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Basic logic, Rich: drugs are ALREADY highly available to those who are "hopelessly addicted"; that's how they became "hopelessly addicted". For those people, the only difference under legalization is that their drug supply would be pure and of known strength -- there'd be no risk of dying from adulterated or unexpectedly strong product. (And yes, that's how most people overdose currently.) Nobody is suggesting that legalized drugs be provided for free, by the way. Users currently pay extortionate rates for substances that can be produced pure and in quantity in a pharmaceutical lab for pennies a dose. They'd still be paying, only less -- and the impoverished among them would be able to buy food and pay rent as well. Unlike today. As for cost, AGAIN -- you can't talk about expenses under legalization as though they'd be over-and-above what taxpayers are already laying out to support prohibition, which is enormous.

I'd like to see more of her platform, but so far so good. Something's gotta give other than staying home after midnight.

Really, Rogue? You are just upset because racist Republicans took a pounding at the election booth on Tuesday.

Not a good idea to ignore voters! My question would be: "How does a progressive state like Maine get a republican governor?" The people obviously voted, but he didn't ignore that vote, did he?

There is nothing wrong with defending an innocent man and political accusations are the worst form of “evidence”. A true pedofile or molester cannot control their impulses and have the highest recidivism rates amongst all criminals. According to all his “accusers” he stopped when asked and besides petting and kissing there was absolutely no sexual penetration nor forcible attempts made. I do not defend his actions as an adult 40 years ago but they were not the actions of the classic pedofile. His marriage and fidelity are not the pattern of the deviant you describe. This is a typical political smear. I mock the lefts hypocrisy as they call their political opponents hypocrites.

One of your own , Degrasse-Tyson, who is most likely more qualified than you, believes in the Alien Seeding theory and the Universe is a Digital Simulation and we can't know anything about it because it is probably not real, so don't even go there with me about inconsistency - as I said trying to discuss things with you is a waste of time. You are just as much of a pre-suppositionalist as I am, and that is what drives me crazy - I admit it, you don't. You are a hypocrite and irrational.

It's not the same....

Women aren't victims-- and America loves Melania because she's a breath of fresh air from the perpetually victimized Hillary and Michelle. Melania is strong and doesn't need to wear asinine pink hats in silly marches-- there is no oppression of women in our country, and she is proof.

The Democratic Party brand gained from these victories, but I don't think all that much. I am more impressed by the gain earned by women's efforts as a group. As a subset of the electorate I think women have the potential to carry a bigger stick than other electorate subsets, including political parties. I ask them to wield that stick in state after state after state for the next twelve months.

This is a former drama teacher who can hardly get through two sentences without stammering. I think you might be overestimating his abilities.

I think you are partially right. They are desperate to pass any meaningful legislation, there we agree. I think that Paul Ryan still somewhat believes in our form of government, but I think that Mitch McConnell is the guy who is truly morally bankrupt and doesn't actually believe in anything but winning.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/particles-found-to-travel/ Like I said, you have not been studying quantum physics. http://discovermagazine.com/2005/jun/cover

"Island Air joins ranks of Hawaii’s failed airlines" - Ya know, pretty much, after a business hits a ten year mark and THEN has to close - it's no longer considered "failed". It's considered mismanaged. Call it what it is.

These left wing progressives like Ibbitson still can't get over the Tories not wanting women in the niquab at citizenship ceremonies. I think it's scarred them all for life. And they remain, as all the mainstream media is, COMPLETELY out of touch with ordinary Canadians on issues like this. Every poll taken showed overwhelming support for the Tories' position, even among immigrants. But people like Ibbitson remain aloof and insulated in their progressive bubbles, blithely unaware of how far their ideals and values are from that of real Canadians.

Remember that you could be in “the right”, but you could be “dead right”. Vigilants trumps all.

It IS exhausting, but when those egregiously-wrong issues remain present in the institutional Church, it's worth remaining at least tangentially connected in order to speak up and fight their existence. "We" often wonder why more of "you" do NOT speak up and work for correction of institutionalized misogyny, relying on 12th century theology and all theology developed only by men, the anti-Gospel exclusion of baptized LGBT Catholics and failure to hold accountable hierarchs known to have aided and abetted child rapists.

I wanted to stay loyal to CBC and the National as we need a public broadcaster in Canada. In my dreams, it would be a high quality network like PBS. The sad reality is that the slick new National is more cringeworthy than ever. Not only do we have endless commercials and previews and recaps taking up broadcast time, now there are distracting full screenshots of the 2-4 new anchors. This, when there was actually a news item that is relevant, about the Fentanyl crisis. Why even bother calling it The National when the majority of coverage is about the U.S. and Donald Trump, more analysis than news focus, repeat features. Get back to basics CBC and report on the News Facts that are current. Consult your talented anchors, your audience, your rival networks, your own more successful local newscasts. Take a page from RIM's playbook and don't make the same mistakes.

You'll excuse her for speaking five languages- which is is 4.5 more than you can.

The reason it excels on state tests is because of its student population. It has 12-19% free and reduced lunch versus the district's 65%. And because the minority population is 48% versus the district's 79% (for example, the school is about 27% hispanic versus 57% for DPS overall). But don't tell DPS because then they'll cry inequity and immediately ruin the school--like they did for the magnet Morey middle school and ultimately will do to Polaris. If a child excels and isn't from a family with free and reduced lunch, then they try to balance the scales by restricting the educational opportunities of those students so that there is not a growing disparity between high performing students and low performing students. The district is forcefully attempting to limit the growth of high achievers to make it look like the growth of low achievers is higher. It is a fact and why they are focused on "equity". And it is detrimental to those students who actually love to learn. Shameful.

It is interesting that the author raises the niqab issue. The Liberals have their own problems on this score. Recall Marois' PQ was sailing to victory on the back of her support for "traditional values" and dog whistle politics - that was, of course until PKP commit the separatist gaffe of actually promising to make Quebec a country. That was too much for the nativists and blackmailers who promptly ran for the hills/provincial Liberals. Now however Bill 62 banning face coverings while receiving public services revives a popular populist policy. Federal Liberals and our famously pc PM have been all but absent in criticizing this initiative. The province's federal Liberal MPs in particular are scared to oppose the bill as it could cost them votes (we are shocked!). They will, however, have to choose which horse they are going to ride by 2019. The NDP will dent some of the progressive vote but not enough to win. The Conservatives will be the largest beneficiaries of this rift.

Balkanizing in Denver starts early, with brainwashing the kids. Pathetic.

“I don’t feel wealthy,” Mishoe said. “I don’t have a bunch of money stashed away anywhere.”

An underhanded takeover of a private organization like the DNC is not cool, but also not a crime. Child molestation, on the other hand, is a crime and also extremely not cool.

Psst, the fact that you can't imagine it may be a flaming clue. You should consider the possibility that you've become a brainwashed ideologue. I say this, because: "The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research, founded in the late 1870s... As of 2013, the IRP had 1,200 principal investigators and more than 4,000 postdoctoral fellows in basic, translational, and clinical research, being the largest biomedical research institution in the world... The NIH comprises 27 separate institutes and centers of different biomedical disciplines and is responsible for many scientific accomplishments, including... the creation of vaccines against hepatitis, Haemophilus influenzae (HIB), and human papillomavirus (HPV)." ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Institutes_of_Health )

DT gets double-coverage more than Sanders and we don't have QBs who have the time in the pocket/talent to throw the ball where DT can get it and the defense won't. When Peyton's arm was getting weak and the ball took longer and longer to get there, you could see DT pulling up because without a bullet of a pass, the D gets to tee off on you and it sounds like father time is hammering him hard on injuries now. He has the ability to draw PI and holding calls but the drops have often been at crucial times.

Not true Hawaii obviously cannot take anybody. The Federal Governemnt— the Trump and Congress set immigration policies and there are stiff requirements for immigration to the US (including Hawaii and California) . Trump is making them even stiffer— enforced by the Federal Govrnment. You may be thinking of visa programs where employers can obtain employees as a priority for their business and wealthy immigrants can buy their way in— those are Federal policies enforced by the Federal governments Visa program (incidentally Trump’s businesses regularly take advantage of these— has nothing to do with Hawaii or California)

Sorry gene, but here’s more ‘fake news’ for you to digest, Special Agent Mueller is getting close to popping that sorry pu**y grabbin’ liar’s a**, soon, lol. Aloha & Mahalo

Better 5 hours spent identifying the suspect than 5 hours notifying next of kin of addition victims.

....No they wouldn't, because they'd immediately bashed by Leftits for being misogynistic-- you really don't know how this works, do you. Do you normally spend your "retirement" years looking at sordid websites?

Which is exactly the point I made and they are making. You have no idea how much wealth they have stashed away, but they don't have a bunch of money stashed away. A bunch of money to them and to me is $50M in a Caimains island banks account, not the $1M they've spent their lives collecting into various retirement accounts.

"Film explores how monuments can divide Americans" - Statues are made of stone. They can't "do" anything. Snowflakes in denial over our history, however....

Judgement of what?

You guys worried?

One of the most-intelligent and most-popular presidents ever.

how about just tell him to govern the city and stop with the phoney virtue signalling.

Respectfully EIDOLON, I stayed up and watched the president as he spoke before APEC in Vietnam. Had to go to a unusual media outlet that showed him speaking in it's entirety of just over 30 minutes. For the first time, I saw a president stand up and powerfully place America before the nations present, in a very powerful and meaningful presentation. It was a far cry from Mr. Obama's World Apology Tour! Mainstream televised didn't show the speech, thus I was forced to go to an extremely right wing cable station, to watch and see the speech itself uninterrupted, in it's entirety. Because if I relied on the mainstream televised media in America, I might have to read the speech somewhere else, versus seeing it live and how it was received by the nations present. Did you watch the speech if I might ask respectfully EIDOLON? Mr. Trump did a great job speaking to the sovereignty of nations, the equality of trade, and what America's path will be. If he lives up to it, even better!

It's not Trump's job to demonize people in this country. A real American understands that free speech and free thought no matter how ridiculous and how offensive are protected rights of the utmost importance. Trump has criticized the extremist groups (which, frankly, aren't the huge power groups that liberals like to characterize them; they're fringe groups of small number), which is one better than what I thought he should say: "I don't support what they say, but I will protect with my life their right to say it." You deal with division by promoting unity. Make AMERICA great again. Not make this group great, promote that group, or disparage some other group. One of the most interesting things about Trump's political divisiveness is that he is happy to criticize Republicans as well as Democrats who do not espouse his policies. That's pretty unusual in and of itself.

I too was usually the parent that would have the kids over. I even had a sunroom that I turned into a teenager hang out with Wii games etc. I liked to know where my kids were. On snow days I usually had a house full. But I never put up with any damage or disrespect. I caught one kid playing with a barbecue lighter. I kicked him out and I told him he would never be invited back. You are doing the kids no favours by allowing them to cheat you. Hold them accountable to their actions and call the parent.

My first big laugh of the day. Thanks!

Try to keep it out of the hands of Donald Trump.

Trump has taken up permanent residence in your head. How does it feel to spend all day every day trolling Trump? It seems your entire existence is centered around that one man. Do you not have a life of your own?

I would tend to think that it is the awareness of most drivers that has kept these figures down but I also think they will grow as the practice increases. Self-preservation is simply an alien concept to some people.

Filthy, fake, and disgusting- how your drivel is allowed on this website is beyond anyone.

Hezbollah is a terrorist organization, according to some. Israel is an apartheid state, according to some.

Thank you for your efforts, but I have experienced the frustrations of parenting when the child knows he has the upper hand with the threat of calling CPS.

Why, because he was a white guy running for the office vacated by a Black guy? Get over it.

Really, Rogue? Can you just stick with the facts for once. MSW does not have a high salary. He has a modest salary paid by people like me who have subscribed to NCR for decades. MSW also publishes under his own name. He doesn't hide behind a mask and pseudonym.

Wow - failed to show up? Talk about amateur hour. Obviously, this minor trade stuff was interfering with T2's much more important international human rights agenda. Give me a break.

The day after the WaPo endorses the democrat in the Alabama senate race, it drops this story. How convenient. The October Surprise is a very old and usually successful democrat campaign tactic. This one has the advantage of being about something claimed to have happened a mere 38 years ago. At this point in the festivities, nobody knows what happened. Given the age of the allegations, I expect nobody will. If the dems are successful with one, every single campaign against a Republican will include a charge of sexual harassment for the foreseeable future. That charge will join racist, homophobic, sexist, in their toolkit of epithets. Why? Because it works. Cheers -

"Do you support the city’s plan to make over the Blaisdell Center complex, estimated at $700 million?" - No, cause if we've learned ANYTHING, a $700 million estimate isn't REALLY $700 million. Just use the excess of funds from our 3 billion dollar rail system. Oh, wait...

"For the first time?" Lots of presidents have defended our country. And there is nothing wrong with a sincere apology when you do something wrong.

A 32 year old taking a 14 year old to his house and molesting her is not a 'true' pedophile? How far the right has fallen.

If burning crop residue is a large source of the polluting, the government would well advised to institute a program of crop residue pickup to feed biofuel plants, with the residue compost returned to the farmers.

No no no. In Genesis is says God created "day" and "night" before he created the SUN and the stars. How can you have a SUNrise and a SUNset before there is a sun? And again. I'm not the one making special claims here. I'm NOT claiming I KNOW there isn't a god. You're the one claiming you KNOW there is a God and you KNOW he created the stars and the galaxies and the light that it took us to see them OLD to BEGIN with. That is what I have issue with. You do not know that, any more than I could say I know what happened before the big bang, or what caused it. As I said it's physically impossible to know what caused the big bang - we have no way of doing that. It is the origin of all cause. That could be "god" or not. I don't KNOW. I accept that logic and observation show us the universe is quite old by human standards. That's IT. No more claims are loaded into that. I know I have to assume a few things to get there, but I think it's a more solid assumption than yours. God or not.

Yes, but when one only gets their "news" from Fox and Breitbart one would never know that, would one? So there is a sort of self-imposed handicap involved.

Clarification: he was "asked" to resign - and he complied. In fact, CNS as well as other sources, report "strongly asked to resign." Not the same thing as voluntarily resigning at all. Let's be clear on this point.

Big man. Are you tough on the street like that?

These are articles proving my point and the links to follow to read them-- you really don't know how this works, do you.

The Republic party has moved so far right that Roy Moore is mainstream.

http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/conservatives-savage-liberal-government-over-cancellation-of-energy-east-pipeline

India has too many people that do nothing except stir up troubles, pollution is part of them.

"We may be testing that out when millions of pot puffers get behind the wheels of their cars." Rich, pot is already easily available to anyone who wants it; virtually nobody who wants to try pot is stymied by prohibition. So I'm not sure why you think "millions of [new] pot puffers" will suddenly appear on the roads. Can you explain? "One possible result: many, many more abusers, because shooting up, toking up, sniffing up will be even more socially acceptable--oh, hey, and safer!--than it is today." That's one _possible_ result, but consider this: the most effective way to reduce smoking rates turned out to be regulations that make it socially difficult to smoke. The use of currently-illegal drugs is _already_ highly proscribed among the general public due to decades of demonization of drug users, so it's difficult to imagine legalization suddenly changing this. Also, would you start taking heroin if it was legalized tomorrow? No? Nor would most, I suspect.

The laws require "the least restrictive appropriate learning environment." The CST (Child Study Team) made up of teachers, couselors, often the school psychologist, parents, perhaps County ESD and/or state support personnel and parents work together to develop that IEP (Individualized Educational Program) which defines the placement and teaching/counseling services for the student. Regrettably, "mainstreaming" is a very misunderstood term. To be sure, the concept of "least restrictive appropriate educational environment" is crucial and needs to be followed. However, it DOES NOT mean the type of behavior described in this story needs to be tolerated. IMO, to do so, is harmful to, not just the other students in the classroom, but, most importantly, to the student whose inappropriate behavior is accepted. It reads to me like Edison (and perhaps all of 4J) needs to review their policies and practices. GAry Crum

Do you think you care about fake, disgusting photos and approval ratings because Melania is so much better than the last First Lady?

You have not "observed" any of these things, you are reading of accounts of people who allege they have "seen" these things, but as I stated before, one of your Chief people - Degrasse Tyson states we are living in a digital simulation, so therefore observing something is probably a waste of time, because it is not material anyway....put that in your pipe and smoke it.

Thank you for this wonderful story. Shops of the tangible world, the ones with bits of magic on their shelves that you can reach out and touch and be in the actual company of like minded souls, these will survive.

I know what you mean, but the problem with the Mute function is that it disappears a great deal of commentary along with muted person's posts. But I certainly don't blame you for doing so, and I'm very sorry for all the vitriol directed against you and the LGBTQs here and in general. It's despicable.

Close calls can be less “close” if you make eye contact with anyone headed towards you. Do not move until you verify they acknowledge your presence. Assume they are all bad drivers; be prepared for evasive action. Maybe the inattentive one is ... the person having a lot of close calls? Just sayin’.

People like Father Weinandy have a paternalistic view of the Catholic faithful. They think we're an easily confused lot that must be constantly protected from misinformation. The truth is, most of us don't care about the things that people like Weinandy care about. We're occupied with things like trying to raise children in a dangerous world and making ends meet -- the kind of stuff bishops and theologians generally know little about. For all his rough edges, Pope Francis respects the faithful and trusts that they have the wherewithal to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to spiritual discernment. He trusts us more than he trusts the hierarchy, which irks some of them. That, I believe, is really the root of all the anger directed at this pope by people like Weinandy. Cupich is right that most Catholics are not scandalized by Pope Francis. They just don't spend that much time thinking about these things, and when they do, they use their God-given gift of reason.

It's the big version of these industries that give them all a bad rap.

This is one of the many reasons I don't buy into the bible...morons like this are trying to convince me they know what the ultimate deity is that created this entire universe? Please...

Stop diverting Bill and show me that you understand how scientists have been able to figure out the distances to the stars. Until you can I'm going to assume you don't know. I know plenty about quantum mechanics. You're going to have to tell me how observations about particles can lead to entire galaxies. I don't think you're prepared to do that until you can tell me how we know how far away the stars are. So, put on your big boy pants and tell me how we figured out the distances to the stars. You could disagree with it the conclusion but at least tell me you know the method.

Thank you for your service Sgt. Miller. You're caught in a unique situation with job-related PTSD and an inability to discuss the cause of the disorder due to the classified nature of the missions. Best of luck to you.

She would instantly become one to you if she were Democrat-- correct-- and, you're welcome.

There are other things I don't like in my Church: The oligarchic system of government and the love of pomp and splendor among the hierarchy. The overemphasis on legalism. The Pharisees did not die out, they became Canon Lawyers. The terrible arguments that are given for so many positions. The core argument in Humanae Vitae is that "natural law" says that sex is for procreation. HV 4 says "No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law. It is in fact indisputable, as Our predecessors have many times declared". What they are saying is "this is true because we say it's true". Sorry, but I've given up both circular reasoning and the argument from authority for Lent. Ordinatio Sacerdotalis is JPII saying "women cannot be ordained because I say so".

1) We need planned parenthood and sustainable procreation. Create strong incentives for a given parent not to have more than one child. One adult per child, problem solved. Wasn't so hard! 2) I'm pretty sure the failure to protect the rainforest doesn't really prove the rainforest shouldn't be protected. Especially now, since those things are foundational for ecosystems, are enormous carbon sinks, and provide habitat for species that took millions of years to evolve and are priceless and irreplaceable parts of God herself.

It is front page news at the Sydney Morning Herald, with you know who named in the headline Apparently some do not want this posted... link included...

I am not sure where you are but in Newmarket - the lighting is so bright cars are forgetting to turn on their headlights after dark. The bigger problem is the placement of lights. High up and on the street where cars are that should have headlights on. They should be lower down lighting the pedestrian areas (which currently are often in shadow). Also it would help if we put some thought into our outfits at night. I carry a light at night so I can be seen when walking.

How do either of you know what salary MSW receives? Steven - you mention we should "stick with the facts for once." Can you provide any?

Martha J. Karnopp, the conscience of Arapahoe County and the arbiter of other people's voting habits. So glad that great Arapahonians ... Arapahites ... Arapahoists like her are among us. Now, why do I get a whiff of her favored candidates not doing as well as she wanted?

Anthony Xavier Johnson was certainly NO creampuff either. 6-15-16: #1 THEFT 3, Fugitive from another State, Felony. 4-8-16; Fugitive. 12-15-2015; #1 THEFT 2ND DEG - 1 STATUTE: 164.045 ( M) #2 THEFT 2ND DEG - 1 STATUTE: 164.045 ( M) 7-21-2015; #1 FUGITIVE FROM OTHER STATE - 1 STATUTE: 133.747 ( F) NOTES: SPOKANE CO, WA #2 HARASSMENT - 1 STATUTE: 166.065 ( M) So, as you can see via the Criminal Records, you had two Long time Criminals dealing with each other in CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, I would have preferred that they both SHOT each other.

You've posted what amounts to your retirement years hobby-- but if you don't find him attractive, then perhaps you should look for another man and leave them be, yes?

On the other hand, the agency is responsible for drugs and vaccines that did great harm to people. In general, I don't trust the government.

Why does the EU hate democracy so much ?

Good one, Lars!

Adscam, No bungling here. This is just a negotiating position, a poker chip that can be given away when the time is right. It is like the US demanding 50% US content in every car imported into the US while insisting that the same rule does not apply to Canada or Mexico. If we bungled the negotiations, so did the US.

Arenado has his 5th straight Gold Glove, his 3rd Silver Slugger award, and can't be recognized by baseball writers as a MVP finalist, at the least. Shame on them. Congrats to Blackmon, who had an outstanding season, and to Arenado. Both deserve the award.

"The 1960s are over, the Vietnam war ended, Nixon resigned, and everyone has the same rights. We're tired of hearing people complain." Really, Michael Archer? Apparently the 1960s aren't over. The George Wallace constituency has slithered its way out of the sewer of American history and taken the White House. We have an attorney general who has made a career out of attacking civil rights for Americans who aren't white heterosexual Christian males. I heard a lot of such males complain about the previous president because he wasn't white enough. Shame on you and your ilk who marched in Charlottesville.

I am reluctant to say it, but the good cardinal does not speak for me. Our holy father Francis, is indeed and truly pope, and a such deservers and receives our prayers and best wishes daily. But his actions, most recently his embrace of the arch heretic Luther, is so scandalous that a even an 11 year old (admittedly preconscious but 11 nonetheless) can not help but notice.

That is why I named them and didn't just call them Christians. In fact, my maternal grandfather was an Anglican priest and my mother the kind of Christian where she derived guidance, solace and comfort from her religion. My father however was vile about homosexuals and used his religion to judge and deride and feel righteous. God was a man and men were made in God's image and therefore men rule the households and the world. All religions have these extremes. I do feel religion has an important place for charity and to teach tolerance, love, inclusion and to lift up those who have less or are in need. It sounds like this is you and I fully respect that type of Christianity. But religion isn't the only avenue to teach and learn ethics and morality and, unfortunately, the good aspects of religion are too often overwhelmed by the bad and abuse of religion to say G-d is on their side. (and wage war).

FY OJ.

RD is another who believes that fear and loathing of gays is part of Church teaching.

Do you think it's Melania's achieving the American Dream that you like better- or her being a successful and strong woman without Leftists like Hillary telling her she is? I can't decide.....

I noticed that, too.

Except for the 27 years of taxes she has paid...

Why would the right abandon Moore after these allegations? The fact that that Moore wants to imprison gay people was fine with the right. They are repulsive.

OK Junior. Please roll the sleeves down and stop pretending you're 'one of us'. We admit we made a mistake putting you into office, but it would be nice if you would begin to act like a leader rather than a Gerald Butts hand puppet.

My grandfather got season tickets in 1969 and endured a decade of losing seasons. Denver hasn't had a losing season since 2010, 07, and '99. That's three in 17 years. Poor guy. It happens to even the best of franchises.

bigotry take all forms in the "quiet revolution"

"It's not Trump's job to demonize people in this country." Then how come he repeatedly does?