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I agree. We gave them their own money back. | 0 | not toxic |
Are you his official translator today? | 0 | not toxic |
NOW HEAR THIS - WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET 5 POPULATION CENTERS DETERMINE HOW THE REST OF US ARE GOING TO LIVE...If you do not like the EC, then you are certainly free to get 75% of the States to ratify a change. | 0 | not toxic |
Interesting read on the baseballs being slick if you haven't seen this one yet. There is definitely something to it when all these pitchers suddenly can't throw or locate their slider as effectively. Seems like its definitely allowed some hitters to eliminate the slider and just sit fastball, which would make sense for some of the run production we've seen off top notch pitching talent.
https://www.si.com/mlb/2017/10/29/world-series-baseballs-leather-justin-verlander-yu-darvish-ken-giles-kenley-jansen | 0 | not toxic |
They need to get rid of the bedbugs in the facility and in the possessions of the residents. If you don't, it won't matter what beds you put in there.
I wish some company would come up with a pesticide to get rid of those dang bugs. I know, people don't want those dangerous chemicals. I'd rather deal with the chemicals than the bugs. Yeah, I'm that person. | 0 | not toxic |
Vet all of Fang's "investors" for ties to the Chinese communist party leadership and military (one and the same, anyway) then slam him for questionable foreign government/military relations, like what's being done to ex NSC chair Flynn and so many other Trump associates.
It's no secret the Chinese are on in a rush to get capital OUT of their country (that they're so patriotically loyal to). | 0 | not toxic |
Seriously, you are pathetic. | 1 | toxic |
Not my Senator..... | 0 | not toxic |
By moving away from Eugene, I terminated the 'social contract' between the City and me.
Unfortunately, neither of us are willing to do the same with the United States so we are stuck with the spending and other decisions 'they' make at that level with which we disagree.
For me, the F-35 Fighter is the most expensive recent military spending decision I disagree with, although the useless and break-down prone littoral destroyers are rapidly becoming part of my top dislike list. | 0 | not toxic |
We need to cut spending WAY more than we have. But a gas tax is OK, it would be better if it was seasonal to hit the tourists | 0 | not toxic |
what about your education minister allowing the TDSB to steal $61 million of student grants - is she next? | 0 | not toxic |
And Macleans that said Quebec was the most corrupt Province was a falsehood even after Bombardier that is charged with bribery over seas , the Montreal corruption trials and the brown envelopes under the table for the Liberals ? | 0 | not toxic |
All of us Bill. | 0 | not toxic |
Where are the "psychotic killers" today who use the "Christian" "faith community" to justify their violence? Where are Christians who throw gay people off of roofs, turn women into sexual slaves, stone people for adultery, blow up nightclubs, etc? Where are they? | 1 | toxic |
Message from the PM to all the nimbyists in Vancouver, Victoria, and Burnaby. The TransMountain pipeline expansion is in the best interest for all Canadians. You do not get a veto. Fume and protest all you want. | 0 | not toxic |
Oh, okay, genius. Killed? You might be a moron. So anyone who has a drink or a beer a day or a few a week has an addiction? | 1 | toxic |
Owner's are probably waiting to see whether or not Gregor and his Vision compatriots get the boot in the next civic election. The City's attempt to demonize detached single family homeowners is not going over well in most Vancouver neighbourhoods. Generational homeowners resent being blamed for an affordability crisis that was created by government mismanagement at all levels. | 0 | not toxic |
Boom | 0 | not toxic |
There are a couple of international events in progress that if successful may greatly reduce the number of refugees seeking asylum. The first is the battle to reclaim Mosul, the last stronghold of ISIS in Iraq. Once they are defeated, fewer people will need to flee Iraq.
The second is the ongoing peace talks in Syria. Fewer wars mean fewer refugees.
Let's hope these efforts are successful. | 0 | not toxic |
My word. Such a control statement to say. Do people think that micro-management is the answer, because that's what they seem to be doing. Prohibition? Yet members of the privy counsel say otherwise, honestly, these people cannot observe and think. Prohibition brings back, into full swing, criminal activities. Any time a governing force try to control others, it never works, It may stop the behaviour at one level, but everyone goes off in secret and does it. So it doesn't stop the behaviour. Are they that much seduced by money to not care about people? | 0 | not toxic |
Y'know, I'd love to find out how to do paid-for posts! I could use a little extra scratch especially with the Christmas season coming, and since we're in a post-truth world anyway... | 0 | not toxic |
Tomorrow's Globe Editorial: Trump Still Not Assassinated. Only 1,361 days to go. Sad. | 1 | toxic |
Why should the citizens of Alaska pay the oil companies to take our resources. They have had decades of profit and losses are a corporate risk in any industry. Loss insurance shouldn't be provided by taxing the public. This is just as bad and just as wrong as GWB bailing out the banks with taxpayer funds. Keep your hands off the Permanent Fund legislators! | 0 | not toxic |
I flagged every post by Roy in this thread two days ago, and they're still flagged. Maybe try again? | 0 | not toxic |
Sounds like a P.T. Barnum to me!! | 0 | not toxic |
Absolutely! He is an entertainment personnality...have no idea where the business credentials are coming from. | 0 | not toxic |
Why is it you do not provide the facts on DACA? Obama illegally used an executive order to make the DACA program. It was in fact a change in existing immigration laws, which a President cannot do legally! President Trump is correcting that and sending this to Congress, the only legal place a change in immigration laws can be done! Thank God for our President...doing what it correct under our Constitution! | 0 | not toxic |
TDW,
Many people think EVs offer many advantages - much lower operating costs, no noise, much stronger acceleration, no emissions and so on. Others would obviously disagree. For EVs the most important news this week is the announcement of two new battery technologies that will permit very rapid recharging. Toshiba, for example, has developed a battery that can give a typical EV 320 kms of range after just six minutes of charging. The battery will be available in large quantities in 2016.
https://gas2.org/2017/10/03/new-toshiba-scib-electric-car-battery-needs-just-6-minutes-add-320-kilometers-range/
This is not a baby step forward. This is more like the Yankees replacing me with Aaron Judge. Most EV users don't need such rapid recharging but for those who like to drive from Tofino to Truro every week the new batteries might be useful. | 0 | not toxic |
Indeed! Then neither do my opinions have anything to do with hate. And I'm a Democrat too. And a black nun.
Your problem is that you can never admit to your hate because that's what you derogatorily accuse others of when they disagree with your hateful alt-left narrative.
Indeed! I've accurately diagnosed gary crum as a self-righteous hypocrite based on his holier-than-thou, condescending comments in this forum. My sympathies to those in your little circle, gary. Your smugness precedes you.
Hate is defined as "intense or passionate dislike" which means that everyone hates, including you, Sir Gary Crum. You can claim to not hate 24/7, but your high horse comments betray you.
Here's you Gary - "Self-righteousness (also called sanctimoniousness, sententiousness, and holier-than-thou attitudes) is a feeling or display of (usually smug) moral superiority derived from a sense that one's beliefs, actions, or affiliations are of greater virtue than those of the average person." | 1 | toxic |
It certainly isn't logically valid given it ignores the New Covenant in Christ's blood and the authority given to Peter and the Apostles to lead the People of God into all truth.
Try this: Jesus only appointed Jewish circumcised males. Jewish women were not (and are not) ceremonially circumcised on the eighth day of their life. Therefore, they are disqualified from the priesthood. | 0 | not toxic |
Very diplomatic media responses by Coach Rolovich. Hope he is able to encourage our local talent to give UH a chance | 0 | not toxic |
Simply amazing!!! | 0 | not toxic |
tompaine II: "She and Obama have kept our troops largely at home, safe, and we have a far safer world since these two have been in charge".
I beg your pardon? What planet do You live on?
tompaine II: "As far as global government: you're entering into black helicopter and tin-hat world now."
Oh Boy...(eyes roll) Go tell That to the people of the EU. Hillary has admitted it's what she wants. | 0 | not toxic |
“In America we don’t worship government, we worship God ...”
Sounds great until you get down to brass tacks. Are we to worship Trump's version of God? How about Falwell's? Thanks anyway, but I'll stick with my own and let others do the same or not as they choose.
As for 'worshiping' government, I honestly don't see a lot of that going on, despite Trump's hyperbole. We have a pretty good Constitutional system in this country and it has served us well (more or less), but I don't know anybody who has deified it. Most people understand that political machinery is only a means to an end. What matters is that we take advantage of the freedoms of our system for the greater good.
As long as those freedoms last, that is. Keep a watchful eye on those who think they know what God's will is for America. Chances are their version of that 'will' is frighteningly narrow. | 0 | not toxic |
The morality of people who commit such atrocities has not evolved past the dark ages. It really has nothing to do with religion. Religion is just the excuse they use to justify their murderous tendencies. They are nothing more than sociopaths with no sense of empathy for the suffering of others. They wish for nothing more than death and destruction and pervert religious teachings in order to support their viewpoint and draw others to their cause. It is no different than a cult. | 0 | not toxic |
It's the only place to get 100LL north of the Brooks ,south of Deadhorse and east of the Haul Road. Hope she still can run the camp. Anyone who's watched any of these Alaska Realty shows more than 10 min.knows they're fake garbage. Mindless drama for suburbanites with empty heads and meaningless lives. | 1 | toxic |
But no one (other than indubitablysnarky) has argued that hurricanes have not existed in the past. Greenleaf clearly indicated that the physical expectation is that warming will impact specific aspects of cyclones. Given a changed initial state of a system, there will be a change in the subsequent processes taking place in that system. | 0 | not toxic |
"It can either be Jewish or democratic. It cannot be both" - Kerry
Sorta like,
it can be Democrat or democratic. It cannot be both. | 0 | not toxic |
They also enforce the death penalty! | 0 | not toxic |
source, last poll I read showed 70 % approval by Democrats. That's who runs the state. Been no great shift | 0 | not toxic |
We should not give, but loan the legislature money from the Permanent Fund. 3% interest/10 year payoff structured accordingly. That's just to balance the budget this year.
Next year if oil prices remain low, we the citizens of Alaska will consider refinancing. You have to pay it back eventually Senators, Representatives and the Governor. | 0 | not toxic |
He's upset that he didn't win the popular vote, so he's trying to show that he should have won that too. | 0 | not toxic |
Slow down there. That was not part of the report. Only that they had spent time together during work hours. | 0 | not toxic |
Keepitsimple is using the academic psychology definition of a phobia. And he or she is correct. It is very sloppy English to call hate speech 'islamaphobia' imho, even if the Oxford dictionary has decided that so many people misuse this word that its meaning has changed completely. The way Oxford defines in your post, it is not a phobia at all! | 0 | not toxic |
Because Foreign ownership has to be banned and the liberals' deep ties in China are not really that legal here. | 0 | not toxic |
The PM will thank the Senate for its work and file the report away and do nothing other than focus on gender and other politically correct issues that the Armed Forces are supposed to be deficient in. Do not expect any truly significant expenditures needed to even maintain the current deficient situation of the military. I've said it before the procurement system is not broken it is working precisely as governments have wanted for many decades. I hope I'm wrong but I really doubt it. | 0 | not toxic |
First its yoga, then its the rock and the roll, then the kids are all hopped up on goofballs and soon there is no coming back, one is lost forever. It's all so very obvious. | 0 | not toxic |
He sure seems to know, lol. | 0 | not toxic |
"While the U.S. is the primary source of the deprivation, it is reasonable to infer from the uncontradicted evidence before the Court that the statements taken by Canadian officials are contributing to K’s continued detention. The deprivation of K’s right to liberty and security of the person is not in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice.
"The interrogation of a youth detained without access to counsel, to elicit statements about serious criminal charges while knowing that the youth had been subjected to sleep deprivation and while knowing that the fruits of the interrogations would be shared with the prosecutors, offends the most basic Canadian standards about the treatment of detained youth suspects.
"K is entitled to a remedy under s. 24(1) of the Charter..."
~ unanimous 2010 decision of the Supreme Court of Canada, in Canada (Prime Minister) v. Khadr | 0 | not toxic |
“Our task over the next few generations is to transform the world of independent states in which we live into some sort of genuine international community. If we succeed in creating that community, however quarrelsome, discontented, and full of injustice it probably will be, then we shall effectively have abolished the ancient institution of warfare. Good riddance.”
― Gwynne Dyer, War: The New Edition
And if we don't, we're doomed. I don't see any way that we will find a way to abolish warfare unless humanity gets a lot smarter and fast. | 0 | not toxic |
When the booze is free, why would anyone complain about a 12% room tax? | 0 | not toxic |
And what about the other PAC established by David Eastman? "David Eastman of Wasilla, who toppled incumbent Rep. Wes Keller in the Republican primary, registered the Alaska Conservative Leadership PAC last week, two days after winning his election." (ADN August 24, 2016) What say you Mr. Eastman? | 0 | not toxic |
Go Trump!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | 0 | not toxic |
We wandered in after visiting the DAM this weekend. I was surprised at the changes since I'd last been 6 or 7 years ago. I agree that it was largely carnival fare. I spent $10 on tickets when we entered, and was wishing for a refund. | 0 | not toxic |
Where did Justin Trudeau come into this. Was he quoted too?! Must have missed that part.
But check Trudeau's finances first. You'll discover no "multi million dollar bubble" inherited by the three sons from Trudeau senior. But then myth and sarcasm seem to be the nature of political discourse today. Pity. | 0 | not toxic |
What struck me from this and other articles (one example: http://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/) I have read pointed to a similar trend. Those fake news mostly are pro-Trump. Aside from the Kremlin preference of Trump for political purpose, the other fake news machines like those coming out from Macedonia wouldn’t care less about who won, their eyes are only on the money they made by the viewers clicking the advertisements and sharing their fake and sensational news. They found the pro-Trump ones, no matter how absurd, always earned them far more money than pro-Hillary or pro-Sanders ‘news’. It said a lot about at least some of the Trump supporters - gullible, reactionary, ignorant and total lack of critical thinking and they are encouraged by this administration. When fact is treated as just a matter of opinion, we all lose because at the end of the day, a banana is still a banana not an apple and you know it when you bite the ‘apple’. | 0 | not toxic |
For someone who is critical of food prescriptions, you say some kind things about the Mediterranean diet.
Perhaps you are not aware of the NEJM study DIRECT. Which compared low fat, Mediterranean diet and ketogenic diet.
In virtually every realm of markers that matter in my opinion the Ketogenic diet outperformed the others. Lower triglycerides, higher HDL, lower Creactive protein, smaller waists, lower weights. Lower HemoglobinA1c .
And for a diet that can't be adhered too, this was a 2 year study. Sorry the low fat diet high carb diet was the poorest choice.
Are you sure you have the level of understanding to be critical of this way of eating for life? | 0 | not toxic |
There is a plenty of bullets- silver, plated, hollow tip, and yes magnetic rail guns are magical, but echoing unfounded statements originally made by some housing representative about silver bullets for housing solutions is well, unfounded. We are doing the same few basic things every other city has done and putting our own unique twist on them thinking we'll witness different results.
Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result - according the Einstein poster I see too much of - is insanity. So try something new. Maybe even take a step back and ask if your shooting the right things and fighting the right battles, because if everyone wants change yet no one wants to try something new then you'll just waste a bunch of ammunition shooting the clouds- magical bullets included.
departitionedhousing.com
Jody's trolling so I figure I can too- it's an equal rights thing. | 0 | not toxic |
He may have been born here, but he wasn't Canadian. He spent most of his life indoctrinated to hate our country and our way of life. | 0 | not toxic |
Who's getting personal? So far you've called me ignorant and short-sighted. You can claim that you were referring to my arguments and not to me, but we both know that's a cop-out.
Promoting an environment in which women and minorities are welcomed is encouraging. You are simply wrong to claim that it is patronizing. The system is stacked against people who are currently underrepresented, because people tend to hire others like themselves, as studies have also shown. For example, see this. http://healthland.time.com/2012/12/10/so-much-for-qualifications-employers-hire-people-they-like/. Note this passage: "Employers sought candidates who were not only competent but also culturally similar to themselves."
Claiming that it is patronizing to help those in need is ridiculous. Otherwise, we would consider it patronizing to give a drink of water to someone dying of thirst. | 1 | toxic |
"We have to pass the bill so we can find out what's in the 20,000 pages of regulations." - (D)Nancy Pelosi
Did I mention that ZERO Republicans voted for that train wreck? | 0 | not toxic |
Unfortunately we all suffer because Bozo the Clown wanted to flex his power 8 yrs. ago. Want to stop this fiasco, take away their government (that we pay for) healthcare and put them in OUR healthcare system that they passed so they would know what was in it 'cause it was to length to read at the time. Typical government reporting, write a encyclopedia, confuse the hell out of everyone then pass the bill. Hope Bozo the Clown gets a major sunburn where he's at. | 0 | not toxic |
And Sullivan's good at throwing it in the honeybucket. | 0 | not toxic |
Um, UPX Bloor Station is nearly half a kilometre away from Dufferin Station.
The UPX Station is the same as the Bloor GO station stop, near Dundas West Station on the Bloor line. | 0 | not toxic |
Then look at the Senate proposed bill: http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2017/bills/SB1129_.HTM | 0 | not toxic |
I would agree with you, especially in regard to leaders and all Christians "leading by spiritual example." That's the bottom line, Shar_M. I was in three countries in Europe the last week and a half. One can't help noticing how secularism has taken over there, especially in northern Europe, despite churches doing all they can to accommodate the population. The Anglican Church in England, for example, has bend over BACKWARDS trying to accommodate their flock -- allowing same sex civil unions among their clerics, openness to contraception, women bishops and priests, etc. -- yet still keeps crashing (hemorrhaging at more rapid rate than any other European nation -- dropping by 50% in just two decades). Even with their 26 unelected bishops sitting in their legislature/Parliament -- at the very top of the power structure -- they haven't been able to stem the drastic decline.
So what you say counts: holiness, spiritual example, simplicity, honesty. All the other changes don't seem to work. | 0 | not toxic |
The conservative philosophy believes in equality of opportunity (for all) and meritocracy. Racism and "victim politics" (whether claimed by a white supremacist, or by another "identifiable group") are completely contrary to those views... a true conservative therefore is colour-blind, gender blind and expects the smartest, hardest working, most gifted person to receive the greatest success. The US and Canadian MSM seem to have a hard time distinguishing between conservatives and racists and will often try to lump them together under the "alt right" banner, so I hope that helps.
With that clarification, conservatives also believe in free speech and free assembly to protest, so both groups should be permitted to peacefully assemble, But as soon as either group resorts to violence, police should intervene immediately. The Canadian authorities are responsible to provide Peace, Order and Good Governance. Let's see if we can be more successful than our American cousins. | 0 | not toxic |
Does she have time? I am sure finding scapegoats to blame for being a loser takes up most of her time. | 0 | not toxic |
..... uhm, go ducks? | 0 | not toxic |
We have a petition for that, sign and pass it on! https://www.change.org/p/portland-school-board-pps-superintendent-carole-smith-needs-to-step-down | 0 | not toxic |
He recovered from his hissy fit and pouting match over the holidays and finally realized a cushy, paid observer posting with a limo, shelter and all the trappings is better than nothing at all. | 0 | not toxic |
Repubs still in denial. Can't solve a problem if don't acknowledge it. Pathetic. | 1 | toxic |
Tobacco is highly addictive - it took several efforts before finally quitting. I took oxy for severe arthritic pain for over 3 years and it took one day to quit. One night of restless sleep. No desire to take it again other than for pain.
There's a conspiracy led by the medical elites to end opiate prescriptions for pain relief. it is behind all the deaths from street drugs, as doctors cut off patients. They blame addiction when in reality it is pain that makes people go back to these drugs. I was lucky to find doctors who gave me Medial block injections, trigger acupuncture and Tylenol 3 (which is far worse on the body than Oxy.) | 0 | not toxic |
"Civil Beat was told it would not be permitted to cover Pence’s meeting"
I do hope it wasn't because Civil Beat allows raucous democratic debates and discussions by having a comments section to it's news reporting.
I speculate that the NSA and the 16 other intelligence gathering agencies have fine tooth combed through CB comments section and decided it prudent to insulate VP Pence from vegan peaceniks, anti-statehood rebels, borderless dreamers, PC resisters, arm chair generals, surfers against political sewage spills, and senior citizens who aren't going to take it anymore.
As long as Civil Beat allows the voices of the little people who can see the hypocrisy of those in power in both the state and federal government, and express their individual views that combined make a democracy, then those in power will not permit CB to cover their choreographed meetings and Potemkin pageantry. | 0 | not toxic |
It appears that this guy reflects the actual mindset of the people he represents. I don't find this surprising. I worked for years with same "tough" fat guys in ties. They were very successful (until they died of heart disease or cancer)and that seemed to be the only thing that anyone really cared about. I don't think this will ever change, at least in this country. | 0 | not toxic |
IRT Gail Tagashira, I respectfully disagree. I think red light cameras are badly needed. Any driver can see that more and more people are running red lights and many times it's not even close. I've seen drivers hit their gas pedal easily 50 yards before entering an intersection that has already turned red. Prolonging the yellow light, which has already been done, will only give the drivers more reason to think they have more time. If the program cost LA $1M each year, I think that's a reasonable cost to hopefully start slowing some of these people down. Even if many of them win in court I think the inconvenience of going there will slow most reasonable people down. | 0 | not toxic |
You must be fun at parties. | 0 | not toxic |
This has nothing to do with protecting the British taxpayer. The Gard’s have raised the US equivalent of nearly $2 million. They could take their baby to America at their own expense. The state refuses to release their own chid to their care thus denying the family the ability to leave the country. It is about forcing all subjects to submit to the power of the State. This should not surprise us. What do people think happens to a child when it traverses the 7 or so inches down the birth canal to be born? When it becomes permissible to kill the child in the womb, it will become also permissible to kill the child outside the womb. | 0 | not toxic |
It's great whenever a competitor is able to take on Air Canada. As it is, Westjet is a much more customer friendly airline than Air Canada (you know, our "national airline" whose corporate motto might as well be: "the airline where we treat our customers as the inconvenience they truly are"). | 0 | not toxic |
It wasn't really my choice as a child to attend church, we were going. Young minds are less rational/experienced based than adults. There is also a popular sermon in many church's encouraging followers to be 'like children' in the way a child explores and doesn't question the possibility of God.
I used to sit in church and pencil draw a stained glass portait of Jesus that covered the front of the church. I would swear he winked or waved at me. I was a child. Our 'child' inside remains but no longer dominates us. Life happens and shapes our world view. But of part of me still reacts to the smile and those open arms.
Have you ever met a person who just seems calm in most any circumstance? I have - I'd like to be that person - I'm not all that close at 62. LOL | 0 | not toxic |
Khizr Khan is an Islamist who brings terrorist sympathizers to the US. He should have his travel privileges reviewed and revoked. | 0 | not toxic |
I'm tired of hearing about "sexually violent predators" being released on our streets. Lifetime supervision doesn't sound like a bad idea to me. The only problem with this law is people who refuse to implement it. | 0 | not toxic |
trump's words are shameful and abhorrent. However, remember what he does, what he has spent the last 30 years perfecting: anytime there is something to hide, trump does something outrageous and gets everyone all fired up, to make people forget there are other things going on at the WH he doesn't want the people/media to readily see. | 1 | toxic |
Sure. The "thought police". You realize "they" can't get you if you keep your stupid ideas to yourself? | 1 | toxic |
I assume you know this because you have directly experienced it. | 0 | not toxic |
"The Doral event represents a potential avenue of influence that is unique to Trump: the chance for a corporation to engage in a private business transaction with the president."
I thought this was illegal? Swamp draining may arse. | 0 | not toxic |
Oldpup, so what, the argument is not "don't help them" the argument is that $6,000,000.00 could have been used to house a lot more than 20. This is a stupid wasteful spending. It has been pointed out that a larger house cost's less than 300K so why not buy them something cheaper? Something that takes 10% of the maintenance cost? | 0 | not toxic |
Hopefully, Trump's Wall will be visible from the space station.
Hopefully, he will not put his name on the top of the wall. | 0 | not toxic |
chedca writes:
"These referendums were seen as democratically sound by the Japanese prime minister.
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That was ex-Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama (he was Prime Minister for 9 months in 2009), and he spoke only for himself.
The Japanese government disassociated itself from his remarks.
His brother, Kunio Hatoyama, said in a television program the former prime minister should have been deprived of his passport.
Vice President Masahiko Komura said the trip was “regrettable because it is incompatible with the Japanese position that it will never recognize any attempt to change the status quo by force.”
Japan and other Group of Seven nations — Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and the United States — condemned Russia’s annexation of Crimea last March, calling the action a violation of international law.
Japan, and the rest of the G7, don't recognize the results of a referendum held at the point of Russian guns.
Accuracy counts. | 0 | not toxic |
Did you not read the title of the article? It is about the G20 meeting and the important issues to be discussed. There was no mention of our prime minister. The logical conclusion is that he is irrelevant when it comes to important issues on the world stage. | 0 | not toxic |
graykeeper just keeps shoveling it out there. | 0 | not toxic |
Trump's strategy is quite simple: whenever he hits bottom, he keeps digging!
At this pace, no doubt he will reach the antipodes very soon....... | 0 | not toxic |
UH sports fans, please sign the petition to get Live Streaming to the Mainland resumed for UH football. We need it for recruiting, exposure for the program, for players families to watch, and for the thousands of UH supporters worldwide. Just takes 1 minute. Mahalo.
https://www.change.org/p/oceanic-cable-live-stream-university-of-hawaii-football-games?source_location=minibar | 0 | not toxic |
Well, FPTP is not a failure. It also doesn't encourage divisive politics. If it did, Harper probably would have won in 2015, and Justin would have lost. I agree with your example of the Bloc forming official opposition, and you are right that would not have happened under PR. However, official opposition is not a position holding any real power - only a few procedural advantages over other opposition parties. That period of time also reflected a very divided country and Quebec on the verge of separation. In other words, it was a somewhat fitting result.
If you are an NDP supporter, don't despair. You almost won under FPTP - and maybe someday you will. If you are some other fringe party, my suggestion is that you make yourself more popular to the point where you can actually win or at least threaten to win in some areas. If you can't do that then I don't want you having a seat in our Parliament. | 0 | not toxic |
Solid reply. | 0 | not toxic |
People are so quick to accuse others of being a troll merely because they disagree, or to claim that posts are snarky or sarcastic. None of this leads to a frank and open exchange of idears and discussion of things. I also note how many people just post their opinions as fact, without references or citations. Of course, many people are just upset when they are condemned and judged by faithful catholics, who are merely doing their best to apply the rules and doctrines of the church to other peoples' lives. Sigh. | 0 | not toxic |
Gosh, I follow my own judgment. As, in fact, do you, Trid. Your judgment tells you to follow every belch coming from a Roman throat as if it were the word of God. My judgment tells me to use my God-given intellect when the magisterium speaks.
It is a untrue to say that I castigate those who disagree with me. I do castigate YOU, but you are not "anyone and everyone". I believe that your unquestioning attitude is an example of the sin of sloth. You are letting others make your decisions for you, which is what got Adolf Eichmann in trouble. You take an attitude of "God gave us reason, and then doesn't want us to use it". | 0 | not toxic |
I suggest before you completely dismiss Trump, you read the book The Clintons' War on Women by Roger Stone. Don Trump with all his worts, is wide open in his thoughts. I do not necessarily agree with his approach or presentation, but I believe he is picking a cabinet that has high moral standards and commitment to change how Washington performs. When you read the book on the Clintons you will find a devious, manipulating person. It suggests to me the election of Trump was a major rejection of Hilary by most Americans except those in California(also known as LaLa Land). The corruption that the Clintons have created in the Clinton Foundation is hard to fathom. So to many Americans they see Trump's election as a first step in cleaning up the corruption that exists in Washington. We will better see in a year or so what the style of Donald Trump achieves. The mass media needs to look below the surface before throwing stones.
I am hoping that The G&M will do that. | 0 | not toxic |
that is a great question? i am just curious as i'm sure there has been some discussion on that. | 0 | not toxic |
The claim of "fairness" is ludicrous! How "fair" is it to equate a salaried employee with a business owner/risk taker who is not able to enjoy the benefits and security that comes from the employment provided by the business owner? And if Morneau is so concerned about such "fairness", why has he not eliminated the gold-plated benefits and pension plan that MPs get? They are certainly not available to the average person. Or how about equating the incomes, benefits and pension plans available to government workers with the average salaried worker in Canada? And while we're at it, how about making sure that the total income taxes paid by any two spouses are the same, regardless of whether the income is earned by one or both of them? There are many more important areas of "fairness" to address. Why isn't the media picking on some of those noted?? | 0 | not toxic |
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