Please Take It Down A Notch

Let’s minimize the personal attacks, shall we. No reason to get nasty, folks.

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Missouri Democrats Livid Over Female Lawmakers Required To Follow “Sexist” Adult, Business Attire Dress Code

I’m not sure what they’re mad about, since Democrats cannot even tell what is and isn’t a woman anymore. I wonder if they will protest by having the men wear skirts one day?

Missouri House tightens women’s dress code, requiring covering of arms

The Missouri’s House of Representatives kicked off its new session by tightening its dress code and requiring female lawmakers to cover their arms and wear blazers while in the state’s capitol-much to the dismay and outrage of House Democrats.

Lawmakers met on Wednesday to debate changes to the House rules, as is customary at the start of a new General Assembly every two years. The existing dress code, which was last updated in 2021, states that women are required to wear a “dress or skirts or slacks worn with a blazer or sweater and appropriate dress shoes or boots.”

That is horrendous! It’s so sexist to require women to dress appropriately for the job! How dare those male Republicans trot this out!

Republican state Rep. Ann Kelley proposed an amendment that would require women to wear jackets, defined as both blazers and knit blazers, with dresses, skirts, or slacks, and dress shoes or boots. Kelley stated that the update is necessary because “it is essential to always maintain a formal and professional atmosphere.”

Oh, wait, it was a woman who proposed this. How dare she want a formal and professional atmosphere. Of course, Democrats freaked out in the House, and on Twitter, and probably on other social media I did not see.

The move was decried as sexist as the men’s dress code was left unchanged. Men also must adhere to a dress code in the Chambers with male lawmakers required to wear “business attire, including coat, tie, dress trousers, and dress shoes or boots.”

So, the men already had a dress code. Kelley should have changed her amendment so that women would be required wear the same as men, not just add that women can also wear cardigans.

“How is encouraging professionalism wrong?” Kelley added. “If there is ever a time to honor traditions and be professional it is on the House Chamber Floor in the Missouri House of Representatives; I will not apologize for standing up for these things.”

Well, Ann, this is Liberal World, and they will go full barking moonbat over everything.

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Here’s How You Can Nurture Climate Cult Youths

I’m thinking you can not allow them any fossil fueled travel, stop replacing their smartphones, restrict their streaming of videos, force them to go vegan, no new clothes, but, hey, adult climate cultists have their own ideas

Youth Climate Activism Needs Nurturing. Here Are 4 Ways to Make it Happen

The climate movement has reached a pivotal juncture. We have an array of constructed and natural climate solutions with proven potential to reduce greenhouse gases and foster climate resilience, from renewable energy and electric vehicles to reforestation and climate-smart agriculture. There is just one catch: To avoid the worst of climate change, we must deploy these solutions much faster than ever before, as made clear by the sixth report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Fortunately, we have a talented and relentless group of climate leaders ready to make this happen—young people.

Youth have shown the right kind of leadership qualities to get the climate movement from a jog to a sprint, and inspire more people and organizations to come on board. If we hope to create climate justice, we must fully empower this burgeoning youth climate movement by giving young leaders the funding, standing, and platform they need to maximize their contributions.

Well, the adults have already made the kiddies neurotic, destroyed their mental well being, with their tales of doom and gloom. Anyhow, what can be done?

  • Provide funding and accommodations for youth.
  • Expand formal roles and spaces for youth.
  • Give youth the political power they have earned.
  • Embrace the catalytic voice and energy of young people.

Um, ah, yeah, no. No. Just no. But, hey, if the Warmists want to give the kiddies their own money, feel free. What really needs to be done is to stop pushing false propaganda garbage on the youts and tell them the truth there is no climate problem but there is a left-wing problem that wants to control every part of their life.

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COVID Today: CDC, FDA Looking At Pfizer Shot And Strokes

Here’s the big question: will the agencies whitewash this, cover it up, or tell the public the truth if it turns out there is a big link

CDC, FDA see possible link between Pfizer’s bivalent shot and strokes

The CDC and FDA announced on Friday that their surveillance system flagged a possible link between the new Pfizer-BioNTech bivalent Covid-19 vaccine and strokes in people aged 65 and over, but said they were continuing to recommend the shots.

The surveillance “raised a question of whether” stroke risk was elevated in the 21-day period post-vaccination versus 22 to 44 days post-vaccination, according to a statement on the CDC website.

The agencies said other data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Department of Veterans Affairs and other sources haven’t shown an elevated risk of stroke.

“Although the totality of the data currently suggests that it is very unlikely that the signal … represents a true clinical risk, we believe it is important to share this information with the public, as we have in the past, when one of our safety monitoring systems detects a signal,” the statement said.

The real-time surveillance system, CDC’s Vaccine Safety Datalink, met criteria warranting further investigation into whether the bivalent Pfizer vaccine led to a higher risk of ischemic stroke, which occurs when arteries pumping blood to the brain are blocked by a blood clot.

Maybe there is, maybe there isn’t. How do we trust these agencies, especially the CDC, after all that has happened? All the BS information they’ve given us since COVID started? The obfuscation, the misdirection, authoritarian notion of forced vaccination? How much more are we going to find out about the vaccines?

Still, rare but serious side effects — which can occur with any pharmaceutical product — have arisen since the vaccines’ debut.

There is that. Think on all those commercials where they show people dancing and singing and having fun while half the commercial tells you about the side effects, up to and including death? Of course, they all went through clinical trials, and weren’t taken by hundreds of millions, often with the threat of losing their jobs.

Meanwhile

Arguments over masks aren’t going away in 2023

On a recent evening, comedian Jimmy Fallon devoted a segment of his late night talk show to launch into one of his ready-made-for-social-media ditties, this one devoted to the new XBB.1.5 variant of the coronavirus. Rendered in the campy style of the B-52s, the joking song contained a line many public health officials would like to see elected officials make with deliberate seriousness.

“Put on your mask when inside a facility,” Fallon crooned.

Crooned while not wearing a mask. Nor do his guests wear masks.

Three years into the pandemic, the question of whether to mask or not to mask shows no signs of heading toward a resolution, especially during a winter season that has seen a so-called tripledemic sweep across the United States. States dropped their mask mandates long ago; last spring, a court struck down a mask mandate on airplanes, planes and other forms of transit. Today, masking is still required in some institutions, like hospitals and theaters.

If you want to wear a mask, wear one. Otherwise, piss off, and stop trying to force your nuttiness on the rest of us.

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Did Kamala Harris Smoke Trees At Her Climate (scam) Sitdown?

Perhaps it was the fumes from her gas stove fossil fueled flight?

The hell?

(Fox News) Vice President Kamala Harris gave a series of familiar word salads and comments during her latest appearance in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Thursday. (snip)

“I love Venn diagrams. I do. I love Venn diagrams. So, the three circles — and you can do more! Nobody says a Venn diagram has to only be three circles, right?” Harris said Thursday. (snip)

“I’m excited about electric school buses. I LOVE electric school buses. I just love them! For so many reasons. Maybe because I went to school on a school bus. Hey, raise your hand if you went to school on a school bus!” Harris exclaimed while raising her hand.

“Who doesn’t love a yellow school bus, right? Can you raise your hand if you love a yellow school bus? Many of us went to school on the yellow school bus, right? It’s part of our experience growing up,” Harris said.

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If All You See…

…is an area flooded from extreme weather, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is This ain’t Hell…, with a post on AOC being right on gas stoves.

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Abortion Cultists Seem Upset Over Republicans Passing “Anti-Abortion” Measures

So, what was it that the House GOP passed? Was it a national ban on abortion? Making it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion? What horrific, dastardly things did they pass?

Republican-controlled House pushes for new abortion restrictions

The Republican-led House on Wednesday pressed ahead with a pair of anti-abortion measures, despite warning signs that the issue had galvanized the opposition in the wake of the supreme court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade last year.

They must be really bad, putting massive restrictions on a “woman’s right to choose”, on a “woman’s right to reproductive freedom” (though, the same abortion nuts do not seem to be able to define what is a woman anymore)

Voting mostly along party lines, Republicans first approved a bill that would compel doctors to provide care for an infant who survives an attempted abortion – an occurrence that is exceedingly rare.

After its passage, Republicans broke into applause on the House floor as the bill’s sponsor, congresswoman Ann Wagner, a Republican of Missouri, waved the text of the legislation in celebration.

Democrats, several of them wearing white in protest, remained silent. However, on the measure, two Texas Democrats broke with the party: the congressman Henry Cuellar, who opposes abortion, supported it while his colleague Vicente González voted present.

The House also passed a non-binding resolution condemning attacks on pregnancy crisis centers, with the support of all Republicans and three Democrats.

Wait, that’s it? This is what Democrats and abortion on demand supporters are upset about? Having to give a baby born alive medical care and condemning attacks on pregnancy centers? I’m not so sure that it would galvanize opposition from non-abortion nuts.

Anti-abortion groups have long pushed so-called “born alive” legislation similar to the version under consideration in the House, which could carry a prison sentence of up to five years for medical workers.

Critics, including medical professionals, say such measures are based on distortions and misinformation about what is often an extremely painful and often unwanted decision to end a pregnancy. Abortions after the point of viability, which is defined as about 23 weeks, are extremely uncommon, according to federal and state data. In the rare instances they do happen, they often involve serious fetal abnormalities or risks to the life of the mother.

If it’s so rare, why are Democrats so upset? If the baby is born alive, what risk is there to the life of the mother? The baby is out.

“The bill directly interferes with a doctor’s medical judgment and dictates a medical standard of care that may not be appropriate in all circumstances, which could, in fact, put infants’ lives at greater risk,” Nadler said.

The doctor’s judgement is to let the baby die? Isn’t that against their oath?

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Excitable NY Gov Hochul Pushes To Ban New Gas Hookups

Los Federales may have given up on banning gas stoves (at least for the moment. You know they’ll try again), but, climahypocrite Hochul is working it

N.Y. Gov. Hochul proposes ban on new gas hookups, to fight climate change

In the same week that the Biden administration reversed course on whether a ban on the sale of new gas stoves is under consideration, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul proposed banning fossil fuel infrastructure, including lines that power gas stoves and furnaces, in smaller new residential buildings by 2025 and in larger ones by 2028.

Hochul, a Democrat, also proposed the same requirement for commercial buildings beginning in 2030. The governor also wants to end sales of new oil or gas heating equipment — boilers, stoves, dryers and hot water heaters — in existing residential buildings by 2030 and by 2035 in existing commercial buildings.

“We know that the key to long-term sustainability — for our wallets and our planet — is weaning ourselves from fossil fuels,” Hochul said Tuesday in her state of the state speech. “We are taking these actions because climate change remains the greatest threat to our planet, and to our children and grandchildren.”

Last year, Washington state mandated the use of electric heat pumps in new homes and apartments, but, in recognition of the limitations of electric heat pumps in colder climates, fossil fuel burners will still be allowed to provide backup heat. The California Air Resources Board approved a plan last year to end the sale of fossil fuel appliances statewide, but the rules are still being drafted.

So, what of new construction in the norther parts of NY? Heck, most of NY. It does get pretty cold, So, what provides heating? Considering NY is banning natural gas power plants, doing away with coal and nuclear, where does this energy come from? What of those who use propane? Is that banned, as well? Funny how so much of the ‘climate change’ policy revolves around telling the peasants what they may or may not have.

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AG Garland Forced To Appoint Special Investigator On Biden Classified Document

A third batch of classified documents was found in Biden’s garage near his Corvette, and now

Attorney General Merrick Garland Assigns Special Counsel to Investigate Joe Biden for Possession of Classified Documents

Attorney General Merrick Garland announced his decision Thursday to appoint a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden after classified documents from his time as vice president in Barack Obama’s administration were found in his possession.

“I concluded that under the special counsel regulations, it was in the public interest to appoint a special counsel,” Garland said, noting that he made his decision on January 5th.

He announced that former U.S. attorney from Maryland Robert Hur, appointed by former president Donald Trump, to investigate Biden.

“Mr. Hurr has a long and distinguished career as a prosecutor,” Garland said, adding that “I will ensure that Mr. Hur receives all the resources he needs to conduct his work.”

The Attorney General laid out the timeline for the Justice Department’s handling of the investigation, revealing that the investigation was well underway before it was first reported on Tuesday.

Garland recounted that he was first notified of Biden’s possession of classified documents on the evening of November 4, which were found by his lawyer in his office at the Penn-Biden center.

So, Garland knew about the current president having classified documents from his time as VP stored at the center, which he was not entitled to have and had no authority to have. And did….nothing. And, let’s be honest, this investigation will most likely turn into a white wash. It’s pro-forma meant to give cover to Biden. It will take months and months, with no leaks to the press, then the findings will be quietly released and everything will be fine.

That’s not to say that Trump should have had them, but, you can Obama had them, Bush 43, Clinton, etc. As VP, there was no reason for Joe to have them. Why is the FBI not searching his homes and the Penn center?

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Kamala Takes Fossil Fueled Trip To Ann Arbor To Whine With Climate Kids

She couldn’t have done this on a zoom call? Perhaps she could have met them at the border, a place she’s never been

Kamala Harris in Ann Arbor: Young activists must lead charge against climate change

Truly eradicating the detrimental impacts of climate change requires activism, investment and an understanding how pervasive these problems are through society, Vice President Kamala Harris argued during an event Thursday afternoon at the University of Michigan.

Nah, it just requires Warmists to give up their own use of fossil fuels and make their own lives carbon neutral, if they think it’s so bad. Instead, they want all the taxes, fees, restrictions, and loss of freedom to apply to Other People

More than 2,000 people came to Rackham Hall for the discussion, moderated by U.S Secretary of Energy and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and university Professor Kyle Whyte.

The pair posed no hardball queries during the roughly 35-minute conversation and the trio focused little on key drivers of environmental policy in Michigan, like the Great Lakes or eradicating PFAS chemicals. Instead, the vice president highlighted the state’s ballooning electric vehicle sector to amplify the work of the Biden-Harris administration to create what she deemed a “clean-energy economy,” while acknowledging the intersection between poor social or financial outcomes and climate change.

So they both took a long fossil fueled trip for a scant 35 minute “conversation”, which means they bloviated, and took zero tough questions? What did they do next? It’s harder to know, since her schedule is not published like Biden’s. What’s the over/under that there was a fundraiser with big money donors afterwards?

“You can look at, for example, the data that tells us that some of the regions in America with the poorest air quality are low-income communities and communities of color,” Harris said.

Which has nothing to do with ‘climate change’, and, interestingly, the crappy air quality occurs in Democratic Party run cities. How about we focus on real environmental issues?

Referencing her own familiar ties to community activism, she encouraged students in the audience to use social media and friend networks to make a climate impact in their own circles.

“Tell the story, talk with your peers because the reality of it is is you all have such a charge to lead this movement. You all have everything at stake,” Harris said.

It’s so weird that none of the leaders like Kamala ever tell them to get off their asses and practice what they preach. It’s always about providing force on That Guy. And none of the reporters actually do Journalism and ask questions like “why did you take a long fossil fueled trip if fossil fuels are bad?”

Just too be clear, these little stories are important, because they do highlight how the Elites really are complete climate hypocrites. Why should we listen?

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