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BillOfRights said:
No worries. Good luck with the time change. In Kentucky, all we have is bourbon, Corvettes, a 2-minute horse race, and Andy Beshear, so we don't like people confusing Jack Daniels for bourbon.
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You have the Kentucky Wildcats and Louisville Cardinals, Mammoth Cave, and Red River Gorge.
 
Zoo_View said:
You have the Kentucky Wildcats and Louisville Cardinals, Mammoth Cave, and Red River Gorge.
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I've been a Carolina fan since I discovered basketball as a child, so the cats and cards don't do it for me, although you are correct that in this basketball-crazed commonwealth, they are a big deal. Mammoth Cave is a mammoth hole in the ground, but yeah.
Red River Gorge isn't something many people know about. Are you a climber? Into the geology of the arches and such?
 
BillOfRights said:
I've been a Carolina fan since I discovered basketball as a child, so the cats and cards don't do it for me, although you are correct that in this basketball-crazed commonwealth, they are a big deal. Mammoth Cave is a mammoth hole in the ground, but yeah.
Red River Gorge isn't something many people know about. Are you a climber? Into the geology of the arches and such?
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Climber and general outdoors enthusiast.

I was kidding about Louisville and UK.
 
Zoo_View said:
That area has changed so much since it was first being “discovered” as a climbing area in the late ‘80’s.
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There is a recent effort to turn the area into a mini "Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge" type thing, and there has been a lot of resistance. Money usually wins.
 
The majority of the country would be on board either some short term pain if it fixed or addressed the drug issue but this is total madness.

Trump should have taken office and immediately reached out to Canada and Mexico and formed a partnership.

Mexico has a safety problem and an economic problem. One of the many reasons folks come here is because there are better opportunities in the US. We should be working to make their country more prosperous.

I think a reasonable plan would have been:

Reach out to Mexico and say the drugs have to stop and the border has to be closed. If that happens, US will work to push companies to onboard mfg to North America (mainly Mexico). It will help their economy and shut down a lot of drug flow.

North America working together could really be powerful and Mexico being in a better spot helps the US in so many different ways.

I would say the current strategy makes no sense but there isn’t a strategy.
 
HintonJamesHeel said:
The majority of the country would be on board either some short term pain if it fixed or addressed the drug issue but this is total madness.

Trump should have taken office and immediately reached out to Canada and Mexico and formed a partnership.

Mexico has a safety problem and an economic problem. One of the many reasons folks come here is because there are better opportunities in the US. We should be working to make their country more prosperous.

I think a reasonable plan would have been:

Reach out to Mexico and say the drugs have to stop and the border has to be closed. If that happens, US will work to push companies to onboard mfg to North America (mainly Mexico). It will help their economy and shut down a lot of drug flow.

North America working together could really be powerful and Mexico being in a better spot helps the US in so many different ways.

I would say the current strategy makes no sense but there isn’t a strategy.
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Good points
Now its also true Mexico might implore us to work on our drug problem-why do we have so damn many drug addicts?
 
HintonJamesHeel said:
The majority of the country would be on board either some short term pain if it fixed or addressed the drug issue but this is total madness.

Trump should have taken office and immediately reached out to Canada and Mexico and formed a partnership.

Mexico has a safety problem and an economic problem. One of the many reasons folks come here is because there are better opportunities in the US. We should be working to make their country more prosperous.

I think a reasonable plan would have been:

Reach out to Mexico and say the drugs have to stop and the border has to be closed. If that happens, US will work to push companies to onboard mfg to North America (mainly Mexico). It will help their economy and shut down a lot of drug flow.

North America working together could really be powerful and Mexico being in a better spot helps the US in so many different ways.

I would say the current strategy makes no sense but there isn’t a strategy.
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Reaching out to Mexico and Canada would have required an actual plan, not the concept of a plan that trump had.
 
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HintonJamesHeel said:
The majority of the country would be on board either some short term pain if it fixed or addressed the drug issue but this is total madness.

Trump should have taken office and immediately reached out to Canada and Mexico and formed a partnership.

Mexico has a safety problem and an economic problem. One of the many reasons folks come here is because there are better opportunities in the US. We should be working to make their country more prosperous.

I think a reasonable plan would have been:

Reach out to Mexico and say the drugs have to stop and the border has to be closed. If that happens, US will work to push companies to onboard mfg to North America (mainly Mexico). It will help their economy and shut down a lot of drug flow.

North America working together could really be powerful and Mexico being in a better spot helps the US in so many different ways.

I would say the current strategy makes no sense but there isn’t a strategy.
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Completely agree with helping to improve Mexico's economy, but how would that go over with the isolationist and America first crowd that is happy that USAID is decimated?
 
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This is why tariff (or any other policy) should not be by presidential fiat.
 
Almost all of the recent immigrant wave was not from Mexico - but from the communist countries: Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba.
 
BlooVooDoo said:
Jack Daniels is owned by Brown-Forman, which is a Louisville corporation and includes Old Forester and Woodford Reserve.
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Yes, but it's still made in Tennessee. Buffalo Trace is owned by Sazerac of New Orleans, well, Metairie, but it's still Kentucky bourbon.
 
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