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631,122 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | No one on the "alt left" to my knowledge advocates racial segregation or kicking non-whites out of the US. So the alt left is in this regard the exact opposite of the alt right. | 10 | We should be more cocerned by the "alt-Left" which is taking over the Democratic Party. Identity politics is a central feature of that party and their welcome to the Black Lives Matter groups (including iinvitations to the White House) are of concern. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598353, 45404169, 45653549, 45404259, 45597144] |
631,225 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | They are referring to Black Lives Matter. | 4 | Why would the Bureau of Land Management even have an opinion on Castro? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45404169, 45574915, 45256208, 45327007] |
631,231 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | How touching. Trump's National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Flynn wants to wage war on Islam. As it happens, that's precisely how Daesh wants the US to frame the fight. It looks like just as Bush 43 played into Osama bin Laden's hands, Trump will take the bait from Daesh.
Of course, I hope against hope to be wrong about this. | 4 | In a related story -- today, an immigrant from a radicalized Muslim nation just went on a terror attack at Ohio State University. With a butcher knife. 9 people hurt, 1 critically. My prayers are with the victims and their families, and I thank God we now have a president who has pledged to stop putting American citizens at risk of such terrorist attacks for the sake of kindness to strangers. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45506032, 45485526, 45656105, 45553691] |
631,356 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | And that's exactly the risk with President Trump and the new congressional majority, correct?
We can't say we weren't warmed by President elect Trump, who promised immediate dramatic change.
When the public starts putting their trust in a narrow ideology, the risk of group think and effective opposition is often lost. That level of risk is not healthy for the nation. (It's what turned me off to people like Chris Mathews who forecast 50 years of Democratic rule after Obama's first win.)
What do you think the objective was for Democrats 2008 as far as the ACA is concerned Motley? What was step one? What is the final objective?
*It's a complete misnomer to call it Obamacare by the way, it was not designed or modified by the executive branch. Opponents hung the term Obamacare on the ACA for a political reason. In fairness, the name Affordable Care Act was also a political statement that was true only for those who couldn't afford health care at all. | 10 | "“Any time a party has been out of power, there is an instinct to try to do everything as rapidly as possible and to do it in a way that satisfies their appetite for change,”
That's precisely how we got Obamacare. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45494674, 45656105, 45465124, 45197484, 45571030] |
631,374 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I don't know whether the question of "Why" they believed in an "imminent" return of the Lord was raised in the article, or by utilitas; the scriptural truth is:
The 12 and their Jewish believers in Christ expected Christ to return <i>any minute</i> to destroy His enemies and restore the Kingdom to Israel. They died off waiting but did receive "wisdom" (II Peter 3:16,17) from Paul that the return might be delayed indefinitely in order for more souls to be saved.
Paul's converts on the other hand believed they would be swept [without death] into the heavens [with resurrection bodies] prior to the return of Christ. Just as Christ's return to earth was held imminent, so was the catching away of Paul's believer's imminent. For believers today, the catching away (or rapture) is imminent every day. | 4 | Why would these Christians of the 2nd and even 3rd generations believe that the 2nd Coming was immanent?
I think because Jesus actually did make another unequivocal statement about the End: Jesus said it would come in the lifetimes of some of his living disciples. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45582203, 45590457, 45597947, 45394200] |
631,500 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I actually agree it isn't really their business to know, but it is their right to check. The employer created the job, they own it, and have the property right to set the terms of employment. The employee has no counterbalancing "right" to that particular job on their own terms. They aren't forced to work in that particular job for that particular employer, they are free to contract their labor elsewhere with terms they can agree with.
Thus the proper fix is for the employee to go work somewhere else with better terms of employment for them. If enough potential good employees object to the requirement the owner will change it (or not). | 4 | Because, as I see it, it's none of their business if adults use a legal product. Oregon has such laws against testing for tobacco use. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45349172, 45604472, 45599054, 45589831, 45494674] |
631,583 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Thank you for telling me what I fail to grasp and what I have no idea of.
Your sources - publish or perish academics - have zero authority in the Church.
They come from the same school that invented “Q”, the vision hypothesis, the Christ myth theory, and the rest of this bunkum that leads the gullible directly out of the Church and into the wilderness.
Robert Funk, Marcus Borg, John Dominic Crossan, Stephen L. Harris, Robert M. Price, Burton Mack, Bruno Bauer, Robert M. Price - the list goes on, keeps growing, and they are limited only by their fevered imaginations. | 4 | Well, I think you're wrong. The scriptures are worth discussing to anyone interested in Jesus of Nazareth and early Christianity. And you clearly have no idea what Biblical scholars actually do.
Your argument is theological, not historical or textual. What you fail to grasp is that your beliefs or my beliefs are irrelevant to the issue of who wrote Hebrews and why. Text and historical criticism is evidence, not theology, based. If you can't compartmentalize that much, you're right, there's no basis for discussion. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45494674, 45404154, 45491654, 44826677, 45394434] |
631,640 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Mr. Tylor,
Jehovah's organization continues to grow and to prosper in its primary activity, spreading the Kingdom message. This fact differs from your suggestion that the internet is presenting arguments that God's favor does not reside with Witnesses.
Your dogmatic comments do not align with scripture. For example, your comment "GOD would not get things wrong like too many end of world predictions to count." God was not the interpreter, men were. Historically there are many historic accounts of God's chosen people making the wrong decisions or reaching incorrect conclusions. Neither you nor this organization defines when the right time is for men to understand everything correctly. That's what is meant by the "light will grow brighter".
I often hear the question raised "How many people died listening to JWs on these things?". Well, do you know? How many has it been? How many have been protected from death?
Those who have been obedient are safe with God regardless. | 4 | They also said the end very likely would happen in 1975 and even commended (in the watchtower) witnesses for selling their houses and pioneering because of it.
But 1975 came and went!
They also said (for many decades) that the end would come before the generation born in 1914 passed away. In fact up until 1995 it was written inside each Awake magazine cover.
Only they then had to change that meaning as well (including the Awake masthead) because that generation CAME AND WENT TOO.
I mean be honest with yourself, Aislin.
Jehovah's Witnesses predicted end of the world, IN WRITING, numerous times. Not once did they come true. They truly are known for False Predictions the world over.
JW's used to forbid Vaccinations and Organ Transplants (calling a life saving transplant "Cannibalism") for a combined 33 years.
How many people died listening to JWs on these things? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45456658, 45447087, 45451297, 45394434] |
632,169 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Alexander Hamilton was an optimist:
"The process of election affords a moral certainty, that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents for low intrigue, and the little arts of popularity, may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single State; but it will require other talents, and a different kind of merit, to establish him in the esteem and confidence of the whole Union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States."
-- From 'The Mode of Electing the President' March 14, 1788
Ben Franklin less so: "A Republic, if you can keep it."
-- Remark made towards the close of the Continental Congress, September 1789 | 4 | It may be time for the Electoral College, that 18th century firewall against a directly-elected presidency, to exercise its long-atrophied powers and appoint Clinton as president.
Sure, Donald will tweet up a storm for a while, but he'll get over it. He didn't expect to win anyway. And more importantly, he's continued to show in every way imaginable that he's utterly unfit for any public office, let alone the most powerful one in the world. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45501738, 45506032, 45598378, 45445192, 45467952] |
632,327 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | March for Life is not run by the Bishops and Nellie Gray never really got along with them in any case.
I remember when we had to negotiate to get Law on the platform when he was the NCCB's Pro-Life Secretariat Chair.
The Bishops can't do much here as it's a privately run protest. They could prevent the use of the Basilica for the Marchers, but I doubt that would get the intended result. | 4 | The March for Life is held in January. I suggest this would be the year for the bishops to broaden the message to include: immigrants and immigration policy, climate change, fair labor laws + abortion. Any bets this would happen? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45541171, 45450604, 45432844, 45445022, 45426626] |
633,053 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I hear Zoolander plans to give the eulogy. | 4 | "hold a memorial service for the fish"
They can't be serious....
The entire concept was in poor taste.
But holding a memorial service is a pendulum swing that's too far in the other direction. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45525557, 45597947, 45438681, 45445022] |
633,335 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | All the articles I read only reinforce that you (not me) elected an orange baboon to lead you (not me). I say this as someone who has ALWAYS accepted the leadership of the POTUS, no matter who, since I could first vote, until now. Read what article that will change me? All I know is that someone that is more infatuated with lame tweets at 4:00 am than getting his s__t together in order to take the reins is hardly someone that can be trusted with them. | 4 | You should read the article or learn a little more about your new president, then again, ignorance is bliss. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45599028, 45589137, 45602467, 45199056] |
633,541 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1] | And the continuing drone attacks President Obama is sending into Yemen on behalf of the Saudis fit into your concept how, again?
Please respond in detail about the attack against the US citizens Anwar al-Awlaki. Samir Khan and also the maker of the underwear bomb.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/top-al-qaeda-bombmaker-dead-in-drone-strike/
President Obama asserts he can kill anyone, US citizen or not, anywhere in the world under George W. Bush's authority granted by the US Congress to invade Iraq.
I'm perfectly happy that all three of these al Qaeda guys are dead, but the claimed legality to kill any US citizen anywhere without judicial process now will devolve on Trump, so I expect there to be some discussion about that, now. | 10 | Actually, this is all the fault of former President George W Bush. He is the person most responsible for this attack at Ohio State taking place.
Bush has personally killed many millions of innocent people. This is why the USA is hated so much.
Republicans are still in denial that George W Bush was the worst President in our nation's entire history. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45438681, 45313149, 45404259, 45602066] |
633,643 | [1, 1, 1, 1] | As beaches said, the most popular comment could actually be the most unliked comment, which was the case yesterday.
It is unworkable to have to hover over the icons each time to see the breakdown. Whoever developed this system is a moron, as is whoever decided to implement it here. | 4 | My prediction is that soon, on this board, a post praising Trudeau will rise as the most popular (star votes) post.
Go look at the two main stories about Castro and Cuba right now (Wente's column, and the editorial page editoria) and about Liberals urged to block Chinese purchase of retirement care company.
The top-rated post for all three would be music to Trudeau's ears, saying things he would like to read, they praise Cuba, they praises Castro, they defend Trudeau, they say it is racists who would oppose the Chinese purchase.
That is a problem mathematically, because if you look at the thumb voting on news stories in the old post system (now erased), on Cuba they were like 85 % against Trudeau's comments, 85 % against Castro, 85 percent against the Chinese purchase of the Canadian company.
Something strange has happened, therefore, with the mechanics of how a post becomes the top most popular post. This star voting is not giving the same result as the old programming system. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45404154, 45450604, 45536013, 45501738, 45450736] |
634,099 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Alas, 53 years is a long time to cover tracks. I doubt we'll ever know the full story of what happened that day in Dallas. | 4 | Still, I would like some investigation into whether Fidel Castro was involved in or ordered the assassination of John F. Kennedy. I certainly hope that "history's judgement" will get that one right. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45582203, 45597947, 45450096, 45454500] |
634,285 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Tough. Whether you like it or not, Trudeau is your PM. I didn't like Harper but I didn't question his right to the title of PM. | 4 | FYI. An honourary pallbear doesn't "carry" the coffin so Fidel didn't carry Justin's Dad on his last journey. Also if Justin feels that it is important to go he can go to the funeral. Only I would prefer he went as a Canadian who personally respected Fidel and not as the Prime Minister. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45541171, 45426626, 45635376, 45397010, 45571747] |
634,693 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | 2.9% tax break! Boo ya!! | 4 | '
Trump and the Republicans are doing away with Medicare.
What then? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45438879, 45458735, 45494674, 45438416] |
635,339 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You can't prescribe a solution/cure until you can quantify its nature, scope and anticipated results. Anything else is guesswork or secular theology.
Current science can't even quantify what the effect of total absence of fossil fuel emissions would be; just that it 'Must be Good' or at least 'Maybe Better'. | 4 | As usual, a entreaty to fall down and worship climate change without a prescription as to how to do anything useful about it. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45426626, 45456658, 45388025, 45438070] |
635,388 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Any Farley Mowat book provides insight into the Arctic, its people, and history. | 4 | I recommend reading "The Arctic Grail" by Pierre Berton.
It has a good history of Franklin's expedition and other Arctic stories.
Years ago, Nova produced a movie about some graves that were exhumed of some of the crew members from Franklin's ships.
Also, "Hell on Ice: The Saga of the Jeannette" by Edward Ellsberg is a great read about the arctic. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438070, 45501738, 45448160, 45408370, 45573532] |
635,422 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Clinton neither asked for nor is funding the recount effort. However, given that Jill Stein is pursuing both, it is quite responsible for Clinton to agree to have her people act as observers. Nothing is stopping Trump from doing the same. | 4 | It's very entertaining when the tables turn so quickly.
October 24, Hillary Clinton tweets: "Donald Trump refused to say that he’d respect the results of this election. That’s a direct threat to our democracy."
A month later we're seeing re-counts when the overall result in the electoral college has zero chance of flipping sides.
Let's move on to another topic... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45505902, 45191524, 45256208, 45203823] |
635,472 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Millions of others who served in the military have a different opinion. | 4 | As a life long American, who spent 20 years serving in our military, I feel we should take care of our own first. If you want to use your own money to help refugees out have at er but dont take mine. Would you take things that you own children need and give it to some one not from here? By your childish name you choose I think you would. As you have shown many in the human race never really made it out of the starting gate. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45385682, 45397010, 45449731, 45449332] |
635,551 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Catholic Social Services brings them and drops them on the welfare system. Hooks them up with all the forms and applications for every dole program and helps them apply. Nice. | 4 | This homeless problem is EXACTLY why I oppose bringing refugees into this country. Until we can take care of our OWN people, giving homeless shelter, feeding all the hungry, etc., it's just wrong to place other ppl who aren't even our citizens above out own. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45385682, 45505902, 45514417, 45418655] |
636,188 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | So your solution, is to attack a someone based upon their posted opinion.?
Oh, and don't forget to throw in the requisite reference to Trump, as if anyone who disagrees with you is automatically a supporter of Trump (whatever that means) and provides you with an easy "catch - all" insult...
Is that the best you can do? | 4 | Patwant - that's just an attack on the author without any supporting information and even anecdotes. I could say exactly the same (laughable dishonest) about your comment and no rebuttal would work because you haven't offered anything but puerile insults.
Very Trump like of you. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45445022, 45450604, 45537352, 45404259] |
636,250 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | "....CBC gets about $34 per Canadian per year, or about 65 cents per week. Not everyone watches, listens to or likes the CBC but our taxes all pay for lots of things we could do without"
So your solution is to continue with, or create more things that you acknowledge are useless to the majority? | 10 | The main competitors to the CBC, CTV and Global, are essentially affiliates of the major American networks. Their prime time programming is almost entirely American and even the schedule is dictated by the American networks so that CTV and Global can use the CRTC's simsub rules.
Is it too much to ask that we have ONE Canadian based broadcaster - one that does programming that the others will not do? CBC gets about $34 per Canadian per year, or about 65 cents per week. Not everyone watches, listens to or likes the CBC but our taxes all pay for lots of things we could do without. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 45582203, 45599311, 45313149, 45541206] |
636,369 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0] | Generally, the rest of the world views the United States as the biggest blockade to peace on earth. | 5 | Probably when it becomes a radical christian extremist event. 1 nut job does making empty threats not quite measure up to the millions of nutjobs killing people all over the globe. The radical Muslims are murdering people in dozens of nations aroung the world. Anyone with any intellectual honesty would not try and draw a comparison here. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45432844, 45515678, 45590724, 45653549] |
636,424 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | No, They all were laid off for temporary foreign workers you might want to wake up to reality that Alberta was sold off under Harper to very corrupt multi-national companies that are not a net benefit for Canada. | 6 | And Newfoundland, thousands of them! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45588938, 45418782, 45313149, 45333173] |
636,447 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | And who they will not be able to control. | 4 | Mr. Kempton lost me right off the bat when he said: "Before our benevolent government decided coal and steel were irredeemably bad for the environment ..." Sorry, Dan, it wasn't the government that decided that but science. I realize a lot of Trump voters don't believe in science, but the rest of us do and we like the fact that our government occasionally does the right thing in putting public health before local economics.
That aside, I don't think Daniel Kempton really is a "deplorable." The true deplorables are those who voted for Trump because they believe in him. Mr. Kempton seems to have voted for him more by default because he couldn't bring himself to vote for Clinton. That's an important distinction.
There are an awful lot of Trump voters who were really anti-Clinton voters, and the Democrats would be wise to learn from that. As for the Republicans, they'd be wise to pay heed to the fact that they have a president with no mandate, little love and a lot of mistrust. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45465124, 45445192, 45404259, 45599360] |
636,939 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | What is even more atrocious, 1982 was a bad year to retire, close to the worst, 1981.The purchasing power of the pension is affected by the method of calculating the pension. Using the gov’t plan as an example, where 30 years employment results in a “60%” pension. For 1981 retirees, its purchasing power was 44% of the purchasing power of average salary in the last 5 years of employment. This is due to misuse of arithmetic in “averaging”. According to federal Treasury Board ALL pension plans use that same technique. So retirees this year, public or private, with 30 years employment, will receive pensions with 57% purchasing power.
So the pension industry does not discriminate. All pensioners, public and private sector, lose. All employers, taxpayers and employers in the private sector gain.
The media says nothing. | 4 | When my father retired from Gulf Canada in 1982, his DB pension had been stripped of its surplus by the recent purchasers of the company, as had happened at Dominion Stores, engineered by another rapacious owner. This practise was subsequently banned.
Fortunately, some off the premium benefits remained, such as the superior supplemental health care plan.
He rued, however, that unlike his colleagues at other major oil companies, he received no COLA increases to offset inflation, so that the dollar number he received from his company pension was the same the day he died as the day he'd retired, 25 years earlier.
Even in these days of low inflation, without a COLA cause, my own DB pension could lose a quarter of it's purchasing power in just 10 years.
Though I am no great fan of the CLC, in this case, I am more than happy to have the fox guarding the hen house, to the benefit of all of us chickens. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45498044, 45566568, 45256208, 45397769, 45370851] |
636,947 | [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1] | JBH defending one of your own through a pathetic attempt at humor? | 10 | Having Game of Thrones fantasies today? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45498710, 45537352, 45450604, 45451297, 45450096] |
637,196 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1] | those lower forms of life are anti America leftists
ungrateful for American TV, Music, movies, sports leagues, branch plants etc | 10 | The only people romanticizing Cuba are liberals and similar lower forms of life. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45536973, 45476019, 45513204, 45589137] |
637,355 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Both qualify as convenience...just to differing degrees. | 4 | Bull. The #1 reason women get abortions is poverty. Close runner-up? Some male person threatens her -- either physically or financially. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45456658, 45465124, 45653549, 45418655] |
637,776 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | A U.S. president has no power over abortion, so his beliefs matter not even a little bit.
He does have power to pick SCOTUS judges, who do have power over abortion.
There is no reason to assume that Trump is not going to pick judges that are not fans of R v W.
If you didn't know these basic facts, maybe you were the uninformed voter. | 10 | Your skepticism is well-founded: there's no reason to believe that Trump has a position on abortion or that he cares about it even a little bit. More important, we know that the rate and number of abortions will increase on his watch as he and the Republican Congress enact social and economic policies that strip health insurance from millions of people who now have it, many of them as a direct result of the Affordable Care Act. Voting for Trump on "pro-life" (read: anti-abortion) grounds was an act rooted either in ignorance or hypocrisy. A well-informed voter who cared about life issues could not have voted for Donald Trump. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45582203, 45447087, 45449332, 45597315, 45598216] |
638,750 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Paul explains why he says what he says by reasoning from the scriptural account of the order of creation, the scriptural account of sin entering mankind, and from the natural law that the woman bears children for the man. That is not a translation error.
In checking twenty-seven English translations of the 2:12 text. Overwhelmingly the word is translated 'authority.' A couple times it is translated, 'to rule over' or 'have dominion over.' This is not a Greek word problem.
Are you qualified to say most English translations miss it totally? The translators are not trying to miss it. They endevor to translate correctly. John Calvin for one would try and get it right I'm sure.
What do you make of Paul's reasoning Timo? You skipped passed it entirely. Missed it totally. On purpose? | 4 | Your interpretation of Paul's word is Calvinism, and wrong, I might add. Paul uses a Greek word for authority, which is not the normal word for it, but describes an abuse of power and domineering attitude with corresponding actions. Hardly suitable for an elder, whether a man or a woman. This is were the knowledge of Greek helps to see the issue Paul discusses, while most English translations miss it totally. Furthermore, there is no ordination of elders in Scripture. Laying on hands is not ordination. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45456658, 45404259, 45327007, 45599360] |
639,185 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yeah people wanting good paying jobs are equally radical to tire burning layabouts. | 4 | Defacto blockade? Canada has had a government that has been favourable towards Alberta (and oil exploration) for the 8 years prior to Turdeau being in power. He's only been in power for about a year. Are you arguing that the federal government has been against Alberta oil for a long time?
Eco-radicals? How can you really say this with a straight face. What successes have the radical environmentalists actually achieved in the last 40 years? Are they really more than the successes that the equally radical pro-tar sands and oil industry supporters have achieved? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45418782, 45363536, 45599028, 45589137, 45599480] |
639,269 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I look forward to watching what happens as Trump and the Republicans take all of the PERS whinger's Social Security and Medicare away.
It'll certainly be well deserved in some quarters. | 4 | Don't forget his PERS payments he has coming to him. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45224788, 45553691, 45485526, 45434367] |
639,562 | [0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0] | Your pal, Justine, will need the War Measures Act to get China's export pipelines built.
Dammit, we just have to giveaway our primary resources and Canadian refining jobs, eh ? | 10 | In the meantime 1000s of rail tankcars are moving crude and various other volatile products on a daily basis across Canada. Imagine a massive derailment of tankcars being dumped into the Thompson and/or Fraser Rivers. That would provide a beautiful rainbow coloured oilslick in Vancouver harbour within a day or two.
Also where I live near a small town in Ontario near the St. Lawrence River 100s of tankcars move daily within 100 feet of homes within the town. Lac Megantique anyone?
Build the pipelines. Save the environment, save lives. | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45573511, 45531561, 45174556, 45582632] |
639,764 | [1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1] | "Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference!" Mark Twain
It's government and private lands!
“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.” Mark Twain | 10 | Breaking the law by occupying their own land?
I would love to peruse your legal argument for that. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45426626, 45566568, 45316845, 45604134] |
640,037 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | ...and had this been a 19 year old Liberal or NDP MPP? | 4 | I think that this guy is too young to be an elected official. I would rather see people do their career, raise their family, and then do public service after that. If you are going to be making decisions at the elected officials money trough, I would prefer that you at least be at the stage of life where you don't need the trough any more. It's hard to make good decisions for your constituents when you really need to have that government cheque deposited to your account every second Friday. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45498710, 45494674, 45514417, 45351233] |
640,828 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | YOURE a clown Eagle.
it was clearly a justifiable shooting.
But it must be really cool for you to sit there and bad mouth cops. Hopefully none of your family will ever need to call them in times of a crisis. | 59 | License to kill. Immunity from law or human rights violations. The New Police State of the United States of Amerika. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45494674, 45388080, 45656105, 45465124, 45571030] |
640,884 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Fascinating comment Bronson: "...I know (protesters) have very little to offer in terms of objective, unbiased, factual information and some kind of intellectual defense of their position."
Having been involved in many protests in my life, from walking for Civil Rights to organizing against Ws illegal wars for oil in Iraq and Afghanistan to organizing educational rallies on Climate Change, from my personal experience on the front-line, so called protesters are the most informed and can easily defend their intellectual position.
Every Freedom we have in the U.S. is because some folks had the courage to stand up and demand Justice. The protesters you flippantly disregard include Suffragists who got women the Right to Vote, Union Organizers who won you all your worker benefits, and Civil Rights Activists who got all people of color the Right to Vote. Without protesters standing up for our 1st Amendment Rights we'd be living in a far less free and are much more repressive society. | 4 | I like Tulsi, and agree with her 100% on foreign policy, but I don't know enough about this issue to take a position. My natural instinct is to be skeptical of protesters in general because I know they have very little to offer in terms of objective, unbiased, factual information and some kind of intellectual defense of their position. Since I don't recognize emotions and feelings as a legitimate substitute for a valid argument, I largely have to ignore them most of the time.
It's certainly possible that they have the better argument, I've just never seen it. The claims about contaminating the water supply would make sense to me if I weren't aware of the fact that we have oil and gas pipelines snaking throughout this entire country. By their reaction, you'd think we never built a pipeline before. Pipelines are very normal and used throughout the world. We fight wars in the Middle East for pipelines (Syria, Afghanistan). I don't see what makes this one special. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45404154, 45465124, 45394200, 45545128, 45567747] |
640,896 | [0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0] | Do you think the filthy rich have an off switch when it comes to desiring money? How naive, if that is the case. | 10 | Unlike Hillary, Trump didn't enter government to get rich. He already is | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45494674, 45438070, 45333173, 45541206] |
641,213 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | Do you have any idea how many abortions happen at the urging of the father of the baby? The parents of the unwed mother? The circle of friends?
The one fact that you guys are ignoring is the number of abortions procured due to relentless peer pressure, even threats. So those of you that are saying it is the decision of the mother, well, that's just not true.
Plenty on the subject. The numbers predictably vary according to the source, so here is the POV from a liberal source:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/10/08/coerced-abortions-a-new-study-shows-theyre-common.html | 6 | Or even better, with no man involved. So he can't gripe and moan about how immoral everyone else is while he and his macho buddies everywhere cause more than half the trouble--and most of the violence--in the world. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45597947, 45402464, 45450604, 45498710] |
641,678 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Do you mean solar panel companies or wind generator businesses? Or maybe electric car companies? Or do you think tax dollars will be used to prop up Carrier? | 6 | I'm curious about the "deal" mentioned. Saving jobs is great, but propping up non-competitive businesses with incentives (to be seen) is not a sustainable, broad policy when there are limited resources (i.e. tax dollars). | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45418782, 45313149, 45458735, 45333173] |
641,825 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Actually on this the Catholic Church has been pretty consistent. Some of the toughest advocates to put pressure on Congress for Immigration reform where the Catholic Bishops and Priests. Just wasn't reported in the Media. There are many things to criticize them for. Not this. | 4 | The last two presidents deported over ten million immigrants between them. Why are the bishops just finding their voice now? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45501738, 45366683, 45485526, 45449332] |
641,925 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I could have done much better than Helfrich. It took him years to run the program into the ground, and I could have done it in just a few months. | 4 | I could have done what Helfrich did - and for half the salary!! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537509, 45537276, 45408370, 45498012, 45426626] |
642,007 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I like to think that people are good and I believe that he was good. Better than most as a matter of fact. Those that are advocating for mischief on his part are just thinking the worst. I'd like to think better of him. Perhaps I am mistaken. But I don't think so. | 4 | You may be right, Hawkins. I stopped picking people up a long time ago. Our safe zone has been obliterated at least twenty years ago or more. This kid was wearing slippers for gawd sakes when he dropped his girlfriend off. Doesn't sound like he was up to any mischief like some are attempting to advocate. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388025, 45184889, 45535372, 45653549, 45598378] |
642,314 | [1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | "Civility" is nothing more than what the people who review a particular post think it is. In other words, it is subject to the whims of the trolls who post here. | 10 | "This comment did not meet civility standards." Ridiculous!!! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45485526, 45535372, 45432844, 45535369] |
642,485 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | Simpler solution-Leave it in the ground!! Save it for our future generations who will have safer and better technology to get it and move it then we do now! | 6 | Simple solution. Go back to single trailers | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45505732, 45514417, 45363536, 45438416] |
642,764 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yup! I make a lot of tismakes. | 4 | tismakes? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45506032, 45224788, 45184889, 45596860] |
643,315 | [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0] | Back up the Waambulance. You invite derision with your delusional comments. | 64 | That IS HARASSMENT. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45525557, 45404169, 45432844, 45451297] |
643,449 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | John I am so very sorry to hear that you are facing that possibility. As a Canadian, I can not even begin to imagine such a horror. It's one thing to realize in the abstract that millions will lose medical coverage; it quite another to encounter a specific instance where the coverage is critical. | 4 | Yeah, Price can do away with the health insurance many millions of Americans (including my wife) is so much in need of. No wonder you love him. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45432844, 45438070, 45476019, 45596860] |
643,573 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1] | Trudeau can't handle complex situations. He needs his backroom coaching staff to tell him what to say and do. These are not advisors, they are teleprompters and off-stage coaches. The giveaway? When Trudeau makes most of his blunders is when he talks off the cuff. He looks bewildered, lisps more, and has many more "uhh's and umm's" in his delivery. He can't find balance because he's a people-pleaser, and you can't please all the people, all the time. On inspiration, yes, he can inspire young people, people who have grown up with more leftist thinking, thanks to our educational systems, especially some particular universities. But he can't inspire middle age and older Canadians who have experienced Liberal governments in the past. I don't have enough information to know if he inspires immigrants-future citizens. But he can articulate. He can talk around vinegar until it seems like sugar.
He is not now, and never will be, a leader. He's simply a talking head. | 10 | Any evidence for this. He is obviously articulate, able to handle complex ideas. find balance, inspire people. Based on your comments he would seem to be 15-20 IQ points brighter than you. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45451297, 45537352, 45447087, 45449731] |
643,677 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | If Francis lives long enough to name cardinals again, what's he going to do, refuse to meet with the College of Cardinals in a consistory lest they bring up uncomfortable questions about Amoris Laetitia for a second time? | 4 | No Cardinals were removed by St John Paul II or Pope Benedict XVI .
What is more, Pope Francis wouldn't dare 'remove' Cardinal Burke or any of the other Cardinals who subscribed to the 'letter'. Remember that there are many more Cardinals sympathetic towards the four Cardinals. Why do you think that Pope Francis refused to meet with the College prior to the Consistery? He knew he was going to be asked the same questions.
From now on he will be regarded as a 'lame-duck' Pope. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388025, 45494674, 45596860, 44826677, 45486432] |
643,790 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Marty interprets this most literally. For him, it is the letter of the law that gives eternal life and the man is made for the Sabbath.
Don't speak to him of showing mercy. The God he has made in his own image and likeness would have no truck with such a preposterous notion. The rules are to be held uppermost! | 4 | We have had this conversation more than once. The reason is that Jesus Christ Himself forbade divorce.
Money has zero to do with obtaining an annulment. I have walked more than one person through it. What obtaining annulment has to do with is establishing the reason for the nullity of the marriage.
The issue is you want to remain a “Catholic” but disregard it’s teachings.
Good luck. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45494674, 45476019, 45448191, 45534988] |
643,929 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I suppose I missed the satire; 7 dead (will be more) and many missing including children.
They murdered the indigenous there for rumors of gold being found, never quite panned out I suppose and not unlike Alaska, that is hard country to tame.
I don't blame modern people for the decisions made by their forefathers, I hold them accountable for the decisions they make today and that was a human-caused fire. Unbelievable.. | 4 | AkJen: you are a sharp one, in that you picked up on my insulting preservationists. The corollary to the actions of President Carter and Congress in 1978 and 1980, respectively, was the losses experienced by current residents in Alaska during those years: the enviro-commies didn't give a rat's backside about the feelings of Alaskans. Enviro-commies insult themselves with their behavior.
Frankly, Jen, my heart goes out to the Native Americans who inhabited that area hundreds of years ago and were murdered my Andrew Jackson and company in American pursuit to tame this empty land. I feel no such sorrow for the descendants of those scum who engaged in that behavior. I was born in Alaska 61 years ago and have seen similar handiwork done here by the ever-expanding lower 48 American and it ain't pretty. Thus, the invention of Texan jokes in the early 1970s, when amazed Alaskans first encountered those strange critters making oddly shaped footprints in the snow. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45388080, 45404259, 45537841, 45438070] |
643,999 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | On December 4th, Italy is voting on a constitutional amendment that would see the party getting the plurality of votes getting a huge boost in elected officials.
Effectively, this is reducing their PR structure and making it more FPTP.
So, obviously, there are those within Italy that feel their current system is providing a disservice to the citizens of the country.
In other words: I wouldn't count o there being a "overwhelming majority" in support of PR. | 6 | So what will be the alternatives to be voted on? From the outcome of the committee's input, FPTP should not be an alternative. An overwhelming majority of the witnesses and presenters said that FPTP is no longer viable and that some form of PR is required to make voting in Canada fair to everyone. The problem is that both the Liberals and the CPC don't want to see FPTP gone as they both can game it to produce situations where 39 per cent of the vote produces 55 per cent of the seats and 100 per cent of the power. FPTP should not be an alternative as it only benefits politicians and not the people of Canada. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45432844, 45402464, 45485526, 45445022, 45596835] |
644,091 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Try catching a solar powered ferry to the Island, or go and count the number of solar powered trucks delivering food to your local supermarket.
You do realize that the free trade coffee you drink isn't delivered by Juan Valdez and his organic mule? | 10 | There are whole Communities in BC that have Solar Panels, Vancouver also has electric charging stations in public parks, beaches and public business buildings.
The Taxis here are also Hybrid electric and we also have Hydro Power. It is unbelievable that you would know so little about one of the largest cities in Canada. You should be embarrassed.
Even a whole FN Community on Vancouver Island is solar powered & uses Wasabi as energy too- end your oil lies immediately,.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/tsou-ke-first-nation-turns-to-wasabi-in-renewable-energy-push/article20187542/ | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45388025, 45405070, 45602833, 45525557] |
644,523 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Please do share your extensive library of Liberal misdoings over the last year.
I'm sure you will even back them up with reputable links, also! | 4 | "Conservative "vitriol" against Trudeau seems to revolve around his hair and him showing up in selfies."
Non-partisan "vitriol" against Trudeau is certainly based on his policies though. He's been lying and playing semantics games since before he took party leadership. To wit: giving a speech to the media about running a clean campaign while the other name value Libs were in literally the next room debating the most effective way to smear the Cons. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45571747, 45388080, 45438681, 45440506] |
644,669 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | obama has is lacky press guy out trying to actually look at it as a bad thing! Obama seeing his failures exposed by trumps success already has them in full panic mode. | 6 | he can start in Indiana where he saved carrier and he's not even in office yet. Obama who!. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45501738, 45588938, 45224788, 45582203] |
645,578 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | But the truth remains the same. | 4 | Traditions that have changed, evolved, grown, progressed, regressed, morphed, formed, reformed and deformed almost daily. There is not a single teaching of the church that is the same today as was in Pentecost. When any living creature stops growing and changing, it stagnates and does. This includes the church. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45494674, 45535369, 45498710, 45465124, 45582203] |
645,740 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | He has already picked a TOP notch team so far, and he can do it ALL, he has the stamina of. 25 y/o. He can tweet travel, get jobs back, and run the country, THANK GOD he has a big ego, means he'll keep SUCEEDiNG so he'll get not praise! | 4 | My guess is that Trump will be the most visible President since Kennedy - who did weekly news conferences.
I hope that he picks a competent team who can 'look after the store' while the storekeeper tweets and travels in his never-ending campaign for adulation and promotion of the Trump brand. If not - we're all in deep trouble. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45404169, 45404259, 45602066, 45607601] |
645,923 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Whats a CBC? | 4 | Good column by Mr. Ibbitson. In my own family we have a right winger, a few conservatives, a few liberals and a NDPer or two. We all get along and family get-togethers aren't fractious. Canada is blessed with its diverse opinions and cultures living in relative harmony. And, since it is a recent topic in the G&M, I attribute a lot of this peace and understanding to the CBC which take all these flavours in our society and mashes them into an understandable national narrative. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45506032, 45388080, 45599028, 45405070, 45451297] |
645,927 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | Steve, the Church had the same 'nay-sayers' when John XXIII pushed more frequent communion for the people. "It'll all endium in tearsium" they would cry. It didn't. The one historical point I would concede to today's sanctimonious weary willies is that they can infact trace themselves back to the time of Jesus. To the Pharisees. | 6 | Marty E, I am glad you asked. The entire "dubia" is based on their claim that there is "grave disorientation and great confusion of many faithful." That claim is utter nonsense. I haven't made any false claims. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45537352, 45535369, 45451297, 45450096] |
646,412 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Speaking of enabling takers, I wonder how many homeless people we could help with the hundreds of millions we give the oil industry for welfare every year. | 4 | If we as a community , and Beans's Cafe and Brother Francis as organizations , didn't enable the street homeless lifestyle in Anchorage during the summer , we wouldn't have the same people hanging out and freezing during the winter . The situation in Anchorage will never improve until we shut down enablers like Beans and Francis . Just as giving money to people on the street allows them to keep drinking , giving to Bean's and Francis allows them to keep enabling this deadly lifestyle. Year after year this situation never improves and that's in part because we as a community allow and enable it to. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45332074, 45366683, 45602036, 45603123] |
646,706 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | DonInKansas, when I posted a much more moderate version of your post it didn't make it past the "civil" censors. Let's see how yours does. | 4 | Unfortunately, the clergy are not Christ and frequently, like satin and lace Burke, not even remotely Christ like. I cannot for the life of me envision Jesus wearing a Cappa magna, liturgical gloves or Burke's delicious 👠. Even a drag queen would find that difficult to pull off. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45450604, 45588938, 45404169, 45589137, 45252698] |
647,296 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | You are a past master of the snark. | 10 | That door, and of course, any door declared Closed by Holy Saint Pope John Paul II the Great. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45445022, 45449731, 45333173, 45351233] |
647,311 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Beer? | 4 | Unless I win a major lottery, I will never buy a new vehicle again.
My last two vehicles were bought used, both 3 years old. I paid $12,500 and $10,500 all in for a total vehicle cost of $23,000 since 2001. I've not had to spend anything beyond regular maintenance costs on these two vehicles and I also paid cash for both.
Stick to the long lived vehicle models which each car company has and try to buy around the 3 year old mark and pay cash.
You want to keep your average annual vehicle cost as low as possible. Thats only the cost of the vehicle itself not maintenance and insurance. $2,000 is the mark to aim for, in three months I'll break through the $1,500 mark and my current car still has another 5 plus years left.
Keep your money for the important thing, your retirement! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45553691, 45394200, 45501738, 45215844] |
647,673 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Do not forget Austria on December 4th as well... Norbert Hofer will win ! | 4 | Excellent news. The Italians are taking back their country. Then the Dutch will vote in Wilders. France will have Fillon or Le Pen. Pretty soon the only friends junior will have will be in Havana, Pyongyang and the GTA. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 20225558, 45447091, 45603511, 45440910] |
647,919 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | and richly deserved......regards, Gary | 6 | Some on these boards think you should be nominated for COTY With Oakleaf Cluster, by all appearances, Gary. ;-) | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45397010, 45537487, 45405070, 45408370, 45534967] |
647,958 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yeah, via Jared Kushner who has ZERO foreign policy experience. :-( | 4 | Looks like Israel will still be in charge of US foreign policy | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438681, 45434367, 45313149, 45602066, 45582425] |
648,032 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You left BC for the Tar sands that is a drug dealing hub. They end up on Hastings street when temporary foreign workers take their jobs (whom then become drug addicts too) because you are then sent here on one-way greyhound bus ticket.
The druggie community in vancouver are former oil workers. | 4 | I left Vancouver in 2012, because the place has been turned into a paradise for druggies, panhandlers, and social parasites.
Not to mention the fact that the only real industry is laundering money smuggled from China... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45434367, 45388025, 45571747, 45596860, 45514417] |
648,168 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Is this satire? This is the same G&M of the much-mocked "Cons sans Harper" editorial.
They have no principles, only sheer kowtowing to their Thompson overlords. | 10 | Congratulations Globe and Mail editors. You clearly have higher standards than the likes of Ted Cruz, Milk Romney and a host of other Republicans that betrayed their earlier positions. Stay the course. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45434367, 45366683, 45438070, 45486432, 45495146] |
649,184 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "Specifically, if the college did not exist, I think the major cities' voting populations would dictate the outcome of every election."
I agree completely. Just like Portland is the 800-pound gorilla in Oregon, the major population centers nationwide would control the Presidency in perpetuity.
As demographics change, I expect this tendency to grow. Many voters who respond to ethnic identities are more fecund and found more in cities than rurally. That is likely to increase Democratic membership over time---unless the Democratic elite continue to marginalize those without the desired education and social parameters espoused by those same elites. | 4 | Motleycrew, I still think you've got it wrong. Dividing 7 by 538 equals 0.0130 (rounded). If you convert that to percent, it's 1.3%. Same for the other calculation. It should be 1.56%.(Think about this, if it was 2,000,000 votes out of a total of only 100,000,000, it would be 2%.)
Regardless, I do agree with you on the continued existence of the electoral college. It guards against tyranny of the majority. Specifically, if the college did not exist, I think the major cities' voting populations would dictate the outcome of every election. My anecdotal observation is that the large cities tend to be liberal/progressive. Rural residents tend to be conservative. The liberal/progressives would likely win every national election.
And then we have Trump's and W's elections in which the college subverted the popular vote though I'm not complaining. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45314593, 45394200, 45571030, 45645228] |
649,321 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Red herring | 4 | As far as the military is concerned, Mattis has been a civilian since he retired in 2013. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 45494674, 45404154, 45534988, 45463652] |
649,370 | [1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | When the name calling is accurate, "crooked Hillary", it does not count. When a large part of the population is falsely called things like racist, sexist, fascist, etc., then it becomes a problem and reinforces Richards point. | 10 | Richard if your view was correct Hilary would have won buy a land slide. Trump used very demeaning phrases all the time: "crooked Hillery" by the thousands. I seriously doubt voters care about such trivial things compared to other items they care about. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45599028, 45388080, 45535968, 45597119] |
649,663 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The tax break through incorporation is the loop hole they are taking about closing. This was put in to give them a boost in pay without having to show a pay increase on paper. It saved increasing the transfer payments to the provinces. The problem is it allowed other professions to jump on the band wagon. It was wrong from the start. If doctors need higher pay to convince them to stay in Canada, then pay them more. Enough of these special tax brackets. | 4 | My partner is about to become a specialist in Ontario, We will be glad to contribute our fair share. Doctors in Canada already get generous tax breaks through incorporation, and our cost of education is much lower than it would be in the United States. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45582203, 45366683, 45438681, 45537841, 45494501] |
649,697 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | IP: Me, as one heck of a person as compared to who? You, the guy who is content to have those families lose their livelihood by sending their jobs to Mexico? By the way, you have no idea what I support or do not support. Further, you have no idea who I voted for. | 4 | By voting for "her" I supported a lot of things like: equal rights, health care for everyone, common sense gun regulations, protecting the environment, higher taxes on the wealthy, and many others.
By supporting the Con you support: sexism, limiting free speech, birtherism, conspiracy theories, and supporting hate. You are one heck of a person. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45440506, 45635376, 45645228, 45491609, 45510833] |
649,715 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | One would have thought after having perhaps a half dozen post deleted for incivility in a row Civil Comments would have gotten the message through.
Apparently they’re going to have apply a two by four to the back of the head. | 4 | The tribunals are a sham these days. It's a divorce. Everyone knows it, ...well, not the adolescent dimwits like marty E, but all who have some measure of intelligence and judgement. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45535369, 45438070, 45445192, 45586742, 45351233] |
649,861 | [1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1] | Wow.
What about the lying corrupt republicans like Bush? Or are YOUR lying, corrupt politicians better than all the other lying, corrupt politicians? | 66 | Wrong. Donald Trump was elected by a people tired of lying corrupt posers like Justin Trudeau and Obama, and extremely tired of corrupt lying career politicians like Crooked Hillary.
The Liberals troubles are just beginning as their world crumbles before their eyes. We are taking our countries back from the lying corrupt Liberals and Trump is leading the way. | [1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 45224788, 45535810, 45448191, 45254602] |
650,683 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | JT did squat as MP because he was too busy making speeches for payment
even charged a charity $20,000 for one of his speech full of sunny platitudes
as if he even needed the money after his inheritance and trust fund
just another champagne socialist, this Justin | 4 | And did squat the whole time but he had nice hair | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45366683, 45448191, 45573532, 45599311] |
651,386 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1] | Hooded Claw, I don't doubt your narrative for a second. Ratzinger knew Maciel was under the protection of JPII. Maciel is the perfect example of a sociopath who knew how to play the pay to play Vatican bureaucracy. | 10 | Sorry, Steve, but he gets no gold star for Maciel. As Ive written elsewhere, I followed that case closely. The lawyers of the victims approached Ratzinger in 1998. Ratzinger - who knew the truth by that stage - claimed there was nothing he could do as there was a statute of limitation in place.
Cleverly, the lawyers returned to Ratzinger in 2002, this time the charges were abuse of the sacrament of confession (Maciel had vowed his victims to silence.) This charge if accepted carries the penalty of immediate excommunication. Importantly, it had no statute of limitation. Ratzinger's response to the victims was.... to place a statute of limitation on it. For a second time he sent the victims away with nothing and took no action against Maciel.
Did you also know that Maciels use of drugs was also known about in the early 1950's? Amazing what the power of the brown envelope can achieve.
Ratzinger was a criminal. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45597947, 45404259, 45491654, 45191524, 45598834] |
651,416 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | From what I read, she doesn't hate schools; just the people who monopolize the money for schools and then fail to teach-- even to the standards set by the teachers.
"Low information' comes from not teaching history, civics etc. which was done when I was a student. When it is taught, in Oregon at least, the students fail to graduate and require remedial training at LCC or at the U of O. That is the kind of instruction she 'hates'.
Your attack on DeVos is really based on her Education policies and her brother having founded Blackwater is just the usual liberal attempt to demonize an opponent with irrelevancies. | 6 | Picking someone who hates schools to be Secretary of Education is beyond ridiculous. It is a good way to ensure future legions of low information voters.
Yes, Billy Carter was a joke, but at least he wasn't a war profiteer and mercenary like Blackwater company. Urinating on a runway is less offensive than murdering civilians. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45498710, 45485526, 45388025, 45598834, 45438681] |
652,036 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Wait wait wait... Measure 97 was for the kids remember??? | 4 | The age old probem is the fact that without revenue flows into the budget- certain services cannot be provided.
Followed by the age old adage: those who refuse to approve measure to create revenue flows into the budget are usually the ones who cry and moan the loudest when their own services are cut. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45388025, 45494674, 45184889, 45314593] |
652,593 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Correct. A valid Baptism is forever.
What was declared was that baptisms using odd references such as “Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier” were not valid in the first place because they are not the formula given by Christ Himself and because no one but the baptizer knows what those words signify. | 6 | As if a cardinal could "invalidate" a baptism... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45491654, 45397010, 45535941, 45494674] |
653,091 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | '
Check again, your data set is incomplete. | 4 | A story based on a lie. They are using a definition of "children" that includes legal adults. Per CDC WISQARs data there were -38- total nationwide accidental firearm deaths involving children under 9, -50- under 14. That out of a population of over 20 -million- under 14 and 320 million total. While horrific in each case, it tells us nothing about "gun ownership" except that the 100 million plus gun owners in the US are safer in their daily practices involving children than the 300 million-plus adult owners of bathtubs. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45588938, 45456658, 45596860, 45184889] |
653,485 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I gave you those titles so that hopefully you would so some reading from scientists who HAVE done intensive study on global warming, and its consequences----drying/heating of areas on the planet, loss of plant life, animal life, destruction of the eco-system.
I have listed primary data---there is more than just the fluff that is cited in on-line info. But you have to do the research [if you really care to know the other side of the issue]. | 4 | Pasting up book titles does not provide proof, man is a significant contributor to climate change (i.e. global warming).
Show me some primary data, or online ref., to back up your argument, as I did for Shar_M. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45438879, 45505902, 45635376, 45351233] |
653,743 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Pretty sad when journalists from Port Angeles portray the folks in Folks as yokels. PA isn't exactly cosmopolitan. Headline sucked, but the article was informational.
On another point, it's clear the engineers lack experience dealing with a newly freed river. It doesn't help to discover that the existing bridge wasn't built the way everyone thought. The Elwha is going to be a great teacher. Just hope the bridge doesn't fall in while we're learning. | 4 | guess they could have had one of their residents standing on the bridge playing banjo. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45582203, 45597947, 45635376, 45598834, 45450096] |
654,543 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You seem to be under the impression that ASD is going to drop the top 2% most disruptive kids in the district into neighborhood school classrooms. I'm pretty sure that's not the plan.
The district has plenty of excess floor space to keep kids safely separated -- when needed. I'm sure Dr Paramo is acutely aware of the risks and the rewards of this endeavor. I applaud her for her courage. | 4 | Not more convenient for the first peer/peer group harmed in a violent outburst. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45505902, 45541171, 45597947, 45447087] |
654,680 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Jim - that's happened to me before too. | 4 | Lauren, I get answers from Senator Murkowski to questions and concerns about which I've not even made contact, while she never responds to repeated inquiries about her specific anti wildlife legislative riders she's attached to energy and also to funding legislation. I see a pattern here. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45458735, 45590457, 45514417, 45548584, 45599851] |
655,035 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | If these individuals’ causes are not proceeding it a result of their causes not being advanced by their communities and/or dioceses. The “Church” does not normally take up an individual cause in modern times. | 4 | Quote from the article: "What I would like is a clarification about martyrdom in odium fidei, whether it can occur either for having confessed the Creed or for having done the works which Jesus commands with regard to one's neighbor," Francis said then.
Why not either/both? Or is that what Pope Francis is suggesting? Faith is action. Faith explored in one's mind and not experienced in the heart is an interesting mental exercise - such as working the Sunday crossword puzzle. Fr. Rother returned to Guatemala knowing there was a threat to his life - and he was killed.
While on this subject, is there some problem in recognizing the 2 nuns and 2female church workers who were raped and killed in El Salvador in 1980? Is there some different criteria for priest versus nun versus lay, male versus female? I get it that it has been hard to get the Church to recognize modern day martyrs, especially from the Americas. And I think Fr. Rother needs to be recognized - but so do the women! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45397010, 45197484, 45535941, 45494674] |
655,472 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | "Don't make ignorant statements."
You may want to consider taking your own advice. | 5 | You're wrong. The delay between retirement and lobbying is nowhere near 7 years. This law is specifically aimed at the SECDEF job. The purpose of this separation is to ensure firm CIVILIAN leadership of the military. Read the article.
You have no idea where I've worked. Don't make ignorant statements. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45537352, 45385682, 45450604, 45536013] |
655,474 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | because the story is about the Liberals.
if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... | 6 | Well, Roy then why are the majority of posts from your clueless fellow travellers talking about "corruption"? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537509, 45537276, 45408370, 45498012, 45426626] |
655,509 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Actually, the Cardinals are trying to trip Pope Francis up. Burke wants Francis deposed and has since March 2013. | 4 | I occasionally read the National Catholic Reporter. It's interesting to get a variety of views. One thing that surprises me is the excessive interest some people have in trivial matters, like the clothing of Cardinals, especially Cardinal Burke. Frankly, I don't spend any time fretting about his vestments. It seems a rather superficial concern.
Has anyone even READ Amoris Laetitia? I have; parts of it are very beautiful, but other parts are ambiguous and contradictory. Has anyone read the 4 cardinals' Dubia? I have, and these are reasonable, respectful questions that deserve a response.
Let's be grown-ups and discuss the issues, not clothing. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45536973, 45256208, 45188628, 45388080] |
655,867 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Clicked the wrong button, sorry. I agree with you. | 4 | Ridiculous comment on so many fronts. Plenty of us work hard, provide for our families and never take a handout from anybody but still may end up going broke. Losing everything! Like so many others, my small business is hurting, my home is losing equity. I became an "adult" when I got my first paying job at 16. That was 40 years ago and I'm still working every single day. And what the hell does Hillary Clinton have to do with anything? Happy holidays, Scrooge! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45525557, 45635376, 45465124, 45599480] |
656,004 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1] | Another example of an academic elite dismissing someone for not being an academic.
Academics have a hard enough time instilling the concept and rules surrounding "plagiarism" in their own students and policing it, despite all the apparatus they have to do so, with editorial committees, footnotes, etc. It is a rather recent concept even in academia, many academic cultures outside the Anglo-American one have much looser practices.
Whether it is appropriate to expect the non-academic world to follow the same rules is debatable. People in the real world have always adopted phrasing from all types of sources in a free-for-all (memes anyone?), expecting that to change to mimic academia is ridiculous.
And yes, journalists should be held to a higher standard, but with space limitations, there is only so much acknowledgement that can be expected.
Using that one incident to discredit anything Wente has to say is beyond ridiculous. She knows enough about is going on to comment. | 10 | Sorry RB--apparently there are character limits. Perhaps YOU might read closer and see that I did--columns by Wente where she would cite "a friend who is a former professor", and the like. Indeed--did Wente not get caught plagiarizing an entire column?--plagiarism being the worst academic sin imaginable--and she has the nerve to critique the goings on in universities?? LOLOL!! | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45438879, 45485526, 45404169, 45633333] |
656,063 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Do unto them, before they do unto us.
Nuke the commies. | 10 | Talking to someone never hurts anybody. American bombs do. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45505732, 45537487, 45312025, 45599184, 45598762] |
656,204 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | They remind themselves, rightly so, that it is always small groups that manage to take power and make revolutions...all it takes is a few determined people to take over a department, a field, a country.
A few determined people can make life miserable for everyone else. | 4 | I worry that people will get the wrong impression about Canadian universities from columns like this. Certainly there are some persons (a few students as in every generation) with an unearned sense of moral superiority who want to impose extreme views on others. But readers should be careful about overgeneralizing.
It's a bit like making big claims about soccer after reading a few stories about hooligans. The hooligans haven't really taken over, though they might be more common in some neighborhoods than others. I've attended many meetings of Arts and Humanities faculty and I often come away impressed by the level of thoughtful debate, so unlike the slogans, one-sided exaggeration and abuse in many Globe comments. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45363536, 45440506, 45405070, 45360811] |
656,325 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "You gotta have a dream
If you don't have a dream
How you gonna have your dream come true"!
In checking my memory of these lyrics, I was surprised to learn that this number was often cut from productions 'cause it was considered by some to be racist. Interesting and thanks. | 4 | (continued from previous.)
In 1949 Rogers and Hammerstein gifted the world with South Pacific. A key theme had to do with racial integration. One song caused some people to condemn the show. The words are equally as true today as then -- maybe even more so given our recent election.
"You've got to be taught
To hate and to fear,
You've got to be taught
From year to year,
It's got to be drummed
In your dear little ear
You've got to be carefully taught.
You've got to be taught to be afraid
Of people whose eyes are oddly made,
And people whose skin is a diff'rent shade,
You've got to be carefully taught.
You've got to be taught before its too late,
Before you are six or seven or eight,
To hate all the people your relatives hate,
You've got to be carefully taught!" | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45360811, 45394200, 45388080, 45385682] |
656,511 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | I obviously disagree with you that racism and misogyny had nothing to do with Trump's victory. There's quite a bit of evidence correlating racial attitudes and authoritarianism, which tends to subsume misogynistic attitudes (ex.: Catholic Church), with support for Trump. Regardless, your opinion (or mine) simply isn't definitive on that score.
I doubt there aren't restrictions on the essayists, but even if that's the case, they're working for the owners of this site. We aren't. A comment forum isn't an entitlement, and if it's draining away resources then it's understandable to seek an alternative. Many sites do away with comments altogether, but perhaps NCR figured if they did so they would lose a lot of traffic.
I agree the journalistic standards and depth of sensibility at NCR often leave much to be desired. I, too, skip many of the writers, and whole sections for that matter. With the credentials and ability and existing fan base it's curious you haven't been offered a column. | 5 | By my count, there are many fewer commenters than there were with Disqus, the comments are shorter by design, and have much less content. There are no such restrictions on the essayists who, if anything, have become more inane than before: one constantly writes about abortion (bad), another about all white people being racists (also bad, though she is good), and another about the book he just read or the bishop he just bumped into. Everyone writes about Trump as if they now have the answer to a question they never understood: what would make so many Americans choose this man over Hillary Clinton? (Hint: if the answer contains the words "racist" and "misogynist," it's nothing but sophomoric pseudoanalysis.
This is the stuff of high school yearbooks. The people I've met on this site are better than this. I've enjoyed the back-and-forth, but I can't do this anymore. - Monica. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45456658, 45485526, 45404169, 45404259, 45589137] |
657,088 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "Hello"
"Ohh Herrow Mistah Trump. Tiawan here."
"Oh hello there to yo too. What have you got on?" | 4 | You have to wonder if he just picked up the phone, had any idea who it was, or the implications of the call. New foreign policy or "Call on line two Don". I bet the latter. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45590159, 45494674, 45526316, 45641123, 45348666] |
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