Riley Gaines Obliterates Dick Durban, Asking Of Women “What About Us?”

By William Teach June 22, 2023 – 6:45 am

Democrats have ditched real, biological women to pander to the small number of gender confused, who are, among others, taking things from women

Riley Gaines challenges Dem senator, says rights of women, girls ‘thrown out the window’

Former college championship swimmer Riley Gaines challenged Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Wednesday after he accused Republicans of promoting “hateful rhetoric” by questioning the rights of transgender youth.

Gaines was on Capitol Hill as a witness for the Senate’s hearing on LGBTQ civil rights, where Durbin said lawmakers need to be careful when talking about this issue.

“At this point, I’d like to remind our colleagues, our children are listening, and they are in danger,” Durbin said. “In fact, today, transgender youth are among the most at risk of homelessness, depression and death by suicide. So, when these young people who are already struggling hear politicians amplify hateful rhetoric that denies their very existence, what message does it send?”

Did Durbin ever consider that they are most at risk because they are basically mentally ill, and Democrats are pushing kids to be trans, leading to the mental illness problems?

Later in the hearing, Gaines pushed back and told Durbin he needs to think about biological women and girls who she said are at a disadvantage competing against trans people.

“Sen. Durbin, in your opening statement, you had mentioned this rhetoric,” she said. “You had mentioned that, what message does it send to trans individuals? And my comeback to that is, what message does this send to women, to young girls, who are denied of these opportunities?”

“So easily, their rights to privacy and safety thrown out of the window to protect a small population, protect one group as long as they’re happy,” she said. “What about us? That is the overall general consensus of how we all felt in that locker room.”

One has to wonder where are the feminist groups are? Why are they not out there looking to protect females from biological males in their locker rooms, changing rooms, bathrooms, showers, sports, taking away wins, taking away positions in a variety of things, having the males expose themselves to the real women, even, in some cases, violating them.

Seriously, what’s in it for Democrats? Is it worth dumping real women?

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Good News: Those Ebikes Warmists Want Everyone (Else) To Ride Are A “Deadly Crisis” From Fires

By William Teach June 21, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Warmists have been super-hyped on getting Everyone Else to ride Ebikes in big cities (and not so big cities). They have all sorts of deals going with companies to rent them and sell them in places like NYC. How’s that going?

How E-Bike Battery Fires Became a Deadly Crisis in New York City

His girlfriend told him not to buy the electric scooter.

But Alfonso Villa Muñoz was intrigued. He was working in a Brooklyn bodega last August when a delivery man said he knew someone selling one for $700. Mr. Muñoz said yes.

The scooter was cherry red with the number 7 on the front. Under the seat was an extra-large lithium ion battery. When it needed charging, Mr. Muñoz would remove the battery from the scooter and use both hands to lug it up to the couple’s third-floor apartment in College Point, Queens.

A month later, the battery exploded in the living room, unleashing flames that engulfed the apartment. Mr. Muñoz screamed for their 8-year-old daughter, Stephanie, who was asleep. He could not breach the wall of black smoke to get to her. Stephanie died from smoke inhalation.

“It’s like you bring in death and destruction to your house, and not only to you, to everybody around you,” said Mr. Muñoz, 36, pulling off his glasses to wipe away tears. “You could lose everything.”

Now, I think bikes would be much better in big cities like NYC than all those vehicles, regardless of fossil fuels or EV. You could take the subway when raining or bad weather. But, there are consequences of rolling out products that aren’t particularly safe.

E-bikes and e-scooters have flooded New York City’s streets in recent years, embraced by delivery workers and commuters alike as an economical and efficient new way to get around. But even as the devices have grown in popularity to become nearly ubiquitous, the batteries inside them have made New York City an epicenter for a new kind of ferocious and fast-moving fire.

These fires are “uniquely dangerous,” warned Laura Kavanagh, the city’s fire commissioner. With little or no warning, the batteries can ignite, leaving seconds for people to escape. In just three years, lithium battery fires have tied electrical fires and have surpassed blazes started by cooking and smoking for major causes of fatal fires in the city.

This couldn’t possibly happen with EVs, right?

Reasons for the uptick of these fires are myriad. They include a lack of regulation and safety testing for individually owned devices, hazardous charging practices (like using mismatched equipment or overcharging) and a lack of secure charging areas in a population-dense city with numerous residential buildings, where most fires start.

But for New Yorkers who rely on e-bikes and other battery-powered devices to make deliveries or otherwise earn a living, the fires have forced a choice between financial stability and personal safety.

Unlike with cars, cell phones, and many other products, the Ebikes are not necessarily from big name producers, and the standards are not always there. Fortunately, NYC wouldn’t do something like ban private cars or make them so expensive people couldn’t drive them in the city, right?

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 21, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is ‘climate change’ messing with Fall foliage timing, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Right Scoop, with a post when DOJ set the date for Trump’s trial.

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Happy St. Greta Doom Day

By William Teach June 21, 2023 – 11:18 am

It’s 11:18am, folks

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Mayor Of Sanctuary City Chicago Realizes Illegal Aliens Are Expensive

By William Teach June 21, 2023 – 10:30 am

Who would have thought that taking care of a bunch of illegals would be so costly? But, then, the Democratic Party run city is all in on illegals, so, they should welcome having to pay for their everything, including rent, out of their own money, right?

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Wants $25M to Pay Rent for Illegal Aliens

Chicago, Illinois, Mayor Brandon Johnson (D) is hoping to spend $25 million in taxpayer money to pay rent for thousands of illegal aliens in the city.

Since August of last year, more than 10,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in the sanctuary city of Chicago — many on buses sent from Texas.

Now, Johnson is hoping to secure $25 million in taxpayer money to provide six months of rent to more than 6,500 illegal aliens. That move would come as rent for local Chicagoans has skyrocketed in recent years.

He wants some of that money to come from state funds. Why are the rich Progressives of Chicago not voluntarily giving up their money to pay for the rent, since they support unfettered illegal immigration? Or opening up their own homes?

Meanwhile, Johnson will also be placing more than 300 mostly single male border crossers and illegal aliens in a sports center in the Gage Park neighborhood of Chicago.

So strange how so many are young, single men, not the women and children we keep hearing about. Chicago wanted this, right? Even though all this illegal immigration is raising the cost of housing? Where are all the homeless going? As Chicago spends all this money on illegals that means less money for legal citizens having trouble, on policing to deal with the high crime rate, and other vital city services.

Federal Data: Majority of Border Crossers Denied Asylum to Stay in U.S.

The majority of border crossers continue to be denied asylum to stay in the United States, even when they are released directly into the nation’s interior by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

While President Joe Biden’s DHS releases tens of thousands of border crossers and illegal aliens into the U.S. interior every month, the majority will be found to have invalid claims for asylum, federal data confirms.

The data, tracked by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University, shows that in Fiscal Year 2023 thus far, most border crossers and illegal aliens are denied asylum in immigration court. (snip)

Likewise, in Fiscal Year 2023, the majority of border crossers and illegal aliens released into the U.S. interior after claiming “credible fear” at the southern border ended up not having valid asylum claims.

Most should be forced to apply for asylum outside of the U.S.

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Lawyer Makes Social Statement In Closing Argument In Youts Climate Case In Montana

By William Teach June 21, 2023 – 7:00 am

The question now is “will the judge buy into the scam?”

Young plaintiffs’ attorney closes Montana climate change trial with call for action

An attorney for 16 young plaintiffs urged a judge Tuesday to strike down as unconstitutional a Montana law that prohibits state agencies from considering the environmental effects when it weighs permits allowing the release of greenhouse gases.

Attorney Nate Bellinger made the plea in his closing argument at the end of a seven-day trial. Plaintiffs say state officials violated their right to a clean and healthful environment, part of the Montana Constitution, by allowing companies to build power plants and expand coal mines, among other things.

“Like other monumental constitutional cases before, the state of Montana comes before this court because of a pervasive systemic infringement of rights,” Bellinger said.

During the first-of-its-kind trial, plaintiffs testified about how increased heat, smoke from wildfires and drought affect their activities and mental health. Native Americans said climate change affects their ceremonies and traditional food sources, and climate experts warned the window to address the environmental damage is rapidly closing.

Montana Assistant Attorney General Michael Russell said in the state’s closing Tuesday that the climate change issue is much larger than Montana can address on its own.

He said calls by the plaintiffs for the state to take the lead in addressing climate change was a social statement, not a legal argument. The case put on by the young plaintiffs was a “weeklong airing of political grievances that properly belong in the Legislature, not a court of law,” he said.

If you’ve paid any attention to this suit, you notice that the plaintiffs were long on politics, fearmongering, personal stories, and demagoguery, and short on facts, law, and Constitutional reasoning. It belonged more in opinion pieces in the local papers, not a court of law.

Emily Flower, a spokeswoman for Attorney General Austin Knudsen, described the trial as a “publicity stunt staged by an out-of-state organization that is exploiting well-intentioned children.”

The plaintiffs were represented by attorneys for Our Children’s Trust, an Oregon environmental group that has filed similar lawsuits in every state since 2011 and raised more than $20 million in contributions. None of the previous cases had reached trial.

Again, it’s yet another astroturfed suit, where a big money climate scam group enlists a bunch of young folks, has them trot out some sob stories, then does their cult stuff. BTW, since the kids are so against power plants, when will they stop using all that power for their smartphones, streaming videos, uploading videos, streaming shows on their TVs, and so forth?

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NC Senate Passes Bill Restricting Gender Confused Males From Playing Women’s Sports

By William Teach June 21, 2023 – 6:45 am

This has made the unhinged Democrats very upset, but, even if Governor Cooper vetoes it (he will) the veto will be over-ridden

NC Senate votes to ban trans girls from playing on school sports teams aligning with gender identity

Transgender rights took center stage Tuesday in North Carolina as the GOP-controlled General Assembly advanced legislation to restrict gender-affirming health care and trans participation in sports.

Hours after the House Health Committee advanced a bill banning state facilities from treating trans minors with hormones and gender-affirming surgeries, the Senate voted 31-17 to ban trans girls from playing on school sports teams that align with their gender identity. One Democrat — Sen. Val Applewhite of Cumberland County — and all Republicans voted yes.

Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has little power to block legislation now that Republicans hold veto-proof majorities in both chambers.

Sen. Kevin Corbin, a Macon County Republican and one of the primary sponsors, argued on the Senate floor that the bill “is not against anybody” and is a necessary precaution to protect female athletes. But Wake County Democratic Sen. Lisa Grafstein, the only out LGBTQ+ state senator, criticized him for advancing during Pride Month a bill she said targets a vulnerable minority group “because of a nationalized agenda to dehumanize them for political points.”

Funny how Democrats have thrown actual, real, biological women under the bus to pander to the most extreme of the Rainbow Coalition, eh?

“Frankly, members, this is a very common sense bill,” Corbin said. “It’s not against anybody. It simply does this: It simply prevents biological males playing sports in the store.

“That’s that’s what this bill does.”

Grafstein said it’s ironic that lawmakers are passing bills targeting LGBTQ+ kids during Pride month.

Should they have waited till July to protect women? Wait to keep males out of women’s sports?

The bill prohibiting trans girls from playing on girls’ middle school, high school and college sports teams could return to the House floor for a final concurrence vote as early as Wednesday. Both chambers passed different versions before legislative leaders opted to proceed with the House bill.

The House version also looks to ban state institutions from getting involved in messing with children

The proposal would prohibit public health care facilities, including public hospitals and University of North Carolina affiliates, from performing any surgical gender transition procedure on a minor or providing them with puberty-blocking drugs or cross-sex hormones. Beginning Oct. 1, it would also prohibit using state funds to pay for any gender transition procedure.

It would be best if the House just go with the sports ban, then have the House and Senate discuss a separate bill restricting the gender transition madness for kids.

D Sellars, a 40-year-old nonbinary parent from Fuquay-Varina, said the slew of bills targeting trans people in North Carolina and around the country “just marginalizes us more, just pushes us out of the mainstream more, and it gives bigots more ammunition.”

Sellars, who donned a “Gender Identity Scares My State’s Government” shirt Tuesday at the General Assembly, said they’re especially concerned about the sports restrictions, which they said could make nonbinary kids like their own child feel isolated.

Maybe the parents should stop buying into the trans and 937 genders fads and wake their kids up.

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Bummer: John Kerry Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Shoddy Climate Deaths Claim

By William Teach June 20, 2023 – 3:00 pm

Seriously, what claims do climate cultists make that aren’t shoddy/false/fearmongering?

Watchdog hits John Kerry with science ethics complaint over climate change deaths claim

John Kerry climateA government watchdog group filed an ethics complaint against Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry on Tuesday morning, alleging he spread misinformation about climate change.

In its complaint, Protect the Public’s Trust (PPT) alleged that Kerry violated federal scientific integrity policy — which requires officials to communicate scientific information accurately based on the best available evidence — when he said in May that greenhouse gas emissions kill 15 million people per year worldwide. PPT requested a federal investigation into Kerry’s comments.

“15 million people are dying every single year around this planet as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions in the atmosphere, in the air which travels around and drops in the form of pollution and is warming the ocean at record rates, changing the chemistry of the ocean itself,” Kerry remarked on May 10 at the Department of Agriculture’s AIM for Climate Summit.

Kerry later added that, in addition to the 15 million people who die due to the “lack of quality” air, another 10 million people die on an annual basis globally as a result of extreme heat.

However, PPT’s complaint Monday, sent to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the State Department’s Office of Inspector General, noted Kerry’s figures appear to greatly overstate the death toll attributed to greenhouse gas emissions.

A Warmist “exaggerating”? Huh. Same guy is taking lots and lots of fossil fueled private jet travel

Kerry meets Pope Francis privately, says he’s in great form and spirits

VATICAN CITY, June 19 (Reuters) – U.S. climate envoy John Kerry met Pope Francis on Monday, the first official to have a private audience with him since his discharge from hospital, and told Reuters that he found the pontiff “in great spirits and in great form”.

How many people is John Kerry, who was in Vietnam, killing with his massive carbon footprint?

“Despite the enormity of Mr. Kerry’s claim, he did not cite any scientific evidence for its basis,” the PPT complaint stated. “Nor is there any apparent scientific research that supports a claim that there are currently 15 million people dying yearly due to greenhouse gas emissions — or any other single cause of death that is tracked.”

“Such a blatant misstatement of scientific information to the public is, by its nature, a threat to public trust and good governance,” it continued. “It is made far worse when such misinformation is used to publicly support sweeping policy changes like trying to reach net-zero emissions in agriculture, which would have untold effects upon the economy and lives of the American people writ large.”

That’s how the cult works: scaremonger in an attempt to get the Government to force Other People to give up their money, freedom, and life choices.

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If All You See…

By William Teach June 20, 2023 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible leather chair made from carbon polluting cows, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on the military monitoring social media for Mean Posts about generals.

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LA Times Is Dismayed By “Gun Violence” In California, Which Has Massive Gun Control

By William Teach June 20, 2023 – 10:30 am

California is ranked an A by the Giffords Law Center for their huge number of gun laws, which, of course, primarily affect law abiding citizens who want to protect themselves from the crime that’s rampant in the People’s Republik Of California due to the soft on crime approach of the government

Gun violence rocks nation over holiday weekend, with multi-victim shootings in at least 7 states

First, it was shootings in Southern California that sent revelers scrambling, fearing for their lives over the holiday weekend. One person was killed Saturday in San Diego during a Juneteenth celebration, and at least eight were injured in gunfire at a house party in Carson.

Hours later, in Madera County, a father and son were killed in two linked shootings.

California’s weekend of violence also included a shootout Sunday from cars traveling for a mile along San Francisco’s wharf, with six injured.

But the spate of violence was not confined to the Golden State, as shootings — some deadly — grabbed headlines in at least seven states on what was supposed to be a celebratory weekend of fathers and freedom.

There’s a common thread in almost all those shootings, including the weekend shootings through Monday: they were almost all in heavily Democratic Party run cities which are low on crime control, and involved Juneteenth parties.

At San Diego’s Liberty Station, amid a Juneteenth event Saturday night that drew hundreds, gunfire killed one person and wounded another, according to officials. Police called it an “isolated incident” that appeared to stem from a dispute, but the gunshots sparked chaos at what was supposed to be a family-friendly event, witnesses said.

Also that night, two people were killed and three were injured when a shooter fired “randomly” into the crowd at a Washington state campground near a venue where a music festival was taking place, police said. The shooter was among the three who were hurt.

Early Sunday, near Willowbrook, Ill., outside Chicago, where hundreds had gathered at a parking lot for a Juneteenth celebration, at least 23 people were shot, one fatally. Officials said “multiple rounds from multiple weapons” were fired.

About the same time in St. Louis, 11 youths ranging in age from 15 to 19 were shot at what officials described as a party, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A 17-year-old died, officials said.

And because of mostly one demographic shooting people for “disputes”, you should have your gun taken away from you.

“It’s not just people living in urban areas. It’s not just one type of person. … It was really large shares of people in all kinds of different demographic groups,” said Liz Hamel, vice president and director of public opinion and survey research with the Kaiser Family Foundation, which conducted the poll. She said the weekend’s shootings reinforce the need to treat gun violence in America as a public health issue.

“It is hard to ignore that it is a health issue when you look at things like guns being the leading cause of death for children in this country,” Hamel said.

It was almost all one demographic. Facts do not lie. Most of the shootings were at parties that did not involve whites, Asians, or Hispanics. Maybe it’s time to look at why one group is responsible for shootings and murders way outside its population proportion. Call this racist if you want, facts do not lie. And most occur in areas run by Democrats. And how do all these shootings happen in cities and states run by Democrats with massive gun control? Illinois is ranked an A- by Giffords.

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