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2020-04-04 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Vermont Decrees Home Farming "Non Essential", Forbids The Selling of Seeds…
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Posted by Frank G 2020-04-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 If history is any guide, this genius-level edict will be rescinded just like the advice not to wear face-masks, most likely right after it is too late to plant.

It is mind-boggling that
a) someone has a job where they sit around and think up stuff like this
b) they think this will make things better.
Posted by SteveS 2020-04-04 01:20||   2020-04-04 01:20|| Front Page Top

#2 
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-04 04:19||   2020-04-04 04:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Grom beat me...
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-04-04 05:59||   2020-04-04 05:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Vermont Soviet (VERSOV) Ukaz-347 stipulates that the Kulaks, Whites, monarchists, priests and other counter-revolutionary elements henceforth shall not be allowed to sow, harvest or mill private stores of grain or other foodstuffs. All Kulak et al. stocks shall be requisitioned and transferred immediately to local VERSOV cadres on pain of execution.
Posted by Lex 2020-04-04 06:13||   2020-04-04 06:13|| Front Page Top

#5 And Lex beat us both.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-04 06:28||   2020-04-04 06:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Lemme guess, only Monsanto seeds are approved?
Posted by Beau 2020-04-04 06:45||   2020-04-04 06:45|| Front Page Top

#7 According to the sign, seeds can be ordered from the website for curbside pick-up or delivery— just not picked up from a rack on the shop floor.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-04 07:41||   2020-04-04 07:41|| Front Page Top

#8 b) they think this will make things better.

Yes they do, for some values of better.

1) better control over the peasants.
2) better access to more levers of power.
3) better access to the grifter machine.
4) better levels of fear instilled to support the NEXT grab.
Posted by AlanC 2020-04-04 07:49||   2020-04-04 07:49|| Front Page Top

#9 More than a few bureaucrats need to be identified as non-essential.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-04 09:05||   2020-04-04 09:05|| Front Page Top

#10 More than a few bureaucrats need to be lamp decoration.
Posted by DarthVader 2020-04-04 10:10||   2020-04-04 10:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Not a surprise...Bernie country
Posted by Warthog 2020-04-04 10:10||   2020-04-04 10:10|| Front Page Top

#12 #7 Thanks.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-04 10:34||   2020-04-04 10:34|| Front Page Top

#13 There's a lot of conclusions being based off a sign made by a store manager at a Walmart. Has anyone bothered to check with the state?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-04-04 10:35||   2020-04-04 10:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Addressed in yesterday's Texas city, not Texas City thread.

Yes, you can curbside or get delivery.

The question remains, who decides what is or is not essential? I'd think, as any time as any, home gardening is essential. I get it that browsers and lollygaggers are contrary to the distancing theory but is this not a sort of ignorance which casts doubt on the policy makers?

We out here in west Kansas were given an F in stay at home orders and will likely be sent to the principal's office. Why an F? Because the cell phone tracking models run through the grand calculatorium says we travel too much. OK, put aside the cell phone tracking shit, they are using urban travel algorithms on a rural check the cows and break the ice reality. In short, a shitty model which brings no confidence to the, uh, leadership of the local earls and lords.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-04 11:17||   2020-04-04 11:17|| Front Page Top

#15 They shall not be allowed to purchase good or services unless they have the mark of the beast on their forehead or back of the hand...

I swear I've heard that somewhere before....
Posted by CrazyFool 2020-04-04 11:48||   2020-04-04 11:48|| Front Page Top

#16 A badly worded sign posted at a Wal-Mart was NOT one of the signs of the end times, OK?
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-04-04 12:23||   2020-04-04 12:23|| Front Page Top

#17 I've been wondering for weeks when Americans would chafe at the thought of their "betters" enslaving them "for the common good".

Are we there yet? This is all bullshit.
Posted by Crusader 2020-04-04 14:12||   2020-04-04 14:12|| Front Page Top

#18 p.s. Does this includes home farming of cannabis sativa?

pp.s. What would Ethan Allen have done?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-04 15:24||   2020-04-04 15:24|| Front Page Top

#19 The same thing Joe Mondragon did in The Milagro Beanfield War.
Posted by JHH 2020-04-04 16:06||   2020-04-04 16:06|| Front Page Top

#20 So WTF do the states see Lottery Ticket sales as essential?
Posted by 3dc 2020-04-04 19:18||   2020-04-04 19:18|| Front Page Top

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