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05.07.25 - 20:30
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"The Struggle To Get ′Normal′ Again Is Epic... And Harsh..." (ZeroHedge)
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"The Struggle To Get 'Normal' Again Is Epic... And Harsh..."
Authored by James Howard Kunstler,
"I can negotiate with a man who wants to make money. I can't negotiate with a communist who wants to kill me."
- Josh Lippincott on "X"
O, Norman Rockwell, where are you when we really need you?
Forgive us, Emma Lazarus, our second thoughts about those huddled masses yearning to breathe free. . . the wretched refuse of your teeming shore(s).
That was then and this is now. O, beautiful for spacious skies (but, why so many contrails criss-crossing overhead from the New York Island to the gulf stream waters?).
O, land of tattooed grandmas, hostages of the tiny screens, the sexually confounded, the illiterate and innumerate, the lawless and the feckless, brainwashed youth marinated in Marx, the deranged, befuddled, the bought-off, the bug-eyed and bewildered, the lame, the halt, the addicts, grifters, hustlers, porn-stars, drugstore cowboys, alpha dogs, beta boys, shri...
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05.07.25 - 13:18
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Summer without cherry pie? Michigan′s signature crop faces battery of threats (The Guardian)
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Climate change, development, labor shortages and tariffs are making life the pits for the state's cherry farmersNearly 100 years ago, north-west Michigan cherry farmers and Traverse City community leaders started a festival to promote the city and their region's tart cherry crop as a tourist destination.Now known as the “cherry capital of the world”, Traverse City's National Cherry Festival draws 500,000 visitors over eight days to this picturesque Lake Michigan beach town to enjoy carnival rides and airshows, and to eat cherries. It also sparked a thriving agrotourism industry amid its rolling hills that now boasts dozens of shops, wineries, U-pick orchards, and farm-to-table restaurants helmed by James Beard-award-winning chefs. Continue reading......
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