The Price of Liberty

Actually, here in the Black Hills, they are still just under $7/dozen, at least on Sunday last. But we hear of skyrocketing prices across the country.

A correspondent has shared part of the answer to the question: Mass Destruction of Livestock Backfiring with Greater Zoonotic H5N1 Spread

Our TPOL correspondent expresses his doubts about both the motives of the cullers and their sanity, and adds: ” Instead, we, the not-so-rich, can’t afford eggs. Take reparations out of cullers’ assets, most definitely also including their retirement accounts!”

The story reports 100 million chickens (laying hens) wiped out early in 2024. It is probably nearer 200 million “culled” now, nationwide.

The Land of Ten Thousand Lakes – aka The Land of Ten Thousand Flakes to neighboring States to the West and South of Minnesota – has a problem with its government. A new one.

Of course, like many States, Minnesota has a few islands of Democratic strongholds surrounded by a sea of Republicans, as this State House of Representatives map (2024) shows.

Put simply, the State government is broken. In many ways. Minnesota, known as the westernmost of the Scandinavian countries, has nearly 6 million people. In addition to all those lakes (and according to many people, the lakes are the reason that), the State also has 600 billion mosquitos. But the really dangerous parasites that infest the State are its politicians.