Duke Powell

"Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good." - Freya Stark

[Duke Powell @dwp4401]

@DogDad_MN Good.

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Terrible is what we’ve got. We only need someone who’s competent. Cousins is competent…… and maybe a bit more.

My initial thoughts were to live with the QB decisions made over the last year. After all, the Vikings management are the experts, right?

Given the cost to obtain Cousins, $650,000 this year and a minimum of $10,000,000 next year (whether or not we resign him) was a reasonable trade-especially for the Raiders.

While this doesn’t solve the Vikings long term QB problem, it is a reasonable decision.

The biggest problem for this team is the offensive line.

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@ScottMechkowski @AAC0519 @shipwreckedcrew Correct.

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@AAC0519 @ScottMechkowski @shipwreckedcrew Interesting, but if you give them an inch, they will take a mile.

[Scott Mechkowski @ScottMechkowski]

Great post ! But I must opine:

I agree with every word on prioritization. I ran fugitive operations. You never have enough officers, beds or money, so you go after the worst first. That's how ICE has always worked, and it's how it should work.
But prioritization doesn't need a deal with Democrats. It's an executive call. The Secretary can set priorities tomorrow with a memo. Nobody has to pass anything.

That's not what the President described. He said people here "10 and 15 years" should be able to "work a deal," and he wants to do it with the new Democratic Congress.

A deal in Congress means a law, and a law for people here illegally means legal status. Salazar heard it the same way, which is why she said that's exactly what her Dignity Act does.

Lower priority is one thing. A green card is another. One is a judgment call about who goes first. The other is permanent, and it's what we did in 1986.
On Kansas, I hear you, and the economics are real. But the fix for a meatpacking town is E-Verify, a workable visa program, and going after the employers who built their business on illegal labor. Not handing permanent status to everyone already on the line.

[Shipwreckedcrew @shipwreckedcrew]

Trump is not endorsing "amnesty."

He's recognizing that there is an order of priority that can be applied to the removal of illegal aliens.

There are only so many DHS/ICE personnel, so much bed space, and so much operating funds available to fund the removal operations.

Who DHS/ICE chooses to arrest and remove, and in what order it prioritizes various sub-groups of aliens are matters of policy choices.

An approach that has no prioritization is subject to resulting in unintended consequences like losing legislative seats in a rural area of Kansas where the economy is almost entirely dependent on the meatpacking industry, and mass removals of illegal workers in that industry devastate the economies of the small towns in that area.

Ignoring the "cost/benefit" analysis of policy choices is the fastest way to hand the power to make those choices over to the opposition.

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@ajlamesa Over the decades, having government impose increasing authority over access, quality and cost is what has lead us to this point. The result is today's definition of Gordian's Knot.

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@murphmedia_ One can agree that letting him go to Atlanta and returning him again were both the correct decisions.

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@JasonRodlund @EstergrenSue He us better than what we’ve got.

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@thorku Psst….The main problem with the Vikings is their offensive line.

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@alwaysopenn_ I wanted the Vikings to own their decisions. Having said that, Cousins was the best option.

HAVING SAID THAT, the Vikings problem is their offensive line.

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@alwaysopenn_ I wanted the Vikings to own their decisions. Having said that, Cousins was the best option.

HAVING SAID THAT, the Vikings problem is their offensive line.

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@ThunderNLove88 @PatMcAfeeShow We will see......

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The Vikings should stand pat with the QB's they have. These decisions were presumably made by those who know what they are doing. If it all comes down around their ears, they should have to live with it.

At the trade deadline, the Vikes should concentrate on their offensive line. That will help their poor QB play.

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As for the #Vikings QB situation, I'd stand pat with the decisions made over the past year. Live with it.

What I would do is to look to shore up the Offensive Line.

[Thor Nystrom @thorku]

I’m already bracing for the trade comp. This is gonna hurt.

What a dream situation for the Raiders — get to dictate terms to an organization that played itself, as the Giants did six weeks ago.

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@Bork10Bork @CrimeWatchTC I’m just looking at Minnesota law.