>> how much the United States spends
>> on foreign aid every year?"

> [...] I'll guess around $25B.

> Cousin Dave at December 21,
> 2017 6:42 AM

So far as I can tell, this is pretty precisely correct.

Not WINNING! yet, until the environ-MENTAL-ists are defeated in court.

Arctic Refuge Just the Start as Trump Moves to Unlock Alaska Oil

Anime Trump

https://twitter.com/Crisprtek/status/943985116971458561/video/1

Lysenkoism.

Heh.

As an ideological matter, every time a Democrat claims that keeping more of your own money is tantamount to stealing – which is all the time – voters should remember this is fundamentally a debate between people who believe the state should have first dibs on your property and those who don’t.

http://thefederalist.com/2017/12/20/youre-probably-going-to-like-tax-cuts/

Socialism. Is there nothing it can't do?

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4132454-venezuelas-oil-industry-staggers-closer-collapse-positive-catalyst-oil

"until the environ-MENTAL-ists are defeated"

Always laugh when I see a so-called 'conservative' raging against conservation.

>> how much the United States spends
>> on foreign aid every year?"

> [...] I'll guess around $25B.

> Cousin Dave at December 21,
> 2017 6:42 AM

Enough to pay for a border wall!

@Gog: Actually, the drilling in ANWAR will only involve a small portion of that mostly-barren area, and side-drilling will probably be included, meaning that you won't need as large a footprint on the surface.

Environmentalism has gone far beyond conservation and become a green statist jihad trying to determine how most of us live our lives. Obama's clean power plan, for just one example, is less an exercise in conservation than it is a total statist takeover of the power industry. Hopefully, Trump will get rid of it once and for all.

So much WINNING! . . . for the Resistance and the Homosexual Agenda.

Enough to pay for a border wall! ~ Snoopy at December 22, 2017 8:20 AM

Said wall may be a good thing for the US to build. Certainly our current rate of immigration exceeds our ability to properly assimilate the immigrants. And the low skill level of too many of our immigrants leaves them behind in our advanced technological society. Language and cultural barriers (see assimilation) leave them isolated.

But we need to be wary of "Build the Wall" types who want to isolate the US from the world, cutting off any and all foreign aid, imports, and involvement in world affairs.

Isolating oneself from the world never works in the long run. We have the history of Japan and China as guides.

The Meiji emperors and Kuomintang were left picking up the pieces of advanced civilizations destroyed by their respective ancestors who decided the world did not deserve the august presence of their peoples in it.

The destruction wrought over several generations of isolation left their respective societies economically disadvantaged, poorly educated, and vulnerable to exploitation.

Merry Christmas!

Ah, some more anti-male rhetoric from one of our betters in Hollywood:

Jodie Foster: ‘Every Man Over 30’ Plays ‘Part’ in Sex Misconduct

Oh, Turkey. Or @Jack. Not safe for PC workplaces, or Jodie Foster.

https://twitter.com/patcondell/status/943790826303442945

mpetrie, in "Strangers in Their Own Land" (most of it is from Louisiana, IIRC), a housewife is quoted as saying "pollution is the price we pay for capitalism."

I can't help but think that what she meant was "I expect to get cancer and die before I turn 60, so why shouldn't everybody else?"

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/books/review/strangers-in-their-own-land-arlie-russell-hochschild.html

From 2013:

"Tony Perkins Blames Gays In The U.S. Military For Surge In Suicides"

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/tony-perkins-gays-military-dont-ask-dont-tell-suicides-surge_n_2590877.html

And, from Political Research Associates:

"He has called the LGBTQ rights movement an act of cultural and corporate terrorism. Because he appears less strident than the older anti-gay spokespeople, like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Louis Sheldon, he is able to deliver their same messages to their audiences without sounding shrilly alarmist."

"Actually, the drilling in ANWAR will only involve a small portion of that mostly-barren area, and side-drilling will probably be included, meaning that you won't need as large a footprint on the surface."

Wait - will this be another of those "let's drill in Alaska to solve the oil crisis and then sell it to the Japanese instead" dealy-bobs?