I can’t believe this is real, but it is:

From the trade magazine, Dairy Heard Management:

Dear Starbucks, I Think You’re Confused

I’m exhausted. Not only am I tired of large chains and celebrities pointing fingers at agriculture to reduce Green House Gasses (GHGs). I’m tired because there’s a spunky, independent and wildly determined two-year-old at my house. What’s worse, I can’t run to town to get a Starbucks. That’s because the coffee giant recently announced they’ll be encouraging customers to turn away from dairy and toward plant-based beverages in an effort to reduce their carbon footprint.

Is this a joke?  Starbucks is going to shame me into ordering my very rare Starbucks coffee with soy milk instead of actual milk from a mammal?

That isn’t going to go well for them at all.

According to Bloomberg, the milk used by Starbucks accounts for just 0.3% of U.S. milk production. However, the decision to formally denounce dairy and declare an emphasis on non-dairy options may encourage other food-service outlets to follow suit.

Starbucks is going to annoy it’s customers and offer a less tasty coffee to reduce the carbon footprint of just 0.3% of US milk production.

What is Starbucks missing here? Well, a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations estimates global GHG emissions from the dairy industry totaled 1,712 million metric tons of CO₂ equivalent, or about 3% of total world emissions, in 2015.

So all dairy emissions are about 3% of world greenhouse gases.

Now let me reference some research I did in a previous post about how much of a dumbass Andrew Yang was for attacking the beef industry over CO2.

Let us crunch some numbers. The US is responsible for less than 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions. Only 9% of US greenhouse gasses come from agriculture, and only 42% of all agriculture emissions come from animal agriculture.

Put that all together and 42% of 9% of 15% is 0.57%. Less than six-tenths of one percent of global greenhouse gases come from all US animal agriculture. Being generous, let’s say that beef is half of US animal agriculture, which is three-tenths of one percent of global greenhouse gases.

If we make the assumption that the agricultural output of greenhouse gasses is proportional around the world than 15% of the 3% of dairy emissions are ours, so 0.45% of dairy greenhouse gases belong to the US.

If Starbucks uses only American milk in US stores (and there is no reason to assume it doesn’t), then Starbucks milk is responsible for 0.135% of greenhouse gas production.

Starbucks could offset that in so many other ways than ruining their overpriced coffee.

Dear Starbucks, I think you’re confused. I’m not sure how a company that sources its coffee from Asia and always has a drive through line 10 cars deep is going to reduce its carbon footprint by cutting milk, which on average travels less than 100 miles from cow to refrigerator.

That’s the truth.

I would put even money on the carbon footprint of the ice in an iced coffee being larger than the carbon footprint of the milk.

I could almost guarantee that the generation of high-pressure steam to foam the milk has a higher carbon footprint than the milk itself.

And what is the carbon footprint of making a single shot of espresso?  Using all those ground only one time to get the extra strong coffee.

If Starbucks is really worried about its carbon footprint that much, it should shut itself down.

Who really needs to pay $6 for one cup of coffee in a plastic-lined cup with a plastic lid and plastic stirrer when the future of the planet is at stake?

Turning Starbucks into public restrooms didn’t destroy the business fast enough.  I guess shaming customers in making their coffee worse will accelerate that.

It screamed for a lampooning and I had to answer.

I was asked to give my thoughts about who to vote for. I think I might have mentioned one or two candidates in the past a couple of times, but this year is all up to you.

I reckon most of the NRA haters of late are no longer part of the organization and their opinion is worth spit (and more than likely, they were not members for a long time anyway) so those remaining need to use their brain and not their meme-filled emotions to decide who to vote for.

A lot of damage has been done to the NRA thanks to Bloomberg and with the direct support of Useful Idiots within the Gun Community.  People that are still outraged about the italian suits, have not elevated one single solitary peep of complain on how to or who gave The Trace the NRA’s internal documentation. As far as I know, we still have at least one spy or turncoat within the organization, likely paid by the Billionaire that Hates You and people are still bitching about private plane rides.

If you are gonna vote, do so with pragmatism. Understand that the NRA is still you biggest caliber in the gun safe and that political maneuvering is not a sign of weakness or quitting but strategy.  It is hard to it down with a legislator and convince him/her that the vote must go our way or at least not to vote against it and that screaming NO COMPROMISE at their faces is the fastest way for them to shut down and vote against us.

Politics is a game of seducing, not screaming and raping.

So basically, think hard and vote as you feel it will be helpful to the Second Amendment, not from the feels of a Chest Thumping meme.

I have never heard of Joseph Sakran before.  Apparently he’s a Trauma Surgeon at Johns Hopkins and an anti-gun activist.

So what, Progressive doctors who pretend to be authorities over all matters because they have an MD next to their name, while really being partisan hacks, are a dime a dozen.

Yes, you know more than I about how to treat a gunshot wound, and you have treated a lot more than me.  But just because you deal with a lot of gunshot victims in Baltimore, who are overwhelmingly gang members and prior criminals shooting each other over drugs, doesn’t make you an expert on gun laws or crime prevention policy.

But I digress…

Dr. Sakran decided he wasn’t being paid attention to enough or something and decided to pull a Jussie Smollett, or perhaps a David Hogg.

He Tweeted this:

Then he went into a long thread about how he’s a victim and will not take this lying down, blah, blah, blah… (unrolled for easy reading)

Now for those who don’t know me, let me give you some background:

1. Son of Immigrant Parents
2. Nearly Killed at 17 after being shot in the throat
3. Inspired to become a Trauma Surgeon.
4. Have been working on #GunViolence prevention
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5. Proud to partner with so many wonderful groups @bradybuzz @GiffordsCourage @ACSTrauma @ThisIsOurLane @AMarch4OurLives @MomsDemand @Everytown @NewtownAction @sandyhook @Ribbons4Jaime @GunsDownAmerica & others!

6. Currently working on Capitol Hill in Health Policy space.
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The patients I’ve cared for and the families/loved ones continue to be my source of inspiration as to why I wake up and work tirelessly on this issue every morning.

My dear friends within movement (too many to mention) continue to guide me in right direction.
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I’ve discussed this emotionally charged topic in a way that continues to build on the commonality that unites us as Americans.

Having spoken across the country including cities like Waco, Kansas City. I can tell you that we have more in common than we have that divides us.
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Having this death threat on my car is so disturbing for many reasons but most importantly because my family and loved ones have been through so much during my near fatal injury that it’s hard to imagine putting them through anything else.
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Recently we celebrated the life of #MLK. As I re-listened to some of his speeches. The one that specifically stood out was:

“I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!”
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We have the opportunity and the responsibility to make communities safer for Americans.

For the person who thought they could Silence me by threatening my life, you clearly know nothing about me…..Thank You for showing me that our movement is making a difference.
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What utter horseshit.

Welcome to 2020, where being the son of immigrants makes you a victim because Trump, or some shit.  Spare me.

What is important to note is one tiny detail in one of the pictures he posted:

See it?  The reflection in the windshield to the left of the picture.  That’s the attic access door from a residential garage.

Did he drive all the way home with this under his windshield wiper?

Did the nutjobs threatening him sneak into his garage and put it there?

Or did he print it out at home and put it under his windshield?

Occam’s Razor and the Principle of Parsimony suggest number three.

I guess he needed some victim credit that he wasn’t getting from being a rich doctor at one of the most prestigious hospitals in the world.

You’d think a guy that smart would come up with a better hoax.

It doesn’t really matter.  Anybody who wants to believe gun rights activists are threatening doctors with death won’t question this.  Anybody who does is will be written off as a bigot and an unhinged ammosexual who needs to have his guns taken away.

Reading a very informative article by Greg Elifritz on the Best Tourniquets, I saw this simple graphic that explains what to use when in case of blood loss.

The image comes from a Homeland Security paper: First Responder Guide for Improving Survivability in Improvised Explosive Device and or Active Shooter Incidents

A seven-year-old Palestinian boy, Qais Abu Ramila, fell into a rainwater collection basin and drowned in Israel.

Immediately, and without evidence Palestinian activists accused Israelis of kidnapping and murdering the boy by drowning him in a well.  Either drowning children in wells or poisoning wells are a common ancient anti-Semitic blood libels.

Again, without evidence or any other details, United States Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib retweeted this blood libel by a Palestinian activist.

That a sitting Democrat Congresswoman is out spreading a blood libel from unverified sources, inciting hatred towards Israel is really just another day that ends in “y” for the Progressive party.  Of course, the mainstream media isn’t going to cover this because it makes a Democrat look bad and the Trump impeachment Senate hearing is in full swing.

I’m just adding this to the growing mountain of evidence why the Jews need to walk away from the Democrats and into gun stores.