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Good! I was tired of financing the big shi**y! Welcome to the rest of Alaska, Anchorage! | 1 | toxic |
The Scriptures tell us that His/Their name is Yahweh Yahweh Elohim. Exodus 33:19 – “And He said, I will cause all My goodness to pass before your face. And I will call out the name of Yahweh before your face ...” Exodus 34:6 – “And Yahweh passed by before his face and called out: Yahweh Yahweh Elohim.” Deuteronomy 6:4 – “Hear, O Israel, Yahweh our Elohim is Yahweh echad.” The word “echad” is plural, signifying more than one Yahweh. Had only one Yahweh been meant, the word would have been “yachid” which is singular.
The first Yahweh is the Father, Yah Yahweh, whom we pray to as our Father, who art in heaven. The second Yahweh is the Son, Yahshua Yahweh, also known as Yahshua Mashiyach, or Yahshua (Yah is salvation) the anointed/Jesus the Christ. Elohim (Gods) is a uniplural noun (collective nouns are similar) which signifies unity in oneness. This concept is the Jews "stone which causes offense".
Jesus said that only the heavenly Father knows when He (Jesus) will return. | 0 | not toxic |
How hard is it to pick up the phone and say, "911." Is the proposed $2.5 million added to the current $7 million going toward the employees answering the 911 calls or is it going toward the EMT ambulance crews? | 0 | not toxic |
There needs to be a huge stamp tax for out of state and out of country speculators snatching up Hawaii property.
Hong Kong had to do it to cool the insane amount of mainland Chinese speculators driving the market into a rich mans playground. | 0 | not toxic |
Jesus chose (note the word "chose") to leave the John the Baptist group, because he came to the realization that to stand on the other side of the Jordan and shout critiques of the High Priesthood and the collaborating Jews was not the way to go. He also chose not to lead an ascetic life, but a life he was criticized for because he mixed with sinners and wore soft clothes (such as sinners might wear). One of the issues he would have to deal with was what should your attitude be towards foreigners, not Jews, not members of the Chosen People. Here is recorded the decision he made. The Gospel writer records it because it is so important. God's Kingdom is for all. And thank God he came to that conclusion. Where would we be without it? Thomas Gumbleton has heard the Good News. And he is repeating it for us. Thank God Almighty. Thank God. | 0 | not toxic |
I thought you lived in Montréal? We have thousands of triplexes with front doors that lead directly outside, to the street or an outdoor staircase. | 0 | not toxic |
Even though I am Republican I voted for Ms Clinton-
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-Mr Trump is indeed a fool - but I would wager that his IQ "trumps" the prime ministers | 1 | toxic |
Just another smug, low end Canadian trying somehow make his cold over taxed life meaningful by thinking he is better than others. | 0 | not toxic |
The math on this deal does not add up. $25/hour vs $5/hour for 1,000 workers equals way more than $7 million? The don promised something else; let's see if Carrier gets a big government contract! | 0 | not toxic |
that would mean playing hockey, going to work, getting food, hunting, and other activities that have been practiced for 10,000 years in the cold are precluded? You speak as a spoiled urban dueler. | 0 | not toxic |
Not only am I willing to listen, I have actively sought support for "what is reported". I spent a good part of yesterday searching for an instance in which a bishop advocated a candidate by name without success.
To this point what I have found is that bishops and priests have pointed to Church teachings, particularly on abortion, and individuals have taken that to mean that they could not vote for their favored candidate because that individual supported abortion, supported the government paying for abortions, and was foursquare for overriding our long tradition of respecting earnest religious beliefs. | 0 | not toxic |
Women should be do their traditional jobs of Wife, Mother, sister, auntie, grandmother, home maker etc.
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That would be the first step. | 0 | not toxic |
https://www.pressprogress.ca/here_are_canada_worst_conservative_tweets_of_2016
And it only seems to be going further howndill in 2017.... | 0 | not toxic |
Part II. Almost from the beginning, city leaders tried to regulate public use of the mall with permits and fees required for organized activities. At times, the regulations escalated tensions between city government and citizens trying to enjoy the mall, although the city was not able to devise an effective method of resolving tensions. Social activism had existed in Eugene prior to the mall's opening. People angry about the Vietnam War gathered on the mall. The mall was an ongoing location for counter-cultural activity and retail customers experienced unhappiness at the widening generation gap. When Springfield Creamery owner Chuck Kesey, brother of author Ken Kesey, brought the Grateful Dead to the Oregon Renaissance Faire to play a benefit concert for the creamery in 1972, to some the Eugene Mall seemed like a good waiting room for the next concert. That concert did not occur until 1982.
(Wiki summary)
And so it goes....... | 0 | not toxic |
No a person serves best when they realize that they are a child of God and yet deserve nothing at all. Service is greatest when humility and gratitude try to out do the other.
You've bought the 1960s style self esteem mumbo jumbo | 0 | not toxic |
We spend - what was it last time I checked? $12k? $16k per head?! - way too much per-head on government schools (aka "public school") already!
I do NOT want to hear that education needs more money (in this case, to provide higher salaries to teachers). Don't care. Sure, I agree teachers need to be paid more. but NOT at my tax increase expense. They ALREADY get 12-16k per pupil. They need to figure out how to better use that money to pay teachers more. Even if it means cutting the NON-teaching fat out of the beast.
Enuff of my money down the tubes. Get rid of all that consultancy, admin, execs. Pay teachers more with what's left. | 0 | not toxic |
everyone one knows grady is bankrupt moron | 1 | toxic |
Ha, ha, ha. Two hundred dollars worth of merchandise and $600,000 in court and incarceration costs. Aren't we a logical society? | 0 | not toxic |
Check out AAA Premiere. Covers RV tows also. Should cover both Dalton and the Taylor. Call 'em. | 0 | not toxic |
Trump adviser Steve Bannon profited from a business relationship with Weinstein before he slammed Democrats for taking donations from the movie mogul.
I don't hear Strada bad-mouthing the Nazi for taking money from Weinstein. | 0 | not toxic |
So are you guys going to retire then and sell your business too. | 0 | not toxic |
Just like abortion and gay marriage, President Obama's views had to "evolve." | 0 | not toxic |
More fake news that as absolutely no proof provided. | 0 | not toxic |
The thing about this multi-year rigorous study funded by the NIH/NIEHS/EPA is that it validated dozens of human studies and hundreds of laboratory studies that all found that prenatal exposure to fluoride even in extremely low doses consistent with 'optimal fluoridation' result in subtle brain damage when the exposure is prenatal. (Bashash et al. 2017)
Another neurotoxicity study (Malin & Till 2015) suggests that prenatal and/or youthful exposure to fluoride even if water concentrations are 'optimal' results in more learning disabled 11 year olds.
Don't think you can just drink bottled water while pregnant and while your kids are little. Every food prepared with or gown with fluoridated water has absorbed fluoride. It's very simple - DO NOT ADD POISON TO WATER! That's even a law, but one that is ignored when it comes to fluoride because of the politicking. | 0 | not toxic |
My comment about modern government surveillance techniques was a general one. No one can deny that government's today can and do use mass surveillance techniques on the public. And the government does everything it can to conceal those activities.
Within that greater surveillance regime we have the government employing secretive methods to investigate alleged crimes. But whereas the government can do almost anything it pleases with mass surveillance- because it doesn't need judicial review- it must reveal its methods in a criminal trial. If it doesn't, then the evidence can't be tested for its accuracy and legality. And evidence that can't be tested by council is virtually worthless in court.
Having a judge's approval to wire-tap a phone doesn't prove that all the evidence submitted was gathered lawfully. Each piece of evidence is subject to careful examination in court. | 0 | not toxic |
Each day more and more Republicans declare they do not support, and will not vote for, Mr. Trump. They're trying to save the GOP and, with Trump as the Republican Presidential Candidate, that won't be easy.
Please don't be so presumptuous as to claim that Trump supports are "We The People"...We The People are, in fact, all Americans....those who support Mr. Trump, those who support Ms Clinton, those who support Mr. Johnson, those who support none of the three. ...We're all "The People". You remind me of the Dallas Cowboys years ago claiming they were "America's Team." .....didn't go over very big. regards from Gary Crum (just one person among "We The People") | 0 | not toxic |
This is a full hate-on against the Canadian government for giving any compensation to former child soldier Omar Khadr, let alone $10 million. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation already has collected 52,000 names on a petition to force the Trudeau government to withdraw its offer. Never mind that the CTF is in reality a partisan organization that acts in knee-jerk support of the electoral and policy objectives of the Conservative Party of Canada,
Only someone who has never read the Supreme Court of Canada decision on Khadr’s treatment by Canadian authorities could sign such a petition. Only someone who has never read Romeo Dallaire’s book about child soldiers — They Fight Like Soldiers, They Die Like Children — could post the kind of venom being written. These are people who no longer know what truth is — or worse, don’t care to know. | 0 | not toxic |
Hello Moderator or anyone
What is the meaning of the colour balls next to the names of the commenters? | 0 | not toxic |
Yes, and it's also foolish to think the Media could have any effect whatsoever...#MAGA | 0 | not toxic |
Trump is not looking at Canada. His spokespeople had stated that we have the same/close-to labour costs as that of the US so the competitive advantage is minimal. However, team JT jumped the gun after the election and said they are open to re-examining NAFTA. In doing so, the incoming administration pretty much said, "...sure, but we were talking about Mexico but if you want to renegotiate then we'll add you in".
Good job team JT, you really messed that up and now it's going to cost us. Harper would have held his tongue and waited for Trump to see what their intentions truly were. | 0 | not toxic |
Lol - this is getting too funny: make a comment that challenges the holier than thou crowd and the comment gets removed. No vulgarity, no harassment, no threats, just stuff they don't like = removed.
Even the CBC comments board is starting to look good compared to this: the Communistic Comments Conditioning Police G&M board. | 0 | not toxic |
Harry,
Until Carol came into his selfish lonely life, Melvin behaved like a spoiled child who was only concerned about what others could do for him. Carol had one goal in mind, to do all she could to help her sick son get well. It is no wonder that she was repulsed by Melvin's obnoxious holier than thou persona.
At first he was only concerned about her desperate situation because he wanted her to continue serving his demands. Her distrust of his selfish motives eventually convinced him that she was truly a caring loving person who could not be bought off with money unless he radically changed. She made him feel like a "better person" when ever he was around her.
Carol made Melvin a better person, you know like a good liberal tries to make selfish greedy conservatives less concerned about themselves and more concerned about others, similar to Jesus. | 0 | not toxic |
Sure don'y want anybody to think anyone posting here is a an accidental racist. Please keep pointing out comments you think are over the line. Appreciate your efforts. | 0 | not toxic |
Sure wish that our tribe would care enough to get a treatment program going. They had a chance to lease or buy a state building but went and bought land North of town but won't say what they are going to do with it.
They keep buying "lemons" such as old bank buildings and putting money into building they do not own and then lose the building. | 0 | not toxic |
"They only do that is they're losing money on those plans..."
Yet their overall profits are up.
"...so that everyone buys their plans on the open market like they do their auto insurance and homeowner insurance."
Prior to Obamacare, I was unable to buy insurance on the open market. | 0 | not toxic |
This article is tangential to the two issues that drive behavior.
First, most advisers and asset management companies have no edge. So regardless of behavior, will fail to produce above market long term returns. High costs just make the hill higher still. Perhaps the 40% who say that senior management have no vision are really saying skill. This is the 900 pound gorilla for the CFA Institute.
Second, winning in markets is about managing complexity to create a series of moderately weighted bets. Bets that win in the long run, but can look foolish in the short run. Some of these bets come from strategies that move investors out of the realm of zero sum games. But, even the win-win games have losses for periods. Investors, consultants and journalists are reticent to let this statistical process runs its course. Further employers continue to structure compensation in a "trader's option" manner that encourages big bets rather than the prudence of lots of small bets over time. | 0 | not toxic |
We should definitely have been requiring solar on commercial buildings for the past decade or so. The cost savings would have already been realized. | 0 | not toxic |
kag1982, God's mercy is geared toward our salvation. God is also just and holy. His mercy cannot be used to an unjust end. He is patient with us, wanting our salvation, giving us time to grow and HEAL, NOT remain in sin. There is a war between the flesh and the spirit, the Gospels tell us. Adultery is a sin of the flesh and no adulterer will enter the kingdom of heaven. | 0 | not toxic |
I can think of a few acts from the 80s (Depeche Mode, The Cure, Iron Maiden) right off the top of my head that still draw as big a crowd today and in the case of at least one of them draws in more young fans. | 0 | not toxic |
Lawyering up = getting a lawyer. Public Defender = lawyer (kinda) | 0 | not toxic |
It was discussed all over the media back in AUGUST when Hillary and her running mate both released ten years of tax returns for public perusal. You're late to the party, pumpkin. | 0 | not toxic |
But Kennedy was elected. Voters can apply a "religious test". The U.S. government can't. | 0 | not toxic |
Wow, for an unrepentant socialist, he makes some very good points. I for one am pleased at the withdrawal of Petronas. We probably need a plant in Alberta for refining tar, but definitely not in B.C. That's just vile. | 0 | not toxic |
Ever feel like we're living in a "House of Cards" episode? | 0 | not toxic |
Speaking of restricting yourself to topics that you have some knowledge of, I brought up the "most-watched" news, and cited television figures... not website visits. Website views are not counted the same as television views. None of the figures mentioned above include website views.
"RT.com doesn't appear on that list because it wasn't in the Top 50."
No. The click-bait "trendingtopmost" link is completely different than the news outlets in the Alexa top 50.
A few things to point, however, out about the Alexa-documented website views:
- HP, Guardian, and others websites appear more popular than BBC (despite BBC being the #1 most-watched news)
- RT is #335, not 350 (it was #279 three months ago. NYT, CNN, especially Foxnews, and others, are all on the decline)
- rank #335 (not 350) out of all websites in the world means that RT.com is receiving massive visitor numbers (globeandmail.com is #8,068,541) | 0 | not toxic |
Who will prosecute him? Even assuming your 'legal opinion' is accurate. | 0 | not toxic |
How do you lose a leashed dog.
Or a supervised unleashed dog, 100' from the "trail"?
And then take 5 days, to find a the poor injured barking dog.
As a dog lover/owner, it sounds like the owner was irresponsible! | 0 | not toxic |
How? You get a job at least somewhat matching your skill set and....work. Hundreds of millions of people do it every day. | 0 | not toxic |
Actually, my team is the Dodgers. | 0 | not toxic |
alleged rapes as per rape kits doesn't prove rape is involved. That's why they didn't bother to process them. As for Doug taking on the legal wonks in DC, local yokels go far beyond their limited reach, where they play to the ruling local party big wigs, thinking they will get promoted to one of the choice on the payroll slots in return. | 0 | not toxic |
Redistricting is not a political question is bias is evident. The current mix of redistricting decisions has been abused both ways. Expect a new doctrine and expect it to be fairly unanimous. Alito may dissent, but he may not. Expect the core to be Bryer, Kennedy, Gorsuch and Thomas.
The Mr. Newt puts party before country is not news. Nothing is happening now that did not happen among Nixophile in the early 70s. The young people who came back from Viet Nam, wanted Nixon Now and have hated Carter, Mondale, Clinton, Kerry and Obama are having their last hurrah defending public thuggery. The College Republican Club, graduates of Liberty and Ave Maria are promising partisanship over truth for the near future, with pro-life legal eagle Jay Sukalo defense attorney spin for Trump using terms even he can't believe.
Tip got negative ads to and used them as a badge of honor when fighting off the GOP. Nancy is protection against any foul constitutional amendment they may put forth. | 0 | not toxic |
Employers have been gaming this system for too long. Anyone who employs low to medium wage workers needs to pay them for the hours they work. The idea of putting employees on a salary and then making them work many extra hours without compensation should have gone out with the turn of the 20th century. Now here we are in the 21st, and are busy rolling those protections back. What's wrong with this picture? | 0 | not toxic |
Yeah the Israelis will be thrilled with the Saudi arms deal, and the tremendous security breach in talking to the Russians about Israel's ability to operate inside ISIS. | 0 | not toxic |
I am the Joe Miss Flowers is talking about. WHAT She needs to tell you more is how she responded to my information.. I wasn't mean to her, I just asked her to look into information that I have known for 25 years and she obviously has not known.Her reply to me was an F-BOMB. PERSONALLY, she should be repremanded for her actions, because if I dealt with the public like she did I would be fired. Her actions in no way represent a person in the media that represents professonialism. If a person thinks they know all about anything then they are a fool. She declined to even look at my information because if she did she wouldn't be writing this article, or for that matter if she agreed with me she wouldn't have a job. Much holocaust information has changed over the years. LOTS OF THINGS HAVE CHANGED THAT MOST STILL THINK IS TRUE AND IT IS NOT.
For example, Jews being made into soap, false, Jews being made into skin lampshades, false, the number 6 milion, false...I could go on and on. | 0 | not toxic |
The short debate went well. Good questions from Dr. Chad. A podium for him next to Yunji would have been more appropriate visually. | 0 | not toxic |
So then what is your solution to the poorest of the poor communities in the poorest states that still have homeless ? Do we strip them of their citizenship and ship them off to India or someplace they might be able to "afford" ?
When the USA signs deals like NAFTA and TPP and other corporate welfare give aways, it has impact on the people. Those are not in the general welfare of anyone except corporations. Move 3,000,000 call center jobs over to India because it is cheaper than to pay US minimum wage to someone that desperately needs a job. and you get exactly what we have now. | 0 | not toxic |
It happens. They are a loud minority that cannot stand free speech. | 0 | not toxic |
Did Chinese and Russian leaders show up in this report too ? They have billions stashed away. African leaders and other Asian countries no less. | 0 | not toxic |
The article is very superficial. In case of Partition of Sudan, it was Muslim North versus Christian South. What is now? | 0 | not toxic |
This is what I said
Why are obama people in the Trump administration. Trump should fire them like he did on his TV show. Is he afraid to fire them or what. | 0 | not toxic |
Did you think that up all by your little self!
What an intelligent comment, thank you for that. | 0 | not toxic |
Do you know how high operational costs are at Punahou, Iolani, and Maryknoll? So many good teachers and faculty members are not being retained to lower their budget. Just last year, Punahou didn't renew the contract of approximately 40 employees. Why you might ask? Their operating budget is just too high. And with the lack of money to pay employees, I find it very hard to believe that they would allocate monies for girls volleyball at the expense of retaining quality workers.
The business place just doesn't work that way. Can you please provide us with names of kids being recruited? You do know that Punahou doesn't offer any athletic scholarships right? They only offer needs based financial aid. | 0 | not toxic |
I bet the crew was mustered and told to put on their survival suits and no emergency responder crewmembers were all owed to enter the engine room but told to get into the liferafts... as she took on water flooding the engine engine the ship was sunk... you decide... the reputation of all concerned speaks louder than everything reported. | 0 | not toxic |
“sportsman-like”???? The guy goes up against a meat eating predator with a sharp stick and its not “sportsman-like” enough to suite YOU? You are a liar and a fraud James Dickey. You use “sportsman-like” conduct as a ruse to cover your Anti-Hunting bias. Look below at Roy Anthony, there you see honesty. | 1 | toxic |
Union boss Joelle Hall is opposed to Prop 8?
(Joelle Hall is the Alaska AFL-CIO's Director of Operations)
That's pretty good evidence that YES on 8 is good for taxpayers
YES on 8!! | 0 | not toxic |
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2015/oct/us-health-care-from-a-global-perspective
Australia, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany......sorry you did say just one. I guess I just got carried away. | 0 | not toxic |
A huge (damn, I can't even type that word with an orange blob floating before my eyes) part of the trumped up budget is anti-science. The toads hate science, hate critical thinking, hate evidence because it questions their 'beliefs.' Virginia, climate change is caused by anthropogenic factors...hundreds of year of releasing stored carbon. And while the apologists will point out that climate has always changed, what they miss is the rapidity of this change...it's killing species that are the keystone to whole ecosystems! But you are too blind to see and will slash budgets for those that do...your children and their children will hate your stupidity and the lost responsibility to open your eyes. But like the toad sitting under the board, you don't care...till it comes to get you. | 1 | toxic |
Could_be_both._Of_course,_rising_up_through_the_bureaucracy_can_be_a_corrupting_process. | 0 | not toxic |
Mustafa Kemal was a towering figure, one of the most impressive leaders of the 20th Century. His over-riding goal, though it seems a little naive today, was complete independence:
" ...by complete independence, we mean of course complete economic, financial, juridical, military, cultural independence and freedom in all matters. Being deprived of independence in any of these is equivalent to the nation and country being deprived of all its independence."
Ataturk lived in a much simpler time. Complete independence in the matters he mentioned isn't possible for any nation today. And that is a good thing. | 0 | not toxic |
Once again you admit you know nothing about the meat of predators, then act like an authority on something you know nothing about. | 0 | not toxic |
These people are free to chant whatever they want. And we are free to judge their behaviour for what it is: idiotic and juvenile. | 1 | toxic |
When the government outlaws front end loaders, only outlaws will have front end loaders. | 0 | not toxic |
Hey Mike...say hello to your new president, Donald J. Trump !!
And white Catholics put him into office. We know where we stood with Hillary and her left-wing anti-Catholic bigots. And we weren't fooled, any more than liberal Jews were fooled in the 1930's into supporting Hitler because he favored national healthcare. | 0 | not toxic |
Has he admited that he lied? | 0 | not toxic |
Well he didn't land in the trees. Any successful landing is a good job. | 0 | not toxic |
And don't tell me this is fake news, I made it up myself so it must be true...
Я хочу, чтобы Америка завязлась в трясине вниз в разрушении при наличии ее церквей позволяться выразить политические мнения и взять миллиарды из далекого права.
Владимир Путин
Кроме того, Хью Массенджилл - абсолютный гений, который обнаружил мой секретный план преобладать на мире. Я приветствую его. Я вижу теперь, что США слишком сильны, чтобы быть возглавленными, таким образом я прекращу быть болью.
Vladimir
Hugh | 0 | not toxic |
agreed. But I suspect for very different reasons. Trump's rhetoric smacks of white nationalism and even neofascism and that ain't good. This system is rotten - but it isn't just the government that is the problem it's wholly unaccountable and out-of-control private corporate power that has worked to corrupt and control not only the economic but the political system - which explains Sanders' popularity. In the end - Trump will be great for corporate interests and horrible for the rest of us. | 0 | not toxic |
Perhaps because they're very expensive and highly salable animals? Often, when Animal Control seizes animals, they also seize registration papers. :( The sale of ten registered French Bulldogs will provide adequate income for Oregon Humane to imports LOTS of dogs from Puerto Rico, Afghanistan and China. :(
I'm curious, if the conditions the dogs were in are so bad, why there aren't pictures? | 0 | not toxic |
I have a new respect for her. I wish every woman would sue every drunken creep who feels entitled to put their hands on them, whether they are "famous" or not. I guess the women who run in trump's circles think it's okay, as he said, but self-respecting women don't. | 0 | not toxic |
Once Trump gets a 15% corporate tax these same premiers will be gathering to find a way from stopping the moving trucks leaving for the USA,these people are DELUSIONAL. | 0 | not toxic |
Well said Alf! That is so, what could those brave intellectuals have done for our country! We can just imagine what we could have achieved with them in leadership today. I do believe though, that there are still those who will lead us to a brighter future. We all together must just get out of the grip of rogues and grab and getters, who do not give a damn for the suffering poor in this country. | 0 | not toxic |
Why did you leave out the part that he was conscripted into the Einsatzgruppe D? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Oberlander
Isn't that the same excuse the Omar-huggers like to use too? | 0 | not toxic |
"The sale of such an notable B.C. landmark to a Chinese firm could spark controversy in an area of the country where the sale of real estate to foreign interests has prompted debate".
Wrong. It is not the sale of real estate to "foreign interests" that has prompted debate and backlash.
Instead, it is the sale to OVERSEAS MONEY of real estate that has led to backlash.
The two are not the same, and this paper ought to spell that out.
Look, OVERSEAS MONEY has been flooding into Vancouver from many sources, among them the investor immigrants through the now ended federal program, investor immigrants through the Quebec investor immigrant program, multi-year visa holders, student children of millionaires working overseas, and so on.
STOP calling all that "FOREIGN INTERESTS". To the contrary, many of those folks hold Canadian passports, the students even Canadian birth certificates.
Informed people see that OVERSEAS MONEY is key. Not foreigners. Not foreign interests.
OVERSEAS MONEY. | 0 | not toxic |
A defined contribution plan also empowers you to draw down the money as you see fit. Some of us fear a financially strapped senescence; others would prefer to spend the money while they are healthy enough to enjoy it. A DC plan gives that freedom.
My mother was on a DC plan, and her partner was a middle manager in the federal government, with, of course, defined benefits. She was able to retire early and was comparitively wealthy thanks to a shrewd investment advisor -- much better off than her partner, who worked longer for less money.
Her plan was certainly riskier -- but it paid off handsomely. I have a DB plan and wish I was on DC, since I dislike not having a say in how "my" money is invested or disbursed. I am very grateful to have a plan at all, mind you, I would just prefer to have more freedom. | 0 | not toxic |
And meanwhile at the behest of the 0.1%, successive federal governments have continued to stuff the country full of 300,000 new people every year, with no plan or thought for how this strains the public services we all rely on. | 0 | not toxic |
An invaluable opportunity for serious introspection is minimized every time a comment attempts to paint with broad strokes a picture of all Trump voters as alt right racists. The media fueled rise of extremism has provided a statistically insignificant yet increasingly fowl segment of America's demographic with an undeserved public stage, overshadowing many legitimate concerns that contributed far more to Trump's political success. While total rejection of racism's ugly message is not only warranted but demanded from all of us, unless we begin to really listen to ourselves, we are destined to propel into power simply another demigod of the disenfranchised. | 0 | not toxic |
Hitler was the end result of a democratic election. Force of arms prevailed. | 0 | not toxic |
I had to laugh at THAT one. It's an Island, in the middle of a very, very big Ocean. Who knew?
Why does he constantly repeat phrases twice? Is that some crazy kinda tell? | 0 | not toxic |
While perched upon a gilded throne
In the bathroom of his home
He tweets out thoughtless early morning groans
Erratic script he'll forever own... and we'll perpetually bemoan. | 0 | not toxic |
AK: Yes, I am aware. However, they way I am expressing this, classified information are "secrets" while classified information communicated to another is "confidential" information. It wasn't a secret that the US (or Trump in case any orange people still confuse the two) created or developed. In other words it wasn't Trump's secret he was obligated to not disclose. It was another nation's secret. It would be bad to one degree if Trump had let Russia in on a secret that the US "owned" but its bad to additional degrees that Trump let Russia in on a secret "owned" by another nation.
Think of it like having your doctor or lawyer giving out personal information you provided in the strictest confidence. It would be bad if you let it out but it is worse when your doctor or lawyer lets it out. | 0 | not toxic |
I would like to correct one of the many false statements in this article:
"continuing to burn fossil fuels brings chronic and severe atmospheric warming."
There is absolutely no proof of this - just computer models that have failed time after time to make accurate predictions. | 0 | not toxic |
Two world leaders - two different approaches.
May of the UK flattering Trump. Nieto of Mexico cancelling a trip to the US.
Both extremes could well be foolhardy.
What will work?
Supporting democratic opposition in the US through a polite but strong resistance to supporting crazy Trump schemes.
Chretien did not support the Iraq war and Canada suffered few consequences.
Trudeau cannot sign on to any crazy Trump schemes. He need not disparage him in public though.
Clark is a politician and politicians are supposed to be political - not blurt out the first thing that comes to her mind. In doing that, she is acting like Trump. | 0 | not toxic |
I hope that our friends in Quebec can survive this disaster with the minimum loss of property and disruption. | 0 | not toxic |
If you don’t see something wrong with that then your a fucking idiot. misandry Shouldn’t be any more tolerated then misogyny... | 1 | toxic |
It's hard to say what's "civilized", though. Is civilized our inner city of Chicago, with its seemingly daily murders? Or our jails with lax laws that provide a place for criminals to expand their resources for future crimes? Or our guards and sometimes police who brutalize the convicted and even the innocent? Or our sweet talk of fighting for freedom yet killing hundreds of thousands in other countries who don't even attack us?
This is one incident. It's likely their jails are hell. But, could be their streets are much safer than ours. And, in no way am I justifying how their government behaves, at least what we can see. It's a dictator regime, but that doesn't mean every person in that country ends up on some torture table.
This wasn't cool at all...but then again going there and starting to poke at their government wasn't exactly the smartest choice, either. | 0 | not toxic |
sanctuary for what and who..... If people are here illegally, they must leave and go through proper channels. No society can survive without consistent laws that provide stability and security. those advocating for sanctuary zones dont understand this and think they are above the law. I say, cut ALL federal funding for these institutions including cities..... | 0 | not toxic |
LIES. OBAMAS ADMIN HAVE RAISED THE MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE AMOUNT | 0 | not toxic |
That would only happen if we gave the Church the option. If we form our own communities, we can use priests as altar servers. | 0 | not toxic |
Housing needs to be treated as an public health issue it is. As the article states there is not a shortage of housing but a reluctance of those who own and reluctant to do so. Studies also show providing housing first helps provide a stable foundation in which additional issues can there be solved.These are LOCAL issues, to provide man with a fish when is hungry is VITAL to TEACH him to fish is everything. We have the talent and the awareness to do so. | 0 | not toxic |
What loss is that? | 0 | not toxic |
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