Trump's Border Wall is DOOMED TO FAIL. It's 260 Years Too Late. Mexicans "Invaded" California in 1760... They Founded the Town of Saint Douglas (San Diego)... Then they Founded the City of the Angels (Los Angeles)... San Francisco, San Jose, San Juan Boutista, Santa Clara, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz,The Colorful State (Colorado), The Flowery State (Florida) and the Snowy State (Nevada)...

Trump's Border Wall is also DOOMED because people FLY over it in Airplanes, Sail Around it in Boats and Drive Thru at Checkpoints using Fake ID... What's to prevent a person from Mailing a California Driver License to Tijuana? Then a Person that LOOKS SIMILAR presents it at the Crossing at San Ysidro... A Walls won't prevent Identity Fraud... Remember this: The Great Wall of China FAILED to Keep the Chinese Out... There are Chinese on BOTH SIDES of that wall. 

How do you build a wall on a RIVER? The Great River (Rio Grande) divides the State of TEJAS (Texas) from Mexico... 

The OTHER MAIN FLAW with Trump's Border Wall is that Latino People are Not That Scary. I was born in the City of Saint Joseph (San Jose) and about half the people are Hispanic... For example: My Hero in Junior High School was an Elegant Man Named Isidro M... He was the Basketball Coach... On my Facebook Group of Alumni from The Cats High School (Los Gatos) everyone agreed that he was a LOVED and RESPECTED Teacher... 

Why would you want to build a wall between the USA and Mexico when Mexicans are nice people? Perhaps Trump was Mugged by Puerto Ricans when he was a Child in Queens? Maybe THAT's why he has so much hatred... I remember the Musical "West Side Story" was about rival Street Gangs... One made up of Polish Kids and the Other was Puerto Rican... A famous song was "Maria" and then they Named a Hurricane "Maria" that wiped out the Island Of Puerto Rico... Trump's FEMA Failed Badly to repair Puerto Rico...  

One of the Secrets to the Success of Silicon Valley was that corporate leaders hired smart people from all over the world move to San Jose to work in Computers... My Next Door neighbor was from Nicaragua... Who knew that there were Computer Scientists in Nicaragua? IBM did... We also knew a Nazi who came to NASA after WW2...  When I went to work at System Industries in Santa Clara most of the employees were Asian or Hispanic... I had a LOT of Respect for my direct supervisor who was a Harley Davidson Riding Martial Artist... I certainly did what he told me to do... I was afraid of him because he could beat me up... but he never had to because I simply Honored His Wisdom... 

I am actually In Favor of the Second Amendment. I can't tell you WHY because I don't want to attract the attention of the FBI.

 I have noticed that Supposed "GUN NUTS" are watched and their Social Media Posts are used as Evidence to arrest them. There was a Lady Recently in Colorado who they determined that she was 5150... a harm to self and others... because of something she wrote on Facebook. This was at the time of the Columbine Anniversary. The FBI READS THIS STUFF... So does the NSA and The CIA and the DIA and the EIEIO!

I will say that there may come a time that we really need a Militia... Suppose Trump loses the 2020 election and then REFUSES TO LEAVE THE WHITE HOUSE? Just declare himself King... for life... and Junior would be Prince... in a situation like that, it might be very handy to own a gun... Maybe there will be a violent civil war. The Boogaloo... IT COULD HAPPEN. A Violet Overgrow... What if the USA became like Venezuela? or Africa? 

I do think we ought to outlaw assault rifles... We already outlawed Machine Guns, Hand Grenades and Bazookas... Once upon a time Assault Rifles were illegal and the Murder Rate in the USA went down. So we know what works... Obviously the NRA is an EVIL organization. They supposedly funneled Russian Money into Trump's Campaign. That's why Maria Butina was thrown in Prison. and Paul Erickson was arrested... 

I also oppose arming the Police with Army Surplus Weapons. Often the People who choose Lawn Forcement as a Career are of Below Average Intelligence. Really! Have you actually KNOWN any cops? They are some really strange people. For one thing, they choose to put people in cages... and they choose to enforce ALL THE LAWS even when the laws are Obviously Wrong! You always see Pigs enforcing the Law against Protest Marches... Like During the Vietnam War, millions of people protested and sometimes the Police BEAT UP the Protesters. Obviously the Protesters were RIGHT and the Pigs were WRONG... Sometimes the National Guard battled the Protesters and Four were Killed at Kent State University in Ohio. How do those people feel now that almost everyone has WOKEN UP to the fact that the Vietnam War Was INSANE! 

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seachanged

You don't read like a gun nut *at all*, Greg, although I wouldn't mention the words President and gun in the same sentence.

Guys that shoot Lapua 338 magnums, or 50 caliber BMG cartridge scare me. These are anti-materiel weapons against civil infrastructure or long-range sniper rifles that can kill at half a mile.

Deer hunting is different in the oak savannas of California: you need a longer range gun than on old 30-30 brush rifle, but nobody needs anything bigger than a 30-06.

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Gregory Vanderlaan @Gregvan

@seachanged I Oppose Guns and Think They Should All Be Melted... HOWEVER... There May Come A Time When Dictatorship or Monarchy Happens in the USA... I personally DO NOT OWN ANY GUNS... I am Not Afraid of "The Man" Arresting Me For What I Say Online... I am Ready to Go to Prison for FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

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seachanged @seachanged

@Gregvan

Totally agree with your blog post, except for President thing.

I have .. six guns, I guess. I have to count them each time I tell anyone.

When the !@#$% deer are in the yard, I get the 30-30, sneak up on them, check downrange, and pull the trigger: CLICK! (no bullet), to see how I feel about it. Slaughter/butcher is a fuckload of work, but haven't had any good venison in .. years.

Got a pig once that couldn't be eaten: blue fat, from squirrel bait. All wasted work )-:

@seachanged Call me lazy but I get my meat at the Grocery Store... Since I Live in Eureka, There are many Hunters at work... Many Big Truck OFF Road Guys too... It's an Interesting Town with Three Very Different Social Groups. Loggers, Hippies and Indians. The YUROK Tribe is a Major Power Here. HOOPA Too.

seachanged I don't believe that private ownership of guns will help us during a constitutional collapse. In that situation, I think it's far more likely that citizen will turn on fellow citizen, and it won't be the Democrats and liberals who attack and murder the Republicans and fascists.

I'm glad to be in California, that way.

I'd eat a lot less meat if I had to slaughter and butcher it myself, especially big animals. Grandparents lived on a farm, so I've done a lot of that.

@seachanged I do not plan to own any guns, ever... I hope The Boogaloo does not happen but... I plan to remain in rural Humboldt County... safe and minding my own business...

@Gregvan

Yes, not having a gun in the household makes it safer against gun violence (probably because over half of gun deaths are suicides).

Funny you use the word Boogaloo, though. That's apparently (I had to look it up) a euphemism for civil war adopted by the far right, but your politics seem to be refreshingly far left. Where did you first hear that word? Friends? NPR?
None of my guns are for "protection" against "enemies".

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@seachanged I am trying to PREVENT The Boogaloo... The entire idea of Massive Civil War Lead by TrumpNiks and Tea Party Frightens me... However, I Do Support the Violet Overgrow.

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ANOTHER Republican Arrested: NRA Executive Paul Erickson (Boyfriend of Convicted Russian Spy Maria Butina) Charged with Wire Fraud, Money Laundering.

Was the NRA funneling Russian Money to Trump?

Read More at: https://www.npr.org/2019/02/06/687417296/paul-erickson-boyfriend-of-russian-agent-maria-butina-charged-in-fraud-scheme

FEMA Disaster: 10 Million water bottles left sitting on runway in Puerto Rico since last year. 2,965 People Dead. Trump Claims Fantastic Success.

People are Drinking Water from Creeks while Millions of Bottles go Unused due to FEMA Incompetence... 

https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/09/12/millions-of-water-bottles-left-sitting-on-runway-in-puerto-rico-since-last-year

What appears to be millions of bottles of water — delivered by FEMA for victims of Hurricane Maria — have sat unused on a runway in Puerto Rico since last year. At this point, the water is presumed to be unfit for drinking.

Water Bottles Abandoned in Puerto Rico

FEMA SNAFU Bottles of Drinking Water in Puerto Rico

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/12/us/puerto-rico-bottled-water-dump-weir/index.html

20,000 pallets of bottled water left untouched in storm-ravaged Puerto Rico

The stockpile of bottled water stretches down an unused runway in Ceiba. Case after case, pallet piled upon pallet, blue tarps and plastic glinting in the sun.

The emergency supplies were brought in by FEMA in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which smashed the island and left its residents without power, without roofs and without running water.
Federal officials commandeered the area in the far east of the island last fall as a staging ground, collecting the water and containers full of tarps to patch damaged and destroyed roofs in surrounding neighborhoods.
And there the supplies sat. And sat. Storm survivors were collecting spring water from the mountains for cooking and bathing, even with the threat of disease that brought.

Chords and Lyrics for "Maria" by Leonard Bernstein

C                                  G
Maria I've just met a girl named Maria
    C             G         Dm7                  C Cmaj7
And suddenly that name will never be the same to me
  C                                    G Gmaj7
Maria I've just kissed a girl named Maria
    Am                                            Bm
and suddenly I've found how wonderful a sound can be
  F                                  Em
Maria Say it loud and there's music playing
       Gm                         D
Say it soft and it's almost like praying
                                C
Maria I'll never stop saying Maria

      C  G  Dm7  Cmaj7      C     Gmaj7
Maria Maria Maria Maria Maria
  Am   Bm
Ma ria

  F                                 Em
Maria say it loud and there's music playing
      Gm                         D
Say it soft and it's almost like praying
                                C
Maria I'll never stop saying Maria
Eb                         Db6            C
The most beautiful sound I ever heard Maria