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This may be the most brilliantly ambiguous posting ever. Pure genius. Like a Rorschach test, one's interpretation says more about oneself than what is actually on the page. How could one possibly disagree? Is the uncomfortable truth that it's all white man's fault and that nothing short returning all the land...or ...
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For expanded revelations of the corruption of similar connectors to the worldwide tax avoidance/scofflaw schemes of the Alaska-connected, Republican government haters, and financial manipulators go to McClatcheydc.com to read the "The Secret Shell Game"of offshore criminality.
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Looking forward to seeing what Altman can do with this year’s Ducks. Given his results to date, I expect them to be competitive and entertaining, and I will not be surprised if they exceed expectations. Go Ducks!
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Time for Billy to step down. What a disaster. All because the money tree is dying. Useless leadership. Drama is no way indicative of an IQ - time for the demise of the clown party. Truly unbelievable how out of touch these jokers are and really and truly quite delusional.
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It can be considered a tax if the benefit that pays out to you is less than you put in.
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Words do matter and Mr. Storey deserves to be removed. I just hope this same standard is applied to Trump.
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The size of the Khadr jackpot demonstrates that the Liberals paid out on the basis of a complete repudiation of our role in the War on Terror, concomitantly treating the entirety of Khadr's involvement, from firefight to capture to imprisonment to repatriation as victimhood of the sort that eventually gets you an Ord...
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Notice he only singles out one side. How about BLM, ANTIFA, CAIR and even. yes even, the NAACP needs a serious house cleaning.
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Please. Leave Toronto alone. Turn Toronto into a City State. 150 Years of the Province treating cities like children. Enough is Enough. If the Liberals want to run cities, run for a job as city councillor.
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You seem to forget that he was a prominent voice supporting Zupta at the recently held NEC meeting. He is a spineless opportunist who won't rock the boat until the flames have breached his perimeter wall. Then he will scamper Cyril side and offer to lick his boots clean.
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Speaking of Blue line. Blues blow another one.
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add Want2befree an carey9 to your chapter.
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He played golf after James Foley was beheaded in 2014, not Daniel Pearl.
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The Swedes have history of appeasing terrorist cultures, preferring to engage in political correctness rather than addressing the problem. What goes around, comes around.
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The war in Vietnam killed far more than 1.5 million people. And, yes, at the current rate we are at risk of a nuclear holocaust that will kill millions more.
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Wiliki, I am also very happy to see this moving along. Granted, there cannot be one person who might be happy with the cost and the way in which our politicians and people managing the construction have handled this. BUT, for those who say this train will not benefit our traffic problems are sorely either misinformed o...
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A completely useless ban that does nothing but stir up controversy. That seems to be Trump's hallmark: Do nothing that advances society, blame others for the storm of disapproval. What a clown show.
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Curious, no mention at all of why this accident occurred in the first place. I wonder how much over the speed limit, or over the suggested speed on the curve, the driver was doing at the time?
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.... and its nice and close to the Nuke plant. .
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Bev Odas 'orange juice was of little interest but Bev Oda got in trouble by switching from an expensive hotel to an uber expensive hotel so that she could smoke and paying a fortune for limousines to get there. Actually a lot of things happened on Bev Odas watch including doctored documents.The orange juice is stuck ...
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Well it seems pretty obvious from the numbers....... gender is more important than merit for this government. This bias might be overlooked if one was hiring say, postal clerks for example (no offence meant) but for a judge? I would think common sense would dictate merit should trump everything else. Unfortunately...
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More important that the military have more weaponry to end the lives of non-Americans than to provide adequate health care to citizens
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If you are an Albertan you don't know squat about the industry. And your use of 'tars sands' betrays you as either an environmental ideologue with an axe to grind or a mis-informed millennial. Or both.
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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 ...
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I was once opposed to the concept of lot splitting, for similar reasons as some Edmonton residents express here. But the City of Richmond BC, under pressure from developers, allowed new houses to be built almost to the side lot line, and also allowed for massive set-backs. These setbacks are popular for three car ga...
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"Where"s the evidence"??? Look up !!!
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62% of Snowflakes wouldn't give more than $10 to toward a climate change cause and think Bill Nye the Science Guy is real according to Rush Limbaugh who lives only yards from the rising ocean and enjoys a spectacular carbon footprint although not as big as Leo DiCaprio's.
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Wow, so this kid was singled out due to an unsubstantiated threat, and was then arrested. I sincerely hope that the school and the police punish the person or person's that made this false report. I would also like to find out more about why he had to break a window in the door to exit the school. Very sad behavior ...
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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.
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If I saw great health care and wonderful support for the elderly and challenged, I would feel good about paying my taxes. But when I don't see any of the above then I wonder just where does all those billions and billions go. When I hear about fixing the prime minister's house will cost $38 million to repair, I real...
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This awesome how many people have bought many of these devices only to use them once and then what? They should all be loaners in my mind.
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Article 2, Impeachment of Nixon: "He misused the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, and other executive personnel, in violation or disregard of the constitutional rights of citizens, by directing or authorizing such agencies or personnel to conduct or continue electronic surveillance or other investig...
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Way to go. That will show Trump. You just made yourself dumber than you were before
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All the republicans in the state legislature keep road funding at a 20th century level for a 21st century state. Sigh.
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Absolutely. So many blind, stupid, p.c. fools. It's their (and our) funeral. Idiots.
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don't believe this is true today, non-Japanese are allowed to participate but preference is given to Japanese, the same as kam school's admission policy. btw, the original exclusion was not only white, all other races were excluded. and yes, this was wrong.
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Not sure how Fox becoming mainstream relates to the rise of the Samizdat in the Soviet Union. In any event Breitbart, like Fox has exhausted the cesspool as source of funding and readership. One can only wonder where its former readers have gone. . Breitbart News seems to be cleaning house after readers and advertis...
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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.
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I put the odds of Trump being removed at 1 to 10 at this time, before the 2020 election. Something worse would have to happen than has so far happened. Aladamnbama got what it wanted. I would like to say that I worked one job with an Alabama native, in pipe construction. He told me that when he heard a tractor for the...
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More informtion was exchanged than you think. It will all come out in due time. The Donald and the Kushners are owned by the Russians financially
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"Plan" being the operative word. Will it really go all the way downtown or make a "scenic" detour up to capitol hill, like the north/south route? Yeah, if it gets built...and if it does, I hope a big storm doesn't make all that technology and award winning planning sink, or float off, as has happened in some past st...
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BRO there's no mention of the amount of money these guys will be allocating to abuse victims....in the Fox News article cited below....there is apparently a time limit....and this is a CNS story Catholic News Service...the bishops news agency....
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She completely lost me on, "I have a soft spot for Kathleen Wynn."
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Funny we pleaded when they occupied Caledonia and it never made front page news.
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I am so sick of ADN repeating Walker's BS about a SMALL income tax. It ain't small to those of us who will pay it. NO INCOME TAX. I can move, you know, at least my residency. Tax big oil instead of me.
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Use specific examples, please, or you are presenting a hollow argument here ...
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They have got the wrong end of the stick. These delays are not the fault of judges. What we need are public defenders. Many cases could be dealt with at the first appearance, and do away with repeated remands.
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welcome back!
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Yet you feel sorry for a thug called Trayvon Martin.
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I find that most people who oppose Barack Obama cannot actually put their objections into words effectively. I get that you HATE him, that's your issue, deal with it.
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Pidgin is fun, easy, and natural to talk on the playground when you’re a kid. You don’t need to learn it in the classroom, because it has so few rules; it’s also easier to learn if formal English is your second language. While it’s a fine exercise to study it at UH, it doesn’t need to be taught in schools, where the ri...
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That's because the turkeys were distant cousins.
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YES! I wish that people would stop using "what Jesus said" as the reason to behave in a particular way. As you say, we have oral tradition, transmitted in writing, with all of the errors, embellishments, and changes that this entails and with the results of literary traditions of a given time.
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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__
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Unfortunately, you're losing the PR battle with aggressive tax planners and their misinformation campaign, but I wish you well.
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Hee hee, cupcake!
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Who is the "some guy"? A ghost writer? "Amoris Laetitia' has MORE authority BECAUSE hundreds of bishops were meeting to discuss it. The documents of Vatican II REQUIRED Papal Synods [that is what this is called] to be held regularly [the pope with the bishops], just as it had occurred in the ancient Christian church...
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Every Provence from Ontario west will have a conservative Priemier by 2019. Their will be NO flashing of a dead boy on the beach face down or a " anything but Harper " campaign funded as " union negotiation fees " One must muse how desperate the raging left is becoming with the looming presidency of Trump. Psssst ...
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Of course they back it. For every gun owner that shoots himself...that leaves one less gun buyer.
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Yea Wielechowski. Governor Walker is completely on the wrong track. He wants to raid the Permanent Fund so he can build his $65 billion pipeline. His plans remind me of Venezuela where energy has been nationalized and they now have the highest inflation in the world. Venezuela and Russia both have "Nationalized Energy"...
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Kukailimoku, says "everyone in Hawaii THINKS the SAME," despite expressing a thought that is different from most of the other opinions posted. His statement contradicts the obvious, unless Kukailimoku doesn't reside in Hawaii. Furthermore, it is doubtful that he can produce documented evidence to support his claim. ...
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Trump Tried To Take All the Credit For ISIS Defeat Trump tried to take personal credit, not mentioning the contributions made by our military, many who are on the ground fighting, the foreign forces fighting, or the coordination with our allies that cut off both funds and recruitment for ISIS. In the mind of this ...
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This is so wonderful! A movie premier, a newspaper article, and a brief visit with your mom! Doesn't get much better than that
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For someone who so frequently attacks others for making assumptions, you make an awful lot of them yourself.
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Correct!
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IMO, it will be worse.
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1. The SCC itself emphasized his youth, when determining whether his Charter rights had been violated. 2. "His guilt as a killer" was not determined by American courts. He is challenging this guilty plea (after a decade in jail) on the basis of duress. Wherever that appeal will go, the basis of the settlement was C...
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I took a one day seminar on "tactical scenario survival" (or something to that effect). It was excellent with lots of good and surprising info, including videos of actual situations. One thing we learned is that most people lose it when surprised by a violent threat. Many run in a random direction (over others if nec...
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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.
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That is nonsense. There are a tiny number of intersex people, but in general, xx people are female and xy people are male and feelz don't change that. That doesn't mean that xy people can't wear make up, dresses and high heels if they want. But it does mean that they shouldn't be allowed to compete against xx people...
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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 ...
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I think it is fair to say that in all provinces people take government services for granted. Why this should be so is odd, but it exists even in Alberta.
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Less than sanitary conditions? Even though people have gotten sick, it has been proven that the conditions are very much sanitary.
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"(BTW - you named George Bush twice; personal vendetta or referring to the father and the son ...)." Personal vendetta. I like broccoli. ;-)
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The elitist are academics , they have shown nothing but contempt for the masses and the fall out is theirs to burden. We say NO to globalization we say NO to the sale of our sovereignty and we say NO to open borders. We see you Marxist and we reject you !!!!
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je me souviens darling, you must check yourself. You come to this article to criticize the reporter? It must be easy for you to hide behind a computer screen and be so condescending.
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So he coddles child rapers. No matter. Dan Sullivan will vote for his confirmation. Lisa Murkowski? Most likely. Politics, baby.
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Hawaii law makers pushing this bill you are demented stupid American's period.
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Then don't get me started on how wildly inaccurate calling Republicans conservative is.
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Many names at http://www.civilbeat.org/2016/01/civil-beat-database-of-public-employee-salaries /?appSession=77890027440047254542941318282436474073882628698601127137173775369449259914947413610474224272628758984351093084835311045994334046
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I am starting to weaken and beginning to think, "maybe you guys are right"... I am so fatigued by these stories of acts of violence committed the name of Islam, that I find myself thinking recently " why are me letting this primitive ideology take root here in Canada"? I feel embarrassed that I am starting to th...
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There's one in Kodiak and one in Auke Bay. Maybe more elsewhere, I'm not sure. As for the study of Pollock, look to the Seattle Trawl Fleet for relevance.
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No questions about Russia, of course not, most Americans don't care and the Dems really don't care and they want it to go away because the Dems know the real truth of Dem collusion will come out with the Special Consul's report.
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Koncerned, We should be looking at sales tax. The logical attribute about sales tax is a person working at Wal Marts pays the same amount as an attorney or a banker. Property owners are burdened enough. All people who live and work in Alaska should pay an income tax. It isn't fair to look at the educated and say ...
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It's interesting that excepting Newfoundland and Labrador, none of the benefits went to residents in provinces east of Ontario. So mostly the provinces that don't share equalization payments except for Manitoba and Ontario (which get relatively small equalization payments) got benefits. This should be a one time t...
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Ahh the preachers of the Prosperity Gospel, you know, the one where if you are wealthy, it is because God loves you and if you are poor, you must be a sinner.
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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.
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My garbage service does not provide cans.I use the standard rubbermaid garbage cans with a tightly fitting lids like most everyone else in the country uses. I keep my garbage cans in the garage until pick up day then take them to the street that morning. I'm doing everything a normal, reasonable person would be expect...
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Instead of this sneaky stunt Wall and his gang should hold a referendum. But they don't have the nerve to do that because they would lose. They don't like fair fights. They'd rather pick on weak opponents like people who ride STC or low income people. Selling 49% means that 49% of all paid out profits have to be paid ...
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I agree with the sentiment but not the idea that proportional representation is the answer. With PR we are more likely to get a larger number of small parties. Many will have non-mainstream views such as the ultra orthodox parties in Israel that push for Zionist policy such as building settlements. In the case of Israe...
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A press briefing is bad kabuki theater on a hyperbolic reality TV show - with audience participation. A press briefing is specifically designed to blind its beholders with brilliance, or baffle them with bull****. I'll leave up to the readers to decide what proportiions of brilliance and baffle this administration pu...
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Internet sites for the Catholic right, like Catholic Answers, have been having an extended fit over the Spadaro article while proving that the criticisms leveled in it against conservative Catholic are 110% correct. As for the American Catholic right, I've noticed that it has been veering more and more to the right ov...
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LOL he read Forbes but clearly he doesn't comprehend it. Here's a link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/oliviergarret/2017/03/18/raising-the-minimum-wage-is-a-jobs-killing-move/#11e0f03b58fe Of course you don't understand it either but you just don't really want to hear anything that interferes with your preconceived i...
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The hypocrisy of the Democrats on full display.
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Here's a question: A couple of hours ago, there was a letter in the online section about the Darren Carrington assault, and how the investigation seems to be stalled. I commented on this letter. Now both the letter and the comment are gone. Is this story being intentionally buried?
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do not have to hold him to a higher standard heck Obama lied for 8 years did not have to hold him to a higher standard so what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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As Enoch Godongwana has lamented, the ANC discussions seem to ignore the fact that South Africa is in serious trouble: massive corruption, flaky governance and the economy that is on an unhindered free-fall.
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Our faith teaches us that humankind is in God-likeness, female/ male. (?) So, are we not, in fidelity to consciousness and conscience, obliged to enlarge human consciousness and grow in understanding our "godself"?
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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...
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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.
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