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•     How is it that the government can’t control petrol prices…but the weather is something they can fix?
•    We’re churning out a generation of poorly educated people with no skill, no ambition, no guidance, and no realistic expectations of what it means to go to work.
•    If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses.  I wanted to be a pirate.  Thank goodness nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery
•    Why were we told to lower our AC usage on hot days to prevent overwhelming the electric grid while simultaneously being told to trade in our petrol cars for electric vehicles?
•    Why is cancelling student debt a good idea?  Does it make sense to reward people who do not honour their financial commitment by taxing the people who do?
 •    Does it make sense to cut off oil from an ally and buy it from an enemy who calls for your death?
 •    Are we living in a time where intelligent people are silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended?
 •    Why is talking sexually in the workplace considered sexual harassment to adults…but talking about sexuality to children K-3 at school considered education?
 •    Who else had a ‘ministry of truth”…Hitler…Goebbels…Stalin
 •    If your electric car runs out of power on the motorway, do you walk to a charging station to get a bucket of electricity?
 •    Why are we running out of money for Social Security and Medicare and not for welfare and illegal’s?
 •    Nobody called it “Toxic Masculinity” when we were saving the world.
 •    Mice die in mouse traps because they do not understand why the cheese is free.  Just like socialism.
 •    The most powerful governments on earth can’t stop a virus from spreading…but they say they can change the earth’s temperature if you pay more taxes.
 •    Want to stop drunk drivers from killing sober drivers?  Ban sober drivers from driving, just as they did with the guns buy back!
 •    If you don’t want to stand for the national anthem, perhaps you should give your legs to a veteran who lost his.  That way a real man can stand in your place.
 History is not there for us to like or dislike .......  It is there for us to learn from it.  
If it offends you, even better…because, then you are less likely to repeat it.  
It is not anyone’s to erase…it belongs to all of us. HISTORY

Eugenics.... 

I still believe most of our "hot topic" social issues are related to eugenics and weeding out the undesirables from procreating or even living.

Doctors suggesting this to vulnerable and easily influenced mentally disabled and autistic patients is disgraceful. When does it stop being voluntary and at the discretion of the "good doctors"? Slippery slope indeed.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...itude.html

Quote:'Homeless people need a roof over their heads, not a lethal injection. End homelessness, not the lives of the homeless.'

The survey, by Canadian polling firm Research Co, found that 27 percent of respondents said MAID should be available to those in poverty, while 28 percent said the same for the country's roughly 30,000 homeless people.

Another 43 percent of Canadians say the mentally ill should be allowed to get a doctor's help ending their lives, and half the nation says those with disabilities should be eligible for MAID.

The survey also found broad support for the program overall — nearly three quarters of Canadians say the country has the right policies in place for letting people seek medical assistance in dying.

The survey comes as Canada's politicians weigh whether to expand its assisted suicide program to allow children and the mentally ill to end their lives.

But rights groups say the country's regulations lack necessary safeguards, devalue the lives of disabled people, and prompt doctors and health workers to suggest the procedure to those who might not otherwise consider it.

So they say.

Quote:Growing human babies from scratch in a lab could be possible in just five years thanks to a new breakthrough.

Researchers in Japan are on the cusp of being able to create human eggs and sperm in the lab from scratch, which would then develop in an artificial womb.

Professor Katsuhiko Hayashi, a Japanese scientist at Kyushu University who has already figured out the process in mice, believes he is just five years away from replicating the results in humans. 

But there are ethical concerns, as it means women of any age could have babies. Parents may also want to design their offspring to have certain traits using gene editing tools, giving way to the notion of an assumed perfect child. 

Dr Hayashi and his team recently created seven mice with two male biological parents, using skin cells from a male mouse to form a viable egg and then fertilize it.


The ability to produce custom-made human sperm and eggs in the lab is called in vitro gametogenesis (IVG).
It works by taking cells from a person's blood or skin and reprogramming them to become induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells).

In theory, these cells can become any cell in the body, including egg and sperm cells.

They could then be used to make embryos and implanted into women's wombs.

Scientists have been able to make very basic human eggs and sperm this way, but have not yet been able to make embryos.

Dr Hayashi guessed it would take five years to produce egg-like cells from humans, with another 10-20 years of testing before physicians feel the process is safe to use in clinics.

Stanford University Professor Henry Greely told Freethink he estimated that researchers will need another five to ten years to reach a reliable proof of concept, plus a decade or two for safety testing.

Jeanne Loring, a researcher at the Scripps Research Institute, said IVG in human reproduction told The New York Times in 2017: 'I wouldn’t be surprised if it was five years, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was 25 years.'

It would mean that scientists could generate sperm and eggs for infertile people from one of their blood cells, for example.

About one in 10 couples in the US struggles to conceive - and some of those are same-sex couples or hopeful single parents who have to rely on donated sperm or eggs, IVF and, in some cases, surrogates. 

But there are still lots of ethical, legal and safety questions surrounding IVG.

Some ethicists worry that closing the door on infertility could quickly open the flood gates to designer babies, eugenics and legal snags that our society may be unprepared to sort out.

It could allow people to steal the DNA of others using a strand of hair and make babies without their consent. 
In 2016, Japanese researchers created stem cells using eight-week-old mice, picking ones that had dropped a Y chromosome for some reason.

Scientists then manipulated the cells in a way to copy the remaining X chromosome, and create a cell with two X genes - what would usually be considered a female cell.

'The biggest trick of this is the duplication of the X chromosome,' Dr Hayashi said.

They turned those cells into eggs and used sperm from male mice to fertilize them in the laboratory.
The process led to the birth of more than a half-dozen healthy mice pups.

Dr Hayashi told the New Scientist he believes the door is now open to children being born from two fathers.
The aim is to replicate this same process with human cells.

'Purely in terms of technology, it will be possible [in humans] even in 10 years,' he told The Guardian.
'I don't know whether they'll be available for reproduction.

'That is not a question just for the scientific program, but also for [society].'

Quote:In 1930 Frederick Edwin Smith, the First Earl of Birkenhead, wrote a book, The World in 2030 A.D., containing predictions about war  (it’ll be less vicious when the world is a “single economic unit”), the state of agriculture (it will gradually go extinct), and the effects of science (Einsteinian physics will “provide the instinctive background to all men’s minds.”)

But the chapter that really stuck out for me was the one about women in the year 2030, which included predictions about ectogenesis; creating life outside of the body, presumably in a laboratory setting. The author claims that this will be the first step to men and women being paid equal wages for the same work, and usher in a brave new world that enables women to vastly “expand their accomplishments in every sphere of life.”

Quote:    In 2030, the prospect of woman’s liberation from the dangers of childbirth will almost certainly become a matter of general realisation. This evolution, the most serious biological departure since the natural separation of living organisms into two sexes, will vitally transform the whole status of women in society. Unless their present importance and limitations be clearly apprehended, their future development cannot be apprehended.

    Science as I hinted in a previous chapter, already foreshadows the possibility of producing living offspring in the laboratory from the germs of various animal species. Hitherto no living animal has been brought to birth ab initio; but the foetus of various species has been removed from the maternal organism and further developed by skilful manipulation in biological laboratories. It is certain that scientists will one day succeed in producing a living human infant by such means. This process, known as ectogenesis, will be violently and furiously opposed by the spiritual descendants of all those who now attack contraception….The first practitioners of ectogenesis will possibly obtain the crown of martyrdom.

Lab-grown Babies in the Year 2030

This is a very interesting image of the Black Hole named Pictor A.



There it is in the center busily gobbling up the 2 stars circling around it.

What is unique about it is the viewing angle is from the top down which as far as we know is - it is the only time such an image has been taken from that angle.

So my team processed it and were quite surprised with the results -



It reminds me of science class in school where they put a sheet of paper over a magnet and poured iron filings over it.

The magnetic forces of this thing obviously must be tremendous!

Found this video at another site (not TOS). It's only a little under 16 minutes long but it's loaded with useful information on the off chance of getting arrested in the future. It does a great job of illustrating how the police try to take advantage of people who don't know any better (also in this case going through serious withdrawals)  and exercising your rights. 

Police are tricky. When I was pregnant with my oldest I had my house and yard searched and was brought in for questioning over something I had absolutely nothing to do with (and was physically IMPOSSIBLE for me to do while hugely pregnant). My answer to every single question and statement they made was "I didn't do shit!" so they told me "We're setting up a polygraph for you. After you take it you can leave." I told them "Fuck you! I want my lawyer NOW!" They asked who my lawyer was and the look on their faces! (My lawyer and former next door neighbor was the city judge.) They immediately told me I could leave and didn't bother me again for many years.

Enjoy the video!

So this happened in a neighboring town to my hometown down in Texas. Just the sort of thing I would expect but thought I would share to give those who haven't lived in a small town a taste of the beauty of small town life as an alternative to all the drama.

In Groves, Texas a girl with Type 1 Diabetes got a service dog named Sadie. Sadie has gone to school with her human, Annslee, since 3rd grade and Sadie will now graduated with honors from Middle School.

Quote:Round of a paws for a special Groves Middle School graduate!

Sadie is graduating with honors from the 8th grade. She was a service dog for Annslee Barbosa, who will now move on to high school. 
Sadie started going to school with Barbosa, who is a Type 1 diabetic, in the 3rd grade at Taft Elementary, then to Groves Elementary and now up to 8th grade at Groves Middle School.

This is just an opinion piece but.... The FBI was doing shady things under even Hoover and the CIA seems to do one thing good and many things bad IMO.. Maybe a change of leadership for both is all I can expect... if we get someone with balls and good body guards to attempt change in these organizations. Big bad body guards who are loyal and adept with security...
https://lists.youmaker.com/links/FsYNiK8...MhCAHj68NY

Quote:May 24, 2023Updated: May 24, 2023

Commentary
The FBI was a bad idea from its start in the days of J. Edgar Hoover. The agency began in an atmosphere of blackmail.
Now resembling police forces in totalitarian countries, the FBI has become an instrument of oppression of the people it was allegedly meant to protect and serve.
Reports that the bureau has been infiltrating almost all right-of-center organizations are myriad. In our elections, it hasn’t just put its finger on the scale; It has placed its full arm, elbow first.
Just as it’s said that Xi Jinping’s China is “Communism with Chinese characteristics,” it can be said that the FBI is the “STASI or KGB with American characteristics” (the pretense that the Bill of Rights is being followed).
Since centralized power tends to corrupt, in many ways, this was inevitable.
On May 24, we got yet another view—as if we needed one—into the culture of the agency when, as reported here, a deputy assistant FBI director of counterintelligence, Jill Murphy, admitted in congressional testimony that she hadn’t read the years-in-the-making Durham Report on her organization’s activities regarding supposed Trump–Russia collusion.
She was “too busy,” she said, in a response that sounded as if she were auditioning for Saturday Night Live. All she needed was a wink at the audience.
For good reason, the FBI (also the CIA—more in a moment) has come up as an important issue in the Republican presidential primary and also, via Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in the Democratic one.
Outsider (is he still that?) candidate entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy shares my assessment and has said he would immediately “shut down” the FBI, as well as the Department of Education and other agencies.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, another GOP candidate, takes the reformist view, stating that “Heads need to roll” at the FBI after Durham. This same stance has been taken ad infinitum by Sean Hannity on all his Fox shows. Just punish the bad guys at the top and all will be well.
But would it? The FBI has more than 37,000 employees yet the whistleblowers–brave that they are—are but a handful. The overwhelming majority, afraid for their jobs, brainwashed, or just hunkered down, are in the end, much like Ms. Murphy, loyal followers of a corrupt and finally anti-democratic culture.
Besides, the reformist path was already tried by one Donald J. Trump, and look what it got him—Christopher Wray, the very image of the worst stonewalling bureaucrat.
Trump blames his nomination of Wray as FBI director on Chris Christie. One can assume that won’t happen again and the 45th president will choose considerably better should he become president again. But would that too be enough?
It would be interesting to hear more details of what Trump plans to do in his executive capacity with both agencies, the FBI and CIA; perhaps, for strategic reasons, that should be left as a pleasant surprise.
That shouldn’t stop us, however, from envisioning what replacement organizations might be like.
I am as interested here in what readers may think as much, or more, than I think, but I will throw out a few suggestions.
The FBI—with a new name—should be a seriously curtailed, domestic-only enterprise with a highly restricted budget and vastly fewer employees.
Most, virtually all, crime-stopping should be in the hands of local state and city constabulary with this new “FBI” stepping in only in obvious interstate situations—a serial killer on the run and so forth.
As an example, they shouldn’t, as they do, have their nose in the Covenant School murders here in Nashville, Tennessee. The further investigations of this nature go from ground zero, the more likely they are to be misused for biased political purposes.
They shouldn’t have anything to do with investigation of terrorism, spying and so forth, domestic or foreign. Their recent bungling, or apparent ignorance, of the Chinese communists having their own police forces in our cities is but one illustration of extreme incompetence in this area. They were evidently too busy spying on us.
The major job of this organization should be aiding states in coordination, not in solving crimes. Above all, it shouldn’t be located anywhere near the Beltway.
What to do about foreign and domestic spying is more complicated. The CIA that grew out of World War II’s Office of Strategic Services (OSS) exists for a reason that need not be explained here.
The problem is its authority and reach has metastasized far beyond that logical explanation.
Kennedy—with obvious personal motivation—has had the courage to point that out. That’s made his presidential campaign among the most noteworthy of recent times.
Mere reformation of the CIA, including the vaunted Church Commission of 1970, seems a prime example of that quote attributed to everybody and everything from Albert Einstein to a Chinese proverb: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Like the FBI, the CIA mustn’t be reformed but canned.
But how, with China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and others in the present or future out to get us?
I would submit one word: smaller. Maybe two words: much smaller.
Intelligence agencies by their nature become less efficient as they expand, as do most bureaucracies. We apparently have 17, and computers do most of the work now anyway.
But who keeps tabs on some lean version? Congress? I hate internet acronyms, but somehow SMH comes to mind.
Perhaps we need a new, second, Supreme Court of sorts (with or without lawyers) specifically tasked with keeping tabs on the new FBI and CIA to ensure they are spying on our adversaries and not us.

Anyone listen to it?

I just finished listening to it a bit ago. Total Jeb energy.

Big mistake not to wait another cycle, imo.

Like the title says Canada is dying yet if you think about your own country you will recognize some of the headlines from where you live.

Good morning, fellow doers!

Earlier this spring, I was thinking about an idea I had. It came from a YouTube video (now so deep in my history as to be irrecoverable) and I started checking on the possibility. I have two goals for this project: honey (haven't been able to afford that golden elixir in a couple of decades) and pollination for my garden. So far the pollination hasn't been terrible as we do have an occasional wild honeybee and plenty of bumblebees, but more is better when it comes to pollination.

Now, surely, someone else on here raises bees... so I decided to post this to let that someone educate me. I want to learn all about this before I jump in with both feet. Here's what I am thinking:

Out near my barn there is plenty of room for several hives. That's maybe 50 feet from my garden as well (assuming bees don't get deterred by wire fences, lol). It's also a respectable distance from my house. I am about the only one usually out there, and bee stings don't hurt me all that bad. They sting, yes, but compared to a red wasp (those buggers have stung me plenty throughout my life) they're an annoyance.

I'm thinking of starting with a single hive and letting them swarm until I have maybe three at the most. I'm not interested in selling honey; I am interested in having honey. I could get all the equipment to make the honey, which as I understand it is a few 5-gallon buckets, straining material, and a small (2-frame?) centrifuge. I have plenty of room to set that up.

Yes, that includes a bee suit. I'm tough, not stupid.

I plan on making my own hives, too, and that includes the frames. I am decent at woodworking after all. I have one issue with the standard stackable hives, though, and that is the amount of work to lift them off one at a time. They need to be inspected regularly and of course taken out to get the honeycomb. But in my present health, any physical exertion is severely limited... I still have some strength, but stamina have I none. I have 5 minutes to exert on a good day, then it's a folding chair for an hour while I try to wheeze myself into a coma. I am therefore looking for the easiest hive to inspect and remove frames from; difficulty in assembly is a secondary consideration. So any advice on that front is appreciated. I even had the bright idea of making an outer frame with hives that could slide in and out, but I have been told that's just not feasible because of how the bees tend to seal their hive.

I'm also trying to decide what kind of wood to use. I am et up with cedar and red oak, and of course pine is cheap to buy. I do have the capacity to turn rough-cut boards into finished lumber, so I could find other indigenous species at local sawmills (and maybe barter some standing logs for lumber; I'm not able to run a sawmill anyway so I deal with them time to time).

The only competition around that area would be the bumblebees and the occasional wasp (very few wasps out there). We do have yellow jackets, but they are on the opposite end of the place, 500 yards or so away.

I missed getting everything running this spring; I was unprepared and things take me longer than they do normal people. But come next spring, I would like to be ready to get some bees. That means I need to start preparing now. So come on, all you rogues and roguesses out there in virtual conspiracy land! What advice you got for an aging, decrepit redneck who so far has refused to fall down?

TheRedneck