Drug-resistant "superbugs" infect 2.8 million people and cause more than 35,000 deaths each year, underscoring the enormous public health threat of germs in what one official describes as a "post-antibiotic era," according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report.
It was a good run while it lasted. Maybe it's a bit late in the game, but it might be a good idea to quit spiking animal feed with antibiotics.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Tillamook County Courthouse is closed until further notice due to an unknown odor that raised concern on Friday, according to the Oregon Courts’ website.
The courthouse on Laurel Avenue was closed to the public around 2:30 p.m. November 8 as a precautionary measure after an odd smell was detected. Out of concern for employees and visitors, the building will remain closed until “the odor can be identified and deemed safe.”
Well, the town always smells like cows. If it's not that, then a defendant was probably cutting cheese in there.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — New Seasons Market is recalling the fresh ground beef sold at three of its Portland-area stores after the meat was connected to a strain of E. Coli that made three people ill, said the Oregon Health Authority.
The recall is for the company’s Cedar Hills, North Lombard, and North Interstate stores, and includes beef with 5%, 10% and 20% fat content. According to the OHA, the contaminated products were bought between October 19 and October 23. If you purchased ground beef from one of those locations within that time frame, throw it away immediately. The New Seasons Market has pulled the rest of the product from its meat counters.
Right on top of it, as usual - OHA didn't issue the warning until three weeks AFTER the product was sold. If more people were going to be sickened, it would have happened by now.
There's an easy way to deal with that meat; it's known as "cooking". When the meat temperature reaches 160 degrees F or higher, the bacteria die and you're good to go.
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Californians who screech about climate change were furious after discovering that the expensive solar panels they installed on their rooftops don’t work during a blackout unless they buy an equally expensive battery system. Moreover, beginning in January 2020, California has made it mandatory for all new homes to be built with solar panels.
That mandate adds between $10,000 and $15,000 to the cost of a house (don't they know there's a "homeless crisis" there?)...Anyway:
In other words, installing solar panels to combat climate change is not only more expensive, but has proven to be ineffective in helping maintain power during a blackout. So what’s the point?
Fortunately, leftists believe that interpretive dance can combat climate change.
And in the middle of it all: Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has declared a jihad on farting cows, saying they’re to blame for climate change.
Note to the nut: cows rarely fart; they mostly belch.
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Ranchers in the most remote parts of Eastern Oregon don't understand how or why so many cattle in the region have died through mutilation that includes surgical-like incisions, but not a trace of blood left behind. More than four hours south of Pendleton is Princeton, where a couple of years ago another cow was found dead — sliced up and mutilated, yet bloodless. Local residents made their rounds through the area looking for any clues or tracks that could lead to a conclusion, but they kept coming up empty. A local butcher even said he could not explain how it happened.
And this summer at the expansive 140,000-acre Silvies Valley Ranch, five young Hereford bulls were found dead, with their tongues and genitals removed and no tracks left behind. National Geographic interviewed a rancher who claims to have seen a bright light in the sky one night before one of his cattle was mutilated with no tracks in the snow, nor a trace of blood. He believes aliens abducted his cow, took it into space, removed its genitals and dropped it back onto the property where they found it.
Silvies Valley Ranch is nearly the size of Chicago. This summer, five young purebred bulls were cut down in their prime. Colby Marshall is the vice president of the ranch.
To understand what happened better, we rattled up a two-track U.S. Forest Service road.
“And we’re gonna drive in here,” Marshall said, “oh a little ways and then we’ll get out and take a little walk to where one [of] the bulls was found. And the carcass is still there.”
These animals were found bloodless, with their tongues and genitals precisely removed.
Whatever or whoever the cause, what’s clear is it isn’t bears, wolves, cougars or poisonous plants. Nor were the animals shot.
The FBI won’t confirm or deny it’s looking into the killings.
You may never have been out that way, but I have, many times, for zoological work. And I can tell you that in that country, everything leaves tracks - wolves, coyotes, even porcupines. I've tracked porcupines right to the juniper they're resting in, over the years. Unquestionably, these are real mysteries. I can understand why some have taken to viewing the cattle mutilations as the work of some alien entities, as there are no tracks or other evidence indicating human or animal involvement.
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More weirdness from the granola state:
SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A state building in Downtown Sacramento now has a “riot button” installed in its elevators.
Things are bad in the Democrat-run state; most sane people recognize that. But this seems a little over the top, even for that loony bin.
It turns out that the riot buttons are supposed to light up to alert passengers that the elevators won't go to the first floor in the event of security issues - such as a riot. That has to be comforting....
And California governor Gavin Newsom recently announced that he's issued an executive order banning execution of murderers. President Trump promptly issued an executive order declaring that the term, "fetus", is outdated and that they will henceforth be referred to as murderers.
California is insufficiently taxed, so Newsom wants to impose a tax on drinking water:
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to charge California water customers up to $10 per month to help clean up contaminated water in low-income and rural areas, but he will face resistance from some legislative Democrats hesitant to impose new taxes. Newsom wants to combine it with fees on animal farmers, dairies and fertilizer sellers to raise about $140 million per year.
Got milk? That tag-line will soon add "Got Water?" into the mix.
Save The Delta Smelt!
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This sort of thing might have something to do with it.
The gang, from Direct Action Everywhere, flashed anti-meat eating signs with "It's not food, it's violence" emblazoned on them and barked out a speech at the Touro Steakhouse in Brighton.
They're "morally superior", don't ya know.
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It was just a matter of time.
Sensors installed at each milking stall identify each cow, test their milk and quickly provide farmers metrics such as protein and fat counts, indicators of disease, hormones that manage reproduction and antibiotic residuals. SomaDetect Inc. of Fredericton, N.B., is preparing to deliver commercial systems this fall that will test milk and use AI to provide insights to maximize a farmer’s profitability, dairy farmers monitor their herds through the “internet of cows.”
Robots can milk cows, pick apples and weed cabbage patches.
Why do we need illegal aliens, again?
"Who's going to pick your lettuce?" Nobody. That'll be done by something that doesn't need Port-A-Potties, lunch breaks, $15 an hour, or crap in the fields. You'll be able to buy Romaine again!
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The new Skydio R1 uses computer vision and other types of artificial intelligence to fly itself, follow and record a subject down below-- no piloting or camera skills required.
You launch it using a phone app, and once airborne, you target your person of interest. From there on, everything is done autonomously. The drone can dodge any obstacles, so you can film a person running through, say, a forest, and retrieve high-definition footage.
Fortunately, governments, corporations, and malicious individuals won't use the technology, because why would they? Obviously, they'll just be used by ranchers to check out how their cattle are doing, researchers doing mapping projects, and the like.
Sleep well, Citizen.
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I'd wondered where the Hogg went, but it's back.
Apparently, it doesn't realize that its 15 minutes of fame are up.
I'm thinking of joining the NRA, now - primarily because I can't stand this cow.
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This just in:
LAS VEGAS — Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, his two sons and a militia member will not face a retrial on charges that they led an armed rebellion against federal agents in 2014.
A federal judge on Monday said the federal prosecutors' conduct was "outrageous" and "violated due process rights" of the defendants.
As the case was dismissed "with prejudice", they cannot be tried again.
Cliven Bundy had remained in jail until the hearing; the judge ordered his immediate release and he walked out of the courthouse shortly after.
Initially, the judge declared a mistrial, but that was before additional evidence of government misconduct emerged.
The mistrial was the latest in a chain of failures by federal prosecutors, who have been unable to secure clear victories against the Bundys and their supporters during three trials in Nevada and another in Oregon.
Prosecutors charged defendants with making false claims about snipers and videos to incite their supporters in the runup to the standoff. But documents that surfaced after the start of the trial last month showed there were tactical teams and multiple video cameras positioned around the ranch.
So under the Obama administration, the BLM, the FBI, and the prosecutors all lied. And they illegally withheld evidence that might have favored the defense. Then they got caught out. Case tossed.
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