[Federalist] The state of Oregon is considering legislation to regulate farting. Cow farts, that is. Advocates of the bill argue that government regulation of cow farts, or "dairy emissions" as they call them, is a commonsense measure to prevent global warming and the safety of the public.
Citing the dangers of bovine flatulence, a spokesperson for Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility stated that cow farts are dangerously unregulated and preventable. According to a letter sent to the Senate Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources, in addition to smelling bad and causing global warming, cow farts can irritate your eyes, cause memory loss, and even death. These are all good things to keep in mind the next time you find yourself eye-level with the business end of a cow. You won’t even remember what killed you.
What else can you expect from a state that makes it illegal to pump your own gas or whistle underwater (don’t knock it till you’ve tried it)? Senate Bill 197 is in response to the construction of new industrial dairy operations that would house 30,000 cows, produce 210,000 gallons of milk daily, employee up to 150 people in an economically disadvantaged area, and be the second largest dairy operation in the state. In a county where the average yearly income is just around $20,000, this dairy operation would invest $50 million into the local economy every year.
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Cattle are Ruminants. They 'ferment' their plant-based food in the Rumen (filled with various bacteria that breaks down the cellulose) prior to final digestion by the other three stomach parts.
The microbial action in the Rumen creates Methane.
Cows fart. A lot. Cleaned out dairy barns when I was young so relying on first-hand experience here. The Smoking Lamp was not lit (although the farm kids used lighters for spectacular effects).
Don't really know if they, or their food, can be re-engineered not to form methane and still provide nutrition for the animal. Seems to me that the elimination of the cattle entirely is the goal of the esteemed OPSR and some Oregon legislators.
Of course collecting the Methane for power generation, or other uses, doesn't seem to be on the table.
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If you like cheese, butter or creamy dairy foods where do these idiots think that they will be produced -- Erewhon or Shangri-La? Dairy cattle breeds that produce higher cream content thrive in cooler, wetter climates. With cheap interstate shipping it only makes sense to move the herds out of California and up the coast.
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If you're a vegan, getting rid of cows won't bother you. Kinda makes you wonder how many vegans are involved with this nonsense. (HT to JohnQC since I found this video on the page he linked. They also had one about elephant farts.)
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AU, when are the vegans going to pry the Ben & Jerry's ice cream out of women's hands?
[DAWN] IT is now official. Retired Gen Raheel Sharif ..Pak chief of army staff, meaning he pulls the strings on the Nawaz Sharif puppet to make it dance and sing and not do much at all.... will soon be taking over the command of the so-called Islamic army that is still to take shape. The ambiguity surrounding the decision to lend the services of the country’s former army chief to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... has finally been cleared. The defence minister has confirmed what has been rumoured for the past several months.
But there is still no word from the retired general on his new job; nor is there any formal policy statement from the government on Pakistain’s participation in the Saudi-led coalition of 39 countries. Things are certainly not as simple as Khawaja Asif wants us to believe, that the government has allowed the former chief of army staff to accept the appointment on the Saudi request.
This decision needed much more serious thinking as it implicates Pakistain in a highly contentious situation. Let along it being debated in parliament, it is apparent that the government has not even taken the cabinet into confidence on this critical issue that has a direct bearing on our national security and foreign policy. The secrecy surrounding the move raises many questions about our policymaking process. The argument that the government could not refuse the Saudi request makes us appear more like a client state.
What has added to the confusion is the impression that it was simply a job offer to the former army chief, and that the government was only supposed to give him clearance and waive the restriction stipulating that military officers cannot accept a foreign assignment for two years after retirement. That makes it more imperative for both the government and Gen Raheel to clarify their positions. It is unprecedented for a former Mighty Pak Army chief to seek a foreign assignment and that too immediately after retirement.
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[Bloomberg] The spring of 2008 was a grim time for the U.S. military in Baghdad. Not least among the problems were rockets raining down on the Green Zone, which housed government offices and foreign embassies, from a suburb of the Iraqi capital called Sadr City. American forces fought back and captured launch locations, but the missiles kept falling.
That’s when the military opted for a strategy that would resonate, years later, with the border-control philosophy of President Donald Trump: building a big wall.
In just six weeks, U.S. and Iraqi soldiers placed 3,000 precast concrete slabs, each standing 12 feet high and weighing about 9 tons, to block enemy fighters from important positions. It wasn’t easy. The militia tried to disrupt the construction with improvised explosive devices and snipers, according to a paper published by the Rand Corp. Gunmen routinely took aim at personnel who had the unenviable job of climbing to the top of the barriers and freeing each concrete slab from the cables of construction cranes. But the wall went up quickly, and the missiles stopped.
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The U.S. military has become expert at building concrete walls Trump seems to have the right people in the right positions to follow thru on this. Forget about the "aesthetically-pleasing on the U.S. side of the border" requirement--it is unrealistic and you will never please everyone.
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It seems to me that one must see border security as a system, that is, you are dealing with a physical barrier, an underground barrier to discourage digging tunnels, and sensors and instrumentation to sense threats on both sides of the border, above ground, on the surface, and underground. You must have ways to respond and neutralize these threats in a timely and effective manner. A simple wall will not do that. You need it all.
In addition, you must put the monkey on the back of the employers that willingly hire illegals, creating an underground employment pool at the expense of the citizens. Once you dry up the illegals job market, you cut the incentive for illegals to come, and many return back south.
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I always preferred a sea level canal. Consider it a long term jobs program.
[Right Scoop] Mark Levin torched the ranking Democratic member of the House Intelligence Committee, Adam Schiff, on his radio show today, and called for Republicans to demand his recusal!!
[Right Scoop] The media is really spinning this Nunes story into a massive watergate level story as it’s now running almost non-stop on most cable news networks. Nunes is now being chased through the halls of Congress everywhere he goes, being asked the same questions over and over and over, with the main question now being whether or not he will recuse himself from the Russian investigation.
And why? Because his new information may suggest that Trump could have been right about being surveilled by the Obama administration.
But despite the pressure Democrats are putting on Nunes, Gowdy isn’t budging an inch on his defense of Nunes, saying Democrats should be more interested in the information itself than the process. He rhetorically asks whether the information came from the White House or the Waffle House, what difference does it make?
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should be more interested in the information itself than the process
Their SOP has always been to 'kill the messenger' of bad news.
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Democrats are so worried that the evidence may suggest the Obama administration did something wrong, that they are working as hard as they can to create a cloud of suspicion over Nunes
Gowdy is a voice of reason in the wilderness of Washington. Pubs could spend the next 20-30 years sorting through the wreckage of "wrongness and corruption" left behind.
Interesting story from American Spectator tying Brennan and a former Columbia classmate of Obama to a purported Russian connection from a NATO ally source whose national intelligence service had reason to fear Trump might put their existence at risk to Putin's expansionistic policy. It does seem that the overriding focus of the entire democrat party is to undermine the Trump Presidency, it's policies, and create national disunity. At what point is this actually sedition?
I would argue that the ongoing coverup of the TREMENDOUS breach of security associated with HRC crossed that line. Yet there isn't even a whisper of there being any action taken.
[Right Scoop] The moron governor of California says it’s un-Christian to build a border wall.
Of course the idiot makes the dim-witted comparison to the Berlin Wall, just like all dumb leftists do, ignoring the obvious difference, which we have written about more here.
This is obscenely stupid, but trust me, Californians are used to it from Jerry Brown, one of the dumbest politicians on the face of the Earth. I mean, has there ever been, in all of human history, a nation which called itself Christian, and didn’t have some kind of border security? This is insanely stupid and it’s surprising to me that we allow this kind of idiocy be said unopposed.
I will say that he’s right about one thing ‐ the kind of rhetoric used against illegal aliens from our side alarms me. I do think we should be more compassionate because many of them really face horrible choices ‐ but that doesn’t mean that our nation needs to be borderless. There are other ways to help the poor and unfortunate, and Americans are among the most charitable in doing so already.
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Since, last I heard, he was currently Buddhist and not Christian and he didn't say it was UN-Buddhist he shouldn't have any trouble with letting the building begin.
[DAWN] THE battle to retake the Iraqi city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... from the clutches of the Lion of IslamIslamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group has been particularly grinding. The difficulty faced by the American/Iraqi coalition in retaking Mosul has been illustrated by the fact that while the campaign was launched last October, a considerable portion of the city still remains under IS control. In fact, the campaign has been marked by a slow advance by the Iraqi/US forces, street by street, neighbourhood by neighbourhood. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... in recent days, disturbing reports have begun to emerge from Mosul concerning the deaths of civilians in coalition air strikes. The US has acknowledged recent air strikes in which around 100 civilians are said to have perished; Iraqi officials say the final corpse count could cross 200. A similar pattern has been witnessed in Syria, where the US is also targeting IS, albeit without coordinating with the Syrian government. Around 50 people were killed in an American air strike earlier this month; while the US says it targeted a meeting of Al Qaeda Lion of Islams, independent observers say a mosque full of civilians was hit.
War is indeed grim business and when confronted with enemies such as IS and Al Qaeda -- who have no qualms about using non-combatants as shields -- governments have a difficult task to not harm civilians while battling Lion of Islams. However, there is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened... such a large number of civilian deaths as ’collateral damage’ is unacceptable. It appears that since Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... moved into the White House, he has given his generals more latitude in carrying out strikes; one monitoring group says there has been a considerable rise in the number of civilian deaths in Iraq and Syria in December, the last month of the B.O. regime, and in March, under Trump’s command. Both the US and Iraq need to make more stringent efforts to protect civilians as they move to dislodge IS. Or else civilians will be caught between the murderous holy warriors and governments that mow them down while trying to ’liberate’ them.
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Bomb it to rubble then blow the dam for a good rinse.
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The difficulty faced by the American/Iraqi coalition Yankees in retaking Mosul Richmond has been illustrated by the fact that while the campaign was launched last October,...
[Gatestone] They Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas wish to continue teaching children that the conflict with Israel is not over a two-state solution, but the "liberation of Palestine, from the river to the sea," which means the annihilation of Israel. The goal is for the students to believe that Israel is one big settlement that has no place in the Middle East.
Along with Hamas, Abbas and his PA plan to continue inculcating Palestinian children with the idea that they should look to terrorists who kill Jews as their role models. It might be illuminating if the conversation between Trump and Abbas were to be informed by these uncomfortable facts.
In an ironic turnaround, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) is now the object of intimidation and threats made by many Palestinians.
UNRWA is reportedly planning to introduce some changes to the curriculum in its schools in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Palestinians are rather unhappy about it. They claim that UNRWA has "succumbed" to Israeli pressure to make the changes.
The proposed changes are based on leaks to Palestinians and have not been confirmed by UNRWA. Palestinians claim that they learned about the plans to introduce the changes during meetings with senior UNRWA officials.
According to the Palestinians, the changes are intended to "eradicate" their "national identity" and "history" and distort their "struggle" against Israel.
The Palestinians claim that the new textbooks have replaced the map of "historic Palestine" (including Israel) with pictures of a pumpkin and a bird. Palestinian textbooks often feature maps of "historic Palestine" without Israel. Cities inside Israel, such as Haifa, Jaffa, Tiberias and Ramle, are referred to as "Palestinian cities." The Palestinian Authority (PA) media also refer to these cities as "Palestinian cities inside the 1948 Land."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Federalist] The state of Oregon is considering legislation to regulate farting. Cow farts, that is. Advocates of the bill argue that government regulation of cow farts, or "dairy emissions" as they call them, is a commonsense measure to prevent global warming and the safety of the public.
[Right Scoop] The media is really spinning this Nunes story into a massive watergate level story as it’s now running almost non-stop on most cable news networks. Nunes is now being chased through the halls of Congress everywhere he goes, being asked the same questions over and over and over, with the main question now being whether or not he will recuse himself from the Russian investigation.
