Politics

[Foxi]

Cato and your History/Latin instructors would be proud.

and how , how I hated the Punic Wars in school.
As pupils we used to say “Fuck Cato”

 

[Red Leg]

I'm from Grand Cheniere about 20 miles east of cameron. The regulations are so strict you can't afford to live there. If I want to build a house out of my own pocket I should be able to. But you have to have insurance to get electricity.

As you well know, the same has occurred in places like Creole and Hackberry, Louisiana south of Lake Charles. It is also becoming a bit insane in the thunderstorm belt here in Central Texas. We have friends that inherited their old family place outside Salado, TX. It is a two story ranch/plantation from the 1850's. We had hail storms a year ago which damaged their roof and took out a number of windows. Their insurance picked up the tab, but then raised their premium to 44k a year. It had been 15K.

Between property taxes and insurance, that is pretty steep annual rent of one's own place.

 

[Red Leg]

and how , how I hated the Punic Wars in school.
As pupils we used to say “Fuck Cato”

I was none too fond of Julius Caesar or Gaul either.

 

[Brent in Az]

I always wondered how Rome could have salted the earth in Carthage. I mean, it seems like it would take an awful lot of salt, and an awful lot of work plowing it all in. I hadn't considered just pumping sea water over it all. A lot of work pumping in a pre-industrial age, but easier than plowing. I guess now we all have to say "California Delenda Est."

Maybe a huge (battery powered) reverse osmosis unit?

Yeah, I'm sure the people that have lost their homes and everything they had, would be more concerned about having a nice garden and green grass.

 

[Manwe]

All those memories gun because the mayor and Newsom wants to save some fishes.