Gerald Van Tassell

[Gerald Van Tassell @GvanT33]

@JimEspy @44Bridger Was just moving cows on the mountain and we have the same issue in NE Utah.

[Gerald Van Tassell @GvanT33]

@CBKimbrell I had one of those this year as well. Was quite the surprise

[Gerald Van Tassell @GvanT33]

@FlaggMavs Or just stop watching. Haven’t watched a game in years and haven’t missed it at all.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

You could shear a sheep in May.

It takes ten minutes. She is grateful. The fleece keeps you warm for forty years. When you're done, you bury it, and it becomes soil within three years.

Or, for ethical reasons, you could choose one of the alternatives.

Cotton. Requires 10,000 litres of water per jumper. The Aral Sea is now mostly dust because the Soviet Union diverted its rivers to grow it. But the jumper is "natural."

Polyester. Crude oil, extruded into thread. Sheds 700,000 microplastic fibres per wash. Lasts in landfill until approximately the year 2226. But "vegan."

Acrylic. Petrochemical, manufactured using a solvent the EU has classified as a reproductive hazard. Marketed as "cruelty-free." The cruelty is in the supply chain.

Bamboo. The plant is innocent. The fabric is bamboo viscose, dissolved in carbon disulphide in a Chinese chemical plant whose workers have elevated rates of psychosis. But it has a leaf on the label.

Hemp. Genuinely fine. Most of what is sold as hemp is a polyester blend, sold at four times the price.

Recycled polyester. Still sheds microplastics. Still ends up in landfill. Made from plastic bottles that could have been recycled into more bottles. The fashion industry has been quiet about this.

Vegan leather. Plastic. Reliably. Always.

Lab-grown fibres. Genetically modified bacteria fed on glucose syrup in a steel tank, in a factory powered by natural gas, packaged in plastic, shipped from California. Funded by venture capital. Not yet profitable.

Or you could shear the sheep in May. She'd appreciate it. The jumper would last forty years. The grass would grow back the same.

But of course, the sheep is the unethical option.

[Gerald Van Tassell @GvanT33]

@CJRealHoops2 Truer words have never been spoken!

[Gerald Van Tassell @GvanT33]

@UteFanIvan I have been reading the books to my son recently and it has been wild to read these as an adult. Dumbledore may be one of the most incompetent recruiters and managers ever.

[Gerald Van Tassell @GvanT33]

@UteFanIvan @ToddLlewellyn 😂😂😂

[BoxScore @BoxScore_FB]

Maybe in hindsight it should have been a bigger red flag to the CFB world that the team that finished 1st in the SEC standings lost by 2 touchdowns to a 5-7 ACC team.

[Jake Hatch (Yawk) - Fortis Valore et Armis @JakeHatch]

Remember this👇🏼when Greg Sankey said the SEC deserved seven (7!) teams in the CFP field? Seems to me he was trying to cover up the fraud that the league has become with sheer numbers to mask it.

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

The SEC had five teams in the College Football Playoff, almost half the field, and didn’t even make it to the National Championship game.

Can we finally be done with all the special treatment now?

[Danny Kanell @dannykanell]

For the 3rd year in a row the SEC will not have a team in the national championship game.

Even though they got gifted almost half the playoff field.

[Exposing SEC Bias @overrated_sec]

The CFP committee said the SEC deserved nearly half the playoff spots.

Then the SEC got dominated when they didn’t play themselves.

There’s 1 SEC team left because an SEC team had to win an all-SEC game.

Please explain this “top-to-bottom SEC strength” I heard so much about this year. I’ll hang up and listen.

[Diggin’ Brigham @DigginBrigham]

The SEC superiority myth is crumbling right before our eyes.

This year the SEC is a ho-hum 13-10 against other Power Four teams.

The SEC is 3-6 against Power Four teams ranked in the final CFP Top 25.

Please share this helpful spreadsheet with others...

[Robert Griffin III @RGIII]

The 3rd place ACC will be playing in the CFP Semifinal.

DON’T EVER TELL ME 3 LOSS BIG 10 or SEC TEAM IS BETTER THAN A 2 LOSS ACC OR BIG 12 TEAM EVER AGAIN.

[AcmeAcres.us @idahobeef]

CHEAP MEAT ISN’T CHEAP. IT’S CONTROL.

There’s a hostile takeover happening in plain sight. And most folks don’t even know who JBS is.

The largest meatpacker on earth isn’t American. It’s a Brazilian crime syndicate with a rap sheet longer than your arm—

Bribery, child labor, price fixing, environmental destruction.

The Batista brothers pled guilty to corruption.
Did time. Paid fines. Didn’t matter.

They got access to our cattle.
Then they got access to our capital.

Now they’ve got access to our military’s meat supply, the hospitals meal plans, and your kids’ lunch trays.

They didn’t win by playing fair. They won by buying out the system.

When Mountain States Rosen—the last big lamb processor in the West—faced bankruptcy, a buyer stepped in to save it.

JBS blocked the sale. Took the plant. Shut it down.

That was a warning shot. And nobody listened.

We lost sheep.

Now beef is next.

JBS is cornering the slaughter market, region by region, until there’s nowhere left for an independent rancher to go.

No way to get clean meat to a family who needs it.

And the USDA?
They don’t just look the other way. They fund it.

JBS supplies school lunches, hospital meals, military bases—

While American ranchers get choked out by the very system our tax dollars built.

We’ve seen this before. When a few hands control the food, they control the future.

This isn’t capitalism. It’s cartel capture. And it ends in collapse.

You want to fight back?

Start by cutting off the cartel’s oxygen.

Buy direct from local ranchers.

Save Beef, Save America.

[Spencer Cox @SpencerJCox]

This is absolutely the right move. Getting embarrassed in a bowl game against BYU would be really hard on the program. Much smarter to avoid playing tough teams so you can keep your brand intact.

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

The only team stealing a Playoff spot is Alabama, who the committee shoved up into the Top 9 on purpose last week to make sure someone like little non-SEC BYU couldn’t “STEAL” one of the reserved SEC spots.

BYU should be Top 7. THEIR spot is getting stolen.

[Sean Walker @ActuallyDSW]

BYU coach Kalani Sitake might be on to something here re: the CFP and Championship Weekend:

"If teams aren't going to play in a championship game, but they are going to be in the Playoff — they should all play a 13th game."

[Gerald Van Tassell @GvanT33]

@Gill_kid7 @MattBrownEP I get the sentiment, but why doesn't this happen to Notre Dame? Why doesn't it happen to SMU, Baylor, or Liberty at their away games?

There was a shooting 4 hours from Cincinnati just 2 months ago at an LDS church, so forgive me for not buying the "drunk kids" bit.