- Americans’ personal debt: on the rise again.
- You think the economy’s getting weird here? At least we don’t have a tax on being unemployed. (H/T MJR)
- From jc2k in comments: how a Mexican-American janitor invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and became a corporate success story. (Nice, too, that a company actually meant it for a change when it urged employees to “act like owners.”)
- Why one food executive just pledged $25 million to fight his own industry.
- Freedom of association takes yet another hit.
- Volunteers caring for the large animals of evacuees living below the Oroville Dam.
- Twenty-three useless ways to “save the world.”
Neighborhoods helping take care of large animals in a evacuation may be a new idea in California, where there’ll probably be a tax or a PETA-led ban on it next year. In America it’s a regular thing. Summer wildfires are an annual annoyance unless you happen to be downwind of one, in which case it’s a sudden crisis. Even out in my relatively remote part of the boonies my neighbors have helped evacuate and care for horses and other lifestock driven out by fire danger at least three times that come to mind in the past five or six years.
Everyone who has a pet or other animal (bird, fish, chickens, cow, rock, whatever), should have a plan for their transport or shelter-in-place needs if they become involved in a ‘bug-out’ situation not unlike Oroville.
As a radio operator, I know that most human storm/emergency (and homeless, definitely) shelters will NOT accept evacuees with animals other than service pets. It’s not an insurance issue, or that they don’t like animals; they’re just not set-up and equipped with the resources/food to care for them.
And, those making future retreat arrangements should find out in advance if their potential hosts – family/friends – will welcome their animals.
Some random OT’s:
Zuck plans the next invasive step. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2887880/facebook-boss-mark-zuckerberg-hints-at-secret-plans-to-use-artificial-intelligence-to-censor-and-spy-on-users/
Paying unemployed veterans to agitate. Very clever; makes any disagreement seem unpatriotic. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/feb/16/veterans-from-post-911-seek-new-purpose-by-joining/
I don’t know anything about the flat earth truthers (but I’m sure Claire does). If the name is intended to be flippant, they might make some sense on other things. http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Cavaliers-Kyrie-Irving-thinks-the-Earth-is-flat-10942101.php
Daniel Lubetzky reminds me of a guy named Hayek who also was not a fan of when those who are to be limited by planning become the planners which seems to be the natural progression of things anyway.