12 thoughts on “Our Alleged President”

  1. Don’t know what we can do to stop them. As said the House can impeach Biden/Garland all it wants it will die in the Senate. As far as Biden’s family (especially Hunter) is concerned they won’t flip on Biden senior. No matter what evidence is presented. They could simply ignore the subpoena or refuse to answer any questions they don’t like. Even if charged with contempt of Congress it won’t go anywhere. Worst case scenario Biden could simply pardon them after the ’24 election (even if he lost). They will railroad Trump; (think the motive for “more charges to be filed” by Jack Smith is insurance in case the Florida judge dismisses). Little chance a DC or NY judge will dismiss not matter how many illegal “leaks” or other assorted “irregularities” occur from the prosecution. Even if conviction(s) is thrown out on appeal by SCOTUS that would be years down the line.

  2. Despite being an attorney, Kurt is a Cav trooper…so I’m sure that his platforms will not allow him to say what he really thinks

    1. Despite being an attorney, Kurt is a Cav trooper
      Who loves the smell of Napalm in the morning?
      Never had to work with that. Not even gelled diesel in the wintertime fortunately. There was stuff used in Vietnam that came close to what I worked with growing up on a farm: 2,4-D, instead of 2,4,5-T (aka Fortex and you-know-what), Furdan, Paraquat and Paramitol + diesel fuel for weed control, Malathion and Chlordane for bugs and lots and lots of Atrazine. We bought our pesticides by the 5 gallon can and had sheds full of them. My small town let my dad use one of the fire hydrants to fill his 500 gallon sprayer tank. He paid them back by the gallon of water used. I used to play “Walk Don’t Run” by The Ventures on the tractor radio when spraying our fields. Those were the days eh Doc?

  3. What did you use Malathion or Chlordane for?

    Chlordane has been banned, but Malathion is considered reasonably safe as far as the organophosphates, i.e. nerve gas-adjacent insecticides go.

    Malathion is considered weak tea against apple pests. The go-to agent for the orchard is the organophosphate Imidan. Malathion can still be purchased for the backyard apple tree whereas Imidan is labeled and sold for commercial and farm use only.

    I belong to a backyard fruit growning club out of Chicago, and I remember someone in the group who “broke down a key” of Imidan from the bed of his pickup, selling the white powder in baggies.

    I believe the go-to agent to control corn pests these days is the neonicotinoid Imidacloprid. Don’t get me started on the hysteria surrounding the relatively human-safe neonicotinoid agents. There isn’t anything effective on fruit pests that can be purchased for a backyard orchard anymore.

    1. Chlordane: Powder post beetles and evergreen bagworms.

      Malathion: Grasshoppers/locusts. Used once to kill off locusts killing off a soybean field.

      Normally we didn’t use insecticides (hardly at all) as much as herbicides.

      Generally good luck with Treflan + Atrazine on soybeans, and 2,4-D on corn. Everyone has moved on since then. I believe most farmers use mostly GMO’d Roundup resistant soybeans these days. Nobody cultivates anymore, they drill in the beans solid instead of row crop. The fields look terrible, almost like an untilled/unmowed pasture until late in the season when the RoundUp sprayer with balloon tires run over the fields and kill off everything but the soybeans.

      We tried Vernam one year for soybean weed control but discovered that in thin (timber) soil it was very sensitive to application rate, esp. at the cotyledon stage of the plant. Killed them deader than a door-nail post-emergence. We got burn patches in a soybean field so bad that we had to re-plant. Never used it again.

      2. Sure you don’t have this switched?

        I always heard about atrazine in connection with preventing anything from growing apart from corn. 2,4-D is a broadleaf weed killer used on lawns, which sounds like it would kill corn?

        1. Nope corn is a narrow leaf like grass only bigger. Pull over next to a corn field out your way and look closely at its leaf structure. So 2,4-D is fine for corn.
          Atrazine was only applied pre-emergence and at a carefully controlled rate to kill early broadleaf development and then it effectively dissipates after a few rains to allow the beans to grow post emergence. With herbicides, timing is everything. We used it to control cocklebur. That viney weed would grow in the row making it immune to cultivation and strangle the bean plants. If you had an infestation the only way to get rid of it post emergence was to weed it out by hand. Well, back then. Before GMO crops.

          Back to the OP, it’s too bad we can’t GMO our politicians so that by simply spraying them we could separate the cash crops from the weeds.

          1. Sounds like Fractured Adult Sunday School.

            The master sowed beans in a field. But an evil-doer sowed cockle in the same field. Both the beans and the cockles sprouted.

            The servants asked the master, “Shall we walk the rows of beans and pull the cockle by hand?” The master said, “No, these beans are Roundup Ready. I shall take the herbicide sprayer, and the cockle will turn yellow and wither in two weeks time.”

          2. I did a little more research. Yeah you were right. Atrazine on corn (Aatrex brand) I think we mixed it with something called Lasso for corn.

          3. If there were ever a cocklebur court. I’d be hauled in, even at this age. There is no statute of limitations on the amounts I killed.

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