Brandon To End COVID Emergency May 11Th

Why wait till May? Why not right now, especially since Biden himself said COVID was over back in September

President Biden to end COVID-19 emergencies on May 11

President Joe Biden informed Congress on Monday that he will end the twin national emergencies for addressing COVID-19 on May 11, as most of the world has returned closer to normalcy nearly three years after they were first declared.

The move to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations would formally restructure the federal coronavirus response to treat the virus as an endemic threat to public health that can be managed through agencies’ normal authorities.

It comes as lawmakers have already ended elements of the emergencies that kept millions of Americans insured during the pandemic. Combined with the drawdown of most federal COVID-19 relief money, it would also shift the development of vaccines and treatments away from the direct management of the federal government.

Biden’s announcement comes in a statement opposing resolutions being brought to the floor this week by House Republicans to bring the emergency to an immediate end. House Republicans are also gearing up to launch investigations on the federal government’s response to COVID-19.

If COVID is over, it’s over. The end isn’t some arbitrary date in the future, right? So, why wait?

Moments before the White House’s announcement, Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., accused the president of unnecessarily extending the public health emergency to take action on issues like forgiving some federal student loan debts.

Hmm, what will Biden and his Comrades try over the next almost 3 1/2 months based on the emergency powers? Because once it ends any authorization for student loan cancellation ends. And government workers need to go back to work in their offices. Oops.

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If All You See…

…is a horrible water using pool made with Evil concrete, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 357 Magnum, with a post on depending on the state.

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Hawaiian Youths Appear In Court For Their Climate (scam) Lawsuit

So, here’s a question: without fossil fuels, how does the state of Hawaii survive? The biggest segment of their economy is tourism, over 21% of their GDP. Without tourism, all those people working for hotels, motels, restaurants, whale watching, etc and so on, are out of a job. Where do the TVs, washers and dryers, computers, building supplies, and so much more come from? None of them are coming on sailing ships. How do all the smartphones for the kiddies get to Hawaii? How about huge amounts of food, since only so much is grown on the island. Forget helicopter trips to see the volcanoes. Motorized boats to fish.

Kids pack courtroom to support youth climate change lawsuit against Transportation Department

Dozens of children packed an Oahu courtroom Thursday to support an out-of-the-box climate change lawsuit against the state.

It’s one of dozens of similar lawsuits across the country, but it’s the only that names a transportation agency.

There are 14 plaintiffs, ages 8 to 19, who are suing the state Department of Transportation for what they call a climate emergency. They say the state isn’t doing enough to reduce carbon emissions and that’s a violation of their constitutional rights.

“Right now the transportation sector is already responsible for a majority of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions and these emissions are going up not down,” said Leinaala Ley, Earthjustice attorney.

How many of them take school buses, or have mom and dad drop them off? How many of them have reduced their own footprints?

The state wants the case dismissed and a judge heard arguments on both sides.

The state’s attorneys argued the complaints are vague and that policy issues over climate change should be handled by lawmakers not the courts.

Should have asked the kids what they’ve done in their own lives? Also, what did they travel in to attend the hearing?

Circuit Court Judge Jeffrey Crabtree told the youth plaintiffs that he admired their advocacy, but he doesn’t know how he’ll rule and he didn’t set a date for a ruling.

“Sometimes the environment wins in this courtroom and sometimes it loses,” he said.

The judge should have asked the same questions. They’re going to lose this.

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Washington Post Still Trying To Make Memphis Police Murders About Racism

One would think the media would just stop, being that it was five black police officers essentially beating a black man to death, but, nope, they found themselves a meme and won’t let go

Black Memphis police spark dialogue on systemic racism in the U.S.

For the mother of Tyre Nichols, the fact that five Memphis police officers charged with beating her son are also Black has compounded her sorrow as she tries to cope with his violent death at age 29.

“It makes it even harder to swallow,” RowVaughn Wells said in an interview last week, “because they are Black and they know what we have to go through.”

The race of the five officers charged in the Nichols killing has prompted a complex grappling among Black activists and advocates for police reform about the pervasiveness of institutional racism in policing. Nichols died three days after he was pulled out of his car Jan. 7, kicked, punched and struck with a baton on a quiet neighborhood street by Black officers, whose aggressive assault was captured on body-camera videos released Friday.

“A complex grappling” means “how do we Blame white people and America despite “In the Memphis Police Department, 58% of nearly 2,000 commissioned officers are Black, 37% are white and 3% are Hispanic, according to the city government.”” And 6 of the 9 command staff are black, including the chief.

The widely viewed videos of the Nichols beating provided fodder for right-wing media ecosystems that routinely blame Black America’s maladies on Black America, and spawned nuanced conversations among Black activists about how systemic racism can manifest in the actions of non-White people. (snip)

Though some studies have shown that police officers of color use force less frequently against Black civilians than their White counterparts, analysts say the improvement is marginal.

“Diversifying law enforcement is certainly not going to solve this problem,” said Samuel Sinyangwe, president of Mapping Police Violence.

See? It’s all your fault if you’re White. Just take the blame, it’s all about “racial healing”, you know.

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Surprise: EVs Are More Expensive To Fuel Than Gas Powered

At the end of the day, if you want to get an EV, get one. That’s your choice. I wouldn’t mind one, except it would be a pain to charge as I do not have a garage. I’m 100% against Government forcing citizens into them. Government is supposed to listen to We The People, not dictate to us

Electric vehicles more expensive to fuel than gas-powered cars at end of 2022: consulting firm

st greta carFor the first time in more than a year, owners of traditional gas-powered cars saved more money at the pump than those driving their electric counterparts, according to a consulting firm.

As inflated gas prices came down at the end of last years, the fuel cost for most Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) vehicles was comparatively cheaper in the final quarter of 2022 than charging an electric vehicle (EV), analysts with the Anderson Economic Group (AEG) said.

The cost to drive 100 miles in a gas-powered car dropped by more than $2 in October, November and December 2022. And with electricity prices rising last year, mid-priced ICE cars became more economical than EV cars for the first time in 18 months, the firm said.

AEG’s cost analysis looked at the underlying cost of energy for gas, diesel and electricity, as well as road taxes and fees, added costs to operate pump or EV charger and the cost to drive to a fueling station. The costs were calculated for vehicles driving 12,000 miles per year.

So, really, what you have is costs being relatively close. Of course, right now, both types are expensive, with gas going way up again. It’s around $3.49 in the Raleigh area (I remember when people freaked when it hit that price the first time. The Powers That Be are trying to get us used to it to force us into EVs). But, electricity costs are also going up, thanks to government policies which are killing off reliable, affordable energy like coal and natural gas, shuttering nuclear, and replacing with unreliable, expensive solar and wind. Well, when the extreme-enviros allow those projects to be built/go online.

The analysis found that in Q4 2022, a typical mid-priced gas car driver paid about $11.29 to fuel their vehicle for 100 miles of driving. That was about 31 cents cheaper than what a mid-priced electric car driver paid charging their vehicle at home, and more than $3 less than what comparable EV drivers pay when they charge their vehicles at a fuel station.

Most people will not be able to charge at home, as they have no garage. They live in apartments. If Government wants to make this happen, they are going to have to open up electricity generation.

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Utah Ends Gender Surgeries And Hormone Therapies For Minors

Obviously, this is making the supporters of the gender confused Outraged

Utah Bans Hormone Therapy And Gender Surgeries For Minors

Republican Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill Saturday that will ban gender affirming treatment and surgery for minors identifying as transgender in the state.

The bill, dubbed SB0016, was sponsored by Republican state Sen. Michael Kennedy in December who argued that current gender-affirming procedures “lack sufficient research” calling the nationwide push to enter this version of healthcare “radical and dangerous,” KUER reported.

SB0016 will prohibit health care providers from administering “a hormonal transgender treatment to new patients who were not diagnosed with gender dysphoria before a certain date,” it will prohibit doctors from “performing sex characteristic surgical procedures on a minor for the purpose of effectuating a sex change,”and it requires the Utah Department of Health and Human Services to “conduct a systematic review of the medical evidence regarding hormonal transgender treatments and provide recommendations to the Legislature.”

People cannot drink a beer legally until 21. They cannot purchase a handgun (or even possess one) if under 18. You cannot sign a legally binding document if under 18. Why should children, even with parental consent, be allowed to make major life changing choices? And, really, anyone making these choices should have to undergo serious discussions to make sure this is what they really, really want, and are not doing it as a fad.

The bill was hotly contested within the Utah Legislature, most notably by Republican Sen. Daniel Thatcher who argued that the legislation would ban potentially life-saving care from transgender youth, citing an American Academy of Pediatrics study on transgender suicide rates, KUER reported.

Basically, Thatcher is a moonbat Democrat. Having genitals chopped off and hormones pumped into growing children is not life saving. It’s purely elective. Let them become adults, having pretended to be the opposite sex for a few years, to see if they really want this or realize peer pressure is not what it’s cracked up to be.

I linked this from Diogenes’ Middle Finger on Sunday, let’s look a bit

Demanding Tolerance of the Abnormal

One of the left’s primary goals has always been to convince us that we are not normal if we do not affirm its ideology, a well established tactic among totalitarians. People who believe in normal things are under attack in America. We are assaulted on a near continuous basis by leftists who practice and promote behavior that is clearly abnormal. Frighteningly, some of this behavior is not merely abnormal, it’s evil. (snip)

Grown men dressed as women and performing provocatively before preschoolers, people pretending to be a sex they are not is not normal. Promoting obesity is not normal, it’s dangerous.  Taking money from people and giving it to other people, otherwise known as wealth redistribution, is not normal. It produces mediocrity. Letting criminal suspects out of jail with no restrictions or repercussions is not normal, degrades and endangers society. Boys playing sports against girls is not normal and never should be.  The left actively promotes demands things that simply fly in the face nature itself.

Letting children have gender “changing” medical procedures with lifelong consequences is not normal. A paper calls the condition “rapid onset gender dysphoria”, and says it is “socially contagious.” Like eating Tide Pods, wearing pegged jeans, and playing with fidget spinners. But, way, way more dangerous.

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If All You See…

…is a horrible fossil fueled vehicle, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is A View From The Beach, with a post on Obama refusing to allow the National Archives to search for secrets.

It’s American flag week. I finished Genocide Of Man, moved on to and finished Tango Down, close to finishing Survive For Now.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

Patriotic Pinup

Happy Sunday! Another fine day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the ducks are quacking (good grief, they are loud), and the NJ Devils go into the All-Star break tied for 3rd best in the entire league. This pinup is by Fiona Stephenson, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. The Feral Irishman has questions on 2024 RNC
  2. Sultan Knish has thoughts on survival and sensibility in Israel
  3. Pacific Pundit covers the NY Rangers refusing to wear the pride jerseys during warmups
  4. Outside the Beltway discusses a general saying the U.S. will be at war with China by 2025
  5. Newsbusters notes the North Dakota House voting to criminalize drag shows for kids
  6. Moonbattery highlights liberals working to erase women
  7. Legal Insurrection covers Twitter execs knowing the Russian misinformation was mule fritters
  8. Jihad Watch wonders if the Washington Post can cover Israel fairly
  9. IOTW Report notes that life expectancy is falling due to fentanyl
  10. Geller Report discusses Meta welcoming Ukraine’s Nazi Azov back on platform
  11. Gates Of Vienna covers the “cultural enrichment” going on with refugees in the Pomeranian region of Europe
  12. Flag And Cross notes that it’s not just your gas stove their coming for
  13. Diogenes’ Middle Finger discusses demanding tolerance of the abnormal
  14. Cold Fury covers mandatory miscegenation
  15. And last, but, not least, Climate Depot discusses the Great Food Reset

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Surprise: Drug Overdose Deaths Way Higher In Seattle Than COVID Deaths

Remember this?

Washington’s 2-year experiment under new drug possession law

The legislative “fix” to Washington state’s drug possession laws takes effect once Governor Jay Inslee signs it. That new law makes simple drug possession a misdemeanor, and funds development of a statewide framework for treatment and recovery.

and

No charges for personal drug possession: Seattle’s bold gamble to bring ‘peace’ after the war on drugs

Late last year, prosecutors in King County, which encompasses Seattle, and neighboring Snohomish County became the first in the nation to stop charging people for possessing small amounts of drugs — heroin, meth and crack included — in virtually all cases.

Seattle also decriminalized all psychadelics, and, being a sanctuary city, they refuse to go after illegal aliens and all the drug running they do. Plus, the whole defund the police movement has caused police officers to take a more hands off approach. So, here’s what you end with

In Seattle, the ‘shadow epidemic’ has passed COVID

COVID-19 isn’t done with Seattle and King County. But after a three-year run, it’s not the top emerging health scourge anymore. The coronavirus has been officially displaced.

Drug overdoses are now killing more people than COVID.

It started to happen last summer, in August, when more than 25 people died from drugs in a week, mostly from ingesting fentanyl, county records show. In the fall, drugs firmly dethroned COVID, when 339 people died during the quarter — nearly four per day, 70% more than were dying from COVID.

As of Friday, 100 people have already died in 2023 from drug overdoses countywide. Forty-three have died of COVID.

Drugs now are overwhelming the system, in some of the same ways that we all worked to prevent by wearing masks and socially distancing during coronavirus waves.

“A key indication of just how bad things are at the end of 2022 and likely to get worse [in] 2023, the medical examiner’s office is now struggling with the issue of storing bodies because the fentanyl-related death toll continues to climb,” Public Health Director Dr. Faisal Khan, a medical epidemiologist, said at a health board meeting this month.

Great job, hyper-leftist city of Seattle. Not too mention Democrats like Joe Biden, who has left the border wide open for serious drugs, including fentanyl, to stream in. Will this be coming to other Democratic Party run cities across the nation?

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Warmists Super Upset Over Whiteness Of Vermont Climate Council

Why are they so upset? The majority of the climate (cult) movement is made up of bored, white, 1st World Elites (and peasants who think they are elites). Like this one

Uber-rich white 1st World woman who took a fossil fueled trip from her huge McMansion to California to appear on the Kelly Clarkson Show

Frustrations over racial equity simmer on the Vermont Climate Council

On Jan. 9, the Vermont Climate Council convened via Zoom for its first meeting of the new year. On the agenda: discuss the group’s annual report, due to the Legislature every year on Jan. 15.

But before even an hour had elapsed, the discussion had spiraled into a series of tense exchanges and accusations that white council members have ignored and tokenized BIPOC — Black, Indigenous and people of color — members, underscoring simmering frustrations over the council’s inclusion and direction.

Judy Dow, an Indigenous educator and nonprofit director, told members at the meeting that her inclusion on a council subcommittee “feels totally like I was only there as a token.”

“You can’t only say you hear us,” Dow said. “You have to listen to our voices. This is getting out of hand with this committee.”

The Vermont Climate Council was born from Vermont’s Global Warming Solutions Act, which lawmakers passed in 2020. That law requires the state to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by set amounts at certain benchmarks over the next 30 years, with an ultimate goal of being 80% below the state’s 1990 emissions levels by 2050.

The council, a 23-person body made up of state officials and representatives from nonprofits, municipalities and other stakeholder groups, was assigned the unenviable task of figuring out how best to do that.

What did they expect? The state is 94% white, 1.5% black, and just .4% Native American. And most “BIPOC” have real things to worry about, not this scam.

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