Episode 204 – Polycrisis

Even meat off the shelf is processed. Know your local farmer. Food is medicine.
A great informative podcast episode to listen to on this is Ranching Reboot – #58 Food is Medicine with Jeff Davis MD.
If you have Spotify, here’s the link (also on any other podcast app): https://open.spotify.com/episode/6jBgecAxysqWCa4UoPNglM?si=AypO8LbQRIW18YXhvUgBPA

Texas’s property tax rate is insane, but you guys have had crazy property value inflation up there in Utah that have your tax payments increased a bit more than most areas of the country.

Good ole Abe Lincolns gave us the first taste of income tax. It was supposed to be temporary, of course, for the war, but it stayed around until 1871 when finally repealed. Then they tried again in the 1890s, but SCOTUS got involved.

Reagan also gave protections to the pharmaceutical companies, which they still enjoy today.

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On the hot drink thing, I had replied to myself in the comments of that episode.
I did research years ago, and found a journal entry from an ancestor who is there with Joseph when he was talking about the definition, which did include coffee and tea.

From Joel Hills Johnson’s (of High On the Mountain Top hymn fame) journal:“I was with Joseph Smith, the Prophet, when the Word of Wisdom was given by revelation from the Lord on Feb. 27, 1833. I was then 31 years of age and had used tobacco somewhat extravagantly for 15 years, I also used some strong drinks and tea and coffee. I knew that God had spoken and condemned the use of these things, and being determined to live by every word that proceeded from his mouth, I laid them all aside, and have not used them since.
I well remember that soon after the publication of the Word of Wisdom the same excuse was made by some of the people for drinking tea and coffee, that is now made,-that ‘hot drinks’ did not mean tea and coffee.”

– Side note: I found this through his grand-niece’s journal, who mentioned this passage about the WoW, and also about his wife, who was one of Joseph’s plural wives, and this niece mentioned spending time talking with her about her time as Jospeh’s wife.

I also remember reading that it was a fairly common saying in New England at the time, but I cant find the source I had saved.
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Tobacco is also good for deworming livestock.

DeSantis is decent, but everyone seems to forget he’s still locked down. Florida and issued mandates. He still bought in to the scheme at the same time as everyone else except Noem of SD.

An economic interpretation of the word of wisdom, Leonard Arrington:
https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/an-economic-interpretation-of-the-word-of-wisdom/