Whitmer to call for election protections, paid leave, 100% clean energy in new speech - mlive.com

Whitmer to call for election protections, paid leave, 100% clean energy in new speech - mlive.com

"After eight months of sweeping policy changes and record spending, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will deliver a “What’s Next” address Wednesday, calling for 

• paid family leave, 
• a transition to 100% clean energy and 
• additional election legislation.

...This will be the first time Whitmer has scheduled a second public speech in the same year to lay out additional goals...

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History for August 30

History for August 30 - On-This-Day.com

Huey P. Long 1893

• 1146 - European leaders outlawed the crossbow.
• 1645 - American Indians and the Dutch made a peace treaty at New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam later became known as New York.
• 1780 - General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army.
• 1905 - Ty Cobb made his major league batting debut with the Detroit Tigers.
• 1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
• 1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement.

Arson arrests for Greece wildfires media blamed on climate change - TheBlaze

Arson arrests for Greece wildfires media blamed on climate change - TheBlaze: 

Greek officials arrested 160 people on arson charges for the wildfires that ravaged Greece this summer. Previously, the media almost exclusively blamed the Greek wildfires on climate change.

Wildfires have scorched Greece this summer. In the past week, at least 21 people – including two children – lost their lives in connection with the wildfires.

The way we were-----MOST CORRUPT: Lyndon Baines Johnson - LBJ - Forgotten History

Bjorn Lomborg Declares “False Alarm” on Climate Hysteria

National Archives reveals it has 5,400 Biden emails in which the president potentially used FAKE NAMES to forward government information and discuss business with son Hunter | Daily Mail Online

National Archives reveals it has 5,400 Biden emails in which the president potentially used FAKE NAMES to forward government information and discuss business with son Hunter | Daily Mail Online

• NARA has acknowledged holding around 5,400 emails, electronic records, and documents suggesting President Biden used pseudonyms while Obama's VP.
• The existence of the emails came to light in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted in June 2022.
• Emails are connected to the aliases Robin Ware, Robert L. Peters, and JRB Ware — all pseudonyms the 80-year-old president was known to utilize while serving.

The Border Crisis You Don’t Hear About

The Border Crisis You Don’t Hear About

• “No one knows who they are, where they’re from, or where they’re going. But there are millions of them in the United States.”

"So begins Charlotte Cuthbertson’s “The Gotaways: The Hidden Crisis at the Border.”
By now, most Americans are surely aware that, on day one of his presidency, Joe Biden and his administration opened the U.S. border with Mexico to essentially unlimited immigration. 

Since then, more than 6.7 million of these migrants have crossed the border and turned themselves over to authorities, claiming to seek asylum...

What we don’t see are those known as the “gotaways,” the illegal immigrants who slip into America undetected, evading the Border Patrol and other law enforcement and scattering out across the country...

Exclusive: Utah Mayor Trent Staggs Vows to Refuse COVID Mandates

Exclusive: Utah Mayor Trent Staggs Vows to Refuse COVID Mandates: 

Senatorial candidate and Riverton, Utah, Mayor Trent Staggs (R) vowed to “hold the line” and refuse to enforce coronavirus protocols, insisting on his belief in “freedom” and the ability of Americans to decide for themselves.

In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News on Thursday, Staggs expressed his ongoing opposition to COVID mandates.

Man Gets DUI Driving Power Wheels Jeep

The Weaponization of Justice - American Thinker

The Weaponization of Justice - American Thinker - By Clarice Feldman

"If you read nothing else this week, read Victor Davis Hanson’s article in American Greatness detailing how Obama began “the most radical revolutions” in our history. 

As legal matters -- the lawfare waged against former President Trump and the Department of Justice’s pussyfooting around the Biden bribery took this week’s center stage, it’s useful to note his remarks on the weaponization of justice in this country.

Here’s a sample:

Administrations and their efforts to stock the justice department with supporters come and go. But in the last decade the Left has viewed the Department of Justice as a political extension of the party -- whose unchecked power must properly be directed to hurt enemies and help friends. [snip]

Never in U.S. history have the Department of Justice and sympathetic state and local prosecutors indicted a leading opposition candidate and likely nominee of one of the two major parties, and at the beginning of a presidential campaign. Donald Trump is currently charged with nearly 100 felonies by at least two prosecutors. He likely eventually will be hit with more than- 500 indictments, from four prosecutors, every one of the latter with a long record of either leftwing associations or Democratic service...

Lunch video-----Why Were Southern Whites So Bad At Business? | Thomas Sowell

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Watch: New Yorkers Protesting Migrant Camps Chant 'Pasty White Liberals' at Open Borders Activists

Watch: New Yorkers Protesting Migrant Camps Chant 'Pasty White Liberals' at Open Borders Activists: 

On Sunday, New Yorkers protested outside of Gracie Mansion — the residence of Mayor Eric Adams (D) — against the city setting up migrant camps in residential neighborhoods.

When open borders activists showed up to counter-protest, the residents started chanting, “Pasty white liberals!”

Ya ain't gonna win if ya ignore the crooked-crime-family in the center of the room!

 

Climate Lawfare

Climate Lawfare - Rud Istvan

• Lawfare has come into the general lexicon since Trump came down the elevator. It is the idea of weaponizing the legal system against opponents...
• Climate lawfare has come in two distinct, so far failed tranches; the Harvard Law School conference (a summary is available at corpgov.law.harvard.edu) newly proposes a third. Plus there is the newly decided Montana children’s case that is an outlier peculiar to Montana.

...Despite the IPCC and now AR6, no one has ever shown that CO2 is causing a climate crisis. 

And every ‘climate disaster’ supposed to have happened by now hasn’t. 

• Sea level rise did not accelerate as Hansen predicted in 1988. 
• Arctic summer sea ice did not disappear by the mid 2010’s as Wadhams predicted...

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2023/08/01/climate-change-as-unjust-enrichment/

This doctrine lives in a grey area between torts (public nuisance is technically a tort) and contract law. It is frequently referred to as ‘quasi contractual obligations’. It usually arises from a lack of lawyering, so proposing it’s use as lawfare is certainly novel. The doctrine has three elements:

1. A benefit received by a defendant.
2. At plaintiff’s expense.
3. Where it would unjust to retain the benefit without compensation.

There are two common types of state court cases.

One is where a written contract should have been in place but wasn’t. For example, a painter verbally agrees to paint a house for a few thousand dollars. Under the Uniform Commercial Code, the value is such that a written contract should be in place. Verbal isn’t enforceable. The painter buys the paint and paints the house. Then the homeowner refuses to pay because there was only a verbal agreement. The homeowner is unjustly enriched.

The other is where a couple lives together and commingles finances. Then there is a ‘divorce’. One sues the other (usually the poorer sues the richer) claiming unjustly enriched by the relationship. Messy. There are actually lawyers (hopefully not from Harvard Law) who advertise specializing in this mess.

So now junior EU law professors are proposing suits based on ‘unjust climate enrichment’. Their legal reasoning is at best sketchy. They say climate stability, like clean air and water, has long been recognized as public property. (This is NOT true. In the US the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act established those public rights by legislation in the early 1970’s. There is as yet no Climate Stability Act.) Then they argue climate polluters (carbon pollution, by which is really meant CO2) are making enormous profits off the asserted climate crisis, which comprises ‘unjust climate enrichment’ and new lawfare grounds.

This idea is goofier than Merchants of Doubt and public nuisance. It doesn’t logically work at all. Exxon makes a legal profit selling the public gasoline. Ford makes a legal profit selling the public ICE vehicles. The PUBLIC is the one unjustly enriched by enjoying the enabled driving convenience!

Finally, since it is current and topical, we have the very recent outlier ruling in favor of Montana children who sued the state for enabling fossil fuel extraction. Montana has very little natural gas extraction, and only a modest amount of crude oil from the Williston Basin. But it is the US #1 producer of steam coal from the Powder River Basin.

The state court ruling is based on the Montana state constitution (MSC), and almost certainly does not apply elsewhere. The MSC A2 (inalienable rights) §3 specifically includes “the right to a clean and healthful environment”. MSC A9§1 provides “The state SHALL maintain and improve a clean and healthful environment for present and future generations.”

I don’t think the outlier ruling means much in terms of future Montana action. Ironically, despite A9§1, Libby Montana is home to the US largest asbestos contaminated Superfund site thanks to decades of mining asbestos contaminated vermiculite And Montana has done nothing about it. And a Libby clinic was just fined $5 million for submitting false asbestos injury claims.

Arrest 'em all!

 

Buying democrat votes with YOUR KID's future!-----1 Million Borrowers Could Have $0 Payments Under New Student Loan Plan

1 Million Borrowers Could Have $0 Payments Under New Student Loan Plan

"The Biden administration formally launched a new income-driven repayment plan this week, as student loan payments are set to resume later this summer.
Top officials are touting the plan as the most affordable student loan repayment plan ever created. 

• Under the program, many borrowers will have low or even $0 payments.

Here’s the latest.
‘Most Affordable’ Student Loan Payment Plan Ever, Says Biden Administration...

#1 This day 1955-----The Yellow Rose Of Texas - Mitch Miller (Video Version)

America's Big Three Entitlement Bankruptcies Are Inevitable | Mises Wire

America's Big Three Entitlement Bankruptcies Are Inevitable | Mises Wire

"America’s federally sanctioned entitlement programs, Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, each face bankruptcy in the next few years...

• These three entitlement programs consume about fifty cents of every federal budget dollar, or $2.7 trillion in fiscal year 2023...
• Medicaid’s costs are swamping state budgets, climbing from 9 percent in 1989 to 20 percent today...

Will the truth ever come out?

https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1695829027486064692

GOP hopeful rips prospect of Harris presidency if Dems win in '24: 'Send a chill up every American's spine' | Fox News

GOP hopeful rips prospect of Harris presidency if Dems win in '24: 'Send a chill up every American's spine' | Fox News: 

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley blasted the prospect of Vice President Kamala Harris becoming commander in chief if Democrats walk away with a win in 2024, warning Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that the notion should "send a chill up every American's spine." The former South Carolina governor, in her appearance, cautioned against electing former President Donald Trump, who faces multiple indictments and looks at a series of lengthy and distracting legal battles.

The headlines were a lie!-----99% of 'Covid deaths' not primarily caused by the virus, CDC data shows | Daily Mail Online

99% of 'Covid deaths' not primarily caused by the virus, CDC data shows | Daily Mail Online
"Nearly 99 percent of 'Covid deaths' reported by the CDC each week are not primarily caused by the virus, official data shows...
The figures suggest just a handful of American lives are being lost directly to the virus each week. 

For comparison, the virus was behind one in three 'Covid deaths' at America's pandemic peak in 2021.

• The primary or underlying cause of death is defined as the disease, situation or event that initiated the chain of events directly resulting in death.

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