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We still 'knock on doors', but we already know the farmers whose woods we want to visit.
Too many of the small farmers are no longer there and subdivisions (usually McMansion types) are rapidly taking hold of the tillable land and uncut woods, though.
So 'nearly ended' in more ways than one, B.
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/\ Yep, sometimes referred to as economic progress. In Ga. you had better have dated, written permission.
[FoxNews] The officer 'sustained lacerations and puncture wounds,' WMATA says
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy unexpectedly came across a violent incident against a police officer in the middle of Washington, D.C., Tuesday afternoon.
In an X post, Duffy explained that he was walking to the Navy Yard Metro Station when his staff told him a Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) police officer had just been stabbed in the face. Duffy said he was about to talk about transit safety when he learned of the incident.
The WMATA later confirmed the incident to Fox News Digital, saying an officer was stabbed "with a sharp metal object" by a suspect who did not pay fare at the station.
"The officer sustained lacerations and puncture wounds to the face," a WMATA official said. "The suspect was detained by additional officers nearby. The suspect has been placed under arrest, and the weapon has been recovered."
[MTExpress] Students of Wood River High School’s Residential Construction Academy build a home on Monday at the high school campus. According to the Blaine County School District, the construction program—taught by Ian Blacker, pictured in the center of the image with sophomores Tristan Ballis (white hat) and Octavio Hurtado Garcia (blue hat)—"enables students to learn and master a wide variety of construction methods and techniques, from rough framing to cabinetmaking and intricate woodworking." The home built by the students will ultimately be offered for sale and moved offsite by the buyer.
[X] China has issued directives to its airlines, prohibiting the acceptance of new Boeing aircraft deliveries and stopping the purchase of U.S.-made aviation parts. This move is seen in the context of escalating tensions due to tariffs imposed by the U.S. government on Chinese goods. The decision reflects a broader strategy in the ongoing trade negotiations between China and the United States, impacting both aviation industries.
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Today's China does NOT have 5,000 years of history. Mao very intentionally and systematically destroyed it. Today's China has less history than the US.
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The loss of factory jobs will lead to massive unrest, which Xi will mercilessly put down. Further economic loss will have him purging his Mil to avoid a coup. Hilarity ensues
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I just heard Trump saying once again: "They (Germany) don't take our cars. There are no Chevrolets in Munich."
You know, this annoys me to no end. Chevrolet mostly withdrew from the European market because they were incompetent to build the type of cars Europeans prefer (non gaz-guzzling sleek sedans) in acceptable quality. German importers of Japanese and even Korean cars pay 10% tariff just like importers of U.S. cars do, but they have no problem selling millions of them. Chevrolet only sells Camaro and Corvette in Germany and you do see some of them in Munich. And as you know I drive a Cadillac.
Stop blaming tariffs for what is actually incompetence.
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Dutch medics have revealed that sperm from just 85 donors was used to father thousands of children, leading to fears of accidental inbreeding among the country's population.
The country's gynaecology and obstetrics organisation, the NVOG, said that at least 85 men have become 'mass donors', defined as having fathered 25 or more children each.
The organisation revealed that Dutch fertility clinics have been breaking strict rules around donations for decades.
In some cases, clinics had deliberately used sperm batches from the same donors multiple times, exchanged sperm without the necessary paperwork or even the donor's knowledge, and allowed some donors to give their sperm at multiple clinics.
Most of these mass donors were the biological fathers of between 26 and 40 children, though several had been 50 and 75 each.
The most famous mass donor was Jonathan Meijer, a notorious Dutch YouTuber who has so far fathered 550 children and was the star of Netflix documentary 'The Man with 1,000 Kids.'
At least 10 of these mass donors were fertility doctors themselves.
'The number of mass donors in the clinics should have been zero,' said Marieke Schoonenberg, the head of the Dutch professional association of gynaecologists (NVOG), after an investigation by the NOS public broadcaster.
'We want to offer our apologies on behalf of the profession. We did not do it right.'
Ties van der Meer, of Stichting Donorkind, a foundation that helps children trace their donor fathers, said the revelation was a 'medical calamity', as the new data suggests that there are at least 3,000 people in the Netherlands with 25 or more half-siblings.
In a small, dense country like Holland, this increases the likelihood of accidental incest, he said: 'Once they start dating someone, they're going to have to do DNA tests to make sure they're not going out with a close relation.'
'The harm done to people's trust in the medical system, and in the governments that allowed all this to happen, is just the beginning,' van der Meer said, adding that both children and some of the donors would inevitably suffer more stress.
The issue of mass donation came to the forefront of public imagination in the Netherlands after Jonathan Jacob Meijer, a 43-year-old YouTuber from the Netherlands, was revealed to have fathered at least 550 children.
He faced a lawsuit in 2023 requesting court action over fears of unintentional incest and inbreeding between his children, and because he had gone well past the Dutch limit of fathering 25 donor children.
The donor was found to have fathered at least 102 children in 2017 before a court ruled in 2023 that he must stop making donations or face fines of 100,000 euros (£88,0000) per infraction.
Clinics were also ordered at the time to destroy the samples they had. Meijer continued to donate abroad regardless, including to a Danish sperm bank that operates around the world.
Meijer slammed the Netflix documentary - 'The Man With 1,000 Kids' - when it was released last summer.
He said the docuseries was 'misleading'. It included claims from parents who said they felt 'betrayed, sad and angry' when they learned how many other children he had fathered.
Meijer said most of the families knew and were happy with him.
He told the Independent at the time that he 'never had the idea to have 100 children or 500 children'.
'It happened step by step. Many donors want to be in the news, but for me if nobody knew about me that would be absolutely fine. Now they do know about me, so I want to explain my side of the story.'
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Given all the Sperm donations in the voter plantations, with roaming donors that result in in the highest single parent (mother only) family births of any group in the USA.
One has to wonder the number of 1st cousin mating/births or related hook-ups there.
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Probably one of the most pitiful, awful displays by a washed up looser I have seen in my 82 years!
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04/16/2025 0:26 Comments ||
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Joey's appeal is about to become 'selective'.
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BIDEN handlers would do well to remember Racial segregation was DEMOCRAT written, passed and enforced collection of laws called JIM CROW.
I was raised a Dirt Road Young'in the late 50's & early 60's in the rural South.
Blacks families live just a few 100 yards down the dirt road from us.
As kid's we didn't have issues with each other.
It was just a few of the adults and mainly those well or better off types in town.
Floyd Graham was the Black Elementary school, and Hephzibah Elementary school was the other. But we still rode the same school bus. Just different sides of the aisle, and with all girls up front
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Dr. Jill wants to feel important again and Hunter needs money, and the usual post-presidency book deals, speech-gigs and MSM slathered ego pieces to keep interest in the name, are all missing. Not even decent speech-writing, just rehash of prior campaign drivel.
The utter indifference, and even outright disgust for a just departed "President" and lifetime public figure would be sad if it wasn't so well deserved!
[Rudaw] Over 3,700 people were admitted to hospitals across Iraq due to breathing difficulties caused by dust storms, the health ministry said on Tuesday, after a severe dust storm engulfed the country’s center and south.
"The number of suffocation cases recorded due to the dust storm yesterday and to date has reached 3,747 admissions to emergency rooms in Baghdad and the provinces," ministry spokesperson Said al-Badr told state media.
The southern oil-rich province of Basra topped the chart of hospitalizations with over 1,000, followed by Muthanna and Maysan respectively, according to Badr.
“Most of the cases have fully recovered and left after receiving the necessary treatment,” and ministry officials “have not recorded any deaths, and there are no cases admitted to intensive care or elsewhere,” he added.
Officials have urged residents to take precautions to avoid complications from dust inhalation.
Hospitals across the country are also equipped with an ample supply of oxygen and medical supplies, Badr assured.
Dust storms are common in Iraq but have become more frequent and intense due to prolonged drought, desertification, and rising temperatures. According to Iraq’s environment ministry, the country has been experiencing 272 dust days per year over the past two decades. That number is projected to reach 300 by 2050.
Iraq is among the nations most vulnerable to climate change. Poor water management and dam construction in upstream countries have drastically reduced the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The United Nations has called for urgent measures to address environmental degradation and mitigate the worsening climate crisis in Iraq.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
