Question re: the petition. Why limit contributors to “citizens and legal immigrants”? If illegals want to limit competition who are we to turn down their money? It spends just as well as anybody else’s, doesn’t it? And for that matter, if folks on the other side of the pond wanna chip in (although I have no idea WHY they would) I think we oughtta let ’em.
One thing, though; I think the fence ought to have a foundation/downward extension that goes AT LEAST 15 ft with posts 4 ft on center going down yet another 15 ft. Yeah, I know it won’t completely stop the illegals (and drug cartels) from tunneling under the wall but at least we can make it more difficult for them to do so.
Long before PDT and his wall, I proposed that the high level nuclear waste that should already be buried at Yucca Mountain, and all other such waste stored a various facilities around the country be placed along the border, only shallowly buried, with clear warning signs on both sides. If anyone was crazy enough to cross and survived, they would be easy to find with a geiger counter.
Hmm, a wall of poison. A variation on a minefield. Intiguing.
Unlikely, though. The border follows the center of the Rio Grande for some distance, and that would not be a good place for waste.
This problem could be sidestepped by placing the deterrent barrier a certain distance inside American territory, much as the current fence is in some places.
I doubt the current residents whose property the wall will be next to would be very happy about this idea.
And it would be a certainty that environmentalists would protest.
You could maybe keep out coyotes by placing the deathstrip between two fences, but excluding birds and insects would be pretty much impossible.
Yes, it would be about 100 yards on the US side of the border. As for the landowners, I understand their not liking it, bit I think they’d like having private land ownership denied by the ‘progressives’ even more. It could be fenced off, barricaded so that only the most ‘industrious’ of the invaders would come in contact with it.
This wasn’t a fully engineered idea, just a passing idea to eliminate two problems with one solution.
Probably just optimized his chances of survival. When we didn’t see Giaron last strip, I figured he was circling around to get in front of them. With all three Catians behind and below, if he can run long enough and not get lost, he has a fair chance. The bow would have only slowed him down, since he isn’t going to try to ambush the natural ambush predators. However, using his buddies like that underscores what a lowlife scumbag he is. How strong IS Miral? That guy has to weigh twice what she does, at least.
Jochi, I think the boy just signed his own death warrant. We know that Catians aren’t distance runners but they can outrun any human on earth (or elsewhere) in a sprint. If he runs out of bounds the Legion will kill him. He can try to hide but IIRC he’d have to evade THREE Cats for THREE whole days. My money’s on the cats. I was kind of disappointed that Miral didn’t get a chance to make her “squeaky toy” squeak more. Hopefully, the Cats will get to have more “fun” with this last asshole. I want to see the bastard SWEAT!!
So if he can stay alive for 24 hours he skates? What then? Is he reinstated in society with full rights and privileges? Is he expelled/exiled permanently?
Allen. Hinkman hung himself, he knew that even if he survived, he’d have to serve twenty years in prison.
That’s why the hunt is now, no reason to delay it until the homeless guy recovers.
Jochi, I think there’s something wrong with the whole Hunt storyline.
Your thoughts? Do you see something questionable?
I figured Hinkman was the one who hung himself, but I don’t know what clue I picked up on, if any.
Wrong? I don’t know if you mean logistics or ethics, so I’ll take a stab at both.
The Legion had four days before they shipped out on Monday, so I assume the rape happened Thursday night. Since the runners had a full 24 hours, this hunt could not have started later than early Sunday morning. That’s a fast justice system, but that mostly means a lot of pointless red tape is gone. Our runner had a small knife run through his hand, between the second and third metacarpals it looked like. I thought it was odd he didn’t have a bandage on it when they met their court-appointed counsels. It should STILL be difficult to use it, and he would have to, to climb a bluff or draw a bow. I wasn’t sure how HE climbed the bluff so quickly, carrying a bow with no obvious sling. But I thought there might be a natural stair that just never showed ‘on-camera’, or that there was a long time gap between panels 2 and 3 of 388. (The shadows certainly shifted, but that could have been clouds.) I didn’t know how long after the runners the hunters started. If there was a natural stair, the Cats wouldn’t be quick to take it, because they’d assume he was smart enough to include it in his field of fire if he was playing sniper. So, other than the hand’s too-rapid recovery, I didn’t see anything that couldn’t be explained. I know Miral can use a bow, but I also know she likes to get close and personal, so not taking one wasn’t TOO weird, with both her team-mates taking them. I assume they have trained with compound bows. I wouldn’t have been surprised to see them with composite recurve bows, possibly looking distinctly Mongolian.
As for the other issue, this sort of trial/sentence is a common trope we ‘civilized’ people apply to ‘primitive’ cultures, forgetting ‘trial by combat’ in European culture. And really, it’s no less ‘civilized’ or less likely to result in empirical ‘justice’ than the duels that ‘civilized’ men were still fighting very recently in our history. And hunts like this did happen occasionally, or the biographers who wrote about some of our frontiersmen are liars. Anyway, it’s not a trial, they’ve already been found guilty, it’s a sentence and one they chose because it offered them a chance at life and the alternative was certain death, and they’re better armed than the accounts I’ve read. No, I don’t see any ethical issues either.
Or am I missing what is bothering you?
Now you’ve got me looking for fine details. The shadow shift I thought might indicate time passage in 388 shifted BACK between panels 1 and 2 of 389. I didn’t notice that before. So, probably clouds.
So far Allen hasn’t climbed anything, he just went far enough that his friends couldn’t see him.
Everyone is on the same level. I should have added “10 minutes earlier” to the third panel of the first part.
The clue about Hinkman was in 387 – The other three are there, he’s missing.
I’ll go with clouds…
Yeah, you’re close with the ethics. I think what’s bothering me is Miral’s comment in TGW-314…
Should something like the hunt be a part of modern Imperial justice?
I … didn’t go that far back. You have a point, but I think this is sufficiently different from both the incidents being discussed then, capturing an untried felon (attempted murder) rather than just killing him, like she did her mother’s (also unconvicted) rapist. They had their trial, the sentence would have been an unpleasant if fairly quick death, and they CHOSE this form of ‘trial by combat’ instead. It is creating a spectacle for the education of Imperial citizens (and the world, since the Empire supplies much of the world’s video right now) both that the Empire will NOT tolerate violations of its citizenry like this, and that it is inclusive and will allow its citizens to keep elements of their own culture to whatever extent it can without violating its own ethos, much like the old Mongol Empire allowed subject nations to keep their own laws, religion and customs, as long as they paid their taxes and sent warriors (or siege engineers or ships or whatever) to back the Mongol army when they were called upon. And I don’t think that ethos is being violated. The convicted felons CHOSE this as their punishment, and were granted that freedom IN SPITE OF having proven themselves unworthy of it.
Humans are endurance runners. Catians are sprinters. He has time to build a lead while they climb the cliff watching for him sniping them — they don’t know yet that he rabbited. After they get to the top, they have to find the evidence that he DID rabbit. I still think they’ll catch him, but he’s maximized his advantages over theirs. An open fight leaves him dead by crossfire. A stealth-fight will go to them because of their superior training, experience, and senses. (I know their hearing is better, and with those eyes I suspect their eyesight is too. Not to mention scent.) He has to set a marathon pace, not a sprint, and build up all the lead he can while they’re climbing. Yeah, I half expected Miral to put her toy on ice somehow so she could come back and play with it more later. Hamstringing works nicely, especially coupled with breaking the metacarpals.
They have to climb a cliff, while watching for sniping from above — they don’t know he rabbited. Then they have to find the evidence he DID run. He has time to build a lead, and only has to run about two and a half miles cross-country. More than I’ve ever been in shape to do, but he looks like he might be, and it’s not a marathon, but it’s sure not a sprint. I still think they’ll catch him, but because of superior woodsman skills and hunting experience. If he’d tried to fight, he’d have died. They’re combat trained, have superior senses, and have been hunting humans since they could run. His ONLY advantages are that they are all behind him, have a barrier that will slow them for a while, and he’s better at endurance.
Her rifle is aligned with the railing.
Perspective is a pain sometimes.
And who was it among my readers who suggested catnip? Thanks!
Well, I just started a petition on the White House petitions
site, We the People. Will you sign it?
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/allow-citizens-finance-wall
(Please post a link wherever you can!)
Okay. I put my Juan Enrique on it. Let’s see if we can publicize it so it gets enough signatures.
petition signed
good idea
Question re: the petition. Why limit contributors to “citizens and legal immigrants”? If illegals want to limit competition who are we to turn down their money? It spends just as well as anybody else’s, doesn’t it? And for that matter, if folks on the other side of the pond wanna chip in (although I have no idea WHY they would) I think we oughtta let ’em.
One thing, though; I think the fence ought to have a foundation/downward extension that goes AT LEAST 15 ft with posts 4 ft on center going down yet another 15 ft. Yeah, I know it won’t completely stop the illegals (and drug cartels) from tunneling under the wall but at least we can make it more difficult for them to do so.
Long before PDT and his wall, I proposed that the high level nuclear waste that should already be buried at Yucca Mountain, and all other such waste stored a various facilities around the country be placed along the border, only shallowly buried, with clear warning signs on both sides. If anyone was crazy enough to cross and survived, they would be easy to find with a geiger counter.
As long as it was secured in some way so that they couldn’t take it with them.
Don’t want any innocents hurt, or materials for a dirty bomb let loose.
Hmm, a wall of poison. A variation on a minefield. Intiguing.
Unlikely, though. The border follows the center of the Rio Grande for some distance, and that would not be a good place for waste.
This problem could be sidestepped by placing the deterrent barrier a certain distance inside American territory, much as the current fence is in some places.
I doubt the current residents whose property the wall will be next to would be very happy about this idea.
And it would be a certainty that environmentalists would protest.
You could maybe keep out coyotes by placing the deathstrip between two fences, but excluding birds and insects would be pretty much impossible.
Good points.
We could just not build the wall where property owners objected.
Let them live at the small end of a smuggler’s funnel for a while.
Because this way it will be OUR wall?
I just felt right.
Yes, it would be about 100 yards on the US side of the border. As for the landowners, I understand their not liking it, bit I think they’d like having private land ownership denied by the ‘progressives’ even more. It could be fenced off, barricaded so that only the most ‘industrious’ of the invaders would come in contact with it.
This wasn’t a fully engineered idea, just a passing idea to eliminate two problems with one solution.
Probably just optimized his chances of survival. When we didn’t see Giaron last strip, I figured he was circling around to get in front of them. With all three Catians behind and below, if he can run long enough and not get lost, he has a fair chance. The bow would have only slowed him down, since he isn’t going to try to ambush the natural ambush predators. However, using his buddies like that underscores what a lowlife scumbag he is. How strong IS Miral? That guy has to weigh twice what she does, at least.
Jochi, I think the boy just signed his own death warrant. We know that Catians aren’t distance runners but they can outrun any human on earth (or elsewhere) in a sprint. If he runs out of bounds the Legion will kill him. He can try to hide but IIRC he’d have to evade THREE Cats for THREE whole days. My money’s on the cats. I was kind of disappointed that Miral didn’t get a chance to make her “squeaky toy” squeak more. Hopefully, the Cats will get to have more “fun” with this last asshole. I want to see the bastard SWEAT!!
One day. Twenty-four hours.
So if he can stay alive for 24 hours he skates? What then? Is he reinstated in society with full rights and privileges? Is he expelled/exiled permanently?
I never caught this guy’s name. If it’s Hinkman, he’s still looking at 20 years behind bars. If it’s not, exile for life.
Allen. Hinkman hung himself, he knew that even if he survived, he’d have to serve twenty years in prison.
That’s why the hunt is now, no reason to delay it until the homeless guy recovers.
Jochi, I think there’s something wrong with the whole Hunt storyline.
Your thoughts? Do you see something questionable?
I figured Hinkman was the one who hung himself, but I don’t know what clue I picked up on, if any.
Wrong? I don’t know if you mean logistics or ethics, so I’ll take a stab at both.
The Legion had four days before they shipped out on Monday, so I assume the rape happened Thursday night. Since the runners had a full 24 hours, this hunt could not have started later than early Sunday morning. That’s a fast justice system, but that mostly means a lot of pointless red tape is gone. Our runner had a small knife run through his hand, between the second and third metacarpals it looked like. I thought it was odd he didn’t have a bandage on it when they met their court-appointed counsels. It should STILL be difficult to use it, and he would have to, to climb a bluff or draw a bow. I wasn’t sure how HE climbed the bluff so quickly, carrying a bow with no obvious sling. But I thought there might be a natural stair that just never showed ‘on-camera’, or that there was a long time gap between panels 2 and 3 of 388. (The shadows certainly shifted, but that could have been clouds.) I didn’t know how long after the runners the hunters started. If there was a natural stair, the Cats wouldn’t be quick to take it, because they’d assume he was smart enough to include it in his field of fire if he was playing sniper. So, other than the hand’s too-rapid recovery, I didn’t see anything that couldn’t be explained. I know Miral can use a bow, but I also know she likes to get close and personal, so not taking one wasn’t TOO weird, with both her team-mates taking them. I assume they have trained with compound bows. I wouldn’t have been surprised to see them with composite recurve bows, possibly looking distinctly Mongolian.
As for the other issue, this sort of trial/sentence is a common trope we ‘civilized’ people apply to ‘primitive’ cultures, forgetting ‘trial by combat’ in European culture. And really, it’s no less ‘civilized’ or less likely to result in empirical ‘justice’ than the duels that ‘civilized’ men were still fighting very recently in our history. And hunts like this did happen occasionally, or the biographers who wrote about some of our frontiersmen are liars. Anyway, it’s not a trial, they’ve already been found guilty, it’s a sentence and one they chose because it offered them a chance at life and the alternative was certain death, and they’re better armed than the accounts I’ve read. No, I don’t see any ethical issues either.
Or am I missing what is bothering you?
Now you’ve got me looking for fine details. The shadow shift I thought might indicate time passage in 388 shifted BACK between panels 1 and 2 of 389. I didn’t notice that before. So, probably clouds.
So far Allen hasn’t climbed anything, he just went far enough that his friends couldn’t see him.
Everyone is on the same level. I should have added “10 minutes earlier” to the third panel of the first part.
The clue about Hinkman was in 387 – The other three are there, he’s missing.
I’ll go with clouds…
Yeah, you’re close with the ethics. I think what’s bothering me is Miral’s comment in TGW-314…
Should something like the hunt be a part of modern Imperial justice?
I … didn’t go that far back. You have a point, but I think this is sufficiently different from both the incidents being discussed then, capturing an untried felon (attempted murder) rather than just killing him, like she did her mother’s (also unconvicted) rapist. They had their trial, the sentence would have been an unpleasant if fairly quick death, and they CHOSE this form of ‘trial by combat’ instead. It is creating a spectacle for the education of Imperial citizens (and the world, since the Empire supplies much of the world’s video right now) both that the Empire will NOT tolerate violations of its citizenry like this, and that it is inclusive and will allow its citizens to keep elements of their own culture to whatever extent it can without violating its own ethos, much like the old Mongol Empire allowed subject nations to keep their own laws, religion and customs, as long as they paid their taxes and sent warriors (or siege engineers or ships or whatever) to back the Mongol army when they were called upon. And I don’t think that ethos is being violated. The convicted felons CHOSE this as their punishment, and were granted that freedom IN SPITE OF having proven themselves unworthy of it.
Permanent exile.
Humans are endurance runners. Catians are sprinters. He has time to build a lead while they climb the cliff watching for him sniping them — they don’t know yet that he rabbited. After they get to the top, they have to find the evidence that he DID rabbit. I still think they’ll catch him, but he’s maximized his advantages over theirs. An open fight leaves him dead by crossfire. A stealth-fight will go to them because of their superior training, experience, and senses. (I know their hearing is better, and with those eyes I suspect their eyesight is too. Not to mention scent.) He has to set a marathon pace, not a sprint, and build up all the lead he can while they’re climbing. Yeah, I half expected Miral to put her toy on ice somehow so she could come back and play with it more later. Hamstringing works nicely, especially coupled with breaking the metacarpals.
They have to climb a cliff, while watching for sniping from above — they don’t know he rabbited. Then they have to find the evidence he DID run. He has time to build a lead, and only has to run about two and a half miles cross-country. More than I’ve ever been in shape to do, but he looks like he might be, and it’s not a marathon, but it’s sure not a sprint. I still think they’ll catch him, but because of superior woodsman skills and hunting experience. If he’d tried to fight, he’d have died. They’re combat trained, have superior senses, and have been hunting humans since they could run. His ONLY advantages are that they are all behind him, have a barrier that will slow them for a while, and he’s better at endurance.