Readings for March 20, 2023
- 👨🏼🌾 “Foreign ownership of agricultural land threatens small family farms and the overall health of the agricultural supply chain” 🔗 - I’m not going to argue whether foreign ownership of farmland is good or bad, because that topic is beyond my expertise. But to claim doing so is to protect small family farms? Puhleeze. The real threat to the small family farm is corporate farming, and little the government does impedes on their increasing monopolization of the ag industry.
- 🏛️⚖️ House GOP targets Manhattan DA as possible Trump indictment looms 🔗 - Seems the chair of the Weaponisation of the Federal Government subcommittee would like to engage in a little weaponisation of the federal government. Wonder if he’ll be investigating himself? I’m going to guess not…
- 🏎️ Fake tags are a real problem 🔗 - In yet another example of a bad behavior going unchecked, this sort of thing continues because there is no real downside to flouting the law. It’s not like missing a speed limit sign and inadvertently getting a speeding ticket; one is fully aware they are breaking the law hanging a fake tag on their vehicle. Make the punishment something substantial - say, the forfeiture of the vehicle with the fake tag - and this idiocy stops.
- 🇮🇱🇵🇸 Israel soars to 4th place in global happiness list, highest since ranking started 🔗 - This ranking had me scratching my head until I read beyond the headline to see that they just utterly disregarded 1/5th of their population as citizens. The Palestinian Authority, with their happiness ranking of 99th (honestly, pretty generous for those suffering under an apartheid state), isn’t a nation any more than Black South Africa was a separate nation.