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re: At this point is it even possible for the USA to get it's financial house in order?
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 9:00 pm to SlidellCajun
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Government spending has to remain flat.
That's the disqualifier. As inflation continues to creep up over the years, current deficit levels will have to rise to keep affording the same amount of largess. Without that largess, many politicians won't get re-elected so there's simply no way on God's green Earth they vote for such a restrictive (read: self-harming) spending plan.
That's why it's not possible for the federal government to get its financial house in order.
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re: If you're 5 feet from a car going 2 mph
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 8:08 pm to Schleynole
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Do you think you could move out of the way before getting run over?
If a law enforcement officer is in front of your car as you are in the process of being arrested, do you have a right to hit them with your vehicle as you attempt to flee arrest?
re: Most overrated item of 2026?
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 6:37 pm to BigNastyTiger417
Ozympic
Since they are unpaid days off, I hope they call them "Teedy Days" to reinforce how fricking bad she was and how voting for someone like that is going to hurt them again.
re: Starfleet Academy Academy Season 1 Discussion Thread. *Spoilers OK*
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 1:13 pm to CU_Tigers4life
I caught a scene of what I'm guessing is a future cadet, he was cuffed and being transported in a ship to, ostensibly, some prison. There is a pilot and two guards, within the first few seconds one of the guards mouths off some sort of aggressive comment like "you alive or dead". In that instant I knew how the scene would play out:
-guards would get needlessly physical because trope
-cuffed and seemingly dazed criminal would somehow beat the frick out of two armed guys who are twice his size, at the same time, and then beat the frick out of the pilot as well once he joined in the fray because... misunderstood bad boy trope
-possible craft problem, bad boy will also be lucky/omgbestevar pilot and survive
And sure enough, that's what it ended up being. :casty:
-guards would get needlessly physical because trope
-cuffed and seemingly dazed criminal would somehow beat the frick out of two armed guys who are twice his size, at the same time, and then beat the frick out of the pilot as well once he joined in the fray because... misunderstood bad boy trope
-possible craft problem, bad boy will also be lucky/omgbestevar pilot and survive
And sure enough, that's what it ended up being. :casty:
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You mean rapist?
Attempted rapist, and yes.
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Owners are rightfully fricked
From a news report I heard this morning, the summation made it sound like the EPA agents tasked with monitoring it over the years should be rightly fricked as well for being negligent.
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and that would be on them. or their agent.
Agreed. Astin's been around the business far too long to make a mistake like that. They should at least get a percentage of merchandise involved with their likenesses.
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The former Arizona senator is accused of having an extramarital affair with her bodyguard while in office—an alleged relationship that ultimately led to the collapse of a 14-year marriage, according to a federal lawsuit filed by the bodyguard’s ex-wife.
Does he go by "Vappie"?
re: Dog increased water intake
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 9:22 am to specchaser
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My beagle had that issue and it turned out to be Cushings
Very treatable but get some testing
Same with my mutt. With treatment it can be handled.
re: Drunk! But in your own self driving car?
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 9:20 am to LSUTANGERINE
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Got me to thinking. What would happen if someone was obviously drunk and, not only in their own self driving car, but in the back seat. And the car gets in a wreck or gets pulled over for whatever reason. With the police have a case for DUI?
Yes. DUI laws in many states (including Louisiana) penalize the ability to control a vehicle while impaired, not just actively steering. This includes being able to take it over, which would be the case even if you were in the back seat.
re: Couple lock teens in pen. Shoot them with BB gun. Refused to feed them. Have ‘fight night’
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 9:13 am to BottomlandBrew
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An employee of mine recently got two foster kids that are 20 months and 8 months old. The parents had them locked in an uninsulated shed with nothing but a wood floor and no windows.
The fricked up thing is the courts are still trying to give the bio-parents a shot at getting the kids back. Like, wtf?
That's the kind of thing I could get behind someone taking kids and fleeing the country over. Anyone doing that sort of shite to their kids isn't going to magically change just because the kids were taken away temporarily. That's some deep psychological damage going on.
re: When it comes to cheating, who is more to blame: the married or the mistress?
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 9:05 am to BamaCoaster
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When it comes to cheating, who is more to blame: the married or the mistress?
You're looking at it wrongly, but that's a common thing people do with this question.
It isn't "who is more to blame" but "who has the ultimate responsibility of preventing this" and that answer is the married person.
That said, it's the married person's responsibility. All of it. The unmarried person (assuming they are single) does not have any pledged responsibility to that person's marriage. Should they not engage? Absolutely, but they aren't under any real obligation (other than their own moral code) to engage nor not engage. The married person, however, is indeed under a series of obligations (moral, legal, even spiritual if they are religious).
At most, the married person's level of responsibility is so great that it makes any responsibility on the unmarried person's part essentially irrelevant.
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When JBE was first elected if I recall, he appointed former Congressman Charlie Melancon as Director of LDWF. He lasted for a year or two and left.
Your post got me curious as to how bad it really is so I looked up the last 10 LDWF heads.
Bryant Hammett - longtime state politician (represented district 21 from 1992-2006) appointed in 2006 by Blanco, left in 2007 to run for state Senate.
Robert Barham - A former state rep and state senator from 1994-2008 (when he was term-limited out), before then he served (at different times) as mayor and councilman of Oak Ridge. Appointed by Jinda in 2008 and served as LDWF head until 2016 (when he moved over to State Parks).
Charlie Melancon (as mentioned in your post) - Another former state politician, he served as state rep from 1987-1993, then served as US Rep of La's 3rd district from 2005-2011, then made the head of LDWF in 2016 by Edwards
Jack Montoucet - A former state rep (district 42) who served from 2008-2017 until he was appointed by Edwards. He then served until 2023 when he had to resign amid a bribery scandal.
Robert Shadoin - A former state politician who served as a state rep from 2012 - 2018 until he was appointed to run LDWF in an interim by Edwards.
Madison Sheahan - No prior political office but was then-Governor Kristi Noem's Political Director from 02/2021 - 01/2024, during that time (from 01/2023-01/2024) she also served as the executive director of the South Dakota GOP. She was appointed by Jeff Landry January 2024, served for just over a year then went to DC to work under Noem again.
Tyler M. Bosworth - No prior political office, was Chief of Staff for Sheahan, worked as a legislative analyst for the state House from 2018-2022, appointed to head LDWF in 2025.
Looking back over the last twenty years, we've had 7 different LDWF heads with 5 of them having come into the position after serving in state elected office, one who was completely inexperienced but was appointed as a favor to DC and now one who (at least at first glance) seems to have the least amount of politics involved in his hiring (which is a very low bar).
re: Is it legal for local law enforcement
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 7:37 am to SlowFlowPro
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If they're enforcing immigration law properly within the legal limits of that enforcement authorization
That's the natural assumption.
re: You'll know when your elected politicians in DC are serious about meaningful changes
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 6:01 am to Bass Tiger
I would gladly vote for someone who ran on such a platform. :usa:
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Surely they’re going to investigate that bitch. You know she’s dirty.
She's up to her gapped teeth in federal investigations at the moment.
re: Is it legal for local law enforcement
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 5:54 am to Tigertittie
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Is it legal for local law enforcement
To arrest federal agents? When those said agents are enforcing the law?
Let's get more specific: can ICE agents be arrested for enforcing immigration law?
No. The federal government has primacy in immigration and border issues.
This doesn't mean an overzealous cop or state/local administration won't try, but the attempt would ultimately fail in the courts (and it would be federal court).
re: Call it like you see it …former head of LDWF resigns as deputy director of ICE
Posted by Bard on 1/16/26 at 5:48 am to shutterspeed
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Show me an undersecretary, and I'll show you who's actually running a department.
It depends on the elected official doing the appointing. If they have an ounce of grey matter, they'll at least consider the undersecretary before bringing in some friend or doing a political favor. The most effective ones I've encountered have been those who have worked up the ranks and got promoted from the undersecretary position.
The head of LWDF is appointed by the Governor and has more often been a political appointment than a business one for a good while now.
I can smell cigarettes and cheap beer from that picture.
re: Queen Karoline obliterated a reporter for criticizing ICE at today’s press briefing
Posted by Bard on 1/15/26 at 4:34 pm to RelentlessAnalysis
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She threw a tantrum.
No, a tantrum is when you attempt to prove how much of a badass protestor you are by hitting an ICE agent with your vehicle over the fact that ICE is there to uphold the law.
What she did was expose him for the biased hack he is.
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