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The U.S. Department of Transportation could allow airlines to ban untrained animals from airplanes, possibly ending the debate over whether emotional support pets deserve the same treatment as fully trained service animals.

Airlines and passengers have been grappling with letting animals fly in the cabin on airplanes, particularly in recent years with a rise in emotional support animals ranging from dogs and snakes to miniature horses, pigs, ducks, peacocks and turkeys.

Trained service dogs make sense, and even trained miniature horses - which are often used as guide animals by disabled people with dog allergies. But snakes, turkeys, and other critters have no place in a plane's cabin. Common sense may finally take hold. And wouldn't that be nice?

If someone feels they need a turkey for "emotional support", they need to find a different mode of transportation.

 

Whatever Happened to "The Smartest Woman In The World"?

Tulsi Gabbard sued Hillary Clinton on Wednesday for defamation over the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate’s claim that the Hawaii congresswoman was a “Russian asset.”

Clinton made headlines in October after she called Gabbard “the favorite of the Russians” in an appearance on former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe’s podcast, and suggested she was being groomed as a potential third party candidate, despite Gabbard stating publicly she would not run a third-party campaign.

In an interview released Tuesday detailing Clinton’s comments on Sanders ahead of an upcoming documentary, Clinton slammed the Vermont senator, calling him a “career politician” and claiming “nobody likes him.”

Umm...well, nobody likes you either, in case you haven't noticed, Hill. That includes your "husband".

“Tulsi Gabbard is running for President of the United States, a position Clinton has long coveted, but has not been able to attain,” Wednesday’s Manhattan federal lawsuit reads. “In October 2019 — whether out of personal animus, political enmity, or fear of real change within a political party Clinton and her allies have long dominated — Clinton lied about her perceived rival Tulsi Gabbard. She did so publicly, unambiguously, and with obvious malicious intent.”

“She’s the favorite of the Russians. They have a bunch of sites and bots and other ways of supporting her so far,” Clinton told “Campaign HQ” host and former Obama campaign manager David Plouffe.

“And, that’s assuming Jill Stein will give it up, which she might not because she’s also a Russian asset. Yeah, she’s a Russian asset,” added Clinton.

Gabbard is suing for $50 million, citing defamation claims.

“Tulsi is not a Russian asset. No one — Russia or anyone else — controls her or her presidential campaign. Instead, Tulsi is a loyal American servant, declaring her allegiance to the United States of America both as a soldier and as a member of Congress,” read the court papers.

Yep, Shrillary appears to have finally stepped into her own manure. And that idiot has never been a member of the armed forces (which, by the way, she despises).

 

 

Virginia Secession Issues Rise Again

Virginia – We’ve just learned that the Governor of Virginia is expected to declare a state of emergency and reportedly has riot police and the National Guard at the ready, all while a number of counties are threatening to secede. 

On Tuesday, a resolution was introduced by West Virginia (House Concurrent Resolution 8, or HCR 8), offering the Second Amendment sanctuary counties of Virginia to secede and join their State. 

West Virginia became a state during the Civil War in 1863 after seceding from the Confederate State of Virginia. The population was divided over the issues surrounding the war, and people of what is now West Virginia felt their interests were neglected, that they were underrepresented in the state government, and that they were carrying the majority of the burden of taxation. So, they became their own entity.

Enter: West Virginia’s resolution.

In part, the new resolution references the unfair tax claims between counties. It then goes on to elaborate on Virginia’s government attempting to strip its citizens of their right to bear arms.

Things are looking increasingly restive over there; that'll happen when things are run by Democratics - who thought slavery was just fine, back in the day. That's why West Virginia split off. Now Virginia Democratics want to violate the US Constitution by stripping the proles of their right to bear arms. As a result, residents of several counties are now considering another round of secessions from the state, which West Virginia is welcoming.

Some things never change, even after 156 years.

 

Purple Haze, All In My Brain. Lately Things Just Don't Seem The Same.

A purple haze was hanging over none other than a legal marijuana growing operation in Snowflake, Arizona, the Arizona Republic reported. Copperstate Farms uses UV lights to grow medical marijuana, the Republic reported. The light, combined with snow clouds, created the psychedelic show like something you’d expect from Woodstock.

Along the coast you'll hear them boast about a light they say that shines so clear.

 

 

Australia: This Could All Have Been Avoided

Things are getting desperate down there:

Aircraft are being used to drop thousands of kilograms of carrots and sweet potato to hungry wildlife stranded amid the Australian bushfire crisis.

The New South Wales government commissioned the service titled ‘Operation Rock Wallaby’ which aims to feed the state’s colonies of brush-tailed rock wallabies and help the state’s population of marsupials survive.

They're burning through tons of cash in an effort to address a problem that they themselves have created.

Much as in California, the wildfires are a direct result of "feel-good" environmeddle policies, or as President Trump has correctly observed in the case of California's wildfires, "poor forest management".

The Australian state of New South Wales, where both Sydney and Canberra are located, declared a state of emergency this week, as worsening weather conditions could lead to even greater fire danger. But a 50,000-year-old solution could exist: Aboriginal burning practices.

 

Aboriginal people had a deep knowledge of the land, said historian Bill Gammage, an emeritus professor at Australian National University who studies Australian and Aboriginal history. They can feel the grass and know if it would burn well; they knew what types of fires to burn for what types of land, how long to burn, and how frequently.

 

"Even though people can see the Aborigines doing the fire control, and could see the benefits, they couldn't copy it," he said.

Now, the juxtaposition is clear.

 

"Where the Aboriginal people are in charge, they're not having big fires," Gammage said. "In the south, where white people are in charge, we are having the problems."

We have the same problem in the American West: a failure to learn effective forest management from the natives who successfully practiced it for centuries.

Ah, Florida

How did they stand the heat in the days before air-conditioning? They built around it:

Florida Cracker style homes featured shiny metal roofs, tall ceilings that allowed warmth to rise, and wide windows and porches to welcome airflow.

Historian and volunteer Ruth Tompkins gives a tour of the Baker House in Pasco, a pioneer home built in the Cracker style in 1882. [Tampa Bay Times Archives]

Air-conditioning didn't appear until the 1940s, and only wealthy folks could afford that technology. And it was massive, back then:

Over the years, efficiency improvements were made, and the size of units were greatly reduced, bringing A/C within financial reach of the masses.

By the 1960s, units that were more efficient and affordable made air conditioning more common in homes.

This development also had the added effect of alleviating some of the mosquito issues...Indigenous people avoided mangrove trees, where mosquitoes breed in the summertime, and used nets to cover up. Many times, they tunneled into the ground as well, where they could sleep in relative peace.

A missionary sent to the Biscayne Bay area in the 1580s provided early evidence of the itchy hellscape that was early Florida.

“He wrote back to his father superior that he would do anything to get out of this pestiferous place,” said Gordon Patterson, a professor at the Florida Institute of Technology and an expert on the history of mosquitoes in Florida. “‘Give me thieves, scoundrels, murderers, but these mosquitoes are are more than I can tolerate.'"

The development of window screens also helped.

 

Anger Management

Texas officials didn't dispute that prosecutors introduced false testimony at Travis Runnels’ 2005 capital murder trial in Amarillo. Instead, they argued the state should still execute him even if they did.

On Wednesday evening, Texas did just that, putting to death Runnels in the state’s execution chamber in Huntsville.

He was a 46 year-old guy with exceptionally low impulse control - as in zero. Oddly enough, even the U.S. Supreme Court agreed that Travis was so dangerous to others that he should no longer be allowed to walk upon the planet:

About 30 minutes after his execution was scheduled to begin at 6 p.m., the high court issued a short ruling denying Runnels' final appeal.

Travis was dead by 7:30 that evening.

Hit the link, read the story, and draw your own conclusion.

 

 

The Great Fred Meyer Baby Raffle

Yep, even back in 1949, this one generated a lot of outrage over the then-new store in Portland's Hollywood district's promotion of a free giveaway of a two month-old baby.

Well, it did generate a considerable amount of interest ahead of their grand opening.

 

You Don't Need To Like Biden

But the duplicitous Tom Steyer is another thing. And to Biden's credit, he killed Tommy's "environmentalist" baloney.

During the Democratic debate on Wednesday, former Vice President Joe Biden attacked environmentalist billionaire investor Tom Steyer for making his money by investing in coal. Steyer has made fighting climate change his key issue in the 2020 race, so Biden's attack was particularly powerful.

Steyer may be rich, thanks to his daddy and mommy, but he's still as dumb as a box of coal.

 

Around Here, It'd Be Hard To Find A House For $400,000

But 30 minutes northwest of Tucson, you can pick up this beauty - and 13 acres of land - for less than that. Of course, there are a few caveats:

A decommissioned subterranean missile complex just went on the market, and at just about 30 minutes northwest of Tucson, you get both solitude and the option of rejoining society.

This place is bringing all the industrial-chic vibes, complete with three blast doors made to withstand shockwaves, an access portal, a command center and a decontamination area, according to Business Insider.

Once home to a Titan II nuclear missile, the site was closed in the 1980s, so you can't play "Global Thermonuclear War", as the missile was removed.

The only way to win the game is not to play at all.

The place has a lot of history to it, though.