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I'm highly skeptical that O'Leary would win a general election. He is too much like Trump, and most Canadians abhor Trump. There's also the fact that we will have the opportunity to watch Trump screw up left, right & centre well before the next election. Getting rid of the ACA will rub Canadians the wrong way, and will shaft the working poor in America. His meddling with Dodd-Frank could well unleash another recession, and his first major initiative -- this travel ban -- has been shot down by lower courts and when it makes it to the Supreme Court, it will likely be shot down there, too. However, it is possible that Trump policies could do a lot of damage to the Canadian economy, and if that happens, well, few sitting P.M.s have survived bad economies during elections. Like many people I was quite surprised by Trump's win, but at least in Canada we will likely see the train go off the tracks and take a step back from naive, arrogant, loud-mouthed populism.
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Yes, there may have been $3 billion paid out in 'vaccine court' over many years. Someone with critical thinking skills though recognizes that without vaccines, if something like small px were to swing through again, the costs could effectively reach 25% of the US economy (~ $17 trillion) per year. But anti-vaxxers instead always prove they are (at least) a brick short of a load.
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One thing for sure – the DA does not "represent white interests".
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Shame some don't realize that Obama is no longer president and also that the Donald had promised he would release his tax returns. Face it the Donald is just a liar. Liar liar pants on fire. lol And Obama's old records wouldn't reveal much. Who cares if Obama got a C or an A 20 years ago? Donald's tax returns might reveal how much he owes Russian interests among other things. Come on Donald, fulfill at least one of your good promises. You are fulfilling promises that will make America rotten to the core.
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How does one get planning permission for and architectural drawings etc for a corrugated iron shack?
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Why, and have the "racist" label hung around your neck? Did the 75% of the teachers who view her who didn't give her acceptable ratings ID themselves? Unlikely. Besides, she's as entitled as an anonymous opinion as much as anyone here, take it for what it's worth.
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Rob Ford. Rob Ford. Rob Ford.
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There's no mention in this article about these 'men' saying they were a family and that they were there to get a degree. Well, so was the woman that was raped. The police should be ashamed for not taking this to court. Poor babies lives will have to live with their expulsion while this woman will have to live with being raped by a dozen men. How tragic for them.
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It seems a bit odd that he's not on leave pending the outcome of the criminal investigation.
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I never mentioned the boycott, because it doesn't really factor into anything at all. You may consider those who hold a different opinion than you "immature" -- that's your right, of course -- but that is hardly speaking from a place of maturity either. "I would much rather support an American corporation." We agree on this. Even better, I would much rather support a local business whose profits are primarily kept in the local area.
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I'm confused. Didn't the Tories introduce the 67 eligibility criterion and the Liberals reversed it? And now the Liberals want to bring in back. And I thought the Liberals campaigned on deficits to pay for this kind of thing.
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Wow. So much hatred and anger from someone who says he wants a "caring and compassionate" president. Something's wrong with this picture. It all starts at home K. You will never change anybody. But yourself, maybe. So try working on that anger and hatred. Just saying...
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Oh, Chad, you are a naughty boy, this thread is definitely designed as emotional click bait. Think tanks are perverters of individual discriminative thinking. Thanks for illustrating this for us here in Hawaii.
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Wonder why we do not have the personnel?
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This is exactly why I am opposed to restructure of the Permanent Fund. The money will be spent on this insane pipe dream that has been talked about and billions spent on for the last forty years. Get real, it is still not economically feasible, and will benefit mostly our oil elite politicians.
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Someone calculated that it would take 100 horsepower of arm muscle strength to deflect machine gun bullets while wearing metal bracelets. Wonder Woman is no wimp, stylish hair or not. https://www.wired.com/2017/06/physics-bullets-versus-wonder-womans-bracelets/
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She said her library has plenty of funding and resources, and doesn't need donations.
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Bravo Register Guard! I see the Cannabis Culture as a incredible gift to the state of Oregon! We lost the income from logging and have been struggling ever since. Recent published numbers show a 1/4 billion in sales of cannabis in a 10 month period! Wow! All for a natural, beautiful little plant!
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EV batteries are fully recyclable, and unlike the lead acid batteries in gas cars, are completely non-toxic and do not contain any heavy metals. An EV battery contains around 10 kg of recyclable lithium versus the 10,000’s of kilograms of gasoline that is burnt by a gas car over its life. Contrast the minimal impact of battery production with the numerous waste streams produced by gasoline powered cars, which include: all of the toxic by-products of mining, extracting processing and refining the fuels, the tonnes of emissions produced by each gasoline car each year, the billions of litres of polluted engine oil, transmission fluid and coolants resulting from servicing gas powered cars, the contamination from underground fuel tanks, pipeline leaks, train and truck accidents, the groundwater impacts of fracking, the pollution of the oceans from spills, ballast water and oil well blow outs, etc. Oil production is clearly orders of magnitude more toxic and harmful than batteries.
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Oh wait, that can't be another shooting, let alone a home invasion, in south Anchorage, which is supposed to be one of the safest places to buy a home. Glad the homeowner survived the shooting. Anchorage residents can't even go to bed at night without someone prowling through the neighborhood to burglarize. Geeez people.
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I thought that maybe, just maybe , you would have a concern for the inidividuals Trump has slagged on twitter -just because they disagree. And what happens if a Trump supporter decides to self investigate those people and something untoward happens? Donald doesn't understand he is no longer an individual - rightly or wrongly he is the President and as such his words -even if they are small and only made up of 140 characters carry weight The problem with putting a lunatic in charge is he is still a lunatic.
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I've never heard that response to that comment before.
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So, Colbert is the representative of the entire left of the political spectrum? Wow. That is a weighty responsibility. Are O'Reilly and Hannity the representatives of the entire right of the political spectrum? For your sake, I hope not. They are not representing their constituency very well.
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Bad planning idea. The Waikiki Island expansion intrudes on our residential areas. Waikiki should not imposed on our local residents. Bikers now have bike lanes on McCully Street.
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Go Seattle go. Tip of the iceberg.
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Sour grapes - what kid of an argument is that?
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I am happy if American taxpayers are willing to subsidize the milk I consume.
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Amazing that we got practically nothing we hoped for from this president in terms of holding banks, corporations and insurance companies accountable, and he's still the most hated liberal around. I'd love to have seen the squealing if he'd taken advantage of our historic opportunity. Oh well, maybe NEXT time the Republicans run the car into the ditch we'll not waste any time compromising with them.
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Do they know they need defensemen?
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Yeah, I am sure those guys in Hawaii get a lot of glacier practice on Diamond Head
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The laughable thing is that they don't allow services like Uber for safety reasons but in the meantime companies like Oregon Taxi can take 1+ hours to show up, have horrible drivers who hit on women (and men), and vehicles that are on the verge of breaking down. You can't eliminate bad people everywhere but overall I think Uber has a better and safer service.
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The Donald has been forthcoming on so much, I can see why Allie says what she says. Say, do you think the Donald will ever be honest and tell the truth for a change? I don't. Allie is correct in saying that the Donald has no plan. All it takes for the Donald to prove Allie wrong is to release it. But it probably will be released at the same time his tax returns are. In other words, don't hold your breath.
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Build a wall!
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As one who tows an RV trailer behind my truck I will simply say that at 55 mph in a 55 mph zone I am not hindering traffic. It is complying with the traffic laws.
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It's curious-- the focus here is on the need for more boats, more planes, and more soldiers when recent experience shows we are most vulnerable to cyber-attack. If we really are so weak and vulnerable to physical attack, are the Pentagon and Congress so clueless that they see no reason not to advertise this to the world?
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Are you sure there's not an extra "O" in the first name of your log-in?
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Consider Trump's decision to call the president of Taiwan in the context of China's recent diplomatic snub of Obama. The American President arrived on the tarmac in China in Air Force One for a summit and was greeted by... not much. No senior officials, no red carpet, not even a stairwell to disembark from the plane. Obama had to use the folding stairs built in the plane to exit via the back door. This from a country and culture that values protocol as much as China represents a very deliberate insult. Trump is replying in kind, and putting China on notice that his administration will be very different than Obama.
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A government intervention is/was needed. Canadian residents need to be able to afford to buy or rent a place to live. Foreign capital used to monoplize housing in Canada should not be allowed. What was going on in the GTA housing market was a market failure; something had to be done. Now, what is a reasonable price for a house in 2017? Would a 4 - 6% year-over-year price increase be considered reasonable? If that is the case, if one pays about 80% over the 2005 sale prices or about 60% over 2007, that should be ok. Paying for a property that has increased in value much more than those percentage increases would be too much and bound to fall either in the short-term or plateau in the long term. https://twitter.com/MukHomam/status/851805647297548288
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You got that wrong, Bristan. The oil belongs to the state and therefore the money that's received from the sale of the oil also belongs to the state. Be happy that the state has provided residents an annual PFD for the past 35 years. It's time to give back to the state to pay its bills. The state can giveth and taketh away.
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JV: Anyone who allows ADN to influence their choice on anything is foolish.
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(I meant to say I was bicycling on the Springwater Trail as well.)
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Lighting along Chester creek: so they can see you jogging and load their gun quicker Lighting in Valley of the Moon: so they can aim their handguns better at night Muldon community gathering place: so you don't have to do drug deals in the Walmart parking lot Inclusive playground equipment: how is a equipment designed for a paraplegic going to be any fun for 99 percent of the users? More importantly how pathetic do you have to be to try and raise our property taxes [once again] by guilt tripping us into thinking kids are crying in front of non inclusive playground equipment because we aren't paying for your workers to do the city's nonessential busy work? As far as I am concerned your activists do the trades a diservice with this type of pandering!
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If you mean low oil prices yea, blame Obama.
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I disagree with the author's reasoning. President Trump didn't ban immigration from countries because they are Muslim majority countries. He banned immigration from specific countries that are known terrorist breeding grounds. And more to the point, he banned people from those countries based on citizenship, not religion. For all the upset directed at the US right now for these (temporary) measures, I haven't seen a similar outcry directed against Saudi Arabia or other wealthy, Muslim, gulf states that could help these refugees, but aren't. I wonder why? Thoughts?
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Before we start killing the homeless my I suggest starting with stiff penalties for giving street people money on the streets . When that doesn't work add another law making it illegal to sell liquor within 5 miles of a school or church. Ok, there's still bars but that makes the booze so expensive it's sure to cut down on public drunkenness. Maybe just try one law that is directed at curbing the problem instead of another sb that , by reducing penalties only increases the problem. Start by eliminating the drunken panhandles from our neighborhoods that camp out behind the liquor stores.Next, we go after the drug addicts. Or just maybe we elect people who can see what the current government has done to us. Mill tax, income tax, sales tax, federal tax, more tax, more tax, more tax! New government is our only option. Stop voting for these same people. When ask which do you prefer,a new income or sales tax, tell them a new government. For starters, stop voting for oil company employees .
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I am all for the pipeline decisions but it is more than a stretch to connect them with consumer sentiment
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Never said or even insinuated it's their fans alone who use drugs. That's more your bias of me showing. Reality is that many of the "harder" bands attract those crowds (mosh-pit types). Been to quite a few of the concerts, and one reason I started avoiding them is simply because of the fans. Good luck to this area with this concert. My guess is it's gonna be a mess.
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Constrast the down's syndrome example with the other candidate who would see no moral issue with destroying that child in womb and call it "mercy." That was the choice.
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Inspirational! This Great Man of God takes time out of his busy schedule to offer us this teaching, although it wasn't really directed to the laity, but how fortunate we are to receive the crumbs that fall from the bishops' table. I look forward to the future now that the Man endorsed by the Bishops will be President and will begin enacting the Christian policies he so often discussed, with the sincere approval of the Men the Holy Spirit chose to lead the One True Church.
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The comments section appear to better reflect how Canadians really feel ...the pollster should be held accountable for the accuracy/inaccuracy of his comments.
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'Crowing that Harper didn't get pipelines built when, it was the "progressives," that stonewalled every project, is much the same". And the same applies to Obama and the Republicans - right?
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Despite the fact that Trump is a "useful idiot" for the Russians, he is unlikely to be removed from office even if found to be conspiring with the Russians because he is also a useful idiot for the GOP establishment. With few exceptions like McCain and Graham, today's GOP places more importance upon party politics than the best interests of the United States.
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$780,000,000 to the Oil Companies in Tax Credits, $68,000,000 in Royalties back to Alaska. Bye-Bye-Birdie...
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"A refugee must claim asylum in the first safe country" is the refugee policy of the Eurozone. Australia is not part of the Eurozone. If you are traveling by boat from Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan or Somalia, about the only international waters you would possibly pass through before getting to Australia would be India and Indonesia.
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Besides it makes great fire wood for the home...
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Bravo GM! The arrogant union president is doing everything he can to ensure his antiquated union organization remains in power to counter the market-driven world of manufacturing. His best friend (Ms. Wynne) is not going to be able to save him this time around. GM has lots of options and can close Cami in a heartbeat. Job security? What does Jerry think GM is - a government bureaucracy where accountability is meaningless ? He had better clean up his act or his union membership is going to realize the age of the union is headed for the history book. GM has the capability of sending a valuable message. The other car manufacturers are watching. Wake up and smell the coffee. People will buy GM vehicles no matter where they are sourced from. Especially if the cost of the vehicle isn't hampered by electricity costs. Unifor knows this too. Sorry Jerry: your organization is becoming meaningless. Quickly.
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Anyone who isn't going to be part of the current do-nothing Legislative Majority has my vote.
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So STEALING private property is for the "common good"? Sounds like Communism to me.
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Is there not something inherently repugnant about this practice? Would it be okay if sports arenas, movie theaters and other venues adopted this policy? I understand that companies like to maximize revenues, but at what cost? Shouldn't there be a law against this?
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The teachings of the church evolved. They did not spill out suddenly. The questions that the Church has discussed for centuries, the divinity and humanity of Christ, as well as questions that emerged a few yeas ago. There were two hundred years between the councils of Nicea and Chalcedon in which to discuss the theology of Christ. If you have the idea that every question was solved immediately by some foreign person, and that any kind of discussion of our faith is a sign of unfaithfulness, weakness, or relativism----there is a real difficulty to that kind of understanding. A different atmosphere has to be created in which people can understand what's REALLY central, and what is new. And lets not have the same criteria imposed for the new issues as they have for the issues that have been discussed for centuries or millennia.
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Do Toronto Island residents pay property taxes on assessed values resembling other similar Toronto residents?
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I think it is yourself who needs a more reliable teacher. The ouncil of Trent on the Sacrifice of the Mass. "CANON III.--If any one saith, that the sacrifice of the mass is only a sacrifice of praise and of thanksgiving; or, that it is a bare commemoration of the sacrifice consummated on the cross, but not a propitiatory sacrifice; or, that it profits him only who receives; and that it ought not to be offered for the living and the dead for sins, pains, satisfactions, and other necessities; let him be anathema." The Masss is not a "re-enactment" it is the re-presentation of Christ's sacrifice on Calvary. The Council of Trent specifically taught this against the Protestant reformers who like you claimed the Mass was not a sacrifice but merely a memorial meal. If you disagree, show any teaching of the Church which contradicts the doctrine of the Sacrifice of the Mass.
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Pence is not only "seasoned" but he has been in the oven too long and is well done. Pence comes with a lot of baggage and is so out of sync with the Donald there will be lot of confused voters. LOL
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You obviously have no clue what you are talking about Bubbles!
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To be honest, economics aside, if downtown, Capstone, and much of the construction in the University district is indicative of the aesthetic direction Eugene is taking, then I may end up relocating myself.
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Keep wondering, you stone-cold cretin.
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These are public records. You can look up any Colorado voter on the internet.
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I take it that you have no objection to underwriting the employment cost of companies who pay low wages when their employees are forced to rely on taxpayer funded social supports to make ends meet. Since the working poor have to spend their money a minimum wage would put more money in circulation and drive up demand with minimal effects on inflation. A guaranteed annual income would be a better solution and the ongoing debate over minimum wage levels would disappear.
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Judging by the march in San Diego, it looked like the same audience that shows up to the usual feminist/LBGQT/black lives matter protests. If you want to be taken seriously, probably best advisable to not wear a vagina costume.
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Of course a gender-based budget falls short, it only addresses half the population.
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You are 100% wrong again. Retail interlopers without a plan are the biggest losers. The biggest winners are technical momentum guys. This is supported in HFR and other hedge fund data sets. the other winners are HFT traders...High Frequency guys with the lowest latency, sitting on bids and asks. Micheal Lewis wrote a good book on the topic called Flash Boys. I understand you are well meaning, but what you say just ain't right.
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Pogrom??? To call 46 people arrested and released a pogrom is a mockery. Why is it insufficient for media these days to simply report the truth and count on readers to know what to make of it?
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He sounds like a nice young man but his choices with major programs on the mainland were slim. I think he did the right thing given those prospects.
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Where exactly do these "facts" of yours come from debtfreezone? Put your sources out there and then we can debate them.
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Just Google "sky lantern" fire and there are some clear cases. Don't know if it is worthy of banning, but it is what it is.
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Thanks for the stupidest post I have read in months. With absolutely no evidence you have slandered the Auditor General simply because her INDEPENDENT findings match the INDPENDENT findings of the Fraser Institute. This, of course, should be no surprise because the AG has access to the full hospital records whereas the Fraser Instituted surveyed the doctors involved in providing care. I was wondering how the left was going to duck the fact that the Fraser Insitutue's report was effectively verified by the AG and now I know, by slandering the AG.
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Only one killer, one too many - a "very white" Québécois, racist, misogynistic and intolerant, born in Quebec. The young Mohamed El Khadir has NOTHING to do with the killing of 6 innocent persons. Violence is simply inexcusable. My best thoughts are with the grieving Muslim families. Regards.
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Jim Crow laws, yes.
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Excellent post! But that is too common sense for the cry-baby snowflake left. He beheaded a total stranger then started to eat him, but of course it wasn't his fault at all you know, the poor baby was sick and can't be faulted to killing another human being. What, you want to put him in jail, what kind of alt-right trump supporting fanatic are you? He should be treated kindly, with kid gloves, he needs, no he DESERVES millions of dollars of treatment, not a jail sentence. Sarcasm incase the dim witted left can't figure it out.
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Where's the calculation considering a wholesale re-write of SB21, including ending of oil tax credits? These 2 issues would be the greatest ones in resolving the deficit.
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Thank you so very much. I appreciate all your hard work to keep our beaches beautiful. I love beachcombing and it always breaks my heart to see garbage taking away from the beauty of Alaska.
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Very good read and spot on. When they write contracts around the globe for $2, $3, $4 per barrel of oil then get $25-$35 per barrel in Alaska you know our legislature is in the bag. Citizens write legislation most other places but not Alaska, here industry writes legislation. Whom are they going to support. Term limits anyone?
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The transition team knew that Flynn had been acting as a foreign agent for Turkey during the campaign. The transition team knew Flynn had contact with Kislyak before the infamous call. Today we learned the transition team knew Flynn was under federal investigation for that Turkey work during the campaign. The transition team allowed Flynn to become Natl. Sec. Advisor. The folks on the transition team have some 'splainin' to do. Guess who was the head of the transition team. If this goes where it could, Pence should be toast along with Trump. And hopefully Ryan loses his post when the Freedom Caucus and the Alt-Right throws a shit fit over all this.
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"Don't mess with my Timmy's." They've already messed. See Buster Buzz's last comment, and others. "young and old in small towns across our beautiful country..." Are the cameras rolling? Cue the french horns and string section. Gimme a break. It's a fast-food franchise!
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Sure, EG... Go to the extreme to make your point, as you can't actually have an intelligent conversation.
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Not so quick on BlackBerry ?? How secure is Shopify platform and mobile platform with client info ? Maybe Shopify should give BlackBerry a call, looks like a lot of iPhone usage in the Shopify abode ! Cross-Platform BLackBerry BES12 is in order !
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Mr. Heinbecker is trapped in the 1960's. Germany is no longer any threat to its neighbours. In fact, it leads the EU in immigration and is a strong promoter of human rights and freedoms and has been for many years now. The EU has morphed from a security union into a bloated, bureaucratic org. interfering in its members trade, immigration and Gov't policies. Brexit was a logical response to it. NATO is not obsolete, but Trump is correct when he states that member countries are not pulling their financial weight and that NATO has ignored the terrorist threat. Trump's criticism of Merkel allowing 1.2 million refugees to immigrate to Germany might seem harsh, but there have been incidents with some of them and even Merkel has apologized for that decision. Finally, there is no mention of Obama's weak responses to Russian and Chinese aggression during his Presidency, which is the main reason why Putin and Xi Jinping have been able to dominate and intimidate their neigbours.
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POTUS Biden will put the US back
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From the article...."She does say she was offered her manager's office in which to smudge, but found it unacceptable, as it was someone else's "personal space" and was not a place others could use. "
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Or maybe you are wrong, ever had that cross your mind?
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IF the Russians did hack Hillary's emails from her UNSECURED servers, they did us a HUGE favor. Those hacks PROVED that Hillary was a liar and a cheater! We owe them big time!
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Ahhh...yet another problem solved with alcohol and guns. Good thinking! /s
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This mans criminal record had nothing to do with the news story. Some ADN writers have a perchance of including gratis criminal histories to fill out their articles. Thankfully, by law, they can't include anything that is not public information ... but there should be a law against cheap shots! I'm not defending the guy, I'm just against yellow journalism.
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There are ways to compel the required documents without granting immunity. These should be tried first. The question of whether the Fifth applies to documents as well as personal testimony is not completely clear cut.
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"...Why was Trudeau smirking throughout?..." 'cause Butts told him this was a commercial for the new season of his reality show "House of Commons", and Trudeau didn't quite see how this related to the usual script he reads from...
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A friend of mine voted for Trump because as he puts it, Hillary should be in jail and only Trump can save the middle class. Today, that same friend when asked what he though about Trumps nominations for cabinet positions responded with, 'well I haven't really been following things since the elections...' Ugh! Silly people did stupid things and now they aren't even paying attention to the consequences. But the silver lining is we will have four great years of SNL.
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"Because it's 2017..." Women killers can walk free. The judicial branch of this country in shambles. "Because it's 2017..."
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Regardless if my statement isn't 100% accurate, what was 100% accurate (and was my full point) is that it is NOT the taxpayers fault.
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Typical, social/liberal logic. The same mis-informed logic which career politicians have burned into the weak minded peons for years. Basic facts: The Federal Government was formed to work for the People of the Nation and was granted 'only specific' powers. The State Governments were formed to work for the People living in that geographic area of the Nation and all powers not specified to the federal level were reserved to the state. The Federal Government is not an entity unto it's self! It is owned and "Funded" by all of the People! The Federal Government spends "your" money! State money, Federal money, it is all our money! There is no free lunch! Unless you work as a pusher of papers in a government job, producing nothing but more paperwork for other non productive government employee to shuffle. Non productive jobs cost money! Personally, the people would be better served at the local level where intelligence and common sense reside.
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