tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51528297647234696302024-02-07T03:12:02.087-08:00Up Sucker CreekAbout the future of Lake Oswego and suburbs everywhere. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1320125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-70907226818984511602023-05-11T16:48:00.002-07:002023-05-11T16:48:27.439-07:00You will go nowhere and like it. <p><span style="font-size: large;">Is this in our future? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">You can have a car but you can’t go wherever you want whenever you want. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Cameras will look at your license plate to make sure you stay where you are told. How many cameras will it take when climate change ceases to be the reason to control us? And if/when </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">everyone has an electric car and a smart meter, how far can you get when the power is out, or low, or your house has maxed out on its energy quota? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wYA273tsY_bATghlEUGUavbZHMgr3tyCjCnZohVdQLh6Q8iq8ZLvvpEZp_pZLAtDbSjWbyjqhaD6vSI9umgxzLezb1oQndFDd-CnVcorLPAbquS0n5ozm7l_QOwr5XR02dJBXDCE-pldH-puJY81FNF8z6123NqwmIHhzYAu_71tTorqAGzrKVyJPA/s750/352F7F47-799A-4FFE-A51F-F62994841368.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="750" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wYA273tsY_bATghlEUGUavbZHMgr3tyCjCnZohVdQLh6Q8iq8ZLvvpEZp_pZLAtDbSjWbyjqhaD6vSI9umgxzLezb1oQndFDd-CnVcorLPAbquS0n5ozm7l_QOwr5XR02dJBXDCE-pldH-puJY81FNF8z6123NqwmIHhzYAu_71tTorqAGzrKVyJPA/w400-h286/352F7F47-799A-4FFE-A51F-F62994841368.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><p></p><h1 class="entry-title page-title" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; clear: both; font-family: Oswald, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 46px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.67em; text-align: center;">Oxford, England plans to restrict car travel with ‘traffic filter’ trial to ‘tackle climate change’</h1><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-family: "noto serif", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 18.4px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>“The introduction of ‘traffic filters’ is what you might expect in a totalitarian state, not Oxford,' The Telegraph commented.</b></span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "noto serif", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em;">(<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/canada/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a3df; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;">LifeSiteNews</a>) — Oxford, England will be enforcing six “traffic filter” locations restricting car travel in 2024 as part of an effort to “help tackle climate change.”</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "noto serif", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em;">During a trial run of at least six months, only buses, taxis, cyclists, pedestrians, and workers with special exemptions will be able to pass through the “filter” access points at all times without being fined, the Oxfordshire <a href="https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/yourtown/oxfordshire/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a3df; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">County</a>Council and Oxford City Council <a href="https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/23177152.oxfordshire-oxford-council-abused-traffic-filters/?ref=twtrec" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a3df; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">explained.</a></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "noto serif", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white;">Residents of Oxford and “some surrounding villages” can apply for a permit to drive through the filters for up to 100 days a year, and residents of Oxfordshire County may apply for a permit to pass through the filters up to 25 days a year.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "noto serif", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white;">Media coverage describing the traffic constraints as “climate lockdowns” sparked further backlash, prompting a County-City </span><a href="https://www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article/2332/joint_statement_from_oxfordshire_county_council_and_oxford_city_council_on_oxford_s_traffic_filters" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a3df; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;" target="_blank">joint statement</a><span style="background-color: white;"> that attempted to allay concerns by assuring the public that the filters are not “physical barriers,” and that Oxford residents would “not be confined to their local area.”</span></p></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-family: "noto serif", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px;">Marc Morano, an author who specializes in debunking the false narratives of the “climate change” agenda and condemning its totalitarian impulses, has recently </span><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/covid-was-just-the-beginning-climate-lockdowns-are-the-next-stage-of-the-great-reset-agenda/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a3df; font-family: "noto serif", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;">warned</a><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-family: "noto serif", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px;"> of coming “climate lockdowns” in which restrictions will be imposed on car and airplane travel and household energy use under the pretext of a “climate emergency,” as part of the global </span><a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/globalist-elites-to-gather-in-swiss-resort-town-to-plan-post-covid-great-reset/" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; color: #00a3df; font-family: "noto serif", Georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none; word-break: break-word;">Great Reset.</a></div><div><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-91413427563122657352022-11-22T12:30:00.000-08:002022-11-22T12:30:25.224-08:00What makes people want to do something? Tell them they can't! <p>A picture says thousands of words. </p><p>Sign at Cabella's yesterday: </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpoKGGBoKOIeHpTW7XL7pUXpNllLGTNhzvkXrYbJl0R22XpIYtkdIax97YzySlevU4KxZ_-yLAQOatHK1BUjOLGpy0-tpxqL8GzRI2pWbsRVKQBnyUMUl50-pAsxdK0oKffQ0Mq-D882V7G6PhPnhaVP7XCnTNOsyEuHWhHfn1nwSlZVr1ta2prqjVYw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpoKGGBoKOIeHpTW7XL7pUXpNllLGTNhzvkXrYbJl0R22XpIYtkdIax97YzySlevU4KxZ_-yLAQOatHK1BUjOLGpy0-tpxqL8GzRI2pWbsRVKQBnyUMUl50-pAsxdK0oKffQ0Mq-D882V7G6PhPnhaVP7XCnTNOsyEuHWhHfn1nwSlZVr1ta2prqjVYw=w480-h640" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="avatar b0bDch6_" style="border: none !important; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; 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font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; line-height: 19px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communications Director Mindy McCartt</a><span style="color: var(--fg-secondary); font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> • </span><a class="post-byline-redesign" href="https://nextdoor.com/p/pfT3RjY7J7rP?view=detail" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #6f7681; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: -0.32px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;">6 days ago</a> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis-ba5h80EDnDWchfshC1MDUaYpDnnkVjxXGmb6WoVLWPn95UcMsuXyvPrx6GGkitAQJiGygQp5xavUTwyQnS9O69_rY3AzhZScN-1WiybtmBQVXSqhjNmGKs8pvCwvUUuthR99AwAmUVQ4USIvenu8WaU-UbA3JshC6uXObnHJU8MZp3_t71AlQBkbg/s1024/7b6a05729521a996873e7355eaafc20f.png.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="1024" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis-ba5h80EDnDWchfshC1MDUaYpDnnkVjxXGmb6WoVLWPn95UcMsuXyvPrx6GGkitAQJiGygQp5xavUTwyQnS9O69_rY3AzhZScN-1WiybtmBQVXSqhjNmGKs8pvCwvUUuthR99AwAmUVQ4USIvenu8WaU-UbA3JshC6uXObnHJU8MZp3_t71AlQBkbg/w640-h368/7b6a05729521a996873e7355eaafc20f.png.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: -0.3199999928474426px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Oregon State Police Firearms Instant Check System (FICS) Update- Oregon. The Oregon State Police (OSP) is aware that the public has many questions regarding Ballot Measure 114. The Oregon Secretary of State’s office notified OSP that Ballot Measure 114 will go into effect at 12:00 a.m. on December 8, 2022. The Oregon State Police is working very closely with the Department of Justice, the Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association and the Oregon Association Chiefs of Police to assess the required processes that need to be completed to implement this law.
For the month of November 2022, approximately 63% of the requests received into the OSP Firearms Instant Check System (FICS) unit have been approved. The remaining transactions must be evaluated by an OSP employee to determine what caused the person to be kicked out of the automated process. If applicable a manual correction can be made, and the application can be approved.
Here are some important notes to consider when submitting for a Firearms purchase or transfer that could exclude you from the automated process:
If you have ever been arrested or convicted of a crime in Oregon or any other state.
If you have incomplete or incorrect information listed on federal ATF Form 4473
Potential Fix- Double-check the information for accuracy.
If your registered DMV address does not match the address listed on federal ATF Form 4473
Potential Fix- Update your personal address with DMV.
This unit has been working through these extreme firearms request volumes and will continue to process them as quickly as possible.
The FICS unit’s hours of operation is set in Oregon Revised Statute (ORS), and largely determined by retail </span><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: -0.3199999928474426px; white-space: pre-wrap;">hours. FICS is open and processing background checks from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., seven days a week 363 days a year with only Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day off. </span></p><span face="system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: -0.3199999928474426px; white-space: pre-wrap;">
For more information about the Oregon State Police’s Firearms Instant Check System (FICS) including how to complete a Firearm Pre-Purchase Self-Assessment Questionnaire click here:
</span><a href="https://www.oregon.gov/osp/programs/cjis/Pages/Firearms-Instant-Check-System.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; box-sizing: border-box; color: #007b99; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Roboto, "Segoe UI", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; letter-spacing: -0.3199999928474426px; text-decoration: none; white-space: pre-wrap;" target="_blank">https://www.oregon.gov/osp/programs/cjis/Pages/Firearms-Instant-Check-System.aspx</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-59392489510149253062022-11-21T08:48:00.000-08:002022-11-21T08:48:03.567-08:00Oregon’s Nanny State<p> Those who voted Yes on Measure 114 don’t trust you. They will say it isn’t you - that the gun control measure is just to prevent crazies from getting firearms, but if that is what they really believe, they are kidding themselves. Law-abiding gun owners don’t need more laws to keep others safe; those who don’t follow laws don’t care what the laws say. Cross your fingers that legal challenges to the new law will succeed and our 2nd amendment rights will be restored. What else can theDems take away from us? ALOT! </p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2022/11/oregon-measure-114-lawsuit-read-the-full-text-of-the-court-challenge-trying-to-stop-strict-new-gun-limits.html" target="_blank">Oregonlive</a></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIBQOafoc3RBONpx8e1AEl8gpZdKmH85DQZvETTG0OVl3O_dCl-d3n0U8b33LULKPGMBsyq3E_LrVwV_5OMHwcrdlViyVhufoG14_lB2jANNdBRf5tm_TPH04f8J6GhXtzZDrukGAqVgUEiUKYh9UcN5JZ622u6yiRIgj4ElU2yszj0p_ziRdqeQbXyg/s1904/6F14D854-7655-43DC-B228-6ED1596CBBEF.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1904" data-original-width="1478" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIBQOafoc3RBONpx8e1AEl8gpZdKmH85DQZvETTG0OVl3O_dCl-d3n0U8b33LULKPGMBsyq3E_LrVwV_5OMHwcrdlViyVhufoG14_lB2jANNdBRf5tm_TPH04f8J6GhXtzZDrukGAqVgUEiUKYh9UcN5JZ622u6yiRIgj4ElU2yszj0p_ziRdqeQbXyg/w497-h640/6F14D854-7655-43DC-B228-6ED1596CBBEF.jpeg" width="497" /></a></div><br /><div class="byline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: "Benton Sans Bold", Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: 0.07em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 115.1875px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By </span><ul class="byline__authorList" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 1.6; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li class="byline__author" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="byline__authorLink" href="https://www.oregonlive.com/staff/The%20Oregonian/posts.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.07em; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="The Oregonian/OregonLive.com">The Oregonian/OregonLive.com</a></li></ul></span></div><div class="article__story " style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Benton Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; grid-column-end: article; grid-column-start: article; grid-row-end: article; grid-row-start: article; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="entry-content " style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="4IVHADTHSZBIVI7VJXBUZPN5QM" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 115.1875px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2022/11/oregon-firearms-federation-with-sherman-county-sheriff-file-first-lawsuit-challenging-oregons-gun-control-measure-114.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">newly filed federal lawsuit </a>argues Oregon’s Measure 114, due to go into effect next month, violates the Second Amendment. Read the full text of the complaint, filed by the Oregon Firearms Federation, below.</span></p><div id="inarticle-1" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="UUR7N7CXONDCRKZ6JESUGE2EMA" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 115.1875px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23314494-firearmsfederationlawsuit11182022" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Text of lawsuit as filed in federal court.</span></a></p><div id="inarticle-2" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="4ALR5XCWERDBVJ43QIRQI7WVLA" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 115.1875px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The plaintiffs seek a court-ordered injunction that would bar the measure from becoming law and a court ruling that Measure 114 is unconstitutional. If a judge isn’t inclined to prevent the entire measure from taking effect, the plaintiffs ask that the court in the alternative at least bar the restriction on gun magazine capacity.</span></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-4589918338819084462022-11-21T05:48:00.000-08:002022-11-21T05:48:03.571-08:00Want to be inspired? LISTEN <p> </p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This conversation is the antidote to the demagoguery being spewed by our cultural institutions today. If, like me you are in need of some intelligence, clear thinking and courage, check out this website and set aside the time to be reinvigorated! </span></p><p><span><span style="font-size: large;">Use this link to find <b>“Not Buying It”</b> on </span><a href="https://www.hoover.org/research/not-buying-it-glenn-loury-ian-rowe-and-robert-woodson-debunk-myths-about-black-experience" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Uncommon Knowledge</span><span style="font-size: large;">,</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> a podcast from the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, </span></span></p><p><span><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisp-WYPzsDSLgbU2dyeHpO3Sh7gvd2AzyLv6rLldsO1IdPCWghvAqKVK1RIKiZg3rHVaTQLDESU_SRIGqDeObeWHqIz_yft2vrlIPZjYRl3ghoPChQaZawsMFU5vZ_mHc5LTEjUwalVq9Bhm9nzOmwBUPIe3vXFWNSLXGZjj5nZ3Hk00PO_TBPRntSBA/s1051/E891E3BE-7A34-4104-83EE-94EC43D08F0F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; 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-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-pack: center; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; justify-content: center; margin: 0px; max-width: 600px; padding: 0px 45px 0px 0px;"><span class="article" face="synthese, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #98002e; display: block; font-weight: bold; letter-spacing: -0.008em; line-height: 1.71; margin: 25px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><a href="https://www.hoover.org/research/type/video" hreflang="en" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #98002e; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">VIDEOS</span></a></span><h1 style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: synthese, sans-serif; font-size: 32px; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px;"><p style="-webkit-line-clamp: unset; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.35; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Not Buying It: Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson Debunk Myths about the Black Experience in America</p></h1><div class="text-wrap" style="-webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-line-clamp: 8; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; display: -webkit-box; margin: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: synthese, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.008em; line-height: 1.44; margin: 5px 8px 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In this wide-ranging conversation, Glenn Loury, Ian Rowe, and Robert Woodson debunk <em style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The 1619 Project</em>, advocate for the restoration of the Black family and the Black church, describe their own very different upbringings and formative experiences, and discuss the many reasons why they are optimistic about the future of Black Americans, despite the narrative commonly expressed in the media.</span></p></div><span class="date" face="synthese, sans-serif" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; letter-spacing: -0.008em; line-height: 1.71; margin: 20px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Monday, July 25, 2022 <span class="ellipse" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-bottom-left-radius: 50%; border-bottom-right-radius: 50%; border-top-left-radius: 50%; border-top-right-radius: 50%; border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; letter-spacing: -0.008em; line-height: 1.71; margin-bottom: 0px !important; margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 2px; margin-top: 0px; margin: 0px 2px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;"></span> 22 min read</span></span><span class="author-info view" face="synthese, sans-serif" style="-webkit-box-align: center; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; align-items: center; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; flex-wrap: wrap; letter-spacing: -0.008em; line-height: 1.71; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 447px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">interview with <a href="https://www.hoover.org/profiles/peter-m-robinson" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Peter M. Robinson</a></span><span class="comma" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: -0.008em; line-height: 1.71; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px; text-transform: unset;">,</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span><a href="https://www.hoover.org/profiles/glenn-loury" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; cursor: pointer; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Glenn Loury</span></a></span></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-25432283671593337672022-08-30T19:37:00.005-07:002022-08-30T22:11:36.607-07:00No new gas car for you! You..Oregonian!,<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">Bad ideas starting California and then spread North. Both Oregon and California are single-party states, thanks to the left-leaning, dense populace of the Willamette Valley. The rest of us are trapped in this Hell with no representation at any level of government. Many with means are choosing to leave the state. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span>Here are some radically stupid ideas that California is trying out - the first one has already ensnared Oregon and 15 other states that have tied their clean air standards to California’s. Virginia’s Governor and Lieutenant Governor are on record as promising to untie the knot that ties their state to California. Their theory is that if the citizens wanted to adopt California’s laws there would be no need to have a Virginia legislature. The same should be true of Oregon! Even if Oregon’s legislators have not shown themselves to be business savvy or adept at figuring out human nature, at least we can hope to vote them out of office! Oregonians can’t vote in </span><span>California. Yet.</span></span></p><div class="article-headline-container" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); position: relative;"><div class="header-content-container" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><h1 class="fs-headline speakable-headline font-base font-size should-redesign" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.22; margin-block: 0px; margin: 8px 0px 0px; min-height: 120px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And when the power runs low, electric cars don’t go. <span style="font-weight: normal;">Where will you be when the blackout hits? What will you do in an emergency? Will the government save you? H___ NO! When the power goes out, you’ll need a generator or a bicycle. Will the overlords let us have fuel for generators? </span></span></h1><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: medium;">Read this and weep. All states that conform to California’s standards impact about 40% of the light duty vehicle sales in the U.S. Scary. I didn’t vote for Gavin Newsome! Didn’t vote for Kate Brown either - the most unpopular governor in the country! In a few years you will only be able to buy a new gas vehicle in Idaho or Nevada…. Used vehicles will cost more… is this what you want? Oregon can’t even get much energy from the sun! Silly. Idealistic. Heads in the sand. Make this the issue for voting for a new Governor for Oregon - get us out of this pact! </span></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBfKG5S0-fQdFxtsFGzp31DPfXvF3zkBfqCrQtq736Mw7X-ghdFFbscWKBBSfhLOnbrDj2vBgFJH1FJGQdnfJSghz-gWeJ9HwA86FxYC03R8Nfq2PQYkcgZR8tG9B6npQrGgAv1MHsggy4BDVQomHcecCmU4z5vrzLu8moiuBYJxDEfWC8-NknnMhsog/s474/34BCCC11-4C15-4046-9AD6-6FBA8D85A065.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="344" data-original-width="474" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBfKG5S0-fQdFxtsFGzp31DPfXvF3zkBfqCrQtq736Mw7X-ghdFFbscWKBBSfhLOnbrDj2vBgFJH1FJGQdnfJSghz-gWeJ9HwA86FxYC03R8Nfq2PQYkcgZR8tG9B6npQrGgAv1MHsggy4BDVQomHcecCmU4z5vrzLu8moiuBYJxDEfWC8-NknnMhsog/w640-h464/34BCCC11-4C15-4046-9AD6-6FBA8D85A065.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></div><h1 class="fs-headline speakable-headline font-base font-size should-redesign" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 36px; line-height: 1.22; margin-block: 0px; margin: 8px 0px 0px; min-height: 120px;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2022/08/25/california-approves-ban-on-gas-powered-cars-by-2035/?sh=3b89f2fd1312" target="_blank">California Approves Ban On Gas-Powered Cars By 2035</a></h1><h1 class="fs-headline speakable-headline font-base font-size should-redesign" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.22; margin-block: 0px; margin: 8px 0px 0px; min-height: 120px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="contrib-link--name remove-underline not-premium-contrib-link--name" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; cursor: pointer; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 16px; margin-right: 5px; text-decoration-skip: objects; text-decoration: none;">Nicholas Reimann</a><div class="contrib-label-container" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif; text-transform: capitalize;"><span class="contrib-byline-type" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #737373; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 400; height: 16px; line-height: 1.57;">Forbes. </span></div><span face=""Work Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #737373; font-weight: 400; text-transform: capitalize;">August 25; 2022. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;">The California Air Resources Board approved a highly anticipated measure Thursday that will ban the sale of </span><a aria-label="new gasoline-only cars" class="color-link" data-ga-track="InternalLink:https://www.forbes.com/sites/madelinehalpert/2022/08/24/california-expected-to-ban-gas-only-car-sales-by-2035/?sh=45e762dd6b6c" href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/madelinehalpert/2022/08/24/california-expected-to-ban-gas-only-car-sales-by-2035/?sh=45e762dd6b6c" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; text-decoration-skip: objects; text-decoration: none;" target="_self" title="https://www.forbes.com/sites/madelinehalpert/2022/08/24/california-expected-to-ban-gas-only-car-sales-by-2035/?sh=45e762dd6b6c">new gasoline-only cars</a><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;"> in the nation’s most populous state by 2035, marking what's widely considered the most stringent regulation ever enacted on gas cars as part of a nationwide shift toward electric vehicles.</span></span></span></h1><div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face=""Work Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #737373; text-transform: capitalize;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: "Work Sans", sans-serif;"><div class="key-facts-element animate-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; padding-bottom: 1.2rem; position: relative;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The ban will apply to most new vehicles, including sedans, SUVs and light trucks, but will not impact the sale of any used vehicles.</span></p><div class="halfway_hardwall_2" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></div></div><div class="key-facts-element animate-line" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; margin: 0px 0px 0px 19px; padding-bottom: 1.2rem; position: relative;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The mandate <a aria-label="requires" class="color-link" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://twitter.com/AirResources/status/1562905138473607168?s=20&t=lgKh7i95Nt6Sz3pkeXH0IQ" href="https://twitter.com/AirResources/status/1562905138473607168?s=20&t=lgKh7i95Nt6Sz3pkeXH0IQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-skip: objects; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="https://twitter.com/AirResources/status/1562905138473607168?s=20&t=lgKh7i95Nt6Sz3pkeXH0IQ">requires</a> at least 35% of new vehicles sold in the state by 2026 to be "zero-emission"—a threshold that gradually increases by 6-8% per year until hitting 100% in 2035.</span></p></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2022-05/§177_states_05132022_NADA_sales_r2_ac.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">States that have Adopted California's Vehicle Standards under Section 177 of the Federal Clean Air Act</span></a></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">The States listed below have adopted California’s Low-Emission Vehicle (LEV) criteria pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission regulations and Zero-Emission Vehicle (ZEV) regulations</div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">California Pols Aren’t Just Coming for Your Burgers</span></h1></div><h2 class="css-mosdo-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); font-family: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-family); font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></h2><h2 class="css-mosdo-Dek-Dek e1jnru6p0" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-text-color); font-family: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-family); font-weight: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-font-weight); line-height: var(--typography-subheading-standard-m-line-height); margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Reasonably priced menus statewide are now at risk.</span></h2></div></div><article class="css-p3nrv6 e105m3c33" style="box-sizing: border-box; grid-column-end: article-body; grid-column-start: article-body; grid-row-end: article-body; grid-row-start: article-body;"><div id="cx-articlecover" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); font-family: var(--font-family-retina-narrow); font-size: 17px;"></div><div class="crawler css-1rlknzd e1of74uw8" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;"><div class="ArticleBodyContent__BylineTimestampWrapper-sc-9g71ca-0 qsfok css-1skj0ht-Box e1vnmyci0" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;"><div class="article-byline css-179sdgx-Container e1575iv84" style="border-top: 1px solid var(--color-silver); box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 22px; padding-top: 15px;"><a aria-label="Author page for James Freeman" class="css-1tuk16e-Hedcut e1575iv83" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-pols-arent-just-coming-for-your-burgers-11661887284" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); float: left; font-family: var(--font-family-retina-narrow); margin: 0px 11px 12px 0px;" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Wall Street Journal</span></b><span style="border-bottom-left-radius: 100%; border-bottom-right-radius: 100%; border-top-left-radius: 100%; border-top-right-radius: 100%; font-size: 17px;"><img alt="James Freeman hedcut" height="40" loading="lazy" src="https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/B3-BG857_freema_AM_20180731103058.jpg" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 100%; border-bottom-right-radius: 100%; border-top-left-radius: 100%; border-top-right-radius: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block;" width="40" /></span><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" face="var(--font-family-retina-narrow)" style="font-size: 17px; text-align: center;">By</span><span color="var(--primary-text-color)" face="var(--font-family-retina-narrow)" style="font-size: 17px; text-align: center;"> </span><span class="css-oie75k-AuthorContainer e1575iv82" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap;"></span></a><a aria-label="Author page for James Freeman" class="css-1ohky7u-AuthorLink e10pnb9y0" href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/james-freeman" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--interactive-text-color); font-family: var(--font-family-retina-narrow); font-style: italic;">James Freema</a><span face="Retina, arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(2, 116, 182); color: #0274b6; font-size: x-small; font-style: italic; letter-spacing: 0.30000001192092896px;"><a aria-label="Author page for James Freeman" class="css-1ohky7u-AuthorLink e10pnb9y0" href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/james-freeman" style="box-sizing: border-box;">n</a> </span><span face="var(--font-family-retina-narrow)"><span color="var(--primary-text-color)"> </span></span><span color="var(--secondary-text-color)" face="Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: var(--typography-timestamp-font-size-m); text-align: center;">Aug. 30, 2022 </span><a aria-label="Author page for James Freeman" class="css-1tuk16e-Hedcut e1575iv83" href="https://www.wsj.com/news/author/5461" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); float: left; font-family: var(--font-family-retina-narrow); font-size: 17px; margin: 0px 11px 12px 0px;"><span color="var(--secondary-text-color)" face="Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: var(--typography-timestamp-font-size-m); text-align: center;"><br /></span></a></div></div></div></article></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.588235294117647); margin: 0px 0px 1em; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s an old saying that no one is safe when the legislature is in session. In California that is certainly true for anyone living on a budget. The same pols who emote incessantly about their alleged desire to make things affordable simply cannot tolerate the existence of reasonably priced meals. Elected Democrats in the Golden State are on a campaign against burger bargains statewide.</span></p><p class="css-xbvutc-Paragraph e3t0jlg0" data-type="paragraph" style="--summary-bullet-small-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --summary-font-color: var(--secondary-text-color); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--primary-text-color); font-family: var(--article-font-family); line-height: calc(1.588235294117647); margin: 0px 0px 1em; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Recently this column <a class="css-1h1us5y-StyledLink exk4ewm0" data-type="link" href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/californias-new-war-on-burger-bargains-11660862026?mod=article_inline" rel="noopener noreferer" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--interactive-text-color); text-decoration-line: underline;" target="_blank">noted</a> the pending California bill to create a new state bureaucracy just to police <b>compensation in the fast-food industry</b>. Like all bad legislative ideas, this one has been moving at warp speed in Sacramento.</span></p><div class="paywall css-1u1nl00-PaywalledContentContainer e1db8bjv0" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box;"><p></p><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-64887062936874341102022-08-11T15:17:00.005-07:002022-08-11T15:17:48.733-07:00Where do things come from?<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">Socialists either don’t know or forget that government funding comes from successful businesses. Businesses that make things that people want, that hire workers, that pay taxes and whose workers pay taxes to fund government. It government controls the economy and makes investment of private capital too burdensome, what would happen then? A successful and peaceful nation starts and ends with liberty and capitalism - two things that cannot be separated. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4oYW4XWnc88Fl_xReK9NYgcG6O6nuPl7rAue7lpVyINEoFLqC0bDzmdZylfaQ1oH2ygbSrcZ7lETLj1ZUtOJvyGPY8vsgzFGqk_q2iYJCugTQ4tph77pn4d4xVT7g-4HG_D8dkzlDZRPByb_7G6jJxsX8FdjgSKdDgfOnqKhXnNbexEVSrNW8oTeQQ/s629/A63584A0-E267-4BA4-8A07-C3D12B4D75F9.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="629" data-original-width="450" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI4oYW4XWnc88Fl_xReK9NYgcG6O6nuPl7rAue7lpVyINEoFLqC0bDzmdZylfaQ1oH2ygbSrcZ7lETLj1ZUtOJvyGPY8vsgzFGqk_q2iYJCugTQ4tph77pn4d4xVT7g-4HG_D8dkzlDZRPByb_7G6jJxsX8FdjgSKdDgfOnqKhXnNbexEVSrNW8oTeQQ/w458-h640/A63584A0-E267-4BA4-8A07-C3D12B4D75F9.jpeg" width="458" /></a></div><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/whole-foods-ceo-john-mackey-socialists-are-taking-over/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana;">New York Post </span></a></b></p><h1 class="headline headline--single" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: neue-haas-grotesk-display, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.05; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whole Foods CEO John Mackey ‘concerned’ that ‘socialists are taking over’</span></h1><div aria-label="Byline" class="article-header__meta" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(88, 88, 88); color: #585858; display: flex; flex-direction: row; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; justify-content: space-between; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="byline meta meta--byline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">By <div class="byline__author" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a aria-controls="flyout-lee-brown" aria-expanded="false" class="meta__link" href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/11/whole-foods-ceo-john-mackey-socialists-are-taking-over/#" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lee Brown</a> August </div></div><div class="byline meta meta--byline" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-size: 0.875rem; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.14; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div></div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Whole Foods co-founder and <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/10/01/whole-foods-john-mackey-to-step-down-as-ceo/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">exiting CEO John Mackey</a> has said he is “deeply concerned” that “socialists are taking over” the country.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“They’re marching through the institutions — they’re taking everything over,” the 68-year-old executive <a href="https://reason.com/podcast/2022/08/10/whole-foods-john-mackey-i-feel-like-socialists-are-taking-over/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">told Reason magazine</a> in an interview just weeks before he finally steps down from the supermarket giant.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“They’ve <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/22/las-radical-gender-theory-material-will-harm-k-12-kids/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">taken over education</a>. It looks like they’ve taken over a lot of the corporations. It looks like they’ve <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/07/21/americas-woke-army-is-facing-a-recruiting-nightmare/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">taken over the military</a>,” he said of his main “concern.”</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“And it’s<a href="https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/lets-stop-loud-radicals-from-drowning-out-the-pro-american-majority/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #c60800; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> just continuing</a>,” he warned.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">He described himself as a “capitalist at heart” and said he believes in liberty.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“And I feel like with the way freedom of speech is today — the movement on gun control — a lot of the liberties that I’ve taken for granted most of my life, I think, <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;">are under threat,” he said.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mackey complained that increased unemployment benefits offered during the pandemic put a real strain on Whole Foods’ ability to hire staff.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“A lot of people were making as much money, if not more money, not working at all. And so guess what? They chose not to come back to work. They got used to it,” he said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However, the biggest hiring crisis has been because “the younger generation … don’t seem to want to work,” he said.</span></p><aside class="single__inline-module alignright" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(88, 88, 88); clear: both; color: #585858; display: inline-block; float: right; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 1.25rem 0px 1.25rem 1.875rem; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;"><div class="inline-module inline-module--related-post" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 13.375rem;"><div class="inline-module__inner" style="background-color: #f6f6f6; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 1.25rem 1.875rem; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="story story--i-flex story--i-flex-none-lg" style="align-items: flex-start; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: nowrap; justify-content: flex-start; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="story__image" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; flex-shrink: 0; margin: 0px 0.9375rem 0px 0px; max-width: 5.8125rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="inline-module--related-post__link" data-ga-event="
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You’re gonna have to earn it over time,” he said. “Some of the younger generation doesn’t seem to be willing to pay that price, and I don’t know why.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mackey promised that the interview was only a teaser of what was to come, saying that his role leading such a giant corporation left him “intimidated enough to shut up.”</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Pretty soon, you’re gonna hear about ‘Crazy John’ who’s no longer muzzled,” he said, laughing when asked if his main future plan was to embarrass the company he spent 44 years growing.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“I’ve got six weeks. I can talk more about politics in six weeks than I can today,” he told Reason’s editor at large, Nick Gillespie.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.01em; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.25rem; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div aria-label="Byline" class="article-header__meta" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(88, 88, 88); color: #585858; display: flex; flex-direction: row; 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That is something I would protest! I have a lot of cardboard, markers and time to protest Womens’ dignity, safety and pride, not to mention common sense. If there has to be some in-between facilities so be it - biological girls and women should not have to suffer. Everyone can win if one ideology isn’t valued over another. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Do these, o</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">r any, young people deserve protection from strange adult males when they are undressing? Of course! </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> (If you even had to think about it, no one should leave children in your care.)</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg79SpbLltXbR_YuNWS2YIQTcuBKT09tO8XOyY3WEwk-h-K9f8jL8S0fpBQmtEObpq9wJ6g8Xs3CHKJEkItTRwNh0CKf5Rw79Im5rbXvpNGTUP0MrL6dqEbk7F7Pjj3bsL1ZPQvlnnNmAkZ7v9NymdnybO4ZsIie4v0STGlqfEWAoSpb3p0WqWavo1ygQ/s474/01F862FD-162A-4B81-8611-B8501016D570.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="474" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg79SpbLltXbR_YuNWS2YIQTcuBKT09tO8XOyY3WEwk-h-K9f8jL8S0fpBQmtEObpq9wJ6g8Xs3CHKJEkItTRwNh0CKf5Rw79Im5rbXvpNGTUP0MrL6dqEbk7F7Pjj3bsL1ZPQvlnnNmAkZ7v9NymdnybO4ZsIie4v0STGlqfEWAoSpb3p0WqWavo1ygQ/s320/01F862FD-162A-4B81-8611-B8501016D570.jpeg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd1xJWl8Z4rBTgJlpplnqVNA6k_KTWD5AGaSdyg2o-NMZz9GCNc0-cB_I9pjJvqCWuYAX8aGk35M9DiQAcJAMSFNs_KDZy6CXwUjUmhuPnOhplScaHuCFXLZm2cjjqr2pHkf-brTpqILUYJ3UTOLKh7cWgMqzs7v5t0u25xkpsJqZeYZT7Jxq7zLms2w/s711/B518FC1C-EC0B-45C3-8AF1-34F0C9FAF805.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/80-year-old-woman-banned-ymca-pool-saw-man-womens-dressing-room/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Western Journal </span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Commentary (Excerpts)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span class="article-authors" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(115, 115, 115); color: #737373; font-family: serif;">By <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/author/jgist/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--secondary-font-color); text-decoration: none;"><span class="ff-author" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #00709c; margin-left: 4px;">Jack Gist</span></a></span><span class="ff-date" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(115, 115, 115); color: #737373; font-family: serif; white-space: nowrap;"> August 5, 2022</span></span></p><p><span class="ff-date" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(115, 115, 115); color: #737373; font-family: serif; font-size: 17px; white-space: nowrap;"><br /></span></p><h1 class="inner-content" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; grid-column-end: title; grid-column-start: title; grid-row-end: title; grid-row-start: title; line-height: 1.2; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">80-Year-Old Woman Banned from YMCA Pool Over What She Saw Man Doing in Women's Dressing Room</span></h1><div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">Radical progressives abhor Christianity. They abhor tradition. And they are attempting to subvert reality to topple the Western heritage.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">Julie Jaman, an 80-year-old woman from Port Townsend, Washington, expressed her discomfort and fear when she encountered a male in the women’s shower area at the local YMCA.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">The YMCA’s reaction? Jaman was permanently banned from the facility, according to the <a href="https://www.porttownsendfreepress.com/2022/08/02/mountain-view-pool-punishes-woman-for-her-gender-expression-and-identity-part-one/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--main-theme-color);" target="_blank">Port Townsend Free Press</a>.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">On July 26, Jaman found herself standing naked in the presence of a male in a woman’s bathing suit. She was disturbed — to put it mildly — that <b>a man was standing before her watching little girls take off their swimsuits.</b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">According to the Free Press, Jaman asked the man, a YMCA employee who goes by the name Clementine Adams, “Do you have a penis?”</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">“None of your business,” Adams responded.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">“Get out of here right now,” Jaman ordered.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">Sensing the girls were in danger, Jaman continued to demand that the man leave the area. Another YMCA employee then called the <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/bidens-doj-intensifies-war-police-indictment-breonna-taylor-officers/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--main-theme-color);" target="_blank">police</a> on Jaman.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;"><br /></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">The YMCA’s aquatics manager, Rowen DeLuna, told Jaman that she had not “abided by our principles and values.”</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">The “principles and values” of the YMCA are <b>the <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/wac/default.aspx?cite=162-32-060#:~:text=All%20covered%20entities%20shall%20allow,gender%20expression%20or%20gender%20identity." rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--main-theme-color);" target="_blank">law of the land</a> in Washington state: </b>“All covered entities shall allow individuals the use of gender-segregated facilities, such as restrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, and homeless or emergency shelters, that are consistent with that individual’s gender expression or gender identity.”</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">Jaman told the Port Townsend City Council, “There is no signage informing women the shower room is now <b>all-gender</b> and what that means, nor have parents been informed of what they can expect with these new policies,” according to the <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/80-year-old-granny-banned-from-ymca-after-demanding-biological-male-leave-womens-locker-room-where-little-girls-were-undressing" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--main-theme-color);" target="_blank">Post Millennial</a>.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">Wendy Bart, CEO of the Olympic Peninsula YMCA, told Jaman the “pride” signs posted around the facility are adequate to let women know that <a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/college-swimmer-reveals-awful-truth-actually-worse-forced-race-lia-thomas/" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--main-theme-color);" target="_blank">men who identify as women</a> will be using the women’s dressing room, the Free Press reported.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">On one side we have the value system characterized by Julie Jaman. This is is the realist camp. Best articulated by St. Thomas Aquinas, this worldview is based on the observation of reality, logic and reason.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">In the opposing camp, we have the system characterized by Clementine Adams, Rowen DeLuna and Wendy Bart. This system — apparently the absurd can be systematic — relies on the feelings of the confused.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;"><b>The C in YMCA used to stand for Christian. </b>What does it stand for now? Cultural Marxism is my bet.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: serif; font-size: 22px; margin: 30px auto; max-width: var(--block-max-width); width: 425px;">Julie Jaman is elderly, but that doesn’t make her outdated, as the cultural Marxist camp would have our children believe. Her longevity carries with it the wisdom of the tradition that came before her. She was simply trying to protect young girls from what she instinctively sensed as danger.</p></div><div><br /></div><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-91511653889667678652022-08-05T15:00:00.004-07:002022-08-05T15:00:46.567-07:00Terrorist Self-Test follow-up<p> <span style="font-size: large;">Another round of applause for <u><a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/fbi-whistleblower-leaks-bureaus-domestic-terrorism-symbols-guide-on-militia/" target="_blank"><b>Project Veritas. </b></a></u> Truth about what our government servants thinks of the people they serve. The Domestic Terrorists addressed in this FBI manual are not the rioters who have destroyed downtown Portland and cities across the country - they are a grab bag of images culled from the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. There were plenty of nuts at the Capitol that day, but many average folks too plus studies and instigators of all stripes. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The interesting thing about this one-sided book is that many of the symbols the FBI present</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> are ordinary historical images we have all grown up with like the Revolutionary Flag. Some, like the resistance symbol have even been used by anarchists and Antifa to promote their causes! The scorecard gets confusing if you just look at a person’s exterior or the flags they carry. You would have to ask each person what the symbol means to them - it would not be the same thing nor do they indicate a person is a terrorist! How dumb can the FBI get? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Belief in and loyalty to the US Constitution is what matters. One has to wonder what the FBI believes in. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyT1sXlOsZbIBm6IUKWKF1Gqmng56maruLJyAz--sFe2riJAGQYxglMqDH-d4mx-h-jRJVn_T0LrNQCM-xCOVJVL_FGjGPdb8W3mOcxkmdL1Lz_nnfdM7Yybl7K5tZMX1K2FmgYxD69LN8FnfnaMq6c9ohPWMh2PoDPKMgWSogeCI5IFoLKRclxeGug/s1536/CFEA2908-F557-4BAE-A334-1B325566186C.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="861" data-original-width="1536" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHyT1sXlOsZbIBm6IUKWKF1Gqmng56maruLJyAz--sFe2riJAGQYxglMqDH-d4mx-h-jRJVn_T0LrNQCM-xCOVJVL_FGjGPdb8W3mOcxkmdL1Lz_nnfdM7Yybl7K5tZMX1K2FmgYxD69LN8FnfnaMq6c9ohPWMh2PoDPKMgWSogeCI5IFoLKRclxeGug/w640-h358/CFEA2908-F557-4BAE-A334-1B325566186C.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p><h1 class="css-1tehxfu ekxyxev1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: din-2014, sans-serif; font-size: 2.25rem; line-height: 1.25; margin: 0px 0px 0.5rem;">FBI Whistleblower LEAKS Bureau’s ‘Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide’ on ‘Militia Violent Extremists’ Citing Ashli Babbitt as MVE Martyr</h1><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: din-2014, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">Aug. 2, 2022] Project Veritas released a newly leaked document today provided by an FBI whistleblower, which shows how the Bureau classifies American citizens it deems to be potential “Militia Violent Extremists” [MVEs].</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: din-2014, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">In the document, the FBI cites symbols, images, phrases, events, and individuals that agents should look out for when identifying alleged domestic terrorists.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: din-2014, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">The “Unclassified/Law Enforcement Sensitive” document says it is for “FBI Internal Use Only.”</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: din-2014, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">Of note, under the “Symbols” section, is a prominent citation of the Second Amendment, where it explains that “MVEs justify their existence with the Second Amendment, due to the mention of a ‘well regulated Militia,’ as well as the right to bear arms.”</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: din-2014, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 1.75; margin: 0px 0px 1.5rem;">Right below that, under the “Commonly Referenced Historical Imagery and Quotes” section, Revolutionary War images such as the Gadsden Flag and the Betsy Ross Flag are listed. Each flag displayed in the document comes with a brief description of what it means.</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-77372325975206510022022-08-05T14:38:00.004-07:002022-08-06T00:29:45.432-07:00Are YOU a terrorist? <p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="color: red; font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>AMERICAN TERRORIST SELF-TEST</b></span></p><p>Do you own or have a favorable impression of these images? (Yes of No) Can you name each one? Do you know their history or meaning? </p><p> <b><span style="font-family: verdana;">1. </span></b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Y_____ N_____ Name _____________________________________</span></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Meaning __________________________________________________________</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">_</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWmAf5uGKL9_8x4Y4Q3YkTT3TJVsF4iBM0GpvBM3RFwFk2gsW3nD9N5tE7qyOvlpvBAk9ahQUab5lljdFT9D_y10JVHEGrSw2qjlq0Gl-X_k8G27AfYHnJFpYdJiACkcxejW9KLEjNasz5HCWb9Hj9JSK8ap6O1mbp3dtCJy8l-3kZFGpMNCSYmy1NeQ/s474/DC1EC06D-F507-49DB-A7B3-E78EDBFED3A1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="474" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWmAf5uGKL9_8x4Y4Q3YkTT3TJVsF4iBM0GpvBM3RFwFk2gsW3nD9N5tE7qyOvlpvBAk9ahQUab5lljdFT9D_y10JVHEGrSw2qjlq0Gl-X_k8G27AfYHnJFpYdJiACkcxejW9KLEjNasz5HCWb9Hj9JSK8ap6O1mbp3dtCJy8l-3kZFGpMNCSYmy1NeQ/s320/DC1EC06D-F507-49DB-A7B3-E78EDBFED3A1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">2. </span></b><span style="font-family: verdana;">Y_____ N_____ Name ___________________________________</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Meaning ___________________________________________________</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">_</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">_____________________________________________________</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b>ANSWERS</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">1. “Resistance “ The symbol for electrical resistance in the USA Symbol is used by anarchist groups to symbolize “resistance” to authority. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">2. The Thin Blue Line flag. Shows support for police and law enforcement. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">3. The Gonzales flag. The battle of Gonzales was the first skirmish that marked the war for Texas independence from Mexico. The battle was over the capture of a small brass cannon held by citizens in the town of Gonzales. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">4. The Liberty Tree. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; text-align: left;">In 1765, colonists in Boston staged the first act of defiance against the British government at the tree. The tree became a rallying point for the growing resistance to the rule of Britain over the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Thirteen Colonies">American colonies</a>.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">5. The Betsy Ross American flag. One of the first flags made for the new republic during the Revolutionary War. 13 Stars and Stripes - one for each of the 13 American colonies. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span>6. The Pine Tree Flag. </span><span face=""Titillium Web", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(61, 61, 61); color: #3d3d3d;">The ‘An Appeal to Heaven’ line is a quote from John Locke’s ‘Second Treatise of Government’ which he used as justification for the overthrow of Britain’s King James II.</span><span face=""Titillium Web", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(61, 61, 61); color: #3d3d3d;"> </span><span face=""Titillium Web", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(61, 61, 61); color: #3d3d3d;"> </span><span face=""Titillium Web", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(61, 61, 61); color: #3d3d3d;">‘where the body of the people, or any single man, is deprived of their right, or is under the exercise of a power without right, and have no appeal on earth, then they have a liberty to appeal to heaven, whenever they judge the cause of sufficient moment.’</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""Titillium Web", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(61, 61, 61); color: #3d3d3d; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;">7. 2A stands for the second amendment. 2A is sometimes shown with images of firearms or selections from the 2nd amendment about the right to bear arms. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span face=""Titillium Web", sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(61, 61, 61); color: #3d3d3d; font-size: 20px;">8. The Gadson Flag. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; text-align: left;">The flag is named after politician </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Gadsden" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Christopher Gadsden">Christopher Gadsden</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; text-align: left;"> (1724–1805), who designed it in 1775 during the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="American Revolution">American Revolution</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; text-align: left;">. It was used by the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Marines" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Continental Marines">Continental Marines</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; text-align: left;"> as an early motto flag</span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; text-align: left;">. Its design proclaims an </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assertiveness" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Assertiveness">assertive</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; text-align: left;"> warning of vigilance and willingness to act in defense against </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coercion" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Coercion">coercion</a><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 17.882352828979492px;">. Currently used to symbolize individualism and liberty.</span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 17.882352828979492px;">9. A Minuteman. Minutemen were </span></span><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 17.882352828979492px;">members of the organized New England colonial </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Militia">militia</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 17.882352828979492px;">companies trained in weaponry, tactics, and military strategies, comprising the American </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia_(United_States)#Revolutionary_War_(1775%E2%80%931783)" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Militia (United States)">colonial partisan militia</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 17.882352828979492px;"> during the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-size: 17.882352828979492px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); color: #202122; font-size: 17.882352828979492px;">. They were known for being ready at a minute's notice.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 17.882352828979492px;"><b>xxxxxxxxxxxxxx</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: verdana;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-size: 17.882352828979492px;">If you said you like or have favorable impressions of ANY of these symbols, you are a terrorist. See the next post for how our history, our pride in our country and our freedom of speech is being undermined by our own government. </span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-19503537883787868362022-08-05T09:13:00.005-07:002022-08-05T09:13:52.363-07:00Land grab in New Zealand<p> <span style="font-size: large;">Can this happen here? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">It already is. Incremental, seemingly benign regulations restrict property ownership and personal rights every day, and it is getting worse. Every rip of the fabric of the Constitution dulls the populace to accept the next level of abuse. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Is the tree you planted in your yard 20 years ago really yours if you have to ask the government for permission to remove it? </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Is your residential lot yours if you are prevented from putting a swing set in the back yard because there is a grove of fir trees on it? </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Does your business belong to you if the government can limit how much money you can make? </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Who “owns” the children in public schools? </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Can the government force you to take medications you don’t want? </i></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The disease of envy has reached New Zealand and places that are coveted are being stolen by the government for communal use without compensation to the owners. If you have what others want you are at risk of losing it to the mob. </span><span style="font-size: large;">Greed and envy, class hatred and entitlement are being stoked to advance the cause of Marxist thugs. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I wonder when the masses will descend on estates in the Hamptons, Napa Valley or Hawaii to claim them in the name of the people. The gates at the end of the drive won’t protect the owners against a bureaucracy that wants total control. Who likes the Constitution now? (Not the </span><span style="font-size: large;">WEF) </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1XKBGANwEsOxPqJzl0Wbd92VN07jP-KKTWCa5Cjet0rkoJjjRyQ26z59J2IBZtePlylAAhDYjQYNxzUq7EUF5iZan1SDV44uAeKN5ifTEBP8hyzsJ5U-joO93eJ9ul_7XfRAaqi_ieL1jmsTTXGIZlTvx6s6HDWfakMCwdc0U9iHv4Diehc5a5JckQ/s474/B04D7337-F397-488E-A03D-3C24F2C97476.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="474" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX1XKBGANwEsOxPqJzl0Wbd92VN07jP-KKTWCa5Cjet0rkoJjjRyQ26z59J2IBZtePlylAAhDYjQYNxzUq7EUF5iZan1SDV44uAeKN5ifTEBP8hyzsJ5U-joO93eJ9ul_7XfRAaqi_ieL1jmsTTXGIZlTvx6s6HDWfakMCwdc0U9iHv4Diehc5a5JckQ/w400-h225/B04D7337-F397-488E-A03D-3C24F2C97476.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: DINOT, Impact, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;">Climate Communists Accelerate New Zealand Land Theft</span><p></p><header class="ContributorArticleFull_header__I0kZO" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: DINOT, Impact, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding-top: 6px;"><footer class="ContributorArticleFull_headerFooter__C_hdV" style="align-items: flex-end; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; justify-content: space-between; margin: 15px 0px;"><div class="ContributorArticleFull_headerFooter__authorInfo__UyRXG" style="align-items: flex-end; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex;"><img alt="Capitalist Exploits's Photo" class="ContributorArticleFull_headerFooter__authorPhoto__GsbQ8" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/thumbnail/public/pictures/picture-118858.png?itok=_VL0UWjf" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: 40px; margin-right: 15px; width: 40px;" /><div class="ContributorArticleFull_headerFooter__author__1l5Bp" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 1.15rem; text-transform: uppercase;">BY CAPITALIST EXPLOITS</div></div><div class="ContributorArticleFull_headerFooter__date__zNQsT" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 0.85rem; text-transform: uppercase;">FRIDAY, AUG 05, 2022 - 8:00</div></footer></header><div class="NodeContent_mainContent__t4rGu" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, "Liberation Sans", Arial, sans-serif; min-height: 600px; position: relative;"><div class="NodeContent_body__6iJOI NodeBody_container__hI8PI" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;"><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: DINOT, Impact, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px;">NEW ZEALAND LAND GRAB ACCELERATES</h2><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><a href="https://www.groundswellnz.co.nz/news/pr-state-takeover-of-private-land-accelerates" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1470b2;" target="_blank">PR: State takeover of private land accelerates</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;">July 23, 2022</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Jamie McFadden</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyone that owns, leases, or manages property or land in New Zealand, both urban and rural, should be very concerned about the latest developments on the West Coast.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That is the message from Groundswell NZ, after over 1500 West Coast property owners received letters in the mail, out of the blue, stating that their properties had been zoned for takeover by state control and that restrictions would take immediate legal effect.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There was no consultation with affected property owners and no compensation for loss of use or drop in property value. Property owners have been left in a state of shock and angry at the lack of respect and fair process.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This takeover of private land came about after the four West Coast councils released a combined district plan last week, called Te Tai o Poutini. The zonings include sites of significance to Maori, historic areas, outstanding natural landscapes, and significant natural areas (SNAs). Both urban and rural residents are impacted.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In taking this draconian action, the councils have now turned anything that has cultural, historic, or natural value into a liability. Would you want any of these features on your property if it would make you vulnerable to losing the use of your land and the resulting drop in the value of your property?</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This state takeover of private land is accelerating throughout New Zealand, as local councils are being forced by Government directive to enforce unworkable regulations. The raft of ill-conceived regulations coming out of Wellington is causing considerable stress and anxiety for the thousands of people caught up by the legislation. This is the main reason Groundswell NZ started campaigning.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>What can I say?</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 21px; margin: 0.25em 0px 0.75em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>New Zealand and Canada — the poster children for the Great Reset.</b></span></p></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-7071718796120289482022-07-25T17:42:00.003-07:002022-07-25T17:42:48.294-07:00An anthem for our times<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIKKyAmyGiXqvL-0ukIBw1R8LXG5nCcQnZ1bfugDTI9wvlUbr1ThfJ1oZNb8SajefGopSKBxWowVbJawi4024Xb5S9Yvo9_HkBQpYc1FwImtUKXXGM4raXZptC2tDV5tkqwBM4BM7ux9x6-JnsLDimaF3XqrBZ3eA4SzDmFQ_rLa4HJ-LJwTzWdn7Rrw/s1315/4F1BDF90-BBCF-43B0-806A-43539CE619F0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1315" data-original-width="1302" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIKKyAmyGiXqvL-0ukIBw1R8LXG5nCcQnZ1bfugDTI9wvlUbr1ThfJ1oZNb8SajefGopSKBxWowVbJawi4024Xb5S9Yvo9_HkBQpYc1FwImtUKXXGM4raXZptC2tDV5tkqwBM4BM7ux9x6-JnsLDimaF3XqrBZ3eA4SzDmFQ_rLa4HJ-LJwTzWdn7Rrw/s320/4F1BDF90-BBCF-43B0-806A-43539CE619F0.jpeg" width="317" /></a></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://rumble.com/v1d7x53-john-rich-progress.html" target="_blank">Listen to the song on Rumble </a>andTruth Social</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> “Progress”</span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By John Rich <span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-weight: 700;"> </span></span></p><p></p><div style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Verdana, Arial; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There's a hole in this country where its heart used to be<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And Old Glory's divided, on fire in the street<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They say Building Back Better will make America great<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If that's a wave of the future, all I've got to say<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Stick your progress where the sun don't shine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Keep your big mess away from me and mine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If you leave us alone, well we'd all be just fine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Stick your progress where the sun don't shine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They invite the whole world to come live in our land<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And leave our countrymen dying in Afghanistan<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They say let go of Jesus and let government save<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />You can have back your freedoms if you do what we say<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Stick your progress where the sun don't shine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Keep your big mess away from me and mine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If you leave us alone, well we'd all be just fine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Stick your progress where the sun don't shine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="font-size: medium;">They shut down our pipelines and they shut down our voices<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They shut down our Main Streets and they shut down our choices<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They bent us all over, but it's all over now<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />'Cause we've figured it out, we ain't backing down<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Stick your progress where the sun don't shine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Keep your big mess away from me and mine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />If you leave us alone, well we'd all be just fine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Stick your progress where the sun don't shine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Where the sun don't shine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Where the sun don't shine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span>Where the sun don't shine</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-58044990445404776802022-07-25T01:32:00.002-07:002022-07-25T01:32:15.673-07:00Who’s ringing your doorbell? Should you open the door?<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">This encounter with the ATF is scary. These searches for firearms at homes of innocent people, with no search warrant are intrusive and unwarranted. If this is how authoritarian our government has become, we should all have our own lawyers on speed dial just in case. It doesn’t seem to matter if one has done anything illegal nor not - the goal is to keep us intimidated and afraid and under control. I have heard the recording of the interaction- they say they were just doing their job. Isn’t that what all thugs working for tyrants say? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiGBIJyydCMk8LKCK_xQk2M-u9AvkhfZhiFC4rB4KDuZt_PVgmY6puYjfbs6dB_yzDWEjIfOhxn89POucZxtbJU7DbevkOn-r2EWujR5y02tgsTVXmOCW-05842Co3XTSIAeKTt-DUJqQpp2NT89CTpgMwmLqgdsEcm1TjNQAuypV3VD_dJCCWYuv6Jw/s885/E74EB777-40F9-416C-9DF2-551B214D44C0.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="516" data-original-width="885" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiGBIJyydCMk8LKCK_xQk2M-u9AvkhfZhiFC4rB4KDuZt_PVgmY6puYjfbs6dB_yzDWEjIfOhxn89POucZxtbJU7DbevkOn-r2EWujR5y02tgsTVXmOCW-05842Co3XTSIAeKTt-DUJqQpp2NT89CTpgMwmLqgdsEcm1TjNQAuypV3VD_dJCCWYuv6Jw/w400-h234/E74EB777-40F9-416C-9DF2-551B214D44C0.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><h1 class="page-headline" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/jul/20/gop-lawmaker-calls-atf-explain-video-agents-asking/" target="_blank">The Washington Times</a></span></h1><h1 class="page-headline" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Montserrat, Helmet, Freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 15px 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">GOP lawmaker calls on ATF to explain video of agents asking firearms owner for gun serial numbers</span></h1><div><div class="meta" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span class="byline" style="box-sizing: border-box;">By <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/kerry-picket/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none;">Kerry Picket</a> </span><span class="source" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">- The Washington Times - Wednesday, July 20, 2022</span></span></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em;">A recent doorbell video recording from a Delaware resident prompted a Republican lawmaker to question why agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives asked a legal firearm owner for his weapons’ serial numbers without a warrant.</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em;">The video, first posted and reported by Armed American News, shows ATF agents and state troopers on July 12 demanding a homeowner turn over the serial numbers of firearms he recently purchased.</p><div class="piano-newsletter-inline-in-article" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(120, 120, 120); color: #787878; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em;">“I’m extremely concerned by the reports of a surprise and unwarranted firearms inspection conducted by the ATF.<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"> </span>This incident occurred the same day Steve Dettelbach was sworn in to head the ATF, and it is exactly the kind of action I was concerned about under his leadership. ATF agents did not have a search warrant, and they had to rely on pressuring the homeowner for consent,” Rep. <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/topics/matt-rosendale/" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #015fb6; text-decoration: none;">Matt Rosendale</a>, Montana Republican, told The Washington Times. </p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em;">“The ATF must answer questions on why they decided to conduct an <b><i>illegal search, </i></b>especially since the homeowner had done nothing wrong. These actions by the federal government are unsettling, and they have no business going door-to-door to see who owns firearms. <b>I fear that there will be more illegal inspections to come as the Left continues its assault on our 2nd Amendment rights.</b> Congress should investigate this immediately.”</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em;">The ATF defended itself in a statement to The Washington Times, saying the agents’ actions were “entirely appropriate.”</p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.8em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 1.6em; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: red;">XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX</span></b></p></div><div><br /></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">OK, so this next article was written a couple of years ago, but the advice at the end is still good. Of course, digitizing paper records isn’t hard, it’s just time consuming, so who knows how long it will take to get to all of them. Perhaps we’ll have a government that expunges the records before then. Then again, if this is what their storage facility looks like, paper records could be lost forever. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCDdGlMfVPlAng-x2c67AWmDWaZCQzmTQfubFhZd9XPix_Oh9zXwB4HpmVdQMFaHbnImIItFVKk6CVeILaVbvMIp8ND15kuTZd6Qtx3Y_Gp_sGTbxfvorI4hlbFCQGIKq3N3KWIs7N6ATap4mW6C2CPVgzeFQy30HSGNS2GaX_0zQlqmiEC9rGOhBeQg/s474/A32AD862-C6FD-477F-ACA1-1677CA28A134.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="474" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCDdGlMfVPlAng-x2c67AWmDWaZCQzmTQfubFhZd9XPix_Oh9zXwB4HpmVdQMFaHbnImIItFVKk6CVeILaVbvMIp8ND15kuTZd6Qtx3Y_Gp_sGTbxfvorI4hlbFCQGIKq3N3KWIs7N6ATap4mW6C2CPVgzeFQy30HSGNS2GaX_0zQlqmiEC9rGOhBeQg/s320/A32AD862-C6FD-477F-ACA1-1677CA28A134.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXZOJh3nlxvz_vwr82gSf59q8s-1UuYh3U3d1QuG-ubEbkpvFZM1lk40gA07SdK7MZdebHSuInIy22pCS2izo6Z1QDa171KXLlGSkDGJozSmxUPdp7L_jheKJzVl3tOyVVvO-w_2BS59Q0zSckY2cEBQyj6_nauWvUKrB_zbmvGW1VMgU4QrOTkwUDA/s474/EAFBE15A-13CE-4725-8579-C3F342CEC16F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="266" data-original-width="474" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnXZOJh3nlxvz_vwr82gSf59q8s-1UuYh3U3d1QuG-ubEbkpvFZM1lk40gA07SdK7MZdebHSuInIy22pCS2izo6Z1QDa171KXLlGSkDGJozSmxUPdp7L_jheKJzVl3tOyVVvO-w_2BS59Q0zSckY2cEBQyj6_nauWvUKrB_zbmvGW1VMgU4QrOTkwUDA/s320/EAFBE15A-13CE-4725-8579-C3F342CEC16F.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.gunowners.org/does-the-atf-have-a-list-of-guns-that-you-own/" target="_blank">Gun Owners of America </a></b></span></p><h2 class="singlePostTitle" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 2.333em; line-height: 0.928em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.5em; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;">DOES THE ATF HAVE A LIST OF GUNS THAT YOU OWN?</h2><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><span face="proxima-nova, sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 9px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Written by By Alan M. Rice, Life Member and Firearms Instructor -- Gun Owners of America </span><span face="proxima-nova, sans-serif" style="background-color: #e5e5e5;"></span><span face="proxima-nova, sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 9px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Published: 13 February 2020</span></span></div><div><span face="proxima-nova, sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin: 0px 9px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="proxima-nova, sans-serif" style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: arial; font-size: medium; margin: 0px 9px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">I have not attended SHOT Show in many years and wow, I certainly learned a lot.</p><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There were many new guns, scopes and mounting hardware to check out. Twenty first century gun buyers seem to have an unlimited amount of quality firearms and accessories to choose from.</p><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">I also learned about a computer software package that is dangerous and that is the topic of this article.</span></p><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;">These requirements (to record receipt and disposition of every firearm) have been in place since at least 1968 and dealers must make their records available for ATF inspection during business hours — and no warrant is required. The law prohibits ATF from making complete copies of dealer’s records which could be used to create a registry of guns and gun owners.</span></p><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">While attending the SHOT Show, I learned about a software package that makes dealer record keeping easier.</p><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The software allows dealers to keep an electronic bound book. Software, making daily tasks easier… what could possibly go wrong?</p></span><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Plenty!</span></p><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">I was told that this “feature” makes a compliance check easy because the dealer simply exports the CSV file to a thumb drive and the ATF leaves with the data. I was told that ATF analyzes the data away from the FFL’s premises. If there are any discrepancies or problems the gun dealer is notified and usually given an opportunity to correct the errors.</span></p><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">This scheme is a danger, and allows ATF to easily create a gun registry — in violation of 18 USC 926 (a)(3). We have no way to know if a registry is actually being created and if the ATF is or is not destroying these records at the conclusion of the compliance check. One might argue they’re not, because GOA has received reports of ATF demanding copies of entire (paper) bound books. That is bad, but at least with paper, the data still needs to be converted to an electronic format to be of any real use. However, a CSV file that can be searched in MS Excel is of significant value to a government that wishes to track gun owners.</span></p><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So what can you, the regular GOA Member and gun buyer do to protect yourself?</span></p><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Ask. That’s right, ask your dealer how he keeps his or her records. Are they compiled in an old-fashioned bound book, or are they using one of these twenty-first century software packages?</span></b></p><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">GOA’s advice is to find a small, preferably home-based FFL — one who still keeps paper records — and transact exclusively with that FFL dealer. Take affirmative steps to protect yourself</span></b></p><p style="background-position: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(48, 48, 48); color: #303030; font-family: proxima-nova, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px 0px 1.36em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-85550232174451276802022-07-23T23:05:00.002-07:002022-07-23T23:05:13.532-07:00Are you or someone you know on an ATF list? <p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Department of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is keeping a list of law-abiding American gun owners. They have been doing it for years, even though to do so is against the law, and Biden wants them to collect more. Biden does not believe in the Constitution so things like laws don’t stand in the way of what the deep state has in mind for us. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">You see, the Left believes the only rights we should have are those that government grants us. Our founding fathers believed man was born with inalienable rights that came from God that government should not infringe upon. Government is supposed to SECURE these rights — not limit them, take them away or frustrate Americans who are guaranteed the freedom to exercise their rights as a free people. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">There are two types of gun-control fanatics — those who believe the world will be a safer place if law-abiding citizens gave up their right to own guns (criminals don’t follow gun laws now, so nothing would change for them) except innocent people would then be easy prey), and the ones who would like to see the citizenry disarmed and powerless to fight back against — anyone — criminals, police, federal agents… Biden and his ilk are in the second group. That’s where the lists come in handy. A weak and defenseless population is easier to intimidate and control. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">We are losing our Constitution folks! And the pace is accelerating. Will enough of these breaches be overturned in court before we lose our country altogether? Can we get it back? </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"><i>Of</i> the people, </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"><i>By</i> the people, </span></b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;"><i>For</i> the people </span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOO2U3zBVxypkZ_DY-MAh_9V5W-eZizwMkVUSs42wIcoNrLLM0uIHHxJ3kWY1IVfjrUQuYnAC9MWZEgXMWEBeAaMa5egY2rc7U86T-Z9AiR7cuqZ7OZU4QHClljLbzDxnLhAwJBtgIePJOq_RXFCRca0Us-QGJRGnLiLrVo2ic7tlzXZHE95HtlVWqlA/s474/E11B9556-F322-45DF-9486-BD4ABB69B285.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="219" data-original-width="474" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOO2U3zBVxypkZ_DY-MAh_9V5W-eZizwMkVUSs42wIcoNrLLM0uIHHxJ3kWY1IVfjrUQuYnAC9MWZEgXMWEBeAaMa5egY2rc7U86T-Z9AiR7cuqZ7OZU4QHClljLbzDxnLhAwJBtgIePJOq_RXFCRca0Us-QGJRGnLiLrVo2ic7tlzXZHE95HtlVWqlA/w640-h296/E11B9556-F322-45DF-9486-BD4ABB69B285.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://freebeacon.com/biden-administration/biden-admin-amassing-millions-of-records-on-u-s-gun-owners-amid-new-crackdown-on-firearms/" target="_blank">Washington Free Beacon</a></b></span></p><h1 class="mb-3 text-red font-serif text-xl md:text-4xl" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(182,35,40,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: "Playfair Display", ui-serif, Georgia, Cambria, "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 2.25rem; line-height: 2.5rem; margin: 0px 0px 0.75rem; padding: 0px;">Biden Admin Amassing Millions of Records on US Gun Owners Amid New Crackdown on Firearms</h1><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p class="article-excerpt" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(74,85,104,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 25px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Biden's ATF obtained more than 54 million gun owner records in 2021 alone</p><p class="article-excerpt" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(74,85,104,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 25px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p class="article-excerpt" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(74,85,104,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 25px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a class="author url fn text-red-700" href="https://freebeacon.com/author/adam-kredo/" rel="author" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(74,85,104,var(--tw-text-opacity)); cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts by Adam Kredo">Adam Kredo</a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"> • November 6, 2021</span></p><p class="article-excerpt" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(74,85,104,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 25px; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;">The Biden administration in just the past year alone stockpiled the records of more than 54 million U.S. gun owners and is poised to drastically alter gun regulations to ensure that information on Americans who own firearms ultimately ends up in the federal government's hands, according to internal Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) documents obtained by the <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Washington Free Beacon</em>.</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;">The ATF in fiscal year 2021 processed 54.7 million out-of-business records, according to an internal ATF <a href="https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/ATF-Office-of-Enforcement-Programs-FY-2021-Stats.pdf" rel="noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(182,35,40,var(--tw-text-opacity)); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">document</a> obtained by the Gun Owners of America, a firearms advocacy group, and provided exclusively to the <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Free Beacon</em>. When a licensed gun store goes out of business, its private records detailing gun transactions become ATF property and are stored at a federal site in West Virginia. This practice allows the federal government to stockpile scores of gun records and has drawn outrage from gun advocacy groups that say the government is using this information to create a national database of gun owners—<b><i>which has long been prohibited under U.S. law.</i></b></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;">The ATF obtained 53.8 million paper records and another 887,000 electronic records, according to the internal document that outlines ATF actions in fiscal year 2021. Gun activists described this figure as worryingly high and said it contributes to fears that the Biden administration is trying to keep track of all Americans who own firearms, in violation of federal statutes. <b><u>The procurement of these records by the ATF comes as the Biden administration moves to alter current laws to ensure that gun records are stored in perpetuity.</u></b> Currently, gun shops can destroy their records after 20 years, thereby preventing the ATF from accessing the information in the future.</p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;">"<b>As if the addition of over 50 million records to an ATF gun registry wasn't unconstitutional or illegal enough, the Biden administration's misuse of ‘out-of-business' records doesn't end there," Aidan Johnston, the Gun Owners of America's director of federal affairs, told the <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Free Beacon</em>. "Instead of maintaining the right of [licensed firearm dealers] to destroy Firearm Transaction Records after 20 years, buried within Biden's proposed regulations is a provision that would mean every single Firearm Transaction Record going forward would eventually be sent to ATF's registry in West Virginia."</b></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;">The ATF's registry site has long been a battleground between gun advocates and the federal government. Those in favor of more restrictive gun measures want the ATF to digitize this registry and create a federal database of U.S. gun owners, a move opposed by groups such as the Gun Owners of America and the National Rifle Association. <b>The ATF has so many records stored in its West Virginia site that several years ago the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/02/us/politics/atf-nra-guns.html" rel="noopener" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(182,35,40,var(--tw-text-opacity)); cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">floor collapsed</a>, according to the <em style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">New York Times</em>.</b><span style="color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 1.125rem;">The Gun Control Act of 1968 mandates that licensed firearm dealers that go out of business provide the ATF with their records. They are then processed into images, though the ATF maintains this database cannot be searched by a purchaser's name. Physical records, the agency says, are then destroyed.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;">The record-keeping issue has received new scrutiny as the Biden administration readies to implement several new restrictions on firearms and owners, including a proposed ban on anywhere from 10 to 40 million pistol braces, which are used as stabilizers on popular weapons such as AR-15s. Under these guidelines, gun owners would be ordered to <b>register or destroy these pistol braces.</b></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-size: 1.125rem;">Gun advocates, including the Gun Owners of America, accuse the Biden administration of abusing the rule-making process to ensure these regulations are put into effect in record time, possibly before the end of the year.</span></p><p style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-inset: var(--tw-empty, ); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-text-opacity: 1; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid currentcolor; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgba(0,0,0,var(--tw-text-opacity)); font-family: Raleway, ui-sans-serif, system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", Arial, "Noto Sans", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Noto Color Emoji"; font-size: 1.125rem; line-height: 1.75rem; margin: 0px 0px 27px; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-780411963858413512022-07-13T01:45:00.002-07:002022-07-25T00:59:16.982-07:00Farmers unite against Climate Communists <p> <span style="font-size: medium;">What is happening in Holland could easily happen here. The Great Reset is working its way through countries and leaving a trail of scorched earth - nothing to eat, especially meat. That’s the way Bill Gates like it. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Watch these short videos of protests in Holland and read about what is going on. The World Economic Forum and the United Nations are promoting this dangerous transition to #9-called climate-friendly food production that will kill millions of people before they are through. </span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 47, 52); color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><b><a href="https://conservativefiringline.com/dutch-farmers-fight-the-great-reset-protests-spreading/"><span style="font-size: medium;">https://conservativefiringline.com/dutch-farmers-fight-the-great-reset-protests-spreading/</span></a></b></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 47, 52); color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The “Great Reset”- Climate Communism</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 47, 52); color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At issue are the EU and WEF “Great Reset” policies which severely limit the nitrogen produced by farming between 30% and 70%.</span></p><div class="mob-box-ad-f" id="mob-box-ad-f" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 47, 52); color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"></div><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 47, 52); color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Dutch farmers began with tractors blocking traffic. Now firefighters, fishermen, as well as farmers from around the world are joining the protest. They have dumped heavy bales of hay (and set fire to some of them), cow excrement, piles of dirt on roadways around the Netherlands. Dutch Police have fired their weapons at the unarmed farmers. But the fact remains: no farmers, no food at a time when the world faces massive global food shortages. It’s all thanks to Agenda 2030- the “Great Reset” championed by globalists who have more money and power than the rest of the world.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><b>XXX</b></span></p><p><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">You’ll never see this photo of Dutch farmers on your television.
Klaus knows if images like this ever make it to the mainstream media, it will motivate and inspire the whole world, and the Globalists will be done.
</span><span class="r-18u37iz" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; flex-direction: row; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1loqt21 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DutchFarmersProtest?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1546075248935706626%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fconservativefiringline.com%2Fdutch-farmers-fight-the-great-reset-protests-spreading%2F&src=hashtag_click" rel="noopener noreferrer" role="link" style="border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; color: #006fd6; cursor: pointer; display: inline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: inherit; text-decoration: none; white-space: inherit; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">#DutchFarmersProtest</a></span><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ZErizZ8aeImvLXTYrzgUCYIKpxT1sG6mWN87HKsWBIGfRUd9GDc4-Bn4dula5UJhjDOBoJXkNGP-WQ7_yVy1vleEncEilvR0PyiqjSXGwGzDC_EGfhXHIMo-7O0yWea-AzcPZbdPgLHXsR9LyrItjCfnkdVuqITUO6EhXj15wJ2us9fyacTFI4X59A/s680/C31060B7-C697-4BF6-80DB-E12DCEB6015D.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3ZErizZ8aeImvLXTYrzgUCYIKpxT1sG6mWN87HKsWBIGfRUd9GDc4-Bn4dula5UJhjDOBoJXkNGP-WQ7_yVy1vleEncEilvR0PyiqjSXGwGzDC_EGfhXHIMo-7O0yWea-AzcPZbdPgLHXsR9LyrItjCfnkdVuqITUO6EhXj15wJ2us9fyacTFI4X59A/s16000/C31060B7-C697-4BF6-80DB-E12DCEB6015D.jpeg" /></a></div><br /><span class="css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(15, 20, 25); color: #0f1419; display: inline; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 47, 52); color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Though the Dutch farmers claim their protest will continue, the cost of driving diesel fueled tractors has climbed to ridiculous proportions all over the world. How long they will actually be able to sustain it is unknown. The government of The Netherlands knows that many of the farmers will go bankrupt from their nitrogen policies.</span></p><blockquote class="wp-block-quote" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(44, 47, 52); color: #2c2f34; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; list-style: none; margin: 20px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px 1em; white-space: normal;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“The government does not offer any space to enter into a real conversation,” said the farming lobby group LTO. “Under these conditions, speaking with the mediator is pointless.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The LTO, which represents about 30,000 farms — nearly a half of the Dutch total — described the nitrogen reduction target as “simply unfeasible.” Dutch farms produced exports worth 94.5 billion euros in 2019.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 25px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The group says the government is focused on reducing livestock and buying up farms and not paying enough attention to innovation and sustainable farming practices.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><cite style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b2000e; display: inline; font-size: 16px; list-style: none; margin: 10px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/07/10/police-gunfire-burning-hay-bales-on-roads-as-dutch-farmers-resist-climate-agenda/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #b2000e; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.15s;" target="_blank">Breitbart</a></cite></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal;"><br /></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Farmers, truckers, are fighting the ever-increasing Climate Communists. What will you do when the Communists complete their evil agenda in the United States, taking away the food, destroying the farmers and their livestock?</span></span></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 19px; font-style: italic; line-height: 26px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal;"><br /></span></p></blockquote></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><b>Remember Lysenko!</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: x-large;"><b>And the Great Leap Forward famine. </b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: large;"><b>Bureaucrats who thought they knew how to farm better than the farmers killed millions. Maybe that’s the plan. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Watch Fox News’ </span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="https://www.fox.com/tucker-carlson-tonight/" target="_blank">Tucker Carlson show </a></b>f</span><span style="font-size: medium;">rom July 12, 2022 as he explains in chilling detail how far afield our leaders have gone. We should not follow them willingly into this New World Hell. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfa7n1Z7FyPswcszzQUtekVD5aMtoNX03ADvgkuaIMk5JNcsw5KLwgvg0tLlujx3ORMuLcLDftqeaVjvbZ2IRHuWbdvQ9CPV_pSVdeVBLOHWumRKTXNYuV0asdIEtYSSqEwyi6L3wPHLQw77XABYunTiZNL4y3O54ehTCWkKJl8npr4VOYe6GzVYAGOg/s1498/4C7387FC-8752-458D-A636-962E7BA34E15.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="1498" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfa7n1Z7FyPswcszzQUtekVD5aMtoNX03ADvgkuaIMk5JNcsw5KLwgvg0tLlujx3ORMuLcLDftqeaVjvbZ2IRHuWbdvQ9CPV_pSVdeVBLOHWumRKTXNYuV0asdIEtYSSqEwyi6L3wPHLQw77XABYunTiZNL4y3O54ehTCWkKJl8npr4VOYe6GzVYAGOg/w640-h254/4C7387FC-8752-458D-A636-962E7BA34E15.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-55765799887199032572022-07-09T18:58:00.003-07:002022-07-09T18:58:27.081-07:00Oregonians engage in magical thinking<p><span style="font-size: medium;">Woke Oregonians want to lead the nation in a trip to Fantasy Land. How will this play in Greater Oregon? And is this proposed law even Constitutional? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fact: More gun laws will not change the behavior of criminals who don’t obey laws anyway. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Fiction: It sounds good on paper, and that’s the way the people should act in my vision of a perfect world, so let’s make it a law! </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikV_yyzfi7xiMUi9egxMOcXm-OljJbD1aEnf2geWYws0zc27fVBQeS7DpDqoNIEwRvzPdMQ_35rwSCHwxLyRGOdHnCADWN0nukbtZIGC_4RMCCl5HvWV8BAb3uulUrQjFxBV5Pl5EjgLzGW2po2UzeYA2kKF0iUXezWqSV6w2UxS4E35m-_cbifqJVYg/s474/58CA8BD1-C4E8-4B39-8AF7-98CD74F020DB.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="474" height="630" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikV_yyzfi7xiMUi9egxMOcXm-OljJbD1aEnf2geWYws0zc27fVBQeS7DpDqoNIEwRvzPdMQ_35rwSCHwxLyRGOdHnCADWN0nukbtZIGC_4RMCCl5HvWV8BAb3uulUrQjFxBV5Pl5EjgLzGW2po2UzeYA2kKF0iUXezWqSV6w2UxS4E35m-_cbifqJVYg/w640-h630/58CA8BD1-C4E8-4B39-8AF7-98CD74F020DB.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Keeping the world safe from law-abiding citizens! </span></i></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2022/07/gun-control-ballot-measure-likely-headed-to-november-ballot.html" target="_blank">From Oregonlive</a></span></p><p>Article includes an image of young people matching and holding signs that read:</p><p><b><span style="color: red;">AM I NEXT </span></b> (No question mark)</p><p><span style="color: red;"><b>You dont Care until YOUR Kid doesnt come home from School </b></span>(Missing apostrophes, capital letters used incorrectly)</p><p><b><span style="color: red;">LET YOUR BALLOT BE YOUR BULLET</span></b></p><p><span style="color: red;"><b>THE BIGGEST CHANGE AMERICA’S SEEN REGARDING GUNS </b></span>(Couldn’t see the whole sign but I am giving it the benefit of the doubt that there is an apostrophe in there)</p><p><b><span style="color: red;">THE ONLY WAY TO STOP A BAD GUY WITH POLITICAL POWER - VOTE </span></b>(Missing the word “is”)</p><p><b>But don’t fret, at least kids are being taught how to make signs and attend a protest march! </b></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Gun control ballot measure likely headed to November ballot </b></span></p><h1 class="headline-basic headline-basic__article" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Farnham Medium", Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.8px; line-height: 5rem; margin: 16px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="dateline__updated" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.4rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By Catalina Gaitan, Jul. 08, 2022</span></h1><div><span class="dateline__updated" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #666666; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 2rem; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="IJFZYGKYBJEKRPYXWOUA5GQ2PA" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Benton Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 115.1875px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Advocates of <a href="https://sos.oregon.gov/admin/Documents/irr/2022/017text.pdf" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1565c0; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 2px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Initiative Petition 17</a> made their way Friday afternoon to Salem to hand-deliver the final batch of signatures in support of the only piece of statewide gun control legislation that Oregonians will likely consider this year.</span></p><p class="article__paragraph article__paragraph--left" id="TCVS2L42FVH4DLRBNP46EEWNGE" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2a2a2a; font-family: "Benton Sans", Arial, sans-serif; font-stretch: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.013em; line-height: 3rem; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px 115.1875px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The initiative would require people to get a permit and pass a background check before buying a gun and would stop the sale of gun magazines that hold more than 10 rounds.</span></p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-29790128600863252192022-07-08T09:55:00.000-07:002022-07-08T09:55:02.546-07:00Black hats in the White House<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: large;">Who’s in the White House whispering in the President’s ear? </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFc766wsJAhdoS0PEfUcUlatHp4bDlXhcanYtZhzTPqKTphUG3tKJWC0W9VeV_Qre4IYwkt2QSfqBDehgLOXdbpT28G3Y5WZ32RgHeIgYivShR1ECRm5P8iS2dYgrGiagnxI7teST8CdMp8oDPAN3Ib7G3SyPDSgwRaQh_A5g5rb1p6Z2rJn5jlA7uag/s535/0A3C5AC3-84E4-4F4C-B86B-2086360D6DCF.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="462" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFc766wsJAhdoS0PEfUcUlatHp4bDlXhcanYtZhzTPqKTphUG3tKJWC0W9VeV_Qre4IYwkt2QSfqBDehgLOXdbpT28G3Y5WZ32RgHeIgYivShR1ECRm5P8iS2dYgrGiagnxI7teST8CdMp8oDPAN3Ib7G3SyPDSgwRaQh_A5g5rb1p6Z2rJn5jlA7uag/w345-h400/0A3C5AC3-84E4-4F4C-B86B-2086360D6DCF.jpeg" width="345" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2022/07/07/ratcliffe-biden-gets-advice-from-former-and-current-employees-of-collaborative-with-china-blackrock/" target="_blank">Click here to read article and see video from Breitbart </a></span></p><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); clear: both; color: #111111; font-family: BebasNeueRegular, sans-serif; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 0.9em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ratcliffe: Biden Gets Advice from Former and Current Employees of ‘Collaborative’ with China BlackRock</span></h1><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><address data-n="" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 1px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-style: normal; margin: 0px 7px 0px 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 7px 0px 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">By <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/author/ian-hanchett/" style="color: #00749e; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Posts by Ian Hanchett">IAN HANCHETT</a></address><time datetime="2022-07-07T18:42:37Z" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-right-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); border-right-style: dotted; border-right-width: 1px; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; margin-right: 7px; padding-right: 7px;">7 Jul 2022</time></span><span class="byC" data-dsqi="21517146" data-dsqu="/clips/2022/07/07/ratcliffe-biden-gets-advice-from-former-and-current-employees-of-collaborative-with-china-blackrock/#disqus_thread" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: black; background-image: none; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat repeat; border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-image-source: none; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); color: white; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: 600; height: 14px; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; min-width: 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 1px 4px 2px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">36</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(17, 17, 17); color: #111111; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;">Ratcliffe stated, “It’s like when you look out the passenger side window of your car, you see the words, ‘Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear.’ And in this case, that’s China, and that’s what — the warning that Director Wray gave yesterday and that he’s been giving for years and that many of us have been giving. … China does intend to own the control points in the global marketplace and in geopolitics. They intend to dominate economically, technologically, militarily, and they are willing to spy and steal and lie and cheat their way to superiority. And the message yesterday was to businesses and universities that they need to get that. But one of the worst offenders, I think, as you pointed out, Bill, is the Biden administration. They are just — they’re not getting the message and they’re taking down many of the guardrails that were put up in place in the Trump administration to counter China’s aggression.”</span></div><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">What’s so bad about Blacrock? </span></p><p><br /></p><h1 class="title" data-reader-unique-id="titleElement" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 1.95552em; line-height: 1.2141em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 100%;">The Great Reset: BlackRock Is Fueling A $120 Trillion Transformation On Wall St.</h1><p data-reader-unique-id="1" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><a href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/the-great-reset-blackrock-is-fueling-a-120-trillion-transformation-on-wall-st-1029908888?op=1">https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/the-great-reset-blackrock-is-fueling-a-120-trillion-transformation-on-wall-st-1029908888?op=1</a></p><p data-reader-unique-id="1" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;">Big money is turning its back on companies that aren’t conforming to one simple idea…</p><p data-reader-unique-id="2" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;">Sustainability. </p><p data-reader-unique-id="3" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><b>And it’s fueling one of the biggest transfers of capital the world has ever seen.</b></p><p data-reader-unique-id="4" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;">In fact, within a year, 77% of institutional investors will stop buying into companies that aren’t, in some way, sustainable. </p><p data-reader-unique-id="5" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;">And the new King of Wall Street is leading the charge.</p><p data-reader-unique-id="14" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;">BlackRock, with over $7 trillion in assets under management, says its clients will double their <b>ESG investments </b>in just five years…</p><p data-reader-unique-id="65" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><b>COVID has hastened that even more, </b>with PwC noting that “public awareness of ESG-related risks has catapulted climate change and sustainability to the top of the global agenda” and that COVID has brought “the real-life impacts of overlooking ESG factors into the spotlight”. </p><p data-reader-unique-id="66" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><b>And that’s why <a data-reader-unique-id="67" href="https://www.blackrock.com/us/financial-professionals/larry-fink-ceo-letter?cid=ppc:CEOLetter:PMS:US:NA" style="color: #416ed2; max-width: 100%; text-decoration: none;">BlackRock CEO Larry Fink</a> says that “awareness is rapidly changing, and I believe we are on the edge of a fundamental reshaping of finance”.</b></p><h1 class="headline" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 36px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 42px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></h1><div class="article-meta article-meta-lower" style="-webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(239, 242, 245); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(239, 242, 245); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin: 16px 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 10px 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p data-reader-unique-id="14" style="caret-color: rgb(27, 27, 27); color: #1b1b1b; font-family: -apple-system-font; font-size: 18px; max-width: 100%;"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-89149583729555422362022-07-03T09:52:00.001-07:002022-07-03T09:52:47.299-07:00WHY do they do it? <p> <span style="font-size: medium;">This photo and headline from today’s Wall,Street Journal brought to mind a question I continually ask myself and anyone else who thinks about the future of our world. Why does Putin want to control a world that he has destroyed and must now live in? </span></p><h1 class="Headline__StyledHeadline-sc-1i51uye-0 jdGLhn" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--headline-font-color); font-family: var(--typography-headline-standard-xxl-font-family); line-height: var(--typography-headline-standard-xxl-line-height); margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></h1><h1 class="Headline__StyledHeadline-sc-1i51uye-0 jdGLhn" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--headline-font-color); font-family: var(--typography-headline-standard-xxl-font-family); line-height: var(--typography-headline-standard-xxl-line-height); margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Russia Claims Control of Luhansk as Ukrainian Forces Retreat From Lysychansk</span></h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6tAviX1JzWy7hXkz-T5miq2oW1_6RwQ2E1_69I3G4WMC-o_9rUNtrh6WjkWi69roq2N9_f08fIAJRHOltg7rThKfhOoqUsW9bxx96WO-WpXD3dawwxFM8WaTZzSKbW2aNDiBp02UBStOnAMKHFYhDkqqQF5B8Y7HZlN05ZPtNuATkjS4D62HXG_FJjg/s2000/CDCB47B6-7AFC-44E4-B50F-A54617BEAA8B.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1026" data-original-width="2000" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6tAviX1JzWy7hXkz-T5miq2oW1_6RwQ2E1_69I3G4WMC-o_9rUNtrh6WjkWi69roq2N9_f08fIAJRHOltg7rThKfhOoqUsW9bxx96WO-WpXD3dawwxFM8WaTZzSKbW2aNDiBp02UBStOnAMKHFYhDkqqQF5B8Y7HZlN05ZPtNuATkjS4D62HXG_FJjg/w640-h328/CDCB47B6-7AFC-44E4-B50F-A54617BEAA8B.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Why do some people actively work to destroy our culture. — our government, our freedoms, our institutions, our laws, our infrastructure, our relationships with one another?</i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>If these people achieve their goals, what kind of world would they find themselves living in, and why would they want their family, friends and loved ones to live there? </i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Are our leaders so stupid? So naive? So power hungry and greedy to be blind to the consequences of the destructive nature of their lawless policies and inhumane, immoral cultural memes? </i></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The great thing about the Constitution of the United States is that it guarantees citizens certain freedoms granted by God - not by government - and restrains the power of government to interfere with our ability to live life as we see fit, as long as we do no harm to others.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This philosophy of personal liberty is contrary to government control over our lives. Traditional American values are being challenged and are in danger of being wiped out - the institutions of the traditional family structure and the authority of parents to control the lives of their children (see my previous post about the Success Sequence), churches and the ultimate authority of God, education that concentrates on academics and not political propaganda, the rule of law that treats lawbreakers the same with consequences for legal behavior, control over our own money and possessions (property), the ability of every citizen to defend themselves with firearms without government interference or intimidation. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>How does elimination of these values enrich or improve the lives of those who are working to destroy them? </b>What a terrible, tyrannical, lawless and Godless world this would be. And yet, this is what the progressives, the Democratic Socialists (Marxists) and World Economic Forum is working to create through control of our money supply, social scores that determine how much freedom and money each of us will have access to, where we live and where we can go, access to medical care… who will live and who will die. Just like China, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, and in some ways worse. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the question I come back to time and time again. Where will Joe, AOC, Hillary, Elizabeth, Soros, Zuckerbucks, Schwab, Trudeau and the rest of their ilk live when all their dreams come true? Do they really think they can control their Antifa minions or predetermine how their plans will unforced? Do they think they will come out on top (didn’t work during the French or Russian Revolutions)? Poser dispersed among the people beats centralized control by an “elected” few or the administrative state. Read The Road to Serfdom by Frederic Hayek. If you’ve already read it, read it again. </span></p><h1 class="Headline__StyledHeadline-sc-1i51uye-0 jdGLhn" style="--headline-font-color: var(--primary-text-color); --headline-link-hover-color: var(--color-blue); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--headline-font-color); font-family: var(--typography-headline-standard-xxl-font-family); line-height: var(--typography-headline-standard-xxl-line-height); margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></h1><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-33015605715138477902022-06-29T20:39:00.002-07:002022-06-29T20:39:38.741-07:00What do 8% of Portlanders know?<p> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! </b> Read on. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJOrra9DZjv75n8iDpyeDGkpx8Lun_1slzaTjVxO7hmof7nF3BUtSO2wequatvCoBC8KCcJWK9tayVRLueKpPG8-ODdHpzR4Z0EwrKnmnZyGFufZelDxYYNB2BUp4TNgSReExUhmAJwPk0NBqPLU0N0M8L3CALaAzqlJJJO3OR0o7ctoINAr3ywjAMxg/s1298/2A2DF182-5C0F-47E8-901A-B1E98D723184.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1298" data-original-width="1040" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJOrra9DZjv75n8iDpyeDGkpx8Lun_1slzaTjVxO7hmof7nF3BUtSO2wequatvCoBC8KCcJWK9tayVRLueKpPG8-ODdHpzR4Z0EwrKnmnZyGFufZelDxYYNB2BUp4TNgSReExUhmAJwPk0NBqPLU0N0M8L3CALaAzqlJJJO3OR0o7ctoINAr3ywjAMxg/w320-h400/2A2DF182-5C0F-47E8-901A-B1E98D723184.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/550335-440497-quip-city-why-johnson-called-portland-the-city-of-roaches?wallit_nosession=1" target="_blank">Portland Tribune </a></span></p><div class="page-header" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border-bottom-style: none; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 9px;"><h2 itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 32px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px;">Quip City: Why Johnson called Portland the 'city of roaches'</h2><h2 itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: 32px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px;"><dd class="createdby" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;"><span itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br /></span></dd></h2><h2 itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><dd class="createdby" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; line-height: 22px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px 5px;"><span itemprop="name" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Courtney Vaughn</span></dd> June 28 2022</span></h2></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div id="fb-root" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box;"></div><div id="articleText" itemprop="articleBody" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a id="startOfPage" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #009aca; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; visibility: hidden;"></a><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">The Oregon gubernatorial candidate's campaign expands on the comment in light of a New York Times story. </span></span></div><div id="articleText" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">An independent candidate for Oregon governor has a new moniker for the state's most populous city: "the city of roaches." </span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Gubernatorial candidate and former state Sen. Betsy Johnson made the comment to a New York Times journalist, referring to Portland's battle with homelessness and crime. </span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Her statements appeared in a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/28/briefing/joe-biden-democrats.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #009aca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Quip City: Why Johnson called Portland the ‘city of roaches’, Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city. ">June 28 newsletter</a> that explored Oregon's political landscape as a barometer of potential Democratic losses nationwide. The newsletter included an interview with Johnson. </span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"You can see the deterioration of the beautiful City of Roses, now the city of roaches," Johnson was quoted as saying, riffing on Portland's moniker. </span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Johnson, who is running as an unaffiliated candidate in the November election, is one of many candidates who has zeroed in on Portland as an example of failed policies or action. </span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Betsy made a quip about the city of Portland which resonates with a lot of people," Jennifer Sitton, Johnson's communications director, told Pamplin Media Group on Tuesday. "What Betsy has been saying for months is that Oregon cannot succeed if Portland fails and, as detailed in the NYT piece, <b><span style="color: red;">only 8% of residents think that Portland is on the right track." </span></b></span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In a campaign speech on her website, Johnson accuses Gov. Kate Brown, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and Johnson's Democratic opponent, Tina Kotek of Portland, of bridging the urban-rural divide by unifying Oregonians in "mutual frustration with their leaders and their government." </span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGzok4_uMvlSgQmZaJ2sQzJroJO9qhx-dYzcVNVtblsCkHFHooMl9glT2-4pii4iFoXOlN0r2SWfJSxm1o-JqGfhFpD3l7117NDDMhfbg8lLKmhxBTCv_6vNjHMr6-x5RUR7LwqvrOS7P8x-neLotxNHVXHCdhMG_pgjExodedyd_w2BD1X2hBjHhzSg/s1457/10ACF57A-50AC-4265-AFD4-4A0AB9EB21CC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1457" data-original-width="1136" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGzok4_uMvlSgQmZaJ2sQzJroJO9qhx-dYzcVNVtblsCkHFHooMl9glT2-4pii4iFoXOlN0r2SWfJSxm1o-JqGfhFpD3l7117NDDMhfbg8lLKmhxBTCv_6vNjHMr6-x5RUR7LwqvrOS7P8x-neLotxNHVXHCdhMG_pgjExodedyd_w2BD1X2hBjHhzSg/s320/10ACF57A-50AC-4265-AFD4-4A0AB9EB21CC.jpeg" width="249" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">"Right now, Portland is failing," Johnson said. "I don't think any problem demonstrates the need better to change Oregon's politics than the failure to solve homelessness on our streets."</span><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-weight: bold;"></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She stressed getting unhoused people into shelters utilizing police, addiction treatment services and mental health services. </span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">"Democrats are right that we need compassion, services and housing," Johnson said in a campaign video. "But Republicans are also right that we need more personal responsibility, accountability and no more tent cities."</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Johnson later clarified her comment in a </span><a href="https://twitter.com/senbetsyjohnson/status/1542247306052919296?s=20&t=UqqRyH0jgQ3m-ybWoyIW7A" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #009aca; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Quip City: Why Johnson called Portland the ‘city of roaches’, Local News, Portland local News, Breaking News alerts for Portland city. ">short video statement</a><span style="background-color: white;">the following day, saying her comment "was about trash, not people."</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><br /></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-39210743400407240812022-06-29T18:03:00.004-07:002022-06-29T18:03:53.568-07:00A look back and forward<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">What will the stack of Federal regulations look like at the end of the Biden administration? </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">As government grows, fewer freedoms are left for the individual citizen. The job of politicians should be to expand liberty while preserving the sovereignty of the nation and safety for the people. How many regulations can be safely eliminated? </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5L6EwsauB_eV8FxQGYqcqcGSEo4X1mefP7Y0uDqypgADHpwYMpXbZlkbpRgrEFRe_WhVbLuQko97LG-cJft1hJ6zZFaPyqAYhvDd5jQcxTHqTtsg57c5DlanpvLCeTz0agviXAkXh-WmgsVqiCgiwHrFFQj2GEuQGLwjfLKVgsqOmDgvFpniqZHsTIA/s2048/6C7E973D-CCA2-4432-8FBE-13FD5AFDED93.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1115" data-original-width="2048" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5L6EwsauB_eV8FxQGYqcqcGSEo4X1mefP7Y0uDqypgADHpwYMpXbZlkbpRgrEFRe_WhVbLuQko97LG-cJft1hJ6zZFaPyqAYhvDd5jQcxTHqTtsg57c5DlanpvLCeTz0agviXAkXh-WmgsVqiCgiwHrFFQj2GEuQGLwjfLKVgsqOmDgvFpniqZHsTIA/w640-h348/6C7E973D-CCA2-4432-8FBE-13FD5AFDED93.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9P-pMw18OsAr5i0RI6KNayl5XVPyc6lRpNvbWRBQpE3bI0ggW172jjBI2d-da-YsWmw5KQvsdElne17fkK5nmu13ziZp-vMn_Cxv_mLizbxqrsFrBmkvmhtFAJu7PgBblyQ5NCKCT_vFoiG5fj-GNSrS2K_SUpHlhd9UhugNLJupqg6nsgTC9UT48g/s2042/B56DC7C6-7B83-4653-B149-7D0C9386BEC7.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1151" data-original-width="2042" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9P-pMw18OsAr5i0RI6KNayl5XVPyc6lRpNvbWRBQpE3bI0ggW172jjBI2d-da-YsWmw5KQvsdElne17fkK5nmu13ziZp-vMn_Cxv_mLizbxqrsFrBmkvmhtFAJu7PgBblyQ5NCKCT_vFoiG5fj-GNSrS2K_SUpHlhd9UhugNLJupqg6nsgTC9UT48g/w640-h360/B56DC7C6-7B83-4653-B149-7D0C9386BEC7.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-76330919774417620612022-06-28T06:44:00.003-07:002022-06-28T06:44:25.936-07:00Immoral environmentalism from, global elites<p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.hoover.org/profiles/bjorn-lomborg-0" target="_blank"><b>Click here to read more about Hoover Institute Fellow Bjorn Lomborg </b></a>and other articles from distinguished Fellows and academics and a follow-up article about Dharnai, India’s experience with solar power from <b><a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-trumps-solar-in-india/" target="_blank">Scientific American. </a></b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIihu3M2_UxMmaHuSKW0TW-rvwd_C6WEG0nA7cFxB3CkqqLBpIbYP4I0BP0CQBqDMEBkiX7vhbqq8GsS5MSJfFjjx-9CJVKgxfCBmV5oe_p4s0n5hQQQWhyT4UCTFzsc88DXGQ90ItkEqf8yVhHEnBoaNr9jqDv--jOFqibI3_cBQrRARgT4lwWN_bkg/s600/6301EDCC-C29C-4C7C-AE91-11E0A09FE30F.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="600" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIihu3M2_UxMmaHuSKW0TW-rvwd_C6WEG0nA7cFxB3CkqqLBpIbYP4I0BP0CQBqDMEBkiX7vhbqq8GsS5MSJfFjjx-9CJVKgxfCBmV5oe_p4s0n5hQQQWhyT4UCTFzsc88DXGQ90ItkEqf8yVhHEnBoaNr9jqDv--jOFqibI3_cBQrRARgT4lwWN_bkg/w640-h426/6301EDCC-C29C-4C7C-AE91-11E0A09FE30F.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rich-worlds-climate-hypocrisy-energy-fossil-fuel-wind-solar-panel-india-poverty-power-battery-storage-11655654331" target="_blank"><b>Wall Street Journal Commentary</b></a></span></p><header class="article_header module" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; font-family: Retina, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px 10px 6px; padding: 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="zonedModule" data-module-id="18" data-module-name="article.app/lib/module/wsj/articleHeadline" data-module-zone="articleHeadline" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="wsj-article-headline-wrap" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h1 class="wsj-article-headline" style="border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-serif-display); font-style: italic; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 8px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Rich World’s Climate Hypocrisy</span></h1><h2 class="sub-head" itemprop="description" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-nickel); font-family: var(--font-sans-serif); font-size: 20px; font-weight: 300; line-height: 28px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They beg for more oil and coal for themselves while telling developing lands to rely on solar and wind.</h2></div></div></header><div class="column at8-col8 at12-col7 at16-col9 at16-offset1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: #333333; float: left; font-family: Retina, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 640px;"><div class="module" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="zonedModule" data-module-id="15" data-module-name="article.app/lib/module/articleBody" data-module-zone="article_body" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="article-wrap" data-immersiveads="" data-modernads="" data-sbid="SB10876083733986784107704588608364058840362" id="wsj-article-wrap" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 50px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div id="cx-articlecover" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div data-i18n-advertisement="Advertisement" data-i18n-hide-caption="HIDE CAPTION" data-i18n-show-caption="SHOW CAPTION" id="articlebody-i18n" style="border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></div><div class="clearfix byline-wrap" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top: 1px solid var(--color-silver); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="byline article__byline" style="border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif-narrow); margin: 0px 150px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By <div class="author" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: nowrap;"><span class="author-name" face="var(--font-serif)" style="border: 0px; display: inline; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bjorn Lomborg</span></div></span></div><time class="timestamp article__timestamp flexbox__flex--1" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-nickel); display: block; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif-narrow); line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">June 20, 2022 11:10 am ET</span></time><time class="timestamp article__timestamp flexbox__flex--1" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-nickel); display: block; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif-narrow); line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Excerpts:</span></time><time class="timestamp article__timestamp flexbox__flex--1" style="border: 0px; color: var(--color-nickel); display: block; font-family: var(--font-sans-serif-narrow); line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-serif); line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wealthy countries admonish developing ones to use renewable energy. Last month the Group of Seven went so far as to announce they would no longer <a class="icon none" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/30/g7-countries-to-stop-funding-fossil-fuel-development-overseas" style="color: var(--color-blue); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">fund fossil-fuel development abroad</a>. Meanwhile, Europe and the U.S. are begging Arab nations to expand oil production. Germany is reopening coal power plants, and Spain and Italy are spending big on African gas production. So many European countries have asked Botswana to mine more coal that the nation will more than double its exports.</span></p><div class="paywall" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-serif); line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The developed world became wealthy through the pervasive use of fossil fuels, which still overwhelmingly power most of its economies. Solar and wind power aren’t reliable, simply because there are nights, clouds and still days. Improving battery storage won’t help much: <b><i><u>There are enough batteries in the world today only to power global average electricity consumption for 7</u></i></b></span><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b><i><u>5 seconds. Even though the supply is being scaled up rapidly</u></i></b></span><b style="font-family: var(--font-serif); font-size: 17px;"><i><u>, by 2030 the world’s batteries would still cover less than 11 minutes. </u></i></b></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-serif); line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><b style="font-family: var(--font-serif); font-size: 17px;"><i><u><br /></u></i></b></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">This is why, for all the rich world’s talk of climate activism, developed nations are still on track to continue to rely mostly on fossil fuels for decades. The International Energy Agency estimates that even if all current climate policies are delivered in full, renewables will <a class="icon none" href="https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2021" style="color: var(--color-blue); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">only deliver one-third</a> of U.S. and EU energy in 2050. The developing world isn’t blind to this hypocrisy. Nigeria’s vice president, Yemi Osinbajo, <a class="icon none" href="https://nairametrics.com/2022/05/13/we-need-access-to-energy-to-survive-create-industry-vp-osinbajo/" style="color: var(--color-blue); margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">articulated the situation elegantly</a>: “No country in the world has been able to industrialize using renewable energy,” yet Africa is expected to do so “when everybody else in the world knows that we need gas-powered industries for business.”</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Rather than selfishly block other countries’ path to development, wealthy nations should do the sensible thing and invest meaningfully in the innovation needed to make green energy more efficient and cheaper than fossil fuels. That’s how you can actually get everyone to switch to renewable alternatives. Insisting that the world’s poor live without plentiful, reliable and affordable energy prioritizes virtue signaling over people’s lives.</p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-serif); font-size: 17px; line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="border: 0px; font-style: italic; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Lomborg is president of the Copenhagen Consensus and a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. His latest book is “False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet.”</span></p><p style="border: 0px; font-family: var(--font-serif); line-height: 27px; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Another take on the same subject from Scientific American:</p><h1 class="article-header__title t_article-title" itemprop="headline" style="box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(26, 26, 26); color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Brunel-Deck-Semibold, Georgia, serif; font-size: 34px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.11765; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 980px; padding: 50px 0px 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Coal Trumps Solar in India</h1><p class="t_article-subtitle" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #656565; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 1.375; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 1010px; padding: 45px 0px 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Activists hope for a renewable energy future but dirty coal remains </span><span style="font-size: medium;">cheapest</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">DHARNAI, India—One year ago, environmentalists hailed this tiny village as the future of clean energy in rural India. Today, it is powered by coal.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">Dharnai, a community of about 3,200 people in eastern India’s Bihar state, had been without electricity for three decades. So when activists with Greenpeace set up a solar-powered microgrid in July of 2014, the excitement was palpable. But, residents said, the problems started almost immediately.</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-size: 18px; margin: 30px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;">When the former chief minister of Bihar state visited to inaugurate the grid, villagers lined up to protest, chanting, “We want real electricity, not fake electricity!”</p><figure class="aside-banner aside-banner__article-bottom dfp-article-ad" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline-block; font-size: 18px; margin: 30px 0px 20px; padding: 40px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 690px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="dfp-article" id="dfp-right2-article-1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(50, 50, 50); color: #323232; display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"><div data-google-query-id="CPCl_pyg0PgCFYVW7AodcZgKeA" id="div-gpt-ad-right2-1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word;"></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></figure></div><div class="paywall" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><figure class="aside-banner aside-banner__article-bottom dfp-article-ad" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; border: 1px solid rgb(229, 229, 229); box-sizing: inherit; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; display: inline-block; font-size: 18px; margin: 30px 0px 20px; padding: 40px 0px; position: relative; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; width: 690px; word-wrap: break-word;">8k</figure></div></time></div></div></div></div></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-41487067765600598772022-06-25T17:09:00.004-07:002022-06-25T17:09:44.225-07:00Where are people moving? <p> <span style="font-size: medium;">The answer to where people are moving depends upon the data source. Here are some interesting sites to see where people from different cities and state are moving from and to. </span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The last couple of years has upended the flow of people into cities like Portland and Seattle. Though no exact explanation is given for the dramatic change, it is easy to trust one’s instincts and assume the decline in safety and overall quality of life in these cities has a lot to do with their fading popularity</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOgRfruItpJCvce8hWGCx_XRefvYkym-LcXSms2A6ayDRo9QMOkTGH7RI4E6jkHhRdjv09eqnk5oAUDnxqw7P9S7FHDjkWZu8C9jNKdyeaDJaZfHjos7YD4NVV4nuwacLWldOTNHRYZTWzaHH18U-G0ONyuy_wrIkfRN4zHUEKpDW1kmN5rMq2Ocbx4g/s1662/1C470675-7D60-47DF-9B5F-E5BFF9E5CF76.jpeg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1274" data-original-width="1662" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOgRfruItpJCvce8hWGCx_XRefvYkym-LcXSms2A6ayDRo9QMOkTGH7RI4E6jkHhRdjv09eqnk5oAUDnxqw7P9S7FHDjkWZu8C9jNKdyeaDJaZfHjos7YD4NVV4nuwacLWldOTNHRYZTWzaHH18U-G0ONyuy_wrIkfRN4zHUEKpDW1kmN5rMq2Ocbx4g/w640-h490/1C470675-7D60-47DF-9B5F-E5BFF9E5CF76.jpeg" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: right;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwLGvNZqTAe2rVSkCaHZ_5WaOt5ZYRQtXtpUUgijogQNBMe4UndBvjALCM0U-cTs92plbN9yiDOJ-aGx1X9T-CdCI4Jpc5dy2ZP9abZYGOr8ASrW31lbOKvbXGpTKxsFFmOuUqshVlRDV8jkcAZwrxGUto9gPeFgN7KAbRDDHXICzNuH-tLTU3cbr1JA/s1716/27EC60D2-8EBD-48E7-9FA0-DA867AEBA58E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1218" data-original-width="1716" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwLGvNZqTAe2rVSkCaHZ_5WaOt5ZYRQtXtpUUgijogQNBMe4UndBvjALCM0U-cTs92plbN9yiDOJ-aGx1X9T-CdCI4Jpc5dy2ZP9abZYGOr8ASrW31lbOKvbXGpTKxsFFmOuUqshVlRDV8jkcAZwrxGUto9gPeFgN7KAbRDDHXICzNuH-tLTU3cbr1JA/w640-h454/27EC60D2-8EBD-48E7-9FA0-DA867AEBA58E.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Charts by Redfin</div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Incoming migration to the Northwest from LA and SF continues to be strong, probably due to less expensive housing options with relatively similar progressive political and social leanings. Of course, more people coming from Blue cities and states only make Seattle and Portland bluer. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HibTeT6MxrwBUWL9dgudTg5Zp1w0m0q2O6n36C6sVL0OWMvnLUkXzGOSsURzW5uAURIZz7LEoVCcFq8VSqx1Fo18LOKxYzoltxPu9hy50S9q2B7hoT_cUWZ343c9W0T1z53s6REzO9rn8vZIfT5QlrLlA3N2J-lnCiTUg2fPWH05Az41DQCz7KjYzg/s1757/92B46EC4-CF2B-4086-8FF5-A25CC794381E.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1228" data-original-width="1757" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_HibTeT6MxrwBUWL9dgudTg5Zp1w0m0q2O6n36C6sVL0OWMvnLUkXzGOSsURzW5uAURIZz7LEoVCcFq8VSqx1Fo18LOKxYzoltxPu9hy50S9q2B7hoT_cUWZ343c9W0T1z53s6REzO9rn8vZIfT5QlrLlA3N2J-lnCiTUg2fPWH05Az41DQCz7KjYzg/w640-h448/92B46EC4-CF2B-4086-8FF5-A25CC794381E.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf3pNmpqj5p19wXgU69sbm13nhV88MZUmCplw8PZVyavcmHX00G7E-Io6_i9F1yp77Xs5SqD2fBbyzfjgW7m3_7j82A0FgIXWXOMlWb1h_kiVVXfER7n0JhLATLHgHIIX2K3CoSo-ZEexdKKSySziSx-daTZRxWYkmapsxqa9g-TIl1jmewvCp8LXDrQ/s1913/AC274C7E-F40F-4311-A0C3-A245A6B1C9A9.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1244" data-original-width="1913" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf3pNmpqj5p19wXgU69sbm13nhV88MZUmCplw8PZVyavcmHX00G7E-Io6_i9F1yp77Xs5SqD2fBbyzfjgW7m3_7j82A0FgIXWXOMlWb1h_kiVVXfER7n0JhLATLHgHIIX2K3CoSo-ZEexdKKSySziSx-daTZRxWYkmapsxqa9g-TIl1jmewvCp8LXDrQ/w640-h416/AC274C7E-F40F-4311-A0C3-A245A6B1C9A9.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Maps by Redfin</div><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Given the flight from these failed locations, how long can Portland survive as a decent place to live? For the many who have left already, the tipping point has come and gone. Since Portland politics control the state, the bloom is off the once beautiful Oregon rose. Oregon is now only preferable to someplace more horrible - like crime-ridden, high poverty, high tax, expensive Los Angeles. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Like any data, be aware of when charts and maps were created. Things change quickly and you don’t want to depend on information that is out of date. On the other hand, it is fun to look back and see where things were and how much change has occurred and in which direction. </span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="The Redfin Migration Report analyzes a sample of about two million Redfin.com users who searched for homes across more than 100 metro areas each quarter, excluding searches unlikely to precede an actual relocation or home purchase. This tool allows users to see the top 10 destinations Redfin users are searching in among those likely to relocate from their metro of origin. " target="_blank">Redfin Data Center </a></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Housing and migration data drawn from Redfin users. </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="vivid maps.com" target="_blank">Vivid Maps</a></span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">A plethora of maps showing a huge variety of information! Great site to explore. </span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Visual proof that Oregon’s culture has been altered by an influx of Californians over many decades. We used to depend upon months of uninterrupted overcast skies and plenty of liquid sunshine to drive away the southerners. With summers getting warmer, you can pick out the Johnny-come-latelys by how much they proclaim their love of the heat! True Oregonians don’t like temperatures over 78. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyphtZu_3_yIZfZ2kXYyzQl2wuldCEayTiFAW9vVc2Z4T5bnF8UUFExPwlOCyzsKdFQijySK254_u1MDVnq_uFp6F9_C1Ta-eSaHF_WfeApTagVsKKp5VGlyFN2n9eBKiCoM1eS9qM1CpoOxhnMUnDqAW2nQOd47nk6udwobXF26p92UWMB4vZ7uIzg/s1500/4CD31884-235B-449E-8DA9-953B8B87D990.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="1500" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmyphtZu_3_yIZfZ2kXYyzQl2wuldCEayTiFAW9vVc2Z4T5bnF8UUFExPwlOCyzsKdFQijySK254_u1MDVnq_uFp6F9_C1Ta-eSaHF_WfeApTagVsKKp5VGlyFN2n9eBKiCoM1eS9qM1CpoOxhnMUnDqAW2nQOd47nk6udwobXF26p92UWMB4vZ7uIzg/w640-h396/4CD31884-235B-449E-8DA9-953B8B87D990.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-nXisp0JPHntJYCaB5GBlPoitjUOawQ1oxyQXK9Un7bwXgwSFEDeMuPLdGimmnVNAsJqRW47pimdS0JftAFNQ8iffAARVDpzwd719OUg_Q6y6-8PW7OyeVjrWvG3pvvCpUX2Jh6MhoRhVIaY6LD07e3Dt28A1SyQkzqxkOY9w9aBQLmbZcFmJBQ6vjA/s1810/8C8529BD-9C4B-4117-898D-DC7E3E1D877F.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1166" data-original-width="1810" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-nXisp0JPHntJYCaB5GBlPoitjUOawQ1oxyQXK9Un7bwXgwSFEDeMuPLdGimmnVNAsJqRW47pimdS0JftAFNQ8iffAARVDpzwd719OUg_Q6y6-8PW7OyeVjrWvG3pvvCpUX2Jh6MhoRhVIaY6LD07e3Dt28A1SyQkzqxkOY9w9aBQLmbZcFmJBQ6vjA/w640-h412/8C8529BD-9C4B-4117-898D-DC7E3E1D877F.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUjEXRXrLbTg8mfdAip7VigGcDJ54CLg7MkCWJAqd1Yn4qUFHcv-PdHM030kUW7XepfbcIUuSao1pliNm9pznANkAkuwlKRRFSX7pmpgbmdgHQM5HBt_babGC4eaIkSXCtfR4s1OvfmRFJeIE3TvQiSZ0Ke1vba7VAyuFl9sLRAkyOmArr_AIw64NPbA/s1536/BAF5B50C-D861-4AB8-8244-246D6D5CD7AC.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1239" data-original-width="1536" height="516" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUjEXRXrLbTg8mfdAip7VigGcDJ54CLg7MkCWJAqd1Yn4qUFHcv-PdHM030kUW7XepfbcIUuSao1pliNm9pznANkAkuwlKRRFSX7pmpgbmdgHQM5HBt_babGC4eaIkSXCtfR4s1OvfmRFJeIE3TvQiSZ0Ke1vba7VAyuFl9sLRAkyOmArr_AIw64NPbA/w640-h516/BAF5B50C-D861-4AB8-8244-246D6D5CD7AC.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Interesting to see what was happening in my youth - California was the Golden State - high quality education from K through University, booming industry, fabulous farming, affordable housing, people doing well - it was a symbol of the good life - the American Dream! People came from all over to live in sunny Cali. The exodus to the NW and elsewhere began in the 70s as a dribble, but became a river of people in the 90s and as progressive policies made living in California impossible, the migration became a flood. This is the natural fate of a single-party leftist state like Oregon. </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1B97kVI7DR-AdG79P8nGWo0GkJtMmmz7tFP1dzwipITxlscYi_uUmOthdafwcPJQmAKadSOfUL4UfPNMbM3YhAh-oxgxaeC29nKATfosT5xRWFt1sSRqtdAUmwF6C_viEWVsIw7tvtbs1W_1la73u3YXHw9fgQ9LIUdK_k7XKbtItcPxO4Ok7cOzqg/s2047/03B9D05D-4A79-4FE1-A08F-3ACB0965055A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1337" data-original-width="2047" height="418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEio1B97kVI7DR-AdG79P8nGWo0GkJtMmmz7tFP1dzwipITxlscYi_uUmOthdafwcPJQmAKadSOfUL4UfPNMbM3YhAh-oxgxaeC29nKATfosT5xRWFt1sSRqtdAUmwF6C_viEWVsIw7tvtbs1W_1la73u3YXHw9fgQ9LIUdK_k7XKbtItcPxO4Ok7cOzqg/w640-h418/03B9D05D-4A79-4FE1-A08F-3ACB0965055A.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><p></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://flowingdata.com/2013/11/04/six-decades-of-u-s-migration/" target="_blank">Flowing-data</a></span></b></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Interesting data in visual form with instructions on how to create charts, graphs, maps and more for your own use. </b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/33d4ca0a837948feae27a0d5c73f2155?_lrsc=d6d309fb-9143-4ae0-a9b6-b5004c9bc7a4" target="_blank"><b>Storymaps</b></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Statistics and data shown in static and interactive maps. Colorful, easy to read and understand with useful information. </b></span></p><div class="jsx-564664837 immersive-narrative-panel jsx-163633217 stacked bottom-spacing" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 19.2rem; min-height: 16rem; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;"><div class="jsx-3376984212 layout-wrapper" data-blockid="n-MEU6s5" id="n-MEU6s5" style="--small-and-print-margin-bottom: 0.8rem; --small-and-print-margin-top: 2.4rem; box-sizing: border-box; clear: none; margin: 3.2rem 0px 1.6rem; padding: 0px;"><div class="jsx-2240347093 grid-item-lite" style="--grid-edges: calc(1.6rem * 2); --grid-gap-width: 0.8rem; --number-of-columns: 12; --number-of-leftover-columns: calc( var(--number-of-possible-columns) - var(--number-of-columns) ); --number-of-possible-columns: 12; --total-grid-width: calc(100% - var(--grid-edges)); box-sizing: border-box; margin-inline: auto; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: calc( var(--total-grid-width) * (var(--number-of-columns) / var(--number-of-possible-columns)) - (var(--number-of-leftover-columns) / var(--number-of-possible-columns)) * var(--grid-gap-width) );"><div class="jsx-2016539444 text-viewer" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h3><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: center;">This is what the map looks like for Lake Oswego, Oregon. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Color of the dots relate to regions on the map above. </div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZKoV4pIbmuyH0x_rQSDogEl5NQO4SVy1yJO3wUS8IQpVCSA-RyPgk_i-jOC1ZL3LOqQ_Uu5Qp-FWo0QQq5GY6xsA_z-PRO79GwQaE8DjmxDUJFEDT_8HlYJWF_HWxpWvoE-SQOqjJKHJE6pGgU_-8uFZ0ufhghe6ht4y3Rv7KhEjQwEk1lF932n3Vmg/s1536/7C869326-1C2F-4136-A1ED-31881D573B62.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="1536" height="380" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZKoV4pIbmuyH0x_rQSDogEl5NQO4SVy1yJO3wUS8IQpVCSA-RyPgk_i-jOC1ZL3LOqQ_Uu5Qp-FWo0QQq5GY6xsA_z-PRO79GwQaE8DjmxDUJFEDT_8HlYJWF_HWxpWvoE-SQOqjJKHJE6pGgU_-8uFZ0ufhghe6ht4y3Rv7KhEjQwEk1lF932n3Vmg/w640-h380/7C869326-1C2F-4136-A1ED-31881D573B62.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span></h3><h3 class="jsx-596645251 heading jsx-2496746346" data-testid="Heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 28, 27); color: #001c1b; font-family: "Avenir Next", sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">38% of the people who moved to California were from outside the United States.</span></h3><div><h3 class="jsx-596645251 heading jsx-2496746346" data-testid="Heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 28, 27); color: #001c1b; font-family: "Avenir Next", sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></h3><h3 class="jsx-596645251 heading jsx-2496746346" data-testid="Heading" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(0, 28, 27); color: #001c1b; font-family: "Avenir Next", sans-serif; line-height: 1.4; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Lone Star state (Texas) experienced migration from all regions due to its strong economy and affordable housing.</span></h3></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Most people who moved to California and New York were from a country outside the United States.</span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">
Most people who were from the West moved to another state in the West. The same goes for people in the Midwest and the Northeast.</span></b></div></div></div></div></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-49055964351613098052022-06-22T14:51:00.003-07:002022-06-22T14:51:52.067-07:00The Success Sequence works!<p> <span style="font-size: medium;">Introducing the University Of Virginia’s </span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://ifstudies.org/" target="_blank">Institute for Family Studies</a></span></b><span style="font-size: medium;"> website. A great place to find academic research on what factors make families thrive and help children prosper in adulthood. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWr_nwIbdfXMWxAC38oc1DE4-fQKnqfz0sR0z_YvtSGQXxPCc3W6brqVtBugVh3ymSgPoGGVXk3ZzgVtkTH6O7LDieBpryEDqI-Y_vXuovI7ljaYLLx6MPAJnxr3ooBnK0HBq2FysPqfcg-ZI0k14QlAHwuambESzvnl-CJETNnOFKqci-84fvbBFSA/s1400/29EB9C49-DB81-46DC-AF58-A67203CDFE3A.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDWr_nwIbdfXMWxAC38oc1DE4-fQKnqfz0sR0z_YvtSGQXxPCc3W6brqVtBugVh3ymSgPoGGVXk3ZzgVtkTH6O7LDieBpryEDqI-Y_vXuovI7ljaYLLx6MPAJnxr3ooBnK0HBq2FysPqfcg-ZI0k14QlAHwuambESzvnl-CJETNnOFKqci-84fvbBFSA/w400-h400/29EB9C49-DB81-46DC-AF58-A67203CDFE3A.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><h1 style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Alright Sans Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 41.599998474121094px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 47.84000015258789px; margin: 20px 0px 10px; max-width: 21em; padding: 0px; visibility: visible;"><span face=""Alright Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Strong Families.</span><br style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />Sustainable Societies.</h1><div class="editor-wrap alrightsanslight" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: "Alright Sans Light", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 29.040000915527344px; margin: 1.5em 0px; max-width: 730px; padding: 0px; visibility: visible;"><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><span face=""Alright Sans", "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Institute for Family Studies (IFS)</span> is dedicated to strengthening marriage and family life, and advancing the well-being of children through research and public education. Addressing family life is what we do, and we invite you to learn more about ways to strengthen families in America and around the world.</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;">Use links on the IFS home page to find the media below. The information is thoughtfully presented and impossible to dispute. This is worth sharing with anyone who believes that society and humans can flourish without traditional social structures that have always worked, despite the persistent propaganda that denies it. </p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Podcast</b>: Federalist Radio Hour, “Post-Father’s Day Special With Brad Wilson”</p><p style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Film</b>: “The Social Divide”<span style="font-size: large;">. </span></p></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Read the Institute for Family Studies report "‘Life Without Father’: Less College, Less Work, and More Prison for Young Men Growing Up Without Their Biological Father" here: https://ifstudies.org/blog/life-without-father-less-college-less-work-and-more-prison-for-young-men-growing-up-without-their-biological-father</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/reports/successsequencedisadvantagedya-final.pdf" target="_blank">Click HERE to read the 2022 report.</a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>THE POWER OF THE</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>SUCCESS SEQUENCE</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>for Disadvantaged Young Adults</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Wendy Wang and Brad Wilcox May 2022</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The “Success Sequence,” a formula to help young adults succeed in America, has been discussed widely in recent years, including by Brookings Institution scholars Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill. The formula involves three steps: get at least a high school education, work full time, and marry before having children. Among Millennials who followed this sequence, 97% are not poor when they reach adulthood. The link remains strong when this cohort of young Americans </span><span style="font-size: large;">reaches their mid-30s, according to a new IFS analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY).1</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The success sequence seems like common sense. In an interview, Nobel Laureate James Heckman called the success sequence a </span><span style="font-size: large;">fact, adding: “When children or young adults have a child out of wedlock and if they take responsibility for that child—even if they don’t—that’s going to generally impair their progress.” Similarly, Bryan Caplan commented that the causation between the success sequence and poverty is obvious: “‘Dropping out, idleness, and single parenthood make you poor’ is on par with ‘burning money makes you poor.’ The demand for further proof of the obvious is a <b><i>thinly-veiled veto of unpalatable truths</i></b>.”</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Critics of the success sequence often point out that it ignores the “obstacles individual efforts can’t always overcome.” There is no question that structural disadvantages make it more difficult to </span><span style="font-size: large;">follow the three steps of the sequence. But that is also why it matters: Young adults who manage to follow the sequence—even in the face of disadvantages—are much more likely to forge a path to a better life.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">In fact, young adults from disadvantaged circumstances who follow the sequence are markedly more likely to overcome challenges and achieve economic success. The vast majority of black (96%) and Hispanic (97%) Millennials who followed this sequence are not poor in their mid-30s (ages 32 to 38), as is also the case for 94% of Millennials who grew up in lower-income families and 95% of those who grew up in non-intact families. Moreover, for those who do not have a college degree but only finished high school and who work and marry before having children, 95% are not poor by their mid-30s.2</span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-68372714617526705572022-06-17T19:57:00.002-07:002022-06-17T21:59:48.870-07:00Are you a native Oregonian? <p><span style="font-size: medium;">If so, you are a rare duck. Or beaver. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtA9gzDncwa_mejfuxS9q3yBBAv7mneOh1F3bNC4uY2xvJ9yYKRB9jgHguTdEU7ZLElZRCKI65GQniyPmzZ1cRiESc9Xk1yz6BGwLnbYITJs0enraJ7lApB_kQrt7_3z4Ybilpo_QLYbngU0aicaGw5yiE_ZndC9GWm4F6nLRj3GhYCSB__Wzp2vBDSg/s1300/DA63BD80-62FE-4529-B4AE-691A53732AF7.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="598" data-original-width="1300" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtA9gzDncwa_mejfuxS9q3yBBAv7mneOh1F3bNC4uY2xvJ9yYKRB9jgHguTdEU7ZLElZRCKI65GQniyPmzZ1cRiESc9Xk1yz6BGwLnbYITJs0enraJ7lApB_kQrt7_3z4Ybilpo_QLYbngU0aicaGw5yiE_ZndC9GWm4F6nLRj3GhYCSB__Wzp2vBDSg/s320/DA63BD80-62FE-4529-B4AE-691A53732AF7.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2i97YM9BB4W-abaguRQJDdGFoBk-IT5RWD1uEbaNZCnKzUQNbVf0OzxlB9PfKFhPhDK8-5t_wuzU7RCUeN5KneA4lKtE0GHZyrK9YnWPxDkOqg5zHOlR1toTzNJl4EB9JlU7QeH30wQnRzVj1kOw1s61bAk2ZLGNiuhMCYoeWZpmslBz3_kuf-mk5Qg/s360/0019230C-472F-46FB-9D4A-43D575245E34.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="292" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2i97YM9BB4W-abaguRQJDdGFoBk-IT5RWD1uEbaNZCnKzUQNbVf0OzxlB9PfKFhPhDK8-5t_wuzU7RCUeN5KneA4lKtE0GHZyrK9YnWPxDkOqg5zHOlR1toTzNJl4EB9JlU7QeH30wQnRzVj1kOw1s61bAk2ZLGNiuhMCYoeWZpmslBz3_kuf-mk5Qg/w163-h200/0019230C-472F-46FB-9D4A-43D575245E34.jpeg" width="163" /></a>When I grouse about how much the state has changed, and not in a good way, I reach for the Californication movement that began in the 70s. Governor Tom McCall’s most famous quote was “please visit, but don’t stay.” We had seen the sprawl, the rebellion and the madness that was beginning to overtake California and didn’t want their problems to migrate north. People joked about barricading I-5 at the border, but sadly, nothing ever came of that idea. </div></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I think it was our live-and-let-live nature - the desire to be left alone to do your own thing that attracted disaffected outsiders who turned into the intolerant progressives we now have who want to tell us how to live. We were too nice. Too open. Too accepting. We were patsies, ripe to be taken advantage of and having our culture destroyed. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">I stumbled on this map from 2014, and though it is now 8 years old, it explains how the Oregon identity of independence and ruggedness has been undermined. </span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://oregoneconomicanalysis.com/2014/01/23/graph-of-the-week-migration/" target="_blank">Oregon Office of Economic Analysis</a></span></b></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh62UO7P4OLGyVE05Mre3gHwpCz6KDKd3EauAw1rmjCxnnTAwRZoXRXWl8QjgxYkDYAEFLvaWfQjWDccY37NIwmyAKENvAXeXIK158Yw_7L-E3uiuaxxzRAgO1EDTowpSlIXo4sCtSE5midPtL9UNqR78oP3-SeI1GA_n1VbWx1m3_na8O5BvgTv4XjjA/s991/D90D4552-6DBA-4A3B-987A-8E8E656CD772.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="615" data-original-width="991" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh62UO7P4OLGyVE05Mre3gHwpCz6KDKd3EauAw1rmjCxnnTAwRZoXRXWl8QjgxYkDYAEFLvaWfQjWDccY37NIwmyAKENvAXeXIK158Yw_7L-E3uiuaxxzRAgO1EDTowpSlIXo4sCtSE5midPtL9UNqR78oP3-SeI1GA_n1VbWx1m3_na8O5BvgTv4XjjA/w640-h398/D90D4552-6DBA-4A3B-987A-8E8E656CD772.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b><p></p><p><span face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(75, 93, 103); color: #4b5d67;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nationally, 67% of Americans currently live in the state in which they were born (this is excluding foreign born and naturalized citizens), however in Oregon only about 50% of our population was born in the state and its even lower in our southern counties. I color coordinated the map to the national average. Yellow indicates the local share of residents born in the same state is comparable to the national share, while counties in shades of green have an above average share of same state residents. Counties that are orange and red have a below average share, indicating a larger presence of migrants.</span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; caret-color: rgb(75, 93, 103); color: #4b5d67; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Overall, Oregon’s population growth is heavily reliant upon migration. During the 90s and through the mid-2000s, nearly 3/4 of our population growth was due to net migration. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-42280611087720772362022-06-17T17:24:00.003-07:002022-06-17T18:02:13.196-07:00Not for the faint of heart <p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Trigger Warning!</b></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">The Twitter page posted here is upsetting. You may lose your lunch. You may weep uncontrollably. You may experience feelings of sadness and hopelessness. There are phone numbers and websites for those who may have thoughts of hurting themselves or others - please use them if you need to. Otherwise, read on. Join the fray. Educate yourself. Fight back. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://mobile.twitter.com/libsoftiktok" target="_blank"><b>The Libs of TikTok</b></a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a Twitter page devoted to the craziness that liberals are posting on TikTok. There are teachers who gleefully tell about the books they are reading to their 8-year-old students about gender ideology. There are stories about pedophiles who are employed in public schools. There are other topics too, but I presume gender issues are prominent during Pride Month. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Libs of TikTok shows people loudly and proudly proclaiming how they are acting badly. The Twitter poster doesn’t create the news - he just reposts what others have made public on their own. Obviously the libs are not ashamed of what they are dong - they put it all online. Now we can get a look into their world as they take their perversions and inappropriate thoughts and agendas into schools where they have captive, trusting, innocent children to mold. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">My guess is that Twitter censors don’t like this page but can’t complain because it just reposts what progressives have posted - but in this case it’s to expose how ridiculous and dangerous these people are. </span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0xzfAmAzOlrQoJiCbDeC3bLMKKJQukrnSnxjmiODupMkByEI9kWeg19STkBIFvXEXb8ALGy3DroMS781h7I9dC6dovwQ3PlyTKLuvw-W4rVuRiNGbbpUugjmnrFY4MwaQva8dwR2Qa3xPQJrFj5aDCRsdUVswd05lmM3GEteI2-FZG2rjcomhW41Bg/s1395/D469A89D-758A-4C7C-B837-46BBF4942CED.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1344" data-original-width="1395" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW0xzfAmAzOlrQoJiCbDeC3bLMKKJQukrnSnxjmiODupMkByEI9kWeg19STkBIFvXEXb8ALGy3DroMS781h7I9dC6dovwQ3PlyTKLuvw-W4rVuRiNGbbpUugjmnrFY4MwaQva8dwR2Qa3xPQJrFj5aDCRsdUVswd05lmM3GEteI2-FZG2rjcomhW41Bg/s320/D469A89D-758A-4C7C-B837-46BBF4942CED.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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DM submissions</span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152829764723469630.post-81965153266912453652022-06-17T13:16:00.005-07:002022-06-17T17:27:13.344-07:00If you live in Oregon - you are NOT living your best life<p>The perils of living in a one-party state - it's now their way or the highway. However, the highway now appears to be leading out of the state instead of in. In 2021, 20% more people moved out of the state than moved here. Portland lost about 11,000 people to the suburbs, other parts of the state and other states. Gee. Who could have predicted that. Government has become an impediment to a high quality of life. </p><p>The website, <b><a href="https://www.freedominthe50states.org/" target="_blank">Freedom in the 50 States</a></b>, created by the CATO Institute, measures and tracks the freedom or lack of it in all 50 states on a variety of indices. The very sad fact is that Oregon, my Oregon, ranks in the bottom 5 overall. </p><p>Check out the categories to see how Oregon rates and read the analysis for the state. So sad. For the people who weren't here before Californians took over in the 70s, it was a wonderful, wild and more importantly, live-and-let-live place. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTok72IqDcKG8PMs1LZSzjQmE6lU7gzeUqypfNmxWNZq3POcyUbA-IGd8Fdjn6rWSLJFtEt7_lErkw2c2PO7-JtW3mTbsfE-8UFev2qNQSLEGbMQ01fw_oqijLhh9Ksh3IojizNdAzxn8hBKR66uj08oyDAEazG8CQGtIMLEp3SjWs2OYCKvf1kwcHAQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img data-original-height="1710" data-original-width="2480" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgTok72IqDcKG8PMs1LZSzjQmE6lU7gzeUqypfNmxWNZq3POcyUbA-IGd8Fdjn6rWSLJFtEt7_lErkw2c2PO7-JtW3mTbsfE-8UFev2qNQSLEGbMQ01fw_oqijLhh9Ksh3IojizNdAzxn8hBKR66uj08oyDAEazG8CQGtIMLEp3SjWs2OYCKvf1kwcHAQ=w640-h442" width="640" /></a></div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0