Blue state outlaws most eggs unless cage-free, before new year
The new law does not apply to eggs produced on farms with less than 3,000 egg-laying hens

Nearly all eggs sold in Michigan starting before the New Year must come from cage-free birds, even as egg prices continue to climb.

Michigan lawmakers modified the Animal Industry Act in 2019, requiring shell eggs from chickens, ducks and other fowl, sold in the state to be from cage-free housing systems, starting Dec. 31, 2024.

The new law, though, does not apply to the sale of shell eggs produced on a farm with less than 3,000 egg-laying hens, nor does it apply to liquid or cooked eggs.

But for those farms affected, the law prohibits business owners from selling eggs from an egg-laying hen if care cannot be provided while standing within the hens’ usable floor space.


The law also states that chickens are not to be confined or tethered in a way that prevents them from lying down, standing up, fully extending their limbs or turning around freely.

Most of the guidelines for cage-free eggs were established in the United Egg Producers 2017 rules, which set the standards for how much area must be provided in order for eggs to qualify as cage-free.

Wells Fargo Agri-Food Institute Sector Manager Kevin Bergquist said egg prices have been elevated since 2023 due to the combination of seasonal price increases during the holidays and disruption in egg supply due to bird flu.

Prices over the past year have "generally" remained above 2023 prices and even "often exceeded egg prices from 2022, which was when HPAI really caught the egg market," according to Bergquist.


Wholesale egg prices, which jumped nearly 55% in November, do not necessarily reflect consumer egg prices at the grocer, which can vary widely.

According to the Consumer Price Index, grocery prices rose 0.5% in November, with four of the six major grocery store food groups rising in cost. Eggs showed the largest increase by a wide margin.


Prices for meat, poultry, fish, and eggs rose 1.7% in November, but prices for eggs rose 8.2%.

Celtics head coach admits he'd 'rather watch something else' as NBA ratings decline
NBA ratings are down 25% from last season
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/celtics-h...gs-decline

Anyone heard of this?  Ambeo ?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecarter...-the-year/


Which means the days will get longer after that

Rand Paul suggests replacing Mike Johnson with Elon Musk as Speaker of the House
Paul said that 'nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk' as House speaker

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rand-pa...-the-house

Reds Notebook: The salary cap fight that lies ahead

The last two offseasons have left some fans of small market teams truly feeling the need to take their “MLB needs a salary cap” complaints to the next level. With Shohei Ohtani signing for $700,000,000 – where much of the salary is deferred – last offseason, and then this offseason seeing Juan Soto sign for even more, small market clubs are left with plenty of fans who believe that there is no way their team can truly compete with the big market teams. They feel that is something that other sports don’t face thanks to salary caps and salary floors that mandate spending.

The Athletic’s Evan Drellich wrote about whether or not ownership may push, once again, for a salary cap in the next negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement following the 2026 season.

There’s a lot of stuff that would be in the way of a salary cap. The first thing is the players association, which has been quite firm since the very beginning of their existence: They won’t accept one. But there are also some owners who aren’t likely to be on board, either. Steve Cohen, for example, represented such a threat to some of the other owners that they tried to put in rules they believed would keep him from using his massive wealth to just pay to bring in whoever he wanted without regard to the luxury tax, so another penalty was put on the luxury tax and it changed nothing.

There was a proposal in the last negotiations of a salary cap that also came with a salary floor. That didn’t remain on the board for very long before being scrapped. More ownership groups may be more willing to fight harder on it the next time around as more and more teams are losing money that the previous television contracts guaranteed them now that what is now FanDuel Sports Network has gone through much of it’s bankruptcy and has walked away or renegotiated their broadcast deals with much of the league’s teams. Only the teams who own their own sports networks, which is limited to the big market clubs, are likely to still be raking in money from television broadcasts like they were a decade ago.

Rob Manfred has been trying to get back the rights from regional sports networks for a few years now. With the last year seeing most teams get out from those deals with Bally Sports and now FanDuel Sports, the plan to be able to sell directly to the consumer for streaming as well as being able to sell a national package much like the NBA and NFL do, is the next part of the plan. Getting the big market clubs on board for that could be tougher, though, because a part of that plan means everyone pools together their television revenue and shares it evenly rather than getting what they can get in their market.

While there has always been a little bit of fighting amongst the owners, it seems that in the next round that there may be a big enough fight between them that it could be something that slows everything down when it comes to negotiating with the players, too.

A team like Cincinnati is going to be in favor of a salary cap, floor, and centralized revenue sharing (far more than what is already shared). A team like the New York Mets or Los Angeles Dodgers are likely to push back against that some as they have built in advantages right now that allow them to keep far more revenue than they would under the plan that Manfred seems to want to get in place.

Cincinnati’s ownership is often cited as “Bob Castellini”, but he’s just the face of ownership. Yes, he put in plenty of money to help buy the team, but he’s one of 19 individuals and or LLC’s in the ownership group and if we are to believe what the internet tells us about his net worth, his net worth is nowhere near the top of the group. One owner, Harry Fath, has donated more to various schools and charities over the last eight years than the reported net worth of Bob Castellini, and Fath is just a minority owner in the club.

There’s nothing wrong with what Fath is doing with his wealth in terms of giving some of it back. The point was more that there are people out there who talk about small market owners of teams like the Reds and point to the internet saying Castellini is only worth $400,000,000 and that’s why the team can’t spend, but it ignores that he’s just one of a large group of incredibly rich people in ownership, of which we don’t really know just how much “ownership of the Reds” is actually “worth”.

What we do know is that Bob Castellini has said repeatedly that he will not ask anyone in the ownership group to put in more money to the team. That, not his or the ownership group as a whole, is one of the limiting factors for the Reds. Because of this stance of not investing further into the product with the hopes that the investment brings rewards in the future, Cincinnati has hamstrung itself. If the club were to get more revenue sharing money because the entire television situation were altered and all of the revenues were shared equally, it would allow them to have more to work with as a share of the entire MLB revenue pie than what they have now.

Racist messages found on Tennessee college campus were ‘fabricated,' school says
'This matter has caused enormous pain to our community,' Rhodes College said

https://www.foxnews.com/media/racist-mes...chool-says

Alex Soros and Huma Abedin hold star-studded engagement party at Anna Wintour's home: Photos
Soros and Abedin announced their engagement over the summer

Several celebrities and media figures turned out in New York City on Wednesday night for liberal mega donor Alex Soros and former Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s engagement party.


Fox News Digital obtained photos of guests leaving the engagement party, which took place at the SoHo home of Vogue executive Anna Wintour, showing former President Bill Clinton and Hillary attending the party along with MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.

Also in attendance were Hollywood couple Adrian Brody and Georgina Chapman, fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg and her husband, media mogul Barry Diller.

Soros and Abedin announced their engagement on social media over the summer, with Soros sharing a photo of himself down on one knee.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alex-so...ome-photos

Heard on the Buck Sexton show that the agent who confronted the guy at the fence fired 5 shots from 6 feet and never touched the guy. (it might have bee 6 shots at 5 feet)  If I remember correctly, it was a female agent.  Not surprising if she met a few other DEI requirements as well.

Dem senator clashes with CNN reporter over Congress pay raise: Your paycheck is the same despite low ratings
'What about the media? Think about that for a second,' Durbin shot back

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., locked horns with a CNN reporter on Wednesday after he learned the "good news" that lawmakers would potentially be getting a pay raise.

The proposed spending bill in Congress will give lawmakers their first pay raise since 2009, something which has received mix reaction across the political spectrum.

Durbin was asked about the congressional pay raises by CNN host Manu Raju, who asked, "members are giving themselves a pay raise. Do you guys deserve a pay raise?"

"Well, that‘s news to me. It‘s good news," Durbin responded. "You know what has it been 10 years or 14 years and no cola, no change at all? I think it‘s about time something‘s done."

When asked again whether he supports the raise, Durbin continued to express surprise at the provision, "How would I not know about a pay raise?"

Raju pressed the senator, suggesting that "people look at the performance of Congress and say, ‘Why should we give them more money?'"

When asked again whether he supports the raise, Durbin continued to express surprise at the provision, "How would I not know about a pay raise?"

Raju pressed the senator, suggesting that "people look at the performance of Congress and say, ‘Why should we give them more money?'"

However, Durbin fired back at the CNN reporter, asking him how he and his colleagues in the media get paid the same when their ratings are down.

"What about the media? Think about that for a second," Durbin said.

"We’re not paid by public money," Raju replied.



"I know you’re not," Durbin said. "But I mean, half of your listeners are not there anymore. You‘re still getting the same paycheck. What‘s going on?"

"Well, I mean, you’re taxpayer money, I mean, you guys deserve a raise?" Raju asked.



"I know you’re not," Durbin said. "But I mean, half of your listeners are not there anymore. You‘re still getting the same paycheck. What‘s going on?"

"Well, I mean, you’re taxpayer money, I mean, you guys deserve a raise?" Raju asked.


According to a recent Gallup poll, the news media is the "least trusted group among 10 U.S. civic and political institutions," with the U.S. Congress only slightly behind at 34%.

Liberal news networks have indeed taken a hit since Trump won the election.

MSNBC averaged 807,000 total day viewers and CNN managed 488,000. During primetime, MSNBC averaged 1.7 million viewers from 8-11 p.m. ET and CNN settled for only 700,000.