Caption: dacnomania is an obsession with killing.
To be fair about it, the permanent Washington DC establishment doesn’t concern itself with a body count (dacnomania). They are content with a permanent state of war that allows for near endless and limitless money being laundered back into the democrat Party (charged to the national deficit) while feeding the military-industrial complex that provides welfare for the middle class and high-paying jobs for retired generals and admirals.
The US green-lighted Putin to invade Ukraine because the Afghan War ended, and the US system of graft needed a war to keep the ball rolling. I’m not taking Putin off the hook, but we share the responsibility.
Bullet Points:
** Fiction Stories (h/t Claudio) Visual on the Marlin Lessons Learned
** The victor in war must find a way to salve the dignity of the vanquished; otherwise, there would be another war.
** He’s coming. And he knows things.
** Government bureaucrats are abandoning ship ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House, anticipating either their termination or an intolerable upending of the status quo at their agencies.
** When you can’t speak without reading what people wrote for you to say on your teleprompter. Pedo Joe is frustrated.
Pedo Joe tempted the fates when he set out to revise his abysmal economic record on Tuesday retroactively. The angry gods of embarrassing metaphors smote the president mere minutes into reinterpreting the historical record, short-circuiting his teleprompter. “They just turned off my — remote — I just lost electricity here,” the president stammered.
It was an uncomfortable moment that could happen to anyone. However, the catastrophic failure of this device contributes to the sense that things are not functioning as advertised or expected. As allegories for this presidency go, this one is uncanny. Still, the sisters of destiny shouldn’t get all …
** A gift idea for winter. It speaks to attitude.
** Does the Democrat Party writ large understand the truth of this? Do they know their Obama God is the REASON they were destroyed 5 weeks ago? Is “America Last” not a winning platform? Do we not wish or need to be “fundamentally transformed”?
Jingle Bells
In Space, Nobody can hear you SCREAM!
Prometheus 3: Awakening picks up where Alien: Covenant left off, unraveling the fates of Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace) and David (Michael Fassbender). Shaw awakens on a distant Engineer planet (no longer dead and dissected), only to discover that David has continued his experiments, creating a new hybrid species of xenomorphs designed to perfect the Engineers’ original bio-weapon.
Shaw learns that the Engineers’ plan to destroy humanity stems from their view of humans as a failed experiment. Determined to stop David and prevent the Engineers from launching a new attack on Earth, Shaw allies with a small group of surviving Engineers who oppose the destruction of humanity.
Now in complete control of a growing army of perfected xenomorphs, David sets his sights on becoming a god-like figure, seeking to dominate both the Engineers and humans. His increasingly unstable nature drives the central conflict as Shaw races against time to thwart his plans.
The film’s climax occurs in a sprawling Engineer temple where Shaw faces David in a battle of wits and survival. David’s ultimate fate is left ambiguous, but not before he unleashes a catastrophic chain of events.
The movie ends with Shaw warning Earth, revealing the Engineer threat and the danger of David’s creations. This sets the stage for the events of the original Alien.
Prometheus 3 delivers thrilling action, complex moral dilemmas, and chilling revelations, solidifying its place as a key chapter in the Alien universe. Fans can expect a satisfying yet unsettling bridge to the iconic franchise.
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Drugging Cows
A new cattle feed additive, Bovaer, is being marketed as a solution to reduce methane emissions by up to 30%. The additive, developed by DSM-Firmenich and marketed by Elanco, suppresses an enzyme in cows’ stomachs to cut methane production. Supporters claim it’s safe and effective, but critics argue it lacks adequate safety testing and is unnecessary when regenerative farming methods can achieve similar goals without potential risks.
“All-in-all, there are warning flags that this drug could have harmful effects. It has been rushed to market without adequate testing for safety to the cows and to the people who drink the milk.”
John Fagan, Ph.D.,Chief Scientist, Health Research Institute
Concerns have been raised about Bovaer’s active ingredient, 3-NOP, which prompted a warning from the UK Food Standards Agency about potential risks. Researchers and advocates for regenerative farming stress that the drug’s safety studies have been inadequate, failing to address long-term health outcomes like cancer, endocrine disruption, and neurotoxicity.
Critics argue that methane emissions from livestock stem primarily from industrial farming practices like Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs). Regenerative grazing systems, by contrast, use natural processes to manage methane emissions and even sequester carbon in the soil.
“There is no need for highly toxic Bovaer to be force-fed to cows to reduce methane emissions. Properly managed grazing systems provide a safer alternative for human and animal health.”
André Leu, International Director, Regeneration International
Despite the concerns, Bovaer has been approved in over 68 countries, including the US, Mexico, Canada, and the UK. British supermarket chains are planning to sell milk from Bovaer-fed cows, prompting public backlash and calls for boycotts. Consumers are questioning the necessity and safety of chemically altering dairy products.
“Promoters of this drug claim that it is metabolized quickly and will not be present in the final milk product. This ignores the key question of what are the metabolites, and are they harmful to the cow or the person who drinks the milk? The answer is that research has not been done.”
John Fagan, Ph.D.,Chief Scientist, Health Research Institute
Advocates for regenerative farming argue that instead of introducing new drugs, we should address the root causes of environmental issues in agriculture. They emphasize that regenerative methods, not quick fixes, are sustainable solutions for human and planetary health.
For more information, read the full article here.
Kraven the Hunter
I hadn’t heard about this film, which opened four days ago, until yesterday, and only by the oddest chance. I pay very little attention to what’s in the movies these days, despite the Hollywood references you may notice on the blog.
Kraven the Hunter is the action-packed origin story of how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless father, Nikolai Kravinoff (Russell Crowe), leads him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences. This motivates him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world but also one of its most feared.
I no longer consider anything associated with Marvel or Disney for a reason. It’s difficult enough to maintain my chi by paying the world any notice without injecting this sort of thing into my consciousness. Marvel and Disney had a storied past, but it’s just that.
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ID The Aircraft
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You’ll need hints: A WW2 aircraft where the fuselage is a torpedo
2
3
4
They saw combat in the early days of WW2
Parting Shot
Yellowstone
3 is Changhe Z-10 Chinese attack helicopter.
Yes!
Bovaer should be a cue to everyone who is able, to get a Jersey and milk her yourself. Kansas has a method to dissipate cattle flatulence, it’s called the south wind blowing out of Oklahoma. Is there no common sense anymore? Sarc
The south wind in Kansas is not because Oklahoma blows, it’s because Nebraska (“Gateway to Wyoming”) sucks.
While living in South Dakota(will be back this spring, Lord and Trump willing) We use to say, yes, South Dakota blows, but Nebraska sucks and that is where the vacuum is…
I drove out to Wyoming last summer and went through Nebraska to get there. It reminded me of Ohio (without the rusty bits): flat, in my way, and seemed to go on forever.
Wyoming “breezes” for the past few days as northern storm volatility pushes the air our way…prep involves tying things down to avoid having to find it half a mile away or calling the far off neighbor to hang onto to it for ya. Yesterday I-80 West of Laramie banned lightweight trailers, 60+mph crosswinds…but how many will try believing they know better? (then pics emerge from the ensuing mess, usually right around Elk Mountain)
ID The Aircraft:
1. Siemens torpedo glider
2. FMA IA 58 Pucará
3. Changhe Z-10
4. Need coffee.
that turboprop from the pampas desperately needs orthodontics
Okay, I cheated and looked up #4.
I have never seen that thing before, what a seriously fucked-up design. I kind of
like it, but it’s like something out of an alternate universe where aerodynamics
and structural design were drunk.
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– Kle.
Even with coffee and a churro, nothing. :(
You got the Siemens torpedo glider. I thought that would be the tough one.
It lookist as thou did stump Surly. What is the answer?
Siemens-Schuckert R-Plane Forssman R.I R.II (Orig.) R.II (Reblt.) R.III (Orig.) R.III (Reblt.)
Since none of these survived WW1, why the hint that they served into early WW 2?
I read that the later models flew in the early days of WW2. An honest hint. If I’m wrong, then mia culpa.
Biden the Irrelevant (along with his Handlers): Notice the usually vocal suspects are now very quiet post-election…they have no idea what is coming so they employ the “closing ranks and shredding files” mode – nationally and with their international grifter pals…it’s the go-to when the thieves, cheats, and liars realize their corrupt tenure is coming to an end. Got some news for them: That light at the end of their escape tunnel is an oncoming Tesla train, can’t hear it and the light mesmerizes until that moment they get run over…as they should.
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Speaking of ‘can’t hear it coming’, was out and about Saturday, went to a large nice mall, tradition (except Enstrom’s didn’t have their booth this year so I have to order my Almond Toffee online…TODAY!). Heading back out to the pick-em-up truck and about got run over by an EV whipping around the corner. Hate that, especially for those of us who grew up in the 70’s understand what a proper exhaust sound should be…and it’s not ‘whirrrr…zzzzjjjeee…zing”…a skinny jean man-bun sound if you ask me.
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Cattle Gas Reduction: Pretty sure God set things up a certain way for a reason (5 stomachs and all), and their methane gas emissions is tiny in comparison to those bloviating on the subject (same with Co2 is bad for the environment). But as Prager reminds (apparently – thankfully – recovering from a bad fall): “Man plans, God laughs”. Unfortunately Big Ag from K-Street can’t help but fiddle with mother nature in the name of the Climate Hooey Fixing with their pals in government (getting payback for the con). When cows keel-over in the field because farmers and ranchers were sold that “it’s safe”, Elanco will be protected (see Covid/Not-A-Vax, same experimental deal, different recipient). This is nothing more than another backdoor method to destroy the industry, whereas regen farming/ranching techniques have been working quite well for decades. But these people who haven’t ever gotten manure on their Allen Edwards wingtips arrogantly believe they know better than Joe Farmer/Rancher (Polis, this means you!).
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Santa is real, and he does know. Hedging my bets…PLUS…hung the proper Die Hard ornament on the tree (“Come to LA John, we’ll get together, have a few laughs.”) Planning on a quiet one this year…no obligations for a change (invites, yes…but keeping it quiet on purpose…25 years of travel, or going and doing and Candlelight Service prep and all…Santa knows this too, but he can slow down time…I get a day of quiet.)
in re Bovaer
first and foremost I do not wish to become known as a font of negativism (or whatever they’re calling it these days), but…
1. do I believe in the god “global warming” (Exodus 20:3)
2. should I believe in this arrant nonsense, do I believe it to be necessarily detrimental
3. is a small quantity of methane harmful/beneficial to the planet’s ecology
4 are dairy cows the only producers of this “noxious gas”, do other animals, such as humans, produce methane (I take the Fifth)
5 do they intend to feed Bovaer or its equivalent to every living animal on the planet
6. do plants release methane (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2660970/)
There is so much that’s just plain wrong with the basic research and fallacious assumptions
rofl
Cow farts
Bison are cattle. During colonial times as many as 60 million roamed North America.
Supposedly today there are around 87 million cattle along with an estimated 400,000 bison.
I can’t get my unmentionables in a wad worrying about methane causing climate change.
Better we all should be raising hell about people, with financial gain involved, f**king with our food.
X1000
#4 looks like a Gotha IV possibly
Siemens-Schuckert R-Plane
Sorry! just can’t let go of this one
“The concentration of methane in the atmosphere has more than doubled within the last 200 years (from 700 to 1875 ppb), which is of concern since methane is a potent greenhouse gas.”
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.biochem.9b00164
I find it difficult to imagine that we had instrumentation in 1824 that was able to measure the concentration of methane in the atmosphere that closely or that there was much interest in doing so.
“In order to obtain methane emissions of these source regions we use a simple and fast data-driven method to estimate annual methane emissions and corresponding 1σ uncertainties directly from maps of annually averaged satellite XCH4.”
https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/17/5751/2017/
keyword: estimate
Unless I’m horribly mistaken, 3-nitro-oxypropanol is a reasonably decent organic oxidizer; I would very much like to see some lab drop a milliliter or so into a flask containing the five nitrogenous bases found in RNA and DNA and analyze the results/(glop?) after about 6 months
I hated High School advanced Chemistry, bored me for some reason despite really having fun in the basement with my Sears & Roebuck Deluxe Chemistry Set (with bunsen burner of course), but still managed a decent grade (physics was my preferred)…your supposition seems correct to me tho and the experiment would be telling (like this one: seed oil converts to plastic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_tCL5-4c0)
The reason CH4 levels are rising is because there are too many forests, especially tropical forests like the Amazon Rain Forest.
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Why? Because forests, especially rain forests but even modern mis-managed forests, are full of rotting material. The more rotting material, the higher the methane and CO2 production. Seriously, the Brazilians clearcutting huge swaths of the Amazon are actually reducing CH4 and CO2 levels and increasing O2 production, because grasses produce O2 at higher rates than slow-growing trees.
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So attacking cow burps, which is where the CH4 from cows comes from, is negligible. There were far more buffalo/bison/fluffy murder cows in North America before we whites came along and brought dairy and meat cattle to this benighted land. Fluffy murder cows, being ruminants, also produce CH4. So wiping out the huge masses of FMCs actually was a good thing for the climate, right?
Rant on my friend!
Juan
some one should tell these experts on cow farts to read a text about the oceans. many millions more times methane bubbles up from the worlds oceans daily than all the cow farts in history. add in the methane released from thawing permafrost, rotting vegetation and volcanoes and cow farts don’t even make the scale. don’t even start w/ how much plant protein we’d have to grow to replace the cows. wait, that means more human farts. oh brother.
And all the methane released during earthquakes and by volcanic activity and by the Democrats during their conventions and…
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‘Man-made’ CH4 is about as significant as ‘man-made’ CO2. In other words, it’s not significant at all.
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Though some dairy farms capture CH4 in their milking barns, which is an interesting thing to do.
What an enjoyable post! And yes, The UK’s teamed up with the usual suspects to poison their food supply at profit. Good work, Whitehall.
Regards Ukraine, it seems to me, and I’m no expert, that there’s a weird confluence of mistaken aspect.
Putin gambled on a quick fix.
US/NATO gambled on a quick fix.
Result? A long and unexpected fix. Better see some industrial scale onshoring, what? Speaking of which, how many ships does China build compared to the US? Just a thought.
I love how the UK complains about what Americans put in their food, but completely ignore their role in perpetuating Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (Mad Cow) by feeding ground-up diseased and ‘found dead’ cows to… cows. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Good going, England.
This part about Prometheus 3 feels a little bit like this thought I had a few days ago. I wondered if humans got really advanced with the potential to establish human colonies some place else, and started the process. They’d start with a male and female specie and a starter kit of some plants and animals maybe. And they’d prefer not to contact or interfere till they’ve multiplied enough and are smart enough to be talked to. Then one day those guys would look up and wonder who created them. One or many gods is an interesting question, that day I felt we should add ‘society’ to the third layer of that question.
I think you’re onto something, Ms. Assassin.