Grain Threshers in Egypt, 1859 by Jean-Leon Gerome
Tuesday Open Comments
by
Tags:
Comments
69 responses to “Tuesday Open Comments”
-
I’m feeling like Shannon and Tedtam now… awake at odd times when I should be getting my beauty sleep. Went to bed at 9:30pm and woke up an hour ago.
-
David Burge on urination and defecation.
NSFW: foul language.
-
I’ve eaten offal on several occasions and I actually really like paté. Ive never eaten snake though.
I have picked up a copperhead before. I’d be willing to pick up a coral or rattler, but no way in He!! would I ever attempt to pick up a cottonmouth. Those are mean aggressive SOBs.
My granddad in Brownwood had two ponds. One of them had a really nice rock outcropping that got you over the water. On more than one occasion, I saw a cottonmouth swim from the far side of the pond straight towards us while we fished on that rock. Usually my granddad had a .22 holstered to his hip and would dispatch it within six shots. He told us if he wasn’t around and we saw a snake headed straight towards us to turn tail and run.
-
The winds of a derecho travel at least 58 miles per hour and have been recorded as fast as 130 miles per hour. That’s as fast as some tornados! But instead of spiraling like a tornado or hurricane, the winds of a derecho move in straight lines. That’s where the storm gets its name; the word derecho means “straight ahead” in Spanish.
These folks in Iowa set up their camera before heading to their basement. The last twenty minutes shows a series of straight line winds destroying every tree in the neighborhood. The action begins at 8:00 minute mark.
-
Mornin’ Gang
-
I was properly confused about the word. I always thought it just meant “right”.
Two easily confused Spanish words are derecho and derecha. Both are distant cousins of the English words “right” and “direct,” and that is the source of the confusion: Depending on the context and usage, these words can carry meanings such as “right” (the opposite of left), “right” (entitlement), “straight,” “upright” and “directly.”
-
Soaring inflation is likely costing Americans an extra $276 a month.
The financial impact of red-hot inflation is not distributed equally and is differed across income and demographic groups.
A separate Wells Fargo analyst showed that lower-income Americans, particularly those who are renters, are probably experiencing much higher inflation than wealthier homeowners.
Middle-income households were hit the hardest by the price increase, with costs up 6.7% in December – 0.5 percentage points higher than for the lowest and highest income brackets. That’s in large part because of transportation costs – middle-class households tend to spend more on gasoline than other income groups.
They are also more prone to buy used cars, whereas wealthier people are more likely to purchase a new car. Used car prices, a key component of the months-long inflation surge, increased again last month, jumping 1.5% from the previous month and 40.5% year over year. By comparison, the cost of new cars rose 0.6% in December from the previous month and 12.2% from the prior year.
Higher-earning households also spent more on dining out and restaurants, which rose less than overall inflation.
Finally, Hispanic or Latino households saw inflation of 7.1%, largely because of the disproportionate use of gasoline and used autos. That compares with an average inflation rate of 5.6% for Asian families, which tend to be wealthier than the average American household.
Thank You Joe Brandon!!!
-
First, it was soybean Memphis BBQ, then it was Three Cheese Kale and now Keith Richards quits smoking cigarettes cold turkey after 55 years and says he doesn’t miss it.
Something is wrong in the universal grand scheme of things.
-
The city of San Francisco is 47 square miles of land area.
- Houston is the fourth most populous city in the nation, with an estimated July 2018 population of 2,325,502 (trailing only New York, Los Angeles and Chicago), and is the largest in the southern U.S. and Texas. Houston is expected to become the third most populous U.S. city during the second half of the decade of the 2020s.
- Greater Houston is the most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the United States. At least 145 languages are spoken by city residents, and 90 nations have consular representation in the city.
- The Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) consists of nine counties: Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery and Waller
- The Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land MSA covers 9,444 square miles, an area slightly smaller than Massachusetts but larger than New Jersey.
- Houston’s size is 665 square miles.
Why does anybody even care about what people in San Francisco think ?
-
Would anyone like me to post the Coffee and Covid blurb for today?
-
12 BC
Why not ?
-
Of all the minorities in San Francisco, the only one with the common sense to flee were the black Americans.
Because San Francisco’s non-Hispanic whites make up less than half of its total population, San Francisco is now a minority-majority city. The most common Hispanic groups include Mexicans (7.4%), Salvadoran (2.0%), Nicaraguan (0.9%) and Guatemalan (0.8%). The African American population of the city has dropped over the past few decades. In 1970, 13.4% of San Francisco’s population was African American, although today that number is just 6.1%.
-
*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
It’s ANOTHER pandemic. People ran an article yesterday headlined, “Blood Clots Like Hailey Bieber’s Are Happening in ‘Younger and Younger People’.” See, blood clots are like a virus. They spread and stuff. It’s probably a new blood clot variant infecting younger people now. If you don’t wear your mask, you’re going to catch clots, or something.But it is definitely NOT anything to do with a certain medication, which wasn’t mentioned anywhere in the article about increasing numbers of blood clots in younger folks.
People interviewed a cerebrovascular doctor, Shazam Hussein. (I wonder if, right after a patient wakes up from surgery, he exclaims “Shazam!”) Dr. Hussein explained blood clots like Hailey Bieber’s can form “for different reasons.” That’s a technical term.
He warned whatever it is, is spreading. “We think of stroke as being something that happens in older ages, but we are seeing it in younger and younger people,” Hussein said.
Hussein explained that you’d better watch what you eat now. “It relates, generally, to people having unhealthy lifestyles, maybe not eating as well or not getting in regular exercise, along with other factors like genetics,” Dr. Hussein explained. He recommends sticking to a healthy diet, getting in shape, keeping cholesterol under control, and quitting smoking.
They always told us that eating junk food would give us blood clots and strokes, but we just wouldn’t listen. Now look what happened.
Dr. Hussein didn’t mention the jab. Neither did People. But curiously, People quoted him dismissing the Covid virus as the culprit. It says he noted that, while Covid-19 has been shown to cause blood clots, “fortunately most people don’t run into that issue.” So.
In August 2021, ProFootballTalk published an article headlined, “Deion Sanders makes case for everyone to get vaccinated.” Last Wednesday, Yahoo Finance ran an article headlined, “Deion Sanders Reveals He Had Two Toes Amputated Following Foot Surgery Complications.” The story hasn’t been public till now.
Foot surgery complications. Sounds like he stumbled catching a football or something, right?
Nope. We just learned that back in September 2021 — less than a month after arguing everyone should get vaccinated — Sanders was diagnosed with three life-threatening femoral arterial blood clots in his left leg plus compartment syndrome, which resulted in 23 days in the hospital, multiple surgeries, what Sanders described as the “filleting” of his leg to save it from amputation, his big toe and second toe being amputated, the loss of 35 pounds, and his inability to walk for months.
“The hardest thing of it all was to look down there and see that and understand once upon a time you were this type of athlete and [now] you don’t even know if you’re gonna walk because all you feel is pain and you just want to get out of the hospital,” Sanders explained at the time.
Fortunately, Sanders is feeling much better now, having been sustained by his faith during his lengthy, painful recovery.
Sanders’ documentary on his experience:
As if young people stroking out from eating junk food weren’t bad enough, Wales Online ran an important public service article recently headlined, “Energy Bill Price Rise May Cause Heart Attacks And Strokes, Says TV GP.”
The article warns that that the huge war-related hike in gas and electricity prices for 22 million homes across the UK could mean more heart attacks and strokes. So if there ARE a bunch of excess heart attacks and strokes, you’ll know what caused them. High gas prices. Definitely NOT any kind of medicine everybody is taking. No way. Why would you even think that. What’s wrong with you?
Now, you might be thinking that Wales Online hasn’t put a lot of thought into this theory about gas prices and heart attacks, but you’d be wrong. The paper quotes a doctor who explained, “if you can’t afford to heat your home, it actually causes an increased risk of developing heart attacks and strokes because your blood vessels contract to conserve heat, which pushes your blood pressure up, and over time that has an impact on your heart attack risk.”
See? That’s why people who live in colder climates have so many more heart attacks, and why we saw all the extra strokes during previous energy crises. Oh wait — that stuff never happened? Okay, never mind that point. Just believe. Things are different now. For some reason. Not jabs.
Sports News reported Sunday that Nelly Korda, the No. 2 women’s golfer in the world and an Olympic gold medal winner, has been diagnosed with a blood clot. She has cancelled public appearances for now and is being treated at home.
In a tweet, Nelly reported that her arm started to feel like it was swelling up after a morning workout. She called her doctor, who advised she go to the emergency room right away, for some reason. The ER diagnosed her with a blood clot.
We still don’t know what the temperature was in Nelly’s workout room, or whether they had turned the thermostat down to save on energy costs because of high gas prices. That might be something to look into. We also don’t know about her diet, but she WAS exercising, so being out of shape can’t be it. Maybe she smokes.
Sports media also reported yesterday that World Wrestling legend Scott Hall died after being taken off life support. The 63-year-old Hall had gone in for routine hip surgery, and had THREE heart attacks during the procedure, for some reason. He never woke up and was pronounced dead on Monday.
No word yet on his temperature settings, dietary habits, or smoking status.
The UK Express ran an article yesterday headlined, “Pfizer Vaccine: New Documents Uncover A Shocking 158,000 Adverse Events.” The article describes some of the information found in the March 1st Pfizer document drop.
The Express reported “when Pfizer applied for FDA approval, they were aware of almost 158,000 adverse events from their vaccine and requested these documents remain sealed for 75 years.”
Among the many adverse effects described in the Pfizer documents, the Express listed:
* *Acute kidney injury*
* *Acute flaccid myelitis*
* *Anti-sperm antibody positive*
* *Brain stem embolism*
* *Brain stem thrombosis*
* *Cardiac arrest*
* *Cardiac failure*
* *Cardiac ventricular thrombosis*
* *Cardiogenic shock*
* *Central nervous system vasculitis*
* *Death neonatal*
* *Deep vein thrombosis*
* *Encephalitis brain stem*
Nothing to worry about!
I’ve been watching the document dump story, and the list of adverse effects in the released documents appear to be things that Pfizer wanted heightened surveillance on during trials. It is not clear (yet) why Pfizer was concerned about those particular AE’s.
Interesting that we’re starting to see these kinds of stories in corporate media, isn’t it?
Rand Paul published an op-ed on Fox News’ website yesterday, describing an amendment he intends to propose to eliminate The Science’s job, I mean Tony Fauci’s job, dividing it into three different positions subject to five-year presidential appointment cycles.
It’s a great idea. Good luck getting it passed, Senator. I mean that. I’ll call it the “exterminator” amendment, because it will kill a cockroach.
*THE MINORITY REPORT*
Guess what? There’s a new way you can help war-torn Ukraine. The Spectator UK published an article yesterday headlined, “Why Taking Cold Showers Could Help Ukraine.” I am not making that up.
Here’s the theory, as the Spectator’s columnist explains it:
The least we can do is turn our backs on Putin’s gas by taking a cold shower and turning off the heating. Just four per cent of the UK’s natural gas supply comes from Russia, so collective action could go a long way. The invigorating thrill of a cold shower isn’t so bad once you’ve got your head around it.
It the LEAST you can do, and it’s not so bad, once you get used to it. If you’re patriotic, you won’t complain about supply chain problems and energy shortages. Just shut up about them. You’re helping war orphans and widows in Ukraine.
The Spectator goes on to give you some practical advice about how to learn to enjoy life without hot water:
Here’s how to do the shower. Don’t think about it, commit. Don’t stand directly underneath the water, start with your head, get that bit over and done with. Then wash forearms, upper arms, and then legs. By the time it’s time for your torso you may be rather enjoying the experience. It takes a bit of getting used to but the feeling afterwards is brilliant.
The only problem with this is somebody probably should let the Spectator know about the other article explaining how cold contracts your blood vessels which causes heart attacks and blood clots, but we’ll let them enjoy their cold shower for today. We can tell them tomorrow.
Still, cold showers are the least we can do.
Better watch what you say about the war. On the View yesterday, one of the ladies that I don’t recognize, they’ve been shifting around so much lately, said the FBI should “look into people who are Russian propagandists and shilling for Putin. That’s being — if you’re a foreign asset to a dictator, that should be investigated.”
So. Now, I realize that we aren’t dealing with our intellectual finest here, and I don’t want to set the sanity bar too high, but I wonder if the ladies on The View think that WE are in the war too. Otherwise, it sure looks like they’re picking sides in a foreign conflict and want to criminalize dissent from THEIR opinions. Just saying.
Whoopi, who appears to be swelling up like a puffer fish, getting fatter by the minute,* noted that “they used to arrest people for stuff like this. If they thought you were colluding with a Russian agent, if they thought you were putting out information or taking information and handing over to Russian, they used to investigate stuff like this.”
Putting out information. Investigate it!!
For what?
(* I’m not fat shaming. We could all stand to lose a few pounds. I’m just saying. She might want to get in shape to avoid blood clots.)
Well this didn’t take long. Last week, Salon Magazine published an article headlined, “Are There Really Neo-Nazis Fighting For Ukraine? Well, Yes — But It’s A Long Story.”
I just want to point that Coffee & Covid got complaints last week for reporting that the Azov Battalion — now un-jailed by Facebook and celebrated as freedom fighters — were LITERAL NAZIS. Commenters accused me of spreading “Putin’s propaganda.”
The Salon article reports that “Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Svoboda Party … played leading roles in the U.S-backed coup in February 2014.”
Oh.
It also reports that:
Neo-Nazis also dominated the Azov Battalion, which was founded by Andriy Biletsky, an avowed white supremacist who claimed that Ukraine’s national purpose was to rid the country of Jews and other inferior races. It was the Azov Battalion that led the post-coup government’s assault on the self-declared republics and retook the city of Mariupol from separatist forces.
So. I guess it wasn’t Putin propaganda after all. The cycle time from “conspiracy theory” to “we always knew that” is getting shorter and shorter. We need to come up with a term for it. At what point are the people who call us conspiracy theorists themselves accountable for spreading misinformation?
To be clear, I am against Russia invading Ukraine, and all my sympathies are with the dispossessed and war-ravaged Ukrainian people. But I’m also against real nazis, too. Can we talk about Ukraine’s nazi problem now?
I’m just asking. Don’t cancel me.
Have a tremendous Tuesday, and we’ll catch up again tomorrow morning with more.
-
15 Bonecrusher
So. I guess it wasn’t Putin propaganda after all. The cycle time from “conspiracy theory” to “we always knew that” is getting shorter and shorter. We need to come up with a term for it. At what point are the people who call us conspiracy theorists themselves accountable for spreading misinformation?
I suggest we call it the “Babylon Bee Effect”.
-
HEADLINE: Food for the Table, Not for the Gas Tank
[sub-head] With prices skyrocketing, it’s time for Washington to suspend—and ultimately repeal—the Renewable Fuel Standard.We live in a highly interconnected world, so it’s no surprise that the shockwaves from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are reverberating around the globe. Energy prices are spiking as the U.S. and other countries impose embargoes on Russian fossil fuels. And a looming global food shortage threatens to be even more disruptive. Between them, Ukraine and Russia account for about one-third of the wheat available on the world’s export markets. They also export large shares of corn, barley, vegetable oils, and other foodstuffs. Today, Ukraine’s ports are shut down and exports are at a standstill. Meantime, Russia is hoarding grain for its domestic market, and Hungary has suspended exports in anticipation of shortages. Other countries are likely to follow suit.
The Ukraine conflict is also disrupting trade in the commodities that make food production possible. Russia, a major supplier of fertilizer, may cut off exports of those chemicals. In other countries, shortages of oil and natural gas will further reduce the production of fertilizer and other agricultural inputs. And, of course, fuel shortages will hinder agriculture and the transportation of foodstuffs around the world. A Ukrainian official estimated that the war could cut global supplies of major agricultural products between 10 percent and 50 percent. In the U.S., food prices were skyrocketing even before the invasion. The price of beef has climbed nearly 20 percent since January 2021. And even though the U.S. is a major food exporter, our domestic prices are tied to international markets. American consumers are in for the kind of shock they haven’t seen since at least the 1970s.
Typically, when supply disruptions roil markets, political leaders can’t do much about it. But in the coming food crisis, the U.S. actually has a powerful policy lever. With a single bold move, the Biden administration could free up food supplies while also reversing a policy blunder that hurts consumers, increases greenhouse-gas emissions, and damages ecosystems across the U.S. It would require some political courage, but Biden could move to suspend—and push ultimately to repeal—the Renewable Fuel Standard.
This is brilliant policy. Corn based ethanol for fuel is a net negative environmentally and economically; the RFS needs to be repealed.
RTWDT
-
Honestly, no one could make this stuff up. It’s too absurd. This city continues to exist only because of Silicon Valley sitting nearby. As Big Tech continues to geographically evolve and the pandemic transformed the Tech workforce into a footloose band of laptop jockeys, the money will slowly shift away.
San Francisco can’t forge the parts it needs to keep its buses running, fix its buildings or run its computers. It has to buy things, lots of things, from elsewhere.
San Francisco makes this hard. It makes it expensive. A March 4 memorandum from City Administrator Carmen Chu reveals that San Francisco will not enter into contracts with businesses headquartered in most of the United States — 28 states in all. Official travel to those states is also forbidden. And this list includes some surprises: Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Wisconsin.
As a result of this vast boycott, San Francisco is constraining the number of businesses it can ink deals with, which all but certainly inhibits quality and drives up costs. It also adds onerous time constraints to the contracting process, which leads to poor outcomes and also drives up costs.
“It limits our ability to procure products and receive services and contract services we need to run,” explains Chu. “It limits competition for our work.”
-
#16 TP: The malevolent actors are always on the left, they have no fidelity to the truth whatsoever; their only animating force is that which accumulates power to themselves.
In essence, they are evil personified.
I do not use that term lightly. Everything for which the left advocates is contrary to The Constitution, efficiency, objective truth, and the improvement of life. They are constantly standing in the way of progress and wealth generation for We The People in favor of greater governmental control. These people are totally corrupt and can be trusted to never act in the best interests of We The People.
At what point are the people who call us conspiracy theorists themselves accountable for spreading misinformation?
Interestingly enough, the science fiction of yesterday is the science fact of today. I suggest that we refer to them as the true science deniers.
We all need to calmly state the facts and point out the lies of the left and call them on it.
For example: Neil Cavuto stated emphatically that hydroxychloroquine was dangerous; this was a transparent lie when he uttered it. Ditto ivermectin. He needs to be loudly and publicly called the liar and propagandist that he is and don’t let him weasel out of it. Make him publicly admit that he lied and relentlessly shame him until he does so.Our side has been far too polite and timid for far too long and our country may be lost because of it. I would like to see an army of Trump/Desantis types ride to our rescue. Perjurers and murderers like Fauci and Shrillary need to be taken down – hard. The problem is that we only have limited choices and finances to get decent people into office so the crooked ones tend to thrive.
-
#19 TP: Thank you Texpat; I had another episode of cranial flatus.
-
Late to the party this morning, but good morning to all anyway. No excuses, just messing around with the plants, going to coffee, planning my day, etc. It’s a little cooler this morning, and the winds are from the north rather than the southeast. I’m working outdoors a little today, nothing too strenuous, but I need to burn off a little excess energy. More later as it develops.
-
Morning, chickadees. I actually got up hours ago, but I’ve been glued to the screen ever since. I slightly overdid my yard cleanup and leaf bagging yesterday, when it was very nice outside, so now I am still a bit tired.
-
Bonecrusher
You can call them “science deniers” if you like, but most likely they will ignore you. The most effective weapon is satire, mockery and comedic public humiliation. The Left began to use it successfully with John Stewart and younger audiences but ended up essentially destroying humor in America. They destroy everything they touch – even the things they love, eventually.
Currently, Tucker Carlson gets the most laughs each day. He may not be a comedian, but the preposterous and hypocritical behavior of the Left writes its own jokes as factual headlines. We need another 4 or 5 Tuckers out there with comedy writers behind them. The work is easy with the American Left cooperating.
-
This article really pulls back the fig leaf of the left. I can’t tell if he is trying to be sarcastic or is just plain delusional.
-
Texpat
Why does anybody even care about what people in San Francisco think ?
Because that is the country we live in. Instead of minding ones own business and taking care of their business they worry about what others think or are doing. SCREW EM.
-
RE: Bonecrusher’s linked story in #17
This is the video posted by TexMo last Wednesday about the fraud that is the ethanol program. It’s 13 minutes very well spent.
-
25 BC
Seth Barron didn’t get to be the managing editor of a prestigious conservative publication like The American Mind at the Claremont Institute by being delusional.
-
-
#30 – No sheet Sherlock!!
With terminal WHINIST Olberman in the mix – that bar is set darn near below ground! 😉
-
Olberman belongs in a rubber room. He’s like a circus freak show.
-
A few years ago, I took some ivy cuttings from BFF and brought them home, rooted them, and planted them in pots placed a couple of places in the house. They all took off and seemed to be extremely happy here, and I had ivy growing all over the place. This winter, several of the leaves began to brown and fall off, but the tips seemed to continue growing, so I just figured it had to do with lower light in the winter time or whatever. Well, today I decided to clean up the ivy plants, give them their spring hair cuts, take them outside and add a little fertilizer and fresh soil, etc. Short version of the story, there was virtually no soil left in the pots. They were all completely root bound and nothing in there but a root ball. So, I got out front (out of the north wind), got new, larger clay pots, and replanted the 4 largest plants. I did also trim up all the runners, added just a little bit of fertilizer, all fresh soil, and got them looking all good for another growth spurt this spring. I started several of the runners in water glasses, and they seem to root very easily, so I’ve got no ideal what I’ll be doing with them in a few weeks. I think BFF told me the mother plant was about 40 years old. So hopefully that legacy lives on.
The tomato plants stayed outside overnight and seem no worse for the wear this morning. `The dry wind up on this hill wants to furn the tips of the little leaves, or to even blow the fragile stems over where they break, but the survivors seems to be looking pretty good even though they are still very small. Hopefully they are developing good root systems and can take off once they are release into the wild from their pots.
The wind also seems to be taking its toll on the new growth on The Mary (my rosebush) and here sister bush not yet named. I’m hoping that the root system is developing there too and that by April the new growth will be starting to show real progress. So anyway, today turned into a gardening day, and while I’m anxious to get all my stuff into the ground, I can wait another 2 weeks and yet allow the plants to continue to make progress. The radio man said that we have 3 more fronts to come through by April 1, and while none of them appears serious, that could always change. So I’ll just continue to nurse everything along until then.
-
Katfish
Olberhauserman is the spawn of msNBC. The amalgamate of a boil and piles. An oozing toxic mess so putrid even his handlers do not want to touch, so we get to enjoy his special blend of stupid.
-
Pennsylvania’s former Health Secretary has been named one of USA Today’s ‘Women of the Year.’
-
The amalgamate of a boil and piles. An oozing toxic mess so putrid even his handlers do not want to touch
He seems nice. . . .
-
-
I don’t know who that is.
-
It looks like it might be Smollett.
But there are so many circus freaks these days, I can’t keep up.
And they all look the same. Regardless of color.
-
Smollett is who I’m going with.
-
#39 – WAYCIST!! Plagiarizing Hammy and LMAO 😉
-
And I don’t care how iPhone wants to spell it, it’s 2 Ls and 2 Ts. Pfftt
-
It’s Jussie.
-
Juicy
-
Short nap today. Beautiful day outside now except for the wind. Spring is trying to break through today.
-
J.J. Sefton at Ace:
It is axiomatic that whenever there is a crisis somewhere in the world, a big factor in the equation is the dissembling and fumbling of a Democrat administration coupled with the perpetual stupidity of the Ivy League self-annointed “elite” who infect Foggy Bottom and the foreign policy think tanks like chronic malignant anal warts.
-
Spring is trying to break through today.
Saw three Indian Paintbrush and one robin.
And I walked through my first spider web this morning at 4 taking Max out. -
#8 Shannon
I also had questioned the use of derecho. Late to comment because of a late morning appointment and going out afterwards for a leisurely lunch. 🙂
-
Starbucks is going to force us into using our own cups. Wait I do not drink Starbucks. Never mind.
-
In Spanish, “o” is masculine and “a” is feminine so would “a” is passive (as in a turn) and “o” is aggressive, straight ahead, straight up…and I will stop there.
Comments prohibited.
-
Shannon would’ve been in luck if he had hit that buzzard in Wyoming.
They got apps up there in the High Country.
Wyoming may not be seen as a technological hub on the leading edge of innovation, but the state has just introduced an app that may be the first of its kind. This winter, Wyoming rolled out an app that lets people claim the animal they just hit with their car so they can serve it for dinner.
Wyoming’s road and wildlife officials introduced the app as the state joined 30 others this past winter in allowing people to grab their dinners from the side of the road, according to the Associated Press.
The AP reported that the app allows for people to claim “accidentally killed deer, elk, moose, wild bison or wild turkey after documenting the animal and reviewing the rules for collecting roadkill to eat.”
I wonder if you have to brine a buzzard before you put him in oven.
-
#51 – One wonders HOW they can possibly VERIFY the ‘accidental’ part?
As opposed to late night ‘spotlighting’ followed by brief rifle fire……
-
The Senate passed a measure that would make daylight saving time permanent across the U.S.
Why it matters: If the legislation clears the House and is signed into law by President Biden, it will mean Americans will no longer have to change their clocks twice a year.
Details: The bill — the Sunshine Protection Act co-sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — was passed by unanimous consent.
It would make daylight saving time permanent in 2023.
BUT…
But, but, but: In the 1970s — the last time Congress made daylight saving time permanent — the decision was reversed in less than a year after the early morning darkness proved dangerous for school children and public sentiment changed.
https://www.axios.com/daylight-saving-time-bill-senate-e391d97a-1a88-40eb-a42f-f8eb30f32136.html
-
The death of Pierre Zakrzewski, Fox photojournalist, cameraman and engineer has gotten a lot of exposure. But this has not.
Sasha Kuvshynova was only 24 years old – smart, pretty, brave and now she’s dead in Ukraine, killed along with Zakrzewski. She was the producer, guide and interpreter.
Fox News announced Tuesday that a 24-year-old consultant, Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova, was killed in the same attack that left cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski dead and war correspondent Benjamin Hall injured.
“Adding to our sadness at @FoxNews – Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra ‘Sasha’ Kuvshynova was also killed in the attack against our Fox News team. Sasha was working for us as a local producer. Prayers going out to her family,” tweeted “America Reports” anchor John Roberts.
-
#53
Don’t matter anymore, every kid is a car rider now, cars lined up for miles twice a day.
-
Just got creamed by my 7 year old granddaughter in Monopoly. She had also taken out her mother and sister, father is on life support.
The kids is a shark. She had this cute dimply smile as she warned me “the deal won’t be as sweet next time around!” She and her sister both were wiping the floor with us from the beginning.
I don’t know that I’ve laughed this hard since…
-
… And it was her first time. She got minimal assistance during the game.
-
Congress gives itself a 21% raise for their outstanding job of continued destruction of the country.
Totalitarianism pays lots of blood money.
-
Probably eat moccasin before a buzzard.
-
It’s official. LD2 bankrupted everyone with a smile on her face and great enthusiasm.
She also caught the largest rainbow trout today, almost twice as large as the normal sized ones the rest of us caught. 5 lbs 12 oz.
She has had a very good day.
-
55 GJT
I spent many years of my life driving the backroads of Texas from Port Arthur to San Angelo to Brownsville. Out across the more remote reaches of Austin County, Fayette County and beyond in December, January and February, there are headlights in the morning 60-90 minutes before dawn at every ranch gate and gravel side road. The engines are running to keep the kids warm before the school bus finally shows up. The same thing happens in the evening as parents often wait in the dark for kids who may have been on the bus for over an hour to get home in the country. It’s much worse for families in places like Montana, North Dakota, Michigan, Maine or upstate New York at the higher latitudes where dawn is later and dusk comes even sooner.
And then you have the dairy farmers who might just take you out over this bill.
It would only have a mild effect on my semi-urban life and make it more pleasurable, but I don’t have to deal with the realities of it like many people do.
It may be that all the kids in your area are being carried to schools in family vehicles, but that’s not necessarily true for a huge part of the country.
It does look like it’s going to happen again and I’m fairly sure rural America doesn’t have the political stroke it has had in the past to repeal it again.
-
Pierre Delecto.
A true republican’t blood money sucking Vampyre.
Problem is there’s about 20 or more just like him in the senate.https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/breaking-senate-votes-to-cancel-tsa-mask-mandate/
No vote on securing the border though.
Unless it’s Ukraine’s border. -
The plot changes in the affairs of the Estate of BFF as they found several wills in her storage unit, one of them being the most current will so far. No material differences except the executor has changed from sister to best friend (her best female friend, not me). I convinced best friend to take the job because sister is overwhelmed with family matters right now and is more concerned with preserving peace in her family than she is carrying out the wishes of the deceased. Not being critical, just stating the obvious. With the third part executor, and competent attorney and accountant, which is all in place already, they should be able to take care of this without much difficulty as the attorney can draft all the documents, send them to her for signing, and handle the details. Nice and smooth and easy. Unfortunately it may take some time though.
In other news, I’m going to leave the plants out another night tonight. Low in mid 40’s but I think they can handle that without too much problem. I’ve got to do something with all this ivy. I’ve got a shady spot outside where I may try to keep a pot in the summer, but the temps may just be too hot out there even though there is no direct sun. We’ll see how that goes to. If these cuttings start showing roots in a couple of weeks I’ll go ahead and pot them and put them somewhere.
More later as it develops.
-
Mitt Romney has always been a weasel in my book and I never trusted him. I couldn’t believe the GOP shoved him into the candidacy after the absolute debacle with McCain. Mitt was pro-abortion and had his own version of Obamacare before Barack. Later…
-
I know, we do still have a lot of bus riders, it is just aggravating there are so many parents out there now that must drive their little prince or princess to school, clogging up the morning drive on these little two lane roads. I often wonder why we even have school zones anymore, there aren’t any kids walking the roads to school anymore.
-
#65 – I know it’s likely different everywhere one looks – PLENTY of student foot traffic here all around Taylor Jr. High & High schools
And STILL also an ocean of cars!
(I never thought I’d see a freakin 3 story parking garage for students at a high school!)
-
66 Katfish
The very idea a high school would build a three story parking garage is obscene on its face. Does anyone know how expensive it is to build multi-level parking garages ? Do local taxpayers even bother to ask ?
-
#67 – Even crazier – It’s been there over 30 years!
Taylor H.S. opened in 1979 (I ‘think’ the parking garage is also that old)
-
About time to turn in out here. You all have a good night now. More later.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.