Happy Star Wars Day….May the Fourth be with you!

Today is also the day when students were murdered….

On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guardsmen killed four college students and wounded nine others – one of them, Dean Kahler, is paralyzed below the waist – on the campus of Kent State University. Nobody was found guilty of the bloodletting.

On that awful day, Guardsmen fired M-1 rifles, .45 pistols and a shotgun for 13 seconds, killing Allison Krause and Jeffrey Miller, ROTC student William Schroeder and Sandra Scheuer who was on her way to class, while wounding nine others. Many Americans were outraged at the shootings but the vast majority were not, apparently believing that a nation at war was threatened by “radical” challenges on college campuses and elsewhere and that a government at war was perfectly justified in spying on its dissenting citizens and sending provocateurs to disrupt antiwar opponents. (On May 14-15, 1970, in Jackson, MS., Phillip Gibbs, a Jackson State junior, and James Green, a bystander and high school student, were killed by officers called to the scene following disturbances and student protests against the Vietnam war and continuing bias against blacks. A dozen students were also wounded by gunfire. Again, no one was ever convicted. 

Time to get busy!

I apologize for the thinness of my news dump this week….most everything I was intended on using were on the PC that crapped out….so this week the offerings will be meager.

My new PC came late Thursday and I spent Friday trying to set it up for use….God I hate Bill Gates!  Hopefully I will finish up today some time.

Late Spring in the Gulf South….it is midnight and it is 76 with 90% humidity….just the beginning of an oppressive Summer.

Let’s begin shall we?

I have a section I call the ‘Can’t Fix Stupid Files’….and this one is right up there.

Every year visitors to Yellowstone or shall we call them morons?  Try to interact with the wild bison in the park….and it seldom ends well….and we have another moron….

A visitor’s encounter with a bison at Yellowstone National Park ended badly for both bison and man, though it looks like man ultimately got the short end of the stick. NBC News reports that a tourist from Idaho was arrested earlier this month after allegedly kicking one of the huge animals, which in turn ended up injuring him. Per a release from the National Park Service, rangers responded to a call on April 21 of someone harassing a bison herd and kicking one of the animals in the leg.

When they arrived on the scene, they found 40-year-old Clarence Yoder of Idaho Falls in a vehicle driven by McKenna Bass, 37, also of Idaho Falls, near the park’s west entrance in West Yellowstone, Montana. Officials say Yoder had been hurt during the bison interaction, and so rangers first took him to a nearby medical center for treatment of minor injuries, then to the Gallatin County Detention Center. Yoder was charged with being under the influence of alcohol to a degree that may endanger oneself, disorderly conduct as to create or maintain a hazardous condition, approaching wildlife, and disturbing wildlife, per the NPS.

Bass was charged with failing to yield, driving under the influence, and disturbing wildlife. The park service says both have pleaded not guilty. Each violation can lead to up to six months behind bars and up to a $5,000 fine. Per the AP, bulls can weigh up to 2,000 pounds and run as fast as 40mph, regularly hurting tourists who wander too close. Yellowstone guidelines tell visitors to stay at least 25 yards away from bison and other large wildlife in the park. 

Definitely Can’t Fix Stupid

I am sick of this fad known as ‘plant-based’…it is as if they are trying to force me to eat something I do not want….my favorite stupidity is ‘plant based butter’….yeah morons it is called margarine. 

They are trying to invade another of my favorite snacks ….cheese….seems there is a slight problem with this…..

When the winners of the prestigious Good Food Awards are named on Monday, the champ in the cheese category will be one made from milk. This typically would not be a surprise, except for this: The makers of a plant-based cheese had been told confidentially in advance (which is standard practice) that their blue cheese would win, reports AgFunderNews. However, Good Food Awards then informed California’s Climax Foods that its entry had been disqualified at the last minute. The reasons for that disqualification remain a bit murky, but it appears that somebody—likely a rival in the dairy industry—raised red flags about the Climax product.

The head of the Good Food Foundation isn’t divulging specifics but acknowledges as much. “I think there were a lot more eyes on this particular entrant than there would be on one of the hundreds of other finalists,” Sarah Weiner tells the Washington Post. “Which made it more likely that someone with expertise would reach out.” Otherwise, seeing a vegan cheese win a cheese competition would have been a “bellwether moment” in the industry, writes Emily Heil in the Post. Expect the same friction to play out on supermarket shelves over the very definition of cheese, she adds. As Janet Fletcher, who has been chronicling the controversy at the Planet Cheese newsletter, puts it, “If cheese isn’t from milk, what is cheese?”

In this case, the reason for the disqualification appears to stem from Climax’s product listing kokum butter as an ingredient, which is not designated as “generally regarded as safe” (GRAS) by the FDA. However, the company says it now uses cocoa butter anyway (and did at the time it submitted its cheese) and could have cleared that up if contacted. GFF insists it reached out, with no success. Climax also alleges that GFF changed its GRAS requirements after entries were submitted in January, an assertion backed up by the Post. Again, much drama

Stop trying to screw with cheese!

I know you have heard of the flat earthers….but how do they explain why no one falls off the edge?

At this point in history, we’ve racked up some pretty solid evidence to prove that the Earth is, in fact, round. You can look through a telescope and see that the other planets in our solar system are round. NASA has taken many pictures of Earth from space and astronauts have viewed it with their own eyes.

There are even at-home experiments you can do that show that the Earth is round. Not to mention the biggest flaw is the fact that, as already mentioned, no one has ever fallen off the “edge of the Earth”.

Despite this, there are still a large number of people who believe the Earth is flat.

The argument against the pictures and eye-witness reports of the Earth’s round shape is that NASA, the government, whoever – is lying to us. Reasons as to why vary, mostly they have to do with power, control, and money.

Well-known flat earther Connor Murphy finally came out with an explanation. Why does no one ever fall to their death off the edge of the Earth? ‘There isn’t actually an edge.’

“Fall off into what, do you know what I’m saying? There’s no edge. This is a misconception,” he said. “The way we see it is it’s an enclosed system. There’s water above, there’s the firmament – or the dome – and there’s water above it and water below it and there’s no leaving it, there’s no anti-gravity allowing us to float around and find other Suns and stuff.”

In that same interview he went on to explain that Antarctica is actually the perimeter, and the reason we don’t fall off is because of an ice shelf or cliff. If you get past that, you hit the dome.

Flat-Earther Explains Why Nobody Has Fallen Off The Edge

That is all I have for this Saturday…..hopefully all will be good with the new PC….

In closing I leave with “Ohio” by CSN&Y

Plus a little something for the protesters…..

Go out and enjoy your weekend….and as always….Be Well and Be Safe….

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