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Congratulations on your new rifle! What a fine build it will be when the stock is done. 400 H&H is a great choice for a cartridge, and I love mine. Welcome to the club!

In my mind there was a cultural shift in the mid 1980s. I think something changed around the time the movie “Colors” came out. The good guys were no longer the people we rooted for. The focus has shifted to finding value in gangsters and the like. Look at that culture of easy money and violence...

It will always be a debate as there are statistics to support both sides - or most arguments for that matter. So, if someone sees the value in asking for more from someone else you won’t change their mind. I will never understand why someone would advocate for that. My parents moved us here in...

It gives credence to the expression “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”

I did not mean to infer that was your position. A lot of the dialogue- equating the Jewish state to a colonial or invading force - is just false. That point of view seems to be premised on demographics over the last few hundred years. Which, in the scheme of things, is a very short time. But I...

I am not comfortable thinking of these issues through the lens that Jewish history in the area start in 1948. It’s akin to the way the Supreme Court of Canada used judge Indigenous claims from the arrival of the British. We now recognize that there is an entire history predating that arbitrary...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_herring

How many Palestinians represent Israeli rights? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leah_Tsemel Would a “court” in Palestine even entertain giving a Jewish person a fair hearing? What would happen to a Jewish person who strolled into a court in Palestine? Do they even have courts? Do Jewish people...

Hilarious. And Bush Jr allowed 9/11 and Pearl Harbour was intentional and no one landed on the moon. The weakness in Israel is that it is a legitimate multiparty democracy and they defended the rights of minorities. They gave respect to people in a way Arab states never would. There are no...

What book is this from?

But now for the good news

It certainly looks like the fire crews are busy! About 30 hectares are burning out of control near my camp.

I have not, my camp is big enough for my purposes. I have passed it and wondered about it many times.