Two questions guide the GOP today. Are you loyal to Donald Trump? Yes. Do you understand the term “opportunity cost”, even if I tell you it means the loss of other alternatives when one path is chosen? No.
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It’s too much to expect these people to care about the lives that won’t be saved because of their antediluvian attitudes toward modern science. But they usually care about money. Economist Paul Krugman points out that “two first-rate economists, David Cutler and Ed Glaeser, have made a stab at estimating the impact of cuts at NIH. Their analysis suggests that these cuts might save $500 billion in federal spending over the next 25 years — while imposing more than $8 trillion in losses.”
Yes. A lifetime ago, I helped my Dad install cyclone fencing. You assemble the panels with bottom rails before you put the panel up, and the fencing is bound to the frame with heavy wire looped through every diamond. As I recall, we had to use a compound wirecutter to cut the stuff. In an application like that you would probably weld the ends of the wire to the frame.
Zip ties are strictly for temporary installations.
One thing people just don’t understand (I know this, but I don’t understand it) is that incarcerated people have nothing but time. Even a properly erected cage would be vulnerable to bored people looking for something (anything) to do.
Sounds inspiring but annoys me to no end. We can’t afford the courage of our convictions is the truth, and NO, we’re not going to take up arms. Enough of the bullshit, please.
I can see them courting a breakout for the opportunity to shoot escapees, after hunting them down in the swamps. Should play well on the big screen in The Hague.
ETA: Alligator attacks on humans are quite rare, according to the Googles.
I want TPM and other responsible news sources to stop calling this place “alligator alcatraz” which is meant to demean and make fun of the people warehoused there. It is indeed an internment camp, a gulag, a torture chamber.
If we can’t come up with a more descriptive (and finger-pointing) name we are not worthy of our proud history as word-smiths.
The best I can come up with is pretty lame:
**Trump/Desantis Small Ugly Jailhouse**
**** I* just have to say that a lot of people are getting rich off of a place built like a back-yard play-ground, and expecting to cost $450,000,000 a year when they don’t even feed the people properly.
Well, you have to realize they made this erection on already cleared land, and with the tiniest of budgets and in a very big hurry. They had to cut corners somewhere. /s
It’s crocodiles that like to eat humans, and they get very big. I don’t think they are in the Everglades. The ones I saw in Australia could have handled me in one bite!
Those Ozzie crocs are badass. Florida’s crocodile population is apparently quite small (a few thousand), and they are ostensibly shy and reclusive.
I am not generally fearful of wildlife, but the saurians creep me out. Friend of mine lives in a ritzy community in Naples, and regales me with stories of alligators snoozing on the lawns. I prefer to take my chances with icy roads and walkways, compared to inadvertently pissing off one of those jokers.
And that sounds intelligent, but I have no idea what that means. When you say “we”, you are talking about yourself only. Enough of the defeatist bullshit.
