Inflation and shipping

Our household orders wine online, often from a California-based company.  The other day, the company e-mailed all their customers to give a heads-up on price increases.  Below are the costs associated with the price hikes experienced since 2020, and thus far, it's not showing increases to the costs of growing or processing the actual grapes.  

Warehousing       á 18% 

Staffing                á 15%

Shipping and Materials     á 20%

Trucking                á 25%

Delivery Carriers    á 20%

If vineyards are further impacted by increases in, say, fertilizer or irrigation, the prices will go up some more.   

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Trump’s endorsement of Dr Mehmet Oz

 

Last weekend, when President Trump announced his endorsement of Dr. Mehmet Oz’s campaign in the Pennsylvania race for Senator, the conservative world gasped in shock.  Had Trump made a really bad call?  On Townhall, John and Andy Schlafly (sons of the late great Phyllis Schlafly), explain why Trump’s endorsement is sheer “wizardry” -- and one does have to dive into the local politics to understand:

Pro-China Dave McCormick currently holds a narrow lead in the polls for the open U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania. . . . As Philadelphia just became the first major city to reinstate a mask-wearing requirement indoors, McCormick’s deep ties to the communist country that brought us Covid are unhelpful. 

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His rival, Dr. Mehmet Oz, spoke out strongly against mask and vaccine mandates last year, and two years ago Oz helped save lives by promoting hydroxychloroquine. Dr. Oz received a backlash from liberal public health authorities but courageously spoke the truth they suppressed.

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Dr. Oz is almost alone among physician politicians opposing Fauci’s fake science. Last December, Dr. Oz stated that “Dr. Anthony Fauci has lost the faith and confidence of the American people.”

The column closes with:

Trump further overcame his critics [at the recent North Carolina rally] by inviting 26-year-old Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) onto the stage after the Republican Establishment shunned and tried to defeat him for his blunt criticisms. Rep. Cawthorn nearly stole the show with his inspiring words that concluded with his standing up from his wheelchair.

“We have so many in the national party who believe that the key to saving our nation is cheapening our platform and going after these non-existent middle-ground voters,” Cawthorn declared. “My friend, there is no middle ground with Marxists.”

The full column is here.  And especially for those who were not happy with President Trump's reliance on Faux Fauci and the the Scarf Lady Deborah Birx, the Oz endorsement provides a counterweight. 

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You can't make this up

 As Sundance reported:

During Speech to Blame Vladimir Putin for Massive Inflation, 

Bird Poops on Joe Biden

It's only 12 seconds long.  I blame Trump. 

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If there is risk, there must be choice

 

Dr. Robert Malone, scientist and inventor of the mRNA technology used in the COVID injections, continues to sound the alarm about the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) plan for “global fascism” – using the manufactured COVID crisis to do so. Here is part of the speech he just gave in the Not-so-Golden State, published at Substack:

I was born in Palo Alto, raised in Goleta California, but when I return to my birth state I hardly recognize it.  What has happened to the open, freedom loving society of my youth?  Why has free speech become vilified, and why does the Los Angeles Times feel the need to label people Nazis without any evidence?  Do they forget that the Nazis came to power as a left-wing party, and that the hallmark of their rise was aggressive use of censorship, propaganda, and Mass Formation Psychosis to control people?

I donated to the Obama and Biden campaigns – which I now regret.  What I have seen over the last two years, particularly here in California under World Economic Forum-trained Governor Gavin Newsome cannot be unseen.  Now the Uniparty wants to push him for President. He must be stopped before he and his party can expand their totalitarian mandates and laws.  There is no medical emergency.  There is no justification for these laws that the California Democratic party and their WEF allies want impose on us.

This is my truth, and I believe it is self-evident.

We should not have politicized the public health response to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19, but here we are.  That is what has been done by the followers of the World Economic Forum party line. 

Regarding the genetic COVID vaccines, the science is settled.

They are not working to prevent infection, replication, and spread of Omicron, and they are not completely safe. 

These vaccines were designed for a different virus, the Wuhan strain. Whether they made sense for protecting our elderly and frail from the original virus is irrelevant.  So let’s stop arguing about that. We must look forward. 

These genetic vaccines do not prevent Omicron infection, viral replication, or spread to others.  In our daily lives, with our friends, with our families, we all know that this is true. Data from all over the world indicates that the triple vaccina  may be at increased risk for infection, disease and death from Omicron.

These genetic treatments are leaky, have poor durability, and even if every man, woman, and child in the United States were vaccinated, these treatments cannot achieve herd immunity and stop COVID. They are not completely safe, and the full nature of the risks remain unknown.  In contrast, the natural immunity which healthy immune systems develop after infection and recovery from COVID is long lasting, broad, and highly protective from disease and death caused by this virus. . . .

More here.  And of course, Dr Malone is constantly vilified.  

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Trump rally tonight at 7pm UPDATED

Saturday, April 9:  President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak at 7pm (ET) at a “Save America” rally tonight in Selma, NC. Here’s a link to Right Side Broadcasting Network on Rumble:

https://rumble.com/vi1or5-rsbn-live.html

Will add additional links when Conservative Treehouse posts later today.

UPDATE:  More links at Conservative Treehouse here.

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Incompetence or deliberate destruction?

 

Brian Lonergan at American Greatness points out the distinction between rank incompetence and deliberate destruction.  He cites the illegal immigration crisis at our southern border to make his case. Here’s a short extract:

. . . The tone was set even before January 20, 2021. In Democratic primaries the year before, candidate Joe Biden openly urged foreign nationals to “surge the border” if he were elected. This was followed by a blitz of executive orders on his first day in office. Many of the Trump border policies were ended, including those opposing sanctuary policies, preventing illegal aliens from being counted in the census, and authorizing construction of the border wall.

Did any of those Biden executive orders make things better for Americans living in America? Of course not. They only helped foreign nationals and extremist anti-borders groups with an agenda to weaken the United States. You, the anonymous, hard-working, taxpaying American citizen or legal resident, get to suffer the consequences.

The noxious tentacles of these policies are so long and intricate, it would take volumes to document and untangle all of them. The outcomes include more violent crime in the United States interior, death and suffering among those making the dangerous journey through Mexico, and a seemingly endless flow of people crossing our border about whom we know virtually nothing related to their backgrounds or intentions. What leader of a nation would allow this, much less intentionally cause it?

His brutal conclusion:

This is not incompetence; it is sabotage.

Read the rest here.

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Fun facts about Fertilizer

 

Michael Snyder has more on that always-popular subject: fertilizer.  It’s more important than one might think:

I never imagined that I would be writing so much about fertilizer in 2022.  When I was growing up, there were only two things that I knew about fertilizer.  I knew that it helped stuff grow and I knew that it smelled bad.  But these days, experts are telling us that a global shortage of fertilizer could result in horrifying famines all over the world.  Right now, to a very large degree we are still eating food that was produced in 2021.  But by the end of the year, to a very large degree we will be eating food that was produced in 2022.  Unfortunately for all of us, it appears that a lack of fertilizer will mean that far less food is grown in 2022 than originally anticipated.

Thanks to an unprecedented explosion in energy prices, we were already facing a fertilizer crisis even before the war in Ukraine, but now that war has definitely taken things to the next level.

Under normal conditions, a great deal of the world’s fertilizer comes from either Russia, Belarus or Ukraine…

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We have never seen anything like this before.

Read the rest here.  He recommends stocking up on groceries before prices go through the roof.  JD Rucker (one of my favorite bloggers) has gone from mocking so-called “preppers” to becoming one himself.  His story is here. (He posts transcripts of his podcasts, so you can listen or read.)

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