I don’t really like TRUMP all that much, he’s kind of piss poor executive but his grassroots support is pretty amazing, as represented by all the homemade, often very talented signs and displays you see dotted along the rural highways.
While I’m sure soon after the election most will be chopped and turned into firewood – winter is coming – or sent to the landfill, I hope some of the displays are preserved in photographs or as museum pieces in hick town historical museums. I think it’s a cultural phenomenon that should be preserved and remembered for better or worse, something that shows the talent and the passion of many craftsman who are passionate about the incumbent president.
While on the 7th Circuit, Barrett wrote that the Second Amendment did not necessarily ban people convicted of felonies from owning a gun. She declared a Wisconsin law, barring anyone convicted of a felony even if they aren't convicted of a violent crime, to be unconstitutional.
"[L]egislatures have the power to prohibit dangerous people from possessing guns. But that power extends only to people who are dangerous,"
I think she could be really good on the second amendment. On other issues she might be a wait and see. That said, I'm not the President nor am I sitting US Senator so I don't have much say in the matter. I do think we should wait until after the presidential election to pick the next Supreme Court Justice but I think she probably will be okay.
This is exactly what environmentalists are afraid of.
"The government has to encourage people to produce more waste,” Ymata said, adding that the government may allow the importation of waste from other countries just to provide continuous waste feedstock for these WTE facilities.
“[I]t's like a can of worm[s],” he said. “When you start allowing it, there will be...other problem[s] that will surface along the way."
In a move aimed at reducing huge amounts of plastic litter in the ocean and on land,οΏ½California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a first-in-the-nation law requiring plastic beverage containers to contain an increasing amount of recycled material.
Under it, companies that produce everything from sports drinks to soda to bottled water must use 15% recycled plastic in their bottles by 2022, 25% recycled plastic by 2025, and 50% recycled plastic by 2030.
Supporters of the new law say it will help increase demand for recycled plastic, curb litter in waterways and along roads,οΏ½and reduce consumption of oil and gas, which are used to manufacture new plastics.
Brad Wilson is following a forest trail and scanning the dusky spaces between the fir trees for signs of movement. The black handle of a .44 Magnum juts prominently from his pack. If he stumbles on a startled bear at close range, the retired sheriff’s deputy wants to know the gun is within quick reach, in case something stronger than pepper spray is needed. Wilson isn’t the type who likes to take chances; he’s the type who plans ahead.
Before setting foot on this path, he unfolded a huge U.S. Forest Service map and reviewed the route, Trail 267. He put a finger at the trailhead, which was next to a ranger’s station, then traced its meandering path into the Crazy Mountains, a chain in south-central Montana that’s part of the northern Rockies. Like many of the trails and roads that lead into U.S. Forest Service land, Trail 267 twists in and out of private properties. These sorts of paths have been used as access points for decades, but “No Trespassing” signs are popping up on them with increasing frequency, along with visitors’ logs in which hikers, hunters, and Forest Service workers are instructed to sign their names, tacitly acknowledging that the trail is private and that permission for its use was granted at the private landowners’ discretion.
