That west coast college student at the August music festival meets sniffle sniffle oh shit its cold all of a sudden vibe probably is a tell.

Water protectors? Warren Buffet’s railroad monopoly protecting hand puppets is more like it.

They had bad weather there the other day my daughter lives in Fargo on the Minnesota North Dakota border and she said most of her Black Friday cyber Monday packages were delayed . That winter there is brutal in that part of the country it will be tough protesting and also tough for the police and whoever is there…

 It’s hard to get the details straight on this one. I thought the pipeline was rerouted b/c the original upriver route took it too close to active wellheads, & b/c the downriver route was shorter & less complex. FWIW, Snopes.com has the dirt on the viral claim that Bismarck residents requested the diversion. Plot…

peacefully creating confrontation? That is where you lose me. They should have been dealing with this long before it got to this point. Now it is show boating for attention and steam rolling a project that is 95% done and paid for. This protest is ruining peoples lives all around that project, and hasn’t been done…

I think that this is a lot more important than people are willing to admit. DAPL isn’t a Trump thing or a Republican thing. The fact is that the left is just as prone to being bought and paid for as the right.

Governor clarifies evacuation order

The protestors are white/black/Chinese/men/women/indigenous/etc. Protestors != Indians necessarily. Also, these are the same people trying to boycott Bismarck in the first place.

Not staged

These pipelines are very carefully monitored. There are accidents, but if you look at the list each year (wikipedia has a good one to start) and then consider the millions of miles of pipelines in America, it is a very rare event. Incidents are quickly and efficiently noticed and resolved. Native Americans use oil the…

Usually I’m all for protesting and liberal causes, but I must confess, I really don’t understand this one. There are millions of miles of oil pipelines in the United States. We need them. They exist for a reason. They work safely. This entire country runs on oil. It just does. Because of that fact, we have been at war…

The lives and well being of these protestors is at risk if they stay, whether from the weather or from law enforcement. Maybe I’m just in a general “throwing-up-my-hands” space, but I think they should fold up their tent poles and leave—before things get really bad.

I get you!! What we do is that rule about one thing they want, one thing they need one to read and one thing to wear. So, it’s like a yay gift, a book, clothes I’d get anyway and replacing markers or something. (Even dental hygiene stuff)

I feel like we give so much out of obligation...

Cats do give gifts — but they choose what they themselves would like. I suppose it’s the thought that counts with them.

And red mittens! (Although that was from the TV show, not sure about the book.)

I have some relatives that also do this and it’s very helpful!

Thanks for the response. I adore the idea of presents from historical figures! I like your final statement too, let those who want to believe, do so, but we don’t need to. :)

Unpopular opinion. I f-ing love to give gifts. I love giving gifts to my wife and my kids and some of my geographically close family. I keep it small. One present for everyone not in my immediate family and two per person for wife and kids. Then we usually put aside a little money to go out to the movies and maybe…

Travel?