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Anyone who is surprised by this has not been paying attention. With $20 Trillion in debt, we can't continue to borrow money to subsidize lifestyle choices. I'd like to live on the beach in Maui and have the government subsidize that choice.	0	not toxic
Obama leaves with a 55% approval rating today... Trump has a 37% approval rating, the worse of any incoming president ever.. Those are facts... Not represented by the posters on here.	0	not toxic
In my opinion, no.	0	not toxic
The apartment above our daughter's was renting at 2,300. When the tenant left, it was bumped to 3,200	0	not toxic
But many Americans seem to think that Russia meddling in the election means, Putin actually came in and counted votes. They do not seem to understand that because of Trump's Russian money borrowing, Trump might have lifted sanctions and continued diplomatic relations with the Russians. This money mess seems to be lost on the 38% base. [or they are still mad, mad, mad that a black man made it to the big White House.]	0	not toxic
JURY NULLIFICATION = NOT GUILTY	0	not toxic
You and les get the message which by your own words confirm you both as idiots. Give an idiot enough rope and they will surely hang themselves. The sooner they do it the better.	1	toxic
12 Mil for a new Liars in Office building. Hardly an even trade.	0	not toxic
Donald Trump's election shows the dramatic deterioration of civil society in the U.S. Gerrymandering has created racially motivated distortions in the electoral map. Politicians and judges are bought and paid for by the rich. Voter turnout is at record lows and yet, the Trump got elected with almost three million fewer votes than Clinton. Police practice brutal systemic discrimination. Governments run unsustainable deficits and yet public infrastructure is woefully inadequate. Trumps behavior is disgraceful. But, American civil society is in such a state of degradation that one in three Americans think Donald Trump is a good President. That is the real story. It too hard to imagine the U.S. ever coming back from this sorry state. The election of Donald Trump means the end of the United States, perhaps not as a country, not yet anyway, but certainly as a world power. Nature abhors a vacuum. The demise of the U.S. creates and global power vacuum and substantial instability for everyone.	0	not toxic
You don't recognize the terms "General Welfare" contained in the preamble? Read the whole thing not just the 2nd amendment.	0	not toxic
Yes pater, you have the choice to follow the groupthink. Doesn't make Payette's point any less valid.	0	not toxic
"those remaining will hire many of those laid off." Why? If they need the staff, they need the staff regardless of whether they have just been laid off.	0	not toxic
In my opinion, Seamus O'Regan was made a minister because any government needs at least one minister from Newfoundland and Labrador (or any other province you could point to). About the only person, in either caucus, that I can think of who knows much about veterans' issues would be Senator Dallaire, and the government would just get a different kind of criticism for having a line minister in the Senate....	0	not toxic
i dont need to see your tax return but i want to see every connection you have to any business, non-profit, association or other institution that might sway your voting one way or another. we know there isn't a person on this planet that is un-corruptible, for the right price. i just dont want to wast time, and cut through the bs and focus on where you will go with your influence. the entire republican party is down on their knees, waiting in line, for their turn to blow trump. that's how much they want to impose christian (the bible) rule on the country.	1	toxic
Where is the forcing? The kids can be taught at home if it's that important to the parents.	0	not toxic
Considering that you know nothing about Jillian, whatever you believe is based on nothing more than your own prejudice. Sad.	0	not toxic
With 1 child they would be refused a benefit. With 2 children they would get a small benefit. With 3 or more children they would get a larger benefit. 4 children, 2 under the age of 6 and 2 aged 6+, with a family net income of $170,000, would receive $5,575/year in the Canada Child Benefit. This could well be more than they would have received under the old Universal Child Care Benefit. Also note that this is net family income, so potentially a family could be earning up around $225,000 gross income and reduce it down to $170,000 after pension contributions and RRSP deductions and still get that $5,575/year benefit.	0	not toxic
Couldn't agree more Olrun. Well said.	0	not toxic
Mr. Trudeau said that while Canada is always welcoming to vulnerable people, the government needs to make sure it’s doing so the “right way.” ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... It is high time that Justin Trudeau get out of his egotistic competition with Pope Francis for Best Humanitarian, and, for the sake of Canadian civilisation, act on the wisdom that the "right way" in response to all these refugees is to address the domestic factors that have caused the refugee flows. In the case of Syria there is vicious Islamic sectarianism, which prevents the stubborn Syrians from reconciliation and openness to diversity in their homeland in the example of South Africans after apartheid and Rwandans after the 1990s genocide. In the case of Africans, government corruption is the evil dynamic.	0	not toxic
Going home with the deal that either the house or the senate, is guaranteed to produce LOADS of issues for the GOP.	0	not toxic
As non-morons know, Trump is a laughing stock throughout the entire world. It's not just that he's an ignoramus and a moron; it's also that everyone knows his word is meaningless. He said he'd declare China a currency manipulator, and he backed down. He said he'd make Mexico pay for the wall, and he backed down. He said he'd declare steel tariffs and he's done nothing. He said he had a plan for defeating ISIS and he has nothing, etc., etc., etc. I'm sure you're a nice guy in real life, but you seem to have some cognitive issues.	1	toxic
Did you learn how to use the ellipsis at CU?	0	not toxic
Natives say racially offensive garbage about white people all the time, and get government grants and pay cheques to do so.	1	toxic
I give Caldwell credit for making a real effort to produce affordable housing. But what makes absolutely no sense is the increases in property taxes and how property taxes are used. For one thing, raising property taxes WILL raise rental prices. It's just a simple fact of economics. And we wonder why our rents in Honolulu are so high. Just check how much these homeowners have to pay to keep their homes. You keep raising the tax on these rental units and expect that the rental rates to remain the same. That's just crazy. And add to that the added taxes to homeowners such as a fee for waste pick up. Shouldn't that have been taken from the property taxes? This city will continue to suffer from high rents due to our high taxes and taxes on top of those taxes. And we wonder why we have such a high homeless rate.	0	not toxic
Much of what the liberals have "done" to deal with what Obama famously referred to as "violent extremism" is basically symbolic politics (i.e. announcing and making it look like something is being done for political purposes, while actually doing very little). Also see the related phrase "security theater." There's a growing bloc of voters Trudeau doesn't want to lose...	0	not toxic
diane... sweet head gear..and an insightful post.	0	not toxic
Don't believe Moore has a "slim lead". This is just an example of the phenomenon of conservatives either refusing to be polled, or intentionally giving misleading responses. It was rampant in the last presidential election, in which up until the election day itself Clinton was shown comfortably winning. And it's going on here. Conservatives do not trust polls or pollsters. Seldom does a subject know whether a poll is non-partisan or commissioned by a campaign. Nor do subjects know what is done with data gathered on them. There could easily be a database - by name - built on respondees to polls. Who knows what access there might be to such information and what use might be made. In this highly charged partisan atmosphere, it's easy to see why someone might not want the media to know who supported Moore? So you'd be wise to assume that Moore's support is some 5-7% higher than polled.	0	not toxic
The priest in question was a much loved hero in Western Canada. He built a school for very touch teenage boys in rural Saskatchewan, and directed all that juvenile energy into sports, especially hockey. His boys beat the best all across Canada. And his "brats" generally turned out very well indeed. If you knew the man, you would realize there was nothing whatsoever out of place with that reference. The image, intended obviously only for me, was picture perfect and evoked a fond memory of deep respect. Context is everything, LoL.	0	not toxic
The baker's case is mostly about religious liberty since marriage is religious. Genesis 2:24. It was instituted in a creative capacity, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD who bound and blessed the male and female union as one. If traditional marriage was created in the Image of God, then the exact opposite is a façade giving a false appearance of the truth. And we know the Bible is correct since heterosexual union has proven true because it's how anyone whoever existed got here! But the counterfeit has reared its head through the Homosexual marriage falsehood, that has been labeled "same-sex marriage," or 666, which is just the opposite of traditional marriage in every aspect and reflects nothing but lies. From a religious standpoint, the SCOTUS does not have authority over the Image of God. Neither can it "create" a spectrum of non-productive sexes in the Image of God. This 100% indicates the mark of the beast as prophesied by Jesus. The baker must refuse to accept the mark of the beast.	0	not toxic
Yea, cause the media always misquotes his tweets.......or voices over his speeches....? I don't need the media, or anyone, interpreting video clips, tweets, written press releases, White House press conferences - if you can call cherry-picking friendly press attendees a press conference - Boy Scout or Inauguration speeches, etc for me. Believe it or not just because there are foes to Trump doesn't validate the right's cries of Fake News! You guys spoon feed yourselves on Fox, Breitbart, Rush, etc and then tell US we are being played by Fake News. I listen to his words and I don't need MSNBC, CNN, FOX, BBC, or the Politburo to decipher or politico-speak it for me. I can see and hear what Trump says unfiltered and raw. And pretty much all of it sucks.	1	toxic
I could well be wrong. There is insufficient evidence to back either case however more money in the hands of those who have to spend it would imply greater opportunity for business.	0	not toxic
Yes, going green in Ontario has worked out rather well, sarc off.	0	not toxic
Equivocating Breibart as a site sympathetic to new-nazi, white supremists because they tell stories of their actions and opinions is the same as the globe and mail being said to be sympathetic to ISIL when they interview an extremist cleric. Breibart has always published stories to inform people, however how distasteful it is in order to let people know what is happening, and not present homogenized news approved by the men in govt.,corp. power. Brannon is a Westpoint Graduate, a Naval Veteran. He has staffed Breibart with a diverse religious and ethnic, nongender based staff of world class journalists. They are not a mainstream media outlet, who must toe the line of political correctness like the G&M, CBC, starting out as an online shock media like the national enquirer might be considered. I am somewhat dismayed though that this continued rhetoric against Breibart, Bannon and the Trump Campaign only began when the DNC, started their media attack when HRC/DNC proven corrupt.	0	not toxic
Where do I sign up to get everything handed to me because I've never seen it in my 30 year career? Maybe you can give me some pointers.	0	not toxic
I think more of a nanny than a counselor.	0	not toxic
Trump holds all the cards.....and he knows it.	0	not toxic
You do, of course, realize that with this comment format, everyone can see that you're up-voting your own posts, right?	0	not toxic
Scatologist: It's not the CBC selling the ad time during HNIC; it's the good folks at Rogers who can't fill those slots. That was part of the deal when Rogers bought the national rights and deigned to give the CBC Saturday nights: Rogers got all the ad revenues.	0	not toxic
What about Obama?	0	not toxic
Finally. A Kahle column that makes sense; didn't think I'd ever see it.	0	not toxic
Sex is useless. It is humanity at it's purest form. It is something that had a evolutionary function, breeding children and then you say screw the biology we do it only for our own pleasure and our ego's. That is why parenting is so toxic in Canada.	0	not toxic
Dumb this down. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fossil-fuels-sea-levels-study_us_55f5c683e4b063ecbfa4aa76 It's called a "hypothetical". I know, I know . . . five syllables is a lot. Take your time - library closes at 5:00 PM today.	0	not toxic
I wish there were more people on the Police Commission like Ms. Sheehan.	0	not toxic
Agree, point is that one losing season does not justify getting rid of him. Please also consider the number of freshman on the team this year, the major injuries also. Like your call name.	0	not toxic
Unfortunately hotel rooms in Anchorage, and every place else, are priced based on demand. Put the legislature in Anchorage from January through April and every room will be at the higher summer rates when it difficult to find one for less than $ 150 a night.	0	not toxic
Trump, taking care of our money.	0	not toxic
Well, yes, there's that... ??? I'm guessing you're in no mood to discuss the news that the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, after 13 years of sending back those glorious images of Saturn, is due to run out of fuel and disintegrate within a couple days.	0	not toxic
'.....He has a gorgeous, New Age wife....' . . Uh, no...It took me a while to put my finger on it, but Trudeaus' wife is atttactive in the way I remember being in grade three and finding my treacher 'attractive'. Pre-pubescent boys find a certain type of women attractive (a sort of odd-blend of 25% mother, and the rest split among older sister, and older sisters friends), but you are not sure what it is all about. Once you mature, (you know-high school and beyond) you leave that behind, and move into more adult-type fixations... . Trudeaus wife is who she is, no beef with her. (Well there is the singing, and the servants) But 'gorgeous'? (Gorgeous=traffic stopping, guaranteed the best looking in any bar she could walk into anywhere, etc.).No. . Just like Trudeau himself-he is attractive-for a politician, but his 'competition' is mostly puffy, stuffy, old men...(I think I even got that from GQ or other similar mags)	0	not toxic
Sounds like they may have known each other. Doubt police are releasing all the details. Would also be interesting to know if he's a recent lower 48 transplant.	0	not toxic
Cellodad, Even where people pay property taxes to pay for public education, their overall tax burden is less than Hawaii.	0	not toxic
continued from above But we can ask all of those people to pay for a ridiculous 30 foot wall along the Mexican border that everyone with more than two brain cells to rub together agrees will be completely ineffective. Mulvaney's vision is one of utter contempt for Americans.	0	not toxic
Ignore the tweets on Terry Frei. This is his comment. “Nothing specifically personal, but I am very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend,” wrote Terry Frei, of the Denver Post. Think Hiroshima (Japan) while celebrating our USA Memorial Day. I am certain DP reporter Frei was doing just that. So what.	0	not toxic
How about 80% of players and coaches on the team who are non-local? What has "local" got anything to do with cheering on the players and the team?	0	not toxic
By the time the train goes into service in two or three years, the cars most likely will be obsolete and will have to undergo a multi-million equipment upgrade to make the technology current. HART officials will have a hard time explaining why it was necessary to manufacture and bring in the cars five or six years before going into service.	0	not toxic
There is already 'mandatory treatment' even under a diversion, just not inpatient.	0	not toxic
Ahem....that's an IOU, The fact that it's even a discussion is a validation of the failure of parents and education. It is 2017, right?	0	not toxic
By doing nothing (option 1) and delaying the inevitable, Mr. Polozi maintains the burden of a lower dollar (higher costs of basic household goods and all imported goods) on the large majority of Canadians who do not live in the GTA or Vancouver. Quite frankly, I'm tired of it. Polozi should exercise option 2. Doing nothing right now will just make it twice as painful for debt-laden Canadians by doing it later.	0	not toxic
The people attacking and smearing Trump with nasty insults like Mika and Joe have done can dish it out but they can't take it. I'm glad he gave them a taste of their own venom; they deserved it. And no, this has nothing to do with "attacking women."	1	toxic
Seems like she is doing a pretty good job to me. Interesting that all teams are similar and on board as one. Different sports and different fans. . Not much for marketing of any sort at my age. But my children and their children are a different animal.	0	not toxic
You don't understand actuarial science. Contraception is free because it reduces the actuarial risk of birth. Employers don't pay at all. Births make coverage for women more expensive, which is why for a while they paid higher premiums. That practice has been banned and was the point of the provision that also made contraception free.	0	not toxic
So move then, and that should take care of the issue.	0	not toxic
I can't wait until the FBI informant with all the tapes goes on the stand in front of Congress against Hillary and Obama. He was in the mix for over 4 years as a plant. Congress has him sequestered. ; ))	0	not toxic
Again I ask, is the slaughter of millions of innocent, unborn children not of primary importance any longer? The answer is either yes or no. Don't dare suggest for one minute that Pope St John Paul II supports your position on abortion!	0	not toxic
"Strange Fruit" was written by a white Jewish man. Today he would be marginalized as an instrument of hate for having written that song. This kind of progressivism comes straight out of bizarro world.	0	not toxic
As if the terror watch list is some perfect scroll delivered by angels. Thousands of names are there errantly. If the list is ever allowed to pull God given rights from people, there will surely be millions of names on it. Of course there will be a way to get yours removed: take a number, and have a seat.	0	not toxic
On what do you base your post on? Any facts?	0	not toxic
That wasn't to hard for someone with an 8th grade education. http://www.nea.org/home/12957.htm http://www.nea.org/home/52285.htm http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/earth-day-curriculum.html	0	not toxic
I couldn't wrap my head around that entire section. Is it 'just' an observation that the sketchy people are more obvious now? Okay, I get that. Or is Pyro lamenting the loss of the pushed out homeless youth because they provided a better blurred lines visual in this regard for her as well as keeping those sketchy ones under some control? If so, give me a break!	0	not toxic
just missed slashin' the guy's neck and he gets $2500 bail? that encourages crime.	0	not toxic
Yet Clinton, Clapper, Brennan who all provably lied to Congressional Committees still walk free. And none of the charges to date have anything to do with Russia or Collusion, yet the headline says "at the heart of the Russian collusion probe", when if G&M had any honesty or integrity would read "a plantar wart on the foot of of a Deep State vendetta".	0	not toxic
A blanket statement that all politicians are hypocrites is ridiculous. There are many good people in the world and some of them get into politics because they want to contribute and better the lives of others through public service. They are not in it for personal gain or notoriety.	1	toxic
I would like to know what percentage of the products sold by this company are made in canada; and what portion of the sale price of these garments is actually spent in canada. Sorry, but I find it hard to boost entrepreneurialism whose end result is the wiping out of a whole sector of the Canadian economy. Not only that, but no virtual device will replace actually trying stuff on before you buy it.	0	not toxic
"The most obvious thought is why not defer this lovely plan for another 2 years...?" Maybe because those are two years that she'll never get back and spending them working in a job she'll have already been in for 27 years upon retirement is pointless once her financial future is secured.	0	not toxic
Mr.Trump, the Mall field is as empty as you are ! Few went to your inauguration but hundreds of thousands went to manifest who you are and represent.	0	not toxic
Just as the experts have been predicting for decades, another Mexican illegal alien terrorist attack in the USA.	0	not toxic
Bovine Scatology.	0	not toxic
Anyone can get an ID.	0	not toxic
"These are turbulent times and we need to be wise with Canadian spending (which neither Federal Liberals nor Ontario Liberals have been) AND we need to focus on Canada's economic competitiveness" we must also include Alberta NDP in your statement.	0	not toxic
Trudeau won't tell new citizens to respect others rights, just Indians wants.	0	not toxic
Fewer than 40% come over southern border and a wall is easy to get around esp when treasure is on other side. Instead, u get rid of reason for illegals wanting to come here and they will not. Best way is a phase-in e-verify, but T/GOP destroying America is equally effective.	0	not toxic
No, but did you miss this "Speaking with Bloomberg News, Ministry spokesperson Maria Zhakarova said staff of Russia's embassy in the United States met with members of Trump's campaign - meetings she described as "normal practice". Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign refused similar requests for meetings, she told the agency. Asked for clarification, a Foreign Ministry official declined to elaborate Ryabkov's remarks but said that standard diplomacy called for "contact with leaders in the campaign." on matters such as clarifying statements by the candidate or conveying interview requests from Russian journalists. The ministry official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. The statement from Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov is about this diplomatic practice. Your false assertion about the so called Cyber hackers names has already been responded to.	0	not toxic
Well, contrary to popular belief, We are Not perfect. : ) Did The NY Times create a similar "report" on the Hillary/anti-Trump crowds? I suspect that there were/are many more such incidents by the Lib Dems that far outweigh the numbers of Trump supporters showing lack of class.	0	not toxic
And on the very day that 5 officers were executed just for being white.	0	not toxic
We're shifting to the new Green economy where we will have $15/hour guaranteed incomes and social housing for everyone! It'll take at least one term for Horgan and Weaver to tax Liberal supporters down to this income level and force them out of their expensive homes.	0	not toxic
The dude went down on the first hit time after time. Cut his sorry ass. Henderson is the future, not this wimp.	1	toxic
I'm afraid that is not the right answer	0	not toxic
The Chinese are cracking down on foreign money laundering so watch out. This although Trudeau and McCallum are selling up to 1 million 10 year visas in China this year verses 400k last year. Minister Morneau also has no interest in cracking down on money laundering as witnessed by his appointments of a failed Superintendent of Real Estate Brokers in BC to the position of tracking foreign money entering Canada. It will be interesting to see who wins, China, the Canadian government or the citizens of Canada.	0	not toxic
"Canadians love to lecture Americans about how morally superior we are" Violating your own people's human rights and being home to the worst incidents of teenage suicide in the world kind of take the shine off you superiority.	0	not toxic
Thomas Merton would not approve of the National Catholic Reporter because it is a heretical publication that is deceiving the minds of many Catholics who think it represents the teachings of the Catholic Church. The NCR has no right to call itself Catholic. It is not Catholic. It is secular in its viewpoint.	0	not toxic
Can't read? I said Washington state, you denied tankers transit Washington... "Most of Cherry Point's crude oil is from the Alaska North Slope. It is brought in by petroleum tankers via the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Rosario Strait and delivered directly to the refinery via the facility's tanker pier near a minor headland called Cherry Point, on the Strait of Georgia.[7][8] The remainder of the crude comes from a pipeline connected to reserves in Western Canada. In January 2014 the refinery finished construction of a rail facility to import Bakken crude from North Dakota.[9] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Point_Refinery	0	not toxic
Turbine Beaver. WoW!!!	0	not toxic
Now what could go wrong.	0	not toxic
He should have been charged with a felony.	0	not toxic
There's nothing morally repugnant about this at all. Do you not believe in private enterprise? Communism instead perhaps? I don't want to see a ski area either but the SCOC made the right decision.	0	not toxic
Inouye airport? In what country or state is that located?	0	not toxic
" I will have to look that up." . But that's the point Tesa: you shouldn't have to "look it up," this article and newspaper should help clarify and spell that out for you within the article. If a city attorney is shutting down a petition initiative because of "a legal technicality," and the media doesn't even bother to spell out that legal technicality - it directly implies an agenda driven journalism.	0	not toxic
Rocket!	0	not toxic
Our economy is global, please elaborate on what global policies Morneau enacted that rejuvenated the stalled economy. The resource sector rebounded with global demand and is one of the biggest drivers of our economy. Morenau's contribution zero.	0	not toxic
What have you got against vets? They served the country.	0	not toxic
Pizzagate?? You do know that that was a lunatic conspiracy theory, entirely ungrounded in reality, right?	1	toxic

Anyone who is surprised by this has not been paying attention. With $20 Trillion in debt, we can't continue to borrow money to subsidize lifestyle choices. I'd like to live on the beach in Maui and have the government subsidize that choice.

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Obama leaves with a 55% approval rating today... Trump has a 37% approval rating, the worse of any incoming president ever.. Those are facts... Not represented by the posters on here.

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In my opinion, no.

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The apartment above our daughter's was renting at 2,300. When the tenant left, it was bumped to 3,200

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But many Americans seem to think that Russia meddling in the election means, Putin actually came in and counted votes. They do not seem to understand that because of Trump's Russian money borrowing, Trump might have lifted sanctions and continued diplomatic relations with the Russians. This money mess seems to be lost on the 38% base. [or they are still mad, mad, mad that a black man made it to the big White House.]

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JURY NULLIFICATION = NOT GUILTY

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You and les get the message which by your own words confirm you both as idiots. Give an idiot enough rope and they will surely hang themselves. The sooner they do it the better.

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12 Mil for a new Liars in Office building. Hardly an even trade.

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Donald Trump's election shows the dramatic deterioration of civil society in the U.S. Gerrymandering has created racially motivated distortions in the electoral map. Politicians and judges are bought and paid for by the rich. Voter turnout is at record lows and yet, the Trump got elected with almost three million fewer votes than Clinton. Police practice brutal systemic discrimination. Governments run unsustainable deficits and yet public infrastructure is woefully inadequate. Trumps behavior is disgraceful. But, American civil society is in such a state of degradation that one in three Americans think Donald Trump is a good President. That is the real story. It too hard to imagine the U.S. ever coming back from this sorry state. The election of Donald Trump means the end of the United States, perhaps not as a country, not yet anyway, but certainly as a world power. Nature abhors a vacuum. The demise of the U.S. creates and global power vacuum and substantial instability for everyone.

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You don't recognize the terms "General Welfare" contained in the preamble? Read the whole thing not just the 2nd amendment.

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Yes pater, you have the choice to follow the groupthink. Doesn't make Payette's point any less valid.

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"those remaining will hire many of those laid off." Why? If they need the staff, they need the staff regardless of whether they have just been laid off.

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In my opinion, Seamus O'Regan was made a minister because any government needs at least one minister from Newfoundland and Labrador (or any other province you could point to). About the only person, in either caucus, that I can think of who knows much about veterans' issues would be Senator Dallaire, and the government would just get a different kind of criticism for having a line minister in the Senate....

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i dont need to see your tax return but i want to see every connection you have to any business, non-profit, association or other institution that might sway your voting one way or another. we know there isn't a person on this planet that is un-corruptible, for the right price. i just dont want to wast time, and cut through the bs and focus on where you will go with your influence. the entire republican party is down on their knees, waiting in line, for their turn to blow trump. that's how much they want to impose christian (the bible) rule on the country.

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Where is the forcing? The kids can be taught at home if it's that important to the parents.

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Considering that you know nothing about Jillian, whatever you believe is based on nothing more than your own prejudice. Sad.

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With 1 child they would be refused a benefit. With 2 children they would get a small benefit. With 3 or more children they would get a larger benefit. 4 children, 2 under the age of 6 and 2 aged 6+, with a family net income of $170,000, would receive $5,575/year in the Canada Child Benefit. This could well be more than they would have received under the old Universal Child Care Benefit. Also note that this is net family income, so potentially a family could be earning up around $225,000 gross income and reduce it down to $170,000 after pension contributions and RRSP deductions and still get that $5,575/year benefit.

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Couldn't agree more Olrun. Well said.

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Mr. Trudeau said that while Canada is always welcoming to vulnerable people, the government needs to make sure it’s doing so the “right way.” ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... It is high time that Justin Trudeau get out of his egotistic competition with Pope Francis for Best Humanitarian, and, for the sake of Canadian civilisation, act on the wisdom that the "right way" in response to all these refugees is to address the domestic factors that have caused the refugee flows. In the case of Syria there is vicious Islamic sectarianism, which prevents the stubborn Syrians from reconciliation and openness to diversity in their homeland in the example of South Africans after apartheid and Rwandans after the 1990s genocide. In the case of Africans, government corruption is the evil dynamic.

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Going home with the deal that either the house or the senate, is guaranteed to produce LOADS of issues for the GOP.

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As non-morons know, Trump is a laughing stock throughout the entire world. It's not just that he's an ignoramus and a moron; it's also that everyone knows his word is meaningless. He said he'd declare China a currency manipulator, and he backed down. He said he'd make Mexico pay for the wall, and he backed down. He said he'd declare steel tariffs and he's done nothing. He said he had a plan for defeating ISIS and he has nothing, etc., etc., etc. I'm sure you're a nice guy in real life, but you seem to have some cognitive issues.

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Did you learn how to use the ellipsis at CU?

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Natives say racially offensive garbage about white people all the time, and get government grants and pay cheques to do so.

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I give Caldwell credit for making a real effort to produce affordable housing. But what makes absolutely no sense is the increases in property taxes and how property taxes are used. For one thing, raising property taxes WILL raise rental prices. It's just a simple fact of economics. And we wonder why our rents in Honolulu are so high. Just check how much these homeowners have to pay to keep their homes. You keep raising the tax on these rental units and expect that the rental rates to remain the same. That's just crazy. And add to that the added taxes to homeowners such as a fee for waste pick up. Shouldn't that have been taken from the property taxes? This city will continue to suffer from high rents due to our high taxes and taxes on top of those taxes. And we wonder why we have such a high homeless rate.

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Much of what the liberals have "done" to deal with what Obama famously referred to as "violent extremism" is basically symbolic politics (i.e. announcing and making it look like something is being done for political purposes, while actually doing very little). Also see the related phrase "security theater." There's a growing bloc of voters Trudeau doesn't want to lose...

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diane... sweet head gear..and an insightful post.

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Don't believe Moore has a "slim lead". This is just an example of the phenomenon of conservatives either refusing to be polled, or intentionally giving misleading responses. It was rampant in the last presidential election, in which up until the election day itself Clinton was shown comfortably winning. And it's going on here. Conservatives do not trust polls or pollsters. Seldom does a subject know whether a poll is non-partisan or commissioned by a campaign. Nor do subjects know what is done with data gathered on them. There could easily be a database - by name - built on respondees to polls. Who knows what access there might be to such information and what use might be made. In this highly charged partisan atmosphere, it's easy to see why someone might not want the media to know who supported Moore? So you'd be wise to assume that Moore's support is some 5-7% higher than polled.

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The priest in question was a much loved hero in Western Canada. He built a school for very touch teenage boys in rural Saskatchewan, and directed all that juvenile energy into sports, especially hockey. His boys beat the best all across Canada. And his "brats" generally turned out very well indeed. If you knew the man, you would realize there was nothing whatsoever out of place with that reference. The image, intended obviously only for me, was picture perfect and evoked a fond memory of deep respect. Context is everything, LoL.

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The baker's case is mostly about religious liberty since marriage is religious. Genesis 2:24. It was instituted in a creative capacity, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD who bound and blessed the male and female union as one. If traditional marriage was created in the Image of God, then the exact opposite is a façade giving a false appearance of the truth. And we know the Bible is correct since heterosexual union has proven true because it's how anyone whoever existed got here! But the counterfeit has reared its head through the Homosexual marriage falsehood, that has been labeled "same-sex marriage," or 666, which is just the opposite of traditional marriage in every aspect and reflects nothing but lies. From a religious standpoint, the SCOTUS does not have authority over the Image of God. Neither can it "create" a spectrum of non-productive sexes in the Image of God. This 100% indicates the mark of the beast as prophesied by Jesus. The baker must refuse to accept the mark of the beast.

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Yea, cause the media always misquotes his tweets.......or voices over his speeches....? I don't need the media, or anyone, interpreting video clips, tweets, written press releases, White House press conferences - if you can call cherry-picking friendly press attendees a press conference - Boy Scout or Inauguration speeches, etc for me. Believe it or not just because there are foes to Trump doesn't validate the right's cries of Fake News! You guys spoon feed yourselves on Fox, Breitbart, Rush, etc and then tell US we are being played by Fake News. I listen to his words and I don't need MSNBC, CNN, FOX, BBC, or the Politburo to decipher or politico-speak it for me. I can see and hear what Trump says unfiltered and raw. And pretty much all of it sucks.

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I could well be wrong. There is insufficient evidence to back either case however more money in the hands of those who have to spend it would imply greater opportunity for business.

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Yes, going green in Ontario has worked out rather well, sarc off.

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Equivocating Breibart as a site sympathetic to new-nazi, white supremists because they tell stories of their actions and opinions is the same as the globe and mail being said to be sympathetic to ISIL when they interview an extremist cleric. Breibart has always published stories to inform people, however how distasteful it is in order to let people know what is happening, and not present homogenized news approved by the men in govt.,corp. power. Brannon is a Westpoint Graduate, a Naval Veteran. He has staffed Breibart with a diverse religious and ethnic, nongender based staff of world class journalists. They are not a mainstream media outlet, who must toe the line of political correctness like the G&M, CBC, starting out as an online shock media like the national enquirer might be considered. I am somewhat dismayed though that this continued rhetoric against Breibart, Bannon and the Trump Campaign only began when the DNC, started their media attack when HRC/DNC proven corrupt.

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Where do I sign up to get everything handed to me because I've never seen it in my 30 year career? Maybe you can give me some pointers.

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I think more of a nanny than a counselor.

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Trump holds all the cards.....and he knows it.

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You do, of course, realize that with this comment format, everyone can see that you're up-voting your own posts, right?

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Scatologist: It's not the CBC selling the ad time during HNIC; it's the good folks at Rogers who can't fill those slots. That was part of the deal when Rogers bought the national rights and deigned to give the CBC Saturday nights: Rogers got all the ad revenues.

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What about Obama?

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Finally. A Kahle column that makes sense; didn't think I'd ever see it.

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Sex is useless. It is humanity at it's purest form. It is something that had a evolutionary function, breeding children and then you say screw the biology we do it only for our own pleasure and our ego's. That is why parenting is so toxic in Canada.

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Dumb this down. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fossil-fuels-sea-levels-study_us_55f5c683e4b063ecbfa4aa76 It's called a "hypothetical". I know, I know . . . five syllables is a lot. Take your time - library closes at 5:00 PM today.

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I wish there were more people on the Police Commission like Ms. Sheehan.

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Agree, point is that one losing season does not justify getting rid of him. Please also consider the number of freshman on the team this year, the major injuries also. Like your call name.

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Unfortunately hotel rooms in Anchorage, and every place else, are priced based on demand. Put the legislature in Anchorage from January through April and every room will be at the higher summer rates when it difficult to find one for less than $ 150 a night.

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Trump, taking care of our money.

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Well, yes, there's that... ??? I'm guessing you're in no mood to discuss the news that the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, after 13 years of sending back those glorious images of Saturn, is due to run out of fuel and disintegrate within a couple days.

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'.....He has a gorgeous, New Age wife....' . . Uh, no...It took me a while to put my finger on it, but Trudeaus' wife is atttactive in the way I remember being in grade three and finding my treacher 'attractive'. Pre-pubescent boys find a certain type of women attractive (a sort of odd-blend of 25% mother, and the rest split among older sister, and older sisters friends), but you are not sure what it is all about. Once you mature, (you know-high school and beyond) you leave that behind, and move into more adult-type fixations... . Trudeaus wife is who she is, no beef with her. (Well there is the singing, and the servants) But 'gorgeous'? (Gorgeous=traffic stopping, guaranteed the best looking in any bar she could walk into anywhere, etc.).No. . Just like Trudeau himself-he is attractive-for a politician, but his 'competition' is mostly puffy, stuffy, old men...(I think I even got that from GQ or other similar mags)

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Sounds like they may have known each other. Doubt police are releasing all the details. Would also be interesting to know if he's a recent lower 48 transplant.

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Cellodad, Even where people pay property taxes to pay for public education, their overall tax burden is less than Hawaii.

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continued from above But we can ask all of those people to pay for a ridiculous 30 foot wall along the Mexican border that everyone with more than two brain cells to rub together agrees will be completely ineffective. Mulvaney's vision is one of utter contempt for Americans.

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Ignore the tweets on Terry Frei. This is his comment. “Nothing specifically personal, but I am very uncomfortable with a Japanese driver winning the Indianapolis 500 during Memorial Day weekend,” wrote Terry Frei, of the Denver Post. Think Hiroshima (Japan) while celebrating our USA Memorial Day. I am certain DP reporter Frei was doing just that. So what.

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How about 80% of players and coaches on the team who are non-local? What has "local" got anything to do with cheering on the players and the team?

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By the time the train goes into service in two or three years, the cars most likely will be obsolete and will have to undergo a multi-million equipment upgrade to make the technology current. HART officials will have a hard time explaining why it was necessary to manufacture and bring in the cars five or six years before going into service.

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There is already 'mandatory treatment' even under a diversion, just not inpatient.

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Ahem....that's an IOU, The fact that it's even a discussion is a validation of the failure of parents and education. It is 2017, right?

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By doing nothing (option 1) and delaying the inevitable, Mr. Polozi maintains the burden of a lower dollar (higher costs of basic household goods and all imported goods) on the large majority of Canadians who do not live in the GTA or Vancouver. Quite frankly, I'm tired of it. Polozi should exercise option 2. Doing nothing right now will just make it twice as painful for debt-laden Canadians by doing it later.

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The people attacking and smearing Trump with nasty insults like Mika and Joe have done can dish it out but they can't take it. I'm glad he gave them a taste of their own venom; they deserved it. And no, this has nothing to do with "attacking women."

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Seems like she is doing a pretty good job to me. Interesting that all teams are similar and on board as one. Different sports and different fans. . Not much for marketing of any sort at my age. But my children and their children are a different animal.

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You don't understand actuarial science. Contraception is free because it reduces the actuarial risk of birth. Employers don't pay at all. Births make coverage for women more expensive, which is why for a while they paid higher premiums. That practice has been banned and was the point of the provision that also made contraception free.

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So move then, and that should take care of the issue.

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I can't wait until the FBI informant with all the tapes goes on the stand in front of Congress against Hillary and Obama. He was in the mix for over 4 years as a plant. Congress has him sequestered. ; ))

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Again I ask, is the slaughter of millions of innocent, unborn children not of primary importance any longer? The answer is either yes or no. Don't dare suggest for one minute that Pope St John Paul II supports your position on abortion!

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"Strange Fruit" was written by a white Jewish man. Today he would be marginalized as an instrument of hate for having written that song. This kind of progressivism comes straight out of bizarro world.

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As if the terror watch list is some perfect scroll delivered by angels. Thousands of names are there errantly. If the list is ever allowed to pull God given rights from people, there will surely be millions of names on it. Of course there will be a way to get yours removed: take a number, and have a seat.

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On what do you base your post on? Any facts?

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That wasn't to hard for someone with an 8th grade education. http://www.nea.org/home/12957.htm http://www.nea.org/home/52285.htm http://www.nea.org/tools/lessons/earth-day-curriculum.html

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I couldn't wrap my head around that entire section. Is it 'just' an observation that the sketchy people are more obvious now? Okay, I get that. Or is Pyro lamenting the loss of the pushed out homeless youth because they provided a better blurred lines visual in this regard for her as well as keeping those sketchy ones under some control? If so, give me a break!

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just missed slashin' the guy's neck and he gets $2500 bail? that encourages crime.

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Yet Clinton, Clapper, Brennan who all provably lied to Congressional Committees still walk free. And none of the charges to date have anything to do with Russia or Collusion, yet the headline says "at the heart of the Russian collusion probe", when if G&M had any honesty or integrity would read "a plantar wart on the foot of of a Deep State vendetta".

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A blanket statement that all politicians are hypocrites is ridiculous. There are many good people in the world and some of them get into politics because they want to contribute and better the lives of others through public service. They are not in it for personal gain or notoriety.

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I would like to know what percentage of the products sold by this company are made in canada; and what portion of the sale price of these garments is actually spent in canada. Sorry, but I find it hard to boost entrepreneurialism whose end result is the wiping out of a whole sector of the Canadian economy. Not only that, but no virtual device will replace actually trying stuff on before you buy it.

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"The most obvious thought is why not defer this lovely plan for another 2 years...?" Maybe because those are two years that she'll never get back and spending them working in a job she'll have already been in for 27 years upon retirement is pointless once her financial future is secured.

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Mr.Trump, the Mall field is as empty as you are ! Few went to your inauguration but hundreds of thousands went to manifest who you are and represent.

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Just as the experts have been predicting for decades, another Mexican illegal alien terrorist attack in the USA.

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Bovine Scatology.

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Anyone can get an ID.

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"These are turbulent times and we need to be wise with Canadian spending (which neither Federal Liberals nor Ontario Liberals have been) AND we need to focus on Canada's economic competitiveness" we must also include Alberta NDP in your statement.

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Trudeau won't tell new citizens to respect others rights, just Indians wants.

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Fewer than 40% come over southern border and a wall is easy to get around esp when treasure is on other side. Instead, u get rid of reason for illegals wanting to come here and they will not. Best way is a phase-in e-verify, but T/GOP destroying America is equally effective.

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No, but did you miss this "Speaking with Bloomberg News, Ministry spokesperson Maria Zhakarova said staff of Russia's embassy in the United States met with members of Trump's campaign - meetings she described as "normal practice". Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign refused similar requests for meetings, she told the agency. Asked for clarification, a Foreign Ministry official declined to elaborate Ryabkov's remarks but said that standard diplomacy called for "contact with leaders in the campaign." on matters such as clarifying statements by the candidate or conveying interview requests from Russian journalists. The ministry official spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter. The statement from Deputy Foreign Minister Ryabkov is about this diplomatic practice. Your false assertion about the so called Cyber hackers names has already been responded to.

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Well, contrary to popular belief, We are Not perfect. : ) Did The NY Times create a similar "report" on the Hillary/anti-Trump crowds? I suspect that there were/are many more such incidents by the Lib Dems that far outweigh the numbers of Trump supporters showing lack of class.

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And on the very day that 5 officers were executed just for being white.

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We're shifting to the new Green economy where we will have $15/hour guaranteed incomes and social housing for everyone! It'll take at least one term for Horgan and Weaver to tax Liberal supporters down to this income level and force them out of their expensive homes.

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The dude went down on the first hit time after time. Cut his sorry ass. Henderson is the future, not this wimp.

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I'm afraid that is not the right answer

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The Chinese are cracking down on foreign money laundering so watch out. This although Trudeau and McCallum are selling up to 1 million 10 year visas in China this year verses 400k last year. Minister Morneau also has no interest in cracking down on money laundering as witnessed by his appointments of a failed Superintendent of Real Estate Brokers in BC to the position of tracking foreign money entering Canada. It will be interesting to see who wins, China, the Canadian government or the citizens of Canada.

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"Canadians love to lecture Americans about how morally superior we are" Violating your own people's human rights and being home to the worst incidents of teenage suicide in the world kind of take the shine off you superiority.

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Thomas Merton would not approve of the National Catholic Reporter because it is a heretical publication that is deceiving the minds of many Catholics who think it represents the teachings of the Catholic Church. The NCR has no right to call itself Catholic. It is not Catholic. It is secular in its viewpoint.

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Can't read? I said Washington state, you denied tankers transit Washington... "Most of Cherry Point's crude oil is from the Alaska North Slope. It is brought in by petroleum tankers via the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Rosario Strait and delivered directly to the refinery via the facility's tanker pier near a minor headland called Cherry Point, on the Strait of Georgia.[7][8] The remainder of the crude comes from a pipeline connected to reserves in Western Canada. In January 2014 the refinery finished construction of a rail facility to import Bakken crude from North Dakota.[9] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_Point_Refinery

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Turbine Beaver. WoW!!!

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Now what could go wrong.

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He should have been charged with a felony.

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There's nothing morally repugnant about this at all. Do you not believe in private enterprise? Communism instead perhaps? I don't want to see a ski area either but the SCOC made the right decision.

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Inouye airport? In what country or state is that located?

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" I will have to look that up." . But that's the point Tesa: you shouldn't have to "look it up," this article and newspaper should help clarify and spell that out for you within the article. If a city attorney is shutting down a petition initiative because of "a legal technicality," and the media doesn't even bother to spell out that legal technicality - it directly implies an agenda driven journalism.

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Rocket!

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Our economy is global, please elaborate on what global policies Morneau enacted that rejuvenated the stalled economy. The resource sector rebounded with global demand and is one of the biggest drivers of our economy. Morenau's contribution zero.

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What have you got against vets? They served the country.

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Pizzagate?? You *do* know that that was a lunatic conspiracy theory, entirely ungrounded in reality, right?

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