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Ubiquitous Knowledge Processing Lab 28

' The legislature could address lies on an application. Simply enact a state law providing for penalties. .

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What better time to protest than when all eyes are on you?

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IRT - Peter - Your suggestion about involving China was tried by all previous presidents and now has been enacted by this president. Trump now has China threatening NK through the banking system. CHECK

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Looks like most of these products will be manufactured offshore, with the notable exception of Roots who have always done at least some Canadian manufacturing. The term "designed in Canada" leaves the credulous with the impression that this obviates the need to actually manufacture the products here. It would be best if purchasers confined themselves to buying those products that are manufactured in Canada. This is the best way to express both pride in and support of Canada.

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The Boss's post contained the truth, not strawmen. And I'm happy to recognize and agree with a good post when I see one.

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"I'm guessing"...you say, Doug, and you may be accurate. However, I'm guessing that, like you, Joly's advisors--like the advisors of other cabinet ministers and the PM himself--tried to put her "In positions where they can succeed or have a chance of success..." and she thought she knew better, and wouldn't--or couldn't--follow advice. I was a consultant for too many years to think otherwise. You're only as good as your client, employee, or, in this case, minister allows you to be. As one client once told me in frustration, "Why are you always so negative??" Well, I was a worst-case scenario kind of guy in my day. Hunch there's a lot of head-shaking going on up on Parliament Hill these days.

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Illegal immigration (also involving DACA or 'Dreamers' who can and are achieving lawful residency via a cheat-style loophole) vs. lawful immigration (also involving Immigrants, or migrants who achieve lawful residency while applying for and then patiently waiting in the admittance line, while in their home countries.)

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maybe if liquor was actually STOPPED before getting to the villages that would eliminate the vast majority of problems

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Isn't a family center catechesis what has held Judaism together through all its travails? The RCC has focused on getting to mass weekly, under pain of mortal sin, as its primary catechesis, a "theology" of fear. That approach is being ditched as the RCC continues to hemorrhage members. Give it a try when all else has failed to sustain members.

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Moreover, he wasn't simply shooting towards the employee, he actually DID shoot the employee, twice.

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There is no evidence linking Trump campaign to Russia... can the press stop with this boring non-story?? or show us some real evidence and not random hypothetical. Media and democrats are just creating a false narrative to undermine Trump.

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May announced tougher prison sentences for those engaged in terrorism. They still don't get it, do they? These maniacs are on suicide missions, prison means nothing and consequences don't get in the way of their ideology. Get them out of your country and don't let any more enter.

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I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Because homeless people litter, you shouldn't have to cover the load of trash you're hauling to the dump in your pickup? If they're going to litter, you should be able to litter too? We've been cleaning up the homeless camps for years, and evicting the homeless from them, so I'm not sure what else you think we could be doing, or why that perpetual issue should keep us from making progress in other areas. And perhaps most importantly, none of this has anything to do with reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

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Yes, I'd say throwing in such things as "gender equality" into trade talks (What exactly is supposed to happen with that after the trade talks conclude?) is largely irrelevant to what the talks are supposed to be about. "Unions" though? I thought the Americans were keen on upping labour standards in Mexico. And if Canada had wishy-washingly half agreed with the American demands, Harper would undoubtedly be criticizing them for 'caving in'. And, sure, why not abandon Mexico and try and cut a two-way deal? I'm sure (as Trump has remarked) the Americans would love to have two bilateral sets of negotiations rather than 3 way negotiations. Harper's comments don't suggest to me he'd do any better at negotiations. And remember, this is the guy who locked himself in a washroom on a state visit to Brazil because he wasn't being received in the style he felt he should be. How well did that work out, Mr. Harper?

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Why are you so giddy about going back to the Bush years of 2004 to 2008? Trump is even stupider than W, if you can believe that!

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Or better yet, why not just take a bunch of gasoline and burn down the other Italian restaurant? Why don't business owners do that? Why do we assume that business owners are inclined to be crooked? It is rare that business owners act intentionally malicious to their competition, but even the best intentioned business owners will have a customer who they have a legitimate and healthy disagreement with. You DO run the risk of being accountable, if you didn't eat there. I think that 'competitor-defamation' is some sort of a bogeyman that got invented for people who can't imagine there's someone who would disagree with them. Although please change my mind: Have there been legitimate proven case of competitor defamation? You hear about companies going after customers all the time, but have they ever found out it was the competition? I'm actually quite curious.

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You don't have to hold your tongue. Say, "Merry Christmas!" Put whatever God you like in the Pledge. That's what freedom is about! Just don't try to take this individual freedom of expression and twist it to mean you should be able to coerce others to say it.

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Please dont bring the kook Djou in this for everyones sake. He blew it last time.

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Interesting. Off gas like that often has varying BTUs so may have to reform it.

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Mr. Medaille: Well played, Sir. regards, Gary Crum

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If you identify yourself as "black" but are in fact not perfectly African black then don't be surprised .... And you are the one perceiving yourself as being blacker than black ...

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Or, the alternative theory is that investors are profit-taking. I'm no fan of Trump, but I think financial writers are putting too much emphasis on his inept performance yesterday and the market.

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My God, My God, Why have you abandoned me! is the key to our understanding of Good Friday and Holy Week. The key is why he said it. Was he simply fulfilling Psalm 22 like an actor repeating his lines? I used to think that, but that view makes the passion a sterile ritual. Was Jesus complaining about his lot? If so, he is fighting back against St. Anselm’s punishing God and being a bit of a cry baby. No, his feelings of despair must be real, because their purpose was to feel what we feel when apart from God by sin and blame. The clue to their reality comes in John’s Gospel, when toward the end he gives his mother, who first told him of his divine origins, unto John’s care, telling her he was dead to her and thus giving up that story, and at the same time giving up his mission to save the world by commissioning John (or Lararus) to care for Mary, not baptize the world. His entire psyche being shattered, he calls out to God in despair, just as we do.

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The "small adjustment" you refer to takes Lithia Motors' tax bill from a maximum of $100,000 to $30 - $40 million as reported in the Register Guard, an amount almost equal to their total profits. Measure 97 is extreme in the amount of tax increase it would impose. Why couldn't the authors have come up with something even slightly more moderate? Why go for the whole loaf (or loaves) or nothing? Now their credibility is on the line. If Measure 97 fails, they will have great difficulty coming back in the future with another Measure, which is a shame because the need is there.

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We need to clean up our towns, transients are running wild and its not cool, lets make colorado great again!😎

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Dogs are highly intelligent. The majority of stock are not. The only exception that comes to kind are pigs. More important is the incredibly abusive practices carried out in these countries. Some insist that forcing the other dogs to witness the killing and butchering improved the quality of the meat. And then there's the trade of slaughtering not just cats but kittens specifically for fur. They aren't killed before being skinned. Eating an animal is eating an animal but theirs a lot to be said about how a given culture treats the animals it uses as livestock. There's even been a shift in attitude in some Asian cultures.

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(cont) However, I think I do "understand" it and, quite likely, had I been Black and been treated badly because of it, I would have some of that "Black racism" myself.....As I say, life is not (pardon the irony) all "black and white." I also try to understand the nastiness of someone like GBA and wonder, "geez, what happened to this guy to make him so angry and nasty?" I taught/counseled 28 years with dysfunctional adolescents....so I always wonder "just why" folks are who they are.... Hope this makes sense. regards, Gary Crum

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Of course, don't people know the Park Service is above the law?

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Four hundred million at a minimum they say. Let's triple that right off the bat. And, most of that will go to prop up PERS. What, me cynical? Guess I've been around too long.

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. Rochdale68 writes: "Yes from a person who supports the leap manifesto , what a joke!!!" -- How would you know if I supported the "Leap Manifesto" or not? I've never commented on it here, or anywhere for that matter. This is the sort of post-with-zero-basis-in-fact that is standard fare with you, that makes it so challenging to take your posts as credible. .

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You forgot the $30 billion deficit and troops on the ground replacing fighter jets. The 25,000 refugees?? How are they managing? Terrible.

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Neither the KKKlowns nor the opposition probably know as much about that state's history as you do.

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If you look at Craigslist ads for college educated technical work the pay is most cases is in the $15 to $19 range. When you have student debt, few people can live on these wages without running into financial trouble. Minimum wage of $15 is a must.

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Our #FakeHero president is an insult to our Founders https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-fakehero-president-is-an-insult-to-our-founders/2017/07/03/c0bc0402-6024-11e7-a4f7-af34fc1d9d39_story.html?utm_term=.b5ea4bc25621 We have a president who neither understands nor respects the basic norms of American democracy. Make no mistake: Donald Trump is a true aberration. There is no figure like him in U.S. history, for which we should be thankful. Trump’s inexperience is unique; he is the only president never to have served in government or the military. This weakness is exponentially compounded by his ignorance of both policy and process, his lack of curiosity, his inability to focus and his tremendous insecurity. He refuses to acknowledge his shortcomings, let alone come to terms with them; and he desperately craves the kind of sycophantic adulation that George Washington, a genuine hero, pointedly rejected. Read the whole thing….

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Every time Mr. Lampert and his allies boasted about "unlocking shareholder value" it was a warning that the company would be pillaged of its assets as fast as these could be turned into cash. Sears Canada might not have survived the transition from bricks and mortar to e-retailing, but with the owners sucking out the money rather than reinvesting in the business, it hadn't a chance. .

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Native politics is tough. Very painful because misgivings and goings-on occur within close proximity. "You can take a boy out of the village, but you can't take the village out of the boy." -Anonymous Alaskan Native

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If heresy exists McCarthy is its patron saint.

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Scheer was elected as every conservatives second choice. They deserve what they got - a grey little man with not an original thought behind his dull persona.

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Mr. Chan's very eloquent address some weeks ago in the H of C has, for all intents and purposes, fallen on deaf ears.

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Zimbabwe is what happens when your leaders drive away capital. Mugabe has turned the former Bread Basket of Africa into a basket case by telling capital it is neither safe nor welcome in his country. In his pathological antipathy to capitalism he cannot even abide the tiniest examples of free market economics, the street vendors, which he orders driven off and beaten by his goons.

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You sir seem to be obsessed with someone, do you see this person in your dreams?

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Might as well get the same fake pay day as the cops.

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Jo is 100% correct. You obviously take the words as factual of those who tell you otherwise. As long as that's the case, I'd be careful labeling anyone about having an intellectual deficit if I were you.

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m: Try to focus. This article is not about Medicare.

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It is estimated that 47% of the condos in downtown Richmond are sold and empty. Many other areas of metro Vancouver, like Cambie and Marine, are 25% sold and vacant. Speculation? A safety deposit box for overseas money?

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Has Mr. Sullivan ever had kids in Alaska public schools?

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It's a wonder law enforcement didn't clear these armed violent Republicans at the first act of violence. I just watched some television footage from earlier in the day (maybe 10am Denver time) and violence was already occurring in the park where this seditionist statute is located and even then the network anchors were asking their correspondents whether law enforcement was just off camera or what, and the answer came back: law enforcement is nowhere in sight.

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Clear solution. All refugee claimants must be processed at recognized entry points. All illegal migrants who cross elsewhere must be transported to these points and then processed. Since the US is a safe country the vast majority will be turned over to the US. End of story.

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You don't get to keep the money after you rob the bank. Whale should be confiscated to deter future infractions.

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Internal memo just means memo circulating on the local network. Any employee can access it from home, and he could have easily written it at home, and emailed it in. Actually I do that every day at work.

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Your whole post fails when you give Chong a pass. How many times did he vote for horrible Harper legislation? Every time.

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Actually, the Episcopalians I know are doing just great, thanks!

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H-1B may be a good thing. But the article does not mention that workers on this program can also bring along their families and relatives. These additional people in turn also take jobs away from ordinary Americans. Here in Austin, Texas, generations of Asian Indians dominate communities that people give names after places in India. All this while UT graduates thousands every year in the high tech field.

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"Real Women" are actually using their "Christian values" to justify the imprisonment and discrimination of LGBTQ people? And they wonder why their brand of religion gets so much criticism these days. As a gay man, an apology would certainly go a long way toward acknowledging the past wrongs of our society, but it should also be accompanied by greater action to combat homophobia, bullying and ongoing discrimination. Strengthening the Human Rights Commission and giving it a more expanded authority would be a good first start, as would bringing back the Court Challenges Program that the conservatives shamefully abolished.

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Um, are you serious or kidding, re this, voter registrations? "Noone[sic] is able to keep that info out of Putin's hands once it's turned over."

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He's a politician who is being accused constantly of not winning the election fairly. I think other people need to move on first. He is responding to the non stop whining of the sore losers. Not sure where exactly he is not doing his job.

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Awesome story and family.

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Are you referring to our president? You're probably one of the many who cried "Racism"! when anyone criticized Obama's policies.

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Trump-bots outnumber informed objective commentators on the boards today. They must have been expecting more vocal condemnation of Sessions, Trump, and the sordid swamp they are mired in. The swamp that was supposed to be cleaned up, but that Trump repurposed as a spa. I didn't watch the testimony, but it seems to have played out just as I would have expected. Sessions fumed with faux-indignation, and would refuse to answer any questions that didn't give him the opportunity to slip in a slight against Comey. The investigative panel seems to have been rather impatient with Sessions, clearly sensing the mendacity and duplicity in his responses. It sounds like Sessions fumbled a little too much, and protested a little too much, about his role and rationale for firing Comey. It is simply inconceivable that Comey's firing would be linked to the Clinton email investigation, at this time, by the Trump administration or anyone in it. Sessions did not provide an acceptable answer. Period.

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Um, no...

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Did you really think it was going to be different. This is Africa where it is the same old. South Africa is the same.

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If enough people with guns say it does exist , it is inherent enough to outlast you! And trust me, in the United States there are enough people with guns to enforce and retain the 2nd Amendment! Watch the gun sales go up after every Pelosi speech on the subject!

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"Her ancestors were indentured labourers who were brought as semi-slaves to the West Indies" ------------------------------------------------------------ You mean just like many Irish?

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Actually I would be implying, you would be inferring. ; ) And you missed the "...as opposed to..." I was pointing out the only time you can, in fact -must-, use a lock for which only you have the key is when you have a checked firearm in your luggage. Which is why some folks checking expensive or irreplaceable items check a flare gun, it lets them use their own lock -rather than- a TSA lock for which keys are available to any yahoo.

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Hey Miss Taylor, relax, he's a comedian. Just relax. Everybody is offended these days.

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Traitor. Richardson has no hope of winning our riding. It would be fun to deride him mercilessly for supporting our vacuous idiot of PM.

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Finally, some common sense. I know a number of people, otherwise sensible, who have many "alternative" therapists, including some that are pure voodoo. People who believe in this nonsense are also prone to believe "fake news" (and propaganda, a la Joseph Goebbels).

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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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He did offer a solution. If you are so concerned about the environment and "climate change", don't use air conditioning, don't eat meat, don't own a dog. By the way, I have debated numerous climate change advocates - none of them have integrated solar, wind, geothermal, etc. systems. Very few have taken advantage of offers by utilities to do a home audit and provide a list of steps that can be done to make a home more energy efficient. Most have done nothing to make their home or offices more energy efficient such as replacing all bulbs with LED, adding insulation, more energy efficient appliances, etc. Most, but not all of the climate change advocates, don't drive electric cars. Most climate change advocates are complete hypocrites.

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Did you notice how Republicans had no replacement plan in place and cobbled this turd together practically over night? It's a shame that Republicans put all their efforts over the last seven years into deriding the ACA (Obamacare!!!) and trying to wreck it instead of putting forth a good faith effort to craft something beneficial to Americans. Instead, Republicans put all their energy into scoring cheap, meaningless political points with the Palin-American wing of their constituency. Welp, that's the Party of No for you.

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Actually, the CCC quotes Vatican 2 a LOT.

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Where can the tickets be purchased? This is the first time I have heard of this and I get the digital paper everyday.

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Hopefully the officer gave him something to remember him by....

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I think issue is " POLITICAL CORRECTNESS " ...and not just media but most of our so called " leaders " are so busy trying to be politically correct they cannot see the real issues .

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OMG, a FORMER Eugene man!

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Let me get this straight. Our elected government is entangled in 2 criminal trials and has saddled us with a $300B+ debt, and you are worried that P. Brown has sullied Kathy's reputation? I say her notoriety was in full view long before P. Brown's comments, as evidenced by her tanking personal poll numbers.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/05/17/trump-pledges-to-build-coast-guard-icebreakers-but-its-unclear-how-different-his-plan-is-than-obamas/

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DeFazio is the reason we need term limits...my god, what exactly has he accomplished in decades of service?...decades btw...decades.

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You asked me for the definition of hearsay and claim, as you said I did not know them. Wrong. I do. So I posted the definitions for you. Again. I made my point. Thus far no one has come up with proof-only "she said"...and so what. Trump can and is saying "I said" - which carries the exact same weight as the "she said" claim. Until anyone can provide a recording, or a text message, or SOMETHING that proves this is what President Trump said, it is a 'claim via hearsay.' Moving right along now. When proof comes out, please do supply it.

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...it's probably going to have the same value as a polygraph test; not admissible in court.

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They've been doing their work on the bill in secret, so you are mistaken. Now they have released it, we know why. It's nice you have so much money the bill won't affect you adversely, and are so sure you will always have health care.

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I have anger issues of my own about the high percentage of eligible voter millennials who didn't vote and have now taken to the streets to protest the election results. Apparently this phenomenon has been well documented. If you don't express your anger in the voting booth you have no right to express your anger in the streets while disrupting everyone else. It's too little, too late.

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This would at least eliminate the canard that the USCCB is not "endorsing" any candidates. As soon as the edict is passed down that our clergy must sing the praises of the local Republicans the collection plate will begin to dry up. I will likely "forget" to bring my weekly offering envelop and I doubt I'll be alone.

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Who is acting like a bully? Our President is arguably the most powerful person in the world, in command of one of the strongest militaries in the world. CNN is a media outlet. CNN can toss words and pictures. The POTUS can toss the full weight of government power. Now, let's see, who is acting like a bully?

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Here's the kind of "Peace" Ben-Gurion and his followers envisioned when they prepared to invade the region in 1948. His words, not mine: "We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai." David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff--from "Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978" Now be honest, what kind of "peace" can be negotiated with such a nation? None, as neither the peace of the grave nor the peace of the slave are acceptable options. Khalas.

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His rise lives matter.

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Two years ago, the project was green lighted, social justice warriors appear and the pipeline becomes a national and environmental crisis.

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It is ALL about politics; if a Democrat had wrote a letter on behalf of a constituent that is part of a large and influential family and clan in Southeast Alaska, you'd have never heard a word about it.

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Sam, pedophilia IS both a sin and a crime. That statement is what puts the institutional church's response in such a horrific light. The failure of the bishops to provide a strong system of accountability within the church, placed into question all of the church's teachings on Justice, on compassion, and perhaps all, the very concept of bishops as shepherds. That internal failure was an abandonment of the higher moral path preached by the church, leaving justice and accountability at the much lower bar set by secular law. If that alone weren't bad enough, they then fought against even that lower bar at every level... A key phrase in what you said was "the church... doesn't seem to want to fit..." This response was and CONTINUES to be a choice. A choice that troubles and corrodes. Kieran's point focuses in on one in a long string of choices bishops and pope's made, and continue to make. I don't feel to bad for Francis: he HAS choices and options. He's not using them.

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Shoot my dog if he is charging you with teeth bared ! The home owner is 100% wrong blaming Mr. Mellerstig for shooting his dog when he charged at him with teeth bared. Mr. Brailey is negligent having an invisible fence- which is INVISIBLE to someone walking by- all they see is the threat of a charging snarling dog. His body was half outside the property line so that tells you it did NOT stop him. I have 2 huge black dogs inside a fence with 6 ft. gates. They will bark and run the fence to let you know they are standing their ground. If one were to get out and charge at you barking I would not blame you if you shot him. If you had a child with you, I would be remorseful that my dog caused you to fear for your child. To the people that get so bent out of shape over a dog being shot- what would you do if a MOOSE were charging you and your child with his head down, ears back- no doubt what his attempt was-to mow you down and stomp you. You would shoot him...would you not ?

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The so-called leaders of the state are so misguided it's insane. All I hear is about how we need to get more tourists more tourists. But yet the roads are crumbling beach parks are a disgrace, traffic is to the hilt but nothing is being done about any of this. and our reefs are dying that's fine let's just keep bringing in the money.

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Oh the irony: the most expensive vehicle suggested (Audi A3) is one of the least reliable in this list...after the Mini! Stay away.

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Your entire reply is predicated on something I never said or even implied.

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What can you say?……ANC first and foremost example of good governance…..

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The media hates Trump to the tune of over $1 Billion in free publicity.

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This is an attack by a Demofascist. Just as Las Vegas was.

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Thy Neighbor, So, when facts fail your arguments then as a defense you make wild generalizations to support your position? I don't recall any comment on these pages suggesting that "teachers are lazy, overpaid slackers who are only interested in having summers off." But I do take umbrage when a teacher in a public forum asserts that conditions are are so oppressive that teachers have "too little available energy to try and continue to solve the troubles of Anchorage schools - -." Really? Fundamentally teaching is not a difficult job. Teachers are well paid, have great benefits with more time off than other working people. That's the nature of the job and so be it. But when you, the teachers union and some teachers make out that teaching is a special calling that only a few can satisfy that is nonsense. The public is not out of touch, especially when the public you mock pays the bills and has to deal with graduating students whom only about 50% are competent in English and math.

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Why not cut first- and now?

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She's just emulating your Russia-Loving Lord and Master. Why so upset?

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I agree that the costs is a pointless discussion. Equally frivolous is your assertion that we should bill England. Also, most Native Alaskans in Western & Northern Alaska where nomadic and moved every couple years as food resources changed. So without Sir Barrows expedition there is a chance Barrow would not even exist today as we know it. Just sayin.

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