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Post by mhbruin on Aug 24, 2022 7:48:47 GMT -8
Atheism is a Non-Prophet Organization All Heat and No Cattle
With almost all of Texas in drought, ranchers are sending ever more cattle off to slaughter, a trend likely to increase beef prices over the long term due to dwindling supply from the largest cattle region in the United States. Since mid-July, more than 93% of Texas has been in drought, according to the United States Drought Monitor. As of mid-August, more than 26% of Texas was at the highest level, characterized by widespread loss of pastures and crops as well as water shortages. While conditions are especially acute in Texas, about 54% of all U.S. cattle were in some form of drought as of Aug. 16, up from 36% a year earlier. Cattle slaughter is high nationwide, temporarily increasing supply but portending tighter supplies in future years. At Some Point Plant-Based Meat Will Get Cheaper that BeefOr There is This... Insects can be turned into meat-like flavors, helping provide a more environmentally friendly alternative to traditional meat options, scientists have discovered. Mealworms, the larval form of the yellow mealworm beetle, have been cooked with sugar by researchers who found that the result is a meat-like flavoring that could one day be used on convenience food as a source of protein. While mealworms have until now mostly been used as snacks for pets or as bait while fishing, they have potential as a food source for humans to help get the recognizable flavors of meat without the harmful impacts upon the climate, as well as direct air and water pollution, of raising beef, pork and other animal-based foods. “Insects are a nutritious and healthy food source with high amounts of fatty acids, vitamins, minerals, fiber and high-quality protein, which is like that of meat,” says In Hee Cho, a researcher at Wonkwang University in South Korea who led the study. “Many consumers seriously like and need animal protein in our diet. However, traditional livestock farming produces more greenhouse gas emissions than cars do. On the other hand, insect farming requires just a fraction of the land, water and feed in comparison to traditional livestock farming.” Cho said that edible insects, such as mealworms and crickets, were “superfoods” that have long been enjoyed by communities in Asia, Africa and South America. However, people in Europe and North America are generally more squeamish about eating insects, despite recent forays by several restaurants and supermarkets into providing insect options for consumers. The use of mealworms as a meat-like flavoring may help bridge this gap, researchers hope. The new study, which will be presented to the American Chemical Society this week, found that the flavors were released when mealworms were heated with sugars, with the proteins and sugars interacting and caramelizing in a range of meat-like and savory flavors. |
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 24, 2022 8:00:07 GMT -8
What Happens When 2 BILLION People Lose Their Access to Any Water? We May Find Out"In a business as usual scenario, where we fail to curtail fossil fuel burning in the decades ahead meaningfully, we can expect a substantial decrease — nearly 100% loss — of water availability to downstream regions of the Tibetan Plateau. I was surprised at just how large the predicted decrease is even under a scenario of modest climate policy. Professor Michael Mann, Astrophysicist at Penn State University A new comprehensive and peer-reviewed study on the highly vulnerable glaciers of the Tibetan Plateau to warming ( known as the water tower ) threatens the lives of over two billion people who live downstream. The authors found that weak climate policies will bring about "irreversible declines of freshwater availability" in Afghanistan and Central Asia with a one hundred percent freshwater drop to Pakistan, Kashmir, and Nothern India. This Ain't No Party. This Ain't No Disco. This Ain't No Fooling AroundWill They Find Tracks of Extinct Humans Some Day?Dinosaur tracks from around 113 million years ago have been revealed at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Texas due to severe drought conditions that dried up a river, the park said Monday in a statement. “Most tracks that have recently been uncovered and discovered at different parts of the river in the park belong to Acrocanthosaurus. This was a dinosaur that would stand, as an adult, about 15 feet tall and (weigh) close to seven tons,” park spokesperson Stephanie Salinas Garcia told CNN in an email.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 24, 2022 11:36:08 GMT -8
The QOP Goes For Another Sexual Predator
Rep. Matt Gaetz defeated his Republican primary opponent Tuesday in one of Florida’s most conservative congressional districts, NBC News projects, as voters declined to hold a federal sex crimes investigation against him.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 24, 2022 11:37:31 GMT -8
Arizona Has a Solution to Police Misconduct. Make Sure No One Records It.
The ACLU and several news organizations have filed a lawsuit over a controversial Arizona law signed last month that bars recording video of law enforcement within 8 feet.
The law, sponsored by state Rep. John Kavanagh and signed by Gov. Doug Ducey, both Republicans, makes it a crime to record law enforcement activity within that distance and violators can face a misdemeanor charge after they are warned once to back up.
The new lawsuit, filed Tuesday, seeks an injunction ahead of the law's September effect date.
The suit claims the law violates the First Amendment right to record, will inhibit journalist ability to work on police stories, and will create a new risk of arrest and prosecution for Constitution-protected activity.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 24, 2022 11:41:09 GMT -8
November Doesn't Look So Red
As a result of Dobbs, the entire election climate has shifted. Here are the amazing numbers:
In 2021 elections, Republicans outperformed their 2020 numbers by an average of six points. Remember how we lost in Virginia, and almost lost in New Jersey. Things looked rough, for sure.
Things got even worse in early 2022, when Republicans were overperforming their 2020 margins by nine points. Those “cisgendered male pundits and operatives” had some supporting evidence that a Red Wave was in the cards, even if they couldn’t fathom how Trump and abortion would impact the election.
After the Dobbs decision was initially leaked, there were 11 special elections leading up to last night, and Republican advantages suddenly evaporate. Suddenly, practically overnight, Democrats were outperforming their 2020 margins by three points—a massive 12-point shift.
And since the Dobbs decision was officially released?
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 24, 2022 11:44:22 GMT -8
The Democrats Take On SCOTUS
When the Supreme Court restricted the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to fight climate change this year, the reason it gave was that Congress had never granted the agency the broad authority to shift America away from burning fossil fuels.
Now it has.
Throughout the landmark climate law, passed this month, is language written specifically to address the Supreme Court’s justification for reining in the E.P.A., a ruling that was one of the court’s most consequential of the term. The new law amends the Clean Air Act, the country’s bedrock air-quality legislation, to define the carbon dioxide produced by the burning of fossil fuels as an “air pollutant.”
That language, according to legal experts as well as the Democrats who worked it into the legislation, explicitly gives the E.P.A. the authority to regulate greenhouse gases and to use its power to push the adoption of wind, solar and other renewable energy sources.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 24, 2022 11:49:50 GMT -8
MINE!!
IN THE WEEKS after the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago raid, former President Donald Trump repeatedly made a simple-sounding but extraordinary ask: he wanted his lawyers to get “my documents” back from federal law enforcement.
Trump wasn’t merely referring to the alleged trove of attorney-client material that he insists was scooped up by the feds, two people familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. The ex-president has been demanding that his team find a way to recover “all” of the official documents that Trump has long referred to as “mine” — including the highly sensitive and top secret ones.
Sources close to Trump agree with outside legal experts that such a sweeping legal maneuver would be a long-shot, at best. “I hate to break it to the [former] president, but I do not think he is going to get all [the] top-secret documents back,” says one Trump adviser. “That ship has probably sailed.”
Still, the former president’s legal team appears to be working to retrieve at least some of the papers seized during the Aug. 8 federal search. In recent days, the Trump team — led by former federal prosecutor Evan Corcoran — has been quietly prepping additional legal arguments and strategies to try to pry back material that the feds removed from the ex-president’s Florida abode and club, the sources say. Those measures include drafting a so-called “Rule 41(g) motion,” which allows “a person aggrieved by an unlawful search and seizure of property” to “move for the property’s return,” according to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
“The motion he already filed is so absolutely terrible, that it’s hard to contemplate him filing something even more aggressive and even more unlikely to succeed,” says Ken White, a criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor.
“However,” White added, Trump is “basically trying to litigate the ultimate issue in the case, which is whether he had the right to possess and keep those things, even after he was asked to return them. It’s very unlikely that the court would accept that invitation to litigate that…He would have to prove that those things were illegally taken, and — based on what we know — that is going to be very difficult to prove…He’s going to have to make some very unusual legal arguments, which, if they’re anything like the motion that was just filed, is going to be a very uphill climb.”
Here's What They Don't Realize:
-These documents are GOVERNMENT PROPERTY. NARA is in charge of getting these documents back to their rightful place (the National Security Council, CIA, and FBI for starters).
- Executive privilege goes away when you are no longer president. It is up to the PRESENT PRESIDENT to exert executive privilege. And Biden is not going to do anything to help Trump.
- Holding onto these documents by an ex-president is AGAINST THE LAW.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 24, 2022 11:53:59 GMT -8
The New Jab Will Come Around the Same Time as UCLA Football
The Biden administration plans to offer updated versions of coronavirus boosters targeting highly transmissible omicron subvariants shortly after Labor Day, according to several media reports.
The new shots would be offered to all Americans 12 and older, and officials hope they will quell an expected winter surge in COVID-19 cases, The New York Times reported.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 24, 2022 11:57:20 GMT -8
Nothing Can Stop the Shape of Things to Come
Maxwell Frost sounds a lot like others of the Gen Z generation — he’s 25, drives an Uber for extra cash and recently quit his job to pursue a more promising opportunity.
His latest gig? Winning a crowded primary in Florida’s heavily Democratic 10th Congressional District on Tuesday night, giving him a strong chance of becoming a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Frost prevailed over more experienced Democrats, including former members of Congress Corrine Brown and Alan Grayson, and state Sen. Randolph Bracy, to secure the nomination. He will be the favorite in November in the reconfigured Orlando-area district.
He is among the new class of mold-breaking Democratic candidates this year with working-class roots. On his campaign website, he highlights the difficulties faced by his biological mother who gave him up for adoption amid what he describes as “a cycle of drugs, crime, and violence.”
Frost campaigned on support for Medicare-for-all, demilitarizing the police, legalizing prostitution and recreational marijuana, expunging all marijuana convictions, and restoring voting rights to the incarcerated.
He's Not This Max Frost
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Post by hasben on Aug 24, 2022 12:20:25 GMT -8
>Frost campaigned on support for Medicare-for-all, demilitarizing the police, legalizing prostitution and recreational marijuana, expunging all marijuana convictions, and restoring voting rights to the incarcerated.
It's always amazed me that politicians can "run" on things that they can't possibly do, and people are dumb enough to fall for it. I'm surprised some candidate hasn't said, elect me and I'll make gas $1 a gallon. He'd get a ton of votes. Frost's win is just a testament to the total stupidity of Americans even if he is a good guy. Maybe he realizes just how dumb people are and took it to the bank (like trump).
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Post by sagobob on Aug 24, 2022 16:11:15 GMT -8
>Frost campaigned on support for Medicare-for-all, demilitarizing the police, legalizing prostitution and recreational marijuana, expunging all marijuana convictions, and restoring voting rights to the incarcerated. It's always amazed me that politicians can "run" on things that they can't possibly do, and people are dumb enough to fall for it. I'm surprised some candidate hasn't said, elect me and I'll make gas $1 a gallon. He'd get a ton of votes. Frost's win is just a testament to the total stupidity of Americans even if he is a good guy. Maybe he realizes just how dumb people are and took it to the bank (like trump). "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people." (Attributed to American author and social critic H. L. Mencken) |
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 25, 2022 8:02:46 GMT -8
>Frost campaigned on support for Medicare-for-all, demilitarizing the police, legalizing prostitution and recreational marijuana, expunging all marijuana convictions, and restoring voting rights to the incarcerated. It's always amazed me that politicians can "run" on things that they can't possibly do, and people are dumb enough to fall for it. I'm surprised some candidate hasn't said, elect me and I'll make gas $1 a gallon. He'd get a ton of votes. Frost's win is just a testament to the total stupidity of Americans even if he is a good guy. Maybe he realizes just how dumb people are and took it to the bank (like trump). There is a difference between telling people your vision for the future and promising to make them happen. I absolutely would be more likely to vote for a candidate who supports those policies (although the police reform would need to be carefully done.) At this point, legalizing marijuana isn't a pipe dream. Neither is restoring voting rights. If the Democrats manage to hold on to the house, and increase their margin in the Senate, there will be some action on voting rights. |
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Post by hasben on Aug 26, 2022 9:34:56 GMT -8
>There is a difference between telling people your vision for the future and promising to make them happen
The problem is the public is not smart enough to understand the difference and with tricky wording they are one and the same.
I still say 90% of those issues will not be done in our lifetime no matter who has the house and senate:
medicare for all--not unless citizen's united is overturned and big pharma and insurance companies are shut off. that won't happen.
demilitarizing the police--the horse has left the barn. try going city to city and taking back their equip.
legalizing prostitution--not as long as there are religious people left in America
marijuana--the most likely but there will be state hold outs who won't care about a federal classification
expunging pot convictions--won't happen if it means releasing inmates. congress will never allow bankrupting the prison industry
restoring voting rights--likely in some states but again others will not do it
So the bottom line is to say you are for all those things which in reality will not be done is like saying you are for universal happiness. Very phony to me and takes advantage of dumb voters who believe it..
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 26, 2022 10:19:27 GMT -8
>There is a difference between telling people your vision for the future and promising to make them happen The problem is the public is not smart enough to understand the difference and with tricky wording they are one and the same. I still say 90% of those issues will not be done in our lifetime no matter who has the house and senate: medicare for all--not unless citizen's united is overturned and big pharma and insurance companies are shut off. that won't happen. demilitarizing the police--the horse has left the barn. try going city to city and taking back their equip. legalizing prostitution--not as long as there are religious people left in America marijuana--the most likely but there will be state hold outs who won't care about a federal classification expunging pot convictions--won't happen if it means releasing inmates. congress will never allow bankrupting the prison industry restoring voting rights--likely in some states but again others will not do it So the bottom line is to say you are for all those things which in reality will not be done is like saying you are for universal happiness. Very phony to me and takes advantage of dumb voters who believe it.. I don't think anyone is going to get elected by saying they aren't going to try to make any significant changes. And I am pretty sure no one thought overturning Roe was possible when right-wing politicians ran on doing that. To quote South Pacific: "You've got to have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna' have a dream come true?" |
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Post by hasben on Aug 26, 2022 13:07:05 GMT -8
>I don't think anyone is going to get elected by saying they aren't going to try to make any significant changes.
I totally agree and didn't say any different. A smart electable politician will be Honest with the people and lay out what he CAN do to start moving in the right direction with specific actions he CAN and WILL take. That's very different than grandstanding with BS like "let's have medicare for all" when he knows it won't happen.
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