#2
Every time I see or hear about 'the view', I can't help but be reminded of a post aSkidmark made a while ago about pigs having half hour long climaxes and they''re all on 'the view'!
#3
Bigot - is that what the Left wacko's call being sensible, morally & physically protective, by keeping mentally ill perverts away from our Wives, and Female children?
But, given the members of "The View" it might be the only way they stand a chance of getting laid.
#7
The most disgusting thing about this episode of the View was Hakeem Jeffries talking about how the Congress needs to work to reduce inflation.
As if the super stimulas pork wasn't the cause of it and championed by Jeffries and the rest of the Democrats.
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#8
Well AOC says keeping biological men out of women's bathrooms puts women in danger. Joy Behar claims she triple checked that Joe Rogan believes in dragons. There is no way she did. All she had to do was watch the podcast but that is too much work for her or any harpy on The View.
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#10
Joe Rogan believes in dragons
It's strange that Norse, Chinese, and Native American mythology all have some sore of dragon like creature. Why would three distant and isolated cultures from each other come up with something similar?
NB to the 'crows' at the table. Dinosaurs did not
disappear. What survived evolved into today's birds.
#12
"Loose lunatic tranzis in loos!"
...
"So, doctor, it hurts when I poo?"
Says the headshrinker, "Well,
Dumb-ass, what can I tell
You? At least you'll know what not to do."
"Ummm, what's that?"
"Sigh."
#14
"In a world fairly crawling with apes
Of all genders and pronouns and shapes,
Why should raptors and snakes
Give you monkeys the shakes,
Not me, mpox? [cue poo-throwing, japes
from descendants of narrow escapes]
Now that this petition calling for a General Election in the UK has soared past 100 000 signatures, the UK Parliament will have to consider it for debate. pic.twitter.com/suuAj8d2VY
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[REGNUM] The world's media are once again full of reports about protests by French farmers. Demonstrations of varying scale are taking place across the country, despite the fact that since the beginning of the year the government has been announcing measures that in one way or another satisfy the demands of dissatisfied agricultural workers voiced during previous demonstrations. Are the peasants' protests caused by the state of affairs or is their mood being manipulated?
The main reason for the ongoing farmers' protests is unanimously named as the EU's imposition of a trade agreement with the countries of the Mercosur common market of South America on France. It currently includes four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay.
Negotiations between these countries and the EU lasted for about 20 years and in 2019 culminated in the signing of an agreement providing for duty-free import of agricultural products produced there to Europe. This document has not yet been ratified by all EU countries, including France.
The problem is that chicken, beef, grain, rice and other products grown in Latin America were produced using antibiotics and pesticides that were long banned in European countries. As a result, the resulting products have a lower cost price and can be sold cheaper. This is what the French say will kill their agriculture.
The strangest thing is that the French authorities initially took the side of the farmers in this matter. During the first wave of protests, former Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire promised to “impose the will of France” on the EU leadership, claiming that the country had every opportunity to do so.
And now both President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Michel Barnier have clearly and repeatedly stated their firm intention to prevent duty-free import of products from Mercosur countries to the domestic market. So what are agricultural workers unhappy about?
Last year's demonstrations were organized by farmer unions of various political orientations: centrists, liberals, and even left-wing and far-right. The reason for the protests was not only the agreement with Mercosur, but also the duty-free trade with other Eastern European countries, in particular with Ukraine. And also the general decline in the country's agriculture, due to which there is a rapid reduction in enterprises in the industry.
Since then, the government has taken a number of measures to support French producers. In particular, it has introduced a number of tax breaks, established subsidy programs, and in April of this year, an inter-industry agreement was adopted regulating the relations of all workers involved in agriculture with state bodies, agricultural processing enterprises, trade operators and other parties.
However, farmers complain that not everyone receives subsidies, tax breaks do not apply to a number of important expenditure items, and state aid is generally very selective. And the implementation of the sectoral agreement had to be postponed due to early parliamentary elections, as a result of which the final settlement of the issue was postponed until 2025.
Lack of investment in agriculture means that farmers are left defenseless against natural phenomena. As a result, the last dry summer caused record low grain harvests. Moreover, French producers have been working at a loss for several years now, losing approximately 550 euros per hectare cultivated.
Agricultural workers are especially offended by the fact that the average citizen does not realize the importance of the problems facing them. After all, the lack of goods produced in the country can always be compensated for by importing, for example, from Ukraine. So supermarket shelves will not be empty. And therefore the demand to ban duty-free trade with Ukraine has not lost its relevance, although this time the media is trying to disguise it as much as possible from the French-speaking audience.
In addition to the farmers' daily work problems, there is also a social component associated with resentment towards the political class and the urban population, which they consider indifferent. Many politicians, with varying degrees of success, are trying to attract this category of voters to their side. Most of the accusations of attempts to manipulate their opinion are addressed to the "National Rally". However, the president's supporters are also trying to win the trust of the protesting farmers, in particular the "Village Union", which is called Macron's "pocket" party.
There is another circumstance. The organizers of the current demonstrations are the National Federation of Agricultural Workers' Unions (FNSEA) and the Young Farmers union. In addition to the ban on the agreement with Mercosur, the union activists are demanding the introduction or maintenance of a number of benefits, as well as a fairer purchasing policy from retail chains and distributors purchasing agricultural products.
But these are far from all the demands and problems that worry French farmers, including those protesting these days. They accuse the protest organizers of defending the interests of large producers to the detriment of small farmers.
Many believe that the reason for the FNSEA's activity is the upcoming elections to the French Chamber of Agriculture, which are scheduled to take place in January 2025. This body is run by the state and represents the interests of workers and organizations involved in the sector.
Unlike the Accounts or Industrial Chambers, members of the Agricultural Chamber work effectively with trade union workers, and therefore have great influence in regional and central government bodies. FNSEA is the largest association in this organization and has an absolute majority in a number of its local offices.
It is possible that the federation has mobilized supporters for some kind of election campaign, using the anger of distressed farmers to its advantage. At least, some protesters are voicing such concerns. At the same time, a significant number of agricultural workers see the current protests as an opportunity to once again highlight the industry’s problems.
On November 26, the French parliament is to consider the ratification of the agreement with Mercosur. At the same time, the EU, especially Germany and Spain, are strongly insisting that France must agree to ratify it. Otherwise, Mercosur member countries will expand their ties with China and Russia in search of alternative partners. Therefore, the future of French agriculture now depends on the outcome of the confrontation between Macron and the European Union.
Old-fashioned politicking at this level makes for feel-good reading in the midst of all the craziness out there.
[IsraelTimes] US president-elect courted niche communities, knowing every vote could be critical, particularly in swing states.
A visit to a revered Jewish gravesite. A social-media tribute to Coptic Christians. A billboard in Amish country.
While Donald Trump ...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party... ’s lock on the white evangelical vote is legendary, he and his campaign allies also wooed smaller religious groups, far from the mainstream.
As it turned out, Trump won by decisive margins, but his campaign aggressively courted niche communities with the understanding that every vote could be critical, particularly in swing states.
Voter surveys such as exit polls, which canvass broad swaths of the electorate, aren’t able to gauge the impact of such microtargeting, but some backers say the effort was worth it.
Trump directly reached out to members of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement and visited the burial site of the movement’s revered late leader, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, on October 7, the anniversary of the Hamas ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",... attack on Israel that triggered the ongoing war in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Wearing a kippa, the Jewish ritual head covering (sometimes called a yarmulke or skullcap), Trump, who has Jewish family members, brought a written prayer to the "Ohel" and laid a small stone at the grave in keeping with tradition.
The site in New York City, while particularly central to Chabad adherents, draws an array of Jewish and other visitors, including politicians.
About two-thirds of Jewish voters overall supported Trump’s opponent, Democrat Kamala Harris former senatrix from California, 2020 Dem presidential hopeful and ultimately Joe Biden's intended successor , according to AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters. But the Trump campaign has made a particular outreach to Orthodox Jews, citing issues including his policies toward Israel in his first administration.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowitz of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida said it was moving for him to see images of Trump’s visit.
"The mere fact that he made a huge effort, obviously it was important to him," he said.
Just one week before the election, meanwhile, Trump directed a post on the social media platform X to Coptic Christians in the United States — whose church has ancient roots in Egypt. He saluted their "Steadfast Faith in God, Perseverance through Centuries of Persecution and Love for this Great Country."
"This was the first time seeing a major US presidential candidate address the community in this manner," said Mariam Wahba, a Coptic Christian and research analyst with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington-based research institute. "It was really a profound moment."
She said many Copts share the conservative social views of other Christian groups in the Republican constituency, and they may already have been Trump supporters. But the posting reinforced those bonds. Coptic bishops sent the president-elect congratulations after his victory and cited their "shared social and family values."
Some Assyrian Christians — another faith group with Middle Eastern roots — similarly bonded with Trump, whose mispronunciation of "Assyrian" at a rally created a viral video moment and drew attention to their support.
Sam Darmo, a Phoenix real estate agent and co-founder of Assyrians for Trump, said many community members cited the economy, illegal immigration and other prominent voter issues. They echoed other conservative Christians’ concerns, he said, on issues such as child sacrifice abortion, gender identity and religious expression in public. But he said Trump supported various Middle Eastern Christians recovering from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group’s oppressive rule.
Darmo also credited Massad Boulos, father-in-law to Trump’s daughter Tiffany, for mobilizing various Middle Eastern Christian groups, including Chaldean Catholics, and other voters, particularly in Michigan, such as Moslems.
"He brought all these minority groups together," he said. "We’re hoping to continue that relationship."
But members of Middle Eastern-rooted Christian groups, and their politics, are far from monolithic, said Marcus Zacharia, founder of Progressive Copts, a program of Informed Immigrants colonists, an organization that promotes dialogue on sensitive topics among such groups in the United States and Canada.
He said many younger community members question Trump’s stances on issues such as immigration, and a sense that conservatives sometimes tokenize them by focusing on the plight of persecuted Christians in the Middle East while neglecting wider issues of repression in countries there that the US supports.
He said there needs to be more informed dialogue across the political divide in these communities. "There is no more high time than these next four years to have that way of conducting conversations," he said.
COURTING THE AMISH
Republicans also made an aggressive push for Amish voters, particularly in the swing state of Pennsylvania, where they are most numerous at about 92,000 (many below voting age).
The GOP has made similar efforts in the past, even though researchers have found that less than 10 percent of them typically vote, due to their separatism from society. But Republicans used billboards, mailers, ads and door-to-door campaigning to drive turnout in Lancaster County, home base to the nation’s largest Amish settlement.
On Election Day, Amish voters Samuel Stoltzfus and his wife Lillian Stoltzfus said they were supporting Trump, citing their anti-child sacrifice abortion beliefs.
"We basically look at it as murder," Stoltzfus, 31, said outside a polling center in the Lancaster County community of New Holland, where dozens of other members of the local Amish community voted. Trump has wavered on the issue, dismaying some child sacrifice abortion opponents, though many have said Republicans still align more closely to their views.
Stolzfus added: "Make America great again and keep the moral values," he said. "Let’s go back to the roots."
Steven Nolt, a history professor at Elizabethtown College in Lancaster College who studies the Amish and their voting patterns, said that while it’s too early to say definitively without further research, he doesn’t see evidence of a larger turnout this year.
Lancaster County as a whole — most of which is not Amish — is a GOP stronghold that Trump won handily, though both parties’ votes edged up from 2020, according to unofficial results posted by the Pennsylvania Department of State.
Trump’s biggest increases were in urban or suburban areas with few Amish, while some areas with larger Amish populations generally saw a modest increase in the Trump vote, said Nolt, director of the college’s Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studies.
"Bottom line, percentage-wise, not much change in the parts of Lancaster County where the Amish live," he said.
#2
The PA government expected the Amish to acquiesce to having their rights trampled. New calculus for the agricultural overlords. The Supreme Court will likely side with the Amish.
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[The Mind Unleashed] The agricultural world is witnessing a remarkable transformation, driven by groundbreaking technology. Among the most fascinating innovations is a farming robot equipped with lasers that can destroy hundreds of thousands of weeds in mere hours. This high-tech solution is not just a marvel of engineering but a timely response to persistent challenges in farming, from labor shortages to the environmental impact of chemical herbicides.
By combining artificial intelligence with precision laser technology, companies like Carbon Robotics are reshaping the way farmers tackle one of agriculture’s most labor-intensive tasks. These futuristic machines offer a glimpse into the potential of sustainable farming, where innovation meets efficiency, paving the way for a healthier and more productive future for agriculture.
Weeds have been a persistent challenge for farmers, creating a constant battle for resources in the field. These invasive plants not only compete with crops for vital sunlight, nutrients, and water but also provide a safe haven for pests that can wreak havoc on harvests. The presence of weeds significantly reduces crop yields and quality, making effective weed management essential for agricultural success. For centuries, farmers have relied on labor-intensive methods and chemical herbicides to combat this problem, but these approaches are not without their flaws.
Been working on this for a few years, and if you have ever been downwind of someone deciding to go ahead and spray on a windy day, law and sense be damned, I'm ok with this.
My question for viability would be the logistics of it all, especially power consumption and initial purchase costs and upkeep. Do you have to run a power cord with it, or consider travel and charge time to a charging station, running a diesel generator out in the crops? And we've seen with Juan Deere what happens when a company has a lock on maintenence issues.
#8
The operative ones i've seen are addons to existing crop equip. A camera, an AI recognizer and the laser. Not much, all electric, powered by the tractor/seeder/harvester. A drone unit will be a little more complex. Don't want it zapping crop pickers.
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[Regnum] One of the most powerful shock waves recorded by astronomers in the entire history of observations has reached Earth. It was caused by a collision in a group of galaxies known as Stephan's Quintet, writes the British journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).
Galaxy NGC 7318b collided with four other galaxies in the group at 2 million mph (3.2 million km/h), creating a shock front similar to the "sonic boom of a fighter jet," Live Science notes. "The only thing worse would be a new Yoko Ono single dropping"
According to Marina Arnaudova, an astrophysicist at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK, humanity has a rare chance to observe the complex process of galaxy collision. The "new intruder" NGC 7318b crashed into a huge intergalactic debris field, which led to the compression of plasma and gas.
"In doing so, it reactivated the plasma, causing it to glow brightly at radio frequencies and likely triggered the process of star formation," Arnaudova said.
Stephan's Quintet, discovered in 1877 by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan, is located 290 million light years from Earth. At the core of the group are galaxies NGC 7317, NGC 7318a, and NGC 7319, which are thought to have been impacted by an "old intruder" — galaxy NGC 7320c. During the collision, almost all of their interstellar medium was ejected into intergalactic space, and the "new intruder" 7318b is currently interacting with this region, the MNRAS report specifies.
Scientists are confident that observations of the merger and interaction of galaxies will allow us to understand how they formed and evolved.
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in the fall of 2022, the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope (FAST), known as the "China Sky Eye", discovered a huge structure of atomic gas while observing Stephan's Quintet. According to a study published in the journal Nature, the linear scale of the structure of atomic hydrogen reaches approximately two million light years, or 0.6 megaparsecs, which is the largest of its kind ever discovered in the Universe.
#3
290 million light years from Earth, is about 1,703,630,854,080,000 miles in distance. (1.703 Quadrillion miles)
Since light travels much faster than a Shock wave. Have we actually exp. what Astronomers saw yet?
Also, wouldn't this 290+/- year old Shock Wave have spread out 90 to 180 degree cone and dissipated?
WiKi (Researchgate.net) "Over longer distances, a shock wave can change from a nonlinear wave into a linear wave, degenerating into a conventional sound wave as it heats the air and loses energy. The sound wave is heard as the familiar "thud" or "thump" of a sonic boom, commonly created by the supersonic flight of aircraft."
#5
I think that sound waves need a medium to propagate. Hence no sound in a vacuum. What is the medium for this? They proved the non-existence of "ether" long ago, right?
#6
I think that sound waves need a medium to propagate. Hence no sound in a vacuum. What is the medium for this? They proved the non-existence of "ether" long ago, right?
[IsraelTimes] Security stepped up for President ‘Bongbong’ Marcos after ex-ally Sara Duterte tells reporters she contracted assassin to carry out hit in case she is killed: ‘No joke, no joke’
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte said Saturday she has contracted an assassin to kill the president, his wife and the speaker of the Philippines’ House of Representatives if she herself is killed, in a brazen public threat that she warned was not a joke.
Lucas Bersamin, Manila’s Executive Secretary, referred the "active threat" against Philippine President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. to an elite presidential guards force "for immediate proper action." It was not immediately clear what actions would be taken against Vice President Duterte.
The Presidential Security Command immediately boosted Marcos’s security and said it considered Duterte’s threat, which was "made so brazenly in public," a national security issue.
The security force said it was "coordinating with law enforcement agencies to detect, deter, and defend against any and all threats to the president and the first family."
Marcos ran with Duterte as his vice-presidential running mate in the May 2022 elections and both won with landslide victories on a campaign call of national unity.
The two leaders and their camps, however, rapidly had a bitter falling-out over key differences, including in their approaches to China’s aggressive actions in the disputed South China Sea. Duterte resigned from the Marcos Cabinet in June as education secretary and head of an anti-insurgency body.
Like her equally outspoken father, former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, Sara Deuterte has become a vocal critic of Marcos, his wife Liza Araneta-Marcos and Manila’s House Speaker Martin Romualdez — an ally and cousin of the president — accusing them of corruption, incompetence and politically persecuting the Duterte family and its close supporters.
Her latest tirade was set off by the decision by House members allied with Romualdez and Marcos to detain her chief of staff, Zuleika Lopez, who was accused of hampering a congressional inquiry into the possible misuse of her budget as vice president and education secretary. Lopez was later transferred to a hospital after falling ill and wept when she heard of a plan to temporarily lock her up in a women’s prison.
In expletives-laden remarks delivered at a pre-dawn, online news conference, an angry Sara Duterte accused Marcos of incompetence as a president and of being a liar, along with his wife and the House speaker.
When asked about concerns over her security, the 46-year-old lawyer suggested there was an unspecified plot to kill her.
"Don’t worry about my security because I’ve talked with somebody. I said: ’If I’m killed, you’ll kill BBM, Liza Araneta and Martin Romualdez," she said, using the initials that many use to call the president. "
’No joke, no joke,’" she added, without elaborating.
"I’ve given my order, ’If I die, don’t stop until you’ve killed them.’ And he said, ’yes,’" the vice president said.
Under the Philippine penal code, such public remarks may constitute a crime of threatening to inflict a wrong on a person or his family and is punishable by a jail term and fine.
Amid the political divisions, Philippine military chief Gen. Romeo Brawner issued a statement with an assurance that the 160,000-member Armed Forces of the Philippines would remain nonpartisan "with utmost respect for our democratic institutions and civilian authority."
"We call for calm and resolve," Brawner said. "We reiterate our need to stand together against those who will try to break our bonds as Filipinos."
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
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.
[IsraelTimes] US president-elect courted niche communities, knowing every vote could be critical, particularly in swing states.
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
[The Mind Unleashed] The agricultural world is witnessing a remarkable transformation, driven by groundbreaking technology. Among the most fascinating innovations is a farming robot equipped with lasers that can destroy hundreds of thousands of weeds in mere hours. This high-tech solution is not just a marvel of engineering but a timely response to persistent challenges in farming, from labor shortages to the environmental impact of chemical herbicides.
