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Waste and inefficiency, not to mention mass devastation, are free. Anyone can see that.

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The article makes it looks like somehow Walker Stapleton has something to do with the problem when in fact he has been warning the public about the problem and trying to fix it for years.

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Sounds like things are getting primal in the Baboon House at the primate zoo.

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Sir, here is what I know: The Catholic Church has a Faith that those who are Catholic are expected to believe. Whether that means I cannot "see beyond the rims of my reading glasses" etc, is beside the point. I grant there are teachings of the Church I don't like, and perhaps even privately disagree with. Who doesn't? Also, conservatives can actually be worse than liberals in terms of their own dissidence. At least liberals come right out and are dissident. They don't put on the "I am more Roman than Rome, more Catholic than the pope" bit. I like to say that conservatives are obediently disobedient. They will kiss the hands of priests, veil their heads at Mass, etc, but as soon as the priest does or says something they disagree with---down with the priest--let's run him out of town! Thing is---in my disagreements with the Church, I recognize that I am the problem, not the Church. Dissidents think the Church is the problem.

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The best thing about Trump is that he has emboldened the white supremacy folks out into the open so we can't deny they exist.

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Google maps once recommended taking engineers pass from Lake City to Durrango. Definately for sedans.

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This should tell you everything you need to know about the Republican health care bill. Campaign Contributions from Insurance and Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Industries to Senators Drafting Secret Health Care Bill Orrin G. Hatch $471,560 Addison "Mitch" McConnell $433,400 Rob Portman $382,100 Patrick J. Toomey $354,616 Andrew Lamar Alexander $228,100 John Cornyn $180,050 Cory Gardner $151,850 John Barrasso $149,750 Mike Enzi $146,600 John Thune $123,400 Mike Lee $66,750 Ted Cruz $58,895 Tom Cotton $28,941

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No fair. I never learned German in Nazi School. Not being a liberal, I really don’t know what “the miasma from a septic tank spill” smells like. I will write a letter to Senator Bennet, he should know.

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Look I agree mac; I'm sure DWS (previously DWAF) gets involved (and possibly contributes funds - it did for the Durban scenario) immediately you go outside the municipal boundary but that's another detail really. Sure the city oaficials can be arrogant but droughts are not easy to predict and integrated plans (city, province and national) should have been in place for different options a long time ago. I won't even touch on the idiocy of national procurement regulations however.

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Yet another example of him being thin-skinned, narcissistic and irresponsible.

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I don't think so. Trump has demonstrated exactly zero leadership in this disaster. His condemnation of other leaders is a gross expression of his leadership style.

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Hillary Clintons illegal server, that was apparently hacked by everyone, will be the legacy of the Obama administration.

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More blather and alternative "facts" In 2014 Suncor alone paid $1.9 billion in income tax, (check out their annual report) and that doesn't include royalties, municipal, EI, CPP or any other forms of taxation, and Suncor is just one of hundreds of other energy companies like Canadian Natural Resources, Athabaska Oil, Nexxen and those other smaller ones like....Exxon, Shell, Chevron. So much for alternative "facts" from canada1. Land used is subject to municipal tax among other fees and is a source of millions of dollars that go towards municipal services and education in every jurisdiction where energy companies operate. Perhaps you didn't know that even pipeline right of ways are subject to tax. Glad to see that you recognize that farmers in all provinces are treated equally. Albertan farmers receive no special favours. What happened on the equalization point? Did you give that one up as a loser?

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I suspect that this time next year BC will be reminded why the NDP were left with only two seats after the last time they were in power. Quite frankly, they couldn't run a hot dog stand.

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The north I25 HOV lanes aren't that much if you pay. Maybe a couple bucks. I personally think they should make it 5 free lanes from downtown to DIA, but then TABOR.

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I have no idea. There are hardly any instances of our bishops censuring anyone. The bishops here wouldn't know a dissident theologian if they fell over one so that explains why there are no public spats therefore no publicity.

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Has anyone checked the Mustang Ranch? A 70 year old man with a bottle of Viagra was seen over there.

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Making America Meaner In a different era, when decency was the norm, the members of the U.S. House of Representatives would not seat a thug like Gianforte in the chamber. In the age of Trump, it's okay to beat up a reporter. Trump is actively defining deviancy down in American politics.

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Throw the book at him. The birds didn't deserve to die like they did. What a waste of private school education.

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Disban the city council

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If your thoughts are at all representative of the thoughts of the general population, then it is no wonder Western democracy is in the shape it is.

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The new ambulances replace two reserve ambulances that are currently staffed by existing personnel. There is no reason to add more employees.

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"But to what"? Good question. BC has lost it's appeal to most investors and many of the industries that have served the economy well are faltering or leaving.. Vancouver has high tech and a movie industry but neither can sate the governments appetite for revenue. The next decade will be interesting to say the least.

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And I am just as free to criticize them for it. I believe that freedom of speech is a universal human right. The constitution only prevent our government from prohibiting the free exercise thereof, but that does not imply that it is morally right for anyone else to do it. And by forcing them to stand, they might be forcing someone to endorse something they don't believe in, and that is not right. It seems like compulsory patriotism is a characteristic of totalitarians. I thought we were above that. Boy, was I wrong.

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Who's LATE here ?...the French kick out the monarchy in 1789 ! got it l'endormi ? "Adios" ???...to what ?...to Spain ?...to Mexico ? Never been in French Immersion class in Canada ?...you can start with= Alouette, gentille alouette- alain le lait (w/ Engl. Subt.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hFw_cWg9U (copy-paste in the Web address)

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Please stop stalking my comments in order to make superfluous and purposefully misdirecting comments. I have answered your rather odd statements and ridiculous accusations more than should be necessary. But. Stop this odd persecution, please. If you have something that really adds to the conversation, by all means, post it. But if your intent remains to be subtly bullying by use of sarcasm, faux indignation, double-talk and deceit, just stop it. I realize your need to be "on top" and you may have the last word again, since your ego does seem to demand it.

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grow up lunatic anyone understands when he says america he is talking about the usa you pathetic idiot

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Don't let the door hit you, moving in with with WHOOPIE?

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Why don't you see if President Obama will declassify those parts of the Intelligence Report that weren't made public so you can disregard them too, continue to live in paranoid denial and claim the entire US intelligence community is lying to everyone? In other words, why would anyone bother?

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If they really wanted better relations with the USA then Trudeau would be at the Inauguration.

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Unfortunately correlations are merely an estimation based on extraneous factors that are viewed as being involved. The factors that play a role in the correlation change over time and different economic environments. Suggest viewing them as an estimation which may not have any validity. And then there is the political aspect of forecasts from bankers to consider.

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It's interesting how some citizens of Hawaii choose to ignore the upward trending atmospheric CO2 levels being measured atop Mauna Kea at 3400m. Ignorance, or denial, similar to the way Obama's Hawaiian birth certificate was and is, still being denied as authentic. But freedom of speech and thoughts are truly what makes America, and Hawaii, so great.

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Me neither. I rented one last month for 2 weeks and just the way they drove was enough for me

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Replacement is a mistake. Trump will win this standoff. You'll see.

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This is a disturbing trend. It used to be that habituated bears were killed because they had become habituated and were thus a threat. Now our modern culture, disney and PETA have convinced us that somehow bears have rights and we read countless comments that say "it's not their fault." These are bears not people, they have no rights. We manage them with best practices (for us because we don't care what's best for them or we'd all demolish our hillside homes and give them back their land, and stop catching their fish and crowding them out of their rivers). Draw a line people. If you think they have rights then move out and back off of their territory. If you, like I do, see them as a resource then start promoting their management for what is best for us. But yeah it's stupid to attract bears and then expect somebody else to clean up the inevitable mess. Electric fences are neither dangerous, expensive, nor difficult to set up.

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DAH. With the left, when isn't the heavier burden not on the poor. This is a non story. What's amazing is that there are poor, and it's liberalism that has failed them. Since the 60's when the left rage a war on poverty, poverty had gotten worse. As dependency on government has grown, many don't know how to provide for themselves, including what to do in the case of flooding, or a Hurricane.

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Ditto! Sniffen is a jerk!

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Sacramental confession remains a private process. Criminal confession is not, and cannot be, private; it involves accountability for crimes that harm not only the instant victim but also the community.

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Yes: but that's money they had to spend -- they owed it. The bill for malfeasance and nonfeasance came due. They could cancel the so-called Fortnight this afternoon, and they should.

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This could become the best "van der Merwe" joke in history.

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How many of you union folks voted to repeal SB21? Now, you're beating up on Boyle like he's a bad guy. The fact is, we don't know the "real" reasons for our Governor calling back the Legislature. We don't know what's going on in Juneau. Divided we fall.

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Jonah, YOU are the lame duck. You are a bald faced traitor.

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I would say Trump's starting to not look too smart, but I was never impressed with him to begin with. I think his supporters are in for a big surprise

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Did I say decrease Bill? Nope

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I agree that too many elderly people are driving when it's time to take the TBird away. This couple is an example of the dangers of elder-driving - but that's not the point. They are lost. Missing. Perhaps stranded, afraid, helpless, dying. Not exactly a "told you so!" moment.

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Sad. You have the right not to vote, of course. It seems to me though that not to vote does not position a person within the virtuous protesters but rather within the legion of the passive indifferent. And, I guess, one more thing, the church does not seem to be the "saviour" of your country, and maybe, not even their own institution.

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American tax payers will pay for the wall or Drumpf will shut down the government. That's a long way from "Mexico will pay, trust me". I wonder which batch of tax cuts will pay for the wall.

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the gun grabbers use the tragic deaths of school children to score petty points on gun control

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Either you are male or female, that's it. ` https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dY1rqXDmRk

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you''ll only get what Trump deems right for you. and don't get all teary eyed if you don't get your way. demands-hilarious.

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I have a suspicion that if an academic in Quebec or Ontario were to write a scathing article claiming that Alberta is an isolationist, backwards, maladaptive and un-Canadian hive of scum and villainy... ... it would be a ticket to promotion within the university's echelons. Go figure...

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Report: Steve Bannon's Florida House Was Meth Lab And More http://shareblue.com/steve-bannons-porn-and-meth-house-you-have-no-idea-what-kind-of-evil-stuff-went-on/

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The Premier negotiated with himself. How convenient.

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It started with mayor number one.

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Yeah, he'll be pretty mad that he has to pay a few thou in taxes from his millions to help out a few poors. Nice guy this new president.

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Nothing to do with Toyota. It was initially a GM-Suzuki joint venture. GM bought out Suzuki during the 2008/9 financial crisis

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Colluding with Russia? The Trump Regime Did It The Trump campaign did do this and the Republican Party is running cover for it, just so they can continue to loot us with tax cuts for the rich and taking away the things our government does to make our lives better.

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Virtually ALL of the problems with the ACA can be traced back to 3 sources, that the Republicans gutted the original plan drawn up, that the insurance companies by virtue of what they are put profits FIRST before people, and the vastly over inflated cost of drugs and many aspects of the health care system, in part because of too much bureaucracy and by monopolistic control by patent drug companies, the AMA and other industry. I can't believe how people think the ACA responsible for their rates when bottom line the raises in cost $$ are by the insurance companies. 45 is NOT friend of the people, nor are the Repubs in his camp. They'll provide a system where the corporate world gets the pie and the average citizen gets scraps. Under the current system some claim to be paying more, however I've met many more people who report to be paying less and getting better coverage. Then there are the people who previously had no coverage who have benefited.....how many millions?

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Well, since he would rather jail a lawyer instead of a convicted murderer or a sex offender, it does raise the odd question!

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Obviously a group of the ALT-leftist, who are more extreme and violent than anything we have ever seen before.

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I think you're right. With other deserving candidates, voters will be looking for reasons to eliminate guys off their lists and Blackmon's extreme home/road splits will be all many voters need to do just that. Now, I don't think a player's home/road splits SHOULD affect an MVP vote, but they do. I mean, if it's really given to the most valuable player, that player is the one who helps his team the most and when you play half your games at home, what you do at your home park is obviously extremely valuable to your team. Nobody criticizes Aaron Judge for using Yankee Stadium to his advantage. But there is so much bias against Coors Field hitters in the national media that practically speaking, Blackmon doesn't have much of a chance. I'll be much more upset if Arenado has yet another outstanding year both offensively and defensively, with minimal (relatively speaking) home/road disparity AND on a winning team, and voters still find a reason to not give it to him.

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In two years when Notley is gone, if there is no expanded Trans Mountain, there will be no BC lumber or gas passing through Alberta. Probably no carbon tax either.

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Trudeau and non-populism have three years before the next election; in the meantime, the populists will wreak so much havoc that Canada will be the shining beacon pointing to an alternative. The political pendulum in Canada has been swinging out of sync with the rest of the world in recent years. Many of the things the populists are now doing were tried by Stephen Harper, and Canadians booted him out for that. Trudeau has actually been quite adept at picking up better ideas which the populists also espouse, such as an increased child benefit, while the Canadian public has already rejected the populists' xenophobia. The years of Harper have inoculated Canada against the populist disease.

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Friefifghters....please....most of them are on the sunshine list for achieving a grade 12 status. PLUS....with their 24 hr shift X 7 days a month there is plenty of time for their second job which entails cash payments. Need a new deck, painting, roofing, plumbing or more I know lots of these guys that work for between 25 and 40 hrs CASH. This puts alot of them over 200 gross a year....thats enough for a house in Toronto, so please take these tax rip off artists off the list. I personally know a captain in the Brampton dept and he admitted me they have one of the best gigs.....and the calender helps with the deception Also he has NEVER been to a two alarm blaze in 20 years. We need these guys....just fewer at less pay.

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No question one needs to be careful - mistakes can happen either due to lack of knowledge or simply miscommunication. That said given that the whole RRSP/RRIF process is predicated on the tax deferral any answer that said "no income tax would apply" should be treated with suspicion.

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Explain please then your differentiation between killing and murder.

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Disrespectful.

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You are totally obsessed with the sexual behavior of others. People may think that you have underlying issues. I cannot imagine how you, as a priest, can inspire your flock to practice the beatitudes when you are so preoccupied with their sexual behavior. It is too creepy.

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No, no, and no. Actually, it's time to up the Canadian carbon tax to offset the US withdrawl. And corporate taxes need to go up. You don't race a drunken fool to the bottom.

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So far, there isn't a hint of true diversity. What diversity there is ranges from the socially repressive Rudi Giuliani to the extreme fringe racist bigot, anti-Semitic alt-right (he invented the term) Steve Bannon. There isn't so much as a single conventional conservative (like Mitt Romney or John McCain) in the mix. But Trump's early transition team has fallen apart, and the assembly of a cabinet is in turmoil, with many early prospects getting Trump's "You're fired!" dismissal. When you use a nebulous term like "true diversity", what, more precisely, do you mean? In this scenario, what would "True diversity" entail? Some Democrats? As you know, Obama's departments held quite a few fairly conservative Republicans, such as James Comey.

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Any article that mentions Trudeau should come with a disclaimer warning the reader that the man is an idiot.

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Here is a solution to the need for remedial classes in the University. Charge the losing school district for the classes so they are free to the student. That would incentivize the K12 public ed system to better. If a student graduates from high school, it is unacceptable that a large majority should be required to take remedial classes as happens in the Alaska University system. This reeks of big business and the failures of our K12 system.

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The Civil War monuments have been completely uncontroversial throughout my lifetime but are now seen to have a sinister meaning. I'd like to suggest something different. I've heard foreigners marvel at these monuments, at the fact that the leaders of the Confederacy weren't hanged for sedition and rebellion, but were completely forgiven and later, allowed to be honored by their communities. They said, in their countries, they would all have been exterminated, and not only would no monuments have been raised, they would have been remembered in textbooks as evil people, regardless of the actual facts of their character. This is a very distinctive thing about America, and one worth preserving: we don't shoot losers, we tell them to do it over. Few countries, even in the nineteenth century, could boast of anything like that. Slavery was wrong and had to end, as countless Southerns knew. But the North had profited grossly from it. No one would gain by continuing to fight the war.

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The State legislature continues to put Hawaii in harms way for federal funds. This feel good, symbolic resolution neglects that there are legal immigrants and illegal immigrants. We cannot take care of our homeless, have high multi generation family living, and our best and brightest are leaving the state for cheaper housing and more opportunity....why encourage and condone illegal immigration?

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I am shocked at Ann Aiken's sentencing...what happened to all that money? I can't even imagine how the victims must feel.

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David, I believe your suggestion would destroy the Catholic Church. Is that your intention? The protectionism of which you speak has been largely destroyed (at least I pray it has been), with many priests and several bishops removed from service. Many have been imprisoned. Yes, such abuses should never have occurred. The protectionism has been largely purged over the past couple of decades. Among those most hurt are the 98% of priests and bishops who are Godly men who have had their hearts torn out because of the few percent who were guilty of abuse or protecting the abusers. The Catholic Church in the US has a zero tolerance policy, with very good success. Hopefully the entire Church will soon have such a policy if not already implemented. Please pray that God will make it so.

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I agree the idea is idiotic no matter how well-intentioned it is. As for the money, I sure hope every kid has started earning their own money by age 13, and anything they want that isn't tobacco or 'other,' walks in any store and buys it? I also will assume a parent gave them a ride to the store. Last, they probably buy smart phones that are compatible with the pay as you go plans.

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And the winner is? Not the students...

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If you think "if someone is out on bail or personal recognizance that the courts would come down heavily on that person" you have not been paying attention to the Lane County jail revolving door for the last few decades. "Catch and release" is the real mantra. I often post the multiple prior arrests here; many of them also include probation violations and parole violations, much less crimes committed during to jail releases either on recognizance or just by overcrowding. This is not new! I had one decades ago who I talked a Judge into probation for at 10:00 AM and I heard him being arrested on my police scanner when I was on my way back from lunch. His new crime got him a few days in jail. The 'Sentencing Guidelines' control that sort of thing, not the Judge. Or there was the one who was released from jail with a bus ticket to a new job out of town so he could avoid 'bad companions' who shoplifted a carton of cigarettes on the way to the bus depot. Couple of days extra.

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TSB has a small footprint but they can pay the mayor $200K for 2 hours a month?

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Those are truly repugnant, and there plenty out there on both sides on the idiot-driven social networks. I don't remember these being on display on public property in our nation's capital down the street from the white house... And who do you suppose paid for that balloon? could it be anyone but a left-wing political orgnanization, maybe even an arm of the DNC?

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Rather than a misdemeanor, this case of maiming/malicious wounding constitutes a felony. The folks in this jurisdiction need to be explaining same to their solicitor.

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Thank you, I'll be sure and jot that down.

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Hillary lost despite getting support from Obama, Jay-Z, Beyonce, Hollywood, all of the LGBT community, the entire Democratic Party, the entire Mainstream Media, and 90% of the establishment. In reality, Trump won with support from only 10% of the Republican Party and a bunch of Deplorables. Bottom line: The Establishment is so embarrassed by their defeat that they will say anything to save face, including that Trump got help from a vague number of Russian Hackers.

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Trump 1, Justin 0.

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Exactly how did you defend religious liberties? I hope you don't think serving in the military automatically qualifies you.

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They're only playing by our one-party rules.

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I've said it before, but think it bears repeating: let's compare the Mosul "liberation" with another one, Paris, 1944. Mosul's liberation has taken close to 9 months. Coalition forces faced small-arms fire, hand-held rocket-launchers, heavy machine-guns mounted on pickups driven around by rag-tag bands of guerrillas-type "soldiers." Almost 9 months! From D-Day landings until Liberation of Paris: June 6-Aug 25, less than three months. Not just one liberated city along the way, but many: Cherbourg, Caen and Falaise, where Allies faced elite troops and SS Panzer tank divisions. Facing ISIS-type resistance, the Allies would have entered Paris in mere weeks. The "save the civilians" excuse rings hollow. Mosul's "victory" took this long because it's "war as a way of life" (how many months for Raqqa to be taken?) Iraqi soldiers enjoy a wartime lifestyle that equates to the "good life" in a ravaged land: they're clothed, fed, housed, and paid--prestige, too. Why hurry? Some victory.

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You only wear matching no-holes socks when visiting?

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Not really. There is one clean candidate.

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The best beer in Bothell is available at the Hop and Hound. 14 "curated" taps, or as Trump would put it, tapps.

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Sorry. My bad. I forgot the First Amendment only applies to speech that Sylvia approves of.

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Breaking news: Sarah Palin said something dumb. In other news, the sky is blue, water is wet, and grass is green.

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The tragedy of Aleppo is that West-nations sponsored and encouraged extremist groups, leading to the unnecessary deaths of many people and prolonged conflict, and causing destruction of parts of the city - and all the while, West nations ran coordinated propaganda to promote aggressive attitudes towards the only parties who were actually trying to bring conflict to an end, rather than fan its flames - Assad's government and its allies. The good news of Aleppo is that its citizens are no longer hostages of rebels, and have been rejoicing overt their freedom with street-celebrations, and thanking the Syrian army, and also with praises for Assad: https://youtu.be/NhQaGNlzsl0 https://youtu.be/vm-jj88-E8c https://youtu.be/t-zx39M_h-0 https://youtu.be/CicRJTjVlgw At a recent UN press event, Eva Bartlett (who's been to Aleppo) condemned the corporate media's depiction of Syria while responding to a question, calling it agenda-driven and fictionalized-propaganda: https://youtu.be/AisvBNXPdG8

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Self-driving taxis with humans to override any mistakes are already operating in Pittsburgh and Singapore, with the expansion to more cities planned. If the technology proves to be safe, acceptance will grow. It is anticipated that the true self-driving car will be commercialized as baby boomers age and face disabilities.

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To any Protestants reading, may I apologise on behalf of most posters on here for the disgraceful way KP is continually besmirching your beliefs. Thank you for giving us our scriptures back and for helping us deepen in our understanding of them. We are in your debt.

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Wow, since sarge22, better known as fakesarge22, liked the post it must have been a classic MAGAphant rant. Fakesarge, we've missed you, time to start posting again so we can check on your brain erosion. Maybe your brain has already exploded since your Nazi and KKK compatriots are getting called bad boys and losers by the real press. SAD.

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Fox is afraid of getting sued. I'd sue them anyway if I were the Rich family. It's hilarious that Trump and his Trump Chumps rant and rave about "fake news" at the same time they religiously watch the biggest fake news media outlet on the planet, Fox News. You can't fix stupid, and that specifically includes Trump.

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So you don't believe BLM?

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Ha ha. That's really funny coming from you.

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