“Mandrake, You Ever Wonder Why I Only Drink Pure Grain Alcohol?”

Multiple States Prepare for Vaccines To Be Added to Food Supply: Doctor Warns About ‘Genetically Adulterated’ Food with No Long-Term Safety Data
Jon Fleetwood | 2/26/24

Legislators in Tennessee and Arizona appear to be preparing their states for the addition of vaccines to their food supply.

Though they come from different states, the two bills were introduced only weeks apart.

Neither of the bills prohibit vaccines from being added to food.

Rather, they accept the addition as inevitable.

A new Tennessee bill would make it a Class C misdemeanor to sell or distribute food containing vaccines without clearly labeling them as such.

The bill was filed for introduction on January 5, 2023.

The bill defines “vaccine or vaccine material” as a “substance intended for use in humans to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against disease, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease, that is authorized or approved by the United States food and drug administration.”

The legislation’s sponsor, Republican Representative Scott Cepicky, doesn’t want to stop vaccines from being added to his state’s food supply.

He just wants to let consumers know whether pharmaceuticals have been added to their next meal.

“If you go to buy tomatoes, and there’s a polio vaccine in there, that you’re aware of what you’re buying as a polio vaccine,” said Rep. Cepicky.

“The problem we have is if it’s not treated as a pharmaceutical. How many tomatoes do I have to eat to get the proper dosage versus how many tomatoes do you have to eat? And if you eat too many, do you get an overdose?”

The . . .

. . . let’s squeeze this word into the story again . . .

. . . Republican representative noted that the University of California, Riverside, has already “perfected” vaccinating lettuce.

He also pointed to the University of California, Berkeley, which has conducted similar tests on tomatoes.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has done similar work with tobacco products.

Reminds me of Homer Simpson with his “tomacco.” But not quite as funny.

And General Jack D. Ripper drinking only pure grain alcohol. But no longer comedic.


 


 

I Think I Just Found My New “Witness Protection Program” Name!

Rule, Britannia is ‘alienating’ to others, Labour’s culture spokeswoman claims after musician says the anthem could be replaced with British folk music
UK Daily Mail | March 4, 2024 | Harriet Line

To many, it is a stirring patriotic anthem conjuring up images of Britain’s long and proud history.

But Rule, Britannia! can feel ‘alienating’ to others, according to Labour culture spokesman Thangam Debbonaire.

They’ll be coming after the “Star Spangled Banner” next — after they get up off their knees, of course.


 


 


 

Cartoons and Memes

“Hi there Miss Welch, whatchya got cooking?”

“Nothing much, just the same old, same old.”

“Well I think I speak for all of us in saying your same never gets old.”

“Thank you sir, you can always give me a lift.”

“Ditto.”

“Ditto?”

“Ditto.”

Winner

6.

This week.

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Their New Head of Marketing Probably Told Them That Their Book-Reading Customers Were Too “Fratty”

Barnes & Noble Is Ending Support for Older Nook e-Readers

TheVerge.com | 11/16/23 | Umar Shakir

Barnes & Noble is sunsetting support for some of its oldest e-readers. It’ll start by disabling the devices’ services starting in April 2024; afterward, the company will disable access to the Barnes & Noble bookstore, removing the ability to buy new books on the devices beginning in June 2024. The news impacts the following devices: the 2011 Nook Simple Touch; the 2012 Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight (oh hey, we reviewed this); and the 2013 Nook GlowLight.

In June 2024, Barnes & Noble will disable the ability to register the devices with a bn.com account and won’t allow users to sign in with a Nook account. This effectively time-capsules otherwise functional e-readers and locks them with the current owner so they can’t really hand them down to a young family member, sell them, or otherwise just reactivate them after the cutoff.

The devices will continue to work with limited functionality, so you can still read downloaded books and sideload ePub files. Still, as Good e-Reader points out, there’s not a lot of storage for sideloading on these devices anyway since they’re designed to promote buying content on the Barnes & Noble store. The devices will also still take on PDF and PDB files.

E-readers can last a long time, so removing support for these models will potentially increase e-waste. 

Give me books on paper every time.

A tactile pleasure, and an escape from electronics.

They can’t silently edit printed books for political correctness.

They can’t cut off your access to printed books. (Well, not as easily.)

They can’t hack printed books to access other parts of your computer.

They can’t sell your purchase info to advertisers. (Assuming you buy it at a tag sale or pay cash.)

No battery required. No recharging.

No software update ever required — ever.

You can make notes in the margins.

The government does not know who is reading printed books or what printed books they are reading.

You can throw them at an intruder.


 

Probably Just Looking for the Cherubim

Affidavit: Woman Arrested for Walking Nude Through Carmel Clay [Indiana] Public Library
YouAreCurrent | 3/5/2024 | Anne Marie Shambaugh

Police arrested a 42-year-old woman March 4 after she allegedly disrobed in the Carmel Clay Public Library and walked around naked while under the influence of marijuana.

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When police arrived, they found Cornell sitting alone on a bench with a vape pen smelling of marijuana on a nearby table, according to the affidavit. A field test confirmed material in the vape pen to contain THC at levels greater than .3 percent.

Please, no loud “Zounds!” in the library.

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The DOJ Ate My Homework

Apparently, the FBI likes Alec Baldwin.

FBI Analyst Describes Damage to Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ Gun in Armorer Criminal Trial

LA Times via Military News | 2/28/24 | Meg James

A month after the accident, Baldwin told ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos: “I didn’t pull the trigger. … I would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger at them.”

On Monday, the third day of Gutierrez’s trial, FBI forensic examiner Bryce Ziegler took the stand.

Ziegler testified that he was responsible for damaging the gun during testing at the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, nearly two years ago.

The FBI analyst said Monday that he performed a rigorous set of tests, including striking Baldwin’s prop gun several times with a “rawhide mallet.”

Ziegler said he used the rawhide mallet to strike the gun, while the hammer was pulled back, from several directions. The tests were intended to determine whether bumping or jostling the weapon would result in a discharge. He said he was trying to simulate scenarios for the gun to go off — without the handler pulling the trigger.

During that test, he broke several components of the gun. The fractured parts included the tip of the trigger, the sear and the hammer.

Ziegler said he was only able to get the gun to fire during two of the tests, including at the fully cocked hammer position. “Some of the internal components of the firearm actually broke to allow that hammer to fall and fire the primed cartridge case,” Ziegler said.

So the hammer was only able to fall after he broke the components. Hm.


 


 


 


 


 

SI Swimsuit Madness : Round 3 Matches 77 & 78 : Round 3 Matches 75 & 76 Results.

Hi all. THings are progressing nicely as we continue on with the losers bracket. We have the results from last week and Matches 77 & 78 for this week.

Results

Round 3 Match 75

Paige Spiranac 100 Defeats Kelsey Merritt 62

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Who do you prefer?
68 votes

Round 3 Match 76

Rose Bertram 80 Defeats Leryn Franco 72

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Who do you prefer?
65 votes

Round 3 Match 77

Hyunjoo Hwang vs Lorena Duran

Hyunjoo Hwang

  • Round 1 Match 17 Lost to Hilary Rhoda 39-173
  • Round 2 Match 45 Defeated Jasmine Sanders 108-71

VS

Lorena Duran

  • Round 1 Match 26 Defeated Maila Manuel 80-51
  • Round 2 Match 61 Lost to Lily Aldridge (tie) 75-75 (Tiebreaker) 156-170

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Who do you prefer?
67 votes

Round 3 Match 78

Kate Bock vs Myla Dalbesio

Kate Bock

  • Round 1 Match 20 Lost to Kate Upton 58-155
  • Round 2 Match 46 Defeated Jessica Aidi 212-14

VS

Myla Dalbesio

  • Round 1 Match 28 Defeated Mia Kang 126-57
  • Round 2 Match 62 Lost to Michelle Jenneke 63-98

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Who do you prefer?
69 votes