Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sex. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Oregon, My Oregon

From Dave Strom at Hat Hair, Oregon Relied on Illegal Alien Sex Offender for 'Behavioral Health' Advice

Who better to advise the Oregon state government on policy areas such as behavioral health, “health equity,” and healthcare for all than a Venezuelan illegal immigrant sex offender?

I can think of a few people, but apparently, Oregon state government officials couldn't, so they invited Juan Pablo Villalobos Garcia to sit on several advisory committees to help set state policy in these areas:
An illegal immigrant convicted of sex crimes in Oregon, a sanctuary state for unlawful immigration, held various advisory positions on state policymaking committees as a so-called “Latinx” community leader.

Juan Pablo Villalobos Garcia, a criminally convicted Venezuelan national who had overstayed his visa, according to U.S. immigration authorities, served in several committee roles advising the state of Oregon on policy areas such as behavioral health, “health equity,” and healthcare for all, regardless of immigration status.

Before the U.S. Department of Homeland Security nabbed Garcia, a Portland-area activist and “educator,” he was on Oregon’s Community Engagement and Communications Committee to the Universal Health Plan Governance Board, which is tasked with creating a comprehensive plan for financing and administering a single-payer healthcare system that covers all Oregonians, no matter their immigration status.

Garcia’s committee is responsible for developing community outreach recommendations and informational material, as part of the universal health plan that the board will present to Gov. Tina Kotek (D-OR) and the Oregon legislature.

The board looks to committee members for “expertise and lived experience.” Committee members are recruited by the governor-appointed board and are supposed to embody “equitable representation from every region and population around the state.”

On the Oregon government website, the board’s community engagement committee describes Garcia as the executive director of LatinX Recovery Center, who is “currently in recovery from substance abuse with a criminal justice history.”

Over video conference, Garcia attended the committee’s monthly meetings as recently as Sept. 24 and would offer insight in Spanish.

Garcia, whose record reportedly includes sexual abuse and bestiality, was also an active member of the Behavioral Health Crisis System Advisory Committee, which advises the Oregon Health Authority, the state’s health department, on overseeing the statewide crisis response system.

I mean, who wouldn't want a sex criminal, drug abusing, bestiality advocate illegal alien helping set  health care policy?

Friday, March 14, 2025

Oregon, My Oregon

Did you know there is a female Ninja Turtle?
From the Victory Girls, Mentally Ill Turtle Person Appointed To Mental Health Advisory Board

We thought we had turned the corner on crazy with the election and inauguration of President Donald Trump. We thought that Gender Ideology was O-V-E-R. We were ever so wrong. The state of Oregon which, apparently, has a breeding program for crazy has doubled down. An entity named JD Holt, who uses the pronouns “they/them/terrapin” has been appointed to an Oregon Mental Health Advisory Board.

In the past, humans with mental illnesses have been treated abominably, true fact. But closing the facilities and releasing the patients to the streets has not made anyone’s mental health better or the world safer. JD Holt, who also goes by JD Terrapin, is proof of that. It’s important to have people who have had mental health challenges on advisory boards, but not people in the midst of a delusion.

How did the mentally ill turtle person get appointed to the board? The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has a panel to advise on the best practices. From Fox News:
JD Holt, who also goes by “JD Terrapin” on Facebook, is one of roughly two dozen “consumers” on the OHA’s Consumer Advisory Council (OCAC). The council, established by administrative statute, is appointed by OHA Director Dr. Sejal Hathi, who was appointed by Gov. Tina Kotek, a Democrat.

The purpose of the OCAC is to advise Hathi on the state’s provision of mental health services, including through investigations and reviews of current practices.
This video is a subcommittee of OCAC, the Trauma Informed Systems Subcommittee. The meeting must start five minutes late in order to not stress out people who might be four minutes late. JD Holt is the second person to speak. You don’t have to watch the whole thing unless you are a masochist, speaking of mental wellness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQx3P1ngpQs&t=151s
Yup, she sure did list her pronouns as they, them and turtle. Notice how proud they seem of their issues. A whole “buffet table”. People shouldn’t be embarrassed. On the other hand, mental issues shouldn’t be a badge of honor.

From Fox again:
“Hello everybody, it’s JD. I use they, them and turtle for my pronouns. I’m in the Springfield-Eugene area and I get to be part of the council,” Holt said during a Dec. 20 virtual OCAC meeting. Gender Wiki, a website that documents the list of non-binary genders, describes “turtlegender,” sometimes called “tortoisegender,” as “a xenogender identity in which one feels a gendered connection to turtles.”

“One may feel their gender is replaced by a ‘turtle,’ or their gender is best described with the use of turtles,” the site reads.
From the Springfield-Eugene area? That figures. Well, she should know a lot about mental illness, from the inside.

Saturday, March 1, 2025

Maryland, My Maryland

Center Square MD, Feb 27, 2025, Maryland House backs bill to allow contraceptives in school vending machines

The House of Delegates voted 89-41 this month to approve HB 380, a bill that changes a decades-old state law that made these types of sales in schools a misdemeanor offense.

Under the current law, anyone who offers contraceptives via a vending machine at a school would be fined $1,000 per violation.

Del. Nicole Williams, D-Prince George's County, introduced the bill to eliminate the $1,000 penalty and allow schools to install vending machines that dispense contraceptives on campuses from elementary to high schools.

WMAR 2, Feb 28, 2025,  Maryland lawmakers nix bill allowing contraceptive vending machines in public schools

The Senate JPR Committee killed a bill that would allow condoms and other birth control contraceptives to be sold in vending machines in Maryland public schools.

Known as House Bill 380, it would've allowed contraceptive sales at a kindergarten, nursery school, elementary school or secondary school.

Monday, February 24, 2025

Maryland, My Maryland - Kondoms for Kindergarten?

You must be kidding me!

Monday, December 2, 2024

Forget It Jake, It's Baltimore

Sarah Anderson at PJM, Are Baltimore Elementary Schools Prioritizing Gender Identity Over Math and Reading?

Baltimore City Schools are in bad shape. Earlier this year, Fox 5 Baltimore reported that "Results from the 2024 state test show nearly a third of all Maryland students who took the math exam last year scored in the lowest level of proficiency" and only 2% scored in the highest level of proficiency. Eight of the city's high schools had zero students who were proficient in math at all. Even worse, this is considered a "slight improvement" over last year's numbers. In 2023, zero students in 13 Baltimore high schools tested proficient in math.
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While the tutoring might be beneficial, I can't help but think that it's the educational equivalent of treating the symptoms, not the cause. Perhaps the school district could dive a little deeper. Maybe, just maybe, it could focus on teaching math and other essential skills to its elementary school students rather than focusing on topics like gender identity, gay pride, and sexual confusion.

Spotlight on Maryland, which calls itself an "investigative project" of Fox 5 Baltimore and the Baltimore Sun filed a public records request to gain access to the school district's sex education program. What they discovered was pretty disgusting, especially when you realize they're teaching it to children as young as six years old.

According to investigative reporter Patrick Hauf, Baltimore City Schools are teaching first graders about "their private parts and reproductive systems, showing cartoon photos and videos." Hauf also says that teachers must use gender neutral language. Instead of saying "male reproductive system" and "female reproductive system," they're instructed to say "reproductive system one" and "reproductive system two." Hauf says by third grade, students learn about the "importance" of the LGBTetc. flag, and children in fourth grade watch videos about how it's okay to "feel sexually confused," complete with the song "I Kissed a Girl" by Katy Perry.

Fox 5 Baltimore posted a copy of the curriculum online, and some of the language within is mind-blowing. For example, in a less called "Pink, Blue and Purple," an exercise for first graders involves teachers asking them how they know what gender they are and explaining that this is their gender identify. After that, it suggests teachers tell students the following:
Gender identity is that feeling of knowing your gender. You might feel like you are a boy, you might feel like you are a girl. You might feel like you’re a boy even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘girl’ parts. You might feel like you’re a girl even if you have body parts that some people might tell you are ‘boy’ parts. And you might not feel like you’re a boy or a girl, but you’re a little bit of both. No matter how you feel, you’re perfectly normal!
I don't have children, but if I did, I wouldn't want some stranger telling my six-year-old how to think about their "parts." It's worth noting that parents can opt out of the so-called sex education program, but I can't understand why the schools even offer it in the first place. Why do children who haven't even come close to hitting puberty need to learn anything at all about sex?

The good news is, that if history is any guide, the children of Baltimore won't learn this either. 

Monday, October 21, 2024

Maryland, My Maryland

At JTN, Greg Piper reports Wealthy Washington D.C. suburb's no-exception LGBTQ curriculum faces headwinds at Supreme Court, "Major religious groups, half the states and top legal scholars of religious liberty unite against Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools, which refuses to notify parents when "Pride storybooks" are taught or let young kids opt out."

Friend-of-the-court briefs deluged the Supreme Court last week asking it to resolve a circuit split on parental rights in public education worsened by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled that Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools does not burden parents' free exercise of religion by not notifying them of LGBTQ curricula or allow opt-outs.

"This outpouring of diverse support shows that parents, not the government, should have the final say on how their kids are introduced to complex topics of gender and sexuality," senior counsel Eric Baxter of religious liberty law firm Becket, which filed the SCOTUS petition last month on behalf of Muslim, Catholic and Orthodox parents, wrote in an X thread on the briefs.

The wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C., exposed children as young as 3 to "Pride storybooks" with sex workers, kink, drag, gender transitions and elementary-age same-sex romance, provoking fierce opposition from parents. The Council on American-Islamic Relations took a leading role organizing opposition and protests, in a rare break with Democrats and the ACLU.

Public records requests and litigation revealed that the purported concern behind the district's sudden decision a year and half ago to stop notification and opt-outs – logistical difficulty – was not reflected in internal communications, which instead trained teachers how to challenge students' beliefs and counter parental objections.

Another group of MCPS parents filed a brief saying the district has denied their opt-out requests, leaving their children at risk of instruction on "LGBTQ+ issues in what they believe is an inappropriate manner considering their children’s ages, personalities, and circumstances."

Most of the parents also believe the district's purpose is to "normalize and valorize alternative sexual behavior" in violation of their religious beliefs, they said.

So far, no sign of this in Calvert County. But then, Gabby is only in pre-K. 

Sunday, September 1, 2024

Flotsam and Jetsam - Will She Debate? Kamala Steps in it with Gold Star Families

Matt Margolis at PJM thinks It Looks Like Kamala Is About To Chicken Out of Debating Trump. She's back to demanding open mics so she can try to shame him for interrupting, like she did Pence. Will she stomp her little feet and walk away? Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, Kamala: Trump's Afraid of a Live Mic, You Know. At WokeSpy, Kamala Harris’ Attempts To Change Debate Rules Offer Reminder Of The Last Time She Ran For The Presidency. History from Twitchy, 'This Was Worse Than I Thought': Here's a Harris Debate Flashback Showing Why She Wants Open Mics. Hat Hair, Just SO We're All Clear on WHY Kamala Wants Trump With an Open Mic (video). Beege Welborn adds "She and everyone else knows - if she even makes it to a debate - that there won't be a single moment of Kamala speaking lucidly about any "plan" or policy. All she can hope for is 3-5 second snips of chastizing (sic) Trump like this."

Sarah Arnold at TownHall thinks That CNN Interview Did No Favors for Harris "There’s a reason Vice President Kamala Harris avoids the press unless she has a teleprompter and script in front of her."  WaEx's Paul Bedard sees Harris momentum stalls, CNN talk didn’t help. Megyn Kelly, Megyn Kelly Analyzes CNN's Softball Interview of Kamala Harris and "White Blankie" Tim Walz


Matt Vespa at TownHall, How Bill Maher Described Kamala Harris' CNN Interview Is Pretty Accurate. Nick Arama at RedState, Bill Maher Torches Optics of Kamala Interview, Mocks Her, and Notes Big Voter Problem She Faces. “It looked like when your dad goes with the young woman to buy a car when dad comes along,” Christian Collins@CollinsforTX, "9 short months ago, Kamala Harris said, “I’m not lying,” while defending Joe Biden’s cognitive abilities. It turns out she was lying. If Dana Bash is a real journalist, she must call Kamala out for covering up Biden's decline from the start." From the Free Bacon, After 5 Weeks With No Interviews, Team Harris Eyes Sitdown With Kamala Donor Gayle King, "CBS News host, who said Harris gave her 'goosebumps,' contributed $10k to Dem nominee's 2010 AG campaign." Da Fetched, Kamala Harris Gives Biden a Run for His Money with Embarrassing Gaffe. Misty Severt at JTN reports Trump blasts Kamala Harris as a 'defective person' following CNN interview. At Da Mail, Donald Trump turns the air blue while blasting Kamala at a rally in Pennsylvania ... hours after video of Harris dropping F-bomb was shared. 'If you look at Kamala, and you look at what she's done to... every place she's touched has turned to shit. Every single place she's touched.' From WaEx, Gabbard advises Trump to go after Harris’s ‘character’ during debate

Twitchy, This Is Low, Even for HER: Kamala Harris Tries Dunking on Trump Over Arlington, Gets WRECKED by Reality and WATCH: Kamala Messed Up BIG TIME! Gold Star Families Respond to Harris' Shameful Attack. Bonchie @bonchieredstate "Before today, the Abbey Gate Gold Star families hadn't spoken out against Kamala Harris. You could feel that there was an unspoken boundary put in place, and all Harris had to do was keep her mouth shut. She just couldn't do it, and now she'll reap the whirlwind." From NewsBusters, 'One Of The Lowest Moments That I've Seen': PBS Attacks Trump's Arlington Visit. At Hat Hair, Caskets, Arlington and a Grieving Widow in a Biden Attack on Trump. Jerry Dunleavy IV@JerryDunleavy, "The Biden-Harris campaign just two months ago used footage & images (some up-close) of U.S. military cemetery graves, of American flag-draped caskets, of gravestones of U.S. troops, & of a grieving woman on an American flag-draped casket to attack Trump."
Jazz Shaw, Kamala: Ban Fracking? Me? No Way! Not while Pennsylvania is in play! Breitbart cites CNN Fact-Checker Daniel Dale: Harris Was Not Accurate on Fracking Comments. From Da Wire, Kamala Doubles Down On Pushing Price Controls. The only way Dems know how to tame inflation.

From Breitbart, Tim Walz’s Brother: He’s ‘Not the Type of Character You Want Making Decisions About Your Future’ “We’ve just become a third-world banana republic.”  WaPoo's Kathleen Parker admits Tim Walz isn’t exactly what he seems, "How America’s new wonder dad has gilded his record for political gain." Harold Hutchinson at Da Caller features Bill Maher Panning Walz, Harris For ‘Insulting My Intelligence’ During CNN Interview:  ‘You’re A Huge Liar’Dustin Grage@GrageDustin, "I still can’t get over the fact Ron DeSantis in his first press conference after Tim Walz became the VP pick—referred to him as “This Waltz from Minnesota.” Meanwhile Walz has obsessed over Ron DeSantis and Florida for the past four years." The Babylon Bee quips Tim Walz Promises To Ensure All Violent Migrant Gangs Have Access To Free Tampons

Greg Price@greg_price11, "Jared Polis two days ago: Armed gang members taking over an apartment complex is a figment of your “imagination” Today: “We are taking this seriously.” Amazing how quickly that changed" From the Center Square, Canada officials express alarm about terrorism threats, Americans about impact on US "Nearly 1,100 known, suspected terrorists apprehended at northern border, equivalent to U.S. Army battalion."  Paul Bedard, Security now top border concern as ‘many’ terrorists test Harris. From Fox, Pelosi praises CA bill giving illegal migrants money to buy homes: 'American dream' 'available to more people' "The top Democrat was told HBO's Bill Maher: "What I would like to do is move them to documented.'"

Da Caller, Trump Has Had Years To Chip Away At A Key Dem Voting Bloc. Can Harris Make Up For Lost Time? Hispanics? NYPo, Kamala Harris tied with Green Party candidate Jill Stein among Muslim voters, damning poll reveals. WaPoo worries In N.C., some Black voters are uneasy with Harris’s abortion rights focus. "Democrats worry that socially conservative Black voters in the South are wary of Harris’s outspoken support for reproductive freedom." Abortion uber alles. The Cnservative Brief recounts how a Vietnamese Eatery Explodes When Trump Walks In: ‘We Need You!’.

At Da Caller, Mary Rooke warns about How Liberal Pollsters Are Recreating The 2016 Wave Of Silent Trump Voters. Charlotte Hazard at JTN, Trump film 'The Apprentice' set for US premiere Saturday, Trump team calls it election interference, "Trump communications director Steven Cheung called the film’s release “election interference by Hollywood elites right before November,” and said that it is "pure malicious defamation."" Breitbart, Trump Biopic ‘The Apprentice’ Set for U.S. Release Less Than a Month Before Election. Paul Bedard has the Rogues gallery of Trump enemies: Cheney, Pelosi, Zuckerberg. From Fox, Conservative beer company's can showcasing Trump's reaction to being shot brings in $1 million: 'FIGHT'.

 Althouse finds "Mr. Trump had instructed his young sidekick to fight forcefully through those initial attacks, and later said Mr. Vance’s execution exceeded his expectations..." ""... according to three allies who insisted on anonymity to discuss private conversations. . . . From "JD Vance’s Combative Style Confounds Democrats but Pleases Trump/Over dozens of events and more than 70 interviews, Mr. Vance’s performances as Donald Trump’s attack dog have endeared him to his boss, even if America broadly is less enthusiastic" (NYT)." From the Guardian, ‘Dangerous and un-American’: new recording of JD Vance’s dark vision of women and immigration "Trump’s running mate rants against feminism, immigrants and Ilhan Omar in a newly unearthed podcast from 2021." Enough! I already like him! From the Star, Sen. JD Vance Says End of Trump-Kemp Feud, RFK Jr. Endorsement Prove Republicans Now ‘Big Tent’ Party. The Center Square, RFK Jr. removes his name from most swing state ballotsCollin Rugg@CollinRugg "NEW: RFK Jr.'s running mate Nicole Shanahan releases powerful new ad telling RFK Jr. to "finish the job" his father and uncle started. Chills. . . . " From LI's Leslie Eastman, After RFK Jr. Attacks Ultra Processed Foods, Time Magazine Publishes a Defense. "The timing of the article is shameful, and is completely devoid of science…settled or otherwise."

Hat Hair's Jazz Shaw is amused at How Democrats Wrote Sex Workers Out of Their Platform. "In 2020, the party's platform prominently included a vow to "protect the lives of sex workers," but in the 2024 edition, that language mysteriously vanished. And some of the sex workers in question claim that they are "terrified.""  You'd think Kamala would want to support her co-workers. Sarah Arnold, Joe Rogan Sums Up Democrat Elites In Brutal Takedown. “[Oprah] is up there talking about income inequality like, 'Hey lady, you're rich as f***'... how is that equal?” Rogan said. . . . Also, when Michelle Obama was saying, you know, I think she was saying her mother or grandmother was always suspicious of people who took more than they needed, like, you are worth so much money,” Rogan continued. “That’s so crazy. You did it on a civil servant’s salary, which is insane."

Da Caller, Video Shows Police Take Down Man Allegedly Attempting To Breach Trump Rally’s Media Area. "Authorities pulled the individual to the ground shortly after he allegedly attempted to climb the side of a media riser, the video shows. Law enforcement officials eventually subdued the man with a Taser, according to The Associated Press. As police dragged the man away, the crowd erupted enthusiastically with cheers and applause, the video shows."

Kaelen Deese at WaEx reports Trump’s $563 million in civil penalties could come due before year’s end. "Although collections could begin on his civil penalties as soon as later this year, legal experts say the appeals over these fees are likely to continue at least until after the Nov. 5 election, as Trump still has the ability to appeal an unfavorable ruling to the New York Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court." Steve Richards at JTN, Bannon’s lawyers want a hearing on alleged government misconduct in case, judge has yet to grant it. "The accusations against the prosecutors were detailed in several court filings over a year ago and Bannon had previously invoked them in a failed attempt to have the charges against him dismissed." At OTP, Rudy Giuliani’s Assets Could Be Seized In Georgia Election Case. We need a plan going forward to bankrupt prominent Democrats with legal fees.

Check the tightness of your tin-foil hats for Sundance at CTH's Context for FBI Discussion. "There is no way for Antifa to operate as a domestic extremist group, without the expressed support and willful blindness of the FBI.  Quite simply if the FBI wanted to stop the violent and extremist activity of Antifa, they could do that easily."

Brownstone wonders Why Did Zuckerberg Choose Now to Confess? Because he's afraid Trump will win, of course. Christian Toto at NewBusters sees he's not through yet, Facebook Blocks ‘Reagan’ Posts with Joe Rogan, Megyn Kelly. "A Facebook official publicly apologized via Newsweek. "While there are no restrictions on this page that would prevent the admins from posting, we did identify a handful of ads from this account that were incorrectly rejected. This happened because our automated systems mistakenly determined that content about President Reagan required prior authorization in accordance with our policies for ads about Social Issues, Elections or Politics. This was a mistake and the restriction on the ads has been lifted."" Mistake, my ass. At Hat Hair, on Brazil a Totalitarian Judge Orders Complete Ban on X, Fines fir Using VPN to Access. Twitchy asks Mark Ruffalo - 'Why Are You Always on The Wrong Side of Every Issue?'

From WokeSpy, Vermont Health Dept. Says Stop Using “Son” and “Daughter.” No. Jazz Shaw reports on a Virginia Women's College that Bans Trans Students. "The school is banning transgender students beginning this semester, and they are taking a novel approach in how they are doing it in an effort to blunt the lawsuits that will inevitably follow. They are basing the policy on the last will and testament of the school's founder, who passed away in 1900. Needless to say, the progressives are already up in arms." . . ."The private women’s liberal arts school said the policy stems from the legally binding will of its founder, Indiana Fletcher Williams, who died in 1900. Sweet Briar’s leadership said the document requires it to “be a place of ‘girls and young women.’” The phrase “must be interpreted as it was understood at the time the Will was written,” Sweet Briar’s president and board chair wrote in a letter earlier this month to the college community." From The College Fix, U.S. ‘Hates Women,’ Faces Future Of Cannibalism, ‘Forced Breeding Camps’: ASU Event.

Campus Reform reports Liz Magill hired by Harvard Law School despite resignation over anti-Semitism controversy "Liz Magill, who resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania following controversial statements about anti-Semitism, has been hired by Harvard Law School as a fellow." The old "pass the trash" maneuver. Eyal Yakoby@EYakoby "Breaking: Protestors at McGill university ripped up the new grass lawn in the name of Palestine. The school had to re-grass the lawn after the encampment from last semester destroyed it, now the students are directly disrespecting the groundskeepers." 


The Wombat has FMJRA 2.0: Is It October Yet? up and garnering clicks at The Other McCain.

Friday, August 9, 2024

Flotsam and Jetsam - Walzing Matilda!

Whee! It's windy here!

Stacy McCain on Tim Walz, Worst VP Pick Since Tom Eagleton? "Kamala Harris has been the designated Democratic candidate for barely two weeks, and she’s already screwed the pooch with her first major campaign decision, the choice of Tim Walz as her running mate. I’m sitting here with my office TV tuned to CNN, and everything right now is all about Walz’s disputed military service record." I doubt if Eagleton would have done as much damage. Matt Walsh at Da Wire, Woman Who Stole Nomination Picks Man Who Stole Valor As Running Mate. Hat Hair's Capt. Ed argues "This to me is the most salient point about the Walz stolen-valor issue. A competent vetting process, as Duane wrote earlier, would have either chosen a different candidate after discovering these issues or prepared an immediate campaign to defend the running mate. Instead, they've been caught off guard and are trying to make it up as they go along. And this is the one choice entirely within Harris' control."  Sean Trende at RC Polling, Kamala Harris' Puzzling VP Pick. PJM's VodkaPundit  thinks Tim Walz Is Bizarro JD Vance, Stephen Kruiser thinks the  GOP Should Send Kamala Harris a 'Thank You' Card for Picking Walz and Matt Margolis notes Even the Liberal Media Is Acknowledging Tim Walz's Stolen Valor

NewsMax, CNN: 'No Evidence' of Walz's Combat ClaimsBlaine Holt to Newsmax: Stolen Valor a Big Deal for Vets and Rep. Derrick Van Orden to Newsmax: Walz Should 'Plead for Forgiveness'. Hat Hair's John Sexton, Post: Walz Knew His Unit Might Be Heading to Iraq Before He Retired. Kevin Trainor (Wombat-socko) at his substack, says he's Not The Very Model Of a Modern Sergeant-Major. Ace has More Stolen Valor Garbage: Walz Began His Political Career With Blatant Lie About Having Fought in the War on Terrorism; Atlantic Reporter Won't Say If Walz Lied to Him About Being a Combat Veteran, or If He Just Made It Up to Help Out the Team. Cam Edwards at Bearing Arms finds Realtree Issues Statement On Harris/Walz Camo Hats "Realtree DOES NOT support the Harris/Walz campaign. This hat they bought through a third party that we license to. Just want to be clear here because I’ve seen comments that say we’re supporting them. Simply not true." From WUWT, Dem VP Pick Gov. Tim Walz thinks we should ‘power our Navy using algae’ – Claims ‘the Pentagon is not a bunch of green tree-huggers’ – Morano responds. Proof he's living in the fantasy world of unicorn farts. 

Seth Dillon@SethDillon "The great irony is that his own statement — which he had every right to make — is misinformative." Defiant L’s@DefiantLs "Tim Walz says free speech does not apply to misinformation." Robby Soave at Reason, Tim Walz Was Dead Wrong About Misinformation and Free Speech. "Kamala Harris' veep should learn something about the First Amendment." At Althouse, "That Tim Walz falsely believes the free speech guarantee doesn't include what he considers to be 'misinformation' or 'hate speech' will bother almost no Dem supporters, since the vast majority of them want the state to be empowered to censor dissent." "Writes Glenn Greenwald, at X, displaying this . . . " Rick Moran at PJM, Tim Walz Is 'America's Dad'? Joe Moran Could Crush Walz and Pick His Teeth With His Bones. Reason complains Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz Used COVID Relief Money on Things That Had Nothing To Do With COVID. "Minnesota used federal taxpayer dollars to cover state workers' parking costs, fund the Minnesota Zoo, and teach minority-owned businesses how to apply for government contracts." Ace, has Flashback: Tim Walz Signed a Bill Which Included Pedophilia as Part of the List of Protected Sexual Orientations "To be more precise: The old law defined sexual orientation by saying it explicitly did not include pedophilia." (Never drop the red acid.) Duane Patterson at Hat Hair reminds Democrats Vetting Isn't Just Looking For Someone Not Jewish.

At Da Caller, Kamala Harris: Momentum Or Fauxmentum? At Reason, Nate Silver: How Likely Is a Kamala Harris Presidency? Eric Abbenante@EricAbbenante, "James Carville (the last genuine Democrat) discussing how Kamala Harris' background is 'not all-American', and how she grew up affluent: "Her bio is not all-American. Both of her parents were professors at Berkeley. She doesn't have a 'up by the bootstraps' story. She grew up relatively affluent. College professors don't starve to death. Her bio is not the kind of thing she's going to win this thing on." Kamala Harris' 'up by the bootstraps' story: "So I met Willie Brown..."" VodkaPundit, Trump Just Said Out Loud What Everybody in Washington Is Afraid To "The presidency was taken away from Joe Biden." Matt Orfalea@0rf "EXCLUSIVE: In a newly discovered Zoom recording, the Biden/Harris team reveals how they manipulated voters to think Biden's mental decline was "disinformation".

Capt. Ed, The Silence of the Kams, or Where's the Beef -- And the Press? Matt Vespa at TownHall, The Reason Why Harris Refuses to Speak With the Media Is Downright Laughable. “There’s really no need,” the person said. “The voters that she needs are at the local level. They’re not reading the national press.” Benjy Sarlin@BenjySarlin "Trump is holding a presser today, we interviewed him last week and Vance yesterday and Vance is taking open press questions. Time’s just about up on Harris to avoid this becoming a thing. "Richard Goldberg@rich_goldberg, "Let's have an honest conversation about what happened last night in Michigan and what's going on right now with the @VP team's clean-up attempt. She was not on a teleprompter. She was not hiding behind a press release or a surrogate. It was Harris being confronted by a radical pro-Hamas group asking her to consider an arms embargo on Israel. When confronted with radicals in her face, she said she's open to it." RBe@RBPundit, "CNN, which is not a real news organization, found a way to admit they're not doing interviews with Harris because she's terrible at it by blaming it on Trump." Quote Maxim Lott@maximlott, "CNN's lead story ... the Trump campaign has a devious new plan ... trying to goad Harris into a trap known as a "major media interview"  Da Caller, ‘Absolutely Not’: Retired Border Patrol Chief Says Kamala Harris Never Once Spoke With Him About Border Crisis. Beege Welborn at Hat Hair is thinks it's Too Awful to Check: DNC Holding Up Pro-Israel Rally Permit? Capt. Ed presents 'Pull Off a Leg or Two': The Undercover Planned Parenthood Videos Kamala Tried to Bury.

At Am Con, Why Wasn’t ‘Scranton Joe’ at the Harris-Walz Launch Rally? "The president said he would be on the trail for his replacement; Democrats seem to have other ideas." Politico acknowledges Pelosi on Biden: ‘Never been that impressed with his political operation’. "“They won the White House. Bravo. But my concern was: This ain’t happening,” the former speaker said in an interview." From the Martin Center, The Imminent Student-Loan Disaster We’re Not Talking About. "More than half of student-debtholders are not making payments. That is unsustainable." It's rational not to pay if you expect someone else to pick up the bill. From the Free Bacon, Biden-Harris Admin Said a $1B Program Would Bring Thousands of Solar Panels to Puerto Rico. Years Later, Only a Few Have Been Installed.
'We need to figure out how to move faster,' a solar industry expert said." But the money went to all the "right" (left) people. 

Jonathan Turley, The Justice Department Makes The Case Against Hunter Biden . . . and Itself in California. Capt. Ed, "I wrote about the new filing this morning. Turley's take goes in a different but very valuable direction, and raises the question as to why Hunter didn't get charged over FARA and corruption charges in the first place." Jazz Shaw at Hat Hair, No FARA Charges for Hunter. Kevin Downey smells Chum in the Water: Hunter Biden Associate to Testify That He Bribed the First Son

Cathy Salgado at PJM, Illegal Who Tried to Breach Base Was on Terror Watch List, released on bail.


Ace, Biden Says He Doesn't Think There'll Be a Peaceful Transfer of Power in January 2025; Archdemocrat Jamie Raskin Says He'll Call Out the Army to Crush MAGA Protesters After He Refuses to Certify Trump's Election. "Is it possible that these two sentiments are strongly correlated?" Dave Strom at Hat Hair VIP is scandalized that Biden/Harris Put Tulsi Gabbard on Terrorist Watch List. At Reason, The FBI Raided This Innocent Woman's House. Will She Ever Get Justice? "Thus far, the courts have barred Curtrina Martin from asking a jury for damages. She is appealing to the Supreme Court."

At Hat Hair, Beege Welborn is jubilant that Elon Scores Another Bloodless Victory for Freedom: GARM Being Disbanded. At Freep, Elon Goes to War on Big Advertising. "The X CEO sues advertisers for ‘conspiring’ to boycott his platform. He has a point. But does he have a case?" Capt. Ed comments "Well, good. Musk may not win this case, but he's going to expose a cabal of speech-police activists that may not appreciate all of the sunlight they're about to receive. And Musk may be the only person who can afford to fight this war and have the resources to do it."

Eyal Yakoby@EYakoby "The @columbia Students for Justice in Palestine has just posted that they are “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.” It has never been about Israel, it has always been about destroying the freedoms and liberties of the West. @columbia, you created this."

The British Crown Prosecution Services posted a message warning to “THINK BEFORE YOU POST,” telling Brits that they could be prosecuted for “posting material online which incites violence or hatred.” This comes in the aftermath of rioting after three girls were stabbed to death, and eight others injured, in Southport, about 20 miles north of Liverpool. Here’s the thing: This is all entirely the government’s fault.
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Sunday, August 4, 2024

Flotsam and Jetsam - Defining Kamala

The actual President (in name only), Joe Biden, has all but dropped out of the news, as Democrats and the media (but I redund) try to push the idea on us that Kamala Harris will be the next Preznit. However, Stacy McCain is still looking on with a jaundiced eye at ‘Sundown Joe’ and World War III "The problem with the media’s political make-believe games is that the president’s duties as Commander-in-Chief cannot be wished away, at a time when events in the Middle East are at a perilous turn . . . "@amuse@amuse, Joe Biden climbed back up the stairs of an airplane he wasn't supposed to be on, as Kamala Harris and the Secret Service watched in disbelief. He clearly has no idea where he is or what he's doing. h/t@ianmSC" I heard he went up the steps to thank the flight crew. It may even be true. Meanwhile the first son's trials and tribulation continue, Hunter Biden tax trial: Judge rules Hallie Biden will testify with immunity "Hunter Biden is charged with failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes." It's not fair, he had to give half to the "big guy," does he have to pay the taxes on that?

Meanwhile, it's pretty clear Kamala will be running for Preznit using a modification of the Biden Basement campaign, going everywhere, saying very little, or a least very little that makes sense except for promising everything possible to all the interest groups, and expecting the media to cover for her. At Da Caller, Dem Strategist Tells CNN Host Harris Will Be ‘Defining Herself’ With Ad Spending So She Doesn’t Need To Do Interviews and Segment Comes Unglued After Leo Terrell Rips Dem For Failing To Explain Harris’ Policy Flip-Flops. Capt. Ed at Hat Hair, WaPo: Obamaites Take Over Team Kamala. Take over? They've been behind the throne to whole time. At NewsMax, Larry Bell opines Democrats, Media Gloss Over Harris White House Record. ZitoSalena@ZitoSalena, "Becomes Democratic nominee for president taking zero questions from the press. Curious where the voices among the national print & cable & network news organizations & individual reporters voicing deep concerns. There is so much the public does not know." RedState's 'Bonchie' claims Kamala Harris' Public Inauthenticity Stems From Being Psychotic Behind Closed Doors. The Victory Girls point out Code Switching Is Media’s New Term for Kamala’s Phoniness. At Althouse, "Kamala is throwing a party. She doesn't believe in anything. Well, she's flip-flopped. It's not flip-flop." "Says Tim Dillon, a third of the way into his podcast that began with a description of his visit to The Sphere in Las Vegas." Ace's KT, calls her The Perfect Candidate, "zero depth, adjustable identity. You're black? She's is, too. You're Caribbean? She is, too. You're Asian? She is, too. You're Indian? She is, too. You're a mom? She is, too. You don't have kids? She doesn't either." F--- the White women': Black activists tied to VP Harris could derail Dem 'unity' message with past rhetoric, "Cora Masters Barry, Melanie Campbell have visited Biden-Harris White House over 50 times combined." Insty, WHY IS DNC-CNN SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM? CNN Host Explains Why These Black Men Are Likely ‘Low Info Voters’ for Their Opinion of Kamala Harris. Tom Elliott@tomselliott, "Black guys at Harrisburg barbershop tell local CBS reporter that ⁦@KamalaHarris⁩ isn’t really black: “To me, no.” Althouse, "But it’s... a different time. From school board meetings to board rooms, Americans... question whether affirmative action and diversity and inclusion programs are achieving what they’re supposed to." "Writes Jeremy W. Peters, in "Should Harris Talk Much About Her Racial Identity? Many Voters Say No. Even as Trump plays up racial divisions, many Americans said they would rather not dwell on race or identity. 'We can all see that you’re Black'" (NYT)." PJM's Matt Margolis makes the case Of Course Kamala Harris Was A DEI Hire. The Babylon Bee snarks ‘'DEI Hire' Is A Slur’ Explains Head Of DEI Hiring Department.

At OutKick, 72 Percent Of Voters Oppose Men In Women’s Sports, Don’t Realize Kamala Harris Supports It. WokeSpy reports Social Media Corrects Fact-Checking Website Over Kamala Harris’ Support For Illegal Alien Health Care Coverage. Free for all! Paul Bedard at WaEx, Voters fail Harris on border, 60% say it’s key to their vote. Sporting News Weekly finds Harris Wanted to Use Illegal Registry to Harass Gun Owners and Confiscate Firearms

At Hat Hair, Josh Shapiro Make-Over, Aisle Eight! Vince Dao@VinceDaoTV, "They just scrubbed Josh Shapiro volunteering for the IDF from his Wikipedia page. Damage control has been turned up to the max. Would be a shame if the Democrat base found out!" In progressive land, the future is always the same, it's the past that keeps changing. (H/T, George Orwell). Da Mail reports Kamala Harris's husband Doug Emhoff cheated on his first wife with daughter Ella's nanny Najen Naylor - and got her PREGNANT. Not really a big issue, but imagine if it were Melania. It would be headlines everywhere. At Insty, THAT WILL LEAVE A MARK: Michaelah Montgomery Sets It Off at the Atlanta Trump-Vance Rally. Reuters, U.S. labor market weakens, stocks plunge. "That heightened fears the economy was vulnerable to a recession." Fox, Harris blames Trump for latest dreadful jobs report nearly a full term after he left office "July marked the highest level for the jobless rate since October 2021." It's more likely than her taking any responsibility. Matt Whitlock@mattdizwhitlock "Loving these short, raw “courtesy of Kamala Harris” ads the Trump Super PAC is running in targeted swing areas. Grocery bills, gas prices, border chaos, crime - very strong reminders of the issues that gave Kamala Harris a 35% approval rating."

Will there be any more debates? With Biden out of the picture, Trump wants the next debate on Fox, and Kamala doesn't. Althouse, Trump rejects the old agreement to debate — with Kamala Harris swapped in for Joe Biden — and proposes a new one. But I think, in the end, the old one will prevail. "Here's what Trump wrote at Truth Social last night: "I have agreed with FoxNews to debate Kamala Harris on Wednesday, September 4th." He has agreed. She hasn't agreed, and I don't think she will. Why would she? She's boldly claimed Joe Biden's position as the Democratic Party's candidate, and she can claim status as the successor to the agreement. And she will want to, because the terms are favorable to her, and the terms of the proposed new agreement are worse. It's Fox News, instead of ABC." Also, "I spent Hundreds of Millions of Dollars, Time, and Effort fighting Joe, and when I won the Debate, they threw a new Candidate into the ring. Not fair, but it is what it is!" Writes Trump, at Truth Social. Fox, Trump agrees to debate Kamala Harris on Fox News "The Trump-Kamala debate would be held Sept. 4 in Pennsylvania." Jazz Shaw, Trump Agrees to Fox News Debate With Harris, but What About Kamala? WokeSpy, Kamala Harris Offers Ludicrous Reason Why She Won’t Debate Donald Trump on Fox News. Sarah Arnold at TownHall, Kamala Harris Declines Fox Debate With Trump, Here's What She Wants to Do Instead. She can't risk having mods that won't give her the questions in advance. If she can't have staff compose an answer for her to memorize she devolves into word salad. Nick Arama at RedState, Megyn Kelly and Others Serve Dems, Media Some Reality As They Try to Spin Kamala's Refusal to Debate.

The Peacock whines about How an Elon Musk PAC is using voter data to help Trump beat Harris in 2024 election. From Breitbart, ‘We Need to Keep Our Heads Down’: Carville Says Dems ‘Are Not Close’ to Beating Trump. Althouse, "Taiwan must be 'mentally prepared' for a Trump victory in November — and the scrutiny that will come with that..." ""... said Mei Fu-hsing, director of the Taiwan Security Analysis Center, a New York-based research center. 'If [Trump] is reelected, he will certainly demand Taiwan to significantly increase its own defense spending and be more proactive in preparing for war,' Mei said. Improved training is a key way for Taiwan to show it is taking military readiness seriously, analysts say." Sounds reasonable. At WaEx, Conservative group announces seven-figure ad campaign against battleground Democrats.

From Fox, Liberal media pundits slam JD Vance, but voters, donors give him a chance. "From being on the ground and looking at how the money is flowing, reports of JD Vance being a disastrous mistake seem way too early to be believed." Alex Thompson@AlexThomp "Josh Shapiro on Vance: “JD Vance is a total phony baloney. He is the most inorganic candidate I think I have ever seen on the national stage. He doesn’t know what he believes.”" Beege Welborn at Hat Hair, "Says the presumptive VP candidate currently having his biography scrubbed of any references to his Jewishness who would be the running mate of the biggest phony ever. Well. I'd say Harris-Shapiro are who they are, but they aren't, are they? How's that for a profound word salad. JD's gonna eat this clown's lunch." WokeSpy says J.D. Vance Provides Perfect Response To Race-Baiting CNN Question "“She is everything to everybody, and she pretends to be somebody different depending on what audiences she is in front of. I think it’s totally reasonable for the president to call that out, and that’s all he did,” Vance added."

MD Kittle at Da Fed reports Ohio Secretary Of State Finds 499 More Noncitizens Registered To Vote. Keep looking. At WokeSpy, a Shocking Video Claims 14% Of Swing State Voters Are Non-Citizens.

Matt Vespa at TownHall, We Know Why the Secret Service Never Knew Anything About Trump's Would-Be Assassin Until It Was Too Late. "It was so apparent to me that in this incident, in the final 30 seconds, which has been the focus of what happened before the assailant opened fire, there was clearly radio transmissions that may have happened on that local radio net that we did not have," acting Director Ronald Rowe said at a news conference." Paul Bedard reports Six in 10 Republicans see Biden administration’s hand in Trump shooting. It's hard not to be suspicious. OTP, Dems’ Death Cult: Sen. Tester Blasted For Praising Poster Depicting Trump Dead. Gabe Kaminsky at WaEx, Tester under fire for praising poster depicting Trump dead: ‘Sick and twisted’. Matt Vespa again, with a report that There Was a Very Strange Incident at Mar-a-Lago This Week "a Chinese national tried to infiltrate the residence of former President Donald Trump. Zijie Li, 38, of El Monte, California, tried repeatedly to gain access to the property. This was a concerted effort that quickly got the attention of the Secret Service and local law enforcement around the property following the July 13 assassination attempt on the former president in Butler, California. Li claimed to have documents tying his government to the assassination attempt (via Fox News):" Hmmm.

WaEx reports Supreme Court’s immunity ruling returns to DC Circuit Court of Appeals. "On Friday, the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling was sent back to the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, which, in turn, sent it immediately down to Judge Tanya Chutkan at the district court level to address." Will she try to turn it around quickly enough to give Jack Smith another crack at The Donald before the election? She can try, but it probably won't work.

At Da Caller, Trump Did Not Lunge For Limo Steering Wheel On Jan 6, Witnesses Tell Inspector General contrary to Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony to the J6 Committee (which, admittedly, was secondhand). At OTP, Secret Service Fail: Harris Came Within 20 Feet Of Pipe Bomb On J6. But remember, the bombs (one at the RNC too) were designed not to explode, even though they had real explosives. Somehow, even though they have a license plate, the FBI has been unable to identify to bomber.

From Campus Reform a report that Prosecutors drop charges against 300+ anti-Israel encampment protesters nationwide; expert warns campus agitators might 'escalate with impunity'. Trey Hammond at CJ says Prosecute Criminal Protesters "Criminal anti-Israel demonstrators often go unpunished, even as other groups face severe sanctions."

At Hat Hair, Didn't We Just Release Cyber Criminals? CISA and FBI Warn of DDoS Cyber Attacks "Today, as part of their public service announcement series for the 2024 election cycle, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) jointly released Just So You Know: DDoS Attacks Could Hinder Access to Election Information, Would Not Prevent Voting. This public service announcement is to raise awareness that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on election infrastructure, or adjacent infrastructure that supports election operations, could hinder public access to election information, but would not impact the security or integrity of election processes. The PSA is part of the agencies’ ongoing commitment to provide the public with information and the election infrastructure community with the support they need to run safe and secure elections."


From CJ, Leor Sapir examines The Deposition of Meredithe McNamara. "The Yale physician and expert witness in U.S. lawsuits over youth gender medicine misrepresents her clinical experience."

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Saturday, March 16, 2024

Maryland, My Maryland

Jazz Shaw at Hat Hair,  Maryland Bravely Leads the Fight to Keep Porn in Public School Libraries

As with many other parts of the country, several counties in Maryland have recently seen parents pushing back against inappropriate sexual content in school libraries and getting some books removed from the shelves. The books primarily deal with either transgender ideology or more adult sexual content of any nature. But the Democrats in the state legislature want to put an end to that. They are currently working to jam through a new bill that is cleverly called the "Freedom to Read Act." They claim to be working to ensure a consistent statewide standard for library content, but the underlying goal seems obvious. They are unhappy with the success the parents have achieved and they want those books placed back on the shelves. The main battlegrounds for this battle appear to be Carroll and Howard counties, both located in more rural areas to the North and West of Baltimore.  
A rise in challenges to books in Maryland’s schools and public libraries — including dozens recently in Carroll County schools — has put the state on a path to becoming one of the few with guardrails on book bans.

The Freedom to Read Act, which Democrats in the Maryland General Assembly are gunning to pass in the legislative session’s final weeks, would set a statewide standard for some content in libraries for the first time. Although books found to contain sexual content could still be pulled from shelves under the bill, the act has infuriated some opponents. They argue it would tie the hands of local government and school officials to eliminate materials they find unsuitable for children.

Proponents of the legislation say the standards it would set are critical at a time when parents and activists in places like Carroll and Howard counties have challenged books that primarily target stories of LGBTQ youth or that deal with race.
The Carroll County School Board is currently in the midst of reviewing 58 books that the superintendent ordered removed from the shelves because of explicit content. The protesting parents were organized by the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, and they've seen some success in pushing for these changes. Nine books have been removed thus far during the review, with some others either being limited to high school libraries or requiring parental consent forms to take them out from the library. That might change if this new legislation is passed, however.

Hannah Wilton 
So what sort of books are being removed in Carroll County? Some of them seem a bit dubious to be on the list, such as “Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut. That one will be retained in high school libraries, but not elementary or middle schools. That's a fairly dense and intense book for younger children to tackle, I'll admit, but I wouldn't lump it in with pornography. Others are more obvious. Those include "Doing It! Let's Talk About Sex" by Hannah Wilton. She's the same author who goes on social media to offer free tips for finding affordable sex toys and poses with some of her own. Another is “Red Hood,” by Elana Arnold. It's described in one review as "a very loose retelling of Little Red Riding Hood driven by female empowerment and sisterhood." It's also called out for being "very bloody" and overtly sexualized.

 

One of the first to fall was “Gender Queer" by Maia Kobabe. That book has been removed from more schools around the country than almost any other. It's true that the book is presented in cartoon format, but it includes graphically explicit drawings, including one showing a young boy performing oral sex on another young boy. How on Earth did anyone ever find that to be appropriate for school children, particularly in elementary school? I don't care whether it's a boy doing it to another boy or a girl with a boy. It should be up to parents to decide when their children learn about the birds and the bees.

At least make kids work to find their porn. 

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