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Some Randian economists may well have favoured open borders but they wouldn't have favoured all the freebies we give to newcomers.
As to my political persuasion - I've voted for parties of different political stripes over the years. At this point I just want one of the parties to allow us to openly debate immigration levels and which policies pertaining to it would be in the best interests of CANADIANS, not foreigners looking to get in. Although Canada leads the world in stifling political correctness, I still see the CPC as the one major party open-minded enough to allow differing views on this issue. | 0 | not toxic |
Not anti-police per se, just anti-authority in that I don't just accept that what authority tells me, particularly when it's in their self-serving interest. I just want a fair, unbiased, and balanced examination and review. One sided, prepared, scripted, testimony that is not subject to cross-examination and query is not adequate or even newsworthy(does that make me anti-newspaper as well?). Indeed, I grow more suspicious the more I see this type of one-sided narrative being offered as the truth, when it's only a version of the truth, offered without rebuttal or challenge (other than my own, doing the Kent Reporter's work). The ride along seems to me to simply agree with the suggestion from the police conducting the video re-enactment (a tried and true police interrogation method to get someone to say what they want them to say), being led in their testimony instead of just getting a simple narrative from them of what happened in "their own words". | 0 | not toxic |
Give it up Joe, nobody's buying your "independence gig"......oh, and please stop voting for yourself, it's really, really embarrassing! | 0 | not toxic |
You don't have to go to school and learn about any of the social development issues you mention, Cooper. You can learn these behaviors in a home school environment to can't you? There's no invisible line out there indicating where not to cross. | 0 | not toxic |
How old are you jz? Just a guess but you do not have a job right? | 0 | not toxic |
Simple reasons -
1. Fail on LNG,
2. Going through or Tied up in Courts are KM TX, Site C and?
3. Fix milk the Real Estate and Real Estate Developers at the cost of the public | 0 | not toxic |
http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2009/05/tests-for-next-justice.html
http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2006/02/roberts-court.html
http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2005/10/judge-alito-new-souter.html
http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2005/10/ms-miers-withdraws-and-right-is-still.html
http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2005/10/miss-miers-and-repunkdlican-right.html
http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2005/09/roberts-hearings-cold-comfort-for.html
http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2005/08/john-roberts-nomination-and-2008.html
http://xianleft.blogspot.com/2005/05/senate-confirmation-tricks-pandering.html | 0 | not toxic |
Trump didn't even think it was important enough to be in the situation room monitoring the raid when it was in progress, and now blames the military for the deaths even though he's the one who made the final approval. When you're the boss, you learn quick that you get all the criticism too for decisions and not just the praise.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-yemen-raid-twitter_us_58ae0acbe4b057efdce8c07c | 0 | not toxic |
Keep it classy Anchorage | 0 | not toxic |
Another Nothing Burger served up from NYT/SA/MSM/FAKEnews.
#MAGA | 0 | not toxic |
I am sorry about your father. Offering spouses an option to keep insurance at employees group cost would be the right thing for Juneau to do for all Officers killed in line of duty. But.....Juneau seldom does the right thing by the people. | 0 | not toxic |
Tit for Tat. Isn't this how India-Pakistan play. But they are not exactly at good terms. | 0 | not toxic |
"I want to protect the church from atheists and children from pedophiles."
Atheists don't care what churches do, but resent having to pay extra to cover the taxes they don't pay -- especially when the line is continually crossed that churches should not participate in politics. As for protecting children from pedophiles -- stop sending them to churches. | 0 | not toxic |
Are they represented in the US? | 0 | not toxic |
The world will go on with or without the United States. It may look drastically different, but it will go on nonetheless. | 0 | not toxic |
It is embarrassing that it took nearly three quarters of a century to finally "officially" recognize these women for their efforts and sacrifice... Old and younger men finally waking up to reality and grudgingly giving recognition. Thank You to all of the Rosies out there and their Rosebuds, for their sacrifices and efforts. It is sad that more did not show up for this event. | 0 | not toxic |
What will the new arena look like?
A big dumb hat? | 1 | toxic |
Its clear that the reason they are not divulging when and where these cuts will occur is part of the plan to avoid people simply using the water before or after the cuts occur, or indeed starting to stockpile water in anticipation of the next one. That said, as far as the former situation is concerned, what do they think people are going to do? Have a big fat bath and washing session the moment the water comes back on of course. I wonder if they have any idea how much water they will save in this way? Luckily I have a swimming pool fed from the roof that I can use to flush toilets in a pinch.
As far as weather predictions are concerned, we are most definitely having a longer and belated winter rainfall period in the Cape. Its been colder than last year and there is more rain predicted this weekend. Cool weather and a bit of late rain may well make this summer survivable, but what about next year? | 0 | not toxic |
Even if Beyak's claim that the "silent majority" supports her position (and that is highly doubtful) all that would mean is that the "silent majority" is as woefully ignorant and uninformed on the issue of residential schools and the policies that motivated them as Beyak. Hey even Mussolini got the trains running on time and the South African apartheid government managed the economy well... at least for the white minority.
Persons with much more intellectual, political, experiential and judicial heft than Beyak certainly disagree with her.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin says Canada attempted to commit “cultural genocide” against aboriginal peoples.
Senator (and former Justice) Murray Sinclair who chaired the Commission agrees with the Chief Justice.
The federal government was wrong to tear thousands of aboriginal children from their parents and communities and force them into residential schools where they were subjected to maltreatment and abuse - PM Harper | 0 | not toxic |
"confidential treatment" "Chugach Electric wanted to take advantage of a small producer tax credit created by the state" "$10 million"
Now I don't have a problem with a utility wanting to save the customers money, however somethings just are not as clear as they should be. Perhaps because things done in the dark of the night behind closed doors are seldom as good as they are advertised!
Chugach is going to borrow $$ to pay its share. Meaning the members will pay it back plus interest. ML&P will take $106,000,000 out of savings? If they have that much laying around, it doesn't seem that the costs to the consumer have been as low as they could does it?
But again, another backroom deal, done in a big hurry, to take advantage of a "State Credit". Which means that all residents of the State are paying for this deal. | 0 | not toxic |
Responsible energy? My guess is that the folks up in Firestone weren't polled by the Center for Western Priorities. What is interesting is that their site says noting about how they're funded. Funding for a organization such as this says everything....especially when their executive director was a former political staffer. I would have great trouble following the rankings or recommendations of this organization until I could see how it is funded and what influences their company's conservation positions. | 0 | not toxic |
It is a bit ridiculous that they ever even considered him for a program like this. It is his second time. He failed the first one. 😠😠😡 | 0 | not toxic |
Now you want to blame the messenger and not the message.
What's your next move? | 0 | not toxic |
Rik Reynolds,
Why did the media drop this story last fall? As soon as the last woman dropped their alleged charges? Do you know why? Pretty simple answer.
Our daughters had much more to fear from Hillary, a known legal defender of 'rapists', and her husband, a 'proven' sex abuser of women under his employ. And she 'covered' for him until the 'blue dress' came out. We do have to fear the loss of values that our nation seems so willing to flush down the drain. Hollowood is at the top of the list in vulgarity and terrible exploitation of women and men. Hollowood values have got to go. | 0 | not toxic |
An eye for an eye - ends up making both of you blind. | 0 | not toxic |
A left-bent society that does not believe suicide is wrong sees "assisted" suicide as a social good. Eventually, the "assistance" will come to include mild encouragement, and then more firm encouragement, the kind that the old and feeble-minded will not be able to resist. In a word, coercion. This is where we are headed. The Church teaches that suicide is a mortal sin. It is self-murder. Assisting another to commit this sin is not love, especially since it is a sin that leaves so little time for repentance. You can smile now, DoninKansas. | 0 | not toxic |
That is not necessarily a bad thing.
Spending billions to attract 50,000 new jobs could easily result in more than 50,000 job losses. We would end up deeper in debt and with fewer jobs to show for it.
Further, companies that setup shop after being bribed by governments tend to pack up and leave the moment the subsidies dry up. So the jobs gained tend to be temporary while the jobs lost tend to be more permanent. | 0 | not toxic |
Dave writes: “Many observers trade [should be “trace”] the trigger for the crisis – the collapse of the U.S. housing market – to the U.S. Federal Reserve's steady ramping up of interest rates in the two years prior to the housing downturn.” Agree to disagree. The US Federal funds rate was at 3% in September 2001 and was dragged way down in response to the 9/11 atrocities. It didn’t get back to 3% until May 2005, when housing prices were rising by 14% annually, and had been rising by double digits at least since 2014. This was much too late. The US Fed wasn’t an inflation targeting central bank then; so far as it implicitly targeted an inflation rate, it was at least 2%, where something lower would have been better monetary policy; and it didn’t include housing prices in its preferred inflation measure, PCEPI. Arguably, none of these defects have gone away, not even the first one. Unarguably the third defect hasn’t been addressed at all. Wake up and smell the coffee, Dave! | 0 | not toxic |
You clearly have no idea what you are talking about. Even if all the oil were to be extracted in the arctic you would have a hard time pointing out a decimated landscape. Surface mineral deposits are just that, deposits. There is no need to mow over the entire arctic to extract resources. They are not going to rape every square inch, just those areas that hold high yield resources. | 0 | not toxic |
Stop the Madness Within, I think we can all agree that his forgery was close enough to committing a crime to warrant resignation. You can start a discussion of his 40 year old misdeed if you want.
But you and another poster - out of nowhere - brought up Maryam Monsef who Conservatives pillory for her war-scrambled birth records. It doesn't look good on you now to cry about our bringing up the name of the previous incumbent of her parliamentary seat: Stephen Harper's former parliamentary secretary convicted for electoral fraud - prison sentence confirmed just one year ago. | 0 | not toxic |
She called half of Trump supporters deplorables. In case you missed it, Clinton ended up with 1/4 of a million more votes than Trump. | 0 | not toxic |
I grant that there are different accounts of how the fire started. I got mine from "The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation" by Texas journalist Dick Reavis. | 0 | not toxic |
Recently, the UAF School of Education recognized by national organization.
The National Council on Teacher Quality has ranked the elementary education program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks among the best in the United States.
http://www.nctq.org/teacherPrep/2016/findings/search.do?programId=1
From this point of view, the second resolution of the UAF Faculty Senate is the perfect answer to UA President Johnson and the Board of Regents. | 0 | not toxic |
This is heartbreaking but so typical of the times! God bless my mother's people of Saxman and all the children raised as she was in an orpahamage | 0 | not toxic |
Obama's message is don't worry folks, be happy. | 0 | not toxic |
En cuanto al tema de la recaudación de fondos. No estoy seguro si se pretende transmitir un tema de protesta o insurrección, o más un tema religioso y espiritual como en "Exsurge, Christe, ádiuva nos". "Levántate, oh Cristo, ayúdanos" | 0 | not toxic |
Facts seem to be ellusive to you. | 0 | not toxic |
I emailed Civil Comments....
Gladys, I admire the heII out of you for not feeding the troll. | 0 | not toxic |
Canadian universities have the worst amount of free speech or none at all. It's like in dark ages where anything that is not formulated in a highly politically-correct way is persecuted harshly (good thing there are no burnings at a stake or beheadings now but is just as bad). However, being offensive to others is not a free speech, looks like universities just can't get it right and moving from one extreme to another, allowing students to be very offensive towards religions (judging by the article) in their attempts to make up for their lack of free speech. So sad. | 0 | not toxic |
"What we need are fewer useless "experts" who give all sorts of contradictory advice!" Agreed. But in any case, the subject of this article isn't one of them.
Dr. Kenneth Thornicroft merely "suggests that mandatory retirement may be making a comeback" | 0 | not toxic |
So it would be fair to say the Iron man representative was petulant in response to Raul Bustamante when he requested assistance, using definition 1; however, we could add prevaricator to the characters of the other Iron man representative who denied being contacted before the race and the representative that said "they did their due diligence". | 0 | not toxic |
What? | 0 | not toxic |
Nice fantasy world that you live in. | 0 | not toxic |
my black friend thinks it does. | 0 | not toxic |
"Doesn't their oath...have a stronger claim to unconditionality?"
I fear, no, it will not... | 0 | not toxic |
which one? try 100 LOL. this moderator is so obnoxious that for the last month + every one of my posts had to be preapproved before going up on the board, and then after preapproving my posts this moderator then deleted many because the obnoxious flagged them in spite. This is not promoting an intellectually honest debate. Like the editor told me, it's their newspaper and they will do what ever they like, and if you don't like it, post somewhere else. It's not like they need our business, right? Whereas that is their right, I am always going to call out clowns who go on record "striving to be candid but fair" when their staggering hypocrisy is anything but.
Here's what cracks me up; I posted time and again: "The RG is an absolute embarrassment to professional journalism with the credibility of bird cage lining covered in *&^%." This was never deleted from the board though it is most assuredly the epitome of an uncivil attack. Now that's comedy. Send in the clown! | 0 | not toxic |
There isn't a condition on the campus at the UO. The wording in this article is a little vague and I'm not sure why. The Knights gave $500M, no strings attached. It is actually $50M a year for 10 years.
The campus itself is envisioned as a billion dollar project, and the UO is asking the state to fund 1/10th of it. If Oregon doesn't, they will look elsewhere for the money to fully realize the vision. The Knights may like the early progress enough to fill in the rest, even. | 0 | not toxic |
No.
In fact, the term 'plausible deniability' was invented to cover covert use/transmission/collection/etc. of secret information.
"In politics and espionage, deniability refers to the ability of a powerful player or intelligence agency to pass the buck and avoid blowback by secretly arranging for an action to be taken on their behalf by a third party ostensibly unconnected with the major player. In political campaigns, plausible deniability enables candidates to stay clean and denounce third-party advertisements that use unethical approaches or potentially libelous innuendo."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability | 0 | not toxic |
"Mr. O’Leary is a blustering ignoramus."
Well said, Margaret. The advantage Canadians have is that Trump is well on his way to destroying his brand and that of so many like him that by the time O'Leary starts to gain momentum, he'll be history. | 0 | not toxic |
Godspeed. | 0 | not toxic |
...and he is laughing all the way to the White House. How do yo like them apples? | 0 | not toxic |
I've read hundreds of books. Take your own advice. | 0 | not toxic |
Last week, an RG editorial stated that there was not near enough room in the newspaper to print all of the Letters to the Editor submitted. But they somehow find room to print a letter from someone out of state commenting on a purely local matter. On top of that, it's a poorly written letter that leaves me wondering what the point of it is.
Whoever at the RG decides which letters submitted get printed and which don't needs to up their game. Your readers deserve it and are paying good money for it. | 0 | not toxic |
It's called education Steven, that thing that your "culture" apparently does believe in. | 0 | not toxic |
"“I think what we’re struggling with here is the stigma and people’s fears and concerns,” Commissioner Kathryn Beck said."
No kidding, Commissioner Beck. People have good reason to have fears and concerns and this whole "stigma" thing is getting tiring.
Maybe if the treatment advocates would tell the truth about the treatment revolving door, it would help the populace have a better understanding of what's going on here. | 0 | not toxic |
This already happens. Bigger vehicles have higher annual licence fees, and burn more fuel, which is taxed.
As an economy car driver, I wouldn't object to further revenue neutral fuel taxes (here in BC, the government introduced carbon taxes several years ago, and cut income taxes accordingly). Add 50 cents a litre to fuel taxes and BC could probably eliminate both the provincial sales tax and the Medical Services Plan fee. | 0 | not toxic |
I do not care for Pence's sanctimonious exterior and his hateful policies toward working class, middle class and poor Americans. | 0 | not toxic |
Trust me, I'm not just muck racking. I've seen both these guys in action, and Hattar is much more on the up and up. It's amazing the love that gets bought for a guy through sandwiches. This article is written with a huge slant towards one group. I hate that it's even news. All we can do is speculate, as none of us has the facts. I wonder how many people went to bat for Madoff, because he was a nice guy, only to be proven wrong later. Unless you know them both personally, I'd say let's see what shakes out of this suit. | 0 | not toxic |
I'm still going hunt and fishing. It summer time. I'm still going to drive.
When in the duck did the government own all of this I've lived in this country my whole life. I thought it belonged to the people.
Can I declare my personal independence if they can follow the law. Why should I follow it.
Oh wait that's tyranny to the founding fathers.
So please shit this mother down so I can be at liberty and independent again.
Shut it down, shit it down.
My bad, my tin foil has a wrinkle in it. | 0 | not toxic |
You've got a good point about the political dimension of this issue, and I'm sure the legislature would agree that it's not fair for them to take the political heat for a city project. However, if they pass a bill that forces the city to raise property taxes, the voters will know the legislature put the gun to the city's head and left them no choice. Better to take the heat now for passing a controversial bill with a GET extension than be blamed for the pain Oahu residents will endure for many years to come if they don't. It's not fair to the legislature, politically, but most of them are from Oahu and they know how their constituents will react. | 0 | not toxic |
Nobody is dumb enough to believe everything anyone says on the internet, or in the mainstream media for that matter. The question is not whether fake news exist, but rather if we want to let others decide for us which fake news we are allowed to see. The government is encouraging Google and Facebook to infringe on freedom of information.
On the bright side, Google's and Facebook's censorship should create an opening for new search providers and social platforms with more respect for the brains and freedom of their users. I hope that they will step up to the plate. | 0 | not toxic |
KM isn't asking to be exempt... | 0 | not toxic |
Taxedtooblivion, you forgot to also tell them to get off your lawn and shake your cane. | 0 | not toxic |
A GOP Senator asking DJT Jr to appear is not a big deal... a big deal will be the actual questions that are asked! | 0 | not toxic |
I truly cannot understand how anyone can read the article about how terribly animals are treated in Canada and not be horrified. How can the suffering of millions of sentient beings not be a cause for concern for everyone? Nothing is stopping you from caring about your other issues as well, but inflicting terrible suffering on other beings needs urgent attention right now. It's the least we can do since we humans are the ones causing their suffering by demanding their flesh. As Ghandi famously said "The greatness of a nation can be judged by how its' animals are treated". | 0 | not toxic |
It means treating women like mangy dogs and throwing homosexuals off rooftops. | 1 | toxic |
SB 91 wins again... | 0 | not toxic |
My Uncle Lucas recently got an awesome six-month old Mercedes S-Class S65 AMG only from working online
+_+_+_+_+_+ http://www.factoryofincome.com | 0 | not toxic |
The beaver that's dragging the object is purposely not shown. Gimme a break. | 0 | not toxic |
When you look at the totality of all of these corroborating reports of links, contacts, and business deals between TrumpCo and the likes of Sessions, Manafort, Flynn, Tillerson, Page, Stone, Ross, Cohen, and Sater with Russians such as Kislyak, Ryabkov, Rybolovlev, Kilimnik, Arif, Millian, and Tokhtakhounov you have to wonder when the FBI and Trumpsters say that there weren’t any contacts or links between members of the Trump campaign and elements of Russian businesses, government, intelligence or mobsters.
Just what are they talking about? | 0 | not toxic |
Russian? Me? Har har har!!!!
Serious case of mistaken identity Hugh. No (to quote you) "pretending" about it, but rather funny!
Who says TDS doesn't have a entertaining side :) | 0 | not toxic |
Then we should all start living in tents ? Because those rights apply across the ENTIRE NATION .. | 0 | not toxic |
Surely the argument raised by these authors is ill-informed because so far the branches of ANC not media have been rejecting this Zuma proxy. They are not disputing any claim from the author of the book Jaques Pauw. Theirs is just about the review. Unfortunately most of the branches including theirs have rejected Nkosazana because anything that is associated with Zuma smells bad. We cant wait for December conference to booth all of them out of NEC and thereafter in January we elect an acting president. 2018 will be interesting because ANC will be cleansing itself from wolves like Nomvula, Kebby, Gigaba and all Gupta cronies and wheels of justice will be turning in lightning speed to recoup all public money they stole.
I am not surprised by their article because they stand to lose everything comes December. These are sound bites of very desperate individuals whom the noose is tightening around their necks daily. Kebby Guptarised Maphatsoe branch nominated Cyril and he collapsed. | 0 | not toxic |
It is purely a choice, to choose to live somewhere where a honey bucket is needed. Will the Federal Govern-Mint provide funding(Working Peoples money) for water, sewage, to all who choose to live rural? Does the Federal Govern-Mint provide this for those who choose to live in a more urban environment? My cabin is in the Valley and I had to put in my own septic and water well and I maintain it. I did this with the money I earned working. I did this because I choose to have a flush toilet and running water. Before I bought the land I built my cabin on I ensured I could have a functioning septic system and a functioning water well because I choose to have this. If this was not possible I would not have bought the land with the money I earned from working and built there. Maybe some one else would have chose to build there and have a out house and haul in water? Why should money be taken from me and given to the guy who knew the land could not support water/septic ? | 0 | not toxic |
Wrong. Organized trades have training programs that are most helpful to the citizens of the state. We need in the bottleneck of the Seward Highway someone who can empathize with citizens not just someone who wants to walk around in the woods and then receive awards at effete events in a plush luxurious resort and cull it good. | 0 | not toxic |
http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/15/news/economy/health-insurers-profits-obamacare/index.html
Health insurance companies' profits are up, but not from the Affordable Care Act, which they have consistently lost money on. Mostly from Medicare supplemental insurance plans. | 0 | not toxic |
Mythman has his own troll, Mr squiggy | 0 | not toxic |
Good. its good that he left the council. You don't want losers in the council anyway.
And also people that are no smarter then a 2 year old. Trump denounced all bigotry
and violence the same exact day it happened. The only issue is CEO's like this that are brain dead and don't know what the word ""ALL"" means. I figued it out when I was about 2 years old like most normal people. | 0 | not toxic |
Need MORE stories like this! Thanks APD and AFD! | 0 | not toxic |
For anyone that questions the value of this project, consider the other factors besides traffic flow. Fairview is a large area, its proximity to downtown and midtown should make it one of the best neighborhoods in town, but whats the problem? Eight lanes of traffic cutting right through the middle of it with road construction plans floating around for decades preventing anyone from developing quality housing there. Cut & bury highways work really well, I've used them in Boston and been in the neighborhood above. While I agree it would have been better to do a project like this when we had more cash to throw around, it is an important project regardless. The increase in property values, taxes and quality of life for those that live there or will live there is worth it. | 0 | not toxic |
This does not surprise me much although Vic Kohring must feel good seeing another horse of the same color in his old stable. | 0 | not toxic |
Now don't cast a bad omen on us J. Frank. O ye of little faith. | 0 | not toxic |
I am on my way to the rescue. Only problem is, I do NOT have a big enough truck to haul all my weapons.........
Also, I thought TREE HUGGERS or HUGGING was a lost art. The Rainbow Folks must have given them a new supply of LSD................Either way, they have to GO.................Come back to EuGreen, go to your favorite spot SLEEZY Square and HUG the sidewalks. | 0 | not toxic |
Yes, that describes what they are doing to the faith perfectly! | 0 | not toxic |
This could be a rather clever reverse backhanded compliment. Or not. | 0 | not toxic |
Do you think Mueller would really go after Democrats and Deep Staters? | 0 | not toxic |
So you're saying the reason she wrote those letters and subsequent apologies is because she's a republican, Art? I disagree. She demonstrated incredibly poor judgement and questionable ethics, regardless of her party affiliation.
But leave it to you to make it a nasty partisan issue. | 0 | not toxic |
The only part that I think Hillary got wrong was "thankfully they are not America.", because unfortunately the "basket of deplorables" is becoming a larger part of America.
I always found it ironic that those so opposed to "political correctness" and so enamored of a candidate who "tells it like it is" got so worked up over the "basket of deplorables" comment. But of course those people were most likely in that basket and didn't like being recognized for who they are.
Hillary's "deplorable" comment in it's entirety was accurate and not at all offensive. Oh well ... | 0 | not toxic |
Q: will Trump launch his own party in October or November? | 0 | not toxic |
Whoa whoa whoa...tap the brakes a tad. Sloter has had zero time with the #1's. I'd say put Sloter in the back up role, let him practice with the #1's, and come the break assess where the team is with Siemian. I'd even say hire some good, retired QB vet to come in and coach both of those guys up. Siemian still has room to improve, and Sloter looks like he could be something special, but what I see is his ceiling is pretty far up there, so develop him!
Lynch? Who's Lynch? ;-) (I was hoping he'd do good, but it is what it is.) | 0 | not toxic |
Wow, you must know a lot of security guards to form that opinion. I know just a handful of them and they were not at all as you describe them to be. My run-ins with them have always been friendly and cordial. | 0 | not toxic |
"I assume you are a Darwinist, and have no moral foundation, so you should be rejoicing over this, survival of the fittest in action." AT: I fear you confuse biological evolution with "Social Darwinism". They are very different things. "Social Darwinists held that the life of humans in society was a struggle for existence ruled by “survival of the fittest,” a phrase proposed by the British philosopher and scientist Herbert Spencer. Herbert Spencer." Being, as you put it, "a Darwinist" has NOTHING to do with applying the concepts of evolution to justify a society where the "fittest"...meaning most powerful......rule. The "success" of those who perpetrate sexual violence is founded on their power over their victims.
I think you will likely find that many, if not most, individuals who support the Theory of Evolution are also very much opposed to Social Darwinism. It's a reflection of their very sound "moral foundation" to reject that the powerful should victimize others. GCrum | 0 | not toxic |
Equality of power is not going to win arguments anywhere, I agree. Many women as well have moved on from that. Some have abandoned the ordain women controversy to call for a deeper examination of the theology of ministry, eg Sandra Schneiders.
The distinction between apostle/dosciple is very different in the 4 gospels. I think Mark only uses “apostle” once, in a passage that may be read as “when those sent out came back” or as “when the apostles came back.” Luke has the fullest development of apostle language, he devotes a whole book to convincing us that St Paul was an apostle! John and Matthew fall inbetween those two, with John emphasizing the disciples over “the 12.” (Does John even use the term apostle? I cant remember) So I agree with you, Scripture needs to be looked at more closely. At very least, we need to look at the gospels rather than at a “history” created by mashing the 4 into a single account. | 0 | not toxic |
Doug you for got to mention Obama's ability to create more debt in his 2 terms than all the 43 presidents combined before him. As for economic performance a steady 1% through his term. | 0 | not toxic |
Was this just "inartful" phrasing on the part of this commentator/reporter? Perhaps the motivation lies in a quote attributed to Mark Twain:: "A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes." | 0 | not toxic |
This is the type of case that warrants the death penaltty. I'm a strong advocate of someone doing their time for the crime and reintegration back into society, as eell as reasonabke and fair senrences based upon guidlinnes that places murder at the top with lesser sentences for crimes less than myrder. But these cases where there are eyewitness and the suspects are caught with the guns in hand at the scene deserves nothing less than a firing squad or hanging as punishment | 0 | not toxic |
And how was it blatantly false? The falsehoods have been proven to come from Trump himself. | 1 | toxic |
How about focusing your argument on the indictment and its relationship with the following claims:
(1) The Trump campaign conspired with Russia (media narrative).
(2) Russian influencing in the US presidential election (Mueller brief).
The media regularly confuse 1&2 and I would argue if you feel strongly that the current indictment goes a long way towards (1) - you would have a difficult time defending the DNC, Clinton campaign and Podesta group on similar accusations far more directly related to key players and with more concrete leads.
Of course you could argue the hiring of Manafort reflects poorly on the Trump campaign judgement & vetting. Fair enough (I am sympathetic to it) - if you ignore Podesta Group and similar "shady" dealing from DNC/ Clinton aligned operators - but none of it relates strongly to (1) and (2) based on what we know so far.
Please point out how applying this logic = being brainwashed by Breitbart? | 0 | not toxic |
Wow Webster way to catch up way to late. We French once tented the guiteen from public view. Only to pull it out and use it later. | 0 | not toxic |
A plea bargain means nothing about guilt. The lawyer told him what to do and he did it. | 0 | not toxic |
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