Saturday Open Thread - 6/28/25: Odds and Ends
Good morning, good friends! WWIII has been postponed as of this composition!
One of the blessings of weekends is I can shut off the alarm and sleep as late as I wish. And, I can do as I damn well please, without having to follow professional protocols, such as dress code. And prohibition of foul language.
A friend stopped in, might have some lawsuit I can file. Staunch Democrat, party chairman, blah blah blah, for 40 years. His take on the war mongering Democrats of today is that he is old, the kids will have to deal with it.
A lawyer pal, another blue no matter who person, delved into current events with me. She called out the genocide in Gaza. She is msm watcher, brags about also getting news from Europe, but it likely the BBC. She did not know the definition or origin of Zionism. Or the history of the organized exodus of Ashkenazi Jews from Europe by agreement with Hitler. All she knew about was that Yalta Treaty.
Anyway, I just want to report we saw the mom and fawn again a couple of times this week. We also saw a mom and twin fawns, and Dear One says our acreage is a baby deer nursery.
We are perfectly ok with that!
This song is old, and an old favorite.
This is an open thread, and open to all news, ideas, opinions, etc...
Drop in with anything you wish to share with us. We are all curious and eager to know whaat our friends here have on their radars.
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Good morning...
Have a great relaxed weekend! The heat wave is abating, and it is becoming more pleasant to be outdoors. Still best to get up early to do chores.
This makes me glad we have a well...
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Together, they're executing a strategic takeover of America’s most critical resource: the water supply.
By cornering the market, Gates and his globalist colleagues are positioning themselves as the gatekeepers of survival. This isn’t just about profit - it’s about control at the most fundamental level. When you control the food, you control the people. But when you control the water? You control life itself.
So have a good one and thanks for the OT!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning, LO!
The heat hasn't set in yet here. And rain is constant. Come August, I will look back upon this time with fondness, forgetting the unpleasantness of driving on flooded roads and walking in mud.
That video was very interesting, Nothing starts the day like a cup of coffee and truth.
Last week, there were some msm articles slamming Trump for auctioning off 530 million acres
of public lands, opening up national forests to logging. To dig deeper, who can out bid Black Rock and Gates? The articles were all about Trump Bad. Well, he is not alone in that category.
I can't reconcile planting trees to capture carbon, then cutting them down elsewhere as climate change positive tactic.
The water table is very high here. Sometimes digging a 4 ft. deep ditch can get muddy at the bottom. A well is very possible. A neighbor literally drove a 10 ft. pipe 8 ft. into the ground, put a manually operated pump on the end of it, had a well in a day's time.
I hope you have a good time at Trades Day, and that all things are lush and beautiful in The Holler, dear friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc, thanks for the OT. Mid to high 80s here today
Found this interesting bit today: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/26/weight-loss-diabetes-jab...
Increased incidence of pancreatitis, possibly linked to Ozempic and all those similar drugs. IIrc those are pretty much the 10 drugs that Biden famously made cheaper for those under medicare. Superficial hipshot analysis. Diabetes is essentially a disease or condition of the pancreas - in type one, the body attacks and destroys the insulin producing cells in the pancreas. In type ii, the body becomes insulin resistant and the pancreas can't keep up. So, take a drug designed to alleviate type II diabetes for weight loss instead of its proper purpose and whatever its action or interaction on/with the pancreas is uncalled for and ...
I call this type of thing the ironic biology syndrome.
A serious "who knew" item from China Daily - https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202506/27/WS685ded55a310a04af22c8c52....
Can't guess impact on the oceans, especially if multiplied, but an interesting approach to providing edibles.
Speaking of edibles, farmers' market becons, so off I go
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning, el!
I just do not trust any weight loss wonder drug. Obesity isn't a sudden life and death matter. It takes a long while to kill you, a sufficient time for a person to change their diet and exercise routine, and not rely on those wonder drugs, and not die from side effects of obesity. If drug addicts can kick their habit, if alcoholics can stop drinking, an obese person can lose weight.
Our local dr. in this community of 800 to 900 hundred people, has so many patients on Ozempic that the local pharmacy is constantly running out of it.
We will just have to see what the good and bad effects of the floating fish farm will be.
If China tells us, that is...
I hope the shopping went well, dear friend. I made a commitment do do some house cleaning. That and going to a dentists' office are my two most hated activities. Ah, well, it is what it is!
Enjoy your weekend, el!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981