https://www.texastribune.org/2022/04/15/mcallen-greg-abbott-border-inspections/
I order for a small store. The covid disruption has been a big pain!
What was this moron thinking?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/13/fdr-roosevelt-coup-business-plot/
This could and should be in the Politics.
Amy Goodman interviewed an author about his book about Smedely Butler. There was a coup planned by bankers and rich industrialist to over throw FDR. He played them,and...
Ok. I was in the business for twenty years.Did some research on the history of this food. It is very old, catch of the day on bread.Olive oil and spices goes back a long way.Tomatoes are very resent. And pineapple is is just fine if it is with Canadian bacon. Point is,you can put what ever the...
I have not read the book, but have heard some interviews with the author. And Texass gets to write the history.
Any thoughts?
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/16/1006907140/forget-the-alamo-texas-history-bryan-burrough
I can not remember when I saw my fist black person growing up in Oregon.
Until Quite recently most black people lived in Portland.
I only became aware of the racist history about ten years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Oregon
Anyone from Oregon have any thoughts on this?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/27/health/us-tobacco-age-21-trnd/index.html
I work retail.We sell a lot of tobacco products.I do all the ordering for tobacco.There was no warning.Just a tweet from the FDA.
WTF.
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/130000-year-old-mastodon-threatens-upend-human-history/
I live in the state that thought it had the first humans to migrate from Asia.Maybe not!
https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2017/03/09/a-north-slope-oil-discovery-already-described-as-huge-just-got-a-lot-bigger/
On shore.Near infrastructure. Proven safe extraction.
But.I am still conflicted.Love the oil years here,big checks form oil.Jobs,growth.Then north slope started to...
With less than two months left,how much shittier can this year get?Prince,Leonard,Ali,etc.And,now Trump!
John Oliver did a great tribute to a fucked up year.
And,on a personal note:my nieces died in a gun accident this week.
FUCK 2016!
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/09/20/161501413/for-best-toilet-health-squat-or-sit
I have tried the stool thing.It does seem to help.Keeping your knees above your hips may help.My small sample seems positive.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-walmart-crime/
Another example of corporations externalizing their cost on to tax payers.
Capitalism is a wild horse,that must be trained.
Rio 2016.
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/rio2016/rio-olympics-broke-rio-1.3654212
Corruption,pollution,crime,incompetence,Zika,and corporate greed.
The whole Olympic model is flawed.
I say put the Summer games in Athens for ever and move the winter games based on the best climate data.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/greg-lake-on-keith-emerson-music-was-his-life-20160313
Had a chance to see them in Portland in the mid 70's,but what ever.Great band.Big part of my life in those days.Got some old vinyl.
rip.
https://stinkmovie.com/
This has been one of my biggest pet thing for many years.
The fragrance exemption is wrong in so many ways.
What do you smear on your flesh?:
One of the big days for the sale of chocolate.
Mostly shit chocolate.
Hersey's gets most of their cocoa from west Africa.
http://www.foodispower.org/slavery-chocolate/
I don't eat shit chocolate.
70% of cocoa comes from west Africa,so it is hard for these big corporations find another source.I...