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543,023 | [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | I got an email from a Nigerian prince offering me $200 million...does that make me corrupt too? | 10 | "Qatar, one of the worst actors in the Middle East (having financially supported the Islamic State, for example), offered $1 million as a "birthday" gift to Bill Clinton in return for five minutes of his time."
I don't care how much of an incompetent idiot Trump is, this corruption is unacceptable.
We should not have to accept either of these candidates. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45363536, 45501738, 45541171, 45397010, 45597995] |
543,071 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | "...brutal,fanatical theocracy..." Are you quoting the 16th Century Incas or perhaps 19th Century Native Americans here? Seems like we've heard this before, except it wasn't Muslims being referenced. | 10 | Mr./Dr.Haycox calls Trump xenophobic in reference to his call to ban muslims, but I doubt Haybox has ever read the koran, which demands that its followers lie, cheat, steal, maim & kill all infidels. The koran forbids muslims from subscribing to any but sharia law, making them unable to pledge true allegiance to the USA & our Constitution. Unless they lie, they cannot become US citizens.
But too many Americans are plagued by the socially suffocating, unwritten policies of political correctness & demand that we embrace & include muslims due to vague, mistaken notions of religious tolerance.
islam is not a religion, as religions are generally understood to be. it is a brutal, fanatical theocracy aimed at invasive control of politics & every aspect of peoples’lives - worldwide.
As such we should oppose islam at every level.
With all the terrorism currently happening in the world & attributed to muslims, should we invite them to our country, or to our homes? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [45537487, 45534988, 45438681, 45372515, 45454705] |
543,197 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | That means that you didn't like it, right? Civility has nothing to do with it. | 4 | If Trump violated Protocol or made jokes that were not funny, too bad. The church faces a powerful anti-Catholic adversary in Hillary and the Secular Liberalism she represents. If Doland and the American hierarchy want to play nice and have a good time with Hillary that is their problem.
Its shameful that a not-so-committed Protestant presidential candidate, has to do what the American hierarchy has failed to do over these last 30 years or so: Call out the enemies of God and his church, and tell the people the truth about the real dangers presented by the likes of Hillary.
When Trump said Hillary hates Catholics (or at least the Church as an institution) he was telling the truth and reminding us all of the anti-Christian ideology that Hillary and her fellow Secularists represent. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45597947, 45256208, 45445022, 45597021, 45597373] |
543,507 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | No doubt it's Clapper...Hillary's "17 US intelligence agencies saying it's the Russian's hacking her emails". Turns out, it's James Clapper, alone. Supposedly, Hilkary's favorite spook is as prone to conspiracy theories and McCarthyism as the rest of her minions. | 4 | I can access but not comment on several sights. Maybe DHS has me on a suspect list or a DHS employee knows me and does not want me to speak the truth, as I see it. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45635376, 45630512, 45602833, 45450802] |
543,843 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | No "faith" worthy of the name endorses abortion. You purport to be Catholic, if I remember correctly. Your faith rightly teaches that abortion is intrinsically evil. | 4 | So telling women to make decisions according to their faith is complicity with evil? Hmmmm...... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45366683, 45491654, 45388080, 45501738] |
543,970 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | It was Vermin Supreme who promised everyone a pony. | 10 | And how about the pony Trump promised everybody? Don't want to forget the pony. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438070, 45397010, 45438681, 45450746, 45408370] |
544,022 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | sure hope you don't vote. you are not qualified to understand the issue. | 4 | I got an email from a Nigerian prince offering me $200 million...does that make me corrupt too? | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45404154, 45447221, 45203823, 45567747] |
544,274 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | You are quite correct of course, in how the heavy cuts in essential State functions and lack of action to raise new income has affected our LE and Justice systems
BUT - Alaska [much of AST, our DAs, and our Courts] have always had an Extremely hard time treating sexual crimes against children and women as serious crimes. There's a certain amount of "lip service" - choose respect and all that - but when it comes to judgement, social and court, there's a lot more 'understanding' of the macho male urges and needs than for the victims. | 10 | Of course this is an outrage. Get used to it. Along with cutting the Troopers, the court system hours, and a broad swarth of state services, the new economic realities of this state will dictate more and more plea bargaining and lighter sentences. Now on to more cutting of the "bloated state government". | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45447221, 45366683, 45541073, 45486432] |
544,480 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Who is the owner of the trailer park? | 4 | The cub was 6-7 months old this years cub and the owner of bear creek trailer park just shot mama and then the other 2 cubs | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45440506, 45588938, 45635376, 45597315] |
544,520 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "Supposed children's rights" So, children don't have rights? And by logical extension a fetus therefore has no rights? So you're OK with Roe/Wade? | 4 | These judges have ruled, based on a faulty interpretation of The Constitution, to begin a precedence taking away parental rights. Responsible parents are losing rights under the guise of protecting minors from rampant bad parenting and supposed children's rights. First, social and judicial services are in place for the rare parental predator. Second, a minor does not have the same constitutional rights as an adult (defined as 18 years old). A judge has no basis to establish a law to deny notification and consent to ALL parents regarding any aspect of their child's medical care, much less single out one major medical issue but leave the rest intact. That very idea would be struck down because it would isolate and endanger a minor and take away protected adult rights. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45450604, 45438681, 45351233, 45404154] |
545,070 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It is not the internet that convinces me I don't have to be in church on Sunday; it's the bible. | 4 | Your grand theory that the failure of institutional religion may be attributed to the accommodations of the internet is one of your more pat and ahistorical observations.
There was a time when people were terrorized into attending Mass or Sunday service. Skepticism has more to do with the fraying of religious life than the internet, though the internet appears to have accelerated the rise of skepticism. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45505902, 45494674, 45404259, 45541073] |
545,236 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Says Wyatt the guy with an "emotional support rooster" | 6 | Stay in your house, then, there's lots of things out here in the world. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45571747, 45445022, 45351233, 45602456] |
545,260 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Harper was Hell and he probably did pull these stunts. The Globe gave Harper a free ride for almost ten years. | 6 | I can only imagine the hell that would be raining down on Harper right now if he had pulled these stunts....... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45445022, 45438681, 45451297, 45653549] |
545,598 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Actually, I provided the citations to the editor. All of 'em. But the editor decided to go with his own citations. But I'm happy to post 'em here if you want. Admittedly it'll probably be a waste of effort because I doubt you'll read 'em any more than you have the citations you've posted. | 4 | Right, just like you reproduced every cited source in full in your commentary. In your case it's for "brevity." Uh huh. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45541171, 45191524, 45450096, 45447221] |
545,617 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | No one, including AB Chaput, shuts them out. They shut themselves out, then complain that those who remain don't agree with them. Nor can Pope Francis shut anyone out. Those of us whom he insults will not not be insulted. | 4 | Because it is an unchristian attitude. We are supposed to bring people in, not shut them out. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45451297, 45597315, 45573532, 45541206] |
545,974 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Alethia Gegonos, You forgot the "I'm Lisa Murkowski and I approved this message" disclaimer in all your posts. | 4 | If you're looking for intelligent, dedicated to good government, independent, and a proven winner for Alaska, vote Lisa Murkowski. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45536013, 45447221, 45541073, 45486432] |
546,685 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Ok trying neenz and your trolls to keep Kirk from falling. As you speak about djou your dishonest friends pack sending out false flyers the old 911 lie .. we know your game it's so easy to read | 4 | Politics seems to be getting uglier and uglier through the years. Politicians who are beyond their bags of tricks begin using "dirty tactics." I once liked Djou and how he carried himself, until now!!! This act of desperation is so pitiful!! Djou should be ashamed of himself for suing Caldwell! Djou, your time is up as a politician here in Hawaii. Take your dirty, cry-baby ways and represent you and your family, not the people of Hawaii. We deserve much better than what you have to offer. Shame on you!! I hope this is not how you represent yourself in the military!! My vote is now for Caldwell!!! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45597947, 45447221, 45432844, 45394434, 45351233] |
547,005 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | No it is not, either that or you lie every time you recite the apostle's or Nicene creed. The Church has a mandate from God through the apostles to teach truth.
The same truth that claimed so many martyrs, and is so easily discarded and ridiculed by those who oppose the Church's teachings and still claim to be obedient and faithful. | 4 | Because it is possible to disagree with some points that the magisterium teaches, and be a Catholic. Why is this point so difficult to get across? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45588938, 45485526, 45567747, 45252698, 45597975] |
547,025 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | LOL, you definitely are obsessed. And sir if you really owned two cats you would not vilify them as much as you do in your articles. To you it seems that cats are evil creatures that should be destroyed. or maybe it's just every other cat but yours that is evil. | 6 | The only true statement in your post is comprised by the third through fifth words in its last sentence. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45456658, 45485526, 45536013, 45438416] |
547,080 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | A lot of peoples pet family cats have been disappearing in east Anchorage. Do you have anything to do with that? | 6 | I don't attribute evil to animals, because they don't have any choice in the matter. I attribute evil to cat-nutters, 'animal-liberation' extremists, 'no-kill TNR' charlatans', 'humane' cat-hoarders and self-hating 'pet' worshipers without hesitation. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45506032, 45535369, 45388025, 45438681] |
547,301 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0] | Clinton rode a dot
Com scam to soaring revenue heights is the only reason there was a surplus. It was turning down as he got out.
We aren't stupid Wyatt and you're emvbarrassing yourself with those bs comments. | 61 | Really? Because America's economy was in the best shape of the last 50 years when Bill Clinton left office. I'd say we not only CAN afford it, but we really NEED it. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45438681, 45590457, 45451297, 45653549] |
547,303 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Well said!!! | 4 | Registration to vote should be the choice of the individual. It shouldn't be mandated, it shouldn't be force upon and above all, it should never be dictated by governmental means. I am not worry about voter fraud but this should be a choice of free people. Let us be honest, if you really want to vote....you will register. Its not rocket science. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45184889, 45514417, 45541206, 45199056] |
547,671 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Touched a nerve huh? I guess when you can't handle the truth you throw insults, I guess that is all you know.... just proves a point about weak people and the truth. | 4 | You are unlearned, illiterate and unwashed. Go home to mommy. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [45456658, 45408870, 45288279, 45187581, 45410004] |
547,677 | [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Peter: The reason why it's difficult to take deal with issues raised in the letter is that the writer is largely dealing in hyperbole and bromides.
Here's an example: "Trump’s tax cuts would increase investment, boost productivity and wages and increase innovation and opportunities for all Americans." That's silly. Tax cuts for the super-wealthy don't result in any of those things (or if they do the effect is neglible). The Bush tax cuts sure didn't result in that stuff.
Most of the other statement are similar. Just a whole bucket of simplistic statements with little regard for the complexity of any of these issues. | 10 | With the exception of a few responses, no one has taken issue with the points the author makes. They basically attempt to degrade him because of his support for Trump as if that were sufficient. It's not! Discuss issues, not personalities. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45541171, 45450604, 45432844, 45418655, 45599928] |
548,324 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | And in my limited research I found a 22 page report on staffing put out by the APD and the MOA. It goes back to 2010. But hey, it's put out by government. And I'm sure you and your ilk don't believe anything the government says. Yet you take as gospel anything you hear on talk radio. I actually pity you. | 4 | And just out of curiosity, are you big into conspiracy theories? By your comment, you seem to be. You do realize that police officers are in a union, right? So are you afraid instead of risking their lives, they have some hidden agenda? That does a disservice to them and the officers that have given their lives in the line of duty. I'm sure when the APF comes out with their wages, your suitably shocked. But to pay more taxes for more officers is out of the question, right? The conservative in you is strong. "Taxes are the price you pay to live in a civilized society," Oliver Wendell Holmes. By the way, he was a Republican. Shocking, I know. People like you find it easier to complain then to actually do something about the problem. And trust me, not everyone is out to get you. In fact the only one who is, is the voice in your head. Trust me, give up talk radio and you will be a lot happier. They prey on people like you and your unjustified fears. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45363536, 45501738, 45541171, 45314593, 45454484] |
549,061 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Some people think he would have loved the preV2 church; I don't agree with that. But there were canons from the ecumenical councils (e.g., Nicea) that would have been around, and A. wrote his own little "catechism" for use with those preparing for baptism. | 4 | After reading this very enjoyable article, I wondered how well Augustine would have fit into the post V2 church but would have been challenged by the stricter controlling church prior to V2. It also occurred to me that perhaps much of Canon law was not present during his lifetime. I found this on wiki, "The first Code of Canon Law (1917) was almost exclusively for the Latin Church, with extremely limited application to the Eastern Churches. After the Second Vatican Council, (1962 - 1965), another edition was published specifically for the Roman Rite in 1983." Catechism is also a relatively recent creation (from US Catholic.org), "In 1566 the so-called Roman Catechism was published in response to the request issued three years earlier by the Council of Trent. Used until 1978, it inspired, as intended, the creation of many national catechisms."
Most of church history is without catechism or canon law. It makes me wonder why either were needed; & maybe we were better off without. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 45435454, 45200444, 45365190, 45536973] |
549,266 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The debate between political rivals Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump was the most anticipated in the history of US elections The first debate broke a record as the most watched debate in US History with a total of about 84 million viewers. The second debate was still massive, at 66.5 million viewers, and had competed with Sunday night football.. The final Trump-Clinton debate drew 71.6 million viewers. All these numbers do not include millions of people like me who watched the debates streaming online. There are indeed million of people who did see Donald and how he looked , acted presidential and how well he was prepared to go the distance with actual policy and not word salads. Trump failed, check the polls after the debates and before he did those debates he was moving for a tie with Clinton. If this was the Roman Games those millions of Americans who viewed the presidential debates gave Trump a huge thumbs down. | 4 | Who cares? The debates are history (mercifully) that no one wants to dwell on except egghead academic types. I'd rather read about a good recipe for seafood chowder in place of this piece - mine didn't turn out so great this weekend. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45397010, 45541171, 45449332, 45404169] |
549,519 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Scripture is God's revelation to mankind. It's not a joking matter. We should read and study scripture but understand that God appointed a teaching authority to interpret His word and to lead us into all truth.
2 Peter 3:3: "Knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires." | 4 | Exactly. The gospels are highly overrated and looking to them is just more protestant sola scriptura. We have the one true, inerrant and unchanging church to lead us. No need to look back to some first century writings and teachings by people who didn't even speak latin. No, there's no need to go back further than 1250 or so. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45485526, 45535393, 45451297, 45582203] |
549,638 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Nice try sir but were you were referring to Americans (as was I) and not just a Presidential candidate that are "heartless s** for brains". | 4 | 1941, Germany:
"Get a grip. Tragedies happen all over the globe every second of the day. Nobody that has a life, family, bills and/or other regular responsibility that comes with life can take a time out to address every injustice in the world"
How stupid would that sound in history's reflection? Pretty damn stupid.
Not every lay person can or should know about *every* tragedy that occurs around the globe, but a person RUNNING FOR CONTROL OF A WORLD SUPERPOWER should be able to, at bare minimum, articulate the scene of the SINGLE GREATEST HUMANITARIAN CRISIS CURRENTLY FACING THE WORLD.
No one asked Johnson to recite all the world capitals (frankly, I think a President should be able to do that FWIW). | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45434367, 45366683, 45438070, 45486432, 45535968] |
549,780 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Long bob Maybe if you did some research as to what the potential for Canada was supposed to be and what we in fact would be exporting and what would the EU be exporting to us you might have differnet viewpoint. | 4 | This makes me question any future support for the EU, particularly militarily. Canada got screwed as a pawn in this, and the EU let it happen.
This is going to cost us, so lets get the savings by participating a little less in NATO. Maybe then the EU will remember who their friends are and not treat us like this. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45505732, 45432844, 45397010, 45438879] |
549,911 | [1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Yada yada yada. People like you have been spouting CRAP like this for over a year. No one is buying it! | 60 | Calculated Theatrics? Seriously? There are no depths that Liberal apologists will not plumb to assuage the increasingly uneasy feeling that JT and crowd are in over their heads. | [1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45426626, 45534905, 45597658, 45642153] |
550,063 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You really need to google James O'Keefe and his antics at "gotcha" journalism that defies gravity. O'Keefe has been in trouble in court so many times for heavily editing his "movies" to twist his personal scripts and not to ferret out any truth and that is what he is paid to do. Trump hired Stephen Bannon as his Campaign Chief Executive who is a Brietbart News Executive and a former Goldman Sachs Banker who is known for his conservative right wing news stories that are more exploitation then news. So then O'Keefe appears on Trumps payroll. O'Keefe is not looking for the truth on his enemies, just some sound bytes taken out of context that fits O'Keefe's personal narratives that he gets paid well to create and when his targets get to the truth and get all of the tapes he did and prove that O'Keefe did heavy edits on his tapes, the damage has been done. | 4 | Do you mean skirmishes orchestrated by DNC operatives? Despite plenty of evidence, this is how ADN and the lame stream media spins it. Another "conspiracy theory" becomes fact.
See for yourself:
https://youtu.be/5IuJGHuIkzY
One of the guys in the video visited the White House over 40 times. More crickets from NYTHUFFPAWAPOADN... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45447087, 45405070, 45590457, 45450802] |
550,204 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | is it really democratic if a tiny minority denies the majority of its will?
democracy does not equate to unanimous decision-making | 4 | It is a failure of diplomacy but a triumph of democracy. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45537352, 45397010, 45197484, 45535941] |
550,590 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | No poop Sherlock, Can you really compare a cat to a rat? Cats are social interactive animals that 7 billion people call pets. | 4 | What if we were talking abourt rats instead of cats? Would there be a similar trap-neuter-release program to conserve our beloved rat population? Surely not. Rats are not an endangered species, and neither are domestic cats. When either animal becomes too many, we need to deal with the problem. Let's use our heads here. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45450604, 45582203, 45541073, 45598021, 45418655] |
550,799 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Frank, stop equating cats to humans. It's sad and makes you look desperate. Euthanizing feral cats is NOT tantamount to killing homeless people. Get a clue. | 10 | Everyone gets old and dies. The answer isn't to kill everyone to avoid suffering. Using that thinking you'd advocate for killing all the black baby boys in DC because they have a 33% chance of being shot one day, and a 33% chance of being incarcerated one day. In Texas one out of every three Texans are incarcerated, on probation, or parole, so we'd have to killTexans too because they have a high likelihood that they will suffer one day too. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45597947, 45494674, 45314593, 45197484, 45438070] |
551,154 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I suggest that the surest way to eliminate poverty and hardship can be through capitalism and corporate organization of capitalist ventures. I simply understand that capitalist theory incorporates no provision for conscience, the purpose of corporations is to maximize shareholder satisfaction and attracts sociopaths who refuse to admit the right of society to instill a conscience in business affairs.
Greed is a powerful emotion. It's the fuel that powers the economic engine. Engines function when fuel is channeled, regulated and burned under controlled conditions, mixed with the air of labor and consumption and fired at the correct timing and cycle of pistons and valves.
Conservatism allows greed freedom from control, like throwing a match into a gallon of gas. You get a big boom, towering flame and burn the house down. Which then requires rescue by mature adults.
But I agree. After all my travels (been anywhere S?) I concede that American Capitalism produces great TP. | 4 | I'll agree with you, SS, that in a pluralistic society an efficient system of checks and balances is a Real Good Idea. But given your obvious distaste for everything market-oriented and corporate, why remain in the country? The borders aren't sealed, and you have other options (Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea).
Just stock up a good supply of TP to take along before you leave! ;-) | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45537352, 45505732, 45363536, 45438416] |
551,310 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1] | And to quote Rhett Butler in "Gone With the Wind", "Frankly, My dear, I don't give a dam."
Cultural "sensitivity" was introduced into this story line to excuse an egregious bit of conduct just because someone has a cultural hot button. | 10 | Nobody said that his culture includes being abusive except you, motleycrew. Eugenean was pointing out that people who have two last names should be designated by both names when being referred to in newspaper articles as it is accurate and demonstrates cultural competence on the part of journalists when referring to people whose cultures use two last names. Gabriel Garcia Marquez should, for example, be referred to as Garcia Marquez when people speak of him by only his last name. Both names constitute his last name. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438070, 45525557, 45447087, 45432844, 45636192] |
551,557 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | well this so called bank is a farce cause it diverts from public responsible funding to scam promises of returns.. | 5 | The comments on here completely blow my mind.
The chasm between the political supporters of either party seems insurmountable.
The reality is that we need a major investment in the physical infrastructure of this country. It is a need that never ends and is indeed a major responsibility of government.
However, it is not free. If publicly funded, it requires tax dollars. If privately funded it requires user fees. One way or another, it must be paid for.
It is easy to agree with the municipalities in that it shouldn't come from PROJECTS for which funding has been committed. On the other hand vague promises of future spending without specific projects would be fair game. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45465124, 45388080, 45404154, 45447087, 44826677] |
551,626 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "Right now, people who can't afford to donate subsidize people like me who do donate, and that is not particularly fair."
Let me get this straight - only anyone who CAN afford it should be forced to subsidize you, and the preferred mechanism to create that happy outcome is to bill tomorrow's taxpayers even more?
Is it an automatic in Liberal land that more taxes are always affordable, even when deficit spending loads those taxes onto the unborn? | 4 | If the Conservatives hadn't killed the per-vote subsidy, we wouldn't have political parties obsessed with fundraising. We can thank the Conservatives, too, for making the last, lengthy election campaign the most costly in Canadian history. Right now, people who can't afford to donate subsidize people like me who do donate, and that is not particularly fair. Having cancelled the per-vote subsidy, the Conservatives then increased the annual donation limit to $1,500. Sleight of hand, Conservative-style. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45537352, 45456658, 45582203, 45598378] |
551,907 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It's often hard to tell, and you're creating havoc in moderation, you subversive you. :) | 4 | It's a shame that one even need ask if a posting is satire. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45458735, 45588938, 45598834, 45327007] |
551,936 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Lynn: As I have previously stated, I feel you're a very nice person......so nice that you sometimes seem extraordinarily innocent and naive. You're ready to defend the "underdog" at every turn. That's great, but, upon inspection, sometimes that "underdog" is actually the one "in the wrong." I'm sure some of the "travelers" who frequent downtown Eugene are great people whose actions harm no one. I'm just as sure some of them are not such "great" people and their actions do harm others.
Police have the unenviable task of dealing with the latter on a regular basis. You're a bright, caring person. What would you have the police do when they observe someone (yes, allegedly) selling drugs on the street? This is a serious question and I'd be interested in your answer. thanks, Gary | 5 | I wasn't there. According to what people have posted on Facebook the guy asked the cop if he was detained, the cop said no, he started to leave and the cop grabbed him. None of this has made it into news reports, which don't actually tell us what happened. Reporters apparently haven't interviewed anyone who was there except the cops.
People have also posted on Facebook that there has been a pattern of police harassment of homeless downtown, in an effort to drive them out of downtown, that has been going on for years. Anger has built up. Beating people up is not the answer. Or if it is, what is the question? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45458735, 45365204, 45582621, 45358725, 45642153] |
551,943 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | http://www.clickorlando.com/ne...
Trump supporters line up for 12 hours before rally. :)
Thousands expected at Donald Trump rally in Sanford
Maybe Clinton should pay people $30 an hour to attend her rallies instead of $15 so she gets more than a dozen people. | 4 | Bill Clinton is proof that the criminal justice system is broken and favors white men of privilege who commit sex crimes at will. He should be in jail facing charges. And not surprisingly, 73-percent of Evangelicals are for Clinton. Go figure? Works both ways! WOW! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45599028, 45388025, 45476019, 45394434] |
551,998 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | They are probably not really "his" employees at all, probably hired by some contracting agency as "independent contractors" so no bennies would be provided. Like many fishermen are. | 4 | I noticed in this article it doesn't identify how Trump's employees receive health insurance. I bet they don't and they're paid low incomes on Trump's promise that if he wins the White House they'll get a $10 bonus and maybe some health insurance from somewhere. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45404154, 45486432, 45448160, 45197484] |
552,089 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0] | You seem unclear on the nature of the problem. It's not garbage; it's the presence of losers that harass, threaten, and prey on people. | 10 | Not what I was implying. I'm talking garbage cans and brooms, sir. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438070, 45314593, 45432844, 45498710, 45404259] |
552,122 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I'm sure you're right. As I said, I wasn't suggesting that Obama's life as a biracial child growing up among Anglos was easy. | 4 | The half-black part caused many problems such as birtherism, latent racism brought back to the surface. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45599028, 45535372, 45541171, 45535941] |
552,186 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | LOL, like Obama's failure to unite this nation has anything to do with skin color. | 10 | In the words of the greats, Tupac and Nasir; a decade apart. "America's not ready for a black president." | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45450604, 45404259, 45402464, 45203823] |
552,248 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | I watched the video.
He had a hard time hiding his annoyance with the plebs. | 6 | Trudeau certainly does not respond very well other than to adulation. He gets "frustrated" by genuine anger. He made it worse by providing meaningless platitudes to persons looking for content. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438070, 45332074, 45465124, 15577915, 45509327] |
552,257 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | caiside, isn't belief in the literal resurrection the very foundation of the Christian faith? | 4 | If God is going to resurrect our dead bodies, including those humans who died thousands, even millions of years ago and whose remains have long ago "gone to feed the roses," why is God going to be stopped by those remanins being in more than one place. This is such a nonsensical issue. Besides, the whole idea of a bodily resurrection is not believable in a literal sense. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45501738, 45450604, 45449332, 45203823] |
552,457 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Uh, what? | 4 | First off, Christianity being attacked is not getting along with people, it is a decision you make to believe in Jesus Christ, or not.
Practice of religion is different. Any man/woman can refuse to work with uncovered person, they can go and leave that job. Acceptance of the economic impact is a free choice also. A cashier can decide not to work where he/she is forced to sell bacon. A store owner can decide not to stock or sell objectionable products.
Freedom in this case is not one of being forced to serve others, the freedom is the choice to refrain from serving others. Is the author saying that I should be compelled to serve whatever the author wants and that I have no choice?
Perhaps if the wedding cakes for those who wanted to force the bakers to produced had the verse Romans 1:22 and 26 or 27 scripted on the icing, the one demanding the cake would not want it as much. Will this be rejected again? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45440506, 45432844, 45404169, 45445192, 45514417] |
552,566 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Don't forget that "self-check machines" have replaced cashiers in grocery stores, and public libraries. And those phone trees that have replaced customer services reps. | 4 | Labor is an expense like any other. The value of the labor should not exceed the value of the work they provide.
For instance, an entry level job is not worth $15/hour, regardless of how many dependents you support. Go ahead and raise it, and then find that the entry level job has disappeared. The evidence?
ATMs have replaced bank tellers.
Self-service gas has replaced gas station attendants
McDonalds is using iPads to take orders.
The people most effected by a raise of the minimum wage are poor people. I thought you liked poor people. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45506032, 45541171, 45501738, 45450096, 45440910] |
552,592 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0] | You think the polls are lying?
Did you think the same thing in 2008 and 2012?
Do you EVER learn? | 10 | Is Hillary really ahead in the polls, or are pollsters and the corporate media lying again? If you are going by real numbers and not corporate media propaganda that is spewed forth to us via the T.V , radio and internet., Donald Trump will win the general election by a landslide.
You see, we can simplify everything just by casting away premature, desperately faked poll numbers, media lies and propaganda. It’s really that simple.
Now let’s run the math. And hey, what the Hell, let’s even give Hillary the benefit of the doubt and average Trump rally attendees at an extremely low number of only 1000 on an average to Hillary’s 200, just to demonstrate a simple point.
Example:
Trump 1000 Attendees vs. Hillary 200 Attendees
Trump 80%
Hillary 20%
When Trump packs a football stadium and she can barely muster up 50 in Omaha...
Even old Uncle Joe Stalin knew that it matters less who votes than who counts the votes.
Enough said ... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438070, 45312025, 45535968, 45536013, 45593869] |
552,640 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Greg, seems like the analyses I've seen of BC's carbon tax consumption effect have only shown data through 2012, which is why I used 2012 as the base value. If you use 2011 as the base, then through 2015 gross sales of gasoline have increased 15.6% in BC vs. 6% in Canada overall, although the latter figure would be slightly lower if BC wasn't included (as you point out). I don't know why net sales of gasoline is more relevant than gross sales, since they define gross sales as "total sales of all road grades of gasoline for all uses, including off-road activities such as farming, forestry, construction or mining." It doesn't say anything about exports but correct me if I'm wrong. Otherwise you might be cherry picking a bit yourself? It's a fairly simple table to look at and see which numbers have gone up or down, or you can download the spreadsheet. In the end the consumption effect is a minor point, I-732 would still have essentially zero effect on future warming or ocean pH. | 4 | So let’s review –
1) Misleading with data is very very possible and this is a textbook example. I hope someone pays John lots of money to do what he does. I’d have trouble sleeping.
2) Counter-factual analysis is needed to analyze data which is what all reputable policy analyst do. The basic counterfactual analysis completed above using the exact same data set as John yields this analysis of gasoline and diesel net sales which is a close proxy for consumption in-region.
“The BC carbon tax has been a huge success, net gasoline and diesel sales in declined by 11% between 2011 and 2015 vs. 4.3% growth in the Rest of Canada.”
Far cry from John’s cherry picked:
“The BC carbon tax appears to be already fading, as gross gas sales grew 17% between 2012 and 2015 vs. 6% for Canada overall” | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45498044, 45456658, 45497014, 45348666, 45364217] |
552,725 | [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1] | That's probably because Trump is a bigger threat to the nation's democracy and open elections. If you don't like it, Bauer, do us all a favor and take your wrong-winger complaining elsewhere. Your target should be Fox News or Limbaugh radio show. Neither one cares what you think or feel. All they care about is messing with your mind and then dumping you when they've had enough of your whining. | 10 | TWO STRAIGHT WEEKS of the ADN not having a SINGLE mention of Hillary Clinton on their front pages. Not a SINGLE one. The agenda is clear- The Leftist ADN and Washington Post are out to protect their queen, no matter the volumes of criminal activity Wikileaks and #DNCLeaks reveals. If they can keep attacking Trump, and make no mention of Hillary- they will have won. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45598378, 45505732, 45449332, 45327007] |
552,868 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | this was not a forced sterilization. no parental consent needed. one twelve year old had the procedure because she knew she was vulnerable in the environment she lived in. smart kid. | 4 | Actually, forced sterilization is as old as the American eugenics movement and the third Reich. My favorite instance was documented in a very good movie called 'Blood of the Condor' where a bunch of ha'ole "Peace Corps" workers sterilized Bolivian Quechuan women without their consent. The women's outraged husbands and brothers TNR'd the ha'oles with with machetes. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45184889, 45541171, 45596860, 45404154] |
554,097 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Excellent question and a point of view I never considered before. My next door neighbor is a retired priest who happens to be a moral theologian. I plan to have a discussion with him about this. | 4 | So could someone explain why it's OK to "break up" a Saint's body and put parts (i.e. relics) on display/hold them separate, but it is not OK to keep part of a cremated loved one in a jewelry "memento" or, in an urn, to displayed cremains in the home? I happen not personally to be attracted to either practice, but I'm asking sincerely for some logical justification for the difference.
Thanks. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45197484, 45397010, 45598762, 45418654] |
554,159 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | A couple of grey hairs with gill slits and webbed toes have to have something in common.I'd like to think my 1575 DUI arrests in my first eleven years on the road,had some effect on the alcohol abuse. My grand parents on mom's side are buried there, but I have not been graveside since I was about 7. I see Rodney Dial won his election. Hope for the future. | 4 | Good morning, Jay; it is nice to see I'm not alone as an early riser! I'm not going to let this alcohol issue go: look what is happening in western Alaskaand across the state right now. I believe that by moving the conversation about substance use/abuse out of the hands of professionals and trying to get the general public to talk openly and honestly about this staggering problem, we might start making headway.
At the top of the list of substances that are abused is alcohol. In the past 4 years, there have been about 1,000 alcohol related homicides in Alaska: yet, our main concern seems to be opiates.
You and I grew up in an Alaska before oil money, when individuals had to pay their own money to fix their mistakes. The past 40 years put an end to that: it is going to be very interesting to see what transpires as the state no longer has the dollars to save people from their foolishness.
Good day to you Jay, It's raining in Ketchikan. Hard to believe, I know! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45445192, 45599028, 45445022, 45553691] |
554,337 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | How you opinion is "treasured". | 4 | This format is absolutely hopeless. I posted a comment which was limited to a certain number of words. Trying to continue it I couldn't find my original post despite scrolling up an down several times.
Notifications only direct one to the actual thread, from then on one has to search for the actual comment that has been replied to. If the number of comments goes into the hundreds the search becomes a nightmare. Disqus notifications used to take one to the comment one was replying to and was highlighted. Civil Comments does not, hence necessitating a time-consuming up and down search which can often take ages and in the end results in one not bothering.
Add to this being asked to judge comments as 'good', 'sorta' or 'not good' when one hasn't a clue what the presented comment was about is ridiculous. On a a few occasions I have voted some comments as not good or good yet when I have read them in the thread I absolutely agree or disagree with them.
Get back to Disqus. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45598378, 45476019, 45448191, 45534988, 45448160] |
554,347 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Sorry Mr. Bob, I have you confused with the Bob Atkinson who lives in Anchorage and is a drifter in Bristol Bay. My bad. Rep. Stutes from Kodiak, home to one of the world's largest seafood ports, chaired the House Fisheries committee and basically sat on the commercial fish tax proposal, effectively killing it for the session. Has nothing to do with being a Republican or Democrat. And I am right about the Governor's Bill.
See Bob, no matter who is in control of the Legislature, the commercial fishing tax structure is rigged to pay the minimal amount of fish taxes to Alaska and extract as much money from the state to subsidize commercial fishing infrastructure and management costs.
First, only the ex-vessel value is taxed, not the export value. That means $4 billion of natural resource leaves Alaska without being taxed. Second, fish taxes are shared split with coastal communities, like Kodiak, even though they don't have a skin in covering the management expenses. The fix is in. | 4 | I'm not a commercial fisherman Mr. roldrick and I'm not sure you are right about the minimal tax the Governor was proposing. That said it was a beginning that could have and should have been taken up by the legislature in the debate about how to resolve the deficit. The GOP supermajority basically ignored the entirety of the Governors balance proposal when they could have taken it up as a starting point for further negotiations. And yes I do believe the fishing, mining, tourism and oil industries all need to ante up more tax revenue. We all need to have skin in the game going forward. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537487, 45534988, 45438681, 45372515, 45454705] |
554,888 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0] | No one is killing "viable" babies by aborting them for fun. | 10 | At the time Roe v. Wade was issued there was very little hope for premature infants to survive if born before 7 1/2 months. Today, medical science has advanced to the point that babies born prematurely or removed from the womb through cesarean have a very good chance to survive. Of course the Supreme Court ruled that there can be no restrictions prior to viability. The point being viability is possible at 22 weeks or 5 1//2 to 6 months. Born alive stay alive. Thus, the necessity for killing solutions to ensure the baby arrives DOA. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45432844, 45385682, 45573532, 45197484] |
555,004 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | When I read that, what immediately came into my mind was a bit from JRR Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring. Frodo says about Gollum, "He deserves death." Gandalf replies, "Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
You seem a bit quick to send people to hell. I trust in God to do the right thing. I still do not understand why some people seem almost eager to condemn others to perdition. | 6 | Some people don't deserve it. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, come to mind. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45500804, 45514417, 45450096, 45394434] |
555,453 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Wow. What other forms of criminal activity do you endorse? | 6 | I say good job to to the person who vandilized Donald trump's award. | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45418654, 45567747, 45360811, 45476019, 45184889] |
555,529 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Please state one fact for me to refute!
When you make up a lie, like the Florida Supreme Court changed the state's elections laws, after the election, it is up to YOU to provide the proof to support that. It is not the reader's job to prove or disprove what you post. It is YOUR job to back it up with citations! Get it? | 4 | Then by all means, please cite one source that refutes just one fact that I have made you aware of, about anything. Who is the joke here? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45432844, 45404259, 45445022, 45191524, 45426626] |
555,735 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | I agree. Republican posturing. | 6 | It makes for great Republican talking -points before the election to indicate they will investigate Clinton if they keep the House. However it will be far harder to actually conduct any hearings than to make such claims. Even the most conservative members of SCOTUS are not going to let the House run amuck and hold hearings strictly as retribution for Hillary winning the election. You can bet Clinton has already as a legal team ready to thwart these idiots from their plans. The House can not simply tie up the president from performing her executive duty. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45653549, 44826677, 45360811, 45438648] |
555,895 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | It is amazing a person with “my IQ is over 150” do not understand what is like to be raped by priest.
I perfectly understand what is like to watch one’s own family member attempt suicide and suffering a deep depression and self inflicting physical wounds, addicted to alcohol and drug in trying to forget the rape, and academically failing from a straight ‘A’ student because of rape. If you had to watch that kind of suffering for over 20 years you will not say what you said here.
To a mother like me whoever cause that kind of suffering to the children is no less than the ‘D*vil’ himself!!!!!!
C. Dolan started corrupt five years long bankruptcy court proceeding trying to save five million dollars and during that time two clergy rape victims kill themselves. Was 5 million dollars more precious than two person’s lives? Who know if Church was kind and supportive to these two sex abuse victims they may be alive now.
So do some compassionate thinking and pray before you talk!!!!! | 6 | "Who want to worship God with the child rapist organization?"
Yes, no doubt, all 1.2 billion Catholics -- the whole global church (including employees of tens of thousands of schools, colleges, universities, hospitals, clinics, etc.) -- are child rapists in your mind. No doubt, too, because criminal corruption in Nigeria is everywhere -- with public officials diverting public funds into their private possessions (affecting the lives of millions of poor people) -- all Nigerians are corrupt. And because the Protestant organization, World Vision, provided the Islamist movement Hamas with up to 7.2 million a year (for five years), all evangelicals are corrupt. And, likewise, all Americans are slave masters because we allow 57,000 people to live in bondage, according to the Global Slave Index. But does it occur to you: making the crimes of a few intrinsic to the whole is a bad principle? My God, my IQ is over 150 and I'm trying to make sense to you! God help us! I'm sure you mean well. | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [45456658, 45597947, 45385682, 45513204, 45418655] |
556,067 | [1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | You do know bigly is a real word don't you?
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Big´ly
adv. 1. In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently.
He brawleth bigly.
- Robynson (More's Utopia.
http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/Bigly | 10 | Bob, is WAS Big League. Now it's bigly. Whatta reduction. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45445022, 45635376, 45224788, 45191524] |
556,432 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0] | eric, what an ugly thing to say. Ur sounding more like Trump every day! | 68 | I have said all along that Trump could win, and some polls show him ahead today.
Your remark that polls showed Carter ahead can work both ways. If polling shows Trump to be ahead, he still could lose, even by a landslide. I would hate to see this nation under Trump, who doesn't know jack about governance, and thinks going bankrupt is the way to get ahead, and grabs girls and women by the p@$$y as a way to get acquainted. Maybe he and his buddy Vladimir can fix everything up in the Middle East? Frankly, I think anyone who admires Trump is a creep, imbecile, or sociopath. But hey! that's half the whities in Amurca! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45537352, 45588938, 45535393, 45454484, 45408370] |
556,743 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Academics, artists and civil servants generally vote for high taxes, deficit spending etc. | 4 | So does your conclusion imply that educated, accomplished people tend to vote with the 'left'? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45397769, 45416745, 45599570, 45563398] |
556,783 | [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Just where did you get your Economics Degree.
Governments do not create jobs. They can, through fiscal policy, regulation and legislation etc, create an environment where the private sector can flourish and create jobs. | 10 | Not only "should" it be left up to the private sector, at the end of the day it MUST be up to the private sector, no matter what.
Government is not capable of creating jobs. At best it can shift jobs around, hurting employment in one area in order to help it elsewhere or, in the case of deficit spending, gaining jobs today at the expense of job losses in the future. In practise though these results tend to result in a net loss with the jobs lost exceed the jobs gained.
The only possible way to ever have net job creation, even in government jobs, is to have a robust private sector. Without that even government jobs can't be created as there won't be enough revenue to pay for such jobs. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45571747, 45598378, 45486432, 45599311] |
556,947 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It is my experience, and I've lived everywhere in the Lower 48, that Alaska is the most racist state in the country, bar none. I grew up here in Anchorage. I recall being barred from the Moose Lodge and the Elks Lodge because I'm Native - LOL…in the 70s…tell me about it dude. | 4 | Dude you seem to be really hung up on race, as are most liberals when they run out of factual and reasoned arguments, which is pretty much always. It's their get out of jail free card, so to speak.
Once and for all; millions of us, at least half of the country, the informed half, oppose Obama because he is the leader of a hopelessly radicalized far left Democrat party that seeks to impose it's all powerful government agenda on the American public by any means. The Constitution is nothing more than an impediment to their aims. Obama and his ilk see themselves as our betters and as a matter of policy they have one set of rules for us and one set of rules for them. RACE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
I could give you a list of conservative black (and women) leaders who dared to get off the liberal plantation only to be unfairly attacked in the worst personal ways. They couldn't defeat them in the battle of ideas so they take the debate to the sewer.
Any of them would dwarf Obama in a debate | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45535393, 45184889, 45514417, 45541206, 45199056] |
557,036 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | You must not remember all of the ecumenical/interreligious confabs that John Paul II convoked. | 6 | Ecumenical activities at Catholic parishes pretty much came to a screeching halt early in the papacy of JP II, and assumed a less vibrant character with the advent of the so called JP II-B XVI priests and bishops, and the restoration of the "extraordinary" (Tridentine) form of the Mass. Under current Catholic clerical leadership at the parish and diocesan levels, we will have a much more challenging (difficult) situation when it comes to any kind of "progress." | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45332074, 45408870, 45435348, 45489372] |
557,475 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It seems, if true, that it bothers you a great deal, Pandora. So, I'd be interested in hearing what you think should be done? Should we discuss Mr. Trump and his positive attributes regarding women? Accountants? The environment? The national economy? The Constitution of the United States? Since those matters have indeed been the topics of the secular media in great depth and detail, I am left to wonder what you want. And, also please speak to how you see this article here is "politically proselytizing" and/or favoring Ms. Clinton over Mr. Trump. BTW - is there a "National Pandora Radio" as well? :o) | 4 | I must say, I do look forward to the time the preponderance of articles here are not politically proselytizing. Is it any wonder the last few months NCR has become known as the "National Clinton Reporter"? | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256208, 45454484, 45535979, 45363536, 45340838] |
557,540 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You don't have to be old - it wasn't that long ago.
Rock was long against 20 year patents by drug companies which kept drugs prices high. You remember him as "the lawyer" for Apotex because of the Anthrax scare after 9/11. Govt's wanted to stockpile an anthrax drug and something went on between Bayer, the Govt, and Apotex.
End result was that Canada bought Cipro from Bayer (at a much higher price than the generic from Apotex) after Bayer threatened to sue if Canada bought from Apotex.
Rock was Health Minister at the time. | 4 | Those of us older folk remember Alan Rock was the lawyer for Apotex. Apotex has a close relationship with the liberals | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45256208, 45635376, 45586742, 45361507] |
558,709 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Who said anything about Singles "refusing" to attend? But too often the FOCUS is geared to marriage, children, family life, relationships with spouses, etc.
THIS group needs a FOCUS on them and their lives and place within the church today. | 4 | Well - unless you do a survey of all the parishes in the country, we'll never know, will we? I submit that you are mistaken....I know you are in my Diocese, and several others I know.
And what exactly makes a general parish retreat, prayer groups, seminar, program geared ONLY to the married? EVERY such event in your parish is geared toward only those who are married? and those who are single REFUSE to attend?
Come on....... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45388080, 45535372, 45501738, 45514417] |
559,161 | [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Isn't the term "blood libel" an aspersion of people of the Jewish faith? As for Gimarc's reference to the Little Boy Who Cried Wolf: The right - wing AgitProp industry has put out so much trash talking that elder liberals like my mother don't believe a word about Hillary Clinton - in other words - every body is crying "Wolf" these days and folks have just gotten de-sensitized to anything of credibility. If everything is trash talking then nothing is trash talking? And don't get me wrong - Gimarc isn't far off about the trash talking of the left - in my opinion. Shame on both. | 10 | More blood libel from the political left. Might be a great time to review Aesop's Boy Who Cried Wolf. It works a lot like endless charges of racism from the political left - if everything is racism, then nothing is racism. And if everything is groping, then nothing is groping. I can think of no better way to demean people this actually happens to than to rat race around making false, libelous claims. You lefties are hurting the very people you claim to care about the most. Eventually nobody will listen and nobody will care, but that's just me. Cheers - | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45506032, 45582203, 45366913, 45394434] |
559,163 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The "boring but reliable Camry" could well be just as useless as a Corvette that is broken down and in the shop. If you're looking to enter a car race and your Camry is guaranteed to finish last every single time it is of no use at all. Better to have the Corvette that is in the shop half the time but able to win races the other half of the time than be guaranteed to finish last every time.
Point being what to buy all depends on your goals, and with regards to the fighter jets I'm not sure that we have entirely clarified just what those goals are yet. | 4 | Between a fancy but unreliable Corvette and a boring but reliable Camry, I would buy the latter. For the same reason, I would not buy F-35. However capable the war bird is, if it is not reliable, it is useless. Grounded for mechanical problem, a F-35 would be worse than the Kitty Hawk. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45505902, 45597947, 45432844, 45456658] |
559,408 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The NRA has never "called him out." They only support duopoly candidates, period. Even after my husband and the libertarian group had a "carry" demonstration at the UAA, several years ago, the NRA endorsed my husband's opponent for State House because they prefer to support Republicans. However, we are now friends with the incumbent Republican and will support him. | 4 | I was there and I didn't hear that at all. Look, Libertarians come in all different flavors just like democrats and republicans. If candidate integrity, responsible fiscal policies, and social tolerance are important to you then give Johnson-Weld another look. This year, the majority of Americans are not comfortable with the major party candidates and really are in lesser-of-two-evil mode. Let your moral compass help you choose. Vote your conscience. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45525557, 45224788, 45630512, 45449731] |
559,496 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Dwelling on the one foundation while ignoring the other shows bias. | 4 | My point is that whatever the Trump Foundation has been involved in or not certainly does not have any bearing on what we know the Clinton Foundation has become involved in.
The sins - or alleged sins - of the one do not expunge the sins of the other. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45536973, 45494674, 45485526, 45451297] |
559,662 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I did. Lending her name to a bill is not necessarily spearheading legislation.
The fact that you won't even read what is offered as rebuttal speaks volumes....and then again, you admit you don't want to hear responses. If you want to close your mind to them, that is certainly your right. So I guess we'll live to discuss another day.... | 4 | I'm not going to National Review, the Daily Caller (!), or any other virulently anti-Clinton right-wing rag for a dispassionate account of Clinton's accomplishments.
Can you refute a single item in my list? But, to be honest, I'm not interested in your responses, Pandora. Because I could write them for you. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505732, 45438681, 45450604, 45590457, 45408370] |
559,783 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I don't know....EWTN has certainly run USCCB programs including the recent Popes visit....I checked with Charity Navigator and it is a 501. c3 and funded by "contributions" and engaged in fundraising. Charity Navigator does not list donors although perhaps the 990s would. I would not be surprised if conservative Catholic entities were major donors. Whether specific bishops or the Conference are donors would really be helpful data....I assume because of their programming that there is much obvious connection.
The ostensible purpose of EWTN is to promote the Magisteriums agenda...which is also the USCCBs agenda....I will put the Charity Navigator data in a separate e mail.... | 4 | Does the USCCB fund EWTN? Gah. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45388025, 45653549, 45449332, 45401799] |
559,892 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | No, Sara. Just no.
If elected, it will be a "Sad" thing. Not "funny."-- "sad," Sara. Oh. And Sara? Is it still a "witch hunt" if it's being conducted by the Obama FBI and DOJ? Oh Sara. | 6 | Let the right wing WITCH HUNT continue...
Funny thing is, Hillary will STILL be our next President. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45598378, 45401799, 45596860, 45598339] |
559,927 | [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | "Elites" come in all political flavours. Your attempt to equate "elite" exclusively with one party is noted and paid all appropriate ridicule. Oh, wait, you mean corruption is ONLY wrong when done by non-Democrat Party adherents? | 10 | You mean like what happened in the Bush Adminstration Email Scandal when 22 million emails regarding government business were deleted from private email servers? A huge violation of the presidential records act amonge other illegalities. Like that you mean? Oh wait, Clinton's staff didn't destroy 22 million government emails. She didn't collide to fire a YS attorney, nor did she out a CIA Operative, endangering her, her fellow agents and the US government. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45535369, 45438681, 45388025, 45256208] |
560,115 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | I think history teaches us just the opposite -- the safest course of action is usually to stand with the status quo.
I realize that the "they came for the" adage is tied to what happened in 1930s Germany. But given that there were people who stood against the Nazi regime, I think we see that their bravery didn't defeat the regime, and basically just placed themselves in equal peril.
In any case, I'm not sure of the application here: They came for the gays, so they're going to come for the heterosexuals? | 10 | Be very, very, very careful....the reasoning that leads you to expel certain people today will one be used---citing your very own words--to expel "people like you" someday in the future.
Stand with the expelled and oppressed, whether you agree with them or not (heck, especially if you DON'T agree with them) or one day you will stand alone. Does not history teach us that? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45432844, 45536973, 45404259, 45327007, 45491654] |
560,388 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | Nonsense. He said that such violence was understandable. That is an implicit endorsement. | 6 | I've not asked you to believe me at all. I have asked that you take what someone said without adding or detracting to it. In trusting your own eyes, you are indicting someone for something he did NOT say. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45402464, 45385682, 45404259, 45513204] |
560,582 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | "Black men accounted for about 40 percent of the unarmed people fatally shot by police and, when adjusted by population, were seven times as likely as unarmed white men to die from police gunfire, "
Yes, and they also commit an inordinate amount of violent crimes. Of the 1,034 people killed and tracked by Burghart's Fatal Encounters database so far this year, 215 were black while 338 were white. The point is that all people risk getting shot by police when they DON'T COMPLY. I'm not saying police are perfect either, case and point; Charles Kinsey was shot by Miami police while he lay on the ground with his hands up explaining that he was caring for his autistic patient. This was an horrific event and thank god he survived, but going back to my first comment, these are rare occurrences. | 5 | I don't have a psychological disorder but it's definitely relevant of you to bring up the fact that the police also kill a lot of people with mental illness.
http://www.rudermanfoundation.org/news-and-events/ruderman-white-paper
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/half-people-killed-police-suffer-mental-disability-report-n538371
Black men accounted for about 40 percent of the unarmed people fatally shot by police and, when adjusted by population, were seven times as likely as unarmed white men to die from police gunfire, The Washington Post found. “Fatal Shootings By US Police Officers in 2015: A Bird’s Eye View,” was conducted by criminal justice researchers from the University of Louisville and the University of South Carolina.
Your definition of racist is curious. Have you ever formally studied American history? Have you heard of Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)? That ruling wasn't overturned until 1954 (Brown v. Board of Education). How about the Voting Rights Act of 1965? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45388080, 45256208, 45449332, 45448191] |
560,639 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I have received notifications of several replies you have made to my posts. However, having searched for them up and down in the relevant threads and not finding them have given up. This thread has nearly 500 comments, combing through it is far too time- consuming. When I come across your posts I will respond.
This is not a criticism of you, it is criticism of the management of comments by Civil Comments. | 4 | In fact. It is YOUR opinion that they are not. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45506032, 45582203, 45535968, 45394434] |
560,791 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0] | and why do you claim to be a 'son of God'? all creatures are God's creations, but not all mankind is a child of God. the moslims invaded israel after the diaspora. if you want to know the map, study it yourself. | 10 | ...
The accusations are not mine. However I've signed a few petitions that were widely circulated that pointed out the violations of International Law and Treaties that Israel had agreed to uphold. Recent Israeli governments have stolen deeded lands from rightful and legal owners who had lands in their families for many hundreds of years.
A few property management corporations with shady global dealings have been condemned for working with the government of Israel for renting these stolen properties in several sites where the owners have been dispossessed from their historical land holdings.
God drew maps of lands given to the tribes of Israel? And whose hands were guided? Were they neutral, or slave to a cause not of their own choosing? Learn how humans re-write history to enable their own propaganda. Show me God's original maps. As a son of God, I want to see where my lands are.
Can I repossess lost lands by invocation? :) | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45491609, 45401799, 45478534, 45598339, 45599360] |
561,495 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It's a criminal investigation into Anthony Weiner's email correspondence with a 15-year-old female. At this time, there is no criminal investigation of Clinton. Comey, the FBI director, say the FBI hasn't looked at the emails associated with Huma Abedin and her estranged husband, Weiner. Comey doesn't know their content, doesn't know who they are from or to whom they were sent, whether they are new material or duplicates, or anything else about them.
Comey was irresponsible to write to Congress about a "new development" with to little knowledge to call it a development. Furthermore, he is irresponsible to comment in public about an ongoing investigation. One can only conclude that Comey has done this solely to influence the election for political purposes, just as Comey went beyond his authority to publicly excoriate HRC after finding insufficient cause or evidence to prosecute her for mishandling of classified documents. As the nation's top cop, his responsibility is to known facts. | 4 | It's a criminal investigation. We'll know what it's about when the FBI is finished.
Getting nervous R-G editors?
I can't imagine why.......HRC has stated many time she didn't do anything illegal and we all know she never lies.
By the way.... why isn't the IRS investigating the Clinton Foundation? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45388025, 45494674, 45438416, 45418655] |
562,078 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Guess you didn't read the ballot initiative did you? The state can only tax up to 50$ an ounce and not over. The state could charge no tax or 50$. | 4 | Very little money will be made and the state will waste it. Also if they do see good results, the state will increase their take from $50.00 to $100.00 and they will waste that! This product won't save the state but will make the state stoner happy. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45366683, 45491654, 45405070, 45598834, 45438416] |
562,385 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Remember we spent tens of thousands of dollars getting rid of the fountain in town square to make it a "safe place" so we have nothing to worry about there. | 4 | The miscreants will fan out all over downtown. Yep, problem solved. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45332074, 45458735, 45456658, 45577784, 45472496] |
562,633 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Actually it is asking too much. The reason disability laws exist is exactly because of people like you. | 4 | And I am just saying 'prove it' just like you're a resident to vote. You have to show ID to fly, you need a license to drive. Not asking much. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45597947, 45447087, 45494674, 45438648] |
562,822 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | And they can't look till they get a court order to do so so they may not have even begun to view them...ssheesh | 4 | Before any more of the "deplorables" hyperventilate, the latest news is that Huma Abedin would forward e-mails TO Hillary Clinton to a Yahoo! account from which Abedin could then print copies to provide hardcopy for Clinton's use, if needed.
But the main point is that FBI Director Comey wrote FBI employees: "...given that we don’t know the significance of this newly discovered collection of emails, I don’t want to create a misleading impression."
So, why didn't he include this same statement in his _public_ letter to the Republican congressmen?
There is nothing at all hinting at anything that would even slightly change the conclusions from the FBI's investigation.
One thing we have learned from this and other actions during this campaign -- Trump foments and his followers rally for lynch-mob justice.
-- Paul | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45445022, 45598378, 45351233, 45408370] |
563,211 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1] | I got your opinion as well. Endorsing abortion is always intrinsically evil, as well as Satanic Worship, Child molestation, and murder. Would you not agree or do you still stand by your erroneous statement that nothing is always evil? On the other hand the belief and worship of the Holy Trinity and the devotion to our Blessed Mother Mary, are always intrinsically good. I could provide numerous other examples if you would like. You obviously don't believe that the Catholic Church is the one true faith, if you did you would have no trouble understanding my views. God's truths don't change over time, and they surely did not change only in the 20th Century and beyond. The Holy Spirit is the same today, 2000 years ago as well as the future. I welcome all members of the Protestant Church to convert back to the true Church, its teachings and the true Eucharist. | 10 | Ok, Got your pure opinion. I am sorry that you are not up to understanding that even us Roman Catholics must continue to grow and develop through each generation as the Spirit exposes us to new bits of truth. There is nothing that is always intrinsically evil or always intrinsically good. Unfortunately in the real world reality of what is happening is indeed important. Your idea of why a Lutheran might or might not want to receive the Catholic Eucharist is a little obscure, you see it was Christ who apparently said is all that it takes is the presence of "two or More, He did not mentions that their beliefs must be exactly the same. Perhaps what Francis is doing is trying to convert both sides to a deeper understanding of the more bits of truth we have all received over the generations and perhaps even he is willing to listen and be taught. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45604134, 45600436, 45256498, 45256575] |
563,522 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | The problem is he is running against some one who is worse. | 10 | .....meanwhile, leaving your poor deflection and going back to the point of the story, and with Donald Trump in general, he is a fake, phony, fraud. I would also like to see Trump supporters truly defend his vile words and vile actions versus deflecting as usual. The problem is they can't. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45458735, 45590457, 44826677, 45525588, 45440910] |
563,718 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Do you realize that everyone pays federal taxes? Like do you seriously think that they're using only other people's money? And that UA budget doesn't affect us all? If that's what you think, then fine. | 4 | In what way do you finance anything in the UA system or for that matter in State government? We pay no state taxes. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45535393, 45312025, 45486432, 45599311] |
564,015 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | That sad turning point from small government "mind your own business" conservatism to big government "let me mind your business" conservatism. | 4 | Pete Carrol, you must be a fairly recent arrival in Alaska or you are not aware that Alaska legalized one ounce or less of personnel pot back in the early 70's. Alaska did also change the drinking age from 21 to 19 in those days, every one figured that if a military person flying back from Nam was old enough to get shot at he or she was old enough to buy a beer at the airport. Alaska was a place where if you didn't effect others in your behavior they pretty much left you alone. It wasn't until Alaska went religious in the 90's that those laws were over turned. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45456658, 45586742, 45394434, 45377221] |
564,334 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "she only helped tease some of them out"
Danny, I disagree with you. Look at some of the staunch followers of EGW today and you would think she was their god. | 4 | Our beliefs were never based on what was passed on through EGW.......they were based on scripture........she only helped tease some of them out....... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45438638, 45601144, 45584933, 45416745, 45640367] |
564,467 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | My mother did not practice any organized religion.
For me, it was Christ who enticed me to Him. When I was a young girl staying at home alone; I heard man’s voice tells me that “you were never alone but I was always with you.” He said this a few times.
After I became a Catholic and in prayer Christ showed me how he was sitting on a big rock and watched me, a toddler, sitting in the middle of farm field playing with dirt.
My two kids do not go to church any more, however one tells me that she go to empty church and talk to Christ now and then. The other one who is so independent yet when she was having a crying fit for few weeks, her most worry was she may have offended Christ. She told me when she was alone crying, she heard a men’s voice calling her name although she was alone.
Christ was always around me whether I was aware of his presence or not. I think Christ follows everyone and He will call everyone to himself sooner or later.
Blessings | 4 | I was raised in a strict Catholic family, pre-Vatican II, Latin mass, First Fridays, regular rosaries, Baltimore Catechism. Etc. Parochial school for most of elementary (public when we moved away to a small town that didn't have Catholic schools), a Catholic university for undergrad and graduate school. Of the five of us, two remained practicing Catholics and three of us did not. I have been happily married for more than 40 years to a Protestant. My very unhappy Catholic parents divorced. We raised our kids Catholic, sent them to Catholic schools for most of their education. We taught them that Catholicism was a foundation in christianity, but that they were to make up their own minds as adults. They knew of my disagreements with many Catholic teachings. I became an "sbnr" once they were all in college. Two of the three left the church and did not marry in the church. The third stays because he's married to a Catholic. He would leave otherwise. No magic formulas these days. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45332074, 45288279, 45370851, 45435454] |
564,804 | [0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | "A Catholic worshipping in the protestant tradition". Are you ill? There is no such animal as the "protestant tradition". There is only error and truth, fidelity and rebellion, heresy and Divinely revealed teaching. | 10 | As a Catholic worshiping in the Lutheran tradition I can tell you that Lutherans and catholics have more in common than they have differences. Yes, Lutherans have woman ministers, accept divorced and remarried at the table and do not say birth control is sinful but everything is grounded in Grace and service to others is primary and addressed in every LIturgy. ( Makes me think of Pope Francis!) God is the focus of worship and Scripture is a large part of the Liturgy. Lutherans believe in the real presence in Eucharist and as Catholics believe, it is a communal event (priests cannot say Mass alone). So why not celebrate our commonality and join each other in what we do believe together? By the way, Lutherans do not hold the differences
Catholics do have against them but choose to dwell on what we believe in common. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45535369, 45485526, 45404169, 45438681] |
564,837 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Jacob McDaniels, Your statements are misleading. First, you claim that the article uses "metric numbers" and "pounds," but it does not. Instead, it uses percentages to show increases or decreases in yield or herbicide use. Second, you claim that "today there are tens of million more acres in production then (sic) there was twenty years ago." However, according to data from the USDA, the number of acres in production has been stable in the US for the past 20 years. In 1995 it was 318,289,000 acres; in 2005 it was 317,640,000 acres; and in 2015 it was 318,512,000 acres. (continued) | 4 | If they didn't want to confuse everyone then why use the metric numbers that most Americans don't have a clue about? As for the Pesticides, which they did put in pounds, they negated to mention that today there are tens of million more acres in production then there was twenty years ago. So naturally if there are more acres then more pesticides will be applied. The graph about which herbicides have increased is misleading as well, because it doesn't show the ones that have disappeared over the last twenty years thanks to the increase in glyphosate. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45385682, 45438681, 45256208, 45224788] |
565,765 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Chapter II of Lumen Gentium: On the People of God
Chapter III of Lumen Gentium: On the Hierarchical Structure of the Church and in Particular on the Episcopate
One wonders if you kept reading past Chapter II. | 4 | I'm afraid Archbishop Chaput is lazy. He really didn't study the documents of Vatican II. The most radical declaration of Vatican II is its definition of the Church as the People of God. The Church as the People of God is NOT the monarchical and totalitarian structure that the church had developed in imitation of imperial Rome and then of medieval feudalism. It is not the vertical structure in which power was invested in a single monarch [John Paul II's concept], his authority divinely ordained, who, with his his court ["Curia' means court], rules over obedient lay subjects.
Catholics, for the most part, do not dissent over the essentials of faith---proclaimed in the Gospels and articulated in the Creed. But they do dissent over restriction and prohibitions in clerical celibacy, women's ordination, contraception, divorce and remarriage, homosexuality and same-sex marriage. NONE of these areas affect the Creed that we Catholics all profess. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45405070, 45363536, 45501738, 45553691, 45593869] |
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