Check it out @Hawki97 as you pedal your Schwinn Typhoon to 218 tap. As you HORTers may or may not know, here in the People's Republic of Southern Johnson County, using a government grant we are building a bird sanctuary kitty corner from the feral cat sanctuary, next to the low income housing project and across from the Hills bank. Last week they poured the foundation for what appears to be a base for a bird seed bin. More concrete was poured last week with sidewalks leading to said bin, even though most of the town has no sidewalks at all. I guess the folks from said low income apartments will need to find another vacant lot for their Pitbull to defecate upon. Updates to follow after input from Friday's CAVEman club meeting at Casey's. CAVEman Club = Citizens Against Virtually Everything, a grassroots group slightly classier than your average MAGA type...

There was a curious double feature playing in the Iowa Senate Tuesday.



First, senators approved legislation that would tighten regulation of products containing hemp and THC, the stuff that makes you high. The main target is hemp -infused seltzer drinks.


The bill would limit the products to 4 milligrams of THC per serving and 10 mg per package. It could have been worse if the buzzkill caucus had its way.




Sen. Dan Dawson, R-Council Bluffs, argued the bill is “desperately needed regulation” closing a loophole in Iowa’s hemp laws. Sen. Tom Shipley, R-Nodaway, contended businesses are exploiting the loophole with “nefarious motives.”


Sounds dangerous. It passed the Senate 31-18, with most of the no votes coming from Democrats, and is headed to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ desk. No one is going to get high on her watch.


Then the Senate turned its attention to legislation granting farm chemical companies legal liability protections against claims the companies failed to warn users of health effects, so long as the products carry required EPA labeling. It was approved on a 31-19 vote.


The bill was requested by the pharmaceutical and farm chemical giant Bayer. The company bought Monsanto in 2018 for $63 billion — at the time the largest cash-only deal in history — and inherited its most popular product Roundup.





Now Bayer is being pummeled by lawsuits alleging Roundup’s weed-killing chemical, glyphosate, causes cancer after prolonged exposure. Iowa would be the first state in the nation to grant Bayer’s wish for protection from litigation, including by famers.


The EPA has declared it’s unlikely glyphosate causes cancer. Republicans who backing the bill argued it’s safe as kittens and Bayer has no nefarious motives.


“There is no proven link between glyphosate and cancer,” said Senate President Amy Sinclair, delivering a passionate defense of Roundup. It’s greedy trial lawyers who are the real problem, driving up the cost of glyphosate.


But other research has come to a different conclusion on cancer risk. A University of Washington analysis, for example, found that long-term exposure increases the risk of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.


As one defense attorney representing Roundup plaintiffs pointed out in 2020, Bayer makes Roundup while its pharmaceuticals division works on a treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.


Science aside, the most basic issue at play is Iowans’ ability to go to court and seek damages from a product they believe harmed them. Why are we eager to hamper those claims to please an international conglomerate? We have judges and juries who are more than capable of rendering a fair verdict.


It’s hard enough to take on a large corporation without lawmakers putting a thumb on the scales of justice. When Bayer bought Monsanto, it had the help of lawyers from six large law firms to seal the deal.


And don’t shed a tear for Bayer. It bought Monsanto even after the World Health Organization’s International Research Agency on Cancer found that glyphosate is “probably carcinogenic to humans.”


So, hemp drinks are nefarious. Glyphosate is totally safe. Don’t worry, it all makes sense under the Golden Dome of Wisdom.


(319) 398-9262; todd.dorman@thegazette.com

Wegayewu Faris was fishing in the Iowa when he saw a boy struggling. He went into the river and saved the boy, but weakened and drowned.
https://www.kcrg.com/2024/04/19/city-high-custodian-recognized-heroic-efforts/

or are you listening to the leaked TS album today? I am waiting and so excited.

Why this question should be posed to either coach is beyond me.

Example:

A person making 500k gets their income taxed at the same rate as a person making 50k.

It did nothing. What am I doing wrong?

I would love to see Kennedy or Caliendo here and the other at 165. Kennedy just isn't big enough to be a serious factor at 174. Cobe Siebrecht, Block, Riggins and Drake Rhodes will also be at this weight. Should be a high AA if it is Kennedy or Caliendo.

I saw an interview years ago with her alternate, Barbara Morgan, who told a story of Christa baking a pie for her the first day they lived near each other while in training at NASA and surprising her with it. That's always stuck with me. January 28, 1986 is still hard to think about. I was only nine years old when the Challenger disaster occurred, but I clearly remember the weight of it. It was crushing.


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Founder and Former Chair of the House Conservative Climate Caucus, U.S. Rep. John Curtis, R-Utah, passed the baton this month to U.S. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa.


Miller-Meeks officially took the position on April 1, becoming the second lawmaker to chair the 85-member organization. She previously served as vice chair since January 2023.


Curtis founded the Conservative Climate Caucus in 2021 and orchestrated the hand-off of power as he plans to leave the House at the end of the year to compete in the Utah GOP primary to take on retiring U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney’s seat.



In an interview with The Daily Iowan on Tuesday, Miller-Meeks recalled going to a conservative climate meeting in Utah with Curtis in 2021 — a time when there were roughly twenty members of the caucus.


Miller-Meeks pointed to Iowa’s history as a leader in renewable energy and fuels for her inspiration in leading the caucus to pursue more renewable energies and exporting electricity made with those renewable energies.


“When you’re in southeast Iowa, and when you’re in Iowa, and you’re in an agricultural community, number one, our farmers are our primary conservators,” Miller-Meeks said. “They’re stewards of the land.”


Miller-Meeks said the main reason she got involved with the caucus is because Iowa has a “great story to tell.”


Iowa’s most recent energy profile by the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported that 63 percent of the state’s total electricity net generation came from wind in 2022 — the largest wind power share of any state.


“We are a net exporter of energy,” Miller-Meeks said. “We’re not only an agriculture state, we are an energy state.”


Additionally, Miller-Meeks said the state provides more renewables than most people consider, listing Iowa’s vast sources of renewable energy: wind, solar, ethanol, biodiesel, biomass, and compressed renewable natural gas.


“We really are a state that I think is very forward-thinking and we have done it without mandates and without emission guidance,” Miller-Meeks said.


She stressed the importance of creating a cleaner, healthier planet for future generations, while also being able to compete economically around the globe. Miller-Meeks said labor costs are not the solution, but rather affordable energy is.


“I look at this, how can we reduce emissions to have a cleaner, healthier planet, but also be able to grow an economy,” Miller-Meeks said. “And in growing our economy, all wealthy economies have invested back into cleaning their environment. So I think you can do both of those things. They’re not mutually exclusive.”


According to the 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy, the U.S. has experienced the largest decline in carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of any country over the past 15 years. Miller-Meeks said many people are unaware of this decline.


“It’s something that we should be talking about and you don’t hear that a lot,” Miller-Meeks said. “I think the United States has done a lot when it comes to reducing emissions, improving our climate, our environment. It’s a story that we should tell and be proud of.”


She pointed to the pollution emitted by China and the lack of repercussions for the country as problematic and difficult to compete with economically.


“[Natural gas] is something that we should want to export around the world because without any repercussions to China, we can help lower emissions globally by the clean energy that we produce in the United States,” Miller-Meeks said.

Cara Consuegra, who was a heck of a PG for Bluder's first year(BTT champions) and played three years under Angie Lee including the 1998 conference title, was just named head coach of Marquette. She spent several years after her playing career as an assistant at Marquette before becoming the Charlotte head coach back in 2011 where she's been ever since.

Jennie Baranczyk is still my first choice to replace Bluder when she retires. But if she doesn't want to move her family from Oklahoma when that time comes, Cara could be a decent option to consider depending upon how she much she proves herself in a bigger conference over the next few years.

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The product 'Smells like a--; only worse' and guarantees 'room-evacuating emissions'

besides CJF of course. I can remenber from about 1983.

For me its Glenn Robinson.

Who ya got.

1. Wouldn't it be nice if they had an episode where there was an ethical issue involving the Prime Directive, and the people involved just followed the PD, and then the episode ends?
2. Is it me, or through out all of the series, how come nobody ever watches the shuttle bay? Can anyone just grab a shuttle and depart the ship when it is convenient to the plot?
3. In Voyager, why did they dick around with the Kazon for several seasons, even though as soon as they were transported to the Delta Quadrant they started for Earth at warp speed. The Kazon are dirty grubbers stealing to stay alive. Just how big is their domain?
Go for it. Any series, any character, any nagging flaw.

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Will proceed to the senate tomorrow reportedly.

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Thankfully this massacre was stopped but good lord, how many trans terrorists do we need to witness before we recognize this is a major problem and address the elephant in the room. The mental health crisis in this country is hitting a breaking point. Since she wants to identify as a male I guess she should go straight to male prison. Should he a "fun" experience for her.

Y'all can click the link and report back.



From Trump: ONE WEEK UNTIL ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE!

It's bad.

THEY WANT ME IN PRISON!

Read my Emergency Memo: magateam.vip/Q7btZ

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The “You must respect our institutions” people.

Incompetence or willfully tanking the case?

By its own admission, the Bar misidentified or failed to include multiple exhibits it claims to have relied on in its Second Amended Response,

Throw the bank at Crookham and if and when he says no throw some money at Shawver from Rutgers. He would be a great get and buy us another year for someone else to improve.