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Putin will invite Trump and Bibi to Crimea (Yalta) to divide the world. Just like they did in February 1945. King wasnt invited because he was anti-communist and many believed anti-semite. This time Justin will be invited for the entertainment value. During the evening time he can sing and dance along the Black Sea shores. Justin will extol the virtues of diversity and having a good hairdresser to prevent split ends.
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This will create a schism in our society between those who have meaningful work and those who do not. Those who work will resent those who are on the dole, and those who are receiving a government guaranteed income will be envious of those who work, and thus obtain a greater income. Over time, those on the guaranteed scheme will press for continual increases in income and those working will resist them, leading to social confrontation. I fail to see how this will lead to a better society. I would rather that government regulate the introduction of new technology to ensure that our working-age population continues to have access to work that dignifies their existence. What social benefits do we obtain by eliminating fast-food servers, cashiers, and clerks? Products that are a few cents cheaper? I do not think that our headlong and unthinking rush to AI and other digital innovations will truly benefit our society over the long run.
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Funny how the surge is in Denver and Boulder
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How is Tiny Two Tone Trump with the Tufted Mane, a wee whining wanker, going to discuss anything but praise for himself, how the election is rigged against him, how the media is rigged against him, how that she devil Hillary is going to raise the dead to vote against him? How will he have any time to discuss, uh, policy, what's that?
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"She was assured that the $8.2 B was the total for the “raw costs” to construct rail." As we were assured the project would cost $3.2 billion, $5.6 billion, $8.2 billion, etc..... Going back to the proposed "forever tax", that would be needed for the dedicated power plant and monthly O & M costs, for which the SILENCE is deafening. Thank you for all your efforts yet the reality appears we are doomed.
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Truly a catastrophe, now they will do the crap jobs you don't want to do.
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The legal battle over the attempted travel bans demonstrates that the rule of law requires words to be taken literally. ----- taken literally without bias is that the case?
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in the west woman in law are treated BETTER than men! ,, as for the planet its doing just fine no saving required bud from men or woman, i suggest you stop drinking the kookaide
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This statement lacks understanding of how electric (and IC engines work). Electric motors usually generate much more torque at 0 speed than an ICE which requires high rpms to produce sufficient power to overcome its own piston compression requirements (remember each piston is only producing power about 25% of the time, and that power stroke needs to power the remaining compression, injection and exhaust strokes) ergo an ICE engine tends to hit its peak torque towards its mid level revs and then needs a gearbox to convert those ~3000rpms into 1 rpm at the wheel. (Diesels tend to have a torque curve that continues to rise with rpms) Whereas an electric motor generates instant torque at starting thus no need to reduce rpms to wheels, and the rotating magnetic field eventually brakes the amount of current into the stator magnets thus reducing the torque once the rotor is turning. But ultimately the stall torque load of most electric motors is still higher than peak torque in an ICE.
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You write well, but certainly lack finanical acumen.
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Takuma Sato has been racing at Indy for several years now. He doesn't go there to look pretty. He goes to win it, just like every driver. Most of whom are from many different nations. If Mr. Frei knew anything about auto racing, he wouldn't have tweeted what he did. He should have been like most sports reporters and sports broadcasters and not commented on the race at all. He, like most racing fans around the world were, should have been happy for him. It's not an easy race to win.
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If you worked in a hospital and someone was brought in with something so big or odd-shaped stuck in their genitalia that required doctors to remove, wouldn't you want to see what it was?
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Taxes are, by definition and purpose, using your & other people's money to pay for other people's lives (roads, education, health care assistance, border patrols, secret police, contractor kickbacks, lavish hotels & travel) . Don't wanna pay taxes? Get rich and smart like your hero Donald J Trump & hide your financials.
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Sorry, I just don't agree. If the rise is driven by a fundamentally sound economy, the market isn't running on fumes. He should have chosen his words more carefully.
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That's just silly. If you want to be fair, how about a flat tax? Everyone should have skin in the game; then we'll see how those barely scraping by feel about the government redistributing their earnings.
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If some are 'Trumpettes", I suppose others are Hilariots.
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He lost his hotpocket? Tragedy
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Wha? "...at 2,700 feet per second..." Every single recoil figure listed included the velocity of the load for that round. He did everything but show his work on the math. And if you read for content, rather than racing through to find things to complain about, you might have noted the last half was all reasons why Magnums are both not for everyone -and- aren't necessary. That it was not the author's rifle was clearly stated in the 5th paragraph.
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A rough period that they brought on themselves, despite everyone else warning them they were heading for disaster. You can't really blame the rest of us for indulging in a bit of "I told you so."
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Gee when it was Wonder Woman a couple of weeks ago, it was the best thing going to empower woman. Now becausE it's the wrong gender for these feminists, it's deplorable. Unbelievable.
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Lynn, maybe we can't cut enough to solve all our budget woes. And there really is no “we can cut our way to prosperity” crowd. What you are actually seeing is a crowd that see's just how little has been cut and a refusal to cut any more, coupled with a demand that more be cut PRIOR to draining our wallets. The dismal pathetic cuts thus far made are not adequate and cuts MUST be the first step. ONLY then will new revenue be OK in my book.
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It's CPP, BTW. Well, SS in USA is "broken" and not funded to pay the expected onslaught of beneficiaries. OTOH, actuaries assure us that the CPP funding is sound well into the future.
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Alaska is cold, expensive, remote, isolated, most expensive healthcare costs in the nation, most expensive energy costs, most expensive groceries and household needs costs. Alaska has the highest rates of sexual assault and low performance on school testing. Granted, we have a large problem population that drives performance testing down and crime rates up. Alaska will never see 1,000,000 residents this century as long as oil prices remain low, the pfd is capped, income taxes and State sales taxes are implemented. Removing exemptions for Seniors and Veterans and non profits will contribute to Alaska becoming an increasingly hostile environment for most. The State must reduce the cost of State government and stop threatening the contributing population with economic devastation by increasing the cost of living while reducing the standard of living of the people who actually earn and support this State by living and investing in it.
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Half of what they "know" is wrong.
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The logical conclusion of this push will be that every divorce will become even more one-sided, where the wife will claim martial rape to get one-up in property and custody battle.
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A 55 % benefit package is outrageous for public employees. These employees historically got paid a little less than similar private sector jobs but gained a trade off in increased job security and benefits. Anchorage public employees get both high wages and outrageous benefits resulting in a huge disparity over the income of the average anchorage taxpayer. It needs to be turned around.
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and Bannon. That would be the fresh start they need...
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Yup, remove the decommissioned ones now to show good intentions!
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You have to be a special kind of stupid to do the things Trump does. I'm starting to believe he should be riding the short bus. Maybe the hair dye is seeping into his tiny little brain?
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Trudeau's words were really directed at Canadians. This is a prelude to his upcoming budget. Welcome to tax purgatory.
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exactly...Ballard has every right to pick her team. While Kealoha was robbing the City blind, Ballard is trying to fix things. She is in my prayers as HPD has become a disgusting embarrassment to all.
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And it is the gay men who as a result of their "otherness" in a chauvinist society, are most adept at resisting toxic patriarchal attitudes and working out a more authentic, egalitarian concept of self. See my post way down below...
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"The ground crew strike has not significantly affected passengers" I disagree. On a direct flight from NL to TO on Sunwing in July we waited over 2 hours for our baggage. Many people were extremely inconvenienced and upset.
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Fresh off accusing any criticism of radical Islam as being anti-muslim bigotry, hypocrisy reveals itself with Ricks position that any criticism of Israeli Jews will be labeled as anti-semetic. The usual bigoted response will be that, hey we liberals are not criticizing Jews per say, we're criticizing an entire country full of Jews. So that's better.
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and the alternative to science is stupidity and religion!
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Except that Pope St. John Paul II is "the pope of Divine Mercy."
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Com'on! Use your head. This isn't a simple apples to apples thing. This is a complex electrical network where multiple components can and do fail. EWEB personnel are every bit as skilled as EPUD. Geez!
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They are entititled to tir entitlement! Typical Reform-a-Tories Dippers:-) The Narcissist Party! After nearly ten years, what did they leave us with, a additional debt of $170 BILLION! KA-Sling! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByzcL3jhb5Y&ab_channel=SkyNews
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Gotta call B.S. on this comment!!! Brilliant Stuff!
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If an individual, after due consideration, believes that their quality of life has deteriorated to the point where life is no longer worth living then they should have access to euthanasia whether they are in a hospital or a hospice. There really is no evidence that the much vaunted "patient centered" care actually exists except when you find the rare physician who takes the extra time and patience to deliver it and I doubt that they are found to a greater extent in faith based institutions.
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As the events in France and going on frequently in the bomb friendly Middle East, the governor cannot eliminate killing unless she addresses the lack of respect American people have for each other as evidenced in so many ways.
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It's like this, LF. Sometimes in private I pick my nose. Sometimes I scratch my butt-crack. Should you get offended by that? Of course not. You probably do the same occasionally. In private. I hope. Should the candidate for the most prominent political position in the world, the person who represents all of us to the world, do the same on a stage with millions of people watching? You be the judge of that.
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No, technically Cricket is wrong. How can you sell something if you don't own it? It "may" revert back to the government but until that happens it belongs to whoever bought it.
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Indeed, but don't tell them that at close to $10k per installed kW, plus deferred liabilities on other assets, that they should prepare for the eventual Wynne-ization of BC.
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I have no shares in a mining company and never have. These fools think only of ownership and ignore everything else a thriving industry of any kind brings to the country. Little things like jobs and piles of tax revenue. If people want shares in a mining company, let them buy some. I probably wouldn't even if I had the money - the government is trying to destroy the industry.
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What evidence to you have to support the name change? How about we use science shall we? The name was changed as science and technology evolved over the years and recognized that this tar-like substance doesn't actually contain any tar in the bitumen. Bitumen contains oil. Oil is made into tar through a specific process. Please refer to the Schlumberger oilfield glossary and stop denying the science.
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Are you sure it was "THE student" who lodged a formal complaint? This story seems to imply that it was students (plural). And why do you respect somebody who chooses to resign and at the same time whines about a lack of due process? The "Master" took the easy way out. Worse, he's whining about it.
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Me too, and I am a retired pilot.
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Frankly a world with 10 billion people and almost no Wildlife´m like a desolate terrible place Alaska takes key projects in protected areas
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Hello neighbor -- nice weather, huh? I just wanted to let you know I've lost my pet; he's a 17-foot python named Squeeze. Gentle as a hamster; oh, I forgot -- he eats hamsters! But not to worry; if you see him, please give me a call. Have a nice day!
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No citation issued - for flipping a rig in a 30 or 40 mph zone? No VBR? I would assume this (assumption) kid was (assumption) looking at his cell phone, and or speeding, and or talking, and or considering the plight of downtown Eugene while driving. No citations issued. That'll learn em.
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We allow legitimate refugees and ones that do not increase our chances of being victims of terrorist attacks. Your argument is equal parts factually inaccurate and reliant on soppy emotionalism. It should have struck you as odd when the ISIS invasion of Iraq created hundreds of thousands of Christian refugees nearly zero who were taken in by the Obama administration in favor of these "Syrians."
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My limited experience with comments on Civil Beat indicate to me that the freedom to speak either anonymously or using what you say is your real name - it's working! I like the system in place whereby before posting, one must evaluate other posts to see if they are helpful and most importantly, civil. I makes one stop and think. I also find that everyday civilness comes from one's upbringing and innate character, as opposed to a mandated law. This is a constructive conversation, thanks.
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Considering the continued bad publicity for UAL, it would be in the company's best interest to end this situation with at least a $500,000 payment to Mrs. Yamauchi. Any thing less than that makes UAL look like a racist, Asian hating bunch of rednecks in my view. (Sorry if comparing UAL to rednecks is disparaging to all those rednecks out there!) Conin, Fried where are you when someone really needs you.
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And, what is your point?
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Glad you won, In my view a silver lining of a low turnout election is at least most of the voters are invested and aren't just picking which name sounds the most familiar. Also, it was interesting that most of the argument against you was trying to play off of irrational antipathy towards unions. Good luck I know you'll do a great job
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Over the years, I have kept hearing locally that we should model the United States social services and laws after Europe. Now that Britain and France and Germany are rejecting unlimited immigration fostered by the European Union, especially after the Paris and Nice attacks and the German Muslim New Years' rapes, should we emulate that as well?
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Who: There is nothing that makes one look more foolish than trying to defend the indefensible. Every Presidential candidate for decades has released income tax returns. Mr. Trump refuses and offers a very lame "no one cares" as his excuse. People do care, voters do care, and Trump supporters such as you should care too. If you link to any reasonably objective site you will find that the Clinton Charity has a very impressive record regarding all aspects of charity work.....from a long list of recipients to the percentage of contributions which reach targets. Your contentions of corruption are simply the parroting of long-debunked right-wing accusations.....anyone with "an ability for objective discernment" would recognize those attacks as the rantings of anti-Clinton zealots. Let's see those Trump tax returns. I'm guessing they must be very interesting for him to be willing to take such heat in order to keep hiding them. Your efforts to defend Trump are really rather sad.
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Trudeau enjoys High popularity? How high can you count Mr.Lawrence? 16% is not high popularity LOL. Seems to me this shuffle has more to do with anti-Trump(a suicidal economic stance) than Pro Canada, I suspect the Israel lobby had something to do with it. Our New top diplomat is pure Communist and not a loyal Canadian IMO, nobody Rhodes trained is loyal, add to that an illegal alien MP that should be deported sitting with the Liberals in Parliament and this government is disgusting and disloyal to Canada. Mr. Lawrence is still a punk propagandist for the left IMO, not a journalist but a Fake News professional. Next election can't get here soon enough, don't care who wins that just so long as it remove these traitors.
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Obviously this researcher never read the actual VACCINE INSERT!!!!!! Not the handout they give you at the Drugstore!!!!
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The Catholic University of America allows itself to be cowed by the likes of scam artist "Fr." Z and the loony toons at Church Militant? That is shameful.
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Perhaps someone born less recently than I has already pointed out that Star Wars debuted in 1977, not 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars
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You're quoting someone in "ripped off the election" but not anyone on these pages. You are the only one here making that claim. The votes were tallied correctly. Its the Right that says 3 million illegal votes happened, that voting machines switched a Trump vote for Hillary and ballots were stuffed. The leak of information about the Clinton campaign (again, many on the Right believe the Assange and not the CIA) helped Trump by confirming existing beliefs about Clinton. I believe the crude strategizing of their staffers is typical of all campaigns. Then we had Comy open the investigation again, with no new findings. More influence on the voters. Add to that 9 investigations of Benghazi, claims that the Clintons murdered opponents, that Hillary was a lesbian that had raped a woman in college, and frankly, that she was a weak candidate, and so, she lost. My first choice never had a chance.
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Nope, global warming is neither systemic nor practically investigated. GW is not proved through consensus or shutting down those who disagree. 20 years of no global warming is called a "pause". It really is a cult driven by vested interests and spreading fear. The notion that you can change nature is silly, the demand that electricity must be expensive is foolish and damages the poor.
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About time.
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Typical conservative 'sluff off' of history. I've been over hearing it from individuals in the public since the Reagan years; "we don't need no history in our schools." Sometimes I picture Cal with his ultra conservative Wig Party hat on. Maybe they should make a movie about that, and highlight their tradition of justifying the starving to death of tens of thousands of Irish during the second blight. But that would just be too depressing wouldn't Cal.
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Sorry honey. We in the rest of the world are enjoying the show. Americans earned it and deserved it for their behaviour. Yes, the Trump Train is destined for disaster, but the world wants it to crash at full speed, not slow down and realize that the crash is imminent. In just a few years, the beginning of the downfall of the American empire will be fully realised, but America's 1% will be immensely more wealthy, which has been Trumps singular goal all along. Nothing if not good entertainment.
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Shred the Constitution??? Are you serious? You really need to find another utopia to live in. Your a disgraceful human.
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I realize that this will sound cold but I feel sorry only for the families of the deceased and for the front line first responders who have to deal with the whole mess. I feel nothing but contempt for the people who have died from overdoses. They chose their poison and didn't think twice about the pain they left behind.
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And you take your orders from the left so obediently it's kind of funny you saying that!
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Did you not read the part where it says that defence delays don't count? It is excessive crown/court delay that causes a breach of the right to a speedy trial.
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I've been saying for months now that as soon as NK perfects their nuclear weapon capabilities they ARE going to launch. KJU is crazy enough to do it. I know they'd prefer to launch a missile(s) against the US but since SK is their closest ally that will be the likely first target. NK has no intentions of denuclearizing, so regardless of who launches a pre-emptive strike it's only a matter of when, not if, it's going to happen.
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Quietly? Although I agree that he needs to leave nothing to do with Trump will be done quietly. When he goes down he will try to take as many and as much down with him as he can. Keep that suitcase with the nuke codes away from this unstable man.
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She can stand in the hole of stupidity she chose to dig. She should be thanking America for being allowed to be part of the team. She a poor sportsmen and a perfect example of why Islam and Western culture don't blend.
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The appointed lawyer for him also states that it sounds as though he has some mental issues. I believe he's correct on his first assessment of Ikaika. Possibly PTSD could be an issue aside of being bi-polar. He may have tipped towards the deep end after all those years. Who knows. I would have thought that a Psychological evaluation is necessary for the type of position he's in.
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What a fraud you are, Motley! Those people merely commented that the hacking didn't change any votes ONCE THEY WERE CAST. You've hit a new low in dishonesty. I wonder when you'll bottom out.
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These power hungry road agents know the political writing is on the wall and have waited until the 11th hour to show a phony conversion on the road to Queens Park complete with the predictable hollow bleating. Four terms of these clods and the electorate is left holding a bag of empty promises, odious scandals, perpetual taxes and a mountain of debt.
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There is one big difference, in only one instance does the employee pay via union support, their employer. This is similar to payola. Public employee unions contribute and support their boss, their employer which makes the employer beholding.
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The Conservatives are in left field with their criticism. They are basically saying they support Trump. We should all be thankful that they are no longer in power.
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The word for servant in Greek was 'diakonos', there was no feminine word so the word 'diaconissa' was coined to distinguish between the different roles of deacons and deaconesses.
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Isn't awesome how the left always regresses to communist dictatorship? Fascism, Socialism and communism are all spawned from the left. All total failures and idiots keep going there. Leftism is a disgusting ideology that serves no purpose to a country or its countrymen. I wonder if Trudeau is going to send troops down there to help his commie brothers keep power? I wouldn't put it past him.
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Thanks for asking. Trump will collapse the markets by being his ignorant and corrupt self.
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Instead he is in jail in Nevada for a crime he did commit! Of course, a different jury took away every dime he had or ever would have based on the exact same facts which the criminal jury said didn't prove his guilt 'beyond a reasonable doubt'!
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Great news for Maxime Bernier and supporters of his classical liberal approach to governance.
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You are missing more than that.
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Selective outrage. Precious.
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The "I got here first" argument went away in fourth grade. Some Native Americans came after the first Native Americans. The first ones didn't hand over their hunting territory and their culture in the name of multiculturalism. The history of mankind has been one of more dominant cultures displacing weaker cultures. Not always a good thing, but that's the way it has worked. Survival of the fittest, unfortunately. Earlier immigrants did not have the massive welfare state and bilingual education waiting for them when they got here. Nowadays we have a manufactured migration brought to you by the political class, for their own political reasons. The homegrown population is being forced to fund their own displacement through the education establishment and the welfare state. Low income minorities are most affected. If you dare question the holy tenet of multiculturalism then you are called a hater by the enlightened ones. 300+ million already here and we haven't even met all of their needs.
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Correction....a plurality of voters selected Hilliary with tRump coming in second, I'm sure that hurts tRump.
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He obviously doesn't trust Robert Fife to quote him accurately. Pretty insulting to Mr Fife.
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If your broker has a stable of clients that are paying the same fees as you, then I can assure you he's not going to be employed long. The truth is his other clients are probably subsidizing you and it's only a matter of time before you get the phone call to chat about fees.
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So let me see if I understand this, because he served in the Army he gets treatment different then I would for the exact same crime had I committed it? Why? Simply because I never signed up? Plea bargains for domestic violence? What does serving in the armed forces give you the right to break the law? Where is the logic in that? Track Palin went into the service to avoid legal trouble, what about that? Instead of trying to actually fix problems and make people pay for their crimes, why are we always looking for an excuse as to WHY they did it?
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When you put on the uniform, you swear to uphold the Constitution, not the political party of your choice. For a proposed Commander and Chief of this country to openly ask an unfriendly foreign power to hack the private emails of an opposing political party or a private US citizen is treason. Trump is openly brazenly asking to have the Constitutional rights of Americans violated by Russia, how can anyone support this treasonous dangerous fool?
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Are you talking about the President because it seems like you are?
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I was born in Kakaako in 1937. Moved to Kalihi when I was about 8. My memory is a community of diverse cultures, household heads being grandparents. Pidgin the 3rd. Language of the children who played together. No sidewalks, just good, old dirt to play marbles. Mixed in, a candy factory on the corner of the block. Naval supply depot (use to be a race track), barbed wire fencing about 2feet from the house we used to hang the wash. Ice truck came by once a week, and the Manapua man selling his buns and dim sum. An rooms-to-let apartment complex owned by a Russian man. Kodak's big building where I use to slide down its smooth, concrete ramps. This was a neighborhood, a village, a wonderful place to call home.
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Now,this might come as a shock to you but every university or college has their own point of view. Evidently you feel that the U of O doesn't do a good enough job for you. Name one university or college that would make you happy, please! I have to disagree with you on the tax money, you can call it whatever you like but it is listed as a tax. You can call it Girl Scout Cookies if it makes you feel better. If you consider it your money and feel that it is being wasted, get involved. Btw, gender identity is very real. One in ten people suffer from it. It is in everyone's family. Some hide it in shame but it is very real.
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Trump should tell this idiot that he has two choices: 1. Talk with us and China about re-unification with the South Koreans, and about standing down on all sides for the good of us all. Or 2. THE NEXT MISSILES HE SHOOTS IN THE AIR WILL BE THE LAST ONE HE ever shoots. Are there any grassy knolls in NKorea?
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Murkowski might--MIGHT--be able to think this way. Sullivan can't think at all. He has to do what the outside money that bought his seat tells him to do. Which, presumably, will be to say little, smile a lot, and vote as he's told.
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Forget Walker, put Brena in charge of the state. Robin Brena for Governor!
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. . . dangerously, I think, at significant international accords. Paris, NATO, NAFTA, TPP, and now, the Iran Nuclear deal. Kim Jong Un is viewed as dangerous because he has a relatively small number of nascently developed nuclear weapons. But, how is Trump viewed, when he thumbs his nose so blatantly at the rest of the world, demanding that the US get all the goodies, while the real or perceived interests of the rest of the world are openly insisted to be subordinated? How long before all the people in the room come to consensus to send the US a stern message (perhaps about the wisdom of putting Trump into the POTUS seat)? How many countries can Trump "destroy" in response? What are Putin and Xi doing right now? Theyre not at the UN. Who are they talking to? What deals may they be cutting? How do you deal with a bully? We need to worry when the World starts talking ABOUT us, rather than with us.
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I flew SouthWorst one time, one time. I guess it's not too bad if you're poor, and it's the only way you can get somewhere. I would rather take a bus in Beijing than get crammed into that little plane for 5 or 6 hours.
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