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Thank you. Well Said. Will jobs come back if they leave? Why would companies move here? Who needs an education when there are no jobs to be found when you graduate? Especially in a shrinking economy.

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I was surprised that the route chosen took them further away from help if req'd. I'm pretty sure that a similar wilderness experience could have happend on one of the lakes closer to a safety post and not 2 lakes away. Condolences to the family.

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Anyone playing the “Chip Kelly and NCAA sanctions” cards as a way to rationalize the rapid decline in Oregon football is simply in denial and making a bunch of excuses. How did Oregon get to the National Championship Game in Helfrich’s second year as head coach and then two-years later plummet to LAST PLACE in the division? Sorry but the sanctions are not that bad. Helfrich is in his 4th year as head coach…these are HIS recruits; his coaching hires(promoting Lubick to OC when has never been an OC…hiring Hoke as DC when he has never been a DC); he chose the strategy of pursuing one and done graduate transfers for the QB position rather than develop the players HE and his staff recruited…it is his coaching style which allows players to decide whether to go for 1 or 2 points after a TD…the list goes on and on. When you have been at your job for 4-years and have taken a championship caliber team from elite to a “disaster”…YOU are the problem and far more so than "disappearing" veterans.

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I'm not so sure he would be the lesser evil in this case. Trump is ineffective, mostly because he knows nothing about how politics works and doesn't seem capable of learning. Pence has been in politics for years, and would probably be somewhat more effective. Pence is also a religious zealot, couple that with him understanding our political system, and we have someone who could lay the groundwork for many laws that some would see as a Christian version of Sharia Law. Personally, as much as it pains me to say it, I would rather we keep Trump as much of a buffoon as he is, rather than open the door to a religious zealot.

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Angry comments from the Antifa/alt left Marxists proves that we have the right President in place.

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But, but we don't want to arrest these people. We may damage their sense of worth or something.

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It may be for the "silent" rail crossings. This type of deception is a common practice by the city manager. If Lucy Vinis is elected as Eugene's next mayor, this nonsense will only continue.

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The ferry-question is stupid. Private enterprise should do it, not the state.

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More liberal projection.

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The day after the fracture, I had surgery. The day after that, I was having the pads soaking up the drainage from the incision changed once an hour, was receiving intravenous antibiotics, and was semi-conscious due to the painkillers. Three days after the surgery, I checked out of hospital against medical advice (the surgeon wanted me to stay another day or two). If you made it to court to represent a client the day after a compound fracture, that fracture must have been of a very minor bone. Further, your abilities as an advocate were certainly compromised either by pain or by pain killers; given that you could not possibly represent your client properly under those circumstances, pushing on was not only foolish but unethical.

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Check out this mortgage calculator: http://www.canadamortgage.com/calculators/amortization.cgi I put in an example of a 1,000,000 mortgage and left the default 3.7% mortgage rate and 25 year amortization. I selected weekly payments and it told me I would pay $1,175 per week for a total interest payment of $527,860 (see the field called Interest - Amortization.) I then selected biweekly payments and it told me I would pay $2,351 every two weeks for a total interest payment of $528,394. So yes, you pay *marginally* more in the second case.: $534 over the life of the mortgage. The economics of that can roughly be understood as the interest you would have to pay over 25 years on a loan of half the difference, since on average you will be running a principal balance in the second case which is higher by about half a weekly mortgage payment. So the difference is very close to $1,175/2*.037*25=$543. Not exact but it gives you a general sense of where the difference is coming from.

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Get out of the lawsuit and stop dragging your heals on adopting a responsible, well-thought out budget that preserves the delivery of essential public services and does not adopt taxes or raid the PF.

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Many years to Father Sosa! I had hoped that Pope Francis would have been elected. Then we would have had the black pope and white pope in the same person! (For whoever got my previous incarnation of this joke suppressed as in appropriate. You obviously are unaware of the old nickname for the General of the Jesuits was the "black pope", referring to his black cassock and the power that the Jesuits used to wield in the days before JPII. Of course the white pope was the occupier of the seat of Peter.)

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Do you have a problem with what I posted? I disagree with your irrelevant comment. Are you saying we could not have civilization with out taxes?

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The key to the Conservative Party crown is not alliances. It is not being a wing nut like the last gaggle of goons who destroyed the party. This comment box is to short to list all the names under the leadership of Harper who were criminally charged, investigated, or under the gun by their own appointed watchdogs. Governing takes integrity, and the previous government didn't even have the word in their vocabulary. Any prospective leader of the party needs to take a strong, principled stand against internal party corruption and vow to toss anyone showing a lack of integrity and values. Until that day, the CPC will remain in the doldrums.

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Division of Forestry says please be careful with sparks. Really that’s it, please be careful?? How about saying no fires and no fireworks. At some point taking a slacker dude attitude makes you a key instigator of the problem.

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judging from the photo it looks like they are starving.

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Another timber business gone. I would really like to know what the "unforeseen" circumstances for the loss of pulp supply were. I smell an upcoming litigation. The Clinton Forest Plan is still a cancer on our economy. The endless large wild land fires, with no reasonable fuel reduction plan in our future (no charcoal allowed in pulp, thus no residual chips from burned logs). Fewer and fewer mills, and less and less supply of wood chips for pulping. Undersize thinning logs going to whole log chipping for pulping, mostly from private lands. Early capital interruption logging philosophy captures fiber before any disease and rot appear as stands mature. Mostly, Oregon politicians pushed the limits of recycle to where too much non paper contamination caused rejection of garbage route collection recycle paper. Only in Oregon, U.S., can you demand more crap be in recycle to where NONE of it is salable. Big problems upcoming for landfills and siting. No China exports.

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I'm sure many of the critics would prefer the good old days where campaign financing came in envelopes that changed hands in Calgary boardrooms where the Oil Patch helpfully wrote British Columbia environmental legislation. That seems to be Ms. Hunter's view also.

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Of course, they don't play the national anthem at your workplace so your personal experience isn't applicable. The players aren't hired to salute the flag during the national anthem. I think Adam Gotsis, in particular, would be able to explain it well.

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The shooting occurred in Virginia, not DC! Once again, facts have very little meaning to those of you who insist on your delusions. NOBODY can defend themselves against an assault rifle with a hand gun! These weapons do not belong on our streets!

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I think he may be talking about illegal pitches, where the trailing foot of a pitcher must remain in contact with the ground until after the ball is released. The umpires rarely watch for this unless an opposing coach complains. Even then, the umps often cannot see it in real time. Some of the "best" pitchers gain a mechanical advantage by leaving the ground before releasing the ball and are simply allowed to do it. Other pitchers get called for it, which awards a base to the batter and all runners. White, having been an elite pitcher, can spot pitchers who leave the ground and often asks the umps to call it. Opposing coaches probably hate him for it. The fact is, the rule exists for a reason, but it is enforced rarely and unevenly, which is bad for the game. White makes a good point.

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I'm just asking what happened to the blockbuster Russian collusion story. You know, the one that was supposed to show Trump had rigged the election? Hardly mentioned anymore. Dumdadumdum!

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This seems like a constitutional crisis - impossible to find a neutral ruling party.

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The problem for users and for society is that if we further restrict access to regulated prescription opioids, users will be further compelled to buy from criminals FAR MORE DANGEROUS unregulated black market drugs of uncertain content, strength, and dosage. In contrast, users of prescription opioids are at much less risk of fatal ODs because they are receiving regulated, professionally manufactured drugs in standardized doses. Safer than being compelled to play ever more risky black-market-drugs-roulette. Prohibition laws, and ramping up restrictions on access only make opioids MORE, not less, dangerous. Prohibtion KILLS. End the failed, unjust, hypocritical, counter-productive war on darugs.

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. ADDICTED to Power, Money and Image. Until there is "Sustained", Unyielding Outside INTERVENTION, very little substantive change will materialize in any institution which has become wholly ADDICTED to Power, Money and Image(no matter how disillusioned that image may be). The rcc has all the glaring characteristics of a drug addict in desperate need of outside intervention. ***If left to its own devices, it will continue on its own downward spiral, as its has for the last 30 years, and the collateral damage(Innocent Children and your donations) will be at the bottom of an ash heap once known as the rcc. ...and I doubt history will have much empathy on how the rcc destoyed its self in nearly a blink of an eye. .

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I'm sad to read this. The folks working there are now going to be under additional stress worrying about thier jobs. And our local economy certainly would be impacted if a closure or reduction in force happens.

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lol

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They all want and need him there, as evidenced by all of them wanting him and the United States involvement in trade deals, NATO, and EU security. Whoops- there goes your narrative. What makes you feel worse: that President Trump is steadily and successfully coming through on all his campaign promises, that NATO countries are now saying they'll pay their fair share, that the Courts have upheld almost all of his executive actions, that there is still no evidence of Russian collusion, that Leftist journalists are finally getting professionally crucified for the lies they state--- what would you say, hmmm?

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So very true!

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The quote from Stevens is pretty much what I would expect from him, along with his oil soaked cronies in the majority. They are the epitome of spend, spend, and spend.

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So I would assume that Senzatela would be a bullpen guy going forward along with Chatwood...unless they want to start reducing innings for Freeland/Marquez and they can inter-change them.

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And your problem? I don't think you even read the piece.

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You were voted in by some retarded assholes to work for the people not to sit there and tell us what we will pay, get a grip or ship out to sea with Notley

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where did you see charismatic as a bundy trait? if he had been charismatic , his rag tag group would have received more than a barrel of lube from the "outside" when they called others "to arms". as far as an uprising goes - it was pathetic.

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Jesus Jonathan, you've squeezed a lot into that bottle, and taken the gloves off as well. A marvelous colour image. I'm on my way to Clicks to get some. Can I use your name to facilitate a discount? Thanks for the lol.

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They have become the racist party. Nobody with an ounce of morality could vote for the Conservative party. They make me sick, but thankfully they have no power in our country, which makes me very, very proud.

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Back in the last huge price increase of the 70's & hearing & watching the going's on as single family homes without basement apartments were the norm. Going to School with kids who had relatives in Europe who were looking for investment places around the world to park their cash. We watched as that Europe cash came here & was hidden from the gov't back then as locals bought homes for their European relatives. Real estate agents put in thousands of illegal apartments to help drive up the prices. We knew we would have little chance to afford a single family home without paying off a huge mortgage. Municipalities are partly to blame as well as they still today say there's 2 parking places per home but 1 of those includes the garage spot leaving no room for the basement apartment peeps except on the street. Commercial & Industrial lands are also a problem as Mom & Pop places are almost non existent these days compared to back then as well. This also caused the Mom latch key kid problem.

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They've all had a hand in it at one time or another.

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Trump made a big deal about calling extremists, most notably radical Islamists, by directly naming them. He condemned Obama and Hillary for not doing the same. Trump has condemned BLM in the past. http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2016/07/19/donald-trump-have-to-demand-law-and-order.html So we have evidence that he doesn't have problems condemning organizations based upon race. However, Trump has yet to condemn white supremacists. This event provides strong indication that he affirmatively avoids dong so.

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If Kenai doesn't want the sales of marijuana, they should be ineligible for any of the tax money. May their community suffer for it.

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Elise, As a female, I wouldn't waste my time with guns if I wanted to kill a lot of people fast. I'd use Kool-Aid and poison--like Mr. Jones, or any carrier solvent and poison in spray or pour form, or bacteria, in a pinch, sprayed on the vegetables in the supermarket. Back in the day, before Independence, the world was so much safer, except for in the cities. Back then, sovereignty ruled the day and if someone was overstepping their bounds, they got what they were asking for and it was okay. Today, the cities are nothing more than nested victims paying for someone else to kill and die for them, when the paid for killers are around. It's very dangerous in the cities. You are afraid of your own self and what you really are, so you want to buy the responsibility of protection instead of own it. You want to stop me from packing a fully automatic weapon of any sort, when I understand it as a tool with specific purposes of tending to my responsibilities of birth for self-protection.

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The complete fools bit is what scares me each day I read the news.

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Checked bags are subject to more scrutiny than carry ons....advanced electronic scanning and explosives testing.

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Can't be any worse than the senate we have now.

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Art, Please tell me that you really don't intend to say that the rise of incidents like that described in the article is Canada's fault because we haven't adopted sufficiently xenophobic immigration, border-entry and aggressive deportation policies and practices to match those assumed to apply in the US (I say assumed because there are many appeals to the courts in the US regarding the new, post-election measures in question).

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If you would have READ my response, which is based on experience and reality, you would have UNDERSTOOD that there are MYRIAD delaying tools that prosecutors have available and which they use with wanton frequency. It's cute, however, that you cite to the statute, yet you don't rely on the annotations and cited case law within the same statute. Since you can't, or won't, I'll just go ahead and do it for you. People V Guenther 740 P.2d 971 (1987) - procedural tolling allowed for newly proffered disclosures (sound familiar?) after erroneous finding of immunity 893 P.2d 107 (1995) People V Vega - tolling allowed while the people examine evidence proffered for an affirmative defense offered by Vega 946 P.2d 946 (1997) People V Gallegos - tolling allowed as the INTENT to appeal effectively counts towards the tolling prior to the states appeal, even when none is filed .... If I had more space, I'd keep going. See how your dishonesty (or inability) doesn't work. Facts v fiction - very :(

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Our election process was how the poor puppy got planked.

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teachers do not want to die because colonialism makes young indians violent. that guy at lac la roche learned the hard way but it is a lesson to desperate teachers - working at an indian school is dangerous.

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Should they also post warnings about not eating certain types of fish (ciguatera), not swimming in fresh water (leptospirosis), not eating raw meat or fish, not leaving food out for extended periods of time, etc., etc. Where does personal responsibility come into play? Personally I'd never leave a drink outside and then drink it 12 hours later. Nor would I buy anything from a roadside stand that wasn't cooked right in front of me. Common sense goes a long way.

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What a snowflake. Now I understand why Fox News viewers consistently demonstrate less knowledge of the world than viewers of other news sources.

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Nicely written Robert Roth and 1000% on the money. No one with a fully functioning brain and any critical thinking skills at all believes our governments latest BS about Russian hacking ...so far Julian Assange has not shown himself to be a liar and Obama et al certainly have

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SirJohn: "fivethirtyeight.com is Deep State fakes news" - No, the link I posted is just an average of polls from multiple sources. I'm amazed at the lengths to which you'll go to avoid the giant orange elephant in the room.

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I guess we have to keep disagreeing on minimum wages. As long as there are better paying jobs available, people will be motivated to do what they need to get those jobs. They shouldn't be forced to live in poverty until they are lucky enough to get one of those jobs. Many people already have the qualifications to work at non minimum wage jobs, but the wages for those jobs are kept unnaturally low because of the low minimum.

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It certainly doesn't take "experts" to make this determination. Just read the comments to the SA over the past 5 years. They say the same thing.

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Brokers should disclose their commission fees for pushing their products, then the public can decide if they are worth their salt. It has started a tiny bit in the financial industry and all these products are integrated.

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To serve, a very small prison sentence, for a very large quantity of drugs, highly suggests that he rolled over on all of his high level drug suppliers. His past criminal record alone, laid the foundation, for a long prison sentence. Most people, who commit personal income tax evasion, would serve a longer sentence.

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Boy, you know it must be bad when even an advertising executive is choking on the never-ending lies and misinformation.

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Republicans have a big problem. The energy czars -- Koch brothers -- who fund the republican cabel have completely convinced their gullible base that climate warming is a hoax for their own selfish purposes. Of course, everyone else in the world -- including most republicans -- realize that climate change is real and dangerous. But if republicans acknowledge the obvious, they have to admit that they have been deceiving their gullible base.

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Hey, all my trumpies. Let me grab my twitter, stroke it hard and blast you all with Goo Aid. Yeah even my lawyers and advisors who try to control my tweets. Open wide, y'all.......here comes another hot tweet. I'M THE KING OF THE WORLD!!!!!#

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Agree. It seems to me God is a life force obscurely active in human affairs. I shaded to religion because of ecstatic religious experience, but maybe it was just crazytown!

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Spreading information - when it's accurate information, like this is - means spreading facts. Sounds like a good thing.

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Fox News? LOL

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Civil war? Oh, stop it. The people who are always calling for civil war have never been in or known someone who has survived a civil war. Do you really want firefights in your neighborhood? Do you really want firebombs and IEDs in your neighborhood? Do you really want dead women, men, and children in your neighborhood? Take a look at the images of destruction in Syria, of the maimed and tattered children, of piles of rubble and dust where neighborhoods used to be and ask yourself if that's what you want here.

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sorry, not part of the 1%. I can't relate to this

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Dave, you should realize that this movement is an attempt to castrate the Electoral College. It is a hack; a bad solution to a real problem. Unfortunately because the Electoral College is so entrenched in our system, there is no good way to dig it out. This is why I support this effort, while holding my nose.

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4 murderers are on the loose..... They will comit other crimes & end up back in jail where they belong.....

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Please tell us how not being able to be identified by your name is something "trivial."

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They should also know not to roofy women. Oh wait, is Cosby not relevant here? Yeah, just as irrelevant as Bill. Anything else you want to bring up that's completely irrelevant to the President's behavior?

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"You've repeated the above more-or-less word for word and maybe to excess." Fair enough but, no. Each repetition of "the above" has been a response to an invocations of those gentlemen by commentators. It is only as repetitive and excessive as that which it addresses. Of course, they're still relevant - but, far from the daily doses they were in the 90's. My intent was to point out that their names are not in the news often these days and - more to the point - to my knowledge the names Sharpton or Jackson have NEVER appeared in any of the stories under which they've been dropped. Never. A challenge to back up statements with cites is also fair. I don't have the energy to go through months of archives and the comments under them so I'l retract that one for now. But, have you really not noticed differences in (or the absence of) commentary under stories about blacks vs whites? That being said... No more cracks about my age, please. That hurt.

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$75,000 split between two people doesn't seem like anyone getting rich off of this. I'm sure if Rick counted up all the hours he spent on this he would be far below the minimum wage. Give him a chance, or better yet support to put this project together. Its the least we can do for our homeless vets.

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T: Great answer, really moves the conversation along. Thanks for playing. If you ever get a clue as to a better response have at it. Until then keep up the personal attacks it keeps you so big and important in the eyes of your children.

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I am very proud of my son!

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What about all the workers that are left permantly disabled and pay a pitance and then forgotten?

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As I said, they need to pull up their britches and get a job.

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BINGO!!! Show me a rural area, I'll show you one FILTHY with AG subsidies, inclusive of road, irrigation/dams, power grids, etc ALL built SOCIALLY by us ALL ... you did it on your own??!! BULLPUCKY!!!

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Lippy...related to councilman Ron Manure??

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Idk about pot in the "old days..." but the super, rocket fueled weed of today's crazy kids... let's just say it makes you random combinations of hungry, horny and tired... pot is probably very different, now, but apparently it still sends everyone into homicidal rages #reeferMadness

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Congratulations, and thank you to Jim Gottstein. You did Alaskans a real service by standing against the corrupt act that resulted in this sole source lease to a Republican party insider. Please consider running for office. Please. We desperately need good people in the legislature! Thank you to Judge McKay for following the law! To Mike Hawker: Resign. You are incompetent, and broke the law.

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Not a research Institute?

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Actually, what Jesus said here (John 10: 26) is: "You do not believe because you are not my sheep." Besides inverting the phraseology, you have also inverted the meaning of the message, the better to fit your polemic. But your polemic does not fit this passage, and is also at odds with Jesus' Bread of Life discourse (see John 6:36-39).

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It's far past time for top execs to be jailed for atrocities like this one.

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Women should be do their traditional jobs of Wife, Mother, sister, auntie, grandmother, home maker etc. ~ That would be the first step.

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This is awesome. I used to work at a bar in Texas where they served 69 beers on tap. This is even more impressive. I'll probably apply for a serving job here when they open ;)

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The bikes were provided at no cost to the children. And along with the bikes, lessons on how to care for them and how to be safe. Not free certainly.....at some substantial work by people that are willing to get paid by living in a better world.

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Where's Donkel?

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I think it depends on the personality type. I, like the author, am easily bothered by injustice and frequently have to rein my ego in from frantically solving everyone's problems all the time. For me, the article was very meditative and centering, reminding me that God, not I, am the Source of all good and justice. However, there are other personality types that are much more laid back, avoidant of conflict and not bothered easily enough, for whom an article like this is a poison pill. We must apply the correct remedy to the correct diagnosis and your meditation is better for the latter group.

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Sentiment against muslims is higher in Quebec, than any other province. This issue should not have been left for a referendum. There are catholic, protestant and jewish cemeteries. Whats wrong with having a muslim one? It does not force others to conform to muslim beliefs etc.

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Posted by the #1 Laugh troll ever.

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Jason Kenney will continue the politics & fiscal malfeasance (since Lougheed) that got Alberta into problems in the first place. He is not the answer to our problems. Will he be the next premier? Not if Albertans are awake.

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He is a natural. Born to be a football player and coach.

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See R v Sharp.

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You are wrong and if you can not admit you are weaker then the drug then you will forever underestimate it. You can not control it if you use it.

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RG: "Eventually she determined that Eugene attorney Greg Hunt was the trustee for the Maxine M. Childers Special Needs trust, and in May 2015 she sent him a letter explaining the problem. Hunt called her and said he would take care of it, she said. “Well, that didn’t happen,” Burgess said. “I didn’t hear back from him.” Hunt did not return multiple requests for comment from The Register-Guard."...**** attorney greg allen hunt, specialize in Divorce, Family Law, Lifetime Services (?) and Adoption. office in or next to the Oakway Center (as per google/facebook) . his "lifetime services" seem to include a lot of fitness places, personal coaching and an adoption site - as per his facebook page which one is directed to. also of note...Hunt's wife at the time, in 1994 was murdered by another attorney, in their springfield home - a mother who left 11 kids, 10 adopted... +++the rest of this story may be surprising...

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A hopeful development. Is the Senate bill Okaying PFD restructuring still alive or does it die with the session?

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Regardless of whether Scheer was the wrong choice, Bernier was completely out of the question. Canadians are not (thank God) Libertarians.

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Chill out ThirdRock, your middle aged bias against intelligent young females is showing...

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No, flinging his feces about: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WdEiCGyLlGk

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Rockchalk In reading (and rereading) his article, there's something really troubling to me. In the article, Gustafson talks about the "four significant dimensions to recovery." They are External Accountability (conviction, in his case), Internal Responsibility (it's not the victim's fault), Therapy, and finally internalizing all this to change oneself. Note that the entire focus here is on the abuser's recovery. Note also that this "conclusion" by Gustafson comes from the help provided him, presumably with significant church guidance and funding. The missing part here is doing anything for the victim. Is that not a basic tenet of AA, or other similar programs? I can't get this thought out of my mind: this guy has been rehabbed, and has a story to tell, likely with episcopal support. Where is the commitment to a life to support victims? I may well be missing some obvious stuff here, but as I read that article, the words sterile or "packaged" come to mind.

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Speak for yourself Kevin Matthews.

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