FEED BIRDS ONLY SUITABLE FOODS
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Posted:Nov 30, 2022 7:52 am
Last Updated:Dec 3, 2022 1:24 am 4323 Views
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During winter, many people choose to feed wild birds, either in their own backyards, down at the beach or at a marsh. If you choose to feed the birds, please feed them only food which is good for them. Feeding them the wrong food will harm them more than help them.
DO NOT FEED BREAD – bread is often the first kind of food humans give to birds. However, birds receive very little nutrition from bread and may die from a diet high on bread as this can cause malnutrition, especially in the winter when there is little other food available. Also, stale bread with mould can cause Aspergillosis (a lung disease).
Do not feed birds bread. It can cause malnutrition and mould on it can cause lung disease.
Feeding Birds at Home
For those of you who are feeding at home, here are some of the favourite foods of certain birds:
Suet Block: Chickadees, Nuthatches, Woodpeckers, Flickers, Creepers (available from most Supermarkets and pet stores)
Cracked Nuts: Chickadees, Nuthatches, Towhees, Juncos, Finches
Raw Peanuts: Woodpeckers, Sparrows, Grosbeaks, Jays (unsalted, of course)
Sunflower Seeds: Chickadees, Nuthatches, Towhees, Juncos, Finches (hulled or whole unsalted- Sparrows, Grosbeaks, Jays)
Apples: Robins, Woodpeckers, Flickers, Starlings
Soaked Raisins
Chopped Grapes
Wild Bird Seed: Many varieties of birds, including Towhees, Juncos, Finches, Sparrows, Jays, Pine Siskins
Niger Thistle: Goldfinches, Pine Siskins
Sugar/Water: Hummingbirds (1 part sugar/4 parts water- keep fresh)
DON’T FORGET TO HAVE WATER AVAILABLE TOO!
In the winter, when it is freezing outside, wild birds have difficulty finding water so it is important that a constant supply of water is available to them. It has been found that they do not like to have water in deep containers so a shallow dish is preferred. In the summer the birds also like to have a shallow water dish available for bathing.
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CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENT
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Posted:Oct 9, 2022 7:25 am
Last Updated:Oct 12, 2022 4:14 am 4286 Views
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CTV NATIONAL NEWS
Oct. 2, 2022
Babcock Ranch calls itself "America's first solar-powered town." Its nearby solar array — made up of 700,000 individual panels — generates more electricity than the 2,000-home neighbourhood uses, in a state where most electricity is generated by burning natural gas, a planet-warming fossil fuel.
The streets in this meticulously planned neighbourhood were designed to flood so houses don't. Native landscaping along roads helps control storm water. Power and internet lines are buried to avoid wind damage. This is all in addition to being built to Florida's robust building codes.
Some residents, like Grande, installed more solar panels on their roofs and added battery systems as an extra layer of protection from power outages. Many drive electric vehicles, taking full advantage of solar energy in the Sunshine State.
Climate resiliency was built into the fabric of the town with stronger storms in mind.
So when Hurricane Ian came barreling toward southwest Florida this week, it was a true test for the community. The storm obliterated the nearby Fort Myers and Naples areas with record-breaking surge and winds over 100 m.p.h. It knocked out power to more than 2.6 million customers in the state, including 90 per cent of Charlotte County.
But the lights stayed on in Babcock Ranch.
"It certainly exceeded our expectations of a major hurricane," Grande, 58, told CNN.
The storm uprooted trees and tore shingles from roofs, but other than that Grande said there is no major damage. Its residents say Babcock Ranch is proof that an eco-conscious and solar-powered town can withstand the wrath of a near-Category 5 storm.
"We have proof of the case now because [the hurricane] came right over us," Nancy Chorpenning, a 68-year-old Babcock Ranch resident, told CNN. "We have water, electricity, internet — and we may be the only people in Southwest Florida who are that fortunate."
Grande said Hurricane Ian came through southwest Florida "like a freight train." But he wasn't afraid that he would lose everything in a storm, like he was when he lived in Fort Myers.
"We're very, very blessed and fortunate to not be experiencing what they're experiencing now in Sanibel Island and Fort Myers Beach," Grande said. "In the times that we're living in right now with climate change, the beach is not the place to live or have a business."
SOLAR SUCCESS
Syd Kitson, a former professional football player for the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys, is the mastermind behind Babcock Ranch. Kitson envisioned it to be an eco-conscious and innovative neighbourhood that is safe and resilient from storms like Ian.
The ranch broke ground in 2015 with the construction of the solar array — which was built and is run by Florida Power and Light — and its first residents moved into the town in 2018. Since then, the array has doubled in size and thousands of people have made Babcock their home.
"It's a great case study to show that it can be done right, if you build in the right place and do it the right way," said Lisa Hall, a spokesperson for Kitson, who also lives in Babcock Ranch.
"Throughout all this, there's just so many people saying, 'it worked, that this was the vision, this is the reason we moved here,'" Hall told CNN.
Perhaps the highest endorsement for the city is that it is now a refuge for some of Ian's hardest-hit victims. The state opened Babcock Neighbourhood School as an official shelter, even though it didn't have the mandated generator. The solar array kept the lights on.
Some of Chorpenning's friends who live on Sanibel Island — which is now cut off from the mainland after Ian's devastating storm surge severed the causeway — came to shelter at a friend's house at Babcock Ranch. It will be a while before they can go back, she said.
"They're going to be renting a place over here for a while, while they figure out what's going to happen out there," she said. "I joked that we may be the only people in southwest Florida whose property value just increased."
Even Kitson chose to ride out the storm in Babcock to see how the community would fare in the hurricane. Kitson declined CNN's request for an interview; Hall said he is focused on helping neighbouring communities rebuild.
"He was there during the storm; he said, 'where else would I be?'" Hall said. "We built it to be resilient and as much as you plan and think you've done the right thing, you don't know until you put it to the test."
As utilities scramble to restore power across the state, Babcock residents say September storms showed that America's energy infrastructure is not well-equipped to handle worsening extreme weather events. Hurricane Fiona ravaged Puerto Rico's power grid when it made landfall there on Sept. 18. Now, Ian has left millions of people in the dark in Florida.
Babcock residents say their neighbourhood is a model for urban development in a climate change-ravaged future.
"It's not what it was 20 or 25 years ago; the storms are getting bigger and bigger, and it's no surprise, because the warnings have all been there," Grande said. "I think Babcock Ranch's future has gotten even brighter."
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IN RESPONSE TO CRAZYHORSE
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Posted:Jul 17, 2022 7:52 am
Last Updated:Jul 18, 2022 4:04 am 4802 Views
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This blog is a copy-paste of a very small amount of information from a written report that was written by the men below. Those of you that follow politics are likely to recognize them. The complete report can be found using "lostnotstolen"
LOST, NOT STOLEN:
The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden
Won the 2020 Presidential Election
Senator John Danforth
Benjamin Ginsberg
The Honorable Thomas B. Griffith
David Hoppe
The Honorable J. Michael Luttig
The Honorable Michael W. McConnell
The Honorable Theodore B. Olson
Senator Gordon H. Smith
Introduction
We are political conservatives who have spent most of our adult lives working to support the Constitution and the conservative principles upon which it is based: limited government, liberty, equality of opportunity, freedom of religion, a strong national defense, and the rule of law.
We have become deeply troubled by efforts to overturn or discredit the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. There is no principle of our Republic more fundamental than the right of the People to elect our leaders and for their votes to be counted accurately. Efforts to thwart the People’s choice are deeply undemocratic and unpatriotic. Claims that an election was stolen, or that the outcome resulted from fraud, are deadly serious and should be made only on the basis of real and powerful evidence. If the American people lose trust that our elections are free and fair, we will lose our democracy. As Jonathan Haidt observed, “We just don’t know what a democracy looks like when you drain all the trust out of the system.” Paul Kelly, “Very Good Chance” Democracy Is Doomed in America, Says Haidt, AUSTRALIAN (July 20, 2019).
We therefore have undertaken an examination of every claim of fraud and miscount put forward by former President Trump and his advocates, and now put the results of those investigations before the American people, and especially before fellow conservatives who may be uncertain about what and whom to believe. Our conclusion is unequivocal: Joe Biden was the choice of a majority of the Electors, who themselves were the choice of the majority of voters in their states. Biden’s victory is easily explained by a political landscape that was much different in 2020 than it was when President Trump narrowly won the presidency in 2016. President Trump waged his campaign for re-election during a devastating worldwide pandemic that caused a severe downturn in the global economy. This, coupled with an electorate that included a small but statistically significant number willing to vote for other Republican candidates on the ballot but not for President Trump, are the reasons his campaign fell short, not a fraudulent election.
Donald Trump and his supporters have failed to present evidence of fraud or inaccurate results significant enough to invalidate the results of the 2020 Presidential Election. We do not claim that election administration is perfect. Election fraud is a real thing; there are prosecutions in almost every election year, and no doubt some election fraud goes undetected. Nor do we disparage attempts to reduce fraud. States should continue to do what they can do to eliminate opportunities for election fraud and to punish it when it occurs. But there is absolutely no evidence of fraud in the 2020 Presidential Election on the magnitude necessary to shift the result in any state, let alone the nation as a whole. In fact, there was no fraud that changed the outcome in even a single precinct. It is wrong, and bad for our country, for people to propagate baseless claims that President Biden’s election was not legitimate.
In the past 30 years, those tasked with administering our elections have helped create a modern election system in which we can and should have confidence. In all fifty states and at the national level there are transparent recount and election contest procedures designed to allow candidates to investigate and litigate claims of voter fraud and corruption. Those procedures have been tested in every presidential election since at least 2000 and have been found in every instance to be sound and reliable. The Trump Campaign and its supporters had full access to these remedies and used them in 64 proceedings in the states we examine, and in each instance, their claims of fraud and miscount failed. Our review of each of these Trump charges affirms that the 2020 election was administered by trained professionals who reaffirmed their established track record for fairness.
The performance of the system in 2020 was all the more remarkable because of the extraordinary circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, which precipitated changes on an unprecedented scope and timeline. Some of those changes may have created possibilities for fraud, but there is no evidence that those risks materialized in reality; nor did they result in dampening voter participation—quite the opposite. Nonetheless, moving forward, the states should redouble their efforts to strengthen the integrity of our voting systems and make it as easy to vote and as hard to cheat as possible for persons of every circumstance.
We urge our fellow conservatives to cease obsessing over the results of the 2020 election, and to focus instead on presenting candidates and ideas that offer a positive vision for overcoming our current difficulties and bringing greater peace, prosperity, and liberty to our nation.
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WHAT THEY DID FOR US
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Posted:Feb 6, 2022 8:01 am
Last Updated:Jun 6, 2022 3:50 pm 6437 Views
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The Ritchie Boys consisted of approximately ,200 servicemen who were trained for U.S. Army Intelligence during WWII at the secret Camp Ritchie training facility. Approximately %, or 2,200, of them were Jewish refugees born in Germany and Austria. Most of the men sent to Camp Ritchie for training were assigned there because of fluency in German, French, Italian, Polish, or other languages needed by the US Army during WWII. They had been drafted into or volunteered to join the United States Army and when their ability to speak the language of an enemy was discovered, they were sent to Camp Ritchie on secret orders. Some of the Jewish refugees who were part of this program had originally arrived in the US as , many without their parents, and were also among the Thousand . You will recognize many of them. There was Ambassador Richard Schifter, Archibald Roosevelt Jr, J.D. Salinger and Robert Rodenberg, founder of the Baltimore Colts. Notable instructors at Camp Ritchie included Rex Applegate] and professional wrestler Man Mountain Dean.
They were trained at the Military Intelligence Training Center at Camp Ritchie in Maryland, later officially known as Fort Ritchie, and closed in 98 under the 95 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. They were specially trained in methods of intelligence, counterintelligence, interrogation, investigation and psychological warfare. (900 of these men also attended special training at Camp Sharpe, Pennsylvania.) The Jewish refugees were qualified for these tasks because they knew the German language and understood the German mentality and behavior better than most American-born soldiers. The role of these soldiers was therefore to work in the front lines, at strategic corps and army levels, at interrogation, analyzing German forces and plans, and also to study and demoralize the enemy. The majority of them went on to work as members of the US Counter Intelligence Corps.
After the German declaration of war against the United States on Dec , 41, the Ritchie Boys became an important weapon for the Allies. Many of them entered Europe on D-Day, 6 June 44. Others followed over time. Shortly after reaching land, they left their units and pursued their special tasks. They were able to feed the Allies valuable information. Gen. Oscar Koch (Gen. Patton's G-2) acknowledged that the advance warning of the German Bulge offensive was made possible by information gathered by their MIS units. Moreover, the Ritchie Boys helped break German resistance by demoralizing them in both open and covert operations. They interrogated POWs and defectors to obtain information about German force levels, troop movements, and the physical and psychological state of the Germans. A common interrogation tactic was to use the Germans' fear of transfer into Soviet custody. By means of targeted disinformation via newspaper announcements, flyers, radio broadcasts, and sound trucks, the German population and military were encouraged to cease their resistance to the Allied invasion.
A classified postwar report by the U.S. Army found that nearly 60 percent of the credible intelligence gathered in Europe came from the Ritchie Boys.
After the war, many of the Ritchie Boys served as translators and interrogators, some during the Nuremberg Trials. Many of them went on to successful political, scientific, or business careers.
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A LITTLE FAITH
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Posted:Dec 28, 2021 8:21 am
Last Updated:Jan 9, 2022 11:25 pm 6603 Views
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HAVE FAITH IN THE PFIZER VACCINE
DON'T FORGET THEY MAKE VIAGRA
IF THEY CAN RAISE THE DEAD ...
THEY CAN SAVE THE LIVING
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NEXT LIFE I AM GONNA BE A BEAR
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Posted:Nov 26, 2021 11:02 am
Last Updated:Dec 28, 2021 8:28 am 6692 Views
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In this life, I’m a woman. In my next life, I’d like to come back as a bear. When you’re a bear, you get to hibernate. You do nothing but sleep for six months. I could deal with that.
Before you hibernate, you’re supposed to eat yourself stupid. I could deal with that too.
When you’re a girl bear, you birth your (who are the size of walnuts) while you’re sleeping and wake to partially grown, cute, cuddly cubs. I could definitely deal with that.
If you’re mama bear, everyone knows you mean business. You swat anyone who bothers your cubs. If your cubs get out of line, you swat them too. I could deal with that.
If you’re a bear, your mate EXPECTS you to wake up growling. He EXPECTS that you will have hairy legs and excess body fat.
Yup, gonna be a bear!
Author Unknown]
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THE DOCTOR'S ADVICE
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Posted:Aug 23, 2021 4:08 pm
Last Updated:Jan 9, 2022 11:24 pm 7097 Views
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One Dr, claims the vaccine is fake and he falls for it hook, line and sinker. QUACK QUACK.
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A NEW THERAPUTIC FOR COVID
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Posted:Aug 21, 2021 7:47 am
Last Updated:Aug 23, 2021 11:41 am 6949 Views
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It seems that the anti-vaccers have discovered a new therapy for Covid. The drug is Ivermectin and is used to deworm horses. Much to no one's surprise Fox news is pushing this medication as an end-all-be-all cure. You can also overdose on Ivermectin, which can cause nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, hypotension (low blood pressure), allergic reactions (itching and hives), dizziness, ataxia (problems with balance), seizures, coma, and even death.
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