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457,703 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Thank you for posting. I saw a picture of Clinton hugging him. | 5 | KKK Grand Dragon Will Quigg endorses Hillary Clinton.( US news and world report).
KKK gives 20K to Hillary. (Washington times).
Keep up with the real news and not the lies of a paid troll such as yourself. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45432844, 45515678, 45590724, 45653549] |
457,853 | [1, 1, 1, 1] | Ignorance must be bliss for you. | 4 | Not to worry, SB21 will be kicking in any day now and the TAPS will be full of oil, | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45385682, 45456658, 45588938, 45598378] |
458,084 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yet again, secondhand smoke is causing NO deaths by cancer. Makes the rest of your numbers questionable. Let's look at the Oxford Journal shall we?:
http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/12/05/jnci.djt365.full | 4 | You act as if CANCER is the ONLY disease smoking is responsible for. In fact, smoking causes more deaths from cardiovascular disease and non-cancerous lung disease than it does from lung cancer.
From the study you have just cited: “Passive smoking has many downstream health effects—asthma, upper respiratory infections, other pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular disease—but only borderline increased risk of lung cancer,” said Patel. “The strongest reason to avoid passive cigarette smoke is to change societal behavior: to not live in a society where smoking is a norm.
And from the CDC:
Exposure to secondhand smoke causes an estimated 41,000 deaths each year among adults in the United States:
Secondhand smoke causes 7,333 annual deaths from lung cancer.
Secondhand smoke causes 33,951 annual deaths from heart disease.
Secondhand smoke kills more Americans than ISIS. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45535393, 45535369, 45635376, 45463652] |
458,189 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | But they (Wood/MacK) basically said a common carrier gasline very well may be economic. That`s what this is I think. The cartel (AK/LNG) gasline was not a "common carrier" gasline. In other words it didn`t have to take anybody else's gas from inside Alaska into it, if say another giant gas field was found. That was an unwise thing for the state to have agreed to under Parnell.
AK/LNG and being married to the cartel was a bad deal for Alaska. I`m glad the separation has been amicable. | 4 | Yes, we can build the pipeline. What was the cost of TAPS when it was built and how long did it take? This gas line should be comparable in length and design conditions so a very preliminary cost for the pipeline alone should be the TAPS cost escalated for inflation to say 2016 dollars. Other authors have pegged the gas treatment plant up north at roughly $10 billion and the liquefaction/storage/terminal facilities cost should be available as well. The tariff for operation of the pipeline will be significantly higher than was estimated for Gov. Palin's gas pipeline through Canada, and that gas line wasn't economically viable either. Apparently Woods Mackenzie looked at these numbers and said it wasn't viable now, even though their previously produced reports said it was viable before. And don't forget to get approval from all the environmental groups for the gas plant, the pipeline and the terminal along with a promise they won't try to stop the project along the way. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45536973, 45505902, 45184889, 45635376] |
458,220 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The truth is I smoked for 30 years and did not realize how offensive the smoke was I was emitting and how much it bothered others especially people with allergies until I quit. Besides when I was at the state fair and took my grandkids to the fair to ride the rides and get some eats I often experienced people with lit cigarettes who "almost" walked into one of the kids . On the flip side, I know a lot of smokers who would not smoke at the fair. The good news is that no matter what age a smoker is the health benefits of quitting smoking are almost immediate and as the years go by get only better. The money ones saves by quitting smoking is a lot not including the money one saves on doctor bills and medicines. | 4 | Second hand smoke is a problem in enclosed areas not outdoors in the open air! It is defiantly not near as dangerous as the bleeding heart whiners that keep whittling away at our freedoms! The fair lost out on $3-400 from me and the Ms. and more from our friends. but who cares, more people than you think! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45458735, 45404259, 45537276, 45553691] |
458,259 | [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Hi Rage,
The selection you shared doesn't contradict what I've said. To start, my statement was about sex offenders generally, not just child molesters. The numbers you're providing are regarding child molesters in particular.
Further, if you look at the line directly before the line you've cited, it reads: "The researchers reported that 5.1 percent of the child molesters in the study were rearrested for a new sex crime within 3 years of their release..." meaning that 95% of child molesters were not re-arrested for a new sex crime.
The numbers you have cited have to do with comparing subsets of child molesters: those with more than one prior arrest versus those with only one type of prior arrest.
Lastly, regarding the bit that starts with "As might be expected...", what they're saying here is that child molesters were more likely than other types of sex offenders to commit a sex crime against a child after release, which is different than re-offense rates.
Does that clear things up? | 10 | Ingrid said: "Sex offenders in general have very low re-offense rates (compared to other types of offenders)."
This contradicts what you just said. Please explain why:
"Similar to the pattern for rapists, child molesters with
more than one prior arrest had an overall recidivism rate
nearly double (44.3 percent compared to 23.3 percent)
that of child molesters with only one prior arrest. As
might be expected, child molesters were more likely
than any other type of offender—sexual or nonsexual—
to be arrested for a sex a crime against a child following
release from prison."
http://www.smart.gov/pdfs/RecidivismofAdultSexualOffenders.pdf | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45597947, 45506032, 45541171, 45445022] |
458,285 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | ...you do understand that 'debate' is not synonymous with 'a contest to see who can toss a midget the farthest after drinkin a 12-pak of Keystone Lite' ?? | 5 | You are correct. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45434367, 45597315, 45584933, 45447087, 45252698] |
458,521 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Clearly, making more laws will stop crime . | 4 | Another neato gun owner. It's neato that guns make wasting police time/taxpayer dollars/stoking fear the way this fella did so easy. Clearly, more guns would make this problem stop. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45458735, 45574915, 45590457, 45514417, 45599851] |
458,550 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Keala, You caught this one perfectly. In truth, I would have credited Noelani's comment as being more credible. As I was writing my comment, Noelani's comment got post. My comment was submitted within a minute or two after Noelani's. Such is life, I was a little to late.. Thank you for calling me on that. You are correct. I appreciate your kindness. Aloha and best regards to you and to Noelani.
Bryant | 4 | I agree with everything you say, except you are giving Mr. Johnson too much credit. He believes that the free market should solve every problem and criticizes govt any chance he can get, esp when its a democrat he is taking aim at. He ignore the great progress the City has made with its sewer system, as evidence by the fact that it is ahead of the sewer consent decree. You can be assured that has the City doubled property taxes for a few years in order to do all the sewer upgrades at once, he would have screamed bloody murder. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45541171, 45184889, 45513204, 45463652] |
458,880 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It would help if people would be willing to actually learn something about an issue before they start broadcasting their opinions. There is a lot of information available online on homelessness, both local and national. We know a lot about causes, what works and what doesn't. But it's hard to get anyone to absorb any of this information. People want to hang on to whatever point of view justifies the way they live and their politics, and reject any information that contradicts their point of view.
Only a small percentage of the homeless are visible on the street -- someone on a panel a while back at the City Club estimated 5 percent -- and you can't come to a conclusion based on what you see. If people even understand what they see, instead of just projecting their ideas on other people.
I've been studying this for over 4 years. That doesn't make me an expert -- there are those who are -- but I do know quite a bit about it. See:
https://www.facebook.com/homeless.action.coalition | 4 | So pondering all of this trickling down nastiness, I'm left w/really no hope.
We're all frustrated. We all are turning on each other w/plenty of media platforms: here, letters to the editors and all the internet modes available.......but isn't this just like taking the kettle that's whistling from boiling off the burner and doing nothing w/it?
I'm really feeling a lot of pain in my heart. I have a real appreciation for all of you who expressed un.comfortableness being downtown. I was in my car so no walking but I really, truly was overwhelmed and pulled over and sat crying. We all go after those under us. I've seen dogs and cats do it.
Who are we? We fight and insult each other (me) and get into our political clothes and attack again and yet we'll never ever change anything if we don't join in solidarity and demand from those who truly can make a difference that the governing is the problem.
listening2grasshoppers | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45333173, 45349032, 45349004, 45394434] |
458,916 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | bipartisanreport - per Media Bias / Fact Check - they have a very clear and strong liberal bias. Occasionally publishes pseudoscience and conspiracies. Needs strong fact checking from credible sources.
Basically means it's a waste of time to read your link. | 4 | Four Star Generals endorse Hillary.
http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/09/01/breaking-four-star-army-generals-defiantly-make-first-presidential-endorsement-of-their-careers/ | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45456658, 45385682, 45397010, 45447087] |
459,031 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I will delete my incorrect postings. | 4 | That's absolutely incorrect. The camera body doesn't have anything to do with the aperture, which is a part of the lens. The f stop is completely dependent on what the lens will do. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45525557, 45447091, 45411334, 45553851] |
459,055 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0] | """I’m not for the state going bankrupt just for the sake of building it."""
ME TOO !!!!!!!! ;-)
If Shinzo Abe can dump $30billion into Africa this week,
then he can loan Alaskans $500million next week.
$500mil is plenty to start a flexpipe production industry in Alaska.
A big backbone megawhopper steel sister-pipe to TAPS is a silly idea based on old 1950's technology rehashed by bogus experts for decades. In 1975 I knew TAPS was obsolete before we finished it. Early AKLNG under Parnell blew a few hundred million on "expert consultants"...
goog: agdc saic
goog: saic fraud
goog: saic iraq
IMHO: A big whopper gasline is an unnecessary National Security Risk, a big fat target for any idiot.
A statewide invisible flexpipe network can easily ship 5bcfd of gas to global markets, and it's resilient from attack or nat-disaster. First flexpipe pays for a dozen flexpipes.
API 15s Spoolable Composite Pipe can also be designed by Alaskans to function as a HVDC power conductor. | 5 | I'm not sure what another year will do other than show a downward price trend in LNG. LNG capacity is growing all over the planet with much lower cost projects while demand is waning, driving down the Henry Hub price, $2.82/MBtu in July. Estimated cost to deliver LNG to Korea/Japan market (JKM) is $6.26/MBtu. The major LNG consumers are not even taking in their contract capacity (China, India, Korea, Japan) and are reselling it on the open market, further driving down future LNG prices. Qatar, UAE, Iran, Australia, Indonesia, Papua, New Guinea all have lower cost projects with about half of them shelving projects under construction because the futures market is dropping below profitable levels. Top that with pipeline projects being built across southern Asia with higher capacities and lower capital costs and it truly shows that the pipeline is not economical. I'm for a pipeline, I'm not for the state going bankrupt just for the sake of building it. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45447087, 44826677, 45537841, 45404473] |
459,064 | [1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1] | I'd bet $100 to a dozen Crispy Creams she won't win. Even most liberals are understanding she lacks morals ethics and any sense. She's a demon with bad hair. | 10 | Seeing as how the FBI report states flat out that Clinton didn't seek to mislead or hide anything, it seems pretty acceptable to me. I also know what "qualified" means and I think someone who has endured thirty years of relentless harassment AND keeps on keepin' on, and who has served as a lawyer and a senator and a Secretary of State and has foreign policy credentials and helped catch our generation's most wanted terrorist is in fact "qualified." But continue to huff and puff and freak out because we're going to have a woman President and you're gonna just lose your mind in rage.
But the thing is, people like you are quickly becoming irrelevant. Your time is almost over. So try to blow the house down all you want. But no one's really listening anymore. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45590457, 45366683, 45449332, 45567747] |
459,419 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I would modify your misrepresentation of my view thus:
LTD (the taxpayers) are getting at least a partial return on their money with spending on local construction jobs that provide money for workers who then spend that money locally. If you have an issue with WPA type programs, that's yours to own.
The fact that people are under-using the system is probably true. But by how much? 10% under-utilization? 20%? Where do you draw the line and what is your evidence? Implicit in your statement is a resentment of those who under-utilize services offered. Shall we deny enhanced services because some don't use all services?
Then, while you criticize the fact there is under-utilization, you fault W 11th BRT because others "manage to go about their daily deeds anyway. " That's a catch 22: If they use it, they don't need it. If some don't use it when it's provided, we shouldn't fund it.
I have no idea what the last statement means. | 4 | So to summarize, you support WPA-style projects that prop up the local construction industry, which isn't hurting for business anyway and, in at least one case, enjoys a controlling interest in LTD's largesse with "free" money, especially when plucked off the federal tree.
You also support enhanced bus transit on existing routes for those who can't drive or have to live on fixed incomes, or both, even though those folks are under-using the system already in place.
And you also support LTD service becoming more competitive by attracting riders who can't drive or afford other transportation but manage to go about their daily deeds anyway, along with those who now drive but can't wait to share the freedom of their daily commutes by leaving their vehicles at Wal-Mart to mingle with the hoi polloi because it's, ahem, quicker.
Finally, those who disagree are . . . wait for it . . . prejudiced and ignorant.
LTD's on line one, with a job offer. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256208, 45454484, 45535979, 45363536, 45340838] |
459,477 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Sines was bored and needed to pull out one of his biggest racist lies. | 58 | <i>"...petition their native corporations to sue drivers on their behalf"</i>
That's just nonsense. No such thing happened. That's not a function of an ANCSA corporation. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45224788, 45553691, 45485526, 45434367] |
460,101 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yeah a snipper would love that welcome. LOL | 4 | Sitting on your front steps cleaning a scary, ugly, black gun, preferably one that is illegal in the Democrat states, is a very effective deterrent. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [45536973, 45635376, 45327007, 45596835, 45567747] |
460,136 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Democrats and gun violence go together...
Ft Hood Shooter: Registered Democrat
Columbine Shooters: Too young to vote, however both families were Registered Democrats and progressive liberals.
Virginia Tech shooter: Wrote hate mail to President Bush and to his staff. Registered Democrat.
Colorado theater shooter: Registered Democrat, staff worker on the Obama campaign, occupy wall street participant .. progressive liberal.
Gabby Giffords shooter- Left wing liberal Democrat
Connecticut school shooter: Registered Democrat.
Orlando Nightclub Shooter-father is registered Democrat and was recently spotted behind Hillary at Clinton rally in Florida | 4 | Utterly ridiculous to associate these homicides with politics. Good grief, crime is spiking primarily because of the heroin and meth problems in Anchorage. I suggested at the beginning of the summer that the Mayor should assign officers on bikes to patrol our parks and trails. Quite a backlash I received from many of you, especially James Mason. This is common practice in cities across the country. (Safer cities then Anchorage). Perhaps patrol hours should be posted at the parks and trails to give our communities a safer window to jog or bike. Avoid period after dark. Not much you can do to defend yourself against an armed killer under the cover of darkness | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45402464, 45445022, 45438681, 45465124] |
460,511 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Snowman, I first arrived in Fairbanks in 1967, my uncle Ernie was there since ww2... many of the oldtimers in Fairbanks were talking very loudly about building a gasline down from the Nsloppy since the early 1950's. During the past 2-centuries there was plenty of gas & messy oil all over the place between Barrow & Kaktovik & Tuktoyaktuk. The Newsminer has many old articles discussing a gasline in the 1950's. Katalla Oil was Alaska's first oil-company established 100 years ago, some of the grandkids still talk of a statewide gasline network. How hard was it to build the fuel-pipeline from Haines to Eielson?? In 1970 at UAF we discussed building a gasline from Deadhorse to Fairbanks to provide fuel-energy for the TAPS project, this was the original thinking behind the existing 140mi 10"-12" fuelgasline that terminates at PS4-Galbraith. That batch of small-bore pipe was purchased early and installed late during the TAPS-circus. Some of that pipe was lost & reordered, hence 2-sizes. | 4 | Another misconception about TAPS by Walker. Workers were not quitting the TAPS construction to work for a gasline. That would have been stupid as there was no gas line project anywhere near close to being built. That's hogwash. ALPETCO must be what he's thinking about and that failed to even get out of the starting blocks just like your dream project you keep "editorializing" weekly in the ADN and elsewhere. Alaskans are tired of it Bill. We need to move on. This is all false hope and you need to quit doing this. You been at this for 20 years Bill, time to give up. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45501738, 45537276, 45491509, 45571030, 45598686] |
460,578 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | http://apunordic.com/about/coaches-staff/
Feel free to play "find the foreigner" in that crowd, you won't be successful. All from the US and 4 from Alaska. | 4 | I'm also pretty sure that UAA and APU's ski coaches are all foreigners. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45388025, 45438681, 45486432, 45327007] |
460,832 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | http://lmgtfy.com/?q=list+of+oxybenzone+free+sunscreens | 10 | How about supplying a list of oxybenzone free sunscreens. I might be wrong, but from what I remember all of the major brands sold in supermarkets have the chemical. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45535369, 45314593, 45597995, 45450736] |
461,028 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I'm pretty sure the risk of cardiovascular disease is much greater from the hamburgers and other food at the fair rather than secondhand smoke in an outdoor environment. Oh, and I don't smoke, by the way. But let's be real. | 4 | "“Passive smoking has many downstream health effects—asthma, upper respiratory infections, other pulmonary diseases, cardiovascular disease—but only borderline increased risk of lung cancer,” said Patel. “The strongest reason to avoid passive cigarette smoke is to change societal behavior: to not live in a society where smoking is a norm."
So, I guess asthma, cardiovascular disease, etc., is just great? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45447087, 45491654, 45635376, 45450096] |
461,237 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Springfield wisely kept Centennial Boulevard. A few Eugene do-gooders caved in to the violent protests of the NAACP crowd (I use "crowd" loosely). Even the 2/10/03 editorial from the RG said not to change the name. | 5 | Costs are a valid concern, but naming a major street after Dr. King is a signal that Springfield recognizes a truly great American when it sees one. Overall, I think the benefits outweigh the costs. Karen Hartman admires MLK. What did "Centennial" ever do for us? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45440506, 45582203, 45588938, 45553691, 45449332] |
461,257 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Someone ask Gov. Walker to stop the DNR DOG abuse and let the small oil and gas competitors compete! Please stop all the abuse at the DNR DOG that appears to keep Alaskans and small companies out so the majors can have it all! The majors seem to have control over the DNR DOG and no one can profit in Alaska except the majors, stop the abuse! | 5 | Hey Joe,...Wood MacKenzie are more reliable and experienced experts than the two the Senate hired my friend.. and you all believed THEM when they helped Parnell and McKinnon, Kelly and Micciche and Bishop and Hoffman and Dunleavy attempt to sell the farm to Exxon and company with SB21 and SB138.
Stay in school Joe, or go back and take economics 101 again.
Study what it means when 138,000 voters speak, and tell the Governor we want to invest in our OWN gasline infrastructure.
That was in 2002.
We elected Bill Walker to finish the job because we were tired of THIS BS. http://parnellshakedown.wordpress.com/.
And we`re going to let Governor Walker take it to it`s logical conclusion as we expected when we voted to create ANGDA and our own fallback gasline "plan B".
Parnell poisoned that state effort choosing instead to marry Exxon, and give Alaska`s new "ANGDA" (now called "AGDC") a seat alright, a seat UNDER the table. Exxon doesn`t need our gas going to market. We do. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45494674, 45537352, 45438070, 45451297, 45597947] |
461,268 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Alrighty then. Here's a fact for you kidder: Let's pass label laws that will HAVE TO LIST ALL GMO's. Then, dear.........we COULD choose to eat them or not.
There. Wow. problem is not solved but we then can be at least INFORMED. l2g | 4 | There's a cure for GMO-related health issues: Don't eat them? Wow problem solved. No government intervention required.
Selfish mindset? Is this for real? Not wanting some ignorant mouthbreather to have a say in the healthcare my family gets is somehow selfish? There's leftism 101 for you. "You pay for other peoples' stuff or you are an X, Y or Z"
So, if a person says "I want free healthcare that must be paid for, involuntarily, by somebody else" they are not selfish? But if I say "get your hands out of my pocket" I am selfish? If this is your stance, you are a sociopath. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445022, 45366683, 45405070, 45476019, 45449731] |
461,363 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Strawberry Joes is still there. The willows have grown up but still there and still occupied. I was you neighbor at 1 mile Old Nenana. | 4 | Another great article Dermit that brought back memories of our first home in Fairbanks back in 1974. My wife and I had spent the summer hitchhiking from Michigan into Haines and then on to Fairbanks to attend UAF. The night we arrived in town we were at the Busy Bee laundromat washing our very few clothes and wondering where to stay. Met a lovely young woman named Louise who told us that her boyfriend was moving out of his cabin and into the dorms for the semester so it was available. Turned out to be Strawberry Joe's little one room cabin at the end of Sheep Creek Road within a mile of the University. The highway was being rerouted away from the College that fall so it's hard to find now but I bet it's still there. Strawberry Joe was featured in a 1952 article about Fairbanks in National Geographic. The cabin was small as they come but it was a godsend to us and absolutely adequate. A couple of idealistic hippies couldn't have fallen into a more Alaskan home right off the bat. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45447087, 45450604, 45635376, 45438681, 45598834] |
461,655 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Me, too. I wish everyone would just use my definition, instead of relying upon stupid laws passed by elected representatives. I also have my own definitions of murder, assault, slavery, robbery, kidnapping, theft, drunk driving, and many other things. Maybe most other things.
Trust me. We would all be better off if everyone agreed with me and ignored the laws that I hold in contempt. | 6 | I just question the definition of illegal immigrant? What makes Hispanic Illegal immigrants when they're ancestors are buried all over our South West? Weren't there, 'safe areas', as Europeans came to this country, so they could be protected while they probed further into the wilderness to kill Native people and acquire their land for themselves? It seems funny how that was okay back then and now it's some how, not okay and should be illegal. What really is the American way? It was okay to annihilate the Native people back in the day, but now it's considered an affront to human rights? This country promoted things like slavery, confinement camps and taking of property for natural born citizens in the case of the Japanese during ww2, the use and abuse of Chinese and Irish laborers, etc.! We still take land even under protest of the people like the oil pipeline going through Standing Rock Sioux lands. It never seems to stop but we sure give it some fancy lip service. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45388080, 45589137, 45486432, 45534915] |
461,839 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | With all due respect, if you trusted your government then you probably didn't understand it. The US government has always been imperialist, especially since WWII. I know it took me a long time to understand how systematically I had been brainwashed into blindness of the fact. | 10 | There was a time I understood my government, and trusted that it had the best interests of the ordinary America at heart.
Today, I think the true motivations of the powers that be are probably not in my interest. That includes the insane Middle East wars, certainly starting with W's blood- encrusted invasion of Iraq, if not before. I think Netanyahu was right when he said (paraphrased) that he knew how to manipulate the American people and government.
So now we have an "election" where the two 1%'er candidates include Hillary Clinton, a Middle East war lover, and Donald Trump, who is straight out of Mad Magazine.
If I were boss I would just leave the Middle East, as we left South Vietnam. Bring our troops and funds back, offer to be friends will everyone but not be willing to have our troops die in useless wars between religious sects that have been fighting for centuries. I would stop enabling Israel's apartheid ways by not sending billions of military aid.
Hugh Massengill | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45401799, 45574915, 45506032, 45454484, 45491609] |
462,019 | [1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Your mean streak goes all the way to the bone Chance. And there's a special hot place underground from people just like you. | 10 | Typical stupid lefty drawing conclusions with no facts. And for the record, I detest people like you as much as people like you detest me. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45506032, 45445022, 45432844, 45450746, 44826677] |
462,121 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I hear they will announce the approved applications at 4:20PM too. | 4 | "420 applications", LOL what are the odds? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45553691, 45445022, 45494674, 45432844, 45598834] |
462,215 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Craigslist doesn't ask for anything to buy a gun, nor does alaskalist or this very publications classified ads. If you want to buy a gun, cannabis user, crackhead, gangbanger, alcoholic, or pill popper. You will find a way to buy a gun. | 4 | What a total waste of tax dollars on a unnecessary added amount of administrative government. People are getting exactly what they voted for.
This was pitched to people as legalization, when in reality it is anything but that. It will be interesting to see what happens with gun rights, especially now that the 9th circuit court ruled that having a medical weed card makes it so that another useless government agency, the ATF, now has the right to deny a gun sales to medical card holders. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45501738, 45506032, 45598378, 45476019, 45467952] |
462,251 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1] | Okay then; let's resort to childish name calling. I've thoroughly enjoyed this back and forth, but I won't humor your immaturity by stooping to your level. You won't change my mind and I won't change yours so I'll leave it at that.
Good day Mr. Art Chance. | 10 | OK, dumba**, let's look at that situation. Both were Tier II or later thus while they could retire with 20, they didn't become eligible for retiree health insurance benefits until they were 55. Nobody ever made it clear, and I think studiously avoided discussing what the precise legal relation ship between these officers and their "families" really was. Sorry, but if you're not legally married, you're not a surviving spouse and any children are just bastards. Actions have consequences.
The actual problem could have been easily solved; were it my issue I'd have just called Jake Metcalfe and offered him a letter of agreement that would have treated them as active employees until the spouse, if there was one, remarried or the children issued from the marriage-like relationship reached majority. It would have taken maybe fifteen minutes, I'd have submitted it to the Legislature as a "monetary term" they might not have formally approved it, but they wouldn't have disapproved it | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45454484, 45224788, 45582203, 45630512, 45450736] |
462,616 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Who is they? | 4 | As long as their guy won, they don't care how. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45505902, 45494674, 45445022, 45541171] |
462,966 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Zeke, none of this would help and most of it would be unconstitutional and rejected by the courts. It is also much more expensive than simply providing shelter, as studies and experience have shown in places that have implemented a "housing first" policy -- providing subsidized shelter without preconditions such as alcohol, drug or mental health treatment, but including these as supports for those who want them.
The so-called war on drugs has been tried for decades and it doesn't work. Putting people in jail for nonviolent crimes causes more problems than it solves, and is very expensive.
Drugs and alcohol are in fact not the main causes of homelessness. See the county summary of the 2016 homeless point in time count at:
http://www.lanecounty.org/departments/hhs/hsc/documents/press_release_2016_pit_count.pdf | 4 | Yes, there are quite a few "homeless" obviously addicted to drugs and booze. They want and openly demand their habits be fed by the general public. Why isn't law enforcement rounding up and ridding the area of drug dealers? ALL of them! On the other hand alcohol, known to exacerbate depression and cause adverse use related health issues, is legal. Both are the main CAUSE of this cyclical problem. So, how do we remove these folks from society without infringing upon their constitutional rights? Clearly, until laws are passed and enforced that support NO giving them money, NO street corner begging, NO panhandling, NO blatant drug and alcohol usage in public, NO more free needles and syringes and NO booze without proper ID these undesirables will forever be practicing their "chosen" existence and continue to be a burden upon society. Would be interesting to see results of a public VOTE on these NO issues. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45498710, 45536973, 45525557, 45582203] |
463,532 | [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] | Sorry. I don't vote for anyone with a D or R next to their name. They are the problem, not the solution. Two different sides of the same shit sandwich. | 69 | The Democrat. Always vote for the Democrats. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45366683, 45537841, 45653549, 45598021] |
463,569 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Alaska doesn't have a criminal problem, we have an incarceration problem. Guys rob us at gun point and run us over, and judges and lawyers conspire to spare them any significant punishment. Here's another thug with priors! I know home-growers who got locked up longer than these saggers who pistol whip grandmothers and rape children. Wake up Alaska.gov: are you asking us to sort them out old style? | 7 | With a weapon (class A Felony), armed robbery! This was last February. Why was he even on the streets? If he'd have been in prison, the victim would still be alive. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45256178, 45491654, 45404259, 45645228] |
463,703 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | He is. | 4 | I really hope that you're being sarcastic. Otherwise, you need to tell me what flavor of Kool-Aid you're drinking so I can get some. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45535369, 45476019, 45535372, 45402464] |
463,730 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Bingo. Now, what did the story say? Oviok contends that his voter registration is valid. The Division of Elections contends that his voter registration is valid. This looks and smells like another bottom feeder at the Department of Law, desperate to make his career off the back of anyone he possibly can, because an opportunity arose to creatively interpret the law to his advantage (which the DA's office is certainly good at). | 6 | Apparently, you have never heard of the presumption of innocence. This translates into innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. I hope you are never arrested for a crime you did not commit. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45458735, 45500969, 45596835, 45203823, 45597210] |
463,855 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | nah...I was sort of thinking more along the lines of properly funding higher education through a combination of new/old revenues sources. You know...like the one proposed by our extremely popular Govenor and shut-down by the vocal minority nut jobs. | 4 | maybe miller can start printing money out of thin air so uaa has everything she needs. I said maybe... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45456658, 45184889, 45397010, 45327007] |
464,062 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | When the Second Amendment was written, AK-47s and AR-15s with high- capacity magazines didn't exist.
Why Joe Citizen needs to own a military-style assault weapon that can kill 60 people in seconds ...is simply beyond the pale. | 4 | There is a longstanding decision that happens to be written into the highest law of the land. It was written in the late 1700s.
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Case closed. Thanks for playing. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438070, 45599028, 45388025, 45635376, 45541206] |
464,104 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It speaks reams when one pines for the "...venues were nostalgic of the OLD..." Embracing change does not make one a Dadaist, but reveling in an idealized past does reek of revanchism.
"We’re sad for the loss of interesting." What is truly sad is a mind that travels abroad and seeks out only the "popular bar scene venues". What is truly tragic is viewing life only through a rear-view mirror.
For some with age comes ennui, and after ennui what? | 4 | Hi Richard So because this is NOW we should all forgo a "Sense of Place" and give in to international sameness? When I was in Singapore last year, the most popular bar scene venues were nostalgic of the OLD Singapore. The sameness gets to be a bit of a bore, does it not? I think that's what Denby is alluding to. We're not jealous. We're sad for the loss of interesting. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388025, 45418782, 45599028, 45514417, 45584933] |
464,112 | [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] | Or one could say he was sparing them the tirade of a racist idiot... | 59 | I don't know if he was even involved but perhaps he was trying to protect his employees from abuse.
Wiki article: Trump Plaza was fined $200,000 in 1991 by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission for moving African American and female employees from craps tables in order to accommodate high roller Robert LiButti, a mob figure and alleged John Gotti associate, who was said to fly into fits of racist rage when he was on losing streaks.[33] There is no indication that Trump was ever questioned in that investigation, he was not held personally liable, and Trump denies even knowing what LiButti looked like. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45505902, 45598834, 45394434, 45366913] |
464,237 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Because the statement is not right. Unchecked fast reporting. | 4 | I sniff a mouse in this victim statement ... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45541171, 45426626, 45404259, 45597021, 45602467] |
464,416 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Not necessarily. | 4 | This helps U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski win her seat... again... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45597947, 45501738, 45506032, 45596835] |
464,548 | [0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1] | The city was never "financially stable" with you at the helm, Dan, and I see you're as delusional out of office as in.
But hey, nice to see you lowering yourself into the mud with us comment pigs 👍🏻 | 68 | Nice try but crime was down during my tenure. Once we got the city financially stable, we held four academies in just two and a half years and that is why we have over 400 officers on the force today, the most in nearly a decade. The police department budget grew by millions of dollars during my administration - there were not 'major cuts.' | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45445022, 45394200, 45596860, 45597021] |
464,581 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | That has already been well established! I'm surprised Caldwell doesn't wear t-shirts saying 'owned and operated by developers'. And in fine print, 'who lie'!! | 4 | Let's see who "our" elected officials REALLY work for as this plays out. | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45485526, 45445022, 45451297, 45597021] |
464,722 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Great success ... I annoyed the PR person. Honest! Am I good? Or what? | 4 | Daniel: Actually, if Walker shuts down the majors, puts them in default, wouldn't that put the minors in position to take over operation of the Slope, and TAPS? Environmental concerns alone would seem to demand a "conservator", so the majors can't simply shut everything down and walk away. And the workers don't really care who signs their pay-checks. I seriously doubt that Walker stirred up 700,000 Alaskans, by vetoing over half of their dividends, without having a hard-ball end-game. Only question is, has Walker taken a reasonable gamble? He did just that to get himself elected. So, now, will he become a hero or a fool? And if he is eventually proven to be a hero, will he have been smart, or just lucky? A side-note Daniel: I'll be down at DNR DOG again today, probably annoying someone or another. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45332074, 45349172, 45186863, 45649098, 45515678] |
464,796 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Good Grief, Mr. Hall! Why are you making this a politic issue? The legislature is in legal contempt of a court order and the State Supreme Court set an essentially nonexistent penalty for it. What is so unusual or harsh about that to cause the Republican Party to be in an uproar? I simply don't see the reason for that reaction. Fund the state school system in accordance with the law and all would be just fine. Simple. Am I missing something? And, what am I apologizing for? Must have missed that as well. Please enlighten me. | 4 | Although it claims to the contrary, the State Supreme Court lacks the authority to commit the Legislature as or the Governor as governmental offices to lockdown, just as it lacks the authority to appropriate monies. I realize that there are apologists, such as Mr. White, for an imperial court with such unrestricted power over all other entities or units within the State. And, indeed, this Court perceives and covets for itself such unlimited control to rule as it see fit. This is why it is important for the public to step in and replace as many of the current incumbents as can be voted out to keep the Court within its constitutional bounds. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45440506, 45418782, 45572056, 45478534, 45573532] |
465,580 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Most people turn to friends and loved ones who provide the support directly instead of
"praying to" various versions of a bearded, long haired, man who looks like a 1960's hippy.
I assume you have friends and loved ones, but I've been wrong before. | 4 | Hugh - who do you pray to in times of need or pain? Chuck Darwin? | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45332074, 45349172, 45186863, 45649098, 45515678] |
465,941 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | If that is what you think then you are not paying attention. The constitution was never intended to stop criminals from doing bad things. It was intended to limit what government could do. Look around the world at the countries with the worst despotic governments and check out their history. Most of them started off fairly decent places for people to live. Look at Germany and Russia. When government goes unchecked, it can do very bad things. | 4 | As usual, its the punk criminals all worked up judging by the comments. They are the aclu's favorite people. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45447087, 45535393, 45485526, 45486432, 45567747] |
466,374 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I'll match your alleged "intellect" anytime. I live in the real world with DOJ statistics, not in leftard lalaland. | 4 | Living in an ethnocentric bubble clouds the mind and one's ability to engage in a meaningful dialogue, Wolf. You may not be able to accomplish this intellect in the remainder of your lifetime. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45597947, 45465124, 45597373, 45252698] |
466,402 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2015/12/01/good-work-you-can-get-corporate-directors-among-highest-paid-part-time-employees-america/rYHPP7ozPXU0AG8VSo37MM/story.html
Why do CEO's and Board members get disproportionate increases - because they can.
"A 2006 study in the Journal of Corporate Finance found a strong correlation between excessive pay for directors and chief executives and noted that the companies paying their directors the most also underperformed their peers financially. A study last year in the International Journal of Business and Finance Research concluded that high chief executive and board pay go hand-in-hand due to “mutual back-scratching.”" *
*part of Boston Globe link above. | 4 | Paul:
Again it's not the form of government, it is entirely our use of it, which is not what the founding fathers wrote, and put into practice, we through neglect and the fact that we believed things could be put on some type of cruise control, and by some magic our employees would just run the store in our absence, was a very foolish move, they now own the store, and short of a full blown revolution, they will remain in charge.
Are all politicians equally corrupt, of course not, but the majority of career politicians certainly are, and their bank accounts will reflect that fact. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45432844, 45597947, 45445022, 45541073] |
466,439 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | What is the EPA? Should we revert back to wood and coal for heat and hydro for electric? There are parts of the country that gets little to no wind or sunshine for weeks at a time. | 4 | I agree . However not all projects are good ones merely because they are oil develop or move oil.
It is not anti- industry to look at each project carefully. And it is not acceptable to keep ignoring the external costs of pollution:
"Private costs to firms or individuals do not always equate with the total cost to society for a product, service, or activity. The difference between private costs and total costs to society of a product, service, or activity is called an external cost; pollution is an external cost of many products. External costs are directly associated with producing or delivering a good or service, but they are costs that are not paid directly by the producer. When external costs arise because environmental costs are not paid, market failures and economic inefficiencies at the local, state, national, and even international level may result."
http://www.frbsf.org/education/publications/doctor-econ/2002/november/private-social-costs-pollution-production/ | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45434367, 45388025, 45314593, 45404259, 45394200] |
466,594 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yeah, I'm sure thats why APD will be hanging out at Krispy Kreme... | 4 | Does this mean that the APD will hanging around one of the hot spots for a new crop of marijuana impaired drivers, Krispy Kreme in Anchorage? On a serious note, does the APD have a sobriety test or a objective field test for marijuana impairment? Has the State or City of Anchorage published allowable concentration of THC in a person's blood and how will this impact litigation of car accidents. And for those who are drinking and smoking, will there be an algorithm to determine the combined effect. I see nothing but problems with the determination of impairment. Often the smell of alcohol on a person's breath is the trigger for a full sobriety test. Will they also target anyone who smells like they have been smoking marijuana the same way? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45485526, 45535372, 45432844, 45535369] |
466,656 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Well, since Murkowski is ranked 9th out of all Republican Senators to co-sponsor bipartisan bills, I think she probably does understand how to practice bipartisanship. But there are times when it's ok to say no to the other side. It's called being a centrist. Which her voting record shows her to be. | 4 | Lisa, in regards to that word bipartisanship, I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Bipartisanship to Lisa means everyone needs to get on board for Murkowski's legislation but allowing a vote on the president's SCOTUS nomination...not so much.
Nothing is more stunning in politics than the hypocrisy of the modern conservative. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45535369, 45571747, 45514417, 45501738] |
466,796 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | I really enjoy your humor Fred. While we may disagree on a whole host of things, at least you almost always make me smile when I see a reaction to some rube making rude comments. I cannot lay claim to anything as honorable as compound fractures causing typos from me. My mind is much faster than my fingers and I never learned to touch type. All is hunt and peck. "Oops, now where is that Woofmobile!" | 6 | To prevent Larry Woof from going into a paroxysm of rage over a typo (or is it a paroxysm of JOY because he thinks I've finally posted something he can actually answer?), I'll mention that due to a 2014 auto accident which "adjusted" some of my fingers by way of compound fractures, my typing isn't what it used to be. And sometimes I hit "submit" before I notice the resulting errors. What I meant to type in the above post was "I've". But don't worry, such errors have for me become rather unavoidable, so doubtless you'll see more of them. "Another typo! Quick! To the Woofmobile!" | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45458735, 45438070, 45394200, 45191524, 45450746] |
466,976 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Earl: will you be the one who gets to decide who hates America? What criteria will you use? | 6 | I actually am fond of a new shirt I recently acquired....it says
All Lives Matter
*EXCEPT
terrorists, rapists, child molesters, cop killers, and anybody who hates America. F*** those guys
I know this comment is gonna trigger someone. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45450604, 45535372, 45599028, 45536013] |
467,472 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Conservative Republicans do NOT support open borders and legalization of mind altering substances. | 4 | Mr. Phillips...Libertarian is just another name for republican.
For more info , see Paul, Rand, republican senator; Paul, Ron, republican congressman; Johnson, Gary, republican governor; Miller, Joe, lifelong republican | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45506032, 45388080, 45404259, 45599028, 45405070] |
467,540 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0] | Foreigners have the trump voters pegged! Too bad for the rest of us though. | 5 | Yeah, right.
In fact, Barack Obama gets a lot more love overseas than he does in the US. To foreigners, he, along with a few Hollywood actors are the "good Americans" while the rest of us are seen as the fat, ignorant, slobs who serve food and sell admission tickets. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45535369, 45535393, 45404259, 45590457, 45599851] |
467,878 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Hodad must have hit a nerve. WoW.. go go go Hodad! Surfs up! | 32 | hodad
and hodaddy (ˈhodæd(i))
1. n. someone, usually a male, who poses (badly) as a surfer. (California. Possibly a blend of ho = whore and dad(dy) = male.) Who’s that hodaddy with the crumby looking board?
2. n. an obnoxious person; a repellent person. (California.) Ted is a total hodad. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45476019, 45506032, 45224788, 45432844, 45191524] |
467,938 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | One reason there are so few bikes on that stretch is that there are very few people on the south side of town who aren't car-bound. Also, the bike lanes that were striped in are substandard in both width and surface. This sort of unprofessional work by our public works department is part of the reason Eugene lost 37% of its cyclists from 2009-14. | 4 | This story is about downtown Willamette St., not south. There's no noticeable bike traffic on the repainted S. Willamette lanes. The S. Willamette restriping did slow down traffic, though, so if that was a desired outcome it worked. It also takes longer to exit from the business lots since all traffic is in single lanes. I've been impressed with how well our patient Eugene car drivers have responded to the change. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45438681, 45486432, 45448160, 45197484] |
468,183 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | the natives have a valid claim. Oil,, when it spills, sinks until it meets the water.. the drinking water, that is. Because it is heavier than air, but lighter than water. I guess it does make an ascetically pleasing sheen on the water as it begins the contamination process.
Natural gas, when it spills, goes up, because it is lighter than air. That is less scary, making it more acceptable, because you can not see the the gas clinging to the rain when it falls. | 4 | the difference in construction methods is very very small. You bulldoze the route you dig the trench, you put the pipe in and weld it, you cover it back up. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45432844, 45653549, 45636192, 45643198] |
468,972 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I voted for a candidate with decades of public service and years of government and foreign policy experience. I'm going to continue to do so until she is our President. Don't blame all "the voters," as "the voters" are not responsible for Trump. You can kindly turn your attention to the people who put a racist bigot who supports our enemies at the top of their ballot. | 4 | Twenty trillion dollars of debt, a desperately unstable Middle East, a demographic onslaught demolishing a social safety net designed for a very different era when people lived shorter lives and there were proportionally enough younger workers to make it viable, an education deficit compared to other nations (particularly in the sciences), a bloated military budget that shovels billions of dollars into the pockets of contractors rather than taking aim at actual threats and providing needed help for vets and the families of deceased combat personnel from our wars, a tax code that begs criminal behavior, minorities experiencing disproportional levels of poverty, incarceration and being shot by the cops, a dwindling middle class (one of the surest historical signs that a society is on the ropes), and plenty more, yet our presidential campaign has come down to "basket of deplorables" vs. "she could shoot someone and get away with it."
The worst part is, we voters are letting this happen. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45402464, 45404259, 45630512, 45408370] |
469,295 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The initial plan was a disaster that residents will be talking about for a long time.
Piercy is retiring from office in November why is she having the Sept. 19 meeting? | 4 | Well, see, the urban density plan was a failure. Ms. Piercy will try to resurrect in on September 19, but until she has a new plan in place, there is nothing to compel businesses to follow that plan.
I see this the other way: if there is such a strong demand for high-density sardine style living on Soth WIllamette... why aren't business developing that way? This building indicates that the market does not exist. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45501738, 45450746, 45448160, 45573532, 45535941] |
469,307 | [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0] | you speak as if weed will soon be introduced into society. weed is already hear been here for decades so i'm wondering why you think weed will all of a sudden cause all these problems you speak of... no offence but your post screams of ignorance | 10 | Any tax revenue is going to be exponentially outpaced by increase cost of crimes caused by that drug, hospitalization both for addicts and those that are injured by the actions of those intoxicated by this weed, costs to administer this activity that is still against federal crime, costs in social services as dopers loose their jobs due to their addiction and costs of the state to take and care for the kids who's parents care more about their next high then their do the kids.
That is what is going to come with the pot industry. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45366683, 45535372, 45397010, 45402464, 45408370] |
469,362 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | PS My family fish our island waters for what we eat...and a little extra for tutu who live down the road. | 4 | OMG, slave labor in Hawaii? I know I have no control on the high seas, but this one argument i don't buy. In Hawaii you have a choice and a voice. It is pure " bull" if you continue to be a victim. Get off your knees. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.5] | [45332074, 45312025, 45635376, 45465124, 45509327] |
469,494 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | We could round them up, put them all to work on an island and have Discovery channel make a reality TV show. That would free up the sidewalk for you and make others you encounter more savory. | 4 | You have some really good points and I agree with you, and starred your comment. However, I'm a pure liberal who also wants to be able to use public lands and trails without being harassed, feeling threatened, and feeling unsafe. From anyone, not just the homeless. So, something has to be done. It's really uncomfortable to try to enjoy a simple bike ride, never knowing when some random dude is going to stumble out of the bushes at me. I want to be able to walk down the street without having to run a gauntlet of unsavory characters at each intersection. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45404259, 45598935, 45485526, 45323236, 45203823] |
469,678 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Good word: harridan......... | 4 | no, it sounds like a desperation remark...which is exactly where that harridan is right now....desperate because even her media can't save her. What's up with her fainting spell? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45397769, 45571747, 45541171, 45589137, 45366913] |
469,776 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | And... They receive money from the feds to do that!! If only the state would use it for that. | 4 | Tammie,
You do know to fix the short-falls of
OCS is going to cost the State momey for hiring and training more case workers? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45589137, 45465124, 45333173, 45404473] |
469,879 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Gary Johnson explaining his Aleppo gaffe. This was painful to watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3SNLPfVGt4 | 5 | "Aleppo" | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45438681, 45224788, 45351233, 45408370] |
469,941 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1] | Oh please. What a racist comment. | 66 | Or give it back to the Indians. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45402464, 45505902, 45485526, 45366683, 45450746] |
470,062 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | No, because they don't have jobs, at least not jobs that pay enough to get into an apartment. Why do you need the obvious explained? | 4 | What do you mean "denied shelter"? They are free to get jobs and rent houses like everybody else, are they not? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45598353, 45656105, 45478534, 45611533] |
470,083 | [1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1] | Oh, come on, you must be an old lib hippie! Normal American Ophobic? | 10 | Clinton is wrong. Half of Trump's supporters are not "racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic". The percentage is much higher. | [0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45498044, 45348666, 45438599, 45342858, 45364217] |
470,150 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I have worked in 3rd world conditions including your fine state.
People in positions of recognition all-yo-often get the cudos while the real heros are overlooked.
Think about the cleaner in the clinic who is responsible for infection control. These people are heros to me and are unrecognized. | 4 | 13 - This article IS exactly that! An "everyday hero we walk past on the street". I don't understand the contempt and has you seem to have towards someone you have never met, who chooses to live her life doing what she loves, which is helping people. People who will never be able to pay her with anything but grateful words and hugs. Yet, that isn't good enough for you. She divides her time between Bethal and Africa. She doesn't even live here long enough to qualify for a PFD. Don't know why you're so bitter about someone who you have never met, has never done anything to you and who has choose to spend her life serving others, including fellow Alaskans, people who may seem to deem "less than" and unworthy. This article makes me want to meet her, and never meet you. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45401799, 45465124, 45553691, 45602833] |
470,229 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Well, I'll concede that could be the case for all YOU know. For those who take the trouble to actually learn a little history, not so much... | 4 | For all we know Squanto may have been feasting on the Pilgrims as there was some Native American cannibalism. Your mind may be just as simple! Facts are it that technology moves across land, sea, and space displacing some populations and wars for resource's, religion and race are the most common denominator of human existence and will always be. Kombiya! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45422083, 45438070, 45458735, 45465124, 45448191] |
470,233 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I understand your short sightedness, it is all yet to be determined. What has been determined is that we shall see in a year. See you then. | 4 | ADN reports 7/11/2016 is exactly in referrence to Walkers promise to not touch the PFD during his campaign. The constitution clearly states in takes Legislative action to change PFD policy. We will see the results of the law suit legislator Bill Wielechowski filed, verifying Waker did violate state law. No the governors intrests are NOT in Alaskas best intrest trying to bankrupt this state investing in a gas line everyone in the world gas market says they wont invest in because there is no proffit. If there is a future viable market oil companies would be all over it. No they are backing out because of investment risk. He is risking taking us all down with him at the helm. With a looming budget shortage, and extremely high risk investment gas line could be suicidal for our enitre state economy at this low oil price time, not just the PFD. Its not just "his personal investment protfolio" its all of ours he is risking, like the big banks did and lost. We ALL loose! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45385682, 45438681, 45630512, 45598834] |
470,410 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I would say that you are right in your assessment but I would refine it further. While I dislike Hillary's policies and her constant blatant lying and think she is not qualified for the office just based on her extreme careless handling of classified material, I do not hate her. I do not hate John Kerry even if he did get his purple hearts under false pretenses. You are absolutely correct, disagreement does not mean you or they are hated and persecuted. | 4 | Hodad: just because voters realize that public figures are unfit for office - Sarah Palin, Reagan and Drumpf, doesn't automatically go to hate. All of these individuals wanted and want the power and responsibility of some of the highest elected offices in the country. If a voter doesn't think they are up to the task or have personality traits conducive to success in the position - it is that voter's responsibility to indicate as such in forums such as this AND the voting booth. That isn't automatically hate and my suggestion to you is that you gradually move to realize that just because someone doesn't agree with your stance doesn't mean they hate you. Disagreement doesn't immediately mean you or they are being persecuted. | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45602036, 45422083, 45584933, 45254602, 45252698] |
470,517 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "An international airport is an airport that offers customs and immigration facilities for passengers traveling between countries." (Wikipedia) KIA has custom and immigration facilities, and can easily handle 767/707 size aircraft. Flights between Ketchikan, AK, and Prince Rupert, BC are "international". | 4 | Ketchikan has an international airport? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45401799, 45485526, 45191524, 45582203, 45252698] |
470,583 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | wow the hate runs deep in you ! | 4 | Actually he inherited around $40 million - but who's counting? http://www.politifact.com/florida/article/2016/mar/07/did-donald-trump-inherit-100-million/ | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45476019, 45535810, 45450096, 45598216, 45188628] |
470,603 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Probably because the ones who believe it have no concern whatever what Obama's race is. Just because someone says they care about race, does not make it true. Besides, most of you on the left believe that Trickle down does not work but has been proven to work several times. Do you believe that because Bush, Reagan and Kennedy were all white? What is the difference? Neither belief has anything to do with race. | 4 | You can't figure out why believing that our first black president is not a legal president is prejudice? Then give us an idea why a large % of Trumps voters believe such a stupid idea. What could possibly lead them to believe (in mass) something that has been proven to not be true? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45418782, 45445192, 45572056, 45589137, 45573532] |
471,740 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Nice post. You're absolutely right. I'll take a kingfisher or devil's club over the daily political farce every time! To each their own... | 4 | Financially the state may be in dire straights but Alaska is a far cry from being over. Alaska is the land not the financiers who control the commerce. The part of Alaska I hiked through today with my mate and dogs is as supremely beautiful as anywhere on planet Earth and that's why I live here and will die here. Dividend checks, oil company payrolls, corrupt legislators all come and go but the spirit of Alaska will never be diminished by a slow down in the economy. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45476019, 45491654, 45388080, 45224788, 45599480] |
472,391 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1] | What drives me to defend Muslims? Easy. I am one. Wife, kids and grandchildren too. I WILL defend them, by the Will and Grace of Allah Sub'hanahu wa Ta'ala.
As for defending Salafi extremists like the Da'esh ("ISIS"), I don't. I'm Shi'a (the original "sect" of Islam). Their stated goal--straight from the lips of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is to kill all the Shi'a. I have a problem with that.
They were my enemy before you ever heard of 'em. Same for al-Qa'eda, the Taliban, Boko Hara'am and every other foul outgrowth with the Wahabbi movement that's been armed and funded by the western 'powers' over the last 120 years or so. Those murdering clowns are "Muslims" like the KKK are "Christians".
Difference between you and me is that I know my faith and the history of its followers from the inside. What you know, or think you know, you get from TV and fuel it with your own preconceived notions and a heap of willful ignorance and arrogance. If you wanna learn, ask. If not, I'm busy. | 10 | What is it that drives you to defend Muslimaniacs? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45434367, 45388025, 45314593, 45404259, 45394200] |
472,445 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yo.....Chompers.......when's the last time YOU scrubbed in on a child's head trauma surgery ?
Didn't think so.
A child being flow up to Portland with serious head trauma is a pretty good indicator he was not wearing a helmet at all.
If the child had been wearing a helmet, good chance he would not be in the condition he's in right now.
You can be as flip as want , stating how happy you are at no mention of a helmet for this boy, and that it's as irrelevant as wearing shoes or not...but for those of us who actually work in surgery for real , and deal with severe head injuries that could've been prevented, see your smug comment as irrelevant......... and beyond the pale. | 4 | I'm happy that they don't mention helmet wearing status of the boy. (though, to be honest, that probably means he was wearing one)
The focus of this incident should clearly be the drunk man driving over the speed limit and striking a child a couple thousand pounds of steel. A helmet is made for protecting your head from the 4-6 foot fall to pavement, perhaps backed by your body weight traveling at 15 miles per hour. It seems nearly irrelevant once you add the mass and velocity of a speeding truck. It's like being concerned about whether he had shoes on, sure, his feet are better off with them, but it's kind of not going to make a huge difference in this situation. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45535393, 45541171, 45582203, 45573532] |
472,972 | [1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1] | This the logic used for KABATA! Nonsense, the GG had a large number of ferries to Marin - a very developed area. The "build it and they will come" garbage is over Alaska! Start voting the turkeys out. | 6 | Let’s remember that the Golden Gate Bridge was the quintessential bridge to nowhere. In that same characterization were the Verrazano Bridge, the Goethals Bridge and the Tappen Zee Bridge. Undoubtedly readers can add to the list. The point is that leadership requires foresight. Alaska desperately requires new infrastructure to support economic development that makes sense. That said, the economic justification for KABATA and actions of its leadership were outlandish. These were well connected Anchorage fat cats feeding at the public trough. But I don’t see how this impinges on the integrity of Representative Young. The author of this piece overreaches in that regard. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45505732, 45514417, 45456658, 45498710] |
473,074 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Decades of hate, decades of racism, decades of discrimination, decades of violence-- gee who doesn't like that | 4 | Candy, then explain why with 8 years of liberal leadership this nation has a massive racial rift driven through it. Answer? because liberals do NOT believe in liberty for all, just themselves. Christians must give up there beliefs so you are not offended. Bakers must bake cakes with slogans the disagree with so you are not offended. Little girls must share their bathroom with your confused little boys so you are not offended. Your worldwide view of liberty seems to be pointing a gun at all who just want personal liberty. | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45448560, 45443908, 45418655, 45501529, 45397010] |
473,159 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I red flag so-called hodad and Woofy, therefore I am. | 4 | Mucky was vetted by Prince, our washed up lordly hero loser druggie who played Guitar and is idolized for months by the leftist press! Wonder WHY? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45418782, 45449731, 45571030, 45599311] |
473,385 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Sorry, but I can't let this comment sit here unaddressed: "Employees were as eager as the employer to include non-disparagement and confidentiality causing," etc. ... Can you please provide evidence of that claim? That seems spurious to me. If you don't have evidence of that, it should be noted here, your statement appears to be unwarranted and misleading. While I'm sure some (maybe a few) employees do want this kind of protection, for various reasons, existing EEOC laws (https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/publications/background_checks_employers.cfm) already protect people during reference checks. So those people asking for NDAs would be in the smallest of minorities, and the requests probably have something to do with bad behavior they are trying to hide. Your statement makes it seem like a lot of ordinary, respectable, hard-working people want that. I suspect that's not true. But feel free to prove it. | 4 | Please examine your bias here. You say NDAs are meant to scare and control people, to conceal illegal activity, to benefit people who lie. Only journalists can prevent this drift "back into the dark ages." Really?
I defended civil lawsuits for pushing 40 years in a large regional law firm. In the employment context, employees were as eager as the employer to include non-disparagement and confidentiality causing, along with agreements relating to how the employer would respond to reference checks from prospective employers. Do you worry that might "chill" the employer's rights?
Further, companies have a legitimate interest in not seeing their reasonable resolution of a dispute plastered over the Internet in a one-sided ad from opposing counsel. That's why employers often bargain for confidentiality. By the way, Mr Oppegaard, it is a crime to coerce or pay an individual to cover up illegal activity. That's why no responsible company or attorney would suggest doing so. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45582203, 45535369, 45256208, 45590457] |
473,461 | [1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1] | And if it ever did prove to be attractive to Wasilla and north commuters the streets and interchanges on the entire Anchorage end of the bridge would have to be rebuilt to handle the traffic at a cost of even more Billions. A Billion here and a Billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money. Hells bells the lege can't even come up with enough money to finish Parnell's RR to nowhere at this point let alone funding for a several Billion Dollar bridge. The Feds sure as hell aren't going to even loan us the money and our Congressional delegation is too powerless to get er done without Ted's hand in the pork barrel. | 10 | correction: it would serve a few thousand in the KGB area and perhaps some people from Wasilla. However, those from Wasilla would have to weigh the travel on the Glenn route over the longer, and tolled, route over the arm. My guess is it would not get used. None of this even begins to address the issue of the entirety of the route along KGB and Pt. MacKenzie would have to be expanded to account for all that supposed traffic. The project was never viable, and that's before you talk about the specific engineering challenges of the bridge itself. | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45451297, 45438070, 45404259, 45256208, 45191524] |
473,690 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Xavier: This is an extremely weak argument in defense of Mr. Pitner's actions. Of course the effigy is of Ms Clinton.....I know it, you know it, and, Mr. Pitner acknowledged it in an interview with KVAL. It makes you look rather silly and ignorant to defend the action by contending otherwise.
As I have stated above, the nude statues of Mr. Trump were amusing. Your "It's no surprise that you would appreciate nude statues of men." comment is rather tacky, but, like Mr. Pitner's effigy hanging of Ms Clinton and those statues of Mr. Trump, is protected by the First Amendment. You might, however, attempt to post regarding the issues being discussed and try to avoid those cheap, snide and gratutious personal attacks......just a friendly suggestion. regards, Gary Crum | 4 | It's no surprise that you would appreciate nude statues of men. The signs don't refer to Clinton. One of them refers to "her" but the average driver cruising by at 70 miles an hour looking at his cell phone can't exactly look up quickly to put 2+2 together, that "her" = Clinton and Clinton = the figure hanging from the rope. The overriding concern here is that the Register-Guard is now on record that displays unfavorably depicting Hillary Clinton are ugly while displays unfavorably depicting Trump are of no concern. That's just shoddy journalism. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45451297, 45366683, 45501738, 45184889, 45485526] |
473,945 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Just don't call yourself conservative Burke...I'm an Alaskan Democrat and the best conservative you can find in America. Every inch is checked out... | 6 | That's just all BS. Lisa and Andy voted with the Democrats. It's not all the other, "forward thinking problem solvers". Hahahha. That's all code for Liberal - Socialist policies. Quit with the code words to cover up liberalism. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 45435454, 45351233, 45365190, 45577160] |
474,311 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Families, communties churches, parents and friends? really? They are going to what investigate if abuse is happening? And have what legal authority to intervene?
I am willing to bet in your world they ride magicla unicorns and stay in a fairy tale castle, can I come too? Somtimes the families ARE the problem, somtimes it is ther church, some parents are train wrecks. YOU have no clue, what you are talking about none. | 4 | Classic Patkotak: not a single statistic, number, figure, or fact to back up her argument on more and more government. "So yes, maybe social workers do remove children in situations where the call could go either way?" Here, Patkotak fully admits that her 1 case of "think of the children" mantra will always be offset by the 99 cases of ineptness and bureaucratic platitudes failing to meet needs that families, communities, churches, parents, and friends should take on together. Who needs any of these when the state will do just fine. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535810, 45256208, 45200444, 45447091, 45599186] |
474,670 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | You say he wants your '82 Chevy citation? Too far, my friend. A line has been crossed and he must be punished. | 6 | better yet- let's say that i'm driving a time machine; and this is the only time machine on the entire planet. nobody else has one, not even those wealthy saudi princes, not bieber, burt reynolds, nobody. i'm approaching 88mph, and all i'm thinkin' about is kicking hitler square in the balls, and riding a dinosaur. and bam, i hit the 5:30pm grind. and some lowlife jumps in through the passenger side, sticks a gun in my ribs, and demands that i hand over my wallet, my gold rope, and my time machine (although he doesn't know that it's a time machine, it looks like a '82 chevy citation). and there are a box of puppies in the backseat, really cute. and he wants the puppies too. can i shoot 'em? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45597947, 45256208, 45418654, 45602467, 45486432] |
474,707 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I find it interesting you automatically assume that I am not a minority simply because I criticize the man's choosen route of protest.
His post game locker room interview made it pretty clear his pregame action about the only thing he's done regarding the issue.
I am perfectly comfortable with how people protest so long as it doesn't involve the destruction of property and harm others. However it's my opinion, which I am qualified to have, that if he felt as strongly as he says he is, he'd be doing more.
The fact that you determined what my race isn't based on a few lines of text perfectly sums up the "us vs. them" mentality tearing the social fabric of this country apart. | 4 | Firstly, it's safe to conclude you don't follow the man 24/7, bug his phone, hack his computer or audit his finances to see what kinds of contributions he is or is not making to the causes most important to him. You're hardly qualified to claim he isn't doing anything "worthwhile".
Secondly, it's also safe to conclude that you don't take the same risks merely by going outside or driving a car that he (or my son) AUTOMATICALLY face. There have been NUMEROUS examples of cops accosting and badly injuring "rich, black athletes". Neither their wealth nor status protected them from it. The old "walk a mile in the other guy's moccasins" concept.
Consider Florida A&M college football star Jonathan Ferrell, not rich, but not a criminal either. He was shot to death by a cowardly white cop for the 'crime' of seeking help after a car accident. Ten times.
Those of us particularly vulnerable to such "accidents" can't afford to care whether you're 'comfortable' with how we protest them. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45491609, 45401799, 45418782, 45599360] |
474,731 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | He has been charged. He hasn't been to trial yet because of his residence in Russia. | 4 | A pardon requires that a crime has been committed, the defendant found guilty and now he seeks a pardon from his crimes. He is effect is saying that he is sorry and seeking forbearance for committing crimes that he has never been charged with and sentenced for. This is strange. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256208, 45566568, 45445022, 45365823, 45372989] |
475,085 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Thanks for your thoughts. I think I large amount of truth lies in your opinion.
Those problems also effect the urban areas as well. | 4 | There are way better people to speak about this then me. But in my opinion one of the major causes is transgenerational and historical trauma. Having an outside culture forced upon your people while at the same time having your culture that has thrived for over 10,000 years being forced away causes damages that take a long long time to heal. We are seeing the effects of this in many of the problems that face our rural area's here in Alaska. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45450604, 45404259, 45402464, 45203823, 45567747] |
475,240 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I'm sorry for this error. 100% my fault. It is being fixed and will be correct in the print version of the newspaper. | 4 | Eric - I see only 2 corrections to the article:
1. Norman was not an Archbishop. Norman, like Hudson Stuck, was an Archdeacon.
2. You left out a thousand other stories of and about this man.
Thank you for this tribute to a saint who as been an influential part of our family and so many other families and individuals and who continues. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45537352, 45397010, 45536013, 45408370] |
475,247 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Interesting comment. The abhorence in this case is directed at the largest tenants of the largest property owner on the island, the Molokai Ranch. Monsanto is the most conspicuous of the Ranch's large lease holders but several bio-tech firms grow seed corn here. The issue was originally anything GMO but that got little traction on agricultural Molokai so pesticides are now the issue.
MOM was spearheaded by non other than Mercy Ritte. Most Hawaii residents know that name. The Ritte family has had a long-standing vendetta against the Molokai Ranch. This isn't about pesticides or GMO as there is insufficient good science to support it. It is about land that is not owned by native Hawaiians. | 4 | Valid point, those who fear the future and prefer to live in the past abhor scientific farming and science in general.
It's so much easier to immerse oneself in "culture" than obtain an education or a useful skill.
One wonders how many careers as "cultural practitioners" the State of Hawaii and the OHA subsidizes. One also wonders how they contribute to the general welfare. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45535369, 45535393, 45586742, 45567747] |
475,405 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | If you claim a toxic impact, you have the logical burden of proving it. You don't get to demand proof of the negative, that it has no impact. To do otherwise renders your argument a simple appeal to fear and emotion...a spurious form of rhetoric to say the least. You could claim that water is bad for you, or air,or whatever with the same kind of argument. Who could prove that it has no negative effect whatsoever? After all, oxygen is well known to have toxic effects on newborns.
This legal campaign is about land and a well deserved animus against the Molokai Ranch.
By the way, you said "...ample ascorbic evidence...". Are we talking about vitamin C here or have you coined a new phrase? | 6 | "there is insufficient good science to support it."
There is also insufficient science to refute claims of toxic impact on Hawaii's people and environment. In large part, the lack of conclusive evidence is due to lack of data about the use of industrial pesticides in Hawaii. That's one reason mandatory reporting of pesticide applications is needed.
There is ample ascorbic evidence that these pesticides are neurotoxic (that's how they kill insects), and can harm developing brains of children. That's why medical experts recommend children avoid any exposure.
Buffer zones near schools and residential areas just makes common sense until these toxins can be proven safe.
By the way, protecting this risky industry makes little sense. For all the controversy has created, you would think the seed industry is a major part of our economy. In fact, it only generates around $15 million in annual tax revenue for the state. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45536973, 45476019, 45388080, 45438681] |
475,793 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | AGREED! Rail is a major disaster, but you also site the "minor disasters" that happen daily in our communities; e.g., water main breaks, overflowing sewers, dilapidated parks, bus scheduling cuts, etc. And let's not forget OVERdevelopment, which is another MAJOR DISASTER leading to lack of affordable housing and houselessness.
Djou has military experience as an officer and that experience has afforded him a skill set in managing environmental and man-made disasters. Yes, Blake. We do need a different approach and Mr. Djou to manage the major and minor disasters of our city. | 4 | It confuses me that people will still vote for the Mayor when it is widely recognized that under his Administration's management we have found ourselves where the "rail situation is so out of control ... the proposed fixes are ... unknowable."
With rail an acknowledged disaster, it seems voters may also want to ask themselves about whether they want to vote for the Mayor that has managed to allow water mains to break, sewers to overflow, parks to become dilapidated, emergency services and The Bus to be modified and cut, houseless problems to increase, ethical challenges to grow, etc ...
With so much media attention on the disastrous rail, you wonder if the media helps distract the public from the other smaller scale Mayoral "disasters" affecting residents all around the island.
I am hopeful at some point voters will say let's try a different approach. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45456658, 45445022, 45404169, 45438070] |
476,529 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Are those for the IBEW / Planned parenthood deposits?... | 4 | The new building even comes with drive-through bribery bins | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45402464, 45447087, 45513204, 45537841] |
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