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"There are certainly some Liberals who aren't big fans of Mulroney but would acknowledge that he seems to have a skill for working with American politicians," former Liberal strategist Tim Powers told AFP, recalling Mulroney's camaraderie with Ronald Reagan.

Powers said there are people, including in Trudeau's own party, "who would like Trudeau to go after Trump for some of his behavior and statements" -- for example, those demeaning to women and Muslims.

"But Trudeau helping Trump helps Canada," he said, adding that Trudeau was "smart not going after Trump, as other leaders did, during the American election campaign... I think it was noticed by the US."

"Wisely, he isn't letting ideological differences affect how he deals with Trump," echoed University of Toronto politics professor Ryan Hurl.

Trudeau has acknowledged the two leaders' vastly different worldviews.

"We won't always agree on everything," he said during his Washington visit.

But, he added, "the last thing Canadians expect is for me to come down and lecture another country on how they choose to govern themselves."

Rather, he suggested, it is better to "be a positive example in the world."

- Risky courtship -

Polls show Trudeau continues to be one of Canada's most popular leaders ever, both at home and abroad.

But experts say there are tremendous risks in courting Trump.

"We can't predict from moment to moment when something might offend Trump," said Robert Bothwell, a professor at the Munk School of Global Affairs in Toronto.

"There's no guarding against that and it could happen to anyone. I wouldn't say that Justin has any kind of magic immunity from that kind of situation."

Powers suggested that Trump "seems to recognize that our prime minister has political capital that can be helpful to him."

"Trudeau is well regarded in different parts of the world and for some of America's allies to see Trump and Trudeau get along helps Trump," he said.

On the flip side, according to Capstick, "if President Trump were to go after Canada too aggressively, the prime minister has the entire progressive world behind him and can rally a considerable amount of difficulty for Trump's politics."

I wish that trudeau guy would do his party trick on the "Rocky Steps" during rush hour >:[

>>120686
If it can't be blocked, it would be about time to kick everyone out of government and start over.

>>120686
Well thankfully the dumbasses aren't taking away the 2nd ammendment.

>>120686
related:
>>118331

no...it was HER turn

>>120314
WOW, IM SO SURPRISED

>>120314
I'm starting to think women actually have it easier in life.

It's almost like it's human nature to value females and feminism has always been psychotic bullshit.

“It’s sanctimonious to say they are lovers of animals,” Virginia State Sen. William M. Stanley Jr. said to Religious New Service in 2015. “It’s a way station of death, and it’s a shame.”

In response to a request for comment, PETA sent Fox News an email saying that the euthanasia should be in context of the vast ways the organization helps animals.

It did not deny killing more than 1,400, noting that “PETA operates a rescue team—which is on call 24/7 to offer relief to abused and suffering animals—as well as a single ‘shelter of last resort’ that takes in mostly aggressive, sick, elderly, injured, feral, and otherwise unadoptable animals, many of whom have been turned away by shelters with limited-admission policies.”

The PETA email said that the consumer group “altogether fails to include or explain our organization's lifesaving work in our community or the condition of the sick and dying animals PETA takes in.”

PETA often maintains that its kill rate is higher because it takes animals that other shelters won’t accept.

PETA’s website said: “So-called ‘no-kill’ or ‘turn-away’ shelters, which are supported by supposed animal rights activist Nathan Winograd, have the luxury of not euthanizing animals because they turn away needy ones whom they deem unadoptable.”

“To be able to offer refuge to every animal in need, open-admission shelters must euthanize unadopted and unadoptable animals. The alternative—turning them away—is cruel and leaves the animals in grave danger.”


Elizabeth Llorente is Senior Reporter for FoxNews.com, and can be reached at [email protected]. Follow her on https://twitter.com/Liz_Llorente

Animal lovers already know what PETA does. The SPCA and the Humane Society condemned them years ago. FoxNews can save its fake outrage for the next Trump story.

>>120030
FOX News does not fake outrage. You're thinking of every other network.

>>119412
Nice /pol/bait.

>>119415
LOL nodoubt most of the whites on 4chan would look like this raggedy coonass trash... except they are fatasses eating welfare cheese

>>119518
>eating welfare cheese

Gotcha there! I'm lactose intolerant!

Trump is a joke.

you have got to go back to >>>/reddit/

>>117225
Things /pol/ would say?

>Richards’s mother, Cate, a senior sales executive for IBM, hugged him and rested her head on his shoulder. When Richards was a sniper team leader in Afghanistan, she sent him regular care packages with items he and his Marines most needed. Her weekly shopping list included clean socks, cans of Chef Boyardee and six packs of Red Bull to help them stay alert in their hide sites while they watched for the enemy.

>“Sniper den mom,” they called her back then.

>The bar was filling up with Marine snipers telling war stories. “Remember that Mark 12 gunner who got three head shots at 1,000 yards,” one of the Marines was saying.

>Richards’s mother was showing her brother a memorial photo album — set out next to the ammo can — that told another version of her son’s life. “That was his first pony ride when we were in the Philippines and his dad was an Air Force pilot,” she said. School photos gave way to snapshots of Richards’s boot camp graduation and then Richards’s tours in Afghanistan.

>“That’s his first deployment,” she said. “He lost so much weight.”

>On the next page, Richards was shirtless and hobbling down a hospital corridor after his second tour, which was cut short by a buried bomb. Shrapnel from the blast tore through his legs and punctured his neck, leaving him unable to speak for weeks. He was still recovering at Walter Reed when he learned that one of his Marines, Josh Desforges, had been killed.

>“That was the only time I heard him crack,” his mother said. “He was begging to go back to Afghanistan, even though he had a hole in his throat.”

>A few pages later Richards was hugging his wife goodbye as he headed off for tour No. 3.
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>Several Marines gathered around Richards’s mother. It was late, and everyone had been drinking. His platoon commander started to tell the story of the video — a story that he has told dozens of times over the past two years. This time he picked it up at the moment when they were all standing over the Taliban fighters’ blood-stained corpses, just before the camera began recording. “Someone said, ‘Piss on these guys,’” he was remembering. “And someone else was like, ‘Yeah, you know what, let’s piss on them.’”

>Richards’s mother dropped her eyes, and he stopped telling the story.

>“I’ve always been proud of you boys,” she said.

>The platoon commander took a gulp of his whiskey. “You had the pleasure of raising ...” he said, searching for the right words.

>Another Marine finished the thought: “the baddest Marine ever.”

>The next morning, a Marine in a dark overcoat held the ammo can with Richards’s remains in two white-gloved hands and marched slowly toward the grave site. On one side of the metal box was a stencil of crossed rifles, superimposed over a skull that’s been pierced by a sniper’s bullet. On the other was a favorite Hemingway quote that his family had put there because it seemed to sum up Richards’s life and his eventual death: “There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.”

>The Marine set the box down on a small riser in front of Richards’s mother, his wife and his grandfather, an 83-year-old combat veteran, clad on this day in his Army dress uniform. Behind them about 300 mourners had gathered.
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> A Navy chaplain stepped to the front and delivered another version of Richards’s life. “He served with honor ... gave so much ... and bled for our freedom,” the chaplain said. “Today we lay him to rest in a fitting place.” A volley of rifle fire delivered a salute followed by a lone bugler who sounded taps. An honor guard of Marines then folded an American flag that had been suspended over the ammo box into a tight triangle. Their movements were perfectly choreographed, precise and controlled; nothing like Richards’s war.

>Most Marines in Afghanistan rarely saw the enemy, who fired at them from behind walls or blasted them with pressure-triggered land mines. Snipers, such as Richards, were the exception. They stalked the Taliban, watching them for hours through their scopes as they planned attacks, shared meals and went about their day. “Every single mission we came back with multiple kills,” said former Sgt. Edward Deptola, Richards’s platoon sergeant. “There would be two, three, four, five, sometimes 15 kills.”

>There was a relentlessness to their war. But, on some days, there was also a joy to it. After shooting a Taliban fighter, Richards and Deptola would often slap hands. Sometimes Richards would do a little celebration dance. “To the average guy, you’d look like a complete psychopath,” Deptola said. Over there, he said, “It made perfect sense.”

>The down time between missions — recuperating and waiting for another assignment — was often the hardest part. “We’d be like crack addicts,” Deptola recalled. “We were on that adrenaline drug. We’d get our high when we killed people, and the only way to get our high was to kill. We were honestly addicted to killing people.”
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comente lo que opinan jajaja

Women fight on a bench

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spq18MyCWAM

BUILD WALL

>“This is the same CBO that when Obamacare did come to the floor they made all those great promises about how it was going to lower premiums,” Republican Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana said during a markup hearing on Wednesday. “The CBO, and the president, talked about how it was going to reduce the deficit. Remember, that promise was broken. When the CBO comes up with a score, that’s great, but in the meantime we’re not going to wait for some unelected bureaucrats to provide relief from Obamacare to the American people.”

>The White House, which supports the current partial-repeal bill but is open to changes, also blasted the CBO this week.

>“If you’re looking to the CBO for accuracy, you’re looking in the wrong place,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said. “They were way, way off last time in every aspect of how they scored and projected Obamacare.”

>The CBO did overestimate the number of people who would enroll in Obamacare, and major providers continue to leave the program. Just 10.4 million people were enrolled last year, about half of the CBO’s estimate of 22 million.

>But fewer employers than anticipated stopped offering health insurance because of the federal law, meaning people who the CBO thought would enroll in Obamacare stayed in private insurance plans. Also, more people than anticipated turned out to be eligible for Medicaid, which further reduced the number of people in the law’s insurance exchanges.

>The CBO was much closer to the mark when it came to Obamacare’s overall impact on health care coverage. Just under 90 percent of Americans under age 65 had health insurance last year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2013, just before the exchanges were launched, 83.4 percent of people under age 65 had health insurance.

>Democrats protested moving forward with the bill in committee this past week before the CBO estimate was released, and they unsuccessfully offered amendments that would have stalled the legislation until a score was made public.

>“We’ve had no public hearings, no congressional budget score,” said Democratic Rep. Gene Green of Texas.

>Republicans, including former House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Joe Barton of Texas, say there will be a CBO score before the bill reaches the House floor later this month but that the agency is in need of an overhaul.

>“I don’t know what they do, they sit around and think great thoughts and everything on the issues,” Barton said. “One of the things we need to do is reform the CBO folks.”

>Barton, who said, “We’re all God’s children, we all want a CBO score,” during committee markups this week, said the CBO’s cost estimates could drastically change in the coming weeks as the bill moves through Congress.

>But the CBO score is just one piece in a giant lawmaking puzzle. House Speaker Paul Ryan must find enough Republican votes to pass his party’s biggest campaign promise.

>If cost estimates are too high, conservative members like Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul will have more ammunition in lambasting the law as a new federal entitlement. And if the number of people who could be booted off insurance is too high, moderate Republicans who represent districts with thousands of people on Obamacare could pull their tepid support.

>“This is going to take time to get all the other pieces in place, but we are committed to reforming this,” said Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Greg Walden, R-Ore.

>TONY PUGH CONTRIBUTED TO THIS REPORT.

hell yeah

We're making America great again.

With a republican party that is badass again.

They are starting to remember that they’re the ones who freed the slaves.

>>120378
Cool. Too bad their commie government suppresses this sort of virtuous behavior.

Their property will soon be taken and given to less deserving people.

Chinese gave up communism long ago when Mao died and Deng replaced him. They still have heavy corporate taxes tho

>>120439

Right thats why the government owns everything just like in communism

Commies gtfo

>Photographs and video footage of the crisis-hit Japanese towns and villages are reminiscent of Chernobyl, where wildlife continues to thrive despite high radiation levels in the aftermath of the world’s worst nuclear accident in 1986. With the absence of humans, Chernobyl, in Ukraine, has become a refuge for all kinds of animals, including moose, deer, brown bear, lynx and even wolves.

>Since the nuclear crisis in Fukushima in 2011, video footage taken by journalists has shown packs of badly unkempt dogs scampering across roads. Rat colonies have overrun abandoned supermarkets. Farmland, transformed into grassland, has become a perfect habitat for wild boars and foxes. Boars have caused about $854,000 in damage to agriculture in Fukushima prefecture, reported the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri.

>The local authorities in towns across Fukushima have hired teams of hunters to cull the boars. It is unclear whether those efforts will pay off, or whether they are enough to persuade former residents to return home.

>The authorities in the town of Tomioka say they have killed 800 so far, but officials there say that is not enough, according to the Japanese news media. The latest statistics show that in the three years since 2014, the number of boars killed in hunts has grown to 13,000 from 3,000.

>And in a government survey last year, more than half of Fukushima’s former residents said they wouldn’t return, citing fears over radiation and the safety of the nuclear plant, which will take 40 years to dismantle.

>The local Fukushima government recently published a guidebook of suggestions to help officials tackle the wild boar problem, including building special traps and using drones to ward off the animals.

>“It’s important to set up an environment that will make it tough for the boars to live in,” an official told the Yomiuri daily.
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>Elsewhere, the city of Nihonmatsu prepared three mass graves to dispose of 1,800 boars, but the local government says it is already running out of land.

>The city of Soma last year set up municipal incinerators specially designed to burn carcasses and filter out radioactive cesium. But the authorities said they lack the staff to stuff the animal parts down the furnace.

>"We need a strong hunting plan,” Hidekiyo Tachiya, the mayor of Soma, told the Asahi Shimbun at the opening of an incinerator last year. “I wish for the day to come when we can eat wild game again.”

>>120256
this is why nips need AR's. oink would be removed swiftly if they just took potshots at them

>>119586
The video was posted on Dec. 27, 2015, to a Facebook group called “Yes to Freedom — No to Islam.” Above the video, shared 415 times, were the words: “Consider your neighbor, it stinks when it burns.” One commenter wrote: “If I had the Quran I’d also burn it, that’s the only thing it’s good for. Gives a bit of heat.”

The man’s Facebook page was full of messages critical of Islam, refugees and women. In one post, he even wrote, “I hate children.”

The video did not get widespread attention at the time. The defendant — his true name is still not clear and under Danish law cannot be released unless he is convicted — was charged last year with hate speech, but the indictment was later changed to blasphemy, a decision prosecutors announced on Wednesday. A trial has been scheduled for June. If convicted, the defendant faces up to four months in prison or a fine.

His lawyer, Rasmus Paludan, argued that his client had burned the Quran in “self-defense.”

“The Quran contains passages on how Mohammed’s followers must kill the infidel, i.e. the Danes,” he said. “Therefore, it’s an act of self-defense to burn a book that in such a way incites war and violence.”

Mr. Paludan also noted that in 1997, a Danish artist burned a copy of the Bible on a news show by a state broadcaster but was not charged. “Considering that it is legal to burn a Bible in Denmark, I’m surprised then that it would be guilty to burn the Quran,” he said in a phone interview.

Mr. Paludan said his client “loves freedom of expression and loves Denmark.” Speculating on the decision to bring charges, he said, “The fear of Islam and Muslims may be far greater now, and the prosecution service may be a lot more apprehensive of Islam and its followers.”

>>119588
Jan Reckendorff, the regional prosecutor who brought the charge against Mr. Salvesen, said in a statement: “It is the prosecution’s view that circumstances involving the burning of holy books such as the Bible and the Quran can in certain cases be a violation of the blasphemy clause, which covers public scorn or mockery of religion.”

Jacob Mchangama, director of Justitia, a Danish civil liberties group, called the decision to file charges the latest sign of a declining respect for free speech in Europe. “It’s a sad development but one that mirrors developments elsewhere,” he said.

Mr. Mchangama said he thought the prosecutor was motivated by a desire to fend off the threat of terrorist attacks. “Danish authorities are afraid that the Quran burning could spark a new crisis, and if they say that they’ve actually charged this person, this is a way to appease or at least avoid such a crisis,” he said.

Blasphemy laws protect religious dogma from ridicule, and therefore the feelings of believers, Mr. Mchangama argues, while hate speech laws protect religious groups from degrading expressions.

Denmark is one of only five countries in the European Union that has a blasphemy law on the books. Some say the case could lead to a rallying cry to abandon such laws once and for all.

“One might speculate that this is one more straw on the back of the camel, so that more politicians will be in the favor of abolishing the law,” said Per Mouritsen, a professor of political science at Aarhus University. Danes, he said, generally believe that “Muslims should be able to stand up to ridicule as much as Christians would routinely put up with, and that everyone should take a joke.”

Mr. Mouritsen, noting the 1997 decision not to prosecute, asked, “Why should this all of a sudden be an issue, when everybody agrees that the blasphemy law is a thing of the past?”

>>119591
The decision to press charges was condemned by the right-wing, anti-immigration Danish People’s Party, which said it would push to rescind the blasphemy law.

“I’m not going to recommend people burn either Qurans or Bibles, but it’s a waste of public resources to spend time on such things,” Peter Kofod Poulsen, the party’s spokesman for legal affairs, told Ritzau, a Danish news agency. “We have more important things to busy ourselves with in 2017 than to take people to task over burning books.”

But Trine Bramsen, a member of Parliament and a spokeswoman of the Social Democrats, an opposition party, defended the blasphemy law. “I struggle to see how that we’ll achieve a stronger society, or how we’ll enrich the public debate, if the burning of holy books was permitted,” she told Ritzau.

The 2005 cartoon controversy was followed by deadly attacks that have left Western Europe deeply shaken.

In 2010, Kurt Westergaard, who had drawn a cartoon for Jyllands-Posten that showed Muhammad with a bomb in a black turban, narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, fleeing into a safe room at his home in the port city of Aarhus to escape a young Somali armed with an ax and a knife. In 2013, Lars Hedegaard, an outspoken critic of Islam and a defender of Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist who had lampooned Muhammad, was shot at outside his Copenhagen home by a gunman disguised as a postal worker.

In January 2015, 12 people died an assault on the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, which had lampooned Islam. The next month, the police in Copenhagen shot and killed a man after he killed someone outside a synagogue and sprayed bullets into a cafe where Mr. Vilks, the Swedish cartoonist, was speaking.

In Denmark, “the very idea that religion is taken seriously is the antithesis of being a good citizen,” said Mr. Mouritsen, the political scientist. “This is very important.”

Better bring your own quilts, old people.
Hawaiian Airlines is run by the worst type of corporate squeezers.

>>119770
the cheapest airlines in the world have seen the most success

http://theweek.com/articles/543294/icky-economics-behind-success-spirit-airlines

The fact is, they cost the least and due to travel booking sites, people always just buy the cheapest ticket available. Many airlines have taken to emulating companies like spirit. Airplanes make the bulk of their money from flying cargo, but maximizing how much a person will pay for a seat has always been tricky.

There are two approaches, charge the most you possibly can for a seat offering all kinds of luxuries, or charge the least you can for a seat and microtransaction people like crazy. Airlines have started to realize that the latter makes more money.

>>119774
You have succinctly described the economics of the industry. However, for an elderly man on a long flight a blanket is a health-related necessity.

That's a shame.

does anyone have a pic of what it looked like after the fall?

>>119478
> there was a storm at the time of collapse
https://youtu.be/K3dbd2YyeN0

poo in loo

>Ridley shot

>>120350
she batshit crazy