- ISPs claim our browsing history and app use are not sensitive information and they should be allowed to share (sell) it freely. (H/T JB)
- Can “convervatives” win the hearts and minds of millennials?
- “Right and Rules.” MJR comes up with another short story with a message.
- We suspected it all along. Being a lawyer requires being a drunk. At least so claims one drunken lawyer.
- Why losing a pet can be harder than losing a human friend or relative.
- Well. So much for the Trump administration respecting property rights. It’s eminent domain time on the border.
- And if you thought the gun world had seen the outer limits of tacticool, you were wrong. For Operators only, of course!
- 7 Words, the movie. No, this isn’t about George Carlin’s famous seven words — though it is about words that can inspire governments to harm you. This is about a courageous priest who delivered seven sermons aimed at the young people of Romania during the barbaric Ceauşescu reign. Gheorghe Calciu had already served 16 years in the most hellish prisons the Soviet system ever devised. His “7 Words” would send him back to prison under a death sentence. Very obscure movie. Not on Netflix or IMDB, though a trailer for it is on YouTube. Only one place I know to get it — through that link, NFI. (Thank you, friend D. for hunting it down and sending me a copy of this incredible freedomista/religious documentary.)
Winning over millennials? I’m finding a trend currently not just with millennials but everyone except of course the very hard core; tuning out; not dropping out per se but tuning out, a luxury available to everyone as long as there’s food on the table, and it’s feels good too.
When you lose your best friend it is hard but I have found recovery quicker than with similar ones that were human (a lot harder to find the human ones methinks), maybe because I get a new dog pretty quickly afterwards however my dogs never leaves me, they are all on my mantel but then again my cats are in the back yard after they pass; that might make me a bigot even though I loves them too but that’s more of a love hate relationship but then again the dog can be a stinker too however they seem to want to be forgave at least, the cat could give a crap but I also like that about them too.
On the eminent domain, you can thank SCOTUS for ruling that public benefit is the same thing as public use. Dating back to the early years of urban renewal, it was the precedent for Kelo–which reaffirmed public benefit.
Feds bein’ feds, they’ll probably want to build the wall along Santa Elena Canyon, in case somebody wants to jump a 1,500 foot ditch. (Go to Google Earth and type in Santa Elena Canyon Brewster County.) The Park also has Mariscal and Boquillas Canyons of similar depth and roughly eight-mile length.
Last I heard, BBNP caught 600 wetbacks one year. Probably a high-point year.