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Oregon to California and New York:

The New American Digest Posted on June 17, 2026 by DTJune 17, 2026

Here - hold my beer.

I see an article on ZeroHedge by Tyler Durden:
"New Oregon Initiative Would Criminalize Hunting, Fishing And Farming"

This has been in the local news recently seeing as the state line is right over there ... and it's heavy ranch and farming country (and desert as well to be fair). Going to be fun, fishing by boat from the Snake River.
One side you fix yourself a meal; the other, the county fixes it for you.

One segment:
"Leftist activists have adopted the age-old mantra that the "squeaky wheel gets the oil"; but imagine a wheel that never gets enough oil?  Imagine a movement specifically designed to keep society constantly on egg shells, trying to figure out different ways to satisfy that squeaky wheel so it will finally shut up?
One eventually has to ask the obvious question:  Why don't we simply throw that insufferable wheel in the garbage?
"

"If passed, the law would effectively criminalize the entire meat production base for the state under "animal cruelty" statutes."

[Final sentence]
"This is why the majority of Americans distrust and despise vegans: It not because they've chosen a different lifestyle, it's because they are obsessed with forcing that lifestyle on everyone else."

Two things I noted:
1) Tyler Durden is a pseudonym: This "feels" like it was written by AI ... or equally "flat", a committee.
2) Not just vegans

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Rocks

The New American Digest Posted on June 17, 2026 by DTJune 16, 2026

... with a few cows

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Gerard Van der Leun
12/26/45 - 1/27/23


Gerard's Last Post
(posthumous): Feb 4, 2023
"So Long. See You All a Little Further Down the Road"

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?
Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true?
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings

Avett Brothers - No Hard Feelings

The following was posted along with the announcement of Gerard's passing.
Leonard Cohen - Going Home

For a 2005 interview with Gerard


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