When we still had our dogs, we bought them some dried chicken strips from Costco. After having them a few times, the bigger dog started to have seizures and after a particularly bad one, we had to have him put down. I'd stopped giving them the strips as soon as I found out that they were from China. The little dog started to go downhill after that and about a year later, he was gone as well.
Two dogs who had been robustly healthy their whole lives and the only change in their lives was them getting those stupid treats. I had accepted that they were elderly and could go at anytime but it didn't need to be accelerated like that.
Dr. Neil Ferguson from the Imperial College in the UK
Wasn't he the one who dropped some ridiculous number of possible deaths that he later had to admit came from crappy "computer modelling"?
I only knew of Trump as that rich New Yorker, the one with the different wives on the covers of the tabloids and "wasn't he involved in wrestling at some point?"
When the lefties in my social circle started calling him Hitler, I was a bit confused but also intrigued. That guy?? Where were they getting that idea from? And since they were the type of people who were wrong about just about everything, I had to check things out.
Their reactions were so over-the-top that it made the whole thing far more interesting for me, from a psychological point of view. What was driving all that hyperbole?
Good post. I've never had a clear view of Netanyahu. There have been times where I assumed he was right out of the picture, then a couple of months later I'd read an article where he appeared to be back in charge. This has been going on for what seems like years. If he's that much of a thorn in someone's side, it's surprising that he's still alive.
That the Israel / Palestine thing has the hallmarks of a death blossom by the forces of evil, to incite mass conflict and polarization worldwide, to distract and inject maximum fear etc, this also seems clear.
Exactly. It's another trap or another test, depending on your point of view.
Did she actually get a nose job? I can't tell anymore. I do remember an interview with her from the 70s where she claimed she'd "never get her nose fixed" because a doctor told her it would affect her singing voice and she didn't want to mess with that.
Why doesn't she just make the move now instead of waiting? She can always come back. Or not.
What sort of taxes would she have to pay if she's an American living in England?
Interesting in light of the whole "homesteading" movement. Teaching people skills like gardening and canning now so that they'll have them later when needed.
Things sped up during 2020 (oddly enough). Busy busy busy.
The pole shift was speeding up as well though I haven't really read anything on it for a couple of years. No one knows what that shift will cause because no one was around for the last one.
My tinfoil theory is that the increase of electrical activity around the planet is somehow feeding this and causing the speed-up. Like some sort of "worldwide web" girding the planet and creating a new electrical field. I'm sure Tesla had some thoughts on these things.
Rising gun violence?? In full-on Lefty Seattle? How do these things happen? I heard that if you were on the right side of history, life would be Utopian and there would be no such thing as "gun violence".
All sarcasm of course. But who would have thought that if you promoted your area and values as a "safe space" that there would be criminals and low-lifes of all types ready to walk in and take advantage? And I'm not just talking about the government here.
Printed as "satire" in order to defang what he was saying? I can see it.
Hundreds of monkeys, even!
Oh, I know. Hemp is pretty darned amazing stuff. So versatile AND you can just compost it when you're done.
I was thinking more of the other Icelandic ones that just have magma oozing along the ground.
But yes, the delivery is the biggest part of the problem.
Either that or there will be oceans of complaints from "environmentalists". Something about the increase in carbon in the atmosphere or whatever.
Wouldn't it be great if volcano rifts like that one could be used for dumping all plastic recycling? What's the worst that could happen? The volcanoes are already putting out tons of gasses so the burning plastics wouldn't make much of a difference. The temperatures are hot enough to melt rock so plastic doesn't stand a chance. There are locations all over the world that could be used.
A multi-million dollar idea, just sitting there, waiting.
Yes. Just a little too perfect, like he was supposed to be the poster boy for old farts to get their guns out and start doing some "justfied" killin'. Which is a win/win - it puts the idea into the heads of the gun banners that these old dudes are messed up and could pop off at any time, while also making the other side think "Could I do that?" and possibly encourage copycats.
(No offense to old farts. I'm just going with the thought process that could have promoted that picture.)
Somehow I completely forgot about Bush Sr!
I remember how hopeful everyone felt back then! That the world was going to change for the better.
"Right here, right now/Watching the world wake up from history"
And then along came the Clintons and everything started to turn back into crap. Interesting how that happened.
Also probably trying to find out just how much blackmail material the brothel had gathered.
There are a couple of subrreddits I still read from time to time and it is appalling to see how many families have kids who are autistic. It just seems to be the New Normal for a lot of people.
It's heartbreaking.
I always felt there was a strong autobiographical feel to Jack Torrance's character in that book. Hated his wife, hated his kid and would do anything to appease the voices in his head.
Good to know that the economy is doing so well and that there are no more important problems to solve! Political theater at its finest.
This is the way. I wish more people would catch on to the idea that these words - racist, transphobe, antisemite - are all just ways to manipulate and control the conversation, to get you to kowtow to whatever the other person is selling.
Someone with connection$ is about to make a fortune from bootleg cigarettes. They'll become the new "drug" of choice just because they're considered illegal.
That's prohibition for you.
We had a local bookstore that did trade-ins on paperbacks. I went through quite a few of the Peanuts books.
To this day, I still think of one of the characters only polishing the fronts of his shoes because he didn't care what people thought of him when he was leaving the room.