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Darn, there goes the appearances on the talk shows and movie deal!	0	not toxic
Right. See my comment, re: Afghanistan terrorist bombing, over 90 dead.	0	not toxic
It was under Obama's watch that Russia "annexed" Crimea (not that the US could have done anything about it), and Syria and Libya turned into hellholes (the US probably could have done something about those). But it's "Trumpism" that threatens democracy... Check your left wing bias, Globe writers. Oh wait, it's too late.	0	not toxic
Fitting into that box perfectly IS part of the problem with party politics and I agree with Kamlllman that serving with integrity takes a back seat to party politics and therein lies the reason why so many are not voting. If I were Beth, I'd become an Independent. It'll be harder to get campaign donations but I'd still vote for her.	0	not toxic
Excellent suggestion ! Make the Illegal border crossing in Quebec a Legal Border Footpath . Legally all these Haitians would be refused entry to Canada. So simple , easy and effective.	0	not toxic
Trump has funny ideas about loyalty. He expects his staff to lie energetically and continuously on his behalf. However, any number of people who did utter the required prevarications, including the very people, like Bannon, without whom Trump would never have achieved electoral success, have been fired by Trump. Yet another title for Trump springs to mind - the Ingrate in Chief. Having said that, the departure of Bannon makes it more likely that we will get to celebrate with family at Thanksgiving.	0	not toxic
She has PRINCIPLES? blah blah blah her principle is to not acknowledge the results of a democratic elections to be a sore loser to be a malcontent stewing in the winter of her leftist discontent to be a bad sports to sulk when things don't go her way some principles ! typical of the anti Trump left	1	toxic
I completely agree. I'll not vote for him either, but no need to denigrate the opposing viewpoint with rumors and unproven statements. Also no need for "freakish orange buffoon". Grownups don't talk like that.	0	not toxic
I blame the politicians for dividing us by race, gender and economic caste when we have no such divisions in our personal lives. I am so tired of police shootings and other forms of hate coming from the left who have always had ties to Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, anywhere that freedom is hated.	0	not toxic
Words have meanings. You should reflect on that concept before posting again.	0	not toxic
please explain what how it was "squandered". I assume you mean it was not spent on things you deem important.	0	not toxic
It's not helped by popular TV shows, either. A NEJM study found that rates of recovery via CPR in cases of cardiac arrest were much higher in TV medical soapies than in real life. See: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199606133342406#t=article Leads to unreal expectations of survival after a cardiac event.	0	not toxic
What do you expect from a co op that pays their board of directors and top 2 employees combined more than one million dollars are open only 4 days per week and during a power outage members have to call a call center in Minnesota.	0	not toxic
Hey, Dirty Bill! Get your elbows off the table, you oaf.	1	toxic
Although you have a valid point, that has nothing to do with the fact that they should not be sitting at Denny's at that time of day. They were all back this morning - 5 cars at 6:05 AM at Denny's. While I know they need lunch breaks too, why all at the same time and why at a such a critical time of day? I was not complaining that they are not around, I'm complaining that they actually ARE around and doing???? That actually makes my point more valid than if they weren't around.	0	not toxic
When did Obama ever bring this up? Have a link? Of course with Obama, he had a higher IQ. Sad to say, the poor Donald has just a few problems with his IQ. (He has none)	1	toxic
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Comparing the DAs lack of empathy for the poor with the ANCs wholesale destruction of the country, its inability to admit its failure and in any way account for it, and its current narrative to stoke the racial divide that will probably end in bloodshed? Anyone else see the madness here?	0	not toxic
Certainly nothing Rod Serling could have dreamt up...more like Groundhog Day.	0	not toxic
Just saying sorry is not enough when you have actually let children and staff under your care and responsibility come in harm's way. There needs to be some consequences here for what damage has already been done, especially when she knew. This is a case of too little, too late. I hope none of the kids, teachers or other staff members (especially pregnant ones) drank the water there regularly (which I am sure they did as we Americans have come to think that decent and accessible public water is a public right, right?). My own 2nd grader goes to one of these schools and has been drinking from the fountains there regularly he told me. Lead exposure and contamination can actually cause mental retardation and other serious damage to one's person and health with repeat exposure. This lack of oversight is not an okay thing that can just be brushed off with a canned apology. There needs to also be some real accountability and consequences for such negligence.	0	not toxic
Ken hired me as an editor at CCH in 1975 and I worked there for 25 years. He was a wonderful boss and mentor, kind, thoughtful and supportive, and I am forever grateful for the opportunity he gave me. I have often thought of him over the many years since we last worked together - it is so good to know that Ken lived such a fulfilled and happy life after his retirement.	0	not toxic
Obviously....but they also shouldn't be publicly promoting their political views at work.	0	not toxic
I need someone to explain this to me slowly and using no big words because so far I am just too stupid to understand how carbon taxes work. It gets cold in the winter and I have to heat my home. How does a carbon tax lower my natural gas usage? I have to drive to work. How does a carbon tax reduce my driving? Won’t carbon taxes just make everything more expensive?	1	toxic
You mean the history of weed legalization has been based on lies. Lies about it not being as addictive as other drugs, lies about it not being a gateway drug, lies about it having health bennies, lies about it not having toxic effect. Lies about the economic bennies of legalizing it.	0	not toxic
Never did see a white oxtail.	0	not toxic
That may have an atom of weight if you could point to anything in this whole affair that suggests racism by Trump. You are so desperate to paint Trump a racist that you call him racist even for opposing kneeling at the national anthem. That's racist??! The left has gone mad.	0	not toxic
My condolences to Lavaka's Family and hope for Alana's speedy recovery. It seems other news sources have more info on the crash. It seems 2 Guatamalans has also died in the crash possibly due to speeding in which investigators are going over. No facts given out what driver was in the wrong	0	not toxic
Do you think it is 'civil' or even Christian to accuse someone of lacking the essence of what being a true believer in Christ is all about? It sounds rather Pharisaical to me. Who are you to judge?	0	not toxic
It would be nice if SA gave the street name or the intersection????	0	not toxic
Just goes to show his LOW expectations of HIS President Trump...#MAGA	0	not toxic
I worked with and for Grace back in the 70's. As a woman in what was then mostly a man's world, she was a trail blazer. Alaska is a better place because she and Arthur lived here.	0	not toxic
I'm not sure it's about racism, but it's certainly about xenophobia. This administration has no moral compass, as one would expect with a president totally formed by self-interest.	0	not toxic
How much were paid to write this sleaze? Dangerous writing like a deravative.	0	not toxic
Rest In Peace & prayers for their family and friends 🙏😔	0	not toxic
I have had two teenagers - at 12-15 years of age they "knew everything", could do anything, believed parents and teachers were "crazy", rejected the expected norms and for a short time behaved out of sync with their upbringing. At 17 or so they returned to earth. But Omar Khadr's family condoned and supported his treasonous behaviour in the ME...big difference! I, too, wonder how and why this family was given the privileges and rights of Canadian citizenship - on top of the inexplicable, $10.5 million of hard working Canadian taxpayer dollars, plus the previous 9 years of tax paid court costs. The entire affair stinks of missing information.	0	not toxic
Snowflakes.	0	not toxic
Muckamuck, try dealing with the federal government to get what you need. I bet Vets would love to talk to an insurance company after dealing with the VA. Careful what you wish for.	0	not toxic
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In urban Alaska homeowners are expected to have insurance or pay the cost of disasters like this themselves. The disaster declaration....at best...would only help the homeowner get loans that they would have to pay back. In rural Alaska communities that pay no property taxes expect government to relocate entire villages, at costs in the hundreds of millions, completely free to their citizens. Yesterday ADN had an article about how one village relocating had a $300k house built and given to them (the first of many). Think the State/Feds are going to build free houses for the MatSu homeowners? All Alaskans should be treated equally.	0	not toxic
Yeah. Possession of guns is so much more important than human life. The great cry of the gun nuts	0	not toxic
Sure sounds like Martin, especially and Ikaika Pinnochio Anderson really want no real action taken against these illegal vacation rentals, so are throwing out stuff to see what sticks. The real weakness here for years has been the City's failure to enforce the laws, thus allowing things to spin out of control and no doubt these rentals only worsen the housing shortage similar to what rental subsidies provided by the Feds for military personnel who reside off base has done to inflate rental prices. If they really wanted to do something effective, just enforce the law and come down hard on these illegal vacation rentals. It is not rocket science but when our politicians are always on the lookout for more places to wet their beaks, you have this kind of kabuki theatre going on.	0	not toxic
When workers were isolated, immovable, unable to travel and angle for work. But those days are long gone. Unions were created before OSHA, NIOSH, etc. those days are long gone.	0	not toxic
N-O-T-H-I-N-G is EVER '''always wrong'''' in terms of reality. just look at church and church/state history. the LAW -church or otherwise- is made to protect humanity; not HUMANITY created to protect the law.	0	not toxic
“Six hundred or $700 dollars isn’t a lot to eat with, to sleep with,” he said outside a creole restaurant a block from the shelter where he’s been staying. You enter Canada illegally so be thankful that you are getting something at all and don't complain.	0	not toxic
The most amusing thing about all this outrage is that the Americans were an invading force in Afghanistan, fighting an enemy that they themselves created back when Carter was president, in retaliation for the 2001 terrorist attack that they themselves perpetrated on their own soil. Wake up!	0	not toxic
His insurance probably didn't cover him, so out the door he went	0	not toxic
Thanks!	0	not toxic
I was praising the merits of SB21. What does ACES have to do with it?	0	not toxic
I was equally perplexed by that amount. I could only find info back to 2008 and at that point the ROC component of the then $0.0833 distribution was $0.0572. Leaving $0.0261 for interest and dividend income from the partnership. Perhaps in 2006 the non ROC income was only $0.004?	0	not toxic
I think the volume of which you speak, is amplified by social media. Let’s not pretend people have not always complained.	0	not toxic
Your doing a really great job Patti. I mean it. CB gets better every year it seems, but this year was a big leap forward. A few minor questions. So Huff Post Hawai'i and it's bloggers go poof on January 30th? So I should quit writing those three stories I'm working on then? Also, You said you have four young interns. My apologies for whomever I'm forgetting, but all I remember is Natanya Friedheim, Noelle Fujii and Courtney Teague. Then you had a senior citizen intern for a bit.	0	not toxic
Did Obama ever deport anyone?	0	not toxic
Thankful to have traditional priests at my parish.	0	not toxic
A civil sharing of views doesn't require an "open mind" but a respectful presentation of one's views and a willingness to listen, understand and counter rebuttals with reason and logic.	0	not toxic
Liberals have to come out of fantasy land and accept the DJ TRUMP will be president. Progressives have almost destroyed this country and culture, socially and morally. It is time to return to when we were a great monolithic, sovereign country again. The best and most wonderful on the planet. America: Where everyone wants in and no one wants out!	0	not toxic
By all means, volunteer your time and expose your children to it. God bless your compassion and empathy. But no, I do t want anothe4 kid exposed to anothe4 kid raging, destroying their environment and lashing out. No diagnosis gives anyone the right to violate the rights of everyone else.	0	not toxic
Progressives think they are so modern and forward thinking. News flash, you are no different than the many other hoards of barbarians throughout history seeking to take the wealth of another individual's hard work and keep it for yourself. Dressing it up as "social responsibility" doesn't make theft any more proper than it ever was.	0	not toxic
THE central question for Canadians is whether or not the USA is in an irreversible state of economic and political decline. What can we expect from such a wounded bear and how should we prepare for it.	0	not toxic
Jeremy Joseph Christian should be placed on the gurney and receive the Drug Cocktail. Unfortunately this state and our country is extremely "SOFT" on the ultimate penalty.	0	not toxic
I keep thinking about your essay. So many of the things you said ring true to me personally or they sound like what I have heard from others. The example of your boss essentially telling you that it is the firm or Ultimate, sounds exactly like what my husband, a program director of a medical residency at the time, said to one of the advanced students( residents). From the younger perspective, it seems very different than from the older established perspective ( if you want to be the best and be here you have to make a choice). At some point all professionals seem to need to make a choice. You have to give it all, or not. Maybe that is just life. Maybe young professionals who can't or don't want to give it all to the job should not be on their "Bay St". Maybe people who want more out of life need to be somewhere else where they can get that. Thank you for your thoughts. Loved it.	0	not toxic
I wish the leaders of our fine city would look around at what others have done to enhance their downtowns...we are not alone. Boise is a start, maybe there are things to learn. I'm fine with creating an area for seating, food trucks are the growing trend but I would suggest we think about what would be the ideal...seems like this too has been tried with some issues and some successes. A patio where temporary seating supervised by vendors might be better, and trash and bathrooms are a concern.	0	not toxic
Odd that General Motors wasn't on your list. Semi-selective memory ya got there...	0	not toxic
Yes you do support them. If you support the GOP after 2016 you DO support the NAZIS. If you support Fox News after 2016 you DO support the NAZIS. You may not INTEND to support them, but you support them nonetheless. And you have no excuse to claim you didn't KNOW where your support was really going because you Helgard had been warned and told this, repeatedly, BY ME for the last 2 years ! Your willfull blindness does not excuse you. I warned you that Trump would lead to bloodshed and death. Now people have died. Dozens of rightwing terror plots have been planned but foiled in the past few months -and this one succeeded. People have died. And their blood is on your hands and on your head because I warned you that your support for this party, this cultural movement and this leader would cause people to die. You told me I was being hyperbolic. You wouldn't believe me. Apparently you STILL won't believe me. How many corpses will it take before you do ?	0	not toxic
Can I keep it??? Pleeeeeze! I promise I'll feed it and run with it and pleeeeze?!??	0	not toxic
Andy anderson has no disregard to public safety built his Jameson with not the proper permits and spills sewage into pond.. Thanks to Kirk Caldwell and his cousin cord and not to mention Ikaika on zoning ! How come Kirk did not say one word about this violation nor did Ikaika .. Must be nice to have your family on all these zoning and fast track positions!!! Ikaika is only crying because he go told no!! Big crybaby . Many people get moved in the council Ikaika crying because he lost his cozy money making position	0	not toxic
I don't know which era you are referring to, but up until the 1960's women had no control over their health/fertility and many were either burdened with frequent childbirth/infant child raising if they had the means to be home with their kids, or to work in low paying, unhealthy environments if they couldn't, neither circumstance allowing them to nurture and educate those little minds at home. There seems to still be this belief that things were wonderful for women of the past. That may have been true for some members of the upper class, as it also true today, but the majority were stressed, exhausted and often died young.	0	not toxic
No, I'm calling "staph" out for making a dishonest and inaccurate post. I guessed you missed the point.	0	not toxic
Didn't the BC Liberals just spend sixteen years as our government? ...and now?	0	not toxic
Yeah. I mean just hand out guns on the first day of class, and have shooting as a required subject. A winner of an idea if I ever heard one.	0	not toxic
Just look at JT fundraiser with the Chinese Communist Party connections attending. Did he not get his own memo?	0	not toxic
The only thing you need to know about the history of Nigerian culture is that it failed. And you can see the results on Street View. That's why Nigerians immigrate to Western nations rather than the other way around.	0	not toxic
So peterpi WHY is it fair to humongously raise taxes on the rich? They pay a massive amount of the tax base and this was just tacked on top of an already an unfair tax rate.	0	not toxic
The outer islands county projects aren't be funded by State funds, but the state projects are. You can't just throw your arms up and demand that the outer islands start subsidizing the waste and abuse of HART because the Mayor doesn't want to tell Oahu that he has lied to them over and over again about having a handle on rail expenses and delivering rail "on time and on budget." First, we need to do a forensic audit. Whoever's lap this mess land in, we deserve to know what HART and Mayor Caldwell have been up to. Second, if you want to turn this rail mess over to the state (just like Gov Lingle warned us they'd want to do) then it needs public discussion and disclosure and a little honesty for a change. Although I can't imagine why anyone from the outer islands would want to take this mess of a project now that it has become a flaming dumpster fire.	0	not toxic
That Obama never denounced leftist racist policies during his administration is mind numbing. That Obama supported the murders of cops is mind-numbing.	0	not toxic
Why the worry about fed budget to hit Hawaii hard? Our 2 senators don't even know or care about the one law that makes Hawaii and Alaska so expensive. I challenge then to read the law, digest it and explain why they do not do anything to change it. That law protects US residents that crew the ships that bring goods from any US port to Hawaii and Alaska, on ships made in the USA...I don't think container ships are made in the USA any more...and on a ship that is a USA flag ship. This law totally eliminates competition between shipping companies, thus raises the prices on goods from baby diapers, building materials, all food made or imported in the USA, drugs, milk and about 95% of all items sold in all Hawaii supermarkets, mom/pop stores, big box stores and speciality stores. And you worry about the fed budget? I challenge Civil Beat to feature a factual and informative story on the Jones Act...or is Civil Beat handcuffed by the Hawaii Donkey party to focus on Trump only?	0	not toxic
Griffin fears her career is over? It would be like a dream come true, and while you're at it, take Alec Baldwin along with you.	0	not toxic
I think the author of this piece needs to look into the history of this country. The violence she refers to was a very real part of this country from the very beginning. Just recently during this election process trumps followers were more then willing to voice their approval for violent conflict if they "believed" there was voting irregularities. We have been lucky for quite a while because people refuse to just sit around and allow the violence to return.	0	not toxic
THAT story hasnt went away. BLM, Anitifa, the Resist movement, all the factions are well funded. You know the funding isnt coming from well managed 401ks or timely and well researched investments so where do you think the money is coming from? Being a SJW is now a paid profession. As much as Id like to have faith in human brain functioning and cognitive reasoning, the only way I can justify most of the opinion expressed here is that these people are also being paid. Anyways, nuclear war is the worst case scenario. I certainly dont want it and I can say with a fair amount of confidence the rest of American doesnt either. So if 25+ years of "diplomacy" hasnt garnered any positive results, what should be done? How do we remedy this problem. We have a guy firing rockets over one of our allies and threatening to blast a nice big hole in our backyard. Quite the situation. So please, straighten this out for everyone.	0	not toxic
Yep, hundreds of victims of mass murder from a particular well-organized, international group, and we are told we are cowards and hysterical to get alarmed about it. "The chances of it happening to you are less than of slipping in your bathtub", etc... But 3-4 "incidents" a year that don't even qualify as actual terrorism or mass murder, by a handful of disorganized individuals, and all hands on deck to counter that terrible threat....	0	not toxic
"Being racist against police ..." Police are considered a race???	0	not toxic
And this, Mr Patrickson, is the attitude that divides a community, rather than bringing it together.	0	not toxic
And - as NCR helped us to so crucially focus on last week - 'hand holding during the Our Father'! Big, big, consequential issues tackled here daily!! Yeah, man.	0	not toxic
If these illegal aliens are ever allowed to stay, they should never be allowed to vote, they have been politically tainted by Obama.	0	not toxic
One can get supplied at the local ANTIFA rally, er...insurgency.	0	not toxic
The evidence show only a name "Saurabh" and a country "India" . If i do a google search on the name the first hit is an Indian cricketer. There is no direct link to the accused person and the evidence but with all the previous evidence in the public domain and the Gupta leaks it can count as circumstantial evidence.	0	not toxic
Coach Rolo and his coaches are committed to these local recruits.... theses recruits will honor the state of Hawaii by attending the U of Hawaii by earning there college Degree and to play football...	0	not toxic
Canadians seem quite ok with having more than 1 car, a cottage at the lake, annual vacations, etc.,etc., but they balk at the prospect of paying anything towards maintaining their health. I believe some HMO's have annual plans in the $5000 range (or more granted). I have a friend in Denver that can get immediate care from his HMO including access to a specialist. No queuing going on. That is an area where Canada lags significantly in my opinion.	0	not toxic
Good luck with that. Our MSM is at least as corrupt as America's	0	not toxic
Ah, Michael, do you really think those saints, martyrs, popes, etc. all saw things the same way? Of course not! The teachings of one generation built on another, sometimes requiring course corrections, sometimes not. It is pure revisionist fantasy to believe that there have been no significant doctrinal changes in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. And if a future pope decreed Vatican II null and void, assuming I was still around I'd weigh the teaching and decide whether or not I could conscientiously accept it. Which, by the way, is exactly what you are doing vis-à-vis Vatican II.	0	not toxic
Interestingly in Saskatchewan the NDP used to argue for just that and they were very successful for many years. Tommy Douglas, the poster child for the NDP, was a staunch believer in fiscal responsibility and the notion that you shouldn't introduce new social programs that the government couldn't afford to pay for. He was not necessarily opposed to running deficits during fiscal downturns, he absolutely believed that budgets needed to be balanced over the long term. As a result the Saskatchewan NDP have a great record of balanced budgets. The NDP in every other jurisdiction? Not so much. Actually if you take the Saskatchewan NDP and the Manitoba NDP under Gary Doer out of the picture all other NDP governments in Canada have been fiscal disaster cases. B.C., Manitoba (other than Doer), Ontario, Nova Scotia and now Alberta have all had NDP governments that delivered non-stop deficits and mountains of debt.	0	not toxic
Same here.... what is happening??	0	not toxic
Yahooooooooo. Score one for the dogs...	0	not toxic
What does any of that have to do with their LAWFUL exercise of free speech? They did nothing illegal, nothing violent, they chose not to stand for the anthem. Read up some more, and you'll see that a lot of veterans get it, and aren't upset by this.	0	not toxic
Awww, you caught me. In the last couple of hours I was able to convince Wikipedia to completely re-write their chart just to discredit your posts on a commentary board. /s	0	not toxic
No home owner or investor loses money (asset capital) until the asset has sold (and you can't depreciate primary home real estate).	0	not toxic
I think the 'oops' restitution is rarely applied in most states and when it is, it is closer to 5000 for each year of being in hell than 25K. It's when the story hits the news that authoritarian politicians who like long prison sentences suddenly show crocodile tears of remorse and give money in a news conference to boost themselves.	0	not toxic
Sticking to their republican principles of lack of compassion.	0	not toxic
She doesn't represent me. I know that a light socket is not substitute for a hairstylist. In the photo in the article she clearly hasn't yet.	0	not toxic
It was written for 6th grade reading skills.	0	not toxic
The violence against Muslims, Blacks, Hispanics, and even the alt right didn't happen until Trump's rhetoric stirred up hatred and bigotry, dividing our country and bringing violence to the forefront. The only thing divisive about Obama was the objections of right-wing bigots to the color of his skin, and the GOP's pledge to obstruct everything Obama as part of its planned power grab. It worked well for the 2010 and 2016 elections, and look how great things are going. Violence, bigotry, no achievements despite the GOP in complete power -- yep, great leadership.	0	not toxic

Darn, there goes the appearances on the talk shows and movie deal!

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Right. See my comment, re: Afghanistan terrorist bombing, over 90 dead.

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It was under Obama's watch that Russia "annexed" Crimea (not that the US could have done anything about it), and Syria and Libya turned into hellholes (the US probably could have done something about those). But it's "Trumpism" that threatens democracy... Check your left wing bias, Globe writers. Oh wait, it's too late.

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Fitting into that box perfectly IS part of the problem with party politics and I agree with Kamlllman that serving with integrity takes a back seat to party politics and therein lies the reason why so many are not voting. If I were Beth, I'd become an Independent. It'll be harder to get campaign donations but I'd still vote for her.

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Excellent suggestion ! Make the Illegal border crossing in Quebec a Legal Border Footpath . Legally all these Haitians would be refused entry to Canada. So simple , easy and effective.

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Trump has funny ideas about loyalty. He expects his staff to lie energetically and continuously on his behalf. However, any number of people who did utter the required prevarications, including the very people, like Bannon, without whom Trump would never have achieved electoral success, have been fired by Trump. Yet another title for Trump springs to mind - the Ingrate in Chief. Having said that, the departure of Bannon makes it more likely that we will get to celebrate with family at Thanksgiving.

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She has PRINCIPLES? blah blah blah her principle is to not acknowledge the results of a democratic elections to be a sore loser to be a malcontent stewing in the winter of her leftist discontent to be a bad sports to sulk when things don't go her way some principles ! typical of the anti Trump left

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I completely agree. I'll not vote for him either, but no need to denigrate the opposing viewpoint with rumors and unproven statements. Also no need for "freakish orange buffoon". Grownups don't talk like that.

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I blame the politicians for dividing us by race, gender and economic caste when we have no such divisions in our personal lives. I am so tired of police shootings and other forms of hate coming from the left who have always had ties to Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, anywhere that freedom is hated.

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Words have meanings. You should reflect on that concept before posting again.

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please explain what how it was "squandered". I assume you mean it was not spent on things you deem important.

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It's not helped by popular TV shows, either. A NEJM study found that rates of recovery via CPR in cases of cardiac arrest were much higher in TV medical soapies than in real life. See: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199606133342406#t=article Leads to unreal expectations of survival after a cardiac event.

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What do you expect from a co op that pays their board of directors and top 2 employees combined more than one million dollars are open only 4 days per week and during a power outage members have to call a call center in Minnesota.

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Hey, Dirty Bill! Get your elbows off the table, you oaf.

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Although you have a valid point, that has nothing to do with the fact that they should not be sitting at Denny's at that time of day. They were all back this morning - 5 cars at 6:05 AM at Denny's. While I know they need lunch breaks too, why all at the same time and why at a such a critical time of day? I was not complaining that they are not around, I'm complaining that they actually ARE around and doing???? That actually makes my point more valid than if they weren't around.

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When did Obama ever bring this up? Have a link? Of course with Obama, he had a higher IQ. Sad to say, the poor Donald has just a few problems with his IQ. (He has none)

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Comparing the DAs lack of empathy for the poor with the ANCs wholesale destruction of the country, its inability to admit its failure and in any way account for it, and its current narrative to stoke the racial divide that will probably end in bloodshed? Anyone else see the madness here?

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Certainly nothing Rod Serling could have dreamt up...more like Groundhog Day.

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Just saying sorry is not enough when you have actually let children and staff under your care and responsibility come in harm's way. There needs to be some consequences here for what damage has already been done, especially when she knew. This is a case of too little, too late. I hope none of the kids, teachers or other staff members (especially pregnant ones) drank the water there regularly (which I am sure they did as we Americans have come to think that decent and accessible public water is a public right, right?). My own 2nd grader goes to one of these schools and has been drinking from the fountains there regularly he told me. Lead exposure and contamination can actually cause mental retardation and other serious damage to one's person and health with repeat exposure. This lack of oversight is not an okay thing that can just be brushed off with a canned apology. There needs to also be some real accountability and consequences for such negligence.

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Ken hired me as an editor at CCH in 1975 and I worked there for 25 years. He was a wonderful boss and mentor, kind, thoughtful and supportive, and I am forever grateful for the opportunity he gave me. I have often thought of him over the many years since we last worked together - it is so good to know that Ken lived such a fulfilled and happy life after his retirement.

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Obviously....but they also shouldn't be publicly promoting their political views at work.

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I need someone to explain this to me slowly and using no big words because so far I am just too stupid to understand how carbon taxes work. It gets cold in the winter and I have to heat my home. How does a carbon tax lower my natural gas usage? I have to drive to work. How does a carbon tax reduce my driving? Won’t carbon taxes just make everything more expensive?

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You mean the history of weed legalization has been based on lies. Lies about it not being as addictive as other drugs, lies about it not being a gateway drug, lies about it having health bennies, lies about it not having toxic effect. Lies about the economic bennies of legalizing it.

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Never did see a white oxtail.

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That may have an atom of weight if you could point to anything in this whole affair that suggests racism by Trump. You are so desperate to paint Trump a racist that you call him racist even for opposing kneeling at the national anthem. That's racist??! The left has gone mad.

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My condolences to Lavaka's Family and hope for Alana's speedy recovery. It seems other news sources have more info on the crash. It seems 2 Guatamalans has also died in the crash possibly due to speeding in which investigators are going over. No facts given out what driver was in the wrong

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Do you think it is 'civil' or even Christian to accuse someone of lacking the essence of what being a true believer in Christ is all about? It sounds rather Pharisaical to me. Who are you to judge?

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It would be nice if SA gave the street name or the intersection????

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Just goes to show his LOW expectations of HIS President Trump...#MAGA

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I worked with and for Grace back in the 70's. As a woman in what was then mostly a man's world, she was a trail blazer. Alaska is a better place because she and Arthur lived here.

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I'm not sure it's about racism, but it's certainly about xenophobia. This administration has no moral compass, as one would expect with a president totally formed by self-interest.

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How much were paid to write this sleaze? Dangerous writing like a deravative.

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Rest In Peace & prayers for their family and friends 🙏😔

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I have had two teenagers - at 12-15 years of age they "knew everything", could do anything, believed parents and teachers were "crazy", rejected the expected norms and for a short time behaved out of sync with their upbringing. At 17 or so they returned to earth. But Omar Khadr's family condoned and supported his treasonous behaviour in the ME...big difference! I, too, wonder how and why this family was given the privileges and rights of Canadian citizenship - on top of the inexplicable, $10.5 million of hard working Canadian taxpayer dollars, plus the previous 9 years of tax paid court costs. The entire affair stinks of missing information.

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Snowflakes.

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Muckamuck, try dealing with the federal government to get what you need. I bet Vets would love to talk to an insurance company after dealing with the VA. Careful what you wish for.

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that will squeeze the shorts

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In urban Alaska homeowners are expected to have insurance or pay the cost of disasters like this themselves. The disaster declaration....at best...would only help the homeowner get loans that they would have to pay back. In rural Alaska communities that pay no property taxes expect government to relocate entire villages, at costs in the hundreds of millions, completely free to their citizens. Yesterday ADN had an article about how one village relocating had a $300k house built and given to them (the first of many). Think the State/Feds are going to build free houses for the MatSu homeowners? All Alaskans should be treated equally.

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Yeah. Possession of guns is so much more important than human life. The great cry of the gun nuts

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Sure sounds like Martin, especially and Ikaika Pinnochio Anderson really want no real action taken against these illegal vacation rentals, so are throwing out stuff to see what sticks. The real weakness here for years has been the City's failure to enforce the laws, thus allowing things to spin out of control and no doubt these rentals only worsen the housing shortage similar to what rental subsidies provided by the Feds for military personnel who reside off base has done to inflate rental prices. If they really wanted to do something effective, just enforce the law and come down hard on these illegal vacation rentals. It is not rocket science but when our politicians are always on the lookout for more places to wet their beaks, you have this kind of kabuki theatre going on.

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When workers were isolated, immovable, unable to travel and angle for work. But those days are long gone. Unions were created before OSHA, NIOSH, etc. those days are long gone.

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N-O-T-H-I-N-G is EVER '''always wrong'''' in terms of reality. just look at church and church/state history. the LAW -church or otherwise- is made to protect humanity; not HUMANITY created to protect the law.

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“Six hundred or $700 dollars isn’t a lot to eat with, to sleep with,” he said outside a creole restaurant a block from the shelter where he’s been staying. You enter Canada illegally so be thankful that you are getting something at all and don't complain.

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The most amusing thing about all this outrage is that the Americans were an invading force in Afghanistan, fighting an enemy that they themselves created back when Carter was president, in retaliation for the 2001 terrorist attack that they themselves perpetrated on their own soil. Wake up!

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His insurance probably didn't cover him, so out the door he went

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Thanks!

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I was praising the merits of SB21. What does ACES have to do with it?

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I was equally perplexed by that amount. I could only find info back to 2008 and at that point the ROC component of the then $0.0833 distribution was $0.0572. Leaving $0.0261 for interest and dividend income from the partnership. Perhaps in 2006 the non ROC income was only $0.004?

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I think the volume of which you speak, is amplified by social media. Let’s not pretend people have not always complained.

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Your doing a really great job Patti. I mean it. CB gets better every year it seems, but this year was a big leap forward. A few minor questions. So Huff Post Hawai'i and it's bloggers go poof on January 30th? So I should quit writing those three stories I'm working on then? Also, You said you have four young interns. My apologies for whomever I'm forgetting, but all I remember is Natanya Friedheim, Noelle Fujii and Courtney Teague. Then you had a senior citizen intern for a bit.

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Did Obama ever deport anyone?

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Thankful to have traditional priests at my parish.

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A civil sharing of views doesn't require an "open mind" but a respectful presentation of one's views and a willingness to listen, understand and counter rebuttals with reason and logic.

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Liberals have to come out of fantasy land and accept the DJ TRUMP will be president. Progressives have almost destroyed this country and culture, socially and morally. It is time to return to when we were a great monolithic, sovereign country again. The best and most wonderful on the planet. America: Where everyone wants in and no one wants out!

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By all means, volunteer your time and expose your children to it. God bless your compassion and empathy. But no, I do t want anothe4 kid exposed to anothe4 kid raging, destroying their environment and lashing out. No diagnosis gives anyone the right to violate the rights of everyone else.

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Progressives think they are so modern and forward thinking. News flash, you are no different than the many other hoards of barbarians throughout history seeking to take the wealth of another individual's hard work and keep it for yourself. Dressing it up as "social responsibility" doesn't make theft any more proper than it ever was.

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THE central question for Canadians is whether or not the USA is in an irreversible state of economic and political decline. What can we expect from such a wounded bear and how should we prepare for it.

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Jeremy Joseph Christian should be placed on the gurney and receive the Drug Cocktail. Unfortunately this state and our country is extremely "SOFT" on the ultimate penalty.

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I keep thinking about your essay. So many of the things you said ring true to me personally or they sound like what I have heard from others. The example of your boss essentially telling you that it is the firm or Ultimate, sounds exactly like what my husband, a program director of a medical residency at the time, said to one of the advanced students( residents). From the younger perspective, it seems very different than from the older established perspective ( if you want to be the best and be here you have to make a choice). At some point all professionals seem to need to make a choice. You have to give it all, or not. Maybe that is just life. Maybe young professionals who can't or don't want to give it all to the job should not be on their "Bay St". Maybe people who want more out of life need to be somewhere else where they can get that. Thank you for your thoughts. Loved it.

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I wish the leaders of our fine city would look around at what others have done to enhance their downtowns...we are not alone. Boise is a start, maybe there are things to learn. I'm fine with creating an area for seating, food trucks are the growing trend but I would suggest we think about what would be the ideal...seems like this too has been tried with some issues and some successes. A patio where temporary seating supervised by vendors might be better, and trash and bathrooms are a concern.

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Odd that General Motors wasn't on your list. Semi-selective memory ya got there...

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Yes you do support them. If you support the GOP after 2016 you DO support the NAZIS. If you support Fox News after 2016 you DO support the NAZIS. You may not INTEND to support them, but you support them nonetheless. And you have no excuse to claim you didn't KNOW where your support was really going because you Helgard had been warned and told this, repeatedly, BY ME for the last 2 years ! Your willfull blindness does not excuse you. I warned you that Trump would lead to bloodshed and death. Now people have died. Dozens of rightwing terror plots have been planned but foiled in the past few months -and this one succeeded. People have died. And their blood is on your hands and on your head because I warned you that your support for this party, this cultural movement and this leader would cause people to die. You told me I was being hyperbolic. You wouldn't believe me. Apparently you STILL won't believe me. How many corpses will it take before you do ?

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Can I keep it??? Pleeeeeze! I promise I'll feed it and run with it and pleeeeze?!??

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Andy anderson has no disregard to public safety built his Jameson with not the proper permits and spills sewage into pond.. Thanks to Kirk Caldwell and his cousin cord and not to mention Ikaika on zoning ! How come Kirk did not say one word about this violation nor did Ikaika .. Must be nice to have your family on all these zoning and fast track positions!!! Ikaika is only crying because he go told no!! Big crybaby . Many people get moved in the council Ikaika crying because he lost his cozy money making position

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I don't know which era you are referring to, but up until the 1960's women had no control over their health/fertility and many were either burdened with frequent childbirth/infant child raising if they had the means to be home with their kids, or to work in low paying, unhealthy environments if they couldn't, neither circumstance allowing them to nurture and educate those little minds at home. There seems to still be this belief that things were wonderful for women of the past. That may have been true for some members of the upper class, as it also true today, but the majority were stressed, exhausted and often died young.

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No, I'm calling "staph" out for making a dishonest and inaccurate post. I guessed you missed the point.

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Didn't the BC Liberals just spend sixteen years as our government? ...and now?

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Yeah. I mean just hand out guns on the first day of class, and have shooting as a required subject. A winner of an idea if I ever heard one.

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Just look at JT fundraiser with the Chinese Communist Party connections attending. Did he not get his own memo?

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The only thing you need to know about the history of Nigerian culture is that it failed. And you can see the results on Street View. That's why Nigerians immigrate to Western nations rather than the other way around.

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So peterpi WHY is it fair to humongously raise taxes on the rich? They pay a massive amount of the tax base and this was just tacked on top of an already an unfair tax rate.

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The outer islands county projects aren't be funded by State funds, but the state projects are. You can't just throw your arms up and demand that the outer islands start subsidizing the waste and abuse of HART because the Mayor doesn't want to tell Oahu that he has lied to them over and over again about having a handle on rail expenses and delivering rail "on time and on budget." First, we need to do a forensic audit. Whoever's lap this mess land in, we deserve to know what HART and Mayor Caldwell have been up to. Second, if you want to turn this rail mess over to the state (just like Gov Lingle warned us they'd want to do) then it needs public discussion and disclosure and a little honesty for a change. Although I can't imagine why anyone from the outer islands would want to take this mess of a project now that it has become a flaming dumpster fire.

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That Obama never denounced leftist racist policies during his administration is mind numbing. That Obama supported the murders of cops is mind-numbing.

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Why the worry about fed budget to hit Hawaii hard? Our 2 senators don't even know or care about the one law that makes Hawaii and Alaska so expensive. I challenge then to read the law, digest it and explain why they do not do anything to change it. That law protects US residents that crew the ships that bring goods from any US port to Hawaii and Alaska, on ships made in the USA...I don't think container ships are made in the USA any more...and on a ship that is a USA flag ship. This law totally eliminates competition between shipping companies, thus raises the prices on goods from baby diapers, building materials, all food made or imported in the USA, drugs, milk and about 95% of all items sold in all Hawaii supermarkets, mom/pop stores, big box stores and speciality stores. And you worry about the fed budget? I challenge Civil Beat to feature a factual and informative story on the Jones Act...or is Civil Beat handcuffed by the Hawaii Donkey party to focus on Trump only?

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Griffin fears her career is over? It would be like a dream come true, and while you're at it, take Alec Baldwin along with you.

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I think the author of this piece needs to look into the history of this country. The violence she refers to was a very real part of this country from the very beginning. Just recently during this election process trumps followers were more then willing to voice their approval for violent conflict if they "believed" there was voting irregularities. We have been lucky for quite a while because people refuse to just sit around and allow the violence to return.

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THAT story hasnt went away. BLM, Anitifa, the Resist movement, all the factions are well funded. You know the funding isnt coming from well managed 401ks or timely and well researched investments so where do you think the money is coming from? Being a SJW is now a paid profession. As much as Id like to have faith in human brain functioning and cognitive reasoning, the only way I can justify most of the opinion expressed here is that these people are also being paid. Anyways, nuclear war is the worst case scenario. I certainly dont want it and I can say with a fair amount of confidence the rest of American doesnt either. So if 25+ years of "diplomacy" hasnt garnered any positive results, what should be done? How do we remedy this problem. We have a guy firing rockets over one of our allies and threatening to blast a nice big hole in our backyard. Quite the situation. So please, straighten this out for everyone.

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Yep, hundreds of victims of mass murder from a particular well-organized, international group, and we are told we are cowards and hysterical to get alarmed about it. "The chances of it happening to you are less than of slipping in your bathtub", etc... But 3-4 "incidents" a year that don't even qualify as actual terrorism or mass murder, by a handful of disorganized individuals, and all hands on deck to counter that terrible threat....

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"Being racist against police ..." Police are considered a race???

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And this, Mr Patrickson, is the attitude that divides a community, rather than bringing it together.

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And - as NCR helped us to so crucially focus on last week - 'hand holding during the Our Father'! Big, big, consequential issues tackled here daily!! Yeah, man.

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If these illegal aliens are ever allowed to stay, they should never be allowed to vote, they have been politically tainted by Obama.

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One can get supplied at the local ANTIFA rally, er...insurgency.

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The evidence show only a name "Saurabh" and a country "India" . If i do a google search on the name the first hit is an Indian cricketer. There is no direct link to the accused person and the evidence but with all the previous evidence in the public domain and the Gupta leaks it can count as circumstantial evidence.

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Coach Rolo and his coaches are committed to these local recruits.... theses recruits will honor the state of Hawaii by attending the U of Hawaii by earning there college Degree and to play football...

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Canadians seem quite ok with having more than 1 car, a cottage at the lake, annual vacations, etc.,etc., but they balk at the prospect of paying anything towards maintaining their health. I believe some HMO's have annual plans in the $5000 range (or more granted). I have a friend in Denver that can get immediate care from his HMO including access to a specialist. No queuing going on. That is an area where Canada lags significantly in my opinion.

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Good luck with that. Our MSM is at least as corrupt as America's

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Ah, Michael, do you really think those saints, martyrs, popes, etc. all saw things the same way? Of course not! The teachings of one generation built on another, sometimes requiring course corrections, sometimes not. It is pure revisionist fantasy to believe that there have been no significant doctrinal changes in the history of the Roman Catholic Church. And if a future pope decreed Vatican II null and void, assuming I was still around I'd weigh the teaching and decide whether or not I could conscientiously accept it. Which, by the way, is exactly what you are doing vis-à-vis Vatican II.

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Interestingly in Saskatchewan the NDP used to argue for just that and they were very successful for many years. Tommy Douglas, the poster child for the NDP, was a staunch believer in fiscal responsibility and the notion that you shouldn't introduce new social programs that the government couldn't afford to pay for. He was not necessarily opposed to running deficits during fiscal downturns, he absolutely believed that budgets needed to be balanced over the long term. As a result the Saskatchewan NDP have a great record of balanced budgets. The NDP in every other jurisdiction? Not so much. Actually if you take the Saskatchewan NDP and the Manitoba NDP under Gary Doer out of the picture all other NDP governments in Canada have been fiscal disaster cases. B.C., Manitoba (other than Doer), Ontario, Nova Scotia and now Alberta have all had NDP governments that delivered non-stop deficits and mountains of debt.

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Same here.... what is happening??

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Yahooooooooo. Score one for the dogs...

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What does any of that have to do with their LAWFUL exercise of free speech? They did nothing illegal, nothing violent, they chose not to stand for the anthem. Read up some more, and you'll see that a lot of veterans get it, and aren't upset by this.

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Awww, you caught me. In the last couple of hours I was able to convince Wikipedia to completely re-write their chart just to discredit your posts on a commentary board. /s

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No home owner or investor loses money (asset capital) until the asset has sold (and you can't depreciate primary home real estate).

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I think the 'oops' restitution is rarely applied in most states and when it is, it is closer to 5000 for each year of being in hell than 25K. It's when the story hits the news that authoritarian politicians who like long prison sentences suddenly show crocodile tears of remorse and give money in a news conference to boost themselves.

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Sticking to their republican principles of lack of compassion.

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She doesn't represent me. I know that a light socket is not substitute for a hairstylist. In the photo in the article she clearly hasn't yet.

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It was written for 6th grade reading skills.

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The violence against Muslims, Blacks, Hispanics, and even the alt right didn't happen until Trump's rhetoric stirred up hatred and bigotry, dividing our country and bringing violence to the forefront. The only thing divisive about Obama was the objections of right-wing bigots to the color of his skin, and the GOP's pledge to obstruct everything Obama as part of its planned power grab. It worked well for the 2010 and 2016 elections, and look how great things are going. Violence, bigotry, no achievements despite the GOP in complete power -- yep, great leadership.

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