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Let's not diminish the significance of 19 June as the end of slavery in the US.
I know there are many who will roll their eyes at Juneteenth and many who will try to abuse the day.
Vet rates are high, I believe, because they deal with a lot of death, including euthanasia. They are by their nature unbelievably compassionate and caring people who aren’t in it for the money, and when they fail, or if their clients can’t pay for services, the animals suffer or die or are put down.
My daughter does small animal surgery one day a week, but otherwise she’s a large animal (mostly dairy) vet. Some farmers can’t afford surgery to save the animal, so my daughter has to tell them to sell the cow, or if there is no medicines in its system, then kill it and butcher it. If they don’t want to shoot it, she has a tool called a captive bolt, which is basically a gun with a .22 blank round that shoots a rod about 4-6” out the front. She has to put it up to the skull of a bovine in a certain spot and it puts a hole in their skull which stuns it. Then she takes a long screw driver and scrambled to brain to humanly kill it. That is better than using what she calls “blue juice,” which is a euthanasia drug that she would inject straight into the heart. If they have to do that, then the farmer Is legally required to bury the cow a minimum of 6’ deep, because any animal like a coyote that digs it up and eats it will die.
95+% of her dairy clients are good and compassionate dairymen, who treat their cows well and take losses personally. The other minority who are not humane keep her up at night with worry when she leaves their farm after an emergency call.
Not all calvings go well. Sometimes the calf is dead inside the mother before she gets there. If it is not moving and for some reason she can’t do a C section (maybe the farmer doesn’t want to pay for a C section for a dead calf), she has a tool that she can insert so she can saw the calf apart inside the cow so she can get it out in pieces.
There are so many highs and lows for them. So when they have a high, like this successful C section, we celebrate with her. She has a good head on her shoulders, but we always worry.
Here’s that same heifer on her one year birthday. The lovely farm family was so appreciative that they named her after my daughter.
In an abundance of caution, all firearms will be confiscated.
Does "abundance of caution" sound familar?
Who said anything about rioting???
If Biden wins, a contingent of republicans (I won't say all, neither will I say all democrats) will claim election fraud, etc.
The media in this country can't be trusted. Neither can those who control the voting. So now all elections will be met with distrust. And this is by design.
In progressive ideology, those institutions that have failed must be replaced with a newer version that will be promised to work. Voters are becoming even more skeptical of voting, which hastens the process of replacing it.
A huge part of the US budget goes to the military, as well as other budgetary items from other agencies. The military contracts, and supporting contracts are billions and billions each year. Peace reduces the needs of awarding contracts. Endless wars with no objective require a steady stream of lucrative contracts. This is why we are still in Afghanistan. This is why we have such a huge presence in Germany, Japan and South Korea, to name a few.
It's big business. Thousands of lives are sacrificed to keep these contracts going.
He’s part of the establishment. And he’s also all in for the military industrial complex.
His clash with Trump was over the President not wanting more wars.
So, the book deal is two fold, it’s revenge and it’s the money.
You have misunderstood what I wrote. My comment was not about rioting and looting, it's about acceptance of election results.
No matter who wins in November, the other side will not accept the election results.
otoh - consider John 13:1-17
John 13:1-17 New King James Version (NKJV)
Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet
13 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.
2 And [a]supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, 4 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6 Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?”
7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.”
8 Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!”
Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.”
9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!”
10 Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” 11 For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.”
12 So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16 Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Chick-Fil-A
https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/06/18/chick-fil-a-ceo-shines-lecraes-shoes-says-white-people-need-to-repent-of-their-racism/
Never again.
good grief
