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Seems a reasonable price to pay. Also, if turning over Hunter to Hamas could speed things up there that too might be good. The thing is, a quick google search does noty confirm your post.

Suddenly I have an urge to watch The Great Escape.

Sounds like what Reagan did. At the time i predicted, accurately, that it would not be a one-time grant of amnesty, as was absolutley promised. I predicted it would be a precedent. that time and again we would not be vigiklent,and taht each time folks would say, well lets grant them amnesty and start over, but this time wee really mean we will enforce our borders. So long as we are lenient folks will push the boundaries, violate the law, and then seek allies, like you, to become their apologists.

Perhaps they need him to perfect their Space Lazer.

Two years, four months, in my opinion.

I think of violence like Jello, and as their marketing saying goes, There's always room for Jello.

Well if it gets wet the only thing to do is to add baking soda and heat. (Assuming it got wet with water)

Certainly there will be greater biodiversity.

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.