Our legal system in collapse!-----Geico ordered to pay woman $5.2M who claims she caught STD in car

Geico ordered to pay woman $5.2M who claims she caught STD in car
"A Missouri woman who claimed she caught a sexually transmitted disease when she had sex with her boyfriend 
in his vehicle has been awarded a $5.2 million settlement from her now-ex-partner’s car insurance company.
The state Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed the multimillion-dollar payout against Geico...

...An arbitrator later found that the couple’s sex in the vehicle “directly caused, or directly contributed to cause” the HPV infection..."

"Weaponizing"!

 

China kicks sand in Lloyd's face-----China will 'not hesitate to start war' if Taiwan declares independence, Beijing says

China will 'not hesitate to start war' if Taiwan declares independence, Beijing says

"...The warning from Wei Fenghe came as he held his first face-to-face meeting with US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue security summit in Singapore.
...Wei warned Austin that "if anyone dares to split Taiwan from China, the Chinese army will definitely not hesitate to start a war no matter the cost", defence ministry spokesman Wu Qian quoted the minister as saying during the meeting.
The Chinese minister vowed that Beijing would "smash to smithereens any 'Taiwan independence' plot and resolutely uphold the unification of the motherland", according to the Chinese defence ministry..."

#1 This day 1953-----Percy Faith - The song from Moulin Rouge

Maybe putting them in men's rooms didn't help with the "shortage"? Ya think?-----A tampon shortage is the latest nightmare for women | CNN Business

A tampon shortage is the latest nightmare for women | CNN Business

"...“I haven’t seen any products in stores for months,” one user posted on Reddit. 

“I’ve been ordering my tampons on Amazon and have been getting price gouged.”

Tampon prices are up significantly — nearly 10% from a year ago, according to Bloomberg. 
...People who menstruate can’t simply wait for the shelves to be restocked..."

No one cares about their lies.

 

Michigan sheriff forced to limit in-person deputy responses because record-high gas prices depleted fuel budget - TheBlaze

Michigan sheriff forced to limit in-person deputy responses because record-high gas prices depleted fuel budget - TheBlaze: 

One Michigan police department is limiting its service calls because record-high gas prices has rapidly depleted its fuel budget. The Isabella County Sheriff's Office posted a statement to Facebook on Tuesday explaining the agency "is feeling the pain at the pump as well." "We have exhausted what funds were budgeted for fuel with several months to go before the budget reset," the statement explained.

Their war against YOUR vehicles!-----Stop driving your car on short journeys, warns AA (UK) as fuel prices surge

Stop driving your car on short journeys, warns AA as fuel prices surge

• 
  Drivers have been urged to "cut out shorter journeys" by car as fuel prices continue to spiral.
• The AA said motorists should "walk or cycle to save money".
  

"..."We would urge drivers at the moment to cut out shorter car journeys if they are able to do so, and walk or cycle to save money.
"Almost one fifth of AA members are already doing this..."

AM Fruitcake

 

History for June 11

History for June 11 - On-This-Day.com

William Styron 1925 - Novelist and essayist

• 1509 - King Henry VIII married his first of six wives, Catherine of Aragon.
• 1770 - Captain James Cook discovered the Great Barrier Reef off of Australia when he ran aground.
• 1880 - Republican, Jeanette Rankin was born. She became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress.
• 1895 - Charles E. Duryea received the first U.S. patent granted to an American inventor for a gasoline-driven automobile.
• 1930 - William Beebe dove to a record-setting depth of 1,426 feet off the coast of Bermuda. He used a diving chamber called a bathysphere.
• 1947 - The U.S. government announced an end to sugar rationing.
• 1963 - Alabama Gov. George Wallace allowed two black students to enroll at the University of Alabama.
• 1993 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that people who commit "hate crimes" could be sentenced to extra punishment. The court also ruled in favor of religious groups saying that they indeed had a constitutional right to sacrifice animals during worship services.

The way we were-----The Long Arm of the Stasi - How East German spies infiltrated the West

Richmond Pro Gun Rally - Anti-Gun Protester CHANGES HIS MIND

Biden signed a record 37 EO's in his first week and is averaging 12 more year than Trump.

Biden signed a record 37 EO's in his first week and is averaging 12 more year than Trump.

"Kimmel asked him whether he could issue executive orders to get what they wanted on gun control, claiming, falsely, that Trump issued them “like Halloween candy.”

The president responded, “I have issued executive orders within the power of the presidency to be able to deal with everything having to do with guns, gun ownership… all of the things that are within my power.”

He went on to accuse Trump of abusing the constitution, saying he doesn’t want to “emulate” his predecessor.

“But what I don’t want to do, and I’m not being facetious, I don’t want to emulate Trump’s abuse of the constitution and constitutional authority,” Biden said.

That was quite the laugh, since Biden with his mandates has been far more authoritarian than President Donald Trump ever was. Plus he’s issued more executive orders already than did Trump..."

When libs and their union enforcers control transportation, this what you'll get!-------Unions plot wave of strikes to trigger summer of chaos

The Telegraph - Telegraph Online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph - Telegraph  -By Danny Boyle

• Boris Johnson will use a speech today as part of efforts to reset his leadership and tell Britons "things will get better". But could we be facing a summer of chaos, as unions threaten further strike action?
  

"Could we be approaching a "summer of discontent"? 

Union leaders have vowed to take "coordinated" action not seen since the 1926 General Strike ahead of a series of walkouts intended to cause chaos on railways, roads and at airports. 

...Unite announced a coordinated strike on the 

• London Underground and at 
• Transport for London on the same day RMT members will bring the national rail network to a halt. 
• A third rail union, the TSSA, is also planning to ballot members. 

"We will co-ordinate our action," said Manuel Cortes, the TSSA general secretary. 

"It'll be a summer of discontent, no doubt." Chief reporter Robert Mendick reports that railway workers earn 70 per cent above the national average."

EXCLUSIVE: State Department Prepares To Announce Worldwide Racial Equity Chief, Leaked Email Shows | The Daily Caller

EXCLUSIVE: State Department Prepares To Announce Worldwide Racial Equity Chief, Leaked Email Shows | The Daily Caller: 

The position of Special Representative was first announced by the State Department in its April Equity Action Plan. The position’s holder has not been named, but the Special Representative will have wide-reaching powers, since he or she will be responsible for “institutionaliz[ing] an enterprise-wide approach to integrating racial and ethnic equity.”

How Islamists bullied a cinema chain in Britain into cancelling a film ...

And that's just the ones who got caught!-----CRIMINALS DON’T ‘GROW OUT OF CRIME

Instapundit--CRIMINALS DON’T ‘GROW OUT OF CRIME

"That’s the conclusion of a 10-year study by the U.S. Sentencing Commission that found, according to Hans Bader, “over an eight-year period, violent offenders returned to crime at a 63.8% rate. 

The median time to rearrest was 16 months for these violent offenders. 

So, most violent offenders released from prison committed more crimes. 

Even among those offenders over age 60, 25.1% of violent offenders were rearrested.”

Of course, nobody with even minimal common sense needed a federal study to know that criminals typically continue being criminals once they spent time in prison, if only because prison is where they learn new criminal techniques and skills.--Posted by Mark Tapscott".

Lunch video-----GAY PRIDE MONTH 🏳️‍🌈

Noon-toon

 

Mitch McConnell sends House Democrats stern message after police arrest armed man near Brett Kavanaugh's house - TheBlaze

Mitch McConnell sends House Democrats stern message after police arrest armed man near Brett Kavanaugh's house - TheBlaze: 

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) delivered a stern message to House Democrats on Wednesday after police arrested an armed man near the residence of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

If any ONE of them had done their job, the children would be alive today. Every one failed. And their power will not diminish.

They all promised to keep the children SAFE:

The 4 levels of "safety" guaranteed by these 4 levels of government.

1. Social workers/police/teachers who scrub violent juvenile's criminal records.

2. The FBI/Brady Bill promising gun purchasers would be scrutinized.
3. The school leaders promising secured, locked doors. 

4. The local police promising fast response!

• EVERY ONE FAILED!

Note they warn "blackouts", not "brownouts".-----The Energy ‘Transition’ — a Leap into the Dark

The Energy ‘Transition’ — a Leap into the Dark

• Not for the first time, it strikes me that the transition away from fossil fuels may be moving rather more quickly than the technology upon which it is supposed to rely.

"The Wall Street Journal:
Summer is around the corner, and we suggest you prepare by buying an emergency generator, if you can find one in stock. 

Last week the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) warned that two-thirds of the U.S. could experience blackouts this summer. 

Welcome to the “green energy transition.”

We’ve been warning for years that climate policies would make the grid more vulnerable to vacillations in supply and demand....

...Meanwhile, the WSJ adds:
Natural-gas-fired plants can help pick up the slack, but there aren’t enough of them to back up all of the renewables coming onto the grid.
...Even Bloomberg...“The pace of our grid transformation is out of sync” with the physical realities of the existing power network, Moura said.
Moura? 

That would be John Moura, director of reliability assessment and performance analysis for the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, a regulatory body that oversees grid stability. Oh.
Perhaps now would not be the moment to overload the grid further by “nudging” (or more) drivers into electric vehicles..."

Nov. 12, 2020--Always trust experts. Always!

 

DOLT!-----Chevy Volt Short-Circuit: Virtue-Signaling GM Exec Gets Owned on Clean Energy

Chevy Volt Short-Circuit: Virtue-Signaling GM Exec Gets Owned on Clean Energy

“What really powers electric vehicles like the Chevy Volt” is not a question GM Environment and Energy Policy executive Kristin Zimmerman is comfortable answering, as you’ll see in today’s must-watch clip.
...Then things went south when someone asked, “So what’s charging the batteries right now?”
Just to be clear, Zimmerman is no dummy. She has multiple degrees, including a Ph.D. in Engineering Mechanics. 

As you’re about to see, it isn’t that she doesn’t know the answer — it’s that she doesn’t seem to want to admit it while showing off GM’s renewed EV efforts.
“Well, it’s here,” Zimmerman said. “It’s coming from the building.”
You can’t make this stuff up. Just watch the clip already.

When pressed, Zimmerman said, “Actually, Lansing feeds the building,” referring to the local utility company. “Lansing feeds power to the building.”..."