The Post-Partisan Emporium

Farmers on the Brink Doomberg “ Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. ” – Dwight D. Eisenhower It was a spooky time to be out at sea off the US East Coast on Halloween in 1991. A strong storm system over the maritime provinces in Canada merged with the remnants of Hurricane Grace, forming a new, epic, and dangerous Nor’easter. The winds of this new storm breached 70 miles per hour and a wave as high as  100 feet  was measured off the coast of Nova Scotia, but the storm was not renamed as either a tropical storm or a hurricane – instead, it is known only colloquially as simply the Perfect Storm. Six fishermen from Massachusetts perished when their vessel  Andrea Gail  sunk in open waters, and the story of the storm and of that tragedy became the subject of a best-selling book and a blockbuster feature film. While the concept of a perfect storm is often too casually assigned in popular culture, it is difficult to find a

Freaking on Friday, Shimmying on Saturday and Slumming on Sunday... It's another weekend music thread!

Envy... this is why we are behaving like this in relation to the Russian intervention in Ukraine! And while we are being blinded with nonstop PROPAGANDA pro-Ukraine, the little guy is showing he also has NICE TOYS! He looks like Elon Musk! On another front... Good NEWS for a change. Plastic particles found in the human bloodstream for the first time Finally! Scientists have discovered microplastics in the human bloodstream for the first time, at concentrations equal to a teaspoon for every 1,000 liters of water And to end with a good joke... Remember those faraway days of "couch revolt" against duckduckgo? Well, we do enjoy a good couch!

US Government Paid News Media $1 Billion For Propaganda to Promote mRNA Vaccines STORY AT-A-GLANCE > A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by TheBlaze shows Health and Human Services spent $1 billion for a media campaign to build public confidence in, and uptake of, COVID-19 vaccines using mainstream news outlets > News outlets that did respond to TheBlaze assured them the editorial staff are not influenced by advertising money, but it’s not hard to imagine management would not look kindly on editorial staff who write content that doesn’t align with the advertising narrative > Mounting evidence demonstrates why the government is paying for good press since insurance companies reported a rise in all-cause mortality in late 2021 > The first batch of Pfizer documents the FDA used to approve Comirnaty (Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine) were released March 1, 2022; mRNA technology inventor Dr. Robert Malone believes these papers show a break in the indemnification clauses, exposing