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It's bizarre to me that if someone holds a public office (I.e. HPD, DPA, Mayor) they are protected. When there is misconduct by any of these offices they are protected under the law! But, when you are a victim of police misconduct or prosecutor misconduct you have NO protection. Public citizens who become victims of police misconduct or prosecutor misconduct can file Complaints, but that's all it is! All too often such complaints go to the bottom of the pile or are dismissed outright! Sad, very sad....	00	not toxic
For which the Americans must be quite thankful.	00	not toxic
As I have pointed out before, you have no inkling where many of us get our information and in which language. BUT..., you're perfectly welcome to grasp at straws.	00	not toxic
I hope so. Sessions has to go. No legitimate civil rights person wanted Sessions in the first place. But before Sessions goes I am sure he will want to visit his old friends in the Senate (testify as what what really is going on in the Administration, thus taking Trump with him.	00	not toxic
If you use the internet and live in Lane County, this project might help you in ways you might not expect. "The presence of gigabit service in a market is associated with a $27 decrease in the average monthly price of broadband plans with speeds of 100Mbps or greater". https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/when-a-city-has-gigabit-internet-prices-for-slower-speed-tiers-drop/	00	not toxic
Mayor Cruz hates Trump. Trump appointed Zinke. Anyone within the lifespan of Zinke will be discredited. See the thread? Hate politics from the left is all they know.	00	not toxic
"Headphone jack?" Seriously? I haven't used wired phones for the last four years. Try a bluetooth headphone when you play shuffleboard at the home. It's really liberating.	00	not toxic
Hancock's friend, a convicted felon and former gang member, gunned down and paralyzed a gang member. He got off, for reasons unknown and NEVER WAS CONVICTED OF POSSESSING A GUN even when its a mandatory prison sentence for a felon to possess a firearm. No jail time! How about enforcing EXISTING FIREARM LAWS?	00	not toxic
I recall a previous post that asks a good question: "If large oil deposit located under Cherry Creek, do you think Extraction would occur? The rigs could be setup in parks, etc.". Answer: NO. The Money and Political influence of the residents in area would prevent (ie. money always wins...). The residents of Broomfield and Adams County simply don't have enough money to compete with political system, local elections, and O&G lobbying efforts at state capitol. reference: local funding $350k+ against Prop 301. this does not include the millions and millions spent on lobbying across the state by O&G.	00	not toxic
What kind of coach ? How to screw millions up and a gift	00	not toxic
You ever been to a 1030 movie? When were you driving home? Did you take your kids to a midnight showing EVER? It's just that people feel the need to baselessly blame the victim or their family when you don't know either from Adam.	00	not toxic
Yuppers....Comey, Donna Brasil, Jon Podesta, Debbie Shultz, Lorretta Lynch, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton to name a few.	00	not toxic
How dumb can the school system get. Almost every day there is a column about the stupidity of the system.	11	toxic
Hillary needs to be impeached for collusion with the Russians!!! LOL. What an absolute JOKE the Fascist Left is.	00	not toxic
Like I've said, nowhere in the article does it say that the thief-driver was attempting to run the shooter down. If anything, the shooter likely stepped in front of her truck to try and force the thieves out of the truck, but instead they sped away with her shooting at them.	00	not toxic
But he stated under oath to Congress that he would never do that. Or are you suggesting that he lied under oath to Congress, like James Clapper, John Brennan, Hillary Clinton...	00	not toxic
Evolution describes a process of change among living things. It doesn't confirm that the origin of life is random.	00	not toxic
blah blah blah...	00	not toxic
The fact is American companies own lumber mills here and influence negotiations. Why has there not been innovation to metric to improve trade to other countries? We have put all our eggs in one basket for what? This is not new from the Americans and Canada Loses out yet again.	00	not toxic
They need to save that money so they can build another arena for the hockey team.	00	not toxic
Our ethically inconvenienced mayor must be smoking out 24/7 then, judging by the slitted eyes I see on him in EVERY photo out there...	11	toxic
Naming: Chubby!	00	not toxic
That's a similar argument to "Better to get stabbed in the leg than shot in the stomach". There's no justification for either one.	11	toxic
What in the world are you talking about? What does this news stories have to to with Toronto, or Liberals. It saddens me that you are most likely over 18 years of ages (biologically anyways) and are allowed to vote.	00	not toxic
Trudeau Derangement Syndrome? At least you're admitting your problem. It's the first step, son.	11	toxic
In other words, the hard-left children running the student association had to be forced into following anti-discrimination laws ... - hard-left children indeed if they were Palestinian students I can understand but as you say probably just "hard-left children"	00	not toxic
I read your 1960's study in more detail. As no surprise, at age 9, the control group and preschool group had the exact same IQ level of 87. What you also FAILED to mention is this was not just preschool for needy kids. This was part time preschool augmented by family intervention and the participants were often single parent African American households. The cost savings cited in the study were questionable and underlying factors had not been considered in totality. Here's a link of an assessment done in 2011. http://www.welfareacademy.org/pubs/early_education/pdfs/Besharov_ECE%20assessments_Perry_Preschool.pdf	00	not toxic
The article says that these construction costs are 15 million dollars. That's not even 1% of the total cost that you mention. Actually rail is almost completed halfway. But operation will not start until these 15 million dollars and construction fixes are completed and the estimate time now is four years. But by that time we will already be starting on the second phase of the first increment of rail to Ala Moana. 2020 will probably see in operation more than halfway to the Ala Moana Center we'll probably the see a lot of traffic at that time to the airport and perhaps to the Honolulu Community College.	00	not toxic
Whether you like Trump or not, I do not seem to remember a US (or for that matter any other) politician who invoke "fairness", or being "treated unfairly" as much as he does.. . . . What I do recall, is anytime past lower school, being essentially shut down, anytime I strayed into using being treated "unfairly" as a reason/excuse I had for under-performance, a foul-up or whatever, that ultimately was all or partly my fault..(think of all the tv shows were one kid gets the extra scoop of ice cream for being good - "NO FAIR" - cries the misbehaving one..oh wait, speaking of an extra scoop of ice cream.....) It is a troubling sign of immaturity.....and a lack of willingness to take at least partial ownership for why things are the way they are...	00	not toxic
The age profile of the immigrant stream is very close to our own so that even mass immigration, which is what we have now, has almost no impact on aging. Aging is going to happen anyway and mass immigration is a broad spectrum disaster for Canadians so there is no reason to pursue this fruitless policy. Cheers, John Meyer	00	not toxic
It's a shell game, a 3-card-monte scam, it's a "we will give you the crumbs while we steal the whole pie" con and these Trumpkins are too stupid to see it.....	11	toxic
The State of Alaska cannot afford to pay these generous salaries now that the price of oil has collapsed. The Alaska population cannot afford to be taxed at the rate required to maintain the most expensive K - 12 and University System in the nation.	00	not toxic
Kinda strange the city has all this money for DUI patrols but seems underfunded when it comes to almost all other aspects of law enforcement. To bad we couldn't figure out a way to make rape and murder as profitable for the city as DUIs are, maybe then we could make the city safer.	00	not toxic
You can't be fired for insubordination for not following an illegal or unconstitutional order.	00	not toxic
Oh I don't know... I was hit by a car while crossing the street and the driver was polite enough to roll down his window and apologize. Didn't make me feel any better.	00	not toxic
I don't feel any way about it. It's just a fact.	00	not toxic
Just call me Your Majesty.	00	not toxic
That's not a rational argument, Researchers. The protesters are protesting the BUILDING OF A NEW PIPELINE IN THE HEART OF RESERVATION LAND. The tribe doesn't want to be forced to live in an environment that may contaminate their way of life. It's their political fight and I hope it's one that they win. I have my grave doubts once the tRump administration moves in. Click, click.	00	not toxic
All this mean is that Muslims will get preferential treatment. Non Muslims need not apply. Its is what they want any way. Will they get prayer rooms and segregated seating in the stores? Expect halal food ( which funds and finances religious activism) to replace the current selection.	00	not toxic
The only crime so far is the traitor in the intelligence complex who leaked confidential information to the press. Let's find out who the traitor was and charge the person to the full extent of the law. There is no other evidence of a crime.	00	not toxic
What Stephanie fails to realize is that once censorship machine is built, it will be quickly turned around everyone. We must tolerate far-right speech because the danger of unleashing censorship on everyone is much greater.	00	not toxic
Follow the money . See what she does with the leftover money now that two recounts won't actually happen .	00	not toxic
Goodness Patricia. I think you nailed that one down. Thanks for the reality check.	00	not toxic
Does this mean no more transfer payments to Quebec?	00	not toxic
Perhaps if you had read any meaningful or substantive theology books--instead of Ray Brown, Charlie Curran, Hans Kung and the like you might know the answer to your very question. The Church is called the "Bride of Christ" and "She" because the Church is a women. The priest represents the Bridegroom Christ to his Bride the Church. Christ is male, the Church is female--therefore the priest must be male. The Mass is analogous to a wedding feast--but it is the wedding feast of the Lamb. The servers are analogous to the groomsmen at a wedding which is why they were traditionally male. A priest when celebrating Mass is not acting as a member of the baptized, but as the head of the body, as Christ is head of the body. The larger point I want to make is that the debate about women priests is as much a debate as to the nature of the priesthood as it is who can exercise it. Those who support women's ordination tend to have a Protestantized notion of ministry. .	00	not toxic
Drug trials should be sequestered and not conducted by those who stand to profit. Our government should insist that in order to gain approval at least some trials must be conducted in Canada paid for by the sponsor but arranged through a disinterested third party perhaps a crown corporation or non-profit established for this purpose.	00	not toxic
Just how vulnerable is Canada right now without having the most advanced (on paper) attack jet? Is it that Canadian forces might not be able to attack the latest third world country on America's "axis of evil" to do list?	00	not toxic
It is a combination of aspirin and an anti-anxiety med.	00	not toxic
RIP Steve, you'll be greatly missed. We'll take care your family man. I'm so sorry.	00	not toxic
How can there be homosexual and transgender clubs in Catholic schools when the Catholic Church condemns their behaviour as gravely sinful and intrinsically disordered?	00	not toxic
Are you trying to equate funds received from the gun lobby with funds received from the gun control lobby? On the one side, we have groups that encourage the proliferation of a product whose primary purpose is to kill people and are being used more and more often. On the other side, we have groups that wants to set some limits on that proliferation so that people, when feeling small or insecure or angry, can't just reach for the gun to waste their feelings on innocent bystanders. You see a moral equivalence between the two?	00	not toxic
I agree with Don. Trading Subban for Weber. What need did it address? The Habs were so flush with 30 goal scorers that the screaming need on the team was to tweak the top defensive pairing, giving up almost 4 years of age to do so? Weber may have an edge on defensive play, but Subban is more of a playmaker. He'll take a bad risk now and then, but he also delivers. And while Weber's plus/minus was better at +20, he also accumulated most of that during the 13--1-1 start, where I recall him being +17. The rest of the way, a little more than a wash.	00	not toxic
Khadr killed a US military medic both Micheal Rempel and Peter Kent had every right to inform Americans of this deal that Trudeau authorized.	00	not toxic
" .. the federal government expects nominal GDP growth to average around 4 per cent post 2016..... I guess smoking pot is already legal in Ottawa .-) 4% ????! PLEASE - I don't really care whether it is the feds or provinces that "pay" - it is actually - NEWS FLASH - the Canadian tax payer. Instead of this tiresome circus might it be possible to have a single efficient policy for all of Canada - based on modern data base systems and Internet logistics, including patient communications and file access.	00	not toxic
Once again the R's take over DC and we get an unpaid for war on something. This time it's gonna be millions of Mexican workers who are actually the folks who pick and process most of the produce in this country, oh that's right, Bubba Brownshirt doesn't eat kale or spinach. Or a war on folks who we are responsible for displacing because Dumbya needed his multi-trillion buck war in Iraq. I wonder when the adults in Congress are going to step up and remind this 5 year old bully in the Whitehouse that ONLY the Congress can appropriate funds for things like walls or wars. I wonder if there are any adults left in Congress. The D's say they gonna pick their battles and the R's are a bunch of spineless whips. Where did the important issue of National Debt go?	00	not toxic
Can you get a dictionary to adopt that meaning? If not then I guess the answer to your question is no. But let's suppose you were successful. Then, as LSJM notes above, we would no longer have a word that precisely means "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims." so you would have reduced our ability to speak precisely and concisely. That makes speech more ambiguous and I don't see how that is beneficial to anyone but politicians.	00	not toxic
When I hear there are lectures on "How to grow rich flipping real estate" it is obvious to me that this section of the tax code needs attention, and it's not foreigners who are doing this but our own home grown Canadian scam artists.	00	not toxic
Rick- Trump's executive order wouldn't have kept the 9/11 attackers out of the country. Why do you hate America?	00	not toxic
More Hollywood Stupidity....so boring. But the bigger question is ,why is this NEWS worthy? I say to Mr. Kawaipunahele aka;Patrick Stewart, Good Luck with that US citizenship application. First Red Flag? Unable to assimilate with the Leader of American people .....It;s as stupid as me saying: I want to be British subject/citizen so that I can Oppose the Queen of England.	11	toxic
A good history lesson for you... https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/alt-right-a-primer-about-the-new-white-supremacy	00	not toxic
This is such a great article; I wanted to link to it when I saw it. So glad the SA picked it up, and it looks like they ran the whole piece too (sometimes they edit AP stories). Very recommended read.	00	not toxic
The AP correspondents aren't journalists!	00	not toxic
1050 HP makes for exciting head lines - but is not a decisive criterion for electric vehicles. Electric traction motors have very high starting torques and ultimately high HP as a matter of fundamental theoretical features, nothing revolutionary. At 1050HP you will burn a lot of rubber - but won't make it home on what is left in your battery - if the whole thing doesn't go up in flames first .... An electric vehicle with 500Km range, say 150 HP available on demand - that would be a break through instead of a styling exercise.	00	not toxic
Yes he was alone on the top of a truck but as I came closer he jumped down and came right over to me. I fed him kibbles in a cupcake which he snarfed right down. The other two kits peered suspiciously out the cat door until a barking down scattered them throughout the house. I left my name and phone # on a note that said call me and I'll bring cat food to you so you can feed them. I am concerned about him being outside with the loose dogs in the streets. He does seem to have some street smarts so that is good. If Animal Control doesn't feel ok with them being there they may want to move them to the ASPCA shelter until Mr Nelson makes it home again. ACAT will be checking in on the kits daily. Thanks for your concern for Mr. Nelson's cats. You are very kind!	00	not toxic
Lineups would be too long. But what you suggest would be very good for pharmacists - who'd be looking for their own slice of the "marijuana pie."	00	not toxic
Paul Jenkins: "An edited video by James O'Keefe's controversial Project Veritas Action purports to show..." O'Keefe has had to settle, i.e. pay money for other things he has 'purported to show'. O'Keefe is a known partison falsifier of documentation. This Jenkins hit-piece tries to combine folksy semi-history with some topical semi-calumny. Grow a truth-seeking spirit of journalism, Paul, if it isn't too late, or stay forever on the also-wrote op-eds.	00	not toxic
I agree. Part of coaching is knowing who you want to be the on field leaders. Grooming those kids to be leaders on the field was something Helfrich failed at.	00	not toxic
You have a lot of history with cab drivers being ripped off?	00	not toxic
May I suggest another factor to measure: how well their website works and how responsive they are when it doesn't. TDW fails. For two days I've tried to access their fixed income page using the same two browsers as usual. All I get is an Error number or a message to "try again later". I sent an email many hours ago to which I have yet to receive a reply, and I phoned and waited on Hold for 15 minutes after which I gave up.	00	not toxic
I looked it up for you james - "On days when Mr. Trump is not in the city, the department estimates that it costs $127,000 to $146,000 a day “to protect the first lady and her son while they reside in Trump Tower.” On days when Mr. Trump is in New York City — he has not yet returned since his inauguration — the Police Department anticipates “an average daily rate of $308,000.” Tht's less than 1/3 of james' bald faced lie. http://www.snopes.com/melania-trump-nyc-costs/	00	not toxic
Lastly I post that story from the honest fire fighters who sent the evidence to people.. they don't agree with Kirk Caldwell and won't vote for him! Of course everyone's innocent to proven guilty. But it's all public knowledge including the arrest.. Kirk thinks he and his high union buddy's above the law !! I also post this story as first responders should know better and also the mayor ! I hope the news will do a story on this as to warn people about drinking and driving for Halloween ..	00	not toxic
I still have not read the lesson u provided me but i fully intend to do so soon. i have sent u a couple of msgs. Im not sure if u got them. Im not sure its appropriate that u respond anyway.	00	not toxic
Well, Mass is public worship number one, with no expectation of privacy since it is the public prayer of the Church, and, two, if something like a liturgical dance is being performed, Mass has been suspended to provide entertainment. If I am at Mass and they stop Mass to have a liturgical dance on the altar, am I really filming the liturgy or something that is interrupting it? It's not like whipping out a camera phone to snap a picture of Our Lord during the elevation of the Host. Since comments are now civil, I congratulate you for not putting Jay in scare quotes.	00	not toxic
You are wrong sir. Just caught a couple kings. If this doesn't get fixed real fast, the spawners will be in trouble too.	00	not toxic
Acquiring donations or other items of value for an election, obstruction, and anything else discovered. You seem to be forgetting that Bill Clinton wasn't being investigated for his adultery when the Monica Lewinsky situation arose. Besides.....how many other presidents have you heard of discussing pardons just for the heck of it? I won't say that there is for sure anything to the investigations, but 1) it is the Trump administration's fault that all of this is taking place with their lies and omissions (of course, I'm sure you're a fan of the GOP mantra "responsibility for thee, but not for me"), and 2) you seem to be adamant that there is no way that a guy, with a history of stiffing people, adultery, admitted sexual assault, and bankruptcies, could have possibly done anything wrong.	00	not toxic
Debt dynamics aren't your strong point. He inherited debt of 42% of GDP, and left a level of 66% When you inherit an economy that has had as much debt thrown at it as Canada had, and the deficits are exploding, just wrestling those deficits from disastrous to merely bad is a major achievement. Our modern understanding of debt vulnerability is that it is the speed of accumulation that is the biggest problem, and PET's runaway deficits of his last 3 years in power put the economy into ER surrounded by crash carts. Mulroney turned a 2.7% Primary deficit into a 1.8% surplus, and cut PET's 8.1% Deficit into only 4.4% within 5 years - that is hard stuff outside an IMF program, and only slightly behind Irelands adjustment between 2011 and 2013 . Could he have got that down to 4 - 3.5%? Possibly, but that degree of adjustment, when unemployment was so high, and real wages falling would have been brutal. He would have been better admitting defeat and restructuring the debt.	00	not toxic
MS24, You were so intent on making your own point you totally missed one of my points, i.e., "encourage women and minorities to excel." It's a shame what could have been a useful contribution to the discussion was lost in unnecessary ignorant remarks.	11	toxic
did i just hear someone say eminent domain? it was hard to hear - my ears are still ringing from the slap on my face.	00	not toxic
The level of greed that abounds in Toronto is staggering! Not surprised at those realtors, landlords, and homeowners who lack ethics. The housing crash is coming, and it will be just desserts for these types of people.	00	not toxic
I have an image of them sitting down together after a Trump tweet-lashing and saying "Lord, help us"....	00	not toxic
When committees of Congress issue a subpoena, it is no more "optional" to obey than when the FBI goes to court and gets a judge to issue a subpoena. The proper response to a violation should be an IMMEDIATE contempt-of-Congress charge seeking imprisonment of the offending government hack who refuses to obey the law. Sending a few Deep State hacks to prison should facilitate greatly all such duly issued subpoenas in the future.	00	not toxic
"....let's finish this the way we started it. Together!" Harry Potter - 2011 Ted Cruz - 2016	00	not toxic
God no.	00	not toxic
Starting to look more and more like "North Korea Lite" each day.	00	not toxic
What does "baseline" have to do with it? Men average taller than women; all you need to do to verify this is measure the male and female populations and do the simple averaging calculation. The same applies in any case of a difference between two populations; you simply compare the two populations; comparing both of them to a third "baseline" population makes no sense.	00	not toxic
So you are worried people can't pronounce your last name and as a result of this multiculturalism is waning? You are exactly the reason people are tired and sick of multiculturalism.	00	not toxic
This has been going in for decades...since I was in school st UO. It obviously isn't a priority, or it would be addressed during orientation - what a shame.	00	not toxic
"Deaths by terrorists born in the banned countries: 0" The Somali who plowed into 11 people on the Ohio State campus in Nov 2016 and was subsequently shot wasn't trying to kill anyone?	00	not toxic
People hearing the above over and over believe the above. And they all call for violence against our President Trump and 'supporters of'by the Far left Dems. All I can say is, the ones saying that stuff just watched it unfold live at a baseball game practice. As it is also said, careful what you wish for, you might just get it. Indeed.	00	not toxic
Good column. . But it's not just art criticism that uses such obfuscatory bafflegab. 'Cultural studies' of various kinds is equally drivellous (e.g. 'interrogating the heterogeneity of racialized archetypes'). . I once had a professor who taught me one of the most valuables lessons in university. It was in sociology and he assigned a reading full of that kind of stuff and when class time came he asked numerous people to talk about what they understood from it. Several responded with various efforts to elucidate it until one student admitted he didn't understand it he even said it didn't make sense. "Eactly!" the prof shouted. "It doesn't say anything! Just because it's in a book doesn't make it good. Trust your own minds. If it seems like nonsense, there's a good chance it IS nonsense."	00	not toxic
Note no country taxes 100% of capital gains: https://taxfoundation.org/capital-gains-rate-country-2011-oecd/	00	not toxic
I would presume that is the case. Read up a bit more on male development.	00	not toxic
It is like saying a drunk can not consent to turning the key of her car and driving drunk. A drunk CAN consent, drunks often encourage sex and are known to have sex indiscriminately, so the law is ridiculous. Alcohol doesn't put you unconscious like K or ghb.	11	toxic
What will Trump do now...blame it on "the military" like he did when our Seal Team 6 soldier died in Yemen? Let's see what the Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces actually does... This will be very telling...	00	not toxic
I'm sure he would say that we have no way of knowing what private repentance for such grievous sins the bishops expressed to God in their last seconds in this life and therefore they could not be denied. Us regular folks don't get that presumption.	00	not toxic
Of course, KPMG is is a private sector, capitalist company - so capitalism is certainly not blameless in this whole mess...	00	not toxic
QuietAndEffective, Do you have any evidence for that?	00	not toxic
For the Trump "true believer" the well known axiom that no amount of facts will change a strongly held belief, is hard at work. All they want is wreckage, and Trump is the wrecking ball. Truth is simply not relevant. Unfortunately, if they get their wrecking ball, the rest of us get wrecked too.	00	not toxic
Itsme:, I do not feel that every religion is calling on same GOD. Majority don't have a clue. One GOD. One Savior. The rest are all immitations man thought up to justify their culture!	00	not toxic
Pre-Bush2 semi-auto ban.	00	not toxic

It's bizarre to me that if someone holds a public office (I.e. HPD, DPA, Mayor) they are protected. When there is misconduct by any of these offices they are protected under the law! But, when you are a victim of police misconduct or prosecutor misconduct you have NO protection. Public citizens who become victims of police misconduct or prosecutor misconduct can file Complaints, but that's all it is! All too often such complaints go to the bottom of the pile or are dismissed outright! Sad, very sad....

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For which the Americans must be quite thankful.

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As I have pointed out before, you have no inkling where many of us get our information and in which language. BUT..., you're perfectly welcome to grasp at straws.

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I hope so. Sessions has to go. No legitimate civil rights person wanted Sessions in the first place. But before Sessions goes I am sure he will want to visit his old friends in the Senate (testify as what what really is going on in the Administration, thus taking Trump with him.

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If you use the internet and live in Lane County, this project might help you in ways you might not expect. "The presence of gigabit service in a market is associated with a $27 decrease in the average monthly price of broadband plans with speeds of 100Mbps or greater". https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/when-a-city-has-gigabit-internet-prices-for-slower-speed-tiers-drop/

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Mayor Cruz hates Trump. Trump appointed Zinke. Anyone within the lifespan of Zinke will be discredited. See the thread? Hate politics from the left is all they know.

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"Headphone jack?" Seriously? I haven't used wired phones for the last four years. Try a bluetooth headphone when you play shuffleboard at the home. It's really liberating.

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Hancock's friend, a convicted felon and former gang member, gunned down and paralyzed a gang member. He got off, for reasons unknown and NEVER WAS CONVICTED OF POSSESSING A GUN even when its a mandatory prison sentence for a felon to possess a firearm. No jail time! How about enforcing EXISTING FIREARM LAWS?

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I recall a previous post that asks a good question: "If large oil deposit located under Cherry Creek, do you think Extraction would occur? The rigs could be setup in parks, etc.". Answer: NO. The Money and Political influence of the residents in area would prevent (ie. money always wins...). The residents of Broomfield and Adams County simply don't have enough money to compete with political system, local elections, and O&G lobbying efforts at state capitol. reference: local funding $350k+ against Prop 301. this does not include the millions and millions spent on lobbying across the state by O&G.

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What kind of coach ? How to screw millions up and a gift

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You ever been to a 1030 movie? When were you driving home? Did you take your kids to a midnight showing EVER? It's just that people feel the need to baselessly blame the victim or their family when you don't know either from Adam.

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Yuppers....Comey, Donna Brasil, Jon Podesta, Debbie Shultz, Lorretta Lynch, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton to name a few.

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How dumb can the school system get. Almost every day there is a column about the stupidity of the system.

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Hillary needs to be impeached for collusion with the Russians!!! LOL. What an absolute JOKE the Fascist Left is.

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Like I've said, nowhere in the article does it say that the thief-driver was attempting to run the shooter down. If anything, the shooter likely stepped in front of her truck to try and force the thieves out of the truck, but instead they sped away with her shooting at them.

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But he stated under oath to Congress that he would never do that. Or are you suggesting that he lied under oath to Congress, like James Clapper, John Brennan, Hillary Clinton...

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Evolution describes a process of change among living things. It doesn't confirm that the origin of life is random.

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blah blah blah...

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The fact is American companies own lumber mills here and influence negotiations. Why has there not been innovation to metric to improve trade to other countries? We have put all our eggs in one basket for what? This is not new from the Americans and Canada Loses out yet again.

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They need to save that money so they can build another arena for the hockey team.

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Our ethically inconvenienced mayor must be smoking out 24/7 then, judging by the slitted eyes I see on him in EVERY photo out there...

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Naming: Chubby!

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That's a similar argument to "Better to get stabbed in the leg than shot in the stomach". There's no justification for either one.

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What in the world are you talking about? What does this news stories have to to with Toronto, or Liberals. It saddens me that you are most likely over 18 years of ages (biologically anyways) and are allowed to vote.

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Trudeau Derangement Syndrome? At least you're admitting your problem. It's the first step, son.

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In other words, the hard-left children running the student association had to be forced into following anti-discrimination laws ... - hard-left children indeed if they were Palestinian students I can understand but as you say probably just "hard-left children"

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I read your 1960's study in more detail. As no surprise, at age 9, the control group and preschool group had the exact same IQ level of 87. What you also FAILED to mention is this was not just preschool for needy kids. This was part time preschool augmented by family intervention and the participants were often single parent African American households. The cost savings cited in the study were questionable and underlying factors had not been considered in totality. Here's a link of an assessment done in 2011. http://www.welfareacademy.org/pubs/early_education/pdfs/Besharov_ECE%20assessments_Perry_Preschool.pdf

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The article says that these construction costs are 15 million dollars. That's not even 1% of the total cost that you mention. Actually rail is almost completed halfway. But operation will not start until these 15 million dollars and construction fixes are completed and the estimate time now is four years. But by that time we will already be starting on the second phase of the first increment of rail to Ala Moana. 2020 will probably see in operation more than halfway to the Ala Moana Center we'll probably the see a lot of traffic at that time to the airport and perhaps to the Honolulu Community College.

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Whether you like Trump or not, I do not seem to remember a US (or for that matter any other) politician who invoke "fairness", or being "treated unfairly" as much as he does.. . . . What I do recall, is anytime past lower school, being essentially shut down, anytime I strayed into using being treated "unfairly" as a reason/excuse I had for under-performance, a foul-up or whatever, that ultimately was all or partly my fault..(think of all the tv shows were one kid gets the extra scoop of ice cream for being good - "NO FAIR" - cries the misbehaving one..oh wait, speaking of an extra scoop of ice cream.....) It is a troubling sign of immaturity.....and a lack of willingness to take at least partial ownership for why things are the way they are...

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The age profile of the immigrant stream is very close to our own so that even mass immigration, which is what we have now, has almost no impact on aging. Aging is going to happen anyway and mass immigration is a broad spectrum disaster for Canadians so there is no reason to pursue this fruitless policy. Cheers, John Meyer

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It's a shell game, a 3-card-monte scam, it's a "we will give you the crumbs while we steal the whole pie" con and these Trumpkins are too stupid to see it.....

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The State of Alaska cannot afford to pay these generous salaries now that the price of oil has collapsed. The Alaska population cannot afford to be taxed at the rate required to maintain the most expensive K - 12 and University System in the nation.

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Kinda strange the city has all this money for DUI patrols but seems underfunded when it comes to almost all other aspects of law enforcement. To bad we couldn't figure out a way to make rape and murder as profitable for the city as DUIs are, maybe then we could make the city safer.

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You can't be fired for insubordination for not following an illegal or unconstitutional order.

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Oh I don't know... I was hit by a car while crossing the street and the driver was polite enough to roll down his window and apologize. Didn't make me feel any better.

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I don't feel any way about it. It's just a fact.

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Just call me Your Majesty.

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That's not a rational argument, Researchers. The protesters are protesting the BUILDING OF A NEW PIPELINE IN THE HEART OF RESERVATION LAND. The tribe doesn't want to be forced to live in an environment that may contaminate their way of life. It's their political fight and I hope it's one that they win. I have my grave doubts once the tRump administration moves in. Click, click.

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All this mean is that Muslims will get preferential treatment. Non Muslims need not apply. Its is what they want any way. Will they get prayer rooms and segregated seating in the stores? Expect halal food ( which funds and finances religious activism) to replace the current selection.

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The only crime so far is the traitor in the intelligence complex who leaked confidential information to the press. Let's find out who the traitor was and charge the person to the full extent of the law. There is no other evidence of a crime.

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What Stephanie fails to realize is that once censorship machine is built, it will be quickly turned around everyone. We must tolerate far-right speech because the danger of unleashing censorship on everyone is much greater.

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Follow the money . See what she does with the leftover money now that two recounts won't actually happen .

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Goodness Patricia. I think you nailed that one down. Thanks for the reality check.

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Does this mean no more transfer payments to Quebec?

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Perhaps if you had read any meaningful or substantive theology books--instead of Ray Brown, Charlie Curran, Hans Kung and the like you might know the answer to your very question. The Church is called the "Bride of Christ" and "She" because the Church is a women. The priest represents the Bridegroom Christ to his Bride the Church. Christ is male, the Church is female--therefore the priest must be male. The Mass is analogous to a wedding feast--but it is the wedding feast of the Lamb. The servers are analogous to the groomsmen at a wedding which is why they were traditionally male. A priest when celebrating Mass is not acting as a member of the baptized, but as the head of the body, as Christ is head of the body. The larger point I want to make is that the debate about women priests is as much a debate as to the nature of the priesthood as it is who can exercise it. Those who support women's ordination tend to have a Protestantized notion of ministry. .

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Drug trials should be sequestered and not conducted by those who stand to profit. Our government should insist that in order to gain approval at least some trials must be conducted in Canada paid for by the sponsor but arranged through a disinterested third party perhaps a crown corporation or non-profit established for this purpose.

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Just how vulnerable is Canada right now without having the most advanced (on paper) attack jet? Is it that Canadian forces might not be able to attack the latest third world country on America's "axis of evil" to do list?

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It is a combination of aspirin and an anti-anxiety med.

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RIP Steve, you'll be greatly missed. We'll take care your family man. I'm so sorry.

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How can there be homosexual and transgender clubs in Catholic schools when the Catholic Church condemns their behaviour as gravely sinful and intrinsically disordered?

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Are you trying to equate funds received from the gun lobby with funds received from the gun control lobby? On the one side, we have groups that encourage the proliferation of a product whose primary purpose is to kill people and are being used more and more often. On the other side, we have groups that wants to set some limits on that proliferation so that people, when feeling small or insecure or angry, can't just reach for the gun to waste their feelings on innocent bystanders. You see a moral equivalence between the two?

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I agree with Don. Trading Subban for Weber. What need did it address? The Habs were so flush with 30 goal scorers that the screaming need on the team was to tweak the top defensive pairing, giving up almost 4 years of age to do so? Weber may have an edge on defensive play, but Subban is more of a playmaker. He'll take a bad risk now and then, but he also delivers. And while Weber's plus/minus was better at +20, he also accumulated most of that during the 13--1-1 start, where I recall him being +17. The rest of the way, a little more than a wash.

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Khadr killed a US military medic both Micheal Rempel and Peter Kent had every right to inform Americans of this deal that Trudeau authorized.

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" .. the federal government expects nominal GDP growth to average around 4 per cent post 2016..... I guess smoking pot is already legal in Ottawa .-) 4% ????! PLEASE - I don't really care whether it is the feds or provinces that "pay" - it is actually - NEWS FLASH - the Canadian tax payer. Instead of this tiresome circus might it be possible to have a single efficient policy for all of Canada - based on modern data base systems and Internet logistics, including patient communications and file access.

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Once again the R's take over DC and we get an unpaid for war on something. This time it's gonna be millions of Mexican workers who are actually the folks who pick and process most of the produce in this country, oh that's right, Bubba Brownshirt doesn't eat kale or spinach. Or a war on folks who we are responsible for displacing because Dumbya needed his multi-trillion buck war in Iraq. I wonder when the adults in Congress are going to step up and remind this 5 year old bully in the Whitehouse that ONLY the Congress can appropriate funds for things like walls or wars. I wonder if there are any adults left in Congress. The D's say they gonna pick their battles and the R's are a bunch of spineless whips. Where did the important issue of National Debt go?

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Can you get a dictionary to adopt that meaning? If not then I guess the answer to your question is no. But let's suppose you were successful. Then, as LSJM notes above, we would no longer have a word that precisely means "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims." so you would have reduced our ability to speak precisely and concisely. That makes speech more ambiguous and I don't see how that is beneficial to anyone but politicians.

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When I hear there are lectures on "How to grow rich flipping real estate" it is obvious to me that this section of the tax code needs attention, and it's not foreigners who are doing this but our own home grown Canadian scam artists.

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Rick- Trump's executive order wouldn't have kept the 9/11 attackers out of the country. Why do you hate America?

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More Hollywood Stupidity....so boring. But the bigger question is ,why is this NEWS worthy? I say to Mr. Kawaipunahele aka;Patrick Stewart, Good Luck with that US citizenship application. First Red Flag? Unable to assimilate with the Leader of American people .....It;s as stupid as me saying: I want to be British subject/citizen so that I can Oppose the Queen of England.

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A good history lesson for you... https://www.adl.org/education/resources/backgrounders/alt-right-a-primer-about-the-new-white-supremacy

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This is such a great article; I wanted to link to it when I saw it. So glad the SA picked it up, and it looks like they ran the whole piece too (sometimes they edit AP stories). Very recommended read.

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The AP correspondents aren't journalists!

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1050 HP makes for exciting head lines - but is not a decisive criterion for electric vehicles. Electric traction motors have very high starting torques and ultimately high HP as a matter of fundamental theoretical features, nothing revolutionary. At 1050HP you will burn a lot of rubber - but won't make it home on what is left in your battery - if the whole thing doesn't go up in flames first .... An electric vehicle with 500Km range, say 150 HP available on demand - that would be a break through instead of a styling exercise.

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Yes he was alone on the top of a truck but as I came closer he jumped down and came right over to me. I fed him kibbles in a cupcake which he snarfed right down. The other two kits peered suspiciously out the cat door until a barking down scattered them throughout the house. I left my name and phone # on a note that said call me and I'll bring cat food to you so you can feed them. I am concerned about him being outside with the loose dogs in the streets. He does seem to have some street smarts so that is good. If Animal Control doesn't feel ok with them being there they may want to move them to the ASPCA shelter until Mr Nelson makes it home again. ACAT will be checking in on the kits daily. Thanks for your concern for Mr. Nelson's cats. You are very kind!

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Lineups would be too long. But what you suggest would be very good for pharmacists - who'd be looking for their own slice of the "marijuana pie."

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Paul Jenkins: "An edited video by James O'Keefe's controversial Project Veritas Action purports to show..." O'Keefe has had to settle, i.e. pay money for other things he has 'purported to show'. O'Keefe is a known partison falsifier of documentation. This Jenkins hit-piece tries to combine folksy semi-history with some topical semi-calumny. Grow a truth-seeking spirit of journalism, Paul, if it isn't too late, or stay forever on the also-wrote op-eds.

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I agree. Part of coaching is knowing who you want to be the on field leaders. Grooming those kids to be leaders on the field was something Helfrich failed at.

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You have a lot of history with cab drivers being ripped off?

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May I suggest another factor to measure: how well their website works and how responsive they are when it doesn't. TDW fails. For two days I've tried to access their fixed income page using the same two browsers as usual. All I get is an Error number or a message to "try again later". I sent an email many hours ago to which I have yet to receive a reply, and I phoned and waited on Hold for 15 minutes after which I gave up.

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I looked it up for you james - "On days when Mr. Trump is not in the city, the department estimates that it costs $127,000 to $146,000 a day “to protect the first lady and her son while they reside in Trump Tower.” On days when Mr. Trump is in New York City — he has not yet returned since his inauguration — the Police Department anticipates “an average daily rate of $308,000.” Tht's less than 1/3 of james' bald faced lie. http://www.snopes.com/melania-trump-nyc-costs/

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Lastly I post that story from the honest fire fighters who sent the evidence to people.. they don't agree with Kirk Caldwell and won't vote for him! Of course everyone's innocent to proven guilty. But it's all public knowledge including the arrest.. Kirk thinks he and his high union buddy's above the law !! I also post this story as first responders should know better and also the mayor ! I hope the news will do a story on this as to warn people about drinking and driving for Halloween ..

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I still have not read the lesson u provided me but i fully intend to do so soon. i have sent u a couple of msgs. Im not sure if u got them. Im not sure its appropriate that u respond anyway.

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Well, Mass is public worship number one, with no expectation of privacy since it is the public prayer of the Church, and, two, if something like a liturgical dance is being performed, Mass has been suspended to provide entertainment. If I am at Mass and they stop Mass to have a liturgical dance on the altar, am I really filming the liturgy or something that is interrupting it? It's not like whipping out a camera phone to snap a picture of Our Lord during the elevation of the Host. Since comments are now civil, I congratulate you for not putting Jay in scare quotes.

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You are wrong sir. Just caught a couple kings. If this doesn't get fixed real fast, the spawners will be in trouble too.

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Acquiring donations or other items of value for an election, obstruction, and anything else discovered. You seem to be forgetting that Bill Clinton wasn't being investigated for his adultery when the Monica Lewinsky situation arose. Besides.....how many other presidents have you heard of discussing pardons just for the heck of it? I won't say that there is for sure anything to the investigations, but 1) it is the Trump administration's fault that all of this is taking place with their lies and omissions (of course, I'm sure you're a fan of the GOP mantra "responsibility for thee, but not for me"), and 2) you seem to be adamant that there is no way that a guy, with a history of stiffing people, adultery, admitted sexual assault, and bankruptcies, could have possibly done anything wrong.

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Debt dynamics aren't your strong point. He inherited debt of 42% of GDP, and left a level of 66% When you inherit an economy that has had as much debt thrown at it as Canada had, and the deficits are exploding, just wrestling those deficits from disastrous to merely bad is a major achievement. Our modern understanding of debt vulnerability is that it is the speed of accumulation that is the biggest problem, and PET's runaway deficits of his last 3 years in power put the economy into ER surrounded by crash carts. Mulroney turned a 2.7% Primary deficit into a 1.8% surplus, and cut PET's 8.1% Deficit into only 4.4% within 5 years - that is hard stuff outside an IMF program, and only slightly behind Irelands adjustment between 2011 and 2013 . Could he have got that down to 4 - 3.5%? Possibly, but that degree of adjustment, when unemployment was so high, and real wages falling would have been brutal. He would have been better admitting defeat and restructuring the debt.

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MS24, You were so intent on making your own point you totally missed one of my points, i.e., "encourage women and minorities to excel." It's a shame what could have been a useful contribution to the discussion was lost in unnecessary ignorant remarks.

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did i just hear someone say eminent domain? it was hard to hear - my ears are still ringing from the slap on my face.

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The level of greed that abounds in Toronto is staggering! Not surprised at those realtors, landlords, and homeowners who lack ethics. The housing crash is coming, and it will be just desserts for these types of people.

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I have an image of them sitting down together after a Trump tweet-lashing and saying "Lord, help us"....

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When committees of Congress issue a subpoena, it is no more "optional" to obey than when the FBI goes to court and gets a judge to issue a subpoena. The proper response to a violation should be an IMMEDIATE contempt-of-Congress charge seeking imprisonment of the offending government hack who refuses to obey the law. Sending a few Deep State hacks to prison should facilitate greatly all such duly issued subpoenas in the future.

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"....let's finish this the way we started it. Together!" Harry Potter - 2011 Ted Cruz - 2016

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God no.

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Starting to look more and more like "North Korea Lite" each day.

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What does "baseline" have to do with it? Men average taller than women; all you need to do to verify this is measure the male and female populations and do the simple averaging calculation. The same applies in any case of a difference between two populations; you simply compare the two populations; comparing both of them to a third "baseline" population makes no sense.

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So you are worried people can't pronounce your last name and as a result of this multiculturalism is waning? You are exactly the reason people are tired and sick of multiculturalism.

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This has been going in for decades...since I was in school st UO. It obviously isn't a priority, or it would be addressed during orientation - what a shame.

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"Deaths by terrorists born in the banned countries: 0" The Somali who plowed into 11 people on the Ohio State campus in Nov 2016 and was subsequently shot wasn't trying to kill anyone?

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People hearing the above over and over believe the above. And they all call for violence against our President Trump and 'supporters of'by the Far left Dems. All I can say is, the ones saying that stuff just watched it unfold live at a baseball game practice. As it is also said, careful what you wish for, you might just get it. Indeed.

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Good column. . But it's not just art criticism that uses such obfuscatory bafflegab. 'Cultural studies' of various kinds is equally drivellous (e.g. 'interrogating the heterogeneity of racialized archetypes'). . I once had a professor who taught me one of the most valuables lessons in university. It was in sociology and he assigned a reading full of that kind of stuff and when class time came he asked numerous people to talk about what they understood from it. Several responded with various efforts to elucidate it until one student admitted he didn't understand it he even said it didn't make sense. "Eactly!" the prof shouted. "It doesn't say anything! Just because it's in a book doesn't make it good. Trust your own minds. If it seems like nonsense, there's a good chance it IS nonsense."

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Note no country taxes 100% of capital gains: https://taxfoundation.org/capital-gains-rate-country-2011-oecd/

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I would presume that is the case. Read up a bit more on male development.

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It is like saying a drunk can not consent to turning the key of her car and driving drunk. A drunk CAN consent, drunks often encourage sex and are known to have sex indiscriminately, so the law is ridiculous. Alcohol doesn't put you unconscious like K or ghb.

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What will Trump do now...blame it on "the military" like he did when our Seal Team 6 soldier died in Yemen? Let's see what the Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces actually does... This will be very telling...

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I'm sure he would say that we have no way of knowing what private repentance for such grievous sins the bishops expressed to God in their last seconds in this life and therefore they could not be denied. Us regular folks don't get that presumption.

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Of course, KPMG is is a private sector, capitalist company - so capitalism is certainly not blameless in this whole mess...

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QuietAndEffective, Do you have any evidence for that?

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For the Trump "true believer" the well known axiom that no amount of facts will change a strongly held belief, is hard at work. All they want is wreckage, and Trump is the wrecking ball. Truth is simply not relevant. Unfortunately, if they get their wrecking ball, the rest of us get wrecked too.

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Itsme:, I do not feel that every religion is calling on same GOD. Majority don't have a clue. One GOD. One Savior. The rest are all immitations man thought up to justify their culture!

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Pre-Bush2 semi-auto ban.

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