Category: Economics / Economy / Income / Financial
Furious Texas Paul ANNIHILATES Lauren Boebert for Infrastructure Hypocrisy
Super hard right Republican not far enough right for right wing fascist group in Texas.
Two different sources.
Proud Boys Assault Crenshaw At TX GOP Convention
Proud Boys Assault Crenshaw At TX GOP Convention
Mediaite reports:
Rep. Dan Crenshaw and his staff were violently confronted at the Republican Party of Texas convention a short time ago, when far-right social media activist Alex Stein and others whom witnesses described as Proud Boys began shouting “eyepatch McCain” at him – an attempted insult coined by Tucker Carlson. A witness to the incident tells Mediaite that in addition to Stein and others being escorted out of the building, “some arrests” were made at the scene.
Read the full article. Alex Stein, you may recall, was part of the mob of extremists that attempted to storm a Dallas gay bar earlier this month.
AyJayDee Uncle Mark eats the rainbow • 7 hours ago
Basically the same thing that happened to German conservatives who thought they could control Hitler
KnownDonorDad AyJayDee • 7 hours ago
Edgar Jung tried valiantly to counter Hitler, but it was too late at that point and he was assassinated.
“eyepatch McCain”
They really are 13 year old boys.
“eyepatch McCain” is from the mouth of Tucker Carlson on his tv show
Uncle Mark eats the rainbow rcdcr • 7 hours ago
Tucker’s so happy that at this point in his pathetic wimpy life, the bad boys on the playground have moved on from throwing rocks at lil’ Tuckums and throwing them at Tuckum’s targets.
Texas Paul REACTS to GOP Plan to Raise Taxes and ELIMINATE Social Security
Days of intense heat have killed thousands of cattle in Kansas
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/16/1105482394/cattle-kansas-heat-wave
Daniel Acker/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesKansas officials say weather conditions made it hard for cows to cool down in an intense heat wave. Here, cattle graze near wind turbines in Hays, Kansas, in 2017.
Intense heat that baked Kansas over the weekend is being blamed for killing thousands of cattle — a toll documented in striking images on social media.
“The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is aware of at least 2,000 cattle deaths that occurred in the southwest part of Kansas,” Matt Lara, the agency’s communications director, told NPR on Thursday.
Lara also confirmed conditions had made it “difficult for the cows to stay cool.”
In widely seen video footage, rows of carcasses are shown lined up along the edge of a farm field. State officials are blaming a heat wave that sent temperatures higher than 100 degrees.
The new losses come as farmers across the Great Plains region are already struggling to cope with drought and high winds, along with the increased threat of wildfires.
It’s hard to get a sense of the scale of the deaths
The figure from the state health and environment agency reflects only the losses at farms that asked for help in disposing of carcasses, suggesting the actual tally could be higher.
A spokesperson for the Kansas Department of Agriculture confirmed to NPR on Thursday that “several weather factors combined which led to heat stress for cattle that impacted cattle producers.”
But the representative also noted that cattle ranches aren’t required to report those losses, “so we don’t have any data about the extent of the impact.”
Dangerous weather conditions aren’t confined to any one county in Kansas, where beef cattle dominates the agriculture sector, making it one of the main cattle-producing U.S. states.
Nearly the entire western half of Kansas is currently classified as abnormally dry or in a drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor website.
Heat blasted from under 80 degrees to more than 104
To get a sense of what the animals were dealing with, it helps to look at the weather’s recent whipsaw effect.
Temperatures rapidly spiked in Kansas in the past week, blasting past 100 degrees. Some of the worst heat struck Haskell County in the southwest. In recent years, it’s been the top cattle-producing county in Kansas, with 385,000 head of cattle reported in 2021.
In Haskell County, the heat rocketed from a moderate high of 79.9 degrees on June 9 to a scalding 101.1 degrees just two days later. Then came three more days of triple-digit highs that topped out at more than 104 degrees, according to weather data from Kansas State University.
Conditions also became very dry in Haskell, with relative humidity falling from nearly 80% to less than 24%, with zero precipitation over a seven-day stretch. The baking heat was inescapable: even four inches beneath the soil’s surface, the temperature reached nearly 92 degrees.
The animals would have been valued around $2,000 each
“It’s a significant impact,” Scarlett Hagins of the Kansas Livestock Association tells local TV station KAKE, adding that the market-ready value for each animal would have been around $2,000.
“Any kind of animal loss is significant to a producer, to cattle feeder, to a rancher. No one wants to see any kind of loss like this,” she said.
The industry website AG Daily lists ways cattle producers can lessen the risk to their animals, from ensuring they have enough water, space and shade to watching for signs of heat stress, such as protruding tongues and heavy breathing.
“Fat cattle, those who still are carrying some of their summer hair, and cattle who have suffered respiratory illness are the most susceptible to heat stress,” the site states.
Extinction In Real Time | Christopher Titus | Armageddon Update
Let’s talk about MLK and black people wanting more….
DeSantis says Florida is ‘affirmatively against’ Covid-19 vaccines for young kids
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/16/desantis-covid-vaccine-florida-kids-fda-00040191
This is both irresponsible and will lead to child deaths, plus promote more Covid virus among the public and it makes no sense. Parents with sick infants and children. Sorry deniers, the science is settled and the data shows the vaccines are safe and effective. The people who DeathSantis is playing to are a dying breed, really dying. I am getting less and less willing to entertain those who deny the data and science simply because Tucker or Hannity say it is not true. I am getting tired of the outright lying by the right wing media. Florida is the only state, the only state think on that, that did not pre order the vaccines for this age group. Even every other red state preordered the vaccines. I want to be very clear that DeathSantis lies that young kids do not get Covid, many do and many die, and those that do not die have lifelong health issues. This is just a flat out lie dooming so many kids it should be illegal. They talk about not letting kids read books because it may harm them, but the real harm is sicknesses they could be protected from that they won’t be because of this bullshit. Hugs
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday railed against providing Covid-19 vaccines to young children, saying Florida will not provide state programs to administer vaccinations for toddlers or infants.
DeSantis, speaking at a press conference in Miami, said that Covid-19 vaccines have not gone through enough testing and clinical trials to determine that they are effective and added that kids are least likely to suffer serious health consequences from Covid.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Mayo Clinic have emphasized that the Covid-19 vaccine is safe and has urged the public to get the shot to protect against the virus and prevent serious symptoms.
“I would say we are affirmatively against the Covid vaccine for young kids,” DeSantis said. “These are the people who have zero risk of getting anything.”
Florida is the only state in the nation not to order fresh doses of the vaccine for children ahead of Wednesday’s decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to allow two Covid vaccines to be administered to children under 5 years old. The approval fast tracks the vaccine for distribution and kids could start receiving shots as soon as Tuesday.
DeSantis told reporters that the FDA board made its decision to pacify parent’s fears about the virus.
“To do an emergency-use authorization for a six month old or a one year old simply to placate anxiety, that’s not the standard when you’re doing this,” DeSantis said, adding those fears were stoked by the media.
The Florida Department of Health, which is overseen by DeSantis’ office, issued a statement Wednesday saying it did not place an order with the federal government for the vaccine doses because it did not advise that all children become vaccinated.
The state Department of Health is headed by state Surgeon General Joe Ladapo, who is an outspoken critic of the vaccine. He previously said he opposes the use of the vaccine on young kids and has questioned the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.
DeSantis on Thursday also stressed that the state’s decision not to seek help from the federal government to distribute doses earmarked for kids does not mean the state has banned use of the vaccine.
“You are free to choose — that’s not the issue,” he said.
Bob’s Your Uncle – BYU • a day ago
The Polio. flu, Hepatitis, Varicella, MMR & DTaP vaccines are just as safe and effective as the covid vaccine according to the data that have been made available to Florida and to everyone else.
“These are the people who have zero risk of getting anything.”
ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
There is a cemetery at Black Diamond Mines (now a park) in the East Bay (California). It was used by miners and their families around 1875-1900. It’s heartbreaking to see many of the headstones with the names of many young children from the same family. They died at very early ages, from diphtheria, pertussis, rubella and many other diseases that are now preventable, thanks to vaccines.
Hospitals Are Sharing Sensitive Info With Facebook
Ars Technica reports:
A tracking tool installed on many hospitals’ websites has been collecting patients’ sensitive health information—including details about their medical conditions, prescriptions, and doctor’s appointments—and sending it to Facebook.
The Markup tested the websites of Newsweek’s top 100 hospitals in America. On 33 of them we found the tracker, called the Meta Pixel, sending Facebook a packet of data whenever a person clicked a button to schedule a doctor’s appointment.
Read the full article.
There’s much more. So creepy.
