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Hey, I'm willing to let them do it - if every single legislator that votes for it must also agree to consume 1 tall, frothy glass of effluent and not immediately expel it.

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I've got a mine you can recreationally suction dredge, <i>right here</i>

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Federal law is completely optional and Idaho can opt out of any laws it doesn’t like, but it is OBAMA who is the lawless tyrant.

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Has anyone seen the EPA's birth certificate, the long form one? I'm just asking, is all.

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Tenth Dumbmendment!

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“and I have to tell you, the violent high-water event of annual spring runoff makes my activities totally inconsequential.”

Just like flushing the toilet, that turd is the problem of the guy downstream.

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Idaho doesn't want West Virginia getting ahead of them.

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To be honest...

I DO pick & choose which laws I follow.

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This is a direct result of being far too close to Montana.

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These particular legislators are known as the Potato Flakes--instantly stoopid.

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“...and I have to tell you, the violent high-water event of annual spring runoff makes my activities totally inconsequential.”

Well, the spring water runoff <i>would</i> make your activities entirely inconsequential, if you conducted those activities <i>during the violent spring runoff</i>. Unfortunately, you don't, so your suction dredging effluent settles peaceably with the mud on top of the gravel, leaving nowhere for the salmon to spawn. Doofus.

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I guess there are some new pig farms moving to Idaho! Exploding pig shit foam creeks and lakes and all that.

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The fine people at Freedom Chemical will sure be happy to learn that they can move from West Virginia to Utah, restart their manufacturing of awesome mining chemicals like 4-MDMH, slightly modify the compound for suction dredge mining, and presto, serve the needs of recreational suction dredgers. I'll bet you can pick some up at the local Albertsons, just in time for summer suction dredging fun.

Nothing could go wrong because its free-enterprise, unfettered by pesky government regulations. Just don't ask the people of West, Texas about this.

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Putin might be interested.

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I used to think that of myself, but then I came to the sad realization that I followed the laws that were convenient for me to follow, and ignored the ones that weren't...

A principled legal scholar, I'm not.

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And outlawed guns.

By making them more legal and available for everyone, except for *those* people.

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