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They sound like petulant looting busy-bodies, don't they?
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It's not Peterborough's MP, it's MP's Peterborough.
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Boots, ordinarily I would be with you on the idea of assisted suicide but I have some serious fears with the way our political system is evolving, not just republicans and democrats, but fierce partisans who refuse to bend or show any common sense. The drug war, declared ridiculous by no less than National Review 30 ye...
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This proves that the Democrats were right to choose the stability of the Hilary, woman candidate, over the violent volatility of the patriarchal Sanders camp.
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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?!
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ding ding ding we have a winner. you nailed it
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foregone that scouts may dot the sidelines. sure, he won't go first round, but he will get tryout.
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There you go again making more false claims. At no time no where did I or anyone to my knowledge say "Hilary Clinton paid people to incite violence". The facts are as I stated [1.] " Self admissions by Democrat activist leaders were video taped", [2.] "including video [showing] multiple acknowledgements that [even] H...
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TSE and TCOU hunchos will try to move CAE to Southern Ontario! Quebec does no deserve such a successful firm eh...
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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,...
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Insane. You buy a ticket and then at random are forced to give it up and waste a day for another flight?! There was a simple solution: if $400 or $800 is not enough, offer $1200, $1600, $2000... eventually it's worth it for someone. Or don't overbook!!
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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 Bibl...
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DO WHAT smart national and state parks on the mainland do. CHARGE A FEE, you bunch of inept (D)onkey !mbeci!es Other parks charge a fee of say $20 and FORCE you to sign a release of liability to get a permit to hike steep and dangerous areas and the funds are used to maintain the safety upkeep as much as reasonable. ...
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Nice article, How about the following. We could have spaces conveniently placed, developed by the state, where people can sell what they can create at home or access where ever. These need not be expensive to generate as all that is required, in its most basic iteration, would be parking and basic structures from which...
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Interim leaders always get an easy ride. She would have been savaged by the Globe and other such outlets if she had been permanent leader. Could she have withstood the onslaught? Nobody will know. Can anyone think of one thing she did as leader that actually stands out? Anything? Buehler?
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Unfortunately, Bernie was too far ahead of his time in America. I really do believe he had some great ideas to turn us the correct direction. Yes, some of the ideas could have been better developed. I hope the democrats can put up a young, energetic progressive candidate.
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Are Exxon and ConocoPhillips organizations that give pay outs to people with French heritage? The H!? I've been robbed! Where are my shares in these corporations! I want my check NOW!
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Mil-Spec Psychological Warfare upon US civilians by the lowest bidder? I hear Russian currency's been on a fire sale for quite some time. Why do we keep trying to put the spotlight on the place and not the actors far closer to home who were involved, engaged, and highly motivated in these brave new anti-democratic camp...
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The group of Trump's jr clowns that lurk here; I don't think they understand. They are in a large part, the problem
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While on line forum posting allows some venting, to truly make a difference lets all contact our city council reps to protest these tax and fee increases. There should be thorough vetting of the City's budget priorities, and a challenge to Caldwell to run the city more efficiently and to do more for less. Caldwell h...
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Yup, it's just a twitter thing. Don't mean nuffin. Ask trump about that. Isn't he a hero of yours?
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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 po...
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I was enthusiastic about this car's release, I really was. It looked great when I saw one in a parking lot overseas. But I can't get the autonomous braking feature, nor the related safety features, in a manual transmission model in the top trim. Those features really should be standard equipment in 2017. Regrettably, ...
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Really, no mention of how Brown revealed his decision yesterday, or at least a link? It was quite spectacular, and certainly deserves mention in this article.
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"Donald Trump suggested several times Friday that he would not have sexually harassed the women who have accused him of assault because of their physical attractiveness. Works for me, pretty evident from the "ladies" has hangs out with that his statement is true.
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"The OCO budget includes $5.3 billion for continued operations against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)." "War" also includes all those air strikes from aircraft carriers, from Italy and from Turkey. They are called 'tactical' air strikes, by the way. They even include the bombers that went all the way ...
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Yes, Dems supported slavery and Jim Crow, and starred the KKK. Those at. the extreme Left are still working hard to keep people of color from advancing. If they truly cared, Dems would not be protecting illegal aliens who lower wages and would be championing Trump's decision to bring better paying jobs to the US.
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To be a liar who puts party and agenda ahead of constitution and country is the primary prerequisite for being a liberal/democrat.
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Bad news....
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Centrists? Hah! 65% of Republicans in congress are for big government. Same can be said for the pundit class. They are always telling us why there can't be real cuts due to strategic reasons (excuses). It took an outsider to reveal these frauds.
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Clearly Christie has given up being a responsible politician. This nonsense works for Trump but who else can pull this off? As George Costanza used to say, "when you wear grey sweatpants, you've given up". Chris Christie has given up his governship of New Jersey. Where's Tony Soprano when you need him?
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Go visit the WH while the POTUS is visiting Asia. After all, it's visiting the place not the person, right? Have tour guides greet them and take photo ops. Everyone walks away happy.
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There are countless actors who have battled doping in pro cycling. I'm not interested in your attempts to move the goalposts. You obviously have a hard on for Tygart even though he just did the job he was hired to do, so good luck with that.
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If university professors were muzzled by convention from producing widely-consumed commentaries on areas outside of their own university-funded areas... ... then we would be in a world that had never heard of Noam Chomsky (stick to the grammar of linguistics, dude) or David Suzuki (stick to fruit fly genetics, dude) o...
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Mark my words. They will have government stooges driving around looking for such wood piles and then will be taxing it.
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“They were also meant to educate folks about wind power,” she said. I think you just did.
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Most of these illegal border crossers will be deported and those that stay will not be citizens in time to vote in 2019. I suspect that Somalis, for example, don't all vote the same way.
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No deaths indirectly or directly caused by pot? Wow you win the award for the broadest generalization of the year. Imagine that, something that changes your cognition and yet it has no affect. Its a miracle. A miracle that will vanish now that real data is being collected.
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All Republicans should be in favor of this bill, however I worry about the RHINO's who lean both ways as it suits their personal agenda. John McCain for example has a vendetta against President Trump that he is not honorable enough to let go of for "We the People". I do think the lack of support for the "repeal/repla...
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Interesting, where can I find this information?
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You mean lies like "25K refugees before the end of 2016!", "Deficits of no more than $10B a year for at most three years" etc.e etc. Or just the unspoken things like "hey we're gonna have free trade with China, 10's of thousands of new Chinese student visas, way more TFW's frm China and lots more 10 year visas for Chi...
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PS: Morale for the players be must down to chow fun levels. Asked this question before and think is a legitimate question: Why all recent problems involve only one ethnic group?
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Fill yer boots Lee...
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Marvelous. Thank you for these additions.
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Touche. I actually agree with you, and admit that I was wrong. Getting caught up in the moment is no excuse, and I apologize to the man I insulted.
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And what does the view of a few Canadians regarding the US have to do with immigration to Canada? Just another forum to bash the US.
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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.... ;)
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Sure, go tell that to the family who's house blew up in Firestone.
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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".
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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.
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Justin got 39% of the vote so yes a minority voted for the Liberals in fact 60% voted against even with the fear mongering from "Anybody but Harper" campaign even with dumb NDP voting strategically for Liberals
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Let's go over this again: Obama followed the constitution and asked for permission to use force against Syria - he was denied by congress. So if Trump ignores the constitution you don't care? I know full well this didn't start under Trump's watch but it's not like Obama sat on his hands and ignored it...One more time...
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I don't speak for NCR, but as the inauguration of Civil was intended to change the tone of our interactions from constant arguing and really nasty infighting, I personally think that goal has been met. Overall, we seem to bite our collective tongues far more than before and a lot of the attacks/overreactions have been...
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Heck, I don't even watch his movies. They are so sheet.
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My point was about how some people continually try to redirect every story to Trump.
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Yes of course. It's not acceptable to root out adherents to radical Islam by asking them questions about their faith and their mindset. Justin uses hugs and his sunshine meter to figure out who the bad guys are.
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Yup, it's tilting the ugly meter towards the hideous scale.
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After saying the door is shut, the Pope says that women have the capacity to be priests (September 28, 2015 NCR article). Despite the headlines on or about November 1, 2016 (NCR), the Pope says aboard the plane from Sweden that the teaching "remains." That could mean "endures;" however it could mean, "it is the status...
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Yeah, but in Houston, they hate them dern regulations and want to build whatever, wherever. Now we all get to bail them out.
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I'll bet it wasn't easy 'to load them into shopping carts'. Some of those campers are pretty hefty when you are trying to do that.
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If you have that size crowd, roped off sensitive areas won't be respected. They will get trampled.
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In the recent Milwaukee incident, a black police officer shot an 18-year old black man who turned toward the officer with a gun in his hand. The deceased had 13 previous arrests, including one for a previous shooting. I fail to see reason for the "community" to burn and trash their city in response.
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As the monopoly issuer of the US dollar, the federal government doesn't need to tax its citizens or borrow money from itself or another nation like China in order to spend. It can literally create new dollars out of thin air via keystrokes for a particular purpose as appropriated by Congress. Thus unlike a private ho...
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What's unconscionable? What people are you referring to?
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Well, I suppose if the spokesperson is called Mfaku it should be intuitively obvious what the response was going to be.
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The auto industries inflated wages and benefits have driven a huge automation push. Car plants that used to employee thousands have been replaced by automated plants that now employee only hundreds of humans. If the progressive concept of a livable minimum wage is realized there will be financial incentive to cut th...
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I have bled blue my entire life. Born that way. As for the Raptors, anyone who spends just 5 minutes watching DeRozan, Lowry and team do their magic will be hooked. Perhaps these marketers help sell some tshirts, but it is what happens on the ice and the court that builds passionate fans.
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Trump the draft-dodger, p-grabber let stupidity ring
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Nice peteism on your last sentence.
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He is willing to surrender SOMEONE ELSE'S civil rights. Bravery knows no bounds.
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"Tell Ann Rice i think her books are boring" ? Really ? A personal attack ? That the best you can come up with ? A. N. is correct. out of all of the comments on this article, you are the only one that seems to be defending the poor decisions of the board. you appear to not have a problem with authoritarianism. Even i...
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I agree with you, St Thomas was quite a card in his day.
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. goolneb writes: "Trump US president is doing what he promised he would do" --- No, actually he isn't. 1) He promised - "I would bring back waterboarding and I’d bring back a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding.” Now, he won't. 2) In February 2015, Trump said, in an interview with Hugh Hewitt that he would ...
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My own impression of John Horgan's promises is that he is behaving in an irresponsible and reckless manner. The BC Prosperity Fund is real. It is like a savings account. The BC NDP are making all kinds of big spending promises in this campaign because Mulcair failed to win in the federal election in 2015 with a fina...
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You clearly don't know how public agencies are allowed to spend their budgeted money. I suggest you do a little reading into it, or maybe even volunteer as a budget committee member sometime, then you may just have somewhat of a clue as to how it works, because right now you have about as much of one as the aforementi...
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Alceste doesn't do facts!
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No, gay or not, you should hate yourself if you are in a state of sin.
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I'm still interested in learning of a solution. I don't have one and the way we taxpayers are currently paying for this (literally and figuratively) is by your own admission not effective.
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Our government wants to protect and defend our secular, liberal democracy? Simple.....lets bring in thousands more people whose core values fundamentally conflict with this objective.
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You're a hateful little cretin, aren't you?
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SIXTEEN cases??? Must be a HELLUVA knucklehead! Glad I don't have any kids in HIS class....
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So, if the next pope is in the line of JPII, none of the cardinals will have the right to articulate questions, either? I didn't know that.
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Wow, the comment board here actually questioned whether my "civil" vote was really civil. "Are you sure" it admonished me, on a big black page. Jeez, is this 1984, or what?
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This can be un-bungled. The positive thing is, the Canadian Government finally did something about this horrible situation. There should also be an inquiry regarding the missing boys and men of the First Nations.
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Quit whining, lefty. Under your friends everybody in the private sector will suffer.
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The only thing "ruinous" about global warming (which is only occurring in the "fudged" data) is the fraud being perpetrated by the fasted growing CO2 producers; China, Russia and India...who are all increasing CO2 emissions with no constraints while the U.S. is reducing CO2 emissions. But it is never enough for the fas...
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Here is an article complete with a photo of Stéphane Descheneaux and his daughters who do not have status. http://montrealgazette.com/news/ottawa-to-amend-indian-act-eliminate-discriminatory-clauses
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We should have more bureaucracy helping the scientific community. Look what it did in the US helping Bill Gates start Microsoft and Steve Jobs start Apple. Oh wait a minute..........
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Why does everything have to be about destruction, man? Like, building is a beautiful thing, you know? Man.
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Why do you keep repeating that GOP lie. http://www.factcheck.org/2015/02/slower-premium-growth-under-obama/
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I'm surprised there isn't a comment on how Trump orchestrated this fiasco to draw attention away from the constant barrage of collusion with the Russians news. But no - this $10M payout to a boy terrorist is a debacle of your own making.
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What North Korea seems to have done with this missile is to send a reminder to the United States and its allies, that if attacked, it can and will bomb Tokyo as well as South Korea, resulting in tens of millions of deaths. Given this, the United States has no option but to negotiate peace. Hopefully, they are smart eno...
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Excuse me, you have never met him. It could have been anybody out there anybody could drink. Its not muslims. Im a child and I even know better to be racist, grow up! He didnt want to hurt anyone, people make mistakes not only muslims so can u stop lying to people please?
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Always reading your "spot on" posts! Good job! Aloha
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"While the city, with its property tax revenue rising, has steadily increased its spending on parks operations in recent years, virtually all of the added money has gone toward increased pay and bene­fits for employees and to rising materials costs, city budget figures show. ~ The city’s parks staff has remained flat a...
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HI:"It is not born in a lab of white-coated PhDs" I taught in a college(now a poly) for many years.During that time I came up with a device which was ultimately patented and produced.Some of the(summer) students that were involved with the company that mass produced it were ultimately hired full time. The college/polys...
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As the fish farming grows world wide, as it will, consumers care about prices and availability more than philosophical arguments by fisherman. Alaska can and should continue to focus on the quality of wild salmon. Alaska is not going to stop the farming in the rest of the world becasue we do not like farmed fish. The...
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"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 s...
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How many past and present U of O and 4J employees live in 97405 ? Then "they" wonder why I call the U of O an activist university.
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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 ...
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