I don’t think the birds care.

The strikers have reached a tentative agreement.

Engine Shrinkage? Is that from running them in COLD water?

JMU went 32-3 this past season. They had won their past 14 games in a row before this contest. They are probably under rated due to their conference. They might go a ways in the tournament until a team can handle their speed. That still does not excuse the poor performance by WI.

What ruling do you think that they got wrong? The recent case about keeping Trump off of ballots was ruled 9 to zero.

Finally a civilized response. Scotus is supposed to make rulings without any relevance to current politics. This is just not the case. Clarence Thomas is a joke. His wife needs to be tried for conspiracy to commit election fraud. He did not attend the State of the Union address as most of the other present and former judges did. So he at least knows how to recuse himself from something.

As far as answering your question, leaving the abortion issue up to the states was insanity. The legal chaos from that is still happening. Red states trying to out compete with other red states to se who could come up with the most restrictive rulings. 6 weeks is totally ridiculous. They should have known what the outcome of that would be. Only reason that passed was the addition of the 3 judges trump installed with the help Of Mitch McConnel. trump specifically picked these judges based on their commitment to rule against Roe.

As far as the CO decision, I expected that. The decision appeared to be 9-0, but 4 of the 9 dissented including 1 conservative judge.

Although not a ruling yet, their decision to delay the case by a total of 10 weeks is giving trump the delay he might need to escape prosecution from most of the issues HE BROUGHT ON HIMSELF. You cannot tell me that they are not aware of the consequences of delaying this. I do believe they will not grant him total immunity, but then it might be too late.

Do not forget about Gavin Newsome chomping at the bit. Bringing his California views and accomplishments to the rest of the USA.

Hopefully he is in the ballot in 4 years. If there is a ballot.

Jack Smith asked SCOTUS to take up the immunity case way back last December. He was denied. The case ended up in the 2nd highest court in the land, The DC Circuit Court of Appeals. They ruled against trumps claims of immunity with a 57 page report. This should have been enough for SCOTUS, but now it takes them 2 weeks to decide they now need to take the case and then another 8 weeks before hearing arguments. This gives trump exactly what he wants, delay, delay, delay. I do not have to say what this smells like.

He says whatever he wants to fit the moment and situation and can do a 180 in a second. I have heard a summary of his plans from more than MSNBC. He even says what he is going to do. The difference between the 24 hour news networks, all have political agendas, However 1 of the 3 main ones does not mind lying to their viewers ie: Faux News.

If trump gets in, you can forget about term limits.

What has the supreme court done for us lately other than anything trump wants.

sounds like the making of a country song.

So much for the request for non politics. I also did not watch ot read most of the comments.

Not sure about the newer models, but I have a Spinfisher V and it is definatley NOT watertight.

Been quite a few years, but there is a river (may be tidal) that crosses the road to the old downtown area. You can go down below and bank fish. There might be locals there handlining. I caught a couple of jacks and gad one almost strip my reel before it broke off. There was some surface action also but I did not have a lure. I was using a jig with cut bait. There were jacks laying on the ground. The locals do not want them. Jacks like a fast bait. I have caught many on jig and plastic.

Misconception 2: “Building a wall would greatly reduce heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and fentanyl trafficking.”

Proponents of a border wall often claim that it would help the United States solve its opioid addiction problem by blocking heroin smugglers from Mexico. This reveals a misunderstanding of how cross-border smuggling works.

The vast majority of the drug that enters from Mexico does so through “ports of entry”—the 48 official land crossings through which millions of people, vehicles, and cargo pass every day. “Heroin seizures almost predominantly are through the port of entry and either carried in a concealed part of a vehicle or carried by an individual,” then-U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske told a congressional committee last year. “We don’t get much heroin seized by Border Patrol coming through, I think just because there are a lot of risks to the smugglers and the difficulty of trying to smuggle it through,” he said.

“The most common method employed by Mexican TCOs [Transnational Criminal Organizations] involves transporting drugs in vehicles through U.S. ports of entry (POEs),” the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) reported in its 2016 National Drug Threat Assessment. “Illicit drugs are smuggled into the United States in concealed compartments within passenger vehicles or commingled with legitimate goods on tractor trailers,” according to the document.

Heroin is small in volume. “It’s a relatively small amount—40-50 tons, we think—of heroin that feeds the heroin epidemic in the United States,” Gen. John Kelly, then the commander of U.S. Southern Command, told a Senate committee in 2015. The amount has probably increased somewhat today, but still takes up little space: all the heroin consumed in the United States in an entire year could probably fit into two 40-foot shipping containers.

Now, imagine the contents of those containers broken up into tiny amounts and scattered across vehicles, luggage, and cargo shipments and sent through 48 land crossings, plus airports, over the course of 365 days. The difficulty explains why in 2015, the DEA reported that U.S. authorities managed to seize 6.8 tons of heroin, an amount equal to perhaps one-seventh of Gen. Kelly’s demand estimate.

The dynamic is similar for other compact-volume drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine, and fentanyl, which are overwhelmingly seized at ports of entry. Cannabis, which is larger and bulkier, appears to be trafficked more frequently in the areas between the ports.

With a small, compact, and expensive product, and a six-sevenths chance of avoiding detection and seizure, it’s unsurprising that most heroin smugglers don’t bother to transport it between the ports of entry, in the sparsely populated or wilderness zones where proposed border fencing might be built.

The ports of entry are a big part of the picture. Yet while the Trump administration is loudly proposing ambitious, expensive wall-building plans, its budget requests would do very little to address the US$5 billion in documented needs, from renovations to staffing, at the ports of entry.

Four Common Misconceptions about U.S.-bound Drug Flows through Mexico and Central America

Pay particular attention to Misconception #2

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/18/1118271910/many-americans-falsely-think-migrants-are-bringing-most-of-the-fentanyl-entering

Immigrants are not the ones bring in the drugs

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-prisoner-swap-6-billion-spotlight-after-hamas-attacks-israel-2023-10-09/

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I tried 2X yesterday to post on an earlier topic so we will see if this makes it.

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big_g wrote:

Do people know, when he said that “Mexico” would pay for it… he didn’t physically mean they will hand over peso’s… he meant that all the contraband, black market items, illegal drugs and other stuff that streams over the border for free, will halt… therefore hindering the Mexican cartels and hoodlums, basically making the wall pay for itself.

Maybe that is what he meant, but that is not how most people took it. It is easy to change your story when things do not work out. He is a prime example of that. Speaking of working out, how well is that drug control excuse working out?

The money for the wall was appropriated in 2019 and cannot be spent on anything else. Only 20 miles will be built and Mexico will not be paying for any of it just as they never paid for any of the existing wall.

Caught a 2# walleye on a buzzbait once.

You should be able to unscrew the 4 screws holding the seat to the pedestal.

Gitchi Gummi wrote:

Genuinely curious if you all think DJT is too old to run for president in the next election? I recall many here thinking Biden was too old to run for the last election. At the time of the 2024 election, DJT will be older than Biden was at the 2020 election.

Age no, unfit yes

The major network nightly news shows only have 30 minutes to show about as much news headlines as possible. Of this 30 minutes, is about 7 minutes (not sure if they count the early sign off as part of the 7 minutes) of commercials and 2-3 minutes of human interest stories. So you are only getting 20 minutes (if that) or so of actual news. They really do not have much time for political bias and typically have spokesman from both side with quick opinions. You can find bias rankings on the internet. Most of the sources rank the national media news as center bias. The National Desk was ranked center/right in 1 ranking I saw. I would not watch a news network that intentionally lies to its viewers in order to try and maintain their audience.

Meat packers are making record profits. There is also an ever deepening truck driver shortage. A year ago, oil companies were making record profits.

A sensible place to have a lot of cameras would be the Capitol of the US.

They will bite anything. I have even caught one on a buzz bait. I catch most on jig and plastic, also a lot on cranks. My biggest was a 34″ on a jig and plastic using ultralight. Jig and crawler piece fished near a current break should get you in business.