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WAA WAA poor baby has to do his job spend a minute in the hot truck lol

Bet they were all jabed. ?

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[HEADING=2]Dry pastures force Texas ranchers to slaughter ever more cows[/HEADING]
Evan Garcia
Wed, August 24, 2022 at 6:03 AM

By Evan Garcia
CROCKETT, Texas (Reuters) - With almost all of Texas in drought, ranchers are sending ever more cattle off to slaughter, a trend likely to increase beef prices over the long term due to dwindling supply from the largest cattle region in the United States.

Since mid-July, more than 93% of Texas has been in drought, according to the United States Drought Monitor. As of mid-August, more than 26% of Texas was at the highest level, characterized by widespread loss of pastures and crops as well as water shortages.

While conditions are especially acute in Texas, about 54% of all U.S. cattle were in some form of drought as of Aug. 16, up from 36% a year earlier. Cattle slaughter is high nationwide, temporarily increasing supply but portending tighter supplies in future years.

Paul Craycraft, co-owner of the East Texas Livestock Auction in Crockett, said dry pastures are depriving cattle of an important food source, while making it more expensive for ranchers to supplement their herds' diet with hay and feed.

"We've had I don't how many 100-degree (38 C) days and you can see out here, you know, the grass is gone," Craycraft said. "The cows are beginning to lose weight. The cows are weak because there's no protein. So we're getting rid of a lot of cows."

About 75% of the cows sold at auction the past two months have been sent to the slaughterhouse, Craycraft said, up from 30% to 40% in normal years.

Wesley Ratcliff, founder of Caney Creek Ranch in Oakwood, said he got an early start selling 50 of his 500 cows this year as the drought worsened.

"They were older mama cows and they might have gone and had another baby for us," Ratcliff said. "But rather than wait on them to have another baby, we went on to ship them to the meat factory."

***Texas A&M University agricultural economist David Anderson said consumers can expect higher prices long-term due to what is happening in Texas, which according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture has more than 4.5 million beef cows, or 14% of the U.S. inventory.

"The pressure will be on for higher prices, higher cattle prices, higher beef prices over the next several years as the effects of this are felt," Anderson said. "We're going to face tighter supplies of beef. And tighter supplies of beef, with nothing else going on, means higher prices."***

(Reporting by Evan Garcia in Crockett, Texas; Editing by Daniel Trotta, Donna Bryson and Matthew Lewis)

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[HEADING=2]Besieged Ukraine Nuclear Plant Cut Off From All Power for First Time, State Agency Warns[/HEADING]

Residents living near the site of a [Ukrainian nuclear power plant]('https://www.thedailybeast.com/zaporizhzhya-nuclear-plant-workers-warn-of-another-chernobyl-under-vladimir-putin') that has been taken over by Russian forces released a desperate video appeal Thursday as the plant—the largest in Europe—was “completely” disconnected from the power grid for the first time ever amid Russian hostilities.

Ukraine’s Energoatom, the state enterprise in charge of the plant, [said]('https://t.me/energoatom_ua/9181') fires around the plant allegedly set by Russian troops had cut off the final transmission line providing power, and “as a result, two operating units of the power plant were disconnected from the grid.”

“The actions of the invaders caused a complete disconnection… from the power grid for the first time in the history of the plant,” the agency warned, adding that one remaining backup line was still able to supply power to the plant.

Russia’s RIA Novosti, meanwhile, quoted Russian-backed authorities who said the nuclear power plant’s emergency systems kicked in and a “reconnection” was made.

The alarming announcement came after experts repeatedly warned in recent weeks that if cooling of the spent-fuel pool and reactors at the plant is interrupted, it could lead to a meltdown that would release radiation into the atmosphere.

“Start-up operations are underway to connect one of the power units to the network,” Energoatom said. The monitoring group NetBlocks [said]('https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1562805830801838082') it had detected a “major disruption to communications” at the plant.

Just hours before the worrying news, residents of the city released a [two-minute video]('

“We, the residents of Enerhodar, appeal to you in total despair with a request for help. Today we, workers of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, are hostage to Russian troops,” a man in the video said, warning that they “are threatening the whole world with a nuclear catastrophe” and “taking cover with us and our children.”

“The occupiers are carrying out genocide on the land of Enerhodar. We can’t go out on the street of our city, our children live in fear.… Our people are just snatched up off the street and taken in an unknown direction,” the man said, adding that those who’ve been taken simply vanished.

With regular shelling on the territory of the nuclear plant, he said, “we are fearing the worst results.”

The appeal is just the latest ominous warning to come out of the Zaporizhzhia region as authorities there say Russia continues to push the whole world to the brink of a Chernobyl-scale disaster by refusing to demilitarize the area around the nuclear plant in Enerhodar—the largest in Europe. While Russia has routinely accused Ukraine’s military of shelling the vicinity, Ukrainian defense officials say Vladimir Putin’s army is cynically using the plant as both a propaganda ploy and shield for its own attacks.

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Eventually every cellphone becomes a sat phone?
Would be awesome for the offshore crowd....

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Nancy Davis has been through hell, and wants lawmakers to do something about it—if only to spare other women the nightmare she is still navigating.

The 36-year-old from [Louisiana]('https://www.thedailybeast.com/danny-mccormick-anti-mask-extremist-in-louisiana-is-behind-the-scariest-abortion-bill-in-america') discovered at around 10 weeks of pregnancy that her fetus was afflicted with a rare and fatal condition called acrania, which means it effectively has no skull, and no chance of survival. But she was unable to get an [abortion]('https://www.thedailybeast.com/kansas-abortion-constitutional-amendment-fails-in-major-post-roe-v-wade-showdown-at-polls'), she and her lawyers have said, because health professionals were terrified of running afoul of harsh anti-abortion legislation in her home state.

“I had to carry my baby to bury my baby,” she said at a press conference, echoing a refrain that has made her disturbing predicament a source of outrage across the country.

Eventually every cellphone becomes a sat phone?
Would be awesome for the offshore crowd....

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But I like my Verizon ! T Mobile does not work at my BIL's in Smithtown.

[HEADING=2]China calls on Putin to end Russian roulette[/HEADING]

lol............my 2015 Subaru cost less than that battery! Lol

I went on Snopes to try to debunk that battery cost and was unable to do so. One investigator was still trying to get a reply from Dean. Without taxes, and all the other extra charges the dealer throws in I think our Subaru Crosstrek 2019 cost about that !

I went on Snopes to try to debunk that battery cost and was unable to do so. One investigator was still trying to get a reply from Dean. Without taxes, and all the other extra charges the dealer throws in I think our Subaru Crosstrek 2019 cost about that !

The whole electric car thing is a leftist fantasy. Same people who don't understand thermodynamics also think we can abolish any form of tribalism. Just indoctrinated fantasy for the gullible. Carry on saving the world. :rolleyes:

That would not BUY, ahem, allegiance.

[another business failure?]('https://www.yahoo.com/news/stiffed-vendors-huge-financial-losses-022409966.html')

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The Inflation Reduction Act contains a new $7,500 tax credit for buying an electric vehicle.

Meanwhile...
[HEADING=2][COLOR=rgb(184, 49, 47)][Ford hikes price of electric Mustang Mach-E by as much as $8,475 due to ‘significant’ battery cost increases]('https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/26/ford-mustang-mach-e-price-hiked-by-as-much-as-8475-due-to-battery-costs.html')[/COLOR][/HEADING]

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On Friday, in his speech to the Jackson Hole symposium, Chair Jerome Powell stressed that the Fed plans further rate hikes and expects to keep its benchmark rate high until the worst inflation bout in four decades eases considerably — [SIZE=5]even if doing so causes job losses and financial pain for households and businesses.[/SIZE]