Politics

[Tanks]

Nikki Haley would be the most logical and effective person the governor could appoint in the interim. She would win in November and has the traditional conservative credentials and support that would fit with those of us who supported Graham and his views on international issues.

Except Trump would never endorse her, and would endorse someone else. She burned her bridges with Trump by daring to run against him and not concede right away.

 

[Tanks]

Russian training.

https://packaged-media.redd.it/x5a6at0wesch1/pb/m2-res_480p.mp4?m=DASHPlaylist.mpd&var=sgpssan&v=1&e=1783897200&s=ad48727cdbf05a8b66508c2bcd31af1c07be1443

 

[Borderer]

I might have missed it an apologies if so, but will the Namibia Land Reform Bill have much of an impact? It looks like it will prevent land purchases by non-citizens and allow for expropriation of all foreign and some Namibian owned land.

 

[Alistair]

From an economist standpoint that is very true. On an individual human level they could be very meaningful to some of the recipients and make a difference in their life that helps them better provide for a future generation. Economics aren't the only way to measure success.

There is another economic consideration to the Trump accounts, which is either positive, or negative depending on your worldview.

That $3bn a year is required to flow into US stock markets. Those are the only investment vehicles allowed; passive ETFs tracking US markets.

Typical capital inflows are around $150-300bn into the SP500 in a 'normal' year, so this represents a 1-2% bump in total money available to US companies.

The right wing view is of course that this is good for the recipient, which undeniably, it is. They'd also argue that this is the US government providing companies cash to fund investment and growth, which... is debatable.

The left wing view is that this is a direct subsidy into US large cap companies, most of whom are already enjoying vastly overinflated valuations. This provides an artificial crutch to keep their share price high by providing forced buyers. The main beneficiaries are likely to be large existing shareholders and internal company execs who can draw big bonuses from an increasing share price. Which again, arguably is true.

Personally?

Issuing government bonds, to allow US companies to inflate their share prices sounds an awful lot like government subsidy of US companies. As a guy who owns shares in those indexes, I'm not mad. As a guy who tends towards free markets and small government, I don't love it.

 

[Scott CWO]

I agree they are nuts. If your wealthy there are already countries to move to with low or no income taxes and pretty much zero crime ( Dubai, Saudi, Singapore) and their ridiculous in that article the corporations already vote with there dollar in the states ever since the Supreme Court made it legal for them to do so. I wonder what they really want to do in that land that they cand legally do in Monte Carlo, or Dubai.

I think you can take Singapore off that list. My brother-in-law is in upper management at Apple and moved there with his British wife. Singapore wouldn’t let her stay any longer even though she is married to him and they had a child while there. They moved to Austin now. I’m guessing I’m a bad/good influence? While I was in Austin helping them unpack, he bought a new Ford F-250 Platinum diesel and several guns! He is doing his best to re-acclimate!

 

[Scott CWO]

I don't know if it's similar, but I contracted Giardia once on a Wilderness Elk hunt in Colorado.
Miserable doesn't even describe it

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Well maybe that’s why Colorado is so full of shit now? Lol.

 

[Killingtime]

I think you can take Singapore off that list. My brother-in-law is in upper management at Apple and moved there with his British wife. Singapore wouldn’t let her stay any longer even though she is married to him and they had a child while there. They moved to Austin now. I’m guessing I’m a bad/good influence? While I was in Austin helping them unpack, he bought a new Ford F-250 Platinum diesel and several guns! He is doing his best to re-acclimate!

That’s good to know. I wouldn’t personally move there anyways since I’m not a fan of authoritarian governments but it seems like a nice place

 

[Scott CWO]

That’s good to know. I wouldn’t personally move there anyways since I’m not a fan of authoritarian governments but it seems like a nice place

Agreed. It’s beautiful and clean but authoritarian and not so friendly.

 

[cwpayton]

10 cases already reported in Arizona.
Apparently, it's coming from imported produce.

No say it aint so , the old unwashed lettuce ,dirty handed trick

 

[cwpayton]

Those who wish to erase our history choose to erase the fact that our nation was forged by men to be proud of, men who were willing to sacrifice their lives for their nation and their beliefs. We owe them a huge debt, regardless of which side they fought on.

Personally IM a fan of Nathan Bedford Forrest , one of the great Generals the south produced AND I believe an uneducated man ,certainly not an academy grad. That recked havoc and struck fear in the union ranks. Got some bad press after the war but corrected himself later . He was a revered calvary leader of men.

 

[Ray B]

What's sad about the Civil War is that it could have been avoided. Prior to 1850 the the wealthiest commerce was based on agriculture, with the industrial revolution the wealth shifted from agriculture to industry. The result was that wealth shifted from the South to the North. additionally, agriculture was becoming mechanized. The cost of a slave was increasingly a negative sum. the slaves cost more than they produced relative to other production options. Given a few years the slave ownership in the US would have followed the rest of the western world and it would have died a natural death.

 

[Brent in Az]

Well maybe that’s why Colorado is so full of shit now? Lol.

You just need to keep the east slope turds from infiltrating the west slope.....or is it too late?

 

[cash_tx]

I found this to be a very informative first-hand account of the attack on the USS Liberty by one of the survivors:

 

[jruby]

I am fan of General Sherman. When my great great grandfather came over from Ireland he was enlisted under Sherman. My dad used to have his uniform and rifle. Never held a very high opinion of those that wanted to separate this country.

 

[Scott CWO]

You just need to keep the east slope turds from infiltrating the west slope.....or is it too late?

Way too late and the 14 metro counties overrun everyone.

 

[cash_tx]

Forgive me if my memory is off, but wasn't one of the other contributing factors to the Civil War some dispute over the differences in tariffs between the Northern and Southern shipping ports?

 

[jruby]

Forgive me if my memory is off, but wasn't one of the other contributing factors to the Civil War some dispute over the differences in tariffs between the Northern and Southern shipping ports?

Never heard that before and google says it's a myth. Doesn't mean google AI is right.

 

[Red Leg]

Personally IM a fan of Nathan Bedford Forrest , one of the great Generals the south produced AND I believe an uneducated man ,certainly not an academy grad. That recked havoc and struck fear in the union ranks. Got some bad press after the war but corrected himself later . He was a revered calvary leader of men.

Absolutely. One of my ancestors on my father's side - West Tennesseans all - was a young cavalryman with him. Sadly, or perhaps fortunately for the future of the Republic, Davis knew almost nothing about Forest until fairly late in the war. One of his most famous maxims was "Get'em skeered, and keep'em skeered." He was a genius at doing just that. He also was not afraid of combat. At the battle of Fallen Timbers in 1862, he charged ahead of his troops and ended up completely surrounded by Union soldiers, at which point he was shot in the back. Despite the severe wound, he managed to grab a nearby Union infantryman by the collar, heave him up onto his horse behind him to use as a human shield, and galloped away while the Union soldiers fired at him. Once he was out of range, he dropped the soldier to the ground and escaped. He was not afraid of personal combat. Shortly after the war he dryly noted "I was a horse ahead at the end." He had 29 hoses shot out from under him, while he had personally killed 30 Union soldiers in close combat.

 

[Red Leg]

What's sad about the Civil War is that it could have been avoided. Prior to 1850 the the wealthiest commerce was based on agriculture, with the industrial revolution the wealth shifted from agriculture to industry. The result was that wealth shifted from the South to the North. additionally, agriculture was becoming mechanized. The cost of a slave was increasingly a negative sum. the slaves cost more than they produced relative to other production options. Given a few years the slave ownership in the US would have followed the rest of the western world and it would have died a natural death.

I agree, and would have ended with far less residual anger. Even Brazil, where agricultural practices were far more primitive, had ended slavery by 1888 (last nation in the Western Hemisphere). It is unlikely to have survived much later than the early seventies in the Southern states.

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Regarding a possible successor for Lindsey Graham: Trey Gowdy, although he might not be interested in going back to Washington. Despite having really bad hair, Gowdy is sharp and well spoken. He also has the Fox News pedigree, which appears to be very important to Trump.