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Those opposed to nukes are opposed to first generation facilities adn the examples they can come up with from those facilities. They seem blissfully unaware of the reactors the navy has had shipboard and subboard these last 60 years or so. Reactors are incredibly safe now, and if constructed as small;er sized ones, like the ones on subs, fairly easy to shut down. Ii would suggest they can even be built on barges which can be rapidly sunk if the need arises. There is no reason they have to be land based, particularly near fault lines.

I wonder if the land supported more wildlife as a farm than as fallow land. During the migration the farm was very quiet and the sileage and the corm cobs which did not get harvested suported a lot of geese. maybe more than fallow land. it might have been a feeding station. Who knows whether as fallow land it has more food than as farmland. i understand they did try to encourage some berries adn wild roses to grow so there would be rosehips for the geese to eat, along with the berries.

The difficult thing was giving up the hunting we had on that land. As one might imagine corn fields immediately adjacent to a large marsh in the middle of the Great Lakes Flyway migration route yeilded some outstanding hunting.

I understand argument on the 14th amendment can be made as to whether "subject to jurisdiction thereof" precludes birth right citizenship if the baby has citizenship in another country by virtue of its parents citizenship. Very few parents formally renounce their citizenships to their native countries (if that process even exists, which it does not for many countries) and therefore their offspring might be said to be under the jurisdictions of those countries, at least the primary jurisdiction though subject to our secondary jurisdiction or our primary jurisdcition while they are temporarily here. I don't find that argument compelling. I do note that the 14th amendment arose in the context of emancipation. That problem was so overwhelming it dwarfed other concerns. Yes, a few voices discussed what the amendment would mean for immigrants, but the owerwhelming gist of its need was for emancipated slaves. In other words anchor babies today are an unintended consequence of adopting the 14th as written. That said, we could have known its application when it was passed had we thought about it. The Supremes have already ruled on the issue, and frankly Trump cannot change that with an EO. He can reboot the truncated discussion from 150 years ago, but he cannot change it. Perhaps that discussion can lead to an amendment, but the only way to change the settled meaning of the 14th amendment is with another amendment.

My brothers and I allowed a farm we owned to be sold into a conservation easement associated with the Horicon Marsh refuge. We took somewhat less than the commercial value of the land. Not much less, but somewhat less.

Fire is a proper part of land management. Pyrophytic plants require it to germinate seeds. Super hot fires from years of fuel build up are not healthy for pyrophytic plants. As for drilling and other extractive industries, well we now have a history of then impacts they have. If we are going to allow extraction we have to charge the apropriate amount so that trust funds for environmental harm remediation are put into place. Those who would exploit the land need to pay fully for the privilege. Extrators can no longer be allowed to profit, ignoring the costs of the damage done by their operations and leaving the remediation of that damage to future generations.

Well now we know who to go after.

Or aiding and abetting criminals. Definitions can be tricky.

Safety on a Glock is incorporated in the trigger. Pulling the trigger directly back unleashes the safety. The officer should not have tried to remove the gun with her finger inside the trigger guard. Makes me wonder if the Officer carried aGglock as many do. If so her reckless handling of the weapon would be even more inexcusable.

For the young Nazis are from the dark bowels of history. They have no more relevance to the young than say the Huns, Mongel, or Vandals. The Democrats need to find a slur which resonates better with our youth.

Maybe then support licensing of nuclear facilities. The less oil, coal, oil shale and natural gas we need for electricity production the better for many ecosystems. The less hydroelectric we need the better for those rivers and the entire riparian systems. Also, poterntially the less money we will need for our military as we will not have to project so much power over the middle east and Venezuela.

I thought the HB1 visa argument was that Americans have eschewed math and engineering studies in college in favor of wokeism with minors in infinitesimal imagined slights and aggressions. I thought the argument was that we simply do not produce the workers needed for the new economies. On top of that I thought ther argument was that American workers want 32 hour work weeks, from home, where they cannot be actively monitored and supervised, but from where they can insist on their own unique pronouns and who will sue for the the imagined aggressive tone of the font used in company e-mails. Companies are seeking that good old fashioned American work ethic your parents, grandparent, and great grandoarents had. That work ethic which has died out in this spoiled brat society but which flourishes in Mumbai

Is that by the same author who wrote Take the Dirt Road Home?

I am just waiting for a candidate to decide he will pardon anyone who votes for him for any crime committed against anyone who did not.

Snow is giving cover to the Albino Alligators so they can leave the swamp and hunt in the City. Keep a sharp eye out.

No sooner does Trump declare it the Gulf of America than it snows from New Orleans to Galveston. I'm not sure waht that means, but it might mean this thread can get a few more responses.

I am in agreement with you that he was not the officer to have in that assignment. Another officer and things may have played out very differently and Ms. Babbit may have only been in jail instead of in a coffin.

I am sharing a perspective with Strike, not quibbling. As for Chauvin I found his response justified as to the action, but not as to the duration of the action or his failure to assess moment to moment whether the action was still required.

I seem to recall this exact scenario playing out at a packing plant in Ft. Collins some years back.

I would have a difficult time getting to murder. The act was intentional, true, but the intent was to repel a mob surging towards an officer. Had he analyzed the situation more carefully he may have determined that a tiny female in a vulnerable perch up in a window sill as she was did not at that moment present a danger to him and so did not authorize deadly force by him. Still, with the noise, the angry vitriol ,the barrier being forcibly breached, radio reports of mob action, one can see how he projected the imminent danger. I find myself getting to maybe negligent or reckless homicide, but know in another split second or two, had she hit the floor standing and was followed by a few more, at that point i believe the Officer would have been justified. Strange to think that a second or less switches my determination, yet there it is.

I am looking forward to the implementation details.

I see now there was no such event as was promised. Turns out it is logistically a bit harder than simply coming hard with the rhetoric.

It is your own failure of imagination to suspect someone who has problems with both partisan groups is trying to play an angle. As for the rest of your post, posted as is you wont and style and habit in absolutes, yet again you go a bridge too far as there are so very few absolutes in life other than absolute zero and Absolut Vodka.

My pops use to tell me two wrongs don't make a right. He did so when I was in grade school and I would try to trot out a whataboutism. I grew out of that by the time I was in middle school.