Due To The Weather, Midwest Farmers Fear Widespread Crop Failures And A “Record-Low” Harvest In 2019. Is it drought? Is it record high temperatures? Nope. It’s snow.

Snow usually blankets the Upper Midwest around the first week of November, and so that means that many farmers in the Midwest only have about two weeks to salvage what they can before everything is lost. The unprecedented October blizzard that we just witnessed dumped massive amounts of snow on millions upon millions of acres of crops from Colorado to Minnesota. Even if the weather is absolutely perfect between now and November 1st, farmers are still “expecting massive crop losses”. In fact, one South Dakota lawmaker told the press that the crop losses will be “as devastating as we’ve ever seen”. And as you will see below, even parts of the Midwest that didn’t get hammered by the recent blizzard are potentially facing “record-low” harvests this year. We have never seen a year this bad for Midwest farmers in modern American history, but if the weather does not cooperate things could rapidly get much, much worse over the next two weeks.

But I thought snowfalls were a thing of the past.

Because of all the rain and flooding earlier in the year, many Midwest farmers faced serious delays in getting their crops planted, and so they were counting on good weather at the end of the season so that their crops could fully mature. Unfortunately, that didn’t happen, and the recent Midwest blizzard was definitely a nightmare scenario…

I’m sure the AGW folks will find some excuse to blame the early winter on global warming climate change. After all, it can be blamed for everything. We’ll be in an ice age and they’ll be blaming it on global warming climate change.

Ron on debates.

Certainly no intellectual heavyweights in this mob. Mox nix, tho, ‘cuz since the very first TV debate, back with JFK and Tricky Dick, it seems the candidates are universally misinformed on what they propose, misguided on what they oppose, mistaken on what they verify, and misleading on what they deny.

Most of ‘em go on stage hoping for a breakthrough but wind up enduring a breakdown. Promises are pipe dreams, explanations are fishing expeditions, programs are flim-flam, and hard “facts” are distracts.

Answers are rehearsed and memorized impact statements written by sycophants and snowflakes who flew in on Puff the Magic Dragon from Never-Never Land riding the hot-air updrafts from the political pollsters and mainstream media talking heads.

Most “average” Americans probably pay little attention to political debates because they realize the candidates are there to say what they think will get them attention, not to tell the truth about how to make the nation better, stronger, safer.

The guys in the corner bar, the 9- to 5-er havin a beer after supper, the busy wife/mother tryin to get her teenagers to help with the dishes . . . they don’t give a rat’s rear what Bernie or Kamala or Joe or Tulsi actually believe, mostly ‘cause they know that’s not what they’re gonna hear from ‘em.

They know it’ll be recited mantras designed to attract someone interested in a freebie of some kind, or a hopeless crusade about some splinter group, or a vicious condemnation of the opposing party.

What they’re really hoping for, like Bubba at a NasCar race or Deontay at an NFL game, is the spectacular spin-out, the successful hail Mary, the zinger, the “Gotcha!” moment, not some vague overgeneralized rigamarole about taxing the rich or controlling the climate.

The amount of money wasted on political campaigning over the past 5 years in this country could easily have built “The Wall” already, paid for infrastructure repair, and fed all the homeless in Kaliphonia. Hillary’s 2016 campaign alone spent a billion and a half.

I say ban all political campaigning on a national scale until 100 days before the general election. Keep it off my TV, off my computer screen, out of my mailbox, and out of my telephone answering machine. And if you’ve already been in the US Congress for 12 years, either house, your name is not allowed on a ballot any more except for state or city positions.

And if your name is Clinton or Soetoro, you’re banned from government. Period.

I agree with Ron.

And another thing. These are not debates. They are joint press conferences.

Hey all of you Californians, howza ’bout them gas prices?

As gas prices in California hit the highest in the country, the state maintains the top spot for the highest state gas taxes in the nation.

Mexifornia leading the nation.

The average price for regular gas in California is $4.09 while the national average is $2.65, according to data compiled by the American Automobile Association.

Here in Atlanta it’s $2.39 a gallon.

Gas taxes recently went up by 5.6 cents in California, bringing the total state gas taxes to 62 cents per gallon. Factoring in federal gas taxes brings the total to 80 cents per gallon.

The Tax Foundation ranks California as the state with the highest gas taxes in the country.

And what do they have to show for it? A crumbling highway infrastructure. Meanwhile, they’re throwing billions at a bullet train to nowhere.

In May, the California Energy Commission announced it would further examine the potential causes of gas price disparity in the state and “provide a full report to the governor.”

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

But not to worry about high gas prices. Everyone will have an electric car so they won’t need gas. Of course, since now there are planned blackouts in Mexifornia, just like in all Third World countries, the booger eatin’ moh-rons who bought into the electric car bullshit won’t be able to charge their cars.

Fortunately, they won’t have to worry about plastic straws.

One of my readers sent me an email that Sunday was the 51st anniversary of his discharge from the Army. That reminded me that today, Oct 14, is the 50th anniversary of the end of my four years of active duty from the Navy. It wasn’t my discharge, that came two years later.

Back then, there was a six year commitment which came in various forms. There was six months of active duty followed by 5.5 years of active reserve. That was next to impossible to get. There was two years of active duty followed by two years active reserve and two years of inactive reserve. There was four years of active duty followed by two years of inactive reserve which is what I enlisted for. And there was six years of active duty.

I joined the Navy to get out of the draft and to get an electronics school. I was guaranteed one prior to enlisting either Electronics Technician, Fire Control Technician, or Aviation Electronics Technician. ET was my first choice and I got it.

Some of my classmates had enlisted for six years to get additional schooling, For example, if you wanted to be a Nuclear Power ET, you had to enlist for six years. That’s what the classmate who wound up marrying my ex-wife did. Data Systems ET was a six year enlistment.

Immediately after we started ET School they started pitching sumpin’ called SET (Selective Electronics Training). Commit to six years and get another few weeks of Electronics School and some equipment schools known as C schools. They used to do that with a four year enlistment but changed it shortly before I enlisted. They wanted to get us four year guys out to the fleet as soon as possible because of the war going on.

Another thing they started pushing was after SET, you could reenlist and go for STAR (Selective Training and Retention). They would send you to a B school which was like and engineering electronics program. The nice thing about that was you got an automatic bump in rank on graduation without having to take the test. So, If you were an E4, when you graduated, you would be an E5 without having to take the E5 test.

Back then they had variable reenlistment bonuses. Some ratings were more critical than others. The Navy had more Bos’n’s Mates than they needed, but were short on ETs. As a result, ETs were one of the handful of rates with the highest reenlistment bonuses. If I remember correctly, if I had reenlisted when I got out, I would have gotten $12K. Since I would have been in a war zone at that time it would have been tax free. Back in 1969 $12K tax free was a lot of money.

Ron, my Wednesday poster, was an ET, and reenlisted under the STAR program. There was also an officer program that they pitched to us, NESEP (Navy Enlisted Scientific Education Program). Ron wound up in that and finished up his Navy career as an officer.

As for me, I was not the military type and was four and out. I did however go from inactive to active reserve to earn some additional money while attending college. I would go to meetings on Wednesday nights at the Naval Reserve Center near the St. Louis airport. Two other guys and I would sneak out after muster and spend a couple of hours at the enlisted men’s club drinking beer and make it back to muster out. Every now and then, they would notice us missing and come and collect us at the club and chew us out. Then we would have to behave for a few weeks.

When I dropped out of college, I dropped out of the Naval Reserve.

Fifty Years ago today, I left Treasure Island, which was a Naval base in San Francisco Bay. Among other things it was a training center. I went to an UHC transceiver school there. While I was waiting for my separation, I was in the cafeteria drinking coffee and heard Led Zeppelin for the very first time on the jukebox. They were playing Communications Breakdown.

1969.

Fifty years ago.

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The only rock band where the lead singer is the pilot of the tour airplane.

Ana Vidovic always plays beautifully.

Before I post this week’s boobage I have a few words to say. WTF is wrong with you guys? Can’t you just appreciate the beauty of the female form instead of carping about how old she is or criticizing her body? I banned Toejam because I got sick and tired of his constant complaints about the size of areolae and his other nitpicking. If you assholes don’t grow up, I’ll start banning other commenters. I’m sick of it.

Another one from Ron in Ohio. (more…)

The assholiness abounds. Howza ’bout the NBA kowtowing to Red China? Let’s just change the name from the NBA to the People’s Republic Basketball Association. It’s a shame I quit watching the NBA thirty years ago so I can’t quit watching it now. Assholes!

But I’m giving the coveted award to Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey for attempting to extort $530,000 from Trump for security on his campaign rally at Target Center in downtown Minneapolis. He backed down after Trump threatened legal action. Typical Dimocrat asshole.

Not just good news but great news! The UN is running out of money.

The United Nations is facing its worst cash crisis in nearly a decade and is warning that it may be unable to pay its bills by the end of the month, while urging member states to pay their contributions to the world body immediately.

Yeah deadbeats, pay up.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres wrote to member states this week, saying that as of the end of September, they have only paid 70 percent of budget contributions, compared with 78 percent at this time last year.

Maybe the UN should hire a collection agency. Call these countries at dinner time.

“The Organization runs the risk of depleting its liquidity reserves by the end of the month and defaulting on payments to staff and vendors,” a statement by Guterres spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

Breaks my heart.

“Stressing the Charter obligation of Member States, the Secretary-General thanked the Member States who have paid their regular budget assessments, which is now 129, and urged those who have not paid to do so urgently and in full,” the statement said. “This is the only way to avoid a default that could risk disrupting operations globally. The Secretary-General further asked governments to address the underlying reasons for the crisis and agree on measures to put the United Nations on a sound financial footing.”

How can we continue to bash the united States and Israel if we’re broke?

While the U.S. is one of the countries that have not paid its contribution in full, an official from the U.S. Mission to the U.N. told Fox News that is in part because of differences in U.S. and U.N. fiscal years.

“To date this year, we have contributed over $600 million to UN peacekeeping operations, and will be providing the vast majority of the $674 million we owe to the 2019 regular budget this fall, as we have in past years,” the official said. “Overall the United States, as the largest contributor to the UN, contributes roughly $10 billion annually in assessed and voluntary contributions across the United Nations system.”

Which is way too much.

The official also said the U.S. has been clear that no single member should pay for more than a quarter of the U.N. budget. (The U.S. currently pays approximately 22 percent of the U.N.’s operating budget.)

President Trump echoed this sentiment on Wednesday morning, tweeting in reference to reports about the U.N. budget woes: “So make all Member Countries pay, not just the United States!”

Exactly! We have been supporting this corrupt America bashing entity for way too long. Let the UN go bankrupt. Kick them out of New York. It is totally disgusting that we pay 22% of the operating budget.

Get us out of the UN and get the UN out of the US!