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Monday, March 20, 2023

Elementary teacher celebrates confusing children who can't tell her gender: 'That's the goal' - American Wire News

"Valentine Hills Elementary is a Minnesota school...It is there that Kourtney Ryan, presumably a woman, was said to work as a music teacher actively aiming to confuse students about her gender.

After posting a video of herself online, the watchdog group Inside The Classroom helped promote the short clip they had first shared in January by pointing out that the elementary school had ceased to monitor its Twitter account in December.

During the roughly 30-second post, Ryan recounts a conversation between a student and a fellow faculty member.

“The students asked the other teacher if I’m a boy or a girl, and the teacher was like, ‘Does it matter?'”
Assenting to the teacher’s logic, the child was said to go on, “No, I just, I just can’t figure it out. It’s just so hard. I can’t figure it out.”
Having gleefully reenacted the struggle of the unidentified child, Ryan then displayed her own satisfaction with a victorious fist pump as she said, “And I was just like, yes, that’s the goal. That’s the goal.”...

#1 This day 1972-----America - A Horse With No Name (1972)

Democrat gonna steal your vote...AGAIN!-----‘National Popular Vote’ scheme would let California choose Michigan’s president

House Bill 4156 would disenfranchise Michigan voters in presidential elections

"...As the law stands now in Michigan, whoever gets the most votes wins the election — and in a presidential election, Michigan’s electoral votes. As it should be.
But a bill submitted in the Michigan House would change all that.

No longer would Michigan award its electoral votes to the candidate most Michiganders vote for. Michigan’s electoral votes would be given to whichever candidate receives the most votes in what activists call “the national popular vote.”

Never trust people who have lied to you in the past. Repeatedly!

Owners of seafood restaurant hit back at PETA over Lent-themed billboard: Going after religion a 'low blow' | Fox News

Owners of seafood restaurant hit back at PETA over Lent-themed billboard: Going after religion a 'low blow' | Fox News:

Owners John and Tony Minadakis told host Steve Doocy that PETA’s "unlimited pockets" made it "personal with a small family-owned business." Tony said this is the second time PETA has targeted their business.

"While the billboards at times can be tongue in cheek," says John Minadakis, "it’s not a laughing matter to come after somebody’s livelihoods."

John Minadakis said, "these crabs are how we feed our families."

Every chain/mass transit/government building will be doing this. EVERY ONE!-----Lawsuit: Amazon Go stores didn’t properly alert customers of biometric tracking

Lawsuit: Amazon Go stores didn’t properly alert customers of biometric tracking

"Amazon is facing a lawsuit alleging that the company did not properly notify customers entering its Amazon Go stores in New York City that it was tracking and collecting their biometric information.
The lawsuit claims that the e-commerce giant violated a New York City law passed in early 2021 which requires businesses that are collecting, storing or sharing “biometric identifier information” to post signage near their entrances alerting customers that they are doing so...

AM fruitcake

History for March 20

History for March 20 - On-This-Day.com

Dame Vera Lynn 1917

1792 - In Paris, the Legislative Assembly approved the use of the guillotine.
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book "Uncle Tom’s Cabin," subtitled "Life Among the Lowly," was first published.
1854 - The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. About 50 slavery opponents began the new political group.
1886 - The first AC power plant in the U.S. began commercial operation.
1897 - The first intercollegiate basketball game that used five players per team was held. The contest was Yale versus Pennsylvania. Yale won by a score of 32-10.
1899 - At Sing Sing prison, Martha M. Place became the first woman to be executed in the electric chair. She was put to death for the murder of her stepdaughter.
1933 - The first German concentration camp was completed at Dachau.
1991 - The U.S. forgave $2 billion in loans to Poland.

Sunday, March 19, 2023

Soros-Backed Group Helped Elect D.A. Allegedly Planning Trump Arrest

Soros-Backed Group Helped Elect D.A. Allegedly Planning Trump Arrest:

A George Soros-funded group helped elect Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who former President Donald Trump says plans to arrest him.

“Bragg was elected in November 2021 with indirect backing from left-wing billionaire George Soros, who gave $1 million to the Color of Change PAC, which spent to elect Bragg,” Breitbart News noted last year.

Arkansas book event interrupted by drag queens in 'disturbing' outfits as Kirk Cameron and guests speak | Fox News

Arkansas book event interrupted by drag queens in 'disturbing' outfits as Kirk Cameron and guests speak | Fox News:

A group of drag queens and activists dressed in black and white showed up on Friday at the Fayetteville Public Library in Fayetteville, Arkansas, to protest actor-writer Kirk Cameron's story time event for families and children, according to book publisher Brave Books, whose staff were present at the reading. The drag queens blocked the views of some families and children and distracted others from the book reading and remarks from the stage, said Brave Books.

The way we were-----Everyday objects that have become OBSOLETE

Nike's Plan to Beef Up Security at MLK Store Squashed by Portland Mayor!

"Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has asked Nike to reopen its shuttered community store in Northeast Portland “on a limited basis,” even though he says the city can’t meet the company’s request to detail off-duty police officers to provide security

QUESTIONS I NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE ASKING:

Instapundit--QUESTIONS I NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE ASKING:

"Why is an NHL team’s Twitter account lecturing fans about gender theory?

TikTok under federal investigation following allegations employees spied on US journalists - TheBlaze

TikTok under federal investigation following allegations employees spied on US journalists - TheBlaze:

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice launched an investigation into TikTok parent company ByteDance late last year over claims that its employees spied on and surveilled American journalists and other associates, Forbes reported Friday. In December, Beijing-based ByteDance admitted that its employees had collected data on American TikTok users, including Emily Baker-White, a technology reporter with Forbes.

Banker Going to Prison

It's the STORAGE stupid!-----A Simple Reason Why Net Zero Is Impossible | Watts Up With That?

A Simple Reason Why Net Zero Is Impossible | Watts Up With That? - From CFACT - By David

"I have a new study out, titled “Constraining Renewables is a National Need”, that provides a simple reason why net zero is impossible.

It is simply impossible to provide enough energy storage to make renewables reliable.

...Grid scale storage at the scale needed to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar is impossibly expensive.

...The likely cost would be many times GDP.

Clearly this is economically impossible.

Despite this impossibility, present government policies and utility practices are driving toward massive grid penetration by renewables.

This reckless drive must be properly constrained and managed, in order to protect reliability.

American grid reliability must be maintained.
..our working estimate of the required storage is an amazing 250 million MWh.
America today has less than 20 thousand MWh of grid scale battery storage, which is next to nothing.

Grid scale batteries today cost around $700,000 a MWh.

For 250 million MWh we get an astronomical total cost of $175 trillion dollars just to replace today’s fossil fuel generated electricity needs with wind and solar...

None of this impossibility is being considered in today’s reliability assessments.

Not by the States, the utilities, NERC or FERC...

Lunch video-----How many STEPS should I walk per day to stay HEALTHY?

Noon-toon

VA's new mission statement devoid of gendered language - TheBlaze

VA's new mission statement devoid of gendered language - TheBlaze:

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has updated its mission statement with a new statement that does not include gendered language.

According to a VA press release, the prior mission statement read, "To fulfill President Lincoln’s promise 'to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan' by serving and honoring the men and women who are America’s veterans."

And folks were "triggered" by Trump's tweets.

First day of spring 2023: What to know about the vernal equinox - mlive.com

"...It’s actually the astronomical beginning of a new season, occurring at the moment when the Earth’s axis is tilted neither toward nor away from the sun, resulting in a nearly equal amount of daylight and darkness at all latitudes...

All four seasons on our calendars begin with astronomical events:

The two equinoxes mark the start of spring and fall, and
the solstices, which occur in June and December, are the official beginning of summer and winter.

(Unless, of course, you’re marking the seasons by the meteorological method, in which case spring began on March 1. More on that here.)
Interestingly, the Vernal Equinox fell on March 21 during most of the 20th century, but due to the 400-year Gregorian calendar cycle, the event occurs a tiny bit earlier every year...

'Geofence' Warrants Threaten Every Phone User’s Privacy

'Geofence' Warrants Threaten Every Phone User’s Privacy - By Reilly Stephens

"...What you probably didn’t realize is Google has already searched your data on behalf of the federal government to see if you were involved with January 6th.

But last month, the federal district court in DC issued an opinion in the case of one of the many defendants who stands accused of sacking the Capitol in the wake of the 2020 election.
And with it, Judge Rudolph Contreras became the first federal district judge to approve a “Geofence” warrant, endorsing a recent police innovation: searching the cell phone history of every American to check who happened to be in the area of some potential crime...

#1 This day 1967-----The Turtles - Happy Together - 1967

Countdown To New York’s Rendezvous With Energy Impossibility

Countdown To New York’s Rendezvous With Energy Impossibility - Francis Menton

The race is on to see who hits the green energy wall of impossibility first. California, Germany and the UK (the “Poseurs”) might seem to have leapt early into the lead positions.
But New York is now making a strong sprint to catch and surpass them, so it can be the first to splatter its citizens’ flesh and blood all over the impenetrable barricade.

The Poseurs accumulate vast green progressive virtue credits for ridiculous promises, but their promises all have dates so far in the future that today’s politicians will be long gone when the crash detonates...

New York City’s bid to create the first real test of an impossible green energy deadline is found in its Climate Mobilization Act of 2019...imposes energy efficiency standards on large residential buildings starting in 2024 — next year. Buildings that fail to meet the standards are subject to large and accelerating fines starting right away.

...The New York Times had a big front page article on Monday about the maneuvers of one large building to try to comply with the law.

...The Grand Tier...a large (280 apartments), newish (built 2005), and very high-priced building...the only apartment listed at the moment on the Streeteasy website is a one bedroom for $5895 per month...

Like Adolph in the 1920s, they tell us in advance what they will do! And we refuse to act?!!

'New normal': New York state to lower cutoff scores for standardized tests due to 'learning loss' from COVID lockdowns - TheBlaze

'New normal': New York state to lower cutoff scores for standardized tests due to 'learning loss' from COVID lockdowns - TheBlaze:

New York state will lower its threshold for what is considered to be "proficient" on its standardized tests to account for a loss of learning in students from 2019 to 2022, according to reporting by the Daily Caller. The state's scoring committee will being using data from 2022 as the benchmark for student scoring, despite standardized scores in subjects such as math proficiency dropping by 7.6 points compared to 2019, according to Spectrum News.

1687 - French explorer La Salle was murdered by his own men while searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, in the Gulf of Mexico.
1903 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Cuban treaty, gaining naval bases in Guantanamo and Bahia Honda.
1918 - The U.S. Congress approved Daylight-Saving Time.
1945 - Adolf Hitler issued his "Nero Decree" which ordered the destruction of German facilities that could fall into Allied hands as German forces were retreating.
1963 - In Costa Rica, U.S. President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledged to fight Communism.
1998 - The World Health Organization warned of tuberculosis epidemic that could kill 70 million people in next two decades.

Saturday, March 18, 2023

Letter from gay man issuing ultimatum to his father goes viral: 'You are not allowed to vote for ... parties that seek to murder me' - TheBlaze

Letter from gay man issuing ultimatum to his father goes viral: 'You are not allowed to vote for ... parties that seek to murder me' - TheBlaze:

"Here me clearly — you cannot vote for the GOP and continue to have a relationship with me. No exceptions. I am inviting no dialogue, and I have no interest in nuance," he wrote in part.