Guest Post by Simon Black
Each Friday we highlight a number of important, and often bizarre stories from around the world that my team and I are closely following:
1. Washington State will allow human body composting
It doesn’t get much greener than this.
Staking his presidential run on climate change, the Governor of Washington is set to sign a bill legalizing composting of deceased humans.
An especially high percentage of the deceased in Washington are cremated, so this alternative will cut down on carbon emissions.
Instead, family members can pay around $5,500 to turn their loved ones into compost, and use the composted-remains to plant a tree.
Hell, why not throw it right into the vegetable garden. Then your loved ones become a part of you.
Friendly reminder though, soylent green is people.
Click here to read the full story.
2. Satanic Temple gets tax-exempt status
Surely a sign that the end times are nigh, the Satanic Temple has successfully gained tax exempt status like any other religion.
The thing is, they aren’t really all about worshipping Satan.
The church was founded as a bit of a joke. The group is meant to protest the meddling of government and religion.
For instance, if government functions start with a prayer, they want to open with a prayer to Satan. And if a courthouse lawn has a ten commandments statue, they want Lucifer spreading his wings right there beside it.
And now they have forced the government to recognize them as a religion, with all the tax exemptions that come with it.
Click here to read the full story.
3. Laying the groundwork for conscientious objection to taxes
Speaking of interesting tactics to avoid taxes…
Last year a man who refused to pay taxes since 1997 had his case dismissed by a federal court.
He refused to pay because some tax dollars fund abortions which he morally objects to.
But the reason his case got dismissed had nothing to do with that.
The government couldn’t prove he evaded taxes, because he never tried to hide it.
He was very open about why he wouldn’t pay taxes. That’s not evasion, that’s just refusal.
And when the IRS started garnishing his wages, the man simply cashed his work checks, and kept a low balance in his bank account. The court said not everything that makes collection harder is evasion, including simply cashing checks.
The man does still face misdemeanor charges for willful refusal to file tax returns.
I still prefer the legal ways of reducing my taxes, that won’t have be hauled in front of a judge.
Click here to read the full story.
4. Elizabeth Warren proposes canceling student loan debt, making college free
Desperate for attention in her 2020 bid for President, Senator Elizabeth Warren continues to roll out the most “progressive” policy proposals among the candidates.
She’s already proposed a wealth tax, jailing CEOs for civil crimes, and breaking up any large corporation she can get her hands on.
Now she wants to forgive almost all of the $1.5 TRILLION worth of student loan debt.
However you won’t be receiving any relief if you live in a household with income over $250,000 per year.
Since the United States government owns 90% of student loan debt, this just means that the taxpayers will be on the hook for all those wonderful underwater-basket-weaving and gender studies degrees.
Warren also proposed making college free. Because the government has done such a great job educating the youth in public schools…
Click here to read the full story.
5. Colorado becomes 15th state to approve gun confiscation
Beyond a reasonable doubt is the standard for criminal convictions. Only then can you be deprived of life, liberty, and property.
But all it takes under Colorado’s new red flag-laws to take your guns away is a preponderance of evidence.
And that weak standard of evidence doesn’t even have to apply to a crime.
The evidence just has to suggest that a person “poses a significant risk of causing personal risk to self or others in the near future.”
For a statute that can strip you of your rights, that’s pretty vague and arbitrary.
If a family member or former roommate testifies that you are a risk to yourself or others, the courts can confiscate your guns with an Extreme Risk Protective Order (ERPO).
After two weeks, the “suspect” (if you can even call them that, since they aren’t suspected of a crime) has a chance to prove his innocence in court. In other words, you are presumed guilty until you spend your own money to prove your innocence. Otherwise the ERPO can be extended for a full year.
And the same standard of proof can be used by the accuser to extend the ERPO year after year.
So forget due process. The whims of the cops and judges can strip you of your right to protect yourself.
Click here to read the full story.
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Scientifically and ethically and morally there is nothing wrong with composting human remains. Just the thought of fertilizing HSF farm with that compost broke my Creep o Meter.
Nature can do it for free BUT if you want to compost a loved one it will set you back just $5,500. It’s all about the Benjamins.
Countless people do it already. They just bury old grandpa in the backyard and collect the social security checks.
It’s been working great since my Aunt moved in, back in 1988. 17 years now, of free money. I’ll soon be double dipping. Her husband can’t remember a thing anymore and his liver is shot. Woo-Hoo! Just remember to go looking for and pick up the teeth after about a month.
My mom wanted to be cremated and she was for only $895 – direct cremation, the way to go. The same folks can arrange a “Green Burial” (no casket, no embalming, mother nature takes care of everything), for $1895.
Indeed, its all about the Benjamins with this $5500 price tag.
And when I think about composting, I think about machinery turning the pile every so often to keep down the heat and increase oxygenation and moisture. I actually found a couple of cow composting videos on YouTube but thought that I would save everyone the horror.
I got a few I’d like to compost…
That’s shredded bark mulch.
I’ve composted dead livestock before, leaves the bones behind and that’s it.
Waste of good meat. Feed ’em to the hogs at Police HQ’s in sanctuary cities.
Maybe I’m looking at it differently but there are a few ladies I would definitely munch on but they gots to alive.
General ,That’s a good idea . I will talk it over with my mom. Hey Mom when you die can I bury you in the back yard so I can keep collecting your social security checks?
I’ve been curious, since I read Heinlein’s “Stanger in a Strange Land” as a lad, about human flesh. It’s central character grew up on Mars, with Martians, and returned home with the custom of eating the deceased in a ceremonial dinner.
We are, after all, the closest primate to pigs in terms of organ compatibility. I suspect you have tasty ribs if you died young and pretty.
Not to beat a dead Washit1stcorpse, but I wouldn’t be interested otherwise.
Well, there’s the issue of Kuru and prion disease with human flesh consumption. I prefer the concept of just tossing the departed out in the back pasture and letting the critters do their job. A hog can go thru your average human in about an hour or less, depending on hog size and human size. Lots of feral hogs around here.
You could go all Parsee and the Towers of Silence, let the buzzards feast or, carry it one step further, like in Tibet where the body is chopped up, bones mixed with yak butter and then offered to the birds.
I told some friends that I wanted a Viking burial, wooden ship, favorite slave and pets all set on fire and cast adrift. there’d be a chorus on the shore all singing ‘uh uh huh, uh uh huh’ in a mournful dirge while flaming arrows were shot into the night sky.
There’s a lake not too far from here, imagine the folks who live around there would be thrilled.
I could also get cremated and have my ashes sprinkled out of the Goodyear blimp and onto the spectators at a Super Bowl. I’d be happy knowing that my ashes were sprinkled on the folks and they’d be part of me and not know it except for wondering what all that white stuff was.
BREAKING: Washington State Human Composting Plan Deemed Wasteful. New Recycling Approach Under Study
There’s some meat I wouldn’t mind yankin’ off a bone and the drippins sure would make good gravy.
It even comes with a flossing strip.
GCP, would you please say grace so we can all tuck in?
You can do it, GCP! Come on, pretend it’s the Playboy bunny, I mean, Easter bunny.
No?
Let MEEEEE!
“Dear Lord, Thank you for sharing your scrumpadelic blessings, for weber grills, and friends to picnic with. Please guide us, those who turn to you without a rotisserie, in knowing when to turn her over. May her bountiful backside be juicy and tender, and her cherry bosoms toasted, but not burnt, For thine is the Mesquite Kingdom, and nobody grills better. Amen
You seem to really get off in provoking GCP.
All I can say is …….. keep it up! You are doing Da Lawd’s work.
I like arm wrestling with GCP over matters open to interpretation
GCP requires no provocation to wrestle me in debate, or to make extra efforts to frame our subject with scripture. We’re both sure neither will pin the other.
Certainly people other than GCP are provoked by the way I approach him. Their problem.
We all do the Lord’s work (some don’t know it yet), but I doubt I’ll enlist in his army.
Ever see the movie “Pet Cemetery” ?
Why do I have to pay $5500 for what nature will do in a couple weeks for free?
Because the average cost of a funeral in WA is around $7700 so they figure you will happily pay $5500 for their $500 service.
And best of all, you can take grandpa home in a couple of big plastic bags to spread over the cannabis patch out back.
I have one of those backyard compost contraptions that has an door on the top and a crank on the side to get the compost process working.
Thinking like a good old fashioned entrepreneur: the opening for adding the materials is going to have to be much larger and the crank will need to have power assist the way morbidly obese Murikans are easily pushing 300-400 lbs. I’m also thinking I-beam steel suspension for the container, not the spindly aluminum legs that holds the darn think up as of now.
So here’s the pitch:
Return your family to the welcoming bosom of Mother Nature!
Get your own new and approved “Homesteader Family Compost Kit” for your dear departed kinfolk. Works like magic , and you will be helping save the environment.
Better compost for better vegetable gardens; just like Aunt Janie would have liked.
And don’t forget the Homesteader Family Compost Kit is also great to use for your beloved pets.
Just $3000.00 (FOB Seattle), ensures that generations of your family can enrich the family stomping grounds and also the whole neighborhood for eternity. Lay-away plans are conveniently available while you keep your uncle Jimmy on ice.
FDA and State approved for all corpses. Use only as directed.
(Now who might be the perfect celebrity porte-parole for this product?)