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some well placed, low income housing is needed and singe family housing just doesn't make sense. we do have to address the issue. it is not imagined and it will not go away. in the same footprint on the earth, buiding up, more housing per square foot.... but no huge monoliths - we just built a bundle of ugly one...
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Lane County for Bernie Sanders has been active in the community for almost a year. The UO for Bernie and LCC for Bernie groups arose last fall spearheaded by students that started with LCFBS. We have had over 40 weekly meetings (most at Cozmic Productions) until the owners of the former church building lent us the use...
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You completely miss the mark Jane. Yes when tax payer funds are transferred to native corporations and then on to the 'owners' such as this lady, the money techinically belongs to her. I am not disputing wether this money belonged to her. I am simply pointing out where 'her money' comes from. Now I may be completely wr...
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The list would be very long and include every single reputable training program out there. Here is a short list: Gunsight, Lethal Force Institute, Thunder Ranch, InSights Training Academy and every single law enforcement training academy. These schools I have listed by name are considered some of the best training faci...
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Ms. Wambach still has an opportunity to be a leading voice for Women's causes and sports. Much respect to her for not whining that 'The Man' is out to get her, but for taking ownership of her actions. She will recover from this and continue to lead.
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The last time democrats held total power they caused poverty, homelessness to explode, and sent Oregon into a 12 year recession running high unemployment. Our State was known internationally as Tax He11, USA. There they go again. The clean fuels bill is a placebo for the mentally challenged known as liberals. This ment...
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Thank you Phil North for your work. I know about what goes on in the background, the mobbing tactics at the federal level are daunting, the stress, the threats, the lies. It can cause PTSD, then the urge to go to another country sets in. I know the courage it takes to be an ethical whistleblower. I've had a couple fail...
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Liberal dementia, a social disease void of intelligence, logic, and common sense, knows no shame. They negotiate just like Muslim terrorists, there way or no way.
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Is this the same epa that ignored the fact that there was benzene contamination in the sterling highway right of way to allow federal funding to go ahead?
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Perfect fit for the socialist Sanders: The Peoples Republic of Eugene.
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What an ignorant deluded fool like yourself fails to grasp, is it is property taxes, and outlawing affordable homes that has hammered the working poor. They do not need apartments as your profound stupidity advocates, they need a home. The mortgage cuts the rent in half so they do not need subsidized housing, and in wh...
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Nothing like creating a dependence on the welfare state.
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Eddie, you are completely wrong. It sounds like you don't believe that an Alaska Native woman could actually have worked for a living and made her own money. You are also completely ignorant about where money in Alaska Native Corporations comes from. It does not come from taxpayers, and did not come from taxpayers exce...
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Yes, St. Vinnies has done good work, and my neighborhood (Jefferson Westside Neighbors) has been very supportive of them providing housing in the 'hood. I think Cornerstone Community Housing (formerly Metropolitan Affordable Housing) has also done a remarkable job. http://www.cornerstonecommunityhousing.org/ I worked...
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Ethical reasoning: woman have the right to kill their unborn babies, but should be prosecuted for murder if they deliver their baby and throw it into a dumpster with aborted fetuses. as for your imaginary Muslim allies, they are the ones funding the Muslim terrorists actions. As for George W Bush, he has single handed...
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Your post reminds me to comment that we also need subsidized treatment facilities for the mentally ill. Take your meds and calm down fella. -- Paul
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Here we go again: more alcohol related nonsense! It will keep happening until we start treating alcohol like the dangerous and often deadly substance that it is.We have options, however the legislature refuses to use them because of the money involved: the money they get from the alcohol industry. Does not this industr...
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Can you say criminal conspiracy? Yes, I knew you could. Interesting he worked with BBNC who is planning mines on the Alaska Peninsula. Apparently BBNC mining is ok as is Donlin Creek, but Pebble is not. There is a significant split among the tribes out there, with Pebble being popular with the village corporations...
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Small Bob your name fits you as in small minded. Phil North great job, Tom Collier of Pebble can spout all the lies he wants and it still wont change the fact that Pebble will NEVER happen.
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of course, pleasing partisan groups doesn't include Esther's environmental terrorist partisan groups this emotional cripple demands being pleased..
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Thanks to the decades of lies from Big Pharma including that some of the narcotics weren't really narcs ( I heard it from their mouths) millions who trusted ill-informed and in some cases con artisty doctors and became addicted, then later the doctors just cut them off without help, so they turned to cheap heroin. It's...
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RUN FOREST RUN
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It would be great to see a Native Alaskan on the Alaska Supreme Court bench someday. This program will make my dream become reality.
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Wow.....all these comments....looking to demonize this guy or turn him into a martyr. Forget this guy. The mine is a ridiculous idea if you think that the integrity of the surrounding ecosystem is important. Maybe instead of trying to crucify this guy, you coule Google "porphyry copper deposit" and read for two minut...
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Celia, I guess I'm somewhat of a sucker, I originally thought you were being serious, didn't realize you were being sarcastic.
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This is legislation long overdue. I hope it passes this season.
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This is part of a dangerous slope that I feel this country and the world is on. Why do we, as a nation, seem to want to encourage death?
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and your post reminds me there is no cure for stupidity. you're screwed Junior
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Your political leanings have clouded your judgement, Pebble will never be OK as you put it. BBNC's other considerations in mining have NOTHING to do with what the real issue is and thats protecting a natural resource that cannot be replaced. The only significant split as you put it is not between "TRIBES" as you are di...
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Mindset: "Bristol Bay should be a national park". “The law says EPA can act “whenever,” Not the mindset of a scientist making decisions based on science or operational plans. This is a totalitarian mindset. A mind which is already made up and will do anything to get it's way. If the 'law' states the EPA is above ...
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The amount of money being spent on political campaigns is obscene. We need to have publicly funded campaigns to take money out of the political system that moves public policy toward special, well-financed interests.
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Finish off a great season with maximum effort. Good Luck!
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Their has been nearly 60 search and rescue incident with snowmachines in Alaska this winter. 14 have died on sleds including 100's of injuries, i.e. Todd "AK" Palin had to be rescued. Responding to Alaska sledders lost in Alaska is almost a full time job for troopers. Alaskans have some real outdoor issues and stati...
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This very timely article, in light of the LIO fiasco, explains what goes on behind closed doors. Votes can be bought. Politicians can be swayed by money.
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I've had the same problem on-and-off for a couple of weeks now. Or hitting the yes button and having the whole rate box disappear. I hope the RG isn't paying too much for this half baked 'civil' software.
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is the game on television?
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Maybe they should do us all a favor and sell Girl Scout Carrots. LOL Diabetes is a terrible disease. :(
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Agreed, the current system of randomly putting the "reply to" information on comment replies makes it difficult to follow a conversation. Here's a hint: look at how disqus does it.
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For those of you discussing insurance and costs, policies nationwide are moving away from charging people for rescue because when people delay calling for rescues there tends to just be a later rescue that is more difficult and costly due to larger search areas, personnel, etc. Medical evacuations on the other hand are...
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So Sad ~ Prayers For Claire Sundgren And Her Family ~ Rest In Peace
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The members of the Bernie campaign have held weekly meetings during which attendees gather information, organize and energize. And each week the leadership reminds the crowd to keep the message positive by avoiding personally attacking those with opposing political views. They can't control everyone, but the intent to ...
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CBS Sports Network.
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As someone familiar (going back 35 years) with what Coach Pellum has done with his life, how far he has come and what he has given to the Oregon football program, I'm heartened and appreciative that he continues to be a stand-up guy, with an infectious positive attitude. Good on ya Coach, here's to a great year on the...
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On one hand,having one of these girls put you in a half nelson,rolling you over onto your back,and pinning you in 30 seconds,would feel incredibly humiliating..On the other hand,I bet humiliation never felt better,than being executed by one of these girls..
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"ALASKA VIRGIN"?
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Men have been unfairly targeted by the criminal justice system for far too long. It's time that women become targeted by law enforcement and the criminal justice system. Only when there are equal ratios of men and women in prison will we know fairness and equality in the criminal justice system exists.
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I agree... personally I lean towards not supporting a mine like this there. But when you count on your government regulatory agencies doing good scientific research and reaching decisions objectively, bound by law, this type of attitude is scary to me. I know people will say get used to it because this type of emotiona...
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Boozer: I'm guessing the Courts will eventually decide if this ban is a "traffic safety matter" or a blatant attempt to circumvent the Constitutional Protections provided by the First Amendment. I've yet to read of a single incident of a traffic accident being caused by someone passing spare change to a panhandler....
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Private companies came in and made an absolute mint in Colorado mining and then left the mess for the rest of us to clean up, and your take away is that we shouldn't trust the EPA?
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The EPA didn't ignore the Perc in the land next to the bridge in Soldotna. It held up the rebuilding of the bridge for years in an attempt to determine the extent of the plumb in the ground and try to get the previous owner of the land to pay for the clean up rather than have the taxpayers clean it up AGAIN. Why can w...
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Hey guys, I remixed this video. The jokes just re-write themselves! http://karllindfilms.com/
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This was a really good article, and nice photo too!
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Sunny Jim, on the contrary, you're the one who is incorrect. It's uniformed attitudes like yours that have created the mess Alaska--and the rest of the country--finds itself in. Despite overwhelming evidence that a primarily punishment and revenge oriented approach to crime not only doesn't work, but significantly exac...
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Why don't they stick the mine in cook inlet with the fracking rigs. Better yet lets just rape and destroy what's left in Alaska for the stock dividends and portfolios and stash all the money in hidden banks in Panama and Hong Kong for Pebble, BP, Sen. Dan's family and Parnell future living expenses. It will heal itself...
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The enormity of the footprint, the magnitude of the waste, the "forever" longevity of the issue should lead anyone with even the most limited access to rationality to reject development of Pebble. I salute Phil North & all who have used common sense to oppose Pebble.
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Its not a scope, its a holographic imager. And, its not mechanical, its electronic.
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Does Alaska need a 'grand' canyon??????
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I especially hate to read about young people passing away. My deepest condolences.
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Isn't every corporation that receives tax generated subsidies, incentives and matching funds getting 'free money?' Who takes more from you, Obo, single mothers that need help with groceries or corporations that need tax dollars to stay in business?
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Sad that the dog died.
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So what exactly is this connecting? The infrastructure on either side is garbage, and according to the bicycle and pedestrian master plan, it's not going to get much better any time soon. Was this really the best way to connect cyclists and pedestrians downtown? There's no way.
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So what exactly is this connecting? The infrastructure on either side is garbage, and according to the bicycle and pedestrian master plan, it's not going to get much better any time soon. Was this really the best way to connect cyclists and pedestrians downtown? There's no way.
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"It is property taxes, and outlawing affordable homes that has hammered the working poor. They do not need apartments, they need a home. The mortgage cuts the rent in half so they do not need subsidized housing, and in what they save in rent they do not need food stamps either. They can support themselves in independen...
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This is so sad. My heart aches for her family. Please everyone, be careful in the mountains now. Conditions are very dangerous, and people who have been riding for years in the Summit area have repeatedly warned that the snow conditions are very unstable. Please take these warnings to heart, so we will not be hearing a...
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Where are the tax cuts and loopholes for the rest of us. Oh yeah and the subsidies. I remember when it goes to a private citizen not a corporate fiction it is entitlement spending
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Well if you have a way of avoiding death then please do share it. In the meantime the issue at hand is giving people some measure of control over their own inevitable end. It's called honoring personal freedom. Limiting the freedom of individuals( when their action causes no one else harm ) is the dangerous slope too m...
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I just don't buy the addiction-is-a-disease line. This implies the afflicted have no choice in the matter. But addicts DO have a choice. If you say they do not, then I want you to explain the many people who DO break the chains of addiction and "get clean", often all on their own simply by making the decision to do so....
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Just gotta gouge out that profit from cradle to grave, crapitalism at it's finest.
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By restricting your housing choice to apartment buildings, you are guaranteeing that 'working-class' people are perpetually at the mercy of those owning those buildings. When they decide they need more return on their investment or sell the apartment building, the renters' cost of living will increase. I have owned...
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Then it all went south!
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Having " more cops" will not and does not make us safer. It just makes honest citizens more afraid. If we are so short on law enforcement why are our courts and prisons overflowing? Further, how do they spare the manpower to set up speed traps?
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Small Bob, you have left out an important point. It was not EPA that created the mess. It was a private company that walked away from the mess it created- and left us with the bill to clean up the contamination it caused. And this is the central issue, when a private company makes money off a mine, but cuts corners ...
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Kudos to the Alaska Legislature for being the only government body that *no longer* takes bribes from the global oil industry! It must be a huge relief to see corrupt government officials exposed in this way. Alaska is a beacon of hope and prosperity owed to the fact that not one single person has ever been prosecu...
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"...the enormity of its salmon runs"?! You must've meant enormousness. Enormity is a catastrophic moral or societal failing.
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I speak from experience, and have been in several close call fender benders because the fool in front of me wasn't paying attention to traffic and the light turning green, and was busy handing $1 to a social parasite professionally begging. AG Loretta Lynch stated illegal aliens were OBLIGATED to work our jobs when the...
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How do you interpret this ? Bad water management or a frog. My money is on bad management.
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Porter's ridiculous nonsense has been thoroughly debunked time and again in the manner you speak of, and is so shameless she continues to puke this stupidity, and therein why I now address her as a moron. This despicable moron is an obnoxious enabler of this criminal dysfunction that plagues our community like a social...
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"cost would be minimal in the scheme of things" If you sell your car and you only get 2 per cent more than it is worth; (Worth $1,000 and you get $1,020) and you have to pay 2.5% tax on the sale that means you have to pay $1,025. So you now have to pay more than your profit was. Multiply that so the $1,000 is rea...
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Clayton, but every suicidal person, unless they are living in total isolation, usually hints strongly one time or another, about their intent. Even a casual remark, may not be so casual. When I was in Japan during the 1970s, many Japanese students who did poorly or failed in their tests, committed suicide by stepping...
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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 ...
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She knows all of this, but like most shameless liberals she is convinced the welfare state is the only state everyone should live in. It's why she continues to puke this stupidity every chance she can on this board knowing what she is posting has been thoroughly debunked to redundancy. This is why I state liberalism is...
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The only morons I see hear are those who rated your comment as "civil".
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"It’s called STUPIDITY." Said to be the second most common element in the Universe, after hydrogen. :-/
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This alone should solve Alaska's economic conundrum! Money everywhere and 2% more smarter kids.
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Do your homework. People struggling with opiates addiction have very little options with treatment in the state of Alaska. Very fustrating and sad. Addiction is very serious and real. I work at one of the few treatment centers that is available in Alaska. I see the miracle in recovery. The healing that takes place. Ku...
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New website launched here: http://flyingbettertogether.com/
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Headline: EPA official does his job. Anyone who thinks the Pebble Mine wouldn't affect salmon is in the same world as those who think man made climate change isn't a thing and that smoking cigarettes doesn't cause lung cancer. This project should have been dead decades ago.
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Yay! Now shut her down for good. Pebble is within the Jay Hammond Special Fisheries Reserve (may have name wrong) but why this tiny "island" of land set aside as a mining district smacks of a special favor, and I would like to know why it was put there. Perhaps Mr. North knows. It's a burning question for me. It doesn'...
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Believe it or not, there are still some around:)
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In her case, from something she said in one of her posts, it may be that she is on the Section 8 subsidy. That's one reason I brought that up.
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Shnitz hates women? No, he just prefers to use them for group sex and if you do biz with him, you can be pretty sure he will bring one of his many women around for you to play with while he takes pictures. Hmm, where do those photos go? Maybe this is one of many reasons his marriage ended so terribly. Hearing him tal...
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Thank you for the levity.
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Every two to four years Dodson with lobby cronies start whipping up base closure theories and money starts poring into the Fairbanks and Anchorage Economic Development Corporation to stop Pentagon from moving out units. Pentagon would be stupid to close any base in Alaska. They are well aware of the strategic consequen...
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Bravo. More of this change, please.
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We need this mine so that my PFD goes up .02 cents and 6 out of state workers have full time jobs. People, think of the economic benefits of this. Economic benefits ALWAYS outweigh environmental and health concerns.
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I'd hardly call the Animas incident one of the "worst environmental disasters in human history"...
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"Alaska Airlines will pay $57 in cash per Virgin America share." Do they really mean hardcore greenback in a box or luggage or safe? Do they really mean CASH? Or, in the world of finance: debit on paper?
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Wake Alaska this man Phil North is a pc. of whale dung that lays in the bottom of the Ocean, Lets this fuzzing face worm born in North London 1965 is cricket player and a Priest . All of a sudden he is EPA Slut another Obama monkey running our United States screwing thing up.Brother to Sally the Jewel & Gina the maggot...
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Those photos are interesting. They sure don't make girl scouts like they used to...
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Oh, I agree completely...why do we have the world's largest military spending and military bases all over the world? That is what you're questioning...isn't it?
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