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Florida's Flesh-Eating Bacteria

Yet another reason to avoid Florida:

After two men suffered flesh-eating bacteria infections from local waters recently, Tampa Bay area physicians are warning residents and visitors to be careful swimming in brackish water or eating uncooked seafood.

Even with treatment, one in three patients die from necrotizing fasciitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since 2010, the agency says, between 700 and 1,200 people a year have contracted the infection in the United States. But cases have gone up in the last year in Florida, Jain said.

This is sure to put a crimp in local sushi bars down there.

 

Now California's Considering Going After Priests

California is considering a proposed law that is nothing less than an attempt to jail innocent priests. California Senate Bill 360 seeks to change its law to force a priest, when he hears of sins in the confessional regarding sexual abuse, to make a choice. He must choose to either maintain the confidentiality of the sacrament and face possible imprisonment or to betray that confidentiality and violate his deepest conscience and the laws of God and the Roman Catholic Church. No priest I know would choose the latter. 

First they came for the Catholics....

 

Newsom, Tiresome

California's governor wonders why gasoline prices are so high in the state. Really!

Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to know why California’s gasoline prices are higher than in the rest of the country, blaming potential “inappropriate industry practices” Tuesday rather than the state’s higher taxes and tougher environmental regulations.

Newsom asked the California Energy Commission for an analysis of the state’s gas prices by May 15. California drivers were paying an average of $4.03 a gallon Tuesday, or $1.18 more than the national average, according to AAA.

Voters there are increasingly venting, and the pretty boy's going to get to the bottom of this. Sure he will....

The population of California is around 40 million people and the last refinery in the state was built in the 1970s, when the population was around 20 million. The combined total of Federal and State excise taxes on gas in CA is 65.7 cents/gallon. To add insult to injury, they then apply sales tax on top of that, which varies between 7.25% and 10.25%, depending on the city/county in which the purchase is made. Costs associated with licensing, regulatory compliance, staffing, property taxes, and more all have to be covered as well.

Even pretty boy should be able to connect the dots.

 

 

Composting

It may soon be legal for the dead to push daisies, or any other flower, in backyard gardens across Washington state.

The state legislature recently passed a bill that, if signed by the governor, allows human bodies to be composted - and used for mulch.

This was once a human. It was stuffed into an 8' by 4' "vessel", along with alfalfa, wood chips, and straw. The end result is compost. It takes about a month, and they end up as roughly one cubic yard of compost.

The Census Bureau, in a 2017 report, predicted a death boom: 1 million more Americans are projected to die in 2037 than they did in 2015. Human composting, its supporters say, is an eco-friendly option that can meet this growing demand. A Seattle-based company called Recompose plans to offer a service called "natural organic reduction" (it has two patents pending) that uses microbes to transform the departed - skin, bones and all.

It's projected to cost families about $5500 - somewhat more than cremation but far less than a traditional burial.

And it produces a product that can grow stuff.

 

Our Wonderful Ally

THE ruthless Saudi government is beheading so many people it needs to recruit a deadly new squad of sword-wielding executioners. The news comes after it slaughtered 37 people in one bloody day last week meaning it is now tipped to kill a record number of its citizens in 2019.

The Sharia law-run state has advertised for eight new executioners to handle the projected rise in brutal public beheadings.

No special qualifications are needed for the jobs whose main role is “executing a judgement of death” but also involves performing amputations on those convicted of lesser offences.

More than 140 people were put to death in the kingdom last year, where convicts are usually beheaded using a huge curved sword.

This is our "ally" in the Middle East. Perhaps we should be a bit more selective. Seems to be a real crowd-pleaser, though.

 

Why The Left Hates Trump

Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein revealed on Sunday that President Donald Trump called him and personally comforted him following the tragic terror attack that happened at his synagogue, the Chabad of Poway synagogue, on Saturday which left one dead and three others injured.

"It's the first time that I have ever spoken to a President of the United States of America," Goldstein continued. "He shared with me condolences on behalf of the United States of America. And We spoke about the moment of silence. And he spoke about his love of peace and Judaism and Israel and he was just so comforting that I’m really grateful to our president for taking the time and making that effort to share with us his comfort and consolation."

Trump's such a divisive guy.

No wonder the Leftists hate him so much.

 

Eat It, Eat It, Don't You Make Me Repeat It

Bacon and pork product prices in Canada and across the world are expected to spike as a result of the African swine fever outbreak in China, experts predict. The disease is killing thousands of pigs in China -- one of the world’s largest pork producers -- which is wreaking havoc in the global pork supply chain.

“[Pork] prices are likely going to go up until this issue with African swine fever is corrected,” he said. “And it looks like that could take quite a while … it’s going to get worse, before it gets better.” “The meat of choice in China is pig and disease has been devastating for them,” Friendship said. “They have lost a lot of pigs and they will be doing lots of culling.”

“There’s no cure, no vaccine available and … if a pig is infected but not showing clinical symptoms, the virus may be in the meat for months,” Friendship said. “If meat is cured [like] sausages or ham, those can those still can carry the virus.”

Although the latest outbreak was first noticed in China last August, the disease has spread across Russia, eastern Europe and is now moving across Vietnam and Cambodia.

That BLT's going to cost a lot more.

Heck, you probably need to eat less, anyway....

 

This won't hurt much, and it will soon be over, anyway

Health care for all:

Canadian doctors committed thousands of homicides in 2018. According to an interim report published by the government, in the first ten months of last year, doctors lethally injected 2, 613 patients (with one assisted suicide) — and that doesn’t include the homicides committed by doctors in Quebec, Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut.

This means well over 3,000 people are killed by their doctors each year in Canada, which — if my math is correct — is more than 250 a month, more than 58 a week, and more than eight per day. Heck, that’s about one every three hours.

There comes a time when universal health care is determined to be cost-ineffective, whether due to old age, infirmity, or other issues. Now, you have become a liability. And so the most cost-effective solution is to simply remove you from the equation altogether.

Humanely, of course.

 

 

Progressive Portland

It's such a "progressive" town that sheriffs in adjoining counties aren't allowing their deputies to go there except in cases of extreme emergency.

A second county sheriff has ordered deputies to stop responding to 9-1-1 calls in Portland, except in extreme emergencies.

In a new letter to employees, Clackamas County Sheriff Craig Roberts says his agency will "pull back all staff responding to calls for services" due to risky conditions.

"Our work is dangerous enough without adding unnecessary risk when responding to calls for services in the City of Portland," Roberts wrote April 26, adding a caveat. "We will always respond to help any officer from any agency in immediate need of assistance." Roberts pointed to statements by the Portland Police Bureau union president, Daryl Turner, who claims that a "hostile" environment created by residents and politicians has exacerbated the recent wave of police retirements and lackluster recruitment numbers.  

CCSO will continue to assign one sergeant and six deputies to the transit beat, but a new agreement will be hammered out with TriMet. Washington and Clackamas County officers are not expected to assist crowd control efforts during Portland's unruly summer protest season.

But hey, it's a "progressive" place; we've got light rail and streetcars, how cool is that?

 

 

Master Of Poor Choices

Convicted murderer Jaime Osuna has been accused of the brutal torture and death of his cellmate at Corcoran State Prison in the Fresno suburb of Corcoran, California. The attack occurred overnight, and prosecutors are not sure how much of the dismemberment occurred while the victim was still alive. Prosecutors added, “We do believe that the victim was conscious during at least a portion of the time.”

This is the most gruesome case that I have seen in terms of heinousness in the slaying,” Phil Esbenshade, assistant district attorney of Kings County, said in a statement.

Kicks just keep getting harder to find....