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Re: Our National Parks Bull_Dawg 05/16/26 04:34 PM
Originally Posted by PitDAWG
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I distrust everyone/everything equally.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a simple issue of "distrust" when it includes "everyone/everything".

Your basis for not having visitor centers was " If you don't sell the stuff, you don't need the building, utilities, or employees." That's simply not true. And you also brought up eminent domain which doesn't even apply here. These visitor centers were for the public before there was even an internet. And the idea that you can simply replace them with a website is pure foolishness. Do you find visiting a website the same as having real life experiences? Or maybe that's the rabbit hole many have climbed down into at this point.

So let me get this straight, woman and men who collect things along their journey to commemorate their travels "do a horrible job cleaning up after themselves and disturb things they aren't supposed to" according to your experience?

What is happening here is you are speaking how something pertains to you as an individual and neglecting to speak on this topic from the view of everyone. It's a pattern we see all too often in our society today.

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Just because you miss the point of something doesn't mean things are pointless.

And then sometimes there is no point to be missed when someone is simply flailing around trying to make points that don't exist. People who think understand that.

Eminent domain doesn't apply where?

It has applied in the past with regards to parks, it can in the future. There are in holdings in National parks and the government retains the right to use eminent domain to claim them. If they want to expand, they can.

"Historically, the power of eminent domain was used extensively to assemble land for major national parks. Some of the most iconic natural treasures in the U.S. were created by displacing thousands of private landowners.Shenandoah National Park: In the 1920s and 1930s, the Commonwealth of Virginia utilized eminent domain to condemn over 1,000 individual tracts of land, displacing more than 500 families so the park could be established.Cuyahoga Valley National Park: During the park's creation in the 1970s, the government used condemnation powers to buy up hundreds of homes in and around the park boundaries, resulting in decades of tension with local communities." Straight from nps.gov.

Does a website replace the experience? No. I never said it did. Yet, you can do research before a trip instead of being told what you need to know at a site that requires maintenance, infrastructure, and staffing (infrastructure that can be disruptive to nature) when it's too late to actually prepare. The national debt keeps growing. Cuts need to be made.

Yes, in my experience stuff focused tourists tend to be focused more on themselves than the detritus they leave behind. Yes, I am speaking my opinion. One's own view is the only one that one can confidently speak on. Speaking from the view of everyone is impossible, and your thinking that you can is laughable.

Yes, people that think understand that you are flailing around again.
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Re: Cavs/NBA 2.0 bonefish 05/16/26 03:25 PM
Very disappointing loss.

I shut it off during the 3rd qt.

I disliked the effort. They played like the game was meaningless.

I could be surprised but I don't see them winning game seven in Detroit.
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Re: The Dems... again PitDAWG 05/16/26 02:12 PM
Some do but not nearly enough of them.
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Re: I Thought Canada Was Going to be the 51'st State? bonefish 05/16/26 11:29 AM
Lots of giggles from countries who get threatened.
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Re: Browns announce 2026 schedule Ballpeen 05/16/26 10:30 AM
Thanks.
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Re: Strength Of Schedule WooferDawg 05/15/26 05:55 PM
SOS is based on the last years records of teams.

It is of anecdotal information.

The NFCN has 4 good teams that took out the AFCN last year. Hence the AFCN win percentage was lower.

This year the AFCN plays the NFCS which had 4 teams tied at 8-9 and the saints at 6-11.

It is not that hard to figure out why the Browns have an easier schedule on paper this year.
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Re: How much money is enough? GMdawg 05/15/26 08:51 AM
Originally Posted by GMdawg
Wait let me check.


Well if $13.69 is enough I'm all set.


OK up to $13.94 now brownie
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Re: Defense PitDAWG 05/14/26 06:35 PM
Bill Belichick lost three Super Bowls as a head coach too. naughtydevil
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Re: More Music Ballpeen 05/13/26 02:40 PM
Some smooth Van Morrison
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Re: Arcadia mayor to plead guilty to promoting Chinese propaganda, DOJ announces Bull_Dawg 05/12/26 07:40 PM
That's not dawgtalkers, that's the federal government. She's in witness protection now. They told AI to redact her old name from the internet.
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Re: Browns News 6.0 Day of the Dawg 05/12/26 02:56 PM
Originally Posted by PrplPplEater
Originally Posted by Ballpeen
Originally Posted by MemphisBrownie
Originally Posted by PrplPplEater
Being totally bluntly honest, I'm more surprised that he hasn't retired and is simply going on Reserve/PUP.

Maybe the Browns are doing him a solid from a healthcare perspective as well by this designation as opposed to outright retiring?

I am not sure the Browns can cut him, and he isn't going to retire until he isn't going to get paid any longer.

Solid points, both. $6 million of his 2026 salary is guaranteed; 2025 was fully guaranteed.... and there is a LOT of Dead Cap pushed into Void Years from 2028 thru 2031. He will still represent $11.7million in Dead Cap in 2027, so he may spend the entire remainder of his contract on PUP.

Keeping him on the roster allows the Browns to file for cap insurance relief for him being out.
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Re: Iran War II PitDAWG 05/11/26 04:56 PM
Trump Says Iran Ceasefire ‘On Life Support’ After Bragging He Has ‘The Best Plan Ever’

President Donald Trump said Monday that the ceasefire with Iran is not in a great place at the moment because he believes Iran’s proposals to end the war have been “unacceptable.”

“It’s unbelievably weak,” Trump said of the ceasefire. “It’s on life support.”

"Life support is not a good thing," he continued. "I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support where the doctor walks in and says, 'Sir, your loved one has approximately a 1% chance of living.’”

Speaking before reporters and allies gathered in the Oval Office moments earlier, he boasted about his "plan" to end the war.

“You know, a lot of people said, ‘Well, does he have a plan?' Yeah, of course I do have a plan. I have the best plan ever," Trump said. “I have a plan. It’s a very simple plan.”

Trump then laid out his plan, which is no plan at all: “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.”



https://www.huffpost.com/entry/late...3Q&brid=YWdncwGqwKmG8cReBnbkchAEu24r
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Re: Republican Right Wing Nuts - Part ???? PitDAWG 05/11/26 02:24 PM
Trump Rejects New Iran Peace Offer as ‘Totally Unacceptable’

(Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump and Iran rejected each other’s latest peace proposals to end the 10-week conflict as the two sides struggle to maintain a fragile ceasefire.

“I have just read the response from Iran’s so-called ‘Representatives,’” Trump said in a social media post. “I don’t like it — TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE!”

Iran offered to transfer some of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium to a third country, but rejected the idea of dismantling its nuclear facilities, the Wall Street Journal reported earlier. Iran disputed the report, according to the country’s semi-official news agency Tasnim.

It was unclear whether the exchange of proposals would offer a path to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

Under its latest proposal, Iran would dilute some of its highly enriched uranium and have the rest sent to a third country, the WSJ said, citing people familiar with the response, but it also called for guarantees the transferred uranium would be returned if talks fail and ruled out dismantling its facilities.

Iran’s semi-official news agency Tasnim said the WSJ’s reporting on proposals for handling nuclear material was “not true.” The statement emphasized Iran’s desire for an immediate end to the war, the release of its frozen assets, a lifting of US sanctions on oil sales, an end to the US blockade of the Gulf of Oman, and ultimately Iranian management of the strait. State-run IRIB News added that Tehran rejected Trump’s plan as tantamount to surrender and insisted the US must also pay war damages.

Trump had proposed that Iran permit passage through the Strait of Hormuz and Washington end its blockade on Iranian ports in the next month, with nuclear talks to follow.

Oil rose with the dollar after Trump rejected Iran’s latest proposal. Brent was up about 3.5% to above $104 a barrel, recovering some of last week’s losses. US equity-index futures edged lower as the standoff weighed on risk sentiment.

Iran has been “playing games” with the US and other countries, Trump said in a social media post earlier Sunday. “They will be laughing no longer!”

Trump and his advisers have repeatedly suggested the war is over, even while threatening to escalate attacks if Tehran does not agree to a peace deal. Trump is scheduled to travel to China this week despite the ongoing conflict.

The president has said repeatedly that Iran must not be allowed to have a nuclear weapon and claimed as recently as last week that the country had already agreed to give up its nuclear ambitions.

The president did not say in his social media post what the consequences, if any, of his dissatisfaction with Iran’s response would be. In recent weeks, Trump has appeared eager to draw a line under the conflict as he faces rising political pressure to bring down gasoline prices across the US ahead of the November midterm elections, when his fellow Republicans hope to hold on to control of Congress.

The conflict has killed thousands of people across the Middle East and upended oil and gas markets, with soaring fuel prices piling pressure on governments and consumers worldwide.

Here’s more related to the war:

Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest oil company, warned it would take several months for the market to return to normal even if the Strait of Hormuz reopened immediately.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes that he would like to end US financial support for Israel’s military over the next decade. The US currently provides Israel with $3.8 billion a year in military assistance under a 10-year agreement originally negotiated by the Obama administration that lasts through 2028.

Despite the ceasefire in place since April 8, a drone strike briefly set a cargo vessel ablaze off Qatar in the Persian Gulf, marking the latest shipping attack in the region. The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait both said they had intercepted hostile drones.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trum...r-as-totally-unacceptable-013346837.html
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Re: Poltical Jokes Part 5 MemphisBrownie 05/11/26 11:42 AM
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Re: Carson Schwesinger DROY Ballpeen 05/11/26 11:17 AM
Originally Posted by Day of the Dawg
Originally Posted by oobernoober
My apologies if this takes us off in a tangent...

But I would love to know the discussions that went into this pick. According to most on draft day, this guy was massively overdrafted, and supposedly not on any team's radar. For all we know, that could all be smoke... but I'd love to know what led Berry to draft a LB who walked on to his college team and had limited playing time before his late breakout season.

Notable players taken right after CS include Tyler Shough, the safety Seattle got, Treyveon Henderson (though we picked Judkins right before), Jayden Higgins and Luther Burden.

I think Berry and staff were desperate for a linebacker with JOK's injury. Jihaad Campbell at LB taken late in the 1st round 31 overall. It would have been interesting to see who they would have selected if he was still on the board at 33. Was Carson their top linebacker on their board or was he 2nd. The fact they selected him 3 picks before they selected Judkins shows they feared waiting 3 picks they would possibly lose out on him.

I agree. Carson was on the NFL radar.
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Re: Iceland BrownsBabe 05/09/26 10:32 PM
My sister and her boys loved Iceland! She's been twice and is itching to go back.
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Re: Bobby Cox and Ted Turner bonefish 05/09/26 10:07 PM
Bobby was old school all the way.

His players loved him.

You were expected to conduct yourself like a professional.

No clubhouse music allowed. Wear headsets so you don't infringe on others. No kids in the locker room. Not all kids behave well.

Show up on time and play your ass off. Dress was sports coats and collared shirts.

He kept everything inside the locker room. And he supported his players like they were his own kids.

I will always remember him on the top step cheering his players on. He was all baseball.

Sad day in Braves land.
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Re: Cleveland Guardians 2.0 waterdawg 05/09/26 05:51 PM
I just realized , that is " Tugboat " we traded !
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