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5,061,155 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I noted that almost everyone on this thread tries to change the subject.
The issue is very simple: FAN always argues against jobs for Americans.
The questions is why that Catholic org has such a dim view of workers and production. | 4 | It's people who persist in connecting extremism with Islam that are the problem. You're getting your opinions from pundits and politicians again...
Remember that Obama cut taxes in spite of republican attempts to stop him. Who was for higher taxes then? Reagan passed the biggest tax increase since '68 back in '82. Who was for higher taxes then? Conservatives are famous for cutting progressive taxes but have never met a regressive tax - or a new "fee" increase - they aren't fond of. It's those pundits again... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45418782, 45635376, 45438681, 45312025] |
5,061,332 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Present some opinion rather than a talking-point. You are not stating an opinion or even the smallest rebuttal to my views. My view is rather clear enough: there is a need for the government to be involved in the arts. | 4 | So you're saying that the cessation of government funding of the "arts" spells the end of art in the United States???...Balderdash! Typical chicken little response. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45388025, 45494674, 45184889, 45404154] |
5,061,559 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Hope that one day if you ever need an entity like the ACLU and you're flat broke, don't go crying for ACLU support. | 6 | Need to shut down ACLU. They are scabs on the butt of America. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45450604, 45438681, 45394434, 45351233, 45438070] |
5,062,563 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Actually you could use the most current version of Google Maps for the aerial view, then use the service to "Drive by" the home. Not in compliance, slap them with a heavy fine. No warnings, just fine them. | 4 | You might want to drive through some of these neighborhoods. Now with the ability to build more or "legalize" the existing structures, it will be a parking nightmare.
I would love to take these council people for a drive at night. Then they can see what the impact of their decision will have on high density neighborhoods. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45485526, 45535372, 45432844, 45535369] |
5,062,724 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | no - you are manufaturing what does not exist so you can support what you want to think - | 4 | [funny how you left all that out]
Funny how you continue to raise trivial objections even when I touch on a subject like, "the Articles which deals with the form and function (function includes limitations of federal power) of the federal government."
It seems I am wasting my time extending the benefit of the doubt that you can actually discuss this issue like a reasonable adult. | [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] |
5,062,976 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Ha. Try waking across one of those country borders. Just try it!
Polar opposite of Canada, where Trudeau has signaled we are soft on immigration, and the industry consultants and crooks of all stripes know it. | 4 | How about some of the rich Middle Eastern countries such as Saudi Arabia, Dubai, UAE, etc. doing some of the heavy lifting. They have NOT taken one Syrian refugee. Why is it solely Canada's problem to deal with ? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45476019, 45456658, 45404169, 45514417] |
5,063,425 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | According to the CIA World Fact book, China is the world's largest economy.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2001rank.html#ch | 4 | See Australia actually doesn't need China. It's a small country with its own resources and plenty of markets for its beef. So TS. China is on its way down. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45485526, 45447087, 45536013, 45599146] |
5,063,978 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The Left does want right leaning churches to not be preaching that certain behaviours are immoral. Just look to the Houston mayor who subpoenaed the written sermons of preachers who were against an ordinance in that city. | 4 | There shouldn't be any such comments because the progressive left is not attempting to use religious freedom laws to discriminate against particular populations by using 'the Bible' as the justification for such discrimination. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45440506, 45404154, 45514417, 45449731] |
5,064,509 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "Countless"? I bet you can't name more than a couple out of the thousands of people working in this field.
The fact remains that 90+% of climate scientists, and >99% of published papers agree that human CO2 emissions are the main cause of observed global warming. | 4 | and yet there are countless climate scientist that stand against this mans carbon warming scam for what it is | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45506032, 45505732, 44826677, 45450802, 45599360] |
5,064,731 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | RD, considering that you believe anyone to left of Torquemada is a radical leftist that isn't surprising. | 4 | Only a radically dissenting Catholic could conclude that the USCCB leans right. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45313149, 45438416, 45448160, 45656105] |
5,065,093 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1] | totally agree. Trump turns people around him into dirty, dangerous, treasonous operators. Nunes is too weird and unhinged to be in his position. | 10 | Nunes went to the White House to meet with someone who leaked classified information, which Nunes then leaked to the press. Time for a special prosecutor to run this investigation, not a Trump lapdog and co-conspirator. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45485526, 45494674, 45256208, 45203823, 45602467] |
5,065,476 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Hi, Rocky - Congratulations on a great Jayhawks' season. Sometimes the ball just bounces the other way. If it's any consolation, CalTech (7-18 this season), lost to Occidental, Oglethorpe, and Wisconsin Lutheran. We did manage to wallop Cal Lutheran 88-62, however. For some reason, none of those teams made it to the Sweet Sixteen.:) | 6 | A wise and responsible pastor will make sure there's a clear distinction between a financial gift to the parish, diocese or some other Church outreach and one to himself. Pastors start down a slippery slope when they accept personal financial gifts from parishioners.
Whether or not Marion McIntyre suffered from dementia, it was Fr. Senk's responsibility to avoid even the appearance of taking advantage of his influence over her for personal gain. Criminal or not, this is unseemly and it is squarely on him. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45491654, 45590457, 45653549, 45450096, 45513204] |
5,065,979 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I see a very lucrative business for our Aboriginal friends. And I don't see any law that stops them from growing on their own land. | 4 | "If [the provinces] don’t do anything, they’re going to have a thriving black market and not collect any taxes,” he said. “So there’s some incentive for them to get in and regulate."
Curious if the First Nations see this as a business opportunity? Several bands already have cigarette manufacturing facilities on their lands, in some cases not charging sales or tobacco taxes. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45397010, 45313149, 45567747, 45656105] |
5,066,146 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | She wrote the book in 1985. If you really want to know what she saw as problems - read the NYT article.
https://mobile.nytimes.com/images/100000004976174/2017/03/10/books/review/margaret-atwood-handmaids-tale-age-of-trump.html
Of course you won't- because you have already made up your mind- without reading the article or the book.
(Hint- it is NOT about Trump) | 4 | The book in question tells of an attack that kills the President and most of Congress, an attack by religious fundamentalist terrorists who launch a revolution, suspend the United States Constitution, take away women's rights, and establish a sexist, theocratic totalitarian state oppressing the masses with theocratic barbarity.
And for the religion chosen, the creepy, fundamentalist terrorist religion?
The writer of course chose Christianity, thus assuring a large following of fawning leftists and plenty of prizes and awards from their ilk in the ladder of literary politics.
Had the writer chosen Islam, her book would be condemned as hate speech for fanning the flames of Islamophobia, and she would have been condemned as an outcast pariah by human rights councils and academics, facing costly legal fees such as those foisted upon Mark Steyn for his writing.
Forget the dystopia of her book: We ALREADY presently live in a deranged world even without any fictional flourishes... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45418782, 45197484, 45278775, 45602066, 45582425] |
5,066,187 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1] | and anther lefty spews the usual nonsense based on left wing ignorance of reality | 10 | O'Leary always provides comic relief in his public endeavours. What worries me is that the Conservative base may be foolish enough to take him seriously (he appears to be their 'front runner'). Indeed, despite his gross unsuitability they may elect him to run their party.
Although I doubt Kevin O'Leary will ever hold public office, as the unelected Conservative leader we would be forced to suffer his mindless braying for quite some time. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45432844, 45515678, 45590724, 45653549] |
5,066,840 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | George Washington. Abraham Lincoln. Franklin Roosevelt. Dwight D. Eisenhower. Benjamin Disraeli. Winston Churchill. John A. MacDonald. Wilfrid Laurier. Pierre Trudeau.
Just to name a random few.
Do I need to go on? | 10 | Politicians do not make good leaders. A country is basically a business organization. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45485526, 45450604, 45597947, 45397010, 45388025] |
5,067,280 | [1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | I love how people like you put up ignorant comments and use the word "Hoax" but yet can't provide a single valid source for your hoax comment. I guess when you ignore every validated source of information you can claim hoax eh bud. | 10 | You must have voted for Wynne, you are unable to see through the climate change hoax that is being thrust upon us | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45485526, 45598378, 45500804, 45388025, 45589137] |
5,067,578 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Bogus comparison - apples and hand grenades. | 6 | China is the new America with their own style of Manifest Destiny. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438070, 45598378, 45537487, 45598353, 45332074] |
5,067,788 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Dirtlips,
I've always thought that a keystone of Alberta politics was that Alberta controlled its own natural resources.
How then do you square that with Kevin O'Leary's s stated intention that her, as PM, would dominated resource development in Canada and use every power and resource available to the Federal Government (i.e. disallowance of Provincial enactments, withholding transfer payments, etc.) to bend Provincial Governments to his will?
Are you not failing to look beyond the fact that you share O'Leary's current opposition to Premier Notley and support for the Energy East Pipeline and therefore failing to see that he would turn on a dime against Alberta if that fitted his personal ego-trip filled agenda? | 4 | He will be a breath of fresh air in federal politics, and as an Albertan I agree with his description of Notley. It looks like you can't see where Canada is going till we get there...figures | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45434367, 45501738, 45447087, 45505732, 45351233] |
5,067,843 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Bob Atkinson: not sure where the Snow Glacier is in relation to the Upper and Lower Paradise Lakes. Your report of high levels at the cabin makes sense. I'd love to see the Johkalup from the vantage point of either USFS cabin on Upper or Lower Paradise. | 4 | Is it upstream from Paradise Lake? Had heard stories of people staying at the cabin there and waking up to much higher lake level but still not like what happens to Kenai Lake. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45485526, 45586742, 45394434, 45377221] |
5,067,995 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The oil and gas industries are a net cash cow for all governments, never mind their critical input to our economies and life styles. | 4 | Have you seen the world subsidies for oil & gas? Now what if those went away. How much would you be willing to shell out for gas? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45447087, 45451297, 45366913, 45535941, 45405070] |
5,068,012 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1] | i can understand 1000lbs, i mean honestly thats 500lbs both ways and I have had some 500lb boxes of books and stuff. so I can understand keeping it to a minimum of just a few items, books and essentials for all the family. but 3000lbs is still too damn much. they need to bring that down WAY down to 1000lbs.
Im thinking he doesnt have a piano in his house, and that maybe that piano is sitting in a church in golovin, along with his other "essentials" because seriously most of this stuff doesnt sound like its just for him. but he wasnt put in office so he could take the money out of the state and put it directly into Golovin. I mean WTF | 10 | This doesn't almost nothing to change past practices. Senator Olsen sent 7,400 pounds over two years. So now he only gets to ship 6,000 pounds over two years.
I can see it now. Piano is needed to create the necessary atmosphere for legislation. Air compressors are needed to inflate all the misinformation the legislature creates on a daily basis. No, not much of a change that I can see.
Why not limit it to 600 pounds per session? Take the bus in Juneau or use a taxi which should already be included in the generous daily per diem amounts. Heck, rent a car if you want out of your per diem. Don't expect to ship all your household goods for a 90 day session. Pack a bag or two and mail necessary items just like everyone else does in Alaska. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45476019, 45590457, 45404154, 45535941] |
5,068,029 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Richard's claim to fame is his ability to ignore all reason. | 10 | Richard Rhyner: “... liberals will celebrate every one of these paint jobs.”
What a ridiculous statement. How anyone can think that liberals would ‘celebrate’ such a thing as this anymore than conservatives would is beyond reasonable thought. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45501738, 45397769, 45505732, 45541073, 45589137] |
5,068,398 | [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1] | Fair comment Doug. It is always a struggle to find good volunteers and coaches.
My kids were fortunate they mostly had good coaches in hockey, soccer and flag football. Even if they weren't the most strategic and skilled, they were caring and fair. That was always my bottom line in recreational sport.
But......there were a couple of times in hockey when things were not so pleasant. Yes, there was the time at an out-of-town tournament when the assistant coach, manager and trainer showed up stinking of alcohol from the night before. The stench was worse than the reek from wet hockey equipment. They also were playing their sons on double and even triple shifts. It all ended when the head coach released them and brought in some new parents to take over. Nasty stuff! | 10 | The article presents one view. As a former coach of a variety of sports, I know where the author is coming from.
On the other hand, volunteers often, consciously or unconsciously, bring their own agenda to the task at hand, and what the kids need is not always provided. Volunteers need to bring at least a minimum of aptitude for the task. This criterion is missing more and more these days; You can't do just whatever you want out there!
An acquaintance of mine took over a hockey team mid-season this year because of serious problems with the "long-time" coach. My own son's hockey coach this year regularly showed up to tournament games hungover (and bragging about it), calling me at home to get my son (the top-scorer) to score more goals, whilst regularly conducting the most inept practices himself, etc., etc. My son's soccer team fell apart near the end of the season last year because of fighting between the coaches.
So parents, yes be patient and respectful. But NOT complacent. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45445022, 45450604, 45635376, 45450096] |
5,068,548 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0] | and the law, as it is written, says that his statements are entirely relevant when making a decision. I've sat on a federal jury and know full well that what the defendants said was admissible. Obama wasn't afflicted with the same problem because he was wise enough to keep his mouth shut. It's not what was done, it's what Trump was foolish enough to say.
You are right. The "Freedom" Caucus wants their opinions shoved down everyone else's throats. Fortunately, the Constitution has numerous safeguards that prevent that. And, by the way, the "Freedom" Caucus is made up of those politicians that you say lie. I suspect they're lying as well, it's just that they're telling you lies you want to believe.
That's the difference between the subjective worlds each of us exist in and the objective world. | 10 | Judges are to look at the law as written, not prior or contemporaneous statements. Pres. Obama put the same countries on his list that he wanted to require add'l vetting. This is because these countries have little or no record of the activities these "refugees" may have participated in. These 7, now 6, countries are also unstable and do sponsor terrorism. Trump did NOT stop other Muslim majority countries refugees from entry into the US. Christians, Sihks, Jews, Shintos, Confucians, Hindus, even atheists appear to coexist with others of a different faith system. Not so with a sizable portion (NOT ALL) of adherents of Islam.
I am glad Trump, Ryan, McCarthy, Mulvaney, Pence and others failed. RINOCare was a dog of a bill.
You must look to the written law as proposed. ALL politicians lie. The only principled group is the Freedom Caucus. A prior bill was passed in 2014 in both Houses. The FC is part of Congress that took control back from the Dems. They want their words made into law. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45525557, 45596860, 45394200, 45597021] |
5,068,976 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You should never leave gyno-Toronto. | 4 | .
"she had been held since late December after being charged for comments she wrote about President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on social media."
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Wow.
Remind me to never go to Turkey.
I'd get "Life" for the things I've posted about Herr Erdogan.
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5,069,207 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yes, my dear; SCIENCE, not greed should be the determining factor in how we care for our forests. That is why HB 3226 is being introduced. Forest biology is continually making new findings on the importance of intact forests for ALL the ecosystem services they provide. This is 2017, not 1860. Our forests are not unlimited infinite resources. It's way past time the logging industry acknowledge this. | 4 | I am not a forester, but I am reliant on forest products in my daily life and am happy to know I live in a state that currently takes a science backed approach to managing forests.
I do not think we should let those who do not understand forest management, and who take a fear based approach to pushing for changes, govern how we manage our forests. It sets a dangerous precedent for all Oregon businesses.
Science - not fear - has to govern decision making. Based on the science I've reviewed, I stand with Oregon's foresters and appreciate the jobs and sustainable forest products they provide to our communities. Forests provide clean water, habitat and many other values I support, while also contributing to our economy. Our current approach is working - let's not let those few who yell the loudest move us away from science and rational decision making. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45363536, 45224788, 45497014, 45435348, 45312025] |
5,069,282 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Did anybody even suggest a mental exam because either the guy needs one or the reporter is making it sound like he needs one? | 4 | Hanabata,
You've gone off half-cocked. There's nothing whatsoever in this story to support your remark. If you think there is, please show us.
Bear in mind, there are clinical definitions and off-the-cuff definitions of mental illness. It might be prudent for you to wait for Cardenas to be examined and/or a judge to make a determination. | [1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [20225558, 45494674, 45541073, 45597947, 45200444] |
5,069,304 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yes, emergency managers were appointed by a Republican governor. However, it seems the switch from Detroit's Lake Huron water supply to the Flint River was contemplated and planned well before any emergency managers were appointed, albeit as an alternate water source.
Then there is the role of the emergency managers. It seems that the city council was still pretty much in charge of what was to be done, or not done, to protect citizens from the lead contamination. | 4 | It's true, you aren't sure about Michigan's political landscape and seem unwilling to research it. If you had you would have discovered that Flint and many other Michigan cities were and are under the control of 'emergency managers' appointed by Republican Governor Snyder.
Emergency managers effectively control local governments. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45184889, 45438681, 45588938, 45447087] |
5,069,653 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Actually, yes. Here is your Fearless Leader Hillary doing so outright, in her book:
https://www.dailysabah.com/americas/2014/06/11/clinton-calls-erdogan-forceful-and-effective | 6 | So what 'progressives' and MSH sources have been praising Erdogan? Can't wait to see your links since I have seen nothing but criticism.
But I have seen this: "Trump stresses 'close' relationship with Turkey in first call with Erdogan"
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/08/politics/trump-erdogan-call/
or this
HABERMAN: How closely did you watch last week as events were unfolding in Turkey with the coup? Is there anything you would have done differently in how it was handled?
TRUMP: The coup never took place — the coup was not successful, and based on the fact, and I give great credit to him for being able to turn that around.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/politics/donald-trump-foreign-policy-interview.html?_r=0 | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45402464, 45456658, 45256208, 45449332] |
5,069,848 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Unlike old people it the Whit, many college students, particularly those from out of State who are the primary cash cows for the U of O, drive automobiles.
It is happens all over the US.
There are millions and millions of people that drive cars who are college students.
And many of the wealthier foreign students tend to have expensive cars that they want protected from the elements. | 4 | This is a very good site for such a development. It's next to the campus, not on the edge of the river and has access to other amenities for its residents. It's about time we started getting some double-digit floor buildings in this place.
I am a bit dismayed at the huge amount of parking that is planned. Good grief, they're going to be building an extra 20% just to store cars. What a 1950's approach; that's both wasteful and stupid, imo.
For those who question the need for more student housing, there is a positive knock-on effect to a glut of student housing for everyone who is not a landlord. If the students move out of housing in the general city, those units will be freed up and perhaps even become more affordable for other people in the community. Sure, we landlords and property owners can make more money by restricting supply, but that doesn't make Eugene a better place to live. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45535369, 45636192, 45404154, 45582203] |
5,070,184 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You got me there, I didn't read it correctly. Doh! It will be interesting to see what their "number crunching" comes up with as far at the hit to the budget. | 4 | You did not read this right. This is about a tax exemption on the payment of student loans, meaning people would be able to deduct the full amount they paid on their student loans in a tax year from their adjusted gross income. They would, however still be paying back their student loans. It would simply ease their tax burden or bring them a bigger state refund but it would by no means be like providing free tuition.
All that being said I do not yet know if I support this bill and I agree with your concern of schools continuing to raise tuition at their every whim. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45447087, 45491654, 45635376, 45450096] |
5,070,287 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0] | 3. avoid muslim countries | 10 | Scandalous for two reasons.
1. Because western nations keep cozying up to Turkey when it is clear Erdogan is a dictator with little interest in democracy.
2. Because this Canadian's persecution speaks to a core Canadian issue--accommodation.
The old saw is, when in someone else's country, we should abide by their laws and customs. And when those 'some ones' visit this country we're told, we need to abide by their customs. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45506032, 45476019, 45450096, 45598216, 45188628] |
5,070,394 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Regarding marketing boards for dairy products, you are correct but unfortunately no political party is willing to take this on. Opening up talks to preserve NAFTA provides the necessary cover-fire that politicians need to start tackling it. And this applies to both Liberals and PCs who have dodged this for decades. | 4 | Not sure I understand what any of what the author says has to do with NAFTA renegotiation. She seems ignorant about fundamentals. If marketing boards for dairy products are a concern then the governments of Canada can easily change that, NAFTA or no NAFTA. But remember, while we subsidize our farmers through price management, the U.S. helps farmers through direct subsidies, which annually cost taxpayers about US$20 billion. So one way or another, the taxpayer pays. As for energy, the US already has a sweetheart deal that basically guarantees that country as much oil and gas as they can buy even if it is detrimental to Canadian interests. Now the author wants to open the energy valve even wider. Given that the valves are already fully open, what's to negotiate? As for lumber, well, given that most of Canada's industry is owned by US companies, we should be increasing stumpage costs. Bigger royalties for Canada. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438681, 45588938, 45404154, 45447087, 45450802] |
5,071,006 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | In this new Orwellian technological age, I agree that my personal privacy protection is questionable at best. But... how do we make such a deplorable situation better by buying into the proposed legislation? If we, the collective "we", want privacy protection why in the world should we support an action that only will further reduce our privacy. Please explain, I just don't get your rationale. | 6 | Exactly. People that think they've had any privacy are delusional. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45388080, 45586742, 45447221, 45486432] |
5,071,144 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Thank you for your commiseration.
With respect, I don't need a health professional to tell me when I have flu: I know its symptoms from personal experience. And I don't need a health professional to tell me when someone is displaying signs of dementia: I have been around enough dementia sufferers to know its symptoms.
Yes, I know that Alzheimer's is only one form of dementia (the most common form), but there is a core of shared symptoms.
My post on which you originally commented was not judgement on Ms McIntyre's level of competence and Fr Senk's behaviour, but a remark about dementia in general. | 4 | Sorry for your loss. Your mom's Alzheimers is only one of several types of dementia. And most probably your mom deteriorated over several years. She may have been competent to make financial decisions in the early stages before a diagnosis was made. I volunteer on a dementia unit weekly. Until a diagnosis is made by a professional we are all just guessing. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45385682, 45456658, 45588938, 45598378] |
5,071,337 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I am not the one ignorant of reality in this discussion. I have pointed out that refugees have certain rights and exemptions that are different from other migrants - black letter law.
What you think the majority of Canadians may want is immaterial if it contravenes our supreme law and that has been so since 1982 when the Constitution was patriated and the Charter passed into law.
Since international and domestic law allows refugees claimants to enter Canada by any means necessary and make a claim as Convention refugee and they are entitled to legal representation, why would lawyers be disbarred? You did read the recent SCOC decision that struck down the amendments to the human smuggling provisions of the IRPA as "overbroad" did you not? See R. v. Appulonappa, 2015 SCC 59
The is no chance of Canada withdrawing from international conventions and agreements on refugees.
The safe third country agreement is the government exploiting a loophole in the Singh decision. | 4 | You represent the vocal minority of career activists who are willfully ignorant of reality. People cannot live wherever they want in the world and efforts to facility such policies have ended in failure and social regression (look at Europe over the last 24 months). Anyone who advises illegal migrants to break the law in order to enter Canada should be fined or arrested for facilitating criminal activity - any lawyers caught assisting migrants to break the law by circumventing official crossings should be disbarred. The overwhelming majority of Canadians want the laws changed, if that means withdrawing from international agreements then so be it. Australia has implemented a common sense approach to illegal migrants that has virtually stopped dangerous ocean voyages, their system works - Canada can and should amend our laws accordingly. What's the point of the safe 3rd country agreement if it's not enforced, it creates a system where migrants shop around for refugee status. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45450604, 45404169, 45506032, 45582203, 45589137] |
5,071,380 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Oh, I understand your point perfectly. It’s you who doesn’t get it, because you still haven’t answered the question. In your original post you wrote that “nobody should be guaranteed a job on the backs of the tax payers” – but once I pointed out (and you agreed) that your job depends on the tax payers, now you’re saying, “Nobody should be guaranteed a job on the backs of the tax payers…except for me because construction is really important.”
I don’t dispute that construction is important. I’m simply asking you to explain the hypocrisy of your original statement. Let me give you a hint: “Yeah, I see, all of our jobs depend on tax payers to some extent, so in the future I’ll try to be more open minded about the value all people bring to our society, even artists.” Does that help? | 4 | OK one last time since for some reason you don't get it. Construction workers do a great thing for building this nation so spending the money is very wise you get some thing out of it. Artists on the other hand put something up on the building our in the front of a building try living living in it. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45553691, 45588938, 45445022, 45494674, 45598834] |
5,071,804 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Ya think? Your past your nap time, you need some rest. | 4 | I feel like I'm being baited... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45401799, 45313149, 45506032, 45454484, 45418782] |
5,072,039 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I work well over 40 hours a week (at school, not including nights and weekends and home) and I'd be glad to 'prove' it. You ready to kick in some overtime for me? That would come in handy for the classes I need to take this summer... | 4 | Another way for the school district to save money would be to have the teachers actually work full time for their full-time pay. Full time is 40 hours per week all year, less holidays and vacation. With four week vacation it turns out to be about 1,840 hours per year. I think we should demand teachers spend 1,840 hours in school if they receive full-time pay. Just imagine the kind of resource they would be for the students before and after their daily lectures, imagine the sophisticated learning material they could prepare, imagine the help they could give to many students. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45402464, 45388025, 45405070, 45599360] |
5,072,164 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I never said she received a pension. She received a pay check but no pension. | 4 | Hey Sparky, you should drop the fake news sites:
http://www.snopes.com/marian-robinson-pension/
I do realize that wished for fantasy is powerful, but c'mon man, bone up! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45314593, 45599028, 45535369, 45586742] |
5,072,183 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | If I was at the airport baggage claim and saw a loose pit bull it would freak me out ! How irresponsible not to have your dog not restrained in such a public area ... | 6 | This SA article is pathetic. I read the Hawaii News Now story & what SA omits is that the dog broke loose from his leash and lunged at the airport security officer. Once the dog got loose in the airport and lunged at someone, the officer has every right to defend himself with lethal force. Family is threatening to sue but once the dog is loose and out of control of the owner, they are automatically at fault. Family claims the dog is harmless and would never attack anyone, however there is no way for the airport security officer to assume what the intentions of a loose pit bull dog running around in the airport with other people & chidren nearby. It is a sad story but I & the courts will blame the family for NOT keeping control of their dog at all times in a sensitive public area where safety of others are a priority. The lesson here is owners need to keep control of their dog at ALL TIMES in a public area, especially at a secure airport where security is, and should be tighter | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45418782, 45440506, 45486432, 45495146] |
5,073,293 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | That may be so in Paris but as a passenger in a CAR in Paris it is terrifying! Bikes come up either side at top speed, loudly gunning the engines and weaving in and out. The driver's attention is so diverted - requires constant 360 degree monitoring. A recipe for disaster on this continent.
What ultimately is the aim? My bike goes faster than yours and I get there faster than you do. So what! | 4 | I've been driving and riding for over forty years and I think lane splitting in North America would be a huge mistake. North American drivers are just not situationally aware enough for me to feel comfortable slipping between lanes. When I think of the fiascoes that ensued after the installation of dedicated bike lanes here in Ottawa, I see a parallel. Car drivers have not acclimatised to the possibility of cyclists (going both ways) being between them and street they are turning on to. Neither are they accustomed to the possibility of a motorcyclist appearing between them and the neighbouring lane and the consequences of that are not hard to imagine.
By contrast, when I rented a motorcycle to tour France, lane splitting was something I did with confidence. In Paris, the motorcyclist who remains confined to a single lane is a rarity. At stoplights, no one begrudges a biker for slipping to the front of the line. Trying the same thing here would be to invite an episode of road rage. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45438681, 45434367, 45256208, 45313149, 45582425] |
5,073,859 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You must have skimmed over the article. It does involve Montreal's airport. From the article: "Known as the REM, the 67-kilometre-long light-rail line would connect downtown Montreal to several suburbs and the Trudeau international airport."
And what about the finances of the rail link from downtown Toronto to Pearson Airport? You are silent on that for some reason. Is it a great success? Or is it an abysmal failure as the Globe reported? Evidence please if you believe it is a success. | 4 | This plan is not at all about a high speed rail link to the airport, it's about a major light rail project that happens to include the airport. So comparing it to the UP would be silly, it's not even remotely like the UP.
It's more like scarborough, where we traded off a substantial light rail investment for one subway stop. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45535369, 45404169, 45388025, 45449332] |
5,073,875 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "My frustration stems...."
I agree with you wholeheartedly!! And if only a few derelict bishops were jailed, the situation might be different, too. Our bishops are globally deprived of the presence of a few derelict fellow bishops in jail as witnesses to their own pastoral failure. Nothing like a bishop behind bars to get a victim's point across to all bishops. | 4 | I think you have a legitimate take on the political situation between Le Pen, Marcon and Fillon. This is going to be a close election and the Catholic vote will be very important.
As to your first paragraph, my local bishop is heads and shoulders above the USCCB on the issue of child sexual abuse. My frustration stems from the fact there aren't more like him. Sort of the opposite of your scenario. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45445022, 45404169, 45491654, 45394200] |
5,073,886 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | If it doesn't fit, you must acquit. | 4 | Outsider: I'm guessing if the American voters had know the Russians were intruding into the election process to support Trump it may well have "backfired" in a big way...perhaps, altering the results of the election enough that Trump would not be our President. Your "kill the messenger" position is hard for me to understand. The media didn't intrude, the Russians did. We KNOW that. It has been established as FACT....no not "fake fact" or "alternative fact"....but demonstrated fact. However, we don't yet know if Trump campaign operatives colluded with the Russians. That's the unanswered question. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45445022, 45313149, 45448191, 45630512] |
5,074,485 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Sure. But that is just an alternate way of accomplishing Rob Carrick's advice, since you then effectively make one more monthly payment per year. Here are three ways to do pay off principal faster (maybe there are more):
- occasional lump payments (what Rob was discussing)
- paying the same amount more frequently (accelerated payments)
- paying a larger amount with the same frequency (a different variant of accelerated)
For sure any of those will have an effect. If that was everyone's point, then fair enough.
Nonetheless there does seem to be confusion on this score. If you commit to spend a certain fraction of your income (equivalently, a certain number of dollars per year) on your mortgage, whether you pay that amount on a weekly, biweekly, twice a month, or monthly basis doesn't really matter much. At that point it is more a matter of what works best given your income cash flow. | 4 | You need to use accelerated weekly not weekly. On an accelerated basis your interest drops from $527,860 to $456,976. You will also see that your mortgage is paid off in just under 22 years.
Accelerated biweekly will have interest of $457,766. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45577784, 45331940, 45489512, 45236911, 45597210] |
5,074,529 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Since my previous post was denied for questioning the validity of Ryner's comment in making this statement, I will play nicey-nice by rejecting this false assertion as being beyond belief for any normal, cognitive person. | 4 | This is an easy federal cost savings cut. No need to constantly clean up this stuff. It gives beach combers something to look through. People don't see up close 95 percent of Alaska's coast line . No need to clean up what isn't seen. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45438681, 45513204, 44826677, 45567747] |
5,074,587 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | So sad, so true, or "True that... Sad that." | 4 | Not surprise about the cover up by the Church hierarchy in France. Indeed, it will not be a surprise at all if all Catholic Churches in the world are found guilty on similar charges. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45450604, 45313149, 45388080, 45534967] |
5,075,390 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Trump backtracked on steel for Keystone XL because the pipe had already been purchased years ago by Transcanada when it expected approval by the Obama administration. To force Transcanada to re-purchase American would have make the project unfeasible and likely would be cancelled (refer to Reuters news report). I suspect Trump could not afford the political blowback so he accepted the deal. Wise on his part. Nonetheless, "Buy American" will be a theme in upcoming NAFTA negotiations for sure. | 4 | Oh bt it comes with many potential benefits to Canadians. It is deply unfair to Canadian consumers that we pay highly inflated prices for dairy and poultry here. And the $20 limit for duty free from US imports is grossly unfair, while US citizens get $800 limit. That has to change also. Trump is already allowing Canadian steel to be used in the pipelines, backtracking on his commitment to have them made with only US steel. So far I do not see the US threatening harsh duties on any market that Canada isn't abusing. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45541171, 45404169, 45536013, 45388025] |
5,075,511 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] | And a governor without balls allowed it to happen. | 10 | A few stupids chased them away. | [0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [45571747, 20225558, 45603511, 45447091, 45440910] |
5,075,950 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You have my permission to reveal my true name: Rumplestiltskin! | 4 | We all know how you like to expose, being such an accomplished tattle tale and all.
I will give you that permission after Jaded Jade, Old Soul, Jim Johnson, jamesjohnson, and all your other liberal minions do. How's that? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45588938, 45598378, 45445022, 45635376, 45191524] |
5,076,182 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | So, you don`t think that it is a human right to be able to call some place home?!
A right to housing does not equate to a right to own a house! | 4 | Sorry, but linking human rights to housing is farcical.
While I agree that we are seeing a fundamental shift in the affordability of housing, and that the following generations may have less opportunities to owning homes, one thing remains: noone is entitled to a house. Period.
There are plenty of apartments available along with condominiums. If a house is too expensive, continue saving, living within your means, renting a condo or apartment or roommates. Living in Toronto or Vancouver isn`t a right. It's a luxury.
Owning a house in this market may be untenable, but owning a condo or having the options of renting still exists. It isn't owed to you.
Ontario is courting the idea of a free monthly income.
We are linking ideas of housing being a human right.
The welfare state is metastasizing in a concept that removes the idea that you are responsible largely for yourself.
Downvote all you want, but housing issues in Toronto and Vancouver are first world problems. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388025, 45597947, 45385682, 45465124, 45535941] |
5,076,251 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yeah, except the actual 'scandal' value of Clinton and the Clinton Foundation is highly overrated, and given the current admins use of unsecured personal computers, that, too, was a BS charge. The Cons have thrown dirt at Hillary for years, most of it based on false and/or misleading claims. Unfortunately, the smears Cons cooked up and promoted so vigorously have a tendency to stick, even when the truth is readily available.
None of the Clintons receive compensation for their work at the Foundation. Some of Hillary's actions have less than great optic politically, but there is no actual proof that she did anything wrong or illegal or unethical. Indeed, in terms of current politicians, she's pretty damn clean and honest and has worked on behalf of the working class and middleclass. I think she scares the hell out of Cons and that's why they attacked her so relentlessly.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/sep/01/fact-checking-clinton-foundation-controversy/ | 4 | Okay, which way would he "flip"?. Recall that he was fired by Obama for criticizing the change in policy toward Iran. Which is no doubt why his phone was monitored in the first place.
Hillary's unsecured email server was only one of her many national sercurity lapses. Taking huge campaign and Clinton Foundation donations from foreign powers was the far bigger scandal. Then there was her habit of lying to Congressional committees while Secretary of State. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45494674, 45388080, 45465124, 45571030] |
5,076,300 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Where did you get those bizarre figures?
First, are you talking about television or websites?
Thatcher's original claim was that "G&M ranks 3,000+ in global web site traffic and RT is 350" - "website traffic", not viewers.
He was hilariously wrong, as my link proved.
Either way, your figures are wildly off.
CNN has 2M viewers weekly?
Fox has 3.5M viewers weekly?
Here's the hard numbers:
"Daytime viewership was also dominated by Fox as it pulled in 2.09 million. CNN’s programming reeled in 1.04 million viewers and MSNBC finished third at 695K."
That's per day, not "per week".
And just viewers in the US, not including international markets.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-news-tops-cable-news-in-total-viewers-and-demo-cnn-enjoys-best-month-in-eight-years/
RT TV's numbers?
They've been caught lying about them, exaggerating them, and obfuscating them:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/17/putin-s-propaganda-tv-lies-about-ratings.html
Care to try again?
. | 4 | Correction:
Number of weekly viewers (2016 - 2017):
CNN: ~2 million
Fox News: ~ 3.5 million
France 24: ~45 million
Deutsche Welle: ~50 million viewers
RT: ~ 70 million
BBC World News: ~76 million
I guess "trendingtopmost" isn't an authority on, well, anything. Who'd have thought? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45450604, 45404169, 45388080, 45197484] |
5,076,322 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I agree, tepid resistance when they have the votes anyway is not resistance. | 4 | Do notice that Murkowski always says she can't support what already otherwise has the necessary Republican votes and is going to pass with her or without her.
She's 'allowed' a couple of 'show votes' during any one session.
The Republican Party condones the theater so she can continue to draw 'moderate' voters to the Party in Alaska.
All Murkowski's show votes are under circumstances where the bill is a sure bet for passage before we hear from Murkowski.
What you don't see in the paper or on the television is Murkowski making any statements before the vote has been pre-determined.
You didn't hear her last week fighting to sway her fellow members to save this access that she is so concerned with now that it's gone.
It's all for show.
Pence was more than thrilled to make a public appearance and cast his vote for this repeal.
Collins and Murkowski get a couple show votes every session.
Now watch all their other votes. Party line. Loyal foot soldiers for the right wing cause. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45596860, 45485526, 45656105, 45377221, 45450031] |
5,076,409 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | "RT TV's numbers?
They've been caught lying about them, exaggerating them, and obfuscating them"
There's nothing in that September 2015 dailybeast article supporting its headline. Instead, the Fall 2015 Ipsos survey results seems to have promptly proven that the dailybeast article was typical sneering propaganda. Care to try again?
"Link?"
AFAIK, the annual Ipsos Affluent Survey is not publicly released, but all those included in the survey would have access to the results. If RT's claims were inaccurate, the other news outlets included in the survey would know and report on it. No, dailybeast was not one of those included in the survey.
Euronews, however, was:
https://euronewsinside.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/euronews-maintains-solid-position-as-leading-news-channel-in-europe/
"The media considered in this release under ‘News/Business Channels’ are: Euronews, CNN, BBC World News, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Al J azeera English, France 24, i24news, RT, NHK World TV." | 5 | Where did you get those bizarre figures?
First, are you talking about television or websites?
Thatcher's original claim was that "G&M ranks 3,000+ in global web site traffic and RT is 350" - "website traffic", not viewers.
He was hilariously wrong, as my link proved.
Either way, your figures are wildly off.
CNN has 2M viewers weekly?
Fox has 3.5M viewers weekly?
Here's the hard numbers:
"Daytime viewership was also dominated by Fox as it pulled in 2.09 million. CNN’s programming reeled in 1.04 million viewers and MSNBC finished third at 695K."
That's per day, not "per week".
And just viewers in the US, not including international markets.
http://www.mediaite.com/online/fox-news-tops-cable-news-in-total-viewers-and-demo-cnn-enjoys-best-month-in-eight-years/
RT TV's numbers?
They've been caught lying about them, exaggerating them, and obfuscating them:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/17/putin-s-propaganda-tv-lies-about-ratings.html
Care to try again?
. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438681, 45447087, 45191524, 45509327, 45633333] |
5,076,508 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Then no one will cpme.
CHEW ON THAT! | 4 | Americans enjoy a low CDN dollar when they venture north for vacations and shopping. I suggest we place an entry fee on Americans entering Canada. Say, $100 per day for a "visa". Chew on that. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45388080, 45450604, 45589137, 45463652] |
5,077,108 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Always_skeptical
I predict you will become a great writer of fantasy and science fiction in your future. | 4 | So lets assume Doug is right. The EU plays hardball and doesn't offer the UK a deal that is any better than what Norway has. ie the costs and obligations of membership without a seat at the table. Clearly the UK will not accept this and will exit without a deal, relying on WTO regulations to govern trade. And the EU wont get a dime from the UK.
Result - the EU budget is in crisis due to the loss of UK contributions. There is complete disunity in Europe as to future direction - more integration vs less integration, fear of even greater German domination etc. Meanwhile the UK will fully control critical economic levers such as taxation, monetary policy, fiscal policy, regulation and can direct all of these towards achieving success for UK exporters in foreign markets, including Europe. From a policy perspective a united, focused, and nimble UK should be able to run circles around the blundering, divided, and bloated EU.
And the naysayers like Saunders will look like idiot. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45485526, 45590457, 45450096, 45541206, 45438416] |
5,077,109 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Well said, I am pro choice as well. It is the simplicity and smug justification being applied to denying existence that bothers me. It is a choice taken far too lightly in my humble opinion. | 4 | Correct. If it exists inside the womb, not life. If it exists anywhere else, other then the womb, well that's life.
Unless it's an animal womb,. then that's not life. No wait, that's life.
It has to be a human womb that defines life. Everything in the womb is decidedly NOT alive and is dead. But everything in every other womb is alive.
Single cell organisms are life, just not when they're in the human womb.
So there.
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So what's the lesson here? I myself am a pro-choice person, but I've come to recognize that I will follow the scientific definition of life and apply it equally to all organisms. That's the Buddhist in me. All life is created equal and is sacred.
I don't need silly definitions and differentiation's to fool myself into thinking that my choice is anything other then sacrificing life. Potential life, if it makes you feel better.
Some life society has deemed morally and ethically acceptable to terminate. That's the neanderthal in all of us. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45366683, 45454484, 45537841, 45486432, 45394200] |
5,077,228 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | "... Your question is the intellectual equivalent of "Do you still beat your wife?"..." No, it's just a simple straight-forward inquiry for some specific details about how the writer was suffering (or thought he was suffering). :-/
"... Climate change moves slowly ... Generally true, unless something *really* dramatic happens, like an asteroid impact, or a massive caldera eruption. Fortunately, those are quite rare in earth history. Still, despite what the Bob Doppelds of the world, etc, like to imply, the natural state of the climate is *not* static, it is always changing, one direction or another. We as a species have been living with these effects ever since we left the African savannas, back in the Pleistocene. | 6 | Climate change moves slowly, Silverhorn, and its specific effects on any single person cannot usually be measured.
Your question is the intellectual equivalent of "Do you still beat your wife?" | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45447087, 45535393, 45485526, 45486432, 45567747] |
5,077,306 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Exscept, unlike the CNQ / Shell deal, it was a BAD investment by Cenovus | 4 | Great news!
(I assume anyways, since whenever a foreign company bought oil sands assets before, many were upset, especially the CPC) | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45332074, 45438575, 45536325, 45316845, 45256307] |
5,077,727 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | I assure you I can read perfectly well. Your last paragraph did not make that point at all, it was an attack on John McCain who you appear to dislike.
I think it would be great if Russia and the US were to reconcile and work together to improve the world. I don't think it would be great if two corrupt oligarchs reconcile in order to advance their personal interests, which is what appears to be happening. | 5 | and you can't read - my last point was exactly that
trump is no president beholden to the republican establishment
that is why they are scared
heaven forbid russia and the us should reconcile | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45388080, 45456658, 45404169, 45603153] |
5,078,019 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0] | Correct Kakailimoku, People today think that the HHL is a reparation for some harms done, or a right they are entitled to. It was designed to put a limited amount of Polynesians back on the land to FARM because it was argued that they were "a dying race". We now know that is not the case. There are more people claiming to be Polynesian-Hawaiians than ever before 550,000, and are the fastest growing ethnicity in the U.S! More Polynesians own land and homes than ever before.
The program (which was called "The Rehabilitation Experiment" when originally formed) has now turned into a raced based "buy tutu a condo in Kona" program.
And really, who in their right mind would build a home on another persons property? This is nothing but a Indian Reservation, Hawaiian style.
Besides, everyone needs affordable housing, not just Polynesians. The program as it exists now is nothing more than a discriminatory race based program, and would certainly not stand up to Supreme Court scrutiny. | 5 | Unless "Hmoestead" concept goes back to its original intent of getting Hawaiians back to their land in order to resume their traditional lifestyle, it is destined to fail. For "Homestead" nowadays to mean little more than "a house and a yard in a subdivision" means for it to be just another "gimme" benefit that will debilitate its recipients the same as crack does when people get hooked. A house recipient will not have gotten anything at their own effort, instead being given it. Then they are expected to function in the broader society in which free enterprise and merit are the causal agents of gain (Leftist progressive socialist be darned!).
Giving Hawaiians a house and a yard and keeping them in this society is not going to be good for any party.
If Hawaiians want/need to remain integrated into the extant society they should not be given a free house/yard.
If you want Hawaiians to get free land, then give them a large parcels, have them set up traditional society and WORK the land. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45535393, 45588938, 45256208, 45535941] |
5,078,037 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | 2 out of 3 analysts are forecasting a correction, I'm sitting on a heap of cash from a real estate sale late last year and generally waiting for one too. You said you bailed in late Jan and had a set reentry point. What is it? This isn't a Senate confirmation hearing, you aren't under oath. No reason to deflect to Schiller, I'm not bringing up Buffett. Just don't tell us you "magically" reentered at the bottom months or years from now if you won't provide that number now. | 4 | Jack, then if you think that the market forecasters I've cited are wrong, then you should hold on to what you've got and, if you have cash, buy in heavily.
Double down, Jack, show the courage of your convictions. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45184889, 45505732, 45388080, 45450604] |
5,078,142 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | We had no deficit when the Conservatives left; Liberals 2016 deficit $30 billion, 2017 projected deficit $30 billion, so we are at $60 billion and counting. No balanced budget until 2050, where is that money gone/going certainly not defense? | 4 | With all the economic pressures on Canada, how do you propose that Canada find an extra $20 billion a year on the folly of military spending? Raise taxes or cut health care, pensions and transfer payments? Will we end up with a strong military but not have a society worth protecting? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45535369, 45501738, 45541171, 45599480] |
5,078,157 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Most of your post is an unhelpful rant but to address your primary point:
If Flynn was "railroaded" into resigning by the mediademocrat conspiracy (?!) why in the world would he be concerned about testifying? What could he possibly need immunity from? Right? If it's all fabrications and insinuations as you seem to want to believe what's he got to fear? He should be happy to tell his part of the story if it shows he did nothing wrong. What could he possibly face prosecution for if he's entirely innocent?
If you reply try to stay on point. No wandering off into conspiracy theory territory please. | 10 | I have absolutely no doubt he was railroaded into resigning by the NYT/WAPO Clinton Democrat conspiracy.
He will discuss that if given the opportunity. The fact that he was entertaining the idea of working with the big bad Russians was their biggest concern.
Collectively the MSM/Democrat group has demonstrated over the better part of 10 years absolute determination to prevent any form of reconciliation or cooperation between Russia and the USA. This was self evident before Sochi but reached its peak in the aftermath of the Ukraine crisis.
It isn't necessary that this group has proof that american leaders and russian counterparts might cooperate - all they have to do is INSINUATE- through innuendo and unsubstantiated claims that it's happening.
That alone is sufficient to put the likes of John McCain and his war mongering colleagues into apoplectic fits and Mr and Mrs America running for the bed covers.
Why the Globe engages in this trash is unclear. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45537352, 45506032, 45537841, 45418654] |
5,078,813 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Valacyclovir works wonders if you are immune impaired. | 4 | The older you get, the weaker your immune system. Also, as people age it is more likely that they will have microscopic lesions at the slightest friction. Thus, old people are more likely be infected with a STD at genital contacts and have worse symptoms and disease outcomes. There are some STD's without any treatment, mostly viral infection including HIV. Remember the Tom Hanks character in the film "Philadelphia" covered with weird rashes? That is what happens when someone with a compromised immune system gets herpes. That is whats is going to happen to old people if they get herpes. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45597947, 45586742, 45514417, 45363536, 45599928] |
5,078,828 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yeah, I know UPS upped their restrictions on hazardous items. Seems like Amazon won't even ship mirrors, liquids, certain vitamins, any battery, paint, etc... | 4 | I've noticed that more items that used to ship free do not anymore despite being a Prime member. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45501738, 45404154, 45450604, 45535393] |
5,078,989 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1] | Thanks for confirming to everybody you're a nutcase. " 9/11 was an inside job".
OK, stop watching Designated Survivor. That's old school TeeVee drama, not real life. | 10 | We don't need to take a country over to control it. It's cheaper to install and maintain a compliant dictatorship than a democracy. Often you only have to corrupt one individual, family or clique -- not the majority of the population. We pay the former to control and repress the latter, and supply them with the weapons to do it -- a subsidy for our military-industrial complex.
Before you go abroad in search of justice, better to make sure you have it at home. Anyone who watched Building Seven pancake in the same faster-than-freefall, obvious implosion fashion as the twin towers KNOWS 9/11 was an inside job. Why go abroad in search of monsters to slay when we obviously have plenty here to deal with? | [0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45432844, 45454484, 45416745, 45582632, 45194903] |
5,079,005 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Go ask the Canadians if they want to trade their system for ours. | 4 | The last thing we need is government medicine, with the competence of the DMV, & the compassion of the IRS.
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.”
― P.J. O'Rourke | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45541171, 45404169, 45536013, 45402464] |
5,079,136 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Lol! I caught that "Sales Puffery" comment too😂. Must be some "alternate speak". | 4 | Yup. And anyone stupid enough to vote for Trump deserves when they (don't) get. Unfortunately the rest of us get it too.
"Sales puffery" is an excellent description. Another term for it is "fraud". | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45312025, 45606103, 45602066, 45535968] |
5,079,272 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "yet none of these destinations offer the quality of life found in London"
Have you ever been to Paris? | 4 | Such certainty with so few facts. The City of London is unlikely to face the devastation you suggest for three reasons - tax, currency and human resources. The first two will continue to be firmly within the UK's control. Brussels, Frankfurt and Paris may be salivating over the financial possibilities of Brexit, yet none of these destinations offer the quality of life found in London. And will the big financial players want to move all their assets when there is such residual risk of further defections from and ultimate demise of the EU? Singapore on Thames anyone?
Concerning Scotland, North Sea oil is dying. The cost to remove and remediate the platforms and undersea structures is a minimum of 20 billion sterling (roughly $CAD 33 billion) that will largely be financed by the exchequer as tax refunds. Hardly a jewel in any crown - British or Scottish. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45590457, 45450746, 45548584, 45377221, 45545128] |
5,079,432 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Um, do you actually know anyone over the age of 18 that participates in Facebook? Seriously, who does that? | 4 | here's a link to the Hollanders Facebook if you want to publicly shame him..
https://www.facebook.com/zhollander | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45485526, 45498710, 45404154, 45589137] |
5,080,098 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You seem to think every Chinese WANTS to illegally immigrate to this so called "wonderful" country. This ain't the 1900s anymore. I know that in that country there are many many MILLIONS there that have no need for living life on the lam in the US and are doing quite well and keeping American businesses afloat due to their purchasing power. Why do you think EVERYWHERE in Waikiki/Hawaii/Maninland places are scrambling to hire Mandarin speakers? They're also keeping THIS rock afloat.
At least THEY can get a POS choo choo built on time, on budget!
It might be defensive but it isn't being Chinese. It's REAL LIFE experiences...having done business there...knowing diplomats there...
SO if your only retort is whether or not I'm Chinese and one sourced numbers, then go enjoy your yakiniku and watch Korea eventually get BOUGHT out by the Chinese... | 4 | Shopoholic- I've seem to hit a nerve cause you seem to be getting defensive. Are you Chinese?
Just stating the facts. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45505902, 45535369, 45388025, 45505732] |
5,080,629 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | very true I use a BlackBerry PRIV but also use my trusty BlackBerry 10 Paspport Silver ED ....can;t wait for a BlackBerry Secured Inside tablet with HUB+ services .......come on Canada ....BlackBerry is back support our Canadian Jobs .......oh ...shucks we are talking hardware again BlackBerry is much more folks | 4 | Great that Blackberry is seeing light at the end of the tunnel. Their Android phones are excellent. TCL did a good job modifying the Alcatel Idol 4S to be a Blackberry DTEK60. The DTEK60 is 400$ cheaper than a Google Pixel XL with almost identical specifications plus an SD slot to add storage and BB security.
At the time of release Google and Blackberry were the only firms to commit to monthly security updates to their android OS.
Unfortunately Blackberry or TCL do not market well. They need a new marketing genius team to get the word out in North America.
When people see my DTEK60 they are surprised its is a Blackberry phone. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45432844, 45537352, 45597947, 45476019, 45513204] |
5,080,784 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Gee Layla, have you never met up with friends for a drink after work? Not my objective ever to go mingle with drunk people. I think it is a human right-freedom of movement I would think. | 6 | This article reminds me of recent calls for bartenders and bar management to protect women who go to bars from unwanted attentions from male patrons.
Since the only objective of going to a bar would be to mingle with drunk people, wouldn't it be more sensible for women just to avoid going to bars?
Or is it a human right to congregate in a place where both men and women become disinhibited from alcohol? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45197484, 45535810, 45333173, 45438416] |
5,080,872 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Which is why the dog should not have been there. | 4 | If the Securitas security guard approached in the manner reported - the dog perceived a threat and went into defensive mode. Defending it's family - the woman and child. Also - a chained or leashed dog will react in a "flight or fight" fashion as it feels it cannot escape. I'll await further investigation and facts before making up my mind. YMMV | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45418782, 45224788, 45501738, 45454484, 45448191] |
5,081,215 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Not so. It is cells and tissue that will become a human being. Reasonable people can argue when it becomes a human being (with the rights of such), but biologically it is not a human being but rather it is a human fetus. The idea of 'being' is not a scientific idea. It is one in the realm of philosophy and law. | 4 | Please check your science facts. It's more than an opinion that a fetus IS a human being. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45534988, 45582203, 45598834, 45445192, 45597944] |
5,081,339 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It is a sad revelation of overly competitive bravado when his task should be to ensure positive, long-term relations and scientific objectivity. Some form of sanctioned is warranted. | 4 | This story: “My plan is to crush them like bugs,” Dr. Abraham said.
This is science? Was this meant to be a joke? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45445192, 45440506, 45635376, 45597315] |
5,081,587 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Using this logic, Canada should distance itself from Russia, China, Indonesia, Turkey, Morocco, Ethiopia, Armenia... Technically, you being in Canada is a war crime using your interpretation. Plan on moving soon? | 4 | This is a war crime. It is inadmissable to acquire territory through military conquest under international law . It is also inadmissable to move ones population into conquered territory. Canada to should distance itself from Israel. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45404154, 45397010, 45476019, 45448160, 45449731] |
5,081,781 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Utilitas keeps claiming he isn't racist, then he posts things like this. Oh, the circumstances of Sandra Bland's arrest and death are quite murky. But utilitas has determined what happened, based on the voices in his head or something. | 4 | If Sandra Bland didn't have resentment on her mind and had simply cooperated with law enforcement, she'd surely be alive today.
If Angela Davis hadn't provided guns to murderers, and hadn't preached that whites should die for the revolution, she'd never have gone to prison.
Assata Shakur is just a murderer and a terrorist.
Racial resentment is a seductive path, but it leads nowhere. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [45445192, 45537352, 45506032, 45418654, 45360811] |
5,082,238 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Would Trudeau care?
Immigration
“A lot of people perceive that immigration has produced a huge cultural threat to the English traditions, way of life, Judeo-Christian religious traditions, and all those things."
"It’s not politically correct to talk about it, but they are really concerned."
"Immigration was huge in this referendum” said Harold Clarke, author of Affluence, Austerity & Electoral Change in Britain ..."
“Negative attitudes towards immigration were a huge driver of Leave voting. That’s something that’s been building for years.”
Excerpts from: "Brexit’s driving force: Middle England’s desire to return to an almost mythical past" - Joseph Brean - National Post - June 24, 2016 | 4 | The demise of EU has been predicted many times before but it did not happen. Considering big trading countries and blocks it is an economic necessity for Europe to stay together. Neither Britain not EU will collapse but I do believe that UK may come out with the shorter end of the stick. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45582203, 45366683, 45438681, 45537841, 45494501] |
5,082,248 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You're telling me a PhD is a requirement to be a "transit operator" for the TTC? I take transit every day. Believe me, these blokes do not have a PhD. More likely a connection with the union. | 4 | Actually i know of a fair number of positions that the employee retired, and individuals with the required qualifications will not take the position because they make significantly more in the private sector. The majority of individuals that i know who work for the public service have a PhD and many yeas of experience. Hence the problem with qualifications............. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45501738, 45314593, 45313149, 45476019] |
5,082,530 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | I don't think so she appeared to be talking quite literally.
"None of this is fair or just...."
Is a literal statement not an ironical one. Just IMHO. | 6 | I don't think Margaret means "unfair" literally but ironically. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45426626, 45535369, 45388080, 45476019] |
5,082,657 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Don't tell me you listen to Rachel Maddow. I that the Rachel you're speaking of? If it is, Google her high school graduation picture; you'll be surprised. | 4 | You obviously don't listen to Rachel. You should listen to things other than Fox and friends. lol
And it wasn't the Obama administration but rather America's intelligence community that was tracking the Donald which is really not the same thing. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45432844, 45448560, 45443908, 45224788, 45184003] |
5,082,874 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "When Notre Dame, BC or Georgetown...has a woman president...."
So long as there is a critical mass or pool of Jesuit candidates to fill the office of president at Jesuit colleges and universities, I don't think it likely that lay women or men will fill those positions -- or many of them -- any time soon. But when Jesuits don't have enough qualified Jesuit candidates (at their 28 colleges and universities) for the office of president, I am sure they will open the position up to lay people, both women and men. Likewise at the University of Notre Dame, founded by the Congregation of Holy Cross. When that Congregation doesn't have a suitable number of (or available) Holy Cross candidates for the presidency there (as spelled out in ND's by-laws), the board of trustees can open the position up to qualified lay people. Because women's religious communities or orders don't do as well in vocations, it is not surprising that lay people are filling the office of president at their schools. | 4 | Considering that Harvard has, and Princeton had, presidents who were women, this is not surprising or noteworthy. Yale had an acting president who was a woman, who went on to become president of the University of Chicago. These Catholic colleges are just catching up. When Notre Dame, BC or Georgetown (like Harvard, Yale and Princeton, formerly for men only) has a woman president, Catholic colleges will have caught up. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45465124, 45525588, 45567747, 45599311] |
5,083,014 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | They have and are going after real estate specultors, KPMG and Mossack Fonseca. They should be and are chasing the so called "small fish" that evade taxes
The CRA should be commended for going after big AND small. | 4 | It would be nice if the CRA went after bigger fish like all the real estate speculators who are not declaring capital gains on their sales. They need to start asking for municipal records on sales and not waste time with these minnows.
Unfortunately that is the CRA's game to go after the minnows who they can bully but ignore the big fish who opened offshore accounts with KPMG in the Isle of Man or with Mossack Fonseca in Panama. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45536973, 45598378, 45366683, 45432844] |
5,083,384 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You didn't look hard enough. | 4 | I can disagree with people, but still be man enough to give praise when they are right. I hope he does the same. ugotta b kidding did have a great post. Didn't see where he called me a name | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45434367, 45366683, 45500804, 45440506, 45635376] |
5,083,519 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Okay, 907AK, way to stay focused on the issue...again. | 4 | “I should not have made that statement,” Mnuchin wrote to OGE Director Walter Shaub. “I want to assure you that I was aware of the rule against using public office to promote a particular product, as I specifically acknowledged in the interview.”
During the March 24 interview, the Trump appointee said, “I am not promoting any product, but you should send all your kids to see ' _______'.
"_______" being a movie Mnuchin owns.
Just another Trump administration ethics violation.
Everyone's doing it. Violating ethics is what Trump and his cohorts do.
The whole bunch are nothing but crooks.
Mnuchin assures everyone he knows the rules, breaks the rules anyway.
Trumpism. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45434367, 45599028, 45537841, 45327007, 45447221] |
5,083,829 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It is not the nurses or nurse practitioners I am concerned about making over 100K, it is the bloated management, all the vp's etc.
Exactly what qualifies someone to be a Transplant Donor Specialist at 129K??? | 4 | Check the hospital lists of Sunshine Workers and you will see that nurses indeed are making over $100K. I think all employees of governments federal/provincial/local should have all their salaries posted from janitor to big shots. It's our money, 60 % of budgets goes to salaries and compensation (pensions, benefits) that's why there isn't enough money for kids and sick people. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45397010, 45476019, 45535372, 45596860, 45653549] |
5,083,838 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Svend had a bad memory, he forgot to bring it back | 4 | Svend Robinson got into a bit of trouble "borrowing" an expensive ring. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45501738, 45418782, 45404169, 45606103, 45537276] |
5,083,964 | [1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0] | Good that you post something worth reading once in a while rather than the usual partisan nonsense. | 10 | That was supposed to be funny?
This was much funnier:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-government-posts-april-fools-day-prank-offering-election-interference/ | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45385682, 45224788, 45535393, 45514417] |
5,083,984 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | These two attorney's will, assuming they are being paid on a "contingent fee" representation, get paid if and only if they win.
The would have received a certain percentage if the State had settled without them filing a lawsuit, now a larger percentage if the State settles without going to trial, and an even larger percentage if they try the case and win.
They risk spending their time to get nothing.
More than likely, they will get one-third or so of the millions of dollars that will be paid out by the taxpayers of Oregon. The legal guardians of the kids will get the rest, minus expenses such as professional witness fees and other court costs.
You really ought to learn at least a little something about a subject prior to bloviating. | 4 | But, is there Not a possibility that "ambulance chasing" attorneys COULD 'stake out' DHS
looking for abuses of the system in order to "Help" abused children, and sue the "deep pockets'? In the same manner an unscrupulous attorney may hang around an emergency room. I will not suspect That when I hear these two attorneys will be donating their proceeds to Child Abuse organizations. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45505902, 45541171, 45404154, 44826677] |
5,084,199 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | All you have to do is convince the Department of labor that your contractors meet the States' requirements as independent contractors and not employees. I believe you will find you do not if you do something as simple as control the hours they work. In addition you should check with your insurance company as your vehicle is still your responsibility when it comes to its safe condition. Remember those attorneys will always get you into court and without insurance you'll be paying dearly for representation. | 4 | So then I should be able to exempt my drivers, who don't even haul people, from workers comp. and call them independent contractors. Sure. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438681, 45541171, 45597995, 45401799, 45645228] |
5,084,311 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | With well in excess of 70.6% of the people in the US claiming to be "Christian" and another 6% or so claiming some other religion, and many such people being voters or legislators, 'religious input' is not going to go away.
And even the non-religious are not all into sexual abuse or ownership of women.
There are quite a few in both groups who see the predators as the problem.
The increasing number of designations of sexual offenses, even on the internet, as mandatory minimum jail sentences in both Federal and State laws, is a reflection of the direction this is going.
Ten (10) years in a Federal pen is partially punishment, partially prevention of predators re-offending. | 4 | Nope MC, you project your worldview onto me. It is necessary to develop a rational approach to ranking the severity of criminal trespass. The extreme crime in my evaluation is always intentional murder. But there are lessor crimes from which a victim can recover. How do we compare the severity of those crimes? Your comments indicate that you are happy to invoke political and religious factors into the assessment of criminal impact. I not so much. Many of my comments on sexual crimes stem from a concern that they have been politicized and that their punishment is out of proportion to their impact on victims. In evaluating crimes, I always focus on the objective impact of said crime on the victim. The impact may be financial or physical. Sex offenders are registered for life and the offense can be as minor as briefly touching a forbidden part. A scammer could impoverish an older couple and get brief probation. Such sentencing reflects religious input, not concern for victims. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45404259, 45494674, 45571030, 45573532] |
5,084,381 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "But then NA is still in diapers."
Speaking of which, you should change yours. | 4 | In NA the problem is the male dominated administration who rule over amateur participation at all levels that are almost 50/50. These boards mirror the NSO's who hope to win the big one to get at all the FIFA money and run the pro leagues to the benefit of the males. It mirrors the old attitude that women should stay at home or work at home and a 9 to 5 too. Yep, I"ve seen it at the club, league, PSO, NSO, Fed and FIFA levels
USSF and CSA are good examples of NSO's that don't show transparency of how the female side contribes to the NSO and how those profits are put back into their respecitve programs. The present legal stand off between the USSF and the USWNT will come to a head with the USSF loosing due to the USSF lack of transparency on how the TV, marketing and other profits for the USWNT are hidden in Soccer United Marketing.
UEFA has 28 females leagues and their approach is different than NA. They like their mens side do it for the sport. But then NA is still in diapers. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45434367, 45535393, 45541171, 45465124, 45404154] |
5,084,488 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Michael, listen to this guy. He's a former SeeBee. | 4 | [It’s stunning how many property rights people are reluctant to ask the Navy to cut a check to cover all their impositions on public services that otherwise must be subsidized by all the residents of Island County.]
Wow, you really don't know anything:
- Water pipeline - Navy built and turned over to the City.
- SPB Wastewater plan - Ditto above
- Thousands of acres in preservation - ditto above
- City Marina - Ditto above
- OHSD offsets for 1,600 Navy Homes - 5x the property tax of regular home
- 80% of Navy personnel live in private housing - pay full tax rate
- Island Transit - operated for free due to 80% Navy contribution via Sales Tax
- Island County - one of the lowest tax bases in WA
I could go on. You cherry pick a couple areas, grossly extrapolate, and go home with a nice check. Sad. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45432844, 45500804, 45536325, 45540926] |
5,084,547 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "What is the ultimate purpose of carbon taxes? To raise government revenue ,or to lower CO2 emissions ?"
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It is to force the internalisation of negative externalities in price. Failure to internalise negative externalities has the same effect as subsidising the activity. It skews the price, and ultimately skews both supply and consumption decisions in the marketplace to a non-optimal output boundary.
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Ultimately negative externalities, like any non-transient subsidy, make an economy less efficient, i.e., poorer.
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Which is why economies where the price of gasoline is higher than ours are almost always richer than we are.
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There is a ton of empirical evidence that raising the price of gasoline is actually making those economies richer and creating jobs and wealth, however much you may doubt that result. | 4 | Your comparison is nonsense.
Norway's population is 15.8% of ours( 33.4m vs 5.3m ) .Yet has a population density of 4 times ours (15/sq.km vs. 3.7/sq.km)
see: worldometers, stats canada
Carbon taxes are a solution in search of a problem
What is the ultimate purpose of carbon taxes? To raise government revenue ,or to lower CO2 emissions ? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45445022, 45476019, 45333173, 45351233] |
5,084,728 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Sure is easier when you don't have to use your mind. You can judge folks from distance simply by what they wear. Trump in loose bathrobe? Keep the girls close! | 4 | Yep. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45438070, 45476019, 45596860, 45598378] |
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