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My wife requires an erythropoietin injection (a biologic drug) that costs tens of thousands each year. It was FDA approved about 30 years ago so it should have gone generic by now and been much, much, much cheaper. In fact, the drug DID go generic throughout all of Europe, Australia, South Africa and many other countries about ten years ago. Not here in the good ole USA, however!! We've found out that Mitch McConnell and Orrin Hatch conspired with Amgen, the drug maker, to prevent there being a way for biologic injectables to go generic. Why did they do that? Because Amgen gave each of those (expletives deleted) significant campaign contributions. This is American, after all, where we coddle the rich at the expense of the less fortunate. Wave that flag!!! Sing that anthem!!!

You're from Ontario I guess.

Interesting that "como_estas" would like this xenophobic comment. I mean, for Hank Hall it seems to make sense that he would like his own comment, but someone with an Hispanic handle? Odd!

"Organized religion" also gave us Martin Luther King, Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama. Religion isn't the problem. Failure to act like a decent human being is.

Continually amazed how many do not understand that the"50%" rate is not on all of your income. Do you not understand how tax brackets work?

Kind of reminds you of Dachau, Auschwitz, and Sorbibor without the ovens. The USA was just a horrible as the Nazis. En mass violations of the 4th Amendment. FY Roosevelt.

Absolutely hate this new format. Will not be watching. CTV and Lisa for me.

In addition, Justin Trudeau is an international embarrassment to all of Canada, just like his father Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Unmitigated Gall.

It's kinda obvious that the dome structure doesn't belong in a location that receives snow. All the money they are spending to fix it would have been better spent on a new traditional, structure made out of steel or wood or concrete

The pessimistic anti-Trudeau folks are at it again. First you want a deal right now! Then if it's not negotiated well, you'll complain about that. Your ideology seems to trump any critical thinking - and the broken record sound would make me laugh if it weren't so sad Good grief!

Well this is VERY memorable! https://twitter.com/nypost/status/759699825264820224/photo/1?ref_

will check it out no doubt they have had funding pressures as well.

Thank you for writing a reality check for the Liberals on who and what the PM is. Any one who is NDP, Green or Con already knows this. Regretfully the Liberal voters are blind or have been deceived.

When they are in the uniform on the field, they serve under the direction of their employer. Their employer can do whatever they want, but I'm with Trump that they should all be fired. In my opinion, their employers should fire them not just for dishonoring the country and its anthem, but for creating a distraction, and, so it seems, reducing revenue for the NFL. Go protest in the street; the NFL is not a political organization.

The Blac Block was setting fires and breaking things for over an hour and the police were told to stand down even though there was only a handful of BB. Once they shuffled into the crowd and disappeared, that is when the police decided to start breaking heads. I would bet that some of the BB were Agent Provocateurs allowed to run around to give an excuse for riot police could get some practice on innocent protestors and civilians.

Classics democrat smear tactic. One month before election bring out the rape/pedophilia charges. They did the same for Trump, Romney, Cain. Democrats are scum

Let's be fair. She probably meant to say he "might of new" the residents. Or that he "might of gnu" the residents. Homophones are mean sometimes.

I'm no fan of Trump but I'm glad whenever he or anyone associated with his administration does something positive. These are the nicest, most natural pictures I've seen of her and I'm glad she stopped to see military families. Good job Melania!

A friend of my Son is being brought up as a vegetarian - which I think it nuts no matter what meat alternatives there are. In his case, the kids is extremely small and slight. Hey, if you want to go vegan - go ahead, when you are fully grown and developed.

No comment about Hillary attacking me? Still do not see it.

There's no actual way to vote on this issue. That's why it was an advisory ballot. Plus, I don't want this on the ballot damn year. I am done. I'm with the rest of this town. I'm like let's work on something else. We can dismantle the equipment. That will require a half-million dollar investment to replace, and that's something a future city council will be hard-pressed to do.

Dogbert: I think we're seeing the results around us every day......and, you're right, they are not pretty. You also make a very important point. It is not a SCHOOL problem....it is a CULTURAL problem. It is manifested at school because that is where the kids spend their time and where they interact. I think a serious discussion is needed to define the problems and seek some answers. You use the very appropriate term......OVERWHELMED. regards, Gary Crum

The new format is truly awful. Time to watch CTV news, I think

Mr. Yellin Please read this fairly recent column in the New York Times and perhaps reassess your comments on China and India.... https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/01/climate/china-energy-companies-coal-plants-climate-change.html

Cue the Trudeau about-face on three...two...one...

So were a cadre of others, Republicans and Democrats both. It's a poor reflection of our society that we only take these allegations seriously now, but let's not pretend it was Bill and only Bill. A certain hypocritical speaker of the house comes to mind, as just one example. One who holds as much sway and esteem in his party today as Bill himself. The only people who seemed to think it was a real problem then are the same ones trying to play cover for even worse behavior now. Hypocrisy wrapped in faux outrage, followed by silence and denial.

va news alerted all oregon vets as far as i know of the lease. stand down efforts like these are needed and so appreciated by the vets chosen to participate. rg, great editorial. thank you.

Chris lives in New Zealand, so he's about as far away from this water supply as you one can get. But I agree. No one is depriving anyone of fluoride. It's everywhere. Right? That's the argument. It's one of the most common elements on Earth. You're fine, Chris. Take your fluoride.

But Cory Gardner refuses to disassociate himself from Donald Trump, the leader of our country who has bragged about, and condoned, the sexual abuse of women. Trump also has had at least a dozen women come forward and tell their stories about Donald Trump's sexual abuse of them. And then there are the stories of Trump walking into the dressing rooms of the Miss Universe Pageant, AND the Miss Teen USA Pageant while the women/girls are changing clothes. Does Cory Gardner just block that part of Trump's history, or does he keep supporting Trump just to save himself a few Trump-backed votes in the next election? Hmmm....I think everyone knows the answer to that.

I have been participating in booms and bubbles since Richard Nixon restored the fundamental human right to buy, hold, and sell gold. A lot of bubbles in those 40+ years, it's been fun, and made my belly strong. Educated guess as well as possible, get in early, convert initial $$ into hard assets, withdraw incrementally from the advancing house money, get out when everybody wants in. Resist the urge to milk the last of the advance, there will be another bubble coming along. I have Bitcoin and other cryptos covered the same way. There are new people in the world who trust the cryptocurrency concept more than central banks and national governments, stupid wars, and endless borrowing. They've been watching and listening and they like the idea of trustless transactions. I hope they're right while I position myself not to lose if they're wrong. Regards

It also exposes the problem between religion and science: faith is essential for religion; verifiable facts are essential for science however facts are not needed for religion and faith is not needed for science. Doesn't mean you can't try to believe in both but that belief is based on difference premises. It becomes a problem when people try to substitute faith into a scientific argument - it doesn't contain the necessary facts. Darwin might have believed in God and had faith in his religion but he didn't use that to ignore the facts presented to him of evolution.

Trudeau lived off a trust fund for twenty years and it seems his followers are looking for a king not accomplished qualified PM. Rafting, ski instructing, bouncing, and two years of supply drama teaching don't cut it and it sure shows.

Foremother is an acceptable English word, though perhaps not as commonly used as forefather. Matriarch is the equivalent of patriarch, not forefather. I thought the use of foremother was fine in this context.

No, Amazon would not benefit "the vast majority of residents". First off, they would require tax incentives and tax breaks that everyone in the state would pay for. Denver and environs already sucks up half the state transportation budget and huge proportions of the state revenues that we, in the rest of Colorado, pay. The Front Range is already crowded and in desperate need of infrastructure, transportation and school upgrades. Additional workers pay taxes after all the schools have been built and the water already appropriated and facilities built and the infrastructure has been paid for by current residents, so we would subsidize them coming here. Much of that money would come from other parts of the state far distant from the Denver area. It is a myth that we need to grow grow grow nor should we. We already have a healthy economy and low unemployment. In fact, few would benefit and most would pay and our quality of life would suffer. So tell me again how everyone benefits?

bonking someone over the head with a fun noodle isn't exactly playing tough.

Where's his photo? Would like to see what he looks like now.

cows there don't speak french very well.

Just how do you improve management? How do you analyze and change work processes for education? Children aren't tin and lumber and don't come in evauluated lot's with standard characteristics. Pretty sure we agree that higher teacher salaries are not the answer for improved performance. But getting Oregon citizens to agree on anything at all that doesn't fit their personal agenda is damn hard. How do we measure a student as a product/output? Test 12 times a year, once a decade? Do we have a standard metric, ( both required and common in manufacturing products), to measure a human child? Not trying to be critical, but we need a real Process to move foward - a first step. I worked in manufacting for 33 years, the human element was always the tricky part!

I think you meant "bestest deal ever" not "best deal"

Feel free to "Mute" me at your leisure! Then you will have no idea what I am saying about you or anyone else! In the meantime, I find it mildly amusing to poke you with a stick!

I was at UNC in the mid-70's, and full tuition was $90 a quarter and $390 for room and board. Less than $1500 for the year. A very small percentage needed a student loan or assistance. The times, they are a-changing.

He should refer to him as His Excellency, Donald Turnip.

R U Kidding?! Your comment is a total farce. There is next to zero political representation in Canada for the average person, where do you live? to make such an outrageous and untruthful comment.

LW1: I would most definitely unfriend him on social media and also tell him what an embarrassing jackhole he’s being. Not too smart.

So it's cool if he lured a child to his house, undressed her, fondled her, and made her touch his erect penis, so long as he did it a few decades ago and hasn't since? I think both moral principle and the statute of limitations would disagree on that point.

why do men like this think that they are entitled to beautiful women? Get a reality check, it would save you alot of trouble. Know your lane and keep in it

One year and six months. It happened in May 2016.

That makes a wholeeeeeee lot more sense than what Dragonbreath wrote!

Only the morons.

I get it, but I disagree, there is SO MUCH news that is simply not reported on cbc and you would have to spend 2 hours a day surfing about 10 websites to get it. That should be the tv news's job: to sort it out and present a good selection of items. Perhaps this show has more emotional depth, but it certainly doesn't add intellectual depth. CBC news and current affairs just hasn't been the same since about the time that dreadful"Lang and O'Leary Exchange" or whatever it was called, went on air.

except those liberals have been completely ostracized by the liberal establishment. Meanwhile Roy Moore is fundraising off raping a 14 year old, and an Alabama republican actually said his victims should be prosecuted.

Okay, but exporting oil from the Port of Churchill year-round would then require government subsidies to make it economically viable to private for-profit companies to attempt this (god, I can hear the outcry from tax payers and environmentalists already) !

Most of it in Turnip's own words.

People don't understand that environmental and labour standards are an economic issue. Why should we import cheaper product from countries and companies that don't exhibit responsible stewardship to their country or to their employees? Doing so has a cost, and if other countries won't bear that cost, they should be tarriffed, IMO.

No one deserves to be cheated on, especially when your fully loyalty lies with the betrayer of your trust. initially, I thought I was just feeling insecure when my husband would just be on his phone at odd hours, until I decided to take my chances to know, knowing is much better than self doubts and its exactly what happened when I requested for the service of one of the best hacker ; nullantrax2017 AT outlook DOT com to help me check her phone. Now i know when he tells the truth because I receive all his calls, outgoing and incoming, see his whatsapp messages, facebooks, emails. I think its the best way to justify his loyalty and I found out that instead of guessing, right now I have access to his phone remotely anything that goes in and out of his phone is exactly what goes in and out of my phone. I see everything,i hear everything

While I certainly don't disagree with the idea that those taxes are steep, if you're not a minor and you have anything to lose and you don't use all that much, you're probably going to be buying at whatever price the legal avenues provide. I don't see a lot of people rolling their own cigarettes or making their own wine and that is legal and astronomically cheaper.

The deed of trust foreclosure sale was noticed on September 3rd. You're right this isn't something that happens overnight, but the foreclosure sale has been pending for two months.

Here's what I don't get, and would like to see covered a little (or a LOT) more fulsomely. K. Kealoha was supposed to be a co-guardian with some other attorney on the two kids' trusts. And, it was supposedly taking place under Court supervision. And, the bank set up the account(s). What's the story with the oversight from the co-guardian and supervising Court? Why didn't the bank at least look at whatever the Court issued to set up the account? Also, seems like the charges about that Geral Puana guy (regarding moneys owed) were already the subject of a trial, which K Kealoha WON, and was awarded money in. How did that happen (if the Feds are right)? Doesn't sound kosher. Then, apparently there were some pretty shoddy loan underwriting practices at the credit union where the Kealohas got supposedly "fraudulent" loans. Is the credit union looking into that? Finally, we know what the Police Commission did about all the cops, but what did the department do?

Just another reason Repubs won't be able to pass tax reform. Too many factions exist within the Republican party for them to pass anything while democrats stand united in opposion. Like everything else they've tried to pass so far, it will go nowhere.

New promotional campaign from the Alabama Tourism Agency: "Why travel half-way around the world when our 14-year olds are available right here in America...and we promise not to worry about age of consent either!"

"Canada's Trade Minister François-Philippe Champagne dismissed the reports as a "misunderstanding" and said Canada took the time it needed to push for stronger protections related to the environment and labour. "This is Canada. We won't settle for just any deal," . Canadians are fond of criticizing the lack of intelligence of the Americans who elected Trump (and who have more nobles, patents, leading universities, cars on Mars, leading museums and nearly everything good including inventing much of the past century. But of course all of the news reported here about us is negative, with guns always good for a laugh). No one could believe what the Canadian people are being fed. If you don't have a formal education or common sense or street smarts then this is what passes for your leader. And it makes you proud.

Somebody making a lot of overtime here? Why not just fire everybody and bring in the US Navy salvaging crew. Forget about reef damage and water pollution. Just pull it off and dynamite the hull over deep waters. Instant fish habitat. Dynamite the Natatorium pool structure, too.

Rep. Pabon (D-Denver) has both been convicted of a DUI (2016) and campaign fund fraud (2017)--so House Speaker Duran, can we expect you to call for Pabon to resign tomorrow? Or do we just call for lawmakers to resign who do not strictly vote by party lines? Do you call for resignations based on allegations, and not actual convictions? Seems like politics to me.

IRT Marauders_1959, yet it took till 1952 and the McCarran-Walter Act allowing Japanese Americans (Issei), the first generation of Japan citizens who adopted America. To become a naturalized citizen of the United States they had to learn the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and speak English. From 1952 through 1965, some 40,000 Japanese Americans became naturalized Americans of Japanese ancestry, as their American children and grandchildren were. There are no numbers of Japanese Americans (Issei) who died before 1952, to become American as my great grandfather and two grandfathers who died in the 1930's. My grandmother became an American in 1960, the year I graduated from high school. The entire family celebrated. Oh, her oldest son served in the 442d of WWII, another served in Korea, and the third Vietnam.

I thought Mitsubishi in Japan also signed some similar agreement years ago and that went nowhere. I'm hopeful but skeptical that anything different will happen this time around.

I do not find this that arduous. I have a TD Webroker USD non registered account. I tick yes on the T1135 and simply send copies of my Dec 31 account status which includes all equities along with book and current market value and another document summarizing all transactions including dividends received. Both are easily obtained from the Webroker site. Simple as that....Revenue Canada can fill in all the boxes on the form themselves if they'd like.

Deborah Wesson Gibson, one of the accusers, worked for Clinton and Biden during campaign and other events. So, there is some affiliation to Democrats. I'd question anyone on either side that's running for office until proven innocent or guilty, and I have no respect for adulterers.

sure you do. you have no life and prolly no friends.

Critical Thinking Poster - Are you a paid hack? You sure sound like a Liberal Paid Hack. Cui Bono and who pays you ?

Clinton was impeached, disbarred, and fined. And he was found not guilty in his impeachment trial by a Senate that was majority Republican, so it's not even comparable in terms of a party protecting it's own. Meanwhile, your side elected a President knowing full well, and beforehand, that he bragged about sexually assaulting women and under age girls, and multiple women came forward cooborating his own words about how he assaulted them in the same way as he bragged.

Yeah...except this was 31 sources (over and above the 4 accusers) that were quoted by the Washington Post...the same newspaper...31 different people...

Wow finally a Wente column I can largely agree with.

Agree re: Latin. I still remember sum, es, est, sumus, estis, sunt from many decades ago. :-) Another point, I've worked with computer systems in 30+ countries. One time I asked a guy in Indonesia "Why do you folks all speak English? You don't really need to." He said "Oh...because all computer languages are written and documented in English first! We want to be knowledgeable about the newest code." Think about it...all of these STEM workers learned English to get ahead.

He's a sex predator just like Trump, Ailes, Weinstein, O'reilly, Boling, Moore, ect.. there is no cure for that.

You mean like the peace in Rwanda, where the black Hutu did their level best to exterminate the black Tutsi, killing over 800,000 in a matter of days? Like the peace in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge days when the govt killed 20% of its own population? Like the peace in China during the Cultural Revolution when millions of Chinese died at the hands of Chinese? You mean like the peace in North Korea where the govt has so stifled its own brothers that they are on average six inches shorter than their genetic kin in S. Korea? You mean like the peace in Chicago where two blacks die daily at the hands of fellow blacks? Is the kind of love, harmony and peace you're talking about once whites are gone?

Amusing but inaccurate.

BUT, would be interesting if Chin were to start some sort of investigation of the Feds based on this case. He seems to do pretty well against the Feds. If you believe the howls from Trumpists on this board, Chin might even ENJOY doing that investigation. BUT, if he does, everybody gotta blame it on Pocho. Because, I'm quite sure that NO ONE ELSE has come up with that idea.

You are All-Lies

Of course detention ponds flood. That's the point! Why would a green roof have reduced drainage capacity? That makes zero sense. As I've already explained, they have enhanced drainage capacity. Which green roof are you referring to?

Complete de-criminalization is the only real answer. It has been grown for centuries and only illegalized world-wide in the last 50 or so years to protect the pharmaceutical industry profits. Collecting tax revenues of $1 billion on cannabis will be nice for a leader like Trudeau and Morneau that hide their assets in offshore countries to avoid paying their fair share of Canadian taxes.

and a note stating why you are not giving more or anything at all. I knew several in KC did that after the revelations of Finn's crimes and failings.

You seem awfully determined to disarm the public. I bet it never even occurred to you that a great many crimes are thwarted each year because of armed civilians.

Ty, I bet your right! I'm sure Walker looks forward to waking up everyday to run a state that is going broke and wondering what can be cut that will result in the least amount of complaints.

I guess reading is not your strong point is it now cupcake? This guy clearly stated that he hates America and blatantly states he decided to work for Russia because of US bombings in NK. It's all ok cupcake, you can now go join your Russian brothers in Soviet Russia and enjoy your FREE universal healthcare and maybe live to 95 like your commie Russian spy in this story.

If you go over to Duck U, there is a place called Deady Hall. Sometimes, that causes people to ask "Who was Deady". You then discover a founder of Duck U who wrote a Constitution forbidding Negroes to live in the State and forbidding slavery. You also discover that later, as a Judge, he defended Chinese when they were being discriminated against. With no name on the building, as a passerby, you would never discover any such thing. There are statues to Caligula, one of the most vile Romans in history. "Who was Caligula?" is less likely to happen without such a statue. Your argument in favor of monument removal is specious.

and.... I hope not at the expense of the taxpayers.

Don't let OHA get its hands on Mauna Kea. It can't even manage what it has. Besides, they don't really have any claim to this mountain which is to be for the entire public, not just Hawaiians.

Hey, General, how about a hard hitting speech on the need for truthfulness? Seems the only divisive person at the academy in this instance was the black student who you are hiding from the public. Why not shame him? If there really were a white student behind it you would certainly shame him.

Look as much as you want.

Did I miss the march? Where is the National day of outrage again? I’ll wait.

Yes, my brother has some tiny little apple trees that manage to spit out a few baking apples each season. But please, if you can show me where the nearest useful fruit tree orchard is, please do. This woman's desire to have fruit trees treat all the ills of Alaska is ridiculous. She posts it on practically every article. Moose netting? Seriously?

So glad the grammar police stopped by this thread.

Only one little problem... unless you plan for all those nifty new plants and grass to die after planting, you're not going to let the soil dry out. You're going to irrigate it to keep it moist. Which, BTW, gets back to the significant cost element for having to build roofs to support the weight of all that heavy, moist soil. Plus planter boxes, plus trees/plants. Plus of course the extra cost of materials and weekly landscaping services. Although that does raise an interesting question... is it breaking the law if you build all this but then just let the plants all die because it's too expensive to keep maintaining it?

You can tell that this is pretty good news by how upset the right wingers are. The better Trudeau looks, the angrier they get, and the more ridiculous they sound. This is good news for Canada. Individual companies can begin looking east and west for more business, instead of just to the south. It'd be really incredible if the Malaysian-B.C. LNG project could get back off the ground, although the world price for LNG and the US flooding the market are still deterrents.

What a great comment, too bad it wasn't made, contextually speaking at least, in a manner where it had over 1% applicability to the behavior at hand. Other than there not being a pack, save for the deputies outside the door, nor there being evidence pointing to the occurrence of a 'Melee,' this comment would have been brilliant! Basically, other than this comment utterly failing, it would have really succeeded!

Actually, if you ever talk with economists, they will tell you that growth is not necessary for a healthy economy. We already have a healthy economy, low unemployment, high home prices, limited water, TABOR, over stretched infrastructure, inadequate transportation, crumbling roads and you say adding 50K or more people will benefit us? They cost. It is not an unmitigated benefit by any means to add all these people. In fact, few benefit and most of us pay to subsidize growth, including loss of quality of life. Developers don't pay for all the infrastructure needs, the water needs, roads needs, transportation needs, schools for new growth. NO - we who live here now pay and other people benefit. So, you clearly don't know what you are talking about. Your comment was not just ill informed, it was rude too. So perhaps you are the one stuck with your head in the dark, smelly place.

When was the multi state march? The National day of outrage? I’ll wait to see the replay on the news one of these days. I must have been at work that afternoon??

That would be weird seeing a girlfriend's face on another girl's skull. Don't think I would want to view the recipient if her front and backsides were also donated. Stop reporting these grisly operations.

The minister suggested that any changes to trade rules related to the auto sector – a major point of concern among North American auto makers and labour leaders – would be determined at a later date. ======= Canada made big concession to Japan under Obama's order, about the definition of North American content, this has to be changed in the new agreement. That concession to Japan no longer stands, even you sign it, Trump won't let it pass.

Yes, the golden rule is always appropriate.