A man was riding his Harley beside a Sydney, Australian, beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and in a booming voice, The Lord
said, and "Because you have TRIED to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish."
The biker pulled over, thought about it, and said, "Build a bridge to New Zealand so I can ride over anytime I want."
The Lord said: "Your request is materialistic, think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking,
The supports required reaching the bottom of the Ocean and the concrete and steel it would take!
It will nearly exhaust several natural resources.
I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things.
Take a little more time and think of something that will benefit mankind.
The biker thought real hard about it for a long time.
~God, in that case, I wish you could make the politicians of Australia keep promises after they are elected.
That I and all the voters could believe one word coming out of their mouths.
~ There was a long silence.
Then The Lord replied:
"You want two lanes or four on that bridge"? 😏
Joe Biden actually said that one of his family members was eaten by cannibals today, and not one person in the fake news media had a follow up question.
All they have is propaganda.
For those who are unfamiliar with Texas, you should know this so the state-run fake media can’t spoof you on Thursday.
Trump announced he was making a visit to the border.
Then, less than one day later, Biden announced he, too, was going to the border, only his trip would be very different.
Brownsville is in the far southern sector, and not where the border chaos is occurring. Why am I bringing this up? Because Brownsville is where Biden has decided to go on his “border tour” this week.
He’ll be kept safely away from where the invasion is occurring, in a small, sanitized, pre-staged area in a politically-friendly city that that votes overwhelmingly democrat. He’ll hobble around pretending to care about the people who live there and the border patrol officials. Then, once his photographer snaps those much needed pics and video, he’ll bolt.
Trump, on the other hand, is heading to Eagle Pass, which is ground zero in the border invasion chaos. It’s where the action is really occurring. It can also be dangerous due to the violent drug and human trafficking cartels. He wants to see for himself what’s going on and speak to the border patrol officers about their plight.
Biden wants a photo op.
Trump wants answers.
Trump is America FIRST.
Biden is America LAST.
It really is that simple.
@Culldogfarms@FarmerTonyWhite How many abattoirs have you worked in?
How many livestock handling facilities have you worked in?
How many farms have you worked on?
Livestock get treated pretty well right up til they meat their maker….
And slow deaths make tough meat so nobody wants that.
@Culldogfarms@FarmerTonyWhite Oh. You know nothing.
Without farmers those animals wouldn’t exist.
Without farmers those animals wouldn’t have had a healthy diet.
Without farmers you wouldn’t have food on your table.
@tobemcgill02@EmCharlotteAnn So send out the call.
Tractors south of Perth drive up the Kwinana.
Tractors north of Perth drive down the Mitchell.
Make the public see you.
Force them to listen.
Join forces with the European Ag industry. March (or drive) as one global industry.
@_TheMizzouTiger@DJohnso13318636@clintwfischer Owning the land doesn’t make you a farmer.
How many farmers out there that have bought land and actually own it? Big debts over your business.
These families that lease land are still farming. Living the life we love. With cash flow…
No different to a plumber or carpenter.
@tofar1 He’s just another moronic Green that thinks they are the experts and know best, and we all should do what they say!
These morons, aside from having no idea, are incapable of minding their own business!
83 million?
Donald Trump in furor stormed out of a New York courtroom for a while, in the defamation suit brought by author and dating/boyfriend/sex-advice columnist E. Jean Carroll.
It was just settled against Trump for $83.3 million! The Carroll suit was largely subsidized by Reid Hoffman the billionaire capitalist, and mega-donor to the Democratic Party and leftwing causes.
The subtext of Trump’s rage, aside from the outrageous monetary size of the defamation ruling, is that he was facing—and angered—a leftwing claimant, a quite hostile leftwing judge, and a leftwing New York jury.
The civil suit serves as a mere preview of four additional leftwing criminal prosecutions, leftwing judges, and leftwing juries to come—all on charges that would never had been filed if Trump either had not run for president or been a liberal progressive.
Yet here we are.
The E. Jean Carroll case is the most baffling of all five. She, the alleged victim, did not remember even the year in which the purported sexual assault took place, nearly three decades ago. Observers have pointed out dozens of inconsistencies in her story.
It was never clear what were the preliminaries that supposedly (Trump denies meeting her) led both, allegedly, willingly to retreat together to a department store dressing room, where during normal business hours the alleged violence took place.
Moreover, the sexual assault complaint came forward decades post facto—and only after Trump was running for and then president.
Carroll eventually sued him for battery, but well after the statute of limitations had expired and thus the case seemed defunct.
Her claims of defamation injuries arise from being fired from her advice column job at ELLE magazine.
She claimed that Trump’s sharp denials and ad hominem retorts led to her career ruin. But the loss for anyone of a column at 76 does not seem such a rare occurrence, and the absence of a salaried job in one’s late seventies for four years does not seem to equate to a $83 million hit.
And note the allegation that her dispute with Trump led to her firing was strongly denied by the very magazine that cut her loose.
But then another strange thing happened. In 2022, a new law (“The Adult Survivors Act”) was passed in the New York legislature. It also post facto established a twelve-month window (beginning six months from the signing of bill) that permitted survivors of long ago alleged sexual assaults suddenly to sue the accused long-ago perpetrator—regardless of the previous statute of limitations.
That unexpected opening suddenly gave Carroll’s prior unsuccessful efforts a rebirth. And she quickly refiled with the help of arch-Trump hating billionaire Hoffman.
Yet the bill may have been introduced with Trump particularly in mind—given the legislator who introduced it, Brad Hoylman-Siga, was known as another Trump antagonist.
More interestingly, he had earlier introduced and had passed another Trump-targeted bill. That “TRUST” act had empowered particular federal Congressional committees to have access to the New York State once sealed tax returns of high-ranking government officials—such as Trump.
That bill’s generally agreed subtext was a green light for anti-Trump members of Congress to obtain legal access to Donald J. Trump's tax returns.
So there is an eerie feeling that the New York legislature may have abruptly passed legislation that was aimed at the past conduct of Donald Trump but only after he entered the political arena.
While these are not quite bills of attainder, there is something unsettling if they are post facto laws aimed at targeting the most famous and controversial man in America and the leading candidate for the presidency.
In essence they were targeted statutes designed to make Trump’s prior legally unactionable behavior suddenly quite legally actionable.
Trump will be subject to such special treatment all summer and fall.
Prosecutors Bragg, James, Smith, and Willis will synchronize their court business for maximum effect.
Trump again will face leftwing prosecutors, judges, and juries on charges that are politically driven, involving alleged behavior that is either usually not criminalized or not to the same degree as Trump’s case. (Do we remember the nearly $375,000 federal fine belatedly leveled at an exempt Obama but only five years after his 2008 illegal garnering of, and not reporting, foreign campaign contributions?)
The stakes are higher each day as Trump closes in on the nomination and thus becomes the hope of half the country to end the Biden madness.
Somehow Trump will have to stay calm, give no opening to his legion of hostile prosecutors, while conducting a nonstop campaign against Biden (and for a while Hayley), and while fighting to keep his name on various state ballots.
So what we are witnessing is not even the extralegal efforts of Steele/Fusion GPS, Perkins Coie/DNC/Hillary Clinton in 2016, or the 2020 “Russian disinformation” ruse/change the voting laws/infuse half a billion dollars to absorb the work of the registrar machinations against Trump.
We are way beyond all that. The legal system itself, hand-in-glove with leftwing politicos (compare campaign boasts of James and Willis, or prosecutorial visits to the January 6 committee and the White House) is turning the process of balloting and elections into an embarrassing farce.
Still, Trump will have to soldier on. He must stay controlled amid the tsunamis, not play into the hands of his accusers, and remember that he may soon be the only eleventh-hour hope to stop this mockery of American law, customs and traditions.
@bigman119@rod_lampard@ellymelly Hate to tell you, but there were no cameras in 1700s. The first documented camera was in 1820 but you can bet your bottom dollar it wasn’t that clear.
@ChaoticDI @agwithemma The biggest problem is a complete lack of understanding of GMO products in the public. Many people think they “know” and criticise the breeders and growers. But most people don’t actually have any understanding of the intricacies of GMO crops.
@ChaoticDI @agwithemma Not true at all.
In the USA that may be close to true with the substantial quantities of corn and soya bean. In Australia we have one food crop that is GMO. About 20-30% of growers still grow non GMO canola. GMOs are not available in many countries in Europe, Africa and Asia.
@historycannaguy @_RyanDeere@agwithemma Farmers are all about minimising not only costs but the impact on their land. A big misconception is farmers don’t care about the soil. It is their livelihoods. They care what condition it is in and try to improve it at all times. Careful consideration is given to all processes
@historycannaguy @_RyanDeere@agwithemma Agronomists are employed to give advice on most effective production ideas, most effective use of minimal chemicals and fertilisers, best variety of seed to use, and sometimes just as a counselor to keep your head straight eyes on the game.
@historycannaguy @_RyanDeere@agwithemma On top of an agronomist (in Australia around $10-15k/yr).
Farmers spend $20k per machine for accurate guidance and auto steer capabilities to reduce excess use of chemicals (guidance saves approx 12-20% and auto steer saves additional 5-10% of chemical use)
@historycannaguy @_RyanDeere@agwithemma Roundup used to be one of the cheaper chemicals to use but here in Australia it has more than doubled in price since Covid. Others have all increased but not as much. I used to run a 1500 hectare cropping program with a chemical bill of $450k. Chems are not cheap.
@BKlimer@agwithemma This is a question with too many variables to calculate, however, another major reason for spraying weeds at the end of the season is to reduce weed seed numbers for the following year. The answer lies between 5 and 50% of yield reduction depending on weed burden.