Federal Judge Greenlights Exposing Children To Smut

By William Teach June 25, 2023 – 7:00 am

Who’s going to now argue that it’s fine to bring children to strip shows and bars? To porn theaters and shops? Because that’s generally the same thing

Federal judge blocks Florida from enforcing ban on minors attending drag shows

A federal judge in central Florida on Friday temporarily blocked the state from enforcing a new law banning minors from attending drag shows.

The judge, Gregory Presnell, was acting on a request by the restaurant chain Hamburger Mary’s, which sued Florida last month claiming that the law was overly broad and put a chilling effect on the right to free speech under the First Amendment.

Pretty sure that there’s no free speech involved in keeping minors out of strip clubs. No one under 16 can get a tattoo in Florida, and parental consent is required for those 16 and 17. Heck, parents need to give consent for most medical procedures. But, we’re also really talking about young children, most of whom aren’t even out of grade school yet, and many who are under 10.

Presnell, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, determined that while some people may find a drag performer reading a children’s book to a minor during a performance to be inappropriate, it doesn’t necessarily constitute an obscene performance. He also stated that current obscenity laws already “provide Defendant with the necessary authority to protect children from any constitutionally unprotected obscene exhibitions or shows.”

Florida’s Republican-led Legislature passed the measure in April that bars minors from attending drag shows with “lewd” performances. Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is running for president, signed it into law in mid-May. The governor previously said such drag performances “sexualize” kids and has pushed for stricter restrictions around them.

Are strip clubs where they don’t get naked “lewd”? The kids see this same amount of skin on the beaches. But, they are banned.

Jeremy Redfern, DeSantis’ press secretary, said in a statement that the administration believes the “judge’s opinion is dead wrong and [we] look forward to prevailing on appeal.”

Hamburger Mary’s frequently hosts “family-friendly” drag performances where children are invited to perform.

Yeah, we’ve seen the family friendly performances that people have filmed.

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Surprise: Eric Adams Shipped A Bunch Of “Asylum Seekers” Out Of NYC

By William Teach June 24, 2023 – 6:55 pm

Shockingly, sanctuary city mayor doesn’t like having all those illegal aliens in NYC

Eric Adams hammered Florida and Texas over migrants. But he sent asylum-seekers to both.

After lashing out at leading Republicans for busing asylum-seekers to Democrat-led cities, New York Mayor Eric Adams turned around and did something similar — sending dozens of migrants to red states like Florida and Texas.

And Adams didn’t stop at the nation’s borders.

Between April 2022 and April 2023, New York City spent around $50,000 to resettle 114 migrant households in cities around the U.S. and the globe, according to information obtained exclusively by POLITICO through a public information request. Some were sent to countries in South America — and one all the way to China.

The most common destinations were Florida, which received 28 families, and Texas, which received 14.

That represents a fraction of the nearly 79,000 migrants who entered the city since last spring, and is thousands fewer than Gov. Greg Abbott has sent out of Texas. But the fact that New York City paid for trips to Republican strongholds could further inflame national tensions on a subject that is sure to influence both Congressional races and President Joe Biden’s reelection bid.

At the same time, Adams is in a tight spot: The migrant crisis is costing the city billions. And as pressure on its shelter system reaches a critical level, the mayor is trying every possible release valve from busing asylum-seekers to other destinations to housing them in former jails.

He and the rest of the illegal alien supporting Democrats in NYC asked for this with their support of unfettered, mass illegal immigration. It’s all fun and games till you’re forced to play the game, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 24, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful plants sucking carbon from the air, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post wondering what Congress will do now that Durham exposed the Deep State.

Doubleshot below the fold, check out The Last Refuge, with a post on Jack Smith now asking to delay trial against Trump.

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NJ AG Sues Schools Who Have Policy Of Informing Parents If Their Child Is Participating In Trans Fad

By William Teach June 24, 2023 – 10:30 am

Children do not belong to government. Things children do at school should not be hidden from parents, especially when they’re learning bad things at school

New Jersey’s attorney general files civil rights complaints against three school districts alleging discrimination against LGBTQ+ students

Just days after three New Jersey public school systems simultaneously enacted policies requiring educators to notify parents of changes in their children’s gender identity, the state is pursuing legal action.

New Jersey State Attorney General Matthew Platkin announced the complaints against the Middletown Township, Marlboro Township and Manalapan-Englishtown Regional boards of education, all in Monmouth County.

In a series of complaints filed in a New Jersey Superior Court, the state alleges policies requiring staff to notify parents when students express desire to change names, pronouns or bathroom and/or locker accommodations “target transgender, gender non-conforming, and gender non-binary students by singling them out for differential treatment, requiring parental notification for those students but not their peers.”

In separate companion legal briefs, Platkin also petitions the court to temporarily halt the policy changes from taking effect while legal challenges play out.

These areas tend to be the more Republican voting areas of NJ, along with most of Monmouth County. Even the Democrats in the county will tend to be much less moonbat than most Democrats in the state in areas like Newark and Trenton. The parents in those areas won’t abide with their schools playing the same games schools in heavily Democratic Party run areas do, particularly with their children.

Marc H. Zitomer, who represents the Marlboro Townhip Board of Education, told CNN that disagree with the attorney general’s argument that schools are discriminating against LQBTQ+ students.

“We also have an exception in our policy if such notification would endanger the health or safety of the child,” Zitomer says.

“However, it is our position that keeping parents in the dark about important issues involving their children is counterintuitive and contrary to well established Supreme Court case law that says that parents have a constitutional right to direct and control the upbringing of their children,” adds Zitomer.

Sounds like the districts will fight.

During public remarks, a member who identifies as part of Marlboro’s LGBTQ+ community expressed concern that children will feel forced to out themselves before they are ready and erode the confidence they have in their teachers.

“Students have very delicate relationships with their teachers now more than ever before,” said the community member. “My teachers are in this room. I trusted them with my life. We’re going to break that trust. We’re going to shatter that trust.”

Does this person have children? Why are teachers being confidants and parental stand-ins, especially since the schools are K-8, not high schools? Teachers teach. That’s it. Kids shouldn’t be looking at deep relationships with their teachers. If a child is acting out, getting violent, smoking, doing drugs, and more, parents are notified. Teachers are not parents to these kids, kids who are not 18 yet. Maybe the teachers, activists, and Platkin should worry more about test scores and teaching the kids.

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Surprise: Missouri River Flooding Caused By Government, Not ‘Climate Change’

By William Teach June 24, 2023 – 7:00 am

Hey, remember this?

Climate change worsens flooding devastation across the Midwest

Every Missourian remembers the powerful rain and flooding in 2019 — events that caused widespread destruction and financial loss across the state. Farmers lost their livelihood for months and families had to offload heaps of cash for flood insurance after losing their homes. Residents in Missouri received more than $93 million in federal reparations for damages.

The reality of flooding is tragic. It strikes hard and fast, leaving devastation in its wake. Missouri can expect more of this flooding as unpredictable climate change patterns continue to create threats to the environment and the species that depend on it. While it can be challenging to adequately prepare for flooding, there are ways to mitigate the effects of climate change. This may help lower the frequency and risk of severe flooding events.

The connection between climate change and flooding is disastrous. Further exacerbated by human activity, climatic instability may become more frequent leaving people wondering if the thunderstorm that is supposed to happen the next day will lead to the loss of houses and farmland. The more intense the changes in the climate, the more intense the repercussions will be.

You can find lots of stories like that. But

US engineers contributed to Missouri River flood damage and must pay landowners, court rules

The U.S. government may have to pay tens of millions of dollars — or more — to landowners along the Missouri River after a court ruled it worsened flooding there since 2007 that killed crops and wrecked homes and businesses.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court’s 2020 ruling that the federal government must pay for the landowners’ loss of value to the land. But the appeals court went even further in its decision last Friday, saying that the government must also pay them for crops, farm equipment and buildings lost to the flooding and finding the government contributed to the devastating flood of 2011.

Courts have found the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers responsible for recurrent flooding since 2007, three years after it changed how it manages the Missouri River’s flow to better protect the habitat of endangered fish and birds. It did so by notching dikes to increase water flow, keeping more water in reservoirs and reopening historic chutes, allowing the river to meander and erode banks.

So, not climate doom.

Federal officials argue that the changes the Corps made were necessary to comply with the federal Endangered Species Act and a separate requirement from Congress passed in 1986 to protect fish and wildlife.

No good deed goes unpunished.

The ruling comes as federal and state officials wrestle with the rising costs of floods made more severe by climate change, and droughts that will require tough water management choices.

You had to know that they would shift the blame, right?

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San Francisco’s Mayor Has Hot Ideas For Dying Downtown

By William Teach June 24, 2023 – 6:45 am

In a rational world, a mayor of a city that’s dying would look to reverse the symptoms. If you’re overweight and having all sorts of health issues you don’t switch from cake to ice cream, right? You lose the weight, exercise, eat better, and hopefully decrease all those health issues like diabetes, circulatory system problems, etc. Not in Liberal World

San Francisco mayor proposes tearing down Westfield Mall and other shuttered downtown retailers

San Francisco’s mayor Thursday proposed remaking the city’s struggling downtown by tearing down abandoned retail space, including the city’s Westfield mall, and building new structures to reshape the struggling city.

“We can’t completely rely on retail in downtown restricting what happens in downtown anymore,” Mayor London Breed told Bloomberg’s Technology Summit in San Francisco on Thursday.

Yeah, they just can’t rely on all those business which generate jobs, revenue, and tax money, eh?

Breed’s comments come as San Francisco faces empty offices, a cratering commercial real estate market, and an exodus of retailers from its once-bustling downtown area, especially as pandemic work-from-home policies saw many residents leaving for less expensive parts of the country.

San Francisco has also come under fire recently by politicians, business leaders and locals for a perceived uptick in retail thefts, though it’s not clear that crime has grown significantly more serious, according to industry watchers.

It’s not perceived, and people in SF have long complained about things like car thefts, break-ins, poop in the streets, homeless everywhere, garbage all over, and now they get people committing low level crimes openly.

Breed argued that an overall shift to online shopping post-pandemic has contributed to declining foot traffic in the area.

“You can convert certain spaces. A Westfield Mall could become something completely different than what it currently is,” she said.

“We can even tear down the whole building and build a whole new soccer stadium. We can create lab space or look at it as another company in some other capacity,” she added.

Cool, a soccer field. With poop, homeless, druggies, and drug needles all around it. And people won’t want to go there. Who’s going to pay to build it? Where’s that money coming from with a declining tax base? By the way, has she considered that San Francisco doesn’t own the property? Where’s the money coming from to purchase, then develop it?

Rather than focusing on getting the crime and homelessness problems under control, the aloof and out-of-touch London Breed chooses to talk about building a soccer stadium or create “lab space” whatever that means.

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Climate Cult Meteorologist Quits Over “Death Threats” And PTSD

By William Teach June 23, 2023 – 3:24 pm

Kinda funny, since climate cultists have been threatening to jail and kill Skeptics for well over a decade, not too mention taking away people’s money, life choices, and freedom

Iowa meteorologist quitting TV, cites PTSD from death threat over climate change coverage

An Iowa meteorologist will be leaving his career on television, citing harassment over his coverage of climate change and its impact on weather, he said Friday.

Chris Gloninger, chief meteorologist for CBS affiliate KCCI in Des Moines, told followers on social media this week he’s embarking on a new career in hopes of “helping solve the climate crisis” after 18 years in broadcasting.

“I am biding farewell to TV to embark on a new journey dedicated to helping solve the climate crisis,” he tweeted. “After a death threat stemming from my climate coverage last year and resulting PTSD, in addition to family health issues, I’ve decided to begin this journey *now*.”

PTSD? You do the weather, pal. The weather. That’s your job. You aren’t fighting a war. Just the weather.

If that’s the worst he’s gotten, well, waaaaaaaa! Conservatives have received way worse. I’ve been threatened many times over being a skeptic, a Conservative, for supporting Trump pre-2020, and, even a credible death threat from an Islamic jihadi group. If you’re pushing your cult on other people, trying to take away their freedom, expect people to fight back.

Gloninger never thought that reporting objective, scientific findings could trigger hateful sentiment.

“That’s the problem. That sums up the problem, that people don’t care about the facts and they get mad when you talk about the facts and tie it to something that goes against their beliefs,” he said Friday.

Guy who is probably right about 30% of the time wants you to believe we’re Doomed in the future.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 23, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a rising ocean battering the coastline from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Other McCain, with a post wondering if it was white privilege or Biden privilege.

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Fifteen AGs Essentially Threaten Target Over Their “Obligations” Towards LGBTwhatever

By William Teach June 23, 2023 – 10:30 am

We’ve hit the point where elected government employees are demanding that a private company carries certain products and where to place them, and in a threatening manner since they are attorney generals

Minnesota AG Keith Ellison warns Target about their ‘obligations’ to the LGBTQ community

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, D., wrote a letter to Target warning that their decision to pull Pride merchandise from certain stores encourages bullying and will embolden “hateful” methods.

Ellison co-led an open letter of 15 AGs expressing their concerns over Target pulling products in response to consumer outrage, and said they could use civil rights law to defend the corporate giant.

Target faced backlash over their Pride Month displays with rainbow and LGBTQ+ messaging that included new products like female-style swimsuits that can be used to “tuck” male genitalia.

Target also notably pulled items from “Satanic” designer Erik Carnell’s brand Abprallen with messages such as “cure transphobia not trans people.” While they were reportedly not included in Target’s Pride collection, Abprallen has distributed apparel that includes satanic imagery including pentagrams, horned skulls, and references to the devil. One design found on the apparel maker’s t-shirts and pins has the message: “Satan respects pronouns.”

And consumers were the ones who were against these products. No one would have cared if it was some base level stuff aimed at gays and lesbians. The “tuck” crap aimed at children lit the fuse

The letter warned that there are many “politically motivated attacks” targeting “LGBTQIA+ Americans” such as limiting so-called, “gender-affirming care,” a euphemism for minors undergoing genitalia altering surgeries and drugs affecting hormone levels. It also stated these communities are being targeted by lawmakers who are “prohibiting transgender individuals from using bathrooms or playing on sports teams aligned with their gender identity” and “restricting drag performances.”

The letter claimed consumers who object to Target’s recent transgenderism-related products “do not represent” American society as a whole.

Based on the drop in sales, I’m betting way more Americans are against grooming/insane products at Target than those who support it.

“While we understand the basis for this action, we are also concerned it sends a message that those who engage in hateful and disruptive conduct can cause even large corporations to succumb to their bullying, and that they have the power to determine when LGBTQIA+ consumers will feel comfortable in Target stores — or anywhere in society,” the AGs wrote. “Though we do not doubt Target’s longstanding commitment to LGBTQIA+ equality, and though we laud your intention to keep your staff members and customers safe, we fear your choice to pull Pride merchandise demonstrates that intentional violence and intimidation can set back the march for social progress and LGBTQIA+ equality, which as we have noted is already under intense attack nationwide.”

The letter closed with noting that existing civil rights law not only protects people from discrimination, but also demands “obligations” from corporations.

That seems like a threat when it is originating from a state attorney general, does it not? Especially in states which are far left and/or have far left AGs (Minnesota, Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maine, Nevada, NJ, NY, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Arizona, and D.C.). “Comply or something bad will happen.”

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Oregon County Sues Fossil Fuels Companies For Almost $52 Billion

By William Teach June 23, 2023 – 7:00 am

Nice little shakedown they have going on. What if the companies decide to stop selling their products in the county, which includes the big city of Portland which wouldn’t be able to operate without fossil fuels?

Multnomah County sues fossil fuel companies for nearly $52 billion over heat dome

climate cowMultnomah County is seeking nearly $52 billion in damages and future costs for climate adaptation in a lawsuit that filed Thursday against more than a dozen fossil fuel companies to hold them accountable for the unprecedented heat dome event in 2021.

Lawyers for the county are moving forward with a lawsuit against 17 oil and gas companies alleging that the burning of their fossil fuel products, which leads to greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet, was a substantial contributor to a heat dome event roughly two years ago. Ninety-six people died across Oregon as a result of the heat dome, with the majority living in Multnomah County.

The lawsuit claims the fossil fuel companies “rapaciously sell fossil fuel products and deceptively promote them as harmless to the environment,” leading to disasters like the heat dome.

During Thursday’s board meeting, commissioners voted unanimously to declare climate change a public nuisance, clearing the way for the attorneys to file a lawsuit against the fossil fuel companies. Those include Shell, Chevron, BP and ExxonMobil — the United States’ largest oil and gas producing company, which predicted global warming as early as 1977 and also knew the dangers of burning fossil fuels, according to a 2016 Pulitzer finalist investigation by Inside Climate News.

So, all the cities and towns in the county will immediately ban the use of fossil fuels, right? No fossil fueled vehicles, regardless of whether privately owned or government, right? No garbage trucks, not police cars, no ambulances, no fire trucks, no buses, no travel for the county commissioners, at least if they use fossil fuels, right? They’ll shut down Portland International Airport, and the little ones in the county, right? How about all the shipping ports?

Oh, and how about all the thousands of products made with petroleum, such as all the clothes and smartphones and computers? Paints? Shoes? Seriously, it’s time for the fossil fuels companies to play hardball and refuse to see fuel and oils to the county.

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