If you think gas prices are high in California, Gavin Newsom has decided to sign into law an oil shortage.

CNN continues to search for controversy and the delve into the same old well.

And eating bugs is one thing but eating 50,000 year old wooly mammoths?

 

News

Here is some news:

•  Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has given a dire warning about China, one that we seem to be ignoring.
  • He said in front of the House Appropriations Committee: “I don’t think I’ve seen anything more disturbing in my career than the Chinese ongoing expansion of their nuclear force. For decades, they were quite comfortable with an arsenal of a few hundred nuclear weapons, which was fairly clearly a second-strike capability to act as a deterrent. That expansion that they’re undertaking puts us into a new world that we’ve never lived in before, where you have three powers — three great powers, essentially — with large arsenals of nuclear weapons.”
  • China plans to triple their nuclear arsenal by 2035, to 1500 nuclear warheads.
  • They are working with Russia, which is already a nuclear power.
  • They have made a financial deal with Brazil yesterday. This could open up South America to Chinese weapons.
  • They are also working with a bunch of countries in Africa.
  • And Joe Biden is going to ignore it.
• Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed a bill on Tuesday that prohibits oil companies from “price gouging,” contending that the new law would protect the state’s climate and lower prices.
  • The legislation, introduced by State Sen. Nancy Skinner (D-CA) at the end of last year, forces oil companies to reduce their profits in order to avoid a civil penalty from the California Energy Commission.
  • Newsom endorsed the bill with the support of various climate groups and activists.
  • Newsom said: “With this legislation, we’re ending the oil industry’s days of operating in the shadows. California took on Big Oil and won. We’re not only protecting families, we’re also loosening the vice grip Big Oil has had on our politics.”
  • The new law will permit the State Energy Resources Conservation and Development Commission to create a maximum gross gasoline refining margin and establish a penalty for any refineries in the state which exceed the margin.
  • Western States Petroleum Association CEO Catherine Reheis-Boyd said in a statement:  “Price caps, taxes, and tax-like penalties do not increase supply or reduce prices, but instead can have the opposite effect: less investment, less gasoline supply, and ultimately higher costs for Californians. With this politicized process behind us, it’s time for serious discussion about what it will take to ensure an affordable, reliable and safe fuel supply for the years ahead.”
  • So be prepared for gas and oil shortages in California.
• The grand jury that is suppose to rule on indicting Donald Trump on a misdemeanor is taking off for a month.
  • This was pre-planned.
  • I have a feeling that Alvin Bragg didn’t get what he wanted and he just wants this to go away.
• Pope Francis will be staying overnight in a Rome hospital.
  • At first, the Vatican said it was just for tests. But people wondered why he would be staying overnight for some tests.
  • The Vatican eventually said that the Pope was in the hospital for a respiratory infection and will be in the hospital for a few days.
  • The Pope is 86 years old and has had multiple health issues.
  • Francis had part of a lung removed when he was a young man due to a respiratory infection.
  • I am not a fan of this Pope, but I will be praying for him anyway. He still is the leader of my church.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/air-force-secretary-says-hes-seen-nothing-more-disturbing-50-year-career-this-move-china
https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-signs-bill-banning-oil-company-price-gouging
https://www.dailywire.com/news/manhattan-grand-jury-taking-a-previously-scheduled-month-long-break-report
https://www.dailywire.com/news/pope-francis-hospitalized-in-rome-will-stay-a-few-days-vatican-says

 

CNN is Falling Apart

CNN has decided to jump into the racist conversation. They, too, are searching for anything to be racist. The problem they have is no one pays attention to them. When they do, like they did with this story, they just look stupid.

According to CNN:

Maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins telling a reporter after narrowly escaping an apartment fire, “Ain’t nobody got time for that!”

Perhaps you posted that meme of supermodel Tyra Banks exploding in anger on “America’s Next Top Model” (“I was rooting for you! We were all rooting for you!”). Or maybe you’ve simply posted popular GIFs, such as the one of NBA great Michael Jordan crying, or of drag queen RuPaul declaring, “Guuuurl…”

If you’re Black and you’ve shared such images online, you get a pass. But if you’re White, you may have inadvertently perpetuated one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism.

Mind you, if you’re black, you get a pass. If a black person sends a meme of a white person, no problem because they’re victims or whatever.

The article continues:

If you’re still not sure how to define digital blackface, Jackson offers a guide. She says it “includes displays of emotion stereotyped as excessive: so happy, so sassy, so ghetto, so loud… our dial is on 10 all the time — rarely are black characters afforded subtle traits or feelings.”

Many White people choose images of Black people when it comes to expressing exaggerated emotions on social media – a burden that Black people didn’t ask for, she says.

“We are your sass, your nonchalance, your fury, your delight, your annoyance, your happy dance, your diva, your shade, your ‘yaas’ moments,” Jackson writes. “The weight of reaction GIFing, period, rests on our shoulders.”

That the f- is she talking about? Could it be possible that the gifs people use are just appropriate for that specific situation and people do not post a gif with race in mind? I also want to point out that the gifs these people are talking about I have never seen before.

This guy wrote about a 5000 word essay on this crap and CNN is wondering why their site has no traffic, their digital service had no subscribers and no one watches their station. Here’s the problem CNN is having, they thrive on sparking controversy and division. This is one of the reason they and MSNBC went in the tank when Trump lost in 2020. They need the controversy.

Last week, MSNBC actually got a boost in the ratings. Why? Because Trump was suppose to be arrested. I would have watched CNN and MSNBC if Trump was arrested because it would have been entertaining. Now that Trump is not being arrested, no one cares and their ratings will go straight back into the tank.

It’s just really pathetic how these people will reach into the bottom of the barrel to find any type of controversy.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-accuses-white-people-of-digital-blackface-and-people-have-thoughts

 

Uh, No…

First they want us to eat grass, then bugs and now…mammoths?

According to the AP News:

Throw another mammoth on the barbie?

An Australian company on Tuesday lifted the glass cloche on a meatball made of lab-grown cultured meat using the genetic sequence from the long-extinct pachyderm, saying it was meant to fire up public debate about the hi-tech treat.

The launch in an Amsterdam science museum came just days before April 1 so there was an elephant in the room: Is this for real?

“This is not an April Fools joke,” said Tim Noakesmith, founder of Australian startup Vow. “This is a real innovation.”

Cultivated meat — also called cultured or cell-based meat — is made from animal cells. Livestock doesn’t need to be killed to produce it, which advocates say is better not just for the animals but also for the environment.

Vow used publicly available genetic information from the mammoth, filled missing parts with genetic data from its closest living relative, the African elephant, and inserted it into a sheep cell, Noakesmith said. Given the right conditions in a lab, the cells multiplied until there were enough to roll up into the meatball.

OK, no.

Couple of things about this:

• We don’t eat elephants now. Why would I want to eat a mammoth that is 20,000 years old?
• The meatball looks like a ball of crap. It looks disgusting.
• I saw Jurassic Park. I know what could happen. I don’t want to choke on a tusk because these scientists f-up the genetic sequence.
• Finally, something no one talked about, no one actually tried to eat this thing. Apparently the scientists are afraid to try it because they don’t know how their bodies will react to eating a 5000 year old protein.

The environmental cult says that this brings hope to the alternative meat crowd. I’m glad they’re happy about it. I’ll stick to steak which is cow. I never had interest in eating elephant. They’re way too cute.

https://apnews.com/article/oddities-mammoth-meatball-30e0731838f52cc18fb22d1faee1f8ce
https://www.businessinsider.com/mammoth-meatball-cultivated-meat-company-mammoth-dna-2023-3

 

What a Shock

I love NHL hockey. Always have. It is a fun sport full of action and fights. The goals are exciting. The players are amazing. Another reason I like it is because they always stayed out of controversy. They just do their thing.

That’s why I was amazed when the NHL decided to celebrate gay pride night and making the players wear rainbow crap. The NHL had a couple of problems with this. A lot of players said, “no” and didn’t give a rat’s ass what ESPN had to say and ESPN had a lot to say:

This moron wants the NHL to be inclusive by excluding the beliefs of the actual players. He wants to fine teams a million dollars? What’s worse, he is comparing the United States military to guys who dress like chicks? He doesn’t, at all, see a difference between the two? This is

The only thing I hate that the players do is give the excuse that it is against the player’s religion. What they should say is that he doesn’t want to do it. Period.

Anyway, the NHL has run into a problem. According to the Post Millennial:

In response to an increasing number of players engaging in silent protests against the NHL’s Pride Nights, a new report claims the league is re-evaluating the events which may lead to them being canceled.

Currently, all of the teams in the NHL hold Pride nights, however some now do so without the themed jerseys as the events are planned by the individual teams, not the league.

League commissioner Gary Bettman said in an interview with CTV News when asked about the players that have refused to wear Pride-themed jerseys this season, “This is the first time we’ve experienced that, and I think it’s something that we’re going to have to evaluate in the offseason.”

Citing religious beliefs, several players have declined to participate in pre-game warmups while wearing Pride-themed jerseys.

Here’s the reality, hockey is a Conservative sport. You will not see a lot of trans people at a game. I think the diversity department at the NHL main office is going to have a lot of kickback from the teams, coaches and players when it comes to this crap. I think this also could lead the NHL, which is not a really big sport, down the path of Disney. They should resist this.

It also shows you how a diversity department in a company can really screw up a company. Here’s a hint to Gary Bettman and the NHL’s Board of Governors, get rid of your diversity department.

https://thepostmillennial.com/nhl-evaluating-cancelation-of-pride-nights-report?utm_campaign=64466

 

It’s About Time

There are a few things that irritate the hell out of me. People who end their sentences with a preposition, man buns and kids who go to school in their pajama bottoms. If a kid does not have the respect for school enough to roll out of bed 20 minutes early and put on some pants, how is she going to have enough respect for the education teachers are trying to give them.

According to Fox News:

Virginia’s Fairfax County Public Schools is considering revising its dress code by including a ban on students wearing pajamas or sleepwear to class, as well as any garment that exposes underwear.

Proposed changes to the Students Rights and Responsibilities handbook, which is reviewed annually, would also prohibit students from wearing jackets with hoods up during class or between classes, according to WTOP.

Michelle Boyd, who serves as assistant superintendent for special services, disclosed to parents during a Zoom meeting last week that in addition to the dress code, the proposed changes to the guidelines also touch on topics such as substance misuse, harassment, hazing and bullying.

The proposed changes to the dress code specify that certain garments such as “pajamas or sleepwear” cannot be worn to school except during Spirit Week or pajama day, though they provide no details on what constitutes pajamas or sleepwear.

Really? Someone doesn’t know what would be defined as sleep wear? How about if the kid went to bed wearing something and tries to go to school wearing the same thing, that’s sleep wear. That’s what those kids are doing. They are getting up without changing and going to school.

Fairfax County Public Schools‘ current dress code makes no mention of pajamas, though anyone who violates it is potentially subject to disciplinary action.

I don’t know what took so long for someone to do this. I don’t know why this isn’t be done throughout the country.

Bunches of studies have shown that children who dress well when they go to school have higher self-esteem, higher pride in themselves and do better in school.

I also question the parents that let their kids leave the house looking like that. This was not an option when I was a kid or when my kids were in school. Hell, we used to force our kids to change when they had a stain on their shirts.

You know what would take care of this stupidity and make the lives of children so much better? Uniforms.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/virginia-school-district-considers-banning-students-wearing-pajamas-clothes-that-expose-underwear