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As a bleeding heart liberal I'd offer to help you with the hole you'tr digging but you and Donald seem to be doing just fine by yourselves. As an aside...Rick Perry proved that it does NOT take two to tango.

It's quite the stretch by the DP editors to say that holding both group responsible is doubling down on hate. Last time I checked it takes two to tango so when two groups violently clash I think BOTH do have to be held responsible for the violence. Oops, there is that word "responsible" again. The DP hates seeing that word because they love to place blame at everyone but themselves or whatever group/cause is their flavor of the month. They so often forget that when you point the finger four more are pointed directly at you.

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How does taking down a statue of Lee "expunge" him from history? That monument hardly represents the totality of the history of Lee's participation in the Civil War. You'd have to start advocating for book-burning if erasure was the goal here, which it is not.

Flying the rebel flag, espousing rebel ideology, marching with flags, symbols, shields and weapons and spouting rebel epithets are all expressions of hatred and should be suppressed. Tearing down statues of historical figures is another matter; it is dangerous to try and expunge these people from history.

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Tommy Mulcair thought he fell into the later category.

Was the guy who walked up to the War Memorial and killed a reserve soldier a combatant jihadist terrorist or civilian nutbar?

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I would suggest that you search for the Vice News video of the Charlottesville happenings. Both sides came heavily armed to the scene. We are just fortunate that there were not more casualties from gunfire. Given that Virginia has a State Law prohibiting the wearing of face covering (it is a felony), the white supremacists can eventually be identified. They will find that actions have consequences.

From Charlottesville at the scene: New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg, for one, attested: “The hard left seemed as hate-filled as alt-right,” she tweeted. “I saw club-wielding ‘antifa’ beating white nationalists being led out of the park.” If there were any doubt as to whether the Left were committing violence that day, Stolberg later clarified: “[I] should have said violent, not hate-filled.”

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yes, but I was talking about the way they run the place

Well, technically, the Saud family was founded in 1744 and only finally murdered their way to power (with British assistance) in 1932.

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I think the issues like birth control, homosexuality, divorce and remarriage are too important NOT to leave them to the successors of the apostles. People can stay Catholic even if they disagree with the Church. My post concerns those who complain and whine and moan about how the Church needs to change. If people can disagree peaceably and at least respect where the Church is at, that is one thing. For those who are openly hostile to church teaching--that is quite another. Someone who is openly hostile to Church teaching should consider leaving the Church and joining a Protestant church.

<Luther eventually left and started his own Church--or didn't you know that?> But the point is that Erasmus was explaining why he didn't leave. Your posts would make a little more sense if you took the trouble to think about what you've read before you respond to it. Your "my way or the highway" drivel is pure nonsense. Unfortunately, many Catholics have run into that drivel and, taking it seriously, they are gone. Fortunately, many others recognize it for the nonsense it is. Otherwise, the Catholic Church would have long since ceased to exist. One of the joys of my life has been to help some family members and friends come back to the sacraments, or not leave in the first place, over issues like birth control, homosexuality, and divorce/remarriage. These issues are too important to leave them to bishops or priests.

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You do as Jesus suggests and love them. You do not have to support their cause, but love them. Fighting hate with hate does not work. It only spreads more hate. Love on the other hand disarms them and throws them into confusion. I am not meaning to degrade the meaning. If you are indeed from the south and have seen the racism you claim to have seen, then you must also agree that all races can be racist. That is my biggest complaint is that many leftists seem to think that racism can only come from one race.

Bill, you throw around the word "hate" far too much, and in doing so you degrade the meaning of the word. Here you say with absolutely no evidence that I "hate" the South. I graduated from high school in the deep South and I worked in various blue collar jobs in the South. I probably know more than most about its people and culture. A lot of Southerners aren't overtly racist, and a lot are overtly racist. The degree of racism in my experience is in indirect proportion to education level - the greater the ignorance, the more overt the racism to the degree that one can generalize about anything. The South is different in character to the North or the West, but I don't "hate" the South, and I still go there to visit relatives. But here's a question for you - how do you fight hatred that actually kills? You have to let those NAZI's and KKK know that they are a blight on our society, in a way their stupid minds can comprehend.

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Yea, right. So it's 'J.T.'s' fault that so many people are trying to illegally enter into Canada?! Do some of you people even THINK before your shoot your mouths off?! Not many intelligent people in this forum contributing any real & thoughtful solutions! This is not JUST a Canadian problem. This is, & has been, a world-wide problem! As HUMANS we need to figure out these difficult problems! We ALL SHARE the SAME planet! Including myself, I do not think most Canadians can even begin to comprehend the places, & problems, many poor people in other countries are coming from!

It's JT's fault.

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Actually, his chief lawyer-dude just quit on him. He has found nothing to date, all on the news today and for several weeks now. Not one thing found. Not one. Fake investigation, but they are hoping beyond hope that they find someone who saw Trump with his shoelace undone at some place, some time, some where. Won't happen. Keep hyperventilating snowflakes! And keep dreaming, cuz that is all ya got! lol!! can't stop laughing at the lamestream looney left!

Folks, we all need to calm down. We all need to take a deep breathe and relax, because Special Counselor Mueller is going to pop Trump's lying a** soon, lol

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...so Klasti,you, would have nothing against removing a statue of Martin Luther King? Or are you still "not sure"?

Statuary is the physical embodiment of glorifying someone. That's the only reason statues are erected. And I'm not sure that statues are required for history lessons.

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@ akstarzec What is it about the "paid trolls" "Soros backed protesters" BS that the right finds so appealing? It's just not true, no matter how much you want it to be. You never went to www.paidliberalprotester.com before the site was removed?

What is it about the "paid trolls" "Soros backed protesters" BS that the right finds so appealing? It's just not true, no matter how much you want it to be.

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Moving a historical piece of art is one thing, but making false equivalences about slavery while cheering on violent mobs who destroy it is pure purple fascism.

As a Councillor in Baltimore pointed out, removing the statues doesn't take anything out of the history books. The statues were placed in more modern times by racists who were upset about black people having equal rights and as a reminder that could change if they had a chance.

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^^^ look at what the Democrats crafted?

Pochoiwannabeawhiteguy: What a hypocrite. You stupid KKK lapdogs don't even realize that this "historical" reasoning is a red herring to dupe idiots like you. So, let me explore the logic of your "historical" justification and plant a thought in your tiny brain: How about statues that commemorate all of history. In Hawaii we could have statues of the sugar barons next to Queen Liluokalani so that the current beneficiaries of the Hawaiian land grab can feel good about the overthrow of the monarchy. Or maybe there should be statues of General Sherman From Mississippi to the coast of Georgia to remember, for historical purposes of course, the path of destruction and death that he carved through the Confederacy in order to bring the war to an end (talk about shock and awe, fire and fury). I'm sure the KKK, you and Trump would be just fine with that (NOT). One thing you got right though, we do despise Trump.

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How so? Again, Trump may be the President if the United States but that doesn't make him my President. I have standards.

C: If you are an American citizen President Trump IS your President whether you like it or not. Making inane claims that he isn't lessens your credibility.

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Thanks, goddez. Like I wanted my name dragged into...whatever that is. lol P.S. Of course I'd like to know what happened, just saying it's okay if not.

quit typing. just stop. "Yes, lets hear her EXPLAINATION of how she got to where she was. For whatever reasons, SHE needs to pay for her SEARCH & RESCUE expenses AND, Apologize to her family and friends for putting them thru HORRIFIC Mental Anguish. " that there is plain lunacy...

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M: Simple solution: if you don't like the games that your children play don't let them play them. On the other hand don't tell my children that they can't play the games they enjoy. For example, I think boxing is too dangerous. Therefore my children don't box. See how this works?

Meanwhile let's glorify and push our children to play games that cause brain damage.

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Although it is very interesting - and sad - that comments on the Spanish terrorism incident by the Ultra Left are closed while the Lefty bigots are given free rein to comment regarding the US incident. That says a lot about freedom of speech and freedom of the Press. Mao the killer of many more millions than Hitler is still the face on the Chinese currency. And Uncle Joe Stalin is still revered in Russia. Canadian Leftie's are naive fellow-travelers - if not outright cestuous fifth columnists.

Take a look at Barcelona, that is what a real terrorist car ramming attack looks like. Charlottesville was not a real terror attack.

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Problem seems to be a pup with short-term experience attempting to "educate" those who have learned through firsthand experience.

The difference I was not born in 1950 so talking about buying a house 40 years before I was born is irrelevant. Notice that minor problem?

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Your attempt at staging a defense of Nazis is disgusting.

Real Americans reject the Alt-Right and the Alt-Left.

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The Clinton Foundation was not the only organization to receive significant donations. Unfortunately only a small fraction of those donations made it to actual Haitian Relief programs, instead of being siphoned off by administration or outright corruption. If that money had been wisely and openly spent on relief, infrastructure and housing, it is highly likely that more (if not most) Haitians would have stayed in Haiti. Isn't it time to demand more accountability from the organizations that received the donations?

What happened to the Billion$ in Public and Private donations given to the Clinton Foundation to help Haitians after the quake? Why did less than 10% of that money get spent on helping Haitians? What happened to the Haitian orphans? How does Amed Khan fit into this?

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Carefullly refused to reject his support. Carefully refused to denounce him; merely denounces his Antisemitism. If Trump dithered like that denouncing David Duke, the NYT would make it front page news.

<<when will Obama denounce Louis Farrakhan?>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQKwHxSSeog

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I opposed Brexit. I can't help it if Tory propaganda outweighed reason. (I suspect that May gave Boris Johnson the Foreign Secretary job as a way of saying "You gave us Brexit, now you can deal with it.")

In light of the Brexit vote there are many who would say that the Scottish vote was the more sane ...

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His age is showing. Jim is older than 60 I bet.

Who cares how long I've lived here? You're the one telling people "go back to California", so I included the information for presumptuous folks like yourself and to distinguish myself from people who actually have not lived here long enough to observe the changes for themselves. You're just mad your Trump IS a gold-plated garbage dump and you have to leave super-amused reactions on your own comments.

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The game of football is won by points on the board not by the number of yards gained...Trump had, at the end of the game, more points on the Electoral Board, which was the point of the exercise...the losers keep on pointing to the yards gained despite having fewer points on the board.

It doesn't matter to Trump's 95% (ers); the working class folks who voted for him. Point of fact, the more Trump descends into his falsehoods and hate fest sewer, the more anxious his 95% (ers) are to follow him in support. I count a few Trump loyalists among family members and acquaintances who are American. In most cases, they have a college degree and had been normal conservatives, voting Republican, for most of their adult lives. In the past 2 yrs, they migrated to Trump and their mindset has made a 180; facts and truth have become the enemy. Should Trump stick it out and run again, the 48% of the population that voted for him will stick with him and the Electoral College will note that loyalty and push him past the post once again. America has entered the Twilight Zone and Canada, the U.K., France, etc are descending into the same black hole.

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Fried Onions It means we will find out where they live and shame the damn out of the low life losers so just maybe they mature sooner than later. How does that sound ?

‘At least two Quebecers who attended white supremacist rally in Charlottesville identified.’ So what? Does this mean they might lose their jobs? Could the G&M be liable for harassment with this report?

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It guarantees you won't be arrested for attending or holding viewpoints. That's all it guarantees. Nothing more.

These individual have the right to attend any protest, conference, event, meeting or get together without having "informants" publish their names and photos. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: - Freedom of opinion and expression. This right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference.

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Didn't Harper revoke the charity status of organizations that are involved in politics? Was that reversed by Trudeau? Gerald Butts was CEO of WWF Canada. I am sure he must have hated what Harper did.

One added horror associated with Tides funding for Canadian political activists masquerading as charities, is that Canadian taxpayers subsidize and thereby leverage the impact of foreign money meddling in Canadian political affairs. In theory, rules exist to put an end to this type of hijacking of taxpayer support, but in practice, the onus is on CRA and other government agencies to enforce the rules. The current government apparently has no interest in exercising its duty to enforce those rules, apparently seeing itself as a tacit beneficiary of the foreign meddlers influence. It would be a simple legislative matter to disconnect the flow of foreign funds from gaining leverage using Canadian taxpayers support, but this government prefers to attack legitimate small businesses operating in Canada. Tides operatives must be toasting their success in extracting exactly what they want from Canada.

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But there's something to be learned from this. One side slinging mud at other has its faults as well, often pretty much the exact same faults. There are Dems who are violent and racist, and there are Repubs who are violent and racist. The whole left/right thing matters little. It's the behavior and what gets done about it. Neither side is cleaning up their act....they just sling mud at the other when they have the same problem.

I meant from credible people, not the usual internet freaks. You could probably find more calls for Obama's assassination. This stuff goes on all the time, but it is really not acceptable from an elected official, like shouting "You lie!" from the floor of Congress. But count on the right to go into fantods and put down their torches suddenly morph into a persecuted minority. Your post, for instance.

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I wake up to watch my money and trade in the East Coast. I'm a net gain to the economy but sadly a big bulk of my taxes go to fund lazy and inept government union cronies that constantly suck on the public teat. Can't wait till the state of Hawaii defaults. Would love to see you cronies be forced to actually get a real job after your pension vanishes like Lehman Brothers or Enron.

Buddy, you really had to be up at sunrise to say this stuff? I suggest you ask your caregiver to push you out for a stroll. It's a beautiful morning and the fresh air might clear your mind. I'm going out for a run. I'll wave if I see you when I go past Ola Loa.

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Let the malignant narcissist and mentally deranged sociopath Trump sink himself.

New York Times is reporting that chief strategist Steve Bannon is out. Chaos. Utter chaos. In this case, it's a good thing, but would the last rat jumping ship also turn off the lights?

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lol, thanks for giving an example of leaving topic. Miss Hillary do we? I understand. You phony conservatives are so funny. But I felt my response was on topic. It shows a degree of hatred within the republican party that is far greater than I have ever seen in the democratic party and it is directed against fellow republicans. What did Reagan say? lol

Breathe Boots and stay on topic here.. If you can't give an honest reply, don't reply at all... You're only making yourself look silly... I want you to look at this photo because it might calm you down, okay...? http://www.snopes.com/clinton-byrd-photo-klan/

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wrong dejain ...it never would have surfaced if Obama hadnt of gone to such extravagant lengths to seal and hide his past from discovery. People have a right to know who they are handing the reigns of power too and Obama sealed all of his grades, sealed all of his information of any kind that could be found anywhere...that and the fact that he is on video after video admitting that he was an international student etc etc etc ...that and all of the sudden mysterious and unsolved deaths of everyone who knew the truth starting with his own grandmother and extending to all of his friends and relatives in Kenya. There is no doubt in many of our minds that Obama wasn't eligible to be POTUS

No, no, no, you are mistaken. The 'birther' movement hid behind a screen of pretending Obama had a forged birth certificate. The issue would never had arisen if he were not 'half-black'. In fact others have served in government who were born out of the country, and no one was worried about their birth certificate. Learn some history.

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In your opinion. It's my opinion that, if ISIS is removing monuments in order to change history, then we don't want to copy them. As for being like ISIS, no group right now, in our country, is anything like ISIS. If some radical group, on either side, starts beheading people, I will change my mind.

The only people similar to ISIS in this country are these fascist Nazis and confederates.

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Ha ha…you called the StarAdvertiser a “reputable newspaper.” That’s a good one!

With no one to verify the authenticity of the author, why is it even posted on the front page of a reputable newspaper. I really hope that Ms. Fukumoto and the Star Advertiser didn't fall for it.

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I do hope everyone made use of Eric Lubbers' suggestion box (https://milehighroundup.sarahah.com/) to express your feelings about Civil Comments.

Oh FFS I'm about to give up on this forum completely. I understand rejections based on attacking other posters. But I'm getting rejected left and right for calling out our horrid administration and POTUS.

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Re "I don't believe President Trump had anything to do with confederate statues or the confederate flag. Do you have evidence to the contrary?" No, he didn't, until the poor bumbling blustery made it his issue in one of his panic-attack knee-jerk-narcissistic attempts to continue insisting he was right when the rest of the world was telling him he wasn't. You didn't see his Tuesday statements and Thursday tweets doubling down on the statue issue? And history is clear, undeniable, and undisputed. The confederacy was treason, by definition. And the confederate flag and statues were erected by local governments resisting equal rights on a federal level. Common knowledge.

6322 - I'm interested in seeing the source of your statements ... "The Conferate (sic) statues are a 'celebration' of treason, and, like the flag, displayed to remind and intimidate. They are celebrations of bigotry and hatred." I don't believe President Trump had anything to do with confederate statues or the confederate flag. Do you have evidence to the contrary? http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/16/rahm-emanuel-urged-by-chicago-pastor-to-remove-geo/

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You offer a lie and no actual argument, as usual.

Rogue, your post is false, as usual.

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There's no place for left wing extremism, either. But that seems to consistently get a pass for some reason... - exactly no place for left wing extremism that is why unlike cockroaches we have eradicated Communists, neo-Marxists from the face of the West though they survive in disguise as NDP, socialists etc.

There's no place for left wing extremism, either. But that seems to consistently get a pass for some reason...

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The Taliban thinks women are sex objects, waiting to be grabbed. So does Trump

Taliban tears down monuments too. In their mind they are right as well.

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You know, RD, a lot of people around here don't seem to get your sense of humor. But I get it! That's really funny. Thanks for a chuckle on an otherwise dreary Friday night.

No it represents a false humility in him, pixel thin.

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If Americans wanted a disrupter-in-chief, the honest, decent, compassionate, brilliant, experienced, highly qualified, Bernie Sanders was advocating a revolution. How much more disruptive can anybody be? It still boggles my mind that struggling suffering low income folks could elect somebody who wanted to cut taxes on the rich and corporations, when Bernie Sanders was promising free health care and free university by increasing taxes on the rich and corporations. When push came to shove, the establishment together with the voters allowed the right wing corporate disrupter to win, while the Democratic party itself cheated the left wing disrupter out his rightful nomination.

Amazingly is the mot juste, Lawrence. It is beyond my ability to understand how anyone could support someone who has so clearly demonstrated his deceit, nepotism, and transparent braggadoccio. At this point if Trump strangled puppies on national television it would not surprise me if his numbers remained largely unchanged.

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What do you do for a living? Collect welfare?

Bannon is basically a non-promotable O-3 who has spent the rest of his life trying to re-invent himself as something... anything.

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Denial is not the same as skepticism, Outsider, and you know it. Science works through a process of reasoned skepticism. And through that process, science has arrived at a conclusion on manmade climate change that is as solid as that on evolution, the health impacts of smoking, and the connection between AIDS and HIV. To DENY that these consensuses don't exist is not free speech as much as it is a assault on the laws of physics and nature, two forces that have nasty habit of surprising a hubristic humanity. To say that the Holocaust warrants more study and data collection, that reasoned skepticism is necessary, is NOT the same as saying that it didn't happen. To DENY that it happened is to invite the forces of anti-Semitism and white supremacy back into history. You seem to be a lot more prone to denial than skepticism, especially when you associate the climate change consensus--a scientific conclusion--with a political ideology.

There you go Paul. You see his response. He wants to make climate change "denial" illegal. When scientists cannot ask questions, science leaves the room and only religion remains. Will Watson is a demonstration of how dangerous the liberal left is. Completely intolerant of any idea that does not fit their world view. By the way, study of the holocaust from a factual basis is really a good thing. I looked into it once and the hard data is very very thin as to the details. No one has been allowed to look at facts or do research for so long the few even remember that facts are important. Yes, the macro picture of concentration camps has plenty of evidence. How many were killed and such is actually a more complex question. No doubt you are scandalized at the thought, but hey, do some google research and see where, if from anywhere, the data actually comes from. Questions are good. Fact determination is good. Unless one is religious.

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You realize you are comparing a group that wants a white European homeland with a group of multi-racial and ethnic individuals who make up BLM who want equality or fairness. As an organization they are not condoning the killing of police officers. Stop that, you know better.

If they did that, in all fairness we should clamp down on the BLM movement, since a bunch of cops were killed arguably because of things said and done at their rallies, right?

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As a young child living on the reservation in New Mexico, not only did we hunt rabbits, rabbits (dead) were sold at the local Trading Post. They taste just like chicken and are much cleaner except when they are carrying ticks or the plague (which shows up just about every year). Some folks use to hunt and eat prairie dogs but they were not as good as rabbits.

Um, um, I love fried rabbit!

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Hello Western Woods, You realize that you did not answer my question, right? I did not ask HOW it is legal to dress various ways in Canada (in fact, I already stated the mechanism in my post, where I named the Charter). If you go back and re-read my post, you will see that its actual question is very clearly worded, the question that you chose to not answer. And you are wrong about having handguns in a Chicago house. The laws you allude to were ended almost five years ago - see "Chicago City Council Reluctantly Ends Gun Registry" (article in the New York Times).

There is no law prohibiting me from wearing bathing suit and carrying a surf board all year long in Canada, other than the law of nature. The norm in Canada is "dress as you please". There are even court decisions saying you have the right to be nude in public so long as you are not doing so for a sexual purpose. Incidentally, Chicago has, by American standards, very tight gun restrictions. I suspect that you would run into legal trouble if you kept three loaded handguns in your house in Chicago.

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> "Quebecers are proud of having gotten the Church out of public institutions, and see Islam as Catholicism on steroids." I could sympathize more if I believed that. But it doesn't seem to be what people are actually saying or reacting to. All I'm hearing is "they're covering their faces and that's not how we do things around these parts". And if overbearing theocratic stuff were the issue, worrying about veils would be a pretty silly way to approach it, because veils aren't an expression of legal or even moral authority the way many of the trappings of the Catholic church were or are. Those crucifixes are still direct endorsements of a specific religion by public bodies. That's why they were originally there. That's still why a lot of their supporters want them there. Handwaving about "culture" doesn't make that any less true, any more than it can make the Confederate flag in the US not about slavery. When Islam starts doing something remotely that overbearing, we can talk.

"Would there be the slightest fuss if some nun with a veiled face wanted to board a bus in Quebec? The question answers itself." LOL! Does it? Um, no. You obviously know little about Catholicism or Quebec. First, not only do nuns not cover their faces, it has been decades since they wore the traditional habit with the full veil and skirts to the floor. They adopted a more normal habit in the 60s, precisely so they could better relate to the population. A wide smile and open face is part of the image they want to convey. But even that hasn't been enough to get the Church back in the good graces of the population, and religious orders and priests tend to keep a low profile. Quebecers are proud of having gotten the Church out of public institutions, and see Islam as Catholicism on steroids. Which does not mean they are not attached to their culture, which was based on Catholicism, just as secular Jews or secular Muslims can still be attached to their cultures.

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Sylvia, we know because it's in the news every day. How do you know the sun doesn't rise in the west?

How do you know they aren't? Do you understand they have a job where they can't talk to the media and have to work under chain of command?

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Rmiller101's posts are usually full of misinformation, incorrect statements and are abusive and harassing. They are fly-by sorties, guerrilla tactics, hit-and-run missives, under dozens, if not scores, of various usernames. In general, both in content and in tone, Rmiller's posts can be reduced to, hey, you run like a girl. Now that's a laugh and a half, eh?

Yes, really, really tough. Boo freakin' hoo about Your Js coughing up a hairball again this season. Sooooo very saaaaaaaaadddddd !!!!

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Dude- do your homework - In the last Alberta election THE MAJORITY OF ALBERTANS VOTED FOR RIGHT OF CENTER GOVERNMENT - the lucid Alberta vote was however split between the right wing PC conservatives and the right of right wing Wild Rose party with the centrist Alberta capturing occasional midline votes - - the split of the conservative parties allowed Notley and her rag tag band of socialists , students ,baristas and hemp enthusiasts to capture Edmonton DESPITE the majority of Albertans voting against them - - and Ms Notleys popularity today in Calgary , the provinces economic capital and largest city, approaches single digit numbers - Ms Notleys coup will be easily reversed after the next election and Alberta will return to sanity

How do you explain the fact that the NDP are the government in Alberta, right now?

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I'll be renting the benzene burners if I get down there for a tour.

So you need to stop the car every 200km and sit tight for hours before you head out again? What if all the stations are full... Are we really all going to be driving big cell phones now.

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Interesting point - why does the msm often close comments on sad tragedies like this where empathy can be demonstrated.

"he was beaten by a large number of prison guards, suffering more than 50 injuries" This person's death was covered here in one article. And with comments closed. Why nearly no coverage at all? How could readers express empathy or anything else here on the topic? Had this happened in the U.S. the coverage here would have been obsessive. The lack of empathy is not limited to the rich. Something else is at play, obviously.

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If she originally came illegally, she may have made herself ineligible unless she goes back and applies to come on the basis she is married. I suspect there are delays with that method, and likely caused in part by resources being diverted to illegal aliens explaining to ICE and immigration judges why they should have special treatment.

If her husband is a citizen, can't she apply to stay based on that? It's obviously not a sham marriage, as she has several kids by him.

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Trump has given the alt-right (et al) the moral equivalent of a wink and a nod from the get go, yet you claim you just can't see that. Maybe you have a bias?

I guess you can never be too old to quit uttering nonsense. Mr. Schwab has left reality behind in his penchant for hateful rhetoric. President Trump was exactly correct to admonish all who continue to promote or participate in violence and hateful rhetoric. Mr. Schwab with his twisted analogies and visions is equally deserving of admonishment. We do not have time in our lives for the message Mr. Schwab promotes in his old age that is divisive and destructive in its intent It is time for all Americans to put the last eight years of divisiveness to rest and to start by coming together to confront all forms hateful rhetoric including that of Mr. Schwab.

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You'll never convince me that there are "good people" marching with Neo-Nazi's and White Supremacists. 400,000 Americans died fighting Adolf Hitler, and 600,000 died in this country during the Civil war fighting for freedom and the emancipation of blacks. This is what the former Grand Wizard of the KKK stated in Charlottesville. "As the official start of the “Unite the Right” rally kicked off in Charlottesville, Virginia, former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke said the gathering of white supremacists, neo-Nazis and far-right individuals pointed to a future fulfillment of President Donald Trump’s “promises.” Trump called and they came running. https://youtu.be/Dey8gmt7oYQ This is no longer the party of Lincoln & Reagan. It is now the party of Trump. Stuffed full of anger, ignorance, bigotry, misogyny & hate. That couldn't be better explained than in a 3 minute video from a long time friend and former staffer of RONALD REAGAN. https://youtu.be/bwUVkVdtCNA

Oh thank GOD! Another WaPo hit piece. You clearly missed all the Marxist types rioting for Hillary, some of which were shown in WikiLeaks to be on the DNC dole. Where was your moral outrage then? How about when Farrakhan supported Obama? OH this is different right? No - it's just you trying to rationalize a moral double standard to fit your political leanings.

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I haven't seen anyone defending neo-Nazis; only defending the First Amendment, which specifically protects hateful and offensive speech. Your angry statement above demonstrates that hate is not exclusive to neo-Nazis. It is alive and well on the political left too.

We don't just disagree with the fascists and Nazis you are defending, ace. We find them repugnant, hateful, immoral, inhuman, evil, toxic, and incompatible with being among decent human beings. They have no place in a civilized society. Defending them makes you no better than they are.

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No fortunately you republicans have to live with the fact that you are in the minority and probably will always be. More people voted against you than for you. But be proud of your minority status. Just shows that republicans support minorities, the true equal rights party. lol

My God, they may even be the majority!!!

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Enjoy it while you can. May not always be able to do this. NationalPopularVote.com Hawaii is already signed on. But enjoy your fraud of a president while you can. Won't be around for much longer. :-)

Well, tough luck. He was legally elected.

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Hello Reality, This account was related to me recently by a "white" friend who was part of that protest. Here is a link -- it seems the Trent professor didn't actually do time in prison because her appeal was successful, but had to pay a $15,000 fine, according to the article. Also, a Queen's University professor, a former Ardoch Algonquin First Nations Chief, was also sentenced to jail as a result of the aforementioned protest. As per the article: "Professor Robert Lovelace of Queen’s University was also convicted and sentenced to six months in jail and fined $25,000." Coincidence? http://www.trentu.ca/newsevents/newsDetail.php?newsId=12333

Citation please - I think that the devil will be in the details behind your pronouncement

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You are right about the irony, but do not confuse refugee camps and blockades with extermination camps. Also, it is Israel and not "Jews." It is a complicated issue that needs to be addressed for sure, but the bottom line is that Nazism is deplorable in any form and it cannot be tolerated. Our President needs to say that. Talk about a low standard of morality....

And now the Jews have Palestinions in a concentration camp as the right becomes the wrong, and the left becomes the right. Humanity is not too bright.

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From this - "OPB, on the other hand, can't get enough support to keep its radio stations open without $500 million per year of taxpayer money." To this: "These are NPR figures" Wake up, it's the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that distributes and grants the revenue. And: "Are liberals just cheap or are there just not enough of them?" That's a cheap shot that defines you, not liberals. Gee, thanks but what is your complaint? Do you need a plumber again? Roto Rooter?

OPB is just one of the nationwide recipients of the Federal tax dollar, so it doesn't get all of it. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting hands it out as follows: "The CPB's annual budget is composed almost entirely of an annual appropriation from Congress plus interest on those funds. Ninety-five percent (95%) of CPB's appropriation goes directly to content development, community services, and other local station and system needs. For fiscal year 2014, its appropriation was US$445.5 million, including $.5M in interest earned. The distribution of these funds was as follows: $222.78M for direct grants to local public television stations; $74.63M for television programming grants; $69.31M for direct grants to local public radio stations; $26.67M for PBS support; $22.84M for grants for radio programming and national program production and acquisition; $22.25M for CPB administrative costs; $7.00M for the Radio Program Fund. These are NPR figures.

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"... protect drivers when a mob is swarming and threatening them ..." Yep, they need protection because they're inside a steel enclosure and the mob might say nasty things or make nasty faces, or (worse) smudge the windshield. Be civil enough to post a link that shows protesters surrounding a car with people inside and breaking the glass. Maybe I'll believe you, but until then...

This is just the type of twisted deception from the left that has voters so sick and tired of them. None of these bills gives anyone the right to "mow down" protestors. Or anyone else. Shame on the DP and the WAPO for even allowing such blatant dishonesty into their pages. These bills are designed to protect drivers when a mob is swarming and threatening them, not the other way around. But since swarming mobs have become a frequent tool of the left, shills like this author want to see more and more of them. Disgusting.

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Let me tell you something bro. When you spend your time and resources to achieve an end, for which someone else doesn't and gets the same, then you may have an iota of legitimacy attached to your thoughts and words. It's the same as going through training, going through the interviews and getting the job. Meanwhile, Joe shmo waltzs right in and gets the job going through none of that. No interview nothing. Just sits there and collects a check.

Sounds like she might be.

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Apparently my five-word comment wasn't successful in "silencing" you. ;-)

"reasonable" according to perpetually offended self-titled progressives who protest for a living. Good for you Alceste. Hoping for the best and silencing any discussion of cultural segregation encouraged by transplanted "preachers" is doing wonders for Europe's social fabric... But we shouldn't talk about that, political impotence, dithering, looking the other way and leaders championing a narrative that puts political correctness above common sense is doing wonders for secular liberal democracies from Sweden to the UK, never mind, nothing to see there, it's 2017 and we can't talk about issues staring everyone in the face on a daily basis. What's happened in Malmo over the last 5 years? Oops, pardon me, I forgot it was 2017 again...

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Unfortunately, your characterization of criticism of Trump as "hate speech" here is absurd and sadly self-serving. Will you please condemn Trump for his years of birtherism bs, prog? Equating the valid criticism of Trump with the poisonous bile spewed by racists and bigots towards non-whites is a totally false equation and smacks of Trump's moral blindness this past week.

If you are against Hate speech that includes no hate speech against Trump - as Trudeau might say Hate speech is hate speech is hate speech - (A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian) remember how cute Trudeau was repeating this again and again

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I agree that all violence against the innocent is disgusting, but I'm not so sure racism is fading. And fascism has a very specific meaning which is exemplified by Trump and the Alt-right almost perfectly, but is not by BLM or the counterprotesters, however misguided their tactics may sometimes be. I would also submit that there are powerful people who WANT this kind of conflict to continue, and until both sides recognize that they have many common interests and a common enemy, those powerful people will continue to promote this kind of idiocy, and the peons will continue to fall for it.

A side that promotes fascism cannot protest it. The racist are simply disgusting people whose days are fading. They only have a voice right now because people are giving it to them. All the violence from one side is alright but unacceptable from the other? It is all disgusting and needs to stop. Stop feeding the hate and you will be amazed at what happens.

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Just making his point maybe. And maybe helping dissuade more nazi thugs from planning any more hate rallies in Canada? Who knows? - I ask the question and you make up the answers, r101.

Is the guy wearing a Chicago hat with his fist in the other guy's face the one spreading the message of "tolerance" and "love" discussed in this G&M headline ? I report - you decide.

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Not to mention possibly the worst offender, Department of Corrections.

Right on, Paul! I'd like to include State Troopers and other Alaskan city cop shops. It ain't just Anchorage.

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aa the lunatic left loser thinks an opinion by trump is hate cause the lunatic disagrees,, that nut job is the very issue you alt lefties need to get help on

Unfortunately, your characterization of criticism of Trump as "hate speech" here is absurd and sadly self-serving. Will you please condemn Trump for his years of birtherism bs, prog? Equating the valid criticism of Trump with the poisonous bile spewed by racists and bigots towards non-whites is a totally false equation and smacks of Trump's moral blindness this past week.

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I am trying understand how anyone can disagree with a single word of that. It just shows how the cycle of a crazy leader builds a crazy crowd who further emboldens their crazy leader, and on it goes. I did not read your father's work, but I certainly would have liked it I am sure.

Yes, my father did support free speech. He did not support speech that incites violence or advocates violence against others.

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Wow! Higher taxation will make you suffer so much that you're going to cut your source of income by 20 percent? That doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

We have already decided to cut hours of operation in our family practice medical office by 20% effective January 1st if the changes to small business corporate taxation are enacted. The level of taxation will rise so high that after overhead and personal tax it creates a disincentive to work. Our secretaries will have their hours cut, less revenue will go to pay for the leasing space as it is based on percentage, less referrals will go to labs, specialists, etc. We turn away a lot of people everyday looking for a family physician. Many elderly physicians in our area of Toronto are retiring and their patients have nowhere to go. I suspect many physicians will cut their hours of service. There will be a physician shortage starting in 2018 on a scale never seen before.

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Easily the most intelligent comment of the day

Yes, my dad grew up poorer than poor. No one handed him anything and he was shunned from the community. He didn't accept that and went out and made something of himself. He didn't accept handouts and he worked hard, even white people have to do it. Racism has become an excuse to let others do for you. I know plenty of black people who didn't accept that premise and are successful. I'm tired of the excuses for bad decisions and judgement,

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*GASP*! Wait, why is that a problem again? The end goal of BLM: stop blacks from being shot by cops. The end goal of Nazis: murdering millions, possibly billions, in the pursuit of having a "white culture". It seems the right wing has lost their moral compass. A staggering amount of GOP actually approve of the way the trumpster fire "handled" cville. Many of them are repeating the same stupid attempts at moral equivalency of BLM and how bad the Communists were. Pretty much the same old "squirrel" trchnizque they use whenever the right wing is up to their usual awful behavior. In this case, trying to murder as many real Americans as possible by car.

And Obama invited their leaders to the White House more than once.

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Oh goody, let's waste a lot of time playing "your side's worse than mine." BTW: Don't forget Eisenhower.....but, surely we can find something more relevant to argue about...... My point re: Trump is simple; IMO, the man is emotionally disturbed, morally corrupt and bereft of human decency,...other that those small issues, I think he's just a peach of a guy. Gary Crum

Both Clinton and Trump are also serial adulterers, as well. Both are liars; one even was fined $90,000 for lying under oath in Federal Court. And Clinton bought off one of his victims just like Trump is likely to have done. Parity. In fact, if we go all the way back to FDR and JFK, we can compare Democratic Presidents and Republican Presidents on sexual morality to your party's detriment.

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Sounds like you need help in understanding politics.

This is/was a most excellent decision on his part- "didn't attend the White House Correspondent's dinner." I applaud him for standing by his/voters values and not becoming part of The Swamp.

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Without the rail remorselessly eating up tax resources, so many of Oahu's issues could be properly addressed. Instead we are paying for a train to nowhere.

Nice point, Joseph Uno, but if the #RAILFAIL, as it is currently, is left entirely up to C&C then yes, we would get much higher taxes and significantly reduced services without an admission of failure from the part-time, corrupt mayor Crapwell and the complicit council. The only good that would come out of it would be that NONE of the current council, including the sitting mayor would EVER hold any kind of office in this state again since the citizens would FINALLY realize how badly they've been burned, lied to and scammed!

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I don't know. I agree that he will soon be gone but when that happens, who will provide the commedy of the day? I don't think Pence will be as enjoyable.

Staff churn is not the problem. The problem is the person who chose those staff members. President Trump is an imbecile who is obviously unable to govern. His administration is in shambles, and his agenda -such as it was - has been stopped by his own incompetence. Something is wrong with him. Unless he's reading words written by others from a TelePrompTer, he's unable to construct complete sentences using an adult vocabulary. He cannot be out of office soon enough.

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Boots, keep your shorts on. Could be worse. You and your cohorts are beginning to sound like Maxine.

Calling the Donald insane might be a bit much. I think Pence might be more insane as he believes the crap he says and like modern traditional republicans love to wrap themselves in God.

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Police thought and think their authority matters more than black lives. You would have a point except for the numerous times black suspects were shot in the back while running away and it was on tape. Valor.

That, to me, is a a viciously racist statement, and why I consider BLM to be racist. If, in recent times, American whites, in general, thought black lives don't matter, then whites in general would have tried killed blacks without remorse, and harm them whenever possible.

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Waivers and freebies like tax breaks. Of course, we the loyal citizens of Honolulu will have to pay.

Developer wants all kinds of waivers because he is building in an area near a train station ? Does this mean the city has funding now to take the rail all the way to Ala Moana center ?

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Antibiotics for dairy cattle are necessary when they are sick, however, if she is milking when on antibiotics that milk does not enter the milk cooler and isn't added to the milk that goes to the dairy. It is dumped or maybe feed to the cats in the barn but it never goes for human consumption. Hormones do not keep the cows lactating. It increase their milk production but she still only milks for about 10 months and dry for 2 months and has a baby to start the cycle again. I know that commenting and correcting your wrongs will not change your mind but at least try and educate yourself on the real facts.

'.....The fact that Canadian dairy is hormone and antibiotic free...' 1. Prove it 2. Compared to what (again provide back up) Talk to amy Canadian farmer who keeps livestock. They would likely lose so many cattle from disease etc they be out of business in 2-3 years And as for the hormones used to keep cows lactating, without them herds would have to be 4x as large as they currently are, and that includes Canada..

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Uh... you said "white noise". That COULD be micro-aggression against white lesbians or transvestites. If you were on a college campus you could be subjected to a re-education class on diversity.

Not to sound flippant, but I have been in the drilling end over 40 years. I have slept in my truck on location, worked and lived on junk pile jack- ups and 5 star drillships all around the world. I find the background noise soothing, like a white noise machine a snowflake would buy at Bed Bath and Beyond.

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Where does this author promote state prohibition of free speech?

becoming comfortable with state prohibition on free speech is dangerous madness the other side will one day have power as that is the nature of politics and then they will come after you mark my words

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Perhaps the PM is unable to have a national conversation about this because he has decreed we are not actually a nation, we are post-national. I see his handlers have given him new talking points already, exploiting what happened last weekend in the US and Trump's unacceptably honest observation that there were armed, masked, lawless hateful thugs on both sides and his tepid condemnation of the Nazi-KKK-alt right side. Trudeau says anyone concerned about the escalating border crossings by illegals crossing the US border to Canada illegally to illegally game the system here as phony refugees for years (11 years is not uncommon which contrasts with the government's goal of 72 hours), posing a criminal and security threat inasmuch as a high % (up to 50%) already have serious criminal convictions, costing us as taxpayers tens if not hundreds of millions of unnecessary tax dollars and making Canada a world laughing stock is a vicious, nasty, deplorable fringe element racist. Delusional.

No, Mr. Prime Minister, there is a glaring loophole in the system. It's not an obscure nuance that requires an experienced lawyer to exploit. A person simply has to walk across the longest undefended border in the world anywhere other than at an official crossing. Are we promptly returning them to the US? To Haiti? I doubt it. All over the world we are seeing people on the move from poor countries to wealthier countries. This is only the start. Our geography has been the biggest factor in preventing Canada from experiencing the same overwhelming flood of migration as in Europe. Anyone who raises an objection is quickly labelled a racist, but this really is something we should have a National conversation about.

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You don't like having your words turned against you. So what? Your complaint is a nothingburger. I'll keep doing it. You don't get to decide what I post here.

You didn't substantiate your copy/paste of my post's closing sentiment-- you just moved the goalpost to, "well you should know better," which is once again a lazy and evidence-free way of saying, "you're right, all I do is copy/paste your own post back to you while replacing key words with ones I think fit my narrative." Admitting your wrong should be a sign of maturity- you're proof positive chronological age has nothing to do with that.

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Too much money from WWII, then a massive socialist movement that gave Americans more than they paid for. Kinda like spoiled children.

What happened to "American Exceptionalism" ?

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Here is a fact: Lake Iliamna is only miles from Pebble. What river flows out of Iiamna? The Kvichak. Did you know that that system has the highest escapement requirements of ALL of Bristol Bay. These are the 'facts', Jack.

100 miles away, 1000ft above sea level, only two tributaries feed bristol bay and at < 1% of the water, one of which is dry in the summer apparently is at the headwaters? really? Facts and science matter, try using some

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Sure helps me to understand why Harper wanted to make covering your face while protesting illegal.

Yet another public display of leftist hate and violence. Lacking courage of their convictions they disguise themselves to thwart identification and subsequent reprisal from employers and neighbors. Cowards, thugs, fascists, they are the real threat to society. Trudeau's base.

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You willingly live in Anchorage. You're welcome to move to a place without property taxes. Good bye and good luck.

You are rude. The private sector is supported by consumers who willingly make purchases. The public sector is supported by taxes and fees forced upon the residents. If you don't pay your property taxes, you will eventually end up in foreclosure and lose your home. Although we pay for road services, Berkowitz can on a whim decide to stop hauling snow and create hazardous conditions. Mismanagement and poor performance are rampant,

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@Translator, You are correct about the "rally cry" originating from the "Alt-Right". I get that. Yes, we can wish that the DEMs might take the "high road" on this..., but thanks to Trump, those days are over. The objectionist GOP that Obama lived with have tilted the political spectrum so far to the immoral side, that now both sides with fight harder then ever to not work with each other. That is too bad. BUT, because of the extreme incompetence that Trump is exhibiting, there is no going back. If Trump were an Independent, he would have both sides fighting him. In the end, that is where he is heading anyway. As for the "slippery slope" fears. I don't agree any longer. I used to think that way, but no more. There is no "slippery slope" on this issue. Freedom does not give you the right to be an ignorant KKK racist. Regardless of what the Supreme Court has said about it in the past. They have been wrong before. Cheers!

Perhaps some of those "too many comments" are actually less about "uniting behind" Trump, and more about not having elected leaders who should know better than to go down the slippery slope of seeking to limit free speech that is subjectively distasteful. It's fine to disagree with Trump vociferously, but to reject the President, ANY President, by saying "not MY President" smacks of hypocrisy and arrogance. Lay down with dogs, you get fleas. "Not my President" was a rallying cry for the Alt-Right. Now Schatz has adopted it. Better get him some Soresto collars. http://www.conservativecotton.com/political_t-shirts/anti_barack_obama_t-shirts/not_my_president.html

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Being smaller allowed him to live longer, as did the drugs, vitamin B, and sugar. Some infants are certainly happier than some adults. The whale lived. That made me happy. Humor is good too. You should try it.

"Wildlife veterinarian Lesanna Lahner said the 9,000-pound, 24-foot-long, likely male gray whale survived two days longer than an adult would under similar conditions. At slighter more than 4 tons, “being smaller allowed him to live longer,” Lahner said." So a infant is more evolved than an adult..........................

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LA LALA LA LALA.

The immigration system is working on track, very smoothly in fact. No need to spread fake news here.

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Putting your obvious deflection aside for the moment, As I've said many times, I think the KKK and all white supremacists are idiots. I also think the Antifa anarchists are idiots. My views have been consistent, yours are not. Isnt it interesting that you disregarded my link from the conservative National Review that called out Antifa, but then included your own National Review link that similarly called out the white supremacists. See u5antifa, as with most conservatives the National Review has kept a consistent stance. Since you dodged my question I'll ask it again- When will you denounce the violent Antifa anarchists?

This is what you support? Charlottesville "Protesters included white supremacists, white nationalists, neo-Confederates, neo-Nazis, and various militias. Some of the marchers chanted racist and anti-semitic slogans, carried semi-automatic rifles, swastikas, Confederate battle flags, anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic banners and "Trump/Pence" signs" These are your buds? You want dress like them? You want to walk round like them with a tiki torch in your hand as a potential weapon? You like to chant "Blood and Soil", "Jews will not replaces us"? No thanks. I denounce every bit of the above.

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They're more like limp wiener schnitzels. No offense wiener schnitzels

…and another thing. If you call a Nazi a snowflake, ...they can't help but respond. Regular as Pavlov's dogs, …and with just as much dog slobber. Easy way to identify them. They're so insecure they'll out themselves.

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They do pay into Social Security. There was only a small window, back in the 1980s, when public agencies could 'opt out'. Very few did. The Feds shut that down pretty quickly before more could.

T: They don't pay into SS either, do they?

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You remember the interview that Justin did with Peter Mansbridge where he stated that small businesses were tax evading scams. That should have been your first clue about where this was going.

Thanks for highlighting the hard work that goes into the success of family owned businesses. My wife and I have spent over 20 years building our business. When we started our kids were squeezed into a tiny bedroom in our home so that we could use the larger bedroom for our office. We didn't take a vacation for years. We worked day & night - literally, to make sure our clients had the service they needed. We employ staff, offer benefits and pay our taxes. We play by the ever changing rule book laid out by the government. Now, in the name of "fairness", the government wants more of our hard earned money. Where is the fairness in government employees having indexed pensions, double dipping and more? Mr. Morneau is supposedly seeking input before moving forward with his proposed tax changes - we haven't been contacted. Business owners are not the evil doers that Mr. Trudeau and Mr. Morneau make us out to be. We are the people who actually create jobs and keep Canadians working.

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When you pay the top marginal rate the net pay for an office visit for a GP is $10.97 after overhead and tax. You have to work two and a half hours to pay for one hour for the furnace technician to come to your home for which he would like to be paid in cash. For a plumber you would have to work four hours to hire him for one hour and he also wants his cash.

I don't believe many will leave. I also believe medicine will always be a great career choice for those who are dedicated and expect to work hard and long hours. Many doctors I know make a good living but spend like they are rich which we are not. I strongly believe doctors should have some form of pension and should be treated respectfully by the govt. Here in Ontario this Liberal govt. has treated doctors poorly. I can understand the 'unfairness' of dividends, but small business has been incorporated and doing this for years. OHIP schedule needs to be increased. $22 for an office visit is a joke. Try seeing a lawyer for 10-15 minutes and see what he charges you. Many procedure fees in the OHIP schedule have not been increased in 30 years. That is also ridiculous. The fees will now have to increase dramatically to keep up with rest of society.

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get lost isis.

Harry, in your post 24 hrs. ago, you accused me of lying about Lee being indicted for treason and then said I lost all credibility. Yet, you were the one lying according to the history books. And you keep repeating over and over again about "disturbing the graves" of Confederate war veterans at the American Legion's GAR Cemetery just outside Snohomish. Harry, go out to the cemetery. You will see for yourself there are no Confederates buried under the "United Daughters of the Confederacy" monument. Repeating the "Big Lie" over and over again was the technique used by Adolph Hitler's propaganda minister, Josef Gerbils.

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While I don't like it, I do understand it. Ever watch Silicon Valley? I would think reading the worst of the RWNJ posts in order to moderate them would do to your soul what looking at d--- pics all day would do, as a character on that show had to end up doing. I mean, look at nearly any given YouTube video and scroll to the comments. People can be truly awful. I'm not sure I would want to read such trash day in, day out.

CC is far far less capable than Disqus. Basically, CC is the equivalent to the self-checkout at the grocery store. Mods get to avoid their job and blame the software for the errors you note. That's the point. Not to make commenting better - just make the users do the mods' jobs. Pathetic, really.

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The facts as stated in my other comment are a more true assessment. And the evidence for it is the very existence of Lincoln's letter and the fact that, despite being amid a war, he managed to scrounge up relief supplies for the hungry in Manchester. He didn't owe a bunch of English factory workers anything, he had no responsibility towards them - and yet he did that, at a time of great scarcity for his own people. Why would he do that, if he didn't genuinely feel he owes those people a sincere debt of gratitude. Which is just further proof that the workers who petitioned against breaking the blockade (to their personal detriment) must have significantly outnumbered the pro-South group (despite the latter *also* including all the mill owners).

It's happened before with you and I daresay me, goodness knows the reasons..... is yours a guess or factual as I don't hear fro Civil Comments?? I read a couple of articles on Lincoln and his letter and as would be the case you and I are both right in parts... the lack of cotton due to the naval blockage was hugely problematic and only a few would have been strong supporters because of the impact to the mills and the workers / families. England did not have a choice!!!!

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