We expect our military leaders to analyze and understand the cultural and social makeup of a country we may go to war with, but we aren’t supposed to expect the same of the people that order our military to go to war? If you don’t understand the ins and outs of how a country works socially, you’re going to screw the region up more than if you left it alone. Look at Afghanistan and Iraq for a very recent lesson on why this matters. Just because a bunch of people live in the same country doesn’t mean they all like each other, especially in the middle east. Not to mention the sheer number of displaced civilians in a conflict involving Iran. Where are they all going to go? Who’s taking them?
The Ninth Circus ruled favorably to Trump? Are we in a new timeline?
All I know is is that I voted for Mike Lee for this. You try being trapped in a box your whole life. The feds shouldn't have this much control:
It needs to fucking happen.
People have lived in the rockies for hundreds, if not thousands of years counting the natives. Yes water is always an issue. There are solutions to these. Remember how Trump opened up the water for California. That could be done for the entire west. There were plans in the 50's for such a project. Would have piped water from Canada into the western half of the US.
This has been happening off and on all year when some judge is too dumb for even them.
A bit late to this one, but do you suppose it might've been a different model or something working from GPT's API, but he and the news used ChatGPT as sort of a genericized trademark (Kleenex, Trampoline etc) to describe a catchall (or just didn't know the difference themselves) so the lowest common denominator could understand?
You ABSOLUTELY can make Champagne in the Pacific Northwest. Mt. St. Helens blowing up caused the Yakima Valley, for example, to have the EXACT same soil quality and climate as Champaign, France due to all the ash. It's why they've been ripping down Apple orchards by the hectacre and putting in grape vines, it's why you can't buy grapes online and have them shipped to Washington/Oregon/Idaho anymore -- they don't want to risk blight being imported or oddball varieties ruining the specific varieties they're growing commercially.
Didn't he take credit for turning Juneteenth into a national holiday?
The woman's $64 planner is clearly a generic drop shipped model that she only customizes the cover of. The unit price for bulk blanks is probably $3, but since she's a drop shipper, she probably doesn't buy blanks, or in bulk, which would put her unit price for a small custom notebook order from China at $25-$50.
This is slightly incorrect. MEMRI TV is the Middle East Media Research Institute, which started after the GWOT to just monitor all the crazy shit that goes on TV over there. Becoming a resource for memes was just natural, yes.
You've had a generation of businessmen and women who've lived through an era of government protections and simplified supply chains and so can't be assed with any meagre complexity.
Small numbers of people.
Trump removing that water was a calculated gamble. It's a gamble that imo was worth it as the city was on fire, but it's not like there was an infinite water tap and Trump walked up to it, shrugged, and turned it on, thus cutting the Gordian Knot. If California has a drought year, that decision will have catastrophic consequences. The reservoirs fill when rain is heavy and that water needs to be held for times when water is scarce. It is a limited supply.
I think it would be the height of idiocy to fuel a population boom in the West by sourcing water from a foreign country. You're putting a gun to your head and giving them control of the trigger. One of the big things that the US has going for it is the capacity for self-sufficiency.
Not true at all. How would a volcano erupting give an area the same soils as Champagne? Champagne is built on an immense limestone basin, formed during the period when France was a shallow tropical sea with a few islands. There's pretty much no volcanic soil there. The climate in the winegrowing regions in Washington is also COMPLETELY different from Champagne. It has extremely hot days, a large temperature swing, and very dry conditions with farming only made possible via irrigation. Champagne is a very cool region, marginal for grapes even, which you need to make good sparkling wine. Dry farming is common due to ample rainfall, with deep-rooted vines digging into fractured chalk bedrock. The sort of hundred degree days that are pretty normal for Washington could spoil a Champagne vintage. There's also the human element of Champagne. The Romans mined chalk there, the region is honeycombed with hundreds of miles of tunnels and chambers that are used to age the wine, an essential part of Champagne (multivintage blending and long sur lie aging). This has been expanded over centuries. No infrastructure like that exists in Washington and it would be much more difficult to dig it out of the flood basalt bedrock that characterizes the area.ou ABSOLUTELY can make Champagne in the Pacific Northwest. Mt. St. Helens blowing up caused the Yakima Valley, for example, to have the EXACT same soil quality and climate as Champaign, France due to all the ash. It's why they've been ripping down Apple orchards by the hectacre and putting in grape vines, it's why you can't buy grapes online and have them shipped to Washington/Oregon/Idaho anymore -- they don't want to risk blight being imported or oddball varieties ruining the specific varieties they're growing commercially.
Seriously:
https://yakimavalleywinecountry.com/
https://www.oregonwine.org/
https://idahowines.org/
Oregon, Washington, Idaho -- they've all been mass swapping away from apples and hops and potatoes for wine grapes pretty much as fast as the wineries and vineyards can support them doing so, and I doubt it'll stop anytime soon. As for Champaign, they literally imported the same grapes and grow them throughout Yakima Valley -- but they can't call it Champagne, so they call it "Sparkling White Wine" while they try and get some cutesy name to stick. Next time you're at Costco look at their wines, they brag about where they're from -- I've been to 6 of them over the past 3 years and 5 of them had Yakima Valley wines in them and the one that didn't had an Oregon wine.
Except for that if that was the case, then no one would buy Californian Champagne and PDO laws would be meaningless. Yet, France refuses to get rid of the useless laws because they know that their wines can't dominate without it.
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The water is from Canada where they have bucketloads of it. It was no gamble. It was smart.
You assume we couldn't take Canada over if they ever tried stopping the flow. Lmao.
PDO laws are basically a government-enforced brand, and were originally created to counteract rampant fraud. People buy California sparkling wines. Some Champagne houses have even set up shop in California. That's not a contradiction. You can make sparkling wine anywhere, but sparkling wine from Champagne is different - anyone who drinks wine even on a hobbyist level knows this. This is why when you compare market share globally between California and Champagne on $50+ bottles Champagne blows California out of the water. Champagne's position is that it's basically a version of fraud to put 'Champagne' on a bottle that isn't from the region and follows its production rules, and I agree with them. If it's the same, why not just call it California Sparkling Wine? Why not make your own separate sparkling appellation like Franciacorta or Cava or Prosecco? Or like England has done? The only motivation is that same motivation that guides a Nigerian who slaps a Gucci label on a knockoff bag and sells it down by the wharf - you're trying to get an undeserved markup off a fraudulent presentation of your product. It's dishonest.
A whole lot of judges from the ninth have been replaced with moderates and conservatives in the past decade. We've seen some decent rulings come or of there for the past five years or so.
It's still a trade barrier and "free trade" libertarians should be in favor of removing them. Even if an American winery complied with all of the French rules, they still would not be allowed to sell in France purely because of where they are.
No it doesn't. Are you serious? California water supplies are fed by Sierra Nevada snowmelt and several large rivers. Not Canada. How the hell would the water even get down there from Canada? The watersheds are completely cut off.
Well I'm not a free trade libertarian. We have our own AVA laws, so it'd be hypocritical for us to ignore the French equivalent. A French winemaker would never try and label their slop Pinot Noir 'Willamette Valley'.
