I know, we're supposed to "feel bad" and "help" the farmers who aren't selling as many soybeans to China.

I have a different view.

Taken together, our results indicate that in mice a diet high in soybean oil is more detrimental to metabolic health than a diet high in fructose or coconut oil.

In other words this crap is killing people and making them sick.

Of course the drug dealers (that would be soy farmers) don't care.

Could you please explain what the difference is between someone growing opium poppies (also something that grows from the earth) and someone growing soybeans?

There isn't one, other than perhaps to some amount of degree as far as I can tell.

Oh quit it, media hacks.

I know, I know, you think Trump was "making things up" when he included Alabama as a potential impact for Dorian.

He wasn't.

Early on (when in the Antilles and near Puerto Rico) the storm had multiple track solutions that potentially put it into the gulf.  I was watching it very carefully and, in the thread in The Bar on The Ticker (accessible to those who used to be donors) there were people asking if I was concerned about the storm hitting me -- and I live about 60 miles, more or less, from Alabama as the crow flies.

There was one solution taking the storm over Florida, exiting into the Gulf near Tampa and potentially coming further west, even possibly as far west as New Orleans.  There was a second that took it south of Lake Okoeechobee or even through Miami and into the Gulf.  I didn't believe either was going to verify but the hurricane center did put forward a long-range cone that included such potential areas in their impact -- but terminated, as they always do, on Day 5 before the Gulf was actually in play although it showed the storm headed due west at that time and in the Florida Peninsula.

So yes, Trump was right when said Alabama was potentially in play.

I didn't see the upper pattern to support that and my "most likely" case, which you can go look at the thread in The Bar if you have access to it, said that it was most-likely to impact somewhere along the Stuart to Space Coast area and whether it ran up the coast or inland was a function of exactly when it turned -- but I did expect it to turn.

The National Hurricane Center, however, didn't make that prognostication until a couple of days later when the models shifted east in concert as the upper-air pattern evolved.

Here's my ORIGINAL prognostication from 08-28:

Dorian....

Best estimate of odds from the upper air weather pattern, as I see it.

South of Florida (hitting the Keys), into the Gulf - 5%
South of Space Coast but mainland - 10%
Space Coast north to South Carolina - 60%
Rakes East Coast, does not formally make landfall until SC if ever - 25%

And by the way, on 8/28 one of those model runs put a 960mb major hurricane (that's Cat 3 territory) right into my back yard -- and as I noted, I'm only 60 miles, roughly, from Alabama.  Like I said, I didn't see it happening, but it was one of the "major" models (the Euro) which had that solution.

In any event Trump is right in this tweet -- there was model support and it was part of the NHC official forecast that the storm was likely to cross Florida and enter the Gulf on a nearly-due-west path at the time.  That most-certainly does put Alabama in play.

Sorry folks, it's over.  The American experiment, that is.

The attorney who represented Christine Blasey Ford during Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court contentious confirmation hearings said in a speech earlier this year that Ford was motivated to come forward in part by a desire to tag Kavanaugh's reputation with an "asterisk" before he could start ruling on abortion-related cases.

The high-powered progressive lawyer, Debra Katz, made the remarks at the University of Baltimore’s 11th Feminist Legal Theory Conference, entitled "Applied Feminism and #MeToo." Her comments were first quoted in the book "Search and Destroy: Inside the Campaign Against Brett Kavanaugh" by Ryan Lovelace, which Fox News has obtained.

Truth is irrelevant.  The point was to smear, to make sure that any ruling related to abortion that went before the Supreme Court was considered by half the nation to be invalid.

Folks, this sort of admission -- and note the audacity in being willing to say it out loud -- and not have an instant felony indictment issue against everyone involved, including Ford and this attorney, or, if not forthcoming, 150 million Americans on both their doorsteps with torches and pitchforks, says everything you need to know.

I always assumed this was a political hit piece; that there was exactly zero credibility to these allegations.  Yes, they deserved to be heard.  But when there was zero corroboration and it became clear this was a pure fabrication that sort of event had exactly one proper resolution: Prosecution.

It didn't happen, it won't happen, and the people won't rise and demand it happen.

The Rule of Law is dead.

The American experiment has concluded.

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