EddieDoyers
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Russia rolling in tanks to Ukraine huh
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As always, one party in particular just really wants to **** America.
As always, one party in particular just really wants to **** America.
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I really don't think it's money, they just legit belive de regulation is like a magic wand that makes all things better in all circumstances.
De regulation is to republicans what hot sauce for some black people, they think they can put it on anything and it'll be an improvement.
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Dude it is about money, especially when we are talking about the policy makers.
If you look at the state and local level they also pay of those governments to keep competition out and prevent counties from having public options.
The North Carolina state Republicans straight up banned counties from building municipal cable companies because I believe Comcast didn't want competition.
The GOP on this issue they also want new regulations in favor of ISPs.
The GOP loves the big gumment the regulatory state too. As long as it lines up with their end game, i.e their donors wishes.
But I agree the GOP is drunk off of deregulation. In many cases they know that unfettered capitalism takes out two birds with one stone. Advantages big business over labor, and insures white folk stay on top the economic ladder.
With that being said. I do agree that there are plenty of naive right wingers, within the base, that have drank the Kool-Aid on free market capitalism. And idiots like Rand Paul and Paul Ryan would be small government buffoons for free.
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We might not be a Banana Republic just yet, but we are definitely pass Old Navy Status.
America is like a nice GAP.
Cognitive dissonance.
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Wonder how this is going to turn out
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/3...o-block-mulvaney-from-interim-leader-position
CFPB deputy director sues Trump to block Mulvaney as interim leader
http://thehill.com/policy/finance/3...o-block-mulvaney-from-interim-leader-position
CFPB deputy director sues Trump to block Mulvaney as interim leader
Mr.Guy
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America is the Slauson Swap Meet.
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a nice GAP and they've got a great black white Friday coupon.
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Our wild boar problem in the northern province of Limburg in Flanders has been getting worse. The provincial government has been debating ordering a quota for firearm-licensed hunters in their province; kill x amount of boars or face a fine. Whoever the clowns are that took these boars from the south and released them in the north should get locked up.
It's costing the local governments lots of money and they just keep breeding like rabbits. The province organized a mass hunt earlier this week for boars on and around a military base. This resulted in a record number of 56 boars being shot in that one hunting party. And that's still hardly putting a dent into the rampant boar problem. They're running all over the place, wreaking havoc on the local ecosystems, causing accidents by constantly running over roads etc, ...
It's ridiculous. The government is trying to launch all sorts of incentives to get rid of the boars but due to the sheer amount of them, the pace and quantity of their breeding and having zero natural competitors, the government and hunting organizations fear it may become a permanent issue at this rate. Even with all these attempts to exterminate them.
It's costing the local governments lots of money and they just keep breeding like rabbits. The province organized a mass hunt earlier this week for boars on and around a military base. This resulted in a record number of 56 boars being shot in that one hunting party. And that's still hardly putting a dent into the rampant boar problem. They're running all over the place, wreaking havoc on the local ecosystems, causing accidents by constantly running over roads etc, ...
It's ridiculous. The government is trying to launch all sorts of incentives to get rid of the boars but due to the sheer amount of them, the pace and quantity of their breeding and having zero natural competitors, the government and hunting organizations fear it may become a permanent issue at this rate. Even with all these attempts to exterminate them.
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I'm sure them ****ers are delicious. Export them here and drive the price down.
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Y'all can have them
There's so many of them they're selling them at €1/kg and there's still far too much supply for the demand.
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They seriously sell like 1lb of wild boar for like 90 bucks in supermarkets. Might be a nice juug.
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Those ****s look disgusting.
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So do pigs. It's kind of wild that we haven't expanded on what we accept socially when it comes to eating. This is something I heard on This American Life a while back:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...t-how-hippos-nearly-invaded-american-cuisine/
Don't have a cow but, at one point in history, it could have been that Americans weren't having cows at all. Had the country's cuisine gone on a different trajectory, Americans may have all been eating hippo meat instead.
- By Layla Eplett on March 27, 2014
Hungry, hungry hippos? Or, hungry, hungry for hippos?
Don’t have a cow but, at one point in history, it could have been that Americans weren’t having cows at all. Had the country’s cuisine gone on a different trajectory, Americans may have all been eating hippo meat instead. In American Hippopotamus, author Jon Mooallem recounts this fascinating and altogether quirky time in history.
The idea of hippo meat came about at the beginning of the twentieth century. At the time, a combination of high rates of immigration, increased populations within cities, overgrazed rangeland, and escalating meat prices led to a demand for meat that couldn’t be met. It became known in newspapers as the Meat Question, and two colorful characters, Frederick Russell Burnham and Fritz Duquesne, proposed hippopotamus as the Meat Answer.
Burnham and Duquesne had a few things in common. Along with a common vision of introducing hippopotamus meat to the United States, both were spies. The two also spent time in Africa. And each man had a penchant for posing with animals they slaughtered.
That may have been the extent of their similarities, though. Frederick Russell Burnham was the inspiration for both Indiana Jones and the Boy Scouts. Fritz Duquesne definitely wasn’t either of those things; more of a con man with many aliases, his career highlights included gaining notoriety for creating the Duquesne Spy Ring and faking his own death (only to later change his mind and return).
Some might ask, Why hippopotamus meat? to which Burnham might have replied, Why not? He reasoned that Europeans had imported cows, sheep, poultry and pigs to the United States and also noted that animals such as the ostriches in California and African camels in the southwest had also successfully adapted to their new American surroundings. Burnham’s rationale attracted some notable names, including as William Newton Irwin, a USDA researcher who believed the sole reason Americans didn’t dine on hippopotamus was “because nobody ever told them it was the proper thing to do.”
The introduction of hippo meat also gained the attention of Louisiana Congressman Robert Broussard. Broussard's interest was the result of a curious problem within his district. In 1884, a visiting Japanese delegation had brought water hyacinths to New Orleans as a gift. After their introduction, the flowers quickly took over the surrounding rivers, killing many of the fish that inhabited them. Broussard’s solution to the hyacinth problem was to have Hyacinth Hippo come over and perform the Dance of the Hour in a tutu import hippos from Africa and introduce them into the waters of Louisiana.
For Broussard, the benefits were twofold; not only would the hippos provide a solution to the meat scarcity by living in areas like bayous that cattle couldn’t inhabit, since they were known to enjoy a meal of hyacinth, they would also alleviate the river congestion by eating the plants--sort of a way of having one foreign species come in to get rid of another foreign species.
Together, Broussard, Duquesne, and Burnham started the New Food Supply Society, to explore and promote their idea. Congressman Broussard introduced H.R. 23261, also known as the Hippo Bill, which sought the appropriation of $250,000 to import useful animals (such as hippos) into the United States. Citizens wrote letters in praise of his proposition, its taste was touted in an editorial in the New York Times as “lake cow bacon” and The Washington Post announced that hippopotamus would be readily available within the United States in a matter of years.
As we all know, America went down a different meat sourcing path. Although Mooallem doesn’t necessarily think the United States would have been better off with hippo meat, he notes “...there is something beautiful about the America that considered importing them—an America so intent on facing down its problems, and solving them, that even an idea like this could get a fair hearing; where the political system and the culture felt so alive with possibility, and so confident in its own virtue and ingenuity, that elected officials could sit around and contemplate the merits of hippo ranching without worrying too much about how it sounded; where people felt free and bold enough to imagine putting hippopotamuses in places where there were no hippopotamuses.”
Head over to the Atavist to read the entire story.
Image Credits: Unknown Artist, Charles F. Holder (Frederick Russell Burnham papers, Yale University) Fritz Joubert Duquesne (Published in Field and Stream) all via Wikimedia Commons.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.co...t-how-hippos-nearly-invaded-american-cuisine/
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Hmm. Perhaps we can turn this boar epidemic around and profit from it in our attempts to exterminate them. $90 for a pound is ridiculous though
Normally our wild boar population was only located in the rural south-eastern part of the country so it was pretty expensive as I recall it but definitely nowhere near $90/lb.
I just hope the problem stays contained in Limburg. It's really not that much of a rural province compared to the south but they flourish due to absolute domination of the ecosystem. They could probably spread to the surrounding provinces and flourish there as well. Then it really turns into a national plague. Besides shooting them there's really nothing to stop them from conquering the ecosystem of any northern province.
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Hmm. Perhaps we can turn this boar epidemic around and profit from it in our attempts to exterminate them. $90 for a pound is ridiculous though
Normally our wild boar population was only located in the rural south-eastern part of the country so it was pretty expensive as I recall it but definitely nowhere near $90/lb.
I just hope the problem stays contained in Limburg. It's really not that much of a rural province compared to the south but they flourish due to absolute domination of the ecosystem. They could probably spread to the surrounding provinces and flourish there as well. Then it really turns into a national plague. Besides shooting them there's really nothing to stop them from conquering the ecosystem of any northern province.
Yeah might be a bit exaggerated, but I swear I remember a small piece in Wegmans costing that much. I think y'all could really profit off these though, especially if you get chefs to catch on.
