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That's gonna leave a mark.

Lots of question marks on this one.

Maybe on the second-order effects, but not on some things.

The bridge is easily going to be $2B itself, and the federal government and State of Maryland will be in admiralty court to get this out of Lloyd's. 

I would just add immigrants tend to be hard working, more likely to start a business, and less likely to commit crime. Turns out, someone who would risk prison or death just to make things better for their family are good bets for society. A good policy would be to leave people alone who aren't committing crime and spend most of your resources restricting immigration on the idiots. Illegal immigrants aren't getting social security anyhow.

definitely agree. immigrants are the life blood of the US, it's what has made this country the greatest in the world and will continue to make it great.

definitely need to secure the border however and make sure we know who is coming in and out of the country. can't have an open border that is a wild free for all where anyone can just cross.

If you don't replace your population over time, bad things happen.  I think if it's not growing at a decent rate, bad things happen. 

yup. which is why China is screwed. One Child policy for decades has lead to an aging rapidly declining population and they don't have millions and millions of immigrants dying to move there (like we do here) to make up the gaps- nor do they really allow much legal immigration- people who think legal immigration is tough here- look into what it takes to legally immigrate to other countries.

by far the greatest, most important, most significant news publisher of our times, Julian Assange wins a small victory in a UK court yesterday which ruled that a final ruling on his extradition to the US would be delayed three weeks in order to receive assurances from the US pertaining to Assange’s 1st amendment rights and that the US would not seek the death penalty. If the US fails to give these assurances to the UK then Assange would be allowed to appeal his extradition to the US at a hearing in May.

There has been talk floated by the media (WSJ, NYT, Guardian, WaPo) from "anonymous sources" in the DoJ about them offering Assange some kind of plea deal for a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified material and being able to walk free. Gee how generous of them. Here's a better idea, why not go f*ck yourselves and just drop all the bullsh*t charges and stop trying to kill the guy? What a thought.

 Gee how generous of them. Here's a better idea, why not go f*ck yourselves and just drop all the bullsh*t charges and stop trying to kill the guy? What a thought.

If he has listened to Brandon's babbled State of Union Speeches nothing will kill him

Love this.

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