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Are you kidding me ? When is the last time we had a major fire like this ? When there is a major fire all units respond , as they should . that gives them more than enough to cover any emergency . The simple fact is most of the time we don't need this many fire fighters . There is no doubt our fire fighters do a good job and are there when we need them . On the other hand . if they were so busy all the time they wouldn't have movie theaters in some stations and they wouldn't have time to use Municipal trucks and supplies to collect for the charities they choose to support . It's perfectly clear from this story the fire fighters and their union have zero desire to cut the budget . If they won't help , then we need to cut the number of fire fighters. When the subject of wages comes up both the fire and police departments use fear as a tool to get what they want. Just like our mayor---threatening taxpayers with the dishonest choice of choosing between plowing snow and police .
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Sounds like you need to soak your head in a fresh bucket of deep ecology koolaide.
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I see you have upset Alceste and his fellow travelers by having the temerity to resort to stating facts
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This commenting system is an epic fail. I have it set to "Newest first" but what it shows is "highest rated." Reset to "Newest first" then refresh the page - it goes back to "highest rated"
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Even though these tirades deserve to be ignored... The book Ring of Hell by Matthew Randazzo does make reference of sort to possible mob ties on the part of the McMahons. I wouldn't call it out of the realm of possibility simply on account of their historical base in the Northeast United States and the prevalance of the mob in many facets of business in that region. Major media scrutiny of Linda McMahon's Senate campaigns shone light on her experiences working in the field of copyright law in the years before her husband started Titan Sports in the early 1980s. Perhaps more than anything else, this is the key to their success. They were able to navigate a changing landscape in the industry by pursuing that route while their competitors were still going after bread-and-butter business. Sure, a lot of what they did was sleazy and possibly downright illegal, but most of the competitors they supposedly forced out of business would have fallen on their own accord.
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The often stated adage of people moving to the Right as they age isn't actually true. People stay the same, and society moves to the left around them. Or, rather, people move to the left, but more slowly than society does.
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Sorry son, I can see you're 20 ,but I can't sell you cigarettes because the LCBC has declared you're unable to make good decisions regarding your health until you're 21. Oh BTW, didn't you join the military just after HS graduation? Nicotine is an addictive poison. It's derivatives are in certain insecticides. Perhaps the board with all its superior knowledge could endorse raising awareness about the roots of addiction and mental illness instead of a heavy handed, bass ackwards decision making possession of tobacco illegal to people under 21. Remember kids if you're 18 and defending our county you can kill and see friends killed, but you're not going to smoke that cigarette until you're an adult at 21. I don't condone tobacco use...but I completely believe in one's right to choose.
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I am starting to worry that it is not going to be cold too much longer. I have children, and grandkids. The left has nothing to steady them.
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I encourage the Pilfering Governor to stop trying to force a new tax scheme down our throats. The majority of Ordinary Alaskans do not want to be taxed so the Governor can give our $ to his special interest friends. The majority of Ordinary Alaskans want our PFD returned from last year and our full PFD this year.
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Well, it was looking like mutual admiration for a moment there... Trump and Kim are both pretty smart cookies, aren't they. Watching an historical moment in the making, truly amazing! It's like Hitler all over again.
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Amazing how many heads one man can roam around rent free in. Trump is this, Trump is that, all coerced by an establishment media manipulating emotions. Funny, never once heard any of these geniuses discuss Obama's having banned certain Muslim groups at various times, the treatment of Cuban refugees at one point nor the fact something like 98% of the 'refugees' are Muslim while he actually turned back christian refugees. Where is the 'honest' reporting on that? Does the left and their atheist cohorts despise christians to the point they are prepared to be subservient to Muslims? Amazing.
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Would appear Fukumoto was rewarded for switching parties.
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And to think an ex-president told his followers to bring a gun to a knife fight.
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Womanizers and sexists are not necessary the same thing.
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Please forward the same comment to trump who hands out nicknames like a playground bully.
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Well, no more or less than any other election. There's ALWAYS an infinitesimal chance of any election being compromised, of course, so there's never 100% absolute certainty. Maybe Obama didn't "really" win either. Or Bush. Or Clinton. Kind of a silly suggestion on the whole though.
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Ah, the battlecry of the Church defender! Demand proof of the obvious, then debate the standards applied to the proof, then bicker about definitions. The proof is in the open. Point out the statement you claim is not supported.
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The story says there is no charge to use the chargers=free fuel for the expensive cars and their well-off owners. No free fuel for a fixed income retiree and their 1982 Town Car.
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What a smell of putrid hypocrisy permeates the airwaves of disgruntled liberal women afraid they may not be allowed to kill babies in their womb. Too bad it was not legal for their moms.
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why could they not fight on the "front lines"?
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Tari Cabot: Do I understand you right that a pelt is worth more than a crippled dog?
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Their "forts" are still standing on Nimitz, by Lowes. Hopefully they get razed, very dangerous for pedestrians in that spot.
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yep, that South Park episode was funny.......get off the plane and you're local
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"They were not required to leave the foreign service but chose to retire or resign for personal reasons, the department said." That statement says it all. I spent 20+ years working for the U.S. federal government and can guarantee they wouldn't walk away from a permanent slot because a new boss was elected. Re-entering the work pool with a good possibility a Burger King manager position is in their future is career killing move. Trump may be a partial reason or final push but they were ready to retire and collect their pensions. Those not eligible for retirement moved on to other government positions.
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Actually reducing the divided will likely increase the severity of the recession more than an income tax. That's because with a PDF reduction, your taking money out of the pocket of every man woman and child in Alaska, whereas an income tax will affect fewer people. An income tax will also tax out of state workers, who don't receive a dividend.
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Well, I spent one winter in Glasgow, Montana, which is just over the border from Williston ND, with drifts to the top of a three-story barracks and at 37 degrees below zero and a 15 mph wind for a week in 1964. Not sure how relevant that is, but that's an answer to your rhetorical question. As far as those pipelines under the rivers, there are thousands of miles of them all over the Midwest, And then there are all those in Oregon, including the one that brings the gasoline from Portland down the valley to the tank farms over by the railroad tracks. Here are the 16,000 miles of Oregon pipelines according to the Oregonian: http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2016/11/post_50.html#0 That oil is going to be moved as long as it makes money to do so. Pipelines are the safest way to do it. Not without risk; there is no such human endeavor.
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I agree with you 100% that most of South Africans just want a prosperous country that provide opportunities to all South Africans. But just remember that South Africans still vote along the racial lines and both blacks and whites are equally guilty of this. So the shift to voting the opposition will always be marginal, even if Zuma is working overtime to destroy the ANC.
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Nothing in the article about what skills Ambrose brings? Serious question: what skills?
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whatever dude, you lefty's got your blood
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Pope Francis really is rather slick. Love his "hand-off" of Card. Burke and the recent posters. However, the bold decisive, pivotal acknowledgement of the full peership of women and men "...in the church and in the world", continues to elude him. "Working out the details" might take generations, but the church does not have generations to address the de facto acknowledgment and rational consequences. The majority no longer agree that women's "otherness" is "lesser" but, increasingly as peers and, yes, competitors. Difference means accommodation, not exclusion. The diminishing numbers who retain the "traditional" view are misogynists, rote followers and radical fundamentalists. Criminally, our church belongs to the "diminishing numbers". As participants in the diminishing number, the church is a contributor to and facilitator of the supression of, violence against and the sexual abuse of women "...in the church and in the world". "We" must extricate ourselves from that group.
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Cheapness of sex is only one part of why men are backing out of the very bad bargain of being with today's women. When you add up the cost benefit analysis of marriage and recognize how women behave in our gynocentric society that treats men as pack animals it's not even remotely worth the cost. I was married but just made the break early and before the arrival of kids. Marriages have a very high probability of a wife initiated divorce the longer they go. Once divorced there is an even higher chance that as a man you will be stripped of assets you built, income you earn, your children and your dignity. Bullet avoided. Our laws, social norms and institutions are now designed to cater to women, remove their need for accountability, and treat men as cheap and disposable. Men, stop living to make your woman happy. Live for yourself. Build your character, become a better version of yourself, find your own purpose and go make it happen. Leave the world of women behind. Go MGTOW
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On the slave front Michelle, it was part of the Polynesian culture to enslave conquered peoples. The Masters and Servants Act of 1850 replaced the Kingdom's "Kauwa System" of serfdom. The word "kauwa" is Hawaiian for "slave-class." Their slave-class, called the "kauwa", were filled with those taken as prisoners of war or their children. The kauwa were identified with a tattoo mark around the eyes, or on the forehead. They were indeed slaves, but also much more than that was that they were often used as human sacrifices at the luakini heiau when worshipping the gods. For the average person Hawaii was anything but paradise.
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Citation please.
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This is true. I had thought it was ~70% nation-wide and I thought I had read that it was around 60% for the Lower Mainland, but in just checking it looks like it's about half for the region. Still a very large voting bloc!
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The Trump administration is weighing putting the Energy Department's budget for its renewable energy and energy efficiency program on the chopping block with a proposal to slash it by 70 percent. - Idiocy.
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I'm pretty sure it wasn't Hippocrates. He was more into medicine than journalism, fake or not.
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Jaded did not post anything hateful. LFT. Jaded merely pointed out that you were supporting Don Richey, LFT. Many posters disagreed with Mr Richey's letter - Jaded is just one of them. Jaded is spot on with every post.
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Karl Subban is a wise man. My favourite quote from him is: "Your kids might not do a good job listening to you but they will do a great job imitating you".
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Dec 11, opinion. If you don't call the nationwide drubbing democrats took this year from top to bottom across the country a landslide, I don't know what is. As far as the electoral college, still a matter of opinion, not a lie Oct 10 sarcasm/ jest. I mean really, come on this is all you have? No wall? Again a matter of opinion, you have no way of knowing As far as the others, again really? These are the earth shattering lies? Basically you came up with nothing but opinion and insignificant conversational miscues. This is why you lost. Your side lies about lying, along with everything else.
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Scotland's has the lowest life expectancy for men in Europe and that includes the poorer eastern European countries. Their life style is appalling, some Supermarkets don't even stock fresh fruit and vegetables because there is no demand. Having lived in Scotland for many years but originally from England I would have been delighted for them to separate. As for the territorial waters, not as much belongs to Scotland as they think. Follow the line of the the land boundary up - as is the way its done- and it cuts through the territorial waters they think is all theirs when they look due east. Also North Sea oil is rapidly running out and at $50 brings in less than half the income compared to the time they voted not to separate.
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That may be the origin of the term "anti-Semite", and its modern English usage, however, it doesn't alter the reality that Arabs are a Semitic people, and the irony of Israeli Jews and others applying the term to Arabs
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To kill our economy in order to meet the goals of a non-binding treating being ignored by the biggest polluters is madness.
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We live out in rural Lane County. We have friends, do business and spend a lot of time enjoying Eugene. I was impressed with the Guard's editorial this morning supporting the EWEB site. I actually think the Council just might give the EWEB option a serious look. ...'bout time. regards, GAry
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I would because I don't need or trust your Nanny Big Governments with labeling people for me. Or keeping my family fake "safe" from them.
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Seems like you forgot that trudeau recently approved a couple of the pipelines you all had a big erection over, plus you will get keystone. So stop whining for once.
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Maybe we can put a wolf buffer zone if the park puts in a moose buffer zone where we can hunt moose in the park. Sounds like a fair trade to me. Otherwise it's just us giving to the park with nothing in return.
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Far from it! but most of us have a life! And it will take a certain number of comments before the usual bots, zombies and other allies kick in. As I mentioned before the Comey testimony "patience is a virtue" either learned early or with advancing age. LOL
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Go around it any way you want, however if Americans are hit first, they would do exactly what Trump said. If let say, China was hit first they would do the same thing, as would Russia, in both cases the enemy here at least in the past was the U.S. Then we have Israel and Iran. Israel has never acknowledged that they have nuclear weapons, but it has always been assumed they have. The difference here is Israel will never allow it itself to be in a position to be hit first, and will take a pre emptive strike.
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All Catholic bishops need to be held fully accountable for sexual abuse as well as for covering up sexual abuse. Bishop Dupre was not held accountable, and should have been. Sad.
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Right! Money is everything and when we have it then let's use it to dominate. SLAPP those people down with lawyers and friendly, like minded, journalists. I hear ya brother, power to the rich! We won't be here in 30 years so who cares. It's all about now.
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Good grief ! Wouldn't you think all those college educated smart people hired by Delta Airlines knew that bumping Ann from her seat that SHE PAID FOR would be noticed ? Oh, yeah, the GLOBALISTS that run Delta don't think conservative women that think for themselves should GET WHAT THEY PAY FOR. Conservatvie women are 2nd class citizens in the New America.
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The Americans are proposing silly ideas; what Canada is doing is making it clear that there is going to be a quid pro quo. If they want us to give up supply management, then they are going to have to give up "right to work". The gender and indigenous people matters are explicitly stated to be aspirational and non-binding, hence both valueless and harmless.
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Agree with Yellin. Please tell us what you think Trudeau should be doing? Intelligent people understand that Trump is a thin-skinned egomaniac and act accordingly to get what they want.
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Legalized markets (unless they are overtaxed) always undermine black markets. Notice none of this black market weed was going to legalized states... If you are interested, you should consider taking a basic economics course. There are several excellent community colleges in the front range that offer continuing adult education.
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Here is the best part You know the Syrian refugee program? Well guess who is insuring the refugees 10K a month from the govt and the taxpayer? Yup So follow the money Here is how this works Refugee comes into Canada Refugee with family gets 10K a month from the Feds (taxpayer) Refugee, with other refugees use 10K a month as salary on black market mortgage sites and brokers Brokers get commission, CMHC (Taxpayer) holds bag. Refugees hope to flip house for quick profit. All the while the feds are funding the housing bubbles in Vancouver and Toronto by immigration. That is what is happening in Halifax. They are pumping these deadbeats into the region with all this immigrant cash. The developers bought off the politicians, politicians pump the feds, circle repeats. This is why jug head wants them in. I had coffee with one of these refugees who explained it. If you are not postal you should be Warren Buffet says "you never know who is swimming naked until the tide goes out
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The vacations are positioned as `conferences.' Remember? Bahamas, had to attend 2 conference sessions?
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss... Except a lot more corrupt, less transparent, and far more ignorant and ill informed...
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"first U.S. brand to crack top 3 in Consumer Reports reliability rankings" . Different angle: The only U.S. brand to crack top 14 in Consumer Reports reliability rankings
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Trump bashing, gotta admit.....he is "funny kine" and is earning every bit of the bash.
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You should only tip on the portion of the bill before tax. Tax is not a service or product provided by your server or the restaurant. Don't be a sucker.
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No. This is a moral and logical debate. Murdering magnificent and defenceless creatures "for fun" is evil - and wiping out huge swathes of the food chain "for fun" is stupid, dangerous, and illogical.
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The laziest and worst form of journalism in this country (aside from faux new lies) is the "both sides do it" false equivalency nonsense peddled by far too many in this country.
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My point? It's pretty simple: Obama is the worst president ever. I think I made that clear.
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Ohhh so you're not even a "partner" in the law firm you work for! LOL Ok big shot associate, I'll let you get back to your sabbatical time off in fighting Trump! Don't forget to let us know when HitLIARy wins the election, we're all eagerly waiting for the election results! LOL
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"Ontario’s plan: destroy jobs, save the planet" ---------- Actually, just the first. Only delusional ideologues think the second is true.
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There is a new, nearly miraculous device - the computer. It is hardly a bear to calculate taxes in Colorado. Tax rates for the 50 states would be a cinch. Local taxes are harder but no problem when it comes tax collection/distribution time either. It's not done by hand any more.
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Most people read for the content of the article. Some people just want to keep a score. Remember what the article was about? Krauthhammer is upset because we finally stood up to Netanyahu and his bullying tactics. Meanwhile, the world is collectively telling him to stop insulting humans with repression and land theft.
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I have a cousin who is a PhD in physics and a climate researcher and he is a Republican and a conservative and he says many scientists are conservative-- particularly in physics, chemistry, and in climate change focused on "hard science" atmospheric, chemical, and ocean aspects of climate change and the modeling of these impacts (he jokes that the biologists are liberals). He feels that the evidence of climate change caused by human activity is too strong to deny and much of the climate change denial is based on ignorance. He suggests reading the following simple graphs that make the point: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-world/
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Farmers are struggling he says? It might be because the Conservatives sold the wheat board to Saudi Arabia.
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I think the way "Rape Culture" is actually used is to describe all of society not just university campuses. You just hear/see it most often on campuses than in the real world. I agree campuses could bear the label of "Alcohol Culture" but then so could large parts of society. I think it is could for women to take some self-defence courses. I do worry that TV and movies will cause them to believe that an average women can easily demolish a muscular man half again her weight. When I took a course I got the best piece of advice you could ever get - the first line of defense is running not fighting. After that I think women's biggest weakness in a fight is that most of us have never been punched for real and that first time it happens it shocks you so much you freeze. So practically the best advice I can give is: learn to run, learn to take a punch. And when you decide to run just leave your stuff behind - you can always get a new bag and new id.
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Fine by me. Way pass time to drain the oil swamp. Bye, bye.
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Bold move on Ige's part. He could be voted out of office because of this, but not by me. I'd like to see Congress follow his lead and raise the cap on Social Security to $250,000. Studies show this would create solvency for the next 50 years AND increase monthly average benefits by $65.00 that would help more low income senior citizens.
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This will be hashed out in the high court. I know that this is not the end of it. Appeals are possible for a reason. However, I don't understand the way you frame your argument. The judge is channelling the written law. The judge is not a supreme ruler, but he is an arbitor of the law.
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No it does not. This incident did not happen last week.
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OK, I googled "George Soros dismantle the west". Nothing. So, please provide credible evidence. Waiting.........
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She has had seven years to get her act together. Instead she just ignored US laws. Not a very good citizen or wannabe citizen.
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Good luck with that given that the Libertarians and Greens were visualized and co-founded by the same person--my father--as public conveniences. In the US and most countries they work together on ballot access and many issues. I think they'll both be happy to improve by any amount and get into the debates.
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It doesn't matter whether there was a lesser alternative or what he said about it. The couple certainly wasn't looking to buy generic cupcakes. Jack didn't serve them with their specific request because they are gay but he served others with the exact same request because they are hetero. That is undisputed by the parties--there's no need for a red herring. You may think it is important whether he sold alternative products but the Supreme Court doesn't.
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The new pipe runs alongside the existing pipe laid down in the 1950's. What is the problem?
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Finally somebody in the GOP with some BRASS to stand up to the buffoon sitting in the White House!
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well since it is the lefties all but closing down free speech, he makes a point.
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Can you identify the positions that have been added over the last 10 year rather than tossing out a number that tell us nothing. It ridiculous to say cut back unless you know what you are intending to cut. I have no doubts some of those increase are due to more miles of state roads, increases in requirements at the major airports maintained by DOT, and more people on probation.
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I am not sure Trump worries so much about the taxpayer and about hiring American - otherwise he would not have his merchandise manufactured outside of this own MAGA!
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This article is a puff piece. The blue Fox and Time out are alive and well. Both offer live music and limited "craft beers" The last of their kind in anchorage. If you chose to whine that live music is dead or your not getting paid enough then go out to a show that isn't at taproot. So much talent so little support.
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"History is always written by the victors" That may have been true back before everyone had cameras on their smartphone but Trump, like police departments around the US, discovered that saying lacks any truth. "The campaign didn't end for [Obama] until 2014 when he finally gave up trying to do anything good." Source? I don't recall Obama running except for the year before his election and re-election. Unless you are including his campaigning for other Democrats which is clearly a different situation from Trump who only campaigns for himself.
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Mr. Mcdowall, Not at all clear to me how your suggestion differs much from what Francis Shelter, Bean's Cafe and APD's Community Service Patrols already provide.
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These measures hurt the US in the long run. The mid terms will be unpleasant for the GOP.
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I'm boycotting Trump Hotels.
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Anything to draw attention away from your wrecking of our state, right, legislative Republicans? LOOK OVER THERE, EVERYONE!! GAYS TRYIN' TO MARRY!!!
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Agreed, but the process is usually triggered by a crime--a violation of a statute, federal or otherwise (that's why Ken Starr spent so much time on Whitewater, a legal matter in the State of Arkansas, so my citation is not "bogus"). But neither of us is going to move here, and it's lunchtime. Signing off.
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The sun is the ultimate factor. Without it there would be no climate, much less climate change, or Algore fairy tales.
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"No country should therefore underestimate the power of the virus of nationalism to trigger a domino effect." And there you have it folks. Nationalism is a "Virus" according to the unabashed globalists that are attempting to eliminate borders around the world in favor of the EU model where all nations will be considered "states" under the thumb of the bureaucrats in Brussels or New York. Remember this when our government signs on to immigration treaties later this century that are designed to eliminate our sovereignty and take away our ability to control the flow of immigration across our own borders. We will be dictated to by the UN and other international bodies we didn't elect and told how many people Canada MUST accept according to "international law".
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it goes BY the airport, not IN the airport the way BART does in SF or Sound Transit in Seattle. Thank you SIDA.... We couldn't have it taking taxi fares now, could we...
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Its time to turn parks into city and county run campgrounds....$10....a night per person...... And turn parks into low income housing......and tiny home spots for the homeless......the parks department cost the the county and the city over $12 million a year.......and that cost does not cover the cost of policing the parks.....for the city and the country spend over $20 million a year arresting people in Eugene parks..
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"I'm wondering why the worry level is so high now. What is different? No one can say" I told you in summary what is different, and I gave you more than enough information to find out the details for yourself. I guess you're not interested in actually knowing? Well if you are interested, google the following, and then read every link on the first page of search results. You're welcome. "new russian information warefare capability"
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Having the cash is great ... keeping or growing it is better. Here's my experience. If you want a car, buy for the long run ... to keep your money. I bought a one year old Honda Civic Coupe with 75 kms. at the dealer in 2009. I paid cash and I haggled ... remember YOU have the advantage and they will try every trick to get their price. Just show you don't care and are prepared to walk. They started at $23.500 and I got it for $20,000 ... had everything I wanted too and never a problem driving from Alaska to Key West over all kinds of roads. Now that you have an economy car at a great price and high resale value proceed to the growth bit. At your age start buying dividend growth stocks. Over the past 30+ years that's what I did Buy all of the following- CN Rail, TD Bank, Emera, Fortis, Canadian Utilities, Enbridge, Trans Canada, Telus, Power Corp, BCE, Brookfield Infrastructure, Canadian REIT. Reinvest the dividends, sit back and grow rich. It's slow to begin with but hang in there
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It’s 2017....
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Whineritis: Thank you for being you! Q. E. D.
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He's now rambling about the removal of Christopher Columbus statues, while Puerto Rico drinks raw sewage. Way to focus on the real issues. So much winning.
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If there was ever a UCMJ case for capital punishment, this was it. Bergdahl not only avoided that, he also avoided prison time which, at a minimum, should have been awarded, along with a reduction in rank to E1, forfeiture of all pay and a bad conduct discharge.
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