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Ahh, good ol' Garrison ... a voice of affable reason, from a different age. I'm afraid your day is done, GK. At the present time, most of your fellow citizens (left and right) are acting less and less like, well, fellow citizens, than scorpions in a bottle. :( | 0 | not toxic |
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An income tax only gives the legislature more money to give to the corporations.
Stop all forms of corporate welfare.
Revamp our corporate taxes, and resource taxes and royalties and we have no more budget problem.
It's as simple as that.
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She didn't offend me. In fact I applaud her courage to express opposition to the Democratic Parties "dog & pony" show. | 0 | not toxic |
So did Harper. | 0 | not toxic |
Well Susan, if he has to explain it to you you can't afford to understand it. | 0 | not toxic |
They might not have gotten Julie Payette right. Rumor has it that she's an anti-monarchist. That's like having an atheist perform a Roman Catholic Mass. | 0 | not toxic |
The city council invited the health professionals to a forum and to field a debate in the council chambers. At each event proponents to fluoridation outnumbered the opponents. That happened last fall. They did an excellent job IMO. Not everyone expresses things in person either. | 0 | not toxic |
lol I want to hit the star button like tipping - the better I like the comment , the more stars.... | 0 | not toxic |
Well, James, first of all, that optimally fluoridated water helps adults as well as children, is not a "recommendation". It is a fact, as demonstrated by the example of the peer-reviewed evidence provided in my previous comment, which clearly demonstrates this fact.
Assuming you to mean the compendium of well over 100 of the most highly respected healthcare and healthcare-related organizations in the world which publicly recognize the public health benefits of fluoridation, they do so because, unlike you and most other uninformed antifluoridationists, they understand the broad support which this initiative has within the peer-reviewed science, its benefits to individuals of all ages, and the total void of any valid evidence of adverse effects of optimally fluordated water.
And, very notably, there is no credible organization in the world which opposes water fluoridation.
Steven D. Slott, DDS
Communications Officer
American Fluoridation Society | 0 | not toxic |
Like many people in Alberta, we can't help but notice the irony of BC wanting to cut down trees for money. Those trees offer a great carbon sink. All this while wagging fingers at Alberta for wanting to sell its oil. Funny world! | 0 | not toxic |
Warning Sirens for what? By the time you hear the sirens, you probably will have less than 10 minutes before impact. So what is the point of a siren? Maybe they could play some nice Hawaiian music instead. I rather listen to that than to some useless irritating siren before KABOOM! | 0 | not toxic |
Orin Seybert - a state income tax is still money coming out of your paycheck every two weeks (or weekly or monthly depending on how yours is done) that will not come back to you until April. My bills come in monthly and I don't see any of my creditors agreeing to wait for a once-yearly payout for me to pay those bills. They're talking about a 4% tax right now. That's a couple hundred dollars a month.
So do I not buy heating oil or food? I could stop giving to my church because the state government is obviously so much more important than the work we do there. Right now, that couple of hundred dollars a month goes into the economy of Alaska in one form or another. Instead, now it will go to support a bloated bureaucracy that will have ZERO incentive to reduce further.
Oh, and according to several tax prep sites I checked, if you make less than the level for itemization, you can't actually get your state income tax back through the federal system unless you itemize. | 0 | not toxic |
The author states that Trump's claims of voter fraud were "groundless" but conveniently overlooks the fact that a Mexican citizen who voted illegally in 2012 and 2014 was convicted of voter fraud in Texas this week. Her case is likely the tip of the iceberg. If the government does a thorough audit of votes cast in certain states, there is a good chance that the results will prove Trump's case. | 0 | not toxic |
"Oliver Stone, once a fine film director and now a kind of benign crackpot student of macho posturing in politics. "
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny ... if you can't say anything good about someone, then you must be a Globe and Mail columnist. | 0 | not toxic |
It was the night before the budget:
Bill: ummm where's the 2016 budget, aha add a few buzzwords, strategic, innovation and gender based - Done!
JT: Bill I'd like to add some colour to the budget
Bill: here use some crayons
JT: Great, can I have a happy meal after? | 0 | not toxic |
No wonder Mr. Trump went on vacation to the wilds of New Jersey. | 0 | not toxic |
That's what so few seem to get. The GST is highly regressive and then when it is coupled with corresponding tax cuts for the wealthy and their corporation, only a fool would think a consumption tax is the right way to go. | 0 | not toxic |
The chilling effect to our tourist economy is the fact we have jamokes like Doug Chin as AG | 0 | not toxic |
Right, because there's an exact equivalence between an overly scripted, non-charming politician and someone who's dangerous, unfit for the office, and whose victory has unleashed ugly racist forces. Okaaay. | 0 | not toxic |
I agree with Kevin. This article makes it sound like it was a mutual, even conflict. She was one 52-year-old woman completely surrounded by a crowd of men and she deserves everything they did to her because she reaches out and tapped one of them on the arm? In that point in Hawken's video it looks like she did so because he was tapping her on the arm in the same way. You know she's a survivor of abuse, don't you think she probably didn't want to be touched? The word "lunged" is way too violent to describe what she did, and you don't properly lay out how she was bullied into reacting. This is bad journalism and victim blaming. | 0 | not toxic |
Typical authoritarian speak: "don't verify MY news by consulting other sources, comrade; believe what good PRAVDA tells you!" | 0 | not toxic |
The courts and lawyers are unable to resolve past degradation and wrongs. So does this give the green light to North Korea and the US? Seems so. Russians, Iranians, and Israelis? Ah, the spawn of Dr Strangelive. | 0 | not toxic |
Okay, so much for the feel good. Now the reality. We just spent about $250,000 taxpayer dollars because of a cat. | 0 | not toxic |
your making HUGE assumptions that people even read the popups that they are forced to rate. You would like THINK they are 1)reading them 2) being honest... Neither of which fall into the realm of reality for how people use forums/internet. They don't care about questions and articles for which they that they didn't ask or show any interest.
This system is built on a concept of purity in a vacuum. It might work in a controlled area like Utah, but free thinking people have different opinions. | 0 | not toxic |
Could you speak louder? The HART train is passing by. | 0 | not toxic |
The word you are looking for is payoff. | 0 | not toxic |
Would you fight for a country which makes such treasonous decisions? | 0 | not toxic |
Couldn't agree more. Analyze your objectives. An Iphone, cable TV and rocket car now or a decent house later. | 0 | not toxic |
you blame me & pot for your not understanding?
I wrote simply enuf, what part / s stumped you? | 0 | not toxic |
And your evidence for any of what you say is? | 0 | not toxic |
Why don't you address a counter-argument to what the professor actually says (if you are able to), rather than summarily dismissing the author based on her background. | 0 | not toxic |
There should be no "future recipients" | 0 | not toxic |
The priests, miners and traders got the cycle of drug, alcohol and sex offences going, not the villages. If people like you knew the facts and basic history, then you would realize you are a part of the problem keeping oppressed and violated people down. Most real Alaskans are not like you cheechakos spouting false impressions based on European standards of uncivilty. | 0 | not toxic |
NO need to throw in red herrings. Let's focus on trying to do something about animals dying horrific deaths burned alive, without the "but what about this ; what about that" kind of comments. | 0 | not toxic |
Don't see a party named in the sentence, just a destructive ideology. | 0 | not toxic |
Harry Kim's inner thoughts: "I should have never ran again. I'm too old for this." Somewhere off in the distance, the Billy Kenoi crowd chuckles. | 0 | not toxic |
Hawaii so liberal and blind. Only thinking of poor foreigners and couldn't give a rip about America's safety. So sad joining the bad actors on the mainland. | 0 | not toxic |
". . . . we’ll watch those sensitive stories and if comments get out of hand we may move back to our previous policy of not including comments on stories with a high likelihood of uncivil comments."
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. . . we’ll watch those sensitive stories and if comments get out of hand we may move back to our previous policy of CENSORSHIP on stories with a high likelihood ROBUST CIVIL DISCOURSE!
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There! Fixed it for ya.
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The muslims complain that they feel insecure and threatened. No other racial group has made the same complaint. Not the Chinese, nor the Indians, nor the Koreans.
Why not? That tells you it is not racism. It is something else. | 0 | not toxic |
I'm a native, let me show you silly college educated modern american professionals how to BARTER with our equipment suppliers.... you wouldn't believe how badly money slows progress when this whole process has become a horrid overblown circus full of greedy spectators. You blow 20 years gold mining and you'll finally get smart about these things.
Old Injun sez; "The quieter we go the faster we get there" | 0 | not toxic |
Unless he was self-serving via the BYOB method. | 0 | not toxic |
You don't seem to get it, do you. Economic woes have nothing to do with governments everything to do with capitalist economics. | 0 | not toxic |
Some of us have been affordable for decades while working mainly on referral. Shameless personal plug here... VHIremodeling.com. There's a waiting list but I'm worth it. Thing is, I may be affordable but I'm not cheap! | 0 | not toxic |
Seems like the “America” part of that slogan only applies to a certain group of people that hired Trump and his Merrymen to protect them...#MAGA | 0 | not toxic |
That's Emperor Zero, to you. | 0 | not toxic |
I suppose you just support urban sprawl then with that logic. | 0 | not toxic |
How effective I ask? Has it stopped the climate from changing in BC .... or anywhere? | 0 | not toxic |
The author is passionate enough in his thesis but with no evidence to back it up or suggestions going forward, it comes across as self-serving. Good on the Mme Justice for at least addressing the issue. | 0 | not toxic |
Veto it. Because of who passed it.
Nearly all of the yes votes came from the legislative majority. The same ones who failed to even attempt to do their #1 job. Veto every single bill those clowns produced. | 0 | not toxic |
What? If it was a picture of a black man, it would be less exclusionary or offensive? Come on - this is getting ridiculous - it's a picture. They had to have a picture, so they picked one.
People need to stop LOOKING for reasons to be offended. | 0 | not toxic |
Duke Charles Martel
Your comprehension of the history of the Sephardi Jews is limited and your apparent bigotry disturbing.
Sephardi Jews have been in what is now Morocco since the 6th century B.C. after the destruction of the First Temple in what is now Israel.
Later, in the 15th century the bulk of their population came from Spain and Portugal after they were chased out by the Christians.
A large part of the Moroccan Jewish population were encouraged to emigrate to Israel in the 1960's with the help of a secret operation run by Mossad ... about the same time Mr. Bensadoun came to Montreal.
There are still Sephardi Jews in n Morocco which belies your theory that they were chased out. | 0 | not toxic |
Attracting foreign students to Canadian universities will create an even wider gap of less educated Canadian students as the cost of tuition will become cost prohibitive and priority will be given to the student that pays the most tuition to the university. At some point, a balance should be meet to invest in Canadian youth. | 0 | not toxic |
The Clallam County Republican Party recommends voting NO on the carbon tax, Initiative 732. | 0 | not toxic |
The CSIS/government Poise(on) Project column? I thought all the columns in this paper were in that category. | 0 | not toxic |
Cable news is reporting Obama took $400,000 for a one hour speech the other day. The rot continues. | 0 | not toxic |
Nearly all airport disruptions were caused by protesters not by the new restrictions. | 0 | not toxic |
Nanos: Outsourced LPC propaganda inc. | 0 | not toxic |
Very good. So, would I be wrong to assume that you would be as strident when it came to fitting Antifa with the label "racist" and "nazi-like?" They show up with masks and billy clubs and act very much like brown shirts. | 0 | not toxic |
Again, no.
Venezuela is producing as much as it can. Their good oil is in decline. Tar sands are barely an energy "source." There's something called "thermodynamics," which is even more important than the flow of digital dollars (and pesos).
The oil that Venezuela does sell to the US mostly goes to terminals in the Gulf (Tx and La). Supertankers don't fit in the Panama Canal, smaller ones can but they're already used for other routes.
There aren't "new" tar sand deposits, they're already being mined. Shale deposits are also being mined, but they rise and fall very quickly.
Building more oil tankers for the decline years is not a wise investment, just like Weyerhauser isn't building more lumber mills that can process ten foot diameter logs.
New drilling is scraping the bottom of the barrel. The best oil deposits are mostly gone. Entropy is not a good idea, it's the law. Denial, on the other hand, is a renewable resource. | 0 | not toxic |
It is a depiction of the Southern Cross, a constellation located in the southern sky, and is the unit patch of the 23rd Infantry Division active in WW II and Viet Nam, where I served with it. The Division is also known as the AMERICAL, the AMERican Division in New CALdonia. A bit of Army history. | 0 | not toxic |
You mean His teachings on birth control, abortion, same gender civil unions... delivered in the Latin Jesus spoke? Please give me the Scripture citations for those. Or would that be the teachings on peace, justice, an end to violence, and whatsoever we do to the least we do to Him? Would that be His pleas to not judge, love our neighbors, love our enemies and pray for those who are persecuting us? Would that be His announcing that He came to search out and save the lost? Would that be Jesus in yesterday's Gospel telling Zaccheus to come down from the tree because Jesus is coming to his house when Zaccheus was a reviled tax-collector and a public sinner? I can quite easily give you the Scripture citations for those. | 0 | not toxic |
How many Indigenous people live historically native lives? Natives have adopted white culture with impunity. | 0 | not toxic |
That's ok. You're entitled to your opinion. | 0 | not toxic |
I Wonder what "COMMANDER" Kane is commanding these days...... | 0 | not toxic |
My only concern with Sloter is his srm strength. He only slows floaters and never throws a bullet. | 0 | not toxic |
When the Bay Area Rapid Transit finished they did not finish the portion going to SFO. When they decided to finish the final few miles to SFO that costed as much as the entire system of BART when it was first built in the 70's.
Can't we learn from this?
Why did we even get into this? | 0 | not toxic |
Father Nguyen has made a kind and generous offer. However, it is meaningless in so far as obtaining citizenship is a matter of law. | 0 | not toxic |
"Nothing but fake news."
Then you shouldn't worry about the inquiry, right? | 0 | not toxic |
excuse me? Where and when were Canadians of Italian or German descent interned? We had POW camps for those captured in north Africa but we did NOT intern or seize property of Italian-Canadians or German-Canadians. Fake news. You should read up on your history. | 0 | not toxic |
"Ice Cube later came on Maher’s show and stated that the word can be used only by African-Americans or it would just not be acceptable."
Why? Why is it only acceptable when spoken by African-Americans? I don't think it should be acceptable for ANYONE. It would seem hard to get all worked up and angry about a name or label when you use it all the time within your own culture, videos, and on the street. Lead by example, and not by blame..... | 0 | not toxic |
Great decision by HART. Shinn shows that her experience will be of great help to the board. | 0 | not toxic |
Ontario is going too implode. Way to many highly paid government parasites. Revenue tools......Baaaaaaaaaaaa | 0 | not toxic |
You can say that again, Rex! | 0 | not toxic |
Low IQ probs. but at least he is "nice." | 0 | not toxic |
No real evidence has emerged. If it does I will reconsider, but in the meantime I treat believing family and friends with respect. | 0 | not toxic |
Right, but Hilary won nearly every major city by a landslide. Most of the illegal aliens mentioned in this article reside in cities. So again, why would the liberals need their votes? | 0 | not toxic |
One of the best articles on this topic from the G&M in a VERY long time! | 0 | not toxic |
Not sure that I would be bragging about 'custom made furniture from China and Russia'! Further, the interior seems like Liberace's dream home, I maybe in the minority here but I am not impressed with the interior. | 0 | not toxic |
''he would balance the budget, rescind Liberal carbon-tax policies and recommit Canada’s military jets to the fight against the Islamic State.''
See, that's how they get you to vote for them. But then afterwards, they're eager to play with abortion, gay rights, euthanasia, drug and prostitution laws and put their puritanical twist on them. | 0 | not toxic |
Orwell's 1984 is hyperbolic as is The Handmaid's Tale. As Margaret says, the closest we have to the latter is Saudi Arabia. The closest to the former is North Korea.
Both real examples are still a ways from their dystopian fictional models.
For instance, North Korea is not trying to change the language to prevent certain thoughts occurring and Saudi Arabia does not literally treat women as incubators. | 0 | not toxic |
I think that you will be surprised at how wrong you are. | 0 | not toxic |
Who cares? 70%+ of NFL players are either broke or under financial pressure within 2 years of retirement. 60% of NBA players are broke within 5 years of retirement. Um. I'll consider the opinion of those with a tad more sense. Play ball. | 0 | not toxic |
Similarly, M-103 begins this way:
M-103 That, in the opinion of the House, the government should: (a) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear; (b) condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination... | 0 | not toxic |
War has no place in our childrens lives and showing its horror is the best way to emphasise how awful, destructive it is. I see we are objecting to video footage of Syrian war images. What about American/Israeli/Ukranian/Russian etc etc war footage ... or is that already effectively censured? | 0 | not toxic |
Walking past the CBC building in downtown Vancouver each day, one cannot help but see the homeless people sleeping across the street and in front of the CBC building in the snow. Many of these people are either mentally or physically challenged and we appear to have no money to help them back into society.
Meanwhile the CBC continues to churn out stories in support of refugees (including those entering the country illegally) and telling us that we have a responsibility for these people. The cost of the refugee program is in fact far greater than a program to get our own desperate people off the streets and back into society.
As they step over (or walk around) homeless Canadians each day to enter the CBC building, do those that work for the CBC not notice that they are also human?
We cannot be responsible for all of the desperate people in the world at least until we take responsibility for our own. | 0 | not toxic |
Well, let's see how many rounds a year of conventional ammo they'd go through if each round cost $10. OK, we'll give them a quantity discount- $5 apiece for purchases of 1000 or more. Cash only. | 0 | not toxic |
Oh come now, bycatch. You should know by now Mason likes to jerk our chain every now and than. | 0 | not toxic |
Agreed and it is a Scam! Many other places that have put this scam into action have later regretted it and repealed it. Why would our politicians fall sucker to such a pathetic idea? | 0 | not toxic |
"And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, 'Behold, Esau my brother is an hairy man, I am a smooth man.'"
Genesis 27:11
There, another irrelevant bible verse. | 0 | not toxic |
I wonder what segment of independent voters who thought the "opposition" would lose, but they didn't like the one their party offered so chose elsewhere? Would be interesting to see how that splits out.
Unless Trump does something amazingly positive, I just don't see him winning re-election since I'd bet a fair amount of those independents would vote for a Dem just to keep him out. | 0 | not toxic |
So much terrible violence was done by those awful liberal counter-protesters in Charlottesville.
There was the grusome beating of the Emancipation Park lawn by the feet of counter-protesters fleeing Richard Preston as he shot at them.
Then there was the despicable damage done to James Field's beautiful car by Heather Heyer's body and the bodies of 19 other vicious counter-protesters as he mowed them down in it.
And of course there is the impending dismantling of Robert E Lee's gorgeous metallic horsey-riding likeness, ending it's all too brief 93 year run of intimidating the black citizens of Charlottesville and celebrating Lee's unsuccessful attempt to destroy America and perpetuate slavery with a war that killed close to 1 million people.
We must stop these liberals from abusing our lawns with their feet as they flee gun violence, wrecking our cars with their bodies as we run them over and destroying our horsey-riding statues to our enemies' slavery-championing war heros! | 0 | not toxic |
Can you link to it? Not sure which clip you are talking about. ... | 0 | not toxic |
No. | 0 | not toxic |
If the Taser didn't work IMMEDIATELY it wasn't going to work at all. At that point the only other option is deadly force which was properly used given the totality of the circumstances in this case. | 0 | not toxic |
And everyone knows what a thug Saddam Hussein and company were. During the same timeframe, the USSR invaded Afghanistan; this after they’d taken control of Poland and all the other Eastern Block nation’s while we did nothing to stop them in the name of peace. To stop their naked aggression in Afghanistan we boycotted the Olympics. We were such heavy hitters. The Soviet invasion saw the rise of the Mujahadeen, from which sprang Al Qaeda, and Isis.
In 1978 our operational readiness was worse than it had possibly ever been. 40 percent of our military aircraft could get off the ground, and even fewer could fire weapons. The Phoenix missile system was not performing as expected, the Johnny Walker spy ring was selling secrets to the Soviets and our enemies were expanding everywhere. But apparently, that’s what peace looks like.
So what foreign policy were we engaged in with these conflicts? None. We were cleaning up the mess created by people who never learn that peace... | 0 | not toxic |
Because they were not responsible for the spill. | 0 | not toxic |
I have seen this movie before. Home prices went up like a rocket off the launching pad in late 1980s and everyone said it was different that time, and it was not a bubble, as the prices were supported by the fundamentals. Then, all of a sudden interest rates went up and the market collapsed and Ontario went into a tailspin which it could not escaped for years and produced the Bob Reay NDP government, which by its inane policies destroyed Ontario's economy. This is a lesson that only old timers like me can understand. | 0 | not toxic |
That's the thing, dweller, when someone chooses to vote for a person who has made racist and bigoted statements and who has admitted to assaulting women, then it leads others to wonder about that voter. The barrage of public racist threats that I have heard about in the last two days leads me to think that those who voted for him accept those racist and misogynist comments as being acceptable on some level. | 0 | not toxic |
My doc told me the side effects of heavy marijuana use can include stammering and repeatedly saying "uh, ah, uh" | 0 | not toxic |
Traffic will never be relieved. Rail will provide an alternative form of transportation which most cities have. We need to get this built. It is a shame that this project has had so many problems and it is being done backwards but this is Hawaii. And it is not due to democrats. This is a one party state and was just as screwed up prior to 1954 when republicans ran everything. Look at the H-1 through town. | 0 | not toxic |