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Before you take apart the Permanent Fund as we've known it and give 775 million dollars in credits to the oil and gas industry: how much of the 400 million going into Cook Inlet gas is for the Donlin Gold mine? At least make it a loan with strict repayment schedule. Please... | 00 | not toxic |
Probably all locals. Case is a perfect example on how Feds and local authorities work together. Case actually started at street level then went inter-state same way CBP and ICE want to work with local authorities to target criminals that are in Hawaii and United States illegally. | 00 | not toxic |
why are children wearing HIJAB??
people wear hijab out of modesty. They see revealing one's hair as a form of sexuality...it as though a woman has the power to seduce with her long hair.
Now, here is the sick and twisted thing: by making your CHILD wear a hijab, are you saying your CHILD can be seductive/ sexual?
Sickness is in the minds of those who see children as anything more than children!
and our leftists decision-makers will tolerate it...because they think this is what tolerance is. They won't dare dig deeper and give it some thoughts as to what these symbols MEAN | 00 | not toxic |
A beautiful massive tax plan for me, your president, Donald Trump. All together now now trumpers, “Lock her up”, “Build that wall”, Keep screaming, lol | 00 | not toxic |
Witty and clever. | 00 | not toxic |
Seeing how this is becoming a trend - to sit during the national anthem - I wonder how grade school children will process this message ... "We stand for the national anthem in respect for our country, unless you grow up to be a professional athlete, in which case you don't have to." | 00 | not toxic |
Cry me a river. ^^ Mr McBride. | 00 | not toxic |
Freeloader? And what do you do for a living? Liberal voter?
You do realize that the top 10% of income earners pay over 50% of the taxes, while using less than 10% of government services. And the bottom 50% of income earners pay virtually no income tax - so the top 10% effectively support the bottom 50%
So let's tax to death the geese who lay the golden eggs (ie. pay the bulk of the taxes, create the private sector jobs, etc.). Who needs doctors, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs, etc.
Why should a doctor make more (or get to keep more income) than a postal clerk anyway? It's not fair.
So let's crush the "rich" professional class and the private sector. We'll take their money and use it to create jobs - good government bureaucrat jobs.
And when the cost of the bloated public sector and debt cause the economy to collapse, and the private sector can no longer create jobs and pay taxes, and we can't find a family doctor, etc.
Then we'll ..... | 00 | not toxic |
I voted for the Liberal candidate in my riding, and was pleased when the Liberal Party of Canada came to power. Then Prime Minister Trudeau backtracked on his promise to begin the reform of our electoral system.
I will not be voting for my Liberal candidate in the next election, and I certainly won't be voting for the Conservative candidate either. The NDP candidate might get my vote, but that remains to be seen. Maybe I'll vote for the Communists, or the Greens, or the Christian Heritage Party, or the Marijuana Party, or the Libertarian Party, or the "Alliance of the North".
When politicians start to mock us, it's time to start mocking them and the electoral system using the most powerful tool at our disposal--our votes. | 00 | not toxic |
Rather than spend $450,000 on more tax consultants, I think that Alaskans deserve to see the results of the Gaffney Cline report that we already paid for before the passage of SB21.
For some reason, the Conoco governor and legislature would not release this report as promised.
I can only imagine the reason is that it clearly showed that SB21 is a terrible tax policy resulting in the loss of billions for the state.
We need to sue the state for access to this information which will prove that they knew damn well what they were doing.
They knew they were looting the state. They knew this would result in a huge deficit.
Instead of choosing to work for Alaskans, they violated their oath of office, wrote a tax policy that gives our oil revenue away, and covered up the information.
This should be enough information for a criminal investigation.
We do not need more tax consultants. We need the FBI. | 00 | not toxic |
"Having jurisdiction over another person's body in the United States isn't new." You mean like thinking you have the right to murder a baby? O wait you meant somebody forcing an extremely irresponsible woman to lose custody of her child... Oh wait you support that to just so long as its ex-utero. What a tangled web you weave little spider. | 00 | not toxic |
Is that the same WHO report that said systemic fluoride has become unnecessary -- and makes no difference -- in developed nations? You know, because people in them have access to fluoride in so many different ways, especially the topical kind? | 00 | not toxic |
(cont) Schools have huge responsibilities today.....far more than when you and I were students. There are more single-parent families with increased stress on that single-parent; there are more parents involved in drug/alcohol abuse; there are more kids who are homeless; there are more kids who, themselves, are drug/alcohol involved; then, of course, we taxpayers have decided teachers are overpaid, class sizes too small, and we need to "cut some corners"..no more music, no more vocational classes; no more PE; etc... we've eliminated many of the very programs which helped marginal students "stay" in school and graduate.
.......I apologize for ranting and rambling....but, as I look at today's schools, I get really depressed.. C'est la vie.....Gary Crum | 00 | not toxic |
Like when Russia banished the Jew in 1891? Or Nuremberg in 1498? They used the Troopers also, just like the United States. Just in Europe and Russia alone, the Jews have been banished 47 times in the last 1,000 years. | 00 | not toxic |
HI:I teach in a college and when I went through engineering I took programing(back in the C++ days) it was obvious that it was not the easiest skill set to learn.
Fast forward to today if you don't have the high school graduates able to absorb nebulous thinking such as programing, colleges (and universities) will be at a loss to generate workers for tomorrows world.
Take the above statement and substitute STEM programs for "programing" and it still holds true. | 00 | not toxic |
And as I have pointed out to Anchorage-area media outlets and state legislators, to no effect, precisely WHY is Gorilla Fireworks allowed to advertise fireworks on Anchorage television and radio outlets (which they do almost endlessly around the Fourth of July and New Years Day), when their product is illegal for 99% of the viewing or listening audience to use in the first place? | 00 | not toxic |
It would be inhumane of me to put the cop in that position because I was acting like a jerk.
But you, as a convict, may not appreciate that criminals have some say in their fate. | 11 | toxic |
I've always wondered about "women's nights" at bars. Isn't charging one gender less discriminatory to the other? | 00 | not toxic |
exactly. | 00 | not toxic |
A permanent tax hike for only one event, that is strictly for entertainment purposes.
Oh, but its "once-in-a-lifetime"! So, the private sports industry should be the ones paying! | 00 | not toxic |
Yup. Trump has carved out a clear position that is anti-muslim, anti-jew, anti-black, and anti-hispanic. We need only wait,, I think, for the anti-asian, anti-native American, and anti-polynesian shoes to drop.
Follow his lead or don't. That is the naked proposition.
Trump is posing what may end up being an existential question: "what is in the heart of an American caucasian?"
The answer to that question implicates questions that go to America's ability to continue to exist as a democracy. | 00 | not toxic |
Another ill informed ignorant shabby piece of journalism. Israeli intelligence and Chinese and Russian intelligence and the British and the French and especially the CIA are all over that place. Canada is so pathetically outclassed in the intelligence world..it is ludicrous to even talk about it...why not have Roger Federer show up at the Rideau Tennis club in Ottawa and play the club champion. | 11 | toxic |
Previously I have passed the "civil comments" requirement and posted several comments but today I am refused commenting here. What happened? | 00 | not toxic |
Suggesting the UN Security Council is going to solve the issue? Laughable comment from PM Gomer. | 00 | not toxic |
The party of Obstruction will not work with the Republican's, they are still raving mad that Hillery Lost. Lisa is part of the problem. As a Conservative Independent Voter, I would hope they could get along and do what's good for you, I and America. The Country seems to be falling apart, neighbor against neighbor, so much Hate and Fake news. You don't know what to believe. | 00 | not toxic |
I've never mentioned God or religion, probably because I have stepped foot in a church in over 30 years. I'm not a member of the NRA either. You do know that semi-automatic rifles and pistols (including those with high capacity magazines) have been easily accessible for nearly 100 years in this country. Fully automatic rifles and submachine guns were not only accessible but were able to be purchased without any registration or back ground check until the mid 1930's. They were advertised and marketed to Ranchers for their ease and ability to shoot a running coyote. I could go on with many more examples of how much easier and readily accessible guns were up to 30-40 years ago but my point is that guns haven't changed, gun laws are much more restrictive now than ever and yet these mass shootings are on the rise. I.E. it's not a gun issue! | 00 | not toxic |
Great article, Tim! Thank you for sharing this with us. | 00 | not toxic |
Agreed. Taking a percentage of your employment income as the required income assumes you spend all of your income today. If your employment income exceeds your needs, then, obviously, you will not need to replace all of it. The approach I used is to figure out my expected income needs and then throw in assumptions about inflation and taxation. But I have not retired yet so I may be wrong here. I love to hear actual retirees experiences. | 00 | not toxic |
A gas line for what? It isn't worth anything in the marketplace, and we can bring it here cheaply by sea for far less than we can build and maintain any gas line. This is nuts. | 00 | not toxic |
The CAGW cult will have the standing that the moonies have now in times to come. | 00 | not toxic |
It is difficult to teach eye contact these days. Unless there is technology to do it through cell phone screen. | 00 | not toxic |
Lot's of experts in these comments. So isn't smoke from Bbq's carcinogenic? So all the fumes from the rides, all the smoke coming from the grills, the eating of burnt foods, the whole fair reeks of alcohol and IS promoted, and the abuse of animals is ok but pen up the few smokers and call it progress and go into an amazing amount of comments of how "we're" protecting Amurica? Now we've gone on tangents about the neighbor's smoking outside and the stink is ruining my furniture? Please-ridiculous | 00 | not toxic |
When I went to elementary most of the older teachers had not even attended university. They had completed high-school, went directly to Normal School, and then straight into teaching. But one thing was for certain: They all knew how to teach arithmetic until we all knew the basics.
The Ontario government could probably visit some retirement homes and look for elderly teachers for lessons on how to teach mathematics. It's guaranteed that these old folk could still teach math better than the clowns who have messed up today's system. | 00 | not toxic |
For me, a Vietnam combat veteran, the actions of libertarian republicans and moderate democrats are just funny. And, yet so sad. I would guess they had never faced adversity, such as death. | 00 | not toxic |
My song of praise to my President, Mr. Barack Obama.
To the tune of Kumbaya. All together now.
“Obama my lord, Obama,
“Obama my lord, Obama,
“Obama, my lord, Obama,
“Oh lord, Obama.”
Repeat. | 00 | not toxic |
You must be really getting frustrated boyo all your stuff is < this comment did not meet civility standards >. Then all you have to say is the same canned comments you use when you run out of gas on a thread. SAD | 00 | not toxic |
Where is it? Who benefits from it? How much is it? ALEC's entire reason for being is to install Koch dogma at every level of government for years done in secret. Most of the gridlock found in state legislatures and Congress is directly imposed by minority agents putting up every roadblock to progressive legislation while pre-programmed legislation from ALEC serves corporate(mostly oil/energy) thievery. | 00 | not toxic |
Well, if you look at a chart of US greenhouse gas emissions, they peaked in 2005 and did drop as the economy crashed in 2008, but they also continued their general downward decline as the economy recovered. Government policies (along with citizen initiatives) surely played a role in that.
http://www.earth-policy.org/data_highlights/2013/highlights41 | 00 | not toxic |
This government has to be breaking some kind of record for not keeping promises. It's almost as it they were just a joke. | 00 | not toxic |
Says the person who still 'likes' her own posts, Sara. Good grief. | 00 | not toxic |
Acosta needs an official WH pacifier. He whines more than a toddler. | 00 | not toxic |
I have to agree with you.
Why would I want to patronize a local small business that doesn't feel the need to invest in his own community by offering jobs to local people.
I might swing at a later time but for now I'll look elsewhere. | 00 | not toxic |
Gary Crum: Boring. | 00 | not toxic |
Baloney. Harper was the king of deficits. $55 billion? Harper never accomplished anything but adding $160 billion to the national debt--unless government corruption and electoral fraud count as accomplishments. | 00 | not toxic |
The Revolution devours its children.
- Jacques Mallet du Pan, 1793 | 00 | not toxic |
Why not in the next election we all not vote, it is a joke and doesn't matter!! | 00 | not toxic |
I stand with Sister Joan. | 00 | not toxic |
I define colonialism as the invasion of another territory in order to gain resources which are based there. I think that tourism may have initially been used to encourage colonialism (e.g 19th century attempts at getting Britons to settle in Australia), but with imperialism no longer welcome, I don't think tourism is conducted with such an ulterior motive anymore.
I understand worries about tourism reinforcing the stereotyped images of a culture (most worries about "Cultural Appropriation" stem from these), but it's wrong to say that tourism is a means of subjugating a culture, just as I disagree with claims that "Moana" (for all the flaws it will have) is a means of subjugating a culture... | 00 | not toxic |
Wow! Little Jimmy got his feelings hurt! | 00 | not toxic |
...and once again, on those ever more rare times when Francis does talk about the scandal, the focus remains squarely on the priestly pedophiles. The tribunals he mentions refer, I believe, to the tribunals that hold PRIESTS accountable. As to the idea that HE proposed several years ago about similar tribunals to hold bishops accountable.... <crickets>.
I suppose I'm just getting jaded with all of this stuff, but I gather he has spoken to Marie AFTER she resigned. She herself said that he had never spoken with her before. So this comes across as but one more example of "too little/too late," all wrapped with the best spin/paper-over the Vatican can muster.
The obvious question remains: why? Why can't, or worse, won't Francis clean house? Why won't he make this enough of a priority to actually make the real changes so badly needed? Seriously, if the Vatican is still having to train bishops that abuse is bad, and must be addressed, and victims cared for...
Really? | 00 | not toxic |
Steep learning curve. Glad it didn't cost him his life. The people who get ahead in life take risks and learn from their mistakes and what doesn't kill them makes them stronger. | 00 | not toxic |
tigerwarrior,
Newsflash for you: the overriding reason the Assault Weapons Ban was allowed to sunset after ten years was because there was no persuasive evidence that it worked.
Quite simply (from Wikipedia.org) :
"The Task Force on Community Preventive Services, an independent, non-federal task force, examined an assortment of firearms laws, including the AWB, and found 'insufficient evidence to determine the effectiveness of any of the firearms laws reviewed for preventing violence'."
It goes without saying this is very old news.
Now granted, if by reinstating the Assault Weapons Ban your intent is to keep bureaucrats employed and to support the passage or continuation laws that don't work, that's one thing, but by all means be explicit about it. Just don't claim your intent is to prevent violent crime. That would be disingenuous, if not an outright falsehood.
Now, care to try again? | 00 | not toxic |
It has been less than 24 hours since the Chiefs got their 4th straight victory over the not so super team from Colorado. | 00 | not toxic |
Last two cuts the Big Five only passed along 15 bps of the 25. Let's watch today to see if they increase by just 15 bps. My guess is they all jump up 25 bps, effectively nullifying one of the past two cuts and moving their gap between BoC's rate and their prime rate up 20 bps. | 00 | not toxic |
BLOTUS must GO | 00 | not toxic |
..hey haters..sukk eggs.. | 00 | not toxic |
"Profit" does not exist in a non-profit organization---by IRS definition.
You must be a salaried, cash-basis taxpayer to be that ignorant.
Or maybe you don't have to pay taxes at all. | 11 | toxic |
Interesting points, and I appreciate the stats on medical tourism in and out of the States.
I get the feeling we wouldn’t always have the same view on policy (and this is more than OK, I like respectful debate), but I tend to agree with the guaranteed income model. It would greatly streamline the patchwork of available benefits to the poor, resulting in savings for the government, and guarantee a minimum standard of living which would be of benefit to all.
Not sure Canada is ready for such a model, but if we are going to have a social safety net, this sounds like the most efficient and effective approach. | 00 | not toxic |
Planning regs also allowed the Capstone folks to get away with not putting stores on the Willamette side of the project--thus deadening two blocks on what should be a key thoroughfare. Honestly, given some of what is permitted in this town you have to wonder how much of the Planning Dept. budget actually ends up achieving the opposite of what our goals are. | 00 | not toxic |
Another diagnoses from a progressive socialist. You have no idea who Mike Pence is or what he stands for, or how he "feels" when he defends Trump. I admire him for defending an imperfect leader, because he has honor and dignity and a sense of loyalty that is sorely lacking in today'society. And BTW: Bernie would not have won, he is a KOOK. | 00 | not toxic |
Then make the pie larger by eliminating the TABOR noose. | 00 | not toxic |
Pretty sure it means you shouldn't go into the shipping business ffscatter. Since Matson is a 135-year old company and you don't get to be that old without learning to hire the right people, I have little doubt executives there know how to run a maritime shipping business correctly. | 00 | not toxic |
As wealth disparity grows and more and more people are relegated to serfdom, 'Trump Fever' will continue to grow. If the republicans thought that this year was an aberration, they'll find out differently in four years...or less. | 00 | not toxic |
The papers naming Ted Cruz's dad as the real killer? | 00 | not toxic |
Exactly ... One more waste of an agency. | 00 | not toxic |
btaim, when you take a photo, do you just sit there with your hands clasped? Most people will depending on what the photo represents do the "arms around the friends" thing.
I've had women who've had their hands around my waist and due to movement or rearrangement of the people in the picture have had my okole touched. Does that mean I need to go back and file for assault charges on theses people? | 00 | not toxic |
"The sun will rise, the sun will set. That is what we call it. But the sun isn't moving, its the rotation of the earth that makes the sun "appear to rise and set" This is an example of a "fact" that really isn't. Even though we will all continue to call it a sunrise or sunset, we know it's not. Similarly, we know that although Mr. Schwab says things that have an "appearance" of fact, we know the reality is sometimes much different. But saying the sun set is much more poetic than saying the earth has rotated... | 00 | not toxic |
"We all love our country?" Maybe you should reconsider that statement. Some people have a strange way of showing it. Slaughtering 58 innocent people and injuring 100s as an example. There's more, but not enough room here. | 00 | not toxic |
i have dual citizen ship i find the US is more patriotic and competitive than Canada.
Canada has a government that is destroying the country and characters like laugher thinks it's funny.
i will continue to see what country caters to my wants and needs.
keep in touch. | 00 | not toxic |
RE my comment above: I have not looked at the proposed site map or at the map where the toxic plume had been identified years ago. It was not that easy to get a clear answer about where the plume had ended up then or if the gov thought it was still spreading. So when I said _it is not clear_ above, it was not totally clear to me from the RG article. I have not done any original research recently. I assume that some testing could be done before proceeding with the project.
Perhaps hemp could be used for soil remediation. It is being used in other areas. | 00 | not toxic |
Really, columnist? It's notPeters who is out of touch. Have you not heard about Sarah Silverman, Amy Schumer, Kathy Griffin, Tina Fey? Extremely funny often raunchy but obviously very moral, kind, and feminist women? Like jokes by those women, the jokes by Peters (sigh...we still need to explain this in 2017?) are winks; they have levels; they have quotation marks around them. We laugh at their inappropriateness. That's the joke. His schtick is (write this down) an act! He (write this down too) plays a frat boy! It's a kind of sarcasm, a kind of satire. You may prefer a different tone for the show as far as hosts go, that's fine, but don't knock Peters. Unless you also take time to knock 80% of female and male comedians out there today. | 00 | not toxic |
So we shouldn't just #WeBelieve?
Perhaps they didn't do the necessary probing because they exist in a culture, work culture and more broadly, where expressing disbelief in an accuser is now considered unacceptable. | 00 | not toxic |
Archaeology shows idols in Cannan up to the Babylonian exile. None after the return. The Exile is also where the Law books of the Torah were probably consolidated. They were not written by Moses and there were only few in the party that left Egypt, went to Horeb (not Sinai) - where the 12 pillars were found, and then went to Israel, which was not overcome in any sense. Of course, the anti-Modernists blanch at all that. They have their right to be wrong, but not to insist that their error is the only Truth. | 00 | not toxic |
Good question. In one modern use it is someone who, despite evidence to the contrary, believes everyone has good intention(except the opposition) and that no one is gaming the system leeching off the hard work of others. Heck, even if they did allow some of those thoughts to drift through their indoctrinated mind they would dismiss it saying the end justifies the means(like a sociopath would). One can usually sniff out a liberal by reading their posts. I hope this helps. Tomorrow we can go over the difference between forks and spoons. | 00 | not toxic |
Wish I could have seen this on tv, but PAC12 & Directv can't get their acts together (no matter how much I pay.) Good job Montez. | 00 | not toxic |
No such thing as non-partisan when the NYTs is involved. | 00 | not toxic |
It is to Ono's credit that he has re-instated the speaking engagement by Furlong. Political correctness has run amok when all it takes is "an open letter," circulated by a disaffected student to derail a speaking engagement.
We need to be mindful of the words of the author, Salman Rushdie: "“Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever read. If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people." | 00 | not toxic |
About time! It's not like employers care about merit anyways. | 00 | not toxic |
With just a little research, the following will be made apparent to you. Bush did not cause the 9/11 attacks, Iraq was approved by almost every democrat, including Hillary, The surplus was going away due to the dot.com bubble bursting before Bush was sworn in, causing a small recession. 9/11 impacted the economy much greater than we knew at the time. After the tax cuts, annual deficits fell to 161 billion in 2006. After democrats took control of the house and Bush misplaced his veto authority, the deficit ballooned to 450 billion in 2007. The market meltdown actually had little to do with either democrats or republicans. It was caused by a large number of very large investment companies investing heavily in garbage mortgages and then having them crash. The country had robust growth, falling unemployment, rising wages and greatly increased receipts to the government from 2003 to the end of 2007. | 00 | not toxic |
APD reflects Anchorage and its racist past and present (geez are you deaf and dumb and can't read?) and most of Alaska is also rooted in that kind of mess. It's no wonder the schools do not teach Alaska history at all. | 11 | toxic |
More like a lack of heath care. The only thing that the VA did right was to provide us with the much needed pain killers. Now they can't even do that right. A broken body that will never heal will always hurt. Telling vets that all they have to look forward to is a life of physical pain and suffering is not the way to handle it. This policy is killing vets every day. Please give us our lives back!! Write your congress man and demand we end this policy of pain and let the doctors prescribe the medications not congress. | 00 | not toxic |
Interesting article and subject. And, the pictures worth tons of experience in dealing with the large amounts of "stuffs" our country's processing plants deal with. The scope, content and magnitude of those wastes are not easily visualized by the public. Few know what they mean.
The farmer in this article has done his homework, and seems to have something of great use in the public good. If his facility were to go out of business, the public would ultimately pay the cost of cleanup. An appeal for public funds could include those costs as avoidable through the farmer's project, but would need open minds to preclude it being viewed as a threat. Think Willows Run GC, and UofW Bothell.
We all would have been better off if Scott Paper, so many years ago, would have had Mr. Visser's foresight and concerned actions about what was left for the City of Everett to deal with at the Port decades later.
Am pleased with the Stillaguamish Tribe and others foresight in being involved. Thanks to them! | 00 | not toxic |
I read it.... the comments on the article on the Guardian website were on the lines of 'strange the Guardian invited 4 Communists, all immigrants to the area (from elsewhere in Spain) to comment.
Interesting though, another perspective!
After watching the police brutality, over 700 injured, it was noticeable that the Spanish PM didn't comment on that at all, just saying the 'referendum' was illegal and therefore did not take place!
I daresay much more will play out over next few days... even the EU might comment though saying bot much! | 00 | not toxic |
Yeah, I'm still confused about how she got into that situation in the first place. | 00 | not toxic |
I remember Ralphie V's first run at the Spring Game. She got loose from all but one handler who held on for dear life as she dragged him around the field! Spunky then, spunky now. Run, Ralphie, Run! | 00 | not toxic |
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"
- Epicurus | 00 | not toxic |
Your comment was all about me, regardless to whom you posted. It is typically a cowardly way to dismiss someone.
And I know I should be flattered you keep quoting me, although you give no credit. But instead, I will repeat myself for the umpteenth time - please leave me alone. | 00 | not toxic |
Kelty is always in control, one way or another. | 00 | not toxic |
The media would love us to forget that populism is a strategy not a political ideology. | 00 | not toxic |
The billionaires couldn't buy this election. Who backed Smith exactly and why was he afraid to release his donor list? Good riddance to the Flames, enjoy Portland! | 00 | not toxic |
Interestingly I read today in the UK Telegraph that Jeremy Corbyn had proposed at their Labour Conference that companies who introduced automation should be subject to a higher rate of income tax..... A 21st Century Luddite? | 00 | not toxic |
I think you are right. It used to be called sabre rattling. We have to expect more of the same Blah, Blah, Blah. | 00 | not toxic |
potatoes is all you need | 00 | not toxic |
MP's should condemn anti-Muslim, anti-Christian, and anti-Jewish behaviours and get on with more important matters. Our existing laws should be able to handle any contingencies. | 00 | not toxic |
The line between the powers the executive branch has on immigration and the powers reserved for Congress is clear & defined.The executive branch can’t legalize anybody.
“Did I make a mistake? Yes I did, wholeheartedly,” he admitted.“And at this point in the game, I’m not in the finger-pointing business and rolling people under the bus.So, I did what I was trained to do by my father..You make a mistake and you own up to it. And I tried to fix it, I tried to fix it right there.” - Steve Harvey, Miss Universe pageant, after naming the wrong winner as Ms Universe.
So...in this irrelevant case, who benefitted more? Ms Colombia, Ms Philippines, Mr Harvey? Ms Univ. pageant? Then consider, who was harmed more? Did Mr Harvey "do the right thing" even though it could cause chaos and uproar & discontent? Yes he did. Am I making light of the DACA recipients and their status' and conflating it w/ a beauty pageant? No. I am pointing out that when something is not right, fix it.
(cont.) | 00 | not toxic |
One toke over the line, sweet Jesus. One toke over the line. | 00 | not toxic |
To be a viable candidate, one needs to have policies and ideas that will actually work in the real world, whether they are the winning party or not. Voting your conscience is fine; it's what I typically do. But the reason the Green, Libertarian, or National Socialist parties never gain any traction is due to their lack of viable platforms. | 00 | not toxic |
I am sure Trudope could have chartered a boat at his own expense.
Aga offered his chopper and Trudope accepted - apparently that is a big NO NO
Do you often take fellow co-workers on 'private, family vacations'?
The optics alone stink from a million miles away. | 00 | not toxic |
A good leader, or even a partially decent leader, would continually ask about expenditures vs. budget at the very least on a monthly basis. Formal monthly expenditure reports in spreadsheet form would be required along with a written reports detailing outages and recommendations for action from staff members. This guy was just purely incompetent and negligent. | 00 | not toxic |
You assume that nothing changes in the K12 business model. But is that realistic? In higher ed we have seen much more use of adjuncts. Why not in some parts of K12? And technology? And moving from seat-time to competency-based?
More fundamentally, there is a huge chicken and egg problem here. In many other locations where teachers make (much) more money, the increase in pay was the result of many other changes (e.g., curriculum reform, elimination of grading on a curve, activity based costing, more integrated supports for at-risk students, faster removal of ineffective teachers) that led to better achievement results. Better pay (and more respect) was a reward for better results.
Yet here in Colorado, the teachers union demands higher pay and tells taxpayers to trust that it will produce much better student achievement results. Unfortunately, taxpayers have heard this line too many times in the past, and can see the lack of results past pay raises have produced. | 00 | not toxic |
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