My response to Senator Vance’s letter to the US Secretaries of State and Defense and the Director of National Intelligence asking about my role in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. pic.twitter.com/L6KuHgfyC5
— Sarah Ashton-Cirillo (Ukrainian TDF Media) (@SarahAshtonLV) September 18, 2023
They are in the middle of a war. Why are they talking about climate change and hiring a trans cultist who isn’t Ukrainian (or even speaks Ukrainian)? Shouldn’t they be worried about their war?
The want more money. Zelensky is there, asking for another $24 billion.
The United Auto Workers announced a strike against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis, as the union demands higher wages and “economic and social justice.”
Around 13,000 auto workers stopped working as picketing began outside a Ford factory in Wayne, Michigan; a GM assembly plant in Wentzville, Missouri; and a Stellantis Jeep plant in Toledo, Ohio. The strike comes after weeks of negotiations between the union and leadership at the automakers.
What is the union asking for?
A 40% raise.
Pension based pay raises.
Pension benefits for all tiers of worker received equally.
To work 32 hours a week but be paid for 40 hours.
Just a little FYI, the auto makers offered a 20-25% raise with inflation bumps.
All the other crap is nonsense.
This could be the end of the American auto industry or the end of unions. One is going to break.
California is doing their darndest to nationalize all business.
According to Fox Business:
“The new ‘AB 1228’ legislation has been voted into law and will result in a devastating financial blow to California McDonald’s franchisees at a projected annual cost of $250,000 per McDonald’s restaurant,” the advocacy group representing some 1,000 McDonald’s franchisees said in the memo obtained by FOX Business.
“These costs simply cannot be absorbed by the current business model.”
CNBC earlier reported on the NOA memo.
Among the bill’s key components:
It would raise the minimum wage for fast-food workers to $20 per hour.
It would apply to restaurants with at least 60 locations nationwide, except for restaurants that make and sell their own bread.
It would also create a 10-person council to govern fast-food chains and set guidelines for working conditions and wages.
When signing the original version of the legislation, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said, “California is committed to ensuring that the men and women who have helped build our world-class economy are able to share in the state’s prosperity. Today’s action gives hardworking fast-food workers a stronger voice and seat at the table to set fair wages and critical health and safety standards across the industry.”
I would assume that 10-person council is not going to have restaurant owners on it. This is pure fascism (bordering on communism).
People will point to the fact that it only affects franchises of 60 stores or more nationwide. That just makes the idea worse. Store owners who have 60 stores are, obviously, good with management. States should not be discouraging them to leave the state or not opening more stores in the state. It’s dumb.
This also does not help the economy. There will be more of a push to automate the business, eliminating jobs. It will raise the cost of the Big Mac which is already unreasonably high. This means less customers and more layoffs. Finally, this will close stores. Companies are not going to see the point of opening or maintaining a business if they have to pay $45 an hour to keep employees.
Last, we have forgotten the point of the fast food joint. A monkey can do that job. I know, I did it. This is a job for high school kids, not for adults trying to make ends meet. It’s for someone to gain experience so they can get a real job that pays something. If someone is at McDonald’s and not management. they shouldn’t bitch about not making any money. It is their decisions that are keeping them there and they will never be anything in society until they figure that out.
This is straight from the Soviet, Chinese and Cuba playbook. I told you that all this crap done my democrats is part of the plan. This is part of the plan.
According to the Post Millennial:
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has revealed that the city will be partnering with the Economic Security Project to explore the creation of a government-owned grocery store in order to assist “historically underserved communities.”
“All Chicagoans deserve to live near convenient, affordable, healthy grocery options. We know access to grocery stores is already a challenge for many residents, especially on the South and West sides,” said Mayor Brandon Johnson, according to an office press release. “A better, stronger, safer future is one where our youth and our communities have access to the tools and resources they need to thrive. My administration is committed to advancing innovative, whole-of-government approaches to address these inequities. I am proud to work alongside partners to take this step in envisioning what a municipally owned grocery store in Chicago could look like.”
Johnson’s release noted it aims to promote “food equity,” and that estimates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that “63.5% of residents in West Englewood and 52% of residents in East Garfield Park live more than half a mile from their nearest grocery store, whereas in West Town less than 1% of residents experience this barrier to food access.”
This initiative, if completed, would mark Chicago becoming the first major US city to launch a government-owned grocery store to deal with “food inequity,” according to the release.
The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence make asses out of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Like him or not, Kevin McCarthy gots himself some balls and looks to know how to deal with the media.
And do moral standards mean much anymore? After how I reacted to two stories this weekend, I think not.
News
Here is some news:
A teenage driver has been arrested after he allegedly used a car to ram into at least one car as well as a cyclist in Las Vegas last weekend. The cyclist succumbed to his injuries and was reported dead after the incident.
Andreas Probst, the man who died after being hit, was a retired police chief who had served in law enforcement for 35 years.
They also hit at least one car though I heard they hit two.
If you watch the video, this was all intentional. They meant to hit everyone including the biker.
Those a-holes should spend the rest of their lives in prison.
A member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, an anti-Christian ‘drag nun‘ group that has been honored by Scott Wiener as well as the Los Angeles Dodgers, was arrested in California’s Humbolt County last month after he was said to have publicly masturbated for an hour.
“According to numerous witnesses, Ellis-Gilmore had been at that location for approximately one hour, sitting in his truck with the door open, masturbating,” stated a sheriff’s report on the incident, which occurred at around 6:41 p.m. on August 12. “The conduct does not appear to have been directed at anyone in particular.”
The Peel District School Board (PDSB) decided to eliminate all books published in 2008 or earlier, according to CBC News.
These include The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
One student said: “This year, I came into my school library and there are rows and rows of empty shelves with absolutely no books,” Takata told CBC. The student estimates about 50 percent of the library has been removed.
Why? According to the Post Millennial: The blanket censorship is a result of an Ontario Ministry of Education decree on equity that demands all books available to students are inclusive. Apparently, at least one school apparently determined that 2008 was the demarcation line between acceptable, inclusive books and those that do not meet this undefined standard. Weeding by publication date may explain why The Very Hungry Caterpillar is unavailable in a Toronto School, Diane Lawson of Libraries not Landfills was told by a kindergarten teacher.
In other words, who knows?
Coming to a country near you.
If you doubt structural racism can impact people’s lives, you need to watch this video. pic.twitter.com/DqJdOS797D
Speaker Kevin McCarthy announces inquiry into Biden impeachment: "We are committed to getting the answers for the American public." pic.twitter.com/awzsvca357
AP reported that McCarthy's impeachment inquiry was launched "without evidence.” Here’s McCarthy forcing an AP reporter to admit that there was lots of evidence to support an impeachment inquiry. pic.twitter.com/lgzU1BNNlE
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) released a statement late this week apologizing for her actions that led to her being thrown out of a “Beetlejuice” musical last weekend.
Denver Arts & Venues said in a statement that they received three different complaints that Boebert and her new boyfriend were “vaping, singing, causing a disturbance.”
She was also wearing a rather risky outfit and was getting felt up by her boyfriend. She ended up getting kicked out of the theater.
Russell Brand
According to Fox News:
Actor and comedian Russell Brand has been accused of the rape and sexual assault of four women.
Brand, 48, denied the allegations in a video shared to his social media platforms on Friday, as he insisted his relationships have been “consensual.”
The actor said he received several messages from major media companies claiming he was involved in “very serious criminal allegations,” which he described as a “litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks,” on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Four women have claimed Brand sexually assaulted them between the years of 2006 and 2013, according to The Sunday Times.
The allegations come after a joint investigation has been made public by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches.
He added this was a time during his career when he was working “in the mainstream … As I have written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous [at that time].”
“Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent, and I am being transparent about it now as well,” Brand continued.
Brand is not exactly a right-wing guy but he has been outspoken about free speech, freedom of religion and Leftism in general. Just last week, he was bitching about something that went vital that would have made conservatives proud. Shockingly, this comes up.
I call bullshit. The most recent accusation is 10 years ago with one almost 20 years ago and none of this came up until he pissed off the Left. Also, the media is all in on this
I also wanted to see the reaction of the news media. They are already calling him guilty. This is all BS.
When conservatives say something, calls for the death penalty can be heard throughout the entire media and social media. But when Joe Biden says things like this, it’s ignored:
BIDEN: "…particularly for African Americans and Hispanic workers and veterans — you know, the workers without high school diplomas" pic.twitter.com/CZyCx23M8Z
Beauty giant Dove has partnered with a Black Lives Matter activist to promote “fat liberation,” after she was accused of wrongfully getting a white student expelled from her university over a “misheard” remark.
Zyanha Bryant, a community organizer and student activist studying at the University of Virginia, made the announcement she was a “Dove ambassador” on her Instagram page at the end of August, as she spoke about her goal of ending the stigma of being overweight.
Here’s what she said. See if you can make sense of it:
In other words, I am morbidly obese and am disgusting and you must honor me. Well, this story gets worse.
But even though Bryant has been praised for her work with Black Lives Matter and getting the Robert E. Lee statue taken down in Charlottesville, she has also come under fire in recent months for her efforts to get a white student named Morgan Bettinger suspended from campus.
She claimed Bettinger referred to BLM protesters as “good speed bumps” in the summer of 2020 — only to later admit she may have “misheard” her.
The incident began in July 2020, when Bettinger mistakenly drove down a street where BLM protesters had gathered.
She told Reason magazine she saw a dump truck partially blocking the road, but because the street was not completely blocked off, she continued driving.
When she realized the road was actually being blocked off from traffic, Bettinger said, she decided to park her car and see what was going on.
As she passed by, Bettinger said, the truck driver began talking to her, and the two had a brief conversation.
Bettinger says she remembered telling the truck driver something along the lines of, “It’s a good thing that you are here because otherwise these people would have been speed bumps,” trying to praise his efforts to block traffic.
The driver later corroborated Bettinger’s remark to local cops.
But Bryant overheard part of the conversation and tweeted that she said the protesters “would make ‘good speedbumps’” along with a video showing Bettinger backing down the street in her car while Bryant and several other protesters follow.
“She then called the police and started crying, saying we were attacking her,” Bryant claimed.
The tweet was quickly shared more than a thousand times, and internet sleuths soon identified the driver as Bettinger.
The fact that she had pro-police social media posts, and her late father had worked as a police officer, only seemed to irritate people more, according to the Daily Mail.
Just one day later, Bryant began demanding that school administrators expel Bettinger.
“EMAIL these UVA deans now to demand that Morgan face consequences for her actions and that UVA stop graduating racists,” she tweeted.
Bryant herself filed a complaint with the University Judiciary Committee, a student-run disciplinary system, alleging Bettinger had threatened students’ health and safety.
It found Bettinger guilty of making a legitimate threat against the protesters, despite being unable to prove Bryant’s claims about her intentions.
The jurors ruled that even saying the words in a harmless manner during a protest merited punishment, according to documents obtained by Reason magazine.
Bryant also filed a complaint with the school’s Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights, in which she claimed Bettinger repeated the statement five times and had discriminated against her due to her race.
The EOCR office found that three of the five accusations could not be corroborated, and a report found Bryant most likely did not hear Bettinger’s comments firsthand after no eyewitnesses were able to corroborate her version of events.
Bettinger eventually graduated from UVA but with a permanent mark on her record, Reason reported, likely hindering her chances of getting into law school as she had dreamed.
“This whole situation has had a huge impact on my life,” she told Reason magazine. “The university has never had to answer for what their actions have done.”
Bettinger is said to be considering bringing a lawsuit against school officials, seeking to get her record cleared.
None of what she is claiming is actionable. Even if this woman DID say something, it is not actionable. That’s because she has free speech. But, since she lied to the school and the police, she should be kicked out of school and arrested.
Of course, she won’t be because she’s black and fat. Instead she was profiled in the Washington Post and being named to Ebony’s “Power 100” list last year. Oh, yeah, and she was given a sponsorship by Dove.
It’s OK though. She’s morbidly obese and celebrates it. She will be incapacitated in a couple of years.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Sunday granted an “absolute pardon” to the father who was arrested at a school board meeting after the superintendent lied about his daughter’s rape by a skirt-wearing boy.
The pardon says that in June 2021, Scott Smith “exercised his constitutional right to attend a public meeting of the Loudoun County School Board to observe the proceedings, during which time a community member threatened to spread false and malicious information about Mr. Smith’s business with the intent to damage his reputation.”
“After an ensuing verbal confrontation, Scott Thomas Smith was charged with Obstruction of Justice and Disorderly Conduct,” and Smith was quickly convicted, even though an appeals court later disqualified the prosecutor due to concerns about “the integrity of the prosecution,” the pardon continues.
“WHEREAS Scott Thomas Smith has been publicly and falsely accused of ‘domestic terrorism’ and ‘hate crimes’ for attempting to advocate for his daughter, a victim of sexual assault… I have decided it is just and appropriate to grant this ABSOLUTE PARDON that reflects Scott Thomas Smith’s factual innocence,” it concludes.
Smith’s story galvanized parents who were concerned that schools had sacrificed student safety and academic rigor for ideology. Youngkin’s pledge to be a voice for those parents helped usher him into office a month after The Daily Wire revealed Smith’s story.
Claims that “woke” Pentagon policies are fueling a massive U.S. military recruiting crisis are overblown – and the criticisms may only be making things worse, one expert said.
Peter Feaver, a Duke University professor and former member of the National Security Council during the Clinton and Bush administrations, said concerns over so-called “woke” policies have been blown out of proportion by politicians and critics. The main driver of the crisis are issues such as the current labor market and the shrinking pool of young Americans who are qualified to serve, he said.
“Because of drug use, obesity or health concerns, it’s just a smaller pool than it was even two years ago,” Feaver told Fox News Digital. “These are the big drivers.”
Feaver recently released a book titled “Thanks For Your Service,” which takes a deep dive into declining public confidence in the military. At the heart of that issue, Feaver said, is the politicization of the military by both parties. Feaver cited a Gallup poll released In July that showed public confidence in the military at 60%, noting that while that number compares favorably to other U.S. institutions, it represents a worrying trend for the military.
According to the poll, the 60% number has not been this low since 1997 and hasn’t been lower than 60% since 1988, when 58% of respondents expressed confidence in the military. Those lower numbers of the 1980s, which hovered between 50% and 63%, were during a particularly trying time in American foreign policy, Gallup noted, amid the Cold War and high-profile events such as the Iran hostage crisis.
Gallup recorded a number as high as 74% public confidence in the military as recently as 2018, but that number slid sharply in the wake of other high-profile events such as the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The drop has been most pronounced among independents, with only 55% expressing confidence in the military in Gallup’s most recent polling – down from 73% as recently as 2019.
“On the margins, that’s going to make recruiting a little more difficult,” Feaver said.
Feaver argued that much of the blame for declining public confidence can be pinned on politics, including claims that the military has become “woke.”
That point seemingly aligns with the stance of Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, who told reporters earlier this year that critics of the military are damaging its image and playing a role in its recruiting woes.
Yeah, wokeness is part of the reason people aren’t joining the military. People join the military to get away from this.
But it gets worse.
According to Fox News:
The White House is threatening to veto House Republican legislation that would give the military’s junior enlisted troops a 30% raise next year.
“If the president were presented with H.R. 4365, he would veto it.,” the White House said in a press release addressing the proposed legislation Monday.
At issue is the Pentagon spending bill advanced by the House Appropriations Committee earlier this year and scheduled to be voted on by the full House this week.
It includes language that would ensure no member of the military would make less than the equivalent of $15 per hour during a 40-hour work week.
That seems reasonable, right? So why would the White House threaten veto the bill.
But the White House has pushed back against the bill, claiming in that release that its current language includes “partisan policy provisions with devastating consequences, including harming access to reproductive health care, threatening the health and safety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex (LGBTQI+) Americans, endangering marriage equality, hindering critical climate change initiatives and preventing the administration from promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Do you think this is going to fix the hiring crisis?
YouTube mom Ruby Franke accused her children of being abusers at a court hearing to determine where the children should be sheltered while she faces six charges of felony child abuse.
According to the Daily Mail, the 41-year-old claimed that one of her children began watching porn at three years old and that one had sexually abused a younger sibling for years, and eventually abused other family members and children in the neighborhood.
She claims that the child confessed in May to abusing 20 different people but was unable to prove any of the allegations. Based on the accusations, the judge said the child “will need to be placed in a home with no other children.”
At one moment during the hearing, an attorney in the public viewing area stood up and asked the judge to listen to the statement of one of the alleged victims’ mother who was in the courtroom. The judge said the details could be brought up at a later date when she denied the request.
Ruby Franke’s husband, through his lawyer, informed the press that “He’s been instructed by the court not to comment to the press. Out of respect for the children involved we have no comment.”
Franke is the creator of a YouTube channel called “8 Passengers,” which made her known for her strict parenting style. She was arrested on August 30 for alleged child abuse after police found two juvenile children at her home who “appeared to be emaciated and malnourished with open wounds and duct tape around extremities.”
The Santa Clara-Ivins Public Safety Department in Washington County, Utah, said it had received a call from a dispatcher of a juvenile asking for food and water. “The conditions were so severe that they were seen by Santa Clara-Ivins EM and transported to a local area hospital,” its statement read.
After she and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt were arrested, Franke’s family appeared relieved. Her oldest daughter Shari, 20, said on social media, “Today has been a big day. Me and my family are so glad justice is being served.”
A baby boy’s eyes temporarily changed from dark brown to bright blue after receiving a common COVID-19 treatment.
The 6-month-old from Thailand was diagnosed with COVID-19 after suffering from a fever and a cough for a day, as detailed in a case published in the medical journal Frontiers in Pediatrics.
Shockingly, about 18 hours after beginning the medication, the child’s mother noticed that his dark brown eyes had turned bright blue.
The concerned mother contacted medical professionals and was instructed to stop the treatment immediately.
After about five days, the discoloration faded and the child’s cornea returned to its original color. The infant was examined by doctors, who found the cornea had cleared and lacked a bluish hue, while no blue pigment deposit was noted on the surface of the iris or the anterior lens capsule.
R&B singer Akon is hyping his centrally planned community in Senegal, the country of his childhood, promising that every African American who invests with him will become a millionaire. In addition, he says if they collectively leave the U.S. for Africa, they could do real damage to the country that has oppressed them so much.
The 50-year-old artist, whose real name is Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent much of his childhood in Senegal. Consequently, he is a big believer in Africa.
“If you’re coming from America or Europe or elsewhere in the diaspora and you feel that you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be your first stop,” Akon said in 2020 of the reported $6 billion project.
The “Angel” singer is so sure about Africa that he has planned the construction of a new city in Senegal. He launched his settlement in 2020 with the cooperation of the country of Senegal with the hopes of creating a high-tech community with an economy based on his “Akoin” cryptocurrency.
Akon — who has been repeatedly accused of mistreatingwomen and in 2008 was seen on video punching a female fan in the face — was recently heard selling his pan-African city idea on a podcast called REVOLT. During the show, the singer claimed that the African continent is the “holy grail” for black Americans because its people need “everything.”
He stated in a podcast:
“Africa is in a position where if African Americans take position now, every single African American would be a millionaire without even thinking twice because there’s nothing that’s not needed over there,” Akon said. “So, you guys come with the discipline, you guys come with the knowledge, you come with the resources.”
“We literally built America with our bare hands. Our labor, our sweat, our blood. But we’ve never — not only did we never get reparations for it, we never even got credit for it. We never even got recognized for it. And I think that’s what builds so much animosity and anger within our community itself, because we know how much our contribution is worth, but we never got our just due for what [sic] the contribution given.
“I mean, you name it. We’re leading in every single sector,” he told the podcast hosts. “Just imagine if we all just decided to just take all our bags, withdrew [sic] all our money, and go to Africa. Where would America be today? It would collapse overnight.”
Republicans have started an impeachment inquiry. Leave it to them to f-up a sure victory.
More communism from the weaponized FBI. If people could read today, they’d realize Orwell, Huxley, Solzhenitsyn and Zamyatkin wrote about this 100 years ago.
And, for the love of God, just get out of California!
The chickens have come home to roost for Joe Biden and the democrats.
According to the Daily Wire:
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) laid out the evidence against President Joe Biden and accused the president of lying about his family’s foreign business dealings in a Tuesday letter to his colleagues detailing why he had launched an impeachment inquiry.
“Through our investigations, we have found that President Biden lied to the American people about knowledge of his family’s foreign business dealings,” McCarthy wrote in the letter.
The inquiry will be headed up by Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY), Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH), and Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO).
Democrats have the typical reactions.
This is a waste of time.
This is a waste of money.
There is not evidence.
This is a deflection from Trump’s indictments.
Then there is John Fetterman’s response. His was the best and most reasonable:
.@SenFettermanPA reacts to Speaker McCarthy moving forward with a House impeachment inquiry into POTUS…
This is a very risky move. There is a bare majority in the House and there’s no way to pass in the Senate. But an impeachment would be a great thing for the country. Yes, it is revenge for what they did for Trump. But it also has some real benefits. First, it lays out the evidence that is out there against Biden. And there is a lot of it. Witnesses, E-mails, text messages, voice mails and bank records. People are going to wonder where Biden got $20 million (which we already know).
Second, it does put the focus on Joe Biden. Trump needs to get out of the spotlight. We need to make this about Biden. The question is going to be whether the narcissist Trump will let Biden take the spotlight.
But leave it to Republicans to f- it up. There are a bunch of Republicans that are vocally against this, basically clutching defeat from the jaws of victory.
We are getting so close to Soviet-style communism in this country, it is scary. The above story is an example. Here’s another one.
According to Fox News:
The FBI returned a Los Angeles woman’s life savings — money she was keeping to buy a house — after seizing it two years earlier with no explanation.
Despite never being charged with a crime, the FBI seized Linda Martin’s safe deposit box during a March 2021 raid through administrative forfeiture, a move that enables federal agencies to seize property without judicial involvement. She went years without explanation, but her $40,200 was returned in July after she filed a nationwide class action lawsuit with the Institute for Justice (IJ) in March 2023.
“I’m relieved to finally have my savings back, but it has been a confusing and frustrating process from the moment it was taken,” Martin said in a statement IJ released in July.
“I had to prove my innocence to keep my own money,” she added. “No one should be treated that way and I’m going to keep fighting so that others don’t suffer the same way I did.”
So much for, “innocent until proven guilty.”
Martin plans to continue pushing her position in federal court to “end of the FBI’s practice of sending unconstitutional forfeiture notices.” IJ hopes that the case will help others in similar situations across the nation.
She shouldn’t have to do this. It is already against the law to do this. It’s written into the Constitution.
In the statement, IJ accused the FBI of trying to “hurriedly” return the money “to avoid any accountability.”
Martin’s money was taken during a raid of a Beverly Hills-based safe deposit box company, U.S. Private Vaults, which later shut down and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder drug money. In total, about $86 million in cash and property in 1,400 customers’ safe deposit boxes were taken.
“They were just supposed to identify owners so they could claim their property,” IJ stated. “But the FBI instead acted on its months-old plan to search and try to forfeit the contents of any box worth more than $5,000.”
All this is straight out of Alexander Sholesnetzin book, The Gulag Archipelago. Already our First, Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendment rights are being trashed. It is only a matter of time before some President ignores the 22nd Amendment and becomes President for life. That happened in the Soviet Union and China.
Speaking of taking right away, here comes California. Anyone who stays in this shithole state and votes for all these people gets what they deserve. California is lost. It isn’t going to recover. We are a tyrannical state.
According to the Daily Wire:
California may soon require judges to look at whether a parent goes along with a child’s “gender identity” during custody disputes, worrying advocates who say parents could lose custody if they don’t agree with a child’s claims to be transgender.
The Democrat-backed bill, AB 957, passed the State Assembly on Friday and the State Senate on Thursday. If signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom, the bill would require judges to consider whether a parent “affirms” a child’s “gender identity” among other factors during custody battles.
According to the bill, “the health, safety, and welfare of the child includes, among other comprehensive factors, a parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity or gender expression. Affirmation includes a range of actions and will be unique for each child, but in every case must promote the child’s overall health and well-being.”
You can raise your kids as long as you raise them in adherence to the state. If the state believes in a lie, we all must believe in the lie.
Remember, 2+2=5. If you believe it equals four, you will be re-educated (tortured) until you believe it equals five. I think I read that someplace.
Here is state rep and writer of AB957, Lori Wilson. She is better than you, is smarter than you, and mother of a trans boy. That proves she’s better than you. She talks about why you need to do what she did:
This is California State Rep. Lori Wilson, who wrote AB 957: "Parents affirm their children. Typically it happens when their gender identity matches their biological gender. But when it doesn't, the affirmation starts to wane… Our duty as parents is to affirm our children." pic.twitter.com/KP2Z9sksmp
If my child wants to run across the 10 freeway, should I affirm that?
Actually, our job as parents is not to affirm what our kids think. It is to teach them about the realities of life. To teach our children the truth so they grow up balanced and productive so they can live fulfilling lives. Affirming everything your kid thinks is easy but that kid will not grow up with reality.
Is it a wonder that 40% of trans kids end up killing themselves?
I wasn’t going to talk about this but now it has gotten too stupid to ignore.
According the New York Post:
Democratic Virginia House of Delegates candidate Susanna Gibson blasted her opponents for engaging in “the worst gutter politics” after videos surfaced of her and her husband performing sex acts online for cash.
Gibson, a 40-year-old mother of two who is running in a hotly contested race to represent the state’s District 57, hosted several live webcam shows on the adult streaming website Chaturbate, the Washington Post revealed in a bombshell report Monday.
The nurse practitioner has since railed against her political opponents, accusing them of engaging in dirty politics.
She called the controversy “an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me.”
“My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up,” Gibson told CNN in a statement on Tuesday.
She is having sex on camera. She is asking people what they want to see. She is watching men jerk off while she is having sex. She is asking them for more money. Now, she is a victim?
Joe Biden has a weird way of celebrating the September 11th remembrance. Let’s look at it.
Dumbass of the Day
Why is it so challenging for Vice President @KamalaHarris to construct a straightforward sentence?
READ: "I feel very strongly about the importance as a general matter of engaging in U.S. policy as it relates to foreign affairs in a way that we pay attention, of course, to the… pic.twitter.com/xwpYPmB6Z6
I have to tell you, 9/11, which should be a slam dunk for every president, was really screwed up by Joe Biden. Joe Biden decided to go to Alaska to do a 9/11 ceremony. Why Alaska? Because it is a refueling stop on the way from Vietnam back to Washington DC.
Believe it or not, many are glad he didn’t go to New York, especially
Biden opens his 9/11 remarks in Alaska: "The governor and I have something in common: we're both from Scranton, Pennsylvania. I wish I had him playing on my high school ball club when I was playing. I could've been an All-American." pic.twitter.com/a9D63la9Pf
The Biden administration’s announcement on Monday that it unlocked at least $6 billion — and as much as $16 billion, according to Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, — in sanctions relief for Iran’s regime as part of prisoner swap deal unleashed a storm of criticism.
Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with others, fired back at the administration for its alleged secrecy surrounding the deal.
“President Biden has established a secret nuclear deal with the Iranian regime that is being kept from Congress and the American people. Today’s news confirms there has already been a side deal including a $6 billion ransom and the release of Iranian operatives,” Cruz wrote in a statement.
JOE BIDEN: “The Indian looks at John Wayne and points to the Union soldier and says, 'He's a lying, dog-faced pony soldier!' Well there's a lot of lying, dog-faced pony soldiers out there about global warming..”
This is coming to all of us if we do not stand up and stop it.
According to the Daily Wire:
New Mexico Democrat Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham banned people from being able to carry guns in Albuquerque and the surrounding county for at least the next 30 days after a kid was killed during a road rage incident.
Grisham signed an executive order on Thursday declaring that gun violence was a public health emergency in the Democrat-controlled state.
On Friday, Grisham unilaterally suspended open and concealed carry laws in Albuquerque and the surrounding area. She said that she could further lengthen or renew her order — which was immediately slammed by many as being unconstitutional.
But that is not all. Her reasons are incredible. Here is her entire comment about the issue while she is being pressed hard on the subject:
After suspending the right to carry firearms, New Mexico’s Governor just said her duty to uphold her oath to the constitution is "not absolute" pic.twitter.com/wY3xSwIUIs
This is the problem with emergency legislation. The people that make them think they have no limits, they can implement them for anything they conflate into an emergency (that’s what they are doing with climate change) and they never give back their power (we saw this with the China virus). By the way, there is nothing in the Constitution about emergency legislation.
Laws aren’t absolute? What’s the point of having them is we can just change them anytime we want? Finally, does that mean we can all change the laws we don’t like or is it just the people in charge? That doesn’t seem fair.
Of course this is all BS. Laws are absolute, that’s why there is a process to change laws. Slavery, voting rights for blacks and women and Jim Crow laws were all considered terrible. But we couldn’t just decide they no longer applied. They had to change those laws.
The Second Amendment is also very clear: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. In other words, the law states that politicians do not have the right to infringe on our right. PERIOD!
Safety is always an issue with freedom. We have to give up our guns to be safe. This is a straw man argument. There is no way for the government to guarantee out safety because safety cannot be guaranteed for anything. Who’s to say all those people she listed wouldn’t be alive if a good person didn’t have a gun and was able to use it against the bad guy with a gun?
What is the government going to do anyway? Most of the cases she mentioned were already susceptible to the current gun laws. A fourteen year old is not allowed to have a gun. He stole it. A crime was already committed. Felons are not allowed to have guns. They get them anyway. The crime has already been committed. Where was the government then when those crimes were committed?
It’s a cliché but it does apply. If it is criminal to have a gun, only criminals will have guns. And they will get them. Let us not forget, this is a broad who is for keeping criminals out of jail!
The backlash has been immense. Gun rights groups are suing. Citizens are protesting. Law enforcement is saying they will not enforce the law because it violates the Constitution. Some are calling for her to be impeached, kicked out of office and even arrested. Seem extreme? I don’t think so.
This dumb broad admitted she lied when she took her oath. It shouldn’t be a surprise coming from an atheist making an oath to God and country. But this is illegal because it is a form a perjury. There should be legal action taken.
That’s the last reason she should be kicked out of office. If she’s too stupid not to make a statement like this on television, she’s too stupid to be governor.
A gun safe manufacturer does the unthinkable and a boycott is on the way.
Everything is more expensive and this is causing Gen-Z so much stress, we might have a run on Cialis.
And the secular left cannot leave any of the religious alone, no matter how insignificant their traditions.
Dumbasses of the Day
Leave it to The View:
"They need to be resettled elsewhere" The View calls for the illegals in New York City to be dumped in other communities across the U.S. because "this is a massive country." pic.twitter.com/3bhCpLXXvi
The Biden administration is considering forcing some migrant families who enter the country without authorization to remain near the border in Texas while awaiting asylum screening, effectively limiting their ability to travel within the United States, three U.S. officials told The Times.
Administration officials have been considering the idea as a way to stem recent increases in the numbers of migrant families crossing the southern border, which reportedly reached an all-time high last month. Supporters of the remain-in-Texas idea, which has yet to be finalized, hope that it would help the administration advance its goals of quickly deporting families who fail initial asylum screenings and deterring other families from crossing in the first place.
But the proposal, which recalls President Reagan’s efforts to limit asylum seekers’ movements in the late 1980s, is likely to draw fierce opposition from immigrant rights groups and border-state officials. Since 2022, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, has bused thousands of migrants out of his state to Democrat-run cities such as Los Angeles, New York and Washington, D.C.
This is all in response to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston and Washington D.C. which are bitching about too many illegal alien in their cities.
The article continues:
The Biden plan would force certain migrant families to remain in Texas — or possibly other border states — by tracking their location through GPS monitoring devices, such as ankle bracelets, according to the three officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly on the matter. The families would be put through an asylum screening process to determine whether they could stay in the U.S. and proceed with their claims. Officials have discussed working with local organizations to provide housing for the families.
If the families failed their initial screenings, they’d be easier to deport because they’d be close to the border.
Calls are mounting for a Bud Light-style boycott of gun safe manufacturer Liberty Safe after it gave the FBI access to an alleged Jan. 6, 2021, rioter’s firearms.
The manufacturer acknowledged the widespread conservative backlash after it complied with a federal warrant that led to the Aug. 30 arrest of an Arkansas man for his alleged involvement in the Capitol riots.
Liberty Safe said it only gave the feds an access code to 34-year-old Nathan Hughes’ gun safe after receiving proof of the warrant.
“Our company’s protocol is to provide access codes to law enforcement if a warrant grants them access to a property,” the company said in a Tuesday statement.
“After receiving the request, we received proof of the valid warrant, and only then did we provide them with an access code.”
Liberty Safe added that it wasn’t aware of any case details when it handed over the code.
That’s Not the Only Reason
According to the New York Post:
The cost-of-living crisis isn’t just murdering their financial savings, it’s killing Generation Z’s sex lives.
According to Bumble’s 2023 Sex Index, 65 percent of single Gen Zers have reported their sex lives are impacted by their living situations.
It is a phenomenon known as being “home-blocked,” where your living situation impacts, or perhaps is even ruining, your sex life.
Your early 20s are meant to be all about sexual experimentation — but how on Earth are you meant to do that when you can hear your parents watching the latest Nicole Kidman HBO series in the next room?
A 2022 study found that more Gen Zers live at home with their parents than any previous generation in history, with 54% of young people not leaving the nest.
The economy seems to be driving these record-high numbers, with inflation rising 3.3% in July, according to the Fed’s preferred index.
The impact is pretty clear because Generation Z are now more likely to stay at home longer and more likely to go crawling back to their parents’ house.
The town of Ocean Grove, New Jersey, is under fire again, this time facing pressures to open its beach on Sunday mornings, a time when it’s historically been closed.
For generations, the privately owned seaside town known as “God’s Square Mile” has kept its beach closed on Sunday mornings up until 12 noon so that its residents can attend church and engage in religious worship. The area of Ocean Grove was founded on Christian values.
Now, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) has put Ocean Grove in the hot seat by issuing a warning letter stating the town is disobeying the law by cutting off access to the ocean and wet sand — which is public property.
The warning letter, sent to the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association (OGCMA) on Aug. 7, reads, “The Permittee cannot limit vertical or horizontal public access to any dry sand beach area covered under this permit nor interfere with the public’s right to free use of the dry sand for intermittent recreational purposes connected with the ocean and wet sand.”
“The activities involve the use of chain and padlock barriers to deter public access to the beach during daylight hours,” the warning claimed.
This is much ado about nothing. Apparently, this is not done every Sunday but only on certain holidays, 15 Sundays a years.
This whole think was started by 100 people who were throwing a fit that a privately owned, beach property was controlled by a religious group. People did trespass. Guess what happened? Nothing. So they decided to complain about it.
Mexican officials installed a remnant of the Berlin wall near the U.S. southern border last month to teach “a lesson” about knocking down walls and building bridges.
The historic concrete slab right was placed next to the border wall in Tijuana – across from San Diego – with a message that seemed to advocate for allowing more illegal immigrants refuge in the United States. The move comes as record numbers of families crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in August and as critics say President Joe Biden’s immigration policies have caused the “Biden Border Crisis.”
“May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” a plaque by the base of the Berlin Wall relic reads.
Fuck you! How dare Mexico, one of the most corrupt countries in the world try to play the moral high ground.
First, the Berlin wall was meant to keep people in, not keep people out. Trust me, no one wants to get into their shithole country.
It isn’t just people that are coming in (which, by the way, are all felons by crossing). It is felons of Mexico, drug smugglers, gang members, terrorists, human traffickers (including sex trafficking) and human organ traffickers (yes, human organ trafficking).
Regular people coming over are looking for jobs and healthcare which they can’t get in their shithole country.
Mexico gets a benefit, remittances. Mexico’s main export is people!
Mexico is an extremely racist country. If a Honduran tries to sneak over their southern border, they beat the shit out of him or rape her and send them back. No bureaucratic or paperwork BS.
Americans who live in Mexico also face bigotry, can be deported and have no rights, including owning property.
Yeah, Mexico ain’t the bastion of freedom and equality.
A baby boy’s eyes temporarily changed from dark brown to bright blue after receiving a common COVID-19 treatment.
The 6-month-old from Thailand was diagnosed with COVID-19 after suffering from a fever and a cough for a day, as detailed in a case published in the medical journal Frontiers in Pediatrics.
Shockingly, about 18 hours after beginning the medication, the child’s mother noticed that his dark brown eyes had turned bright blue.
The concerned mother contacted medical professionals and was instructed to stop the treatment immediately.
After about five days, the discoloration faded and the child’s cornea returned to its original color. The infant was examined by doctors, who found the cornea had cleared and lacked a bluish hue, while no blue pigment deposit was noted on the surface of the iris or the anterior lens capsule.
R&B singer Akon is hyping his centrally planned community in Senegal, the country of his childhood, promising that every African American who invests with him will become a millionaire. In addition, he says if they collectively leave the U.S. for Africa, they could do real damage to the country that has oppressed them so much.
The 50-year-old artist, whose real name is Aliaune Damala Badara Thiam, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and spent much of his childhood in Senegal. Consequently, he is a big believer in Africa.
“If you’re coming from America or Europe or elsewhere in the diaspora and you feel that you want to visit Africa, we want Senegal to be your first stop,” Akon said in 2020 of the reported $6 billion project.
The “Angel” singer is so sure about Africa that he has planned the construction of a new city in Senegal. He launched his settlement in 2020 with the cooperation of the country of Senegal with the hopes of creating a high-tech community with an economy based on his “Akoin” cryptocurrency.
Akon — who has been repeatedly accused of mistreatingwomen and in 2008 was seen on video punching a female fan in the face — was recently heard selling his pan-African city idea on a podcast called REVOLT. During the show, the singer claimed that the African continent is the “holy grail” for black Americans because its people need “everything.”
He stated in a podcast:
“Africa is in a position where if African Americans take position now, every single African American would be a millionaire without even thinking twice because there’s nothing that’s not needed over there,” Akon said. “So, you guys come with the discipline, you guys come with the knowledge, you come with the resources.”
“We literally built America with our bare hands. Our labor, our sweat, our blood. But we’ve never — not only did we never get reparations for it, we never even got credit for it. We never even got recognized for it. And I think that’s what builds so much animosity and anger within our community itself, because we know how much our contribution is worth, but we never got our just due for what [sic] the contribution given.
“I mean, you name it. We’re leading in every single sector,” he told the podcast hosts. “Just imagine if we all just decided to just take all our bags, withdrew [sic] all our money, and go to Africa. Where would America be today? It would collapse overnight.”
St. Barrack Obama appears not to be too much of a saint.
Hunter Biden might finally be in some trouble. Or is he?
And we have websites for everything, so I ask you, why not?
News
Here is some news:
Hunter Biden is expected to be indicted on a federal gun charge by the end of September, Special Counsel David Weiss’ team told U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika on Wednesday.
The expected charges come after an original plea agreement collapsed in July. Hunter Biden was expected to plead guilty in July to two misdemeanor tax counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax as part of a plea deal to avoid jail time on a felony gun charge.
Hunter Biden was forced to plead not guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and one felony gun charge.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, which manages the funds of the foundation the Microsoft co-founder still runs with his ex-wife, purchased 1.7 million shares of Anheuser-Busch last quarter, according to a regulatory filing. The transaction is valued at $95 million.
Could this be a way for Bud Light to be pulled out of the gutter? Doubt it.
Could this be a Great Reset thing? Maybe.
A federal judge Wednesday ordered Texas to remove floating buoys from the Rio Grande no later than Sept. 15.
Gov. Greg Abbott deployed the buoys in July to curb the flow of illegal immigrants to the state. The plan was part of the Republican governor’s broader Operation Lone Star.
Texas installed the buoy barrier near the border town of Eagle Pass, with anchors in the riverbed. Eagle Pass is part of a Border Patrol sector that has seen the second-highest number of migrant crossings this fiscal year with about 270,000 encounters — though that figure is lower than it was at this time last year.
The buoys brought a swift legal challenge from the U.S. Justice Department, which accused Texas of putting a barrier on the international boundary without permission. President Biden’s administration also said the water barrier raised humanitarian and environmental concerns.
Abbott said his administration planned to appeal Wednesday’s decision by U.S. District Judge David Ezra.
“Today’s court decision merely prolongs President Biden’s willful refusal to acknowledge that Texas is rightfully stepping up to do the job that he should have been doing all along. This ruling is incorrect and will be overturned on appeal,” Abbott said in a statement. “We will continue to utilize every strategy to secure the border, including deploying Texas National Guard soldiers and Department of Public Safety troopers and installing strategic barriers. Our battle to defend Texas’ sovereign authority to protect lives from the chaos caused by President Biden’s open border policies has only begun. Texas is prepared to take this fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.”
They will lose, even if this goes to the Supreme Court. So keep sending the illegal aliens to the sanctuary cities and states.
India might be changing names…sort of.
In a dinner invitation sent to G20 summit attendees, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was referred to as “Prime Minister of Bharat” — signaling an unprecedented eagerness to leave behind the term “India.”
“India” and “Bharat” are considered interchangable terms within the country — but both domestically and internationally, “India” is the much more widely used name for the nation.
Is this a huge big deal. It is to the Hindus even though India has been the name for over a 1000 years.
The opposition party is recommending keeping both names.
The Pentagon on Thursday announced the launch of a new website with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which will provide the public with declassified information about UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).
Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said at a press briefing that the new website will provide the public with information including videos and photos associated with resolved UAP cases as they are declassified and approved for public release.
Other information the general said would be available includes reports, trends and a frequently asked questions section, as well as links to official reports, transcripts, press releases and other resources the public may find useful.
Western Heights Public School District in Oklahoma is defending its decision to hire a drag queen who was arrested on child porn charges, the Daily Caller has learned.
Dr. Shane Brent Murnan, 52, was hired as an elementary school principal at John Glenn Elementary, the Substack V1sut first reported. In a Facebook post, Murnan celebrated a “new district and new respect,” according to the report. Murnan’s personal Facebook page appears to have since been deleted.
Murnan had his personal devices confiscated by police in 2001 on suspicion of possession of child pornography, according to V1sut. Then a fifth-grade teacher at Will Rogers Elementary School in Stillwater, Oklahoma, Murnan was arrested two weeks after the confiscation. Appeals Court Associate Judge Dave Allen said that it was “clear from a review of the pictures that they do represent child pornography,” The Oklahoman reported at the time.
Payne County District Judge Donald L. Worthington dismissed the charge against Murnan in August 2002, after Murnan’s attorneys said that he obtained the pictures by accident, and maintained that the age of the individuals in the photographs could not be proven, The Oklahoman reported. At the time, Murnan did lose his teaching job. Murnan’s record was expunged and the charges were dismissed after completing probation for a drug charge in October 2003, according to the Oklahoma State Courts Network.
The district responded:
“This evening, the Board of Education approved the hiring of Dr. Shane Murnan for the Head Principal position at John Glenn Elementary. Recently, the district has been made aware of previous charges that were dismissed more than 20 years ago. Dr. Murnan has been serving the field of education for more than 25 years and has an outstanding reputation. He comes highly recommended from previous supervisors, colleagues, and educators.
“Recently, information began circulating about Dr. Murnan and the charges he faced more than 20 years ago for an alleged crime involving child pornography. According to news reports at the time, those charges were dismissed by the court, and the record of the charges has been expunged. Since that time, Dr. Murnan has continued to be certified as an elementary school teacher and principal, including having his certificate renewed in April of 2023 and signed by State Superintendent Ryan Walters. The State Department of Education would have conducted another felony background check upon renewing his certification.”
Be prepared for lawsuits because people buying beer are being asked for ID.
And Massachusetts is dealing with their illegal alien crisis…sort of.
Dumbass of the Day
Joy Behar claims the rain at Burning Man was the result of Climate Change caused directly by Republicans and Trump. "When Trump was president [fossil fuel use ] went up…He's so dangerous." pic.twitter.com/hTxeMF8bTv
Here is Jake Sullivan, Biden’s National Security Advisor, talking about the economy:
"Credit card delinquencies have spiked. Mortgage rates are through the roof. Inflation remains a problem … and the president wants to increase funding to foreign nations through the World Bank. How is that fair to citizens in, say, Scranton?"
Donald Trump’s campaign may have violated United States copyright law by selling merchandise featuring the former president’s mugshot, legal experts have warned.
The Republican front-runner’s campaign wasted no time capitalizing off the mugshot made of him at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, featuring the former president scowling into the camera.
Merchandise emblazoned with the historic photo and the slogan “Never surrender” was quickly hawked for between $12 and $34.
But legal scholars say that money may rightfully belong to the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, which took the photo, as US copyright law stipulates that the law enforcement agency that takes a mugshot is the legal owner of it.
No ID for Beer?
According to the Daily Wire:
A federal judge has blocked a Texas law that would require pornographic websites to verify users’ ages and issue health warnings.
Judge David Ezra, a Reagan appointee, on Thursday ruled HB 1181 unconstitutional and issued a preliminary injunction against it, saying the law goes “far beyond the interest of protecting minors.”
The judge ruled the law is vague and would violate Texans’ First Amendment rights.
“By verifying information through government identification, the law will allow the government to peer into the most intimate and personal aspects of people’s lives,” Ezra wrote in his ruling.
“It runs the risk that the state can monitor when an adult views sexually explicit materials and what kind of websites they visit,” Ezra wrote. “In effect, the law risks forcing individuals to divulge specific details of their sexuality to the state government to gain access to certain speech.”
“Such restrictions have a substantial chilling effect,” the judge wrote.
The law would have required websites with one-third pornographic content to post several “public health warnings” about the psychological dangers of pornography and verify users’ ages with their ID or another method.
He said there are other problems with the law. The article continues:
Some social media companies where children can access pornography, such as Reddit, would slip past the restrictions because they are likely not composed of one-third sexual material, the judge’s ruling said. Meanwhile, websites with sex health information would be blocked for minors, the judge predicted.
Not an Overreaction or Anything
According to Fox News:
Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has activated 250 members of the National Guard to provide basic services at emergency shelter hotels amid an influx of migrants that has service providers stretched thin.
Healey’s administration will also launch a Regional Rapid Response Teams to assist with overseeing shelter sites, she announced Thursday. The teams will be comprised of state employees.
The move comes after she declared a state of emergency this month over the increasing number of migrants arriving in Massachusetts from Texas.
Healey said in a statement:
“Massachusetts is in a state of emergency, and we need all hands-on deck to meet this moment and ensure families have access to safe shelter and basic services. We’re grateful to the brave men and women of the National Guard for stepping up to help us ensure that every family in emergency shelter has their needs met, including access to food, transportation, medical care, and education.”
Notice, there is nothing about Joe Biden just letting in illegal aliens.
About 600 families or about 24,000 illegals have been sent to Boston. Over 180,000 crossed the border in August.
Those attending outdoor parties or barbecues in New York City this weekend may notice an uninvited guest looming over their festivities: a police surveillance drone.
The New York City police department plans to pilot the unmanned aircrafts in response to complaints about large gatherings, including private events, over Labor Day weekend, officials announced Thursday.
“If a caller states there’s a large crowd, a large party in a backyard, we’re going to be utilizing our assets to go up and go check on the party,” Kaz Daughtry, the assistant NYPD Commissioner, said at a press conference.
The plan drew immediate backlash from privacy and civil liberties advocates, raising questions about whether such drone use violated existing laws for police surveillance.
Last month, a woman named Sabrina posted a TikTok video that went viral saying an airline worker asked if she would switch her front-row first-class seat so a teenager could sit with their family.
She denied the request and wrote in the video’s caption: “That’s a no from me dawg. Would you have given up your seat? Also they ended up finding a solution so no, I am not a terrible human being. Also the child was like 13.”
Sabrina told Fox News she was offered a seat in the back of first class in exchange for her first row seat. She said she still feels comfortable with her decision.
“The ticket was NOT cheap and I booked my seat in advance to make sure I treat myself to a nice experience as a reward for finishing my PhD,” she said.
If it was me, that kid would be sitting in the back of the plane. The parents should have planned their trip better.
The nation’s top health agency is recommending easing restrictions on marijuana in what could portend a landmark shift in federal policy on cannabis.
The Department of Health and Human Services has recommended to the Drug Enforcement Administration that marijuana be reclassified as a lower-risk, Schedule III controlled substance, according to a person familiar with the recommendation who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the issue. Marijuana is currently a Schedule I controlled substance, deemed alongside heroin and LSD as having the potential for abuse and with little or no accepted medical use.
DEA, which said it has the final authority to classify a drug under federal law, confirmed it has received a recommendation from HHS and said it will now initiate its review. The process could take months. If DEA follows the health agency’s recommendation, marijuana would be placed in the same category as anabolic steroids and ketamine, which can obtained with a prescription.
Such a decision would not outright legalize marijuana at the federal level,a policy that has long conflicted with those of states that have legalized marijuana for medical and recreational use. But itcould nevertheless alter the landscape of cannabis in this country, boosting the regulated marijuana industry in states where it is legal and even facilitating more scientific research into the effects of the drug.
“We believe that rescheduling to Schedule III will mark the most significant federal cannabis reform in modern history,” said Edward Conklin of the U.S. Cannabis Council, a nonprofit that advocates for the regulated cannabis industry. “President Biden is effectively declaring an end to Nixon’s failed war on cannabis and placing the nation on a trajectory to end prohibition.”
