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They Call It A "Service"

Switzerland has just legalized a new way to die by assisted suicide. The country’s medical review board has authorized the use of the Sarco Suicide Pod, which is a 3-D-printed portable coffin-like capsule with windows that can be transported to a tranquil place for a person’s final moments of life.

https://news.yahoo.com/switzerland-approves-assisted-suicide-capsule-140255771.html

In 2020, around 1,300 people died by assisted suicide in Switzerland, almost all by ingesting liquid sodium pentobarbital, which puts a patient into a deep coma before killing them. Assisted suicide is also legal in the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Canada.

The Sarco Suicide Pod is expected to be operational in 2022. The company has made three prototypes, but one was not “aesthetically pleasing” so it will not be used, it says. The company has not yet announced how much it will cost to use the service.

The pod can be activated from inside and can give the person intending to die various options for where they want to be for their final moments. “The machine can be towed anywhere for the death,” he said.

Looks cozy. And kind of futuristic.

I wonder how many animals they killed during the prototype phases.

It's undoubtedly "humane" and all, but we don't need such toys around here - just hang out downtown for a while; someone will likely drop by....

 

Just Another Night In Portland

Police declared a riot in downtown Portland, Oregon after a group protesting Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal damaged property and threw rocks at cops on Friday night. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office declared the riot just after 9 p.m. local time after 200 protesters began breaking windows and doors of city buildings and “throwing objects” at cops, officials said.

Yeah - the Leftists that located here from their East Coast and California hideouts did it again last night. They all need to go back home; their antics are tiresome.

 

Thanksgiving Coming Up

Prices of processed turkeys are up 40.7 percent compared with a year ago, data from the Department of Labor’s Producer Price Index showed Tuesday. That’s even after falling a seasonally adjusted one percent in October.

It may be hard to even find turkeys in some parts of the country this year. The Wall Street Journal reported that turkeys were 60 percent out of stock. Cranberries, yams, and sweet potatoes are also low in stock.

Grain prices are 40.8 percent higher than a year ago, driving up the prices of our largely grain-fed turkey crop. Beef and veal prices are up 41.5 percent compared with a year ago. Overall, food prices are running 10.5 percent higher than a year ago.

Getting to the family Thanksgiving will be costlier with gasoline prices are up close to 90 percent, according to the Producer Price Index.

Home heating oil is up 114.8 percent. Residential natural gas prices are up 28.7 percent. Residential electricity prices are up 5.6 percent.

Well, it's not raining; guess I'll go split some more wood for the fireplace.

And maybe rob a bank....

 

You Can Die In U.S. National Parks, But It's Rare.

Banish Shea & Boyle LLP data showed that drowning, motor vehicle crashes, “undetermined” causes and falls were the top four killers, highlighting the rural and scenic nature of most sites.

Washington’s North Cascades National Park was the most dangerous, statistics-wise, with 652 deaths per 10 million visits.

You sort of have to work at it, but it can be done.

 

Going Green In California

California Asks Residents to Avoid Charging Electric Cars Amid Power Grid Strain

California’s power grid operators have asked the state’s residents to conserve electricity in order to put less strain on the power grid amid a major heat wave.

The Epoch Times reported that the California Independent System Operator (ISO) told residents numerous times in the past week to voluntarily conserve energy, even asking them on social media to avoid charging electric vehicles during peak usage times.

But at least the air is somewhat cleaner....

 

Glenn K. Beaton

I like this man's commentary. He says what's on his mind, with no mincing around, and it's easy to see why many agree with him.

As an example, he recently published the following:

A fawning “report” in the Aspen Daily News breathlessly announced more federal COVID funds for Glitter Gulch, otherwise known as Aspen, Colorado. You know the place. It’s where the house pictured above just sold for $72 million, and houses routinely go for $3-5,000/sq ft. Where insiders such as newspaper reporters and city council members get slope-side multimillion dollar homes for dimes on the dollars under the taxpayer-subsidized housing program.

The fed money this time is for Aspen’s vagrants. Er, I mean “homeless.” Er, I mean “persons experiencing homelessness.” Whom, we’re told, are camping on the sidewalks and pooping in the gutters because they’re afflicted with something called “shelter-resistance.”

Aspen already has a “homeless shelter” for people who say they can’t afford a roof over their heads but nonetheless choose to live in one of the most expensive places in the world.

As he so often does, Beaton gets right to the root of the "problem", there. He doesn't simply "flatten the curve"; he pretty well nukes it.

 

 

The Green, Green Grass Of Home

Lawns are the largest irrigated crop in the United States, more than corn or wheat. Nationwide, more than 7 billion gallons of water per day are used to keep them looking fresh. And that’s not to mention the 2.4 million metric tons of fertilizer that go into them every year either. 

Not exactly "eco-friendly"....

 

Old Person Smell

A study showed how our smell can change when we age. According to Healthline, this has "nothing to do with personal hygiene" or how much we wash.

So there's nothing for it, unless you get killed in a car wreck or something. At least the dog doesn't seem to mind.

 

Long Overdue!

SEATTLE (KOMO) — Alaska Airlines announced Tuesday it will no longer accept emotional support animals in the passenger cabin on its flights.

It's about time that sanity finally bites these babies in their collective behinds!

Beginning Jan. 11, 2021, Alaska will only allow service dogs, which are specially trained to perform tasks for the benefit of a qualified individual with a disability. Airlines argued that passengers abused the situation to bring a menagerie of animals on board including cats, turtles, pot-bellied pigs and, in one case, a peacock.

Those animals were never trained to do anything useful; they were simply pets - and often problematic ones at that.

 

Well, There She Goes Again...

Now she once again wants to dictate what you eat:

As a Bronx resident, there have been many times, it's almost a way of life, where it can be very difficult to get access to fresh and healthy foods. I remember one of the earliest times, like, one of the worst stories I have about this, was that I was very excited, to make, I think I was making gazpacho, or something like that, I looked at this recipe, I needed basil, and um, I was going home, and I get off the subway station, and I go into the grocery store and there's no basil, no fresh basil in the grocery store. so then I walked to another grocery store, two blocks down. No fresh basil! I was very stubborn about making this recipe that evening, and I must have been, walked around for an hour, in the neighborhood, visitng four or five grocery stores, and there was no basil, no fresh basil in any of them! And it just goes to show, it's very illustrative of the difficulties that we have in our comunities in accessing fresh produce, and even when we do, or are able to access some of that fresh produce, a lot of times it's on a styrofoam tray wrapped in plastic, um, or if you are able to access it it may have been sprayed with tons of pesticides or what have you, and it's almost as if to access the good stuff, you have to travel to affluent neighborhoods to do that.

Basil? Freakin' basil?

Here's the thing, dimwit:

Basil is easy to grow on a balcony, the porch or indoors next to the window. And home-grown basil is better than any store can stock. You can squeeze basil into small cubes and freeze them for later use, or simply dry some of your fresh crop. It's generally possible to harvest for several months from a single window-pot.

Fresh-cut basil is also extremely perishable, which is why your NYC bodegas (small convenience stores) don't stock it; it rots before it can be sold.