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Any body will suffice, apparently. And in Portland:
PORTLAND, Ore. -- A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this week – smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage – but police officers didn't stop them. Same B.S. happened down there over much of last year.
Mostly, the cops just stand around and watch. Amazing.
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The Assistant to the House Sergeant at Arms was arrested and charged with 10 felony counts of child pornography. There’s nothing about it in our media. This is a man who worked closely with Pelosi and did so on J6 no doubt.
The Assistant to Pelosi appointee for the House Sergeant at Arms, William Walker, Stefan Bieret, 41, was arrested on Wednesday at his home after police discovered an online storage account full of illicit images of children.
Nothing much needs to be added.
Book 'im, Danno!
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But China can, and that appears to be okay.
China's worst case energy crisis scenario is also about to be unleashed as cold weather swept into much of the country and power plants scrambled to stock up on coal, sending prices of the fuel to record highs.
China, which laughably aims to be "carbon neutral" by 2060 even as its president announced he will skip the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, has been "trying" to reduce its reliance on polluting coal power in favor of cleaner wind, solar and hydro. But coal remains the source for some 70% of China's electricity needs.
It seems unlikely that solar, wind, and hydro is going to work for them.
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LOS ANGELES (NewsNation Now) — California is now the first state in the country to require a gender-neutral children’s section at large retailers.
The new law requires stores with 500 or more employees to sell some of their toys or childcare products, such as toothbrushes, outside of traditional boys and girls sections. It does not outlaw traditional boys and girls sections or include clothing.
The large retailers have until 2024 to implement the change or face fines of up to $500.
Clothing will likely be next.
Maybe they should go back to letting people decide for themselves.
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EAST LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Administrators at a Michigan school district sent out an email Wednesday morning saying that elementary schools will no longer celebrate Valentine’s Day or Halloween.
The East Lansing Public Schools elementary principals cited families who do not celebrate Halloween as one of the primary reasons, as well as the children’s excitement over the spooky holiday making it difficult to learn.
As for Valentine’s Day, administrators stated that some families and students are uncomfortable with students celebrating “love.”
We never did Valentine's Day at my schools, although we did have costume parades around Halloween. In any case, neither are actual holidays - at least not in my schools. No big deal, near as I can tell.
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Switching to oatmeal or Cheerios is one of the first nutritional changes that many people make when diagnosed with high cholesterol, and while they do contain soluble fiber, the National Institutes of Health recommends 10 to 25 grams of soluble fiber – daily – to reduce bad LDL cholesterol.
A serving of Cheerios has just a single gram of soluble fiber — that means it could take 10-plus bowls of Cheerios — daily — to effectively lower LDL cholesterol. Oatmeal is a little better, with 2 grams of soluble fiber per serving – but still… five bowls??
If you’re a fan of oatmeal in the morning, try Kashi Go Lean Instant Hot Cereal, with 5 grams of soluble fiber per packet – plus it has added protein for more staying power as well.
The latter seems to be widely available, though I've not checked the price lately.
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Like other ranchers across the country, Rusty Kemp for years grumbled about rock-bottom prices paid for the cattle he raised in central Nebraska, even as the cost of beef at grocery stores kept climbing.
It led Kemp to launch an audacious plan: Raise more than $300 million from ranchers to build a plant themselves, putting their future in their own hands.
“We’ve been complaining about it for 30 years,” Kemp said. “It’s probably time somebody does something about it.”
Crews will start work this fall building the Sustainable Beef plant on nearly 400 acres near North Platte, Nebraska, and other groups are making similar surprising moves in Iowa, Idaho and Wisconsin. The enterprises will test whether it’s really possible to compete financially against an industry trend that has swept through American agriculture and that played a role in meat shortages during the coronavirus pandemic.
I hope they can make it work; we need something other than Tyson and the other three companies that currently control some 80% of our country's beef supplies.
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CBS 2’s Jackie Kostek visited a turkey farm in Dundee. They are working very hard to make sure that they can keep up with demand. After speaking to several farmers, they say It’s not just the labor, it’s the people it takes to get the turkey from the farm to your table that is the problem.
Robert Kauffman runs Ho-Ka Turkey Farms in Waterman, Illinois. He says the problem isn’t the turkeys. It’s having the people to dress them – take the feathers off and get them ready to cook.
“We’re taking orders currently and we are noticing that a lot more orders are coming in this year than normal. I do think we will sell out early,” Zimmerman said.
Expect to see a lot of that in the coming weeks.
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Covid-19’s waves of destruction have inflicted their own kind of despair on humanity in the 21st century, leaving many to wonder when the pandemic will end.
“We tend to think of pandemics and epidemics as episodic,” said Allan Brandt, a historian of science and medicine at Harvard University. “But we are living in the Covid-19 era, not the Covid-19 crisis. There will be a lot of changes that are substantial and persistent. We won’t look back and say, ‘That was a terrible time, but it’s over.’ We will be dealing with many of the ramifications of Covid-19 for decades, for decades.”
It's here to stay.
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