Before the slave revolt, they were the richest sugar-growing region in the Western world. The land itself is valuable. See how the DR looks. Monroe Doctrine says we take care of our hemisphere because it's in our national interests and our economic sphere of influence. More to the point, I'm beyond sick of the damn rickety boats of illegals and the non-stop sympathy parades by bleeding hearts for these people who come in and then devastate the wildlife and pets in an area because apparently welfare isn't enough for these people to leave the animals alone.
At this point, blockade and let Barbeque clean it up.
Vitamin D is beneficial. It is associated with the things listed in this video. Some of those effects are major, like storing calcium in bones, and triggering your sleep-wake cycle. Others are minor like the effect on weight loss. Other factors play roles more than an order of magnitude more important.
Like any vitamin, there is a range in your body that it needs to do its thing. There's a level below which you're deficient and get symptoms of that, like decreased immunity. There's a level above which you get toxic effects, so you don't want to exceed it. Vitamin D has a large range to work with.
20 minutes in the sun daily, at peak hours (10A-2P), will provide enough UV exposure to keep you at normal Vit D levels if you're otherwise healthy. Some people need to supplement, especially in the winter, if they can't get outside during those hours. 400-600 IU daily is enough to maintain normal.
If you're low, you'll only know it with a blood test, which your physician will have to order. Then you replete with a supplement, following their dosing schedule. Lots of complications here, so I won't presume to start listing. Take what they tell you, if they tell you do.
You CAN overdose on Vitamin D, so I don't like people telling people to take megadoses (10,000 IU/week or more) unless they've got a doc monitoring their blood work. It's risky. Some people think they're "being healthy" taking many times more than they actually need for far longer than they should because they don't understand the physiology. It's ill-advised and potentially dangerous. With water-soluble vitamins, it's less of an issue. You just pee out the excess, but Vit D is fat-soluble and gets stored in the body's reserves. Toxicity risk can accumulate.
Like everything we consume, food, drink, or medicine, the dose makes the poison. Too much of anything can be harmful. Docs try to balance their recommendations, and what this genius in the video is complaining about is docs prioritizing advice to avoid melanoma (skin cancer) risk or similarly good reasons. He's asserting the docs are all evil and just trying to make ya sick. It's horse manure, just as much as the "health experts" telling you to take megadose Vit D just for funsies (how many of these are the ones selling you the supplements?)
This person is a moron.
Ask any healthcare provider why they tell you to avoid the sun. You'll hear:
- I don't tell people that, except under certain situations
- I only tell fair skinned people worried about skin cancers to do that because melanoma is certifiably awful, and really all I ever mention is SPF 30+
- I only tell patients taking specific drugs that sensitize you to UV, so they don't end up with 3rd degree burns in a matter of minutes and spend the next 3 months in the ER wondering WTF just happened to them
I'm beyond tired of people asserting doctors are demons out there trying to get you sick and hurt just for funsies.
As someone who regularly reviews papers on vaccines, I can tell you there is at least one person who is doing the work for real, and with maximum scientific scrutiny of the data.
I can't speak for every journal of course. There are well-known paper mills that aren't terribly difficult to get work published in. But I can speak for what I do.
All this does is extend the war and get more Ukrainians killed. Russia has total supremacy on the battlefield. They're going to get what they want. The question is whether they get it before or after having to kill a bunch of extra Ukrainians. That should be obvious to anyone involved in this.
If they don't have to put up with this shit, they'll tolerate it. That's understood and part of the strategy. There are "no go" zones all over Europe that look exactly like this. It's tolerated because the Europeans don't have to go there, see it, or deal with it.
If they're playing a game where they're going to bury this story and claim it's being done in the interests of rebuilding the reputation of the FBI and restoring public trust, this is exactly the wrong way to do it.
I'm of the opinion that government secrets need to have a total overhaul. I'm sick to death of a supposedly free country using "active investigations" or "classified" or "protecting sources and methods" as excuses to not tell people the truth. "Just trust us, bro" doesn't work when you've done everything possible to abuse that trust and destroy it. There is no trust.
We don't do "trust the government" in America. It's a fundamental foundational principle. All power has checks. All elements of power are balanced with deference given to the People. We don't trust the government. We demand our rights and use the Constitution to limit the government. We don't trust the government, we keep weapons in arsenals in our homes to protect us from government.
Make America Great Again. Total transparency. Which government was treating the US government as its vassal state? Which government was running this mafia-like operation? Which politicians were being controlled? I don't care if there were kids involved at this point. At this point, I'm starting to think of this a bit like the Holocaust. You don't allow people to paint over it with euphemisms. You take pictures and show them. You bring in cameras and record everything. You march the local townspeople down to the camp and make them smell the rotting flesh and clean up the mess with their own hands until they can't ever deny what was done. That's how you ensure it doesn't happen again. Radical transparency. Show the videos. Blur the kid's faces.
Humans settle near fresh water because we have to drink it to survive? Whodda thunk it?
Sigh... flash floods are real. They are known. They are not unprecedented. This isn't "muh climate hoax." This isn't some magic government weather machine. It's literally nature doing exactly what it normally does in a desert, especially one with hilly terrain.
Give it a month or two and these same flows of warm water meeting cool water are going to make hurricanes, and those, too, will be normal weather - not "muh climate hoax" or "muh government weather machine."
Let's stop losing our minds, folks. Help those in need. Take reasonable precautions if you're in known flash flood areas.
The image is literally minutes from a public meeting. Clearly someone was talking to the public. Whether anyone showed up to the meeting or not is another issue. No one goes to local gov't meetings. Ask any city councilman.
Because the guy living in a mobile home shouldn't have to pay the same costs as the guy living in the cul-de-sac in the gated community in a million dollar house on 2.5 acres. He doesn't use the same amount of services, and he damn well doesn't have the same means to pay. There's a reason we use a progressive income tax system, just as we use differing property values as a proxy for a graduated local tax.
That's because the home isn't free. It is protected by police, fire, and EMS, who don't work for free. It is served by water and sewage lines which had to be installed by some construction crew and which require maintenance every so many decades as the pipes wear and break. It is served by roads that have to be kept clear of brush, cleaned, paved, lined, have the pot holes repaired, be salted in the winter, plowed when snow falls, etc. As a local citizen, you have to pay your part for local schools, parks, local government services, etc
I have no problem saying there's no "property tax." Claim it's "theft." But the response will be that the city totals up the costs of services it provides to your property and sends you an itemized bill. You still have to pay your share of the costs of living in a civilized society. Freedom isn't free. Prosperity isn't free. Living with first-world accommodations isn't free. All of those things exist because people are employed to provide them. Stop paying and your city will rapidly start looking like a third-world latrine - just like LA and NYC when they stopped picking up the trash.
In principle, I agree. The property should be yours, not rented from the government in the form of a property tax/rent.
However, in practice, your house isn't free. The city has to provide many services to it: road building and maintenance, sewer lines, water lines, power lines, internet lines, etc. Each municipality does it a bit differently, so variations exist, but no house exists that requires zero service from local government, even if it's just clearing trees from the road after a thunderstorm or plowing the snow. That has to be paid for.
If you got rid of property tax, the local government would then have to itemize a list of services each property is provided and send a bill for them. Local schools, local park maintenance, local festivals, police protection, fire protection, etc. You get the idea. You'd still have to pay a maintenance fee in this way, even if it's not called a property tax, it'd be a recurring charge to keep the property.
Axios is the source (dubious). Sunday night release (dubious).
I'm smelling clickbait and a cheap attempt to change the narrative from Trump's exceptional handling of the Texas flash flood situation: immediate response, hundreds of lives saved. Everyone involved reacted professionally, immediately, and made the best of a terrible circumstance. It's still a tragedy, but could have been so, so much worse.
Also, China speculation is simmering over the last week. Xi Jinping may be losing control. He's been conspicuously absent.
Russia's advancing on all fronts. Ukraine's on the verge of breaking. Hegseth just stopped the weapons flow, including anti-air defenses. Russia's now free to send in their strategic bombers to provide active air support along the front line.
Trump just got his massive tax cuts locked in and his funding for ICE deportations hitting his two biggest domestic priorities: juice the economy and remove the illegals.
Narrative change is desirable for the revolutionaries.
24-hour rule applies here. We'll see if it's fake news.
More to the point, why was Epstein in the max security cell if there were no clients? Who precisely were the girls being trafficked to?
A looped video isn't proof, as far as I'm concerned. No, I'm not going to watch 11 hours of it hoping to catch one frame where they spliced it wrong or something. I have better things to do with my life, like watch grass grow.
I'm giving this a 24-hour-rule break, but I'm beyond tired of being lied to about this POS. He was Israeli. He was an "intelligence" operative. He was trafficking little kids for a reason, and we know what his social circle was. I'm not for one instant willing to accept "there is no evidence" as anything other than a strong implication that law enforcement destroyed the evidence they had. The FBI aren't chumps. They're a damn good investigative team. Every crime scene has evidence. If these people are saying they can't find any, that's because they're not looking - and that's not good enough. That's not justice.
It goes with the milk. She's working the trad wife vibe for clicks.
Ok, Dr MilkLady PhD, what exactly do you think was going on at Lake Tahoe? Some lady heard a drone overhead and you think that caused... what exactly? By what means? What physics?
How exactly does the government generate a storm that results in a massive flash flood? How exactly does the government generate an earthquake? This one would be particularly interesting, in light of recent events. We can even look at the seismometers to see what the government is capable of doing with 14 30,000 bombs. No earthquakes, sadly.
This woman is no different from some caveman doing a rain dance to appease the rain gods and thinking that has any effect on anything. She has no idea how it works, and she damn well couldn't predict it.
"Imagine what they could do now..." The same amount they could do 30 years ago, a bit like cold fusion. Not make it work.
Do you think you can just shut down a production line right now without developing supply chains to source an alternative product? And which alternative product should be used? You have to market test that in test kitchens until you find a suitable option that customers like and are willing to buy. Change in a multi-billion dollar international industry isn't made simply because you declare it to be necessary.
It's very easy to so "no" to something. It's very much harder to find something to say "yes" to instead.
It does raise the question of how precisely Iran got their hands on 3 Tb of data. That's not exactly a small amount of data. How does Iran get an operative access to secure networks in Israel long enough to get 3 Tb of data out without getting caught? There are logs of everything. The kind of data we're being hinted at isn't the kind you'd leave on an internet-connected machine. You'd air gap it. Someone was in deep, for a long time, and is likely still there and still trusted.
The other thing is the content. Anyone who knows anything about computers knows that text files are small. Even .pdfs aren't terribly large files. You could have entire libraries of books in 3 Tb. This isn't just text. This is high-res images and video that takes up that much space.
So who has the capability to get that deep in the system to get access to that quantity of information and not get caught? Double agents?
So instead of forcing Democrats to own that history, look at it, and reckon with it, you'd happily help them destroy the evidence so they can rebrand themselves as the saviors of black people instead of as their former slavers and oppressors under Jim Crow?
Not too bright.
The Civil War was one hell of a violent trauma on our nation. 2 million men fought on the Union side. 600,000 Americans died (both sides). Healing that wound was a long, ugly process with generations of resentment. Those statues and the various military bases, schools, and other honoraria to Confederate historical figures are a part of that story. It's not a perfect story. A massive change in way of live was imposed by force upon a people. It has an ugly history, because healing trauma like a civil war and re-establishing a common identity is never easy. Hell, we still struggle with that where we still to this day have people who refuse to identify themselves as American, but insist on separating themselves as African-Americans, Africa first.
But this is our history. This is part of our story as a people. We don't get to just paper it over and ignore it because now it's "politically incorrect" and the Democrat party feels like it needs new branding because it is ashamed of its past.
I fully support a democratic process here. The people in those communities need to choose, in a proper referendum. Maybe it is time for that past to be confined to a museum. Maybe these items should be returned so people don't forget who they are and where they came from. Maybe we need to preserve this history so we don't repeat the mistakes of the past. Only those people themselves can choose that. It can't be imposed externally by a bunch of reprobate criminals in an orgy of vandalism and rioting.
[Translate: Commie to English] "affordable housing" -> "government-controlled and poorly-maintained housing"
Anytime you ever hear Lefties call something "affordable," it means "afforded" with someone else's money and in which you get no ownership or say regarding the condition of the housing or its upkeep, let alone your neighbors and their predilection to criminal activity. No one wants to live in Section 8 housing for a reason.
Reason: the US wants to subdue the area. Can't. It knows putting white people in Haiti would be a flashpoint. So, they talked the Kenyans into doing the police work. US-trained, US-equipped, but with a black African face. Now, apparently, they're not happy with the arrangement and they're (surprise!) blaming white people (since 1791!)