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What the Hell happened to the Irish?


Few hundred years of getting fked by the crown while your best and brightest emigrate away.
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I would suggest taking a minute on this.

The national park service was recruiting gays and trannies and a bunch of them could be in their probationary period.

The last evil admin was trying to commie up everything with people that hate America. The park service was one of their attempts to commie us up.


This.
This.
This.

I'm an avid park user and advocate. Some of the circles that put me in disgusted me before 2025...their reactions now fall in line with my prior assumptions and the theme of your reply. A major cull is needed. These are some of the most insane, delusional, entitled facking leftists in the country.

I also love the idea mentioned earlier about making foreigners pay double. I'm sick of uncouth tourists who crowd our most precious spaces. Hell, it recently took me over 20 minutes to hitchhike in a crowded national park because half the folks spoke no English and the other half seemed on guard and afraid of everyone.
What I took away from the Bloomberg interview

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What if the S (spending) actually went down?


Every forecast is built on the rate of increase of spending

Let em hate Blue. I've thought about it too!

(Don't do it)
I started to crack a joke about most of those Louisiana kids being lifetime welfare recipients. Then I looked up the food stamp data.

From 2004-2024 participation went up 23% while dollar amount of benefits went up 130%!
frick them all. frick them in the dirt. frick them in the mud. It's our last chance and I hope we use it.

re: Grand Canyon

Posted by JoeBobRuby on 11/3/24 at 7:12 am
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TulaneLSU


If you do any overnight backpacking check out Tanner and Beamer. I've been to the confluence twice and it's a special journey to a holy place. Not for the faint of heart or soft of feet.

re: Grand Canyon

Posted by JoeBobRuby on 11/3/24 at 6:51 am
You'll be fine staying in Tusayan if you start early in the morning. Sunrise is a little after 7am so I'd recommend arriving at the gate before 6am. This will allow you to beat traffic and get to the rim early.

Check for viewpoints along the map for sunrise. Don't feel the need to go straight to the visitor's center.

Once you do few ride and stops at viewpoints I recommend SK down to Ooh Aah and/or BA down to Mile and a Half. Both are 1.5 down and 1.5 back up. If your crew is stronger than that I recommend SK down to Skeleton Point (bonus points if you hike down to Skeleton Point with headlamps to wait for sunrise). SK is completely dry so bring twice the amount of water you think you may need. At worst you'll be able to share with someone less prepared on the climb back out.

For a quiet, flat, 1 mile walk to the rim check out Shoshone Point along the East Rim drive. You'll need to mark it on a map as the parking lot is nondescript with no signage. Please don't be an a-hole with noise and littering if you visit Shoshone. Locals and wildlife photographers value that quiet spot away from the masses.

ETA: also drive out to Desert View watchtower. Out there you can see the canyon bend away from it's North-South orientation toward the West. As you see it realize the elevation is higher westward and the river seems to take an impossible path "uphill" as it veered west. This is caused by geological uplift after the river had already been established.

Read up on the layers and their approximate ages before going so that you can appreciate the impossible scale and relay it to your kids as you progress. Print a small cheat sheet to bring in your pocket.
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More government assistance when you ain't married FACT. This not just a black woman issue but a pertains to poor and uneducated women issue


This is real has become generational.
You people need to get a grip on reality. Half the world eats dogs.
Question. Is this program what's being referred to as EMERGENCY RELIEF PRGRM 2 in the accounting program description column on these reports?

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Although you were being as sassy as I was, I also thought of At Home by Bill Bryson for more insight on daily life in medieval times. No calorie counts :lol: but fascinating.
Sure. Get Undaunted Courage based on the journals of both Lewis and Clark. It's a great read.

The calorie estimates were not done by Clark. Only amounts, descriptions, and poundage of food acquired before and during the expedition. Others extrapolated calorie estimates later.

Just as important as the food descriptions by Capt Clark was reading what these men accomplished on a daily basis. Our society today is so soft (myself included) that it's hard to believe what these men did.

ETA: Up to 9 lbs of meat a day for a man per Clark himself. LINK !
All you ignorant doubters should try reading a book.

A more recent, well-documented, and related fact: Men on the Lewis & Clark expedition regularly consumed over 10k per day, with some estimates up to 15k for some men on some days. They hunted every chance they could. Skilled hunters were highly valued.