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Oh My, Californians

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.

 

 

I'm Not Saying It's Aliens, But...

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.

 

California Gnus

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!

 

 

Why Do So Many Despise "Vegans"?

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.

 

The Internet Of Cows Is Here

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!

New On The Market

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.

 

The Ham Is Back

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.

 

 

Holy Cows!

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.

Cows Free To Fart

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it has denied a petition by environmental groups to regulate concentrated animal feeding operations like factories under the Clean Air Act.

The EPA decision, posted in the Federal Register, answers a petition filed in 2009 by The Humane Society of the United States and other environmental groups.

The groups sought to bring concentrated animal feeding operations under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act. The section requires stationary sources of air pollution to adopt the “best system” for reducing emissions. The groups said farms with a large number of animals harm human health, poison the environment and cause climate change.

So cow farts are responsible for all of the snow and bitterly cold temperatures in the midwest and east. Alrighty then.

Whatever would we do without HSUS and Sierra Club?

I may do my part to help Save The Planet™ by cooking up some steak for dinner this evening.

 

Up Next: Meat Tax

Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (FAIRR), an investor network that advises on factory farming, says it is “increasingly probable” that countries will start taxing meat in order to fight climate change.

FAIRR believes that will occur within the next decade. Frankly, the "climate change fighters" would be a lot more believable if they cut back on jetting around the globe to attend conferences, but video-conferences would dramatically reduce the overall potential for ego-stroking.

Researchers say the issue must be addressed if countries are going to stick to the Paris Climate Agreement, the second anniversary of which is being celebrated Tuesday at a summit in Paris.

Oh, good! They're going to have themselves another "summit"! They just had a "conference" in New Orleans, depositing 60,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as they jetted in and then out.

They nod sagely at one another while intoning their views on the climate "crisis" and the need for all of us to reduce our "carbon footprint" - even as they're responsible for far greater emissions than average schmucks like you. As for their meat tax, it's of interest to consider how such a thing might be implemented.

It would likely involve a massive program of indoctrination education, in which schmucks are informed of the health benefits of not eating meat (and of course, this would have to include dairy products as well, because carbon), followed by imposing a meat tax at grocery checkout (followed in due course by a concomitant tax on dairy products down the road). The vegan smug is almost palpable. Surprisingly, as they reduce gas emissions to "fight climate change", they don't seem to be going after cabbage or brussels sprouts.