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  1. From Reuters (2/7/22): The large companies have found a work around: staffing firms. You will note in the quote above that the staffing firm shoulders the liability, not Perdue or Sanderson Farms or Tyson et. al. In addition, look at all the savings and profits one can rake in by docking pay and avoiding benefits, etc. It was "suggested" earlier that taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for the immigrant's healthcare...but it appears as if the corporations have decided that on your behalf because they sure as hell aren't paying for it and they sure as hell aren't going to stop using migrant labor. Where is the outrage against the exploitation of the so-called common working men and women?
  2. Set up a distillation device in your lil portico underneath your kitchen, plumb a diverter you can switch on so that you have a mix of gin or vodka coming into the lines and it will lower the freezing point. Um, you're an attorney so might want to figure out some legalese so you don't have any unfortunate encounters with authorities. Buy some limes, lemons, horseradish, ginger beer, and tomato juice. Because you should just happen to have those around.
  3. The statement in the docket that I quoted on the prior page explains that the BP was not allowed to monitor the area as of January 10th which was 2 days prior to the drowning of the three human beings. The BP couldn't have provided assistance from the US side because they had no vantage point from which to do so specifically because of the Texas State Guard. The article listed omits that because they can say, with no shame or compassion whatsoever, that Mexican authorities attempted a rescue (failed) and then reported to BP what had occurred for the news' outlets sole purpose of making it seem as if the actions of Abbott's decision had no consequences and that the BP was trying to paint Abbott and the people who report to him in a bad light. Since the BP was not allowed to monitor the area, it is futile to speculate that the immigrants would have drowned anyway. The BP rescued 249 people in water-related incidents (FY 2021, the most recent data). That same year, along the SW border (Texas to Cali) 12,857 people were rescued in total. (The type of rescue varies--heat/cold, etc). It is disingenuous to act as if Abbott's action was not a political maneuver, a maneuver to continue the narrative that his is the only solution to how this nation of immigrants treats latter immigrants who come to our borders.
  4. @Bama Chick would know. She knew all of the news about the royals both stateside and UK. She hasn't posted in a long while though.
  5. I agree. I clipped it, but as I was reading your paragraph, it brought to mind Kyle Rittenhouse. Sure he is the butt of many a joke, but he was a young adult who was heralded by the powerful, used by them and their media. Do I pity him? Not really, no. However, they've got in Kyle and others like him a loyal foot soldier. He may be bankrupt and all, but he's not going to ever be swayed away from the belief that once more he could be IT: The wielder of the cudgel, the dragon slayer. They hold the nourishment for his feelings of inadequacy and inferiority. It is the source of many a cult and many a religion.
  6. Additionally, the grift continues with the prison pipeline because funneling any excess population into private incarceration reaps yet more dollars. Removing mobility of the lower classes of all demographics, women of all demographics, and anyone who is not connected enough politically to acquire more of increasingly scarce resources (land, careers, healthcare, food, opportunities, etc) increases the competitive gap (no upstart immigrant or poor person to become the next Carnegie or Musk). It also increases the desperation of the populace at large. Having a scapegoat is a useful political tool, but even a tool can harm those who abuse it. The oppressors become the oppressed. And the pale blue dot keeps on turning.
  7. Mittens for sure. I'm very fond of my neck gator/hood combo. I often wear a hat, but sometimes don't want "hat" head and this is a one piece fleece kit that keeps the wind off the face and throat.
  8. From The Ledge I toss out the comment that while the media over-reacts with respect to Iowa, I rather wish they'd pipe down a bit. Lotta months left and the GOP with their backs against the wall four years ago did some pretty nasty shit, some of which investigators never figured out the identities of the culprits involved or they managed to skate on technicalities. Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Elon, Stephen Miller, and all the $$ names that have managed to fly under the radar are not completely ignorant as to what the numbers show. The question is, to what lengths are they willing to go and I am not sure I want to know the answer to that. Aside from participating (in the real world) I'm sitting on The Ledge for the duration. The warnings that were deemed as 'crying wolf' ended up splashing across our screens in that January and we're still in the woods as far as I'm concerned. Voters can defeat the autocratic wannabes, but it's going to take courage, conviction, some brains, and a great deal of love.
  9. I agree. The dilution of quality education as a whole does not favor democratic ideas and when combined with a shrinking 'white' population (the population that benefits in greater number from a voucher system) IMO it leads to a gerrymandered apartheid that favors the GOP. When combined with the opportunity to grift tax dollars and the varying ways to circumvent accountability, it's going to get a lot worse.
  10. Sam Hurley had a great high jump at the meet--he's second on the indoor list right now. And Lindhorst just ran a pretty good 800 as well. They do need to make sure all the relays are scoring points; that's the bread and butter right there. On the women's side, Arkansas is an early leader, but the champs aren't until March so we'll see how it shakes out. Texas is traveling to Boston U for a meet at the end of the month, and while it isn't at the same track, it seems like a good plan as a test run.
  11. We buy all of our autos used. The newest is my 2013 and what you're talking about is evident even then. When we got the 2013 (bought pre-pandemic) we handed the 2010 CRV to one of our teens and with just that three year window everything just wasn't quite as solid. That being said, the issues that have developed in later models that I've read both on here and elsewhere may mean we look around at comparable models from other manufacturers for the next go around. We've never been particularly locked in to one specific make/model. We shop around the used market for reliable, safe transport and go from there. Got a great deal on a 2010 Outback that is still working for another teen, and the twenty year old Toyota is chugging right along with regular maintenance. Definitely think the construction quality among the last few years is just not that great. I miss the old tiny trucks that Toyota used to make that ran forever even if they rusted like a sumbitch. You could fix that thing with odds and ends from the junk drawer in the garage and it would go like a champ. (Probably a deathtrap against today's massive beasts on the road but c'est la vie).
  12. *not a doctor* I've gotten the pneumonia vaccine. I've had pneumonia and it messed up my lungs ever after. And that was when I was a young adult. If I was 70, you bet I would get the vaccine because spending a week in the hospital having them perform chest percussion is not something I'd care to revisit.
  13. I hope you don't mind, but I moved your quote to this thread for 2024... Thoughts vary as to 'best' when it comes to protocol. I have a very small garden compared to some of you and I pull up my tomatoes when they're done. That is mostly due to concerns about fungal diseases and such that can be present in the soil. Since I have a combination of the large black plastic pots and one small 4X8 bed, you can see why it's a little harder to rotate and/or turn over the soil. I do try and rehabilitate the soil as much as I can with some amendments. I also grow some veggies and herbs mixed in with our flower beds and so it isn't as noticeable if I yank or leave them either way. These are the types of plants that are not as fussy--the chards and the dills and so on. Other gardeners advise leaving the dead plants, especially the roots as it provides nourishment but also advise crop rotation if you do this. If you have the space to rotate, then this may be a good plan for you. Maybe some other posters here will chime in with their methods. Lastly, I've never done a cover crop as that is something I picture more with large expansive beds, but that is another way to keep the soil in good condition.
  14. IIRC, Iowa was also pretty big in starting and continuing a 'rails to trails' program repurposing unused RR tracks to bicycle/hiking trails. When I lived in Nebraska, they had some of those and it was really nice. The glaciated areas in those states (WI/Iowa) are very unique and fun to explore. Devil's Lake (the natural parts not the touristy parts) was fun to hike. Driving along the Mississippi in the fall before the rains came and dropped the leaves was another. We didn't have much $$ so we would find little day trips here and there to get away and like you said, quite a few fun places to spend a day. Back to the caucus though, I've derailed this enough I suppose!
  15. What is up with the flag on the interviewee's t-shirt? I see that it is a cross, but is that something the evangelicals have adopted? It isn't a historical flag although there were flags with stars in circles.
  16. I haven't been to Iowa since we moved south, but have fond memories of the Amana colonies (where I had my very first brat and became a forever fan) and also Dubuque, which had a picturesque river beauty combined with the gritty manufacturing roots of its past that (at the time of our living in the upper midwest) had not been gentrified or yet upscaled. I've never minded "flyover" country with respect to the land and resources. It's amazing. But its politics are getting in its own way.
  17. I think I get what Elon is all in an upset about now. He wants to build a Mojo Dojo Casa Car with a lot of horsepower. Elon doesn't think he's Kenough and he's been slowing morphing into Klaus Barbie.
  18. So short-sighted of you to leave off @Armybrat's generation with this Buster Keaton classic:
  19. Go straight to the taxpayer supported source? I use NWS For Example, here is the austin area weather discussion. You can check out their precip and temp and wind graphs and such directly on the website and it's quite useful IMO. Just plug in your location in the search bar and it's got everything I need. https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=EWX&issuedby=EWX&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1
  20. Postponed the morning perambulation. Sidewalks are slick and that's a sure way to end up in a viral cell phone video of suburban moms who think they can skate.
  21. I read about this outbreak when the news first broke. We have a distant family member that lives there with her family and it reminded me that her child isn't vaccinated. He's older, pre-teen and she was (still is AFAIK) into the no substances into my child's body that aren't natural or something like that. It wasn't the autism-vaccine theory, she didn't subscribe to that but she wouldn't allow commercial food products and such. Some areas of the country have larger groups of unvaccinated children like hers and it is worrisome as they've joined forces with the other anti-vax groups. While daycares are great incubators, older children are more mobile and congregate in disparate clusters where vaccine requirements may be lax: sports teams, parties, schools (public schools are hit or miss on strict exemption policies), home school groups, and so on. It's concerning that we're revisiting this disease and its consequences when we had all but put it in the rearview mirror. Given the health care deserts that have developed in the U.S., more outbreaks are likely on the horizon.
  22. People dismissed Napoleon and Hitler, too. But when there was turmoil and their societies longed for a strongman, they stepped into the breach. One was a competent, ruthless military strategist, the other a screaming effective orator. You might say that DeSantis is neither, but he's an opportunist and if there is an opportunity for him to be an authoritarian ruler, he will grasp it. Fanny pack and all. He's not going to go away even if he is sidelined in this round. Whether he will be cast off for good remains to be seen.
  23. This one is on the nightstand but haven't cracked it open yet. Have switched to some lighter reading for the last few months just to get through the holiday season...
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