Another out-of-the-park Trump nomination; Humptedy McConnell falls; British chest feeding u-turn; we don't hate NYT nearly enough; no free healthcare for illegals; FBI drone report to Congress; more.
Psalm 73 is one of the first psalms I memorized many years ago and I find myself reciting it regularly these days as it's so applicable to the evil in our times. "When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me. Until I entered the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their final destiny. Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin, how suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors..." vs. 16-19 NIV
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McConnell and the other really old fogies you mentioned like Shelby, Feinstein, etc. were not Boomers. They are all from the Silent Generation. Boomers were born 1945 to 1964.
Are there useful distinctions to draw between early and late Boomers? Just an impression, but early Boomers seemed to adopt the work ethic of the Greatest Generation and became more driven, materialistic, and a little cutthroat. Late Boomers seemed to step into a pampered world with plenty of good jobs. We (meaning I), didn't need to work all that hard and adopted more of the peace, love, and freedom inspired by fringe Flower Power radicals half a generation ahead of us. Looking back, Laissez Faire made some of us lazy compared to our parents and older siblings. Thank God I got lucky and little of that rubbed off on my kids, but a growing chorus of Boomer criticism seems justified.
I'm a boomer and i laugh at the criticism. I'm still working the equivalent of overtime weekly. Just got back from traveling and loving South Korea as a solo adventurer; ignored the jet lag and went to work the next day. Some of us oldsters still have our brains and physical bearings. Hahahahaha
Step into a pampered world? Are you kidding. When I graduated college in 1981 there were few jobs. I did what many do and went on to graduate school. We didn't have the enormous student loans available. I worked my way throughout my higher education for living and spending money. My first ten years of or more after, we scratched by to pay off the loans we had and start our family. No cable, few restaurant meals or vacations. Get real!
It's always a little sketchy to broad-brush a whole generation, but in market studies and other client projects, I have read a crap-ton of 'generation' studies. Some do differentiate the early boomers from the late boomers - those who came of age in the 60's, who had a different experience growing up, from those like my husband who was born in 1963.
The most quantifiable numbers are in retirement savings and debt. The 'silents' were/are savers, and were much less likely to be in debt. In a study I read as part of research I did for a financial advisor client writing a book back in 2016, the boomer generation had 30% less savings and 40% lower asset values than the silents did when they reached retirement age. Thus, boomers are more reliant on social security, which was never intended to be the sole source of support. Boomers embrace of the good life meant less in savings and now we in the younger generations are expected to feel sorry for them and pay more in taxes to support them with all the other socialized programs needed to supplement their social security. Of course this is generalized too, there are plenty of well healed boomers filling up the luxury retirement living communities, but as a whole, they are poorer than the previous generation whose habits of thrift were borne of the great Depression.
Silents are also the last generation to have pensions in great numbers, most pension plans got rolled into 401k's in the 80's that Boomers then raided. I had a client for several years who helped boomers who had no savings other than their 401k's, use them as a vehicle to buy businesses. If the business failed, their retirement funds were gone. Many of these were execs laid off in a downsizing or whatever who had made healthy 6 figure incomes for a decade + and yet had NO savings and a load of consumer debt. Yet had a 'dream' of being a business owner despite no clue or skills to run a business - being a hot shot in a corporate jungle is nothing like the jack of all trades skills needed to be a small business owner. I felt unethical about helping these people and left the client. Many did fail.
There were 5 children in my family, all baby boomers, and every one of us are hard workers. The first 3 in our family paid our own way through college and the last 2 didn’t go beyond high school but worked hard in the jobs they’ve held. The work ethic was instilled by my parents. We were not coddled, did not have a luxurious lifestyle but we’ve all paid our own way and contributed within our communities. Interesting there were no cell phones or as many distractions as there are today.
That was my thought exactly. The younger boomers are not necessarily as bad as the older ones. They still have much to contribute, witness RFK Jr. Or anyone in their 60s.
Also McConnell is elected Statewide by ALL Kentuckians, not by a District (as mentioned by Jeff) that's strongly and safely Republican...just to be CLEAR who's guilty for boomeranging this Rino fossil into the Senate for perpetuity
It's not so much their exact birth years but when they came of age. The 1960's and 70's saw the US (and much of the world) toss aside the social conventions and mores that bound Western Civilization for four hundred years. Anyone born from about 1935 to 1960 was heavily influenced by this hedonistic movement, and many accepted it unthinkingly. The old-fashioned ideas that we are accountable to God, we will be judged, and that we exercise self-control were tossed aside like dirty underwear. It was one of the most selfish mass actions in history with zero consideration of the long-term effects on society.
This is where the Boomer hatred originates. It's not just that younger people don't like the old coots, but the destruction wrought by their unthinking, selfish hedonism. There has been no apology or even acknowledgement of what they caused. They divorced and abandoned their kids at the drop of a hat to "find" themselves. They acted as perpetual children, putting their own wants and desires first, and are called the "me generation" for a reason. They somehow twisted selfishness into a virtue, thus defying 2000 years of Christian morality. Plus their bitter refusal to hand over power to the next generation just adds fuel to fire. Last off, their stubborn and absolute refusal to even consider that opinions they formed forty years ago just might not be valid today. It's a closed-mindedness that defies explanation, particularly when *everything* their generation celebrates has made things objectively worse.
I'm 63 so I'm technically part of the Boomers but as a generation I'm the first to admit that they are a miserable lot who just happened to be born when America was booming. They got incredibly lucky and squandered their kids and grandkids inheritance on deficit spending, Mediterranean cruises, and luxury BMW's. They demanded their grandkids, with their entire lives ahead of them, take an experimental injection to protect them even though their days are numbered. Because they rejected God, they acquired none of the wisdom that comes with gray hair, but still live as if they are selfish, irresponsible teenagers.
And of course there are exceptions and not everyone from this age group acts like this. But stereotypes are generally true, and they certainly are in this case. I'm so thankful Trump is turning this over to the next generation and putting this geriatric lot out to pasture.
Really insightful comment Jeff C. I'm Gen Xer and remember the self-help, 'get in touch with your inner feelings' garbage. I thought Boomers were bad until Millennials came along. At least Boomers for the most part worked in high school if not earlier, or did they? Helen Andrews wrote a wonderful book about Boomers, essentially mini-biographies about the most famous ones: Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Aaron Sorkin, Al Sharpton, Camille Paglia, etc and their lasting negative legacy on our society.
The “get in touch with your inner feelings” was nowhere, absolutely nowhere in my community, even once in college. Could you and I have come from a red vs blue State? Or could it be rural vs urban?
Aussie boomer here. I take exception to your tirade. The people you refer to were a minority in my experience. I’m 76, still married, 57 years, and we worked and helped both kids buy their own homes. Most of our friends are the same. I notice you except yourself from the boomers you despise too.
Hey you guys, I appreciate that a lot of people (particularly those in rural environments) didn't experience this. But a lot of us did, particularly in the cities and suburbs. The idea of mom at home raising kids and the family attending church together on Sunday was quite literally tossed aside by this generation without a moment's contemplation.
The statistics don't lie. Divorce rates exploded. The number of single parent homes exploded. The rate of kids being shuttled between divorced homes (seemingly as an afterthought) exploded. The number of kids coming home from school to empty houses exploded. Church attendance plummeted. These are objective facts, I didn't make them up.
Just because it didn't happen to you or you didn't do it doesn't make it go away. The traditional family structure was destroyed by this generation quite literally to satisfy their own selfish wants, and with zero shame. The idea of making the best of things (which people have done for millennia) was rejected because the parent's feelings were deemed more important than the kid's happiness. This was a social earthquake and none of these people stopped to think just maybe they weren't entitled to shirk their commitments, maybe they weren't entitled to destroy other people's lives, just to satisfy some whim. Maybe their "happiness" wasn't the most important thing in the world.
And no I didn't come from a broken home with a chip on my shoulder. I'm happily married now with two grown boys. But I've seen the havoc wreaked by this generation to my friends and acquaintances. Christmases spent at two different homes because their parents hate each other and are too infantile to act pleasant to each other. Boomers repeatedly missing their grandkids special occasions because it conflicted with their umpteenth visit to Cabo San Lucas. Splurging $70k on a new Mercedes when their grandkids are in crap public schools. It never even enters their mind to skip the car and offer to pay the kid's tuition.
This type of behavior would have been unheard of a couple generations ago. It was *entirely* normalized by this generation. Entirely, they started it. They were the most spoiled and selfish generation in history. Then when someone points it out they get all huffy and defensive.
I appreciate that you guys aren't like this and thank God there are some great people who came from that generation. But let's not lie to ourselves and act as if this didn't happen. It clearly did, and that's not just an opinion but an objective fact backed by solid evidence.
MAN you paint with a broad brush! The old saying that one fly spoils the ointment applies. Just because a fraction (yes, only a fraction) is awful you tar the lot.
Many of us boomers did not reject God or give up their Christian faith, try to live our Biblical values and saw the Covid sham for what it was. You are generalizing here and I don’t see nor have experienced what you describe at all. The way you are raised makes a huge difference in how you live your life.
💯🎯 Jeff! From a 66 yo Boomer who sees it in the tragic family situations of my generation’s friends, and relatives…at the center a complete rejection of God and His moral laws, including sacrificing their unborn children…💔😢
Abortion in the beginning was used so women could cheat on their spouse… this is before PP. It lead to loose morals within marriages. Once PP got hold of it, it also added the genocide of certain groups of people that you still see today. Now, it is government funded and the door is wide open to kill every possible baby it can. There is no God there… just satan’s minions.
I actually think the generational division stuff is stupid. It makes no sense to me at all. I don't know why anyone indulges in it as it's a made-up thing that's meant to divide us.
Age is such an arbitrary characteristic. We've all known people who seem to have given up in their forties and people 80 something who are vital and alive. To being vital and alive always!
Completely agree! It’s so random and arbitrary! Kind of like race. No one can give definitions for these groups or cutoff points based on any objective criteria. The dividing lines are just something someone decided was the most important cutoff point but there’s no solid argument that it HAS to be then. Like you said, just another way of dividing us 😕
Its another element of the divide and conquer tactics of those who want to destroy America. "United we Stand, divided we fall." They want to divide us in every possible way.
I'm not so sure, and there’s no reason to choose off and fight about it. Of course, we're each unique by nature and should treat others as individuals rather than stereotypes. But in highly significant ways, we’re also products of nurture, and the social structures we inherited are gonna leave a mark. Maybe we’ll understand ourselves and others better if we parse out the elements of culture to which we naturally reacted or conformed.
I generally agree with you, but I do find it interesting that Gen Xers stick out like a sore thumb supporting Trump. I sort of think it's because we were too young or not born during the worst of the civil rights era, and we weren't propagandized the way boomers and older and millennials and younger have been. So the race-baiting crap doesn't work on us the way it does other generations.
We drank from the hose outside, we came in when the street lights came on, we were not attached to a phone… we played and we worked to make money. I am 60 and so grateful that I grew up when I did because I didn’t have this fear that is being thrown at kids today… there fear everything… their feeling get hurt easy, they barely talk to each other… they have made their relationship through their social media sites. They don’t know how to talk to each other and develop deep relationships.
Isn’t it because you are dealing with Biden policies in a way Boomers aren’t? And Millennials aren’t yet? We Boomers are mostly retired. I’m not. But most of my cohort is. Too young and you aren’t paying taxes, dealing with the bureaucracy etc.
I don’t think it’s arbitrary at all, but I do think it’s less of a defining thing than popular culture would like us to believe. Generations are definitely shaped by the trends and events that happen during their formative years, even though members of that generation won’t be affected in the same way.
For example, my dad was born in 1932. He held a job every day after school in 4th and 5th grade repairing transistor radios because so many men were off at war. He helped his mom in the victory garden. He remembers kids before the polio vaccine was introduced in the 1950s being paralyzed for life, some living in an iron lung . This has given him a vastly different perspective on some things than I have, a child of the 70s and 80s. He has different views than I do on the necessity of vaccines, for example, or the importance of American military strength. This is one reason I think that President Trump continues to think that the covid vaccines were such an important thing during covid.
It isn't made up. They do plenty of things to divide us, but generational differences are very real. I twice saw a video called "What you are now is what you were when you were then. ". Really stuck with me. The essence of it was you are who you are by the time you are ~18, and nothing short of "a significant emotional experience" is going to change that. War, near death experience , major family losses, financial ruin, etc. Something is needed to trigger you out of your programming.
OK so someone born in the cutoff of 1964 is vastly different in their experience than someone born in 1963... it's nonsense. The generational divide is not one. Generations are on a continuum.
The mass media gives labels to people based on when they were born. The “baby boom” started after WW2. It’s not clear if it refers to just the United States or a larger area. The older part of the baby boom generation was of draft age during the Vietnam War. Th resulted in a different experience from those born later.
I think it's a way to generally define characteristics and behaviors as many are formed during youth. Generations that experienced war with drafts have different views than those without draft or large loses of life due to war. Boomers were big smokers while GenX and Milleneals was much less. GenZ vap more than smoke and their generation and the next one whatever it's called do not watch over the air broadcasting and
Well that's history more than people. I don't think people change much. Call me crazy. We are young, then middle aged, then old. Then we die. That's about it. The characteristics are more about your age than a generational segment.
Maybe that’s the best approach, but Jeff Childers did bring it up here in today’s writings. And he stirred the pot due to misnaming the generation he was referring to. But let’s face it, things do happen in generations don’t they? It is somewhat arbitrary on what actual years it is, but there is a zeitgeist within these swaths of people who experience things as a culture, and are of similar age. It’s also true that business marketing has grabbed these groups and put it into demographic data used for selling to us within our consumer society. It’s not made up, I’ll disagree with that. But there is some arbitrary line drawing… The ‘divide’ part, well, that’s certainly the status quo lately, isn’t it?
It’s just unfortunate that selfish octogenarians (and above) in congress are holding onto their political seats with their crypt keeping hands after they are clearly beyond serving the people. I know it’s subjective, and I don’t believe in a “retirement age”, but if you can’t mentate, it’s time to go… and shame on we the people for continuing to vote for them.
Not a blanket opinion of all octogenarians, just the decrepit ones in congress who shouldn’t be there.
One of the things I really like about Trump's picks is that many are younger. It's time to turn over the reigns and get some fresh perspective on things.
There's less difference between a boomer and genX than between any other two generations in at least 120 years.
I was born in 71 and there's really nothing a boomer experienced that I don't understand. There's way more overlap between genX and boomers than lets say millennial and genX. For example music, etc.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m very disappointed to see Boomers being conflated with ancient fossils who never did a hand’s turn and who were born well before WWII. What’s wrong with Boomers? Why create an ageist division in this formerly happy group?
Lisa - Thank you for that comment. I came here to say - please do not lump me in with those dinosaurs who have long ago sold themselves out to interests that do not serve the American people.
This! Who took us off the Gold Standard? Pushed to add China as a favored nation and opened that Pandora's Box, the list goes on. Who treated the VN-guys like crap when they came home? Just cause I was born during that time doesn't make me one of them.
Thanks Lisa P for clearing that up. I know I am a boomer (1946) but an 82 year old is not! Good try though Jeff C. Good article. When do you and others sleep who help us through the maze?
There is zero chance the FBI, CIA, NSA, and Norad don't know who is flying these drones. And the off chance that there is a slim zero chance they don't know they should consult with Israel. Israel has no problem identifying and eliminating a threat.
Part of me thinks it’s for nefarious purposes by our rogue deep state in preparation for Trump’s taking power. Another part of me feels it’s just as possible that foreigners (illegal immigrants) who were flown in had a purpose and this was part of it. Those things can easily be steered and exploded. Either way this present administration would be aware of it. In the off chance they truly don’t know, then WHY on earth wouldn’t it be the single most important issue on their plate right now? Citizen safety from foreign or domestic threats is at risk until they DO know what they are.
The only other explanation is that another country saw an opportunity to take advantage of our impotent government and is spying/testing. Or God forbid it’s actual terrorists setting up an attack. I know that sounds fanatical, but it’s exactly a tool they would plot years to use. What if these things drop biological weapons?
Go rent a Cessna and then fly into the same restricted airspace as these "drones," and see how long you are allowed to continue. FAA is selectively ignoring these things. I'm curious as to why.
Something we will not know until President Trump takes office. I'm inclined to believe it is illegal immigrants, Chinese, Iranian, and Russian, flying these. The three letter agencies won't tell us until Biden is out of the picture so they can blame it on President Trump. How far have we come in our distrust of this corrupt government? It will be a long road back to semi-trust again, but the framers had it pegged from the beginning.
This video he posted looks just like the one I saw hovering for a half hour behind our house last week in Chicago burbs, and it then flew very slowly directly over our pond and then our house. This is what it looked like. It didn’t move as fast as this picture until it moved from over the neighborhood on the other side of our pond over to our property, and then it slowed again for several minutes. Then it moved away like in the picture. Over 30-40 minutes it was behind our house.
The drones have to be ours, if they were foreign we'd take them down. They don't want to take them down or everyone will know they are ours. It is soooo obvious.
What has New Jersey got that any friend or foe would want? If it's Bruce Springsteen, I say let them have him. Or maybe the old Boardwalk in Atlantic City; East Orange or Trenton? Other than those ...., I have no idea.
I am sharing a link that I think explains how it may work. Look at the pattern Malone described in this article and see if you think the same type of thing may be going on here. They can claim they know nothing about it because they aren't officially running the operation, but it's just a game, a workaround. And still quite dishonest. Maddeningly so.
Seems reminiscent of the balloon invasion of past years.
Just a perplexing phenomena that can never be explained.
I want to believe that the drones are part of a secret military operation that protects the coast from nefarious invaders but the military under Biden seems incompetent and obsessed with virtue signaling, so that’s probably naive .
Maybe some intrepid reporter should ask the POTUS at the next White House presser. Wouldn’t that be a normal course of action?
Surely the all seeing all knowing leader of the free world would know if these drones are the prelude to an attack on the homeland. Wait just a minute!
Don’t we have a massive agency that is focused entirely on the security of our borders and airways? Surely they would know.
Congress shouldn’t be barking up the FBI tree. What do they know?
It would not surprise me one bit if we were under attack by an incoming nuke; the government would remain silent and retreat to their bunkers with their families.
Just curious, why not shoot one down & check it out. Of course they wouldn't shoot down the balloon until it had covered all the critical locations. We have a completely worthless & corrupt security system in place. January 20th cannot come soon enough.
There is more than a zero chance these lights in the skies are the same as have been reported occasionally over the years as “ufos” I’m not totally credulous on the topic, but there’s a more than zero chance.
There’s no such thing as a transgender person (except for the RARE genetic anomalies like hermaphroditism), there are only males and females. Those who claim to be trans are just a male or female who mutilated his/her body, mind, and/or soul.
A hermaphrodite is not transgender. They are born with an anomaly, but they are still either male or female. "Trans" means to change sexes, which is impossible. Hermaphrodites don't change sexes even if they have surgery on their parts, same as if a TIM decides to get his junk removed.
There are still only 2 sexes and transgenderism is a mental disorder.
Acknowledge- hermaphroditism and other genetic anomalies are unique conditions… the left lumps people with conditions like this into the mix to confuse people, and make bodily mutilation seem necessary.
Yes they absolutely do. They will have us believing there is now a magical third sex, when there is not. Their argument that there is no biological difference between men and women is so nonsensical and stupid - it's amazing that it's still actually believed by these Woke Jacobin nutjobs.
I increasingly believe anyone who still votes democrat has a mental disorder, because there is literally nothing they promote that is logical or decent anymore.
Yes, it’s the same thing if I want a different eye color from the color with which I was born, I put on colored contacts. That doesn’t mean my eyes are changed; it’s only superficial or cosmetic. Nothing can change a person’s actual DNA.
how can oat milk change hormones please? first I've seen that charge.... my sons are anaphylaxis allergic to cow milk, and to almonds, so I am left with alternative milk products. I know to stay away from soy milk, but I thought oat and coconut were okay substitutions. please share your knowledge 🙏 😊
but both guilty as hell - and then there is the DOD? spraying metals and cancer causing chemicals in the sky - chem trails that also poison the soil which ultimately destroys crop production - when will we have a congressional hearing about that
New Hampshire House Bill 1700 (introduced by Republicans, if I read this correctly)
24-2554
08/10
HOUSE BILL 1700-FN
AN ACT prohibiting the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.
I know! I was born here and just the last few years they have been trashing the sky all year round. I hate it so much. Lefty environmentalists and climate change cultists are destroying our country...even deep red states!
EXCEPT… Tennessee Governor RINO Bill Lee refuses to enact SB 2691/2063 which passed in the house 70 - 22, and the senate adopted with a 25 - 6 vote undoubtedly because the lamestream media insists the operations are “conspiracy theory”
Absolutely. And the number of young people already on pharmaceuticals and killing their friends and families while on them continues to grow. SSRIs, marijuana laced with hallucinagens, anyone? I just read that like 3/4 of Americans have a prescription of some sort! I'm 61 and don't need any. What is with people? Just live healthy!
Oh don't even get me started! There are sooooo many drugs for sooooo many issues, most if not all which could be cured by nutrition, supplements, exercise and a change in attitude.
74 1/2. Last Dec 29 decided to try weaning self off levothyroxine. Now down to one half tablet, once per week: two more Mondays to go (i.e., just one more whole pill). Then done. Nothing else. Broke wrist in June, took, twice, a opioid pill. Then not even acetominophen (cuz it did nothing). Wine however, numbed pain, and gave pleasure at the same time. Natural remedy around for 5000 years.
It is all such a big daisy-chain of you-know-what and it makes me sick. We don't even have good soil here anymore. And it is ridiculous to see farmers subsidized to grow corn for high fructose corn syrup in regions that don't support agriculture of any kind. This is not corn for us to eat, it is the government paying producers so they can sell to Big Fooda. I would rather see fields of food humans can eat rather than hay for cattle to eat so we can eat them but not before it is adulterated in every way imaginable. YUCK.
I live among some of the best farm ground on this blessed earth and my friends and family who are just trying to keep their family farms viable are caught in the web of Big Food and Big Government. Family farming is controlled (through gov subsidies), without which they would not survive. The hand outs are not a hand up but a means of enforcing ‘the we own you and don’t forget it’ control.
I watched it and just wow. I am not planning to eat anything in the near future now. Pass! BIG anything is just bad. We bought some fresh chickens from our granddaughters FFA. They raised them and slaughtered them and everything, all by themselves. They have a good Ag teacher for sure. And we live in the sticks...I have been getting more serious about buying and sourcing local. Eating healthy is the most difficult thing ever, but if you do eat right, yes, it may be more expensive just looking casually, but when you eat right, you don't need to eat as much because what you are ingesting actually has nutritional value. Thanks for the link.
And the farmer in there has been appointed by Trump as Assistant to the Secretary of the USDA. How awesome is that???!!!!
Read an article on CDF yesterday talking about how Central Illinois will all but shut down if their massive high fructose corn syrup plants are shut down by legislation requiring we stop poisoning our food chain. My first thought was a woman posting on some site how her husband worked for the MIC, so yeah, she was pro war. Eff them all.
Many people in the medical freedom movement and MAHA are deeply suspicious of this sudden focus on food.
Where did the Means twins (Callie and Casey) come from, and why so suddenly?
While ultra processed food is bad for you, a little bit of it here and there won’t kill you. Now 100+ jabs in the life of an 18 year old? That’s a different story.
My spidey sense is that Big Pharma was looking for a foil, and quickly recruited a couple of telegenic spokespeople to redirect focus.
@Principled Pragmatist interesting take. I was listening to Casey Means on a podcast 2 years ago, so while that’s not a long time, it’s not yesterday. I think they just found a different avenue to wake people up. Anti-vax was a non-starter because of all the propaganda out there, so they are getting people to pay attention to the food they put in their bodies, hoping that will then expand to “why in the world do kids need all those jabs?” Personally, I think it’s genius! It’s hard to be against feeding your children decent food. Baby steps 😉
Casey Means hit the big time at the start of this year with his breakout interview with Tucker. So while he might have been making podcasts before, then, they weren’t getting the attention.
I see the strategic move involved in easing into this fight by taking baby steps. All voices should be heard as long as we’re not falling ourselves into thinking the big V isn’t at the center of this battle.
I thought that initially too. However, they are speaking out about Ozempic and the amount of childhood vaccines too. I see it as a strategic move. If they start all out with the vaccines, 60%+ of America would immediately shut them out. (for reference see Jenny McCarthy). However, if they talk about ingredients in food and lightly on vaccines, more will listen and not discount them. Once they are a trusted source, then they can take the next step.
If everyone decided to all of a sudden eat healthy at once, there would be a famine. Did you see the veggie recall due to e-coli contamination? You never hear about a Twinkie recall...
Food just doesn't taste as good as it used to. I used to love Red Robin, but here in Idaho, it is like they have just quit trying. I make better food than I could ever get in a restaurant, that is for sure.
Occasionally, I click on the links provided on recalled items in articles from The Epoch Times to see the full scope of what is being recommended for the dumpster, or to find more details about the recall.
If it was for a bacteria that MAY have been in a batch of chicken or salad vegetable that then went into prepackaged products kits, packaged chicken/salad/entrees/kits that people would eat as a more-live-than-dead food alternative to all-out-no-holds-barred, ultra-processed, "dead," "empty" calorie, junk food, the advise "must be" to throw them out... just in case.
(But then, the incentive seems to point the consumer seeking much needed food prep convenience in the direction of reverting to the junk food, doesn't it? Possibly. You're right, SadieJay, it may be just easier to throw a package of Twinkies in your desk, or can of something, for when you forgot your lunch or you need to work through lunch, or you're on the go.)
So much waste of people's money and hard work, and so much waste of plants and animals. Bulk centralization of our food supply chain operations' steps doesn't serve us well now, does it, in this situation? Sometimes, efficiency negates effectiveness, and haste makes waste.
And it removes people from the source of what they put in their bodies, and knowledge of what they are actually ingesting. Compartmentalization of the food supply chain is detrimental to humanity, IMO. It defeats the PURPOSE OF FOOD.
If things weren't done in such big batches from such big farms, trucked all over from place to place each step of the way, with so many hands in the process (and not enough eyes on it?), then the potential damage exposure would be so much more limited. So much food wouldn't get wasted. So many workers efforts wouldn't be wasted. So many purchasers' paychecks wouldn't be wasted. In so many cases, the food is already in cafeterias, lunch programs, supermarkets, warehouse stores, food banks, community kitchens, people's refrigerators, by the time a recall alert is issued.
There are times when products are pulled due to a mis-labeling issue that has nothing to do with potential for an illness outbreak. I don't think that it would hurt to eat the product... meaning, one wouldn't necessarily have to throw the product out if not allergic to the ingredient(s) wrongly* left off a label, for instance, but when people see the word "recall"... One little printing error blossoms into a huge liability on so many levels.
And a huge waste of resources, plants, animals, minerals, and human toil.
But it's what we have to work with, and I'm not advocating for famine, and sudden moves, just some thoughtful, well-laid-out, plans to get the steps for change in place, and then action-action-action, as Steve Bannon says.
The food industry definitely needs a look-see from the D.O.G.E.
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* mistakenly, or purposefully? - oh just slap the old labels in stock on the product, we're in a hurry and out of the new ones, stuff like that - or maybe packages of food went out with old labels before someone got the memo about the new ones - labels are another SKU to material-manage.
I see there was another recall, because the company forgot to list EGGS on the ingredient list. Waste!! Thank you for the comment. I just now saw it. It seems I have not been getting my notifications from Substack!
I bet the financial beneficiaries of big food also benefit from big pharma and so they see this as the one place to take a loss to save the mother ship.
Who owns Big Pharma? Who owns Big Food.? Big food may make the cheese, but Big Pharma has the cheese. Of course they are being set up as the fall guys.
If the US Navy can shoot down an Iranian commercial airliner in 1988 with everyone killed, I would think the US Navy, now run by The Village People, can take down a pesky drone in Jersey.
Case in point…The Daniel Penny travesty. But at least he has $3+ million in donations to fight the incompetent, corrupt, purely evil Alvin Bragg. Another Soros appointee.
Operation NOBLE EAGLE began 11 September 2001 to "deal with" unidentified aircraft flying in US and Canadian airspace, especially those flying in restricted airspace.
This is selective non-enforcement, for some as yet unknown purpose.
Well, a 70-something year old man (in FL, I think) was arrested for shooting at a drone flying over his house recently. A felony charge, I believe. The drone ended up being a walmart or some other delivery drone but he didn't know that. He said it had been flying over his home and he didn't know what it was.
Firing weapons in cities and some counties is illegal especially if shooting randomly into the sky. I can totally see government going after citizens for doing the job the government is obviously failing at.
How WOULD you shoot down a drone the size of a small car I wonder? And would I get slapped into handcuffs if I did it? I'm still living in pre-Jan-20-world...
1). how we quickly learned much about Luigi but still do not know much about Trump’s would-be assassin young Mr Crooks…and what took place during his year of being out of touch? and why, of all things he could argue, did he say the money in his backpack was planted?
2.). how did a young rich guy like Luigi position himself perfectly, in the dark, before sunrise, to shoot a man walking along a NYC street, from the back…how could he have recognized the man and known the time he would be walking there
3.). those drones in NJ…not the first of the drones that have popped up…why did not the DoD shoot one down when they were flying around military bases? how can an national intelligence network of hundreds of thousands (?.) not figure this out?
4.) how can the biden administration “quietly” hand out another billion dollars t Ukraine?
admittedly i am not the sharpest tool in the shed, but, jeepers…
Seems like young Luigi prior to said shooting disappeared for 6 months (apparently a statement from his family). So where did he go? Was he in the same place that young Mr. Crooks disappeared to? Enquiring minds want to know! Brainwashing camp? Anyone?!? Something or someone triggered these fellas!?! No one thought to track their missing locations via cell phones?!? 🧐🧐 something smells like 3 day old fish 🐟. Particularly love the manifesto indicating that “I acted alone”. Spectacular writing there young Luigi!
Absolutely totally heard that. His family did speak on that as well. But they also indicate that he disappeared for 6 months. Idk call me nutz but wouldn’t you stay in touch with your family while recuperating from painful spine surgery??
@AngelaK I read an interesting stack yesterday by Peachy Keenan, whose brother in law had the exact same back surgery as Luigi. She detailed his horrific quality of life due to his pain level, and how chronic pain patients are treated like druggies when all they want is enough pain medication to have a quasi-normal life. She’s wondered if Luigi’s chronic pain caused him to snap.
I think it looks like he is suffering from schizophrenia, like Ted Kaczynski (supposedly). That said, I do blame Harvard and mkultra for ruining Ted’s genius mind. So, it stands to reason, where exactly was Luigi for the 6 months and is it possible someone also used that treatment on him to flip a switch? The so-called manifesto was written in very simple language and didn’t seem on par with his earlier writing, either.
I agree, but he was on a burner phone (speaking with whom?) minutes before the shooting. And he was out there waiting for him for only 10 minutes, not all night as some reports claimed. He knew when he would be there, did someone put a tracker on Thompson’s phone or did someone tell Thompson to leave at that moment?
as to Number 2.) the man he shot was attending a conference of which details were published in advance, and where it was known that he would be in attendance, from what I understand
(similar to how Crooks knew where Trump would be in Butler, not a secret or last minute trip plan)
It would be interesting to know if Luigi had been stalking the man prior to the shooting.
All great questions that I don't have the answer to either!
This is probably paywalled, but the Washington Times is cheap (about $40 per year), and I recommend it.
Way too short a description: Clay Higgins says the FBI is lying, and will continue investigating on his own after Trump is in office, Higgins is the chair of an investigative committee, and Kash Patel is in charge of the FBI.
I tell you, I'm SICK AND TIRED of our various agencies and departments that cannot figure out how to secure our country? What the heck?!? I know they are lying and know EXACTLY what those drones are because they just simply cannot be THAT stupid! Right?
yes they are - Buyden just loaned an EV car company $6.5 billion to build a new plant when they can't even sell a quarter of the cars they build from their existing plant - and the demand is going down - the company had even abandoned the new plant program but Buyden revived it - yes they are that stupid
We just received an email from our HOA that no one in our complex of seventy homes is allowed to install a charging system for an electric vehicle as our existing electrical circuit will need an upgrade. Goodbye EV’s
Read somewhere the other day the price of lithium has fallen 90 %. Did not check it out, but makes sense, as they know the grift from EV's is coming to a screeching halt. Also read an EV battery maker said they are not viable without subsidies. To me, that means they are not viable, period.
well they should make a "net[work]" of beams crisscrossing the sky in the areas where they have been seen, and when a beam gets interrupted, another drone goes out with a net to catch the offender. Think of garage-door "eyes". We have the technology.
You’d think our hard-earned dollars would be better spent. The DOD is allotted more than half of the $1.63B FY2025 budget proposal, and yet here we are.
we are 36T plus in the hole interest on the "debt" owed to the cabal "fed" private bankers will soon eclipse all of our spending... it is not possible at this stage to pay the "debt" back... it is just plain impossible.. the only solution is declare bankruptcy and let the cabal hold a big bag of....make new money gold backed exchange the fiat currency and let er rip!
How much of Biden’s $1.63B is going into the Biden coffers? And the many corrupt politicians? And…Where’s Hunter? Back in Ukraine trying to bag a little of daddy’s latest contributions to Z?
The “Boomer” generation runs from 1946 - 1964… all the old folks you listed as Boomers are actually from the “Silent” generation. As a Boomer myself, I was offended that you threw all those old decrepit silencers in with us!
I hear you (and I’m not a Boomer but I absolutely despise that trite and condescending “ok boomer” response that’s become such a thing of late 🙄) but I think he has a point about people staying in government faaaar beyond the time they should and needing to leave to give others the chance to get involved.
I am a tail end boomer. As best I can tell, it's just shorthand for "Your generation had it pretty easy, and you have no idea how much more college educations and houses cost relative to wages."
They would be a lot better off writing that out, but I understand people know they are unlikely to convince anyone, and just keep it short.
Sitting in the dark last night (I don’t know why, just something new), I noticed a rather low flying well-lit flying object moving from South to North.
Holy cow! What is this. I watched for a while then decided it was helicopter headed to the hospital. Or was it?
Apparently, these drone reports are getting to me. I think I need a little more fun in my life. 🙂
That's raises a good reason the US government needs to stop the drones: eventually people will decide to shoot down the "drones" on their own, but they accidentally take out a helicopter. And of course bullets that go up must come down.
I love it! Capture one of those drones and see how quickly the three letter agencies show up! They totally know what’s going on!
RFK Jr: we the people MUST stay on top of him to not change course and only focus on Big Food. Ultra processed foods are NOT new……but the jabs are! And so is turbo cancer and all of these autoimmune issues popping up g up. Don’t let him abandon vaccines and big Pharma as culprits.
Of COURSE the FBI have to pretend to be baffled, otherwise, how could they foist their alien invasion psyops upon us? I am wondering if it's a half-assed psyops that simply has not worked out? That would be HILARIOUS. I think they believe we are so stupid and easily frightened that anything works on us now, such as CEO-killers with manifestos and 3d printer guns who write on shell-casings just to make sure we know how evil CEOs are. Or something.
But as for me, the nearness of God is my good;
I have set Lord Yahweh as my refuge,
That I may recount all Your works.
— Psalm 73:28 LSB
What a wonderful way to start the comments!
Amen!
SPAM
Not 'Jay Valentine' again, is it?
😂
Psalm 73 is one of the first psalms I memorized many years ago and I find myself reciting it regularly these days as it's so applicable to the evil in our times. "When I tried to understand all this, it was oppressive to me. Until I entered the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their final destiny. Surely you place them on slippery ground; you cast them down to ruin, how suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors..." vs. 16-19 NIV
Speaking of Yahweh...
https://www.unz.com/article/the-devils-trick-unmasking-the-god-of-israel/
I read the article. Pretty dumb.
Well, don't give up, you don't have to be "pretty dumb"forever if you don't want to be.
Rea Biglino's "The naked Bible"...
Blasphemous article.
Go burn a witch at the stake... you'll feel better.
Thanks for the excellent link
You bet... interesting, eh? I wish more of the simpering sheep here would wake up to it.
Tara, please don’t clutter up the comments section with your advertisements.
And for all you loyal C&Cers, please never, ever purchase anything from these on line spammers…it will only encourage them to post more of their garbage!
That's a SPAM bot.
Can it be blocked?
I think the best tactic is simply to ignore the occasional post.
And report them.
Maybe Jeff took care of her.
I tried reporting those douche bags... but they just sign up under a new name and continue...
Best to just pray for them...
(To be run over by a beer truck)
Tara, Mary, Kim. Her name is Legion like the devil.
I don’t see the spammer, Tara did she delete it?
So today we're back to Tara.
Better name than Janice. 😀😀
McConnell and the other really old fogies you mentioned like Shelby, Feinstein, etc. were not Boomers. They are all from the Silent Generation. Boomers were born 1945 to 1964.
Anyone born after 1965 thinks everyone older is a Boomer.🤦🏻♀️🙄
Correct. A Boomer is defined as those babies born between 1947 to 1964. Technically Mitch nor Nancy are Baby Boomers
Are there useful distinctions to draw between early and late Boomers? Just an impression, but early Boomers seemed to adopt the work ethic of the Greatest Generation and became more driven, materialistic, and a little cutthroat. Late Boomers seemed to step into a pampered world with plenty of good jobs. We (meaning I), didn't need to work all that hard and adopted more of the peace, love, and freedom inspired by fringe Flower Power radicals half a generation ahead of us. Looking back, Laissez Faire made some of us lazy compared to our parents and older siblings. Thank God I got lucky and little of that rubbed off on my kids, but a growing chorus of Boomer criticism seems justified.
I was born in 1962, the absolute apogee of American civilization.
If you don't believe that, search for an image of the 1962 Corvette.
I rest my case. And get off my lawn.
I'm a boomer and i laugh at the criticism. I'm still working the equivalent of overtime weekly. Just got back from traveling and loving South Korea as a solo adventurer; ignored the jet lag and went to work the next day. Some of us oldsters still have our brains and physical bearings. Hahahahaha
Step into a pampered world? Are you kidding. When I graduated college in 1981 there were few jobs. I did what many do and went on to graduate school. We didn't have the enormous student loans available. I worked my way throughout my higher education for living and spending money. My first ten years of or more after, we scratched by to pay off the loans we had and start our family. No cable, few restaurant meals or vacations. Get real!
It's always a little sketchy to broad-brush a whole generation, but in market studies and other client projects, I have read a crap-ton of 'generation' studies. Some do differentiate the early boomers from the late boomers - those who came of age in the 60's, who had a different experience growing up, from those like my husband who was born in 1963.
The most quantifiable numbers are in retirement savings and debt. The 'silents' were/are savers, and were much less likely to be in debt. In a study I read as part of research I did for a financial advisor client writing a book back in 2016, the boomer generation had 30% less savings and 40% lower asset values than the silents did when they reached retirement age. Thus, boomers are more reliant on social security, which was never intended to be the sole source of support. Boomers embrace of the good life meant less in savings and now we in the younger generations are expected to feel sorry for them and pay more in taxes to support them with all the other socialized programs needed to supplement their social security. Of course this is generalized too, there are plenty of well healed boomers filling up the luxury retirement living communities, but as a whole, they are poorer than the previous generation whose habits of thrift were borne of the great Depression.
Silents are also the last generation to have pensions in great numbers, most pension plans got rolled into 401k's in the 80's that Boomers then raided. I had a client for several years who helped boomers who had no savings other than their 401k's, use them as a vehicle to buy businesses. If the business failed, their retirement funds were gone. Many of these were execs laid off in a downsizing or whatever who had made healthy 6 figure incomes for a decade + and yet had NO savings and a load of consumer debt. Yet had a 'dream' of being a business owner despite no clue or skills to run a business - being a hot shot in a corporate jungle is nothing like the jack of all trades skills needed to be a small business owner. I felt unethical about helping these people and left the client. Many did fail.
There were 5 children in my family, all baby boomers, and every one of us are hard workers. The first 3 in our family paid our own way through college and the last 2 didn’t go beyond high school but worked hard in the jobs they’ve held. The work ethic was instilled by my parents. We were not coddled, did not have a luxurious lifestyle but we’ve all paid our own way and contributed within our communities. Interesting there were no cell phones or as many distractions as there are today.
That was my thought exactly. The younger boomers are not necessarily as bad as the older ones. They still have much to contribute, witness RFK Jr. Or anyone in their 60s.
All just brainwashed differently by the Tavistock Institute.
"Greatest Generation" indeed.
Speak for yourself, mate! I worked like a dog all my life and I’m not thrilled about having ancient fossils described as Boomers
They are not boomers, they are antiques
Also McConnell is elected Statewide by ALL Kentuckians, not by a District (as mentioned by Jeff) that's strongly and safely Republican...just to be CLEAR who's guilty for boomeranging this Rino fossil into the Senate for perpetuity
Worse...
Our kids, ages 20, 23, and 25 call us Boomers even though we were born in the 70's!!!
Gen Xers are the best! 💪
Yes we are!
⬆️ Yes!
I yell at my son I AM NOT A BOOMER YOU MILLENNIAL!! As The early “millennials “ are trying to distance themselves from the later ones. 😂
Exactly!!😅
Hahaha 😂
It's not so much their exact birth years but when they came of age. The 1960's and 70's saw the US (and much of the world) toss aside the social conventions and mores that bound Western Civilization for four hundred years. Anyone born from about 1935 to 1960 was heavily influenced by this hedonistic movement, and many accepted it unthinkingly. The old-fashioned ideas that we are accountable to God, we will be judged, and that we exercise self-control were tossed aside like dirty underwear. It was one of the most selfish mass actions in history with zero consideration of the long-term effects on society.
This is where the Boomer hatred originates. It's not just that younger people don't like the old coots, but the destruction wrought by their unthinking, selfish hedonism. There has been no apology or even acknowledgement of what they caused. They divorced and abandoned their kids at the drop of a hat to "find" themselves. They acted as perpetual children, putting their own wants and desires first, and are called the "me generation" for a reason. They somehow twisted selfishness into a virtue, thus defying 2000 years of Christian morality. Plus their bitter refusal to hand over power to the next generation just adds fuel to fire. Last off, their stubborn and absolute refusal to even consider that opinions they formed forty years ago just might not be valid today. It's a closed-mindedness that defies explanation, particularly when *everything* their generation celebrates has made things objectively worse.
I'm 63 so I'm technically part of the Boomers but as a generation I'm the first to admit that they are a miserable lot who just happened to be born when America was booming. They got incredibly lucky and squandered their kids and grandkids inheritance on deficit spending, Mediterranean cruises, and luxury BMW's. They demanded their grandkids, with their entire lives ahead of them, take an experimental injection to protect them even though their days are numbered. Because they rejected God, they acquired none of the wisdom that comes with gray hair, but still live as if they are selfish, irresponsible teenagers.
And of course there are exceptions and not everyone from this age group acts like this. But stereotypes are generally true, and they certainly are in this case. I'm so thankful Trump is turning this over to the next generation and putting this geriatric lot out to pasture.
Really insightful comment Jeff C. I'm Gen Xer and remember the self-help, 'get in touch with your inner feelings' garbage. I thought Boomers were bad until Millennials came along. At least Boomers for the most part worked in high school if not earlier, or did they? Helen Andrews wrote a wonderful book about Boomers, essentially mini-biographies about the most famous ones: Bill Clinton, Steve Jobs, Aaron Sorkin, Al Sharpton, Camille Paglia, etc and their lasting negative legacy on our society.
The “get in touch with your inner feelings” was nowhere, absolutely nowhere in my community, even once in college. Could you and I have come from a red vs blue State? Or could it be rural vs urban?
Aussie boomer here. I take exception to your tirade. The people you refer to were a minority in my experience. I’m 76, still married, 57 years, and we worked and helped both kids buy their own homes. Most of our friends are the same. I notice you except yourself from the boomers you despise too.
Hey you guys, I appreciate that a lot of people (particularly those in rural environments) didn't experience this. But a lot of us did, particularly in the cities and suburbs. The idea of mom at home raising kids and the family attending church together on Sunday was quite literally tossed aside by this generation without a moment's contemplation.
The statistics don't lie. Divorce rates exploded. The number of single parent homes exploded. The rate of kids being shuttled between divorced homes (seemingly as an afterthought) exploded. The number of kids coming home from school to empty houses exploded. Church attendance plummeted. These are objective facts, I didn't make them up.
Just because it didn't happen to you or you didn't do it doesn't make it go away. The traditional family structure was destroyed by this generation quite literally to satisfy their own selfish wants, and with zero shame. The idea of making the best of things (which people have done for millennia) was rejected because the parent's feelings were deemed more important than the kid's happiness. This was a social earthquake and none of these people stopped to think just maybe they weren't entitled to shirk their commitments, maybe they weren't entitled to destroy other people's lives, just to satisfy some whim. Maybe their "happiness" wasn't the most important thing in the world.
And no I didn't come from a broken home with a chip on my shoulder. I'm happily married now with two grown boys. But I've seen the havoc wreaked by this generation to my friends and acquaintances. Christmases spent at two different homes because their parents hate each other and are too infantile to act pleasant to each other. Boomers repeatedly missing their grandkids special occasions because it conflicted with their umpteenth visit to Cabo San Lucas. Splurging $70k on a new Mercedes when their grandkids are in crap public schools. It never even enters their mind to skip the car and offer to pay the kid's tuition.
This type of behavior would have been unheard of a couple generations ago. It was *entirely* normalized by this generation. Entirely, they started it. They were the most spoiled and selfish generation in history. Then when someone points it out they get all huffy and defensive.
I appreciate that you guys aren't like this and thank God there are some great people who came from that generation. But let's not lie to ourselves and act as if this didn't happen. It clearly did, and that's not just an opinion but an objective fact backed by solid evidence.
Did you grow up in the USA? Just curious if that also, geography, saved you a bit?
Thank you! My thoughts exactly! I wonder if it was more of an “urban thing,” because my experiences have been just the opposite.
MAN you paint with a broad brush! The old saying that one fly spoils the ointment applies. Just because a fraction (yes, only a fraction) is awful you tar the lot.
Agreed! Jeff C must have been exposed an entirely different environment than some of us.
Many of us boomers did not reject God or give up their Christian faith, try to live our Biblical values and saw the Covid sham for what it was. You are generalizing here and I don’t see nor have experienced what you describe at all. The way you are raised makes a huge difference in how you live your life.
🎯, and thank you! Agreed!
💯🎯 Jeff! From a 66 yo Boomer who sees it in the tragic family situations of my generation’s friends, and relatives…at the center a complete rejection of God and His moral laws, including sacrificing their unborn children…💔😢
Правда. Это правда.
Truth. This is truth.
The Boomers have been a curse over the land. And the root of this curse is rejection of God in favor of the gods of hedonism.
DISCO......
Later Jay
Abortion in the beginning was used so women could cheat on their spouse… this is before PP. It lead to loose morals within marriages. Once PP got hold of it, it also added the genocide of certain groups of people that you still see today. Now, it is government funded and the door is wide open to kill every possible baby it can. There is no God there… just satan’s minions.
👍🏼😂
🤭
Yeah!!! We don't want to claim those guys.
And what's wrong with boomers?I suggest that at least some of us are a wealth of
wisdom and experience that just might be useful to the know it all 50 somethings out there. So there!😁
I actually think the generational division stuff is stupid. It makes no sense to me at all. I don't know why anyone indulges in it as it's a made-up thing that's meant to divide us.
Age is such an arbitrary characteristic. We've all known people who seem to have given up in their forties and people 80 something who are vital and alive. To being vital and alive always!
Absolutely! I remember seeing a friend of mine back when I was 25, she seemed like middle aged already. Just the way she acted and dressed. LOL.
but o what another wonderful way to get us arguing amongst ourselves.
That's it, isn't it? Always.
Nancylee, - so right, and people keep falling for it...even resorting to professing "hate" over some polarized issues...
Completely agree! It’s so random and arbitrary! Kind of like race. No one can give definitions for these groups or cutoff points based on any objective criteria. The dividing lines are just something someone decided was the most important cutoff point but there’s no solid argument that it HAS to be then. Like you said, just another way of dividing us 😕
Its another element of the divide and conquer tactics of those who want to destroy America. "United we Stand, divided we fall." They want to divide us in every possible way.
I'm not so sure, and there’s no reason to choose off and fight about it. Of course, we're each unique by nature and should treat others as individuals rather than stereotypes. But in highly significant ways, we’re also products of nurture, and the social structures we inherited are gonna leave a mark. Maybe we’ll understand ourselves and others better if we parse out the elements of culture to which we naturally reacted or conformed.
The cutoffs and start points are a bit arbitrary, but the generational differences are very real, as I just posted.
I generally agree with you, but I do find it interesting that Gen Xers stick out like a sore thumb supporting Trump. I sort of think it's because we were too young or not born during the worst of the civil rights era, and we weren't propagandized the way boomers and older and millennials and younger have been. So the race-baiting crap doesn't work on us the way it does other generations.
We drank from the hose outside, we came in when the street lights came on, we were not attached to a phone… we played and we worked to make money. I am 60 and so grateful that I grew up when I did because I didn’t have this fear that is being thrown at kids today… there fear everything… their feeling get hurt easy, they barely talk to each other… they have made their relationship through their social media sites. They don’t know how to talk to each other and develop deep relationships.
Isn’t it because you are dealing with Biden policies in a way Boomers aren’t? And Millennials aren’t yet? We Boomers are mostly retired. I’m not. But most of my cohort is. Too young and you aren’t paying taxes, dealing with the bureaucracy etc.
I don’t think it’s arbitrary at all, but I do think it’s less of a defining thing than popular culture would like us to believe. Generations are definitely shaped by the trends and events that happen during their formative years, even though members of that generation won’t be affected in the same way.
For example, my dad was born in 1932. He held a job every day after school in 4th and 5th grade repairing transistor radios because so many men were off at war. He helped his mom in the victory garden. He remembers kids before the polio vaccine was introduced in the 1950s being paralyzed for life, some living in an iron lung . This has given him a vastly different perspective on some things than I have, a child of the 70s and 80s. He has different views than I do on the necessity of vaccines, for example, or the importance of American military strength. This is one reason I think that President Trump continues to think that the covid vaccines were such an important thing during covid.
Anyway, my 2 cents.
It isn't made up. They do plenty of things to divide us, but generational differences are very real. I twice saw a video called "What you are now is what you were when you were then. ". Really stuck with me. The essence of it was you are who you are by the time you are ~18, and nothing short of "a significant emotional experience" is going to change that. War, near death experience , major family losses, financial ruin, etc. Something is needed to trigger you out of your programming.
OK so someone born in the cutoff of 1964 is vastly different in their experience than someone born in 1963... it's nonsense. The generational divide is not one. Generations are on a continuum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMIJuuk1SFs
Enjoy and remember when......
Later Jay
If that wasn’t a middle finger up to the public educational system, I don’t know what is. Right on, Rolandttg.
The mass media gives labels to people based on when they were born. The “baby boom” started after WW2. It’s not clear if it refers to just the United States or a larger area. The older part of the baby boom generation was of draft age during the Vietnam War. Th resulted in a different experience from those born later.
Definitely used in Oz too.
I think it's a way to generally define characteristics and behaviors as many are formed during youth. Generations that experienced war with drafts have different views than those without draft or large loses of life due to war. Boomers were big smokers while GenX and Milleneals was much less. GenZ vap more than smoke and their generation and the next one whatever it's called do not watch over the air broadcasting and
will develop behaviors from the pandemic.
Well that's history more than people. I don't think people change much. Call me crazy. We are young, then middle aged, then old. Then we die. That's about it. The characteristics are more about your age than a generational segment.
Maybe that’s the best approach, but Jeff Childers did bring it up here in today’s writings. And he stirred the pot due to misnaming the generation he was referring to. But let’s face it, things do happen in generations don’t they? It is somewhat arbitrary on what actual years it is, but there is a zeitgeist within these swaths of people who experience things as a culture, and are of similar age. It’s also true that business marketing has grabbed these groups and put it into demographic data used for selling to us within our consumer society. It’s not made up, I’ll disagree with that. But there is some arbitrary line drawing… The ‘divide’ part, well, that’s certainly the status quo lately, isn’t it?
Boom!!! There it is!!!
Later Jay
It’s just unfortunate that selfish octogenarians (and above) in congress are holding onto their political seats with their crypt keeping hands after they are clearly beyond serving the people. I know it’s subjective, and I don’t believe in a “retirement age”, but if you can’t mentate, it’s time to go… and shame on we the people for continuing to vote for them.
Not a blanket opinion of all octogenarians, just the decrepit ones in congress who shouldn’t be there.
Especially when they are clearly in poor physical and/or mental condition like when Feinstein was still there 😡 What a travesty!
Thankfully Ruth Bader Ginsberg hung in to the last second!
One of the things I really like about Trump's picks is that many are younger. It's time to turn over the reigns and get some fresh perspective on things.
Just say, 'Neigh' to reigns (& Homonyms)! -Mr. Ed
Power, the crack coke of the pols. Highly addictive but not as lethal.
Not as lethal TO THEM maybe....
Term limits for Congress…would solve the problem.
This applies to all of them regardless of age
Term limits would be nice - even if 3 terms or 18 years for Senators
Like RFKJR. ❤️
BOOM !!
I love my fellow boomers! but far too many are now stuck in Liberal hell from watching TV and reading the New Yorker.
There's less difference between a boomer and genX than between any other two generations in at least 120 years.
I was born in 71 and there's really nothing a boomer experienced that I don't understand. There's way more overlap between genX and boomers than lets say millennial and genX. For example music, etc.
I couldn’t agree more. I’m very disappointed to see Boomers being conflated with ancient fossils who never did a hand’s turn and who were born well before WWII. What’s wrong with Boomers? Why create an ageist division in this formerly happy group?
What an oversight to leave Queen Pelosi off that list of ambulating Congressional fossils.
Yeah I thought of her too 😡
They should be referred to as Prehistoric Fossils!
All worth millions on a "civil servants salary". :(
Just follow the Biden Crime Family play book if you want to see how it is done.
Shameless and treasonous individuals.
As a boomer under 70, thank you. I was being a bit insulted.
RFKJR is a boomer and a great example of who we can be, having grown up in wonderful times.
I’m almost right smack dab in the middle of the boomers, I took offense to Jeff calling McConnell a boomer. 🤣🤪😁
Lisa - Thank you for that comment. I came here to say - please do not lump me in with those dinosaurs who have long ago sold themselves out to interests that do not serve the American people.
This! Who took us off the Gold Standard? Pushed to add China as a favored nation and opened that Pandora's Box, the list goes on. Who treated the VN-guys like crap when they came home? Just cause I was born during that time doesn't make me one of them.
Pass the torch.
Later Jay
Not silent enough, imho!
😂🤣
I was thinking the same thing as I was reading. Could have been a typo, but Boomers are 1946-1964
And Trump is a Boomer. So.
Good point.
Boomers are the target of the jabs to reduce the budget.
Thank you for the clarification. Saves me the effort!
McConnell was just jealous because Trump had a band-aid and he didn't.
Thank you. Appreciate that. As a 1950 baby.
Thanks Lisa P for clearing that up. I know I am a boomer (1946) but an 82 year old is not! Good try though Jeff C. Good article. When do you and others sleep who help us through the maze?
Exactly!!
Also as a genXer, I was raised by and grew up around intelligent and common sense boomers like Trump, not the ridiculous sold out ones.
Some of these Silent gen fossils in DC are older than my silent gen grandparents!
There is zero chance the FBI, CIA, NSA, and Norad don't know who is flying these drones. And the off chance that there is a slim zero chance they don't know they should consult with Israel. Israel has no problem identifying and eliminating a threat.
Part of me thinks it’s for nefarious purposes by our rogue deep state in preparation for Trump’s taking power. Another part of me feels it’s just as possible that foreigners (illegal immigrants) who were flown in had a purpose and this was part of it. Those things can easily be steered and exploded. Either way this present administration would be aware of it. In the off chance they truly don’t know, then WHY on earth wouldn’t it be the single most important issue on their plate right now? Citizen safety from foreign or domestic threats is at risk until they DO know what they are.
The only other explanation is that another country saw an opportunity to take advantage of our impotent government and is spying/testing. Or God forbid it’s actual terrorists setting up an attack. I know that sounds fanatical, but it’s exactly a tool they would plot years to use. What if these things drop biological weapons?
I don't know anything about drones, but can't they be shot down?
And why has that not been done????
If one flies over my property it will be shot down.
Federal crime... big no no.
FAA considers them aircraft.
Go rent a Cessna and then fly into the same restricted airspace as these "drones," and see how long you are allowed to continue. FAA is selectively ignoring these things. I'm curious as to why.
I see a drone the size of my car coming round here, it’s gonna be broken.
In the hearing, one guy said they don't want to do that because it could be a UPS drone delivering a package.
Well…UPS needs to speak up and say so.
We should have ways to track drone deliveries and other activity. 🤷
How do they say this stuff with a straight face? 😂😂😂
In the middle of the night??
LOLOLOL....
Why does everything have to be shot down? Maybe they aren't drones, but ets.
well shooting it down is 1 way to find out. :-) time for you to watch the old but good movie "independence day".
Something we will not know until President Trump takes office. I'm inclined to believe it is illegal immigrants, Chinese, Iranian, and Russian, flying these. The three letter agencies won't tell us until Biden is out of the picture so they can blame it on President Trump. How far have we come in our distrust of this corrupt government? It will be a long road back to semi-trust again, but the framers had it pegged from the beginning.
"Illegals" being flown in on 747's at the rate of 43,000/month, all fighting age males = the Trogan Horse.
https://x.com/dani06548474/status/1866321819743273301?s=46
There’s a link about the drones again don’t know who this person is or if accurate but FYI
This video he posted looks just like the one I saw hovering for a half hour behind our house last week in Chicago burbs, and it then flew very slowly directly over our pond and then our house. This is what it looked like. It didn’t move as fast as this picture until it moved from over the neighborhood on the other side of our pond over to our property, and then it slowed again for several minutes. Then it moved away like in the picture. Over 30-40 minutes it was behind our house.
https://x.com/dani06548474/status/1866437325485752415
Hmmmmm...."SUS", indeed! 🤔🤔🤔
They would scramble the F-15s and shoot the Cessna out of the sky!
Can you say, KAMALA…the border czar? What a joke.
I think it is "Chaos Theater" meant to keep us off balance, confused, fearful, vulnerable to "answers" and solutions they will eventually announce.
The drones have to be ours, if they were foreign we'd take them down. They don't want to take them down or everyone will know they are ours. It is soooo obvious.
What has New Jersey got that any friend or foe would want? If it's Bruce Springsteen, I say let them have him. Or maybe the old Boardwalk in Atlantic City; East Orange or Trenton? Other than those ...., I have no idea.
what's Joisey got? easy access to New Yoik City, dat's what.
Well, they better be careful what they ask for, they might get it
Mr. Trump's golf course.
I am sharing a link that I think explains how it may work. Look at the pattern Malone described in this article and see if you think the same type of thing may be going on here. They can claim they know nothing about it because they aren't officially running the operation, but it's just a game, a workaround. And still quite dishonest. Maddeningly so.
https://www.malone.news/p/was-dod-the-managing-agency-for-operation?publication_id=583200&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=x5cpy&utm_medium=email
Maybe Israel could also tell us who’s piloting all those endless geoengineering planes at high (and sometimes not so high) altitudes…
Are there NO stargazers in that area? Someone needs to buy a telescope
If we are going to find out who is flying these drones and their intent, it will have to come from civilians.
Let's change that to “Let Brandon Go!” lol.
Yess!
So many questions our government won't answer!!!
What about “Shoot first, ask questions later.”? But that could mean we are taking out one of our own? 😖
Seems reminiscent of the balloon invasion of past years.
Just a perplexing phenomena that can never be explained.
I want to believe that the drones are part of a secret military operation that protects the coast from nefarious invaders but the military under Biden seems incompetent and obsessed with virtue signaling, so that’s probably naive .
Maybe some intrepid reporter should ask the POTUS at the next White House presser. Wouldn’t that be a normal course of action?
Surely the all seeing all knowing leader of the free world would know if these drones are the prelude to an attack on the homeland. Wait just a minute!
Don’t we have a massive agency that is focused entirely on the security of our borders and airways? Surely they would know.
Congress shouldn’t be barking up the FBI tree. What do they know?
Apparently nothing.
They know a lot more than they are telling. They know everything. But the government, as proven by Covid, Americans are expendable.
Dana, don’t leave Billy Gates off the list. He and his buddies Soros, Obamas and Clintons are all in on it.
It's probably why Gates is trying so hard to get into the Trump administration—a mole for the rest.
It would not surprise me one bit if we were under attack by an incoming nuke; the government would remain silent and retreat to their bunkers with their families.
It's unmanned, but we would be Daniel Pennyed.
Is this a new word? Being Daniel Pennyed? The poor man, but I rather like it.
Let’s Go Brandon!
L. Young…ask the POTUS? One would have to assume his cognitive ability was in tact, and we all know the truth to that.
Bingo. That guy testifying to Congress was embarrassing. Guess he didn’t get his talking points from Soros before he took to the mic.
Just curious, why not shoot one down & check it out. Of course they wouldn't shoot down the balloon until it had covered all the critical locations. We have a completely worthless & corrupt security system in place. January 20th cannot come soon enough.
The Coast Guard officer said there were 15 plus drones following a CG vessel. It’s hard to imagine the CG allowing themselves to be surveilled.
However there is a mode included with most drones where the drone can be tasked to follow whoever is controlling it.
There is more than a zero chance these lights in the skies are the same as have been reported occasionally over the years as “ufos” I’m not totally credulous on the topic, but there’s a more than zero chance.
They don't want to bring one down, because they are probably ours (Intel).
I jumped the gun and ❤️ this Stack upon learning that Harmeet Dhillon has been appointed. There’s not a better person for that role anywhere.
And she knits a mean sweater!
And she also has personal, first hand knowledge that Harris in her run for SF DA was then of Indian heritage, NOT BLACK
Kamala was always a curry girl more than a hot sauce girl.
I saw she knit the beautiful sweater she wore on Tucker Carlson!
I went to look at the sweater and stayed for the interview!
https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-show-harmeet-dhillon
Would Harmeet be able to bring charges against employers who fired their employees for refusing the jab?
Asking for a friend (who’s a plaintiff in one of the largest civil lawsuits that was just allowed to go forward last week…)
I’d love to see that!!
Knitters are known for their superior intelligence.
Why, thank you!
Looks like the Indians are taking over!
Indian Americans are acquitting themselves splendidly in this incoming administration! Jay, Kash, Vivek, and now Harmeet!
True Indian Americans couldn’t stand Kamala!!
Also JD Vance's kids. Indian.
Behind every successful man stands an Indian wife?
Maybe he'll find a place for Pocahantas.
come on man, dots, not feathers.
She’s a multi talented brilliant woman Knits beautiful sweaters, scarves & hats. And she can cook. She was recently widowed in August.
"...can cause men to produce a watery kind of pseudo-milk, which is diagnosed as galactorrhea."
I'm sorry, but doesn't *galactorrhea* sound like Star Wars or Star Trek characters suffering a massive case of the runs?
"Star Wars XLVIII - The Empire Medical Bureaucracy Strikes Back"
In an effort to never accept their premise:
There’s no such thing as a transgender person (except for the RARE genetic anomalies like hermaphroditism), there are only males and females. Those who claim to be trans are just a male or female who mutilated his/her body, mind, and/or soul.
Just like there’s no such thing as “pseudo milk”
A hermaphrodite is not transgender. They are born with an anomaly, but they are still either male or female. "Trans" means to change sexes, which is impossible. Hermaphrodites don't change sexes even if they have surgery on their parts, same as if a TIM decides to get his junk removed.
There are still only 2 sexes and transgenderism is a mental disorder.
Funny how they will test a newborn hermaphrodite’s chromosomes to see what sex they are...
LOL! Right?
Acknowledge- hermaphroditism and other genetic anomalies are unique conditions… the left lumps people with conditions like this into the mix to confuse people, and make bodily mutilation seem necessary.
Yes they absolutely do. They will have us believing there is now a magical third sex, when there is not. Their argument that there is no biological difference between men and women is so nonsensical and stupid - it's amazing that it's still actually believed by these Woke Jacobin nutjobs.
I increasingly believe anyone who still votes democrat has a mental disorder, because there is literally nothing they promote that is logical or decent anymore.
It is to the culted/indoctrinated. Sadly.
Yes, it’s the same thing if I want a different eye color from the color with which I was born, I put on colored contacts. That doesn’t mean my eyes are changed; it’s only superficial or cosmetic. Nothing can change a person’s actual DNA.
"Nothing can change a person’s actual DNA."
Nothing except the jibbyjab, and CRISPR-CAS9, and who knows what else the transhumanists have cooked up.
Don't bring strange fire into the temple of the Holy Spirit!
Exceptions though rare apparently do occur... A man received a bone marrow transplant and now has his donor's DNA! CRAZY but true
Except an injection of mRNA.
except for soy milk, almond milk, oat milk
Those things are not milk. You can’t milk an almond.
I agree, actually don’t know how “they” get away with calling the stuff “milk”. As for me and my house, we drink only raw Jersey grass-pastured MILK.
how can oat milk change hormones please? first I've seen that charge.... my sons are anaphylaxis allergic to cow milk, and to almonds, so I am left with alternative milk products. I know to stay away from soy milk, but I thought oat and coconut were okay substitutions. please share your knowledge 🙏 😊
Nothing induced by a drug is fit for an infant to consume
Maoz, you win the internet today with that comment!
galactorrhea typically caused by a pituitary tumor.
I thought it sounded like diarrhea or gonorrhea
Same lol
I'm reminded of Luke drinking green alien milk, straight from the tap.
It's not about the baby, it's about ME ME ME!
Yep. Babies as props and accessories at best, and fetish victims at worst. Makes me ill.
VVV— you are right on. Cue pictures of our Transportation Sec with his personal ‘strap-on’ feeding the baby. 😖
He’ll be gone in 40 days. Deo volente.
“One wonders whether Big Food is being set up to take the fall for cancer instead of Big Pharma.”
Of course they are.
but both guilty as hell - and then there is the DOD? spraying metals and cancer causing chemicals in the sky - chem trails that also poison the soil which ultimately destroys crop production - when will we have a congressional hearing about that
Tennessee, Florida working on that
New Hampshire House Bill 1700 (introduced by Republicans, if I read this correctly)
24-2554
08/10
HOUSE BILL 1700-FN
AN ACT prohibiting the intentional release of polluting emissions, including cloud seeding, weather modification, excessive electromagnetic radio frequency, and microwave radiation and making penalties for violation of such prohibition.
This should be a template for all states!!! Shut the ba#*@/#s down.
I hope Idaho gets in on that. They absolutely destroy the sky here.
I know! I was born here and just the last few years they have been trashing the sky all year round. I hate it so much. Lefty environmentalists and climate change cultists are destroying our country...even deep red states!
EXCEPT… Tennessee Governor RINO Bill Lee refuses to enact SB 2691/2063 which passed in the house 70 - 22, and the senate adopted with a 25 - 6 vote undoubtedly because the lamestream media insists the operations are “conspiracy theory”
OMG that's horrid.
And the bioweapons attack and future attack plans...
Absolutely. And the number of young people already on pharmaceuticals and killing their friends and families while on them continues to grow. SSRIs, marijuana laced with hallucinagens, anyone? I just read that like 3/4 of Americans have a prescription of some sort! I'm 61 and don't need any. What is with people? Just live healthy!
Don’t forget all the people on Ozempic-type drugs.
Oh don't even get me started! There are sooooo many drugs for sooooo many issues, most if not all which could be cured by nutrition, supplements, exercise and a change in attitude.
67 here and the same.
me too!
74 1/2. Last Dec 29 decided to try weaning self off levothyroxine. Now down to one half tablet, once per week: two more Mondays to go (i.e., just one more whole pill). Then done. Nothing else. Broke wrist in June, took, twice, a opioid pill. Then not even acetominophen (cuz it did nothing). Wine however, numbed pain, and gave pleasure at the same time. Natural remedy around for 5000 years.
💯!! Gotta protect the vaccine gravy train that creates life long patients starting in childhood 🤡
There's gonna be some pretty pissed off people here on this forum... and others... if
the covid plandemic and the kill shots leaders are not dealt with .
The last thing i want to hear is that "compromises" had to be made . Politics as usual will be a BIG letdown to anyone expecting real change.
But with much shorter and more unhappy long life span?
It is all such a big daisy-chain of you-know-what and it makes me sick. We don't even have good soil here anymore. And it is ridiculous to see farmers subsidized to grow corn for high fructose corn syrup in regions that don't support agriculture of any kind. This is not corn for us to eat, it is the government paying producers so they can sell to Big Fooda. I would rather see fields of food humans can eat rather than hay for cattle to eat so we can eat them but not before it is adulterated in every way imaginable. YUCK.
I live among some of the best farm ground on this blessed earth and my friends and family who are just trying to keep their family farms viable are caught in the web of Big Food and Big Government. Family farming is controlled (through gov subsidies), without which they would not survive. The hand outs are not a hand up but a means of enforcing ‘the we own you and don’t forget it’ control.
Absolutely. CRP is a sham.
Food Inc is a really good documentary on just how bad the system is.
https://rumble.com/v2983k8-documentary-food-inc..html
I watched it and just wow. I am not planning to eat anything in the near future now. Pass! BIG anything is just bad. We bought some fresh chickens from our granddaughters FFA. They raised them and slaughtered them and everything, all by themselves. They have a good Ag teacher for sure. And we live in the sticks...I have been getting more serious about buying and sourcing local. Eating healthy is the most difficult thing ever, but if you do eat right, yes, it may be more expensive just looking casually, but when you eat right, you don't need to eat as much because what you are ingesting actually has nutritional value. Thanks for the link.
And the farmer in there has been appointed by Trump as Assistant to the Secretary of the USDA. How awesome is that???!!!!
Read an article on CDF yesterday talking about how Central Illinois will all but shut down if their massive high fructose corn syrup plants are shut down by legislation requiring we stop poisoning our food chain. My first thought was a woman posting on some site how her husband worked for the MIC, so yeah, she was pro war. Eff them all.
Many people in the medical freedom movement and MAHA are deeply suspicious of this sudden focus on food.
Where did the Means twins (Callie and Casey) come from, and why so suddenly?
While ultra processed food is bad for you, a little bit of it here and there won’t kill you. Now 100+ jabs in the life of an 18 year old? That’s a different story.
My spidey sense is that Big Pharma was looking for a foil, and quickly recruited a couple of telegenic spokespeople to redirect focus.
@Principled Pragmatist interesting take. I was listening to Casey Means on a podcast 2 years ago, so while that’s not a long time, it’s not yesterday. I think they just found a different avenue to wake people up. Anti-vax was a non-starter because of all the propaganda out there, so they are getting people to pay attention to the food they put in their bodies, hoping that will then expand to “why in the world do kids need all those jabs?” Personally, I think it’s genius! It’s hard to be against feeding your children decent food. Baby steps 😉
Casey Means hit the big time at the start of this year with his breakout interview with Tucker. So while he might have been making podcasts before, then, they weren’t getting the attention.
I see the strategic move involved in easing into this fight by taking baby steps. All voices should be heard as long as we’re not falling ourselves into thinking the big V isn’t at the center of this battle.
I thought that initially too. However, they are speaking out about Ozempic and the amount of childhood vaccines too. I see it as a strategic move. If they start all out with the vaccines, 60%+ of America would immediately shut them out. (for reference see Jenny McCarthy). However, if they talk about ingredients in food and lightly on vaccines, more will listen and not discount them. Once they are a trusted source, then they can take the next step.
If everyone decided to all of a sudden eat healthy at once, there would be a famine. Did you see the veggie recall due to e-coli contamination? You never hear about a Twinkie recall...
Food just doesn't taste as good as it used to. I used to love Red Robin, but here in Idaho, it is like they have just quit trying. I make better food than I could ever get in a restaurant, that is for sure.
Occasionally, I click on the links provided on recalled items in articles from The Epoch Times to see the full scope of what is being recommended for the dumpster, or to find more details about the recall.
If it was for a bacteria that MAY have been in a batch of chicken or salad vegetable that then went into prepackaged products kits, packaged chicken/salad/entrees/kits that people would eat as a more-live-than-dead food alternative to all-out-no-holds-barred, ultra-processed, "dead," "empty" calorie, junk food, the advise "must be" to throw them out... just in case.
(But then, the incentive seems to point the consumer seeking much needed food prep convenience in the direction of reverting to the junk food, doesn't it? Possibly. You're right, SadieJay, it may be just easier to throw a package of Twinkies in your desk, or can of something, for when you forgot your lunch or you need to work through lunch, or you're on the go.)
So much waste of people's money and hard work, and so much waste of plants and animals. Bulk centralization of our food supply chain operations' steps doesn't serve us well now, does it, in this situation? Sometimes, efficiency negates effectiveness, and haste makes waste.
And it removes people from the source of what they put in their bodies, and knowledge of what they are actually ingesting. Compartmentalization of the food supply chain is detrimental to humanity, IMO. It defeats the PURPOSE OF FOOD.
If things weren't done in such big batches from such big farms, trucked all over from place to place each step of the way, with so many hands in the process (and not enough eyes on it?), then the potential damage exposure would be so much more limited. So much food wouldn't get wasted. So many workers efforts wouldn't be wasted. So many purchasers' paychecks wouldn't be wasted. In so many cases, the food is already in cafeterias, lunch programs, supermarkets, warehouse stores, food banks, community kitchens, people's refrigerators, by the time a recall alert is issued.
There are times when products are pulled due to a mis-labeling issue that has nothing to do with potential for an illness outbreak. I don't think that it would hurt to eat the product... meaning, one wouldn't necessarily have to throw the product out if not allergic to the ingredient(s) wrongly* left off a label, for instance, but when people see the word "recall"... One little printing error blossoms into a huge liability on so many levels.
And a huge waste of resources, plants, animals, minerals, and human toil.
But it's what we have to work with, and I'm not advocating for famine, and sudden moves, just some thoughtful, well-laid-out, plans to get the steps for change in place, and then action-action-action, as Steve Bannon says.
The food industry definitely needs a look-see from the D.O.G.E.
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* mistakenly, or purposefully? - oh just slap the old labels in stock on the product, we're in a hurry and out of the new ones, stuff like that - or maybe packages of food went out with old labels before someone got the memo about the new ones - labels are another SKU to material-manage.
I just re-read what I wrote...
no wonder my sister says she "feels" I'm negative "all the time" lol
Someone, please, give me a better sense of humor to inject into my writing of this kind! :) Stat!
I see there was another recall, because the company forgot to list EGGS on the ingredient list. Waste!! Thank you for the comment. I just now saw it. It seems I have not been getting my notifications from Substack!
It could be that the "recalls" are for the sake of supplying bunkers for the sake of "continuity of goobermint."
And they want your blood......
Their executives all sit on each others boards...
I bet the financial beneficiaries of big food also benefit from big pharma and so they see this as the one place to take a loss to save the mother ship.
Hmm, because absolutely everyone has to eat, but everyone does not have to accept pHarma.
It’s all distractions!
Who owns Big Pharma? Who owns Big Food.? Big food may make the cheese, but Big Pharma has the cheese. Of course they are being set up as the fall guys.
How about someone just shoots down the drones? Why is no one doing THAT???? Particularly, why is our GOVERNMENT not doing that?????
If the US Navy can shoot down an Iranian commercial airliner in 1988 with everyone killed, I would think the US Navy, now run by The Village People, can take down a pesky drone in Jersey.
And...do we want to guess who shot down TWA 800?
Go, Kathleen!!
USN
Yep, thought about TWA 800 too!
Please tell me that Iranian airliner story.
Here's a link. It was shot down by the USS Vincennes.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/10/middleeast/iran-air-flight-655-us-military-intl-hnk/index.html
Thank you, Kathleen.
--The US military later called it “a tragic and regrettable accident.”
So easy to use "tragic". So smooth to say "regrettable".
RE citizens not shooting them down: Because they take you to jail.
Against law to shoot an aircraft.
https://youtu.be/dZAEoq-eGPI
And yet another restriction the government places on citizens to protect themselves from a danger.
Why isn't the gvt shooting them down?
Case in point…The Daniel Penny travesty. But at least he has $3+ million in donations to fight the incompetent, corrupt, purely evil Alvin Bragg. Another Soros appointee.
Operation NOBLE EAGLE began 11 September 2001 to "deal with" unidentified aircraft flying in US and Canadian airspace, especially those flying in restricted airspace.
This is selective non-enforcement, for some as yet unknown purpose.
"selective non-enforcement"
that's what I was thinking as well
also, "selective non-disclosure"
I think they are flying squirrels.
Is one of them named Rocky...sidekick to Bullwinkle?
Ah but watch out for Boris and Natasha. Probably sent to the US by that evil Russian (who’s responsible for all bad things in the world) Putin. 😜
now you have me flashing cartoon references through my old braincells:
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a frog...
It's just little ol' me, Underdog!
"It's Simon Bar-Sinister, and he's up to no good!"
Because they are BUSY trying to set up their PSYOPS, silly.
And now some pesky peasants have gone and ruint their surprise!
Well, a 70-something year old man (in FL, I think) was arrested for shooting at a drone flying over his house recently. A felony charge, I believe. The drone ended up being a walmart or some other delivery drone but he didn't know that. He said it had been flying over his home and he didn't know what it was.
Firing weapons in cities and some counties is illegal especially if shooting randomly into the sky. I can totally see government going after citizens for doing the job the government is obviously failing at.
Shoot them down over the water when you see them coming in!
Maybe they are from the government. Or government allowed. To scare people into to giving up their freedoms again??
Or with intent to harm. Maybe dropping the latest gain-of-function disease on “we the people.” Or poisonous gas into the atmosphere…
How WOULD you shoot down a drone the size of a small car I wonder? And would I get slapped into handcuffs if I did it? I'm still living in pre-Jan-20-world...
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/12/09/new-jersey-governor-seeks-federal-help-for-mystery-drones-n2183000
The oldest Boomer is late 70s. Those “relics” are from the previous generation.
Boomers from 1946 to 1964
I'm a boomer, a 1952 model, and I'm proud to brag all about it, to any youngsters who will listen. I'm sorry, what were we talkin' bout?
LOL! I'm a '57 model. I think I forgot before you. ;)
I was thinking the same thing -- none of those people listed are Boomers.
Yup, my husband and are both Boomers. My youngest brother, 8 years behind me just made the cutoff to still be a Boomer.
Yup, I will donate to a drone capture reward.
Me too!!
Hmmm, flying in from the ocean...you never know what is out there in the scary ocean!
Operation Down-A-Drone needs to set up on the beach.
Things i cant quite figure out:
1). how we quickly learned much about Luigi but still do not know much about Trump’s would-be assassin young Mr Crooks…and what took place during his year of being out of touch? and why, of all things he could argue, did he say the money in his backpack was planted?
2.). how did a young rich guy like Luigi position himself perfectly, in the dark, before sunrise, to shoot a man walking along a NYC street, from the back…how could he have recognized the man and known the time he would be walking there
3.). those drones in NJ…not the first of the drones that have popped up…why did not the DoD shoot one down when they were flying around military bases? how can an national intelligence network of hundreds of thousands (?.) not figure this out?
4.) how can the biden administration “quietly” hand out another billion dollars t Ukraine?
admittedly i am not the sharpest tool in the shed, but, jeepers…
Seems like young Luigi prior to said shooting disappeared for 6 months (apparently a statement from his family). So where did he go? Was he in the same place that young Mr. Crooks disappeared to? Enquiring minds want to know! Brainwashing camp? Anyone?!? Something or someone triggered these fellas!?! No one thought to track their missing locations via cell phones?!? 🧐🧐 something smells like 3 day old fish 🐟. Particularly love the manifesto indicating that “I acted alone”. Spectacular writing there young Luigi!
According to housemates in Hawaii, he suffered a debilitating surfing injury to his messed up spine, and had surgery on it.
If he wasn't a murderer, I would really feel for this young man.
Absolutely totally heard that. His family did speak on that as well. But they also indicate that he disappeared for 6 months. Idk call me nutz but wouldn’t you stay in touch with your family while recuperating from painful spine surgery??
Spine injury prob from his last deployment, lol.
@AngelaK I read an interesting stack yesterday by Peachy Keenan, whose brother in law had the exact same back surgery as Luigi. She detailed his horrific quality of life due to his pain level, and how chronic pain patients are treated like druggies when all they want is enough pain medication to have a quasi-normal life. She’s wondered if Luigi’s chronic pain caused him to snap.
https://www.peachykeenan.com/p/the-devastation-of-back-surgery?publication_id=1052367&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=stk4t&utm_medium=email
Genius! Because he “respects” the FBI!
I suspect Luigi is a scapegoat. Change my mind.
I think it looks like he is suffering from schizophrenia, like Ted Kaczynski (supposedly). That said, I do blame Harvard and mkultra for ruining Ted’s genius mind. So, it stands to reason, where exactly was Luigi for the 6 months and is it possible someone also used that treatment on him to flip a switch? The so-called manifesto was written in very simple language and didn’t seem on par with his earlier writing, either.
Simple and sounded contrived.
The location of the investors' conference probably wasn't a well-kept secret.
I agree, but he was on a burner phone (speaking with whom?) minutes before the shooting. And he was out there waiting for him for only 10 minutes, not all night as some reports claimed. He knew when he would be there, did someone put a tracker on Thompson’s phone or did someone tell Thompson to leave at that moment?
as to Number 2.) the man he shot was attending a conference of which details were published in advance, and where it was known that he would be in attendance, from what I understand
(similar to how Crooks knew where Trump would be in Butler, not a secret or last minute trip plan)
It would be interesting to know if Luigi had been stalking the man prior to the shooting.
All great questions that I don't have the answer to either!
The house taskforce put out their final report yesterday.
https://taskforce.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/july13taskforce.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/12-5-2024-Final-Report-Redacted.pdf
Barbara Ford…you are definitely sharper than any of the fools making decisions in the Biden Crime Family. I’d vote for you!
We know he has parents but nothing really about them.
https://taskforce.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/july13taskforce.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/12-5-2024-Final-Report-Redacted.pdf
This is probably paywalled, but the Washington Times is cheap (about $40 per year), and I recommend it.
Way too short a description: Clay Higgins says the FBI is lying, and will continue investigating on his own after Trump is in office, Higgins is the chair of an investigative committee, and Kash Patel is in charge of the FBI.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/dec/7/rep-clay-higgins-continue-trump-assassination-inve/?utm_medium=subscriber&utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_campaign=morning&utm_content=paywall&utm_term=newsletter&bt_ee=zcvSAhe55S2AxPyQ%2Fmhn7BY%2Bb4Hrtzt2XhHv657br0PUrgQOb3NQ8JJPn7tjVD5h&bt_ts=1733751652163
I tell you, I'm SICK AND TIRED of our various agencies and departments that cannot figure out how to secure our country? What the heck?!? I know they are lying and know EXACTLY what those drones are because they just simply cannot be THAT stupid! Right?
yes they are - Buyden just loaned an EV car company $6.5 billion to build a new plant when they can't even sell a quarter of the cars they build from their existing plant - and the demand is going down - the company had even abandoned the new plant program but Buyden revived it - yes they are that stupid
We just received an email from our HOA that no one in our complex of seventy homes is allowed to install a charging system for an electric vehicle as our existing electrical circuit will need an upgrade. Goodbye EV’s
Just like Obama going out…Solyndra ring a bell?
Our credit union has charging stations
In 3 years I’ve seen them used 6 times, maybe. 2 of the 6 are usually not working (& very very gently used so why did they break?)
I think the credit union got a tax break or something for putting the charge stations in their parking lots.
Such a disgrace!
Read somewhere the other day the price of lithium has fallen 90 %. Did not check it out, but makes sense, as they know the grift from EV's is coming to a screeching halt. Also read an EV battery maker said they are not viable without subsidies. To me, that means they are not viable, period.
Was that Rivian?
Yes
It's not stupid, though. It's just the demands of the agenda.
That's not stupidity, political distortions of the economy.
well they should make a "net[work]" of beams crisscrossing the sky in the areas where they have been seen, and when a beam gets interrupted, another drone goes out with a net to catch the offender. Think of garage-door "eyes". We have the technology.
I don’t think it was a loan. The gov owns that company now too.
Starting to think they are that stupid.
Too busy matching their lipstick with the outfit these daze !
Pigs demand it.
What do they not want us to notice while we are preoccupied talking about the drones? 🤷🏼♀️ misdirection?
Always this.
If they can't answer, they should lose their paycheck.
Term limits.
they do they just want to keep people engaged and distracted while they r*pe and pillage the world....
Like I said...the drones are flying squirrels.
If only someone had the authority to fire the incompetent agencies and departments.
You’d think our hard-earned dollars would be better spent. The DOD is allotted more than half of the $1.63B FY2025 budget proposal, and yet here we are.
we are 36T plus in the hole interest on the "debt" owed to the cabal "fed" private bankers will soon eclipse all of our spending... it is not possible at this stage to pay the "debt" back... it is just plain impossible.. the only solution is declare bankruptcy and let the cabal hold a big bag of....make new money gold backed exchange the fiat currency and let er rip!
How much of Biden’s $1.63B is going into the Biden coffers? And the many corrupt politicians? And…Where’s Hunter? Back in Ukraine trying to bag a little of daddy’s latest contributions to Z?
What are they?
The “Boomer” generation runs from 1946 - 1964… all the old folks you listed as Boomers are actually from the “Silent” generation. As a Boomer myself, I was offended that you threw all those old decrepit silencers in with us!
As a Boomer, I love all of the young people Trump has been picking for his cabinet.
And my beloved boomer, RFKJR. ❤️
I know it's fashionable among young whippersnappers like Jeff to blame the Boomers for everything that goes wrong, but that was a cheap shot!
I hear you (and I’m not a Boomer but I absolutely despise that trite and condescending “ok boomer” response that’s become such a thing of late 🙄) but I think he has a point about people staying in government faaaar beyond the time they should and needing to leave to give others the chance to get involved.
I am a tail end boomer. As best I can tell, it's just shorthand for "Your generation had it pretty easy, and you have no idea how much more college educations and houses cost relative to wages."
They would be a lot better off writing that out, but I understand people know they are unlikely to convince anyone, and just keep it short.
Appropriate for any incompetence at any age?
Calling people Boomers? I don’t think incompetence should have to be associated with a particular group. It’s equal opportunity 😛😑
Sitting in the dark last night (I don’t know why, just something new), I noticed a rather low flying well-lit flying object moving from South to North.
Holy cow! What is this. I watched for a while then decided it was helicopter headed to the hospital. Or was it?
Apparently, these drone reports are getting to me. I think I need a little more fun in my life. 🙂
Maybe if you haven't already, take up firearms? Specifically: learn to shoot a shotgun? ;)
That would be skeet shooting, a fine sport 😄
Ex military: done many decades ago
That's raises a good reason the US government needs to stop the drones: eventually people will decide to shoot down the "drones" on their own, but they accidentally take out a helicopter. And of course bullets that go up must come down.
More people will be watching the skies now so I presume the numbers of UFO sightings will soar also. Maybe we will get answers now.
We’ve noticed similar after dark here in Michigan. It’s creepy.
The louder the LEFT screams and gnashes its teeth about a Trump cabinet pick, the more I like them!
I love it! Capture one of those drones and see how quickly the three letter agencies show up! They totally know what’s going on!
RFK Jr: we the people MUST stay on top of him to not change course and only focus on Big Food. Ultra processed foods are NOT new……but the jabs are! And so is turbo cancer and all of these autoimmune issues popping up g up. Don’t let him abandon vaccines and big Pharma as culprits.
Of COURSE the FBI have to pretend to be baffled, otherwise, how could they foist their alien invasion psyops upon us? I am wondering if it's a half-assed psyops that simply has not worked out? That would be HILARIOUS. I think they believe we are so stupid and easily frightened that anything works on us now, such as CEO-killers with manifestos and 3d printer guns who write on shell-casings just to make sure we know how evil CEOs are. Or something.
THIS.
Excellent comment!