tjm

just to be clear you are in south Arkansas? my first thought was central Kansas..

have you read this? http://forums.ozarkanglers.com/topic/3601-carp-a-beginner’s-guide/

The bad apples are the direct result of the "'good apples" defending them because they are police, too many times wrong behavior is condoned by fellow officers just because the criminal belongs to the same union and drinks at the same water hole.

Sure you can, only people that want to interact with criminals become cops, if she didn't enjoy that work she'd become a librarian.

You are old enough to be a grandfather, can you tell about the time you needed a cop and one was there?

Wouldn't your grand daughter be safer if she was defunded and did not have to deal with scum?

Will the average social worker really respond to a potentially violent domestic dispute in a bad part of town at 2 am Sunday? Aren't most social workers overworked already, and won't using them in lieu of police actually cost more? When the social workers fail to resolve a domestic, won't they still have to call in the police? If other agencies can better handle some or most of the things police are being called out on, why did these duties get placed on the police to begin with? It is quite possible that we need police reforms (I've said so for decades) but if the cops are only safe in responding in these areas when heavily armed, won't any other agency's personnel also need to be heavily armed to be/feel safe? If so haven't we just created another paramilitary police force? If we believe that we can send unarmed persons into these areas and situations that police are currently responding to, would an unarmed division of police be an option? I kinda feel like cops should only be called in to investigate and gather evidence, crime prevention should not be a part of their work. When you set out prevention as a goal, you have set the rules up for a presumption of guilt rather than the Constitutional presumption of innocence. Having presumed the person of interest to be guilty of planning to commit a crime, the police have been trained to treat everyone as criminals in any and all interactions. We the people have asked for what we have, and now we take offense with it? We bought guns for those cops and trained them to use them and trained them to regard all non cops as criminals and that anyone not in uniform is a potential danger, by golly , we should expect them to shoot us if we don't obey.

I always use generics, usually 2,4-D, but I use quite a bit of glyphosate too. I don't buy any others because I don't use them a great deal. Always have some that doesn't work well after wintering in the shed. I understood why you said that - there are a hundred brand names for every chemical used it seems.

His stuff is almost the opposite of Roundup and kills by physical drying rather systemic hormone replacement, he's using diquat and dicamba. And he didn't kill any deep rooted weeds or perennials.

Can you give me the short version, please? Defund sounds pretty simple, so obviously I'm missing some key element.

obviously the goal is to advance that group above all others, at the expense of all others. The government fosters ill will and dissension because the mobs that are generated justify increased police action and greater central control. Equality is not even the goal and never has been. Equality does not exist anywhere in nature. We may reach a goal of homogenization but even that will be a caste system, central control requires a governing class that cannot mix with nor be a part of the masses. Long term our goal is extinction, will we stay the course? I won't live to see it, I know.

Now your name will be on a watch list.

There should be a law against being offended. $10 fine or 90 days in jail each time you get offended, your choice. $50 if you get triggered.

If one reads the papers and historical posturing by politicians prior to 1858 from an objective view, slavery was not the reason for the war it was just a justification of it, that war was about state and regional power on a national level and certain individuals played states' rights against the slavery issue to bring about what they thought would be a new agrarian country. The whole slave issue is with England for importing Africans to start with and for allowing an African to become the first slave owner in the Colonies, any ill will by descendants of slaves or demands for reparation need to be aimed at England and the African nations that supplied the first generation of slaves. By the time of the secession adoption of English laws and established precedents of property rights was old stuff, the politics of the time were based quite a bit on personalities and familial kinships rather than any philosophical creeds. There is no logical way to use any of that in making present day policies or judgements anymore than we can catch the fish we ate last week again today. Our ancestors don't have anything to do with how we chose to live and to assign blame to a living person for what we imagine his ancestor did is stupidity.

The flag in question actually isn't "the Confederate Flag", oneshot points that out in the OP What we have here is conditioning to believe the flag pictured has any meaning at all. To me it only means someone doesn't know what it was or is. It's a "sign" as in "here's your sign".

DHS coincidence.???

Yes they were and the King spent tons of money and munitions to suppress them but failed. Had the Confederacy won their government could have set standards for flags within their borders, they did not win and were reabsorbed into the Union even given amnesty for their traitorous actions.

I have always thought it was to alienate people not in that certain group. You show your loyalty by serving or financing.

Investment. It follows the price of gold more or less and has varied from ~$2/lb to ~$55/lb over the last 40-50 years. Years ago my younger brother was recovering mercury from streams in the west because it was valuable to sell, it doesn't take much to weigh a pound, about 1.13 fluid ounces=36#/qt- and it was worth his while to collect and sell it. It was used in gold and silver extraction in the 1800s and the waste is in bottoms of the streams in mining areas, at one time he had about 20# in a jar. One former use for it that I'm familiar with is weighting of a plumb bob; to eliminate bulk a 12-16 ounce brass plumb bob would be machined out hollow and filled with mercury so that it weighed much more and would stabilize quickly, especially on multistory drops or in wind. I've used mercury filled plumb bobs that weighed about 3# and fit easily in one hand. Of course back when I was young it was played with in school, demonstrating how fast the drops could run across a surface and how they rejoined if put near one another, also how it would adhere to copper making pennies silver.

They are always ready. Weather watch, car wreck, fire, riot; that gang does it all. I'll bet we don't hear half of it, this is the first time choking the victims has been mentioned.

Hope it wasn't 2,4,5T.

That's because the plug hit 17" too far left. Accuracy counts with educated fish.

I reckon they won't work very well or very long, most cops apparently don't want their actions recorded. Most of the departments that bought cams a few years ago had lots of "failures". Good for her. Even if the cop in a given instance is a good guy, you can never be sure that the car is really a cop car. That mass shooter in Canada a couple months back was disguised as RCMP and had his car disguised. We'd all be better off if this action of driving to the nearest safe place before stopping was universal.

To clarify, actually I don't mind the hauling (or weighing) of fish if they are eaten after the hauling. It's the hauling, culling, and releasing in an alien environment that I oppose. Fisheries management departments encourage contest participants to engage in these practices that are illegal for everyone else and terrible for the fishery itself, incomprehensible.

Anytime fish are hauled to a weigh in...bad idea.