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		<title>By: Kick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 01:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;I just read that President Trump plans to issue an Executive Order imposing National CCW Reciprocity... &lt;/i&gt;

It won&#039;t be worth the paper it&#039;s written on. If the POTUS could actually force one state to recognize the gun laws of another via simple written order, you&#039;d most likely already have less gun rights and not more. 

Trump already made the promise in 2016 to sign legislation to that effect, and it passed the House but never passed the Senate. &lt;b&gt;

&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/38&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;H.R.38 - Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017&lt;/a&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>I just read that President Trump plans to issue an Executive Order imposing National CCW Reciprocity... </i></p>
<p>It won't be worth the paper it's written on. If the POTUS could actually force one state to recognize the gun laws of another via simple written order, you'd most likely already have less gun rights and not more. </p>
<p>Trump already made the promise in 2016 to sign legislation to that effect, and it passed the House but never passed the Senate. <b></p>
<p><a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/38" rel="nofollow">H.R.38 - Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act of 2017</a></b></p>
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		<title>By: MtnCaddy</title>
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		<dc:creator>MtnCaddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There. That wasn’t so hard.</description>
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		<title>By: MtnCaddy</title>
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		<dc:creator>MtnCaddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Michale,


The voters have spoken. While I’m shocked, shocked I tell you that Kamala didn’t wipe the floor with Trump and his Repugs, for the record the Oath that I swore to defend our Constitution means I swore an Oath to defend the will of the people. So Trump will be my President come January.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michale,</p>
<p>The voters have spoken. While I’m shocked, shocked I tell you that Kamala didn’t wipe the floor with Trump and his Repugs, for the record the Oath that I swore to defend our Constitution means I swore an Oath to defend the will of the people. So Trump will be my President come January.</p>
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		<title>By: dsws</title>
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		<dc:creator>dsws</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Btw, even if states are going to be compelled to recognize each other&#039;s firearm permits, there should be no role for the executive branch.  The legitimate basis for such recognition would be the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution.  Not the winner-take-all politics of the federal administration.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Btw, even if states are going to be compelled to recognize each other's firearm permits, there should be no role for the executive branch.  The legitimate basis for such recognition would be the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution.  Not the winner-take-all politics of the federal administration.</p>
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		<title>By: dsws</title>
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		<dc:creator>dsws</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To put it another way, employers aren&#039;t entitled to an opinion about what anything is worth.   What stuff is worth is a matter of supply and demand.  Demand comes from customers.  Supply comes from workers, shareholders, bondholders, and owners of natural resources.  Firms just make the connection.  To customers, they look like supply; to workers they look like demand, but they&#039;re just intermediaries.  

The situations where they do get a say are stuff like monopoly.  Inefficient.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To put it another way, employers aren't entitled to an opinion about what anything is worth.   What stuff is worth is a matter of supply and demand.  Demand comes from customers.  Supply comes from workers, shareholders, bondholders, and owners of natural resources.  Firms just make the connection.  To customers, they look like supply; to workers they look like demand, but they're just intermediaries.  </p>
<p>The situations where they do get a say are stuff like monopoly.  Inefficient.</p>
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		<title>By: Michale</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remember when Democrats claimed to believe in Free Speech and other freedoms as a matter of principle?  HA..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember when Democrats claimed to believe in Free Speech and other freedoms as a matter of principle?  HA..</p>
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		<title>By: dsws</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/11/11/scattered-veterans-day-thoughts/#comment-213078</link>
		<dc:creator>dsws</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And as I was saying last thread, the basis for an employee being paid is the value their work provides to customers.  If it&#039;s not contributing to the production of anything that customers want, it&#039;s a waste of the employee&#039;s time, and they should be doing something else instead. (That&#039;s at a regular for-profit company, of course.  At a non-profit, or in government, it&#039;s whether their work is doing society any good in whatever way the organization is trying to.)

But people&#039;s time is valuable, even when they&#039;re not making money, because people have stuff they like to do besides work.  If a job can&#039;t provide enough benefit to outweigh whatever the employees would be doing instead of paid work, then the employer isn&#039;t entitled to people&#039;s time.  For that matter, hobbies are often productive.  If having an hour&#039;s worth of actual vine-ripened tomatoes from your own garden is worth more than what an hour at some BS job would contribute to getting products to customers, the thing that indicates that is that the wage is too low to keep you away from your garden for another hour.  Firms are just the intermediary between customers and workers. (Or to be precise, between customers and providers of factors of production.  That includes workers, shareholders, and bondholders.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And as I was saying last thread, the basis for an employee being paid is the value their work provides to customers.  If it's not contributing to the production of anything that customers want, it's a waste of the employee's time, and they should be doing something else instead. (That's at a regular for-profit company, of course.  At a non-profit, or in government, it's whether their work is doing society any good in whatever way the organization is trying to.)</p>
<p>But people's time is valuable, even when they're not making money, because people have stuff they like to do besides work.  If a job can't provide enough benefit to outweigh whatever the employees would be doing instead of paid work, then the employer isn't entitled to people's time.  For that matter, hobbies are often productive.  If having an hour's worth of actual vine-ripened tomatoes from your own garden is worth more than what an hour at some BS job would contribute to getting products to customers, the thing that indicates that is that the wage is too low to keep you away from your garden for another hour.  Firms are just the intermediary between customers and workers. (Or to be precise, between customers and providers of factors of production.  That includes workers, shareholders, and bondholders.)</p>
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		<title>By: dsws</title>
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		<dc:creator>dsws</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Remember when Republicans claimed to believe in states&#039; rights as a matter of principle?  Ha.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Remember when Republicans claimed to believe in states' rights as a matter of principle?  Ha.</p>
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		<title>By: Michale</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>JL,

Agreed..

President Trump can really read a room..

What else explains how he was able to increase his supporters in deep Blue states like California and New York... 

And now that Merchan is going to throw out President Trumps NY conviction Democrats will lose &lt;B&gt;&quot;HE&#039;S A CONVICTED FELON!!!!&quot;&lt;/B&gt; chant...

Isn&#039;t it a GREAT day to be an American, eh!??  :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>JL,</p>
<p>Agreed..</p>
<p>President Trump can really read a room..</p>
<p>What else explains how he was able to increase his supporters in deep Blue states like California and New York... </p>
<p>And now that Merchan is going to throw out President Trumps NY conviction Democrats will lose <b>"HE'S A CONVICTED FELON!!!!"</b> chant...</p>
<p>Isn't it a GREAT day to be an American, eh!??  :D</p>
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		<title>By: Michale</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/11/11/scattered-veterans-day-thoughts/#comment-213074</link>
		<dc:creator>Michale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just read that President Trump plans to issue an Executive Order imposing National CCW Reciprocity...

What that means is that if you have a Conceal/Carry Weapons permit in one state, you are authorized to carry in all 50 states..

Now THAT&#039;S what I am talking about!!!  :D

Dunno if it&#039;s true or not, but if it is??

Hell yeah, President Trump!!!   :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just read that President Trump plans to issue an Executive Order imposing National CCW Reciprocity...</p>
<p>What that means is that if you have a Conceal/Carry Weapons permit in one state, you are authorized to carry in all 50 states..</p>
<p>Now THAT'S what I am talking about!!!  :D</p>
<p>Dunno if it's true or not, but if it is??</p>
<p>Hell yeah, President Trump!!!   :D</p>
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		<title>By: nypoet22</title>
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		<dc:creator>nypoet22</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@m,

there&#039;s another reason I think you kind-of ignored; Donald really IS that good at today&#039;s political game. his ability to see clearly what will get the most people interested and engaged, as well as what will throw his opponents off their stride and get them distracted, is practically supernatural.

JL</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@m,</p>
<p>there's another reason I think you kind-of ignored; Donald really IS that good at today's political game. his ability to see clearly what will get the most people interested and engaged, as well as what will throw his opponents off their stride and get them distracted, is practically supernatural.</p>
<p>JL</p>
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		<title>By: Michale</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/11/11/scattered-veterans-day-thoughts/#comment-213072</link>
		<dc:creator>Michale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 13:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;I&gt;It is likewise puzzling for older Democrats to understand why a whole lot of young voters who normally would support the party essentially decided to stay home this election -- which could be the main reason Donald Trump won. Democratic turnout was way down (especially in liberal strongholds) and young Democratic voters were a big factor (if not the key factor)&lt;/i&gt;

Democrats lost voters in virtually ALL demographics. Some demos by as much as 10 points..

Only ONE thing explains this Democrat loss of ALL demographics...

Americans are completely fed up with Democrat policies and Democrat hypocrisy.

It&#039;s really that simple..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>It is likewise puzzling for older Democrats to understand why a whole lot of young voters who normally would support the party essentially decided to stay home this election -- which could be the main reason Donald Trump won. Democratic turnout was way down (especially in liberal strongholds) and young Democratic voters were a big factor (if not the key factor)</i></p>
<p>Democrats lost voters in virtually ALL demographics. Some demos by as much as 10 points..</p>
<p>Only ONE thing explains this Democrat loss of ALL demographics...</p>
<p>Americans are completely fed up with Democrat policies and Democrat hypocrisy.</p>
<p>It's really that simple..</p>
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		<title>By: Michale</title>
		<link>http://www.chrisweigant.com/2024/11/11/scattered-veterans-day-thoughts/#comment-213071</link>
		<dc:creator>Michale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CW,

My donation was sent as well..   :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CW,</p>
<p>My donation was sent as well..   :D</p>
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		<title>By: Michale</title>
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		<dc:creator>Michale</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CW,

I get it.  I completely understand why you are so desperate to find meaning in the Uber Nuclear Orgasmic Shellacking that Democrats just received. 

Any meaning that doesn&#039;t require even a smidgen of self-reflection.

But there isn&#039;t any meaning beyond the most factually accurate one and the most factually OBVIOUS one..

Americans are simply sick and tired of Democrat incompetence and Democrat identity politics.

I mean, look at the reality, CW...  You Democrats HONESTLY believe that a man can be a woman JUST because he feels like it and that he should be allowed into female bathrooms and play of female only sports team..

The idea is COMPLETELY and UTTERLY ludicrous on it&#039;s face and yet that idea is a mainstream DEMOCRAT idea..

And ya&#039;all wonder WHY Democrats just got creamed and ALL levers of power have been turned over to President Trump and the GOP???!!

:epic eyeroll:

&lt;I&gt;What worries me a lot more is what could be America&#039;s next big challenge. If Donald Trump cuts off military support for Ukraine and Russia winds up in control of a large part (if not all) of the country, then it is going to send an enormous signal to China. China may make a simple calculation: If America can&#039;t be trusted to back their allies, then perhaps the time is ripe to invade Taiwan?&lt;/I&gt;

&lt;I&gt;{{cough, cough}}&lt;/I&gt;&lt;B&gt;Afghanistan&lt;/B&gt; &lt;I&gt;{{cough, cough}}&lt;/I&gt; 


&lt;I&gt; Either way, though, all veterans are due their country&#039;s respect on the day set aside to honor them.&lt;/I&gt;

Thank you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CW,</p>
<p>I get it.  I completely understand why you are so desperate to find meaning in the Uber Nuclear Orgasmic Shellacking that Democrats just received. </p>
<p>Any meaning that doesn't require even a smidgen of self-reflection.</p>
<p>But there isn't any meaning beyond the most factually accurate one and the most factually OBVIOUS one..</p>
<p>Americans are simply sick and tired of Democrat incompetence and Democrat identity politics.</p>
<p>I mean, look at the reality, CW...  You Democrats HONESTLY believe that a man can be a woman JUST because he feels like it and that he should be allowed into female bathrooms and play of female only sports team..</p>
<p>The idea is COMPLETELY and UTTERLY ludicrous on it's face and yet that idea is a mainstream DEMOCRAT idea..</p>
<p>And ya'all wonder WHY Democrats just got creamed and ALL levers of power have been turned over to President Trump and the GOP???!!</p>
<p>:epic eyeroll:</p>
<p><i>What worries me a lot more is what could be America's next big challenge. If Donald Trump cuts off military support for Ukraine and Russia winds up in control of a large part (if not all) of the country, then it is going to send an enormous signal to China. China may make a simple calculation: If America can't be trusted to back their allies, then perhaps the time is ripe to invade Taiwan?</i></p>
<p><i>{{cough, cough}}</i><b>Afghanistan</b> <i>{{cough, cough}}</i> </p>
<p><i> Either way, though, all veterans are due their country's respect on the day set aside to honor them.</i></p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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		<title>By: nypoet22</title>
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		<dc:creator>nypoet22</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@cw,
you should have just received my donation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@cw,<br />
you should have just received my donation.</p>
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		<title>By: Elizabeth Miller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>These are just random Remembrance Day comments that should not have been submitted. Sorry.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>These are just random Remembrance Day comments that should not have been submitted. Sorry.</p>
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		<title>By: Elizabeth Miller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I know that it wasn&#039;t just young voters who stayed home this election.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know that it wasn't just young voters who stayed home this election.</p>
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		<title>By: Elizabeth Miller</title>
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		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Miller</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 00:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;But there is a groundswell of protest among young Americans over what is going on in Gaza. To those people who lived through or were otherwise affected by Vietnam, this is somewhat puzzling, since no college student now protesting is in danger of being forced to go fight in a foreign war. &quot;It&#039;s not the same,&quot; they say, &quot;since you aren&#039;t going to have to participate.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

Classic American thinking. If it doesn&#039;t affect me, then why should I care.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>But there is a groundswell of protest among young Americans over what is going on in Gaza. To those people who lived through or were otherwise affected by Vietnam, this is somewhat puzzling, since no college student now protesting is in danger of being forced to go fight in a foreign war. "It's not the same," they say, "since you aren't going to have to participate."</i></p>
<p>Classic American thinking. If it doesn't affect me, then why should I care.</p>
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