When the EAS goes off and everyone is grabbing for their phone, this anon is just going to smile and look curious and say “oh, what’s going on?” With a grin from ear to ear..
If it never habbens then I have only indulged my childlike imagination and played the scene over and over for my own entertainment.
Opinion:Polis was an unwitting messenger of a new truth — cows in the West are no longer sacredPushback against a “meatless day” proclaimed by Gov. Jared Polis last month was predictably vigorous. It was part of the “war on rural Colorado,” said a state senator who runs a cattle-feeding operation. Twenty-six of Colorado’s 64 counties adopted “meat-in” proclamations. Governors from the adjoining states of Wyoming and Nebraska even gleefully designated an “eat-meat” day.
Afterward, Polis’s press aides pointed to the hundreds of do-good proclamations the governor issues each year, and the governor quickly declared his beef brisket the rival of any in Colorado.
But this proclamation differed from those affirming truck drivers, bat awareness and breakfast burritos. It called for broad change. Using the language of a “MeatOut” Day proclamation written by an animal rights group, his statement cited the benefits of a plant-based diet in reducing our carbon footprint, preserving ecosystems and preventing animal cruelty. It also noted the growing alternatives to meat, dairy and eggs.
In the 1880s, when my great-grandparents homesteaded in eastern Colorado, they grazed cattle on the short-grass prairie. Ranchers still do. Once off the range, though, our beef production is best understood as an industrial process. The foundation is grain.
In his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, Bill Gates explains the modern pyramid of protein: A chicken eats two calories’ worth of grain to give us one calorie of poultry. For cattle, it’s six calories of feed to produce one calorie of beef. I’ve stood in rows of corn tassels 12 feet high at maturity, the growth boosted by luxuriant applications of fertilizer. I’ve pinched my nose while driving past feedlots large enough for 80,000 or more head. I’ve heard the bellow of cows minutes away from the knife at slaughterhouses.
Denver no longer has slaughterhouses but still prides itself on its livestock heritage. The annual Western Stock Show puts cowboy hats in high-end restaurants and strip joints alike. Cattle represent 50% of Colorado’s $7 billion agriculture economy, and livestock altogether 70%.After Polis’s proclamation, livestock producers debated boycotting Denver’s Stock Show for other venues — perhaps Oklahoma.
Even a legislator from one of metro Denver’s poorer neighborhoods objected to Polis’s proclamation, pointing out that nutritious vegetarian options aren’t available to many of her constituents.
But it’s not just low-income areas that lack meal choices. Fast-food franchises in big cities and small towns all cater to the lowest-common denominator, their high-volume enterprises predicated on cheap meat, especially beef. The consequences are that we now have bulbous bellies and too many heart attacks. We struggle to live with restraint.
The meaty issue here is not about meat vs. no-meat. Rather, it’s about scale and processes. What have we sacrificed in pursuit of volume?
Credit the ranchers who graze cattle holistically in an attempt to replicate the once-vast herds of bison. But also note that grass-fed beef needs buyers. Most holistically raised cows get further fattened on grain. That’s where the market is.
There’s also the looming issue of cows contributing to climate change, as highly polluting methane comes out of both ends of cattle. Gates, always the technologist, insists that innovation can reduce the carbon output of agriculture by reducing our yen for real beef. He put his money where my mouth is by investing in a vegetarian product called the Impossible Burger. Last week I had one. It fooled me. I thought it was beef.
Meanwhile, the urban-rural divide remains starkly real and evident in voting and development patterns. While cities struggle to contain their growth, many small towns struggle to hang on. Ironically, the economies of most of these at-risk rural towns are premised on industrial-scale agriculture.
Rural Colorado never has liked Polis, a savvy businessman from the exurbs of Boulder who favors market solutions. He had barely warmed his gubernatorial seat when handmade signs began showing up on rural country roads asking “Why does Polis hate…” You fill in the blank.
This meatless proclamation was tone-deaf. It could have narrowly affirmed meatless alternatives rather than decried meat. Denial and anger will not prevail, though. I’m reminded of when coal producers, 10 and 15 years ago, were fighting the future of renewables instead of figuring out their place in the world to come.
Though most of us may continue to eat beef, some of us have already begun to shift away. Polis was perhaps the unwitting messenger of that truth — that cows in the West are no longer sacred.
https://www.denverpost.com/2021/04/05/jared-polis-meatless-day-sacred-cows-urban-rural/
Colorado is auctioning off pot-themed license plates until ‘420’(CNN) — For the right price, 14 Colorado drivers can show their love for the state’s legal green.
Colorado is auctioning rights for 14 different official state license plates with phrases like “BONG,” “GANJA,” “HEMP” and “ISIT420.” The revenue from these extremely obvious nods to all things cannabis will go to the Colorado Disability Funding Committee, Democratic Gov. Jared Polis’ office told CNN. This is the committee’s first ever pot-themed license plate auction, and it will go until April 20, the unofficial holiday celebrating cannabis use.
All signs show this auction could see Rocky Mountain high revenues. Previous auctions have included the letter “X” which sold for $20,000, “5280” which sold for $6,800 and “MCLAREN” which sold for $6,000, according to Polis’ office.
One particularly potent license plate has fetched more than 90 bids as of April 5: “TEGRIDY,” a nod to a cannabis farm featured in the Colorado-based South Park cartoon.
Marijuana Moment previously reported on the license plate auction.
On the auction site, bidders are cautioned: “DON’T DRIVE HIGH! PLEASE USE CANNABIS RESPONSIBLY, WITHIN THE LIMITS OF ALL COLORADO LAWS.”
Colorado legalized recreational marijuana in 2012 and since has seen an explosion of growth in the business. In 2019, the state’s industry made a record $1.75 billion in sales.
Bidding is open until 4:20 p.m. Mountain time on April 20. Those who don’t snag the license plates this year are still in luck: The state plans to hold an auction again next April 20.
https://www.eastidahonews.com/2021/04/colorado-is-auctioning-off-pot-themed-license-plates-until-420/
While investigating a son for threatening his parents, O.C. deputies find gun arsenalA man from a prominent conservative family in Orange County faces weapons charges for a cache of guns and rifles discovered by sheriff's deputies as they were looking into reports he had threatened his parents, according to court records.
Ryan Patrick Bengard, 42, was arrested March 26 and has been charged with nine counts of possessing an assault weapon and seven counts of possessing a short-barreled shotgun, according to jail and court records.
The Sheriff’s Department announced the arrest, the alleged threats and the seizure of the weapons Saturday in a post on Twitter but didn’t identify the suspect. Carrie Braun, a spokeswoman for the Sheriff's Department, said in an email that privacy laws prohibit the department from identifying the suspect because he possibly suffers from a medical condition.
In its Twitter post, the Sheriff's Department wrote, "During the investigation it was determined the man may be suffering from mental illness." Deputies from a recently formed bureau that specializes in handling suspects with possible mental illness were contacted, according to the tweet.
The Sheriff's Department did not release details of the threats Bengard allegedly made.
Bengard is the son of Kim and Thomas Bengard, a San Clemente couple who founded a successful automobile accessories company and are prominent donors to local conservative politicians and causes.
Neither parent immediately returned phone and email messages.
Orange County Superior Court records show that a man with his father's name sought a restraining order against Bengard on March 26, although details were not available. The man and two others with the same last name also sought restraining orders against Bengard in 2007, records show.
In 2015, after pleading guilty to misdemeanor DUI charges, Bengard was sentenced to 90 days in jail and ordered to complete an alcohol-abuse program and perform community service. He was placed on three years of informal probation, ending in 2019, according to court records.
In 2003, Bengard pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. A year later, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of assault and battery, according to court records.
Bengard's mother was president as recently as last year of the Family Action political action committee, which for 20 years has given money to conservative candidates seeking seats on the county board of education, local school boards and city councils, according to records filed with the state. Most recently, the committee endorsed former state Sen. John Moorlach in his campaign for a seat on the Orange County Board of Supervisors. Moorlach lost to Katrina Foley, a Democrat and former mayor of Costa Mesa.
The Bengards' nonprofit, the It Takes a Family Foundation, has contributed to a host of causes ranging from a conservative media company to the Boys and Girls Club to an Irvine organization that opposes abortion.
The foundation gave $5,000 to the Orange County Sheriff’s Advisory Council in 2018, the most recent year for which tax records were publicly available. The advisory council has funded the construction of a peace officers’ memorial in Tustin, supported the families of officers killed in the line of duty and paid for equipment and training facilities used by Orange County law enforcement agencies, according to the Sheriff’s Department.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/while-investigating-a-son-for-threatening-his-parents-oc-deputies-find-gun-arsenal/ar-BB1fkICB
Curious anon here, during the test were you breathing in through your mouth or nose?
Seen it a hundred times and you still got me anon, kekked out loud, ty needed that.
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