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Until I was 16, we didn't have running water and took baths once a week. Still, my parents managed to have produced 11 children by then - I'm guessing a little ripeness is no obstacle to procreation.
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Winners never get tired and losers don't know what it means. Right Squigly?
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The swamp has a new member...'course he will get sued, and lose, when he doesn't actually do his job...this will create more anger, but maybe that's the plan...sad.
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Fine, Wavemaker. If the voters of District 40 choose Westlake, so be it. I honestly don't care who wins in District 40. But the ballots must be cast within the parameters of the law. And be truthful--wouldn't you be screaming for a do-over if your favored candidate were losing amid voting "irregularities" that violated the law? Sure you would.
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Practically speaking, Greenpeace et al. DO have more standing than HM Loyal Opposition. Special interest groups can armtwist governments through popular opinion and lobbying whereas the Opposition only has its vote in the HOC. In a majority government, the Opposition vote is quite futile. Observe the shameless brainwashing of our youth by the David Suzuki alarmist films screened in schools vs. what transpires during Question Period. Which do you think wields more power?
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"...the proposed Catholic curriculum which suggests that gay people are going to burn for all eternity in a lake of fire...." That is an outright LIE.
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The D's tactic to not negotiate on anything unless the R's agreed to everything was seriously flawed. It defies the entire logic of how a legislative body needs to deliberate. That and an almost religious (Socialism) crusade for an income tax. In their Sisyphean quest for their Holy Grail of wealth re-distribution, they ironically abandoned funding for traditional social programs.
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Why is it that every know-nothing that uses the term "do your research" is always so, so wrong? The VERY DEFINITION of Fascism is "authoritarian RIGHT WING government". So in alternative fact world, did "leftists" magically become far right wing? Next, try going and checking out the 14 tenants of fascism and tell me how Trump isnt doing the exact same thing. Or how he's NOT conducting a Shock Event to distract from his real intent. How he's NOT sending up trial balloons to test the response of government agencies.
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Any policy should be covering the possibility that no matter what Canada does the seas may rise anyway. As well as reducing the output of greenhouse gases you have to work on mitigation. One thing to consider is to block all developments along coastal areas that are below 100 meters of sea level. This would give time for the economic value of buildings lying in the flood risk zones to be extracted in a more orderly way.
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Why did the authors only look back to 2000 or 1990? The job losses began long before then. Go back to Nixon's first visit to China. Then you will; have a start date to reference.
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Extreme jealousy duly noted.
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Just another dirty old man copping a feel but at least he didn't deny it. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission eh.
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Thank you Mr. Elway. This is a good response as well. Thank you Sen. Joe Manchin[D] as well. "Top Dem: NFL owners must 'make clear' they won't tolerate kneeling for flag" http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/09/26/joe-manchin-rips-anthem-protests-nfl-owners-cant-tolerate-kneeling
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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.
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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.
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Yes who cares? When you are a champion like this Kid is, you can do anything you want and as often as you want. Good for the captain of the Pens!
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Disloyalty? Who is she supposed to be loyal to? A republican party that doesn't even know what they were voting for? A party that is more interested in scoring points by doing something that. by their own statements is just "better than doing nothing?" I rarely agree with John McCain, but he was right in telling the Senate that they do not work for Trump. The Senate is not his employee, it is his equal. Even Alaskans who don't agree with Lisa's decision should be able to come together to push back against bullying from the White House that tries to make OUR elected representatives crawl to Trump instead of listening to their constituents and voting in the manner they think is best. I would be amazed that ANY Alaskan would think that this type of pressure and pettiness is OK.
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The budget will balance itself. Don't worry, be happy.
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Cassandra, are your liberal Bosses paying you to work over Christmas?
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Your post reminds me of a leader who felt that his people should go where ever he wanted. I believe his name was Joseph Stalin.
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Bravo! Great project and great build. As rents head upwards in Eugene, these tiny homes will become more common. Rents for modest one or two BR in Eugene range from $800-$1400 per month plus utilities. More along the river. That's an average of $12,000-$14,000 a year. It takes about two years to break even with a $20-30,000 investment. In Portland, the rents are more like $2000 plus a month. In San Francisco and the Bay area, $3000 and up. Tiny homes and converted vans are smart investments that allow young workers a way to save and own some form of housing.
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Very glad to see that there is FINALLY some research being done on this [likely] eventuality, though it's understood that this is just the beginning, tentative investigation. Something additional that absolutely needs some serious examination: though it's nice that beaches wash off some of the oil - where does it go after it's flushed away by the tides? How do shellfish and sea worms feel about oily sediments? And how long does it take for THAT oil to either disperse or neutralize?
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"This is another form of heightened repression of activists,” said Zaki Baruti, an activist and community organizer from St. Louis County. “It sends a message to protesters that we better not look at police cross-eyed.”" No, it means the you cannot shot cops!! Looking cross-eyed never hurt anybody. Let get real here, "Zaki."
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"... the oceans are, in fact, rising ..." Yes. They've been rising for about 15,000 years. Science has known about this for, oh, something like 150 years now. Oddly, it has never before been considered a political crisis (or indeed, really a crisis of any sort). I wonder why the change? Politics, perhaps? :-/
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Now the government should be ready to offer homeowners an income tax rebate for the cost of removal of asbestos from their homes. UK has done this.
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Your sad sick reality does not deserve acknowledgement. Mostly because it has no roots in actual physical reality.
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I think most people suspect this is the eventual scenario. Trump faces major opposition for challenging North Korea now while they currently only possess a few nukes possibly capable of reaching our west coast. Imagine how much greater the opposition will be against challenging North Korea once they've developed dozens of nukes capable of hitting any city in the US as well as those of our other allies around world. The question then will be: Are we willing to risk losing hundreds of millions of lives in a nuclear war just to prevent 50 million South Koreans from falling under communist rule, most of whom would likely also be killed in that nuclear war anyways? Not to mention what other global rivals might try elsewhere if the US were crippled by a nuclear war with just North Korea. We pulled out of Vietnam and the world continued on. It's a pretty safe bet we'd pull out of Korea too under those given circumstances.
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Lead poisoned kids. The problem in nation wide. The real reason American kids are at the bottom for academic achievement is finally coming to light. So much for America's future no matter the politics.
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''During a commercial break, Seacrest pulled out his phone for a selfie with Trudeau and Ripa. When he couldn’t frame the group in the shot, Trudeau snatched the camera away and took the photo.'' Nah.......too easy......
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If the feds leave it up to the provinces, how will that not result in the same inequity of access as the abortion situation in law has? Abortion is not illegal in Canada. It's covered by health legislation. Yet in some provinces and territories, and areas within them, it's impossible to access local legal health care abortions. If cannabis is not illegal in Canada, and is covered by legislation, what's to stop provinces and territories, and areas within them, from blocking access in the same way? Anything else, like basic justice, aside, this violates our universality principle.
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Dear Ms. Yellen-Please keep your two eyes on Trump. In Canada we have adopted the "very successful" philosophy things of budgets and economy will look after themselves. We the electors should however have kept our two eyes on Trudeau and before the election.
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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.
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NO it's not the only thing we can do. Instead of focusing on long range commuters, the focus should be more local. Leave light rail and express buses for people to commute downtown and to the tech center. Focus on biking, bus, walking and metro shuttles for getting around downtown. It's too wasteful for each suburban commuter to drive themselves in their own car alone to work. You also have to build the alternative infrastructure first to get people to use it. It's like field of dreams, if you build it they will come. Development and planing should also focus on using existing light rail infrastructure. To say all the front can do is add more lanes for cars is ignorant. Read any credible traffic study and they all agree that traffic will always fill up the number of highway and street lanes to capacity. That's what LA and Houston did and now they are massive sprawling metropolises. You have to make it easy for people to get around without their only option being to drive.
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I agree. It was totally irresponsible of the Register Guard not to report on the Wyden Town Hall Meeting. Hopefully they will report on the Defazio and Merkley Town Halls this weekend. What is it with the RG these days in failing to report on political news that affects Oregon and the Nation?
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Baden Powell and Ernest Thompson Seton are spinning, I'm well.
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Another fearmongering piece of hate propaganda in service to the arms industry. Great work, Globe!
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...and what about Murdoch? Do you think his hands are clean?
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Ebola is a devastating disease, polio in the 50s didn’t harm, according to CDC data (Vital Statistics publications) 99.999% of the population. Hard to define something that harmed less than 0.001% of the population as “devastating”
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isn't this sick? yes, joseph should get the equivalent of punishment that he put that baby through. then sit his butt in jail and we both know Bubba. this creep might rate the absolute bottom of the barrel in there.
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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!
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C.S. let me respond with my post responding to LenG: " LenG: May I offer agreement. None of our Constitutional rights are "absolute." The limitations on the First Amendment are the clearest example. As you suggest, limitations on the lethality of firearms could easily be enacted. However, it's important to recognize that the firearms industry/NRA lobbying power continues to block any such efforts at the national level. Any congressperson "bucking" the NRA had better represent an extremely "safe" District or he/she will face an extremely well-financed opponent the next election. An unkind, rather harsh person might suggest that some folks prioritize profits over public safety......my regards, Gary Crum" I'd love to read any defense of 100 round magazines or armor-piercing "cop killer" bullets being sold to the public. IMO, the strong possible arguments for limitations on any Constitutional Rights are founded on reasonable concern for the public safety. Is that unreasonable? GCrum
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no they were shot by a nut job. Mulism on the other hand are taught to hate infidels and required to jihad against them.
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Correlation doesn't prove causality, but ratings were down yesterday. And they were down last year. Maybe fans are not so hot on protests happening on the sideline. Keep this up and it will hit the players in the wallets as teams begin to have shrinking caps. That will send a message to the players. In the off season, the NFL announces the cap is actually going down, not up.
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I couldn't agree more. The world has changed for the worse. I have fond memories of waking up early on weekend mornings to run down and dive into the local pit of broken glass and rattlesnakes. I would spend hours in that pit, playing snake tag with neighborhood kids. I loved that pit so much, you couldn't drag me out of it with a pole coated with barbed wire, but that didn't stop Ma from trying! Had my first kiss in that pit, I did. The pit became so popular, our graduating class held their prom there. Sadly, during my most recent trip to my hometown, I found the government had shut the pit down, and it had been replaced with an Applebee's. I got myself a table there and sat down. I looked around the restaurant and teared up when thinking about the kids in my hometown growing up, skin unbitten and scar-free. Then as my food arrived, I looked out the window and to my horror, saw a child spit. This is not my America anymore. God help us.
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You do realize trump loves the National Enquirer & they paid a woman for her affair story with trump so they could kill the story? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2017/07/03/national-enquirer-paid-kill-trump-affair-story/?ref_widget=trending&ref_blog=friendlyatheist&ref_post=josh-duggar-playing-the-victim-card-joins-lawsuit-filed-by-his-sisters
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"his main priority, broadening the trade relationship and in particular increasing the scope of exchanges in more technologically sophisticated sectors." China has found itself an easily flattered patsy right on America's doorstep.
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But they certainly don't go the the middle class, which is what the administration purports that they do. Estate tax repeal, lowering corporate rate from 35% to 20%, reduce the tax rate for pass-through businesses, lower the highest brackets from 39.5% to 35% while simultaneously raising the rate for lowest bracket from 10%-12%, all while supposedly "cleaning up deductions", etc. Anyone with a lick of sense can see who these cuts benefit, and it is most certainly not the middle-class.
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This letter left me scratching my head. What certainty am I ignoring and what "obfuscation"? Much of Mr. Shrader's claims are patently untrue. There is no exponential methane release in the Arctic. There is no abrupt, runaway greenhouse gases, just a steady rise. Mr. Schrader may not like real science with real uncertainties, but that is the way the world actually is. He may be certain, but the scientific community knows that forecasting is essentially probabilistic...cliff mass
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"....no-spray buffer zones in agriculture while spraying restaurants, cafeteria, food warehouses and retail is unremarked...." Thanks for pointing out the hypocrisy and inconsistencies of regulations. "adaptation to traces of 'toxics' is part of nature" Many times mutations are the result of toxic chemicals becoming pollutants, inadvertently or because of human design. The legacy of man-made chemicals causing humans mutations is not pretty..
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Just another political smokescreen. All these guys worry about is reelection.
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99bandit, Some of the prices are steep but these are not the least expensive hybrids available. Even the Sonata mentioned in the article is a fairly dolled up car. The more than adequate base model Sonata hybrid comes in at $29,649. If you live in Ontario the province will toss in $8,460 towards your purchase. In city driving in particular your hybrid will save a lot of gas and your brakes will last a lot longer. I think the rebates should be part of a national program and that they should not apply to luxury cars like the Tesla Model X or the BMW i8.
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Muted? That'll teach him. AHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAHAA
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And would that be R____T ?
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can't trust any poll results or pollsters anymore. ask on your street and see if anyone agrees. just another tax on the working class. oh yeah and phasing out coal plants didnt solve smog days, it was the industries fleeing ontario using free trade for personal greed that solved that problem
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Regardless of the math, this entire sorry saga raises fundamental questions about the competence of team Trudeau. There was no rallying cry from the masses to go after professionals and small businesses. The amounts being cited as incremental tax revenues seem insignificant compared to the vast oceans of waste in the broader public services. The targeted villains are not the wall street types but predominantly doctors and entrepreneurs. Somebody had way too much time on their hands and scratched the bottom of the barrel to come up with this half baked tax scheme. It simply pisses off those who have taken risk and made sacrifices without making any particular voting block deleriously happy that the Government is socking it to public enemies. A family member who has raised risk capital for a bio pharma start up from "rich" investors is now anxious that further investments will dry up and can not proceed to FDA trials. Such unintended consequences can not be hypothetically quantified.
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Lets get this straight. The US has an immigration problem and Trump is taking heat for trying fix it. Trump is cruel, its not fair, how can he do this! ect. The US has 11 million illegal immigrants! Canada has nothing compared to that.
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There will be no power and communications for days How are the "poorly educated" to know that the Governor of Florida ordered consulate officials and staff to leave the Miami for that reason ?
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This PM will do anything for show. It is all about himself and his ego.
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Maybe Babcock should record the Flames' games and play them for the Leafs!
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If the pill comes out, I suggest the name "Toot Sweet".
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Oil, NAFTA, Liberals, everywhere you turn the outlook for the Canadian dollar looks bleaker.
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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.
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Not true, MillionMonkeys. There is a very big difference between what the Clinton Campaign and the DNC did and what Trump Jr. etal did. Trump Jr. etal walked away from their meeting with the Russians who supposedly were offering dirt on Clinton and paid noting to anyone whereas the Clinton/DNC conspirators actually paid millions of dollars to people with Russian connections to gather dirt on Trump, which resulted in the phony dossier. The payment is the problem - it was illegal.
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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)?
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Just give us our tax cuts for the rich first and then we'll totally do something about infrastructure, honest ! Yeah, right.
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Well said. It is remarkable that so many here by their votes have signified that protecting the lives of the unborn means so little to them or find it 'funny'.
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Please explain how he committed treason and why he is not in jail if he did?
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Senior DOJ officials are as corrupt as Hillary and Bill. Of course they wouldn't want Comey to disclose the truth!
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When you have over 100,000 rich Chinese buy up your homes, that is the result.
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Oh just to watch the proceedings. A freak show of note!
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Which all leads us to a distinction between elected governments and democracy. They are not the same concept.
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True, even the HPD ex-police chief would drive by your mailbox and steal your lottery check and claim it belongs to him. ;-) LOL
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Ms Brown, it might "behoove you" to install security cameras outside your business as well. The safety and security of your business is technically your responsibility. It's not the responsibility of the city to protect merchants' assets, even though it may be a nice thing to do. Also, it may be beneficial to bring in the outside items when you close for the evening, in order to protect your assets. It's truly sad that we cannot trust strangers anymore to do the right thing. Even small towns are no longer safe from thieves. Sorry this happened to you.
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I give him next to no credit at all. Winters rarely tackles the substance of arguments but goes in for ad hominem attacks, usually against good, holy bishops like Cardinal Burke - and stirs up hatred against him and other good priests and faithful. I bet he's never even met the Cardinal but sees himself qualified to judge his heart. That isn't Christian by any measure. I say this in all charity: his screeds add absolutely nothing to building up the Church and are (rightly) ignored by practically everyone.
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He wasn't dead at 8PM last night, when Jimbo wrote that comment.
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Why can't the FBI maintain a database of non criminals who have guns?
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How about the taking of Private Property without just compensation. (LCDC, Kelo, EPA, etc., etc.)
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Sharon, the only narrow minded group that I see are you and that wing nut John Norby. Is he letting you try on his tin foil hat? You assume that you know the political affiliation of the council members but you really have no clue. All of those running for election are qualified and have our cities best interest in mind but I will vote against anyone that you endorse.
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Insult, singular, and boy was it called for !
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The problem is not going to the White House. It is the timing of the announcement, or even making an announcement, during a politically controversial time. The NHL is now seen to be on the side of Trump. "As usual" would be to simply go, do the photo-ops, and gush afterwards about the tradition of meeting the President.
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She ran on the Teapublican Party Platform of “Fiscal Conservatism and Smaller Government” but has a hard time with it in the reality of her own life. Gattis won’t give $65,000 in Borough taxpayer money back and the fact that her son left home at 16 and was a convicted drug felon at age 19 and doing time in federal prison says a lot about her skills as a parent. Why any constituency would elect her, or take anything seriously that comes out of her mouth, is beyond comprehension.
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As a counterpoint to RVWilliams .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGMXoWe2ztE
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It sure seems that way. I see it too.
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They've done this before. Call their bluff and start looking for the "fat" they're hiding. Wasn't aware ASD had Arte Johnson on the payroll.
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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.
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Allowing our kids to golf free is very admirable. But nothing in Life is "free"! Are these Honolulu municipal golf courses are making money; breaking even or losing money? The Makalena; West Loch; Ewa Plantation; Ala Wai; Pali Golf courses? Who at the City would have this information?
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Between the wind and the lack of Sunday commuters, it was remarkably clear over Denver and the whole metro area yesterday. When you notice the distinct lack of a brown cloud every once in a great while, you know there is a problem.
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I didn't realize North Korea was our "front yard"! LOL
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Canada, like all NATO members, signed on to a 2% of GDP contribution to its military. Will it live up to that pledge? Your armed forces have been in decline for decades. Time to put your big-boy pants on, or just declare neutrality and pull out.
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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.
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I am very clearly saying that interest rates are not driving the market despite what 90% of people (who don't understand mortgage rules at all) cling to in their arguments.
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This is a terrifying comment. Unless you are a lawyer, you will never understand the need for due process until YOU are accused of a crime
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Sorry but too many challenges for me....prefer Disqus model for many reasons. Problems, frustrations with this model include..., Having go log in each time...support team not yet able to solve. Limited characters. Sometimes a "full throated" text requires more "space". Cannot figure out how to edit - edit option seems not to exist. Questions and ratings after submission - frustrating, silly. Rating as re: civil opens door to what exactly is civil...reminds me of the oft noted quote..."depends on what is, is". Imagine assertive comments will be interpreted as aggressive or not "civil" enough. Disqus system much easier and straight forward for editing, up voting, down voting, seeing history of comments, logging in and staying "in". I could list more problems with this system but must stop as I used up my allowed characters, so must stop here. Will end with Good Bye and hope that maybe Disqus will return.
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Yes, about five years ago for the first time ever in Canada the number of kids registered in soccer programs exceeded the number registered in hockey programs. True the changing ethnic and cultural mix in Canada is a major factor in hockey's decline. The other major factor is the extraordinarily high cost of hockey equipment and programs - especially for goalies - that can run $10,000 a year or more per player and that puts the game out of financial reach for a majority of parents to finance even one let alone more than one child in hockey. For those of us who grew up with and played hockey, this is very sad. Perhaps a partial answer is for the NHL in self preservation to subsidize hockey for youngsters.
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The BC carbon tax will soar beyond Climate Barbie's wildest dreams!
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Our hierarchy has demonstrated it is incapable of working toward reconciliation. It only wants to command.
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She is upset because she was unable to demand a cut under the table.
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“Only in periods of ‘irrational exuberance’ such as the roaring twenties or dotcom bubble did US equities trade higher,” the analysts conclude. Sounds scary to me.
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You forgot - "Fox News led with 1.47 million total viewers, up 27% from the same period last year."
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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.
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