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5,718,616 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Come on, RP. It was just a joke. A little optional light reading on a Saturday morning. | 6 | I should know better. In general, I avoid reading Wente because her usual columns are just annoying re-hashes of someone else's thoughts. This time I allowed myself to be sucked in by the the title, somehow hoping against hope that the content would rise above its banality. I was wrong.
The whiny list of irritants that Wente enumerates, failing to mention anything about the beauty, majesty and soul-renewing splendor of Canada's wild places leaves me feeling nothing but pity. It remains a mystery to me that this person retains her position as a columnist in Canada's national newspaper. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45404169, 45385682, 45188628, 45597373] |
5,719,331 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | How many times are you going to troll her with your trite and overdone comments? If you don't like her column, stop reading them you are capable of doing that, correct? | 4 | How many times must people have told you that you're both trite and overdone. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45541171, 45536973, 45447221, 45402464] |
5,719,440 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0] | Disagree.
This is just another of the Americans' poor decisions
same as electing their President Trump.
Shameful leadership. | 10 | The Paris agreement was an orgy of sanctimonious hypocrisy. The main purpose of the agreement was to transfer trillions of dollars from taxpayers in the US and other Western countries including Canada to third world kleptocrats. Anyone who claims that the Paris agreement would ever have any measurable impact on climate, weather or temperature is either deluded or dishonest. United Sates should be applauded for pulling out of this shameful agreement. One hopes that Canada has the courage to do the same. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45432844, 45588938, 45224788, 45505732, 45476019] |
5,719,736 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Well, it took just a quick perusal of the ol interwebby to figure out at least on of these wastes of skin is on an ICE hold and they're all part of a social club known as the South Side Seranos (DP?), a group that I sure is very civic minded because these sweethearts are 'dreamers.' Too bad they're busy putting people to 'sleep.' | 4 | 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] | [45314593, 45598378, 45438681, 45465124, 45454484] |
5,719,848 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Rattle-Snake Ray must have had a strong influence on you! | 4 | As a UBC geology student in the 60's, I spent 4 months just outside of Thompson, Manitoba, in a 'fly' camp, no pun, yet realistic; no fly dope, very bad day. Next year, 4 months up in Altin Lake area and the Dawson range in Northern BC and the Yukon...best summer yet, no bugs, gorgeous views, very long days...my point...your outdoor adventure location really does make a difference, (as does having a helicopter bring food and beer to mountain top camps, of course)...left all that for flying the big jets, still, some fun, outdoor adventures to remember (being young helped a lot, I suspect) | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45445022, 45397769, 45254602, 45541206] |
5,719,911 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | 'immigrants'!
You haven't been around much.
The former Ontarians I know on VI are humorous, enlightened, kind, and downright friendly. | 4 | You will, I believe agree, that your sister-in-law is a clear exception. Here, on Vancouver Island, immigrants from Ontario are easily spotted............. intolerant, opinionated and hopelessly self-centered. Would they remained in their 'oh so very prissy' homeland. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45445192, 45491654, 45449731, 45397769, 45656424] |
5,720,305 | [1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | That's true for most, but not all, minority populations. It's a cultural thing. The Asians tend to score higher than the whites because their cultures place more importance on education. But these things are measured by bell curves, and there are always exceptions with every minority. To believe that any member of a minority is incapable of learning what he needs to learn to become a productive and contributing member of our society is demeaningly racist. Millions of blacks in our society are doing quite well.
I have some friends and clients from Zimbabwe, black as the ace of spades. He's a distribution manager at a Walmart Distribution Center, and she's the Controller for a large paving contractor. They are two of the most intelligent and articulate people I know.
For the past 50+ years, the Democrats have been convincing the blacks that they're victims and need the help of Progressive welfare programs that attempt to equalize outcomes without regard to input. | 6 | The only issue here is that minority populations tend to score lower on standardized tests. To a statistical significance. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45332074, 45404169, 45653549, 45535968, 45541073] |
5,720,717 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Don't humor the wildlife by asking it questions. | 4 | How? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45501738, 45541171, 45397010, 45447087, 45597995] |
5,720,778 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I'm not sure it makes much sense at all to blame this on the EPA or responsible environmental stewardship. Maybe this town should try storing their water in a cistern or tank. You know, algae can't grow in darkness... | 4 | Algae in storage reservoirs is never eradicated. Rather it CAN be controlled by use of copper sulfate. In a reservoir like the one Wellington gets raw water from, using copper sulfate is frowned on because copper ion levels in trout bearing waters can destroy the "alevins" or newly hatched baby trout. Thus, even though there may be no breeding populations of trout, the EPA in all its glorious splendor prohibits using copper sulfate. The chemical in low concentrations is nontoxic to humans and livestock. Your daily vitamin supplement probably contains copper sulfate. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45404169, 45589137, 45449731, 45197484, 45501738] |
5,720,995 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Firstly I actually do believe birth control should be provided through insurance and medicaid, my dear something we agree upon :p Also I am not religious or believe sex is "sinful" However , I can see the value to society that promoting a less promiscuous and more traditional idea toward relationships and personal responsibility brings. Again the Republicans ignore the symptoms and problems entirely while Democrats try to treat the symptoms without acknowledging the bigger picture issue at hand, Primarily being the severe lack of fathers in modern society which is the number one reason women abort (Lack of familial/ spousal support )this also leaves huge developmental and psychological issues in children, even down to the DNA level that new research has foundhttp://www.nature.com/news/stress-alters-children-s-genomes-1.14997. This leads to a greater negative effect to society in terms of crime etc. | 6 | What about making abortion rare and unnecessary by providing free birth control to those who cannot afford it? Why do most conservatives object to that? Why are they trying to impose their belief that sex is sinful if not used for procreation? They must hate sex so much that they don't want anyone else to enjoy it. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45537352, 45447087, 45438070, 45188628] |
5,721,302 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Interesting. UPS, FedEx and the USPS all deliver right to our door and are very prompt and courteous in doing it. Our RG is on the porch while it is still dark out. Great service from all of these folks, even during the heat wave and smoky air. Bravo delivery people! | 4 | Lately UPS barely makes it to my front deck and ONTRAC can't even make up my driveway. The other day I had a package just abandoned in the middle of my driveway about 1/3 of the up. It's just laziness on the part of delivery people in general. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537509, 45537276, 45408370, 45498012, 45426626] |
5,721,531 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | My point is that there is no "unfettered chain migration" as claimed by Miller. | 4 | Why should anybody have the right to sponsor aunts or uncles? How about second cousins twice removed by divorce? Third cousins from my second wife's Previous marriage (provided there has been appropriate "accompaniment")? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45197484, 45404259, 45537276, 45447221] |
5,722,385 | [0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | "The promotion of division has always been Satan's number one ploy."
Exactly. And Satan's preferred strategy is to get people to believe that a human institution is Christ's church. Once Satan has people hooked on institutional loyalty, the divisions will multiply. For instance, not everyone can be loyal to a human institution that sells indulgences, or a human institution that fast-tracks a pedophile-protecting pope to sainthood. | 10 | What is intrinsically disordered is the liberals' attempt to separate Christ from His Church. The devil has been trying to do that for over 2 millennia.
The promotion of division has always been Satan's number one ploy. Firstly, division between man and God, between man and man, between nations and races, between men and women. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438070, 45438681, 45553691, 45408370, 45450802] |
5,722,771 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Bush Lite waited 5 months after his inauguration before any golfing. Obama wait four months. The Donald only waited two weeks. | 4 | Trump will accomplish more good things for our country while being on vacation then Obama when working. He does not strike me as somebody who can sit around for 17 days and do nothing. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45448191, 45486533, 45545208, 45450604] |
5,722,791 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | "Second, yes, we are proud."
You should be. Who wouldn't be proud of Executive Signings, golf, expensive Secret Service details, golf, higher debt ceiling, golf, backtracking on promises, golf, and of course, more golf.
Wait a moment. Didn't conservatives rail against Obama for doing those same things? | 5 | First, he actually is the president. You don't know this? Second, yes, we are proud. Third, we enjoy the reactions of snowflakes like you! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45588938, 45388080, 45535372, 45366683] |
5,722,849 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | It's not the holiday - everyone deserves a holiday, a real holiday without interruptions, especially presidents. It's the hypocrisy of his actions, versus his incessant criticisms of President Obama. Hopefully, future candidates of both parties are watching, and will behave (and speak) more civilly and more consistently in the future. | 6 | I don't think any President ever truly takes a vacation. Whether it is a week or 2 in Hawaii or 17 days at a golf resort or time away in Crawford, TX or Camp David he is constantly followed by aides, assistants and issues. Technology has increased the ability to be away without really being away. There are better things to worry about than this. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45331940, 45557117, 45349054, 45633254] |
5,723,081 | [0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0] | I disagree. This guy is the mundane, wrapped in the dull, wrapped inside the obvious. I don't care if he hates Trump, but for gawd's sake, why can't he say so better than with the usual nyah-nyahs . | 10 | This guy is the riddle wrapped in a mustery inside an enigma that Churchill was talking about... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537487, 45445192, 45476019, 45408370, 45534967] |
5,723,128 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I don't understand legal stuff beyond those basics, so can't answer those questions. It only takes common sense & common sensibilities, though, to see that the claims of onerous burdens and persecution are very much deserving of all the rolling of eyes, shaking of heads and palms to faces that they've generated. | 4 | Excellent analysis. Last year, a member of the order argued that the opt-out form is a burden because it is "a permission slip where we authorize the use of our religious health plan to offer services that violate our beliefs and waive our protections under federal civil rights laws. That’s why they need our signature."
She then went on to compare it to pop machines being offered in schools, which are "bad for people": they don't become acceptable, she noted, just because the company pays for them. (The comparison rankled--comparing the needs of adult fertile women to pop-loving highschoolers. . .)
I'm not a lawyer, but when she referred to it as "our religious health plan," is she right in any sense? It seems to me that this is not "their" plan but the insurance company plan that they contract with. And she ignores the fact that their employees are not necessarily Catholic. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45418782, 45491654, 45447087, 45312025, 45653549] |
5,723,214 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | Golf Digest has even dubbed Trump "Golfer in Chief." | 6 | Oh hey look, it's golfing...again. Golf,golf,golf,golf,golf, it's
all it does. Also, who vacatioms
in Jersey??? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45388025, 45388080, 45588938, 45224788] |
5,723,737 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | No. Actually it is what I said about this article and situation. I'd guess the list of people criticizing others for their actions in the past would be never ending. Beating a dead horse does no good. I prefer to live in the present, looking to the future, considering lessons from the past. | 4 | Is that what Two Scoops tweeted out when Obama took a 17 day vacation?
Has there been a huge leap in tools and techniques in the ensuing years?
Or are Two Scoops and his supporters just flaming hypocrites? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45404169, 45327007, 45514417, 45450802] |
5,723,804 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "...Why is this not called terrorism?...someone is trying to terrorize a specific group..."
You mean like when the Anti-Trum Faction specifically targets/harangues/physically attacks President Trump supporters and destroys their property? | 4 | Why is this not called terrorism? Bombing a church, a synagogue, a mosque is terrorism, someone is trying to terrorize a specific group. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45500804, 45363536, 45553691, 45602833] |
5,723,883 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Yet they won 3 straight elections and governments change, maybe Iggy and Dion and Martin reformed the Liberals right out of government and into a RUMP party by your logic. Too funny! | 4 | The Conservative Party tried 'reform'.
Remember Preston Manning.
Reformed it right out of government.
Sheer miscalculation. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45349032, 45187581, 45543714, 45417357, 45602346] |
5,724,105 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Really odd that Ellison ran into permit problems with the desalinization plant proposal.
Wonder what the problem was. You would think that with his resources, it would not
have been difficult to find a solution and why would Maui County not want the development of another fresh water resource for Lanai. What gives?? | 4 | Good luck with that. If Ellison can't get permitted for a plant to produce potable water via desalinization, do you really think the County of Maui bureaucracy will start granting transient rental permits? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45388025, 45224788, 45476019, 45394200] |
5,724,120 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You were the one that was complaining about "parking to gate" right from the very start, and "vertical design". | 4 | Where did I say only 2 levels for the parking garage, we are talking about the TERMINAL. False assumption on your part.
"But that's more efficient than spreading it all out over a wider area where people have to walk further."
Another false assumption on your part. I gave you examples of larger airports where the total distance walking is much shorter than DIA.
Try making a point without just making stuff up about what I've said. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45476019, 45438681, 45501738, 45541206] |
5,724,159 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0] | Islam is not a race. Find a different card. | 10 | Ugh, ugly racism..... who let the racist dogs out? I think we all know the answer...... | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [45195714, 45379964, 45435348, 45489372, 45599054] |
5,724,384 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I agree with much of your post except the part about not allowing younger siblings to enroll. As a practical matter, having all one's children in the school your family has chosen is important. I have had my kids in a charter school although for various reasons including age difference, both went through the lottery. Observing that school's enrollment over the years, the admission of siblings did not significantly reduce the spots available for the lottery. Some siblings were placed in public or private because the school wasn't a good fit for that particular child. But it was the parent's choice.
I do agree that schools should not be able to charge increased tuition because there are vouchers. That's part of what has caused obscene inflation in higher education once the government started paying for it. As far as contributing time - many private schools are successful in part because of the community aspect created by parents working on projects together. | 4 | Here's my take on vouchers and I believe it is the only real and fair way to do this. Any school that accepts a voucher MUST accept that voucher as full and complete payment. Period. No add ons. No requirements that parents contribute either time or money in addition to the voucher to get their child into the school. Any school that will accept vouchers must also conduct a lottery - no grandfathering in siblings or legacies or anything else. Each child must go through the lottery before their first year in the school. Again, no cheating and no exceptions. Period. Under those and only those circumstances will I ever support vouchers of any kind. They cannot become a subsidy for upper middle class to send their children to pricey schools - if a school accepts the voucher, that's it, the voucher is full payment and all children have an equal chance to get into a school that accepts vouchers. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45404169, 45476019, 45388080, 45366913] |
5,724,938 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "if the animals had weapons"
and WANTED to fight | 4 | "if the animals had weapons"
Yep. The right to arm bears. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438070, 45314593, 45432844, 45498710, 45404259] |
5,725,037 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Can't do that. He made a promise and one that I really expected him to meet. We will be in for a stock market crash which is why I have decided to build up cash. While I still have a lot invested, it is getting to br just a bit unpredictable with the Donaldd. I think we now have a Russian plant as president. Nothing wrong with that I suppose. | 4 | boots stop harping on trump about his tax returns if he releases them the stock market will drop and you will lose money in the stock market best he does not release his taxes that way all of you who has stock will make a killing. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45434367, 45582203, 45606103, 45525588, 45602036] |
5,725,154 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "China is ahead of the US in solar by leaps and bounds ..."
And they are doing so without any regard for short-term and long-term environmental damage. Creating solar panels uses the same process that creates the microchips in your computer, TV, and phone. The chemicals are highly toxic. Strip mining provides raw materials. When mines are emptied, they're abandoned (and not refilled), and the chemicals are buried or simply dumped.
Let's cheer for China's success! | 4 | Coal isn't needed and NG is cheaper. But they need to be planning solar and storage. China is ahead of the US in solar by leaps and bounds including manufacture of panels. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45366683, 45476019, 45535372, 45402464] |
5,725,174 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | And just where you going to store the spent fuel? LOL Yucca Mountain which has been shut down indefinitely? Bury it in your back yard? We all know there in no single disposal site or recycling like you falsely claim in other posts. Give us a single source proving a single US nuclear facility was able to recycle or safely dispose of spent nuclear fuel in recent history. And no, dumping it into the ocean like the military does or storing nuclear fuel in your backyard swimming pool is not considered a solution. | 4 | IRT PacificSports, again mini-nuclear power plants similar to those in Aircraft Carriers and Submarines can provide inexpensive electricity (<$0.10/kwh) 24/7 to power the desalination plants and store processed water. Also, because the real estate and operations are owned by the same owner, the cost of producing power will be much less. A win - win for the people and visitors of Lanai. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45256208, 45598378, 45598834, 45438648] |
5,725,186 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Whoa! You have made enormous, blanketed and overgeneralized statements about progressives. Maybe ratched down the tone? | 4 | He does it all the time. That's ok. It really doesn't bother me. Consider that any reaction by progressives just means you've struck a nerve, and absent any cogent reply, it usually means they just can't provide one.
Progressives mean well, at least within the framework of their distorted, negative and cynical world view, in which there are but two groups of people; victims and oppressors. The victim class is never responsible nor accountable for its own actions; someone or something else must always be blamed for progressivism to survive. One man's achievement is another man's oppression. The progressive movement is nothing more than a coalition of the self-styled oppressed. On the one hand I feel a tremendous sympathy for them. How does one live such a negative existence, absent Hope, and not suffer from some sort of mental illness? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438638, 45601144, 45584933, 45416745, 45640367] |
5,725,838 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The breathtakingly odious part of Demento's comment is the six words he picks out of some apartheid-regime manual: " it can also impact the brain." | 4 | That photo is bad for society, as is the race.
What the photo shows is the world's fastest people can trace ancestry to genetic selection events happening in Africa where, particularly for those whose ancestors lived within about 1,000 miles of a mountain in Kenya, the past few tens of thousands of years led to environmental survival benefits for those who could run very fast.
Frighteningly, what that says is tissues such as muscles, bones, joints, tendons, lungs and blood can be modified by environmental demands, giving those people the fastest running abilities on the planet due to evolutionary events.
That information is too dangerous. Why? Because armed with it, it is easy to realize that since genetic selection due to environment can impact those organs, it can also impact the brain.
What's needed? End the race and instead have an affirmative action race, including Asians and white people and Inuit: Call it the "kinda like Trudeau's original cabinet" race.
Ban it as is. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45535369, 44826677, 45447221, 45199056] |
5,726,500 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | No, no, you're right, Trump's presidency has been "normal" and uneventful, very successful, in fact. Obamacare is no longer with us, there is a border wall nearly complete that has already been paid for by Mexico, and there are so fewer illegal residents among us. Did I miss anything? Oh, yeah, we're all traveling on new roads and bridges. | 4 | Disgraceful = The soft coup being attempted by the Democrats and the corrupt media. Bordering on Treason. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45571747, 45494674, 45397769, 45500804] |
5,726,620 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Haha. That's a new spin on it. | 4 | He won by outside forces? Would that be the Russians giving Hillary the popular vote, while Obama looked the other way? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45491654, 45505732, 45440910, 45450802] |
5,726,735 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Yes, that's exactly what is meant. Disagreement is implied to be something that it isn't. "Hate" has also become a synonym for criticism.
If you serve meat at your dinner party, you "hate" vegetarians. If you think free enterprise is overly regulated, you "hate" those who buy stuff. If you say half the population is capable of functioning without additional mandates on their employers, you are waging a "war on women" and "hate" them.
But what do you expect in a time when the terms "ironic" and "literally" are being redefined and misused? | 6 | 'Haters'? You mean people who have an opinion contrary to conventional wisdom? | [0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45525557, 45485526, 45465124, 45256208] |
5,726,833 | [1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1] | Charles certainly does BLOW. Thats really funny that all you losers are still whining about your loss and calling US whiners. Thats hysterical. President Trump doesn't even hear the clap trap, he considers the source. I am not interested in the hard core whining of Charles Blowjob. Stick to the facts. | 64 | twyL Charles Blow's column this morning discusses the "Whiner in Chief"...here's just a paragraph...read the entire piece if youi're interested in real "hard-core" whining.
'In this way he was a perfect reflection of the new Whiny Right. Trump is its instrument, articulation, embodiment. He’s not so much representative of it but of an idea — the waning power of whiteness, privilege, patriarchy, access, and the cultural and economic surety that accrues to the possessors of such. Trump represents their emerging status of victims-in-their-own-minds'
While you will find the piece "uncomfortable", I think it really captures the essense of the Trump persona. regards, Gary Crum | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45588938, 45385682, 45438681, 45450604, 45635376] |
5,726,887 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0] | How many approved your comment?
Oh, right. None! | 6 | How many of those required State Department approval?
Oh, right. None. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45454484, 45656105, 45597995, 45256258] |
5,727,022 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | As Louis IV famously said, "l'etat c'est moi". In fact the State Department's preliminary report on KXL was generally favourable. The final decision was all Obama. | 4 | How many of those required State Department approval?
Oh, right. None. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45485526, 45635376, 45514417, 45602036] |
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I am all for self responsibility and personal decision making. | 1,653 | Let's not punish our retirees...work with a plausable plan. Perhaps a buy out and have them manage their own portfolio. Provide education on how to invest so they may even be able to beat the ROI provided by those who manage the ERS. Daunting task but it can be done. In addition, we can't forget about those who are incoming civil servants and make investment education a requirement, there are Target Date Funds which are rather balanced and almost self managing and if they opt for some higher risk (further out on retirement) then invest accordingly.s We also need to reduce the Medicare benefit payback and coverage of others than retiree. Just my thoughts... | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45571747, 20225558, 45603511, 45447091, 45440910] |
5,727,230 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Sure, and put small business on Phinney at risk, as well as push yet more cars into the residential neighborhoods adjacent to the poorly designed linear "urban village." | 4 | Maybe the city should convert the curb lane parking into a dedicated transit lane, thus allowing the bus to arrive reliably every 15 minutes. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45656105, 45535393, 45404259, 45450746, 45602066] |
5,727,239 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "Won"? What, exactly? | 4 | trump literally asked Russian hackers for help.
Folks like you will never understand why Hillary won. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388025, 45535369, 45635376, 45447087, 45506032] |
5,727,290 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Why exactly 5 years? And why can't we drop Colorado's coal use to the national average — and below — more quickly than we are now? | 4 | "Colorado will do just fine with the quick end to the use of coal for power generation."
OK, let's shut down every coal-fired generator in 5 years. During that time, we need to find a quick solution to restoring 54% of our very-essential electricity.
Time is ticking. Tell us how we can do that in 5 years. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45450604, 45363536, 44826677, 45405070] |
5,727,545 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Quite the bit of stereotyping there. | 4 | The picture with the article says it all. If you got rid of everyone over 60 , there wouldn't be much left of the republican party. I guess that's why they always want to "go back". They don't care about the environment or the future because they won't be around to experience it. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45451297, 45385682, 45537352, 45447087, 45449731] |
5,727,715 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Nobody carries a flag for me. I'm still here, watching you attempt to extract your foot from your mouth. Your lordship, "fingers donnie", admitted sex offender and fast food maw of epic proportions, has no clue how to run a country, has a reptilian brain, and enjoys the following of people like you. People who worship him and think he's a god. BTW, if you really believe you "won" and want the animals, come and get them. However, all but one died when I informed them of your intentions. | 4 | YOU are not part of the bet. YOU don't get to decide what is positive and what is negative. The bet was "10 things that he has done". I've provided 60. Many, think EVERYTHING he has done is positive. And whats more, the things YOU think are going to weaken our country, will actually make it stronger. But have you noticed Old Soul hasn't chimed in? You can carry his flag for him if you'd like, but YOU don't get to make the rules. He lost, I won, and I'd prefer a couple of pygmy goats. (some for sale near me) je me souviens ? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45536973, 45635376, 45447221, 45450736] |
5,727,926 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | different years | 4 | "Bowlen had been placed on probation in Arapahoe County on April 14"
"Count 2: Bowlen has not reported to his probation officer since March 27."
Uh, what? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45590457, 45366683, 45449332, 45567747] |
5,728,113 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | If you think a dinosaur of a wall, an enormous waste of American resources, is going to "save America's sovereignty," then perhaps you should consider going back to school and this time, paying attention. | 6 | Because saving butterflies is more important than saving America's sovereignty.
Or something. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535372, 45438879, 45388025, 45589137, 45438416] |
5,728,347 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Republicans need to work collegiately with Democrats. Republicans fell on their face and have a very low approval rating. Lower even than Trump's poor ratings. Let us see some sanity now and let us see Congress get off its behind and get to work on behalf of the American people for a change. And by the way, catch a clue: the public expects a government role in health care. There may be disagreement about how much but almost no one wants government not to participate in some important way. | 4 | Make health plans that work. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45506032, 45454484, 45534988, 45602467, 45597144] |
5,728,460 | [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0] | I am not quite sure what you are trying to say. But I think you are looking at it from the wrong end. A business open to the public, Masterpiece Cakeshop, is refusing to provide a cake for a gay couple. The business is not participating in a religious ceremony, nor is it practicing a religion. (Businesses do not have religions.) Since it is open to the public, it may no more discriminate against gays than a diner in the South could lawfully refuse to serve black people. | 10 | Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems to take a great amount of cognitive dissonance to reason that participation in a civil marriage ceremony is both a protected religious right and not a protected religious right at the same time. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45363536, 45500804, 45394200, 45438416] |
5,729,287 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | And that was 44 minutes ago. The list has grown exponentially.
Hey, we advised the cpc not to keep on about Trudeau's hair, or to make kindergarten changes to his name in posts. They didn't listen and the result: the Liberals stay about the same 8 to 9% ahead of the conservatives in polls, JT gets very high marks for leadership, scheer gets low marks at the same level as the leaderless NDP. Not working well, all this juvenile criticism, is it?
I don't think they'll ever learn. But that's not my problem - it's theirs. | 4 | So far I have seen 2 posts (Chuckunfiltered and TerryM4) that prove Adam's point. Complaints about Trudeau that do not convince the non-Cons. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256178, 45598378, 45450604, 45448191, 44826677] |
5,729,404 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | sunlight only accounts for less than ten percent of earth's heating.
i am, far more concerned where the other 90+Percent comes from. the nuclear reactions, are fairly stable source. but am more concerned as to how low the last two solar maximums were, resulting in a reduction of heat from the magneto-induction into the earth's core.
which suggests, a period of delayed global cooling and drought. since it takes years, for this effect to reach the surface.
even if the swelling of the earth's atmosphere, is more immediate effecting the wet and dry periods. when the earth's atmosphere swells, from ionization it absorbs more moisture, when it collapses from lack of ionization it releases moisture.
and what alleged as men have done, has little or no effect on these internal and external forces of nature. and the mystery is, why does the oxygen levels remain stable at over 21% regardless of what alleged as fallible men have done. and scientist do not even have a clue what is regulating it | 4 | Can anyone ID a global warming study that includes heating from the Sun in the analysis?
Seems the studies Al Gore and others use don't include the single biggest contributor to temperature on plane earth, the Sun. I'm old enough to have witnessed that when experts are all in agreement, time often proves the experts are completely wrong.
A five hundred years ago, it was known by man that the earth was flat and 250 years ago "bleeding" an ill patient was a smart treatment according to the best experts.
A few decades ago, it was concluded science from experts that LGBTQ lifestyles were psychiatric illnesses and deviant behaviors.
So is everyone 100% absolutely certain on the effects of human activity on global temperature?
When ALL the experts are certain, give it enough time and things usually play out in ways not expected. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45582203, 45447087, 45449332, 45597315, 45404918] |
5,729,410 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | b4: There we go. Scheer can't do any worse than Trudeau? Thanks for the facts backing up your claim. Oh... you didn't have any.
Just being negative is going to get your party exactly zero more votes . Try remembering that the cpc is in opposition , is well behind in polls and it's their responsibility to change voters minds. And whining just ain't gonna do it. | 4 | And of course you have more substance from the Libs. Scheer has not even had the opportunity to attend Parliament as an opposition, why don't we wait and see. He can't do any worse than Trudeau. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45388025, 45541171, 45438070, 45598378, 45366683] |
5,729,817 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It is reverse gerrymandering, returning the vote disenfranchised by actual gerrymandering to the voter now left out in the cold.
A Constitutional amendment would not succeed, since it requires that three fourths of the states vote in favor. Though three-fourths of states have only about one-fourth of the population (my guess), those little states have significant reason not to let go of their undeserved and excessive power. We know that one Wyoming vote counts as three California votes.
Either you want the will of the people as a whole to elect our president, or you don't. The latter choice is indefensible in a democratic republic. | 4 | The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is rule gamesmanship at best and gerrymandering at worst. If the People want the President elected by popular vote then the Constitution should be amended, there is a mechanism to do this. Peter is spot-on with his letter. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45525557, 45535372, 45366683, 45388080] |
5,729,837 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Don't present false dichotomies. Especially when dealing with an issue as important as state revenue. It only makes you look like you're unwilling to discuss the issue in an honest and open manner. | 4 | And your suggestion is.............? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45397010, 45397769, 45590457, 45447221, 45572056] |
5,730,500 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Dig deep enough into any business or person and you will find 'something'. Whether that something is worth obsessing over or worse, betting the farm on, is a different matter. | 4 | You are completely out to lunch. Read what the KPMG report says about controls, staffing, risk policy, the tone of management. This is not how you run a business and is similar to the story at Countrywide in California that was an epicenter for the US crisis.
It is easy to blame the regulator because they made public the management debacle that was HC. They did their job protecting investors from a recalcitrant management that did not disclose what was in the report, instead inferring that the market caused a drop in originations after they had to stop dealing with a set of high volume but poorly underwritten brokers.
Finally, blame HOOPP if you must, the terms of that deal - one that was not competitively bid - with a board member jamming the deal. Almost half the loss reported last quarter were related to that deal in the upfront $100 million fee and legal and advisory costs.
I don't understand you perpetuate this myth, unless you are the former HC management? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45451297, 45333173, 45447221, 45438416, 45418655] |
5,731,390 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | an odd post with regard to the subject of interprovincial trade, but especially at a moment when Quebec unemployment is at its lowest point in decades, with Quebec City having lower joblessness than Calgary and Montreal lower than Toronto; QC is doing well, and a more entrepreneurial culture among francophones is certainly part of it, as well as freer trade with the US | 4 | We are suffering from the side effects of protectionism created by lazy politicians who promise JOBS JOBS JOBS to win their next election. They all do it despite it being destructive in the long term. Protectionism weakens the economy. Case in point: if Quebec had been economically secure, separatism may well have succeeded. Quebec's politiciand are always promising JOBS JOBS JOBS , even as jobs flee west. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45494674, 45366913, 45438416, 45510833, 45349032] |
5,731,891 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Moon, Sun, you can add Jupiter,
both countries have a corrupt governments, one is no better than the other. | 4 | So Pres. Moon has finally caught on to the fact that “playing nice” with Lil Kim and his brutal kommie dynasty doesn’t work (as if it ever did).... | [1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45432844, 45450604, 45597947, 45404259, 45598834] |
5,732,292 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | For a reserve of 800 people, 500 km from Thunder Bay how much time do they need to schedule for the inquiry? Is the school gymnasium booked solid for the next 3 months? What do they need to do to prepare for a visit? You would think they would be eager to talk to the inquiry rather than making new demands so long after the commission is under way. As always, there is more not said than is. | 4 | "It also says the inquiry is scheduling visits to communities without any advance warning, which creates confusion."
I would think that scheduling visits in advance would eliminate confusion as one would know when the commission was going to be in a particular place on a particular day and time, especially when these dates were scheduled well beyond a month in advance of the hearings that have been announced. The Commission has also said that good notice will be given for the additional dates to be scheduled.
The argument is a complete non-starter unless the Commission is scheduling hearings a day or two out. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45505902, 45447221, 45465124, 45653549] |
5,732,454 | [1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1] | Gotta love DP readers... turning a basic pop-news item into a political dumpster fire. We've become a society of mental midgets. How sad. | 6 | David Mueller should run for president. Republicans reward guys with the presidency who feel entitled engage in unsolicited non-consensual p- sy grabbing and general groping. Though they might only do that for candidates who also felt entitled by owning the Miss Teen America pageant to enter the dressing room to ogle naked 14 and 15 year old girls and candidates who felt entitled to commit repeated acts of illegal anti-black housing discrimination. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45314593, 45525588, 45486303, 45567747] |
5,732,571 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Sorry but any increase in property taxes for non-resident owners will only be passed onto those who rent their properties. Supply and demand, the Federal Reserve, and ignorance about the housing sector are driving up the price and cost of housing.
Furthermore it's a fallacy that foreigners buying homes in cash are driving up the market for locals. Most people who buy real estate are locals 72.7% while 23.3% are "mainlanders" and 4% are foreigners http://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/economic/data_reports/homesale/Residential_Home_Sales_in_Hawaii_May2016.pdf
As for solutions, lawmakers are the problem. They are not and will never be the solution. | 4 | Nope absolutely do not want kanaka maoli to leave Hawaiʻi nei. My suggestion to law makers is to pass a value added tax like they have in all Euro countries and elsewhere where foreigners buying up all our real estate or any goods and service pay a value added tax into a fund to help subsidize housing low income and maoli families. I am appalled at all the foreigners buying homes in cash this driving up the market for locals. Part of the tax could also be used for the truly homeless. I am also in favor of the unused military housing being converted by the military for homeless safe places. There are solutions but law makers have to take a stand. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45256208, 45598378, 45598834, 45438648] |
5,733,383 | [0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0] | For whatever reasons, and I think the primary two are that Trump is perceived as very weak (so weak) domestically, internationally, and most of all within the WH, Russia and North Korea never moved in the manner they have against the US while Obama was President.
Trump's accommodation of and refusal to engage AGAINST Russia defies any logic. (Why?)
The upping of ante came with Trump.
He's screws up and show such poor judgment on so many issues so big and so small (hand sized small).
Why? Because Trump is Trump, and America;s enemies have Trump's number. That is and can be the only conclusion. | 10 | Critty, This situation as well as the one in the China Sea was well under way during the previous administration. Obama could do nothing so now please tell us what your heroine Hellary would do to calm the DPRK. They are both silent on the subject waiting to play the blame game. "I knew it", "he should have", "he should not have" yada, yada, yada. The answer is that we should.....do what? Fill in the blanks. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45426626, 45184889, 45349032, 45200444] |
5,733,603 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It speaks to how you can accidentally carry a firearm. And intent (I didn't mean to) or "mens rea" is a very powerful defense in many instances. | 4 | Ignorance of the law and "oops, I din't MEAN to" aren't the best defenses. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45535372, 45506032, 45599028, 45599480] |
5,733,802 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | < this comment is undergoing moderation > | 4 | N. Korea, China, and Russia all consider Trump as a joke and now have no respect or fear of America. Trump "playing President" is over. He needs to step aside and let true policy makers take over. Playtime is over and America needs to get back to reality. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45491609, 44826677, 45513204, 45548584] |
5,733,928 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | "Its highly suspect that we attribute genetic differences to the sexes"
Why is it highly suspect? Have you ever raised children of both genders? I don't think you would find it nearly so "suspect" if you had. | 4 | I can't help but feel you on this one. Its highly suspect that we attribute genetic differences to the sexes when there is no comparable baseline. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45505902, 45537352, 44826677, 45438416, 45313149] |
5,734,155 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Every administration that I can remember has tried to deal with this short of bombing them. Honestly there is only so much we can do through sanctions and such. What would you have done to prevent things from getting this far? | 4 | Too bad the previous administrations did not address these issues in the past which could have prevented this from getting to this. This is what happens when you kick can down the road for the next person to deal with. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45541171, 45450604, 45432844, 45418655, 45426626] |
5,734,523 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | IN OTHER WORDS, THE FEDERAL RESERVE DECIDES TO EXPAND THE MONEY SUPPLY WHENEVER THE FED GOVERNORS THINK AN EXPANSION IS NECESSARY TO ACCOMMODATE ANTICIPATED AND/OR DESIRED FUTURE ECONOMIC (GDP) GROWTH.
IN THEORY, EXPANSION OF THE SUPPLY OF (ELECTRONIC) MONEY IN CIRCULATION HELPS TO AVOID WAGE AND PRICE INFLATION, IF AND AS THE ECONOMY "GROWS"--AS CRUDELY DEFINED AND MIS-MEASURED BY GDP (IMO).
THIS WAS THE CASE FOLLOWING THE NEAR MELTDOWN OF THE NATIONAL AND POSSIBLY THE GLOBAL ECONOMIES--DUE TO THE SUB-PRIME MORTGAGE LENDING DISASTER, WHICH BEGAN TO IMPLODE IN 2007--WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY SEVERAL ROUNDS OF "QUANTITATIVE EASING" (QE) BETWEEN 2009 AND 2012.
QUANTITATIVE EASING REDUCED INTEREST RATES CHARGED BY THE FED--WHENEVER IT "LENDS" NEW MONEY INTO EXISTENCE TO THE PRIVATE, FOR-PROFIT BANKING INDUSTRY--TO NEAR ZERO. (NOTE: "QE" WAS AMONG SEVERAL OTHER ATTEMPTS GOV'T AND PRIVATE ATTEMPTS TO AVOID THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO, I.E. THE NEXT GREAT DEPRESSION--SEE EXPLANATION BELOW*) | 4 | "In a famous speech, the Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke alluded to this concept, making the case that, under important deflationary trends like that seen in Japan, the central bank could resort to helicopter money-style instruments to achieve its 2% inflation target.
"Yet, far from initiating serious consideration, these remarks only caused Bernanke to endure mockery and “helicopter Ben” as a persistent nickname.
"This is probably because the concept runs counter to the whole ideological turn of the 20th century in terms of monetary policy. Starting from the 1950s, money creation has been gradually shifted from the sphere of public sovereignty into the quasi-monopolistic realm of the private banking sector.
"This process ultimately resulted in the outright prohibition, in most jurisdictions, of monetary financing of government budgets. Helicopter money sounds very much like a reversal of this trend, and a dangerous one to the ears of many mainstream economists." --End Intro. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45450604, 45586742, 45363536, 45388080, 45525588] |
5,735,004 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Wake up, the leadership is new. The conservatives are badly out funding Junior and Liberal Premiers are becoming an endangered species west of Quebec.
From what I gather the East Coast isn't happy either.
Yes NO Kathleen, perhaps good old Obama will show up and complain about the approval of Key Stone | 4 | I'll tune in next week and the polls will show me the cpc continues running 9% behind the Liberals.
You just won't learn, will you? Even when the article tries to help you.
Did you actually read the article? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45535372, 45450604, 45514417, 45191524, 45602036] |
5,735,414 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It reveals nothing except sloppiness. If a male author has an article published in this paper, and the only indication of title is a statement at the end of the article saying he has a Ph.D., most commenters will refer to him as Mr. | 4 | It's revealing that despite the fact that the short bio at the end of this op-ed clearly states that Debra Soh holds a PhD in neuroscience, and is writing on a topic pertaining at least nominally to her field of expertise, all ten of the other ten commenters who used an honorific referred to her as 'Ms.' Soh. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45506032, 45404169, 45448160, 45597995] |
5,737,166 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | But she did get to go to Paris ...twice, didn't she? | 4 | And since Colleen lied to us about carbon-fiber recycling being such a job-creator we can assume she will lie to us again. She made a terrible decision regarding the use of our tax dollars for corporate welfare and I'm just wondering what she wants to fund next to enrich the rich by selling off port assets? I'm just wondering what she's scheming to do next.... that's all. | [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] |
5,737,305 | [1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1] | SJWs are the bigots, racists and sexists of our time. Dividing people through identity politics is not progress. | 6 | The agenda is pretty obvious. They can try all they want. They will have some success in the short term. In the long term they cannot suppress diversity and progress. | [0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45525557, 45184889, 45573532, 45449332] |
5,737,417 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | None more than the Alt Right media. | 4 | Will Trump make America white again? Nope. But apparently he's made the media hysterical. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45599028, 45537841, 45451297, 45630512, 45448160] |
5,737,439 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | A mixed load from various STEM departments but the courses are specialized for general science students and greatly watered down. Students in the real STEM programs are not allowed to take these courses. And GS students generally could never get into graduate school, although that's been watered down lately as well with general science graduate programs existing now. But they offer essentially fake degrees. $$ for the universities,though. | 4 | What do mean be "general sciences"? I assume you already include phys, chem and bio in STEM. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45596860, 45537352, 45541171, 45450096, 45449332] |
5,737,540 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Wow. Where to even begin.
I think the funniest line in your comment is "People are not crazy or racist to feel like they are being replaced, they are." One cannot feel threatened in the way that you imply unless one differentiates themselves from others by skin colour first. However, I don't expect you to get this contradiction in your rationalizations, foxy. | 4 | These constant race mongering articles are a disgrace to the MAINSTREAM press. It is shocking to see this and it is dangerous. Immigration is a government policy like anything else. It can be changed, expanded or limited depending on the needs of the country. Economic AND Cultural considerations matter. In 1970 just 5% of Americans were foreign born and the population had largely assimilated the millions of Central, Southern and Eastern Europeans of the late 1800s added to the largely Anglo Protestant base culture. Since then immigration has expanded dramatically and diversified greatly with nearly all immigrants coming from the third world. California has gone from an over 80% white state in the 1970s to 35% white by 2017. Hispanics now outnumber whites in California, New Mexico and among the young in Texas and Arizona. People are not crazy or racist to feel like they are being replaced, they are. Economically, big change is needed. 49% of current immigrants are on a welfare program. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45397769, 45599028, 45363536, 45486432, 45450096] |
5,737,579 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I see no difference between "creative" versus "clever."
Can you supply an example of Bloomberg's loopholes? I'm interested in seeing some details. | 4 | What would be called "creative" if it was a democratic candidate is called "clever" for a Republican. Where was this warning when Bloomberg's money and outside influence was and is involved in state races? He used all sorts of loopholes to inject millions into our state races and the Dp editors didn't once bat an eye. The bias is strong with this group. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45656105, 45278775, 45588938, 45394200] |
5,737,653 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Your dismissal of a female scientist in her field based on your prejudices suggests you harbour deeply held sexism. | 4 | And how much "science-based decision making" went into this op-ed, steve? By my reading, very little. She linked to a handful of studies rebutting one controversial and little-cited paper, on a topic peripheral (at best) to the main subject. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45500804, 45536325, 45540926, 45450031] |
5,737,723 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | It doesn't, except perhaps electorally.
But when one is setting up shop as the Honesty Police, it's probably better if one's pubic face doesn't have a big lie plastered across it. | 4 | Why does it matter where Donnie lives? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45456658, 45388080, 45405070, 45588938] |
5,738,124 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0] | It is very interesting that they changed from Global Warming to Climate change. When global warming was proved wrong they had to change it to Climate Change because the climate ALWAYS changes so how do you prove it wrong? Why you guys can't see through this scam is beyond me. | 6 | I hope you understand that global warning implies increased global energy which increases variability in weather. That means a cool wet August can be considered support of global warming and not the ignorant assertion that global warming always means hotter. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45537352, 45597947, 45465124, 45597373, 45252698] |
5,738,329 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Thank you for your comment. My experience is 33 years in a large multi-national organization, most of that time in management. I have hired hundreds of folks over that 33 years and perhaps interviewed a couple of thousand. Your point about marketing firms is quite interesting, My experience with marketing is that yes the staff may be as much as 90% female, but the leadership is nowhere near even 50% female. | 4 | I feel that you are making rampant generalizations about hiring & promotions, and it makes me wonder how much experience you have had in the hiring process..?
Personally, I have been at many hiring and promotion meetings, and the only time that this type of criteria comes up is when someone at the table has a political agenda to hire people based upon their skin color or gender. Otherwise it is always best person for the job, based upon the applicant pool.
On the other hand, I work closely with 2 marketing firms who have 90%+ female staff, which is clearly based upon a biased hiring practice... But guess what--> It doesn't matter because their lack of gender diversity harms no one. If I don't want to do business with them I don't have to. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45432844, 45506032, 45440506, 45599480, 45597995] |
5,738,472 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Perhaps you need more than love. However, love is at the core of Christianity, as much as traditionalists would like to claim that the rules are at the core. | 4 | "Catholics can't depend on their "church" for direction but rather follow Jesus and look at what Jesus would do."
Laughable. So-called non-traditional Catholics --- there used to be only one kind: Catholics --- don't really care what Jesus would do. They follow John Lennon: "All you need is love." Lennon's notion of what love dictates is further detailed in "Imagine" --- ah, yes, a hymn to Roman Catholicism. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45505732, 45506032, 45438681, 45363536, 45463652] |
5,738,757 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | She said: “Two-thirds (meaning 70 acres) of our property AND (meaning plus) a significant portion of America will wind up behind the border wall."
She obviously did not meant that 70 acres was "a significant portion of America". That's why she used the word "AND" and did not say, 'Two-thirds of our property WHICH IS a significant portion of America.'
Best,
RTD | 4 | “For us, it’s 70 acres,” she said. “Two-thirds of our property and a significant portion of America will wind up behind the border wall.
70 acres is a significant portion of America? Does she actually know how big America is? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45525557, 45224788, 45449332, 45394434, 45589137] |
5,738,761 | [0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1] | Malice towards no one? LOL Funny, coming from the misogynist. Maybe you're jealous of women's luxuriant hair? LOLOLOL #follicleenvy | 52 | Lawrence can be ashamed of the pale waxy pallor of his skin if he wants. I will just go about my business, with malice towards none, and quietly bear the slings and arrows of being called a racist because of my lack of shame for my skin colour. | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45598378, 45535372, 45635376, 45224788, 45191524] |
5,738,829 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Kenneth Starr was given broad rights as well....or have you forgotten that he was investigating Bill Clinton for other things when Monica turned up. | 4 | I'm saying the Special Prosecutor was given broad rights in order to investigate any connections between Russia and Trump campaign and it should operate the same as a search warrant. With a search warrant you can only demand to search and seize that which is clearing defined and asked for. Anything other than that would be considered illegal. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45418782, 45332074, 45635376, 45197484, 45582425] |
5,738,847 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | The conferences will go on, and the bishops will issue statements, but not only will it not change the behavior of those in the pews, it won't keep the pews filled. | 4 | Catholics, almost en masse, have not adhered to Humanae Vitae birth control edicts. I suspect Catholics, in general, are not submitting to other sexual restrictions, either.
I doubt conferences or dialogues are going to change the behavior of those in the pews. At best, such dialogues will allow the hierarchy to catch-up and keep-up with their congregants. At worst, such dialogues will further the gap between ideological preaching and real life. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45438879, 45445192, 45447087, 45440506, 45486432] |
5,738,848 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | I expected that would be your response, however that is exactly how the EPA and others have acted over the last eight years. | 6 | You lost me at "environazi", just as you did the other day when you called me a hypocrite John! | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45402464, 45491654, 45598834, 45447087, 45445022] |
5,738,929 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Wow, rustle, talk about rampant (and erroneous) generalizations!
Re: the marketing firms "who have 90%+ female staff" and it matters not, "because their lack of gender diversity harms no one." Really?? Try being a male job applicant for a job in that firm!! Unbelievably naive.
But there is a different "harm" these firms perpetuate. I would steer clear of these companies if my firm was a potential client, and my target market was male--of ANY age range, and these firms didn't offer to call in a couple of great male free-lancers to guide them. Why would I entrust any marketing concepts, ideas for my male market from WOMEN? Not a chance. Yeah, I know, I'm biased, too... | 6 | I feel that you are making rampant generalizations about hiring & promotions, and it makes me wonder how much experience you have had in the hiring process..?
Personally, I have been at many hiring and promotion meetings, and the only time that this type of criteria comes up is when someone at the table has a political agenda to hire people based upon their skin color or gender. Otherwise it is always best person for the job, based upon the applicant pool.
On the other hand, I work closely with 2 marketing firms who have 90%+ female staff, which is clearly based upon a biased hiring practice... But guess what--> It doesn't matter because their lack of gender diversity harms no one. If I don't want to do business with them I don't have to. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45500804, 45635376, 45404154, 45449731] |
5,739,002 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Never seen anybody get so riled up over a tweet. | 4 | As a Denver sports icon, I am an enormous John Elway fan. I've always known politically he's a conservative jerk, but this homage to Donald Trump is completely sickening. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0] | [45505902, 45388025, 45573532, 45630512, 45454484] |
5,739,219 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I worked in the federal prison system in Arizona and another state that was not near the border. The federal prison in Arizona had an illegal alien population closer to 40%. I toured several state prisons in Arizona and they were close to 50%. There were also INS prisons not directly under control of the BOP which had 100% illegal aliens in detention.
I knew people who worked in prisons, both state and federal in Texas, New Mexico and California. The population breakdowns were about the same. Illegal aliens in these prisons are there for violent crimes for the most part, those who are just picked up for illegal entry are not housed in prisons but are in temporary detention centers.
Every Hispanic prisoner in prison is a member of a violent gang. Surenos, Mexican Mafia, MS-13 to name a few. Every single one of them is gang affiliated. | 4 | For years open border folks have pooh-pooh'ed any claim of illegals being a large portion of the prison population. Remember the 'ol liberal claim of "illegals don't commit crimes at any higher rate than normal U.S. citizens"? Since illegals are say... 15 million in the U.S., out of 325 million total population, that's 5% of the population causing 23% of the prisoners.
I wonder what the illegal prisoner numbers look like in state prison systems like CA, AZ, NM and TX? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45445192, 45388025, 45404169, 45597995, 45404473] |
5,740,158 | [0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1] | Because all of this nonsense is based solely on Hillary losing the election, had she won NONE of this nonsense would be happening. Obama would not had placed new sanctions on Russia and the press would be high fiving Hillary for her wonderful victory. That is why I am not concerned with this hogwash. Mueller will indict someone on perjury, a plea bargain will be reached and in a little while later Trump will pardon whoever Mueller chose to indict. Mueller will prove his worth, the Democrat losers will get their pound of flesh and life will go on as usual. | 10 | Why is it, that you are so law abiding about Dems and illegals, all the while screaming that America needs law and order,
but happily want to stop an investigation into multiple cases of treason, obstruction of Justice, perjuries, etc? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45184889, 45385682, 45451297, 45327007, 45188628] |
5,740,256 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | There are asylum seekers. Whether or not they have a true case for asylum is another matter. | 4 | Illegal border jumpers - not asylum seekers - time for the media to be accurate. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45599028, 45314593, 45535393, 45596860, 45513204] |
5,740,480 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Do you know the meaning of the Kingdom of God? | 4 | To_have_the_kingdom_of_God,_you_had_to_sell_all_you_have_and_give_it_to_the_poor._Has_anything_changed? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45536973, 45402464, 45494674, 45541171, 45432844] |
5,741,055 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | You won't until it comes out in the trial. | 4 | On the part of a couple Russians? Yes. On Jr's part? Enough suspicion to warrant an investigation, but I have yet to see any direct evidence. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45476019, 45404259, 45589137, 45597947] |
5,741,059 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Exactly!
Google algorithms determine search results. How biased are they?
Time to use a new search engine. | 4 | The point is not whether u agree with Damore....the problem is that he has been fired for voicing an opinion..fired by a corporation that controls the flow of information.
That is what is troubling. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45497014, 45456658, 45408870, 45288279, 45590159] |
5,741,154 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Where are you getting $10,000 in economic costs per year exactly? You do realize that those protected under DACA have been in the country for a while and we already invested in them. Why through them out. Many of whom were brought here at a very young age by their parents.
You make it into an economic issue (with false costs to support your argument) but in the end it is also an ethical and moral question. Which side of history do you want to be a part of?
Simply put, allowing a path to citizenship for these young men and women is the right thing to do. When it comes to this group it should seem so simple. | 4 | So doing some simple math. 857 million divided by 17000 =$50411/10years in the decade=$5040 a year in economic benefit. However they bring at least $10000 in economic costs related to education and more if they receive any sort of other government benefits. This is yet more proof that DACA in addition to being illegal (violates the law as written) is exceptionally costly to taxpayers as well. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45408870, 45458735, 45438638, 45408370, 45296656] |
5,741,444 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Looks like we're racing them to the bottom. | 4 | WTF is wrong with Cuba's government? | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45447087, 45535393, 45485526, 45486432, 45535968] |
5,741,567 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | LOL. You missed a few people in your field. I wonder why?
Here:
1950: Ida Rhodes pioneered analysis of systems of programming, co-designed the C-10 language in the early 1950s for the UNIVAC I.
1952: Mary Coombs,was one of the first programmers on LEO, the first business computer.
1961: Dana Ulery, at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, helped develop real-time tracking systems using a North American Aviation Recomp II, a 40-bit word size computer.
1962: Jean E. Sammet (1928–2017), developed the FORMAC programming language.
1969: Margaret Hamilton was, in late 1960s, Director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory,
1971: Erna Schneider Hoover, an American mathematician notable for inventing a computerized telephone switching method.
1972: Karen Spärck Jones was one of the pioneers of information retrieval and natural language processing.
1972: Sandra Kurtzig founded ASK Computer Systems, an early Silicon Valley startup.
(source: wikipedia) | 4 | "In the beginning, the number of women studying computer science was equal to men until -- about 1984"
Actually, in the beginning, there was no computer science to study. I was a programmer on the IBM 360 mainframe in the late 1960s. There were no computer science department at the universities. Companies scrambled to find people who could be programmers. Everyone soon learned that men were, on the whole, far better at it than women. This is just a fact. You whole post is total BS. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45426626, 45536973, 45388025, 45327007, 45567747] |
5,741,949 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | I like your new look Richard! | 4 | Don't get too chummy to her Ryan. She won't be there next term. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45535393, 45426626, 45385682, 45505902, 45525557] |
5,742,107 | [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | Sure, years of investigations turned up nothing criminal.
I really don't care since Clinton wasn't my candidate; from my perspective, her win would only have served as protection from Trump devastating our country as he's now doing.
You really might want to stop paying attention to Hannity, Alex Jones and pay attention to the horrific guy in the Oval Office. Most likely, you're one of the ones Trump referenced, supporters who would stick with him if he shot an innocent person. | 6 | She and her staunch supporters are the embodiment of what's wrong with our country. Should have been in prison long time ago. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45571747, 45476019, 45582203, 45599311, 45313149] |
5,742,403 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Do you understand what you're saying? Google conforms to group averages for tech companies. What relevance is that? In fact you're confirming what I said: It is inappropriate to take group averages from a general population study and apply them to Google which has group averages specific to tech companies.
Oh, and what "ilk" is mine? Anytime a person says "You and your ilk" you know that they're making assumptions. What a surprise. I'm guessing you're as wrong on whatever assumption you've made about me as you were with your "group averages". | 4 | Actually, google does conform to a group average: tech companies that specialize in this type of work (programming). Roughly 70/30 women, and other examples like a much higher percentage of Asians than the general population (I'm sure you and your ilk will find a way to twist that into discrimination somehow too). Look for yourself: https://www.google.com/diversity/ | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45256208, 45653549, 45449731, 45535968, 45404473] |
5,742,435 | [0, 0, 0, 0] | Well, I guess it's relative...compared to northern Manitoba's marshes and beaver dams with clouds of black fly and mosquito...it was heaven! And yes, we were high, mountain top to mountain top, care of TNTA helicopter service. | 4 | No bugs in the summer around Atlin, Little Bear 767? You must have been very high up (or high). | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45385682, 45597947, 45514417, 45377221, 45602467] |
5,742,783 | [1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0] | Thank you Trump for making America great again. Not one brick of the wall has been laid but illegals are running for the hills out of the United States. Let's see if Canada's extremist liberal leader changes his tune when he now has to experience what the United States has been experiencing for years with these illegal aliens. As a matter of fact the United States has been acting as a buffer since Canada does not have a border Mexico. Suck it up liberal Canadians. Let's see you walk the talk. I hope these illegal aliens keep swamping Canada. | 10 | Do the math, 5 kids, $7,000 in child tax benefits, which is essentially free cash, independent of any other government benefits. So they're making $35,000/yr in this tax free benefit alone. Add in welfare and housing support that's another $25,000/yr plus free education (not if you're a taxpayer), free medical and subsidized housing.
So you make nothing, you've contributed nothing, you get close to $60,000/yr. To make that amount working in Canada after tax, you need to pull in $120,000/yr, paying close to half your income in taxes and fees.
It's a bit galling to see Trudeau giving them Canadian citizenship while viewing working Canadians with disgust and suspicion.
We'll he's importing voters at taxpayer expense, which is why he extended voting rights to all refugees and treats them with kid gloves while scolding Canadian citizens for not doing enough.
What a traitor. | [0.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0] | [45598378, 45332074, 45476019, 45448191, 45448160] |
5,742,818 | [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] | The Cheyenne Mountain facility is designed to survive a nuclear blast, at the front door. It is relatively easy to bomb any military facility. You can sit outside the front gate all day long and take notes and pictures.
As for using ICBM's, all one needs are the coordinates, which is easily gotten from Google maps. | 10 | And you, like pete, didn't follow my point. I wasn't talking about finding Cheyenne Mountain. I was talking about the kind of leaked info that would allow a foreign regime the ability to successfully bomb the location. | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0] | [45498710, 45501738, 45447087, 45535372, 45445192] |
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