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That’s horrible legislation. Those lands are used by Westerners to hike, hunt, fish, shoot, off-road, mine, camp and so much more. It’s not right that those public lands, used for decades by everyone, will now be sold off to light us like Larry Ellison, who will gate everything off and shut all the roads and trails down to public use.

It’s horrifying, how much this single bill will destroy recreation in the West!

“…members of the same-sex.” Don’t know how Siri came up with “dances”!

I agree with this. Hating your brother is committing adultery and looking at a woman with lust U.S. adultery…

Oh, of course. They have to recognize that same-sex attraction is a disorder, something gone wrong, whether abuse, weak or absent father, whatever. To think it’s okay or to be proud of the orientation is wrong.

It’s like me: my personal failure is gluttony. I struggle with overeating. I don’t think it’s a sin to crave food so badly, I recognize it’s aberrant and a way to avoid suffering and pain, but as long as I resist I don’t think I’m sinning.

Seems pretty clear to me: if you are tempted to do something sinful but refrain from doing it, you’re not guilty of the sin. Someone lustful who stops looking at women with lust, no sin. They’re still attracted to women but they don’t give in to the temptation to lust.

Someone with a weakness for alcohol who stays dry: he doesn’t sin.

Someone attracted to members of the dances who doesn’t yield to the temptation to have sex with one, or lust after one…there is no sin committed.

Seems pretty clear to me.

I agree with them. If someone has same-sex attraction, for whatever reason they became disordered, I don’t think it’s a sin unless someone acts on it.

Like a man can have heterosexual attraction but that’s not a sin as long as he doesn’t commit adultery, which can be as subtle as looking at someone with lust.

Or an alcoholic may always struggle with being tempted to get drunk, but as long as he doesn’t, I don’t think he’s committing a sin.

Hah hah, funny!

Yup, I almost wouldn’t be surprised if the soldiers started good-stepping and saluting as they pass Trump at the reviewing stand!

Awful optics, in my opinion…

Sounds great, until you need them to open the pod bay door!

I’d bet it’s a divorced husband whose ex-wife just ordered their frozen embryos to be destroyed.

Speaking for myself, it’s totally true that loud motors alert me to a close-by motorcycle.

There’s been countless hundreds of times over the past few decades of driving that I’ve heard a loud motor and glanced over, or behind, and was alerted to a motorcycle by me.

I appreciate people who do that.

I’ve never ridden a motorcyce, by the way

My grandmother was a Quebecois whose family emigrated to the states in the early 1900’s. Even so, Canada has a long and proud history as a country and it riled them up to no end to be continuously mocked and derided as Trump dud with his nonsensical statements about America’s 51st state.

Totally absurd nonsense on his part and it cost conservatives the election.

Sometimes Trump says the most foolish, intemperate things…I truly don’t understand that adolescent side of him.

It cost Canada a chance to rid themselves of the execrable Trudeau/Carney kleptocracy.

Wow, that was a really nice piece!!

I’d disagree about all Oregon universities being a joke. I know several engineers, a teacher and a shrink who graduated from OSU, and they’re extremely good at what they do.

Of course, it’s an engineering school and folks in the rural, conservative areas (I’m in Southern Oregon, extremely conservative) all send their kids there.

I’ve never owned an America car. In fifty years of driving all I’ve ever bought are Opels, Nissans, Toyotas and a VW diesel, because American cars are junk!

I’ve seen person after person I know buy Subarus, Hondas, Toyotas, etc., and they all last 300,000+, often with few repairs.

At the same time I know so many people who buy GM, Ford, Dodge, Jeep, etc., and they all fall apart at around 125,000, often needing multiple expensive repairs.

What a beautiful song…rest in peace, Jesse.

Really? What a blessed place to live. I love Northern California, from the Trinity Alps to Mt. Shasta, plus the lands around Mt. Lassen, it’s truly a magnificent area to live.

I live in southern Oregon which is almost as nice.

It sure was, huh!

He made one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard Ridgetop, about living in the Marin headlands.