My wife has been feeding the local squirrel population for decades, and when it all comes down to either starving, or having to consume the zombies walking around our cities after the apocalypse, I have my own personal farm of local wild squirrels to graze from. So, word on the street is that they taste like chicken, and you can make really cool socks and hats out of them once you've separated them from their cute, fuzzy little sweaters.
Yeah, me and Jed Clampett would have been good neighbors, except he went out and shot himself a crude oil supply pipeline.
Uhhh…My buddy and I might be decent. I absolutely Love Dogs; but, the “devil dog” next door might be the first to go.🤣
If You can think of it I’ve probably eaten it …Armadillo and Rattlesnake are quite good. Calffries are good as well. A feral piglet is very tasty. I didn’t particularly care for raccoon. 🏴☠️
Edit - I hate copperheads and water moccasins…will not eat. Bad JuJu./Karma.
yep, got one, done that. I got tired of shooting them. There is some societal organization among those guys. Kill 1 or 2. . . or 10 and within days more replace them. Never got ahead of it. I did buy the wife a squirrel-proof bird feeder though. One or two, still defeated it. Pretty smart.
Lived in a suburb and got a visit from the cops one day. Hey, they have to catch you red-handed and I'm a renegade. . . kept shootin'.
Once we know our purpose, it’s easier for us to start living that purpose. Ultimately breaking the chains and reliance on big corporations like USDA and others
Like we are all able to do that? Dream on with utopia. There are many of us apartment dweller, elderly, fixed incomes. This is after working hard all of our lives, not because we are lazy - even with college degree. Things were fine with Trump, part time jobs in our field of expertise, affordable healthy food, etc. These other people obviously were selfish. But God will still have the final word.
I have to add another very big reason that the family farm has been replaced with big ag.
I've watched the small farms in my area, one of which is mine, come to an end because the children have absolutely no desire to be farmers.
The education system has a huge bias against the family farm in favor of sending those graduates to the city for more so-called "education" where the majority stay, taking decades to finally realize what they left behind.
That, and .... I'll say it...the laziness of many that dictates that they get a job that requires little effort to perform.
Been spanked for this before but believe the post WW II G.I. Bill was one of the most damaging things done to us. It was way too generous, would pay for lessons at riding academies. More to the point, there were (and still are) not that many jobs that should require a college degree if high schools still performed as they should. Not only did that bill flood the job market with needless college degree holders, but it financed the algal bloom growth of mostly unneeded colleges and the greed we now know is their main motivation for existing. And of course the equally obnoxious growth of progressivism in academia.
I graduated high school with a 6 month old child and my current wife (odd compared to today's stats, eh?), I could have gone to college, but would rather have gone to tech school for mechanics. As it turned out I ended up driving a big rig, which I still look back on as, probably the best school I could have attended.
UHK. University of Hard Knocks.
Of my two boys, one went to a liberal college, turned out liberal, and has struggled to keep head above water, taking decades just to pay off the college loans.
The other went to technical school, was hired three months before graduation, and is still employed by the same company, earning six figures, and is on track to end his career very near if not at the top position in that company.
I know of the obnoxiousness and stink of progressivism.
I graddudated fwom cowwegdge back in da eerrrly ninmetees, and eye dun wwel fur myslepph.
(Sorry, I just had a Joe Biden moment) 8-)
College was fun, drank a lot of beer, hung out with the professors in the on campus bar, and made a few (two) lifelong friends. It was more about the process of learning how to network, and get along working with other people in the groups we split up with, in certain business classes. Other classes, such as college algebra, world studies, and English literature, I rarely use in my daily life today.
I have a very good friend who graduated high school, and went to work for a food packers warehouse, which eventually was shut down by our gubberment for whatever reasons back in the 1990's. He paid for his trucker's license, and eventually he moved from commie land I still reside in, and wound up in Tennessee, the land of the mostly free, and not overtaxxed.
Today, George has a beautiful paid off home, no debt, a long time local trucking job, 3 beautiful children, two of which are now in college (sadly enough), the other is a very successful diesel mechanic who repairs any Heavy Duty piece of equipment known to man. George couldn't be more of a success, IMHO, as he's happy, he and his wife still love each other (as best as they can after 30 plus years... haha) and his family has always been his main priority in life. This is why, after all these years, I still call him one of my best buddies, and will till the day I'm taken from this place.
Small circle of people make life worth living, and a freaking piece of paper stuck to a wall isn't representative of a successful person. It's what you do, and how you enhance the lives of others, that really shows how successful you really are.
My 23 year old grandson raised poor in Baton Rouge went to Truck driving school in Wyoming. Makes $30 an hour, 10 hrs days 6 days a week. Supports his mom and sister. 23 year old grandson raised in suburb of Chicago, liberal. Still trying to decide what he wants to do. Works as a bartender. I see your message.
My father was in the Navy during WWII and graduated from the University of Maryland on the G.I. Bill with a degree in poultry management. He bought the family farm from his grandfather and grew beef cattle. He was a Mensa who read Ayn Rand and Upton Sinclair. I am intellectually curious and unvaccinated because of his influence. The money was well spent.
Ok great for him. But how necessary do you think a college degree in any field is to sell insurance? I can answer that....it is not. But because there was a glut of degrees out there, and they look better to the pencil pushers who count this kind of crap, a degree became necessary. Not necessary to do the job but to make managers look good in their hiring. And now consider all those jobs not needing a degree existing before the war were the same jobs out there after the war, still not needing that degree. So who was the intended beneficiary?? Education, which had been targeted by the progressives wilson and dewey at the beginning of the last century to promote socialism in public schools. Now the progs simply kicked up that program into high gear making a degree, taught by cadres of increasingly indoctrinated profs., a job requirement.
WORKED in insurance. Pleased the man who ran our office earned his education flying a plane in Vietnam then going onto Search and Rescue. I find self educated usually have more common sense and gift for reading a situation. Lack of brainwashing.
Small smile. After being kicked out of HS, qualified to file clerk. Need more $, so got a BA. Tried to get a job at the GM plant. Advised the line women would shred me. But I was smarter than the manager interviewing me, which he couldn't tolerate. Luckily (?) I did get a job as a Disability Examininer. Rather reflected on a job as a trucker, but that posed its own mountain's of issues. Lots of the noncredentialed I've met seem more effective than those with degrees. Rush L. always made the point that he was a college dropout.
My mom went to an expensive catholic school until her dad's money got short and had to transfer into public school. Her debt to that school never paid, the school would not transfer credits so no diploma. Even so, in her middle 30s she got a job in the audit dept. of a branch office of Travelers Insurance and retired there. That job would almost certainly require college now since some high school grads today cannot balance a checkbook.
Truthfully my generation all read books by authors you mentioned. I'm 77. We were self educated to an extent. Video games a terrible impact on our youth. My Mom born in coalmining Town. Educated people would seek out her company because she was knowledgeable about so many topics. History being number one. I admire your father and what he passed on to you. Hopefully it has been continued.
Famine. It's what's for dinner. If you do not prepare. Every ounce of preparation on your part will be worth a pound of survival. Get prepared or prepare to starve.
Our supply chain is an incredibly complex and incredibly fragile (fragility increases exponentially with complexity) global just-in-the-nick-of-time production and delivery system, and right now it is breaking down all across the world. In addition to the deliberate pandemic supply chain meltdown, food distribution and processing plants are also mysteriously burning down all across America. Meanwhile the bug food plants and tissue-cell factories are doing just fine.
Civilization - goes an old maxim - is only nine meals away from barbarism—Once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. Try to envision the vast interlinking network of moving parts required to get those meals to 300 million Americans every day, and all of the things that must go right in order for that to network to function.
Something not mentioned is that our big biz food cos. have taken a page from I.T. and are firing U.S workers to replace them with foreign labor. And as border patrol raids have proven, those employers are not too concerned about the legal status of these imports. I have worked in a hospital loaded with immigrant labor from all over, including china, who demonstrated a disturbing ignorance of basic sanitation. Another case of insourcing which effects indigenous labor stats and threatens public health in one fell swoop
Just saw where the demented one's alcohol czar (????) has decided the gov needs to limit our beer consumption. Of course this has nothing to do with the flapdoodle over bud lite. Nope.
Concerning that they go after anything that affects their message. As with X only hiring naturalized and born in USA employees. Justice department bringing charges.
As for religion. Listened to an FBI employee explain why they considered infiltrating Catholic churches to be on the lookout for Catholic terrorists. I suppose that had to do with abortion to dob and legal to kill the child if it.survives.
Walk around my neighborhood, and get your contact high. The smell of skunk is permeable throughout.
I personally dont care if people use Mariuana, as they dont care if i occasionally drink alcohol. Its when impairment /driving, or exposing children to, I object. My good friends smoke, and they act responsibly afterwards, which is all I ask, as they are not harming anyone else
My remark was satire. As the Biden govt. goes after Beer. In IL I can only buy 3 weeks worth of allergy medication at a time. Any attempt to buy more will result in my home being surrounded by law enforcement. I view marijuana like alcohol. Some will became psychologically addicted. Like my first husband who dropped out of college and was happy just hanging out in the loo smoking it. Never offered it to me because we had a child. That was 1964. Our politicians are not hit and mostly miss with laws. They will eventually legalise everything because the taxes are an incentive.
I'm not a proponent of drug use, but i am a proponent of freewill, and choice, as long as those choices do not harm others.
My niece killed herself with heroine. My brothers wife became pregnant during a drug binge in the 1970s that produced a daughter with a lifetime of health issues plaguing her.
Actions have reactions. If a person wants to live in a stupor, and not feel, experience and enjoy the simplistic moments which bring unimagineable joy, then have at it. Just leave me out of it.
We took in the Russian refugees. Wasc1990s. Those kids were well educated in Science and Math. Even very complicated types. (MY brain froze when I was exposed to Algebra). When I arrived from England in 1959 I was surprised by the fact that I was required to take courses I had already taken in England 3 years earlier.
That was very kind of you and your family. Our educational system is a bureaucracy that like any bureaucracy attempts to make work for itself. I worked for the post office the rule of thumb was to always look busy attempt to do as little as possible and if possible without being caught to mess something up because then it makes more work. Ideally making enough work that more people need to be hired so that eventually I can become a supervisor.
I grew up in Oklahoma farm/ranch country on a farm. Twenty two years ago I left professional life and returned, with my wife, to the small community where Yvonda and I grew up. We bought a local business in our small town and also went into the cattle business. Currently we run several hundred head of cattle. We have a base herd of 300 momma cows and develop heifers for breeding.
There are so many lies told about our cows it is difficult to keep up with them. The two biggest ones have to do with the amount of water they consume and the methane they produce. Cattle are actually very good for the environment when managed properly. This has been pointed out by Dr. Jim Gerrish and many others as well.
We are attempting to develop our Ranching program into something you might call sustainable. You can visit out web site to see what we are doing (northcanadianredangus.com). This is a much more complex task than you might imagine. Changing the type of cattle and how we manage the forage resource is time consuming and expensive. In our case there is no outside money, we have to keep our expenses and income in line to stay in business.
We have tried many things advocated by Joel Saladin, Kit pharo and others, with varying degrees of success. Before we went to an all cattle operation we attempted no-til farming. In 8 years we never raised one decent crop during that time. The effort had a seriously negative impact on our finances. This was part of the reason we move to an all cattle operation.
I have many neighbors who do conventional til and manage the cows the same way their grandfather did. I don’t think one size fits all. I also have two neighbors who have small feed yards. I see no problem with this. While I understand the attraction of “grass fed” for some people, ‘corn feed” also has some advantages.
Concentration in this business is a terrible problem just as it is in every area of business. We sell our own beef by the quarter or by the package through our store in town. It is a tuff go. Our banker tells us the market is saturated. What he is really saying is that not that many people are truly open to the farm to table idea. It is much more convenient to run to Walmart.
I am just attempting to point out that this is a very complex subject. It is expensive and time consuming. A lot of work needs to be done. I don’t think we should toss out the baby with the bath water. There is room for more than one kind of operation, and to move us in the direction of sustainability we will have to provide financial incentives so it is possible for farm/ranch families to do it.
Great write up, Doc. R. Makes me wonder a few things.
First off, in my 56 years on this planet, even in my youth, up until today, I personally have never ever had the desire of a loose pair of shoes, or a warm place to shit. I have no idea where that Butz dude is coming from, other than that's crazy talk, from a man from Crazy town DC.
(smile)
That Butz-head was a real wack-a-doodle, eh ?
And secondly,
I wonder what ever happened to the USDA's blatant attack on the small Amish farmer in PA who was selling to his own "Private club members", when they nearly jailed him, shutting him down, permanently, just for being a small, independent farmer trying to make a living. He obviously wasn't harming anyone, as I never read about one single episode of any of his product sickening anyone.
I guess the public outrage reduced the farmers death sentence in public square, to a huge fine of tens of thousands of dollars for not following the USDA poisoning guidelines for preparation of meats, prior to sale. I guess I need to search for a follow up on that one.
Well, another day living the dream, to begin.
Toodles, Doc. R. Say Hi to Dr. Jill from the knuckleheads North of ya.
Having spent many hours with high-school boys, many of African ethnicity, I find his remarks to be from someone who had never met a person with skin darker than his own. The kids I came to know and love were articulate, intelligent, and polite. Truthfully better raised than my own.
IMHO, skin color is irrelevant to the worth of a human. I've known plenty of "blankos" whom I will not give the time of day. Compassion, empathy, devotion, love of others is what makes us good, vs not. Thats what i use as a guideline for whether or not I befriend you.
Or if you still think Biden is doing a great job, then you're toast, to me
OK, this is going to be long, as this is something that I am passionate about. When I was in the fifth class, I had to write a book about what I wanted to be when I grew up, and the title was "I want to be a Farmer with Old John Deere Tractors."
Why Samuel Kriebel? Well, that Farm has been in the family since 1734 or so. It was bought from one of the land agents from William Penn. Towamencin Township was being developed, and this farm was one of the last hold outs. He applied for "clean and green" tax status, as a Farm. He was denied. Crikey, the taxes were over 25,000 dollars a year in 1990. He tried to have it declared a Historical property, also denied. Eventually, he ended up selling half of the farm to Teva Pharmaceuticals. Towamencin Township did major Road reconstruction, at taxpayer's expense to accommodate the project.
Reverend Dr. Mom, as one of the first women ministers in the USA, along with Papa Kriebs, became the joint pastors of Palm Schwenkfelder Church in Palm. Papa Kriebs went back to teaching industrial arts, but I digress. The population in the area was dominated by agriculture. That would be from the time before I was born until 1980 or so, we moved from one end of the "Valley," to the other one to a small Farmstead built in 1711, the "Jesse Zepp Farm." How is this relevant?
When Reverend Dr. Mom was called to be the first woman Bishop at the Pennsylvania South East Conference of the U.C.C Church, the orientation was to Collegeville, Pennsylvania. This was in 1972. Again, this area was dominated by family farms, and cows outnumbered the residents, not counting the College students. The hub of activity was the local AGWAY. Jep, I even joined the Grange, and learned how to caponise male chickens.
What started to happen was the wave of development. As Papa Kriebs aptly said, "Plastic people, plastic houses." Sure enough, it happened. Just about almost all the family farms started dropping like dominoes. The only one still left is the Wismer Farm, if you can still call it a farm. I spent my summers there baling hay, well, not baling hay, but stacking it in the wagon as they were thrown from the baler.
Then the Pharmaceutical companies came in to "buy" (Lease) the cheap land and build their offices.
When I go back to visit, I cannot recognise anything. All the farms are gone, and from Collegeville, through Limerick, there are nothing but strip malls and shopping centres.
I have lived in Kürten, Germany since 2005, Do a Google Maps search, it is a very agricultural area, just like where I grew up in PA, and we have cows for neighbours.
Once upon a time, I went through the whole process of getting the small farm in PA certified as an organic farm. Bees, Chickens, Strawberries, Sweet Corn, Rhubarb, Asparagus, Currents, Blue berries, Gooseberries and my concept of "Gourmet Hay." Papa Kriebs was not in agreement, (It was his farm after all), His argument that the farm was only something "for sustenance." Grudgingly, in retrospect, I have to agree. However, with the way things are going, that might not be a bad thing. I lost all of what I saved for retirement in 2008 when Lehman Brothers was deemed "not big enough to fail."
Sometimes "sustenance" is not a bad idea.
Thank you for your patience. It was important for me to share this.
My father, a WWII veteran, attempted to grow a registered Angus herd in the 1960's but hit a down market and reverted to Herefords. One of his favorite sayings was "if you want something to get messed up, just get the federal government involved." My youngest brother and I are exploring ways to keep our Virginia farm in the family, a legacy since 1812. This essay was intriguing and stirred my soul. There has to be a way.
The Stockman Grass Farmer is filled with ideas. Some have worked for us and some have not. Joe salatin, the most famous farmer in America, is right there in Virginia I believe. They do workshops and farm visits. It appears to be easer to develop farm to table with D. C. and Baltimore close by than out here in the Southern Plains. Anyway I think there is a way if you really want it. God bless.
Thank you for addressing this very important topic. Wresting agriculture away from Big Gov is one of the most important things we need to accomplish if we are going to survive as a free nation. I don't think this subject is as embedded in the general population's consciousness as much as it needs to be, particularly with Big Gov infiltrating every aspect of our lives with an ever-increasing speed.
Big Gov is supporting Big Ag. It's much easier getting campaign donations from a few dozen corporate 'farms' than relying on real farmers. Not only is it easier, but the politicians don't have to spend as much time among those with dirt on their hands.
This is true for all industries. Both Acts during the turn of the last century that addressed the issue of monopolies and the old "Trusts" were actively used until Obama got into office. His favorite manipulator was Jeff Immelt of GE.
I have one more meal of sirloin in gravy over rice in the fridge. It is the last of the meat I bought last year locally. I went in with my son and three of his friends to buy 1/3 of half a cow from my son's neighbor. It's a great thing that I hate to cook and love leftovers! The butcher obviously thought the buyers were all families of four.
What a great wakeup essay! Back to 2x/day cat n deer frens visits for 8 days , so late here. This goes well beyond its topic! Really excellant explanation of the modRNA, nanoparticle et al composition. Appreciated!
As for local sources for foods in general and meat in particular -definitely. My mare spent her youth in a feeder cattle covered lot. That was better than a lot of what feeder cattle likely endure today. My uncle's feeder cattle were kept in a field.
As for slaughter facilities, not sure what we have here. During deer hunting season they donate some of their kill to feeding the needy, so one assumes there maybe something local available.
Will check our local farmers market next Weds and see what's available.
My thought is that it would be helpful to both the farmers and local customers to have a better idea what's available, where, the process and why they might (should) prefer it. If there is any such, beyond notice of farmer markets 1x/wk and a label on a couple tables of local fruits and veggies in my local grocery store, I'm not aware of much.
Hope you folks are enjoying another beautiful day in paradise! You've more than earned it! With much caring! Bestest Always♡♡♡
Real Farm Bill Issue right now: “them” against “us.” California’s Proposition 12, approved by 63% of voters in 2018, bans the sale or importation of pork, veal or eggs that were raised in confined spaces. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld California’s ability to enact and enforce the law in May after the National Pork Producers Council challenged the practice.
Last month, U.S. Reps. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, and Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, added the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act to the farm bill. It will prohibit state and local governments from interfering with the production or manufacture of agriculture products in other states. [sound like a good thing?] IA reps said the EATS Act reiterates the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, which gives the federal government the duty to regulate interstate commerce and prohibit state and local governments from interfering with the production or manufacturing of agricultural products.
170 members of Congress signed a letter to the leaders of the House Committee on Agriculture OPPOSING the EATS Act or any similar legislation in the 2023 Farm Bill.
CA produces 1% of the nation’s pork, but it consumes 15%.
Nearly a third of all the nation’s hogs are raised in Iowa as its annual production of 33 million hogs make it the top producer of pork in the nation. [so yah, IA wants to protect its pork industry]
Tim Gibbons, communications director for the Missouri Rural Crisis Center, said “They’ve got a loud voice because they’ve got billions and billions of dollars but farmers out here don’t have that loud of a voice but there’s a lot of us. There are a lot of people supporting independent family farmers in our state and in our country. I don’t want the narrative to be shaped by the very corporations developing the narrative. I think it needs to be shaped based on TRUTH and what’s really going on.”
My congressional rep Mark Alford is at the MO state fair this weekend holding a Q&A talk about the latest bills directed at the USDA. He had a conference call I participated in last month where this was also a topic. He took the place of Hartzler this year, was a former TV news personality (I have not watched a local news or national news program since 1985). He wasn't who I voted for but will support him if he supports MO. I tussled with Hartzler all the time on the NDAA and USDA. She thought that tinkering around the edges was sufficient.
People must engage with their Rep and Senators so they understand that we understand what is going on. I will contact Mark's local office or even visit next week and provide a link to or perhaps copy, paste and print this SS article. Action is required by all of us. Collect the article links being posted here and get them to your public servants.
I would say to send them to your local county extension office but they are just an arm of the state universities that get fed grants for useless programs that help to keep the farmers poor but feeling good with their mental outreach programs….. Stupid stuff that Hartzler supported.
The autocratic forces have tentacles running deep into our established paradigm.
The more enlightened we become, the better we can prepare ourselves for survival and mitigate this totalitarian sprawl.
Thank you, again, for all of your efforts to expose the mechanisms underlying this horrific Orwellian Apparatus.
Yes sir ree...
My wife has been feeding the local squirrel population for decades, and when it all comes down to either starving, or having to consume the zombies walking around our cities after the apocalypse, I have my own personal farm of local wild squirrels to graze from. So, word on the street is that they taste like chicken, and you can make really cool socks and hats out of them once you've separated them from their cute, fuzzy little sweaters.
Yeah, me and Jed Clampett would have been good neighbors, except he went out and shot himself a crude oil supply pipeline.
consider getting a Gamo break barrel pellet gun with a scope.... Just saying.
ROTFLMAO.
My wife saying, as i read that out loud....
"No! No one harms my squirrels !!"
Haha
Uhhh…My buddy and I might be decent. I absolutely Love Dogs; but, the “devil dog” next door might be the first to go.🤣
If You can think of it I’ve probably eaten it …Armadillo and Rattlesnake are quite good. Calffries are good as well. A feral piglet is very tasty. I didn’t particularly care for raccoon. 🏴☠️
Edit - I hate copperheads and water moccasins…will not eat. Bad JuJu./Karma.
Have you tried beaver? I froze a carcass after skinning once but never had the nerve to eat it. Fed it to the coyotes.
No beaver yet…Ain’t scared; but probably a last choice. 😂 Ed
Edit - I have eaten coyote…Raccoon was better; and, it sucked.
yep, got one, done that. I got tired of shooting them. There is some societal organization among those guys. Kill 1 or 2. . . or 10 and within days more replace them. Never got ahead of it. I did buy the wife a squirrel-proof bird feeder though. One or two, still defeated it. Pretty smart.
Lived in a suburb and got a visit from the cops one day. Hey, they have to catch you red-handed and I'm a renegade. . . kept shootin'.
Agreed with both comments here! The more we become enlightened, the greater we can free ourselves!
Here’s an article on finding out purpose in life:
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-to-find-your-lifes-purpose-in
Once we know our purpose, it’s easier for us to start living that purpose. Ultimately breaking the chains and reliance on big corporations like USDA and others
https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-to-not-quiet-quit-and-live-your
Like we are all able to do that? Dream on with utopia. There are many of us apartment dweller, elderly, fixed incomes. This is after working hard all of our lives, not because we are lazy - even with college degree. Things were fine with Trump, part time jobs in our field of expertise, affordable healthy food, etc. These other people obviously were selfish. But God will still have the final word.
Do the best you can, pray over every thing you eat. God is for you.
I have to add another very big reason that the family farm has been replaced with big ag.
I've watched the small farms in my area, one of which is mine, come to an end because the children have absolutely no desire to be farmers.
The education system has a huge bias against the family farm in favor of sending those graduates to the city for more so-called "education" where the majority stay, taking decades to finally realize what they left behind.
That, and .... I'll say it...the laziness of many that dictates that they get a job that requires little effort to perform.
It isn't just the USDA.
It's our education system as well.
Been spanked for this before but believe the post WW II G.I. Bill was one of the most damaging things done to us. It was way too generous, would pay for lessons at riding academies. More to the point, there were (and still are) not that many jobs that should require a college degree if high schools still performed as they should. Not only did that bill flood the job market with needless college degree holders, but it financed the algal bloom growth of mostly unneeded colleges and the greed we now know is their main motivation for existing. And of course the equally obnoxious growth of progressivism in academia.
I can identify with the college degree statement,
I graduated high school with a 6 month old child and my current wife (odd compared to today's stats, eh?), I could have gone to college, but would rather have gone to tech school for mechanics. As it turned out I ended up driving a big rig, which I still look back on as, probably the best school I could have attended.
UHK. University of Hard Knocks.
Of my two boys, one went to a liberal college, turned out liberal, and has struggled to keep head above water, taking decades just to pay off the college loans.
The other went to technical school, was hired three months before graduation, and is still employed by the same company, earning six figures, and is on track to end his career very near if not at the top position in that company.
I know of the obnoxiousness and stink of progressivism.
I smell it every time I get near a college town.
I graddudated fwom cowwegdge back in da eerrrly ninmetees, and eye dun wwel fur myslepph.
(Sorry, I just had a Joe Biden moment) 8-)
College was fun, drank a lot of beer, hung out with the professors in the on campus bar, and made a few (two) lifelong friends. It was more about the process of learning how to network, and get along working with other people in the groups we split up with, in certain business classes. Other classes, such as college algebra, world studies, and English literature, I rarely use in my daily life today.
I have a very good friend who graduated high school, and went to work for a food packers warehouse, which eventually was shut down by our gubberment for whatever reasons back in the 1990's. He paid for his trucker's license, and eventually he moved from commie land I still reside in, and wound up in Tennessee, the land of the mostly free, and not overtaxxed.
Today, George has a beautiful paid off home, no debt, a long time local trucking job, 3 beautiful children, two of which are now in college (sadly enough), the other is a very successful diesel mechanic who repairs any Heavy Duty piece of equipment known to man. George couldn't be more of a success, IMHO, as he's happy, he and his wife still love each other (as best as they can after 30 plus years... haha) and his family has always been his main priority in life. This is why, after all these years, I still call him one of my best buddies, and will till the day I'm taken from this place.
Small circle of people make life worth living, and a freaking piece of paper stuck to a wall isn't representative of a successful person. It's what you do, and how you enhance the lives of others, that really shows how successful you really are.
a good diesel mechanic is hard to find and very desirable!
The guy is amazing.
And at $50.00 an hour, he has no issue providing for his new wife and child
Yes and Amen!
My 23 year old grandson raised poor in Baton Rouge went to Truck driving school in Wyoming. Makes $30 an hour, 10 hrs days 6 days a week. Supports his mom and sister. 23 year old grandson raised in suburb of Chicago, liberal. Still trying to decide what he wants to do. Works as a bartender. I see your message.
My father was in the Navy during WWII and graduated from the University of Maryland on the G.I. Bill with a degree in poultry management. He bought the family farm from his grandfather and grew beef cattle. He was a Mensa who read Ayn Rand and Upton Sinclair. I am intellectually curious and unvaccinated because of his influence. The money was well spent.
Ok great for him. But how necessary do you think a college degree in any field is to sell insurance? I can answer that....it is not. But because there was a glut of degrees out there, and they look better to the pencil pushers who count this kind of crap, a degree became necessary. Not necessary to do the job but to make managers look good in their hiring. And now consider all those jobs not needing a degree existing before the war were the same jobs out there after the war, still not needing that degree. So who was the intended beneficiary?? Education, which had been targeted by the progressives wilson and dewey at the beginning of the last century to promote socialism in public schools. Now the progs simply kicked up that program into high gear making a degree, taught by cadres of increasingly indoctrinated profs., a job requirement.
WORKED in insurance. Pleased the man who ran our office earned his education flying a plane in Vietnam then going onto Search and Rescue. I find self educated usually have more common sense and gift for reading a situation. Lack of brainwashing.
Small smile. After being kicked out of HS, qualified to file clerk. Need more $, so got a BA. Tried to get a job at the GM plant. Advised the line women would shred me. But I was smarter than the manager interviewing me, which he couldn't tolerate. Luckily (?) I did get a job as a Disability Examininer. Rather reflected on a job as a trucker, but that posed its own mountain's of issues. Lots of the noncredentialed I've met seem more effective than those with degrees. Rush L. always made the point that he was a college dropout.
My mom went to an expensive catholic school until her dad's money got short and had to transfer into public school. Her debt to that school never paid, the school would not transfer credits so no diploma. Even so, in her middle 30s she got a job in the audit dept. of a branch office of Travelers Insurance and retired there. That job would almost certainly require college now since some high school grads today cannot balance a checkbook.
Small world.
My wife has been in the insurance biz since 1985. She just began learning commercial lines, after decades of peraonal lines. Whole different animal.
so was Bill Gates. anecdotes, love 'em.
Gates ¿ Ugh!
Truthfully my generation all read books by authors you mentioned. I'm 77. We were self educated to an extent. Video games a terrible impact on our youth. My Mom born in coalmining Town. Educated people would seek out her company because she was knowledgeable about so many topics. History being number one. I admire your father and what he passed on to you. Hopefully it has been continued.
Agree, but that may be turning around in some regions, including where we live in rural Virginia.
Famine. It's what's for dinner. If you do not prepare. Every ounce of preparation on your part will be worth a pound of survival. Get prepared or prepare to starve.
Our supply chain is an incredibly complex and incredibly fragile (fragility increases exponentially with complexity) global just-in-the-nick-of-time production and delivery system, and right now it is breaking down all across the world. In addition to the deliberate pandemic supply chain meltdown, food distribution and processing plants are also mysteriously burning down all across America. Meanwhile the bug food plants and tissue-cell factories are doing just fine.
Civilization - goes an old maxim - is only nine meals away from barbarism—Once the food deliveries stop, so does law and order. Try to envision the vast interlinking network of moving parts required to get those meals to 300 million Americans every day, and all of the things that must go right in order for that to network to function.
Excerpt from https://tritorch.com/famine
Something not mentioned is that our big biz food cos. have taken a page from I.T. and are firing U.S workers to replace them with foreign labor. And as border patrol raids have proven, those employers are not too concerned about the legal status of these imports. I have worked in a hospital loaded with immigrant labor from all over, including china, who demonstrated a disturbing ignorance of basic sanitation. Another case of insourcing which effects indigenous labor stats and threatens public health in one fell swoop
Just saw where the demented one's alcohol czar (????) has decided the gov needs to limit our beer consumption. Of course this has nothing to do with the flapdoodle over bud lite. Nope.
Concerning that they go after anything that affects their message. As with X only hiring naturalized and born in USA employees. Justice department bringing charges.
Yep
Hey, I will just make my own beer! no problem, been there done that.
I would like to see how they plan to implement a row beer ‘mandate’...prohibition? How well did that work last time?
Meant two beer mandate.
Baaahwahhh....
Love your Avatar. The most circulated photo ever taken, photoshopped, and loved by millions of crazy followers of the Orange Man.
Miss him yet ?
lol
As for religion. Listened to an FBI employee explain why they considered infiltrating Catholic churches to be on the lookout for Catholic terrorists. I suppose that had to do with abortion to dob and legal to kill the child if it.survives.
Funny when more states are making Marijuana legal.
Walk around my neighborhood, and get your contact high. The smell of skunk is permeable throughout.
I personally dont care if people use Mariuana, as they dont care if i occasionally drink alcohol. Its when impairment /driving, or exposing children to, I object. My good friends smoke, and they act responsibly afterwards, which is all I ask, as they are not harming anyone else
My remark was satire. As the Biden govt. goes after Beer. In IL I can only buy 3 weeks worth of allergy medication at a time. Any attempt to buy more will result in my home being surrounded by law enforcement. I view marijuana like alcohol. Some will became psychologically addicted. Like my first husband who dropped out of college and was happy just hanging out in the loo smoking it. Never offered it to me because we had a child. That was 1964. Our politicians are not hit and mostly miss with laws. They will eventually legalise everything because the taxes are an incentive.
Yeah, i figured.
I'm not a proponent of drug use, but i am a proponent of freewill, and choice, as long as those choices do not harm others.
My niece killed herself with heroine. My brothers wife became pregnant during a drug binge in the 1970s that produced a daughter with a lifetime of health issues plaguing her.
Actions have reactions. If a person wants to live in a stupor, and not feel, experience and enjoy the simplistic moments which bring unimagineable joy, then have at it. Just leave me out of it.
Nursing homes have the same issue.
Stay local in your food purchases and support the food chain that actually cares about you.
In the WEF links the language that they use is at about the second grade level. Which nowadays is about high school graduate level.
We took in the Russian refugees. Wasc1990s. Those kids were well educated in Science and Math. Even very complicated types. (MY brain froze when I was exposed to Algebra). When I arrived from England in 1959 I was surprised by the fact that I was required to take courses I had already taken in England 3 years earlier.
That was very kind of you and your family. Our educational system is a bureaucracy that like any bureaucracy attempts to make work for itself. I worked for the post office the rule of thumb was to always look busy attempt to do as little as possible and if possible without being caught to mess something up because then it makes more work. Ideally making enough work that more people need to be hired so that eventually I can become a supervisor.
Our postoffice is my 2nd least favourite place to go. DMV is number 1.
I grew up in Oklahoma farm/ranch country on a farm. Twenty two years ago I left professional life and returned, with my wife, to the small community where Yvonda and I grew up. We bought a local business in our small town and also went into the cattle business. Currently we run several hundred head of cattle. We have a base herd of 300 momma cows and develop heifers for breeding.
There are so many lies told about our cows it is difficult to keep up with them. The two biggest ones have to do with the amount of water they consume and the methane they produce. Cattle are actually very good for the environment when managed properly. This has been pointed out by Dr. Jim Gerrish and many others as well.
We are attempting to develop our Ranching program into something you might call sustainable. You can visit out web site to see what we are doing (northcanadianredangus.com). This is a much more complex task than you might imagine. Changing the type of cattle and how we manage the forage resource is time consuming and expensive. In our case there is no outside money, we have to keep our expenses and income in line to stay in business.
We have tried many things advocated by Joel Saladin, Kit pharo and others, with varying degrees of success. Before we went to an all cattle operation we attempted no-til farming. In 8 years we never raised one decent crop during that time. The effort had a seriously negative impact on our finances. This was part of the reason we move to an all cattle operation.
I have many neighbors who do conventional til and manage the cows the same way their grandfather did. I don’t think one size fits all. I also have two neighbors who have small feed yards. I see no problem with this. While I understand the attraction of “grass fed” for some people, ‘corn feed” also has some advantages.
Concentration in this business is a terrible problem just as it is in every area of business. We sell our own beef by the quarter or by the package through our store in town. It is a tuff go. Our banker tells us the market is saturated. What he is really saying is that not that many people are truly open to the farm to table idea. It is much more convenient to run to Walmart.
I am just attempting to point out that this is a very complex subject. It is expensive and time consuming. A lot of work needs to be done. I don’t think we should toss out the baby with the bath water. There is room for more than one kind of operation, and to move us in the direction of sustainability we will have to provide financial incentives so it is possible for farm/ranch families to do it.
Please keep farming. I suspect, though it is terribly hard, that you love it and find it immensely rewarding. We need you. Really, we do.
Great write up, Doc. R. Makes me wonder a few things.
First off, in my 56 years on this planet, even in my youth, up until today, I personally have never ever had the desire of a loose pair of shoes, or a warm place to shit. I have no idea where that Butz dude is coming from, other than that's crazy talk, from a man from Crazy town DC.
(smile)
That Butz-head was a real wack-a-doodle, eh ?
And secondly,
I wonder what ever happened to the USDA's blatant attack on the small Amish farmer in PA who was selling to his own "Private club members", when they nearly jailed him, shutting him down, permanently, just for being a small, independent farmer trying to make a living. He obviously wasn't harming anyone, as I never read about one single episode of any of his product sickening anyone.
I guess the public outrage reduced the farmers death sentence in public square, to a huge fine of tens of thousands of dollars for not following the USDA poisoning guidelines for preparation of meats, prior to sale. I guess I need to search for a follow up on that one.
Well, another day living the dream, to begin.
Toodles, Doc. R. Say Hi to Dr. Jill from the knuckleheads North of ya.
T.
https://www.rebelnews.com/amish_farm_under_threat_from_us_federal_govt_for_refusal_to_abandon_traditional_farming_practices
Having spent many hours with high-school boys, many of African ethnicity, I find his remarks to be from someone who had never met a person with skin darker than his own. The kids I came to know and love were articulate, intelligent, and polite. Truthfully better raised than my own.
IMHO, skin color is irrelevant to the worth of a human. I've known plenty of "blankos" whom I will not give the time of day. Compassion, empathy, devotion, love of others is what makes us good, vs not. Thats what i use as a guideline for whether or not I befriend you.
Or if you still think Biden is doing a great job, then you're toast, to me
OK, this is going to be long, as this is something that I am passionate about. When I was in the fifth class, I had to write a book about what I wanted to be when I grew up, and the title was "I want to be a Farmer with Old John Deere Tractors."
My last name is Kriebel. I am from South Eastern Pennsylvania, and I am a "born Schwenkfelder ". If you are so inclined, you can do a search on Samuel Kriebel, (OK, here is a Facebook link, I was tired of trying to find the old one. https://www.facebook.com/100041817644630/posts/pfbid0v6JSjkvosChKerchDEfswRBanAg71MN3mD9RzchGB2SDRzaLQWvEvdqV3avKuzcVl/?sfnsn=mo&mibextid=6aamW6)
Why Samuel Kriebel? Well, that Farm has been in the family since 1734 or so. It was bought from one of the land agents from William Penn. Towamencin Township was being developed, and this farm was one of the last hold outs. He applied for "clean and green" tax status, as a Farm. He was denied. Crikey, the taxes were over 25,000 dollars a year in 1990. He tried to have it declared a Historical property, also denied. Eventually, he ended up selling half of the farm to Teva Pharmaceuticals. Towamencin Township did major Road reconstruction, at taxpayer's expense to accommodate the project.
Here is a you-tube video of the death of another Kriebel Farm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA_zjqEkpOY
Reverend Dr. Mom, as one of the first women ministers in the USA, along with Papa Kriebs, became the joint pastors of Palm Schwenkfelder Church in Palm. Papa Kriebs went back to teaching industrial arts, but I digress. The population in the area was dominated by agriculture. That would be from the time before I was born until 1980 or so, we moved from one end of the "Valley," to the other one to a small Farmstead built in 1711, the "Jesse Zepp Farm." How is this relevant?
When Reverend Dr. Mom was called to be the first woman Bishop at the Pennsylvania South East Conference of the U.C.C Church, the orientation was to Collegeville, Pennsylvania. This was in 1972. Again, this area was dominated by family farms, and cows outnumbered the residents, not counting the College students. The hub of activity was the local AGWAY. Jep, I even joined the Grange, and learned how to caponise male chickens.
What started to happen was the wave of development. As Papa Kriebs aptly said, "Plastic people, plastic houses." Sure enough, it happened. Just about almost all the family farms started dropping like dominoes. The only one still left is the Wismer Farm, if you can still call it a farm. I spent my summers there baling hay, well, not baling hay, but stacking it in the wagon as they were thrown from the baler.
Then the Pharmaceutical companies came in to "buy" (Lease) the cheap land and build their offices.
When I go back to visit, I cannot recognise anything. All the farms are gone, and from Collegeville, through Limerick, there are nothing but strip malls and shopping centres.
I have lived in Kürten, Germany since 2005, Do a Google Maps search, it is a very agricultural area, just like where I grew up in PA, and we have cows for neighbours.
Once upon a time, I went through the whole process of getting the small farm in PA certified as an organic farm. Bees, Chickens, Strawberries, Sweet Corn, Rhubarb, Asparagus, Currents, Blue berries, Gooseberries and my concept of "Gourmet Hay." Papa Kriebs was not in agreement, (It was his farm after all), His argument that the farm was only something "for sustenance." Grudgingly, in retrospect, I have to agree. However, with the way things are going, that might not be a bad thing. I lost all of what I saved for retirement in 2008 when Lehman Brothers was deemed "not big enough to fail."
Sometimes "sustenance" is not a bad idea.
Thank you for your patience. It was important for me to share this.
Thanks for sharing. I love the farmlands in eastern PA. And yes, they continue to disappear off the map.
My father, a WWII veteran, attempted to grow a registered Angus herd in the 1960's but hit a down market and reverted to Herefords. One of his favorite sayings was "if you want something to get messed up, just get the federal government involved." My youngest brother and I are exploring ways to keep our Virginia farm in the family, a legacy since 1812. This essay was intriguing and stirred my soul. There has to be a way.
The Stockman Grass Farmer is filled with ideas. Some have worked for us and some have not. Joe salatin, the most famous farmer in America, is right there in Virginia I believe. They do workshops and farm visits. It appears to be easer to develop farm to table with D. C. and Baltimore close by than out here in the Southern Plains. Anyway I think there is a way if you really want it. God bless.
Thank you! I’m going to search for that farmer.
Excellent piece here Dr. Malone. I can’t thank you enough for shining the light into areas meant to remain in the dark.
I keep upping my anti depression meds. (JOKE)
Thank you for addressing this very important topic. Wresting agriculture away from Big Gov is one of the most important things we need to accomplish if we are going to survive as a free nation. I don't think this subject is as embedded in the general population's consciousness as much as it needs to be, particularly with Big Gov infiltrating every aspect of our lives with an ever-increasing speed.
Big Gov is supporting Big Ag. It's much easier getting campaign donations from a few dozen corporate 'farms' than relying on real farmers. Not only is it easier, but the politicians don't have to spend as much time among those with dirt on their hands.
This is true for all industries. Both Acts during the turn of the last century that addressed the issue of monopolies and the old "Trusts" were actively used until Obama got into office. His favorite manipulator was Jeff Immelt of GE.
A few months ago I drove out to a local farm and bought a quarter cow. Pasture raised. Have been very happy with this decision.
well done. Thank you.
I have one more meal of sirloin in gravy over rice in the fridge. It is the last of the meat I bought last year locally. I went in with my son and three of his friends to buy 1/3 of half a cow from my son's neighbor. It's a great thing that I hate to cook and love leftovers! The butcher obviously thought the buyers were all families of four.
If you can make money off of human suffering the current “Democrat” American government is all for it...
What a great wakeup essay! Back to 2x/day cat n deer frens visits for 8 days , so late here. This goes well beyond its topic! Really excellant explanation of the modRNA, nanoparticle et al composition. Appreciated!
As for local sources for foods in general and meat in particular -definitely. My mare spent her youth in a feeder cattle covered lot. That was better than a lot of what feeder cattle likely endure today. My uncle's feeder cattle were kept in a field.
As for slaughter facilities, not sure what we have here. During deer hunting season they donate some of their kill to feeding the needy, so one assumes there maybe something local available.
Will check our local farmers market next Weds and see what's available.
My thought is that it would be helpful to both the farmers and local customers to have a better idea what's available, where, the process and why they might (should) prefer it. If there is any such, beyond notice of farmer markets 1x/wk and a label on a couple tables of local fruits and veggies in my local grocery store, I'm not aware of much.
Hope you folks are enjoying another beautiful day in paradise! You've more than earned it! With much caring! Bestest Always♡♡♡
Local farmers are being raided, shut down and fined by the USDA. The Amish for now, but anyone could be a target. https://www.fulcrum7.com/news/2022/8/23/armed-federal-agents-attack-amish-farmer-in-pa-for-selling-food-without-preservatives
truth.
Real Farm Bill Issue right now: “them” against “us.” California’s Proposition 12, approved by 63% of voters in 2018, bans the sale or importation of pork, veal or eggs that were raised in confined spaces. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld California’s ability to enact and enforce the law in May after the National Pork Producers Council challenged the practice.
Last month, U.S. Reps. Ashley Hinson, R-Iowa, and Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, added the Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act to the farm bill. It will prohibit state and local governments from interfering with the production or manufacture of agriculture products in other states. [sound like a good thing?] IA reps said the EATS Act reiterates the Constitution’s Commerce Clause, which gives the federal government the duty to regulate interstate commerce and prohibit state and local governments from interfering with the production or manufacturing of agricultural products.
170 members of Congress signed a letter to the leaders of the House Committee on Agriculture OPPOSING the EATS Act or any similar legislation in the 2023 Farm Bill.
CA produces 1% of the nation’s pork, but it consumes 15%.
Nearly a third of all the nation’s hogs are raised in Iowa as its annual production of 33 million hogs make it the top producer of pork in the nation. [so yah, IA wants to protect its pork industry]
Tim Gibbons, communications director for the Missouri Rural Crisis Center, said “They’ve got a loud voice because they’ve got billions and billions of dollars but farmers out here don’t have that loud of a voice but there’s a lot of us. There are a lot of people supporting independent family farmers in our state and in our country. I don’t want the narrative to be shaped by the very corporations developing the narrative. I think it needs to be shaped based on TRUTH and what’s really going on.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/missouri/article_65bbd19a-42bd-11ee-82ff-cbe2019fcc6a.html
Can we defund the USDA?
My congressional rep Mark Alford is at the MO state fair this weekend holding a Q&A talk about the latest bills directed at the USDA. He had a conference call I participated in last month where this was also a topic. He took the place of Hartzler this year, was a former TV news personality (I have not watched a local news or national news program since 1985). He wasn't who I voted for but will support him if he supports MO. I tussled with Hartzler all the time on the NDAA and USDA. She thought that tinkering around the edges was sufficient.
People must engage with their Rep and Senators so they understand that we understand what is going on. I will contact Mark's local office or even visit next week and provide a link to or perhaps copy, paste and print this SS article. Action is required by all of us. Collect the article links being posted here and get them to your public servants.
I would say to send them to your local county extension office but they are just an arm of the state universities that get fed grants for useless programs that help to keep the farmers poor but feeling good with their mental outreach programs….. Stupid stuff that Hartzler supported.
And in Virginia https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/08/18/golden-valley-farms-n2627121