Thursday, May 11, 2023

You will go nowhere and like it.

Is this in our future?

You can have a car but you can’t go wherever you want whenever you want. 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 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?

Oxford, England plans to restrict car travel with ‘traffic filter’ trial to ‘tackle climate change’

“The introduction of ‘traffic filters’ is what you might expect in a totalitarian state, not Oxford,' The Telegraph commented.

(LifeSiteNews) — Oxford, England will be enforcing six “traffic filter” locations restricting car travel in 2024 as part of an effort to “help tackle climate change.”

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 CountyCouncil and Oxford City Council explained.

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.

Media coverage describing the traffic constraints as “climate lockdowns” sparked further backlash, prompting a County-City joint statement 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.”

Marc Morano, an author who specializes in debunking the false narratives of the “climate change” agenda and condemning its totalitarian impulses, has recently warned 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 Great Reset.

Tuesday, November 22, 2022

What makes people want to do something? Tell them they can't!

A picture says thousands of words.

Sign at Cabella's yesterday:

Oregon State Police Local Agency

Communications Director Mindy McCartt • 6 days ago

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 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.

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: https://www.oregon.gov/osp/programs/cjis/Pages/Firearms-Instant-Check-System.aspx

Monday, November 21, 2022

Oregon’s Nanny State

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!

Oregonlive

The Oregonian/OregonLive.com

A newly filed federal lawsuit 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.

Text of lawsuit as filed in federal court.

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.

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Tuesday, August 30, 2022

No new gas car for you! You..Oregonian!,

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.

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 California. Yet.

And when the power runs low, electric cars don’t go. 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?

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!

California Approves Ban On Gas-Powered Cars By 2035

Nicholas Reimann
Forbes.
August 25; 2022. The California Air Resources Board approved a highly anticipated measure Thursday that will ban the sale of new gasoline-only cars 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.

The ban will apply to most new vehicles, including sedans, SUVs and light trucks, but will not impact the sale of any used vehicles.

The mandate requires 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.

States that have Adopted California's Vehicle Standards under Section 177 of the Federal Clean Air Act

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

California Pols Aren’t Just Coming for Your Burgers

Reasonably priced menus statewide are now at risk.

Wall Street Journal

By James Freeman Aug. 30, 2022

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.

Recently this column noted the pending California bill to create a new state bureaucracy just to police compensation in the fast-food industry. Like all bad legislative ideas, this one has been moving at warp speed in Sacramento.

Thursday, August 11, 2022

Where do things come from?

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.

New York Post

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey ‘concerned’ that ‘socialists are taking over’

Lee Brown August

Whole Foods co-founder and exiting CEO John Mackey has said he is “deeply concerned” that “socialists are taking over” the country.

“They’re marching through the institutions — they’re taking everything over,” the 68-year-old executive told Reason magazine in an interview just weeks before he finally steps down from the supermarket giant.

“They’ve taken over education. It looks like they’ve taken over a lot of the corporations. It looks like they’ve taken over the military,” he said of his main “concern.”

“And it’s just continuing,” he warned.

He described himself as a “capitalist at heart” and said he believes in liberty.

“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, are under threat,” he said.

Mackey complained that increased unemployment benefits offered during the pandemic put a real strain on Whole Foods’ ability to hire staff.

“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.

However, the biggest hiring crisis has been because “the younger generation … don’t seem to want to work,” he said.

“They only wanna work if it’s really purposeful, and [something] they feel aligned to,” he said of a shift to woke principles, noting it was particularly in major Democratic cities including the Big Apple.

“You can’t hope to start with meaningful work. 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.”

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.”

“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.

“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.

Friday, August 5, 2022

How do you protect little ones in Washington?

Will the new Lake Oswego Swim Center and Recreation Center allow men in the Women’s locker rooms or rest rooms? 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.

Do these, or any, young people deserve protection from strange adult males when they are undressing? Of course! (If you even had to think about it, no one should leave children in your care.)

The Western Journal

Commentary (Excerpts)

By Jack Gist August 5, 2022

80-Year-Old Woman Banned from YMCA Pool Over What She Saw Man Doing in Women's Dressing Room

Radical progressives abhor Christianity. They abhor tradition. And they are attempting to subvert reality to topple the Western heritage.

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.

The YMCA’s reaction? Jaman was permanently banned from the facility, according to the Port Townsend Free Press.

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 a man was standing before her watching little girls take off their swimsuits.

According to the Free Press, Jaman asked the man, a YMCA employee who goes by the name Clementine Adams, “Do you have a penis?”

“None of your business,” Adams responded.

“Get out of here right now,” Jaman ordered.

Sensing the girls were in danger, Jaman continued to demand that the man leave the area. Another YMCA employee then called the police on Jaman.

The YMCA’s aquatics manager, Rowen DeLuna, told Jaman that she had not “abided by our principles and values.”

The “principles and values” of the YMCA are the law of the land in Washington state: “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.”

Jaman told the Port Townsend City Council, “There is no signage informing women the shower room is now all-gender and what that means, nor have parents been informed of what they can expect with these new policies,” according to the Post Millennial.

Wendy Bart, CEO of the Olympic Peninsula YMCA, told Jaman the “pride” signs posted around the facility are adequate to let women know that men who identify as women will be using the women’s dressing room, the Free Press reported.

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.

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.

The C in YMCA used to stand for Christian. What does it stand for now? Cultural Marxism is my bet.

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.

Terrorist Self-Test follow-up

Another round of applause for Project Veritas. 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.

The interesting thing about this one-sided book is that many of the symbols the FBI present 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?

Belief in and loyalty to the US Constitution is what matters. One has to wonder what the FBI believes in.

FBI Whistleblower LEAKS Bureau’s ‘Domestic Terrorism Symbols Guide’ on ‘Militia Violent Extremists’ Citing Ashli Babbitt as MVE Martyr

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].

In the document, the FBI cites symbols, images, phrases, events, and individuals that agents should look out for when identifying alleged domestic terrorists.

The “Unclassified/Law Enforcement Sensitive” document says it is for “FBI Internal Use Only.”

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.”

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.

Are YOU a terrorist?

AMERICAN TERRORIST SELF-TEST

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?

1. Y_____ N_____ Name _____________________________________

Meaning ___________________________________________________________