INTERESTING: Flaco, the beloved Eurasian Eagle Owl, may dem,onstrate a cheap way to address NYC’s rat proble,

Thursday, February 29, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/us-news/flaco-the-owl-who-escaped-central-park-zoo-dead-after-apparent-nyc-building-collision/

Flaco, beloved owl who escaped Central Park Zoo year ago, dead: officials
By  Richard Pollina
Published Feb. 23, 2024
Updated Feb. 24, 2024, 1:14 a.m. ET

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Though the Eurasian Eagle Owl is not native to North America, Flaco had been successfully feasting on the plentiful bounty of rats in Central Park and around the city since his escape.

“He has been very successful at hunting and consuming the abundant prey in the park,” the zoo said last year.

The Eurasian Eagle Owl is one of the larger owl species, with a wingspan of up to 79 inches and weighing three to nine pounds, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.

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The Eurasian Eagle Owl is not currently on the endangered species list but has been flagged as a “concerned” species given the decline in local populations worldwide. 

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Now I’m just a fat old white guy retired injineer but could the Universe have just sent us a “messenger” in the shape of Flaco, the beloved Eurasian Eagle Owl, as to how to control rats in NYC?

We know that NYC rats are BIG problem.  Some of them are the size of small pigs.  And they breed prolifically.  

Since NYC residents can’t seem to control them and the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerk City are equally helpless, let solve this species’ “concerned” status.

I’m always reluctant to mess with the Universe, but maybe a few breeding pairs of Flaco’s cousins, could bring the rat population under control.  Hell, maybe Eurasian Eagle Owl could replace the other “rat” in the City  — the pigeon. 

A win for all involved at a minimal cost.

Maybe John Oliver could get NYC to make the Eurasian Eagle Owl the City’s official bird?  It worked for the Pūteketeke in New Zealand!

(Hey John Oliver, feel free to steal this idea for a signed picture of you with an Eurasian Eagle Owl.  Otherwise, © 2019 Ferdinand J. Reinke All Rights Reserved. Laugh!)

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: US forces fighting in Gaza??????

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/02/27/us-news/aaron-bushnell-claimed-secret-knowledge-of-us-forces-in-gaza/

US News exclusive

US airman Aaron Bushnell claimed to have classified knowledge of US forces fighting in Gaza tunnels on night before setting himself on fire: pal

Jack Morphet, Andy Tillett, and Kate Sheehy

Published Feb. 27, 2024, 7:56 p.m. ET

# – # – # – # – # 

If this is true then Biden and others should be impeached immediately.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Why not pictures on handicap placards?

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Seems like a simple way to avoid abuse.  Just put the pictures on handicap placards of the authorized User.  

Easy way to fix the abuse that’s so obvious.

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DISCOURAGING: Will SCOTUS reign in “Javert” Jack Smith

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/02/jack_smith_will_annoy_the_supreme_court.html

February 23, 2024
Jack Smith Will Annoy the Supreme Court
By Sean Ross Callaghan 

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A unanimous Supreme Court should restore the federal courts’ reputation by denouncing “Javert” Jack Smith and his jurisprudence of jihad and announcing that it will take all due time to consider presidential immunity from criminal prosecution and to craft an opinion to stand the test of time, the timing of the election be damned.

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One can only hope that SCOTUS or some other fair-minded judge puts a HARD STOP to this “law fare”!

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DISCOURAGING: Abandonment makes crazy children

Monday, February 26, 2024

https://www.thefp.com/p/rob-henderson-the-three-adults-who-abandoned-me

Rob Henderson: The Three Adults Who Abandoned Me

  • My biological father, my birth mom, and my adoptive dad all left me. They also taught me the most important lesson of my life.

By Rob Henderson
February 19, 2024

# – # – # – # – # 

Since my father abandoned my mom and me three times, I believe I grew up screwed up.  

I am preventing one youngster from compound abandonment issues.  

I understand how it screws you up in your life.

It’s a sadness you carry all your life.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: CDC releases data and it’s stunning commnets

Sunday, February 25, 2024

https://kirschsubstack.com/p/cdc-releases-v-safe-free-text-data?publication_id=548354&post_id=141814150&isFreemail=true&r=onvra

CDC releases V-safe free-text data because they want everyone to know just how unsafe the COVID vaccine really is

  • Now, you can download the data and see for yourself what people reported.

Steve Kirsch

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Executive summary

The CDC has released the first drop of the V-safe free-text comments so everyone can see for themselves that the COVID vaccine has extremely serious safety problems.

There are nearly 400,000 comments in this release.

The only question is: why did they wait so long to do this?

In my opinion, these “customer testimonials” are the single best selling tool they have to get people to take the COVID vaccine.

The CDC should be running TV and newspaper ads! Something like “Are you unsure whether the COVID vaccine is right for you? Here is what our satisfied users had to say about this amazing product that will change your life, sometimes forever!”

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Reading some of the comments — and being attuned to some of the various disastrous deaths and cancers that might be in some way related — I’ll pass on this chemistry experiment while sticking with the old traditional definition of vaccine. As always, YMMV.

Remember “they” redefined  “vaccine” to include this new genetic engineering technology.  Forced as many as possible to take it with intimidation, threats, and coercion.  Ignored the concept of “informed consent” and “my body; my choice”.  Gave Big Pharma complete immunity from lawsuits.  And, ignored vaccine injuries, sudden cardiac deaths, flawed “trials” (i.e., remember eliminating control groups). 

Never mind the whole safe and effective “horse pill” that won a Nobel Prize for eliminating river blindness.

Then we have the small matter of the “emergency use” while having a licensed product.

Sorry, but do what you want, but “no thank you” for me.

#endthefda #endthecdc

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RANT: I don’t search with Google

Saturday, February 24, 2024

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GOVERNACIDE: UK woman killed by Gooferment “health care”

Saturday, February 24, 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-68310754?ICID=ref_fark

999: Leicestershire woman dies at home hours after calling for ambulance
By Samantha Noble  — BBC News, East Midlands

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Janet Lyon died from pneumonia

A 67-year-old woman died trying to get through to her GP surgery three hours after calling for an ambulance which was not sent.

Janet Lyon, from Leicestershire, was struggling to breathe on 27 December.

She was told to go to a walk-in centre or her GP by a 999 call handler after it was determined she had an urgent problem which was not life-threatening.

East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) apologised but found the 999 call was handled appropriately.

It added the service was experiencing “high demand” at the time.

Ms Lyon’s daughter Katie Keating put in a formal complaint to EMAS and said she was “enraged” at the response. 

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Here we have a classic example of Gooferment “service”.  “We are too busy for you.”

Well that got rid of a pensioner and save the Gooferment lots of money.  No mater that she “drowned” alone.

In a profit making enterprise, they’d have adequate staff or alternative arrangements.  “Like you’re ambulatory and not a class 1 emergency, let’s call you a taxi to the ER.”

But no, politicians and bureaucrats have their own incentive structure and we ain’t in it.

Can you imagine a politician getting this response.  I can’t.

Argh!

How does “We, The Sheeple” allow Gooferment into such important functions?

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TECHNOLOGY: No help for you if you ext to a land line

Saturday, February 24, 2024

A now funny incident pointed out a “hidden flaw” in the process of sending a text message.

A recent “I’m hone safe” text message was not received which led to a comedy of errors worthy of a Marx Brothers’ skit.  

An “after action” review  — although it wasn’t called that  — revealed that the text message was sent to a land line.

No error message was “thrown up”.

It would seem that Apple and Android could easily validate mobile versus landline and prevent such a blunder.

But, I guess there’s no demand for such “smarts”; just AI to produce revenue.

Argh!

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ECONOMICS: College grads STILL earn less that plumbers

Friday, February 23, 2024

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/08/bill-sardi/the-dumb-american-worker/

The Dumb American Worker
By Bill Sardi
August 6, 2019

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Here we go, socialist jingo. Note the words “income inequality.” Joining a union is not going to get you anywhere as the union takes a cut of your paycheck. Unions, plus or minus, socialize what a worker is worth.  

Businesses operate in a competitive market. Cost of labor can doom a restaurant owner who is only working on a 10% profit margin to begin with. Of course, we can halt competition. Then the cost of everything rises.

We send American kids to school with no orientation on how to get a job, how to build their worth, how to develop job skills. Students pass a few college classes that hand out true or false tests and that makes them worth more in the labor market? Young Americans would be better off working as an understudy plumber. 

A few years ago The Wall Street Journal published a report showing plumbers make more money (six figures) than college graduates. 

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And, I just shake my head at the “stupidity” of “immature adults” taking loans for degrees that command no use in the market place.

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