Tuesday, August 29, 2023

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...

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.

AM Fruitcake

 

History for August 29

History for August 29 - On-This-Day.com
John Locke 1632
  • 1833 - The "Factory Act" was passed in England to settle child labor laws.
  • 1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.
  • 1949 - At the University of Illinois, a nuclear device was used for the first time to treat cancer patients.
  • 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
  • 1992 - The U.N. Security Council agreed to send troops to Somalia to guard the shipments of food.

Monday, August 28, 2023

EXCLUSIVE: Montana AG Asks SCOTUS To Take Up Case Challenging State Agency That Encouraged Social Media Censorship | The Daily Caller

EXCLUSIVE: Montana AG Asks SCOTUS To Take Up Case Challenging State Agency That Encouraged Social Media Censorship | The Daily Caller

A group of nine attorneys general led by Knudsen filed an amicus brief Friday urging the Supreme Court to hear O’Handley v. Weber, a lawsuit challenging the California Secretary of State’s Office of Election Cybersecurity’s practice of flagging “false or misleading” election information for removal by Twitter. The states call the agency’s actions an “anathema” to the First Amendment and argue they reflect similar conduct occurring at the federal level.

The way we were-----Soviet Menace | From The First Russian Bombers, To The Nuclear Tupolev T...

50 Years of FAILED Climate Predictions in 15 Minutes (or Less!) | Louder...

Most Democrats Blame Climate Change for Maui Wildfire - Rasmussen Reports

Most Democrats Blame Climate Change for Maui Wildfire - Rasmussen Reports
  • The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 47% of Likely U.S. voters believe it is likely that climate change caused the Maui wildfire, including 26% who think it’s Very Likely. 
  • Forty-five percent (45%) say it’s not likely the wildfire was caused by climate change, including 27% who believe it is Not At All Likely. (To see survey question wording, click here.)...

Gold Star Families Accuse Biden Of Covering Up Evidence That Kabul Bombing Was Preventable

Gold Star Families Accuse Biden Of Covering Up Evidence That Kabul Bombing Was Preventable - Sarah Arnold
  • Two years ago, in 2021, a suicide blast ravaged the streets of Kabul's international airport, killing 13 American service members.
"To this day, the families who lost their loved ones feel President Joe Biden has ignored their pleas for answers on the deadly event...
The father accused Biden of withholding crucial information on the attack that led to his son's death...
“He’ll never learn from his mistakes; he’s proven that time and time again,” Schmitz said. “He doesn’t even accept responsibility for anything he did. I believe he said that what he did was an ‘extraordinary success.’ He’s the exact polar opposite of a leader.”...


Biden's 'unlawful food stamp expansion' is driving 'massive spikes in grocery prices': Report - TheBlaze

Biden's 'unlawful food stamp expansion' is driving 'massive spikes in grocery prices': Report - TheBlaze

The Biden administration's "unlawful food stamp expansion" is driving "massive spikes in grocery prices," a new government watchdog report finds. A study released Thursday by the Foundation for Government Accountability reported that the largest permanent increase in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in 2021 has been linked to a national spike in grocery prices.

Bjorn Lomborg-- The Cost of Climate Alarmism

How US Politicians Empower Anti-American Jihadists and Other Aggressors :: Gatestone Institute

How US Politicians Empower Anti-American Jihadists and Other Aggressors :: Gatestone Institute - by Bassam Tawil
"When people such as Vivek Ramaswamy, a candidate for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 US presidential election, call for decreasing aid to Israel, they are actually sending a message of support to the 
  • mullahs in Tehran and their proxies, 
  • Hamas and 
  • PIJ, as well as the 
  • Iran-funded Hezbollah terrorist militia in Lebanon and to 
  • nations that would like to see Israel and America "out of the way."

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Biden Admin Sought Power to Spy on TikTok Users, Moderate Content

Biden Admin Sought Power to Spy on TikTok Users, Moderate Content

In yet another sign of the Biden Administration’s determination to control, censor, and spy on American social media users, the draft of a proposed deal between Chinese-owned TikTok and the Biden administration shows the latter requesting extraordinary authority over the platform.

The proposed deal, outlined in a 100-page draft obtained by Forbes, would give the U.S. government the power to examine TikTok’s servers with no notice — something that could potentially allow the government to spy on American users.

"climate change fires"

 


Project Veritas v. James O’Keefe: Parties “engaged in productive discussions to attempt to resolve this case”

Project Veritas v. James O’Keefe: Parties “engaged in productive discussions to attempt to resolve this case” - William A. Jacobson
"Project Veritas is going down, according to multiple media reports. 
Turns out suing James was a bad business decision. 
A recent court filing by Project Veritas suggests there have been settlement negotiations to end the lawsuit.
Project Veritas and James O’Keefe, its founder and most identifiable personality, had a massive falling out, with lots of ugliness as PV went on the offensive.