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Originally Posted by I B Hankering
Yes. A quarter ounce -- which was a quarter ounce more than I found in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of New Mexico on a previous excursion.
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In your country there are more deaths for domestic violence, school shootings (by disturbed people who can buy weapons with the ease of going to the supermarket to buy bread) and settling scores between gangs than because of terrorism, there're more losses of money by large corporations that go to fraudulent bankruptcy to evade taxes and money laundering that of an immigrant in an irregular situation. So your idea of closing the borders is absolutely ridiculous. The cheap labor is the one that keeps the PBI, so yes, I feel embarrassed by people so limited and small.
I was for hollidays in many countries but the impression when you're a tourist is absolutly different than living for more than 1 year (I ever say the first year you can see everything pink). I was living also in Middle East (not vacation, living there). And your perspective as a conservative American is far far away from the reallity, in fact the problems with Greece was for American banks who helped hide and decorating the balance sheets fraudulently.
I was in Barcelona when the terrorist attack and everybody knows the police Mossos d'Esquadra was warned about it and we were in red alert, but for political reasons for the fight and espionage between the national police and the Catalonian police division (Mossos) the warn was ignored. So is not about the borders, is about the politic reason for individual convenience. From 7 million people in Catalonia 2 million want the indepence from Spain, Spain don't want it, then the sabotage. Federal authorities wanna cancell the regional police. Regional police don't share documents with national police.And the terroris were local people, young guys with behavior problems. Guys who were born and rised here. Not inmigrants, not regugees.
In Belgium the terrorist were local people, not inmigrants, not terrorists infiltrated among the refugees. Guys who had a nice house in a residencial zone, rich neighborhood, they went to a private and expensive university, not poor inmigrant working without work permit. And again, the police had the full information about these people.
In France the police are controlling all the borders, when you take the Eurotunnel control even with dogs, if you take a bus you should show your valid passport or ID or the driver don't permit you travel, and police stop the bus in the middle of the route to control the passengers and louggage. And Paris is weird than a track can arrive to a closed street and no one controlled... Yes sure...
In UK the british government released one of the authors of the terrorist attack on the metro, saying that he had terminal cancer and that it was for humanitarian reasons. The terrorist never had cancer, he is not dead. He's at liberty. But that was the condition that put Qatar to sign a millionaire contract with the British petrol. The government itself shits on the victims, local citizens too. No poor immigrant or refugee.
So this is the new
Sykes–Picot Agreement where USA and OTAN members (yes UK and France again) with China and Russia are fighting for money and power. Selling armament, providing military training to paramilitary forces (if you look in Youtube even Tony Blair said sorry for that), that they can not control (maybe that's the first intention) to have the excuse to invade and exterminate. Here there are no innocent saints, there's a war where many benefit and use certain specific terrorist attacks (which, according to my point of view, the authorities allow them) to manipulate public opinion and have the perfect excuse to go bombing later.
Here the only harmed are civilians, people like any of us who had a life and had to run with nothing to save the life or the victims of each attack.
The problem is not the border, the problem are the warlords planning with sadism how riches and power are distributed.
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Annoying people. I insist, many of you need to leave the cave sometimes.
Ok, I can't continue with this never ending story 
Borders!