Category Archives: Down the drain
The demise of farming
It started in the sixties when farmers were persuaded to borrow from the banks to purchase equipment to increase productivity for which there was no market. So, they could not pay off the loans and the banks took the land for suburbanization.
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Bottle feeding
I wonder if bottle feeding infants retards maturation and accounts for why so many adults are still walking around sucking on bottles, cigarettes or even their fingers. Does breast feeding teach about satisfaction and delayed gratification while bottle feeding promotes gratification on demand? How long have American infants been bottle-fed?
Yet another giant fire at the port facilities.
The recently rebuilt wood pellet storage building went up in flames again as a result of sponatneous combustion. But, the fire department reports there are smaller incidents all the time. Clearly, the Georgia Ports Authority is not competent to manage the facilities without putting the neighborhood at risk.
In twelve hours nobody thought to notify the suppliers that no more deliveries of wood pellets ought to be made.
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Myth, Dream, Nightmare
Reality is that suppression of one kind or another is totally American. Less lethal than extermination, the normal version is known as COMPLIANCE. Overseas, the agenda was referred to as PACIFICATION.
DEMISE of the GREAT WHITE MALE
Slow
Why is it that our County Commissioners cannot learn how to wear a mask? Is it for the same reason he cannot learn the names of the subdivisions in his community? Why would you want to perpetuate the name of a defunct oil refining company? Is it the same logic that propels a Georgia Representative to suggest that D.C. is not qualified to be a state because it has no car dealerships?
Senator John Cornyn should be ashamed
Rexpublicans are unhappy with the Rescue Act
So, they are filing law suits against the Biden Administration to prevent the directions in the legislation being followed. I can see why, but I have no sympathy. Letitia James’ lawsuits actually had a basis in fact. Rexpublicans are just being copy cats.
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A deplorable truth
Humans take advantage of those whom they perceive to be weak regardless of their own needs. In other words, they are abusive for no reason. It is a primitive instinct that remains as a remanant of a predatory past. Another reason to give more attention and impose restraints on abusers.