<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 8:52 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent"> </span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…I am not a lawyer (thank Darwin<span>!</span>) but<span> to me t</span>hat is far from obvious.<span> Federal law always takes priority over state law, and the Fed has never been shy about t</span>hrowing its<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></span></b><b style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">weight around, and neither has Donald…</span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>John have you heard of this:</font></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.5pt"><i style=""><font face="georgia, serif">"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."</font></i><br></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Oh yes spike, I have most definitely<span class="gmail_default" style=""> </span>heard of that, and you're being silly <span class="gmail_default" style="">yet </span>again<span class="gmail_default" style="">.</span> As I said on September 14: </b></font><div><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>Spike,<span class="gmail_default"> y</span>ou're being silly again<span class="gmail_default">.</span> As I said just yesterday <span class="gmail-il">on</span> <span class="gmail-il">September</span> 13:</b></font></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> "</span><i>As I said just a <span class="gmail-il">few</span> <span class="gmail-il">days</span> <span class="gmail-il">ago</span> <span class="gmail-il">on</span> <span class="gmail-il">September</span> 8:<span class="gmail_default"> </span></i> <br></b></font><b style="background-color:transparent;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:large"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"</span><i>Your knee-jerk<span class="gmail_default"> </span>defense of Donald is fundamentally always <span class="gmail_default">the</span> same<span class="gmail_default">;</span><span class="gmail_default"> yes what he proposes is both evil and stupid,</span> but there is a piece of paper that says <span class="gmail_default">he</span> can't do stuff like that</i><span class="gmail_default"><i>, and if that piece of paper says he can't do stuff like that then he can't do stuff like that, so there's absolutely positively no reason to worry that an evil imbecile is the president of the most powerful nation in the world</i>." "</span></b><span style="background-color:transparent"> </span></blockquote><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span>…<span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> Donald</span></b></span><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> spent $2 billion of taxpayer money to get a French company to stop construction of a wind farm in American waters…<span> John K Clark</span></span></b></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="4"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>American waters are not part of a state.  Had it been in a state, then that state would be the authority over whether it gets built.  Wind farms at sea will face that problem consistently. </i></font></span></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>Wind farms at sea will certainly face problems as long as we have a president that is terrified of windmills. Can't you just admit the obvious and say that it was brain dead dumb for President Don Quixote to give $2 billion dollars of taxpayer money to a foreign company to get them to STOP building a wind farm that was nearly completed?<span class="gmail_default" style=""> Do you really have to defend <u>everything</u> the man does no matter how stupid? </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="">John K Clark</span><br></b></font><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div>
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