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The Catholic Church has never needed permission to pick and choose for whom it would perform any ceremony.
That has not changed because the *states* are now required to issue marriage licenses to same sex couples. There is no relationship between the two. Obergefell does not require any church to do a single damn thing. And everyone with an IQ above room temperature knows that or is capable of reading the decision and figuring that out.
The Catholics used to be focused on things like orphanages and priceless artifacts and poisoning each other at the Vatican. They should stick to that, and stop trying to gin up more false grist for the propaganda machine that is rapidly destroying our democracy and turning the U.S. into ungovernable factions where every problem has to be solved in federal court. Sorry, boys (and it is boys, because the nuns *do not care*) we aren't going back to any of the centuries you would like to return to. Go back to arguing about angels and pinheads. | 1 | toxic |
Popolos sure making headlines lately....
And it ain't about scoring a touchdown. | 0 | not toxic |
Epicenter - the center of something, typically an unpleasant situation.
(…your problem seems to be that you don't know what epicenter means. …carry on.) | 0 | not toxic |
If it's behind the line of scrimmage is it PI? I have forgotten. | 0 | not toxic |
Congrats on being a criminal-cop enabler. You're delusional in thinking that you are any better than his mom. And what does his mom have to do with it? Nothing. You're a simpleton. | 1 | toxic |
sorta yes.. sorta no.. what does civil bot want.. yes yes or no no only// | 0 | not toxic |
The Left is ONLY tolerant of those who have the same views.To say the Left is tolerant of the right is absolutely ludicrous.Some of the most intolerant, parochial people I know have leftist views. | 1 | toxic |
Trump realizes his election rhetoric was hot air. China is the future. | 0 | not toxic |
I think the statement made by Alan Wong: “The dining landscape has changed, and we’ve amicably decided with Macy’s to move on from this concept.” tells a lot of what went into this decision. The Pineapple Room was out of favour the second Nordstrom's Mariposa restaurant opened in the first Nordstrom's place. When Bloomingdales came along and opened their own fancy pants restaurant, the Pineapple Room was done. Of course they could have continued on with operations. But to be the "place to go" for restauranting at Ala Moana for the higher end, the Pineapple Room would have had to really revamp - in which this move does already without Alan Wong. | 0 | not toxic |
At least Italians showed some grit, unlike 53% of Austrians, helped by hysteria from mass media,, financed by the likes of Soros. Austrians prefer to be led by the nose by Merkel and Martin Schulz, who as the President of the European Parliament, had hard time to finish even high school ;) | 0 | not toxic |
Until Alaska stops the big oil monopoly and opens Alaska to Alaskans nothing good will happen! Stop using Government power to allow the majors to own Alaska's oil and gas wealth by unfair abuse toward Alaskans and other smaller competitors! | 0 | not toxic |
Dr. Demento, The argument you make is European colonial argument and is incorrect.
The Canadian court system was not established by the indigenous people, it was by the colonizers of Indigenous territories. It serves a purpose of supporting colonial interests, through the colonial laws it uses to seek judgements. The court system played a massive role in the dispossession of Indigenous lands and waters by colonizers, and continues this role by refuting Indigenous claims to their lands and waters.
Please note, the many treaties (written documents) that are not lived up to by the colonizers and ignored by courts.
The indigenous cultures of Turtle Island are oral cultures. Histories are handed over from generation to generation, the accuracy secured by, internalizing through repetition, number of keepers, and public reciting. It is simply a different way of recording history. To suggest that only 'written documents' have legal value, suggests Western European arrogance and ignorance. | 0 | not toxic |
In one of my phone calls to DNR DOG, a public relations person (of all people) shot me down in flames. So impolite, so hostile, that I haven't been able to work up the nerve to call back since. I'm guessing that the staff meeting that she had just come out of hadn't been pleasant? Is that an example of their attitude towards, and treatment of all of the small (under one-billion cap) developers?
Any company can drill almost anywhere else in the world with a lot less flack! Cheaper also, for less environmental difficulties! Only thing that makes Alaska competitive, is America's political stability, with no "tickalunar revolutionaries" blowing installations to blazes during every full moon. | 0 | not toxic |
In Utqiagvik there are also some foreign students (from Africa I believe) attending Ilisagvik College there (at America's only community college that needs safety patrols to protect the campus from polar bears). | 0 | not toxic |
Bad college referees still keep calling charging fouls when the defender is still moving their feet. | 0 | not toxic |
Canada won't have them. | 0 | not toxic |
You nailed it, Mark. | 0 | not toxic |
CJAD news in Montreal just reported that Swedes confirm this as a terrorist attack. | 0 | not toxic |
Because ACA did NOT raise costs on the middle class, or even on the upper class.
What it did was actually LOWER costs by not having to deal with so many not paying, and then shifted costs increases on over to small amounts of taxes.
IOW, it is trump that just caused MAJOR increases in our health care costs, not ACA.
Im not convinced that ACA is the best approach, but it was a LOT cheaper than what we had and what we now have. | 0 | not toxic |
"What utter rubbish"
YAAWWWNNN. Oh I forgot - Obama DID something. Obviously you are appeased by the phony, hollow words that accomplished absolutely nothing. The resulting Assault Weapons Ban of 2013 flopped and even 5 Dems voted against it.
Your hatred is showing. | 1 | toxic |
Fact: Trump surrogate Michael 'Lock Her Up!' Flynn secretively did work for Turkey, and reported it after the fact.
Fact: Trump surrogate Paul Manafort secretively did work for Ukraine, and reported it after the fact.
Empty Accusation: The above are not facts. | 0 | not toxic |
Well, to be fair, it may not be a conspiracy. trump has surrounded himself with staffers who are overwhelmed by the job and are just not very good at what they do. Perhaps this is just the result of gross incompetence! Either scenario is in play. | 0 | not toxic |
If the valuation of the wine, on the commercial invoice, for Chinese Customs was incorrect, then, in my opinion, the company committed fraud. Whether that is justification to arrest the owners, I do not know. | 0 | not toxic |
There are Alaskans hurting financially. Reading this makes me I'll. | 0 | not toxic |
"Alaska's new law is going to be overruled by Trump."
I doubt it. America is a nation with divided power, not just between the two branches but also between the state and federal governments. State governments have general police powers but it is limited to the borders (not including "long arm" statutes) of the state. The federal government has limited police powers which extends, arguably, around the world. When state and federal laws conflict, thanks to the Supremacy Clause, federal law wins. But that doesn't mean that they can violate federalism such as enforcing federal law beyond their limited police power, ie. the federal government an enforce federal substance control laws on federal lands but not state lands if the state doesn't have the same or some corroborating law. | 0 | not toxic |
Maybe the FEC should spend its time investigating the 46 times that the USA attempted to interfere with legitimately elected governments of other countries. Right now we are attempting to overthrow the government of Syria which is recognized by the UN as the legitimate government of a sovereign country. Much of our aid ends up in the hands of ISIS and al Qaeda who would very likely end up controlling the country. Fortunately, Russia is saving us from our own stupidity in this case. | 1 | toxic |
Ms. Khan always contributes to our understanding of difficult issues. | 0 | not toxic |
Competing head-on with a big company who is willing (and able) to change the rules and move the goalposts in order to maintain their monopoly is even harder.
Its all good and well when people fight fair but you know as well as I do that it is now very unfashionable for corporate entities to have a conscience. They will happily pillage and plunder themselves and the rest of us into oblivion if left unchecked. | 0 | not toxic |
Why is the denaturing of love so much on the Catholic agenda? | 0 | not toxic |
The shipping rates from Seattle to Alaska are the most expensive routes in the world, bar none. The Seattle longshoreman and the barge companies should pay for the port since they profit the most and have had a special law that has protected their business and jobs for too many years. Ironically it was Sheffield that shut down the construction of the grain export facility leaving Delta farmers with full silos and broke. Then the State shut down the meat processing facility in Fairbanks so the chicken, hog and cattle farmers lost everything. What this State needed to do a long time ago and still needs is a rail line to the lower 48. Then we will have some competition in shipping. Screw Seattle. The Chinese and other cargo ships can land here (not necessarily Anchorage either) and we can train (back haul) the goods to the mid-west easy enough. Sheffield's plan failed because it never was about benefiting Alaska but about enriching a contractor friend or a kick back. Why no train? | 0 | not toxic |
Parade of losers... | 1 | toxic |
And the airport thought this was a good idea to allow this? Something is very off here. | 0 | not toxic |
The war Obama promised to end if he was elected? | 0 | not toxic |
After what he went through to get the job , it's a shame Price did something so stupid over and over again. Price shouldn't have resigned under pressure from Trump---Trump should have fired him the second he heard about what was going on. What liberals don't get is us conservatives know the difference between right and wrong and that's why we can say Price should have been fired---with the same conviction as we KNOW Hillary should have been indicted or at the very least her case taken before a grand jury . Conservatives KNOW what Price did was wrong and are fine with him being removed for what he did. Liberals on the other hand feel Hillary did nothing wrong by destroying emails / evidence . Oh, and no Russian paid me to write this . | 1 | toxic |
35,000 people in Canada experience some form of homelessness every day, 235,000 a year. Another 1.5 million people pay more than they can afford on housing. When will Mr Trudeau quit grand-standing on the international stage and stop spending billions on UN initiatives and foreign aid, and start spending that money at home where it is needed? | 0 | not toxic |
Well, WOW. I can only watch a few minutes of that kind of advertisement before I realize I would not relate to whatever product they think they are selling.
I have to hope that the Sydney U Catholic Society also has worship and fellowship that would appeal to someone not quite so into ....um... all the fancy stuff.
It takes all kinds, Red. I don't "get it" about processions and Medieval golden garbed royalty parading through the streets with fancy formed gold vessels protected by canopies held by solemn faced acolytes. That appeals to some people.
I hope there are other videos somewhere of them working on building or repairing housing for a desperate family, or showing their commitment in a food kitchen. You know, the real encounter with Jesus kind of event that would appeal to other kinds of Catholics. Those "other kinds of Catholics" do still count, don't they, at places like Sydney U? | 0 | not toxic |
Most good baserunners will tell you that they steal bases on the pitcher more than on the catcher, even I the catcher's arm strength is diminishing. | 0 | not toxic |
Do we have any troops left? | 0 | not toxic |
There was no mention of privacy in the entire article. How would the individuals for a CVE program be selected or identified while still protecting their privacy. Not every person who is apparently radicalized or is suspected of having violent thoughts commits a crime. Are we to have our very own Canadian Stasi? | 0 | not toxic |
We Canadians have right to know why it's 10.5m, why not 20.5m, why not 1.05m. | 0 | not toxic |
We are cursed by so called experts, elitists all, whether from the left or the right. They are those who rationalize everything for their own narcissistic aggrandizement. Ontario's minimum wage increase is too far and too fast. It will destroy jobs. Unless a hike in minimum wages is tied to a robust earned employment income plan, poverty will not be alleviated. Why these self-proclaimed experts cannot see this for what it is, a desperate move, by an extremely unpopular Premier to curry favor with the electorate, is beyond me. Perhaps they are blinded by their own self-importance. | 0 | not toxic |
Ha! Ha! Keep wishin'.
Bernie has made clear he's going to help defeat Trump by voting for Clinton.
-- Paul | 0 | not toxic |
Blinded by self-righteousness is no excuse for bad choices. | 0 | not toxic |
People have always killed, including often non-combatants, due to differences in religion, skin colour, nationality, tribe, etc. USA dropped atomic bombs on civilians to end the war with the Japanese people, the Allies bombed the civilian population of Dresden, just to give two examples. You would have to expand your definition of "psychopath" beyond ISIS if it applies to people who kill others because they belong to another group. (P.S. It's "checkered".) | 0 | not toxic |
Shawn, you're shooting your own argument in the foot: (they're not), but let's say everything you say above is true: That is all going to quickly and abruptly change when the oil revenue dries up, yes? So why would the state not want to trim excess mandate and spending NOW instead of bloat up an already-gargantuan government enterprise, funded almost exclusively by the Fed and Oil? You can't honesty be so obtuse as to declare "everything's fine, just gouge the potential tax payer for it," can you? | 0 | not toxic |
Isn't health care a provincial responsibility as are stock markets, yet the feds try to regulate them, as by the Canada Health Act where they provide money to have some say in that area. B.C. could theoretically pay protestors to block pipeline construction and we'd have essentially the same theoretically unconstitutional situation that would function fine in practice. | 0 | not toxic |
He was elected with a majority government. Harper was trashed for good reason. | 0 | not toxic |
It's not that the media doesn't "understand" that. They understand it perfectly well, but that truth is of no use in their objectives. | 0 | not toxic |
I work in distribution. Many products are made in China and shipped over as components, then assembled in the US to qualify for having less income be stolen by Congress through taxes. Example: Every LED light you see is assembled with components from Asia, no exceptions. Seems manufacturing diodes creates pollution, and we've exported our pollution along with our jobs. | 0 | not toxic |
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Flint has problems, no one can deny that. But to hold decent progress hostage is utter folly. | 0 | not toxic |
I sold off pretty much all my Canadian and U.S. equities near the start of the year. Hindsight being 20-20 I made the right call in selling Canadian equities but should have held on to my U.S. equities. Even with the rising dollar I would have been in the black on those if I had held them while the Canadian equities would have lost me money.
I'm still not particularly confident in either market though. | 0 | not toxic |
Weird column. Essentially, this prof thinks academia is like a medieval cloister, and only those PhD holders who have never worked in the outside world, and have followed the high school - BA -MA- PhD -Postdoc - tenure track - tenure career route are true academics. Potter was qualified for his job. He holds a PhD. He has been published in the academic press. He has also managed a large group of people in a very high-profile job. | 0 | not toxic |
Hi, Baroness -- glad you made it here safely!
Text formatting is using bold, italics, strikethroughs to enhance the "voice" in a message. Disqus used HTML formatting but we've been assured that Civil will be looking into it in the future. I guess CAPS will have to suffice for now. :-) | 0 | not toxic |
ALERT: this is a linked story about a priest who is self-admittedly attracted to post-pubescent males.
It's entirely relevant to the conversation, overall milieu on this topic, it's true, and it's current.
My point is this sort of story is going to undercut Fr Martin's message, also a reasonable assertion on my point.
One thing does affect another. And to point this out is not untrue or uncivil.
Enough with the lack of dialog and spring loaded censorship, anytime some reasonable connection is made. | 0 | not toxic |
Are you daft?
The baker has said all along that his Christian conscience is what caused him to make the decision he did. His attorneys have argued "freedom of conscience" from day one.
My opinion of what the Bible says is irrelevant.
But it was a great way to deflect from my comment.
You want freedom of conscience for Christians but not against them. | 1 | toxic |
Every cut proposed by the Walker Administration, and none of them have been consequential economically, has been calculated to incite some noisy constituency. Anchorage to Seward or Kenai/Homer is probably the most popular drive in the State. Lots of movers and shakers live in or visit Girdwood. Lots of Anchorageites keep their boat in Whittier and use the ferry from there as well. The only thing DPS is saving is the rent and utilities and maybe some administrative staff, though any admin staff will likely just be transferred elsewhere. This post closing is nothing more than propaganda; they want to be able to point to the objections of the people to the closing. It is win-win for the State, either they get some funding or the MOA ponies up funding. It's the same nasty game they've played with other service cuts, notably ferry service cuts to locations with no other access. It is simply a game as this union-owned administration is not going to cut the operating budget. | 0 | not toxic |
I have many hundreds of pictures hosted and shared on forums. It's a whole history of things with a lot of write-ups to help others. I'm bummed by the way this was handled. A good company would have explain their case and offer solutions to help unwanted users migrate elsewhere their precious historical collection, that had taken hundreds of hours to set in the first place. A bad company just acts without any understanding of the implication thinking it will be fine in the end. It's okay to change your objectives. There is nothing wrong in wanting to be more profitable. But when you have so many users you have a certain responsibility to be considerate. Well, I don't wish bad things to people too often, but I hope they fail, because they deserve it. | 0 | not toxic |
Wrong, Trump is laughing. You are too blind to see it. | 0 | not toxic |
You are 1 of the cheerleaders, though.....
But, on sober 2nd thought, will re-phrase, the 3 guys that followed Happ failed to protect the lead, the 4th guy put out the fire.
Note that you do not disagree that Martin no longer has the arm to throw out base runners stealing 2nd, that Hamilton was Your Js player of the game, and that Your Js, whadda they gonna do when they stop hitting all those HRs? | 0 | not toxic |
No... I don't think that is a particular moment where they need your identity. | 0 | not toxic |
Denver will become Detroit 2.0
You get what you focus on. Denver city government focuses on making life less accountable for the bottom 10% by legalizing crime, providing lawyers, and subsidizing their living expenses. Accountability is for tax payers, whom are dying off due to the voracious appetite of government parasites. We have become Mecca for the never do goods of America. | 0 | not toxic |
Wanna bet? | 0 | not toxic |
In the mid- to late 2000s, according to this article, "doctors were dispensing Oxycontin and other narcotic opiates for aches and injuries of all kinds at a feverish pace, they say, and pain pills became something of a high school subculture."
Will those doctors be held accountable for their CARE-LESS-ness??? | 0 | not toxic |
Unconscious? Foul Odor? | 0 | not toxic |
you lunatics never get it , the usa is the country they all want to get to, sell to, be protected from etc,, they covet the usa, the usa does not covet them!,, the backlash will be empty rhetoric as they all cry for access to the usa markets . | 0 | not toxic |
"...I think that he'd ramp it up..."
He might, but it'd matter much less and likely be publicized less. Can't believe the guy's only been in office for 10 months. Seems like years. | 0 | not toxic |
As they're finding out in England, the conditions of Kabul are being "happily" imported into many countries. | 0 | not toxic |
I am sorry you find it inappropriate ? Maybe he should of stopped . His other actions that night show guilt ! Like I said sorry YOU feel its inappropriate ! | 0 | not toxic |
Hey Carter post it in Affidavit form send it to the Committee | 0 | not toxic |
The lesson of Comey's testimony is do not ever under-estimate Republican senators.
By the end of it, they had Comey:
-admitting a personal bias against Trump before he took office,
-admitting to felony leaking,
-calling out the New York Times for fake news,
-inculpating Loretta Lynch in obstruction, and possibly Bill Clinton too, and
-admitting that the FBI never verified the Dem's claims about Russian hacking.
Masterful. | 0 | not toxic |
The left was against Comey, before they were for him. | 0 | not toxic |
It is high time that we as a people have a serious conversation about dogs in the home. I for one, suggest we confiscate all dogs, safety first...its for the children. Dogs are a disease vector. | 0 | not toxic |
He seems to think he can return the economy back to the 1960's, so hell, why not the environmental regulations too? Who cares about mercury in your drinking water when you can have a sweet assembly-line job. | 0 | not toxic |
I think you have the Clinton Foundation confused with the Trump Foundation. | 0 | not toxic |
Oh no. Sad to see that. She really tried to put sanity back into government. | 0 | not toxic |
I'm not sure what you are saying. Would you say more? | 0 | not toxic |
True, but remember Eugene is after all in reality a Sanctuary City in a designate by law Sanctuary State. | 0 | not toxic |
So then, you think all of the hotel workers, housekeeping staff, anyone that makes under lets say $30,000 a year should pack up and move to the mainland someplace ?
http://www1.salary.com/HI/Honolulu/Housekeeper-salary.html
http://www1.salary.com/HI/Honolulu/Line-Cook-salary.html
So are you going to go work in the hotels or some restaurants then to support the visitor industry after all the low income employees are gone ? If all of the low income people left, the economy of the state would collapse in a few weeks. No one thinks about this but we rely on the low income to be our indentured servants. | 0 | not toxic |
Thanks for the question. The State funding protocol you mentioned is no longer in place. It hasn't been for a few years. Because the FY18 grants can't be approved without a budget, even if that system was still in place, the Department can't provide advances because technically they don't have an approved budget or any authorized grants to work from.
You are correct that providers typically receive funds from a variety of sources. In some cases, state grants are a small portion of the overall funding the provider has to work with. In other cases, it accounts for nearly 100% of the funding (it depends largely on exactly what the provider does).
Providers are planning for contingencies right now. Some of these contingencies are frightening. Hopefully, we won't have to enact them. | 0 | not toxic |
Georgia An says:
"If he had obtained any advice from the immigration department, ......The President ddn't give this any thought."
And you know he didn't - how? That's the trouble with political partisanship, It causes one to fabricate information to fit their narrative and nonchalantly pass it off as factual. | 0 | not toxic |
It's easy to google voter suppression. Try it. Here'a a quotation from the Wikepedia article re: voter fraud and voter suppression...
"Often, voter fraud is cited as a justification for such laws even when the incidence of voter fraud is low. In Iowa, lawmakers passed a strict voter ID law with the potential to disenfranchise 260,000 voters. Out of 1.6 million votes cast in Iowa in 2016, there were only 10 allegations of voter fraud; none were cases of impersonation that a voter ID law could have prevented. Only one person, a Republican voter, was convicted. Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate, the architect of the bill, admitted, "We've not experienced widespread voter fraud in Iowa."[30]" So really, bill, let's not be silly here...Voter fraud is NOT a problem, voter suppression IS.
regards, Gary Crum | 0 | not toxic |
Servers make $25+ an hour in wages and tips. They are doing just fine. Moreover most of that income is untaxed as it is not reported to the CRA. Servers do NOT live on your subsidies. | 0 | not toxic |
Poor you. Nothing but vitriol to contribute. | 0 | not toxic |
Bet you never even researched or interviewed any of PP staff to confirm your bias did you? | 0 | not toxic |
Your kidding right? Or are you simply that unable to connect the dots from the quote? "unity in necessary things; liberty in doubtful things; charity in all things" plus the links I proved. WOW [?]
Here is a clue. There is only ONE TRUE Christian faith, not multiple or some [secular humanism versions] as you like to suggest. | 0 | not toxic |
A very short list of some of Springsteen's fans (as evidenced by their covers of his songs): Johnny Cash, Patti Smith, Emmylou Harris, Billy Bragg, Raul Malo, Elvis Costello, Joe Ely, Patty Griffin. Call me crazy, but I'm going to respect their taste-making over Martin's. | 0 | not toxic |
So was I and most of us were not able to get out of it except for some of the women who married a little higher on the scale. There is not a lot of upward mobility now in the US. Your last sentence is insulting to poor people, most of whom work just as hard as you did, while still remaining poor.
Anyone interested in the actually existing US economic system should read "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis" by Robert Putnam.
http://amzn.to/2qQ79ET | 0 | not toxic |
Based on facts like the scientific consensus on global warming? Disingenuous corporate hack, Trudeau. | 0 | not toxic |
Already have hotels that are very expensive. Private ownership would only drive the prices higher so that only the truly rich could afford them. | 0 | not toxic |
after already handing about 3 billion of our money oversea's on his own, justin has figured out that he alone knows best so cut the support to all the agencies. | 0 | not toxic |
This is huge for U.S. politics. Dow is down 500 pre market. Going to be a bumpy day. | 0 | not toxic |
far out roy, even for you, thats far out. equating elephants to humans. farrrrr out | 0 | not toxic |
Burnsie: same to you and your family, sport! | 0 | not toxic |
...what if bruce lee had played "caine" on kung fu instead of david carradine? | 0 | not toxic |
I'm with Joe. Donald Trump is like my Lord and Savior, and I worship the ground he walks on. Whatever Donald says is what I base my life on. I love him so much! You with me Joe? | 0 | not toxic |
Thank you Brett. Following the "I'M VAIN" check off list needs to become the practice for all of us in this day and age when anything can and will be said. Repeating un-truths, mis-truths, and outright lies only spreads confusion and dissension. And yes, a critical thinking class incorporating this subject should be a mandatory core class in high school and universities. | 0 | not toxic |
CNN is not credible | 0 | not toxic |
I get the impression that Alberta has changed, too. I haven't been there for sometime, so I only get what I read.
I know about Kenney, though. He's never done anything but be a politician. I don't think he cares about serving the people. He's a political animal, and my impression is that that animal is: weasel. | 1 | toxic |
He is married! Only Catholic priests aren't allowed to marry. | 0 | not toxic |
Bill inmate's families for the cost. | 0 | not toxic |
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