Thursday Regrets Open Comments
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Mornin’ Gang -
Dark day for the envirohysterics.
Yesterday the National Academy of Sciences released a 407-page report on genetically engineered crops that debunks most of the frothier claims of the anti-GMO crusaders. From the summary:
While recognizing the inherent difficulty of detecting subtle or long-term effects in health or the environment, the study committee found no substantiated evidence of a difference in risks to human health between currently commercialized genetically engineered (GE) crops and conventionally bred crops, nor did it find conclusive cause-and-effect evidence of environmental problems from the GE crops.
Even worse from the greenie point of view is the finding that GMOs have produced positive economic outcomes for their users. Better living through chemistry, and higher profits too! Talk about feeling the
bernburn!and,
Meanwhile, late last week the World Health Organization released a major report on pesticide residues that many environmentalists will choose to ignore. In particular the WHO study looked at diazinon, glyphosate, and malathion*—three pesticides that environmentalists have targeted for a long time.
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Here is a neat high level video that shows America’s massive 2.5 million mile pipeline network.
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For those who have a need for speed on 2 wheels, there’s this. All billet aluminum frame and 200 hp, it can be yours for less than $120,000.
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If you need a smile this morning…here ’tis!
Funny because it is sooooo true.
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#5 TT. Now that right there is funny, I don’t care who ya are.
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In the realm of “scientists” attempting godlike status, we have this.
In Search For Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human
I don’t think this expedition will end well. Creating chimeras is just not a good idea.
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LD’s friend on FB posted the most incredibly asinine video of Bill Nye discussing abortion rights. I won’t even link to it, it’s so stupid. I will share my response.
I used to like this guy. This is so full of bull. First – if a fertilized egg passes through a womb without implantation, that’s a fact of nature and not intentional murder. If a man’s semen fails to fertilize an egg, he hasn’t “let me down”. For Pete’s sake, that’s possibly one of the dumbest 3 things I’ve ever heard in my life. “Reproductive rights” should begin with the decision to be responsible for reproduction, and that means either abstaining from sex, completely or during fertile periods, or engaging in some kind of contraception. The problem with society today is too many people don’t feel responsible for their behavior/actions. “Choice” includes the choice to be responsible. Every woman has reproductive rights if her body works – she has the right to reproduce; abortion is “Non-reproductive rights,” the right to NOT reproduce. If an egg is fertilized inside a horse, cow, or whale, those unborn entities are called baby horses, cows, or whales – but in humans they are “products of conception”? Euphemisms to hide what abortion actually is. And lastly (because I couldn’t handle Nye’s stupid bilge past this point) – “you can’t tell people what to do?” WTH? That’s ALL this administration (and past administrations) have frickin’ done! Executive orders over legislative processes as often as possible! Our toilets, light bulbs, cars….the list is endless…have been restricted, reduced, or eliminated. I went to a local meeting and a petition was being circulated to keep work trucks from being parked at homes, because a “neighbor has a right to not see it”. No effing way – that is NOT a right, that’s a desire. People bandy the word “right” around to mean anything they want. I cannot believe I used to encourage my kids to watch this guy on TV.
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Heh.
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#5 – If you think that’s bad, you should see what it’s like in a single engine airplane. If you open the window, that stuff just swirls around, and there’s really no place to just pull over. Leaves quite a mess.
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Morning, everyone. Bill-paying and laundry are on my docket for today. Weather forecast looks yucky.
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Sorry to see a new disappeared airplane up on Drudge.
http://news.sky.com/story/1698511/egyptair-jet-disappears-over-mediterranean-sea -
Danger train strikes police officer on Harrisburg. The thing I found interesting about this story was the number of riders on the train at the time of the crash.
http://abc13.com/news/hpd-officer-is-hospitalized-after-metro-rail-stikes-car/1343641/Spoiler alert – you read that right 2 riders. Your tax dollars at work.
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Stumbled across this one (from nursing horror stories):
“This happened slightly before I got my license, when I was still working as a nurse tech. I was sitting one-on-one with a patient who had ankle restraints. She kept complaining that it was too hot in the room, so we lowered the temperature, took off blankets, and got a fan to sit at the base of her bed. When she lifted her hips off the bed, her stool shot across the room and quite literally hit the fan.”
Somehow, I see some relevance here…
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I assume this wasn’t the kind of stool that, for example, a patient’s feet were propped up on? A different kind of stool…
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#4 – I would love to take a couple of laps on one of those IF someone ELSE is buying! (not sure if I would survive though hahahahahahaha 🙂 )
those have been around for several years
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Oops. Would have been a very interesting discovery I’m sure.
My team and I at Project Veritas were investigating George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, and their connection to radical agitprop movements, both foreign and domestic. We set up an undercover meeting with an individual who has represented Soros’s initiatives in Eastern Europe. That individual even called us back, and we had a conversation ongoing. So we were definitely credible to that individual in the upper echelons of the Soros foundation.
I posed as a Hungarian businessman who was interested in knowing more about the foundation’s work. Once I obtained the meeting, I was going to determine what efforts they were behind, so I could fund them.
So I left this individual a voicemail, but I forgot to hang up the phone. I thought the call was finished, and my team and I started discussing plans to make more phone calls to the Open Society Foundations as well as to organizations like [it]. And all of this was being recorded on a voicemail [message]. There may have been conversations with my staff pertaining to the Soros foundation. And I think it lasted about 10 minutes.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2016/05/19/exclusive-james-okeefe-outs-george-soros-sting/
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GMOs cause autism. It says so on the innernets.
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The individual property owner cannot force others to participate in her chosen use, although she is free to bargain for others’ voluntary participation in that use. And the individual property owner need not first secure the approval of other people in order for her to use her property as she chooses, as long as she does not attempt to use her property in ways that violate one or more of the “DON’Ts.” Through the institution of private property, each person’s voice is significant, for that voice always has an effective veto power over the uses to which her property might be put, and the owner is under no obligation to win the approval of a majority of some group, or of some government official, in order for her to use her property in whatever way she individually chooses (again, subject, as always, to the “DON’Ts”).
One of the greatest delusions of many people is that freedom and ‘voice’ in one’s life resides chiefly in, and is secured chiefly by, the right to vote. In fact, freedom and voice in one’s life resides chiefly in, and is secured chiefly by, the rights of private property (and the associated law of contract and tort).
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From Mark Perry in his series of “markets in everything.”
You can now rent a casket for the funeral service.
A rental casket is a casket that has a removable interior. The body is placed in a simple wooden box and the box is placed inside the casket, giving the appearance that the body is actually in the casket. In fact, the body never touches the casket, and the wooden box is easily removed after the service. The body can then be buried or cremated in the simple wooden box, and the funeral home can re-use the rental casket.
Jews won’t be a huge market for this service.
Observant Jews are buried in an Aron, a plain wooden box, and embalming is prohibited unless required by local civil law. A Jewish man is buried with his kippah and tallit.
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#20
Sounds eminently sensible to me. Even sturdy cardboard would work for me, especially if cremation is being done. -
Massive thunderstorm has just reached my house. A pine tree was struck by lightning several days ago, a couple of blocks away — homeowner said there were flames, quickly put out by the rain. I’d hafta see pix to believe that.
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#19 Re: property rights
I’ve seen some liberal idiocy in this area in my neighborhood:
1) At one of the few civic club meetings I’ve attended (my head tends to get a little ‘splodey, so I avoid them), a petition was being passed around to prohibit work trucks from being brought home, despite the fact that there’s a city ordinance that allows this. When I inquired about this, the petitioner became all het up, “So-and-so has a neighbor who brings his truck home, and she has to look at it EVERY MORNING! She has the right to NOT have to look at it!”
Really? A “right” ? SMH
2) The local neighborhood message board had some residents discussing a rather large metal building going up on a vacant lot. It seems that the property owner was building a large “hobby shop” for working on his cars before building his house. The busybodies were aghast that such a structure would be put up, because THEY (busybodies) could not comprehend a purpose for such a structure. They were planning on going to the city to have it torn down, because they didn’t like it. I think one of them was the petitioner in my #1 item.
Now, remember, in my neighborhood, the lots are just shy of an acre, lots of trees, and this building would not be visible except by a very few who had to look for it once the house was built.
When I pointed out that the property owner had property rights, and he could put up whatever building he wanted as long as it didn’t violate any ordinances or deed restrictions, they shut up. I actually got a few “attagirl” comments.
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5 minute lecture on Climate Change from Prager University.
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#21 Mharper
Sounds eminently sensible to me. Even sturdy cardboard would work for me, especially if cremation is being done.
A cousin passed away from cancer some years ago. Due to limited funds, she was actually buried in a casket liner, or something similar. It was pretty, and sturdy enough, to be used in lieu of a full casket. She was actually transported from New Braunfels to Houston for burial in the back of her sister’s SUV. I followed with the flowers. I had visions of the SUV tumbling down the side of an overpass…
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#8 Tedtam:
Bill Nye is not and never has been a scientist. He’s a 2nd rate engineer who couldn’t keep his job in the aerospace industry and turned to making kids videos as a way to keep bread (no doubt organic and non-GMO) on the table.
According to people I know who have worked with him, he’s also a arrogant, mean-spirited, bully and a royal pain in the a$$ to work with.
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And, on today’s topic item:
Within the next couple of years, outside the spotlight, Jenner will “de-transition” back into a man.
Jenner has previously been nervous over the “transition.” In a Vanity Fair article last year, she discussed a panic attack she had after undergoing “facial-feminization” surgery. “What did I just do?” Jenner asked him/herself. “What did I just do to myself?”
We’ve been wondering the same thing, dude.
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#27 TT: I think he/she/it stopped short of getting the junk cut off. Now he/she/it wants to reverse the process. I wonder, if reversal is really an option and will his rejuvenated junk work again?
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Ronald Bailey wrote an article 16 years ago on the 30th anniversary of Earth Day. Mark Perry found the article and republished his list of 18 dire predictions from all the “experts” back then. It’s now been 46 years since these declarations were made. Read and enjoy.
7. “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation,” declared Denis Hayes, the chief organizer for Earth Day, in the Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.
8. Peter Gunter, a North Texas State University professor, wrote in 1970, “Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.”
9. In January 1970, Life reported, “Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half….
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14. Ecologist Kenneth Watt declared, “By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate…that there won’t be any more crude oil. You’ll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill ‘er up, buddy,’ and he’ll say, `I am very sorry, there isn’t any.’”
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#7 Bones
Robin Cook wrote a book along these lines about 20 years ago.
Chromosome 6 is a prophetic thriller that challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulation and cloning in the jungles of equatorial Africa, where one mistake could bridge the gap between man and ape—and forever change the genetic map of our existence…
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#27
I call BS. If you’re nervous or unsure, why do your transition so publicly? Magazine covers, reality TV, the whole 9 yards. Maybe the de-transition talk is really just more publicity — maybe the TV show tanked or has poor ratings? -
#29 Thanks for the laugh!
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Okay, I just got through yelling at the radio.
It’s “fewer urges”, not “less urges”… arggghhh!
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Morley Safer passed away. Just days after his retirement from 60 Minutes.
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Tedtam
#33“less urges” ….“less urges”……“less urges”…..“less urges”
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Tedtam
#27Jenner having second thoughts
Within the next couple of years, outside the spotlight, Jenner will “de-transition” back into a man.
How does one de-transition back to something he could not transition away from? He could have mutilated his body but he would have been a eunuch not a woman.
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Desperado trying to remain relevant in the time of the Kardashians.
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trans2Jenner?
Dangit, the superscript thingy did not work, I must not have the code right.
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Transgendered men are nothing more than eunuchs with fancy plastic surgery.
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#36 Squawks
Jenner had some biochemical/hormonal modifications, possibly some plastic surgery. So there would presumably be some undoing to be done. -
I think once you are a eunuch, no de-transitioning for you.
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Mharper
It does not matter what he has had done that would need to be undone he is a guy, has been a guy and will always be a guy.
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#35
“less urges” ….“less urges”……“less urges”…..“less urges”
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“less urges” ….“less urges”……“less urges”…..“less urges”>:-(
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According to Mrs. Workman, the transgender woman began raising her voice and using explicit language towards her while continuing to follow her into the restroom. Once both women were inside the otherwise empty restroom, Mrs. Workman told authorities that Ms. Wright continued to curse at her and started to display what Mrs. Workman considered aggressive body language.
Kathleen Workman told authorities that fearing for her safety, she retrieved a handgun from her purse and once again asked Donna Wright to exit the restroom. According to Mrs. Workman, once she retrieved the concealed weapon from her purse it angered Wright and she began walking towards her in an aggressive manner.
According to police reports, it was at this point within the altercation that Kathleen Workman, fearing for her safety, shot Donna Wright 3 times with her Kimber 1911 Ultra .45 caliber handgun striking the assailant in the chest with all 3 shots.
Donna Wright had stopped breathing and was pronounced dead upon arrival of emergency respondents. According to police reports, Kathleen Workman was in fact licensed to carry and conceal the handgun used to shoot Ms. Wright. According to police reports, due to a lack of witnesses and/or security footage, charges have not been brought against Mrs. Workman and the incident is being ruled as a shooting in self-defense pending further investigation.
It was in fact within the transgender woman’s right to utilize the restroom as the Bradford’s management team displays a sign between the women’s and men’s restroom that reads “At Bradford’s we encourage all guests to use the restroom in which they identify with. Thank you, Sincerely, The Bradford’s Management Team.” According to the store manager, senior leadership had requested the sign be created and posted in the restroom area last month after Target announced their new restroom policy.
According to police reports, though the transgender woman was well within her right to use the women’s restroom per the department store’s restroom policy, Mrs. Workman was within her right to utilize her concealed weapon if she was in imminent danger and self-defense was deemed necessary.
However this whole societal shift shakes out, ‘Donna Wright’ is still dead.
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IT twernt so wright after all was it?
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HEADLINE: What Kind of Monster Stabs a Bubbe in the Back?
There must be a special place in Hell for animals such as this.
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#47 BC:
Just like a rabid dog, animals like this simply need to be exterminated. They need no trial, there is no defense, they simply need to be put down.
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fat albert
#48Just like a rabid dog, animals like this simply need to be exterminated. They need no trial, there is no defense, they simply need to be put down.
Hmmmmm back in the LST days I made a suggestion how to deal with those people, even supported my argument with historical precedent. I was told such things as we need to win the hearts and minds of those people, I was called a barbarian and chastised for suggesting that we should stoop to the level of those barbarians. So now i think we just need to send more money to them, set up schools and midnight basketball programs OH OH OH and we need to provide them with sensitivity training classes.
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‘Kimber 1911 Ultra .45 caliber handgun’
The lady certainly knows what to use.
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#49: OH HELL YES!! Definitely a winner.
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#48 FA: Agreed. Is it the entire “palestenian” teenage population, does it include the parents as well? The real problem is that the hate filling, brain washing starts in infancy and continues until adulthood. Does one have to exterminate the entire population of Gaza and the West bank to stop the nonsense?
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53 Squawk
I’m just wondering how long Kimber is going to last in Yonkers, N.Y. I’m surprised Cuomo and Schumer haven’t run them out of town…and the state.
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Texpat
#56
Get Em While they are HotYeah that has crossed my mind too. I’d bet there is some huge payoffs going from Kimber.
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#55 BC:
IMHO, militant Islam is much like a mental disease that is passed around, much like the flu or measles. The way to control the disease is to isolate and treat the source so that it can’t spread further.
In the case of Radical Militant Islam, treatment may be hazardous to the carriers health. . . . . .
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Some of you may recall Federal District Judge Hanen in Brownsville hearing the case where Texas and 25 other states sued Zero for his illegal immigration plans and policies. That case is now pending before SCOTUS, but during the course of events leading up to Hanen’s order, government attorneys (DOJ) lied and lied and lied some more about what was going on. Needless to say, the Judge was not happy upon discovering these lies. Since the case is now in DC, the only issue remaining for Hanen to decide is how to proceed against the lying US Attorneys – which he did today. Interesting read; some might call it a “bench slap”
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Whatever you say, Frankie…..
“It is true that the idea of conquest is inherent in the soul of Islam. However, it is also possible to interpret the objective in Matthew’s Gospel, where Jesus sends his disciples to all nations, in terms of the same idea of conquest.” — Pope Francis
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I read the above Francis quote to my wife..
She: I wish we could resurrect John Paul.
Me: Oh, I think he’s already resurrected. And went straight through with a “Get Out Of Purgatory Free” Card.
That’s a joke folks. We be Lutherans and don’t have to mess with any of that Purgatory stuff.
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I haven’t figured out why the Catholics have an extra hurdle along the way. They must have really done something bad one time.
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