Say, How Do All These Young Folks Suddenly Identify As LGBTQwhatever?

By William Teach April 23, 2022 – 7:00 am

An interesting piece by Kevin Downey Jr from PJ Media. Remember when your mom would say “if all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” Well, you were a teen or younger. Of course you would!

Against All Odds: Mother Tells How Her Daughter and Every One of Her Friends Are Suddenly Trans

When I was a teenager, the cool kids smoked cigarettes. Today they cut off their weiners.

A mom writing for Substack’s “Parents with Inconvenient Truths about Trans” is claiming that her kid went full trans-tard after going to a new, woke, trans-happy school.

She starts her article with this: “My teenage daughter has decided that she is “trans”. So have all her friends. Not some of them. Not most of them. Every. Single. One.”

The anonymous mother also states that her daughter showed no signs of gender dysphoria and had never heard the word “transgender” before enrolling at her new school. That’s where she met a group of nerdy, artsy kids. They began looking into all things transgender on the internet.

Then, one day, sha-ZAM! They were all suddenly “trans.” They no longer had any desire to speak with the “cis” kids, (that means cisgender, i.e. normal, not trans, not interested in disfiguring their genitals to be cool).

I wonder how they learned all this?

How can a bunch of kids suddenly all be trans? It’s what we call a “social contagion,” which Oxford Reference defines as “The spread of ideas, attitudes, or behaviour patterns in a group through imitation and conformity. Also called behavioural contagion.”

It’s when a group of people all start imitating each other to fit in.

You wanted to do what your friends did. You became part of a group, and did what they did, right? And, these days, kids think teachers are cool, and when they’re teaching about all these cool, popular stuff, the kids want to do that. Maybe not all of it. While I smoke a lot of pot, did some hash and LCD, I never went in for cocaine in that group. I drank, but, not a lot (not till college). While I love metal, I hung with lots of the surfers, and dressed like that. These days, lots of kids are seriously all in 100% on this cool new thing of saying you’re trans, dressing that way, taking the pills and stuff, wacking their sexual organs.

I’d recommend reading the piece in full, followed by

Gainesville residents need to step outside the liberal echo chamber

We all need to get out more and seek views from numerous sources, especially those with which we differ. We shouldn’t believe the “groupthink” that what we and our friends believe reflects the will of the people. And we need to stop ascribing evil motives to those with whom we disagree.

I take part in a weekly dialogue with other retirees. They are bright, well-spoken, generally courteous and very liberal. I am a conservative and enjoy the dialogue. It has taught me a lot but, at times, the discussions get a little frothy, despite a moderator, and reflect the tendency to extrapolate one’s views to voters at large.

For example, we had a discussion about the Parental Rights in Education bill. I support the bill. My view may have induced tachycardia in some and was described by some liberals as transphobic, bigoted, mean-spirited, anti-gay and worse.

My critics believed that nobody supported the bill, other than, to be kind, the evil folks. However, recent polling by Public Opinion Strategies showed strong support among Americans who actually read the bill, and did not rely on characterizations and the screeds of the pundit class.

Again, read the rest. The thing is, so many of these elitists, or think they’re elite, leftists see zero shades of gray, and are unwilling to entertain anything outside their bubble. Not even willing to listen. They want alternative viewpoints shut down. They find them to be evil.

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Hey, What If We Treated ‘Climate Change’ Like A Child Or Something

By William Teach April 22, 2022 – 3:00 pm

These people are wackadoodle

Could we save Earth if we treated it like a child? We are in crisis and need to heal the planet.

As mothers, we have often felt engulfed by the gnawing worry of climate change, the jagged feeling akin to that moment when you, as a mother, drop off your child in the care of someone who hasn’t yet earned your trust. You see your child’s bright, observant gaze. Their nerves express concern to you with quiet messages designed to tug at your unique receptivity – a tight squeeze, a shifted foot, a tear in the corner of the eye. And you ask yourself: What if they are imperiled and unprotected when I am not present?

So, because a few of you are bat guano loopy, the rest of us must comply? Piss off.

The three of us (Kealoha Fox, Maya Soetoro-Ng and Zelda Keller, the screed writers) form the backbone of the Institute for Climate and Peace, a nonprofit organization based out of Hawaii focusing on the intersections between climate change and peace. We know how precarious the situation is. And we know that many of our leaders – well-intentioned as they may be – are ignoring the truest solutions to bring about peace and climate resilience. Central to our climate justice work is helping to frame the conversation about what peace is.

Would this be the same Hawaii that wouldn’t survive without fossil fuels, which bring in food, goods, and vacationers?

Historically, peace has been too often confused with the topic of security and defined simply as an absence of war and violent conflict, otherwise known as “negative peace.” However, there is another type of peace: “positive peace,” which means the presence of active systems and processes that allow human potential to flourish.

 

Many systems that led to positive peace were integral to ancestral communities but dissipated during the industrial revolution. Indeed, technology has provided many boons to civilization, but it has led directly to our climate crisis, and now technology alone cannot get us out of this emergency.

Positive peaceful climate solutions present the greatest opportunity to build social cohesion, create lasting commitments that survive beyond partisanship, and are sustained beyond each of us. Our work, which complements broad efforts to reduce emissions, focuses on locally rooted, more tailored measures. This includes things like the preservation or restoration of cultural assets on our coastlines, just and dignified migration, democracy building and gender inclusive leadership.

????? Does anyone understand this Climaspeak?

That is why our institute is dedicated to a new narrative: Climate science and social science are integrated, collaborative fields helping to advance community-based climate solutions for thriving, cohesive communities.

So, basically this is all politics.

Despite the demonstrated successes of locally based efforts like these, governments and philanthropies invest most climate finance in top-down and technology-centric approaches. An International Institute of Environment and Development assessment of climate finance between 2003 and 2016 estimated that less than 10% went to locally led climate change projects.

One of the biggest reasons that gatherings like the U.N. Climate Change Conference or publications like IPCC reports fail to achieve large goals, or inspire global change, is because too few of the solutions they promote invest robustly in communal infrastructure that fosters healthy communication, compromise and the realization of shared goals.

Give us money.

We must invest in positive peaceful climate solutions around the world. In essence, dividing the planet into smaller canoes where people come together to build stronger vessels that navigate even the most unknown reality beyond the horizon – beyond the doldrums.

Good grief. Here’s a question: why must we? What if the rest of us aren’t interested? Why do we have to comply? Why can’t you just leave the rest of us the hell alone?

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 22, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is the flag of an Evil carbon polluting nation, you just might be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on Disney saying Tinker Bell and Captain Hook aren’t Woke enough.

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White House Upset That Courts Get To Decide On Lawful Chinese Coronavirus Responses

By William Teach April 22, 2022 – 10:30 am

They don’t seem to like that the Constitutionally created Judicial Branch can hold the Executive Branch to account

W.H. COVID Response Coordinator: Decisions on Protecting Health Shouldn’t Be Decided by Courts

On Thursday’s broadcast of “PBS NewsHour,” White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha commented on the CDC’s transportation mask mandate being struck down in court by stating that “decisions like how we protect the health of the American people should be decided by public health scientists and our public health agencies like the CDC and not by a federal judge.”

Jha said, “I think there are a couple of points here that are worth mentioning: First, decisions like how we protect the health of the American people should be decided by public health scientists and our public health agencies like the CDC and not by a federal judge. In terms of legal strategy and legal issues, the Department of Justice, their lawyers felt very clearly that the CDC had acted within its powers, and that’s why they appealed. And the administration and the legal experts around the country are confident that the CDC was acting lawfully and that, eventually, the CDC will win this case.”

He added, “[I]t is absolutely essential that CDC have this ability, whether it’s for the rest of this pandemic or for future health crises. It is essential that CDC have the ability to put in rules that are going to protect the traveling public. They’ve had that rule for — that authority for decades, and it’s essential that we continue that. That’s one of the reasons why the Department of Justice filed this appeal, to preserve that authority for the CDC.”

They may feel that they have that power, but, a member of the federal court said they do not. Not without going through proper rule making steps. And maybe not even then. They do not have the power to arbitrarily impose mask mandates on American citizens, especially not while also claiming that it’s fine to remove Title 42 and allow illegal aliens to pass into the United States.

But, see, this isn’t about the killed off mask mandate, this is about being to arbitrarily impose future measures. The pandemic is over. It is almost always a low level bit of news now. Go to the Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, CBS News, CNN, and so many others, and COVID is way, way down the page. Other than perhaps a piece on Philly killing it’s mask mandate days after reinstating it, some have no news. Nothing at ABC News. NBC News has a COVID link on the top bar still. It’s just not a big deal anymore. But, the CDC/White House want the ability to dictate how people live if anything happens.

Slavitt is Biden’s former Wuhan Flu advisor, and, beside the reality that the DOJ cannot simply repeal a judge’s order (was this a misstatement, or, do these people really think the Executive Branch can simply do whatever the hell they want?), he believes the CDC should be able to do whatever they want whenever they want, regardless of the law, regardless of the Constitution.

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It’s Now Or Never Again For Climate Action On Earth Day Or Something

By William Teach April 22, 2022 – 7:15 am

Why, yes, it’s Earth Day

Was it now or never in killing and composting her?

This Earth Day ‘it’s now or never’ for action on climate change

This Earth Day, like many recent ones, can be seen as a time for despair: the Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate and its inhabitants — us —  aren’t doing enough to stop it. That’s one conclusion from the latest report by the world’s climate scientists. Despite this gloomy outlook, there are some reasons for optimism. For example, the costs of renewable energy are declining and the generation and use of this cleaner energy is increasing.

1.5 in 170 years is not unprecedented, nor much of a big deal.

“We are at a crossroads. The decisions we make now can secure a liveable future. We have the tools and know-how required to limit warming,” IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee said in a statement earlier this month. “I am encouraged by climate action being taken in many countries. There are policies, regulations and market instruments that are proving effective. If these are scaled up and applied more widely and equitably, they can support deep emissions reductions and stimulate innovation.”

But, the scientists stressed, action to further reduce the emissions of greenhouse gasses, which trap the earth’s heat, are needed now. Without emissions reductions, temperatures would continue to rise, they warn.

Just, wondering, what if we do all this stuff they want and nothing changes? Why does the Bangor Daily News not practice what they preach? Have you ever noticed that those pushing this cult almost never mention the changes in their own lives and businesses?

That means actions on a large scale: Incentivizing the production and use of renewable energy, adhering to national and statewide emissions reductions targets, for example, while also taking action as individuals — like considering fuel-efficient vehicles, using public transportation, recycling.

In other words, forcing citizens to do this.

(Vox) The IPCC isn’t arguing that global governments should reengineer the dramatic shutdowns of the early pandemic that brought travel to a standstill. But the science body noted that the pandemic is proof that broad, structural behavioral change can and does happen.

Policy plays a big role in nudging people into making more climate-friendly decisions, basically making it as easy as possible to lessen one’s footprint. The IPCC authors write that “judicious labelling, framing, and communication of social norms can also increase the effect of mandates, subsidies, or taxes.” Interventions that change the “choice architecture” so people have an easier time taking the cleaner option include: default enrollment in green programs, increasing taxes on carbon-intensive products, and substantially tightening regulations and standards.

The IPCC may not be arguing it, but, climate cultists sure are, hence, the “nudging”, which means legislation, rules, and regulations, coming from people who, again, won’t practice what they preach.

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Florida House Votes To Do Away With Disney’s Special Governing Protection

By William Teach April 22, 2022 – 7:00 am

Some Old School Republicans are saying this is just too much, but, considering that Disney’s primary audience is children, perhaps they shouldn’t take the side of those who want to teach small children very adult sexual topics, push them to be LGBT, hide what’s going on in schools from their parents, bring in drag shows and stuff, you know this. Disney made their choice of sides.

Florida House passes bill to dissolve Disney’s special self-governing status

The Florida House passed a bill Thursday to eliminate the special district that allows the Walt Disney Co. to self-govern its Orlando-area theme park, sending the measure to Gov. Ron DeSantis for his signature.

DeSantis, a Republican, called on the Legislature to back the measure during its special session this week. House lawmakers passed the bill in a 68-38 vote after the Senate’s 23-16 vote on Wednesday.

The legislation would dismantle Disney’s special district on June 1, 2023. The district, which was created by a 1967 state law, allows Disney to self-govern by collecting taxes and providing emergency services. Disney controls about 25,000 acres in the Orlando area, and the district allows the company to build new structures and pay impact fees for such construction without the approval of a local planning commission.

Might it be too much? What could the fallout be for the local areas? There’s zero chance Disney leaves Florida, they have way, way too much invested. They made their bed

Dana was kinda aiming this at the Old School Republicans who are clutching their pearls. You know why so many Conservatives loved Trump? Because he fought back. Perhaps using nukes when napalm would be appropriate, but, we’ve begged the GOP to fight back against the insane Democrats and their Comrades in the media. This is how you get a Marjorie Taylor Green, blasting Dems, while the Romney’s clutch their pearls. Politics is a dirty, nasty business, with a veneer of civility, and when you’re fighting to stop Democrats from grooming children, you better be prepared to fight hard.

This is what we get from unhinge Brian Stetler at CNN

DeSantis vs. Disney: Homophobia and hate are beneath the surface of high-minded, right-wing talking points

The Walt Disney Company, a longtime engine of Florida’s economy, now finds itself in a disorienting position: Enemy of Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis.

And let’s be clear about the root cause: Resistance to LGBTQ equality.

The impending removal of Walt Disney World’s special tax district is wrapped up in anti-big business rhetoric. But the chain of events that led to “DeSantis versus Disney” began with the Florida GOP’s so-called “Don’t Say Gay” law.

Homophobia and hate are right underneath the surface of the high-minded talking points about “parental rights in education.”

Democrats wrap their grooming of children in this manner, never explaining why it’s necessary to have this stuff in school. Republicans must fight back, not just blogs, on social media, and even big outlets like Breitbart. The elected Republicans need to fight back, and be like DeSantis and Texas Gov Greg Abbott.

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Who’s Up For Giving Their Dead Body To Solve Climate Crisis (scam)?

By William Teach April 21, 2022 – 3:26 pm

I can’t decide if this is ghoulish or not

Florida company wants to use your dead body to fight climate change

A nonprofit in Florida has a unique, eco-friendly way to restore coral reefs while simultaneously providing an eternal resting place to those whose final wish is to use their remains to benefit marine habitats impacted by climate change.

Climate change has led to issues worldwide, including in oceans, where rising temperatures have resulted in the loss of coral.

Yes, because coral never ever dealt with higher temperatures nor higher seas, right?

According to a 2020 report, corals can be found in more than 100 countries. And while they cover only 0.2% of the ocean’s floor, they support at least 25% of marine life. However, rising ocean temperatures have led to the loss of 14% of global corals.

That’s where Florida-based Eternal Reefs comes in.

The company creates a reef ball with the cremated remains of a person (or pet) and drops them to the ocean floor to provide marine life with a new ecosystem.

This goes all the way back to when the founders were in college in the late 80’s

They faced challenges coming up with the design. They needed to create a design that would naturally attract marine life, withstand tidal movement and current flows, and also be able to stay put during a major storm.

It also needed to be environmentally friendly.

They eventually came up with the design, and in 1992, the Reef Ball Development Group and Reef Ball Foundation completed the first project off the coast of Ft. Lauderdale.

So, it’s environmental, which has nothing to do with anthropogenic climate change.

Eternal Reefs will bring a pre-cast reef ball to a casting site where families and friends have the opportunity to mix their loved one’s remains into the concrete to create what’s called a pearl. At that point, the pearl is placed into the reef ball, and another layer of concrete is poured on top, where it can then be decorated and personalized by family members.

Yup, they basically mix your ashes in to the concrete….say, doesn’t the climate cult say concrete is Bad?…and then drop it on the sea floor, and are taking advantage of the cult beliefs. Nice gig!

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 21, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…are wonderful trees which will die from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Daley Gator, with a post on the mask obsession. Make sure to bookmark the new site, since WordPress killed his normal site.

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23 Things Car Dealerships Don’t Want You To Know Or Something

By William Teach April 21, 2022 – 12:38 pm

I almost never delve into my real life, but, everyone once in a while something like this shows up, and it makes me laugh. People will often ask how to go about buying a car, and I’ll usually tell them the exact opposite of what they read online. Why? For one thing, doing that stuff wastes everyone’s time. Then you start wondering why this is taking so long. Why it’s such a hassle. Let’s delve into this, before I give you a book length post

23 Things Car Dealerships Don’t Want You To Know

Purchasing a new or used vehicle usually involves a lot of time, stress and money. Although people have to face this task an average of about every 11 1/2 years when buying a new car, there are secrets to purchasing a car that can make the process a whole lot faster, easier and cheaper.

Huh? The average is 4 years. Is this supposed to be about when they force us into EVs and we have 9-10 year loans?

1. Conduct Research Ahead of Time
Nearly 90% of car buyers use the internet to research autos before making a purchase, according to Autotrader. Sites such as Kelley Blue Book, Autotrader.com and Edmunds are equipped to provide shoppers with information that is crucial to the car-buying process, such as available rebates.

Yes, please. Too many have no idea what they’re looking for, don’t know the features, the prices, anything.

2. Pay With Cash
If you want to get a great deal on a used car, cash is king, said Doug Nordman, author of “The Military Guide to Financial Independence and Retirement.”

Yeah, maybe for a used from a private seller, as mentioned, but, really, the industry is set up for you to finance. Cash really means nothing anymore. Plus, don’t think you are going to get ANY discount in the current marketplace.

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Sniffles: Mask Companies Hurt By End Of Mask Mandates

By William Teach April 21, 2022 – 10:30 am

Seriously, how long did they think the Chinese coronavirus pandemic would last? There was always going to be a point where masking would stop, with just a few mask cultists masking up

America’s mask manufacturers take it on the chin

A U.S. judge’s ruling this week that the Biden administration’s mask mandate for public transportation was unlawful dealt another blow to an industry that built dozens of small U.S. mask factories during the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Just a year ago, 26 of these upstart producers signed a letter to the administration, urging a crackdown on an influx of low-priced Chinese masks that was undermining their new operations, all of which were opened in response to a health crisis that highlighted U.S. dependence on foreign producers of all types of medical safety gear.

Today, just nine of the letter’s signers still produce masks.

“The government never really supported mask manufacturing in the U.S.,” said Lloyd Armbrust, chief executive of Armbrust American, a mask maker in Pflugerville, Texas. The lifting of the mandate will only hasten the decline of the new industry, he added.

Armbrust, who is also president of the American Mask Manufacturer’s Association, a group created to fight for the domestic startups, is one of the survivors. But his mask business is a shadow of what it was even a few months ago.

They needed to plan for the end of forced masking, right? It’s great that they were able to take advantage of what was going on to make a few bucks, but, they needed to plan for the end of operations.

During the record surge of cases from the fast-spreading Omicron variant that started late last year and peaked in January, Armbrust did up to half a million dollars in sales a day, he said. “Now, we’re like 5% of that.”

It was bound to happen, wasn’t it? Even the whole N95 thing was short lived after Brandon pimped them.

Armbrust said his business can make money producing at a lower level, in part because it has shifted toward also producing air filters for homes. Unlike face masks, which have become a divisive U.S. political issue, home filters are not controversial.

That’s smart. The mask companies need to adapt. How many will, and how many will demand a bailout from the Brandon admin?

Domestic producers say one risk going forward is that they are unlikely to ramp up production again, should a new virus variant emerge or some other crisis that prompts governments and businesses to again rush to buy masks.

“You better believe I won’t scale up like that again,” said Armbrust. “Why would I?”

OK? Most people still have plenty of masks around. I have a bunch of them sitting around. Some people burned theirs. I think we’ll be OK, especially since I doubt most will put up with any sort of new mask mandate, since the previous ones made zero difference. People were still mostly forced to mask up when the Delta and Omicron variants hit and spiked.

They tried to make a buck off people getting sick and dying….eh, that’s only partially fair…and now things have collapsed. No one complained that when all the disco companies were stuck with their products at the end of the disco era.

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