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Hey, I resemble that remark! And it's no longer good farm land. I rezoned it so now it's called something else and and also subdivided it so now it has imaginary lines running everywhere. Too dangerous to farm now, unfortunately.

You've been spying on me! So, when one of your responsibilities is to keep the Earth First terrorists under control it seemed, at the time, politic to symbolically align ones new environmentally questionable business with the most dominant tree hugging group in the state. Hippies have long memories, it turns out.

But only a slight one. We immediately got to work on an Airports Protection Bill. When it was signed into law a couple of years later imagine my surprise to learn that my Airport was now protected against any local government action of any kind and, just to be sure, my county needed to add an overlay zone to their comprehensive plan that included unlimited expansion of parachuting activities and aircraft operations at Skydive Oregon Airport. Boy, I sure caught a break with that one.

Back before the DZ when I worked with the bird and bunny people to save the world I did a favor for a powerful lobbyist. Maybe a decade later when an anti skydiving bill was introduced in Oregon the other DZ's and USPA went the traditional route of crying and moaning and wishing it wasn't true. I, on the other hand, called in my favor and the thing was steered to the right committee and kept at the bottom of the inbox until the session ended. Once the problem was solved I was able to go back to deploring corruption.

Sorry for the delay, I was traveling. Skydivers are among the biggest whores anywhere. But we really aren't more easily bought than everyone else. Apparently, when the sheik decided to buy Airspeed the money was enough to get Eliana to ignore any ethical considerations.

Rational, I suppose, from a Conservative leaning, Libertarian, non-Progressive, Numerologistic, Randian point of view.

Dumbasses. It's a homemade cheese steak.

It'll be hard to pay less than zero. Meanwhile, back to hockey. The Canadian Biotech firm Providence Therapeutics, that was producing it's own mRNA vaccine, is uprooting for greener pastures claiming lack of federal support. If their claims are true, and I'll start by believing your Pharma Bro's are no more believable than ours, that's not good.

The wall isn't like the Keystone Pipeline, for example, in my analysis. There, cancelling the contracts amounts to lost value without any gain. Cancelling the wall not only cancels a dumb idea but also cancels a national embarrassment. For me, that alone justifies the cost.

Well I'll be damned, the Mexicans have been smuggling guns into the USA?

Yep. We're equal opportunity deplorers.

No slight to the famous and innovative Canadian Pharmaceutical industry but isn't is surprising the many ways the American taxpayer subsidizes our allies?

The real question is why aren't we charging you more?

Now that the Supreme Court has accepted New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Corlett things will either get vastly worse or somewhat better. Originalists Barrett and Gorsuch will be faced with addressing the historically flawed reasoning Scalia used to craft Heller. If they truly believe that preambles matter and there was no individual right to open carry under English Law things might just open up for some reasonable regulation. I highly doubt either will be true to their professed legal philosophies but then anything is possible.

Wow, just wow. And you fancy yourself intelligent, informed, and you vote. Here's a news flash, yo, the people you vote for did their best to eviscerate the ACA at every opportunity just so you could say it wasn't a great plan and keep the delusion wheel spinning.

Dude, you can be such a jerk. You're supposed to announce SPOILER first.

And who better to set those standards than 6 tight assed conservative Catholics? You're in Good Hands with No State.

It's in your nature.

This is the sadness of Brent Hutchings on full display, again. There is no history, there is no future, there is only the moment at hand and another opportunity to stir the pot. I'd ask you what your point is but you'd miss the point of my asking. The truth is you have nothing in your lunch box worth eating. We Biden voters were upfront and consistent that we wanted anyone but Trump. Posting straw man drivel like this gets you nowhere except more deeply into richravissa's good graces. Wonderful for you. Suffice to say that Biden lost his train of thought for a moment. That simply confirms that he is human and thinks. Now, stable geniuses like yourself may never have a brain fart but some of us do and we aren't instantly diagnosed with dementia even on SC. Please give it a rest as you are losing your novelty.

You are freakin' hilarious. Too bad it's unintentional.

Unfortunately too many people choose to interpret it to mean smacking them down, taking away the fun toys, replacing their muscle cars with 1961 Plymouth Belvedere's, and putting Deputy Fife in charge of the whole shebang.

You do until rhetorical questions are no longer needed to get simple answers from entrenched interests. Bringing a gun to a knife fight, like it's an Indiana Jones movie, is how you should defend your home and family not police the community. Of course, that just leads us back to the railroad track switch for another Sophie's choice: are we better off to sacrifice a few people to citizen on citizen knife attacks if in return we no longer have kids being shot in the back because the local cop didn't want to get his brand new swat team looking uniform dirty chasing him down? Stopping the chase and passing off responsibility to different cops may not be as fun as 100 MPH chases through school zones or emptying your service weapon into a car's rear window but maybe, just maybe, we truly should be organizing police response in layers and training the cops very differently. We shouldn't defund the police; we might even need to give policing more money. That answer isn't obvious. What is obvious is that we currently, and far too often, are not doing things right.

How does the same situation play out in a world where the cops aren't armed and free to shoot?

Oh, blow it out of your Covid mask. I, for one, laughed when I read it and the face of a Ferengi flashed in my mind. He was being both clever and funny either one of which would up your game.

In this case who were the evil people?