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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCblQ_fnPpc RIP. I liked many of his movies, didn't know his backstory ... The Right Stuff is GREAT love that movie ...

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Not if you own Hop Valley. They have been making beer and now they are also making some dough.

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I got you Marty, you seem to believe it is the Holy Father that is struggling. Perhaps you could open your own eyes and let in some light. Seems you not so much the Holly Father have a lot to learn so as to develop your own theological chops to make more sense. Good luck Marty-- forget your ideas of self perfection for "there is a crack in everything and that is how the light gets in."

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amen to that. Butts, Telford and Albagrha are definitely not the Three Wise Men. More like Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Protesters outside Masjid Toronto mosque call for ban on Islam.

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Denial ain't just a river in Egypt....

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good write up, ed. know a young man who recently purchased station. media ownership business 2017 is tough way to earn a living. the dedication, long hours, and ever changing marketing tests mettle of any modern entrepreneur.

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@Lazeelink, everyone's missed the other half of the story. According to the transcript, Trump tried many times to get Comey to pledge loyalty to himself, like a mafia don, and even tried to manipulate Comey into making a self-incriminating statement about an ongoing investigation. Reading between the lines, Comey sensed a trap and saw how Trump was making a clumsy, artless attempt to get him to say something he could later hold over him, but Comey was too smart to take the bait and kept silent. Comey was also smart enough and wise enough to write notes of his conversation immediately after his meeting, to protect himself. (BTW it's almost certain the room was bugged).

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Get back in your little house Corey, you know Donnie doesn't like you straying.....

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If the federal government had a policy to look after our own children, and make it affordable to have their own children and own a house, we wouldn't have to be importing all these people with strange cultures into our country, and run up a huge deficit supporting them and their large families, and giving them free education and health care. We do nothing for our own.....sick

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Are you kidding me ? The assembly has clearly over stepped it's bounds telling doctors they must give estimates . It's baloney regulations like this that drive up the cost of medical care. The city is short on money yet they give one union pay raises for the next three years ? Now one can see why unions got they're vote out in electing Berkowitz.

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Correct. The city was forced to take on construction because of inaction by the state.

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I watched CNN for a few minutes last night and again this morning. Trump has a point. I can see why many conservatives call it the Communist News Network. The hosts did nothing except slam Trump, the US, or both.

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Religious groups should be included.

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Information can be evidence when gathered by intelligence agencies or the FBI. Intelligence agencies use a broader definition of evidence out of necessity because that is the nature of what they do-- relying on sources they may not know well and documents they may not be able to verify-- this broader evidence is what we want to identity things like terrorist threats or actions by the Russians to interfere in our elections. The FBI which prosecutes people in criminal courts needs evidence which proves beyond a reasonable doubt-- this is what is needed to prosecute Trump campaign persons suspected of collusion.

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Arnold and Ronnie governed California...I'm concerned Trump may have a chance when I think of those two and their "get tough" campaigns. Is it the dumbing down?

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The folks that will suffer the most under Trump will be the "poorly educated" white folks that elected him. The rest of us have learned to survive 2nd class citizenship. This will be a new experience for them. Being poorly educated is not a good plan for the 21st century.

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Ask yourself, how much confidence do you have in our State Dept of Health.

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The trouble with the BC is that it's not even wrong. On its own terms it is unimpeachable. All of its answers are true and all of the questions important. Yet it fails at communicating the Gospel and at forming a conscience because it provides little hint of the thought behind the answers. It is no wonder that the generations formed by the Baltimore Catechism were defenseless against modernists and post-Christian moralistic therapeutic deism, so easily led astray by the charlatans who used "Vatican II" without reference to the council itself as an alibi to preach a different gospel, and unable to pass the faith on to the next generation. Let's not forget that everyone who made a mess of things in the 70s and 80s--from Dearden and Hunthausen down to bad CCD teachers--was formed before Vatican II!

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Could be. I wonder if his motivation will ever be made public.

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"The common meaning"? BS! He's a liar, you think he's great. So what? Go with the Big Cheetos bag of air. You could "bag it"! His misogyny, racism, predatory and deviant behavior, are well known yet, you follow him like he's the second coming. Depressing isn't it? Have a bowl of Driscolls organic strawberries, you'll be fine. Oh, but beware, the afla toxins are looking for you... :) Have a nice day!

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Do you also think a nuclear North Korea is a good thing? You might want to go read about North Korea's latest missile test and Siberian oil.

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You only wish, truly wake up !!!

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Your post is evidence for the need of an additional emoji 'Disgrace'

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Mr Trudeau is a feminist, and now we've all been educated to believe that military action is just primitive masculine testosterone-excess in action, that the only way to sort things out is via dialogue and accommodation. So I believe he has zero intention of ever involving Canada in any military activity of any kind, even in defense of the nation, so I predict he'll continue to defer and foot-drag until we all forget about this.

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IRT NamWan, fully agree with your post. The "Report" of January 2017 presented 7,220 homeless in the State; Hawaii 953, Maui 896, Kauai 412, and Oahu 4949. Where those numbers must be "0" zero. The numbers are based on the State and C&C Report. Truthfully, I believe they are not accurate. Auwe.

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There is certainly no question that there is one standard for Hillary and one for most everyone else. She is treated very differently. The rest of us would be in jail for what she has done. She slipped up and told the truth for once. Just sayin......

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Why not? I believe it's a perfectly good analogy, except maybe to people that think The Chump isn't a total idiot.

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Don't forget that government finances your Senior Citizen property tax exemption on the Kenai Peninsula. That will be going away soon and income taxes are coming. Will we then see the house up for sale you back to Oklahoma? Or perhaps back to Florida where you'd fit right in. Florida loves them some crazy.

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Maybe you could elaborate.

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Who?

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Harper basically did the same thing that made Chretien so successful: don't do much of anything at all. Just leave things as they are. Now we have an an activist government that wants to make things better. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes not. People like Wente are fanning the flames-but, you know what? If they get it wrong, we can change it back.

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"There will be many new facts that emerge ..." Well Tim....not really new....this was originally reported on Mar 8 of this year. Nearly 6 months ago. The same time the DOJ started their investigation of the FBI agents. - http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/03/oregon_standoff_fbi_lie_uncove.html#incart_maj-story-1 . And was really incidental to Finicums death. Finicum was shot and killed, as he reached for the gun in his pocket, by a Oregon State Trooper.

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They are more worried about protections for the "unborn", but don't give a damn about the already living people (including children) who will be harmed by this monstrosity. I am sick and tired of the bishops trying to turn their beliefs into law against the 1st amendment!

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Let the investigation play out then? No doubt the Teflon coated President Reagan shared your sentiments in regards to the investigations into Iran-Contra, Ill Wind, and the Wedtech scandals. Who knows? Why right now Robert Mueller could be spying on Mr. trump through his microwave oven!

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I don't know but it would have to be an improvement over a guaranteed government bailout which is the current case. There are other alternatives to CMHC mortgage insurance so let's get the government out of that business. And if you are worried about bailouts then increase the ratio of asset to risk that the banks must carry (sorry can't remember the proper term for that right now).

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I have a question concerning Mr. DeBernardo's statement about gay orientation being a gift from God. I'm not sure what grounds exist for such a statement. I'm certain he doesn't mean that the mere existence of any sexual orientation is a gift from God. Is he saying that there are people who are gay who love God, therefore their orientation must be a gift from God? That sounds like a generalization from one's own experience. I'm not sure any sexual orientation can be said to be a gift from God. I think the gift consists in the ability to put one's sexuality at the service of God's people, not in the orientation per se. In that view, the distinction would be between people who, regardless of orientation, attempt to make their lives sacraments of God's presence and those who do not. Am I missing something?

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Richard Johnson 693, Hawaii comes in at #21 when comparing state and local taxes in all states. https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-states-to-be-a-taxpayer/2416/#complete-rankings

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The blame for this mess sits at the feet of Obama and those before him. Thank goodness for Donald Trump, someone with ability to see this for what it is, a real and looming threat to the existence of mankind should the lunatics in NK start a nuclear war.

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This is just a strategically orchestrated manipulative effort by politicians at the Municipal, Provincial and Federal Level, the Canadian Media (Globe, Financial Post, CBC) and the Big 5 Banks to create fear and anxiety among home owners to list their homes. The underlying problem has ALWAYS been supply in the GTA - something that politicians at all levels accepted - and Wynne's housing affordability platform in April served its purpose of instilling anxiety in home owners/speculators to boost supply. If one took a snapshot of all the inv. available for sale in late March, there was only 3 weeks of inventory available for sale across the GTA - something the greedy banks undeniably would have known as eventually their mortgage business would have dried up completely. Fundamentally nothing has changed and nothing will change as long as sellers don't buy into this doom and gloom apocalypse propagated by the aforementioned parties above and greedy agents don't push sellers to list.

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No pervert like a religious pervert. Does this ordained Pentecostal pastor actually preach somewhere? Former PM Harper sure had a slew of sexual predators around him and owing him favours - from a pedophile drummer to various political appointees, including this senator.

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There is no way in heck I will ever believe anyone's property tax will go down. Rental/home ownership is getting harder to pay for, no wonder the "Mayor" is clueless why the homeless rate is so high. But let us waste money redoing a park in town that he already plowed a fountain into the dump. This is like the state widening the road near Indian instead of where the work is needed at McHugh Creek turn off where the skid marks in the road would give anyone who leaves the office a clue as to what is going on in the State/City.

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Almost every team has improved, the Broncos have gotten worse. FIRE VJ NOW!

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Sorry, Venezuelan's got themselves into this mess, let them stew little longer. China is on the hook for $80 Billions, and all the useful idiots said that the whole experiment was to show a "better way", so let them show it.

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Maybe not but.......... one would hope the country still does. Trump is just one deranged man, the country is still the same one would think.

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Good to have some with the cajones to expose the kabuki theater that is our legislature.

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This is the most truthful and accurate response I have ever seen on this matter.

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"I got nuthin' to say to him" - Myeshia Johnson, October 23, 2017

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"Interestingly Ontario Hydro was broken up (a policy ably supported by BOTH other political parties) because the private sector could do it better and cheaper than "at cost" Ontario Hydro." ---------- The breakup of Ontario Hydro has nothing to do with the private sector. The Ontario power related companies are all Government Legislated Monopoly Cartels. They have absolutely nothing to do with the private sector.

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Brooks, not Broder. Feeling old today . . .

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Give you lots of money and benefits ... oh, the horror

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Add to the meeting was Sec. of State Tillerson, who released a similar statement as NSA Dir. McMaster released, in that there were no secrets discussed with the Russians. Imua.

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The mid-east "balance of power" theory, which has provided arms to Islamic terrorists in Syria, comes from the same place as the Vietnam war "domino" theory does. The "containment" theory is what presently drives the US to run battleships through the Sea of China and the Black Sea. These theories, which are divorced from reality, are dreamed up by ideologues and think tanks to justify blatant aggression, and to support the arms merchants. Unfortunately, all these theories are leading the US to a nuclear confrontation. Psychotic neo-cons in the US gov. will continue to provide theories and bad guys to prove their theory of "First Strike Superiority" theory. I, for one, don't support their cruel, destructive theories.

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My original posting that I unintentionally deleted: "Hillary drew boos too. Plus, while she had an opportunity, she never apologized for her campaign's anti-Catholic remarks that leaked out a few days earlier."

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I don't see the County leasing part of its building to the City (now or in the future) as being a violation of the Skinner deed. Nor would I see the leasing of any of the Skinner donation area to the (now) state court system as being a violation. But I do see the county moving the Courthouse to the City hall block - outside the donated area - as a violation. And I do see the County selling the butterfly lot to the City as a violation. But if the City wants to lease the butterfly from the County, that might fly over the deed. You should be prepared for the judge to take a very narrow reading of the deed and conclude that so long as the county commissioners retain their offices in the County's Public Service Building - within the donated area - they are in compliance with the deed.

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Thank you Lynn--they can "walk away" today but not when Nov. comes.

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I think the dialogue needs to be open though. With abortion and gay marriage solidified in our country(its really not going to be reversed) We need a healthy discussion between people of true faith and non followers. Only positive communication can 1. Allow people to properly understand the true Catholic Church and be respectful of what they believe 2. Join or come back to the Church after it is seen in a positive light 3. Live in a real secular world where Catholics and Nones can actually live peacefully

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What about all the other examples Renzetti cites? Did Jo Cox deserve to die because she was a woman? You are the problem, buddy.

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More murders by Kim Jong Un : 2015 Choe Yong-san | Vice premier Why: Did not agree with Kim's forestation policy Date: May 2015 Method: Shot Unnamed official | Manager of turtle farm Why: During Kim's visit to the farm, the official attempted to explain why turtles had died, including power failures and lack of water and food. The official was executed " to set an example." Date: May 2015 Method: Shot Hyon Yong-chol | Defense minister Why: "Showed disloyalty to the leader" Date: April 2015 Method: Anti-aircraft gun Four unnamed musicians | North Korea's Unhasu Orchestra Why: Unknown; former colleagues of Kim's wife, Ri So-ju Date: March 2015 Method: Unknown Gen. Pyon In Son| Head of army operations Why: Corruption, failure to follow orders Date: February 2015 Method: Firing squad

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Can look at portraits of any Canadians that one finds admirable online for free at home or at the public library (if yours hasn't been closed down yet like the ones in Newfoundland and Labrador.) No national portrait gallery required.

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Please try to keep up with the current events there. You don't even make an attempt to argue what is actually happening?

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I know you abhor Walt, but Bud hasn't squeezed anything out of this talent beyond what Walt did with less. Black was soaring early on but has landed back on earth with a giant thud. It just goes to show that a manager's influence is less than advertised. Talent and team chemistry are well over 90% of the equation. The majority of the rest is execution, a skill that the Rox have failed to consistently hone under either manager.

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"In a time of universal deceit — telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - Authour unknown (and likely dead)

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After thirteen rounds of voting, it's clear that no candidate had anything like decent support. Cheer seems to have got the gig by being least offensive to the most members.

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and she voted for Obama ...TWICE! so everyone listen to what she thinks...Not! The difference JJ is that Hillary...and her records were under subpoena when she deleted them all and scrubbed her hard drive ...the woman is going to prison and if she is able to steal this election she will be impeached before she is sworn in

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Those other words are yours not hers. I reality she is running against entrenched politicians who haven't taken a stand for or against anything significant. Watch who opposes public campaign financing before saying the person who supports it is the problem.

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Wimp like Trudeau can not stand up for anything because he does not believe in anything. Thank god he was not head of this country in 1939. He probably would have paid the Nazis. Come to think of it his father use to go around Montreal wearing a Nazi helmet while our troops were over seas. See one traitor you have seem them all and the name is Trudeau.

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come on, thats as bad as the left people here insults, bill clinton was very gracious today as were all the former presidents.

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Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein are from Alberta? Your LEAP of logic is quite frankly, ludicrous. PS - your fans are censoring my replies, how NDP'ish

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His own interview where he stated WW II in Hungary was the best time of his life. So if he said it he must believe it. Several sources on web sites. Pissed me off so bad I sent a message to the War Crimes unit in DOJ. Their claim is he was only 14 and didn't know any better. I bet at 14 you had a pretty good idea what your actions were.

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Two small (nothing to do with physicality) men in expensive suits having a stupid squabble at the level their intelligence dictates. Aah, such statesmen they are!

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If anyone wonders what a Hawaiian government under the federal control of the U.S. would look like one need only look at the dishonorable, disgraceful acts of genocide, oppression and theft committed by the US government against the indigenous first nations people of America. But the comparison ends there because of the clear difference between the plight of indigenous Americans compared to Hawaiians. Indigenous Americans lived in tribes which claimed various areas of North America. They never unified as a single nation. Hawaiians were always unified as one people and one nation even despite the internecine conflicts among chiefs to establish dominance, conflicts which ended when Kamehameha the great unified all of the islands under his singular rule to establish the kingdom and nation of Hawai'i. The US NEVER legally annexed Hawai'i so it NEVER established legal authority or jurisdiction over Hawaii. The Kingdom of Hawai'i continues to exist as the ONLY lawful government of Hawai'i

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Most of the hillside is fine and just needs to use their LRSA money to clean existing ditches. There are a few problem spots like Rabbit Creek and Potter Marsh where they built in a drainage area near a creek or built too dense with too much concrete to allow drainage. Those areas can increase their districts mill rate and fix their problem. Why punish everyone.

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Mathematically and using their numbers the $50 per house would equal a cost of over $100 million per year. Yeah, I think the calculations for these thing swing in what ever argument is being made. I also have a truck. I am thinking I will offer my neighbors to haul their trash once a week for free. If I can do this for ten households I can save us $1,200 per year. In addition to this I can save the C&C $6,000 per year not picking up those bins. Yeah, I think their math is off somewhere.

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In Kevin's mind, yes. But a more self-centred man in Canada would be hard to find. It's true that most people underestimated his Southern counterpart, but I sincerely doubt the portly bald fellow will be able to garner more than a few dozen votes in la Belle province, meaning he hasn't got a snowball's chance in an Ottawa summer of carrying the election.....and that's only if the Conservative party is deluded enough to nominate him.

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Oregon could set up a GoFundMe account.

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""The four corners of the earth" is of course a metaphor, a figure of speech not to be taken literally." Er, then why did *EVERY* society in that region at that era state Earth is flat? Just how do you determine what was "meant" by ignorant sheep herders 2,360 years ago?

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Another Craigslist hookup. Wow. Amazing what people will do to get a little attention.

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Trump's "banter" is not the issue; it's the behavior he bragged about that is at issue. I believe that most people in the entertainment industry, like most people generally, are decent people; but some of them, enamored of money and power, think there are different rules for "stars." <<Your comments about a man raping his wife are flat out false, as there is precedent for husbands being convicted of forcibly raping their wives.>> I said at the time that Trump's first wife accused him of rape, a man could not legally rape his wife: at the time -- the 1970s, that was generally true, and it was the defense offered by Trump's spokesman. It is not true now. Here is a report about a Trump spokesman offering that defense as recently as last year: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/28/politics/donald-trump-adviser-michael-cohen-rape/

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No.. because crime in 2016 spikes as per all the articles is directly linked to the election... He started the hate mongering and dividing starting back in 2015 also... They even have multiple articles that link crimes in cities to the Trump Events ... it's not hard to see, when you place a person into leadership that demeans others and fosters retaliation, then people follow suit.

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Type "EV charging stations" in your search engine. Another hint: they're a lot smaller than a gas station.

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Don needs to go on a diet, like Chris Christie, both losers in a sense, and should be physically.

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As always, vested interest and big money overide decency and rational fairness. We live in a world drenched in violence and suffering, and even simple steps towards something only marginally better and less brutal, are resisted by those who profit from cruelty and inhumanity. Men, women, children, animals - it makes little difference to those who profit from violence and the pain of others. CFIA has a long history of aquiescense to big money players. Here is yet another nail in the credibility of our so called "public" servants. No wonder our society is falling apart.

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I still think I should have got a free fishing license when I renewed my drivers license this year. They should do something for us that went totally out of our way to register ourselves.

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What's the matter with torture? Every country does it.

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Vatican II is no more authoritative than any of the other Ecumenical Councils of the Church. It is not some kind of “supercouncil” and must not be interpreted with the disastrous heremenutic of rupture.

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Your last sentence leaves me speechless. Calling for excommunication isn't enough, you want a heavy dose of lysol as well?

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Surely this is not news to anyone. I'm a native and I could have said the same thing, at a much cheaper rate! But I guess it always takes someone from outside the problem to really drive the point home.

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These two events are not really equivalent at all. Intentions are key. I'm no apologist for US imperialism/exceptionalism but the US airstrike was not intended to kill civilians and they have taken responsibility. Assad's sarin attack on Khan Sheikhoun, on the other hand, manifestly was intended to kill civilians and the regime is desperately throwing up chaff and misinformation to evade accountability. Moreover, the bright line between the use of conventional weapons and the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons is not a contrived formality rendered meaningless because they both end up creating dead people. Turning a blind eye to the use of chemical weapons against international prohibitions is a very slippery slope that could lead to the normalization and proliferation of the strategic use of these weapons, which — unlike the use of high explosives — presents unique threats to civilization on a mass scale.

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When you're a politician, you have to go through the motions of attending church, etc in order to curry favor with the "god fearing" electorate and church bosses that tell their sheep how to vote. Look at our current POTUS...do you REALLY think he was a church attending, god loving "Christian" before he kow towed for the Religious Right's votes??? Too busy P * # * Y grabbing...

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High hydro rates are an outcome of bad decisions over the past 14 years. They can't be easily reversed as the government locked us into 20 year contracts. To cover up the mistakes, they have cut the provincial portion of the HST and are now promising a 25% reduction in hydro rates. They say that they are mortgaging borrowing costs over an additional 25 years. But the reality is, they will have to raise taxes, or borrow more than $1billion more per year to make up for the shortfall. By borrowing over an additional 25 years, the government is hoping that people don't understand that their children and grand children will be left with a large mortgage payment in the future - simply because the premier is trying to hide the true cost of their bad decisions.

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Maureen is easily influenced by movies.

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I wonder why a business would want to rent flooded land, in a floodplain, and possibly a wetland as well. Perhaps Mapunapuna could be the poster-person, for innovation, which is an early response to sea level rise. Surely innovation is not mere reductions in rents or leases? Would not innovation be a physical project to actually prevent this flooding? Holland has done it, we will need to be doing it. Mapunapuna is a great place to start because the area is confined, not impacted by irregular ocean wave patterns, and is not nearly as valuable as, say, Waikiki. Why not build walls around Mapunpuna to keep water out, add some solar powered pumps to pump out any water which creeps in, and construct modest bridges from Nimitz and possibly other streets to cross the flood walls? Rents might actually be increased in such a scenario. Downing is right on the money, by a mere lowering of rents, the risks to public health and safety will increase and not abide. Please, think big and long term.

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Stokey didn't want this information made public "during the race". The race is now over.

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And if professors and graduate students aren't buying these books, who is? It's not just the independent authors getting screwed here, it's the small presses. These professors and grad students seem to think that a small press exists to provide them with free books. How do they pay their staff and produce more books? And what is especially shocking about this story is that it was *not* just a "graduate student context": Professor Brown scanned these books and put them up on the world wide web: how did he think that was OK? For $15 books published last year by a small Canadian press? And as cecyl just pointed out, you don't need to buy 100 books to read 100 books a year. The university has a library. These students and professors just want everything free with a click of their mouse. They don't realize or don't care what it does to the "ecology" of books - libraries without patrons, small presses without customers.

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T-rump loves his dictators. Evidently so do you. I'm guessing you get your info from fox because the laughing stock of the West is about to become president of our country.

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Emmm ... remember you are a contributor to this site.

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“Right now, states have an opportunity and obligation to lead on a variety of issues, and Hawaii will continue to fight for the values that are important to our community,” My values as a taxpayer are as follows: State of the art schools, clean and safe parks, smooth roads, modern international airport, sidewalks I can actually walk on, a legislature that actually gets meaningful things done and the list goes on. Doing symbolic things to make as if politicians are doing a good job at some of the above is just diversion from what's severely failing in this state. Did I forget the under funded pension? Yes, a big hazard in the future for our kids and grand kids.

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Sorry but you have your "facts" wrong. None of those IEDs ever blew up a Canadian soldier. There's a huge amount of misinformation around this whole mess, please don't contribute to it.

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