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Post by joee30 on Feb 27, 2019 8:22:58 GMT -8
Are you referring to the illegal immigrants or Mexican people in general? Think he was being sarcastic. lol
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Post by joee30 on Feb 27, 2019 8:21:49 GMT -8
If you browse the internet you will find many posts and articles about a looming catastrophe, everything from a complete economic collapse to a worldwide disaster. There are so called peppers that say get ready now in case something happens. What they are suggesting is having a water source, food stockpiled, and a means of self defense. I for one am not too worried about this, but I do see signs of potential trouble. The state of political affairs has me somewhat concerned, because I have never seen so much division in the US in all my years as what we have now. I can see that a civil war might be possible if things escalate, and that could potentially lead to major problems for a lot of folks. I just wonder if others on this forum have noticed any similar concerns. I see that too. I see it more of a factional thing really. Right vs. Left, which is just really stupid. I see this pushed a lot by right wingers a bit more as they feel anyone who doesn't think the same, like Trump, or isn't a "republican" as a threat. I find it silly really. I honestly don't care till any loved ones are hurt, then game on.
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Post by joee30 on Feb 21, 2019 11:46:24 GMT -8
Where in the Pacific Northwest are you located? I am in Reno, Nevada, but have travelled in Eastern Oregon a lot. I'm further up in Vancouver, British Columbia. I've been to Reno a few times for vacation - very enjoyable place to visit. Got some nice areas to collect here, depending on what you are looking for. Nice to head up to Canada and Alaska to do some collecting sometime.
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Post by joee30 on Feb 20, 2019 10:13:38 GMT -8
luehdorf. For sure! I would love to trade some of my local butterflies from some from China.
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Post by joee30 on Feb 19, 2019 22:52:41 GMT -8
Hi folks, my name is Jeff and I live in the Pacific Northwest. I collect mostly local Lepidoptera but also occasionally collect from other orders such as Odonata, Coleoptera and Hymenoptera. Up to this point, I've only worked with freshly caught or reared material, but this year I will try my luck with dead/dried stock, rehydration techniques, etc and see how things go. Thankfully, this forum is a treasure trove of information and expertise. Cheers. Where in the Pacific Northwest are you located? I am in Reno, Nevada, but have travelled in Eastern Oregon a lot.
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Post by joee30 on Feb 19, 2019 22:46:20 GMT -8
I also love orange tips. Last year I had the pleasure of seeing Anthocharis bambusarum in real in the Tianmu Mountains near Hangzhou China. I think it’s the biggest anthocharis species with the fore wings almost completely orange, very beautiful. They fly there mid of March till end of March depending on the height. The mountains are great, they rise from sea level to 1506 metres, so while in The Valley spring is over you just walk 15 minutes uphill and you have fresh anthocharis again. I have always wanted to get that species, but never seen it offered, or it was too expensive. I can imagine China has some nice Anthocharis species.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 23, 2019 10:43:17 GMT -8
I kept snakes and tarantulas, but had to rehome them when I moved to Reno. Am saving up to get a house in the near future and hopefully have a bug/fish/snake room and a nice garden.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 16, 2019 11:33:17 GMT -8
It would be interesting if you made videos of raising Citheronia vogleri from Argentina and Bolivia. Those are very lovely moths.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 14, 2019 11:03:09 GMT -8
Hi, everybody!! My name is Natasha and I am 23 years old. I love almost every kind of bug there is. I love learning about and taking care of them. I can go on and on about arthropods. But I want to keep this introduction fairly short. I'll post more things in the appropriate forum sections. Welcome Natasha. If you like to rear things, you sure came to the right place. If you need any advice regarding rearing, ask and we will help you as best as possible. Also, nice moth drawings! You've got some talent.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 14, 2019 10:58:20 GMT -8
I hope you have success with this, Bill. I have one of his books: The Butterflies of Bulolo-Wau I got a while back. Hope he is good.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 14, 2019 10:52:22 GMT -8
Why do you think that those at "the top" do so little to stop the multi billion dollar drug industry, it's not rocket science, they are all in it together, all creaming in the profits, sure they will make all the right noises but in the end they are too greedy to stop the gravy train, Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing on the modern world. Who suffers? Politicians? Royalty? Finance giants?Captains of industry? No the weakest, poorest and most vulnerable in society, always have always will. Think the rich, much like the poor, also partake in a fair amount of debauchery, and are hypocritical about it. I can imagine trump in his younger years doing coke. I mean there is a rumor flying around that he snorts Adderall. If that is true, it would make perfect sense why he sometimes rambles.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 14, 2019 10:49:23 GMT -8
Well, I watched the madness that was Trumps "address" and all it seemed to me was scapegoating, fearmongering, and a massive temper tantrum. To be honest, it doesn't surprise me one bit, and makes me think less of him as someone "honest". Just his diatribe on how said was was going to stop the cartels from smuggling drugs made me laugh. Last I checked, most of the cartels have more money than he does, and even if the bs wall was built, they will find a way to smuggle it in. As long as there are tweakers and crackheads, and rich cokeheads, they will find a way to bring it in, and get their money. Spot on comment! What is driving these people to walk towards the US? Many have had to leave their countries as they were forced out by criminal drug gangs that effectively run some of these countries - like Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and large areas of Mexico. Every time a single person is commanded to work as a drug mule or hitman for these drug running gangs, they and their families will be threatened and intimidated with violence, kidnapping, rape and whatever s##t. Whole families will have to flee their country or risk being murdered. In the neighboring country the same gangs will be hunting them and their families, so many push on towards Mexico and the US. So who is driving these drug running gangs? Obviously drug users! No buyers, no suppliers! While hardcore crackheads consume some cocaine, one should not be ignorant of the huge numbers of recreational (not only "rich" users, but the wast middle class too) drug users in USA, Canada and Europe that really drive the drug trade that f##k up the lives of so many people in these central american countries. It is the crappy western, common peoples attitude towards drugs, that they have the right to have a bit of fun in their everyday life, that drive the trade, causing much of the problem of people seeking towards the US, in the first place. These immigrants are a symptom, not a disease. Much of it can be traced back to the days of the US weapons for drugs funding of the Contras in Nicaragua. The commies had to be fought off somehow and as there was no chance the US could throw money directly into that fire, so drug money was largely used to finance US interests. The Netflix series "Narcos: Mexico" depicts it pretty well! Gangs like MS13 and Barrio 18 became the root of most human misery in central america after then. Roughly the US politicians started a bush fire down there and it has been burning along the southern US border ever since, mostly fueled by the drug consumption in the US. Obviously there are lots of other conspiracy theories out there, but if one bother to read on a matter like this from various resources, it could actually be a pretty believable conspiracy theory too. In Europe we hardly ever see any Latinos coming over for dinner. In Europe it is mostly middle eastern people that can walk or sail right into Europe. Many of these people however are not driven by the drug market in Europe, but rather fleeing from religious madness - which most of them are inflicting on themselves by choosing to believe in god-knows-what weird stone age scriptures. Even people that read the same book are fair game from others that interpret it differently. At least it is not Europeans fueling that group of illegal immigrants! And many of them walk across several safe countries to come to a safe country that oftentimes seem to have a number of most useful benefits, especially as compared to some of the countries they already passed through. Maybe life just consist of huge numbers of individual "happenings" with no connection to one another, or they could all be interconnected some how? Jan Agreed. My big thing regarding the MS-13 issue here in America is that they are a product of like any group that has immigrated here(Jews, Italians, and Irish), that many of these kids would make friends who would take them down the wrong path, and will become criminals. This happens everywhere in the world, and it is nothing new. The difference between street gangs like MS-13, and the Italian, Irish, or Jewish mobs is that they are more of a confederation of closely knit groups of people than a big organization. Now, that is here in the states, in those countries where these kids fled civil wars in the 70's and 80's, thay have established pretty much a cartel of their own. They are backed by the cartels as they smuggle in the dope through Central America into Mexico. At the same time, they are just like the cartels in Mexico, and use brutality and murder to send their message loud and clear. I just feel that here in America, it is easier to have an idiot pundit like Sean Hannity paint those folks trying to escape the madness of the cartels and gangs as "criminals", and having a good chunk of his audience actually believe it, and get them riled up. I don't agree with illegal immigration, but this issue is bigger than trumps wall. I feel that all that is happening at the present moment, between his temper tantrums and democrats not giving in to his tantrums, the only people that will suffer are those who are not getting paid to do their jobs, and work for the government. They should repair and upgrade what is there, and put up some hi tech surveillance. Put more boots on the ground to catch people sneaking in, and also work on fixing the actual policies. Unless we are willing to step in, and go into Mexico and get rid of the cartels, and the gangs in Central America militarily, then there should be a way for these people to get in here the "right way" rather than having to wait many years, and deal with bureaucratic red tape. Maybe making work visas easier to acquire, and economical?
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Post by joee30 on Jan 14, 2019 10:29:46 GMT -8
Screw the wall, a quick missile strike on the homes of Latino unlicensed pharmacy wholesalers followed by a mass excursion and clean up in northern Mexico and arrests of government politicians in DF would be less expensive and effective far longer. No wall no border. The militia can take care of the border which is now bilaterally open to insect collectors and armed carry on both sides of the former border is recognized as a right. Problem solved. Homeland Security can then be retasked to hunt down and eliminate ms13, crips, and all the other ###bags. If they can’t or won’t do it we ask the Michigan Militia To do it. Invite the Mafia to come back and clean up urban areas, it a lot less expensive to let them take a few truckloads of TVs than continue driving urban poverty and crime. Legalize drugs. That would be easier said than done. I can bet there are politicians in our great right wing that have businesses and get money from Mexico. This is why I think this wall idea trump hatched out is bunk! I mean even border agents have smuggled drugs, you have tractor trailers, trains, tunnels, subs, boats, and human mules bringing this crap in. I agree with legalizing em all and hurting the cartels in that way.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 14, 2019 10:21:30 GMT -8
All thoughts aside, I still want to see the wall being built! Every day China is growing bigger and better! What better way to top China then to top the Great Wall? OK, so there's a joke. And, with all deference to my Latino friends, whom I love (and who laugh at this), I will caveat it with "it's a joke" that shows how stupid all this is. Here we go... How do we know The Wall will work? Easy- the Chinese built a wall, and there are no Mexicans in China! It's so stupid it's funny! True, but all joking aside, the Mongols sure as heck did, and did some work on China.
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Post by joee30 on Jan 8, 2019 23:28:23 GMT -8
Well, I watched the madness that was Trumps "address" and all it seemed to me was scapegoating, fearmongering, and a massive temper tantrum. To be honest, it doesn't surprise me one bit, and makes me think less of him as someone "honest". Just his diatribe on how said was was going to stop the cartels from smuggling drugs made me laugh. Last I checked, most of the cartels have more money than he does, and even if the bs wall was built, they will find a way to smuggle it in. As long as there are tweakers and crackheads, and rich cokeheads, they will find a way to bring it in, and get their money.
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