‘Really’ rising???
Nuff said…
‘Really’ rising???
Nuff said…
Here we go again with the WEF and this crap…
People take agriculture for granted because it is one of mankind’s oldest technologies. It remains perhaps one of the most complex. Hunter gatherers began investigating what could be eaten more than 100,000 years ago, an arduous process involving trial and error made more difficult by the fact some foods, like acorns and cassava, have to be soaked or otherwise processed to be edible. This vital knowledge was passed on to posterity in lore. Eventually the list of the more basic foodstuffs became common knowledge, though among the ancients, knowledge of pharmacological plants often stayed secret.
Eventually everyone knew what food was and that knowledge remained stable for centuries. Now the World Economic Forum has a plan to change that. It will revise the list of what humanity eats wholesale to defeat Climate Change. “Our global food system is in urgent need of transition. At present, one-third of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from food production.” The great work of agriculture will be revamped and the transition will involve all aspects of food production and consumption:
Full article HERE from the Pipeline.org
Do they not remember the European farmers protests? HERE is that link…
I know we joke about kids thinking all their food comes from the grocery store without any ‘production’ costs or anything else, but damn…
Farmers, ranchers, and grove owners work their asses off, spend a butt ton of $$$ to plant, harvest, and hopefully make enough profit to pay off this year’s debts before they buy what they need for next year, plus pay for maintenance on their equipment. And that assumes they have a successful harvest. What happens when they don’t? They go deeper in debt, praying next year will be better. If not… well, they’re done. They have to sell the land, hope to pay off their debts, and usually are living at a poverty level for the rest of their lives.
And where are these ‘companies’ that are going to revolutionize food production? How successful are their ‘test’ plans? Has anyone actually DONE large scale production?
We know how the ‘plant based’ meats are doing (e.g. not well)…
And how many current businesses, farms, ranches, etc. will be put out of business along with how many subsidiary jobs? How many towns will be decimated when those plants close? Where will those people find ‘new’ jobs?
Who is going to buy up all those farms, ranches, etc? Who will have the money to pay for them? Bueller, Bueller???
I am really getting tired of these ivory tower types who’ve never gotten their shoes, much less their pants dirty, or ever had blisters from actually doing WORK on a farm, ranch, or anywhere else, but ‘they’ know better than we do what is ‘best’ for us…
Well, I’ve got your ‘best’ right here… come and get it… I’ll be in the back yard doing a brisket for the weekend…
h/t SteveS
They just can’t help but set up all the graft they can…
The Biden administration’s green loan czar is looking to loan more than $1 billion to a green technology company that is connected to his old trade association and his current federal office.
Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) Director Jigar Shah announced Tuesday that his office has reached a conditional commitment to loan Entek, a company that makes electric vehicle components, up to $1.2 billion in taxpayer funds. Entek has supported the Cleantech Leaders Climate Forum, the “sister nonprofit” of a trade group that Shah started before joining the Biden administration and a co-host of a 2023 green energy conference organized in tandem with LPO.
Full article, HERE.
It’s like they know they are going to be leaving after November and are feathering the nest they plan to jump to when they leave…
Especially on the ‘green’ and ‘climate’ sides of the equation. As always, one needs to follow the money to see who is really in control!
I know both sides do it, but the dems seem to not even care if John Q. Public sees if, figuring the swamp will just cover for them and let them go on down the road.
Even more than term limits, IMHO, we need to do away with the underlying unelected bureaucracies that are embedded in DC and a lot of the states. Our system was never designed for ‘professional’ politicians, but based around ‘citizen’ politicians to served a term or two and went back to work at what they did before.
Even worse, Dr. Jill and Hunter apparently ‘stepped up’ and are openly controlling SloJoe’s actions, appointments, and meetings. OBTW, does either of them actually HAVE the clearances to be sitting in those meetings or seeing those summaries?
One wonders…
And now DOJ is apparently fighting voter ID (again). What is wrong with having people prove who they are??? I have to prove who I am with an ID for most things I do in life, and I think voting is pretty damned important!
And not just here… sigh… I really don’t want to do ‘interesting times’ again…
First up, the Brits-
The UK election is official, and it’s all over but the shouting — and finger-pointing. With only two parliamentary seats left to declare their vote totals, Labour has won 412 seats to the Conservatives’ 121. A handful of other parties and independent candidates claimed the remaining 115 seats.
Some of the Tories’ most conservative members lost their seats, including Jacob Rees-Mogg and former prime minister Liz Truss. The Tories lost every single seat in Wales. It was such a drubbing that experts predict that now-former PM Rishi Sunak will resign as head of the Conservative Party as early as Friday.
Full article, HERE from PJ Media
Next are the French-
Paris — Election results show French voters have chosen to give a broad leftist coalition the most parliamentary seats in pivotal legislative elections, keeping the far right away from power. Yet no party won an outright majority, putting France in an uncertain, unprecedented situation.
President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist alliance arrived in second position. The far-right, led by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party, came in third — still drastically increasing the number of seats it holds in the National Assembly, France’s lower house of parliament.
Full article, HERE from CBS
And of course we have an ‘issue’ or three here…
The Democratic Party is in the midst of coping with echoing calls for President Biden to bow out of the presidential race over concerns that his mental acuity has slipped and that he’s unable to serve as president for another four years if he wins re-election.
As the party looks for potential replacements if Biden does in fact decide to conclude his political career, Vice President Harris sits atop the list of likely successors. Harris has a long history as a California liberal stalwart, serving as San Francisco’s district attorney in the early 2000s, then serving as the state attorney general under former Democrat Gov. Jerry Brown, and U.S. senator from the Golden State before her 2020 election as vice president.
Full article, HERE from Fox News
Soooo, three of the G7 are in the throes of political upheaval at the same time. Does anyone think China and Russia aren’t taking notes and figuring out what their options are?
Taiwan, Ukraine, other??? Iran making moves against Israel???
The list is long, varied, and chilling at the same time. And there is a G7/NATO summit in DC this week.
I really don’t have a clue what the administration’s stance with respect to NATO is, much less what our real relationship with Israel is.
All these ‘hot spots’, lack of leadership among the powers, and frankly, weak military leaders in all three countries makes me worry about what is coming before November, if not sooner.
Your thoughts?
Golf funnies…
Posted at a golf club in Scotland..
- BACK STRAIGHT, KNEES BENT, FEET SHOULDER WIDTH APART.
- FORM A LOOSE GRIP.
- KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN!
- STAY OUT OF THE WATER.
- TRY NOT TO HIT ANYONE.
- IF YOU ARE TAKING TOO LONG, LET OTHERS GO AHEAD OF YOU
- DON’T STAND DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF OTHERS.
- QUIET PLEASE…WHILE OTHERS ARE PREPARING.
- DON’T TAKE EXTRA STROKES.
WELL DONE… NOW, FLUSH THE URINAL, GO OUTSIDE, AND TEE OFF.
+++++++
Golf Quotes
These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow. ~ Sam Snead
I was three over today: One over a house, one over a patio and one over a swimming pool… ~ George Brett
Actually, the only time I ever took out a one-iron was to kill a tarantula. And I took a 7 to do that. ~ Jim Murray
The only sure rule in golf is – he who has the fastest cart never has to play the bad lie. ~ Mickey Mantle
I don’t fear death, but I sure don’t like those three-footers for par. ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
After all these years, it’s still embarrassing for me to play on the American golf tour. Like the time I asked my caddie for a sand wedge and he came back ten minutes later with a ham on rye. ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
The ball retriever is not long enough to get my putter out of the tree. ~ Brian Weis
Swing hard in case you hit it. ~ Dan Marino
My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered. ~ Lord Robertson
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. ~ Jack Benny
There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground. ~ Ben Hogan
Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you’re the best. ~ Jack Nicklaus
The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf. It’s almost a law. ~ H. G. Wells
I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course. ~ Billy Graham
If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play at it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf. ~ Bob Hope
While playing golf today, I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake. ~ Henny Youngman
If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ~Jack Lemmon
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work. ~ Lee Trevino
I’m not saying my golf game went bad, but if I grew tomatoes, they’d come up sliced. ~ Lee Trevino
More from the mil email chain…
Liberals claim not to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views. [William F. Buckley]
A Saxon can die without a murmer. A French man can die laughing. But only a Norseman can laugh as he kills. [George S. Patton Jr]
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. [John F. Kennedy]
George Orwell’s 1984 was supposed to be a cautionary tale, not and instruction manual. [Unknown]
If you spend time to teach kids right and wrong when they’re little, it’s much easier for them to grow up. And it shows you love ’em. [Roy Rogers]
The years between 50 and 70 are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. [T.S. Elliot]
You spend 90 percent of your adult life hoping for a long rest and the last 10 percent trying to convince the Lord that you’re actually not that tired. [Robert Brault]
In war, opportunity waits for no man. [Pericles, c 495-429 BC]
Middle age is when you’re sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn’t for you. [Ogden Nash]
You could say that the paparazzi and the tabloids are sort of the `assault weapons’ of the First Amendment. They’re ugly, a lot of people don’t like them, but they’re protected by the First Amendment – just as ‘assault weapons’ are protected by the Second Amendment. [Charlton Heston]
The only problem with capitalism is that it works so well that people think they don’t need it.” – Dan Held
An infected mind is a far more dangerous pestilence than any plague – one only threatens your life, the other destroys your character. [Marcus Aurelius]
When I was young, I was called a rugged individualist. When I was in my fifties, I was considered eccentric. Here I am doing and saying the same things I did then, and I’m labeled senile. [GB]
The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental. [John Steinbeck]
If you are willing to abandon your principles for convenience or social acceptability, they are not your principles. They are your costume. [Nitya Prakash]
The reliability of any system is inversely proportional to the square of its complexity. [Murphy’s Laws of Combat, Marion F. Sturkey]
You’ll have to pass it to find out what’s in it. [Nancy Pelosi]
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. [Voltaire]
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. [D.H. Lawrence]
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion. [General Norman Schwarzkopf]
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. [Douglas Adams]
The fatal fallacy of gun control laws in general is the assumption that such laws actually control guns. Criminals who disobey other laws are not likely to be stopped by gun-control laws. What such laws actually do is increase the number of disarmed and defenseless victims. [Thomas Sowell]
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. [Douglas Adams]
Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity. [Nelson Mandela. Fighter, Prisoner, President, Revolutionary]
Y’all enjoy!!!
First up is the latest from Raconteur Press- Moggie Noir
Click the cover for the Amazon link!
The blurb-
The question remains whether you should tuck into this volume in a comfy chair for a bit of adventure. Well, if you like cats, there’s more than a little of something you love in the pages or pixels herein because, instead of a bland all-two-legger cast, these stories feature felines as central or pivotal characters. If you are a fan of noir fiction, you’ll enjoy how these authors have explored this genre and maybe stretched the bounds of what you find familiar. Some are set in the 1930s, some are present day, and some are who-knows-when.
After all, who better than a cat might convey the contradictions of a ruthless killer enrobed in the most exquisite package of sumptuous fur with glittering emerald eyes? No one, see? Cats are the ultimate expression of the noir aesthetic, and we hope you will agree, but fasten your seatbelts: it’s going to be a bumpy read.
Next up is Sam Robb and the gang at Alpha Mercs with their first anthology-
The blurb-
Jethro Tull has an amazing discography, spanning everything from folk music to heavy metal. Over the past 50 years, their music has influenced generations of artists working in a variety of media.
Here, a dozen science fiction authors have spun their own Tull-inspired yarns. So belly up to the bar somewhere out among the stars. Grab yourself a drink, and settle in for some colorful tales from our minstrels in the galaxy. Stories of things that could have been, things that might have been…and of things that should have been, but never were.
Good reads, go enjoy the stories and the flights of fancy!
Welp, we did our usual 4th of July meal (burgers/dogs/tater salad/beans, and…
Folks brought ‘extras’… and we had a few extra bodies (yea for friends coming to town)!
A good time was had by all, and we hit it about right on the amounts of things cooked! But…I was grilling when it was 107, so I was sweating my ass off! Thanks to all that pitched in to get everything done!!!
An hour later, the ‘cold front’ decided to move in and the temps dropped by 20 degrees.
Got things cleaned up and I headed for a shower and bed! I’m too old for this…LOL
Today marks the 248th anniversary of America’s independence from Great Britain. Although written centuries ago, The Declaration of Independence is a timeless document. The principles of freedom and equality are what make our country great and inspire others to endeavor for the same liberties.
A bit of history-
Variously known as the Fourth of July and Independence Day, July 4th has been a federal holiday in the United States since 1941, but the tradition of Independence Day celebrations goes back to the 18th century and the American Revolution (1775-83). In June 1776, representatives of the 13 colonies then fighting in the revolutionary struggle weighed a resolution that would declare their independence from Great Britain. On July 2nd, the Continental Congress voted in favor of independence, and two days later its delegates adopted the Declaration of Independence, a historic document drafted by Thomas Jefferson. From 1776 until the present day, July 4th has been celebrated as the birth of American independence, with typical festivities ranging from fireworks, parades and concerts to more casual family gatherings and barbecues.
Of course in ‘many’ places fireworks are now outlawed, ‘official’ celebrations are being pushed to be ‘low-key’ as some might find it “offensive”, and we know about the various protests, etc…
This is a holiday that has been missed by far too many Americans while at sea, in the sandbox or deployed elsewhere around the world. Take this time to thank a vet for all that they do – at home and abroad. I hope today everyone will have the opportunity to spend some quality time with family and friends and unwind.
My thought- As far as the protestors of all types, well, screwem…
I’m PROUD to be an American, and PROUD of our heritage!!!
Light em if you got em…
Have a Happy and a Safe 4th of July, and MANY more!!!
The timing of Vogue including First Lady Jill Biden on the cover of its August issue Monday sparked intense reaction on both the right and the left following her husband’s disastrous debate performance last week.
The highly favorable piece from the liberal magazine with the cover line, “We will decide our future,” was already completed pre-debate, but was updated Sunday when Vogue spoke to the First Lady about President Biden’s future in the White House. Biden told the magazine that her husband “will always do what’s best for the country” and that her family will not allow the president’s brutal debate performance to define his presidency and will “continue to fight.”
Full article, HERE.
Just to be helpful, I’ll give you ‘this’ clue…
She like the power and prestige just like the woman in the picture…