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5,696,663 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Totally agree. This past Legislature got all of their touchy feely stuff done to satisfy who? Them. Just the renaming of the Airport is a big waste of money. Stop giving all these lawmakers allowances to spend freely. Do whats right! | 5 | Are you kidding me? The Democrats who control this State, hook line and sinker with their close relationship with the Unions have only one thing in mind - just one thing. "Another TAX increase like they do just about every legislature session. The myth that the Democrats are for the poor people and the Republicans for the rich still lingers especially when election time rolls around. We elect the same tax-addicted Democrats just about every year. That myth has since been reversed.
Our tax dollars are still being mis-managed by this political power in this State. Do you believe that every Rail Tax dollar is kept for the rail? I don't. Look at our once Hurricane Fund taken out of our property tax to cover any catasprophe. It's been depleted. So where did the Democratic control legislature do with the funds? The Democrats call the rail tax temporarily. You believe that? Anything these tax addicted politicans call temporary is permanent. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45588938, 45438681, 45432844, 44826677] |
5,696,894 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | This is not about "indigenous land claims." Those types of claims were extinguished by the ANCSA settlement in 1971. This is about a public prescriptive easement claim, which is a property claim available to any land user, Native or not, based on the particular facts. Charles Wohlforth neglected to say that the Alaska Legislature abolished prescriptive easement claims in 2003, except for those that had already been perfected by 10 years or more of adverse use prior to 2003.
Regarding attorneys fees to the winner -- Rule 82 of the Civil Rules allows only a percentage of the winner's actual, reasonable attorney's fees to be collected from the loser -- usually 20 percent if the case is decided before trial, and 30 percent if it goes to trial. The judge can increase these percentages if there is bad faith our bad behavior by the loser during the litigation. The court supervises the reasonableness of attorney's fee claims -- it is not a winner-take-all free-for-all. | 4 | Sounds like there's more to the story, but the case seems pretty clear - they've been using the access for many decades and legally they're entitled to continue to under the law. Native rights don't seem to be the issue.
But Charles' bigger point is the matter of losers having to pay legal fees of the winner. This allows bullying of the highest order (which Sealaska appears to have done). It also encourages gouging by the lawyers. Once it becomes clear that they will win the case, the lawyers pile on, billing against the case as heavily as they can. "Yup, we needed to sharpen every pencil in the office for this case. Took our attorney, making $500/hour, three hours." Sealaska should be ashamed.
Cases like these are why people hate lawyers. This legal fee law needs to change. But guess what? Big corporations own our legislature and they aren't going to let that happen. They like things just the way they are. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45385682, 45445022, 45485526, 45541171] |
5,697,494 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0] | You think it doesn't matter? Nobody accused them of corruption. They are guilty of collaboration with pure evil. | 10 | Are you serious ? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45588938, 45599360, 45447221, 45454500] |
5,697,629 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The ability of doctors to cure, relieve suffering, and impede death is overrated. I say this as a doctor. Many suffer more than is necessary because of false hope that the medical system can save them, when it cannot. We in health care are only human beings with a few more tools and knowledge resources than other human beings. That is all. | 4 | If I understand his allusion properly, I don't think Francis accurately characterizes the position of those who were in favor of letting Charlie Guard die. It didn't seem like anyone regarded "the disappearance of a person as a good thing." One may find the compassion of those making the decisions ill considered, or mistaken in its object, given that it ran contrary to the wishes of Charlie's parents, but that doesn't mean it wasn't compassion.
Compassion need not always yield the same result materially. Sometimes it yields awful results, when those acting from compassion have insufficient understanding. But it is still compassion. This points to the hazards of acting from sentiment. Charlie's parents were unsurprisingly motivated by sentiment, but the judgement of Charlie's advocate was that if they were allowed to pursue their hope, the probable consequence would only be an increase in suffering, both in intensity and duration, for Charlie. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45332074, 45438681, 45447087, 44826677] |
5,698,073 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Not correct.
MDs pay a portion of the premiums, for some surgical specialists runs into the 10s of thousands of dollars per year.
employee sick time??? Teacher or politician is sick and doesn't work that day - they get paid. MD is sick, not only do they not get paid but they have to pay overhead/employees/equipment/etc....
Depends what you the expert think is expensive equipment.....for you to point out perceived "lack of business knowledge" is somewhat Trumpian. | 4 | Canadian doctors have liability insurance via CMPA. They don't have to pay premiums for this. Add to this, the fact that Canada as a whole shows far less litigousness than in the U.S. (where Doctors DO actually have to fund their own malpractice insurance).
And employee sick time is no different than any other business. So it's not a unique risk in the slightest. Equipment risk: again, most medical equipment is financed and written off - just like any other business. So this is not a unique business risk. Most specialized, expensive equipment is limited to hospitals or large clinics. If a small practice is buying hugely specialized, expensive equipment - well again - I have to point out their lack of business knowledge to take on this type of risk. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45566568, 45432844, 45372989, 45365374, 45203823] |
5,698,098 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Perhaps with complete sentences we'd know what you are trying to say. | 4 | No one expected some insider was going to be the one that would drain the swamp. No one expected the swamp not to fight back and create as much chaos as possible. The central government is build to be confusing it is the one way for politicians to hide their corruption and incompetence. Trump is just attempting to logic and common sense, and that is like trying to mix water and oil. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45332074, 45366683, 45333173, 45404154] |
5,698,199 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | You may be underestimating how much of your expenses shift with the USD/CAD exchange. A lot more than you realize is based on a USD supply chain. We are constantly whipsawed by it. My savings are about 1.3 times the equity on my house.
Also, I forgot that I moved about 20% of my holdings to FXI, a Chinese ETF, to diversify a bit. That one has gone up quite a bit in the last month, just dumb luck. | 10 | While I can't argue with that strategy as I myself moved aggressively into the American market when the dollar was at par, as a Canadian investor I still prefer to hold the larger proportion of my portfolio in $CDN denominated investments as that is the currency my expenses are primarily in. While the diversification offered by U.S. markets is essential, I'd have a real hard time holding 95% of my investments there unless I planned to retire south of the border. If the house was worth 50% of net worth, I guess it's possible but getting whipsawed by forex doesn't sound like much fun. | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45485526, 45498710, 45505732, 45582203, 45513204] |
5,698,419 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | it was 60 miles up a river i doubt it would have survived anyway, and no one in there right mind would expect it to be a grey whale 60 miles up a river. Andi but thanks for showing your personal opinion of your superiority to an entire race. | 4 | If the Natives could not ID a Gray Whale, there is something missing in their Elder's and school teachers curriculum. There is no mistaking one. Whatsoever. I wish condemnation for this act. I would like some criminal justice, too, as any other people doing this violent deed would be prosecuted. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45566568, 45256208, 45458735, 45184519, 45418654] |
5,698,460 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I wish that was sarcasm. | 4 | I like all four. Congratulations to all the hosts. Chang and Hanomansing represent the face of Canada in all our diversity while Arsenault and Barton represent the gender balance. Excellent choices all. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45332074, 45456658, 45349054, 45438575, 45631697] |
5,698,730 | [0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0] | "Obama, who funded a program that sent Guns and Strippers to the Cartel" - wow, is there some right wing nut job factory where the workers all sit around and try to think of far out conspiracy theories from the left? Some of the stuff you guys offer up is really mind boggling. Do you listen to what you're saying before you say it? Strippers and guns for the Cartel? Hillary killing people at a pizza joint, Obama bugged Trump Towers, Obama is a Muslim. They just keep on coming. At some point doesn't ANYTHING sound too far fetched for you to fall for? It's sad really that you guys don't realize how crazy that makes you sound to the rest of us when you regurgitate nonsense. I think there is enough crap happening between both parties that the need to resort to wild conspiracy theories is entirely unnecessary. | 10 | Actually illegal immigration was way up under Obama, who funded a program that sent Guns and Strippers to the Cartel (you may not remember, Fast and Furious)
"In fact, illegal immigration was way down under Obama."
"Way down" isn't a real term. Obama allowed illegal aliens to be masked and even released back into the US after going to jail for violent crimes. Kate's Law will prevent that. Border Crossings are actually down by 60% since the beginning of this year, so I guess you could say now they are "way, WAY down" | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45536973, 45525557, 45498710, 45645228] |
5,698,972 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Why do you think a certain amount of warming to which we are committed means efforts to mitigate additional warming aren't necessary? | 4 | You completely ignored the point I was making.
Why? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45256178, 45541171, 45596860, 45377221] |
5,699,004 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | All the hispanics that don't want their friends and family deported and a bunch of other people. Hancock won 80% of the vote last election. | 4 | Who voted for this guy? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438681, 45314593, 45598353, 45486432, 45573532] |
5,699,304 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | If fact, Paul, name for me a currently operation liberal radio host.
What happened there? | 4 | Nonsense. The more popular think tanks are conservative. Heritage and Enterprse. Radio is used more than TV and conservative talk radio has a huge audience.
If you have an arguement with story then refute it. If you want censureship and government controlled media content- look outside this nation. Try Turkey or Venezuela for starters(one extreme right, one extreme left) | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45536973, 45405070, 45491654, 45514417] |
5,699,582 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Barton is a vicious Conservative hating Liberal sucking it up on the public purse without any accountability to the tax payers of Canada. Never ever will I watch her ! | 53 | Barton and Chang are terrible. And Barton is the most obviously biased "anchor" I've ever seen. Big mistakes, CBC. | [0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 45537487, 45397769, 45545208, 45445022] |
5,699,914 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | If you are crediting Trump for the rise in the stock market (a booming economy he inherited unlike the failing economy that Obama inherited from Bush) then credit must be given to Obama for more than doubling the stock market (235% according to the Wall Street Journal) during Obama's time in office right? | 4 | The (D)onkey SA desperately peddling reasons to not give the (R) party credit where credit is due.
Why don't you tell us how well the (D)onkey ERS or (D)onkey CalPERS are doing instead? LOL | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45404154, 45597021, 45404473, 45633333] |
5,699,928 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0] | smoothie,
The 29% angry base will be in control of the GOTP for a while. Resisters must go to the polls and vote if they are going to rescue our great country from the Trumpet disaster. | 5 | Um, Jack...Do you have like a "Red Phone" to God???
You got some powerful pray there brother.
Drumpf is going down in a ball of 'flames' (Orange ball of fire)? He and his hand picked arbeiters...
I keep telling everyone that Drumpf would fulfil one promise. "Drain The Swamp".
They say "No, he's filling the swamp with (fill in the blanks)." I say "Uhuh" with a wry grin. "Like shooting fish in a barrel."
My experience has always been. Liars en mass can't keep their story straight. If you want to know what is real? Listen to them talk, the always project. Then when called on it, they defend and turn the blame back on whomever.
It's like a marching band who's practised vs. a marching band playing 20 different songs without any practice. Maybe a few are in tune and beat, but the ones that are not practiced drown them out eventually....and this is why a lie always falls apart that way if you're paying attention. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45440506, 45465124, 45597315, 45505732, 45598353] |
5,700,072 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | If you have a sob story about crossing the Rio Grande and hiking fifty miles in the desert twenty years ago, five anchor babies all born at and living on the taxpayer's dime, no skills or education and still can't speak English after 20 years - according to the Mayor you are welcome in Denver and should not be prosecuted for criminal behavior. | 6 | Elevating the rights of illegal immigrant felons over the citizens should be illegal. If I rob a bank, should FBI stay out of it? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45485526, 45597947, 45397010, 45388025, 45476019] |
5,700,289 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1] | "This is for individuals to do, not the government."
Oh, really? What about the part about prison? Is it individuals who should be throwing people in prison, as well as help the ill and injured? That doesn't make sense at all.
Government is for whatever we say it's for. We're the ones who make it up. It's not organic, and growing out of the ground. It's a human made system that depends entirely on human agreement in order to exist at all. Humane, sane, good people all around the world, nations with far less wealth than the US, use government to provide healthcare for their populations.
All people in the world aren't demon spawn capitalists. | 10 | This is for individuals to do, not the government. It is how individuals are to lead their lives. Jesus also converted a tax collector into a disciple. Maybe we can convert the IRS into Christian disciples and then we won't have to worry about changing the tax code.
Satan is pretty knowledgable about the Bible as well. He too twists God's word to meet his agenda. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45571747, 45494674, 45458735, 45397769] |
5,700,440 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Not really. There are just a few of them left. But what does Trump have to do with this, other than the fact that Elway and Bowlen support him? | 4 | Trumpbots are all over this website. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45465124, 45388080, 45404154, 45447087, 44826677] |
5,700,720 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | There probably was.....the cops have to trip over him to find him. | 4 | Why wasn't an arrest warrent issued March 28th? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45224788, 45366683, 45573532, 45447221] |
5,701,042 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Property owners have property rights but, like all rights, they are not absolute. It, meaning servitudes on property, is the same in every state. | 4 | But they better not miss paying their property taxes. A shame that if you own land in Alaska you really dont have any say in what happens on it. I say we start a gofundme for this couple and help pay their legal fees and maybe some extra so they can leave this crap State. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45256178, 45447087, 45405070, 45590457, 45450802] |
5,701,175 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | There it is again. Matthew 25 is the only gospel for NCR and it's followers. The Gospel is way larger than that, with Matt 25 being one part of it. | 10 | I think Matthew 25 describes fairly clearly those we are supposed to be most concerned with. But I could be wrong. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45498710, 45405070, 45449332, 45536013] |
5,701,292 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | That is a bold statement... Is there a source for this ? | 4 | Affirmative Action hurts Asians the most, followed by Whites. If college admissions were completely race blind, it has been estimated that Asian enrollment would increase 5x, White enrollment would increase slightly, and there would be almost no blacks, hispanics or indigenous people. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45541171, 45426626, 45397010, 45571747] |
5,701,379 | [1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0] | You and I are very similar. We both abhor injustice. Like it or not, you and I are genetic members of the same nasty human club. I accept who I am. You appear to be afraid of who you are. I prefer to combat injustice realistically. You appear to prefer to combat injustice idealistically. Maybe you are too preoccupied to notice I am not siding with the bad guys. I compare what has been going on around the world with what has being going on in South Africa. Comparing good with good and bad with bad. The hard facts are telling me not to buy into the garbage that is being fabricated about South Africa. The people in Europe got over their differences. Why not the people of Africa? | 10 | Not all human beings are nasty creatures. Even as Columbus was torturing, murdering and enslaving the very same native Americans who had saved him and his crews lives - Bartholomew De Las Casas were fighting to free them from slavery, get them equal rights and protection.
De Las Casas has, in later years by a more enlightened pope, been made the Patron Saint of Native Americans in the Catholic church.
At every time - there were people who tried to fight evil, who tried to defend the weak, who (with greater or lesser success) fought against greed and evil.
And unlike you, I am confident I would in any time have been one of those. Because empathy and the recognition of the rights of ALL human beings as equal to myself is fundamentally who I am. Anybody who isn't like that can, inevitably, not be me. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45458735, 45476019, 45590457, 44826677, 45256274] |
5,701,408 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | She has chosen to align with those who want to push their nefarious agenda irrespective of how it affects the economy and all South Africans. You can see by the cases she chose to prioritise. | 4 | It appears that Madame Typo's lack of common sense has shed light on the responsibilities of the SARB to the proletariat. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45505902, 45537352, 45498710, 45449731] |
5,701,665 | [1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1] | So what is your real name, troll. | 10 | Take a chill pill. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45494674, 45397010, 45535393, 45598339, 45603123] |
5,701,968 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The Green party is proposing a 30% foreign buyers tax. I think that, coupled with higher property taxes, would do the trick for that small demographic that is unable to game the system. | 4 | There is a real estate spokesperson quoted, and he is correct in one area and not coorect in another area.
He states that "the tax last year was introduced as a political move more than anything else, knowing there was a spring election around the corner, and ultimately it hasn’t had any effect... housing demand returned quickly... foreign buyers will begin to factor in the tax as a cost of doing business and will not be significantly deterred by the additional cost."
He is correct there. But then you could have read clear predictions of that outcome on these boards way back when the tax was introduced, in posts pointing out the recent history of Hong Kong (it had done a comparable approach and it failed to plummet house prices there).
But then he states: “You really can’t tax your way out of a housing problem". WRONG. All you have to do is raise ANNUAL PROPERTY TAXES high enough (20 percent value of property per year) on households without a needed income tax footprint in Canada. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45536973, 45184889, 45525557, 45494674] |
5,702,060 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I do not have an issue with that for the most part. As long as the anti-trust legislation does not allow monopoly situations to develop. Re-broadcasters such as Bell should not be allowed to profit from exclusivity. If they want to compete on programming they should concentrate on out-doing the CBC. If they import content they should take their chances that their consumer base will not change the channel to another. Doing anything else is a form of totalitarianism in my view. | 4 | Bill
Then why have CRTC regulation at all?
If we are going to have a free market, then let's drop ALL regulation.
Regulate or free market, not something in between. BCE paid for the Canadian rights from the NFL directly. Even the NFL themselves are backing Bell on this issue. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45485526, 45404169, 45445022, 45451297, 45597021] |
5,702,204 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Free trade has been the spine of Canada's prosperity for almost thirty years.
If it was truly bad for the economy, we would've heard lots of economists talking about it. We haven't. Liberal Party once hated free trade, but they changed their minds when they were in charge of the economy - and still support it today. Even the NDP would've been "free traders" if they'd won the last election. It's worth too much. | 4 | Did you read the article?
The author is pleased because he believes the "conventional thinkers" (i.e. the "rational" thinkers) are starting to take charge of the Trump administration.
However, it was the "conventional/rational thinkers" that gave us the horrible trade deals that eliminated millions of good-paying jobs and devastated communities. It was the "conventional thinkers" that gave the world the Iraq War.
And you're 100% correct, the Iraq War was insane. But, 99% of politicians supported it as did every MSM newspaper and news network. That's the irony of rationalism, its not rational at all. And that's what I'm trying to point out. Unsuccessfully it seems. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45447087, 45445022, 45404259, 45327007] |
5,702,248 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | I'm hoping he, his family members, and his campaign associates get some "rough handling" during their perp walks. | 10 | He may change his tune a bit once he finds himself living in a prison cell. : ) | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45314593, 45535393, 45596860, 45513204] |
5,702,270 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | So why did the kommies lose the Cold War comrade? | 4 | Free market capitalism is by far the bigger failure. Global in scale. Printing paper money to pretend that things haven't failed isn't a sign of success. We are now into the trillions of dollars, expanding exponentially, of debt (plus interest) that will obviously never be paid back, to keep pretending that free market capitalism works. When the chickens come home to roost, capitalism will be remembered as the most destructive adventure in the history of the world. Period. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45525557, 45385682, 45404169, 45203823] |
5,702,489 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | ''L/L needs to acknowledge that Chaput is the embodiment of his/ her accusations again MSW. Chaput confects a series of judgements followed up by more judgements. he is obviously not a student of past and present history. but .... really...what else would anyone expect of Chaput at this point. why spend time and money to purchase and read his screed??. Chaput's prejudices are well known and equally unexamined. as Francis says/ said (perhaps while thinking of Chaput) ''who am I to judge?' '' | 7 | Michael lays out the "sweeping claims", but then lazily doesn't counter them with logic, data, or argument.
"We live in a time when the product of man's reason — the creature we call science — now seems to turn on and attack reason itself, to discredit free will, and to diminish anything unique about what it means to be human."
Of course, the Archbishop's point is sweeping, but it's also true.
When the prevailing thought among the intelligentsia (and the want to be intelligentsia) today is "there is no absolute truth", that by itself is an attack on reason (truth).
When the world seems to be saying "I was born this way", of course, that's an attack on free will.
COUNTER the points, don't just dismiss them with huffiness and shallow bluster.
I read the book earlier this summer and was impressed by how much detail Archbishop Chaput leavened into his book.
It's a fine and solid read.
MSW should have spent more time reading it than writing another shallow and negative piece. | [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] |
5,702,525 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Quite true. In the case of Hawaii the law should be changed to reduce rates. We are a small state - smaller than many large mainland cities. | 4 | On May 16, 2017, the Advertiser reported that HMSA's first quarter profit was $25 million dollars. As a non-profit insurer, it seems HMSA is doing pretty well and I wonder about the claim they are losing money on ACA members. It's like charging large people more at a buffet because the restaurant is making money over all, but losing their profit margin on large folks. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45491609, 45404169, 45197484, 45584933] |
5,702,775 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | That's a great idea. | 4 | Regarding the drop off/turn in of unwanted prescription drugs...Why couldn't a system be established where folks could turn stuff in on a continuing basis, like at a local pharmacy? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45447087, 45397010, 45184889, 45450604] |
5,702,817 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | They still have to follow the rules. | 10 | Third world thuggery? They weren't investigating the local Anglican Church Choir, they were investigating the Angels. Now, I understand the principles involved, but let's not forget that if you have something the H.A.'s want, who is going to help you if they punch your lights out? Not the BC Civil Liberties, nor your lawyer or your MP. You will call the police. They might screw up along the way, but they are doing the job for the right reasons. Or, are you one of those folks who think the H.A's are just a bunch of guys 'who like to ride bikes?' | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45597947, 45543714, 45349054, 45188066, 45349032] |
5,703,260 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Pretty sad when that's what journalism has come to.
Watching too much American media. | 4 | Barton made mincemeat out of Conservative MP Chris Alexander but he deserved it for lying so blatantly about CBC coverage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uERtSxpfo0c | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45385682, 45397010, 45404154, 45582203, 45602036] |
5,703,288 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1] | I don't see how anyone can claim the notion of "Nobody". From what I have seen and heard in the past two or three days I'd say Martinez has what should be rather shocking support from some on the left. From my perspective that alone attempts to make the two women raped out to be 2nd class citizens. | 10 | Nobody wants to make criminals like him feel welcome. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45445192, 45514417, 45454500, 45597021, 45582425] |
5,703,635 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I never said nuclear was "perfect" (not sure where you got that from). I just think nuclear is FAR superior to renewables - and deserving of the same (or more) subsidies than renewables because they provide reliable electricity that can make far more progress in fighting climate change. As for your question, see below ...
http://www.environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2016/7/14/bloomberg-new-energy-finance-renewables-killing-nuclear | 4 | How, exactly, have subsidies to renewable energy solutions had any effect whatsoever on what you think is the perfect energy source (nuclear)? Unless what you mean to say is that those subsidies should have been used to instead prop up nuclear... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45505732, 44826677, 45598834, 45450096] |
5,703,864 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Jane.0.96813, You forgot the most important measure of student performance. According to Hawaii's test of student performance, Strive Hawaii, only 53% of students met the standard for English Language Arts/Literacy in School Year 2015-16, and only 46% met the standard for Math. The data is difficult to find because, apparently, the DOE would prefer that the public see the kind of data that you're finding that doesn't say anything about student achievement.
http://www.hawaiipublicschools.org/DOE%20Forms/StriveHI2016/StriveHIStudentGroups-state.pdf | 4 | Interesting... "data-driven approach to coming up with solutions" sounds familiar...
"The rejected contract renewal “was more a context of the politics” resulting from a new school board following the election of a new mayor in Hartford in 2011, rather than about performance." - also very familiar...
Another Matayoshi? Hawaii could've saved all of that money and time and stuck with what was working. Since people will question "what was working," - graduation rates going up, more students going to college, more partnerships and health services for students, new facilities being built, the list goes on. But, haters will say... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45541171, 45494674, 45445022, 45256208, 45203823] |
5,703,912 | [1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0] | "It's time to stop letting the media drive us into a fever pitch frenzy about personality issues and conspiracy theories."
Personality issues and conspiracy theories are what got Trump where he is and what dominate his presidency. I'd love to see us focus on substantive issues if only the man with the bully pulpit would discipline himself long enough to let that happen. But how a president comports himself is, like it or not, newsworthy.
And who said anything about a USCCB statement? All I'm asking for is that those, like Archbishop Chaput, who defend Trump admit that he behaves badly but they still support him for policy reasons. What I can't stand is the hypocrisy of pretending his uncharitable behavior either doesn't exist or is justifiable. | 10 | Unkind comments? Drama? Tweets?
You want the USCCB to issue a statement on this stuff?
Maybe it's time to not focus so much on personality. What is the point of it? What the upside?
It's time to stop letting the media drive us into a fever pitch frenzy about personality issues and conspiracy theories. It's such a huge waste of time and energy. And it's really hurting the country far more than anything the president has done. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45438879, 45476019, 45438070, 45454500] |
5,703,932 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | JB, you are a very sick person, in your whole being. these islanders contribute to guam and hawaii but we never hear about that. if they cost hawaii $100M, maybe they contribute $120M? hate mongers hate the truth above all else. leave nevada, and you will be helping to make it great again. | 10 | I think these folks may love the '9th Island'.....if we give the money back will they take the micros?
#makenevadagreatagain | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45537352, 45590457, 45514417, 45418655] |
5,703,951 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The national debt increased $7.9 trillion between 2009 and 2016, no one in the administration was talking about building a wall then. And taxes were increased during those years also. | 4 | Why raise the debt ceiling? It would be better for the government to live within its means, or raise taxes. But we understand debt is what will allow the wall to be built. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45256208, 45331940, 45191524, 45579457] |
5,704,238 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | NAFTA was negotiated by the Chretien Liberal government - I forget the name of their top negotiator. But I'll never forget the Tories' negotiator for the free trade deal with the U.S.A. back in 1988. Simon Reisman was his name. Small, vibrant man and very smart. Sharp. Good sense of humour too. | 4 | The last time I heard, Mulroney was leading the NAFTA negotiation team. I don't believe he is 20 something, liberal, a minister, or prone to fits of crying. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45465124, 45449332, 45404259, 45535941, 45513204] |
5,704,414 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Yeah, that's much better than doing it out in the open like the libs and their "Pay for Play" parties. | 6 | Sealed brown envelopes at dawn | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45574915, 45514417, 45449731, 45525588] |
5,704,450 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | If only the guy who hired him in 2009, and the other guy who pushed to promote him in 2013, and the third guy who handed him a guaranteed king's ransom in 2015 at age 41 -- and then pushed him out the door 22 months later -- were as smart as you, none of this would have ever happened. | 4 | Better to have in the broadcast booth than coaching on the Oregon sideline! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445022, 45505902, 45256208, 45494674, 45636192] |
5,704,969 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | [The writers of any legislation riddled with the phrase "... the Secretary may..." because the democrats who wrote it, passed it, and put it into force should have considered the possibility that the next Secretary might not be a democrat.]
Perhaps that is part of if not exactly why they wrote it. Politics and legislation is rife with unintended consequences as part of good intentions. There are also considerations of workload offsetting while retaining oversight.
Also, it is important to note that the policy making process of the ACA was over a month with dozens if not hundreds of amendments proposed by Republicans being incorporated in the ACA during the process. | 4 | The writers of any legislation riddled with the phrase "... the Secretary may..." because the democrats who wrote it, passed it, and put it into force should have considered the possibility that the next Secretary might not be a democrat.
Turning off the illegal and unconstitutional subsidies to insurance companies, congress, and repealing every single one of the O'BamaCare waivers is one of the best ways to bring down that house of cards.
The best way to force repeal bad legislation (and O'BamaCare is awful legislation) is to enforce it as written, vigorously, with gusto. Trump should have done this on day one in office, but he tried to play nice. 3 Republicans chose to play otherwise. Too bad for them.
This one is not over yet. O'BamaCare is going to get repealed. This will be a lot of fun to watch. Personally, I am making popcorn. Cheers - | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45450604, 45404259, 45589137, 45463652] |
5,705,228 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | its a compulsive disorder. probably steaming form an deep seated inferiority complex -- but I'm not a psychologist. | 6 | Who cares if the Boy Scout leader or the Mexican president called him or not?
Why does Trump have to lie about every stupid little thing? | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45635376, 45447087, 45404154, 45449731, 45448160] |
5,705,245 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | er...the orginal fake news story in the NY times claimed only 17 agencies.. I guess you missed the memo where the NY times retracted the original story...oh thats right, the retraction was never mentioned in any of the fake news sites you follow. | 4 | All 18 intelligence agencies, the house intelligence committee, the Senate intelligence committee all unamimously agree Russia interfered with our elections.
Everyone who has seen the classified evidence agrees it's irrefutable. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45408870, 45184889, 45349172, 45535968, 45463652] |
5,705,576 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Gold, not really, but Pyrite(Fool's Gold), yep pretty much. | 4 | Everything he touches doesn't turn to gold, but it is the greatest ever. What a kook... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45506032, 45635376, 44826677, 45602833, 45491609] |
5,705,775 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I would think that "maybe" what they are thinking is that they have many common problems and that if they can come together (strength in numbers) they may be in a better way to address and solve those problems.
The "problems" that need to be fixed are not new and millions of dollars have been thrown at solving them by the State and Federal folks but nothing has improved. Now, perhaps they feel the need to come together in a more organized manner in a way that they can work together to address them in their own way.
I am only "guessing" that this is their motivation. I am not from up there but many of their problems are the same problems other Native communities have. The difference is they are far more isolated and feel the need to be able to do things for themselves.
Suicide, alcohol and drug abuse, violence among families and in villages, poverty, incarceration ..........too long and too much.
I wish them much luck and have only best wishes for them. | 4 | Note: I am generally supportive of native issues and the underlying notion that Natives had governed themselves before the United States came into existence and that they retain unique rights of self-government. I'm just not convinced this is the right avenue to go down. But from the article, it's unclear to me what they hope to achieve by the creation of a regional government. I get it, there are problem. But fix the problems that are causing the problem. Thinking you can start over with a clean slate sounds great and all but when the rubber meets the road it usually isn't all it's cracked up to be. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45485526, 45404169, 45404259, 45589137] |
5,705,970 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yes but what Hoppman is saying is that when you bring stereotypical racial comments into the mix you usually wind up with a Swiss cheese argument. For example if you look at the comment "Blacks play for money and Whites play for glory" it is flawed on several levels. First off whites make up most of the quarterbacks in the NFL. Quarterback is the highest paid position. If whites played for glory you'd see more than a mere handful of QB's taking pay cuts to make their teams better to enhance their chances of winning Super Bowls. Super bowl wins bring glory. It is clear that guys like Ryan Leaf and Todd Marinovich and Brian Bosworth did not have a whole lot of interest in winning Super Bowls once they got paid.
The Little Guy | 4 | Why not?
Donald Trump has disparaged and marginalized nearly two-thirds of America.
He can't deal with Mexican-Americans. He has thrust us to the bottom of society and says we are illegal immigrants, thieves, murderers and rapists. That was from the get-go, when he announced his run for office in front of people who were paid to perform.
He still plays to a hate-filled audience when he wants to massage his tender ego.
As for blacks, Trump won't speak before the NAACP, doesn't understand historical figures, tells blacks that he is their best choice because they have no choice.
So, race card?
Yeah, America is soaked through and through with hate.
Look at the NFL. Easily 42 to 45 of the top picks were black athletes.
They're simply better, bigger, faster, stronger.
However, like every other institution in America, professional sports reluctantly admits the greatness of its black athletes.
Gee, you think that nutrition, training, coaching will change that?
Probably not.
It is what it was. | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45590159, 45579457, 45476019, 45408370, 45296656] |
5,706,007 | [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0] | As far as I can tell, women merit non-stop harassment and abuse if they do anything at all that makes any man feel even slightly threatened.
If I thought the police were even remotely reliable when it comes to these matters, I would have been at their offices a looooooooonnnnngg time ago. In fact, I tried it, and got the royal brush-off --- now, I have about 50 times as much evidence. | 10 | Why focus on Cdn Tire? There are other similar situations, but the owners aren't female. And that's the answer, I suspect. Women are 2nd or 3rd class citizens in the North American corporate world. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45505902, 45432844, 45597947, 45653549] |
5,706,145 | [1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | I think it would be more accurate to say that Americans allowed Trump to get within sniffing distance of the presidency thanks to Putin, and Republicans were able to cheat the rest of the way through voter suppression and intimidation efforts that they've been engaged in for years and for which they have been legally sanctioned.
Trump was "elected" with the votes of just over a quarter of eligible voters.
I bought no lemon, would sell my soul to the devil before ever voting Republican, and do not believe we have to "keep" the maggot-in-chief or his family of blood-sucking ghouls. If you think people should resign themselves and their children's future to this despicable Thingamabob-in-chief then you're weak, Mr. Scott, truly weak. | 10 | Americans seem to like the idea of royalty don't they. Elect a 'good king' who will be wiser than those fools in politics. Most have neither the time or interest in real policy
American voters elected Trump, nobody held a gun to their head. We bought the lemon we get to keep it | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45535372, 45404154, 45500804, 45597315] |
5,706,220 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Exactly! Small is not 208 pounds unless you are comparing him to elephants. He is short. But it sure looks like he can play.
Barry Sanders was about the same height, not saying he is Barry Sanders (geez wouldn't that be great) but being short is not as bad as it sounds. Ray Rice is not that big either. | 4 | He's not small, he's just short. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45597947, 45506032, 45535393, 45445022] |
5,706,255 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yes, I've ridden Portland light rail. It crawls through town like a bus, but picks up to freeway speeds once it gets out of town and to places like the airport. It's way faster that driving on the 205 during any rush hour and the 205 is way more packed than the H-1 is daily. The problem I see is that it's an honor system to actually purchase a ticket because no one checks and there is no barriers to getting on/off, so possibly like our proposed system fares will not support even a small fraction of the cost of rail. I'm not sure of Portland's numbers, but rail seems lightly used for the population base and really only makes sense for those that are going point to point without side or multiple points. The airport is probably one of the biggest draws since you avoid parking and the 205. | 4 | Ground-level light rail is a completely different system - and a terrible idea. It is designed for short trips, not distance commuters. Has anyone ridden light rail in Portland, Baltimore, Salt Lake City? The trains stop AT EVERY INTERSECTION. It is slow, it is more prone to accidents, and in Honolulu, will be prone to flooding as the seas continue to rise. It would be a completely different concept than the high-speed overhead rail. Also, are people cool with throwing away the trains that have already been purchased? TERRIBLE IDEA. Also, switching designs so radically at this point means....more delays, by years and years. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45418782, 45635376, 45438681, 45312025] |
5,706,613 | [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Its a great idea by the NDP.
Losses ,on the other hand, are what the Liberal excel at.Mismanagment and Wasting money .and making taxpayer fit the bill for foolish policies. | 10 | Didn't take long for the NDP to start wasting taxpayers money. | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45541171, 45491654, 45598378, 45388025, 45449332] |
5,706,754 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | So does an empty collection plate.... | 4 | You need to add a teaspoon of sea salt a day. It helps with removing the leeches. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45571747, 45574915, 45447221, 45597995] |
5,706,815 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Who said insurance is health care besides you?
That's a straw man.
And the rest of your comment is gibberish.
You may start out with similarly situated people in a risk pool, but what happens when you get a catastrophic illness? Suddenly you're not similarly situated. What happens then? Do you get shunted off to the high risk pool? Who pays for that?
Basing insurance costs solely on calculated risks is what we had before the ACA. It allowed insurance companies to cherry pick healthy customers and deny coverage to the sick. They could even jack up the rates for existing customers who got sick to a level where the couldn't pay anymore, and they'd have to drop the policy. And then there were the $1 million lifetime caps, which anyone with a serious illness could easily exceed.
For most people routine health care is a cash-based process, because they fail to meet their annual deductible. Even after you do, co-pays can be quite costly. | 6 | I think many are confused. Insurance is not "health care." Health *insurance* is something you buy based on your actuarial and calculated risk to provide supplemental (to your own responsible savings) money to cover potential and foreseeable, but not certain, health care costs in the future. The cost of your insurance should be based, as it is with all other insurance, on similarly situated people with equivalent coverage in a risk pool based on actuarial calculations. The conflation of routine health care, which for most people should be as much a cash-based process as vehicle or home maintenance, with insurance for unforeseeable risks and savings plans for things like childbirth and elder care, is what has brought our health care system to this point.
Every time we, with good intentions, guarantee government money to a given industry (usually due to lobbying by that industry) that industry inevitably increases costs to capture every single one of those dollars. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45432844, 45438070, 45476019, 45596860] |
5,707,159 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | There a number of invasions there. The Romans essentially drove out most of the Celtic peoples to the mountainous regions of Scotland and Wales, but some at least remained and were assimilated, becoming virtually expatriate Romans in the process. Ireland was never colonised by the Romans. The Celtic languages died out almost entirely in Roman Britain. The Anglo Saxons later overran the Roman remnants, and dominated, linguistically and politically, for a couple of centuries. The Norman French (who spoke a Scandinavian-influenced variety of French - they were mainly descended from earlier Viking invaders to Northern France) were less successful in dominating the Saxon remnants, particularly in the more Northern areas. Modern English represents an inextricable combination of all the historical influences (including Latin, from religious observances) | 5 | The original languages of the people who lived in Britain were modified by the Romans, then, for all intents and purposes, pushed into extinction by the invaders from northern and western Europe and finally again modified by the French-speaking Normans. There are two Fries dialects spoken in the northern provinces of the Netherlands and in pockets in northern Germany and Denmark, that more closely resemble the English language than any other. The people of Wales, Scotland and Ireland speak local dialects that do not even remotely resemble ancient nor modern English. This points to annihilation of an existing culture and replacement by an invading culture. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45438879, 45535369, 45224788, 45553691] |
5,707,262 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I agree it's not needed, but he didn't have to tweet about the policy change. I'm just saying he could have been more *discrete* about it. But I guess discretion is not really Trump's thing. He is a reality TV star after all. | 4 | POTUS is just pushing the MSM and the Establishment into a psychotic frenzy. They will exhaust themselves and alienate more folks. People will just roll their eyes at their histrionics. Who's bright idea to recruit transsexuals, anyway? Why would anyone willingly lower requirements to be of sound mind and body to serve in the military? Oh, right, Obama. Well, the military is not the place to enable mental illness instead of referring the person to a competent psychiatrist for both physical and mental testing and therapy. It could be chemical poisoning (endocrine disruptors) or psychological poisoning (repressed memories of abuse), but whatever the underlying problem, it is not needed in the military. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45491654, 45314593, 45388025, 45541073] |
5,707,401 | [1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0] | Yep...8 bullets to the face. | 10 | We do have a better method...firing squad. Not only is it humane but it is significantly cheaper than any of the other methods. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45491654, 45486432, 45408370, 45541206] |
5,707,797 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | IMV: Surprise, I live on the Island and my views are different to yours. Who would have thought?.
The old excuse of 'we have spent too much to stop now'? Nope, never did make sense on anything - certainly not when we are talking about just $2B out of a $10B project. $10B!.
If there's a good reason to keep Site C going, fine. But that's not want the experts were saying before clark cancelled a review. And 'because we have spent too much' is not, I repeat, a logical reason.
Why has nobody on the 'keep going' side come up with any other reason than yours? Oh, they mention jobs - well $2B for 2000jobs - work out the cost per job on that. Not very goo, is it? And we need more power? Fine - prove it before you ask me to pay more for my hydro or in my taxes. Show the data, not the rhetoric. We all enjoy insulting politicians but what does that do here to justify the project? | 4 | Maybe you are not either? I happen to live in Fort St. John, you sound like you would not have a clue where it is...............but anyway, to stop Site C now would be ludicrous, there has been so much money put in and work done only fools who drink the green rhetoric would even attempt it. Horgan was here not to long ago but steered very clear of the facility like the conniving wimp he is. And then there is the hypocrite Weaver......who can believe anything he say?.....he is a shameless opportunist. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45537352, 45385682, 45536973, 45388080, 45596860] |
5,707,975 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Isn't that the way of the modern conservative? | 6 | Hmm. Beginning his campaign with deceit. How auspicious. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45224788, 45573532, 44826677, 45447221] |
5,708,121 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You should take Peter's advice and go on the tour:
"The treasury prints them at the Bureau of Engraving. Fascinating tour. Even better than the Wonder bread bakery tour. Check it out before you have a catastrophic disease or injury."
One of the best comments in this entire thread. LOL! | 4 | m: Just trying to help you understand money doesn't grow on trees, Lieutenant Ignorance. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45445192, 45599028, 45445022, 45553691] |
5,708,188 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | They believe in the Henry Ford Model T Option.... any colour providing it is black! | 4 | But I thought the ANC claims to be a non-racial organisation and promotes non-racialism.
So what is the problem here? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45536973, 45388025, 45494674, 45567747] |
5,708,229 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | In general it is true. | 4 | Not true. Hillary spent $1.2BILLION and lost to Trump who spent about half that. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45491654, 45501738, 45314593, 45332074, 45397010] |
5,708,295 | [0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | You realize that the Tea Party doing the EXACT SAME THING just reinforces what many on the left feel about Republicans. Fortunately in our system of government, we are allowed to express ourselves, you can't say that about many countries. Our politicians should have the courage to face their constituents and explain why their vote is the correct one, just as their constituents should express their agreement or displeasure with that vote. Democracy, is messy, and while we are a Constitutional Republic, there are elements of democracy as well, those elements are embodied in the town halls. It takes a coward to take the job, yet not be willing to face his constituents. | 10 | I am not upset about a bunch of haters shouting down speakers, it just reconfirms my opinion of liberals. Gardner could set up a cardboard cutout of himself and the far left would be just as happy shouting at it then they are when he shows up. They are not looking at getting any answers to their questions they simply want to shout people down and call them names. It's messy, it's noisy and only thing it accomplishes is it gives some people their 15 minutes of fame. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45541171, 45537352, 45536013, 45486432, 45256208] |
5,709,106 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Really, R.D.? You insult my ken and then say I shouldn't answer. You really don't understand the First Amendment. You demand changes in NCR even though you brag you will never subscribe. You claim you defended our freedoms but get very upset when people actually exercise them. You demand balance and then use Breitbart.com as a news source. You indeed are irony impaired. | 4 | This point may be beyond your ken, but if NCR were balanced wouldn't one be just as likely to see pictures of people in Mass (one small aspect of our freedom of religion), or pictures of people voting (another expression of the freedom of speech), or pictures of people speaking at meetings, or pictures of people assembling not in protest but in thanksgiving, or newspaper articles!
Or people practicing marksmanship skills?
Why must the dominant message of NCR be one of noisy and angry protest?
No need to answer. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45501738, 45535393, 45447087, 45597233] |
5,709,264 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I'm surprised it didn't read "in a herculean effort reminiscent of Deion Sanders v Jerry Rice, Brandon Marshall utterly refused to give his ground and the pass was batted away". | 4 | From the article...
"From the shotgun, Brady took the snap and immediately looked for White on an option route. He threw. Marshall refused to be beaten. The pass fell incomplete."
You can't kneel and cover at the same time. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45404169, 45598378, 45404154, 45486432, 45448160] |
5,709,433 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Or the charitable hospitals and other non-government run organizations, for profit and non-profit, which provide services now and could do so in the future. The voluntary non-insurance group health plans expanding among many faith groups.
Again, you are fixating on insurance as being inextricably linked to healthcare because that is the fairly recent status quo. But that "system" was patched together reactively, often for reasons having nothing to do with actually providing efficient, sustainable, quality care, just like the ACA. | 4 | Those few millions of people would be cheaper for who?
The private for profit insurance companies!
They would't be cheaper for whatever insurance program ends up covering them.
The pre Obamacare state run high risk pools didn't work due to under funding. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45534988, 45571747, 45598353, 45491609, 45445192] |
5,709,585 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Again, patches on patches, not fixes.
Good luck decoupling health insurance from employment. It might be a good idea, but politically it's a non-starter. I'll bet it's even less popular than Obamacare, which is now has 55% approval.
http://www.businessinsider.com/poll-obamacare-popularity-favorability-gallup-2017-4 | 4 | Again, patches on patches, not fixes. All of these issues date back only 50 or 60 years, they were added piecemeal over that time, most via regulatory capture of lawmakers by insurers, medical institutions, and the professional associations.
https://www.zanebenefits.com/blog/part-1-the-history-of-u.s.-employer-provided-health-insurance-post-world-war-ii
There are many incremental steps which can be taken to undo the incremental steps which got us here. Expand pools and competition between insurers nationwide to truly open the market. Uncouple health insurance from wages (an invention of the '40s). Mandate pricing for procedures not be tied to insurance billing codes (which enables the variable costs you mention) but be published as an actual fee for service. That will allow competition between health care providers on price. If individuals or groups want to negotiate a lower cost based on volume, fine, but any price increases will be responded to as a market responds to anything | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45505902, 45388080, 45418654, 45314593] |
5,709,727 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Agree.
But it irks me that I can't income share with him. | 4 | I find cats are much more reliable housemates that a lot of the alternatives (and I'm not talkin' bout dogs) | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45191524, 45486533, 45498012, 45256274] |
5,710,375 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | The Republicans bill was nothing more than a way to get Obamacare repealed. Republicans understand a strictly Republican bill will be just as toxic as Obamacare. Democrat input and ideas will be needed in order to pass a true bipartisan bill, however not a single Democrat will come to the table unless the starting point of the negotiation is OBAMACARE. If the republicans surrender and decide to just "fix" Obamacare they will have hell to pay in 2018 and 2020. Obamacare has a built-in pathway to single payer and if the republican can't get it repealed, the destruction of our good healthcare system is just around the corner. | 6 | As far as the first part goes....that is still more GOP input than what they allowed from Dems in the recent bills.
So, Democrats refused before they were invited. Interesting. Of course, you're also forgetting that there were Republicans that were also left out in the cold. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45256208, 45445022, 45365823, 45256274] |
5,710,652 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Not much , it has been very reliable. I do most of the maintenance myself, brakes, oil changes, plugs, filters, and the few electrical parts Ive had to change Have a good code reader the I use when necessary. I also have a couple of sources where I can buy parts wholesale.
And you guess is exactly that, I suppose you've done an in-depth study of all the system components involved in the Tesla. Or are you like most purchasers and haven't got a clue. | 4 | So what has it cost you to keep that Bimmer road worthy??? They are notoriously costly compared to many others. My guess is the annual maintenance and repair bill on a Tesla will be about 50% less than a Bimmer. Not to mention fuel costs being far less. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45537352, 45408370, 45351233, 45404154] |
5,710,909 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | it seems they know about the same because both the lawyer and the judge came to the same conclusion | 4 | Apparently said professor even knows more than the judge tasked with making decisions on this case. Whats the point of even having judges? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45476019, 45535372, 45635376, 45588938, 45454500] |
5,710,952 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You're right about experimental treatment not being covered. There are ways to get put into those programs but there are no promises.
If you have coverage that is covering your needs, would you want to change to an unknown program that is just a dream for people like you? For me, there are too many potential ways to get worse care than what I already have. I know, if you want your Dr. you can keep your Dr... I've heard that one before and it was an outright lie. | 4 | I know someone, retired military, who had cancer and Tricare refused to pay for an experimental procedure the doctors at the Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle were proposing. So did Medicare. So did his wife's insurance administered by Aetna.
But nice attempt at fear mongering about what a single payer system would do. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45445022, 45449731, 45333173, 45351233] |
5,711,179 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yes, Alliance, I'd like to see the newspaper articles which back up your allegation. | 4 | link? Reference? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45445022, 45438070, 45597947, 45573532] |
5,711,185 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Also, no oil changes and may never have to replace the brakes. | 4 | Jeepers, other than air filters and spark plugs a couple times, none of those parts you listed have required replacement or been an issue on my 15 year old Ford Escape, 11 year old Grand Prix, or 10 year old Allure. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45418782, 45440506, 45537487, 15577915] |
5,711,526 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | "What makes you think the accused are NOT citizens?"
Two Scoop asked a simple question. Nowhere did he say that "the accused are NOT citizens".
Unclench and get off your pedestal. You spend way too much time there. | 9 | What makes you think the accused are NOT citizens?
The accused are charged with murdering people. Isn't that what matters?
Does it make it any less of a murder if they were born here to American parents? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45535393, 45491654, 45440910, 45450802] |
5,711,608 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Plus 3 more upvotes. | 4 | Oh, I get it. You people are still upset because a guy took a certain posture during a certain song. Yawn | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45465124, 45445192, 45404259, 45599360] |
5,711,715 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Please explain how you come to the conclusion that it's hard to see Wie as a local athlete. | 4 | It is hard to see her as a local athlete. She has few local attributes. Mariotta and Buckner in the NFL have far more. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45506032, 45541171, 45501738, 45450096, 45188628] |
5,712,057 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Unfortunately the right wing is insisting she was a he as a Seal and what happened after doesn't matter....nor does what she says matter. This is Caitlyn Jenner all over again. | 4 | For a different view of a transgender person in the military try reading this:
Meet Kristin Beck, the transgender Navy SEAL hero fighting Trump’s proposed trans ban
http://www.businessinsider.com/meet-kristin-beck-2017-7
Kristin Beck is a 20year Navy Seals combat veteran... formerly known as "Chris". She defies the rightwing stereotype.
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5,712,082 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Of course. I too spent weekends at the pick-and-pull scavenging parts for my bimmer. Imagine what an ordinary person without the tools or skills would have paid for the same repairs. Then subtract the costs related to those engine, transmission, coolant, emissions controls and exhaust systems that an EV doesn't have. Is the number bigger or smaller?
So what can go wrong? Pads & disks last much longer because of regenerative braking. The battery pack will lose very little capacity over 25 years. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb_i4ihsJ1w) Time, rather than usage, seems to be the more significant factor. Electric motors are sealed units, are a proven technology in much harsher applications and extremely durable. The reduction gearbox is a sealed unit and much simpler than any automatic, CVT or manual transmission. I expect that the charger/inverter electronics are as durable as the ECU/EMU. Especially since they are not subject to the extreme heat and vibration of the IC engine. | 4 | Not much , it has been very reliable. I do most of the maintenance myself, brakes, oil changes, plugs, filters, and the few electrical parts Ive had to change Have a good code reader the I use when necessary. I also have a couple of sources where I can buy parts wholesale.
And you guess is exactly that, I suppose you've done an in-depth study of all the system components involved in the Tesla. Or are you like most purchasers and haven't got a clue. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45506032, 45485526, 45656105, 45553691] |
5,712,473 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | NO, 71% of Canadians disagreed with the method not the payment. Those polled said that they believed that the government should have let the SCC decide. You have to actually read and understand polls before commenting on them. | 4 | Bulls^%t. Strange how another polling agency just a few weeks ago revealed "most Canadians" opposed the 10 million dollar windfall. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45256208, 45331940, 45191524, 45579457] |
5,712,523 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You know how thin the ranks are in the Reformacons when they send Michelle Rempel out to spew. | 4 | "Conservative MP Michelle Rempel told Fox News host Tucker Carlson on air that “most Canadians are absolutely outraged about this.”
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Rempel handled herself well & quelled the program host from being pi$$ed off with both Canadians & Canada...
Rempel placed both the $10.5 Mil. Cdn dollar figure & the Gotta Beat the Speer Widow to Court sleazy timing of the payoff squarely on JPJ Trudeau's head -- where it belongs.
So really, this Nanos poll just looks like more jumped up 'click-bait' by the 'NeoLib Partisan' MSM without the conditions of pop. size & sampling bias of same said poll..
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5,712,768 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1] | I do not endorse throwing out gay priests who remain celibate. In fact, as I said in another post, such men are models of Christianity, in that they bear an especially heavy cross. I'm sure the Church is aware of that. The question is a close one, however, because the promise of celibacy by a homosexual priest --- a promise apparently easily broken --- has such awful consequences for the Church. Of course, I'm talking here about gay priests who abused young men, almost destroying the Church. And don't give me that BS about those priests being pedophiles, rather than homosexuals. Most of the victims were boys, and 75% were too old to warrant calling the crime "pedophilia." | 10 | Hardly. The Church also teaches that gays must be treated with respect and dignity, but then throws open out gay priests out of any ministry, irrespective of their celibacy commitment. This fog may make you feel good but any thinking person is going What? | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45597947, 45505732, 45514417, 45456658, 45498710] |
5,712,888 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The path by the zoo is for bicyclists. Joggers and pedestrians may use the path. Pedestrians and joggers are not allowed to use bike lanes, however.
Some HPD officers do need an update. About a week ago, I was told to move over to the right side of Waialae Avenue, even though sharrows clearly mark where bicyclists are allowed to be. | 4 | Natalie, I'm not sure how to "contact" you, so I'll just reply again here. FYI, I was on the bike path not the sidewalk when I stopped near the Zoo. The map you linked shows the bike LANE in Kalakaua Ave., but there is no indication of the status of the paved (flagstone area) promenade that runs along the ocean from the Natatorium to the crosswalk near the movie screen. If the promenade is or is not an allowable bike PATH is my point of inquiry.
A bike LANE is on a street but a bike PATH is not. Aren't there different rules for the two? For instance, I'm sure it is illegal to walk or jog in and on-street bike lane, but legal on an off-street bike path.
Case in point: there are many joggers and even an entire running club that regularly uses the bike lane on Kalakaua through Kapiolani Park for running. Joggers in a bike lane force bikes into traffic to go around them. This scenario also happens on the Ala Wai which is super dangerous for bikers swerving into fast moving traffic | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45541171, 45501738, 45491654, 45593869] |
5,713,145 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | But are all of them? Haiti is in disarray---starvation, arbitrary arrests, widespread child labour, over 100,000 refugees deported from the Dominican because they can't handle them and we didn't do enough to help. In my mind, "economic" refugees are people who could survive at home but wish, understandably, to better their lot. We don't know how many of these people fall into that category. | 6 | They are economic "refuges"Send them back | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45397010, 45513204, 45597995, 45597975, 45454484] |
5,713,284 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The corporation does not have to be dissolved. It can be sold. The resulting capital gains tax is less than the comparable income tax. | 4 | Doctors who keep money in their corporation will pay their full share of taxes in the future when the corporation is dissolved - it is called a "deferral" of taxes, not avoidance nor not paying his/her "full share". | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45476019, 45397010, 44826677, 45449332] |
5,713,307 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The article's assertion that rotenone kills only fish is not true. Your assertion that rotenone can target ALL gill breathing life, including insects is also false. The response of aquatic invertebrates and amphibians to rotenone over the short- and long-terms is extremely well-studied. Rotenone kills SOME gill-breathing invertebrates, but many species and life history stages are invulnerable, especially with concentrations and durations applied in current practice. In reality, rotenone gives multivoltine invertebrates such as midges, blackflies, and Baetis mayflies a short-term advantage, as these invertebrates explode in biomass within weeks after rotenone treatment. Potassium permanganate is toxic, but for a duration, and it oxidizes rotenone within 30 minutes travel time.
The prodigious ability of aquatic invertebrates to recolonize following disturbance has been known to science following seminal studies in the 1960s. | 4 | Incorrect information. The author of this article states, "Biologists used a rotenone poison to clear out nonnative trout that they say would have meant doom for the cutthroats. The poison targets just fish, preserving midges, flies and other insects that fish eat." - That's simply not true. Rotenone can kill all gill breathing life, including insects. And the detoxifier for rotenone called Potassium Permanganate also kills aquatic gilled organisms. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45418782, 45598353, 45465124, 45397010, 45394434] |
5,714,035 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "Weather systems are governed by fluid dynamics "
But those dynamics cannot be predicted.
Which is why the IPCC says "The climate system is a coupled non-linear chaotic system, and therefore the long-term prediction of future exact climate states is not possible."
see: http://www.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/tar/wg1/index.php?idp=36
What are we seeing with the jet stream? At the beginning ,starting with the B.C. wild fires ,it says the fires in the 1950's were worse,which implies same weather conditions ,same jet stream alignment maybe? nothing new here ,it's just the weather. | 4 | In the early 1990's, NOVA ran a special called "The Science of Chaos" examining the characteristics of complex systems.
Weather systems are governed by fluid dynamics which for the educated in the crowd is a complex system.
Much of what we're seeing, especially with the jet stream, can be explained by the information presented 25 years ago. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388080, 45536013, 44826677, 45405070, 45537352] |
5,714,710 | [1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] | This system needs a 'stupid comment of the day' emoji. | 54 | Who knew that cops, and especially criminal cops, were so superfluous to our orderly existence? Surely not tough-on-crime Republicans. | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45541171, 45184889, 45590457, 45432844] |
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5,715,351 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Getting back to you.
One poster had a good point to keep in mind, inner city kids might have to work harder given limited resources to get to the same level as more privileged sub-urban students. I noticed this article in that regard:
http://www.businessinsider.com/harvard-report-proposes-changes-to-college-admissions-2016-1
Also, it comes to mind Bernie Sanders was proposing free community college. Maybe an approach would be to eliminate lower division at big Universities and require all go through Community College for the first two years, then pass a standardized test of some sort. This was the path I took and found that many of my CC classes were better than the few lower division classes at University (which were often taught by grads instead of profs, or were done en mass via tele-conferencing). | 4 | I read that article. It was very interesting. Thank you for posting it.
One thing stood out: the utter lack of any suggestions to prevent the bias of testing. If the bias truly exists, and can be quantified (as the article did), it should be a fairly straightforward effort to eliminate that bias based on actual, peer-reviewed data.
As far as early education is concerned, the current method is beyond horrible. Those children deserve better and we, as citizens, should work harder to eliminate the inequality of our schools. Everybody deserves a top-quality education, period.
So let's return to our previous comments. I want to make certain that college applicants are selected on their efforts and abilities, instead of their race or gender. What would you, personally, recommend for testing methods that would eliminate or at least reduce the bias in tests that everyone can take? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45588938, 45456658, 45537841, 45448191, 45597021] |
5,715,968 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Reread the article. You are confusing the ideals and abilities with a skin color. Don't read into the statement. Take it for what it is worth. You are doing the exact thing the lib media does-skew the statement into something that was not intended. | 9 | RTH, yes, allie is correct. Trump wants to block all immigrants from entering North America then he wants blonds white skinned European to be let in instead. Racists as it sounds you shouldn't be surprised. Lots of White Americans maybe not 50% likes Trumps ideas because, and its not that that mandan indian is correct but that IT is what President Trump is actually doing. Sutlely that is. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535369, 45599028, 45589137, 45602467, 45199056] |
5,716,349 | [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Sylvia, your comment reveals your own confirmation bias. Trump IS a liar, that has been validated again and again. His administration IS dysfunctional that has been validated (and Gen. Kelly is there to fix it) and there IS much evidence that he is a crook unless you choose to disbelieve all news reports, all leaks, all the statements from people who know him or did work for him that provide that evidence. You'll note that I haven't drawn a conclusion that he is a crook, only that there is evidence. Sure, I have confirmation bias, but you don't? So you accept nothing Trump says as true until it is validated, am I right? You didn't believe him when he said Muslims were celebrating 9/11, that the reports that his calls to Mexico and Australia went badly were "fake news", that Mexico would pay for the wall, that the Boy Scouts called him about his great speech, or that he didn't collude with Russia, etc., etc., right? You're waiting for validation before you take a position? Good for you. | 10 | Your comment is a study in confirmation bias. You eagerly accept on face value claims by even a single anonymous source and run with it like it's gospel, without looking for any kind of validation. Beyond a nice day dream, that has no value in the adult world. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45456658, 45497014, 45601213, 45348666, 45364217] |
5,716,440 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yes, we have that here too, and the reported crime rates for violent and non-violent crimes are comparable to US cities of the same size. People are people - we have the same crimes, at about the same rates. We just don't have anywhere near the number of police as they do in the US. As I said, you might see one or two cops a day, if you spend your day driving around a city of 400,000. | 4 | By "diversity", I mean practitioners of third-world "culture" and fourth-world "culture". As exhibited daily in any US hive. "Urban youfs" and "gimme-dats" who run rampant. And murder, rape, and robbery are crimes, regardless of how one intends to spin "cultural differences". | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45525557, 45597947, 45465124, 45505732] |
5,717,058 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | But please note that in the things Kipnis relates the issue is not actual rape but all sorts of elusive infringements of iffy and ever-changing ideological prescriptions emanating from the ever more empowered bureaucratic class that is destroying universities. | 6 | Yeah, Kipnis offers some very serious points for consideration. I'm inclined to see the matter as an over-correction for genuine and complex problems. The historical difficulties of prosecuting unambiguous sexual assaults continue into the present, and are unlikely to disappear. It continues to be hard to achieve justice in those situations, do to the nature of the crimes. I imagine the "panic" to be at least partially rooted in that impotence, and that these campus matters, and perhaps cases like that of the priest above, are instances where people are trying to achieve justice and safety by other means, trying to generate systems of justice that do not have the limitations evidentiary criminal courts. The civil courts are also used to that end, I think. I would just caution that we not embrace some sort of impassioned binary view of these issues, and lunge to over-correct the over-correction. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45501738, 45588938, 45224788, 45582203] |
5,718,135 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It's probably the only brand that could afford Lisa, besides it says ALASKA in big tall letters. | 4 | There are far superior beers brewed in Alaska than the brand shown. I'm not a fan of Alaska Brewing products. The Amber Ale is Awful! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45364217, 45497014, 45184519, 45448560] |
5,718,504 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Donny Jr. meeting with the Russians in Trump tower during the Presidential campaign is a good start... | 4 | Got an example of a "damning truth"? I didn't think so. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45426626, 45535369, 45388080, 45418654] |
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