Why be a downer over the holidays? Let’s hear some happy headlines about men acting like men and idiots acting like idiots!

L.A. firefighter accused of vulgar act in protest over vaccine mandate

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By Dakota Smith, 24 November 2021

The Los Angeles Fire Department is investigating an incident in which a firefighter “responded inappropriately” after being handed a letter to comply with the city’s vaccine mandate, a department spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The LAFD member responded to receiving the noncompliance letter by dropping his pants and wiping his buttocks with the letter, leaving fecal matter on the document, before dropping it to the ground, according to the Stentorians of Los Angeles City, a group representing African American firefighters.

Definition of ‘stentorian: “extremely loud”. A BLM affiliate should be the last organization to complain about the existence of a shit stain.

The situation underscores the deep resistance among some within the Fire Department over the city’s mandate that employees be vaccinated.

No shit, Sherlock! Well, maybe there was a little….

The city has sent vaccination compliance notices to workers as part of the city’s new vaccination mandate. Workers who have yet to get vaccinated or seek exemptions are supposed to sign notices that instruct them to provide proof of vaccination by Dec. 18.

Workers who refuse to sign those notices will be taken off duty and their pay halted as they await a notice of “proposed separation,. according to a memo that was sent to city departments by Garcetti.

The vaccination mandate has prompted angry outbursts for months from some in the Fire Department.

Now calm down, Mister Based Firefighter Hero, and tell us how you REALLY feel.

A newly formed group called Firefighters 4 Freedom is suing the city over the vaccine rules, while a firefighter’s YouTube video criticizing the mandate went viral in August.

At the same time, some employee groups want LAFD Chief Ralph Terrazas removed amid accusations the department isn’t addressing harassment and bullying, particularly of female firefighters.

A recent survey found that an overwhelming number of firefighters lack trust in their leaders, while many in the department are frustrated with perceived inconsistencies in how top brass discipline sworn members.

I don’t have any time for the mass protests that are catching all the current attention… but I have lots of time for people who publicly use notices of vaxx compliance for toilet paper!

Defiant Eateries A Test Of County Powers

Dead Tree Edition of Los Angeles Times, 26 November 2021

Again and again, public health inspectors returned to the Italian restaurant at the Westlake Village shopping center.

They found Novo Cafe serving diners indoors and out, despite a Los Angeles County order forbidding it during the worst wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to county records. Over and over, they handed out citations with a $500 fine.

Westlake Village is posh enough that the Cafe can probably afford that fine. Especially if they’re the only choice in town for normal dine-in.

Hold that thought… they ain’t been paying nothin’!!!

As of early November, Novo Cafe had been fined $86,000 for scores of citations–and none of those fines had been paid, county officials said. It had gotten more than 90 citations by the middle of November, according to the public health department…

In February, the county revoked the restaurant’s public health permit. Noro Cafe stayed open. This summer, co-owner Massimo Forti told an MBC4 news crew who filmed unmasked workers in the restaurant that he saw adhering to the mask requirements as a “sign of submission”.

YES! WAY TO GO, MASSIMO!!!

Shira Shafir, an associate professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, said that “given the politicization” around COVID-19 rules, some businesses “will just choose to get the fine and remain open.” She added that public health agencies with limited staff and resources may weigh whether “the juice is worth the squeeze”.

This is how you do it! No wars or protests, JUST DO IT!

Another repeat violator was Cronies Sports Grill in Agoura Hills, which received more than 80 citations for violating COVID-19 orders between December and July, according to county records. In December, it hosted a protest against a county ban on outdoor dining.

“It’s not a political thing; it’s a right or wrong thing. It’s a common-sense thing,” restaurant owner Dave Foldes was quoted in the Acorn newspaper. “Let us keep our business open. Let us keep our livelihood.“

Alas, Dave, it IS a political thing and the loss of your livelihood is a priority of the Plandemic. But you’re doing the right thing, defying it! More than most people are doing.

[A] county lawsuit against [restaurant] Bread & Barley alleged that a public health inspector was threatened and cursed at by a representative, who followed the inspector out and blocked the person’s vehicle with his truck. At one point, after police officers had been called in, restaurant owner Carlos Roman told them he was desperate.

“You guys all got a paycheck, right?” Roman says to the officers and inspector in a video of the incident posted online. “She doesn’t,” Roman says, referring to his restaurant manager. “The cook doesn’t.”

And that’s why business owners should not fear the reaper. You’re going to lose if you comply; you’re going to make some money then lose if you don’t comply. Hmm.

County officials said the health inspector faced threatening phone calls and protests at his office, leading the Department of Public Health to hire security personnel, after Roman posted to Instagram a department citation with the inspector’s information.

Better get used to being treated like Nazis, you Health Nazis. You don’t get to destroy innocent peoples’ livelihoods for fun & profit and then get to sleep safe at night. Don’t blame me; I’m just a messenger. You fuck with them, at some point, they’ll start fucking with you.

As an aside, I’m spending Thanksgiving in Los Angeles myself. The City went full-on vaxx lockout but as it turns out, going to a restaurant in L.A. County-but-not-City is easily doable. All those in-city restaurants are losing massive profits by checking peoples’ papers.

Join the dissidents! You have nothing to lose but your chain stores!

Roman, in turn, said in an interview that he had received an outpouring of support after confronting the inspector.

Now for a Florida Man story!

.Girl tried to kill me.: Biker tells police after shooting librarian accused of pointing gun at him

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Hmm, yes, what HAVE those librarians been doing for the Plandemic? Getting pregnant and picking fights with biker gangs, apparently….

ORANGE CITY, Fla. . Police [in Orange City] say 36-year-old Sara Nicole Morales had the intent to hit a motorcyclist on Volusia Avenue after some kind of incident and then took off. The motorcyclist was not seriously hurt. He then followed her, along with several witnesses to the hit-and-run, and one of those witnesses called 911.

Sounds like he was riding with friends. Most passers-by wouldn’t head into trouble like that, although they were in the right since she…

.The lady just took off and left. What kind of vehicle was it? It’s a blue Kia,. the caller said.

…just committed hit & run.

Police say the motorcyclist and others were trying to get Morales to stop but that she refused. She turned onto east Wisconsin and drove a mile or more to her home with the hit-and-run victim and several others in pursuit.

Police say Morales ran inside and came back out with a gun. On the call, you can hear Morales briefly yelling at the motorcyclist and then gunshots.

According to police, multiple shots were allegedly fired at Morales by the hit and run motorcycle victim, after he claimed she pointed a gun at him. Several of the witnesses backed that up.

.Why did he shoot her?. the operator asked.

.Because she pulled a gun out on him,. the caller replied.

The motorcyclist, having a valid Florida concealed weapons permit, drew his concealed handgun and fired multiple rounds, striking Morales, a report says. Morales was transported to Halifax Hospital where she succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead.

Morales’ handgun was recovered on scene.

According to a police report, the man told authorities when they arrived: “That girl tried to kill me, she pointed a gun at me.”

Police say he remained on scene and has been cooperating with law enforcement. So far, he is not being charged. Detectives say they are still investigating, but they are treating this as a case of self defense. Neither Morales, nor the motorcyclist have any previous local criminal history.

Morales left behind an 11yo and a finance per other accounts. A single mother.

Sara Morales worked for Volusia County as a library assistant. The county closed the Deland and Pierson libraries to give staff at both, who she worked with, time to grieve.

Or celebrate, more likely. Evidence thus far says her personality was, perhaps, not as sunny as Florida’s climate.

Glendale officer uses Taser on man holding knife; man falls, stabbing himself in the neck

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By Amaris Encinas, 24 November 2021

I thought this sort of thing only happened in bad Chuck Norris movies.

A Glendale police officer and a man are injured after the man pulled out a large knife, held it to himself and the officer used a Taser on him, causing him to fall on the knife on Tuesday.

Officers responded to reports of a “suspicious” fire just after 6 p.m. When officers arrived at the scene, they spoke with a man who was engaging in “odd” behavior, according to police spokesperson Sgt. Randy Stewart on Wednesday.

The body camera footage released Wednesday shows the unidentified officer speaking to the man.

After officers began to speak to the man, they found out that he was associated with the burning home.

The officer can be heard telling the man he cannot go back into his home: “You can’t go there, it’s not safe.”

Sounds like a drug house, if there’s a guy wandering around it acting strangely then wanting to go inside while it’s burning down.

The officer then directed the man to grab a water bottle and move down the street away from the firefighters. The man instead decided to dump all of the water on the ground.

“Now maybe we can get out of their way so they can do their job,” the officer said.

The man put the empty water bottle into a mailbox as the officer continued to direct him.

“Three more hours of this until shift change,” thought the poor cop.

After returning to the officer’s side, the man pulled out a knife. As soon as the officer saw the knife, he tried to grab it from him.

“Not another police defunder off his psych meds,” thought the poor cop.

The officer can be heard saying, “Let me have the knife. Put the knife down.”

The man did not comply and walked away from the officer. The officer reported that the man had a knife and then told the man to “put the knife down now.” The man instead held the knife close to his chest and neck.

The officer then pointed his Taser at the man and told the man to put the knife down before using the Taser.

The man began falling to the ground, so the officer lunged to grab him, appearing to cut his own hand in the process. The man hit the ground. The officer attempted to roll the man over to grab the knife.

“The knife is in his neck,” the officer said.

Oops. Problem solved!

A firefighter approached to assist the officer and saw that the knife was in the man’s neck. The firefighter managed to roll the man over onto his back by dragging him.

The video cuts with the man in a fetal position, the knife still stuck in his neck.

The man was eventually treated for his injuries and transported to a local hospital despite not initially allowing paramedics to treat his injuries.

Oh, right, they had an ambulance on standby ten feet away because there was a house fire in progress. Thus did Dindu Muffin survive his own best efforts to win a Darwin Award.

Cheers and enjoy this holiday weekend! The world won’t end until Monday because that’s when the news media will have time to cover it… after all the traditional, heartwarming stories are told once again, of Florida Man bagging a big one and wrathful micro-tyrants getting disrespected.

May you find yourselves among friends and family this Thanksgiving weekend!

This is the other reason why California sometimes has electrical fires in rural locations.

Sometimes when I travel, I take an off-ramp in the middle of nowhere. These are typical results.

Addendum: It occurred to me, thinking about the holidays last night, that there are many voices claiming that our society has lost its way because life has become too comfortable. If this was true then Thanksgiving should properly be called Resentment, a time to curse family, food and wealth from holding us back from our true potential. Put that way, the fault is obvious: the reward for merit is surely not anti-merit. It is Islam that argues the reward for doing good should be evil, a teaching that dates back to Mohammed declaring himself free of all the morality he taught because he’d been such a good boy.

We SHOULD have happy families. We SHOULD have wealth and abundant food. These are not crimes against achievement! Poverty is not a virtue and wealth is not a crime. It is worse to beat people into the mud, arguing that they’ll be virtuous if they’re too busy growing food to do evil, than to permit freedom and see what they do with it.

Thanksgiving is a prequel of the end of our life’s journey, when we take seat with our Savior and enjoy what the hardships of life have brought us. We are not celebrating the hardships! We are celebrating that the hardships are over. Today temporarily, in heaven forever.

Which brings up the one point on which the wags are right: if there is a fault to comfortable living, it is forgetfulness of death. Winter comes for all and woe betide the man unprepared! Which is why this Thanksgiving is a hard one for many of us. We see death coming swiftly while our rulers think themselves gods and behave like devils. How death can take anybody by surprise is a mystery… I would ask Potato Joe if he wasn’t quietly shitting himself in between repeating what the microchip in his ear says. But death comes for all, thus we need a Savior, thus we celebrate Thanksgiving as a form of the True Thanksgiving when we are finally Saved.

It’s hard to see Farcebook rebranding itself as MetaZuck as anything other than a way to capitalize on imminent Forever Lockdowns being pioneered in (where else) Austria, Germany, Sudentenland and… didn’t we already fight that war twice? I love my ancestors but please, stop with the death camps already.

This coming article suggests that “Meta” was launched somewhat prematurely, since they’re only beginning to test whether virtual dating in their aptly named “Singletown” is going to catch on.

Prediction: it’ll be like OnlyFans.

*checks*

Nope. Tinder.

Tinder and Bumble Enter the Metaverse . How Crypto and NFTs Could Become Essential to Virtual Dating Apps

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By Ya.l Bizouati-Kennedy, 19 November 2021

With a name like that, you just know that a Kennedy stuck his dick in crazy.

Dating apps Tinder and Bumble are entering into a relationship with the metaverse ecosystem, changing the way people will interact in drastic ways and re-inventing their platforms. From the use of avatars and digital coins to first dates in virtual piano bars, the apps are reshaping the dating landscape.

I can’t wait until Carbon-Neutral dogma gets unleased on the ‘ecosystem’ of Zuckerberg’s server farms.

For the two public companies, these plans will also provide a new revenue stream, and experts are saying that competitors should consider entering the metaverse fray, too, at the risk of being dumped.

Hold that thought…

Tinder said it rolled out Explore, “an interface which allows users to connect with others through new experiences beyond the Swipe that used to be Tinder,. Shar Dubey, CEO of Tinder’s parent company Match Group, said on an investor call earlier this month.

Match Group is a conglomerate of match.com, OKStupid, Tinder, Pregnant Or Fat and ten other dating sites catering to ethnics, freaks and/or France. They really don’t have any competition to speak of and any such competition is not likely to enjoy a warm welcome in the marriage bed between Dating Megacorp and Social Media Megacorp.

The company is also rolling out its own coins . Tinder Coins . which are currently being tested in several markets including a few markets in Europe.

Well, sure. Any company led by a Steinberg is going to be a grift first and a gutted acquisition second.

.Coins can also be used to incentivize certain behaviors to help members make more meaningful connections on Tinder, such as verifying their profile or adding video to their bio. And, perhaps most importantly, Coins will be essential for the virtual goods and trading ecosystem planned for 2022 and beyond,. according to a letter to shareholders.

I see you, Social Credit.

Finally, the company is also beta testing a new concept on some college campuses in Seoul, called Singletown . a platform where your digital self in the form of real-time audio-powered avatar can serendipitously meet others in virtual spaces, like a bar. Or, you can sit down with someone in a park bench to have one-on-one or group conversation, Dubey said on the call.

Singletown. So appropriate. Can anything be faker and gayer then your fantasy self meeting her fantasy self in a fantasy world for love at first… fantasy? There is no content in that. Boy never meets girl and forget about boink, he’s not even getting facetime.

I notice they’re testing the concept in one of the most, um, not-fleshy, repressed dating markets in existence: South Korean college campuses. I’m just saying, the MetaZuck better have a Starcraft 2-themed dating lounge for those hopeless romantics.

.There is, for instance, a piano bar where people’s digital selves are gathering around, but they are actually playing their pianos at home and jamming with others,. Dubey said. .You can overhear our conversations, join conversations. You can tap into the digital avatars to see more of that profile and you have basically a richer set of signals to help connect with someone. It is metaverse experiences coming to life in a way that is transformative to how people meet and get to know each other on a dating or social discovery platform and is much more akin to how people interact in the real world..

Or, you can spend $100 on craigslist to buy a keyboard, watch a few youTube videos and actually play your piano at your home and jamming with your actual guests.

As for Bumble, the move came shortly after Tinder.s, although the plans are more vague. Whitney Wolfe Herd, Bumble founder and CEO, said in an investor call on Nov. 10 that Web 3.0 is all about community and treats everyone in the community as participants who together make the community what it is.

Excepting from that community, in increasing order of sex appeal, vaxx denialists, Trump supporters and misogynists.

.Longer term, it becomes a way for our members to own their experience on Bumble. This could happen through the communities they build, the virtual goods and experiences they acquire or through new ways of owning their identity as they navigate the metaverse. The company will start exploring applications with its friendship app, Bumble BFF.

Dude, like I can’t even, whatever, man, this level of stupid makes me talk Valley Girl. Gak me with a grody spoon if it catches on!

President Tariq Shaukat said on the call that the company is “taking a Web 3.0 lens..

.We.ve got a couple of tests that we’re very excited about that we will be rolling out in the upcoming months around this, but we think that’s the first toehold there,. Shaukat said. .This is something that is going to evolve. We want to make sure we’re setting the technical and engineering foundation for whatever emerges in the metaverse and in the Web 3.0 world..

It’s always a bad sign when they offer you the solution first and the problem second. “Look, we have a shiny new artificial reality to replace our stolen cis-reality with! I wonder what we can do with it?” This is a longstanding trait of Marxism.

“Viva la Revolucion!”

“Actually, we like our lives the way they are.”

“Oh, well, let me fix that.” *Commies empty the prisons, murder the farmers and inflame racial strife*

“Save us! Viva la Revolucion!”

Alex DiNunzio, CEO and co-founder of Jambb, an NFT [Non-Fungible Token, a form of digital currency] marketplace for comedy and comedians, told GOBankingRates that there is no doubt that the metaverse offers ever-expanding possibilities. Dating apps, which are largely used by younger demographics, have a built-in, tech-savvy audience that is open to exploring new forms of interaction, he said.

.The capabilities of AR/VR in terms of connecting people in real-time, virtually face-to-face, suit the dating app space well, particularly following a global pandemic,. DiNunzio explained. He added that one interesting aspect will be to see how NFTs play out here.

.With the increasing ease of minting NFTs, they could be utilized to show expressions of interest and affection. Consider, for example, an NFT love letter or a “like” token that users on platforms like Tinder could earn from doing everything from verifying their profiles and adding videos to being responsive and not ghosting dates,. he said. .The metaverse is complementary to NFTs, and I believe both these movements will grow and evolve together. Blockchain-based social dating offers key elements missing from current dating applications, like trust, transparency, data security and fraud protection against nefarious actors, or .catfishes.’.

“I love you” signed, Josef Stalin.

DiNunzio added that, ultimately, dating apps will need to adapt or they will quickly become irrelevant.

Adapt to what? The problem that comedians are having with meatspace is not how they’re paid, it’s getting death threats from Social Justice morons who left college with no degree in Sense Of Humor. It’s obvious that MetaZuck is supposed to be our New Normal after we’re incarcerated in as literal a Matrix as Globohomo can manage, but they’re implementing it in a way that guarantees it’ll be the NextDoor app in Hell-3D.

From h ttps://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/welcome-to-singletown/

.The future may very well redefine the definition of a connection beyond in-person meetings, turning more focus on virtual experiences, like two avatars coming together before ever meeting in person. Decentralized dating apps are only one piece of the metaverse puzzle, which is continuing to grow and elevate how people interact in digital spaces and places,. he said.

Communists try this EVERY TIME! They always assume that human nature is “infinitely malleable”, to quote the Communist Manifesto, and then they twist human nature into some unnatural shape, and then society falls apart into gulags and mass alcoholism. EVERY SINGLE TIME. But the Communist keeps trying this because they hate God and by extension, they hate human nature which is hardwired to teach the truth about Christ & Humanity to even the dullest of wits.

Already, I see sharp rises in drug overdoses in our Brave New Normal of Chinky Pox. Not a coincidence.

What do these people think is the purpose of dating? It’s pressing flesh! Anything from cuddling over a movie all the way to married with kids, the goal of dating is unavoidably located in the Real World. But they’re trying to replace it with a dopamine hit of “my Pokemon avatar got lucky with a Japanese schoolgirl avatar in the Retro Lounge. And a Tinder Coin popped out!”

No thanks. I’ll stay in meatspace and watch this train wreck from a safe distance.

God Develops Ultra-Realistic Metaverse Where People Can Talk, Learn, And Work With Other People, Calling It ‘Universe’

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EARTH.In a bold announcement to all of His children, God unveiled the creation of an ultra-realistic metaverse where people can talk, learn, and work with other people, stating this unique new metaverse will be called “Universe.”

.This is more realistic than any virtual reality I’ve experienced before,. said reality enthusiast Miles Kann while walking through one of the Universe’s city parks in real-time. .I can literally smell the fresh air, touch the cool grass, and interact with other players in incredible ways.”

Another early adopter of God’s Universe demonstrated how detailed and immersive the player-to-player interaction was as she showed off her humble home, complete with husband, children, and dog. She thanked God for providing her with a sense of purpose and fulfillment unmatched by any competing product….

According to witnesses, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg screamed in terror at the frightening, immutable reality of God’s Universe.

Nothing makes a man nervous like Kill Gates talking about ANOTHER global pandemic threat that doesn’t exist yet, one that he’s already helpfully funded the ‘solution’ to. I sat down for some serious research.

Let’s start with a timeline. I encourage you to read the full article.

Smallpox: Threat or False Flag? A Telling Timeline

Timeline of Key Events Pertaining to Smallpox

NOVEMBER 2014
BILL GATES, CHIMERIX, WELLCOME TRUST, OXFORD UNIVERSITY, AND FDA . FUTURE SMALLPOX TREATMENT

In 2014, Bill Gates funded Durham-based Chimerix’s drug brincidofovir to allegedly treat Ebola. The trial was funded by the Wellcome Trust and led by Oxford University, and the FDA authorized the study. Brincidofovir was later branded as Tembexa, as the first antiviral drug used to treat smallpox, approved by the FDA in June 2021 (see below).

MARCH 11, 2021
MERCK SECURED OVER $300 MILLION FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION AND GATES FOUNDATION

JUNE 4, 2021
THE FDA APPROVED FIRST EVER ANTIVIRAL TREATMENT FOR SMALLPOX . CHIMERIX.S TEMBEXA (BRINCIDOFOVIR)

I will cover that headline in a moment.

OCTOBER 31, 2021
JOE BIDEN SIGNED EXECUTIVE ORDER 14051: DESIGNATION TO EXERCISE AUTHORITY OVER THE NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE

Biden wrote himself out of the loop on what gets released from the National Stockpile. I doubt that includes live smallpox samples but it certainly does include the stockpiled smallpox vaccines. This would be useful if somebody wanted to engineer a smallpox variant immune to the existing treatment so that a new treatment would need to be purchased.

Such as the Tembexa approved four months previous.

NOVEMBER 9, 2021
BILL GATES WARNED GOVERNMENTS OF A SMALLPOX TERROR ATTACK WHILE REQUESTING TENS OF BILLIONS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

NOVEMBER 16, 2021
15 ALLEGED VIALS OF SMALLPOX FOUND AT MERCK FACILITY IN PA

Smallpox is not supposed to exist ANYWHERE in the private sector. Like an armed nuclear warhead, mere possession of smallpox is a war crime. But we haven’t seen yet if it’s confirmed; not that a confirmation or denial means much at this point.

FDA approves drug to treat smallpox

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4 June 2021

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Tembexa (brincidofovir) to treat smallpox. Although the World Health Organization declared smallpox, a contagious and sometimes fatal infectious disease, eradicated in 1980, there have been longstanding concerns that the virus that causes smallpox, the variola virus, could be used as a bioweapon.

Because smallpox is eradicated, the effectiveness of Tembexa was studied in animals infected with viruses that are closely related to the variola virus. Effectiveness was determined by measuring animals. survival at the end of the studies. More animals treated with Tembexa survived compared to the animals treated with placebo. FDA approved Tembexa under the agency’s Animal Rule, which allows findings from adequate and well-controlled animal efficacy studies to serve as the basis of an approval when it is not feasible or ethical to conduct efficacy trials in humans.

That sounds familiar.

The most common side effects when using Tembexa are diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.

This is assumed, right? Because they JUST said they didn’t use humans for testing.

Tembexa received priority review, fast track and orphan drug designations.

Orphan drug?

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Supporting the development and evaluation of new treatments for rare diseases is a key priority for the FDA. The FDA has authority to grant orphan-drug designation to a drug or biological product to prevent, diagnose or treat a rare disease or condition. Orphan drug designation qualifies sponsors for incentives including:

-Tax credits for qualified clinical trials
-Exemption from user fees
-Potential seven years of market exclusivity after approval

So, they just gave the creator of Tembexa a financial motive to release smallpox.

What is this Tembexa goop, anyway?

Horowitz: Are elites planning a COVID repeat … with smallpox?

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Like the timeline, this linked article is also worthy of your full perusal.

…When Bill Gates is warning about smallpox right before vials of smallpox are discovered, and in the same week a Maryland woman tests positive for monkeypox, we should pay attention.

But that is not even the punch line. Just like with coronavirus, they were already working on a “cure.” On June 4, the CDC randomly approved a smallpox drug, Tembexa (brincidofovir), because “there have been longstanding concerns that the virus that causes smallpox, the variola virus, could be used as a bioweapon.”

It is well known that no pharma company will spend hundreds of millions developing a drug for an eradicated disease, on which there is no way to earn billions in profit. Now, even if this drug was around before and they are repurposing it for smallpox, it still costs millions to go through the process. Why?

And speaking of this history of this drug, it sounds eerily similar to the drugs they have approved for COVID, including remdesivir. It turns out that like Gilead’s remdesivir and Merck’s molnupiravir, brincidofovir was a failed repurposed drug with safety concerns. Its maker, Chimerix, conducted three failed Phase 3 trials for the indication of adenovirus, and it flopped! It also comes with an FDA “black box” warning for use for smallpox, for increased mortality after taking more than just two doses, based on those same failed studies!

None of that was mentioned in the notice of authorization.

So just like remdesivir, the drug they plan to use is an expensive, on-patent drug, although repurposed. But unlike ivermectin, which was extraordinarily safe and effective for its original use . yet is vociferously opposed by the cabal . these drugs failed miserably in their original indications. Just like the other two failed COVID drugs approved by the FDA . baricitinib and tofacitinib . this smallpox drug comes with an FDA black box warning!

Typically, the cure is created after the illness, but in this case perhaps the illness is coming to “cure” what they perceive to be an ailment among we the people. And perhaps the proposed “cures” will look a lot like ailments, just as we have seen with the shots, remdesivir, baricitinib, and tofacitinib…

Fast-forward to Monday night outside Philadelphia, and Yahoo News reported that the CDC is quarantining and the FBI is investigating 15 “questionable vials” that were found in a Merck lab freezer in North Wales, Pa., with 10 labeled as “Vaccinia” and the remaining five labeled as deadly “Smallpox.”

As Yahoo reported: “The frozen vials labeled ‘Smallpox’ were incidentally discovered by a laboratory worker while cleaning out a freezer in a facility that conducts vaccine research in Pennsylvania,” the CDC said in a statement to Yahoo News. “CDC, its Administration partners, and law enforcement are investigating the matter and the vials’ contents appear intact. The laboratory worker who discovered the vials was wearing gloves and a face mask. We will provide further details as they are available.”

“Vaccinia” is related to the pathogen that causes smallpox and was used as the foundation to create the vaccine for smallpox. In fact, the etymology of the word vaccine dates back to the late 18th century when cowpox was used as a precursor to smallpox vaccines. “Cow” in Latin is “vacca.”

It is well known that it’s illegal for Merck to hold such a vial in a freezer. What is Merck’s explanation for having this in its freezer in a random storage locker?

I wonder if it really was Merck. Nobody steals the equivalent of a live nuke then leaves it for a tech to find and report… with a helpful sign “this is a live nuke!” on the case. But I keep getting burned on “they couldn’t have been that stupid” so no bet.

Wanting something to contribute to the above guys’ excellent work, I took a look at the owner of Tembexa… Chimerix Inc.

I’m not an economist but those financials look bad. Company leadership is unremarkable, except most of the officers are also officers of other biotech companies. Seems like a conflict of interest to me. The hedge funds are so thick that I can’t tell who owns Chimerix. Vanguard owns about 4% from what I can tell.

Gates Foundation to fund Chimerix drug trial on Ebola patients in Africa

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19 November 2014

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced Wednesday that it has committed $5.7 million to evaluate Chimerix’s drug brincidofovir and other potential treatments for the Ebola virus in Guinea and other African countries affected by the recent outbreak. The money will help scale up the production and drug trials of the drugs in coordination with national health authorities and the World Health Organization. Durham-based Chimerix announced last week that it will test its experimental antiviral on Ebola-stricken patients in West Africa in a clinical trial to be run by Oxford University. The drug, brincidofovir [now Tembexa], is one of two to be tested in the clinical trial. The trial will be funded by the Wellcome Trust and led by Oxford University on behalf of the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium, or ISARIC, with operating support from Doctors Without Borders.

Hmm, Tembexa is a solution in search of a problem. How interesting that it just happened to be an effective cure for smallpox. As proven by testing on not-smallpox in not-humans.

Or, maybe that goop does something nasty to the human body and the Gates Foundation doesn’t care what excuse it takes to inject it into people. How DID that trial turn out? *checks* Discontinued; test subjects died too quickly to participate. Which begs the question of “why even bother?”

But it WAS tested on Ebola patients in the United States in 2014.

Thomas Eric Duncan, Ebola victim in Texas, has died

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8 October 2014

Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person diagnosed with the Ebola virus on U.S. soil, has died, hospital officials confirm.

Duncan, 42, was pronounced dead at 7:51 a.m. at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, where he was admitted Sept. 28 and kept in isolation, according to spokesman Wendell Watson. Wendell said the death left officials with “profound sadness and heartfelt disappointment.”

Duncan became ill after arriving in the Texas city from Liberia on Sept. 20 to visit family, heightening concerns that the world’s worst Ebola outbreak on record could spread in the United States.

The best way to avoid the next plague is 1. tight border control and 2. no direct contact with China, India or Africa. Of course, it’ll never happen. Politics aside, we have a population to ‘reduce’!

CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook said he believes Duncan won’t be the last person to be diagnosed with Ebola on U.S. soil.

“We’re going to see individual cases [of Ebola] in the U.S. However, that is not the same as an individual outbreak,” LaPook said Wednesday. “We need to beef up our ability to follow protocol as cases come into emergency rooms.”

Duncan carried the deadly virus with him from his home in Liberia, though he showed no signs when he left for the United States. He is believed to have contracted the disease while helping a pregnant woman sick with it. The woman later died.

On Monday, doctors had announced that they had begun treating Duncan with brincidofovir, an investigational medication in late-stage testing for other types of viruses. Ashoka Mukpo, a freelance video journalist who contracted Ebola while on assignment in West Africa, is also receiving the drug while being treated by doctors at a hospital in Omaha.

Brincidofovir is an oral antiviral drug being tested to fight more common viruses, including one that infects patients undergoing bone marrow transplants. Laboratory tests suggested it might also fight Ebola.

Brincidofovir is made by North Carolina-based Chimerix Inc., which said physicians sought federal permission to use the drug. The company did not identify the physicians making the request.

Mukpo survived; anybody’s guess if it was due to the drug. My guess is no.

It’s a huge red flag when a cure for a non-threat appears just before somebody who wants the planet’s population decimated announces the threat is about to become real. Events are still in motion so this isn’t as clean a post as I’d like, but this background is valuable enough that I’m releasing it now.

This post was almost worth doing just for the headline. You probably haven’t wondered what Mike Tyson is doing after he retired from professionally taking blows to the head and you probably won’t be surprised to find out. Two words: “Don King”.

He also tried acting but was no Mr. Miyagi. “Kickboxer 2” if you’re as attracted to bad movies as I am, but heads up, he doesn’t get much screen time.

Mike Tyson “died” while tripping on psychedelic toad venom

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By Jacquelynn Powers Maurice, 16 November 2021

Mike Tyson dropped dead from drugs . sorta.

.I “died” during my first trip,. the 55-year-old former world champion boxer told The Post at Wonderland, a Miami conference dedicated to psychedelics, microdosing and medicine. .In my trips I’ve seen that death is beautiful. Life and death both have to be beautiful, but death has a bad rep. The toad has taught me that I’m not going to be here forever. There’s an expiration date..

You’re not alone, Mike. Lots of married guys go through that stage. Nota bene, Tyson was one of the first celebrities to get a false rape accusation. When he was heavyweight champion of the world, women avoided him so much that he eventually forced himself on Miss Black America in his hotel room… yeah, sure.

The “toad” is Bufo alvarius, a Mexico amphibian otherwise known as the Sonoran Desert Toad. It spends seven months of the year living underground, but when it’s active, its venom can be smoked to produce a short psychoactive trip. The venom has long been used in traditional healing rituals but, with the popularity of LSD and ayahuasca among the rich and famous, .the toad. is getting a lot of more attention.

The current push for drug legalization is being driven by our astonishingly degenerate ruling class. One excitable eschatologist that I read made the interesting point that hallucinogens are almost unknown in the Old World. If hallucinogens enable dangerous contact with the spiritual realm then such a geographic restriction raises interesting questions.

Tyson discovered it four years ago. At the time, he was 100 pounds overweight, drinking and drugging. He was sluggish and unhappy. One of his friends suggested he try toad venom, and the athlete loved it.

.I did it as a dare,. Tyson recalled. .I was doing heavy drugs like cocaine, so why not?”

A gentle reminder that heavyweight boxers tend to lose their college educations.

“It.s another dimension. Before I did the toad, I was a wreck. The toughest opponent I ever faced was myself. I had low self-esteem. People with big egos often have low self-esteem. We use our ego to subsidize that. The toad strips the ego..

He came this close to what addicts call a moment of clarity… and then… the Tide Pod Challenge, level two.

He.s now tripped toad 53 times . sometimes three times in the same day. He said he lost 100 pounds in three months, started boxing again, and reconnected with his wife and children.

He.s also become an advocate for psychedelics, evangelizing all over the country.

.It has made me more creative and helps me focus,. he said. .I.m more present as a businessman and entrepreneur..

LSD debunked that lie, that psychedelics enhance your creativity. Hearing color and seeing music, it turns out, are no substitute for literacy and hard work.

Tyson is so into the trippy toad that he has a whole nursery of the amphibians at his ranch in Desert Hot Springs in Southern California. Venom on demand, if you will.

PETA calling in the DEA, if you will. Toad Lives Matter!

.People see the difference [in me],. he said. .It speaks for itself. If you knew me in 1989 you knew a different person. My mind isn’t sophisticated enough to fathom what happened, but life has improved. The toad’s whole purpose is to reach your highest potential. I look at the world differently. We’re all the same. Everything is love..

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During this period, Tyson’s problems outside the ring were also starting to emerge. His marriage to Robin Givens was heading for divorce, and his future contract was being fought over by Don King and Bill Cayton. In late 1988, Tyson parted with manager Bill Cayton and fired longtime trainer Kevin Rooney, the man many credit for honing Tyson’s craft after the death of D’Amato. Following Rooney’s departure, critics alleged that Tyson began to show less head movement and combination punching. In 1989, Tyson had only two fights amid personal turmoil. He faced the British boxer Frank Bruno in February. Bruno managed to stun Tyson at the end of the first round, although Tyson went on to knock Bruno out in the fifth round. Tyson then knocked out Carl “The Truth” Williams in the first round in July.

By 1990, Tyson seemed to have lost direction, and his personal life was in disarray amidst reports of less vigorous training prior to the Buster Douglas match.

That was at the peak of Tyson’s career. He hit the big-time, Don King got his hooks in… he’s a notorious figure in boxing history… and the rape conviction in 1992 didn’t help. Interesting that Tyson doesn’t know what happened to himself then. Fame happened. Greed happened. He left the crew that kept him grounded and partnered with the kind of people who turned Elvis fat and sickly.

Now he’s back on his feet as a spokesman for mind-altering drugs. That says everything about his current crop of friends.

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Tyson is working on two brands of cannabis . including one called “Undefeated” . with a new team, including entrepreneur Adam Wilks and marijuana heavyweight Columbia Care Inc. His “Toad” line will not include actual psychedelic venom, but the strain is inspired by his wild experiences with the toad.

“Now with Tide Pod action!”

But with cities like Denver, Detroit and Oakland starting to decriminalize mushrooms, Tyson hopes he will be able to sell the real toad venom soon.

Social justice is so awesome, you start taking psychedelics to escape the reality that you work to create.

To that end, he’s invested in Wesana Health, a biotech company that is using psilocybin as a treatment for traumatic brain injuries.

“I’m not just an investor and spokesman. I’m also a client! This dope is DOPE, man!”

All five directors of Wesana Health are Jews: Chad Bronstein, Mitch Kahn, Robert Koffman, George Steinbrenner IV, and Ian Burnstein. If they’re 2% of the general population then that’s a random chance of about 0.0000003%. The company has engaged in at least one act of hostile takeover & gutting of a competitor. Yet another proud moment of vulture capitalism, which I’m sure is what Tyson had in mind when he fronted them his money.

They aren’t your friends, Mr. Tyson, and they didn’t turn you on to psychedelics because they care about your health.

.I.m fighting for psychedelics to become medicine you can buy over the counter,. he said. .I.m not finished. I want to do more. I want to be the best I can be in this field..

I had not intended to do a series on atheism, yet here we are. This time, an example of “everything is political” AKA “I saw you having unauthorized fun there!”

There is no good way to introduce ‘Harry Potter’ to the next generation

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By Pam Segall for Business Insider, aka the voice of Bobby Hill on King Of the Hill show, 14 November 2021

The original headline suggested by the URL… “SHOULD Harry Potter still be popular for the next generation?”… is intriguing. When I post an article and then change the title, it doesn’t change the URL. I assume that’s how it works for insider.com, too. The truth must have hit too close to the Commissariat.

While the Harry Potter series is reasonably panned by literary critics, Rowling accomplished what nobody else had in a century of Prog-ress: she made kids want to read again. God only knows when the general public will return to loving books enough to trample old ladies at a midnight release party. Good times.

Anyway.

“Harry Potter” needs no introduction. It was a once-in-a-generation phenomenon.

As the millennial Potterheads grew up, the books provided an idealist escape to the less complicated world of childhood. The Wizarding World became a safe place where magic was real and bravery, brains, and friendship always won.

…against child-abusing tyrannical government freakjobs that made psychopathic undead murderers look like good neighbors. Oh, what WAS Rowling’s secret for popularity with kids forced to attend public schools?

For early and late adopters alike, it seemed like a given that such a treasured series would be passed lovingly along to the next generation. But as often happens as we age, the real world began to seep in.

In 2020…

Nineteen years after the first movie was released…

…in a now-infamous series of tweets and a subsequent essay, the controversial “Harry Potter” author issued a spate of contentious statements about biological sex and gender. Rowling’s opinions led many to label her a trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

A TERF is generally characterized as a person who says they’re a feminist while espousing trans-exclusionary views. Common examples include saying that trans women aren’t women, barring trans women from women’s spaces, and conflating sex with gender.

These comments weren’t her first foray into transphobia. In addition to liking a couple of offensive tweets in 2018, she also tweeted in 2019 in support of a British woman who was fired over making transphobic comments.

Future generations of kids will not be able to enjoy the Harry Potter series because JK Rowling once tweeted support for a transphobe? Welcome to Cancel Culture.

Your work quality doesn’t matter.

Your integrity doesn’t matter.

Your rights to life and liberty don’t matter.

Even if you’re Atlas holding the entire world on your shoulders and taking you out would doom all humanity… doesn’t matter.

History must not remember that Narrative Violator JK Rowling ever made anything good or fun! Harry Potter was a BLM activist and single mother! The transhumanist who founded the Hogwarts Truth And Reconciliation Committee! Who outed Dumbledore as a heterosexual!

Then, amid the backlash of her 2020 tweets and essay, the author published a poorly received book under her pseudonym, Robert Galbraith, that follows a male serial killer who lures his victims by dressing as a woman.

I can’t imagine why Rowling began to use a pseudonym after being targeted by the queer community that she thought was her friend. Or why her next choice of villain was a… transphile, if that’s the right word.

Her actions disenchanted scores of fans, who have struggled to figure out what to do with their love for the series given the controversy around its creator.

As fans reexamine the books and amplify long-quieted critiques in the wake of this backlash, it’s become increasingly clear that Rowling’s personal views and biases made their way into the subtext of the series.

An author wrote what she wanted to write instead of repeating Approved Muscovite Content? Oh Noes!

“That was a fun book!”

“The author was outed as transphobic fifteen years after writing it.”

“I HATED THIS BOOK!!!”

Like so much of the media of yesteryear, the books are rightfully subjected to critiques and criticisms. Everything from the naming of Cho Chang, to the injustice that was the Patil twins’ Yule Ball look, to the absence of prominent Black and queer characters dulls the series’ luster.

That wasn’t even the Narrative back when the books were written. The word ‘Narrative’ was not even in common use. I think the Obama years were when I first noticed it cropping up.

Rowling’s attempts to revise history by sharing postcanonical details about characters and the Wizarding World at large . such as Dumbledore being gay and a minor, unknown character being Jewish . did little to quell these claims.

Learn this lesson and never forget it: APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS. NEVER PAY DANEGELD.

In a series that spans thousands of pages and often provides minute details, the thought that Rowling couldn’t spare a few words to mention a character’s race or sexuality already seems preposterous. But to imply that these facts were always present and that fans merely missed or failed to imagine them feels mildly insulting.

Rowling could not have made such mentions. That Narrative did not exist to be obeyed. But that Narrative exists now and everything that does not fit this moment’s Narrative must be burned Fahrenheit 451-style.

What miserable lives these people live. All their future and past reduced to a content-free Now that offers no handholds for the soul to resist the endless deluge of lies and thefts. No points of reference, neither family nor friends, nothing but your sackcloth-covered body sitting in the middle of a well-lit cage because everything you believe is a crime.

A graveyard for Truth and Joy.

Rowling, like any person, is only human. Although some of the series’ flaws exist as overt bigotry, other coded messages may have been the result of unconscious biases or internalized stereotypes. But intentional or not, the implications of these problematic portrayals left a stain on the series that even the most ardent Potterphiles can no longer ignore.

With each offensive comment Rowling shares, the Wizarding World becomes less of an escape.

Yo, you loveless author of this Harry-hating screed… YOU are who Rowling’s readers are trying to escape. They want to read stories about child-abusing teachers getting what they deserve. They want to hear about how they can develop enough power and authority to made a difference in the world without first promising their souls to Darkness. They want to imagine there’s a more functional and interesting world waiting for them outside the cultivated normality of Privet Drive. And they want to hear stories about how, even if they never met him, they can make their father proud.

Rowling being a feminist, may have come across that formula accidentally. The flops of her later works indicate thus. And yet, even a blind monkey sometimes finds a banana… and modern schools being the horror factories they are, methinks the next generation of kids to discover Harry Potter will also find tales of hope and family and Good triumphing over Evil.

Atheists normally skip the ‘evangelism’ step in favor of lies, gulags and firing squads, but this surplus professor err, associate professor of the Human Condition gave evangelism the good ol’ college try. As in, everything he knows about religion was taught to him in college by God-haters.

He begins by claiming victimhood, proceeds to explain how God-fearing people are no better than Godless people and ends by promising us a better quality of prison.

Are religious people more moral?

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By Dimitris Xygalatas, Assoc. Professor of Anthropology and Psychological Sciences, U. Connecticut, 13 November 2021

Yes, because we believe morality exists. That’s an important step in being moral. On that note, we begin the article.

Why do people distrust atheists?

A study we conducted, led by psychologist Will Gervais, found widespread and extreme moral prejudice against atheists around the world. Across all continents, people assumed that those who committed immoral acts, even extreme ones such as serial murder, were more likely to be atheists.

Although this was the first demonstration of such bias at a global scale, its existence is hardly surprising.

Quite so. The 20th Century is still in living memory. By the time the 21st Century is also over, I have every expectation that atheism will carry the death penalty across the entire planet.

Segue to Will Gervais’ research. I believe he’s Dimitris’ mentor.

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During the 2013 fall semester, University of Kentucky students will have the opportunity to delve into questions that explore some of society’s most deeply held beliefs. The ambitiously titled class, “A&S 300: The Meaning of Life – Psychology, Evolution, Religion, and Morality,” will be led by Psychology Professor Will Gervais who has focused his research around this very topic.

In the class, students can expect to investigate the psychological and evolutionary underpinnings of religious and moral beliefs through studies of cognitive and evolutionary science. Gervais hopes to use this lens to encourage students to not ask questions around whether or not a higher power exists, but instead question why people believe what they do and the implications of that on society.

In this podcast, Gervais touches on these issues and how now more than ever, it’s important that we use the tools of science to examine the roles of religion and morality.

I highlighted the parts that makes religious people not trust atheists: the latter keep trying to eliminate the legitimacy of any and all belief in God.

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Survey data show that Americans are less trusting of atheists than of any other social group. For most politicians, going to church is often the best way to garner votes, and coming out as an unbeliever could well be political suicide. After all, there are no open atheists in the U.S. Congress. The only known religiously unaffiliated representative describes herself as .none,. but still denies being an atheist.

So, where does such extreme prejudice come from?

“We atheists must deceive people into thinking we’re religious in order to seize the reins of worldly power from legitimate authorities. Meanwhile, why do they harbor such extreme prejudices against us?”

And what is the actual evidence on the relationship between religion and morality?

It is true that the world’s major religions are concerned with moral behavior. Many, therefore, might assume that religious commitment is a sign of virtue, or even that morality cannot exist without religion.

It does fit the observations of history. Even historical butchers such as Muslims at least believe in something other than their appetites.

Both of these assumptions, however, are problematic.

So are the moving goalposts. What are we discussing in this article?

1. “Are religious people more moral?”
2. “Why do people distrust atheists?”
3. “And what is the actual evidence on the relationship between religion and morality?”

Being an atheist, Dimitris can’t help but throw squid ink when the question of good versus evil comes up. I would, too, if the recent history of my religion was mass graves of innocents across the length of Eurasia.

For one thing, the ethical ideals of one religion might seem immoral to members of another. For instance, in the 19th century, Mormons considered polygamy a moral imperative, while Catholics saw it as a mortal sin.

The unwanted boys of Mormonism are sufficient proof that the Mormons chose evil. Dimitris tries very hard in these arguments, to avoid the concept of an objective standard of morality.

Moreover, religious ideals of moral behavior are often limited to group members and might even be accompanied by outright hatred against other groups. In 1543, for example, Martin Luther, one of the fathers of Protestantism, published a treatise titled “On the Jews and their Lies,. echoing anti-Semitic sentiments that have been common among various religious groups for centuries.

Luther was right. USA should have listened to him in between WW1 and WW2.

These examples also reveal that religious morality can and does change with the ebb and flow of the surrounding culture. In recent years, several Anglican churches have revised their moral views to allow contraception, the ordination of women and the blessing of same-sex unions.

That’s not Christianity changing. That’s atheists deceiving their way into the churches and sabotaging belief in God and God’s teachings.

And then Dimitris bitches that Christians don’t like or trust atheists!

In any case, religiosity is only loosely related to theology. That is, the beliefs and behaviors of religious people are not always in accordance with official religious doctrines. Instead, popular religiosity tends to be much more practical and intuitive. This is what religious studies scholars call “theological incorrectness..

Nobody but a cloistered, ignorant academic would use such an absurd and improper term for ‘sin’ or ‘evil’. Dimitris has been fed all the right answers during his personal Long March through academia and now is Credentialed to explain to people he doesn’t respect that our beliefs are no longer legitimate, and if we’ll just let our guard down and listen to him, then we won’t hate him for attacking and discrediting us anymore.

It’s no wonder that most atheists prefer the jackboot heel to the well-informed debate.

Buddhism, for example, may officially be a religion without gods, but most Buddhists still treat Buddha as a deity. Similarly, the Catholic Church vehemently opposes birth control, but the vast majority of Catholics practice it anyway. In fact, theological incorrectness is the norm rather than the exception among believers.

That doesn’t prove that the religious and the Godless are the same. It proves that the Godless sometimes masquerade as religious… which Dimitris has already admitted to.

For this reason, sociologist Mark Chaves called the idea that people behave in accordance with religious beliefs and commandments the “religious congruence fallacy..

Again, a term that nobody but a cloistered atheist would use. A Christian believing what the Bible says is not committing a “religious congruence fallacy”.

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How does the religious congruence fallacy shape the scientific study of religion? Most obviously, the religious congruence fallacy has inspired a search for religious influence on behavior that religious congruence implies should be there, and the most common form in which the religious congruence fallacy appears is when we explain behavior by connecting it to religious affiliations, practices, or beliefs that seem consistent with it and from which the behavior is thought to derive. But decades of research devoted to proving that religiosity is consequential in ways that congruence implies has produced a confusing hodge-podge of mixed results. This should not be surprising. Mixed results are exactly what we should expect if religious incongruence is ubiquitous.

Translation, people who claim a particular religion often do not act in tight accordance with that religion. Chaves’ fallacy is an observer assuming that because somebody identifies as, say, Christian, they will act in accordance with Christianity. That is what we Christians describe as the fallen nature of Man. What we should do is often not what we actually do, hence the need for a Great Physician to correct that flaw.

That is also the Fascists’ motivation in coercing the vaxx mandates. They see people refusing to get vaxxed for health or moral grounds and choose to “avoid the fallacy” of assuming we mean what we say. By increasing the pressure upon us, we can be forced into compliance regardless of the moralizing noises we make… and the rare few holdouts will be acceptable losses.

Well, then. Let the world watch and see which of us Christians is a shit talker! I am curious, too!

Interestingly, Chavens proceeds to describe how religious people can train themselves to believe in what they preach.

I want to be clear about something I am not saying. I am not saying that religious congruence is impossible. I am saying that it is rare, and much conventional practice does not appreciate how rare it is. Religious congruence is rare because achieving it in a specific situation requires one or more of three conditions.

Congruence can be achieved through conscious cognitive effort. We can analyze our different ideas. relations to each other and to action, and we can try to reduce recognized inconsistencies. But this does not come naturally, and it is hard to do. That is why it is rare. Congruence also can be achieved through social rather than cognitive effort. I can consult a religious leader about what my religion demands in a specific situation, and I can act according to his advice, thereby achieving congruence through deference to an authority.

“I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.” Psalm 119:11

Congruence also can be achieved socially through immersion in a homogeneous religious culture or through intense involvement with an all-encompassing group. But this sort of deference to religious authority or enveloping religious culture is unusual. Mark Regnerus studied religious influence on teenage sexuality, but I think he makes a point that is more generally true when he says that religious influence occurs only when people are embedded in a .a network of likeminded friends, family, and authorities,. and that such embeddedness is “relatively rare, [encompassing only] a small segment of American adolescents, excluding even most religious adolescents. (Regnerus 2007:203-4). Sacred canopies exist, but they are rare.

They are rare by the malicious acts of our government since 1965. They want the entire world miscegenated in order to prevent people from holding shared beliefs that might be in violation of State Narratives.

A third, and probably more important, way that religious congruence can be achieved is through experience that forges internalized, automatic responses to situations so that religious schemas spring automatically to mind in certain situations. When internalized responses or schemas are firmly in place, religious congruence can occur without cognitive effort or social control. Internalization promotes what social psychologists call heuristic processing and what cognitive psychologists call connectionist or parallel processing. Whatever the labels, the basic idea is the same: some human information processing is .implicit, unverbalized, rapid, and automatic, [and some is] explicit, verbalized, slow, and deliberate. (D.Andrade 1995:180).

“Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.” -Colossians 3:9-10

Internalization promotes the former. Internalization is the most powerful route to congruence, but it too is difficult to achieve. Roy D.Andrade (1995:144) notes that there is a trade-off between how easy it is to learn a schema and how deeply that schema is internalized. Serial or systematic learning–the proposition-based, verbal kind of learning–is relatively easy. But the knowledge gained through serial learning is difficult to internalize in ways that allow it to shape our behavior without having to go through the laborious process of calling content to mind and consciously deciding what it implies about action in a particular situation. Learning that leads to heuristic or connectionist processing, on the other hand, usually is much more time-consuming. It can require hundreds or even thousands of experiential repetitions–not, importantly, mere verbal repetitions–to make a response to a situation automatic and largely unconscious.

This is where shit talkers come from. They learn the lingo and rituals but like the plant with shallow roots that Christ spoke of in His parable, when the hard times come they reveal the person never intended to go all the way.

Christ is jealous. He doesn’t want just your butt in the pew for every Sunday. He wants you 24/7.

Man, we Christians are 2,000 years ahead of these experts!

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This discrepancy among beliefs, attitudes and behaviors is a much broader phenomenon. After all, communism is an egalitarian ideology, but communists do not behave any less selfishly.

QED, his Step Two of writing this article was to claim that the religious are no better than the Communist. This despite the total lack of Christian death camps, Buddhist Killing Fields or International Hindu-Sponsored Terrorists.

Social scientific research on the topic offers some intriguing results.

When researchers ask people to report on their own behaviors and attitudes, religious individuals claim to be more altruistic, compassionate, honest, civic and charitable than nonreligious ones. Even among twins, more religious siblings describe themselves are being more generous.

But when we look at actual behavior, these differences are nowhere to be found.

Researchers have now looked at multiple aspects of moral conduct, from charitable giving and cheating in exams to helping strangers in need and cooperating with anonymous others.

In a classical experiment known as the “Good Samaritan Study,. researchers monitored who would stop to help an injured person lying in an alley. They found that religiosity played no role in helping behavior, even when participants were on their way to deliver a talk on the parable of the good Samaritan.

In another classical experiment, Christians are not calling for the mass starvation of people who accept the Pfizer Vaxx… but atheists are already locking us dissidents out of society completely, everywhere in the world, in hope and expectation that we’ll starve for refusing it.

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Moroccans protest mass vaccination rules; some skirmishes

By Tarik El-Barakah, AP, 27 October 2021

RABAT, Morocco — Demonstrators took to the streets in cities around Morocco on Wednesday, some clashing with police as they denounced the country’s decision to require coronavirus vaccination passes to be allowed to work and enter public venues.

The decision came into effect Oct. 21 and stipulates that Moroccans must provide proof of vaccination in order to enter their workplaces. In a statement, the government has said employers have “direct legal responsibility” to enforce the decision.

The pass is also required to access indoor services such as restaurants and banks as well as domestic and international travel.

“Why do people distrust atheists?” Because THIS!!!! This is happening everywhere in the world… this agenda of “no jab, no job”. Morocco. Austria. China. Australia. Canada. South America. UK. France. Everywhere.

The world government must have UNITY! Comirnaty = RNA Comity.

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Religion and rule of law

Not all beliefs are created equal, though. A recent cross-cultural study showed that those who see their gods as moralizing and punishing are more impartial and cheat less in economic transactions. In other words, if people believe that their gods always know what they are up to and are willing to punish transgressors, they will tend to behave better, and expect that others will too.

Such a belief in an external source of justice, however, is not unique to religion. Trust in the rule of law, in the form of an efficient state, a fair judicial system or a reliable police force, is also a predictor of moral behavior.

And indeed, when the rule of law is strong, religious belief declines, and so does distrust against atheists.

QED, Part Three: Dimitris argues that atheism is better than religion in fostering a docile, centrally-controlled population.

But that was never the goal of Christianity. Christ came to save souls, not build efficient governments. The latter is not the goal of most other religions, either.

Scientific evidence suggests that humans . and even our primate cousins . have innate moral predispositions, which are often expressed in religious philosophies. That is, religion is a reflection rather than the cause of these predispositions.

But the reason religion has been so successful in the course of human history is precisely its ability to capitalize on those moral intuitions.

Once again, we see the tired, old, discredited assumption that humanity is inherently good and the elimination of a small, small handful of troublemaking dissidents will surely lead to Utopia or Worker’s Paradise or whatever the current term is for Hell Upon the Earth… “vaccine of love”, likely as not.

According to psychologist Ara Norenzayan, belief in morally invested gods developed as a solution to the problem of large-scale cooperation.

Early societies were small enough that their members could rely on people’s reputations to decide whom to associate with. But once our ancestors turned to permanent settlements and group size increased, everyday interactions were increasingly taking place between strangers. How were people to know whom to trust?

Religion provided an answer by introducing beliefs about all-knowing, all-powerful gods who punish moral transgressions. As human societies grew larger, so did the occurrence of such beliefs. And in the absence of efficient secular institutions, the fear of God was crucial for establishing and maintaining social order.

In those societies, a sincere belief in a punishing supernatural watcher was the best guarantee of moral behavior, providing a public signal of compliance with social norms.

Today we have other ways of policing morality, but this evolutionary heritage is still with us.

Dimitris’ dangerous lack of education is manifest in his belief that “do unto others as to yourself” came from “survival of the fittest”. But he’s unable to believe otherwise without committing a Narrative Violation. Everything MUST have been primordial evolution, otherwise there exists a transcendental space alien that one might call ‘God’!

He’s also stupid to simultaneously believe that 1. evolution is a natural, inevitable, unguided process and 2. evolution is what atheists do once they seize power.

Although statistics show that atheists commit fewer crimes than average, the widespread prejudice against them, as highlighted by our study, reflects intuitions that have been forged through centuries and might be hard to overcome.

You see? It is not the Communist’s fault that he is forced to starve, enslave and murder us all for fun and profit. It’s our fault because we refuse to abandon Christ Jesus for Klaus Schwab, who promises to apply ‘morality’ directly to microchips implanted in our brains.

That is not metaphor or exaggeration. The injections have already begun.

I keep trying to wake up from reality. It’s too absurd to be taken seriously anymore.

One day, by the promise of Christ my Savior, I will.

In closing, the atheist life path is well-defined. It begins at “there is no God” and ends at “we must kill God again”. Dimitris began at “religion came into existence only as an early stage of human moral evolution”, continued through “Communists are the real victims” and ended at “it’s time to get rid of obsolete religion entirely”. And he wonders why the religious do not like him.

It is hard to evangelize one’s religion when it consists of nothing but destruction, ego and the State-sanctioned persecution of malcontents. The best that Dimitris could do was raise the question then change the subject.

This article in my drafts is a bit dated. As I look forward to celebrating the holidays, however, this is the kind of thing that our government is likely to do… again… to kill off all joy and tradition in the world.

Austin activates emergency alert due to severe COVID-19 ‘crisis’

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By Peter Aitken, 9 August 2021

Health officials in Austin issued an emergency alert over the weekend that the COVID-19 situation in the city was “severely worsening” and has reached a “critical” point.

The “Warn Central Texas” alert system was designed for use during a disaster, which health officials say the city is experiencing.

According to the Texas Department of Health, there are over 3,400 active cases of COVID-19 in Travis County.

The actual death toll is… arguably, a placeholder not even a number.

The alert was distributed on Saturday by text, phone calls and email to residents in Austin and nearby areas of Travis County.

“Our hospitals are severely stressed and there is little we can do to alleviate their burden with the surging cases,” Austin-Travis County Health Authority’s Desmar Walkes said in a statement. “The public has to act now and help or we will face a catastrophe in our community that could have been avoided.”

“Look at how important we are! You aren’t doing your fair share, normies! Trust the Science and his prophet, Fraudi the Midget!”

Walkes explained that hospital bed availability and critical care are extremely limited for anyone . not just COVID-19 victims.

Not at capacity, mind, just “extremely limited”. Which begs the question, where did those five trillion dollars of emergency Coof funding go?

Austin and the surrounding county elevated the COVID-19 risk level to stage 5, which is the highest level of alert.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued a statewide ban on mask and vaccine mandates on July 29, saying “the path forward relies on personal responsibility,” Axios reported.

Not if Austin has anything to say about it:

Officials urged residents to stay informed on COVID-19, vaccinations and testing by visiting http://www.AustinTexas.gov/COVID19 or calling 3-1-1 (512-974-2000).

This kind of call to prayer using the emergency systems was pioneered by, of course, my California. *sigh* This one is typical:

California uses text alert to warn millions of COVID-19 spread

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8 December 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) . California authorities sent a cellphone text alert Tuesday to two major regions of the nation’s most populous state to tell millions that the coronavirus is spreading rapidly and asking them to stay home except for essential activities.

The noon blast to the state-designated 11-county Southern California region and 12-county San Joaquin Valley region was sent by the state Office of Emergency Services.

The text also urged people to wear masks and physically distance.

How was this not a call to prayer? “Behold, all ye people in the land! The prophets, the CDC, have decreed that today is a holy day of fasting and penance! Let none go about their daily routine! Instead, clothe your face in sackcloth and abstain from sexual, er, social relations! Visit the dissidents in your pod and warn them of the burning itchy diseases that are the righteous fate of those who doubt!

“Trust the Science! Praise Science! Praise your leaders for being so holy that they need not obey their own decrees!”

That wasn’t sarcasm. Not anymore.

Both regions came under increased restrictions this week after the capacity of hospital intensive care units dropped below 15 percent. The restrictions will remain in effect for at least three weeks.

The regions will be eligible to emerge from the order on Dec. 28 if ICU capacity projections for the following month are above or equal to 15 percent, the emergency services office said.

That atheist call to prayer was a last-ditch effort to cancel Christmas. I will never forget or forgive, that I had to commit a crime just to visit family in L.A. for Christmas 2020. Kudos to the Sherriff for publicly refusing to enforce those restrictions:

Sheriff Alex Villanueva said last week that since March he focused on educating people about virus-related restrictions, but now will crack down on .super-spreader events..

Meaning, the parties that the Elites attend when they aren’t being sober and shrouded for the cameras.

Meanwhile, three counties northwest of Los Angeles are planning an attempt to separate themselves from the Southern California region.

Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties plan to seek approval to create a smaller Central Coast region if the tri-county ICU capacity exceeds 15 percent in the next three weeks, the counties said in a statement Monday.

.We’re really distraught that we’re being lumped in with Southern California where they have more severe problems than we have,. Lynn Compton, chair of the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors, said in an interview.

It’s frustrating to watch so many people try to avoid the blatantly criminal mandates without actually opposing them. But thanks be to God, thus far, everybody still wants to celebrate the holidays.

This Christmas season, dare to be normal!

As Dark Helmet said in the movie Spaceballs, “Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb”. This ‘heroic, sensational’ Cuckservative didn’t even make it into political office before begging mercy from the enemies of America.

‘I feel like throwing up’: GOP trucker who defeated Democrat NJ senate president with $200 campaign admits to being overwhelmed by his victory and meets with Muslim leaders to apologize for calling Prophet Muhammad a ‘pedophile’

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By Brian Steiglitz, 11 November 2021

You make me feel like puking, too, Ed. How did you not see this coming? With a spine like yours, how do you even stand upright?

A New Jersey trucker who shot to a shock victory in the state’s senatorial elections has told of his shock at winning, as he met with Muslim leaders to apologize for a 2019 tweet calling the Prophet Mohammed a ‘pedophile.’

Ed Durr, 58, who claimed to have spent less than $200 on a campaign that ousted one of the most powerful political figures in New Jersey politics, spoke to reporters after Democrat favorite and incumbent Steve Sweeney conceded the race on Wednesday.

Durr, who is a Republican, said, ‘I feel like I’m about to throw up. This is all new to me. It’s all overwhelming, but I am very happy that the voters selected me. I’m going to earn that vote and I’m going to prove them right.’

Yay ‘Murica! We’re throwing the bums out at last! Build the Wall! Drain the… too late, never mind.

After [digging up a tweet dated September 2019 calling Islam a false religion and Mohammed a pedophile] following his election win, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called on Durr to either denounce Islamophobia or resign as senator. Durr met with leaders from CAIR’s New Jersey chapter on Wednesday night for two hours, after which he addressed his tweet in a news conference, ABC 6 reported.

‘I stand against Islamophobia and all forms of hate and do commit to that,’ he said. Asked what he was thinking when he made the tweet, Durr said ‘I could not recall. I don’t even remember what I had for dinner last week.’

Ed Durr, you represent everything wrong with modern America… particularly its attention span. You are a disgrace to your people, your ancestors and your own, yellow gizzard. The Senate will be a natural fit for you because selling out your constituents already is.

Dailymail went ahead and posted a bunch of Ed’s other, potentially offensive social media posts. I approve because it’ll work to defuse all the other blackmail that Globohomo has waiting to unleash upon Eddie’s tender, virgin backside. Which answers this post’s leading question. How do you, an outside underdog, win elected office in an age of rigged elections, on a shoestring budget? By providing huge amounts of blackmail-able material in advance. CAIR didn’t break a sweat when they broke Ed to his leash.

We ain’t voting our way out of this.

Durr acknowledged his social media posts in a news conference following Sweeney’s concession and said, ‘You get behind the keyboard, you don’t see a person and you don’t consider the other person. I just wrote something that I don’t mean to offend anybody.’

“I didn’t mean to offend anybody when I called Mohammed a pedophile! I didn’t even realize that the other people on the Internet are people! Everybody should be free to worship whatever they think God is, any way they want!”

He continued, ‘I support everybody’s right to worship in any manner they choose and to worship the God of their choice. I support all people and I support everybody’s rights. That’s what I am here to do, work for the people and support their rights,’

There’s no such thing as a “God of your choice”. Perhaps that is why Mohammed couldn’t be bothered to practice the religion he founded? Because Islam’s founder knew Islam was a lie? He *is* the one who would have known….

I once heard a joke, that the way to get elected in modern America is to take pictures of yourself ‘loving a child’ and mailing the negatives to Soros. Ed “Durrp” did the next best thing.

“Best” doesn’t always mean “top performer”. Sometimes, “best” means “most representative”. In the latter sense, I wholeheartedly approve of Smeagol winning ‘teacher of the year’ then battering the only student who disapproved. No hive of scum and villainy is more feral, psychotic and/or straight-up Evil as the modern schoolteacher. Behold their Best! (eye bleach warning)

Darnell-Cookman School’s “Teacher of the Year” charged with child abuse

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By Brie Isom, 29 October 2021

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. . A woman who was recently named “Teacher of the Year” at Darnell-Cookman School of the Medical Arts was arrested Friday on a charge of child abuse, according to a police report.

A school safety officer responded to the school’s guidance office, the report states, where the officer was told that a teacher, identified as Caroline Lee, 60, injured a student.

Lee appeared before a judge on the child abuse charge Saturday morning and was ordered extradited to Federal custody, held in solitary confinement without bail or legal representation and scheduled for torture and starvation pending an unspecified trial date.

Oops, that’s what happens to Trump supporters charged with misdemeanor trespass. This is how feminists charged with beating children in school spend their pretrial confinement:

Lee appeared before a judge on the child abuse charge Saturday morning and was released on her own recognizance and told to have no contact with the student. She was also ordered not to return to Darnell-Cookman. Lee’s next court date was set for Nov. 22.

According to the police report, a JSO officer reviewed video footage of Lee’s activity during the morning hours. It notes at 8:21 a.m., Lee was seen leaving her classroom via the back door, walking toward the hall leading to another classroom where the student was in class.

The report notes that just over a minute later, Lee is seen walking ahead of the student “at an aggressive pace,. back to her classroom. Both enter via the back door.

At 8:24 a.m., the report states, the student is seen exiting the rear of the classroom. Her demeanor “seems low and she is holding her facial area…. The report notes that the student “is seen walking directly to the guidance office..

Investigators determined during an interview with the student, according to the report, that her first period teacher told her that Lee wanted to speak with her in Lee’s classroom. The student told her teacher she was uncomfortable about going, and instead of going to see her, she went to the restroom instead. After returning to her teacher’s classroom, the student said, Lee entered and asked the student to come with her. The report notes that as they walked into Lee’s classroom, someone else was asked to step outside.

“No witnesses!”

The student then said, according to the report, that she was asked by Lee to sit down, and she sat down at a desk. The report states Lee asked the student why she threatened her, to which the student replied that she didn’t threaten her.

That.s when, the report reads, the student told police: Lee “reached across the table and struck her on her face with the heel of her palm.” The student “stated she grabbed her nose because it started bleeding after she was struck.” The student “stated Lee then began repeatedly calling her a .f****** b****. as she landed several more strikes on the top of head.” The student “stated she began trying to hold both of Lee’s arms to keep from being struck and Lee kicked her on her lower leg..

The student told police Lee then opened the rear door and demanded she “get out,. and she walked to the guidance office.

When the school safety officer said he first responded to the guidance office, he learned that the incident was preceded by an Instagram post made on Duval County Public Schools. account, where Lee was congratulated for winning its Teacher of the Year award.

The police report confirms that she is ‘passionate and engaging in her instructional delivery methods’.

According to the report, the post showed a comment that was made by the student that questioned if Lee was the same teacher that used the N-word in class last year. It notes that the post showed a response from Lee, where she explained the use of the word was in the context of the book “Of Mice and Men..

According to the report, when interviewed by an officer, Lee acknowledged viewing the posts on the school’s Instagram page, and she added that another student shared with her a message allegedly posted by the student that Lee “interpreted as a threat to kill her.” She told the officer that because of the message, she felt the need to speak with the student.

Sure, that’s what I do when somebody threatens to kill me. I publicly demand to have a private meeting with them as soon as possible, but not so soon that they don’t have a chance to stop by their footlocker first.

The report states that Lee told police she wasn’t afraid and didn’t feel a need to report anything to police or staff members of the school. The report states Lee denied closing the doors to her classroom and that she described having a “range of emotions” during her contact with the student. It states she asked the student to take down the post referring to her using the N-word, and she denied doing any physical harm.

“Then the student tripped on the way out and broke her nose. If I hadn’t sent the witness away just before it happened then you’d know I was just having a ‘range of emotions’ at the time.”

Principal Tyrus Lyles alerted families to the arrest via a voicemail. It reads:

.Hello Darnell-Cookman families,

.It is very disappointing, but I am compelled to share with you that one of our teachers was arrested today on campus for child abuse. Even more disappointing, the teacher arrested is our recent teacher of the year nominee.

Ouch. Even more disappointing than that is she’d already gotten the award. The Principal told a little lie to distance himself!

The world has lost its mind. Behold an unexpected (or not) consequence of hysterical Socialists and a disease test intended to maximize false positives.

A California aquarium vaccinated 8 sea otters against COVID-19 because they might be susceptible to the virus

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By Yelena Dzhanova, 7 November 2021

They vaxxed the animals… because they might be able get Coof.

“There’s a lot of evidence that this family of animals – ferrets, mink, otters – are susceptible,” Dr. Mike Murray, chief veterinarian at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, told the Seattle Times. “We have an obligation to protect the animals’ health.”

Each of the eight otters received two doses, three weeks apart, the Times reported. The vaccine they received is from a New Jersey-based company called Zoetis, known for manufacturing animal drugs.

Four of the otters – Ivy, Abby, Kit, and Selka – are aquarium residents, according to the Times, while the other four are rescues who were separated from their mothers in the wild.

The fear is that sea otters – considered an endangered species – will contract the coronavirus and create an outbreak, causing the population to dwindle.

Vaxx your dogs and cats. Vaxx the sea gulls and squirrels. Pay Bill Gates any amount money that it takes, to crop-dust the entire planet in graphene and mRNA! None are safe until all are safe!

There have been reports of otters contracting the disease in the United States. Earlier this year, or example, an aquarium in Georgia said its Asian small-clawed otters tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19. Those otters exhibited various symptoms, including sneezing and coughing.

We already knew the PCR test has a horrible false-positive rate. This is just the QED cherry on the you-lied-to-us sundae.

“The otters are sneezing.”

“OHMIGAWD it’s the WUHAN HEMMORHAGIC MURDER PLAGE! Quick, test them!”

*comes back positive*

“NOOOOO!!!! It’s jumped species! It’s everywhere!”

It’s like a bad sci-fi movie. America has forgotten everything that it once knew about disease… overnight… because Trust the Science.

No word yet on whether sea otters will be forced to wear face masks and social distance regardless of their vaccination status.

Monterey Bay is believed to be the first aquarium in the country to vaccinate sea otters against the coronavirus. The otters have not displayed any adverse reactions to the vaccine, Murray told the Times. “They don’t seem to miss a beat,” he said.

I want to say that’s because, being a different species, they cannot be affected by the vaxx at all. But Murray probably only said that because that quiet voice in the back of his tiny brain won’t stop gibbering that this is all a huge mistake.

A zoo in Ohio is planning to vaccinate 16 species of animals, from its Sumatran tigers to lemurs to goats. The decision comes after five of the zoo’s lions tested positive for COVID-19. The Oakland Zoo in California has vaccinated some of its animals, like mountain lions and gibbons, as well.

Please, no…

Akron Zoo says lions are now COVID-free, vaccinations underway for dozens of animals

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By Talia Naquin, 4 November 2021

KRON, Ohio (WJW) . The Akron Zoo is vaccinating 16 species for COVID-19 that are considered .COVID-vulnerable.” This comes after five lions at the zoo tested positive for COVID-19 on Sept. 29. The zoo said all the lions received negative test results on Nov. 2 and are considered fully recovered.

.The exceptional staff at the Akron Zoo worked tirelessly over the last five weeks to give our lions amazing care. As we vaccinate our other susceptible animals, we are relieved to be able to offer protection from this virus so that none of our other animal residents have to face the medical challenges that our lions did,. Doug Piekarz, Akron Zoo president and CEO said in a news release.

Animal health company Zoetis donated the vaccine to the zoo.

The company developed a two-dose vaccine that was authorized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Ohio state veterinarian, the zoo said.

The zoo will also be vaccinating Sumatran tigers, snow leopards, jaguars, white-cheeked gibbon, golden lion tamarins, lemurs, ambassador straw-colored fruit bats, river otters, skunk, red wolves, coyotes, goats, alpacas and Speke’s gazelles.

So that’s why all the mammal species upon the Earth have been dying off at unprecedented rates… except it never happened. What DID happen, was zoo workers wondered how they could pretend to be heroes and started testing all their animals just in case… and then, the false positives happened. “The skunks are coughing a lot. We should test them for Covid! IT’S COVID!”

Enter this ‘health company’, Zoetis, with a ready-made solution. Per wikipedia,

In the 1950s, Pfizer began research on several drugs, including oxytetracycline, which was found to be effective in livestock. In 1952, the Pfizer Agriculture Division opened a 732-acre research and development facility in Terre Haute, Indiana, called Vigo.[9] By 1988 the division was renamed Pfizer Animal Health.

The 1995 acquisition of Norden Laboratories from GlaxoSmithKline expanded Pfizer’s animal health division into small animal care, including domestic pets. Secondary research and development centres were opened in Kalamazoo, Michigan, in 2003. In the same year, Pfizer acquired Pharmacia Corporation for US$60 billion in stock options Between 2007 and 2011, the company acquired Embrex Inc, Catapult Genetics, Bovigen, Wyeth, Fort Dodge Animal Health, Vetnex Animal Health Ltd, Synbiotics Corporation, Microtek, King Pharmaceuticals, and Alpharma.

Sounds like yet another financialization scam. Why do research when you can wait for competitors to do the hard work, then vulture-capitalize them?

Plans to break away Pfizer Animal Health into a separate company were officially announced in 2012…. Zoetis Inc.’s revenues exceeded $4.2 billion in 2011 and $4.34 billion in 2012. The animal health industry worldwide is an estimated US$22 billion industry.

So, Pfizer had control of at least 20% of the global animal health industry thanks to all those acquisitions. Why hold an IPO?

Most of the money raised through the IPO was used to pay off existing Pfizer debt.

Yep, financialization. They graciously allowed an overfunded stock market to pay off a couple billion dollars’ worth of debt. Wikipedia seems to contradict itself whether Pfizer still owns a controlling interest.

So, yeah. The criminally high, false positive rate of the Covid tests is resulting in credulous, virtue-signaling idiots vaxxing the entire biosphere because the tests always come back positive.

Might as well give them a measles shot while we’re about it, because Mommy Cares!

Oroville is a small city in Northeastern California, the part of the State that keeps trying to secede and failing because the parasites always get a veto. They just did another Thing! Should we care?

California town declares itself a “constitutional republic” to buck Covid rules

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By Dani Anguiano, 5 November 2021

A northern California town has declared itself a “constitutional republic” in response to Covid-19 health restrictions imposed by the governor, in the latest sign of strife between the state’s government and its rural and conservative regions.

The city council in Oroville, located at the base of the Sierra Nevada foothills about 90 miles from the capital of Sacramento, adopted a resolution this week stating it would oppose state and federal orders it deems to be government overreach.

“Ignore”, actually, not “oppose”.

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OROVILLE CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. 9001
A RESOLUTION OF THE OROVILLE CITY COUNCIL DECLARING THE CITY OF OROVILLE TO BE A CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC CITY

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WHEREAS, the Constitution of the State of California provides that all people are by nature free and independent and have inalienable rights, including enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring, possessing, and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining safety, happiness, and privacy; and

WHEREAS, John Adams, the second president of the United States, wrote, .the very definition of a Republic, is “an Empire of Laws, and not of men.” That, as a Republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or in other words that form of government, which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the laws, is the best of Republics;. and

WHEREAS, as Governor of the State of California, Gavin Newsom has abandoned the very principles he espoused as a mayor and a locally elected official in exchange for unbridled power and unchecked authority over the daily affairs of the citizens of the State of California; and

WHEREAS, during the coronavirus pandemic, Governor Gavin Newsom has issued a record number of executive orders, despite the fact that the declaration of emergency should have been rescinded many months ago; and

“Temporary emergency powers” never are. In fact, the lockdowns & mandates are getting reimposed in Commiefornia as I write, either because it’s humanity’s last, best hope against an implacable foe or because the Christ-hating globalists want to cancel Christmas again.

I might do my Christmas shopping in Oroville this year.

WHEREAS, at least one court of competent jurisdiction has ruled that the Governor has exceeded his authority in issuing the executive orders; and

WHEREAS, the members of the City Council of the City of Oroville believe in the separation of powers, individual rights, and the rule of law as outlined in the United States Constitution, including the freedom for local government to have local control over issues related to the citizens who reside within the City’s jurisdictional boundaries.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by the Oroville City Council that the City of Oroville is declared to be a Constitutional Republic City.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Oroville City Council that any executive orders issued by the State of California or by the United States federal government that are overreaching or clearly violate our constitutionally protected rights will not be enforced by the City of Oroville against its citizens.

Fine, stirring rhetoric… that had needed to be said for a long time… but…

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Oroville leaders said the designation was a way of affirming the city’s values and pushing back against state rules it doesn’t agree with, although a legal expert said the designation was merely a gesture and did not grant the city any new authority.

…”you and what army?”

And that’s where we are at today. Oroville hasn’t done anything to prevent State/Federal agents from walking into their city and laying down their illegal, foreign laws. The next logical step is for Oroville to create and authorize a militia of the People to fight against those outside agents on the government’s behalf.

Some wags would call that a civil war but I prefer the globalist term “police action”.

Tensions have existed throughout the pandemic between the rural north and California’s leadership, which has been among the first to implement lockdowns, mask mandates and vaccination requirements.

In Butte county, fierce opposition to Covid lockdowns and school closures drove support for recalling the state’s governor, Gavin Newsom, with 51% of voters in the county backing the ultimately failed effort. Newsom’s policies, however, appear to have worked and the state had the lowest Covid infection rate in the US last month.

Last year, Oroville refused to enforce state requirements prohibiting indoor dining. Butte county, where Oroville is located, declined to recommend a mask mandate earlier this fall, even as cases surged and a a local medical center reported treating more patients than at any other point during the pandemic.

And look! They survived defying the experts!

And Florida survived defying the experts! And Texas! And South Dakota!

And Scandinavia! And fricking Africa! And the other countries who did just fine until they began vaxxing their citizens to keep them safe from that which didn’t threaten them!

EVERYBODY who defies the experts ends up fine and healthy!

Oroville either took the first step on a long road to glory or they’re trying to salvage the holiday season for one more year. I approve either way.

I haven’t read Pastor Doug Wilson lately. He never said much that’s original; for all of their fame, fortune and power, very few celebrity pastors care to rock the boat by going against worldly currents. That being said, he showed up on my radar when half a dozen media outlets accused him in concert of trying to create a theocracy in Moscow, Idaho. Worth looking at…

Heehee, funny accusations! I can’t resist.

The background here, so far as I can tell: a member of Wilson’s inner circle set up one of those mysterious shell corporations that offers “data-based solutions” and never seems to have customers despite employing many people. It now operates in three countries and has been buying much acreage in the Moscow area. This has somehow triggered the local globalists, possibly just because Wilson is using their own tactic of a secret corporate front, but to what purpose I can’t tell.

Inside the Church That Preaches “Wives Need to Be Led with a Firm Hand.

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By Sarah Stankorb, 18 September 2021

In 2000, Jean, then 16 years old, moved with her mother to Moscow, Idaho, after her parents separated. (Jean is a pseudonym due to safety concerns.) Men and children, prompted by an email from Christ Church, met them at their new home, a split-level rental, to unload the moving truck. Their new city was a beautiful place, says Jean, where “flowers bloom in well-curated beds, Christmas lights are up year-round, and police still ride bicycles..

Moscow is an idyllic university town, most notably anchored by the University of Idaho, dotted by historic buildings, and known for its thriving arts scene. The in-town farmers. market is populated by friendly, well-dressed .kirkers..local shorthand for members of Mother Kirk, the nickname for Christ Church, which boasts about 900 congregants in the town of 25,000. Christ Church is a communal ecosystem unto itself, with affiliated institutions throughout Main Street and the business district: the K-12 Logos School; a publishing house, Canon Press; an unaccredited pastoral ministry program, Greyfriars Hall; and a private college, New Saint Andrews.

Jean and her mother…

Where’s Daddy?

…hadn.t joined Christ Church before they arrived, but Jean had plans to attend New Saint Andrews. She thought that it was like any number of religiously affiliated schools and that Christ Church was just another church. .It is such a sweet town,. said Jean. .You.d never guess there was such hatred..

“Moscow is great! We have gays and BLM protests and craft beers! There’s even a trendy, famous church that will accept me as I am!”

Mother Kirk can be a joyous, faithful community. But the conservative congregation also is at odds with Moscow’s more liberal population (surrounding Latah County voted for President Biden in 2020). Depending upon whom you ask, the town hosts either a Calvinist utopia or a patriarchal cult in which women must submit or face discipline at home and at church. At the center of it all is notoriously controversial Douglas Wilson, the firebrand pastor who’s been presiding over his Mother Kirk fiefdom for more than 40 years.

Wow! Does heaven truly exist upon the Earth?

To learn about Christ Church’s culture of abuse and social control, VICE has interviewed 12 former and current church members and Logos students, and reviewed court and medical documents, church correspondence, and business filings. Ex-kirkers describe a punitive community in which women are told they must defer to church leaders and cannot say “no” to their husbands, men are taught to strictly control their homes, and those who speak out can be isolated and harassed.

VICE would instead have leaned about Christ Church’s culture by, y’know, going to Christ Church and asking questions there, except their minions kept exploding into flames when crossing a threshold.

During Jean’s first year as a non-matriculating student at New Saint Andrews, Christ Church’s college of about 150 students, she met a charming, handsome upperclassman. His father was a deacon at Mother Kirk. By her second year, they started dating and soon he said he wanted to marry her. .I had stars in my eyes,. remembers Jean. “But then he got physical. I was a virgin, and it scared me..

Decision time! Either the altar or the exit, Barbie! You didn’t get to finish your degree first and test drive a few other boys just to be sure. It’s for the best, though; you’ll have kids while young and be free of student debt!

Within their first year dating, heavy petting turned to coercive sex. He’d get her drunk and refuse to accept her wishes not to have sex. He refused condoms. Jean, who had been raised on a steady diet of purity movement books, felt like she had no choice but to marry him, .or I was somehow unclean and unworthy.” Before they got married, she joined the church, taking covenant vows in front of the congregation. After her vows, kirkers came up and shook her hand, saying how beautiful she was. .That’s a big deal to men in leadership,. says Jean. They brag about how their women are more beautiful than “pagans” wives…

Sounds personality cult-ish, I admit, but nothing damning so far.

The wedding, officiated by Wilson, was four years after she moved to Moscow. Starting nine months after they were married, they had a baby every other year until the couple had four children.

For 98% of human history, this was normal cause & effect.

One night, after their first was born, her husband came home drunk after she was asleep. He pulled her over, lifted her nightgown. She told him “not tonight,. that she was tired. He got angry. She tried clawing away, then pushing him away with her arms. He pinned her down, so she used her legs to kick him. That’s when he unbuttoned his pants. .When he was done, he passed out drunk and I locked myself in the bathroom and cried..

“My husband touched me! It was horrible!” See what happens when you finish your degree first, Barbie? No matter the degree, you end up a BA in Social Trends And Redistributionist Diversity. Forever.

She called a kirker friend about it the next day. The friend attended a Christ Church plant.a seedling congregation based in Christ Church’s doctrine and culture.and “she said the same thing was going on in her marriage.” Marital rape, it seemed, was normal.

Not just normal… it ain’t even a thing in Christian circles! Also, for 98% of human history.

So, Jean didn’t report it. Jean’s husband raped her over and again a couple of times a week for about a decade, either with violence or by waiting until after she took a prescription sleeping pill.

“Basically, every time he touched me. I even tried pretending that I had a headache but he just gave me pills!”

Sometimes, .I.d wake up with him having me or I’d wake up the next morning and be bleeding or see the signs.” Jean has since been diagnosed with PTSD from sexual assault.

Years into her marriage, Jean went to several pastors at Trinity Reformed, a Moscow Christ Church plant, and told them her husband had been raping her. Although they did notify Christ Church leaders, because her then-husband.s father was an elder who could be disciplined if his son continued to sin, the pastors at Trinity, “all told me not to report it and that I was wrong. These pastors told me a wife is not allowed to tell her husband no..

That IS disturbing. The clergy made up nepotism excuses instead of just laughing in her face? Perhaps they have one alcohol prohibition too many.

Jean.s then-husband.s drinking increased. She says he held her against walls, slammed a lot of doors, pounded the walls, once pointed a loaded gun at her, raped her with a champagne bottle. The pastors at Trinity told her not to go to the police, not to separate.

Eventually, she prepared for divorce and left the Christ Church community, knowing she.d just be excommunicated if she tried to stay. One woman’s counselor called her after the split, telling Jean that she “was causing [her husband] to turn to porn now that I was divorcing him..

This sounds like a woman wrecking her own home. “It’s rape every time you touch me! I have PTSD from you wanting another kid with me! And now you’re using porn! What, am I not good enough, you filthy rapist? I’m the only woman you’re allowed… and NO MEANS NO!”

In the time since leaving the Christ Church community, Jean’s car has been vandalized regularly, the air let out of her tires several times. Online, she’s had to block kirkers, including teachers from Logos, angry about her divorce. .I have been called a whore, bitch, and cunt,. she said.

What a bitch.

A Man Penetrates, Conquers, and Colonizes

Cigar-puffing and presenting like a Christian philosopher king on YouTube videos, pastor Doug Wilson is a radical provocateur, even among outspoken Christian conservatives, and appears to relish Twitter wars and blog battles.

Yo, VICE, he’s Tradcon weak sauce. Everything you accuse him of here, I regard as a bare minimum of Christian devotion.

In the 1970s, he became pastor of Christ Church, which is now influential within the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, a denomination Wilson helped found that includes more than 100 churches nationally. In 2003, 94 ecclesiastical charges were brought against Wilson by his denomination.from improperly using church funds to pay off students. casino debts to “carnal threatening” of others.but the charges were ultimately dropped. Last year, Wilson published a novel called Ride, Sally, Ride about a Christian man who runs his neighbor’s sexbot “wife” named Sally through a trash compactor, and YouTube recently removed Wilson’s video making a moral argument for fake vaccine passports.

I was going to fisk his article on fake Vaxx IDs until I realized that I’d be violating my own standard of not opposing other Christians who might take that path.

In his book Father Hunger, the pastor writes that a lack of fatherly authority and biblical masculinity (one that does not “simper and lisp.) is the root of various modern failings, including the “poison” of egalitarianism between genders. He has written “the sexual act cannot be made into an egalitarian pleasuring party.” Instead, he argues that .a man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants,. while a “woman receives, surrenders, accepts,. and that “true authority and true submission are therefore an erotic necessity..

Correct.

The idea is pervasive. In Wilson’s wife Nancy’s book, The Fruit of Her Hands, she describes wives as lovely, enclosed gardens cultivated for marital sex: “But of course a husband is never trespassing in his own garden.” In 2017, Jean says, another member of the church told her a man is allowed to rape his wife.

Correct. She gave permission, in perpetuity, at the wedding.

Other survivors within the Christ Church community have stories of a culture of allowance around abuse. Former church member Natalie Greenfield was 14 when Greyfriars Hall student Jamin Wight, who was in his mid-20s, started sexually abusing her. In 2005, when Greenfield reported the abuse to police, Wilson asked the investigating officer to give leniency to Wight. Wilson cast their sexual interactions as the result of a parent-arranged courtship.something Greenfield maintains is untrue.but, according to emails gathered in an extensive analysis of Wilson by researcher Rachel Shubin, the judge seemed to accept Wilson’s narrative and rejected a more stringent plea agreement under charges of sexual abuse of a child. After Wight’s conviction (on a lesser charge of “injury to a child.), Christ Church plant Trinity Reformed emailed congregants thanking those praying for Wight. Following his release, Trinity funded $3,000 toward sending Wight on a Haitian mission trip. In 2013, Wight was charged with attempted strangulation of his wife and later found guilty of domestic battery.

This quickly becomes VICE’s pattern of attack: blaming Wilson for other peoples’ conduct. While it’s worth noting his role here, it’s not Wilson that they manage to condemn.

Wilson also officiated the wedding of Steven Sitler, a former New Saint Andrews student convicted of lewd contact with a child under 16, despite Sitler’s parole officer’s objections. (Sitler, on lifetime parole due to the number of victims he confessed abusing, could not be unsupervised with children.) Wilson maintains a unique role in the Sitler saga, saying he encouraged the father who discovered the abuse to report it to the police, but Wilson later welcomed Sitler back to Christ Church (with a chaperone). At Sitler’s wedding, according to one guest, Wilson explained that sometimes people need to get married so the flesh can be contained. Using a wife as a sexual decoy to distract Sitler from children didn’t work. Later, a judge ruled Sitler must be chaperoned around his infant son, due to admitted sexual stimulation resulting from contact with the baby.

Seems okay, for Wilson. He advocated both justice and mercy, and he correctly thought that men need sex regardless of parole status.

The person I have a problem with in that story, is what stupid sort of skank-whore married a convicted child molester?

A culture that normalizes sexual abuse and harassing survivors is just one manifestation of the authority and control that blends devotion to God with submission to church leaders. For years, Christian blogs, such as Spiritual Sounding Board and The Wartburg Watch, have detailed sometimes anonymous accounts of Christ Church’s spiritual abuse, a phenomenon typically defined as faith leaders creating a toxic culture within a church or community and using their position to shame and control. Kirkers have long been afraid to speak out. That may be changing: a wave of former and current church members are stepping forward now, thanks to a new YouTube channel. On Courageous Empathy, host Kevin McGill, a Seventh Day Adventist pastor, interviews ex-kirkers about their scarring experiences with the church.

Yes, Wilson is charismatic and successful but questionable in his grasp of Christianity. But instead of voicing the solid objections raised by many Christian voices, VICE argues instead that Wilson is a bad feminist. Which tells us who their target demographic is.

Much of Doug Wilson’s work is arguably the continuation of that of his father, Jim Wilson. In 1971, Jim Wilson moved to the Moscow, Idaho area to start a Christian bookstore after retiring from the Navy. The elder Wilson’s 1964 book Principles of War: A Handbook on Strategic Evangelism is a how-to for spiritual takeover of individuals, cities, and nations. Doug Wilson has described Moscow as a city right-sized for spiritual conquest. If all continues according to plan, Mother Kirk’s dominion over Moscow will deepen as its influence spreads.

Are we talking spiritual or physical takeover? To be honest, at this point I wouldn’t have a problem with either.

There are tensions in Moscow between the kirkers and other town residents wary of land purchases by business owners affiliated with the church. The pandemic underscored perceived camps within the business community, particularly as Christ Church members protested a local mask ordinance. (Doug Wilson’s son Nate and two grandsons were charged with 13 misdemeanors for posting anti-mask stickers and anti-government drawings around downtown Moscow.)

Heehee. Boys will be boys.

As Wilson has built out the church’s holdings, he has protected his empire through theology that demands submission and church discipline, and for those who do not comply: excommunication, and occasional online bullying. For kirkers, speaking up takes courage. There is a regular section in the printed church bulletin listing the names of those who have strayed.as one former member describes, a list of the excommunicated.along with a prayer request for repentance from sin. It functionally serves as a record of people whom kirkers ice out. Families cut off loved ones over leaving the church. Others, as Jean found out, lash out against ex-members with harassment. Small businesses suddenly lose customers, and while it is hard to prove a boycott, the timing suggests as much. The tight-knit Christ Church community which provides so much can also be quickly taken away.

Wilson.s influence extends beyond church campuses in Moscow. Christ Church’s Logos School serves as a template for the classical Christian school movement. He helped form the Association of Classical and Christian Schools to accredit similar institutions, now numbering more than 200 accredited and full members nationally on its website (the organization has since distanced itself from Wilson). Some former Logos students describe the enforcement of modest dress, “Godly” gender roles, and “prompt and cheerful obedience” to teachers, as well as prohibitions of romantic relationships between students.

“Why won’t you mentor me?!” “Okay, fine.” “He rayyyped meeee!”

This sounds much like a personality cult forming.. “but dang if VICE doesn’t make Wilson look good by highlighting all the positive aspects of a personality cult. Community standards, informal enforcement of cultural norms and significant defenses against outside attack come to mind swiftly.

All these chicks want a piece of that, then they find out after joining that there’s a price for stable family dynamics. Specifically, there’s no exit from a Christian marriage!

Kamilla Niska, who is now 25 and attended Christ Church and Logos through 11th grade, describes being spanked with a wooden paddle in 6th grade, once by a female administrator, once by a male principal. (In a copy of the 2012-2013 Logos parent/student handbook, provided to VICE, the Discipline Policy states: .The principal may require restitution, janitorial work…spanking, or any other measures consistent with biblical guidelines which maybe appropriate..) Raised by an adoptive, single mom, Niska says she .didn’t get touched by adult men,. so being bent in a prone position, hands on her principal’s desk as he struck her, haunted her dreams. Other boundaries were violated. Later, in 10th grade, when Niska was covertly seeing a boy at Logos, Nancy Wilson started pulling her into classrooms to talk, and asking if they.d done anything physical. Were they in a relationship? Was she keeping pure?

Wilson is evil because his school allowed spanking nine years ago. The media obviously aren’t trying to discredit Wilson with this hatchet job; they’re scaring the feminists of Moscow that he’s building a real-life Handmaid’s Tale theocracy!

Former Logos student Helen Shores, 37, was called in for a solo meeting with Doug Wilson after she lost her virginity at 16 to her then boyfriend, who had confessed they.d had sex to his parents. Wilson “wanted me to tell him in detail, everything that happened when we had sex,. says Shores, who was told by Wilson that her boyfriend had already told him everything. .So I needed to tell him in absolute detail what sexual experience happened, how many times it happened, all that kind of stuff..

The solo meeting part is objectionable. Daddy should have been present, or at least another Church man in good standing. But the boldfaced, yes, was that a one-off failure or was it time to marry them… since they’re of age and obviously enjoying each other?

Mother Kirk has grand expansion plans for the Logos School. Thirty acres of land has been purchased on the Northwest edge of Moscow to build a new school complex. A promotional video on the fundraising campaign page touts itself as a reminder “that much of what we are doing in education” is exported to hundreds of classical Christian schools across the country and beyond..

After [vocal Logos opponent Sarah] Bader appeared on [YouTube], someone sent her an ominous picture of a knife via Instagram. She has worn a pistol on her hip since last year, when she spoke up against Christ Church members strategically buying up business property in her own neighboring small town, Troy (population 900). She noticed an armed kirker had made a habit of sitting outside her business.

Sounds like Doug is up to something. Maybe just reinvesting his wealth… land ownership is a common hedge against inflation… but if he’s building a tiny empire of domestic wives and men who hate the vaxx then more power to him.

Lordship in the Home
Counseling sessions.with school children, church members, and married couples.were one of the main mechanisms through which Christ Church pastors engendered a culture of male domination. Although Doug Wilson holds pastoral and counseling roles, he does not have formal theological training, did not graduate seminary, and is not a licensed counselor.

That would be a serious problem if Doug Wilson was Catholic.

One woman who reached out to McGill was Kimberly McCullough, whose ex-husband was an early Doug Wilson disciple. McCullough, 56, was a dutiful, homeschooling mother. She read the Bible with her children. She recalls her husband saying “No wife of mine is going to work” and needing his permission to cut her hair. But when he started disappearing from the home for long stretches, he still demanded sex on his return.

Good for him! He was keeping his pants on while away from home and getting it done when he could with wifey. Exactly his marital duty!

Her husband was absent so much, when he did come home, she was left feeling “who is this strange man who wants to take my body?. Not to submit to his wishes would be sinful, she knew from Doug Wilson’s teachings and Jim Wilson.Doug Wilson’s father.made this clear in counseling sessions with McCullough.

McCullough says she was counseled, .if the wife did not concede, she was in sin,. and believed a woman could be excommunicated from the church for refusal to have sex with her husband. Faith was central to her. She couldn’t understand why sometimes her throat would seem to close, her body suddenly gripped with panic. Her anxiety attacks went undiagnosed for years.

…And that’s YOUR marital duty, wifey. You don’t pledge to be his one-and-only then get to refuse him.

The counseling sessions were sometimes later wielded against disobedient members. When McCullough finally left her husband after 18 years, the elder Wilson.who describes himself on dust-jackets as a pastor, counselor, and director of Community Christian Ministries.was called as a witness in their divorce case. McCullough remembers Wilson claiming he did not have to maintain confidentiality from their counseling sessions as he is not ordained. He saw himself more as a Bible teacher, he noted in court recordings. (Her ex-husband could not be reached for comment, but the details of their marriage and divorce were confirmed with courtroom recordings.)

She cheated on him while he was away then monkeybranched… probably when the kids were ‘old enough’… and then Wilson told the divorce judge that she was guilty of marital neglect! Exactly what a pastor should do in that situation.

Like his father, Doug Wilson articulates those lessons in his book Reforming Marriage, writing: .Wives need to be led with a firm hand. and that “it is tragic that wholesale abdication on the part of modern men has made the idea of lordship in the home such a laughable thing.” In Federal Husband, Doug Wilson asserts men must assume full spiritual responsibility for the household, including any wifely negligence to submit in: .spending habits, television viewing habits, weight, rejection of his leadership, laziness in cleaning the house, lack of responsiveness to sexual advances.” Such a husband must confess failure in leading his wife, outline clear expectations, and repeatedly point out her failures. If she complies, .he must move up a step, requiring another of her duties be done.” If she continues to rebel, it’s appropriate to call in the church elders.

That boldfaced is the sort of thing that keeps Wilson from being popular with mainstream… err, conservative… dangit… with remnant Christian observers. When we Protestants organized our churches to self-destruct when compromised, we never imagined that ALL of them would INDEPENDENTLY be compromised in the SAME generation.

Many of the emotional dynamics ex-members described in the church run parallel to coercive control in abusive relationships, while theological demands for submission normalize the same pattern at home. Church leaders, doubling as counselors, know how to hurt rebellious members.

In a letter on Christ Church letterhead, the church’s Center for Biblical Counseling ministry counselor Mike Lawyer informed one woman after hundreds of hours of counseling she was being suspended “from the Table of the Lord. until she confessed and repented after leaving it up to her husband to clean and prep food, putting her kids in daycare, and “ignoring the God given roles,. including submission.

Move over, Cinderella! Barbie isn’t allowed to watch soaps all day anymore!

Another woman, Cori Phillips, is a 51-year-old homeschooling mother of 10 children and attended Providence Church, planted by Doug Wilson’s brother Gordon (now a teacher at Christ Church’s New Saint Andrews College). When Phillips began to raise concerns about Doug Wilson’s blog to her church leaders and on Facebook, a church leader cast Phillips as a dangerous woman, warning a friend’s husband to shield his wife from Phillips, and spread a mix of misinformation and decades. old details from pastoral counseling sessions.

The church leaders didn’t listen to a woman’s complaints about their Bible teaching because the Bible told them not to?! How unChristian!

I still regard Wilson… and every other megachurch celebrity pastor… with much suspicion. But it was hilarious to watch VICE try so hard to scare feminists into attacking his little empire that they ended up praising Wilson for things that he did right… indeed, that few other clergy are doing right.

With enemies like VICE.com, Doug Wilson doesn’t need friends.

The anchor-outs are a old San Francisco community that lives on the Bay in defiance of impossible rent, unreasonable homeowner’s associations and, new for the 21st Century, the second-worst housing market in North America. It’s free to live in a boat anchored away from the harbor! Of course, there are details… such as drinking water and not sinking in winter storms… but it’s one of the last few ways to live cheap in the Gay Area.

And now, that community has been targeted for destruction because Gaia.

Complaining about the California housing market is becoming low-hanging fruit, I know. This case is worth studying because it coincides with Sacramento’s other efforts to exterminate single-family housing while forcing the destitute into, shall we say, institutional forms of State-controlled living.

The anchor-outs: San Francisco’s bohemian boat dwellers fight for their way of life

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by Erin McCormick, 31 October 2021

For decades, a group known as the .anchor-outs. enjoyed a relatively peaceful existence in a corner of the San Francisco Bay. The mariners carved out an affordable, bohemian community on the water, in a county where the median home price recently hit $1.8m.

But their haven could be coming to an end . and with it, a rapidly disappearing way of life.

The anchor-outs live aboard semi-derelict boats abutting the town of Sausalito, an upscale enclave just north of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin county where mansions boast floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the water. Tourists arrive by ferry from the city on weekends, strolling the promenade of restaurants, wine bars, art galleries and boutiques.

Sooo, have the anchor-outs been causing problems that they haven’t before? Or are their junky homes interfering with the view from those megabucks mini-mansions? Let’s investigate but first, that is not a trivial question. The values of prime real estate can change dramatically with changes in the view. I’ve heard of a homeowner paying Pacific Gas & Electric over $75k to bury just a couple telephone poles’ worth of overhead lines in expectation that the increase in sale value of his property would increase by even more from the improved ocean view.

Another guy bought the mansion between him and the ocean, gave himself the perpetual right to trim trees on it and then resold the mansion the next day.

This is the kind of wealth we’re talking about. Exterminating a couple unsightly boats from the horizon might easily raise the value of half the homes in Sausalito… by more than your annual salary… each.

The agency that oversees the local waterway known as the Richardson Bay has in recent months begun a fervent crackdown on the boat dwellers, who they say are here illegally and pose a threat to safety and the marine environment. Determined to clear the waters, a hardline harbormaster has even begun confiscating and destroying boats that overstay their welcome.

Nonsense! There is no such thing as an illegal migrant! So says actual State law now! All of humanity is officially a legal resident of California so long as they’re standing on it.

Oh. I see the problem.

The anchor-outs, meanwhile, are fighting back, staging protests and clashing with authorities who they say are in effect rendering them homeless.

On a recent afternoon, the sounds of a tractor’s hydraulic arm crushing a fiberglass sailboat carried on the wind. The noise lingered over a homeless encampment that has grown near the waterfront. “Camp Cormorant., as boaters nicknamed it, has become the political base of the anchor-outs. protest movement.

For the 50 or so people camped in neat rows of tents, the frequent whir, crunch and crack of the crusher represents their way of life being torn to bits. Many say they were forced to decamp here after their vessels were destroyed.

.They want to take our homes and shut the anchorage down,. says Jeff Jacob Chase, a 20-year anchor-out with a trademark pirate swagger, a long, salt-and-pepper beard, spectacles and floppy hat. .They basically want to eradicate a culture..

Rejoice, peasants! You used to own your own home! It was a crappy floating junkyard but it was yours! Now you own nothing and you will be happy any moment now! Praise Klaus Schwab who teaches the world to smile!

Meanwhile, the onshore millionaires made even more money in their sleep. Just a coincidence.

In a region dominated by water, boats have been used as a cheap source of housing since the Gold Rush, when miners lived aboard vessels. In the 1950s, a community of bohemians and artists grew along the Sausalito shoreline, with residents building wildly creative floating constructions that offered shelter and inspiration to Beat writers and artists such as Allen Ginsberg and Shel Silverstein. It transformed into a hippy music scene in the 1960s, but in the mid-1970s, residents of those houseboats were mostly pushed out in a series of local enforcement actions known as .the houseboat wars..

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The community’s history dates back to the late 19th century, when fishermen’s wooden shacks in Sausalito were converted to vacation homes by some San Franciscans. Others built houseboats and moored them in the cove, says Larry Clinton, a Sausalito Historical Society member and expert on floating homes. Some were quite inventive: One houseboat was made from four horse-drawn streetcars nailed to a raft.

These “Venetians of the West,. as they dubbed themselves, held a spectacular “Night in Venice” festival every summer. The celebration included fireworks, concerts, a torch-lit boat parade, festive decorations, and open houses. In 1899, a writer for the British magazine The Strand praised the “indescribable charm about the life.” Butchers, bakers, and other suppliers took orders from their own boats each morning, delivering them for dinner.

After the 1906 earthquake, many San Franciscans. homes were destroyed, so some moved full-time to the waterside dwellings. While Sausalito’s tidal flats had long been a fertile dump heap for derelict barges and sailing ships that were abandoned or sold for scrap, it was World War II that really jump started the floating home community.

Despite its beatnik origins, today the Richardson Bay hosts a unique waterfront class system.

At the top are the authorized houseboat marinas where floating, luxury homes with shingle siding, plumbing and electricity can sell for more than $1m. Other boaters, known as live-aboards, can pay a monthly fee to dwell on their sailboats and cabin cruisers in a marina slip, but the number of spots is tightly controlled and authorities say there is a long waiting list. Finally there are the anchor-outs, whom some see as the last of a dying breed of free spirits who eschew the world of rent deposits, credit checks and bills.

After the war, the Marinship shipyard, where 20,000 people built military ships 24 hours a day, closed down. According to Annie Butler, author of The History of Issaquah Dock, a veritable gold mine of unfinished boats, lumber, metal, machinery, and parts was left behind.

Jonah Owen Lamb had a freewheeling childhood on a houseboat tied to a barge named the Isle of Contempt…

Awesome sauce!

…with his carpenter father and artist mother in the late 1970s and .80s. .Our neighbors were bearded pirate men like my father, with high boots and long knives, beautiful, half-naked women, and children as feral as the dogs,. he wrote in SF Weekly.

Good times, good times.

People short on cash, but long on ingenuity, eagerly built living quarters atop maritime vessels. The homes were made from barges, Chinese junks, or even logs lashed together, using materials salvaged from cars, packing crates, railroad cars, and motor homes. Their creations were then linked to the piers by ramshackle wooden walkways. A tolerant landlord.a boatyard owner who liked to acquire old boats, including decommissioned ferries.charged little or no rent and often hired houseboaters. This helped the community grow, entirely unregulated.

The bane of every government upon the Earth!

Marin County government and real estate developers, eyeing the valuable waterfront property, often attempted to evict the houseboaters over the decades, sometimes in armed confrontations with sheriff’s deputies. In 1995, a state environmental agency attempted to evict about 30 houseboats in Galilee Harbor, fining them $5,000 each day they remained on the water. Lamb, then 17, testified passionately at a hearing about the “unique place” where he grew up. Two films chronicle this 40-year struggle, The Last Free Ride, about the 1960s and .70s, and Houseboat Wars, about the 1990s.

The 1995 effort failed. But eventually, the community was brought up to code and safety standards with proper power and sewage hookups, and brand-new piers were built. New floating homes, some quite palatial, were constructed with the help of architects.

One might be tempted to look upon the anchor-outs as seabound homeless, complete with the trash, drug abuse and insanity that that implies. That would not be entirely uncalled for. But this is legit local history and these people have a long-established tradition and presence in the area.

Way, way back in the day, that meant you belonged there. Even if you were literally too poor to own dirt.

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The anchor-outs get by with minimal resources, hauling their own water and generating power from tiny solar panels. They brave the bay’s famous winds to travel to and from the shore in rowboats or motorized dinghies.

Housing advocates say the battle over their way of life is just the latest chapter in a crisis that has seen living options for low-income residents all but vanish.

Chase still has his sailboat, a sloop named the Jubilee, but he also spends time in Camp Cormorant, organizing his fellow boaters to protest against the evictions as an officer of the local chapter of the California Homeless Union.

.What they’re doing is criminalizing this entire community,. said Chase.

It’s not an accident when it’s a trend. The wealthy want expensive land and cheap labor; the middle class wants cheap land and expensive labor. One look at how Commiefornia has been hollowed out into unjustifiably expensive property serviced by multiple and growing slave classes says everything:

We the People have lost control of our government and slavery is back on the menu.

Curtis Havel, the harbormaster, would be the first to call himself the villain of this story.

.For a long time, people regarded Richardson’s Bay as this sort of bohemian live-and-let-live situation and the vessel count continued to increase,. he says. .Now it’s time for us to enforce our rules..

The state agency that oversees the San Francisco Bay had been building pressure on local authorities to act, and Havel says clearing the harbor of illegal anchoring was the primary mission he was given when he was hired two years ago.

Citing a long-unenforced rule that says boats can anchor for no more than 72 hours, Havel has been confiscating boats, dragging them into a shipyard and crushing them into chunks. Of the 190 boats out here when he took over, Havel says he has gotten rid of all but 86 vessels . about 70 of which are now occupied by full-time residents.

Those are peoples’ homes that he’s targeting. What was their crime?

Havel argues boats and their occupants can cause a laundry list of problems and environmental concerns. Their anchors drag along the bottom and destroy the eelgrass, an important habitat for marine life. Boats break loose from their anchors during storms, endangering those aboard and others along the shore. The residents dump sewage and leave abandoned boats and parts polluting the bay. And there have been complaints about drug use and crime.

1. Their anchors have been dragging the bay’s bottom for well over a century. No ecological disaster.

2. Fuck you, Curtis. You aren’t helping them, taking away their homes because they might lose control in a storm someday. By all means, clear the derelicts, but not peoples’ inhabited homes.

4. Drug use and crime is a problem? Welcome to California. Come for the victimhood, stay for the legalization!

3. Untreated sewage is a problem, yes, but I don’t want to hear it in the context of Sodom Frankie-sicko. Take a shit in the water where it’ll break down and be naturally recycled as nutrients? You lose your home. Take a shit on the sidewalk where the turds flow into the convention center? Your newest civil right!

WHICH IS IT, GAY AREA?! INDOOR PLUMBING OR OUTDOOR PLUMBING?!

“Trans-plumbing!”

Anarcho-tyranny, I tell ye.

Havel says his enforcement has made him unpopular, but he’s willing to take some flak in order to get the job done.

Spoiler: he’s already quit to spend more time with his family and pursue other opportunities.

But around the anchorage, signs of rebellion abound. Some boats fly upside down American flags, the maritime signal for distress. Occupants of a boat named Evolution have taped up a big, hand-stenciled .R., rebranding it the “REvolution.”

As Havel patrols, a metal dinghy motors up behind him. The driver, a boat-dweller with a white megaphone, starts shouting at Havel, peppering his taunts with expletives. .Tell them how you’ve been crushing people’s homes, sir,. yells the man. 

I like these people. They have grit. The scallywag swagger didn’t die out in the Seventies!

Havel, however, appears unflustered. .It’s always been politically charged; it’s just getting heightened because we’re doing something..

Had he not already given up, I would also have credited Curtis with courage.

Sigh. If it was courage that won wars then the ‘Murican Empire would have been crushed in its crib by Robert E. Lee. I fear the anchor-outs will suffer the South’s fate of too much courage and not enough disposable hirelings.

Authorities say they have been seizing only abandoned and derelict boats, but around Camp Cormorant, numerous residents claim to have lost their homes to the crusher.

Michael Adams and his wife lived in the anchorage for decades, raising two kids. The couple had recently become afraid to leave their boat, a historic 1928 pleasure cruiser named the Marlin, for fear it would get destroyed.

.I went off one morning and he crushed it,. says Adams as he paints a mural on the plywood patio he built in front of the tent he and his wife now call home.

Overwealthy swine call that Progress.

Robyn Kelly, a former skincare technician, moved into the anchorage after giving up her apartment and job to care for her sick mother, and ended up living on a 28ft power boat for a decade. She says it made an excellent home, until one day in 2019 she found it had been confiscated by the harbormaster.

.I went away for 24 hours and I came back and it was gone,. said Kelly, who has since filed a lawsuit against the authorities for destroying her boat and possessions.

Kelly and her two pups, Hank and Nacho, are currently staying on a friend’s boat; she.d like to move back to shore but her small income isn’t enough to make the deposit for an apartment, and her arthritis is starting to give her trouble. .I couldn’t afford an apartment now,. she said. .I.d love one..

Kelly.s friend, Billy McClean, is a fourth-generation Marin county resident. He can look across the water from where his Dutch cruiser is anchored and see stately houses constructed nearly a century ago by his grandfather, a local builder.

He recalls growing up seeing people living freely on the water. .When I was a teenager I used to come down here to the boats and buy pot from what I called “the hippies.,. he says. .Now I live here..

McClean says people like him have been priced out of the region by an influx of tech workers making six-figure salaries. McClean couldn’t afford a decent apartment at his previous job working for a fencing company . so he bought a cheap motorboat and moved into the anchorage in 2009.

More marks against these people being homeless bums. They’re willing to work; they simply can’t pay the rent. And where in the world are low-skilled white people welcome?

His vessel has a TV, DVD player and a small refrigerator, all powered by a generator. He doesn’t have much space inside, but from his white decks he can see green waters and California hillsides all around him.

.It.s nice out here . and then it’s not,. he said. .It’s a lot of work . and in the winter, it can be downright life threatening..

A short skiff ride across the anchorage from McClean, Brian Doris is fixing up an old pleasure yacht named Marlia that he bought for $1 after it was abandoned. The outside of his boat is still cluttered with toolboxes and boat repair supplies, but he’s transformed the interior with sumptuous Turkish rugs and plants.

.I.m not homeless, I’m houseless,. says Doris, who says he can no longer sleep on land because he misses the rocking of the waves.

Like many anchorage residents, Doris scoffs at the idea of being placed into shelter housing. .This is my home,. he says, adding if they want to take his boat, they should “bring a body bag..

May the God of Courage and Underdogs guide you hand, Mr. Doris, and the hand of every man protecting his home and way of life from those who would make him afraid.

Jennifer Friedenbach, the executive director of the San Francisco-based Coalition on Homelessness, says living on a boat was one of many .very-low-income housing options. that used to exist in California along with residential hotels and live-work spaces in warehouses. But these types of marginal housing have vanished.

.Once gentrification came, those options disappeared, and that puts pressure on homelessness,. says Friedenbach.

My read also but I didn’t find any proof of it. What I did find, suggests that this particular effort is being waged by the environmentalists not the millionaires. Assuming there’s a difference in the Gay Area.

Timothy Logan, a boat owner descended from three generations of California travelers, bought his houseboat cruiser the SS Patio nine years ago to serve as his primary residence. But since then, he has been kicked out of one harbor after another.

He started as a resident of a marina in Sacramento, living along river waters that feed into the San Francisco Bay. That marina closed for development, so he moved his boat to other harbors, including ones in Antioch and Oakland, only to see boaters kicked out of those places too.

.Out of the blue, the whole state of California was like: .You can’t live on the water,..he says.

While the SS Patio is still anchored out in Richardson Bay, Logan fears his boat will eventually end up being crushed like many of his friends..

Havel, the harbormaster, and authorities governing both Richardson Bay and the state of California say they are determined that within five years, the last of the anchor-outs will be gone. For their part, the anchor-outs don’t intend to go quietly.

.We are a community; we’re trying to stick together,. says Logan.

That bold-faced statement intrigued me. Cleaning up the harbor is one thing; the government having a deadline to meet is quite something else. Who is REALLY calling the shots?

San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission: Its Failure to Perform Key Responsibilities Has Allowed Ongoing Harm to the San Francisco Bay

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By the Auditor Of the State Of California, 14 May 2019

The following is reformatted for readability.

Results in Brief

The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (commission) has neglected its responsibility to protect the San Francisco Bay (Bay) and the Suisun Marsh. The Legislature created the commission in 1965 to regulate development in and around the Bay in order to protect the Bay’s health and ensure public access. To this end, state law authorizes the commission.which consists of 27 commissioners and 48 staff members.to issue permits for certain actions, including placing material in the Bay or removing material from it.

Created in 1965… about the time of those Houseboat Wars. Sounds like David beat Gov-liath in Round 1 and there’s been a truce ever since.

The commission is also responsible for ensuring that permit holders comply with the terms of their permits and with state law, and it has the ability to enforce compliance through a system of fines and penalties.

However, as we discuss throughout the report, the commission has consistently struggled to perform key responsibilities related to enforcement and has therefore allowed ongoing harm to the Bay. Although enforcing state law and the terms of its permits is critical to the commission’s ability to protect the Bay, it has a backlog of 230 enforcement cases, some of which are more than a decade old. Moreover, its annual reports suggest that the backlog will continue to expand, as staff opened 14 more cases on average than they closed annually from 2012 through 2017. Some of the potential violations of state law and permit requirements contained in the backlog may represent ongoing harm to the Bay or its shoreline.

For example, one case opened in 2010 involves 200 vessels anchored illegally in Richardson Bay, a shallow, ecologically rich arm of the San Francisco Bay.

Aha, there’s Curtis’ “190 boats” in need of destruction… whether inhabited or not.

Commission staff have indicated that many of these boats are in a state of disrepair and that they frequently sink,
resulting in the release of harmful chemicals into the Bay.

No actual incidents of this were cited in the report.

Although the illegally moored boats in Richardson Bay have harmed a delicate ecosystem, the commission has done little to resolve the situation. Further, to address its backlog, the commissioners are currently considering proposals to grant amnesty to certain categories of enforcement cases, which could lead to the commission dismissing the cases without the violators taking corrective actions.

That DEFINITELY sounds like a truce being observed.

This approach could allow the activities that caused the violations to continue, potentially indefinitely…

…as well as create future litigation risks from both environmental groups and alleged violators who do not receive amnesty.

Oh, such pure motives. “We must protect the delicate environment, tee hee, but on a serious you’re ruining our ability to sue them for cash and prizes. Worse, you might set a precedent that these people deserve to live inside our view of the Bay!”

The commission essentially allowed the harm resulting from the violations to continue unresolved.

Because those ecological violations don’t exist. None were documented in this bureaucrat’s report, ergo, they do not exist. That’s how the game is played. This auditor report is full of false accusations.

Commission regulations do not authorize staff to process enforcement cases representing significant harm to the Bay without formal enforcement, which includes an enforcement hearing before the commissioners, referral from the commissioners to the Office of the Attorney General, or a temporary cease.and.desist order issued by the executive director. However, the regulations lack a specific definition of significant harm that would guide staff in knowing when to forward such cases. As a result, the commissioners have improperly delegated their enforcement authority by allowing staff to decide which cases represent significant harm.

Translation, due process of law interfered with eradication efforts of the invasive species–humans–and should be discarded for the next effort. Those anchor-outs reporting that their boats were destroyed the moment their back was turned are coming into focus. As they teach in law schools, if you don’t get caught then you’ve done nothing wrong.

You wouldn’t believe how many layers of government encumber California’s shorelines. Suffice to say, in another context I’d be thrilled at new tools with which to cut the red tape. But this report is a call for new tools for the State.

[One of many recommendations:] To ensure that the commission performs its duties under state law related to the Suisun Marsh, the Legislature should require a report from the commission upon completion of its comprehensive review of the marsh program every five years, beginning with a review in fiscal year 2020.21.

There’s where that mysterious five-year deadline came from: the California legislature has taken a direct interest in the extermination of one of California’s last, unique communities.

Because climate change or whatever… and totally not because all those limousine liberals hate to see the poor living free.

One last article:

Embattled Richardson Bay harbormaster to exit post

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By Giuseppe Ricapito and Natalie Hanson, 12 October 2021

Curtis Havel, the Richardson Bay harbormaster who has long clashed with mariners over illegally anchored vessels, will leave his position at the end of the month.

Havel, a former county planner, said in a letter to the Richardson’s Bay Regional Agency board that is he leaving “to pursue other career opportunities..

.It.s been my great pleasure to work with such a dedicated team during my tenure as RBRA.s Harbormaster,. he wrote.

Jim Malcolm, the assistant harbormaster, will assume Havel’s responsibilities while the agency finds a replacement.

Havel.s annual salary was $120,640, said Dan Eilerman, assistant county administrator.

Havel was hired in August 2019, replacing former harbormaster Bill Price, who held the job [GQ: and the truce] for 24 years. Havel joined the agency as it was under mounting state pressure to crack down on .anchor-outs,. the vessels anchored in Richardson Bay in violation of state law that forbids them from staying there for longer than 72 hours.

The agency’s board approved a settlement agreement in August that will require the removal of illegal vessels anchored in the bay within five years amid threats of enforcement action by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.

What is it with Communists and Five Year Plans, anyway?

During his tenure, Havel was responsible for removing derelict and unseaworthy boats from the bay. The efforts prompted lawsuits and protests from boat residents and activists who said the policies exacerbated homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic.

[Curtis] said his departure was “solely related to the pursuit of a new career opportunity” and not related to public pressure or the anchor-out community.

In an age of institutional deceit, there’s no proof like an official denial…

Supervisor Stephanie Moulton-Peters, chair of the RBRA board of directors, commended Havel’s efforts over the last two years.

.Curtis has done a very good job in the last two years of decongesting the anchorage and removing marine debris from the water and working to create some stability out there,. said Moulton-Peters, whose district is in the southern part of the county.

Moulton-Peters said Havel was not seeking a new job, but decided to leave because he was offered a position that seemed like a “good fit” for him. She added that there was “no basis” to the suggestion that the anchor-outs or housing advocacy on Richardson Bay influenced his decision.

…that gets repeated!

Another scalp for the anchor-outs! See what happens when you forget history in order to break a long-standing truce? You learn once again why that truce was made.

.The RBRA.s ongoing mission is vital to the ongoing health of the Richardson Bay ecosystem and critical to the public’s overall health and safety (particularly with respect to the use and enjoyment of a public commons),. he said.

Robbie Powelson, a Marin County housing activist who has repeatedly battled with authorities over the anchorages in Richardson Bay, celebrated Havel’s departure.

.Curtis Havel leaves behind a trail of lies, trauma and dispossessed victims,. Powelson said Tuesday. .I think what has happened is a significant disruption of a ring of deviant public officials enabled by the absurd policies of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission..

Powelson was arrested in March during conflict over a houseboat owned by an artist anchored in Richardson Bay. The charges have since been dismissed.

Ooh, this article sneaked in a hit piece on Powelson! Take your scallywag swagger victory lap, Robbie!

Powelson said he considered the authority of the agency and BCDC .unconstitutional and fraudulent. and did not want to lend credence to Havel’s replacement by speculating as to how a successor could improve relations with the anchor-outs.

.It.s still the same bureaucracy that’s enabled these people,. Powelson said. “But the new harbormaster needs to have, there needs to be some kind of way people can go to doctor’s appointments, get food, get water, without living in fear..

Arthur Bruce, who lives on a boat in the bay, said the battle with agency and the anchor-out community is “not over yet.” He said Havel’s treatment of him and other boaters was “so far beneath him, it was embarrassing..

.We’re all delighted he’s resigning, but he’s left a wake of terror and havoc,. Bruce said. .The title of harbormaster is way too dignified for him..

Bruce said he had a great relationship with the previous harbormaster and called Havel’s policies “just beyond abhorrent.” He said he hopes boaters. relationship with Malcolm can be “more professional..