I recently found this sweet lady on her “Our Half Acre Homestead” Youtube channel. Just a sweet, down-to-earth woman.
I think she makes a lot of good points in this video.
Weekend Old Tech Open Comments
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Slowly suiting up to head north for new young HEROs
Yall enJOY!
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Well good morning gang. WIP is not up yet over at Power Line, but I’m up. I’ve been getting up around 5AM local time here lately for reasons that I’ll get around to talking about later, and it seems to be working out well for me. Big holiday weekend it looks like, but nothing on the schedule out here. Just like every other weekend, except I do think we are having fireworks at the Mill Pond Park tonight. I can watch those from my front porch so I don’t have to drive after dark.
You all have a good day, and I’ll try t remember to post the WIP as soon as it shows up. And Katfish, have a safe trip. More later.
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Cornholio strikes against his constituents (us) again. https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4075555/posts
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Here we go with the WIP. Enjoy. https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/07/the-week-in-pictures-road-rage-edition.php
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Morning Gang! Thanks Ms TT for the updates. I’ve been lurking but not caught up. Doctor found a blockage in the main vein coming from the aorta where it branches off down the left leg over 12” long! Doc was amazed and impressed! He said “those are fun to work on but dang….” Lol.
Too early to tell if any improvements but did not expect any right away. Probly get to go home this afternoon!
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GJT very good! I know you’ll be glad to get out of there I hope it went well.
Mornin’ Gang -
Yay GJT.
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Re: WIP
What did I miss regarding Trump, Grand Theft Auto?
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Morning gang.
Breakfast for Cats done
Breakfast for Birdies done
Breakfast for Squirrels done
Breakfast for Abuck done
Everyone is good till Noon
GJT to your question
Trump and Grand Theft Auto.
J6 farce had a third hand witness that testified Trump tried to grab the steering wheel of the Beast Limo and go to the Capitol.
So far Shiffty is batting zero but he keeps throwing stuff against the wall.
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I mentioned that I got the fence line cleared up down by the fancy electronic gate. I started clearing all the invasive privet hedge and Bradford Pears under the pecan tree. They went all the way to the fence and were reaching over it. After I had the side near the fence cleared I decided it was more important to clear up the fence, it had a lot of weeds, vines and a few small trees growing along the road. I cut it with my Stihl Gasoline powered weed sling (think weed eater with a Scythe blade) I raked it up and cut the small sweetgums and pines. After a few days so I can see what is alive I’ll spray the whole area and level out the hump near the ditch and plant grass. Oh and my Kubota tractor mounted wood chipper ate up all the trees, turned them into mulch.
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#9
Lol, once again the truth is actually sillier than the memes.
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About my #10, This is one of my most valuable tools. It came with a pole saw head and this attachment with a saw blade on it. I bought the Scythe blade for weeds and grass and it sure is handy. I also have a blower that attaches to it. If you’ll notice, the shaft separates in the middle.
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GJT
What did I miss regarding Trump, Grand Theft Auto?
Short version:
Low level secretary testified to Kangaroo Committee that Trump tried to grab steering wheel and force Secret Service driver to take him to Capitol on Jan. 6.Story immediately debunked by agent involved.
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FWIW; I have NO USE for Niel Cavuto, the never Trumper. He got fighting mad about Trump’s administration instructing the VA to give hydroxychloroquine to the patients. The news media falsely reported that the deaths at the VA were cased by this drug instead of the fact that it was given to patients that were already dying. Niel Cavuto went off on a screed about this even though he didn’t know the facts. (Didn’t WANT to know the facts). That was when I knew that the Bastard was a never Trumper. SO,..to make a short story long, Cavuto was interviewing Chuck Grassley and he was saying that the Republicans didn’t have a chance to cross examine the nut job that said Trump reached through the glass partition and grabbed the Secret Service driver. Cavuto cut him off when he tried to point out that Nasty Nancy wouldn’t allow any REAL Republicans on the panel and added well there were two republicans on the committee!
~SPITS~……… ~SPITS AGAIN~
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#13 Shannon Also the agent had already testified and said nothing about the incident and if this were a fact finding committee instead of a S#!T SHOW they would have called him back to testify
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#4 El Gordo
Great WIP!!
They truly capture the moment.
Is the last pic Super Dave’s wife clearing out the brush?
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#5 GJT: Great news! So as a brief run down, the surgeon fixed your aortic aneurysm, the associated leak, and the yuuuuuge clot in your leg. Did I get that right? You prolly have some really great scars now.
Blessings to the doc who saved your life, we are all grateful. -
Good Saturday morning, Hamsters,
Being a holiday weekend and all, there will be ample time for gypsies, tramps, and thieves to post here as if they were coherent. They are mixed in with genuine conservatives celebrating our history and the genius of the Founders. Public schools not teaching the truth of how this great nation came about is the farce of all farces perpetrated by so-called academics whose heads are full of cotton, hay, and rags. And not much else.
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Yea for GJT at long last coming out on the good side of things. Live long and prosper.
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GJT – Great to see your smiling face around again… Praises be – 12″ long clot has to be something close to a record, one would think….
And as to the “Grand Theft Auto” – this IS the same president they always spoof as having a normal body but little short arms, right??? Still haven’t figured out how that would work in a limo half a block long for him to reach those little short arms thru that little bitty window and wrest control of the vehicle from… oh never mind… I’m reminded of the old “riddle” – what’s the difference between war stories and fairy tales??? Fairy Tales begin with “once upon a time” and War Stories with “this BS REALLY happened”….
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Back from TOK. Same stories, but some different faces. Time marches on.
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#17 Bones
Thank you sir. I don’t know all the proper terms but they saw the previous aneurism repair at the arorta (?) where the two branches meet going down the legs had gotten bigger and was leaking. At the time he said that repair was not an emergency and could be scheduled later on but he needed to find the blockage and remove it, which he did. Now, after seeing how big the blockage was he feels like the leak and swelling is due to pressure and possibly will take care of itself, will just need to monitor.
No scars except the incision at my left groin where he went in and did the work internally. Amazing stuff.
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Bradford pear trees are highly invasive. This is why they aren’t banned in Indiana.
Invasive plants are wreaking havoc on Indiana’s ecosystems.
It’s why last year the state put the Terrestrial Plants Rule into effect, banning 44 species of them from the landscaping trade. But experts say there were a few glaring plants left off the list.
Most notably? The Bradford pear tree.
This plant, favored by landscapers for its beautiful white blooms and stately appearance, is one of Indiana’s most criminal invasive species.
Bradford pear trees, also called Callery pears, bloom earlier in the year, giving them an advantage over native species and allowing them to take their resources for its own. The trees have become so ubiquitous in Indiana that in some places you can find entire fields of them.
But while they are bad for the environment, they’re also economically valuable for growers in the state. Very valuable. An analysis done in recent years found the tree earned nursery owners millions of dollars each year.
That’s why they didn’t make it on the terrestrial plant rule.
Research indicates that the landscaping trade is responsible for just over 80% of invasive species growing in Indiana.
And the Bradford pear, with its beautiful springtime white flowers and brilliant fall foliage, is a favorite among Hoosiers.
Those flowers are part of the problem. They bring with them small fruits, which birds eat, and fly and deposit the seeds elsewhere. Because Bradford pear trees bloom so much earlier in the year than native trees, they drop their seeds when there aren’t native competitors. Then, they take over.
“I’ve seen entire meadows transformed into a monoculture of Bradford pears,” said Ethan Olson, director of native landscapes at local nonprofit Keep Indianapolis Beautiful.
In the long term this shakes up Indiana’s ecosystems, said Heather Reynolds, a biology professor at Indiana University and member of the Indiana Invasive Species Council. When the tree chokes out native plants, those plants can’t support native insects and pollinators. Those insects, in turn, can’t support the wildlife that eats them, and the impacts snowball from there.
“Loss of biodiversity has implications all the way up the food chain,” Reynolds said. “If you plant a monoculture of Bradford pear, you’re ultimately destroying the habitat and food sources for the bird species you may love.”
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Is the last pic Super Dave’s wife clearing out the brush?
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I’m becoming a big fan of Cody Jinks.
And it’s gonna get hard, fore it gets easy, I oughta know
I hear the voice of Jesus and hear the Devil talkin’
Just the same
And it seems they’re tryin’ to talk over each other
Any given day
I’ve lived the words in red so many times
By now I thought that I might see
I guess I’m sayin’ this life just ain’t the way
I thought that it might be
I been wanderin’ down the hallways
Yep all roads just like some kid out skippin’ school
By the time that I was seventeen
I figured I was done with all the rules
I turn 35 this year, and I’m still runnin’ hard
For somethin’ I can’t see
The only thing in life that’s guaranteed:
There are no guarantees
And it’s gonna get hard fore it gets easy, I oughta know
It’s gonna take a lotta rain fore the seed prayer starts to grow
The more I know, the more I know what I don’t know
I know nothin’s free
And there ain’t no guarantees
(Solo)
And it’s gonna get hard fore it gets easy, I oughta know
It’s gonna take a lotta rain fore the seed prayer starts to grow
The more I know, the more I know what I don’t know
I know nothin’s free
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This is a great rant from a lefty about the fundraising harassment he is getting from the Ds. I feel the exact same way about the Cornholio types.
Definitely harsh language, very well deserved harsh language.
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#3 EG
We must get rid of Cornyn!
Morning, gang.
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#5 TIM!
Glad you finally got worked on, and it is good to have you posting again! Gail did a great job of keeping everyone apprised of your ups and downs.
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GJT, we’re all heaving huge sighs of relief. So glad your surgery went well, and prayers for a complete recovery!
And give your wife a hug for us. I know this hasn’t been easy on her, either.
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I missed the ketchup link to the memes – can someone ‘splain, please?
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#22 GJT,
Marvelous news, now be good to yourself, rest up and keep getting better. We miss you.
Adee
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From comments in WIP:
That Trump is a bad a$$.
He single handedly strangled a Secret Service Agent with one arm and hijacked a vehicle from another Agent with the other arm, and he did all this from the back seat.
He total gangsta Bro.
But could he have handled Corn Pop? C’mon man!
Chuck Norris smiles
He grabbed his clavicles
Spock used that move to great effect.
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#23 Super Dave
Invasive plants are wreaking havoc on Indiana’s ecosystems.
Great point about Bradford Pears!
Costco put in a new Store off 290 North of Cypress Rosehill and there are several Hoity-toity Subdivisions close by. Each one has installed Bradford Pears down the middle of the esplanade. Yes once a year they are pretty but at a cost.
If money is driving this invasion like your article states it only going to get worse.
Great pic of your Help Mate.
My ex was the same way unless there were snakes around.
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30 Tedtam
I missed the ketchup link to the memes – can someone ‘splain, please?
Supposedly Trump hurled a Ketsup bottle against a wall in a fit of anger!
I need to go back and look at WIP again because there were a couple that went over my head too.
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The only reason that there isn’t a 100% chance that Paul Krugman will make an incorrect economic prediction today is that there is a 2% chance that Paul Krugman won’t make an economic prediction today.
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OK in WIP
A Villain is looking at his tablet and on the screen is Firefly?
I don’t watch any Main Stream TV so it must be a show or Sitcom?
Like we used to say in the 60s and 70s.
Grandpa’s just not Hip anymore.
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Coffee & Covid ☙ Saturday, July 2, 2022 ☙ SKY ROCKETS
Good morning, and Happy Saturday, C&C! As we head into a patriotic Fourth of July weekend, I have a terrific roundup for you: Florida’s Surgeon general battles the House Covid Committee; new civics curriculum in Florida; ACHA pans trans drugs and surgeries for kids; sudden and unexpected athlete deaths; Biden says gas prices will stay up as long as it takes to create a new world order; covid rages back in Australia and UK prompting talks of masks and lockdowns; an epic rant; NATO invited Finland and Sweden to join; and Russia makes alarming accusations about U.S. biolabs and promises a blockbuster report just in time for the elections.
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*THE C&C ARMY POST*
Note that C&C will be largely closed next week, apart from some possible quick updates, as I will be completely absorbed in a week-long jury trial. But I’ll catch up with you guys on the other side, I promise!
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*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY*
Florida’s Surgeon General Joe Ladapo responded to some lame criticism from the House Covid Oversight Committee yesterday in a letter released to the public. Apparently the House Oversight Committee wanted to meet on June 28th, after which the members said a bunch of dumb stuff about Florida being reckless and so forth. So Dr. Ladapo wrote them a letter.
After clarifying that Florida has NEVER interfered with doctors’ ability to order jabs for small children, he explained why Florida recommends AGAINST vaccinating kids under 5, based on THE SCIENCE:
The House Committee responded to Ladapo’s letter later in the day, doubling down, accusing Florida of preventing people from getting jabs, and calling Florida “dangerous” and “anti-vax:”
Note the Committee did not respond to Dr. Ladapo’s invitation to produce FACTS and SCIENCE. They just want you to trust them. I guess the Committee knows better than SURGEON GENERAL Ladapo about what kinds of experimental drugs to inject into your baby, who hasn’t learned English yet and can’t tell you whether he’s having chest pains or not. Makes sense.
House Covid Oversight Committee Chair James Clyburn, 81:
Clyburn is running for re-election in November, despite that he’ll be 82, and despite the fact that he’s hogged the same South Carolina seat for thirty years now. Plucky Republican lawyer Duke Buckner has agreed to run against the Democrat heavyweight. Watch this short video on Duke’s website: https://www.voteforduke.com/bio.
#UnofficialMultiplier
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Some members of the FDA’s vaccine advisory panel meeting expressed concerns that if they approved the drugs for kids, those approvals would soon morph into mandates. Donkey-like corporate media experts brayed in hilarity at those naive concerns. But of course, it’s already happened.
New York City’s Mayor Eric Adams announced this week he plans to mandate covid vaccines for school kids.
In response to a reporter’s question, Adams admitted that yes, the vaccines WILL be mandatory, and that he and his team are still “meeting and discussing” and trying to come up with the “best way to do it.”
Well. The best way to do it is to NOT do it. But I doubt they’re considering that option.
I predict even more population shifts between New York City and Florida. NYC people, you’re welcome to move here but please: first stop voting for psychopathic, anti-scientific morons.*******************
Meanwhile, Governor DeSantis announced new civics curriculum in Florida that instead of running down the U.S., celebrates our country and teaches kids about how government actually works. Watch this video from a school teacher happy about the new curriculum, especially when he talks about where ‘rights’ come from, and how he handles sharing his political opinions in class:
Twitter avatar for @davereaboiDavid Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi
Watch 7th Grade Civics teacher @AbeLopezFL talk about Florida’s new, pro-freedom, pro-American K-12 curriculum. And follow him.https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1542613855964217347/pu/vid/540×360/gkXWm5Al8gvbaLp5.mp4?tag=14
Civics education is critical to enable free citizens to govern themselves. For some reason, it seems like some people prefer kids don’t know anything at all about how the government works. Weird.
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Earlier this month, Florida’s Agency for Healthcare Administration issued a press release announcing Florida is withdrawing Medicare support for “transitioning” drugs and surgeries for kids, based on THE SCIENCE:
Oddly, the corporate media does not seem so interested in “the science” when it comes to these topics.
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Atlanta Braves PA announcer Casey Motter, 53, died in his sleep on Wednesday, the team announced on the its Twitter page Thursday afternoon. No cause of death was announced.
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Malaysian athlete Stephanie Sim Shu, 19, an up-and-coming air-pistol shooter expected to earn a medal at the upcoming 2022 Sukma Games in Kuala Lumpur, died suddenly after suffering a stroke last week.
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Former cyclist and national coach Jack Schiavone, 52, passed away last Sunday, leaving the citizens of Malta in mourning. Schiavone “died suddenly” of undisclosed causes.
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The Biden Administration is in it to win it, no matter the cost. You have to hand it to them. Bloomberg reported this week that Joe says we should be thanking him for our high gas prices, because Putin:
Later, in a live on-air interview, a Biden official explained WHY ordinary Americans should sacrifice for Ukraine: it’s for the “future of the Liberal World Order.” I am not making that up.
The only thing is left out was the word, “new,” which I think is implied anyway. Here’s the transcript:CNN: “What do you say to those families that say, ‘listen, we can’t afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years?’”
BIDEN ADVISOR BRIAN DEESE: “This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm.”
The receipts:
Twitter avatar for @Breaking911Breaking911 @Breaking911
CNN: “What do you say to those families that say, ‘listen, we can’t afford to pay $4.85 a gallon for months, if not years?’”
BIDEN ADVISOR BRIAN DEESE: “This is about the future of the Liberal World Order and we have to stand firm.”https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1542684948519419908?s=20&t=bQYph0Am3HM2L599bSpvOQ
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Down under, in one of the most jabbed countries in the world (93%), covid is back. Again. A telling article from the Sydney news yesterday was headlined, “Top Doctor Signals Return of Masks as Covid Cases Surge.”
How could this happen?
Australia, on the other side of the globe, is in its winter now. It is having a massive winter wave, and vaccines apparently aren’t stopping it at all. Queensland alone recorded 5,313 new cases yesterday and six deaths. Queensland’s chief health officer Dr. John Gerrard said new covid strains are evading natural immunity and the vaccines.
Who could have seen this coming?
In fact, at fifty deaths per day, covid is now the LEADING cause of death in Australia — even above heart disease and cancer — and the trend is going UP. You might say it’s skyrocketing. The experts, baffled.
It’s bad, and it’s getting worse. The top covid doc explained the current wave of covid cases were going to “get significantly worse in the coming weeks.” A dark winter!
It’s not just Australia. Britain has it now, too.
The UK’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, refused to rule out another lockdown yesterday as covid cases also surged in Britain. Apparently, one in 40 people – 1.3 million folks – had the virus in Britain LAST WEEK. Speaking in an interview at the NATO summit in Madrid, Johnson allowed that, while a new lockdown was unlikely, it would be “irresponsible” to rule it out.
Wait. I thought we’ve established now that lockdowns failed to stop the spread. Did the lockdowns work, or not? Why is Johnson even considering lockdowns? What am I missing?
But unlike Australia, Britain is in its summer. What’s going on in Australia and Britain?
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I feel a lot of sympathy for this hardcore democrat who is so sick and tired of unwanted text messages soliciting political donations that he made this epic online rant: (warning, adult language)
Twitter avatar for @RidinRoadsTXUltra Jeff @RidinRoadsTX
I actually like this guy. He’s a liberal. And I like him.June 29th 2022
7,485 Retweets33,857 Likes[THIS IS LINKED IN AN ABOVE POST]
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*THE MINORITY REPORT*On Wednesday, the U.S. formally invited Finland and Sweden to join NATO. Vladimir Putin responded yesterday saying that Russia and Belarus would accelerate “unification,” and threatening to respond in kind if military infrastructure or NATO troops are placed in the two Nordic countries.
Meanwhile, NATO began polishing its rubber stamp.
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It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to find any corporate media reports about what Russian government officials are saying about pretty much anything. I get that they lie a lot, but do they lie any more often than our own government officials do? Just like the Russians living in the old Soviet Union, Americans are getting pretty good at this point at automatically distrusting whatever narrative the government is peddling today.I say let us hear it all, and then WE will decide. We’re adults and free citizens living in a democracy. We don’t need the government to screen out potentially dangerous information.
Anyway, because they ARE screening out the Russians, I have to rely on non-traditional sources. My promise to you is I test them every way I can, to determine reliability, but I cannot guarantee anything.
The information for this update comes from the guy who first figured out that the Russians were targeting US Biolabs in Ukraine by noticing the patterns of artillery fire on the map. That was back when the US government stupidly denied there even were any biolabs in Ukraine, even though the information was easily found on archives of our Ukrainian embassy’s website.
Ultimately Tucker carried the story, and the government and corporate media were forced to admit the biolabs exist. But only for peaceful purposes, of course.
According to the same guy who figured out the Russians were shooting up U.S. biolabs in Ukraine, Irina Yarovaya, Deputy Chairwoman of Russia’s State Duma, reported on US biolabs this week to the Duma (Russia’s congress). The first and most significant thing she said was that Russia is building a case, a “dossier,” against the U.S., allegedly featuring heavy Democrat involvement in illegal weapons research, and plans to release the report in August. Right before midterms.
Specifically, Yarovaya said “The Commission is forming a dossier in order to systematize cases of criminal activities and qualify them and will be ready to present a final report in Autumn.”
Hahahahaha! That’s the same month that the Democrats plan to release the novel version of their January 6th show! Everybody’s trying to influence the elections.
She also told the Duma that the Ukraine war — the “special military operation” — was justified to put a stop to the “Pentagon’s dangerous military-biological activities on the territory of Ukraine.” She reported that Russian investigators found specific evidence in Ukraine of illegal U.S. bioweapons research, including one colorful project where counterfeit bills would be intentionally “infected with a very dangerous, highly pathogenic strain of Asian tuberculosis.”
I wish I could say I didn’t believe a word of it.
She also reported that the “veterinary lab” in Mariupol, Ukraine, was discovered to be hosting super-non-veterinary germs like “typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, perfringens. And 124 other seized strains are being studied by specialists.”
(FYI, clostridium perfringens is one of the most common causes of human food poisoning in the U.S.)
Yarovaya also claimed Russian investigators discovered “documents that were seized by the Ministry of Defense showing that dangerous experiments were conducted on Ukrainian servicemen,” allegedly killing them within 72 hours.
The U.S. government is responding to these allegations by canceling Russia. Maybe it’s no wonder the Biden Administration is spending so much effort and energy on its “disinformation board.” We thought it was all about covid and ivermectin and stuff. But what if it was REALLY about Ukraine the whole time? Maybe what they are really doing is trying to get ahead of Russian disclosures about their dirty little science experiments?
Remember bizarro-world Mary Poppins, the kooky young lady they first hired to run their new cancellation board? Her super-thin resume included working for that failed technopop actor Zelenskyy — in Ukraine. Get it?
Maybe her hiring wasn’t such a bizarre choice after all? Maybe it’s not a disinformation board at all. Maybe it’s really an anti-biolab information board.
Anyway. You know what would be a whole lot easier and more effective than creating a giant disinformation board to cancel Russia to stop Americans from wrongthinking? OPEN THE BOOKS. Just release all the information about those peaceful, non-military, veterinary labs we’ve built in poor countries to keep everyone safe. Be transparent.Someone once said the truth would set you free, or something like that. Try it, just once. See if it works.
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And finally, I hope you all have a patriotic and joyful Fourth of July!
Have a super Saturday, and I’ll see you in a week! (But maybe I’ll sneak in a little something for you here and there, you never know.) Be well.
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Did the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling from the Supreme Court ‘repeal’ existing bans on abortion in state statutes? Not in Texas, anyway. The state supreme court last night reversed an injunction by a Harris County judge that had blocked enforcement of the 1925 statute banning abortions.
That is a curious argument in the first place. The decision in Roe may have looked like legislation, but it wasn’t, and it didn’t remove a single statute in any state. A Supreme Court decision can block enforcement of a statute, but it can’t repeal it. It takes an act of the legislature and the signature of a governor to repeal a statute (or Congress and the president for federal statutes). The current court would likely scoff at the idea of a statute-repealing impact from its decisions, especially at the state level.
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Why did the Texas legislature pass a new “trigger” law with far more extensive penalties if the 1925 statute was enforceable immediately? Either the legislature didn’t do much research on existing statute or felt that the political benefit outweighed enforcement clarity. Probably, it’s a mix of both, but even then it’s still going to come down to either the existing statute from 1925 is immediately enforceable or the new ban with longer prison sentences will take effect less than three weeks after the Tuesday deadline for more filings. Even if the plaintiffs win an argument that the trigger law essentially replaced the 1925 statute, it buys them a handful of days for operating abortion clinics in Texas. It might well be that both statutes will be legitimate, which means that the legislature will have to clean up any conflicts between them.
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I’ve got to say that God did a pretty good thing when He got my Facebook account suspended. I’ve been in a bit of a panic about promoting the YouTube channel without being able to post in the Facebook Groups I’d been posting in. But in the nine days since I’ve been posting them in a Bushcraft Forum and couple Groups on Reddit and MeWe and seen a pretty substantial increase in Subscribers and Viewing time. I’ve picked up 100 viewing hours in that time, about five times the average I was getting before. I still need about 3400 hours to get to monetization, but its starting to look like I might hit that number before this time next year.
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If you people need bulk herbs, spices, herbal medicinal blends & components, there’s a place right across the street from ex-Canino’s that has all of them.
Granel’s Bodega. Nice place, has a/c, prices seem not too bad, maybe a little high, but you’re usually buying such small amounts.
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I just put out some wild mix and extra peanuts on the patio for birds and squirrels that were picking over what was left from their breakfast. Was only out back for 2 minutes, but I felt a few big fat raindrops on my arms. Gave me hope!
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Speaking of spices, I’m drying a bunch of Genovese basil to add my jar. I put up the little bit of Thai basil that I cut last week. And the stevia. I’m gradally adding to my stores. Last night I did 8 pint-and-a-half jars, 4 of chili with some discounted “best by” stew meat I found at the store, and 4 of chicken. I reserved some chili for Hubby rather than canning it, and he said it was way too hot. I told him that canning sometimes messes with seasonings, so we need to pull a canned jar and try tasting it so I’ll know if I need to reduce the amount of chili powder from the recipe.
I finished filling my first pint jar of tomato powder. It still amazes me, the power of Fred. I figger that pint jar must have at least a couple dozen tomatoes in it.
I just put the following jars of dried goods upstairs in storage: eggs, strawberries, green bell peppers, tomatoes.
Hubby was very happy when I sent him pics. He likes that they don’t take up a lot of room. I pointed out that they are lighter than canned goods, as well, and are the perfect foods for camping, traveling, or bugging out. He agreed.
I harvested some cucumbers this morning, so I think I have enough to do a few pints of pickles today.
I never thought I’d love seeing rows of jars like I do, but I get a great deal of satisfaction, knowing that Hubby and I will have some – hopefully at some point, enough – food to ride out what I think is coming. And if I’m wrong about what’s coming, well, then, we’ll be comfortably set for any hurricane that comes out way.
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Got a new battery put in Fay’s pristine 2000 Dodge Dakota Pickup 6cyl (Y2K Edition, bought on New Years Eve 1999/2000).
Getting it all ready to turn it loose……to her son. Only has like 130k miles on it.
I’ll never forget that phone conversation:
“Oh, by the way, I bought a new pickup today.”
“Say what?”
🙂 🙂 🙂
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#40
, there’s a place right across the street from ex-Canino’s that has all of them.
Is the farmer’s market still there, but not Canino’s any more?
I was thinking about making some trips there, but if that market is closed….
Are there other markets nearby where I can get reasonably priced veggies? I always went to the back of Canino’s and tried to speak to the Spanish folks there for their produce. I remember one December, when I was looking for bell peppers for lasagna, and I scored a big box of ’em for $10. Yeah, I had to sort them and trim off some bad spots, but for ten bucks it was well, well worth it.
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Abuck Syxbits says:
JULY 2, 2022 AT 10:33 AMOK in WIP
A Villain is looking at his tablet and on the screen is Firefly?
I don’t watch any Main Stream TV so it must be a show or Sitcom?
Like we used to say in the 60s and 70s.
Grandpa’s just not Hip anymore.
The joke there is that the current most popular main character Jean Luc Picard from Star Trek) in a long running Sci-Fi franchise that began when a TV show was cancelled and fans demanded be brought back is watching a Sci-Fi TV show (Firefly) that was cancelled and fans are (still) demanding that it be brought back (I’m one of them).
The story is that Gene Roddenberry pitched Star Trek to the suits at the network as “Wagon Train in space”. The reason I love Firefly is that its basically the same concept but with cooler guns, bigger badasses, quirkier stories, and more interesting main characters.
There’s also a pretty good Mary Ann and Ginger thing going on.
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Sarge
I got your post out of the bucket and adjusted the time posted so
- It would not blow the numbering away
- so it would have a chance to be seen
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#47 AHHHHH NOOOOO – Wagonburner – that was our favorite part of “Canino’s” – the produce “flea market” out back… A couple times we hit at just the right time, and got someone who was more eager to get rid of things than haggle over the price and got great deals on all I could can in one weekend…
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You make your own limoncello liqueur???
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I’ve seen a number of summer drinks over the years that included limoncello but never got around to buying some and experimenting.
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Sarge
I got your post out of the bucket and adjusted the time posted so
It would not blow the numbering away
so it would have a chance to be seen
and read
and replied toThankee, dint know it was being held captive. Only two linkies–wunner what diddit
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Sarge
Honest man I do not know why this thing is picking on you. You have never posted anything questionable that I could see. You should be able to post 3 linkies unmolested. Oh wait i know what it is. Your mustache is better than mine. I kid.
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But, my mustache is better than yours. So maybe that’s it—
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Wanda Sykes has been funny in the one (maaaaybe two?) shows that I’ve seen her in. As a professional comedienne, in her professional role, she can be funny.
Other than that, she’s a disgusting, narcissistic, unrealistic, and domineering human.
Liberal Celebrity Wanda Sykes Attacks Middle America, Providing Electoral College Fans A Built-In Argument
Liberal comedian Wanda Sykes has no problem voicing her contempt for those who dare to think differently than her, as witnessed this week on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.”
“Those states in the middle. That red stuff.”
“Why do they get to tell us what to do when the majority of us live out [in] New York, California? And we’re paying for all this crap, really.”
“If I say, ‘Hey, let’s go out to dinner.’ You don’t get to pick the restaurant. Just shut up and eat.”
Ah, and there it is. What Ms. Sykes feels, and unfortunately, she isn’t alone, is that since there are so many Americans who live in California and New York and provide so much revenue, the rest of us plebians should not be allowed to participate in the democratic process and should be grateful that they allow us to exist.
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#45 Sarge
The joke there is that the current most popular main character Jean Luc Picard from Star Trek) in a long running Sci-Fi franchise that began when a TV show was cancelled and fans demanded be brought back is watching a Sci-Fi TV show (Firefly) that was cancelled and fans are (still) demanding that it be brought back (I’m one of them).
Thanks for clearing that up for me.
There is whole world out there I know nothing about.
I followed Star Trek for awhile when it first came out. Always good entertainment.
The Ginger link did not come through though.
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Thanks for clearing that up for me.
There is whole world out there I know nothing about.
I followed Star Trek for awhile when it first came out. Always good entertainment.
The Ginger link did not come through though.
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Firefly was soooooooooooooo good. I couldn’t believe there was only one season.
Stoopid decision.
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Hey Tedtam – ever heard of Kentucky Burgoo??? It’s a canning recipe from SBC that I shared on my FB page – because I couldn’t figure out how to get a link that would work here…. Sounds like one of those “everything” soups – they said it doesn’t count as a real “burgoo” if it doesn’t have at least 3 kinds of meat in it LOL
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Tedtam says:
JULY 2, 2022 AT 7:07 PMFirefly was soooooooooooooo good. I couldn’t believe there was only one season.
Stoopid decision.
Joss Whedon’s politics are stoopid, too….
It kind of goes without saying that the folks who thought cancelling Firefly was a good idea also thought voting for Joe Biden would be too….
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Nope, haven’t heard of it. Sounds interesting.
Getting 3 pints of dill pickles in the water bath. I’m trying different recipes, like dill sprig v dill seed, mustard seed or not, peppercorns, etc.
I’m keeping a ledger and I’m numbering the lids to match the ledger recipes. I’m also writing the recipes on the jar, in case the ledger gets lost. (Because…life!)
If I find a combination that we love or hate, I’ll make note of it for future batches.
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I was going to inject squash today, but with stuff I’ve been doing inside and anticipating rain (that never came), I guess I’ll do it tomorrow.
I did harvest some asparagus beans, and I’m looking forward to cooking them tomorrow. I really do like their flavor more than regular green beans.
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Headcrusher and I put our first layer of satanite fire mortar in our new forge. We just need a good anvil typed object on which to pound hot steel and we are good to go. We have a crap load of drum brake rollers that go on 18 wheeler tractors. Each one would make a nice blade out of some good quality steel.
Bonecrusher and Son Forgeworks
Kind of has a nice ring to it, doesn’t it?
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Wow, I had a loooong nap today, for some reason, and got up and found Squawk and Sarge being nice to each other on The Couch. It was heart-warming. Thanks, guys.
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Was he nice to me, or just the mustache?
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Had a nice phone visit with Dear Old Friend this evening. Planning to get together in Dallas at the end of the month to work out the final closing of BFF’s estate. Fireworks is going to be kicking off out here at our little park shortly, and I can see them from my front porch, so I’ll maybe watch a little even though it’s still real hot out there. No other news, but I’ll try to check back in before closing time.
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Watching Josey Wales for the first time in many years.
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#66 “Don’t ____ down my back and try to tell me it’s raining”
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Oh c’mon….. I like Sarge. If we did not give each other grief then we both think there is something drastically wrong and never leave our homes. I cannot speak for Sarge but I can only stand so much disagreement.
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I disagree with that.
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OK, fireworks are over. Pretty nice display for a little old dinky town like this. Going to find something on You Tube to watch for a few minutes and then call it a day. You all have a great evening. Nite nite,.
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Sarge
#69
Yeah of course you would. You and your mustache. Sheesh.
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Tedtam – Sounds like a good way to use up the ends and pieces of chicken quarters, pork loins, and such – but I think I’ll be copying the method – not the proportions since his recipe makes 60-70 pints… I’d hate to do THAT, and find out we didn’t like it LOLOLOL
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You make your own limoncello liqueur???
A lot easier than making beer, which is pretty easy.
I’ll put the actual recipe here when I finally make it. It’s basically lemon-flavored ethanol right now. Needs a LOT of diluting and some sweetening though.
So far we have the zest of lemons and enough ethanol (e.g., Everclear) to cover. Let sit for at least a month; more does not hurt – not like anything is gonna go bad in there.
That’s where I am now. Current proof is 195. Need to add enough water to get it to around 40-50 proof (20-25%) ethanol and sugar to make it taste right. This is what it looks like now:
Note how pale the lemon peel is. The lemon oil is soluble in ethanol, so the oil moves from the peel to solution. Later on we’ll see that the peel will now feel “crispy” – stiff and dry. The liquid will be transparent bright yellow. As soon as you add a little bit of water, it’ll form a colloid and immediately get very cloudy and pale yellow.
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I believe Chef Lidia Bastianich was the first one I saw make a summer libation with limoncello.
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Thought I would give the new series
The Terminal List with Chris Pratt
A shot tonight.
I watched about 2 hours of it waiting for it to get better.
So far it is teasing that it will get better but I have my doubts.
Amazon brings these series to us hoping it will be the next Jack Reacher or Jason Borne. But by the time they interject all the Social Justice propaganda and Diversity something gets lost in the plot.
I will let yall know if it gets any better.
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Rose Red Homestead talks about the coming food shortage.
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I don’t hear much about the Verse of the Day.
Maybe I will give it a little recognition before we close out.
“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? “I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward each person according to their conduct, according to what their deeds deserve.”” — Jeremiah 17:9-10 . Powered by BibleGateway.com.
Jeremiah is called the Weeping Profit and rightfully so because he was crying out to his people to repent of their ways.
Their deeds and hardened hearts were going to get them carried off into captivity and Jeremiah was sounding the alarm but no one was listening.Dietrich Bonhoeffer did the same thing during the Hitler Era.
Nobody listened!There are a few Jeremiah’s and Bonhoeffer’s sounding the alarm today but once again nobody is listening.
My only hope is:
Lord examine my heart and mind and hopefully find me worthy.Good night Chet
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If I still drank I would make and eat this chili for sure. If you were a fan of Combat then you know who Rick Jason is. If not, he was the Lieutenant and starred with Vic Marrow (Sgt Saunders). Anyway he wrote an autobiography (available online) and at the end he included some of his favorite recipes. One is Ricks Chili that features 2 12oz bottles of stout bear and 1 cup of Tequila. Yeah i know the alcohol cooks off but for me it is best I do not tempt fat. Check out the recipe and see if you might have an idea what I could substitute for the beer and Tekillya. BTW he makes up 16 quarts at a time.
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Say good night Gracie
Good night Gracie
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#78 Squawk:
2 12oz bottles of stout bear
and see if you might have an idea what I could substitute for the beer
Something readily available is Quaker oats. You could carefully toast some oats in a big black iron skillet, hot, dry, stirring constantly, and get an interesting flavor component that would be moving in the direction of the stout.
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Good night Gracie.
And good night to Squawks and Sarge.
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Bonecrusher.
Now that is a good idea for the “beer” portion. Tequila is a bit more problematic I would think.
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Nightie MHarper and sweet dreams.
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GJT GREAT news!! ^5
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Hey unckola
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Yo Brother Squawk.
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So I stumble in here late and get first on Sunday?
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Mornin’ Super Dave… I’ve been trying to get a cuppa coffee in me so I won’t star at the shower head like a turkey, and drown myself… Have a blessed day…
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Oh and Shannon, if you’re lurking, what did you do with Texpat? He is still in Texas right?
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I finished my coffee an hour ago but wife is still working on hers since she got a late start. I think I’ll go fix some sausage, eggs, grits and biscuits for breakfast.
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And I am up and at ’em, with my coffee in hand.
BCS and I were texting last night (yes, we are talking – through text only) and she is also stockpiling. She already knew about and watched Monkey Werx.
We have so much in common and when she’s not going all BC on me, I enjoy her company. I just can’t let her get emotionally close. That’s dangerous. I can like her, from a distance, but trust her…not so much.
Anyway, she informed me that Kroger has a sale on brisket and some other things. I may swing by after mass and pick up one or two. Hubby said he’d BBQ one, and I may take the the other for my use. I’ll cut the flat part off and make ropa viejo with it and probably can some. Put the other part in the freezer for later grilling.
I saw another homesteading video last night, where the hostess of the show was reading letters from farmers. Next year could be very, very bad. I was telling Hubby I may need to up my canning nights while I can still afford to buy (high priced) meat for my shelves.
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From the Epoch Times:
‘Doomsday Document’ Predicted Food Shortages Two Years Ago
It was called ‘Reset the Table’ and it’s all about the upcoming food shortages, including how they plan to wipe out the meat industry in favor of fake foods. Are you prepared? Find out what you must do to survive against the upcoming onslaught.
STORY AT-A-GLANCE
*We’re told looming food shortages are primarily the result of climate change and the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Yet in July 2020, The Rockefeller Foundation had already predicted it, and was calling for a revamp of the food system as a whole to address it
*“Reset the Table: Meeting the Moment to Transform the U.S. Food System,” published by The Rockefeller Foundation July 28, 2020, describes how the COVID pandemic caused “a hunger and nutrition crisis” in the U.S. “unlike any this country has seen in generations”
*According to The Rockefeller Foundation, the pandemic revealed deep problems in the U.S. food system that need to be “reset.” “Reset the Table” was published just one month after the World Economic Forum (WEF) officially announced its plans for a “Great Reset,” and many of the contributors to the Foundation’s paper are WEF members
*While the report stresses the need for “healthy diets” and “sustainable” food production, the words “natural,” “organic” or “grass fed” are absent, so that’s not what they’re referring to
*The WEF has, for years, promoted the idea that insects should be recognized as a healthy, sustainable protein alternative that can save the environment and solve world hunger
In the foreword,3 Rockefeller Foundation president Dr. Rajiv Shah also stresses that “a comprehensive playbook” to address the food system would also need to address other issues, “such as living wages, housing and transportation,” and that “all of us” — meaning the self-proclaimed designers of the future — “need to write that playbook together over the coming year.”
Problem, Reaction, SolutionThere are interesting tidbits in this document. For example, on page 3, it states that “94% of deaths from COVID-19 among individuals with an underlying condition, the majority of which are diet-related.” This is surprising, considering diet and nutrition were essentially absent from public discussions and reporting about the infection.
While it’s tempting to view this document as a sign of sanity, if you’ve looked into the WEF’s Great Reset plan, you’ll notice that “Reset the Table” is just another cog in a wheel that is intended to run us over. As noted by ThreadsIrish:4
“The document is very much framed in the Hegelian dialectic of problem, reaction, solution. Here is the problem that they have created (COVID) and now they want to implement the solution (Transforming the global food supply). Naturally this is all ties into lands being destroyed, climate change and trying to move people back into smart cities (Page 5). Surprise, surprise.”
“Reset the Table” basically describes how they intend to seize control of the food supply and the supply chain under the guise of “equity,” “fairness” and “environmental protection.” One key to this enterprise is data collection. They want to collect data on everyone’s spending and eating habits. Expanding broadband access is part of that.
“Forty-two million Americans lack broadband access that is essential to shifts to online enrollment, online purchasing of food, direct farm-to-consumer purchasing, telemedicine, teleconsultations, as well as education, finance, and employment,” the paper5 notes, adding, “This is a fundamental resiliency and equity gap, and we need to close it, urgently.”
As you can see from these paragraphs alone, they want everything to shift into an online environment, including education, medicine and the buying of food. This, of course, makes everything you do far easier to monitor and track. Another key is to make sure global WEF partners in multiple sectors work in tandem to form a “collaborative advocacy movement.”
A third key to success is “changes to policies, practices and norms,” and those changes are “numerous.” The end goal is to centralize control of the food supply into a single executive office, which is right in line with the idea of a “one world government.” As WEF member Henry Kissinger once said, “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
As for the “healthy and protective diets” the Foundation is calling for, we’ve already been told what that is. For the past several years, the WEF has been promoting the idea that we should get used to eating weeds and bugs and drinking reclaimed sewage.
As noted in a July 2021 WEF article titled, “Why We Need to Give Insects the Role They Deserve in Our Food Systems”:6
“By 2050, the world’s food supply will need to feed another 2 billion people. Insect farming for food and animal feed could offer an environmentally friendly solution to the impending food crisis …
Thanks to new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), we are at a turning point and finally able to industrialize the breeding of insects in a contained environment. Insect breeding is a data centric agro-industry with a lot of commonalities with precision agriculture.
Several indoor agriculture start-ups have emerged … Ÿnsect, for example, with more than 300 technology patents and completely unique AI-driven agricultural processes, is building the first fully automated vertical insect farm in the world, able to produce 100,000 tonnes of insect products a year.”
According to this article, insects are “a credible and efficient alternative protein source requiring fewer resources than conventional breeding,” and “a healthy ingredient” that is highly digestible and particularly suitable for senior nutrition. Insect farming is also far less expensive, requiring few natural resources such as water and could reduce agricultural pollution by nearly 99%.
…and there’s more.
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And this:
At present, all data point to severe food shortages, and while the looming shortages are blamed on everything from climate change and COVID to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the fact is that WEF allies, such as the Rockefeller Foundation, have published documents and held fictional exercises, in advance, detailing everything we’re currently facing.
So, while they pretend to be modern-day prophets, with answers spilling out as fast as problems appear, it’s rather easy to make predictions when you’re working an intentional plan, and quite simple to fashion solutions at record speed when you created the problems as a means to an end in the first place.
All that is to say, do not doubt that food shortages and famine are coming. It’s inevitable because it’s intentional. The same goes for energy shortages. They’re intent on bringing us into the “green new deal” (as it’s part of The Great Reset) even though large-scale alternatives to oil, gas and nuclear power are nonexistent.
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Here I am up and about and haven’t checked in yet this morning. What’s up with that? I seem to have 2 fawns this year that are staying around, one born about a week ahead of the other so is slightly larger. The two have started running around together, presumably with permission of their mothers, and they are quite a sight. They are still very small and run around out there kicking and bucking but they look like small dogs. They are extremely fast runners, but they can’t jump over a 4′ fence yet. I leave my gate open for them to come and go in my back yard until they get large enough to jump.
Somebody has been sampling some of my garden plants. One of the tops was eaten out of a pepper plant, so that may have been enough to get them to move on. Hoofprint left behind in the mud looked suspiciously like a doe.
Tomato plants just look great, all deep green and full, and not a sign of a tomato anywhere. I guess it was just too hot for any fruit to set this year. Next year I guess I’ll go back to cherry tomatoes which seem to be able to handle the heat better. Also I ordered a cheap ass greenhouse from Amazon which should show up next week. I’ll probably put it up this fall or early winter and start early on tomatoes again. Remember, only 2 things that money can’t buy – true love and home grown tomatoes. Have a great day.
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Beating the heat, we got the final repair done from the Big Freeze. It was just a riser for the outside faucet on the front of the house. I haven’t really missed it but glad it is done.
It was in a tricky spot and was glad to have a different opinion.
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Only a fool would fly this weekend.
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#99 Sarge
Thanks for the very good link to the Star Link overview.
That is the info I have been looking for.
I have seen Bob on a few other videos and he always very thorough.
He is living the life I thought I wanted to live for a while. But after trying it for a number of years I decided against it.
It is not for everyone.
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#97 Shannon
Beating the heat, we got the final repair done from the Big Freeze.
I don’t think we will ever know the monetary impact of the Big Feeze and the subsequent death toll.
My Plumber friend was called out on many catastrophic pipe failures and in some cases the cost to repair was going exceed the value of the house.
My personal opinion it was a travesty the way our Politicians deflected blame and then proceeded to bury it.
ERCOT is still alive and well with business as usual.
I have just adopted the attitude.
To only rely on my own proactive measures and nothing else.
Canning as an example!
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Now what we have here is your Regulation Southern Breakfast. I fixed little smoky sausages from the Pig, grits, scrambled yard eggs with sweet peppers and biscuits. It don’t get much better than that.
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Just had my first Ensure (30mg Protein version) for breakfast.
According to my father in law, they’re really good with a scoop of ice cream in them.
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Super Dave
Daggummit. Dave’s Plate is a sign from heaven that we gotta follow my vision for Super Dave’s Cafe and Tractor Emporium. Look I won’t insist on chili with beans on the menu. Looking at the Regulation Southern Breakfast picture all meals should be served boarding house grab style. You’re killing me here.
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I’m here in Texas on my weight loss project. I have lost 9 lbs over about 15 days in this heat combined with a sinus infection.
I only have a phone to comment here and the arthritis in my hands has been acting up so posting has been difficult. I’m going to schedule a flight later this week hopefully after airline chaos calms down.
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Morning, chickadees. I predict that Houston will be a-roil’d with fireworks TONIGHT. The denizens of Houston won’t be able to restrain themselves until the 4th.
I had a good sudoku this morning, nothing really difficult but just so much methodical effort that it took me over an hour to complete it. Now I wasn’t leaning over the puzzle every second of that time — all of the cats were voracious this morning, so I was having to go back for more food for all of them, about every 5 minutes, it seemed. Finally they all conked out, purring themselves happily to sleep.
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Well, I observe that there has been some improvement, overall, in the more recent circumstances of denizens of The Couch. While we are still rattled by the sudden loss of Hammy, followed by Shannon’s loss of Fay, and the prolonged hospitalizations of TexMo and Tim — well, thankfully, life has settled down a bit.
Because of all the FlightChannel videos I’ve watched lately, my mental reaction to all the unexpected events can be summarized as “Terrain! Pull up! Pull up!”
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I’ve had lever-type, entry-door hardware to replace my door knobs sitting around for four years in their boxes. Thanks to Texpat, they are installed now, too, both front and back. They’re great.
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Just got back from mass and Kroger. Two briskets of caring quality (pickin’s were scarce, good price one the beef) and 5 boxes of butter later, in home. The butter was$2.49 with the digital app. That is THE worst so I’ve seen in a long time, not intuitive at all. When I tried to follow instructions it told me I couldn’t do what it was telling me to do. Sucks. Big time. The cashier manager had to do it for me.
Anyway, ghee is waiting to be made, and ropa Viejo, so busy, busy!
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Tedtam
Wait!! What??
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Just got back from mass and Kroger.
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Good Afternoon, Hamsters,
Not even a spit of rain so far today, and the weather guessers have no encouraging news for the folk who live SW of Houston. All of the rain will stay around Houston and down to the Galveston coast and then move east into LA and then on to the Florida panhandle.
On a brighter note, our small deer herd has decided we have a prime place to graze in our pastures and the yards, and water in the stock tank, though that has some algae in it. Our fountain on the back patio gets lots of attention from the wildlife, enough that spouse has to fill it every other day. Who knows how many critters show up overnight to drink.
The mom with twins brings them around the house for a treat, jasmine groundcover that we have an abundance of. She is still nursing them, as they are less than a month old. Her udder is prominent and obviously well used. Then there is the lone deer with one fawn that seems to show up at different times than the twins’ mom. Having the deer this close to a window makes for entertaining viewing for Purrscilla. In some ways she seems to regard the deer parade as entertainment for her.
A mild breeze ruffles Old Glory on the front porch, and the scene as seen from inside can fool you into thinking it looks like a pleasant summer day, ‘cept it is 94 and 53% humidity. Better than 100 or over, for sure.
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#112 Squawk
I almost read it as Mass at Kroger but looked again to be sure what it was. 🙂
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#109
Shannon, it has been a good thing for you to have Big Bro staying with you lately.
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Thank you Ms Adee. I am glad to know I have such excellent company.
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Well if I have nothing else I’ve got the Squawkster rooting for me. Also mharper, it does look like Shannon is keeping him busy. He may have to reschedule his flight.
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I put a slab of ribs on the grill, rubbed with Bill’s seasoning that EL Gordo gave me. I cranked up the grill to blow-torch and browned both sides then wrapped em up in tin foil and turned it down. It’s setting at about 350 now.
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Super Dave
There ya go. Another menu item. Super Dave’s Bill’s Grilled Ribs. Just think how we will fake out people from Buffalo. I am working on a Hambone Lunch Menu. for instance. the Super Dave’s **Squawkbox** Sandwhich. A sandwich bread stuffed full of bologna. Prolly the most natural dish would be the Super Dave’s Katfish Catfish Basket. The possibilities are endless,
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Squawkster you got mail………….
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Katfish. Yeah I saw and replied.
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It is now 100 degrees and 106 “feels like” in Bellville, Texas. It’s so bright outside it’s blinding.
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101 degrees now. Brutal. Although the humidity has dropped down around 30%.
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According to weather dot com it’s 97 with a “feels like” 104 here – but our thermometer says 94 – no idea what that feels like except HOT
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I spent 1 hr and 15 mins out front, sweeping and sacking up debris along the curb. 90% of it was freshly fallen brown magnolia leaves. Another 9% was older, crushed-to-powder magnolia leaves. Then 1% pine straw. The USPS jeep drives right up against my curb, when it can, to get to my mailbox. Plus any work detail on my block usually has at least one truck parked somewhere on my curb. Crisp and crushable, that magnolia+ mess all got compressed to 2 30-gallon bags, which fits into my CoH black bin.
Oh and my curb is well shaded mid-afternoon.
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BTW: I don’t bag magnolia leaves for mulch, even though I have 2 groups that I sometimes deliver bagged leaves to. No one wants magnolia leaves.
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104 here now with “feels like” close to 110.
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No one wants magnolia leaves.
They make great roofing shingles
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Now it’s Once Upon A Time In The West.
My favorite Leone movie.
A big old Vodka Tonic in hand and Claudia Cardinale on the tube.
What more could a man ask for?
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I’m cheating. I moved the brisket to the pressure cooker and am getting a jump on the “sauce” in the crock pot.
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It feels good to be off my feet for even a few minutes. The canner is venting, so in about five minutes I have to jump up and apply the weight on the petcock, then I can sit down for a few more minutes while it builds pressure.
I want to get into the garden this evening, too. I think I can get the jars out of the canner in time to inject my squash. That takes about an hour or so. Hopefully the bees will have gone home by then. I’ve been stung twice. Never knew it ’til after. Ninja bees.
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Claudia Cardinale?
Oh that’s the hot Mesican Gal that was in the Professionals that I watched the other day. She often played a HySpanic back in those days.
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Oh yes; Claudia Cardinale 😉
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Claudia is French Tunisian-Italian.
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She turned 84 in April.
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No relief in sight for cooler temps or for rain. Spouse has been investing in soaker hoses to take care of the plants on the far side of the driveway that the sprinklers can’t reach. We did have a considerable length of soaker hose left over from years ago, but time and heat sort of made it too leaky, which was ok for some spots but not ok for others along the driveway. The idea was water for the plants and not big puddles on the driveway. Those evaporated with no help at all for the plants. The sprinklers come on in the wee hours of the morning and shut off by sunup.
The last thing you want is to be wasting water in daylight.
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Tried a slight variation on the Wagonburner steak. Instead of sous vide, I seasoned the ribeyes with S&P and put in the smoker on 165F. When they got to just past 100F, I took them off to let them rest and cranked grill to 450F. Grilled them to the rare side of med-rare.
Kinda tasty, I must say. The smoke was an interesting difference.
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Speaking of watering, I did some hand-watering on the shadiest side of the front yard, and have a swiveling water thrower doing the other side now. I also wanted to get a sprinkler going in the back yard, but the patio is occupied by birds and squirrels right now, so I’ll wait a bit.
My schedule has committed suicide this weekend. I wasn’t hungry at 8 pm last night, so I just had a small green salad with tomatoes and cheese strips added. My Sunday breakfast was later even than usual — got up late and did the sudoku before I had my usual cottage cheese, fruit, oat cereal for a late breakfast. Didn’t do a lunch and had a short nap, sort of hoping to get my schedule back on the tracks by tomorrow. I’ll find a meat and 2 veg in the fridge and turn it into a supper here in a bit.
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I don’t think I’m going to garden this evening. I’m tired – didn’t get to sleep ’til late last night and it’s catching up with me.
I’m about to turn off the canner, and the pressure cooker is cooling down. I think I’m going to let the ropa cook on low overnight and deal with it in the morning.
The ghee I was making got delayed because I didn’t realize that the small crock pot had gotten unplugged when I moved it out of the way. Lost three hours. /sigh
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Well, at least you did get some things accomplished, or well on their way. We went on a wild goose chase to get more quart canning jars from a store that’s website showed they were available for pick up – all we found was 1/2 pints and pints – both of which we have quite a few… So tomorrow, I’m putting something in the crockpot to par cook, while we go on a quart jar scavenger hunt.
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My dinner only consisted of a Vietnamese style beefaroni that used both oyster sauce and fish sauce. I am slowly eating more these last couple of days and I’ve been keeping it down.
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Good news from TexMo. About turn in time out here. Not much to say about today, and tomorrow should be about the same. Hope you all have a good night now. Glad that SD got to check out the Bills Butt Rub. I personally like to add a little bit of red pepper to the mix to suit my own tastes. Nite all.
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#142 TexMo
Glad you have had the stamina to persist and recover.
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Abuck
Would you mind if I shoot you an email? I can get your email addy from your login. I never send unsolicited emails without permission.
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Abuck, you’ve gotta tell Squawk to never send unsolicited pics of men in speedos.
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#145 Squawk
Abuck
Would you mind if I shoot you an email? I can get your email addy from your login. I never send unsolicited emails without permission.
That would be fine. Gordo has my email too.
No pics of men I speedos though!
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Abuck
I have given up speedos. i have graduated to men in rubber monster suits.
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BTW Thanks. I’ll email ya tommorow some things that I think you will find interesting. Takes up too much space here.
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#139 mharper
Speaking of watering, I did some hand-watering on the shadiest side of the front yard
Don’t do like I did the other day and let the sprinkler run all night!
We are on a Co-Op Well and the water is not cheap. Some people have pools and a sprinkler system and it is not unusual for their water bill to be $600.00 per month.
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#149 Squawk
Anytime is fine.
No need to ask just send it on over.
After awhile I will do like Gordo and just post my email here.
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Abuck
After awhile I will do like Gordo and just post my email here.
Thas cool, i get nuttin to hide.
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#139 Shannon
Now it’s Once Upon A Time In The West.
My favorite Leone movie.
A big old Vodka Tonic in hand and Claudia Cardinale on the tube.
What more could a man ask for?
After seeing Super Dave’s Post of a picture of her I would have to ask for a note from my Doctor saying it was ok.
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Being single it always good to have a few people checking up on you.
Jack the guy that owned that Oil Related company that I did contract work for 13 years used to check up on me a lot.
One time I needed a ride to the ER with a really bad Kidney Stone attack at 11:00 at night. I called him and he said he would be right over.
He called me back about 5 minutes later and said if I was passed out and not breathing he wasn’t giving mouth to mouth resuscitation.
I said can I get that in writing?
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Ya know, I spend a fair amount of time in FACEBOOK. On the person-to-person level, a lot of that is all my friends who are movers & shakers in the cat & dog rescue arenas — mostly Houston area, but not all. They post what they’ve found and what they need to help get a lost or abandoned pet taken care of.
Then another big chunk of time lately is my discovery (thx EG) of the large amount of airplane disaster videos available on FB.
It has occurred to me that I like the FB score system where you can rate what you thought about the post you just read or looked at. The only way to do that on The Couch is to write a response.
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It’s Monday the fourth of July. Are we still on a long weekend thread?
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Good morning once again gang from the hinterlands of central Texas. There are places out here that just don’t change much over time, and this is one of them. Looking like the TOK is still closed for the holiday, so I hope that the hard working staff of that place has an enjoyable day off. I completed reading a lengthy book called “Never” by Ken Follett which checked off all the proper boxes, but since there was a female President along with a couple of other strong female ledes, as you would expect the whole thing winds up with an unhappy ending. Not trying to be a spoiler, and I actually enjoyed the book, so if you get the chance, take a look at it. Will deliver it back to the library tomorrow and try to find something else.
#155 – I’m glad that you are enjoying the airplane videos. As I previously mentioned, most of those are available on you Tube and you may be able to enjoy them on the big screen TV if the computer monitor is too small. Once you get through some of them, you may find that if you look around, there are several other videos discussing the same accident, which may further your interest and understanding of what went wrong and what efforts were made to prevent future occurrences. I tend to look at the “cause” side of the equation rather than the drama and human interest side, but there are some good stories out there.
I’m gonna get stirring about out here now. You all have a great day, and I’ll report back in if anything interesting happens. More later.
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#158 Super Dave
Love it! Going to send it around to friends.
She is another “Community Organizer ” that has gone from broke to millionaire in just a few short years.
Sure would like to know their secret to building wealth on nothing.
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#155 mharper
#157 Gordo
I’m glad that you are enjoying the airplane videos.
Let me ask this question to you two.
Of all the videos that you have watched, was there ever any communication to the Airport Control Tower from passengers detailing the events unfolding from their cell phones?
Flight 93 over Pennsylvania had a spectacular conversation via Passengers and The Control Tower in 9/11/2001 on a Cell Phone!
Some of that stuff that just makes you go Humm…
Just yesterday the FCC gave permission to Musk to have Mobil connectivity via Satellite. Twenty one years later. Almost a quarter of a Century.
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Heh.
Checked the actual odometer reading on Fay’s truck this AM.116,000 miles divided by 22.5 years = 5155 miles per year.
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Tired of scrolling.
New page up.
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Not able to do any grilling or smoking right now, we were good with just regular 4th of July hot dogs today but my sweet sister and her hubby would have non of it. They are bringing over brisket and pinto beans in a little while. BIL does a mean brisket.
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Cell phone use in aircraft is generally prohibited since the altitude works like a super high antenna and the radio signals would cross over several towers, create interference, and the like. Modern airplane navigation systems connect through the GPS satellites, but they do not allow for internet or voice communications. On board navigation computers are updated manually through a internal bluetooth connection with a computer or with a plug in thumb drive or some such device. The navigation and cockpit instruments are not able to access the internet directly due to hacking concerns which could lead to disastrous results. Now passenger internet service is available, but the aircraft systems cannot access it. Obviously in the 911 case, the use of cell phones was a unique circumstance, but normally any cell phone clearances or flight plan filing is done on the phone prior to take off at uncontrolled airports – otherwise, voice communications are limited to radio. I would expect that generally speaking, any passenger who called the control tower on a cell phone would be met at the gate by federal agents. If I recall, the flight 93 people were talking to airline personnel and not air traffic controllers, and there would be no reason for them to do so since they did not have control of the aircraft anyway. So in summary, despite the numerous communication devices available to aircraft and the operators, they are not able to directly access the internet, and tow way communication continues to be the exclusive province of radio systems.
FWIW, the aircraft bands are just above the commercial FM broadcast radio bands, beginning about about 108Mhz to around 135Mhz – brother Dave would know a lot more about that than I do.
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“Return to Tradition” on Youtube has an awesome letter from a canceled priest to Pachapapa.
It was an open letter, and several outlets have picked it up. This priest calls out the pope for his doctrinal errors and hypocrisy.
To see this in print, and put directly to the pope hisself, is awesome. And, as Anthony Stein says, he was probably holding back.
Won’t make a difference, but I hope it wakes up a few folks who may not be aware or may not care about the rot in the Vatican.
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