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2020-03-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-15 05:32|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 My father in law was a dairy farmer. He said "Those cows don't know about Christmas or Easter. They still need milked twice a day." The average urban idiot has no idea.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-03-15 05:44|| 2020-03-15 05:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Graphic is from the Madison, WI farmers market. Link to a short video found here.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-15 06:08|| 2020-03-15 06:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I was a typical suburban brat of the '50s with nary a real farm around. Though I'd done the scouting thing and visited a dairy farm on vacation I didn't have a clue.

Then about 45 years ago I met this girl and while she wasn't the farmer's daughter she did like animals and her barn was home to a few horses. Taking care of 6 to 10 horses and ponys can get you a glimpse of the real thing.

Stalls have to be mucked and horses fed every day if it's 90 and humid or below 0 don't matter. Oh yeah the loft has to be kept full of bales of hay, straw and other stuff too.

IOW farmers of any kind are tough bastids.

Posted by AlanC 2020-03-15 08:11|| 2020-03-15 08:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Victor Davis Hanson is a national treasure. There us more wisdom and common sense in this short piece than in a thousand NYT and WaPo think pieces.

Common sense: called 'common' because so rare...

Posted by Lex 2020-03-15 08:29|| 2020-03-15 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Not really saying anything VDH didn't already touch upon, but this crisis may prove to be a major turning point in exposing four grand truths that our society lost sight of while it was infected with the mental disease known as virtue-signaling one-world open-borders techno globalism (VSOWOB-TG):

1. It was madness to willingly make our economy and our national security vulnerable to the incompetence and malice of a shitty Chinese nation that wishes us ill and seeks to knock us off our perch globally - utter madness;

2) it was stupid and self-destructive to open our southern border and allow the importation of tens of millions of shot-wage semi-literate campesinos from Mexico and the Northern Triangle nations - criminally stupid;

3) it was a great tragedy that our chattering classes of editors, publishers, talking heads and producers have been with few exceptions almost completely incompetent, mendacious and clownish in the Trump Era - a tragic farce with terrible consequences for the national political culture generally and for wise policy-making in the above areas especially;

4) it was a hugely unfortunate and perhaps unintended consequence of our newfound fascination with digital technology that tens of millions of screen-rubbing addicts have forgotten the ways and wisdom accruing to outdoor physical activity - not to mention the slow media of physical books read slowly, over many hours, as well as actual writing and revising and editing carefully - again, over an extended period - what one has carefully considered, explored, and evaluated critically.

I suspect #4 was the greatest error of all, and a major source (along with our Shitshow Culture's irresistible attraction to virtue-signaling, illogic and clownish incompetence) of the strength and, to coin a phrase, virulence of the three other Grand Follies of our age.

Posted by Lex 2020-03-15 08:50|| 2020-03-15 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ Four very excellent points.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-15 08:53|| 2020-03-15 08:53|| Front Page Top

#7 I for one am glad the virus didn't originate south of the border or the left would be denying it all and saying washing your hands is racist. As is it will help us decouple from dependence upon China, and it will have run its course and be seen as media hyped nonsense that ruined lives, long before the Nov election.

Posted by ruprecht 2020-03-15 12:03|| 2020-03-15 12:03|| Front Page Top

#8 I'll keep my $ on the Bloomberg summation, thank you... /s

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2020-03-15 18:19|| 2020-03-15 18:19|| Front Page Top

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