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1. about 3 hours ago on JumpStart

   IT’S STILL THREE FREAKIN’ WEEKS UNTIL WINTER!

2. about 4 hours ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   “No, Obama did no such thing.”

   He absolutely, positively did. To the point of it being mocked and satirized by some. We can argue honestly whether or not Bush 43 deserved the blame or Obama was just making excuses, but EVERY time something went negative on Obama’s watch, he blamed the previous administration. Even into his SECOND term, dagnabbit.

   Which therefore raises the particularly valid question:

   If all the bad stuff that happens in administration is the fault of the previous administration, then does that mean Bush 43 can blame Clinton for that “worst economic crash since the Great Depression”? Does that mean that the (supposed) “economic recovery” (mostly with “cooked” figures no serious economist believes) under Biden is really Trump’s? (There are good cases to be made that Clinton’s benign neglect of the Middle East threat made 9-11-2001 possible, in spite of his trying to take out Bin Laden with an ill-timed missile.) Will this mean that everything that “goes wrong” under Trump, he can blame on Biden?

3. 1 day ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   So, just like EVERY other president/administration.

   How long did Sleepy Joe and his administration blame everything negative under the sun on Trump? Obama seemingly spent seven years blaming every woe but the cat having kittens on Bush 43………..

4. 1 day ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   And what regulatory action do you think could or should have changed that outcome?

   My understanding is that the “Nixon administration farm policies” were not regulatory as simply “policy.” This is not unlike WalMart and mega-markets killing off smaller grocery stores—which, in turn, killed off “general stores”………….. nobody forces you to shop at the mega-store……

5. 3 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   My wife and I raise chickens.

   I have not seen ANY proposition that the current worldwide avian flu outbreak, on par with what could be considered a “pandemic,” has ANYTHING to do with “lack of regulations.”

   Indeed, to some extent the poultry/egg business is now self-regulating to the point of paranoia. One egg-farm owner welcomed me to his railroad feed terminal, but refused to let me and my wife within A MILE of either of the two farms simply because we own chickens. (Well, if we had taken decontamination showers and changed our clothes and THEN changed into isolation suits—maybe…..)

   As ludicrous and delusional as RedHat’s proposition that “Trump will make eggs cheap again” truly is, OneEye’s assertion that “lack of regulations caused a bird flu outbreak” is equally fallacious and rises to “conspiracy theory” level.

   Oh, and the “millions of egg-laying hens” that have died? That’s because the “regulations” dictate that if the virus is detected on a farm, ALL the birds must immediately be slaughtered and incinerated—and that can be hundreds of thousands of hens, or even a million, on just ONE egg farm. And even the NY Times (in an article from April 22 of this year) acknowledges that there is a financial incentive to do so for large factory-farm corporations, as they can file for reimbursement from the government for their losses—funding not available to small poultry farms or backyard flocks that get “death sentences” when avian flu is discovered.

   As serious as avian flu is as a global avian health issue, we don’t need “disinformation” like this, either.

6. 10 days ago on WuMo

   Adam and Eve (or at least Adam) were made supposedly in God’s image.

   Which mean God has a navel.

   Which raises a whole ’nother line of questions………..

7. 20 days ago on Rabbits Against Magic

   Let’s see, most other “civilized” countries won’t let you immigrate there unless you either pay HUGE amounts in fees, bring multi-millions of business with you, and/or have a particularly desirable skill set wanted by that country………. but not the United States of late.

   Musk, Thiel, and Murdoch seem to fit those categories.

8. 20 days ago on Prickly City

   As I said, Trump built upon the precedent set by Obama. Trump basically stole every trick in the Obama/DNC playbook (built upon Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals”) and used them against the Democrats—and just slightly better, thus just slightly beating them.

   If you didn’t object when Obama used them to try and bypass Congress, then don’t complain if and when Trump uses them in a similar fashion.

9. 22 days ago on Prickly City

   I remind all that in 1980, the newly-elected Ronald Reagan was determined to eliminate the nine-year-old Amtrak network. It was an outright campaign promise of his

   Amtrak celebrated its 53rd birthday in 2024, and new locos are being delivered and new trainsets are on order.

   Trump may WANT to “deport all the illegals on Day One,” but none of his campaign promises will be that easy even with a razor-thin Republican majority in Congress. And if he tries using “signing statements” or “executive orders” to make things happen without Congressional approval, you will have to thank the precedent set by both Obama and Obama II (a.k.a. Biden).

10. 22 days ago on Prickly City

    I knew two individuals, older bureaucrats in Washington D.C., who made sincere, serious plans to move to Australia with their spouses after Bush 43 was RE-elected. They even proclaimed it to everyone who would listen. Months later they were still here, and trying their best to pretend they never said anything like that.

    I later found out from mutual associates that they had indeed inquired, but Australia would have charged them basically their entire life’s savings in immigration fees, leaving them really not that much to either retire on or buy a place to live………..

    According to other associates, including one who actually DID leave for the Isle of Man, unless you bring unique and hotly desired skils, or an entire company with multi-millions with you, the same is true of most other “civilized” “sorta-socialist” places any American might want to “flee” to—they’ll soak you like heck for your share of the “social safety net” you haven’t been paying into for years.