Talk about whatever you want in the comments... except Trump's big speech. The previous post is the place for that conversation.
March 4, 2025
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Talk about whatever you want in the comments... except Trump's big speech. The previous post is the place for that conversation.
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Cory “T-Bone” Booker
Cory “Coco” Booker. Cory “Gammy” Booker. Ok, I’ll stop now.
Lets just put this right here.
President Donald Trump‘s Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has a message for egg consumers left hungry by out-of-control egg prices: Go cluck yourself — and buy a chicken to produce your own eggs.
My Home Town Chicken Laws
Are chickens allowed in my town? No
How many chickens can I have? 0
Can you have roosters in my town? No
Chicken coop placement rules: Not applicable
Application process: Not applicable
"While sleeping, the bottlenose dolphin shuts down only half of its brain, along with the opposite eye. The other half of the brain stays awake at a low level of alertness. This attentive side is used to watch for predators, obstacles and other animals."
Neat trick. Reminds me of Drago for some reason.
Saw that Ontario's Premier Ford threatened to cut off electricity coming through his province to the U.S. grid. I then went to the North American pipeline map and noted that there is still no trans-Canadian oil pipeline and all oil for eastern Canada transits the U.S. Hmmm.
The Philosopher's soccer game. Watch any time - yet what is time?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KX-ZFfCn6s
My previous town, Milwaukie, Ore., allowed up to 50 chickens. I kept a herd of 35-40. Portland and most other towns allowed 3. I believe I was the largest chicken rancher in the Milwaukie-Portland Metro area.
In larger numbers, the stupidity of chickens can be hilarious.
Hey gadfly, how many laying hens did Biden order destroyed right before he left office? The number escapes me for some reason, but I think it was a large one. This kind of dishonesty on your part is one of the reasons your posts carry so little weight around here, except for entertainment purposes, of course.
Looks like <a href="https://x.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1879996121734381599>the jig is up</a>!
Most chickens I ever had was a dozen. I bought a mixed run of chicks from Tractor Supply, and ate the roosters as they started to crow, and kept the hens, which didn't lay for several months. Chickens are fun to keep, to be honest. I have been hesitant though, due to bird flu. I even got rid of the bird feeder.
Carville Trump is suffering from late stage venereal disease and hates America. Other dems don't use that script because they too have late stage venereal disease.
I had six roosters for three years, arrived on their own and stuck around free range, eating ticks.
"The past is a foreign country: They do things differently there." -- L.P. Hartley, English novelist
There were things in the past that were deeply meaningful to the people of the time that are now vanished and all but forgotten. Take, for example, Chatauqua, which was an adult education and social movement in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. It started at Fair Point on Lake Chatauqua, New York, as a place for Presbyterians to train Sunday School teachers and became a chain of permanent camp sites and traveling circuits that entertained and educated people for short periods of time each year. They featured speakers on various topics of the day, touring companies of plays, bands and more.
I became curious about the traveling circuits in the small towns of Texas, wondering if they might have been a place where my eccentric great-grandfather might have picked up some of his strange notions. I found out that the Chatauqua circuit did come to his hometown in the early decades of the 20th Century, so it's a possibility.
One of my cousins lives in Waxahachie, Texas, which was an annual Chatauqua site from 1900-1930, which ran about ten days each year in the summer. There is a cool historical web site which has pictures and a list of some of the programs and speakers from those decades in Waxahachie, and the Chatauqua building was restored in the mid-1970s and is still used for cultural events.
My favorite from the Year-By-Year Highlights was from 1919: Lecture topics included “The University of Hard Knocks” and “Grouches: Their Cause and Cure.” Apparently the proclamation of a cure was premature.
https://www.waxahachiechautauqua.org/history-new
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1897087980566884597
My Home Town Chicken Laws
So just because you're being governed by idiots, nobody else can act on his suggestion?
Hope he hadn't already spent the money.
Climate scientist Michael Mann's $1M defamation judgment over 'molested data' slashed to $5,000
Speaking of hard knocks... In a unanimous Zoom vote, the Dems voted to make Saint Jude Thaddeus their patron saint.
"Saint Jude Thaddeus is one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ, also known as Judas or Jude of James, he is the patron saint of hopeless causes and is invoked in desperate situations."
Hey, Jude.
Progressive sharing his blue town L’s:
My Home Town Chicken Laws
Are chickens allowed in my town? No
How many chickens can I have? 0
Hey Jaq and Jim: Stick to the subject. Stupid people now in power are saying get your own chickens. Most towns and cities in the USA have some local law and/or ordinance regarding livestock and poultry in place and no two towns' restrictions and allowances are identical, so before you get started with chickens you should find out what the local laws and ordinances in your area is.
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Confess. Repent. Until today, upon hearing Glenn Gould interpret Bach, now for hours, and thankful for the mentions of Gould, I considered Mozart playfully, promiscuously, puzzlingly greater than intolerably constipated Bach.
Penance. Listen more. Wish I were competent to propose a Gould piece for Trump’s intro, a duo compliment or substitute to “Hail To the Chief,” tonight.
"Take, for example, Chatauqua, which was an adult education and social movement in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries....
Thanks Clyde, Good One !
Gould hums.
Stick to the subject.
It IS the subject. You brought it up. And I'm well aware of our local laws/ordinances. Several of my friends and acquaintances have their own runs. I choose not to.
He wasn't saying people HAD to get their own chickens. It's an option.
When - not if, when - the prices come back down, what will you bitch about then?
Milwaukie Guy: Petroleum products are among St. Lawrence cargoes.
That’s because oil and other petroleum products are already moving on the river and Great Lakes in large tankers and have been for decades. In 2023 alone, the Port of Montreal handled 13.9 million tonnes of liquid bulk in 2023 in ships carrrying petroleum products.
Suncor knows first-hand about shipping oil on the St. Lawrence. Its Montreal Refinery is one of two refineries in Quebec that receives imported oil feedstock via the St. Lawrence, and ships petroleum products on the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway.
Maybe you can work with your local council to support turning a local playground into a communal garden.
That’s because oil and other petroleum products are already moving on the river and Great Lakes in large tankers and have been for decades.
Because progressives don’t understand pipelines.
MTG is in full MAGA gear?
Only 4 of the Justices showed. 2 Libs and 2 Cons.
Musk is wearing a suit. 🙀
Has there ever been an ejection during a joint session?
Jim: The stupid guy appointed as SEC-AG said to God and everyone: "buy a chicken to produce your own eggs." He thinks that he is in charge because Trump said he was.
Egg prices won't go down until the chicken population grows which cannot happen until the bird flu epidemic is under control. And that won't happen as long as dumb manning decisions and priorities continue to arise from the little Doggies.
How did that work out? 😂
We have a healthier country than we thought Bobby.
Clyde, thanks for that info and link my g-grandpa O was born I. Texas and lived there til the last 1910s before coming to California. Old pictures of him when he was young shoed he had a musical and busy life, but life turned him into a narrowly focused farmer. I'm curious to see of any of that passed through his Texas hometown
@Gadfly, well you could have made your point about city ordinances politely, up front, but instead you decided to goad the others, as if it's somehow Trump's fault, proposing chickens when community leaders beat him to the punch by putting their head up their ass and banning them in advance.
Maybe you're like one of those guys that Lesbian Deputy Fire Chief Kristine Larson was talking about, out in California. Maybe you got yourself in the wrong place, if you need chickens, and you're looking for help from City Hall. A good progressive like yourself should already know those things.
Where I live, I buy my eggs from a bunch of kids, whose various parents have got them raising chickens in their back yard. Most of them got started during COVID, when there was another egg shortage, but it's a great practical family project - for people that would rather do, than whine about it.
Gadfly - the Democrat party is a sewer.
The Democrat party is a corrupt religious cult.
A cult of lies.
Here's something to think about. I put a significant fraction of my income into my 401K. Like, 20%. So do a lot of people. And that investment drives "the market", which consists of those investments that my 401K is allowed to invest in. But my reason is not that I think those are good investments. A huge part of my motivation is the tax immunity. So, what happens to Vanguard, and Fidelity, and Blackrock, when MAGA cancels the income tax?
Egg prices went sky high in Colorado - because of our democrat governor. New law banning most chicken egg farms because they need massive amounts of outdoor space - and the farms could not complete the task in time.
The result = no eggs on the shelves at stores for weeks at a time. and yes - high prices. Only liars blame Trump.
Democrats - lie.
To make this concrete - I'd like to invest in property. Property holds value well against inflation, and has utility as well. But as a retirement investment, it is discriminated against in tax treatment. Which makes a "moat" around bullshit "equities" with a P/E of 100 or more.
“So, what happens to Vanguard, and Fidelity, and Blackrock, when MAGA cancels the income tax?”
They skyrocket? That kind of income becoming available for investment is going to be like market meth.
OK. I'm very excited to see the movie, Flow.
I have not been excited to see a movie in ages.
thanks for the good word, Ann.
It looks like I consistently misspelled Chautauqua in the previous comment. Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. The link, however, was spelled properly, fortunately. I found the pictures from the 1901 and 1904 encampments interesting. None of those were my family, but they were my people.
“To make this concrete - I'd like to invest in property. Property holds value well against inflation, and has utility as well. But as a retirement investment, it is discriminated against in tax treatment.”
I hate to give advice but you can look at REITs to get exposure to real estate, but not commercial real estate now. You are on your own in investing.
Jupiter - you might also consider the fate of Canada, I gather, where investment in real estate to the exclusion of things that actually produce something is leading to a crisis. So I am told by my finance husband. (Not the other one[s].)
Godspeed, Althouse commentarit! I'll speak with you after Lent.
I am pondering on the word, "cocksucker". It is generally deployed as a pejorative. But I have questions.
1 - Is a "cocksucker" necessarily a bad person, by virtue of their being a sucker of cocks?
I think not. I have personally verified that certain persons of my acquaintance suck cock, and I found nothing to complain of in that circumstance.
2 - So, why is "cocksucker" an insult? Or, more precisely, a term of abuse? I think it simply means "homosexual". No one calls a woman a cocksucker, although plenty of women -- well, quite a few, anyway -- suck cock. It is only an insult when directed at a man.
3 - Compare "bastard". The accusation of illegitimacy was, for a long time, an inerasable stain. The only effective defense was denial. To suggest that there was nothing inherently wrong with being a bastard was regarded simply as special pleading.
4 - So. Is "cocksucker" an "insult"? Is it a "slur"?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump alerted America's farmers to coming U.S. tariffs on "external product," telling them to get ready to sell their goods domestically.
"To the Great Farmers of the United States: Get ready to start making a lot of agricultural product to be sold INSIDE of the United States. Tariffs will go on external product on April 2nd. Have fun!" Trump wrote on his private social media platform amid escalating trade tensions.
Agra-Pulse reports: USDA raises forecast for FY25 ag trade deficit
"As today’s forecast suggests, America’s farmers, ranchers and processors remain the best in the world and global demand for high-quality, safe and sustainable products is at or near record highs," Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack under Biden said in a statement on USDA's latest numbers. "Today’s forecast also shines light on the health of the American economy. A strong dollar and economy are evidenced by U.S. consumers’ demand for imports of high-value products such as spirits and coffee. The U.S.’s agricultural export numbers should remain strong unless retaliatory tariffs result in steep declines.”
We'll have all the problems solved by the time you get back, Jamie!
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🚨 BREAKING: Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D) sends stern warning to Trump and Elon Musk.
"We are gonna continue to speak lies to his truth, to his stealing and to his cheating."
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Damn they admit it publicly! 🤣 no wonder their approval ratings are 💩
6:22 PM · Mar 4, 2025
https://twitter.com/i/status/1897064572584124756
Mayors Brandon Johnson (Chicago), Michelle Wu (Boston), Mike Johnston (Denver), and Eric Adams (New York) are scheduled to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee later this morning.
https://x.com/GOPoversight/status/1896607588823007738
Bully Booker and his Bludgeon
One would think the Democrats could find one sane, even-tempered Congressman who could conquer the urge to demonstrate in full view of the national media why the American people loathe and despise them, but no, there is no such person. They are all wicked and utterly mad
Memeorandum served up this article about women who want to divorce their Trump-voting husbands that I found pathetic, funny, and oddly a little optimistic at the end. https://slate.com/life/2025/03/donald-trump-divorce-marriage-politics-men-women.html
Some of these marriages have bigger problems than Trump. What's striking to me (and a lot of political discourse in the Trump era) is how nothing bad really happens, but people freak out about how crossing-the-Rubiconly bad things are.
There are a number of remarkable/absurd quotes, but my favorite is "Trump was forcing couples to have arguments over the kinds of things marriage counselors across the world could have never predicted." Forcing! Nasty old Trump, reaching across the country forcing people to say things and be mean to each other. They have no choice! No agency. Other quotes:
“I couldn’t have been prouder, the way she [their daughter] handled my husband,” Beth said in October, back when polling data still had Harris up by a point or two. “She really did a big fuck you. She wasn’t taking any shit from him.”
“She texted me that she would rather be dead than deal with another Trump presidency,” Beth said.
“I realize I made a major mistake the last nine years. After the election, I turned off cable news and I got my ass off Twitter,” she says. (She’s moved over to Bluesky.) [Hahahahaha] Heather now thinks she pushed her husband toward voting for Trump by having had such a noisy reaction to his support in the first place, eight years ago. “If I had just had a more reasonable reaction, and talked to him reasonably, maybe he would have listened to me,” she says. “He’s not right about Donald Trump, but was it important enough to destroy a 25-year marriage? There was a lot of marriage before there was a Donald Trump.”
“I feel like I’ll be letting people down if I don’t proceed with the divorce,” she says.
Looks like Democrats have a self proclaimed candidate for 2028. Good luck with that!! This little racist will unite us all!!! NOT!
End Wokeness
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett just posted this
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1897101207304593461
You see people the problem was not the unpopular policies but the messaging. We didn’t use little props and signs before. Now that be burned through the last of our USAID money on consultants that came up with this sign and card idea we’ll be well on our way!
…the first sign I saw, the one I think what was flung towards The President, had it absolutely correct: This is Not Normal. No, no this is not and you are not
It occurred to me that, given the physical disparity between male and female athletes, trannies are purely bullying the girls.
IIRC they wrote a lot of books on the bullying topic. Inside and out, fully documenting motives, spreading the mechanics.
Thorough.
From Sundance...
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2025/03/04/seven-ways-from-sunday-group-select-one-of-their-own-to-deliver-state-of-the-union-rebuttal/
Slotkin outed
Q: Why did the gadfly cross teh road?
A: Who cares…
Lem: “ Has there ever been an ejection during a joint session?”
Yes. I have personal knowledge of this.
Oh, you said “ejection?”
Never mind…..
JSM
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