone else hungry too, so it's okay?",0 +"I think PBS cuts across political boundaries and I have to think hard to come up with some example that would typify it as politic ally biased although I know the common perception is that it caters to the left, but I think it's only a perception. Most of what I see on public broadcasting is straight up educational and in that I can see how it would offend those on the right of the political spectrum.",0 +"Cassie - I received your following response ""If all else fails, call a woman a drama queen who is affected by her hormones."" Do you always play the victim?",0 +"On the other hand, hungry kids don't learn as well, and it is hard enough to get them to pay attention when they aren't hungry.",0 +So much for being neutral !,0 +Uh huh. Sure because the timing of the message had nothing at all to do with what Trump did. Nothing at all. Do you really expect people to believe that? Or do you just not care and a facile excuse is as good as the truth in your book?,0 +"Agreed. Communism was evil. On the upside, 85 percent of the German casualties were on the Eastern Front. Without the communists, you and I would be communicating in German today.",0 +Slow day at the SA today. We had high tides like this years ago anytime we had a good swell and higher than normal tides due to moon positions. More lazy non news coverage.,0 +"""The only hope for improved relations between President Trump and the Republican Congress might be for Trump to stop criticizing members of his own party..."" + +Baloney. Republicans can enact the agenda they they promised the American people they would tackle if they were elected. Trump is absolutely right to call them out for the ideological frauds they are.",0 +You are comparing a one or two day temperature anomaly over a tiny portion of the arctic to a historical mean temp for the month of January? Just like when the majority of sea level buoys have shown a sea level DECREASE over most areas around Alaska when you claimed the opposite. You are all about spreading FAKE science,0 +Did he really win fair and square? #IStandWithJohnLewis,0 +"The twelve regional Native corporations are still here, so they have been successful, per the intent of ANCSA ... Greed, nepotism, self interest are the marks of every organization ... The ""thousands"" of non-Natives who hold stock, don't have voting rights ... The AFN, IRA villages, and ""heritage"" departments of the corporations take care of most ""public"" issues. ANCSA was a compromise, and we got what we could, while we could. And the Clans, the Ruling Families, still rule, per the ""ancient traditions"" that so many have professed that they're so fond of. You want assimilation? Then over-throw the Clans. You want tradition? Then live with it. You want a future? Then learn to keep ""corporation"" and ""clan"" in different compartments ... just like you keep business and personal bank accounts separate. My corporation handles corporation stuff for me. Grandma handles tribal stuff for me.",0 +"Don Neal, I'm happy for you on earning $21,000 last year. Hope you can pay the city property tax on that every year for the rest of your life. Our city government is quite sure that what money you have is better spent by them. Our city government is here for you Don.",0 +Please name specific buildings that should be closed.,0 +"Yes, Social stratification by wealth is color-less. Some people of color who I have met are totally the most uppity when they have bucks. ""Oh. My God, look at that girl, she's country"" In many brown nations, the darker you are the less you have social status. I have seen examples in my travels. The elites in these countries think that it is normal to use and abuse the average person. Many in the 3rd world are conditioned to think they are ""less"" that the elites. If you are American and have not traveled, you cannot fathom the difference between here and there.",0 +Anyone interested in the pesticide issue can see with their own two eyes--no need scientists--the massive damage done by papaya pesticides in Kapoho Hawaii....often looks like the fields are napalmed....and only a hundred yards from water catchment....I AM AMAZED......but a little neurotoxin organophosphate can't hurt....,0 +"Apparently feminist ""theologians"" or commentators know much more about the mind of God than did Jesus Himself. +It seems a silly exercise to me to change the lyrics to match one's ill-conceived concept of a gendered God counter to all Scriptural and Doctrinal references to Him as Father, King, etc. despite the fact that the Church has always understood that Father is not a gendered identity but a relationship. It's an exercise in idolatry. +I will say that WRT ""Holy God We Praise Thy Name"" that goddess fits the measure better than ""Go-od"", but in the second verse you are still left with the problem of making a two syllable word stretch for three notes; ""Fa-ah-ther"" and the proposed ""Mo-uh-ther"".",0 +This management is a JOKE. With fish counts at 30k and then 15k they double the limit for sports fishermen when most people can't catch 1. They think this will pacify things since now hey people are allowed to catch more fish. Just ignoring that MOST people can't. Go back and look at the numbers and we have had MULTIPLE 100k days each of the last couple of years so don't tell me that all of a sudden it would be a huge problem. The management is destroying the runs - look at the Russian River run which has now been pushed by 1-2 weeks due to these rules and management,0 +I can get by it on my tricycle!,0 +Thank you!,0 +"Agreed. Bernier seems to me the clear frontrunner, as he is less polarizing than O'Leary (and thus will pick up at lot of #2 - 5 rankings from the voters), but I have a really difficult time seeing how his libertarian message and platform will appeal to the soft Liberals that we'll need to bring back into the fold in 2019. Bernier's math not adding up is a problem, and he is proposing some pretty drastic changes to our federal tax structure that I foresee him having some difficulty selling. Getting punted from cabinet 10 years ago is also a big negative (assuming that voters have that long of a memory). + +Bernier will assuredly lock up the Conservative base in a general election, but I truly feel a Chong, O'Toole or Raitt is necessary to broaden the tent, appeal to swing voters, and have any sort of chance of forming a government.",0 +"Penny ante +but it is just a degree of corruption +the greater corruption versus the lesser corruption",0 +"Unknown, anyone who thinks that LGBT youth don't get bullied more than 'normal' kids in middle and high schools might qualify as a 'know nothing.'",0 +"Bill, + +Since I do not know you I have only the energy, persistence and tone of your criticisms of others by which to measure your motives. Often the difference between one who suggests others might want to leave the church and one who persecutes others is not having the power to actually do it.",0 +"Just within the last 30 days Trump has cut/harmed various agreements or programs and kicked them to Congress to fix. In each of these cases he's been either an antagonist or, at best, hands off supporting rather than taking a more proactive part. The most glaring is perhaps ending the DACA program. He claims he as them ""in his heart"" and ""they'll be fine"" but then treats them like a political bargaining chip for tougher immigration reforms. Perhaps the best example is with this part of the ACA (not the other EOs such as the one which creates a loophole for insurance companies to ""band"" healthy/lower risk accounts) which he supported, then backed off on. But the worst has got to be de-certifying the Iran deal when Iran is holding up their end of the deal. He passed the buck to Congress in a deliberate play to his political base.",0 +"Question: Why are they all marching? Answer: Because Hillary lost and we are all sooo upset.... waahhhhh,,,boooo... hooo... and Trump will take away abortion on demand and free birth control. + +Question: But 54% of women voted for Donald Trump. How do you explain that. + +Answer: They are all traitors to the sisterhood!! Hisssss... Hissss...",0 +"You have rather purposefully misunderstood/misdirected the conversation now, pretending my comments are about you personally - to what purpose, only you can tell... perhaps to get a dig in at Archbishop Chaput?",0 +"That's a lot of guns, but your statistics aren't applied properly and are misleading. Actual gun ownership is confined to about 30% of citizens, down from over 50% in 1973, when percent of gun ownership peaked. Percent of gun ownership in the US has declined since then while the number of guns has risen. If US population is 325 million and 30% own guns, then 97.5 million people own an average 3.38 guns apiece. Of course, a lot of people own a lot of guns, including more than 3 million National Firearms Act registered weapons including nearly a half-million registered machine guns. http://www.theblaze.com/news/2013/03/19/how-many-people-own-guns-in-america-and-is-gun-ownership-actually-declining/ +And for two centuries, the Supreme Court basically left firearms possession up to local law.",0 +Next time leave the French at home.,0 +"At the end of the article it said that we could speed up the hearings, which was followed by the statement that there are no easy solutions. Isn't that an easy solution, speed up the hearings and deportations. The current situation seems to be lets hope it goes away. This isn't a solution it is conflict avoidance. The not too subtle point is that we have a PM who has gone on the world stage building an image of peace , love and an open door policy to refugees. By painting himself into the proverbial corner he can't now take a tough stand, hence the comments the other day, asking refugees to respect the rules. Most of the current border crosses are Haitian , and Montreal has a large Haitian population already, so it is safe to assume that most if allowed to stay will end up there. One could safely make the argument that if Montreal doesn't care, certainly the mayor doesn't, and the Quebec government doesn't care, then it's there problem to deal with.",0 +"' +…charlie still doing his best to convince himself he hasn't been played. +.",0 +"I looked at SEIU Local 503 collective bargaining agreement for 55,000 state workers. The phrase ""minimum wage"" appears once, for pay scales for school coaches. Do you know that it is used as a peg for other pay scales? http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/CHRO/CBA/SEIU.pdf (I think this is a good place to look, but am not sure).",0 +"Remember the ""muzzled scientists"" that Harper prevented from speaking to the press about their research. Now that formerly ""muzzled scientists"" are free to speak they are remarkably silent. Maybe they have nothing to say that the press wants to publish or maybe there was no actual science, just a group of activists using politicized pseudo-science to advance their agenda.",0 +"It's disgusting how much women go missing in Canada and nothing is ever done about it. Even police were ignoring all the evidence/reports about Robert Pickton for many years endangering everyone with that negligence. All the witnesses even said he didn't act alone, so there's still serial killers from that going about their crime to this very day. + +RCMP are also riddled with sexual abuse and so is our military (remember Top-ranked military man Russel Williams in killing a Canadian woman after stalking?).. the inquiry is required and the abuse of women in all levels of government departments must end. It's the dark ages if anyone even tries to bs that money isn't worth it; because they are essentially trying to cover up the severity of how unsafe Canada is for women, especially if vulnerable/alone.",0 +"Trails for Nikes, duh.",0 +yea.. send Conniesz' personal residence address to Coalition for the Homeless as she seems to be eager to house them..,0 +"Christianity has not ""failed"", the leaders of the post Vatican II Church have failed Christianity.",0 +"Yeah, keep bringing them in from other country's there's plenty of room for them just now not enough time and money for our children now.",0 +Please explain how then the rate increases were less under the ACA than before it?,0 +"No. It is not, nor are the comments about the article.",0 +"Demand for products derived from oil will keep growing for several more decades. If products from our oil sands are competitive (which they are), why not let the market make the final decision on the pipelines?",0 +Getting high speed internet to rural areas is a losing proposition cost wise. So what you're asking for is a hand out - sounds like socialism to me - you want someone else to pay more so you can get cheap highspeed internet.,0 +"How seriously do we take the sexual assault of females when our own Supreme Court acquitted a thirty-five year old woman of raping a fourteen year old boy the other day? I've been involved with male survivors of sexual abuse for three decades. I am one. What society does to boys, they will do to society as men. We need look no further than the highest court in the land for the root causes of rape culture.",0 +"I agree with Taxpayer - so far all Trump has managed to do is wreck everything around him like an impetuous child. Rather ironic for a guy who considers himself a ""builder"". + +The man/child desperately needs a time out.",0 +"'She was no angel' + +/sarc",0 +That must be why the cat's got your tongue whenever the star of the show is white.,0 +"Go to Amazon books and search on ""ecological economics"". You'll get over 3400 hits (not all precisely in that field, as one would expect from variances in search returns, but a lot). + +One of my favorites published over 15 years ago is ""Eco-Economy"" by Lester Brown. Have a read of that one, then list for me all the conservative politicians, pundits, think-tankers who advocate for those ecologically sound economic ideas. I've yet to encounter a conservative who can see past their brainwashed ideology to even consider such ideas because the idea won't get through their confirmation bias filter, much less have a sound enough grasp of economics to understand the ideas.",0 +"This is great reporting, but the real criminals are the suits who sent Sgt. Rodriguez to war in Iraq in the first place. Probably a million people are dead because of prodigious lying, cherry picking, incompetence and fear mongering by Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld and company. + +The Iraq War itself is a disgrace, a blot on the national character as bad as anything the US has ever done, no matter how well, or badly, individual soldiers performed their duty. We will never see the end of its ramifications. + +Maybe the worst is the betrayal of America's young soldiers' fervent commitment to duty, fraternity and the nation. All of that was wasted, at best. At worst, they were betrayed for short term political advantage and corporate profits. And there are hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead and maimed as well, a war crime of epic dimensions, one for which no atonement is possible.",0 +"Do you have open carry? No. Do you have concealed carry? No. +Therefore, you have....no carry.",0 +"Please keep posting, Mr. McGee!",0 +"Check it out!!!!! Simple science experiments by Nye and Gore are fake +https://wattsupwiththat.com/climate-fail-files/gore-and-bill-nye-fail-at-doing-a-simple-co2-experiment/ +Check it out!!!! Simple physics, radiative heat loss at night +https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/01/28/this-is-how-climate-works-part-1/ +But the real problem with climate science, they do not understand all the factors that affect climate including water vapor. +Check it out, Dr. Judith Curry explains the problems with todays Climate Science.",0 +"No, AnnieO, I think they're meant to DRINK the stout. . . hence, the do-si-do. . . pay attention, Heartbreaker!",0 +"' +Homey? +. + +…and no, a declarative statement is not a 'prediction'. + +.",0 +"It's funny how the left (and their friends in the media) never like to admit that the wealthy pay most of the taxes in this country... except of course when the subject is a tax cut and then all of a sudden it's outrage over ""tax cut for the rich!!!!!"". + +If the rich always ""get out of paying taxes"" like we hear them claim so often, then why so concerned over a tax cut? + +They're exposing their own memes and they don't even realize it.",0 +"Incorrect. The mill rate adjustment is not transparent. Only the CPAs at city hall know the actual costs and revenue coverage required. For example, if the cost of running the city is $100, the 2017 cost schedule is for $102, the mill rate will be adjusted to reflect a tax revenue of not $102 but $102.50. + +This is an entirely sneaking way of increasing the cost burden on the taxpayer beyond requirements by picking up an extra dollar to spend. The surplus goes into a holding account to be reallocated for the next fiscal pet project. + +This happens all the time.",0 +"Melanie Joly seems in over her head, and that's saying a lot when you consider the totality of Trudeau's cabinet and the well documented struggles of Sajjan, McKenna, Freeland and now even Morneau. This Netflix non-deal is emblematic of the optics-driven, low-substance style of governance that has become the hallmark of the Trudeau team. But then again, with a cabinet that was assembled explicitly and overtly on a quota basis we shouldn't be surprised although we really should demand better.",0 +"Continue + +4. Mayor Caldwell is advertising his spent hundreds of millions on road repaving. It would be good to compare the product and life-span of the roads with out of state specs. Who are the contractors and how much are they paid? Did they donate to the Mayor? + +5. Caldwell hired extra PR workers and resurrected the Chief of Staff position for $125,000 a year. What exactly do they do during working hours in relation to their salaries? + +more later :=)",0 +"Over the past two years, France has fallen victim to a series of major Islamist terror attacks, including the Charlie Hebdo mass shooting in January 2015 in which 17 people were killed, the Paris attacks in November 2015, in which 130 were killed in coordinated attacks across the city, and the Bastille Day attack in Nice, in which 86 were killed when a lorry was driven into celebrating crowds.",0 +"If SteveVickRepoboy had been taken to Germany when he was 9 years old, he would, like most German youth at the time, have been indoctrinated with Nazi ideology and pressured to belong to Hitler's Youth organization (wear uniforms, attend rallies and be militarized). By 15 he would almost certainly have considered himself a German and in the dying days of the war possibly fought (without given an option) as a brave, dedicated soldier for Hitler Jugend against the allied forces in France. He would not have been a traitor to England even when throwing a grenade at allied troops. It would have been what he had been brainwashed for, trained and believed he had to do. His actions would have been that of a child soldier - just like Khadr. +SteveR was not taken from his home in the UK to a foreign land when he was 9 and indoctrinated in an evil cause. There lies the difference. This is a case of apples and oranges. +See also Lt-Gen. R.Allaire's comments in G&M.",0 +"I can't think of a rational reason why the AG challenged the travel ban. One of the reasons given initially was that it would hurt tourism from those countries on the ban list. I don't have the numbers but the numbers of tourists from these nations are probably statistically insignificant. The real reason was so AG Chin could demonstrate to all his progressive buddies that he was doing his part as a member of the ""Trump Resistance"". I could be wrong but I think it may have backfired on him.",0 +"This is an interesting article also one sided as usual. Stop thinking about yourselves and being so selfish and arrogant for once . Mauna Kea does not belong to you. I don't know why astronomers, the University of Hawaii and TMT supporters keep on believing that Mauna Kea belongs to them. The University of Hawaii is leasing Mauna Kea from the state and has the audacity to think they can sublease it to TMT. So with that being said, way can't TMT build the telescope in Japan, India, China, the Canary Islands or any other place in the world just not on Mauna Kea.",0 +"The Dems should get behind Margaret Stock. She is honest, level-headed and practical. She has my vote!",0 +"The Middle Class and the Working Class are different groups of people, especially with the virtual death of the union movement.",0 +"Surely this is a typo. you meant to say at Obama's farewell speech he said After 8 years in office the beautiful country the US is divided like never before, once prosperous towns and cities are devastated and plagued with unemployment, T he US has become a feeble giant , not trusted by its friends, not respected by its enemies the Middle East is in flame and hundreds of thousand of civilians have been killed and millions become refugees,, China is taking over the East and Russia with 10% of US's military is dominating the world. Nothing can be worse under a new President,",0 +"What does that mean, Yellow and Pink? Asians I know are brown and seaweed is not pink so what does your statement mean?",0 +There are many mysteries surrounding OHA and their misuse of public money.,0 +"Long before Rob Ford became the notorious crack mayor (who also reined in spending and privatized garbage collection, among other notable accomplishments), he was the councillor who was known and loved for his ""customer service"" policy, and habit of returning calls to people like the disabled woman in a wheelchair who couldn't navigate the broken sidewalk outside her building, which was fixed within days on the instructions of Rob Ford. There are hundreds of stories like that. He loved his city, treated his constituents well, volunteered, and to become mayor defeated George Smitherman, the man behind eHealth, ORNGE, and the $200 billion wasted through the Green Energy Act. + +That's worth his name on a stadium.",0 +Comments open eh? That already tells you an Awful lot about the Suspect.,0 +I have no doubt you would.,0 +"News for all of you - nobody is apologizing to anybody because this is about a COLLEGE FOOTBALL GAME held on a FRIDAY NIGHT for a major state rivalry. It wasn't Sunday morning, and this isn't church. I agree with others - raise your kids to learn that people say profane things and they can ignore them. College undergrads should be held to no standards of decency. (Note - I'm over the age of 35 - not in college. I have kids, and I would never, ever take them to a place that is predominantly full of bros on booze, and expect decency or kind language. So beat it Gabe.)",0 +Wonder if he learned a lesson?,0 +Congratulations to her parents and the community and especially to Jayne herself. All Alaskans wish her well.,0 +"The government ""requires a discharge permit to literally hose off the deck of a ship,"" Sullivan + +Dan Sullivan does not think our oceans need protection? But I guess that makes sense because when Dan Sullivan was Commissioner of Ak Dept. of Natural Resources he removed the words - for the needs of future generations.",0 +"You don't think Trudeau is muzzling the researchers, do you?",0 +"Should it be named for Ken Kesey or Timothy Leary? + +Dr. Timothy Leary, a lecturer in psychology at Harvard University, was the most prominent pro-LSD researcher. Leary claimed that using LSD with the right dosage, set (what one brings to the experience), and setting, preferably with the guidance of professionals, could alter behavior in dramatic and beneficial ways. + +At Stanford in 1959, Kesey volunteered to take part in a CIA-financed study named Project MKULTRA. The project studied the effects on the patients of psychoactive drugs, particularly LSD, psilocybin, mescaline, cocaine, AMT, and DMT. Kesey wrote many detailed accounts of his experiences with these drugs, both during the Project MKULTRA study and in the years of private experimentation that followed. Kesey's role as a medical guinea pig inspired him to write One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1962. + +In the summer of 1964, Kesey's Merry Pranksters customized a bus and set out on a tour to propagate LSD use.",0 +"Hmm......so if I'm willing to pay for it I can go for a ride? I don't think so. Is it wrong, maybe. Is it inappropriate? Yes. So I guess if the RNC is willing to foot the bill Trump can go for a ride with the President? I doubt it.",0 +"Jesse Farmer 293 - Yes, you would find scientific references boring...",0 +Did the authors just ignore the evidence coming out of Washington State about this??,0 +"Here's a link to an article by the president of the Sustainable Trails Coalition in California. The vast majority of responses( quite a few by cyclists ) in the comments section there appear to be negative and most state the reasons for that better than I can. + +https://www.hcn.org/articles/its-inevitable-there-will-be-bikes-in-wilderness",0 +"Yep, and it has darker overtones.",0 +"Why was he still not in jail? + +And it is obvious anchorage has a problem with a certain ethnic group of people, not guns per say. Remember blacks are about 7-8% of the Anchorage population, yet from my limited research they commit about 90% of the murders in Anchorage. + +The (((mayor))) is celebrating diversity this month... they are celebrating it too.",0 +its biology and mathematics...i didn't make it up,0 +"Hello Helga, it's the ""outsiders"" that came into PA. Many protesters that show up at City Council Meetings were from Sequim and beyond, the Anti Fluoride Network is national, so lets get it right: It was outside money that come into PA to fight fluoride.",0 +"Here's article after article claiming basically that scientists are undecided about the effect of ""global warming"" on hurricanes and tornadoes. Don't let the leftwing media sell fear about climate change and its relationship to hurricanes or other extreme weather. + +https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/05/08/sorry-global-warmists-but-extreme-weather-events-are-becoming-less-extreme/#1091d4ea55a4 +https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamestaylor/2013/05/08/sorry-global-warmists-but-extreme-weather-events-are-becoming-less-extreme/#1091d4ea55a4 +https://www.livescience.com/34488-tornado-unknowns.html +http://ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg1/WG1AR5_TS_FINAL.pdf",0 +"Well, we are talking about a segment of society, that given the choice, still daily consume fake news outlets like Faux, Rush, Breitbart and InfoWars.",0 +"a_r: So why were there so many short comings? And to be fair that information has not been lost. The current proposed plan is not a ""repeal and replace"". It is more a reform of the current plan. Keep the things that work, fix those that don't.",0 +"First question, Did they pay back the other loan(s)?",0 +"""Speculation"" , (i.e., 80,000 new residents per year since 1975), has been driving up prices to ""unprecedented levels"" since the early 1980's. If there were not a steady, expanding, underlying demand for housing your ""speculators"" would lose their shirts. +. +For the vast majority of people, the house is their largest asset, by far. Any government that does anything to impair the value of that asset is courting disaster.",0 +"If Schwab knows all that he states, then he needs to prove it with credible, verifiable facts!",0 +"Fellow Americans: If every adult who could pass a driver’s test were sent out in public armed with a gun, would that decrease the number of murders? Or would that create an epidemic of chaos and senseless deaths? You know the answer.",0 +Cliffs out in Dutch Harbor / Islands are Very Unforgiving ~ Prayers for Gregg Kortesma and His Family ~ !,0 +"So you admit to there being a legitimate orientation, rather than being heterosexual and having same sex attraction. That last bit of sophistry is the hierarchy's attempt to recognize people as being gay as part of their essence, in which case there is no reason to say their behavior is sinful within marriage. Gay sexuality is the norm for gay people, not asexuality (which is a different orientation).",0 +"Not true, Jimbob. All foster children under the age of 5 are adopted out within the first year that they're taken into custody. Visit the OCS statistical website and you'll see for yourself. Every year Alaska OCS, on average, adopts out 300 children and they receive approximately $1.5 million in adoption subsidies from the federal government under the Fostering Connections Adoptions Act, which was passed by Congress in 2008.",0 +"It certainly seems unfair from a physiological perspective ... all these students should be on an equal footing both hormonally and rules-wise .. + +Transgendered students should be fully engaged with their required sexual gender or -- perhaps transgendered humans should have their own sports groupings, such as transfemales and transmales.. + +Just a thought... + +. . . the bottom line is that any sport should allow the participants to engage on an equal footing.. + +/..",0 +"Getting rid of the indian act and every other bit of duplicated native only government service will help solve problems like this. For one thing, the federal government has no expertise in education. This is a provincial responsibility everywhere else and the provinces have the expertise here. Native communities should fall under the provinces like everyone else, then everything is equal. + +Not to mention all the dollars and resources wasted by setting up all the administration and overhead to run all the separate, duplicate programs for 3 percent of the population. There are no economies of scale. All that wasted overhead could go back into front line services.",0 +"All bribes from Juneau for elections and nothing but bankruptcy for Alaska, higher taxes on Alaskan's. People are leaving like rats on a sinking ship with properties standing empty. Cutting seniors and stealing pfd. Try getting your taxes out of thin air.",0 +Both the Republicans and Democrats opposed the TPP. It was a child of Obama and destined to fail. Thank god.,0 +G&M SOP,0 +"Warren: Thought provoking, articulate, and civil, criticism should always be welcome, even if it is anonymous. It keeps everyone on their toes :)",0 +Says the guy who can't spell dummy.,0 +"What's racist? That makes no sense. + +My point was that instead of drawing attention to their issue it has turned into a debate on whether people should protest during a very specific time period ie, the anthem. So whats truly important has been lost in all of this.",0 +"Fake, I think she was referring to the possibility of an unelected body determining the overall funding level for science; she was not suggesting elected officials determine whether individual grants get funded. + +Dr. Naylor, however, thinks the minister misconstrued the intent of the committee in that they recommended the panel simply advise the government on funding, not actually pull the levers.",0 +As long as Healthcare is a for profit industry this situation will exist. We support an industry that makes billions on the illness and accidents of the very people who support it. As long as Americans' illness are up for sale Americans will lose.,0 +"They are very popular with homeless, I wonder if they participated in the rating.",0 +"Yes, that was a typo that I did not notice. Unfortunately, Civil Comments makes it impossible to edit a post after 6 minutes, so I guess it will remain.",0 +So the Reagan Amnesty was OK?,0 +"Weed becomes legal. All the sudden media showcases "" marijuana"" as the culprit in recent crimes. Just wondering what the violent crime, not excluding domestic violence, involving alcohol is?",0 +"That is a correct statement, this guys a joke!",0 +"Who would react ""funny"" to her own post, especially when it's not funny? Domestikgoddez, I guess. Come back again when you are sober.",0 +ADN it's almost been an hour KTUU has an article update IDing the second man as Kevin Turner.,0 +"....saying it was necessary to restore “public trust and confidence"" So when will Trump fire himself. +Or when is congress going to start impeachment (Firing) proceedings.",0 +Huh? Are you sane ?,0 +"You sang, your voice was heard. You knelt, that was an action, nothing to hear",0 +"I wish i could trust you.. but with a name like that, its hard. + +I voted yes on ballot measure 2, legalizing marijuana. I also voted for President Donald J Trump.. Part of the reason for that is due to wikileaks exposing Hillary Clinton working with the DEA to make sure that marijuana stays on Schedule 1. (youre probably thinking- ""not my candidate! thats impossible!"" to that i say ""pffff.."") Im sure you know but it seems you dont care- schedule 1 means no medical benefits..... Will Trump crack down on marijuana? Possibly, but i highly doubt it. (why you ask? I'm glad you did..) Trump is a businessman and if it makes money, why not? I feel like the lowest of his priorities will be marijuana and he will keep it as a state issue.",0 +"When we visited Northwest Arctic, the public comments supported YKHC's premis. +Locals did indeed relocate when they got a job. Partially because the culture of sharing required they support the village with their check. +Moving to the MatSu and Anchorage allowed them to keep their earnings and provide a better life for their families. +The fact it is famalies with children who tend to move will cost the community, assistance dollars for schools and health care. +They should be forming a Borough like the Northwest Artict so they can profic together with Donlin.",0 +Hats off to those who protested today.,0 +Good question. Jalen was on the field occasionally last year but didn't really stand out. Let's hope he keeps progressing and realizes his potential.,0 +"Why should the PFD be even considered? +The state government needs to be accountable and should just start cutting huge departments completely. Yes jobs will be lost. If your good in your field then you can find a job in a cubicle elsewhere. +The numbers don't add up for years the Alaska budget has been in the multi billion dollar range in a state with a lot less than a million people so where's the money going when Alaska's richest person is worth less than 500 million. +Time for the government to shrink we can not keep this up.",0 +A new car running into repairs after 4 years and ready for a new one? How sad if you really believe that (unless you are collision prone). 3 of my 4 cars are over 10 years old. These 3 cars are driven daily and all have over 120k km on them. All 3 of them have at least 5 more years left in them!,0 +Condolences to the family and to his brothers and sisters in arms.,0 +"Ceremony? I don't think so. It was a protest. Why would these men be disciplined for merely taking an opposing point of view? Why does the press always characterize native protests as ""ceremonies"" and those who disagree as disruptors?",0 +"NO. She doesn't need to show any ""class"" when departing, what the heck is that supposed to mean? Would you say that if it were a man we were discussing?? She was the acting Attorney General and independence is paramount, no need for that person to ever keep mum. + +Simply throwing away long time members of Congress like old milk is not a complete answer. While I totally get McCain's shortcomings, he has more sense than any of the tea partiers, his choice of Sarah Palin notwithstanding. There is a lot of new blood in the Senate, but one dimensional is not a good idea when it comes to lawmakers, not for anyone. + +""To him everyone is our enemy and we would send in the military if he had his way."" + +Funny, that sounds like our new President.",0 +"It's claimed that when de Gaulle told Dean Rusk, as a consequence of France leaving NATO, he wanted all American troops removed from French soil, that Rusk asked if he was including the 60,000 buried there from WWI and 2.",0 +"""Since when did the physical appearance of a candidate become more important than than the policies they wish to implement?"" +... since we elected Justin Trudeau the vapid.",0 +"Once again, immigration is a civil, not criminal offense. Odd how the ""law abidin'"" people don't seem to know much about the law. Colorado is a haven for criminals, too. *puff* *puff* You'd better leave the state.",0 +"RFK's brother signed an order to withdraw from Vietnam in October 1963 when the politics supported escalation. Respectfully, you are misinformed. JFK had been to Vietnam in 1951 and realized the French would likely lose. In 1954, he was the politician in Congress denouncing the Eisenhower / Nixon / Dulles brothers plan to send nukes to Vietnam to help the French (who were losing at Dien Bien Phu). If JFK had been allowed to stay in office the escalation in Vietnam would not have happened.",0 +"Wow. Just, wow.",0 +The better question is will Mueller's investigation see Mr. Trump fired.,0 +"1. To allow parking after 11 pm and before 11 am as ""FREE"" is the way we say: we would rather they NOT drive, not have finances hinder keeping drinkers in cars off the roads, and provide a safe place for their vehicles. Why would anyone penalize people trying to do the right thing? Keep it free, it's not hurting anyone and in fact, is saving lives --- the next time someone tries to drive home, drunk, when they COULD have simply parked and taken a taxi, and kills someone, I can guarantee I'll point them to a great lawyer - against the City for pulling this rip-off stunt. +2. Mr. Halcro can be in any legal business he wants off city council. BUT he cannot have it both ways ... either allow drinkers the easy park overnight, because Mr.Halcro, you are being deliberately blind if you think the product you are helping grow and sell doesn't also cause wrecks. Smaller, true, little loss of life, true, but nonetheless, it happens. LET THEM PARK FREE! Harms no one, potentially saves lives.",0 +"@ChuckT + +Liberals never display integrity to accomodate the position of the Canadian majority. + +It's more important and easier stepping on us to accomodate their extemely flawed social engineering agenda that is based on the failed European model. + +Woe is Canada.",0 +"Russia is not ""any"" country. It's an oligarchic quasi-dictatorship with 1,800 operational nuclear warheads on ICBMs and nuclear-powered submarines, run by a former KGB agent who has consolidated his stranglehold over 17 years through blackmail, violence and intimidation, and is dedicated to the weakening of democratic governance and alliances. Further, this entreaty of Kushner's dates to the early transition, well before the IC determined the national interest required selective leaking of this administration's wildly irresponsible and damaging sabotage of our security. And third, to repeat, why on earth would Kushner suggest we use *Russia's* communication system -- sequestered from our ability to track it -- to ""do government business"" with Putin's Russia? Even Kislyak, their ambassador, was taken aback is suggestion, as it would expose otherwise secure Russian communications architecture to the president's son-in-law and senior advisor. Why not route through a third country?",0 +We end up like the USA by immersing ourselves in the divisive identity politics prevalent there.,0 +the man is a current member of the mongols... and it's a risk we don't have to take with our kids. it's not simply giving the guy a chance.,0 +A promise of tax cuts for the middle class resulted in increase in hydro rates and a carbon tax. Go Trudeau go!,0 +"Looking at those in power in Britain, Canada, and the U.S., one can quickly conclude that Angela Merkel is western civilization's last hope for any glimmer of leadership.",0 +It brings a little nature back to the concrete jungle!,0 +"Correction: +""We should first invest in mass transit, both to clean our air and save American lives if you really want to defend our freedom"" from fear. Every person driving towards you could be an Al Qaeda terrorist chanting ""Allah Akbar. Die infidel!!!"" just waiting for the precise moment to yank their steering wheel towards you. Ban cars to save lives! ;-) +Yes, I'm joking, but my point is we have greater threats to address at home first. +Few of us expect a fire to break out that we can't handle, or for armed thugs to break down our doors in the middle of the night, so we provide defensive responses for such occurrences, just as we should provide defenses for diseases and injuries that none of us can anticipate. Every other developed nation on Earth does that, but not us.",0 +"how about a good picture(s) of the tattoo?? I enjoy seeing one or two but not the current fad of ""etcha sketch my parts""...",0 +"Earth to the Denver Post- + +The bulk of those 3400 voters that cancelled their registrations were either illegal immigrants or voters that were illegally voting in two states, and they did it for fear of getting caught. + +Somehow the crack staff at the DP never thought of that.",0 +"Time to sing Tom Petty's song, ""Free Falling"". For now. Rockies still end up with a winning season. They need 35 wins to reach that plateau out of their remaining 83 games.",0 +"Much like the entire Democrat strategy is based on creating a welfare state filled with freeloaders? + +See how that works when you stereotype but don't know what you're talking about?",0 +The most astounding aspect of this whole sorry saga is that JZ783 still wants people to respect him,0 +"""That’s really the fundamental problem. Mr. Trudeau promised electoral reform, but he never said what it was."" It is one thing to say you want something new and a different thing to agree on what that might be. Not knowing this was either political naivety or crass manipulation. + +In the end all political parties want a system that helps them. Surprise, surprise.",0 +"""I will not tax income trusts""",0 +well said Robin,0 +"No WAPO (=Democrat Party) ""changed the story"". Naturally, DP breathlessly repeats... + +I'm just filling in their new ""story"" for them!",0 +"My poor,under performing BCE is up a grand total of 0.6% since I bought it ? 6 weeks ago... +Since I remain 50% in cash that's OK...but its dismal performance underscores the rotational selloff that Rick is so ardently denying. +Ditto for Telus,Hydro,Emera,NPI etc etc etc. + +I see JH today (re)preaching the dividend gossip .....but this sector IS under performing ++ +In fact...,not IMO",0 +Non-white people are diverse.,0 +Pfiffner was a good lawyer and now is a good judge. Parnell nominated Pfiffner and he was approved by the legislature because of his anti-abortion background. I find it amusing that the conservative's penchant for nominating judges based on social issues comes back to haunt them.,0 +Recent experience informs me that it is you who likes to use the flagging option - and rather frequently.,0 +A little sunshine on all of Trump's tax returns would be appropriate. What is Trump hiding?,0 +No real treasures among those rifles. I wonder if they were acquired legally in the first place?,0 +"I'm pretty glad you don't as well, buddy.",0 +"""“He was a great guy,” Mueller said. “I never flew with him, so I don’t know his pilot skills.” + + +That's kind of interesting. Renting a plane is not like renting a car where you grab the keys and drive off. A plane's owner always checks out a perspective renter's skills (pattern flight, some touch and goes, etc.) before he lets somebody rent his plane. This guy must not have a very big rental fleet....less now. I'd never rent a low wing 50 year old Piper for a circle island sightseeing flight. No newish high wing Cessna 172s in his fleet?",0 +"""But Murkowski said she's taking the slight in stride."" (though she has seniority she was left off the committee, of thirteen men.) + +Sounds like excuses, for not knowing what the heck your doing, is what it sounds like to this old Alaskan voter. +Here`s a way for ""Ohio Dan"" and Lisa and Don to ""unvex"" their little minds over a health care plan. +Just apply to the rest of us the same basic access to health care as well as insurance premium affordability that YOU receive, Lisa Don and Danno, considering your ""servants of the people"" and all. +Then work from there to make insurance affordable and as affective as it is for you all currently. +Sounds more than fair to me. +That shouldn`t be so ""vexing"" for the three of you, with all your staffing and resources available to you. +Ted Stevens wouldn`t have been ""vexed"". +It`s your job to write laws, so write some and be fair. +We`re all watching and can`t wait.. literally, to see your work product, and how it affects all us Alaskans.",0 +"States don't vote. Individual citizens vote, and their votes, as individual citizens, were over-ridden.",0 +"People should, oh I don't know, maybe educate themselves about this bill before they talk. 1. Nothing went into effect until July. 2. A large portion of the bill don't go into effect until 2017 and 2018 3. Mandatory minimums for murder were INCREASED, that's right INCREASED = harsher punishment. Why you ask? Becuase you could go to jail for rape longer than you could for murder. 4. Arson was also expanded 5. Felony maximums DID NOT CHANGE 6. Robbery and kidnapping are FELONIES SO if they weren't charged one would assume that they didn't have enough evidence but idk I wasn't in the court room and neither were you! The only crimes that SB91 really makes changes to are misdemeanors. Here is a comprehensive and very enlightening review by the department of law. http://law.alaska.gov/pdf/bill-review/2016/002_JU2016200423.pdf",0 +"As someone who worked in universities for a long time, I welcome the change. All too often, universities and colleges are more concerned with image than justice. Most have their own police forces so the point is to keep serious crimes and serious crime reporting to a minimum. While the former is laudable, the second should be criminal. Treating rape as anything other than a serious crime, for example, is wrong and withholding due process from accused rapists is just as wrong.",0 +"This is where a property manager proves their value. They screen tenants, check references, credit scores, do background checks. They write up a lease agreement that says is a tenant is storing garbage on the property or becomes a nuisance to neighbors, that's grounds for eviction. They will collect the evidence and take it to court. + +If you have a good renter, who pays on time and doesn't cause problems, VALUE them, and don't raise the rent every opportunity you get, just to maximize profit.",0 +"The first part of the plan is easy: stop using the Presidency as a bully pulpit to favor some groups over others. Statesmanlike approach? You mean you want him to put on an act and pander to political correctness and how leftists and globalists think he should act? Forget that. Being a non-conformist, not aligning with any one group - even political party - is probably the most American thing about Trump and his plan to make the country great again. .",0 +"You make some good points but given that you (like myself) did not forsee Trump's election, I would not be too sure about the length of his tenure.",0 +"As long as rural Alaska continues to get an all (State) expense free ride for all basic services, and Gov Walker continues to give 138 rural communities citizens welfare for life, then don't expect support for new taxes. All the Kings horseman (GCI/Rasmussen) and all the Kings men (Unions) won't be able to convince the peasants to maintain their bloated state spending again. The sooner they realize that fact, the quicker we fix this problem. It is not the governments responsibility to subsidize the personal choice some make to live in areas of the state with no economy.",0 +Obviously our Canadian officials missed the point of the morotarian.,0 +"It appears that as Canada progresses into a more mature stage of nationality and maturity it is incumbent upon its citizens, as a whole to reflect upon what makes one a Canadian citizen. What can each of us do to make our home and country one in which all of us individually believe and behave in the common good. In this instance, to what degree is the wearer of the burqa prepared to contribute to the tradition of uncovered faces and facial recognition. When she immigrated to Canada surely she must have known that this expectation is rooted in values, morals and ethics of Canadian life. The turmoil is self induced.",0 +yes,0 +"The judge ruled the LEO's actions were not criminal. + +Looting and rioting are criminal acts. + +You shouldn't really need to be told this...",0 +Is this to protect us from the Christians?,0 +"Here's a test....what year did the words of institution (""ritual"") become formalized in the early Church...the very words you hear today, if you were to go to Mass? + +Does a family have customs and traditions? Is that a bad thing? + +Have you ever tried to carve out a distinction between worship and veneration? Most people today seem unable to put the intellectual energy into certain matters, such that they can make (and hold them in memory for contemplation) these sorts of distinctions. They sort of fall back into lukewarmness and declare A = B. + +Which specific teachings of Jesus conflict with tradition? Or vice versa. Let's get into real details instead of innuendo.",0 +I live in the borough about a mile outside the Soldotna city limits. I live on a dirt road (with potholes) and neither my nor my neighbors properties have addresses........ So what was your point?,0 +And you decide who should get fired from a private company? Please.,0 +"Shocking, simply shocking. the things people will do to get a mug shot.",0 +"This really pisses me off... + +""I have the deepest sympathy for Mr. King and Ms. Zirkle,"" he said, sobbing. ""I am truly sorry from the bottom of my heart for what happened."" + +What he has said here is for ""WHAT HAPPENED."" It didn't just HAPPEN. HE DID IT! I would be saying I'm sorry for WHAT i DID! When a person uses the word ""happen"" they aren't taking responsibility for what they did. It's as if the event was outside of himself. + +The reasoning follows with another example. + +In AA I hear people introduce themselves as ""my name is....."" and then saying the word ""alcoholic."" Not ""I am an alcoholic or I am addicted to alcohol"". A person that says just ""alcoholic"" is not claiming this disease as their own. They are just saying a word. + +I'm really big into making ""I"" statements as it personalizes it to me. ""I"" makes me responsible. + +Okay, I'm done...I hope!",0 +What do you call the ones I saw on tv arriving at Pearson with their Louis Vuitton matching luggage?,0 +"771, you are two screws short of a tight fastening.",0 +Reminds me of the METH and HEROIN users that are EVERYWHERE...........,0 +Dude reread all yer stuff now that the facts are in. Maybe you should try to know whats going on b4 you start talkin stink about people you know nothing about.,0 +"How about this bill, allows drug dealers to go onto school grounds sell up to 2.5 grams of Meth or Heroin. What does that mean for the non drug user. A user amount is one tenth of a gram. So Mr. Drug dealer shows up to school and can sell Meth and Heroin to 24 kids and he will not go to jail because it is a class A Misdemeanor and the Governor has order the police not to arrest all non violent Misdemeanor crimes. So Mr. Drug Dealer gets a piece of paper with a date on it called a summons and Mr. Police go on there way. Mr. Drug Dealer goes and refills and sells to more kids. As long as he/she does not get caught with 2.5 grams or 25 user baggy amount of Meth or Heroin he can sell all day and never go to jail. Man what a great bill.",0 +You know full well what I meant. Homeboy signed the legislation. Way to be a pedant.,0 +"Thank you, thank you, thank you for saying that her decision wasn't a mistake! Making a bad decision isn't a mistake: it's a conscious, willful and deliberate selection. It's a choice. It was a bad choice, it was a selfish choice, it was a stupid choice, but it could never be called a ""mistake"". Which part do people think is the ""mistake""? That she didn't mean to drink while on probation for a prior DUI? Was it an accident to get behind the wheel when she meant to call a cab/friend/take a bus? To rebrand our bad decisions as mistakes is to try and deflect responsibility. It never works. I've done many stupid things in my long life, but not once did it ever cross my mind that they were mistakes because I MADE THE CHOICES - NO EXCUSES.",0 +"Good article, kids need to play as many sports as they can, the select/specialization aspect is about money and parents hiring private coaches who tell the parent +there kid is the next big superstar so that the parents will keep writing checks. Recruiting is a huge issue, I believe Wiaa rules are very specific about the fact that you can't recruit for athletic purposes, yet I see 6ft 3 inch 240 lb freshman linebacker at east side Catholic and many other 250 lb plus freshman and sophomores on their roster, it's a joke and creates a very uneven/unsafe playing field. A separate private school league should be put in place, then let these teams have their own recruiting wars and beat up on each other. What happened to the good old days where on Friday night you and your buddies from you neighborhood played they kids from another near by neighborhood, there were great games and rivalries.",0 +"You disrobed him? + +He is a well-known advocate for originalism and textualism; laws mean what they say and the Constitution means what the adopters intended. + +Souter was an unknown when appointed and proved to be an unknown as a Justice.",0 +"?? +No...I think it touched $58.50 for about 5 minutes...(Thursday) +Maybe I was having lunch :) +Still sitting on $50K of it ...but my new target is $60 after reflecting on my own comments here about the January MF exodus: +Retired folk with $ who want a MF alternate............step right up BCE !!",0 +"Trump Derangement Syndrome at work. +PR was solidly in the cone and they did very little.",0 +"Paid trolling is a well studied, very common phenomenon. + +It is often characterised by postings that lack actual thought, that repeat talking points and nauseum, and generally try to drown out rational debate by filling the blog string with chaff.",0 +"In the case of soccer, it's not so much the revenue brought in, it's how much men make professionally vs. women. They have no choice but to pay the men much more because if they offered them a pittance they'd laugh and simply not come. The women have no such leverage with their pro leagues that don't make any money. Not saying it's right, but that's it. + +In this (hockey) case I'd tend to side with the athletes. Even if they don't bring in much revenue, the USOC clearly values medals. So that alone should get them more funding than just 6 months' every 4 years. Women's hockey is hardly the only sport that doesn't draw spectators outside the Olympics, and they're relatively successful.",0 +"There was no reason to raise rates other than the banks wanted it. Inflation hasn't become a problem. And to suggest that rates needed to rise to prevent inflation rising in six months is just crazy. The Bank of Canada should be reactive, not predictive. Predicting the future is always a mugs game.",0 +A chance to show that he's got more than a tiny pair of hands...,0 +"Alaska overpaid for this acquisition-- a 47 percent premium over Virgin's share price. Virgin doesn't even own its planes, it leases them, so what did they acquire, except landing slots? It would have been far cheaper for Alaska to simply buy 50 new aircraft and expand their route system. The only upside is that they eliminate a competitor--but at what price?",0 +"Eric Bjerregaard, The article uses the word ""pesticides"" six times. You yourself refer to the chemicals as ""pesticides"" twice in your comments. CB readers can see that. You are contradicting yourself. You are the one who doesn't understand what you have written. Let the readers decide.",0 +"I would wager that the majority of those humans attacked, wrong word, are visitors or surfers. Rarely, in my life here, over fifty years, have true locals been in the wrong place at the right time. The exception to this is driving, usually at dark and riding waves early or late in the day especially in fall. The sharks usually are not ""attacking"" so much as defending a territory or their young. In the southern Pacific, the islanders rarely have negative encounters with sharks. I know this because I gave spent years both there and in Hawaii surfing and diving. Learn their ways, ask the Kapuna, be aware of the season and the condition of the ocean. The hotels must spend more time educating their guests.",0 +Can we worry about next year like .. next year?,0 +"TDW, + +Manufacturers that are unable to produce competitive EVs will be shut out of the world's largest car market (China), as well as the markets in India, Britain, France, the Netherlands and so on. Perhaps this is all a communist plot. Whatever it is, we will see an increasingly diverse mix of vehicles on the roads in the coming years. Even our potato chips and dip will soon be deilvered with electric trucks. + +http://www.hybridcars.com/canadian-grocer-electrifies-fleet/ + +Note. I am not saying that ICE powered cars are going away any time soon. They aren't.",0 +It's HART's fault. I had nothing to do with it.,0 +"Yes, but the Globe wastes our time with fawning articles about never wusses all the time. + +Federer was just dominant.",0 +"Hail Trump!': White Nationalists Salute the President Elect +Video of Nazis conferencing in Washington, D.C., where Trump’s victory was met with cheers and Nazi salutes. +Watch: +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6-bi3jlxk +Trump's advisors are known Nazis and known Nazi supporters. +Here's some reading for any of you Nazi defenders who think you can deny it. +https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/heres-how-breitbart-and-milo-smuggled-white-nationalism?utm_term=.pjbq6dyEL#.rubRY70KM",0 +"I was there. Tensions are high with Gangsters, antifa gang, and patriots. DP reported bout the Home Depot robbed by gangs of 75 next door, 24 hr fitness next door where we were robbed, keys and wallets taken by gangs, in both cases management had gang members inside jobs. Today search youtube, Antifa organizes strikes this wk and start their civil war, patriots are packing and nervous, gangs had a fight at 24 hr fitness next to walmart last week, gangs arrested at 24 hr-home depot and this was welfare check day at this walmart so it was packed with armed gangsters. + +not many ppl shot? shooter walks in cold, calculated and steady, takes aim, Pop 1 down, he does it again Pop 2 down. shooter notices homies taking cover with guns so the shooter lays out some cover fire while he exits like a pro. keeps the homies and under cover cops pinned down while he escapes otherwise I think a bunch of ppl would be injured and dead. antifa is rioting any patriots gathering today, B careful (youTube).",0 +I don't think you've traveled in China very much. It shows.,0 +"sandi2000, have you watched FOX? I watch a little every day. Have yet to see anything positive during the Obama years. Constantly slamming Obama. However, some of their contributors have been critical of Trump lately. Smith, Wil, Beck etc. +I don't have a problem with stations who have pundits. Because I recognize them as such. Every station has it's faults but to go as far as attacking news orgs. who put out stories as ""fake"" is a bit much. Because of ""fake news"" we uncovered Flynn and his ""alternative facts"" on his contacts with Russia. Just one example of the news being categorized as ""fake"". The part about his being released doesn't matter to me. He was and is, imho, unqualified, to be a security adviser but to spin it off as...""because he lied"" is suspect. The man is a general, he follows orders.",0 +"In the area of Alaska where I live, our Borough (county) has similar regulations with fines. We have a Compliance Officer and he moves very quickly, on reports of junky yards, garbage and unsafe health conditions such as septic tanks and junk cars. +First of all, no one here waits around for a yard to fill up with junk. The CO comes out photographs the violations and tickets the homeowner. If it is not corrected within ten days, they go to court and get a judgement with a court order. They can then go onto the property and removed whatever it is and dispose of it. A bill for that is added on to the fines which is then added onto the property tax bill. Eventually, if taxes are not paid in two years the property is seized and auctioned off. I may have skipped a legal step or two, but it does get taken care of. Part of it is nipping it in the ""bud"". Not sitting back and wat hing the pile get higher. +Neighbors will offer to help but if turned away it goes to the CO. We pay taxes for it",0 +"You’re reminding me of Saddam Hussein in his last days, to his remaining loyal Iraqis: “we’re handling things pretty well”.",0 +"The traffic on H-1 is turning into a crawl, and eventually impassable, then people will realize they have to get out their cars and use the metro. Last night, I drove from Waikiki to Wahiawa taking me 2 hours to get home. Last Saturday, the motorcycle accident on H-1 in Aiea, also delayed traffic by an hour 1 1/2. Add that to the travel time between Wahiawa and Honolulu, and you are talking about 2 hours plus to get into town. Ridership on the metro will increase once people realize the traffic on H-1 is getting worse and worse as the years go by and they are always stuck in traffic and cannot find any parking. More people using the metro will mean fewer cars on the road and freeways, and will allow those driving to have fewer cars on the roads and freeways. The people on the Leeward side need relief from the daily accidents, stalls, delays on H-1 and Moanalua/ Red Hill freeway, especially during their commutes morning, afternoon and evening. Only the metro will give us the relief.",0 +"Here we go again, a black man? Sound racists to me, they should say a dark man then we can clump more people together and not hear the race card over and over again. How do these people get guns anyway. Main thing they only hurt each other and no innocent bystander.",0 +"Tough guy, huh? LOL.",0 +"It is not the fact that priests have been excommunicated lately, it is the fact that the threat of excommunication is still there today. The orders that Pope Pius XI issued back in 1922 remain in enforce today. I believe I read somewhere that some Bishop threatened Tom Doyle with excommunication because of his work on behalf of victims. In typical Tom Doyle fashion he said bring it on. He knew more about Cannon law than almost any Bishop. There have been more priests coming forward lately to report their fellow priests. That is very late in coming but certainly a welcome sign. I do believe that if you polled Catholic priests, the vast majority would hold Cannon Law supersedes civil law. That needs to change. If Francis truly believes in justice for victims, he needs to overturn what Pius XI put into effect in 1922.",0 +"Did anybody see the Ken Burns Vietnam War documentary on PBS? + I was very surprised to learn those 18- year old kids were sent into the jungles to fight, not with the very best post-modern weapons technology could produce and money could buy but with M-16 rifles that often jammed. + Unfortunately the Vegas shooter's gun did not jam. + Just sayin. To paraphrase Shakespeare's play, ""Hamlet,""Something is rotten in the state of the United States.""",0 +Very good article. Thank you Globe.,0 +There has been a smell on this for a long long time. Action is long overdue.,0 +"Spelling lesson: + +Hypocrite is spelled K i m m e l, but it's usual spelling is l i b e r a l.",0 +"Your investments are essentially working for you, earning you income. Why shouldn't you pay taxes on that income?",0 +"As far as we know, he didnt ask for bacon in Israel or Saudi Arabia. With Trump, the only successes are little things.",0 +"This new format to get through ""politically correct"" narratives makes me think ADN has some form of caste system going on here. I get a green face because I am a good boy and answer the stupid questions correctly. On the other hand, my friend Eddie Burke has a purple face and Jon Corbett is way down the pecking order with a red face. I think there should be a rainbow face too so we can be politically correct on LGBT issues!! WE ARE POSITIVE",0 +You can bump fire an AR-15 with your hand and a belt loop on your pants. How are you going to ban that?,0 +It's okay to come out of the closet and say you're a racist.,0 +"""Having jurisdiction over another person's body in the United States isn't new."" You mean like thinking you have the right to murder a baby? O wait you meant somebody forcing an extremely irresponsible woman to lose custody of her child... Oh wait you support that to just so long as its ex-utero. What a tangled web you weave little spider.",0 +"Arrogance may not be against the law, but you don't want to display a lot of it when you are standing in front of a Judge who can sentence you on a range between 90 months and 70 years depending on whether you get the maximum or the minimum and whether those sentences are added together or not. + +This guy didn't kill four people. He only hit one of them. Anyone who takes on armed police officers is too dangerous to be in public.",0 +He went to his inauguration party. Sadly.,0 +"Gee - all that whining, protests, threatening the electors, Russian conspiracy theories, and parading out the normal Hollywood types - and only 2 didn't vote for Trump that should have? And 5 didn't vote for Hillary? + +LOL. The lefties have to rethink their tactics - like maybe getting out people to vote next time?",0 +"And neither will happen as long as the Lobbyists own the Congress of the United States of America. + +The American Medical Association, BigPharma, Health Insurance, Medical equipment manufacturers; the list goes on and on. + +Those Senators and Congresscritters are bought and paid for or at least on a long-term lease basis with or by all those Lobbyists. + +The direct recipients also cut 'deals' with other politicians who aren't on that particular gravy train to help out on other issues those politicians are making money from.",0 +"Justin Trudeau, the avid boxer, beat that Indigenous First Nations man senseless fair and square. Get over it already!",0 +"Since we're on the subject, let's have DOT Harbors replace their rusting fireboat that was taken out of service in 2014. Earlier this year, Harbors' said there was ""no need"" for a fire boat since sprinklers were common. Not so on the 100+ wooden boats; the wooden piers; or waterfront where fuel and chemicals are transferred. Time to get serious on the subject before tragedy strikes. The legislature gives DOT $500K annually, but DOT diverts it elsewhere.",0 +"Would be interesting to know what group in New Delhi Harper was addressing Canadian Press! - according to CBC it's the India based Observer Research Foundation. + +Great analysis though from a great former PM.",0 +"My song of praise to my President, Mr. Barack Obama. + +To the tune of Kumbaya. All together now. + +“Obama my lord, Obama, +“Obama my lord, Obama, +“Obama, my lord, Obama, +“Oh lord, Obama.” + +Repeat.",0 +Proof?,0 +"""Dare to be fat, fat's where it's at."" + +~ Root Boy Slim",0 +"The swamp that is the Trump is slowly revealing itself as his administration begins to feel more comfortable reverting to their old ways. At first some of them began to take their jobs more seriously. So much for that. Between Pruitt spending money on his cone of silence, Steve Mnuchin requesting a private jet paid for by the government for his honeymoon for his third marriage, and Tom Price billing the government $300,000 for the use of a private jet. Sigh!",0 +"Trudeau and Morneau counselled by the brilliant strategist, Butts decided to initiate class warfare. It backfired. Bring in these tax changes and you're finished as a political force.",0 +"Those are traffic infractions, unless one is driving 25 mph or more over the posted limit-then it is a misdemeanor in CO. +https://leg.colorado.gov/content/penalties-speeding-violations + +Entering the United States without being inspected and admitted is a misdemeanor or can be a felony, depending on the circumstances... 8 U.S.C. § 1325 +https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325#a",0 +"Rural BC relies on natural resources and Horgan is going to sewer job creators across the province with a red tape and taxes under the guise of ""climate change"" - because that worked so well in Ontario where people are forced to decide between paying their mortgage or power bills and the province wastes $C 12 billion/year on servicing their interest payments for the largest sub-sovereign debt in the world. The NDP's campaign is a joke - solve the real estate crisis? Wynne's policies are similar or more left to Horgan and Toronto's just as expensive as Vancouver... The NDP is a group of washed up socialists and career activists who are unapologetic in their contempt of fiscal realities. Good for you BC, you deserve what comes next.",0 +I doubt you have 30 pine trees in your yard. Possibley white spruce.,0 +"The audacity to invoke church as if it somehow erased his transgression. What do people do at a strip club? In this case Cody Latimer's uncle used the visit to punch some man's fist with his face. The pugilistic uncle wound up knocked out flat on his back. Meanwhile, Latimer instigated the punch-out of his uncle by tepidly pushing and then slapping the strip club bouncer. Vow 11 catches for 42 yards and Latimer shows what a wuss he is by starting a fight and letting his uncle pay the price.",0 +"I don't see that Catholics should have difficulty with science's findings; if ""compatibility"" is not likely to occur, I don't believe that ""contradiction"" must. Your example of an aged universe is a good example. The anthropic argument that the universe's existence - its current age and other factors - make it uniquely suited to the development of mankind and, therefore, a suitable ""project of a God"" suggest that, rather than emptying faith of an idea of the uniqueness of humans, can serve to strengthen that belief. Yes, in a theorized infinite multi-verse at least one of those must give rise to humanity, but that theory is less about science and more about philosophical cosmology. Science should give the faithful a sense of wonder. +I won't argue to support Christogenesis - whether the universe ends in fire or ice is, I think, inconsequential to a Divine plan for the individual. +I don't see that physical extinction is incompatible with Christianity. Even Revelation talks about it.",0 +"I am pretty sure he was making a joke. I know it is hard to believe after so many years of Stephen Harper, but conservatives can have a sense of humour.",0 +"""The difference between willingly risking one’s life and health in service of country and risking one’s life and health for the profits of tobacco companies is vast."" + +I do not know a single person who smokes for the express benefit of tobacco companies in the same way they serve in the military for the benefit of their country. Usually they smoke because they like to smoke. The RG's comparison is absurdly unhelpful. + +I hate smoking, particularly when my neighbor does so on his porch for an hour at dawn, and his smoke drifts in my window as I try to cool my house. Even so, I prefer people have the right to make the decision to smoke for themselves once they are of reasonable age to know the consequences, which they certainly should by 18. However, they should not be able to force others to bear any part of the costs of that decision. Tobacco should be taxed at a rate to cover all health costs for its use. Those taxes should be held in a superfund which would reimburse health providers.",0 +What are you talking about? This has been going on for years. The North Koreans shot down a US EC-121 unprovoked years ago killing 31 US servicemen. The Republican in the White House at the time did absolutely NOTHING.,0 +"Reagan granted Immigration Amnesty in a very similar situation with the help of Congress who assured him that borders would be protected from a replay if he signed their legislation. + +Does that make him a Traitor or just a President duped by Congress?",0 +True but we could start with taking party affiliations off the ballots.,0 +"""Garrison, politics is a good way to lose half of your flock."" + +Why? You shouldn't be afraid to read something that questions your preconceived political notions. If you like his writing, I'm not sure why you would draw the line at politics. Its an Op Ed column after all...",0 +"I know some people who complain about the high cost of local produce grown here in Alaska. The main reason the prices are higher, is that Alaskan farmers pay workers $10 an hour. If the price of Outside produce included farms paying their workers a similar wage, then the prices would be closer.",0 +"Preserving our past, preserves our future, we cannot eat the telescope, just like we cannot drink oil...i respectfully disagree!",0 +"Well, Obama could actually read ...",0 +Enjoy the walk when it's -35 and your new play toy is dead as a doornail.,0 +"If the founding fathers of our country had insisted that their religious (or atheistic) beliefs be followed, there would be no United States of America. Instead, they agreed on the idea of respect for each other's beliefs, in other words, freedom for all. + +Amazing that, after a Civil War and nearly 250 years later, we are still learning this lesson.",0 +So . . . nobody over the age of 35 is ever in front of Powell's? :P,0 +"weird......for the last 8 years anyone that dared to practice dissent was branded a traitor and a racist. Obviously for anyone who is a republican, independent, libertarian or non-affiliated voter there are different standards than there are for democrats",0 +"Less government is the answer in my humble opinion! Alaska has more government workers per capita than any state in the nation except Washington DC and this I believe has killed the oil and gas Industry and others! + +Under this broken system not one Alaskan or smaller competitor has been able to drill and sell oil at a profit and the big three seem to own government, it should be a crime! + +The smaller investors in Alaska's oil and gas Industry can not make money with so many stupid laws that are written when the legislators haven't slept properly and have not read and understood what they voted for! + +I wish someone would make it a law that a panel of top professors from Alaska's colleges and Universities would test the legislators and if they don't pass the test then the Bill can not pass the Legislature! + +The Alaska Legislators all now admit they did not know what was in SB 21, on TV at 360 North, it is mind shattering confessions and no reporters write about it, why? + +Crazy & sad!",0 +"I would remind you that Governor Walker submitted a well balanced plan to the legislature back in January that called for wise spending cuts along with revenue enhancements that included cutting the subsidies and tax cuts of SB21, an income/sales tax and increased taxes on mining/fishing/oil along with the PFD cut. The legislature ignored his plan and instead focused on meaningless social issues as the state burned through the savings only in the CBR because of ACES. The legislature is totally AWOL on the budget and couldn't even find the courage to take a vote to over ride the PFD marker thrown down by the Governor. We need a new legislature come November but don't have that option with the Governor so please get out with your friends and neighbors and vote for the changes we all know need to happen in the legislature. Geisel is one of the prime sponsors of SB21 so if you are in her district you know what to do.",0 +Winners never get tired and losers don't know what it means. Right Squigly?,0 +"This is not Morneau speaking but Gerald Butts. + +The PM lacks the experience and capacity to fully understand the damage that this extortive taxation policy will inflict on the Canadian economy so he sits silent. + +With the tax changes coming in the US, Canadians will not sit idly by and have their earnings and wealth pilfered. 2019 will definitely be a time of reckoning. + +Socialism or success...... either or.",0 +"speer was dressed in taliban garb + +what does that make him + +please no more of your british luck",0 +I guarantee you one thing. There are a lot of families here in Hawaii with not a 14 day supply but how about close to a year. You know who you are. I seen you in Costco and Sam's. Couple wagons maybe 3 FULL. I think the word 'PANIC' comes into play here. And then there are those who after the season passes start returning items. Too funny.,0 +"It isn't ""bigoted"" to call someone out for their behavior - in fact it is one of the reasons we have laws and government to begin with. I don't see you rushing defending the kayaker who put himself (and others) in danger through his behavior, yet you're defending someone who is endangering us all through their unwillingness to admit their ignorance. It's sad, really. But I'm sure you won't bother to try and understand my point, so just go back to name-calling. It's very constructive.",0 +"Ian, I liked your article overall. However the paragraph: ""No wonder so many average people don’t bother to vote. After all, they can look at these contributions and quite reasonably assume that their interests can’t compete for the attention of their elected officials. Money talks, we all know. Yes, it leads to cynicism, but not unreasonably so."" BUT wish you'd left off the last four words. They contradict the intent of that paragraph and article overall. Maybe what we need is a ""Citizens (yes people) Against Big Money in Politics"" movement.",0 +...and all those GOP stalwarts are silent on the issue...Just imagine if Obama had tried a stunt like this.,0 +"In your mind the only question is appropriate response. But global warming is not just warming as Mr. Watson likes to point out. The more recent claims address violent weather, droughts, and other things that have much less evidence associated with them. Regarding the holocaust, of course the number killed matters. If it was 200, it would be nothing compared to the Democratic President's war crime of killing hundreds of thousands of non-combatant Japanese via nuclear fire or the comparable numbers of non-combatants killed in the saturation bombing of German cities. There are many atrocities Mr. Scott. But the majority cast a blind eye to those outside the popular point of view. I've read that US support for the Syria rebel killers has killed a hundred thousand or more and made refugees out of million more. A democrat liberal (who loves everybody and is good) did that. The number directly killed in Iraq is similar. Who knows how many the American bombs killed in Syria.",0 +Do we have a 2 party system?,0 +Don't have six aides to do your work then scream about the cost of government. What do you want to bet they all make over $80 Grand per annum?,0 +"Poor Notely, elected by nimrods in hickville.",0 +"MLSEse to English translation time : ""Next year"" + +LOL",0 +There is no evidence for Pizzagate unless your idea of evidence is incredibly weak.,0 +Here's a solution: cut the number and salaries of school administrators by at least 1/3 and put the money in the classrooms.,0 +"Oh yea after listing off numerous violations Comey did give Clinton a free pass, a free pass that anyone other than Clinton would not have been given, anyone else would have charged with a crime.",0 +"Thank you for that meaningless blather. Now, how about a cogent -- or, at least, coherent -- response?",0 +"His sister loves him and supports him, but no one in their family could be bothered to get him the mental help he clearly needed? Thanks for unleashing him on the rest of us. Are we getting the stomach to re-instate mental hospitals yet, or are we enjoying what the mentally ill have been visiting on us lately?",0 +"""Another 58 Americans slaughtered at the shrine of gun worship. += +Or is it ""another 58 Americans slaughtered at the shrine of death worship""?......where anti-gun Democrats defend and somewhat consider honorable the 60,000,000 abortions that have occurred since 1973. +- +When ""murder for just-because"" is legalized and defended.....why should we be ""shocked"" when ""murder for just-because"" occurs outside the abortion clinics?",0 +"""One in five Canadians suffers miserable chronic pain;"" And the writer accuses the front-line workers of inflating the numbers..? + +This woman's logic doesn't add up. She disputes that fentanyl street deaths are an epdemic, implying that they're not a matter of grave concern, because the number of deaths is small relative to the general population..? ('only' a thousand deaths in BC last year, by the way). Yet, she has a ""rare-rish"" inflammatory desease - something that also occurs in relatively low numbers. Should we therefore apply the same disregard for her own condition? + +She doesn't ackowledge that over-prescribed pain meds can lead to addiction and dependency, which can cause the user to seek out illicit sources, tumbling further and further into a hole from which there is no escape. The chinese stuff is what they buy after the doctor no longer acquiesces. + +Street junkies are using fentanyl to escape some sort of pain as well. She has more in common with them than she realizes.",0 +Are you accusing Trump or anyone in his administration of money laundering for the Russian government and do you have any verifiable evidence? Or are you just explaining how the Clinton crime foundation is funded?,0 +"Obviously you have failed to do any research on Johnson. He is as crazy as Trump, possibly more so. Do you believe his idea to cut the military budget by 43% in his first term along with cutting all military bases overseas, uniformed and civilian personnel, research & development, intelligence and nuclear weapons programs, would be a good thing for Alaska?",0 +"What about forgiveness. Can someone out there say they have never ever done something stupid? +I will ask the African american community and anyone else offended by her lack of judgment to meet with this person and make it a teaching event and show how we can come together and forgive! Let's show our next generations that we can work things out by dialogue and kindness. + +Forgiveness! + +I for one am very offended by all this but can find in my heart to forgive her. + +Would you?",0 +"In June 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Second Amendment, arguing that there was an individual right to bear arms rather than one connected to being in the militia. + +Note that it was a 5-4 decision, so far from unanimous and probably politically motivated. + +Time for an amendment to the Second Amendment.",0 +"How is the founder of the religion, described as the perfect man not relevant to the discussion? + +That most Muslims are peaceful is not because of their founder but in spite of it, however, why are we surprised that at least some Muslims imitate the founder of their religion? Why do we have to close our eyes and pretend Muhammed was a nice guy?",0 +"""Instead of demonizing our homeless youth, we should be asking ourselves why we are forcing our children to live on the streets."" + +""We"" are not. Their parents...are.",0 +Our revulsion stems from the thought of the Clinton's inhabiting the White House ever again. In a head to head competition of morals and personal integrity the Clintons are bring a knife to a gun fight,0 +"Thank you for your reply MC. I care nothing for this dude as an individual since I do not know him. I have concern for him as a fellow human. I believe we must respect human life profoundly and destroy it only when clearly necessary. The policies that lead to the standoffs are often not based on rational analyses of probable threat, but rather on the very American attitude that killing those who do not comply is okay. I do not impugn the opinion of the ""girlfriend"" personally, I do not know her. However, since I do not know her, I have no reason to believe her over her boyfriend. A reasonable person should question which of two witnesses is telling the truth. + +I believe that police and prosecution policies teach citizens how to resolve conflict. When compliance trumps life in police action, when police or prosecutors do not respect all persons, citizens cannot help but conclude that lack of respect and use of force is okay in resolving their own issues.",0 +"We live in the Annex in Toronto which is one of these highly sought after areas. There's no bubble here. Not yet at least. Why? Because there's absolutely nothing for sale here. So far at least, it's the lack of supply all the while the greater GTA experiences 100k year over year population growth. There're many houses on the market that are junk that do not sell in this market. + +People will pay top dollars but they have to be in near perfect move in condition in a great neighbourhood. This explains the $1 million dollar headliner for bungalows. These are bought by builders that are feeding the $2+ million new home market which I think isn't that large. Essentially, a lot in downtown Toronto in a decent neighbourhood starts at $1 million. + +And btw, your rental figure is way off. It's more like starting at $4-5,000 per month.",0 +"Am I the only one wanting to throw up reading this? +""but we're a young famileeeee! "" +"" I've gone back to schooooool! "" +"" won't someone think of our child? Our poor poor child? "" +"" in my opinion he doesn't need a dime! "" + +Plus the entirety of Edward's response. Hopefully his mom cuts him out for publicly speculating about how she will distribute her wealth. + +Give the money back.",0 +"The LED lighting upgrade was Mark Begichs' idea. Burkowitz was just following through on another phase of the upgrade. + +http://www.cree.com/news-media/news/article/anchorage-joins-led-city-initiative-to-improve-light-quality-and-reduce-energy-costs",0 +Dental care? Day care? Maybe if you are on social assistance. For those communism worked indeed.,0 +"And sadly for me, my senator, Gary Stevens, who lost his perspective after his strongly-principled stand against SB 21 cost him the power he once had. An object lesson in human nature. Time to get all of that retirement money, Gary. Time to get Out.Of.The.Way.",0 +"How could the Church possibly reject someone trying to live as a faithful Catholic? The Church rejects no one, the Church as tasked by Our Lord tells us what is right and what is wrong, it is we who then accept or reject what the Church teaches. +There are many people who believe that thieving is a legitimate way of making a living. Is not such a mindset intrinsically disordered? Should the Church accommodate them by abolishing the Seventh Commandment?",0 +"Timeline Correction--------Mexican Prez officially advised and cancelled visit ~8 hours BEFORE 'childish tit for tat' dTrump0 tweeted that it might be better to cancel the meeting. + +G&M better get their 'alternative facts' straight in future!",0 +The comparisons normalize Trump. But the assault on truth - even from an imperfect media - should alarm any thinking human.,0 +"Well, of course every President is a 'salesman.! Two hundred years of slogans demonstrate that! + +Or as Ronald Reagan once said: ""How can a president not be an actor?"" +-- Response by Ronald Reagan when asked by a reporter ""How can an actor run for President?"" during the presidential campaign (1980)",0 +"Things have changed a bit though. Back in 1980 Pierre Trudeau didn't win a so much as a single one of the 63 seats in SK, AB and BC, but won 74 of the 75 seats in Quebec. That was just over half of the seats the Liberals won for the country as a whole. + +Today though there are 88 seats in SK, AB and BC combined vs. only 78 seats in Quebec. The Atlantic Provinces, meanwhile, still have the same 32 seats that they had in 1980. + +Ontario is still the big battleground, with 121 seats in the house. The real question here is who is going to take the 60 or so suburban seats in Ontario. Downtown Toronto will vote Liberal or NDP and rural Ontario will vote Conservatives, but there are a lot of seats up for grabs in between those two.",0 +"With friends like Andrew Scheer and Tony Clement, who needs enemies.",0 +I believe Safe Seattle on Facebook pulls the trigger rather too quickly on banning thoughtful members of the community.,0 +"History and anthropology tells us that North and South America did not originated any human life form. That means that all humans in this hemisphere came from else where. This includes the Natives, Europeans, Blacks, Hispanics and finally last but not the least, Asians like myself. But just because I am last, don't make me feel like I am inferior nor do I considered the natives who were here first, to be my superior. Other people also discovered the western hemisphere, like the Nordic people or Chinese long before Columbus, maybe even going back to ancient Romans or Africans!! But it was Columbus who announced it to the Europeans and direct result of that was the founding of our nation. History is often grossly politically incorrect since it does offend people. But changing holidays will not change nothing of what happened in the past nor will it make it better. It window dressing at worst. It time to move on, accept what Columbus did and not feel the guilt of being here.",0 +fact bud fact,0 +"I have five cats and two dogs, three of which are rescue animals. Like most Alaskans I eat a great deal of meat, many different varieties. I do not hunt and I do not trap. I keep track of the Iditarod, don't watch bull fighting (or white it), and I do not support those that abuse and slaughter animals, including PETA. You obviously completely missed my point. PETA is one of the most egregious animal abuse organizations in the country. Why should I give a rat's arse about what they think about the Iditarod, or those companies who acquiesce to their unlearned and ignorant demands?",0 +"Anyone who doesn't have enough intelligence to keep their damning emails from getting hacked by the Russians has no business running for POTUS, let alone getting elected as POTUS. The Donkey is a very fitting mascot for the Democratic Party. + +I think we can all agree that the only hope for the DNC is to run Mad Maxine Waters or Nasty Nancy Pelosi in 2020. I can hardly wait to watch Rachel Madcow cry again on national television.",0 +Most investment advisers do not advise on investments. They gather assets and dump them into managed pools run by a bank or fund and then get fees up front and a revenue stream from those assets. In many cases you can but ETFs yourself and get the same ROI with zero fees,0 +"Correction: ""... DEEDY has been tried twice...""",0 +"Self interest is the name of the game in politics. If it's not we wouldn't be 20 TRILLION dollars in debt. We wouldn't be a divided country. + +After a politician gets elected their first priority is to get re-elected, ie self interest. + +""The purpose of government is to allow for safe and peaceful co-existence..."" Sorry, that maybe your view of what government should be about, but it's not what those in government believe. The purpose of government is to; 1) get re-elected, 2) acquire power, and 3) get re-elected.",0 +"Good editorial by the Register-Guard. I don't say that very often, but I give credit when it is due. + +Now the city council must take action to make sure this does not escalate further. It is time to pass a few ordinances (if they don't already exist) requiring onlookers to maintain a greater distance from and noise levels that will not interfere with police performing an arrest, and most importantly build a jail as Springfield has done so consequences can be imposed on those who have realized there are no consequences to speak of in Eugene and who use that sad reality to break the law repeatedly.",0 +He's here for eight years? That's a big assumption. Not every president gets two terms.,0 +Yes humans or inhuman people are the problem.Get out of bear country if you don't like wildlife. Trophy hunters are sick. Bears need a place from human. Wildlife officials need another job somewhere else. Money needs to stop changing hands.,0 +It certainly can't get any worse.,0 +"What's with all the one and two sentence paragraphs, broken up by ads, pictures and links to other stories? Makes for some very choppy reading. Didn't even pay that much attention to the story, the awkward presentation was too distracting.",0 +"""Speaking objectively, all those who have sexual relations outside of valid marriage, whether they are heterosexual or homosexual, should not receive Holy Communion unless they repent, go to confession and amend their lives. This includes the divorced and remarried without an annulment, as is well known from all the recent media attention on that issue.” (Bishop Paprocki) + +Why not read the article?",0 +"It's pretty well known that our military bribed warlords in Iraq and Afghanistan to do chores for our guys, like blow up people we didn't like, or to pay off farmers for not growing opium poppies. And it's true we fund various militias to fight against our current enemy. An army runs on food and weaponry, and lots of it. + +Regarding cockroaches, they are ubiquitous in East Coast cities, including in the mansions of the wealthy. Even new construction is almost instantly infested. Washington DC is a big Eastern city and it is cockroach infested. The White House probably requires fumigation from time to time. It really is no big deal. Trump Tower almost certainly has cockroaches, as well as Mar-a-Lago. Florida is the promised land for roaches. Trump International Hotel, a very old post office building, no doubt also has cockroaches. + +Roaches and rats are found almost everywhere you find people.",0 +""". . . scores of asylum seekers have made the . . . walk from North Dakota into Manitoba . . . [and it is not] a security risk to Canadians."" Doug Saunders + +Clearly, this is an 'Opinion' piece. + +Did you hear the one about the pet store owner that brought his globalist liberal values into the store? At closing time he opened all the cages. The next morning, all that remained were 3 fat snakes.",0 +"Umm, okay, but there isn't any hypocrisy. Most people get the warm fuzzies when described as being ""neato"". Using adjectives is not necessarily name calling. Maybe you skipped the day that was taught?",0 +"Iol revenue has benefited all of us, including Shishmaref and their state funded pork project sea wall. But that money is no more. There is no conceivable tax high enough that can fund this state at even 1/2 of its current spending so no matter what, projects like this will become a thing of the past.",0 +"""Hands on steering wheel with palms up."" +By all means, be a supplicate as possible when in the presence of one's betters ... especially if they are armed and about to mess themselves due to fear as they approach your vehicle ...",0 +"Hey Joe, +You went from Disco to the hot tub? I guess you needed some relaxation after all that dancing.",0 +"In regards to B.Carefree and 20 Minute Neighborhoods - the two of you are clearly pro SW-SAZ cronies who are happy with the cities nonsense take over agenda. The people have a right to protect their properties from development and corporate interest. We are against the general approach the city had taken in trying to push through bad ideas without the knowledge of the people in the area. We want to be represented fairly in the council by someone who will speak for us, the citizens, and that person is Ward1 candidate Emily Semple. The others who are running for the spot are biased towards the cities pro MUPTE agenda and will not be speaking on the districts behalf.",0 +"""Democracy's not a game in which the elected can do whatever they want "" +I take it then that you will be protesting Trudeau's intent to enter into a free trade agreement with China, something wholly undisclosed in the election just a year ago?",0 +"Was at a wedding in California last night when a lady I grew up with asked me if I knew the Troost family from xxxx. She said they had just buried their son yesterday morning who happens to be within a months in age of my own son. She, I, and the Troost family grew up in a the same religious and cultural ""clan"" which has a presense in many parts of the U.S. I do not personally know the family. + + It was relayed that this gentleman was having some difficulties with life and that he was in Alaska by friends to help in what every healing process he was in need of. Supposedly a gun was found near his body which would point out why the troopers had ruled out foul play. + +Sadly it looks like he ended his own life putting two and two together. I'm not sure if this has been confirmed by AST yet or not. + +It is my prayer that Gods grace cover this family as I'm sure they are in a time of immense grief as would we all if we were in the same situation. + +Gods blessing on the Troost family.",0 +My deepest ALOHA to his ohana.,0 +We could start with the political affiliation that supports the NRA and flooding our country with millions of guns which are then used in gun violence that cost America billions annually dealing with it.,0 +"I did not propose that my views represented ""some kind of norm"", but it seems to me that is what you are doing. But, perhaps, I misunderstand. +I don't know with what the vast majority of Americans identify, because I have not spent sufficient time reading polls and articles regarding the matter. What I do know is that Bernie received many, many small donations from individuals. Berni's positions are relatively progressive, so that would seem to say something about his level of support. +I have some theories about why the progressive wing of the party is not better organized, but those are beside the point. My point was that many progresives are far more moderate than others tend to assume.",0 +"E.G.: You only need to read the first sentence in any of your comments ""to see there is a political agenda"". Vendors ""getting stiffed"" has nothing to do with the Binkley's. That rests solely with Rogoff.",0 +Alcohol kills 20 million people worldwide each year: you are absolutely correct to be fearful of this deadly substance.,0 +"yes, they're smart. wait until the stock to go on sale, and buy 'um up again, because the prices WILL return to normal later on.",0 +"""""""""""""""""""""""""""Say something nice PCan"""""""""""""""""""""""" something nice.",0 +"Many of these arguments translate easily to First Nation communities in this country. Isolated segregated communities with almost no vertical mobility. +Again and again the status quo, is returned to with each recurring disaster. Attawapisquat in norther Ontario comes to mind, a place of dispare with no chance for improvement, through absolutely no fault of the locals. +Abandoning the place and starting new elsewhere is a road too far for our elected officials.",0 +"Furthermore, self-government must be self-financed; otherwise they aren't even a semblance of an independent group. And I'm quite sure shutting off the financial support is not part of this Principle 4.",0 +"Vos Canadiens, as I pointed out yesterday, they're back to averaging just over 2 goals/game, at least over their last 10 games. So, I've developed this algorithm which indicates that when a team that doesn't score much loses its leading score, danger Will Robinson. Tyranny of Big Data, #s don't lie, only people do. + +Anyway, le tricolore, now have Mitchell, Plekanac and Desharnais down the middle. Don't think you could take these 3 guys and make 1 decent centre out of the parts, but others may dissent. + +So, Mtl fans, if you thought your team was dull to the point of tedium before losing Galchenyuk, you ain't seen nothing. + +Everybody knows what a dour, sour, uninspiring, rigid, unimaginative excuse for a coach Therrien is. Might as well as adjust to Therrien.2.",0 +"Well, at least he's draining the swamp. (sarc)",0 +"Good to hear that! Good that they Walk the Walk! Too many just Talk the Talk. The ones I see from Main street did not appear to be doing that, but electric is not the cheap solution. There is also a plug-in down by the Arts folks parking lot at 5th and Main. I have never seen anyone plugged in there. + +I wish that hydrogen power were fully developed and feasible. Perceived Safety and refueling are the problem there.",0 +"Doctor Demento, you may be brainwashed sheep but I am not. I read from a variety of news sources, not just G&M or BBC.",0 +They are no more important than any other citizen.,0 +"Heard of Easter? The resurrection? Did you not know that we celebrate the resurrection in Mass? + +Bigly sad.",0 +"Argyle, your question about ""how many will Canada retain"" after providing educations etc is a good question.... + +.... considering that about a third of a million Canadians live in the city of Hong Kong and probably a similar number live in the state of California...",0 +"Under Oregon law, since very early times, (I can't tell you the exact date, but it was early) counties have been responsible for building and maintaining courthouses. The State of Oregon pays the salaries of the judges and the staff. This was a system of split costs. + +Then Klamath County lost its courthouse in an earthquake a while back and the citizens were unwilling to rebuild a new state of the art courthouse at their expense. Klamath County was poor and underpopulated making an expensive courthouse impossible. So the legislature had to fund most if not all of the cost of the new courthouse. + +This got folks in Salem thinking about the future of courthouses in Oregon and particularly funding for new construction. It has been debated whether the state should assume full responsibility for the cost of new courthouses but the state cannot do so right now. Without legislative approval for cost sharing, Lane County taxpayers will be liable for the entire $200 million courthouse cost",0 +"klastri, Kamehameha is in the same category.",0 +just like Jason Kenny use to do as Harpers minority recruiter. Chill your prejudice.,0 +"No sacrifice is too great in return for protecting the hobby of a small, angry, white male, triggered segment of our population. Outlaw abortion because these gun fondlers require a never-ending supply of moving targets.",0 +Grovelling Pence just wants to cut taxes for the rich,0 +"nothing about the guy being at any bar. and some people hold their liquor ""well"" they can be blotto, walking, talking, navigating just fine - sober enough from all appearances. you wouldn't look at him twice - behind the wheel he's just sloppy or sleepy or gets aggressive. + i know there are too many deaths from impaired drivers - really tragic stories. i have a friend who did time for vehicular homicide: he was stinkin drunk, a macho guy who would never let on he was TOO drunk. he was sentenced to the maximum amount of time and is out now. he has such remorse for killing the young lady..he's been suicidal - we've gone up cougar reservoir looking for him if he was late back from one of his solitary camping trips. the wreck was about 12 years ago and it's still on his mind always. he does know what he did - he does know his stupidiness caused a young person to lose her life. double tragedy as part of him died there also. he doesn't exist in the moment now. he's always ""there""",0 +"If I cared about what you thought, Gary, I'd certainly consider your suggestion. + +Unfortunately for you, I am not in a position where you wield any sort of power over me. You don't get to grade my writing. + +Mr. Massengill's original post was (IN MY OPINION) a pompous, and false appeal to his own authority. By setting himself up as a legitimate authority on history and politics, he declared himself a speaker of truth, not opinion. Science was invoked to back up his claim to truth. + +Rather than waste time pointing out his fallacy, I chose to let the air out of his screed by pointing out an error he made not once, but twice. It gave truth to his lie of superiority. + +I enjoy ruthlessly pricking the odd gonfalon bubble, Gary. And, f I can do it with wit, and an economy of words, I'll continue to do so. + +Try to get out more. Read something new today. Throw a ball for your dog. Google Dave Berry's year in review. Tickle a baby. A life with no laughter is not one worth living. Lighten up",0 +Way to go Robyn and the Wahine ! Dave is a tough act to follow....Good Luck !,0 +"Why can't the US Navy open it's books and publish what really happened. I think the Navy and/or DOD or NSA owe the survivors an explanation. If the Navy cannot do this simple task then the word ""Cover up"" comes to mind.",0 +"You're right, there's no fix in for a power 5 team. The fix comes from the cartel the power 5 have created and are locking out deserving programs like Airforce and CSU from even competing for a national championship.",0 +"No doubt the NDP coming into power was the last straw. This is terrible news for the entire county and a whole industry has been killed in its infancy. + +We should expect more from our politicians.",0 +"Lana, you related to Professor Trelawney, the seer who predicted Harry Potter's premature death?",0 +It's a good practice to not participate in illegal invasions or attacks on sovereign countries. Too bad we effed up on Libya.,0 +"This ""American"" has to state that he thinks part of the difference is that we had a revolution to ""form a more perfect union"". Canada's Confederation was trying for ""good government"", ""order"" and remaining close to the ""Mother Country"". Here in Sarasota, FL, the winter home of thousands of Canadians, my congregation turned up the volume when a prayer was requested for those in political power this morning. + +I am old enough to remember the reaction to being an ""Anglo"" in Montreal. When the Francophones saw an American license plate or figured out I wasn't speaking ""Ango Canadian"" English, the attitude changed. Canada has been through a lot and has survived. I hope the U.S. does as well. Yes, we are in a rough time especially those of us who heard the P.M.'s speech in Ottawa yesterday. I could hear Barack Obama making much the same speech here, but Trump? Not in a million years. ""Give us your tired, your poor etc."" Not in 2017 ""Trumplandia"".",0 +"Good for Tory. An unpopular decision but one that allows the conversation between pride and police continue. Takes some courage to make a decision like this + +If talks fail they can always defund next year.",0 +I think it is because they asked the media to not allow the details to be told where as allowing comments could open the door where these victims would be further humiliated by personal details. I have a few things to say about the perp tho - ADN can't you make sure that no one writes about the charges and/or salacious details? Why isn't EVERY SEX OFFENDER'S PHOTO AUTOMATICALLY WITH THE ARTICLE??! Further victims could be easily able to come forward!!,0 +"""The opposition to Pope Francis is unprecedented. There have been disagreements in the life of the church before: How could there not be?"" + +Historically inaccurate. Apparently MSW forgot about the times there were Popes and Anti-Popes vying for dominance.",0 +"Greatest bait & switch in Canadian tax history. Say you are going to stop the super wealthy from turning income into capital gains though deferred income bonuses...options, deferred shares & convertible debenture (they allow capitalization of interest in some cases) etc. Then say holy crap...no way and go after hard working, job creating, risk takers who are learning the same loopholes using corporate class mutual funds to capitalize profits inside the company and pay it out as capital gains or half taxable. The super wealthy including Mr. Morneau, Brian Tobin at Aecon (they have to hold their options to align with shareholder's best interest...the holding period in the fine print is 3 months) Also, New Flyer Industires & anither multi billion $$ firm. The wealthy have been using loopholes for decades!! But they are in 'the club' which you cannot get into even to empty the trash.",0 +"So you'll collapse a system with a poorly designed healthcare plan for 4% of the population. You seem to think trump thinks healthcare is bad, it's the obamacare setup that's bad. This is trumps best case scenario now when it does collapse, which it will it can't hold its own weight, trump can blame the democrats who should take the blame. If he would've had his own version of obamacare light or a watered down obamacare it would've failed on same principles and the blame then gets pushed to him.",0 +"Trump is doing fine. +The hysterical political chants from the left are nothing more than their expression of pain as they feel the remedial exorcise they need to go through to purge the cancerous infection America has been afflicted with, as a result of socialist- destructive ideologies inflicted to the population including Colleges and Universities by the likes of Obama, Clinton, to name a couple, sickening agendas. +No to worry, America will regain her health , be sane and prosperous once again.",0 +"High jacked planes into buildings and trucks into crowds. So what do you blame until you blame radical islamists? Vehicle attacks have been used by isolated members of militant groups in recent years, notably in Israel, as well as in Europe, though never to such devastating effect.",0 +"A jury of his peers said differently, you weren't there and have no idea what you’re talking about. I’m sure you cried for Michael Brown as well. If you’re a thug bad things happen to you.",0 +"Raising the tax for fuel will further add more hardships to many rural Alaskan households. Higher taxes on aviation fuel forces bush operators to raise their fare rates adds to the burden. It costs much more to travel from our villages to hub communities, then it does to travel from say Nome to Anchorage. Hit up the big oil boys...the State of Alaska gave up the farm with tax credits,",0 +"Yes, Richard, nationally murder rates are down. Chicago is an exception. I think I'm going to pick out the most backward, racist, poverty-stricken, ill-educated, most violent, welfare-using southern state and use it as my example whenever anyone says anything positive about Republicans. I mean, that's what right wingers do in yelling ""Chicago"" as their response to any criticism of a number of subjects, especially gun control and violence generally.",0 +Your educational pedigree is?,0 +My neighbors car blew a motor because his timing chain let go. You are just fooling yourself if you think it can't happen to you.,0 +Nadine Nakamura was not an incumbent. She and Fern ran for Derek Kawakami's seat.,0 +"Seems like even through the wild days they managed to raise a pretty good kid. Good on them and Aric, hope your path is good and your heart is full.",0 +"Anyone walking the streets downtown at 4:30 am carrying a gun, unless in APD uniform is absolutely looking to do harm one way or another. At work, we see these officers every single day come into our cleaners and we see the type of people they have to deal with regularly. I'm sure it's not an easy job to do and our police officers are human beings also that feel fear and panic just like everyone else. I pray for a full recovery for the injured officer and want him and all of APD to know that I appreciate them and the possible and unfortunate sacrifices that they make to ensure our safety. And for the lost souls walking around downtown up to no good, I wish you would think twice before making such horrible decisions. But I will pray for you too.",0 +"Regarding: ""There have been recent reports that some may have sought to interfere in the internal life of the Church for short-term political gain."" [from Archb. Joseph's statement] +- This could be read as evidence that Archb. Joseph has not read the emails in question but is working from a set of talking points. +- It is a threshold to an abyss that an Archbishop would consider catholics talking about the internal life of the church as 'interference'.",0 +Interesting that the DP headline-writer singled out the tax repeal and larger subsidies and ignored the Medicaid rollback. A very different headline than the Washington Post article. Maybe the DP should consider the headline-writer's objectivity.,0 +"I find it interesting that the commentary has focused only on what the judge said about consent. It is true that a drunk person can consent; it depends on the level of intoxication. However - why is nobody concerned with asking whether this woman really consented to having sex with the cab driver? The cab driver doesn't appear to have been her boyfriend or even a previous casual acquaintance. Why on earth would she consent - even if she were legally able to - to having sex with a cab driver? This is not to demean cab drivers in any way; just to point out he was a complete stranger, and there is no imaginable way the topic could have arisen. On that basis, he should have been convicted.",0 +"Myself as a pet owner of several dogs to other pet owner "" READ THE SIGN"". (pic above) +Irresponsible pet owners do not need to own pets, leash laws are protect your animal and other animals in the same area from harming themselves or others, not just other pets. A loose dog will run down any rabbit or furred animal it finds, (so much more humane than a trap I'm sure, sarc.) causes issues for other people trying to enjoy the area with poop everywhere and loose dogs running you over on the trail. Remember, not everyone likes dogs and have the same rights to the trails as you. +Need to have someone at the trail head handing out tickets to unleashed dog owners. maybe that can help pay for the new enforcement of the trapping reg. Only sound fair to both parties. + +Other than that it is not a bad ruling.",0 +"he has my Vote + SOON AS HE FINISHES + THE ART OF THE DEAL +THE POLITICIANS BIBLE",0 +Illinois law provides for juries in civil trials. Wombat is right. This will cost United dearly.,0 +"Hit the cemeteries next, Ligarius.",0 +Excellent article. So glad to see Sec. DeVoss and Ms. Jackson of OCR taking a look at this mess and hopefully bringing some common sense and reason back. Our colleges have become cesspools of progressive liberal agendas and this is one of the results.,0 +Taxation is theft.,0 +"Talk to old-time Alaskan guides (ones in their 90's now). Their view is the BOG's intent is to exterminate all wildlife in Alaska. The hunter saturation of Alaska during hunting season is beyond comprehension for these old timers. ""How can any animals survive in Alaska?"" is a comment you often hear from old guides. And then there is the Native culture that annihilates any creature with a pulse and ensures wildlife dead zones w/in 50-100 miles of any Native village.",0 +The enticement of higher prices will be too much for many of the third world producers. And the Americans will be happily back on their horses with fracking viable at $50.,0 +"People of Alaska don't want the Pebble Mine, they will be the deciding factor.....State has to approve it also....",0 +I hope Plummer knows where the skeletons in his closet are. (pun intended),0 +"<> + +There you have it, world. Climate change is a Chinese hoax! + +Great God Almighty. And you wonder how Trump got elected.",0 +"I agree with the idea of encouraging people to tell their stories. I just don't think the Church is ever going to change its teaching on sexuality as long as its leaders get to select their successors from the ranks of those who toe the line. The institutional church is not structured as a Nash Equilibrium, but a zero-sum contest in which one side wins and the other loses.",0 +"A weather buoy near the North Pole just hit melting point +http://www.sciencealert.com/a-weather-buoy-near-the-north-pole-just-hit-melting-point?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1",0 +"The fact that Canada has these 'Human Rights Tribunals' in the first place is truly bizarre. The reason is that Canada, unlike US and Australia, is a second rate democracy and lacks any 'Freedom of Speech' provisions. The draconian Canadian Government can prosecute citizens for stating their beliefs as Canadian 'Freedom of Expression' provide no protections.",0 +Her personal devices weren't hacked.,0 +"I believe that the military's reason is more pragmatic and systemic: Weapons carried daily by troops get damaged, lost, rusted, or stolen. Daily carry may be necessary in a war-zone, but not in state-side barracks. Ammo is restricted because it ""vanishes"" so often, mostly due to unofficial, off-base target practice. Troops could be issued individual gun lockers, but it is much more efficient to manage inventory and control weapons in the armory. Terrorist acts on U. S. military bases is a relatively new phenomenon, and the bureaucracy is responding in its usual glacial manner.",0 +"Are you suggesting the voters are infallible, and therefore should not be criticized for their choices?",0 +"Actually you are the one who should do more research. Trudeau has many numbered companies, real estate and off shore accounts. In fact, one of his companies directors specializes in off shore tax issues. The $1.21m originally reported vastly understates trudeaus inherited wealth. +Last week the globe listed all trudeaus and morneaus off shore and numbered accnt. Its nauseating.",0 +Maybe Justin can send her a good bag of weed....that ought to shut her up..,0 +"Right-wing programs have dominated US TV for years. Government agencies, covert and overt, track down foreign baddies, using armed force in most cases, and protect law-abiding white citizens. How many shows does that describe?",0 +I think I'll head out for some ice cream.......maybe rockie road. Then watch a rockie balboa movie........,0 +"Wow! I For some reason you read way too much in my comment. Who can deny that the price of oil put us in this position no matter that the state spent like a drunken ______? Who can deny that if the legislature controlled the price of a barrel of oil and increased it to $225 per barrel we would not be in this position? The decline in the price of oil is not an excuse, it's just a cold, hard fact.",0 +"I guess you really have to consider the source, R Perry.",0 +"Seriously? You really do ""hate to brag""?",0 +"If the Cons 40 year free party give away to all of their rich friends and cutting of all essential services goes wrong things could get ugly. + +Oh wait, that happened.",0 +"If Warsaw Uprising Polish resistance fighters could build working STEN-like submachine guns under the watchful eyes of the Nazis over 70 years ago, then I suppose even a Hawaii-born shade tree gunsmith could do at least as well. + +As I've pointed out (in vain) to six readers here who staunchly support the fantasy that an official prohibition of firearms can always be equated with increased safety for all, then our major U.S. prisons should all be havens of tranquility, with little or no chance of murder, physical assault, intimidation or rape. But are they? For those who care about such things, there was a celebrated case of an American prison inmate who managed to build himself an electrically primed and repeating handgun using homemade metallic cartridges, all while under the supervision of prison staff. I would guess had he been so inclined, a prison-made late medieval style longsword (as popularized by Aragorn, son of Arathorn in the LotR movies) would have been child's play too.",0 +"It looks like you like to read into what you think is hidden meanings.... + +I said you had a fair point (about US data) and I meant it. + +But it does happen here as well. I clearly didn't say that Canada and the USA were the same in this. Religious and so-called ""moral"" objections to books that they don't like is much worse in the USA.",0 +"Tough talk with the Americans may be the best strategy at various times, but boasting about tough talk is a dubious strategy. As for her anecdote about 'walking away' over the EU trade deal...I'm reminded of that cringeworthy 'And then I rolled the dice' TV interview with Brian Mulroney over the Meech Lake Accord. + +It's interesting that never, since perhaps the War of 1812, has Canada had to consider the possibility of a US administration that may actually wish to do us harm. And make no mistake, someone as unstable, unprincipled, and self-absorbed as Donald Trump can do a lot of harm. Of course we stand up for our social and democratic principles, and point out in clear terms the damage that could be done to the US in any 'trade war' scenario. We also lobby strongly the governors of 15 or so states for which we are their largest market. But let's keep the 'tough talk rhetoric' to a minimum, and focus on desired results.",0 +Sour Grapes !!!,0 +"Oh, no. The sky is falling. Run and tell the queen!",0 +Tillman is a true hero not the spoiled millionaire players who lack respect for our country!!!!!,0 +"==> They shook hands when she arrived. + +==> Trump is correct. Germany needs to pay up. NATO's 28-member countries committed in 2014 to spending 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense within a decade. Only the U.S. and four other members of the post-World War II military coalition are meeting the standard.** I suppose the money not paid to is used underwrite their socialist healthcare, 35 hr work week, & lengthy vacations. + +==> Reminds Chancellor Merkel: Immigration is a privilege. Not a right. + +==> Trump Admin standing tall on free and FAIR Trade: G-20 Drops 'Anti-Protectionist & Free-Trade Funding' Pledge + +==> Ironically, Trump-hating protesters in the U.S. have boosted American growth since the inauguration - sales of poster boards, markers and other sign-making supplies jumped up 30%. + +Winning + +**Still not sure why, for decades, the USA has been pushing their protection racket (NATO) on Europe. There is no bogeyman.",0 +"The problem is getting worse not better, that means we are going in the wrong direction.",0 +"No, absolutely not. It dropped due to the Saudis flitting the market with oil with the intent of getting rid of the us frackers",0 +What husband? They divorced in February.,0 +Might I suggest that when you publish an oped piece by an outsider (i.e. not a staff member) that you indicate any activities in which the author is involved that might affect the point of view they are expressing and/or create a direct conflict of interest?,0 +"US Soccer should report this morning: +Bruce Arena fired. +Tim Howard lifetime ban from international soccer. +Michael Bradley lifetime ban from international soccer. +Omar Gonzalez lifetime ban from soccer at all levels.",0 +"Personally PNG, I try to refrain from commenting on things about which I know absolutely nothing. It works for me.",0 +"Trump divulged classified info? What info? About ISIS using laptop bombs? Trump's meeting with the Russian Foreign Minister was on May 10. April 1 CNN, Fox News, NY Times already published articles on the laptop bombs. Big secret. Plus the President has the right to declassify any information so by definition he cannot ""divulge classified info.""",0 +"Are you suggesting that humans are exempt from gravity? + +Or is ""differs in kind"" just code for ""natural law does not apply to humans"", meaning the ones you do not wish to apply?",0 +"""97% Consensus Lie"" + +That is another one of many lies from you. There is not enough space here to explain it in detail, but every attempted rebuttal of Cook (2013) has been based on egregious errors in math and logic by the alleged ""debunkers."" +1) They define consenusus incorrectly as the number of papers with quantitative evidence for AGW. Nope. Consensus means general agreement among experts that AGW is valid. That is the way Cook defined it. +2) They incorrectly include papers that are irrelevant to the question in the denominator, making the fraction arbitrarily small. Cook correctly culled out ""no position"" papers. +3) They ignore a theorem that the sum of probabilities of all outcomes in sample space must = 1. Cook satisfied that theorem. + +Besides, you have the fact that not a single science organization or society in the world disagrees with AGW, which affirms the seven published papers on this subject. + +PopTech is a disinformation site.",0 +"Understanding that Todd Stern was a Clinton appointee explains his motivation, but the drama presented by him and many others regarding the president's opting out of the Accord is beyond the pale. Even Obama did not take the agreement seriously. If he had, he would have taken it to the senate for ratification, but he did not because he knew the vote would fail. The point is, the president is in favor of good environmental policies, but is opposed to agreements of any kind, whether it be climate or trade, that are unfair and harmful to this country. Let's be honest, all of the commotion over the president's opting out of the Accord is not because an unenforceable, trillion dollar, non-binding, boondoggle idea has been scrapped, but because the liberal cause has seized upon it as an excellent opportunity to promote more anti-Trump vitriol.",0 +"""Russiagate has got legs..."" +I'd rather we spent time looking at ""Chinagate"". What is it with Trudeau and China? How about a long deep hard look at why Trudeau seems to favour China - special increases, just for the country of China, in 10 year visas, student visas, visa offices, tfw's etc. etc. etc. It is a big world with lots of countries in it but Trudeau's gaze seems firmly riveted to China.",0 +"Getting to a sustainable, balanced budget is simple arithmetic. We need to do ""all of the above."" We need to make more cuts (including elimination of oil tax credits), use some permanent fund earnings, and have a broad based tax. Anyone who tells you different either does not understand the arithmetic or is lying to you.",0 +"Uh, they were'nt baited genius, call the trooper if you need to understand what you apparently cant read.",0 +haha hahaha .see this is called the roosters coming home to roost. the president and his president son have both become endearing to liberals..or so they thought. .now they see you can't be friends with these people. if this lady had a problem. .why didn't she say it 4 years ago?,0 +Well thanks for all that. We are all so fascinated that you will never spend a dime at Pepsi Center. Great contribution to the discussion about the Nuggets roster.,0 +"""If you think M-103 interferes with free speech you have not read the actual legislation."" +Come on. It sets the tone. First Parliament says ""we officially think this is wrong"", that's M103, then someone says ""Well if it's wrong then why don't you put it into law?"" and what do you know we get a law that restricts free speech. Kind of like when you runs dozens of articles promoting a particular political viewpoint and then what do you know, Trudeau is giving away $100M to people who promote that viewpoint.",0 +"So a publicly stated commitment by Mayor Ferrell and all councilmembers that there would be no tax implications of the PAEC has evolved to messaging that taxes being used for it is essential to our ""public health."" I enjoy good entertainment as much as the next person, but I do not believe going to a performance at the PAEC will keep our community healthy. Nor is paying $23+/show a viable option for many in Federal Way. City leaders (including me while a councilmember) committed to not allocating our tax dollars to offset PAEC construction or operations. There are numerous other things we could put our tax dollars toward that would go much further to ensure public health. This letter is intended to do one thing, to shape public perception that the PAEC is so good for us that we should be okay with our tax dollars being spent to bail out the city after Mayor Ferrell, Deputy Mayor Burbidge and certain councilmembers pushed it through without all the funds in place to pay for it.",0 +Careful what you wish for. A nuclear attack on the US could also work amazingly quickly and permanently to put the US in a place it has not anticipated.,0 +How IS the weather there in Elbonia?,0 +"I wish Trump luck, I really do. I don't particularly care for his world view, or the truth that he has survived by clever bankruptcies, simply refusing to pay his bills, and a lot of braggadocio, but, he's the pick. I think probably the worst thing he could do is to try to fund this expansion on the backs of people who have already paid through their teeth, with jobs, wages and benefits. Even if he was able to restore the manufacturing capacity of the US, as it was in the 50s and 60's, he would be faced with a generational deficit of unbelievable proportions, i.e. total debt and obligations in excess of 250 Trillion dollars. It was their politicians who stole the money and left the country bankrupt in the false belief that they would always have growth, and now, many of the same people who have been gaming the system for years are back in control (i.e. Goldman Sachs etc). How he will pull it off is questionable, at best.",0 +"Poli$... very good, me like.",0 +"I agree it is wrong-but a publicly recognized celebrity making a video of Obama, public lynching or burning? Never heard of that. Not once. . + +Celebrities who do things like this Trump 'display' instigate more hate, not resolve. I will say, after years of steady declining, hate crimes really spiked UP starting in 2014-and we have but one leader to look to, and it is not President Trump. Not even President-Elect Trump for that matter.",0 +"I'm not sure that O'Leary's argument for not running adds up. + +Certainly not taking any seats in Quebec would make it tough to win an election, especially with a majority, but Harper won the 2011 election with only 5 seats in Quebec and would still have had a majority (albeit a thin one) without any seats in that Province. + +With the extra seats added for the 2015 election it is even more do-able. If we had a similar kind of seat split in 2015 as we had in 2011 the Conservatives might have ended up with 180 seats outside of Quebec, more than enough for a majority. + +Granted the 2011 election might not be a good barometer for any future elections.",0 +"Stores are afraid to do anything for fear of being sued. I've seen ESA owners get media attention when turned away, forcing the companies who were within their rights to back peddle for fear of losing customers. + Almost every media story i've seen recently is either an ESA or total fake dog with ""certification"" papers who refused to answer the store's questions. Whoever is supposed to be going after fake dogs on a federal level should just search "" service dog denied"" and they'd have a good starting place. +I've suggested to the Justice Dept a Federal Disability Cert Card that physicians can give to people who meet the ADA requirements as Disabled and need a SD. At that point the dog is medical equipment as designed without disclosing any personal info and stopping people faking disabilities in their tracks. Instead of asking the 2 questions stores simply ask to see the card. At that point, all dogs get turned away if the card can't be presented. Please do the same if you like it.",0 +"Not even remotely, + +…but you did demonstrate the inane level of cognitive dissonance required in order to maintain and demonstrate exactly the right wing hypocrisy that was so aptly presented in the comment you replied to. + +Not even another different Russian bot could have done better.",0 +I fail to see the great importance of this story.,0 +"A ""stakeholder"" is the person in a casino who holds the ""stakes"" of the bettors + +""Citizen"" is a much better word. + +We're gambling the illusion of democracy means something.",0 +and the 52 year part is relevant to what exactly? do you really think it makes you smarter? LOL,0 +"Lynn Wilson's story is compelling and inspiring. Most of us do not have the advantage of viewing birth,death and treatment from the point of view of a cultural anthropologist.That point of view shows us that rather than some universally RIGHT way,there are many ways,many choices,based on who we are as individuals,family beliefs, cultural preference and advice from the mental health and medical practitioners with whom one chooses to collaborate at the end of life.The main concept is respect and choice of how ,where, and with whom one chooses to say Aloha. +House Bill 201 provides for freedom of choice and compassionate care at end of life.",0 +"There has never been a resolution to the conflict, so we are still at war with No. Korea.",0 +The issue now is that Alberta is out of service until they throw out the bums in 2019. Expect the BC welfare rolls to burst.,0 +"I agree Sue..in the film, there is no hint of potential violence or unwanted attention....flirtation, which when accomplished with certain skill leaves both parties feeling appreciated, does not automatically lead to sex by design....in today's literalist and often oppressive culture, that pleasant aspect between the sexes seems to have been lost to a cruder form of sexualized expectation.",0 +"You are a Dolt 45 supporter talking about decaying morals and entitlement? Oh boy. + +If locking up citizens for longer was the answer we would be the safest country on the face of the planet. We aren't.",0 +"I see the Bible as authoritative, yes. I've never thought of it as instructions, but Christ did say ""If you love me you will keep my commandments"", I didn't say it, He did. If you see that as rules that limit you then I think that is unfortunate.",0 +"Talk about backstabbing. That Kadri has all the tools, dirty player, diver, total lack of a human being. He will have his day.. He will hit the wrong guy in the wrong way.. And yes, no suspension. That should have been a 5 spot. Ur Laughs should have had 6 points out of the west, got 3. Not performance. Far from a good team. And Matthews, what is he. Hasnt done a thing yet to note.. 4 in the first game, what since. Laine making him look like an ordinary Joe.",0 +"Let's send Buck a message he won't forget! +Elect Chase Kohne! +www.chasekohneforcongress.com",0 +"From articles I have been reading, if his administration doesn't have the necessary backup system for his memos, meetings, phone calls, emails, letters or anything relating to his communications he will be charged with a crime.",0 +"A load of hooey. Don't fall for Trump's alternative facts: + +http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/03/5-facts-about-illegal-immigration-in-the-u-s/",0 +"I agree, as a retiree I consider myself and most of my age group as part of the ""tax base"". However this will not necessarily be true in the next 20 years when people without pensions or savings will be retiring. There is some kind of disconnect in all of this.",0 +"The resolution to automation is not to discourage it. It is going to happen regardless what we do. If we ignore it our trading partners will eat our manufacturers' lunch. + +One solution is to encourage a lot more small businesses serving local markets However, this is old school and unlikely to put everyone who looses their job to automation back to work. Equally important is a change in attitude by ordinary people. + +Workers must adapt to the new jobs of the future rather than expect job to be tailored to their needs. Unfortunately the jobs of the future have not yet been created so workers cannot train for them until they arrive. + +Our government should commit to more retraining programs as well as support to selective economic sectors that are showing success in this turbulent environment.",0 +"I'm actually screaming just as loudly about the child benefit. While I do think taxpayers should fund investment in children (childcare, education, preventative healthcare in the form of subsidized community sports and exercise facilities), I think the Federal Liberals' Canada Child Benefit is a shameless bribe to low and middle-income families. It's even more ridiculous than Harper's vote-grabbing Universal Child Care Benefit and fitness & arts tax credits. Even though I received some cash under Harper's boutique credits, they were one of the reasons I didn't vote Conservative in the last election, after having voted so in the past.",0 +Glad to read that our youth teams are doing well on the mainland. What a great experience for them.,0 +"They use fryers for nearly half of their product, it's not inconceivable that one could have been left on over night and caught fire...",0 +"Well said. Cue the hashtags about diversity from Trudeau and like-minded champions of #progressive naivety who prefer short-sighted idealism instead of addressing issues staring everyone in the face on a daily basis. We can't talk about the double standard that affords different religions more ""sensitivity"" because political correctness and #becauseit's2017 demands as much as if certain religions are beyond reproach in terms of critical analysis or even satire and comedy. +Let's hope for a speedy recovery to those injured, especially the officer. Let's hope the accused is held within the general population of the jail so he can get properly acquainted with his fellow inmates.",0 +"This article is a good example of how a columnist or pollsters can bend the numbers to represent their personal agenda. +The headline reading two-thirds approve (66%) is far from what the poll actually illustrates. The poll actually suggest that 52% are opposed to some degree the current Liberal plan. +To suggest that the 17% that somewhat support the plan as outright support is wrong. It's just as valid to say that 17% somewhat oppose the plan.",0 +I like the idea of network connected devices such as wall plug timers and stove/microwave clocks to keep track of and adjust time following power outages and daylight savings adjustment intervals.,0 +And how did the Islamic State manage to create that major tunnel system? lots of shovels,0 +"If they do become Citizens, you keep them in your sanctuary cities.......They will be barred from leaving the West Coast.........",0 +"Your a creepy progressive Eva, nobody wants to stalk you, you probably look like HRC.",0 +Canada is back,0 +I'm sure Gary Johnson can handle this. Its been on the internet for quite awhile.,0 +"You love your labels. It creates a nice little world of your personal certainty. Black/ White, conservative/liberal, rep/dem. It's typical of campaign propaganda for The Party. It isn't reality. And I have jumped several Dems on this site for the same thing. + +What's your name? Why are you afraid to use it? I'm serious- why?",0 +I guess the only good thing about all of this is that the clinton dynasty is finished.,0 +The most democratic way is to hold a referendum.,0 +"Once again, when Donald ""FM"" Trump can make the wrong decision, he will.",0 +"We had a birth at Sacred Heart (at the old location) that bordered on malpractice.. It ended with a nurse cutting my newborn baby's foot with desk scissors, removing her ankle tag without looking at what she was doing. She had to get stitches.. as a newborn.. It was a HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE experience, start to finish, everything from pushing formula, refusing to give lactation training, moving us to a shared room so they could have the single room for a 'potluck', broken blinds, freezing room, disdainful nurses and ambivalent treatment.. +It culminated a few weeks later with me having to go back for a post birth hemorrhage (retained placenta) that almost cost me my life.. Never, ever again.. I never heard from the nurse who cut a dime sized piece of skin off of my baby's foot.. not even an 'I'm sorry'.",0 +Pauline Marois. Richard Henry Bain charged.,0 +"In my opinion, the Hawaii political leadership made a foolish decision to publicly antagonize the current president. They did not need to do that. +And the Hawaii state government has NEVER done a decent job of helping native Hawaiians end the cycle of poor education, poor job opportunities, inadequate business assistance, and terrible housing. +You have pointed the finger at the wrong “slippery slope”. +This looks like Fake News™.",0 +"if you have nothing to hide, then you would not mind allowing some macho law enforcement gastapo thugs to ransack your home just to make sure you're not hiding anything?",0 +"You lost me at ""safe space"". I quit reading right there.",0 +"piano2, If Alaskan leaders could be lower the state's very high cost per barrel of oil by reducing all the harsh and unreasonable agency managers! + +If Alaska wants to compete with Kingdoms like Saudi Arabia the the legislature has to be wise and make laws that will stop complicated oil and gas regulations and consistent litigation! + +Only then will Alaska's cost per barrel of oil be able to compete with Saudi's very low cost! + +Alaska is at risk of shutting down very fast unless the Governor and some legislators stop HB 247 and make Alaska oil regulations better so cost are lower! + +If HB 247 is not dropped and cost lowered then Saudi will use this oil glut to own Alaska's oil market! + +Lights out Alaska!",0 +"I already do in the summer months. I can't stand the heat. I have health problems that can cause me to be sent to the ER if I get too hot. In Texas, where I live June through August is unbearable. I am retired so I can switch my days and nights. Around the end of September, first of October I switch back to regular daylight hours.",0 +"Gee, believe Grover, who in the world would do that? The drown it in a bathtub guy, the purveyor of the Aristocracy truth, such a towering figure. His idea of freedom is death to the little guy, always has been, always will be. It must be getting harder and harder, he doesn't like to come out into the light very often.",0 +"What the heck is an ""assault machine""?",0 +"On that note, I wish people in the oil business would quit using the word ""buddy."" Even though I haven't heard any Buddy complain, I'm sure it's offensive to anyone who actually is named Buddy.",0 +"I think you're right that Trump would much rather sign off on appointments to the Supreme Court and let them deal with it than engage in the issue to any degree. Certainly, he would have zero interest in the constitutional arguments. And yes, even with a new appointment, there is not likely to be any overturning of Roe v Wade, as there would still be five justices who wouldn't go there. + +Trump is going to do the stuff he's interested in. He's going to get his lackeys to at least appear to do the stuff his base elected him to do. This probably doesn't include a single social issue. He isn't interested enough or empathetic enough. It's why marriage equality is probably pretty safe too.",0 +"For me the big potential problem is ""income sprinkling"". Will the goverment tell me what the value of my wife's and daughter's work is in my business? That would be like communism.",0 +"Maybe two too many maybes this early in the day, though I won't begrudge you your right to think the way you think, or say what you care to say.",0 +"Just goes to show that even as we have radically improved our living standards, health, and life expectancy from the days when we lived in caves, one thing has not really changed. At heart we are tribal and without a strong tribal connection aka sense of community, we feel alienated and lonely. I personally am getting tired of living in a large anonymous mega-opolis. I look forward to the day I can move to a smaller more tight knit community where I actually know my neighbours.",0 +"Harper's a has been who was soundly rejected and drop-kicked by voters all the way back to Calgary from Ottawa in 2015. Didn't he get the message, i.e. ""We've had more than enough of you. Go away, and don't come back""?",0 +Playing the race card guarantees a win. SAD!,0 +"But we're probably not allowed to use the word 'sex' anymore, lest someone get offended.",0 +"I'd like to think BC voters are too smart to buy this, but we have had 16 years of BC Liberals.",0 +"Just because this article says ""Billionaire Larry Ellison who remains a one-third owner in the airline."" Means nothing as not the Majority Share Holder. ""Newer Is Not Better"", as Island Air switched from High Performance ATR aircraft to New less performance Canadian Q400 aircraft that then put Island Air in Debt.",0 +"It's a media chill resulting directly from Bill M103. The government has thrown a brick through their window with a clear warning against ""Islamophobia"", and they're knuckling under.",0 +"Sorry always puzzled, the result is not a smaller, holier Church, but a smaller more prejudiced one!!!",0 +Those executives should be in prison for selling their stock shares before the security breach became public.,0 +"I recommend reading ""In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts"" by Dr. Gabor Mate, a physician who worked in Vancouver's DTES. Long story short, most addicts (but in particular the drug addicts we're talking about here), have had traumatic childhoods, often grew up as victims of rape, sexual exploitation, and violence. The fact that they don't seem to care about their own lives is because no one else does. What do you think your self-esteem would be like if everyone treats you like garbage everyday for the past 20 years of your life? + +TL;DR - Addiction is not a choice, but a symptom of trauma",0 +https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cheetoh,0 +"Long Bob, is your comment is based on deep military procurement experience and an understanding of the roles and needs of these aircraft when deployed? Or are you just thinking out loud?",0 +"Moral position???? When did an ILLEGAL act become moral? Crossing the border without proper documentation is an ILLEGAL act. Every country has an IMMIGRATION LAWS; you break the law and you get deported/imprisoned. There are millions who are doing the proper thing and going through the proper way of getting here. Get your moral compass checked before giving your voice. What the DACA has created is underground human trafficking where juveniles are stuffed into cargo containers with the promise of a better place only to find themselves selling themselves on the streets to survive, while their parents are stuck in their homeland scraping every cent to pay back loan sharks they borrowed the money for the traffickers in order to get their child into the USA ILLEGALLY.",0 +Another hit piece on Trump...how refreshing.,0 +"What I find interesting is that 30% of most people's retirement assets are in their homes, yet real estate agents are allowed to take 6% of those assets as commissions but no one calls them fiduciaries.",0 +Better get out before it’s too late.,0 +"""especially the children,"" + +Cliche.",0 +"No, just someone who whines about not making enough money and having to possibly pay a tiny percentage and who will fire all her employees because she is so cheap and move to a state and country where she doesn't have to contribute anything. That about cover it for you?",0 +All the more reason that the City should start investing in infrastructure that separates the bikes from cars. All it takes is a simple divider between bike lanes and car lanes. Reduce the amount of time cars and bikes have to share the same travel lanes and you'll reduce the number of injuries.,0 +The schools have their own science labs and could be doing the follow up testing themselves. Save money and get real work experience.,0 +"The Auditor is all about sunshine, unless it's sunshine about the Auditor. +Just another day in the Nei.",0 +No info because APD won't release any not ADN's fault.,0 +He has his happy socks on!,0 +"This isn't a compromise, it is a surrender to organized crime. The government is grabbing for an expensive LNG pipeline that we cannot afford, nor will benefit any Alaskan. Your Representatives extorted your investment account to make themselves wealthy. This is a crime scene.",0 +Liberals are obsessed with such things. Dont ask me to explain it.,0 +"The best approach would be to boycott merchants who offer Air Miles, as all of their customers are paying for the miles even if they don't have a card. + +Other than the LCBO, that action is perfectly feasible.",0 +"If you read the investigative news article that the Register Guard published on deconstructing this shooting, you would know that there were no other witnesses to the shooting, other than the police marksman. And that no video of any kind was recorded that showed the shooting, or what the police officer saw. + +There is no way to know if Babb really pointed the rifle, or if the officer mistakenly thought that he was pointing the rifle at him. + +The article also points out that Babb's hunting rifle was not loaded. He had retrieved the rifle, but had failed to get any ammunition for it. + +You should take the time to read that article. Babb's VA counselor, who was initially on the phone with him during the incident, is highly critical of the Eugene Police. Her testimony in court could potentially be very damning to the city.",0 +"If Billy Boy had tons of women all those years, What was Hill of Beans do'in....that is the real question? This ultimate marriage of convenience beats em' all.",0 +"""Baby Driver"" already done. Too bad.",0 +"<> +The problem with Trump -- and this is a difficulty for those who purport to support him almost as much as it is for those who don't -- is that he has no intellectual center, no moral principles, no political philosophy, no convictions or beliefs to guide his thinking, no anchor or rudder by which to form policy positions or to adopt stances. Nothing he says has any meaning or value beyond the moment in which he says it. And so your observation about the reactionary government he is forming is right on point.",0 +"Valleyisle57> My, my, my, you sure can turn on the charm, huh???? You are so full of it that you're ready to burst!!!! Again, for your enlightenment, POTUS is NOT a ""so called president,"" as you proclaim. He is the POTUS, and no matter how you want to phrase it, he will still be the POTUS, got it????",0 +I find I agree with you on this one. The problem would end quickly.,0 +"Yep, kind of what happened in Nazi Germany. People were afraid to speak up.",0 +She specifically mentioned a few of those things....and the legislatures inability to make those cuts.,0 +"I cannot imagine a worse insult to the citizens of a riding who elected the Mayor- the leader of their community. A terse dismissal without providing the reasons why. This is not democracy. The fix is in. The behaviour of a Party that takes for granted their choice as being the defacto MP awaiting an election process that is nothing more than a ceremonial occasion. I cannot fathom what the candidates of the opposing Parties must think of being treated like potted plants. To call the Liberal functionaries arrogant would be complimentary. + +I think this is a clumsy attempt to scare off a qualified candidate based on his gender. Or this is a hint they have something on the Mayor. Or the innuendo for the local Liberal riding association being spoon fed the need for immediate obedience to this decree. Come to think of it, this must be Trudeau's interpretation of what he meant by ranked balloting in a taking democracy for granted kind of way.",0 +"Father Reese forgets: Just as Francis was appointed a cardinal by a conservative pope, the next pope may very well be a conservative cardinal appointed by Francis. Someone from the Third World who will, ""with a stroke of his pen,"" abolish Francis' teachings, as Francis is doing to his two predecessors. + +How very soon libs, like Father Reese, forget reality! + +That's the way it goes.",0 +"The fear is that if the zero tolerance people succeed, workers would either be screened out and not hired, or else fired, rather than being accommodated by being placed in those parts of the hospital that do not require compromising their religious beliefs on abortion. + +As for TWU, the background is that TWU has been refused by the bar associations of three provinces, so it cannot commence; hence effectively students are denied studying law there.",0 +"The problem posters such as yourself face is that the average Canadian over the age of 45 has direct experience with the health care system, either personally or through the experience of our dear parents. We take our direct experience and compare it to statements such as yours and they simply do not line up - as demonstrated by openwater above. + +It is true, however, that results vary from Province to Province. Recent Ipsos polling shows Ontario as the most improved healthcare system over past five years for ease of access and patient experience, followed by the Prairies (Manitoba/Saskatchewan) not far behind, with Alberta and Quebec tied in the middle, Atlantic Canada much further back and British Columbia well back at the bottom. Yet. BC is getting good marks from openwater. + +Canada can and should improve its healthcare system and I agree with the prescription recommended in this editorial for an expansion.",0 +Thanks. That seems pretty straight forward.,0 +I think they mostly do.,0 +"Good luck coming up with a new agreement, got to deal with the HGEA first.",0 +Both from the shallow end of the gene pool.,0 +"In a democracy, highly trained MD's, Pediatricians, Specialists FRCPCs, Pediatric Psychiatrists and Family Physicians don't determine the laws, voters do. Legalizing marijuana for recreational use was a clear part of the Liberal mandate for which they were elected. The new legislation should allow people of majority age access to marijuana without restriction while educating them about the potential health risks.",0 +"1. The Inquiry has no clear set of objectives. + +2. The Inquiry has no clear direction or leadership structure. + +3. The Inquiry has no clear time or budget limit. + +4. The Inquiry has no power to re-open cases, or prosecute anybody, or do anything resembling actual investigative police work. + +5. Political correctness prevents public criticism of the Inquiry from occurring because accusations of ""racism"" are made against critics. + +6. Stats on missing and murdered Aboriginals have already been compiled in numerous reports to the public by the RCMP and other agencies. + +7. The Inquiry is carefully designed and staffed so as to avoid the well-documented truth about this problem: most of the culprits are Aboriginal men, and most of the crimes are committed on the Reserve system. + +When this ongoing train wreck finally exhausts itself and halts entirely, I plead with the feds to release a report detailing how the budget was spent, item by item. It is time for the public to see some truth.",0 +"Sour Grapes crowd is running out of fake news. What's next, Trump's an alien lizard creature?",0 +The last smoker will be broke and dead in 25 years. Focus on vaping to save the young.,0 +"Book it TR! In the spirit of Aloha, let's invite Diver Dave to break pita with us. +. +Perhaps he will come to appreciate the benefits of diversity of cuisine over a couple of bottles of arak.",0 +HE built me...that is enough,0 +Obamacare must go and be replaced by a market oriented non compulsory system where the customer cares about the cost of care. Health savings accounts long term is one of best systems. Employers need to be named and shamed if they do not provide decent health insurance for their employees.. Adult kids under 26 could be on their parents insurance but that should be an option. People without slug kids in the basement should not be forced to subsidize their neighbor's slugs. Health care is something you earn and pay for and a socialized system will bankrupt the nation. Our social spending is far out of control and some realism about what we can actually pay for is long overdue.,0 +"Gun manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, removing health coverage for 32 million, should I continue?",0 +Wow. Great piece. All the SA writers should learn how to do their work just like this.,0 +"Hi Obolu, thanks for the heads up — there was an edge case with your citizenship parameters that was returning an incorrect date. I've corrected it now, and you should see the right application date (to within a few days, since it depends on leap years and a few other factors).",0 +Lower recoil and easier target reacquisition for that common second shot. I'm not a huge fan of them used for hunting but there are some reasons for it.,0 +"Not ONE editorial supporting our good American president, not one. And, they think they are journalists, they are not, just more biased Dimm party supporters.",0 +"Are you Discojoe's cousin? + +LBJ was one of the greatest legislative presidents we've ever had -- e.g. The 1964 Civil Rights Act. + +Vietnam unfortunately was an important part of LBJ's failed legacy. + +To Trump's credit he is not ignoring the existential threat posed to Japan, the RoK, Australia, and the U.S. by the DPRK, nor is he blind to the PRC aggression in the South China Sea. + +But Trump's alienation of Merkel and Macron is undermining U.S. security. If Trump is not willing to support Article 5, then why should France or Germany or any other NATO country support the U.S. if it gets into a military confrontation with the PRC and/or the DPRK, which is an increasingly likely scenario? + +In short, you are correct. Trump is a boor and his bad manners as well as his myopic strategic vision are hurting U.S. interests, especially with respect to our national defense.",0 +"First, well done LEO's! +Second, bad criminals! Bad bad! They ignored gun laws and even possessed stolen, so unregistered to them, guns! + Who woulda thunk ... (eyeroll) + +Re ""35 firearms, including several stolen weapons and a machine gun""",0 +"Leinenweber was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on November 7, 1985, to the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He was a Republican member of the Illinois General Assembly from 1973 to 1983. + +Do you wish to revise your nonsensical post now?",0 +How bigly of you,0 +"Tweeting by the president gets the truth out to the people and by passes so called ""gate keepers"".",0 +"James, +Wrong on all guesses. It's the apparently able-bodied people on our street corners, holding up signs, begging for handouts. I will allow that there are some of them who are down on their luck and will bounce back eventually. I will also allow that there are some who have adopted begging as a way of life; perhaps due to mental illness, maybe abusive relationships, or just plain laziness. It really doesn't matter. +My point is that if the number of non-contributing citizens, indigents or otherwise, increases, it's possible that our present economic/social structure will become unstable and collapse. Under those circumstances disaster will be visited upon us indiscriminately. If you think the wealthy are immune, some probably are. But those whose wealth is essentially returns on investments or cash in the wall safe, will have lost everything.",0 +"Well you are right. The Donald is not my president, he is Putin's plant. Your link was basically a lot of noise. + +That is a good question. I wonder if the Donald will move to Russia after he leaves office? He will certainly be disgraced here. Poor Donald, probably close to bankruptcy. again!",0 +"""That's the problem."" + +No. Actually the problem is NOTHING short of complete self incrimination is actionable. There isn't and will not be any credible evidence to what was discussed, just hearsay. What you call a ""correction"" can easily be described as a ""clarification"". My point is simply Congress should move on from the dog and pony show and get down to the act of governing, save the theater for 2018. It's a waste of my money.",0 +"#5 is similar to the famous ""1K yard stare"" GI photos. He's obviously been to hell & back a few times. And for this German soldier and his 'Kammaraden' it's about to get much worse as Paulus' 6th Army pivots to its destruction at Stalingrad. + +# ""Say Hey!"" Willie's amazing over the shoulder catch. + +Good photos of two great Israelis: Meir & Dyan. + +#15 captures the rapport between two titans: The Gipper & The Iron Lady. Sadly, the special relationship is on the skids. +Trump has interfered in the UK's internal affairs with mindless twitter attacks on Khan and publicly disclosing details of terror investigations. + +At the best of times May is notoriously difficult to get along with, but Trump's gaffes along with his withdrawal from the Paris Accord, his cozying up to Macron, and his memorable UN speech have led May to be openly hostile toward Trump. + +Trump's crudeness and May's prickly personality do not serve either nation well.",0 +"Did she not get busted for plagiarism twice? She most certainly did. Why do you hate free speech Layla? I know, you're still upset that you got caught with several user names. Yeah, you did!",0 +"Lynn I have a serious question for you. I'm an independent that leans conservative, how in the world with the passion you write with do YOU stomach being among the democrats? Seriously I'd like to hear your answer. + +Clinton organizers admitted on video tape to paying protesters to incite violence at Trump rallies. Some of those protestors democrats picked to incite violence were among the mentally ill in this country. + +http://www.mrctv.org/blog/ + +“No, I’m saying that we have mentally ill people that we pay to do s***, make no mistake. Over the last twenty years. I’ve paid off a few homeless guys to do crazy stuff, and I’ve also made sure they had a hotel.”",0 +"IMO Mr Gross is one very savvy guy.... +You can't spend 30 years in the bond markets (successfully) without basically getting about 4 PhD's in economics.",0 +"The primary definition of “gun” is: “a weapon incorporating a metal tube from which bullets, shells, or other missiles are propelled by explosive force, typically making a characteristic loud, sharp noise.” +The primary definition of a “weapon” is: “a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage.” +The one time a weapon -- a sword which is ""a 'weapon' with a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard -- was wielded in Jesus’ presence, he clearly demanded, “Stop, no more of this!” +Before receiving absolution, the penitent resolves “to sin no more and to void the near occasion of sin.” By its very definition, a gun is not only a near occasion of sin; a gun is an outright invitation to sin. +Christians are called to be peacemakers. Peace is not ""propelled by explosive force."" +""They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; one nation shall not raise th sword against another, nor shall they train for war again."" (Is. 2:4)",0 +Classy.,0 +Wait a year.,0 +"As with most of HFP's politically bent articles, I'm seeing no supporting references attached. I tried to do the work for you & what I found fell somewhere between Dr. Cascini's article (a trace of a substance in one sample (possible cross contamination according to her) & urban myth.",0 +"Isn't it amazing that an ""advanced country"" like Canada mostly exports raw materials while poor countries like China and Mexico mostly export manufactured goods? In fact, one of Mexico's biggest exports is ""nuclear reactors"" - can anyone explain that one?",0 +"Great article! Thank you for reporting on this event and the various viewpoints that were presented. +May I suggest another angle-- +The greatest American generation was/is the generation that survived the Depression and World War II--many of them came out stronger, more pragmatic, with a more accurate sense of reality and yet positive and good humored. (I grew up among them). +Hard times can bear good fruit if we face the challenge. We were already reaching the point of a mentality preceding civil war and the Trumpian mess is forcing us to face it. We need to re-establish the best of the concepts on which our nation was founded--""that all [humans] are created [genetically] equal and endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights..."" [and responsibilities].",0 +Good point on wages. It wouldn't hurt to pay a good wage thus making working in processing business more attractive and worthwhile.,0 +Guess the Con motion wasn't dhimmi enough for them?,0 +"Lock him up! +Lol!",0 +You are arguing with me about a point I did not make.,0 +Several of his friends who partied on the bus and at home with him all the time tell a completely different story than YOURS.............,0 +"Tax rates do not tell the whole story of tax bills in Maui. +For a vacation rental condo, (not an owner operated B&B), the tax rate is $9.37/$1000, for a property assessed at say $450,000 the tax bill comes to $4216. + +For a Maui resident homeowner, the tax rate is $2.86/$1000 after a $200,000 homeowner exemption is applied. For the same property assessed at $450,000 this comes to a tax bill of $715. Approximately 6 times greater for the vacation rental condo. + +For an owner operted B&B property, the tax rate is $4.56 and the homeowner living in the B&B loses his exmeption so on the same $450,000 value he pays $2052 instead of $715.",0 +Tillamook burn?,0 +Careers will rise or fall in the native corporations and in both political parties over the attempts to transform the permanent fund into a vehicle for tax avoidance for locals and outsiders. I am thousands of miles away from the Great Land and I can read the tea leaves. Why can't the big wheels in Juneau and in Anchorage?,0 +"Putin's response makes Obama look petty and ineffective. + +A fitting end to Obama's eight years.",0 +"Tell you what. We will put you in charge of the Ukraine with no money for defense and no support from the US and we will see how long the Ukraine lasts as a separate country. It is only the strength of the US Military that is keeping some of these countries at bay. +If you think Blue Cross, et al, are so bad, wait until you deal with the incompetents at OHP. Remember these are some of the 'smart people' that gave us a fully functioning HealthCare exchange and readily determined who was eligible for policies. + https://www.rt.com/news/uk-nhs-health-crisis-049/ +Also, I believe that England does push prevention and they are still in crisis.",0 +"It actually happens all the time. Boards that have community members run many medical organizations. Doctors are not necessarily experts in enacting policy or setting strategy. The board that governs my clinic is run by an old rancher. He may not know an IM from an IV, but he knows how to lead people and how to run a profitable business that serves his community.",0 +"The checks from super pac must have cleared, politicians didn't want to act until the money was in the bank.",0 +"Awesome. I've only seen one. Ship Lake pass, not too far back in the Chugach behind Glen Alps.",0 +"What is true cannot evolve into something which is not true. Doctrinal evolution as understood by most posters on here is an euphemism for change or reversal of doctrine. +The glaring example is the indissolubility of marriage. Thanks to the Synods and Amoris Laetitia this doctrine is in the process of being surreptitiously reversed.",0 +"I had thought that my including the word ""slimy"" might mean I'm not being civil in my comment. 'Cause what's green and smells like bacon is stir fried string beans at a picnic in Ala Moana Park. Ta da!",0 +"Actually my well with pump was over $7000, septic- over $6000 and power to my driveway over-$7000 and I paid all of this out of my pocket. Wavemaker, you need to get out of mommy's basement more.",0 +"This week a report came out about how print media is crashing due to all the 'free' news on the internet. Well, Globe and Mail, if you expect me to pay for tripe such as this article - or anything else by her - you better review characteristics of your readership - or maybe work in a 'refund for useless articles' mode for your subscription rates.",0 +"Is it better to live in fear as the N Korean people do everyday as they have no choice. We have a choice as grim as it is, I feel we can do a better job with peace by removing or men from S. Korea and stopping war games totally useless to be there. Maybe its time to include them in the world and not isolate them as they are forced to live in crappy conditions. All in exchange for reducing Nukes . We need a peace agreement to end the war with N. Korea.",0 +The great bastion of free speech - university campuses(total sarcsm),0 +"President Trump is playing the mainstream media ( who are no longer a service...but a money making industry)...like he did in his lead up to getting the nomination..,,like a 4 pound fish on a 20 pound line. + +He gets free press every half hour.....from same sources that got him elected....via bank shot !! + +...and then winning the numbers to beat Ms Clinton....(very much like Obama did..in his nomination run to become Democratic Nominee) + +Numbers don't lie....Obama beat Clinton....and won...and beat down two of the 'best' splintered Republican party could field...Obama got two terms... + +There was some showmanship..... +YES WE CAN.....and an almost Evangelical manner to unite the crowd........ + +Hard work got Obama nominated and elected President of the United States of America....twice.............SO FAR....TRUMP HAS DONE THE SAME",0 +It's part of the income tax.,0 +"So first priority is trans gendered. Why did that become the cause celeb this year. And second priority was alphabet soup. So if you're homeless but normal , screw you. We only want same sex people. + +And how many days until those tiny houses are covered in graffiti, full of feces and condoms, turned on thier sides, and strewn with needles. I'd say a week. + +And the mental health issues? Drugs are bad, they'll wreck your brain. Choices have consequences. Snowflakes blame everyone but themselves",0 +"Paul: So long as insurance companies, dedicated to profits, not providing health care for ailing Americans, are the central player in the health care system, we will continue to have the most expensive and least effective health care system in the industrialized world. After all, MAXIMUM profits are achieved by providing MINIMUM care. I would rather someone make money by PROVIDING health care services, not by DENYING those health care services. + +Let's be honest here, Paul, you know how the system works. How on earth can you defend such an immoral system? I'd be interested in your answer. Gary Crum",0 +"Is this an application of the ""Ignatian rule""? Just how is your accusation of ""hierarchicalism, legalism & rigorism"" made against those with genuine concerns about the confusion and ambiguity of the Pope's teaching, consistent with this?",0 +"There is no requirement for ""a license and register the weapon"" in the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution. None whatsoever. Please note the ""must issue a license"" language from the US Supreme Court. + +District of Columbia vs. Heller ""The District’s total ban on handgun possession in the home amounts to a prohibition on an entire class of “arms” that Americans overwhelmingly choose for the lawful purpose of self-defense."" + + ""Assuming he is not disqualified from exercising Second Amendment rights, the District must permit Heller to register his handgun and must issue him a license to carry it in the home."" + +Chicago v McDonald +""A City ordinance provides that “[n]o person shall . . . possess . . . any firearm unless such person is the +holder of a valid registration certificate for such firearm.” The Code then prohibits registration of most handguns, thus effectively banning handgun possession by almost all private citizens who reside in the City."" + +This was found unconstitutional.",0 +"This may not be strictly religious issue but one of the major underlying problems that results in very negative thinking and behavior such as racism, abortion, and the list goes, is solutions to the change in the economy to a post industrial service economy. If we keep harping on the change without offering suggestions we get reactionary retribution thinking where the blame is everybody and it makes some vulnerable to manipulation. I would suggest people think about how to create service occupations other than the military. We are going through a profound change in the way people make a living and many are very scrared and angry about it and feel powerless to do anything. This is a worldwide problem where people pour into cities where they cannot find adequate work so the move somewhere else. I will let the reader finish it. We need ideas that are positive and not the usual how bad things are and blame ......... . Filling in the blank does work.",0 +"""Republican enthusiasm for the Mexican border wall is limited by the fact that it is among the most wasteful, impractical and useless ideas ever spouted by an American president."" + +Not the worst idea, but surely the stupidest, although the lure of ""The Great Wall of America"" as a killer future tourist attraction has a certain appeal. + +In 1983 Ronald Reagan proposed the ""Star Wars"" missile defense shield (aka the Strategic Defense Initiative), cobbed from some science fiction movie, and billions of $ were poured down the drain. Thirty four years later, billions of $ are still being poured down the drain, under various new names, and we are still not safe from a missile attack. + +Of course, we can always wipe everyone else out, so be happy! + +Stephen J. Remington",0 +"Marriage_is_the_joining_of_families._When_families_of_gays_want_religious_weddings,_they-will_get_them.",0 +"Epic memories of '84 Free Peoples Concert with Stimela, and Ladysmith Black Mambasa with Paul Simon making a surprise appearance. Sjoe this is sad news! But deepest gratitude for the talent you are Ray Phiri. RIP now and forever - your work's surely done.",0 +"increases to min wage have NEVER caused a net job loss. +People keep quoting the Seattle study which showed a 4% loss of hours for young workers but they 'forget' to mention the equal increase in jobs for adult workers, taking on those jobs previously done by students and other youngsters.",0 +Glad that the musher was found and is ok ! Sounds like it was an accident that his dogs got loose and took off. It happens. Glad that everyone is all ok !,0 +"There is a fundraiser started for the landowners legal fees +https://www.gofundme.com/fund-against-eminent-domanin",0 +"Yoh Controller, were you aware that a coal or gas fired ""steamer"" spends a month in maintenance for every month in service? So much for fossil fuel generation via steam. Nuclear plants used to have a similar ratio, but the USA government mandated them to have a second set of steam handling equipment installed to provide close to continuous operation. + +The high ratio of down time for steam processing generators provided Enron and TransAlta with phoney excuses for shutting down plants during peak demand periods. They are supposed to schedule the planned maintenance for off peak hours. +-- +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWCtKqYnLXA +(Enron staff ""being creative"" about finding excuses to shut down a generating station for a ""forced outage"" for maintenance)",0 +"Four years later Halsey muffed his last chance for a decisive victory when he allowed his main carrier battle force to be lured northward by Japan, leaving behind only a tiny force to protect our amphibious landing in the Philippines against an IJN battle group including battleships with EIGHTEEN INCH guns. The guts of American sailors on destroyer escorts (with five inch guns) and jeep carriers - - and the divine hand of Providence - - kept our forces ashore from being shredded. + +Nimitz decided not to turn Halsey over to a general court martial (which he deserved) because Bull Halsey had such a good press on the home front and because he did not want to inject a discordant note on our way to VJ day.",0 +"This has always been about money. To think it was about Native suffering is a bit of a stretch. Once the government dangled the carrot, every native who went to a residential school became a victim and was instrumental in creating a lottery win for lawyers.",0 +"""Global warming is politics not science"" + +In 1895 Svante Arrhenius calculated the temperature of the Arctic regions would rise about 8 degrees or 9 degrees Celsius, if CO2 increased 2.5 to 3 times its present value. That's some conspiracy son, might as well go play with the flat earthers. + +https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Arrhenius/arrhenius_2.php",0 +That's a lie. I saw an entire teams standing together,0 +Repeal Bacon/Davis. It's phony.,0 +"Gattis got dumped at least in part because she thinks our senior citizens should leave the state, as she considers them to be a financial burden. These same senior citizens that made this state what it is today. A lot of them have been here since before statehood. Now Munoz wants leniency for some of the worst of the worst, those that sexually abuse children. Munoz only back tracked because she ""got caught"". It's now up to the voters in her district to show her the same one way door that Gattis saw. Our seniors and children deserve better.",0 +It's the term they are urged to use in their handbook. It sounds cutesy.,0 +"There is no Biden rule. There was a Biden speech under different circumstances that did NOT recommend what the Republicans actually did (not hold hearings). + +Biden's floor speech was on June 25, 1992, more than three months later in the election cycle. + +There was no Supreme Court vacancy to fill. + +There was no nominee to consider. + +The Senate never took a vote to adopt a rule to delay consideration of a nominee until after the election (hence there is no Biden rule). + +He didn't argue for a delay until the next president began his term, as McConnell actually did. He said the nomination process should be put off until after the election, which was on Nov. 3, 1992. + +Oh, and just to keep up, we Americans are going to have to pay for the wall, Trump has no replacement for Obamacare, Trump is using an unsecured phone, and not just giving speeches to Goldman Sachs people, he is putting them in charge. There's more but you get the idea.",0 +"""Deaths by terrorists born in the banned countries: 0"" + +The Somali who plowed into 11 people on the Ohio State campus in Nov 2016 and was subsequently shot wasn't trying to kill anyone?",0 +"It was not in the least condescending. Where did you get that idea? I thought it was well written and an intelligent message. Maybe that's condescending, in your mind?",0 +"It is interesting on this site to notice that many of the people who said all those Bundy nuts were guilty of treason and were going to spend the rest of their lives in jail are the same ones making the same predictions about President Trump. + +So far our local legal 'experts' haven't seen anything but misdemeanor-level sentences and a few acquittals out of the Bundy stuff. + +As prognosticators of politically motivated criminal verdicts our local liberals are not even as good as an astrologer or a palm reader! + +Maybe they should take up alchemy; that hasn't been actually proven to be totally wrong!",0 +"LMAO...guess he is the assistant chief to the chief assistant. +So basically the Liberals get voted in and now have to pay someone to tell them how to do the job they were elected to do?...Only a Liberal... +Maybe L. Ron Hubbard is for hire.",0 +"In 1972 I made 1.80 / hour, which was above minimum wage. I shared a two bedroom apartment with a roommate and barely managed to make ends meet every month even with mooching occasional meals off my parents. This was in a very low cost of living state and there is simply no way I could have supported a family. I don't know why anyone would expect anything different today.",0 +"So you arguing: +1) there is no such thing as a verbal contract? +2) that no company ever makes an offer contingent on screening? + +Yes I am taking the story at face value, mostly on the merit of the fact that the EEOC accepted the charge, you are aware that they don't file complaint for every applicant filing a charge, but those that they see are covered by there jurisdiction, including: +""If you believe you have been discriminated against by an employer, labor union or employment agency when applying for a job or while on the job because of your...sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation)"" +https://www.eeoc.gov/field/denver/charge.cfm + +And while my assessment is admittedly based on one side of the story, yours is pure speculation based on no statements whatsoever.",0 +"Loretta Sheehan has every right to question and challenge she is trying to do a job. The Chief so concern with her being involved.“I don’t, frankly, think he has a leg to stand on,” Sheehan said., why so scared chief.. Aloha",0 +"Well we have the words of God given to us by the Church. + +If you disagree with their interpretation you undercut the very credibility of the Bible itself!",0 +"Well no matter how much you think the State of Alaska will overrule the Feds you are wrong. This is just on of the ultra conservative things to come under the new administration. Don, Dan and Lisa may give some lip service but they will march with the GOP madness like always when it time to vote.",0 +You make a good point about rates of extinction being important. Human caused environmental damage has been increasing extinction rates for centuries and is accelerating. With damage environmental instability will increase making life more difficult for everything. A good graph and info: http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/earth-s-sixth-mass-extinction-has-begun-new-study-confirms/,0 +"My position is straight forward, stop the Bolsheviks (some people call them progressives) from telling us what to do with our own bodies (does that sound familiar?) +There is no greater tyrant than the one who controls your life for your own good because he sleeps well at night (to paraphrase an old expression, not sure who said if first).",0 +"The writing was on the wall long ago. Successive governments of all stripes have been buying public service labour peace on the back of the tax payer for decades. And now the bill has arrived. The public service pension liability is unstainable. And taxation on the private sector has reached a point of diminishing returns (See Laffer). It's unlikely this government has the cajones to pull back public servant benefits. And previous Conservative governments have failed to address the matter. + +That leaves the private sector to our own devices. Those who can, will leave. Others will adopt a cash-lifestyle. The bulk however, will just give-up.",0 +"I see NO fix for the penalties from the offensive linemen. The U of Nike offensive linemen have size, but are lacking decent foot speed. They are getting beat off the line by the opposing defensive linemen and once the opposing player starts to get by them, they HOLD.",0 +"Comprehension isn't your strong point... +Still single, or have you been divorced a few times?",0 +"Lol, that's comedy!! So because government already breaks the law and tramples people's rights we should just accept it and go along with the program . Delicious Friday humor.",0 +"This is way over the heads of the brain trust we know as the OSC. +They are still trying to figure out if BRE-X was a scam.",0 +"so lefties need a firewall to protect them from the will of the people - anything to game the system you say, sure sounds like it to me - but we shouldnt be surprised should we - if they can sell left-wing policies on the campaign trail some sort of voter suppression must be in order to prevent the people from making heir voices heard and that is all PR is to me a form of voter suppression to mitigate the will of the people - but then again does the left ever think they have done any wrong - judging by what I read here the answer is no",0 +"As long as Klastri, HitLIARy, wiliki, boots, allie and nana-kool-aid aren't permitted to show up topless as all of them have the same sized sagging boobs. Seeing those might traumatize little children and leave them with mental scars to only confuse them to ponder which gender they should grow up as in the future. LOL",0 +"If he's so opposed to raising taxes, he should not mention it. Every time he does, he's just using it as a threat so he can get his way.",0 +"The winner receives $6,000.00. You can not hardly get out of town on that amount. A quality food cart costs $10,000.00.",0 +"When there are jobs, the Left works for their money and services. The Right Tight Republicans simply recycle money and cut services to our brothers and sisters.",0 +"No, what it reinforces is that dogs and every other animal don't belong on a film set. I saw the video and won't be going near that movie,",0 +What you describe are political positions. Apparently you just happen to personally dislike them.,0 +"The Globe's coverage of the Liberal's cash for access practices was excellent journalism and worthy of a NNA nomination. My disagreement was with your comment that it ""deserves the highest degree of the Order of Canada for those reporters."" After all, if you're going that far over the top, why stop at anything less than a Nobel Prize? + +Lol - ""partisanship"" indeed.",0 +Thanks for your service to a group that is overrepresented in prison and underrepresented in the Justice system.,0 +"Well, there's always Batbreath news.",0 +"On the Security Council UK, USA, Russia, China, France have a VETO +If Canada gets a seat it is only token +but Narcissistic Justin wants bragging rights and risks lives of Canadian soldiers",0 +"It's a more than valid question... school wasn't out, he's at an age where he's suppose to be attending school. I hit the dog. There's no question bout that and I own up to that. The family need to own up to their part. There's things that could have been done to prevent an incident from even being a possibility. I wrote nothing hurtful or wrong. U need to think with logic not emotion.",0 +With a list like this the dems really are on suicide watch. Love it.,0 +Welcome to the Jungle.,0 +"Running a lottery and flying in 40000 winners from their homelands on the opposite of the world to a country in which they do not speak the language, do not agree with the culture and in which they have none of the skills required to make their lives here a success is simply an incredibly poor use of the billions of dollars that we spend on these programs each year. +We would make far more of an impact by using half of that money more efficiently to improve the lives and futures of large numbers of refugees within the camps and to use the other half to help the 35000 Canadians who are homeless, the thousands of Canadians who have no clean drinking water, our veterans who are not being properly supported, and to provide the adequate services that our sick, our youth, our elderly and working poor are desperately in need of.",0 +"You ask why, and you don't want to hear the obvious answer?",0 +Pence ain't no veep he's the Chumps valet and go for. Anyone that can go on national television an tell lies because that was what he was told to say is an embarrassment,0 +Gallery - nice. But let's go further. Let's put Terry - a truly inspiring hero - on our currency in place of a foreign monarch. Hi courage and determination are an example for all of us. Who would you rather your kids admire?,0 +Harper did everything he could to deconstruct the best regulated system of mortgage finance in the world and the result is a massive debt bubble predicated on inflated housing. Time to get a little real.,0 +Good catch! You may be a party stalwart who sees what should have been obvious long ago.,0 +"Total number of slaves freed in the Emancipation Proclamation=0 (It actually promised any seceded state that came back into the union within a certain time they would be guaranteed to keep their slaves). Total number freed when Lee surrendered to Grant=0 (Including Grants Slaves, Lee had already freed his years before so you can't count them). Know your history folks.",0 +Please look up the difference between homosexuality and ephebophilia. The great majority of child sex abusers are neither priests nor gay.,0 +Inauguration audience numbers are irrelevant and have no bearing on anything. It's just a giant distraction from the Left who are still crying that Hillary lost.,0 +"Why not let nature take its course? with our states budget cuts, one would assume this experiment should not be conducted @ this time...",0 +"""Have circumstances really changed that much "" + +JT's first bill was a tax cut, reducing Government revenues + +He then reversed the Increase to OAS eligibility increasing long run liabilities. + +He then dramatically increased other program spending. + +Nowhere is there any plan to bring that structural deficit under control at any point. + +""In any case, the projections are based on the federal government not changing policies which is not realistic."" + +Trudeau Père lost control of the budget in '75, turning what had been a structural Primary Surplus into a structural Primary Deficit. 82', '83, '84 Canada recorded record back to back deficits peaking at 8.1% of GDP - I struggle to think of a major economy who posted a deficit of such magnitude outside of a major Financial crisis. + +It took major austerity by Mulroney and Martin, plus a booming Global economy to balance Canada's books again - 25 years after TP went off the rails. + +History is not on your side",0 +Well said Lori,0 +"If we keep killing Muslims we can expect Canadians at home and abroad to be killed. Our troops should be brought home. They are engaged in hopeless and immoral fighting. They and their families deserve to live in peace, or, if necessary, defend Canada, not attack other countries.",0 +"To be fair to allie, when the media uses the catchphrase ""of no local address"" it's intended as a polite euphemism for ""living on the streets. "" The accused, homeless or not, have feelings too you know.",0 +maybe they didn't know about the vote due to lack of it being published,0 +"We believe in the power of The People over the power of The State and The Church and even over the power of The Oligarchs and The Corporations, therefore, we are full-bred US citizens and freemen. We are not slaves, nor are we tools. If you come to help us battle systemic inequity and bolster ailing civil liberty and equality, then come and fight among us for The Good.",0 +"Mr Dionne neglects the obvious. + +Corbyn showed up for nationally televised debates. May didn't. + +Corbyn crafted an appealing manifesto: ""For the many, not the few"" in which Labour promised free education and numerous other free benefits while increasing taxes on the rich. May crafted the worst manifesto in electoral history with her: ""Dementia tax"" which many feared would cost them their homes. + +Corbyn said that he would increase police staffing after 3 bloody Islamic terrorist attacks in 3 months. May was stuck with her record of cutting 20K police, a decision which may have aided the Islamic terrorists. + +Corbyn advocated a ""soft"" Brexit approach which would keep many links with the EU and would not impose immigration controls. May could not clearly articulate what she really was going to push for in Brexit. + +Even so, the Tories still won the election because the voters did not want Corbyn, a pro-terrorist, Marxist, anti-democratic, anti-U.S., socialist with a bad education.",0 +"""certain “barbaric cultural practices,” such as honour killings and female genital mutilation, are crimes in Canada."" + +Its a fact...like or not.",0 +"Completely ignored because the answer is ""if I can see it from any vantage point near my house"" it's too close. The argument is for more regulation and further distance from houses, but it's just presented that way. It's for no drilling near anyone and that's not going to happen without changing mineral law that has been on the books forever. + +This deal with XOG got BOTH and it STILL wasn't enough to keep people from being outraged. Broomfield got local regulations in place and a seat at the table for 18 months of negotiations and Adams county got the sites placed double the state standards for distance.",0 +"""If you can't tell what offends some people and what doesn't, you should just stay home."" + +What you say offends me. You are holding my ""white"" feet to the fire because some white people did some racists things before I was ever born? That's incredibly insulting. So it's ok for you to insult me but not the other way around? The world doesn't revolve around you.",0 +"We have already decided to cut hours of operation in our family practice medical office by 20% effective January 1st if the changes to small business corporate taxation are enacted. The level of taxation will rise so high that after overhead and personal tax it creates a disincentive to work. Our secretaries will have their hours cut, less revenue will go to pay for the leasing space as it is based on percentage, less referrals will go to labs, specialists, etc. We turn away a lot of people everyday looking for a family physician. Many elderly physicians in our area of Toronto are retiring and their patients have nowhere to go. I suspect many physicians will cut their hours of service. There will be a physician shortage starting in 2018 on a scale never seen before.",0 +No other single man fueled more terrorism.,0 +The Legos looked yellow to me.,0 +I listened to one congressman recounting the incident and talking about the fear and terror he felt and 'when was someone coming to help' and I could not help but think about those 6 graders at Sandyhook and the terror they must have felt.,0 +"Yep, try those pernicious sanctions. They worked well against Japan prior to December 7, 1941. The imposition of sanctions - economic and diplomatic - sure kept the Chinese from developing a nuclear arsenal. We should also be proud of tough economic sanctions that kept Pakistan from building their stockpile. (Wink, wink). Who is this Cory Gardner? Is he some type of intellectual lightweight? Or, is he just looking for ink?",0 +"I think your age and fitness level has to be taken into consideration. +Being unfit and of a certain age and suddenly doing interval training is hard on your heart. +It's the reason why runners are coached to get some base training under their belt to condition themselves before doing intervals (sprints and track work).",0 +wrong the FBI did not support the notion the russians hacked the GOP! what typical hate trump bs headline is this again,0 +Carefully sited wind turbines and solar arrays on choice stretches of the RR right-of-way with existing powerlines would pencil out. Win win.,0 +"Trump has now said again today, for about the tenth time: He has no businesses in Russia, no loans from Russia, no deals with Russia. +The FBI says Flynn did not lie to them nor did he collude with Russia. + +What is the issue?",0 +"Evil must be defeated? Sadly evil is a relative term and the US has often been the practitioner of evil. Actually to think of opponents as evil, shows a major lack of understanding. Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.",0 +"The ""If taking of innocent life is wrong...."" had nothing to do with pedophiles. The argument is that of the Law and State. Murder is the removing and/or killing of innocent life. And that is the Law of the State explicitly describing that as a crime. And hence why the debate is reasonable. The lifeform is human in all developmental stages which an infant is born and proceeds from their mother's womb - the life is human. Essentially why it is debatably wrong to take the life of a human being developing through all stages from zygote-to-embryo-through fetal development to an infant. Which is why it is a serious matter to take away such a life through abortion. Thus, not a religious argument, but that of the Law and State.",0 +But you can call me Ray. Or Raymond.,0 +"Mr. Arpaio was charged with a misdemeanor , a petty offense and yet was denied a Jury Trial as is his right under the Sixth Amendment which states , in part: +""In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed,"" US Constitution , Bill of Rights. There are no exceptions to this . + +It seems as if the judge who found him guilty needs a lesson in following the Rule of Law and so does Senator McCain",0 +"Using and dealing are the same because they're both equal parts of the same violent and dangerous lifestyle. Otherwise, I don't find anything in your comment, except perhaps your analogy to bank robbery, to dispute.",0 +"So we voted for this person? She knows what’s best for the city? I’m so glad we have people that are in office that tackle the big issues like declawing your cat + +Who cares about the little things like education, crime, taxes",0 +"That alone seems to speak loudly for socialization and relationship education programs in school that these parents failed to provide at home - even though everyone says it was their responsibility .. If high school boys and girls don't get this from parents, where else should they go for this as they grow toward adulthood? One might not be dead and the other not locked up for life if they had had some earlier preventative education that taught them effective, reasonable ways to address difficult, hormone-raging situations .",0 +fore!,0 +"Good for him but do we have to keep looking at these ""victorious male ape"" visuals to convince us he's victorious?",0 +"Not being a gynecologist, and thus having no excuse to examine a female candidate's privates to see if she is actually a female, I tend to rely on what I have learned about them from a variety of sources when I consider what I think about a candidate instead of their (alleged) gender. + +Your posts reveal that it is your belief that all females are superior to all males on all subjects and I take that into consideration when you write something. + +Other than that, I don't pigeon-hole very well.",0 +Yay Stars! The Best of The Best!,0 +Why is that shocking? They did not not decide whether or not the immigration ban was legal as that was not the case they were tasked to decide. The law you're citing is applicable to whether or not the immigration ban is legal.,0 +"take it up with any of the too many Human Rights Commissions in Canada +they love sob stories +i am sure you will be generously compensated +it costs nothing to file a complaint",0 +"We still have federal prohibition of Cannabis and other drugs. Drugs are a medical problem, not a law enforcement problem.",0 +"@G&M monitor and your exaggeration of “censured” this comment; +Islamophobia ???...NO! +“...The problem was the inadequate approach to the Islamic Center, who wanted to have his cemetery without the consent of the population. I assure you that the inhabitants of Saint-Apollinaire are not against a Muslim cemetery, them. +They wanted to share the ground, because they also need this field” +Le Devoir",0 +"While Muslims excoriate us about supposed Islamophobia, we should bear in mind Islam's entrenched homophobia, misogyny, Judeophobia, Christiophbia, Buddeaphobia Europhobia, Americanophibia, democratiophobia, Bibliophobia, iconoclasm, and even Islamophobia against each other.",0 +"the gov't has not done well with education, transit or police. +. +I believe health care is a human right and we have a good system in ontario",0 +"Perhaps the worst word in the annals of business and public life is the word strategy. There is only one thing true about strategy and that is like terrorism, in the history of the world, no strategy has ever really achieved its stated aims. Grand plans do not work. National strategies, especially in country as diverse as Canada are the worst of the worst. I do not understand why the Globe wastes precious column inches on this stuff. Slow news day perhaps. And the print media wonders why it isn't making any money when it publishes this drivel. Oh wait, lets have a national strategy to use taxpayers dollars to help support the print media so that it can peddle more of this pap. Or let's not.",0 +"Another professorial article descending from ivory tower academe to the mere sheeple below.... mostly devoid of useful content. + +What is the alternative .... please enlighten us. An alternative that will not destroy our economies and infrastructure. It is not simply a matter of phasing out fossil fuels - but to find an economically viable low CO2 alternative for heating, transport, electricity generation 24/7 and base load capable. If our universities are supposed places of critical thinking and innovation then this article rates a FAIL ! It is atrivial accomplishment to write about what should be. How about spending some time to propose what might be .... written by a STEM expert. + +And please don't recycle the current Green Energy fiascoes as experienced by Germany and Ontariowe !!",0 +"CP, again I agree with 90% of what you say, however, how do you label Trump as a racist when he acknowledged he does not like the various hate groups. You have inferred based on his statement that both parties are to blame for the violence. Granted, the protestors are wrong promoting their beliefs, but, how can you not say the anti-protestors did nothing wrong? It takes 2 to tango and ""some"" of the blame resides with the anti-protestors. But to surmise that Trump is a racist is invalid.",0 +If you have nothing to hide why you running from the police is the cliche If the police have nothIng to hide redacted shouldn't be an issue.,0 +Much too high,0 +"You're right. But if a person is already in a defensive posture, say they know they are in a domestic dispute, they are 'accutely' aware of the possibility of violence, even if they have never met the people there are dealing with. Past history/experiences affect ALL of us and many of us develop fears that exceed the threat. I had an aunt, very nice lady, who would be near tears every time she went on a bridge over water. +===== +In St. Louis circa 1976 I talked to city police. They would drive 60 through the projects I was staying in (with permission from black gangs). Why, it's it terrible police work? They were never out of their car unless in pursuit. Why?, because they got shot at from high points in the apartments. One guy had his police car striped when he chased a subject to a fourth floor apartment. + +So yes, a defensive posture is logical. It also creates a stereotype, based on skin color, that could trigger fear and cost a harmless person their life.",0 +"Opium poppies are plants. + +Use of opium goes back thousands of years. + +""The Mediterranean region contains the earliest archeological evidence of human use; the oldest known seeds date back to more than 5000 BCE in the Neolithic age."" + +It's refined substances are some of the most addictive known to man. + +Heroin, morphine, codeine.",0 +"Instead of thoughts and prayers, I would like to see congressmen engage brain and use reason and logic to make decisions. Then exhibit courage and moral fiber to actually do something to defy gun merchants and the NRA. Find ways to decrease the level of insanity and murderous individuals who are unable to live as civilized human beings. Prayer is fine, but decisions would be better at this level of societal violence.",0 +"People who demand freebies are Trump's base. + +""Four key Rust Belt states that flipped from Barack Obama to Trump, large percentages of those who benefit from food stamps and Social Security Disability Insurance — both of which would get slashed by Trump — are non-college whites, a core Trump constituency. Those states are Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. A large percentages of those who stand to lose health coverage under the GOP health plan in those states are also blue-collar whites. Many of them are likely on Medicaid, and this toll will undoubtedly be made worse by the Trump budget."" + +They are just now finding out they've been had. + +How about that?",0 +"This is yet another biased/slanted article and headline. You could just as well label the article, ""Taxpayers to Shoulder Less of a Burden Under Trump's Proposed Budget, Which Eliminates Billions of Dollars of Discretionary, Non-Essential Federal Spending"". There is good in having a slimmer budget, and eliminating handouts are a good place to start.",0 +"Irene +The folks you refer too are on the medicaid plan and that is not going anywhere.",0 +"Nice scarf. I presume the taxpayer picked up the tab for it along with this year's CBC drivel highlight....oh wait, I am sure there must be some over-rated junk from Atwood in the pipeline.",0 +"Sorry - your reply wasn't up when I wrote my response. Right now I think I can see your point. But I am still concerned about how much our health care ""system"" costs, regardless of who provides insurance. For example, would you retain Medicare in your proposal? One of the issues that Bush's drug benefit created was Congress's prohibition on price negotiations with big pharma - which seems to increase costs across the board for US consumers. And, of course, as I wrote above, the fact that doctors, hospitals, etc., charge fees for each service provided, which obviously incentivizes more, not less, care (and more care is not always good for one's health). Finally, what would you propose re. the whole pre-existing conditions issue? Auto insurance differs from homeowners in a crucial way. If one wants to drive, one needs to buy insurance (though one can choose the coverage amount) - not so for homeowners (except if one has a mortgage). Would you make people buy health insurance?",0 +"Can we decide for ourselves if we should pay taxes every year? Doubtful. It is beneficial for the majority however so it’s legislated. If we let people decide to pay taxes or not, they won’t, hence the legislation. We here like face to face dealing if the small minority doesn’t for whatever dumb reason, tough sh&&. I can’t wear my cap for my passport or smile. Can’t wear my cap for PAL but the Niqab is ok. That’s BS. You can cover your face for a gun license. Please point how how this isn’t utterly ridiculous. Hope all of Canada follows suit and takes it to banning the niqab anytwher in public, period.",0 +"Yeah you tell 'em brother, wait, What did Assad do to America??? #MAGA",0 +"DonAlt tRump has cancelled out of a planned visit to the African American Museum in D.C. That was planned for Martin Luther King Day on Monday. His team sites conflicting arrangements but after his now famous dressing down of Mr. Lewis, it is undoubtedly because he fears being booed and jeered at by the other visitors. It seems that courage is easy when you are twitter twit, not so much in a real life situations.",0 +"Thank you also, Dennis, for your response above. Sounds like you are a wonderful student, and a reliable classmate! And it appears, at least to me, that you're getting a good grasp on what EQUITY is all about. Our British forebears were instrumental in establishing a court system which mitigated the frequently harsh application of the law, which is why, even today, we speak of PRINCIPLES of equity which would, among other things, prevent a plaintiff, in a law court, from being unjustly enriched by a law court. Plaintiffs in chancery courts are still called ""petitioners,"" and His Majesty the King appointed his chancellor to oversee, preside and tweak as necessary. Hence the name chancery courts. Because certain nobles feared that the chancellor was acquiring too much power, the courts of law and equity were ultimately combined. ""Epikeia"" is a sort of ecclesiastical counterpart in the Eastern Churches, which do NOT apply the ""divine laws"" of marriage with Western harshness.",0 +easier to blame the other.,0 +"And we have a president who lost the actual election by over three million votes - what's your point? Elections have consequences, deal with it.",0 +"Jerald Bruce Harrison, 58, of Fairbanks, was charged with 4th-degree assault and two counts of 4th-degree criminal mischief Jan. 22 after Fairbanks police responded at 4:20 a.m. to a disturbance at the Springhill Suites hotel. Harrison, who was not registered as a guest, entered the hotel and began writing on a wall. When contacted by hotel security, Harrison became agitated and started shouting at the front desk staff. Harrison said two Fairbanks City Council members were going to pay for a room for him to stay in. Hotel staff asked Harrison to leave and he began shouting that the council members were demons who were sent to kill him, according to the charges. Harrison opened a half door and let himself behind the front desk, then menaced the staff with a pen. He entered an office, barricaded the door with filing cabinets and discharged a fire extinguisher in the room. Harrison also knocked computers and various office supplies from the counters.",0 +"I agree in general that govt sits on way too much land that amounts to dead capital, but the problem is how to realize value from it, or at least break even on it, rather than generate new long-term liabilities from it. A stretch of unused land can either sit on the books generating no return, or it can be serviced for a new township, none of whose residents can be expected to pay rates or utilities bills for perhaps decades. + +It may be though that these liabilities exist whether or not the govt does anything - that's where it starts getting interesting. Govt should perhaps bite the bullet and stop fighting a rear-guard action against the inevitable.",0 +"Jimmy Carter is a founder for Habitat for Humanity? LOL You need to get away from fake news https://www.habitat.org/about/history + +The way to prevent dehydration is well known - you think someone is a hero for getting so dehydrated they end up in the hospital? Further, you think Trump should be working for HFH while he's trying to run the country? Even your hero Jimmy Carter didn't manage to do that. He's RETIRED, with an enormous pension, hence the time to spend on charity endeavors. + +Do you also imagine that Carter cooks his own meals, does his own laundry, cleans his house, maintains the landscape, manages finances and investments, and prepares his own tax returns? + +Next time you want to deride Trump, you might want to come up with something that has more logic.",0 +CB What is your response to this?,0 +And you think Hillary cares about anyone but Hillary? Where are you buying the stuff you're smoking?,0 +"Well, they stole something. Where they the real plans or just a set of made up fakes?",0 +"Classical example of a gay couple showing off their utter intolerance toward others. If the situation were reversed, the liberal Nazis and their sycophants would be crying murder. Very reflective how intolerant liberals are getting nowadays as they attacked those who refused to kowtow to their belief. For a gay couple to do this and without any sort of condemnation from any of the gay organizations out there, they got no room to complaint next time they get single out. It can be said nowadays that conservative intolerance has been far surpassed by liberal intolerance as our nation move into the intolerant stage where we are open to attack people for their beliefs, for who their parents might be (like in this article) or their lifestyle. Interesting time we live in, eh?",0 +"Yes, on sleeping bag. Alaskans freeze to death all the time, especially in the mountains in April. Bring a jacket. Bring a first aid kit. Bring an ice axe if you are climbing a mountain because people save their lives every day with ice axes. There are a hundred ways to get hurt in the bush that are more common than bear attacks. Your pack would weigh a thousand pounds if you planned for every contingency. Bear attacks make morbid news but they actually are very rare. It doesn't make the news when somebody has a sleeping bag and comes home safe. It doesn't make the news when somebody saves themselves with an ice axe. Yet, it happens every day. This rarely makes the news but it's a fact that every mountain climber understands. + +You can blame the bear if you want but that is the point of my first post. To feel safe it helps to blame someone or something, whether it's a bear or the victim.",0 +It seems like the service times chosen were ill-suited to the location. The busses started too late in the morning and ended too early at night. Any sophomore-level college business student could have come up with a better plan.,0 +"As a Catholic I find your comments offensive and uncivil. + +If I wanted to talk with Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and Jews I would be at the National Hindu Reporter, National Buddhist Reporter, National Islamic Reporter, or the National Hebrew Reporter. + +In addition none of these others claim to have the four marks, and none of them do.",0 +"No shortage of ""anonymous"" sources for the WaPo and NYT - which the Globe follows along like an obedient puppy. You can guarantee Obama never said anything bordering controversial in private settings, he was the perfect President.",0 +"Ethanol will not reduce smog and produces 22% more hydrocarbons than gasoline resulting in higher ozone levels that can cause respiratory problems. +Source: Scientific American April 2007. +Also why divert valuable fertile farmland from food production to ethanol production. We have plenty of oil and gas that can be used to power vehicles. +No problem banning diesel powered automobiles. Period. The concept of bio diesel is misleading suggesting that bio diesel is cleaner than ordinary diesel.",0 +"Trump could have just pardoned Flynn (as it is his right to do), and the investigation into Flynn would have ended. Trump didn't do this, thus allowing the investigation to continue. Which it still does, with or without Comey.",0 +"My statement is fact based on the Constitution ad federal law and therefore cannot be refuted and you offered up nothing to refute if that were even possible. Also, I wasn't attempting to refute your opinion, to which you are entitled, but merely making the case, based on the rule of law, that the Paris Accord on Climate Change is invalid as far it concerns the United States. REFUTE THAT!",0 +"Not in that class?!?! + +Only a Trudeau supporter wants a return to a class system in Canada.",0 +"The candidates campaigned for electoral college votes, not for overall popular vote. Do you also want to change the rules from the last Super Bowl after the fact and say the team that had the most penalties won?",0 +"I'm not sure what plnas are,PDN can't afford spell checking but any damages done to bridges,roads and private property resulting from dam removal should be paid at the federal level. + Before it's all said and done it's going to cost billions in residual costs to repair bridges,repair our water supply to the level and quality it was and ongoing flood control.The state and local government shouldn't be responsible for a dime of it.--ken--",0 +"Now is the time for Colorado Craft brewers to decide if they wish to survive or not. +To do so, they really will need to come up with a distributorship that sole job is to push Colorado Craft booze around the nation. When a new company starts up, they can join the distributorship and get market right away. +With such an approach, it would make it harder for Bud to shut out the little guys which is what they are going to try hard to do.",0 +"That lucky kid has quite a story to tell. +I wonder if the crash will change his driving habits.",0 +How sad. Prayers for his family...,0 +"To be a viable candidate, one needs to have policies and ideas that will actually work in the real world, whether they are the winning party or not. Voting your conscience is fine; it's what I typically do. But the reason the Green, Libertarian, or National Socialist parties never gain any traction is due to their lack of viable platforms.",0 +"The military's presence in these islands is both an economic pot of gold and an itchy rash that needs to be scratched. More people on an island does not necessarily mean a healthier economy, both from the military and from the tourist trade. I learned a long time ago that a diverse economy is the healthiest way to go. People come here to play in the sun, surf in the ocean, and feast on the beauty of these islands. They don't care where the sewer lines are, or if they spill our ""pilau"" into the ocean.",0 +"I bought a #58 jersey this week. When I saw that poor decision b Miller to kneel, I turned off the TV and returned the jersey. +You don't have to love everything abut the country, but it's a pretty good place to be, and too many have died for our freedoms.",0 +"Thanks for emphasizing the link, KS. Prior to reading those results, had I tried to guesstimate percentages to the questions I would have been way off. It was enlightening.",0 +My husband and I voting for Stock,0 +I researched your claim and found nothing. Where did you source that info?,0 +"The sad thing about this comment mocking the author's hyphenated name and calling him an ""eastern latte sipping elitist"" is that (so far) 3 people liked it. + +It goes some distance to answering whether the Trump phenomenon could happen here.",0 +I disagree with much of his economic policies. What I like about him is that he is a symbol of reaction.,0 +"Who is ""we"" please talk for yourself.",0 +"When my first grandchild died, a Jewish couple sat shiva with my wife and me. They wept with us, to show their concern. This was not emotionalism, this was being fellow mourners. And being true friends.",0 +"G&M Say: ""The average house price in your area last quarter was $746,445 +Based on your area code V5E"" +I ask again, does this include condos as houses? +If so say so. If not so this G&M avg house price for my area is total TRASH ! +Here the BOTTOM price for a very undesirable house here is $1m. +For a desirable house the starting price is now about $1.5m. + +So condo sales are down, but prices are up. Obviously that reflects a limited supply situation. Here houses are in limited supply, so prices are going up. + +The ugly housing situation is ReMax showing houses that aren't for sale on their web site. +They say just click for realtor service. I assume then a listing is attempted for their buyer.",0 +Fine Stradivarii don't usually explode. Trump is like three stooges in one.,0 +"Tell them, Sister!",0 +"You tap on a very interesting point, Black Coffee. The question that should be raised by the electorate to these three, and the other names that are candidates on the list is ""of all of you which one is trusted enough by the Legislature to listen to your pitch on extending the GET, and actually getting it passed?"" + +Whomever that person is, yea, consider them to be electable. All the others, yeah, they arn't",0 +Joggers killed by cars too.... perhaps we should ban those as well?,0 +"Lekanoff was talking about the big Post Office that was built in Dutch Harbor. A government building. During Reagan's reign. The Post Office built many offices around the state and elsewhere, during the 80's. +Now during Obama years, the Republicans have made the Post Office pay for retired workers 75 years into the future. It's breaking the PO. But the Republicans want to privatize anyway. No other government agency pays for itself, just the PO. No other government agency has to pay for retirees that aren't even born yet, just the PO. So, many offices built around Alaska and the lower 48, are closing due to this added tax.",0 +"No clue about constitutional history huh? + +There's a reason the framers left the generic terms 'arms' in place, instead of getting specific. + +They knew they couldn't predict the future, but they wanted the populace to be as well 'armed' as the government. That was the only way they could see that a tyranny of the majority could be avoided. + +What would really shock them is that people in 2016 were afraid to stand up and defend themselves, from enemies both without and within. + +That they would cower until the police showed up would seem absurd to these men.",0 +"Thomas Condon, who is well recognized at the John Day center for his discoveries, was from Eugene, and was the University of Oregon's first great professor of the 19th Century. Many of his fossils are on display at the UO Museum of Natural History. +The house in which he and Cornelia lived, formerly at 11th and High, is now at 1272 Jackson. Condon, who was both a missionary and a scientist was famous for blending science and religion. In an interesting sidelight relevant to current issues, Condon lost one of his early preacher positions because of his opposition to slavery. +Basically, he was a great guy. +If you are interested, read Clark's ""Odyssey of Thomas Condon."" This and his daughter Ellen Condon McCornack's book are wonderful as they describe his discoveries in these beautiful fossil beds.",0 +"I don't think I would have used it, but where child care availability is sparse, it's a good option for some.",0 +Grow up Marty. You have no real proof for the existence of the God you define in your head. Putting me down doesn't make your God any more real than the God I have in my head.,0 +Sounds to me like they just gave up and crawled into their tent. They should have kept fighting to remove the snow.,0 +"I don't entirely agree with your post but I will grant you that the idea that this situation has been boiled down to if you support the players your'e un-patriotic and if you support the flag you're a racist, cop lover. It was never that simple. It is however why I think it was a colossally bad idea to protest with the anthem in the first place. Yes, it drew attention but it also drew away from the message. + +I'm a 26 year veteran and I went to work every day because doing so made me feel good and made me feel a part of something bigger than myself. Did I appreciate someone saying thank you when I was out at lunch in my uniform? Of course. Did I need someone to say thank you to validate my decision to serve? Absolutely not. Players kneeling or standing changes nothing for me. Can I have the opinion that they should stand? Of course. Does that make me a racist? No, it doesn't and on the flip side, you can love America and be a patriot without wearing a flag pin on your lapel.",0 +"Trump's temper tantrums are getting very old. We don't tolerate bullying in the schools or workplace and we should not tolerate it here! We are very fortunate that Senators McCain, Murkowski and Collins were thinking of the citizens of this country! I feel like we are caught in a gang war. No logic or common sense--just one party vs. the other!",0 +"Dr Wolk comes from the for profit, private prison 'industry'....where he looked at his 'patients' as criminals....an industry that needs the 80 WAR on cannabis to continue.",0 +"The people voted, politicians need to get out of the way. Follow the will and vote of the people. People will be employed and a product that will generate taxes will help the economy.",0 +"This is OLD NEWS. He said he was leaving LAST MONTH! Before all this ""phony baloney,plastic banana"" stuff the Dimms have been throwing out there. +Is this supposed to be some kind of conspiracy or ""Collusion with the Russians/Trump administration?Now add Rep Chaffetz to the list? +Get Real Libs! I see you (here)foaming at the mouths waiting for the lynch mob! Only too eager to hang our POTUS! Shame,shame! +Sometimes I think the MSM is just egging these feeble minded Liberals with these types of news stories.......stoking the fire! + +Rep. Chaffetz just wants some time off. ""Mid Life Crisis"".Doesn't like sleeping on a cot.Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Yeah right! I would miss my Family too! +But the MSM headline partially reads; + ""Raising doubts about Trump probe"" Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa! What else will the Fake news media think of. IMUA!",0 +"415,656 priests to 1.28 billion Catholics = 1 priest to 3079",0 +"This begs the question, why is a judge deciding this and not a jury of her piers? What is case law, doesn't the law mean what it says, if so why are judges making these decisions from the bench; The Judiciary was the weak link in the Republic as the founders knew. 8 years of Obama packing the Federal courts with leftist judges makes ""receiving justice"" virtually impossible if you are on the other side of their political views.",0 +"No mention of how the Trudeau Liberals quietly reduced the maximum TSFA contribution from $10000 to $5500? +Another way the middle class is going to be hurt, not helped, by the Liberals. +Add to this the elimination of income splitting for couples with children, the Children’s Fitness Tax Credit, the Children’s Arts Tax Credit, the Education Tax Credit and the Textbook Tax Credit, and the coming carbon tax...",0 +"Go, China, go!",0 +"I am looking forward to getting a Diesel electric F750 with six doors and a ten foot bed. With an electric motor at each wheel for true 4x4. An onboard 6000 KwH on board set of sequenced battery packs will provide ample juice to run the many accessories on my RV. + +When the batteries run down I can fire up the diesel to charge them up again. All that I need is a substantial lottery win. + +Meanwhile back in the real world I will likely drive my 11F350 until 2032 when I will be in the market for a 2025 F350. If they have a hybrid electric option by then I will likely avoid it. Times are good.",0 +"Another article which fails to mention the SOURCES of the homeless problem(s)...among them mental illness and related issues. WHY do homeless people set up campgrounds? Spending time ""policing"" illegal campsites is like watering a single leaf on a plant when the entire plant needs water. Enough!",0 +still obviously smarter than heil harper,0 +"BMW is right on. Tesla already outsells the top of line BMW, Mercedes and Audi vehicles, and with the Model 3, threatens their entire offering. That is why all of the leading car companies are accelerating their plans to electrify their fleets. Electric charging is increasing available, with the number of charging stations rapidly expanding every year. We have driven electric cars from Toronto to Florida for the last three years and have seen an explosion of charging station options, and typically only stop at every second or third high speed charging station along the way (the total charging time each day is around two hours). + +Battery electric cars are five times as energy efficient as gas, and three times as efficient as fuel cells. There can be no doubt that they are the way of the future.",0 +"and there it is, the premier righty comeback on placing the needy, it never fails to rear it's ugly head. they'd turn even Jesus away if he came asking for a crust of bread.",0 +"This is just more Globalism. First comes the mindset, then the evidence that your Governor (or President ) is a Globalist by the decisions they make! If your Governor (or President) places you, as an American, in a lesser position than non-US Citizens, then the evidence is Clear.",0 +"There are actual Nazis marching in the streets of America proudly showing off their Swastika tattoos and a president making excuses for them. +Screw my blood pressure. + +I would rather die raging against them than live with the guilt of condoning them by silence. + +In 1928 the original Nazis were also a joke, too small to be politically worth caring about. Couldn't win a single seat in parliament in the last election. Nazis have a way of going from a joke to murdering rampage sweeping the world very, very rapidly if they are not actively opposed at every step. +It's the kind of movement that needs to run into a brick wall of resistance every time it rears it's ugly head - because if you give it an inch, it will burn the world.",0 +"Southern Pride? We live in Alaska. Rebellion? Against what? Lets be blunt, this flag was carried by people who were fighting to enslave other human beings, it is nothing more than a disgrace to our nations history like the Nazi flag is to Germany. Thats is the lesson students need to be taught, you are not cool and mysterious you are glorify a mentality of racism.",0 +"i was told by a provider that that is against the rules, if you have the insurance, they are supposed to submit and if they don't charge the 'blue cross/blue shield' set fee, they are dinged in some way.",0 +"I would like to tell you that I find it highly disrespectful to question anyone's faith. I think I understand the intent of your question, and that is not my issue with it. I see it in these blogs fairly often, used by some traditionalists to attack the integrity of others. It does not belong on this site - or any other Catholic blog, in my opinion. I hope and ask that you refrain from doing so in the future, and if you can, I offer my sincere thanks.",0 +"Clearly the market is changing and the news organizations of yesterday won't survive today. Pouring more public money into a broken model won't fix the problem. To take this proposal seriously, the first recommendation should be to immediately close down the CBC. It is long out lived its mandate, lacks any credibility, and distorts the market with its high subsidies. Ad revenue would then be earned by the private broadcasters, who would be more financially stable. The second recommendation is to address the credibility problem most mainstream media outlets have. Once these recommendations are done, then we can talk about public subsidizes.",0 +Funny that speechifying about free speech was only available to high-dollar donation contributors in a place where the guy who considers himself a leader owns the hotel. Bothersome and inappropriate? Hell yes but that's the swamp that was voted in without a popular vote. Sad.,0 +A lie is not true no matter how many times it's repeated. Fetuses aren't babies.,0 +"""Amen, I say to you, Judge not, lest that you be judged. For the full measure that you mete out shall be meted un to you...Before you point out the speck in another's eye, take the plank out of your own."" +In my experience most Catholics do not divorce out of convenience but rather dire, chaotic and even dangerous circumstances such as alcoholism, addiction and abuse. Staying together ""for the kids"" in those types of circumstances is not advised. We might due well to remember that Christ does allow for divorce in cases of sexual immorality. Scratch one of those causes that I listed and see if you don't find such. +So easy to judge those who have divorced and remarried isn't it? So easy to tell others how to navigate this difficult world. So easy to mark with the scarlet ""A"". Harder to try and understand that you don't know all. That communion, or not, is between the sinner and God. ""Sinner""? Yes, everyone approaching the altar is a sinner, don't kid yourself.",0 +It's much cheaper to help migrants in Syria. Our health care is overloaded as many Canadians can't even find a family doctor or face a very long time to see specialists.,0 +Politely: that's BS. We have a gerrymandered Republican Majority and the blame is theirs alone.... except for the Dems who caucus with them out of desperation and a slippery sense of obligation to this state as a whole.,0 +"My God Shore, it is the afternoon and not even Christmas eve and you are already drunk.",0 +"You mean the Castle Foundation is disappointed that their 50 grand can't influence who they wanted? Either you grant someone money or not. To take it away, makes it seem as though the money didn't buy them what they wanted.",0 +"Come now, the Liberal government has successfully managed to cut my hydro bill in HALF! Yes, that's right, they reduced my bill by exactly 50%! + +.... of course I now get twice as many bills because the government mandated a switch from bi-monthly to monthly bills, but each bill is half as big so they're saving me money right?!?! +",0 +"If water were to flow over a period of seven million years through the Nike, Homo sapiens would have never developed an adaptive predisposition to altered states.",0 +"“(P)eople who fail to understanding the articulation of the theology of Vatican II” = people who disagree with you. + +Thus, anyone who disagrees with you is “bullying”.",0 +Good information and exciting links to view art by African Americans that led me to just search even more. I have spent over an hour just exploring names and being awed. Thanks.,0 +Careful Margaret: Fair Trade peroxide and hair gel are very flammable and could lead to liberal flameout.,0 +He didn't say that we had done it- he said that it still needs to be done. Some efforts have been made- some are ongoing.,0 +"I looked at some US stats, seems 1 in 10 of heroin addicts died of overdose in 2014. This is before fentanyl got mixed. We might be talking about 10-20K of severe addict in BC? It could be quite a line up for medical heroin.",0 +"""you don’t make sense. please do not reply to my comments. it is nonsensical to argue with nonsensical people"" Rick Tubania + +If you don't people to challenge your comments, you shouldn't post them on a public access message board. My impression from your comments on this story is that you are not capable of defending your position and would rather resort to insults. + +Would you care to return the discussion that the mall train is better for struggling families than a robust island wide bus system or personal car and you claim that no one suffers financial hardship from the rail tax? Or would you rather avoid the topic at hand and call me names?",0 +"I hoped that the U.S. would see absolute proof before taking military action. Alas, that didn't happen. What I do find interesting and possibly damning is that the U.S. hit the Syrian airbase from which the U.S. said the Syrian planes took off with the gas. Was there a release of the same gas at the airbase? There was likely left over gas at the airbase, no?",0 +"Power assisted bikes are legal in bike lanes. These machines which can travel up to 50 kph are dangerous to pedal bikes, pedestrians and cars turning legally across the bike lanes which presume the approaching bike is travelling at a normal pace and they have enough time to make the legal right turn. The council amended the bylaw to allow them in the lanes and as the prices drop they will become more and more popular. +They are not licenced or even insured vehicles there is no regulating competence to drive them and if they hit and run little or no way of tracking them. It has been suggested to local councillors in downtown wards that this use of the bike lanes be reviewed before there is a serious accident. A 40 kilogram machine (maximum allowable size) travelling at 50kph can kill an unwary pedestrian or pedal bikers and in contact with a car turning legally across the bike lane can kills the rider. It is only a matter of time before the first fatal accident.",0 +More of Anchorage's finest.,0 +"Maybe our negotiations would be going better if Trudeau hadn't invited Harper toady Rona Ambrose onto the team. + +Harper truly excels at making enemies.",0 +"Kind of makes you wonder why the Park Service needs thousands of rounds of rifle and pistol ammunition. Or like how the Department of Homeland Security, in 2010, needed to buy 1 billion rounds of ammunition (over 5 years), to secure a country with only 300 million people in it. That's 3x more bullets than people. Or how the Department of Education needed Glock handguns with high-capacity magazines and Remington Pump shotguns. The DoE doesn't even run a single school. They are mostly an education standards and finance organization. I guess you never know when one of those no-good kids is going to try to welch on their student loans.",0 +"Yeah, just like the Palmer jury let the preacher off some years ago after he cold-bloodedly and with proven premeditation shot two men ho were fleeing from to death in the back. Their bad luck they happened to have records. He's a murderer - but a religious one - so he gets a pass. Same deal with this smug doctor.",0 +I have always said that the taste of spam improves exponentially based on your distance from home! Sorry spam lovers.,0 +"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.",0 +"This website for checking if we've been effected, does it actually work in Canada? They're only asking for social security numbers.",0 +"Non sequitur? Not in the least. You asserted a criterion (""attacking virtually every Christian value…”) for excluding a presidential candidate from the Al Smith Dinner. My question stands on its own; it does not relate to Clinton. + + +Donald Trump is a vulgar boor who has built his presidential campaign on xenophobia, racism, misogyny and nativism. He ridicules women, mocks the disabled and attacks racial, ethnic and religious minorities. He's pretty much the textbook definition of a fascist. He’s a serial adulterer and accused rapist and molester. The question is: Using your criterion, does he get invited to the dinner? + + +Not for nothing, but: Her pro-choice voting record and policies notwithstanding, Clinton has done more to reduce the number and the rate of abortions in this country that Trump ever has or ever will.",0 +"Well said! + +It is the epitome of hubris to believe that we have the power of God and can control the climate of a system upon which, we are little more than an irritation. + +Get over yourselves!",0 +"Nope- gun ownership has skyrocketed in the last decade, while gun crime has gone down. That fact directly refutes your claim that ""too many guns in America"" is why this is happening. +. +Just curious-- since you, like the Leftists in California and New Jersey, want to tell Americans how many firearms they should own, what number is ""too many"" for you? Again- I'm just curious...",0 +We are all so proud of our winner AG. Trump is a monster and could not care less about families or the security of America. He is an entertainer serving his own brand. Nice to see Trump lose again as the better instincts of Hawaii triumph.,0 +"Which Facebook (?), I'd love to read it.",0 +It's a frackin' mile and a half away1,0 +Has anyone given any thought to what the adult criminal justice system would do with these kids? Put them in prison alongside adult cons? Get real. Think this through. Having some long term supervision is warranted. But where and how they spend their teen years is critical. They will come out of the system someday!,0 +"The chances that all four of Donaldson, Bautista, Tulowitzki and Martin will embark on a sustained hot streak are virtually nil. The chance that Smoak will duplicate his pre-All Star break stats are not much better. They're toast; the simply haven't realized it yet.",0 +"Interesting theory, Im curious, if they are the type to do such things why not keep him and continue milking the cow?",0 +"There you go again MSM. ""Trump's nearing presidency leaves a world of uncertainty"" + +There is no ""uncertainty."" In fact, it will be certain for the first time in eight years. + +Certain that: +- The US is not going to stand by and let flawed trade take their jobs +- Climate change scientists will have to defend their science, rather than just expect people to say it is true because they say it is true +- The US is going to stand up for its national interests - whether you be the PRC or Russia +- The US is going to develop a tax system that rewards business and people who work +- The US is going to abolish and re-invent a health insurance system that will not force people to buy health insurance plans they cannot afford and then cannot afford to use. + +And it is certain that America is going to be great again!!!",0 +"Your point is inherently contradictory though; you cant hear someone who's silent, can you? Therefore the 'silent majority' would need to speak up, noh?",0 +"'Those who believe they are accountable to God alone are the most dangerous people on the planet. They're really accountable to nothing but their own pleasures and prejudices."" +Those statements contradict each other.",0 +We want Top Golf!!!!,0 +"My first sentence is a question and not a declaration of fact. + +I notice that you weren't able to respond that Butts was not receiving any favours. + +If you didn't think that he was, you might have actually stated as much instead of talking about Donald Trump, who is irrelevant to an editorial about sales of Canadian security systems to China.",0 +"No, of course not. + +Justin has also enlisted the help of a former Conservative prime minister. + +As despicable as I found Mulroney to be, it must be super humiliating for Justin to have to call grandpa for help.",0 +Just another benefit of Canada's equalisation scheme.,0 +"A lot of the business or commerce university program consist of math courses. Most likely, business university program has a lot of female students. + +According to some people, female students are unable to do math. + +Then why are there are so many female students in university programs which require math or math and science courses?",0 +"Of course Brown looks like a genius compared to Wynne! + +But, the revenue neutral plan has been effective in B.C. for some time. + +http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/the-insidious-truth-about-bcs-carbon-tax-it-works/article19512237/",0 +This guy is not the voice of my generation.,0 +"Sometimes certain groups just have a greater aptitude, interest and talent for a specific sport. An American minority group has a definite aptitude, interest and talent for basketball and a situation exists where 10% of the population make up 90% of their professional basketball players. + +What if this is the case with rugby in South Africa?",0 +"I didn't think Bombardier was selling many of its C-series planes so how could it be dumping? + +Is Boeing seeking a probe because Bombardier is being subsidized by the Quebec and Canadian governments? + +Doesn't the U.S.A. give tax breaks and subsidies to Boeing and other U.S. plane makers?",0 +"See here's the thing, though. Why can they tell us with exact certainty that this is occurring, but can't tell us if it will rain next week? Not probability, but certainty. Not forecast, but prediction? That's my main point. Al Gore made a TON of money off of this and so did others. None...zero...nada of his predictions in his first movie were true. Is that supposed to convince me that a warming trend is occurring, ""just trust me."" ? No can brah. Plus too, the records don't go back far enough to draw definitive data, just a trend. I study trends for a living, so data is key. If the data is skewed to fit a particular viewpoint, I throw it out. Whether beneficial to me or not. Suspect info, even partially right, I scrutinize. If it starts to not add up, then I rate it accordingly.",0 +"For very good reasons. What's Canada's growth rate compared to China's? + +Case closed.",0 +If the market is really free then the price will go down and the suppliers will have to provide good product to stay in business.,0 +there are many public officials that abhor walking in a Pride parade but because the fear of being called a homophobic or even losing their job they hold their noses and smile.,0 +Manitoba Public Insurance......,0 +"Toronto, full of Snow Flakes.",0 +"“In God We Trust” +Says so on every piece of currency. +“One Nation Under God” +Says so in their literature. + +Not sure where you’re going with your line of questioning",0 +"I saw many comments when this story was originally posted blaming the victim, certain that they would turn out to have been a drunk Native Alaskan stumbling into the road. Now that it turns out he was a sober retired professional white male walking legally in a crosswalk, I wonder how many will acknowledge their mistake. Whatever you may think, racial bias is alive and well in the Last Frontier.",0 +"Stephen F. Schneck, who ""expects Trump to be a disaster for the economy"", has zero bona-fides in economics. He is Acting Dean of School of Social Service and his degrees are in Political Science. + +There is no clear picture of what the incoming administration's policies will be, but the stock market has exhibited a positive outlook on the future since the election.",0 +"Trump's budget is what Alaskans voted for. Bash the Federal Government, complain about overeach, which like it or not, is one of the main lifebloods for Alaska. Republicans in power tend to attack Alaska. John Sununu stopped federally subsidized pulp mill contracts at the Forest Service. When Senator Jeff Flake was setting Republican policy as a House Official he was attacking Alaska over earmarks. President Bush's Justice Department had Ted Stevens arrested and tried. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama opened more oil than any of the recent Republican Presidents, after all the big push in NPRA began under Clinton. Alaska doesn't do well with Republican Presidents and only 2 members of our Congressional will fight the current President. Senator Sullivan was planted in the Senate to deregulate and get tax cuts for the rich and will basically approve everything Trump does. Alaskan voters will continue to vote against their own interests.",0 +"Gen. Flynn ""retroactively"" registered as an agent of a foreign country , is like a shoplifter getting caught outside the store, but tells security that he now wants to pay for what he took. Anyway he was in total violation his restriction to become an agent of any foreign country, because of his previous security position. At least he was fair, he took money from both sides.",0 +"Riiight. There are like, NO men in the government, and certainly not in positions of power. + +You know, guys like you don't succeed for a reason, and it ain't because of women.",0 +"if I pay the same and someone else drives 10 times as much on the roads, that is a regressive tax on me. You live farther away from town, you have cheaper homes. No reason you are entitled to cheaper/the same transportation.",0 +"Your post asks what your tax dollars were spent on. You have based your opinion on this question. What I want to know is this: with such a firmly held opinion, why don't you know what your tax dollars were spent on? Why is your opinion not based on facts instead of feelings? Or is that politically incorrect to say?",0 +"The problem with Trump in terms of legislation is that he has no plans, principles, or Agenda. +His priorities change from day to day, and absolutely nobody can predict what he will tweet next.",0 +"Governments should take notes... + +https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/new-zealand-moves-to-ban-foreigner-investors-from-buying-homes/article36776977/ + +https://beta.theglobeandmail.com/real-estate/vancouver/vancouvers-middle-aged-exodus-raises-concerns-about-citys-economic-future/article36585479/",0 +"You first, then I'll answer you. I consider this necessary so I have a better idea who it is I'm talking to: + +Was Jonathan Ferrell's shooting justified?",0 +"A man once put his hand on my leg without my permission. I smacked him on the back of the neck. Now THAT'S self-respect! If every woman did this, I wonder how many men would think very hard before touching a woman without their permission. And don't tell me he was just being friendly. I'm pretty doggone sure if I were a man he would have never touched my leg.",0 +"Oh, please!",0 +"Francis does support the Catholic faith, Ken ... just not your misguided interpretation of it.",0 +"Jimbo, + + I rarely censor any comment. Only the very rare, very odd comment that's hate speech. + Commenting here for almost 12 years, that's the way I've always been. I've known intuitively that once people start deleting comments for this reason and that reason, soon they would be deleting comments that simply make a strong case against their opinion. And that's precisely what's happened. the fun and the humour have been sucked out of this website. There are many things in the comments worse than incivility.",0 +The score says that CU won that game.. Stop making excuses,0 +"Unless it costs the same as private, I don't think it would. All the sickies would flock to the public option while the young and healthy would take the cheaper private plans. This would bankrupt the public option pretty quickly.",0 +"And I didn't even mention how the populists think government is the great satan, when the cost of buying a house has gone up by anywhere from 100% to 500% in the last 10 years, without any help from the government. + +So paying $1500 a month for your mortgage is just fine but paying taxes is a huge waste? Gimme a break.",0 +"Actually, it started with mis-prescribed fentanyl patches. Too high dosage, too many prescribed, no monitoring, no follow-up",0 +Their new landlord would be paying the real estate tax and it would flow through to them via their rental cost. Limit the exemptions.,0 +I thought Jesus Christ was a fairy tale in your mind?,0 +"I've actually been reading a lot of rants (yes, rants) from both sides here. I do think that you're correct in saying the posts here don't reflect the thoughts and feelings of most Alaskans, but I would argue that that's because most Alaskans are somewhere in the middle. It's no accident that our senior senator is one of the most (by some measures, simply the most) liberal Republicans in that body, and our most recent Democratic senator was one of the most conservative Democrats of the bunch. + +TL;DR: Most Alaskans are actually pretty moderate, and don't have time for the sort of petty partisan point-scoring you often see in forums like this one.",0 +"The Viola Davis and Dev Patel nominations should have been disallowed. Sorry does Lion have no main actors? I guess I won't go see it since no one was put forward for best Actor or Actress. Also the Viola Davis as Best Supporting Actress, again who is Best Actress then?",0 +"""The standard had been sent by the Arar decision and 10.5 million would have been the bare minimum awarded, more likely the full 20 million plus the 10 million or so court costs."". Confused again Cassandra. Arar was not a combatant for al-qaeda. Arar did not attend terrorist training camps with his brother in Afghanistan. Arar did happily assemble IED's to kill our soldiers. + +Keep posting though, as more Canadians read the folly that you and other Liberals post, it becomes clear that Trudeau is truly on the wrong side of the law and the wrong side of history. Hopefully he will be back in Opposition next election where he firmly belongs.",0 +"For months I've been wondering how in blazes Trump got the nomination. Now I understand. It's because millions of Americans have zero idea what is going on in this country. They hear a sound bite and believe it, then continue to believe it when the evidence to the contrary is right in front of them. + +Take, for example, this statement: ""Lisa Murkowski has been part of the Republican establishment, refusing to work collaboratively with anything initiated by Democrats or our president."" + + Then consider news like this: +http://www.youralaskalink.com/news/murkowski-heitkamp-bill-creating-native-children-s-commission-heads-to/article_40f34f40-898e-11e6-aa31-e37a354d74a3.html +https://www.adn.com/politics/2016/09/08/conference-committee-on-murkowski-energy-bill-opens-with-calls-for-bipartisanship/ +http://www.adn.com/alaska-news/article/murkowski-was-second-split-gop-leadership-shutdown/2013/10/19/ + +Sheesh.",0 +"OCare is not collapsing. +It is being sabotaged by trump, price and the relentless RW propaganda machine.",0 +"Yesterday the Rich family thanked people on the internet investigating their son's death. Seems the DNC handlers are losing control over the family, especially since statement from the attending physician LEOs prevented him from treating Seth causing his death.",0 +"Is he ""Fr."" Zit?",0 +Hillary is only afraid she will have to give back the money she took from Harvey. Hillary is the oldest profession in the world.,0 +Another inelegent argument for stealing the stuff of people that have done better than you have.,0 +"Divorcing your wife and marrying another for lust is adultery. Divorcing your spouse for being an alky, beating you, cheating on you is survival, as is getting remarried for love and economic security. These teachings are for our benefit, not for God or piety.",0 +i remember that. total theatrics for attention. let her walk.,0 +"I'm guessing ""down market"" folks would be the ones that might grow their own. Making them the ""artisnal growers"". Growers can produce about 1 gram of pot per watt of light, growing four plants using a 600-watt HPS lamp could produce about 150 grams or 5.0 oz per plant. . Do that 4 times a year on a 90 day grow cycle, you have 80 ounces. I smoke weed every night before bed(sleep like a baby) and likely would never use more than 3 ounces per year. I'm guessing numbers like that reduce the need for the black market.",0 +"Yes, congratulations, the party you so admire has succeeded in gerrymandering and suppressing enough legitimate voters to overcome the unpopularity of its policies and politicians. Bravo. You must be so proud that your party has to cheat to win. And yet, what have they accomplished? Can you name one piece of legislation they've created and passed that benefits ordinary Americans? Just in case you kind of forgot that that, not getting elected, is their actual job.",0 +"HOUSTON – A hurricane in the heart of the U.S. energy industry is set to curtail near-record U.S. oil production for several weeks, with the impact expected to reverberate throughout the country and across international energy markets. Whatever. That is not the only place in the country that has oil or can refine oil. Trust me.",0 +"Confusing SJSJ5 with documented facts could have dire consequences e.g. he could mull them over, take a day or two to absorb, then take the rest of six weeks — like Trump — to announce ""it's all a conspiracy"" i.e. back to square one. ;)",0 +Are you insinuating something? I don't know this family. I read the story and made some comments in a public forum. The GoFundMe is a separate issue. What we were disagreeing about was whether to call 911. You are strangely trying to win that discussion.,0 +I hope you reported that? If not please do....,0 +I want to sign the treaty as well.,0 +"I would like to have seen Obama's college transcripts and how he paid for college, just to see how he did and who he may have been beholden to. But he was not required to release them, and he got elected anyway, same as Trump and his tax records. I guess that is one more item to be suspicious about, too. I got over it. Maybe you should, too.",0 +"Semantics aside, we are discussing the state of being male or female. +The rest of your quote must be recently added pc propaganda.",0 +As people have been pointing out - he's not draining the swamp. He's hiring them.,0 +"The DA silencing of HZ is a slap in the face of all us white products of colonial forefathers. The lack of discourse on important matters of 'imposed guilt' continues to leave us out in the cold in the drive to appease potential Black members to the DA. + +The elephant has by no means left the room - just told to shut up and this likely leaves many whites without a clear non-partisan party to follow",0 +I actually think it's great Obamacare will die and not be replaced. That's what we want anyway. Yay!,0 +"Is a Clerks position the position of the Mayor? The SA article was remiss on researching this. One rogue low level Louie should not define Hawaii's position. Also, what is there to hide? We have a one party state and the lowest voter turnout. Perhaps no fraud here, but shameful none the less.",0 +"The Catholic Church has always been paranoid...Let it's Dogma sink into antiquity,and tax them for their political involvement ...",0 +all large organizations end up being run for the benefit of insiders and not whoever it is that they are supposed to serve.,0 +"So what they are really saying is, good luck to ever trying to build any large infrastructure resource projects in Canada unless they are government sponsored, inefficient and can be taxed for years. ABL 2019.",0 +I wouldn't hold my breath - it will cost a lot of money to buyout the Federal Employees.,0 +"Trump spoke at the funeral of the 5 Dallas police officers. +https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2016/07/12/remarks-president-memorial-service-fallen-dallas-police-officers + +I don't understand how blaming Black Lives Matter for the killings is your defense of white nationalist violence and killings. Obviously Black Lives Matter does not support violence against anyone. Quit using this talking point. It is disgusting and offensive to the families of the officers killed.",0 +Thank you mike-from-enderby!,0 +"Lots of ""if's,"" but based on everything you've written, it sounds like you're already on board.",0 +"So Trump campaigned for deregulation... get the government out of the way of business. But, he wants to scrap free trade agreements and, now he wants to manipulate prices charged by drug companies. He has and likely will continue to bully car companies, and other businesses, into keeping or moving their plants to the U.S.. Which is it, Donald? Free enterprise, or continuing to insert the government into business where you think it's popular to do so?",0 +"Is that directed at me, Mr. Chop?",0 +"Technically you are correct, he is not a reporter but he is (from Wikipedia) ""Benjamin Aaron Shapiro is an American conservative political commentator, columnist, author, radio talk show host, and a lawyer."" +As for ""includes the hateful comments posted below the youtube video - comments clearly contrary to Globe guidelines"" you would be right at home at Google where they are now locking people's accounts based on not liking the words in those people's Google Docs documents.",0 +"forcing all car buyers to pay for manufacturer installed backseat alarms is overkill and would take a few years to implement. +. +right now, parents can purchase proximity alarms. the transmitter can be attached to a baby's clothing and the parent can carry the receiver or sync to a smart phone. if the predetermined distance is exceeded between the two units the parent's alarm sounds. works for kids in the car, in a store or out in a park. +. +much more economical for parents to purchase proximity alarms than to force the installation costs onto all car buyers.",0 +He wasn't fired. He resigned.,0 +"I laughed when I read your comment that section 7 is the ""one section of the charter the progressive left detests."" + +So many decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada prove this wrong. Just two examples that made right-wingers break out in spots are: + +1. Singh v. Minister of Employment and Immigration, 1985 - the one that held that ""everyone"" includes every human being who is physically present in Canada and therefore covered by Canadian law; and + +2. Carter v. Canada, 2015 - the one that said those suffering intolerable pain had a right to physician-assisted dying.",0 +"Haven't you read all the falsehoods in the elite's progressive MSM, no reality involved - that's why she won! +Duh!",0 +"Same theme, different organization. I disagree. The University budget has exploded since 2005. Sixteen campuses of which ten could be closed. Offer more online classes. AEDC parrots the same story as Rasmuson, GCI, Alaskasfuture, Uof A, nonprofits, Unions, certain Republicans, etc. to cut the budget (not ours), use the permanent fund, and tax the people. Odd isn't it, that none suggest taxing the oil companies instead of giving away the oil and paying out secret tax credits? I contend that this is because all these groups are getting donations or are financed from oil. Many of the legislature are bought and paid by oil. Some are employees of the oil companies. (Not that this would cause them any bias when voting on oil taxes). That is why the conversation never includes this dirty secret about giving away free oil to multinational corporations. Demand different from your representatives. Google Alaska legislature POM and let them hear it.",0 +"I'm interested in knowing how quickly the passengers will go from zero to 1000 mph. And then, how quickly they will decelerate from 1000 mph to zero. Will they have to provide their own G-suits? Will they be quickly slowed by a brick wall at the end? +But more importantly, why are folks always so intrigued by the possibility of a quick escape from Toronto to Montreal? Please, no innuendo here about Jean Marchand's remarks regarding the best thing in Ottawa...",0 +"The legal basis for the Government involvement in serving anyone comes from the interstate commerce clause. + +Were it not for that, and even with that in regards to private transactions, the government would not have anything to say about who gets served. + +The People have all the rights except those that they specifically grant to the Government, not the other way around.",0 +"Diversification is wonderful in concept if governments could actually could do it. Look at the Maritimes, they were an economic basket case 40, 30 years ago and are even more so today after the billions sent that way. What advantage does AB have? Well it has lots of $ infrastructure , is a nice place to live, well Calgary anyway the rest meh. But it has a very high cost structure and people are used to $$$ and lots of days off. I went from a manufacturing company in Ont the exported 90% of our systems to Calgary O&G. No comparison in money or days off.",0 +Mark Shore's comment was satire. Sheep #5491 is one of yours.,0 +This land is Canada. This isn't some long gone native tribe land. This is the city of Mississauga in the Province of Ontario in the country of Canada.,0 +"There were obviously some serious problems with the ice last night. +Players were falling all over the place and the puck was bouncing like a tennis ball. +But both teams had to play on the same ice ... and the Leafs did well to prevail. My guess would be that the Caps don't won't to see the Leafs in the playoffs this year. +Gardiner ..... brilliance and brain cramps. +Kinda reminds me of some previous Leaf defensemen over the past decades.",0 +"We can begin the healing process by starting the Progressive Party to get our views out in contrast to the Rs and Ds who don't give a hoot about main street, the poor, or rebuilding our infrastructure and keeping us out of wars. I second the motion to restrict local, state, and federal elections to 90 days, have all elections public funded, and adopt North Dakota's no voter registration: + +VOTER REGISTRATION + +Registration Deadline: North Dakota is the only state without voter registration. North Dakota law still provides cities with the ability to register voters for city elections. + +Party Affiliation: Voters may choose privately in which primary to vote. In other words, voters may choose which party’s ballot to vote, but this decision is private and does not register the voter with that party. + +Makes sense to me. Lot's of money wasted on voter registration, goofy rules to exclude people, and still we get problems in voting irregularities. No dogs or dead people vote in North Dakota.",0 +"The article deals with baby boomers; but, we ""war babies"" in our mid 70s share similar concerns - and similar opportunities. + +My wife's and my first thought on retiring was to help set up our children financially. + +Our second thought was how to stay active and continue to contribute to society so we are not a ""drag"" on it. We both are active in our community (local and national) on policy issues. We both stay active physically through regular bicycling (including leading groups as well as cross country cycling) and some hiking / walking on nice days (i.e. not nearly enough during this soggy spring). While our intense SCUBA days are now over, we remain intent on doing our part to arrest the decline of our planet's wild spaces. + +Dementia does not appear to be in our genes; but, oh, the aches and pains in our joints as we grow older. That alone makes us wonder about a comfortable future as we age further.",0 +"A shia islamist giving lessons ... + +Ms. Kermalli is a stong supporter of the Ayatollah Khomeiny + +This article is pure Iranian propaganda + +By the way, I believe sunni radical islam is the bigger threat to the world + +Saudi Arabia and Qatar are funding the dangerous salafist radical ideology while Iran is funding the Hezbollah",0 +"Yes, it is wait and see for now. Alought this is how it should have been in the first place. Trump did take extreme postions to get into office but as of late he has pulled back on his positions. I'm sure this doesn't sit well with supporters.",0 +"The final voting result did show Mrs Clinton having 3 million more votes, so the polls were not completely wrong. Second, a lot of people who voted for Trump were too ashamed to admit to pollsters that they were going to vote for him ( I expect questions on sex get equally honest responses). So his voters went and did something they were too ashamed to take ownership of. Sad!",0 +"Osama bin Laden used lunatics, crashing jet planes into the World Trade Center, to create chaos in the U.S. + +Putin showed much greater finesse, using hackers to put the Trump in the White House. + +Stephen J. Remington",0 +"It's easy to blame the worker bees when they have been stuck with implementing something with insufficient funds, planning and schedule. Harper and Clement did this with Phoenix and SSC. You think Phoenix is a big problem - wait until you see how SSC pans out! No, it's not all the fault of the public service - most of this work is being done by private sector contractors.",0 +It_became_a_cause_for_division_at_best_and_bloodshed_at_worst.,0 +"The possibly libelous ones eliminated would be the most entertaining, unfortunately!",0 +"Thank you for your posts about the choir- a sad loss for the world as you say. +I was not aware of this choir, nor of the humanitarian work of Dr Glinka. I would like to add my condolences for their sad demise. +Peggy +(I know that I said that I would not post again- because I deplore the tone of many posts. I did check out the comments on this story and wanted to say how saddened I was? +I won't be posting again. +I",0 +"""Trudeau must protect Canadian jobs ......."" He'll do that on his next visit to Canada. right now he is on a vacation at an ""undisclosed location"".",0 +Everyone has standards. Everyone has lines they just won't cross.,0 +I keep asking: When are the rest of the GOP going to grab a set and show some integrity?,0 +"""The Oregon Legislature appears unlikely to pass a bill that would conceal the name of the officer who fatally shot LaVoy Finicum."" Thank God the Legislature did the right thing. Some states are trying to pass this kind of legislation that I believe can lead to a secret police force. Public has to know the officers name and their record on the job in order to keep things honest.",0 +"Nice bit of satire there, Sam I Am.",0 +Your sincerity is inspirational.,0 +only left wingers who love terrorist found such comments distastefull,0 +Samis or what ever take your Koron and head back where your welcomed Mecca go! Be gone,0 +"trump directly threatened Hillary Clinton with assassination by trying to influence one of his deranged gun nut followers to take his veiled words literally and shoot her. + +trump should be arrested for inciting violence against a presidential candidate, because that is exactly what he did.",0 +"Maybe Trump has orange hair, but Comey may end up wearing orange from top to bottom. Likely his stunt with the leaked memos even violated his FBI employment agreement. Not looking good for him.",0 +"Dear Allan R +""clearly doesn't unique to Muslims."" ??? +- +anyway it could just be a ZONING or NIMBY issue +and not anti-Muslim +- +Jewish and Catholic cemeteries are in Jewish and Catholic areas +this proposed Muslim cemetery is not in a Muslim area but in the middle of small town Quebec +small town folds are conservative +a Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist cemetery probably also would have been rejected +So not necessarily anti-Muslim",0 +I knew it was over once the light-rail train to/from the airport bypassed all of the hotels built nearby and the car rental places. What a waste.,0 +"As the crusades were a response to the violence of Islam, so is the right’s rage toward the progressive left who initiated the violence toward conservatives. As usual, it’s the children of the left that first lower themselves to violence. This time, though, the right is starting to fight back and the left doesn’t like it, and it damned well will not like the end result.",0 +"Being good neighbors with bears probably is occasionally inconvenient, and it sure beats shooting them to death for daring to live among us.",0 +"JSB, +You don't know what you're talking about when you say that suicides and violence ""have nothing to do with each other."" + +A few years ago my nephew put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Believe me, it was extremely violent. He blew a hole in the back of his head the size of a cantaloupe and scattered his brains halfway across Skyland Park. +Violence with a capital 'V'. + +Best, + +RTD",0 +"The RG doesn't typically cover town hall meetings in other congressional districts with its own reporter and photographer. The reality is that Walden is immensely popular in his district. With the audience member from Newport and the RG workers from Eugene, I have to believe many membets of the audience were malcontents from out of the district who went over there to incite a riot.",0 +"Her words are evidence, you are so indroctinated to and support her socialist views. Ok, evidence #1 free healthcare, she started the single payer line when she was First Lady. # 2 she supports and will look at the Australian gun ban/ confiscation for America... That's just the tip of her plans",0 +Because repubs sign the front of checks and you sign the back. Get it?,0 +"I did, in fact, read your article, and I agree that you said that. The problem is that it's simply not true. “Journalists today also typically understand the fallacies of objectivity as a fixed and limited concept. They try to transcend its conventional boundaries by valuing and weighing information on its perceived merits, not by using objectivity as some sort of rigid scale designed to give equal time to unequal ideas."" But that is EXACTLY what you are doing with the GMO issue. You are pretending as if both sides have equal merit and that Joan's ""conflict of interest"" is somehow relevant to that fact. Should high school teachers disclose the fact that ""Big Government"" pays them to teach Round Earth Theory? What is the conflict? The Earth is round and GMOs are safe -- why is it relevant to disclose the fact that someone is being paid to report scientific fact? We don't need to hear from the flat Earthers -- they're wrong. It's your job to tell everyone that fact.",0 +$6400 is one year of rep hockey.,0 +"Why the sad sad comments from obamma and Hillary supporters??? Complaints about costs, you didn't complain when Bill launched hundreds and hundreds of them to deflect against his infadelity.",0 +klastri sometimes your so full of it when nerobama became president he got rid of bushes prosecutors that were good and put his own in and yet you and others on this comment page did not grumble but when trump gets rid of them you sit there and complain so stop being a hypocrite all presidents can get rid of who they want so stop complaining.,0 +"""Ad hominem is his default position"". Yes you are, but what am I? I point out lies, but more often I argue a positive position on matters of policy. + +As far as gratuitous insults, that's what your post is. You're a sorehead, Motley. I respond calmly to your lawyerly and twisted obfuscation which isn't so complex to untwist, once one learns the rules - red herrings, diversions from the topic at hand, complete refusal to discus the topic - you have perfected all the tricks. And we see daily that you aren't above personal attacks, as this post of yours amplifies. + +Here is the outline to happiness in America: liberalism has given this nation everything that makes it not Russia. Liberals are better educated and smarter than Trump voters, who generally are racist bigots. Republican budgets since Reagan have been basically borrow and spend, and give the wealthy every dollar that floats to the top. The only thing that trickles down is the contempt of Republicans for the masses.",0 +"The deal was done in 2014 by the Harper government long before the Liberals got in. The Liberals did not cancel it, no party said that they would-and since they did not cancel it they were obviously obliged to sign the export permits. +However they did say they would monitor it and so they are,",0 +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!,0 +"Jim this is an article about the State of Alaska budget and a state income tax. Your property tax contributes and funds the MOA. Owning two properties in Anchorage I'm familiar with the taxes levied. Alaska is the only state of the 50 that doesn't pay either an income tax or sales tax. My statement is correct, you contribute 0 to the State of AK aside from a gas and alchohol tax.",0 +"The professor fails to make a case that debt is a frightening concern. While corporate debt has risen, one big reasons--share buy-back--and the fact that overall, business has significant cash reserves, it's more a good news/bad news scenario. Meanwhile... + +""The rapid growth of household debt is of much greater concern since borrowing is concentrated among younger households taking on large mortgages as well as student and credit-card debt, while the level of net debt is low among many older and more affluent households. Further, the largest chunk of household assets, housing, is not very liquid."" + +Well, amount aside, hasn't this always been the case? 30s-something households buying up tons of consumer goods partly because there are two little kids to house, feed, clothe and entertain. What's new? Large mortgages? Mine seemed pretty large in 1980, too. My parents had virtually no debt a few years later. Now that we're retired seniors, gee, my wife and I have no debt, either.",0 +Yeah but up until a few scant years ago they used to do it one person at a time.,0 +"How can that baffle you? This is the same country that elected and then re-elected Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, and almost made Alaskan bottom-feeder, Sarah Palin, Vice President.",0 +i only stand up to pee and pledge allegence to our flag- what do u's stan fo mista chris sir maser,0 +"They're the intolerant and authoritarian type of people that are like this towards minorities. The authoritarian mentality has reared its ugly head in recent years using Muslims as the current scapegoat. In time, they'll drift away to other groups...",0 +"Just looked at the disagreement to my comment......hilarious, it is like the usual suspects are running in a pack today....lol......I feel honored they don""t agree with me, that means I am correct, and they are in damage control.",0 +"Actually, if you consume alcohol at the RECOMMENDED doses, you have an increased lifespan and lower heart disease, the big studies show, that is, it does more good than harm in those who consume it at the RECOMMENDED doses. + +Anything is a poison at too high a dose, even water.",0 +"Since Marx could very well be the next pope, this is a subject of great importance to him. The number of people who post on this web site and Roman walls claiming Francis is a heretic is growing. No doubt these people have been embolden by the ultra-right electoral victories here and in Europe. It is up to each of us to stand up to the self-described ""alt-right"" and its campaign of alternate facts.",0 +The sitting Prime Minister should be the first platform for a few add-on modules of artificial intelligence.,0 +At least he's got something to fall back on. What a relief.,0 +"Fish farms are a really bad idea. +Environmentally, and nutritionally. +It may look like salmon, but it sure isn't. You are what you eat. +Farmed salmon eat a lot of unnatural chemicals that you don't want your children eating.",0 +"No. There you go. I didn't smear anyone. Not like the way YOU are smearing ME. All I implied was that service to your country is a greater service than one to your city. And in another post I praised him highly for his service. Tell you what, keep your foot out of your mouth, you'll be easier to understand.",0 +"Manoa-Fisherman, Maybe that's a phrase that is oft quoted by the NRA and its members. Otherwise, it's largely unknown. I wonder if you could point out an actual example of the Second Amendment protecting the First Amendment. You say there were ""only"" 11,583 murders in 2016 attributable to guns, so the 59 murders in Las Vegas must mean very little to you.",0 +"Have hiked the trail to the falls about 100 times in mid 70's, use to tie off to trees and rappel down just under 100'. Our squad all loved the experience. Go 172 Arctic Light Infantry, B 1/60th Infantry!",0 +"The nation paid mind to ""Eddie."" As you well know, the candidate whose entire platform was to continue the Obama Way was soundly defeated by democratic process. + +But as we all know from that candidate, those who differ belong in a special basket. + +Still hard to believe she said that! Wow, so glad she's gone....",0 +"Ah, the conversation continues... while the pope speaks on a plane women continue to prepare, study, pray and women continue to be ordained. Bless women in acknowledging their Calls to priesthood. Communities are being shepherded by women who sit by the bedside and bake the bread and ""bind up the wounds"" and bless and break and share. These women, we women, are priests. And many are called, and always have been. +If you would like to make more priests who happen to be women a reality, contribute to the Women's Ordination Conference scholarship for women discerning ordination. Check it out! First scholarship of its kind! +http://www.womensordination.org/programs/scholarship/",0 +"I emailed the assembly when the red flags started going on up this project (back when it was $29million) pointing out that industry studies on ERP software installations predicted a minimum cost of $79.5 million over 26 months to do this particular project. And, yes, I did include links to the studies. +Not one assembly member replied. +ADN has omitted from the story that a senior IT manager for the city has already been fired over this disaster.",0 +You're missing the point so I'm finished with this conversation,0 +The level of influence of Pharmaceutical Companies through direct payments and door to door sales people with sample cases and meal tickets on the Doctors practicing in this province has exceeded all norms. It is long past time Kathleen O'Day-Wynne took a look at the state of affairs in this fair province.,0 +This was simply a vendetta by others who disagreed with his involvement in the Galloway affair. Shameful on the part of the APTV. This is what our taxpayer money funds???,0 +"Watch out, they hate it when you speak +about the elephant in the room. Makes +them mad you know the truth.",0 +"The root cause may not be too hard to figure out as the Saudis are currently in an overt anti-Shi'ite mode, not only decimating Shi'ites in Yemen but in their own country and in Bahrain. Now they have picked on Qatar because that state was getting to uppity and actually dared speak to Iran. Now ISIS is inspired by Saudi Wahhabism and, like al Qaeda and other Sunni terrorist groups, is funded by Saudi Arabia.",0 +Please list two. With specifics please. I'm curious to know your thoughts.,0 +"ten stars for your comment, more",0 +"That's correct. In fact per ARRC policy, smoking is prohibited, though if the Ak cannabis industry were to get the proper approval and licensing, edible products could be offered. Several confrontations have in the past occurred as a result of drunk patrons on the beer trains. That's a less likely occurrence with stoned patrons. Look at this as another revenue opportunity for the railroad, not a for or against pot argument forum.",0 +"Some of those calling Lynch a bust also said Siemian was the QB of the future for Denver so take that for what you will. + +Whether Lynch is a bust or not remains to be seen, but it's time to move on from Siemian who has proven to be as bad as many believed he was. + +As for Elway, he needs to figure out why he and his team are incapable of finding good offensive linemen.",0 +"""CV"" displays all publicly accessible court filings. This can be criminal, civil, dv, probate etc.",0 +"I'll tune in next week and the polls will show me the cpc continues running 9% behind the Liberals. +You just won't learn, will you? Even when the article tries to help you. +Did you actually read the article?",0 +"It's sad when one has to read about the actual identity (both personal and religious) of the shooters in foreign media. + +It's sad when one has to use another thread to comment on a story due to G&M's censorship.",0 +"Medically necessary services are not supposed to be bundled with private pay, that is. For example, if a doctor refers a patient for a surgical consultation, which is what happened in Ms. Guthrie's case.",0 +"So Ronald, where do you live?",0 +"EVERYONE HERE.......... +PLEASE CHANGE THE VERBIAGE.....FROM ""Pesticide Disclosure Bill"" +TO THE REAL TRUTH...............""POISON DISCLOSURE BILL""..........~!!",0 +Then you should divert your posts into another article.,0 +"I am sorry to say that Don Cherry is as far from being a Christian as GW Bush Jr. was before he sent the military to Iraq. They are the western version of the Taliban only claiming to be Christian but in fact following no part of it whatsoever (like Bin Laden claiming to be a follower of Mohamed). + +And yes, those Christians in the ME deserve our prayers and help the same as the Yazidi's and Shia's etc. + +Mr. Richards comment was intended to emphasize the reason for the recent player's protest which is noble; bending a knee to pray to Jesus after a touchdown is not a Christian act.....it is a misguided act that shows the typical American distortion of the teachings of Jesus.",0 +"Enforcing immigration laws? Who does Trump think he is, the president or something? And predictably the left wing journalists (propagandists) who wrote the piece have to throw in the obligatory sob story about breaking up families and escaping violent gangs. What Mr. Gonzales may or may not realize is that weak border enforcement and sanctuary cities have allowed Latin American gangs to thrive in the USA. So he can get victimized as an illegal in the USA or stay home and get victimized. In either case he broke the law by illegally crossing the border.",0 +harper one year raised income taxes on a few .5%. otherwise he cut more taxes across the board for net less taxes for everyone,0 +It's nice to have a leader in Alberta with some GUTS. The previous Tea Party Muppets just took their orders from the Southern puppet masters and kicked the energy problems down the road. We have to do SOMETHING to get our house in order....,0 +"OMG! I just spewed my coffee! Hilarious, James! Well done.",0 +Could not be said better.,0 +"""Canada is a free country and people have the right to demonstrate and protest. They have a right to demonstrate, but hatred and racism have no place in this city and I expect people to confront that and make sure there's a peaceful and direct pushback on racism and hatred."" - Gregor Robertson, Mayor of Vancouver + +Mr. Robertson, perhaps unwittingly, is stoking the same confrontation that happened in Charlottesville, Virginia. + +Confronting hatred leads to, obviously, confrontation. Confrontation leads to conflict. Conflict lends itself to violence, which extremists on both sides embrace. + + Trying to contain or confront expressions of exclusion and hate also validates them. So don't go there. It's always an option to ignore hateful messages. Instead, see the human behind the words. Embrace those who would lead society down a negative path. Overcome them with peaceful understanding. Put a flower in the barrel of their weapon. + +Stay cool, Vancouver. Show them how it's done.",0 +It was the Russians that were under surveillance .... not Trump. Unless the Russians set up shop at Trump Tower ... is that your point?,0 +"""This article tells us nothing about what Maduro's plan is:"" + +And nor do you. + +Maduro's plan is to further degrade democracy by removing democratically elected opposition members, and install a rubber stamp chamber. + +""Maduro has compared these machinations to what happened in the Ukraine in 2014"" He's hardly going to put his hand up and say ""Yeah, I'm destroying democracy the way I destroyed the economy"", is he. + +Meanwhile the people are starving, his cronies are looting the treasury, and the country is""progressing"" backwards.",0 +Excellently said!,0 +"My father started using Mettrum products in September 2016 for his cancer. His symptoms became exacerbated, went into the hospital mid November and died December 22 2016. I'm curious, and angry, to find out if Mettrum's products had anything to do with it.",0 +The fare is reported to depend on operating revenue and ridership. The bus and city dept of transportation iirc uses 10% rule of thumb. If you're paying about $2 fare then the revenue including federal money is about 9X that. So if the cost of each rider is $20 then 10% of that is bus fare.,0 +"Well, you're wrong in thinking that I only post on Russia-related articles, though I do enjoy countering and debunking the range of BS that the G&M and various puppet accounts spew on this subject. It's also important to do so, because this propaganda of the G&M and the puppet accounts is not passive, but has non-justified and harmful influences on people, policies, and the futures of countries and their relationships. + +And if you pay a bit more attention to the posts of mine which contain similar information, you'll see that they're rarely direct copy & pastes.",0 +"Where ASD puts 200 teachers' jobs on the line and threatens to cut the cord? It's not a threat - it's a legal obligation. + +The teachers have a contract. That contract has a provision whereby notice has to be given by a certain date if the position is not funded. Funding is dependent on legislative appropriation, and the House and Senate are far apart on what amount of funding they are willing to provide. + +What would be irresponsible would be to let the layoff notice date pass without comment, then find themselves on the hook for all the teachers they are contracted to pay but with no funds to pay them. + +If education were forward funded, then districts would only have to send out layoff notices to those teachers who they were certain would not be retained, but that's not the environment we live in.",0 +Fortunately that didn't happen. An inferior president was blocked on a regular basis by the House and Senate.,0 +Hey if Trump is starting a war with NK and congress is killing higher ed this is a good piece of advice. Sign up before you get drafted to fight in Trump's new war.,0 +"[Don’t get me wrong: I am strongly in favour of educating and raising awareness. My mother, Julie Damm, was a teacher. Her mother, Irene Akiwenzie, was a teacher. I have spent a huge amount of my life speaking in schools and universities and working in various ways to live up to my ancestors’ name, Kegedonce, “little orator.”] +There's a bit of a problem here: +[Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm is an Anishinaabe writer of mixed ancestry] +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateri_Akiwenzie-Damm + +Normally, that would be of absolutely no consequence to me...but since Kateri makes it one, then best she judge herself before judging others. + +Now, getting back to who can play the Blues...and indigenous bands doing Hip Hop...",0 +So then they'll pay taxes and just use her as a deduction? You sound simple.,0 +"""which is why I prefer to go with science, and the science says its impossible for cell phone signals to harm you. "" +I attempt to use scientific thought all the time - which is to say I continually seek the truth. I ignore opinion (popular or otherwise). +In terms of your statement above science has said no such thing - in fact it has said exactly the opposite. You need to question the basis of this statement as this is where so many misunderstanding on this topic stem from. +Science has shown exactly the opposite - I am interested to know why you believe that science has shown it is impossible for cell phone signals to harm you.",0 +"Joe is a good Man, he tried to follow the Law and it was used against him for Political reasons......He will be Pardoned!!!!",0 +Dad Longworth: factory farming is indeed horrible and unethical.,0 +But he was okay with the 8 years of obstruction and gridlock he orchestrated while Obama was President. Snowflake.,0 +"The scenerio Jan 18 2017 Newly minted POTUS Hillary Clinton seized and passed out and was not able to push the red nuclear button when Mexico refused to pay for the wall, Donald Trump would have pushed the button : /",0 +"I suggest you first report this doctor to the CPSO, then, transfer your chart to another doctor.",0 +Please look up the Supreme Court of Canada case that unanimously dismissed the Lax Kw'alaams' Claim for a Commercial Fishing Right back in 2011.,0 +How much is 'BIKI' paying for all the spaces it is taking up all over?,0 +"@TDM.. The obvious point is that there is no politically neutral media these days, particularly in the USA. Not that you are capable of acquiring knowledge outside of your self-imposed trusted media cocoon.",0 +"""Liberal"": is that, like, a conservative who can read?",0 +"Yes, atheists (the shooter's blog was full of atheistic comments) are mental cases. All the genocide in the last century was by atheists (Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, Hitler, etc.) they were responsible for 100 million deaths last century. Christianity is the religion of peace.",0 +Note that this increase is solely due to the insurance companies. Neither President Obama nor President Trump has anything to do with it. It's disingenuous to blame either of them. The insurance companies are making plenty. They just want more.,0 +"STTP...one wonders why Thomas Brandt has assumed a faux persona. The realization that his employer frowns upon proselytizing during working hours using government resources? + +As for ""tell us in more detail WHY Hawaiian Electric customers would have to pay a dime to convert our for-profit monopoly extortionist utilities into non-profit customer-owned and/or taxpayer-owned entities"" + +As stated previously ""It would be helpful to have a basic knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, the UCC and the concept of eminent domain among other basic commercial concepts prior to positing."" + +Obviously the gentleman is blissfully ignorant of the United States Constitution. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments each contain a due process clause. Due process deals with the administration of justice and thus the due process clause acts as a safeguard from arbitrary denial of life, liberty, or property by the Government outside the sanction of law. + +Keeping stumbling on Thomas, amuse us with your diatribes.",0 +Wow! Mahalo for hitting the bullseye!,0 +You must be joking. Another round with Christy Clark will not give us NDP policies. It will be a government that will have licence to help their rich friends at the expense of everyone else.,0 +"College, like many other things in life, comes down to good decision-making skills. Major in Art History, English, Music, or Gender Studies (aka hobby majors) and get ready to work at Starbucks for $12 an hour with a $500 a month student loan payment. Major in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, Business, Finance, Medicine or Law and a person has a much easier time getting a good job that starts at good salary (and leads to high salaries), so that $500 a month won't be that big of a deal.",0 +"""... the media are merely representing us ... ie the whole world...."" + +Speak for yourself. Many of the world's people do not approve of justice by lynch mob.",0 +"""Most parishes have a range of activities and programs for such groups"". When was the last time that you saw any program in any parish program earmarked for Singles---ONLY. AND it did not attempt to play ""cupid"" with them? + + +Secondly, you did not READ carefully what I wrote. I stated that ""the very people Jesus held up as heroes/heroines both in his parables or whom he met in actual life---were those who were seen as ""irregular"" or in ""irregular situations."" + +Your conclusion is that ONLY people who are in living together and not married and the divorced and remarried are in 'irregular situations'. + +In Jesus' time, Samaritans, lepers, non-Jews like Romans and Syro-Phoenicians, tax-collectors, the crippled, blind and lame, elderly widows----were in ""irregular situations"". + + +Jesus came for those in irregular situations. He did not come for those who Think that they are the righteous.",0 +Dont break the law or you very well could be citizen 956....but hey...its your choice....go ahead.....pull out your weapon....,0 +"I am a 60% Disabled Vet and patient at Eugene VA. I had bloodwork completed 2wks ago for my primary care appointment this coming Friday. I got a voicemail today from the VA saying they were cancelling my appointment. They did not give me a reason. Tgis appointment was my yearly labs and checkup. My VA primary care doc quit several months back and the VA clinic did not let me know. I found out when I tried to make an appointment for a medical emergency. The VA told me then that they were 30 days out on appointments. My former primary care doc there was terrible anyway, but at least I could get in. The Eugene VA Clinic is a disaster.",0 +You believe he has a list of Mexicans he wants killed? Who keeps it up for him?,0 +Dion did the decent thing and apologized but he should have realized at the time that his 'thumbs down' could have been willfully misconstrued.,0 +"Match normally sides with the rednecks. Surprise ruling! + +Red's skin will soon make durable, lustrous leather.",0 +"A few minutes with Google got me this: If we chose to pay down the entire PERS unfunded liability over a decade by adding a tax to motor vehicle fuel, alcoholic beverages and non-alcoholic beverages and divided it equally among only those three items, we're looking at forty cents per gallon of fuel, forty cents per alcoholic drink and twenty cents per non-alcoholic drink. + +We should perhaps add a comparable tax to marijuana and drive-through food and drink, which brings all those down by a 40% so we're looking at +less than a quarter per gallon of fuel and per alcoholic drink and just over a dime per non-alcoholic drink. + +None of those are going to get standing ovations (what tax does?). Can we at least admit that much of the consumption shown is luxury in nature? I just did this little back of the envelope to point out that this debt is payable. There's really no way to pretty up a debt that is roughly $10k per adult in the state no matter what color lipstick one uses.",0 +So you enjoy the comments of a sexist and racist commentator?,0 +"An odd comment, Layla4, since I made no click on your comment whatsoever. + +(I'm pretty sure it's not possible to remove an emoji altogether on this new system) + +I have on this one, though. Sad seems the right one.",0 +I maintain that regular patrol officers should not have been sent out after Bourque. A SWAT squad should have been called in and officers told to exercise extreme caution. It is unreasonable for patrol officers to be trying to deal with a guy armed as Bourque was. The answer is not to have carbines all over the place and they would not have helped officers sniped at from a distance and/or from behind. One officer had his body armour in the trunk of the car where the carbine would have been!,0 +I worked at Horatio's/Kincaid's over 20 years ago and people would come in just for this salad! I've had the recipe since and make it frequently - everyone loves it!,0 +How many people do that? Statistics please.,0 +"I am not an advocate of government intervention but if you think Toronto and Vancouver operate in a vacuum and they have no affect on the rest of Canada you are dreaming + +I remember a nice re-balancing in the US in 2008",0 +Well said. Virtually all of our liberal posters have them as 'criminals' even as they sit awaiting trial.,0 +"Didn't consider that but you're right Lynn. + +Data-mining! + +What bloody nerve! + +Outsiders like Hackendorn (and the guy responsible for his move here) have no respect for Alaska's precious and unique Right of Privacy clause (except when related to laws supported by Planned Parenthood, that is.) + +Vote NO on Ballot 1",0 +Consider how everything about Trump is somehow about Hilary. You'd almost think Trump is Hilary or something.,0 +"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.",0 +"So KL realized what everyone knows, no other team in the league will pay him as much as the Raps. I'm a Raptors fan and no matter what will cheer the team. But KL does not have my vote for next All Stars Game.",0 +"Reason predates “modern science”. Observation and experiment would be considered useless were it not for the idea that something exists outside our minds - philosophy - that we can deduce certain things about it by observation - philosophy - and that the world operates by rules inherent in its nature which makes experiments repeatable and therefore useful - philosophy. + +Without philosophy there would be no science and men would believe in magic. + +Ditto to your “none of it is true”. + +And so we see, once again, that LifeoftheLay called it correctly.",0 +Queue the lefties and the tree huggers. Giddy up.,0 +"WP and CNN are reporting what their audience does want to hear....Trump smears. I discount media with an agenda and who are caught in bad reporting, misrepresentations and lies. As any rational person should.",0 +"Protest is not a form of disrespect. It is a constitutionally protected right, a way of publicly disagreeing with the policies and proclivities of those elected. Besides, please--Trump has dragged the office of the president to a new low, blow-harding disrespect every second he can and telling whoppers. Respect is earned!",0 +I believe that the game here is one that Rebecca Knight is playing. She wants Mental Health land converted to Federal land such that the communities have access to use it for free. Cowgirl up Rebecca Knight and organize the local communities to buy the land from the Mental Health Trust.,0 +Grain of Salt & a Couple Midol. Wash it down with your coffee before you Blow or did you already....,0 +Seems like there should be a lot more of those if that's the case.,0 +"Well he's not taking a penny of the 400,000 a year salary. He spent over 100 million of his own money to get elected. Those are two pretty big sacrifices to me",0 +"So you also fail to provide any evidence, no different than Neko. Church Militant is clearly against same sex marriage and same sex acts, but show me any proof that it espouses any false Catholic Church teachings. I won't hold my breath for any actual response to my comment above.",0 +"You have a choice to do your banking, insurance, tax filing, etc on line or using the Post. It's up to the individual to decide whether it's worth the risk of having their personal information compromised or stolen as a result of an on-line hack. + +Are you willing to risk having your vote stolen?",0 +"Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price was known to be corrupt before ever being named to the post. And now that he’s in the job, he’s enjoying the perks. +Price spent tens of thousands of dollars to take a private jet to travel up and down the East Coast last week. +A private jet to a resort to chat with a pharma CEO sounds like what you might expect from a man who bought stock in a medical company, then authored a bill to boost its value. +But Price’s misuse of a public funds to hire a private plane is particularly egregious, because that Tom Price, is the same Tom Price who railed against government use of private planes. +The ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce committee said he wants to see a “full accounting” of Price’s travel.",0 +You need to concentrate on the migrant crisis in your own country Sauerkraut !,0 +Are people currently being presented with barriers to participating in sport based on their skin colour?,0 +"Developers always promise jobs! It's a staple of the narrative. The trickle down of money is attractive , but temporary and of no sustainable consequence. Drug epidemics are fed by the fast bucks of these developments.",0 +"The real issue is the damage done to the incentive to take risks, to challenge the big players in order to bring better prices and service to consumers. +Big L Liberals are about big corporate dominance that feeds their need to feel in control. They'd rather funnel money to Bombardier and to Morneau Shepell, than incentivize the small business segment that creates 75% of new jobs and competition for big corporate players. +They're talking about incorporated professionals to fuel average voter resentment against above average earners, but what they are doing is building Venezuela.",0 +"Because you are in the 'cafeteria' you try to make out that everyone is in it; it simply makes you feel better about yourself, especially when everyone who disagrees with you is ""blathering"" and ""talking through his hat"". +You keep bringing up Eichmann, you seem to have an inordinate fixation about the man. Obedience to the the Magisterium is not ""following orders"", it is entirely voluntary, an act of will so your Eichmann analogy is absolutely wrong.",0 +"The city had it right. There isn't enough use the pool can't exist without subsidies. Go the SARC route and sell yourself to the YMCA, OMC and Jamestown. Would like to know the percent of population using the pool on a regular basis before voting - but am leaning to ""No"".",0 +"I'm not a fan of southern food, but everyone said Taproot had good food. I never got to try it, though it always sounded good. + +I'll miss the live music.",0 +"agree. This failed state bureaucracy is a major scandal. It represents the loss of millions of dollars of tax money and reminds many of Waihee's corruptions while he was rebuilding the airport years ago. The entire sewer needs to be cleaned and put under an expert, independent agency. State officials are not able to handle anything and are grossly overpaid.",0 +"Coach Rolo, you make us all proud to be Warrior fans. Zeno Choi is what college football is all about, what sports is all about, and what Hawaii is all about. The measure of a head coach is in the decisions s/he makes, and you're making all the right ones. Go 'Bows!",0 +"""The use of bait would increase the harvest rate of coho, potentially jeopardizing achieving the escapement goal."" +However, commercial and gill-nets are still fishing.........how does this happen? If dip-netting is over 31 July why doesn't commercial and gill-nets end as well??",0 +"These people who still support studded tire use should ask themselves why studs have been banned almost everywhere but Alaska. It certainly cannot be said that other areas and jurisdictions do not have equally, or even greater, snowy and icy road conditions to contend with, yet they still do not use studs. As I have never done, either, and I have lived and driven in Alaska for 20 years, and in northern climates for my entire life.",0 +Kelly Leitch. Go away. Just go away. We do not need you here. You are one of the elites.,0 +If it is only 300 metres wide- why don't they just build a bridge over it?,0 +Really? What legal court would that be exactly?,0 +"It is about both - Eucharist's primary symbol is the community. You appear confused. Try reading your catechism again. Liturgy is both horizontal and vertical. The symbol of that community is the table of the Lord around which we gather. +Theology/liturgy is best when it is *both/and* rather than *either/or*",0 +"They got none, as they didn't go running to the papers.",0 +"awww, you want to live away from the city for whatever reason...then you want to cry when you don't have city resources. Come on.",0 +"""Companies are closing,people continue losing jobs"" ?the unemployment rates are the lowest in years, where have you been? Also the food stamp program needs cut, how can we have 42 million people on food stamps with a 4 % unemployment rate when 8 years ago we had 27 million people on the program when the unemployment rate was 10% .. waste and fraud..it needs cleaned up , people who really need help should get it , but lazy people buying candy, Soda pop , energy drinks , chips and junk food should be cut off. And you don't seem to realize it but those CEOs hire thousands of people and provide jobs to many families and if they want to buy a new car or coat who are you to say they shouldn't?",0 +"IF the state of Colorado did take money or withhold money from PERA, then that money plus earnings should be replaced by the state. After that, the PERA board needs to be replaced entirely for their overly optimistic views of finances. Finally, PERA members need to step up an contribute more to make things right.",0 +Wrong UN doesnt recognize Greater Israeli borders 1967.,0 +"Given Shakespeare's penchant for cross-dressing his characters, I can't imagine that he would be surprised by having a woman play a man's part.",0 +It's called sacrcasm.,0 +"Unless autobiography, historians merely print hearsay. Except for the descendant having received his ancestor's autobiography through unbroken chain of custody, publication is only a historian's educated guess. The ruling ""sovereign"" always promotes history serving itself. Kam School had never taught the Kingdom's full history, and kept its skeletons in the closet. Kam was a US military institution intent on preparing kids for US wars abroad. Who in Hawaii studied the Bishop-Damon run at the Kingdom a la Thurston, W.O. Smith, and Dole? The vicious hatreds between Emma, Kalakaua, Keelikolani, Kapuaiwa and more? The conniving of Cooke and Castle against Liliha? The immaturities of Liholiho. Kauikeaouli, and Lot Alexander? The sordid indiscretions of Paao and the sex rampages and assassinations among the Kanaloakua'ana royal house? And more. Nah, we studied the Revolution and Civil Wars.",0 +More important states? Are the citizens in the other states less important than those citizens in your so called more important states?,0 +"Ironic that you post a picture of Aliamanu Elementary. Probably one of the most white bread public schools on the island due to the large military family influence. + +That said, I honestly cannot recall ANY issues about ethnicity bullying while a kid in public school here. I suppose the *worst* thing that you could call racism were the ""Portagee"" jokes! Then again, when I was a kid, Hawaii was still pretty isolated and now with instant internet hits on what's ""cool"" and ""trending"" or not there's probably a LOT of learned discrimination/hatred.",0 +"Is this a newspaper or a propaganda machine? This writer is a ""reporter"" for a newspaper? With this kind of opinion-mongering parading as ""news,"" I'm not likely to shed a tear if this paper folds.",0 +"I'm personally philosophically opposed to this concept. These kinds of accounting optimization strategies are fine but they don't really define in my experience why some people have money and some people don't. Tinkering with financial schemes and accounting tricks is best left to the experts even for wealth individuals. + +The real way to make money is to manage your own psychological energy. I don't really think you need to be any more financially sophisticated than to create a few buckets to dump your money into. Your personal home is one bucket best left full. By leaving your personal home bucket full you can free up some psychological energy to focus on other investment buckets without concern for your or your family's material well-being. Risk everything in your other investment buckets, not the one where your family lives. That should be a last resort only in my opinion regardless of your risk tolerance.",0 +""" We also have to come up with punishment that's far quicker "" + +We have to make sure he is guilty first. Where are Trumps minders to stop him making a pillock of himself?",1 +More bullying from Putrumpski. What a clown.,1 +What world do you live in in which any of us support Anthony Weiner? He's disgusting.,1 +"""Racist!"" ""Misogynist!"" ""Xenophobe!"" ""Homophobe!"" ""Colonialist!"" ""Neo-con!"" ""Check your privilege!"" ""Black lives matter!"" + +Yeah, lucky for us only the alt-right sinks to name-calling and yelling to shut down any civil exchange of ideas...",1 +"The German government, apparently, puts the number of German citizens killed in the terrible disruption after WWII at 2 to 2.5 million. Other estimates are lower . . . as much as 2/3's lower. Is it really your contention that they were all massacred by Jews? + +Did they teach you this pestiferous crap at Stanford? You should ask for your money back. !",1 +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.,1 +"Hypocrisy!. +Ditto for Morneau and his many financial tentacles. +Hypocrites!",1 +This sounds like the same garbage we heard from the pro-tobacco lobbyists in the 60's.,1 +"His whole family were lying killers. He is a lying killer with no moral compass. His lawyer coached this garbage. You are an idiot to believe this ""thing"" should be allowed in Canada. He is no child!!!",1 +"Merkel smart and progressive. Trump not in the least bit smart and utterly regressive. The US will be the unconditional loser as the world turns away, in everything from trade and tourism to science and collaboration. What an utter and avoidable waste. aMErica.",1 +"Trump, always the equal opportunity offender.",1 +Your right ...the crazy Mormons in Utah get into a lot of cover up stuff just because of their insane beliefs.,1 +And i moved here 46 years ago to get away from feminazis.,1 +"Political motivations, and parties aside. I would love to know peoples actual thoughts on this. Good. Bad? Could we actually get bipartisan support or is it a pipe dream. + +Additionally, the idea of a high speed transit in the windsor to toronto, and maybe in the future toronto to montreal corridors (which is like half of Canada's population) is one that may be interesting. There isn't much debate that infrastructure like this can massively foster growth along the route, but there is also the price factor. People don't like it in their backyard. + +Also, since this will be costly regardless, I would be curious price comparisons between HSR and Maglev. Mostly because the latter is more expensive but will require reduced maintenance costs whilst also having the advantage of being far quieter, likely reducing ""NIMBY"" BS. Not to mention it would be a great selling point of ""hey, look at our futuresque shit that travels at speeds that rival planes"".",1 +"No he isn't a Status Indian. And your comment about ""dodging"" taxes is ignorant. Do you understand anything about Treaty Rights?",1 +I guess the Ontario liberals and Alberta ndp share stupid ideas.,1 +"Clinton says she “kept my cool, aided by a lifetime of dealing with difficult men trying to throw me off.” +The ""Most Difficult Man"", being her husband, the rapist.",1 +"rangerMC, you dont even make sense anymore. when will you thumpers realize that lgbtq's, blacks, muslims, mexicans, asians, the poor, the homeless, aliens, extraterrestrial and earth bound, all have the same, inalienable rights as you, white, christian males do (in a just world of course), the right of personal choice. no one says a straight guy cant marry a straight woman. we just dont care because it is none of our business. its not about your beliefs or your ideology, its about equality and a persons right to choose. your comment on transgenders in elementary school bathrooms is just too stupid to deserve an answer.",1 +"Man, homophobia is back, Don't worry GBA, I am sure you are safe in your closet fortress, you should come out of that closet once and a while.",1 +"You and others here are doing your best to convict Donald Trump of sexual assault via hearsay. When the shoe was on Bill Clinton's foot, the left did all they could to protect him and his hideous wife. So yes, you are well schooled in hypocrisy. + +Openly boasting about groping women is a far cry from exploiting the power of the presidency to seduce interns, cover up rape and sexual assault. Allowing men with a psychological disorder to act out their fantasies by entering women's restrooms and insisting it's some sort of social justice issue is simply bizarre. + +It appears to me that you have plenty of time to do your own research. Maybe you should broaden your search from Thinkprogess and Huffpo. + +Sorry you missed the last one but at least you agree then that Hillary belongs in prison.",1 +"What did tRUMP say to one of the widows who he called that had died in Niger while on active duty; ""he knew what he signed up for, but I guess it still hurt."" Never in the history of this country has someone so void of concept ever led this county. We are doomed by stupidity.",1 +"Sanders is a coward. The DNC was rigged against him, and he still said nothing. He doesn't deserve to be President either.",1 +"[The ""Donald"" handing out a favor to Sheriff Joe, his old pal and fellow birther from years back is ridiculous.] +The Donald treats the Presidency like his own personal plaything. He's President when he wants to be. Hands it off to his subordinates when needed but he doesn't want it. Plays golf when it feels appropriate. And brooks no dissent or criticism without seeking retribution even if it means sullying his plaything. +He doesn't understand the honor or the privilege of serving because he cannot grasp the duties and obligations that comes with the office of the President of the United States.",1 +"Mr. Gates I find your letter disgusting and offensive, but par for the course since Predisent Lord of the Flies became potus. As our once great nation sinks into the swamp of hate, lies and deception, I will not sit silent but speak out against the ""Trump Effect"" sweeping our country. +tRump said that we should torture and kill terrorists families to keep us ""safe"". +If this is what the citizens of a ""Christian"" nation believe, then we are no better than any radical Islamic terrorists.",1 +"Wtf, nowhere in scripture does it say that Elizabeth was a kid when married to Zachariah and nowhere does it say that Mary was a child when married to Joseph. That's a complete and utter fabrication. In fact, it says in Luke 1:42, ""And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb."" It says blessed art thou among WOMEN.",1 +"You can call this murderer British if you like, but he wasn't British and never could be.",1 +"We shall see how powerless Schaltz and the democrats are. Frankly they just need to sit back and watch the republicans destroy themselves. All this might just change next year. Republicans have a tendency to really blow it because they only care about the rich and no one else. Why anyone would vote for such a bankrupt party is beyond me. + +Just remember it has been over 50 years since a republican president submitted a balanced budget to congress. The real pathetic thing is that today's repblicans would never chose this president today. How sad.",1 +What The--?! Why seized ? Only to be given back in about a week. Why not just have them pull it from the shelves and serve them with a violation.,1 +"Please tell me you are kidding. All world events in some way could then be tied to 'founders of the Islamic State'. + +You could claim Gaddafi is a founder of ISIS considering his autocratic/brutal/terrorist supporting reign. Take the time and read a quick Biography of saint Gaddafi. + +The Assad government has not been killing its own citizens? At best it's a draw between factions but I'd wager the body count for Assad/Russia in being to look like the chain saw versus Paul Bunyan and his Ox. For god's sake please don't try to justify either.",1 +Surely US allies are not stupid enough to believe that Trump is anything but erratic and irrational? Any other belief is just wishful thinking. Remember where wishful thinking got the world with George W. Bush. Sometimes it is just necessary to accept that the US President is every bit as incompetent as he appears to be,1 +A truly disgusting remark. Sick minds abound among Trump haters.,1 +dresser... your a pathetic libtard!!,1 +"Eloisa, is it not that the name ""Reuben"" is Jewish which is far different that Ruben, a Spanish name. +I believe that it is a common mistake by those who have little knowledge of people outside White society to mistake Ruben a Spanish name for ""Reuben"" a Jewish name. +The tenor of you comment, Eloisa, that you inserted in my discussion with Brett seems to me comes from racial discrimination - ""are you taking a class in high school"" - meaning an uneducated Jew.",1 +Eff the America hating Donkeys!,1 +"Bob, I want to thank you, thank you from the bottom of my independent heart. You see, the louder you squeal, the further off the cliff you go and the more out of control stupid assed excuses you throw out, the more I smile and revel in the Great Donald Trump victory. You can piss and moan all you like about electoral vs popular (you guys said you had an electoral wall that could not be busted through so you would win anyway) You can pan the demonstrations all you want, (note, they are all in liberal cities so they are talking to themselves) and you can continue to blow all those hateful words out of your arse but realize, they aren't sticking. Yes Bob, you and your partners in lib can keep yell, cry and scream til hell freezes over....it just makes me smile all the more. +And when it gets to be just too much, get a cupcake and go to your safe place and shelter in, yep, place.",1 +"if he wants to be anti-pc, then he should stfu. he should also have sex with ivanka already...i think they both want it",1 +The shooter was clinging to the hate spewed by CNN and Rachel Maddow...sorry if reality doesn't match your brainwashing.,1 +"This is quite a pathetic ""belittle thy neighbour"" piece of commentary Hirsch.",1 +Good heaven's I see the posting board is full of bleeding hearts. China can go pound sand! Good on President-elect Trump for initiating a tone that puts these totalitarian scum bags back in their place.,1 +"JSelover, what a smart remark indeed, good for you. Do not judge me or my skills, shame on you! You keep looking at the eyes only and enjoy life! I think however my skills are more than adequate; I do think I have the right to voice my opinion without getting nasty.",1 +"And if Wente had actually ""read"" the article, she would have found out the study compared Seattle to a 'Synthetic' Seattle of different areas of the state. Further, another study (using a different 'Synthetic' Seattle) came to the conclusion that, for restaurants, the increase had little effect. + +And the authors of this other study had criticisms of this study. So the study's conclusion is hardly a slam-dunk. + +But we still have the usual crowd predicting doom-and-gloom. + +But then these are likely the same people who predicted a jobs boom when Ontario lowered its corporate tax rate to be the lowest in North America. (We're still waiting on that one, aren't we?) + +Liars figure and figures lie.",1 +"Trump is a racist, +…and a petty con man, +…and a traitor. +But back to the racist part. +That's what attracted so many of his supporters. +There is no longer any doubt that Mueller's office is investigating Trump for collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation, +…it's just a matter of time now. +Being rid of the racists in the White House will go a long ways to making all the other racists scurry back under their rocks where they belong.",1 +"Remember Canada, you voted these imbeciles into power. + +It's YOUR fault.",1 +And the cops thought it just fine not to warn the residents of Anchorage. Pathetic!,1 +Another ill informed ignorant shabby piece of journalism. Israeli intelligence and Chinese and Russian intelligence and the British and the French and especially the CIA are all over that place. Canada is so pathetically outclassed in the intelligence world..it is ludicrous to even talk about it...why not have Roger Federer show up at the Rideau Tennis club in Ottawa and play the club champion.,1 +It looks like Rex Kramer 99 is NickNaylor/retireeFinally/LukeCanada with the assistance of a spellchecker. Wait until he gets really wound up and starts spewing his ugliness.,1 +"I agree. They funded Territorial because a bunch of fools wearing spandex decide to draft wheel-to-wheel on a shoulder-less section, on a suicide bicycle ride.",1 +"Black supremacy is OK though, eh?",1 +"Say what you will, but I trust Kim Jong-un with nuclear weapons only slightly less than I trust Donald J. Trump with them. Both so-called leaders are cut from the same cloth; born rich, self entitled, narcissistic, and batshit crazy.",1 +"Hey, fake Frank. More trolling? Yep. Loser.",1 +"There is no real basis for your presumption at all. Cap Stone (Yes, Crap Stone) was all about profit and transient income. This is a rare attempt to bolster +the sense of community and livability without having to move out to the fringes and needing more gas to get to the fun stuff. This is for long-term residents, brother. Not shitty cardboard clad boxes which save money on investment. This is looking like a quality type living experience. Greed, my friend, exists in extra cars, boats, jewelry, power and arrogance--not taking a risk to build a nice place in this cool town.",1 +"Trumps whole agenda is just to undo anything Obama. He cares little about proper policy, whats good for his country or any individual group. What he cares about is undoing anything Obama because Obama has made him look really stupid, but then again that wasn't all that difficult when you are dealing with a narcissistic idiot in the first place. + +The Trump presidency will laughed at for generations and he has nobody but himself to blame. Remember, he picked the finest team ... nobody picks one better. Just look at his picks now eh Mr. Sessions and others",1 +"In the current state of affairs, no ANC MP's could ever ask a relevant question - they would immediately be fingered as anti-Zupta. A perilous position for a coward.",1 +"""Multicultural sensitivities should never override gender equality"" +Islam, xianity, and judaism are predicated on gender inequality. Islam more so than the other two.",1 +"Where does Don the lefty fascist come up with this rubbish? Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton praised Trump for his record with minorities in NYC. Once Trump became a presidential candidate, leftists like Don, foaming at the mouth, scream ""Racist!"" On but wait. It was Hillary Clinton who praised former Klansman and US Senator from West Virginia as ""her mentor."" Like a Pavlovian dog, Don simply parrots what the frail and quite pathetic Hillary Clinton spouts. Trump speaks the truth about what the Left has delivered to inner city African-Americans: poverty, failed schools, and broken families. Who has been running large US cities for decades? The only thing left in the Democrat playbook is to scream ""Racist!, Sexist! Homophobe!"" Hillary Clinton is guilty of numerous felonies for her gross mismanagement of classified material. Her husband is a serial rapist. Their greed and corruption are unmatched. And all poor, sickly Hillary and deranged Don can do is scream ""Racist.""",1 +Great to see this sort of important and timely local news buried in the website as opposed to all things negative Trump headlining every freaking day. I guess now that police have released the photo ADN can squirmingly announce the suspects race.,1 +B.S. Barn fires are devastating to farmers and they don't mess around with the prospect of their animals being killed in a barn fire. Farmers no matter how big are not cavalier about losing everything even if fully insured by barn fires and it is ridiculous to suggest otherwise.,1 +"Foster, we can do better than that. We can overturn this unconstitutional theft by doing a citizen referendum- to override the corrupt bastards.",1 +"What a wind bag talk about an empty barrel nanny babe is the biggest of them all, maybe she can borrow a few of the ""I want to be a cow girl"" hats and then they can be twins. Amazing how big a jerk she can be.",1 +"But these are the guys doing the heavy lifting in keeping sex offenders in check in prison. Surely, Republicans can see that they need white supremacists. I mean, the cops can't keep blacks down all on their own. No, they need to partner up with like-minded folks.",1 +"Does that include labeling anyone republican/conservative as racist, sexist and any other ist you can think of? The same type of garbage I have been seeing for the last 70 years from the left.",1 +"My proposal: that every one of us look into our own religion, and weed out the fanatics in extremists in our own house, instead of looking into somebody else's religion. Let the Muslims oppose Jihadi extremists and the Christians oppose Christian fundamentalist extremists and we'd all be better. It's like the opposite of the grass is always greener; the religion is always worse from outside in.",1 +"For one thing, the red states are too dependent on the federal spigot to get very far with their silly threats.",1 +"ÜBER ALLES SIG HEIL. + +BTW Is Breitbart celebrating ""Get out of stupid"" today ? + +Thanks for coming out !",1 +"[But Republicans, with their penchant for parading their patriotism, damned well ought to be leading the effort to uncover the full extent of Russian involvement in our last election and Vladimir Putin’s influence today. To do otherwise is not only hypocritical, but complicit.] +It is increasingly obvious that Republicans only claim to be patriotic as they continue to put party above country. This morning's article about McConnell supporting appointing Garland as Director of the FBI is damning evidence as he wouldn't give Garland a hearing as an apolitical Supreme Court Justice which is even more important than as an apolitical Director of the FBI.",1 +You talka crazy. I'm already a mandated reporter by profession. Who would you like me to call the police on?,1 +Mistake my arse!! Whomever this person is broke the Law and should not only loose their job but be made an example of by prosecution. The governor is lame once again on his duty!,1 +"Yes, yes, by all means useful idiots; let us save the whales, save the snails, save the trees, save the seas, save the worms, and save the germs. Of course, we must carbon tax all those greedy polluting capitalists into bankruptcy under one world government by the United Nations to save the planet from GORED BULL warming for the greater glory of the goddess Gaia. The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through all kinds of things worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots,magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles...hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, word-wide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion cosmic rays, and recurring ice ages. Two hundred thousand years man has been here versus the planet for four and a half billion. And we have the CONCEIT to think that somehow we're a threat?",1 +"Or ... if a marriage never took place, doesn't that make the now-climbing-out-of-bed-and-slipping-away-into-the-night bishops f*rn......s?",1 +"So how come pollution got so bad here? + +Market failure or dumb customers?",1 +"Institutional anti-racism laws like this are really about stifling dissent. + +It is the most evil Marxist garbage I have ever seen + +How dare you tell me what to say or do? + +Screw you Marxists + +People died in world so ALL VIEWS could be presented, not stifled or imprisoned for beliefs + +This is Leftist Fascism disguised as social justice. + +Where is our trump!",1 +"Good. Now that the House and Senate are done high fiving their idiotic legislation, flood Governor Walker's mailboxes with letters of protest. It aint over until the gov. signs the bill.",1 +"I don't suffer fools gladly....I have a question for you. If I am complaining like a ""weenie"" about Trump, does that make you a ""weenie"" for complaining on a daily basis about ""fake news""?",1 +"Why would we have to stoop that low. We have values in this country unlike the US President who seems to have none at all. I thought he was going to be tough on crime. Seems to me only if they aren't Trump supporters then he's tough. First the African Americans he slights now the Latin folks. Can you even spell TOTAL LOSER. + +I've seen some air head leaders but Trump is coming close to the top. The next election will be the biggest landslide in US history if Trump even makes it that far. I have no respect for people like you cause you haven't the brain power to figure out how Trump is sticking to all his supporters, which is probably why you spent 26 years in the military, you couldn't get a job requiring you to think.",1 +More silly chicken little views of Trump......color me surprised.,1 +"Correct, I don't see them complaining that 11 out of 13 players on each team in the NBA are Black. Racial inequality is ALL in the mind. For goodness sake, we just had a Black President. +The players message should be: ""DON""T BE A FOOL- STAY IN SCHOOL"". But, they have NO message. NO solution to their imagined grievances. +And, of course, they never tell other Blacks to stop killing each other. Blacks killing other Blacks is epidemic proportions. +Over 3,000 Blacks have been shot in Chicago alone this year by other Blacks. I suppose it is somehow the White man's fault too.",1 +"What you appear to be missing is the distinction between an anti-semite and a fascist. Trump is a fascist - i.e., he tries to bully and coerce people and companies to do his will.",1 +the buck does not stop here.. i do not know where it stops but it does not stop with me.. i have no knowledge of the buck... it is a very very stupid buck.. i have the greatest mind in the universe.. god ask me for advice...,1 +"Sorry fort the short reply. Long answer is that every murderer had a reason for killing. Voices in the head out covering up adultery, it's all outside of my definition of dame. + +When someone straps a bomb to themselves because it's what Muhammad would do, they have been leg on that path but they ate insane. + +The congressional softball shooter was invited to his attempted murder by the #resist movement. Still, to take it offline required that he be insane, in my opinion. I had a friend who was murdered and her murderer seemed have reasons that seemed to make sense to them at the time. + +Crazy is as crazy does.",1 +"lol...I know better than to vote for a fool or someone I don't trust...but I'd vote for someone I don't trust, before that fool Trump. I do trust me. Ask about me.. you would trust me too. you should have wrote me in.. T....... .....n",1 +"That's ridiculous! Do you think 2% of the people would have agreed to Amendment 64 in say Weld County? How about the right to die amendment in say Colorado Springs? Now it will take big money to get any amendment on the ballot, which means only those with big money will be able to do it. Foolish, foolish move.",1 +Tiresome leftist drivel.,1 +He's a nut and so are nuts?,1 +"It's good to read a balanced report of this issue. Compared to many international media outlets the G&M refrains from this hysterical yellow journalism that is the rage at many newspapers since trump won the election. + +The guy might be full of hyperbole, an egomaniac and a buffoon, but he's not stupid; nor is he the right wing monster those media make him out to be. Impeach Trump and we get Pence - the end of social security and the final nail in the New Deal.",1 +"He is anything but dumb or unhinged, and he's too rational to get fast and loose, because he knows he would be exterminated. He has no death wish. I think he would be content to get the US presence out of the south. China would also appreciate that, too, and may well reward him for doing so.",1 +"It isn't just Trump, it is the whole party. The more ignorant you are, the easier it is to be sold the BS the Rs sell regularly.",1 +"You said ""Canada's in for a world of hurt"" and that you love that. I find that distressing, not to mention, the other comments and 'likes' displaying the same attitude. It's called cutting off your nose to spite your face.",1 +"A ""better after-the-fact reaction by bishops"" would have PREVENTED further child rape and re-victimization of those previously attacked. Ask families in parishes where known offenders were transferred to, courtesy of their bishops.",1 +"Yup, the LG would go against precedent and call for a $40M election redo when she has another obvious option. +Then she'd head for the nearest fallout shelter and hope to stay there for 10 years or so. +I can see that happening. Suuuure. +And Brexit: the brits made a stupid decision but they made it. They'll live with it, so how about you let us live with ours - Clark out and a NDP government with Green support.",1 +"He's as dumb as my cat Sam. +No matter what my wife and I do, he just can't stay away from the shiny Christmas tree. +He just gives us that disdainful ""What the hay is your problem?"" look. +And keeps going back.",1 +"You mean more non whites are immigrating to Canada, instead of members of the Master Race? You do have a lot in common with a German dictator who died 70 years ago. + +Planning to build a few camps?",1 +"What a joke. Courageous says the ""Governor""? How about Fat, Dumb, and Lazy? You once again steal the PFD and let the out of state oil workers take, take, take and provide nothing but a laugh as they retire in Texas, Oklahoma, Montana, Louisiana etc. No seasonal Sales tax for tourists. Both parties are thieves, get rid of them all.",1 +You are a fine example of not knowing your *** from a hole in the ground.,1 +"You have got to be kidding me. You don't know any of these folks, some made poor choices, some it was just happenstance. It's pretty easy when an entire society is rigged for the rich and powerful. + +Tell me, are you rich and powerful? Do you come from a family with money? If not, are you where you are (which is on a device trolling the homeless, apparently), because of choices you made alone or did you get some help along the way? + +I don't even know why I'm asking questions, as it seems to make more sense to you to just create an entire hypothetical person to make your point. + +Or I could say you don't deserve nice things because someday when you're homeless some idiot will use it against you. + +Enjoy that vape pen, douche.",1 +"Trump won because Clinton's VP was too white and because of last minute stupidity by the FBI chief. The polls reflected it. Trump also spoke the Bishops’ line on abortion enough for them to edge four states he should not have won. Sadly, Hillary should have taken the Obama line that the Pro-life movement is an electoral scheme, giving many Catholics cover. She was winning the pro-choice vote anyway. If she had done what I told her in 2007 we would not have an idiot in the White House.",1 +Just pointing out that the gay life choice in unnatural and unhealthy. 5% of the demographic with 81% of the cases.,1 +You people are disgusting! Try respecting or President instead of insulting him constantly. While you are at it... stop lying about him too! Treat him like you did Obama... you had your nose up his ass!,1 +"Too much golfing. I'll be too busy too golf. - Hypocrite +Why does he sign all those Executive Orders? Can't he pass a bill? - Hypocrite +Look at the Affordable Care Act. Did they even read what was in it before they voted? - Hypocrite +She's a puppet of Wall Street. Look at who she gives paid speeches to. Look who is in her campaign. - Hypocrite +She does business with foreign governments and gives favors for donations. - Hypocrite +Look at all the vacations Obama takes. Doesn't he ever stay in Washington and work? - Hypocrite +Buy American! - then purchases Chinese steel and aluminum for his buildings. - Hypocrite +Announces Made in America Week! and can't showcase even 1 Trump product made in the US. - Hypocrite +Admonishes Fake News! and then proceeds to lie 4.9 times a day - Hypocrite",1 +Crooked Kathleen- lock her up!,1 +"Truly sad time for America. A new low in American politics. A pervert who is a fraud just got elected President of the USA. His wife, our new First Lady, has naked pictures of herself ALL over the internet. + +LOW CLASS",1 +your post is the start and proof of the left wing stupidity and hate they live in,1 +"I hope he stays because he has shown a bright light on how too many people still see the world...locker room talk my ass...when I was 12 or 13 maybe and it was stupid then. A friend and I got caught saying stupid drivel less bad by a man I deeply respect...and he said quietly, "" Are you two quite done?"" And stood there...I was so embarrassed and I've never felt so stupid. Oh course being a thirteen year old boy almost begs this kind of macho stupidity but to see it in his supporter is bad...and little d is just plain disgusting! But in their lust for power Ryan and McConnell can't let go...they are the GOP, OMG.",1 +"What's laughable is that you don't know at all what he said in the tape. He said he could just grab women because he was famous, he never mentioned a word about women trying to become famous. Don't believe me you might actually want to read the transcript, here it is and here is the part you so incorrectly referrence. By the way if you don't think that Trump is uncivil, you might want to look that word up. + +Trump: Yeah, that’s her. With the gold. I better use some Tic Tacs just in case I start kissing her. You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. + +Bush: Whatever you want. + +Trump: Grab ’em by the pussy. You can do anything. + +https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/08/us/donald-trump-tape-transcript.html",1 +Silly. If I couldn't make my house payment I'd figure out a way to make more money or get a different job. Isn't that the American way?,1 +"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?",1 +Sorry you don't have the intelligence to understand the article. Your jealous is showing,1 +"The most arrogant, biased, butt hurt reporter I can think of today.",1 +"""Is Trump a racist, or just your basic bigot?"" +""True, although it doesn't not make you one either. "" +Let me offer something up in a similar vein to Lawrence Martin the author of this article: +""Lawrence Martin have you stopped beating your wife yet?"" +or perhaps +""PM Trudeau are you working for China or are you just stupid?"" +The Globe continues its descent.",1 +I wish I could match with them. I also am hoping there won't be harassment by Trump followers and other woman haters.,1 +"If the Bobblehead said it, it's a lie plain and simple or, at the most charitable best, a disingenuous, self-serving diversion. Count your fingers; check for your watch and wallet.",1 +"Big Boy Trump likes ‘big bombs’. That makes him feel important! +He praised himself for the bombing. That sounds like a psychopath to me.",1 +"Christy1, a poster on this thread is a real little hellcat. Her favorite word seems to be ""regurgitate"". she used that word in two recent posts. Must be trying to impress us. I'd like to vomit down her fat ugly neck. I'll be she is a fat girl, ugly and smells really bad on hot days.",1 +"1st they said the would hit the PFE so they wouldn't have to tax us, know they take the PFD and want to tax us. Total BS, just like the past election when they said they were retiring bonds so the new ones wouldn't cost us anything. And the dumb a$$ voters fell for it. Is our property taxes staying the same? NO they are going UP. Why not propose a sales tax instead of an income tax? That way everyone pays the same percentage on what they buy. Not just the working people. Alaska was gotten so f'd up over the past 10 years I cannot get out fast enough. The low life welfare, live in the middle of nowhere to get subsidized, live on the backs of the working people have ruined a wonderful place. It is simply just a sh-t hole, welfare, snowflake state.",1 +Actually it were the red states that let America down. I mean come on. How could anyone vote for the town butcher to perform brain surgery. This really has nothing to do with being liberal or conservative but rather intelligence and knowledge vs ignorance and plain stupidity. Stupidity won. Congratulations Trump supporters.,1 +"They've done nothing to merit your condemnation....unless it's being different from you. I know what it's like to be the target of prejudice and discrimination and empathize with others who face such bigotry. Those ""damn smelly hippies"" aren't harming you in any way. The least you can do is leave them alone. Gary (a 74 year old hippie) Crum",1 +Ak6x6 please do not attend and embarass the rest of us with your apparent ignorance. This is a great event coming to Alaska.,1 +"I hope that the area that I live in takes note what London Police are doing as my areas unfounded rate is 34% or +91 of 269 allegations. Shameful.",1 +"First flaky Nancy Pelosi and noe Adam Schiff, both disgruntled Liberal Democratic hacks from the once-great State of California. Give us a break from these fools. The election is long over and the Democrats lost and now Hillary Clinton and the DNC are the coluders with Russia and were profìteering with their disgusting dirty tricks. They need to be investigatedthoroughly and imprisoned for their crimes.",1 +"Who are we to dictate to the North Koreans? If I recall, the USA has a sizable collection of its own nuclear weapons. The North Koreans have every right to run their country their own way so long as they do not act irresponsibly by extending their violence beyond their borders. If the North Koreans begin making serious acts of aggression, only then do we have the right to intervene with our military. Trump must stop provoking them with his veiled threats, and they will leave the rest of us alone. Trump is a dangerous psychopath who is emotionally unstable. Trump could easily trigger a global thermonuclear war.",1 +"That might have more to do with nonstop attacks by the press and an avalanche of false stories. The Washington Post, which I stopped reading a week ago, looks like something right out of 1938 Nazi Germany. It's horrible. CNN, ABC, NBC, NYT, aren't any better. And Fox, Breitbart, etc. treat Trump like he can do no wrong. That has more to do with Trump's poll numbers than anything else. In the meantime, the really dangerous thing is that the press has destroyed its credibility with this. You do realize, don't you, that the press is trusted by less than 35% of the country? This is a historic low. Disney and ESPN squandered public attention to football, Hollywood is viewed as a collection of spoil lunatics and narcissistic sex addicts, and the Democratic Part is held in such low esteem that they couldn't get a candidate elected dog catcher in most of the country. The attacks on Mr. Trump have been an unmitigated disaster. Stop it. Pray for the man!",1 +"Dialogue is great. +But the Church's teachings and the Catholic Catechism are clear: +Homosexual behavior is sinful. +When the LGBTQ Catholics accept that teaching, then true dialogue is possible. +The same goes for the fornicators, adulterers, abortionists, thieves, murderers, child molesters, etc.",1 +"Yay, free market! The jerk will get what he deserves. + +Of course, he MAY just fix the place up and make a profit, too. Yay, free market! The entrepreneur will get what he deserves.",1 +"""I'm proud to stand with Every Voice to empower the voices of voters by getting big money out of politics. I've worked on that in the legislature and will continue to do so in the Secretary of State's office."" +Val Hoyle's Facebook page. + +In other words, it's not corrupt as long as the Democrat is doing it. As an independent voter, I'm f--king sick of Democrats invoking Kenya and ""CONservatives"" every time one of their own is caught telling an outrageous, hypocritical lie. + +Every goddamned time.",1 +"birds of a feather flock together and this especially holds true for deplorable people.. and she is right.. half of his supporters love the anger, hatred, bigotry and ignorance trump represents.... the other half think this is his tv show he is doing.. imagine this presidency if you can..",1 +Absolute garbage.,1 +"Rep Pruitt: You tout cuts but no details on what they are. You ignore the widely know fact that ALL state employees, including the ""vital"" ones you cite could be laid off and STILL not balance the budget. I am on board with both an income and sales tax. They can both be smaller than either alone, capture tourist/visitor revenue along with expat worker revenue. As a bonus the citizens now have true skin in the game and pay much closer attention to the spending than ever before. It's called being engaged, something not seen since the income tax was rescinded. No more stupid, endless SuHydro studies, KABATA, roads to nowhwhere, LIO debacles, travel junkets, useless railroad extensions etc.",1 +"I've never been accused of not speaking my mind here -- I regularly call Trump and his mob far worse than ""deplorable."" And ""madman"" is a term some of his own dismayed countrymen and allies use for him, too easy to attach to foreign foes. +The point of the Kristof trip to N.K. was to humanize the alleged demons there -- and even their boyish leader, erratic as he is, who seems to have come to the obvious truth (since 1945): when your nation has nukes, the world takes you more seriously. +Even Trump's guru Bannon conceded last month, ""...there's no military solution, they got us."" But then, even old Steve expressed more concern than some of his colleagues for the potential casualties, ""millions"" in retaliation on Seoul alone. Or would those evangelical Trumpers, so sure of their rapture to come, claim that America might have to destroy the world ""...in order to save it.""",1 +"The Sultan of Oman is gay, and had ruled for 50 odd years.",1 +"Of course it will create a vacuum if US pulls out but at what point is the strategy to win realistic unless we occupy permanently? Step up the attack on ISIS and related groups and their proxies wherever they may be. Poor, uneducated, and mentally ill are joining these groups along with the criminals that created them.",1 +If they're American why the heck are these scumbags going to Canada.,1 +"I can see that you're not very smart, so I will go easy on you. First, you obviously don't know how to properly use quotation marks. But I digress. Here is a newsflash for you: Police and fire departments are government agencies. They are not businesses per se. ""Shareholder value"" isn't relevant. Did I dumb it down enough for you?",1 +"That's probably the biggest criticism against democratic centralism, if the core is rotten like in the ANC, the whole organization becomes rotten, and the only hope those that are aware & object have of changing the organization, is to reject the central policy binding on members by going against the flow. + +Such a stupid concept really; willingly subjecting yourself to the whims of some public servant god-king, capitalism FTW!",1 +"I'd say the majority on disability are slackers and whiners, especially the ones with subjective self-diagnosed ailments such as mood disorder, sleep disorder, sore back, so-called chronic pain, chronic fatigue syndrome, etc.",1 +"Wow! The ""deplorables"" just gave the political and media elite a big middle finger.",1 +"Old, white, male, impotent, finished.",1 +"There is a good reason for that, among other things, he is naive and weak.",1 +"Yep, think we should have Caldwell pay for the rail himself. From the start I figured it would take at least $10B ... now to get to Ala Moana ... probably more like $20B. And ... we still won't have the riders to pay for the daily upkeep. Oh so sad ... Caldwell is an idiot!!!",1 +"Wow, my mild and inoffensive comment gets deleted and this piece of drivel stays up? Something is seriously wrong with the censors on this comment board.",1 +"I suspect that in the end, the US will assume that debt rather than have the Court cancel it. The EU should do the same for Greece. + +Alito likely remembers reading the paper in college. It is easy misquote something read years ago. Either that, or he has some very partisan law clerks feeding him this information. + +The Anglicans have an Africa problem. So do we if Cardinal Sarah is an example. More than a mileia ago, all of Africa was given to the Copts. Lamberh and Rome should honor that agreement now instead of trying to cope with the traditionalism of the African Church. + +The heros of Las Vegas show the Lord is still with us, although it may not be with the NRA, which still wants to let insane people buy guns. Like insisting that there is no global warming, that view could only be supported by a real moron.",1 +"It isn't involves an idiotic grin on his face as if some minor, childish rhetorical point is a major victory. The guy had a huge amount of maturing ahead of him, Tim will tell if that is within him. But he can stay with wiping the stupid bratty 12 year old boy grin off his face.",1 +"Well, it seems if you follow the media talking points, they will let anyone write an article in here... + +An EMBA program is not that hard to get into...you basically need an undergrad and fulltime work experience... + +I'll bet she did not have the academic chops to get accepted into the regular MBA program... + +It is like reading a post from a disgruntled egotist...useless.",1 +Damn North Korea!,1 +"My god, but you are full of crap!",1 +I am no defender of these moronic prepper enclaves that are populating certain regions of the west. But... Randy Weaver is alive and well. His spouse and fourteen year old son were killed at Ruby Ridge and Weaver and his three surviving daughters were later awarded several million dollars for the wrongful death of their mother and brother.,1 +So called conservatives! What did you think you were getting when you got together and voted in this little imp? Yes she was a little wacky but our city would be in much better financial shape had we ignored the cheap political assasination executed against Amy and done the right thing. Hope you establishment hypocrites are happy!,1 +"Long on Trump +Wall Streeters like Anthony Scaramucci bet heavy on the would-be president back when that seemed like a pretty dumb investment. + + +Now Scaramucci and Wall Street thinks it's Bonus time! + +Making America Goldman (Sachs) Again.",1 +"Merkel started the collapse of Europe with her +insane idea of ""come one, come all"" Crime in German +cities is more than three times the average. courts are clogged +and budgets are drained. Either Europeans are blind and stupid, +or we're witnessing the suicide of that continent.",1 +"Trump's Labor Day Message To Workers: + + + + Screw You! + +Trump’s Secretary of Labor, Alexander Acosta, has a miserable history of aligning with right-wing and corporate interests. + +Just weeks ago, he appeared before the annual gathering of the militantly anti-labor American Legislative Exchange Council—along with anti-union zealot Betsy DeVos, Trump’s secretary of education. + +Trump’s pick to serve as deputy secretary of labor, Patrick Pizzella, has an even more troubling record than Acosta. A former campaign staffer for Ronald Reagan who has served in Republican and Democratic administrations, Pizzella was once employed by the viscerally anti-union National Right to Work Committee and later joined the firm that scandal-plagued lobbyist Jack Abramoff was associated with before his 2006 conviction on federal charges that included attempted bribery.",1 +What a silly hat.,1 +The discrimination against males in colleges is based on Title 9 interpretation by the Democrats in the position of power that are controlling 100% of Higher Education. The ratio of males to females in colleges is dropping from 4 to 6 to 3 to 7. It will lead to the demographic disaster as Men tent to marry down and women to merry up. A college educated female will not marry a plumber or HVAC technician. Virtually all college educated females will remain spinsters or will be forced to whore around for companionship. One only needs to examine African American marriage patterns to see the future. Why would a college educated Black MD marry an ex con?,1 +"When you are writing about idiots like Senator Lynn Beyak, scotch may be the only way to get through it.",1 +"A tricky issue. ""Past homosexuals"" are pretty much all dead of AIDS. And they have no descendants, so who do you apologize to?",1 +SAYS THE OLD WHITE LADY HER SELF outsider77 have to make it about so called oppressed niggers. and old people waiting to die? come the fuck on your're a moron,1 +They are trained to say the inane that doesn't bother anyone.,1 +Michael you most be on drugs!!!,1 +907: Run along you foolish little troll.,1 +Racist POS.,1 +The biggest client base for Bell Pottinger is sovereigns like the UK. What hypocracy.,1 +"""Luckily, he took a day off while Trudeau was visiting."" + +Only because Mr Trudeau was well briefed. For a hoot google 'trudeau trump handshake' to see how Mr Trump is just like that over-indulged commodity trader at the strip club. You know the one; he's just made a few bucks (on a stupidly risky trade) and thinks he's the alpha silverback in the forest, so he pulls (I mean really!) stupid dominance ploys on meeting real leaders. I live for the day when someone (hopefully with training) pops him right in the nose for being an idiot. Mr Trudeau demonstrated understated class and an excellent sense of balance. Unfortunately; the right cross might have been, while more fitting, a little incendiary.",1 +"You've got that all backwards - +Clueless President - Fake Guy",1 +Fatal conceit. You have it.,1 +Lock the lying crooked rapist loving broad up.,1 +"Stupid reporting, and of course you had to use a horrible picture of a classy, wonderful American! Get over it, Trump won!",1 +"Why do people here have a problem with honking while driving? I grew up here... I honk if people are sitting at a green light or stopping in the middle of the road because they are lost. (Pull over and figure out where you are going.) Every so often when I discover I was not paying attention and the light turned green and no one honked I wonder why, and would have appreciated a little notification... It happens. It's not a ""fuck you,"" it's just to say ""hey, earth to driver, let's get going.""",1 +"I have a CCPC +I follow the rules, and don't break laws. +I am not wealthy. +On income, I pay ALL the taxes anybody else pays once I take out the money. +I don't see where there is any tax reduction. +Of course I don't sprinkle income, and I had never heard of the capital gain dodge. +But the ability to invest corporate funds for passive investment is critical to small business operations and retirement. +Trudeau and Morneau are hypocrites. And trudeau junior and his friend Butt are so out of line with this abuse of hard working private sector people.",1 +"While the rest of the world is seeing a rise in shark attacks, Schatz throws blood in the water. What an idiot!",1 +"Unfortunately, far too many deplorables still tune into fake news outlets that deliberately keep them ignorant and stupid. Give it time and such outlets will have the deplorables believing that Obama/Hillary/$DEMOCRAT is to blame.",1 +Congratulations on wasting your pathetic life because of your vile racist beliefs.,1 +Ridiculous.,1 +"I find it hypocritical to hear ""blessed are those who see God in every person"" from someone who cannot see God in women, and just said women cannot be priests because they cannot image God.",1 +"The good general Kelly has been infected by trumpinitis. Symptoms include a total disregard for history, a tendency to lie and distort, an urgent need to blame others and never say you're sorry or admit mistakes. Without proper treatment, usually in the form of an extended vacation, the condition will worsen and become chronic in nature.",1 +Anti-flouriders are in the same boat as anti-vaxers- DAMNED STUPID.!,1 +"Kim80, it's fun to make fun of black people, what with their ""history"" of slavery and poverty. The police have a tough gig keeping the ""coloreds"" in line, don't they?",1 +I can not believe the level of ignorance.,1 +So now that it's starting to bite them in the tush they say we made our point & now we'll stand. What changed? Do they really think fans are that stupid? Evidently yes.,1 +"You should hear Kaaihue's dumb stupid psycho presentation on Hawaii's Election Fraud. Real stupid!! She's an embarassment to Hawaii, someone tell her to change her last name, it's shameful! This is the reason why Hawaiians don't get involved in politics, it's shameful!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dowO-NhwT2Q&t=20s",1 +"This proposal is so incredibly stupid it's astounding that it has progressed this far. + +OK, so all the natural gas going to Vancouver ultimately gets shut off. What will replace it? Electricity. And who said there is no need for the power that site C will produce? Oh right, we can buy power from the US, putting ourselves more at the mercy of the orange buffoon. + +The real buffoon in Vancouver is Gregor Robertson.",1 +Off topic deflection trolling. Get lost.,1 +"In no way do I agree that Democrats haven't served working people, Lynn. You have a huge chip on your shoulder that blinds you when you conflate your friends with your enemies. Our federal government runs on consensus (when it runs at all) and not by diktat. By turning your back on Hillary Clinton, a hugely talented administrator and master of policy, and going into a pout over the unelectable Bernie Sanders, you and people like you elected Donald Trump. I will remember that folly to my dying day, and I think you oh-so-picky people have ushered in a huge disaster. You should have learned after Ralph Nader, but you didn't learn a damn thing; and it is you who will pay most dearly.",1 +"hey lunatic, there is no Oil such in ontario! man you lunatic libs will lie about anything to justify the most corrupt incompetent government in ontario, the liberals!. and again for your ignorance, the 407 was NOT SOLD!!, keep showing us all how stupid you are idiot",1 +"RadirD, you're an idiot.",1 +no laws against stupid...,1 +"Yeah, in addition to loss of good/earned time for multiple Class II (2) (20) violations of the Colorado Dept. of Corrections Code of Penal Discipline. Bad ink/bad judgement/bad actor. He's right where he belongs.",1 +Seems very odd how much time and effort the left invests in defending Muslim terrorism.,1 +"<> + +Nonsense.",1 +Charles your are a total dumb shit. You watch way too much mainstream media. You have zero journalism skills. I am sick of the Federal government left and right The Bush Dynasty Both Clintons the Soros paid gangsters and the 8 years of Obama and his thieving administration. Trump knows and sees what is going on with the elite left and right that are destroying America and our rights. You and most of your alaska dispatch cronies have your head so far up your buried in the sand you cant see the truth and destruction of America.,1 +"Read all the comments below. A real microcosm of our nation. God I pray Alaska isn't one of the ""moron states"" that go for Trump. History will ensure folks who supported the misogynist, racist, bigot Trump are going to wear that dubious badge for quite some time.",1 +"WHY IN THE HELL WOULD THEY DROP THE MOST SERIOUS OF CHARGES??!!!??? If this isn't a perfect example of the perversion of our judicial system I don't know what is. This man deserved to be hung the first time he was found out. How about holding the hospital responsible for not reporting to the authorities, but just suspending him! OMG. I'm so pissed. Innocent children are nothing to our courts.",1 +"It is apparent that either 1) you really enjoy trolling people. There is nothing really wrong with that I suppose. Still, don't you have better things to do? Do you really need to feel superior or the laugh that badly? For someone who is not a twenty something milli intern ( they are HILARIOUS by the way) you are pretty sophomoric. Or is it 2) You really need affirmation. Seriously none of this is all that intellectually stunning, go smoke through one of those overpriced yuppie asshole vaporizers you review for no discernable reason. Either way, this is stupid even by your standards",1 +"So, you now disagree with all the bad mouthing Hillary did about your many sexual assault victims? Hypocrisy much?",1 +"You make a lot of sense. The legislature has not done their job they were elected to do. Unfortunately, many of these same clowns will return after the next election. At this point, I don't care if the persons elected are Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, Independent, or whatever. As candidates, they have to willing to reach consensus on dealing with the fiscal problem. It's obvious that the current legislators are incapable/unwilling to make important decision. Voters need to kick their butts out...",1 +"Why is it every time something comes out of the White House it is always by an unidentified source? Pretty easy to make up trash when you dont have the balls to list the name of the person who gave the info. +Oh wait..........it could mean the idiot democrats just made it up!",1 +"A desperate attempt to retain power. + +Christy is as pathetic as Kathy Wynne. + +For goodness sake Canada, think before you vote next time. Please.",1 +"Obama has not been a great president. But he has not gotten us involved in foreign wars while at the same time lowering taxes, like Bush Jr. He has not embarassed the nation with a ridiculous plan like the Iran/Contra scheme, ala Ronnie Reagan. The economy has actually improved under his watch, though not as much as we want. All things considered, Obama has been the best president this nation has had since LBJ. And unlike LBJ, he hasn't gotten us emersed in a messy foreign adventure. So I'd rate him as a very good president, similar to LBJ and Eisenhower. That's reason enough to vote for Hillary as his successor and the person to continue his legacy of achievements. This is especially true when the alternative is an absolutely absurd baffoon named 'the donald.'",1 +"There is a difference between free market/freedoms, and chaos. Trudeau stupidly supported legalization for the sole goal of garnering votes amongst the young. He has done nothing except delay for further study since being elected. He is throwing out the bone once again to make it an issue for the next election, as it will not happen in his present mandate. He is getting the message that there is roadblocks with this issue. Brain growth impairment, being one of them, is not hysterics as it is medically proven and backed by solid science Liberals, and you, appear to espouse when convenient.",1 +Another Coward.,1 +"Your trash talk would be more impressive if a) the Globe didn't apply a community-based approvals process, which means the Globe let us police ourselves and b) the Globe were a government agency and required to uphold freedom of speech laws. + +That being said, pray continue....",1 +"The ""award-winning"" PBS Newshour completely humiliated itself, constantly demeaning nearly everything Trump did. In particular, Gwen Ifill, Mark Shields, and David Brooks stated emphatically that Trump could never win, on numerous occasions. These three proved themselves to be deeply ignorant and obviously uninformed.",1 +How can people continue to vote for these same lawmakers who do things in secrecy away from the public view. No tranparency means that things you might not like are going to be passed w/o public approval. I am really disgusted when people complain about the lawmakers or the legislature when they continue to vote for the demos to be in office and run our state. From the Governor to the Mayor to the composition of the City Council and State Legislature Hawaii is a closed society run by these liberals who do what they want an spend our monies freely knowing they can tax the citizenry anytime for more monies. JUST PLAIN RIDICULOUS!!!!,1 +"I think, as a person on the left, I would be in shock if the Donald actually says something that is true. :-) + +Instead we have a clown who lies through his teeth and refuses to live up to his promises. In other words, a republican. Just remember we have a minority president who couldn't even get the majority of the populace to support him. Pretty sad.",1 +"Atheists have no imaginary friends and yet they have murdered more people than all religions combined! + +These people with no imaginary friends are responsible for the murder of around 200 million humans in the 20th century alone!",1 +"you cant be this stupid! the anti tax increase realist are out in force cause unlike you idiots we understand what makes an economy work and this does real harm to it while accoumplishing nothing for the environment since canada spews all but nothing in emmission of the worlds !<, what is relevant is the future trump world where the usa who is cutting taxes and such will be enjoying all the businesses and jobs that leave canada for there!,, canada needs to wake up to reality,, not be brain washed stupid like you",1 +Or a few drunk lesbians.,1 +The real enemy. N. Korea is just the excuse. Also the reason why they sold N. Korea their old junk that barely works.,1 +"Millions of Americans will now have more expensive health insurance just so this moron can now say "" look what I did to Obamacare !"" He literally has no clue...",1 +Shut up. It's ok when 15 Americans are dead in Chicago alone over the weekend but this hits a nerve.,1 +"You got him and his wife dead to rights. Why the plea deals, then? What is she getting charged with? Aiding and abetting, I hope. Her culpability is no less than his! Both are animals. Beast humans who should not be walking this earth.",1 +"Oh, you will know the false Christians. They will not upset you. You seem agitated with me.",1 +"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....",1 +It was probably some liberal hypocrite who judged my comment as politically incorrect and uncivil because it hurt their feelings.,1 +Most of her time is due to paperwork??? How cruel! How inane! How effing senseless! Just because of paperwork filing late or lost or never filed. My anger would be relentless.,1 +"A problem with soccer. Championship games (including the World Cup) are decided with a stupid shoot-out. This is necessary since the goals in soccer are few and far between (zzzz. . .). It's a bore to watch. The champion team should be determined by playing the ACTUAL game, not a shootout---may as well flip a coin or draw straws. A tie in the Stanley Cup is determined by sudden death overtime until a goal is scored--however long takes. I'd say it's a drawback of soccer but the whole game seems is a snore. The most entertaining part of soccer is watching the drama queen players take dives.",1 +Can you see electrical plugs up and down the streets of Canada covered in ice and snow. And you do have to live close to work or you could be stopping half way to work to charge up and that takes time. You might get to work ONE DAY!!! How stupid do you think most CANADIANS are we have 3 seasons with electricity prices doubling. If you live in BC where it doesn't snow or get cold you had better stay there!! VOTE THE LIEBRAL'S OUT IN 2019!,1 +The Troll is strong with this one.,1 +"Pull your head out of your arse one day, weewili. You might like the view",1 +"Writers that advocate Islamophobia, i.e., SHEEMA KHAN are really soft terrorists who are muzzling freedom of speech. Why Islam cares only for their followers, not all Canadians. STOP worrying about Muslims all over the world and take care of all Canadians. People like you are responsible for young terrorists.",1 +Perhaps there is a support group nearby for sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome.,1 +"The hypocrisy of this writer is breathtaking. Now its normalizing fascist behaviours. + +We don't need any lectures on Fascism from you today thank you. The creeping fascism by the left-wing and supported by large segments of the media has been going on for decades now. Not a peep from Denise. A visit to any major campus in this country is all one needs to be reminded of this fact....where left-wing fascist behaviour is most often tolerated or even supported by University administrators of their minions.Even deeply racist fascism. Not a peep from Denise....because the people doing it are largely of colour...you see they are allowed to do it. + +So please...stop the lecture....because you are guilty of exactly the sort of behaviour you are condemning.",1 +McCain has milked the hero cow on all 4 teets. How about Option C: they are both pigs?,1 +"Trudooo won't get a second term, he is a liar. +Go ahead censor globe you useless commies. +When the day comes you will beg and now one +will help you. Assholes",1 +America's version of the roundup of German Jews by the jack-booted brown shirts in the 1940s has begun. There won't be a good ending to this white power charade.,1 +Here! Here! And get women to stop having sex with such men!! Here! Here!,1 +"I understand people are upset about the state getting it's greedy, incompetent hands on our PFDS. They've gotten their foot in the door, so it's bye-bye PFD. but frankly, as upset or more upset st the $288 million oil giveaway. Really? You cut state services, take half or more of our PFDs, impose a substantial gas tax and want to add on a state income tax then give our money away to oil companies who have made and continue to make billions of dollars off oil they take from our land? WTF is wrong with the idiots in Juneau? More importantly, WTF is wrong with the idiots who elect them?",1 +"No they hate us just because we are not muslims! + +They tell you blind and useful idiots this everyday!",1 +"We can both agree that it is all about what you like and do not like. You don't like the teaching against artificial birth control but you do like a triune God. Voila! One is rejected, one is endorsed. + +To that we can add an extreme tendency towards name-calling. + +The author of ""You were as self-righteous, insulting, pompous and ignorant there as you show yourself to be here."" has zero standing for impugning anyone else’s civility. + +You sow what you reap now as you did then.",1 +"' +Donald Trump is a childish belligerent buffoon entirely without any credence. + +He's a traitorous petty con man and nothing else. +. +. + +Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda (web version) — Indivisible Guide + + +https://www.indivisibleguide.com/web",1 +Trumps has no class.,1 +The only time your god is mentioned is when your god's revised and bastardized bible is quoted as a legal basis to steal more resources and lands from the Natives,1 +"Give me a break!!! Kathleen and her ilk have done more damage to Ontarios economy than any form form Automation + +The ragging left has NO regard for inconsequential people, it's their ideology that matters! + +Yes Green energy cost, high taxes and government that spends more time working against business has chased away industry period!!!! + +Yes we allll know small business is a tax shelter for the rich, keep it up Marxist and Canada will soon have its own Trump.",1 +"Sad, sad commentary. Hillary is a BIG Zero, I agree. Gary Johnson appears dumber than a box of rocks. The Trump is looney tunes. Again... no one to vote for.",1 +"Senators Warren and Sanders have been all over this lousy bill for months, but the G&M gives McCain all the credit for opposing it ? + +Very strange. + +Nevertheless, good on McCain for seeing how stupid that the Donald and his fanclub are.",1 +Well said . The USA person in question has no experiance and is a dangerous loose cannon who will probably not complete his term.in office as his problems increase .when you meet a bully like him the best idea is to do business with other reasonable people and not deal with idiots like him .,1 +Meanwhile the roads are crumbling infrastructure is falling apart. This city and state has the most incompetent donkeys I've ever seen in my life good grief,1 +"Donnie takes a whopping 48 hours to condemn the bigotry and hate spewed by the KKK, Neo-Nazis and white supremacists but a mere hour to blast the Merck CEO that resigned from the management council. +And of course he couldn't even do the former correctly. He treated it like an after thought by, once again, ravishing praise on his favorite person - HIMSELF. ""Unemployment is down, a million jobs created and the economy is great, thanks to ME. Oh yeah, and before I forget, the KKK, Neo-Nazis and white supremacists are bad."" +And then a few hours later, he blasts the Merck CEO AGAIN! +What a pathetic buffoon.",1 +"Hey HappyGuy, just so you know, I subscribe for entertainment and I use it in my doggie poop/pee tray. Stop acting so righteous. You complain like a weenie about Trump, but you live in the U.S.",1 +"All I have to say is, your as dumb as a rock! lol",1 +"Wehave a p&$$y grabbing pedophile as the president, what is a little assault compared to that.",1 +"Pfeh -- that's thinking like a troll. Half those 30 posts are yours! + +And why on earth should you and the PABA have any say in what the League does? Start your own competition for their forums, since you're so confident you have their new-school successor tucked up in your brain. + +Let the League keep on doing what they've done very well since your grandfather was a pup. People like you, who are bored by civil discourse, can just stay away from their forums.",1 +shoot him already and let us through,1 +"I'm imagining two evangelical Christian law graduates, each holding the same views on sex and marriage. The first grad comes from the U of T, the second comes from TWU. Their qualifications to be lawyers are equally shining. However, LSUC might accept the first but would automatically reject the second. Why would LSUC engage in such discrimination? Because it disapproves of a discriminatory rule at TWU. + +I get it that a portion of LSUC's membership wished to make a political statement on TWU's policy. And had it just been a statement, no harm would've been done. But now harm is being done. It will be up to the Supreme Court of Canada to determine which harm, TWU's or LSUC's, is the greater. + +LSUC has tied itself to a position that is legally and ethically questionable, if not hypocritical. They'll be lucky if the Supreme Court bails them out of the mess by ruling against them.",1 +"[It never ceases to amaze me how conservatives and idiots like Eastman can call for smaller and less intrusive government] +It takes a certain kind of mindset to call for less intrusive government ""except when it comes to my issues"" as it functions upon an unquestionable belief of righteousness. Strangely enough, it's has a striking similarity to those claiming to be deeply religious.",1 +"Really, this morning the lady at the corner store repeated what happened just before I arrived. She and her hubby came here over 20 years ago from Iraq because life there was unbearable for Christians. A young woman came in the store to buy cigarettes, she did have a hijab on ,but looked underage to the store keeper. Abiding by the signed instructions she asked the young lady for ID,the young lady refused, saying she knew her rights. The store lady showed her a prominent sign about showing ID and the girl called her a piece of garbage. +The pendulum swings both ways. +Now the girl did not threaten the lady so no harm , no foul +But it does go to show that there is infidelophobia",1 +Makes me long for Paul Martin. Harper and Trudeau both suck.,1 +People need to stop being so prone to reacting on junk media presented to them on face value. The gun ban people are running on blind emotion - which the gun ban groups WANT them to do - and aren't stepping back to look at the data and critically scrutinize the crap the media and these groups are feeding them.,1 +"http://fortune.com/2016/04/11/goldman-sachs-doj-settlement/ +Nothing like letting the Fox loose in the henhouse. +Is this what everyone who voted for Trump expected? Is it? Honestly, you couldn't do worse if you tried. + As PT Barnum put it, there's a sucker born every minute.",1 +"stupid comparison. if you had condi's job, you would have prevented the whole thing. right? nahh, don't bother answering we all know the truth.",1 +Wow a president that is actually backing up what he campaigned on. How refreshing. I don't understand why the press continues to call those that come here illegally immigrants. I call them illegal aliens or invaders.,1 +"Mlandu is a racist fool. He has minimal support and wants to dictate. He is also incomprehensible. What does “For us to sit here with no nuance is a betrayal of intellectualism.” actually mean? + +And Connie September politicking when her party has no representation in the SRC at all.",1 +"You're being ignorant. He was sharing his PAST experience to voice his frustration with a ""news"" outlet and how they handled a PAST situation, very much like they are handling this current situation. He was trying to let people know that this is something he (and others) find to be a consistent problem. The ""news"" outlet just has to play it safe so THEY don't get sued. They don't have concern for other's potential problems, unless they can right a story about it, safely, from the comfort of their office, without getting sued or looking stupid. I get it, but I don't agree with it. It's just a job, right ADN? What's the worst that could happen if you don't share relevant and accurate information about a known criminal that is actively evading arrest?! I mean, it's not like this is a news outlet...oh wait....",1 +"Well, that's just plain stupid. The Black Panthers weren't going around lynching people, stopping whites from voting, or anything even close to what the Klan did. Do a little research on the subject, then come back and pontificate if you still feel like it.",1 +"Wow double d, what an amazingly revealing thing to say...""better to be thought a fool then open one's mouth and remove all doubt."" Oh well, one down...",1 +"Admitt it sir, you are a freeloader that will never consent to any taxes to pay for State services. You want a free lunch and the state could never cut enough for you, and you will scream bloody murder if they cut any program you personally care about.",1 +One traitor pardoning another traitor - disgusting. So glad this American hating president is a few days away from being out of power!,1 +"Nonsense.................... Read the 25th amendment. +There is even a picture of a nut job with orange hair.",1 +"Isn't Ron Soto, guilty of the same thing that the homeless are being sanctioned for? He's sitting in a public place with a sign, so what makes it okay for him and not okay for a homeless person? There certainly are different standards applied. If it's a public place then why is it illegal to be there at all? If loitering is not allowed then how do they define loitering and how long does it take for sitting or standing, to become loitering? + +It's just a fact that people need to have a place to sleep, some where in close proximity to support services. Designate an area for the homeless and make them stay there. The US is good at that sort of thing. The Indians were put on reservations and killed if they came outside! I wonder just how many of our homeless, served this country and got a kick in the butt for doing so?",1 +"When you have a chronic liar as a president what do you expect. Up is down, down is up and nothing has any weight. We are all in trouble since Republicans do not care at all and think its all noise since they are in power. + +Yellow and Red make orange!",1 +would someone please call this woman what she is. An entitled black racist. Were she not entitled she would be out of a job. The racist part speaks for itself.,1 +"What a ridiculous headline, our dear PM opening his yap was far more damaging.",1 +"He was not duly elected. Comey was in trump's pocket and Trump was in cahoots with the Russians. The Russians interfered by hacking the dems website and and then Comey did his assigned job. + +The American people are the victims of the biggest fraud in history. Trump is a grifter, a degenerate cheat and this ain't over Rexy.",1 +"It is not the people who are out of touch, but this clown crew. People need to stand up and kick them out as they did in the U.S.",1 +"Speaking of ""Dumb as a rock"" those four words best describe Paul Krugman.",1 +"With a Democratic Party led by Governor Useless Ige, how can anyone expect ANY kind of coherent strategy for Hawaii, long or short term ?? The Democrats and Republicans in Hawaii are power hungry, self serving, selfish, morons who have failed in the private sector. AND they are expected to help Hawaii's business environment ?? CCccccmmmmmoooonnnn mmaaannnnnnn !!!",1 +Useless posturing by Impotent Little Donald. The North Koreans will just laugh and continue to thumb their noses at the US.,1 +Cross her and you might kill yourself,1 +"I, too, have a dash-cam installed, front AND rear-facing. It's already paid for itself from claims that something was my fault, when it wasn't. But without video proof, it becomes a he-said,she-said issue. Insurance companies don't care. Your own carrier simply charges you more, because YOU couldn't prove you're innocent. I've even switched insurance carriers when they wouldn't agree my video evidence was enough. Fortunately, the courts agreed with me. +An interesting outcome, is that I think I am driving more carefully WITH the dash-cam. So it's a win-win for everyone. Except the ones who get caught being stupid......",1 +Being a dick must be yours.,1 +"People who support Sanders don't use words like 'guvernmint', expect the government to pay for their car stereos or their homes. What Sanders people support is for the conditions that have permitted the domination of the political system by the super rich to end. Their domination has effectuated a transfer of wealth from the majority of Americans to themselves. A candidate that is serious will attack these scumbags from all sides and take not only their power but also reduce their wealth which will keep their excessive greed and power in check. The super rich are a threat to the majority of Americans who are only a job or a paycheck or two away from living on the streets. The super rich view working people as their slaves. Eventually, the slaves will rise up and eliminate the slaveholders.",1 +A most ignorant comment.,1 +"""Critical Reasoning"" is code word for liberal stupidity! You post some stupidity from a fringe newspaper site (Huffington Dog Post) that no one in their right mind would ever take seriously, about Trump raping a 13 yr old girl and post it as factual, and you say I am off my meds? Freaking idiot!",1 +"Trump is simply telling all of these politicians to either poop or get off the pot. For decades we have heard politicians talking about doing things, like tax reform, healthcare reform, immigration, and addressing the corruption that exist in our central government, and for decades we have seen NOTHING! Now I have to admit Obama did attempt to reform healthcare put his far left ideology failed miserably. +The Democrats would love to see four of those five run for President, because that would allow them to implement the far left agenda. Cruz might stand in their way for a short time, but eventually he would cave. Trump is working to make the country great again but for the average person and not for our corrupt politicians.",1 +"This old boy is a piece of work. He didn't cut anything, he just put it off until 2017. The only thing he did cut was our dividends. What a wanker!",1 +He is praying on the elderly with those ads because they don't know the difference .. what a dishonest guy using his focus groups to pray on people .. jeez anthology bunch of desperate guys,1 +Extreme vetting for white males... please.,1 +"Any way you put it or say it, or con-cock it, word play, semantics, politically correct, this BEHAVIOR is DIS CUSSTING, GROSS, PUKY, these people who engage in this kind of BEHAVIOR are MENTALLY ILL, and they are INFECTING MILLIONS, I hope they all DIE, it would cleanse the GENE POOL.",1 +"It was not starving. It had plenty of your vermin cats to feed on. Lie much? Or are you just this blathering self-deceptive without even realizing it and you don't even know that others can see in you what you cannot see in yourself. + +Explain how 5 endangered Florida Panthers DIED from 1 vermin house-cat infecting them with house-cats' FeLV disease. + +How about this article explaining how your vermin stray house-cats' diseases are killing off ALL native cats around the world: + +http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/big-cat-owners-warned-to-keep-them-acres-away-from-feral-strays + +Or a USA one: + +http://rapidcityjournal.com/sports/local/feral-cats-pose-threat-to-birds-lions/article_8ec451c9-4b03-55a3-baa7-71ac577905cb.html + +""... diseased lions are less likely to succeed at hunting their natural prey and more prone to human conflict."" + +Poke out both your eyes. Your desire to wallow in a bliss of self-inflicted ignorance your whole life will never be complete as long as you can still read.",1 +"""The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower. I love Hispanics!"" + +En primer, lugar se roban nuestra tierra y ahora roban nuestro comidas.",1 +"To get a good idea of disaster situation is like, turnoff your iPhones for a month if you can last that long. And for an actual disaster situation go live with the homeless for 4 months leaving everything behind. that is in a tent. I don't know where they take a shit so I can't tell you. Look around and what ever the homeless do of find water is what you going have to do too. Be prepared for no fresh water for about a month or more since homeless going be in a disaster situation where even no more supermarkets to shop at much less no more money. yes no toilet paper. So live with the homeless should give a lifetime of actual situation we live in today. and oh yeah. store some blue tarps, buy one honda generator now.",1 +"Anti-cop Obama excused BLM, and actually hosted them at the White House multiple times. + +He even defended them at the FUNERAL for the five cops killed by a black nationalist in Dallas during a BLM anti-cop protest. + +And he pushed the fake ""hands up dont shoot"" meme during the violent Ferguson riots, which his DOJ actually encouraged. + +But in your world those disgusting actions should be considered noble.",1 +"It's not just Trump; it's the full complement of Senate and House Republicans who support this cruel and murderous approach to health care. They are not listening to any of their local feedback at open houses, none of their clergy of nearly all faiths, any suggestions of bi-partisan solutions. Their stubbornness and failure is a moral tragedy.",1 +"You're a troll. +Get your own account.",1 +And the vast majority of murders in the US are family on family. Your point is what? I can continue to enjoy unfettered white privilege because blacks kill blacks in their own neighborhoods and whites kill whites during white supremacy demonstrations?,1 +"Good question. + +And even more troubling ""we do we choose to kill our own children""",1 +"So many people still acting like cannabis is the most deadly substance known to man. How about you worry about your small, s**thole town's crystal meth problem before you whine about marijuana? I'd rather live in neighborhood surrounded by 100 potheads than in a neighborhood with one crack/methhead. Sit down and shut up.",1 +…people who denigrate any American's right to protest are nothing more than cretinous unpatriotic boors.,1 +"People have a right to self-definition, as do gender groups. There is no Bro Code (and the actor whose role invented it is gay).",1 +You should check out a pizza joint where Hillary is running a child prostitution ring.,1 +"Wow, our young PM was really quick to condemn this barbaric act as a terrorism against Islam. +Will this have anything to do with his family ties to Iran, holidays with a rich Islamic prince, close friendship with another pro-iranian Obama, addressing a mosque with ties to Hamas and defending the niqab. +Where's his outrage for the honor killings, female genital mutilation. +His refusal to identify islamic terrorism by it's name speaks volumes of hypocrisy.",1 +"I had assumed that ""Hymen"" was a reference to Kadri. It's certainly an appropriate nickname for a player who's been a bust. But I suppose it could have been intended to be a reference to Hyman.",1 +"Nice story, but you are of course the lyingest of liars. Tell us the one again, about how Obama is Wise and Wonderful, and Hillary is an honest woman. Tee hee, it's always good for a laugh. You tool of the Enemy of the People.",1 +"Lacking courage you say? Would you compare this to how it lacks courage to attack a single delegate acting out of rage versus attacking an entire political party underming democracy with zero accountability? It seems like it would take more courage to callout the systematic problems in this country rather to attack an individual. But then again most ""journalists"" are complete hacks these days, so I guess it's par for the course, right? Funny how you sit here and talk shit, Denby, when Chelsea's finger got more attention than all of your articles this year combined. Just keep hating. We'll change the world without your old ass.",1 +" +I would be surprised if they didn't complain; that's why it's so important to complain to them, not just to the rector who, when all is said and done, is merely a functionary who dances to the tune the bishops and superiors play. +These seminarians are being trained to be cowards.",1 +"I disagree that there has to be a cogent alternative. Just plain cease work at this istant and leave it be as-is and forget about it. +Just the fact that people like you insist for constructive alternatives is the problem. As long as there is discussion (well-intended) on anything that goes awry, with an eye toward ""saving it"" or salvaging what good that can be had, then every bloody politician will know that all they have to do is simply bamboozle you just enough to get you to approve the start of ANY project. Because once it goes off-kilter you will seek a ""solution"". This will beget you more of the same, ad nausea, in perpetuity. +The way to STOP this kind of crap fro happening again is to cease work right this instant in its present uusable state. Thenceforth every generation of voter will be wiser about letting pols sell ignorant public on pipe dreams.",1 +"Kinda like Obama and the 1000's he killed with bombs and special forces? +But never mentioned anywhere in lefty media +Obama had Korea - did nothing +Obama had Eastern Europe - did nothing +Obama had ISIS - did nothing + +It goes on and on. +Or maybe the lack of engagement with ISIS and now it's explosive out of control growth which he was too afraid back then to address or maybe he had another agenda? Like being funded by his brothers in Qatar to let ISIS go batshit...... + +We now have to clean up this jerks mess. + +It's only now when the left is threatened that it becomes something. +The never ending tiresome leftist rubbish +If we don't agree with them - they get angry and bratty +Grow up lefties +You lost",1 +"For over fifty years I have listened to local and federal police lie outrageously about pot, in person and in the media. This reconfirms my observation that Canadian police officers are compulsive liars. They invented, shamelessly, all kind of garbage about the ""dangers"" of taking pot (but said nothing about alcohol or tobacco, probably because they consumed them themselves). Time for these clowns to retire.",1 +"This is either dumb or stupid. + +The issue most folks have is not with the size of the PFD, but the fact that we are giving up any of our PFD while we throw money at wealthy oil companies in the form of tax deductions. + +If the Senate will pass the Wilson-Seaton oil tax bill, am sure the house will get behind the senate PFD bill. It is called compromise.",1 +Loser..........Trumpism. Seems in most elections the one with the most votes win.,1 +"""crass, insensitive and exceedingly dumb"" +""rat like Trump"" +""What a Donkey."" +""nobody ever said that O'Leary has morals or taste"" +"" a total dweeb"" + +Just hate it when the ""alt-right"" post all their hate and insults. +Their very low intelligence is obvious in their posts!?",1 +"“You know, I’m automatically attracted to beautiful — I just start kissing them,” Trump said on the tape, filmed in 2005 when Bush was an Access Hollywood host and Trump was hosting The Apprentice. “It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. + +Well djt did say “it was beautiful.” Do these clowns REALLY think that folks will send in their tax returns on a post card? For everyone to read? +Sure here’s my SSN, name, DOB-what could go wrong! + +Let’s see your tax returns Donald.",1 +"20 years after getting rid of the stupid government run booze outlets in Alberta I am amazed that the union run operations still exist in Ontario. +Fire them all and privatize the LCBO socialist / commie lite operation.",1 +"Hard to defang the ""fringe"" when that is the president, lol. Or is that normal? Someone who gives comfort to the enemy, supports white supremacists and Nazis, how do you do that? Oh, impeach. Oh wait, then we'd get another zealot, and his mommy.",1 +aa the socialist loving high taxing lover left are out again with the stupidity of government run anything,1 +What a dork,1 +"careful there. you are talking about our beloved ""valley trash""-gringo",1 +"What’s on the line? Hopefully Jolie’s bra and panties. She only gets headlines because she’s a looker. She’s a perfect counterpart to Prime Minister Guy Smilie. + +Empty headed vessel.",1 +"So, Margaret, do you get tired of having to include the de riguer concessions about how Trump is awful this or really bad that? I know I find them tedious to read.",1 +"An X for gender on your passport, who would be that stupid? + +In certain countries, you have just painted a giant bullseye on yourself. + +I hope we are including a warning (disclaimer) that Canada is not responsible for any discrimination, persecution, assault or murders that may occur in other countries when someone chooses to use the X option.",1 +"Trump's a hero to his base. But the rest of us know Trump's new BFF was the source of missiles, guns and bullets that killed 52,000 guys in Viet Nam. We know and remember who put Kim's grandfather up to invading S. Korea, supplying the guns and tanks that killed Korean's civilians and GI's, and it was not Chinese. We remember who shot up and killed Hungarians when they rebelled against puppet communism in 1956. Some of us have looked down the Fulda Gap or across the Berlin wall in Germany and seen Russian tanks from 50's to 90's. Some can even remember who joined up with the Nazis to destroy Poland in '39. Trump's followers better get a grip on who Trump's BFF really is, he already invaded Crimea and has a new base in Syria. These are the same ole KGB thugs who've poisoned and shot anyone who disagrees with them, anywhere. Trump, a natural born con man and is learning from a master KGB thug the art of deflection. While watching one hand, he's stealing your wallet with the other.",1 +"Agreed. + +Anyone who proclaims ""two wheels good, four wheels bad"" and actually believes it is an idiot. There are reasons a lot of collisions between cars and non-cars don't result in charges; most of them come down to fault, but it also seems truish that cops favour drivers.",1 +"If you're a person of color, a toy gun can get you shot. Or your wallet to show ID. :(",1 +"Does this moron not realise that the only agenda Kganyago is allowed to have is to fulfill the reserve bank s mandate as determined by the constitution with targets as determined by the national treasury which is controlled by his own party? No wonder the western cape anc is in its current disastrous situation. One would think that statistically he would accidentally be right on some issues, but he somehow manages to defy the odds by being constantly at odds with facts and common sense.",1 +"What a load. You could say the same about slaves in the old south. +You can't fix stupid. And greedy. And bloodthirsty. And selfish. And uncaring...",1 +LW1 - Leave him now. You have no future with this abusive jerk.,1 +"And yet, Mr. Trump felt it necessary to criticize Mr. Gorsuch later in the evening. + +Trump is a psychotic. The sooner his administration ends, the better.",1 +It is not the vehicle but the Muslim at the wheel we have to watch out for.,1 +Kellyannne is the new face of evil in America. Washed-up peroxide blonde liar... I mean Lawyer.,1 +"Um, because he was attempting to kill a trooper by driving over him with a vehicle. Ever been run down by a car?",1 +"Third! +What a bunch of slackers.",1 +Only thing I learned from this election is that America is full of suckers and idiots and they all helped Trump win the white house.,1 +"Most Canadians are + +    Triggered by Trudeau +    ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ +And would like to make Canada a ""safe space"", free from the Canada-hating Liberals. + +The appointment of Monsef/Al Zedeh was a slap in the face to Canadians, made all the worse by issues that should have prompted her removal. + +    ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ +Now we read of his handing out a 5.5% increase and $650 bonus to the federal public service unionists to buy their votes, at a time when federal spending is already out-of-control.. Just like Ontario's Kathleen Wynne Liberals, he's a cancer on Canada.",1 +What a complete moron.,1 +"These people are irrelevant, hypocritical washed-up jokes. Thanks for the chuckle Trump and ADN.",1 +"Trump supporters are, at heart, cowards controlled by their fears (and played like tools by Herr Drumpf). As Ben Franklin noted ""Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety"" . . . sadly in the supposed Land of the Free and Home of the Brave we have tens of millions of sheep who trip over themselves to give away freedoms as fast as they can in exchange for Big Government promising them an illusion of safety. This is just more of the same, another mile marker on the long, sad decline of this nation that cowardice has brought us to.",1 +Let this child die. There are far too many babies that need this money who doctors know will survive. This couple needs to let their child go and move on. Take this money they have and give it to other children who need the help.,1 +"Every mass shooter in America, has been a legal gun owning Christian. Christians mass murdered the real Americans and stole their country. Now they call it ""their country"" and demand no one else come in. Christians still hold the record for the worlds worst atrocities and most people killed, and killed in the name god, during their Holy War, which somehow they managed to flip onto Muslims, by claiming Jihad means Holy War, which it doesn't. Christians are also labeled the most ignorant people in the world and most unaware of reality. Although I can't imagine why! Clearly that isn't true... :/",1 +"The same source of ""experts"" that conjured the 97% ""consensus "" garbage about global warming that turned out to be a heavily doctored ""survey"" of selected responses compiled by a grad student? +Maybe if Obama threw another $10 billion into their debt it would make even more idiots on the left and their historical think tank place him as number one. +Doubling the national debt in 8 years makes the clown an absolute failure trying to spend his way out of trouble like the village idiot we have presently destroying Canada.",1 +"Utter NONSENSE. Why isn't Trudeau forced to denounce the FLQ, the guy that murdered all those women engineers, the guy that murdered Muslims in the mosque??? They were WHITE CHRISTIAN MALES... + +You are just a racist with nothing else to show for yourself. SHAME ON YOU spreading such FILTH.",1 +"I feel for this guy...big pharma is the problem here..they run the show and have for years. They were pushing these drugs and now we go after the Doctors? People suffer and the drugs are addictive, its a mess...but blaming the Doctor is stupid.",1 +"""Hyperbolic nonsense"" is precisely what Trump uses to dupe the ignorant and desperate, and frighten the vulnerable.",1 +Who dropped you on your head when you were an innocent baby?,1 +"John, I am sure you will be quite glad when you get rid of all the Chinese, Black, and Muslim colonists too.",1 +Shocking and disgusting comment. Unbelievably perverse.,1 +"Jack, Really?, why the heck did they have their money in our banks to begin with? Don't they have banks over there? It all sounds rather sordid and paying it off ""clandestinely"" in cash is really suspicious. It reminds me of a massive drug deal. How did Trump scam anyone of his creditors? Bankruptcy maybe? You know that is legal and its actually loosely based on the Bible. The Israelites forgave all debts after 7 years. What a concept. Millions of Americans take advantage of our bankruptcy laws and thrive afterwards. A good thing!",1 +"Your compassion is compelling Judah, but it doesnt change the fact that these low lifes deserve to be publicly castrated, disembowled, and hung upside down over a hot fire.",1 +25 million North Koreans might not want a Chinese puppet. If the people around him want him dead why is he still running things? Better the devil you know than a foreign devil.,1 +"To "" Chris in Ottawa, this about J. Trudeau. +This is about J.Trudeau promise for open nominations. +Trudeau lied. +Trudeau promised to legalize marijuana, Ooooh, maybe after the next election, and so on. +Trudeau lies and says stupid things, and does stupid things.",1 +"The worst thing is that the president* was never made to apologize for his racist birther nonsense, nor was he ever made to pay the price for pushing that stupid conspiracy theory years after it was rejected by nearly everyone but the die-hard racists.",1 +Arpaio is as much of a horse's -as as the moron who pardoned him.,1 +The Chinese are taking the practice underground. Vermin.,1 +"Good job, Turkish police. Now hang these criminals and move on.",1 +Trump is a fer in ge from Star Trek...,1 +Tabatha really knows how to stick it to the deplorables. Righty heads exploding? Look at those uneducated melons blow.!,1 +"""...money grubbing sellout like Gardner."" + +I don't see Bennet as president but I totally agree with you that Gardner is a money grubbing sellout. What a loser Gardner is!!!",1 +"Seriously? +The democrats thank you for leaving. +You can't fix stupid.",1 +"As reported by CNN, the New York Police Department’s Counterterrorism chief has evidence that the many threatening phone calls to Jewish community centers originate from a single individual located overseas. + +One extra-territorial person using spoofing technology does not a rise in U.S. anti-Jewish sentiment make. OTOH, NYPD’s evidence is not inconsistent with the thesis that this rash of threat calls is foreign, state-sponsored terrorism. Stahl, Sr., asks “Which state?” and suggests Israel has the means, motive, and opportunity. + +The community center threats have been reported since late January, after Trump’s inauguration. I can’t think of a more existential threat to Israel than an isolationist, nationalist, America-First President who wants to cut foreign aid. Sprinkle in some spicy speculation that Trump is a Russian tool, and Israel may think it faces the perfect political shit storm. Drastic times would require drastic, but hardly unprecedented for the Mossad, measures.",1 +"We don't know, he may have actually had some sort of training. These sort of incidents are so mindless, that one wonders if training would have even made a difference. Some people are just idiots and/or careless, period.",1 +"So sad that people are focusing on this monster.... giving him what he was seeking. Publicity. The victim has been forgotten. He is someone's son, someone's brother. He is the one that should be being remembered and talked about.",1 +What parents raised this monster?? His family should be ashamed - and THEY should take corrective action in the Samoan way.,1 +"Why would you think you controlling firearm access to an inappropriately behaving child would be something that ""ticks off the 2nd amendment crowd,""? What ticks this member of the 2nd Amendment crowd off is idiots doing stupid stuff with guns that causes so many to try to make my interests something more regulated and inconvenient, or me look like a criminal just because of my enjoyment.",1 +Another fool who wants live 24/7 coverage of every move the police make during an investigation. Surely none of those being looked for would ever think of checking that information to aide in alluding capture.,1 +"Stud, dud, thud – the three stages of a man’s life +Wh0re, bore, snore - the three stages of a woman's life.",1 +"Hahahahaha! Yes, that is so much worse than grabbing pu##%, walking unannounced into teenage girls dressing rooms while they're naked, groping women, defrauding college students out of their hard earned money and so, so much more. Thanks for the huge belly laugh.",1 +"After years of talk without meaningful action, who can possibly continue to pay attention to church hierarchs, including Pope Francis and Cardinal O'Malley, when they seek to assure us how serious they are about fighting clergy sexual abuse and about how much they care about victims of this abuse. Let them actually do something about the problem and let them start by removing present bishops who were guilty of playing musical chairs with clergy sexual predators. Until that happens, I'm not interested in their hypocritical assurances.",1 +"You call him a buffoon but you make a bald faced lie saying the minority of Americans, he won both the collage and the popular vote by a vast majority, discounting the illegals and dead Democrat voters it's a record win. +You leftists just can't open your mouth without a lie coming out. +I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and just say it's due to ignorance rather than stupidity or a sever lack of moral character. +Not a bet I'd make for money though.",1 +"The guy had beendrinking downstairs in the pub. He was being daft, not spying.",1 +"If these demonstrators are opposed to Sharia law, they should be protesting a President whose first foreign trip was to Saudi Arabia, which is the world's greatest funder of extremist Islam —Wahabism. If they knew anything about how the Saudis have spent 100s of billions of $ spreading Wahabism and how they continue to spend their fortune to radicalize moderate Muslim communities around the world, they would have been outraged at Trump doing the Sharia Shuffle Sword Dance and being played for a fool by the Saudis.",1 +"Now that the real psychos have arrived, watch the police wet themselves and stand down - just like the federal agents who ran like cowards at the Bundy ranch. There's something about armed white people that the police appear to respect and fear.",1 +"UGH + +Why do so few people understand this? +Political thought is not protected. You do not have to make a cake for a nazi, a democrat or a anarchist. You do jage to make a cake fr an elderly person or a black person.",1 +"You are joking, right? If you have read anything about why Miles was fired...being an arrogant, unbending dinosaur on the offense side of the ball...unless you want Oregon to plummet to the bottom of the Pac-12 in offensive production...you will be hoping Miles is not even remotely considered for the job.",1 +"Mmmm, and Donald trumps words make him a rapist. +I recognize the logic.",1 +"Funny, those of us who know to stay away from the junk do not view this as any type of Crisis + +Oh goodie more advocates for the stoned set, paid for by hardworking Canadians and their families, so these addicts can get their daily fix and go back to their subsidized apartment for their nap, and collect their welfare cheques. + +The good Drs ""Feel Good"". had better get a clue that the average Canadian who works hard could care less about a bunch of drug addict' s who do not want to get off the junk and are nothing but a drain on society. + +Using taxpayer’s money to fund any of this garbage is wrong. If you want to truly get off it, there is, and should be, many programs available to help you. But if all you want is your fix, too bad. The addicts and all their advocates can suck it. + +After all if you can't trust your drug dealer who can you trust ?",1 +"$2.9 MILLION in ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS??????? W - T - F ???????? + +Can this state get ANY more mentally deficient?????",1 +"OMG these losers never stop.........who is going to 'come forward' next? Russia had ZERO to do with Hilary's loss, and who cares anymore?.... sore losers that is all this is.",1 +one less fool to deal with.,1 +The mainstream Jewish organizations were trying to kiss British ass.,1 +The only person the idiot trump cares about is himself. When will his supporters wake up about his phony patriotism? He tried to stiff a military charity when he promised to donate $1M last year. But his supporters cling to his lies.,1 +"This is totally false. It is YOU who is distorting and trying to defuse the impact of the horrible comments trump made about gun owners shooting Hillary Clinton. + +It wasn't a joke when he suggested violence against Clinton, and it is more pathetic that people like you try to pretend that's not what he did. Everyone knows that's what he did, hoping some deranged gun owner would read between HIS lines and shoot Hillary Clinton. That is what happened, whether you deny it or not. You just can't handle the fact that your candidate is a nutjob.",1 +Calling Betsy DeVos a luminary is so ridiculous that I stopped reading as soon as I came across that 'gem'.,1 +The Con-conservative party of Canada are anal retentive hard asses. Not a tittle of compassion on the part of anyone. Mean-spirited con-con hypocrites. Gloating and smirking with their pasted on smiles. Ha! Viva Justin Trudeau.,1 +"The reason they don't exist is because neither is a pathological liar like Trump. +And I'm absolutely no fan of Trudeau... +Again, why do you keep dragging Trudeau into an article that has absolutely nothing to do with him. +Desperate to change the subject?",1 +"What a load. He must think he's speaking to illiterate Trump Chumps. Oh yes, any line of communication is great. The law disagrees, General. And what about Kushner's lies? Explain that away in a way that is believable. Trump taints everything and everyone he touches. Makes my skin crawl, as does Kelly. +None of Trump's administration and picks - not a one - has any ethical constraints or credibility. bunch of liars like their boss. Thoroughly disgusting.",1 +"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.",1 +"Nice try Megan. Gardner deserves everything he got at this meeting. He is a Trump supporter and a coward who is working to gut health care for millions of people. He is a party first ideologue who rarely supports his constituents, unless those constituents have deep pockets and write BIG checks to Cory.",1 +They suck with the rest of the NFL. There's other things to do with the family. We don't need a bunch of ungrateful Ivory tower living brats.,1 +"Can we send Donald back to middle school where he can learn a bit of science? +This ignorant soul is just pathetic.",1 +"I don't know why I have a problem with EVERY hierarch in the U.S. Catholic Church but I do. These clowns have been watching nuns get paid $1 a day for running schools, universities, hospitals and social service agencies for over a century. These same nuns have cooked and cleaned and washed the underwear of these hierarchs. Some of these nuns slept in the attic of some of these places where they worked. Why don't the hierarchs just keep their mouths shut and clean up the messes that they have created.",1 +"""Retrograde"" would be the kindest word one could apply to Trump and his fans. The Dems have their problems alright, but Donny has taken his troubled nation backward and empowered the worst of the right -- the supremacists and NeoNazis, all the usual rednecks, the sort who dismiss science and formal education. And some still insist on seeing him as a revolutionary, even with his silver-spoon existence and Goldman-Sachs advisors. +Those who deny the reality of his record low polls would be the first to crow if those same polls rose in his favour. Hypocrisy is an essential part of the Trump regime, as is the trick of denouncing as ""fake"" any report that contradicts his blustery nonsense.",1 +"oh bs loser but you are ok with justins larger debt coming and faster debt growth too, typical liberal hypocrit trash",1 +"Now he's 'Bob' and not 'The old guy'? Get off your horse, Powers. You sound like a fool. OK, you already know I'm an old guy and this old guy has never shot at or in anyway disturbed HEA when the come a ONTO MY LAND while doing work that they are legally able to do. In my dotty old age, I rather prefer the power remaining on during storms.",1 +I wish they had a system that rejects idiot posts like this one.,1 +"Shameful behavior on the part of the 'disgruntled' employee, SPCA, and the government for laying charges. Clearly the evidence wasn't there, and this 'prosecution' wasn't thought through. The aim of the employee was, however, satisfied by harming the company. The SPCAs are as crazy as the CASs of the world. Our liberal nanny-state society is out of control.",1 +"I have been an Aeroplan member since it's launch, and have launched a significant number of loyalty programs in Canada (Royal Rewards, CIBC 5% CashBack, various TD Credit Card programs, Scotiabank 5% CashBack and ScotiaGold Rewards, etc). Bravo! Air Canada should take an approach of key travel-related benefits such as lounge access, preferred check-in, etc. and most importantly, unrestricted access to availability....""Travel Anywhere, Anytime & Anyway You Want"" (if available, not just allocated) on any Air Canada or Strategic Alliance partner. Leave Aeroplan to non-travel, replacing the pathetic performance of AirMiles.",1 +"Leave North Korea alone, and it'll fade back into the shadows. Trump is trying to make something out of nothing. Russia and China keep North Korea in check, but they will also defend North Korea if the U.S. tries to escalate the situation into a confrontation. +North Korea is putting on a show, and Trump is the obnoxious heckler.",1 +"Utterly ridiculous, yes...AND highly dangerous for separation of church and state under the present U.S. administration. Worse, the danger of this linking back of church and state is a global phenomenon. + +The U.S. Civil War never really ended; it just went underground...just like the opposition to Vatican II as a bona fide Ecumenical Council of the universal Catholic Church. Both racial and religious polarization are extreme and growing more so every day. + +The information below, if it is true, does not bode well for Progressive Christianity/Catholicism: ""In a recent Public Religion Research Institute survey, 1 in 4 Americans ages 18 to 29 favored allowing small-business owners to refuse to provide products or services to the LGBT community for religious reasons, compared to one-third of Americans ages 30 to 64 and 43 percent of Americans older than 65."" Google Rite Beyond Rome DOT com.",1 +Dumb arse student. No common sense at all. That goes for the kids that egged him into bringing back a trophy from N.Korea.,1 +Hillary has a proven track record of lies since the late 80's. She's lied so much pinnochio's nose is a distant second. I'd measure it miles and miles.,1 +"eh who asked your opinion on this string? scram you habitual lying old man. so tired of you north dakota bs story. now its the salvation army, dont you ever give up?",1 +"I hear you. Often such people you describe, many ex-Catholics, are so pessimistic about anything Catholic, that if given the choice of two evils to befall the church, they would choose both and hope for the worst. lol. They especially can't imagine Catholics who are highly educated and content with their achievements and faith. That would be an oxymoron, a mistake, a blunder, promoting a statistic that doesn't deserve a hearing. But such thinking is kind of mob-like, with hands to type and not brains, no balance. That's how I see it. And you are right, common folk are regarded as ""dumb animals,"" as it were, ""led by their pastors,"" ruined by the over-verification of parish bulletins or whatever. If I took this fume seriously, it would be purgatory. But I don't. Posting on a Catholic publication like this, ex-Catholics are often like little figures on a wedding cake arguing: no celebration allowed; just rant! As the Bard notes: the ""tartness of their letters will sour ripe grapes."" lol",1 +"The ones you are referring to are not colleagues, they're carpetbaggers.",1 +We have the Mass every Sundy and our numbers grow. Our young priests say the traditional mass and want little to do wit the new mass. It is the Novus Ordo that will be buried as a mistaken abberation. You don't know the meaning of the word heresy and you are certainly a nasty piece of work hoping the mass of the ages dies with me.,1 +"Lies damned lies and statistics....percentage increases mean nothing..you need to know the starting number! The leap from 1 to 2 is 100% increase!! +The reality is that there are many more anti Semitic complaints thsn anything related to muslims. Get real!",1 +Are the Pride organizers (taken over by Black Lives matter) too dumb to recognize the irony of only the police to participate by hiding who they are?,1 +Something is up here. Did he know some truths beforehand about his maniac brother?,1 +"The mindless loyalty of Trump's base supporters and of his little band of fans here, in the face of his obvious incompetence, has more to do with their childish stubbornness and inability to admit their mistake. In their pathetic desperation for the blustery leadership of the so-called strongman who'll rescue them from their disappointing lives, they have given this bogus president a blank cheque, forgiving of his every word and act. No leader, left or right, deserves such uncritical loyalty. They seem to have him confused with Jesus.",1 +"Sound ethics?!?! You can't be serious!! Do you not recall his so called ""ethics"" during the Walter monegan investigation??? He used his position to help his friend. Ethics.... My butt",1 +people who do not understand that human righs tribunals have become kangaroo courts are ignorant and left wing stupid,1 +"Oddly enough, Trump is right - there is a huge mental health problem here. It is insane that a relatively small number of people, fronted by the NRA, can blackmail so many spineless politicians in the face of almost daily gun violence. And he is one of those gutless politicians now.",1 +"I think I get it. If a policy hurts US citizens or limits our rights in any way, Dems are all for it. The plan is to turn us all into mindless zombies who hate all that the US has long valued.",1 +"""Just like your Clinton voting speelling."" + +I appologize but I don't have my Right-Wing-Stupid decoder ring with me...",1 +"Running people over is peaceful? +Just goes to show the mentality of the trumpanzees.",1 +"Of course that would be good. The self serving Libs need a boogyman though. Preferably a caucasian boogyman. Add to that the fact that Putin has made them look inept, weak and stupid at every. I mean criminy sakes, who hands a world leader a prop from an American TV commercial. Only this administration could be that shallow minded.",1 +"""Conservative website with Republican ties funded research that led to Trump dossier"" + +-- + +Whoops! +Oh well, back to the strategy drawing board for the Moron-in-Chief. + +""Quick! + +Look over there! + +Hillary Clinton!"" + +He continues to bamboozle the gullible Trumpenproletariat (""I love the uneducated!""), but anyone with an IQ above room temperature is cluing in.",1 +"They are free to practice their faith, but being ""treated as a stupid idiot"" isn't a constitutional infraction. The constitution guarantees against material harm, not scorn.",1 +This coward is still looking for ways to tax anyone except people who live here.,1 +"Funny how a single loon killing Muslims speaks for all of Canada, but a large group of Jihadis slaughtering Westerners don't speak for Islam.",1 +"What an asinine statement, why would democrats target the groups that have been the most reliable voting block they have had for the last 40 years. Next time try using facts and numbers instead of vague, hysterical claims so that you don't look foolish",1 +"""Students can’t and won’t be forced to expose their body to another if they are distressed about it."" + +Damn, I wish I'd known that when I was in high school. It certainly seemed like you were forced to then.",1 +"bingo. Their predictions have been worse than pathetic, they are best ignored",1 +Absolutely correct. I am glad he has the guts and courage to stand up to that idiot Justin Trudeau. The next Federal election can not come quick enough. Trudeau is out to bankrupt this country and hand control over to his buddies from the Middle East.,1 +Hopefully Trump will cut spending on those whore journalists one day,1 +It probably was a local. There are way more stupid Alaskans than stupid tourists.,1 +"Unless it is shown that LGBTQRSVP people are a distinctly different species of human then I do not understand the reason abnormal sex is celebrated and promoted to such a massive degree. Did we ever hold up people who had sex with their pets as being a class of humans who should have parades celebrating it, flags and posters plastered all over celebrating it, taxpayer money promoting it? WTF is going on here... its sex, nothing else... LGBTQRSVP people are not unique other than having abnormal sex. Its nuts.",1 +Foolish reply. Trump deliberately avoided endorsing Article 5 in order to bring about the response which he has now seen - from Germany and now from Canada. If you really think the Americans are simply going to retreat from the world stage and never be heard from again you are deluded. Trump has the G7 leaders right where he wants them.,1 +Much rather tell people I'm from Hawaii instead of Texas. WTF!,1 +"CNN is FAKE NEWS. They should NEVER get a question, in fact, they should be KICKED OUT!!!",1 +"Hogwash. I live in the neighborhood. I and my neighbors, at least those I spoken with, do not fear for our safety. + +And I find it odd that you are concerned about recidivism but oppose efforts, like this, to combat it.",1 +"""but what about the other guys?!!"" Boo hoo, quit whining you little snowflake. ""More examples of hate and violence from the left""? Forgot about the KKK? What? Why so sensitive? Your mommy and daddy never tuck you in or give you hugs? ""These liberals are mean to me mommy!"" Disgusting. I'm starting to think repubs are a bunch of soft, scared brats.",1 +"Canada cannot be neither bullied nor tamed by a terminal addiction to tweets galore. + + As Harvey shows, we all are vulnerable in this world ( regardless of so much ""success ...""). That said, whoever thinks (?) that the price of ""success"" is to infringe on others an arrogant, aural, tweet of a stupidity that feeds a gone fishing, resentful base that denies the interconnection of life, the environment per se, then Canad must be ""successful"" in facing the bully in the eyes without disrespecting the humanness of the one to whom life seems to be a compulsive tweet But not Canada. This is the True North.",1 +"Typical. Like a kid caught red-handed with their mitts in the cookie jar. +""It wasn't me, Mom! That darned cookie jar jumped right at me and clamped onto my arm!!""",1 +"I wish everyone who called himself a Christian would actually go back and read about the kind of person, assuming he was real, that Jesus is thought to have been. When did He EVER discriminate against anyone? Was his life all about fomenting hate against anyone? I have not met many modern Christians who seem to even know who Jesus was and what Jesus was about. And, if you read the Bible, the Torah, the Qu'ran, they all have one overriding principle in common. They all say that God NEVER gave the right to man to judge each other. In fact, that is a right God held back only for Himself. And God NEVER says anywhere in any of the religious texts that there is anything wrong with homosexuality. What there is, however, is room for people with their own prejudices and reasons for fomenting hate to interpret or misinterpret scripture toward their own hateful agenda. They've used it to justify the subjegation of women, children, and people of color since it was written.",1 +The subject to hand is fraud and legal discovery. You do display an appalling ignorance of scientific inquiry.,1 +"My My My all this violence against Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos who is openly gay simply because of his conservative views. What homophobic hypocrites the anti-Trummpy snowflakes have become throwing bricks and paint at attendees and law enforcement officers. Tisk Tisk Tisk, riots, property damage, violence against others. Is this the diversity libs preach?",1 +"Fund education BY CUTTING DOWN this corrupt WA state govt! +GET RID of all these d a m n commissions on beef beer raspberries wine +abolish the position of Lt Gov +Mostly if NOT ALL listed on this page MUST BE ABOLISHED! +http://access.wa.gov/agency + +WA does not need any more big govt! + +And NO the smoking age does NOT need to be raised to 21!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +this is a classic nanny state govt thinks it know best AND POS CHAPMAN DOES NOT KNOW BETTER ALONG WITH ALL OF THESE OTHER DEM JERKS IN THIS STATE AND THOSE 2 JERKS MURRAY AND CANTWELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! + +GOVT NEEDS TO GET THE H E L L OUT OF OUR LIVES AND STOP TRYING TO CONTROL EVERYTHING AND WHAT WE DO WITH OUR BODIES! +WE DO NOT NEED THEM TO TELL US WHAT WE CAN OR CANNOT DO WIT OUR BODIES!!!!!!!!!!!! +These bodies ARE OURS NOT THE GOVTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!",1 +"You people don't even have a kindergarten level understanding of what insurances. + + Does the state require you to purchase ""no fault ""insurance? You people are unbelievably dumb",1 +"I agree with you as long as I do not know that you are Muslim or Christian, or Jew... Keep your religion inside your house.",1 +"Exactly...and unless one has deep pockets for attorney services to counter each and every little action by the spiteful custodial parent that evades each previous ruling, one is screwed.",1 +"Do they understand what they are really protesting is free speech? + +Nope, they are just plain stupid.",1 +And there's knuckle-draggers on here who would support the prior idiots initiatives no matter what HE did. Anyone with any sense knows the health care bill this one is attempting to fix is a dumpster fire.,1 +"""..which was to protect the institutional church"" +So Pope F. all his clergies are 'company men' who are willing to go 'burn in hell' for the CI! What a pity!!! +IOW., they don't believe in living God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Holy Mary, communion of saints & angels! That was all what CI business merchandises for donations then! What a pity indeed!!! +We, the laities should teach these sick CI clergies! LOLOLOL!",1 +"According to the Harbor Master in a CNN interview, the dock has multiple signs warning visitors to not feed the migrating sea lions and that they are wild animals and should be treated as such. He also commented, 'You can't legislate stupid.'",1 +What part of public land do idiots like you not understand?,1 +"That's pretty silly, isn't it? Just so everyone's clear, what's your definition of ""address the issue?"" Sort of hard to take your approach seriously when you don't offer a single, specific idea that would be more effective than government following the rules they should already be following (i.e., what would have stopped this killer from getting a firearm).",1 +You are wrong. He's an international disgrace. Let's not underestimate the reach of his ineptitude!,1 +Not if but when it will pop. So many fools and greater fools will be caught in a deluge of tears. Cue the #it'sdifferenthere crowd begin their usual zombie-like chants of denial.,1 +"Sure, he's there for the victims, which is why he quietly rolled back gun regulations -- hypocrisy much?",1 +"""Dirty people from dirty states"" -- you mean like the UO students who trashed campgrounds at Mt. Shasta last spring?",1 +"Wow. Tell that to people in Ukraine or Syria now, to those in the Balkans 25 years ago, to the British, French, Dutch, etc. in WW1 and WW2, etc. ""When these things are are met people won't steal or mame on a grand scale."" That has to be one of the most ignorant things one could possibly write about causes of war. (But it is apparently the new-left world view.) Truly astonishing.",1 +"Not if that statue represents a time when human beings believed other human beings were slaves. If you saw a statue of a man violating a young child ..........would you feel that way too? Stupid. History needs to be preserved? Well I agree there but the Alt.right like Koch boys have infiltrated school boards nation wide and soon you won't find anything about oil spills, climate change.....lol. BP got to submit what they wanted in the school books and trust me........it had nothing to do w/reality. + +We're WAY past that reality buddy.",1 +Could you have posted a more ignorant comment? Read up on Poland-Russia relations first.,1 +"I have a theory why people are so stupid in these days. For about 30 years the government instructed people to cut out fat from our diet. Replace it with Carbs. Sugar. The population has gotten sicker and fatter. But also more stupid. +So here it is. The brain is basically fat and protein. Exacly what most people don't eat anymore. So if they don't eat what the brain needs it can not develop. +There it is I got the problem figured out. Eat more Moose and Salmon.",1 +"It's true that Bannon isn't technically the president, but he's helping Trump become an even bigger criminal than he is, so Trump may yet catch up.",1 +"4:20: I hope you have a lot of available time. With each day and Mr. Trump's latest gaffe, being an apologist becomes more time consuming. Doesn't it also get at least a little embarassing? Could you convey a simple message to him for me: ""DONALD, IF YOU DON'T MEAN SOMETHING, DON'T SAY IT."" Following that one simple bit of advice could save him from repeatedly making a fool of himself and save you from having to, time and again. offer some very weak excuse for his comments. ...Don't you think this is a helpful suggestion? regards, Gary",1 +"Fine and dandy, we all agree we are a nation of immigrants. Bottom line is in today's world, refugee seekers need to be thoroughly vetted refugees! Anything less is pure stupidity. +The executive order is TEMPORARY so that vetting process can be set, which has been NONEXISTENT with the Obama regime over the past 8 years. Pres Trump is now correcting the stupidity of the last administration! You protesters need to get a life and learn how to ski, or something else to get your head out of the darkness!",1 +"With the fear of Syrian/Muslim refugees entering the US, the pro-refugee/immigrant supporters have been using Vietnamese as the positive model example to let them in since Vietnamese and their descendants have adapted very well and contributed to US society in such a short time (doctors, lawyers, astronaut(s), scientists, etc.) . I think Mr. Stewart was trying to dispel the facts about Vietnamese refugees with ignorance and use it as a platform to not support (Syrian/Muslim) immigration in the US. It only shows how stupid he is. Peace and Love!",1 +"How can anyone, republican or democrat, seriously support this JOKE of a ""President""? The man is a bafoon and nothing more than a reality show wannabe. I wish Palin would have been President over this idiot. To support this lunatic says something about ones character in my opinion. A complete embarrassment to the U.S. and on an international level. The U.S has become a laughing stock globally.",1 +What obsession? Dont be a fool. She is admired and noteworthy due to her honest stance amongst the rotten party that is the ANC. She has more value remaining within the ANC that from without.,1 +Before even reading the story there was no doubt which way Dingman would go . Free speech doesn't mean you have the right to yell fire in a crowed theater . Kaepernick got his right by not being kicked off the team for doing his stunt. He comes across as a total idiot by stating his reasons for doing it--he hates cops rights to be put on paid leave while an investigation is being done concerning a shooting. Just like NFL players are allowed to play for pay while appealing suspensions . This clown gets paid big money to be part of a show called the NFL. The league tells players what they can wear and how to act if they want to be part of the show. Instead of appreciating the fans who pay him his millions he wants to give about 90 percent of them the middle finger . Many fans are putting their money where their mouths are by burning his jersey . When you go to a UAA or Aces game they ask men to remove their hats before the national anthem . That's tool much for this over paid chump ?,1 +"Me too. He might have gotten away, but it wouldn't be with my cat or all his body parts. I would have scratched his eyes out and pummeled his testicles into mush!",1 +Bill gates is a sick fucking murderer that needs to die already. Him and his fucking wife. They are straight MURDERERS!,1 +Most expensive cellular carrier out there. I guess they have to pay thousands of lazy union workers. LOL,1 +Skankles is leading the pack in lies. Don't forget Fornicator Bill.....it's a family tradition.,1 +You seem to be very angry. Perhaps you should take a break and go outside for a breath of fresh air. Step away from the computer and the ridiculous fringe teachings expounded by some members of the Catholic Church.,1 +"it's Hate March now, a disgraceful event that needs to have all public funding pulled immediately. BLM is straight up black supremacist organization that is explicitly racist. They are the problem, not the solution.",1 +"He tried to burn the body??? I'll say it again, hang this monster.",1 +"Your defence of the indefencible is sad, pathetic and weak.",1 +"Spot on, screw the locals.",1 +What a silly decision practically speaking. If citizenship is a right then so Canada has a right that applicants for such citizenship tell the truth in their applications.,1 +"Silly, silly, silly. + +It is just silly to argue that Vancouver is somehow facing the problems of a high density city, given the news headlines in Vancouver, this year, in 2017: + +""Vancouver has the highest proportion of empty, underused homes in 35 years"" +""Number of empty homes in Vancouver hits record high"" +""Data shows 98% increase in empty homes since 2001"" +""New census counts 25,502 unoccupied homes in Vancouver, for 15 per cent jump over 2011"" + +And do you know what, editors? + +This silliness in your newspaper today is what you get when you avoid the elephant in the room, which is the impact of the billions and billions of dollars of overseas money flooding in. + +See, if instead you started your editorial decision-making with that key, central mechanism front and center, you would not be left with egg on your face for publishing silliness such as Vancouver facing a high-density problem (roll eyes). + +Vancouver faces an overseas-billions-flooding-in problem. All else is secondary to it.",1 +"14 is a minor. Same age as the man who accused Kevin Spacey. ANYONE who pursues or has sex with a minor is a pedophile. I guess it's okay for republicans, like Trump and Moore, and it's only a sin if you're a democrat. What a bunch of hypocritical fake-religious creeps.",1 +"HOMER please post something. Everyone is getting tired of you disagreeing yet not voicing your opinion, you coward! Time for you to come out of the closet homer! LOL",1 +"Vaping is banned because it looks like smoking, and allowing it while banning smoking complicates enforcement. Besides, vaping is stupid and think of it as helping you avoid looking like a hipster doofus in front of normal people.",1 +"The only thing I can figure is that there must be some sort of chronic, neuro-cerebral malfunction that prevents The Donald from rational thinking and propels him to utter his nonsensically daily watch-me-shoot-myself-in-the-foot statement(s).",1 +The dream died as soon as management of it was in the hands of the incompetent twits at Bombardier.,1 +Democrats are organized crime. There is no difference in stealing and voting for a fellow Democrat to steal for you en masse.,1 +"Not so. It is the private sector that is not keeping up. Big corporations and people like Trump live off the backs of the workers. Those who put up with miserly salaries and those who voted for Trump are the ones who perpetuate the low levels of pay in the so-called private sector. They cannot blame anyone who makes better pay than do they, they must simply blame themselves. + +As for your little ""diversionary rant,"" I'm nor sure that you are saying anything other than you simply didn't make the cut to go to Oxford for a year, and you ended up being bitter. + +Trump is draining the swamp right into his cabinet to make the wealthiest bunch of swindlers and double-dealers that have ever made up a Presidential cabinet. Go, Donny, please go.",1 +"1st off....Legally you have to be 21 to purchase a handgun in Alaska +2nd.. Dumb is a DUMB & DUMBER does...Who the Hell points a Loaded Gun at their Thigh...???",1 +"we dont subsidize anything you ignorant loser,,, stosk options, dividends are offset from cash to allow investment to happen that that creates more taxes in jobs etc than the amount they could tax from such ,, get educated into economics and business before you spew the left wing ignorance.",1 +Governor Dummy.,1 +"No it is not deflection. The main focus is on Lee, slave ownership and the taking down any monument of him when the very Union that was supposedly against slavery had slave states within its ranks. + +So Delaware...Sorry but you were a slave state...We need to now take you away and give you to Pennsylvania so the snowflakes will not be reminded of your painful past as a slave owning state.",1 +"The British will have no choice but live in fear for a long time to come. It would have been a lot easier to restrict taking in refugees, like the bomber's parents with questionable background.",1 +"try calling HPD or state sheriff when you see homeless tents etc etc. nothing gets done! NOTHING, fricken homeless setting up tents right in front of them guys drinking their coffee. i seen it with my own eyes, at ala moana park, these park workers and don't do nothing. they just pick up rubbish around these losers. if all our parks are closed at night, thank how come these bums can sleep in the parks, because no one is doing their jobs. +round um all up with a homeless team and take drop them off at sand island. the reason they don't want to go is they don't like listening or following rules/laws. many are druggies who are hiding and love to break the laws and give others a hard time. round um up, all mainland bums, send them back, locals bums send them to sand island. make them work, if they refuse then send to kahoolawe with water and leftover foods from fast food or restaurants. they remind me of rats!!! yuck, we all work too hard to waste our money on lazy bums.",1 +Justin isn't intelligent enough to be a hypocrite.,1 +"This is farken hilarious! Kick this clown Sword to the curb already. This taints the whole selection process already. Kealoha is gone, so his stooge needs to be gone also.",1 +"Hmm, never see a feral bunny or a wild bunny. Once saw three bunnies some idiots had as pets and then dumped out on my road. The last time I saw the bunnies they were flying away.......eagles and owls loved them, better eating then feral kittens and Norway rats.",1 +Joseph Boyden is a fraud.,1 +"Oh ""great news""... and, libs are asking as to be patient. Well, no! But the dummies will finally learn what communism is like - enjoy and say bye bye to your standard of living.",1 +"Way to go, Sen Bennett! We really don't need any federal interference in CO Elections. There is very little evidence of voter fraud, and the few cases that have been found did not have effect the outcome of an election. No voter wants their personal info sent to D.C., entrusted for safe-keeping to that idiot Kobach, and where the Russians only need to hack one place instead of 50 different states!",1 +"I'm sorry your Russian conspiracy theory has crumbled. + +Who are you going to blame next for your pathetic loss? + +Here is the list of the myriad of pathetic Dem excuses for Hillary's loss, SO FAR- + +James Comey, Russia, sexism, the Electoral system, Wikileaks, right wing media, mainstream media, Democrat Party, DNC, voter suppression, misogyny, Citizens United, Netflix, Facebook, white supremacists, Bernie Sanders, suburban women, fake news, bad polling, low info voters, stupid Americans, deplorables... + +It's way past time to take a long hard look at your own party, put on your big boy pants, and accept your loss like a man.",1 +"""just leave it be and let that crap sandwich die all by itself?"" + +Kinda harsh, but I agree that's how we should approach the Trump presidency.",1 +Kick her to the curb,1 +This has to be a joke article.....there are some SERIOUSLY stupid ass people walking this Earth.,1 +"Too late. This debate is over. The issue is whether the president has the authority. If he does it basically renders the act meaningless if it's at the whim of a particular president. Especially one that is incredibly stupid and easily manipulated. + +But this is about more than Bears Ears. Some of these monuments have been around for a while.",1 +rallying people to kill cats makes you one. but then i think you enjoy just baiting people with your drivel. maybe you need to go home.,1 +"Trump is a racist, +…and a petty con man, +…and a traitor. +But back to the racist part. +That's what attracted so many of his supporters. +There is no longer any doubt that Mueller's office is investigating Trump for collusion with Russia and obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation, +…it's just a matter of time now. +Being rid of the racists in the White House will go a long ways to making all the other racists scurry back under their rocks where they belong.",1 +"Concerning the idiotic claim that the PFD ""draws people to Alaska"", it would take a DECADE of PFD's to pay the costs of moving to Alaska from elsewhere. I came here because my job transferred me here. + +As for the ""wrong kind of people"", two points. + +(1) In the context of this discussion I understand you're referring to Samoans. All the Samoans I know work on fishing and fish processing vessels. They came here for fisheries employment--there are seven major Samoan families who've been fishermen ten times longer than the US has existed. They go where the fish are. + +(2) The ""wrong kind of people"" started coming to Alaska long before there was a PFD--first from Russia, then from Anglo-Amerikkka.",1 +"""... elitist narcissistic populists, like Trump and Trudeau..."" + +Are you insane?",1 +"Wow and I mean, ""WOW""!... Who are conservatives?....what an incredibly stupid question! Conservatives are, a wide spectrum of, reasonably thinking people, who, for the most part, think that, Government intervention, in peoples business, personal and otherwise, (which by the way, fuels, 75% of the Canadian economy) should, ""go away"", that's who we are! We're the people who have:....Ideas, who create business, who hire people, who, above all else, ""PAY TAXES"" to various levels of incompetent governments! OK, let's refresh....CONSERVATIVES create, most of the ""REAL"" employment in this country and pay the, ""MAJORITY"" of taxes!... Anybody, and I mean, ""ANYBODY"" who doesn't realize this or hasn't figured it out, is a complete and utter fool!",1 +"Continued. damn character limit..... + +5. Islamic State. By 2008 the volatile Middle East region had quieted significantly. The Obama administration abandoned a long standing U.S. policy regarding foreign dictators and goons (He may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch) and threw Mubarak under the bus. The President then signed off on an ill-advised plan to overthrow Khadafy. Mr. Obama drew a red line for Assad and failed to back up his tough talk. These destabilizing acts turned the “Arab Spring” into a bloody nightmare of anarchy +6. Trump. Heads we lose, tails we lose.",1 +"If you read the transcripts of Trump's conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia, you have to ask yourself which is worse: the leak or the indisputable fact that the leaked conversations prove, without a doubt, that Trump is a moron who is utterly unqualified and unfit to be president?",1 +NDP is capable of starving cattle in an alfalfa field. Few more years we get to leave our footprint on Notley's buttocks.,1 +If you think this kind of garbage is good for kids or for anybody for that matter you deserve kids that this produces. Of what use is it and didn't any of these people that condone it get past 4 letter words in the 9 years they spent in grade school. Just like pot stink up your own house but don't make everyone smell it. Others have rights too!,1 +"At some point in this squabble, you know the dollar signs popped up in her eyes. Apparently, the husband was waiting at the arrival site holding up a sign asking if anyone has video of the incident. + +They should throw her in jail.",1 +"Nobody cared about the Census but the majority are disgusted by the Kadhr issue and won't forget that Trudeau gave 10 million taxdollars to a terrorist when the court did not even order him to do so. Trudeau's lame excuse about ""possible more damages"" is ridiculous, as Canadian courts are known for not awarding huge amounts for damages. This was no doubt a result of Islamic lobbying, and Trudeau must pay the price.",1 +"Looks like you got fooled with the "" Independent "" crap. Walker is just a typical Liberal.",1 +"You applaud police violating their constitutional oath to all citizens as a petty retribution for being excluded from partitipating in private function? + +Wow, just...wow. Talk about ludicrous.",1 +"It's not polite to use words like - ""pay to play"". + +Mayor Caldwell is so corrupt in so many ways! I hope the public knows about his bad record and not give him 4 more years.",1 +"Why does my former political party love crime so much? Against my original will I've discovered that my former party's crime-ridden government of CA, absolutely loves more rape, more murder, more drugs crimes, more street thuggery, all of which engenders more 'government employees', such to deal with these 'problems', and screw the victims! More crime is a guaranteed government employee-generator! So, Denver's city government seems to love more crime in it's libraries, but, is so embarrassed by their love of crime, that they actually use their police to bring their drugger friends' crimes down a few notches!",1 +"hat Trump is the biggest buffoon he has ever seen. +-- +Trump does not take shirtless selfies +. +nor wear colourful socks with a dark suit +. +like Justin Trudeau +so biggest buffoon, who ?",1 +"No Jerry Burle, you cannot be a Christian if you practice murdering the unborn, just like the Canaanites who sacrificed their children to Molech/Baal. +Stop deluding yourself Jerry Burle.",1 +Do you sincerely think you know anything about me? What a stupid response/question.,1 +"The United Church is no longer a church. They teach no real Christian history to their young; they're too fearful to make a pronouncement about culture, ritual, or morality. My parents were United Church. Most are such cloistered wasps with a guilt complex, you could blow them over with a gust of wind. + +I had the opportunity to visit an evangelical church (filled with kids) for a secular meeting. In the basement, I saw lessons on the wall for kids about Christians being the most persecuted religion on earth. Finally, here I see a sense of community. + +Why not turn all the churches into Bingo halls? Jesus would love that one.",1 +Our mayor is disgracefully incompetent.,1 +"No-I care. + +Those uncaring make this political human beings might want to look in the mirror and ask themselves why they do not care about the victims, the injured and only politics. + +Because instead of words of comfort and sorrow, they verbally attack using the word ""Trump"", which is no sign of caring about the victims, the people, themselves. + +Disgusting +Disgusting +Disgusting + +Beyond disgusting. May God save us all.",1 +"All these GOOTARDS commenting about high premiums under ACA then comment on other threads that they are seniors (medicare) or veterans (VA). Sooooo, they don't pay squat. Hypocrites.",1 +"In other words, the Republicans are going to keep fighting over this Democrat leaning district until they corrupt their way back in. You've lost this race now move on damn it.",1 +Take a look around when walking from the parking structure to the Stan Sheriff Center complex. It's filthy. Trash and dirt everywhere. Years of grime on the jalousies. It's shameful.,1 +"If we want to protect our future, we simply need to get rid of all the idiots that are doing us in. I'm all for idiotocide.",1 +All of America would expect a moronic democrat to tell the world our secrets!,1 +"If it's government screwing you, like the Republicans say Obamacare did, that's socialism. If it's a corporation screwing you, and profiting in the process, well that's 'Freedom.' + +Republican politicians are nothing more than hacks who are paid to keep the money flowing uphill while they clutter up the minds of gullible voters with empty promises of fixing the American dream.",1 +"Theresa Kennedy-DuPay, as posted to Fred Stewart’s personal wall about 2:30AM on 4/14/2016. As of 11PM same day, still up and public. (part 1/2) + +“So! Since this thread is public and Mark Zusman and the skinny dorky Evil Scientist Mr. Nigel Jaquiss read Fred’s Facebook regularly, I’m curious, what do you two fellas think? Come on! You can tell us. You made an old woman cry, didn’t ya? Are ya happy, boys? Proud of yourself? Does this kind of sick thrill make you feel “powerful” like the original Editor of Willamette Week, Mr. Ron Buel asked you earlier? You made an elderly woman who has already been through more than either of you two out of touch hypocrites could ever conceive, cry. Wow. You two slugs really are absolute lowlife, aren’t ya? But the good thing is that you’re both ruining your own reputations. People are starting to figure you out.",1 +"Good on them! They've got my vote next election. The only 'strong message' sent here was a bunch of spoiled members of the Corrupt Bastards Club voting to keep those who put their constituents and principles above their party from playing in the Republican Reindeer Games. Nice Holiday Spirit there, CBC members! May a super-sized lump of coal be lodged right up the 'ol coal chute by the Jolly Fat Man, right where you need to be lit up!",1 +"Try talking to someone that's gay. Every one of the ones I've talked to said they knew as young as 5 that they were different. You honestly believe it's a choice? Yes, sign me up because I want to be treated like a second class citizen. I love being told I'm an abomination and will rot in hell. I love being beaten up because of who I am. Again, when did you decide to be hetero?",1 +"I am ashamed at my alma mater. I am ashamed at the whitesplaining, plantation-owner mentality displayed in the some of the comments below. Really? ""...would think be grateful to have the comfortable lives most of us have...."" Really? Yes, slave-owner, thanks for letting them come into the house now, and wear nicer clothes? NO. I will keep marching on behalf of POC, LGBTQ, Muslims, and immigrants. When one is in chains, none of us are free. Nancy Schurtz needs to be fired. Deady Hall should be re-named, and the Black Student Task Force should get to name it. Speaking of, all 13 of the demands the BSTF asked for should be met. Otherwise what kind of backward, hillbilly, ignorant, racist, football-obsessed university do we have here? Shall we change the Duck theme song to ""Dixie""?",1 +Thank you for sharing your story Alaskan chicks kick butt there's not a damn thing a woman can't do!,1 +"If Trump really is homophobic, xenophobic, a bigot, and racist; when is the men's march? +And just out of curiosity, has anyone really noticed the way Trump supports his foreign wife, daughters, and jewish family members?How is it a march for women when you as women, ostracize the women who want to march for pro-life? So many questions! +I'm sorry, but it's just so Jerry Springer to use the new president as a scapegoat for all the things that were allowed to fester over the past decade. Why didn't anyone feel it was important enough to march for the cause sooner? Maybe you were hoping Hilary would come to the rescue? +I for one happen to like men and I have three fantastic boys, so all you men haters out there sporting your pussy hats, try not to raise a bunch of men hating women. If you don't think it makes a difference, take a look back into history of infanticide and see what the outcome has been.",1 +"It's the same stale, static, commercial laden crap, now just higher priced, and counts against your data cap. Still not commercial free, still not dynamic, still the same static stale crap, now costing more! + +What innovation!",1 +"Agreed. 45* never paid the price for being a birther. And as far as I know, he has not even apologized for his deplorable racist birther nonsense. + + +IOKIYAR.",1 +Misrepresentation. Maryam Monsef c'mon down. 2019 cannot come soon enough to toss these idiots. I guess being a Canadian doesn't count for much anymore.,1 +"We are $20 Trillion in debt, we don't need more subsidized feel good projects like the Fire Island Wind Farm. The Paris Accords result in corporate lobbyists stealing from taxpayers to meet ridiculous goals.",1 +"I don't know what he said except what he always says. + +""We're going to win."" (constantly) + +""We're going to kill terrorists"" (constantly) + +""We're going to do stuff and make other countries pay for it."" (the wall) + +""We're going to show American military strength and power"" (North Korea) + +Other than those vague things, Trump bascially adopted Obama's position in Afghanistan. + +Except that he wants to leave troops there, while Obama wanted to bring them home. + +Isolationists like Bannon/Brietbart are gonna go bonkers.",1 +Nothing to do with concerns about Russia? So what's the threat? The Swedes are going to invade because the Norwegians are kicking their butts in cross country?,1 +"It has never felt so near...and menacing before! I was that tanned, beach girl that mingled with the tourists at Waikiki...long time ago! I never knew they were rich, just silly tourists with loud aloha shirts...but kind and generous. Not a ""Trump-like"" person, at all.",1 +That is a dumb lie.,1 +"yes it is; if you claim special services, you need to back it up. i am like so tired of these morons taking their dogs in to the grocery store, buying fake vests/certificates. that should be a crime.",1 +You think that's all we have left? You can't fix stupid.,1 +"Point? Just for you hypocrite: a person who pretends to have virtues, moral or religious beliefs, principles, etc., that he or she does not actually possess, especially a person whose actions belie stated beliefs. What's the point of you calling republicans hypocrites when you and your heroes been toking when it's against the law.",1 +with all the ignorant left wingers here perhaps we can get them some help with thier stupidity,1 +"I am disgusted that the two candidates (one declared; one not) who are being perceived as the most 'Trump like' (for different reasons) are getting the vast majority of media attention. Haven't we learned anything? + +Kellie Leitch is a painful public speaker and a hypocrite (railing against elites). Kevin O'Leary defines 'just visiting'. If the CPC wants to appeal to voters like me, the choice of either of these people won't do it.",1 +""" Even UCP’s acronym, which unleashed a flurry of juvenile jokes"" like manning's ""C.R.A.P."" Amateurs. Idiots.",1 +"NRA(Nauseous Reptilian Apostates) massively funded by arms manufacturers and distributors along with conservative billionaires, i.e., Koch Brothers et. al. Dedicated to vigilante anarchism, white supremacy, and avowed destroyers of the current Constitutional Republic and its pesky Bill of Rights. All to be replaced by a corporate empire ruled by the nabobs of business unfettered by any of that evil human rights, unions, and voting freedoms. After this legislature is through their won't be any dorm rooms in which to store guns. Stupidity personified.",1 +People are just nasty pigs. Too freaking lazy to pick up the crap they carry in.,1 +"Trump's opinion is irrelevant to Freeland, the man is recognised as a fool world-wide.",1 +Then the man is a pig as well!,1 +"""Tolerant"" libs trying to control who celebrities associate with. Never mind when it's even our democratically elected president. Libs are so hypocritical and funny that it's cartoonish.",1 +"Wow this is cool the Glob and Mall wants me to pay 49Cents a month to read the lunatic rantings of 777. Are you kidding me, they would have to pay me. So sad , so bad you never went back on the meds. Heh clown so you are still at it 18 hours a day. You would never get the help I suggested that you get on the national radio program. Man you truly are incapable of wanting or getting help.",1 +"How did insulting two women as bitches with twisted phonetics get past the ""civil"" filter? And to compound such low class behavior you like your own comment like RA used to? So much ""winning!""",1 +"Great point! That darn Obama, he granted amnesty to 3,000,000 illegal immigrants, banned assault weapons and secretly funded Iran against the law of the land! Oh wait, my mistake, that was Reagan.",1 +"and the feverish hand-wringing continues. as if it's gonna change how peeople here have been growing, eating smoking, and transporting their pot for the flast 40 years WITHOUT ANY HELP from the state. In fact, in many case's the state's own stupidity has only aided the ""criminals"" we would have a tome filled with legends of yore, heralding our own successes against these bumbling sheriff of knottingham types.",1 +"Akskiman, the more you bleat on about how ""corrupt"" Hillary is, with no proof WHATSOEVER, the more you show yourself to be a stupid wind-up toy for the Russian propagandists and their puppet, Trumputin. Hillary was smeared for 30 years by fake news and you're proof that a segment of the American public lacks the critical thinking skill to be anything other than sheep. Congratulations, you're a tool of this country's greatest enemy, Putin and Russia. You're a traitor.",1 +"Trudeau lied to all Canadians in the last election campaign. + +Shame on you shiny pony! + +SHAME!!!",1 +"What does this simplistic scapegoating of the Internet have to do with the ""left wing""? + Some nonsense is so reductionist and ridiculous, it doesn't rise to the level of political analysis. It's beyond left and right, - it's just wrong.Worse, it's a dangerous distraction from the truth. + But at least it shows some imagination rather than unloading more trash on Donald Trump. + It wasn't Donald Trump, for example, who did business with the Nazis in the 1930's; who welcomed Nazis to America in the 1950's, and made one the chief director of NASA in the 1960's.",1 +"Given that the ""right"" created most of the problem with ISIS and other terrorists, you have either a massive amount of Gaul or you're truly are a fool.",1 +"I know some low level individual will be charged with something, that is what happens with these special counsel/special prosecutors situations. These corrupt politicians will have to get their pound of flesh before this nonsense can be put to rest. Hillary is big part of this nonsense, her losing the election is what brought on this false narrative of collusion. Had she won, we wouldn't be hearing anything regarding the Russian hacking, because Russians has been trying to influence our elections for decades.",1 +"All Trudeau had to do was not say something stupid, which he has done before, so the right posters here, including me, are grateful he didn't during the press conference. +The real work now begins, so we'll see if he's up to the task. +And I know you libs think you are the naturally governing party, but our election cycle goes every 4-years (you can look it up for some help) and he won't make it 12-years. He's already put us in deficit by 3-times his promise and reneged on many of his election promises. He's not even close to the intellectual capacity, political smarts and experience of Chretien, who didn't make it 12-years. Study your political history, fanboy.",1 +"The church calls homosexual ACTIVITY ""intrinsically disordered"". If you can't even tell the difference between the sin and the sinner then you are wasting my time with your musings on natural law.",1 +"Your people ignited WW1 which caused the deaths of over 20 million. In the more recent past You've killed many Slovenians, Croatians, Bosnians, and Albanians. What is it with you war mongers?",1 +"Typical Liberal idiocy. The longstanding fact is that young women aren't as interested in the sciences as men. There are a lot of areas in university which are very disproportionately female, and nobody seems to care about that. But let there be one which is disproportionately male and the social justice warriors are on the march! Hey, here's an idea. We FORCE young women to enter sciences whether they want to or not. We choose their career path and make them follow it. That way the number of women in science programs will be equal to the number of men, and then you can appoint equal numbers! + +Of course, the more likely alternative is they'll just find some incompetents and appoint them solely based on their gender. Then our glorious science minister - who only got her job due to her womb - will be able to act like she's accomplished something great - just like the girlyman who appointed HER.",1 +"Getting elected and re-elected President is ""a failure as a man""? + +Or were you thinking of something else, like the size of his hands? Do elaborate!",1 +"Trump's considers fulfillment of his own ego more important than integrity of any election. He would lead this country toward his own brand of Banana Republic. He would cite evidence of 10 votes in 3 million as reason to disenfranchise millions of voters across this country by disallowing students to vote where they live and disallowing many forms of ID in favor of gun permit IDs. in other words tilting the elections in an aggressive way that includes outrageous gerrymandering and election fraud. Citizens should rightly be more wary of Trump's favored election fraud, which is relevant, versus ""voter fraud which has been shown to be a red herring. Trump' little scheme is a testament to his tin horn dictator mentality.",1 +"""NK apologist trolls who frequent the NK threads. . ."" Who are these people, and where do they live? Any person who doesn't get himself as worked up about this as you is not an ""apologist troll.""",1 +"Politics is a sleazy business. + +And as we see with Christy, most politicians look up at pond scum.",1 +More hate from Canada's Most Destructive Columnist (tm).,1 +Because Christians don't strap bombs to kids and women and blow themselves up. Look at all the mass killings and the one thing in common...Muslims.,1 +"Trump: ""I don't believe it."" Based on what? Gut feeling or just denial that something might just be there? Something could have truely happen without his knowing. That would be actually believable but to just say ""I don't believe it"" leads a reasonable person to think you are covering up. Buffoon. What till a real crisis comes up that requires critical thinking skills without just pushing the button!",1 +Good Read ~ Thanks John ~ POS Seagull Killers for Target Practice These Are Not Hunters They are As*%$#s ~ Be Safe Out There ~ !,1 +Just not ready. It's too bad Harper ran such an awful xenophobic campaign.,1 +"Another one of those ""This is MY Country, my ancestors stole it fair and square' groups trying to intimidate people of color....I hope those arrests showed you some people 'push back' when you tread on their rights.......... Losers.......",1 +"Of course, it's important to note when speaking about Clinton that she won the popular vote by around 3 million, the temporary POTUS and his family were involved in election violations, and are extremely chummy with the country responsible for hacking the 2016 U.S. elections. The degree to which the Democrats are ""out of touch"" with the American people cannot be compared to the criminal Republican party (colluding with a criminal regime). If it weren't for the former president's actions, millions would be without healthcare--and this the Republican party will do anything to take away. Many Americans are rightfully wary of populism--the American variety is so frequently tainted with racism. The Republican party and their fake president are a stain on this country. But they'll never get what they deserve because (white) Americans are comfortable. If they don't stand up against racism--the violent immigration policies--of Trump and his base, I hope they lose their healthcare.",1 +"Ironic how the same people that are so quick to decry bigotry are in turn so quick to label those groups with whom they disagree (But alas no, Trump is white just like his bigoted, fearful, xenophobic supporters).",1 +"White supremecy is a ""political viewpoint"" now???? + +What am I reading hear! And why are you trying to defend it? If these defenses continue it simply gives the impression that the right = white supremecy. Is that what you want? + +You guys should be distancing yourselves from these people. Do you know realize what a political loser this tact is?",1 +"Yes... Hillary and company are winning the Gender War that is raging in the US election... and Trump is getting bashed from all sides. He has two Gender War cards left in his arsenal of smut: + +1. Hillary is a lesbian and will not be accepted as Commander-in-Chief + +2. Hillary has cuckolded Bill and is a fraud..! + +... and both cards are being tossed around in Trump's circle of supporters... quite sad but politics is a dirty nasty game... wonder how that will go over ....lol",1 +"She not woke, She dumb!",1 +"Oh precious child. Have someone read the article to you and explain the big words. +“Organizers included the Nationalist Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi group; the Traditionalist Worker Party, which wants a separate white ethno-state; Anti-Communist Action, a right-wing group that believes America is being threatened by “communists”‘ and Vanguard America, a white supremacist group that believes America is inherently a white nation that must be preserved.” + + +You could argue your point for some of the organizers and that is precious. +But the National Socialist Movement? + Really? Wanna try to say they are not white supremacists? + +You are either being disingenuous, ignorant or you fall for alt right propaganda like nobody’s business.",1 +"Griffin is claimed to be a comedian, but that isn't funny. +However, over Obama's 8 years I received many emails from the deplorable Right with the same ugly sentiments about Obama.",1 +From Morocco through Indonesia a huge part of the Earth's surface belong to the 57 muslim states. Non Muslim minorities from Algiers to Baghdad to Armenia and to Greece were expelled. Time for them to strike back then!,1 +"Mr. Phoenix followed the letter of the law. The legislature and the author of this opinion piece don't like the laws in this area and know that Mr. Phoenix will follow the law, and they have actively advocated to insure the law is rendered useless by a fanatic Christian influence in government. No different than Islamic extremists. Just a different country, and different circumstances. You are extremist religious fanatics wielding undeserved power due to your co=opting of money worshipping and leveraging of ignorance through media. I find it, and you, disgusting.",1 +Enjoy it while it lasts. The Islamification of Canada has begun.,1 +"After this hotel is demolished, build another hotel with a 50-year warranty. Make it such that demolition is fast, easy, and safe. Trouble is tourists' tastes change every decade, the sea level might rise even higher, Hawaii may get displaced by cheaper destinations like Mexico where pot and hookers are easily available, and Islamics may one day outnumber all of us. Hotels are risky investments. Like marriage.",1 +"Oh how soon do we forget that Obama called ISIS Al-Queda's ""JV"" team. Obama is not superior but an idiotic MORON!",1 +"The bilious hyperbole of the Trump camp and their Canadian sycophants is amazing. If you think Trump's going to lead you to the land of milk and honey and you'll feast on locusts... just head south... His move to ease restrictions on the USA's banks is simply a disaster waiting to happen - but I doubt you remember 2008 especially well. Letting the wolves and jackals of Wall Street act with impunity; shedding fiduciary responsibility to investors they have advised is reprehensible and ethically bankrupt. Greed is good is once more the hallowed refrain! This crazy run up in the markets is coming down some time soon, the fundamentals have not changed that much. To hell with a generation and more of efforts to environmental protection - they're open for business but Nordstrom's doesn't want their crap...",1 +Addicts ARE self-destructive. Holly crap! does everyone have a lobotomy these days?,1 +"""the supremacist hashtag #whitegenocide"" + +Say what you want about the word choice, but whites not wishing to be displaced in their own countries is not ""white supremacist"". That is common sense self-preservation.",1 +"We still don't know if he is a citizen or not what we do know with more certainty than ever is that the BC he presented to the American people was an amateurish forgery, The only theory that agrees with the facts and 8 years of his poorly contrived policies is that he had to be doing it on purpose . He is guilty of numerous criminal acts that he should have been impeached for and wasn't. Obama wasn't just a member of the left wing progressive clown car crowd...he was their king. And speaking of king, everytime I read one of your comments it brings this MLK quote to mind ""Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.",1 +May be the best way to protest against all of this is to stop paying taxes? Interesting how would government react if thousands of Canadians refused to pay taxes. Why should we pay for such idiotic policies and plans.,1 +"you can't fix stupid +maybe he can understudy Rick Perry at dancing with the superputzes",1 +"must be very frustrating for the uppity self-proclaimed ""educated"" to lose to the ""dumbed-down"" +not good for your blood pressure",1 +"Sullivan attacked Obama at every opportunity, his post election award ceremony at the Koch brother resort in California indicated to me that his interest and aspirations lie at the national level. + I admire Moores passion and indignation at the infringement of liberty. I have no respect for any of Alaska's current representation, "" crooked as a dogs hind leg "". A license to steal is the creed of the current "" conservatives "".",1 +"People make up some crazy stories to get away with murder... Look up ""ridiculous alibis"".",1 +"You are pathetic, and you need get clue or a life elsewhere,",1 +Waters needs her ass kicked out of the country. Hope the trumper does it,1 +you thinking we should screen out jokes cause the political correct police nutters like you dont like them is the definition of snowflake stupidity,1 +"Typical nonsense for people who just like to criticize anything the PM does. + +You would be complaining that he wasn't making good use of his advisors if he wasn't doing stuff like this.",1 +"If you think it's disgusting to follow a president who lies, how did you live with yourself for the past eight years?",1 +Darcy's typical 'respect' for others on display. But he calls Trump uncivil. Hypocrite.,1 +I know. I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Stupid comment from me. Thanks for addressing it. I deleted my comment.,1 +This stooge did more to push the opioid crisis than any street drug dealer. Trump is absoltutely corrupt and inept himself.,1 +"They ran away from college because they couldn't handle the changing demographic. They are just putting themselves at a huge disadvantage in the future. Talk about cutting off you nose to spite your face. This attitude is mirrored in many Trump supporters. Instead of adapting, they blame immigrants, refugees, minorities, women, media and the left. I certainly agree college isn't for everyone but leaving because your felling are hurt is kind of pathetic.",1 +"No NO & NO! +THIS DAMN COUNTY NEEDS TO STOP FOULING UP THE DUNGENESS RIVER! +LEAVE THE RIVER ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!",1 +"I love how little Justin & his mental midget liberals ALWAYS stand up for Ont & Quebec interests and couldn't care less about the rest of the country. +And you wonder why he is so hated and despised in Western Canada (as was his daddy--- for basically the same reasons).",1 +I am generally the first to say that exceptions exist but how do you know she was really gay to begin with? Or that she really desired men afterwards? With gay conversion it is far more common for such converts to revert back to being gay.,1 +"If you have ever bought fish from the store, you have the ""greedy fishermen"" to thank.",1 +"As disgusting and immoral as President's Trump attack this morning was, I can't help but NOT feel bad for people in the press like Mika and Joe. They aggressively courted him. They gave him hours and hours of free airtime, all he had to do was call in! The crazier he got during the election, the more these media fools courted and promoted him. They made this FrankenTrump monster.",1 +"What the heck does that mean? And if you're looking at results, not just appearances, athlete's living in million dollar homes and purchasing the teams that once employed them, hardly looks like it has fallen behind the average American business in racial equity. + +I have no doubt you have sincere antipathy for racism Gary. That may bias your view of people or events that hint at race.",1 +"Another illustration of the Trump administrations's modus operandi, best described by MacBeth +"" a poor player +That struts and frets his hour upon the stage +And then is heard no more: it is a tale +Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, +Signifying nothing.""",1 +"Well, the ANC is doing this very well already. Their small and gross skeletons, thugs and trolls are in a veritable grotesque orgiasmic dance.",1 +"Geez, I thought only 0bama was stupid enough to announce his military strategy to the world.",1 +What a stupid waste of money.,1 +"The New York media loves this kind of story. Take a half-dozen hillbilly lunatics and present them as representatives of millions of Americans. If those guys had tarred and feathered the reporter and photographer it would have served them right. Mostly these ""millitants"" are looking for an excuse to get away from their wives, get drunk, and make some noise. The idiot reporter can't see that's what it's all about.",1 +"I wonder if the Liberals recall why they were unceremoniously turfed out a decade ago? Adscam, the sponsorship scandal, Shawinigate and I'm entitled to my entitlements. Cash for access is sleazy, let's not try to put some lipstick on this pig.",1 +"In other words the la la land mayor sees more money being funneled to his parasitic city from the rest of the province- who wanted the NDP and Greens punted.........he could be right.....sadly. The left progressive mentality or mental illness, will drain any hard working person of their last cent, and they think nothing of making people jobless and homeless, as long as their feel good bs is being played out.. Selfish and stupid, a bad combination.",1 +"Everyone who defends islam and muslims endorses crime. +Endorsing crime IS a crime, so those doing it are criminals. + +Right in the Qur'an is: the permission to murder Jews and Christians (Surah 9:29), to terrorize all non-Muslims + +(8:12), to rape young girls (65:4), to enslave people for sex (4:3), to lie about one's true goals (3:54), and + +the command to make war on all the infidels (9:123) and subjugate the entire world to Allah (9:33). + +Are death-threats legal? NO. +Is extortion legal? NO. +Is slavery legal? NO. +Is murder legal? NO. +Is rape legal? NO. + +THEN ISLAM IS ILLEGAL! + +Rape, slavery, robbery, extortion and murder are never OK! + +Everything muslims pretend to see as ""holy"" is already a crime! + +So nobody has a legal right to practice islam anywhere on earth!",1 +"Regardless, there is not valid reason but sexism as to why that priest need not be female.",1 +This is a BS piece of made up DNC propaganda being spoon fed to the willful idiots that refuse to do their own research.,1 +"I calculated my income tax. After getting my dividend I only pay a bit over $1,000. I've lived in lots of states and this is the best bargain I've had, even with that tax. Stop with the whining, freeloaders.",1 +Russia's Pravda published a daily litany of lies and falsehoods the average Russian knew was just propaganda. Glorious praise for the great workers paradise compared to the hell hole of American. capitalism. The failure of the propaganda ushered in the collapse of the USSR The failure of the credibility of American news is no different. The elite system is collapsing because people know when they are being lied to and run to anything that has even a whiff of truth.,1 +"Yet another liberal loser who can't even put his dislike for Trump aside long enough to recognize a real patriot, and his grieving wife, for doing his duty. These writers are probably just pissed off because the illegal immigrants brought to the speech by Democrats got absolutely no attention. +These writers cannot face reality and will never stop their condemnation of Trump and his efforts.",1 +"I treat people equitably, not equally. Treating people equally reaffirms white privilege. Because in Westetn Society, everyone is equal, but some people are more equal than others. To treat everyone equally is to fail to recognize that some people carry heavier burdens than others. Which is ignorant and is truly a new form of racial discrimination.",1 +"She used precious little English to get where she is! She used a lot of x-rated films, nude posing, and botox!",1 +When they finally see the light and ordain women. Gay Bishops and Cardinals will then be less insecure and stop the self hatred.,1 +Bravo! This is one of the most odious acts of stupidity committed by our government; allowing Khadr to pursue the taxpayers for damages. Denying him the funds through lengthy delays or forcing him to hand it over to the family of the victim would be legal justice. A group of angry taxpayers settling the matter with Khadr in an alley would be justice.,1 +"Is it not completely obvious to everyone that this woman is mentally ill? I mean she needs to seek qualified help, maybe spend a little time in a mental ward under some supervision. Add the rest of the idiots who voted for her please. She is clearly about to have a mental breakdown every time she speaks she is about to fold. Shameful behavior and her actions on the MCB are reprehensible. Get rid of this shameful nutcase or you are doomed to have her idiocy repeated.",1 +"She's the worst of the worst, by far.",1 +"Don't look now buttercup but the traditional Republicant Party has been highjacked by the ultra wrong-wing of the so-called teA Partiers. tRump's fraud elect win will shimmy away just like a viewing of a colorful display of fireworks. Shimmy, shimmy into the darkness. Poof.",1 +"The governor of Oregon does not represent the majority of our state. She is a criminal, rogue pos who is doing her best to destroy the population of the majority of the state.",1 +Well Obama did his job. You have convienantly forgotten that He draged this country from the worst economic recession since the great depression. Well we now have a president that has basically done squat. Enjoy your new job building the wall. Hay have you started the new medical plan that the Donald has started? Second to none? What a joke the Donald is but not as big as a joke as the suckers who actually voted for him. (Putin's suckers),1 +"Trump's first bluff with China was his blunder over the One China policy, and he folded like a house of cards, causing the Chinese to laughingly proclaim him a paper tiger. The armada bluff was similarly disastrous. You have to be as naive as Trump to think that the Chinese don't know where US aircraft carriers are at all times — and that they don't share that information with North Korea. Calling the armada story a bluff is giving Trump too much credit; more likely it was a spontaneous lie that left the White House staff scrambling to provide cover for him. When the inevitable happened — Trump's lie was exposed — Trump just looked like a fool, again.",1 +"He's obviously an idiot, representing the wing nut moron faction in the Valley. Hopefully he's sterile.",1 +"We should've started with NOT electing a President that states ""thinks like a typical white person"".",1 +"take away the public’s health insurance, national parks, public schools, environmental protections, civil rights and most social programs benefiting life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. '' + +WHAT a complete claim of BULL, trump is doing none of that but as usual the hate filled ignorant left just cant stop proving how stupid they are",1 +"Let the elite's MSM make up the fake news, you are just too fake!",1 +"Vote this jackass out, he can protest on his OWN time, not while he is performing official duties. Get rid of this piece of garbage!!!",1 +Don't you ever get tired of regurgitating the same garbage? Even animals in the wild know not to regurgitate.,1 +Trump is a carnival barker too.,1 +Please stop berating liberals. You belong to the party that actively attracts the KKK and neo-nazis.,1 +Surely you are joking? That's insane--just like Trump.,1 +"Hard to say for certain from the brief description, but losing control in a steep turn immediately after takeoff certainly sounds like ""stupid pilot tricks"". Interesting to hear that he'd had problems before.",1 +"Correct me if I am wrong, but didn't a lot of black people vote for Trump? I am no Trump supporter and believe the only reason he got elected was because the best the Democrats could offer was Hillary, but Trumps message resonated with a lot working people of all races. +Now I also find it disgustingly egocentric for Andra Gillespie to act as if she is speaking for all black Americans. She isn't.",1 +"What a terrible example of corporate entitlement! Delay these bonuses....ridiculous.......they should be cancelled immediately. Any managers at Bombardier before the provincial and federal bailouts don't deserve any monies for their poor performance leading up to this situation and any managers brought in subsequent to bailout funds should be realistically rewarded since they decided to join a ""chronic bankrupt government charity case"". Pierre Beaudoin being given any money is pathetic, and if it weren't for his family's dual-class share structure, he would have been fired years ago. This mess is 100% his responsibility. Unfortunately, this dual-class share structure continues and in turn, the Beaudoin/Bombardier families ability to blackmail our governments, and in turn, taxpayers. Too bad that Ottawa and/or Quebec cannot ""nationalize"" this economically important enterprise and end this corporate governance blackmail.",1 +"Love it. Coderre is such an arrogant twit and hopefully this is the last we hear of him, although I doubt we're that lucky.",1 +"They need to have all the cash in that payment seized and turned over to small businesses in Ferguson that were looted, burned, and destroyed. + +There's no way in this great county that producing a violent criminal should get you paid. + +Shame on the people that decided to pay these scum.",1 +"With every passing day it becomes clearer and clearer that the Liberal party needs to be declared a criminal organization. ""Slimy"" doesn't even begin to describe their antics.",1 +I would immediately get a firearm if I heard my dog bark and then several shots fired. Coming upon the scene of my dead dog and an armed man would definitely make me fear for my life as well and I would not stop shooting until the threat is neutralized.,1 +"Except the native ones your precious ""furrrr baybeeez"" torture and destroy. They apparently don't deserve your alleged ""compassion"".",1 +"Northrim Bank was a huge supporter of SB 21. Northrim Bank financed the Goldsmith report that never even considered a low oil price scenario. Northrim Bank is beholden to the oily coalition, formerly known as the Corrupt Bastards Club, as much as Mike Chenault or Peter Micciche. Northrim Bank wants your permanent fund. Business as usual while we pay to pump the last 3.5 billion barrels of easy lift oil. $7.5 billion dollars worth of oil leaving leaving our state this year and our general fund pays the oil companies. This is not stupid, this is insane. We are pumping Alaska dry and paying to do it.",1 +"""They are putting together a responsible pan.."" What nonsense. We have a workable affordable plan with the ACA. Republicans have nothing to replace it with, because the ACA, like Romneycare in Massachusetts, was a Republican plan worked out by the Republican ""think tank"", the Heritage Foundation. It's a Republican plan. Republicans have nothing except the ACA, and if they kill it, tens of millions of Americans will lose health insurance, which in the US means any kind of decent health care. If you swallow the crap oozing out of the 135th Congress, you are truly a bag head.",1 +"In regards to: +""North Korea’s military today presented leader Kim Jong Un with plans to launch missiles into waters near Guam and “wring the windpipes of the Yankees,” and ""foolish and stupid conduct of the Yankees"" +. +Why isn't everyone (the democrats, the media and the international community) attacking NK for using provocative language ? +If Trump said similar things about NK at this point... all h*ll would fly !!!",1 +"Kill a bear.................. for nothing. I guess it's better than relocating to not far enough out of Anch..................Just like they blame the wolves for a moose decline, and forget to mention hunters, trains, cars, and starvation. WHATEVER.......... idjuts ""managing"" wildlife................. wildlife has survived without man for a long time............... ok I'll shut up :o)",1 +She needs to do prison time where she can reflect on her foolish past behavior and realize the consequences which caused the death of one of her passengers.....,1 +"Why is it that blacks always need help? At the rate the Obama administration shoveled money at social programs, its no wonder the country is almost broke. Some words of wisdom fromThomas Sewell are in order here.",1 +"Your comment is not just vacuous, it is completely asinine, not to forget, ultimately exceeding cruel and unnecessary. I can only conclude that you are without consciousness.",1 +Coded? Conspiracy theorist? How you got white supremists out of Jerry L.'s post is EXACTLY the problem with the left. Someone disagrees with you and they are racist. What exactly is racist in the post?,1 +"He lied. Resignation is the only honourable recourse. He can be forgiven if he resigns. If he stays ,he is a lying politician and a blemish on the whole Canadian military. Do everyone and yourself a favour, RESIGN.",1 +That is isn't a Muslim ban or that Muslim countries don't allow Israeli citizens to enter. I've heard both arguments from the Trumpkins.,1 +"Freeheels, and Brills, what real name these folks live annonymously while being 18th century. First off Jack of trades is the senator is an American African, not an African American. For us constitutional idiots in the world, streets run two ways. The problem you have a white reporter, slim of the earth, Trump even hates them more than all the others on his list. Reporting the American victim s crime, I was assaulted by A minority, that is old as slavery, no. #1 in my America. Cops and you are quick to beieve Blacks folks kidnap, or do whatever the white host alleged, pure American horse manuer, won't see a white reporter aledge that of trump or any white guys. Not a contest, equals out, so they throw those out. But mighty funny the agitator (reporter) is poking a senator, A minority is right. The last American African senator, that let aguy get really close and pray with him and others membrs at church was killed. Dillion roof after prayer executed nine God loving, fearing folks.",1 +"LOL... ""Dictator "". Anyone with half a brain sees who the dictator is here! Try keeping up with current events and watch Chump act like a normal person..... oh wait, he hasn't.!!! I love how you change gears though and bring up the ""choo choo"". I'm still not impressed but I guess that's all you got!",1 +nothing worse than a black delusional monkey,1 +"Your hatred for the priestly caste and your virulent homophobia prevent you from acknowledging the obvious. Sexism, misogyny and homophobia are pervasive in space and time and represent a primitive dichotomy: man or bitch. It's why gay men have suffered more opprobrium than lesbians: gay men are perceived to assume the role of the 2nd-degree human female. Like practically every institution under the sun, Christian theology inherited and perpetuated this dynamic. We know the Catholic Church is hidebound by its shrink-wrapped theology and pretensions to infallibility. It's hardly an excuse to vilify an entire group of people based on sexual orientation.",1 +If you touch one white child we will make your life a living hell.,1 +"This is so silly, and patently false. Dodd - Frank, which the House repealed and is the subject of this piece protects nobody other than the big banks. Why? Because the big guys are the only ones capable of affording the dump-truck load of new rules, regulations and reporting requirements. It is in the process of driving local banks and lending institutions out of business, concentrating the power in the hands of a few too big to fail corporations in NYC. Putting your faith in Elizabeth Warren's brainchild is a poor lifestyle choice. Good on the Repubs ot repeal this legislation. Cheers -",1 +"illegals taking over the town and shes concerned with cats claws, cmon man 😀",1 +"It's cover your own *ss time. Ozawa is in up to his eyeballs in this taxpayer ripoff and he knows it. Don't pretend you don't know where the money is going, you all have known from day one which special interests were getting the money. It's the same folks that own you and control your vote. +Honolulu voters are stupid to continue re-electing the same corrupt politicians time after time.",1 +"When you attack men you open up for a response. + +Instead of you women flagging legitimate comments about killing of Muslim women you show who you are. You are nothing yuppie flakes and Democrat wives now unemployed or marginalized by Trump. + +Why aren't you rioting for Muslim women? If you are so concerned (which we know you are not) why aren't you rioting for them? + +Again! + +What have you done to save Muslim women from death by Husband or men? + +The real question is + +Why don't you accept defeat and focus on more important things like saving Muslim women's lives + +Or maybe the idea doesn't fit on your Facebook page with your Madonna selfie. + +In truth you women are flakes and phonies",1 +"If I were on the School board, I would fire them. They are either too arrogant or too stupid for their current positions and there are lots more where they came from. + +That would also encourage others, both now and into the future, to leave those attitudes at home. + +Retirement bennies are a total guess without access to their actual employment histories, including.",1 +"No one should listen to como estas. + +She thinks that anyone can legally force a baker to make a swatstika cake. +She also believes that a German or an Austrian can legally force a baker to make a hitler cake. Not an American, but only a German or Austrian. + +This added with her “not just black lives matter” take, is just incredibly ignorant and borderline insane.",1 +"What is most disappointing and depressing, but not really surprising, about the US ban is its stunning partiality. Of the 19 attackers during 9-11, 15 came from Saudi Arabia, and one from Egypt. The female half of the couple that attacked in San Bernadino came from Pakistan. These are documented, identified assassins from Muslim majority countries that are NOT included in the ban. Bannon, Flynn, Conway and Trump are almost bracingly stupid and mendacious.. the problem will be where they find themselves out of depth with much more formidable adversaries..",1 +Give me his number p**ck,1 +"I'm glad the RG published this idiot's ugly picture. As heinous of a crime he committed, he needs to be publically punished. He needs a real spanking before shipping him off, to prison. What an animal!",1 +"I just don't understand this Republican Party. They could oust Trump and his cadre of idiots right now, put Pence in as President, and go the next year and a half scandal-free as they push forward with their agenda. Trump's base will be angry, but they'll still vote for anyone with an 'R' after their name, so why all the fear? The longer this goes on, the greater the probability the Dems take both the House and Senate in 2018, so what are they thinking?",1 +"Stone age beliefs? Hate speech against Catholicism isn't uncivil, apparently. + +How can loving parents, even Catholic parents, support their gay child (who may be going through some very difficult times) if they don't know what it happening with their own kid? + +You assumption of Catholic parents as incapable of supporting a gay child is absurd.",1 +"My vrsion and version of the Gospel square with: 1) what Jesus told the Apostles regarding their arming themselves; 2) what Augustine and Aquinas taught regarding just war; 3) what the Catechism teaches reagrding the right of self-defense; and 4) what human nature tells you regarding your right to live. As for your claim that we're supposed to be building a kingdom here, Jesus said otherwise. + +Go ply your false and fraudulent moralizing to those silly enough to believe you. Don;t forget to thank a soldier for your freedoms.",1 +Are you really that stupid!?,1 +The comments are always a cesspool of idiotic comments - no wonder less than 0.1% of G&M readers ever even open them,1 +"Rubbish. +The police didn't give Babkowski permission to do anything... +As for your allegation that police have raped and murdered native women try backing up your slanderous accusations...",1 +"LMAO I just heard a delusional Snowflake make the most stupid remark. ""Expressing their 1st Amendment rights with a Violent Protest"" HUH! 1st amendment is a Peaceful Demonstration. A Violent Protest is a RIOT...FYI Pelosi is Senile,CA keeps voting her in and the Democrats in the House keep voting her Minority Leader enuf said...",1 +I would rather slit my throat than be a racist.,1 +"Ms Norton has no interest in a political position in Colorado because Colorado has no interest in her. This throw back appeals to the dumbed down and offers no ideas to improve the lives of the citizens now or going forward, stay in church and leave the thinking to the thinkers. Your support of the liar is telling.",1 +"Hard to say which is crazier, the Trump or Kim Jong Un. + +Will the Trump trade Seattle for Seoul? + +What will China do if the Trump nukes N. Korea? We may find out soon! + +Stephen J. Remington",1 +You're an idiot and a racist...and part of the problem! STFU!,1 +"The Donald may soon be flying solo in COACH CLASS : + +http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/10/us/politics/trump-mocking-claim-that-russia-hacked-election-at-odds-with-gop.html?_r=0 + +Opppsss.... I used ""class"" in a post about the p***y grabber.... oxymoron alert !",1 +"The usual liberal morons would jump on it and "" report"" them. LOL",1 +Can you spell hypocrite boys and girls?,1 +"No, gay or not, you should hate yourself if you are in a state of sin.",1 +"Maybe if the “voiceless”, as you so euphemistically refer to them, weren’t so busy robbing, assaulting, and murdering other “voiceless” people, their interactions with the police would be more pleasant. This whole inane protest is based upon a foundation of lies, beginning with Mr. “hands up, don’t shoot” himself, Michael Brown. + +While I have no doubt that the players do not think of it in this way, they are essentially protesting for the right of violent criminals to resist and/or assault police officers without consequence. Nearly every recent example that has undergirded the “Black Lives Matter” agenda has involved a completely justifiable police shooting. In only one example that I can think of, the one involving the man on the street in New York City who was suffocated, was there any reasonable question about the actions of the officers involved. Also frequently ignored is the fact that in some of these cases the “evil” officers were themselves black.",1 +The Big One will make Portland shitty again. And the sooner the better.,1 +"Those darn hurricanes are coming at the right time for some politicians, while coming at the wrong time for other politicians. Where are the statesmen?",1 +"Hey sukiyucky, still obsessed with Hillary? She's a private citizen that the Trump camp of nut cases what you uneducated idiots to keep focussing on. And it's working. The fastest way to find out if someone is a Trump supporter is to check their educational background. You, I would guess, barely got through high school, never studied, but are one of the masses that kept getting passed from grade to grade because no teacher could deal with you for more than 9 months. However, you seem dumb enough to have enrolled at Trump University, so maybe you did advance beyond grade 12. One other point. Private citizens get passes all the time. Trump got lots of passes as a bankrupt business guy, but remember, he is our baby-in-chief now, so we get to scrutinize him. Just like you guys scrutinized Obama. Please keep posting, you've been awarded the MAGAphant of the week prize.",1 +you pour poison for a living then bitch about people who use it.. hfuit,1 +"problem is too distinguish the Real Gay from the Fake Gay +for Conservatives this is a problem +for Liberal progressive it is not because they naively think there is no such thing as Fake Gay",1 +"In 1970 if Alaskans fully understood what HYDROGEN is then TAPS would have been a big stupid gas-pipeline instead of a horrid CRUDE-pipe. + +In 1971 when I was standing in Atigun Pass before a road was built thru the pass, silently alone with the wind in my ears, I knew the thundering stampede yet to arrive was focused on CRUDE without a broad education in energy architecture. + +CRUDE is a messy goop stuck halfway between COAL & METHANE. + +IMHO: CRUDE has less value than properly processed COALwater [LRCWF]. + +Wasting our gas to produce CRUDE is like wasting all the gold&copper to produce the molybdenum in a big metalliferous porphyry. + +A big stupid $65billion gas pipeline looks more like a bank robbery than an efficiently designed gas development project. + +We can begin developing our gas-resources with very little CAPEX-risk, +forget $billions and think $tens-of-millions to get started making a snowballing profit that will soon become a new road ahead for Alaska as a global leader.",1 +"until no terrorist on the palestinian and muslin side, NO PEACE",1 +"How dare real Americans question the Dear Leader! Those that investigate should be punished, amirite?",1 +This is just a sad state of affairs. She should be ashamed of herself.,1 +"""In Minnesota deposition, archbishop said he was uncertain that if in the past he was aware a priest abusing a child constituted a crime."" +What you listed here was after that. What difference would it make now but it remains AB. Carlson +was deceiving court by his stupid dishonesty! Archbishop Flynn was worse in deposition! I was almost in shock to learn CI (Catholic Institution) Archbishops deceitful witnesses in public!!! Yak, yak, yak!!!!!!!!!!!!!! +Are they witnessing how corrupt RCI clergies are? We used to have the martyrs!",1 +FINALLY COMING OUT WHAT A PERVERT THE SON OF A BITCH IS!,1 +"He knows who, where, how and when they got their drugs, they had been buying drugs every payday together. SHE DIED. And he isn't talking. He has no remorse and the fact she died NEXT to him doesn't matter enough for him to help take these dealers out of the village. If I was the girl's Mom, I would have strung this kid up by his balls and made him talk. Shane is too worried about saving his own ass, what a POS!!",1 +These men disgrace themselves if they accept appointment to an all-male College that bars women.,1 +"I am glad to read positive news and efforts of active members in our community working toward a common good against an evident evil. Salmon is one of our most important resources in the state and among one of our main exports; the declining population poses a threat to thousands of already established jobs (more jobs than Pebble will produce), along with communities that rely on them for their subsistance. Supporting a project such as Pebble is a very stupid move: copper prices are declining, when the minerals are extracted from the soil it will be barren... whereas salmon is a sustainable resource, if taken care properly it will keep on returning for our nourishment. There is no way around it: this proposal is good for the community, good for the environment, its action like this that is what we need to thrive as a society.",1 +"God, the pettiness of this man sinks lower every day. How degrading it is for the country to be led by someone so small of mind and heart.",1 +Corrupt NYC politics is why you have that garbage system there now. The operative word is 'garbage'.,1 +"Dysphoria is ""a state of unease or generalized dissatisfaction with life."" You are ignorant. Most people experience dysphoria at one time or another. The military accepts a lot of people who have one mental problem or another, such as a desire to kill people. The desire to kill people you don't know is inculcated into military men in their earliest training. I went through it, but it didn't work on me, I enlisted for a noncombatant MOS that I got based on my test scores. I didn't want to get into any firefights, that seemed pathetically stupid and evil to me. And I know I'm not the only one. The military is intrinsically mentally ill.",1 +"You would think ethnicity would be the best description of the perp, but no can say that nowadays. Political correctness gone amok.",1 +"Personnally I think it's a stupid attitude from Hilton company, in fact, paying my stay every year 8'000$ for two weeks, taking into account that there are more than 4'000rooms dont tell me that Hilton cannot afford 10K$ per year for it's fireworks?!? For me with or without fireworks it won't change anything to Hawaii, people will continue to come to Oahu, they dont come out in Waikiki just because there is a 5min fireworks. +David (Switzerland)",1 +One less crap retailer in Alaska.,1 +Trump's mental derangement--malignant narcissism--explained. Check multiple valid sources on Google.,1 +"IMO the only loser in this entire episode was Kai'ele. He was just a dog doing what most dogs do after just being released from being crated on an aircraft. Imagine being crated and put in an aircraft cargo hold for a trip across the across the ocean. I would be agitated and a little stressed too. My condolences go to the dog, not the owners or the security guy.",1 +"Your ignorance is why our country is in so much trouble. If you use debt to buy a house, then pay it off over time, this is good. If you use debt to buy a skidoo, boat, TV, Quad, groceries etc, and add to it every year, you are an idiot. If you do this all your life, and complain you can't retire at 55 and travel, you are a super idiot. The government of Ontario falls into the super idiot catagory.",1 +"without false equivalence, raw hypocrisy and double standards your comments would be rather spare.",1 +"Eric you never ran for everything in your life.. you are just a sore grape ranting and raving so someone would here you. What's funny nobody listens to you but yourself .. +So you support hillary and Kirk Caldwell hipocrite ..",1 +"In light of Trump's executive order opening up coal fields and mines in the U.S. to use coal again for +industrial purposes yesterday, it seems stupid to me for Canada to have carbon tolls for the electorate +at all! Just as was said before the tax was implemented, it would be another way for the governments +to remove more money from the electorate, in order for it to be wasted. So now we can get more acid +rain, carbon etc in the atmosphere, blowing over to us. And what can federally, provincially, municipally can be done to protect us?",1 +"""Lee was against slavery."" + +No, Jo. Lee was FOR slavery. Why do we know this? Because he fought to preserve slavery. Does not matter at all what Lee said. What matters is what he did. Lee was a traitor of the worst kind. A monster.",1 +1 in 15 Canadians are on social assistance and we are helping more?........how stupid are we.....send them back...PERIOD!,1 +"Well, there actually is a fix for ""stupid"". Unfortunately the only fix available for ""stupid"" isn't legal -- yet. :-) + +But I really need to talk to Darwin about that theory of his, apparently the gene-pool-cleaners have been shirking in their duties in ridding the human-gene-pool of all its disasters. I say we remove all guard-rails and warning-labels from everything for a few generations. That should bring things back in balance somewhat.",1 +"The hacking, The Russian connection, The policy reversals , The never ending conflicts of interest, The Oligarch choices for his dept heads , The incessant lying every time he opens his mouth, What will be the crowning issue that will push the State Electors to say that a grave injustice has been done to the country, her people and Democracy as a whole and to reject this narcissistic Dictator wannabe ?",1 +It never bothered the idiot Pio Nono.,1 +"not hypothetical at all, we've got everything to compare it to, like yrs of lousy local con attempts, nearly 30 CONtrolled states purposely going to hell, 50 horrific yrs of con history, and the ultimate examples in current affairs. +I'm assuming the ''pretty good stuff'' was Lingle's most minimal excuse of concern re Next Step and it's major leaky roof and bed bugs in a place which was supposedly for just one year. but nobody did anything substantial beyond that, it was merely a political ploy which Dems have perpetuated. +both parties suck but cons are the big sucky kings.",1 +"whats so shocking about this pigpen? I get around all over town and I see nothing but junk piled everywhere. pallets, dead batteries, bald tires, bags of grass, beer cans, its pathetic. you people are the biggest slobs on the planet.",1 +"Because they've shown they are unwilling to do even that! Congress isn't debating the merits of his nominees. They're stalling, and Republicans are complicit by not willing to play hardball by moving the nominees to a full vote. Pathetic.",1 +"The protestors that I saw on the news this evening looked liked folks that didn't have anything better to do and just were there for something to do. + +That being said - let's face the Liberals did little to educate Canadians on what the 3 options, and their various derivatives, would mean to voters. + +The survey that was done was abysmally ridiculous as well.",1 +How stupid. People need to stand up and protest,1 +"They believe evolution is a hoax and that humans co-existed with dinosaurs. +Yes, they don't understand the issues, are ignorant, and function on blind faith.",1 +"He is much more in out best interest that any ignorant, bigoted, hate-filed democrat.",1 +"Just because you have rigid expectations about gender doesn't mean that they are right or correct. + +I was a total tomboy as a child, long enough ago that we can't blame the current toxic environment for it, and thank god I had a mother and family that accepted me for who I was. I wasn't forced to wear stupid frilly dresses and play with stupid frilly dolls and stupid frilly girls. Instead hung out with my brother and his friends, climbed trees, etc, and was accepted as one of them. And while I had to endure a hell of a lot of teasing, that was probably more to do with my advanced vocabulary than my tomboyishness. + +I grew out of it, as will most boys and girls if they are accepted and loved, but if I hadn't, I know that my family would have still accepted me, and that family love and acceptance is what helped me overcome not only the horrible bullying I endured, but sexual assault, too. + +No amount of being forced to be a ""girly girl"" would have done that for me.",1 +He didn't hoodwink the left. He is but a mere product of the left. That the left is composed mostly of useful idiots is another story.,1 +"If it was white supremacists training other white supremacists, Osama would have shut that shit down in a heartbeat. Now that it's black supremacists training other black supremacists and white traitors, it's OK. Fuck out of here.",1 +Gigaba is revolting.,1 +"oh please save the bs, there is nothing this trash can do to redeam themselves after a decade of incompetence and corruption",1 +"I am afraid that ""promote the correct policies for other cultures"" smacks of Kipling’s “White Man’s Burden”. + +http://monthlyreview.org/2003/11/01/kipling-the-white-mans-burden-and-u-s-imperialism/ + +We are not the British Empire and it is not our job to bring our view of reality to the ""benighted"" little brown, black, and yellow people elsewhere.",1 +">>>Finally, more and more people are coming to the reality that Mr. Trump is profoundly mentally ill. + +Yes, he only seems to make sense when he reads what his aids write for him.",1 +"If you don't think this is a good idea and it goes thru to be built, blame each other for voting the same idiot con-artists into office, time after time. You know the old saying.....do the same process over and over and expect a different result. Your crazy, right? Same goes with electing the same crooks. DUH!",1 +"Megalomaniac + Pathological liar. The world has seen enough of these insane despots bringing death, destruction, and financial ruin to humanity. All aided and abetted by financial manipulators working the system they created for maximum personal wealth without ever getting their own hands dirty. This is the best and brightest offered by the Republican Party? The Party is imploding from the same ideological insanity as their proffered candidate(s).",1 +"no, merely stupid",1 +"OS - So how many young, single Muslim male illegals are you providing for at your house??? Libs like you would rather your fellow Americans be in distress at the hands of radical Islamic terrorists. Trump tries to stamp out ISIS worldwide and all you can muster is a whine. Trump is the best thing that could happen to Syria. Syrians love Trump while libwinger Americans hate him..... http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2017/04/08/syrian-survivor-shocks-cnns-brooke-baldwin-praising-trump https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&gws_rd=ssl#q=syrians+love+trump&spf=1 + +I welcome all immigrants who come here legally. The illegals can live at your house. How's that?",1 +"If the game is safe, surely it makes sense to put out players who you can afford to lose if they get injured? Would be pretty dumb if one of their best forwards got hurt in the last two minutes of the game.",1 +"What a sad, pathetic party the CPC has become . . . .",1 +"There is a lot of idiocy in this thread already. Treason is defined in the US Constitution. + +No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. ... The Constitution defines treason as specific acts, namely ""levying War against [the United States], or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. + +And no nothing being done or said here meets that definition. + +On the other hand we did manage to get all the Trump Derangement Syndrome folks in the same place. So far it’s a who���s who of far left, looney left and leftists who pretend to be Republicans making up most of the thread and all of the nonsense.",1 +Aga Khan is nothing but a charlatan,1 +"Let's stop calling them ""homeless"". +They are mentally ill, alcoholics, drug addicts. Being ""homeless"" is just a symptom.",1 +"Are you reading the same article? Here, lets look at what it says....... + Andrew Weed, 48, received the sentence Wednesday for possession of child pornography....... The newer case stemmed from child porn downloaded at Weed's workplace last year and stored at his home, where investigators found more than 106,000 explicit images on May 31, 2016. + +Next let's look at what the word defensive means.... +a position or attitude of defense : +to be on the defensive about one's mistakes. + +Looks like YOU'RE the defensive one Joe. +I, on the other hand, am opinionated. I walked in on my niece being molested, I helped put that sick, pathetic, looser in jail. If you're sympathetic to these sick freaks, well, you need to go get some mental help.",1 +"I am so ready for the lid to blow off on this. I wonder if there is a special prison for convicted politicians? There will be so many, a new wing may need to be added. + +Finally the MSM can be proven to be the biased liars they are. And the liberal trolls, how I cannot wait until they are silenced. + +I have stood my ground since Trumps campaign and have never wavered. I have been 100% correct so far. So believe me when I say, you ain't seen nothing yet!!! + +Strap in and hold on, it's gonna get wild!!",1 +"Calling Trump a ""businessman"" is too broad a stroke. There are all sorts of ""businessman"" the majority of whom are NOT dishonest, pathological liars like Trump. How many times has Trump gone bankrupt? How many suppliers has he stiffed in his years as a ""businessman"" while he sheltered himself behind bankruptcy laws? + +Trump has never run a public company where he is answerable to shareholders. He's never held public office. In other words, he's grown up and lived in a world where he's never had to explain anything and where his Dad's money and influence helped hide all of his failures and faults. It's becoming more obvious that what Trump is, is bat-s**t crazy, and not in a good way.",1 +"Trump did get more fat women out walking in one day, than Michelle Obama could in 8 years...Just saying...",1 +"WOW that is some dastardly stuff right there. If you want a Frexit, keep it up dummies. +What a stupid law, how can representing reality be a crime? Something has gone seriously wrong in this world if one cannot post reality no matter how lovely or violent it may be. +France, qu'est ce pas?",1 +We had trouble with opium in the late 60's! Many Vietnam Veterans would be discharged from continued use. It made you feel too good! Half a century later and the up-turn in stupidity has raised it's ugly head!,1 +Just like Dao? That's a silly moronic judgement. Apples and oranges. Rookie poster?,1 +"Now you are being a racist making fun of my Native American name. At no time can you bring an intelligent debate to this board. When you are confronted with facts that debunked the crap you post, you always run like a coward from those facts and resort to grade school insults. Now you make fun of my name just like racist bigots. You take being a gutless coward to an art level. That's what is so despicable about liberals like you. It's bad enough you are void of intelligence but you have no shame too.",1 +"""President Obama had to promise what it was not his to promise, that all Americans could keep their health insurance plans if they wanted to."" + +""None of this skirting of the truth comes close to the level of deceit we see from the incumbent president."" + +The nation begged to differ -- they feel Obama was the bigger liar. + +Enjoy the next 7.5 years. + +And thanks for admitting that Obama lied.",1 +"Unfortunately people are just too stupid, lazy and irresponsible to manage their own lives. They have become dependent on Government and only want to live for the moment.",1 +Indeed. Isn't this pathetic this is news.,1 +"Sadly right on. Just another Latin American basket case with a million excuses. Continues to make countries founded by those colonialist, imperialist, racist, elitist British look pretty good by comparison.",1 +"Understatement of the year. The Browns should be thankful that they are too stupid to file in time to make a deadline. They were offering a 2 and 3 for McCarron. Apparently they forgot that they are 0-8 for the year and have no hope, so trading for McCarron for this year made no sense. They are going to be in position to grab one of the top QBs in the draft instead. They can get a QB in the first then use that 2 and 3 for weapons, protection or defense.",1 +Like people who are self employed and can finally afford health insurance. Those moochers!,1 +"Sounds like American history ended in the 1950s. + +Its laugh out loud hilarious to listen to a republican give a party history lesson...they always skip over the part where all the Dixiecrats and a whole bunch of other Democrats changed parties in the 60s. because Republicans opposed the voting rights and civil rights acts and the Democratic party mostly supported both. It isn't revisionist history, its history elimination. + +No thinking person falls for this nonsense...but its pathetic that some republican still try to push the con. The republican party has for the better part of 2 generations been the comfortable home of the most bigoted and racist among us...and on that point there is no debate.",1 +"61 years old and vandalizing private property, this feller needs a good cock punch and a strawberry yoohoo.",1 +Just ridiculous.,1 +"What about vehicle theft? A person's vehicle is usually their second most valuable possession, after their home. They used to hang horse thieves but I'm hearing that under SB91 the cops can't take car thieves to jail unless they've done it several times. If true that's pathetic.",1 +Finegold - Just another marxist whore?,1 +You must not have any idea what the ADA is. You really should read up on it. And try to be more respectful to our men and women in uniform you ungrateful leech.,1 +"How long until somebody accuses her of murdering Servaas, her lesbian lover? I say 12 minutes.",1 +Yes it is going to get very ugly........ for Rachael Notley and her merry band of wing nuts and kooks,1 +"So he's an ""idiot"" for thinking that, being both conservative and male, he'd get a fair shake in a tech company rife with political grandstanding about tolerance and inclusion? He's like Harvard's Larry Summers. The latter suggested, to an audience of female scientists, that one hypothesis explaining the dearth of top-tier females in STEM fields is female choice. For daring to say that, the female scientists got hysterical, worked to get him fired, and added evidence that females are thin-skinned, emotional, unable to tolerate different viewpoints, and lack leadership grit.",1 +People are so efin stupid. I hope the fines are hefty.,1 +How did these morons take over my party?,1 +"Yes JT, just plow ahead with the same insane policies that destroyed Ontario's economy...the stupidity of this man knows no bounds.",1 +"Nicky, you can't handle the truth. Both Harper and Harris were completely useless scumbags. One was the worst PM we will ever have, and the other is the worst Ontario Premier we will ever have. You can sling all the sing-song baloney you want, they were the worst.",1 +Problem is the world is tired of hearing what the corrupt USA will allow and won't allow. Why do you think the imbeciles in N Korea are doing this in the first place. Try looking in the mirror you stooge.,1 +"Another Allu Akbar Islamic Terrorist! In a Sanctuary City! In one of the most firearm restricted cities in America! Yet... he simply rents a truck and causes chaos, confusion, mayhem and murder. Folks... it's Islamic Terrorism! There's No denying it! 🙄",1 +"Sherry, congrads. You've posted the most ignorant comment yet.",1 +No rat with any sense would go aboard a sinking ship!,1 +"Your hatred of ""browns"" is well documented, racist one.",1 +"LOL!!!!!!!!!! You're going to use the fact that guns were used to murder 10's of millions of people to imply that guns make us safer? + +Seriously? You can't be that dumb.",1 +"Yes you do Frank. And as for your statement that my comments are consistently anti government, you left out an important part. They are anti ""stupid "" Government. And I make no apologies for them. On the other hand I note that your comments seem to generally endorse Govt decisions. We have a difference of opinion on many issues Frank, but I respect your right to voice yours. Please respect mine.",1 +Someone need to get the new message to the fool.,1 +"I'm sick of it all. Just cap the PFD and put in an income tax in place........they're going to do it anyway eventually , just get it over with and STOP the flaking. The governor and the legislature have created chaos in the state by their alarmist B.S. . People are attacking each other right and left because they are so frustrated with what the upper administrative government is doing and not doing..... State workers are actually being threatened and treated like dirt for doing their jobs ...................People it's not the state workers doing it. +People who've never had to pay an income tax can't stand the idea of having to pay and they are the worst ones to scream, and they ARE screaming...... I hear a certain talk radio show in the morning and people call in there and actually BELIEVE that they shouldn't EVER have to contribute by paying state taxes but they want everything the state has to give them. It's unbelieveable that people in Alaska are so stupid.",1 +An accident due to stupidity. He was driving like an idiot and caused a death.,1 +"Do you know that even an over weight person can cover 7 feet and stab you in less than 1 second. Do you think you have time to make decisions of life and death if it comes down to you or the perp with mental issues? Easy huh? Can you raise a gun and take aim in less than one second much less make the decision to pull the trigger? Condolences to the family of the woman and also the officers involved. No officer wants to shoot anyone knowing the repercussions, believe it.",1 +"You are one of the most awful people I have seen on these pages. And that is saying a lot. You seem to have zero capacity to empathize with people who are not in your situation. Do you never step out of your car? You seem to think you're invulnerable. Oh and by the way, if everyone in Toronto drove around then you would never be able to get to work. The number of people in cars would literally double from what it is now.",1 +What a crock. This old bat is as crooked as Hillary and even uglier. She should shut her pie hole.,1 +"The whole world knows that CIA stage-managed the 9/11, and lied on WMD. Who would believe them except Hussein Obama, and sycophants?",1 +"LOL.......the expected response from the morons who put this clown into office; you typify his supporters. Thankfully, he'll be gone soon enough!.",1 +"Good point. It's hopeless. We should all just shoot ourselves. We've got the guns. +Seriously, all of the situation we are in was created by the voting public. Since the hanging chad election of George Bush we've had an accelerated erosion of one person, one vote. Giving up is not an answer. +We've had a hard lesson just how obstructionist Congress can be. Placing a candidate in the oval office that can galvanize the people is an excellent start. For some reason people question Sanders' ability to get things done, but not Trump. Either will face opposition. +We need 2/3rds of that 535 congressional members to propose an amendment, then 3/4ths of states to ratify. We have passed 17 amendments. +I am not giving up before we try.",1 +"They really hate that a black man took office, the deficit ONLY mattered when a black man was present ... now back to spending like drunken sailors on Forever Wars of Choice :) But if we spend money domestically on USA tax paying citizens, BAD ALL BAD BAD BAD ... huh??!!",1 +"Let him go, his stupidity is punishment enough.",1 +"MY GOD THE IGNORANCE IN OUR NATION IS UNBEARABLE. + +Look up the Russian Ice core samples from Lake Vostok Antarctica. if you have half a brain and can read, you'll learn that Americans have been bamboozled into thinking ""global Warming"" is human caused...",1 +Senior DOJ officials are as corrupt as Hillary and Bill. Of course they wouldn't want Comey to disclose the truth!,1 +Yes! The same as losers at a pawnshop.,1 +"In prison, they'll be the ***** and will be disrespected on a daily basis.",1 +"Nature isnt fair. Im still waiting for the lightening strike that will vaporize 10,000 ISIS or thousands of taliban. Or freak simultaneous strikes in several large cities that incinerate 500,000 gang members. Whats the holdup God? Make it happen!",1 +"""The Italian proposal on migration, refugees and hunger was nuanced. It recognized that migration could not be stopped, nor should it be stopped, given that European economies are depopulating and aging rapidly. "" + +So, let's just invite every African who wants to come to Europe into Europe. + +I have never heard anything so stupid in a long time.",1 +"Some are dumb enough to hate you for being you, most are not. You should question your perception before assuming anything of others.",1 +"Glad to see you commenting again Mark. + +I feared the rising ocean level had caused you to drown.",1 +"Reality sucks when you're a loser, Bozo. So much winning, so much implosion.",1 +That was a ball. Low on Blackmons lower shin by the time it crossed the plate. I don't care what the dumb strike zone technology showed. The ump called the same location a ball many times in that game. Blackmon was mad because he got that same bad call in an earlier at bat. If anybody knows the strike zone it's Chuck.,1 +"Texas is a failed society, according to some minor idiot on here? Perhaps he could comment on Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, etc. Ran into the ground by democrats and hoody wearing killers?",1 +"Bet the ranch that HAL, et al will devise extra fees for asinine and mediocre items like persons weighing over the ""average weight""; fees for not greeting flight attendants with a smile, needing assistance with placing bags into overhead compartments, etc., etc.",1 +"Keeping with that thought of yours here, ""pale in comparison to the damage done by right wing terrorists here, like right wing hero Timothy McVeigh of OKC bombing infamy, or the Birmingham church bombers, or the killers of Emmet Till."" + +Boy you must totally oppose any and all Muslims too then huh! They have the highest number of successful group kill rates of anyone out there, including in the world in fact!",1 +"Seems to me that many of the liberals comments just demonstrates how ignorant of the Issue they really are. Many Hurricanes in the 1850's did far more damage. What they are saying is that the Gulf is warmer than its been. what funny is that no one, and I repeat no one has really made that claim with data showing it. yet it all of a sudden pops up during and post Harvey. whats wrong with this picture?",1 +"If you subtract the estimated 3 million illegals who voted, convicted felons who voted and the dead who always vote democrat, the majority did not vote for that poor loser clinton.",1 +"Why ? Probably no self respecting successful professional business man/woman would put up with the mostly spoiled brat voters and political three ring circus ! +Thus we get to elect the wanna-bes ....",1 +"Um, I think we're the ones being violated, not them.",1 +"""Better than a dope fiend infested hotel."" +Yeah, keep repeating that and maybe somebody else will believe it.",1 +"All I hear is a lot of whining from a bunch of prospective prison bitches. I suspect they're all lying one way or another; desperately trying to save themselves. No-one forced you guys to work for the devil (but you sure took his money), now you must pay... + +By the way I've never heard a real lawyer say ""never ever"". Sounds like Mashiane, Moodley and Monama may have got their qualifications out of a lucky packet.",1 +"Does he even know the definition of ""oath""??? He's a narcissist. They are in their own world and will never believe or listen to anything or anyone about anything. Lying is a way of life. It's a mental illness. Perhaps this country needs to be educated on what constitutes mental illness. Definition: Donald Trump.",1 +"Gee, nice straw man. I don't ""dehumanize"" Bailey- I say he is a bad choice for Mayor. +He hangs with- drum roll please- homophobes. That makes me someone who doesn't like bigots. His friends aren't acceptable because they have really, really dumb ideas that they evangelize.",1 +"This is pathetic. This old vote whore is using tax dollars to legally buy votes. No money for doctors, but lots and lots for teachers. Why are we doing this when there is a huge over supply of teachers and a declining demand for them. Time for the taxpayers of Ontario to rise up and strike against the teachers and their unions.",1 +"This is what small government looks like. To be clear, a lot of other Valley neighborhoods are used as drunken playgrounds for idiots. It's really just about attracting and pandering to discourteous people, people who litter and race their ATVs and dirt bikes on residential roads. + +Reminds me of the sleazy Anchorageites who successfully lobbied the Assembly to let them throw their drunken parties and take over a small residential lake every weekend, making the actual residents miserable. Those Anchorageites were insufferably self righteous about their entitlement to trash a Valley neighborhood on the weekends with their equally sleazy friends. + +The Assembly took the side of the weekenders over the actual residents. + +Yahoo MatSu, right?",1 +"I loath these incompetent, self satisfied, supercilious politicians, treating us Ordinary Canadians as Ordinary Fools. + +Only the Liberals, Federal or Provincial, breed such mealy mouthed talking heads that spew drivel Gerry Butts has dreamed up over a taxpayer paid dinner and drinks.",1 +"I rarely comment on stuff about people's believing .. but it is already 21st century and some still have the illusion to create another Jesus. +Human stupidity is such an amazing thing.",1 +This action is not unexpected. Just proves once again that Kathy Wynne is an economic imbecile. Everything she touches turns to s**t.,1 +Trump people are like the kid who gets his butt kicked and then runs off and tattle tales. If you post sonething they dont like they will flag it even thought its not spam harassment abusive or name calling. They just run and tell instead of countering the argument with facts. All you little trump supporters will be back in the closet within the year. No way that clown makes it a year. Its bad when your a republican and the republican party doesn't even like you.lol,1 +I did take one accurate word from your diatribe - 'stupid'.,1 +"KON: ""Foolish +[ˈfo͞oliSH] +ADJECTIVE +(of a person or action) lacking good sense or judgment; unwise: P +""it was foolish of you to enter into correspondence"" +A Trump supporter. +synonyms: stupid · silly · idiotic · witless · brainless · vacuous · [more]"" + +Nothing I ever do will come close to the idiocy of voting for and/or supporting Trump.",1 +"""...The spiritual malaise will continue and it will fester and it will spread and it will devour until that day of reckoning, reaffirmed decency, and true justice arrives to liberate us all...."" + +Don't hold your breath, Chroma. As long as the majority voting masses continue to be duped by the two big parties, nothing's gonna change. Iraq wasn't only a Bush-Cheney thing. And, nobody is to blame for buying into that garbage than the American citizen. It's our duty to educate ourselves and keep our government on a short leash. I'm thinking that'll never happen, as these troops being deployed has met little resistance. Wanna see where our citizens are? Go follow the article on Trump asking ESPN to apologize for the things said about him by an employee of their's. That's the priority of Americans. We're way too stupid to be making decisions for other countries.",1 +"When you have NO evidence that in these days, whites in general do NOT believe that black lives don;t matter, and there is ample evidence that in general whites believe that black lives DO matter, it is a vicious racist lie. More than 150 years ago, scores of thousands of white boys died to end slavery. Jim Crow followed in some places, yes, but it was whites who ruled those laws unconstitutional. Then there was busing, and ""race norming"" (giving an applicant for a federal job more points on a test merely for being black), and affirmative action in college entrance and private sector jobs. And you still say that whites in general believe black lives don't matter. Where is the everyday killing of blacks by whites? Where is the everyday wanton maiming of blacks by whites? Your statements reveal the utter moral bankruptcy. I will continue to treat blacks as equals, as human beings, with respect and courtesy, despite your best efforts to make me hate. You failed miserably.",1 +"Truck was loaded with guns and grenades too. Driver jumped out of truck with gun and fired into crowd as well. Stop being an idiot. Children, mothers, families were killed celebrating freedom, fraternity.",1 +its pathetic,1 +If they hadn't murdered or scared off nearly all the non-muslims I suppose it would have been them getting arrested.,1 +"the only sad thing is that you appear to be as stupid as Rthur. If one wants to invoke god as a reason someone gets hit or not hit by a hurricane, then that person deserves to be mocked. You MAGAphants are truly a deranged lot",1 +"I was here in 1959, John was just getting started in law an in Alaska. He was Canadian born, not sure if he ever got his citizenship. It may be with Obamas birth certificate. See how easy it is to talk trash? +John has a few strikes against him when it comes to respecting his opinion. James Michener in his book Alaska referred to ANCA as written by lawyers for lawyers and to give them employment till the end of time. He was right on an John Havelock was front an center in that train wreck. +John would do well to step back and analyze what occurred in order for someone such as Trump to win the office. He touches on a wake up call but it was far more than that. It has exposed the dirty laundry of both parties, one more than the other via volume. Russia didn't decide this, middle America did. Hopefully the east and west coasts will realize there is a middle and it's tired of the social experiments of the liberal left. I can' believe ADN stoops to dragging out an 85 yr. lawyer.",1 +The only thing hurting the NFTA talks is Rempel and Kent deriding Canada in the US media. shame,1 +"Why is that supposed to matter? + +Do you think this is a ""Well Jeremy Christian supported Trump but look at you liberals, you got Kathy Griffin that's pretty bad too"". The two are entirely unrelated. One is a has-been comedian who did something stupid - she likely deserves to be fired. The other is someone is a violent murderer who lashed out at people standing up to his bigotry. + +The statements from Trump I quoted exactly. If people can't understand why they are bigoted racist statements then it just goes to show how isolated and out of touch many of his supporters are. I haven't heard one Trump supporter take a strong stand against his most inflammatory statements - that must mean people agree with it. That's the most frightening thing to me. It's not normal, and it's not okay. + +And please don't anyone respond to this with something like ""Well a liberal said..."". I don't care. Neither side should do it. We need to solve problems by coming together and disavowing racism and bigotry.",1 +"your ignorance knows no limit, look to the NW states and california who forced such high fast min wage increases and there were lots of layoffs at the small business level!, it always comes true!",1 +"stop making excuse for your infantile and stupid behavior. there are ways to express your displeasure but showing your finger is not one of these ways. you have disrespected the process and brought shame to the Hawaii delegation and people. you owe the people of Hawaii an apology and to the DNC. If you refuse to apologize then you should resign your position with the Hawaii democratic party. there is no bravery involved just plain stupidity. you are stooping low like trump is doing in his immature behavior when people disagree with him. maybe you should join the repubs, you should feel at home with them. dems do not tolerate stupidity. no fd, she does not love Hawaii, she lovers herself, if she did she would not have done what she did to bring shame to us.",1 +Must be those white working class voters that the Dems discarded.,1 +your town sucks,1 +"Read the Bible nitwit. Religion is defined. This columnist is an embarrassment. +Enough said. Your total ignorance is on display.",1 +You just nailed it! They're mad because it wasn't a good enough win. Stupid popular vote. Stupid looser performers who won't perform. We didn't want a big splashy inauguration anyway! Stupid looser women in their pink looser hats!,1 +""" + Dumb, & Dumber"" !",1 +"The Green Party position that it is perfectly ok to impose electoral reform changes with no referendum on those changes (their pet preference Proportional Representation) is so utterly undemocratic and reprehensible. One of their new MLA's actually states ""we should try out our new system a few times and see if the voters like it"" . What kind of amateurs think this stuff up? At least It provides clear insight into the the kind of authoritarian mentality the Green Party has. This is a blatant, shameless power grab and they think the voters of BC are dumb enough to let it happen without a referendum. Makes you really understand how these people feel about compromise and collaboration. Their absurd position on electoral reform without a referendum is a warning shot across the bow to everyone.",1 +"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA! +Loser! So funny! +HAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAHA!!!!!!",1 +"Yes!!! Now, not to suggest we change the income tax act on family trusts because there are few tax saving benefits to trusts now anyways. But we need to underscore the hypocrisy at play here with the PM and his finance minister. Expose all their nasty little financial details.",1 +You're an absolute cretin.,1 +"I wonder what foreigners Donny hired? Was it the rapists, drug dealers, and criminals he talked about? +Donny the loudest clown in the circus!",1 +"Once again trudeau shows himself to be the hypocritical, spineless coward that he really is! + +During the last election he turned this same issue into an election issue. But now that it his electoral base in Quebec doing the same thing, he says the government has no business telling people what to wear!",1 +APD reflects Anchorage and its racist past and present (geez are you deaf and dumb and can't read?) and most of Alaska is also rooted in that kind of mess. It's no wonder the schools do not teach Alaska history at all.,1 +This chick clearly is lying and wants revenge for making a stupid decision. Gtfo,1 +what a load of shit this town is. this guy should have answered the door with an AR with a 30 round clip. keep shooting until these worthless fucked up imports are all laying in the street bleeding to death. the mayor would then award the victim a 50k reward. end of story.,1 +"Junior is a joke + +Vote the clown out in 2019!!",1 +OMG!!! I have a feeling the author needs a mental health evaluation. Hopefully he does not own any firearms.,1 +"And your ""Anti Muslim "" rhetoric is clearly on display here. The person is clearly asking advice and is open about their history. All they want is a little advice and not a mouthful or crap from people like you. Without ""Social Justice"" there are many things in your tiny life that wouldn't have happened that you take for granted. Get over your self worth",1 +And the award for most boring fluoride troll goes to.... Randy Johnson.,1 +I hope you are enjoying that liberal Kool Aid. It's amazing how stupid liberal voters are.,1 +"Keonimay, I might have believed you if you had not cited being on Beau Gritz team. You do not even have his nick name right. It was “Bo,” and not “Beau.” James “Bo” Gritz was and perhaps still is a blow hard egotist, conspiracy theorist and antigovernment wacko who claims to have done many things that were either false or could not be substantiated. Following his retirement from the Army in 1978, Bo Gritz spent most of the 1980s organizing and conducting private missions to Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam to search for and rescue POW his informants said were still being held. The results? Zero, zip, zilch, nada. Gritz had no credibility with his POW/MIA nonsense, so he turned to politics where he failed at several attempts for political office including Vice President of the United States. He also failed when he shot himself in the head with a .45 caliber pistol in a suicide attempt in 1998. What a loser. When and where did you serve on his team? What was Operation Freedom.",1 +He was forced out of his own country . As opposed to the tens of thousands who want to flee to other countries because they are too coward to stay and fight for they're own homelands. I'm not talking about the women and children---but those over 18 years old who are cowards . Thank goodness American's aren't cowards or the German flag could be standing tall on our homeland.,1 +"""minority laden"" +Racist and hateful much, gofastgo?",1 +"Based on some of the recent court rulings, wearing politically-oriented clothing is just one of many stupids.",1 +"Has someone added a person to the Godhead, maybe Ashura, the ancient wife of Yaweh? That would be heresy (unless the whole Church through council agrees to it. Correcting how we use natural law reason is not heresy (by taking away the supposed superior competence of the Pope, reason be damned). The consequence, of course, would be reinterpretation of certain moral questions. I can't wait either, but I think we need the asexuals in the clergy to out themselves (like Burke) and apologize for imposing their natural instincts on the rest of us, who don't share their peculiar natures.",1 +Suck and blow Jeehadee J - time for you to be gone!,1 +"Then its very very confusing why they would charge him with penetration - twice.... and hes actually admitting to touching her, so if at very least you're implying that's ok... + +Just cause you think he's your friend cause you bought a few dogs off him doesn't change the fact he raped a girl or that he committed suicide to avoid the embarrassment of trial. And hes also a repeat offender. ""Dredge"" up information... its common knowledge and half the reason you read through the article + +THE GUY WAS GOING ON TRAIL FOR RAPING AN 18 YR OLD EMPLOYEE>>> HE KILLED HIMSELF TO NOT GO THROUGH THE EMBARRASSMENT AND JAIL.... oh and he sold hotdogs and talked to you while he took your money.. whats inappropriate is the actions he took....and it did happen. + +If your relative was this 18 yr old girl you'd be singing a different tune and looking back on your free conversations and $9 hotdog a different way; have some respect for the victims and dont put him on a pedestal and ignore the whole rape thing",1 +"Why should I feel shame for something done by someone else 6,7 or even 12 decades ago? +Should I bare responsibility for Custer and the Americans attempt to wipe out the North American Indians because I happen to be white?",1 +Transgenders in the circus not in the military.,1 +"You can keep dissing my posts, troll, but you can't hide. Chump lover.",1 +"So it's apartheid's fault that the miners acted so violently, eh? Some apartheid apparatchik, but not a witchdoctor, informed them that muti would turn the police's bullets to water. It's some evil dead white dude's fault that many of them have two families and too much debt. + +Yes, of course. The devil made Hansie do it, and Verwoerd made the miners and the police do it. + +You know what would be nice? One, just one, original thought from a journalist, instead of the hackneyed blame-apartheid drivel that contaminates 99% of so-called journalism in South Africa these days.",1 +"Up - voting your own post? + +Pathetic.",1 +"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.",1 +"Uh, with respect I'm not a Democrat. Sorry I triggered you.",1 +"For some that may be the case. When someone's actions deserve scrutiny, and they pass this test, and the opposition can not except the facts; then yes it's partisan and psychotic! Having varying standards of accountability for each party is a whole other can of worms",1 +"Even up here....racists, please go back to whatever .....hole you came from",1 +"Hillary's ""Nasty Lady"" shits are the proof! First time I have ever seen a Democrat slogan that was true.",1 +"(1/2) Oh, my dear Veritas 101, your post displays some pretty astonishing logic errors. First, if the children had been my own, I would have (a) been grateful that they survived their lack of bear-sense, and (b) used it as a teachable moment regarding sharing space with wildlife. Side note: my kids were raised in the Bush and were taught from a young age how to be safe when in bear country. Next, you make the leap of suggesting that those of us who advocate using good bear-sense do not take the incident seriously. Again, this is a faulty assumption. As Mr. Sinnott points out, this was a defensive action by a sow protecting her cubs. It is that risk that prompts so many of us to urge all people choosing to use our amazing trail systems to be vigilant, attentive to surroundings, and alert. Having raised teens and taught hundreds more, I suspect that these four were not applying those basic behaviors. That doesn't make the kids bad, just foolish.",1 +"Suddenly she is now opposed to corruption, where has she been the last ten years? She never uttered a word about the criminal, corrupt and mismanagement happening right around her, an absolute hypocrite............and yes she is a racist par excellence.",1 +"""What a maroon!""",1 +"Check out some of the people who helped Trump get elected. National Policy Institute--OR--white supremacist ""evangelism""--you make the call. Either way they're racist kooks. +https://youtu.be/1o6-bi3jlxk",1 +"If you show up to protest against Nazis and white supremacists you're now part of something called the alt-left? How dare they provoke armed Trump supporters who are merely exercising their right to hate. +I think we can remain confident that no one will ever tear down a statue of Trump because there will never be one.",1 +THANK YOU GERALD CAPLAN for articulating so well what really happened in this election. The ignorance represented in the American electorate and in many of the comments here is part of what's created our now disastrous reality. One in which a democratically chosen woman - who would have been an imperfect but truly great president - is beaten by an electoral system originally created to appease white slave-owners in the southern United States. Now effectively appeasing fearful white nationalists and internalized hatred.,1 +"Chris, climate change has always happened and will continue forever regardless how hard you and others will argue you can put the planet in a bottle and keep it static with an ineffective and stupid carbon tax. + +It's only a limitless and controlling wealth-transferring tax grab which you've bought into.",1 +Wow. The level of your idiocy is truly impressive.,1 +"Hay good going jack ass. It's Jonny come latelys like your self that can't appreciate a place for what it is. +So you have to share it with everyone else instead of keeping the majesty of the place for those who would find it on there own. And actually deserve it. +Good job ****hole. +Hope I don't see you up there.",1 +"""Just shut up, tell your lame jokes, and collect your $10 mill a year- while you still can."" + +Hey, sourpuss, nobody forced you to comment on a subject you obviously don't care about. +Maybe it's time for your warm milk or a nap.",1 +Evan - Put up or shut up!,1 +There is one way to avoid all this and it is a win win situation for everyone. Lethal injection.,1 +"Solid argument. LOL + +Why don't you ISIS sympathizers host some somali refugees at your house then? + +I see though that Christianity is the common enemy amongst left wing nuts and ISIS and that's why you defend them. + +You should realize that if they had their way, you'd be the first to die for your imbalanced progressive/moral relativistic views.",1 +incompetent crooks.,1 +"How is this ""manufactured?"" He doesn't deny saying it. +What's manufactured is the establishment GOP outrage. They knew who he was, but they have been embracing backward rubes for so long, now, that the rubes have taken over. +Embrace him! Be proud of what he represents: Racism, women-as-property, and tax cuts for the rich! +Don't worry, Blues. Trump will be whipped by Clinton, but there will be more elections, and there's no shortage of angry old white blow-hards for candidates.",1 +"I have been looking at topless magazines and pornography since I was a young boy. Boobs are sexual and provacitive. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading this shit. These women and supporters are looking for every angle to protest equality. Men and women are created different. Equal and different. I'm a 30 year old male. The way women dress in our society already has me breaking my neck and ""objectifying women"". Put a nice set of boobs in front of me and I know I'm going look and think sexual thoughts. Without that intention even. The woman in the article stated women should be able to be topless because men can do it. What is being eluded to in the comments about the nature of men and the way we are wired. Is that we see boobs, or tight cloths, and our minds shift to wanting said ""object"". The sexual urge takes over. My point is this is not about inequality. This is about our physical anatomy being different. Have some morals. Making men wear shirts is more logical than this B.S.",1 +Lock them up.,1 +Jack Kennedy assassinated by a devout Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald and BobbyKennedy by a Muslim Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Gotta watch out for those lefties and Islamic terrorists. Both backed up from the same sewer.,1 +"Actually my favorite is the murder of unborn babies. yes, I realize that. Some of the illegals are also heading north. I did not realize norstog was anglo-saxon or that you were a useless old man. ;-)",1 +"""Terroristic threats""? Come on folks, this woman has mental health issues or addiction issues. Let's not put her in Bin Laden's shoes. + +We have two presidents threatening to rain nuclear hell on each other. Now those are threats of terror.",1 +"Flynn is guilty. But worse, why on earth does Trump exercise such bad judgment in hiring this stooge. Lock him up!",1 +"cont/... + +Damn these character limits. + +As I've said, while I don't agree with the veil I have to agree with the woman's choice to wear one. I can see how you feel this is a way to subjugate woman and reinforce the ""property"" aspect of a male/female relationship but isn't it better to allow the woman the opportunity to remove the veil in her own time rather than forcing her not to wear one? Isn't that just a different form of forcing an external viewpoint on her? + +As for ""numbers"" whatever you meant was somewhat unclear. The wearing of a veil is still rare in Canada and terms like ""mass immigration"" are meaningless. What quantity is ""mass""? What reduction in the current immigration levels would mena that it is no longer ""mass"". And frankly even with our current immigration levels, the number of women wearing a veil is very, very low. + +Yes you, and we, should always be concerned about our freedoms but I don't see that there is much evidence that Muslims in Canada are to be feared.",1 +"Trump is only and always a liar, a bully, a divider, a narcissist, and a megalomaniac. Despite the efforts of Trump’s enablers, reasonable people are getting more than a little nervous about the current occupant of the Oval Office.",1 +"I will never recover from the deep sense of shame that washes over me every time I confront anew the fact that the buffoon Trump represents my country. + + I’ll always feel it, even if President Gillibrand is followed by Presidents Kamala Harris, Ted Lieu, Joaquin Castro, et al, and the Republican Party atrophies like a vestigial tail, drops off and is forgotten by history. + +This shame is eternal.",1 +"All religions are diseases, but one religion is cancer. This religion wants to subjugate not only the womenfolk, but also followers of other religions. Being soft on this religion is suicidal for the world. In fact, this belief system is political cult under the clothing of religion.",1 +Drain the swamp...............deport the PFD trash. Keep crime breakers in prison.,1 +"""Mike Pence: 'We have no tolerance for hate and violence from white supremacists, neo-Nazis, or the KKK'"" +But Antifa and BLM are just fine.",1 +"The guys are just as terrible muz. The little boys in the big rigs will be up your arse in a NY minute. + +You can always tell who's dicking around with their phones too; they're the ones you leave about 2-3 car lengths behind when the light turns green. Hah.",1 +As yet another in a long line of Muslim Homicidal Maniacs... At least he was a failure in his twisted endeavour!,1 +Depends on the definition of patriotic don't ya think? I happen to think Trump is treasonous in his butt kissing of Putin. I'm sure Trump would have a very different definition from mine.,1 +"I did not see in the tape where Tillerson denied calling Trump a moron .......... +G&M: Please correct the headline",1 +It's funny how ignorant you are in your certainty about something you don't understand.,1 +"The Liberal Left like to throw around the accusation of those with different views as being Nazis and Fascist. Yet if one bothers to research the actions of the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA) or ""Brown Shirts"" you will take notice of the striking similarities in the behaviors and tactics of the self-appointed ""Anti-Fascist"" groups across America. As Winston Churchill predicted, the next fascist will come disguised as anti-fascist!",1 +"Typical looney bin democrat rent-a-mob. A collection of neurotic women, homeless trans-whatevers and effete metrosexuals. Yikes!",1 +"Thank you. Salty! I'm damn sick of it, too.",1 +"Ah! but don't you nasty, evil women think you are worthy, and sacred enough for priesthood!!!?! + +Those who admit to being homosexual are not to be allowed ordination, because transparency is wrong! Homosexuals should just lie and then they become acceptable for priesthood!?! + +Divorced can never receive Eucharist but these sex addict priests, and bishops, only need to say I am sorry in secret, in confession, and they can go on to communion the Sunday, after their orgy on Friday, and confession on Saturday. Sure - Jesus would be fine with that!?!! Bull!!! + +This is very comforting: +""Alberto Melloni, professor of church history at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, said there is nothing unusual about scandals in the priesthood. + +“There is no sin that a cleric doesn’t commit. Scandals to me seem quite normal,” he told RNS.""",1 +"Readers of NCR, non-Catholic hangers on, and dissenters.",1 +"NK can kill nearly all Americans right now with: + +1) EMP attacks + +2) Biological weapons -- e.g. smallpox -- released in cities + +3) Nukes smuggled in containers and/or launched from subs, freighters, satellites + +4) Cyber attacks that destroy the grid. + +Especially if 1),2),3), 4) are coordinated. + +China & Russia pay lip service to sanctions, but they do not enforce them. They provide NK with technology, money laundering, and work for NK slave labor. + +China is trying to steal most of the South China Sea to control key sea lanes and natural resources. NK diverts attention from +this theft. + +Iran, Syria & Pakistan are also NK allies. + +Kim is a murderous psychopath who has reason to hate the US & Japan which he daily threatens to annihilate. + +Hence the US & Allies must devise a viable scheme to kill Kim. It is not a perfect solution, but it is the best solution. + +Otherwise Kim will continue to develop better WMDs & delivery systems. + +And he will use them against U.S. Allies and the U.S.",1 +Monsef couldn't manage her way through a cow-catcher. Useless. Should have been deported.,1 +"This is who he is. Everyone knew it from the beginning, and if you didn't, shame on you. Anyone who thinks he can or will change is a fool.",1 +"Greg, Let's turn your statements around to reflect the truth. If Josh and groups like his didn't block forest management for profit at every turn, but instead support and encourage sound forest management, only then would this be a non-issue. They have actually aided in creating ecosystems that /are/ in balance and healthy, as opposed to those that have been clear cut, allowing erosion of healthy soils and sediment to clog otherwise clear streams. Fire is Nature's mechanism to manage and propagate healthy forests; allowed to do so naturally, there wouldn't be the out-of-control wildfire situation we have today. While I can't speak for Josh, I suspect many members of wildlife organizations do not oppose hunting for sustenance (but certainly not for just the pure sport of it). The hypocrisy is in your mirror, Greg.",1 +"""Estimated to be between $8 billion and $10 billion"".......Stop the lying already, in a year or so it will be estimated to be 12-15 billion due to inflation and/or some other lame duck excuses (corruption??) !!!!",1 +"And what about Bill Clinton, the former president who lied about his sexual abuse of women that he had power over for years and years ? +Lied to his wife and daughter ? That Bill Clinton ? +Bill Clinton who so many look up to, to this day for his ""leadership"" ? +Bill Clinton, the man who looked us in the eyes and lied through his teeth in front of millions of Americans on television about NOT having sex with ""that woman"" ? +Bill Clinton who was impeached by the House for his lies ? +Lies under oath ? +Bill Clinton who was identified by one of the underage girls as being present when his good friend Epstein and friends had sex with her and other underage girls ? +Bill Clinton who never banned or spoke out against Epstein ? +Wonder why ? Was he afraid of what Epstein had on him ? +Bill Clinton and Epstein are two peas in a pod ! +Or, better yet, partners in crime ! +How about Bill's wife who ""forgave"" him but did everything she could to destroy the women who dared to speak out ?",1 +"No wonder Americans have no respect for public education leadership. What a complete asinine policy that wastes the time and efforts of all involved. Contact the police? To alienate, humiliate, and publicly shame children is in the ""best interests of the children""??? The superintendent Christy Perry and the rest of the ""leadership"" team reflect their innate levels of sexual sadism.",1 +"""...For the sake of all that is good and righteous. Kill them all."" Wow. There is a certain irony to that statement, given that Hitler thought pretty much the same about Jews and other so-called ""untermensch"". I think the Congressman missed the real point about events like the Holocaust: one must stop such destructive thinking in its tracks before it can do massive damage. Perhaps if the world, or at least if Germans, had responded forcefully to Hitler rather than believing in his message, those ovens would not exist. + +We need to look in the mirror in the USA and ask if we are capable of going down such a road ourselves. Categorizing all radicalized Islamists as worthy of death sounds an awful lot like deja vu all over again. Radicalization can be reversed. Indeed, we have less of a problem with radical Islam in the US than in Europe in part because we have not ostracized Muslims.",1 +"RE: LTE by Jim Fredrickson + +The only ones being played for fools are readers who believe articles about the Walker administration and legislators are true and correct. + +This publication exists solely to serve the publisher's political agenda, journalistic integrity be damned.",1 +"Le Weinstein has apparently checked himself into a ""sex addiction"" clinic. If the issue was just sex, surely there is no shortage of women in LA who would be happy to oblige for various sorts of considerations. Renzetti is right to talk about POWER.",1 +"Many years ago, I was naive and thought that everyone had the intelligence to be successful but the effort was variable. Then I started tutoring kids and realized that some people are just dumb, and even with hard work, are limited in their potential unless they find something that they can excel at and pays wells. If the parents are dumb, the kids are likely to be dumb. Being dumb means a lot of things, such as divorce, neglect, time not being spent with kids on school, lack of effort, limited success in school, etc.",1 +Awful guy. Harper on steroids.,1 +first he has to have a brain,1 +There's no law against being crude and stupid.,1 +Trump is the biggest waste of time for all Americans. It would be nice to just turn him off!,1 +"No, it's crap because it's still degrading and limits their freedom arbitrarily according to the predilection of men. Don't you see?",1 +Grumpy and stir-crazy here! ;),1 +"Come on, the government of Canada was all eyes on the climate change panel in Montreal through the weekend - virtuous priorities you know. As we heard from Carbon Barbie on CTV's question period yesterday morning, ""carbon taxes make us more competitive."" As she later blurted out ""...that's just stupid..."" No kidding.",1 +"Andi you're being used by believing the out of context crap in that video. Come on girl you're better than that. Tried to do a copy and paste of an excerpt from Politifact's analyses of that video. They try to put nuance and context into what are carefully edited, slanderous half truths and innuendo but it won't work so please do yourself a favor and google up ""Politifact on video of Clinton's lies"". Your passion for Sanders is clouding your judgement and eagerness to believe the worst about our future POTUS. She is not the monster, liar or corrupt person that the right has beat on for the past 30 years. Hopefully when Bernie Sanders finally endorses her at the convention you will give up being influenced by these blatant lies about her as well.",1 +"The USS Constitution, commissioned by president George Washington, is still seaworthy with its guns working. My metaphor is excellent, it is you who is ""lousy""; that is crawling with lice. Have a nice life being a jerk, Nate.",1 +"joe miller is like ""the guy who wasn't invited"" but showed up anyways. smell what i'm cookin'? that one dude who everybody kind of tolerated, but never wanted to be associated with because he was a major league tool. the kind of guy who was probably a booger eater, and would just assume sniffle constantly rather than blow his nose. he constantly needed a ride to places, and would never offer any gas money. he'd pinch your bag, drink your beer, and try to makeout with your sister. and then lie about everything.",1 +"When you invite the murderer into your house why are you surprised he kills? Unfettered, zero- vetted hundreds of thousands of Muslim invaders who have been targeting Western Christian lands and people for over 1,400 years and they are surprised they will be killed, raped and maimed? Some times you have to wonder if the STASI in the GDR needs to be reinvented to protect the average German citizen in the unified Republic of Germany.",1 +"The hell with it, lets just annex Mexico. LOL",1 +"Posting ""Toronto Liberal does not have... intestinal fortitude..."" +while hiding behind an online nickname is: +a) ironic +b) pathetic +c) a complete lack of self awareness +d) all of the above",1 +"Ahh, the willfully ignorant, the trump base.",1 +Every Native group in Alaska reveres its elders. Elders are the keepers of the cultural flame. It's only the white newcomers who piss on the experienced people who know how to manage this state. You want to listen to a bunch of 30 year old yuppie jerks who can't stop looking at their phone? Show a little respect for people far wiser than you are.,1 +Our entire country is childish. This guy's just a reflection of it.,1 +Try not to let every Muslim foreigner cut your head off in the name of Allah!,1 +This group pulls this garbage every time Joe Miller is on the ballot.,1 +"Thanks David, this is one of the more honest article's the SA has ran since the BOONDOGGLE HATED RAIL was shoved down our throats. We have been lied to by our City/State Leaders, Mayors, City Council Members, Legislators and the only newspaper available on the island. Talk about having the newspaper in bed with HART while they confuse the voters about the truth. Any luck at all the Federal government will cut off the funding and send in a real prosecutor to investigate the graff that has occurred within our government. The managers at HART have and are fleeing the sinking ship like rats from a sinking vessel. Now its time to stop this monster in its tracks before more businesses are destroyed and hard earned tax monies wasted. The RUSTING RAIL HAS BEEN A LIE FROM DAY ONE ORCHASTRATED BY NONE OTHER THAN KIRK CALDWELL, MUFI HANNEMAN, PETER CARLYE, NESTER GARCIA, WAYNE YOSHIOKA, JOHN WHITE, IKEIKA ANDERSON & ALL THE MEMBERS ON THE TEAM OF LOSERS AT HART. We the public have lost all HOPE",1 +"I'm glad we are seeing some blowback on these events. Some of these ""charity"" events are complete nonsense.",1 +"Now, look here, John.....quoting the New York Post on anything is a lost cause. It's just a tabloid rag and you know it.",1 +It is extremely easy to hate a Canadian who likes a rapist like trump. Clearly immigration has been too high in Canada.,1 +"The Grifter and Liar in Chief showed during the campaign that he was ignorant. And the ignorants elected him! And now, every time he opens his mouth, he proves it. Brace yourselves for a very, very rough ride.",1 +"60's dope dealing hippies turned into yuppies. +I was around, hey baby, you wanna ball. +WOW Man. +Spineless cowards running for cover. +The RATS GROW FAT, THE GOOD MEN FOUGHT +TO GIVE YOU YOUR FREEDOM.",1 +"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.",1 +"I find it ironic that they came here and murdered millions in the name of god and now, a short time later they don't want god anymore..",1 +You are truly witless.,1 +"I ride(not as long as you), but i ride like no one sees me and everyone in a car is an idiot. It has kept me up right so far. I am saddened every time I see a motorcycle go down and i feel for the family.",1 +"""As a magnet for transit-oriented development, including affordable housing, and as the basis of a multimodal transportation network, the rail project is irreplaceable."" +Yep, rail is for developers and the construction industry. A multimodal transportation network that costs $10B plus and won't reduce traffic. The SA must be either brainwashed or just plain S tupid.",1 +Do you know what is even more stunning? to see you apply your spoonful brain into this matter. People like you should have no right to formulate opinions. They are useless too just like you!,1 +This clown trump is a complete incompetent IDIOT. He makes w bush look like a Rhodes Scholar.,1 +"The number of Muslim terrorists in the West is much larger proportional to the proportion of Muslims, than the number of Christian terrorists relative to the population of Christians. + +None of the ones you mention btw, mentioned religion as their motivation. Which ""Christian fundamentalists use their religion as a motivation for mass killings"" recently?",1 +"""He 'blew smoke up our asses'"" + +Stand in line... There is a lot of that going around and the list is getting longer daily.",1 +So who is going to protect the world from the madman in the White House?,1 +"Hey man, Just commit suicide and end your misery.",1 +"You're right, I certainly do not believe comparing O'Leary makes him a worthy leader. I just wanted to show that anyone can selectively choose a piece of information from a person's past and take it out of context to make one look like an incompetent idiot. There's more to Trudeau than his drama teacher past, and there is more to O'Leary than one business transaction. + +Like I said in a previous comment, I'm taking a 'wait-and-see' approach before I really formulate an opinion. I wouldn't consider O'Leary to be my 'newfound hero'-- or at least not at this point anyway ;)",1 +"Interesting how ""pussy"" and ""Trump"" used together are now part of the American lexicon.",1 +Living in the past is not going to change the present. The Chumps presidency is in a death spiral and only a fool would not be able to recognize that.,1 +"stupid piece, left wing love the dictators!!!",1 +"Trump""s WHOLE life is a lie , +the incoming lies are equal to the outgoing lies. +Trump is a lie and a liar, +of the lowest kind.",1 +"Liar, liar pants on fire, cut. There. I changed your factless stats.",1 +Dave Ralston was right.... illegal aliens are causing major problems.,1 +"Huh? You actually believe that contraceptives are for eugenics? Wow, and all that time I thought I was just planning when I got my pasty white middle class self pregnant and when I did not. Your line of thinking is bizarre, or maybe just a lame attempt to put lipstick on your pig? At any rate, this particular dog of yours don't hunt.",1 +You are bad people.,1 +Hilarious. By the Democratic Party that wants to license journalists. What a bunch of fascists.,1 +He may have thrown that bone out there for the media mutts to gnaw on.,1 +"Polls are the opium that the 1% use to stupefy the rest of us. They use them to try and influence election outcomes and public opinion, rather than measuring them. We have just seen ample proof. Nice that G&M is trying to do the same. Clinton is a crook, the American people chose the clown instead. Frankly, faced with that difficult choice, I would have done the same thing. Nobody polled me.",1 +It's ok to be racist as long as your not a whitey.,1 +Don't belittle JR's accomplishments on the field and his racial plight with your diatribe of liberalistic nonsense...you have no idea how far the world has come. You watch a lot of tv and equate the stupidity on that with reality...grow up.,1 +"Send HitLIARy, Nancy Pelosi and Obama as diplomats to NK and offer them as an sacrificial offering to calm the fat boy.",1 +"I'm sure you think the comments to which I was referring are perfectly sensible. +You're the type who will do or say anything for your agenda, just like they are. +What makes you think I'm angry? Oh, because that's how you WANT me to be. I could look you in the eye and call you an idiot or a liar and not be one bit angry. +If you're looking for people being angry, why aren't you commenting to those on this thread who really ARE? Because they're your buddies?",1 +People like you are why everything is so screwed up. Thinking everyone just needs to put their hand out and give away what others have worked hard for!! People like you and Eric are going to destroy our country!!!,1 +"The Rogers clan can sell their four properties up on Lake Rosseau for approx 25 mllion and give Tulo a raise....then he might raise his batting average up to 250 + +Serioulsy folks how daft are the Jays fans. Leading in attendance with their pathetic team. Do they really have nothing better than to root for overpaid immigrant athletes, some that cannot even speak English....ghees. Common fans, learn a sport, take up water activities ride a bike as I do. completing 95 kilomters up in the Forks of the Credit. Much better that sitting on plastic seats in a concrete tomb. +Remember the Participaction AD.......need I say more. + +Get out and off your butt and quit idiolizig these guys who dont give a rats a.....s about Toronto or you. + +I know the truth hurts, but they ONLY care about their paycheck. + +BTW not charge for this free bit on advice.",1 +The hypocrisy of the Democrats on full display.,1 +"People mistake ""less educated"" with stupid. That is a very stupid mistake.",1 +Another taxpayer funded clusterf*ck.,1 +"wow another left winger of stupid, no he is not going to dismatle free health care since there is NO free health care, ,, you think losers like bernardo dont deseerve the death penalty, not that it will ever come back, ,, put your stupidity up your butt since thats where it belongs, olearly is about fixing the mess the left continues to do to canada economically,,",1 +"Apologies to ""Col. Bogey"": + +Gorka has only got one ball +Bannon has two, but they are small. +Priebus has something grievous +But the Mad King has no balls at all.",1 +My plan A is to see this collection of fools and their bedfellows in the other party dumped and replaced by people who appreciate the needs of working Alaskans in the cities and villages and have a different priority than protecting the Alaskan tax haven and giveaways to the oil companies.,1 +"Why shouldn't there be an uptick in sex assaults in the military? The majority of these people idolize Trump, and he's all for sexual violence.",1 +"Silly person. She should have just bought a protective vest herself that covered her growing belly. She could have later sold it again to a beer-belly officer, so no expenses would have occurred.",1 +"It is hard to discern a trend, given that (1) Trump barely won that district, despite the Price/Gingrich history and (2) the Republican only won against a guy (and his party) who was dumb enough to think that someone who lived outside the district (and only briefly at that) could actually win it.",1 +"Dead addicts don't cost the taxpayer a dime. + +Let them die.",1 +"So, standing for the National Anthem is ignorant? What's ignorant are people who don't stand and write such comments.",1 +Get outta here with your wrong-winger garbage Granger. Geez. You must live in the CONservative dump.,1 +"I'm pretty sure as this blithering idiot trying for attention knows Kaepernick did not kneel for or against Trump. As usual with the black crowd they are trying to Martin Luther King an event, ie glom onto a celebrity and change it to match their story.",1 +Sessions talked about resigning a few weeks ago. Nothing like being beaten up by a dumb boss to make your mind up.,1 +"trump will try any trick in the book to boost his miserable approval rating. +next up, a tractor pull on the WH lawn.",1 +"Seems to me its the white rednecks that are doing the littering.I love how you assume everyone is a ""leftie"". There are as many conservatives concerned because, well, you know...science.",1 +"What is the point in asking me moronic questions, troll?",1 +"This is how Sunny Boy does things differently? Not only has he broken his promise to those that were stupid enough to believe him, he laughs and says he is doing nothing illegal...that's not the point and he should have the basic ethical knowledge to know that. He is a Hypocritical Liar....soon he will just give us his Dad's famous finger.",1 +He is unreasonable and ridiculous. This should frustrate the right as well (and if it doesn't then there is something fishy going on).,1 +"Munoz is a great example of how out of touch with reality the majority of our politicians really are. Any baby raping s.o.b. should be locked away for as long as the law will allow, period. There are no socially redeeming qualities within anyone who would harm a child in any way and at the top of the list is a child rapist(Jack) or someone who would facilitate the rape of a child (Hauge). What Munoz has done to the victims of these horrible crimes is nearly as bad as the crime itself in that they are being told that what happened to them does not matter, that in fact they do not matter. If it is possible for a politicrit to feel shame then Munoz should feel extremely ashamed of herself and do everyone a favor and resign (fat chance) and apologize to the victims in person (again, fat chance). There is one way to show Munoz the error of her idiotically misguided ways and that would be to vote this moron out next election. Remember the victims and help them and not the predator criminals.",1 +Windbag!,1 +Trump keeps on proving he is unreliable and can't keep a secret. It is so crazy that the top office holder in the US government is the weakest link.,1 +"There is something broken in your brain, sir. One internally held down key in a calculator (your brain) compromises all further results. Carefully reading David James's comment or Kathleen Parker's article and trying to assign intended meaning to a group other than Trump and his followers fits as well as a baby's booty would fit your big foot. You could fictionalize and make up a group with similar factors paralleling it to Trump and his followers or, fittingly, to Hitler and his followers. But the left using Trump's tactics against conservatives? Larry, that's as dizzy a rumor as any. Feed it to Trump and see if he use's it as one of his threats to us all. I bet it won't fly. + +Besides, where is your conservative pride? David James wrote: ""What he offers is an attitude, an aura of crude strength and machismo, a boasting disrespect for the niceties of the democratic culture...""",1 +"i'm a lousy shot, wouldn't look for arrowheads and used to drive an old willy's truck named ""tater""with big, fat, low air tires on 40 acres of dunes owned by friends. we stayed on the ""road"" as it were so as not to damage what little struggles to grow, but the 'road"" was just a marked path in the dunes so it was like a tilt o wheel. great fun - young and stupid.. all kinds of ways to die there...",1 +"Interesting. If John gets to call me a liar...I get to respond. If our peers feel that is uncivil...then perhaps first downrate John's comments. + +Why on earth do you go back to a 3 month old comment in order to perpetuate your ridiculous and specious accusations? + +Move on, John. Your false reality has grown tiresome. Please stop making these false allegations and setting yourself up as the litmus test of truth...for you fail miserably.",1 +Why do you assume he or other Latinos are only capable of doing field work?,1 +"This article is so far from reality it is silly. In business, or trade, or treaties; you only get what you negotiate at best. China does not support free trade on imports into China at all, just demands no restrictions on their exports to the west. Got it?",1 +"I just have trouble believing that Burke is that stupid, but the published reports seem to support your view. As Trump would say, ""sad.""",1 +How can anyone be so stupid or to knowingly kill someone when they know what the lifetime consequences are going to be. This will tell one story of why I guess.,1 +"Yes, I did, DG. +A Model T flatbed truck too. I was a tall boy, and the ability to reach pedals made the world much bigger for me than my mates. +In the later days of kidhood, my Uncle caught his right hand twixt the stalk rollers of a two-row corn-picker. Took him in to his elbow where he was able to kick and disengage the power take-off and stop the goddam thing. He sat on that tractor in agony and then shock through an entire afternoon before he was found. He was a man's man, and I loved him endlessly, and often think about that time he spent on his rig, alone. +I'll never forget the sight of his blood on that machinery. +To his great fortune, my aunt was a woman's woman and pulled him through it. +My great fortune was to come from people like them. +For most people, John Deere's are cute, little tractors now. +Long ago, you could associate a field amputation with every harvester model they made. +It was as common as highway death. Some things are better.",1 +"Good thing our POTUS is guarding us against those rotten NFL traitors! Much more important than all that small stuff like, y'know: the economy, healthcare, nuclear war, Russian aggression, etc. /s + +MAGA!",1 +I give Kelly another week or two max before he quits. The problem is and always will be Trump himself. Anyone with a shred of integrity would run from this vile man.,1 +"I can only imagine just being touched by this repulsive thing , never mind raped.",1 +"So, an American amasses a huge arsenal, including automatic weapons, kills 58 people and wounds hundreds in Las Vegas and Trump does… absolutely nothing. One immigrant of Islamic background, who was radicalized WHILE IN THE US, kills 8 people in New York and Trump swings into action immediately to attack immigration and immigrants in general. Such sickening hypocrisy and ultimately useless other than to cynically stir up his racist base.",1 +Absolute rubbish....and trump enriching himself and vacationing every weekend at his private club is just fine with you.,1 +The ignorant and misinformed voted for Zoolander.,1 +The most ineffective secretary general on a par with Ki Moon. Pathetic !,1 +"How about we do this the old way, since you lefties +only believe in a democratic vote if you win. We +load up and start shooting you. That help you +to realize what's about to happen.",1 +"The only ""insufficient tool"" was the candidate.",1 +These lunatics are now out in the open since Trumps election. Trump people will try to tell you crimes are committed mainly by Hispanics so lets deport them. Well what do you have to say boutguys like this?,1 +Any adult who thinks he or she is a child suffers from some type of disorder. Most transgendered adults do not suffer from this disorder. I doubt there are too many baby-wannabes in the military.,1 +Loser. Nuff said.,1 +"Sounds like the words ""legal immigration"" still have no place in your vocabulary. And 20 other countries built walls are now trying to stem the invasion from the Middle East by Islamic hordes who never even consider assimilation. The refugees of war and military age with no wives or children continue to invade, as has the onslaught by Islam on Christian lands, for the last 1,400 years. I am thankful for my relatives who fought these Islamic animals for over 250 year in the land of the Dragon.",1 +"Even if Clinton wins, and the Senate flips to the Democrats, it will only delay the inevitable. The lunatic fringe of ""Christians"" (I use the term with a great deal of skepticism), racists, conspiracy theorists, anti-intellectuals and robber baron capitalists is going to eventually propel the Republicans into power. What happens then will be the stuff of nightmares. Canadians should be doing their damnedest to elect a government that is going to start preparing to deal with a neighbour that will not just be benignly neglectful of its relationship with us, but will be actively hostile to many of our goals, contemptuous of our sovereignty, and likely to be willing to use force to take whatever we have that they want.",1 +"So can you dispute anything on the list, or just stick with the usual clowning around?",1 +"There's no icon for ""you write like you're stoned"" and he felt like he had to click something. I appreciate the challenge of trying to figure out what he's talking about, it's sort of like a crossword puzzle, so maybe later I'll like it. Or maybe not. The best I can gather is that he wants to give the airport land to homeless people.",1 +"Meanwhile, a few years back as reported in the National Post...... + +OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau caused uproar in the House of Commons today after he called Federal Environment Minister Peter Kent a “piece of shit” during a heated question time debate over the Kyoto Protocol. + +No big fuss or pile on from Globe writers.",1 +"A fool and his money are soon parted. If you're going to pay 750 for a 55 ticket, you deserve to be fleeced all the way back to wherever you transplanted from.",1 +two guys with small members flexing muscles,1 +"He's proven he's a liar, so now has butts orders to shut-up. +A disgrace to Canada.",1 +Knock knock...who is there? President Donald Trump for the next 8 years SUCKA...LOLOLOLOL,1 +"Thank you republicans for higher rates, more traffic, fewer trains, and less mobility. You guys are swell and sure know how to screw over everyone. You sure do know how to lessen the quality of life for all. You want to hurt the ""other"" guy so badly you are willing to hurt yourself. + +All these issues with A, G, and other lines, including not building to boulder/golden... you can thank the Repubs for the lack of progress... oh AND they saved you nothing. It is just straight up hateful blocking for the sake of not wanting others to get their way. Selfish Selfish people.",1 +"MSW's column is on par with the GOP blaming everything on the Clinton's and Obama while taking zero responsibility for the way they governed this country. For all the blather about how the Dems have failed the white working class, it was the GOP that had both houses for the last six years and did nothing, absolutely nothing. + +I actually feel bad for those who voted with 'bald faced stupidity' because they will certainly reap the consequences of that stupidity. Trump will turn on them because even his blinded ego is beginning to process the fact he is not liked at all by over half the country. He now gets to deal with a whole bunch of anger directed at him and his insecure self will do whatever it takes to make that feeling go away....including betraying his base.",1 +Jeez I told you he was an id io t. Republicans been saying they had a better plan then Obama's for the past 7 years and this is the best they got? Give me a F ing break!,1 +Terrorists not anarchists....and that's the silliest things I've ever heard.,1 +"I'm still not sure why the Governor was not handling public relations. Considering their status of government, debt and unwillingness to make concessions it puts them in a tedious position for receiving aid. IMO, Trump would have kept quieter had this woman stayed off CNN. So I ask, who is being the idiot here?",1 +"And what say you about the anti-White-male bigots who voted for Hillary because she is a woman, Obama because he is Black and homosexual ""marriage-"" evolved. + +The hypocrisy is astounding.",1 +90% of the DNC should be drowned in bucket of shate.,1 +"Do you get out of your basement much? Trudeau has denounced radical Islam countless times. Wow, your hate is eating your brain.",1 +"You have spoken like a true drug addict, WesternPatriot",1 +"Wrong again. + +Kaepernick is quoted as stating his reasons for initially kneeling during the anthem was due to Sylville Smith's death by a cop in Milwaukee. +https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/sports/football/colin-kaepernick-national-anthem-49ers-stand.html?mcubz=0 + +The only problem was the cop who shot him was also black, and he was also found innocent of any wrongdoing in the shooting. + +So much for your ""racist white cops killing innocent black citizens"" meme for motivating Kaepernick to kneel. + +I bet you believed the bogus ""hands up dont shoot"" Ferguson meme too.",1 +"Donald Trump is spending this morning of his vacation lamenting the removal of various monuments to treason in defense of slavery: +One thing I’ve been surprised by during this slow motion car crash into a raging dumpster fire is the sheer depth of Trump’s stupidity and ignorance. +You could tell during Tuesday’s press conference that he thought he had come up with a new and especially powerful argument when he lectured the reporters about the previously unappreciated fact — no doubt just relayed to him by an advisor in the previous day or two — that Washington and Jefferson owned slaves (wait until he finds out that Jefferson liked to rape some of his). +On top of everything else, he’s just really really dumb — and of course he remains blissfully unaware of this.",1 +FIRED! Our Minister of Defence is so immature that he feels the compulsion to completely invent stories about himself and is also dumb enough to think he'll get away with it? FIRED! Did I say that already? FIRED!,1 +"What's the difference between an attorney and a carp? One's a mud sucking bottom feeder and the other's a fish. + +Oldie but a baddie. The truth of brings a little tear to my eye. If I had a good personal injury lawyer I could probably sue the joke writer for damages",1 +Just another corrupt republican doing business as usual....,1 +Two losers.,1 +"""And I have been entirely consistent in my desire not to be perceived as bending or breaking any rules,"" Mr. Trudeau said. + +Justin- we all understand how you have a desire not to be perceived, but unfortunately, our perception and not your desire about our perception is what matters. + +And moreover, + + ""Obviously, we follow all the rules and I am assured that the folks who are managing my personal finances are following all the rules."" + +How would he know either of these two things he is asserting as truths if he has in fact devolved all of the asset administration into a blind trust situation. Maybe blind, but not deaf regarding the administration of his assets? + + +Liberal- thy name is hypocrisy.",1 +"LOL. Instead of answering the question and backing up your deluded assertions, you post a load of drivel instead to try and desperately steer away from having to answer, because you would have to admit that you think only cats should be TNR'd! Typical feral cat extremist, but would probably be in uproar if other animals were given the same treatment. You feral cat activists are a desperate bunch, all you have is lies to back you up, nothing else. No science to back you up, just lies. And when people realise your lies, you crumble.You all need to be exposed",1 +"I agree killing 6 of your own teams from State tourney participation just to keep out the second ILH team in the open does not make sense. Like you mentioned, too bad for all those players and fans. +Wow Dave, you learned a lot from Miss Tsugawa's class at PC, I must have been sleeping during that session.",1 +LOL. You're an a hole,1 +"Hope you get a painful disease, and then tell your poor self in the mirror how you deserve nothing. Good luck jerk!",1 +If it is not Dem propaganda they will they want to choke it down. Dems need to just shut up and go for the ride. They are worthless and would destroy America rather than it suceed under a non-Democrat.,1 +How could any reader possessing testicles not agree.,1 +"Your continuing lack of intelligence, logic, or reason along with the juvenile rhetoric and challenges confirm your Tween age. You prowl the comments to try to stir up trouble without literate or vocabulary ability. Time for beddy bye, little one.",1 +"You hate the rich because some entitled brat was drunk in the afternoon? What a hysterical overreaction. ""The rich"" are no more likely to be drunk and lazy than the poor and unemployed. It's a character flaw, not a bank account flaw.",1 +"So glad that we don't live near this nut house called Peel district, where homes are expensive, traffic is terrible, income is low and now a bunch of religious fanatics are making excessive demands. It is a mad house unsuitable for families with young children. Ontario is going to crash because of all nutty people living in GTA.",1 +Trump has ignored more laws than you've ignored his ignorant rants!,1 +"""Silly me imagined that we'd made some progress now that we are in the 21st century"" + +The only thing ""silly"" is your refusal to accept the fact these people are LAW BREAKERS. That IS the point - everything else is pure baloney. Pretending illegals have the RIGHT to cross into the U.S. in any fashion and officials should welcome them with open arms is naive and foolish. The U.S. isn't Canada and has no desire to be so.",1 +"For the ""hipster gym rat"" its mostly not even about the exercise I suspect... +Its mostly about scouting for singles...buying fab new sweatspants etc etc + +Its about calling yourself a ""gym rat"" and thinking its cool....like those lunatics with the full ""Tour de France"" outfit on' and the bike strapped to the roof racks... + +a bit of a grumpy old man",1 +"That's contradicted by the facts. First of all, Democrats have acknowledged the past and the party evolved to the anti-racist side, which prompted southern racists who used to constitute the Solid South for the party to migrate to the GOP, where the South now pretty much votes solidly for Republicans due to the GOP's adoption of the racist polices the Democrats used to push. If there are any remaining racists in the Democratic Party, the members will marginalize and push them out. + +The Democratic Party of the 1800s, though, was the conservative party. They were not ""leftist"" at all. + +Entitlements are not ""slavery."" That's just a silly remark, pre-packaged propaganda to demonize people who need help. Look at Ben Carson -- on public assistance and loans and public housing all his life until he made it on his own, and now he demonizes welfare. Bunch of hypocrites.",1 +"I did not call anybody a name that is on this site. +I said only fools will be voting for current GOP pack. +It is no different than what many of the GOP here have said about others and you have no issue with it on them.",1 +Idiots like these give hunters a bad name. A reward might cause someone to come forward. They probably bragged about it.,1 +"So you are an experienced liar. I imagine you were trained to lie to suspects and even regular citizens. +Cops have lied to me on numerous occasions. + +I am not sure what kind of weird point you are trying to make. +Do you want people to like the police so they lie less? +Maybe the police should stop beating people and lying about it. +Maybe police should not show up at lawful protests with military gear they are not trained to use. +Maybe the police should have the attitude that their purpose is to protect and serve. + +I have never respected the DPD as a whole. I have seen too many unnecessary beatings by them. +When I was young and frequented lodo, I would cross the street if I saw Denver PD. After seeing a fireman beaten for asking why his friend was being beaten, I realized that they all can not be trusted.",1 +"Doubling down on deception and corruption by lying to us, and thinking we are that stupid we wont see through his pathetic lies. + +This is going from bad to worse for this absolute disappointment. Promised so much accountability and renewal, dives straight back into grubby peddling of influence. Hang your head Trudeau. Liberal supporters out there - demand better from your party. You can still help them find their way.",1 +"Hope you feel strong and brilliant, exalting in your superiority over the lowly likes of me. Glad I was available for you to use. Enjoy your share of society's revenge against this kid. + +Maybe sometime soon, all you smart people who are so good, altruistic, and law abiding can round up all of us ""idiot"" lawbreakers, to execute and dispose of us all industrally. + +That way, you can manifest destiny, and enjoy your twinkling utopian promised land without us lowly stumbling blocks marring your yellow brick road along the way.",1 +"Yet another silly article by the Globe's worst sports writer! Subjectivity is one thing, but making assinine comments such as claiming Federer is 80% as good as he was in 2006 is sheer nonesense.",1 +The ANC seems to live in a world where the voters are stupid voting cattle who do not understand or care about the fact that they are being robbed blind by these criminals.,1 +"This is a witchhunt by the Fascist, Soros funded DNC.",1 +"Yep. It seems the alt-right, with their attention span of goldfish, seems to want to declare this thing is ""over"" before it even began. + + +Ridiculous.",1 +I'm ok with really idiotic ideas being persecuted.. mock away..,1 +clown,1 +Typical liberal response : if you don't agree with the liberal view you need professional help. How pathetic.,1 +"But we rescue refugees on our dime bring them to Canadian soil and pay for everything...... no complaints or whining from the left /socialists elites but..... let our Canadian born get stranded and the arrows come out, crazy Canadians travelling blah, blah , blah............. Sad😕",1 +"Number of priests who look ridiculous singing a pop-tune ""HALLELUJAH"" during a homily: 1 (An Irish priest, at a wedding.) + +Number of priests who look ridiculous because they want to dress the part: 1000's.",1 +"Another crooked Republican, lol",1 +"The Soviets didn't call 'em ""Useful Idiots"" for nothing...",1 +"It's really unbelievable that so many comments suggest that Canada should just shut up and do whatever Trump says. +Have you people no courage or no values worth defending at all? +Canada is onside with virtually every developed nation in the world in opposition to Trump's foolishness. +Bravo to Trudeau for not bowing to the fool leading the US, as you want him to do.",1 +"Put them away for a long, long time. We don't want scum like this running around loose. And I agree with Hockeytown, why no pictures?",1 +The bottom line of Trumps speech is an indictment against the party of progressive democrat’s and their elitist entitlement leaders. Of course the progressive left is upset with Trump. But even with all that Trumps speech points out as an indictment he didn’t do near the damage Wikileaks did in releasing emails from top DNC officials that show the inner workings of the Democratic Party aiding the Hillary Clinton campaign to defeat Sanders during the primaries. Secondly the now unquestionable evidence by the FBI director that Hillary Clinton is indeed a sociopathic liar. The Progressive Democrat party is dead they just aren’t intelligent enough to realize it as yet.,1 +"Each man (or, theoretically, at least) woman who becomes President bring with him/her a lifetime of experience, a worldview, a set of knowledge and wisdom, and a set of values. The Office of President doesn't ""erase"" the persona of the occupant, it reflects it. + +You reference to ""Trump the man rather than Trump the President"" is wholly illogical. The very problem with ""Trump the President"" is he is, in fact, ""Trump the Man."" As I have often suggested, IMO, Trump the Man, as reflected in every facet of his life, meets the qualifications of a sociopath. He is now President and, guess what, his actions continue to be consistent with those of Trump the (sociopathic) Man. It would be foolish to expect anything else. + + It is a cliche', (most cliche's have a large element of turth. that's why they're cliche's) but the best predictor of FUTURE behavior is PAST behavior. Look at Trump's long and infamous personal, business and now political life. (cont)",1 +Nanos is a Liberal pollster. What a lying sham. How much did do the Lieberals pay them ?,1 +"""so obviously its not religion thats the problem"". Definition of naive. I know you would like to think that but this is not only about the terrorist attacks, it is about culture. Their religion does not like our culture. They do not like gays, they believe women should be subservient. Pew polls suggest that while a small minority believes in the violence (still a whoopingly high number in absolute terms), they do believe cartoonists should be killed if they portray mohammed. And they also believe in Sharia law. Overtime you see a muslim leader or Imam get questioned they say ""Islam"" is a religion of peace, but push them on Sharia, women and gays and its all double speak and changing the subject. Plus, where are they when these things happen? I rarely see any news stories of large swaths of muslim sincerely renouncing these atrocities nor do I see them doing something about it day to day. You would think the left leaning media will be all over those types of stories.",1 +Another fascist ...,1 +""".....and shot him on a road near a sewage treatment plant.""....... +Nice irony",1 +"Look like Leah is heading for a divorce. + +No surprise, she is white and the statistics say most white women initiate divorce. + +I guess hypergamy didn't work for her this time. + +You can try again - for white women men are like cereal - just try a new one out.",1 +"You're free to post whatever utter nonsense you like.... + +What happened to ALL of those ex-Warsaw Pact countries? + +""Free to die of starvation and uncontrolled civil wars like Iraq and Libya.""? + +Who started the civil war in Libya? + +Iraq ASKED for Western assistance in fighting ISIS... + +You're free to move to Russia...",1 +Perhaps we will not be able to eliminate rape until after we have eliminated the really diabolical things...like yoga and the Girl Scouts.,1 +"You wish. You voted a lazy, ignorant, boorish clown into office. He'll probably delegate his presidential duties to some stooge. I'm going to really enjoy watching their idol wipe those sneers off of your faces. Very much as I did when Frank Murkowski was voted in and Bush flushed the country down the toilet. This time I hope no one bails your boy out.",1 +"Yet another cop, alpha, idiot. Screw this guy.",1 +I dont bother - coffee not good and food is crap - rather go to independents now. No more Tim's - weak brand. Try toasting the english muffins - that would be a start.,1 +"I don't understand why Dr. Carson continues to support Trump. His behavior and conversation are what one would expect in a barroom, not from a presidential candidate. + +On the other hand, Bill Clinton got a pass, in spite of numerous allegations of sexual misconduct by several different women. And then there was the racist LBJ . . . . . + +There seems to be enough hypocrisy to go around, along with plenty of evidence of a double standard.",1 +"Heehee, my first thought after reading this was that ""the board"" must be emulating Mr. ""Lock-her-up"" Trump, or perhaps Kim Jong Un in punishing a citizen for speaking out. However, after reading the ensuing comment, I now know that ""the board"" is just another bunch of ""liberals"" run amok.",1 +"Trust the parents to deal with this? They're too busy playing with their smart phones to bother with trivial issues like raising their children....really. Go to a restaurant and watch. Oh, wait, you can't, you'll be too busy......playing with your smart phone. +If it were up to me, they'd call them dumb phones.... ;)",1 +"There is. It's called ""sorta"". You click on that when it's not a bad comment and not a good comment. + +But Civility is a binary choice. Does the poster attack other people? Does it call people names? Does it use purposely incendiary rhetoric? Basically, is it a dick? If so, mark 'no' on civil. If not, mark 'yes'.",1 +Where were you eight years ago??? A Kenyan was an American president. Where was your outrage then!!?!' Your so full of Botox to cover your absolute stupidity.,1 +"Art, the fact is you made a mistake, and let your big mouth get out ahead of your brain (a common occurrence). No amount of obfuscating and tap dancing will get you out of it. But nice try, genius.",1 +What a mess was down town when all this happened. Seems with all this high Tech stuff that the idiots doing these calls would be tracked and caught.,1 +"Gore did concede the election. + +ONLY you think that was Wallace's point. No ONE else. + +You asked why Trump didn't employ your reasoning to deflect the question. Because, it's too stupid, even for Trump.",1 +Tell me about it! Crime has gone way up since white people came to Alaska.,1 +"Waddles The Clown just can't let it go like a real man, instead preferring to blubber, simper and whine behind his stupid tweets like the bloated orange coward he is. The freak has all the dignity of a dirty-faced toddler with a fully-loaded diaper.",1 +"Actually, three lying senators lost their seats. The Hideous Hudak had to resign when Morgan Carroll put a gun to her head to make sure she did not lose her sear as Senate President (ironic, huh?)",1 +"""I have yet to meet such a person."" + +Well, I call bovine excrement on that one!",1 +Maybe he's nothing more than a perverted dirty old man?,1 +"McTruck, ""pocho"" saids it all. Zero u.s.press in the White House while the Russian press is allowed in for a Russia/US meeting. This is very underminding traitor that we have as potus. Russia is laughing at this idiot. ""We have gained access to the WH comrades""!! We came into the front door that an orange orangutan opened. Lol.",1 +"8 people ""like"" this? 8 idiots.",1 +I find your constant preoccupation with sex and your descriptive language of various sex acts and anatomy disturbing and superfluous.,1 +"More drivel. Jews in Europe are afraid, but they are not afraid of Christians. Not at all. They are leaving France and Belgium and Sweden because of the growing Muslim populations. Hate crimes against Jews are far more problematic in Europe than the cause du jour of the Press, Islamophobia. The populist parties in Europe are pro Jew and anti-Islam. They are the firewalls against increasing anti-Semitism, not the other way around. This stirring up of negativity by Sanders toward populist parties in Europe is predictable and I knew it was only a matter of time before he played the Hitler card. If the Jews are looking for politicians in Europe who have their backs, they need look no further than Oban, LePen in France, Geert Wilders in Holland and Nigel Farage in the UK.",1 +"Trump is bad for the middle class. He is a total liar and incompetent and needs to be impeached for breaking laws. Republicans hate him but fear him as he is a violent, desperate man. Sorry but Trump is terrible for Hawaii in all respects.",1 +"I hate tRUMP, he's a filthy disgusting pig!",1 +"Post that picture of the repulsive Trudeau on the inside of a toilet seat lid or over a toilet,-- and those who've had too much to eat or drink will suddenly find it easier to let go. + +Trudeau's is the face that could launch Gravol sales into the stratosphere. + +The sad part is that taking a Gravol won't make him go away. + +""Trudeau vows..."" + ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ +A great joke, but sad for anyone who still would be taken in by this sleazy serial liar +.",1 +"Your all a bunch of loosers, your loosing your Country to drugs and are to damn dumb to care. +Or you would demand the US Government exicute anyone bringing hard drugs into the US. +Because those drugs are DISTROYING your kids, government and Country",1 +"Some Canadian must have really hurt Mrs. Dressder in an ugly way. +This piece is entirely misleading and untrue. I'm Mexican, I lived and worked in Canada, been married to a Canadian for over 30 years, and what she is saying here is bias and false. +And please stop using the pronoun ""we,"" as in ""we are disappointed and with good reason."" +Who the heck are we? +And when did Canada wrapped themselves in the flag of moral self-righteousness? As a Mexican, I feel emarassed at this piece.",1 +Way to go. That will show Trump. You just made yourself dumber than you were before,1 +"Oh Puuullease!!! You trivialize a very serious subject. From checkout irritant to "".....when a person can be killed.....etc "". Take a deep breath before you press the send button w such silliness! +Time to tone down the rhetoric Mr Quinn. You do a disservice to any efforts to deal with a serious topic. And please take your white man's burden somewhere else.",1 +"What happened to peaceful demonstration? Those who are damaging property should be prosecuted to the full limits of the law and civil suits brought against them also. Nothing more than a bunch of idiots, damaging the very cause they think they may be supporting with this behavior.",1 +80% success rate.....I guess the military is happy with that?.....but shouldn't we be worried about the 20% failure rate? So North Korea fires 5 missiles and one will get through to Hawaii.....assuming they can aim the darn thing.,1 +"Patty, I first thought this shooting was the act of a radical extreme Christian Right terrorist.",1 +"The Lying, Deceiving, Hateful Liberals Democrats including the Media are at it again. No kumbaya after the Liberal Democrat tried to assassinate dozens of Rep. Congressman practicing for a ballgame.",1 +If women didn't act like a tease and didn't dress like wh*res that would also help. just saying.,1 +"""Having boys focus on dance isn't a good idea."" Yes, they might want to jump into leotards and even consider ballet! GASP! We know what THAT means!! You are a freaking idjit.",1 +"Trump only gets upset if the attacker is not Caucasian, or a white supremacist. The history is there. It's easy to see. He just wants to boost his racist base, and politicize these events by non-Caucasians in order to pass his racist agenda.",1 +"""He is a drug dealer and his product is ending up in the hands of children"",,,,, And your a Nutjob who should have no access to Children.",1 +"Trump doesn't need the media to inflate the absurdity of his comments. His comments are reckless and idiotic enough on their own. + +And as a veteran, I wouldn't give him so much as the time of day given his horrible comments about McCain, and what Trump laughably considers ""sacrifice."" He bent over backwards to ensure he never sacrificed anything to our nation's security or armed forces. He's a loudmouth over-privileged coward with a hyper inflated ego. + +He's also been the most dishonest candidate so far in this election by independent sources who review the validity of candidate's statements.",1 +I can see you're not very smart. Even then that was a low rate. Keep trolling. I'm done trying to school you.,1 +Cut off their hands and feet just to make sure.,1 +"I quoted you verbatim. It's your problem if you are utterly unable to express your thoughts accurately in the English language. You are a troll and a rather foolish one at that. Just delete your account and all the posts you made. Please, do not visit this site again. You are only here to cause trouble.",1 +"Not all Muslims commit acts of terror, but most acts of terror are committed by Muslims. + +Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. -John Stuart Mill. + +I'm sure the first sentence will be considered Islamophobic by our resident snowflakes.",1 +"Our national defense is no place to showcase sexual deviants. If they insist, send them to fight ISIS.... without hijabs.",1 +"Sorry, I don't take seriously posts from whites who claim to be this or that--""Indian"", etc.--to try and ""validate"" themselves and their claims they're ""not racist"". They routinely claim to belong to the very group they disparage. While I actually have encountered ""Stockholm syndrome"" in one Samoan with whom I debated about the war in Iraq (he was a son of an innkeeper on Tutu'ila, and he'd been ruined by both the US military and the CCC of American Samoa), I generally regard such claims as attempts to hide from well-deserved censure by more reasonable people. In the albeit unlikely event your claim is accurate, it's even worse--what Mexicans refer to as ""la mosqa en leche"" syndrome--i.e. identifying with those who walk on you in an attempt to salvage an illusion of self-respect.",1 +What a bunch of morons,1 +"Also like racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and just plain stupidity.",1 +"So you are saying that married gays are on the same level as mafiosi. I would say that there is a difference in kind, not degree, between a person in a same-sex marriage and a mafioso. Gays do not harm others, the mafia does. + +No, R&R, once again, your fear and loathing of homosexuals is on full display. And to claim that your homophobia -- and that is the correct term -- is based in your religion is a perversion of the Catholic faith.",1 +"The student council continues to make a fool of its self. +How many more time must we wrap there nuckless? +No No No Justin, Bad Bad Bad Boy !!! +Now Say Your Sorry Junior",1 +"Wake up Johnson supporters. Not only are you throwing your vote away, but you are voting for an uninformed fool.",1 +"Gfaw, Gfaw. Wow, Andrewmoron, you learn that one on the kindergarten playground?I'm more than happy to add you to the list of MAGAphants. Let me guess, you probably look just like the the guy driving the car who also looks just like all the overweight, stupid, racists white males standing behind the baby-in-chief in West Virginia. Please next time you post, attach a link to your latest photo, so we can confirm. No need, we all know who you racists idiots are. Oh, BTW, I'm having so much fun commenting on all the MAGAphant posts. Every day that you guys defend the baby-in-chief by posting comments makes the world see just what morons voted for Trump.",1 +"As well after the fall the liberals will be able to point out that the green-ndp coalition voted against they very thing they want, making them look silly. This could work out well for Christie",1 +Obama was too busy promoting transgender issues and hating on white Christians to actually help Americans.,1 +You sound as ignorant as the fake news media!,1 +Just a matter of time for all women to be obligated to get covered up and hidden up veils to not offend Muslims. They are winning .,1 +"Competitive patriotism idiots who wrap themselves in the flag are loathsome and despicable. I would personally prefer that the national anthem was left completely alone, but the bell can't be unrung- so here we are. FIRE NFL players who kneel, stay in the locker room, or lock arms? I'm with the players on this one. And yes, jerks, I'll be happy to back it up. Leave your gun at home and take your thrashing like the real man you pretend to be. IN the 425 area code.",1 +"Having just read that Breibart is dissing McMaster now that Bannon has shown up back there, it may be that Trump recognized something in McMaster that Bannon lacked. + +""Breitbart article, ""H.R. McMaster Endorsed Book That Advocates Quran-Kissing Apology Ceremonies,"" claims that he threw his support behind a book advising U.S. military personnel to avoid desecrating the Quran, so as not to inflame religious tensions with Muslim populations in countries where American troops are deployed. +It also quotes a blurb for the book by McMaster, in which he writes that ""terrorist organizations use a narrow and irreligious ideology to recruit undereducated and disenfranchised people to their cause."" + +Just considering McMaster's resume of two Bronze stars, a Silver Star, his history as an Armor Commander in the Battle of 73 Easting, his PhD where he questioned the military's role in Viet Nam under LBJ and McNamara, and the rest of his military history, Bannon is just a mouthy toad in comparison.",1 +"How hard is it to learn, George, 1) the mission of the ACLU 2) everyone needs to follow the law, even the government criminals.",1 +"No such thing as alt left except in the White Supremacist propaganda altering the vocabulary to make their own evil ideology legitimate. The ranting of a pure Aryan White Supremacist glorying of the pseudo-election of his new Fuhrer, Trump, to free the Neo-Nazi Aryans to begin the violence just like Nazi Germany. This nation needs to stamp out this evil just like it did in 1940s. The big mistake was not doing it to the embedded racist bigots infesting this nation since its formation.",1 +"Your comment sounds like the accused should be expected to solve the crime in order to prove their innocence. Perhaps you didn't realize how ridiculous that sounds? Certainly a conviction, if it is wrongful, greatly removes the motivation of those who should be looking for the guilty party(s) to continue.",1 +"aa another hate based ignorant childish insult rather than debate as an adult, , figures coming from the nut job left as usual",1 +Sex engaged in for non-reproductive purposes. Neither redundant nor oxymoron.,1 +"Any thoughts about the number of black on black killings?? Or black on white attacks?? Or the huge number of Hispanic gangs, most illegal alien felons, that run huge areas of LA, Oakland?? How about the number of honor killings in this country?? Any thoughts on the liberal run cities like Chicago, Detroit, DC, etc. No!! Why?? Because they are all liberal run cities, many for the past 50+ years, and liberals are no going to say a word to challenge minorities to get their act together-FACT!! What about these parents?? Or do you what to blame that on the CBF, Repubs, G. Bush, or G. Washington!! Dishonest, lazy and clueless liberals.",1 +"Rick, why are you eating all the animal's food? Those poor animals are starving because of you selfish vegans.",1 +"With every stupid, ill considered, insulting joke parsed for racism, it makes real racism easier to dismiss and ignore.",1 +"I appreciate that you appear to think media using the pejorative word ""cuck"" is disgusting. However.... + +The Globe ran an article explaining the use of it. + +A quick google search shows that Rebel Media has run several columns and a video *using* the word in its pejorative sense. The latest: ""[name omitted] becomes a cuck, apologizes for dressing up as Native at “Lone Ranger” Party."" + +Breitbart, of course, specialized in it.",1 +Conservative Alaskans are proven idiots. They'll continue to vote for the 3 stooges regardless of what they do or don't do. Republicans have ruined this state but people keep voting them in. It's on them.,1 +"The alt left, neo-liberal hate is at work. If you perform you may get shot. Not much of a choice. California has legalized child prostitution. Hollywood is well known for its cover up of pedophilia. Meryl Streep giving a standing ovation to a pedophile. The US president is better to distance himself from celebrities.",1 +They're not in it for the long haul...most will be dead or in jail soon...,1 +"Don't play dumb, it was right in the first sentence. The silly games the left play... + +""House Republican leaders called for unity and prayer after the deadly mass shooting in Las Vegas, but offered no new legislation to tighten gun laws ...""",1 +Its the racist Democrat left trying to rewrite their own inexcusable racist history that continues to this day,1 +"Carter was feckless. His embargo of Iranian oil in response to the kidnapping and imprisonment of the entire US Iranian diplomatic corps resulted in hording, which drove up gas prices and caused shortages. His rescue by helicopter of the embassy staff ran into a sandstorm, grounding the helicopters. The stagflation, a structural problem, was solved by Fed chairman Paul Volcker, but didn't kick in until Reagan took office, after Reagan had promised to sell Ayatollah Komeini banned missiles, the profit from which went to the Nicaraguan Contras from Ollie North's office in the White House basement. Remember that? + +Carter was the most decent man in the White House in the last 100 years. As The Donald would say, Nice people are losers. I guess that's the way you feel, Motley, when you're not thinking about how common criminals are losers. So, who's NOT a loser?",1 +"""Still no charity money from leftover Trump inaugural funds"" + +Once a grifter, always a grifter. He'll figure out a way to keep that money for himself.",1 +"Atta boy, Zoolander. Your biggest customer, large enough to put out your lights with single phart, has decided to make their goods and services more competitive. What do you do in the face of such a challenge. Why, what any drama teacher might suggest to a 10 year old. You raise prices, taxes and increase red tape. Be right. Be dead. But dead right.",1 +"Canadians have elected a fool to lead the country, hopefully they will come to their senses before the next election.",1 +"You are right. White people don't care about their Neanderthal DNA. They need to decide to be merely equal to the rest of us. Those that refuse that notion are by definition, white racists.",1 +"By ancestors of slaves in my comment above, I meant to type offspring. Of course most slaves also had slave ancestors, and most slaves had slave offspring. That is the nightmare of inter-generational slavery. At one point in history, I forget the date, it was estimated that a slave could look 7 generations back and find slave ancestors and with the benefit of a crystal ball, would be able to see 7 generations forward that would also be slaves. No other demographic in America or modern history has been subject to that unspeakable tyranny and inhumanity. + +But it didn't end with slavery. Slaves also had ""free"" offspring and subsequent descendants who were subject to over a century and a half of anti-black discrimination, marginalization, exclusion, and terrorism. + +Enough celebration of white supremacy and tyranny. Let's stop erasing descendants of slaves to prop up descendants of white supremacists.",1 +"LOL classic. + +Wolf! Wolf! Wolf! And the credibility dwindles.... + +They should start prosecuting media who publish garbage like this. The media should be held accountable for the inaccuracy of their ""reports"", and I don't care if it's on the right or the left or any other position.",1 +Greetings....IMHO.....Cardinal Pell needs to be taken down because he represents the cold dark side of the Institutional Church. The Church needs to cleanse itself by using him as the sacrifical goat on the altar of Justice!,1 +Warren Keogh....you forgot to mention a moron as well. Get your facts completely in order or you'll be called a liberal shill.,1 +"""Silent?"" Don't make me laugh! Wingers have got the biggest, whitest mouths if any political group, by far. + +The fact that the opposition won this typically money-wasting Republican stupid recall is what needs to be marked. Next they'll whine about how much money the Cunncil is wasting and blame it on them. Vance and her group should have to bear the entire cost of the recall. Every dime.",1 +They tied winners and losers but those terms were outlawed years ago by equally irrational and nonsensical people as yourself. You see terminology that talks of winners and losers is upsetting to the special snowflakes among us.,1 +We have an idiot in chief who calls global warming a hoax and an 86 year old woman who has never seen floodwaters that high in the 40 years that she has lived there. Who would you tend to believe that global warming is real. The state of Texas is a republican stronghold and as much as I pray for our fellow Americans I can't help but feel that there is a divine connection.,1 +Another Monument to the Gods of Stupid Projects and Spending!,1 +Rui- What a load of rubbish!,1 +"I never understood why anyone, especially women, would choose to become Muslim. There are much better religions out there that don't force you to change your name and don't treat women like second class citizens. It's an odd choice. That being said, as long as she represents her constituents and listens to their needs, she can't be any worse than the clowns that have been previously elected to public office.",1 +He looked like a stalker. Creepy!,1 +"The very same people that applauded Comey's handling of Clinton are now the very same people attacking Comey for doing exactly what he did with Clinton. The only difference is it is now about Trump. + +This just shows that certain members of the USA care more about their team winning than finding the actual truth. They need their side to win so badly that they are willing to swallow whatever poison pill they need to just to stick it to the libs. + +Trump and his ilk supported and loved Comey until Comey started to investigate Russia. Now they act like he is a serial liar and a terrible person. Just like Trump his followers have a consistency problem. They can't keep their stories straight because they have to adjust them every few hours to stick it to the libs in a new way. + +They are okay with serial liars, as long as the liar's name is Trump. + +It is the purest form of Party Before Country I have ever heard.",1 +"A parent who let their emotions get the better of them.. Imagine that. + +The sense of entitlement is astounding. A tiny percentage of Oak Harbor residents use the facility in question (the regulars), and an even smaller fraction use the services of this swim coach, yet the general mass is supposed to openly support their hobby with an open wallet? Are you kidding? OHN... + +Parents want it? Let them pay for it. The time has come and gone for the general taxpayer to support them whims of parents just because they think their child might benefit. You chose to have kids, you spend the money to raise them. + +If the pool can't support itself it needs to go away. Too many levies. Ridiculous.",1 +"Wow, another of the biggest pigs is fleeing the hog wallow! Time to impeach the head pig.",1 +"And your point is? +Who is it in Canada now that you think lacks equality under the law? +Or are you just looking for yet another reason to whine and complain, and imagine unfairness where none exists? +Because you are promoting precisely the same type of division and hatred and contempt that you claim to oppose. +That, my friend, is the politics of hate, and it's game you're playing most deceitfully. +It's a game that will lead to a very destructive outcome, to the point that already we are seeing the benefits of the community that the Ukrainians and others worked so hard to build now being eroded. +Adult children who have NO IDEA how fortunate and spoiled they are, are so busy having tantrums about imagined unfairnesses they are completely unprepared for the real dangers of an increasingly unstable world. +So enjoy the whining while you can, because if you keep it up for much longer, you'll look back in 10 years with profound regret at what you've lost, through stupidity and infantilism.",1 +"The direct result of just to many stupid coming to Alaska, even a goat isn't safe. Sad sad story and for no other reason than people with no consideration any more. I imagine if it was a bear you would find the same dumb people pushing the limit. Makes one sick.",1 +"typical left wing loser, live with less or we will come after you fascist mentality,, and yet you get to vote, thats the real problem,",1 +give me a break. I will answer when the Donald releases his tax returns. Stop making excuses for this liar in chief! You can repeat all you want but it won't change the fact that you voted for a Clown as president.,1 +Your full of crap,1 +"I would welcome all the illegals if they don't need support of any way, shape or form from taxpayers. That means they just live here, and we treat them as if they were self-reliant strangers that don't help from us. That is how liberal I am. + +But since these illegals do need help from us in terms of housing, food, education, medical care and so on and so forth, it is very expensive to just let any tom, dick and harry to come into this country and deprive needy Canadians of the support that they deserve from the government. I say seal the border and shut out the illegals. That is how conservative I am. + +You bleeding-heart liberals and religious fanatics, go ahead and sponsor your illegals. But don't expect me and the other taxpayers contribute one dime to your liberal cause. And please open your own houses to these illegals, and feed them and house them. And do not complain if they rob your blind.",1 +"@ AlwaysThere,,,,, That's exactly the level of moronic thinking displayed by ignorant Prohibes I've come to expect.",1 +The Globe and Mail should be sued for publishing this type of mind rotting garbage. No wonder their subscription rates are plummeting. This is tabloid trash OPED in its finest hour.,1 +"It is amazing that anyone would vote for a person with absolutely no political experience. Why would anyone think anyone could come in with zero experience in politics and be successful is beyond me. The Donald is truly an embarrasement. We will probably lose our leadership role in the world to China and perhaps Russia. Sad. + +I was not a Hillary supporter but I voted for her as at least she knows what she is doing. The Donald acts like he has no clue most of the time. What an embarrasement. A real shame that republicans have no leaders like Eisenhower. Hell even Nixon and Dole have been rejected. Pathetic.",1 +Some how we are supposed to believe everything Indians and blacks say. In my neighbourhood every Indian is up to no good besides the drinking and drugs and sneaking into apartment buildings at night and defecating and urinating in the stair wells. Blacks have accosted me a number of times . Of course I racial profile.,1 +"God's children are killed all the time in US military actions - now that's hypocrisy. + +Obama didn't bomb for many reasons, one being the complexity of the situation in Syria. Trump just bombed Assad, the enemy of ISIS, - the terror group he campaigned on eradicating. That's not just hypocrisy, it's stupidity.",1 +"Hey John, +Perhaps you aren't aware that the majority of assault and rape is committed by Alaskan Natives. Whats that again about lawlessness? Maybe you should spend some time in bush villages with these noble savages and get away from evil white people for awhile and see how it goes.",1 +"Putin, to his credit, seems to understand that retaliation will get him nowhere. + +He can deny all he wants but unless he can convince America that Russia did not interfere in the recent election his denials and retaliations are to no avail. The American public is just waking up to the notion that the Russians interfered with the election. Things can only get worse if Putin throws gasoline on the fire. + +Americans may be stupid but they are not that stupid as to be duped for long. Eventually they figure things out. + +Russia was stupid to think it would not be found out or that there were no consequences if it was.",1 +Well he is a terrorist.................... Donald. LOL,1 +NUTS! You have got to be kidding? Pardoning a TRAITOR? Should be in front of a firing squad!,1 +Trump is a faithless negotiator. Plain and simple.,1 +They hit pay dirt. Trump is scum. The problem for Clinton was everyone knew she was bad as well. Both political parties are rather lame and mostly care about enriching themselves at taxpayers expense. The Trump Administration spends millions illegally taking military jets for joy rides.,1 +"Many cities and corporations said they will move ahead with energy conservation anyway. So why did we need a Paris Accord? We have done more than any country in the world. Why do the taxpayers of the U.S. have to send $3 billion a year to countries like China and India who are not required to do anything for years? The Paris Accord has no, repeat, no penalties for not following the terms of the Accord. It's an honor system. Can you believe it? An honor system! Many advised Trump to stay in the agreement and just not follow it rather than leaving it. What a joke. One of the worst Secretary's of State, Kerry, said kids will have asthma because of it. HA! HA! HA! CNN said we have abdicated our role as the world's leader. FakeNews.com and it's many wholly owned subsidiaries are throwing a massive tantrum which is hilarious to watch. The scary thing is, many people believe them. The world is pissed because the dumb, rich kid, just got smart.",1 +"WanchFaised, the FEDS actions from start to finish says one thing. PREMEDITATED MURDER ! Their actions say nothing but they planned to kill them, the 2 girls screwed that plan up. Obama & Co. wanted to make an example of them. You keep lying to yourself, and lying for tyrants, supporting a traitor makes you a traitor. Don't worry if they are successful in their NWO COMMIE takeover, you can be proud you helped destroy your own country, BE PROUD ! There is one thing you should know, TRAITORS always get shot in the back of the head when their little task is complete. Anyone with a little sense knows a person that sells out his own country, hell he can't be trusted, why worry about it.. BOOM !",1 +"If only the poor fools mindlessly donating to camh actually knew the festering evil and corruption that exists within its ranks and the way it treats its front line employees like cattle. The place is about making money, not making people mentally healthier.",1 +"Just another way to support our troops by taking away their opportunities. Stupid kids, don't they realize fortunes are for old rich guys that already have plenty?",1 +"Again with the whining. It's always about him and the perceived American victimhood. They signed a deal and continued to break its rules. Got called on it and continued to break them anyway. Now it's all about the big bad Mexico and Canada out to get the poor white working class. Meanwhile it's the Republican party and ultra wealthy oligarch like Trump that have been taking advantage of the resentment they themselves fostered. Trump is just pandering to racists, idiots and cowards.",1 +"All that praying has shown to be effective in stopping violence around the world. Certainly no terrorist incidents in the USA; nor is there any more violent weather that kills so many and destroys so many other lives. Praying!!! Yep, that solves everything. If we can do enough then nobody will be subjected to violence ever again ... of course this doesn't include all the priests and other religious professionals who abuse and rape the children under their care. Cos that's just part of God's plan right? + +Buy a clue god-nutter. Your beliefs are mythical. There is no magic man in the sky looking out for you and continuing to believe that nonsense only keeps people from taking responsibility for their own lives. Nice freaking excuse ... god/satan made me do it!!",1 +"Paul, the ocean level has risen about 4 inches in about 150 years. The BS spewed about the tiny rise causing problems and requiring relocation is nonsense.",1 +Lock this young man up until he outgrows his childish rage!,1 +"Bombardier is as crooked as a dog's hind leg, maybe more so, and when you get the spectacle of May, Trudeau and Canada's ambassador to the US huffing and puffing you just know that Bombardier is being as crooked as usual, a bit like most Quebec corporations and the Quebec government. Go Boeing.",1 +"That's a similar argument to ""Better to get stabbed in the leg than shot in the stomach"". + +There's no justification for either one.",1 +Hope he does it will add nicely to his zero legacy and public support will be zero for this loser.,1 +"You are right, I'm glad that it was Trump who sent those 59 missiles into Iraq, that sure sent a message...Mess with the Bull, you get the Horns, and hopefully the Arse stays out of it...#MAGA",1 +hope you sue these bastards for slander,1 +I hope there will be a way to block it. I don't want my 'phone clogged with government crap.,1 +"You must be referring to her highnass, evil, foul-mouthed, liar and power hungry HRC.",1 +"Only a chump would think that Orange and the Russians did NOT discuss how the Russians could help the orange campaign. + +Orange, not having an ethical bone in his body, would see nothing wrong with it.",1 +"""There are no other words....."" +-------------------------------------- +Actually there are: abhorrent, repugnant, repulsive, detestable, disgusting, insane, hateful, objectionable, crazy ... among others!",1 +Donal Trump is simply pathetic.,1 +"Nothing will happen now until the results of next month's election are known. + +My money is on Mayor Nenshi. Ken King is about as maladroit as it gets when it comes to playing politics in the full glare of an election campaign.",1 +"Interesting to see you've swallowed the whole fear-mongered inner city he'll hole lie. I live in a Democrat led town. Lowest unemployment in the US. I walk around freely. +I can always tell who has never traveled. I travel alot and the America portrayed by the fear-mongering idiots is NOT the America that is out there.",1 +"Yup I go by stupid is as stupid does. + +Germany is a representative democracy whose elected members should have been using reason in legislation but instead followed the hysterical mob. Witness the destruction caused by the Brexit vote and BC's transit referendum. + +Trump's visceral hatred of government regulation may be just the ticket to a science based nuclear revival - serendipity. + +In the US, 97% of the staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission are lawyers 3% scientists and engineers. Big Oil owns American politicians like Obama to the point that it takes only a few months to get approval for a gas plant that will murder thousands of its local neighbours with air pollution while a nuke plant that may save tens of thousands of lives by replacing a coal facility takes ten years to gain approval. + +Here's real science, peer reviewed and published in reputable journal, denouncing Merkel's wind/solar plan. + +Google ""renewable-energy-national-academy-matt-jacobson""",1 +"""Taking liberties"" with the facts is vastly different from brazenly making things up...which is what Trump has been doing...not only in his campaign, but in his business dealings as well. If he wasn't wealthy he'd be just another mentally ill man babbling to himself and everyone passing by while he stood at an intersection with his cardboard sign.",1 +"Champlain most likely was a dirty stinking scraggly looking frog with dirty teeth and bad breath - most european explorers were bums - columbus was more than a bum - he was also an asshole and butcher /savage - these ""explorers"" were probably disfunctional overseas so they hopped in a boat and hoped for the best - probably didn't even care if they died....I wish the dumb dirty europeans and french never came here and left paradise and the natives alone----",1 +"This is cover up from the judiciary and FBI . So why they don't want to release of those document and so the people knows if is true what CHRISTOPER STEELE accusation to the PRESIDENT TRUMP before it's true . And yet now they are investigating the president with this RUSSIAN COLLUSION , Why did COMEY and the Democrat people ACCUSED PRESIDENT HAD AFFAIR OF THE WOMAN IN RUSSIA. AND YET NO IVEDENCE ABOUT IT . And the F.B.I don't want to tell us the truth . So no wonder those democrat they want SESSION TO STEP ASIDE BECAUSE HE WILL OBJECT THIS ACCUSITION . COMEY IS THE BRAIN IN THIS RUSSIAN INVISTIGATION . AND SISSION IS OUT. THIS SECOND MAN OF SISSION IS DUMP AND STUPID TOO . That he got manipulated with the DEMOCRAT PEOPLE . Why he hired MULLER that he was the same with COMEY . Now the PRESIDENT TRUMP HAD NO PEOPLE HE CAN TRUST ANYMORE. THAT PERSON WHO REPLACE COMEY . WHY ALL THIS PEOPLE THAT PRESIDENT HIRED ARE ALL NOT FOR HIM TO HELP HIM. THE JUDICIARY PEOPLE JUST WANT THE TRUTH .",1 +"Charles Blowhard. Thanks for your faith in the new prez. Like all anti Trumpers, he isnt even sworn in yet and you and your ilk have already sold him down the tubes. The NY Times is such a liberal, biased rag that it couldn't report a damn thing accurately and truthfully, if the editors lives themselves depended on it.",1 +"Oh, then why did Clinton get close to 2 million-and possibly more--votes than Trump? Doesn't sound like a mandate to me. Sounds like a lie perpetrated by a con artistist and his thugs.",1 +he is on videotape saying he wanted to Russia to leak info on Clinton? I didnt think someone could be this dumb until I read your post.,1 +"You mean science that says gay and trans people exist? And that they should be treated equally and with the same compassion and respect as all people should be? + +Nice try andy but your fear mongering and hyperbole are absurd. No one is trying to ""steer innocent and confused children and adolescents towards irreversible gender re-assignment surgery"". + +Your characterization of science's ""deafening silence"" is ridiculous. In fact it's the research on sex and gender that has helped us better understand LGBT people and tear down prejudice against them. The cure you need is for bigotry and prejudice. + +The real objective truth and natural law is that homosexuality exists, human sexuality is a spectrum, and that teens will have sex just as they have been doing for millennia. Denying that and vilifying people who don't fit your narrow world view is simply no longer acceptable. + +The irony of you suggesting that I be open to those concepts while displaying your own closed attitude is rich indeed.",1 +"It would appear that even our Chief of Defence Staff lives in fear of incurring the tyrannical wrath of the politically correct Trudeau PMO. How pathetic. + +I disagree completely with their misbegotten view of things but they have every right to counter-protest on their own time in civilian attire.",1 +"I agree with nigelnigel: ""Trump seems to want a war with N. Korea"" +And you're cheering from the sidelines while swallowing whole the stupid notion that Hillary Clinton sold uranium to Russia. She didn't. +Every time Trump gets in hot water, his groupies whine about Hillary.",1 +"Wait until after the inauguration. Then you'll see real chaos. + +Yes. Universities will burn in violence as liberal arts students fight agonist Trump. Cities across America will go wild in violent confrontations with law enforcement as the left has a temper tantrum. Blacks and Mexicans immigrants across America will riot and burn their own communities and loot stores. Oceans of tears will flow on CNN.",1 +"No, it's not 'there'. And you can't provide any source. It's a lie. + +A bald faced lie that you and the other poster can't back up. + +You should be ashamed. But you probably can't conceive of the very concept.",1 +"What an ugly, racist thing to say. I don't know of any white Americans who celebrate the ""genocide of Native America"" on Thanksgiving Day or any other day. Can you name some for us icon?",1 +"F-off McCarthy...give the people 2700 pages burnt in the dumpster (to large for the largest garbage can) you promised and proving you're a chicken-sh...* you and the RINO's. After 8 years of big talk...turns out your just a bunch of pussies who need to put your pink pussy hats on. +Give American's a good bill and you'll have all kinds of votes. You haven't learned a damn thing yet. You, and Hillary have the same problems blaming everyone but you!",1 +"there's a special place in hell for people like him, right next to Peter Boy's parents.",1 +"I think it's pretty reasonable for this type of talk to emerge given what's just happened the last week. Elway has never fooled around and goofed off when it came to football. He makes his decisions and he expects a player to give 100% effort just like any GM does. It's obvious that Lynch wasn't setting the world on fire like Sloter did. It's all about mental toughness from your number 1 position. So far I don't think anyone can say that Siemian isn't showing this toughness. We all saw it from Sloter. We caught a few glimpses of it from Osweiler in his first starts as a Bronco.Can't say that Lynch has shown any signs yet, but to be fair he has pretty high expectations. Sometimes players lose that mental edge and hard to get it back in focus. In my eyes Lynch lost confidence when it wasn't happening and coming together for him. We'll see if Owsweiler can answer the bell if he gets called upon. I liked Osweiler, but I knew that I didn't want Elway to overpay. Houston was pretty dumb.",1 +"Most ignorant thing you have said. No one is ""turned' by sex-ed unless they are already gay. This assumption that everyone is naturally hetero is just false._Any_who_can_are_bisexual.",1 +"Actually, they were the smart women who did not believe the matriarchy who call everything rape and everything misogyny. + +Oh, by the way, it has been two minutes and I haven't been raped.",1 +and an ignorant left winger spews some more stupidity,1 +"To say that our country is being run by a bunch of children would be an insult to children! Those members of Congress who accuse POTUS of being petty and un-Presidential should take a long hard look at themselves. Voting for a bill only when they know it will not be signed is cowardly. It's way past time for the American voter to drain the swamp of these elite, self-serving deplorables who call themselves ""public servants"".",1 +"How do you know the criminal Greenlee is a 'wealthy white conservative'? All I gathered from the article is he is white (due to a mug shot). + +Some would take the assumption that he is more progressive because he was involved in a grow operation. AS IF IT MATTERS! + +I really wish people would stop labeling. The guy is a criminal, he has no wealth (anymore) and he killed someone in cold blood. + +It doesn't matter whether you lean right, left, up or down. HE'S A CRIMINAL! + +Both sides of the fence are disgusting me with the labeling someone based on their political views. We are a lot more than just what we think politically. Good frickin grief!!!",1 +"Why? Somebody is stupid enough to pay you tonnes of dosh, take the $ and run, laugh your head off.",1 +Really? Then why is the NRA not standing up for the black man that legally possessed a concealed weapon and was shot and killed when he was trying to retrieve his ID seems to me if it was a white guy that was shot the NRA would be standing out screaming but since it was a black guy you haven't heard a word out of the NRA about the persons right to a Concealed weapon and not be shot and killed by the police remember the black man was a legal gun owner With a legal concealed permit he was following instructions reaching for his ID which was in his back pocket when he was shot repeatedly by some loser cop......,1 +"The words ""Hillary"" and ""Qualified"" are oxymorons. Only morons use those words in the same sentence.",1 +Stuff your dictatorial crap.,1 +"Hammer them relentlessly like they do you daily, don't stop until they grow up and stop behaving like children.",1 +Sessions appears to be the norm within Trumps bunch of liars! When will the total truth come out with these amoral people?,1 +"Let's quit talking and do something about no hopers +Drug traffickers are murders and terrorist exicute them",1 +"Boy, sure sound rosy posy, don't they? Too much, in my view. They talk like snakes.",1 +That's all the liberal MSM is good for firing off relentless insults on TV and then whine and cry when they are insulted back. Liberal Hypocrites.,1 +"Statues are for heroes. When you erect statues of villains you glorify their accomplishments as heoic. The primary accomplishment of the confederacy and its leaders who are now enshrined in statuary around the South was to secede and start a civil war with America for the purpose of retaining slavery against an entire race. By glorifying that, those who erected and those who support them today are tacitly stating that if we had our way we would again endeavour to return to those days of total white race dominance. Of course we can't, so we have these statues in our public places to tell the world what we still believe in. These bigoted white supremacists who took up arms in the name of slavery are our heroes. Surely the southern states have other truly noble humanitarian heroes who's stories would be better told in the public parks throughout the south than these abhorrent symbols of apartheid and racial cruelty.",1 +"Mason, I've graced those trashy towns too. All of them. Gulfport, MS., was the worst…..almost got lynched there for walking down the sidewalk. Nineteen and '72 that was. Boy howdy Mason ya'll.",1 +"Trump, as insane as he is, is simply a puppet of Steve Bannon who once called Trump ""a useful tool"" for furthering his extremist agenda. +Fortunately, at least until Trump gets his Supreme Court pick, there is still one institution of government that can retain some sanity in America. The House and Senate with Republican majorities are bought and paid for, so don't expect them to reign in Bannon.",1 +"A Trump promise may be as worth as a degree from Trump University, his election may have reduced America to an object of ridicule, his pronouncements may baffle friend and foe, but no one should accuse the Donald (or his handlers) of stupidity. + +Whether it is a few Tomahawks on Syria to shore up lagging popularity numbers, tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber to satisfy protectionists or slashed corporate taxes to delight his elite supporters, the Donald does what needs to be done to hold on to power. + +That it risks alienating trade partners, heralding WWIII, destroying the environment or impoverishing the masses are negligible details.",1 +"The Iranian leadership laughed at Obama. Today I laugh at this article!! Bennett, you are silly and lost at best!!",1 +"This is typical ""Ding Bat"" Honolulu! +So you want to defy Homeland Security and POTUS? Just because Hillary did not get the seat....!! Honolulu wants to follow (Sheep) and be like San Francisco! +People....California is broke!!! No money...Brown is running the ""49th"" State with a ""Credit Card""! +Looks like Hawaii wants to aspire to the level of California? Why? Dumb!!",1 +"So, if pet owners are to stupid to follow the laws in place, then we'll enact new laws to see if the trappers are smart enough to follow the rules??? Then do pet owners get to keep their animals on 190 foot leashes? +I love the photo. The sign says it all...",1 +"If they repeal it altogether they are going to be SO screwed. I almost hope they do. The sound of Trumpnut squeals as they realize what they've done to themselves, their parents, their kids and grandkids. etc. will be music to my ears. Ahhhhhhhhh.",1 +"The data are provided in the NHS, and the majority of purposes build rental buildings are pre 1991. Thanks the the threat of rent controls, changes in tax laws and putting up with problem tenants and the inability to evict them quickly, almost nobody is willing to invest in purpose build rental buildings. +All Politicians are Crooks is correct and you Capital Obvious don't know what you are taking about.",1 +Poor economy = fewer jobs = more time on one's hands = more sex = more STDs,1 +"The Alaska Legislature doesn't need anymore new or old oil soaked clowns. Birch is a wannabe oil soaked clown. No thanks, Mr. Birch.",1 +"That is the dumbest thing I ever heard. Jews have no interest in saying merry christmas and the sooner you get that through your thick skull, the sooner this will be a non-issue.",1 +Does anyone really care about the name-calling the democrats use to describe a conservative? Except of course the left wing media and others trapped in the same smelly bubble.....,1 +Shoot every one of these bastards.,1 +"None of this is about Hillary Clinton. There is no ongoing investigation of her, and the previous investigation of he private server, though very thorough, revealed nothing that merited prosecution. That is, in fact, the end of that story, and your attempted diversion of the discussion is a red herring. + +Eugene Robinson is a genius next to you. The main investigation is of the Russian interference in the last election. Comey said that it s a fact, and that it ""went all the way to the top"", meaning Putin. Trumps connections and transactions with Russia, which we know are many, will be investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller, and neither you knor anyone can tell at this point what they will reveal, so the ""crap"" is coming from you. At this point we and the world know that Trump lied to us and then lied about lying. That's no surprise. It now seems likely that we will see Trump's books for the first time since 2008. I suspect Trump owes more than he owns, which cont'd....",1 +"Gross. +Water, barley, hops and yeast. + +That is all you need to make a great beer. Quit putting garbage in beer.",1 +"Yes putting your company in bankruptcy and not paying all smaller vendors so they also default clearly shows how Trump ""gets it"". He gets it - but his definition of that word is not to give a crap about anyone but himself. His mouth talks but his action speaks......",1 +"If a white entertainer wrapped a noose around, and hung a little black kid in a video you and your ""ilk"" would be singing a different tune. + +LMAO",1 +"If somebody produced a video of Trump performing a sexual act on Putin you'd claim it was faked... +Such is your blind belief in the snake oil salesman...",1 +Are you a White Guy pretending to be an Indian?,1 +"“Thank you for using both official languages,” Mr. Trudeau told Judy Ross, “but we’re in Quebec, so I’m going to answer in French.” + +Wow. + +Well, thank you for your attempt at being Prime Minister, Mister drama teacher, but in a few years we're going to answer you at the ballot box. And don't let the porte hit your derriere on the way out...",1 +"Good god, who actually still thinks this. Give me a break, this is just utterly stupid.",1 +"AP headlines ?""Top News"" +Nice try AP/ Fake News ,deviate from the real news and just go back to the same play book. This is the democrats strategy. Democrats must be saying.""We lost a huge one last night,but let's continue attacking president Trump."" They forget a lot of the wins the GOP are getting IS because of POTUS Trump. The Dems can forget about 2018 and of course 2020. No body likes a Sore Loser! + +Democrats need to break out of this delusional mentality it's becoming chronic and harmful to their own party..It's a Sickness! +The people are on to their Game. The game of hatred and divide. The game of Obstruct and Resist. +I'd like to see how the Senate Committee will rule on Mueller's stance that there is ""No Conflict of Interest"".Puhleez. +If everyone has done their home work and knows The Bromance between Comey/Mueller which has existed for quite sometime, Mueller should recuse himself, However,if they come to some other conclusion? Is there really No Conflict of Interest? IMUA",1 +"I agree. Calling all democrats liars, thrives, vicious, etc. is anything but civil discourse",1 +Typical Canadian hypocrisy under the guise of impartiality.,1 +"I know, right? + +I saw Trump's tweets come up on my feed this morning as he posted them and just could not believe it. It's beyond idiocy, the guy is losing it.",1 +"The people of Alaska deserve less money for programs and services that benefit them. - Rep. Mike Hawker, apparently. What an idiot.",1 +"I know! Maybe not Parker specifically, but the pent-up anti-rich-christian animosity was certainly ready to burst at it's seems, wasn't it? ...my sentence was kind of like stabbing a shovel into a piece of bloated road-kill.",1 +"The lying thieves in HART get what they want ALL THE TIME regardless... WHY do they need a MARKETING BUDGET?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! + +Death to HART!!!!",1 +"""Corrupt or dumb"" Ever heard of the CBC?",1 +"""The acknowledging of white privilege is a simple, intellectual acknowledgement of the cultural and structural barriers that people of colour sometimes face. It's child's play to understand the point. My adopted black son gets approached by police more often than white kids. "" + +Hello Toulouse. + +There is an American book called ""Fundamentals of Criminal Justice: A Sociological View"", and on Page 69 of that book it is pointed out that 90.1 Percent of black murder victims were killed by black offenders (even though black folks make up only about 13 percent of the US population). + +Got that, Toulouse? In the dangerous streets out there that you mention, a black person is about ten times more likely to be killed by a black killer than by a white killer. + +Would you like to run by us one more time how ""white privilege"" makes the mean streets a dangerous place for black folks?",1 +And typical phony conservative response that things can be accomplished for free. It is easy to say get rid of the dead weight but the fact remains that the public schools probably cost less than half the good private schools and it is stupid to ignore this difference.,1 +"Based on your answer, I guess that I asked another stupid question and got another stupid answer. + +Here is the answer, if you vote for a democrat or a republican then you are shooting yourself in the foot.",1 +"What absolute nonsense! Coming from this mutt and his leanings as a Dimmocrat, it's 'par for the course'. First, Colorado drivers licenses, now, 'a fund for legal aid for 'illegal aliens' to fight deportation' Here Illegally, broke the laws of our nation, and this 'mayor' sets up a 'fund' for their legal plight, what absolute nonsense. Has anyone ever debated this 'mayor'? He's a real dope, and the embarrassment would be entertaining.",1 +Trump is a lame duck against North Korea,1 +"Why is it a silly argument? If I was a baker and some christian guy wanted me to write something on a cake that was derogatory towards gays, I would refuse to do so. Are you saying I should be sued for standing up for homosexuals? Should I be sued because I won't tolerate bigotry? +The Little Guy",1 +"Yes, Dick has shown his hypocrisy more than once on ADN.",1 +"I don't think you understand that those who have died defending American freedoms and the Constitution died so that peaceful protests could happen. You're ignorant. And tonight once again proved that it's racism and bigotry, not patriotism that's the issue when Jerry Jones and the Cowboys kneeled BEFORE the anthem and were still booed by the racist bigots.",1 +"""Are you seriously comparing BLM to white supremacists?"" + +Oh, heck yeah. Both groups, along with La Raza, are disgusting racists groups.",1 +"""Let them fight""? Utter hypocrisy to advocate this when you arm and finance their enemies. ""The liberal hates himself."" Find a liberal to complain to. I'm not a liberal. Most are as useless as the self-worshiping, hypocritical ""super-patriots"" who embrace the satanic fallacy of ""anna khairum min'hum""--""I'm BETTER than him."" It rationalizes their bloodiest atrocities, and ultimately it WILL destroy them. Military ""superiority"" and the economic largess derived from it doesn't automatically equal cultural, social, ethical, moral or spiritual superiority. All it means is that your ""superior"" at killing and stealing. And that is ALWAYS a temporary situation.",1 +"I think the media is sickened by having to report the constant stream of pathological lies from our fake president, like the stream of absurdly unconvincing ones about Bob Corker. Stories about Obama only seem like love notes after the infantile vituperation coming from the Mad King.",1 +"You're as petty and childish as your hero trump, aren't you? + +And did I say anything about trump's collusion with the russians? I'm willing to wait for the conclusions of robert mueller's investigation.",1 +"So Trump should trust the mainstream media to report the truth? Really? Now I'm laughing out loud. + +So why is the RG just repeating WPost articles written for a paper (Bezos owned) that has an agenda? Do they not have the ability in a college town with a journalism school to ferret out real reporting? Instead, the continual Trump bashing by an often paid segment of the population hosted from the East to the West coast wears so thin that it almost smacks of yellow journalism. + +No wonder the drive for alt news sources are skyrocketing. How dumb do they think we are? Here's to the news!",1 +We are falling into the rhetoric of the US left / right dichotomy and the press does nothing to discourage this. Foolishness.,1 +"I agree! +What is this nonsense? Did Jesus ever talk to Cesar how to run earthly politics? +‘Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. …My kingdom is not of this realm.”’ + (John 18:36) +Besides, what can Pope F advise to American president Trump? +Trump very well advise Pope F. to turn over pedophile clergies to CJS. +LOLOLOLOL!!!!! +Besides, who can advise the Pope what he should do/say to anyone let alone the president of US!!!",1 +"Yes! I, a deplorable, basement-dwelling, bucket of idiot, b@st@rdized Catholic, needy Latino, everyday American Black super predator, Muslim ne’er-do-well sand Negro, shall vote for Clinton. She shall unite us all — just like she promised at the convention! +I know that the Russians are trying to rig our elections by telling everyone how we tried to rig our elections. +It does not matter that Bill turned the White House into a brothel, lied to Congress, and was disbarred for perjury, then had to make a nearly $1,000,000 settlement. Bill is not running for president; his enabler is. +There is no story here!",1 +"God. Democrats are sick, sick people! Why would this pass along party lines? It should have been UNANIMOUS!",1 +Unbelievably dumb! She should sue United and the employees involved.,1 +Get him out of there! Lock him up! Lock him up! Lock him up!,1 +A man of principle. It must be sickening to see destroyed essential safeguards to try to prevent another 2008 event.,1 +"Apparently being held by Muslim Terrorists didn't prevent these two fools from procreating during the ordeal, numerous times, and subjecting their children to the same hell that they were in. What a couple of morons.",1 +"The real world isn't like being a reality TV show host with a twitter account is it? + +Let's hope this kind of absurdity doesn't lead to something devastating like a war because he heard some random crap a talk show host said.",1 +Well based on Mellerstig's behavior I feel threatened by him. Based on his logic I can shoot him.,1 +There's already more than enough there to run Dolt 45 out of office and then arrest him. If the Republicans weren't so craven and settled on taking away health care from millions of Americans in order to give a tax cut to the wealthy he would be gone already.,1 +"John Tory is just whinging again because his Blow Jays and Laffs both stink, methinks. + +Losers +Even +After +Fifty +Seasons",1 +"who cares what date it is? Seriously, 9-11 didn't touch most people in colorado as it was 2000 miles away. Kiz is just trying to do his usual crap.",1 +"Wasn't aware that there was such an interview but thanks; I found both on yahoo. The 2015 interview was almost unbelievable. When someone mentioned that a poll showed a fifth of the people in Indonesia, rightly considered one of the more moderate Muslim countries, favoured honour killings, she started talking about how Americans are so dumb. Far be it from her to attack people who believe in honour killings. But you can see why she would be sympatico with Justin ""Get the f--k out of my way"" Trudeau. The first time in the House of Commons he drew attention to himself was when as Liberal citizenship and immigration critic he strenuously objected to honour killings and female genital mutilation being described in the new citizenship guide as barbaric cultural practices.",1 +Jews who supported Trump are as loathsome as gays like Peter Thiel or transgendered people like Caitlyn Jenner who did so. I have no use for any of them.,1 +Screw you Kitty Piercy. I'm glad I moved.,1 +A criminal family syndicate!,1 +"The problem with these idiot ""social justice warriors"" is that they're a know nothing class, hell-bent on destroying anything ""old"" or having to do with the founding of this country. In their eyes, everyone before them is/was evil and they must rid society of any sign these people ever existed. They are nothing more than anarchist criminals and terrorist, no better than ISIS and the Nazis. Too bad vandalism isn't punishable by death, especially when caught in the act.",1 +"Thata boy Trump, show just how stupid you are and scream just how guilty you and your gang are of treason.",1 +"muckamuck, Putin is Trump's ventriloquist.",1 +"Hmm, only one race will be recognized in building this highway?? Now that is about as racist as you can get!! +Its like only one race dedicating a history month to themselves or even a entertainment channel to only one race!!??",1 +"sober women have had sex with me when I was drunk, sometimes I woke up beside a gargoyle and regreted it, but that was my mistake for getting black out drunk, she didn't rape me",1 +Nothing. He's a useless piece of s***.,1 +Is there a cure for stupid? 50% of the fires were caused by people. Ditches really work well when glowing cinders are blowing 100 yards or more.,1 +There was nothing remotely uncivil about that post. In fact it was quite a civil response to Stephen Saines' gratuitous insult above. The censorship here is shameful.,1 +"And the best part is Obama and Bush carried out basically the same foreign policy of disastrous misadventures in the Middle East. Obama spent more and racked up more debt than all previous presidents combined. Race relations are worse than they were since the 1960's. His only legacy other than destruction of our influence and stature is a failed healthcare law which no one likes save a few true believers. All propped up by a dishonest and complicit media who can't criticize the first ""black"" president. These guys are still blaming Bush, who was also a nightmare.",1 +"Leave me out of your ""we"". I have not voted for that clown for a lot of years.",1 +keep calling me a bimbo - it just makes you look more insane for not knowing how to even read a dictionary.,1 +"Load of shiat. You are not Canadian in the first place, you have been ignorant from the get-go. Take your lobbying elsewhere. Temporary foreign workers are supposed to be sent home anyways and we USE HYDRO you IGNORANT.",1 +"Then you do not know many people or are lying through your teeth. I live in Eagle River and work in town. I run into many, many more Trump supporters than Hillary Supporters, I run into a lot of Johnson supporters also. I get it, people that flock together vote similarly, but saying that you know no one voting for anything other than your own candidate is asinine.",1 +"""...The ""Russian Dossier"" is a garbage document and should have never been shown to the President..."" + + Bob Woodward + + And it was this ""document"" that the FBI's James Comey based his investigation of President Trump on. This transcript needs to be released to the public as soon as humanly possible...",1 +"Lets gentrify Spenard and destroy everything that makes it popular. They already ripped down PJ's, and are building low income housing there. Who do they think is going to move in there it should be storefronts. Now it's going to be drug houses. The owner of Pj's was selling coke and breaking the law but PJ's served as a resource for old, ugly, pregnant, one boob'd cancer survivors to earn another boob, or to make a living. It was a landmark, and a source of $6 pitchers of beer cheapest in Spenard, and questionable entertainment. Guess they will go back to hooking on Spenard. Don't forget drinking, hookers, bars, and cocaine are a huge part of Spenards history past&present.",1 +"So, the learned idiots on the Supreme Court want to have trucks full of ILLEGALS dying of heat in the summers and freezing in the winters! Nice! When did Colorado become SoCal?",1 +"From the state run Global Times ---“In the field of diplomacy, he is as ignorant as a child.” +They seem to understand Trump very well.",1 +"This is ridiculous. It's not like he was buying himself surfboards, going to nightclubs or on family vacations. It is/was to support a community activity. Why would this be a bad thing to support a healthy lifestyle (other than the possible after game refreshments) lifestyle and community involvement?",1 +"Another boondoggle by a foreign country to get the American and Alaska government to build them a road so they can rob the Alaskan resources. +How much of this the state have to put up with? Americans should build a road especially at a time in Alaska when we are laying off people and have big time budget problems. This too smells like a smokescreen to take the attention off of Pebble where still another Canadian company wants to dig and take out more Alaskan gold and resources. Is Alaska and it's people so stupid that they aren't getting the picture. Do we initiate taxes so that we can pay for this robbery?",1 +Ironic don't you think that a half white / half black president only served to bring more separation. I never could figure out why he identified more as a black person............,1 +"Ok all you NDP ""LEAP"" manifesto types, where is your hero Naomi Klein? Her fawning adoration of Chavez and Venezuelan thuggery knows no bounds. I'm sure she's awfully hysterical over the thought that such a pathetic dictstorship could ever be sanctioned.",1 +"0bama was way to much of a weak chickens**t to do anything, thus the problem we are facing now.",1 +"I thought that the orthodox position was that ""the Sacrament of Matrimony is an exclusive life commitment between a man and woman"". Now you tell me that is heresy. + +Climate change deniers are not heretics. Idiocy is not the same as heresy.",1 +"I'll take a wait and see attitude for now but it scared the s**t out of me when I heard him heap praise on the Dreamers. This is not the Trump I followed all through the campaign! I know a President can only do so much, but, face it, there have been no great Legislative victories since he became POTUS? And you can only blame the RINOS so much. He'd better get Taxes, the border Wall and this DACA thing right or he'll lose my support and tens of millions of other decent hard working Americans who put him in there. Let's stop blaming the media, too. They've always sucked. Trump won with all those arseholes all lined up against him. What does that tell y'all? Lets be honest, there may come a time when we'll have to put the blame where it really belongs, right in his lap. But I pray that doesn't happen. AMEN",1 +"Speak for yourself, you are an embarrassment to Canada.",1 +you are full of poo!!!!!,1 +So crazy. Donald Trump isn't anybody's pocket. Will take the country back from special interest groups. People! He IS the pocket and the special interest group. Everything you hate that politicians supposedly do for the monied class - HE is going to DO himself because He Is The Monied Class. Why can't you see that??,1 +"Treated as equals? Here in America??? Are you kidding? The forefathers were all white folks. Most were slave owners. Some killed Native Americans as a policy. They did not include people of color in their deliberations. Only themselves and each other. You need to become educated. You are ignorant, dim-witted, and not very bright.",1 +"Socialism is dead +You parasites have killed the host +Socialism causes fat people because the nanny state does everything so these morons can't even make their own smart decisions anymore. Stop making their decisions. You are killing them. +If you let them die others will learn +Stop wasting our tax a money on deadbeats +If you socialists would just stop trying to control everything the world would right itself +You just can't stop interfering in people's lives..... +Tax the self righteous lefties +That would shut these people up",1 +"New job requirement for Denver Librarian...""must be able to administer heroin overdose meds up the nostrils of junkies passed out in the library"". Hancock is an idiot.",1 +"Ok..You had me at Charles Djou's idea to have recipients of housing vouchers be mandated to save money to buy a house. Where does he live ? No really, what city is he referring to ? Honolulu. I am literally rolling-on-the-floor-laughing-my-(unmentionable )-off. Ludicrous.",1 +"What a shock. He looks like a man of Muslim descent. +Shoot him in the liver and let him bleed out.",1 +"Schmelter, when next confronted with a potentially fatal illness or injury, will refuse any remedial measures or medicines as they are all a product of scientific research, the purview of ""social justice warriors"" and ""ec0-whacks"". + +The ignorant will always be with us.",1 +Most intelligent people dodge stupid questions.,1 +Hope for Sharia law many more beheadings and lots of rape and children being made murderers before they are nine yrs old. Yeah him and Merkel got a bond going on.,1 +"I thought he had some brains, +Our PM is a complete naïve idiot , or , he thinks we Canadians are dumb. +well , Justin, we are NOT Dumb. and we can not believe you are , therefore only one conclusion +you are CORRUPT , and you are being corrupted Chinese style",1 +Maybe you could use some advice on writing these ridiculous accusations under your own name rather than sniping and hiding.,1 +"I understand. The abuse is not that they can't vote however they want. The abuse is that there is absolutely NO, ZERO evidence that the Russians did anything. They have no evidence of anything, and are now going after anyone who ever met Trump out of desperation. LOL! How do you change an election if you do not change the voting results, machines, hacking the software, etc. Are they not allowed to have an opinion one way of the other? They had one show IN RUSSIA on our election. I don't think even one American voter saw it, so how did this change the election in trump's favor? The fact is, it didn't. And Wikileaks was not given anything by Russia. That is a fact. The dems have to have an excuse why Hillary, the worst candidate in history, who cheated, lied, stole, did everything you can do to wipe out Bernie, and then she stole 6 states, and was about to steal 5 others when the NSA stepped in and took control in the election between she and Trump. +Sorry, but it is all a ruse.",1 +Reading these comments I notice Leitch and Trump drawing out the smelly bottom swamp creatures filled with hate and racism. These creatures need to be exorcised!,1 +"Oh man, we've got to stop electing these horrid fools. Just sell it in drug stores, if it's so 'medicinal'. There is already a massive medical drug distribution system in Ontario - why the need for special distribution for weed? Real serious corruption/incompetence going on here. How are we standing for this nonsense?",1 +This entire piece reads like a white supremacy ideological manifesto.,1 +"""never thought I would see a White House supportive of Nazi propaganda"" + +It's intellectually wrong and repulsive to suggest that the White House is 'supporting Nazi propaganda'. + +These are complex issues are require thoughtful, nuanced dialogue. + +The white house should take a stronger line on these Nazis, but it doesn't make the white house 'supportive of Nazis' + +Your comment - and the thrust of the article amount a crude form of dumb bigotry, only a couple of inches better than that of the dumb-ass Nazis themselves. + +Just because one has a great deal of moral high ground, doesn't give one license to be a bigot, to spread lies, or to distort the truth.",1 +"He looked like a decent guy. Its just a damn shame. A military veteran, mental decline. Im glad no cops were killed, but I really wish this would have ended better for Mr Musser.",1 +These damn lefties are on a constant search for ways to spend taxpayer money.,1 +"Finally, you're showing your true colors, Ryan. Absolutely disgusting.",1 +"Trump Tweets Gibberish At Midnight, World Reacts +And not in a good way. +Suitable though, all in all. +What a mentally imbalanced weak and insecure buffoon.",1 +"I would not consider these troublemakers ""liberals"" in any fashion; the actual liberals stayed at the peaceful protest. For years Eugene's liberals have been plagued by these anarchists and other extremists who give liberals and Progressives a bad name, and now that our nation faces a crisis of authoritarianism we need to make clear these fools do NOT speak for us.",1 +Quisling,1 +"I'm giving the majority of the American public the intelligence to see through the left-wing liberal media's hate campaign against Trump . +If anything , their rapid rabid non-stop attacks are turning more people against them and for Trump . Again , nobody likes a sore loser .",1 +"We just got forced to give money to a belief system preaching planned parenthood which believes a child is nothing until it breaths air and that homosexuality and promiscuity are fine, even transgendering. Wake up people! Belief systems abound and need to be exposed.",1 +no.... because I wouldn't be so stupid as to go to back to Syria if I'd managed to get out in the first place. Again I ask.. how is the amount calculated.. show me that 10 million dollar's worth of harm has been inflicted?,1 +"There's a world of difference between sexual content, even vulgar sexual content, and sexual assault. I may or may not enjoy a movie with graphic sexual content, but I find nothing harmless in sexual assault, which is what Donald Trump has been accused of and admitted. Consent matters. I believe the main characters in the fictional Fifty Shades of Grey engaged in consensual activities, which makes the book and movie irrelevant to any discussion of Mr. Trump's habit of sexually assaulting women. + +And your racist dig didn't go unnoticed, Ms. Duggan.",1 +"Both of those were a long time ago; the World has changed, and, stupid lefty, I don't fit any of your stereotypes about guns, gold, or Bibles. Lefty and smart are not synonyms. Now let's see what my alleged ""peers"" think about that.",1 +"A majority of Americans never voted for Obama. Your point is??? + +Keep telling the lie about Trumps support declining. There are a few idiots in liberal la-la land that still believe it. Very few.",1 +So Hillary is the rotten banana? Hmmm....,1 +"You showed the example in the article you linked to: + +""Some people in social media even thinks that because of what Trump said, there have been a terror attack in Sweden."" + +Where did people get this idea? Trump's fake news. That's where.",1 +"Yeah, you get to talk. + +Racists, Nazis, racist Nazi Trump supporters, and you.",1 +"That's what happened when all the 'politically correct' people elected a muslim, who in himself, hated OUR country. Notice most of the protesters are black. If you don't like this country, move to North Korea....you should have one hell of a life there.",1 +"oh jumbo you clown liberal, , the ndp was a side bar over a split vote get over it. ,, but no worry they will be sent packing soon enough and all will be good in alberta yet again under torys",1 +"The ""ontologically changed"" Father Gil Gustafson is so convinced that public accountability helps the pedophile recover, that he refuses to tell us how many children he abused. Legal considerations. + +There is within Buddhist teaching a difference between compassion and what is known as idiot compassion. If Father Gustafson is recovering nicely from acting upon his temptation to sexually assault children perhaps he can take his recovery to a monastery cell to pray for all his unnamed struggling victims, their struggling families and the countless child victims of his countless colleagues who engage in his level of ontological narcissism. + +Next, will there will be discussions of recovering ontologically changed serial killers grateful for their graced recoveries? + +AW",1 +"The only problem with you was in your childhood. As Churchhill aptly said: ""When one is in their 20's if not a liberal they have no heart. If one in their 40's is still a liberal, they have no brain"" Did you fall on your head as a child? Many libs were abused and think that the whole world was abused! Not quite up to the standard of a Trump, my friend? Become a capitalist fool! lolol",1 +"Stop being ridiculous. +This is about what he did last year...",1 +"This is why everyone know Indians are liars. By what India is a ""superpower""? Let alone ""never attack"" any country? +Just ridiculous liars.",1 +"The SO registry has never made much sense to me. I need to know if a convicted SO lives nearby, but not a convicted arsonist, burglar, or murderer?",1 +"""Listen, this is where the White House has landed. +They have landed on the stupidity defense. +. +""He just didn't understand that the FBI is an independent law enforcement agency and was doing what you just described. +This is where they have landed. +This is where they have landed on foreign policy. +He just didn't understand that you don't blow the cover of undercover agents. So he didn't get the intel. +He didn't understand it was inappropriate to ask for the FBI to be the arms of your press operation and rapidly respond to stories you don't understand. +""If this is where they have landed, this is where they are going to have problems over and over again.""",1 +"Burn baby burn. +SeaTac is Ground Zero for the Democratic Resistance Movement against President Trump. +We want anarchy and violence because we lost the election and we cannot come to grips with reality. We are mindless fat white women that wear pink pussy hats. +We will burn the whole I-5 corridor until we get free healthcare and free McDonalds. Black Lives Matter. Fat White Women's Live Matter. +We are Fat and Proud. Long live Patty Murray, Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters. +Gotta go...I just farted and wet my diaper.",1 +"Canadians would be well served to wake up and oppose scum by the likes of one Angela Merkel. We've become too accepting of her nonsense, which fosters hate.",1 +"You sound foolish, regardless.",1 +"Spoken like a true elitist. You're so arrogant that you made three faulty assumptions in the same breath, that 1) only the poorly educated would vote for Trump 2) people born into wealth can't be good leaders, and 3) TV stars aren't capable. People like you are the reason why the Democrats failed so badly.",1 +Yes people obsessed with LGBT sexuality and gender are sexual deviants!,1 +"Trump would kick his A$$! +Don't underestimate Trump....he was a first class athlete in his day....WATCH THIS! +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKFIHRpe7I",1 +"It's about the economy, stupid! + +How long will it take to understand that.",1 +"Einstein is also reputed to have stated that he thought the Universe and human stupidity were infinite, and he wasn't so sure about the Universe.",1 +if verizon buys yahoo i move out of yahoo... verizon is an unscrupulous entity..,1 +"Support for moving to a single payer health care system consistently shows anywhere from over 50% to 70% of Americans support that idea. Opposition to single payer seems increasingly to reside primarily with aging Baby Boomers who are enrolled in a single payer system but want to deny it to younger Americans. With the motto of the ""conservative"" Boomers boiling down to ""screw you, I got mine"" this is not surprising.",1 +"Dookie + +Why don't you google that question? After all, even a four year old can do that. And your mental age is at least five.",1 +"stop the indians from killing everything, First!",1 +"Awwww poor poor wavemaker. You lost, grow up, accept it and move on. You lost, you are on the losing side of what America wanted. Your childish whining just makes me all the happier!",1 +So sad that racists feel empowered by Trump's election. I hoped we were a better nation than that!,1 +"JeffS, + +Agreed that AndSoItGoes believes in tolerance for bigots and not for gays. + +Note the use of Moral Relativity (we just have a nuanced homophobia, don't judge us) to support the idea that we should embrace a Moral Absolute (Conservative Baptists are the only one who understand God and they are great at judging sinners). + +I agree that there is something creepy about being a fundy Baptist but then claiming that you reject all the tenets of the church you chose as an adult.",1 +"Dang, I seem to have touched an ignorant troll. I did read the article but was and am unclear on who shot the kid. Obviously you know who did it because you are truth masquerading as evil.",1 +"That’s it jerk, glorify the lowest elements of our society, the gang culture. I hope you’re using that $135 million of your net worth to change your black culture for the better and to end the drug/gang/fatherless families that it appears to do nothing itself to cure other than whine “poor me”",1 +"After last night's admission that he may not accept the results of the election, it seems rather obvious that Trump planned on losing all along - that his bid to run for the highest office in the land was nothing more than a reality-show ruse to launch Trump TV Network after the election with his new, built-in base of alt-right Breitbart readers to add fuel to the fire. He'll even keep Steve Bannon on to run the show, merely stamping the Trump name onto the new venture like he does all those buildings in New York in which he has no real financial interest at all. As with everything else about Donald Trump, it's all for show. There's no there there. He's become nothing more than a tacky franchise. + +I have to wonder how his loyal band of followers must feel knowing that they've been played for fools and idiots. If they haven't yet figured it out they're more foolish than I realized - and that's saying something!",1 +The governing association got that part right but failed to realize that these transgenders are taking steroids to accomadate their sex change which also gives them a physical advantage. By not disqualifying herself this girl was basically cheating and being unethical.,1 +"Most of us have been making huge returns in the stock market while the liberals are dressing up as sex organs and burning cars. These are the same liberals who want taxes raised to fund their entitlement programs. Let's go Trump and cut those capital gains taxes so we can keep more of OUR money and not the fund the sick, lame and lazy.",1 +This administration.. Mr Trump.. Filthy dirty and corrupt.. By any imaginable metric one can come up with..,1 +"Sounds like someone took a big drink from the Trump sippy cup. Good thing is, racist bigots like you at a dying breed.",1 +"""Qatar, one of the worst actors in the Middle East (having financially supported the Islamic State, for example), offered $1 million as a ""birthday"" gift to Bill Clinton in return for five minutes of his time."" + +I don't care how much of an incompetent idiot Trump is, this corruption is unacceptable. + +We should not have to accept either of these candidates.",1 +"Hate to break it to you, but if you've been living in Canada for any length of time your standard of living has largely been supported by the oil industry....the ignorance and hypocrisy of the left knows no bounds...",1 +"There is no moral equivalence. Arab states did not steal land from Jews, like the Jews stole Arab land.",1 +"Most of the time, I see Bicyclists riding THRU the people in Crosswalks (on a Walk light) While cyclist is Running a RED light. At Hotel and Fort Street Mall. I'd Love to Kick them.",1 +Please stop with the 'this republican' crap. the deficit is the result of many decades of hot check writing by the state government and both parties share equally in the blame.,1 +"Coming from elitist Junior and Morneau your new budget, will spend more to save your GREEN ass. How does that work Junior?? All this means folks is that taxes on the rise now and in our children/grandchildren future. Not one word about spending cuts.....OMG this is a nightmare.",1 +"is trump the only thing this delusional ibbitson thinks about? get some help ibby, you clearly are a nut job",1 +"The core is summed up near the end, where she writes she wants to bring Justin Trudeau's quota system, for insisting on plentiful women Cabinet Ministers, into science: + +""We led by example with the first ever gender-balanced Cabinet (and with) the first feminist international-assistance policy [which sees the VAST majority of Canada's foreign aid aimed at women and girls!!!]. Science would benefit from adopting a similar approach..."" + +Hello? + +Does the writer think Canadians are blind, lacking in memory? + +Look, when Justin Trudeau came to his senses months later, he TERMINATED women cabinet ministers from their posts for lackluster performances and REPLACED them. VERY EMBARRASSING and VERY MALADAPTIVE MESSAGE for gender relations in Canada. + +And the writer wants to bring THAT MESS to universities? With SEXIST grant funding akin to Liberal foreign aid ? + +I thought Trudeau's team was all about ""evidence based"" government. Hello? We have seen the evidence. Quotas are sexist and awful.",1 +"Nor does it comment on the judicial clown, or the press clown who missed this story. + +http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2013/04/10/two-men-facing-drug-weapons-charges",1 +Now there you go again bigot/racist. Get out of Alaska if you live here. Move to Texas or Idaho where bigots and racists tend to live.,1 +"Thats why we have temp foreign workers. These ""new immigrants"" don't want to get their hands dirty. The jobs are out there but so is socialistic parasite vote hungry government.",1 +Another of these uber-patriots who don't know enough about patriotism to know that you DON'T wear the flag as clothing. Couple their corn-pone phoniness with abject stupidity and it comes out like a barlock...and you get useless yellow flag magnets for your car to 'honor' our troops.,1 +"Why should Trump backdown? All those protests are not bipartisan... Rather a bunch of sore loser Democrats..... And the others are twisting the reason for this moratorium saying it's religious discrimination. Nothing could be further from the truth. It's all about terrorism and the countries where it seems to be quite prevalent..... And if you don't think that to be true, then why are so many people wishing to move to the Western World from those areas?",1 +Everyone single one of them needs to be shot multiple times!!,1 +Good for the Red Sox! No place in this country for that junk!!!,1 +If they can afford to live there they should be well off... just saying. Don't mean to sound like a jerk.,1 +"that's because you have a nasty case of liberal dementia if that were the case, Junior, I'd be damn proud of you, one of the most incompetent ignorant posters on CC.",1 +The city is not making money he waived the fees. The clown is destroying the neighborhoods as we know them and the island as a whole as we know it. They are popping up as vacation rentals on the north shore like crazy and the city wont touch out there.,1 +"So PM Dum-Dum is suggesting we really buckle down and invest in his prefered China even though there has been well documented threats of their state sponsored theft of our technology for decades? + +How reassuring that we have a fool for a PM who thinks just because he signed a farcical treaty where China promised to curb their theft, it will actually stop. + +Everyone looks down at this clown the same way the world saw Neville Chamberlain waving his signed treaty with Hitler promising a comical pact of non aggression and halt of annexation. + +Canadians have enough to worry about his latest tax attack on small business. He expects business and and everyday Canadians to assume all the risk knowing the Liberals will always get the majority of any profits made? + +What a fool of a PM.",1 +"You're correct that much of the press information is heavily ""America"" biased. There isn't a lot of info presenting the ""other side"" of the situation, because that largely goes against the grain of the flag waving here. After talking to several people who have close ties to Iran, I discovered that their government is accepted largely to protect them from us. Considering what we've done over there, I can easily see why they feel that way. Most Americans think it's some religious ideology as the basis for their dislike of America, when in reality it's a response to our behavior there. + +But, the info does exist, especially nowadays. And, stepping back and going through history while piecing that together with our behavior and the situation, the truth will be apparent. Trouble is, to truly understand the truth, one has to drop their guard and be willing to be wrong. Many here refuse to do that...hence the partisan garbage when both sides do basically the same thing.",1 +Paul is a douche.,1 +"Gaslighting shouldn't come as a reassurance when everything they actually do screams their intent aloud to the high heavens and that intent is cultural or socially genocidal. They even telegraph their intent with their smarmy grins, flashed at the cameras for their ""secret audience,"" as if they believe we are so fundamental clueless that we don't see it. + +It's profoundly degrading, arrogant, condescending, male, psychotic, and immoral. Only a credulous fool would be taken in by their skin-crawlingly farcical false manipulative school of politics at this point. + +People who defend them out themselves as fascist in predilection, be that spiritual, material, social, or cultural. At the end of the day, they basically hate gender equity. Everything else is an implication that erupts directly or indirectly from this barely-concealed hard cultish male ideology. They would enslave the world in spiritual violation and fill it with the manifestation of lies just to try and justify themselves.",1 +"ochen hadashow! No, only kidding.....The only troll I know is ukublue, and there's no telling where he is located.",1 +Hey Mooch...now go get your f*****g shine box!!!,1 +"Arnie has lost my respect. I refuse to see any movies with him in it. Maria worked so hard to support him like a good dedicated wife just like Jane Fonda did trying to raise money for Tom Hayden's elections. Glad to ready Hayden is dead already. Both men are hypocrites and should stay out of the newspapers. Drop dead, Arnie.",1 +Egypt cannot have a Muslim leader either as we have recently witnessed. Coup detat.,1 +"Trophy Hunting. Not quite yet a remnant of the past. Killing for sport is nothing but killing for ego. It's fun to kill things, and then look as if you conquered them...with your powerful weapon. I'm in the least impressed. + +Designs are now available for the 'woman cave' too.",1 +"Er no, your history is poor. There were accusations a lot more serious than consensual sex made by multiple women. HRC's reaction was to demonize and marginalize the accusers. Defend that , ignore that, doesn't make it go away.",1 +No more feet left to shoot themselves in!,1 +"Considering your lack of knowledge on what exactly is an oppressive state and what is not, you are not in any state of reason to differentiate anything unless it fits your delusional state of history. Believe it or not, we live in the freest nation in the world but yet you think this is a police state. What will you say if you were living in any other nation but ours....? You will run out of proper nouns to describe other nations. And living in a nation such as ours,,,,,,we got more criminals then any other nations that you mentioned, and more armed criminals. Ignorance such as yours.....is sad. It is no wonder that you hide behind a pseudonym, least you become known to your friends, family and co-workers for writing such crap.",1 +"When you can't understand others comments you devolve into personal insults and trash talk. Gratefully, your sociopathic behavior is still unaccepted among polite society. Your condition is simple: arrested development.",1 +She died Don Richey. I'll be seeing you at a SEHS reunion if you'll come out of the bathroom and overcome your fear of others calling you out for what you are - a rat.,1 +You're a misogynist.,1 +TRUMP DEATH SQUADS™ are waiting for them with loaded guns...,1 +"The indictment, announced on May 28, said history's longest serving Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, third in line for the U.S. Presidency, predecessor of Nancy Pelosi, a serial child molester, yes - a pedophile, made $1.7 million in payments out of the proposed total of $3.5 million.",1 +Your comment is horse crap.,1 +compaed to the lies and fantasy of he usual left wing trolls this is a fresh peice loser,1 +Castration is best for him,1 +"He ran the most divisive campaign since the 1800's.....he has called people pigs, raped teenagers, appeared in pornographic movies, frauded people out of their life savings, and called the FBI director a nut job... +Uh...so.....no....",1 +"This is clear proof that Trump is insane. Neither Oregon or Washington are up for grabs. + +He will be totally wasting his time coming here. Trump's campaign is doomed.",1 +"So you call me ""weak and stupid"" because doctors made me a addict when I was 12 and under their care? All I knew was that I was in pain and they kept giving me shots. Yeah that's weak and stupid right?",1 +African Americans with blond hair denouncing white teenagers for appropriating hip hop is just plain strange.,1 +Republican is a synonym for Fascist.,1 +"Finally, we have a leader that does what he says, and says what he does.......and to progressives that's insane.",1 +In reality Wyatt is an idiot.,1 +"Trump will win Alaska, 100%. And we'll probably be one of a handful of states that go red and for Trump. And I'll spend the next week after the election answering emails and texts from friends and family in the lower 48 asking if Alaskans are really backward, ignorant, hillbillies.",1 +How so? The term settlers is an English word used by settlers to describe themselves? When did this term become racist? That is silly.,1 +"This mad man in the White House is discovering EARLY that he is President, not Fhurer.......not sure he a) understands that, and b) will be able to handle it. He now tweets yet again against another Judge, who disagrees with him....saying "" the country can't decide who to let in or not""...that is not so the CONSTITUTION decides that not a President alone......again, a concept this mentally challenged President does not understand. He is an uneducated fool, with not depth of knowledge about virtually anything except shady business practices and grinding honest suppliers.",1 +"Holy shit, this article is way too casually written. Phenibut can ruin your life with its severe withdrawal. Adrafinil can completely transform your personality, making you antisocial and self-absorbed.",1 +"Leftist racism for calling out a white supremacist (allegedly, if that is what he was doing)? You have an unusual take on that comment. Maybe a bigot toward white supremacists would be more appropriate. In that case, I am extremely bigoted to white supremacists? And you?",1 +"You seem to be confusing the Fundamentalists with the Catholics. You make excuses as to why baby killing is simply more viable for the Western world. No Catholic would think that Catholic doctrine could ever conflict with the truth, I think you have unmasked yourself as a simple-minded troll playing the part of a liberal cafeteria Catholic. I don't think you know anything about the Church.",1 +"President Garbage said this to a reporter from Finland which has been invaded by Russia countless times +Even his ignorant wife was embarrassed",1 +"If you are comparing apples to apples, then you should be comparing the number of Catholics to Muslims, which is a much smaller gap. + +Of course, you would object that when the IRA was blowing up public spaces, that they don't represent all Catholics, but only a subset of them. Certainly, trying to taint all Catholics would that brush would be ignorant and bigoted. I quite agree. Labeling an entire religion as abhorrent just because of the actions of a small percentage of its believers would be absurd.",1 +"I was merely pointing out how ridiculous it is for a Harper superfan, (i.e. people who cheered over every dumb move Harper made), to pretend he/she has anything to teach anybody on negotiations. Seriously, save your lectures for somebody else.",1 +Yes. It also shows how idiotic and insensitive Western politicians and mainstream media are when they compare any world leader they don't like to Hitler.,1 +you are the liar Rexy,1 +"This is a cheesy, backdoor way to borrow ever more money - sell the asset now, get money for our out-of-control government to spend NOW, while the lost revenue is spread out into the future. And airports are a serious part of national security - does Justin really want to sell them to foreign interests?? How short-sighted, greedy, naive, stupid etc. can you be?? CUT SPENDING, stop subsidizing idiotic bits of ""innovation"" policies, fire about half of your bureaucrats, and cut the pay of those that remain by 15% to 40% (higher cuts at higher incomes). Quit paying OAS to wealthy seniors - in the short term, change the clawback - longer term, means test on income. Don't sell valuable assets, screwing future generations more than we already are. How can JT look into a camera and claim to be any friend of the young, as he piles debt upon their heads directly, and by sleazy schemes like privatization???",1 +"""And if she disobeys bash her head in with a rock""",1 +"Trudeau Derangement Syndrome? At least you're admitting your problem. It's the first step, son.",1 +"Since he is a convicted felon now, did they confiscate his firearms?",1 +The loyal Brown Shirt paid by the traitorous American Enterprise Institute funded by the Billionaire Barons of the traitorous Republican Party spews his traitorous vocabulary of ultimate dictatorship over all human and civil rights. Goebbels would be so proud of his spawn.,1 +"Learn how to construct an argument, idiot.",1 +"When the deck is stacked like these folks are doing it, it's just like Russia, no real news, no real justice system, legislators are puppets, cops are bullies and all our money is being redirected to the bully pulpit. +All we get to do is make jokes and wonder why we lost 58,000 of our peer group in nam fighting communism when this administration welcomes them into our country. I spent my 3 years training to fight the Russian blocks tanks now this outfit is buddy buddy because so called president trump owes them a lot of money? And sir how about the huge GOP push to restrict voting, gerrymandering and the electoral college, one man or women one vote is long dead in America. +Thank goodness these folks are so dumb, trump says the last President wiretapped the towers, somebody had to get a court to OK a wiretap so they must have been doing something wrong to get wiretapped. Maybe that's a smoke screen but now the question is ""what were you doing wrong to get wiretapped"" please explain...I",1 +TULSI GABBARD??? Are you NUTS???,1 +"""I smell a rat.""",1 +"That was my initial reaction as well: ""Well, we're going to thoroughly check out ALL stories related to Russia, but the rest of the time we'll just keep making shit up.""",1 +People really are that brain dead and lazy. It's intellectual laziness.,1 +"Newflash Richnk.....Germans have been buying GM's for DECADES. GM has owned Opel since 1931. +Now who is ""only a fool""?",1 +a load of crap. qatar's terrorist role is well established. another of author's 'benefits' of globalization. and the pigs at the trough boeing [e.g. X-M bank] are only too happy to partake even deeper.,1 +"Nice bit of fear mongering here, let's all grab our pitchforks and head out to lynch some accused sex offenders",1 +No. Alternative therapies are made up garbage - nonsense being perpetrated by corporations on to dummies like yourself.,1 +I think the government should buy us out on the PFD! Give us 50 k each and they can keep the rest. In two years all the money will be spent by the state and they'll start taxing everyone for living here! These idiots don't know how to stop spending! Give then one dollor and they spend six! Wake up people!,1 +"First of all, let's not put these idiotic opportunistic thugs on any side, whether it be left, right, or centre. These bozos are simply agent provocateurs looking for a free party and do not represent either political stripes.",1 +"This insistence on referring to those who are in loving same-sex unions as sinners is truly bizarre. In the times of Jesus, lepers were considered to be such. Thankfully, we have evolved past that. Is it not high time that we evolve past this idiocy of considering persons who are in same-sex relationships as being sinners?",1 +"Klastri, Mythman knew they were undocumented the same way you know Trump is psychotic. He pulled it out of his arse.",1 +"Oh, it is EASY to kill off McD. +Sadly, nobody does it. +Simply create a salad bar like Sweet Tomatoes, using LOCAL PRODUCE, have decent coffee and above all, have a play area like MCD in a glassed area, cleaned 2x a day (night and after lunch), combined with a kid's toy (decent one, not the Chinese junk that McD and others have). +THis would destroy MCD quickly.",1 +Well said. I believe you hit the nail on it's racist head.,1 +Mike Eller must have been living in a cave the last eight years (or be a mindless troll) to make an obtuse statement like 'If Barack Obama had been insulted like Trump has been...' Then you read thor52 and just have to laugh out loud. Delusional must be infectious.,1 +"Totally incompetent, our bureaucrats have no excuses and they really don't give a crap!",1 +"Bravo! Yes, Trudy is a phony and a tax cheat, a vacuous one, but still a phony and a tax cheat.",1 +"""Been to LA lately? It looks like Mexico City."" + +As you probably know that part of the country used to belong to Mexico. There are people of Mexican, Spanish and/or indigenous (mostly a mix of all three) heritage that have lived in Los Angeles for probably longer than your ancestors have been in the US. If you are so concerned about those who are there illegally then a simple solution is to make many legal and stop the rest from illegally working by going after employers. + +""Nazi card"" <-- See what Hotubjoe said below. (Thank you Joe). To add to this, the tactic they are using is a waste of money. Who harasses a 10 year old girl on public taxpayer money? Ridiculous and if you cannot see that you have some serious thinking to do.",1 +"Really? How old are you? I have been to Puerto Rico numerous times and even hired people from Puerto Rico. I am not an expert, but I do recall over the past few years that Puerto Ricans tried to assassinate President Truman, shot up the Congress and wounded a few Congressmen. I recall those perpetrators being released and having a parade in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of NYC. I recall them being hailed as heroes when they returned to P.R. I also remember well that there have been three elections in Puerto Rico. The people had a choice of becoming a state (This would have required them to pay federal taxes. They never paid a cent.) or to vote Independence or to leave things as they are (Get all the free stuff and benefits from the U.S. just as if the whole island was on federal welfare.). And you think we have ignored P.R. Hell man, they drove out the Navy which provided Billions to their economy and thousands of jobs and we ignored them? What a misinformed fool you are.",1 +People who copy other's accounts are immature a**h*%#*.,1 +Send a few Democrats and liberals to NK as business emissaries. Kim will send their bodies back in bags.,1 +"Oh wow, you've moved on from exclamation points to question marks. I guess that was from your third grade lesson. You can't hide from the fact that you remain a highly uneducated, whiney, white male who screams at the world for having no accomplishments. White males like you are a total embarrassment to the county. Given everything to be successful and you squander it by quitting school, joining nazi and racist groups, standing behind Trump in West Virginia, carrying torches in Virginia and all the while complaining about your plight. Real Americans don't whine, the achieve. Didn't the military instill you with any pride or guts? Or do you still blame mommy and daddy for not giving you enough. You hate that I know exactly who you are. Of course you want me to be nice, but I'm not nice to racists and nazis like you. White males who complain about the world being unfair are really pathetic losers. So keep on complaining and I'll keep pointing out to the world who you are.",1 +"Here we go again with the false narrative of the left re: white cops killing black people. There are far more white people killed by cops than blacks killed by cops. If we really want to be serious about the problem of blacks being killed why is there no mention of the black-on-black killings daily in Chicago? We don't hear about it because it doesn't fit the left's narrative. + +I'm sick of hearing the BLM mantra. Black lives are no more important than any other lives, so quit using a phrase the left designed around a false narrative. + +This poor, young black man has bought into the lies that are determined to create chaos and widen the racial divide. Nothing positive will come of it.",1 +"Ding dong, you are wrong. Since obama took office, how many donkeys lost their seat to the better party (GOP)? Too many to count. So when you want to talk about losers take a look at a pic of HRC, or better yet, take a look in the mirror.",1 +Go take your anti catholic bigotry somewhere else,1 +CHIN- shut up and sit down!,1 +"71% of Canadians oppose giving Khadr and his child abusing, gay bashing, terrorist family 10.5 million dollars.",1 +Frickin idiots....,1 +"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA....Now that is the most desperate smear on the (white) male I have ever seen. As I have stated before ICON - Hogwash (slimy, filthy and stinky).",1 +"The word ""misogynist"" has not lost its meaning; it has, however, lost its impact on many people, you likely being one them, Den... + +I appreciate that MANY people see this guy as a potential change agent, but that aside, you cannot possibly dispute the fact that he is a vile human being. He is a liar; he is a thief; he is unethical in his business dealings; he is disrespectful to anyone that chooses to disagree, fight for their own positions, or fight for what is rightfully theirs (like payment for work completed on one of his garish, overpriced properties); and he is dismissive of any woman that does not provide some sort of services to him (and this includes efficiently and effectively managing his construction projects, not just sex)... + +Many of you that support this man are locked in the battle known as cognitive dissonance: How do you think well of his potential while acknowledging his nature? Deal with it as you may...the rest of the world sees this guy as the pond scum he is...",1 +"I'm not blind. Here's proof--I just read, and am currently answering, a post by a childish idiot who seems incapable of supporting his arguments with facts, and therefore must resort to pathetic, infantile attempts at 'insult' that he should have grown out of by the 6th grade.",1 +"anyone who trusts these guys to effectively manage a new infrastructure bank need only look at Ontario where they simply did whatever the heck they wanted to, with other peoples money. When things didn't work out right, they simply poured more money into it. That is exactly what will happen with this. Government cannot stimulate an economy effectively with more money. They simply choose winners, and therefore losers. The winners have the lobbyists and the money to get to ""have dinner"" with the ministers. The losers, well, they don't matter. At the end of the day, the money will be gone, and my generation, my kids generation, and their kids generation will be stuck with the bills. funny, on one hand the government is requiring money to save the planet, for the sake of the future generations, all the while knowing the carbon plan won't make any difference at all in the world, and on the other hand is willing to shackle our citizens with debts they cannot every pay. Pathetic.",1 +"The FBI stated they didn't have enough evidence and she has been investigated since the 90s, but any day now we will find evidence that she did it. + +Any day now she will be found guilty. + +Meanwhile, Trump runs around opening talking about sexually assaulting women and refers to his daughter as a piece of ass he would like to date, and the integrity question falls to Clinton? + +What reality do you live in?",1 +"Would you say that Obama was a ""strong man"" and a ""tough guy"" with ""balls""? Draw a red line....",1 +"Do you still beleive that a German or Austrian has the right to force a baker to make a hitler cake? +I read some ridiculous things in here, but that has to be the most ridiculous opinion possbily made on Denver Post forums. + +It would be great if you realized that no one has special rights. No member of a protected class has any special rights. + +You are a member of at least three protected classes, did you know that? +Remember when you said that gays are not a protected class in Colorado? +I am still waiting for you to explain that silliness.",1 +"Darn, your last post was immediately deleted, and I looked forward to debunking the opening statement.",1 +The problem is people come here and they think hey this needs to change yet it worked just fine for years. What moral high ground do you think you hold over people who were born and raised here and this is their way of life. Its not the default response. Its the we get sick of people coming from the lower 48 saying hey I don't like this. No one forced you to live here. There is a large reason that Anchorage/Palmer isn't growing at the pace of KGB/Big Lake. People are sick of some idiot on some council trying to rule their way of life. I am quite sure the majority of people of Bethel feel the same way.,1 +"Regarding: ""Assaults on Muslim women force some to rethink hijab"" +- Sadly assaults triggered by issues of ethnic origin or by evidence of religious faith (such as a cross, or an hijab) occur world wide. +- Currently in Europe, especially in countries who have opened their borders to refugees (a great many of whom are Muslim from worn torn countries) women, especially those not obviously Muslim are facing concerns of assault and rape by young men who are from countries routinely considered Muslim countries. +- The solution to violence must needs be a global solution. +- Leaders of Christian churches and of the various Muslim communities need to address this violence as a civil society / commonweal issue and as a faith issue. That is christian and muslim communities and the civil governments must emphatically declare on all accounts that any violence is not supported by Christianity or by Islam or by civil law and in no way do those of good will support the perpetrators of said violence.",1 +"Now how about getting some grenade launchers on the market and OK the use of silencers and howitzers. Lets see some real weapons we can have to protect our homes and use for hunting. It's getting ridiculous when party lines trump common sense. When the second amendment was written there was only single shot weapons and no one could carry a cannon and I'm sure that had the forefathers could have seen the pushing to the limit of every freedom the Constitution would have been written differently. Party lines and people that can't think for themselves are disgusting and so are owning weapons of mass killings. Used to be a person was proud of being able to only use one shot and now it's being proud of how many shots one can fire, stupid!!",1 +The typical delusion of the stupid and blind ideologues of the Trump mentality. Without government spending nothing in this nation would be functioning. You believe you are some Aryan super being devoid of any responsibility for any part of society except your own selfish interests. The Nazi/Fascist/White Supremacist ideology devoid of any humanity or conscience. Crawl back into your bunker you evil bastard.,1 +"This is a stupid poll for several reasons: + +First, the total percentages add up to much more than 100% +Second, Trump's disapproval rating of 55% is nothing to cheer about since that's what Obama had when he left office. +Third, even though the disapproval rating of Congress is 66%, you're comparing apples to oranges with Trump (1 person) vs. Congress (535 persons) as Congress has had a tougher and more complex job to do than Trump has had so far. +Fourth, Congress isn't tweeting at all hours of the day and night or holding pep rallies for its known supporters across America to bolster its image and its egos. +Fifth, Congress has never been popular with the people. + +But, most critically, what the Hell does a nebulous concept such as ""Approval"" really mean? + +It is not the same thing as asking someone to judge the competency or effectiveness of a person or body of persons. It's more akin to a popularity contest than any serious inquiry into the actual work being done in Washington.",1 +Do you want your streets plowed or your police department stopped from having sex with prostitutes? You can't have both unless we raise more income through taxes.,1 +"When 43% of the popular vote gave the Liberals the power with a majority, you claimed it was a bad thing. So bad that we should change the electoral system. + +When the Greens hold the reins with only 16% of popular vote, you claim the BC voters gave them the power. + +You are completely disingenuous.",1 +"All Trump voters may not be racists. However, they are all collaborators with the white racists to elect Trump. At best, they are Quislings. True conservatives need a new party. The last election has shown that the GOP is merely a white identity party. Just ask David Duke. He loves the election of Trump. BTW, I don't think the pro life movement is pro life. They are merely pro fetus. They can all justify killing folks once they can breath on their own. Their support of the death penalty and the killing of unarmed people by the police show they are not pro life. Heck, there have been hundreds of folks on death row that were innocent. They don't shed a tear for those deaths.",1 +"Must be somkind of stupid. Could have just said I glanced down and drifted into oncoming lane but admitted to taking aim ! What's wrong with the human race, couple days ago some gal drives her suv into Safeway because they wouldn't take a bad check. It's like 5 year old mentality anymore is the norm with people and mental instability is the excuse. Maybe these people shouldn't be allowed a license to drive.",1 +"I'm not denying that at all. The sacrifices, personal and economic, were immense. But we could not have beat the Brits without that French help in either war. Not a chance. + +Back when the conservative, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, government in France (and the Socialist/Green one in Germany) was trying to keep the U.S. from its demented illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, nitwits passed around a very stupid, fake story supposedly about an American admiral who was invited to a posh fest in Paris. I received it repeatedly. + +When someone complained about the U.S. intent, ""he"" supposedly said, ""If it wasn't for the U.S., you'd all be speaking German now."" + +Then, it claimed, ""The room fell silent."" + +I responded to this ignorant, ""feelgood"" chain letter by writing to all the senders and everyone they'd copied: + +""If indeed, a U.S. officer said such a thing, any half bright Frenchman would have responded, 'If it wasn't for us, you'd all be singing God save the Queen'.""",1 +Islamic law is irrelevant to those who do not feel bound by it. Your religion says that you are to kill gay people. Are you doing that?,1 +"I'm going to ignore the clearly absurd assumptions you made and try to get to the core of your point here... + +You think ""liberals"" are intentionally putting policies in place to brainwash children with safe sex practices to...turn them gay? + +Haha...what?!",1 +"joy, I saw the expression on you face on tv during the dnc when that jerk flashed the bird sign. what did you think about her behavior and did you talk to her about her childish behavior.",1 +They'd be damned fools to want to take communion with this sect.,1 +Liar. I'm considering your idiotic source. Anyone that carries the name Mohamed shouldn't throw stones. We don't need any wannabe Muslim bringing bigotry into our great nation. We already have way too many bigots and racists hurling stones.,1 +"Because Murky and all the rest are cowards and Lars like you, Mabry. None of you can ever accept responsibility for anything; just a bunch of whiny little bit*#^s.",1 +"CSU and campus student group, Stupud for Life, settle lawsuit. The First Amendment protects the student's god-given right to be stupid.",1 +"Flynn was an idiot to put his boss in a compromised position, much less having conversations with the Russians as described. That said, Trump gathered all the evidence and fired Flynn. He did what he should have and I am not one to quibble about a few weeks. It's more important to make the right decision and he did that in firing Flynn.",1 +"the lies and bs you spew never ends, there was no voter suppression loser lefty, keep crying nut job!,, ..",1 +You both are SICK FUCKS AND SHOULD ROT IN HELL.I HOPE YOU GUYS FEEL THE RAPE WRATH WHILE YOU TWO ARE IN PRISON AND IM SURE SOMEONE WILL VIOLATE YOU AS YOU TWO DID AGAINST INNOCENT CHILDREN .AND THE MAN IN THIS CASE SHOULD HAVE HIS PENUS AND BALLS REMOVED AND HIS HANDS CUT OFF AND HIS TONGE REMOVED AND FOR THE LADY ACTUALLY I CANT EVEN CALL THEM MAN / WOMEN YOU TWO ARE A WASTE OF HUMAN FLESH DISCUSTING .,1 +I wonder if Manafort hired some of the Russian trolls who are about to down vote this comment ...,1 +"Well then, our ""president"" is a ""slut"".",1 +"Sorry TheWorkFarce, I really am... I''m sorry that we have these, for lack of a better term - left leaning Liberal types, who bloviate for ages on how we need to respect other people/cultures/beliefs/religions... trying to get some kind of sentimental credit for looking out for the 'disadvantaged' of the world, and yet they show no quarter when it comes to someone who wants to voice incisive criticism of that 'left/Liberal' agenda and world view. They want to let dogs bark all night in the backyards, but lest some human should stick a neck out a window to say anything about it, they've got their hatchets ready to chop that off... it's hypocrisy to the ninth.",1 +"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.",1 +"Let's spend good city money on hiding the homeless in Eugene and pretending they don't exist... It's sure to work so much better than spending money on trying to actually stop the homelessness, but that wouldn't be capitalistic enough would it? In the not too distant future, this mentality is going to HAVE to change or we are going to be in for a filthy, piss smelling future when automation puts 50% of the population out of work.",1 +"Yes...Yes they do ""need to die""....No and's, if's or but's about it, and especially the whine heard so loudly from the Anchorage crowd of a few years ago....the ""they were here first"" crap...",1 +"I sold my Toronto home in November of 2009 because I thought the housing ""bubble' was going to pop. Figured I'd rent for a while. Since 2009 I""ve had to move 4 times because the landlord either wanted to move in or sell his condo. What a nightmare these last seven years has been. Renting is crap.",1 +Roi will be along shortly to defend the honorable gentleman and insist he get top notch lawyers and the finest hotel room with swanky service since his bizarre behavior was rudely interrupted by those silly troopers,1 +"Every day, Trump proves what an incompetent buffoon and clown he is. How much longer, and how many more insults to our country, will it take before honorable Republicans step up and remove this idiot from office?",1 +"Good on you Mr. Paoli, Mr. Postman, and the other gentlemen that helped. This town needs more people like you, and less of the purse snatching scum....",1 +Sullivan is just another of Trumps peons.,1 +Why do we need ocean fish farming? Because there are too many people on the planet depleting fish in the wild. Overpopulation ruins everything and the fools who keep overpopulating don't see it and always censor this type of comment.,1 +"I wonder where the damage to Jughead is deepest - in the house taking questions about ethics he can't answer, or on the road, taking questions from Canadians he can't answer. Only selfie power remains, it is so abundantly clear he is an idiot. There's blood in the water, we just need a shark.",1 +"Liberals are a curse on Canadian society. + +They are corrupt, arrogant, intransigent, and unbelievably stupid,-- like termites, devouring and destroying the fabric first of Ontario and now all of Canada, and the very structures holding our society together. + +And just like termites, they infested an antiquated English colonial system of government, with no protections or firewalls against these repulsive, ugly, sneak-thieves. + +Truly Kathleen Wynne is the face of Liberalism in Ontario, with a convergence between the way she/it looks, and the crooked way she/it acts. The same applies to the acne-scarred bipolar leading Canada into the abyss with his grandiose, delusional failures. + +There is no better way to kill industry, let alone the public, than with obscene hydro rates. Similarly, in a climate critically dependent on hydrocarbons for heat and transportation, to impose so-called carbon taxes is criminal. + +The Liberals must go. + +Quickly. + +Never to return.",1 +You're a liar.,1 +"The majority of these comments are either ignorant or offensive. It is not fair to say that Indigenous people need to ""work within the system,"" when that very system has failed them for a century. It is false to say that an Indigenous child growing up on an isolated reserve has the same equal opportunity as a white child growing up in a city and that is a huge problem that has been ignored for far too long. Some progress has been made I agree, but I've been called a stupid ""Indian"" to my face in the workplace and I work at a Big 4 Accounting firm. Therefore, I think there is much more progress to be made.",1 +Great post. So glad to see Thiessen and his racist buddies being exposed.,1 +I can only hope it was someone blowing off fireworks that got shot.,1 +"Glad to see your're on the side of ""booting them out"", ie. violent overthrow of elected governments, as you sit in the USA... and criticize Russia for doing the same. What hypocrisy.",1 +Your article is riddled with typos. Springsteen is the consummate professional. You are a hack.,1 +"Since Washington is owned by Beltway Boys, another word for Corrupt Bastsards Club, how is Mr Sanders going to get anything done when the Koch and Norquist boys own everybody including Don, Dan and Lisa. Remember no matter who,they sign a statement of loyalty to Norquist to promise not to implement taxes on wealthy and corporations. Just us stupid voters who put them in office get to pay!",1 +"Is there ever anything other tha turmoil, divisiveness, chaos, and incompetence from Trump? + +The man even managed to bankrupt his own casino, for Pete's sake! How do you bankrupt a casino!? They practically have a license to print money! + +He's a pathetic, vile embarrassment.",1 +"You guys forgot the MONTHLY INTEREST payment on the 300 BILLION debt - + +1 BILLION dollars/month. + +No wonder Wynnie has to have fire sales to service this debt. We in Ontar-we-owe are so screwed!",1 +"they only mean it for the evangelical ""christians"", and I am using the term christian very loosely. once they get control, the Catholics won't be any better off than the gays and Muslims.",1 +"Utterly useless. Banning pill presses and hoping border guards will catch every small package of carfentanil is like pissing in the wind. We should open heroin clinics accessible to ANYONE using street drugs on an immediate basis--don't force them to risk death while they go through months of other failing treatment options. Take ACTION, you pathetic bunch of hand-wringers.",1 +"Homosexual_men_having_sex_with_women_is_depraved,_with_men_it_is_natural.",1 +scheer needs to drop a few things...scheer was taught well by harper with his white supremacist/christian fundamentalist views from the days at the northern foundation...,1 +that is a stupid comment. Canada has a trade deficit with the US. Mexico has a huge trade surplus. They are completely different situations.,1 +"Rubbish, you say? You are talking myth, Mythman. There is no doubt ancient Polynesians were great seafarers and were able to navigating from island to island using non-instrument navigation, but it is nonsense to say the first Polynesians to arrive here used such techniques to find the Hawaiian Islands. To navigate successfully from point A to point B using non-instrument or Celestial navigation, you must know point B exists and you must know the positioning of the sun, moon, stars and planets along the route. The first Polynesians to arrive in our islands had no idea they existed and would not have known the positioning of celestial bodies to guide them, so they could not have used non-instrument navigation to find Hawaii. The theory that they accidentally drifted here as castaways, supported by scientist like Thor Heyerdahl, is the one that makes sense.",1 +"Koae: Lo Lo at its best, this judge is trying to make a name for himself! Another example of deplorable selfish behavior!",1 +"You're saying your god doesn't believe in abortion? Really? Read the old testament. He orders his minions to kill every man, woman (including pregnant ones) and child (except for the virgin girls!) so many times. He's a psycho. He made homosexuality because to christians he made us all. +In the new testament Jesus does not follow the old rules. Remember an eye for an eye? He changed it to turn the other cheek. Jews stoned people but Jesus didn't. He actually stopped a stoning. Telling them those without sin can continue to stone her. +I'd suggest you read how the bible was put together and when. I did that after Prevo start thumping his bible to keep gay discrimination going. I keep meaning to thank him for helping me become an athiest.",1 +"And you are racist for not caring about Black Flights! Oh yeah, and a bigot to boot. Have I covered everything?",1 +"go read what's he's having problems with. if you're a parent, and you have a whiny child that is on your last nerve? donald's behaving like that child . and why would anyone expect anything different? that would be the definition of insanity... he's a spoiled pouty brat bully. has been , is and will be",1 +"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference! + +Mark Twain",1 +"White people need their own country, that way the ones that don't like the multicultural cesspool can live in peace, but the parasites won't let that happen because they really want to eradicate the white race, they cloak their anti white hate under the guise of equality and diversity.",1 +Why do we NOT have a few smaller and faster passenger-only ferries?? Get us off this DOT treadmill of dullards and dimwits.,1 +Why is it called 'Stunt Driving'? Such a stupid term for what is speeding or racing.,1 +So we're supposed to respect murderous racists?,1 +"Get ready for a new, moronic ""Shock and awe"" campaign by Il Douche Trump. Hey, Trumpnuts, what was that you were saying about how Clinton is a hawk and Trump just wants to be bff's with everybody? Trumpnuts: Bringing Stupidity To A Government Near You.",1 +"White inbreeds? Are you a member of Rev. Wrights church in Chicago. Or a brown or black, Cool, Cluck, Clan movement? BLM?",1 +"every post you make is a liberal trolling paid propaganda bs statement based on stupidity, never reality",1 +"Hey G&M, British Parliamentary politics and procedures are none of your business. +You guys sound like arrogant Americans.",1 +"For goodness sake. +Nobody seriously thinks globalists are a group of rouge jews. +This is so silly it is outright laughable. 99 time out of 100 if someone says globalist....that is what they mean. Stop the lies because you know this but just lie and lie and lie. +You seem to want to destroy yourself further. +I come to the Globe for a laugh now. +The Microbe & Fail. +You are a disgrace now.",1 +"Even attempting to use the word 'factual' in a theological discussion is ludicrous! + +The Catholics will be surprised to discover that they are not Christians. You would think that the guy buried in the Vatican would have some slight claim to be a follower of Christ, at least. Not to mention the one supposedly buried in St. Mark's in Venice. + +All the ""Pieces of the True Cross"" and most of the other Saints' relics scattered about Europe are most likely bogus, but there seems to be at least some contemporary history for those two. + +Whether Catholics are Christian illustrates the problem. + +Theology and doctrine define a 'Christian'. Then you kill eight million people in the Thirty Years War to make sure that your definition is followed. + +380 years later, you want to reopen those wounds and kill off the Catholics because they are not Christians, I guess.",1 +"Trump is a scoundrel. Conservatives acknowledge that. Most progressives, however, simply refuse to acknowledge that Clinton has serious faults. There lies a big reason for division. Mainstream American culture has been under attack for 50 years now, and those attacking it now have the audacity to bemoan the ""culture wars,"" as if those making culture war on America are those defending it. I'm surprised that you, Alexandra, would say such things as: ""[Trump] does not consider you to be a full human being, because [you are] a woman""; or that his campaign was ""based on [lying vitriol."" Apparently you missed Clinton's statement last week that if Trump is elected, it could well be the last free election in America. What deceit and demagoguery. As for shutting down news services: what he said was that he would shut down the web in areas of ISIS controlled Syria and Iraq. You, lawyer, know what misrepresentation by omission is. There can be no unity with untruthful progressives.",1 +"Good choice for a pen name Pepe. The skunk stench really rolls off you. There a reason you are treated like a chump, rube, patsy, and moron.",1 +"When you have those stupid thoughts----think first! Alaska lost money by not expanding Medicaid. Gov. Walker had a responsibility to use his EO power and our own lawyers said ""don't litigate this--we will loss"". Instead we shipped $500K off to DC lawyers. +Now you support spending more money for an appeal?",1 +"Sounds right to me. When people hate, they loose the ability to reason. Dems hate anyone who disagrees with any part of their agenda. Their love for illegal aliens and protection of sexually confused males (over females) is what made me turn Independent.",1 +"What an absolutely ridiculous statement ""get used to disappointment from Trudeau"" +Clearly you have no idea as to the amount of work and length of time these deals have been underway! +Why not learn so you can make informed statements rather that spewing nonsense.",1 +Obviously you forgot about clinton the rapist. There i reminded you,1 +"Entrapment or not Mohamed's intentions were clear, he wanted to murder innocent people and families. You either want to murder people or you don't, someone who does not want to be a terrorist and kill innocent people would not fall into entrapment. In my opinion Mohamed is missing a chromosome, he flirted with the idea of becoming a jihad before this so-called entrapment, obviously the idea of being with Allah was far more appealing than living free in the greatest Country on Earth. Put him in the slammer, put him in the ground or ship him back to Somalia.",1 +"racist comment eh? your pals at BLM are the thuggy little dicks that say this stuff. but you don't want a supposed trump supporter to bring it up? wow, stupid much.",1 +he should be in jail,1 +You are retarded if you inferred any political affiliation/policy position from that article. It states that one should practice good hygiene...,1 +You are an insensitive jerk,1 +"Yes, I want gay priests and journalists to come out of the closet -- the closet that they say is hiding something that doesn't need hiding.",1 +Women empower yourself and leave the mysogonist discriminatory institutional church to men-folk. Guess what will then happen? It will implode! #womenpower,1 +"Thank Silvert for bringing this corruption to light and Kealoha's stupidity framing Puana for a federal crime. Had he been framed for a state crime, he'd probably be in jail right now. Keith Kaneshiro and Doug Chin would have seen to it. +Seitz is right about Caldwell and the council not taking action, it's because they're all owned by the public worker unions. Shopo still supports Kealoha, even now. +The next chief will be their guy Kendro. Shopo runs HPD, not the politicians or commission.",1 +"nope, they were still supporting a democrat. it seems awfully stupid to allow more than one candidate to run in the primary but you cannot support one that the majority supports. she may have worked her ass off but her behavior on national tv at the convention was not warranted. people with any class and integrity do not behave like a jerk.",1 +"lol with every passing second this man embarrasses himself more. He is like an idiot twin brother who replaces his smart twin in the White House, or like 15 going on 50, where a normal man accidentally morphs into a kid, but still looks the same.",1 +"Dead at 33 years old, gone forever and his killer is sentenced to 11 years less allowances then set free to go after someone else? I don't give a good crap what this guys problems are or were at the time of the incident, he deserves to spend the rest of his life imprisoned or if we were really lucky, a hangman's noose. Where's all the sympathy for the dead guy or his family?",1 +"Niagara, you are a stereotypical Welland loser...there's no otherway to state it.",1 +"This is a really ugly thread of comments. To be sure, it's easy to criticize the student ""protest"" as juvenile and ineffective...and shouting ""F#$% Trump"" is less than polite or respectful. However, I find it less offensive than spending eight years calling the President a ""stupid N#%#$%,"" which was the pasttime of thousands of right-wing bloggers. + +Candidate Trump, indeed, made promises which are threatening to many groups of Americans and stirred the flames of discontent among both his followers and those who opposed his election. He is IMO, the most polarizing figure in modern American political history. Protest marches addressing his election shouldn't surprize anyone. + +The real question now focuses the difference between campaign rhetoric and Presidential action. If, in fact, a President Trump actually attempts to enact all his campaign promises, we are, indeed, facing at least four years of extreme political conflict. We are now ""a house divided"".... (cont)",1 +"You want to know why wages stagnate? Because you have illegal immigrants that will do the work for a lot less. People like to blame Canadians for not wanting to take on ""scut"" jobs, but the ""scut"" jobs wouldn't exist if there was decent pay involved. Anyone want to work for the same money as an ""illegal""? Of course you don't, but don't try and blame Trump for a problem he didn't create unless he hires illegals which I doubt since that would be all over the news. + +Trump is an idiot, but the illegals are still illegal. The worse that can happen is some white bread lawyer will have to cut his own grass or pay someone a lot more to do it for him. + +People should read about Rome and its rise and fall and see the similarities between it and Canada and the US. We all want bread and circuses and free cheese, but no one wants to pay for it. Like Rome, one day, the immigrants will out number the Canadians and then we fall. Hopefully I'll be dead so good luck suckers, you brought it on yourselves.",1 +"Lock the ass up for life. He probably has no idea, nor does he care, all the financial grief (getting new back account numbers, new credit card numbers, many notifications to change direct deposits) he has caused. Have him write 1 + 1 = 2, one thousand times each day he is locked up (for life).",1 +"Wrong again. The point was if you only apply your ""taint"" to those with whom you disagree, then criminal background wasn't relevant to same--only your ""political"" agreement or lack thereof. You first denied ""interest"" in applying your ""taint"" criterion to Frumpy the KKKlown, then changed your position when I called you on it. Therein lies your concession. + +Alas, we have arrived at the inevitable point in our exchange where I must heed the wisdom of the first Holy Imam 'Ali ibn Abu Talib (alayhimus-Salaam): When I debate a reasonable man, I win. When I debate a fool, I lose."" + +My turn to concede. I've lost this debate. Savor your ""victory"", such as it is...",1 +"Another ugly american tourist spends a few days in foreign countries and comes back with all of the answers for those countries and Voila! The problems and solutions were carried over and back without change. +Really doubt the veracity of this poster traveling any further from the bunker to experience all of those liberal/socialist scum rampant anywhere outside of selfsame hobbit hole.",1 +"ha ha ha ha ha +how pathetic and simplistic. +Justin needs to buck up and do his job to protect Canadians.",1 +Right now I feel sorry for your kids and grandbabies. You're a poor excuse for a human being.,1 +"What's ""partly true"" ? + +I didn't mention Mitterand's relationship with Bosquet, which is even worse than his pathetic exculpation of Vichy.",1 +"“Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans,” Trump said in a statement to reporters at the White House. +*** +I still remember that black woman shimmied up the flag pole in front of the South Carolina State Legislature, who then took down the confederate flag. I was overcome with hope for all humanity.",1 +Another pathetic attempt to justify illegal aliens....just pathetic...,1 +Is wittle woy still hurt in his butt?,1 +"Trump arguing with China or Russia on superiority while standing in a garage with 3 inches of gas on the floor ..... + +Trump : I have 10 matches and you only have 5 so I'm stronger than you. + +That's what this kind of BS amounts to. Does anyone think about this stuff or has whats left of Trumps brain even get used. Come on Americans ... stop being so ignorant. You are now fast becoming the worlds laughing stock.",1 +"What are you talking about Dick? There were over 3,000 basketball enthusiast at the games. Good gawd almighty keep your yap shut.",1 +Kill a dog over a football game? If there is anyone who needs to be the sacrificial recipient of violent cathartic therapy it is you. Our society is sick,1 +"Another Obama apologist. Americans bad. Everybody else good. Sorry world. Please love us. We are a good and peaceful people. Don't harm us and leave us alone. We are a stupid people, but very decent and hardworking. We love you all.",1 +I detest ISIS. I'm Shi'a. They want to kill me. Do try to keep up.,1 +This can't be terrorism; the shooter isn't brown!,1 +"All Christians, Jews and other religious denominations are angered and will retaliate every time another Muslim demand is made and honoured. This is beyond ridiculous that Muslims are allowed to force their religion down our throats. This is a very serious situation and there will be more violent attacks when our government refuses to curb this activity. Muslims can take time from their days at school to pray, yet our Lord's prayer has been dismissed as being controversial. Yes, this is going to get very ugly and could easily turn into civil war. That comment is not outrageous. Muslims have come from that very climate and they didn't leave that on the shores behind them. This is just the beginning of a rally.",1 +"AI1144, concluding that I assume everyone who supported Trump is a bigot makes you a very poor reader.",1 +"I would like to remind you that the people responsible for 9/11 were deep believers in god and full of spirituality. I'd also like to remind you that violating many of the 10 Commandments is punishable by death. +To credit a non-existent entity as the source of all good and evil is ridiculous and irrational. A belief in a ""god"" does not elevate your moral character nor give you the right to claim superiority or justify your moral worthiness while implicating that non-believers are evil. Can you think of a better way to insult non-believers? Atheists have no choice but to shrug this nonsense off. Religious people would like to ram it down our throats as an act of righteousness.",1 +"Trump spewed lies and misleading statements in his CPAC speech. For example, he disputed the Washington Post's statement that its report that Flynn discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador was based on “nine current and former officials, who were in senior positions at multiple agencies at the time of the calls.” How would Trump know how many sources there were — they were anonymous. And if it was ""fake news,"" why did he fire Flynn, based on what the Post reported? + +Then, he claimed that ""Obamacare covers very few people,"" but, in fact, 20 million people have gained care under the ACA. + +Also, he claimed that “In the Middle East, we’ve spent, as of four weeks ago, $6 trillion."" This is a wildly inaccurate number that includes future debt service (remember that Bush's wars were unfunded) and the cost of veterans' care for the next 30 years. + +And those are just a few of the lies that he told to an audience that believes it all.",1 +"Prefer to select my own fruits and veggies rather than have strangers just pick, pack and ship, though delivery to door-step could/may can be enticing? Americans as whole are lazy and not as discriminating.",1 +"things from idiots like you kevin you can count on, +lies, false accusations, believing anything you read from nut bar left wing news,,",1 +"Rioting leftist antifa thugs are morally superior to right wing thugs. + +No wonder these idiots lost.",1 +You need mental help.,1 +"So if taking a beating makes you stronger and shows what a strong person you are, why are you not still abusing your body? + +Oh you grew up and realized that getting hurt sucks. You sound like someone that takes joy in the pain of others. Through some sadistic urges you feel the need to abuse children based on a pattern of abuse that you yourself suffered. + +Equating the ability to deal with pain with your stature in society is a BS game that adults play with children, even when if it was you with the bad enough scraped knee you would be at the hospital asking for pain killers, or do you think it is the kids that are hooked on opiates?",1 +"Hate to rain on your parade people. I just sold my house, paid 202,000 some 25 years ago and just sold it for 860,000 and damned if I'm prepared to allow this deal to be screwed up by the Wynn govt and her whiners. Toronto and area is a world class city and should have world class property prices. We have been under priced property wise for years, time to catch up with the rest of the world. I will be moving my close date up to counteract Wynn's move and then facilitate a relocation to a province where Liberals are an endangered species.",1 +"SWAT across this nation are under trained thugs who think they are elite military. Any fool knows you never point a gun at a target until they are a threat and your finger never goes near the trigger until you are ready to fire. They had no right to detain the couple whatsoever. A lot and i mean a LOT of cops are going to find themselves burning in hell for being thugs and thieves who hide behind a badge to bully assault and steal with impunity. I have long since lost all respect for the police because even if you are ""one of the good ones"" you sit idle while the rest run roughshod over this country and steal from people daily.",1 +The Prime Minister is not surprised that his minister is caught in a lie. It seems clear that the PM is happy to sustain the status quo and continue his leadership that supports liars and their lies.,1 +"Republicans are actively trying to take your healthcare away so they can give tax breaks to billionaires. + +Facts make you so very insecure that you become irrational and delusional. + +No shame in telling the truth, snowflake, it's obvious you haven't heard much of it.",1 +"Because that's not the way elections work. Also, most Americans don't want this criminal for president.",1 +"Pieces of cowardly scum , both the killers and witnesses who helped it up.",1 +Ridiculous,1 +"Did you ever notice that those who argue that they are ""smart people"" usually demonstrate just how stupid they really are. God help the US and God help the rest of the world. As Forrest Gump said: ""Stupid is as stupid does"".",1 +"Difference is I back up my oddball stories with facts which you can't refute. Disparaging them isn't the same as refuting. And you're the one who said to a black female commentator--in your online comments--that you wanted to ""put her in her place."" Do boy scouts do that? Maybe the ones who wear sheets...",1 +"Haha, definitely white trash.",1 +"You conveniently don't mention your cohorts who call for extermination of Jews and Blacks. With guys like IQ006, IQ22, and the rest in your corner, well, I wouldn't call you loathsome or deplorable like them but I think "" imbecile"" has some merit for your selectivity.",1 +"Hey welcome back, Pocho wannnabeawhiteguy. ""God bless the Donald?!!!"" WTF? Is that the best you can do. So interesting you keep blaming the dems, when the incompetent GOP has controlled ALL legislative agenda in the House since 2010 and the Senate since 2014. But we don't expect less from a willfully ignorant and poorly educated lapdog. But please don't go away for so long this time. We know that the country is on a downward spiral every time you, sparkleboy, Ronindotard, and the who pack of MAGAphants put fingers to keyboard.",1 +"One legislator? Where's the rest of the useless, feckless, spineless.",1 +"1. If you hate black people you don't have t act racist towards all the black people in the world to be correctly labeled racist. That is a ridiculous bar. +2. Are you claiming that we have troops on the ground in all six countries, and in no other countries in the Middle east?",1 +Perhaps you do not understand the difference between a single Party's leadership election and Canada's federal elections. I think people know who the stupid one is.,1 +"Delusional Bob Porker. If you were in such a dominant position, why didn't you run? You knew that Marsha Blackburn would kick your butt. Writing was on the wall for you. You received all your kickbacks from all the pork that you added to our country's bills. Time to stick a cork in it, Bob.",1 +"The coward let the real men of this country do the heavy lifting in WWII while he galavanted the Globe. +Truly I have NO respect for him or his offspring, shame !!!!",1 +That's an outright lie. But it's not surprising that a man would say something stupid like that.,1 +"entrain, there's a village in Venezuela looking for its' idiot. Raise your hand so they can find you.",1 +you continue to join the ignorant hate filled lunatics of the cult of climate change scammers,1 +"What about the mute button, you hypocrite stalker?",1 +So. How many of Trudeau's faithful Canadian Muslim citizens will stand up and fight antisemitism and racism with their Canadian Jewish citizens.,1 +"Sad that so many oppose legalization of a plant created by God on the third day of creation. Let me guess, these are so called conservatives who only believe in the need of a large prison industrial complex? Pathetic.",1 +"Hell NO! +NO more home developments! + +This project MUST BE STOPPED!!!!!!!!!! +Rise up and fight residents of Sequim! STOP ALLOWING THIS CRAP TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!",1 +"Horgan had better learn that now he can't just blather on about things like he's still in opposition. This will cost us BC taxpayers money, just because he was stupid and didn't do his due diligence. + +It should be interesting to see how much BC gets sued by Kinder Morgan if the NDP obstructs things (which, I'm sure, they'll try) - won't be 'just' 5 mill. Can't wait for the next election.",1 +The antifa thugs are fascists themselves and are twenty times in number more than white racists..,1 +I heard plenty of CU fans chanting f'ck CU. Sorry that makes you butthurt.,1 +its bad and unbelievable they way the democrats are trying to destroy democracy. are you kidding not 1 day goes by without some foolish accusation unproven and silly. and the press and Hollywood make all sorts of attacks.. no country treats its leaders this way. not even isis and hitler didnt have it this bad,1 +"good time for BP & Ice to put the hammer down on the non human criminal illegals that live in the shadows and pick this plant. +Ever go out where they pick, I do all the time. Garbage everywhere in woods. They throw shit everywhere including the highway. + +pack up illegal criminal non humans, bus is ready.",1 +And that's not all those state workers at our airport spend thousands on crap and say it's for training or some other fairly tale. There manager acts like it's his own personal savings account and does what he wants. That airport needs a serious audit because the tales I have heard sounds like they ar as bad or worse than our elected officials,1 +"Yes, catastrophic geological events like the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum have caused warming this fast on a global scale. I was going to add that tidbit, but I was stymied by the character limit. Thanks for mentioning it. What does that prove? It proves the planet is currently experiencing a catastrophic geological event - this time, it's human stupidity.",1 +"Considering Trumps whole campaign was to point fingers at Demos an Clinton for lying, he has gotten himself elected by lying. Satan, oh Satan! Come and get em boys. Dont forget those who follow him blindly.",1 +Oh please. Don't spill any more secrets! I don't want to know that my leaders are a bunch of corrupt bootlickers. I always thought they were heroic champions for my best interests.,1 +"A recent poll in Louisiana showed over 30% of voters blame Obama for the Katrina disaster response, an event 3 years before he was elected President. People are getting dumber and it's not elitist to point it out.",1 +"It's a shell game, a 3-card-monte scam, it's a ""we will give you the crumbs while we steal the whole pie"" con and these Trumpkins are too stupid to see it.....",1 +"So, is it misogyny when Hillary Clinton called her husband's rape victims sluts, tramps and whores? Or when she threatened them to keep silent? Or when she accused a 12 year old rape victim of being a nymphomaniac and seeking out her rapist? Or just when Donald Trump says some nasty things about some nasty people?",1 +"Hancock knows the Black Community will vote 99% for a black candidate, no matter how little that politician does for them. He can screw them over all he wants to try and get the Hispanic vote. Throw in the 20% of white voters who love to pat themselves on the back for supporting illegals and he is untouchable.",1 +Poor little rich boy. I suppose it explains why he parties with prostitutes. I hope his girlfriend had him tested.,1 +"""I also teach them how to honor the ladies they are attracted to by respecting them enough not to want to violate them physically and waiting until they are ready to make a lifelong commitment."" +So once you and your ""lady"" made a lifelong commitment did you physically violate her? Now I see why evangelical Christians like you AlwaysThere, have so wholeheartedly embraced Trump--you have similar values--you wait to ""physically violate"" until after marriage while Trump doesn't. +""Grab ’em by the p***y. You can do anything."" Donald Trump",1 +I have nothing against free speech I do hypocrites like Hillary,1 +"Now pocho is using the black racist and white racist card.lol. Funny. In Charlottesville, one side was ALL white and the other side was.majority whites with specks of color. Folks, I did not see BLM or Hillary there. Funny.",1 +"CORRUPT TRUMP AND HIS BAND OF TRAITORS ARE SICKENING. +LOC THEM UP",1 +"This man should be impeached. It's that plain and simple. +The fact that democracy led to a clown like this being elected or to Brexit in the UK shows how flawed the western electoral system is. +If people aren't intelligent enough to vote sensibly then they should be compelled to vote appropriately. and there should be an end to the secret ballot.",1 +"I would like to take Robin Brena's argument one step further and say that ""all the oil belongs to the state of Alaska"" and we should have an arrangement with the oil companies that recognizes our ownership by giving them a cut of 20% of all the oil they produce on ""our land"" while we keep 80% for ourselves. Instead, as Robin so deftly pointed out, the arrangement is exactly the opposite of what it should be; the oil companies are giving us a ""small cut"" of our oil and keeping the rest for themselves. It makes us look ""PRETTY STUPID"" and that stupidity is not lost on the oil companies. We are basically GUARANTEEING the oil companies survival while at the same GUARANTEEING our bankruptcy. Now that is REALLY STUPID!",1 +"No, mental midgets think we're going back to pre 1492, and are too stupid to grasp those days are long gone, and are never going to return. mental midgets are too stupid to grasp we need to thin forests we overplanted, and have allowed fuels to build up on the forest floor that is now causing severe forest fires. But I don't expect mental midgets to grasp these facts.",1 +"If not a ""silver vixen"" try dirty blond cougar.",1 +"a definite possibility - if the guys in the car were loaded or especially stupid to do such things on W 11, chasing a black guy might have seemed a good idea. I know that driving and walking ...living while black can be offenses for some people. I jay walked with my black step brother across a street in Inglewood many years ago, more of a mixed race neighborhood - we got stopped by a cop who actually pulled over to the curb and upshot was my step brother got a ticket! I got a lecture about being a ""follower"". blew my mind - right then I learned ...yeah....different rules for different people.",1 +"Yep, it all those unarmed, praying old men, women, and children at fault for trying peace to defend their land and waters. All of it against an armored, armed military forces with helicopters, airplanes using the same tactics as the Iraq never-ending war against our own citizens. Citizens daring to protects against the Billionaire Barons of the Oil Monopoly. The Bundy bunch was white therefore they got away scot free because they threatened maximum violence and the cowards in government allowed it. North Dakota fascist Sheriffs misused Emergency Management Compact powers to bring in more military personnel and equipment against the peaceful demonstrators just because they are the hated Sioux. These fascists should all be in jail instead of the incarcerated victims.",1 +Also good on McCain to call out this cowardly lunatic.,1 +"sucks they missed this awful strain of fly in the vaccine!! I get the vaccine in Oct every year .. and this year I got the bad flu over the holidays, obviously a strain not included in the vaccine. 6 days laid up, lost 18 lbs ... hey it wasn't all bad. I hear in the US you can get quadrivalent vaccine covering 4 strains instead of 3 - I got the 'Canadian socialized medicine vaccine' of only 3 strain coverage - sucks!",1 +The same office who let Greg gagnon murder Shane Carlson in cold blood with witnesses and did nothing. Doug Harcelroad and Alex I'm a liar and a crook Gardner have blood on there hands and always will. Greg gagnon was a fletcher and smart repairman.,1 +37 plus million dollar damages? Thats more than bldg is worth! Owners pulled a major con and are the scammers of idiot legislatures that dont read fine print on contracts.,1 +"No thos you don't get it. The idiot is in over his head with problems home here and he's giving advice to our British cousins.? OMG we need a calm, cool and confident leader who people can rely on and trust. Not a twitter happy fool who always seems to be in a state of emotional distress. You need to look at the reactions because you re definitely in the minority and more of a joke.",1 +Compare how Assange was treated by Interpol and how this scumbag got away with it (until now).,1 +Islamic Holocaust in on the horizon......,1 +"The baboon's Presidency ended Jan 20. Now America has an intelligent, competent, experienced, dedicated, and patriotic President instead of a race obsessed marxist incompetent murderous Faculty Lounge lizard.",1 +This law is absolutely asinine. All a business has to do is remove the women and men sign and place a new sign - Washroom or Restroom or Toilet.,1 +"You are being sexist, Margaret, and painting women as the victims. Lots of trolls ARE women, and, they will happily troll other women. Unfortunately, we have come to the stage where if anyone says something you don't like, you call it 'trolling'. Like anyone, I have had negative comments and replies from both men & women, just as I expect will occur here - be sure you look at the female names that are trolling me, and be sure to write an article about it called 'why women are trolls'. That would be fair, now wouldn't it?",1 +Promotion?? What about an outright firing!,1 +"Hey, why was my comment removed? + +I was simply reporting that the moth named after Trump has a small John Henry. + +Or can I not use the word 'penis'? (Wonder if this will be depleted? Still figuring out the words that we can use and not use.)",1 +and the ignorant defence from the brain dead,1 +"Yes, saw that title on there, got to check it out. +That's what I mean, seems like so long as there's money to be had at the expense of us poor folks, there's always people out there trying to benefit from it. Outrageous ain't it??? +But when the medical profession is greedy enough to stand behind these crooks and just plain evil people, that's when you know something's gotta give. World havoc.",1 +"J Hamstra, + You basically parroted the approach of the article. I posted the partial validity of it. Are you acquainted with the Kohlberg model? You post about ""rare occasions"". In life and at church it is less rare. At a place of work the motivations are pay and being fired. SDA are worldly, insubordinate rebels. Why do you think preachers keep presenting sermons urging bible study and proper Sabbath observance..etc. Sermons are basically chew out sessions and inept shallow religious therapy sessions.. +Also think of where Jesus said to the disciples, I no longer call you servants but friends. He is alluding to internal motivation. +The SDA denomination needs a wake up call & reality check. Members will continue to be Laodicean lukewarm losers as long as pastors & leaders are satisfied with ""playing church.""",1 +"I don't consider the Washington Post to be a reliable source for any information. No need to read anything in that rag. What I wrote is not a diatribe. Nothing at all bitter about my answer. Haven't attacked anyone. Just rebutted your responses. And I am not homophobic. I am definitely not ""afraid"" of homosexuals. Just very sad for them for being so terribly misled.",1 +"Boy, you are 1 dumb you-know-what. + +Who said anything 'bout Buffalo? If you hafta go off accusing other teams of being just as petty as Your Leafs, then doncha think you're making my point there, Mr. Einstein?",1 +"Diversity is just code for: "" No dogs and white males allowed on premises""",1 +"where did he blame the victims? He's blaming a clash of ideologies and cultures. The victims were individuals, not a culture. +. +although I suspect you would blame western culture for fostering an environment that leads to muslim terrorism Alceste. Am I wrong?",1 +"SB 21 and those stupid oil and gas tax credits were a disaster for Alaska. Since the dividends were cut in half by Governor Walker and last years legislature, I think those O&G tax credits should be cut in half.",1 +"Benjamin Netanyahu will love Trump. They have likely met before because for years Netanyahu worked the American media for the Israeli government. Lived there. TV shows like Face the Nation and Meet the Press. Many things like that are done in New York City - Trump's hometown. Large Jewish community there. I found Netanyahu's American accent to be obnoxious because he wasn't American. Like a double-agent in a spy film. As we stagger into disaster, I think Americans will start thinking the same thing because of the the swagger in his step. Macho man. I truly don't think a lot of people know this, but Israel borders Syria - the land that has been savaged by its own leader and his opponents. Israel has has fought battle with Syria itself and I fear it may dip its wick in that disaster-zone again. And don't forget the Russians. Dirty, corrupt Russians. And, the seemingly ""do anything"" Donald Trump. Disaster film - likely with some funny moments. But a disaster.",1 +And I should make as much money as any damn shortstop on the New York Yankees,1 +Anyone can apply. The U.S. admits ~one million legal immigrants this year. You seem to consider these folks either too lazy or two stupid to be able to follow the rules.,1 +"People talk about Islamophobia. A phobia is an irrational fear of something. Islamophobia suggests an irrational fear of Islam and Muslims who follow Islam. + +When a Muslim follower of Islam like Abdul Razak Ali Artan and other Muslims attack, maim and kill innocent non believers and when non Muslims can't tell when moderate Muslim followers of Islam will turn radical, lash out and maim and kill non believers, is it irrational to have a fear of followers of Islam?",1 +"Obviously the logic of this piece is somewhat wanting. But I actually agree with the conclusion -- the military charges against Bergdahl should be dismissed. Instead, he should be charged with treason in a civilian court, and when convicted he should be sentenced to death.",1 +"Unfortunately, he is only a master when what he is saying is totally scripted. If he has to think on the spot he is useless.",1 +"An NDP gov't would tax something? No, really? + +Oh man, can't these Liberal or NDP nincompoops do anything other than tax? Tragic.",1 +"I guess trump's campaign strategy of ""GRAB THEM BY THE P***Y"" was not the best idea after all...",1 +"Mr. Smith, you are an example of a well brain-washed individual. The media can be proud of the entirely false world view and perspective that it has managed to impose on a supposedly intelligent creature.",1 +I am sooooooooooo glad that these clueless liberal IDIOTS are no longer in power!,1 +"Some government is good, particularly national defense, infrastructure, education, and protection of its citizens from harmful products made by companies, but most government is bad and unnecessary. + +Our federal budget should be closer to 2 trillion, not the 3.8+ trillion it is today. We take in approx. 3.2 trillion in revenue from citizens, yet overspend 600 billion per year, year in and year out. Why? That needs to change. We waste more than 300 billion a year on paying interest on the national debt. Do you know what we could do with that money every year? The worst part is, we never touch the principle. We will be paying that $300 billion (which will rise) forever. Talk about pathetic.",1 +"At the end of the day, should Boeing be successful in driving Bombardier to the point of bankruptcy, which is its obvious intent, the Chinese would be interested in making an offer that would mean that they would be able to have a jump start on creating an aircraft industry that would be able to compete with Boeing and Airbus while using its domestic market to ensure sales sufficient to justify production of new aircraft types, and the railroad division would be swallowed up into China's railcar operations. The Americans should be very careful about what for which they wish. The Canadian government is already very friendly towards China, and one could see how this could play out. Boeing could be starting China up as a major competitor as well as losing its Chinese market. Could the Chinese government already be rubbing its hands on the Americans' stupidity? They've already cornered the market on the railroad file. Aircraft could be next, if they were to get Bombardier.",1 +"Kids do dumb things. The problem with the digital age is those mistakes can be global in under an hour. I personally think like crossing the street, parents need to educate their children much better about the dangers of the internet, especially sending pictures of yourself out. No one should send out naked pictures of themselves, it's a really bad idea. These boys took advantage of naive younger girls.",1 +"Our good American president doesnt' run sanctuary cities you idiot! Screwing liberals, all of you! Support open borders and mass immigration from the cesspool of the world, the Middle East.",1 +"Yeah, sorry, but you're regurgitating bullshit. You want to be a pawn for the rich, fine, but why add to the misinformation?",1 +"Teaching American History: +The Confederacy +http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OmOzrbPIHxI/VYuCk6u4cZI/AAAAAAAAGDU/RAxfrcvkvGM/s1600/Flag%2Bof%2BHatred-1.jpg +Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition.",1 +"You REALLY need to spend some time doing some research, instead of spitting the kind of vitriol such as you have dispensed here. If you were being raped by a man who was overpowering you, would you prefer the cops use a taser or a gun?",1 +You'd think the blockhead would know that...,1 +why didnt you just say you wanted to slam repubs and save your foul breath? Both parties are responsible. Grow up!,1 +Balanced my butt!!! Shell games and wishful hope. Wait until business leaves for cheaper electricity. There will be zero growth of the ecomomy which this B. S. is based upon.,1 +"""As a liberal and bike rider"" <-- Identity politics. + +Taxing bicycle riders is just damn stupid.",1 +But will she design a gay wedding cookie?,1 +"Agreed. But lets also give accuracy some due here. Pope Francis has removed many priests, bishops and Cardinals over this issue. He laicized Josef Wesolowski in 2014 and put him on trial in 2015 in front of the Vatican Tribunal. In 2014 again in his own backyard in Argentina he laicized Jose Mercau who was convicted and pled guilty to sex abuse charges. + +He has also done the same actions when it comes to bishops and cardinals such as defrocking in 2013 Luis Bambaren who was the former head of Perus Conference of Catholic Bishops and just recently his removal of Cardinal Mueller as the Vatican's doctrine chief which is significant because it was Mueller as head of the CDF who stonewalled a lot of the abuse commissions proposals. + +So Pope Francis deserves legitimate criticism on not issues such as not ending the Pontifical Secret or changing Canon Law on this issue of sex abuse. But saying he's trying to protect child rapists is not one of them.",1 +"""Another NYT leftwing elitist who feels everyone who disagrees with his bigoted world view is ignorant."" Unlike the commenter who posted that. Have you heard the phrase ""ad-hominem argument?"" It's a cop-out, not an argument. And yeah, pots and kettles.",1 +"All the non-believers please hang on to your disrespectful thoughts for when the rollout begins, get out of the way. You will be mashed in the crap that you spew from your tiny minds and filthy mouths. You all disappoint me to the max for your classless conduct and loser attitude. Can't you move on and get a life? I guess not, since you all are having such a good time jawing back and forth and really without solving anything at all. Well, have at it, especially, klastri, allie, ad1, dai, ready2go, QBcoach15, gonesh, aiea7, downtown, and the ever alert keaukaha. Like the cowboys would say, ""Git along little doggie.""",1 +"Telling people to shut the f*ck up and calling them ignorant is the lefty version of civility here I guess. Lots of us have read Gramsci, and the writings of the Frankfort School, and, yes, Saul Alinsky; we understand the communist march through the institutions. Into the 50s progressive was a synonym for communist, and a ""progressive person"" was a trusted fellow traveler but in a position where s/he couldn't be an open, card-carrying member of the Party. Liberal became the substitute for use in polite company during the Cold War years until failed liberal policies made liberal a pejorative as well. The government schools had done a good enough job of revising and air-brushing history that by the 90s it was felt safe to go back to the term progressive. Some of us do know history and know that you've exposed yourself as either ignorant or a liar, but I'm confident you just think of yourself as ""educated.""",1 +"Speaking of Gold Star Mothers... Trump raking over the coals a Muslim Gold Star Family is far more disgusting and offensive than a bunch of NFL players taking a knee to the National Anthem. Let's get our priorities straight and remember what our soldiers fight and die for: ""One Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.""",1 +This is what happens when true believers in backwaters vote for Cruz who is totally unpalatable to those who will vote for Trump.,1 +">French are depicted as vicious, treacherous, and persistently dirty.< +Is there an inaccuracy here?",1 +crybaby.,1 +"I hope the TPP gets thrown into +the dumpster all around the world. +Would starve out those sacks of fecal +matter 7n the EU.",1 +"""you will know the false Christians"". Is that an exclamatory statement, because I don't see a question mark? ""They will not upset [me]."" Well fools agitate me if you must know, only mildly though. Why? Because they waste life's precious time with drivel. Is this some inane repartee you learned in church that should pass as clever argument?",1 +The CBC is a racist organization. They DO NOT allow white members.,1 +TRUMP IS A FRAUD,1 +Hypocrite and fraud work too.,1 +The murder of transgenders this year has been one of black men killing black transgenders. Great denial out there in GLBT and BLM community on this problem.,1 +"Fr. Martin is a voice of reason in a sea of culture war ""intrinsically disordered, don't ask don't tell"" Catholics. + +I particularly liked an essay fr. Martin wrote a couple years ago in America about how cruel and unrealistic it is to expect gay men to become faithful Catholics (google ""what should a gay catholic do"" to find it).",1 +"Another wannabe ""trawler""?",1 +"They probably did not like an expletive ""A bunch of XX"" in your post. + +Those two states are Jordan - the Palestinian Arab state and Israel - Palestinian Jewish state. + +That leaves no room for the second state of Palestinian Arabs, currently in the making. + +US legislators and especially European legislators do not need to tolerate Palestinian Arabs taking them for idiots and insisting that there was no King Solomon Temple in Jerusalem and similar Islamic propaganda nonsense.",1 +"Gary, you are just talking. When Trump takes positions we can discuss them. As it is you are simply projecting your world view onto Trump. I think he is actually a relatively smart man. I guess you think he is stupid. I think he truly does want to make America Great Again, you apparently don't. But these are just opinions. You don't like him. Okay, that says it all. Your justifications are BS until Trump takes action.",1 +All pit bulls should be euthanized,1 +"Ignorant humans. Domestic cats have been in North America for over 400 years and their wild cousins much longer. The wildlife that should be concerned about them are rodents and small birds some of which are imports too and all of which have evolved knowing about cats. Since most of the wild cats are now gone who do you think is keeping the world from being overwhelmed by mice, rats and starlings? Would you rather use poison to protect your grain and your abandoned buildings. Maybe you don't mind having shrews and voles in your cupboards either. Cats should go on strike for a while so you can see how wrong you are about the impact of cats in your sad lives. Dopes like you killed off the cats during the ""Great Plague"" instead of the rats they hunted who carried the disease...",1 +"Trump picks up the nuclear ""Football"" tomorrow at 9:00 am Oregon time. He is then in control of 4,000 US nuclear weapons. You had better hope that he is not really an 'idiot'.",1 +I'm not aware of Jesus forming close friendships with or condoning the behaviour of adulterers or homosexuals. Can you provide citations?,1 +"Welcome to Trumpistan and the mindless ""leader"" of this stinking mess.",1 +"of course the Liberals are politicians = hypocrites, +But there actually IS a good reason to limit the size of vessels on the BC coast. Its submerged mountain peaks are a nightmare to navigate, and the largest ships cannot turn, slow or stop in time. There's zero room for error.",1 +"Perhaps you should be even more accurate and refer to your claim as a theory. The interesting thing is that the study (which I haven't read but for now I'll accept your description) doesn't sound like it supports your theory at all. How does it demonstrate ""...the left's desire to silence any and all who disagree with them""? That ascribed motivation is very theoretical methinks, but handy if you are trying to come up with a way to deal with the reality that academics tend to have big, smart, critically-thinking problem-solving brains and as a result they often do not tolerate the emotional stupidity that is rampant in the Trump age. + +If conservatives can't handle being bombarded by reason & logic, that's sad, but let's not blame it on some drive of academics to make stupid people feel stupid. Stupid people should naturally feel stupid when called out, but we live in a new age where people believe every thought is equally valid. It's been a disaster for dialog in America.",1 +Comes now a Nativegal who thinks Natives in general shouldn't have opinions nor should state them. And or ignorant. Shame on you.,1 +Only a complete fool or someone with an agenda would judge the actions of a historical figure through the lens of today.,1 +Blast some tear gas into the church and drag this criminal out in shackles. What are they waiting for?,1 +"Yep. Keep showing the world you are a ginormous, thin-skinned, man-baby.",1 +Fuck this dude my dog is pit lab an he is the most sweetest loveable dog ever . I'd like you to do so thing to me or my dog . Plzz do . An I'll say this I have been attacked by more small dogs then big dogs in this town . So if another ankle bitter tryes getting at me ima kick that little fucker so far,1 +Spray cheese? This is about the dumbest analysis I have ever read about this election.,1 +They believe the Western World is evil.,1 +Indians don't have monuments to glorify the evils of slavery. But Southern whites do. What good comes out of glorifying evil acts.,1 +"I'm still voting liberal. Remember, better a corrupt liberal than a conservative...",1 +"Well I have to say: WHO CARES? If you make the decision to try or do ANY drugs, prescription or otherwise, you run the risk of injury or death. Unless it was forced upon you, YOU are responsible for your actions, which may or may not include death. + +I really could not care less about people dying in the streets because of overdoses. It is Darwinism at work. I, personally, will NOT die that way... ever. Why? Simply because I don't do stupid things for a few minutes of an altered state. + +Let the drugs flow... let the idiots die... and STOP using tax dollars to fix this ""problem!?",1 +"Your comment is racist. Let me explain why. You seek to marginalize FN by emphasizing that we are Sovereign Nations in a way to ridicule.This approach ignores the realities of treaty agreements and self-assumed responsibilities of Canadian governments at all levels under the Indian Act. The facts available through the INAC website show the Fn's in question are grossly under-funded to meet both treaty and fiduciary obligations. + +If you read the article, you will see the facilities provided were unsuited for environmental conditions. This is typical as noted in 10 years or more of Auditors' General reports. + +Readers posting comments need to be mindful of the responsibility of knowing the facts on an issue. The spout unsupported personal beliefs tp denigrate is simply racism",1 +"Now we're saying that Trump used his fame to force himself on women? How did we extrapolate that out of what he said. Seems to me his fame is what made women WILLING. So the women's morals are just as questionable as his. But wait, what is immoral about consensual sex or groping? And if you're going to say adultery is immoral, well, last statistics I read 66% of married men are unfaithful. So let's all just calm down a bit, why don't we. Ridiculous.",1 +You are an IDIOT.,1 +"Are you saying we need an actual war to tear down all the monuments to racism and tyranny that you Unite the Right guys love so much? + +The fact that the white supremacists are willing to have another Civil War rather than give up their monuments to white supremacy, anti-black racism, and tyranny says it all. Wouldn't be a complete day on the internet if a nutty racist wasn't salivating for a new civil war. Pathetic. + +See you at the broadcast of the next Unite the Right rally. I'll look for the unhinged guy with the nazi armband over his Colorado t-shirt, waving a mosquito repelling tiki torch, sweating, spitting, grinding his teeth, shouting ""bring on the next Civil War, man! Bring it on! White power now and forever, man! You'll have to pry my racist tyrannical statues out of my cold dead hands, man!""",1 +Evangelicals? Pharisees is more like it.,1 +That is a total distraction. The military spends 10 times more on Viagra for the military than it does on gender reassignment surgery.,1 +"BOO, HOO. My heart bleeds for Iran as I play the worlds smallest violin, badly. We should have a pity party for hypocrite whining Islamic Terrorists!",1 +"The ones who built the swamp are rich, white people who largely tend to vote Republican. And using terms like LibTard or Lefty, only goes to demonstrate your level of maturity, or rather immaturity. Are you too dumb to realize that people like Trump couldn't care less about the little guy and is only interested in increasing his own wealth at any cost. Trump will not last one term, guaranteed.",1 +"In the words of Randall Monroe: If you're yelled at, boycotted, have your show canceled, or get banned, your free speech rights aren't being violated. It's just that the people listening think you're an asshole, and they're showing you the door. + +Good riddance to bad rubbish, Milo.",1 +Mindless? What was mindless about that post? You think the clown-in-chief cares about policy? Let me reiterate: He thinks health insurance costs $12 PER YEAR.,1 +"I hope everyone will read about the people who were massacred in Quebec City by a right wing extremist. Two owned grocery businesses. Three were civil servants for the Quebec government. One was a professor at Laval University. They were all Muslims, and all immigrants. They are the people that haters tell you won't integrate into Canadian society; that tell you how Muslims don't belong here because they're different. Yet what I see is people who came to Canada, went to work, and integrated successfully into Canadian society. What a loss for our country! They above all knew how blessed it is to live in a land of tolerance, prosperity and freedom. Then it was all snuffed out. Does anyone doubt that a home-grown cloud of intolerance and hatred directed at Muslims, in our country and others, played a role in this tragedy? Yet as Muslim immigrants, these people did everything right by Canada. It was our country and its people that failed them.",1 +"Now, take a look at that photograph. I mean, really SEE it. + +Saw video just like that shot in Firdos Square, Baghdad a few years ago, showing Iraqis cheering and shouting with glee as the statue of Saddam Hussein sort of...kind of...keeled over. I thought at the time, ""those ridiculous people, so ready to stomp on something or someone they practically revered a short time before... bizarre."" + +Well, whaddya know...",1 +"Shame you don't ask that question of your hero, the Donald. What are you hiding that you won't do what all presidential candidates except you have done since Nixon? You must be hiding a hell of a lot! Come on Donald do what Hillary has done, Romney, even your hero Jeb have done and release your tax returns. Not to do it just shows you to be the coward you are. I knew I was right in not voting for this clown. + +Liar liar pants on fire.",1 +Micciche is dishonest scum.,1 +"Paul Krugman ""Could ignorance, incompetence be the silver lining?"" Actually as it turns out Krugman and other liberals ignorance and incompetence is the silver lining that helped to elect Trump. + +The better question is what ""lessons reasonably rational citizens "" learn from a liberal, Krugman type of meltdown? + +From one of the latest mainline news conferences Rep. [D] Maxine Waters claims President Trump is currently supplying bombs & bombing Aleppo, Syria. Waters also claims Trumps, Putin/Russia is currently invading Korea. While Maxine Waters wants the-Impeachment of Trump, Rep. [D] Nancy Pelosi believes Bush is still the current President and that she can't work with Bush. At the news conferences both Pelosi and Waters claim Trump is ‘Incoherent,’ ‘Incompetent,’ ‘Reckless’. Really? Hilarious in light of Kruggy questioning if ""ignorance, incompetence be the silver lining?"". + +I'd say yes as liberals continue to provide more evidence Liberalism is a mental illness.",1 +"""Police also had a call from a woman asking if it was legal to trap squirrels in her back yard and take them to a farm’s field."" + +This doesn't sound especially silly... certainly not worth posting in a national newspaper.",1 +Weewili.... you are a pathetic T - W # A * T,1 +"Trump is the man! He should throw that lady in jail who came up with that lie, or at least tell her to get a real hat 😁",1 +We know why you don't post your photo because everyone knows that a hemorrhoid looks like. LOL,1 +Ruth if our cheap fn politicians would stop sending BILLIONS overseas and start treating the mentally disturbed we will continue to have these problem. And I will never get rid of my AR-15 and will always carry my .380. You see i'm handicap and will always be easy prey for the thieves and lowlifes out there and I have only one question to these lowlifes. Can you outrun a bullet,1 +"No, diversity in this nation didn't start in the 1800's. Diversity in this nation is a big problem. I said, ""And yes, before the Europeans arrived, the tribes were not one."" + +Yes, there's good from diversity. But this nation struggles with it. Always has. Reading about Sayyid Qutb. Right here in Greeley he was treated like garbage, and it prompted him to hate the West. When I travel, I'm always met with a welcomeness I rarely see here. Most of what we do is ""those darn __________"". So, I'm saying for THIS country, diversity is as big a problem as it isn't, if not more so. Just look at the in-fighting going on now.",1 +"No, not really. I think the majority of Americans see the truth of what's going on. Only the few blithering idiots like yourself that support Trump no matter what don't see the truth of the matter. Trump is a complete failure as President. He did set one record though, one that will probably stand for a long time: fastest President to have more support for impeachment than his job approval rating. Only 36% approve of the job Trump is doing vs 43% that want him impeached.....",1 +RangerMC appears to be on the side of the white supremacists because he does not condemn white supremacy.,1 +Dolan makes my skin crawl... such a sychophant. Makes me ashamed to be of Irish descent!,1 +What a bloody train wreck. The dipsy doo Dems win by default through GOP raw selfishness.,1 +"The Star Advertiser has obviously decided to slant its coverage by using a photo that appears to show the stairs in disrepair. How about a photo showing the amazing views from the top of the stairs? Then maybe some of the lazy lackwits who want to tear it down will understand why so many others, who appreciate the outdoors and the beauty of Hawaii, want to keep it open. And to all those people complaining that it is dangerous: more people have died on Mt. Olomana and at Hanauma Bay in the last five years than on the Haiku Stairs. So should we shut those down? What about the H-1 Freeway? A LOT more people get killed there. It would take unbelievable stupidity to tear down such a unique structure and deny so many a wonderful hiking experience. But this is the same town that got suckered into rail so I guess I shouldn't be surprised.",1 +He had no problems feeding from the tax trough mind you. Your comment is nothing more than garbage.,1 +"the left hate of business, wealth along with the ignorance in economics never ends with liberal shills like you! you are clearly out of touch that the city of tornoto decades ago moved the tax base down for residences and increased the burden on business. they pay enough already!",1 +"So,there they were, all the UNC players on the bus, ready for a road trip to the White House. Bus jerks forward and suddenly stops. Road trip over; the tranny broke it's shaft!!",1 +"Yeah, hitlery's great. Too bad she's an unqualified, lying pos.",1 +The problem is that you have three useless/obsolete degrees. Those with economics and political science degrees or diplomas in journalism are no employable as they do not offer many marketable skill sets. I have still not seen any unemployed doctors or dentists. The lesson to kids today is to get a RELEVANT education. Period.,1 +Did anyone even understand what she SAID? The majority of the idiots who comment seem to be distracted by something as superficial as what she was wearing but appear to lack the comprehension of what she stated. No fault can be found with her words so fools choose to attack her clothing demonstrating that her words about bullying do not just apply to children but also to immature adults as well.,1 +"psst hey idiot there is not one cap it that post you replied to,, wow you really are a nut job of stupidity.",1 +"""I had to say this crap about Obama's birth because I need the racist bumpkins to win. I mean, look at me: I'm standing in the five star hotel I'm opening in Washington. Those rural rednecks are never setting foot in here, any more than those hillbillies are gonna join Mar-a-Lago.... + +""Some of the smartest people in America fell for Bernie Madoff's scam. Trump knows what every con man knows, telling people what they want to hear...."" + +Paul Begala, CNN",1 +"they also need to lighten up. Having sex is no obstacle to holiness. That is what this is really about, including the belief that women tempt men into sex that they do not want - a belief that celibates are incapable of seeing as ridiculous.",1 +Wow. Liar and desperate eh. Care to mention the last time some liberal kook took office and dudes with AR's stormed the streets? Yea didnt think so,1 +"Right the fuck on. I couldn't agree more! All you piece of shit out of towers DEFINITELY need to go back were you came from and give us our hometown back! This doesn't even feel like like Portland no more, it just feels like a ""Snobby/Yuppiesville"" now. So GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE, YOU SORRY ASS OUT OF TOWNERS!!!",1 +"Trump is a low-life POS, but still a better option than crooked Hillary, & her flying monkeys !",1 +"He'll always be the gutless wonder who couldn't put mad dog killer Nathan Dunlap down, and who was too afraid to have public input on the magazine law, because he knew it would fail if he did. Hick's a coward, plain and simple.",1 +"Nincompoop, that's a nice one! I'm partial to silly goose.",1 +"Junior is done in the next election regardless. He's absolutely incompetent, and now with Trump just starting to beat him to a pulp over trade, Canadians will soon see the folly of electing a Sunny Ways Unicorn Herder instead of a competent prime minister. Can we please have Mr. Harper back? + +30 months to go with our very own imbecilic prime minister at the controls. I just hope there is enough of Canada left to salvage.",1 +I'm a woman and I would have interrupted her too. She was being ridiculously rude.,1 +"RC Church remains stuck in his irrelevant theology; Augustine is dead, let's finally bury him . . . and his theology.",1 +"""Stupid is as stupid does""!",1 +"Yes - You go Jaded ! Let's eliminate all the babies who might grow up in difficult circumstances, that's the answer, but wait, how about these old people who are just as miserable, let's eliminate them as well. We can't do it overtly, but we can cut off their insurance and coerce them to do it themselves. Yes, that;s the answer - Go Pete Go...",1 +"What a bunch of idiots. Lock 'em up and throw way the key. Oh, I'm sorry, they're doing their Christmas shopping. Shame on me! Black killing black is ok but another nationality killing a black is not ok? Check the Chicago stats....out numbers any thing else you're come across. Funny, I don't see them rioting over that. Just an excuse to cause more trouble.",1 +"First of all ""C/conservative-L/liberal coalition"" is an oxymoron. Cognitive dissonance. Secondly, if it IS such a strange critter as that, the BC Liberal Party ought re-name itself ""The BC Con-Lib Freakish Monstrosity Coalition Party."" Billing itself as a ""Liberal Party,"" is the worst form of anti-democratic FALSE ADVERTISING. Thirdly, a large number of federal Liberal Party supporters in BC vote NDP provincially because the NDP in BC represents L/liberal values much better than does the BC pseud0-Lib party. FAKE LIBERALS, OUT.",1 +"I wonder aloud why minorities are so over represented on CNN. Charles is a far left leaning black bisexual. That is precisely the opinion he brings to both his written op eds and his commentary on CNN. Don is a black homosexual, who is always giggling about how weird he thinks the POTUS is. And before you paint me with the homophobic brush, I think Anderson Cooper is a terrific journalist, and someone who might be fun to have a beer with.",1 +"Why lie Stewart when it's so easy to prove you're lying? +""Child soldiers are any children under the age of 18 who are recruited by a state or non-state armed group and used as fighters, cooks, suicide bombers, human shields, messengers, spies, or for sexual purposes."" +Google it, and vanquish your abysmal ignorance.",1 +"Interesting... To me, it is surprising how much the feminist contingent of the regressive left ""stand with islam"" despite their absurd treatment of women.",1 +"Some guy who was too important to stop. ""Just a dog"" Where do these scummy people from? Probably the same guy who shot the lab at Campbell Lake.",1 +"A leader is only as good as the people he leads, when it's all about the leader, the workers lose their desire to support. +First past the post, might actually bite Junior in the butt!",1 +"Are adults expected to take Trump seriously. He's a buffoon and can't stop making a fool of himself when he opens his mouth. It's as though he's compelled to avoid reality. + +http://heavy.com/news/2017/02/trump-dakota-access-pipeline-dapl-one-call-video-keystone-xl-stock-banks-no/",1 +"Ruedrich...my god...can we be rid of this guy, finally?",1 +"the lame duck Obama is having his last quack and making the last few steps of his lame duck walk +breathing his last anti Israel venom +instead of acting like a true lame duck +it's lame duck hunting season",1 +"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!",1 +"Trump and Co are greedy morons. The time will come when they will profoundly regret their greed. Their stupidity on the other hand is something they will regret but can never remedy. That's just how they are: as intelligent as fence-posts. They are as dense about their economy as they are about the health and well-being of their citizens. If they pass this stuff into law, they are toast.",1 +"When armed White Supremacists and Neo Nazi hate groups descended on Charlottesville Trump didn’t immediately call them out as bigots and racists. He was essentially silent because these people are part of his base. Time went by and at the prodding of his advisors he gave a half hearted condemnation from a teleprompter. Later, when given the opportunity to speak his mind on the subject he basically undercut his previous remarks by stating that there were “very fine people” among the racists. He didn’t call these hate mongers “sons of bitches” or call for their employers to “fire” them.",1 +Disgusting,1 +"Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.",1 +"Oh yes, Kevin is such a silly man, every one knows the Trudeau Liberals created the Not-Winstanding-Clause to abuse Canadian's Human Rights, not protect them. Silly, silly man.",1 +"Where in the philippines are there too many brown people for you, Bigot?",1 +"Well I don't think you see further attempts to discredit her because she is a fringe candidate that stands no chance to raise money or votes. +Frankly her association with Hales doesn't bother me at all; it's her inability to articulate her ideas during the debates. And that she doesn't really have the experience or extensive background to be a mayor. +Oh and some really stupid tweets alienating white males, because the solution to that is a a white female... not experience, a plan or ideas beyond a couple hot button issues that are not unique or viable. +She's no Jules Bailey (who is also unelectable!)",1 +WOW !!! How many times do these ignorant people have to grab the spotlight before they go home and take the time educate themselves on WHAT THE BAN actually is !!!!!!!!!! Over 4000 people come into the US everyday of those ONLY 196 were held and only 1 or 2 were held were held for more than 5 hours and than 5 hours and than ALL WERE RELEASED !!!!!!!!!!! WHA IS WRONG WITH MAKING AMERICA SAFE!!!! THIS IS NOT A BAN AGAINST ANY ONE PEOPLE !!!!! Go educate yourselves on what the ban truly is and stop your stupid protesting just for something to do !!!!! IF YOU CAN'T BACK YOUR PRESIDENT WHO TRYING TO KEEP THE TERRORISTS OUT OF OUR COUNTRY GO LIVE IN THE 3RD WORLD COUNTRIES WHERE THEY COME FROM AND MAYBE THAN YOU'LL GET THE POINT !!!!!! You are all a mass of sheep who are Ungrateful and I have NO Respect for any of you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,1 +"Boyd, is it time for you to go change your diaper and take your medicine you're one of those old white ignorant dudes that the younger generation is hoping will die immediately we don't need your bigoted racist misogynistic viewpoints anymore +Somewhere there's a hole in the ground that you belong in",1 +"It's the old faux-ingenue act. SoS Rex Tillerson called Trump a ""moron."" Former Trump supporter and uber-conservative Bob Corker said Trump's recklessness threatens World War III and called the the White House an ""Adult Day Care Center."" Likewise conservative pundit/academic and ex-Republican Dan Drezner has a standby line: ""I'll believe that Trump is growing into the presidency when his staff stops treating him like a toddler."" + +Suppression of the press and demonization/lies/propaganda about the opposition is a well-established fascist tactic. + +Well, maybe now that the Kremlin and/or Koch Brothers have handed utilitas his severance with a ""Well done, good and faithful servant"" they've rolled out Joe Brunner in his stead.",1 +"You're a liar. I asked Gabriel about attempting to light up outside. He also says ""you're s liar"". +He knows the law. Why lie?",1 +"Wow, you're post is a smoking gun for Delusional Trump Support Syndrome. +DTSS ... +Or perhaps a paid troll. +Take your pick.",1 +One more reason NOT to vote for Kirk the LIAR !,1 +"You are trying to provoke the same kind of mindless idiots that you have successfully turned into a mob in your country. Leave our country now, and don't come back. If not, we will throw you out.",1 +"You realize you're equating ""white nationalists"" with Muslim terrorists, murderers, and hate groups. + +I agree.",1 +clown,1 +"Good points...I don't think anyone saw this coming, even for all the crazy nonsense Trump says.",1 +"To my family, MacDonald's has always been a poisonous example of just how bad fast food can be. Sad to see that it is still an opiate for the masses who think that it could possibly be wholesome and healthy to eat there.",1 +Is Hoyers' mouth moving? He's lying!,1 +Idiot!!!,1 +"""That's not much different than bombing a wedding and killing 37 civilians..."" is exactly what you typed in response to my example of a terrorist setting off a nail bomb as a teen concert let out. + +You are trying to justify a suicide terrorist killing teenagers with a nail bomb. That's a sick and twisted way to think, you terrorist sympathizer. + +Own it.",1 +"The chief and others are just plain stupid keeping children in this evacuation area. If they want to endanger their own lives, that's one thing, but their children? - how dumb. How proud will they be if there are children killed in the fire? + +The RCMP are right to insist that the children leave. It has nothing to do with residential schools etc, just common sense. The rain showers we had this a.m. are just that and won't have a significant impact on a large fire. This is just the start of the fire season and these fires will be a threat for a long time.",1 +Xbt don't hate the Chump just want a caring and compassionate president which he is totally incapable being. You on the other hand spew stupid and ignorant comments that is more evil than hate. Lack of empathy for human beings of all races is despicable. One day you will find yourself in a situation where you will be the minority and I hope that God will have mercy on your sorry s.,1 +"Only the GOP extremists believe in God -- what a ridiculous comment. Seems the right-wing extremists wouldn't vote for Christ Himself, calling Him too socialist.",1 +"Dumbocrap hypocrites + +Hillary Clinton strategist Bob Beckel appeared on on Fox calling for the assassination of Julian Assange — a blatant urge for violence against the Wikileaks founder in direct contradiction of every possible natural and government law. + +Wikileaks, of course, has published several damning caches of documents showing Clinton in none-too-favorable light — including emails from her controversially-employed private server as well as communications from the DNC which proved her campaign colluded with mainstream media. + +“I mean, a dead man can’t leak stuff,” Beckel chillingly noted of Assange. “The guy’s a traitor, a treasonist, and … and he has broken every law in the United States. The guy ought to be — and I’m not for the death penalty — so, if I’m not for the death penalty, there’s only one way to do it, illegally shoot the son of a bitch.”",1 +"It's kind of disturbing how little thought some people put into their comments. You really think it's ""simple"" if you have HPD responsible for airport security? You do realize HPD has limited manpower don't you? The only thing ""simple"" is your mind.",1 +He Rex at least you're consistent and lie and act like your not so erudite orange groper hero.,1 +"Flake is wrong. To this day that dastardly lottery is alive and well!! +http://www.usadiversitylottery.com/requiremnts.html",1 +"Too funny! Liberals and their costumes. I can't decide which is more ridiculous - this, or the pink kitty hats. +On November 8, the anniversary of Trump's victory, a bunch of them are planning to scream up into the sky. This should be very entertaining.",1 +"Interesting. I never vote ""not civil"" on even obvious lies, if they are civilly presented. I get what you're saying but I think the civility thing relates to being adult and not name-calling. I have voted ""not civil"" on posts i deeply agree with but which call the other person ""idiot"" or some such.",1 +This is interesting. I often wonder who votes for this dunderhead. Great to see his supporters come out and defend his ignorant and bullying tactics.,1 +"illegals, pack up and get out, you are all criminals! +Protest at Forks Library to get these people out of our area at 1:00 pm Sat.",1 +Milo is an openly gay man purports to be a Catholic and does part of his hate routine in drag. The Cardinal Newman Foundation should have itself in vapors if such a character comes to a Catholic university. Milo might corrupt the students and turn them gay.,1 +"Sneaky rat editor is pulling some crap on me. Here it is: +What the...did I pick up the wrong paper? An article not bashing America on the opinion page? I declare that a first in this paper's history. There's always a dig against patriots somewhere. I think it's part of their disguise, they have decided to try to pose as objective reporters? Ha. I'd help. I would write a letter to the editor, but he won't print it. It's not his fault, I just can't write any such letter without starting with,""Dear miserable @#$!! traitor rat%%^#! What can I say, I loath an America hating commie rag.",1 +Is it possible that your delusional mind is trying to be funny ? It comes across as sick.,1 +"Oh yes, Mr. Haxby, Trump is a hero for fighting against his ""foe"" and fake ne...wait a minute. That's some strong BS there Haxby. Haven't you left out a few things? + +Wikileaks, Russia, Trump's campaign colluding with Russia and Assange, not to mention some in the FBI and more. As for Hillary Clinton being a ""poor candidate "" and ""checkered past"": Are you saying that Trump's past is squeaky clean? As for being a poor candidate: I guess she just wasn't a good enough, non-stop liar like Trump. Aside from working her ass off for the American people for decades, she was knowledgeable, competent and had been unjustly harassed by right wing nuts for her entire time in public service. You, like so many Trump Chumps don't have the brains or integrity to appreciate her hard work on your behalf. You'll all spoiled children who are mad at mommy, so you ran away to the Lie-Lie Land invented by a self-aggrandizing, lying, completely incompetant clown, weekend-warrior president, Trump.",1 +Stupid and ignorant post.,1 +"Right to free speech is someone's *ability* to say something and that ability is protected by the Constitution. Just because there is the ability to say anything, that does not imply that there are zero consequence for what comes out of someones mouth. Just like someone *can* yell fire in a crowd, there will be troubles if they did. And you can't say what she said, without consequences. + +And Facebook, that thing is just a megaphone for stupidity.",1 +"Some morning we are going to wake up and realize we no longer have a Country. +We already have no leadership in Washington and haven't since Obama was elected 8 years ago. +No one wanted any of the others running for office, like Bush, etc. +NO ONE WANTED EITHER HILLERY OR TRUMP +Our military is at its weakest in a World hostile to us and all Washington can do because of Obama politics +Is to flood our nation with Drugs,Gangs and refugee's who won't assimilate with our ways. +Neither Trump or Hillery Clinton where fit or qualified for the job both are idiots. +Ok so we got Trump, +Our Constitution is used against us and laws written to get around the Constitution. +AND OUR NATION FLOODED WITH STANGERS WE DONT KNOW FORCED ON US BY WASHINGTON POLITICS.",1 +"There's another utterly ridiculous , yet surprisingly popular and anti-scientific opinion which states that human life does not begin at conception. All I can do is shake my head and cry.",1 +"The stupidity is believing trains and mass transportation resolve all issues with moving people. I-25 is a major transportation corridor, for single occupancy vehicles, multiple occupancy vehicles, and commercial vehicles. A train running up and down the front range would have to be heavily subsidized.",1 +Lance Pruitt will sink to any level. I heard his ad calling Crawford a liar for calling out Pruitt on the LIO. It said Lance wasn't even on the committee for the new LlO. Nice worsmithing. How about the first LIO? Voters don't like lying scum.,1 +"Well great, that's why they weren't arrested. But how stupid do you have to be though to protest against the very things that give you the freedom to protest? Sure, you can do it, but it's senseless. + +So clearly they're at least stupid enough that they'll drive away their paying customers who don't go to the games to hear their opinion, but to watch a game, a brief moment of respite from politics. + +Hi sir, I'd like a cake that says Happy Birthday. No, you get cake that says You Suck. Awesome business model.",1 +"I listened to Ted Cruz on FOX news. He, like then other clowns in the GOP, still claims that Obama did not have the right to make a nomination becasue there was an an upcoming election. He had no way to explained how that is not in the Constitution or where in the Constitution Obama's presidency ended before the next president is inaugurated. I'd sure like to see this BS present to SCOTUS. I have no doubt they would be telling the Republicans a president's term does not end until inauguration day. Ted Cruz, the self proclaimed Constitution scholar, what a joke should represent the GOP. I'm sure the judges would laugh him out of court. . + + + +Using the same Republican idea that there is an election coming I'd say it would be reasonable for Democrats to demand a judicial nomination by Trump is wrong and it should be made by the next president in 2020, Sorry conservatives you started using this idea so it should apply to Trump as well.",1 +"""Today in an interview with Blitzer on CNN, Spicer apologized and said he didn't want to distract from the President's policy of destabilizing not just Syria but the whole region."" + + Right. I thought I heard him say something stupid like that, but I couldn't believe my ears!",1 +"It takes a special level of gall to dismiss virtually all instance of reasonable doubt arising from red flags about an accuser's credibility as founded in ""myths"", and then turn around and accuse the police of indifference to missing and murdered aboriginal women, on the basis of a solve rate of 88% (vs 89% for the general population).",1 +"Anybody who actually believes that it was Kim Campbell, and not the legacy of Brian Mulroney, that led the PCs to the greatest defeat in Party history is either woefully ignorant of Canadian history and politics, too young to remember, or a flat-out liar.",1 +"Then abortions should be legal up until age 18. Rid the planet of all that trash you're talking about. That way, you had your chance at life and you blew it so, goodbye.",1 +"Frank, thanks for your heart felt comment, I suppose his grieving family appreciates your smart ass, rude remark.",1 +"If appears that if you disagree with a left-wing commentator, you are automatically labelled a racist and a troll.",1 +"I'm waiting for Wynne to publish her book - ""Election Buying For Dummies"" I can't believe this is still happening and allowable. What a disgrace she and her party have become. No sincerity, no authenticity. Only what can I do to stay in power. Shameful",1 +Right on Comrade! Burn it down! Burn it ALL down!!! No more Press! No more voting! Then we can rebuild a new swamp from scratch using straw..and sticks...and bricks! One deplorable nation governed by deplorable leaders....wait...what?,1 +"""...We did so most recently in April at the solemn events in France to mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge..."" +Nothing to be pride here Canada. Was it because Canada was invaded by a foreign country ? Of course not ! It's more that Canada was a boot-licking colony for the British! +Canada will not become a “real country” until YOU stop being a boot-licking colony !",1 +"For some insight into the Chechen warlord that Putin put into power in Chechnya, read this: + +https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/04/13/dispatches-price-dissent-chechnya + +https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/01/28/human-rights-violations-russias-north-caucasus + +http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/putins-dragon + +Ramon Kadyrov is a vicious psychopath, a gangster who sees humans as disposable if their activities run counter to his ambitions and greed. +.",1 +I FOUND HIM. The only person or thing this whining bitch has not blamed is the man in the moon.,1 +"Look all they are talking about is letting the troops off the confines of the area they are in to blow off a little steam. But really they should not even be there, get them back to Canada and we can let them enjoy the summer then send them to our north to learn some winter camping skills. It is stupid to think our troops need to be there at all, JT is stupid to think he is making a difference, the liberal et all are stupid to think they make a difference, and the troops they know the whole mission is stupid. It makes me sick to think we have any troops in this area, let alone thinking of more training as reported I yesterday in the globe. There must be a way for Canadian citizens to get rid of a government.",1 +"He suffered such a massive bankruptcy ten years or so ago that he is legally able to write down his income taxes for years into the future. Sort of the shill game going on with the oil companies on the north slope. They get to go into the out years with deductions that are not taken this year on work done this year. Lobbyists, lawyers and campaign contributions determine who pays and who plays. Trump is a player not a payer. Paying taxes is for the stupid people like you and me.",1 +"Because the post is so ridiculously hysterical and over the top that I felt the poster needed a reminder to get real. Anyone who thinks that the author is a ""fundamentalist"" when there is no evidence to support that is clearly in need of some sober second thought.",1 +"It is weird, but I'd rather have someone that can think for his/herself managing the country than a sock puppet being prompted by a Marxist.",1 +"""Can we change it to dead savages to avoid mispronunciation?"" + +Just so you know who flagged your disgustingly racist post, it was me.",1 +mcain you have become the clown in IT! spinning your web of jealousy as american voters spurned you in 08! you are a bitter old man and should retire before you stain yourself further!,1 +"Ok, you prefer I use your favorite word, imbecile? LOL",1 +"Evangelicals did have their candidate- Ted Cruz. You could not change their minds. It was Ted or nobody. They did not care that Ted's wife was a bankster who worked for J.P. Morgan and currently works for Goldman Sachs. Nor did they care that Ted's wife was on the steering committee for the North American Union. And they really did not care that Ted was a Canadian up til about 2 years ago. + +So.. The choice evangelicals have today- Trump who appears genuine or Hillary who has a long list of dead bodies, supports abortion, and is a loose trigger. As the damning emails are released on the DNC and Hillary in particular, the choice is not really hard. American or a Stalin wannabe.. Make your choice.",1 +"I have had chickens for years, cleaned out the hen house, managed them and their waste, sold eggs. I have never gotten sick, nobody eating my eggs ever got sick. I do not let them in the house, and I always, ALWAYS, wash my hands. So wonder what the deal is. Stupid people I guess.",1 +What a stupid country.,1 +I do agree anyone who harps on about thoughts and prayers during a time of crisis are bitter and twisted individuals indeed.,1 +She has the same eyebrows as the clown from 'It'.,1 +"Yes - I felt many of the tea-baggers and their rallies were not productive, and were foolish, with people dressing up in colonial attire, tri-cornered hats and all, and wrapping themselves in the flag while hollering ""small government!"" and ""less taxes"" - all while waiting for their Social Security checks to clear ... +You have me confused with being a conservative - it's understandable - I have opinions on both sides of the aisle, and don't march lock-step left or right ... normally that gets people from both sides upset and they get on their ""If you not with me, you against me!"" horses ...",1 +What a cretin.,1 +Your Union sucks then.,1 +"Awwww. How cute. Did you forget your man booby ""won?"" +Hahahahahahahahaha! What an idiot.",1 +To be a liar who puts party and agenda ahead of constitution and country is the primary prerequisite for being a liberal/democrat.,1 +What a joke. Democrats and Hillary made a statement about sexual predators when they voted in favor of Billy being elected even though the knowledge of the mans sexual deviance was laid out to the entire country. Democrats make a statement in favor of gross sexual perversion when they support and defend gays and lesbians. They make a statement about sexual perversion when they agree that a sexually deviant woman should be allowed to kill her own baby. They made a statement to the entire world when a transgender spoke at the democratic convention setting the example for all of our children that law and order does not matter and your feelings trump anything. Pot calling the kettle black for sure. The manipulation and hypocrisy coming from the democrats is mind boggling to say the least. But we must understand they are drinking a kool aid that distorts the mind. Its called free lovism and situational ethics. Hail Hillary!!!!,1 +How exactly do you stop someone from modifying the triggers on their guns? Its illegal already. Silencers are restricted just because Hillary made a stupid statement about them after this event does not make them an issue to discuss in context to this tragedy.,1 +one sick piece of liberal trash,1 +"ASD needs a complete across the board cleansing of administration/breaucrats. +rediculous that they receive the salaries they do while hamstringing our actual teachers. +lettings Carol run things for 20 years was a huge mistake to start with. Then we hired some guy, he bails before contract is finished but we still were obligated to pay him. Time after time those in charge have screwed us the tax paying public and ultimately our children and future. People on the board seriously need to be takin out back the wood shed and receive a good 'ol fashion all day long country ass whoopin",1 +Thats a straw man. There is no Flat Earth model. First consider the absurdity of the heliocentric model. Preposterous!,1 +"I have a degree from both schools and couldn't care less who won this game, I just want both teams to be good and the game to be competitive. The refereeing denied us that. Have no doubt, this hurts CU too by not helping them build the character it takes to be a legitimate contender in the national rankings. If you can't see how those calls were rubbish then you are simply blindly biased.",1 +"What a bunch of rubbish! So first Milstead, who thinks the people at Veritas are Gods and never wrong - i.e EIF: oh boy were both of them so wrong on that one - and Veritas, complain about use of Adjusted EBITDA and now when a company actually does things properly and doesn't use Adjusted EBITDA, they also complain. Whiners!",1 +"Nope, Benny would never have done such a thing, er, except sacking Bishop Morris of Australia and following up the sacking by sending a personal letter to the Bishop stating that he needn't even think about having recourse to canon law because he (Benny) hires and fires the Bishops. + +And Cardinal Burke is one of the few Cardinals in the world who has excommunicated Catholics. + +The truth is you people were quite happy to see forced resignations, sackings and excommunications when it suited your conservative agenda. Don't even start with the Benny was a loveable, fluffy bunny routine. He was an arrogant bully who got found out in the end.",1 +"Slogans are a lousy guide to all situations. It is wise to ""shoot to kill"" an armed assailant...for the simple reason he/she might be able to get off a shot or a stab or something...but this guy was not, apparently armed. A shot in the leg was sufficient.",1 +"“This is absolute proof that SNAP will smear whomever they feel like at any time they feel like it.” +It is not necessary for anyone to try to smear anyone in CI (Catholic Institution) clergies. +Start from Pope F. all CI clergies already proofed that they hide and condone clergy raping children all over the world and they still promote and stand by the clergy rapist. +People are giving up on CI clergies now. It used to have a few hundred posts on the Accountability articles. +To think CI clergies rape Christ immanent in children!!! +CI should have some shame on the state of criminal & d*vilish immoral corrupt sex abuse culture!",1 +"Wiliki, you are full of baloney. Prove your claim or admit you are lying.",1 +The HPV vaccine is garbage ... anyone giving it to their child should be thrown in jail for abuse.,1 +Your definition of racist is pathetic and I reject it. Marty simply stated a factual demographic.,1 +"Hillary Clinton told the media that Americans elected a man like Weinstein. Yes his name is Bill Clinton and Americans are still trying to get over that. + +Here's the biggest part of the whole sordid Weinstein affair. People like Hillary Clinton and her cronies have condoned and coddled this type of behavior and they are are just as guilty as the man himself. As long as these guys are big donors to people like her then turning a blind eye is easy. I still have not heard Biden say anything to the media. He and Harvey are buddies. + +Then again lets face it there never has been as big a sexual predator as Bill Clinton and the media still loves him.",1 +"Let's be simple. + +Sheriff Arpaio is a patriot,...Flake is a fake.",1 +"Clericals I don't mind. Long black dresses....I mean, cassocks....are another thing. They do look ridiculous.",1 +Damn Mongolians.,1 +Da man its always da man just like selling the free tickets to the arizona memorial or milking the zoo fund for zoo society dinner parties. bunch of old crooks suckin the life out of hawaii,1 +"Is anybody listening???? Hello Governor and Mayor and elected officials. We lost affordable housing money cause they're obssessed with the darn rail. WAKE UP & listen to the voters. VOTERS, wake up & see what's going on.",1 +"Stories get moved around. You also have to look in the right place. This is the second story under nation and world news. + +Quit being such a crybaby.",1 +"You are wrong. If this project were done without corruption, we would have a stable port right now. It has nothing to do wit your ideological beliefs. It has everything to do with skimping on materials and processes, paying people off, and dirty political tricks that Republicans shield themselves from by blocking anti-corruption legislation in Alaska and continuing to allow only the Alaska Bar association to discipline it's own members. It's corruption, It's disgusting, and it will be the downfall of America itself.",1 +It's funny to read these ignorant comments about immigration and the plight of Central Americans from myopic terrified xenophobes who've never gone further than a 2 mile radius from where they were born.,1 +"That's all the Trumpies have left now, isn't it? ""Snowflake"", ""Crybaby"", ""Bless your heart""... now that the thin-ice logic of the Trumpists are being challenged and you have no real response, you can only weakly and wistfully try to deny the opinions of others. + +Yesterday I saw a widely spread video of Muslims attacking a Christmas tree at a mall. ""Deport these devils!"" was the gist of the comments. Hilariously, the video is actually a traditional tree climbing race of the Christian Kurds, filmed in Iraq, but the Trumpies see a few hijabs and assume it is violent mob (never mind that many in the crowd were wearing Santa hats). This is the kind of unchallenged dumbness that works to win an election but not in governance.",1 +"Oh please! Just like horse racing, when these rodeo animals aren't making their owners enough money anymore, off to the slaughterhouse they go! All they care about is money! If they truly cared about animals they wouldn't subject them to this ridiculous rodeo! You don't subject your border collie to stupid events that could cause him physical or emotional pain, big difference!",1 +The Dems may be a mess but where are the Repubs? If the Dems are bad the Repubs. are way worse.,1 +What an unbelievably useless comment for a unbelievable topic for the newspaper to write about...,1 +Then offer all 35 million of us a free latte. Much better use of the money than some of this idiocy.,1 +"Lots of haters here... wow... JuJu - Don't worry about the jerks here. There used to be a time, where everyone would encourage the person to ""dust themselves off and get out there again"". I don't see anything reckless about what she did. In fact, sounds like they realized they were not making good enough time, turned around and started to go back. Rescue personnel did what we all pay them to do. Accidents happen. Glad she is OK and hope she tries again once she is all healed up.",1 +"Nah, it is just plain old racist.",1 +This is the woman who after killing her baby was found having sex in a car. A long list of arrests for drugs and more. She was in no way able to take care of a kid. When she found out she was pregnant she should have gotten a free abortion.,1 +"Trump is a despicable human being, incompetent in his job, a disgrace to America and what it stands for and needs to be removed.",1 +"Just shows that 42% of white women can be as ignorant, racist, misogynistic, and hateful as white men. You have a respectometer? For what, the rapture?",1 +"""Profit"" does not exist in a non-profit organization---by IRS definition. + +You must be a salaried, cash-basis taxpayer to be that ignorant. + +Or maybe you don't have to pay taxes at all.",1 +"We fell off the GOP cliff long ago. World Class Hypocrites, like Palin. Time to WHACK spending and eliminate all but ESSENTIAL spending on things like Law Enforcement and road maintenance . We should not have to fund things like Medicaid, we should have a REAL Federal Health Care System that covers us ALL. Obama FAILED US there. + +By trying to appease the Right side of the Isle...",1 +Utter rubbish....,1 +"It seems that honesty is the most important issue for you, so I'm confused as to your support for Trump, since Trump is an even bigger liar than Clinton.",1 +"Same applies to certain salmon fisheries. When the management plans are so screwed up (by political influence) that the Dept. can no longer do its job, then expect the feds to step in. The Board of Fisheries and a complicit ADF&G has only itself to blame.",1 +"what kind of job is that? What science aspect they are looking at? Basic science,, engineering science, computer science, material science, astrophysics, quantum mechanics, or social science? + +Canada already has an army of scienctists: there are department heads in various Canadian universities; there are Federal science funding agencies who are supposed to understand different area of science. + +If you ask me, this is a useless post, posted by useless people.",1 +Trump is a malignant narcissist--an unstable individual with a serious mental problem. Look it up on Google. Many sources.,1 +Trump is nothing but a mentally unbalanced buffoon.,1 +Don't start that nonsense that if you love your country you have to love the PM and the Liberals. Very dangerous road to go down.,1 +"Don't feed the troll, Roy. It's just a reincarnation of Dean Clark spewing canned one-liners.",1 +"Not only have I read it, I wrote it. What you are saying is in your own mind. Attributing your own thoughts to me is a cognitive malfunction. In other words, you're crazy.",1 +"""Pathetic"" only if you happen to disagree with him. That's how we roll in this country.",1 +"@ Hanabata Days +Would POTUS Trump...or anyone leave their SNN on the document? ""The conclusion is obvious.""...how idiotic is that...oh wait!",1 +:) the yanks are going to get stuck with a lot of useless concrete.,1 +"This is week where Liberals brought out their true colors and we now they love Muslim terrorists and immigrants more than white citizens + +Whites vote conservative + +This we also know now why they are letting in 100s of thousands of them +To guarantee a voting block to stay in power forever. + +This 10 million just bought the muslim vote +What a truly disgusting group of scumbags they are",1 +"""Quebec is an almost pathologically alienated and low-trust society, deficient in many of the most basic forms of social capital""; Muslims are terrorists; Jews are cheap; Women are stupid; blacks are criminals; Mexicans are druglords; frat boys are rapists; ""Quebec is an almost pathologically alienated and low-trust society, deficient in many of the most basic forms of social capital."" I'm not as articulate in my bigotry as Potter, sorry.",1 +"Mr. Brooks: You make a point, but I believe you paint with too wide a brush. Not all the educated see themselves as so special. If the 'educated elite' try to exclude those 'not of their class', none of us need be ashamed of our own lifestyle and codes. Indeed, those who see themselves as so privileged and exclusive should perhaps stop and consider just how silly they look.",1 +"...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 !",1 +Red lights? When did they start that crap?,1 +"I don't know what you would accomplish questioning Hillary when she and Bill are pathological liars. They simply cannot tell the truth about any subject matter. Remember, Bill was disbarred for not telling the truth.",1 +"you left wing nut jobs continue to live in this fantasy about big oil wow it really is old and exposes your stupidity pal, try something new just for once and this time in reality",1 +"HOORAY FOR OBAMA! + +For protecting our environment from the EVIL GREEDY people who only care about money and themselves and don't care what damage (e.g. Prince William Sound) they do! +. +OBAMA WILL HAVE A GREAT LEGACY! +. +SHAME ON YOU EVIL OIL DRILLERS AND ENVIRONMENT KILLERS WHO ARE TOO DIM-WITTED TO KNOW YOU ARE ACTIVELY SLITTING YOUR OWN THROAT...DUMMIES!",1 +"Trump -----> Making a game show out of Washington + +What a complete idiot.",1 +"the usual stupidity since our economy was growing fine under harper , not so much under justin!",1 +LOL. You up voted your own post. Pathetic.,1 +They are so busy playing the victim they don't think. What do you honestly expect from CNN? They are nothing but high drama and lies.,1 +"Why would you be ""staggered"" at the behavior of the galactically stupid and their fantastical ""ideas""?",1 +"I don't see how AK49er is blaming anybody for anything. I do believe AK49er is lamenting the loss of brain cells that occurs when one earns a degree in something that ends in ""... Studies"". And let's not overlook the repulsive behavior of screaming children that need ""safe spaces"" when someone dares utter a different opinion in their presence. + +As a recent meme put it: In 1944, 18 yr olds were storming the beaches of Normandy, facing near certain death. In 2016, 18 yr olds need safe spaces because someone hurt their f*****g feelings. + +Yeah... a hundred thousand bucks to produce an educated idiot. My stomach is queasy...",1 +"An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, skerries, cays or keys. An island in a river or a lake island may be called an eyot or ait, or a holm. Mainland Alaska meets exactly NONE of these requirements, ma'am. Please stop, you are making yourself look foolish.",1 +Sure. Everybody you dont approve of is a rapist and a racist. How predictable.,1 +"Remember when Trump Defied Louisiana's Governor To Heroically Deliver Play-Doh To Flood Victims ? +(VIDEO) +http://thepoliticus.com/content/trump-defies-louisiana-governor-heroically-deliver-play-doh-flood-victims-video +He's such a vacuous buffoon, …and petty con man. +And a traitor.",1 +"Trail users, all people really, need to remember to not wall off the world with earplugs and music and especially not have their eyes locked on the damn phone. Keep your head up and looking around, be aware of your surroundings. There's some nice things to see in the world when you actively engage with it instead of travelling through it in an electronic cocoon.",1 +"do you assholes remember Pelosi's saying:""we have to pass it to find out whats in it"",remember voting on that,I guess not",1 +"Ok...it took the Las Vegas PD about 90 minutes to find the shooter. They have no leads or no possible motive. The shooter's girlfriend appeared to be in an abusive relationship with him where it's been reported he readily berated her in public. + +The shooter made over $5 million last year from gambling. How is all this possible? Has he come back from the future that he is beating the odds time and time again? + +Maybe it's that the FBI and Las Vegas PD are a bunch of idiots and believe what they're being told? There was some sort of ""note"" in the ugly hotel room where the shooter killed himself. All this sounds like nothing but a bunch of incompetent people involved. The worst part is the authorities will never know his motive...but I am sure his girlfriend has some sort of idea even if she has blocked it out of her mind or is too clueless to realize why the shooter did what he did...or she's in on it too.",1 +"Sustained irony imitating a moron who has learned a few long words is not easy to write. I took it straight, and then ended with a query about possible sarcasm. Nic2 doubled down without a hitch. Yeah, it's either Nic or his twin sister. ;-}",1 +"MS24, You were so intent on making your own point you totally missed one of my points, i.e., ""encourage women and minorities to excel."" It's a shame what could have been a useful contribution to the discussion was lost in unnecessary ignorant remarks.",1 +Item # 1: get rid of this ridiculous civil comments crap.,1 +"He's in the perfect position to serve his Chinese masters. To hell with Canada! + +One could only imagine the outrage if Harper even thought of selling out Canadian interests and had a foundation pocketing money from Chinese billionaires for influence. + +But the urbanite sheeple repeatedly turn a blind eye to all these abuses and corruption as long as they can cheer at the pride parade. + +This is one expensive party Canada can't afford. Dump this corrupt clown in 2019.",1 +"Blame the fat failure in the WH. Supposedly we are in Afghanistan to hep and encourage young women escape the heavy hand of the Taliban that holds women down and insists they NOT go to school. Supposedly we are there to help and encourage. Then the fat orange terd does this? WTH are we doing as a nation? No wonder the whole world is laughing at us and shaking their heads in amazement at how stupid and ignorant we are as a country. Trump is taking this nation into the twitter/sh!tter and we are, thanks to the obese orange sexist racist clown, the USA is circlin' the drain. And all his trumpanzee supporters are simply too ignorant and hell-bent on some sort of revenge against the black president to see clearly...color-blinded by our national pastime -- racism!",1 +"Excuse, excuse, excuse. +Trump just advertised his ignorance for the world to witness.",1 +"We can only imagine the long line of butts she had to kiss, her groomers, money and desire from powerful party officials, her agreement to be a shill, a contract with Satan. When someone wants a meat puppet in Alaska it comes cheap",1 +"Headline should read, Paul Jenkins rears its ugly head again.",1 +"A breeze?? You're too willing to dismiss justice for victims of sexual assault as though we as a society shouldn't be troubled by having to convict rapists because, you know, it's just the women who are the victims (mostly) so why should anyone care? The only one doing the flapdoodling here is you.",1 +"LIAR! + +This is exactly what you posted: + +lowlyrepub +1 day ago +HB17-1305, HB16-1308. You must be unaware of the real world around you.",1 +"Jim this is perfect !....I say we get rid of our clueless, daffy Pope and have the Cardinals elect you in his place.",1 +"I've been one of his supporters that really wanted him to be given the shot to start this year and see if he'd rise to the next level like it seemed like he might. Instead, he's really regressed the last 3 games. I'm now ready to say it's time to give up on thinking he may be anything more than a stop-gap starter until we can find a true starter. + +But with as bad as this OL remains, it probably wouldn't matter much even if we did have a true starter at QB. We'd just get him killed anyway.",1 +"Where do these fools get their ideas? +What is progressive about a fireworks ban? +At least fireworks get some people out from in front of the tv. +Besides check out the homeless vet burned in the tent fire. +The so called city leadership is worried about fireworks when people are homeless . Something wrong with their leadership skills .",1 +"Total nonsense. Saying it, does not make what you say any closer to reality.",1 +Ridicule is not persecution. Ridicule is simply the the involuntary and unavoidable noises reasonable people make in response to indefensible bat shit crazy bullshit.,1 +"People are ignorant. The pilot was spotted well before he ever got to the cockpit. They needed to catch him in the seat to have the basis to form charges. Otherwise he is a drunk petson in a pilots uniform in the airport. + +Care and control is one of the charges. HE WAS FOLLOWED to the airplane. Count on it.",1 +This crooked criminal thug got off very lightly.,1 +"My point is not to blame marijuana, it's too point out that there are enough people in this state stupid enough tho think it's a good idea to legalize it, and unfortunately these people are operating motor vehicles.",1 +"If NKorea lobs a missle into the sea its all bluster bluster bluster. But a nation mired in conspiracy, corruption and collusion with trumpies/SoS brings it to our doorstep, our the man is all, 'meh'",1 +"I knew this wouldn't happen, as liberals need this lie +to get elected. Cretin, and others have used this lie to +obtain power befor and it won't happen. +Never allow legal dope. And to stop drug dealers, just kill +them. They'll get the drift, no work, no live.",1 +"The best sanction against Venezuela would be to send them a plane loaded with Naomi Klein and a bunch of her deluded LEAP manifesto buddies. Then the hapless citizens of Caracas could listen to her silly diatribe on the evils of free enterprise and the wonders of a collectivist, state-controlled economy.",1 +"Oahu residents, blame yourself for voting Caldwell into office. +State of Hawaii residents blame yourself for voting in representatives that cater to unions instead of all people. Why do we pay higher costs on everything? Johnson act. +Who decides if we follow Johnson act? The politicians we vote into office year after year. Why would lawyers like Agaran take a cut in pay to be a politician? Because he and the others are not getting a cut in pay , they are making it on deals on the side. +Hawaii is corrupt as the rest of the states.",1 +~ WE USE HYDRO IDIOT. YOU HAVE BEEN TOLD 20 TIMES NOW.,1 +"Sorry Anchor, if women feel that advertisers and manufacturers are sexist in their portrayal of women they need to protest with their wallets, and just don't buy the product. Only then will the objectification of women end. The same goes for men. I refuse to buy products whose ads portray men to be incompetent and bumbling idiots. I'm not certain how effective it is but it sure works for me.",1 +"It is all fake news! If you hadn't heard, there is no truth to the professed interference by the WH in any FBI investigation. Someone is putting out all of this unverified information to create havoc and it seems to be working for the lefties are jumping through their butts and eating up all of the BS. Have at it and enjoy the special of the day. Idiots and naysayers, all nonproductive and waste of paper and print. Money making project for the MSM and their left sloped groupies. All the psychs need to examine their own minds before making any analysis of the POTUS mental condition. The smell of the stench coming from the left is totally unbearable and putrid as usual. When will will they ever learn to take the loss and move on like adults instead of acting like a bunch of over privileged lids with their hands out. Need to get the belt out! Maybe that will work?",1 +/facepalm at the STUPIDITY in this post. For someone requesting people get a GED your reading comprehension shows you are in need of the GED instead. You wanted a citation showing that it was the fault of Democrat policies that caused this crisis. I did just that. I DO thank you for playing now go play with someone your own speed. Perhaps a toddler needs a playmate.,1 +"You just described boy no-wonder. +Take another hit with dopey, the useless +pm",1 +"..Seriously buddy, do you just wait, like a frothing little dog, for any article with the title Leafs in it to post your drivel??? Sad bruv..",1 +"I found it sickening to hear the TSN announcers this weekend gushing about a goal Matthews scored this weekend. Let look at it. All he did was extend his stick outward, the puck deflected into the net. To hear these bottom feeders announcers, it was like the second coming of Christ. Please people, settle down, it was a deflection. They were even talking about his superhuman strength to be able to accomplish such an easy deflection. Are you kidding me. +The Laff land is so focused on trying to find a hero that they are getting into the stupid territory.",1 +"...and if it turns out to be a white guy who shot a black guy, then we will put it on the top of the DP for weeks, but if the shooter was a black guy then we will bury the story and you will never hear about it again.",1 +What happened to court challenges when the Bush was in the elected moron!,1 +"From their website, ""The Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) is an independent, public corporation of the State of Alaska."" Which I believe is a fancy way of saying it is a public entity that is supposed to represent or serve the citizens of the State of Alaska. Please correct me with facts and sources if I am incorrect. + +Given this, if I am correct, their refusal to provide a copy of the agreement they signed in our name because it is not a ""public document"" is bloody obscene. Yet more evidence that Alaska has become little more than a corrupt banana republic run by dishonest oil companies through their chosen lackeys (who we are dumb enough to keep electing on the ""God, guns, and gynecology"" ticket instead of actual meaningful issues - which would of course require we pay attention). + +Honestly, if a deal is good enough to sign in our name (which is who the State is supposed to represent), it should be good enough to hold up to public scrutiny. If it can't, don't sign.",1 +"Classic Useful idiot of the Red kind! They just can't believe the truth no matter what. Oh, if they do not agree with you, then you are ""trolling"". lol She is they type no body trolls for. Probably looks worse than Chelsea That is why she is a progressive!",1 +"Joe Miller has started his cry baby act, we will have to put up with it until the election.",1 +"This Is exactly what is wrong with modern Christianity. Seems to me that Jesus himself was killed for being a subversive to the Emperor.. !!!!! Yeah, go ahead and 'splain that one away.",1 +"Their son was used and killed in a pointless war, he was a victim of the US military industrial complex. He parents were used as pawns in a pointless US political circus. It's disgraceful that this family, parents are child, are/were not smart enough to keep from getting blatantly used by America's corrupt systems.",1 +That might be a problem in the current political atmosphere. The democrats have so pounded Black Americans with the notion that every white person is a racist that any reconciliation is almost hopeless.,1 +"This person is a nightmare...non-white person buying her work? Never. Oh poor me...getting all this commesse from aunties and non-aunties? And those awful whities and their bah blah blah blah... What a horrible person. Anyone brown or white who indulges her ""art"" is a proud member of the sheep.",1 +"Hmm. Weird. Posted this below, it showed, and now it's gone... + +No sh1t, Sherlock. Had you served when called upon like a man instead of dodging the draft like a coward, you'd know the military is always at the ready. + +Someone muzzle this idiot Trump.",1 +"Meanwhile in other insignificant news, also rated as drivel, rain fell in the Amazon..",1 +"""GROPER IN CHIEF"" + +ABUSER OF WOMEN",1 +"So lets say the roles were reversed and whites were running from a regime somewhere instead of fighting for their country like normal people do trough resistance (history folks- history) and migrated through the snow to a Muslim country called Canada. + +Would the Muslim government let in white infidels or ......... +You know the answer",1 +"It’s interesting how the posters have come back saying how good forest fires are. They were keeping quiet a couple of months ago. Maybe they were choking on the smoke like the rest of us. Move the junk and the and person in the tree, hypocrites. So much for the NW Forest Plan.",1 +Only place he could sign. No bargaining power. The guy's a bum.,1 +"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",1 +"I don't know if the rat lung worm money was diverted as retaliation, but it's high time Tokuda is removed as WAM chair. She has become arrogant, misusing her power and position for personal means. As she grand-standed on the rail funding issue and launched a mean-spirited attack on gov. Ige's proposed budget, I wondered if she was setting herself up to run for governor. She has no one to blame for there downfall but herself.",1 +A former mayor of Portland has sex with a 17 year old campaign aid. Did anything happen to him? Of course not.,1 +"""Who needs the EPA in time of war?"" + +Is this supposed to be a joke, or are people really getting to be this dumb? Please educate yourself about the health impacts of environmental pollution.",1 +This is so stupid. He is putting a target on all American's backs. We need to get out of the Mid-East immediately!,1 +"I can say ""Orthodox Jews"" + +I can also say Sharia law, burka, honor killings, Assad soldiers raping women, Isis raping women.",1 +"Pleasure. + +Can you believe the trolls? + +They have nothing to say. They just want to be nasty. + +Sad. + +Hope that you are well, Risque.",1 +"There's no ""good"" words for this tragedy. In my time of far less traffic and cars, I missiled my muscle car everywhere, even to church. H-2 was our dragstrip; the Likelike our funstrip to Wendy's drive in; the Pali Hwy curve the darestrip toward Andy's drive in; and Ala Wai the popped headers burn-rubber strip for a final Waikiki shaka. This same circuit each weekend and every other weeknight. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Were you to call me a good kid back then, you would have to similarly put those two words, ""good"" and ""kid,"" between quotation marks. We each have a human story and are good. It's just that we might not be good enough to keep innocent love ones from misery for the rest of their longer lives. I was ""good"" like that, and so lucky to be alive today. You lower the Acuras. Mag rim the Civics. But why torque and horsepower up the engines? What for?,.. except to die.",1 +More garbage from California.,1 +"Well Shannyn, at least on the national level we would all be in much, much, much better shape if all those who couldn't accept that Hillary was an imperfect human being would have voted for her anyway right? How about in 2018 we all get together and vote like it really matters to make the big changes to the congress that are needed to keep this country from devolving into third world status no matter how imperfect the Democratic Parties candidates may be. We don't get to have perfect in life and we have to accept that or more trumps will be in our future. Damn the speeches and damn the emails or whatever other else the opposition conjures up to attack any candidate that is not perfectly left or perfectly right. We deserve better as a nation than what the current congress and president are delivering but conditions will only improve if we can move away from the quest for that state of imaginary perfection that no one has in reality. Accept that we can change this situation via voting.",1 +"We'll all be back soon, once he's impeached, to remind you Chump lovers just what a total and utter idiot he was, is, and will continue to be forever and ever, A-hole.",1 +Giving women control over their bodies could only be described as you did here by a complete idiot.,1 +I disagree. Start by digging two graves...,1 +"Well at least you admit it, you're just a liar. And I'll not be goaded into anything by you, Nazi. Your incitement tactics don't work on me. I made a fool of you with logic and facts that you cannot refute, and I'm quite pleased with that. Now go clean your room like your Mommy asked.",1 +"I guess that makes me a right-wing extremist then. I liked the author of the Harper biography. The Ibbitson who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome almost seems like a different person. When is he going to write something about Justin ""Get the f--k out of my way"" Trudeau telling his shameless lie to Bloomberg about the Conservatives campaigning in 2015 on a headscarf ban?",1 +"After watching Assad kill so many hundreds of thousands and exile more hundreds of thousands of his own people, he is my choice as murderer-in-chief. + +He was either incompetent or a liar when he and Putin said that they turned over all his chemical warfare stocks for destruction to Obama. + +Obama and Kerry were either incompetent or disingenuous. + +Obama, the wordsmith, said that all ""declared"" stocks had been destroyed. + +The weasel word ""declared"" is what makes him disingenuous. + +Kerry actually said ""all stocks"" sometimes and ""all declared stocks"" at other times.",1 +"Twitter and all these social media companies claim to be egalitarian and open to new ideas and democratic and so on - in true Silicon Valley ""saving the world"" fashion. Actually, they are even more dangerous: globalized hard core capitalists who do not want nation states and care about the every advertising dollar even from terrorits, foreign governments etc. + +Time to regulate them like utilities and force them to crack down on terrorist content and foreign government intervention. We don't allow this on radio or TV or by email - so why do these social media clown get away with it. + +They are monopolists and nothing more. Regulate the crap out of them. It will save society.",1 +"I suspect that even with a Republican president, conservative SCOTUS, Republican House and Senate, there will be no significant change in women's health and privacy rights. COnservatives have already had 43 years to act against Roe, etc., and all there has been is noise. Put up or shut up, respectfully.",1 +"In other words, ""TradCath"" believes that only those who are well off financially should get healthcare. The poor should just crawl off and die. ""TradCath"" is pro-death.",1 +"Ah, the useless, do-nothing Legislative Majority wants to tighten its grip on Alaskan's throats.",1 +"in the throes of my silliness I guess I'm considering the bigger scope and my direct experiences with the homeless while you're focusing on a micro aspect which may work out for some towards regaining a roof over their heads, even if it takes virtually all their income to achieve it. after all they've suffered I'd rather wave the monthly fee so they can cover some of the costs of possibly a brighter future beyond just making the rent.",1 +Whens the lynching?,1 +Like any honest person did not already know this...Liberals and pro-illegals are so dishonest,1 +"she hasn't went any where in 41 years, she must be happy, so you are still a moron",1 +"""p.s. STOP ASKING ME TO RATE COMMENTS, especially comments I have NO INTEREST IN"" + +Agreed. It's a stupid requirement that most will accommodate by approving everything.",1 +"Plainthinker, being the parasite that he is I will always chuckle at the taxpayer. We all know what a sucker he is.",1 +Treasonous Trump. His Presidency should be under tremendous scrutiny. He has already shown his penchant for me me me over country. Why should Americans accept that? We wouldn't.,1 +"Ah, shucks. What's a little graft, corruption or payoff here or there? I've go mine Jack, I'm OK",1 +"While your partisan paper reflects how deep you're willing to dig JetRX...... it ignores that the states that are the poorest, most destitute and that receive the largest federal welfare checks are indeed staunch low-tax RED states. + +If you want to talk states with the worst violent crime, nearly all of those are bright RED as well. + +Political coloring crayons are for children and fools.",1 +"You're the ignorant one if you don't think Hillary would've continued her lies and deception after taking office. We'll never know whether or not her level of ""badness"" would have been less or more than Trump's. It was a lose/lose situation.",1 +"Great. All we need is another huge federal bureaucracy like the TSA. And you think taxes will go down? Oh, that's right. That's a regular GOP thing, lowering taxes. When the Dems try to raise them and pay the credit card off they get flogged. People are stupid. +So, which lies that trump is on the record for are you willing to forgive. All of them? Or shall we start the impeachment hearings ahead of time? That's what hill GOP intended to do to HC as well. Seems fair.",1 +Where's the trolls?,1 +"Are you feeling okay, Schlosser, ol' chap? You sound a little under the weather. Despite your misgivings, I do assure you that ONLY English has appeared in the many postings from myself and the other distinguished subscribers, excluding the occasional foreign language expression, such as ""au contraire."" Surely, that cannot be the cause of your exasperation. Anyhows, Schlosser auf Deutsch heisst ""locksmith"", so chin up ol' man, things could be much worse. You could be Ricky Dickie Locksmith.. +Damn chilly out tonight. Awful, awful weather. Quite inclement. Jolly hockey sticks. Right on. Best fooot forward and bombs away. Truthfully, I can't get more English than that. +Toodle-ooo.",1 +"If we are to fall back on our history as an argument for supporting something, we should also display the shackles of slavery, post a few anti-Chinese signs and perhaps a slogan or two against giving women the vote. +I agree with Duck below. Everyone has the right to practice their religion - however they wish a don their own time. There's something in the Bible about praying in private and not being a hypocrite....",1 +"Wish he'd just stick to his Bill Allen type shticks. Oops, that' exactly what he' doing here...a typical NRA enabling corporate gun lobbyist, that has one thing in mind for their bottom line...blood $$$$ at any cost with his freedom to publish this trash.",1 +"Because he's not a lying, stealing, fraudulent, gutless person. You asked, I told you. Now that doesn't mean I'm thrilled with Trump but at least he's not a turd. :)",1 +"if you pull your head from your bum and be original instead of regurgitating talking points you were told like a mindless sheep, I said the FED, not Obama, and the fed has done a horrid job at enforcing our immigration law and why there are 22 million illegals in our country today. take your straw elsewhere SHEEP.",1 +"I've never understood the Republican platform on this. People (including Democrats AND Republicans) aren't going to stop having sex. It just isn't going to happen, regardless of the weird Puritanical fantasies some pro-lifers have. So why not help prevent abortions through contraception? It's not the entire answer but it's a part of the answer. But Republicans, supposedly pro-life (which is laughable) want to eliminate one method that helps prevent abortions. I want to get back to a point where I meet a Republican and not immediately assume said person is an idiot.",1 +"I would have to think that some buddies got together, did some METH, drank some OLD ENGLISH, and Viola, creates INSTANT VIOLENCE......... + +I pray they catch them and throw the book at them. Anyone with information, please come forward and report it to the POLICE...... + +Read the Sign: REPORT these LOSERS................They have NO HONOR............",1 +"When you have 18 year old students attending high schools that also have students as young as 13 in the same building you have a problem brewing. Yes the teachers will tell them to take their joint across the street but that's the end of it. Kids smoking, drinking and taking other drugs is bad enough. To legalize this gateway drug is just stupid. +Teachers will have no recourse when a stoned kid(s) sit in class.",1 +South Korea's president blasted Trump's irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric. Kim will not give up his weapons of their development. Trump failed again to do anything other than strut and play the fool again. Even Republicans are distancing themselves from this TV entertainer.,1 +Those 2 are awful.,1 +"_""Why do the Khans get special and national exposure at the DNC? Because they’re Muslim. It’s PC BS pure and simple.""_ -- 4:20 + +In fairness, I think the reason that the Muslim parents of a soldier who died in combat were provided a forum is to emphasize that not all Muslims are terrorists (just as all Christians don't follow Christ's teachings). Of course, the Khan's were speaking only to people who don't have hearts filled with hate and minds filled with Fox News garbage. + +-- Paul",1 +"And they keep running the $@%ing ball out of the endzone on kickoffs, costing themselves 10 yards (or more)! + +We need to put a sniper with a dart gun behind the endzone to shoot our kickoff returner in the *** if he even THINKS about trying to run out with the ball.",1 +Hang them. Let it be a lesson to those that do this.,1 +"Let me set a new record for crawling my native ass across the concrete jungle through 10 miles of waste deep snow to get to school ""ON TIME' mind you, and see if I create any new ""records"" or start any new crisis' world wide. Doubt it...SMH... its just another back page story...UNLESS",1 +"You are the most uncivilized person I've ever encountered, Ken ... and you're from Trumpland, aren't you? Incidentally, lesbians are homosexual and have the lowest incidence of AIDS of us all. Incidentally no 2, AIDS was spawned in humans by heterosexuals killing chimpanzees for food ... join the dots ...",1 +Maybe they're just fat and lazy.,1 +"""The March 6 order called for a 90-day ban on travelers from Libya, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and a 120-day ban on all refugees to enable the government to implement stronger vetting procedures."" +Okay, fine. The Trump administration claimed they needed between 90 and 120 days to ""enable them to implement stronger vetting procedures"". +But.... they've been in power well over the time they say they needed, so why haven't they actually implemented stronger vetting procedures? The court bans did nothing that prevented the government from implementing them. Nothing. So obviously that was not the reason for the attempted temporary bans. +Obviously the Trump gang lied or they're merely incompetent. Which do you think it is?",1 +"I was just noticing all those knock-off blacks for Trump signs. + +Those signs are printed out to make it look like they are hand-painted but the give-away is the amateurish error in judgement that printing so many that all look exactly alike makes it apparent they are not hand painted, they are knock-offs. + +The other problem with all those knock offs are the white hands holding them up. + +If Trump discovers how clumsy his set decorators are, he'd likely fire them. + +It doesn't make him look like he has black support, it makes him look weak.",1 +"How about Hillary Clinton who not only stayed with Bill but supported him through his lies? +Maybe if Bill Clinton had not been the darling of the Democratic Party, considered a respected elder statesman, who has been given numerous awards, honors, and a total pass on his sexual assault and sexual harassment of young women over his entire political career, maybe Trump would never have gotten away with running. +What kind of message did that send all the good old boys out there Bill got away with an His buddies Harvey and Epstein, the millionaire convicted sex offender who Bill Clinton took repeated trips with on the "" Lolita Express"", with girls as young as 12 years old. +Then sicko buddy, Anthony Weiner, husband of Hillary's top aide and friend. Bill and Anthony were known to enjoy each other's company. +So, all the men and women who voted for Hillary did not seemed bothered about putting a sex abuser and confirmed perjurer, Bill Clinton back into the White House either, did they ?",1 +Pure BS. Provide the evidence or take your lies elsewhere.,1 +"For our sheepish poster ""real change"" means a world run by paranoid old white men who imagine the 1950s as paradise.",1 +"Once again, the little guy gets totally screwed! Thanks Obama...",1 +"Ah, the old hypocritical ""you drive a car, right?"" or ""you use natural gas, right?"" argument, when almost all used automobiles and nearly all new vehicles still use gasoline, and to function in rural America, one needs his/her own automobile. Hypocritical would be if I criticize Oil and Gas for illegal dumping, but then I turn around and dump my used motor oil down the sewer. + +The problem is, Fort Collins residents are told by the city that they shouldn't even wash their automobiles in their driveways, because of the chemicals that can come off and flow into waterways. If any citizen were to dump their oil down the sewer, the sensors would detect it and they would be ticketed. Yet, Oil and Gas is once again laughing at the law, opting not to spend extra money to transport their waste to Adams County or Pueblo. Oil and Gas, time and again, feels that the law only applies to others. But then again, endocrine disrupters? Nevermind those innocent little things.",1 +"Rubbish. The entire surface area of the reservoir is 4,000 Ha, or 40 square kilometres, (20 Km x 2 Km.) That's roughly double the surface area of the river at present. The area to be flooded represents 0.4% of Ag land in the Peace River district and 0.2% of Ag land in BC. If that will feed 1 million, the balance of Peace River Ag land can feed almost 140 million Canadians. + +Alternative energy sources? A windmill has a 20 year lifespan. A dam's electrical generation capacity is approximately 100 years. The Paris accord requires CO2 cuts of 30% by 2030, the transportation sector which contributes 27% of CO at present, must be electrified. The claim that we can rely on the Columbia River (USA) dam's capacity is foolish. When Trump says America First, it means everyone else last. The only energy security we can count on is our domestic supply. + +Finally, blowing off about $5 billion to mothball a $9 or $10 billion project is astoundingly stupid.",1 +"They hate Hillary Clinton so much they were even willing to work with a foreign government to undermine American elections on behalf of a incompetent imbecile. My God. +https://www.lawfareblog.com/time-i-got-recruited-collude-russians",1 +"You've described Trump exactly. + +Puppet, despot, murderer, delusional.",1 +Prepare to be trickled down upon.,1 +So Trump may screw up foreign policy through his ignorance and super-ego acting together. I just hope that those who voted for him understand that running an oft failing company does not prepare one to be a politician let alone being a President. Inaugurate him and then impeach him!,1 +"Where do you get all this silly info, Ms. Zuyus?",1 +"Cue the Trumpnuts: Why can't you listen to what's in Trumps heart instead of relying on what he says? The CBO didn't say that; ADN is reporting fake news. Trump is going lower our taxes, give us all high paying jobs, provide the best healthcare plan ever and lower - not raise - the deficit! Why can't the CBC, all those economists and other sore losers just shut up and accept that Trump is a genius; just a regular ole' ""every man"" like all of us blue collar workers. Stupid libs.",1 +We the people of Ontario have failed ourselves and future generations when we elected the most incompetent politicians in Canadian history. We failed to see the complete folly of the Green Energy Act. We failed see the corruption. We failed see that their reckless spending is about to bankrupt us. We failed to see that social engineering merely masks our true problems driving industry away at break neck speed. Sorry Canada for our stupidity.,1 +"Q. Where would you be without teachers? A. Right where you are. Why is it that in Canada, teachers are denigrated? Whereas in Asian countries, teachers are highly respected. As Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's former students all attest: he is an excellent teacher. Excellent, do you here, dunce?",1 +"Abrahams will never be thought otherwise than these last few years, a miserable and corrupt person .....there is no redemption for his sort!",1 +The President is insane. Obviously. He should be removed from office.,1 +"I think what's being overlooked is that the Baptist schools aren't actually being accused of violating anyone's Charter Rights. The Charter protects against discrimination based on sexual orientation, it doesn't command celebration of it. + +What should disturb people, is the government is stepping on the freedoms of Association, and Religion. Freedom of association cuts both ways: you can choose to associate with something, or choose not to. Other people can choose to associate with you, or not. Someone may want to associate with the Baptists, and the Baptists may choose otherwise. Within very broad strokes, the government isn't supposed to have any say in religion. You can't kill someone, then try to hide behind religious freedoms, for example. If they can make the Baptists violate their religious beliefs, they can make the Muslims, and the Jews, and the Scientologists. Take note, Atheists, they could make you pray.",1 +Virtually everything NEEDS to be affected by Trumps budget. You hogs have had your snouts in the public trough for far too long.,1 +"Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Eric Bolling, and Donald Trump. What do they have in common? They're all Republicans, sexual abusers and, in some cases, rapists.",1 +"Yes, will put my money on Kevin O'Leary to clean the crap within Federal Conservative Party of Canada, and scrape Gerald Butts, Katie Telford, Ontario’s past staff, wyneedalton and oh ya …..junior from Ottawa,",1 +I think it conservative idiots who cannot react in proportion.,1 +"Obstruction, collusion & stupidity.........it's almost here folks! And yes, john rice alias keonigohan, I am still holding my breathe, lol",1 +"Nothing I said was with intent to be un-peaceful, it was to start a dialogue. Got to love the first amendment. + +Trust me, I get that you find this situation humorous, a lot of insane people laugh uncontrollably and without reason. + +I find the removal of comments to be more a form of censorship and with this being a liberal owned paper now I'm simply not surprised since those people ""embrace differences"" as long as they coincide with their views. +Typical hypocritical thought process.",1 +It is possible to be too ignorant to benefit from any privilege. Think of the lottery winners that end up broke.,1 +"I want the totem poles removed from Stanley Park because I am offended by the behaviour of the Miqmaq in Halifax,threatening to tear down the statue of Cornwallis.Real civil behaviour.Why don't we all go back 268 years and file some grievances?We all have some.Even the evil white man.",1 +"Logic of the PC liberal; being an obnoxious jerk, preventing some one from speaking at THEIR event, is free speech. either this person is incredibly stupid, and has no business being anywhere near an institution of higher education, or they are intellectually bankrupt, shameless dysfunctional liars, who have no business being anywhere near an institution of higher learning. + What I am finding highly entertaining is watching the PC Puritans eating their own now.",1 +"The gig economy is ripe for worker exploitation, since part time ""giggers"" will never unionize...",1 +"Not OP's fault that racist white men won't stop being racist white men. If old racist white men don't want to be called racist white men they should stop being racist white men. + +#HitDogsHoller",1 +"Call it what it is, SOCIALIST PARTY. If Idiots can't look at Venezuela and see where Socialism leads them then they are too ignorant to be American. + Put your hands in your pockets instead of holding them out for the Gov. to fill with goodies for your vote.",1 +Where the hell are the desalinization plants. There is no excuse for this given the pathetic Capex report on how little of the water budget Cape Town has actually spent in infrastructure. The DA does not deserve to run the Cape. They are quite incompetent.,1 +"When her daughter died at 2PM, , there were no or only a few white supremacists there at the intersection. The KKK, racist crowd had already dispersed around 11AM, much to the disappointment of the left wing mob. It was a mix of young radical students, leftists, Antifa goons and anti Trump protesters with baseball bats, shields, helmets, facemasks, dressed in black, fully prepared to engage in mindless violence. Most of the damage to the car was from the antiTrump thugs with baseball bats. The car crash was completely despicable, but they were not humble pilgrims in search of world peace. Trump was correct to identify the violence from both sides. But as they say “One man's terrorist is another man's Antifa.”.",1 +Because Lance has a lame last name that rhymes with dick,1 +"Absolutely. So many blind, stupid, p.c. fools. It's their (and our) funeral. Idiots.",1 +The only running Romney should do is away from this country. He is a traitor to the Republican party and conservative voters.,1 +What in the heck is this troll talking about??? Get real man,1 +"One young Uyghur man was browsing pornography at an Internet café when he fell asleep. Porn is illegal in China +Illegal websites are blocked in China, not accessible from Internet cafes. This guy paid to watch pornography and fell asleep? +I suppose they don't bother to block those really boring porn sites!",1 +"Quite frankly, it is hard to imagine how transgenders can be accommodated in the military. So the guy wants to be a girl. How do the real girls feel when he is put in their barracks and uses their bathroom. Those who need special accommodations do not belong in the military.",1 +Trump chaos? Unemployment down; stock market up; ISIS losing; illegal immigration down; tax cuts are next...is this your idea of chaos? Sounds like a pretty darn good 8 months so far.,1 +"""This is where the popular culture of that country shows itself to be far more sophisticated than its Commander in Chief, for this kind of cool is beyond him."" + +And with that statement, Russel proves beyond any doubt he is an irredeemable twit.",1 +This is one of Shapiro's most ignorant columns. He is losing it.,1 +"Not only did these criminals hurt the environment bad, they also responsible for dropping off many illegals. Most anybody can see this is a human smuggling operation and they burned the evidence to try and cover. Next time dont go so close to the reef when you drop off your cargo.",1 +"Or perhaps we are simply not being told the truth by friends of the Liberal Government, like the CBC, The Star, The G&M, and Trudeau himself. We all know swarms of illegal Muslim immigrants are still coming north from the US.",1 +"How do these fools get elected? An impeachable offense must be cited and evidenced, He has not done either of those things.",1 +Amen to that. This article is ridiculous. Maybe next they could find the guy that writes all the stuff on bathroom walls and run a breaking news story....,1 +"Q: How terribly silly is all this quack-filled nincompoopery? + +A: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=1970s+claim+of+new+ice+age&id=132E2646EECFFDDE48A4C53504B0F0AB3AADA476&form=IQFRBA&first=1&cw=1177&ch=589",1 +"President Obama stands up against ruthless Israeli bullies,making America great again. Thank you B.O. and John Kerry for your amazing courage.",1 +"Khadr confessed, he was not deemed a child by UN standards, he was in a battle zone fighting for the terrorist side, and he killed a medic trying to give aid to the injured. Court decisions aside, tell me where this was the right and just thing to give this miscreant 10.5 million. Trudeau was just trying to cover up a Liberal boondoggle made by Martin and Chretien. The only thing Harper did was not move faster on expediting Khadr's return to Canada, which the supreme court acknowledged as the government's privilege. + +Trudeau is just trying to buyout a problem created by the Liberals and blame everyone else. He is nothing but a coward in a pretty suit.",1 +Definitely not a pussy like your guy.,1 +"Oh please! Get over yourself along with your arrogant, petty perceptions of regional disparity and injustice... with your comment, you blatantly typify the selfish stereotype of an arrogant and out-of-touch lotus-lander. + +The fact is that BC has done far more to hinder and obstruct the economy of Canada than the other way around. It's borderline treasonous, especially given the fact that were BC to have a huge earthquake, along with a huge hit to its economy, I doubt that the rest of Canada would ever be quite so isolationist, unsupportive and uncooperative in terms of helping fellow British Columbians to rebuild and get their economy back on track. Too bad the selfish lotus-landers can't see fit to reciprocate!",1 +Actually your opinion summary is pretty near identical in rhetoric to the unhinged fringe left.,1 +"Intolerant liberals here calling others intolerant. +Liberalism is a mental disorder. The sooner we rub it out of Western culture, the better.",1 +"Can't start em young enough, you never know when you may be needed to shoot another democrat. + +""I think the best thing a mite of a chap like you can do is drop that gun” or called him a “damned little Yankee devil,” according to various sources. Rather than surrender, Clem shot the colonel and successfully made his way back to Union lines. For his actions, Clem was promoted to sergeant, the youngest soldier ever to become a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Army, and became known as the “Drummer Boy of Chickamauga. Clem remained in the army until 1915, when he retired. He was the last Civil War veteran to leave the United States military. + +http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/john-clem.html",1 +You set up your straw men. You knock down your straw men. What a bunch of ideological hogwash. Nobody is impressed.,1 +"Like your post about ""conversion therapy""? + +Garbage deserves to be thrown out.",1 +"Harper's fascism certainly isn't good neither, nor was the CPC election rigging via ""Pierre Poutine"" and Nigel Wright bribes to Senator Duff",1 +"I'm not the one posting Anti-Semitic hate speech under some spineless pseudonym. You might rethink who's a coward here, and who's not.",1 +"Histric????? +Height of stupidity for sure.",1 +"I once had a filly spook, rear, and hit her head backing out of a trailer. She suffered the same type of facial wound as the horse in this pitiful story. +It took me a year of doctoring for that wound to fully close, heal, and scar. But shoot, she was the sweetest and prettiest little thing. I still miss her. +That pit bull's attack was about as ""trivial"" as the bushel of proud skin the horse's owners will be picking off that wound for the next year. +18,000 idiots live in Grants Pass, Oregon.",1 +"""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.",1 +conservatives are hypocrites. They cannot cry nepotism cronyism and favoritism from one side of the mouth and from the other defend a system where the title of head of state is handed down from parent to offspring forever.,1 +"""There were nearly 900 hate incidents across the U.S. in the 10 days following the election, a report released last month by the Southern Poverty Law Center found. Those attacks include vandals drawing swastikas on a synagogue, schools, cars and driveways; an assailant beating a gay man while saying the “president says we can kill all you faggots now”; and children telling their black classmates to sit in the back of the school bus. + +In nearly 40 percent of those incidents, the SPLC found, people explicitly invoked the president-elect’s name or his campaign slogans."" + +http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/president-donald-trump-racist-examples_us_584f2ccae4b0bd9c3dfe5566",1 +"I do not support the majority of Trumps budget cuts. I would however like to point out that our city utility rates, electric ,water ,garbage, sewer have continued to rise despite the fact something approaching 25% of our City residents need to access these federal funds every year to keep from sitting in the dark without heat and water during the winter every year. So even though our city council knows full well many of us can't pay these ridiculous rates without assistance they raise the rates over and over and count on the government bailing out the people they represent. I wonder what the city plan is going to be if these funds are discontinued and about a quarter of our town is dirty, sitting in the cold and dark next winter ? New art downtown , another pat each other on the back feed at the crab house, how about some attorney fees? Any of you council members need legal assistance for stupid? That ought to pep everyone up",1 +"Canadian PM Justin Trudeau is trolling for private investors to provide money to help improve and build infrastructure in Canada. + +I guess Trudeau is a troll.",1 +"The only thing wrong with your projection Icon666 is that so far ...: +1) The party misdeeds have all been committed by the DNC not the GOP ...don't forget that it was the democrats who sat on their hands, covered their mouth and eyes and put their fingers in their ears like 3 stupid chimps sitting on a wall while Hillary Clinton defrauded and disenfranchised every single democrat of their vote in the primary by kinking those primaries to deny the democrats of a legitimate nominee. Nothing goes to the heart of our system of government than this fraud you all sat around and pretended wasn't happening ...Pathetic! +2) No racist events have been tied to either Trump or the GOP ...and as a matter of fact it's the democrats who have the long and storied history of racism ..not the GOP. Filibustered any civil rights acts lately? +3) Social idiocy you mean like bowing to Saudi Kings? like burning over 9000 gallons of jet fuel on earth day? CONT'D + +STOP FLAGGING THIS COMMENT ...PATHETIC!",1 +I wish this Maverick mother f**cker would shut the f*** up and go away and take Hillary and Hussein with him,1 +I find it comforting to know that there are still places where humans are not the apex species and are subject to another species rule. The Arctic and the ocean are two such places. Not so long ago it was the entire planet. Hang in there polar bears the smelly bearded people will soon go home.,1 +Beyer says they are going to do it right this time. A fresh start McKewon says a fresh start. These idiots who are on the verge of letting PERS bankrupt this state claim they will do it right this time. Before these head off to new and better tax land maybe they should figure out how to correct all their past we will do it right this time screw up's. Around 23billion in unfunded PERS should have these fools losing sleep rather than pretending PERS will go away. Welcome to Oregon the first state foreclosed on by retired government employees,1 +"Really, not even Americans would be so naive to believe that rubbish. Low effort thinkers are having their day in the sun...so congrats I guess.",1 +"The policy of the church is that gays or straight clergy are to be celibate---no sex with anybody, even themselves.",1 +"Modern Toronto is garbage, a slave wage cesspool. It used to be a nice place where people lived balanced lives. Now it is a greedy slimy cesspool.",1 +"Your question is particularly apposite when considering the fact that the argument is so poor; so ill-considered; and ultimately so false in all its parts, from ""lynching"", to ""piecing together a heritage"", to ""special status"". This is a great garbage bag of bad ideas, published only because it came from a reliable source.",1 +"whazzup is the only one that ""likes"" his own comment. How ridiculous, my fav real estate troll. He's so clueless he doesn't get that we can now see when he upvotes himself. Sad little clown.",1 +"Nicky, you can't handle the truth. Both Harper and Harris were completely useless scumbags. One was the worst PM we will ever have, and the other is the worst Ontario Premier we will ever have. You can sling all the sing-song baloney you want, they were the worst.",1 +Obooba is a domestic terrorist. Nothing he does shocks me anymore. The more he can do to destroy america and israel the better he feels.,1 +"What a pompous ass McCain has become(always was?). +Absolutely earned a MOUNTAIN of goodwill and benefit of the doubt for his POW service 44 years ago... but now he has burned it all away. The fact that you were once a hero and deserving of respect doesn't mean you can there after operate like an a-hole, lie to your constituents(promised to end Obamacare to get re-elected and then cast the deciding vote to kill repeal), try to tear down your own President from your OWN party(alleged as he is now a rino) while in a foreign country. He has become a self-righteous, self-serving old geezer who has committed to an outright war against the President because the new president ISN'T the establishment GOP...the new President doesn;t WANT business as usual...doesn't want the swamp that McCain thrives in. When McCain end up 6 ft under very few Republicans and almost NO conservatives will shed a single tear. Can't come soon enough.",1 +"Sessions kicks ass and Tillerson created thousands of jobs. + +How many jobs have YOU created, pal ?",1 +"Yes, similar to Johnny Depp, Kathy Griffin, and the rest of Hollywood, I'm sure he'd be brutal, as required. How edgy. + +Meanwhile, the majority of Americans wouldn't care what a psycho and overrated coke fiend spewed in between binges.",1 +"I support Evan Siddal of CMHC who says collecting data is racist and that ignorance is bliss. + +I also support Minister Morneau who has hired the disgraced former Superintendent of Brokers of BC, Carolyn Rogers, to not find out how much foreign money is coming into the country as he also believes ignorance is bliss. + +Remember ""Stupid is as Stupid Does""",1 +"The whole article is a rant against ""white people"" who don't ""recognize"" they are the scum of the earth, and need to grovel in apology for it, or else be labelled racists.",1 +I bet getting warned unfairly sucked. What's a frickin' person to do?,1 +"you are one sick puppy there...getting all inspired again because a Russian predicted a new war! How caring, sharing and inclusive of you! ugh",1 +Because eagles and shit.,1 +"You're right. It's Saudi Arabia. But you understood my reference. For my education, what stupidity are you not giving pass? And what is your guidance?",1 +"Tempmanoa, I disagree with your comment that the legal problems would never have happened if Trump copied Obama. What we have seen since Trump became president is a never ending attack by liberals on anything Trump says or does. It is anti-Trumpism, plain and simple. He can copy to the letter what Obama did and liberals will pounce on it and find a reason to challenge it when the Trump name is applied. Liberalism first, to hell with America.",1 +"Hahaha! Trump is like an anti King Midas: everything he touches turns to crap. + +This is what governance by incompetent ideologues looks like.",1 +"When are CNN and the Washington Post going to give up this flimsy snore-fest of a fake investigation into the Russians and Trump? It's getting so bad and so pathetic in its credibility it's turned into this hysterical cultish thing. Flip through the news channels and everyone is carrying news stories that one would expect to see, but come upon CNN and it's Russians-Trump-Russians-Trump-Russians-Trump . . . . + +The only entertaining part of CNN right now is when they juxtapose their Darth-Vadar voice ad in the middle of it all: ""CNN-the-most-trusted-name-in-news"" - one can't help but laugh. Even liberal co-workers I know don't watch CNN anymore - it's boring. + +The big questions is this - are we not actually witnessing media suicide before our very eyes? When one includes the recent firing of CNN staffers, Hillary being fed the debate questions by CNN, etc. - isn't CNN's media suicide the real story here?",1 +"Alaska has by far the highest rates of Alcoholism, Drug Use, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, Molestation, Neglect, and all manner of Human Depravity per capita. Are you living in a cave and can't do research, or do you need help ?",1 +"It sounds like we are trying to do a better job of controlling the dosing in edibles here. The Colorado treats were way too potent - people were instructed just nibble at their cookies, which is just plain dumb.",1 +"LOL what a pile of garbage this health system is. Meh, just throw more money at it, right?",1 +Given that climate has been changing for millions of years they would look as stupid as Trudeau and Obama if they failed to know about climate change 40 yeas ago.,1 +"These days there is now such thing as white supremacy unless you promote racism. If anything, there is more black supremacy than there is white.",1 +Silence by the gutless republican majority is just empowering the lunatic to continue to destroy the credibility of our country. It is the ultimate embarrassment to have a f-----g moron for president. To me he is president in title only. Corker is wrong about one thing. The White House is a child care center. It is a disgrace to responsible adults to be compared with the Chumps childish behavior.,1 +"What, exactly, could Hillary Clinton plausibly be charged with? ""Trumped-up charges""? Do you believe that anyone, including one of the most famous women in the world, can be convicted and jailed with sufficient prosecutorial zeal and a hostile court? Any conviction would be a travesty of justice. In spite of what forty million ignoramuses believe, Hillary Clinton has done nothing criminal. If Trump thought he had a chance to jail Hillary he would have jumped on it. He does what he says he will do, remember. The Wall - what idiocy!",1 +LOL lots of sore losers in this forum tonight.,1 +Pretty clearly Justin Trudeau is not very bright but that does not preclude him being a cynical and manipulative leader.,1 +"Women can be very horrible users and abusers themselves,",1 +"This witch hunt needs to stop. So the guy likes jacking off in front of women. If you feel offended, turn the other way. I mean, really. He wasn't exactly holding a gun now.",1 +"Frankly, ignoring your mysogyny, Trump looks like a very large sack of raccoons.",1 +And in other news : How many expense paid trips do UAA sports teams plan to Hawaii this year ? How many sports trips outside will UAA take this year ? Clearly the U of A system doesn't care about the state budget and saving the state money. If they did they'd cut all travel and eliminate campuses on every street corner in a number of towns across Alaska . How is the U of A school helped by paying to send sports teams outside ? They even refuse the cost savings that would come from putting the U of A administration in one location. And what the heck is UAA doing still putting on a Shootout when so few care about it anymore ? The U of A will never make the needed cuts as long as they can sucker legislators into giving them excessive money .,1 +"Mike McQueen - Exactly. Add to it that this road will be built through a highly active avalanche zone and we'll spend millions of dollars a year trying to keep it open. And, that is not picked up by the feds in any way. + +Then also to remember that this doesn't actually go Haines or Skagway, but to another ferry terminal that still is needed to actually reach the road system. + +I understand that Juneauites feel trapped by their virtual island experience, but this road will essentially be a placebo, something for them take to Sunday drives on. That's a silly reason to build a road anyway, but in these challenging fiscal times, it's downright ridiculous.",1 +"You assume so many things +first - that history will repeat +second that Trump is a politician with something to gain form NAFTA??? Explain that one to us genius. Trump isn't a politician and business person and has nothing to gain from NAFTA> +The US economy is the global economy! +The US economy is now deeply diversified compared to the 80's, + +and you simpletons don't get it. +You have nothing to offer the US but burkhas, terrorists, and deadbeats",1 +"Yea, everyone is corrupt except the one right before your very eyes. I bet used car dealerships love when you walk onto their lot.",1 +That one was ugly.,1 +"I cannot wait to see Drumpf out of there and We, The People, get to roll back every single bit of his executive order ""legacy"". + + +Such a stupid clown.",1 +"Kizla saying someone has a big, goofy face? Have any mirrors in casa de la Kizla?",1 +"@Imams +Why not set your Religious Internal Problems* (RIP) between you Imams Association of Canada or Muslim Association of Canada ?(...and no interference from outside Islam countries) +* Religious Internal Problems (RIP !) such as; +prohibition of Women together with Men at prayer time + +prohibition of laughter with bursts + +prohibition of the gaze of the other (for Women) + +the hate of desire and pleasure + +the condemnation of the flesh + +the contempt for the body + +fitting the male absolute, misogyny + +refusing to shake the hand of female + +ban smoking + drinking alcohol (no beer!, no wine! no champagne!) +prohibition of dancing + prohibition mixed swimming pools + +ban school enrolment among girls + +prohibition of sex between persons of the same sex + +prohibition of union between persons of the same sex + +restriction of the freedom of press (telecommunications electronic and others, including especially the Cinema) +restriction of freedoms individual",1 +"How did this dimwit get there? Did he seize power? No, more ons voted for him. Hit close to home?",1 +Went to War with McMasters (Desert Storm) He was the Spearhead during the Flanking Maneuver to catch the Republican Guard running out of Kuwait. Beast!,1 +"whitesplaining, mansplaining: Both legitimate words. Both suggestive of white mens' arrogance.",1 +"Now report on the other side of this story, do some research and report some facts. Totally biased garbage!",1 +Ignorant like g.d. sheep.....,1 +Chiefs issue a threat to Trudeau. They know a wuss when they see one.,1 +"You get the stupidest leading question award +It's so obvious you should work for the NYTimes or the register guard",1 +"I can't figure out for the life of me why this article focuses on this madman's personal finances instead of his blatant act of domestic terrorism. He is a thuq, without morals, and a TERRORIST.",1 +Dumboski is part of that group in our country that has an elected leader that promotes this attitude. It will just get worse in the next four years. But let's not forget....it's all hidden by a Christian facade.,1 +John McCain is a liar. Americans do not want globalization. Period.,1 +Calling someone stupid does not reflect well on you or your decency and ability to participate in an adult debate on issues. In fact...using the words you feel okay to apply to others...well they make you seem rather st*pid.,1 +that depends- you have a cure for stupidity?,1 +"Well when Huessein the Muslim Racist president came here, way too many times, not everyone welcomed him either....The Democrat Leftist are just try to get pay back...",1 +"Murder is murder unless you're talking about abortion, of course...",1 +Brauchler is a jerk. He spent huge amounts of Adams County money just to get a lot of news coverage for himself! Trying to get the death penalty was totally unnecessary. The end result was the same despite B's grandstanding.,1 +"Just more of the evil back-room attempts by an evil administration to protect their main constituency, the world oil monopoly and its billionaire barons linked with the Russian Dictator. Time for a Revolution.",1 +"If you believe that any credible solution can be realized without rescinding ""Money == Speech,"" then you have failed to learn the manifest lessons taught by the last four decades of wild dysfunctional extremes in US policy outcome as corporate spectres fight for control of the soul of government and then abuse it, and us, and the world. Over and over and over again. To steal oil. To fill prisons. To liquidate prosperity and income equity. To do dark immoral thing abroad in collusion with the enemies of mankind; misogynists, extremists, warlords, tyrants, usurpers of liberal democracy. It's pretty bad.",1 +Because he's a moron and a bigot. It's not any more complicated than that.,1 +"The judge knows that this former investment advisor, arrested while driving his 2012 Lexus, whose charges include methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine, who is also under investigation by the SEC, and who has 20 firearms won't skip? How about if he were a black man, with no job, driving a 2000 Lexus or a Mexican in a Ford Tempo? No flight risk?",1 +Crappy company delivering crappy overpriced services and maximizing their profits by treating their employees like crap while lobbying (or is the word bribing?) legislators for all sorts of exemptions and special privileges. Another carpetbagging company screwing Alaskans.,1 +Not his fault.....It's those damn young wives. They keep him awake all night.,1 +"I didn't know there are so many Drug users on the school board. That is the only thing I can come up with to explain just where these elected fools think we are going to come up with the money for their fantasy. +Wake up 4j voters or soon we will have fancy new monuments to one of the lowest graduation rates in the country.",1 +"Well, I am a conservative, I don't believe in science, I believe in fake things like trickle down economics and tooth fairies. As to my genitals, they are male too, but I still wan to make decisions for women. So in other words no as usual you have no facts.",1 +"motley beat me to the punch gary. as for the nastiest in history, seriously, dude, you need to study history better. we have far more nastier elections 100-200 years ago than what we have going on right now. and your biasness is unbecoming gary as they both have plenty of dirty dealings to come to public light. team billary is hands down the most vile corrupt politicians in my lifetime.",1 +"If I found a strange guy wandering around in my home, I's definitely shoot them dead. If the home is occupied, it isn't a ""burglary"", it's a ""home invasion robbery"".",1 +"I'm waiting to see if they are going to take a stand against HRC, liar, thief, foul-mouthed, sexual predator enabler and dishonorable leftist twit.",1 +"People do that because there are ""Christians"" who openly advocate violence against gay people, and if you have any grasp of history, it is easy to see where fundamentalist religions take these kinds of issues. Just as it's easy to see where most extremist/reactionary movements go. + +Plus, Jerry's been promoting hate in this city on this topic for a long time. He more or less built his little Baxter Road empire on anti-gay bigotry and it works for him. If Christians don't want him to be their spokesman, they should speak up and drown him out.",1 +"Trump is an idiot. No other President in history has relied upon a tv show for information in place of intelligence that has been fact checked. Aside from that, Trump did lie because he repeated the same lie for days, well after he had been told the ""information"" upon which he relied was untrue. In fact, he's still repeating it.",1 +"Lukecanada, have you considered making some civil contributions instead of just using pejoratives like ""loser"" and ""ignorant"" against people whose opinions differ from yours? If you give it a try you will see it's not so difficult.",1 +"You get what you vote for!! Damn Commies!! This will be a shit show of EPIC proportions, I see +rapes, drugs, drug raids gone wrong (home owners killed), home owners killed by tenents.....",1 +"“very grateful the good Lord watched out for us” +Yep, Jesus was watching out for YOU but apparently didn’t give a damn about the 14 who died and about 130 who were injured. Do you even realize how offensive you are?",1 +Thank you for digging that up. When are we all going to wake up that our politicians work for themselves first and count on our dumbness. That is why they cut education first and foremost in every budget cycle. Now we have DeVos!,1 +"The MSM like all Religious leaders hate criticism and support anything that can reduce criticism of themselves. +This is a ridiculous editorial calling for censorship - WHERE IS THE EDITORIAL DEMANDING MUSLIMS STOP HATING JEWS, CHRISTIANS, ZOROASTRIANS, ATHEISTS, WOMEN, GAYS? +It is just crazy what is going on here, a total tyranny is being put nto place and we must fight it to the death!",1 +I'da knocked that bitchout cold. She would have let go.,1 +"Being anti-racist isn't racist. The right has tried to peddle that ""anti-white"" nonsense for two generations now since the GOP adopted all the orphaned racist southerners abandoned by the Democrats. No one has said border control is racist. You're engaging in what's known as ""equivocation.""",1 +He just needed to sell something valuable for more drugs. Now days these idiots pop up daily in our news. Do we need more?,1 +"CNN doesn't think, there are absolutely NO brain cells available in their newsroom.",1 +"I'm not sure what is more disheartening, electing the preferred candidate of white supremacists to be president in the 21st century, or that most white liberals are too ignorant of our history, feckless, and self absorbed to acknowledge how bad and common white racism is in all aspects of our society. The one good thing about white folks, as a group, is that their children tend to be less racist than their elders. Unfortunately, they are still producing folks like Dylan Roof too. We had a saying back in the 1960's and 1970's that is still true today. ""We are not where we want to be, and we not where we are going to be, but thank God we are not where we use to be."" There is nothing about American history I want to relive. There are no good old days back there for me.",1 +"no kidding. Started with McGuilty and has been getting worse with Wynne and Boy Blunder. + +Take a look at your hydro and gas bills. My hydro has plummeted and the savings appear to have have been added to the gas bill. + +She thinks we are too stupid to notice",1 +Clinton wants to shoot the messenger.,1 +"is this news??? put it in the ads section. and who cares about who got promoted. really, who give a rats ass about these peoples new jobs. what about naming the person that got promoted to supervisor on the construction site, or at the trash dump, or at mcdonalds. i had a nephew that got promoted from drive thru at burger king and now is training supervisor ahahahahahhahha serious though, i could care less about these people, why do you keep putting this crap in your newspaper. is it because you have to kiss someones ass. its just like in the sports section on where the kids are playing in college, majority are punahou alums. does the SA sports writers keep checking all on these kids in college playing sports or are all these reported by their publicity seeking parents. I vote these parents are emailing or calling in about to report how wonderful their child is doing in their college sport. bingo",1 +Quit defending the Orange Cheetos Sweeney. It' embarrassing enough that he makes up his own stats but then to have someone try and echo his stupidity is just crazy. Next YOU will telling us about the mass terror attacks in Sweden as a result of immigration.,1 +"Bill Maher and Richard Dawkins say the same things about Islam as The Rebel but don't get attacked for it because they are liberals . Double Standard . The same people attacking The Rebel would be fine with it if The Rebel went after Catholics but Islam ,forget about it . What a bunch of hypocrites .",1 +What a jerk!,1 +"Larsy, +Trump is neither a conservative nor a libertarian. +He's a con man whose only allegiance is to himself.",1 +And that clown is going to jail after Trump wins the election.,1 +ignorant,1 +"Oh come off it. I bet that Sessions would have bitten off Rosenstein's hand to get hold of the document! Do you deny that this paragon of virtue has been sidelined from the Russia-Trump probe because of his sessions(sic) with the Russian ambassador? Be off with you, troll!!!!!",1 +Sexual orientation isn't an addiction or a crime. Your resort to a patently ridiculous distortion is junk.,1 +"""Yes it's certainly not cool for a son to have sex with his mother, but . . ."" + + +You missed the point, which was that for unrepentent, recalcitrant mortal sin, Christians eventually have a right protect the Church by saying ""good riddance."" That time has come. Things have gone from bad to worse to intolerable. It wasn;t enough that gay sex almost destroyed the priesthood. Most of LGBT wants more. To those who do, ""Good riddance.""",1 +"All of the hysteria from the left about starting impeachment proceedings immediately is one example. + +The two previous Presidents who were impeached actually did something first to start impeachment. The only thing Trump has done is win the election. + +Colluding with Russia? Still not one shred of evidence of any wrong doing. Obstruction of justice? No evidence other than Trump expressing a ""hope."" No one in history has been impeached over expressing a hope. + +The Left's constant banging of the impeachment drum is the exact thing Dems worried Trump would do if he lost. Refuse to recognize a duly elected President and threaten our democracy by doing such. + +The Left likes to scream that conservatives (or Trump supporters) are Fascists, yet the left are the ones using the tactics of Fascist Brown Shirted Nazi's to shout down conservative speakers or conservative student groups. + +We may look back at this shooting as a Ft. Sumter moment when things turned bloody in this civil war.",1 +"Because castration doesn't remove his ability to rape more women. Castration is the removal of the testicles, not the penis.",1 +"Could it be that Corker will have the last laugh in that he and other Republicans bailing on Trump in Congress will come back to bite the orange moron on the okole by forming up and running against him for President in 2020, so he won't even be a candidate and we can just ignore the phony ranting and raving from then to the end of time?",1 +"nope, hes a child molester",1 +Lesbian chicks are OK as long as they are HOT! This one appears to be marginal. Anybody got any tapes?,1 +"And I suppose your hero Trump isn't a liar, and also isn't in the pockets of Wall Street? I'm at a loss for words.",1 +"He's positive the Generals--er, I mean, the Nuggets--suck. There's some positivism for you, Brian...",1 +"Such a weak attempt at diversion. +How about Mr. Phillips is bigoted towards gays? Dislikes gay people and gay couples? Uses his religion as a sword and shield against gay people?",1 +"I don't know whether transgenderism is a mental affliction or a physical one, but either way, it is a condition that will require years of medical treatment to ""cure"". We don't allow people with club feet or rickets to join the Infantry, since neither can walk the walk without large amounts of medical intervention. We don't allow allow diabetics to join, nor those with other diseases or conditions, because of the increased medical care needs that detract from their ability to perform active service. It seems reasonable to prohibit known transgenders from enlisting to prevent the long term and expensive medical care they would need in order to perform their duties.",1 +"Hillary was smart enough not to take the bait being offered my Mrs. Smith. Arguing with a mother, who lost her son, is a no-win situation. So she just let it pass. + +Trump is too stupid to understand this. He just keeps shooting off his big mouth. He has no impulse control.",1 +People died so you could feign such indignation and comment in such a ridiculous over the top manner. Respect seems to be a lost art.,1 +"I find it sad that the phrase “known homosexual “ has been used in this discussion as if this were the McArthy days and we were discussing “known communists”. Really senator, at long last, have you no shame?",1 +"This may be the dumbest and most naive piece of pap I've ever read. As a foreign government, there is little we can do to exercise influence over any other country, let alone the U.S. You may have noticed that nobody cared that Mr. Trudeau was there other than Canadians. We can't control their immigration policy. We can't control their economic agenda. We can't control their view on diversity. We can exercise some influence over trade because we trade with them on a very significant level. + +The women's leadership roundtable was brilliant, working through the back door to achieve influence. + +We have to live with this guy (Trump) for the next 4 years, at least, so we need to start with small achievements. + +If you want to tell Mr. Trump how to behave vis-a-vis the citizens of the country of which he is president, you should feel to exercise your influence over him. I'm sure he'd be interested.",1 +"Donald Trump is far from a failed businessman, what a stupid uneducated argument.",1 +"How odd. I watched that debate and the stage set up was with Trump on the left, with a chair there, and Clinton on the right with a chair on her side. The picture and comments were about her speaking to the seated audience on Trump's side of the stage. She walked across to the left to be facing them, appropriately, and was therefore on Trump's side of the stage (just calling it that because of the setup). When the camera was switched to that side of the stage so as to show Clinton face-on it appeared that Trump was behind Clinton facing her back. I don't think he even moved from his chair location. She moved over to be in front of him to address that side of the audience. There was no sneaking up behind her by Trump. Why don't they show the whole stage from the ""front"" where the moderator was? It puts this stupid comment to rest as a lie. +So sad.",1 +"Aside from its premise that the Libs are incompetent, this editorial is absolute garbage. How can the editors of what's supposed to be a business-based newspaper come to the conclusion that it's nothing but tax avoidance. What an insult. I'm considering ending my subscription.",1 +"You're wrong, of course. You don't understand the law or the SCOTUS decisions that have already been handed down on this subject. Ms. Maddow is fully protected. The statement from the White House that publishing the tax return was illegal is a lie. Nothing new with Trump lying!",1 +"Wait, fer real? That went to court?! And he WON?!? For the sake of honesty! We finally made it criminal to tell the truth, and it started here. How sickening. I mean, I kinda get it, being socially shunned sucks, but not being able to inform your community about dangerous individuals sucks even worse. It would be one thing if the allegations were false, but if they're true ... well ... if you don't like the consequences maybe you shouldn't have done the deed? I mean, I made the front page of my city's newspaper for being ""different,"" on the heals of Columbine and on Mother's Day no less, and that was awkward as hell. It never even crossed my mind to accuse the newspaper of any misconduct. I was weird, apparently that was news, and they shared it. Well, fuck me then.",1 +"""As Confederate relics fall, one is memorialized at black church"" +http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/as-confederate-relics-fall-one-is-memorialized-at-black-church/ar-AArClPO?li=BBnbfcL + +How on earth do we square this?",1 +"You raise an interesting point, paulsixe, with ""...way more incorporated small businesses than anyone thought."" + +Oh, the government knows how many there are. But, individually, they are anonymous. They're mostly ""little guys""--I was incorporated, too, and worked out of my basement. More of them today than when I did it! + +What the government DIDN'T see coming--because they are short-sighted and driven by the image in the mirror instead of their constituents--Is the backlash of so many anonymous individuals can lead to something the media loves--underdog backlash by ""jus' folks."" + +And the fact they didn't that possibility--or if they did, wrote it off--is just politically stupid.",1 +"shawnchun> Patience. patience, patience!!!! The time will and is coming for ""honey girl"" HRC, wait and you will see, but please no crying will be allowed, okay???? Ha, ha, ha!!!! I can't believe that you woulld take the side of someone who sold out your country, you are just as bad as they are crooks, big crooks!!!! Ha, ha, ha!!!! Treason and traitors all of you!!!!",1 +Most of the people who will be affected voted for the dummy so they should be tapping themselves on the back.,1 +"Are you suggesting that Trump is so mentally feeble that a supposed (unproven) reference by Clinton in 2008 is enough to send him off on a five-year public crusade to lie about and delegitimize the nation's first black president? + +I think you're right, and it also can explain Trump's other odious views. A sort of unified field theory explaining the poor man's delusions. + +Good job, Dogs.",1 +"If climate change is real then Trump's action will have little effect. We have to assume that sanity is still the default option for most people. Most adults know how to deal with a wayward child, who does something stupid just to gain attention.",1 +"During this entire cluster f*ck of an investigation and media storm, I'm still amazed by how the average American is treated as a complete dolt. Set aside 2016, Russia has interfered in every presidential election for the last 50+ years. Most powerful nations have attempted to sway the outcome in their favor, and who wouldn't try when we're talking about the most influential country in history. Also, our own governemnt gets it's hand wet whenever a country holds elections, in hopes of a favorable outcome. + +But nooo, we must act shocked that such an act has been perpetrated and question it's motives in relation to Trump's ascension to power. The American people are treated as fools, being told where to focus their outrage and blinded to the overall geopolitical goals every nation with the means would aspire to control. I'm so very tired of this. I feel such shame, since I'm certain the media and Democrats will show none once this whole cluster f*ck goes away.",1 +Most of Ukrainian defenders who were killed by Russia's missiles over past few days following Trump phone conversation with Putin (Putin got a green light for offensive) where in early 20. Chronic diseases? Vodka? You are out of your mind. Ugly Olgino troll!,1 +Keep trying to stifle dissent and you will end up with an actual revolution. She showed ISIS at their muslim best. No wonder the eunuchs in Europe are scared of her. She doesn't play nice with those who seek to destroy western civilization.,1 +It would be more in line for the Sanders camp to encourage folks to share their leftovers with those that are needy rather than throw them in the trash.,1 +"see loser, he had a crash to deal with in a minority thus the LIBERALS own that spending too,, get over it,,",1 +"Idiots are perfectly legal, as a issue of educational standards, that is not condescending, but collaborative fact.",1 +"I just come to argue with the libs. If I can get a few Pravda staffers to read my posts that point out their hypocrisy, all the better.",1 +Christy is such a loser. Obviously power has gone to Christys head and she is proving she is unfit for the job .,1 +All u haters out there I hope it stays on til.all the kids get married just to spite u idiots .it is a tv show plus they already paid the fine old news..I enjoy watching what ever they are gonna do next .I think most of u are just trolls who hate everythong. If u don't like DON'T WATCH.,1 +"If he doesn't give a hoot about democracy, which is obvious, so how can we expect anything that resembles anything that's honestly commendable to guy who comes across as a lying power hungry dictator?",1 +The state needs to quit pussy-footing around and shut the company down until they remove the debris from the water.,1 +"The UN, what a pathetic joke, +Their ""human rights"" council is the worst of all. + +But Justin loves it!",1 +"""White millennials exhibit about as much racial prejudice, as measured by explicit bias, as white Gen Xers and boomers."" + +""Millennials overall are more racially tolerant than earlier generations — but that’s because young people today are less likely to be white."" + +All ages of Whites racist; millennials less likely to be white therefore ""more racially tolerant"".",1 +"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! ""Let us resolve that if they come for any of us — Muslims, Hispanics, blacks, gays, women, geeks (like me) — they may as well come for all of us."" What does that even mean? Damn, these freakin people are coming unglued.",1 +"Black people in the USA had to fight for inclusion in sports. Movies have been made about that. Today the numbers are the way they are based on hard won battles. In SA, if resistance to transformation goes away, cricket ad rugby might actually remain white dominated and that will be accepted because there would be no barriers to any one participating.",1 +Dear trumpster. Dont cut my pet program so i can get grants so i can sit at my desk all day and not have a real job. Thank you. ( liberal activist hippie loser),1 +"Absolutely! I agree completely. Canada needs to stop letting in all (non-white) people from around the world. Enough is enough. (non-white) People from the around the world should not be allowed to own property in Canada. Only (white) Canadian people should be. + +Enough is enough.",1 +Your comment has way too much common sense in it for this site. Watch it get whacked.,1 +As a feminist I could NEVER vote for Clinton. She pursued all the women seduced by Bill and tried to silence them. Her only claim to be a feminist is that she supports reproductive choice. Otherwise she is an enabler of a sexual predator..her husband.,1 +IF she's lucky enough to live that long. What she did implies a lot of stupidity. Darwin may intervene.,1 +"Well here go the GOP and RINO Republicans, sentencing before proven guilty! The are just disgusting to me.",1 +" Oh yes, let the poor harmless Nazis and white supremacists have their way. That worked so well in the events leading up to...... WWII. Evil is evil.",1 +"Wtf? + +The lead paragraph says a ""teenage driver allegedly rear-ended a Eugene police vehicle ,"" while the body of the story asserts ""Greg Summers, 19, of Eugene, drove his Honda Civic into the back of the police officer’s vehicle."" + +Is there not a single editor left on Chad Drive?",1 +Still think Trump is stupid? He's split the country East vs. West and put tariffs and countervailing duties on some of our largest exports. Say what you want but he does understand business.,1 +"Moronic, uneducated, dumpy, useless comment! People like you like to make only hostile, ridiculous comments because you have nothing else better to do with your time. Do you have ANYTHING positive to say?! Otherwise don't bother posting your comments here. Where do you live?",1 +brad12> You're a typical (D)onkey dyslexic/hypocrite! You voted (D)onkey and here you are confused and complaining about the jack-a$$es you voted in! LOL,1 +"First amendment speaks only about not jailing people for thier speech. (Congress shall make no law). Doesn't speak to any ""right"" to mouth off in private enterprise, private clubs or homes, churches, bars, anything. You are only protected from prosecution. + +That point is made daily in an effort to educate the antifa and their ilk. +You should maybe make a trip to the public library and read the Constitution before exposing yourself as an illiterate buffoon.",1 +"Ha ha ha !! Anti-Science? +“Falun Gong is an evil cult that is anti-humanity and anti-science in nature, having caused enormous harm to Chinese society."" +This is coming from the country that eats seal penis and tiger bones as medicine.",1 +"Can you imagine, taking out an ISIS insurgent with a single bullet! If the insurgent had lived he might have taken out dozens of lives with an IED or other explosives somewhere in the world. Our military did not have to ""carpet bomb"" and possibly kill dozens of innocent people, just to take out this ISIS insurgent out. Bravo Canadian military!",1 +"Shameless. Self serving. Opportunist. To most, those have a negative connotation. + +But she's a politician looking to milk it for life, like all the others in state house/senate/city council/etc etc...",1 +Don't be sore loser...,1 +"We have ""sort of"" been at war against ISIS for a very long time. Is that OK with you if we try to defeat enemies who blow things up, kill innocent bystanders they call infidels, chop off people's heads, rape and mutilate women and young girls, etc.? I mean, they don't live in one country that we can declare war against, but is it OK if we go after them anyway? A long list of civilized countries lauds Trump's retaliation for a crime against humanity. Obama was too chicken to do it, or perhaps he was sympathetic with murderer Assad.",1 +So the Bovine Scatology resumes in full foul odious presentation!,1 +You mean that students end up stupider?,1 +"Oh, right--because a president who is a womanizer, commits adultery with an intern in the oval office, sexually harasses women as president, tries to use his office to bully the women into silence, then lies about it under oath, claiming not to know the definition of ""is"" has integrity and character than is beyond reproach. + +The person who is married to him, who says that women who claim harassment and abuse should be believed---but did not believe the several women who accused her husband and likewise tried to bully them into silence also has integrity and character that is beyond reproach. + +Dude, seriously? + +I grant Trump is no integrity or character--but what politician does? You don't get to be a high level politician like a senator, president, SCOTUS justice etc, if you have integrity and character! I accept that. If you are going to throw stones at Trump, make sure you save some for Slick Willy and his wife. They are no better.",1 +It seems Blacks will defend each other no matter what when persecuted for crimes against others but when it's Black on Black crime? Crickets...,1 +"When Gretchen Carlson and Megan Kelly and a dozen others accused Roger Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, and Eric Bolling of sexual harassment, we learned that for decades it was an open secret at Fox News that they were predators. The sanctimonious right kept quiet. Even when these whales were harpooned, they stayed silent. +When an anti-abortion Republican congressman was caught demanding his mistress have an abortion, Caldera was dumb as a post. +When Republican Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert was accused of sexually abusing 3 underage male students, Caldera was dumb as a post. +When Trump was accused by 17 women of sexual harassment during the campaign and bragged that because he was rich, he was entitled to sexual assault any woman he wanted, Caldera was dumb as a post. +Could it be that Caldera and the right have a double standard on acceptance of sexual harassment?",1 +"Hahahaha.... you limp wristed libs can't beat your way out of a paper bag... +Nothing more entertaining than a lib trying to act tough... +Please continue. ..",1 +"Winning an election does confer wisdom or legitimacy where there is none. The biggest losers will be the poor sods who voted for Trump, thinking there was something in it for them. They are the first to go under the bus. Are you actually enjoying the embarrassing spectacle of the Trump Crazy Train roaring right off the rails? Give yourself a big attaboy.",1 +Donald Trump is on the record for bragging about being a sexual predator. U.S. Catholic Bishops have a long well-documented history of protecting sexual predators that otherwise conform with their positions. No surprise that the bishops would overlook Trumps major character flaw.,1 +Liberals are just useful idiots and aren't even fun to play with. The serious apparatchiks are a bit of a challenge and there is some sport in that.,1 +"The victims of the Alexandria shooting have my prayers and sympathy. So does Rep. Tenney, who represents my district, as she deals with hostile and unacceptable communications. +The people likely to be harmed by Rep. Tenney's preferred policies of refugee exclusion, environmental and financial deregulation, and the slashing of health care subsidies also have my prayers and sympathy. I have contacted Rep. Tenney regularly to express my concerns for those people. I intend to keep doing that, civilly as always. + I hope that at some point Rep. Tenney will practice civility to the point of not blaming all Democrats for the horrible actions of a small number of unbalanced people. Some folks have told me that they hope I will be raped and/or beheaded because they dislike my positive attitude toward immigrants and Muslims, but I don't think this means all Republicans are hateful and hostile. +May we all stop scapegoating and start treating each other like real people whose lives matter.",1 +The Clinton's have fallen out of favor in their circle of friends in the new world order elitists just for that very reason.Pay backs a bitch and that's why I think this scandal is going to stick and not just bounce off like all the others.,1 +"Yes, it is asinine to dismiss the entire conversation as stupid. These are very real and complex issues that aren't going to be solved by saying people should just get the right training or pick up their boot straps. + +What does this say for working parents, or other people with fixed incomes and limited time? How should they acquire the necessary training to compete for a limited number of high-tech jobs? If denied education, their remaining choices are to go on welfare that depends on their unemployed status, or work in low quality jobs (quality having been driven down by the large amount of competition for the remaining jobs). Neither of these is a good option - quite frankly why should anyone want work their hands to the bone in dead-end jobs so the economy can screw them? The capitalist argument frequently forgets it's most potent weapon: incentive. + +UBI does not pay people not to work. It supplements income to guarantee security and inject market confidence.",1 +"Thank you for this calm, rational statement about sexual orientation. I don't understand the terrible myth out there that gay priests are responsible for the sexual abuse crisis. If anything is responsible for the clergy sex abuse crisis it is homophobia in the Catholic Church. Just my humble opinion...",1 +Its time for media to spend a little time and money to track down these conspiracy morons and expose them for what they are ....mentally deranged attention seekers. Also a good time for people in general to get the hell off Facebook...along with Twitter it is the biggest mistake on the web.,1 +"So adding ""too"" will make the concept more acceptable? If I say ""I have an idea!' does it mean that I think you have no imagination or that I'm smarter than you? The nexus is, the phrase Black Lives Matter was coined because it appears as though there are some who think otherwise. Those who wish to play semantics can hang on to an imagined slight or oversight. In the meantime, we watch the latest videos of black men being shot...",1 +They're just christian conservative perverts. Time to out them for what they are.,1 +"What a typical leftie comment. Its not my fault, sniffle, society made me this way, sniffle, those damned right wingers they MADE me shoot them, sniffle.",1 +As if this show isn't pathetic enough..they are not even from Toronto!!!! What a joke.,1 +Right. Remember your post here. This is PRECISELY what I'm gonna say the next time you sniffle and snot about something us eeeeevil 'ol Muslims have done. Khalas.,1 +The election didn't magically make Trump something other than an ignoramus.,1 +"No, he's a liar not a journalist.",1 +"Fall Kabib, you are a true ignorant uneducated dunce. I could care less what your Native relatives believe. I also blame Sheldon Jackson for dividing Alaska up and handed over to different denominations. None of those folks had the right to do what they did to Native people.",1 +"It appears that Trumpet and his supporters are willing to promote short term benefits at the inevitable expense of the long range best interest of our great country. This is evident in their disregard for environmental protection treaties and regulations also. +Unfortunately it will be our children and grandchildren who suffer the dire consequences of these policies which are motivated by greed and ignorance.",1 +"Trump is an admitted white supremacist and eugenicist. + +His 'base', and I do mean 'base', loves them some racism. + +It's what attracted them to Trump.",1 +"Unfortunately, the president is disgusting, racist, sexist and irrational. We know nothing about his medical records - I suspect he has a severe psychological disorder. Time for the 25th Amendment before he destroys the entire planet.",1 +I am sick and tired of this nonsense. Since this f.cking idiot is leading the country he is trying to influance our thoughts.,1 +"(p.2) +I'm not exactly when Jesus is supposed to have signed His name to a letter announcing Himself as leader; is this the footsteps they follow in? He did demonstrate His authority, however, on numerous occasions and was recognized by others as a leader. + +Your last statement is silly on its face. I'm commenting on the self-identified leaders, not making some broader comment about Catholic society, in general.",1 +"Yeah, it couldn't have anything to do with their disgusting ""pizza"".",1 +"It is like saying a drunk can not consent to turning the key of her car and driving drunk. + +A drunk CAN consent, drunks often encourage sex and are known to have sex indiscriminately, so the law is ridiculous. + +Alcohol doesn't put you unconscious like K or ghb.",1 +"The laws were written by the Liberals, and they squealed like stuck pigs when the Conservatives tried to tighten them. +You have a very selective memory.",1 +"This is simply political extortion, the Michigan quality is inferior because of the union demands. Trump just shot himself in the foot and that is dangerous because his foot is generally in his mouth.",1 +Wow.....21 people agreed with your lunatic rant....scary.....,1 +The Arab world is not the problem. The muslims are.,1 +Typical liberal PM. A total hypocrite but the holier than thou left-wing voters in Canada eat this baloney up like it was caviar.,1 +"3 issues. + + Pedestrians don't act like a car can hurt them. Doesn't matter if you are ""right"" this isn't victim blaming it's reality. + +It is way to easy to get and maintain a licence. People don't actually know how to drive and they don't know WHY they are doing something / why it's important. + +Police focus on the wrong behaviour. Speeding isn't the most dangerous thing on our roads. Unpredictability is, not telegraphing your movements and not signalling is far worse then speed. We are letting drivers of the hook and they aren't communicating or acting as is they are on the road with others and they NEED to communicate. If they had this mindset / approach there would be a shift. + +Everything is always geared to the lowest common denominator. Enough with that, raise the level of our drivers. Pretty soon all the speed limits will be dropped to 20 K, because people will need to be protected from their own stupidity.",1 +"OMG with the amount of stuff coming at the Pres. 24/7 it is a wonder he does not forget to put his shoes on. Who are these idiots who keep trashing these inane ideas that Trump had forgotten to do something...he was talking to people when Pence reminded him what still had to be done (and that is what Pences job is for God's sake!). These idiot Newsies haven't got enough to do but to keep printing their garbage and stoking the fires! How they are loathed in, and around, the U S A!!!",1 +Those gosh durn pesky state regulators.,1 +Terry Stahlman is a worthless piece of human excrement!,1 +Whiny coddled minority exploiting a tragedy & making stupid jokes about it. Denial.,1 +"For a day or two, it appeared ADN was going to spare this family the comments. I see they've reniged and allowed all the hogs their opinions.",1 +"I hope to hell you and your crap attitude never make it to Nome, and if you want to talk about a ""colossally vulgar display of wastefulness"" just take a look around Anchorage, it's everywhere starting with the LIO....",1 +"The US courts adjuicating trade disputes, well that's a firm No. Thats just plain stupid. Best can do is European courts. + +Origin product percentage, sure.",1 +This guy is a dick.,1 +"The Joseph Goebbels strategy - If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. Of course no evidence is ever provided for her many moronic positions.",1 +"It's not the landlords responsibility to ensure the Legislature followed their rules. A contract was done, the landlord suffered damages of providing a building that the state backed out of. Judgement for the plaintiff - $37 million. + +These idiots need to be flushed out next election.",1 +so when they bury him put a dead pig with him so that way he won't have the 72 virgins that they believe they get when they do this horrible act on human life.,1 +That's stupid.,1 +"Yeah those Leftist Marxist Anti-Fa's +Boy, +are they are scum",1 +"Oh sweetie, your crazy switch doesn't have an off setting does it? That is why your ol' man left you? I don't blame you - Most people with a morbidly obese daughter and a dysfunctional family do end up going crazy. But like I said, I bid you farewell. I don't have time for your tirade.",1 +"What's with your obsession with alcohol? I don't have a problem, it must be you, troll. Buzz off. I wasn't talking about engineering schools, I was talking about educated, moral, sophisticated and cosmopolitan people. People in no way like you.",1 +"HA HA HA HA, what a bunch of clowns. Nobody talked about sacred in my piece or religion. Always trying to change the narrative as usual to fit your beliefs. The issue again was the lack of stewardship from UH. +The ones that want to talk about hawaiian religion should talk about their own first. Senator Akaka is a fine man but he was a US senator not a voice of Hawaiians, nor am I. I am just a spectator who sees the inevitable. +If you want to debate about religion or TMT do it in a mirror.",1 +"The orange buffoon is not to blame here, this police culture has been around for decades.",1 +"You’re weak, nance",1 +"Easily proven false. US authorities have for months warned that ALOT more people in the US die every year from white supremecists than Muslim terrorists. And guess what the tactics are becoming the same. + +All of it is wrong. We must denounce all of it. Neither is better or worse, if you focus on one and not the other you're soft on terror and don't truly believe what you claim.",1 +What a bunch of political hacks and liars this board is.,1 +"Its disgusting to see the colonialist western bullies ( including our PM) engaging in this kind of racist denigration of a successful African statesman. Shame. + +. +BTW, WHO did not just respond slowly to the ebola outbreak, they corruptly tried to hold back quarantine measures implemented by outside countries.",1 +"http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/17/politics/travel-ban-3-0-blocked/index.html +So much winning! +BLOTUS is a loser BUFFOON soon to be subject to the 25th.",1 +I can't believe the waste of time it is to read this garbage.,1 +Useless. Pointless.,1 +"To you doting Hillary supporters I respect your views, as convoluted as they are. However here is a Wikipedia link for you https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_sexual_misconduct_allegations In the second paragraph it says factually and I quote from Wikipedia ""Of all the allegations made against him regarding his sexual history, Clinton has only admitted extramarital relationships with Monica Lewinsky and Gennifer Flowers, although he settled the suit brought by Paula Jones for $850,000. He denied having an affair with Dolly Kyle."" and this is whitewashed! Nonetheless he did settle for $850k. That's a lot for just an 'extra-marital' affair isn't it? Now the rapist that he certainly is, Mr. Bill Clinton will again reside in the White House if you libs can find out how to steal the election. +And how about the rapist that victimized a 12 year old girl in 1975 that Hillary subsequently defended, got off on a technicality, and later laughed about it. She also blamed the victim!",1 +"Chin is a hypocrite! He failed to block the Jones Act! Thousands of ships from various foreign countries are BANNED from docking in Hawaii! If Chin was true to his word he would not prevent foreign ships from docking and transporting goods to and from Hawaii! Chin, should sue and block the ""Jones Act"" as it prevents our friendly and peaceful Somali allied ships from docking in our ports!",1 +"No, Islam IS NOT a race. +Followers may be Caucasian, Arabic, Black, or Asian...some Liberals can't seem to grasp basic English ...",1 +Why would anyone wish to do this? For the ultimate party nerd?,1 +Oh give us a break! Can't you lefties do anything else but prattle on about race?,1 +What a useless organization for peace.,1 +"Trump's a narcissist jerk, and STILL a better choice than crooked, lying Hillary.",1 +"Maybe they could start by forcing companies to label where the product is made. This ""packaged by"" is rubbish.",1 +"If you remember the reason Iran hates us so much is we kept The Shah of Iran in power a long time even though he was a bad guy. We had a plan to put explosives into Castro's cigars. The Bay of Pigs. I remember we screwed with a lot of countries leaders to keep big companies of USA oppressing the little guy. We got our start overthrowing tyranny but for big business we exported tyranny. Drugs for guns Contra scandal. The list is endless. During the Viet Nam war we bought all the opium crop one year to keep the drug lords on our side. That opium still made it to market. In Afghanistan the Taliban stopped opium production for a year but when we went in we supported the drug lords to get them on our side. Afghanistan then became the world biggest producer of opium again. That opium makes it to market also. To me, opium is a weapon of mass destruction. The Russians leaked what was in the emails, they didn't make them up. In the world of hardball politics, that was a softball.",1 +"Who is asking for special accommodations here? Transgender people who just want to exist and live their life with dignity and respect? Or the ignorant bigots who can't fathom sharing the bathroom with them? + +Not even the bathroom - you're not even allowed to serve in the entire military. + +Yeah, special accommodations. Grow up.",1 +"OK, why not deliver the subway but put it on the RT route to Scar. Town Centre and save $3B. Run the subway through air on the RT route rather than bedrock. + +Do you really realize how idiotic city council's plan is?",1 +liberals.....hypocrites who truly practice the politics of division,1 +"Trump is ill-mannered, erratic and loves ""alternative facts"". The leaders of other countries, both America's friends and America's enemies, have recognized this. There is very little chance that Trump will now ever be treated seriously on the world stage. The Trump administration is rapidly diminishing America's standing in the world. It's difficult to see things improving over the course of the next three years.",1 +"Right, he is a terrorist coward and a traitor.",1 +Doesn't AR sound like a little smug Mr. Know-it-all ?,1 +"If gay priests had been barred from the priesthood in the first place, the costs associated with straight priests involved in pedophilia/ephebophilia would have been a drop in the bucket compared to the costs involving gay priests. The numbers do not lie.",1 +"Golly aren't we generous and welcoming! Very unlike Stephen Harper. Much more like Angela Merkel! +Open the border.... announce we are a safe refuge for refugees, and watch as the trickle turns into a torrent! Our stupidity is astonishing.",1 +"On the contrary, they are made to escape with a heavy package that will ensure they won't have to work again in their lifetime. How would you feel if someone who stole your car gets a reward of another one from the police? It's ridiculous - their power and influence.",1 +"The group reeks of cultism...they have their theories, I have mine..:-)..",1 +"First, we are stupid to have our capitol in JuKnow. +Second, is he going to pay back our money and what is his punishment?",1 +"Wait a minute. Wait—a—darn—minute. Wasn't the goal all along to be able simply to say that there IS a Commission, rather than actually to have the Commission get all uppity and rock boats?",1 +He's 85. He'll live the rest of his life sleeping on top of a giant pile of cash. They should have tossed him 25 years ago and saved many women the humiliation of satisfying that fat pig or being fired.,1 +"“The media and I often seem to be talking past each other; I truly hope that one day (soon hopefully) the members of the media will recognise that my intentions in every portfolio I have been assigned to have always been to elevate the work of my ministerial envelope to coincide with the needs of the people and the processes of a modern, sophisticated government.” + +So it’s just the media that are misunderstanding her...... How tragic! And all along we’ve thought she was a thief who repeatedly screwed South Africans. How dumb we all are!!!",1 +wow. The U of O has gone after Professors for imagined discrimination...and yet didn't do a damn thing when confronted with actual racism. If this is an institution of higher education...why is it being ran by dysfunctional clowns?,1 +"Build a wall, they will build a tunnel. +Sounds like the Berlin Wall,shoot those who try to climb over it.",1 +"""Try and f*ck her. Move on her like a b*tch. Use tic-tacs in case you start kissing her. And just start kissing her. You can do anything. Grab ’em by the p*ssy. You can do anything.""",1 +"Mr. Homer-Dixon: Frankly, I don't give a damn! US politics is completely irrelevant to me. The Leftist/Progressive witch hunt against Trump and Republicans is a sick joke. There will be no war, just get over yourself. The US has given up on democracy (due to the Democratic Party -thank you very much), and is on the downward slide. PM Pixie Dust will continue being a sock model and fail to re-orient Canada to a more successful path. Don't worry about the Russians (they're broke), but I would start leaning Mandarin.",1 +"John McCain, what a waste of oxygen and taxpayer money. I am pretty sure his mother barked instead of talked.",1 +"Wait lists are unfortunately a fact of life. My only advice is go to the provincial wait list site and get your doc to send you to a hospital that has a short list. If its hip you may wait 18 months at Toronto Western but 90 days in London. +Also talk to your doc about a Cannabis or more accurately a CBD oil (drops) script. It will help with pain and inflammation but won't generate addiction issues or the dozy-stupid feeling of an opiate",1 +If it would cost 100 million so that terrorist would not get a dime it would be worth it. Canada has a real problem when its constitution courts and politcians enable a terrorist to get even 1 penny. I hope that shoot to kill is the new military mantra when dealing with this kind of scum.,1 +I am also disgusted by people who will turn a blind eye to the obvious corruption in the white house and with donors to the Clinton Crime Family Foundation. I have to wonder if they are just poorly informed or do they have a piece of the action. I can't claim they are stupid because the graft and corruption seems to be well planned and executed with cover provided by the New York Times and broadcast TV.,1 +Hopefully he will bend Trump over his knee and spank him soundly before sending him home crying.,1 +The problem is with the unhinged psycho leftists.,1 +People are ridiculous. Thanks for putting Hawaii in the spotlight! Life will go on and people will try to boycott something else within a few days.,1 +"Boring. ""MUTE"" please.",1 +"Agreed - that is the irony. Gillespie embraced all the Bannon/Nazi garbage which is what tRump represents. + + +And lost. And tRump thinks he should have done what? Maybe wear bronzer and do that stupid combover and brag about sexual assault as well as all the race-baiting?",1 +"Why are you buying into the argument that there is a conspiracy to ban guns? Did I say that? Did Obama say that? Did anybody but the NRA say that? Of course not. The issue is ""what can we do to reduce gun deaths in our country"". No one is trying to take your guns away. In the last eight years how many guns has Obama seized? Zero. Not a single one. I am stunned and saddened that this fear mongering which has proven to be a lie - is still effective today... +To blame gun violence on a lack of morals or a breakdown of society in America without evidence is absurd. Look at any country in Europe. Compared to them, we are a deeply religious, conservative country. Yet they have a fraction of then the gun violence we have. +We can keep our guns and reduce gun deaths. To think Americans are stupid, immorale and not capable of problem solving is shocking. I believe in the greatness of this country and its people. And I'm convinced reason will conquer fear as we move into the future.",1 +"Oh, you're definitely feeding a troll...",1 +"The only thing I'll remember about you, is you're an idiot. Spam the Inquirer",1 +"Sorry to hear about McCain. He is one of the few current Republicans who have spoken calmly, while the rest are lugging around flaming faggots* and pitchforks, claiming to be for law and order. +* faggot - a bundle of sticks or twigs, esp when bound together and used as fuel +www.thefreedictionary.com/faggot +Think Frankenstein.",1 +It's amusing how hypocritical you are.,1 +"He is truly the most incompetent, arrogant, condescending twirp I have ever seen. He is destroying our nation (as is Wynne) in the hopes their meaningless green energy science fair project gets an A. Wake up people his policies are seriously damaging to your kids and their kids futures. + +Vote this clown out !!!!",1 +This is absolutely disgusting. Of course this garbage has an attached emergency clause. Kate Brown and her liberal cronies who proposed this nonsense need to be deported along with all the damn illegals who they want to support with our money. Screw them!,1 +"No, No, No, No !!!! Dammit NO!",1 +"That the articles are being read is a large assumption. I just guess most folks read the headline, maybe a few sentences then straight to the comments. That has to be the case given the idiotic things people post.",1 +Blank - All the retirement planning tools and advisors I have encountered are based on the running balance. Anything else would be foolish.,1 +"I don't think they are intentinally trying to reduce the number of people who are eligible. I do think they may be doing more ""random"" checks of eligibility of people, and this is how you may have been tagged. Personally, I like it if that's what they're doing. + +I agree with your thoughts on the Alaska Bush People TV Stars getting off too easy. That was flat out crap!",1 +"Unfortunately it took this long because the sheer stupidity of the people buying them, You can't teach pork any faster then what they are willing to learn!",1 +"Today? How about we just start with the guys with the swastika tattoos and fasces flags chanting 'Jews will not replace us!' they certainly call themselves that. +What makes them different : they declared themselves different. It's the cornerstone of their ideology. If you think other people are lesser and do not respect their right to live they have no obligation to respect yours. + +Then: read a history book. +There is no difference in the doctrine. Only the advertising has changed,and not even much. Alt-right is just Nazi rebranded to make recruitment easier. They don't even do it for long. Soon as you're in they bring out the old branding again. + +It's not an ideology that gets to be tolerated or allowed to exist unchallenged. This is a settled matter. We literally had a war over it. The entire world was involved.",1 +"Meh. Both sides have hypocrisy in abundance. +One side's ""nasty crap"" does not excuse it from the other side. +You guys love blasting Hillary Clinton for being venal, mean, corrupt, and a liar in her political and governmental dealings, while totally ignoring and whitewashing Donald Trump's reputation for being venal, mean, corrupt, and a liar in his business dealings and in his political campaigning.",1 +disgusting people. LIFE IN PRISON: NO PAROLE!,1 +Our political parties seem to prefer stupidity.,1 +UnAmerican if you have a so-called orange wannabe presidential candidate advocating mob rule.,1 +"Not necessarily. The former prez put in place so many stumbling blocks that very few knew about. His political schoolyard antics gives a better insight into Obama's utter contempt for our country's way of life, our foundations of life, liberty and pursuits and really does illustrate how mean, nasty, vindictive, calculated and unpatriotic his administration was and still is. There are careerists still infecting our national governing infrastructure that wake up every day and think, ""How are we going to fool 'em today?"" Immigration parole status is such a narrow and extraordinary one that it is barely, if ever used. Now the question is, will this coordinated attempt to obstruct, confound, diminish, mitigate, or degrade our nation result in more needless American deaths due to his actions? Maybe then the news orgs will finally get disgusted at what their savior is and has been doing when given power and report accordingly. I'm not holding my breath. Mrs Lynch? Comment?",1 +Damn tough call.,1 +"These special snowflakes only have a few requirements to allow anyone to speak: + +1. you are a complete idiot +2. You are completely illiterate in science and math +3. you pretend that you are educated with your gender studies degree +4. you are a complete idiot.",1 +They will also be benefiting. It's for their future that we invest in. The long term benefits are priceless. Nomu is penny-wise and pound-foolish.,1 +"Jim, you try to come off as such a savior (pun intended). You're actually out for YOUR agenda. You are so irrelevant.",1 +"Kumbya is greek, use a Kappa. Cumbya is a term used at those Vatican gay orgies. Regardless, I am not arguing for a kumbya moment. Quite a few priests need to be be outed, not as gay, but as asexuals, and counseled on what their sexuality entails and how it has preverted Catholic sexual teaching. They need to feel as uncomforatable with that as they have made the rest of us feel for normal heterosexuality.",1 +Go jump off a cliff - no one will miss you. Stop stalking and harassing Canadians in BC.,1 +"The candidate for the position is of Persian heritage. Warren is an ideological bigot, or racist, or both. Perhaps mostly the former, but I don't rule out the later, either.",1 +"I despise our liar-in-chief, but I agree with him on ""some"" issues. This poll is nonsense, because that does not make me, or anyone else, a supporter of Trump. Unless you can't think for yourself, you're going to find agreement with politicians on some issues, even if you are very opposed to most of their ideas.",1 +"oh save the stupidity, no one forces you to take the 407, but you do have to buy electricity, who is worse for you now pal! and harris you know turned the books around from a 10 bill deficit to 4 years of balanced books, a booming economy and over 800,000 NET private sector jobs created in his time! not so much under either the NDP last time of these libs!",1 +"Non sequitur aside, is that what your protestant public school teacher taught you about the EC? What else would you like purged from the Constitution. More importantly, what is more ""racist"" than white leftists keeping so many inner city blacks trapped in crappy schools and indefinitely dependent upon the welfare state?",1 +"I don't read his posts. That person isn't just nuts, he's a viper, lying in wait to bite whatever comes across his path. I spent years urging him toward sanity. You can lead a horse to water, et cetera. While you're an Old Soul, he is a broken soul. Offer him your hand, and he will bite it.",1 +3 stars for that drek. Give your head a shake.,1 +"You're a hateful little cretin, aren't you?",1 +Matt 5:5 Certainly more authoritative than Orwell. I would say that guax is definitively uncivil and trollish.,1 +"Seems like conservatives want to blame liberals for everything wrong in this world, when the real problem can be found if they looked in the mirror first. Seems like they are more shocked that hypocritical holier than thou religious bible thumpers show up in the news time and time again doing things to children that they preach will send them all to hell.",1 +I agree with you Rainbird I am also against bigots and racist so do we agree then that Mr Tetpon should be stopped?,1 +"His base is comprised of white supremacists, racists, ooga booga tribalists, and other extremists who use rhetoric to incite violence. The Republican party's modus operandi has been and remains the use of extremist rhetoric to inspire acts of violence against designated groups--women seeking reproductive medical care, Americans who are Muslim, poor people, African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, etc. This type of activity has a long history in the Republican party.",1 +More proof that Liberalism might be a mental disorder.,1 +Well said. Now watch the leaf troll whazzup spew his usual filth.,1 +"I would love to see the liberal stronghold cities cut off from their hourly shipments when the trucks stop running and those ""rural and suburban retards"" stop trucking in their food. Feral negros with EBT cards that no longer work would be rioting and looting the liquor stores within the hour. By the end of the week it would be full Cannibal Apocalypse a people start eating each other, with white bois cowering in the burnt out wreckage of a Starcucks waiting for the sun to come out. The ghouls are most active at night.",1 +"Gary, so WHY are these Losers there surrounding the Kesey Statue????? Why are they Hangin in the Downtown Plaza area?????",1 +"Well said! This understanding is sadly missing from popular religion in the U.S. and the ""Evangelicals"" who promote uninformed civil religion rather than Christian discipleship.",1 +"Your a sick person, we can't survive any more liberal or democratic corruption and lies. Anybody supporting the liberals or democrats have low morals and are brain dead. - like a 13 year old who thinks they know everything, but can't pay their own way to the movies !",1 +"Hey Stu Pid, although fitting, you must of changed your moniker. I have never seen you around these comment boards. So who were you during the Harper years? Could also tell me what I said about Harper that was meant to be humorous? When it comes to that individual Canadians could only cry. + +Have a good day Stu Pid! <|:=)- ...that is a clown with a soul patch.",1 +Personally stoped reading this article when he said growing marijuana is just like growing tomatoes... There's a lot more to growing pot then growing stupid tomatoes... Personally hate tomatoes and think we should out law them who's with me?,1 +"I hope you don't have kids if you see this woman's actions as acceptable. And I applaud the den for kicking the kid out. She brought unwanted negative attention upon them. However, she will, and is already likely, pay the the price for her stupid stunt.",1 +Get the damn nets out of the rivers so we have fish again.,1 +"Predictable, non-sensical, buffoonish response from trump, who cannot take the heat from people who refuse to kiss his behind. The constant scrutiny from critics is wearing heavily on him, and he responds like he always does...with childish vindictiveness.",1 +"Agreed! Finally, a baby step in the right direction. The progressives will not get everything they want. The conservatives will not get everything they want. But somewhere in the middle is where we will need to find common ground to get things done. Wise and mature individuals understand this, immature idiots will cry and moan over not getting their way.",1 +Did you just sleep at the Trump Tower and have the Kool Aid in bed? You require therapy if you believe a word that he utters. DO some research on him via the FOI site and you may change your silly mind.,1 +"""Sir Joshua-James Kristall- Wagner..."" What a ridiculous name! HAHAHAHA!!! And you can't ""save"" parking spaces like that. No car, no park.",1 +The level of intentional stupidity that flows from our city management team is astoundingly depressing. How do you come to a conclusion of making a TAXPAYER funded program like our parks into a lucrative revenue stream on those very taxpayers? I mean seriously you guys.... really.....? Its time you put your crayons down and cleaned off your raspberry flavored windows and do something for the paychecks your given. Charging fees to take pictures and videos of OUR PARKS. They were and are funded by US as is your positions. Knock it off and get over your selves already. Your just embarrassing yourself now.,1 +"yes, this has been the plan along, but it will rile up the antis. no matter, they are all sore losers. imua rail. 25 years from now, people will be saying why did not it be built sooner? funding will be there, surcharges, TAT, property tax, etc. rail will prevail.",1 +"He's a democrat what would you expect, lies are their bread and butter.",1 +"Gingrich, Pawns?? are you reading the same article I am? And regarding "" not running"" how about Mark is a human being , why can't that be a reason to not trash him ?",1 +"A couple of marks of fascists: + +1. Declare that the free press is an enemy of the people, and only the fascist leader can be trusted to tell you what is going on. + +2. Tell the same lies over and over and over, despite the evidence. Repetition wears out the public and they'll believe any lie. + +Trump is not merely a mentally unhinged narcissist on a power trip. He is not merely feathering his own bed off the Presidency of the United States. He has taken directions toward having an authoritarian government. And yet people like Valantas still buy into Trump's crap. Democracy has failed and failed hard when we have a population that is this gullible. Valantas should never vote again. Valantas has proved himself too stupid to vote responibly.",1 +"As long as Clownwell is at the helm, that crazy ship of fools will continue to head for the reef.",1 +Film told the truth my good man. Get over it. Let your own merit carry you forward instead of continuing to feed such a stupid fire. It ain't worth it.,1 +"The British Monarchy is the last one in Europe which is still, by law, involved in the actual governing of the nation and still a world power. The rest of them are just figureheads, even Monaco, which is allowed to exist by its neighbors. Since you can't see such reality and refuse to read further into the text your reply is useless and just another attack the messenger ploy of the uninformed and stupid.",1 +You don't have to live in New Mexico to have stupid people. Look at all of our politicians.,1 +Its about time somebody stood up to the corrupt euro trash called the IOC. Too bad that it had to be Bettman who is hard for any Canadian to like.,1 +"Like I said you can't grasp it. We have to put up with intolerant people here because they were born here. Is it that hard of a concept. We do not let in those who are intolerant and give them Canadian rights. Your kids will have zero tolerance until your kids grow up and start living in the real world, start paying exhorbitant taxes, exhorbitant prices for homes, food, water, bills, etc. Doesn't mean they'll be racist. Just means they'll learn about debts and how we cannot afford to help every poor soul. It is a numbers game and if you haven't noticed our number is at a trillion and Liberals have been projected at an added 1.5 trillion of debt. Wake your dumb a$$ up. I studied the charter in school way back when and knew it was for CANADIANS not immigrants.",1 +"You think it has peaked, just wait for another bloody terrorist massacre, or public gang rape, the immigration tidal wave that is causing the hate is not slowing down.",1 +And now we have imports from everywhere moving here just for record breaking welfare and pfd checks. We are the stupidest state in the usa easily,1 +"The bigger problem Michael is the fall of higher academia, which you represent perfectly. The fact that you are paid to go around inciting hatred, resentment, and division is a true crime. You have an endless supply of venom to spit because the real world will never fit your utopian fantasy. + +We all have utopian fantasies and mine is a world without hate-peddling simpletons like you.",1 +"The same women are supporting Islamic misogyny, they're a bunch of hypocrats. They are trying to overturn the results of a democratic election. Won't work. Identity politics is dead, get used to it!",1 +"So you ban guns and gun death doesn't go down, but you can people from 6 nations and we are protected from terrorists. See the hole in your logic? Immigrants, like cars, also have legitimate value to our nation, as do refugees. Vet the heck out of them, just like we should for gun owners and just like we safety test cars.",1 +"KK, Please just shut-up! You never say anything of intelligence. The only thing you say is about how bad Democrats are. I get it your paid by the ""R's but really just Shut-up!",1 +"Do you mean a loser druggie? If all I could do is play guitar, I'd overdose too!",1 +"Igl shows a gross ignorance of Oregon 1920's history by writing ""Support for Prohibition, not racism or anti-Catholicism, was probably the No. 1 issue of the 1920s KKK.. Crain wrote of Eugene Klan members in Oct. 26, 1922: “They joined without knowledge of the dangerous nature of the organization .. they joined what they thought to be a patriotic fraternity."" +From the Oregon gubernatorial election, 1922 Wikipedia entry ""In the early 1920's the Klan had become a powerful political force in Oregon. Ben Olcutt (the current Republican governor from 1919) refused to endorse the Klan. Olcutt's actions nearly cost him the Republican nomination to the Klan backed candidate..The Klan threw their support behind Democrat Walter Pierce who also backed the Klan's Compulsory Education Act..a deliberate attack on Roman Catholic private schools. Both Pierce and the education initiative won wide victories in Nov. 1922"" In 1925 the US Supreme Court struck down the Klan backed Oregon education act.",1 +"Fascism and Socio-Communism are both LEFT. There were ALL Socialists you fools. Even the idiots that call themselves Neo-Nazis and White Supremacists don't get this. All the bloody mess and murder of tens of millions of human beings was from the brain dead ideology of the LEFT. The only people who ever truly stood in the way of Leftist Fasio-Communism were in effect those who represent people with common sense. They are neither LEFT OR RIGHT. The Left have nothing to offer. They use the old MGB, GRU, NKVD, OGPU, KGB tactics of social division to conquer. In fact most idiots posting on here dont ever realize that most slave holders were DEMOCRATS. Most politicians advocating slave ownership and the quelling of real minority rights ( being women and blacks) were DEMOCRATS. George Wallace was a DEMOCRAT you morons. Bill and Hilary Clinton even endorsed Senators and Congressmen with ties to the KKK. Abraham Lincoln was a REPUBLICAN. Those who voted down slavery in the US were majority REPU",1 +"Perhaps this latest case is a Muslim? lol But perhaps he had stopped at a bar on the way to the rally and was just drunk? + +Yes much of white nationalism should fall under terrorism. Disgusting that anyone would go for such rubbish. Not surprising though since so many voted for the town butcher to perform brain surgery.",1 +"No. The REAL issue is how you can't understand that the hair issue is JUST AS important as the guns. In both cases - it's an issue of fundamental human rights. + +When the rules of the school enforce a western look on all kids, that is fundamentally undiginified, racist and harmful to the pupils of other races. Pupils whose hair are not naturally straight. Whose cultural expression of 'neat and tidy' bear no resemblance to ours. +In one sense you are correct - hair is inconsequential to the education process - but this only makes the children MORE right about this, BECAUSE It's inconsequential to the education process - there is no legitimate reason for schools to have hair rules at all. They exist PURELY as social rules - which cannot apply cross-culturally without causing real and lasting harm to somebody. + +30 years ago, my own atypical hair led to daily beatings in school (it was still legal then). I thought they were evil and stupid then. I was right. Yet the stupid lives on.",1 +"Oh, the irony. The chairman of the campaign of a man that craves media attention thinks it's the media's fault for reporting the racist bigoted ignorant crap that his candidate spews.",1 +"The ethically broken compass part-time mayor/part-time banker sees no problem with and has zero issues with doing things that will offend the proper sensibilities of normal citizens who are obligated to abide by societal protocols, rules and laws. + +Just another notch on the Cadwell cane of ineptitude, hubris and unbridled corruption. + +Good choice Kirky...you must either be a Christian above other Christians by turning the other cheek or owe Mr. Alexander something big. Why does this small rock feel an obligation to recycle every has been, loser or convicted criminal...INTO GOVERNMENT???",1 +"That is exactly my point. He ministered to Mary Magdalene, a prostitute. And, if He's in the basket of deplorables as you claim, he's no doubt ministering to the prostitutes contained therein (e.g. you and Richard Spencer). Less attractive prostitutes no doubt, but prostitutes nonetheless. A true testament to His infinite grace and unending love. Amen.",1 +Dunlop is a liar. The system is broken. Obviously L. Marchant participated. The victims can testify to what extent she was involved. She administered and obtained the drugs according to the agreement. This went on for years and L. Marchant could have prevented further damage to these poor children. She is as perverted and sick as the husband she supported and enabled. Giving her a free pass is horrible. Probably no criminal record or sexual predator registration either. Shame on the state prosecutor and its minions for this failure.,1 +We could never count on Merkel. She's a failure to the civilized world as a whole.,1 +"The troopers are spot on with the spillover crime, and theirs more trash in Mountainview than all of Mat-su.",1 +Genghis Khan being one of the worst of the worst. Right up there with mao if not worse.,1 +CHINA IS NOT CANADA NEITHER IS THE USA. Your lobby lies to ruin BC like Fort Mac that is completely burned to a crisp from your years of ignorance not cleaning up toxic waste is A NATIONAL DANGER TO ALL CANADIANS.,1 +"So you are saying that an addict can become functioning members of society by getting a job and a home? A job doing what? A baby sitter, a banker, an operator of machinery, a taxi driver? Would you want an addict taking care of your kids? You have been lied to, an addict only cares about their next fix. It is a complete and total waste of tax payers money to fund any program which enables addicts to abuse drugs. Want to save money, don't treat them when they over dose, in short let them die. If their lives are so miserable that they need to abuse drugs as an escape, then leaving them to die is a merciful solution. The war on drugs can be won once all the addicts are dead.",1 +You got to be a young white female....not young black female to get DA's sweetheart deal!! Her victim may yet live but he will face hard time ahead. I bet she will do far heavier time then the previous two cases where the victims died but the female white preps literally walked!!,1 +"Jim Colver is alright. George Rauscher, who the Republican blogger Susanne Downing described as the Deputy Mayor of Sutton will say anything. Sutton is not an incorporated city and probably never will be. So he isn't a Mayor of any kind. Rauscher is more of the same old same old tired blithering repubo from the Mat-Su. A vote for him keeps this failed status quo going. Rauscher for State House/Ridiculous.",1 +"The way that I see things is that even if the Ruskies interfered in the US election of November 2016, Murkans still voted for the fluorescently orange clown. + +Just like they previously elected Dick and Dubya, the war criminals, to a second term. + +Ruling : Murkans just ain't that bright. + +Case closed.",1 +Cliff and his merry band of idiots. Wow......not surprising these alarmist ideologists can't even get an address right.,1 +Fair does. You're not a troll. Anybody that thinks The Chump is anything more than an absolute moron is one themselves.,1 +"There is nothing wrong in attacking ""junk science"". Mulroney did not question this. What he does question is the belief, or even the certainty, that science can give all of life's answers.",1 +"You really are a foolish person, but please write on as it is your right to say what you believe. If you are a prototype Trump supporter is says volumns about his support.",1 +"Ontario voters are almost as silly as BC voters. not quite that bad, but almost.",1 +"It's pretty clear some oil shill is censoring one entire side of this discussion. Completely transparent, completely deplorable. Fuck you.",1 +Only difference between Hillary and Satan is lipstick.--ken--,1 +"Um, incorrect. There are, in fact, independents in the Senate. They caucus with the Democrats. + +I think you are the one who doesn't know how the senate works. + +And it's been said before, but this inane ""seniority"" argument didn't come into play for Ohio Dan so why drag it out now? We all know that it's BS.",1 +"George, your mid east policies and needless wars are the legacy of your failed presidency. You need to just play golf and shut up.",1 +"In other words, there are a lot of really dumb Americans!",1 +"Disagree with the right, get stabbed, shot, or ran over.",1 +"The TMX pipeline is a stupid idea in the first place, because there is no equipment to clean-up a dirty, tar sands spill. This stupid idea is an insult to the intelligence of the British Columbian people. The dilbit is riddled with cancer-causing benzene. A spill down into the Fraser River will kill most of BC's sport and commercial salmon industries.",1 +Obscene. Shameless. Liberal.,1 +"They ARE fools! No piece of legislation will appease, please, satisfy ALL those writing it. Rand Paul, Murkowski, Capito, and Collins are NOT Republicans, they are RINO's and should have never been on the GOP ticket. McCain is an addled old man, with a grudge against Trump, and played that grudge, instead of helping the people of his state, where premiums are up 116%~! McConnell and Ryan are NOT strong leaders, or leaders at all, it's time for change, it's time for what 'we the people' voted for, REAL CHANGE!",1 +Nahhh. Rather be here n shoot moose caribou n bear. Tasty stuff. Only the nasty imports eat dogs.,1 +"WAAAH! cries the butthurt commie LOSER. HILLARY LOST. Deal, comrade. Just deal.",1 +"Hey, look at the comment section! +A bunch of white folk arguing about how black folk don't have it bad! +.....'cause, ya know, white folk know all about being black.",1 +"I see the Corrupt Bastards Club is still on course with the Taj Mahawker II, with the original Taj Mahawker issue, complete with the crooks who colluded with our so-called 'representatives, still facing lawsuits and misdirection in the continued attempt to fleece the public of massive amounts of ca$h. + +November election is almost here. Throw these thieves OUT. Everyone who was involved with this outright theft and mismanagement of public funds, throw them OUT. No matter if they have a D, R, or I after their name, throw them OUT. The people involved with this larcenous act need to be prosecuted and jailed. Mark Pfeffer and Bob Acree should be charged under federal racketeering laws and sued down to their socks. Hawker and company should be similarly stripped of every dime and jailed. + +Any person running for office who pledges to have such corrupt and slimy excrescences as these FLOGGED for Malfeasance in Office has my vote.",1 +"It is a great thing, Jennifer, to teach young women that they are powerful, strong, and, in multifaceted ways, beautiful. But it must be difficult to do this important mission in a Catholic school when the Church hierarchy and their idiotic laws themselves conspire against that message in the ways that count most: in action, policy, and opportunity. I'm sure you and the young women you teach rail daily against the Church's nice words that go nowhere—go nowhere with a vengeance.",1 +"Maybe now JT is beginning to realize that Trump has played him for a fool. Make no mistake, Trump clearly intended all along to put the screws to Canada and recent US decisions regarding Bombardier and softwood lumber make that obvious.",1 +Be as mean as you can to all God' creatures.,1 +The Liberals have no issue with paying $10.5 million tax free to someone (and their lawyers) who has fought for the enemy and has done things likely to have caused the death and injury of our own and allied soldiers while using Canada as a base. But they have a real issue with someone who distributes dividends (from a company he/she built) to family members all the while employing other Canadians in meaningful work. My god!!! What is the world coming to???? Canada just can not stand for these fair share hogging types. It is just not Canadian. That money belongs to the government so they can dole it out to their friends not the idiot who made it.,1 +"Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Jeremy Scahill, they rallied behind the Serbs and criticized the Clintons, so by your thinking, they must be Nazi white nationalists, too. What a hoot!",1 +"Yes, this is the place for your tirade . . . It's people like you that make more reasonable 2nd amendment supporters like myself look stupid.",1 +"Trump is proof that the criminal justice system is broken and favors white men of privilege who commit sex crimes at will. He should be in jail facing charges. And not surprisingly, 73-percent of Evangelicals are for Trump. Go figure.",1 +"Remember, rape isn't about sex.",1 +"Trudeau and his government are dumb and dumber. And, what about all the money Canadians have pumped into Bombardier via Trudeau? Junior lets them sell off their best product. And Junior abandons Alberta, pipelines, and sucks up transfer payments from AB for His beloved province and Kathy Wynne in ON.",1 +This guy's going to get hammered for telling the truth.,1 +"Transit is overpriced and unreliable. I would never take public transit. As for people with their cell phones and walking, unfortunately you cannot legislate stupidity!",1 +"""White House unveils ‘Made in America’ week, though many Trump products are made overseas"" + +That's soooo unfair to point out Trumpian hypocrisy.",1 +"""The 4th Circuit declined to lift an order from a Maryland federal judge, who ruled against the travel ban in March and sided with opponents who said the ban violates the Constitution by intentionally discriminating against Muslims"". +Absolute garbage! There is nothing in the writing of the order that bans all Muslims or only Muslims for the countries include in the temporary ban. Nothing not more than political activism in our nation's courts",1 +"To all you socialists, bureaucrats, apparatchiks, unions, teachers, nurses and every other public sector scumbag out there who sit on couches and desks paralysing this economy with endless theft. + +go to hell",1 +"Look at the average age of these snowflakes. If any of these snowflakes are here on a student or work Visa, let's round them up and send them home on a cargo plane. I'm so sick of these entitlement, feel good, time out kids. A waste of oxygen.",1 +"boohoo. get over the pfd. maybe da villagers can reconsider joining society, getting a job, and all that silly stuff.",1 +Sweep it all away. They are useless social justice warriors corrupting our education system. They are behind the cause that our kids can't do math and nor read and write. But they know all about social justice causes and recycling!,1 +"What a whining wanker. In the Navy they used this policy to keep us in line. If one person continued to screw up, the whole barracks was punished. This led to some nocturnal blanket parties to get the jerk who caused the problem to straighten up. It worked. Maybe Mr. Snowflake should be on CNN's ass along with the other Fake News outlets. Until the MSNBCs of the country start playing fair, this kind of treatment will continue.",1 +"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUD4Td9hjKw + +Doug is one of the losers.",1 +"Then I take it you do not support the leftist cop killers, the black Panthers or any of their more recent offspring? It is well known that at many rallies the AntiFa turn up armed with weapons of various sorts and also use what is available. Do you support the AntiFa?",1 +"It's so telling to see Alaska republicans and especially our congressional delegation rally around the ludicrous candidacy of Donald Trump. They squint real hard so they can visualize a creditor-cheating trust-fund baby as a savvy entrepreneur, a misogynistic serial adulterer as an advocate for women, and a pathological liar and braggart as a straight-shooter. + +Ask yourself again why Alaska is heading into dark days.",1 +If liberals only knew how much Saudi money is flowing into the US to fund Madrassas that teach the same garbage.,1 +Put a cannon on board and blow the idiots out of the water. Simple way to deal with pirates.,1 +You are moron and troll and a liar.,1 +Rubin is a partisan hack.,1 +Bill I agree with you. It is very ironic that so many people are defending ignorant behavior from a law professor. I thought universities were built to promote knowledge not ignorance. Are my taxes suppose to promote ignorance at the UO?,1 +"True, I also -miss those ancient days when as a kid I could roam safely, even hitchhike; families seemed to be stable; folks believed in their excellent public schools; and we all felt like a part of a warm safe community. Best of all, in a strange way, was WWII, where we ALL pulled together for the sake of America. + +At the same time, our town was probably a ""sundown"" town, as no blacks or other minorities seemed to live there; girls weren't encouraged to finish college or take most jobs; gays and lesbians, if we thought of them at all, were just ""queers""; the environment was too often a place to dump trash; forests were overcut and not adequately replanted, etc. + +So is life better or worse today? That is a long and complex question.",1 +Ethan is going to get his hands on your paycheck whether you like it or not. He's got bike lanes to build and lawyers to pay so he can seize private property. We need wider side walks & more bushes for the drunks to sleep under. Who needs cops & safe roads? LOL!!! Progress my fellow Anchorites! PROGRESS!! You bigots need to get out of the way of PROGRESS!,1 +The dummy's presidency has been in a state of constipation from day one.,1 +Daniel Donke in a resident of Florida. Why not drill in your own back yard Dan boy.,1 +"Another crazy lefty like Antifa he wanted to go after the white nationalist, country music fans. But the left does not want you to know. They want to make you think only the right wing are extremist and dangerous. +: +https://youtu.be/meswVcfKMFM",1 +It's okay Larry. I was being a bit sarcastic about feeling warm and fuzzy. There's a lot of things I'd like to say but it wouldn't be civil and the Homeland Security might throw me in a hole some where for being a terrorist. We've lost our freedom of speech already and it won't be long before we won't be able to vote any more. I just get disgusted with the entire political crap machine!,1 +I have a hard time believing the Liberals would be this stupid. Kill investment at the same time they are using heavy deficit spending on infrastructure to boost the economy? Combine that with competitive tax cuts very likely to occur in the US and I think the Liberals would have to be insane to do this... but then I look at Ontario and the loonie bins running that province and it seems believable.,1 +"They killed a lot of people within the same ethnic group. Like a lot of terrorism, the largest number of deaths are within that group. For example, ISIS kills a lot more Muslims than Christians or anybody else.",1 +Get a life ... moron.,1 +They can jail all the illegals:) Works for me.,1 +and yet another left wing idiot,1 +"It's not just money. It's also policy. Punishment is a joke, sentences are too lenient. Judges don't protect the public. Halfway houses where criminals can walk away at will is a joke. Prisons should be places that are feared, not plush hotels where you spend a little time between crimes. The court system is too burdensome and needs to be restructured. Courts should be about victims rights, and not focus on rehabbing the garbage of society that doesn't' t want to change.",1 +"""The dems need to stop being obstructionists. The party of no and whine."" + +What was the vote on Merrick Garland? That's right. There was none. The Republicans have done nothing but obstruct and whine. Careful, RD, your hypocrisy is showing.",1 +"It's pretty revolting (but not surprising) that Republicans are not as outraged as every other American of good conscience is by clear meddling in our elections by an adversary (leave it to the GOP to put party above country). As far as the ""As you know, we're under siege"" line ...We are under siege. Our election was compromised and we now have a president who believes it is ok to undermine and mock democratic (small ""d"") principles when he doesn't get his way. Leave it to Trump to make it all about him and not, hmm, the very fabric of our democratic ideals (free press, judicial independence, etc, etc). Also, those who claim to be ""socially conservative,"" but elected a Class-A pervert - not to mention a misogynist, a racist (check out his history) - to the highest office in the land means they are hypocrites of the highest order. They don't get to call themselves ""social conservatives"" anymore. Not with a straight face, anyway. And then there's the normalization of the alt-right, etc",1 +"Actually, there is a quite adequate supply of good old ""MARKIN"" trolls!",1 +"You mean your wonderful ""Religion of Peace"" What a load of crap!",1 +"Pay attention people! + +When politicians, ""entertainers"", and TV talking heads, use the words "" F**k You Trump! +When ""comedians"", stand with mock severed heads of our President, +When ""actors"", and directors, believe it is OK to show a mock assassination of our President as Caesar in a Shakespeare play,....... +There will be wacko fans of the Radical Madcow who feel that it is not only alright to kill the President or those of his party, but feel it is their duty to do so. +This is what the Left has created with their vitriol. +And they have the nerve to attack Rush Limbaugh as a Hate mongerer. + +The HATE has been coming from the Left every single day since Trump was elected. +These killings are blood on their hands!",1 +Don't forget 10 years ago r's had Boy George and both houses. Two years later it all went D. Don't be so naive. Those that can't admit Trump is a wreck have their eyes and ears closed.,1 +"""Sherlock""? That's truly pathetic -- but Trumpian, I suppose. +When I posted to you yesterday, I didn't realize that the list to which I referred had been deemed ""uncivil"" by some coward (also true to Trump's example) who disagreed with it. I re-posted it; you'll find it easily enough. (On my display it appears immediately above your most recent post to me.) +Trump's presidency is disintegrating in full view of the whole world, and his personality with it. +Which version of the Comey story do you believe? Trump made Pence, Sanders, and Conway look like the idiots they are for working for him. He sent them out to lie for him on one day, and then pulled the rug from under them the next. These folks (and of course Spicer, too) will never fully re-build their reputations; Trump has ruined them. +Trump has lived a filthy, dishonest life personally, professionally and politically. Why would anyone think he would, or even could, be different as president? Lock him up.",1 +"Oh it's way beyond not true, it's downright pathetic. + +And it says a lot about the poster that posts such tripe.",1 +"The concentration of carbon dioxide in exhaled human breath is about 40,000 ppm, which is far above the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide of about 400 ppm. Anyone who claims that carbon dioxide is causing catastrophic climate change and keeps exhaling is a hypocrite.",1 +"""Opposition to the idea is short-sighted, stupid and irresponsible"" + +Where do you get the nerve to speak to the Canadian public in this fashion??? + +And you know this because of your extensive business experience in running a College radio station. That was your only experience other than being a DJ or a reporter, nes pas? If left to your own devises, couldn't manage your way thru the cow-catcher gate to Osgoode Hall. + +Infrastructure Bank. Either way it will turn into a dog's breakfast because lightweight egomaniacs just like you will try to run something that, in the real world, no one would let you near.",1 +"Trump sides with dems and of course its the dems fault. +Thats like saying i got drunk it must be the liquor stores fault. +Have accountability for king combover clown. +Is America great yet?",1 +"Lives in Thailand? + +So like every other racist, he’s a hypocrite.",1 +i KNOW most alt left ignorant lunatics (being the minority of course) know and understand how much stuff and economic prosperity comes from the oil sands that is in demand all around the world!,1 +"It's ridiculous to think that I can motivate my financial investor to invest in my best interests when his salary and commission is paid by the bank he works for, therefore their interests will always be more important. That's why I left my financial advisor. This article appears to be an advertisement for the person who wrote it.",1 +"Crucify one of the varmints and leave him there by the box nailed to a cross with the warning ""Mischievous Persons Will be Punished""",1 +"No, newsreader. You have failed yet again. Trump and his followers are the ones spreading ignorance. They are just too ignorant to know it.",1 +"The Lefties are at it again with their insanity..... +Political Correctness +Man's foolish, misguided attempt to sanitize, sterilize or in essence, spay and neuter the idealism of modern civilization !",1 +"You have a point. Although Congress mandated in 1992 that the files be released to the public within 25 years, the President does have the authority to refuse or restrict such release on national security concerns. The press always slants the story in a way that makes the President look bad. He could jump in the water to save a drowning child and the story would be: ""The President Puts Himself and the Country at Risk Trying to Save Child."" What a bunch of dimwits.",1 +its sad yet hilarious that it took 3 people to write this obviously biased nonsense,1 +Sensible and sane Americans are shuttering now at the level of corruption and unlearned nit witticism which comes from the Democrates every day. To think that Hillary was arguably the best of the bunch only underscores just how pathetic the DEM party has become.,1 +"Too funny...Forrest getting tangled in his own deceit. I fully understand he is too stupid to realize the gravity of what he is doing, but one would think the back-room boys in Mtl would understand how poorly this plays with Canadians after Forrest told us he would be different. + +Liberal lies....never ending.",1 +Y0u are correct in saying that one does not know what he is thinking. This is because he does not think. He rattles out words without care. He only uses Twitter because at the end of his Tweet he has exhausted his mental faculty to complete exhaustion. He is not a President - he is the clown of ancient days.,1 +"I still don't understand people's antipathy towards Hillary Clinton. For years the Republicans have denigrated her, and that effort has been ramped up moreso lately by Trump. But I would think people would take that as what it is: propaganda. Partisanship and ideology aside, what has she really done to deserve such an unfavourable opinion? + +As a career public servant, she would have by necessity made a number of mistakes and miscues, and having survived this long, she must clearly have learned from her mistakes. + +To take the word of a known fibber, and come on, what has Trump ever really said that was factual, accurate, truthful and unbiased? - as he claims his opponent is a liar, the devil, a traitor, a criminal, and has hate in her heart, and accuses her relentlessly of the worst things possible...this surely must be the antithesis of critical thinking. + +It is of concern that so many American voters are failing in their civic duty to honestly appraise their presidential candidates.",1 +"Hey ms.amylou, you are rude, you call names, you are mean spirited much of the time, as are most Trump supporters. I haven't seen you telling your nasty buddies to stop their nasty little jabs. You can start with Nick Travis and waveamaker. 99.9%of the comments I review on here are ""mean spirited"" remarks by Trump supporters so don't presume to lecture me. Got it?",1 +No. quite silly actually,1 +"Disco, hottub or whatever Joe you want to call yourself, it's disgustingly stupid comments like this that render anything insightful you might have to say on other stories meaningless. + +You have yourself a super tolerant day now Joe.",1 +"Trump is a man who can never take responsibility for anything that goes wrong. Every failure is the fault of someone else. All of his long list of business failures were the fault of others. + +Trump is a psychotic. His supporters should be ashamed of themselves.",1 +And the ugly Americans appear.,1 +"Then why did the Declarations of Secession of Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas all declare that the white race was superior to the black race and the black race being enslaved was the only way they could exist in America? + +""Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. "" +- Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, March 21, 1861 + + I realize you're a Trump supporter so you probably don't appreciate things like ""facts,"" but you could stand to crack a book sometime before you go online and make an ass out of yourself with your ignorance.",1 +"Good Riddance! I'll even give him my ""I'm with stupid"" tee shirt as a parting gift.",1 +"Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference! Mark Twain + +Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. MARK TWAIN, letter to W. D. Howells",1 +"""Too bad you weren't there to show the other patrons how to engage in a shootout and get your butt shot off or worse."" + + +That's not nice, Roy. + +Thugs need to be shot when brandishing weapons at citizens while committing a violent crime. Then the other thugs would think twice about doing other similar acts.",1 +fuckcorygardner.org,1 +"So you use a Korean surname but aren't Asian? That's messed up on so many levels! And when are you going to be pointing out my ""biases?"" Pointing out that cops stop people who match the description when searching for someone... is biased? Or are the cops biased? Should they not be searching based on physical description? Maybe they should just search by asking people their names. If they were looking for Patrick Cho, who do you think they'd stop and question? The irony of your last sentence is astonishing. It would be funny if you weren't quite so sanctimonious in your opinion of yourself.",1 +"Actually blacks in South Africa were not looking to eliminate South Africa, just pursuing equality, whereas Arabs in the Middle East are looking to eliminate Israel, just pursuing dominance. Big difference.",1 +"Final? Sure. But Punishment? Nope. +Suicide was the easy way out for this scumbag.",1 +"Trump is a disgusting human being , and I question the sanity of his supporters. Hillary is no saint, either. This election is indeed about the lesser of two evils. But in this particular case, Trump's evil outweighs Hillary's by several million metric tons.",1 +Last time we were downtown a guy was taking a shit at a busy intersection. How depraved are these A holes.,1 +"Climate change is a con for the foolish that have never taken a course on the climate or weather and no nothing of the earths climate history with regards to things like the ice ages / continental glaciations or the natural changes in the earths climate in the inter glacial we live in. Holocene climate has not been stable and to suggest anything else simply shows your ignorance. +Tell me Mr Genius: What part of the climate is changing or has changed? +Have you actually ever read about the 1930's and the dust bowl, or read about the Viking settlements on Greenland or have you even heard of the Little Ice Age? Have you ever been outside Toronto and worked in the arctic?",1 +"imagine. a lifestyle that lives in harmony with others, the environment. doesn't impose on others, doesn't condemn or hate. how the hell did this guy come to integrate, show us that compassion and respect and love and equality are actually achievable? wait a minute, i didn't hear a word that his god was better than mine, never heard a word about homosexuality being an abomination or women are inferior and dont have a right to control their bodies. a few hawaiians and others i've met share his philosophy. not a single fundamentalist christian i have met does. just saying.",1 +"As these protesters march across Canada against Islamophobia and Trumps immigration ban, are they aware that Muslim families, here in Canada, are selling their young daughters to 60 year old Muslim men? + +SELLING their young daughters! + +Here in Canada! + +Are they aware of this as they march against Islamophobia?",1 +Why do you assume a diversified person isn't qualified? All the Trump deplorables are showing up here.,1 +"Ben nothing you wrote there about Kirk is illegal or unethical which are the calling cards of republican values along with them being anti-woman, anti-poor, anti-LGBT, anti-middle class, ect..... That is what you are supporting by supporting Republican Charles Djou. You really should read his party's platform and then read our party's platform and see the stark contrast. + +If you are against the historic home exemption then why have I NEVER seen or heard of you speak out against it except when talking about Kirk. So it sounds like you are just anti-Kirk and use any red herring. + +Your line ""he somehow managed..."" is a sad and pathetic attempt to try and sling mud at Kirk. That is NO WAY for a former Governor to act - you should be ashamed of this. I would hope you would lift the conversation but time and time again I and many others are disappointed by your behavior on-line and in the real world.",1 +"Any stats to back your statements? + +Very few Catholics adhere to strict interpretation/practice of their religion in this day and age, especially the belief that being gay is a sin. + +One doesn't hear much if anything at all about fundamentalist Catholics. + +Fear of Catholic parents being incapable of showing their child compassion and understanding due to sexual orientation is ridiculously overblown.",1 +"Mr. Wohlforth's commentary appears to suggest that Alaska Natives are nothing but poor innocent victims of a racist justice system. His tone is extremely patronizing and I wonder if he is playing the ""white man's burden"" role here. This is the old Kipling concept that white man like him, must take care of the poor natives who cannot take care of themselves. Bit old fashioned however gallant, Mr. Wohlforth. Nearly all native inmates I encountered at ACC West, knew wholly that they did wrong. Funny thing about native people are that they are extremely honest folks, even when they did wrong. More then any other ethnic groups I have run into, including my fellow Asian Americans, native people stand out in their honesty in acknowledging that they did wrong. Few who claims innocence, are those coming in from probation violations and some of them got just cause to be unhappy, being violated for petty violations. Maybe that is where Mr. Wohlforth should take a look at.",1 +The HPV vaccine is garbage ... anyone giving it to their child should be thrown in jail for abuse.,1 +"So pretending to be Asian, a woman or aboriginal grants you an advantage? + +I guess that puts an end to all that nonsense about 'white privilege'.",1 +Let us not forget sexism and ethnic and religious hatred. He really does have the whole enchilada of hate going on there.,1 +"Exactly what I have been saying since the first internet classes were offered. If people could get an education without the leftists, globalists, indoctrination garbage...they might begin to become intelligent again.",1 +Rest In Peace Allen! You were a damn good violin player in High School and an outsting individual! You will be missed!,1 +"this is precisely why I'm switching over to KTUU. The blatant and systematic omission, on purpose, by ADN of the ethnicity of crime suspects is WRONG. Screw you ADN, and goodbye. I will be getting my news elsewhere from now on, but not before raising a stink about your garbage journalism.",1 +"THERE TRUMP GOES AGAIN...""TAPPING"" YET ANOTHER WOMAN WHO IS *NOT* HIS WIFE...HOW TYPICAL!",1 +This just goes to show the absurdity of the gender-balanced cabinet. Poor Seamus may have to get a sex-change operation to maintain Trudeau's idiotic and childish promise of appointing on the basis of gender rather than qualification.,1 +"It would be inhumane of me to put the cop in that position because I was acting like a jerk. + +But you, as a convict, may not appreciate that criminals have some say in their fate.",1 +"suicidal tendencies are treatable NP5! But if your proned to ride that missle in, strap in and have a great LAST ride FOOL!!!!! I'll be laughing watching!!!!!",1 +"Mr. Sherman... Quoted from Patrick J. Buchanan, We hear the grievances. Where is the gratitude? +What more opportunity is it that the White people need to give to help the Blacks? +If the poor white got this much opportunity there would be no poor white or lower class of white trash people!! +The main problem why black people are not progressing is the, ""They owe me factor""!! Get it in your head! No Body Owes You Any Thing! + +Talk about new 'ladders of opportunity' for blacks. Go to Altoona? And Johnstown, and ask the white kids in Catholic schools how many were visited lately by Ivy League recruiters handing out scholarships for 'deserving' white kids? +Is white America really responsible for the fact that the crime and incarceration rates for African-Americans are seven times those of white America?",1 +"""White posters?"" Are you kidding? You're scum.",1 +"Please provide some examples of Democrats who have statements as radical as Trump's. His rhetoric:'worst ever, most terrible, losers, someone told me'- shows ignorance and not a little fear of the real world he doesn't understand.",1 +Bwahaha! This is satire right? This guy is as big a numbskull as Ted Nugent!....,1 +I've killed babies before and I usually do it completely differently.,1 +"Trudeau cares about saving us money? Does he play us as fools ? + +His deficit is out of control , multiple nannies for his kids, super Agha Khan island vacations, big bucks to the Clinton foundation, selfies, platitudes and socks...... The rich unqualified heir is running huge deficits contrary to his word in good times and now he pays off a US soldier killer who blinded another ?",1 +"If these idiots did as they're told, they'd +still be alive. Same as the idiot that was +told not to touch his weapon. But no, I'm +black so I don't have to. He's dead also.",1 +"my god you are a lib lunatic! ontario;s economy can grow 100% and it still by GDP $ would be much lower than it was before the libs came to power! with still some 250,000 FULL TIME Jobs less than when they started!,, our economy is flat and creating part time over full time you ignorant sheep,,, + +wynne is the worst and most corrupt premier in ontario history",1 +Codes are probably thumb tacked to Oval Office walls late at night he likes to masterbate to 'em while twitting!!! ;),1 +"Get your own account, quit trolling someone else's account.",1 +"I meant the opinion writers. What do they think about this? Why isn't there an editorial published expressing the view of the paper? +They will happily call May or Trump derogatory names and write advice about they are doing wrong but on a domestic story like this with the potential for huuge implications no one has an opinion? +Cowards.",1 +"Torrents of drivel from right-wing media have now become torrents of drivel from the White House itself. It's all fun and games to make stuff up about Obama, until you actually get called on it. And shouldn't the President be getting his information from U.S intelligence agencies and not the TV? And not flapping his lips about every silly thing he hears?",1 +What is wrong with you ? How can you make such a dumb statement in that Trump is doing everything he can to impede the Russian investigation ? If what you say is true he'd fire Mueller.for hiring all those Clinton supporting lawyers who would probably work for free at the chance of hurting Trump . You ought to be giving Trump a chance after all the good he's doing for Alaska after having only been in office for months. IF I were Trump I'd never have let Alaska get 50 million to help with fish and game.,1 +"If I had my way, I'd do it like the white missionaries and white BIA teachers did it: You either call it Utqiagvik or we'll beat the hell outta you. (This was how I was raised in Shatoolik. Beaten till I learned English). That was mighty white and arrogant of them, and I will also say, I do not consider myself American because I wasn't on the shopping list when Seward bought my land out from under the feet of my Ancestors. I am Inupiat.",1 +"Chris, we get it, you represent the vocal minority (29%) of Canadians who sympathize with convicted terrorists and murderers who fought against Canada and our Allies with the Taliban. Get over yourself - the overwhelming majority of Canadians are embarrassed by this decision - Khadr is traitor and is owed nothing.",1 +ships coming to Hawaii not going to happen as a result of what the 4 useless monkeys in Washington . They can keep up their useless fighting and continue to lose federal money. The Federal money 'gravy train' has rusted and slowly coming to an end...,1 +"Oh , so it's Trump's fault? Ludicrous!",1 +It's not moral even if it was legal. The guy is a pedophile.,1 +"For all the Native haters who are white and think white gives you right and might. + +From Lisa Bloom. ""In our nation’s history, so many of the sickest most appalling crimes have been committed by whites. Yet no matter how sadistic the crime, no matter how young the victims, no matter how much fear is engendered in a community, no matter how much media attention and public discussion the crimes of whites engender, the race itself is never sullied."" Lisa Bloom is a Legal analyst for NBC News and Avvo, attorney and bestselling author. + +Lisa Bloom also says white men are at the top of the list for gaining foreign visas to have sex with children. 85-percent in Latin America, she says. + +Lisa Bloom also adds the most prolific serial killers in this country (America) are white men.",1 +"I didn't think Americans would be dumb enough to fall for the implementation of trickle-down theory for a third time. I stand corrected. + +The Laffer Curve sure turned out to be a laugher...",1 +"Wow. You're delusional. TAFY's job isn't to investigate or judge the homeless. If it was, no one would ever come to them. Their job is TO HELP THEM. Oh.. and this may come as a surprise to you as well, but they're also not out there to get you. Amazing that the world doesn't revolve around you isn't it?. Really, if anything it's the other way around. Your group constantly targets individuals and groups they don't like, attacks them with lies and slander, and then cries and pretends to be the victim. Hey, if you want to be a vigilante group and take the law into your own hands at least own up to it. Stop pretending that your mission is to help anyone when it's to make yourself feel superior by looking down on people less fortunate than yourselves.",1 +So dumb. And entitled!,1 +This hag is out today saying that she lost because men told their wives to vote for Trump. You just can't make up this amount of craziness.,1 +There always has to be someone to bitch,1 +"Who is Sean Fine, and why has he been given this terrible assignment? + +Many otherwise-reasonable Canadians are totally exasperated at Prime Minister Trudeau's often dubious choices (based on diversity and inclusiveness) for important government roles. To heck with (choosing my words carefully) the outdated idea of meritocracy ... both in the government and (now) apparently the press. +This seems as stupid (and ill-advised) as it is weirdly sadistic.",1 +"There's a reason for separation of church and state. + +Pretty typical, hypocrite. Bark about the Constitution and what ""The founders intended"". + +""The first amendment to the US Constitution states ""Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"" + +Let's build a wall and let Texas pay for it.",1 +And he is so surprisingly stupid. Trump is both ignorant and unintelligent. But he continues to think and act as though he is the smartest guy in the room.,1 +"Same script because it's true and relevant, leftist lunatic liberal!",1 +Not too quick to judge. How many times have we seen criminal cops shoot and kill when not being attacked. Maybe we should unarm officers.,1 +"The first claim is an outright lie. The Republican platform for 1860 says no such thing: + +http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29620 + +The rest of the post is just silly garbage.",1 +It's all about image for the Village Idiot.,1 +"Please, your response is simply stupid. The KKK has always been right-wing. When the Democratic party of the late 19th and early 20th centuries was most racist it was a right-wing party. The early Republican party was left-wing--the anti-slavery party of Lincoln. Pro-slavery was establishment and therefore, right-wing. Anti-slavery was anti-establishment and therefore, if a political tendency must be chosen it would be more left-wing. The U.S. Nazi party was right-wing. George Lincoln Rockwell's ANP was founded in 1960 on the ideas Adolf Hitler espoused. FDR disdained Nazism while Henry Ford who rain for the GOP nomination in 1924 and was a Nazi-sympathizer like Charles Lindbergh. +The reality is that poor people--and Blacks are over represented in this category due to racism--are both the most victimized as well as the biggest perpetrators of crime. White collar crime costs $300-$600 billion per year. Wealthy white people commit the majority of those costly crimes.",1 +"""He quoted from the portion of the immigration law that he said gave him the power to enact the ban, calling it “beautifully written” and saying, “A bad high school student would understand this.” + +But much too difficult for orange buffoons to understand.",1 +"If dope is considered a medicine then why is it not simply sold in pharmacies? Separate ""dispensary"" , why? The same logic would be to establish a separate ""dispensary"" for any other prescription drug. The whole idea stinks and smells of imbecility.",1 +Says a retired garbageman wallowing on a fat union pension courtesy of the state.,1 +""" legislators got a per diem raise from $213 to $275 when the U.S. Defense Department increased its expense rate"" + +They aren't the DOD. They didn't 'get' a raise, they used this as an excuse to give themselves a raise. Is this even legal? + +Is there a lawyer here that can file a class action lawsuit against the legislature? +First of all they are violating the constitution with SB21. + +Can we audit how the legislature spent all those billions when the revenue was rolling in? +WE need to follow the money trail and catch the corrupt bastards that looted the state. + +It seems pretty clear they work for oil companies(and themselves) not the people of Alaska. Can we put together a case to deliver to the FBI? + +We have to do something, arrogance and hypocrisy have no meaning to these corrupt bastards. It is an insult to our intelligence and an insult to the great (wo)men who built this state. + +They will tax us, take our PFD and still keep spending on what they want unless we stop them.",1 +They're going to get hammered and deservedly so.,1 +Dear Mr. Oliver. We pay enough bloody taxes as it its. Shut up and go away.,1 +"Leech for BM? Perhaps while she's building her wall she will mandate all women, people of colour, jews, muslims, the disabled and veterans to be removed from Canada?",1 +"Lack of adherence to Church morality aside, he should be fired for basic stupidity. Seems he would have us believe that before the year 2000, when the overwhelming majority of the world was hetero and still opposed gay sex, the majority's opposition was based on their own sexual maladjustment. Got that? So the ones who were sexually well-adjusted were the REST of the population --- the small minority: the world's gays. Wow!",1 +"How come, when Obama was president it was fair and a good thing that he was consistently blocked by the ""losing"" party.... and now because the president is republican, the democrats have to shut up. What kind of a democracy are you talking about? the Russian type? Quite an hypocrite you are...",1 +"And as President, Trump has the authority to end trade agreements with foreign countries without approval of US Congress. Trump has heard the condescending and sanctimonious of Canada loud and clear.",1 +"Lol, you just showed how poor your reading comprehension really is! 3 homes in 2 different countries...is the United States no longer a country? Lmao. The USA (1 country) and Italy (1 country) 1+1 =2. Lol, you either can't count or can't read. Probably both. Anyone that accredits there success or demise to the presidency is just pathetic. If you can't adjust to political or economic changes than you'll never be truly successful. Control your own destiny and stop riding on the coat tails of others.",1 +"Trump quotes on nuclear war: + +“I’ve always thought about the issue of nuclear war; it’s a very important element in my thought process. It’s the ultimate, the ultimate catastrophe, the biggest problem this world has, and nobody’s focusing on the nuts and bolts of it. It’s a little like sickness. People don’t believe they’re going to get sick until they do. Nobody wants to talk about it. I believe the greatest of all stupidities is people’s believing it will never happen, because everybody knows how destructive it will be, so nobody uses weapons. What bullshit.” + + +Last August on television speaking with a foreign policy expert, repeatedly asked “why can’t we use nuclear weapons.” + + +TRUMP: I think — I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me. + + +Trump is a weak and insecure neurotic fraud. He's mentally incompetent and unfit for office + +He and his effeminate, white supremacist, neoNazi sidekicks need to be removed from the White House.",1 +Look like it to me. Becket Adams is a idiot.,1 +"And today, the PCLU, made up of zuptoids, does all Zuma's dirty work in hunting down dangerous people like Gordhan, Breytenbach, Booysens, McBride, Dramat, O'Sullivan +Its a damn disgrace, and the tax-payer is footing the bill for it +Good story Kevin, pity it will fall on deaf ears",1 +"I am glad someone brought some common sense to the table , we were making fun of that whole group. Your making Americans look even worse! Sometimes you have to make the right decisions. Its hard, but know when an ass is an ass!",1 +"these non compliant dispensary owners are grinding on me. are THEY the bad apples that are going to spoil it for all the legal, compliant marijuana users and sellers? kind of want to go to my friendly neighborhood dispensary(s) and ask them if they have complied. No? i guess I will pay you 75% of the money you charge and i'll go ahead and put that other 25% in the mail to the IRS myself. follow up question...are you nuts? talk about killing the golden goose...",1 +"I hope Anna McKinnon has more time to spend on repealing daylight savings time. That's always a useful way to drag out the session and not do one damn thing, Jesus how do we get stuck with these ass hats.",1 +"Reminiscent of Neville Chamberlain's German tours and meetings with Hitler claiming peace was at hand. How did that work out for the world? Disgusting that this nation installs the identical regime as the heir apparent to Nazi Germany following the same game plans for a new Fuehrer trained by a jewish traitor, Roy Cohn, with Mein Kampf as the textbook. Evil personified in a German-heritage traitor bred, born, and developed by the New York Wall Street traitors before and after WWII to install the same in this nation. Nixon and Reagan blew it, Bush/Cheney set the stage, and the final solution was installed by the Republican Party traitors composed of the Billionaire Barons enriched by the Military Industrial Complex led by Oil Monopoly traitors. All aided and abetted by the moles in the Democratic Party to insure government gridlock until the complete one party takeover is finished. Welcome to the Nazi States of Americal! Seig Heil!",1 +Hypocrisy at its finest. Has been going on for years. Anybody still wonders why the Middle East is so screwed up.,1 +Dumbass,1 +"Great patriotism there: my insurance company is screwing me, so I'll help screw up the whole country.",1 +He's one black conservative liberals love to hate.,1 +"Lol, dotard gets stuck in another swampy muck. His goo is knee deep in DC. He has to eat his own goo on this one. Cant pull out a recording? Every potus communication is recorded. Especially official ones.",1 +"Let the story of Zuma be a lesson to black people who vote for the ANC beacause it's the party that looks like them, next time I hope they would've learned to listen when we warn them not to vote for a criminal - 783 corruption charges - and a rapist. + +Do visit your earlier statement about being racist or not. Gather your thoughts and probably rephrase your point. I think you could do better than this. find this.",1 +"You live in Thurston, home to meth heads, drop out zombies, poachers, ID thieves, +burglars, sex offenders, and domestic violence. It's all there in the crime maps. I used to go there but no more. It's full of ""nasty, obscene, violent slimeballs"". +So this is your hood and you complain about Eugene? Thurston used to be so pleasant too.",1 +"What a load. 907 is anything but a troll, but of course being a TROLL yourself, you assume everyone is one also. Sad.",1 +Her advisor has done diddly squat for her. I find it hard to believe she would have done worse for herself over the past decade unless she is truly a moron.,1 +wow! an adulteress on 2 fronts!,1 +"""one buffoon won't be able to kill it"" +Not one buffoon, no - at least not by himself. But he's supported by 52 buffoons/croneys in Senate, 250-ish buffoons/croneys in the House, and 63 million or so voters. Together, they can do a lot of damage.",1 +"""People don't burn other people alive"" +You need to acquaint yourself with autos da fe in Middle Ages Europe. Christians did precisely that to women accused of witchcraft, Jews who refused to convert, Christians who were accused of heresy (that is, they held beliefs the authorities didn't approve of), and others. After some Jews rejected Martin Luther's protestant Christianity as not being their cup of tea, Martin Luther suggested locking Jews in synagogues and setting the synagogues on fire. +If that's too ancient for you, only 30 years ago, Christians were raping and slaughtering Muslims in the former country of Yugoslavia. +Last year, Jews living in the West Bank burned down Arabs' houses and mosques, and in at least one house, the occupants were in it. +Terrorists are brutal. A lot of terrorists are Muslim. That does NOT make all Muslims dogs. +If a man from Arvada gets angry at his ex-wife and burns down her home with her in it, are all Arvadans to be considered dogs?",1 +no one is getting sued. Paul is a liar.,1 +"what complete rubbish, here in canada woman have all the same equal rights if not MORE rights than men period",1 +"I think you read my comment too seriously Elagabalus, I did not mean Trump was to be taken lightly...Trump is Trump...was Not a compliment. He is a very scary man, narcissist, spoiled, juvenile and I could go on. I also mentioned that he was dangerous.",1 +"Bonuses are generally paid to those who achieve success. + +If your business cannot survive without continual, massive government handouts, you are not very successful, are you? + +Little wonder Canadians are rightly outraged by the arrogance and outright stupidity displayed by Bombardier senior management. And one must wonder if this arrogance and outright stupidity is behind their need for continual handouts in the first place? + +Perhaps - just perhaps - what these senior executives need is not a bonus but a pink slip.",1 +"""Is this comment civil"" is pretty vague anyway. Besides, people can politely say absolutely ridiculous things.",1 +"Trudeau's comments simply proves that he is a typical well-heeled - on Daddy's money - self-centered elitist who can not fathom anyone with a political perspective other than his own becoming Prime Minister. What he rails against in Lietch are her desires to verify that people coming to Canada are open to Canadian values, such as equality of women, non-discrimination based on race and sexual orientation, and freedom of religion, which are the values the Liberals also hold. +Of course what Trudeau really wants is an electoral system that guarantees Liberal governments into perpetuity. +He disgusts me.",1 +"there is no ""past"" when it comes to nat resources and oil, oil demand is increasing in the world , , and as usual a left wing lunatic thinks we should just take what we have accomplished but no more, the death spiral of defeatism,, no thanks lunatic,",1 +"Pence has such a fake, smarmy smile. Gross.",1 +"Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross made a complete jackass of himself when, last month in Saudi Arabia—an authoritarian monarchy that strictly prohibits almost all dissent—he remarked that there were no protests there when Donald Trump visited + +https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/06/where-are-all-saudi-arabias-protesters-these-14-are-awaiting-execution +Where Are All Saudi Arabia's Protesters? These 14 Are Awaiting Execution",1 +Two-timer. Cad.,1 +"""This reaction is unfortunately the only way to snuff out this terrible movement."" + +Yeah? How did those street riots work out at snuffing out the Nazis in Germany? It only made them more popular. Stop feeding the trolls should apply here too.",1 +"There are various anarchist groups that use marches and protests organized by other people for cover for hooliganism. Few people support them or even know who they are. They're parasites. If I went to marches and protests, I'd happily bash them, but I don't go to marches and protests.",1 +How dumb can the school system get. Almost every day there is a column about the stupidity of the system.,1 +""" Implicit in your argument is the notion of collective punishment. Why is it her job to fix a problem"" +You could ask feminists pretty much the same question about men - everyone with a penis is somehow responsible of anything ever done by someone else with a penis. Let me know what the answer is, it should be illuminating.",1 +"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....",1 +"Your post is pure bias and makes no mention of this. Now, after the fact, you make this statement. No, I did not get this wrong, you need to articulate better than a bias opinion condemning one while saying nothing of the other equally guilty. as for the latter, Junior, I staunchly opposed Bush in agreement with William F Buckley who warned the GOP they were committing political suicide with this incompetent clown. Now you're deflecting off subject of your BIAS post I addressed.",1 +"Liberals are behind the sad specter of Bio D iversity and Natural Diversity which scratch the back of anti-harvest participants who want to stop hunting of predators, just for one example. They would love to see the land locked up to anyone except those who want to simply view or hike into the state and federal lands. Many libs are on state and fed fish and wildlife payrolls and carry out the mandates of anti-hunting zealots and animals rights dictatorial activist. Get involved to stop this misguided, Disney mentality madness!",1 +Chuckie Schmuck at it again. Another of HiLIARy's playmates can't handle the truth. Born loser,1 +"Her total lack of class is consistent with the other jerks at Fox News. The sad thing is that the conservative base probably thinks she looks fantastic and is incredibly patriotic. It's easy to see why Trump is so successful pandering to the ignorant. + +For the GOP: +Taking a knee - evil + +Bastardizing the flag into some 1980's exercise cape - wonderful +Waving the Confederate flag - wonderful +Marching with torches in the street shouting, ""Blood and Soil!"" - wonderful",1 +"Ibby, look again Donald's team won. It is their turn to do as they see fit. I do not believe they will be asking you to join their team. + +Lots of garbage happening in Canada that you could be concentrating on, but I guess your team won.",1 +Not surprising our PM is an idiot.,1 +"""The ex-spy has been forced into hiding, fearing for his safety as Mr. Trump and Russian officials angrily denounce his sleuthing."" + +This is one of those globe type assertions which belie their obvious anti trump , anti Russian agenda. It is is exactly this kind of reporting that explains why so many people don't believe the media and are walking away from the globe and mail. + + Is there any truth to this claim or is it merely a political agenda that he ""fears for his life"" + +For all we know he could be escaping the idiots from the media who will now consonantly hound him or perhaps there is no Christopher Steele or maybe even what he has said is only partially true or not true at all or maybe he is hiding in his attic.",1 +"You are the man who, in the ""Francis creates Vatican commission to investigate Knights of Malta"" thread, told us that the Knights' Grand Chancellor, Albrecht Boeselager, was going to hell for being involved in distributing condoms to African sex slaves to prevent AIDS. + +My statement stands.",1 +"goodness even Socialists +with houses are secretly salivating that +Capitalism has bestowed profit beyond socialist imagination on them + +Down with capitalist pigs ?",1 +"Hey, pseudo--""anomie"" doesn't mean what you think it does. The primary meaning is breakdown of customary social and ethical norms. It also sometimes refers to personal alienation from society that results from such breakdown. It doesn't mean ""the absence of any emotion at all""; the word for that is ""alexithymia."" And it doesn't mean ""depression"". Both of these are clinical entities. ""Anomie"" is strictly a sociological concept. + +Not one penny of federal money is used for abortions. Federal money that goes to Planned Parenthood is reserved for women's health needs such as gynecological screening and contraception, of which PP is one of the major providers to poor women. Of course the government doesn't want states to accept money designated for those needs and then simply deny it to PP because a religious clique controls their legislatures and wants to make a grandstand play for their fans. + +Reread Schopenhauer, idiot. And stay away from Pound--he's too hard for you.",1 +"And the braying morons at BoC will use this as an excuse to raise interest rates again, because they're incapable of comprehending simple statistics. + +Somehow one quarter of increased inflation equals a huge trend to them.",1 +"That's okay, this clown will be out of office in '18 and both houses plus the governor's office will be Republican. This is the beginning of the end of your climate scam.",1 +"1. ...My suggestion to those women who don't approve of abortions is not to have one.' +You can replace ""abortion"" with ""beating a child to death"". It's the same result.",1 +"It certainly seems to be true that many people are troubled by the changing world. In the US election, they voted for Trump, when it should be obvious to them that he is a fraud who will never (yes, never) do anything to help them. The times, they are a changin'. If you don't want to evolve with them, best get out of the way. My biggest fear is that Trump, in his childlike stupidity and obstinacy, will blow up the world.",1 +This man is truly disgusting. Miserable immoral cretin.,1 +These overpaid undereducated buffoons can't even articulate what they are doing and why.,1 +"Alaska shazalistik +I shouldn't respond to your ignorance until I'm not angry at how insensitive you are . I'm 1 of the aunties to those 5 little angels and ther mother and I assure you she was a great mom who loves them more than life itself . I'm going to pray for you to find God and let him in to your hardened heart and pray for myself for wanting to come find you and every other uncaring asshole who feels a sick satisfaction to feel good about themselves by hurting a brokenhearted family with ther wasted opinions and uncontrollably beat all of your stupid asses shame on you .",1 +"It's time to use some common sense. Build to middle Street and stop. You probably could even think about changing it from rail to buses since the rail system is a total waste of money and will need a lot of maintenance. + +These elected Officials are just a bunch of donkeys who don't want to take a stand and demand accountability. They are all part of the problem here in Hawaii.",1 +"Oh tRump'll be leaving his bankrupt business empire alright, but not for the White House. Lock him up for rape and sexual assault! Lock him up! Lock him up!",1 +RTH problem with you idiots is you keep on focusing on the Clintons and they're not in the White House so get over it. The bullseye is on the Chumps fat rear end and it's a hard target to miss. As much as he shakes it even Stevie Wonder could hit it with a slingshot from a mile away. Only a true idiot would not say that this presidency is a f-----n mess. BTW how many bankruptcies have you been through.,1 +"The Islamic Jesus will in the last days will appear in Syria near Damascus and take his rightful place BEHIND Imam Mahdi, he will help spread Islam. He will then abolish the tax leaving the only 2 options for non Muslims being submit to Islam or die .",1 +The most inane idiotic drivel that ever hit the comment section. Absolute conspiracy theorist out of touch with reality drivel. Monopsony? The textbook definition of babbling drivel and hogwash.,1 +"""hog"" is right. The beast has to feast, just to survive.",1 +"They should both move to Mexifornia, that's where they 'fit in'. Socialists, supporters of Illegal Aliens, abortionists, welfare proponents, drivers licenses for Illegals, both alike, horrible people for Americans.",1 +Time to flag yourself as a hate monger.,1 +It's long past time that the left come to grip with their mid-guided FDR (and Woodrow Wilson) hero worship: both were elistists with a strong streak of racism.,1 +"Trump will boast to his mindlessly loyal mob, ""This is the greatest hurricane ever!"" -- until Ivanka reminds him that hurricanes are generally not nice things and might even hurt the poor stiffs who voted for him. Then he will blame the hurricane on Hillary and Obama, on the Democrats and even the Republicans. When the hurricane stops, he will take credit for stopping it. He might even promise to heal the casualties. +And his bedazzled fans will believe his every word, you'll see.",1 +I am sure Trudeau is more concerned about his friends in Arabia than about the effects of killing pipes line projects on Canadians. By buying their oil we hand them the wealth they kill each other for.,1 +"I agree that wahabi preaching mosques should be closed. I have been to Saudi Arabia and have seen how poisonous that ideology is. + +I think you would agree that neo-Nazi organizations should be shut down. That ideology caused over 60 million deaths in Europe. We should not accept those people under the guise of diversity either. + +Communist/Socialist parties across the world should also be shut down. They have caused over 50 million deaths in USSR, China, Cambodia, etc.",1 +"What if President Trump is playing chess, as in getting China to finally act, which I think is the real purpose towards what he and his administration are doing, and all the commentators here can't see past their nose and are playing checkers? I always bet on the billionaire, every time vs the masses, they didn't get to be billionaires by being stupid.",1 +"LW1, you are a predator and need to walk out of this family's life forever. You have been lusting after this kid since she was basically a little girl. You've manipulated her and groomed her. You will ruin her relationship with her mother forever if you sleep with her. What happens when she hits 25 and starts to lose her youthful appearance? Wait another 7 years until her then-daughter turns 18 so you can abuse her too? Gross. Get away.",1 +Somebody needs to tell these idiots that she's in WA D.C.....,1 +more war mongers hired by the incendiary buffoon. and the new guy is worried about iran. ask most rational thinking citizens in the world outside comatose united states who they are worried about most and they will tell you it is america.,1 +"This whole thing has Darwin Award written all over it. He was stupid for going in the first place, as is everyone who let him do it.",1 +Hating on Catholics is pretty acceptable - just ask Californian Diane Feinstein.,1 +"No joke. Same story here. First job $1.50 per hour washing dishes. Worked my ass off to be at net worth over 3 mil so democrats can tell me i have some "" great privelege"". What a bunch of stupidity.",1 +The Republicans are pious hypocrites.,1 +"Finally, someone who has a clue. We +should be more like the US and kick +these murdering parasites and anyone +who pledges allegiance to them out.",1 +"The only real accomplishment Trudeau has had is to ensure Canada has our traditional ""First Passed the Post"" electoral system for at least another generation. By being a fool he has been stopped.",1 +The clown car is reving up for anothet spin around Juneau this year...,1 +"Nooooooo, Kearon. You lie. It's the majority of ethical, rational, and responsible American elected officials and government leaders that are demanding a denunciation of tRump. You can't find any more adjectives to describe the Republican Party and their wannabe presidential candidate? Lots of fricking, fricking laughs.",1 +"This event is a well-documented scam that makes people believe it's for charity, when really they're using charity volunteers as unpaid workers. It's also a blatant cultural appropriation of a Hindi festival. Can we stop letting this stupid event come here?",1 +"your an idiot PERIOD!,, FULL STOP!! , trump never enlisted anyone you ignorant brain washed fool, that has even been admitted by CNN now!,, Whats wrong with this picture? Answer, YOUR STUPIDITY",1 +"What da ya mean, Jenkins? The one that needs drug testing is you and ammosexuals who believe it's their gawd given right to tot ARs in American streets or kill animals. Wanna carry an AR with clips that pump off dozens of rounds? Go take your rightful place on war zone front lines. I'm sure you'd find plenty of action and you'll probably do your family proud.",1 +"Is anyone surprised? +- +Have we all not learned by now: +- + +--If its a Liberal interest and if its championed by Trudeau- it's ill advised , inappropriate and bad for Canada and Canadians-- +- + ""In the past election campaign, the Liberals made many irredeemable promises to Indigenous voters, such as adopting the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Rights. Now, instead of impossible legal changes, they are offering words – and words matter in the long run. As the great philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote, +- +“Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.” +- +- +The modern take home circa 2017? +- +- +The Liberals have no wise men to offer anyone value - and all who have placed their trust in them have had their money squandered and been made to look like fools- +- +The wise men it seems left Ottawa with Mr Harper",1 +"Another misandrist ranting away.Once again,the very bad probably white,probably heterosexual male is the root of all evil.",1 +Good! She and the other anti cannabis board members have done nothing to promote an industry Alaskans want. She got paid a lot of your tax dollars to obstruct the will of the voters. Can we stop screwing around and finally get to business?!,1 +"De Gaulle was a coward and a traitor. He sold out his people then ran away in WWII. He sold out his partners in Canada in the face of the 45, 000 + Canadian soldiers who died to liberate his country while he sipped tea in Britain.",1 +Clodwell is a shibai artist and an incompetent dude. Ignore him,1 +Is it a sexual fetish of Trump supporters that they're practically licking Alzheimer patient mentally deranged 70-80 year old criminals and traitors with fat dripping off their chins and faces all the way to the floor? Disgusting.,1 +"Godwin's law got played awfully early tonight. + +Undisputable historical fact : Hitler was actually a fascist who hated both socialists and communists. + +""Mein Kampf"" well documents this fact.",1 +"I know what her problem was. I have 21 cats, kind of an informal rescue service. More keep showing up. I leave my idiot magnet on. She should turn hers off when she leaves the house.",1 +"Dumb, ignorant comments from a dumb, ignorant man. +It should only be newsworthy if Trump says something true or dignified for once.",1 +"""they said, their presence to some black, gay or transsexual people was seen as threatening."" + +Oh really, when a dangerous homophobic, racist nutter in the pride parade loses his steam and starts a brawl, who do these blacks and LGBT think will be the first in line to help bring the nutter to justice? Unicorns? Fairies? Tupac Shakur?",1 +Glad to see my beloved Canadiens can still thump a crap team playing the second night of back to back road games. But Buffalo?,1 +"Sorry, your assumption is incorrect. If guns are not used, then knives, hammers, axes, cars, vans, trucks etc will be used. Not having a gun has not stopped the Islamic Jihadis from killing has it? And in fact, I would say that they especially enjoy killing with knives and swords. +Before guns, swords, spears, axes, knives, bow and arrows were very effective means of killing and just as deadly as guns.",1 +"Yeah, execute them, and...totalitarian ideologues posing as village idiots.",1 +You have to be a special kind of stupid to fall for this crap. People still fall for the 419 scam as well.,1 +another zupta scumbag exposed. This bint is not fit to lick Adv. Madonsela's shoes.,1 +"It sure does look like that the DMC will be made fools of yet again. + +The rapidly accumulating evidence, soon to be displayed, will show that the Russian connection was a pure figment of the Obama imagination and that Trump is yet right again. + +He was indeed under surveillance by Obama/Clinton during the 2016 election. + +This ranks well above Watergate and should see Obama/Clinton reduced in public opinion to the likes of McCarthy. + +Of course, this was highly predictable given that the DMC had fixed the convention so that Sanders could not win. + +Skullduggery in American politics has reached new lows, thanks to the desperate ploys of the Liberal Left/ MSM conspiracy to employ Goebbbel like propaganda tactics against American voters. + +Not unlike what is happening here in Canada..",1 +The point is that Iraq was a stupid war and so was taking out Quadaffi. Now we have a real mess over there that Trump is going to have to clean up. We wasted trillions of dollars and what do we have to show for it? ISIS.,1 +"I only wish Donald understood what a great opportunity he squandered by being mentally ill..This is like Monty python stuff it's almost to funny to laugh at, but I can't help it for the tears...",1 +"Try thinking before you type, it makes you appear less foolish.",1 +"98% of those stories are hoaxes perpetrated by crazy social justice warriors. The Website ""Moonbattery"" has listed EVERY ONE OF THEM under their ""Hate Hoax List,"" so stop lying, DB. Anyway, how many White people have been murdered and raped in the last 20 years by feral blacks? 10,000 times more than blacks having the n-word +painted on their door. Utter BS",1 +Now you are just talking crazy. Gun owners should be responsible?????,1 +I'm sure he feels threatened by your juvenile comments (were he even to see them). How childish.,1 +"I would take Pitts more seriously if, just once in a while, he would pontificate on something other than the poor downtrodden black gangster...er sorry I meant black victims. Unfortunately that is something he cannot do.",1 +"KK, u and people like u, are like cigarette smokers, we can't turn our noses off from the public stench of the odor, and we can't and won't turn our ears off. Go away with your indoctrinated fairy tale nonsense untrue myths and beliefs. . We don't want to smell your warped demented psychological diarrhea of the weakest of minds, ever again, were sick of your mindless drivel. The earth is flat and 6,000 years old too....hahahahaha",1 +"We got to get everyone to keep on puffing! My kid's school needs a few more teachers, full time library and PE! Seriously with any luck, this could make an positive impact (in time). Come on stoners, get to it!",1 +Under his reign and CDOT - average transportation is WORSE in colorado. could argue could be worse but his results are pathetic and typical of gov bureaucrats,1 +"Until you and the rest of the Germanic European White Supremacists walk a mile in their moccasins, you have no ""right"" to disdain them and all of AK Natives as well. Everything spewing from your fingers and mouth reflect the hate of one lonely, whining, despable excuse for a human. The only value of your misspent life is the purveying of a false superiority over other human beings reflecting back on your black soul of pure evil.",1 +"while the liberals are clearly being phony hypocrites on their agenda, the climate is not heating because of mans carbon, so lets sell sell sell +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSokHmURVBU +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4YiBG_FtM8&t=1498s",1 +"At least ten people called you out on your lie. + +You were caught doctoring numbers to prop up your lie. + +And you are still lying about it days later. + +Pathetic indeed.",1 +"Conservative Christians have the power. +Conservative Christians can't stand the fact gay people have the same rights as them. They want to restore their former power imbalance that was in favor of them. +Conservative Christians want the right to discriminate against gay people, on religious grounds. +But, if a gay business owner discriminates against a Christian, that Christian can sue the gay business owner on grounds of religious discrimination.",1 +"Question: Who would you support, or vote for, if the choice was between Samson or David or Solomon and Rahab the liar for POTUS?",1 +No it isn't - you have to be severely brain damaged or severely illiterate.,1 +"That; however, is similar to feeling sorry for say... Satan.",1 +Trump is doing a good job and that is all anyone cares about. It is not Trump that is under investigation. There is nothing there so beat it you bat chit losers.,1 +Unions aren't the problem. It's uneducated citizens who don't bother to attend board meetings but would rather sit back on their fat butt and Monday morning quarterback.,1 +"I think the author of this piece of writing is misdirected. +Closing up borders isn't a hate crime, Austria closed it's borders from the infestation +I for one welcome a leader who understands what's happening with the destabilization of the western system +with a mass influx of undesirables, if these refugees love their country so much why not stay and fight and why not go to muslim country where there won't be a language or religious barrier instead they choose to come to Canada and the US",1 +"I laugh when I hear them call the Albertan PCs ""socialists"". These guys are so clueless.",1 +"I'm sorry, did I say dead people were voting? Of course I didn't and your feeble attempt at sarcasm sucks. Have a nice evening! +There are individuals who have passed away and moved, that are still on the voting roles. Before the next election each and everyone will have a ballot sent to their last address. That a fair amount of ballots out there with no one to receive them.",1 +"no one cares what a paid liberal trolling hack like you believes lunatic,,",1 +Are you fucking crazy? I will NEVER back that asshole. I say put him on the DMZ and leave the asshole there.,1 +"Run the damn rioters into the jail. PEACEFUL protest is the right, riot is the wrong.",1 +"I'm not sure about ""bad-ass"" sounds like a similar descriptive to how policing was in the apartheid regime...""they must drink piss""? exposing of people's body parts? squeezing their balls? ...can we get respect for law and order without savagery or being derogatory?",1 +"A BLATANT STUPID MOVE to BUY VOTES... + +IT is time to GET RID OF CHRISTY CLARK and her BC LIEberals",1 +Can you explain your mentally deranged diagnosis?,1 +"Does that cover pictures as well? That would be the solutions to what I am asking to protect EVERYONE and not just gays. No words or images are required. When the skinhead comes into the black baker's shop the black baker would obviously have to make the cake but nothing offensive can be placed on it. If that's true...then OK. +The Little Guy",1 +This Allison dude is dumber than a box of rocks,1 +he's probably have to kill you if he told you...... ;D,1 +You can't fix stupid,1 +"Wombat, despite my strong opposition to transgendered people serving in the military, I have to agree with you on every single point mentioned here. Although I agree with Trump on many points, he himself is an idiot.",1 +"All employees pay from Day 1 for this pension. If the State didn't screw with it so much, there would be more than enough money. How about the inept politicians, judges etc. who get it all for nothing and only need to work 10 years!",1 +"Comey's firing is borderline CRIMINAL +Final straw for me. This corrupt buffoon needs to GO! +ITMFA +ITMFA +ITMFA",1 +"Stop using the word ""rebel""! + +These Islamic terrorists are just looking to create the ""Islamic Republic of Syria"" (with the added bonus of Sharia Law and its caveman mentality)",1 +"""... White folks refuse to do those jobs anyway ..."" As a teenager, I spent many long, hot hours in farmers' fields, laboring under the sun for minimum wage with quite a few other white kids. + +Your viewpoints are extremely one-sided and parochial.",1 +The only thing that matters to the chump and his followers is whether or not it was a muslim.,1 +"Another check in your daily ""snowflake"" box! + +""The US no longer even grows much food here anymore except some organic farmers!"" Yes, of course. Tell that to the thousands of farmers in every state that grow our food. Good grief ... are you just incapable of learning?",1 +state workers may be inept and unproductive but they are grossly overpaid.,1 +"You're falling for Trump's lies, gofast...but you always do. Go read up on all the reasons PR is ""broke"" as you put it, then try to not parrot what Fox News just told you.",1 +There is no constitutional right to employment when you act like a disrespectful jerk.,1 +We used to hang horse thieves.,1 +Go away troll your spam yesterday was not appreciated!,1 +"Your consultation is a sham, since you've obviously already made up your mind. + +As a middle aged business owner that makes in about 100-150K a year annually, taking no vacations, working 70 hours a week, ALREADY paying 53% tax in Ontario, this proposal ensures that I have no incentive to try to grow my business for more 47 cent dollars. + +If this goes through, I will work less, probably live longer, but I will be sure to donate to the Conservative Party of Canada as much a I can afford as the only pathetic measure I can use to protest against your assault on how I've spent the last 20 years of my life, on my retirement, and on my children's future. + +I will never forgive what you are doing it. Meanwhile how does the Liberal government spend this money? Outside of Canada to a large extent, or on non-Canadians. Sickening.",1 +Step one: UN get your ass in there with an army and take out all combatants. Step 2: repatriot all the refugees back from all over the world to help rebuild the place. Step 3: govern country from the UN as punishment for not being able to settle your issues peacfully. Repeat this process whereever there are problems in the world. You want Globalization then this is how to do it.,1 +"What in the hell is a ""womanist""?",1 +"No, I'm bored. I'm bored of all of this. I'm bored of people running off at the mouth like they have a thought in their head, but remaining unable to answer simple questions about the topic. The nonsense spouted off by some of these people is just absurd. It's completely made up and what's even more stupid is that some of you believe anything.",1 +"""Starting a feud with NFL has nothing to do with politic, it is more like a person vendetta..."" +The players have started a feud with all patriotic Americans! +The pandered to cry babies know NOTHING of how the average person lives. They have been babied all through High School, College, and now the extremely high paying professional leagues. They can save their silly ""feelings"" for off the field.",1 +"Dermot Cole, why panic? The state has over $8 Billion in savings, this money is in place to save the day, should Alaska panic or use the savings? + +Many feel the state should use part of the $ 8 Billion in the constitutional Budget Reserve and leave the Permanent Fund alone and stop all these knee jerk reactions to this market manipulation by Saudi Arabia! + +The oil companies gave this money to the state as a rainy day fund, it is raining!! + +The Saudis plan of attack is working, just look at this foolish HB 247!! + +The staged panic will cause bad decisions, that is what they count on! Saudi Arabia wants everyone and Alaska to shut down or slow oil production! + +This is why the young Saudi Prince Salman flooded the oil markets with a glut to gut Alaska and other foolish producers that fall prey to a old trick! + +HB 247 will devastate the state!",1 +"There was a time when vote-buying pork like this would have been too low for congressmen of ANY party to stoop ... + +How low are you willing to stoop to pass this piece of garbage, Graham-Cassidy?",1 +"They were ""nasty women"". Including Joan of Arc. Throw them in the pond. If they sink it is proof they were ""nasty women"" if they floated that was even more proof. ""Nasty women"" been with us for a long long time and I for one am very grateful for that.",1 +Feminism is cancer.,1 +"Idiots? +Look..I'm a deplorable..I'm white..I find this despicable just as I find violent Left Wing protests despicable",1 +"Mr Emanuel no doubt of Mexican dissent is the mayor of the murderous hell hole called Chicago. +his hatred for Trump over rides the safety of Chicago's citizens",1 +"Pontificating nonsense! You'd actually come into the public sphere and quote Naomi Klein? Tell me, what books not from the far left have you read to keep a good perspective on things? Or, like all Lefty's, you only read what you already agree with?",1 +"So if a restaurant owner puts up a sign saying ""No Blacks Allowed"", you're a-ok with that? Because that is the logical end of what you're saying.",1 +One good reason to vote for Trump. Hillary is a narcissistic sociopathic liar and those types of liberals are very dangerous.,1 +"Ladies and gentleman of Canada. While it SEEMS we have a Parliamentary democracy: we have a plutocracy. Justin Trudeau can do whatever he wants. Live with it. THAT IS: until you make your Next stupid decision maybe, choose a guy with sex appeal, wants to make everybody happy, and the whole world will just become a happy place ... +""I represent the Party that will just make Canada a better place ... "" +Does that sound like sound External and Defence policy? Not sure ...",1 +"A significant proportion of Muslims agree with killing homosexuals, Apostates, and women who have sex out of wedlock.",1 +They are terrorists pure and simple.,1 +Canada was a place where people who didn't want to fight the Vietnam war could go seek refuge. Kaepernick is a different category of trash you'd just not want around in a dump.,1 +"Alex Jones is ""alt-right"" ? He is a delusional paranoid.",1 +Why anyone would pay to hear this repulsive woman talk is beyond me.,1 +"Al, your entire lying Trump Russia Collusion hoax is coming to an end after 11 months of dry holes. Finally the corruption of government by the dirty corrupt Obama-Clinton Cartel will be exposed. You guys will be be proven wrong again. When will you guys learn not to get into bed with the Clintons? You should feel used, dirty and cheap. Don’t forget to see a nurse for the proper shots before rejoining the rest of us.",1 +Clearly the French are a nation of misogynists.,1 +"I knew Trump would be awful, but I never imagined he could be this atrocious. America needs a ""real"" President. Trump is a racist, sexist, con artist who preys on the mentally weak. Sad.",1 +"According to the oil lobby, they only account for 10% or less of the gdp. So which one is it? Make up your darn mind",1 +Yours is one of the most idiotic and hateful comments I've ever seen published in the G&M.,1 +""" McCain is one of few Republicans willing to stand up for the American story."" Unfortunate that Brooks couldn't resist partisanship. It is that very partisanship that provides the foundation of our currently dysfunctional political environment. McCain is an American first, a republican second. Whereas Brooks is apparently the opposite, i.e. a democrat first and an American second. It is hard to imagine how the modern liberal came into being. The liberals who view Americans first as members of their racial, ethnic, religious, or gender groups rather than as simply Americans. The modern fake liberal is death to universality and solidarity. Some day they will have all of us fighting between our little perceived groups, white supremacists, white males, feminists, blacks, illegal aliens, gays, and the list goes on. Identity with the little group rather than as Americans.",1 +"What kind of mental illness do you, hoodad, have to cause you to continually STALK ME? I have repeatedly asked you to STOP STALKING ME, but you literally follow me around this site to reply to my every post. + +You are a typical trump supporter - a CREEPY STALKER with serious mental health issues. + +I reiterate: STOP STALKING ME or I will be forced to contact the Alaska State Troopers.",1 +"My mom said, ""if you don't have something good to say, don't say anything at all"". But, then, I wouldn't get to engage in the discussion regarding the Alaska State Senate. The words that come to mind are evil, cowardly, self-serving, stupid, moronic, did I say self-serving? I have never met a group of people who care less about the people that they ""represent"" (Alaskans) and who openly, happily live in the pockets of their benefactors (oil companies and other filthy rich corporations and individuals). The author is exactly right - bright, innovative people will not move to Alaska if the schools are bad and we NEED these kinds of people to build a new, vibrant economy. Ignorant Alaskans say things like, ""if they don't want to live here, we don't need 'em"". You are WRONG! We need all the brainpower we can get to solve our fiscal issues. Clearly the morons in the Senate are not, and have never been, up to the task. They should be ashamed. They are absolutely disgusting.",1 +"Who let the Dogs, errr, Trolls out?",1 +"50 years ago, Canadian Culture was a non-existent. My family was all British. The began coming here in the 50's. British food sucked. British service sucked. British-based Canadian TV entertainment sucked. Fun didn't exist. What has made Canada interesting and worth remaining in comes from the other the cultures that came flooding in. Think I'm wrong? When was the last time you ordered fish and chips? How many songs of bagpipers are on your playlist? I'll trade all that for Tapas or Calamari or Curry or Dim Sum. I'd rather celebrate Oktoberfest than St. George's day - but keep St. Paddy's day - and listen to Reggae.",1 +"Playing stupid is NOT an excuse. We need leaders that LEAD by example. How dare you condemn the actions of someone else when at the same time refusing to be accountable for your own??!! +Saying you will pay now is oops I got caught. Ok, ok, I will ""offer"" to repay it since you caught me. Has anyone ever come forward to repay their per diem BEFORE it came public knowledge in the news??",1 +"Donnie is probably still too stupid/racist/stubborn to do the right thing. + +To recap, that would be: + +1. Retract the BothSiderist narrative unambiguously, wholeheartedly and without any whining about the media or any other diversion. +2. Take the blame for his whipping up racists with his rhetoric, and promise to change his ways. +3. As gesture of good faith and show he means it, fire Sessions, Gorka, Bannon and Miller. + + +Anything less is not enough. The above would be just the start. + + +But who am I kidding? He's a racist child and will never grow up. + + +When will the GOP find their spine, remove the scum in the WH and work to find adults for their party again? + + +I know most Americans would love to have adults running things again. Seems the only ones around are Democrats.",1 +"Wow, another REEEEE DONALD DRUMPF IS LITERALLY HITLER article. I'll vote for the candidate that doesn't support TPP, regime change in Syria, and war with Russia. Thanks.",1 +"Another one! +Civil Comment Moderators - Where are you? Get this garbage off our blog.",1 +"and now, thanx to Ivana, we know her small hands former husband has long had a Hitler / NAZI obsession, which explains a lot. and then there's trump's nasty father and other vile mentors who taught him the trades of evil. gotta give the grifter credit tho, he certainly paid full attention!",1 +"According to the ATF, possession of a firearm while using Class I outlawed narcotics is illegal. There is no ""but masturbation.""",1 +"Your examples are accredited universities that have to meet high standards to maintain their accreditations. The online schools Betty DeVos would allow have no track record and nothing to make them accountable. We would have thousands of little Trump universities scamming students, their parents and the state departments of education out of millions of dollars. Dumb idea.",1 +"They should be charged and deported to their original home. Come in the legal way or go back. As well, there should be a Muslim tax to pay for all the atrocities of Christians that are killed in the name of Islam, the religion of peace.",1 +"I'm sure Mr. Mellerstig has similar sentiments about his child. Thank goodness the child was not injured, mutilated, or killed. Dogs are not equal to children. If you think so, I have no frame of reference to deal with you. You are out of your mind.",1 +"Natives in the Bush like to shoot stuff they aren't supposed to shoot. Like wood bison on the Y-K Delta. Or lots of caribou that they don't recover near Hope. So this is just something more that Natives shouldn't shoot, but will shoot.",1 +"It's all for the Olympics. Nobody asked us but we have already started paying for it: rather than ask people to spend a gazillion dollars to pay for them our savvy bureaucrats just started doing as many of the necessary projects 20 years early. When in doubt, the voting records of Rafael Espinoza and Paul Kashmann are a handy indicator of when we are getting screwed: if they don't like it then it probably sucks.",1 +"If Muslims were to ever acknowledge that the Koran and Islam are at the core of all the terrorism and brutality done by Muslims in the name of Allah, we may find peace.",1 +"Too bad there is little outrage at the actions of these Muslims. Maybe we should put up a statue? +If there were any justice, they would all be buried in a pig sty.",1 +"Hillary wasn't a ""bully"" when she squarely blamed Comey for her loss? + +Europe. Please.",1 +How about you move to Detroit or the Bronx or some other inner city and see what the death toll is there. Baltimore couldn't hold a cease fiire for more than 2 days. Wake up Libertarian and drop your rose colored glasses. You are in make pretend land with your righteous talk. And how many did we kill in Vietnam? Don't give me your libertarian BS talk and make like you know more than everyone else. N Korea should be a parking lot but we keep talking and talking and now look where we are at? We got a scary okole president running us straight into oblivion as Mike Tyson would say. So save your bull crap for the rest of your lala land idiots,1 +"What a bunch of CRAP. + +""professional lobbyists"" Google how much the telcom industry spends on these folks. + +""would violate ISPs' privacy promises"" And, if you can't trust the telcom industry who can you trust. + +This is just more of Dumb Dumb Donald's fighting for the little guy, by enriching the billionaires and millionaires.",1 +"Since the decision isn't to cancel the prayers on school time as it should have been this is meaningless. Where are all the good liberals shouting NO PRAYER in PUBLIC SCHOOLS! Oh, right, these are muslims not Christians. Different rules for people who threaten to hack your head off if you draw a cartoon.",1 +"I'm quite pleased that Hillary lost. I'm just not pleased that the victor is a senescent, prevaricating, fake businessman who is a self-absorbed lying blubber-butt who is a real threat to the Nation that I love.",1 +"Sad, situation the security guard had no right, all had to do is wave them on! Families or anyone needs time to load, the security guard rushing them, knowing their have a child, the pet on top of there luggage's to load/cut some slack! Gosh I keep telling myself 'WHY IS THE SECURITY GUARD HOLDING A FIREARM"" yet the airport officials and the security company decline to answer questions, or admit it's the SECURITY GUARD at fault! We hold the Airport Officials, Department of Transportation and the Security Company liable and at fault. + +The Security Co. don't even know how much training this -ss hole had, black eye to the Airport! again Who's next ""my service dog, what about our children"", how dumb open fire with families standing around, I hate guns/and guns should never be drawn and shot, there not criminals, just a simple family going home from the travel. Wow..Arrest the guard and charge him for reckless endangerment, cruelty to animal, endangering family and terrorist threatening",1 +"Maybe he is a jerk. Just because you have an encounter with a jerk, doesn't mean you can select every category you fall into as a motivation for their jerky behaviour. +Racism, ageism, and sexism are MASSIVE problems. Employing them as tools, in a political pantomime, is disgusting.",1 +"Inside the Beltway and Big Media smell blood and want to go in for the kill....................this stuff sells and puts eyeballs and money in their pockets....... + +You gotta be above reproach otherwise they'll hang you high or throw you under the bus......just sayin' + +#MAGA haha",1 +"how is yours not an absurd comment when the only abuse perpetuated was by the arrogant, angry, and newly emboldened con who's now facing charges for it? this reporter was properly conducting himself while working for us, the exponentially marginalized citizenry, and abusing him or other reporters should be a felony, and in this instance, equal to a hate crime. how dare you castigate this or any peaceable, professional, and necessary member of the press, especially regarding this insanity!",1 +"aa miller again!,, cant refute or make an argument on his points so as usual you lunatic lefties can only insult! proving as usual how empty and pathetic the left is",1 +You're right. White people never experience dark clouds.,1 +"My comment got removed for what? Pointing out that our legal system let out a man that beheaded another man being a sign of our system's liberal insanity? Well it's true: WEAR IT. The man is guilty and should either be dead or in jail. Anything else is absolute quackery that is going to cost more Canadians their lives. + +This is just stupid... this site, it's moderation system, it's lame ""ideology"", everything. Your commenters see through you, fake news.",1 +"How entertaining to listen to the incessant ""Never Trump"" MSM's grievance about ""Fake News"". + +The new MSM narrative have now shifted from the deplorable Sexist, Homophobic, Xenophobic, Islamophobic ... to ""Fake News"".",1 +"con. We will likely never agree on this one. + + I do find it a bit amusing that you manage to criticize Ms Clinton because she did well in the debate. She was well informed, articulate, poised and very statespersonlike. Yet, you twist that to be detrimental. Had she, like Trump, been unprepared, nervous, rude, and ill-at-ease for the entire debate, you would have criticized that. She did very well, so, instead, you are saying, in essence, ""Clinton did badly because she did so well. She had no business being so well prepared. She had no business being so poised."" + +You have really made it clear ""she's damned if she does (do well) and damned if she doesn't. + +BTW: I rather tire of being dismissed as just ""another Democratic Party sheep""; following the Party line. Such comments trivialize my views and are, to me, insulting. All my life I've developed and presented MY views and MY opinions....smart...dumb...good....bad? Whatever, but, I've always reached them for myself ..regards, G",1 +Steve was an idiot. Justin is an idiot. Next!,1 +I'll bet this one is a weirdo rather than about drugs. Same as the double murder on the bike trail at Ship Creek. Could be the same guy. Rocket Park is weirdo headquarters at night.,1 +yea...secretary of state causing huge security risks is kinda boring. if you are stupid.,1 +"If I believed in devils, and souls (and the selling of them), I'd trust Mr. Lucifer before I'd trust minority-elect ""President"" Trump.",1 +"The question remains what Trump's ties to Russia really are and how much he is in the pocket of Putin. +The suspicion will always be there unless he finally releases his tax returns to prove he has no business ties to Russia. +Unfortunately, his base is too stupid or too cowardly to demand truth in the era of alternative facts.",1 +Your ignorance is shocking.,1 +"Can a liberal admit white supremacists have the right believe what they do and to assemble? Or is it only allowed for causes they agree with? That's the question here. + +If you say no, you are stifling freedom and a hypocrite. If you say yes, you are smart enough to know that allowing them to protest/march is NOT equivalent to condoning their actions. I know this is a hard concept to grasp.",1 +"Erdogan is one of the world's thugs. In the company of Putin, Trump, and Orban.",1 +"Yup, you think spending the rest of your life in jail made him kill himself. Don't need a concussion to blame for that. What a coward.",1 +"“The president is being very careful to understand ""....what? he is inept, has no attention span and is a narcissistic buffoon.",1 +"""This just shows that there are way more stupid people in this country then we ever thought possible."" +That's nothing new. Bush was re-elected in 2004.",1 +Nothing wrong with a mandatory minimum here. She was a willing drug mule. End of story,1 +The pantsuit parasite is playing pin the tail on the Rino.,1 +"""To his credit, Wildrose Leader Brian Jean denounced the bigoted slurs and the people behind them."" + +Well, not really. + +Mr. Jean for all intents and purposes spent the week hiding from the press/media, leaving through back-doors ad cancelling minor appearances. Anyway, the far right lunatic fringe within the Wildrose Party will not be satisfied until the Conservative ""movement"" in Alberta crashes completely at which point these specimens hope to pick up the pieces and make Alberta into a far-right living hell the United States has become. + +One would hope Ms. Notley and the NDP will benefit from the lunatic fringe self-inflicted crash and burn policy. One would hope........... + +.",1 +You have a serious mental problem if you find this funny burde.... whatever.,1 +"Gardner is ""on the fence?"" What a joke! + +The only thing on his mind is whether $800 billion in tax cuts for the rich is enough, or whether he should push for $1 trillion and hold his hand out for the money that he figures will get him re-elected. + +The only one worse is Bennett, who voted against lowering drug prices for his bag of loot from the pharmaceutical industry. + +This is oligarchy, folks, and we voted for it in the US Senate. Let's kick both of these jerks to the curb!",1 +"Please tell, what is a 'real Canadian'? As for the rest of your diatribe, he only true reflection is that Obama is the first black President. I take it that anyone who disagrees with your interpretation of said article are ' the dregs, the finger pointers, the malcontent and above all the pitiful, malignant, murderous racists"", your comment, not mine.",1 +"Gary, were the 911 terrorists refugees? No. Were the Boston Bombers refugees?, No. + ""Trump manipulated his way into office"",,,,, How exactly did he, a ""mentally unbalanced fascist leaning liar"" according to you, manage that ? If the process for electing the POTUS is so horribly flawed perhaps our immigration policies are also flawed and need reviewing.",1 +"Removing metal detectors means lives of both Muslim Arab worshipers and security personal will be endangered by Islamic terrorists. + +What is there to celebrate for those who are not Islamic terrorists?",1 +She's as much a serial killer as you are truthful.,1 +"This argument that the use of chemical weapons crosses some red line and demand a response - like ineffective bombing of assets, leaving airstrip intact - is beyond ridiculous. The inane, depraved, unconscionable, assumption is that it is better to kill babies with barrel bombs? Is this REALLY an argument we are making or want to make? At the root of it all is the KILLING OF INNOCENTS. SMDH.",1 +"Russia is a ""thug"" of a nation that has been run by totalitarians for a long time. From the Czar and his ministers through to Stalin and the Communists. Now it is the ""mobster"" Putin running the show. I am certain that it is far more likely that Russia ""fixes"" its own elections rather than having to deal with ""outsiders"" trying to cause problems. They've been doing it as a ""democracy"" for some time now. Little Putin is a thug. A Russian thug. And while I am sure there are millions of fine, decent honorable Russians, there are far more who aren't that way. From the wealthiest to the poorest in Russia , it is money that talks. Widespread corruption from the Baltic to the Pacific. Huge country. Nasty bunch.",1 +"What the heck is wrong with that guy? For sure, his screws are loose.",1 +Because he has the testicles to do it. only with the approval of the Legislature which has the constitutional power to override his veto.,1 +"The US stopped entering into treaties the year Canada started. Says a lot about learning from history. To me the US Indians have made much more of their lives than Canadian Indians and in Canada, the failed traditions of the past continue, with the clown Trudeau welcoming the self confessed murderer Khadr to our flock with a gift of $10 million",1 +"You didn't miss anything. The elite of Alaska Republican politics simply gathered together to prove that it's possible for elected Republican officials to also be completely clueless, aloof, and stupid when it comes to Donald Frump. Even more, the conservatives who claim to be hawkish on defense and security are showing that heir total cowards and are afraid to call out the slick ass huckster from NY for what he is, an ignorant buffoon, bully, and moron. Hope I summed it up for you.",1 +The Democrats are shambling around like zombies.,1 +Thank you APD. Please get the rest. All have a great deal to think about in jail. They could have killed that employee or a customer with their craziness. Yes criminally crazy that does not belong among society. Can't fix stupid.,1 +"Paul Seaton, you'd do better in Juneau if you took that hat off your head, put it into your mouth, and chewed on it every day. You're an example of why Alaska is in the tough shape that it is in. That you are in office tells everyone just how stupid the people in Homer are.",1 +"What a stupid ruling. Zero emissions target ? Come on get real. Look at all the cars on the road ! B.C. is totally car dependent due to suburban sprawl including Vancouver. How about dealing with this issue first and foremost and increase public transportation systems to get people out of their cars. +I want gas heating, a gas stove and gas fireplaces in my home and I should be able to find it in a new build. It is definitely a preferable heat source to use , cook with and is more affordable than electricity. +Give us a break !",1 +This guy is a moron. Belongs in a padded room,1 +This is how the governement treats Canadians and how they treat degenerate queue jumpers who are here to scam the system. Welcome scammers.,1 +"The bishops long ago hitched their wagon to the RNC to keep the attention of the one-percent and their largesse. If the past election taught us anything it is that many 'Christians' are hypocrites. One can add the USCCB to that cabal. Abortion rates drop under Democrats and rise under Republicans. Why? Because the latter create a toxic social environment. We are seeing more evidence of that with the increase in IUDs provided through Planned Parenthood since Trump's election . The bishops, like their evangelical brethren, ignore the evidence but 'facts' are hard to dispute. As long as we have bishops who 'smell like the 1%' rather than 'smell like the sheep' we will see decreasing influence of the bishops on mainstream Catholics social attitudes and teachings will be completely ignored. We all have 'Religious Freedom"" and many of us may express it by ignoring the bishops.",1 +"Go fuck your dog up his ass, you stupid cat.",1 +Trump truly believes that he was wiretapped because he is paranoid and delusional.,1 +"""As any substantial award would have done, the Khadr settlement establishes an incentive for others to take serious risks (i.e. joining terrorist organizations abroad)..."" + +Several commentators, including myself, have raised the obvious solution which would eliminate incentives, liabilities, etc.: When Canadians choose to leave the country to kill our troops and our allies, then by default they should lose their citizenship, period. You can't fight against the flag and then hide behind its protections. We're idiots for even having allowed it. + +So far, I have not seen one cogent counter-argument to this suggestion. I see a lot of blaming of previous governments and lectures about the constitutional rights of our citizens. But these arguments would be moot had the Kadrs lost their citizenship when they left the country to pursue jihad against us. + +If we could learn from this whole experience and make this one change, I'd say it might have been worth the $10.5 million.",1 +Eugene is a sanctuary city for convicted sexual predators as well as criminal aliens and every other variety of human garbage that drifts thru town with their pitbulls,1 +Emily Jashinsky is a moron,1 +"I see. The Hawaiian activists are like radical jihadists and shades of radical murderers, or otherwise ""crazies"" for racial supremacy and religious zeal. That the majority of citizens in Hawaii are reasonable and don't so act unreasonably to stir things up. Boston Tea Party with Paul Revere anyone?",1 +"that will teach her, and all other women, the 'mens gods' wants you all back in the kitchen.",1 +"You're a troll faking someone else's account. +Get out.",1 +Any word from tRump about white extremist terrorists in this country? No. Because they are inspired by him.,1 +Maybe you should move to San Fran and go live in a box with the other human trash. Alaska has lots of hard working people (including natives) which don't want to support these lazy people.,1 +"It's ridiculous to see anyone try to rationalize Trump's moronically immature attacks. It doesn't matter how partisan, stupidly liberal, and shallow Morning Joe is, or that these two hosts are typical coastal libs, it's beneath the office of President to get into these little spats, period. When people try to justify Trump's stupidity they sound like parents of a misbehaved teen, trying to cover up the objectively bad behavior in a stage of denial. The reason it sounds that way is because Trump is basically a bratty adolescent in need of a good kick in the pants. So stop trying to rationalize or President's behavior!",1 +"Wow the war room hacks are really reaching today. I mean really blaming this on Harris and Harper? + +It's simple, stupid... Create scope of work, solicit bids, hire competent contractor, finalize the contract, monitor the work that is being done, ensure the work has been done as per the contract upon completion, pay the contractor. Ontario Liberals version, simple and stupid: Hire friends, overpay friends for sub-standard work, next.....",1 +"The King and Queen of Coal Mines, a slap in the face to the GEA, Butts, Telford LOL.",1 +I am bitter - I am working so they get a free ride. Seriously.? Immature and weak he is - let's toss him out of office in 2019. Arrogant he is.,1 +"When it's a white christian we call them crazy and a-political, when they're not we call them ""terrorists"" or ""religious fanatics"". + +The motive here was pretty clear, and also driven by an anti muslim ideology.",1 +And this from the father of the progressive sexual revolution! lol,1 +"I can scarcely recall what I imagined the internet would bring when it bloomed a generation ago. But my speculation about an interconnected future did not include reading the real-time rage-tweets of a malevolent clown while he pinches off a loaf in the White House throne room, having been placed there by traitors, racists, misogynists and assorted goddamned nitwits. +Nope. I did not see that coming.",1 +What demonrats have called out the criminal Clintons?,1 +The turnips are reading from the party manual again . Trump ( Sweden terror attack ) needs to be deposed swiftly He is buying drugs from Eugene's local drug dealers or he is mentally insane or both,1 +"No surprise that the Newsmax morons are busy hunting and pecking away here. Yeah, sure, it's a hoax because that's what scientists spend their time doing. Sort of like Trump University. + +Peer reviewed study? Hoax in the Newsmax alternate universe. + +Enjoy your delusions, simpleton.",1 +"This article is poorly written, poorly researched, offensive, and completely out of touch with any kind of reality. As a millenial graduate student and state government employee, you're saying I can get what I need in housing, which is apparently turned down for 3 auto loans and living with 4 other people in a poorly maintained house in a poor black neighborhood, displacing folks who have lived here for generations and are less well off than I, commuting by bike and bus because I can't afford a car? Really? + +Interesting how the comments on this article have to be civil, but the article doesn't. Thanks for being insulting and for your classist, ageist, wealthy old white guy perspective. Must have been nice being able to afford a house before you hit 30.",1 +"Granted the Repubs are likely going to simply grease the slippery slope the country is on, but a President who only made matters worse in the middle east, escalated the booming debt, and enacted a health care bill that's a pile of junk is hardly a great president. He pandered to his voters and the big money, and not the best interests of the entire nation. The only real difference is he was sharp to sweet talk the public instead of being the loud mouthed idiot who's in office now.",1 +"KeyStone XL was a no-brainer, but it was lost on the ""environmental"" President who was in office while 10 new pipelines were built in the U.S. +Obama is a feckless, hypocritical pinhead.",1 +"So now I am a Troll...WOW. I expected more from you, you disappoint me.",1 +"Progressives also believe that the 17 agencies talking point was done for impact sounds a lot better than 3/4 ! More impact makes it seem more real ! And please note the three agencies being reported they all didn't say ""highly confident. "" as reported by politifact & the rest of msm the most important agency to investigate cyber security NSA said the were ""moderately confident "" . The odd thing about this whole thing is in showing any confidence in a report given to them by a private security firm hired by dnc to investigate the server . The report they handed in was full of holes and our intel took it w/o question and w/o being able to check out the server themselves, ! I call bull💩!",1 +"Do you Roy....? Maybe spending time in jail should make you smarter, a lot of time to read. What a hypocrite you are, who is comparing Hitler with Columbine? Only one is you.....so what you are saying is Republicans are the only corrupt ones and the Democrats are not? Is that your truthism there?",1 +Heck yeah. And don't get me started on all that disabled parking. It just bugs me that sum people get special things I don't get. Special this and special that. Rub sum dirt on it and get back in the game. Sheesh.,1 +"I hope Trump speeds these deportations along. I want these people's illegal fingers off of the fruit and vegetables that I eat, I want their illegal feet off of the manicured lawns that I drive by, I don't want to sleep in a hotel bed that has had sheets changed by one of these despicable criminals. +I hope the Trump is successful in rounding up every brown-skinned laborer - I mean criminal - from Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador - every country south of the border - and I hope it's at a record breaking speed. +Those illegals can rot in detention centers while America's harvest rots in the field. +Make America Great Again!!",1 +"I'll even go so far as to say she should be forced to issue a public apology, in her own words, to Trump. She should have an inconvenient discussion with the Secret Service, and probably face fines and even jail time for such a threat. And if she's let go by her employer for this stunt, I won't shed any tears for her. + +It's one thing to say Trump is a horrible person and eviscerating him on late-night TV for his horrible actions. That's protected free speech. Calling him a human cheeto is fair game, especially given what Team Red did to Obama over his 8 years. But when you cross the line into threatening someone with death (suck my machine gun, severed head), you should expect a painful reminder that all rights have limits...",1 +"What the goofball leftwing journalists/editors who wrote this article don't understand is that it's not so much whether Trump's products are manufactured here in the U.S. as it is that Trump and a Republican Congress are willing to create an environment with less taxes and regulations that make the United States a country that is more attractive for businesses to set up their base, grow and thrive. + +The article is a great example of the idiocy of leftwing journalism.",1 +Sarah is the poster girl for everything dysfunctional and hypocritical about the far right!,1 +Surprised someone hasn't kicked in his teeth and dumped him in a hole. The NHLs most famous troll.,1 +"Slaves, heavy lifting for a small portion of the country. Since Black races invented Slavery, we know that slavery was much worse in Africa. Wage slavery is rampant in the world today and negates any guilt you propagandize for Americans. I think you may be a slave to leftist rhetoric though.",1 +"What a stupid confusing non comparable article written here. If you are going to compare BP's Alaska's operation in 2015 to 2014 and not adjust both years for the sale to Hilcorp of significant assets including personnel, oil production, and vendor contracts, you are simply comparing apples to oranges; garbage in garbage out. Man, do a better job!!",1 +"Dude, I think you are the most misogynistic poster on the site. I note you condoned the killing unleashed by the Trump. Yup, you are no compassionate humanitarian. Like most libbers, you are a closet killer.",1 +Pathetic idiot. Yup should have spent more time behind bars. And larger fine. You need to make a statement about what the penalty is for vandalizing. There goes the idea of making Waikiki great again. As I've said our judicial system sucks.,1 +"People have a culture, they don't own the culture. Others have the right to adopt, practice, or write about any aspect of the culture if they so wish. To stifle any creativity because it is not rooted in one's own culture is ridiculous. Grow up !!",1 +"What a weak, lazy PM, all show and no substance. Pretty boy empty headed governing by the tax and take your money Lieberals.",1 +"Your headlights went straight up cause that is called ICEFOG.. you should see when ice fog moves into ANC and all streetlights go straight up. Uhh, do some of you live out of state? Or idiots or something, I'm confused suddenly with your lack of environmental knowledge.",1 +I hope that lynching won't become popular entertainment again. That was family entertainment for white folks in the good old days. Trump's Supreme Court could bring back race based slavery. We know the GOP base hates black people being considered equals. It is not like we don't have precedents for such policy decisions.,1 +"The players are exhibiting their vitriolic hatred of the actions of the badly warped, excrement-spewing mental case in the White House.",1 +"It's ""there"". You musta be one stupid haole.",1 +"Stupid people and their expensive toys. As am Apple stockholder I say, ""thank you, suckers!!!""",1 +a few of them actually call the dispatch and demand comments be removed and accounts banned. how's that for open minded discussions on the issues. ?? not that these people are mental cases or anything. in real life they have nothing so they try be somebody on a keyboard. pathetic at best.,1 +I do not think any Canadian would mind a MOAB dropped on these traitors' heads.,1 +"'I didn't see any females at any of our the Pride parades wearing a hijab, niqab or burqa.' + +And none of the drag queen queens either, presumably. Clearly, the gay community hasn't adopted a diversity approach.",1 +"Kiszla, +You are fishing from the bottom of the barrel to print that non story. That was the dumbest ""sports narrative"" of the year. Perhaps you should win the ""Goodell Liar"" award for most contrived, meaningless, blown out of proportion, story about Tom Brady.",1 +I thought post of the day was the earlier one that called you an ass.,1 +"So true about butchering. Fact is that virtually all politicians are butchers not by trade, but instead, by default. We vote for surgeons but get butchers instead. They're commonly substantively ignorant, incorrigible, and narcissistic. Even smart people after being elected inevitably become dumb. I wonder whether politics isn't a disease? The medical industry after great effort successfully got diabetes approved as a disease, so why not then politics? Can you imagine the revenues the medical industry could reap?",1 +"Hell No, tRump Must Go! +Hell No, tRump Must Go! +Hell No, tRump Must Go! +Hell No, tRump Must Go! +Hell No, tRump Must Go!",1 +"Still waiting on you gun fetishes to explain to me how we are going to stop rape and murder. +I mean rape and murder still happen, yet we have laws against them. + +We can continue to have this conversation, or you can stop using stupid logical fallacies. + +P.S. Paranoia of a tyrannical government, is a mental illness.",1 +My post about the slow news day gets rejected but we get a penis joke approved.. Censorship at it's best!,1 +"Trump asserting that diplomacy will not prevent North Korea from becoming a nuclear power and suggesting that war with North Korea is the only solution. + +This buffoon wants a war to distract attention from his own failures. + +He does indeed need to be removed. + +Yes, Trump is the most dangerous threat to our own nation today. + + +Fun fact: + +Queen Elizabeth II spent more time serving in the armed forces than the entire Trump family and their in-laws combined.",1 +Well that explains why everyone up here is retarded. Unqualified parents trying to teaches their little retarded babies 😂😂😂,1 +"Keep your nose out of the MRI business as if Saskatchewan has not had a two tier system over the years with workmen compensation, or sports teams being the first in line. Now that there are private clinics +shortening the waiting list I would suggest it benefits everybody. Previously people went out of the province being too ill to wait a year to get diagnosed. It is our right to get looked after in the fastest way possible. I am sure our Health Minister and her family would find it unacceptable to wait months for an MRI.",1 +"Piece of scum, who does he think he is daring to touch her royal highness. Did he not know the rules for commoners touching royalty? Scum should be sacked.",1 +"We've waited for years for you clowns to come up with something, anything...but nothing has been found.",1 +"""What was the political motivation for this ""terrorist"" attack?"" + +To create fear, just like all the others. +Now, repeat after me, ""All-American, home grown, white boy terrorist.""",1 +If he doesn't win it will be blamed on the racist white....I mean racist right.,1 +"Frank, + +You are a bully. I did not burn my bra and I breast fed my children. Keep your serpent tongue in your mouth.",1 +"Agreed. This is just an attempt for attention. +While hunting as a young man in northern BC it was not uncommon to hear wolves or even come across a black bear. As long as you did not come face to face where they felt threatened they would hi-tale it outta there. Even came across a few grizzlies and that was a little nerve racking but same thing, they wanted nothing to do with me. +with the manualy smeared mud on her face, this is nothing but ... hooey.",1 +Some parents are just losers that raise losers and society hopes that they don't run into them at the wrong time.,1 +stoopid liar. no one has lied about the bloodthirsty butchers of Planned Parenthood selling baby parts for profit. they (and you) are scum.,1 +"Nothing in the article about loss of gun ownership. Must need them for ""defense"" against all of the horrid birds and animals threatening his life. State should completely disarm this cretin as too irresponsible to have access to any weapons of mass destruction.",1 +"Sigh. Human Rights Tribunals don't 'convict.' + +If you don't like a decision of a Tribunal, you can apply for judicial review. + +If you refuse to pay the money they order you pay the complainant, you might have your wages garnisheed or your office furniture sold. + +If you refuse a direct non-monetary order of any civil court or tribunal - after exhausting all avenues of judicial review and appeal - yes you might be found guilty of contempt, and, who knows, it might lead to jail. It's called the rule of law and it applies to any of the thousands of different types of tribunals and civil courts in Canada. + +If there is a trial for contempt, it will be in a court, and will use the criminal standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. + +I happens rarely in Canada. The only one I know is a Terry Tremaine, who had been posting the most disgusting hate against ""persons of the Jewish faith, blacks and other non-white minorities"" and continued posting it.",1 +I have this debate all the time about whether he's a PR genius or just a complete moron. It's always settled on there's no way he's smart enough to create this kind of diversion.,1 +"Trump is an incompetent fool who only cares about getting elected again in 4 years. And this EO is stupid and incompetent. + +BUT + + +Google thinks its the big wheel in the economy when its really not. As Biden pointed out, GM trimmed multiple times the whole of Google's workforce in 2008. Google has great market capital and the zeitgeist but its not the driver of the US economy.",1 +"Has nothing to do with ""liberals""; it has to do with 'free enterprise' making a decision it doesn't want to redirect to nazi-sympathizing sites. + +PS...Ezra's web site is alive and well and he's making sh*t up for sympathy. +www.therebel.media/ + +Go find something else to be a crybaby about, snowflake.",1 +"1) So race relations have not budged since the mid-80's? Maybe update your ""teaching"": materials, more than 30 years have gone by and a lot of change has taken place. This invisible backpack thing is badly out dated. + +2) If a teacher can shut up a white male with an insinuation straight out of Kafka's The Trial, then...what power/privilege exactly does this white male have? What systemic/institutional power is the white male using here? He is silenced, and powerless to even state an opinion. Where is all this power he has? Power is contextual, no one has all power all the time. + +3) The black population of Canada is less than 3%. White population is 80%. Maybe, just maybe, white people have so much representation because they are the overwhelming majority. This is just a fact. There's no malice, no grand conspiracy....unless you are so racist as to think that white people are having and raising children simply to spite and hurt minorities.",1 +Schill kisses every butt but he will do whatever the feds want - a fake.,1 +"""President Trump’s statements on Twitter in recent days lead to a chilling conclusion: The man is out of control."" + +Why, he can actually say things and the media gets no advance warning! + +He just Tweets what he wants and when he wants and there is no way for an 'expert' media person can be there to 'explain' or refute or 'clarify' what it really means! + +There is no time for staff to research a topic so I don't look like an ignorant idiot! + +His words can't be 'adjusted' or taken out of context! + +And he says bad things about important media people who have been around forever and are supposed to be genuflected towards! + +And he does it a three o'clock in the morning! + + By the time a news person is out of bed and properly dressed and coiffed and has his makeup on, millions of people already have made up their own minds instead of waiting for the media!",1 +"Kick those illegals to the curb +Mr. Trump, make sure they +go South, as with the useless +PMS Canadian leader, don't +let the snowflake force these +useless things on us.",1 +"Graykeeper, For some reason I feel you have lived here for a long time. Don't know, just a hunch. Remember back when the abbreviation for Alaska, when addressing mail, was ""R.A.""? It stood for ""Russian America"". You can still find it on old envelopes. +Moving on: I don't know much about politics and their inner workings (my parents and grandparents taught me that ALL politicians are crooks who must be avoided and that everything they promise if elected is a complete lie since it seldom comes to fruition) but I am getting the impression a party divided is not a good thing. Not only does it strike me as silly and disorganized to elect someone and then try to force them to quit, but I am reminded of ""united we stand, divided we fall."" I think they should let the voters decide who they want to elect and then stand by it. Other wise what's the point of the whole operation??? +Just my humble opinion.",1 +"true but it was a solid effort, Ferris State didn't do themselves alot of favors with all the stupid penalties",1 +"Charles Blow, by the very nature of your profession, you have neither morals nor ethics. I wonder if you would be saying the same if the other liar, thief, and self serving egotistical maniac had won.",1 +"You continue to flaunt your stupidity, Jim. Why do you think it's okay to leave people out in the rain and cold? You reap what you sow.",1 +"Anyone else notice how his staff and supporters look like corpses? Initially i thought they looked reptilian, but the smell of death seems to follow in their wake.",1 +Natural law must include rational inquiry and science or else it is mental masturbation.,1 +"Canadian Conservervatives always run to their Motherland(USA) to cry about spilt milk and suck the teat that feeds it. ""Oh if we could only have a leader like Donald Trump or Ronald Reagan!"" Talk about traitors and collusion. Do the Conservatives really want to make Canada a satellite state of America? Talking on Fox news and other Alt Right sites in the US just diminishes the Canadian Conservative Brand. Cry Babies.",1 +"But, is she gonna strip?",1 +"You think Obama and Trump are in any way comparable? + + +Trump is a game show host who inherited his money. As much as your side tries to demonize ""community organizer"", it will never be a bad thing to most Americans, who happen to like their communities. + + +Obama is intellectually curious, did his job with grace and gravitas and without drama. + + +The clown show in there now? Not so much. The inmates are running the asylum and it shows.",1 +"I think it's nothing but an Ego Bill that is dangerous and unnecessary. Kill the bill. In fact, shoot it.",1 +"What's that old saying..."" Be careful what wish for - or bitch about constantly - because it could just happen.""",1 +"John Havelock's selective liberalism is rather laughable and somewhat funny considering that he is listed as an ""university scholar"" at the bottom. He gave American football ""few more years"" but simple fact is, violence in sports, sells and Havelock's view of non violence in sport is only left of the Lord of the Rings. People boxed out their own choice. People played football out of choice. Everyone got a choice. There are many sports and activities that are literally life or death. Now Mr. Havelock want take that away due to chance of long term injuries?? Bit silly. If Mr. Havelock want to put safety bumpers all around, let him do so at his home. By the way, Mr. Havelock, driving a vehicle injured and killed more people each day then boxing and football combined for an entire year. Banning driving will save so much lives......but yet you are too hypocritical to advocate that, eh?",1 +Samantha Bee? Really? She is a brain dead left wing moron and not at all funny.,1 +"""The dumb-and-proud mentality is way stronger ... on the right"" +Wow you don't seem to follow current events very much. +All the violence is coming from the left. All the attempts to frustrate free speech are coming from the left. All the hysteria is coming from the left. Google will tell you as much and youtube will show it to you. Try searching ""Berkeley antifa"", ""April Free Speech"", ""Berkeley Free Speech"", and ""Berkeley Riot"". +Refute with facts if you can but I won't be holding my breath.",1 +"This Russia bullsh*t is just that, bullsh*t!",1 +"I remember a similar event back in 1973 (The Saturday Night Massacre) where a President fired a special prosecutor and the AG and Deputy AG resigned their jobs. I guess the new +AG Dana Boente doesn't have the cojones to stand up to to Trump. It's a sad state of affairs.",1 +Bear dies due to the stupidity of others.,1 +Stupidity has no shame so he won't be erasing anything.,1 +"Trump's latest comment demonstrates his complete lack of understanding and complexity of the US Government machine. Do you know how demoralizing it would be to be a staffer at the CIA, and read a politician's comment that essentially is ""I know better than the CIA, the Russians didn't help me"". He did forget to say the words but thought them ""Mommy I did it all on my own."" ""No Donny you didn't"". ""Yes Mommy, I really really did"". Then Melania tells him to go to his room. LOL. +I was surprised that Canadian's are commenting on this news story as if they are part of the minority ignorant American public that voted for Trump. It is such an uneducated mass of humanity there. I recently was talking with a retired teacher from Michigan who didn't know the population of the States, wasn't aware that Trump had lost the popular vote but wasn't concerned because he got elected anyway, as if it didn;t matter how he got there. +Be very afraid Canadians about travel to the States .",1 +"Excellent Job Mr. Trump. You are making obamma, hillary and her followers look so foolish.",1 +"It is time. America. + +It is time for racist America to accept responsibility and be held accountable for creating a despicable racist monster as Donald Trump. The key to Trump’s rise to power is America’s pride of its slave days and the wanton killing of Native Americans of the American West. + +What we see and experience today is part of that legacy. + +There is no other explanation. That legacy is here in Anchorage with the wanton killings of Native people on our streets, run down like animals and left to die. It is in our cities by rogue hate cops killing black and brown people at will. + +Donald Trump, with all of his hate and bigotry, from his “hate Obama is not an American birther” days to his kick all 11-million Hispanics out, is your creation. I can only conclude that might include some of my Hispanic family. + +And the white media? They all smile and laugh about Trump like high-school kids watching a school-yard bully.",1 +"""They must think that the people of Hawaii are stupid"". + +So give the Devil his due: they are dead right in that assessment - - as we the sheeple have demonstrated to them over and over again.",1 +Don't bring your dumb alt-right vocab into this country. Thanks.,1 +The right made degenerate comments about Obama when he did the right thing. It goes with politics these days. Republicans expecting Democrats to defer to Trump is hypocritical in light of the completely degenerate treatment they gave to their previous president.,1 +"Trump's voters all understood not to take him literally but figuratively. Silly progressives and Progressive Conservatives, the right in Canada and the USA is so much smarter than you. Trump's supporter's votes and support was all just a meta commentary on Hilary Clinton and Bill Clinton's penis!",1 +"The numbers and the link I cited were from Oak Ridge National Laboratories, a branch of the U.S. Department of Energy and its largest lab focusing on energy research. + +Like many self-styled 'skeptics', you display your own ignorance at every opportunity.",1 +"It's President Trump. Your lack of respect tells us much about you, rooster breath.",1 +"So happy you feel ""solace"" as you mutilate or kill your prey, and then release it.",1 +Yet he refuses to have a town hall and meet with his constituents. He refuses to open the door to his Issaquah office during business hours. He wants to take away people's health insurance. He also refuses to listen to his district and ignores their views to further endear himself to Republican Leadership and Donald Trump. It's time to throw the bum out.,1 +"Canadians are highly uneducated (stupid) customers - they just buy everything based on ""value"" and not quality based on understanding of products. They don't demand quality from their suppliers and only care about low price. They buy junk including homes that are poor quality so they last for very short time and they need to be replaced and.or repaired all the time. They waste fuel, energy, food etc - and don't care about conservation and recycling. We are #1 country of losers and abusers. Low quality costs more so we need more credit cards to buy more junk and waste.",1 +"jellison is a real predatory POS. having to register a sex offender is not a surprise. robbing a blind man, specifically by USING HIS BLINDNESS AGAINST HIM. have i mentioned the term POS? hope bubba has a soft spot for the blind and welcomes jellison with open arms...",1 +"Oh let me guess, black people right?",1 +I'm here reading the usual garbage posts from the usual right wing suspects.,1 +"I don’t understand any of this drivel. This is a bunch of what if’s instead of articulatable facts, do you even have a point? I understand that you post nonsense but this is beyond comprehension",1 +"take terrorism lightly, and it will eventually bite you in the arse!",1 +"Don't try to justify Trump's abuse of power, try to switch the topic to Hillary. +Truly pathetic...",1 +"Not ""might"" but ""do"" vote Conservative. The Liberals, as one can see are destroying Canada, gorging themselves at the taxpayer trough and treating the Canadian taxpayers as chumps.",1 +"This legislative flurry in the Anchorage Assembly and State legislature will result in a lawsuit being brought against the Muni by taxi emblem permit holders and the will win, resulting in tax burden to the property owners so Uber ca make a profit. Stupid in spades.",1 +I guess the issue is people not willing to put up with the stupid charade of pretending they are willing to live as brother and sister.,1 +Obama is a disaster and a disgrace. I don't care that he's glib.,1 +That’s the great thing about Trump having tiny hands. It’s easier to pull nonsense right out of his back end.,1 +"Just stunning. A couple of years ago, this would have been a joke. Now it's the new American reality. While negotiating a trade agreement with its ""partner"" to the south, they plan to erect a ridiculous wall to make sure to keep them out. In a related story, scientists are searching for a cure for stupidity; so far, no luck.",1 +"Kevin Harun & Don Neal- Agreed. +Bill Tolbert - another exercise in obfuscation and illogical thinking to justify the horror that is the Republican Terrorist Traitor Party dictatorship led by the ultimate terrorist - Trump.",1 +"The guy is making a fool of himself every single day so, quite frankly, it's not inappropriate for anyone to call him out on it. Once he starts acting like a decent human being making funny comments will surely stop. Although, I'm afraid there's no hope he will see that light. At 70 years and having been a bully all his life, too late now.",1 +"This is further proof that booze is at the root of all that is evil. + +This man simply drinks booze, and he is then transformed into a homicidal maniac. + +It was a huge mistake for our nation to end prohibition.",1 +"Go away, Troll. Ugh.",1 +"So what are they going to do, hang Obama by Michelle's balls?",1 +This is getting ridiculous.,1 +Yep its all about control with liberals. Freaks like killary and pocohantas live for it and the morons voting for them.,1 +"Kathleen, I guess you haven't been paying attention to this issue. Let me sum it up for you. The legislatures own legal council said the governor was in his rights to expand Medicaid, but the Republicans filed a suit anyway. Then a lower courts said the same thing. Now the Republicans are appealing it to the Alaska Supreme Court. You do know Albert Einstein's definition of insanity, don't you? But I guess it's easier to be insane when your not wasting your own money to prove your insane.",1 +What a dumb park that is with the line on the fence. The other dumb thing is baseball using the idiotic replay technology. Granderson quit on the play when he saw the ball hit the wall above the line. He knew any replay would call it a HR so he stops running? That's the kind of ridiculous play replay has given us among other silly plays like the super slow-mo camera catching a guy safe on the tag only to be pushed off by the fielder and called out after a 10 minute confab.,1 +"As bat**** crazy as most of your posts are, I kinda like this one.",1 +Trump played his supporters for uneducated fools. All of his plans call for weakening and ripping off workign class Americans. They got taken.,1 +"Not only should we do this, we should also offer free abortions to Americans unable to have them in their home country. This in order to counter the clearly deranged actions of the mental case they elected.",1 +"' +pretty much right, + +…the next time another traitorous buffoon comes along. +.",1 +"Would you white folks please use your real names? What do you have to fear? hodad, GFN55, Tell the Truth, recovering homeroid, watching alaska die,Woozer11, Geezerly, jabbers, cheechako, nativegal, come on. Be truthful.",1 +ramadan strikes again...if we kill them we lose.,1 +"Trump the draft-dodger, p-grabber +let stupidity ring",1 +"Yeah, it was the coaches fault that Siemian threw 2 terrible ints one for 6 and the kicker missed easy field goals which put the Broncos in crap field position, stupid coach. Broncos lost after the bye last year as well, and that was a pretty experienced coach they had. + +By reading the article, it's pretty obvious what the problem is, everyone knows what Siemian is capable of, and they know how to stop him.",1 +"Sounding very much like someone who has never played goaltender in a Beer League, sport. + +Guessing from your comment that you have also never once played hockey or are the dreaded ""red helmet guy"" whom just about every Beer League goaltender loathes, goatie.",1 +"I was a R voter for over 30 years. No more. You lost me in March and I cannot believe people would pin their hopes on a racist, child molesting con man. I willnever vote for such man. There are good third party candidates if you can't stomach either candidate. But I will never vote R again over this betrayal of values.",1 +"Buy the dumb voters with massive debts for their children. (Worked great for Greece.) Saddle taxpayers with $1 billion in penalties shutting down gas plant contracts to buy two election seats. Pay wind and solar electrical producers to not produce, more than doubling off peak consumer hydro costs since 2006. Then artificially reduce consumer hydro bills by substituting even more debt to hide the cost of the green power fiasco and build radio commercials around this ponzi scheme pretending the government has done voters some kind of favor. That these buffoons could be re-elected speaks to the lameness of the Ontario PCs as well as the low mental bar set by Ontario voters.",1 +"How can anyone disagree with you? Horgan and Weaver are Regional at best, neither are fit to run a province. And this is just the beginning, they are already attacking the oil sector and going after the Site C Dam.......they don't give a crap about how many people they un-employ outside of their bubbles...........hell they won't even come to see what they want to shut down. Completely unfit to govern.",1 +"The Legislature just put man panties on Cadwell and Menor and they now telling the city how to fund its projects (no spending on Blaisdell) and run its budget (spend $13 million a year on rail funding). Any tax that furthers this ridiculous rail project is a bad idea. But it's fun to see Mufi on tv crying about the taxes HE CAUSED and now let's watch Cadwell turn tricks in Chinatown dressed as a woman with his man panties on - dance, Cadwell, dance. He said he'll do anything for rail the heck with the consequences. What a loon!!!",1 +"Don't hold your breathe Terry, they'll just say he's deranged and had nothing to do with Liberalism, which we know is also a mental disorder. So I guess that just makes him a different kind of crazy.",1 +"Let's not forget Muslims who are hurt by Sunni /Shia anger, hatred, intolerance and violence. Sunnis just killed 88 Muslim Sufis in Pakistan.",1 +"How does a post calling someone ""idiot"" get passed as civil for hours and hours? What kind of sick dirty favouritism allows such abuse? Who is in charge of this crooked system?",1 +"Glad to see you finally figured out that it was an obvious example of something that gets ATTENTION. Nothing more, nothing less. But sometimes it takes a painfully obvious example for people to see clearly. + +And now you're just being silly with the ""stand up at home"" quibble. That's just stupid, but you know that of course. + +So you stand for guests that enter your home (as do I). That's good, because that's standard societal protocol. To NOT do so would be disrespectful. The situation for the national anthem is exactly the same. Get it now? + +As for the wholly unrelated stuff in your last paragraph, I'll bite. Of course what Trump said about McCain (for instance) was more disrespectful. Duh. It's also irrelevant to the issue of players disrespectfully taking a knee during the national anthem. This isn't a ""which is more disrespectful"" game, it's simply establishing that refusing to stand when present for the national anthem IS disrespectful.",1 +Poor guy walked right into a bad situation with a woman he wanted to spend time with! People are crazy!,1 +"“Now who do I blame?” he asked, pointing to the audience. “The people. A bunch of idiots following Pied Piper over the edge of the cliff."" + +Probably not the way to endear yourself to the sizable Trump electorate in Alaska.",1 +They will live in nazi USA starting Jan 20th.,1 +I attended today's lecture and the lecture was held in the Social Science Building Room 1118. It's not in the Bookstore! Professor Madley presented a lump in the throat lecture of the US federal and state governments genocidal actions against California's American Indian people. Anyone reading American history knows that what happened to California Indians was widespread across the nation. American Indian lands were stolen by our governments. Bigots and racists arrogantly stereotype American Indians and Alaska Natives as freeloaders of government handouts. Bigots and racists don't even know half the truth or history.,1 +"Since Trudeau and his team of fools took over, I have never felt more insecure about the economy and my business. +I feel like I live in a third world country where at anytime all my assets/money can be expropriated.",1 +People who use fake service animals and park in handicapped parking spots when they use grandmas parking permit are worse than Hitler. Businesses wont ask about people bringing animals in because they dont want to get sued. Obombas DOJ created a state of fear that one wrong move and you were out of business. There needs to be a national registry and ID system. What kind of person does this and sleeps soundly at night?!,1 +Probably something like Gays for Trump or Act for America.,1 +"I think you'll find very few that's ""making light"" of the organization. There are a few people from every group that are idiots and can't see value where there is value. Ignore them because they are insignificant and by giving a response or comment, it only feeds their stupidity encouraging them to make more comments. Focus on the positive, kind of like the organization is doing, and keep moving forward. Looking back only gives people a sore neck and keeps you from avoiding obstacles in front of you. I applaud them for their effort to promote youth to become better members of society. It helps all of us regardless of our race/ethnic background.",1 +"Well, with Hilary it wasn't some ""word of mouth"" story, we all saw here lips moving on the television. + +ADN, garbage in-garbage out, as usual.",1 +"Isn't it a bit ironic that Catholic Churches ring the Church bells on Patricks day to welcome destroyers into the country, and, right on cue one such savage kills our people in London. The clergy are complicit! They step up to the pulpit and pray for 'world peace' as if they are dimwitted beauty pageant contestants. The clergy have despised their noble birthright and sold it away for the sod pottage of social-work. 'Preaching' enviromentalism as incompetent 'scientists'; they make themselves fools addled alongside 'global warming' hot-shots who have been ridiculed for decades. [even 'global-warming' has had to have been changed to 'climate change' because the 'scientists' are always repudiated by the evidence...which contradicts 'warming']. [Or, 'cooling';...because in fact the nature of it is CYCLICAL; driven by the sun][indict me for mortal sin of 'climate denial', or, call me Capernicus]",1 +"So, the NFL players are telling us that they have no problems with crimes committed by black people. What they want is to reduce their punishments. No doubt that crime victims feel differently.",1 +"Lol. + +Who the hell cares what you think. How about that one? + +Who threatened whom, by the way? You say in writing? So you can prove this? Or are you just an outright liar?",1 +He is competent. There is no reason to drug him despite his crazy and violent beliefs.,1 +"Good I hope ""the threat"" of NAFTA sinks into the swamp +where it belongs! With the rest of the crooks who dreamt it up in the first place. It brought homelessness and it brought death to thousands who were killed by privateer hospital housekeeping company's who are more concerned about profitability then clean hospitals! Donald Rocks!!",1 +Trump is the type that would sacrifice Alaska to N. Korea over this. He's that petty.,1 +It's not a choice if one was born there you idiot.,1 +Punk @ss!!!,1 +Enough of this nonsense.,1 +"Referring to these corrupt Alaskan career politicians as ""Lawmakers"",is like calling Charles Manson a ""Bible Thumper""..",1 +"You neglected to answer my questions about the defense of marriage act, NAFTA, her putting blacks into prison for minor offenses and wanting to make black predators heel. Please respond love to hear your erudite answers. Also her support for the Iran Nuclear deal and opening up borders for the whole western hemisphere. Can't wait to hear your wisdom.",1 +"What a sick and twisted comment. You are demented, you Jenny....are uncivil as is this pretend news publication. Maybe next time some demented terrorists will kill some of your family to pay for the CIA's deeds, you are a pervert. Lets not forget that. + +Cheers!",1 +"But why stay within an organization he doesn't believe in and finds corrupt? + +For example lets say he joined to serve the army or work at Lockheed and Martin, becomes disenchanted with it, decides to be a pacifist, where is the logic of a pacifist staying in the army? + +Another example someone joins the communist party, lives as a capitalist and dislikes communism but refuses to dissociate himself as a communist despite his disdain for the ideology. + +A guy gets a job with British petroleum or shell, decides he cares about the environment + +Or a man joins an organization, finds out they are a self serving, exclusive enclave of hypocrites, why stay? + +I don't get it, I don't get why someone who dislikes X and disbeliefs Y would stay within a group that promotes X and believes Y. + +It has nothing to do with not being a robot, it seems hypocritical to me. It has more to do with actually living in regards to your beliefs and not compromising. Isn't that the definition of hypocrisy?",1 +"The complete irony, foolishness, stupidity. 'we have legal marijuana, and some of the taxes on it, we give to schools to aid in a 'Stop Marijuana Use in Our Schools' program.",1 +"There you go ""thinking"" again. You always say stupid things when you think.",1 +"It is the left that remains silent when radical Muslims throw gays off of rooftops, burn women who refuse sexual relations, slaughter Christians, commit ""honor"" killing of women, stone adulterers, blow up women and children in terror attacks, etc. It is the left that celebrates the ""right to choose"" which has resulted in the destruction of over 50 million innocent lives here in America even though Pope Francis has called abortion an ""absolute evil"" and a ""horrendous crime"". It is the left that bankrupts small business people if they don't bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple even though such a ""marriage"" was uninmaginable 20 years ago. It is the left who has destroyed the humanities and has made academia an ideological reeducation camp. It is the left who are the thought-police waging an inquisition on anyone who fails to subscribe to their prevailing protocols and reigning orthodoxies.",1 +"Congrats, at least in this post you didn't cry fascist and call for violence.",1 +"What a joke. All of these politicians and police chiefs are truly horrible people. They're cockroaches, especially Goodale. He should change his name to Doesntgiveacrapatall. + +They've known about these issues for years and have done nothing about it. They've chosen to do nothing because they don't care abut enforcing the law. The only reason these parasites are yapping like a bunch of poodles is because the issues are public now. + +As if the people who created and ignored the problem are suddenly going to jump into action and solve it. Truly despicable people. They let rapists get away with their crimes. That's really something to be proud of. And now they're lying to the public and the survivors.",1 +So much for the smug progressives who claimed Canadians superior to Americans. Turns out your just as insane.,1 +"The Mueller thing all seems like an effort to explain how Hillary lost an election. She lost. It's over. Most of us are a lot more interested in finding out how 20% of the US uranium supply got into Putin's hands. In one case, we have speculation and no crime. In the other case, we have a clear crime and nothing but dumb looks on the faces of all Dems. What is this?",1 +"How tin eared can the Republicant ""leaders"" be? Alaskans (and Americans) want our elected officials to work together for the benefit of all - not ones who kowtow to the party's ideology! It's like a bunch of little kids saying ""if you're friends with him, you can't be my friend too."" Pathetic.",1 +Last year the Rockies blew 29 saves...had they had him last year it they make the playoffs then too. Fact is he only blew 4 saves. He helped get the Rockies to the playoffs and that is step one. Yes he was terrible but the biggest pitch was the garbage down the middle to the relief pitcher that resulted in a triple....might not happen again for 150 years...should not have happened...it wasn't luck..it was Nesheck trash.,1 +Yeah she was horrible. Just a grating voice. And next to a windbag.,1 +"Absolutely it's a compliment! By ""homophobic trash"" I meant blaming homosexuality and homosexuals for the clergy sex abuse scandals. + +One of my leaps; I should have been more clear.",1 +"typical left wing ignorants, never understand economics at all, since cutting income taxes will mean net MORE revenue for governments as it has been proven before when both reagan and jfk did it",1 +YA !!! SHAME--- NOW--MOVE TO my village and cure all of our corporate ills also---we got seals too--don't brutally club em tho--only brutally shoot and harpoon em---yay !!!,1 +"You sir, are so very correct! +There simply are not enough negative adjectives to describe almost all of the cabinet members and other appointees that this ignorant monster in the White House has governing the good people of this awesome country of ours",1 +Didn't he marry immigrants? Typical Republican hypocrite.,1 +"Oh, yes, Oh yes...Those uneducated white dudes. Being Educated must mean hating the white dudes. America was meant to be anything except white. If only these haters would open their eyes and see how they are controlled by hate from on high coming from the left!",1 +sit it out stupiddd,1 +"I enjoy watching Spicer work. He's not a butt kisser. And after eight years of hibernation, the media rediscovered their cojones. That can only be good. Who knows, they might even enjoy doing their jobs?",1 +This is complete bullshit. I lived in the building. Donna bought it to make money off her friends in the City govt. Helping domestic violence had nothing do it with it. What about all of us that were living in that building and were kicked out!!!,1 +Your sociopathic obsession with others sexual activity is sick and disgusting. When did you begin your deviant behavior?,1 +"It is a mental illness problem, and the asinine Obama law which flagged/denied people simply for receiving Social Security checks for mental illnesses did absolutely NOTHING to address it, nor does government FORCING private insurance companies to cover certain things.",1 +"@ PoiDoggy +At least you're not being labeled a RACIST, LIAR, IDIOT etc like how your side...including Nancy Pelosi, Valleyisle57, Maxine Waters, Elijah Cummings, Alan Grayson, CNN, CBS, MSNBC, MSM.....calls anyone with an opposing view. Like what Paulh808 said...""put on your yuuge mama jeans and buck up""....or something likdat.",1 +"As long as it is not near where she has her second property in the periphery of the GTA with its farmer's markets, nice people, etc. Go back a year or so ago and she was lamenting about the city folk encroaching on this rural way of life. Hypocrite.",1 +Eastman will be thinking over whether you will be penalized for your false statements. You really should be banished,1 +Can't recall seeing any homeless blacks. Wonder why that is? Black privilege?,1 +"Churchill. + +"" Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery""....of course , as Orwell pointed out, the equal sharing of misery is not quite equal with some pigs more equal than others.",1 +"Mr Ruse is as foolish as Fr Martin. My point was that Martin called out those that disagree with him as latent homosexuals, but now plays the victim when he received negative comments in return. It is all nonsense.",1 +"maybe it was my use of the word imbeciles regarding this group of haters that was deemed unacceptable, but I'll say it again, CB, and see if you delete my comment a 2nd time re this article... + +there are likely many in this bunch who would pack the 'closet' of secrets and hypocrisy.",1 +"Silence is complicity. Pointing out equivalence, when there is none, is offering a defense. + +Trump didn't know the facts on the ground, even on Tuesday. If he had, he'd have known the entire congregation was composed on white supremacist groups. No nice people there, just violent fools.",1 +"Well, he IS fat and unattractive. Why is it okay when Trump says it but not a female legislator? Hmmm....?",1 +Alceste was correct - I awarded dumbest post of the day too early - we have a new winner. Congrats Rick,1 +"I assume the portable fan was used to blow irritant agents ""down the hole"" to ""smoke him out"". Considering all the manpower and the cost, it was in everyone's interest to ""hurry things along"". What? - you wanted a ""sewer standoff"" at taxpayer expense? + +I thought it showed police restraint that they washed the alleged jerk thief's face off. Don't you?",1 +What an idiotic posting @shopaholic. Move out of the state if you don't like it here. Get a real life !!!!,1 +It must be hard for the little fat kid to try and fill his good old dad's shoes. I bet he is always medicated.,1 +"And that ultimately is what it is all about. + +Every week the financial tune up piece in the G&M has some couple hoping to die, leaving the kids an estate worth a couple - three million dollars. + +In this case, the offspring is just ahead of the game. + +It is all the same deal..hurry up and die, so I can get the money....",1 +"Alaska has so much oil and gas but HB 111 wants to stop more oil from being drilled so Alaskans can go broke, why? + +Monopoly Lovers and Oil Haters control Alaska and that is why Alaska is going broke, no leadership that is PRO OIL! + +IF YOU ARE PRO OIL PLEASE RUN FOR OFFICE!! + +THE OIL HATERS HAVE TAKEN OVER, WHY LET THEM KILL YOUR FUTURE???",1 +"The only pervert is u. U assumed that it was a male teacher. But not only would I have been shocked that a man would say this, but with a bit of googling, I found out that it was a female teacher. +Personally, I have to say that it is ppl like YOU whose behavior is the real problem +Not only do you push your PC junk, but then you blame makes when even when it is not.",1 +"I feel stupid in written debate with you as you raise things I've never heard of (feel as if I live under a rock). Molehill stamping? (don't know what it means) but I guess it means I'm acting stupidly or some such thing. Straw man - this label was applied liberally during 2011 and 12 on various forums. For me it boils down to doing what comes naturally and logically without understanding epistemology like you clearly do. As an unscientific, molehill stamping, straw man builder I'll simply focus on my own references for what feels right or wrong and continue to do what I have since January 2011. + +It appears that there is not one thing that I've said or written with which you have even a slight inclination to agree. I respectfully (sans any sarcasm) concede that I can't find any common ground with you and based on the last few days have no cause to believe I ever will. I'm dumbfounded (you probably have a label for that state too) that (in your view) I can be so wrong all of the time.",1 +"Hey, Ms. manic-depressive, forget your meds today? Seems to be a lot of that going around in the Trumposhere of denial in your own special fact-free zone. It's not a ""landslide"" when 3 million more people voted for your opponent than you.",1 +"rage against the machine.........""hands up don't shoot"" never happened. A stupid protest based on a lie and backed by no facts. Yeah I would stake my livelihood on that one. It just shows that they aren't that smart.",1 +"The fact this state is 95% Donkeys in charge and can't get anything done is INSANE. Might as well get rid of the state Reps and only have senators. We waste so much money on INCOMPETENT elected officials who do NOTHING... +Hawaii sure needs some serious help !",1 +"are you insane or just not too bright +educate yourself before you come here and make a fool of yourself.",1 +"In addition, Clapper is a known liar. +At the Senate hearings on the monitoring of US Citizens: +Wyden: ""So, what I wanted to see if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans?” +Clapper: “No, sir.”",1 +"It’s “offensive and disgustin coming from a white supremacist + +It’s “refreshing” when it’s not.",1 +"No, of course it's not a crime. It's evidence that can be interpreted in a number of ways. Combined with the other evidence, it supports a conclusion that a sex act was about to take place. What's impossible to determine is whether or not that sex act was consensual.",1 +I had the displeasure of meeting and listening to Bill Fulton several times. He came off as a hot head who loved to exaggerate. I would trust him about as much as I'd trust a thief with my car.,1 +"You're deluded thinking illegals here pay their fair share of taxes. They don't pay a penny more than they get get caught with. They cheat, they lie, and they steal from citizens and the country as a whole. They're ILLEGAL. They don't want to get in line. They don't want to pay their due. They don't want to pay taxes. And they don't want to obey the laws of our country. And if they can get away with it, they will. There is no morality in their lives; just escaping from their horrific home country and stealing Americas hard earned wealth and power. And where it's given, yes, we have plenty to share. But, OUR poor, OUR unemployed, OUR citizens deserve it, not them. And yes we will be paying MILLIONS to Zika infected illegal anchor babies and their mothers. And millions of OUR poor will have to do without, or at least significantly less. I think people like YOU should be deported to Mexico until you quit undermining your duly elected POTUS, like some commie infiltrator.",1 +Execute him.,1 +"hey lunatic oil is in demand and rising such around the world, its not being replaced by anything soon, get over it, good that the usa has a leader that will keep his economy strong as investors flock there seeing no nutter regulations, taxes etc for this carbon tax bs,, while canada like others fall so far behind with economies that will suffer being so much less competitive. you are living with stupider...",1 +"considering the attacks coming on trump its an easy conclusion and accurate,, by the way i am still waiting for you to make even any argument against my points but as usual you are incapable",1 +"Give it up DUFFY! You knew from day one what you thought you could get away with, hide, embellish, and just screw the ultimate taxpayer for your gross expenses. You were guilty then , your are guilty now and will always be a damn crook!!",1 +Why don't you give his name so we know who the stupid idiot was. Also who is going to pay for all the damages for rescuing him?,1 +"Crap propaganda ! Both sides hate and accept funds from haters. Seems as though the Liberals are way more violent than the Conservatives, but are painted as more violent by the False News Media? Remember your history ! African tribes were the largest group of Slave Owners, and they sold their brothers and sisters into slavery.",1 +As the years go by the liberals get dumber and more desperate..,1 +"The people, informed, united and organized, will never be defeated. + The people, uninformed, uncaring, divided, and ignorant, will always be defeated. And that's the way the billionaire corporate media likes it. + ""What's good for business..."" + People disaffected, disengaged and ignorant, resign themselves to the status quo, comply with authority and buy more stuff. + It's democracy that needs saving - from the media concentration of billionaire corporate newspapers that glory in the profits of the global economy while ignoring the needs of average working Canadians.",1 +"CNN has lost all credibility period , when a jihad is committed and murder is committed while screaming religious chants - its terrorism!!! +No confusion, no excuse and completely preventable. +Only a feeble minded leftie who doesn't stands for a thing other than vote getting and taxes cant understand that - hence Justin slide to the bottom and the rise of Andrew Sheer. +The bodies are still warm and left just can't help themselves but chant the same old blather - truly a pathetic lot indeed.",1 +"Great description of the Democratic Party of today. Particularly their expertise at fraudulent elections entwined in corruption and cronyism. How else did they do such a dismal job in the Ghettos, retain power while the Blacks murder each other, have little education or job opportunity. Hillary, scapegoating election loss to Russia which I think is pretty well debunked. Probaby their own IT guys. Oh yeah the Clinton man on the inside Comey. Even the media???? Eruptions on the moon??/ Ha, Ha? Wanting to control the Catholic Church. Protect the Military Complex and Arms industry by promoting war with Russia. Disdain for Right to Life! Wanted to go on a fetus late term murdering spree so fully developed fetuses could fetch a better price for Black blood and baby parts!",1 +"cyber surverillance is common to all national security agencies around the world. It is just the way it is, just like manual surveillance going back centuries. However the CIA is focused on evil terrorists and countering the cyber warfare from China and Russia, and they are disallowed by law from surveilling American citizens without a warrant - this is ONLY a good thing. + +HOwever, I am hoping that Apple And Google will use this info to plugs holes in their security .. because you darned well know if the CIA can hack your phone so can the evil Putin empire and China too, and they have only nasty intentions.",1 +Hey K. the reaction is for other people's comments...not your own. You are one dumb cavfefe.,1 +"If Saunders is going to be so broadbrush about the ""ummah"" why not extend the analogy to all ""identity politics"" being nonsense - and an invention of the left, not ""Christian racists"" as he idiotically suggests. Once again, he is simply wrong about absolutely everything.",1 +Trudeau is so obstinate and unreasonable that he makes Harper look like Mr. Malleable by comparison.,1 +"Too bad all these people complaining about the Broncos exercising their rights to peaceful protest aren't upset about the traitors flying the confederate or nazi flag, those are the scum that people should be upset about. I find the scum flying either one of those flags far more disrespectful to the flag and this country than people exercising their freedoms to peacefully protest.",1 +"Saynt----""In a region that has already way overshot its ability to sustain humans into the future, +ME --- Utter nonsense. Under 2% of Oregon is urbanized + +Saynt----""Whether we grow up or out, we cannot do so indefinitely into the future. +ME -- Why not? In case you haven't heard, the Earth's fertility rate has been declining for almost 1/2 century. OF course the sleazy green money grubbers don't want you to know this because the need to scare you into sending them money to pretend to solve the (non-)problem. + +Furthermore, growth is highly subsidized by taxpayers, and yet it never pays for itself. See: http://www.fodorandassociates.com/rpts_and_pubs.htm +ME Somehow we grew for 150 years without bankruptcy. So this is more bull crap from the anti-growth zealots. Next you'll try to convence us that we should get out of $0.25/passenger-mile cars for $1.00 per mile buses or $1.60 per passenger-mile toy trains. http://www.debunkingportland.com/top10bus.html",1 +"Mr. Trump is an imbecile. He's an embarrassment to the United States. + +Thankfully, his popularity drops every single day. He's increasingly irrelevant , although his sycophant supporters haven't figured that out yet.",1 +All Danny Boy is and ever will be is a title collector. What did he do for Alaska when he was appointed as AG? Not a damn thing.,1 +"Yes, pipeline. Anchorage and other cities connected to it have gone to s**t since it was built. Period. No question. Cheechako.",1 +"What a joke and waste of time and humanity! The ""liberation"" of Mosul was declared 5 months ago!...so why are the Iraqi forces still encountering resistance from Isil? Hey USA, you idiots started this mess so, go back and finish what you started so Iraq can get on with it's future!.....so incredibly typical of US foreign policy!",1 +this is ridiculous - you have no idea - nobody has any idea - that is why investing is risky - did you think trump was going to win - no - did you predict the Lehman crash - no - did you predict the tech crash - no - so write real articles that help people,1 +"This is the stupidest thing ever. Enforcing that federal law will cause more tax money being spent and fill up prison for what? People smoking marijuana? People die in thousands every year cause of DUI but yet hey it's making money so they don't care. Our prisons are already overcrowded and now to fill them up even more with a victimless crime. Enforcing this law and leaving it as a schedule 1 is going to create more of a black market and money will go to criminals instead of creating BILLIONS in tax revenue eventually right now it is in the 100's of millions easily. Next with everything going in the US and crime like in cities Chicago, are they really going to devote more money and law enforcement hours to stop what? People smoking a little weed?! All that happens is they get hungry laugh and go to sleep. While cocaine being in schedule 2 is way more addictive and has way more negative effects. This can create 10s of thousands of jobs. It can help cities with the tax revenue.",1 +Troll alert!,1 +"don't blame Kerry + +he is just the lap dog of Obama + +blame the dog owner",1 +"your an idiot, this is a tax based on a lie +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Smhn1gL6Xg",1 +dumber than a 5th grader ...check my poll,1 +"Only fools play foolish games of life and death, Kim needs a lesson in permanent humility, and we pray God will remove him in his way shortly, Kim has done enough to set many innocent people into fear for their lives.",1 +"I haven't read Ibbittson in ages and didn't this time, either. I just came in to say he sucks.",1 +So he has a good head for criminology and corrects a lot of misinformation. Maybe it's because these topics are the ones that bring out the knee-jerk reactionary weirdos who only parrot the half-truths and outright lies MSN/CNN/DNC et al feed them.,1 +"Oh please. +Haven't we ramped up the rhetoric and hyperbole enough? +White supremacist kooks have been an infinitesimal collection of losers for generations. +Every once in a while they put on their Halloween costumes and make a news splash but most of us have the good sense to ignore their brainless stupidity. +Like it or not that's called Freedom of Speech. +They have no political traction. +They haven't wrested control of our public institutions and schools. +The fact that one (as in 1) of their followers committed murder doesn't change any of that. + +Oh! But the Party has 13,000 twitter followers! +Gasp! +There is a twitter account for Kale - as in the vegetable - that has 15,000. + +Meanwhile, it seems Voldemort and friends (who have many more Twitter followers BTW) were busy again in Barcelona. +Comments Closed. +Might attract too much rhetoric and hyperbole.",1 +There must be something in the drinking water in Toronto. So many inane ideas being produced. Witness the memo about 'offensive' Halloween costumes as well.,1 +"Why are they so ignorant? Well, they only produce that dirty crap for customers. They'd give it up pronto if the eco-socialists in BC weren't out there driving around by themselves in their trucks/SUVs - commuting endlessly back and forth to work and then heading off to the anti-tarsands rally on the weekends. Darned ignorant Albertan/Texans.",1 +This is where you have it all wrong Donald chump is as much as MONSTER as Kim so I don't side with neither. Donald chump is a REDNECK DEVIL👹👹 & their is no uniting with the Devil of the DIVIDED STATES OF AMERICA.,1 +"Keillor hints at what is missing: who in Scab Holler, Kentucky really gives a tinkers dam about what happens in a city which you can only enjoy it if you are relatively wealthy, like Keillor, who made his dough producing a great program for Public Radio. Irony at its best. + +In Scab Holler, Junior died of an opiate overdose, a teenage girl is preggers. Grandpa is hocking up his black lungs, and dad left years ago for Somewhere, Indiana. The week the debit card gets filled by the state is the best of every month. The white trash majority voted for Trump and their erstwhile ""friends"" in the Democrat party are doing their best to re rig their rigged election, which was lost by a lazy candidate too old to serve at full capacity. Karma bit the Democrat butt. They threw a pair of large panties and a bra out to the voters, and lost. Irony. + +Billy Joe Sue had a boyfriend, +his name was Diamond Dick, + +Billy Joe Sue never seen the diamond, +She only saw the Dick..",1 +And I will not be turning on my TV for the NFL anymore. And I will begin to boycott the buying of the products from their sponsors. It will be fun to see these multi million dollar groupthink/ consensus low IQ crybabies lose their income. I am so sick of liberals and their whining and lying. Go Trump!,1 +Pretty sure that was aimed at Gregsask and his ridiculous notion that no one knows roughly how many people were there. on Friday.,1 +"So you think EU members will break rank and do separate deals with Trump, whose guts every European hate, and therefore destroy themselves. You know, EU have made mistakes but they are not that stupid.",1 +"Well according to Tillersson, the president is the moron. Think he is right.",1 +He probably shoots off rockets to show that he will not be intimidated. He may be nuts but our leader is really not much better. The Donald is obviously running on only a half a sparkplug and it shows. But you didn't respond to my questions.why should NK scrape their entire nuclear and missile programs? Would the US ever scrap it's weapon systems? I don't think so.,1 +"Ever climb a ladder and have some jerk walk up and shake it?...That's McCain. +Americans have tired of his passive aggressive nonsense, under the guise of ""bipartisanship"". +He's made a career of throwing stones at anyone in the houses who appeared to be succeeding on any given issue. All to appear relevant and seem somehow ""fair"". +John McCain is a genuine twerp.",1 +"Ha ! ""Islamphobia"" sounds like some type of disease......!! The only problem with that word is that it's so absurd.... It sounds stupid and once again Muslims are being partitioned out....",1 +"Looking at the property pictures this is just a NORMAL Looking METH PROPERTY. By all means this guy should be FINED and held accountable. If it looks like a RAT, its a RAT. This guy is a RAT. How about the state take the property, get homeless people in the area to clean it up, and make it a Homeless Hut community. You can put quite a few Huts on 2 acres. The Homeless would take pride in the property unlike the ""RAT"".",1 +"Do you have a rebuttal or are you just attacking the message? + +Post some facts to back up that he lies. You are not Trump and people are not going to believe you just because you say so.",1 +"oh this is rich, an far lunatic left wing hillary nutter trying to lecture the GOP!! HA HA HA,, we are going to laugh at this nonsense and enjoy trump's success as he fixes the usa from the lunatic socialism attemtp party DEMS",1 +She was a stupid woman getting bad advice from terrible people with a treacherous agenda.,1 +"The Fedlibs have 17 seats in B.C., most of them in the Vancouver area. They have 4 seats in Alberta. +Political calculus would suggest Trudeau, with a knowing wink to whoever is running B.C., will abandon his constitutional responsibilities and passively allow KMX to be asphyxiated. +The immediate outcome of this will leave Rachel Notley, fresh from fitting Albertans with their carbon tax hair shirts in a naive search for ""social licence"", looking like a fool and being thrown out of power in 2019. Other consequences for Alberta, B.C., and Canada will follow. +But time will tell.",1 +And yet it seems as if the entire country can't get enough news on where American men who think they are women will urinate.,1 +This is the latest from the right-wing trolls: denying Bannon is a white supremacist.,1 +They THINK they lead functional lives...but of course they ARE mentally ill....😉,1 +The Fair Elections Act will soon take its rightful place on the junk heap.,1 +"Allow me to summarize the arguments thus far. + +Our mad man is crazier than your mad man. + +NA, NA, NA, NA, NA + +Is it just me or has the level of commentary taken a distinct nosedive on these threads lately ?",1 +"Your mad cow disease is getting worse. You watch too much MSM. +Maybe if we lived where ethnicity other than white were higher +Its not a common occurence or at all really, for those reactions in areas with low percentage of the population beingbblack. So donct fear because there are plenty of white racist fear mongers as yourself to keep the race rioting at bay... Smh😑",1 +"This cant be real, can it? You think you have heard and seen it all but then all of a sudden this, just sick peope we have in this country!",1 +"you live in a total delusional world of liberal nonsense,, we are already connected grid to grid , province to province, we dont need this as we have an over supply of electricity as it is!.. there will be no revenue to offset taxpayers bud, man get a grip and live in reality....",1 +"Darn right the liberals don't really like choice. + +In the end liberal ""choice"" amounts to two things: + +1) The right to an abortion + +2) The right to be gay + +They don't believe you should have the right to choose to keep and bear arms. They don't believe you have the right to choose your own school--and empower the poor when it comes to education. They don't believe you have the right to choose your own health care--and so on it goes. Liberals indeed detest choice because they detest freedom. They prefer government control.",1 +"Fairminded, you are right. That's why the registry IS cruel and unusual punishment. The lawyer who argued this case in court has herself received death threats. She's simply a lawyer that did the job she was paid to do and she received death threats. +Also, anyone who would befriend, love, or support a sex offender, particularly a child molester, is viewed as human trash the same as the offender. Sex offenders' kids are bullied and ostracized by others. Where's the concern for the safety of the children? It seems only certain kids are worthy of that concern and it certainly isn't the children of a registered offender.",1 +"I wonder if all the pedophiles are sent to the sex offender prisons in all cases. I've heard these guys love these special prisons as the same subject of conversation 24/7 reigns. so now we are going to host this manipulative, useless creep for at least 25 years in prison. if he lives long enough, he gets out in his 70's and starts hunting all over again with a pent up libido and all kinds of advice as to how to ""succeed"" this time, as per his inmate peers are concerned.",1 +day one and already saying he is a failure is typical of bias crap no one needs such its the side like yours that would keep any uniting from happening not trump,1 +It's rich for a Muslim to call sovereignty a hate crime. Muslims don't integrate well as seen in Europe. Why? They dont respect national sovereignty.,1 +"The place is a cesspool of neglect, poverty, criminality and desperation. Its population is a volatile mix of locals, immigrants (many of whom are illegal), workers, unemployed and criminals. To top it all, it resides on a steep slope. + +I have no idea how the authorities think they can make this place liveable, without spending hundreds of millions on terracing and installing sewerage, water and power. It is also probably one of the most dangerous spots in the city. +Blocking will require some form of census, and many if it's residents don't want that, for obvious reasons. + +The only way to get it right is for the community itself to identify the criminal elements that live among them, isolate them, and then participate in the ""blocking"" as temporary city employees. The city will have to break its own laws to expedite this process.",1 +Rempel and Kent have to go somewhere where people don't know them as complete jokes.,1 +"Most of the ""socialist"" benefits go to the rich hon. Wake up. Medicaid has been well used her as it is a lifeline for thousands of low-income residents. Thank God for Medicaid. Naturally an ideologue like Johnson prefers the poor die than be helped. Disgusting dude and a real Trumpist.",1 +"Complete disdain and hatred towards Canadians born in Canada +WHERE IS YOUR EMPATHY FOR US! NOWHERE BECAUSE ISLAM DOMINATES AND CONTROLS OTHERS THROUGH RAPE AND MURDER, A FASCIST IDEOLOGY!",1 +"Nope. That's a lie. The 1994 Framework agreement worked out with Clinton had the N Koreans actually pausing development of nukes. When Bush Jr cancelled that deal and THEN invaded Iraq on a lie over WMD and THEN called North Korea ""evil"" Pyongyang doubled down on nukes. I mean who wouldn't after seeing what the neocons did in Iraq and then Libya? If the US gets nuked its because of corrupt, arrogant and ignorant neocons. They will have American blood on their hands. The USA is no longer the good guy. Wake up.",1 +"The goofiest aspect of the entire Marijuana issue is that it was ever made illegal in the first place. +http://www.drugpolicy.org/blog/how-did-marijuana-become-illegal-first-place +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_cannabis_in_the_United_States",1 +Except what is left behind is usually chaos and bloodshed...followed by another dictator.,1 +"I am going to guess he'd sooner release his taxes before releasing his actual IQ.. +This is a no-win situation for him. +Better to stay silent, and let others think you're a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt",1 +This shows the power of corrupted people like Gordhan in our nation.,1 +"These are deals? Paying cash is stupid for the buyer and great for the dealer - none of these are ""deals"" at all....a chrysler even for free is not a deal - why is chrysler even still in business? They have been making crap for decades -",1 +"The ""hands off my ""PFD"" rhetoric is so tiring. I find it's those who keep up this ridiculous chant are the same ones who then decry other social welfare programs for low income residents. And yes, the PFD is a social welfare program. So - Johnson? He's out. + +Landfield? ""The closest thing the Alaska Senate race has to Trump."" Reworking and using Trump's ""Make America Great Again"" slogan (""Make Alaska Great Again."") + + Yikes, double yikes and no thanks. I'll not take a narcissistic bully on the national level, nor someone who mimics (idolizes?) his campaign at the state level. + +Von Imhof appears to be the only thoughtful, reasonable one in the bunch.",1 +"One would hope that the people of France can understand how corrupt that Russian society is and would want to turn their backs on that kind of life. Even if the Americans are too stupid to realize it. + +Russia is one of the most corrupt nations on earth and everybody pays. You think paying taxes is bad how about having to bribe everybody, pay protection money, and still pay taxes. All the money goes to the oligarchs who are all friends of Putin. In Russian society if you go on vacation you have to register with the local government when you arrive so the government can keep track of you at all times. Sounds like a great place to live.",1 +"Eh... sort of. There is a Harvard Business School case study on this used in law classes you take in business school. + +McDonalds policy was to keep coffee at temp X but many stores, including store in question kept coffee at X+40 (or something like that). WAY too hot for human consumption, intake, etc. The reason the lawsuit stuck was because of this issue and the fact that this happened way more than once. I think I remember reading the cotton in her sweatpants actually melted into her skin it was so hot. + +Additionally, the woman (actually her kids because I believe she was an older lady) tried for years to just get them to cover medical costs and McD's refused. It wasn't until much later that someone with a little more clout picked up her case and made a big deal about it. In the end she still didn't ask for, or get much, if I recall correctly. + +While it seems like a ""yeah, duh, stupid!"" scenario or a money grab, it was actually far from.",1 +"Oh, of course. Anything that truthfully reports on the dangerously incompetent idiot you helped put in charge of the military and the country is ""fake news."" +And you know Obama would've given ""the green light"" how? Obama might have, but the fact that he specifically declined to preauthorize it, thus allowing the military to decide on the best time to strike, argues otherwise. Instead, Obama left the decision up to Trump, who effed it up then refused to take responsibility. Trump is a coward, but you're clearly okay with that.",1 +"Obama was elected by a big majority and was a highly popular president among the majority. Obama is an objectively admirable person who acts through his Christian morality. tRump appeals to a shrinking minority and it baffles me how people who are probably not horrible people, like tRump is and has always been, support him. I don't agree that most of his supporters are deplorable so that I wonder how you can look past his immorality, racism, constant lying, blaming, inflaming hate, division and incompetence. He is an embarrassment to our country. You seem like a good person, Como, so why do you insist on looking the other way from the truth of who tRump really is and unfairly (and stupidly) vilifying Obama or Hillary.",1 +The only thing that will ever stop Burke from his insane behavior is death.,1 +"Let's see. Self-styled peacemakers like Pandora wish for the opposition to forget everything the president-elect and his alt-right legions ever said and did and make nice with: + +racists +Nazis and other anti-Semites +misogynists +anti-LGBT bigots +xenophobes +Islamophobes +neo-fascists +theocrats +isolationists +climate-change denialists +anti-American Russian sympathizers +anti-American guerilla poseurs +anti-Christian Christian tribalists +post-truth ignoramuses + +Hell no.",1 +"No flotation device, dumb, but not unusual for down there. Saw many boats with families loaded down out in the bay in rough weather. Some things never change.",1 +"The NEB hired some clowns that know nothing about pipelines, or even the scope of their powers. Disgraceful. This government is in shambles.",1 +"Nothing more can be added to this article. To blame anyone or anything that this isn't the work of the far right is disingenuous. People react or in the Charlottesville incident, shout at the vile , dangerous Nazi sympathizers. There is no left leaning violence or hate involved here. It's a natural , cultural and iminient reaction to hate and the resurrection of what happened in Germany in the 1930's. This reaction is unfortunately the only way to snuff out this terrible movement. Trump is culpable. He encouraged it and this movement enables him.",1 +"An affair is very (stress very) different than grabbing pu**ies, making fun of women during their monthly biological cycle, criticizing women for how they look and sound, etc.",1 +"Congratulations, Globe. + +What Denise Balkisoon thinks about Harry Windsor? + +Call in the Nobel committee; you have discovered the mathematical limit of irrelevance.",1 +"Yes, some say that it is silly and ridiculous for Catholics to determine, despite being nothing more than laity, however devout, that they have the authority to decide who is and who is not a member of the church. Perhaps those who do these things should try reading the catechism more, or consult with the God Ordained Clergy, who alone have the power to eject people from the Church, and hence condemn them, rightly, to eternal torment in the pits of Hell. I do hope this comment is well received and provides some guidance and insight where it is so evidently needed.",1 +"Because it was unfortunately just a crazy lady who sprayed acid at the girl's face, for no apparent reason. An act of violence is defined as terrorism when it is motivated by political aims, that's just the definition. +Everybody would be of course terrified to get sprayed with acid in the face, but it has nothing to do with terrorism.",1 +"You are 100% correct. In japan there are no 3rd world Mexicans or negros and in England , Germany and Canada the people live as peasants in a multicultural cesspool.",1 +"GM, +America First diplomacy is a certain recipe for disaster. It is only a catchy phrase that works well for NFL teams not world economics. +Trumpet will have to build many more huge walls to further isolate the USA from the rest of our world if nationalistic phony patriotism was a workable policy. +This isn't a scamming real estate business, this is where the wise and intelligent people deal with big problems that require tough decisions. Bankruptcy is not an option. Tweeting is silly and intended for those who often communicate by deception and lying. It is not where informed people go for the truth. +In truth, Kerry and Hillary were marvelous Secretary's of State. Ask our allies for their opinions.",1 +another useless piece of dribble by Gerald Caplan,1 +"So, apparently a Russian is more dispensable and of less importance than an Islamic terrorist.",1 +"The malignant narcissist, mentally warped sociopath, pathological liar and draft dodger, has now revealed himself to be not only a bigot and racist, but a closet fascist. The man spews nothing but excrement from his stinking swamp and proclaims himself president. He is nothing more than a disgusting, semi-ignorant, loud-mouthed fool in an empty suit. The sooner he is thrown out of the WH, the sooner this country can truly be great again.",1 +"Joe Miller is taking a page right out of the Trump playbook; he already knows half of Alaskans don't like him for many reasons like being a carpetbagger, a fake, phony, fraud....he knows that is a given. But on the other side of the coin, as Trump said one time are the ""stupid"" people, and those stupid people could just help him edge out and beat Lisa M.",1 +"Inflation adjusted, or raw data ?? +These Harvard PhD types are probably idiots next to a bond guru like you :)",1 +Just racist. All societal problems are the result of him being black.,1 +Had to dig deep for that comment huh? Crazy talk.,1 +"Good article for those who think government will save them, or even more foolish ""keep them safe"".",1 +"214bMONTREAL +That is a load of crap - and everyone knows it. Trump is the biggest liar in the entire world - in fact - in our solar system. He never stops lying - and that is blatntly obvious.",1 +". +""Donald Trump has already softened up Canada and Mexico to make trade concessions with his tough talk of a 35-per-cent border tax"" + +That's funny, or should I say; get lost maggot brain. + +The United Sates corporations control a disproportionate % of this world's business activity, Thus/so, lets (all of us/the world) put a 35% tax on all I phones, Google, Facebook, CAT, Exxon, and any other US multinational corporation. + +Go for it Gents, I'm in......................... + +.",1 +Hey Alaska! You elected this jerk. Stop whining deal with the next two years? You will relect another dumbA@# anyways.,1 +"Shut your pie hole. Lisa Murkowski is a U.S.Senator and you are a bitter loser. She is not a traitor. You are a loser. Got that, bitter man? She's out salmon fishing and you are a loser.",1 +"Hello +What does Switzerland have to due with America ? +Read a history book, you sound foolish !!",1 +"Arpaio did not properly investigate over 400 sexual assault cases, with many involving children. Why did Joe protect rapists and pedophiles? How can Trump call him a Patriot? This is grotesque. America has failed yet again.",1 +"The fools promoting illegal aliens should be arrested for conspiracy to commit a crime. How is planning to shelter illegal aliens any different from planning a bank robbery. Come on EPD conspiracy is conspiracy. +Were there any children present? Planning a criminal act with children present should be child endangerment.",1 +Souki is crazy like a fox.,1 +And there are no real problems that need to be dealt with? How stupid are our elected officials? Too stupid to live!,1 +It's a god damn tree branch. That’s worth assaulting someone over?,1 +Deep ecologists are pretty goofy.,1 +Liberal activist judges overturn the will of the people yet again. Shut up slaves!,1 +Hawaii law makers pushing this bill you are demented stupid American's period.,1 +So you will drive more then 100 k from your recharge station. Don't dumb as in dead dummy.,1 +"Suck it it princess, words like ill -informed, bigotry, delusional, thin skin are all you and your failed ilk have left!!! + +Peace in the Middle East, NOT under Obuma 8 years., 300 hundred thousand dead Syrians, yes it's all on Bush - how convenient. + +The Globe has woken up to the Marxist and its failed ideology, change has come. Last on the list of change will be little potato in 2019. + +Yes Keys Stone has been approved , after all it was "" A No Brainier "" Just saying!",1 +"What really gets me is that our public broadcaster, the CBC, has not covered this story at all. They overdid the Trudeau helicopter ride but nothing on hypocrit Ambrose. Pathetic.",1 +"you cant hide what does not exist,.. man the left is so pathetic, cant prove it so revert back to calling for trump to disprove it, ,sad and stupid at the same time the left is..",1 +Make all these idiots pay the cost associated with this. Make them clean up their own mess & give them a big fine. Why are we letting these people just do as they please. It is definitely sending a wrong message. Wake up you dumb politicians.,1 +"Oh, come on, you must be an old lib hippie! Normal American Ophobic?",1 +"It's all the cop's fault. It has absolutely nothing to do with anybody else. Being a democrat, as I am, I think that everyone is just human and is allowed to be a dysfunctional slob who tries to run people over and screw up their lives and everyone elses. when something like this happens I get all literary about it and bring up references from ten years ago and quote garbage from various socialist community organizers and always find a way to point the fault at the cop.",1 +"Particularly, if supporters show up openly armed with civilian style assault weapons, which is almost certain to happen in some States with open carry laws. Some of the States, nearly all Republican with open voter challenge laws are going to get out of control. What do you do when someone carrying an AR15 or AK47 challenges your right to vote because you ""look like a democrat or a potential illegal alien?"" Some of these people are just nuts, sorry but truly deplorable. Certainly a minority, but mobilized and feeling enabled by Trump.",1 +"More thoughtless destruction by the GOP. Instead of slowly torturing the ACA to death by cutting out vital parts of it, they should just repeal the whole thing. The people who voted for Trump need to feel the consequences of their stupidity. +What constructive things has Trump accomplished so far? ZERO. All he and conservatives know how to do is tear down. They're rabid animals leaving death and destruction in their wake. Who in this country feels truly hopeful?",1 +"Awww...you're killing the cute little PIKE? Why don't you just trap-neuter-and-release them like the 'no-kill' animal welfare imbeciles say we should do for feral cats, so they can live out their lives in 'nature' (where they don't belong)?",1 +"Jackscrew's need grease, as any old jackass would know, maintaining a plane, is just like maintaining any piece of machinery. Of course when you ride the donkey, you could let em feed on any side of the trail. Been riding the donkey long? You democrats are all alike. Antonovich? What nationality is that? Riding a broom stick, even witches check their broom sticks.",1 +"Mbalula is the biggest buffoon of them all. Not even the Guptas view him as a useful idiot. If anyone thinks Mbalula is not dirty somewhere somehow, they need their heads examined. Of course he's compromised, just wait for it",1 +"Shannon, just because you say something does not make it true. You say that abortions are lower where women have cheap birth control. This is what is called a LIE. Do some research on welfare and other poor women who have access to free birth control - they have a larger percentage of abortions per 100,000 than any other group. Abortions are a convenience. Personally I don't care if you commit murder, abortion, or other evils to your children. Keep them from reproducing please.",1 +"Trump attracts the children of George Wallace's voters: White, male, low paid and poorly educated.",1 +"Did your parents have any children that lived? +You think that Germans can force bakers to make them hitler cakes and you call me stupid. +hilarious!",1 +"Why? Make it legal just like pot. If people OD on it, well that's their own fault for doing something so stupid.",1 +It's time. With a city this large with no highway that connects yet bypasses the city so you don't have to stop is ridiculous.,1 +"Sadly I believe the majority of the bill for these privileged stay at home idiots to be marching is footed by demasculinized husbands, boyfriends & fathers on their day off work & probably cooked their own breakfast, took care of the kids, chopped the wood & were forced to masturbate if they were lucky enough to borrow their balls from the safe.",1 +"This is wrong. The woman was on her free time and expressed her opinion of the moron-in-chief, as per her first amendment rights. I likely won't ever get the chance to decide whether or not to do business with this company, but if given the opportunity, I will definitely not send my money their way.",1 +"H.L. MENCKEN’S prediction: + +“As democracy is perfected, the office of the President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day, the plain folks of the Land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be occupied by a downright fool and complete narcissist moron.” + + -H.L. Mencken +The Baltimore Evening Sun, +July 26, 19",1 +"This all gets more ridiculous by the day. President Trump isn't going anywhere anytime soon other than to the Oval Office every day to continue working to Make America Great Again. While the media and many with no sense whatsoever have been obsessing on All Things Russia, the President and his cabinet have actually been accomplishing all kinds of things toward the goal. This nonsense needs to end soon, as it has been a huge waste of time and U.S. tax payers money. #Shame",1 +How do you spot an anti-tax moron? They want everyone to pay for their free ride.,1 +"My goodness, a bunch of guys waving flags and marching. It happens all the time in America on Veterans Day. What is with those losers wearing masks and protesting a patriotic public display? The Democratic Party has been taken over by their extremist. They are an embarrassment.",1 +a Trump promise is worth less than nothing. Palatka voters do you realize you've been had?. Trump the conman liar can't be trusted and his word is worthless. You are on your own until the next time the GOP needs votes and the promises will start again. Maybe next time you'll remember....,1 +"Let these people shoot each other. They're doing us a favor. By the way, I used to work in that building when it was a brewery.",1 +"The SACP are a bunch of hyporcrits. All along they have been singing Zuma's praises, doing his bidding and turning a blind eye to all the corruption and looting that was taking place. Looking at the podium, during their conference, one can see many cabinet ministers and deputies. They have all been singing from the same song sheet whilst usurping the bling in the ANC led government. + +And now they try the 'holier than thou' trick. With Jeremy Cronin wailing about 'what went wrong'? + +Nxesi conducted the sham (inter minsiterial) investigation to get Zuma off the hook on paying for Nkandla. + +It was not long ago that Blade Nzimande was praising the Gupta's and slipping in diversion tricks by pretending that they were bona-fida businessmen. + +The SACP have been part and parcel to the rot that has set in. They cannot now distance themselves from the catestrophic mess of state capture. Blaming the Gupta's and simulateneously absolving Zuma does not cut. It takes two to tango.",1 +"If there is any good news anywhere, I think the moment is fast approaching if not already here when more and more realize that the emperor is wearing no clothes, when he will be able to fool fewer people all the time. He is preparing his own exit with his crazy twits.",1 +"What you so bitter about, another bitter lamb fan tired of getting their arse kicked by the Buffs?",1 +"It's SO funny to see these Breitbart TROLLS in FULL PANIC MODE on here...LOL Attack! Attack! Attack! + +LMAO!!! Hahahahahahaha! + +PRESIDENT HILLARY CLINTON - in just 4 days.",1 +"White people have been immigrating to this continent for over 200 years, and look at all the damage and death they have brought. Ban all immigrants the the New World! Send everyone back to their country of origin and let the indigenous have their lands back!",1 +"What you ask is impossible. Not to mention that Trump more or less accelerated N. Korea's progress by threatening to blow up 25 million people in front of the U.N. council. +I have 0 fear of North Korea. I am terrified that the dotard in charge will scorch the earth in order to win his stupid Twitter war",1 +"The GOP has more pervs than any other party. I know the Dems have a few, but only a few.",1 +"How about a ""dumb idea"" tax? +This post should taxable then.",1 +I heard Latinos for Trump are illegal aliens. All 50 of them.,1 +"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?",1 +"I flew twins otters up there in the 80""s. There was nothing wrong with the old airport, other than a little short for a beech 1900. So may you ask yourself this question...Where are all the high priced engineers with their bright orange jackets that study the daylights out of these projects and concoct all kinds of fancy equations and bs when these problems occur? They should be forced to stand behind their work and pay for repairs for the millions and millions they charge the state for their ridiculous designs. You can always tell who these fools are on the state jobs.. they have the brand new white pickups with the lights flashing with a set of plans laid across the hood of the truck looking bewildered ...idiots...they should all be design build put out to bid, the state of Alaska Dot needs to be gutted.",1 +"You say ""nonsense"" to verifiable facts? You can look up the Trump U fraud trial (remember when Trump the xenophobe said Judge Curiel's Mexican ancestry prevented him from judging the case?) Verifiable. You can look up the fact that Donald and Ivanka's elitist ties, shirts, handbags, shoes, etc. are manufactured overseas, not in America. This isn't a matter of belief or opinion. Look at the label on your Trump tie. Verifiable. It's verifiable, not believe or opinion, that Trump bought Chinese steel for his buildings. It's verifiable that Trump has filed BKY multiple times, leaving small contractors and investors on the hook. It's verifiable that Trump has stiffed small contractors, refused to pay them and told them to take him to court, knowing he could bleed them with legal costs. He has spent his life in court. He is litigious and he's only out for himself. He's a con man and only the most gullible of rubes still believe his cons. Congrats on that Trump U ""diploma"" though. LOL.",1 +"`CNN: Mueller’s arresting folks +MSNBC: Mueller’s arresting folks +NPR: Mueller’s arresting folks +Fox: Obama may be blacker than we thought",1 +"I am genuinely surprised at how many Trump supporters there appears to be in Canada, who are also readers of the G&M. Supporting and defending such a loathsome, thin-skinned, ideologue, must take a lot of effort.",1 +Can't resist this dirty punchline... A cock in a pit?,1 +"Comprehensive sex education is the best way, nay, the ONLY way, to reduce the total number of abortions. If you don't agree with that, you're willfully ignorant, which is even worse than being openly deceptive, which you also are. People like Jim Minnery are an embarrassment to Alaska.",1 +"You've conservatives have proved you can't govern and have no morals, values or principles other than greed and raw power. You have lost a generation of young people. You better hope that the old fat drug abusing Baby Boomers live a long time",1 +"I keep forgetting that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Those who admire a bombastic, sociopathic liar like Trump will emulate him.",1 +"Tabitha Speer: ""If US soldiers shoot you, it's illegal for you to shoot back, and if you do, I'll sue you."" + +Everybody else: ""Get real.""",1 +The fact is that it is mainly the Indians killing Indians the facts speak for themselves these drama queens are unbelievable......,1 +"""97% of scientists studying the issue...."" + +LOL. You can always spot the low information commenters when the trot out this old dead horse. This number has been widely debunked. Do you even know where it originally came from or did you just parrot Obama's ignorance?",1 +Conservative - please inform yourself before making idiotically false statements.,1 +what a racist! Nice to see you are still here in KKKascadia! Racism is an overt sign of ignorance.,1 +"No , but the guy that started the whole thing is squealing, trying to get himself a good deal. You right, the cops that knew should have reported him. Their failure to do that coming right back at them, even if it was only weight room talk meaning guys just shooting the breeze while working out. I know a guy that got a great deal for squealing , the guy that convinced his partner to kill the cop that was the only witness against them Troy Barboza. We had him in witness protection and protecting him, most disgusting duty I ever had. Williams was just plain stupid.",1 +Lock the Pig up!,1 +WTF????????????????,1 +They window was not at all tinted to the point that you couldn't tell. They ran the tag is the reason for pulling her over. The tint was the secondary excuse. You appear to be an apologetic racist yourself.,1 +Would be funny to see these racist whitey's get a beat down,1 +Yeah what kind of information ever comes out of those dang things anyways?,1 +"The dying out generation ... your interest is becoming irrelevant day by day. People are more concerned about economy, income, house price, etc, not ideology stupidity.",1 +"What a ridiculous post. Nobody is talking about ""the entire clan"". It is a narrow ruling to include grandparents. When did the GOP get so hysterically mean that they don't consider grandparents an integral part of a family. I thought the GOP was the party of ""family values"". Guess not.",1 +Bennet needs to wear a body cam at all times and install cams into and outside his house and car. Trouble is black people give themselves a bad name and nice guys like Bennet suffer for it. What can they do to reverse this? You tell me.,1 +Your puppet master is proven to be more of a pathological liar than Hitler and you still defend him. You have zero credibility at this point.,1 +"""..this is no longer a civil discussion."" +Yea, it is 'a civil discussion' to say 'I don't blame Pope Francis', right! +I recommend YOU ""Have a heart to heart talk with your spiritual advisor."" +Just remember these clergy sex abused children go through 'HELL' in their lives before you speak so heartless defending the very culprit of this clergy sex abuses of children fiasco!!!!!!!!!!!!!",1 +Voting Liberal over and over again and expecting honesty is a mental illness.,1 +"Guessing wavy is calling out rhyner for being a hypocrite. He's a retired union garbage collector yet frequently spouts off anti labor nonesense. +Either way great this punk is off the street. Glad our mayor is making increased staffing of law enforcement a priority.",1 +"More Hollywood Stupidity....so boring. But the bigger question is ,why is this NEWS worthy? +I say to Mr. Kawaipunahele aka;Patrick Stewart, Good Luck with that US citizenship application. First Red Flag? Unable to assimilate with the Leader of American people .....It;s as stupid as me saying: I want to be British subject/citizen so that I can Oppose the Queen of England.",1 +He should be mulling over where he is going to work next year. He is awful.,1 +"Another racist comment from Minshall. You are always free to leave. But as you know and as I know, you need the white devils more than they need you.",1 +"Pardon me? Trump said ""it's a military operation."" He did not say ""it's like a military operation."" Amazing the baloney Trump supporters try to promote.",1 +"Seriously!?!? If someone falls asleep, or is too inebriated, or passed out, they can't agree or say no to sex. If someone has sex with the person who is asleep, too inebriated or passed out, they are a RAPIST. I don't care if you are more violent. RAPE IS RAPE. You may have urges, CONTAIN THEM. I am so disgusted by this coming from an attorney! Perhaps the Bar Association should look into his ability to practice law.",1 +"That regurgitating, gone fishing simpleton "" libertarian"" mouth that incites, relishes separation between ""winners"" and ""losers; "" those picky tweet fingers throwing, at random, kindling into the fire of confrontation ( while having lived for so long in a penthouse of speculative, manipulative deception ...) - what a nightmarish ""winner"" to deal with in a world of ""losers"" that seems to be imploding - not just from Harry, Irma and Family, which are ""Fake News"" of course. Theresa May, when that friends of yours opens that chuckling mouth, when those tweeting fingers go berserk, your worst enemy might be not just those ""losers"" of terrorists at home ....Remember Greenfell fire. Remember those awful comments about the Mayor of London that such a mouth regurgitated to the point of oblivion. No apologies at all. Such a bubble-babble of an entitled Babel's mouth cannot stop babbling. Send a tweet and ask the culprit to think before opening that mouth.",1 +Anybody using an assault rifle in a home with other family members around is a real fool.,1 +"You didn't read the studies did you? Of course not. Clearly, the only thing that matters to you is satisfying your bloodlust. Ignorance is bliss, but stupid is just sad.",1 +"Being gay -- and sexually active -- does not necessarily entail engaging in immoral activities, though as with straight sexual activity, it can be immoral. + +You and I have been here before. I remember how vile your thinking is and I know where you will go if I engage you. I choose not to provide the occasion for you to re-post that filth. I don't want to be the proximate occasion for your sin.",1 +I think the DP editorial board barely knows what's involved with changing out a flat tire on a car. That's how out of touch they are with normal Americans and that's why they don't know the difference. Either that or they are a bunch of deceptive schleps.,1 +"Political correctness at its finest. Can't call fat people fat, can't call lazy people lazy, can't call a short person short, can't call a radical muslim terrorist a radical muslim terrorist, can't call a liar to the FBI a liar to the FBI, can't call a womanizing sexual assaulting ex president a womanizing sexual assaulting ex president, can't call a pant suit wearing woman bashing hypocrite a pant suit wearing woman bashing hypocrite, can't call a woman a woman or a man a man and the list goes on and on an on. However, if you are a liberal you can call people anything, say whatever you want, lie whenever you want because you feel you are right and therefore are. Heaven forbid we offend a 400 pound Russian computer hacker. If liberals are left in charge too much longer you can bet there will be a tax on your fat ___.",1 +Really? Dog kennels warrant getting police and the DA involved? In the matsu you have to beg and plead to get the police out after some methhead has robbed you blind. Pathetic!,1 +And the black whiner reprises his own failures.,1 +"many standards need to be flexible, and trump is a cave dweller.",1 +I'm surprised some rabid Third Wavers have not labelled Bev a gender-traitor and reported her to the CJC.,1 +"A vote for Hillary is a vote for more national debt and massive immigration of cultures that do not accept us. Obama has increased our debt more than all presidents combined. European countries have completely destroyed themselves by allowing massive immigration of muslims. Muslims make christian conservatives look like peace loving liberals. Germany is projected to be a muslim majority by 2060 due to child births, at that point you will see Sharia Law put into place and women will lose all the rights they have fought for. Sweden and Norway are practically destroyed. Sweden is the rape capital of the world.",1 +"Sorry Richard, but that's complete bs. She hit him and left him to die. You are one strange person.",1 +"Tell us Rev. Shillady, What do you think Jesus would think of PP's several million abortions/year and partial birth abortion? You are apparently just another butt kisser.",1 +"You're the racist troll trying to mimic my account. + +But look at the space between the M and P. + +You should be banned from the comments, you're nothing but a troll. + +And a disgusting racist.",1 +"He's a 54 year old pirate, cut him some slack.",1 +"Spot on . Trump's being screwed whether he realizes that or not. And America's going to help him piss the rest of his term up against a wall trying to prove that Putin has him by the testicles. + +That crap is so 'ennertaining' Putin might put him back in for a second term, so Americans can have some more .",1 +"Evolution in action. If these folks are that dumb, tough luck. And, anyone that is rescued - dead or alive - should pay for it even if it comes form their estate or their family’s pocket. + +I was out n Moab this summer where there are always deaths at Arches National Park because ignoramuses ignore sing after sign warning after warning, not to hike - even a short distance without a hat, sunscreen and water. Yet I saw tons of people in flip flops without water hiking in the desert. Th worst offenders with their little kids. + +You Can’t fix stupid.",1 +We all know Trump is a serial liar. This incident was true to his nature.,1 +Should be castrated as well!!,1 +Clinton has hovered at 5000 feet where she can't even see what she considers poor working slobs her entire life and has no desire whatsoever to EVER get to know what it's like to have to actually WORK ...............She's nothing but a liar and a criminal. She's totally unfit.,1 +Despots and fascists come in all colors and they don't like outsiders.,1 +"re: Everyone who owns a house has benefited from idiotic rises in housing prices + +how have you benefited? your kids now will have a tough time finding affordable housing, even retirement homes will be more expensive, plus these prices have put the long term health of the country's economy at risk + +idiotic for sure",1 +Another criminal Democrat. He is also running Dana Ralph's campaign. She just lost my vote.,1 +"Wiliki, you are a shameless liar and there's no way that rail will cost 10 billion. It will cost much more.",1 +"Sounds like you hang around blue collar white guys in bars and generalize about them, and prefer the ""educated"" liberal guys, about whom you also generalize. You can change bars if you want, but I'm just talking about a specific man, Trump, versus a specific man, Clinton, who not only talked about grabbing pyssy, but did it --- to the point of sexual harassment. + +You say it's kag1982. Sure it's not keg1982?",1 +"amazing how simple minded fools belittle my mother's accomplishments, especially after she spent 40+ years fighting for better safety laws protecting blue collar workers. You're not going to find anything on the subject today as for the last 30 years there has been a war on tobacco. Everything written on the subject covers a heavy smoker., which as I stated is quite harmful and especially for asthma. Before inhalers and drugs, doctors-nurses prescribed 1 cigarette a day to help asthma patients as you will find all over Google, people who attest a smoke helped them breath easier. That's 1 a day, not 20. this is why back in the 60's my mother told patients to do just that, which was common, not because of big tobacco as your delusions allude to when demonizing the industries she worked for with grade school tripe.",1 +The one thing DEMS had in common is they didn't care THEIR candidate was a lying career criminal with obligations to countries that murder gays and Christians AND treat their women worse than their dogs... Guess that tells us a LOT about the LEFT and THEIR lack of values.,1 +Your fake POTUS is the definition of a parody.,1 +I agree with droid. Please have trained Sheriff officers in charge of security. Securitas is a danger to the public and themselves. DOT has just been ridiculous in this matter.,1 +Your comments are ignorant. John Oliver is speaking for the common people against plutocratic thieves like Bob Murray. Murray likes to dish it out when he forces his workers to contribute to his political causes but he's the biggest snowflake in the world when someone calls him out on his wretched behavior.,1 +Wicked.,1 +"as usual we have ignorant hate filled left wing lunatics crying over the coming defeat by insulting, typical of the empty side with no policies that people will vote for,, keep crying loser!!!,, the future of alberta now looks fantastic as it was for decades before the nut job alt left wing ndp!,, but of course you cant see those facts can you!",1 +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,1 +"His Secretary of State has called him a moron. Mental Health experts have looked at his behavior and agreed that he is a narcissistic egotist unqualified to be POTUS. Even many Republicans agree with that. +Trump contradicts himself from day to day about important policy matters. He is a reality show star, skilled at fooling a certain segment of the public into thinking he is a great man, and playing on the resentment of uneducated people against those who are well educated.",1 +"you wil decimate the wildlife this way. Very dumb decision. l live in a subsistence community and let me tell you, ive lived in ones in southeast also that were predominately native, they killed everything that moved. there was no wildlife left, not even a rabbit, no porcupines, nothing, you've made a very serious stupid stupid STUPID decision and it will cost you as well as all Alaskans.",1 +"What does the Bible have to do with me paying for someone else's health insurance? +Yes, I have insurance, but the monthly cost, deductible, and copays are so ridiculous that I cannot afford to go to the Dr. for a simple office visit....SMH on this one.......",1 +"Sorry, I blame the crappy ""civil comments"" posting format. It sucks!",1 +"Christopher Mercer who killed all those students at the community college at Roseburg Oregon October 2015, was just as black as Barack Obama.",1 +Another hater too afraid to speak under their own name. Ignore.,1 +I wish it was as easy for us to just fire tRump.,1 +"The President of the US is like the nasty child we all despised in grade school...a bully, think skinned, low EQ, and in his case IQ, and I truly suspect he has mental problems.....he has disgraced the US and will continue to do so....it only tells me that almost one half of the VOTING population of the US are just plain ignorant.",1 +"Oh hell, yet another desperate realtor. Can't we ban these people?",1 +"We applied for a family member. We had a year to complete everything...and they keep throwing more forms and more $$$ charges at you. If it wasn't granted in that year's time, then you had to start all over...same paperwork, more $$$ charges...ridiculous. It's a money-making scheme.",1 +"Personally, I'd rather be shot than hung, or drown, or burn to death, or be stabbed and bleed out, or be strangled .....",1 +"Aren't you supposed to be the ""victim"" and not the bigoted bully that insults everyone?",1 +"We will see articles in the G&M about the bigotry, hatred, and Christianophobia exhibited, practiced, implemented by Muslims in Muslim dominant countries against non Muslims? + +Nah. + +I thought so.",1 +"How sad is it that 95% of the population who thinks a ""gendered"" budget is ridiculous have to pretend to think otherwise (It's greeeeaaaattttt!) so as not to offend (i.e be targeted, ridiculed, possibly harm our careers if we are a public figure and speak out against this) our 5% feminist overlords.",1 +"But you were ready to rally behind HRC? If you despise them both equally, great. If you think Hillary is any ess of a liar, then you are just another partisan hypocrite.",1 +actually you are ignorant and stupid then,1 +"Donald Trump's tweets continue to show what a clueless, childish, and completely unqualified individual he is. In no way whatsoever should Trump be allowed to make any decisions regarding the well being of any of the citizens of our country. Any support of his policies will continue to be undermined by his lack of knowledge, intelligence, and common sense, and cannot be taken seriously as a way to improve our country. We're being led by a person with the mental capacity of a ten-year-old child and the vast majority of our country is well aware of this fact.",1 +"""I'm scared of black people so get rid of them... what society must accept blacks? no..."" + +Is what this poster really means. I'm sure this poster and the person who liked the post claim that this country is too ""PC"" and think that people who call out clear racism in posts on message boards are the ""real"" racists.",1 +"Yes, Layla, the communist government of China exerts influence and often effective control over not just Chinese publications and electronic media abroad but also over other Chinese controlled businesses and even social organizations, all with the objective of taking advantage - in trade, investment, immigration and political and social power - of the schmucks who are naive or greedy enough to let them do so. + +Currently, the biggest concerns and buyers' remorse abut these one sided situations are voiced in Australia, the US and Germany but it seems not a single country involved in trade deals with China is on record as claiming they are happy with the fairness of said deals. + +One of my most disturbing visuals these days is that of PM Trudeau sitting across from the Chinese leadership in about 4 years to complete negotiations on a free trade deal between China and Canada. + +It resembles in my mind Bambi versus Godzilla. (You can, I'm sure, which of the two parties is Bambi.)",1 +"""weapons that only a madman would use"" + +You mean a 'madman' like the leader of North Korea? That kind of 'madman'?",1 +"Big shocker from Gary Mason.... Even Notley realized the chanters were not representative of any major group - her dismissal of the chant was respectable even if I don't agree with her policies. The cbc anchor was clearly disappointed when Notley didn't entertain the narrative that it was ""oil workers"", portrayed like the first X-Men movie in terms of backwoods northern Alberta cage fighters. Canada has over one hundred billion dollars of projects on hold due to the vocal minority of job-killing professional protesters. Career activists have turned into a national liability - Canada has the ""stuff"" the rest of the world needs and our biggest impediment to progress is domestic Naomi Klein-style hypocrites. When a vocal minority of ignorant blowhards can hijack the discussion on nation-building projects, it's a sign of regression as a society. The ""green"" economy doesn't exist, note 13+ years of Ontario Liberal incompetence for reference",1 +"Not all Islamist are terrorists, but all - or most- terrorists are Islamists",1 +"It would be nice if the Canadian media would ease up on Trump coverage, its becoming a bore and is mostly repetitious anyway. I would like them to concentrate on the shenanigans of Trudeau and Wynne who seem be getting away with all kinds of dastardly deeds and faux pas. Enough Trump already, we know he is a moron but he's the USA's moron.",1 +"... triple tinfoil layer hat wearer huh ... buys the cheap stuff, THINKS that more layers offers more 'protection' + +I know the kind ... Wisconsin has all sorts of dingbats like Debbie Downer.",1 +"No, I'm saying, based on previous comments you've made at NCR, that you're a Nazi apologist. Don't bother responding to my comments. My reply will always be a big ""f*** you.""",1 +He doesn't even know what mocking means he actually believes all the crap he says or tweets.,1 +"Look. This childish false equivalency and deflection is getting very tired. Yes, Wynne is just as deplorable as the average brain-dead Trump supporter. Trudeau II finds himself of his depth in a puddle. Are you happy now? Can we return to the actual topic that is being discussed in this thread now? + +If the best you can do to support your dumpster fire of a Czar...errr...I mean ""president"" is malign Trudeau rather than present ANY evidence that is apropos of the matter at hand, then you are demonstrably unable to justify Dear Leader's embarrassing behaviour.",1 +"White mass murders can't be ignored or glossed over. As far as your FBI stats goes let's just be real the prison industry in America is huge so if you want to keep your jobs and keep creating jobs for your kids then you must keep a certain population in the dark and keep crime going. Those numbers make people like you feel like incarcerating and killing blacks is okay. But like I said you are the product of people who hung, hunted, and hated blacks so why would you care. You just show up to hate.",1 +"Wow, you're quite the violent thug, aren't you? As far as I can tell, you're the ""human failure"" not the homeless.",1 +Never! Rampahosa will be a very useless president.,1 +"As does Islam genius. Oh and subjugation of women, and the KILLING of non-Muslims. So your point is slag. Could me and my transgender bf get married in a mosque? Get a grip.",1 +"He's a liar and soulless opportunist, just like The Lyin' King.",1 +"Good Lord Jack***, did you just say Iran has never threatened the US? That's right, you did, in the third sentence. But ""Death to America"" daily chants by angry Iranians, ARENT a threat? Jack, I believe you are practicing Taqiyya and a closet Muslim.",1 +"A fool and their money are soon parted, and I'm no fool. Budget, live within your means, grow to enjoy things that don't cost much (try a hike in nature for instance). Best book I ever read was the millionaire next door, all about spending wisely(like ensuring your kids have an education that leads to a career).",1 +"Another hack writer. Making this article about ludicrous but not mentioning that Canada will not give permission to enter Canada if you have ever had a pot conviction. Ever. So put that in you pipe and smoke it Christopher Ingraham.. its called ""ludicrous""...",1 +"Sick - talking to young children about the sexually confused is great for pedophiles. Pedos can ""help"" children determine their true sex.",1 +Because you're an idiot,1 +$26 million isn't enough to educate the ignorant and bigoted folks who stand in the way of civil rights. Ignorance and bigotry are very persistent opponents.,1 +Alaska's Christians will continue to appear ignorant and vindictive to the rest of the world while the Prevos and Boykos of the world go on their merry way ruining innocent people's lives while the Carlsons of the world are forced into early retirement.,1 +"I would agree with you if those arguments you cite were reasoned. Too often the charlatans that make up the right wing media machine will do a multi-show ""expose"" on some liberal conspiracy, only at the very end say that they found nothing. Unfortunately the rubes that truly believe this idiocy don't hear the short bit that claims the previous week's shows were all just speculation. I listened to it with Beck and the FEMA camps, and it happened again and again through the entire Obama administration. + +As for the idiots on college campuses, that is a whole other bag of poo, the kids there can't seem to understand free speech. Bear in mind, though that just because you have a right to say something doesn't mean that you will find an audience that doesn't think you a fool. The best thing that could be done to folks like Coulter, is when they speak at a college, no protests, but instead, let speak, their foolishness will be enough.",1 +"In the immortal words of BO, 'come onnn maan'. So, he’s either incompetent or a liar. The dog ate my homework (my assistant forgot to completely fill out my security clearance form; I didnt notice I signed if. I also forgot to report 10M in assets from my original disclosure form?) I didn’t read the email completely (missed the heading that said ‘russia and Hillary?), I just show up at random meetings my idiot, I mean smart phone tells me to > point finger at brother-in-law.",1 +what a steaming pile of offal from someone who supported the congenital liars LBB Barry and Swillary.,1 +Social norm my ass. When will all this traditions stop!!!,1 +"Women don't like free speech because it hurts their feelings. Women are genetically programmed to be mothers, wives and home makers. Women traditionally have spent their lives in the family villages, in a communal village. No harsh words in the family circle because it upset the kids. You don't want to traumatize anyone. +Men on the other hand are genetically programmed for heavier lifting. Imagine if all you had to do is call someone names and they would run away? Humans would have died out long ago. +- +We need to stop teaching women the cult of feminism is the first step. +- + +https://youtu.be/qRgORR8vqns",1 +"From an evolutionary standpoint, Trump doesn't even have legs yet. Or gills (it just looks that way: they're jowls, actually).",1 +"Hey Skier....... my sentiments exactly. I never go to Walmart anymore... for many reasons (wage disparity etc.,) but partly because as one walks thru it, one sees the unnecessary plastic garbage people randomly throw into their carts.. Same with dollar stores; these junk shops just wreak of plastic shite. Who dreams up all this rubbish that is shipped over in massive containers, I often wonder.. + We need to have a heavy push by provincial governments to seriously consider changing our +science programming to include land fill issues, pollution and sustainability.. Right at the elementary level so that we bring on a new generation of fresh thinkers and advocates for environmental sustainability.",1 +"Come on Phil, you posted the same damn thing in 2013, except you deleted ""The NDP are 20 POINTS ahead in the POLSS!!! (sic) + +Orange is fading, like wallpaper from the 1970s, and Green is greening. But in 72 hrs, the flag of Red, White & Blue will continue to fly over this province. + +Splendor Sine Occasu !",1 +"Loud mouth, displaying every sign of mediocre leardership and generating all Fake news led by WH administrationstaff and oval office. Ignore him and you live a better life. This ugly personage has no credibility any longer.",1 +"It absolutely is, but colleges don't need to sponsor it, for the most part that hateful and derogatory speech has pretty much zero redeeming value. Folks like Milo Y and Ann Coulter are pretty much just angry people who do their best to spread hate. They are free to say whatever they want, but college students should have some say in what their tuition dollars go to sponsor. That being said, the rioting in Berlkey was just stupid.",1 +I believe Trumpet could shoot someone on a NYC street and his followers would not care.,1 +"Keep making excuses and deflecting Sher, Europe is suffering from cultural regression as a result of ""accommodating"" a system of beliefs that is only common in uncivilized societies where free expression and gender equality are non-existent. Political Islam is a cancer.",1 +"I don't believe that Charles Dalton has ever posted that no black person can be successful or ever has been because of white privilege. If fact I am 98% certain he has not. It seems you have to lie in order to make your dubious point. In fact, I find you more of a racist than Charles, since you yourself have implied that Charles's success was the result of affirmative action, rather than his own talent.",1 +"Nicely stated. There are rules for THEM and rules for the rest of the population. Entitlement - nothing more, nothing less. And these are the jerks making the rules for every day people. +Time for Turdeau, Morneau and Co. to go. +In addition, these guys are screwing up NAFTA negotiations. Time to break free of the unions and the dairy/poultry cartels.",1 +"The NDP is disappointed..?? Really??!! There's a Party that's sinking into oblivion under the weight of it's colossal stupidity. Since the beginning of this century, one is unable to count on our hands the number of times that the NDP has supported the Conservatives only to have it blow up in their face. The best one yet was when the Cons, during an election, brought up the niqab issue. Mulcair gleefully waited for this to sink Trudeau.. 24 hours later, Mulcair presenting a macabre smile, was trying to explain his position on the Conservative dog whistle. Hey, NDP, Trudeau gave you a hand up with that weighted ballot.. but OH NO! Let's join the Conservatives and end up with shineola. Stupid beyond belief!!",1 +"Sally, you ignorant hack, the President is empowered by the Constitution to do EXACTLY what you say he can't. The Attorney General, nor the Director of the FBI are independently elected. As such the President has COMPLETE control over them and their actions. Nice try trying to protect your fellow travelers, tho'. Sadly for you, you're just flat out wrong.",1 +This three-times convicted felon is getting to be a real pest. Maybe he is a 'suicide by cop' aspirant?,1 +"There's no whining in football. + +I'm not arguing the simple point of motivation anymore, this crap is ridiculous.",1 +Don't be silly. This has nothing to do with smarter gun laws. Nothing. Nada. Nothing to see here.....,1 +It's for sure that trawling doesn't help. It's all man made in the end. Humans are stupid.,1 +"“U.K. says White House spying claims are ‘ridiculous’” +------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +Given Trump’s admiration for Putin, and the negative remarks about the UK, Germany, Sweden, and others, the policy of his administration appears to be: “embrace your enemies and alienate your allies.” + +If the US survives 4 more years of Trump’s insanity unscathed, it will a miracle.",1 +"Ridiculous, Las Vegas-y, blot-out-the-night-sky distraction to both drivers and pilots. Expensive to maintain. Pumping out green house gases. And apparently fairly useless too! No wait, it advertises!",1 +"The recovery had almost nothing to do with Reagan and almost everything to do with Fed chairman Paul Volcker's easing of short-term interest rates, which had been set high to end the stagflation that plagued the Clinton presidency. The deficit spending for tax relief has never been shown then or now to have had any measureable stimulative effect. It was a giveaway to rich people. Once again, we have a consumer economy. Corporations don't expand business unless they have an expanding market, and putting money in the hands of consumers works, because they will spend it all. The rich buy stock and portfolios and keep that money. Reagan was a pretty but dumb actor. As we have seen, a lot of Americans love pretty but dumb actors. + +I don't see any revisionism in Krugman. He apologized for that overreaction. Those who follow Krugman understand the circumstances and are OK with him. Those who have always hated Krugman and other brainy economists continue to loathe him, so nothing changes.",1 +"Obuma loves to hear himself talk, he was neutered in the last by election for gross incompetence - Trump is the outcome + +Yes Obuma states blacks MUST vote to keep his legacy alive - oooops, they even stayed at home! + +The Democrats look like fools on all fronts, what a bunch of soar loosers.",1 +"The Great Cheeto is not fit to be President. If he is our only hope, we're all doomed to fiery death.",1 +If you go on the South side of the Kenai please be aware that you need to walk while in the water. If you want to just stand and hold your net go to the North side. Don't be the jerk that makes people walk over you when the drift line is going.,1 +"The comment section has devolved into character assassination. Good job, ADN.",1 +"Cutting spending for legal services and public broadcasting (which gave us Fred Rogers and Sesame Street), all while the Trump family spends several million dollars of taxpayer money each weekend for golfing and shuttle flights to Florida. + +Thanks, Mr. President, you vile, disgusting trash.",1 +"Yes, but like the Christian refugees who can't even get into the camps because they're fearful of being killed by Muslim refugees.",1 +"It seems to me that Trudeau's job involves going to talk to idiots like the Russian Candidate, going to Europe to personally insure that the EU signs CETA, meeting with our NATO allies to insure they understand what we are up to, going to other countries where we want to do business and glad handing their leaders. They cannot all come to us and many would rather not have the Russian Candidate come here. + +He is away from his family and eat lots of rubber chicken, must choke back words and bite his tonge sometimes when presented with idiotic ideas. + +It is a dirty job but someone has to do it. + +Would you like this job?",1 +More lies. Who would believe anything Trudeau's aristocrats say.,1 +"What lies? Have you even looked at anything on the site? For instance the ""No Go Zones"" in Sweden? + +Have you seen those videos of the Muslim migrants beating up the female police officers?Not to mention the other videos on the Muslim ""No Go Zones""? + +Do you really think those are all paid actors by ""Alt Right"" conspirators? + +These topics are too sensitive for the MSN. Provide proof of your statement of any ""lies"". Otherwise , you are the one guilty of the slanderous lies. + +I have an open mind and gladly admit I am wrong, if proof can be provided.",1 +Those darn criminals keep getting guns. How can this be?,1 +"What are the alternatives to Trump? I like him because he represents a disconnect with the evil forces which have taken over this country. Unfortunately, his latest campaigning is starting to sound like the same old scumbags have made their way in the back door. Most American people are fed up with what the government is doing to our country. A vote for Trump isn't really a vote for Trump, it's a vote against what's happening to us.",1 +"This is Alaska. Say that to the wrong gay dude and turned inside-out. I knew a couple of roughnecks from Prudhoe some years ago either of whom could've hoisted-up by the throat with one hand the guy in the picture. Last I heard, they got married in California.",1 +"Sorry, Greg, you are obviously very full of poop! Say no more.",1 +"The Winter Solstice is the reason for the season. Christians had to have something to bring the Pagans around to their way of thinking, so they changed the birthday to the winter solstice. This guy is a complete idiot.",1 +"Easy for silver spooned Trudeau to lash out at people working for a living. + +Our PM was born into fame and great wealth, and never had to hold down a real job his entire life. + +Pathetic hypocrite.",1 +"Liar, like Trump, Huckabee-Sanders, and Kelly.",1 +"Two Federal jury verdicts involving black plaintiffs in the same week here in Eugene. + +I will always disagree with Judge McShane's gay marriage decision, primarily because he is a gay man in a relationship and could have recused himself. + +But he certainly isn't a right-wing racist nut job. + +I'm betting his dismissal of the race card charges stands, even in the 9th Circuit. + +Here is yesterday's 9th Circuit case involving police a Taser, a death and a crazy person. + +http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2017/10/02/15-17065.pdf",1 +"Ah the mournful cry of the self entitled NIMBY in exile.. + +Ottawa is a wonderful city in so many ways but if all you want to do do is pine for Rosedale or Westmount(!!??) you should probably decamp for one of those locations and stop your ever lasting whining. + + It seems that Mr Cohen, like his brothers and sisters in arms felt they were not given the deference they were due as the city went ahead with refurbishing the stadium and re opening the door to the hot dog eating sports fans into their neighborhood just as everything was so nice and quiet. + +It is people such as yourself and Mr Cohen who live here but pine for West mount or Rosedale that are a drag on this city...",1 +"Trump is embarked on policies that promote domestic terrorism and the radicalization of American citizens. He's a reckless, dangerous man.",1 +"Wow. I started looking at Breitbart when Trump put him on the team. It is right leaning, but racist or bigoted, no. Have you ever gone to the site? I starting to think that you haven't done any research. Alt-right is a dog whistle for racist, but you know that. Please keep that in mind before posting opinions that have no basis in fact.",1 +"I hope Ontarioans arent that stupid to fall for this one.. + +Ohh wait a minute..they elected here in the first place..along with the Selfie Boy PM and her main man, Butts.. + +I guess they are that stupid...",1 +"“I am not responsible for the death of that woman.” + +Sounds like rantings of a greedy sociopath.",1 +"The only way it is homophobic is if the gay population took it to mean that Donald Trump is actually gay & they found it insulting that Colbert would lump him in with them for a laugh. But as a joke for those Americans who do not understand, it implies that Trump is Putin's b***h. And that remains to be seen. Money buys a lot of things.",1 +That judge is a racist and all lefties are racist.,1 +"And you..... DanSvatass are an ASS!! +There are friends and family who love this Man and will be forever changed because of this..... +Your comment says everything there is to know about you!!!! 😡",1 +"You obviously have a dog in this fight and it is Hillary and even though Trump crossed a line and was a complete idiot, especially at the end of his speech. In your first sentence you start making your case with your opinion, but I beg to differ (I want to be fair so I will fight opinion with opinion), what he said was not even close to being as viscous, condescending and judgemental as what the Podesta emails revealed. Then you go on to state Clinton is wrong on abortion but....... There is no but, her stance and that of the DNC are wrong and it really is that simple. You are the worst case scenario of what you accuse others of being, and you use gov't and supreme court decisions as a crutch to justify moral decisions instead of using your free will, your brain and your faith. + +Do changes need to be made in the Catholic Church? Many say they do and I can be counted as one of those but those changes should come from within the church and not forced on us from outside, + +Rick W",1 +"The only thing I hear from you is hate, fumbling BS, and nonsense. Get a life or give it up.",1 +"Nice rant, completely off topic, which is completely expected from a die-hard leftie. + +1. Concur, but NOT at the expense of American citizens +2. Concur. +3. Concur, REASONABLE regs, not stupid, senseless, overbearing ones that are more concerned about a small fish than farmers and other Americans +4. Concur. +5. See #3 + +I've got a rant, as well. + +1. Americans deserve to have their Constitutional rights respected and protected. Yes that includes - gasp! - the First and Second Amendments +2. Americans deserve to be left the hell alone from their government, as the Founders imagined, and NOT have every aspect of their lives ruled by leftists who think they are the smartest ones in the room. +3. Americans deserve to keep what they have earned, rather than have it confiscated and given to worthless lumps who sit on their fat asses watching Ellen all day long. +4. Americans deserve an HONEST media that is more interested in reporting the truth than advancing a leftist ideology.",1 +"Um, proud of being gay ? Like you are proud of being not gay. + If you can't find anything about yourself to be proud of then maybe try harder.",1 +"As a Gay cradle Roman Catholic who moved away from the Church many years ago and a year ago began again to receive the Sacraments, I must say the Church has not been very welcoming in Los Angeles to my husband and me. +With the Cardinal of Lima, Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne, invited by our Archbishop to say Mass at my Parish the Cathedral Our Lady of the Angels I realized that it was time to search for a different faith community. Cipriani said this about LGBT unions in Spain ""In today's world, evil disguises itself as good, it is imposed on others, and woe to him who does not believe it"". Cipriani has also made comments about women who have been sexually abused such as ""the woman puts herself on provoking display"". At All Saints Day Mass yesterday at the Cathedral when we shared the Sign of Peace the man next to me turned his back to me. +Sunday we took the Blessed Sacrament at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, the priests and parishioners were very welcoming. An ordained Mother said Mass.",1 +"Firstly I do not defend the old flag. There are not enough comment characters available for proper, clear debate. Secondly my problem with this article is the continued attack on anything Afrikaans by mostly libtard journalists and opinionistas. Thirdly my biggest gripe is with the apparent want by these writers to deny history and write certain segments of society who are part of this country and history from history. Fourthly their hypocrisy of pointing out the wrongs of the past but then suggesting same oppressive remedies is sickening. Such as the removal of ANY symbols of a group and their identity or attacking their language and culture CONSTANTLY. How is that any different from past attacks on the dignity and culture of black South Africans? Lastly your example of a Hitler statue in TelAviv is not the same. If you said in Berlin it would be more accurate. There are hardly any non-Jewish Germans living in Tel Aviv or Israel or having played a direct role in the history of Israel.",1 +">>We recognize the right of people to think and believe what they will. + +Well, like it or not - that includes the right to question, criticize... and believe it or not - offend. +. +>>Because in Canada, we don't write stupid laws. + +But stupid motions are OK?",1 +"Why are people so stupid? Just amazes me, they think they can get away w/ anything and then think they can get away from the law.",1 +"""…the President said in a weekend tweet that his putative Republican allies looked “like fools”"" + +Yup, as always Trump takes no responsibility for anything. The mark of a real fool.",1 +Meanwhile Ms Grundy the music teacher is shagging teenager Archie in flagrant pedophilia. Such fun. Milo is forgiven.,1 +Idiot.,1 +"Spoken like a true Liberal, spitting on the grave of the dead. Classless goons.",1 +"He deserved to rot in jail, with his terrorist friends.",1 +Your pretty dumb just like this woman,1 +Let's build a theme park on Temple Mount. It will create jobs. Who cares about what jews and muslims think.,1 +"Don't know how that ""Nice Guy"" could vote this as sad... higher tariffs would have people thinking twice about spending stupidly on trash toys, and dependable retirement income after a union job would reduce his worries about ""picking up the load"" for those he seems to despise ....",1 +It's the fat and ugly ones that whine the most.,1 +"The plans as we can loosely see them will enrich shareholders who avoid grossly stupid narrow investment strategies. Now you involve millions who know own IRA's not garaunteed pensions. + +But about half of all Americans do not have disposable income to invest and their retirement/security comes from government distribution of our shared national wealth. I'm fine with growing shareholder wealth but cutting government support for health and housing is unconscionable.",1 +"Oh my God!!! Being an innocent person and getting gunned down in the street is not even close to going to a party, getting s**t faced, and then screwing some guy in the back room. If the guy is as drunk as the woman and they have consensual sex at the party, you can't later blame him. He was drunk too and not responsible for his behavior, like her. Right?",1 +Canada is nothing.,1 +"""It requires listening to people and thinking about what they say."" + +Yes, it does. I like to think I have. + +Do I ""think Brown deserved to die because he was imperfect?"" No. + +Do I ""think his life was not worthy of a protest over his death?"" No. + +Do I think bad things are NOT going to happen if I start fighting with a police officer? No. + +Brown was an 18-year-old black male. Some white males that age do dumb things. I do not ""think"" this - I know this. + +I'm going to assert that some 18-year-old black males also do dumb things. + +At one level, I'll concede EVERYTHING'S about race. At another level, however, it's all about people, irrespective of race, doing dumb things. Brown did something dumb. + +Your article might have placed more emphasis on stupidity, less on phenotype.",1 +"The Leftnut media, NYT, WaPo, CNN, MessNBC, are all liars, traitors and crooks. They have only one agenda: hate and kill Republicans. They have no other function in life. Sad, pathetic, but criminally liable. Jail them all!",1 +"Trump will be ""at the helm"" because a bunch of idiots voted for him.",1 +"Effing moron, just like those who voted for him.",1 +"""Oregon can and should help reduce U.S. emissions by adopting a statewide carbon tax in which polluters pay proportionately."" Exactly who are these polluters in a state of only 3.8 million people? Is it 80% of us who work at grocery stores, fast food places, waitresses and waiters, the one who changes the sheets in the hotels, the mechanic who fixes your car? Can it be that these people are the polluters who should be taxed on their income because they work and live? I like to know, where people learn this kind of idiocy.",1 +"Yawn. One dimwit replacing another. + +Outing of incompetent Nayef indicates that campaign against Daesh/ISIL is not going well. It also means it will go worse under untested Salman. + +With Iran-Saudi and US-Russia rivalry rife, and Saudi fate in young hands, the ME future is a foregone conclusion. Out with US, Saudi, in with Russia, Iran, and Turkey. The West is on the wrong side of history. + +Saudi Arabia represents 1400 years history of ""the religion of peace"" - father following son in Kaliphate or Monarchy in futile pursuit of gore, glory, conquest, and colonialism, just to live off other people's money (OPM) by imposing Tariffs (Arabic word of Kaliphate origin) by controlling world trade and closing the Silk Road. Maggie Thatcher famously said the trouble with OPM is that it soon runs out.",1 +"Trump is a buffoon that has no understanding that will hurt the USA more than it will Mexico; look for severely increased inflation and/or a run to physical gold-now is that what he wants you to do(ie. Oval Office gold curtains?) + +Trump has to be in line for the lowest IQ by any POTUS",1 +Convict the murdering drunkard and sentence him to MANY years in prison! Nothing less will satisfy... for killing a motorcyclist out on a ride. Disgusting behavior by the drunkard and he needs to pay big time.,1 +These kids have no idea what the he'll their protesting about. The democrats are reaping what they sowed. All idiots. This will pass when they get bored and tired of being broke. Just like the 60s,1 +"Is there anyone who CARES what Schatz thinks ??? He needs to return to being the non-entity that he always has been. BACK to your hole, little worm, and PLEASE....be quiet.",1 +"More Nannies State nonsense. +- +As if we need the government to keep spam away from our inboxes. Have you ever heard of a spam filter? Why oh why? +- +The government should do something useful like keep flyers out of my mail box and stop funding it with my tax dollars. Not to mention the free newspaper full of propaganda and useless advertisement, they want to fund that too with my tax dollars. Since the Lib's are all green and climate changed you think they could do that at least, keep wasted paper out of my box. I can handle my inbox myself thanks. Probably just another excuse to spy on us.",1 +"So much better to just ignore cops killing blacks, right fiveo? They deserve it. We just want to watch a football game and get drunk. So very American. + +If God did have a hand in the founding, he or she must be shaking their head like crazy today. + +How could a country get away from God so much where violance is tolerated and actually celebrated each week? So very Christian.",1 +"Oh Pocho, welcome back. Seems you need a good lesson on what medicaid is. ITS A PROGRAM FOR THE POOR, nitwit. And, BTW, illegal immigrants are not eligible. If you can identify any illegal immigrants getting medicaid, you should turn them in to the feds. And pray tell, what federal benefits did you pay for that you're not getting. I also like how you used the ""fer"" instead of ""for"" so you can sound like the typical white male idiot that votes for Trump. You are just a blast to read. You bring intelligent people such joy. Maybe you should have studied harder in school so you could tell the difference between fact and fiction and you wouldn't be so easily manipulated by Fox and Trump. You're such a Trump lapdog. Must feel good.",1 +"i worked for them and i would never ever work ever for them again,,too much bullshit drama around a bunch of contradictory premadonna's..Gossip monger. gossip nazis and back stabbing..I Learned always be leary of women and people of the arts.....",1 +Oh shut up Rhyner. You know squat.,1 +"To be perfectly clear, I do not support union rhetoric, politics or their bargaining methods, their lack of participation in the concerns of the real world or their ignorance of the consequences of their actions. + +That being said, I support them in this case 100% and sincerely hope that they are successful in this endeavor encouraging all others to follow suit. This Criminiberal government should have been disposed of like the carrion they are, years ago. + +All the best to CUPE, and may the odds be forever in your favor. + +PS. I really cannot fathom why there are still people who support this government in OntariOWE. Hopefully, CUPE is successful in getting a conviction that may allow those Liberal supporters to finally see the carnage this crime syndicate has laid upon the good citizens of this once beautiful province. Their argument, ""vote for the devil you know"" was the worst possible excuse imaginable for electing Wynne! Stupidity begets stupidity...",1 +"Count this Ivy League grad as anti-intellectual. In the US, with more and more people going to college, we have more and more stupid people thinking that they are smart. They seem to think that sitting through a bunch of lectures, particularly those in the social sciences, by ""those who teach"" and memorizing their propaganda raises them to a different level of social status, smarter than others. + +But what's a shame is how part of the brainwashing makes them speak differently, putting on airs, to make themselves sound smarter than they really are. They're human computers, programmed by elitist professors to turn people into wanna-be intellectuals; still unable to think, just regurgitating the memory from their hard drives. + +Look at the whole climate change fiasco: no one dare question the (crap) data analysis, because, you know, it was generated and analyzed by scientists who went to college and became smart just like they did. Meanwhile, many shunned science courses as too hard",1 +Are you one of those slugs Mason?,1 +"As a Native American, please don't try and use This stupid liberal argument to tell people to accept Sharia practitioners into the land of our people pretending the remaining Natives are now acclimate for your apologists genocide",1 +The sons of Birches won't forget who cost them their tax cuts.Them old GOP men shaking their tiny fists at those two ladies with the big balls!,1 +"Idiots. The damage is already done. Housing in TO is already far out of reach for everyone except the one percenters. Any new legislation brought forth now to address the problem is too little, too late. The only thing that would bring RE prices back down to earth would be a major housing correction in the neighbourhood of a 30 - 40% (or more) drop in values. I don't ever see that happening. Bottom line - even dual-income average wages today are nowhere near sufficient to service the average mortgage. Prices are absolutely ridiculous with no reason or justification.",1 +That has a lot of to do with Americans being ignorant and uneducated about anything besides the US.,1 +"""""The proposal would “limit our ability to pursue good jobs in a clean ­industry for Cascade Locks,” the company says."" + + +What a load of nonsense, two hundred heavy trucks hauling water daily is hardly ""clean"". And Nestle's objective isn't to improve conditions for the working man, it's profit full stop. Bottled water is just another tax on the stupid.",1 +So it wasn't racists and bigots assembling in Charlottesville chanting Nazi slogans? Wow! Who knew? Thanks for explaining that to me.,1 +"That is one of the most insane statements I have ever read about SNAP, and I've read plenty over the last 25 years. Clue time. Last time I heard, no priest has ever been accused of molesting a fetus. +They are allied with the left for a very simple reason: liberals have consciences, believe in ethics and protecting children, and try to act with integrity and honesty. Anyone who is stupid enough to use the term FAKE NEWS is deplorable. I'll bet you are one of the people who think the Boston Globe is fake news, especially about exposing the vileness of the Church, right? +As usual, a pro-life nutjob has no concern for children who are already living and have been molested by her blessed Church.",1 +"""Anybody who can kiss that many asses, that quickly, is so primed for success in the American workplace that they don't need your crappy restaurant job."" + +^This. + +Also, having been both the chatty person and the languishing-in-line-behind-the-chatty-person person, I think the best thing to do is smile and get over it.",1 +"What a show of Statesmenship from this assclown, who the hell is dumb enough to vote for these idiots?",1 +"Two hundred calendar days until impeachment. +Forty -eight hours until insults another country. +Says something stupid: two minutes into his inaugural speech.",1 +Lots of the run up in the markets were based on the hope of a trillion dollar infrastructure promise and the tax reform promise. He did not talk or give any details about that yesterday. I expect the tax reform part to be executed (because the Replublicans want it) but the infrastructure spending will be a challenge(most republicans dont want it). He talked about building his stupid wall and repealing Obamacare. Both of which does not help the Markets or the dollar.,1 +"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!!!",1 +This article is silly and petulant. The president is elected by the states via the electoral college. You are correct. Trump is not your president or my president. He IS the President of the United States.,1 +"Translation: I can't handle the fact that the guy I voted for POTUS is either the dumbest SOB to ever hold the office, or he's been totally compromised by the Russians; one of our greatest adversaries.",1 +"How about some facts. China setup its Investment Bank (AIIB) to compete with the World Bank, the latter setup by the U.S. to control global development. U.S. sneered at the AIIB and refused to join, disallow Japan too. But today the China Investment Bank has 57 full members with 25 more negotiating to join. Canada being one. The AIIB target is 100 member countries and looks like this will happen. How's that for leadership by a 'communist totalitarian regime'. Your choice of word only tell me of your ignorance and dogma brain of a Trump. Do yourself a favor and purge.",1 +"Congrats on not dying. You're an idiot. A very talented, determined, & in-shape idiot, but a reckless idiot nonetheless. See also: Üli Steck. + +People will die (or land on & kill others) while trying to emulate you, and Park Service employees will have to use taxpayer-funded spatulas & hoses to clean them off the granite. Neat.",1 +"You've got a lot to learn. + +Doubtful if you have the capacity though. + +Must suck to be you.",1 +"Unless if you are a member of the First Nations, you are making your (racist and ignorant) claims from a glass house.",1 +"What do you bet the Weinstein scandal will reveal that there's been funny business going on with the Academy Awards and Emmys? Think of all the actresses and crappy movies connected with Harvey that have been nominated and/or won. ""Oscar Rigging"" is my prediction for the next chapter in this saga.",1 +"Yeah, because people like you claim to know something about a total stranger. Is it to make yourself feel better? Do you need help with it so badly that you'll make ridiculous assumptions about people you've never met? If not, what is it? +Please fill us in.",1 +i didnt say that clinton wasnt the status quo either.. i said donald trump is the status quo and he is.. you simple cannot call the kettle black with out naming the pot the same.. presuming anything else but that must of been your mouth overloading your feeble brain..,1 +Now we know you're just a troll.,1 +"He has golfed for about 25% of his entire term in office. At taxpayer expense. + +A lazy slob. I stand by my first comment.",1 +"The only thing ISIS and al-Qaeda really prove, to intelligent people, it that they are hate mongering, brutal, genocide maniacs, that need to be exterminated from the face of the earth.",1 +"""I see"" said the blind woman. Yes, ""shame in you ADN"" for printing the article that allows trolls like RIC to make inane comments.",1 +"Eighty-year-old women spontaneously die every day. Therefore, if you strangle your grandmother, the use of the term ""murder"" for your act is ""precluded.""",1 +"These are people looking for a free handout, hence they want to go to Germany and Sweden where the welfare is much higher. Many of these collect welfare, and then go on vacation back to their home countries where they laugh at the stupidity of Europeans.",1 +Has anyone noticed how clean and civil the Habs and Buds threads are these days without the Golden Horseshoe boy's foolishness?,1 +"Whatever you're all missing the point. TSA would not be needed if you use K-9 units but muslims claim it's wrong for you to use a dog to search them, claiming by religious right you cannot touch or approach them with an unclean/filthy animal. If you replace all TSA stations with one german sheppard you save hundreds of millions of dollars... So whom is dumb now?",1 +"Kick the running dog Chinese Imperialists out! +Free Tibet!",1 +I will go with organized religion causing more deaths.,1 +"Jerry69, The major national polls, such as Gallup, Rasmussen, YouGov, Morning Consult, and Ipsos, show that the majority of Americans disapprove of Trump's presidency. Less than 40% approve. More and more people want him to be impeached. A substantial proportion of Trump's supporters are racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and Islamophobic people. He has to cater to them in order to keep his popularity from dropping further.",1 +"Eh. I've never even MET John Tetpon and I'm proud of him. He stands up and tells the truth. And these in-denial, oh-so-SUPERIOR white folks who go into a panic whenever anyone even suggests they're less than perfect hate him for it and screech that he's a WAAAAAAAAAY-cist! Yeah, proud of John. You, not so much.",1 +"McCain is a self-serving idiot who has been an embarrassment to our State for decades. + +Phoenix and Tucson elect him; they LOVE their leftists. + +Be quiet, John-John.",1 +"And Trump should be fired if his tweets are insensitive, childish, and demented...",1 +"If it's like his French, pretty bad.",1 +"How are you still writing biased anti Trump BS articles ? Are children and SJW reading the Globe & Mail ? You should be ashamed of +yourself. The article reads like a 13 year old SJW wrote it. Seriously ? NK have been launching missiles and provoking China etc. No one else is going to stop that crazy chubby weirdo child. You should all be very thankful there's an actual man in the while house again.",1 +"Remember who this effort is aimed at - the low-info and/or racist (and really, being stupid and ignorant goes hand in hand with being racist). There is a huge portion of the deplorables that really think there is such a thing as ""white genocide"". + + +Where can you even start with such people? There is that quote about not being able to reason people out of a position that they didn't reason themselves into....(which was from Swift, maybe? http://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/10/reason-out/ )",1 +"Is your typimg finger stuck somewhere? Same lame post repeatedly throughout the comments, if thats all you can muster for a comment, you must be one of those traumatized Liberals still harping over harper, take your meds man.",1 +Maybe hes not into killing himself with lung darts 😥,1 +"Please name one instance -- just one -- when anybody was prohibited by law from saying 'Merry Christmas.' This is the most ludicrous non-issue Trump has ginned up, and that's saying something! + +By the way, Americans wouldn't say 'Happy Christmas.' They's say 'Merry Christmas.' If you're going to be ridiculous, at least be culturally accurate.",1 +"No, it was right-wing evangelical hypocrite blowhard Jimmy Swaggart that was related to Jerry Lee Lewis.",1 +"Don't you fools have jobs all you do bash people who do especially well paying union ones.........glad I am retired. +This will end with a deal but unfortunately both sides lose in a strike. +GM knocked 7 grand off the Equinox in Detroit,the car is a dog,this is one I can't figure out at all.",1 +"Is that so? So the mind and emotion has nothing to do with gender? It's all down to ""plumbing?"" Your ignorance is breathtaking. You are completely incompetent to comment on the issue. You have zero knowledge or understanding of the matter. Zero. I'm amazed.",1 +Liberal crooks trying to steal from Canadians to pay their crooked media bosses.,1 +"Try getting a decent job with a prostitution charge on your record. Two different standards, one for the police and one for the rest of us. Hypocrite.",1 +Violence is the answer.,1 +"Who is this Lady? She has to work for GCI.. Read this https://www.adn.com/business-economy/2016/09/04/how-a-fiber-optic-cable-could-forever-change-life-in-arctic-alaska/ + +They are already laying the subsea cable and stringing it in the communities. Don't let her asinine comments fool you.",1 +"As a rabble rouser, trumpf is numba 1. Look at his rabble rousing idiotic tweets. Psychotic demented person. Spicer lies on top of trumpfs lies. Conway has been delegated to taking ""pictures"" in the Oval orfice.",1 +"Hypocrites indeed. I would add: +- Support for Alberta's industry that produces oil and gas: BAD +- Support for Ontario's auto industry that burns oil and gas: GOOD + +The anti-Alberta venting in the G&M comments over the past year or more has been difficult to understand. The province has paid tens of billions of extra dollars in equalization payments which have subsidized social programs in other provinces, yet the response has been ""Make them pay PST too"". What's up with the visceral hate of the goose that's been laying golden eggs?",1 +"Valuing the livelihood of your fellow citizens over some corporate entities stock price is a good thing. + +It's called national pride, we used to have it but now people are focused on cheap crap from Walmart and being scared of a nonexistent enemy.",1 +"Then, unite with me, Les. Advocate correction of THE most horrible mistake our country's electorate has ever made. This is beyond embarassment or loss of national dignity. It is dangerous. + +I agree with you. United we stand, divided we fall. And, unless we unite to compel Congress to act and remove Trump from office, we will fall. Because he is the most divisive and dangerous force this country has empowered since the Confederacy. + +Trumpist rhetoric is losing any virtue in logic or reality. It would be silly, if it weren't so dangerous to continue to enable the guy. But while silly implies stupidity or ignorance on some level, it is also euphemistic of wrong. Trump is dangerous. To us all. That's the only way to describe him. And thus, as one of his enablers, you are the same. + +Mueller has to hurry. Congress has to act. Perhaps the existence of America is at stake. + +It's only been 8 months, folks. Look at what has happened.",1 +"Of course alcohol isn’t responsible for rape. Rapists are responsible for rape, just as muggers are responsible for mugging you if you walk down a dark alley in a dicey part of town at 4 a.m. But if you could do something to reduce the risk of getting mugged, wouldn’t you? + +This powerful, and easily understood analysis should be taped on the mirror of everybody to read as they check their face before heading out for a night of drinking.",1 +"I just got an overview on how the proposals would affect the Canadian CCPCs I have invested in. +I'm certainly not in as bad a spot as the income splitters, but the long term affects on keeping money in the company , tax sheltered retained earnings , used by the company to fuel growth , really changes the strength of our balance sheets and the investor picture in CCPCs +I am left wondering where our lending institutions are on this issue? +Theyv'e been pretty quiet ( or I missed it) + with the bank - My hypothesis is that requests for personal guarantees on loans could become more prevalent , with a consequence of investor money leaving the small biz sector for safer harbours , both onshore and offshore. +We'll see, I still don't believe they will be this stupid",1 +"Francie Duggan apparently doesn't get art, sex or what, in 2016, is deserving of outrage. Can anything help these people? Living in a bubble world appears to be making them super cranky if not mentally ill. Maybe the feds should give them back their oxycodone.",1 +"So it's the media's fault? Is there anything these days NOT the media's fault? How about the parents? Where were they? Are MTV and Twitter the parents of these punks? + +Stupid youths are not political, they are just young and dumb. Some of them are criminal. Let's put some, most?, all? of the personal responsibility on the laps of these ""boys"".",1 +"It's pathetically comic to see a publicly-proclaimed, proud sodomite expressing such profound moral disdain for a man whose worst sexual sins are fornication (not even adultery, since he has never been validly married--pre-nups), and who has put his life on the line to save his country from socialist, abortionist totalitarians.",1 +Colin kaepernick is an idiot. You don't see construction workers or nurses kneeling before work every morning. Do your job and shut your mouth. There's other ways to handle the situation. I don't watch football because of its political influences. That's why I watch the news go to lectures and speeches and read. No room for this in sports,1 +Trump thinks he is God with his stolen money and cheating ways. I find him silly and unattractive. And so very weak.,1 +"Another non sequitur emanating from the ""Adult Day Care"", To equate IQ with ability to lead the United States is a totally erroneous conclusion. Another famous showman PT Barnum (of Barnum and Bailey Circus fame) was also very intelligent. In fact he was intelligent enough to keep his circus with it's clowns out of the White House. Not so with ""The Donald""",1 +"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.",1 +"Well now, which nazis or KKK or Alt-rgt (What the hell is that?) is Trump trying to please now ----- Let's hope that this NAFTA farce is over and the US is further behind as a world power and continues to be further isolated from reality. Not only is Trump not reasonable, he is not intelligent, nor discretionary, just gutter street smart. (Remember that he is the child of a bully and who now himself has become a bully.) But where are the Republican Senators who will eventually in about 5 years time vote on a new NAFTA agreement after they have impeached this idiot! Not to be seen or interested, frightened of losing their seats but signing on to a misfit president. Shame on them!",1 +"badges, uniforms are NOT symbols of oppression, bigotry and racism you ignorant loser. NO FUNDING!",1 +Islamic state is taking responsibility for it and patting themselves on the back but it's unlikely that they are directly responsible. It's possible they trolled the sociopath in Nevada on social media. There are crazy people who get talked into doing evil things that way. It worked for Trump. He went on twitter to talk people into voting for him and slanders people who didn't. It's a peer pressure/bullying thing.,1 +"I have a raven that hangs around and after reading this essay, I will add that she would make a better President than the ape we have now. Jesting (?) aside, this was a fascinating read...",1 +"Ooh, an opinion by the Post. I must immediately change my views. Hillary could burn down an orphanage filled with transgendered children of color and beat them with Gibson guitars as they came running out and the Post would still giver her their support.",1 +"Say what you will, but I trust Kim Jong-un with nuclear weapons only slightly less than I trust Donald J. Trump with them. Both so-called leaders are cut from the same cloth; born rich, self entitled, narcissistic, and they're both batsh*t crazy.",1 +"You are correct and orthodox. If Holy Father Francis truly gets the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the St. Pius X Society to join in Communion with the RCC, we'll have PLENTY of comrades. PLENTY! All of the Eastern Orthodox priests who I know are VERY opposed to homosexual behavior. VERY! Additionally, if we can get married, heterosexual men into the priesthood, this would also drive out the priests and seminarians who are active homosexuals.",1 +"It is funny how the ignorant of today believe they understand the mentality that existed up to the Civil War. As always, CONSERVATIVES rewrite history(or minimize what they do not agree with) to be of their liking and consistent with their present day agenda. + +From one article: Recall that in the ""Great Compromise,"" it was determined that representation in the House of Representatives would be based on the population of each state. After the convention approved the Great Compromise, Madison wrote: ""It seems now to be pretty well understood that the real difference of interests lies not between the large and small but between the northern and southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences form the line of discrimination."" + +To imply nearly 100-years later(Civil War) what had been a monumental issue(slavery) in the creation of the USA was +now reduced to the North telling the South what do as the motivating factor for fighting by the southern soldiers is absurd.",1 +"I was getting everything right but quit when I reached the second ""Drake"" question. +Is this quiz for readers to have fun with or another goddammed advertorial?",1 +He graduated from Punahou which makes him relatively intelligent. But he ended up doing something incredibly stupid which indicates severe mental problems I think. Perhaps he was the receipiant of violence growing up? I don't know but if the answer is not found he will probably be violent again when he is finally freed.,1 +"""stupid local yokel legislators who can't read and understand contract law and many are attorneys"" + +While I do believe they are stupid, these legislators are doing this on purpose. The government has long wanted access to the Permanent Fund, so they created a 'crisis' on purpose, thinking we are so stupid we will believe them and go along with it. + +The corruption is strong with the new CBC, how do we get the FBI to help us out again?",1 +"Exactly, might even find a lifer to drop a heavy dumbbell on their head.",1 +"It is waste not waist, if you are going to whine about what the governor is doing at least spell check.",1 +"No, I'm afraid the voters are stupid. Mind-numbingly stupid. They voted for rail, somehow trusting the inept/dishonest pro-Rail politicians and believing the malarkey about rail only costing 5.2 BILLION. The voters are completely responsible for this mess as they voted for Carlisle, Caldwell, Abercrombie, Muffi et al.",1 +Don't you worry little potato head will ruin the Liberal party for good.,1 +"My late Scottish mother-in-law had to wait one full year before coming to Canada to join her Canadian solider husband...and she had her first born already in tow!! + +That was 1946....which I'm going to suggest we all now refer to as ""the good old days""... + +Think about that... + +This Liberal government and Trudeau in particular are a god damn disgrace... + +I miss Steven Harper don't you?",1 +Free shit for everyone! No thanks! Pay your own way.,1 +"You left out the part about the church not firing straight employees who choose for whatever reason to get married at city hall unlike gay employees who do the same thing and lose their jobs over the ""scandal"" of it all.",1 +Hunt those men down and string em up.,1 +"Omar and the entire Khadr (self-described al Queda) family have made fools of the Canadian government. +There is no excuse that rationalizes paying Omar $10.5 million. +We must look ridiculous to the rest of the world.",1 +"Nobody ever accused John Horgan of being principled. Quite the opposite: he's a craven, opportunistic, NDP party apparatchik imbued with situational, conditional ethics.",1 +Yes that is why the Conservative Party makes itself look like an association of donkeys with this kind of accusation.,1 +"It is a hypothetical question, but I will indulge your idiocy. +Of they passed such a law me and my conservative friends would gather all of our weapons and violently over throwing the government. We would create a new government which would allow me to lock you into a cell for asking dumb hypothetical questions. Then I would install our Constitution back into place and let the politicians re-ruin America. + +I am not afraid of your really dumb and loaded question, I just do not take it seriously. Why would I ? +If you want to believe I have a closed mind because I will not entertain a hypothetical, loaded and really dumb question super! + +Believe what you want, this is America, not Stupidistan or where ever political thought is a protected class. + +Have a great night, go Broncos!",1 +Your remark is insensitive and stupid. A new low.,1 +There is NO way any sane person could watch Trumps performance and conclude ANYTHING but that Trump is bat shite crazy.,1 +"As George Patton put it, no one ever won a war by dying for his country. He made some other poor bastard die for his country.",1 +"I am beginning to think the RC clergies are the lowest in the spiritual attainments among all religions on the earth! They seems to be a hypocrite in general holding themselves +above everyone! They don't even know how ugly they seem to the eyes of lay people!",1 +"Which only proves the stupid rabid homophobia of both Russia and it's bosom kin, the Deep South, that except for the revelation of a minor character's possible same sex attraction, it's okay for the female lead to fall in love with a talking buffalo/wolf hybrid.",1 +"You filthy leftist are running scared and soon +will be dying of starvation. No more slaves +for you to control. Time the right put you +down.",1 +"Why do so many Globe columns insist on telling us ""we must"" one stupid thing or another.",1 +"I agree with the writer. There is to much fear and he speaks the truth when he talks of foolish people. There is alot of stupid going around, it seems to be breeding also. You don't run a trail with an ipod in your ears when you know there are bear in the area. You certainly don't run or hike where you know there are salmon spawning this time of year. I lived around brown bears in the bush in southeast for seven straight years. Close proximity, even walking up to the dump to put trash in while 3 were laying only 25 feet away and nothing happened, they didn't even move. I knew how to behave around them and how to act. More people need to learn how to behave in bear country and there would be less attacks, less maulings. Stupidity will get you killed in Alaska and this advice is for all the lower 48rs who have moved here and for those who come to visit. Brown bears are not something to fear, they are beautiful animals and just need their space.",1 +Because they can and because people will pay it. We’re a nation depending on credit both in our government and personal finances. If I owned a bank I’d do the same thing. Why. Because I’m a damn business out to make money. No different in government either. They borrow everything on credit.,1 +"I'm for Trump only because he will probably be one of the most ineffective presidents in America's history. Our government, our military, our businesses will simply ignore him and do whatever they need to do. Most Americans aren't all that stupid. We know how to work around ineffective bosses. +Trump will gather a small army of ""flappers"" (Gulliver's Travels) around himself, and bumble around the world on ego safaris. Meanwhile, we will carry on, all the while telling him what a great president he is. +Hillary, on the other hand, is ""used goods"". Sorry for the offensive term, but she will do as always, get revenge. She hates! That is one of the most uncontrollable passions, and why we should deeply fear her becoming our president. +Hopefully, after the next four years with Trump, a total clown, as president, we will have dealt with our two parties putting party dogma ahead of the needs of the people. +Hopefully, we will also have learned the lesson of no more Trumps or Hillarys.",1 +I'm a lifelong Liberal. Always thought Bob Rae was far superior to the garbage ultimately put in front of the fanboys.,1 +Fake president!,1 +Any Indians work in private industry? Seems like they are all at the trough and not contributing.,1 +"THERE IS NO SUCH A THING CALLED ARMENIAN GENOCIDE. ARMENIANS REBELLED AGAINST THE OTTOMAN ARMY AND MANY OF THEM GOT NEUTRALIZED. END OF STORY. YOU ARE A FUCKING MORON, NOT SURE HOW YOUR LITTLE BRAIN WILL CAPTURE THE TRUTH BUT WHATEVER, GOOD LUCK. BYE.",1 +"democrats is as stupid as stupid does, never ending defamation is their motto..",1 +They would still have a chance of servival and i dont think its worth it...just get rid of them.😊,1 +Are you out of your mind?,1 +"""This controversy continued into 2017, a year that, for Indigenous people, marks 150 years of colonial oppression. As the Canadian government unrolled its Canada 150 budget and agenda, Indigenous people across the country recoiled. Canada “150”? Really? To suggest that this country didn’t exist for us before 1867 is a punch to the gut – a half-billion-dollar, year-long celebration that hammers home the message, over and over again, that Canada depends on our erasure.' + +In my opinion, this is absolute codswallop....Let's assist those Indigenous Canadians who need a helping hand in order to become self sufficient so that they can prosper in the 21st century....for those others who wish to wallow in their perpetual self-pity and victimization, so be it....I am fed up with this nonsense...and I am an Indigenous Canadian....",1 +You know what is not Dope about Germany. The rapidly raising sexual assaults and rape epidemic that they refuse to address.,1 +"Indeed. Just think of being in the graduating class, and after years of study, having to listen to such self-absorbed claptrap from the ""leader"" of the country. +Disgusting.",1 +Wow. Houseguests from HELL. Who the f^#% has an armed stand off in someone else's home?,1 +"Is minority-elect ""President"" Trump a war criminal?",1 +"If those protesters are marching against the abuses of Sharia law, then they should march in protest in those nations where those abuses take place, not in America where those abuses don't take place. That would be logical, as opposed to your pseudo-logic. But no, those demonstrators, according to Muslim leaders cited in this article, are marching in protest of Muslims in general, especially in the United States, where the SPLC concludes those hate groups are activists against Muslims in the US. Your pseudo-logic leads me to conclude that you either didn't read the article, or didn't understand it. + +Here's a question for you - when was the last time Muslims threw a homosexual from a high building in the US, or beheaded one? The answer of course, is never. Sharia as practiced in the US is not against our Constitution.",1 +"Free speech takes another hit from the Liberals. +My taxes pay for women to kill their babies. I am in disagreement with this, and I now have no choice to free speech because they are easily triggered. + +Step one- go to an abortion clinic and protest the suppression of free speech. +Step 2- get arrested for violation of foreign feminist policy. +Step3- Have case thrown out in court. +Step 4- Protest abortion in front of abortion clinic + +The law can not enforce this, unless they intend to violate your rights as a citizen to accommodate feminism.",1 +Men comply with the law as a means to please God. The acts you foolishly try to whitewash are 2 of the 4 sins which cry to Heaven for vengance. Your delusional proposition is rank heresy.,1 +"Couldn't agree more. Fear mongering and outright lying to a knee jerk public. That's what got us the moron in the White House, whose behavior,by the way, is probably the real source of the feelings of fear and stress that is stupidly being projected onto to SB91. Get rid of Trump and put someone competent and thoughtful in his place and I guarantee those chaotic feelings of helplessness and anger will substantially subside.",1 +"This is the dumbest editorial I have ever seen, but it helps clarify why these keep right laws are necessary. The left lane is for passing. Period. Nobody, even if they are going 100 mph, should stay to the left. Keep right except to pass is one of the most fundamental and universally recognized ways to maximize highway safety. What is your problem with moving over? Does it bruise your ego when you get passed? Are you too lazy to be bothered with lane changes?",1 +"Dark people have earned bias against them. I do not like people who cannot tolerate LGBTQ, infidels etc. Most dark people are prejudice. Most dark people are narcissistic, most dark people complain all the time etc. These are annoying traits and I do not like them or people who display them.",1 +UH SUCK!!,1 +By uttering foolish and dangerous declarations that make matters worse.,1 +"The U.N. is a useless organization, completely dominated by Muslim nations.",1 +"I believe that all prisoners should be pepper-sprayed once each morning before breakfast as part of their punishment and rehabilitation. And kicked in the crotch too by their victims. Yeah, kicked too.",1 +"get ready.....here come the Trump claims regarding Ms Clinton being ""too weak, too frail"" to be President. I can only say I'd rather have a President with a few physical health problems (Ms Clinton) than a president with, IMO, serious mental health problems (Mr Trump).",1 +"Once again you prove you don't know what your talking about . Garbage collector's have to have a CDL . To get a CDL you have to pass a written and driving test. There's no way to pass those without an education which is needed to pay the written test . Oh , and you also have to pass a medical test and random drug tests --which would eliminate perhaps 75 percent of young people in today's society . Having an education opens the doors of life to everyone. Crying wolf every year like the NEA and ASD does by passing out layoff's they KNOW aren't going to happen is dishonest to taxpayers and those getting the notices .The Dispatch working hand in hand with the NEA and ASD to create this false narrative every year like clockwork is shameful. You can only cry wolf so many times before people stop believing you. Watch for this same thing to happen next spring. The only difference may be that the Dispatch may not be around to help the unions and democrats next spring---if we are lucky .",1 +Communists and left-wing thugs have no place in modern society. None.,1 +"They lost but the ""protest"" went really well. That's the important thing. Pathetic.",1 +He doesn't like Muslims who want to blow you up. Sounds like you listen to MSNBC or CNN. At least consider both sides of the issue.,1 +"As I continue to say...good bye Notely, you are a failure.",1 +"He was smart enough to know that the massive tax cuts under Dubya (during a time of war, no less) for the top earners would not drive production, create jobs, or prevent/lessen a recession and he was right. Although maybe YOU'RE right. Pointing out the obvious fact that supply-side economics have always been a farce (but a farce that sounds great to dumb people) isn't exactly rocket surgery. We've seen supply side not work several times. In fact, it's currently not working in Kansas!",1 +You're a racist scum troll.,1 +"The church presents celibacy as a charism, a gift, given to certain members of the believing community as a witness oriented to the kingdom of God in which women and men will neither marry nor be given in marriage. +The Sacrament of Orders celebrates and confirms the call of certain members of the community to celebrate the sacraments of the church with and for their sisters and brothers. +There is no logical or necessary connection between the two. A person gifted with the charism of celibacy may or may not be called to Orders; a person called to Orders may or may not also be entrusted with the charism of celibacy. +The discipline that links the two -- that requires celibacy as a condition for orders -- artificially shrinks the pool of candidates for orders, and it disfigures the charism of celibacy. ""Mandatory celibacy"" is an oxymoron, if celibacy is understood as a charism. +Enforcing celibacy on a widowed deacon is simply, incredibly stupid. The bishop ought to be ashamed.",1 +That's pathetic. Being a Turnip supporter requires abandoning all self-respect.,1 +"This ""Made in America Week"" brainstorm is yet another indication of how stupid the Trumps actually are. + +Surely someone should have thought ""Wait a minute, Trump critics are sure to point out that Trump products, including Ivanka's tasteless, overpriced junk, are almost all made overseas."" But no, push on, Donald.",1 +"ScienceDuck, In the drug world, this is what drug people do to one another. Its a revolving door, person buys drugs from drug dealer, buyer does not pay drug dealer, drug dealer retaliates either by robbery or murder, usually murder. Drug dealer takes a Druggie out of society. + +If only we could put all the Druggies and Drug dealers on a huge island, the problem would be solved..........GENE Pool would be cleansed. + +God will take care of this in the NEW World, there will be none of this DRUG CRAP................",1 +don't assume you would get your loonies at par John,1 +"“The heliocentric model says that we’re spinning at 1,038 mph. They say you won’t notice it because it’s a continual motion. But you should be able to feel it. You shouldn’t be able to function allegedly spinning that fast.” + +Does she mean like when you drive in a car at 100km/h you are unable to sit forwards in the car due to the forces pushing you back into your car seat? + +What a bunch of retards!?",1 +"No where near as tiring as listening to Hillary sore losers. She lost. Let me say it again so it sinks in. HILLARY LOST! + +Now put on your big girl panties and get through the next 4 years.",1 +"Miss Machado can lose weight. Being a whiney, sore loser is a personality trait.",1 +"Perhaps Kathleen will join the Federal Liberals and save the day ! +Talk to anybody from out East and they are desperately hurting, this twit has no clue how to run a county.",1 +"People will die, probably a child. + +Canada will get blamed. + +Trump will get blamed. + +The people who die will be cast as victims when it is themselves who are to blame. + +Please do the right thing and put an to this nonsense Mr. Trudeau most Canadians do not want any further burdens on our social safety nets. + +There are enough Canadians in need that deserve better treatment from their elected politicians.",1 +"In another alarming display of rewriting history and general lunacy, Trump's Housing and Urban Housing secretary Ben Carson, told HUD employees during a speech that slaves were ""immigrants"" who came to America ""looking to pursue prosperity and happiness.” + + +I kid you not. + + +Sullivan and Murkowski both voted to confirm Carson, + +they willfully gave their full endorsement to a man who is literally brain-dead.",1 +"When the institutional Church teaches the hogwash that is Humanae Vitae, when it treats women as second class members, when it actively discriminates against gays, when it covers up clerical abuse of children, when it excommunicates the divorced and remarried, when the Vatican is shown to have hundreds of millions in slush funds, when it actively lies to us , why do should people listen? + +Two of my sons have rejected the Church. I didn't cause it, the institutional Church did.",1 +"At long last, the idiotic decades-long N.I.M.B.Y. blockade against the reality of modern air travel has broken. Propeller planes are far noisier than modern jets as Boeing proves in Snohomish County every day.",1 +"So is it still a source of great entertainment watching America trying to deal with illegals and are Americans still racists because of it? + +Even for Canada the hypocrisy is stunning, possibly surpassing the display of selling 25 billion dollars of arms to the worst human rights violator in the world.",1 +"you are an idiot,, tell us loser what has he done that warrents that fantasy",1 +"here you go again. the discussion is about kenoi and you again pivot to denigrating Caldwell. cb should admonish you for your continual denigration of Caldwell on these blogs, irrespective of the subject matter. you are malicious and vindictive.",1 +"Wohlforth is right. Pension bonds are a highly risky strategy, more so than we would expect from our government. Not many pension funds are making their target yields in recent years, and there is no indication this is going to change in the foreseeable future. Some countries actually have negative interest rates on their bonds, and in recent years stocks aren't much better. 30 year US obligations are at 2.3% and you can get a home loan at 3.5% so why is the State satisfied paying 4%. Oregon has tried this strategy with very mixed results. Seems like a dumb idea to me.",1 +"To be fair, most peope that talk like that are imbeciles, so there is a rationale to it. It keeps you from shooting your own feet off to stop a runny nose.",1 +"You've got a lot to learn. +Doubtful if you have the capacity though. +Must suck to be you",1 +"4:20 thinks it is dangerous for transgendered people to be in a bathroom because they might be violent against someone. So 4:20 would like to beat up any transgendered person found in the ""wrong"" bathroom to prevent this violence. 4:20 doesn't like violence, so is willing to beat up people to stop it from happening.",1 +"Ad absurdum much? 6 million Jews, not arguable. 6 billion sperm? very arguable.",1 +These scumbags have a right to do what their employer tells them to do.,1 +Go smoke your meth and shut the shit up dumb ass . You have to have a mind to know it,1 +"I will have to check the latest when they publish, but given the brackets earlier posted and changes in deductions, I fall in the group mentioned and my taxes would have gone up. This bitch be playing for the Republican team since she is talking about those brackets and rules as this mornings changes have not been specified.",1 +Shouldn't be ASSULT 1 it should be attempted murder,1 +"There goes Andy....the let me tell you troll, liking his own comments again......trumpy went after the uneducated, hilbilly, dullard vote and got Andy.",1 +"Absolutely right. Vote them out. It is said politicians are like diapers, they need frequent changing.",1 +Or the Vietnamese gangs running drugs in Canada?,1 +Yeah I think I heard something about that but while we all mught want to hear of the demise of his career he is still very much alive there is something particularly sick about ogling the genitalia of the dead,1 +In the picture accompanying this article the lunatic tRUMP is holding a rainbow flag upside down that has been written on with a magic marker and a stupid smirk on his face. Why didn't he just wipe his but with the flag a be done with it. He has no intention of protecting any LGBT rights in this country,1 +Sand spits were stationary and permanent structures till the advent of global warming. Damned SUV’s.,1 +"Why does your Hypocrisy Radar only work on the Dems, didn't it go off as you were writing your comment?",1 +"You apparently can say whatever you want about Mexicans, Hispanics & Black people, but the Republican Party draws the line on white women.",1 +"As my old drill sergeant used to say: ""BS baffles brains."" + +However, if one happened to have recorded Justin saying that he had discussed/listened to issues presented by a lobbyist then Justin has convicted himself. + +He's worse than Pierre.",1 +margaret. its exactly what I expected from. Fawning and gushing about a President in a foreign country that did SFA for 8 years and even less for the last 4. Great orator but nothing else!! A bigger lame duck than George W!! The USA is sick of presidents that are useless. So are we in Canada,1 +Ok noted...More of your ignorant racist comments.,1 +And Real Housewives and Duck Dynasty get great ratings. And the Kardashians are still famous. There is no limit to societal stupidity.,1 +"The profits go to executives and shareholders. 90% of companies these days are basically just hamsters on a wheel, that was purchased by some billionaire, Oligarch, or multi-national conglomerate. The end products have been homongenized to near worthlessness. The processes have been engineered to the point they really don't need skilled people. All that is left for employees to do is to suck up, cut throats, and backstab.",1 +"And snowflake would give this +creep a hug. Did mommy hug you +snowflake, bet she even taught you +how to roll a joint, seen as she smuggled +dope into Canada in daddy's luggage. Then +that scum used tax payers money to +not only bail the useless thing out, but +also to bail his kid. All the while locking +others up. Round this useless family up, +put them to sea on a plastic dingy, then +allow the US Navy to use it for target practice. +Better yet, let kim use it for practice.",1 +"Well, the evangelists are probably glad they signed a letter opposing him before it got any worse. This is worse. He is disgusting.",1 +"If you idiots would realize that this cougar had more right to be there than the stupid feral cats, this wouldn't have happened!!!!",1 +"""They"" are the right wing racist mysogynistic fascists mentioned in the comment that I was commenting on with my comment. But you knew that already wot ?",1 +"This is such a garbage article. +Most min-wage workers live with their parents or spouse in a multi-income household. +Others are using the min-wage job as a stepping stone job while getting through college. +For those who are trying to support a family singlehandedly with a min-wage job, there are already plenty of government programs to help them out. + +If you raise the minimum wage you kill the incentive for the min-wage worker to ever improve his/her skills and get a better job.",1 +The use of that language is used to illustrate how stupid this non-issue is.,1 +It's amusing to watch Republican Congressional members pretend they didn't know Trump is crazy. The rest of us have known it for a good thirty years...,1 +"It's hilarious how trump apologists keep having to make excuses for the insecure, rapidly unraveling child, who is barely coherent. Anthony ""slick"" scaramucci has a helluva job ahead of him, trying to spin rational messages from the narcissistic buffoon.",1 +"Perhaps it is time to pause and reflect why the Liberals were turfed out the last time. Adscam, the sponsorship scandal, Shawinigate and I'm entitled to my entitlements are some of the many reasons why. I'm surprised they are back at it so quickly. +If anyone thinks government business is not being discussed for $1500, they are a primary candidate for the sunny ways certificate of stupidity.",1 +"""But slavery was replaced with a another form of discrimination, a watered down version of slavery, and that existed in my lifetime."" + +Why can't cops just let folks get away with breaking the law? It's that darn discrimination. + +""Sorry it didn't work out for you."" + +Sorry what didn't work out for me?",1 +"Yes, because we have done such a great job of conquering till now, I mean look at Korea and Vietnam, we really did great there. Not to mention we have done such a better job at Afghanistan than the British and Soviets, oh wait no we haven't. The thinking you have is EXACTLY what the the British use to think, we can do better than the natives, the Japanese called theirs an Asian co-prosperity sphere, they thought they should be the top of it. It is very clear what the Nazis thought, we are superior therefor we must rule. +When you think you are mandated to rule because of some military muscle you are a loser.",1 +"Yup, and young non-Muslim men can ""suddenly"" decide to rob a bank or commit some other crime and nobody generalizes about all of French culture as a cause. Your logic is absurd and petty.",1 +"But, but, but ... Christianity is different! The Crusaders who slaughtered Jews in Medieval-era Germany weren't ""really"" Christian! The Spanish Inquisition officials and executioners weren't ""really"" Christian. The Protestants and Roman Catholics who bombed and shot and committed other violence in Northern Ireland weren't ""really"" Christian. The members of the KKK aren't ""really"" Christian. +(Yes, I've heard that argument, sadly.)",1 +You have kahoneys to say posters here are ignorant of state finances. Not so. We were ignorant to trust people like you who said they could understand finances and elected them to do the job.,1 +"Dear Localstateofmind, no one is ""just a jerk"". humans are products of our life experience including the values we are taught to uphold growing up in our society. + +The point of my comment is to compare and contrast the values of traditional Hawaiian society in comparison to the values of western/American society. Hawaiians are taught to malama (nurture and sustain) the natural world because to do so insures the survival of our society. westerners and Americans are taught to rape, plunder, pillage, pollute and lay waste to nature in order to exploit natures resources for the wealth they can produce for the wealthy capitalist elite, + +as to my ""thinking to deeply"", that is a part of my job as a Minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom and a Policy and Strategy Advisor to the Kingdom. Those who govern have a duty and responsibility to ""think deeply"" about all matters that effect the people and the nation. + +ponokeali'i +Minister of Information and +Policy and Strategy Advisor +to The Hawaiian Kingdom",1 +"Liar, liar pants on fire. A requirement to run for Governor, Mayor or Senator?",1 +Correction: he doesn't answer stupid questions.,1 +Trump's nonstop lies are not science! Therefore his supporters eat them up?,1 +"Sadly, you have hypotheticals in your narrative as well, James. 13 years ago I was with my sons in an Indian restaurant in downtown San Francisco. As I headed to the men's room there was a commotion in the ladies' room. A transgender guy dressed as a female prostitute in a very short skirt was in the ladies room shaving his legs at the sink to prepare for the evening. He had no underwear on so his junk was clearly visible as he had one foot up on the sink. This was all apparently no big deal to him, but a female patron had complained to the owner, who was confronting the guy and holding the ladies' room door open as I walked by. I figured, wow, so that's what goes on in San Francisco. Now this will be coming to a ladies' room near you and your young daughters, minus the confrontation. The brazen attitudes will increase exponentially as the administration enables their behavior. It is only being done to increase the turnout for Hillary, not just for the benefit of the trangendered.",1 +". + +""A meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer in June 2016 was also attended by a Russian-American lobbyist who was a former Soviet counter-intelligence officer, NBC News reported on Friday."" + +-- + +Whoops! + +Donald Jr forgot all about the former Soviet counter-intelligence officer in the the meeting. + +Are selective memory and chronic lying genetic traits? + +.",1 +The game is played as much between the ears as on the ice. Neil=warrior and Glass = pussy. End of story.,1 +"you would think a ""science teacher"" would have the proper education to understand that since these clowns have shut down logging it has ran our schools into the dirt in lost timber revenue. You would think this clown would have the education to understand this has placed a huge burden on home buyers, and in our outrageous property taxes this has created an emergency poverty, affordable housing crisis. No wonder Oregon public schools are an international embarrassment. Look who is teaching.",1 +"Ahhhhh Lordy............more muslim victimhood crap. They are victims of their own ideology, period. To defend your country is a hate crime? Reality check.......Canada is fast becoming an islamic satellite, thanks to our spineless politicians. Why are progressives in such a hell-bent-for-leather hurry to defend that which is indefensible? They are ashamed of our country and the values that true Canadians have fought and died for. This is truly sickening.",1 +She's a good example of the liberal trash running the entertainment and news business.,1 +McAuliffe is a complete scumbag...as are most dems ad rinos,1 +"The truck driver was a madman but not a terrorist. ISIS is lying just like our politicians. +From the Dailymail: He added: 'My brother is not a terrorist.' +His father also insisted that Bouhlel was mentally ill and not a radicalised soldier as claimed today by ISIS. +Mohamed Mondher Lahouaiej Bouhlel, whose son killed at least 84 people on Bastille Day, told how he suffered from severe depression in an interview with French TV BMF. +'From 2002 to 2004 he had problems that led to a nervous breakdown. +'He'd get angry and shout and broke everything in front of him. He was violent and very ill. We took him to the doctor and he was put on drugs.",1 +"a neighbor's dog harassed people that lived in houses nearby. the dog was constantly coming onto private property barking and acting aggressive- the behavior always being excused away by the owner. finally animal control got involved. the owners then kept it tied up, before someone killed the aggressive animal. the people finally moved away. frightening indeed. irresponsible indeed. and stupid.",1 +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.,1 +The Democrats last gasp. It's good to see them reduced to this. Damn animals showing their true colors.,1 +"The Republicans have two issues: cutting taxes for billionaires, keeping non-white immigrants out of this country.",1 +And I don't care about the problems of bums either.,1 +Meryl Streep is a left wing crazy,1 +"I stopped reading the Globe regularly after the ""unfounded series""....pure feminist one-sided propagandist garbage. Though I'd check in today to see if anything's changed....nope, not even a little bit. +We get articles like today because they are written from within an echo chamber. +What' annoying is someone who's so obviously biased....trying to convince me that she's not. +It's kinda like being crazy or mentally ill....You don't actually realize that you are.",1 +"David Grisham, why do you and your group of 'not-anti-gay' friends think it's okay for you to pass judgment on gay people? And of course you will protest that your aren't passing judgment, you're just doing as your god would have you do, which is...well, passing judgment. YOUR God is a hateful, ugly god. I have no idea how you fools could be a part of any religion that has so much hatred and ugliness attached to it. Your Christian religion promotes this hatred. It singles people out as being 'sinful' and not following YOUR god's demands. YOUR hateful god, I will add. Believe what you want, since all that hatefulness and and all those lies have been indoctrinated in you probably since your Sunday school days. That's YOUR belief. Leave people alone. Let people live as they choose. YOU and people like you need to stay out of other folks' business. Clean up your own dirty sins and stop worrying about everybody else. And go back to Texas. We have enough like you up here already.",1 +"Quoted from another site but really sums up the situation: + +""Trump's administration ends up being made up of plutocrats, right wing extremists and generals. Basically, exactly what you should have expected, unless you were stupid."" + +I think these guys are clogging the swamp drain.",1 +"The police in Eugene is funded by MY TAX DOLLARS and as a taxpayer I do not approve this nonsense. + +SHAME ON YOU, U OF O AND EPD. + +Unbelievable.",1 +"I wonder if 2 years of sexual harassment proven and verified asking for help from Michael Strahan ever did anything! When I complained about harassment he let my account get hijacked and then booted me off forum for protecting the rights of Alaskan hunters.. Beware of AOF! And their associates, these people are sick in the head!",1 +"What are you talking about, SS isn't an entitlement program are you that daft? Working people pay into it every working day of their lifes. Try educating yourself!",1 +"""Another factor is the plummeting cost of solar panels and wind turbines, which now can produce emissions-free electricity cheaper than burning coal."" + +When you state a statistical fact in an article you are required as a journalist to back it up with a source and numbers. This is very shoddy journalism and it is garbage reporting like this that leads people to cry ""Fake News"".",1 +"You never try to have any sort of rational conversation with anyone as I often read your commentaries. White is white, black is black, Asian is Asian so you speak in ignorance because it is your nature to troll. I am not the only one to think that people of the Slavic background is considered....""white"". Maybe you have another word for it?? But have it your way, you started this trolling, I did not.",1 +"Just look at the comments of the leftists +Hatred of another idea +Hatred of another opinion +Hatred of another perspective +Hatred of another truth +You believe you are invincible +You are not. You are just stupid pawns like you have always been. +Stalin, Goebbels, Hitler, Marx, Lenin all told you that you were equal until you weren't. + +In fact I dare say many of you will regret your stance when Muslims take over this country and put you into youtube videos and make death camps out of you..... + +The only violence I see is this radical violent left hell bent on the destruction of democracy where all opinions are valid. + +This is why I am taking my family away form the country of my forefathers +This is not Canada +It is Neo Marxist Soviet Canada where you tow the line or else. +Next Trudeau will bring in camps +Soros and Khan have completely destroyed our democracy",1 +"I want the gooey sands gone so filthy Alberta, the second worse polluting jurisdiction behind Texas +is cleaned up when I go skiing. Now I am sure you have some idiotic response to this actual fact. In fact it is proven that prolonged exposure to high pollution levels causes negative effects to ones brain function. Your did live in Alta right????",1 +Black Lives Matter. But no more than White lives.,1 +Everything you typed is BS and proof of your profound ignorance.,1 +"I agree that Trump is a bully, but then again so is China. Maybe Trump's approach is the only sensible one given the current global context. Someone needs to push back a little. I'm not worried about ""consequences"", as I suspect China's bark is worse than its bite. After all, they want things to work in the end, because it is in their best interest to keep things relatively smooth.",1 +"If someone has had surgery to alter their gender, then I think its fine that they use the washroom of their new gender. + +But a person with a 5 o'clock shadow sporting a twig and berries walking in a woman's washroom or pool locker room because they feel like a woman is patently ridiculous.",1 +"compared to all the liberal loser brain washed sheep in canada, the alberta right wing are geniuses..",1 +"Exactly......we have a very biased, manipulative media......and they wonder why people don't trust them.....always thinking we stooges are to stupid to see what they have been up to.",1 +"Hey Frank, your candidate and all his subordinates ... go fact finding in the archives of American history .. and try to relate it to today. This SHIT is unprecedented. You elected an incompetent white silver-spoon baby. OWN UP.",1 +"We don't protest so we have nothing to apologize for. +You are terrorists",1 +"What on earth does ""degense of jer jrto"" mean? I mean, if you actually know, of course...... + +As to the rest of your comment? Nonsense, as usual. I notice you don't address the issues raised by my post, as usual....just spin what you think I said - and as always, you have spun it incorrectly. + +Here's a thought. Why don't you let me speak for myself? I actually am well able to....and then you won't have to try to explain what you obviously have no clue about....and you won't be forced to stretch credulity.",1 +He was just a wacko who took on Middle Eastern beliefs.,1 +"Obama acted to do right by these kids because Congress failed to act. Obama showed leadership as the only adult in the room, and also a sense of compassion and justice. Trump doesn't care what effect his pronouncements have on people's lives or the country as a whole. Not a leader. Just a hateful, spiteful person.",1 +"The American 'sisterhood' had its chance to save NAFTA and many other beneficial institutions such as the EPA and the State Department but instead voted against one of it's own to install in the White House a mentally ill, illiterate fascist. There is no case here to imply the girls are any smarter than the boys.",1 +"Trump said ""global warming is a Chinese hoax"" What a fool. You cannot deny the climate is warming. You can argue the cause of the warming",1 +"That's the lamest excuse that someone like Hillary can come up with after her defeat. Democrats (and a lot of the Liberal media around the world) just underestimated Trump. Plain and simple. + +Nothing more pitiful than a sore loser.",1 +"I think this sounds potentially very toxic. What are the other cities where this has been successful? I mean, some homeless are serious ex cons, mentally ill, drug users, none of which take to kindly to be tossed out of their homes.",1 +"As sure as the sun rises, you can bet that the conservatives who rail most loudly against ""indecent behavior"" are the most likely ones to engage in it ... and also the least likely to accept any personal responsibility for their behavior once caught. + +Today's tweets from Cruz's college roommate tell us all we need to know about this aspect of his behavior. (Or, actually, more than we want to know.). LOL. Cruz is just another flaming sanctimonious hypocrite. I wouldn't trust him any farther than I could throw his I-pad.",1 +"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,,,,,,,,",1 +"cont. +... people who are punished with higher rates. However, if you're a heavy smoker or an HIV-positive party animal, an alcoholic ne'er-do-well or a drug-raddled slacker, a single mom with no job skills and 5 kids by four different dads, and lo and behold you're paying the unavoidable health costs of poor choices and impulsive, self-destructive behaviors - you probably qualify for a government subsidy. :-/ Not surprisingly under this scenario, lots and lots of responsible people feel like they're being screwed by the system. O-care seems less an insurance program than it is another redistribution mechanism, setting up yet another entitlement to buy more reliable Democratic votes. + +The problem is, James, what the government rewards, it gets more of. What the government punishes, it gets less of. When a society consciously *punishes* personal responsibility and instead rewards all the screwheads, what do you think happens in the long run? 0_x",1 +"Liberal Progressives are a threat the to American way of life that the Majority of America believes in. Country, Flag, Borders, Language, Culture, Military, Guns, God, Morals, Economy.",1 +"Janine I could like this 1,000,000 times if possible. Thank you for pointing out, with powerful logic, the idiocy of bias.",1 +Muslim radicals kill more Muslims than anyone else. Not a day passes when Muslims are not murdering fellow Muslims.,1 +"I think it's hilariously ironic when you insulted barak181. Just so you know, a ""humerus"" is an upper arm bone, and for future reference, use of an apostrophe in ""moron's"" does not make it plural.",1 +"I didn’t see a break down of white racists in your data. Can you pry it out of your data? Oh, wait that isn’t tracked. But the ignorant are usually uneducated and the uneducated is usually poor.",1 +"Get over it ADN, what a sore loser. This is why he is the new POTUS.",1 +"Agreed non stop hate and stupidity from the democrats. I mean who protests for a month straight. Get over it and man up snowflakes. If I took both sides rallies and had to invite one over for dinner it would have been republicans at every one. Democrats would complain, expect free stuff, and trash the place all while saying I'm the bad guy. It's not fooling people anymore.",1 +"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.",1 +Scumbag Hillary? What does that make Trump? Scumbag groper? Scumbag sexual predator? Scumbag tax evader?,1 +"After reading this silly ""analysis"", I have lost respect for any of Carrick's opinions on personal finance. +To not factor in rent is ridiculous.",1 +But does he understand the bigger picture? All this will do is hurt US sales overseas in the large expanding markets. That will have massive problems for cash flows and shareholder value causing capital to leave the US. Something it can hardly afford. Trump is a fool catering to his stupid base.,1 +"""Nothing funnier than getting a bunch of hot-headed atheist liberals preaching the Ten Commandments."" +If they were mass-murderers, would their points be any less valid? What's funny about quoting Psalm 137:9 ""Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks!""?",1 +"yet even with the 3.3 million, she still couldn't win. sucks to be a Clinton.",1 +"You demanded facts: +From Lisa Bloom. Lisa Bloom is a Legal analyst for NBC News and Avvo, attorney and bestselling author. + +""In our nation’s history, so many of the sickest most appalling crimes have been committed by whites. Yet no matter how sadistic the crime, no matter how young the victims, no matter how much fear is engendered in a community, no matter how much media attention and public discussion the crimes of whites engender, the race itself is never sullied."" + +Lisa Bloom also says white men are at the top of the list for gaining foreign visas to have sex with children. 85-percent in Latin America, she says. + +Lisa Bloom also adds the most prolific serial killers in this country (America) are white men. And last, white women are known for killing their children. + +Wait, there's more. Cheers.",1 +"Spicer has to say dTrumpo has an open mind since he is being paid for it..then again an open mind can also mean VACANT which would not be beyond the realm of reason based upon a shrink's assessment of them both! + +It would not be out of the question for the USA intelligence community to refuse sdTrumpo access to highly classified info based upon his spastic and stupid off the cuff comments all along. The guy;s a walking time bomb exhibiting zero logic or perception of reality...and cannot be trusted with the NUKE CODES....heck North Korea's insane leader has more self-control than dTrumpo ever did or ever will...until the SYSTEM puts Bully-Boy in his place with IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS hopegully 10 seconds after innauguration!",1 +Put up or shut up.... Prove it.,1 +Suicide by cop? Try murder by cop. Disgusting.,1 +It must SUCK to live in fear........................,1 +"Just jack up the fines for damage, just like when all of the communication lines were getting cut by careless contractors who were more concerned about profits than damaging utilities. Hit 'em where it hurts.",1 +So the city of Juneau is going to bribe the U of A one million dollars to put the headquarters as far away from the people of Alaska as possible ? Are you kidding me ? This is the same bull Juneau uses to keep the capital in Juneau . That the U of A went along with this shows what a pathetic lot they are.,1 +I was told that a bunch of dicks surf out there and are territorial. They tell you to leave and not come back.,1 +"Will this fossil ever die ? + +Pay back the money that you stole from Canadian taxpayers, thief.",1 +You are a brainless 'celebrity' who supported the mass murdering communists in North Vietnam. You add nothing to any debate and should keep you vapid mouth shut. Stay out of our country you useless twit.,1 +"lol, yes people like to criticize and that is why the Donald was elected. He did nothing but criticize Obama, Hillary all the other republicans who ran. So now that he is president, we are not supposed to criticize him? Fact of the matter is that the Donald has offered nothing of substance. He even chickened out of releasing his tax returns. What a bum!",1 +"Please for the love of GOD! STOP WAKING ME UP EVERYDAY WITH YOU RUDE AS HELL DELIVERY DRIVERS DESTROYING THE PEACE AND QUIET WITH THEIR NOISY, NO EXHAUST HAVING PIECE OF SHIT, GREEN MINI-VAN WITH PLASTIC FOR A REAR WINDOW. I HAVE WRITTEN TO CUSTOMER SERVICE AND THE NOISE WENT AWAY FOR A WEEK THEN COMPLAINED AGAIN, NOTHING! CALLED AND TALKED TO JOHN AND HE SAID HE WOULD TALK TO HER BUT, HE GAVE ME A NUMBER TO CALL BECAUSE HE KNEW NOTHING WOULD GET DONE. HE WAS RIGHT! I FINALLY HAD TO CHASE THE DRIVER DOWN AND SHE SAID, ""IM GETTING IT FIXED THIS WEEKEND."" WELL ITS BEEN OVER A WEEK AND SHE IS BACK AND IM ABOUT TO LOSE MY MIND AS NOONE WILL DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT! please stop the noise! fix the van! fix the van! fix the van! fix the van!",1 +"Only an imbecile would think that the Chump is not a pathological liar. He has a history of lying his entire life. He is seventy years old and he ain't going to stop his lying ways. What I can't figure out is why the people who are supposed to be keeping him in check can't. His cabinet, staff and the republican majority of congress need to step up to the plate and do their jobs. Right now they're empowering the dummy to continue lying because they find all kinds of stoopid excuses to back him up.",1 +More like the idiot's inactions.,1 +"what a lib troll bunch of nonsense, harris turned ontario around after the disaster of the ndp, ontario grew huge in its economy, over 900,000 NET private sector jobs, balanced books for years, since then the libs have totaly destroyed the good work harris did and you are grateful for that? man you need help",1 +"This is driven by Soros-backed idiots. Their trying to take them down, one at a time.",1 +"Syrian refugee calls CNN hypocrits when they try and bait him and praises Trump. Priceless. + + +https://youtu.be/s3uaf1NFxXc",1 +"Canada has an ILLEGAL dairy market, If DeBeers people try to enter the States they would be arrests for a monopoly market by hoarding product and only supplying enough to keep the price as high as they can.We do the same for milk .America and most coubtries have laws that stop this practice Milk and all Dairy boards lobbies in Ottawa and won over peoples rights.Dont give me that crap what Canada does is legal or ethical",1 +Exactly. Plus there are the known IDIOTS in Western society to do their best to criticize and stymie the security forces all the while screaming about human rights violations and racism.,1 +"It's interesting watching and listening to the protests going on in response to Donald Trumps' assumption of the presidency. These people are supposed to be protesting against Turmps intolerance, bullying, treatment of woman, promotion of fear of Muslims etc. What I'm seeing and hearing from these protesters and the organizers is no less hate filled, intolerant (see the exclusion of a feminist, pro life group of woman from the march), bullying (see the pressure put on celebrities by other celebrities to get into the group think against Trump), and outright ridiculous (see Madonna thought about 'blowing up the White House') than that which they are accusing Trump of. I have one word for these folks - hypocrites. They aren't prepared to accommodate anyone who doesn't see the world the way they do. This doesn't bode well for social peace in the future.",1 +"There for awhile, I thought all the clowns in Oregon worked for PERS, CoverOregon, EWEB and LTD. Now I see that some work for UO too.",1 +"Richard Rhyner's attacks against Unions throughout the comments below are hypocritical, ignorant and factually wrong. Mr Rhyner is a retired (and disgruntled) city worker whose own Union membership has earned him a decent retirement. Good for him. But his incessant attacks against unions seem like self-loathing at this point. +But his factual errors are worse than his hypocrisy. He asserts that the Mayor was elected by Union voters in a backdrop of low voter turnout. This is factually untrue. + +The Mayor has a mandate from the largest voter turnout EVER in a municipal election and this was a RUN-OFF election, historically low turnout elections, making the Mayor's accomplishment even more impressive. + +Mr Rhyner can waste his retirement being a curmudgeon if he wishes, I would like him to be a better citizen by not spewing nonsense.",1 +"So, basically what you're saying is that women, (particularly, although I also know some teenage boys) who prefer privacy while peeing are somehow mentally ill and must be ripped out of their insanity by a six-foot male in 4-inch heels goggling them over the top of a public restroom stall. (And, yes, I have had that experience and know other women who have had it also). These fearful and unfair people who think their body shouldn't be under public display of the opposite sex will get used to being goggled and their daughters won't even think it's unusual and the whole world will be better off for them getting used to being sexually harassed. And, hey, the occasional sexual molestation of children ... that will only grow the number of transgendered, so it will meet your goal and that means there's nothing to worry about.",1 +"Howard Stern faced numerous FCC complaints during the Clinton and Obama administrations over things as silly as using a male body part to play the piano with. On the radio. + +To say this complaint is politically motivated, is absurd in the extreme. It was very offensive to the gay community. + +For an example on just how deep the silliness gets ...here in Canada... + +Star Trek inspired licence plate deemed offensive in Manitoba - ctvnews.ca + +But Troller got a phone call Wednesday from someone at Manitoba Public Insurance, who he says told him two people had complained that the word “assimilate” is offensive to indigenous people. + +Muslim jokes are offensive to Muslims, that's why Justin is working on M-103. Gay jokes are offensive to gays and obscure words connected to a star trek episode are offensive to natives. + +This is the world the ""progressive"" left would have us live in. + +Now back to youtube videos of left wingers violently assaulting Trump supporters.",1 +"I can't believe the racist Swedes are thinking twice about their open door immigration policy. Who are the Swedes to exclude would-be murderers from their generous taxpayer funded welfare programs. The nerve of these uncaring and selfish people makes me ill. Somebody call Doug Chin before it's too late and the Swedes institute a muslim ban. + +But seriously folks, the AP found it necessary to keep from readers the motive behind this attack and the attack in Norway. The alleged perps are listed as an Uzbek and Russian when a deaf du$b and blind 3 year old knows they were inspired by Islam. The is the very definition of mental illness on the part tolerant progressives and Islamic terrorists are very aware of it.",1 +"yes, even egotistical moronic buffoons have staying power",1 +"The 'reputation' of these two was revealed by someone with a grudge. + +Their 'reputation' and their actual conduct in public view was created by the two of them, not the person with the grudge. + +You can't excuse their stupidity and actual malice towards the two girls because they were also so stupid as to let it be known in public.",1 +"Well Richard, + +His skin color has everything to do with it. When he was elected for his first term ,all of the racist came storming out of the closet and haven't turned back. If you can't see that, then you are one of them. Obama didn't fail at anything, it was all hate from day one. He kept his cool, so he'd not be labeled the angry black man, and the I told you so crowd, couldn't say 'see what I mean'. Like AKJammer first instinct was to blame Obama for something he had nothing to do with. If it wasn't for all the hate, Obama would be labeled the G.O.A.T. POTUS!",1 +Fuck you.,1 +"The Trump Camp must be fuming after watching that show,,,too bad they give the Cast of SNL so much stuff to work with,,,enjoyed every second of it. Maybe in the weeks to come TRump s Team will grow up and stop looking so stupid.",1 +CR> Hopelessly ridiculous post on your part!!!!,1 +"The Chinese are supplying the demand for elephant tusks, shark fins, rhino horns.....this is known worldwide. This is not racist or biased or anti Chinese.....this is the absolute truth. Just like N americans like their fentanyl......I dont deny this. But to hide behind the truth that the CHinese not NOT wiping out nature due to there strange superstitious notions that tiger penis will make their penis bigger is bullcrap",1 +"PD. + +Thugs with guns.",1 +"The 32% of deplorables still adore him, and the evangelicals think he’s the second coming of JC, lol",1 +Paul Ryan Sold Trumph out and is a BACK STABBING BASTARD,1 +"Yes, where was he when Black Lives matter was marching in the streets and screaming ""cops are pigs, fry them like bacon"", (or something like that). I heard crickets from the former President. How about the riots at Berkeley , when they rioted to protest a conservative speaker (to prevent her from speaking). Media was fine with that, and where was the former President? It seems like protests by one group seem to be ""OK"" (freedom of speech), while a conservative is not allowed to even speak. Are you ok with that?",1 +"I feel like this ended too soon, Charles! It doesn't instill any more faith I have in the system than I do now. I'm holding out like that last blade of green grass in a massive lawn of disappointments in American governance. Bernie Sanders is that tiny glance of green before smoldering ruins cloud my remaining vision of my state and country. Damn you, Charles! You didn't finish this one.",1 +Can't we keep the immigrants and get rid of the Republicans?,1 +"Why do they refer to these types of attacks as ""cowardly?"" They should refer to them as ""brazen.""",1 +"BSherman sad to ay is my house rep. He's one of the those scum bags that tried to pass a law to imprison Americans for 20 years for boycotting Israel HR1697. Sherman got behind a law in Ca where anyone can accuse a business of Boycotting Israel, including supporters of Israeli Business AB2844. American business can be turned down for state contracts as a result.",1 +"If Drumpf disappears, I call dibs on that ugly Drumpf portrait painting thing.",1 +"A good book that explains the Trump fiasco is ""Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle,"" by Chris Hedges. The Trump followers simply cannot separate truth from illusion--a peril of being stupid.",1 +"Hell yeah! Sick of the fuzz always coming in, bustin up the joint, for something that gonna be legal anyhow.",1 +"When the permanent fund was established, the statute prohibited the legislature from appropriating any of the principle of the fund but ""permits use of the fund’s earnings for general governmental purposes."" It wasn't originally intended for use as a dividend program, but then if you needed the Zobel decision to get in on it, you wouldn't know that, as you wouldn't have been around when it was established and were just a Johnny - come - lately moving to Alaska to suck on the teat of the oil boom.",1 +"Oh come on now, he's a hypocritical lib. Only his viewpoints matter. It's the lib game plan that they are open minded to all points of view, up until those points of view are diametrically opposed to theirs. Remember, these are the people who incite riots when they don't get their way.",1 +"Darn leftist political whimpiness: Now airlines do not dare to react properly and give the boot in the rearend to foul passengers, and the subhumans get not dealt with properly .",1 +You said it yourself -- people are shy when it comes to taking their clothes off. But I am less shy about getting naked in front of other women than I would be in a locker room filled with penises and balls. I wouldn't pay for a gym membership if that was the case unless the locker and shower rooms were re-configured to have individual stalls for changing clothes and showering.,1 +"The only dummy is you and all your fellow dummies posting similar posts here. You're morons, true idiots and you show it with your petty, simple minded childish posts day after day.",1 +Peter you're an arrogant dirtbag,1 +"Addendum to my post: +Happened by sheer dumb luck to come across a copy of National Geographic ( August 1993 issue ) - which contains an article about this region - the starvation, murder and mayhem - now 24 years ago !! Makes for ugly reading ..... +NOTHING HAS CHANGED !! +Why should the West continue to participate in this ongoing aid futility ??!!",1 +"So he stabs his wife and child to death, but takes the easy way out (gun) for himself. Disgusting, cowardly pig.",1 +"Well stated. God damn the poor. How dare they ""invade"" my comfy world with their bloody poverty and needs.",1 +"Oh Bavius you master of irony you. Another cracking post big guy, I bet there's even a few people out there think you're a Trump fan.",1 +"Pay your fair share of taxes for what, so that all of the out of state businesses can send the profits made here in this state somewhere else. Government positions will be cut but until now that was one of the ways to get the oil money infused back into the economy. Since we have no IRS up here to help get the oil money back into the system, paying government employees provided a way. Also the government providing money for projects that unions worked on was another way and essentially made union employees into government employees. Since Alaska really has no exports, oil was what provided the income, 95% of the budget that paid everybody and probably 90% went to businesses that shipped the profits out of state ultimately. +One might think that all of the people up here, whatever group would work together to quell the money drain. Our biggest export is money. Everybody provides a function that is needed to keep the state going and this bickering and wasting time is plain stupidity.",1 +Yep you can't be Hispanic with a name like Reuben. No hispanic would be so stupid as to name their kind after a sandwich on rye bread.,1 +"I am not a friend or even a supporter of Kara, but that comment is uncalled for. Her politics are fair game. Calling someone a jerk or jackass is juvenile, but its your opinion and everyone is allowed to express theirs. Implying she is bribing people without proof is liable.",1 +Could we please get pictures of the race baiter haters as a reminder to who are making ignorant comments like yours and ........,1 +"Dear Minister of Twitter (aka chief Twit) + +Some muddled thinking there, bud , to say that it is not government that is engaged in corrruption, but corrupt civilians that work in government is stating the obvious - like saying guns don't kill people, people kill people, using guns as a method or weapon. + +Where is you evidence that the private security industry is riddled with criminals, and if this is true, how does this compare to the level that SAPS is riddled with corrupt people? + +In the last 4 years, 80 of your own ANC officials have been murdered in KZN, yet not one single arrest and successful prosecution has taken place - why not? +It is not difficult to draw up a list of suspects - start with their rivals and those that benefit from their demise. + +Stop blaming the public for the fact that your Police force is so useless at their job, and politically compromised.",1 +"You have it backwards,- destroying heritage sites is a tragedy, and the special room in hell is reserved for those who rape, butcher, burn and kill fellow humans.",1 +Multiple residences? BURN THE WITCH!,1 +Yea Trump! Finally going to get rid of the senseless leftist liberals!!,1 +at the risk of being uncivil I will award you the dumbest comment of the day award,1 +"When Trump opens his mouth, all kinds of unsubstantiated nonsense drips out, except for the evidence he provides the public with proving he is sexist, racist and relatively uneducated (as far as getting facts straight is concerned).",1 +"How far did the Saudi revolt get? Oh that's right they don't allow Christian's to live there, they behead homosexuals and now the Saudi's are murdering innocents in Yemen... Is it ever a time to be balanced in our thinking Moseby or should we always be hypocrites. Assad is bad, but there are worse and they are supposed Allies. Why is Mugabe still in power? El-Sisi?",1 +"Puberty blockers are not ""irreversible."" Kids take them under medical supervision and if the kids decide they're not TG, they just stop taking them and puberty proceeds. However, if they ARE transgender, this gives them an opportunity to avoid a puberty that would be distressing for them and allows them a chance to express the gender they experience. Surgery performed in accordance with the ""standards of care"" for transgender people would only happen when the patient is old enough to give consent (so no kids) and their medical team (including mental health professionals) agree that it is appropriate. This stuff really isn't as unsupervised as many seem to think.",1 +"The tableau of Dirty Donald Trump flanked by the Clinton accusers is a portrait of exploitation. What a filthy, amoral man Trump is!",1 +"Non disclosure agreements are common. I am all for removing it so long as ALL non disclosure agreements in ALL walks of life are also voided. As for truth and integrity, let’s have Trump produce his tax returns,eh? + +You confuse an individual with CNN. An individual, who is a paid political pundit gave information, but CNN. Honesty and integrity would be a good starting point, so try making real valid factual arguments. Pretty please? You know who else claimed fake news whenever anything else was bad? Who else essentially delegitimized the media to rise to power? Yeah you know who, another German just like Trump. Your acceptance of his claims as facts despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary is sad. + +When a website contains obviously partisan articles, or an article begins with an outright falsehood (to name 2 of snarky’s Links) they become unreliable. Sorry, but reporting facts you don’t like don’t make fake news. Claiming opinion pieces are factual news is simply stupid.",1 +But you hate Muslims!,1 +"What strange, bizarre creatures. I would even say stubborn. Clearly irrational, no question. Almost as if these creatures have no brain, humans.",1 +"I know, we shouldn't let white supremacists have guns or explosives. + +Unfortunately they're the radicalized terrorists in North America, and we don't do enough to investigate them.",1 +A fool or a knight in shining armor?,1 +OMG. Your post must be satire. You must be trolling. Fascism and racism? That is liberal bread and butter. That's not going anywhere while they are in power and it's probably the last thing we need to be dealing with right now when there are actual real issues besides that division politics nonsense.,1 +"Gosh, I respond to what you say, believing that you are saying what you mean. You have complained that I have ""translated"" your statements, now you complain that I haven't. + +I notice that YOU did not respond to what I wrote. Could it be that you couldn't without looking like a heartless jerk?",1 +"HA! Now you people are being ripped off just like the people that live in the north area, ie: Boulder, Broomfield, Longmont, etc. We'll never see any line up here and we paid for it! RTD has people that work there that are nothing but a bunch of grifters and crooks.",1 +"Wrong those of us that work hard don't get Medicaid support we are uninsured if we choose or cannot afford it but that does not mean we qualify for Medicaid. We have to lose everything we have worked for first to get into Medicaid. You assumptions are absolutely wrong. We should never be forced to subsidize your choices and you should never be forced to subsidize ours. + +Be an American not a lefty handout drone.",1 +"Anderson is the BIG liar in this City Council story. Obviously Ozawa got some ""donations.""",1 +Apartheid is apartheid any way you spell it. We never asked for your comfortable life. White washing,1 +Stupid pesky pop-up Robotics ad. Get rid of it ya silly newspaper company!,1 +"The bleating and tears from the tin foil hat crowd are beyond hilarious! Bring back Harper? BWaahahahahahahah! Just keep checking after you flush twice and it's the same stale smelly muffin remains spiraling down! Keep it up con jobs,at this rate it will be decades before anyone takes you seriously. I am not a fan of Justin ,but if this is all the opposing viewpoints have to offer, he will have a longer run than even his father did. What pathetic Neanderthals,one track minds, the penny pinching con jobs continue to display! Pathetic!",1 +"But he didn't. +Neither did the other hundreds of mass shooters. +The fire department can put out a fire. Sprinklers can put out a fire. People can escape from a fire. +They cannot douse a lunatic with a gun with water and make him stop. +Apparently, nothing, absolutely nothing, can stop a lunatic with a gun and that includes another person with a gun, like the one at the nightclub who couldn't stop the shooter. +Would you support lifting the laws against bombs, because bombs don't kill people, people do? +Would you really?",1 +"It is now official. We have imbeciles who run our government. Federal efforts against sanctuary cities are for ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. If you are here LEGALLY, then that is fine. This ridiculous resolution makes a blanket statement about all immigrants, as if legal ones and illegal ones are the same, and purports to state that illegal immigrants have RIGHTS UNDER OUR FEDERAL CONSTITUTION. NO. NO THEY DO NOT. Only citizens of our country have rights under our constitution. The Constitution starts off, ""We the People of the United States..."", not ""We the People of the United States and other foreign citizens who are here illegally..."". This is truly absurd. Make it clear, these government imbeciles DO NOT speak for ME as a citizen of Hawaii/the United States.",1 +"Let me be clear, your world is not my world and it's not ""our nation."" THREE MILLION more votes for Clinton. That puts you in the minority. The clown is in the White House. Let the circus begin. My conscience is clear.",1 +"And the career criminal, influence peddling elitist Cliton IS honest? Bwahahahahahahaha. Take off those rosy glasses they gave you.",1 +"Wow, she's a mess.",1 +"Competition is fine. But this isn't selling TVs or cell phones. This is a party nomination where only one person advances to the real competition (the general election). This is more like picking your starting QB BEFORE the real competition starts. + +Last year's 5-way race (damn judges petition rulings) was a perfect example. The highly diluted field allowed someone without broad appeal (Glenn) to take the nomination with just 37% of the vote. The result in November was predictable. + +They really need to switch to instant runoff voting where there's more than 2 candidates in the race. Until they have that, then the party needs to practice the age-old method of weeding down the field internally before the primary. That had already happened last year until a damn judge decided to ignore the ballot petition rules.",1 +"Then why is it a problem when Trump wants diplomacy with Russia, huh? You guys get all bent out of shape when he wants good relations with Russia, but then you go and say that you're ""Pretty sure she is smart enough to have a conversation with the Russians ... "" + +Hypocrisy much?",1 +"Why? It's obvious. Republicans are the biggest suckers and poorest losers, ever. They are a vindictive, finger-pointing, ignorant, uneducated, racist, bigoted lot of whiners and hypocrites who routinely cheat to win elections. That's why.",1 +Oh brother...here he goes. Someone needs to muzzle this clown.,1 +"Not sure where you get your news, but the protesters had a permit. The counter-protesters did not and were the ones that incited the violence. I definitely don't agree with the white supremacist (I'm a brownie), but they have just as much right to voice their opinions as Black Lives Matter or the Black Panthers. They are all ridiculously stupid, but we allow stupid people to talk here, otherwise we would be China.",1 +"The problem is that there is no equivalent to a PATRIOTIC party, that TRULY would FIGHT for this Country. It is sold, owned by scavengers, rotten corrupted politicians who only think in their shit-soiled pockets. It is the same all over the world. This world is dominated by EVIL.",1 +"I'm Canadian and I feel so sorry for your country mine too but this president is an ICEHOLE, sure he made millions but that doesn't mean he knows how to run a country Hillary should of been president Donald + +Trump is a Man that says Do as I say but I don't have to , I'm a hypocrite. my spelling yes is bad, oh well.Mr President YOUR FIRED. When is that gonna start. Think of the country and the people instead of yourself and family and MONEY????????. hopefully YOUR NOT THE anti Christ....... This world is gonna see a lot of TROUBLE DUE TO TRUMP HUMP",1 +"""recycling"" is a major financial loser, anyone with a small amount of common sense can understand this. Kill it now. Is that clear enough ? The only benefit is give society is to assuage the guilt that comes from ""over-consumption"" , especially with affluent Hollywood elitists, they can keep consuming as much as they want as long as they recycle, folks like Al Gore et al...",1 +"Gladys is right on. These four Lane County Commissioners are rotten to the core. Yes, there is political bribery in both parties, but in this instance, these guys are about as rotten/corrupt as it gets. Please let your friends/neighbors/co-workers/family members know who they are and the fact that they want to take away our ONE form of direct democracy; the citizen's initiative process. I am totally outraged, but not surprised that they have gone this low. Let's boot the scum bags out!",1 +"Wow...I can't believe that the Washington Post, from whom tis story is syndicated, is still talking about the ""potty Dossier"". Wow. They are grasping at straws. Bezos is the devil.",1 +"It is alarming to read ""duck our heads"" (bury in sand and hope the problem goes away, because we are used to being US patsies), ""give Trump publicity wins"", help the middle class, ""just in a different way"" and many other comments in this article. +The Trade Minister needs to go, she's terrible. Ridiculous that Trudeau is using Brian Mulroney. Monstrously terrible Canadian PM. Sickening that he would draw another Canadian dollar to sell out the country once again. It sounds like Canada's bureaucrats are the same type of cowards we've had since the 60s. +Canadian companies do not own the means of production. We are owned by the multinationals. A high priced banana republic. You think global oligarchs didn't pick up some lessons from Marx? Business is a way for OWNERS to make money, not create jobs. We should have been developing our domestic economy when we had the chance +Jean Chretien might be in his 80s, but he refused to let Bush bully him into the Iraq War. He's our guy.",1 +"Frontier is a sham. Their published ""discounted"" fares are only for a middle seat, and includes no carry-on or checked bags. You literally have to pay for a non-middle seat, and pay to bring any luggage. Southwest has it figured out, and will continue to get my business. +Too bad, I used to love Frontier back in the early 2000s and gave them plenty of support. They have chosen profits first over customers. If they did it the other way around they most likely would still be profitable.",1 +"These people are in jail because they are committing unlawful acts. And, what does this have to do with The POTUS? Don't do something stupid, then expect the POTUS to get involved. Gosh, people!",1 +Disgusting! More so if it was to accommodate the airline's employees.,1 +"I'm reminded of that landmark paper: _The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity_ by Carlo M. Cipolla, Former Professor of Economics at University UC Berkeley. + +-First Law: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation. +-Second Law: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person. +-Third (and Golden) Law: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses. +-Fourth Law: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at -all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake. +-Fifth Law: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person. +-Corollary to the 5th Law: A stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit. + +Paul",1 +This is all we need.... another black thing.... agreed.. you were slaves once..... but that's over..... you get over it as well... and we will try to remember to forget,1 +"You're a T R O L L +You faked someone else's name and you've been trying to make them look bad. +What you did on those articles about those unfortunate deaths was unforgivably bad. +Get your own name or just go away. +Quit trolling other people's names, quit trolling the real 907AK.",1 +Kellie Leitch is an embarrassment to pushy bone heads everywhere.,1 +"What absolute rubbish. This author completely ignores the fact that the federal pension plan was not only self financing, but also generating huge income during Paul Martin's time as PM. The government took that income, and used it to help pay down the debt at the time, promising that the pension plan would forever have the backing of the federal government. Now, this historical ignoramus comes along and claims it is somehow unfair.",1 +"So God is your political toy now. She doesn't like it when you lie about her and use her name to promote your anti-American fantasies. Your buddy Putin doesn't bless America, even at your insistence, traitor.",1 +"What does Barrack Obama, Steve Jobs, John Lennon, George Washington, Justin Trudeau, Bill Gates and basically everyone who went to college/university have in common? They experimented/smoked weed. + +Does marijuana make them a genius? No, but it does allow a genius to have alternative perspectives which in other words opens their minds. Most of these people are intensely dedicated and focused individuals. If your kids are useless and can't get off their ass it's because you've failed to teach your children basic living skills and give them a direction/inspiration.",1 +"The past tense of 'beget' is 'begot,' Comrade. If the Obama presidency was such a failure, why did Clinton, a candidate with much baggage and a woman to boot, garner almost 3 million more votes than Trump ? Maybe the begetting of Trump had much more to do with Putin's role in the U.S. election than did the imagined failures of the Obama administration. Maybe certain kinds of Americans are more loyal to their backward ideas than they are to the nation they inhabit and its democratic institutions. Maybe these pro-Putin dupes are the dregs of American society, their patriotism all show and no substance.",1 +"""Keep in mind that demonizing those who hold opposing viewpoints is the tactic of Donald Trump and his base."" + +That was precisely Caffarra's tactic ... declaring that those who support the normalization of homosexuality in society are the agents of Satan and are bringing about the destruction of civilization. It is impossible to dialogue with the holder of such a priori assumptions. Their Trumpian tactics ... repeatedly demonizing gays ... were and are intentionally malicious. If they weren't then they'd have ameliorated their hate speech with the reminder that gays are to be ""accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.""",1 +I know right its not like the people there know more than you. They probably are saying they told the people to leave them alone sarcastically whereas we know you are both credible and straight... I mean you are commenting online not like those shmucks who show up and stand around in the cold like l0sers!,1 +"Out of one bln of Muslims, 500 mln support sharia and 50 mln, Islamic terrorism.",1 +"It would be nice if the police would cite these idiots BEFORE they caused damage to property or others. I see them every night racing down 5th Ave through downtown, and never see the police stop them.",1 +"""Cant"" - hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature. +Sounds about right",1 +Another tantrum by an undisciplined man who is supposed to be leading this country. An embarrassment to this nation and its laws that make this nation a free democracy.,1 +P R is a hate mongering azz troll.,1 +"complete nonsense....if systemic racism is to be attributed as the essential element leading Muslim residents and citizens to engage in the slaughter of fellow citizens and strangers at random, then the list of those sub-groupings in western societies who might rightly be expected to claim a priority right to engage in such actions over their Muslim neighbours, would be long . + +It is interesting that while desperately seeking some means to understand why so many young Muslims are willing to carry out acts of extreme violence upon their fellow citizens writers like the author ignore why so many other disadvantaged sub groups are unwilling to do so...",1 +"Trudeau said something stupid, that's unsual.",1 +"Its the economy,,,,,stupid. Not philosophy, or feminism.",1 +"are you high on crack? I have posted anything on global warming, you pulled that on out of your buttocks..and I addressed AG Loretta Lynch contempt for law. at no time have you addressed any of the issues I posted and have resorted to this ridiculous nonsense and so I have to ask ARE YOU HIGH ON CRACK?",1 +"Privatizing profits and socializing costs is one of the core concepts behind crony capitalism. And it's why this nation is headed to the ash heap of history* without serious reforms to break the back of the oligarchy that has seized control quietly since the Reagan-Clinton years. (*There will surely be something calling itself the United States of America, but it will be rather like Rome pretended to be a Republic long after that premise became sickly laughable. ""That government of the oligarchs by the oligarchs for the oligarchs shall not perish from this earth . . ."")",1 +"""Normal"" racist & white supremacist values ...sounds weird but that's what this Beyak woman really is - nothing nice or christian about her just your plain ol' garden variety deplorable white supremacist racist. Definitely not someone to whom we should be paying a senator's salary to be present in our chamber of sober second thought...maybe she should have some sober second thoughts about being such a horrible person.",1 +you are a nut job,1 +"Good point. + +The best example of this is Germany. Merkel has outlawed nuclear power and utility rates have sky-rocketed. + +Reid was a completely corrupt, incompetent disaster.",1 +"junction, still an alt left lunatic out of touch with reality in every way!,, but the left has become so arrogant and fascist ,, in a bubble they dont understand is going to mean they will lose big in 19!",1 +Stupid analysis on Scotland. Not accurate at all and PM May won the election in which Scots voted in many Conservative MPs.,1 +"Maybe signs - ""No blacks allowed"", ""We dont serve Indians"". Oregon's alt left has ridden a time machine back to the 1940's and adopted that era's philosophy wholesale - socialism and the KKK.",1 +Nothing was more important to Jesus Christ than treating disfavored minorities like s**t.,1 +He's a bully all right.,1 +Pretty pathetic when you must form a Union instead of having government make sensible rules to allow owners and renter to get along. You cannot expect an owner to rent out a unit at less than market value but rent cannot be raised in one year at a massive sum either.,1 +The village idiot.,1 +"No, M.r Cool, I am pointing out the hypocrisy. Read again WHY the orange- glazed Stay Puft man is putting this 4-month ban in place. He wants to ENSURE that NO TERRORISTS can come into the States.",1 +"Explain FOX News. + +Oh that;s right, you cannot or will not. + +repubs are liars like their dear leader.",1 +"Seriously G&M, is the best you have? This ""writer"", and I hesitate to use that word here, exposes her lack of any kind of objectivity or sanity, for that matter, every time her drivel is posted. This one happens to be so ridiculous, it's actually entertaining, but in a pitiful kind of way. What is wrong with you people?",1 +So kill it huh angel? All heart aren't you?,1 +nobody with more then 5 minutes market experience pays any heed to what the bloodsucker squid says as they are probably on the other side of whatever trade they are pumping on that day. I wish the media would stop pretending they have more then zero credibility or honesty.,1 +"BlackAcre, This is the rantings of someone who can not control what his brain is doing. Idiotic comparisons are usually only found in immature persons. I guess loincloth and war bonnets are the sign of sane people in your mind. Read what intelligent people think about the issue of religious behaviour.",1 +"Just how little has changed was driven home for me on Friday when I heard that Trump again referred to Elizabeth Warren as “Pocahontas” in his speech to the NRA. I understand that he’s afraid of Warren; he always has been. I also understand that he thinks her claim to have a Native American heritage presents a political opportunity for her opponents -- but his use of the name of a Native American hero as a slur demeans him and the presidency. During the election, I sometimes referred to Trump as “Dirty Donald”, imitating his proclivity for naming his political foes (Little Marco, Lyin’ Ted, Crooked Hillary, etc.); it seemed appropriate shorthand for a man who has lived a filthy life personally, professionally and politically. I discontinued the reference on November 9, not because I suddenly acquired respect for him, but because I do respect the office to which he was elected. It’s too bad he doesn’t respect it. What a despicable, filthy, cowardly, petty little man this president is.",1 +"Some call it Mckinley. And others Denali. Oh, what the heck let's call it McNalley!",1 +"There should be NO statues or monuments or any public display of deference to those treasonous confederates who tried to destroy our Union. + +Any supporters are traitors to our country as well. + +The traitors who started the War of Treason are scum.",1 +Good God people - are you too stupid to learn this or too lazy to try? No wonder Alaska has so many Trump voters with that kind of thinking.,1 +"it's never going to be past time for the murder of innocent children to be disassociated from politics. What is clear is that Pat Perriello is disaccociated from Catholic teaching, the Moral Law, and science. + +It's past time for progressive policy to wind up in the trash bin of history.",1 +"No, Canada and Mexico should not walk away from negotiations. + +That hands RC an easy victory if his intent is to drive Canada and Mexico away from negotiations. + +RC intends to end NAFTA one way or another. Why give him an easy victory? Make him fight for it. + +If we do not walk away he cannot claim that negotiations have failed, only that they will take a lot longer than expected. There are a lot of legislators who do not want to lose NAFTA, particularly because of the actions of an idiot. RC needs a win. He wins if we walk. + +DO NOT GIVE IT TO HIM!!!!!!!! + +Your approach is defeatist. I hope our negotiators can come up with something better. I have a novel idea if those peons want to hear it.",1 +"Angler Bob --> Cui Bono? Your comment is ambiguous. Where do live? Do you cycle? Are you affected by errant and wayward cyclists? We are, on a daily basis and if there are trouble makers, which there, we need a way to identify them, such as a description of a license plate. Not all cyclists are law abiding, accountable, or even nice for that matter, some are even rabid in behaviour. Do you live in a city? Where was this approach tested? I personally think you are full of kaka.",1 +"Our ethically inconvenienced mayor must be smoking out 24/7 then, judging by the slitted eyes I see on him in EVERY photo out there...",1 +It will be a long time before Hamas and the Palestinians are as concerned about improving their own lives and living condition as they are about killing Jews. They are willing to eat dirt and live in slums for all eternity if there is still a Jew alive to run over.,1 +I'm surprised many of the onlookers didn't follow the goat and drown themselves. Bunch of freaking lemmings.,1 +"You get an extra deduction for each kid you can cause to be born or adopt or raise as a 'dependent' according to the US tax code. + +Is English your native tongue or are you just being intentionally 'ignorant' again?",1 +"You say Trump is ""strong"" on all those things, yet he's literally done nothing on any of them. Not a thing. Yes, you need to go on and explain how merely saying stuff makes Trump strong. He is, after all, an inveterate liar.",1 +"Trump wasn't exactly wrong with his initial statements. The tiki torch wielding alt-right idiots, their counter protesters and various militias showed up armed and ready for conflict. + +However, any HS class-president could have crafted a better statement. Trump simply spews whatever is currently rattling around in his melon, no matter how delicate or nuanced the situation. He issued catastrophically dumb statements on North Korea, Venezuela and Charlottesville just in the last week, all of which worsened the situation. + +This is a dangerous and irresponsible trait in our POTUS. Impeach this Trump before he does more damage.",1 +"Meanwhile, in RC American schools gay students had better remain in the closet, or else!",1 +". +""In 2011, Mr. Tillerson and Mr. Sechin negotiated a multibillion-dollar strategic alliance to jointly explore for oil in the Arctic, as well as in the Black Sea and Russia’s Siberia region. Two years later, Mr. Putin personally awarded Mr. Tillerson with Russia’s Order of Friendship medal."" + + +Oh.................................this is just TOO precious. + +So, far right Trump supporting lunatic fringe, is this what it is? $$$$$ from/made in Russia? That's what this Presidential campaign was all about? Donald being the fraudster he has always been? + +Too funny............................ +.",1 +"YOU call fons & culmen a troll? + +I guffaw at you.",1 +"Hi Ivo, I'm a Christian, or as I prefer a Christ follower, please allow me to respond to some of your points.A rational discussion is not impossible between Christians and Atheists, difficult but not impossible. Atheist views do not upset me, I always ask if I can tell my story, after that what you do with it is up to you. Christians can be extremely irritating, and downright stupid sometimes, but then again so can many non Christians, in all sections of the community you will find idiots, even the Atheist community. I agree with you that one does not have to be a Christian or a religious person to be charitable and generous, in fact many non Christian folk put Christians to shame in this area. You took an extract from Mathew 6 regarding praying in public, nice, try Isaiah 45.7 ""I form the light and create the darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster, I, the Lord do all these things"" He acknowledges that he is responsible. Your rant at the people is valid, at God ? No sir !",1 +"all you illegal criminals, very soon you will be going to the bus station. turn in forged green card, drivers license and social security card. bye!m enjoy living in the garbage dump (mexico).",1 +"the other shoe is about to drop in the hollyweird sex for play. +. +remember the two coreys that were passed around like pupu pups at all the pool side orgies? +. +it's cutthroat time in la la land.",1 +Well the current situation is they are selling out to the highest bidder and that ends up with totalitarians or morons in charge.,1 +"Canadians stranded by Irma are huge whiners, sounds like. At least THEY can go home. How about the Cubans? + +Entitled twats.",1 +"These are bikes w/ an engine. + +They don't belong on trails that are designated for non-motorized traffic. + +Take them to an ATV trail and don't bother ppl w/ your obnoxiousness. + +Personally I'm an engineer and custom builder of many things and have built MANY motorized bikes and such and I love them...tho not too big a fan of electric transport...just not loud enough or fast/powerful enough in general...and batteries are a pain in the ass. + +I know where my projects belong tho...and it's not on hiking trails. + +...so if your ebikes are soooo badass take them where they belong.",1 +"His crash is under way. The most glorious and horrendous political crash in modern history. You say that his supporters are firmly entrenched to support him. He is their leader, their Hitler, their Stalin. But there are a huge number of people who voted him that weren't those nutcases. They were bitter and angry ""average Americans"" and ""tried something new."" They are immediately streaming away from support of Trump's presidency - by the millions each and every day. Only three weeks in to his time of ""rule."" Don't get too optimistic el Duque and I am hoping that the millions who love him won't ruin their country by ""screaming"" their points for years and years afterward. An embarrassment for America worldwide - except maybe in Moscow. Look at today's polls. Trump is crashing AND despised by the media. You will be horribly disappointed when he is ""politically"" dead. A modern-day demon.",1 +"Only stupid human error could cause this. Asleep in the wheelhouse? The instruments have alarms, for crissakes! WTF!!! This really shows our readiness to our enemies, doesn't it? And your president sez: That's too bad. Really? Really? What a Commando-in-Briefs!",1 +"My hope is that our new good American AG, Jeff Sessions will go after Denver for many illegal activities. Marijuana, homeless, illegals, and put them where they belong, behind bars and done away with altogether.",1 +"i can't believe this fool is our PM - what a complete imbecile he is - just get him out of office, his incompetence is limitless",1 +The Republican DEREGULATORS are baaaaack. That's okay because in four year or less liberals will go back and undo the damage; just like when Dubya left office. Pooper scooper busters.,1 +"""I'd rather have ""an idiot"" there with a gun"" + +Then move. I suggest Somalia - no gov't, lots of guns, religious nuts run everything. You'd be happy. (And less likely to blow my head off with your gunplay!)",1 +That's still a cop out. There are plenty of people that get abused and they don't ambush and kill two troopers. Blaming anyone beside Nathaniel is removing all personal responsibility and making excuses for garbage being garbage.,1 +"Sessions is in terrible spot. He gave up an extremely safe Senate seat to be AG. Then Trump repeatedly humiliates him before the entire world. That's typical Trump behavior. ....let's remember what he did to Mitt Romney. Bullying and assertion of superiority is often accomplished by such humiliation....Trump's adept at it. It would take really huge stones to tell someone who has such power over you to ""kiss my $%#$"". In Session's place, that's what I would have done. But, obviously, I'm not in Session's place. + +Looking forward to lunch and a visit.....your old $##$%% liberal friend, Gary Crum",1 +"It is disgusting to read the Trumpers' desperation to defend Trump! The whole world is biased, scheming and stupid except other Trumpers. This the repete scenario to how Hitler won power in Germany.",1 +"Roy Moore, Strong candidate for most disgusting human being currently alive, has a human son, go figure. Well, Much like most white conservative Americans I know, Roy has done a real terrible job of raising a responsible human being. Roy’s son was recently arrested again this time for trespassing on other people property and hunting wild game over bait, truly the laziest least skilled hunting method. + +It was the ninth time he was booked into jail.",1 +"oh look, another tolerant free speech supporting ...hypocrite!",1 +"I don't go to Fox, I don't go to Breitbart, I don't skim those check stand magazines and I don't believe anything I see on Facebook. + +My point is that there is no difference in validity between all of those and that Kristof is seriously worried about those which are making money for someone else. + +""Some of the people promoting these sites aren’t even conservatives; they’re foreign entrepreneurs trying to build websites that gain a large audience and thus advertising dollars"" ""While the business model for mainstream journalism is in crisis, these alt-right websites expand as they monetize false “news”"" + +As far as 'entertainment' is concerned, you need to get out more; there are an astonishing number of idiots and morons out there who actually believe that tabloid stuff at the check stand! Hillary promised an Area 51 visit to placate some of them, remember?",1 +Everyone everywhere deserves better than this. This idiot needs to go.,1 +"The only liar is you. If you agree with Wilson an opportunist bottom feeder, that says more about you and your world view.",1 +"Putin's poodles may have tiny teeth and brains, but they make it for it with numbers and noise. +They also aggressively attack anybody that dares to disagree with them...",1 +"Surprised blacks are even part of SBC as there YUGE numbers of black Baptist church not affiliated. Probably most white SBC would prefer blacks leave altogether. +White persons need to press for change. Should not be incumbent upon black persons who often lack any power and historically are the victims of institutional racism. +But whites continue to balk at providing leadership for change. +Change will come from outside the churches. +As MLK said, paraphrase, churches should be headlight, not tail lights.",1 +"wow more lib talking point bs,, there is no global scale problem, its a scam period.. no one is at risk, period,, you of course with the scare tactic lies as usual,, man you nut jobs of the church of scam need serious mental help even if you climate change liars cant see it",1 +What a ridiculous picture the writer has painted. He offers no alternative to the governor's proposals and appears to be blaming Governor Walker for the state's fiscal gap. Terrible analysis!,1 +"Those ore values mean diddly if it can't be extracted. And that's what three of the world's largest mining companies concluded (Angle American, Rio Tinto, and Mitsubishi) when they dumped (or gave away) their shares. + +Open pits more half the depth of the Grand Canyon. Lakes full of acid waste tailings impounded by the largest earthen dams in the world. All in the watershed of the most productive wild salmon run in the world. What could possibly go wrong? + +But I have to admit, we're living in Bizarro Trump Universe so any stupid thing is possible.",1 +"I made that claim to you at the time and you denied it at the time. You just claim the priest is innocent. Maybe it is your strong support for clericalism that comes across. Look at Disqus yourself. +Donald Trump used fear and anger of minorities to win the election. Racial intolerance to blacks. Religious intolerance to Muslims. Nationalist intolerance to Mexicans. This has resulted in some incidents reported on the news where these minorities have been verbally or physically attacked. These lives matter as well. Trump is responsible for his divisive hate campaign. How will this make America great again? How will he be president for all the people by without surrounding himself with a diverse group of people. +The Catholic Bishops support for Trump is designed to collect funds from their rich republicans. The minorities are ignored. Quoting Burke generally show support for his point of view. +The country is deeply divided and it is time to stop the fear and anger. Not support it.",1 +"More showed up alright---from Fairbanks . You are wrong about the first step being the community supporting them---the students need to get off their lazy rear ends and support them first. Around 85 to 95 percent of UAA students don't support their own school. If they don't care about their sports programs , why should the community ? Plus , if the vast majority of students don't support their sports teams , why is UAA spending / blowing over ten million a season on sports ? Couldn't that over ten million be better used in the classroom ? With the Aces done , UAA stands to benefit in increased attendance. However , Alaska sports fans hate losers . In hockey and baseball your doing good if you win 60 to 70 percent of your games. Aces win a number of games , but not enough to increase attendance . With the Aces gone , a number of fans may start attending UAA games. Rest assured they won't tolerate UAA's consistent losing and will stop going as loses build. Fire Thomas now.",1 +"Hard to believe I voted for this idiot. While I still would, to get rid of the 'little dictator' from the lost decade, it seems we ended up with a Mr. Selfie and clued out shiny pony entourage. Mr.Trudeau,with all due respect,I didn't vote for you to continue Harper's sellout to Communist China and TFW slave labor programs here! I didn't vote for flooding the country with Muslim radicals! I didn't vote for the utter hypocrisy of foisting bogus carbon taxes while you continue to pollute the country on behalf of big American oil interests and China! At least with Harper,he was the fool you knew,not the idiot selling out his country to the lowest bidders and going in the opposite direction of our neighbours to the south.",1 +"Carl Pawliker of Trumputin's boots. Your candidate will be impeached and all you Trumputin lovers will be stigmatized as allies of a foreign dictator and enemies of American democracy. Fakes, traitors, quislings.",1 +"I suggested you research it but clearly I wasted my breath. I even provided a link that explains how it was brought up numerous times before Reid ever got to the Senate in '87. How is it possible for Reid to ""resurrect it"" if it was used regularly before he came along? If you weren't such a partisan hack you would have avoided looking like a willful idiot. All it would have taken is maybe a minute to read through the facts you were just provided but that would require you to exercise even the smallest mote of skepticism in your own self-righteousness.",1 +Obama spends more time protecting transgenders than American workers.,1 +"Are you a moron? He's not kneeling because of econonomic injustice in inner cities. Nothing about his peaceful protest has anything to do with his upper class upbringing or his wealth. It is about the systemic injustice that black people in America face every day. Every black person I know has been afraid of getting pulled over for no reason, except they are black. The shooting of black people by the police are incomparable to shootings of white people pm e by police. Forget black on black or white people, this is about oppression. The fact that you have no understanding of this means you're clearly white, privileged, and ignorant. Or just stupid. You have no business writing anything about this situation. So stfu and go back to writing on your lap top in Starbucks and safely driving home without a worry in the world.",1 +four pregnancies in five years - what an idiot !,1 +". + +""The federal Liberals do not want to see Jason Kenney and a united right taking over power in Alberta and will be doing everything in their power to ensure that doesn’t happen."" + +Probably the right/correct deduction, but; + +With oil revenues sinking like a rock and staying at the bottom not only for years but rather the future, Alberta far right Cons will be rendered ""speechless"", swimming in debt/budget deficits being screamed at by their own base that has become accustomed to be ""cared for"" by government oil revenue rather than paying taxes. Thus/so............. + +Those Gents on the ""united"" far-right will be the impotent cry babies of tomorrow........ +.",1 +"It is the liberals coming up with these posts... + I agree and I am sorry. They are sooooo embarrassing to be associated with.",1 +A truly sh***y lack of consideration. I so hope she gets her nose publicly rubbed in her mess.,1 +I dislike Hillary; Hillary is a woman; therefore I must hate women. It's just logic!,1 +"Morneau is either incredibly politically naive or incredibly stupid and I don't believe he's stupid. Surely someone close to him with even a scintilla of legal knowledge should have said, 'Bill, put your assets in a blind trust. If you don't, you could well be drawn into any number of conflicts whether real or perceived. Either way they'll kill your credibility to manage the nation's finances. For me, this is the last straw--Morneau should resign or be fired. Full stop.",1 +"It's a song now? Well, ok…still better than our crappy national anthem, I guess…",1 +It just so happens that 100% of terrorists are muslim.,1 +Sexual predators are toxic. Masculinity isn't. Conflating the two - especially in a headline of Canada's 'national' newspaper - is ridiculous.,1 +"There is an old observation that to a man with a hammer, the entire world looks like a nail. Mr. Pitts traffics in race, it is the very essence of his being. It is no surprise that he should find it everywhere. He has chosen poorly. Sucks to be him. Cheers -",1 +"The film producer, Marc Morano, has his far-right bona fides. He studied under Rush Limbaugh, and was the first to publish the Swiftboat Veterans lies against John Kerry. That got him a job in the Bush administration, and a job with climate denier Sen. James Inhofe. Who knows who is paying for his organization, and film, and his website which posts articles like, ""There Was No Fukushima Nuclear Disaster"", and ""Alarmist sea level data may raise flood insurance"". Lamar Smith, Sara Palin, and Marc Morano, any or all of this triumvirate of in-your-face-stupidity debating Bill Nye - one can only hope.",1 +"That ranking may merely prove that "" Ignorance is Bliss "" .-)",1 +"Victoria pumps 150 million litres of raw sewage into the ocean every day + +... the moral high ground of the activist is paved with hypocrisy",1 +"""Steals"" ..... So you earned that oil check you get every year huh???? Every move walker makes is not harmful to Alaska it just means you don't get more ""free"" money from our state. I don't agree with everything he does. Yes yes, I can hear the ""more cuts to government"" and oil tax credit comments. I can also hear the comments regarding a dead gas line project.... I agree it's going nowhere. But... People like you that moan about your PFD getting ""stolen"" make yourself look sad and ignorant. Get a better job if you really need the few hundred bucks... You did not earn it, are not owed it, and the state does not owe it to you. Uggg I wish people like you would move.",1 +"CR, America bends over and they (Iran) makes us look like fools.",1 +"Nothing you posted is ""evidence."" All conjecture. Cmon - if it was such a problem then post a damn link from a reputable source. Shouldn't be that hard, right?",1 +"Please don't do this. Toronto has enough rats and raccoons as it is. We don't need to feed more of them. +This is a horribly stupid idea by Toronto's horribly stupid city council. If people want to raise livestock they should move to the country.",1 +"What rubbish. If LNG export terminals are not economically feasible, the government in power now or in the past doesn't matter. Give it up! As far as the not fully details growth plans from the new government they haven't had a chance. + +If you want to criticize any political movement, they're provided ample scope. Have at it. Making hay out of utter rubbish is an insult to readers.",1 +"A Trump supporter was killed by a Muslim this week at a house party. + +You know why you didn't hear about it? Because the roles weren't reversed. Otherwise it would be front page nationwide news.",1 +"Gary, what are you smoking? ""Justin Trudeau, on the other hand, has a much better understanding of the role the oil sands play in the national economy. He appreciates that they must continue to exist ."" He wants to eliminate the oil sads!!!!!! + +Silver spoon 'boy' is a fool and even the Liberal folks who voted for him now realise this. Can tell what colour your stripes are!!! + +Justine has no concept of reality and should have studied economics rather than Drama - who voted for this idiot!!??",1 +"The CONSTITUTION is typical liberal nonsense? I though Jesus was one of the co-authors. Especially when it comes to the right to bear arms. +I consider someone who comes along and disagrees with me in such a disagreeably racist way to be beneath my contempt.",1 +"Alaska is really screwing up. +They need to stop giving away the money and instead put it into a MASSIVE trust fund in which PART of the interest is used for local taxes. +Had they done even 1/2 of their money into a trust fund since the 70s, they would not be worrying about money. Sadly, the GOP up there are SOOO short sighted.",1 +"Not supposed to happen until you're dead. What are you waiting for, you thieving bandit.",1 +"Maybe if the media and the libs( same) were fair to the President, he would be fair to the media. +It is a disgrace how you so called media idiots have treated this President. +So, he has every right to get his own message out to the real American people. +You, the media are a joke. People don't even believe, nor listen, or watch your shows anymore.",1 +RA: Didn't take long for another buttercup to come to the rescue and no surprise it was you. Why is it when you get all flustered and frustrated you revert to senseless ad homenium attacks? Do you think that makes your comment more relevant or is it just childish chest beating. Or does it satisfy your cyber bully ego?,1 +Oddly enough it was Reagan and Bush (jr.) who were thought to spend the most time away from the office. Ronald having to get home to Nancy for supper and nightly TV shows and Bush going to his ranch. However at least Reagan told Israel to remain at their 1967 borders; would you agree with that crook?,1 +"Say Adios to Murkowski next election ....What a stupid vote, she is a Democrat skunk vomit hiding within smoke to us voters. God Bless Sullivan !",1 +"Why is everyone acting like it's all of a sudden a miscarriage of justice. All we need to know, is that if you are white and rich you slide. Point blank period end of discussion.",1 +Supporting Trump is a display of a low IQ. Sad.,1 +What a ridiculous thing to say and do.,1 +You failed to address my points. When will black Americans take responsibility for their conduct?,1 +What an idiot.,1 +"Turn down the volume Margaret...really? In other words - be ladylike, shut up and take it.",1 +"The liberal ""politically correct"" ethos is drowning out even Muslims that want to help and condemn this type of brutal violence by their most radical flanks --I think they call this irony. No law abiding, responsible Muslim citizen wants their children involved with these insidious terrorist groups; no more than white parents want their kids in neo-Nazi gangs, or black parents want their kids hanging around with the Bloods and Crips. Let Muslims help by speaking out and identifying these radical elements within their community, so let's please not sacrifice more innocent blood in the name of politeness and pretend that we don't see any differences in our multicultural societies. The West must help reformist moderate Muslims reform Islam, this is one of the most important issues of our time.",1 +Nasty. Just.......nasty.,1 +"See. That's why HPD needs to shoot, then shoot again, and simply remove ""this kind"" from society. Now one of two things will happen: we will foot the entire bill for his incarceration, or he will be out on the streets within days because of our pantywaist judges. + +Probably the second one. + +NEXT TIME....SHOOT!!!",1 +"REALLY tells one all one needs to know about 'christians' of today ... when CHEETOLINI is your savior!!! 80% of Cheetolini voters consider themselves Christian, but ANYONE that voted for this MONSTER is an evil motherf!cker ... plain and simple, PERIOD. As far as I'm concerned, anyone that states themselves a Christian needs to be avoided and condemned by the general public. They do much much more harm than good I don't care how many wells you dig in impoverished countries you are also trying to FOOL with your FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER GARBAGE if you are perpetuating the War Machine and Flat Earth mindsets via Cheetolini.",1 +"“wacky & totally unhinged,” + +Now THAT is a great description of Trump himself. If the Loser in Chief can't be impeached then we must pray that 2020 comes quickly so we can rid ourselves of this incompetent nutbag.",1 +"Yea so your white? So what! You are scared becaue you look around you and realize you are quickly becoming a minority in this country. Your great white hope Trump is your last hope at making America ""white"" again.",1 +"How's that ""pig smooching"" working for you today, Paul?",1 +take the shots while we got em bud. top corner no look.,1 +"So, ""yardman,"" who'd you vote for? + +That should provide a pretty good idea of who the real ""fool"" is.",1 +The only thing Trump needs to know is I didn't vote for the orange clown. Anything else should be off limits.,1 +"Hope all you want Douchebag. The only way the whore gets prosecuted is to Drain, baby Drain.",1 +Take your anti-war hero anti veteran garbage and put it where the sun don't shine.,1 +"Does the far right really believe right wing Liberals and their right wing liberal voters are the ""left"" or just pretending they're ""left""? + If all those hypocrites, fakes and self-deceivers are ""left"", I'm Che Guevara. + Canada's government is like an airplane with two right wings. No wonder it doesn't take the majority of Canadians where they want to go.",1 +"So they elected somebody with gender identity disorder, in other words somebody with a mental disorder to be mayor. I am sorry for that town.",1 +"The high prices are driven by the corruption of the McGuinty and Wynne governments. Ontario had ample electricity supply for the forseeable future. We did not need a single windmill or solar panel and we certainly did not need to enter into long term contracts at ridiculous prices with a bunch of liberal buddies. +The question now is how do we get out of these contracts and reduce electricity rates. Could these contracts be bought out and the windmills shut down. +Wynne's attempts to hide her stupidity and corruption by hiding the real costs or renaming themdoes nothing.",1 +"Sorry Michelle. Not all Americans can send their kids to private school where their $30,000 tuition also pays for a decent lunch. The rest of America has to get by with public schools and crappy lunches that don't satisfy a waif let alone a growing child. No wonder lots of districts were ditching the program well before Trump was elected.",1 +Crapdoodle.,1 +"First of all kudos to all them that served and are serving. With the highest respect for all. However when is someone going to tell the truth. Granted there was a draft in that war, but the newer ones relied on a feeling. Its called patriotism. This word, or feeling is a money maker for the real people in control. If you cant control your feelings you may get in trouble. What is really going on? The Bushes and others sold a line of crap, men died and were maimed. For What! A feeling!! We only think we are free. Those in controll laugh at chest thumping studs. The real money people dont let their kids join. How many deferments did they get from nam, then they are suppose to lead us! How stupid! Then you have a terrorist like Obama, who in there right mind would give a plane load of cash to Iran. A fellow terrorist would. That money is now working against the patriots Im talking about. Again kudos to the brave men & woman of our country.",1 +"Donald Trump is spending this morning of his vacation lamenting the removal of various monuments to treason in defense of slavery: +One thing I’ve been surprised by during this slow motion car crash into a raging dumpster fire is the sheer depth of Trump’s stupidity and ignorance. +You could tell during Tuesday’s press conference that he thought he had come up with a new and especially powerful argument when he lectured the reporters about the previously unappreciated fact — no doubt just relayed to him by an advisor in the previous day or two — that Washington and Jefferson owned slaves (wait until he finds out that Jefferson liked to rape some of his). +On top of everything else, he’s just really really dumb — and of course he remains blissfully unaware of this.",1 +"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.",1 +They're idiots and will crash and burn. I'm using .1 - that's right .1 - GB and I'm expected to pay $400/year for third party hosting. Psshh. Phucketbucket more like it.,1 +Trash,1 +"Unless you have some proof that Trump was in the KKK, then you are a horrible person for making an accusation like that. By the way, the DEMOCRAT party started the KKK and Hillary called one of their most prominent leaders her ""mentor"". There are even pictures of her kissing Mr. KKK on the lips.",1 +"And you know everything about India because you ate butter chicken a few times? + +Rape is underreported everywhere. But the implied idea (from the media) that non white men rape more is not backed by data.",1 +"There is no such thing as ""Cultural Appropriation"". This is just more drivel from the fascist left. Time to stand up to these thugs, write what you want, say what you want, dress the way you want and to Hell with all of them.",1 +Punk. Lyerla is and has been (is a has-been?) an embarrassment to the Mighty Ducks.,1 +"The short answer? Yeh, you are VERY wrong in your thoughts. Make the world a better place. Help out the victims. Vote judges in that will give more than a slap on the wrist. There are lot of things to do. Dwelling on dark thoughts will infest your life and you could end up just like that loser vigilante this is written about. The LAW enforces the law. YOU will go to jail out of stupidity.",1 +"The anti-Trump media says it is 'not quite the truth'. +But ask yourself, if it was not true, why did they prevaricate with 'not quite'? +It's because they are liars.",1 +"Hypocrite, pretender, dissembler, deceiver, liar, pietist, sanctimonious person, plaster saint; +- +sounds like (and I am being kind) +Justin TRUDEAU and Kathleen WYNNE +does it make them ""social conservatives"" ?",1 +"17 agencies point toward a Russian involvement in USA affairs. Trump et al say its fake. + +The CIA would lie even if the truth would serve them better. But Trump ONLY knows lies and disdains educating himself. He says he is ""smart"". He knows more than the generals. + +Like the election, I'll choose the one I think is lying the least. In this case I'll go with the 17 intelligence agencies.",1 +"Yes, their both predatory perverts.",1 +"garycrum - Satoshi Kanazawa is a low IQ leftwing nutjob and racist. That fully explains why you suckered for his biased research, thereby quantifying my hypothesis regarding Democrats. + +Your man Satoshi also publicly proclaimed that Black women are the least attractive group among all humans. As a result, the largest student organization in London (representing 120,000 students) unanimously called for Kanazawa's dismissal from your London school. His work has been roundly criticized and soundly debunked by his peers. + +You got any rooms available for him to board at your place? - regards, 420. + + +http://www.blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/the-data-are-in-regarding-satoshi-kanazawa/",1 +All these white supremacists would be in for a great surprise if they all took a DNA test and find out that a lot of them have African blood. Even this Fuentes guy. Bet he has Latino roots. What a bunch of idiots with shallow warped minds.,1 +"Tony, so good to finally hear from my silent stalker. +First off, Bill Clinton was terrible. +Bill Clinton may have been a disgusting man lacking morals, but he actually was draft eligible, unlike your draft dodging coward Trump. + +Bill Clinton received deferrments, just like Trump. But in the Fall of 1969, Bill Clinton entered the draft and was eligible. His number was never called. + +Get it? No? + +Why are trying to say it is okay for Trump to be a draft dodging coward by pointing at the very disgusting Bill Clinton? +That is li,e saying since Hillary is a murderer (she is) then it would be omay for Tru p to be a draft dodging cowardly rapist. + +Is that what you are doing? +Okay, now why do you support a draft dodging coward like Trump? + +Maybe it would be better if you go back to being a silent stalker? +Unless you want to explain why you support a draft dodging coward like Trump.",1 +Get rid of the stupid people and problem solved.,1 +"They're skipping it because they know that being a serial liar, using dog whistle politics, attacking minorities, making fun of the disabled, being unable to withstand any and all criticism, wanting to unilaterally jail your opponent, and likely being funded / blackmailed by the Russians, is a bad thing. And all this before he's even officially in the job. A lot of serious negatives there. And its a high price to pay for any of the good the man may do while in office.",1 +"Everyday is Stupid Day for Putrumpski and President Bannon. They've been really, really busy putting Bannon's ""Shock and Awe"" idiotic EO and Executive Memo starting gate program into effect. But I understand they're taking a little group moron break, after finally realizing that the majority of the country isn't as stupid as Trumpnuts, they see what Putrumpski and Co. are doing and they're not only not impressed, but mad as hell. So they're busy, busy, busy, trying to find a way to sneak their bullshit past us. Not gonna happen.",1 +The scary thing is that Trump is easily provoked by insults and lack of respect. Maybe the rest of the world could lock both of them up in an insane asylum and throw away the key.,1 +You must have replied to me by mistake as your comment is non sequitur to mine. I point out that this news is likely generated by a traitor who break an oath of secrecy to the USA to reveal confidential information. Hillary was found not guilty in emailgate. Done deal. Does one stupid investigation justify another?,1 +"So you are saying that the 12 year did something wrong by allowing herself to be raped and become pregnant , It is no wonder that under Republican administrations the abortion rate skyrockets and the docket of hungry abused children climbs while you ask for forgiveness and sleep soundly in your religious hypocrisy : (",1 +More the pity. They let a lecherous creep make a speech just because he is Killary's husband. This us a guy who has a record of raping women. Unbelieavable!,1 +"BS. + +Trump himself said he fired him because of the ""Russian thing"", and the circumstances leading up to his dismissal (seeking his personal loyalty, asking him to lay off Flynn) leave little doubt. + +Earlier efforts to say Trump fired him on the deputy AG's recommendation were denied by the deputy AG. + +Saying Trump fired Comey because he was unfair to Clinton during the election is just plain laughable.",1 +There won't be life in prison if these thugs bust into my house. They'll be dead.,1 +"Wow, this must prove that Dems are much more capitalist than repubs. What a stupid article",1 +"Oh. I see. Asking the temperature of the globe is a ""stupid question."" We're just supposed to accept that it's ""warming."" + +Let Dear Leader do all the thinking!",1 +"typical ignorant lefty, no clue as to the costs that are soaring, the milions that had to giver up thier doctors and insurance cause some government mandate says they have to have this and that,,, trump is thier champiion just not for greedy ignorant left wingers living off the mandates etc... too bad sheep of liberalism like you are blind to the real problems,, i guess you have a crystal ball too since no bill has been put forward thus you have no clue what is coming to replace it",1 +"There is no way in hell that congress would support the stupid piece of shit if he wanted to destroy relations with both of our biggest trading partners + +let him try +and he'll get run over by republicans to the extent that he'll be flattened",1 +Another racist Democratic pig calling everyone else racist. This woman epitomizes the Democratic party.,1 +Don't be daft. The CBC is a public broadcaster.,1 +"I speak for the Canada that is tired of bending over backwards for one malcontent province constantly seeking a handout. So if I don't speak for you, you are obviously part of the parasites sucking on the government teat.",1 +If there is one thing we can all agree on is that that is one heck of a shiny table. That dang thing is like a mirror!,1 +Why am I having visions of Pete Kelly as Major Hochstetter? HEADS WILL ROLL.,1 +"Wonderful commentary Mr. Begich, thank you for adding your voice of rational and reasoned thought to this debate. One of my favorite examples of the forces of anti fascism is that of the landing craft at Normandy unloading thousand of Allied soldiers while underneath the caption says, ""Group of anti Nazi protesters confronts a large gathering of Nazi sympathizers"". The time to confront fascism has long come and gone even as the evil has grown inside the nations heartland. We defeated it before and we will defeat it again. The Nazis in Charlottesville were given a permit for their rally on Saturday but they went off the rails on Friday night with the tiki torch parade so their permit was revoked. Meanwhile the anti fascist/racist/nazi demonstrators were given a permit by city government for a rally in a different part of town on Saturday. That's the one the murderous bas#$@d drove his car into intentionally maiming and killing. The madman who is POTUS equated the two. Horrendous, sad.",1 +"Perhaps the slogan should read ""For then many, not the Jew"". His 'friends in Hamas and Hizbollah' would be so proud!!!",1 +"First, can you drop the ""Uncle Phil"" please... I know clowns like you aren't very creative, but that horse has been beaten dead long ago. Second, Phil Knight never offered anyone 10 million. That came from a ""reporter"" who said Knight is ""reportedly"" willing to pony up for the right coach. Of course we wouldn't expect an angry misinformed hack to actually research something or state facts, now would we. I'm thinking you probably also believed ""reports"" by CNN or MSNBC suggesting Hillary was up 15 points before the election. Read the sign...Stupid...Stupid.",1 +He was a thief !,1 +"Well you replied to it so it must be you stupid, I mean Liberal.",1 +"You might want to look at a map of the Korean peninsula. There are millions of South Koreans, and tens of thousands of US troops, within easy range of North Korea. If an assassination attempt failed, and likely even if it succeeded, there would be hell to pay and many many lives would be lost. Even Trump is not that stupid.",1 +"Duvenage is clearly ignorant of the subject matter under discussion here. How he moved from anti e-toll specialist and advocate to anti nuclear power lobbyists baffles me? The next time he will become a space specialist. That's the nature of our democracy where laymen and idiotic journalists become instant specialists in disciplines that take years to acquire the basics.Let Wayne tell the South African public who is funding his activities as he has become a full-time anti everything South Africa. +Now to the issue of the nuclear power and the decision by the th western Cape High Court. The High Court in the first place overreached its mandate. Governments all over world sign bilateral agreements with other governments all the time. These agreements are mostly principles and intentions and by no means binding. And since not binding they are not subject to legislative oversights. These bilaterals do not involve financial commitments or obligations.The court judgement is therefore hollow",1 +"Oh lets attack those bad, bad bad rich people. + +Remember the good old days when we did that and simply they left. Like E.P. Taylor, Arthur Hailey, etc. Yes lets attack the rich so they will move and their income along with the jobs they provide will move with them. Brilliant idea.",1 +this sounds kind of crazy but Elway should trade for Eli Manning before tomorrows trade deadline is over. Hell what does he have to lose. the Giants season is over and the Giants want to start over I believe. Hell I would rather have him as the starting qb that the crap qbs we have now. Hell it worked out great for Peyton,1 +Idiot.,1 +Obama was the fool,1 +"I'm not talking about the media. Yes, I'm well aware of the Assad, Puntin and Iran's unrealistic ""expectation."" That was the gist of my comment. Just another ignorant, impulsive probably illegal, wasteful (59+ million dollars down the toilet) hugely expexpensive Trump fail. he's an incompetent moron. But hey, Hillary had emails. 🙄",1 +Stop feeding the troll. Let him drink himself to death if it makes him feel better.,1 +I would put so much gay porn on my phone if I ever crossed the boarder lmao,1 +"They interviewed a lot of attendees at CPAC and asked them if they felt Milo was really advocating sex with children. Most said no. + +Milo definitely made a mistake, but it's unfair he's being crucified while Maher & celebrities like Meryl Streep (who applaud Roman Polanski) get a pass.",1 +"Count me OUT !! +I loved La Loma. Now you want to take La Loma and turn it into a CIA Hyde Park crap 5 star. +We are your customers, we loved La Loma, now you got your dough and you want to be the Hudson Valley of I-25. Go for it, you are making a big mistake. If we wanted a Route 9 New York CIA joint, we have several to choose from. We know food, we travel, we have money! But we don't want New York crap food! All we wanted was La Loma. You want to Re-invent yourself into some crap NY junk! +By the way, the CIA takes anyone with a GED!",1 +Angela Merkel and all other European political leaders who have aided and abetted the ongoing invasion of Europe by the forces of the crescent moon death cult should be tried as accessories to Mr. Urban's murder.,1 +"You are projecting once again. Pretty sure I didn't snivel about how tough I had it...once again, feel free to re-read what I wrote. + +So...it's true christian behavior to tell someone they deserved to have their mother murdered? Here's a direct quote from you: +""Your just full of hate and probably don't have a loving bone in your body. Why you so mean?"" +So then in your sadistic world...it is not hateful, it is loving and not mean to tell someone they deserved to have their mother murdered?",1 +"It's one thing to preach pacifism, another to live it. + +Take MLK (whose real name was Michael King Jr. and he never had his name changed legally) for instance. Adultery is a form of violence against one's spouse. And he was an adulterer.",1 +"Nor should it. + +And the same applies to any participation by Lane County. + +It should not be Lane County taxpayers' job to bail out the stupidity of the Eugene Mayor, councilors and City Manager. + +Nor the taxpayers who keep re-electing them.",1 +"Your assumptions are silly. If people are dying from pot smoking, they are doing so now. + +Current law does nothing to limit access to minors. Every high school has at least several pot dealers. + +You must be assuming that a whole crop of new pot smokers will magically appear from the wilderness, smoking enough dope to kill them. No one ever died from smoking a bit of pot. Your comment is not very well informed. + +As for the revenue, better it goes into provincial coffers (which might help fund desperately needed infrastructure programs, or other public goods) than flowing into the hands of criminals. Eh?",1 +The US Office was trash compared to the BBC one.,1 +"I bet their next one will be 'The First Hispanic' , or first Gay or Transgender, or first test tube baby, etc. etc........to run for President. The Democrats need to always have a 'first' for their next Hollywood production aka President. Obama and Michelle were swooned over and promoted so much by the Celebrity left, talk shows, media and so called other artists......it is no surprise there was much thought put into every move they made. One big show.....and he sucked as a President, but just could not get enough of the limelight.",1 +"Don't worry, Trump is only holding a 4 to 8 year moving idiots convention between the White House, Trump Hotel in NY, and the Trump golf resorts in NJ and FLA.",1 +"Maybe if James gave out more pairs of his ""equality"" shoes to white guys and Hispanics, there might be more equality. No other word to describe but, fool.",1 +"Now you're acting just like racist bigots who make fun of my Chickasaw name. You caricature my Chickasaw name in a vile derogatory manner unlike Hi u he he who never meant to be derogatory. I expect this from a coward who is incapable of ever producing an intelligent debate on any of the subjects you post your deluded opinion on. If you had a crumb of intelligence, much less a crumb of originality, you would have posted: wished your parents had named you Happy.",1 +"Hear that zinging sound? That's the point flying right past you. It's not so much that he did it, rather that he promised he wouldn't do it and then reneged. + +Oh, and up voting yourself is so incredibly pathetic.",1 +"My teenage son says the back of these cars looks like a butt, I agree...",1 +"They should shoot this monster right between the eyes and Morneau should resign. + +What a scam! What a gd rip off!",1 +If all NRA members are culpable then all Muslims are also equally culpable of other acts of terrorism because they all believe the same ideology.,1 +"American companies don't pay their taxes by hiding their monies in offshore tax havens. Trump is a part of that same culture. You would have to be a fool to believe he would be some sort of saviour to poor, working-class people.",1 +"If you eat nothing but caribou all winter, you will starve to death. Regardless of that, this idiot got off light. His hunting license should have been revoked for life (in Alaska and all other States too) at a bare minimum.",1 +"And this festering zombified corpse stirs again. + +What is it going to take to put this infested creature down for GOOD?! + +NO Pebble, EVER. + +Ted Stevens, Republican for Life, nearly Senator for Life - if not for the illegal and unethical actions of Prosecutors who withheld evidence and knowingly presented false evidence at his trial - was Pro-Alaska development, including the Mining Industry. And even HE said, + +""Wrong Mine, Wrong place."" + +Be done with this foul beast. Pebble needs to DIE the final, inglorious death it so richly deserves. How does one start a petition for Redress of the Citizens of Alaska against the representatives in Juneau who are gearing up to poison the entire western salmon spawning grounds?",1 +Paul J. Kushner is a disgrace to the Department of Physics and sullies the reputation of UoT with his climate cult junk science..,1 +You do realize that in 100 years you'll be considered a moron because you were too stupid to invent cold fusion. Right?,1 +YOU suck. Have you taken the Hypocratic Oath. Did you even know or understand what you were swearing to? I doubt it.,1 +Kinda like your stupid remark!,1 +You are an idiot,1 +"Chretien,martin and Harper new Khadr was a murdering terrorist",1 +"You must be new around here. No subject can be discussed in the Trump Era without ""squabbling over which party did what,"" especially when the underlying message is that Trump exists because of ignorance.",1 +"""What is the next brainless criticism?"" + +Just an understatement of fact.",1 +"That's the thing about legislation...if there are concerns about the constitutionality of it, it's best to let it die. The fact that Dunleavy was this enthusiastic to push this potentially unconstitutional bill speaks to his incompetence. I know he has worked in education, so it's a little weird how out of touch he is with some of the realities of...well, reality, I guess.",1 +You hypocrite. I spent more money on one simple house purchase than I do on several visits to the dentist. How dare you provide comment or pass judgement. a lawyer - Physician - heal thyself.,1 +"I've never seen anyone conflate issues on the other side of the world from each other. What the hell does addiction have to do with ""needles in the park"" or ""no gun laws"" or ""paved roads and build schools""? You must be a Bernie ""the burn"" Voter.",1 +"I would give this article a little more respect if it said 'all people' rather than 'white people'. It would seem that the author believes that only white people are capable of racism and prejudice. +Black Lives Matter is prejudiced. They hijacked the Toronto Pride parade 2 years in a row! They care about no one but black people, but white people are encouraged to support them? They are just causing mayhem like the white supremacists or the jihadist terrorists. Sure they don't have the disgusting history, but they have to start somewhere. All these groups are steeped in hate. They all suck.",1 +"Trash, and just not the regular bigoted flatulence, this crap you write is evil trash.",1 +typical lies and ignorance. see it before,1 +"The problem with buying the building now, no matter what the price, is that it will always be a reminder of how our elected officials sold us out. The landlord is corrupt and doesn't deserve to dump the LIO on us at any cost. He needs to hurt, and boy, is his reputation garbage now.",1 +"I found a full story of this. Turns out the dirt bag that ""lost"" Portis's money was a guy who worked for Stratton Oakmont...yanno, the bunch of crook wall street investors they made the movie The Wolf of Wall Street about. The thief still lives in a multi million dollar mansion in Florida. + +Can't say I blame Portis for how he feels.",1 +"That is ridiculous in so many ways that there isn't room to reply adequately. To begin with, have you ever been to private schools? And you are lumping in the few private academies with private schools located in many typical neighbor hoods through out the city. You are also putting typical liberal stigma on blacks and other minorities that they all live in poor neighborhoods with those like them. I guess my nephews black wife, who grew up in a south suburb wasn't informed that her family was in the wrong neighborhood and needed to move to Montbello. I suggest you go to Lincoln Academy and see the cross-section of society that attends there. In the end, you are so narrow minded on this subject that you can see through a keyhole with both eyes.",1 +That's a ridiculous statement based on nothing.,1 +"It has to do with Tyranny of the Majority. It's not acceptable for the majority to infringe on the rights of the minority or an individual. If it were, we could hold referendums on all kinds of ridiculous things. As soon as it appears someone's rights have been infringed upon, whether it is by a tyrannical monarch or a majority vote, it becomes a constitutional issue. Hence a constitutional lawyer. + +For instance, we could hold a referendum to: + +1) Take your house away and give you nothing in return. +2) Throw you in prison. +3) Deport your entire family to North Korea, except for your dog. +4) Let Justin Trudeau adopt your dog and rename him Justin Jr. + +If we achieved a majority, then we could just point at the referendum and strip you of all freedom. + +As silly as these things are, the constitution is what protects a tyrannical majority from infringing on the rights of the minority. + +I am not saying this is anything more than NIMBY, but if it is, then we have a problem. Make sense?",1 +"Are you kidding me? ""Of course they realize it ?"" [that judgment and coordination are the first things impaired by alcohol]? No they do not. Then why would this happen if they realized the results? And our society is not ""surrounded by warnings."" They DO NOT have a full realization of facts. By omission, you are insinuating that this was done on purpose which I very well know it WAS NOT. It IS A TRAGEDY, it is a horrible mistake and no one has any passes and no one is making excuses or not being held accountable and you are bragging about cleaning up bodies . . what are you, a carrion beetle?",1 +Most Canadians would not spend 20 on the clown car evs that I have seen to date listed at double that price.,1 +What a ridiculous response.,1 +"the usual research connected to CFL football that relies on too much State Farm attitude. for now lets say we know the difference and too many great men have become great men in their own countries but understand good football players and good football. None have ever considered their players wash ups, no good football or gasping at the orgasmic play of NFL, big school NCAA, or texas school boys/ the CFL has been guilty of allowing nonsense people to offer clown rodeo marketing which is on it's way out of here.",1 +Mr. Photo Op is just to dumb to know when he should be concerned.,1 +"""'..as part of NATO deterrence against Russian aggression..."" c???? what in the hell is this guy talking about??? - the Americans, and sockpuppet NATO, have been provoking Russia for years now, lining up heavy military stuff all along Russian borders - and accusing RUSSIA of 'aggression'???? - Alice in Wonderland meets loonytunes land Trump has been talking about putting a stop to this - let's hope he at least tries to tone down the wartalk of the American psychos.",1 +"So DP, why isn't this story on the front page? What? It makes Obama look like a fool. It exposes more of his ineptitude by exposing yet another of his terrible deals? ""Defense attorneys have acknowledged that Bergdahl walked off his base without authorization."" ""Facing Republican criticism, Obama noted that the U.S. doesn’t leave its service members behind."" Hey Barry, he walked off on his own.",1 +"Putin didn't expect that 23% of eligible voters would be dumb enough to put his candidate in office. No doubt the Russian government has been working out how to collect on the debts that Trumpski owes it, as well as other holds it may have on him (sexual blackmail tapes from previous visits to Moscow, financing from Russian mob banks, etc.). + +It goes some way to explaining why some of the early Trump moves have included weakening U.S. defence commitments to NATO and other allies, attacking U.S. trade agreements, and gutting U.S. intelligence agencies.",1 +I did not comment on the bizarre event of him driving along during the day with a body in his car. I just can't fathom how stupid people can be...even criminals. I'm glad he had not dumped her body yet or else he wouldn't have been caught. I just wonder what they are going to do with the money! Maybe the powers that be could divvy it out to substance abuse treatment or some group that works with prostitutes. They could give it to some child feeding program.,1 +You're repugnant.,1 +"Between commercial and military flights, this Trump suckee blew more than a million bucks in taxpayers' money. His sleazy, thieving butt should be fired.",1 +"ok lets make it simple for you and your friends. +if it's the way blacks are treated in America the issue, why didn't they protest when Obama was president. +why all of a sudden Trump is the bogeyman and not the treatment of blacks.",1 +"Ya, if only Mueller and Sessions would do the job and investigate the damn leakers, Trump could pursue his agenda of colluding with Russia and obstructing justice without all these encumbrances. It's an outrage! No President in history has been treated so unfairly! Everyone knows that squealling about the crime (i.e. leaking) is worse than the crime itself.",1 +"You post crazy talk, twy. And calling me ""Ericsnot"" is so juvenile that it shows you aren't an adult. You are certainly among the worst posters on this forum.",1 +"For the first time in this dudes life, he sees ""smarter heads in the GOP"" lol yuk yuk , there is no reality to this kind of drivel.",1 +"That laughably ignorant comment by Mr. Borguno of SleazyPark just showcases how greedy and clueless he and his cohorts really are. We may have gotten rid of the old and much-hated Anchorage Parking Authority years ago, but clearly the parking Nazis are still with us and very much in charge.",1 +"And for further justification for this predatory behavior, review NAMBLA. + +""The North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) is a pedophile and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States. It works to abolish age-of-consent laws criminalizing adult sexual involvement with minors and campaigns for the release of men who have been jailed for sexual contacts with minors that did not involve coercion."" + +What is 'coercion' or 'consent' for a five year old boy or girl?",1 +"The leaks are a sign of Obama leftovers in the house not willing to accept defeat of their party, with co-ordinated attacks and platforms supplied by the Left wing media who have no morals or professionalism left. To leak conversations between your President (like him or not)and foreign leaders was simply disgusting and dangerous.",1 +"I wouldn't go so far as to say 'criminal'; incompetent, egotistic, and arrogant all work for me, though!",1 +"""Unfortunately, wrong"" Remember these two words and nearly anyone will understand you don't have a grasp on the complexities associated with ""Sharia law"". You should try re-reading my post. ""Actually ""Sharia Law"" in it's use and practice is where a Muslim takes and excepts only the 'LITERAL' interpretation presented in the Quran. Which is more often then not grossly exacerbated to unspeakable extremes by SOME Muslim Clerics and leaders."" + +""leaders"" as I point out can be and are SOMETIMES no more then leaders of terrorist Taliban fighters who are not imams.",1 +your comment just shows your ignorance. safety first!,1 +"Again, the continuous lying to prop up a complete imbecile who has delivered absolutely nothing as President is amazing. The guy has taken 55 golfing trips (WOW!) since taking office at a cost of more than $62 million. You couldn't even make that up.",1 +"Ramaphosa should have admitted to all the allegations and disclosed even worse. + +The ANC reward the worst scum. If he has not committed those acts, he may as well start today. + +Remember JZ has a minimum of 780-odd charges and he still was the ANC's head of moral regeneration.",1 +"Let's take them to San Fran, to the ACLU's door step. The ACLU is one of the most worthless groups out there, they stopped MOA from banning the hard core drunks from the liquor store.",1 +"hey loser madow what not picked to be in cabinet, are you really this stupid or what!",1 +"Huh? Ok lady we will all get off the planet to make room for your furry pig, err i mean bear.",1 +"Speaking of whores, what's Donny Rumps wife up to?",1 +"Over the years I've heard people make stupid and (sometimes) offensive jokes. Very occasionally there has been actual meanness behind the joke. More often it is thoughtlessness. + +This has been blown way out of proportion. Too bad the students weren't content to settle this within the walls of Massey College.",1 +"Muslims killing Muslims but the entire political and media structure of Canada can not deal with it. . Islam and Muslims that must change their ways, change their religious and cultural intolerance but that will never happen. Even before the blood has cooled, non Muslims are being scolded for being racists and Islamophobic despite having nothing to do with it,",1 +"There's something that needs to happen before we start talking about removing contraception from the ""sin list."" The Catholic teaching magisterium must finally acknowledge that sex isn't only about conceiving a child. This is almost acknowledged every time old infertile people marry in the church. I once asked a priest why the church would marry people who are clearly beyond their child-bearing years and do you know what he said, ""to allow for a miracle."" I kid you not. Seems to me if God can create a miracle and suddenly make an old woman fertile again s/he should be able to make a lesbian pregnant from, I don't know, the Holy Spirit? Or perhaps a gay man will miraculously be able to bear a child in a womb that God could suddenly create in him. But no, that would be foolish so we can't allow gay sex. Getting past that barrier would also remove masturbation from the sin list and also allow every straight couple to enjoy sex without worry. But I'm not holding my breath waiting for that.",1 +"It is getting so that we cannot call the police when we want to protect a loved one who may be acting erratically. They will just shoot him. Happens all over the country, it seems.",1 +"I agree VA should be shut down they are worse than useless they are obstructionist. + +Than said the Military are not covered under the Canada Health Act or subject to Health and Safety for obvious reasons. That must be dealt with first",1 +"I like that Charlottesville draped its Robert E. Lee statue in black as a memorial to Heather Heyer. + +Not as good as taking it down, but they're working on that. + +I also like the one that was tarred and feathered. + +That was even better than shrouding one in black.",1 +"Shakedown, right out of Clinton Foundation Inc. + +Trudeau, an arrogant clown.",1 +These so called scientists are idiots.,1 +"I wonder where all the trolls, Er, cheerleaders for this train wreck are now. Blame it an everything and anything you wish, but the bottom line it was headed off the tracks from the first whistle. +You were sold a bill of goods, you own it and nothing will change that. + +The keenex is on ilse 3 at Wall mart.",1 +"Yup he is no man, he is a pedophile predator",1 +"Little d also shamed women about weight...add to the list of stupid. Imagine if they were caught doing this while on the job and then denied it! Imagine it was your daughter being belittled, bullied by a man in authority.",1 +"Could you possibly be a bigger jerk, Richard?",1 +"What did a semen-stained blue dress from the Oval Office have to do with a land deal in Arkansas? After a couple of years of digging, that's all a partisan prosecutor could find against Bill Clinton. +There's nothing unconstitutional about a prosecutor working an investigation finding evidence of other, related or even unrelated crimes. And of course, it's constitutional to pursue those other crimes. +Watergate started as the investigation of a burglary and led to related crimes that brought Nixon down. +Say a judge signs a search warrant based on evidence of an illegal poker game in Joe's basement. The cops come in and find they're not gambling, but there is an ounce of cocaine on the card table. Do they walk out and say: ""Darn, too bad the warrant's for illegal gambling. Now we can't make a case for the cocaine."" +Same as a prosecutor investigating MAFIA underlings to build a RICO case against the mob boss. She may use a drug case as a means of gaining cooperation.",1 +"Blumenthal 'damaged his reputation' by being caught in the lie originally. + +You can't wet a river! + +At least not on the same basic lie. + +The actual minute details of him being a liar about his service 'in' Viet Nam are too miniscule to get him off the hook.",1 +Monsef is incompetent and completely untrustworthy. This person should be fired.,1 +"My advice is to stand back, Roach. + +The splatter off of Trump is going to hit a lot of people. + +All your Fox News faux responses are not going to change history. + +Trump and his gang of sewer rats are going down. + +Enjoy. + +.",1 +"Your daughter is the poster child for what is wrong with this country today, your entire family is a dumpster fire of treachery, treason and criminal activity, so you can put that little dream in your pipe and smoke it because it is not going anywhere.",1 +what a load of horse manure from a crybaby loser,1 +You are a Martian Troll!,1 +"The audacity of claiming Clinton's campaign is running on insults from the team where all Mexicans are rapist, all Muslims are terrorist, et al is truly insulting.",1 +Still standing up for your lying crazy leader who loves himself and nobody else. Wake up anybody home?,1 +What is almost as incredulous as the payment/apology;.... why is he still allowed to live in Canada? A once Canadian citizen that turned traitor and fought against us. Unbelievable!,1 +"The biggest problem with Islam is not the teachings in the Quran, though it is steeped in narrow-minded Old Testament values. It is the confusion of brutal, racist, backwards Arabic culture with the true teachings of Islam. Arabic culture is the main problem, both in the US muslim community and Islamic countries worldwide. + +Islam needs reform to purge itself of Arabic culture. It could start by promoting translations of the Quran, prayer and scholarship into non-Arabic language, and rejection of Imams from Arabic countries. African-American muslims could take the lead on this. + +And Muslims might want to learn more about Christ's teachings in the Gospel.",1 +Pointless.,1 +"""CognitiveDisonnance 4 days ago +""Your handle could not be more appropriate"" +~ ~ ~ ~ +. . . says the misspelled 'Cognitive Dissonance'; arrogantly struggling to represent simple discussion with some deprecating type of 'personal derogatory insult'. . . how pathetic, Canadian. + +/..",1 +"Hillary doesnt care about women, or women's issues. She cares about her power and that is about it. What a hypocritical putrid human she is, to put it nicely.",1 +"Silly proposition + +Why would the USA trade someone who is bought and paid for by Russian interests for someone bought and paid for by Chinese interests?",1 +"Republican or Democrat, these are Texans, and anyone who has spent any amount of time in TX knows what that means. There is nowhere else you'll find the level of compassion, selflessness, and community service that Texans embody and practise. + +Quit politicizing this, you mongoloids.",1 +"Deep down, most of us are racist – or are we? +---------------- +White progressive leftists in the West with typical ""white guilt"" think only whites are racists? + +If only they understand what non-white immigrants say about them behind their backs",1 +Obama didn't shut down H1 for multiple round trips through our most trafficked corridor during rush hour during the same day. Very foolish.,1 +He's a fu----g liar and he's the president. Say no more.,1 +Politicians are too afraid to reign them in because they fear their garbage will be made public by the intelligence agencies.,1 +"Madame? Be original.. Or was that another rape jar for a woman set up at BOG meeting that you cockroaches contributed too and had not the decency to remove? That made the news too, should I post a link?",1 +"While I'm at it, let's clear-up another of your self-deceptive BS LIES. + +Dogs and other warm-blooded animals are not a vector unless they became infected from cat feces, and ONLY if some other animal eats them can they then become a ""vector"" of the disease. + +NO OTHER KIND OF ANIMAL CAN BE USED BY T. GONDII TO CREATE THE OOCYSTS BY WHICH IT SPREADS ITSELF INTO ALL OTHER ANIMALS -- EXCEPT FOR CATS! + +Got it? + +Now please stop spreading your outlandish ignorance, stupidity, and your relenetlessly manipulative and deceptive lies to the rest of the world. The sooner you stop even communicating with anyone on this planet the sooner we can solve every last problem that you have caused for every other life around you since you've been born.",1 +You think that everyone is equal in North Korea? You must have failed History and Geography in school.,1 +Because they're double-talking hypocrite liberals.,1 +"What an appropriate drawing to illustrate this article! +Dear gay brothers, we know some of you are gay. We think others of you are gay. We love you. Well, I love you and I believe you are some of the best priests in the church. I wish you could all come out of the closet. If all of you came out of the closet, what would Rome do? Fire at half of the priests in the world? The hyprocrisy from Rome is disgusting and disheartening. Please know that we care and support you.",1 +You wouldn't know a troll if you looked in the mirror.,1 +"Ann Wright, If you were BLACK & A CRIMINAL then Obama would likely stop and give you hugs and praise! He has failed his duty from the beginning and no wonder, who in their right mind would believe 'a community organizer' that never had a real job could con his way into our highest office. His major accomplishment was to DIVIDE our country and set race relations back DECADES! iF Obama's presidency has proven anything, it's that ELECTING A PRESIDENT BASED ON GENDER OR COLOR is NOT the right way to get the job done..",1 +"If the EU want to be sucks about not giving Britain a trade deal, lots of countries will and they will be sizeable, especially the U.S. one, despite what you think of the leader. +Your tired, antiquated, bureaucratic Brussels-run nightmare of a union is at an end. +Rejoice and embrace the newfound independence.",1 +"""GOP is composed mostly of white trash, inbreeds""? Says a whole lot about how intelligent and tolerant you are.",1 +"Denver fans are the best and they didn't deserve the shameful disrespectful kneeling down by 32 members of their favorite team. My favorite 3 players, Thomas, Sanders and Miller posing in the front row among the other idiots, was just enough for me to want to change the channel, which I actually did. Yes, you overpaid, oppressed divas deserved to lose big time. Karma has a way of coming back and biting you in the butt. It'll be a cold day in hell before I ever watch such a bunch of anti American values punks again.",1 +"Living thorough the Khalistan movement in Punjab , for over 15yrs, it’s not pretty when Sikh terrorists come to your neighbourhood and kill people just because It’s Hindu dominated. Mr Singh is not clarifying because it could also alienate Hindu voters in the big cities. Long gone are the days when sunny ways could get you into office . People are getting sick of Trudeau and his unending need for taxpayer$$$ to support his spending.",1 +"As a women, what a bunch of losers........seriously. Would you of marched if Hillary and groping Bill got back in? The over the top partisan bs is getting ridiculous.",1 +Yep he was a juvenile delinquent who cheated and lied his way through life. How people can continue make excuses for the idiotic liar in chief is mind boggling.,1 +... he lied to get votes and fake prayed his butt off ... it paid off steak n ketchup for Cheetolini next 3 years 1 year down almost ...,1 +Kidd is a child and a clown. She needs to be hounded out of office.,1 +"This is a non starter, if it was someone else they would spent time in jail, but this American where money and the 1% count. He will walk away with a smile on his face. Fair no, check out the number of Black Americans rotting in prison for lesser crimes (Oh I am white) but I can see a set up here. If your black your either dead, or in prison, but if your pretty boy Trump, nothing yes nothing will happen.",1 +Yes and we can move that much quicker to Oceania. Disgusting.,1 +The government should pass a law requiring a mandatory dress code of sweat pants and flip flops. Then we can all look like government civil servants and be comfortable at work. That way everyone will be equal looking like lazy slobs.,1 +Andree...baloney.,1 +I am guessing that Pence and his boss don't like Hawaii after the local federal judge blocked their Muslim ban. The lei represents everything about Hawaii and Pence didn't want to keep it longer than he had to. Just a way to show his contempt for the Hawaiians.,1 +"Two questions: +1. Why Pope F. become a symbol of light instead of a pitch dark bottomless hole regarding clergy sex abuse of children? +2. Is Pope F. consider as a Christian since he is hiding condoning his clergies rape children?",1 +Poor white people have not been discriminated against because of the color of their skin.,1 +The liberal news media rags on your BFF because at minimum he says stupid things on a regular basis. The reality: He's not qualified to be president. The conspiracy: He's really a stooge of Vladimir Putin. Take your pick.,1 +"localguy wrote: ""There is no use in trying to work with you. Your head is buried so far in the sand, ensuring you only see and hear what you want. Waste of my valuable time trying to educate you. I'll let others try while I sit back and watch. Have a great weekend if you can afford to do anything? + +I'm sorry, did you ever post any evidence to support your claim that ""Hawaii is not one of the highest taxed States in the nation"" and I missed it? + +It's funny how you pro-rail cheerleaders are so quick to switch to personal insults when the facts don't support you and you can't support your claims. You did that with the guy who wrote the article and now me when I call you on it. + +Would it be safe to say that you don't have a source to refute the statement that ""Hawaii is one of the highest taxed states in the country?"" Maybe that might be a better use of your ""valuable time"" than lobbing weak insults. One of us looks pretty silly and thick headed right now, and it's not me.",1 +Gays can serve but not trans gendered folks... that's the definition of discrimination and hypocrisy.,1 +There have been multiple people gone missing or had to be rescued by SAR because of that irresponsible idiot Forrest Fenn.,1 +""" Top Republicans have agreed to add $45 billion for battling opioids abuse to their struggling health care bill,"" +Quick, put some lipstick on this pig!",1 +You will eternally burn in hell.,1 +"Yea, Russian, Chinese and NK hackers were so stymied by the impenetrable RNC network protection. +In reality, these guys can likely infiltrate every level of our digital infrastructure at will - +So really, those supporting Trump, are you not outraged or at least moderately concerned that any part of the ""OUR"" election was influenced by the Russians(foreigners) and at least not curious why? Then the enemy's job is even easier!. And what makes you believe they don't have a pile of dirt on the Donald? It's basic KGB spy 101, to have your adversary in a compromising position! If you are dumb enough to think the RNC's geek squad stopped them, you were dumb enough to have voted for Trump. +and btw, Wikileaks isn't exactly the 21 century version of Radio Free America!",1 +Two people on my s**t list.,1 +That wouldn't make the English xenophobes happy. Those guys would probably like to leave the Commonwealth if it would stop all those pesky darkies and Muslims from getting in.,1 +Will the treasonous Trumpublicans enjoy licking the iron boot?,1 +"Those countries are sinkholes of crap. +We have our own problems. Stop looking outward!!! +Fix your neighborhoods first!! +You globalists lay waste everywhere you go. +You stick your noses into everyone's business and get your heads shot off. Then you use up valuable local resources to feed your monstrous self righteous egos that you are saving a world that can''t be saved. +Stop moving, slow down, focus in your neighborhood. +You are like crows- shiny shiny new new",1 +You can't legislate against stupidity.,1 +"Just do your friggin' job! If you feel the need for a higher powers assistance, get another one that you are capable of without taxing us with your weak needs.",1 +"Drugs are a bitch, but for either adult to act that way when kids are involved is bs they both deserve to go to jail for a long time hopefully the kids are taken by cps the family is nothing but methed out",1 +"And you can tout Minshall’s “word-smithing” skills as another reason for IBS. + +Like rain in August, you can also count on Alaska’s self-appointed, professionally aggrieved malcontent to chime in on a comment like yours. His “free” contribution typically begins with a personal insult or some other derogatory comment in regards to your intelligence. + +He then follows up by spraying the commenter (and anyone else who happens to read his written bescumber) with his 10 cents worth of Calcutta splutter blended with a revisionist quasi-history lecture in an attempt to frame a tragedy as just another example of Christian hatred towards the oppressed and thoroughly mistreated, innocent, peaceful muslims trapped in the perpetual cross hairs of bigotry by the evil melanastically challenged islamaphobes. + +He his is own best example and a platinum member of the “old hatreds die hard” club.",1 +"So can I up in my neck of the woods. But, that was heterosexual men on girls which is of course, a very different more 'natural' kind of pederasty. + +I will give MY this much credit, he has certainly put a big spot light on the hypocrisy of the religious right. He has them defending a flaming gay man who espoused the NAMBLA philosophy.",1 +Slap this idiot silly then put her in jail for years.,1 +"There are so many things wrong with this. 1) If the kid had learned from his parents that slavery might be re-instituted, he would have gone to school with that belief, not come home with it; 2) children who are born in this country are U.S. citizens--they have broken no laws; 3) it is not up to Obama to end racism--it is up to the racists; blaming black people for the way white people treat them is entirely racist (I know, you don't use the n-word, so you can't be racist; after all you voted for a black man; but then when people wouldn't stop referring to him and his wife as ""apes,"" you didn't blame them, you blamed him); 4) if you ""have given up on hope,"" then clearly your vote for Trump is not because you hope he will end racism, end poverty, end partisanship. You voted Trump to screw everyone else in your pathetic life. With your vote, you have done absolutely zero to constructively improve the world. You have voted to support a con man, a religious bigot, a sexual predator.",1 +"It's very goofy, but people don't care. Get that first shot in!",1 +The washington compost? Yea they are a bunch of liars,1 +"Give him a get out of jail free card. He hangs around with hardened criminals, gangsters, murderers, robbers, child molesters, extortionist, embezzlers and expects them to pay. Bad investment but a high rate of return when the person shows up for court.",1 +There are a lot worse people out than than the ones dressed like clowns. Sounds like profiling to me.,1 +"Comparing today's FakeNews.com to a time when mainstream media had credibility? I can't wait to 2018 as well. The Dummy Dems haven't figured out why they lost and they continue to be stuck on stupid like the mainstream media. They will have another rude awakening. You think there is a lot of weeping and gnashing of teeth now, wait till 2018!",1 +I sure wish there was a block head emoji. It could be square with a stupid expression on it's face.,1 +"Some children are strong willed and need that extra control! I didn't need one with my other two children, but my youngest son was a different story. I used to think it was silly when I saw parents putting their children on a leash. That was until my son tried to dart into a lake. It was the best decision I could have made! It's unfortunate that anyone would verbally abuse a parent for trying to make sure their child was safe. I guess you are damned if you do and damned if you don't",1 +"And who is going to benefit the most? The rich, naturally. + +Trump Chumps are trying to "" Trumpsplain"" that these are good cuts. Hilarious. + +You can't fix stupid.",1 +"Except, of course, this is still a dynamic and developing situation. There may be one more person in the GOP who cares enough about this country to keep a *filthy* rich, clueless, unprepared, war-profiteer out of a critical seat.",1 +cut baby cut,1 +"why the he__ is the Globe closing comments for muslin related articles. Why can't we have a say. If I can't have a say, then don't print their crap. What the he__ is wrong with you Globe. I guess it is only a free country if you are muslim. Bull Sh__",1 +It's always the doctors (like the teachers and public servants) who go militant when you try to crimp their cushy pay and lifestyle and undermine what little respect is left for their profession. Greed and entitlement is all this is. Ask any one of them to justify what they do for the avg $400K a year that a smidgen of intelligence and google can't do. What accountability do they have for the salary they draw and how can they justify tax breaks for them and not the rest of taxpayers? They get paid even when they kill their patients right? I don't recall hearing there is a need to do a good job to get paid. Sad state of medicine in Canada. Just another group of lazy entitled greedy unioners.,1 +"I'm guessing you formed your opinion without reading the judge's 64-page decision written after a two-month trial. Perhaps a bit hasty to call him a 'moron', hmm?",1 +"The new group of cheats and liars that head up the DNC had nothing to do with the cheating, lying deeds perpetrated by the old cheats and liars. And Ellison an Perez are clean of heart and would never do anything to breech the trust with the American people. + + +Believes no one. + + +Ever.",1