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We have slowly replaced almost all of our incandescents with LEDs. They are much better than those dreadful CFLs. My only issue is with the brightness of some of them, which can be a little too much. With some experimenting though we found 'warm color' ones. The thing I hate the most though, are some of the LEDs in vehicles which I feel are intensely bright, cause eye pain and could be a hazard. Apparently fussing about that has been a thing for a while. Most of the LEDs in our house have lasted a very long time and we're pleased with that, but we did get a box recently that had some odd failures. I never could understand the fuss and huge resistance to LED bulb technology... it's been going on for years. Recently read the most insufferable article of a complainer, and nearly thought it an April Fools joke... nope. The person is just odd.

He did have guns and was required to surrender them. Obviously they missed that he may have had some others. They may have also missed that he had dual citizenship after the fact, not that it mattered much as he was still in the country. All I can say is, some of our best investigative journalists uncovered the initial wrongdoing, which resulted in him being kicked off the staff. However, at the same time someone had to have been tipped off about the wiretapping going on, which caused an additional investigation. That may be related to another pandemic/scandal that those same journalists were looking into, which McGrath and certainly Hogan had been involved in. One local blogger reported that it was very odd, that in McGrath's manuscript he mentioned having a beef with another guy that also worked on Hogan's early campaigning days. There was an old scandal back then involving sex and a staffer, that they guy may have helped tamp down but the guy had been rewarded in the administration well (so was McGrath too), but McGrath did come off as a somewhat unstable and jealous kind of person.

Indeed. Last week it seemed like they had a general idea of where he was. Perhaps it had to do with the ''writer'' of the Amazon book releasing another volume of material - this time even more hilarious than the last. What's odd is that it seems Roy didn't make much of an effort to hide himself too well. The whole thing is strange. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/politics-power/state-government/roy-mcgrath-fugitive-found-manhunt-QBUF7AKQM5DN3PQD2OYJI43MA4/

Some people in the media's odd desire to have an American President join a stupid ceremony to make Charles seem legit comes off as terribly desperate. No President has ever done so.

The way I see it is... I don't think I'd ever enter my child into one of these programs without both you and the child understanding what would happen. Next, the winning bid was someone that the family contacted and they seemed to have come to an agreement that the goat could be put to better use alive. The parents then stole the goat. Now, technically the way I understand it, they had paid for the goat initially before the new owner placed the bid - BUT neither the new owner (the bid winner) or the parents wanted the goat to be slaughtered by that point. I wish that there could have been compassion and empathy on the part of the state officials that then spent a great deal of time and resources on killing the goat to ''teach the child a lesson''. Ultimately it does make them appear to be very callous individuals. There should have been some sort of civil legal process for handling such a dispute and civility on the part of all parties involved.

This story is all around crazy and a bit confusing, and everyone is generally being horrible to this little girl. I don't really understand why a good agreement couldn't have been found for all parties involved. I'd be interested to see how a judge would rule on this case. The suit is now alleging 14th amendment violations and violation of CA child contract law. Also... good lord, please don't put your child in a 4H program if they are unable or are too young to handle certain potential aspects. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-03-30/goat-slaughter-shasta-county-fair https://reason.com/2023/03/31/police-traveled-500-miles-to-seize-girls-pet-goat-for-slaughter/

It's interesting the notes from the doctors there. I kind of feel like previously he wasn't getting his disabilities properly addressed or having the right sort of therapy. They've fitted him with hearing aids and worked with speech pathology and that should help him recover if he continues. They also made some medication changes, that I bet were making some things worse. The big thing here is if his therapy properly continues, and if he has a good enough support system to poke him to do what he needs to do.

Shingles is cropping up more now, especially those that have it 'activated' by prior COVID infection. Shingles is the adult form of chickenpox. Wouldn't wish it on anyone. Very very painful, and can cause blindness so I feel for you. The vaccine does work in making it less severe, but COVID has damaged immune systems of many and it's not working as well as it once did. It can be a rough time for anyone that has it re-activated.

But what about Ulysses Grant, will no one remember his egregious violation? 😉

I don't disagree with a good bit of what you've said. But... there's a few points here: I always tend to hear older people of a certain generation say that "there was nothing like this going on in my day..."(even though my dad was quite the troublemaker and could tell all sorts of stories) but, I suppose I'm lucky enough to have lived around a few different generations, hear about or discover with research, their life stories, or witness their current reality vs a sort of faux optimistic one that they made up to cope with difficulties in life. My grandpa (the greatest generation) had a terribly difficult life in his youth, bad parents, lacked education, went through the depression and wars but managed to snag the girl, get through the war, get an education, and go on to be successful. But he saw things and went through some things. Things that deeply wounded and affected him. Likewise, so did my grandma. And those wounds, the ones they didn't talk about or didn't want to reveal easily often get passed onto to their kids, and made them the people they are now and so forth and so forth. I, an accident baby, was born a long time after my elder siblings had lived a lot of life already (also going through some things because of how my parents are), and by the time I arrived - my parents were disinterested in dealing with another kid and the lot of them clearly have unresolved issues that they've managed to reach old age with. So who raised me? My sibling really and myself. That gives one a different perspective on things and neither that sibling or me managed to ever really have a childhood - because adulthood had to happen out of necessity. So how do parents want to address issues going on with their kids now? Well... by doing what my parents did.. not really raising them. And no, they didn't believe in 'medicating' them, but they sure as heck weren't going to actually be a loving parent (or any sort of parent) either. And now in their old age, I have to be their parent, because they can't deal with life. Since parents have medication as an option now, that's the popular out to use. But some parents don't want to acknowledge their children's learning difficulties, difficulties with the way school is structured vs their learning ability, or yes actual very real and frightening mental problems. For some there are no resources, and in a lot of these school shooting cases - parents are in complete denial and provide easy access to weapons in their homes. If you've ever been around someone bipolar and having a delusion-filled breakdown suicide, or crisis, having weapons around isn't a good thing for them or yourself. Kids are left to raise themselves, but what examples have they got? They don't know how to be kids AND they don't have stable adults to learn from either. I don't really care about this shooter, like any of them.. (and there will be endless more). They are dead. They were having a crisis, and likely those parents will say they had no idea why their child did this even though, they likely do. That's probably a mean and unfair thing for me to say in some respect, the shooter is the one that pulled the trigger afterall. But what our children become is often what we raise or don't care to raise them to be. No doubt they have a lengthy manifesto of grievances - likely directed at the school. There are *alot* of things that were different 40 years ago that may be contributing factors, but every generation has their major problems. We tend to like to think about only the good parts to push through it.

I am told that CPS is investigating the child's current access to guns and home life, and the school is also 'investigating'. But conversations with the police and the state's attorney were not fruitful. Apparently the kid has to shoot someone, or a school employee must actively witness a gun on school property... this is despite multiple interviews with children at the school, the bus driver that refuses to put the kid on the bus because of violent behavior, and neighbors witnessing the kid murdering an animal. We were again told that because the kid is below a certain age threshold because of a new law that went into place, nothing can be done for now.

What would you suggest?

Another mentally ill person easily obtains weapons and murders kids? At some point it's a bit overwhelming to talk about, the story is always the same, and the discussion turns non-productive. In our town we were made aware of a violent kid that has weapons and has brought them to school property, and has made threats off of school property. Kids are now too frightened to go to school, and the cops won't do anything. Some parents went and confronted the kid's father... it did not go well. My neighbor's kid tells me he knows that kid is going to snap one day.

On the flip side there is a rising group of adults that sacrifice their entire lives to care for their aging parents to basically become their full time nurse, caregiver, and pay their bills in addition to their own. Without their children, many parents wouldn't have a roof over their heads. 👍 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2023/02/24/the-sandwich-generation-is-financially-taking-care-of-their-parents-kids-and-themselves/?sh=17644fb72af4

Daily Fail once said they believed he had an O1.

We don't know if Hogan did anything wrong certainly, but that's largely what some of the court case will determine. Hogan will have to testify under oath. Of course the book says that it's all Hogan's fault, but doesn't go into larger details. It openly admits that McGrath broke the law in some parts with regarding wiretapping and tries to excuse his actions in others. No I don't believe I did. The question is if McGrath is alive or dead to begin with, since he is currently listed as a fugitive. It is unknown who the person is that really wrote this book, most local reporters have three theories right now: 1) It's McGrath 2)It's an associate (one of those associates may have funneled money for him) 3) It's an unrelated grifter All of these potentials could make things worse for McGrath when he is caught. The content of the book, certainly does not help his case in the way he thinks it does. No lawyer would ever advise their client to do this and we do have to question if alive or dead - where are the proceeds from this book going? If dead there will be no benefit to him. The person that claims to have written this has, according to reports, behaved suspicious and evasively. For all we know this person may be involved in hiding or removing him. I'm surprised it is still available for sale.

Based on what I've been able to see digging around this is self-published via Amazon with an obvious pseudonym. I'm guessing any money made goes to some sort of shady account. He's either alive and hiding out on some island thinking he won't be caught.. which is just stupid. Or he's dead or soon to die and this is some kind of weird manifesto. Not sure why you'd charge people for the viewing 'pleasure' though if you were dead.

Roy is still missing and it's been nothing but silence about this case. But tonight an interesting clue. Someone using the name "Ryan Cooper" is publishing a book about McGrath on Amazon for purchase of a small fee. It's claiming to be a juicy tale about some kind of potential crimes Gov. Hogan did and of course making Roy out to be some kind of hero. It's due released on Wednesday. The lawyer claims no knowledge of it. The real author, Ryan Cooper, claims no knowledge of it either. I can't wait for the FBI to have fun with this one!

Hey, based on what I'm seeing these days, some of these methods are regaining popularity! 😉

Well, the author doesn't dispute that the substances seeking to be potentially banned are harmful and since they are not from Europe they don't know for sure if taste of products are affected (it's not). So the question is, why would you want to eat them? And don't conservatives usually advocate for states rights? There was one heck of an interesting study recently about stevia sweeteners that are everywhere now. I've long had objections about it, and the study authors took a different approach in studying how it could harm someone completely by accident. There is nothing bad about removing harmful substances out of food you consume or paying attention to the labels before you eat it.

https://today.umd.edu/cicada-licous-cooking-e031e1f4-ee49-4a27-a377-72607b8ed189 Have you tried chapulines? Apparently they are popular in Washington state now as snacks at the baseball games. It's always crazy when we get brood emergence in Maryland, because the dogs will gorge on them like it's candy and then they get a bad tummy from eating too much. Our ancestors certainly weren't opposed to eating insects, we've just forgotten about it. I'm not an organ meat person, but I'm pretty sure my grandparents ate that sort of thing during war time. Well like any creature on this planet, insects deserve some amount of care and respect. Our ancestors understood they were good food sources too. If we don't solve the bee problem we're going to be in trouble... and we have outbreaks and many non-native harmful insects that we're struggling to get rid of. Lanternflies are the big new ones. Beautiful and clever insects, but terribly bad. Unfortunately I don't think they are safe to eat either.

From a cultural standpoint - countries that restrict pork or beef eating do so because of their national religious beliefs. But historically the US does not have any restrictions in that regard. Early colonists and Native Americans alike ate insects. We likely eat insects every day without knowing it (last year seemed bad for finding insects on produce imo). Our tradition for eating Cicadas in these parts likely came from that same time. We realized they are literally land shrimp - and could be baked, fried, or grilled - and were plentiful too. They required far less work than farming, fishing, or hunting to gather. Settlers would trade for fruitcake that consisted of insects and in times of famine locust swarms, people were encouraged to eat them. The biggest insect based substance we all eat is honey - produced via the vomit of bees. Many countries around the world thrive on bug eating. I'm pretty sure there are plenty survivalist gurus, boy scouts, and military that know a thing or two about eating insects as well. Of course eating insects is viewed in a negative manner because of phobias about it. Quite frankly I find the little guys too adorable. No one is forcing anyone to eat insects. It was part of a single school lesson the same as telling a child they need to go dissect a frog for a class project. They were given the option to try eating it for extra credit if they wanted to. The single student that objected was offered an alternative. Most kids, found it fun, gross, and funny. The kids were not allowed to argue a counterpoint in the writing assignment portion (which is problematic), but that is no different than what you'd find at private religious schools or even homeschools on a variety of subjects. Ultimately if the mother was unhappy about the subject material she has the option to change schools or homeschool, instead of complaining to the news and I assume still leaving her kid in the same school system. It sounds like it was worked out anyway.

Cicadas are a local delicacy around these parts, beloved by humans and pets. They are extremely similar to shrimp, in both taste and genetics to the point it is unadvisable to eat them if you are allergic to seafood. People eat frogs, snails, crabs and lots of bottom feeding creatures. Crab 'mustard' which many people still consume is essentially 'waste product'. I don't really see the issue, if people willingly want to eat something and it won't hurt them. Our ancestors ate them, sometimes out of necessity.

What is going on down there in Tennessee? 😲 Congressman with a questionable background resume, grifts money two days after the death of his child for a public children's burial ground, and then keeps it. Eight years pass, and people are asking questions. https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/what-did-congressman-andy-ogles-do-with-nearly-25-000-meant-for-child-burial-garden-he-wont-say

It's been a really difficult time for McNally, who continues to do interviews saying he did not mean any harm, and that he's taking a step back from his internet activities of being 'really friendly' with his constituents. He will not address questions relating to talking to minors or sexual content. Most interviews he gives seems to imply he's a heavy drinker. Republican Todd Warner has released an angry letter today calling for him to step down immediately. Maybe this will put pressure on the governor to act. https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/call-for-resignation-of-lt-gov-randy-mcnally-after-social-media-controversy/ The young gay man in question does assure the public that the 80 year old man never hit on him directly, but through all the sexual innuendo that there may have been some question about getting a job offer to become a member of his staff.