Jimbeaux

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LA fires didn't help.

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This is true. But I also think it would be a mark of responsible and professional journalism to have better news coverage that wasn’t always simply chasing the “breaking news”.

They could call it News Updates or something similar. Even if there’s no real news to share.

Something like this. Maybe a reporter is assigned 2 dozen news stories to track. Every week, 15 minutes or one half hour of a news profram is dedicated to updating old stories.

“Regarding the Bourbon Street attack a month ago, I contacted FBI Special Agent in Charge William Williamson who said they are developing leads. There remains a belief that international terrorism was at play…yada yada. “

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I disagree. Immigrants who don't share our Western values should be called out and removed from the country.

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Values are not coterminous with ethnicity.

Cultures and values overlap but aren’t coterminous, especially at the level of the individual.

And finally, values is indeed a major defining characteristic of our nationality, but that’s a very different idea than blood and soil, which, BTW was an Aryan trope from the Prussians.

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Will was asked about being in a high profile relationship.

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High profile?

Until this very moment, I had no knowledge this stud was in a relationship and I had no idea who Ashlynn Nussmeier was.

So, a college football player is dating his teammate’s sister. Mildly interesting, I guess.

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Ever wondered why so many MAGA men kind of look the same?

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No never.

Because we don’t.

Except that we mostly don’t look gay. Except the gay Maga men, who generally look less gay than other gay men.

The black guys in my office were stating as a fact that Taysom Hill actively sabotaged Jameis Winston by dropping his passes on purpose, and that he obviously protested against the Saints picking Shadeur Sanders, because he doesn’t like blacks playing QB.

This was said completely seriously and all 5 of them nodded in agreement.

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It’s wild that someone wearing a mask after a heart transplant bothers y’all.

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It doesn’t.

It’s weird that me recounting my personal experience after transplant bothers you.

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Where do you fence oil? Just show up at a refinery with a few hundred barrels trailered asking if they want to make a deal?

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Great question. If I hadn’t watched Breaking Bad, I might be even more puzzled.

Two insights: Big money can buy off A LOT of people; and audacious crimes done in relative plain sight are easier to pull off than you might think (for a while).

I’m picturing these guys buying oil wells that are cheap and on the verge of going dry, and then magically producing good oil quantities beyond expectations. THEN, they have a money crunch, or simply get greedy, and start “pumping” 10x normal yields. That gets noticed somewhere along the chain in the competitive oil production markets, and then an investigation is started.

But that’s just my vivid imagination. I’m genuinely curious how it all played out.

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Not really sure what to think about this story. Kind of mind boggling actually.

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What’s causing your mental block?

The cartels had a bunch of oil, probably obtained nefariously, and needed to fence it.

Kinda smart on their part. It’s a physically portable commodity and not likely to be questioned. Apparently they were successful 2,880 times, but that last one tripped them up. Probably got complacent.

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The U.S. does not have a strong hand in this game.

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Wut? :lol:

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Not refencing to eutrophication. Just pointing out the how a channeled flow into the Mississippi Sound is more impactful to the Mississippi Sound than it would be if the flood water was spread out though the entire coastal delta like it naturally occurred before levees.

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Fair enough. But can we agree to at least put the qualifier, “sometimes”, in your sentence:

“Just pointing out the how a channeled flow into the Mississippi Sound is sometimes more impactful to the Mississippi Sound than it would be if the flood water was spread out though the entire coastal delta…”

In other words, sudden changes in conditions can and do occur in nature quite frequently which have adverse effects on localized species, including fish kills.

Now, I’ll also agree that a man-made cause which concentrates that sudden change in one area will Increase the adverse effects in that area compared to natural causes.

They question is this: is the increase worth it? That’s a more subtle question for which honest people can disagree.

But let’s not pretend that every man-induced fish kill is unwarranted or beyond what often occurs naturally.