Tiger Pants 318

I become absolutely inconsolable if I am in a boat and there is lightning in the area...and in the area could mean 10 miles away. I think there is something about the complete and total lack of control over the situation that gets to me. I love to fish in the gulf, which is something that is made more enjoyable by fishing with your buddies. And my buddies are the last ones I want to see me acting like an absolute toddler.

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The agency made roughly 51,000 immigration arrests in July, federal sources say — the highest monthly total in its history and an average of about 1,645 arrests every single day.

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Great. Now how many of those people arrested/detained were released after their status was verified? Given the pressure that ICE is getting to meet certain quotas, their own agents will tell you that they are making "arrests" of H2A's, holding them for a day or so, then releasing them. I have buddies with H2A labor who have their guys wear their papers around their necks because they aren't given the chance to go to the truck and get it if asked. You don't have to like that there are immigrants here working, but it doesn't make them "illegal".

Putting aside the merits of the argument, Murrill sent a couple of attorneys in their early twenties, fresh out of law school to argue this case. By all accounts it was a pretty embarrassing showing. The AG may do better on appeal if they assign some grown-ups and appeal before the very conservative second circuit.

I still think it was a strange fight for the State AG to pick, but here we are.

Pretty sure that Andy Beshear went on record saying that he had heard that McConnell was dead. I suppose thats not "complaining" per se, but i'd definitely say it leans negative.

You should look at taking them out on the old bridge that runs along Hwy 98. There is a great instagram account called ColorEarthPro and he sends his camera down to the bottom every week or so and I'm blown away by how much is down there. Reds, Specks, triggers, etc.

I'd say cut mullet or shrimp should give you some action, but check out that account if you can.

I apparently fell victim to online rumors:

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(Lafourche Lake and Woolen Lake around Beouf WMA)

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Dude, please tell me everything about Woolen Lake. For 20 years, I hunted spitting distance from that lake and always said I was going to go give it a try one day. Never did but think about that lake often. Google Earth makes it look white perch-y.

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I thought the discussion was about whether socialism was good or bad, even in small doses.

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If thats the discussion, then I would say that republicans think its good when it suits them (see Trump's recent announcement of $11B for farmers) and democrats think it's good when it suits them as well (welfare programs, COVID bail outs, etc.)

I’d say that the continued existence of the American farmer, the US banking industry, and the airline industry is a good indicator of success. Again, I’m not saying it’s right or it’s wrong, but it is at its core a socialist concept.

And to answer your specific question (ignoring PPP loans, State and Local stimulus funding, EIDLs, etc) in addition to the airlines and airports, CARES Act provided financial relief to the livestock industry, hospitals, the DIB, higher education.

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Few of their policies seem feasible.

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Many socialist policies have been feasible within the US Government for decades and continue to enjoy bipartisan support today.

I really don't understand why so many people on this board think that socialists are exclusively democrats. Trump himself was touting this $12B payment to ease the impacts of the tariffs, with an additional 11B on the way from Congress. Bank bailouts, airline bailouts, crop subsidies...all socialist concepts that have the support of Republicans. They may hold their noses when they do it, but they do it all the same. We can debate the concept of "well what choice do they have? Do you want the banks, airlines, farmers, etc to go under?" No, I don't. But putting the government finger on the scale when a free-market economy fails a certain industry is more socialist than not.

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I'm curious how many other dark side IC snakes (Brennan, Clapper etc) could be charged in the same manner?

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This is an extremely slippery slope. Mishandling classified information is done on the reg in DC and the most common offenders are actually members of congress. To some degree, the mistrust of the IC by congress...and I'm only speaking about the feelings of Congress towards the IC...not all of the national security experts on this board...stems from the IC withholding information that congress feels it should know. Trouble is that once congress knows, its typically a matter of hours before the rest of the world knows.