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Well, it was reported on cbc, and as late as this morning (Sunday) there Simon Dotan was discussing this and his upcoming film 'the settlers'. | 0 | not toxic |
I'm definitely not jealous of anything that a Federal or State employee has, except the long, paid vacations and all the paid holidays.
We are not making a blanket statement that all Federal employees have the "entitled" mindset. Furthermore, I have worked at State, Federal and City jobs over my career. I know what goes on, so I'm not clueless. I may also have abused the system when I was younger.
Based on experience and an inside view, I am like many others and we are not clueless. This is more liberal trash-talking that allows us to not have an open discussion of the realities of this sour situation. | 0 | not toxic |
Maybe those thanks were with relief, and his real service was leaving the priesthood, and they hoped they would never hear from, of, or about him again.
I know this really elicits a gut reaction from me, but it just seems so obvious the hierarchy still doesn't get the sewer depths of this scandal, and what it's continuing to cost, and not just financially. The wounded souls of the abused and the ones who love them. The ones who have walked away in disgust. The lost integrity of a Church that should be a moral light to the world, but whose leaders (and many followers) cannot be trusted. The pain of those who still believe in a good God, who have to face the reality that the leaders of that Church have failed, and face the world that, with reason, jeers and disregards, and they have no justification against it. | 0 | not toxic |
the cornerstone of the zone read is the offensive line--if they can't sustain one-on-one blocks on the line of scrimmage, it doesn't matter if Houdini is at quarterback, there's going to be a pile of mush at the point of attack. It will be interesting to see if, and how, the coaches and players can fix that---is it a matter of will, or skill? | 0 | not toxic |
That was pretty ridiculous. | 1 | toxic |
Trump lacks a mandate. If the popular vote did not matter, then people would not bring it up. The popular vote is what people think of when they say they believe in democracy. The idea that every person has one vote and that it counts. The electoral college is a anachronism. | 0 | not toxic |
"she arrived by a chorus of children from the Lanai Performing Arts Center singing “Circle of Life” from the “The Lion King.” They high-fived the congresswoman after their performance."
Why use the word "subdued" that sounds emotionally disappointing and somber - Gabbard's visit sounds more raucous or enthusiastic to me. | 0 | not toxic |
And Cardinal Sarah is right when he states that "Even today, a significant number of Church leaders underestimate the serious crisis that the Church is going through". Right for the wrong reason.
It amazes me that he attributes this serious crisis to liturgical changes after VII, not the clerical abuse crisis which is the REAL reason for the crisis in the Church. | 0 | not toxic |
Sounds like the ghost of Cocaine-Cobain. | 0 | not toxic |
let's not leave out automobile owners, big rig drivers and anyone that's ever operated anything on the road with a steering wheel... | 0 | not toxic |
The city notifies ICE by fax because that is what ICE has demanded. The city has requested ICE to change the way the city notifies ICE -- preferring email or text -- but ICE has said no, it still wants to be notified by fax. I don't know why that is the case, but wish they would change it. | 0 | not toxic |
Mulroney was far from perfect, but his action in raising this money for the University is one of the best things he has done in his life. All Canadians will benefit from a more educated populace and we can all be thankful for that. | 0 | not toxic |
Saddly if Trump had a red nose he would be a master pierrot. Unfortunately he claims to have a responsible hobby as President of USA. | 0 | not toxic |
Doesn't quite rival Kitzabher (or whatever his name is) and Kate Brown does it Gary ? How about out Sr Senator who took three attempts to pass the bar ? | 0 | not toxic |
Tell me Chatten , How many F-35's are flying and most importantly why would you buy something that the Nation to our South does NOT fly. Get over the anti-American thing and think this through. The Yanks carry 80-90 % of the N/A patrol burden so that begs the question as to why you advocate for an orphan fleet? As it is the future government will be giving these F-18E & F 's to the U.S. Navy in about 10 years . That organization is short at least 80 Aircraft as of today | 0 | not toxic |
Brave Sir Trump, the deferred and craven coward, threatens the war hero McCain with tRump's mighty wet noodle....McCain fails to quake in his boots..... | 0 | not toxic |
Canada is being run by someone with the mentality of a fifteen-year-old. | 1 | toxic |
Bereavement seems to me to be a doubtful way to discern a vocation to celibacy. Maybe rule this began as a particularly stupid interpretation of 1 Timothy 3: 12 where "one wife" surely meant "one at a time"!
I do not expect my wife to predecease me or to marry again if she did. Ho9wever, although I knew the rules on the matter before my ordination , I am glad to say that I was never asked to make any promise on the matter.
Deacon Duncan
UK | 0 | not toxic |
This is so racist~!!! Oh, wait. She's haole. | 0 | not toxic |
Get there on time, stop asking to flout the rules. I too believe in holding carriers to the rules, but they are pretty marginal businesses, and they can't change the rules just for you. | 0 | not toxic |
The topic de jour is 'colonialism'. Helen Zille is pilloried by the hypocrites within her own party for making a silly remark about it. The modern colonialists are the Guptas, arrivals from abroad who successfully colonized the minds and pockets of their willing subjects, the black politically connected elite. The ones who complain most about colonialism and white on black racism, have the least to say about how easily they were bought, enslaved and traded by the new Indian colonialists. | 1 | toxic |
I didn't get to watch any of this one, but every time the Rockies beat the Dodgers an angel gets its wings, hahaha! SWEEP THEM! | 0 | not toxic |
The supporting white media, who is very prominent and aggressive on its approach of spreading propaganda news, has suddenly imbibed a defensive mode in favor of Ramaphosa by presenting this womanizing activity as legal (Polygamy being legal), thus raising many questions from the nation’s native community. | 0 | not toxic |
I thought Sammy Davis was dead... | 0 | not toxic |
Suu Chee was a darling of certain globalist faux nice guys, but in 25 years of military rule, her own people never rose up to support her. They had their reasons. | 0 | not toxic |
The death penalty never worked when Alaska was a territory. Vic Fischer, who was one of the delegates writing the statehood constitution said more than once it was never applied fairly. And which is why it was deleted. There were some death penalty cases that went through during the territorial days. There were four hangings - I call them lynchings - two Alaska Native men, one Black man, and a poor immigrant from Portugal -were hanged. The immigrant and the two Native men barely spoke English. Source: The UAA Justice Center. | 0 | not toxic |
Neither your comment, nor your proposed "solution", is civil or appropriate.
We punish offenders with incarceration. We aren't like North Korea, Iran, Syria, etc. And until you and other like-minded individuals understand that, our country cannot become better. | 0 | not toxic |
Washateria fire? And none of that heroin comes thru Elmandorf in duffel
Bags immune to searching and screening. The Govt is implicitly concerned with the flow of drugs getting here to wreak
Havoc to substantiate their agenda to
Be tough on crime and their "war" on drugs and dandruff and idioligy. It's all
Smoke and mirrors as we move closer to fascism and martial law. | 0 | not toxic |
The problem is common sense for anti gun folks is not common sense. Guns are inanimate objects they can't commit crimes. The end goal of anti gun folks is to have all of us disarmed and defenseless so they can feel safer. But in reality they are far less safe no longer having the means to self defense. | 0 | not toxic |
Yeah! Just look at those trousers! | 0 | not toxic |
So, in this ugly incident, part of a bigger uglier war, just who are the good guys who deserve compensation?
In my opinion, nobody except the people of Canada, dragged into these long dragged out wars on terror and this miserable Kahdr affair.
This entire matter is the repudiation of many things Canadians should be protesting - war, child soldiers, Islam's undue influence on Canadians, religion in general, torture, and the selective "justice" denied to most Canadians who cannot afford a lawyer, but lavished on some special politically correct individuals. | 0 | not toxic |
So Telus and Rogers offer free TV's etc. in order to gain market share from their competitors and now want their new customers to pay for all the free stuff if they find that their new service provider delivers a poor service and they want to cancel? | 0 | not toxic |
"full professor at Harvard"
I thought he was only a part-time professor or "senior lecturer" rather than a full or "tenured" professor at the University of Chicago School of Law and not Harvard? Are you confusing his Harvard law degree with his teaching position? | 0 | not toxic |
the coup d'etat was planned by about 30 white supremacist racists calling themselves "The Committee of Safety" FACT !
the coup d'etat was NOT a popular revolutions led by the subject citizens of the King of Hawai'i as evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of Hawaiian subjects signed the ku'e petitions protesting annexation FACT ! | 0 | not toxic |
"...The courts have been the biggest friends of aboriginal peoples since 1992. The Supreme Court has been favourable to pretty much all our cases,”.."
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Or stated another way, the country of Canada and or the Canadian people probably lost in most cases...
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Every-time one sees an aboriginal "win" in the courts in Canada, it is not the equivalent of a civil rights win in the USA - in other words, one were all society becomes stronger, and benefits from the expansion of rights and freedoms.
In Canada it is usually a zero-sum argument, and one where a group where there is no broad equivalent (if Joe down the street gets more money from the city for his expropriated house, it guarantees everyone else gets more), that benefits all, except other special interest groups (usually other native ones), and no larger benefit. | 0 | not toxic |
"Among its key measures, the budget adds $7 million for construction of a school in Kivalina in Western Alaska, boosting the project's total legislative appropriation to about $50 million."
What?
Will the $50 million make a better school for the village kids? That is an absurd amount of money.
It's absolutely ridiculous that the state spends that much money, and so much more on the public education system. I think its time we re-think how the public education system works and who funds it! ESPECIALLY in the villages. | 0 | not toxic |
This is awesome, way to go FWSD. I recently moved here and have been very involved with Seattle Public schools for years. I was very frustrated by the inaction and lack of resources for basic security and emergencies. PTAs have to fund even basic emergency supplies, creating an inequitable environment where schools without affluent parents go without. I like that FWSD is developing something consistent for ALL schools. Way to go.
And to Scott, this isn't about student behavior; there are outside dangers posed by mentally ill people and natural disasters. things have changed since the sixties and even the 90s when I was in school in Eastern Washington. Columbine and Sandyhook (not a student who killed all of those children) had not happened. Social media and cyber bullying didn't exist. And take location into account, earthquakes aren't a threat in Eastern Washington like they are here. | 0 | not toxic |
with your roots and herbs you have enveloped my frown face with smile, slung to stand,tube tie burned alive, i used your herbs and root according to the instruction given it materialized,i have conceive now and delivered a baby boy,from letter A-z can't speak how joyful i'm. contact him via on facebook (Oduduwa Ajakaye) | 0 | not toxic |
Making every moment count! | 0 | not toxic |
Possibly the incident of the car running over people.
But not the demonstration itself. Or what they said or what they wore. | 0 | not toxic |
Thank you for writing, Jeannine. You are right. Diamond Head once belonged to King Lunalilo. Diamond Head and much of Lunaliloʻs surrounding property became part of the crown lands of Hawaii. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs today receives 20 percent all revenue the state collects at Diamond Head. The rest to help maintain Diamond Head and all the other state parks. | 0 | not toxic |
Snowflake-in-Chief Twitler was extra-triggered on Twitter again this morning,
…no doubt because his angry white boy base is still pissed off about the DACA thing. | 0 | not toxic |
If anyone can post a SINGLE Muslim nation that treats women and gays as equal in law, I'd be very curious to hear it. | 1 | toxic |
Great column, Austin. As others have noted in various forms...football and sports in general is about wins and losses but then again, it is not. I think Coach Taggart's father knew he could go because his son is where he is supposed to be and will do just fine. Go Ducks! | 0 | not toxic |
If illegal border crossing is OK ...why does Canada has any law about anything? The hell with it all! | 1 | toxic |
Yes, "spewed rhetoric", all by the left by people like yourself that believe we should have open borders and allow any Tom, Dick, or Abdul to enter our country. How silly. You must really hate the United States. | 1 | toxic |
As a Dutch person, I would just like to say that the phrase "be normal" doesn't really translate into English very well. As my mother used to say, it is perfectly acceptable, say. to be a transexual, but Heaven forbid if you fail to wash your front steps on the morning when everyone else does. There is a long social history of both tolerance for others and expections of "proper" behaviour that make for a complicated mix. | 0 | not toxic |
Sue, Our fire people and cops are over priced as are medical services. And you think it should be law that we all have to chip in and pay for crazy over priced services that we may not as individuals want or use. | 0 | not toxic |
The CPI for lettuce is up 16.5% in April over March and 31.3% over December. Maybe they all eat in restaurants but they only have to look at the CPI data that is supposed to be their main concern to see what is happening to produce prices. However, if you mean that the Bank of Canada seems to be more interested in expanding exports than controlling inflation, that is probably true. | 0 | not toxic |
Here's a link to the column. I think you get 5 free reads a day at NYTimes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/opinion/trump-and-pruitt-will-make-america-gasp-again.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region | 0 | not toxic |
Barrow? What's Barrow? lol | 0 | not toxic |
"Prineville, east of Portland."
Ugh, Prineville is nowhere near Portland and is a long ways SE of Portland. This geographic reference is about as bad as saying "Ontario, which is east of Eugene." The two are not remotely close in proximity. | 0 | not toxic |
The Nuggets will never be any better than mediocre. Real yawner of a draft for them! | 1 | toxic |
I am close to 50 years old and remember when Sears was relevant. I have a 19 year old Kenmore fridge in my garage that works like a champ in subzero temps and has never gone down. I "had" a Discover Card. Craftsman tools are legit. When I need to purchase something now, I don't even think of Sears as a "maybe" option. In fact I don't even think of Sears at all. Haven't been there in at least 12 years. They should stop the bleeding and just close up shop. On a not totally unrelated subject; JC Penney? | 0 | not toxic |
That freak surely never belonged in there. What kind of person is obsessed with creepy racist books like the Camp of the Saints?
Racist dirtbag. So glad this scum is out of there. | 1 | toxic |
Isn't the presidential spot exactly like the apprentice show where the others are delegated to do tasks and succeed at them? Looks like the original show continues but this time in the political area instead of just traditional business. | 0 | not toxic |
Sen Gardner traversed the Western Slope in anonymity this last week. Only after the fact putting out an article in the Grand Junction Sentinel, appearing as a press release.
Typical of this man, hides behinds his staff; only appears in orchestrated events and does his Washington deeds behind closed doors.
This man is a true Republican. | 0 | not toxic |
If the Navy stands behind this draft EIS, they should have no problem with allowing the public time for a full review, especially in light of the water issues near OLF. | 0 | not toxic |
I'm not talking just England, have a gander..
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/17/world/mapping-isis-attacks-around-the-world/index.html
Bangladesh,Philippines,Spain, Belgium, Denmark, places that didn't have jack to do with the US. More attacks on their own people than one can count and the list keeps on getting longer.
No more excuses for what's going on, they are attacking who they want to attack, where they want to attack with whatever silly excuse they can come up with. They don't like others, hell, they don't even like their own brothers all in the name of a religion that they have obviously cherry picked from. | 0 | not toxic |
That would be completely consistent with your stated beliefs. You will find a completely different set of problems over there, including a tremendous amount of discord. May you find peace with your decision. | 0 | not toxic |
I did read these articles. Thanks for posting the links.
Mary Ann | 0 | not toxic |
Most do, and I'm not upset with them at all. I'm sure we would all cash that check. I hear it all the time from them, I have them as friends. They joke and kid haha white man pay!!! | 0 | not toxic |
Officer Santiago is a hero. Most police officers are aware of the Police Administration misconduct in protecting themselves against their own, and they don't like it. These actions seem to have greatly increased once Kealoha was made Chief. Kealoha protected his friends and went after those who were against or criticized his actions and policies. Most of the officers were against these actions. HPD has great dedicated officers who were stymied by the atmosphere at HPD and also the Police Union. Kealoha was the union's pick for Chief. Once named Chief, the union had Card Blanche in its actions. This was very detrimental to the workings of the HPD. These actions began to change once Kealoha left, but the roadblock from his cronies still prevent further improvement. It is up to the Police Commission to name a Chief who is not a Kealoha crony and is a fair, just and a person with integrity to improve HPD. Anyone promoted by Kealoha should be passed over. HPD can return to being great. | 0 | not toxic |
I'll assume Weld blew them up on the field and their players got hurt in a collision game since the author didn't mention a parking lot fight | 0 | not toxic |
Has issues with dating as well. Professional whiner.
https://thewalrus.ca/dating-while-black/ | 0 | not toxic |
"Beautiful Maunalua Bay Beach Park, less than half-mile away, was built less than 10 years ago for the people at the cost of millions of dollars." I think it's been there a bit longer than that! And besides, you're trying to dictate where people must go to the beach just to suit your needs, especially here in Hawaii, where ALL beaches are public! Now THAT'S a "flown here", not "born here" attitude. | 0 | not toxic |
"America Last" or "America Lost" seems a more appropriate post-election slogan to me... | 0 | not toxic |
The Dodgers have hit Greinke fairly well over the 2 years he has been gone. He beat them in the last meeting, but overall, they have held their own against him.
The wildcard for tonight's game will be Darvish; when he is off, his pitches that miss the strike zone miss by a lot, not on the razor's edge of the zone, but easy to lay off. Of the starts he has pitch as an LAD that I have seen, this has been a bad telltale sign. It could be a blowout for Arizona early.
I will be watching closely at Dave Robert's batting lineup: does he go Barnes or Grandal at catcher? I'm resigned to Granderson playing in left over Ethier. I imagine Chase Utley gets the nod over Forsythe, though Forsythe is 4 for 8. And will Roberts bat Yasiel Puig in the 8 hole like he usually does, even though he's been their best hitter so far. The thing is, Roberts might put the slumping Bellinger, Granderson and Grandal in the 4-5-6 hole. That is how Dave Roberts rolls. Might not, we'll see. Greinke will like that. | 0 | not toxic |
"and thus has no business making laws"
As if it needs to be said, the courts don't make laws .. they pass judgements which have the effect of rendering existing laws invalid.
Which is kind of the point. People smarter than .. well .. for civility's sake, let's just say smart people realized a long time ago that society and its government need a formal feedback loop.
Society changes. Old laws need to be struck down. If we relied on electioneers to take those risks, we'd still be stuck with Victorian morality.
Anyway, if you were right, wouldn't governments invoke the notwithstanding clause more often?
(Since they don't, I guess even they think the courts aren't overreaching.) | 0 | not toxic |
I think think it's completely bizarre that you think O'Reily's decades-long sexual predation is "funny." It's not a joke.
For shame. | 0 | not toxic |
What if your financial priority is having enough to feed your family until your next pay? Most families and individuals are only two or three paycheques away from being destitute. Not everybody has a portfolio and a broker. | 0 | not toxic |
And be educated and have grammatical acumen and spelling ability?
*Their* I said it again...stop ranting politics, you're a bore, albeit you represent your reactionary ilk supremely. What this nation lacks is the Conservatives of yesteryear. Real ones, who encompass the political spectrum, including centre. | 0 | not toxic |
I'm not GOP, but am disappointed that the SA unnecessarily politicized Erin's death by using Scott's photo from the RNC. | 0 | not toxic |
Why not spend $75k on a nice sports sedan and $15K on a pick up truck to move stuff around? | 0 | not toxic |
Mr. Gilad proposes that EWEB is complicit in arranging for some "evil doers" to spy on your homelife. Thank goodness we have Blachly-Lane service and no smartmeters. We do have a microwave oven, an electric stove, two computers and an AM/FM radio.....no TV. Are these appliances safe from hacking and other nafarious actioins. We have a barn but I'd rather not have to move into it to protect my privacy. Any information or advice will be appreciated. Gary Crum | 0 | not toxic |
That's rich, an agency that functions on behalf of the government and euthanizes animals like a death camp charging a no-kill shelter with animal cruelty. | 0 | not toxic |
Be specific. What was upsetting the teachers ? What was unreasonable ? | 0 | not toxic |
than you fully understand no former tenant has the legal right to tie up rental property they have not paid rent on in months, and you can legally remove the contents so you can rent the property. Furthermore you cannot break into your own property. Obviously he let his better judgment get the best of him. If not for the fact guns were involved the cops would have laughed and told the delinquent to sue for his shit in court. | 1 | toxic |
What has Wynne been doing until now? Raking in the cash from fund-raisers and looking out for corrupt Liberal croneys first. Stealing from the poor , reducing benefits to an all-time all-Canadian low, while raising taxes and charges here and there. Her cabinet is totally owned by money-laundering foreigners. Now she says she took a wrongturn? | 0 | not toxic |
Because if there's one thing we know Trump's good for it's his word. | 0 | not toxic |
On the subject of how to get more women in tech and the assumption that sexism is the reason women aren't half of software engineers I found this article to be particularly illuminating:
https://medium.com/the-mission/im-an-ex-google-woman-tech-leader-and-i-m-sick-of-our-approach-to-diversity-17008c5fe999
Quick, somebody fire her! Oh wait, she's the boss. :-D | 0 | not toxic |
thought i had read somewhere that eweb, sub & a few other local utilities are tied into some long term contracts w/bpa at a rate approx. set at $45 mw but the open market for electrical rates significant lower at something like $7 a mw. the reasons the rates are so low now is due to solar, wind & natural gas. also heard that the local utilities are trying to get bpa to renegotiate the contract rates to something quite a bit lower. other question is, what happens when the current contracts expire in a couple of years w/bpa, will eweb be so generous & reduce our rates or decide to pocket the difference | 0 | not toxic |
Nope. Mendacious, for sure. Confused? Never.
Kevin Meyer is laser-focused on protecting his one constituent: ConocoPhillips.
And he is world-class at it, give him that.
In the words of a Pete Seeger song, made famous by Peter, Paul, & Mary in 1962, "When will we ever learn?" | 0 | not toxic |
We have a poorly trained, corrupt, third rate police force unworthy of respect. | 1 | toxic |
Institutionalized climate denial in our political system and climate denial by inaction by the rest of us have real consequences. They look like Houston. | 0 | not toxic |
How do you know it's not? | 0 | not toxic |
That's a very arrogant remark. | 1 | toxic |
I listened to an interesting talk on NPR, many governments have gone to a VAT, which lowers rates and covers every one and does not tax employment. Having said that as our code sits now, when you cut the dividend you are in fact percentage wise taxing lower income people at a much higher rate. When you bring a sales tax, same thing. But an income tax has two glaring advantages, a. it captures our of state worker who earn her but leave nothing and it can be DEDUCTED, on your federal return. The other solutions do not do that, to many people are concerned about if everyone pays rather than what is better for the worker, income tax. | 0 | not toxic |
If it's doing well in the past 18 months its only because of Stephen Harper and the direction he steered Canada. Morneau's been spending us into the poorhouse in the midst of good times. Wait until the economy turns. All hell will break loose. Just like after Pierre Elliot Trudeau. | 0 | not toxic |
I vote for Chinese influence, and "pay for access."
It is the the subject of the highest priority of investigation in Australia, and New Zealand. People with ties to the government of the PRC, investing in real - estate, donating money to political parties, and attempting to buy companies/steal industrial secrets from sensitive technology firms.
Sound familiar?
A close second is the Canadian interest in Trumps income tax returns (critical now that the US government is looking at overhauling the tax legislation - number one question - will it benefit Trump? no one knows as his taxes have not been released) ..
What about Trudeau's tax returns? Same deal in Canada, the tax act is being reviewed...how will it affect those making the decisions on it?
No one in Canada knows. And to say "no one cares' is as flippant, and dismissive as Trump saying only the "failing press" cares about his taxes..Both comments can't be right, can they? | 0 | not toxic |
Wow is Canada ever going downhill, paying fans couldn't afford to fill the stadium to watch the Expos but those same fans now are forced to pay all these illegal asylum seekers to live in the stadium till we find housing and support them and their families for the rest of their lives. This Libtard government is going to break Canada it was bad enough when we took on 30,000 Syrian on welfare now open borders and most people are to dumb to see past selfie boy's nice hair. | 0 | not toxic |
The weak tendencies in the church are when dogmatists attempt to infantilized the laity and in so doing attempt to infinities themselves as if they know the great Mind of God. Cupich continues to be a very strong cardinal for Chicago.. | 0 | not toxic |
And Maxine Waters cares only about entitlement, and the big free ride. Maxine Waters, full time racist, part time whatever she does. | 0 | not toxic |
I just do not get it. The Canadian Journalistic community cannot adapt to the changing media so the the solution is federal money. Maybe they need to write or report in ways Canadians want to consume? Or would that be the hard way out and getting to the public trough far easier.
Again another self serving article written by these Journalism Professors, probably should come with a disclaimer of some type. | 0 | not toxic |
I wonder if this G&M obsession with Syrian refugees is a natural fetish or if it's a government paid advertisement.
Looks like a quarter of G&M front page is 'reserved' for this topic | 0 | not toxic |
prima seems to think that not advocating for ever-increasing uses of fossil fuels is advocating for the Stone Age -- "of heating our homes with fire and not having air conditioning and using beasts and wagons as transportation".
No one arguing for less fossil-fuel usage is doing anything of the sort.
If you make extreme arguments about non-traditional families, then, yes, I may very well call you on it. | 0 | not toxic |
yuknon
It seems Quebec replaced "because the church says so"
with referendums. In other words no accountability.
And it seems by the "first two words" .....brainwashed some. | 0 | not toxic |
So is Mountain View. Go take a walk on a Saturday Night...you'd be susan your merry britches. | 0 | not toxic |
The headline would be more accurate and reflective of the content if it read "Republicans" instead of "States".
The GOP finds it much more difficult to operate when people can see what they're actually doing. | 0 | not toxic |
When we ask someone to give, we are helping them contemplate and deal with the growth encouraging topic of "generosity".
It's a very good thing to wrestle with: priorities, purpose, intention, sacrfice (love), and dealing with what the spiritual writers talk about: our "attachments".
These are all excellent spiritual topics that we have to learn to love and to take on reguarly, hopefully in conversation with God.
And, even better and more demanding, when we ask someone else to go ask someone else to give, we're helping the whole chain of potential givers/askers. Everyone can grow.
To ask someone for money for some good cause, especially ones that one is not personally benefiting from (your slap stick example) is a great act of charity.
We need to "raise up" our understanding of contributions to a higher and more demanding plane, eschewing slap stick or caricature thinking, which is often driven by a poor desire to demean, diminish, or get accolades from 3rd parties. | 0 | not toxic |
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