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Why is it that some people are in favor of throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

I can show you a little bit of where the money is coming from. Usually these loans are bonds that people buy. While these bonds mature, there is inflation. The bond is sold at lets say ten dollars in the year 2000. When the bond is due in 2010 the $10 bond is paid back in 2010 dollars. But $10 of the year 2010 are only worth 60% of what these 2000 dollars are worth. So just because of inflation 40% percent is paid back already. The buying power of one dollar in 1950 is the same as $15.20 in 2025

If we don't, the sea lamprey will be great again! Please remind your congress man or woman that they have to reapply for their job less than 2 years from now, and we can accept or deny their application

Not my bubble, just a nice picture. In case you thought I tried to sneak in politics, again , sorry, just a picture. About import duty, Look at the positive side. Bourbon is going to be very cheap very soon. I've been eying some Southern Comfort special 100 proof and some Basil Hayden toast. I'll wait a couple of months now and get double the value for my money.

Picture taken near Hamilton Ontario. The photographer said that the eagle gave up on getting the goose after 20 minutes and left hungry

I don't expect anything over 31 pounds on the US side. What is the thing that makes the kings bigger on the Canadian side year after year? Do they add Canadian bacon strips to the water? Or do they keep them in big ponds and force feed them? Do they eat walleye instead of alewives? Whatever it is they do, please tell the DEC to do it on our side as well. My prediction is 31 pounds tops, probably from the west end.

If March turns out to be warm(ish) things may look different. So far it seems that there is a general warmup, so it's early to make predictions.

The New York State 2025 budget is $237 billion. Even if the fines will reach one million dollars, it will be very small change and your friend Kathy really does not need it. I suspect that the fines income will go to the local authorities whose sheriff departments will hand out the fines. Anyway, this is not about fines. It is an effort to make the water a bit safer for all of us. I'll give you an example. You are fishing happily in a cove and not moving your boat. A few jet fleas come racing through again and again real close to you. You pick up a registration number and phone it to your local friendly sheriff's department. They send a cop out who waits for the jet fleas at the ramp and asks for their boating license. Oops they don't have one. Now the local cop can fine them. Previously it was a he said, she said situation.

I've got news for you. America is energy independent. We export a lot of it. The reason why prices go up is because we live in the world and we are not insulated within the US borders. Energy prices are dependent on the world markets. Big oil is not interested in keeping the oil prices low. Instead they are more than willing to create artificial shortages (much like OPEC) in order to control the prices. Big oil is more than Trump can chew.

Solutions are way above my pay grade, but betraying my friends is only encouraging the enemy and making my other friends mistrust me.

In 1938 Britain negotiated Czecho-slovakia away to Nazi Germany without Czecho-Slovakia even at the table. Chamberlain came back to Great Britain and declared "Peace In Our Time". It only took Germany one year to attack Poland and start world war 2. I fear for Ukraine and the credibility of the USA. After all, why would anybody trust a country that abandons its friends for exactly.. what? And Gill, maybe it is time for you to remove your "long live the king". People might misinterpret it

Just your example should send shivers through all of us. Alzheimer research with the potential of solving a great scourge is just thrown by the wayside because of bone chilling ignorance. It must be terrible for you and your group to see all your effort ignored and trampled by political entrepreneurs.

I have the funny feeling that if there is such a check, it will be distributed a short time before the next congress elections.

Eh.. You got what you voted for, now eat it.

It's been a while since I was involved in the microbiology of the cell ( on a primitive level) but I clearly remember the mood at the chemistry department on the River Campus the last time The NIH grant money was frozen while at the same time the Lazer Lab was in danger of closing down. People were down right discouraged and people lost their jobs. My wife had sleepless nights seeing all her grant work evaporating and promising scientists abandoning research. At the same time China increased its research budgets and lots of Indian and Chinese promising scientists chose to go to or stay in China. Why are we mutilating ourselves? I wish you strength.

I think that you all are misreading what is happening here. What I see is a repetition of the pre-worldwar 2 socioeconomic reality. Except that this time it is artificially created by deliberately sowing chaos. Thereby making the country ungovernable and getting it ready for a strong man to "save us all" from disaster. Along the way we'll betray a few friends and throw a few of them to the trash bin of history, so we can make a bit more money and stroke our narcissistic ego. It will not be long now before a scapegoat is picked so the the blood lust of the crowd can be appeased by letting them loose on that scapegoat. But just remember, that repetition of history can only happen if we allow it to. So my advise is to go out and explain to as many people as possible that their rights and freedoms are traded away by a few power sick individuals. Those people will cynically try to make you support them, but they will only use you up and spit you out. Support the constitution and let nobody take it away from you by making false promises.

What if the 2 billionaires (one a convicted criminal) decide to fire all the people who keep the carp out of the great lakes? After all those stinky fish are just a waste of money. And yes they can by simply stopping to subsidize the program.

That is a tricky problem and politics are involved. Today the federal government has to protect publicly owned spaces from states interests, but tomorrow the states may have to protect the publicly owned lands from the federal government which might have bad intentions. Dependent on the political situation today's friends may be tomorrow's enemies. That sounds like a loose loose to me

It will not replace 50 years of experience, But it will help you pick up on new regulations that did not exist until 10 years ago. It will also fine tune your experience and make you aware of little shortcuts that may have crept in your boating behavior. But you should remember that having been on the water for fifty years makes you ,like me, probably in your late sixties or early seventies and at that age we start forgetting things that we knew all our lives. And that makes taking that course a great refresher that helps sharpen the edges that have become dull with the years