Mark Davis

The Palestinians in particular have issues when it comes to extremism. There's a reason that even other Arab/Islamic countries have been unwilling to accept them in any significant quantities. They can't vet them with any certainty. To act as if we can somehow vet them, absorb them and these problems magically go away is not realistic.

You are using a singular example to identify someone who is friendly to you. Maybe he's the best guy in the world, let's give him all the benefit of the doubt. I still contend we cannot tell when bringing people from that region of the world. Their culture is rife with pro terrorist indoctrination. Because of kids being taught that from a young age, there's nothing we can do about a large proportion of them from being pro terrorist, sympathetic, enabling, willing to help, God forbid become a willing terrorist. I believe we agree that they teach these things to young Palestinians. Therefore, each person you bring in from that region poses a disproportionate risk to my family and yours. You can't find a way to weed out the good from the bad, and there is a disproportionate amount of bad because of those teachings. I'm not trying to personalize this argument to you by giving personalized examples of what could happen, but I'm not willing to risk my family for what you would like to believe looking through an idealist prism. I don't know that you are so much a bleeding heart, but I feel you're more of an idealist. Since what this country is about is an opinion, mine is different in that I feel you've gone a little askew. Yes, it's about individuals from all over, individuals who aspire to be American and assimilate. What we are seeing from that region are migrants who have no interest in our ways, they in large percentages hate the West. They, in large, don't want to live like the West, they want the destruction of the West. Europe is learning this the hard way and I'm not willing to go down that path.

It may not make them criminals. But it does unfortunately make their society in totality too dangerous to allow into our country. When you have children being raised from birth to support terrorism, it's poisoned their minds beyond what can be changed for the populace as a whole. Just like cheering the bodies in the streets might not be a crime, it speaks to the mentality of the population. I agree the majority aren't criminals, but that sympathetic to terrorism belief is something that has been taught since childhood we just can't remove. We don't need terrorist sympathizers in our country due to the risk of them acting, teaching their children this ideology, or aiding someone who would take such actions.

Sure one of us is wrong. But there are contradictory studies so while factually one of us has to be wrong it’s disingenuous to act as one side has indisputable facts. The situation above shows one example.

We’ve gone over this before many times. You know there are plenty of studies I can cite that show the opposite. Let’s not speak in certain terms even if we both believe our side of the issue is correct. I feel your belief is wrong just because of things like this and distorting the numbers. As certain as you are you’re right I'm just as certain I am.

I for one am shocked they underestimated the costs of this. My only real question is on a scale of 1-100 how much of it was intentional so they could skew the economic impact of illegal immigration and how much of it was just fiscal incompetence.

I wonder if this cost made it into the analysis of all these left wing think tank pieces about the net cost/benefit of illegal immigration on the U.S.

Crews has great speed and all the tools supposedly. Worried about his average a bit though until he shows he can do it at the top level. Hard to deny the upside though because you know he's gonna run. I milked a few SB out of him during the playoffs last yar plucking him off the waiver wire to fill in for my OF with off days.

Nashville is dying for a team. They've come a long way from the old days of Greer Stadium. They used to be owned by a guy named Larry Schmittou who wanted to bring MLB to Nashville. He used to get MLB teams to play games in Nashville on their way north from FL Spring Training. He and the mayor had a long running feud so the city let Greer get into bad disrepair and appear much older than it really was. Moving out of Greer and going back to Sulphur Dell has made a big difference.

To me that's kind of the point. He's here as a courtesy of the US, a privilege. Regardless of whether the crime is tresspass for the Columbia incidents or supporting a terrorist organization, one would think he would be more appreciative and not commit crimes and expect to be allowed to stay. He's not merely spoken dissent at a protest as some here want to make it out to be like he's a member of the crowd who marched a bit then went home.

Except the government is collecting the tariffs. Effectively this is government income in the form of a tax. I'm usually for lower taxes and have some reservations about this situation, but saying we gain nothing isn't correct. It is income into the federal government, a reduction of deficit/debt. It's essentially a foreign goods consumption tax. There's also an impact of bringing jobs to the US to save these tariffs on the part of foreign producers.

Not to mention if when you are ready to retire the market is going to end up in that same spot, short term lower prices actually help build wealth over time as you average in your purchases.

I for one was shocked that the leadership of BLM wasn't on the up and up. If you can't trust Marxists, who can you trust?

So we have Tlaib and only 13 others out of the whole caucus? That must be some motley crew. I haven't looked yet but I'll bet my house that includes the likes of Ilhan Omar, Pressley, and our newest Gong Show contestant, Al Green.

It may be worth asking why these admitted “bad actors” always seem to show up at these specific types of protests.

The short of it is that he’s not an American and any acts whether occupying buildings illegally or supporting Hamas should give rise to him losing the privilege of being here. It’s pretty simple. My moral code tells me American kids shouldn’t be prevented and/or afraid to go to class, especially by a foreign national we have extended the courtesy of being on our soil. If he can’t abide by that, then he should go.

The left just keeps gifting Trump these wins on 80/20 or better issues. We can split hairs whether he directly supports Hamas, or just those in his groups do. Whether he himself occupied those buildings illegally or just negotiated on behalf of those who did. To the average person and voter, it's a distinction without a difference. There are some legit concerns over the issues with tariffs going on right now, but the left insists on diving off a cliff on some of these things that the average person just thinks is crazy. They're basically giving Trump cover fire in the news cycle with stuff like this.

I've always been a fan of fading SP early. Every time I give in and feel one is too good to pass they have a bad year or get hurt.

Always pull for him because I saw his dad play a lot in AA ball. Makes me feel so old.

Who are you guys using for your leagues? I've always used Yahoo, not sure if there are any better free ones out there. I'll have to create a team for the year to keep the interest up for myself. Given up on doing football these days.

Man if I knew this answer I'd be worth 9 figures from trading options. I can just tell you from my experience, no matter when you try to do it, it tends to backfire. For every person who times it right, there are ten quietly sitting who did it at the wrong time and lost money. It's not just going cash at the right time, but buying back in at the right time. Long term, if you aren't in the market you are going to be behind so you need a re-entry strategy before you ever leave, and you need that strategy to be implemented win or lose and be prepared to have to buy back in higher if the lower days don't come. It's like betting on something that's right 45% of the time, short term you may pull it off, but long term the market moves higher so you have to have an end game in mind. Volatility makes it seem like every day is going to be down. But for all the sales occurring, there are people making the opposite bet.

I think the concern would be diseases that are pretty rampant in inmate populations.

They won’t end up in NATO. Nobody is going to give Ukraine a boots on the ground guarantee. Especially not with an active conflict going on. That’s why I think peace has to come first.

Can someone explain why the pay your fair share folks are anti-tariff other than it’s Trump? And for the record, I don’t think tariffs are preferable. However, I don’t have a problem using them as incentives to get policy/trade concessions from other nations. We need to be honest that having lower tariffs here than other countries may lead to lower prices but it does drive production out of the U.S. One must balance those two things when evaluating their merits. They are in essence a tax collected by our government on foreign made goods. They would be inflationary to the point of either increasing foreign production costs or shifting those costs so that there is a cheaper domestic alternative, bringing jobs onshore to mitigate some of the inflation on the shelves. At the end of the day they are mostly equivalent to a consumption tax paid by the end user.

I have a timber stand on some rural land. Teaching my daughters about it as they get older so they know how to manage it and use it for income over time. Rough land not good for much other than meth labs and running into rattlesnakes or water mocs along the stream that runs on it.