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980,335 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Keep going - not just UH - all college and above institutions. | 4 | The calculations you cite are curious indeed. This article indicates that 1182 UH Monoa students are "foreign". For sake of argument let's say another 1818 foreign students attend other, smaller local institutions. For 3000 students to "...bring in over 300 million dollars per year annually (sic) to Hawaii." each student would have to "bring in" US$100,000.
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While that is a significant sum to expend in nine months the mind boggles at the addition of "two dollars from the Mainland" for every foreign dollar spent for a total of US$300,000 per school year, per student.
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Exactly what activities by foreign students cause a torrent of mainland dollars to flow to Hawaii to be spent on local goods and services?
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Finally if "...foreign students at the UH System brings in about 120 million annually.",
what exactly generates the amount in excess of the $33,000 per year per student spent on tuition? I doubt that meal plans and activity fees account for the remaining US$100 million. | [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] |
980,561 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Tell that to Conoco Phillips, BP and all the others who steal OUR oil for pennies on the dollar.
Look to the Norwegians who own AND market their own oil for the one true model. | 5 | Now that's funny. How can you "involuntarily" throw money into the pot you don't have. I'm so sick of this entitlement driven government. If you get a check from the state for $1000, that's $1000 more than you had the day before. Quit your bitching and saying the state owes you more. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45501738, 45635376, 45447221, 45450736] |
980,944 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Thank you for the information. I am rather surprised it is still up. It is a shame that there is no way to directly communicate with other posters to share information that is, apparently, not allowed here. | 4 | Here in Montreal, posters leaving messages in defence of Gerry Sklouvakos on CJAD radio Facebook page are having their comments taken down and are being blocked from further posting.
Sklouvakos is a Quebec MNA who was accused in 2016 of sexually assaulting a woman. The police and crown recently stated that "there was no sexual assault", but the SJW/feminists are trying to destroy him.
(Sometimes they will say that there is insufficient evidence to proceed, but in this case they stated quite categorically that there was no assault)
His accuser made the rounds of TV stations last year giving interviews, then disappeared when holes started to disappear in her story. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45505732, 45191524, 45404154, 45589137, 45449731] |
981,728 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | if Singh is a true "Khalsa Sikh" he will not shy away from this challenge. These guys are trail-blazers in the area of politics and defending human rights. | 4 | Jagmeet, don't waste your talents with this aimless, going nowhere party. You would've had a real good chance with that motley crew the PCs put forward. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45491654, 45445192, 45404154, 45332074, 45478534] |
981,973 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Finally, someone talking some sense here.
After getting nearly 800,000 likes for this tweet,
"To those fleeing persecution, terror & war, Canadians will welcome you, regardless of your faith. Diversity is our strength #WelcomeToCanada"
I want to know what Trudeau REALLY plans to do to back up his words.
We should be holding his feet to the fire on this promise.
His online handlers again seem to be trying to spin this into something far more complicated with deflections. | 6 | The immigration ban has consequences for Canada. Ignoring the issue isn't political acumen, it's cowardice. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45537352, 45385682, 45388080, 45327007] |
982,205 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | ha ha ha good one! | 4 | Justin: Why aren't you asking Trump about his Carbon Tax Plan | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45366683, 45447087, 45438681, 45448160] |
982,308 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Rmiller "like" himself/herself
how desperate
how tacky | 4 | Yes, 2008 ACTUALLY HAPPENED and what did neoliberals like Harper (who wanted to deregulate the banks earlier) do about it....
Enact a Glass–Steagall type legislation ?
Arrest any banksters ?
Carry out a comprehensive review of the Canadian banking system ?
No, he bailed out the people who created the problems WITH TAXPAYERS' DOLLARS.
We see you, Breitbart spammers, and AGAIN reject you !!! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45385682, 45388025, 45456658, 45602833] |
982,466 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Possibly one problem is Islam's doctrine of "obedience", which allows a rigid system to flourish. Of course, strict secularism also means prohibitions on displaying religious symbols in public, including Islam, Sikh, and Judaism. That would conflict with the liberal "celebrate difference" ideology. | 10 | formerlyrbfromcalgary: I saw Bill Maher on Van Jones' CNN show ('The Messy Truth') yesterday evening. Maher, of course, is a critic of religion in general but notes that the specific problem with Islam in the West isn't terrorism and those who use it to promote their fundamentalist views but instead is that too many otherwise peaceful Muslims support their religion's rigid practices and ideology. Most Christians and Jews in the West have learned to put religion in perspective and view it as a strictly personal issue. The cure for religious discord and conflict in diverse societies according to Maher is strict secularism. In his view, there's no rational "progressive" basis for the accommodation of religious intolerance and medievalism in the name of tolerance. His perspective is undoubtedly compelling. I've long believed that the only basis for religious harmony between Muslims and others in the West is the development of a humanist Western form of Islam. I suspect Maher would agree. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505732, 45449332, 45598834, 45645228, 45535968] |
982,542 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | A: When, 1953? | 4 | I agree, I rode a train across 3 or 4 states and it only cost me about 65 bucks. Here it's outrageous just for a short ride somewhere. It's $123 bucks just to Spencer Glacier. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45363536, 45500804, 45514417, 45438416] |
982,572 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "...higher taxes to cover for the Navy's expansion" To what "higher taxes" are you alluding? To what "expansion" are you referring? When did the Navy ever have a funding line for the "school district"? When did the Navy Ault Field or Coupeville OLF flight patterns change and / or become "irregular"? When did the Navy pollute everyone's drinking water? (Methinks all your allegations are generally untrue exaggerations and / or out-of-context factoids). | 4 | Unfortunately Bill - nobody on the Island is getting sanctuary from the U.S. Navy right now: ground water pollution, higher taxes to cover for the Navy's expansion and decreased funding of the school district, increased noise from irregular flight patterns. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45537352, 45485526, 45491654, 45590457] |
982,827 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | You forgot to mention drunks in your tirade. | 10 | Why thank you Jonnie. Tell me something do you like the fact that the largest expenditure by the provincial government is medicare? And in order to properly fund government programs, including medicare the provinces spend more than they take in. And the 3rd largest expenditure is just servicing debt levels, but you knew that right Jonnie? So we will help the morally and ethically bankrupt by putting ourselves so far into debt that the whole system crashes, right Jonnie?
Yah poor pot heads and druggies, we better be nice and financially go down the toilet together. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505732, 45438879, 45535393, 45465124, 45567747] |
982,977 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1] | Ignorance is: Liberal left wing fanatics rioting the streets without knowing the cause. | 10 | Every year they add new words to the Webster dictionary. This year lets remove a word from the Webster dictionary and the english language. Subsidized!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm tired of working hard and paying MY share or MORE of taxes to Subsidized others that don't. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45434367, 45418782, 45363536, 45599311] |
983,445 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | If you want to follow the law follow the law or how about this...Change the law. So right now it is illegal, follow the law. Vote in people that will change it.
If I have to pay more for my tomato or hotel room, good. A decent honest, hard working American has a good job. Proud to have my room cleaned by a fellow citizen. Make these companies pay more for good help. $15 minimum wage would be normal, immigrants keep wages down. | 4 | I’d like to see federal law enforcement target home grown terrorists and psychopaths like Esteban Santiago and Israel Keyes; start with A for Alaska. I would like to see local law enforcement deal with the increase in property crimes in Alaska and general increase in criminality.
The person who comes here for minimum wage or less to pick tomatoes, clean hotel rooms and wash dishes is not a threat to America or Alaska. Their only a threat to ignorant Americans like Donald Frump and his Trumpkins who, like most bullies, needs to pick on someone smaller than them because their pissed off at their own insignificant lives, insecurities or short coming like small hands. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45498044, 45397769, 45370851, 45494674, 45438599] |
983,571 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | You have reverted to gibberish. The "straw man" reference is a glib characterization of your ludicrous attempt to hold Mugabe and Chavez accountable for the demonstrable, and growing, failures of global neoliberal capitalism. On another note, Alberta was burned even before the fires. | 10 | "Talk about a straw man argument. "
You clearly need to go and learn what a straw man argument is.
The cause and effect you are clearly try establishing between the wealth of those "dozen bloated sociopaths hold wealth equal to what is owned by half the poorest people on the planet" isn't there.
The people of Alberta (and Canada) enjoyed more of their own oil wealth than the Venezuelans ever did under Chavez - he mortgaged it to China, Cuba, and a whole host of others, which is why Venezuela's economy is collapsing faster than Alberta's - even after Alberta got burned up by forest fires.
When you have to start inventing things they way you do, you have already lost the argument - better luck next time. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45314593, 45332074, 45438681, 45447087] |
983,643 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | '
…talking about other people and using the lexicon of the white nationalists.
…thanks for being clear about things, Patrick | 4 | The Koolaid is strong with this snowflake. Lol | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45597947, 45224788, 45505902, 44826677, 45397010] |
984,189 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | What about Trump not paying anything for 18 years?
And cites please, to support your statements. Thanks. | 4 | 45% of working age people, in the U.S. pay no federal income tax. In Alaska that percentage is higher more than likely. This bill asks for the hardworking middle class to pay for the non productive almost majority in Alaska. Watch the exodus from the State. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45491654, 45438681, 45397769, 45653549, 45447221] |
984,394 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I flagged this as spam. I should flag a lot of RD's comments as spam. I don't come here to read OD spam. | 4 | Proportion. Relative to all Catholics how many people pick up and go to far flung places to do their vocation, and (2nd mental operation) compared to that proportion how many articles in NCR are about the quirky, the hyphenated, the outback, the trendy, special? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45385682, 45501738, 45197484, 45596860] |
984,512 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Must be Saturday; Trumpanzees posting support of the Orange baboon they so closely resemble. Feel better Trumpnut? | 4 | 'Shop Nordstrom,enrage Trump'. Feel better now Ms. Mahoney? Well, it'll get the
Hens cackling again.Maybe a little Protest in front of Nordstrom will do? | [1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45448191, 45584933, 45463531, 45438599, 45351233] |
984,642 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | No they have to be honest and somewhat impartial to be "Real" news, and admit when they're wrong. | 4 | That would be a, "no, I won't answer your question even though you answered mine." It was a simple yes or no question and yet you want to castigate the media for, what appears to be, being wrong on the election outcome, ie. they have to be perfect to be "real" news. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45191524, 45186863, 45582621, 45494501] |
984,866 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | I'm not going to tell you again. stop. | 5 | Wrong. They were all Da'esh. You keep confusing them with Muslims. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45184889, 45588938, 45388080, 45505732] |
985,281 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You are incorrect in your assumption that conservatives do poorly in a weighted ballot system. They do as well as liberals, those who do not do well are the socialists. Check on Australia's voting system for the lower house from WWII to now. | 4 | People, know the sequence of events. The commission on reform had equal representation by the Liberals and the opposition. The Liberals had the weighted ballot in mind for reform. The Conservatives, under that system would have a difficult time forming even a minority gov't. Under FPTP, the Conservatives command a solid 30% and only need to sway another 9% to command a gov't. They had no hope under the weighted ballot and so started the demand for a referendum That would muddy the water beyond recognition. The NDP and Greens wanted full proportional representation. This would allow them more seats and would always hold the balance of power. Beware, these parties would be appointing unelectable and unelected party hacks to sit in the HOC and waggle the gov't's body. Trudeau was willing to give them a weighted ballot and would have allowed them greater amount of MPs without campaigning. But that wasn't good enough for them so they voted with the Cons. Alors, no reform!! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45541171, 45525557, 45224788, 45327007] |
985,445 | [1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1] | Yes North Korea is protecting it's people by starving them to death. Really Art, try reading up on that miserable place. The money that idiot Kim is spending on the military could be put to much better use for it's people. | 74 | North Korea is protecting its citizens from attack. Afghanistan and Iraq and Libya were attacked. They did not have defensive or offensive weapons to strike back. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45536973, 45588938, 45476019, 45513204] |
985,463 | [1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | tell us obama lover, why trump if accomplishes no change for NK is in any way different than obama but you clearly being a bias obama sheep seam to insult trump for doing the same thing? | 10 | Obama and it's allies had a policy, which is more than one can say about Trump. His policy is to make S. Korea and Japan pay more for his continued support. Trumps next policy is to tweet that Kim is a "Bad Dude". I'm sure that will stop him in his tracks. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45571747, 45598378, 45448191, 45450746] |
985,643 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Maybe 4 maybe 8 who knows. | 4 | Your honeymoon is over. Your husband's honeymoon with Trump has just started. How long will it last? That's a question being asked by lovers and friends in many places. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45588938, 45256178, 45438681, 45197484, 45494674] |
985,656 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | People certainly do lose their faith. You're demonstrating one of the problems that run rampant especially through higher education that contributes to lose of faith...that all religions and faiths are equal and all truth is what you make yourself. Denying objective truth and "evolving" your beliefs to your individual liking is nothing more than making God into your own image.
That may satisfy your feelings, but its new age thinking and not Christian | 4 | People don't lose their faith. Their faith evolves and expands in scope and radius in ways that are appropriate for the uniqueness of the individual person. This is as it should be. We should not desire a world of clones, even in our religious beliefs. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45388080, 45314593, 45586742, 45486432] |
985,688 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | The economy of any jurisdiction is a fragile thing. One bad decision by government to suddenly stop spending billions of dollars would have untold negative impacts that are both predictable and unpredictable. | 6 | So the taxpayers are propping up the housing industry? Doesn't seem fair to those that don't own homes. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 45438070, 45589137, 45590457, 45188628] |
986,313 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Carl I believe the profit motive allowed the mess to start. Health Insurance was virtually nonexistent until l somebody saw the potent for big profits. You do not have to be a genius to see health care is needed by everyone at some level. Therefore where there is 240,000,000 users there has to be a way to make a few bucks.
I'm not faulting the history of medical care for veterans. However, once several million veterans were getting medical services it did not take long for the rest of the country to want the same access to services. It just a natural progression of things; in my opinion. | 4 | How did we reach this deplorable state, its called greed. Most other industrialized nations consider basic health care a right, not a privilege. I live in Panama half the time and health care here is cheap and mostly very good. If a country like Panama can afford it, why not the wealthiest country in the world? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45348666, 45573511, 45531561, 45174556, 45598367] |
986,448 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | He won't reply. | 4 | Hey NR when are you going to post your name? Instead of spouting off with your constant drivel and poor grammar, why don't you do what you dared anyone with some large eggs to do?
I did it. A couple of others did it.
I like to know who I'm talking to and who is constantly dumping on the Leafs. I can take criticism as long as it's constructive. Your comments are just ugly.
Are you man enough to back up your challenge? If not, it makes the words you write on here more paper thin than they already are.
Btw, this is Martin from Toronto in case you've forgotten. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45537352, 45450604, 45630512, 45536013] |
986,786 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | trade price. they keep unloading the back ups who shine as starters. | 4 | With Therrien as coach, this is a team that the whole is less than the sum of the parts.
The best teams (in todays' NHL) are a solid core of 4-6 stars, the coach and chemistry make the supporting cast better.
Montreal doesn't need to trade for anyone, (puck moving defenceman, top six centre, whatever), and anyone of note they would trade for, would require giving up something that they would now be short in.
The answer is simply that Molson has to replace Bergevin, and Therrien.
Until then, the wheels are just spinning...And when it comes time to re-sign Price, and Pacioretty, look for an exodus..I see Galchenyuk being traded, or let go as well... I don't see Sergachev being allowed to develop in this system either - they will have him in the AHL until he is 25, meanwhile "c" level grinders will be sitting on the bench in his place, because Therrien can control them... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45397010, 45597947, 45513204, 45327007] |
987,096 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Evidence, please. | 4 | tRump will perp walk. TIFIFY | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45426626, 45332074, 45408870, 45435348, 45489372] |
987,148 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | A very small weak tank. | 4 | Kia sells tons of cars. But I have passed on them so far because I simply don't trust their reliability records. The Prius on the other hand, is like a tank. Yes, it might be boring to drive according to many people. But if you consider that many (maybe most !) taxis in San Francisco are Priuses, you know they are tested. These drivers just beat the shoot out of those cars and they keep on going. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45388080, 45385682, 45536013, 45197484] |
987,182 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I disagree that those were Avi Lewis's motives. The Leap Manifesto was not a New Democrat initiative, and the Party did not consider it until after the election. | 4 | Avi Lewis is a traitor and a chicken.
First, he stabs Mulcair in the back by releasing the Leap manifesto before the election, where Mulcair was trying to mainstream the NDP, giving rise to suspicions of a hidden agenda. Now he won't run for the leadership, waiting for someone else to carry his flag, so he can be Steve Bannon to the NDP's Donald Trump. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45388080, 45404169, 45458735, 45598834] |
987,241 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | Both of these comments are beneath contempt. | 10 | "A Cheap holiday in other peoples' misery!"
Johnny Rotten | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45494674, 45366913, 45438416, 45510833, 45349032] |
987,422 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Exactly. Trump is not the president of the world. Mexico is a sovereign country.
Why would they protest an internal policy decision of the US government? | 4 | Whatever. Nothing to get worked up about. He promised it and people voted for it and whether you or I or the Mexicans like it or not, it is really none of our business. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45451297, 45506032, 45366683, 45184889, 45485526] |
987,550 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | yeah, but he didn't go bust three times to avoid paying creditors and contractors. | 6 | Trump created an empire and junior T. never even ran a paper route. What sad PM. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 45351233, 45454948, 45365190, 45408370] |
987,751 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yet your peers determined it was.
Apparently again.
Which may go a long way in proving my point that the peer review process is being corrupted in some respects. However, I too found the remark to be snarky and dismissive - so in this instance, perhaps the review was correct? | 4 | It may be silly, but it was never uncivil. Funny thing, that. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45363536, 45314593, 45537841, 45535810, 45599311] |
988,062 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yes, that is a point, but recall that with 25 second latency, the worst damaged 50 mile radius has already been hit. Moreover, it is important to consider damage that may result in the automatic shutdown of equipment. Turn off powerplants on a false alarm or even in a real event and landing planes, speeding trains, traffic lights and controls suddenly go out, lights go out potentially leaving people in the dark who need to escape, etc. Lots of trade offs need to be considered. | 4 | You're overlooking one of the main benefits of these systems: shutting down automated infrastructure like powerplants and pipelines.
For most SCADA systems, 25 seconds is long enough to mitigate some damage. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45432844, 45450604, 45536973, 45537352] |
988,220 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | That's a pretty snarky and in fact downright rude response. And pretty ironic considering that you apparently misread what I wrote. I was commenting on the police having insufficient evidence to be able to tell if an assault had even occurred. My comment had nothing to do with the courts determining guilt, as you have claimed I was saying. I expect that you will now want to be a gentleman and apologize. | 4 | Only to someone with insufficient knowledge of the English language. Unfounded means having no foundation or basis in fact. That's not the same as having insufficient evidence to obtain a criminal conviction in court. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45434367, 45405070, 45505732, 45449332, 45467952] |
988,306 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | * The states new rules on operating shelters just kicked in. So, What happened ? The last (pre Trump hysteria) things that were public news was that at least one shelter on this island was closing, many others had to reduce bed counts and kick out residents, and some were forced to choose to serve individuals or families, and some would no longer be serving families. The "Point In Time Count" this year was conducted 1 week before the full impact of the new shelter rules kicked in, so we can already assume the numbers are off and low. So, what happened ?
* There was former shelter staff arrested and charged with stealing over $700,000 of client and state money. Other than initial news reports, there have been no follow ups. What Happened ? | 4 | Here are a couple of the "add your own"
* Mayor Caldwell offers increasing State Skim from 10% to 25% for rail tax. In any other industry or scenario that would probably be considered a payoff or bribe, and the offender would be investigated or a public outcry for their resignation would be reaping mass protests in front of their office. But this is Hawaii, where is the outcry ?
* With all of the new construction in Kakaako, are the sewers and water drainage being upgraded as well ? This Saturday with a little bit of rain, some of the streets in Kakaako looked like ponds with water seemingly no place to go.
* Speaking of Kakaako, we have 3 relatively larges trusts (that I am aware of) that are supposed to be for Hawaiian improvement and betterment. Last I did the math, I think there was about 20 Billion Dollars in the bank spanning those 3 trusts. How is that money being used and what type of actual impact is being realized ? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45450604, 45388080, 45366683, 45413547] |
988,501 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "watch out for the pure and self righteous race determiner regiments..."
Are you talking about the cleansing occurring in Kahnawake?
Don't worry about Drew Taylor. As he states, he built his whole shtick on this. He was one of the first to comment on the Boyden thing (with picture accompanying byline of course). A cynic might think he was even baiting the foolish to question his bona fides.
No one really cares about this stuff except to the extent that it is a further burden on the state. Another whole nation was just fabricated in NFLD with 20k more dependents added to the roles. | 4 | Absolutely first rate. Brilliant. But better watch our for the pure and self righteous race determiner regiments...their racial categorization techniques are right out of apartheid South Africa. Left wing facism.
Heinrich Heine said "people who burn books will soon burn people". I wonder...does this saying apply to those puritanical types who seek to metaphorically burn authors for not meeting some standards set by these modern day torquemadas filled with a desire to punish ? IMHO.... absolutely.
But no matter what they say....the wonderful plays and writings of Mr. Hayden Taylor and Joseph Boyden's brilliant and humane novels will long outlive and outshine the nastiness of these self-righteus zealots. | [0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45458735, 45404259, 45435454, 45545208] |
988,734 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Its already happening. Who do you think subsidizes the lower rates for those companies participating in the ICI?
Plenty of other jurisdictions offer rate incentives such as straight-up discounts to attract and retain companies. Those same companies employ people who buy stuff and pay taxes. If it means people pay a slightly higher rate in exchange for their neighbours having a decent job, it can be a good thing.
Unfortunately, that isn't complicated enough for Ontario, where we prefer to make things as difficult and clumsy as possible. The ICI, which might be a good short term fix, just might be the thing that drives companies out of Ontario for good. | 4 | Next up - Wynne announces electricity break for car companies offset with consumer rate increases. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45541171, 45388025, 45438070, 45598378] |
989,006 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Keala or lex smith! Who keeps deleting people text ! Are you lying or telling the truth ? Council or no council what is it lexi ? | 4 | Wrong. Call the Mayor's office and they will tell you the City Council must confirm this appointment. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45402464, 45505902, 45541171, 45438681, 45313149] |
989,333 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I agree we should help the true refugees. However, as these countries explode in population and more wars occur, how many refugees should the world expect to take in? | 4 | These people are leaving or have left their countries because they could not stay. Before trashing them, please keep in mind that these war-torn countries use weapons sold to them by the USA, possibly Canada, Russia and other weapon making countries. So we can' t just tell them to go home, or close our borders. We are complicit in their suffering. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45432844, 45485526, 45596860, 45630512] |
989,470 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Herbert,
Thank you for your excellent insights into a problem that goes, too often, unnoticed. All of us have been privileged to be at liturgies where both the lectors and the celebrants have been clear and loud enough. And all of us have suffered through the opposite situation. Your comments have brought the problem into clear focus---for all of us. | 4 | Points from my article in Celebration: 1) 15% of the population suffers from mild to moderate hearing loss. 50% of those over 75. 2) God is present in the Word and in the Eucharist. We would be outraged at a parish that tolerated barriers keeping physically handicapped from receiving. Yet we fall short in eliminating barriers that keep 15% of the congregation from hearing. 3) Immediate fixes include training lectors, celebrants, and homilists to speak less rapidly, enunciate clearly, and use microphones properly. A Hearing loop won't fix a garbled word. 4) When necessary, qualified sound professionals should be engaged. Acoustics should be part of each church design. I can point to examples where it wasn't. 5) Parish health ministries should be involved. Health risks associated with hearing loss include heart attacks, strokes, dementia and increased risks of falling. Spiritual and emotional dangers include resentment, fear, social isolation and family disruption. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45536973, 45405070, 45256208, 45514417] |
989,560 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It's a given that Trudeau won't end well for Canada. One look at Ontario proves that. | 4 | President Trump's body-language suggests that he isn't impressed with Justin … how embarrassing for Canada … Justin is way over his head … I fear that this will not end well for Canada. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45535369, 45498710, 45589137, 45449332] |
989,851 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1] | Really? Spoke too soon? Well somebody else like it cause it is showing up above. On any given day that spit has people visiting, working and staying in hotel. Thats why your post bothered me. Your post was the uncivil one. | 10 | It seems our fellow commenters decided your comment did not meet civility standards Kc. That is what happens when you wish harm upon people. All I said was I would be glad if that gravel bar washed away and then you say such terrible things in return. This is why civil discussion is impossible. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45491609, 45404169, 45197484, 45447221, 45584933] |
989,891 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Because destroying the family is the natural thing to do if you do not get your way. | 4 | you might let him overhear the words 'legal separation' once or twice; on the 'phone maybe? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45432844, 45505902, 45541171, 45397010, 45491654] |
989,980 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | "Personally I think most Americans would feel positive about this. "
No one cares about this and by 'no one' I mean the U.S. media.
And the only reason Trudeau is being covered in the U.S. media is to use him against Trump. | 6 | Personally I think most Americans would feel positive about this. Almost everyone who supports Trump does so by overlooking the dreadful stuff he has said about women. Many might hope that, thanks to Canada and Prime Minister Trudeau, this is a start at reshaping the guy.
I am not saying it will necessarily work that way, but I believe this is a brilliant way to shape this first meeting. It provides for a win - win. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505732, 45589137, 45447221, 45450746, 45454500] |
990,129 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0] | That's what the Trumpsters love about their guy - yet hate about JT. Go figure.... | 5 | Narcissistic, superficial, low intelligence, privileged, and hair-obsessed.
Trump and Trudeau have so much in common. They should get along just fine. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45535372, 45598378, 45401799, 45596860, 45598339] |
990,570 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Good one, Mumbles! I like you name! | 5 | The GOP is truly the dog that caught the car. What to do with it now? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45506032, 45445022, 45494674, 45438416, 45602036] |
990,880 | [1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Thanks, Mark, for revealing some aspects of these posts that I did not know. I have very little personal understanding when it comes to trolls, other than letting go and letting God. Just so grateful that after years and years of suffering because of the abuse, I am now, FINALLY, seeing the lights of love all around us. Thank God | 10 | Lacks empathy.
Shallow.
Names change.
Ed Hu, GK Chesterton, Redemptionis Donum, LifeoftheLay.
Comments every day. Showboater.
Opus Dei.
Strange written style. Presumably quoting the Founder's pearls of wisdom, but probably in poor quality translations from the original Spanish? | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45450604, 45599028, 45635376, 45536013] |
991,082 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | I did, and they lost their battle to addiction through overdose. | 6 | Do you have an addict in the family? Have you ever had to deal with one? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45491654, 45404169, 45256208, 45327007] |
991,159 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Is that an obituary? | 4 | O'Leary 2019 | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45501738, 45447087, 45485526, 45438416] |
991,363 | [1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1] | "If we don't kill 'em, they'll die!" (Uncle Jimbo) | 10 | There are turnips in mat-su? cool. I am still reeling from "they have to take your dividend in order to save it." Remember, it is not only the politicians that have designs on "The Fund." | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45385682, 45506032, 45397010, 45388080, 45602036] |
991,465 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | [By your reasoning, since you chose to live in an area with military aircraft, it would be fine for the Navy to parade EA-18s, in full afterburner, six inches over your rooftop, 24 hours a day]
As part of the Island County disclosure requirement (started after WISE helped get NASWI on the BRAC list), the noise contour map are provided online or at the County Office. This map is typically included in the required disclosure form prior to buying a property. Pretty straightforward. | 4 | You say this is not your point, but then you make that point again. I don't know how to deal with a self-contradicting argument, except to point it out.
By your reasoning, since you chose to live in an area with military aircraft, it would be fine for the Navy to parade EA-18s, in full afterburner, six inches over your rooftop, 24 hours a day. Because, hey, you CHOSE to live near the Navy, so it's ALL ON YOU. Nothing they do is too extreme, right? Or do you acknowledge that 24-hour-a-day flights six inches over your roof might be a bit much? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45447087, 45445192, 45476019, 45506032, 45454500] |
991,467 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | That joke is wearing very thin and has become stale. Try to come up with some new material. | 4 | It seems Baron will invite Justin back for a second play date. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45426626, 45432844, 45450604, 45404259] |
991,637 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The problem is that the Liberals just traded one set of boutique tax credits for another. They eliminated the children's fitness and arts credits but implemented a new tax credit for teachers and another for labour unions.
I would have been more supportive of the Liberals if they were more honest, but them saying that boutique tax credits are bad while putting in new ones makes their policies hard to support. | 4 | Elimination of "boutique" tax deductions is a benefit to those who didn't qualify for them. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45597947, 45541171, 45598834, 45476019, 45377221] |
991,700 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I agree. There should be prioritization on who gets deported first. But when a deportation can be done quickly and at relatively low cost, why not do it?
You refer to people who've committed "real crimes." Bear in mind, one more time, that I AGREE WITH YOU --- there should be prioritization. But document fraud and identity fraud ARE real crimes. If they were committed by any American, there'd be a prosecution, not merely a deportation. Is that what you want? Prosecution followed by deportation? This woman is lucky to be free and not under indictment. I'm very happy she's out of harm's way until she can get her footing in her home country, but since when do we have more lenient laws for illegals than we do for Americans? She's had the benefit of that leniency and mercy for years. Justice says we should enforce the law with as little harm as possible. But enforce the law. | 4 | That's not my point. It's not about whether she had a "right" to be here. No, she didn't. But spend the energy, $$, and effort on people who are an actual harm or a threat: people who have committed real crimes, not harmless people simply trying to give their kids a better life. Maybe if it didn't take so long to become a citizen (and so much $$$) she would have done long ago.
Also, my comment above that you responded to had nothing to do with refugees. Don't know why you thought it did. I was referring only to this particular woman who does certainly not seem a threat and who was routinely allowed to stay (even tho she checked in regularly) for years. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45536013, 45388025, 45596860, 45438416] |
992,010 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | in reference to the confederacy/confederate army, latinos and native americans/indians fought for the confederacy/south as well. the reason the indians fought for the confederacy is because the north/federlists violated the treaties they signed with them. also, i can't say i blame them (in that case). in reference to slavery, indians also have owned black slaves too (the tribes in the south that is). | 5 | '
…except, of course, none of that changes what the Confederacy was based on.
White supremacy and the protection of slavery.
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992,033 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | First of all, regarding NAFTA, Trudeau did NOTHING to help Canadian jobs. What so many including the globe and mail do not understand. When you include services with merchandise Canada is actually in a trade deficit. Trump understood this, I doubt Trudeau did. | 4 | Canada is fortunate to have a PM who can defend Canadian interests and maintain good relations with the US, regardless of who their president may be. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45184889, 45332074, 45349032, 45200444] |
992,293 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | We'll have to check with the 'ab stowah'. | 5 | I endorse Arnold Schwarzenegger for American ambassador to Canada. | [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] |
992,572 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | And the compliant boards, generally CEO's themselves with six figure compensation for their part time advise. You know, bank boards who couldn't define multi- level derivatives let alone risk. It's a shame front that is often anything but objective. Look into who chooses them and who signs there checks.
It's a small club with million dollar dues. | 4 | I think exorbitant pay is partly due to cronyism in corporate boards. There are many examples of CEOs being paid not because of value (in fact, some of the highest pay goes to the worst performing CEOs) but rather due to rules that allow a few people to control capital. Taxes are just part of the way to fight against these flaws in the system. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45491654, 45184889, 45450604, 45447087, 45199056] |
992,633 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | That doesn't match my experience. Even $50 Firestone Winterforce tires, that have the mountain/snowflake symbol that identifies a proper winter tire, work better than the studded tires that I used to have on ice. | 4 | not the research I read, the only tire for ice is the studded tire period. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388025, 45224788, 45438681, 45256208, 45327007] |
992,933 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Article just went over your head... | 4 | Yes, our guy is prettier than their guy! But some of us are worried about jobs and the economy, rather than simply appearances. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45506032, 45447087, 45602066, 44826677] |
993,704 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | You built your whole argument against putting native children in non-ntive foster homes on that generality: "some misguided settlers try to say that removing these children from their homes was a "good" thing, but this argument relies on the premise that getting sexually-abused by kindly settler foster parents was better than being sexually abused by bad Native parents."
No it does not, it relies on the premise that most will not be abused. Your premise relies on the assumption that most will. Which is/was a more reasonable premise?
The second part is still unclear. That was precisely the objective of "the Scoop", to take children away from abusive conditions into nurturing ones. Either that doesn't work because it is too late, or we only hear about the failures, or about those who had the bad luck of getting abusive foster parents. | 10 | Sky: We are dealing in generalities. I'm sure that not all settlers foster parents were bad, as much as I'm sure that not all Native parents are bad, but from my speaking to a large number of scoop survivors, there wasn't much good either before the scoop nor after.
Regarding the second part of your question, it is well known in social studies circles that people compromised at a young age through the environment that they were raised in are far likelier to choose an anti-social path in adulthood than those brought up in a nurturing environment. However, there are also examples where people succeed with the odds against them, and where people fail when the odds are in their favour. but again, we are speaking in generalities.
I have also been a foster parent. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45385682, 45447087, 45485526, 45541171] |
994,206 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Not in Canada. | 4 | Unfortunately, the internationally accepted terminology for people from India is Indians. East Indians are people from the eastern part of India.
Ironically, the 4 million who died were from the eastern part of India, so they really were East Indians. Amartya Sen got his Nobel Prize in Economics for postulating that large scale famines require a colonial power or dictatorships. Essentially governments who are not answerable to the population that they rule. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45541171, 45635376, 45485526, 45432844] |
994,501 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | We don't have to "wait and see" with the Trump Circus; it's clearly visible now. | 5 | So, a different tide than what rolled over the mainstream media and rejection of Obama's inaction on the rule of law, illegal immigration, monetary policy, division and lowering of American economic standards. That 'other' tide? Lol. Wait and see. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45506032, 45388080, 45599028, 45451297, 45366913] |
995,093 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | That Church being "The Church of nice". | 4 | It is nice that the Church has finally come to the conclusion that many have couples already reached! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45401799, 45313149, 45506032, 45454484, 45491609] |
995,200 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | As I've said before, NCR's decision to move to Civil Comments has backfired and made it possible for a handful of people to peddle ignorance as knowledge and defame all those who think differently. I had hoped when Caitlyn chimed in a few months ago, they would do some real soul-searching, but that apparently isn't going to happen. | 4 | I'm just ending (or perhaps temporarily suspending, we shall see) a month-long break from social media, including this site. Part of what I'm wrestling with is the polarization that makes worthwhile dialogue between people of goodwill so much harder than it used to be.
I wish I could say it's getting better, but I don't see much evidence of that, and this site is symptomatic. There is so much anger here, so much vitriol. It is wearying. I've never been squeamish about snark, God knows, but where that used to come in the course of conversation, now it seems to be so many posters' default mode. The gloves are off right from the get-go.
I get that much of this has to do with the strong feelings people have about the Trump presidency, but the thought that keeps coming to me is that I don't want every conversation I'm involved in over the next four years to be driven by what's going on in Washington. Life is more than that, so much more. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45404169, 45536013, 45397769, 45505732, 45333173] |
995,217 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Hugh,
I can't disagree with you. The media seems to have forgotten much of our history. | 6 | Of course we are at war with Islam.
I would point out that America invaded Iraq without provocation, killed hundreds of thousands of its citizens and its leaders. America's terroristic "shock and awe" invasion was the greatest terroristic action in twenty years. We created ISIS, just as we supported the Taliban for many years.
If I were Iranian, and I watched America set up a government that was against my interests (Shah), and watched the shock and awe video on CNN, I would also fear America and its hatred of Islam.
If American hates terrorists so much, maybe we should stop creating them.
Hugh Massengill, Eugene Oregon | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388025, 45491654, 45584933, 45535941, 45603153] |
995,265 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It's ironic that your Noam Chomsky citation is from the Massey Lectures, which are presented on CBC. The CBC comes in for regular rubbishing as part of the mainstream media.
While we should all read, watch and listen to media reports with some skepticism, the mainstream media at least publish retractions when they get it wrong. When is the last time you saw a retraction printed by the Macedonian teenagers who vilified Hillary Clinton, or their less reliable alt-medium Breitbart? | 4 | Assigned reading for Ms. Campbell,
"Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media" (1988) by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky and "Necessary Illusions" (1989) by Noam Chomsky (Massey Lectures).
While fake news and blatant state propaganda is certainly a concern that has accelerated of late, I do not feel deep comfort in corporate controlled news sources. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45450604, 45394434, 45541206, 45541073] |
995,346 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | nor can rubbish published by newspapers with an obvious agenda | 4 | Just what is going on between Donald Trump and the Russians?
Is it because Russian oligarchs own him financially or because Russian spies own him personally due to indiscreet behavior during his trips to Moscow? Trump’s willingness to attack allies like Australia, bellow at rivals like China, threaten enemies like Iran and North Korea and bully neighbors like Mexico — while blowing kisses to Vladimir Putin — cannot be explained by his mere desire to improve relations with Moscow. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45491654, 45224788, 45405070, 45448191] |
995,557 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Even If its 5 minutes but you are making a decision that unfailry helps your bank with TOD Its not right! If you are lobbying for territorial on the tax payers dime for 1 minute it is wrong! If your giving the comminity the perception of imperprity for 1 second when you are asking them to spend 10billion its wrong.. but rick I guess for you working with the mayor you learned this type of leadership!!! Whats even worst is this bank job is becoming a distraction to rail and he refuses to step down! So who is really hirting the project! Like to hear what lexi smith has to say or keala ? Like to hear rick tubunia who works for jessie response.. oh well its legal and passed ethics! How do we know its legal we want to see the books of territorial what are the conflicts? | 4 | hanneman, 2 hours a month, 24 hours a year, will substantially prohibit the mayor from discharging his duties? come on, be realistic and not play politics. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45597947, 45541171, 45476019, 45191524, 45377221] |
995,618 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Mixing squares with slums, I think. Even states' secrecy has limits (usually 25 years). What's the Vatican's one? 2500, 3000, Never? | 4 | The Pontifical Secret is more complicated than that. It's the Vatican's way of classifying information. The reason it does that is because it's a state. Most states and governments have a classification system where there are things that are confidential and non-confidential the same way the American, Russian, Canadian governments have a classification system for things confidential.
In the case of the sexual abuse scandal, Pope John XXIII issued a document crimen sollicitationas which set the stage for the policy in which priests who were a part of a Church tribunal on sex abuse were sworn to secret. The policy was then changed in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.
All in all I do believe that all the documents around sexual abuse should be declassified so these criminals and pedophiles can be imprisoned. It's just not as simple as people think because classification systems with governments in general are complicated matters. Just look at Edward Snowden and NSA spying. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45370851, 45448191, 45584933, 45494674, 45438599] |
996,215 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I'll let you in on a little secret,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ssshhhhh,,,,,,,,,,,,,there's more than one. You should leave the basement periodically. | 4 | Rumor has it there's a person out there who can drive really good with out studded snow tires, I want to meet this person and shake his hand and tell him that he is awesome, and my hero. oh wait, I see him now, posting on here! Plese, tell us how good a driver you are Rainman, | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438681, 45635376, 45506032, 45590457, 45408370] |
996,595 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0] | In no way did Mr. Kristof justify terrorism, as you plainly say. Nor did Mr. Kristof say that Islamic terrorism is OK. You said that. In fact, Mr. Kristof didn't even say that guns are bad, you said that; nor did he say guns are "OK for Islamic terrorists to use ." Again, those are your words.
What Mr. Kristof did was to put the threat of Islamic terrorism into perspective among all the other threats we face in the US, and it turns out that Islamic terrorism is a minor threat indeed, compared to what US citizens themselves do to each other. | 10 | Looks like Kristof is getting his talking points and marching orders from the Brady Campaign.
All of their pathetically pleading fund-raising e-mails use pretty much the same wording.
Except in this particular article, Kristof goes further and justifies terrorism on account of accidents kill more Americans.
Fatal accidents = bad.
Islamic Terrorism = OK.
Oh, I almost forgot: Guns = bad (except OK for Islamic terrorists to use them). | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 45534988, 45598353, 45445192, 45597944] |
996,797 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | State Foresters did a yeoman's job in sale prep, and forest management. But you can't litigate every action and not spend more than you take in. EarthJustice lawyers are getting to bill EAJA in Federal court if their litigation changes one thing in the State case in their favor. Todd True was billing $650 per hour, and now probably in the $800/hour range. Subalterns will be $200 per hour less and down the line to researchers and adjunct legal help. Litigation success gains payment from the US Dept of Justice (AG Holder when asked how much did they pay out a year on EAJA said "We don't keep those numbers.") and along with big payments, big donations when they win or when they tell their public "we must save that last, best....ad nauseum...."
Big Green and the Litigators are a big US industry, estimated at getting in excess of $14 Billion a year in income. The Environmental Behemoth. Eisenhower warned about them in his farewell address in 1961. | 4 | The Elliott has always been undervalued, even just considering the dollar amount they sold their timber for. Their standing timber sales averaged only around $240 per thousand board feet. In a fair and open market they could have received three times as much for their export quality mature timber.
The Elliott's mission was unique among the state forests... to maximize the return to K12 schools, NOT to supply a few big domestic mills (especially Roseburg Forest Products and Seneca) with premium grade 120 year old logs sold for less than scabby second growth.
To make it even less profitable, state Foresters ran up ridiculous sale preparation costs just to clear cut, burn, spray, and replant.
Then, of course, the enviro attorneys sucked out what little juice was left in the Elliott's timber sale program with expensive litigation and huge settlement fees.
There are better ways to profitably and sustainably log a forest! | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45588938, 45224788, 45653549, 45537841, 45541073] |
996,870 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | It's a different version of the "pee test welfare recipients" scam.
Find a negligible problem, blow it out of proportion then give your buddies stacks of money to chase snipe.
By the time the audits are done and nothing close to the hype is found; all the money is spent and the scammers moves on to the next rube. | 6 | So let's do the math, a no bid $650,000 contract "saves" the state $230,000 in fraudulent dividends. Even if we double that to account for the money the Govener stole we get to $460,000. Still $190,000 below the cost.
This raises a few questions:
1. How many dividends are normally caught, and if the employees who used to do the audit are still employed by the state, the "savings" need to be netted against what the Lexus software found.
2. When will we put something in place to stop
These no bid costracts that waste our taxes by politicians that only care about themselves and the lobbyist who pay them off, or whatever they do to get the no bid contract.
3. Why did they just not do a "you get paid 20% of the money you save the state". If the promised savings was 5 times the cost.
Continue to vote out our politicians who do not look out for the state. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45541171, 45536973, 45447221, 45385682, 45603153] |
997,505 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | what skills do they have and will they pay a net gain in taxes when balanced against services required demanded - so another fair size number of people who will take away from people already here - awesome, hope u have lots of cash to cover ur political preferences on immigration - those 'so-called taxpayers' will need ur subsidies and I will be looking to mitigate my tax liabilities to the best of my abilities to allow u to spread ur generosity country wide | 4 | 40.000 future taxpayers and counting. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45501738, 45447087, 45485526, 45438416] |
997,825 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Amen, Matt! I was abused too and saw my abuser moving from diocese to diocese, abusing every place he went. As my abuser was not a priest, but a brother in a community under diocesan jurisdiction, he could have been dispensed from his vows and the community dissolved at any point in time. BUT NOTHING WAS DONE FOR OVER 30 YEARS! Once the lawsuits started, did they finally do those things. He walked away with over a million in assets and the diocese paying his abusers. He is still passing himself off as a religious. | 10 | I've read this entire thread now. Your thesis is that we are to blame for the abusers, that if we had followed the rules more closely that this could not happen in God's good church.
I am one of the abused. It has colored my life and my faith. I have been the chair of the abuse committee in my diocese. You are furthering abuse with this (nonsense). You, yes you, excuse the abusers with this Jansenist caricature of the works of a loving God. Stop. Do not further the abuse that so many have undergone, that so many have courageously shared for the benefit of God's people, with this unwarranted magic. You really should know better, and if not you need to take that to prayer. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45256208, 45404259, 45589137, 45184889] |
998,183 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Ah, haters. I'm sure civil comments has no problem whatsoever with sukk language, eh | 4 | ..hey haters..sukk eggs.. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45597947, 45397010, 45385682, 45525588, 45397769] |
998,574 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "The officials had seen no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians on the hacking or other efforts to influence the election, the Times said..." | 4 | ....and its also not smart to collude with other governments to help you get elected. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45432844, 45515678, 45590724, 45593869] |
998,653 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | No. Try to stay on topic. | 4 | Your not the Dave Corzine of NY governor fame and NBA player who made off with $90 million of clients money and was never even questioned by the SEC are you? Now that was a scam. When asked by congress where the money went all he said was " I don't recall" and he walked away. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45541171, 45363536, 45184889, 45571030, 45349004] |
998,722 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It is the same way American played Soviet (Gorbachev era).
Guess rooster does come back to home. | 4 | Here's the thing....The Russians win either way this goes. If he stays, Russian Intelligence have a POTUS (who they helped elect) who doesn't understand the game and is in way over his head. If he goes, it cleaves the American electorate in two (not to mention what it does to the GOP).
Meanwhile he take shots at the media, he takes shots at the judiciary, he even takes shots at the FBI and the NSA (who might under another leader be allies).
This far they have played him against key institutions in the US perfectly.
So much for "Making America Great Again". | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45432844, 45404259, 45447221, 45486533, 45597975] |
999,146 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I grant that dense urban housing is much more energy efficient than the number of small houses required for the same number of people. I don't really think anyone's arguing otherwise.
The issue is in balancing the goal of increasing density with the fact that a lot of people find actually living in places of such density to be unacceptable. In effect, the goal requires people to be harmed in order to implement it. You can argue that it's inevitable, or that "eggs must be broken", or whatever, but it's still real people really being hurt. It might help to be sensitive to that.
Personally, I think that increasing density is regrettable but inevitable, so it's worth trying to minimize the harm. EE is one attempt at doing that, but arguments and fights from those being hurt are also part of the process -- and might help to make EE into something better overall. | 4 | Well Said! I thought Eugene was green? Supporting urban density is supporting the environment. Come on now. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45537352, 45385682, 45535372, 45505732] |
999,296 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0] | Paul: as you note, the TrumpTrainwreck continues. Literally every conservative columnist has abandoned any attempts to defend him. Each day more and more individuals who voted for him are realizing the monument of their mistake. His leading supporters are Vladimir Putin, Sean Spicer, Kellyann Conway, GodBlessAmerica and Outsider 77. Something tells me The Donald is in BIG, BIG trouble....and deservedly so.
We're fortunate to have an independent media willing to "take on" corruption at the highest level. You can bet Trump will not even attempt to defend the actions, but attack that "damned mainstream media" for daring to expose them. Others such as GBA will attempt to distract with claims about President Obama, et al. I'm not a Mike Pence fan, but, believe me, each day he's looking better and better. regards, Gary | 10 | Ahhhh! I plan to enjoy the long, slow twisting in the wind of Herr Trumpf as he wanders the halls of the White House fuming over his ever declining polls and the gathering clouds of his impeachment.
Nearly as much fun will be reading the frantic babbling of the regular "deplorables" here trying to blame the implosion on Obama and Hillary. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45571747, 45388080, 45440506, 45408370] |
999,405 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Not sure what you problem with the Equinox is but both Consumers and JD rate it pretty high, actually better than the Toyota Rav, it's Toyota comparison. | 4 | LOL...what are you talking about? What manufacturing problems? There have been no change in suppliers. The new Tacoma has won just about every industry award available...and the only problem Toyota has is keeping up with demand....just take a look at how many Toyota models are mentioned in the above article....in almost every category....Camry, Prius, Tundra, Tacoma etc....not another manufacturer can come close to Toyota for retained value....and overall quality...so you go ahead and buy that Squeakquinox....and lose about 50% of its value the day your drive it off the lot... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45597947, 45506032, 45541171, 45445022] |
999,481 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Uh - "change" not "cage". Sorry about that. | 4 | Mush from the whazz! Some things don't cage. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 45535372, 45445192, 45388080, 45332074] |
999,676 | [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0] | Perhaps it would please ADN if I said; Death to America! we want only Sharia Law! | 80 | So tell me ADN! is it because I'm indigenous to Alaska or is it because I'm a conservative or is it both? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45476019, 45447087, 45494674, 45596860, 45567747] |
999,764 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | if only the Second Vatican Council had never happened!!!
i pray that Holy Mother the Church acknowledges the errors of that sorry council and that its reforms are discarded and its spirit forgotten | 4 | Only a few years ago the SF Archbishop insisted that certain classes be taught in Latin . Even the English speaking students have no background in Latin from high school . And how little could a seminarian from any other background already dealing with English usage and connotation learn of Theology from teachers who also are not Latin scholars ?
And , really , just what was the point ? Learn nothing but do it in Latin ?
I had the impression of retro upon seeing how the sacraments are not so much celebrated as officiated over by recently ordained men of any age .
Some older men were mature , others not .
I live in a neighboring diocese , not SF . But one might wonder if there ever was a Second Vatican Council if all the church news you hear comes from our diocesan paper .
None of this was the fault of the Sulpicians . | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45445192, 45596860, 45495146, 45224788] |
1,000,020 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The lights of the parking garage are elevated 2 to 4 stories above ground level so light propagation is more problematic. Light pollution would be greatly reduced through simple design changes that should be required. | 4 | The lighting from the parking garage does not create any more light pollution than the rest of the parking lots around there. Also if you were able to isolate the lights just from the hotel it would not be bright enough to exceed the lighting standards for parking lots. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45445022, 45454484, 45653549, 45536013] |
1,000,078 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | One would think that all those highly educated specialists would want to stay in such a well governed
country as South Africa. | 4 | Canada very much accelerated the deterioration of South Africa's health care system by vacuuming up, en masse, so many of their well-trained medical doctors.
Saskatchewan alone vacuumed up hundreds of medical doctors from South Africa, you can read about them in the research article about that huge brain drain titled "The Migration of South African Graduates to Canada".
Canada is extremely selfish when it comes to immigration. We snatch up the highly educated specialists of impoverished nations in our greedy quest to make sure we all get good health care...
... and then, when it comes to not-well-educated workers like fruit and vegetable pickers, well, in that case we only let them be in Canada temporarily, on temporary work visa, then we kick them back to the impoverished lands from which they came.
Canadians are deluding themselves who pretend that Canada's immigration system is generous and just. To the contrary, it is cold and calculating and all about our self interests. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45418782, 45440506, 45537487, 45495146] |
1,001,060 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | We will see if it works that way....can't see it happening , however. | 4 | I guess the "hot head" students at universities in Montreal and Vancouver can't have protest any more against Jewish people. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45366683, 45535968, 45438648, 45602467] |
1,002,164 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Exactly. See what a helicopter ride can get you. | 5 | What the Aga Khan wants, the Aga Khan gets. New marching orders for the Liberals and their cucks in the media. Ain't it amazing what a freebie holiday gets you. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45597947, 45465124, 45597373, 45252698] |
1,002,395 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | That's a matter of opinion, and in your case, a minority opinion. | 4 | "It could be people appreciate wit and are grateful for comic relief, and it could be some trolls lack wit and a sense of humor."
Which is the precisely the point. Who in the world thinks it witty to be hostile toward someone with whom he disagrees? It seems that those lacking humor would find such as this to be the equivalent of wit. Rather than being wit, it show a mental dullness and a streak of the cruel disguising itself as "just fun", so that others might say, "C'mon, where's your sense of humor." It's not witty, not clever, and certainly unworthy of celebration. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45497014, 45184519, 45601213, 45573511] |
1,003,028 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1] | Careful, that sounds awfully critical of Islam and perhaps could be construed as Islamaphobia.... | 10 | Sounds to me like the beginning of Sharia Law in Canada. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45535393, 45582203, 45404154, 45573532] |
1,003,046 | [0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0] | Having a gun pointed at you, as I have on two occasions, is an objective experience. | 10 | Oh my gosh. Allowing such subjective pointless testimony. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45491654, 45445192, 45404154, 45450746, 45478534] |
1,003,051 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I feel like going down there and offering him a burger. | 4 | I am entertained that he is panhandling for "vegan food." I guess he's never heard the expression, "beggars can't be choosers!" | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45451297, 45597315, 45573532, 45541206] |
1,003,586 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | well said. | 4 | We always have to guard against people trying to forcibly shut down criticism of their favoured religious or political views. There's a problem with hostility towards our Muslim neighbors, but people have to be free to disagree vigorously about the religion of Islam, as about Christianity, Judaism, atheism etc.
The bar, and it should be a high one, is whether there is real incitement to violence or to abuse of individuals. 'Islamophobia' is not specific enough. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45505902, 45184889, 45388080, 45465124] |
1,003,621 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Interesting study but the article and the study presume that we all want same day access. Do we? If same day access meant more tax would we pay it? | 4 | My lovely wife and I were on a waiting list for a GP for 3 years. She has a heart condition. I'm a cancer "survivor". So yes, we do have yearly special is appointments for those 2 conditions.
So, last fall, we go see our financial advisor to discuss our plans to move to another province due to the abysmal quality of our provincial healthcare.
Well, our financial advisor knew a young doctor who had just recently opened her practice. She sent her an email, and by that very afternoon, we had a brand-spanking new family doctor.
It disturbs me to no end how the system only works if it's due to the "principle" of "who you know".
As my case clearly proves. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45456658, 45536973, 45394434, 45327007] |
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