This does not bode well for the Blue Heron colony and other wildlife in the area.

Hmmm. The prior "appropriation" concept is right out of Herbert Spencer and "Survival of the Fittest," which if it is any kind of dogma or reflection thereof would be the version that the powers-that-be held up as the revealed word of the almighty in the gilded age, "Social Darwinism."

Appropriation: "Shoplifters do it; Horse theives do it. Nations do it, as did Putin with the Crimean Peninsula. America's gunboat diplomacy in the nineteenth century did a lot of it.  In the Middle Ages in England, ecclesiastical law, developed as custom in monasteries,  justified appropriation of benefices intended for local vicars, that is, raking of the till on its way to charity." (Davenport, 2020: 35).

Right on, Jim.

Reference

Davenport, J. (2020).  Western Water Rights and the U.S. Supreme Court. McFarland and Company. Jefferson, North Carolina

Clearly, the draft-dodger occupying the White House, Mr. "Bone Spurs" never took this oath and has no idea of what it means to have taken it. He joins Mr. Clinton and to a lesser extent, Mr, Bush, jr, in this distinction,

If, indeed, the VA ever did use an SPC (Statistical Process Control) approach to processing claims (e.,g, the Shewhart SPC), it appears it recently may have implemented the TAVP (Trump Arbitrary and Vindictive Process) approach under orders of the most recent draft dodger in the White House, Mr. "Bone Spurs."

Heiliges Schnitzel, Richard Verbree!

Nirgendwo in dem Artikel habe ich die Nationalgarde als sturmabteilung bezeichnet. 

Obwohl wir während meiner Zeit in der Armee, in der Grundausbildung und in der Fallschirmspringerschule, im Gleichschritt zu Sprechgesängen von "" NG no good, US, useless, RA, all the way.“

 Beste grüße

David A. Swanson (formerly with HQ & CO A, 326 MED BN, 101st ABN DIV)

Both Bill Clement (https://wagenweb.org/whatcom/wgsobits/deathsclarke_clem.htm) and Al Swift                   ( https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/al-swift-as-statesman-not-politician/ ) are smiling.

Maybe it is time to resurrect the "Radio Yerevan" jokes that went around the USSR and its satellite countries back in the day (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Yerevan_joke ).

As an example.

Original:

Listener: Is it true that socialism is the shining example of the golden age?

Radio Yerevan: Indeed, but all that glitters is not gold

Revised for Bellingham on the Baltic:

Listener: Is it true that Bellingham is the city of subdued excitement?

Radito Yerevan: For sure, but all that is un-responsive is not titillation.