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And Trump apparently will sign anything that lands on his desk. What a complete debacle. Senator Gardner, return our congress to its regular order, fix the ACA and seek a bipartisan solution. Don't repeat the mistake the Dems made passing the ACA without bipartisan support. This issue is simply too important to do otherwise.
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All the trolling you can expect from the lead troll in the ANC. All the country can hope for is that the polls which indicate the ANC's support has dropped below 50% are correct and we can get some honest people into power. Hopefully, we can get honest leadership in the ANC if it does manage to hold onto power and not a coup when they lose their majotity.
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That's your problem, I'm afraid. Not mine. How sad that your "friends" don't feel comfortable enough with you.
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If we want to stay in NAFTA we may have to be plugged into the US system.
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I'll tell you what O'Bungles legacy is. Ballooned the debt by spending more than all the presidents combined, enabled a nuclear Iran, and a screwed up health care system for three.
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ICE most definitely should not be firing guns at a person who is simply running away and not threatening harm. This is basic police policy that ICE ignored and by which it endangered the community. That bullet could have struck a person or child down the street. Bad decision making.
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Old Scotland will soon be free. New Scotland soon to follow. Slainte Mhath
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Salmon River High School in Riggins, Idaho....the school mascot is Savages. Not much outrage about it, at least from what is reported by the so-called media.
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Let's make this point crystal clear, the public can't continue to rise up against the public school system when we have incompetent school board members firing certified professional teachers. You can't operate a good public school system without highly qualified professional teaching staff. Stop the idiocy for gawd sakes.
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"Antidemocratic" is precisely the right word to describe them. Forget labels for a second; call them what you will, they fundamentally object to what they call "the tyranny of the majority" and want nothing so much as to slash government powers to enable them to do what they wish.
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While I agree with Wente on these current issues – they are all cases of absolutely absurd behaviour in the name of political correctness – I disagree that this can simply be absorbed into the usual left-right classification of values. One of the truly good things about the left, is its belief in the acceptance and respect of those that are different than us. The right generally has a problem in this regard. However, the people who claim that an inoffensive Halloween costume is racist or that we should invent 15 different pronouns to describe every conceivable gender identification, are not representative of the left. Frankly, I think they are just representing lunacy. University administrations, on the other hand, are moving progressively to the right, and very much beginning to emulate private corporations. Like private companies, they are allergic to bad publicity and are therefore ready to abandon logic whenever they think someone is going to say something bad about them.
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Hippies don't in general put their money where their mouth is. They ain't done nothin" and they don't know what more to do! Damn Beatniks! Get a hair cut and get a real job.
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Marty I agree that you shouldn't read anything written that would harm your faith, as it seems that many things could harm it, indeed all of modernity is a threat to some, so they have come to believe, I am not naming you here of course, that the earth's age can be measured in thousands of years and that man lived concurrently with dinosaurs. Modern ideas that challenge anything written after Trent must be excised from the consciousness of the laity lest harm be done to some, who feel troubled to their very foundations by modern reality. I am not in any way implying that your faith is too weak to withstand reality
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Reading comprehension fail!
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I question the ability of someone to make assumptions without knowing more details. As the father of the child mentioned, I am upset that you should decide to reduce what was a truly beautiful, heartfelt and effective approach to something merely "well-intentioned." I also encourage you to read more closely next time. My wife and I did indeed tell our son immediately that there were trains in heaven. And I also want you to know that for both sides of my sister-in-law's family this is the worst death they have ever experienced. This includes those in the family who are older. So to say that much worse deaths are yet to come is uninformed. And finally, age does not always imply wisdom. My young sister-in-law who passed away was one of the wisest people I've ever known. She was wise in the ways of the world yet humble in her dealings with it, something from which I hope we all can learn.
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I understand your point. I am not willing to assume that much risk though. For instance my wife's illness, resulting in her death about 2 years after diagnoses would have left myself and my daughters penniless. You may well have found a good point to argue though. If insurance was NOT available to patients, would Doctors pile on expensive treatment and the pretty new designer drug that the pharm. rep encourage them to sell last Tuesday? The Dr. recommends diagnostic scans to pay for the equipment in either the hospital, or, at their private clinic because it's a money makers. www.wsj.com/articles/SB111498587452921637 OR google "MRI and CT Centers Offer Doctors Way to Profit on Scans" I've had this done in the area, you don't get an appointment without a scan, even though you had one 2 months ago. My problem was slow developing kidney stones. The scanner was owned by the clinic.
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Curious as to whom entitled cousin thought *should* have been seated at the back of the room. The bride's family? Grandparents? Bride and groom's best friends? Someone really has an exaggerated sense of her own importance.
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Bingo! The Globe Editorial Board is short on both math and literary skills.
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Mahalo for your compassionate deeds and help to our brothers and sisters in need!
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It won't do any good. Too much oil from non-OPEN nations (Russia, Khazakstan, the US, etc).
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Again....do you bother to read anything before flying at me? Particularly the source I gave YOU? And what is "World Net Daily"?? Where did I reference it? Just who do you think pays for her travel and Secret Service by the way?
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The O and line will be a work in progress all year long, that's just the way it's gonna be. If they can run, they can win. Go Broncos!
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Why don't we resurrect Latin too.
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And yet a bunch of countries have had entire 24 hour periods powered by 100% renewable energy - Germany as an example has had days like this.
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Perhaps Mr. Mulcair could show us lesser folk how forgiveness is done and hire Ms. Homolka as a nanny for his grand kids......
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Nobody else is well-informed on the polling either. 1. because with 12/10/25/whatever contestants, nobody is going to show any particularly high numbers anyway. 2. mostly because nobody cares.
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Abstainers are like vegans: is not enough they can live the lifestyle they desire, they can't rest without imposing their convictions on everyone else.
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HK: What's more important? Your annual welfare check or state solvency?
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Heavens! it just goes on and on. It just seems that some of those self described "journalists" would gather some pride and backbone and take a step back and just resolve to clean up their act. It's as if in the past 10-15 years the bottom 10% of the class became "journalists" and simply don't know any better and cannot report any better!!
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I think you mean the spoiled child narcissist who always needs his ego stroked. I can't understand why people keep supporting this clown.
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'Not careless'. Does that mean that the idiot driving ahead of me on I70 who slammed on his breaks at 75mph last Sunday because 'he needed to pick up the phone' could get a ticket? Will that ticket pay for my funeral? I am glad that I have the golden rule that everybody but me on the road is an idiot so I always keep plenty of distance between vehicles. I surely wish it was legal to shoot bastards like that.
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The problem most of these people thinking everything is a joke when is a complaint.
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You might want to tell that to countries like India, you know, who signed on to the Paris accords but still predcit their usage of coal to power 60% of their grid. You are either a troll or just woefully ignorant. My guess is a bit of both...what the left calls balance.
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The French see it this way. "Marriage is none other than a civil contract." And that, oddly enough, found its way into the Louisiana Code of Louisiana, regions of which are heavily Catholic. But it is not the Catholic way of seeing marriage. It can't be, because marriage is not simply a secular contract. as the secularist Napoleon wanted it, but a sacrament entered into before God --- and to a Catholic, non-terminable by divorce except for spousal adultery.
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Heading the ball has nowhere near the same impact force as the standard collisions in the NFL. There are the occasional unintended headbutts when to players go for the same header and that could be an issue. Again though, these are few and far between compared to the every down collisions that occur in the NFL. Don't get me wrong, I've been an NFL fan for 45 of the 50 years I've been on the planet and I'm hoping the NFL spends some serious dough on collision research to design helmets to mitigate the CTE risk.
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Good riddance
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I am thrilled that Hillary experienced Alaska in this way. Have we ever had a presidential election where the West seems to be so totally ignored and unrepresented? Trump is nothing but a New Yorker. Not sure he believes there is anything of value west of the Hudson. Clinton is a mid-westerner turned eastern seaboard with some southern thrown in (Arkansas). And now we know she had the desire to see Alaska and in a time when it was quite an adventure to carry out that dream. That is a good thing for us.
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"... he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint .... Judges of the Supreme Court," Seems clear enough statement to me. There is no requirement that they agree. I would differ with you on your last sentence: I'd say it is fair to conclude the Republican led Senate stopped the process. Putting the good of the country first!
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2 games in Cleveland--hope for split; 3 games in Miami--hope for 2-1. Then home for 4 with Atlanta--hope for 3-1, followed by 3 with Milwaukee--hope for 3-0 to pretty much bury the Brewers 7 games with the apparently unbeatable Dodgers and 7 with the Diamondbacks in Sept says make hay in August.
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They knew it!
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Thus marks the 2nd time you say you have me on "ignore," but don't. Meow!
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Difference is , we're talking vagrants here in Pahoa. People who were unlawfully squatting on private property and using flammables. There are some homeless folks here who find shelter on vacant and undeveloped property, who don't trash and burn. By public land I meant parks and sacred sites. There are also many generous people here, who donate food and money. I am one of those. Thanks for your input.
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Agree. His lying and shibai was easy to see through. And no, he is not at all remorseful. He wants a generous deal to say where the body is. This clown is playing the system.
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The Knights gather together many fair-minded, well- motivated, generous and faith-filled Catholic men. I know many and admire most of them. However, the ideologically driven executive structures co-opt the historical apostolic ministry of the Knights. It seems to have become yet another money fuelled pillar of male influence that the institutional church is only too happy to recognize and lean on.
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Check out this mortgage calculator: http://www.canadamortgage.com/calculators/amortization.cgi I put in an example of a 1,000,000 mortgage and left the default 3.7% mortgage rate and 25 year amortization. I selected weekly payments and it told me I would pay $1,175 per week for a total interest payment of $527,860 (see the field called Interest - Amortization.) I then selected biweekly payments and it told me I would pay $2,351 every two weeks for a total interest payment of $528,394. So yes, you pay *marginally* more in the second case.: $534 over the life of the mortgage. The economics of that can roughly be understood as the interest you would have to pay over 25 years on a loan of half the difference, since on average you will be running a principal balance in the second case which is higher by about half a weekly mortgage payment. So the difference is very close to $1,175/2*.037*25=$543. Not exact but it gives you a general sense of where the difference is coming from.
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The phrase "economic freedom" occurs in Centisimus Annus and Laudato Si. And no, I wouldn't say it is condemned (or praised). Here's a quote from Laudato Si: "To ensure economic freedom from which all can effectively benefit, restraints occasionally have to be imposed on those possessing greater resources and financial power." It's fair to say that laissez-faire economics, like socialism (see Rerum Novarum), is incompatible with Catholic Social Teaching. It's less fair to say that economic freedom is a "condemned ideology" instead of, as Pope John Paul II stated: "only one element of human freedom" and subject to occassional restraints in furtherance of the common good.
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The "over 70% of America [sic] citizens believed the country was in the WRONG direction" is meaningless since it is pretty much evenly split among those who want to go backwards and those who want things to go forward (aka to progress). Just more division in an already divided nation. "Sad!"
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14 people participating in McCarthism at its finest. This is a witch hunt because the liberal Democratic Party can't believe their lying Golden Goose got cooked BY MIDDLE AMERICA.
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And by soup you mean solyanka?
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If you meant that comment seriously, then what is actually distressing is your comment.
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Sorry, different Samoan kid. C'mon, "Normal Guy"--they don't all look alike.
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These actions are a direct result of the Terroristic rhetoric of the left
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The delivery service will have to deliver quality produce and meats or people will stop buying it return the food. I've been getting better quality produce delivered than I can find a my neighborhood Safeway. I was skeptical at first about that issue, it's been way better than I ever thought it would be.
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More to the point, stifling civic engagement is contrary to the mission and values of scouting. The organization would not kick any scout out of the organization for questioning a politician. This was the action, apparently, of a rogue den leader.
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"Gun violence is a threat to public health and needs to be treated that way." 251,000 people are killed annually by doctors. I'd say they are a bigger threat than any firearm.
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Section 46(1)(c) of the Criminal Code look it up and watch this video share with you friends and count the days to 2019 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5DYmAGcfrg
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Yes, I am sure it was "the far right lunatic fringe" who jumped all over Kathy Katula on social media for daring to confront their darling PM Zoolander about hydro bills at the Peterborough townhall. The 54-year-old single mother of four and grandma of three, had to call 911 as she was terrified haters would show up at her front door. I agree we should have them arrested, regardless of political stripe.
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Neil has the typical Liberal response. Blame the tool and the person using it.
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Remember now, there are a lot of Liberal premiers talking to a Liberal finance minister. The hard nosed positioning is a standard negotiating ploy - it would be hard to believe that there would not be a compromise, so that the players could claim 'we fought a hard fight, but got more $$ for our electorate'. That too is a standard ploy. Works every time. Just ask the public service unions.
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This comment has the same whiff as those by the anti-Apple and anti-Tesla grumps — a vaguely ideological leaning. For many, if not most, Whole Foods admirably fills a need for a portion of one's shopping, not unlike Tony's.
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Exactly- no charges. Yet you think we should have a pretty serious punishment like that on the whim of some group of elders, maybe not even an elected group, with no judicial oversight. There is certainly corruption and local politics, feuds, etc that go hand in hand with many villages, which could definitely make this practice corruptible. How can native and non native people alike say the Fairbanks Four, which did go through our flawed justice system, was such an injustice yet encourage this, which has no judicial protections, no innocence until proven guilty, etc. I am not going to argue the point further you either get it or you don't.
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“Denver has been discovered, but we should (feel) lucky,” said Nicolais, who lives in Denver. “A lot of cities are cheap to live in, but it’s cheap to live in because no one wants to live there.” Stupid remark. By flocking here all your doing is fueling local political egos and making out-of-state developers rich beyond belief. You need to ask yourself why no one wants to live in these "cheap" cities the author speaks about. The answer is they are really more expensive than Denver to live in because of the quagmire of social costs strangling their local economies. Denver is evolving the same way with its current political crony capitalist management. At some point in time, the market will correct here and real estate sales will go begging.
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I look at the four following comments and wonder what has Trump actually done to fulfill his promises to the forgotten man - has he built the wall and more importantly is Mexico paying for it? has he repealed and replaced ACA with something better? has he declared China a currency manipulator? But here is what he has done - he has delayed/repealed rules that - require your financial advisor to work in your best interest. require your employer to pay you for overtime work. allowed you legal recourse against financial institutions when they cheat you (Wells Fargo) he is supporting a budget plan which will cut $500 billion from Medicare and $1 trillion from Medicaid in violation of his own campaign promises. He is supporting a tax plan which will give him tens of millions in tax cuts while raising the bottom rate by 20%.
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Impeachment is a Nothing Burger. To date, there is nothing more than the left's hatred to warrant it.
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It is really tragic that the author and everyone except one mouths nothing and everything that's of little value to the fate of this USA of ours. Such as US (1) economy (2) National Security (3) Immigration (4) Budget and Trade Deficits (5)The stature of the US whereby (a) the US president gets a welcome not fitting a US president visiting China (b) forced to kneel to Iran (c) US Navy taunted by China and a small nation And much much more issues important to the fate of this nation.
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The story says the homeowners are "flouting" fire law with louver doors to allow cross ventilation (the preferred method of cooling back then and now) and the practice violates the Fire Code according to the Fire Dept. Since this is an older building, ask the Fire Depart. if these doors were prohibited when the building was built and if these subsequently enacted prohibitions are to be applied retroactively. The same question exists with respect to sprinklers. At least, DPP has a basic understanding that Codes are generally not to be applied retroactively. SO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THE SA SHOULD STOP ACCUSING OWNERS OF BEING FLOUTERS AND VIOLATORS WHEN THEY AREN'T. I live in an older condo and various contractors and consultants keep telling us it is mandatory to comply with the latest Codes. This is nonsense. The City may make Code changes retroactive, but if they did so every time a Code is changed, we would be reconstructing condos and other buildings every year.
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Not so bad if its really good , have to go to pharmacy each time ? 5 grams might last 2 hours with friends :-) A month alone . Rules here have changed in the last 8 months , rather fuzzy, for personal use ...sort of OK :-) If it is legalised , cuts out some dealers :-)The 'Federales ' have there hands full . It has always been a ca$h crop here , send your kids to uni and beyond . Fact . Legalised , anyone can grow , bottom falls out of the market . And no taxes , hmmm . Not good for Govt . Who needs alcohol so much ? We all have choices , I do not expect the state to fix mine .
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This is news? With all that is occurring in the world?
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You have no idea what you are talking about.
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Okay, do AK legislators just have something against people getting medical care? 'Cause that's what it seems like at times.
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Students, professors and ... civilians?
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The good thing about Trump (if that's not an oxymoron), is that he will eventually be the architect of his own demise. His antics will not go over well at the ballot box in the 2018 mid-terms, and will hopefully lead to his defeat in the next presidential election. Meanwhile, Trumps opponents have an easy job. All they have to do is sit back, put their feet up and watch Trump self-destruct.
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"How is it morally dubious or ethically questionable?" Because a country that gives its police a free pass on obeying the law is on the road to losing whatever sense of moral purpose it once had.
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Perhaps you should read the BNA act with particular attention to the sections that divide powers between provinces and the feds.
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Sorry don't trust that survey. We may pay less at the check out but more than we imagine in other ways. Health, safety.
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Rhetorical nonsense from the “taxes are too low” pothead crowd. Let’s Promise every social engineering apologetic hand out money scheme after the munchies run out! Insted of adjusting spend levels to accommodate the income loss we just say, politicians before the socialist looters rode into town created the problems so we will tax the crap out of those left and the low level job creation schemes like “free light bulbs”. Obviously the writer of this NDP justification piece has a full tummy, money in the bank and retirement well planned and financed. Unlike the young families braking up, losing homes and hope. Saddle up and move on to where the jobs provide a future has long been the way of us “blue collar cowboys sir. So drop off hour dryckeaning and go have an extra lattte. After the gym before lunch and dream up a new fake reality. Cause ours here on the ground is not asking for anyone to feel sorry for us. Just some good old Alberta Integrity where we take care of our own. I’m out
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I frankly couldn't care less about what Trump thinks or says about the issue. I was annoyed/disappointed by players disrespecting the national anthem last season (before Trump), and I'm just as annoyed/disappointed by them doing it again this year. Not everything is about Trump.
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Actually, there are no grammar OR punctuation errors in that sentence. Keep trying. Someday you might be a winner...LOL Until then...NO.
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Sorry Neko, please forgive me. To follow that post, you'd need to first google Kurgan and see the array of meanings, then read Kurgan's post and the reactions following the thread down to my last... not likely people would invest the energy of remembering the topic is "the unfolding opposition to Trump" . I am too heart broken to 'let it go'. Last night's SNL skit with the press secretary ramming the press corp with 'his bully pulpit' of a podium was too close to reality to be irony, sarcasm ,humor or hyperbole. And hearing of the Somali family having their visa cancelled physically so it isn't covered under the reinstatement... that did it. I became the canary keeling over in the coalmine...the canary in the coalmine falls off its perch long before the poison gas hits the more robust times. When the canary dies, its time to move. My last reply to your praise for the Syro-Phoenician's whit ... was me doing the best I could do -- keeling over... peace and all good...
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This criminal event, also says something, about Hawaii's medical care. This type of severe head injury, on the mainland, would most likely not have ended in death. Hawaii's shortage of doctors in general, various medical specialists, and miscellaneous medical support services, says much about the present state of medical care in Hawaii.
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Did the state run out of rope.
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The cap will soon be gone ...as soon as Notely exits stage right...er left.
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And why were they hired? Because they work CHEAP! Businesses around the country, especially in the south, rely on these low-paid workers. Without them the prices of food, housing, and other materials rise significantly. The republicans talk a big game about locking up the border, but behind the scenes their big business donors are telling them to back off. We'll see a border wall about the same time we see a new healthcare system. All talk.
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She has conceded publicly with a whole lot more class that you can ever hope to have. She encouraged her supporters to unite behind President-elect Trump, you evidently don't want unity given your comments.
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They will find it as soon as another Democrat is in the White House, until then, that box isn't lost, it is just in storage.
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The Airbus jets are not comfortable to fly. Hawaiian should use Boeing.
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It would be lovely if those innocent men could sue him for slander and libel. But Donald has other cases against him coming up and who knows, without seeing his tax forms, we don't know if he has any money to be worth suing for.
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Difficult question. Rent all or part to visitors...renting all might be construed as renting to people who need homes. Renting art to visitors would be short term rental. I'm all for renting long term for our people who need housing. Renting short term creates neighborhood "cramming". Parking gets really messed up and the quality of life diminishes. Some neighborhoods are a parking nightmare during the evening hours. "Most supporters came from East Honolulu, while most opponents came from the Ewa/Leeward Coast." Any wonder? Drive the eastside and the leewardside during the evening hours and check the neighborhoods out. People putting out parking space "holders", rocks, trash cans etc. so no one parks in front of their property. Maybe we could allow abnb for those areas who wants them.
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While there is much truth here, the title is simply not accurate. The American people will, absolutely, vote against authoritarian government, given not only the absolute failure of LBJ-type policy of the 1960's, but also the absolutely horrible alternative to Donald Trump they were given by a failed political party. "Live and let live" is a very legitimate political movement and not to be unexpected after decades of governments, around the world, treating citizens as property to be destroyed at a whim. It was Nixon who ended the Draft, and Jimmy Carter, who, partially, reinstated it for only half of our citizens.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about, since I all that I said was this one thing wasn't credible. I didn't propose turning owners of "novelty items" into criminals, that seems rather to be your contribution of an idea. I'm not sure that's really a good one, however. Seems a bit facile and disingenuous.
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Imagine what the mothers and their children [the topic here] go through when listening to all the pontifications on the importance of fathers......and the hypocrisy of the church in relation to children from SS marriages.....
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Totally vapid, just like all your other, endless pejoratives. All you do is insult and denigrate, to the best of your limited mental function. Snowflakes are extraordinarily beautiful, and no two are alike. You are an unreconstructed philistine. Eugene must have committed some horrible affront to ancient gods, to be stuck with you endlessly posting your witlessisms on a public forum intended for polite folks.
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A China backed coup in North Korea may be the only option
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Really? Did you see the table showing how many are skilled immigrants?
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The likely U.S. Military Target would be Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam. Due to the nearly flat terrain and ocean (except for Red Hill and Salt Lake). The Supersonic Blast Wave would travel from Point of Detonation and still get to Honolulu, most buildings will fall, it maybe weeks to months to attempt to dig out survivors. High levels of Alpha and Beta Radiation will slow Rescues down (Protective Equipment), many will have already ingested or breathed and have Radiation Sickness. In this case Red Hill not block nor deflect the Supersonic Blast Wave from reaching Aiea and upper Pearl City, might even reach Waipio, will destroy Waipahu, Ewa Beach, Kaimuki might not be destroyed. The Firestorm will burn down almost everything on the Leeward Coast, and maybe reach Central Oahu, as fed by the vegetation of the Forest Reserves. The rise in elevation at Wahiawa will deflect the Supersonic Blast Wave from hitting "North Shore's" Waialua and Haleiwa.
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Gonna be funny watchin the dear leader hide in a cave.
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Is trump a comedian or just a joke?
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Get the cannibus sales going. Take a look at how much Colorado earned in its first year. Officials are making it near impossible to get off the ground and are losing money for it.
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Yes, she is "very tenured" and has been a full Professor for some 35 years at the University of Oregon. She's right at the apex of the law school. As far as blackface and other racial stereotyping I hope now, with this incident, most people will understand it's not "funny" and is likely to upset other people even if not intended. With the racial tensions at the university this year common sense would suggest you avoid it except in very special circumstances.. However, dressed as a "commando" I don't think anyone would accuse you of wearing racist "blackface" as you were impersonating a standard military technique rather than an actual African-American. This is in contrast to our Professor who, in her lawyerish apology admitted only to wearing "black makeup", not the socially explosive "blackface" others saw.
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This deserves 100 thumbs up!
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