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Here’s the problem with this “theory”. Vitamin B12. It does not exist in the plant kingdom. You only get it in sufficient quantities from meat. The side effects of B12 deficiency are anemia, confusion, memory loss, and mood changes. Doesn’t this sound like every vegan you ever met?

The elephant in the room is silicon PV. This is not an energy source, nor is it “renewable”. A slicon PV panel will not generate enough electricity throughout its entire lifetime to produce another one like it. This represents a net loss in energy, not a source of energy. It takes an enormous amount of power to purify silicon so that it becomes photoreactive. Couple that with the average silicon PV panel losing 5% output per year and you have a very expensive recipe for disaster. Some years ago US West hired my company to install PV arrays to serve as backup power for a dozen or so rural cellular telephone sites in Nevada and Arizona. After five years they hired us again to remove all of it. The reasons cited for removal were the amount of time it took to clean the accumulated dust off the panels (deserts are very dusty), lighting transients that took out panels and controllers, hail that took out panels, and the overall loss of output that dropped the supply voltage from the panels below the battery voltage. IOW, they were no longer created a positive electron flow towards the batteries. These were top of the line Bosch panels, not Chinese junk. As a side note, Bosch has since left the industry after loosing billions. Silicon PV is a boondoggle of EPIC proportions.

The cockpit voice recorder showed they had been cleared to 15,000’. Black box data indicated they were just over 14,000’ msl when the explosion occurred. To get kerosene (vapor or liquid) to burn explosively at at pressure altitude of 14,000’ it has to be compressed. That’s what a jet engine is, a giant compressor. There simply isn’t enough oxygen available at that altitude for it to have happened as they claim. Simple physics does ‘em in every time.

All that has to happen for the conspiracy theories to end is for someone to demonstrate kerosene vapor exploding from a spark at a pressure altitude of 14,000’. Still waiting.....

There is one glaring truth that is completely ignored. The fuel tanks are vented to the outside pressure. There simply is no way kerosene vapor exploded at a pressure altitude of 14,000’ from an electrical spark. There simply isn’t enough oxygen. Sorry, didn’t happen that way. Anyone who thinks it did is welcome to demonstrate. I’ll wait.

It damn sure wasn’t kerosene vapors at a PA of 14,000’

And, these people genuinely believe they can run the country? They don’t even know what bathroom to use or how to pick a candidate that doesn’t drool all over themselves.

“Democracy!”

Yep, it’s particularly odd that he’d ignore a chance to relive his days “growing up in the black church”.....

The Donks would probably try to make it look like the Russians did it. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am, another war for the profiteers.

Yeah, I’m sure the Secret Service will just let you take Trump into custody. The Judge is about to get a lesson in sand pounding.

I had an outpatient procedure a year or so ago at a CGI hospital. The procedure was a failure. They accepted my insurance (in network). Then, proceeded to bill me for the difference (about $38K), as if they didn’t have a pricing agreement with the insurer and were ignoring network pricing. As it was their pricing was 6x the national average for the procedure. They made many threats, all of which I recorded. When they started threatening collections I got my attorney involved and SHAZZAM! They magically saw the error of their ways and dropped the charges. Warning to anyone who is considering using a CGI-run hospital: Know going in that CGI is going out of their way to scam people. Prepare to retain an attorney.

Don't hold your breath.....

Farmers will be fine. People who depend on them? Not so much, particularly if the farmers decide to only plant what they need. It would only take 10% of them not planting a full crop to cause severe chaos in the supply chain. Pissing off the people who grow your food is never a good idea.

Guns do no good when you have nothing to feed your soldiers. Less than 2% of Europeans are farmers. Ditto the USA. You’ll know the farmers are serious when they only plant enough to feed themselves. It’s coming because the Marxists genuinely believe they can wait them out. Very, very shortsighted on the part of the gubmint, but that’s nothing new.

The clot shot was kinda the final nail in the coffin. The pilot shortage has been coming on for years. The main reason is because flight training has become so expensive. Why? Tort mostly. Our litigious society is costing us dearly. There’s an A&P mechanic and IA (certified inspector) shortage, too, much for the same reasons. Airplanes come and airplanes go, but signatures in logbooks last forever. Add it all up, throw in some DEI, and it doesn’t bode well for commercial air travel over the coming years.

The value of the Dollar is what has changed, not the value of the goods. The silver value in three 1964 90% silver dimes will still buy a gallon of gas, just like the face value of those same dimes would in 1964. We have a currency whose value floats with the whims of politicians.

Almost always chain stores, though. You rarely see mom-n-pop independent businesses anywhere near a Walmart. The rent prices Walmart brings chases them right out of the ballgame. Walmart is fine if you need a quart of oil or a tube of toothpaste. I would never buy produce or meat from a Walmart. (or Whole Foods, Sprouts or Fresh Market for that matter). Go in one of their store coolers, look around and you’ll quickly see why. Mexico/China/Mexico/China everywhere you look.

We cultivate turkey tail, (Trametes versicolor) but they’re small and it takes a pile of them to make an ounce of powder. I have a new strain of T. versicolor I’m working with now that makes taco shell sized fruit bodies instead of half dollar sized. Hopefully, that will help.

FWIW, I went through the Tennessee Department of Agriculture’s “boot camp” that covered the new law line by line. I am very familiar with the Food Freedom Act since I deal with it every day. And no, I can’t sell my powders across state lines. No vendor is allowed to sell any prepared product across state lines under the Food Freedom Act. I couldn’t sell across state lines under the Cottage Food Law that preceded the Food Freedom Act, either. So, no big change there. What did change is the inspection requirements and package labeling. Under the Tennessee Cottage Food Act small vendors were subject to random, unannounced home inspection. We also were required to put nutrition info on the label to satisfy the USDA and FDA. Those requirements were eliminated under the Food Freedom Act that went into effect in July 2022. The real kicker is I applied for a food manufacturing permit two and a half years ago. I’m STILL waiting for the state to come out and inspect my powdering facility. Once I have a food manufacturing permit I will be able to sell my powders across state lines.