White Marlin, you quoted my words misleadingly. I didn't ask if others wanted a Court that would rely on Korematsu as precedent.

I asked if others wanted incompetent government employees. Here is what I wrote:



"The SCOTUS decision is surprising mainly because the majority were so willing to over-rule established precedent yet again.

"Unions serve a purpose in helping check government management's nearly unlimited power to hire, fire, promote or punish workers for political reasons.

"When I law-clerked for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, the Assistant AGs were all "expected" (meaning required, if wishing to keep the job) to donate $1,000 per year to the AG's re-election fund.

"Government lawyers aren't unionized. So when Governor Sheffield decided to cut salaries of all the Assistant Attorney Generals by ten percent, in order to make himself look good politically, I could do nothing. I had only taken the job a month before, after salary negotiations, and just bought a house, but I had no remedy--except to vote with my feet as soon as a better-paying job presented itself. Meanwhile, the old-timers, who mostly slept behind their desks in the afternoon, hunkered down where they were.

"If all state workers were subject to arbitrary and unlimited management power, we would soon be left with the dregs of workers in state government. Is that what you people want?"

Jim

The human imagination is a powerful thing. Jim

I hope this meets James's criteria, if it were not for Republican assertiveness,a lot Mn would have lost
snaring this past session.

Your right. We should all just follow your example and vote liberal because they are the true friends of hunters, trappers and gun-owners. Things would be so much better. SMH

im thinking its time to go libertarian. r's lie as much as d's. national carry, smaller government, balanced budget, local control of public schools. all promised and no delivery.

im thinking its time to go libertarian. r's lie as much as d's. national carry, smaller government, balanced budget, local control of public schools. all promised and no delivery.

big fan of that open border thing, yes?

listen, it is our OWN fault things are the way they are....how many average Joes vote in primary elections? most people just don't care enough to get involved when it REALLY counts.

it is only the zealots (both sides) that are actively involved.

and by the looks of things, that isn't likely to change anytime soon.

Let's face it, as trappers we have very few allies. The way politics has become a career, without the lobbying power and the money that goes with it, we have little chance.

Was that the state Rep legislature you're talking about? I was aiming more at the federal government, which if anything has acted to hurt outdoors people under Rep administrations.

Case in point: the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, where trappers lost significant public lands in about 2005 under Bush. Despite the fact that the trails in the refuge were initially built by trappers and miners, trapping is no longer allowed within a half mile of any trail or trailhead. They have been doing everything in their power to keep trappers out of the refuge.

And now, under Trump, the geniuses who run the KNWR are trying to run out hunting. I've hunted there for years, but now I have to take a three day course on how to distinguish between brow tines and palm tines.

In another year, they'll be talk of limiting seasons differently from the state. Go to shotguns or bows only.

The Republicans are not our friends. Any benefits of their plans to the average American will be incidental, just a little side-effect from the benefits enjoyed by rich people in the White House and Congress.

Jim

So the USFWS is a Republican controlled organization? Even Lisa Magiski hates them.