“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..

*GunnerQ scans the daily crime headlines*

Police officer overdoses on fentanyl during vehicle search, saved by Narcan

It happens, man. Gotta wear gloves these days.

Doctors claim it was just a panic attack because fentanyl can’t do that.

Eh? Cop was male… male cops don’t have panic attacks.

Don’t believe the DEA and CDC. The cop had a panic attack. Nothing to see here except a pattern emerging across North America which means nothing at all.

We got a live one! *GunnerQ snaps gloves on*

Police officers are collapsing after touching fentanyl, but experts say you can’t overdose from skin contact. The likelier story? Panic attacks.

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By Erin Schumaker, 27 October 2021

Occam’s Razor… FAILED!!!

The video is harrowing: It shows a San Diego deputy crumpling to the ground in a parking lot after accidentally touching white powder during an arrest.

“I got you, OK? I’m not going to let you die,” someone said in a voice-over. Then someone yelled, “I need Narcan!”

In the video, Deputy David Faiivae, the officer in training who collapsed, wiped away a tear after describing how his lungs locked up that day in July.

“I almost died of a fentanyl overdose,” Faiivae, 32, said. Then Bill Gore, the sheriff of San Diego County, appeared on-screen with a public-service message.

“Being exposed to just a few small grains of fentanyl could have deadly consequences,” Gore said. He added, “Please take the time to share this video.”

But experts say you can’t overdose from touching fentanyl. So why did the San Diego police officer collapse?

Segue to video

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It’s bodycam footage but presented in the format of a warning video to law enforcement. Because I can’t archive it, here’s the TL;DR. A San Diego sergeant and trainee were searching a vehicle after an arrest (suspect not present, presumably locked in a patrol car). Upon opening the vehicle, bags leaking a white power resembling fentanyl were located in plain sight. The trainee was not shown even touching the substance but while standing next to the vehicle, he suddenly lost balance, collapsed and went into respiratory arrest.

Per the interviewed training sergeant, symptoms included the trainee’s eyes rolling back into his head. Narcan, an emergency treatment for opioid overdose, was credited by the Sherriff for saving the trainee’s life.

That’s not a panic attack. There wasn’t even an environmental stressor… no screaming people, brightly lit day etc. It really sounds like a drug overdose.

End segue

It’s not that fentanyl isn’t dangerous. A record 93,000 drug-overdose deaths were reported last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said, and potent synthetic opioids such as fentanyl are the most common drugs involved in those deaths.

But skin contact with fentanyl is different, experts say.

“The only way to overdose is from injecting, snorting, or some other way of ingesting it,” Dr. Ryan Marino, the medical director of toxicology at University Hospitals in Cleveland, told The New York Times. “You cannot overdose from secondhand contact.”

Snorting? As in, inhaling? That would be a very nasty drug, if you can OD as quickly as you smell it.

Marino is such a Social Justice Warrior of an ER doc, I’ll have a postscript at the end to dishonor him.

Moreover, the symptoms people describe after touching fentanyl vary widely, from dizziness to blurry vision to heart palpitations.

No. Drugs do NOT vary widely in their symptoms, excepting allergic reactions which don’t apply here. I find it very hard to believe that you can get dosed on fentanyl by casual exposure but never overdosed. The only difference is *ahem* dosage.

“Passive exposure to fentanyl does not result in clinical toxicity,” Dr. Lewis Nelson, the director of the medical toxicology division at Rutgers Medical School, wrote in a STAT News op-ed in 2018. He added that the reactions usually resolve on their own, and faster than the drug’s effects should last.

“They aren’t consistent with the signs and symptoms of opioid poisoning – the triad of slowed breathing, decreased consciousness, and pinpoint pupils,” Nelson wrote.

Segue to that 2018 op-ed:

.Passive. fentanyl exposure: more myth than reality

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By Lewis S. Nelson and Jeanmarie Perrone, 21 December 2018

The news reports are alarming: Merely being in a room or in close contact with fentanyl, an increasingly popular opioid narcotic, can poison you, they say.

Perhaps the best known report of passive casualties from fentanyl is a 2017 news account that went viral. In it, an East Liverpool, Ohio, police officer brushed a white powder off his uniform, lost consciousness within an hour, and awakened after being given a dose of naloxone, a drug that quickly reverses the effects of opioids.

Was that a panic attack?

Reports of fentanyl-related passive toxicity has led to the release of hyperbolic warnings and burdensome recommendations by Drug Enforcement Administration, including the use of extensive personal protective equipment, such as gloves, paper coveralls, eye protection, and even particulate respirators. We believe that such responses to passive casualties from fentanyl are excessive and may actually interfere with the ability of first responders and others to do their jobs.

That didn’t age well. The Plandemic says hello!

All of these moves appear driven by concerns about the perceived risk of passive exposure to synthetic drugs, especially fentanyl and its analogs, by law enforcement personnel and first responders. Although mitigating risk is laudable, the risks of transient exposure have been blown out of proportion by media coverage.

One of the issues with this dramatization of fentanyl toxicity is that it further stigmatizes substance users as contagious and dangerous. That can potentially delay care to those who need prompt rescue and treatment. This trepidation is reminiscent of the fear of caring for people with HIV in the 1980s.

His motivation for countering alarmism is to protect the reputations of drug addicts? “If you wear all that safety gear then people will be scared to be around junkies shooting up!” That has nothing to do with the question of PPE for fentanyl.

There is clear evidence that passive exposure to fentanyl does not result in clinical toxicity. Descriptions of the signs and symptoms of those who have supposedly experienced passive toxicity vary widely. They include dizziness, blurry vision, pallor, weakness, sweatiness, high blood pressure, chest pain, heart palpitations, anxiety, and occasionally seizure-like activity. These findings are usually transient and resolve on their own, often far faster than would be expected, and are incompatible with the known duration of the drug’s effect. What’s more, they aren’t consistent with the signs and symptoms of opioid poisoning . the triad of slowed breathing, decreased consciousness, and pinpoint pupils.

That training video had slowed breathing, loss of consciousness, rolled-back eyes… and to be fair, possible dizziness. Which of these sets of symptoms is the correct one for opioids?

It.s also important to put into context the practical risk of exposure to fentanyl. Pharmacists have been working with fentanyl for years, without reports of passive exposure. The same holds for surgeons, anesthesiologists, emergency physicians, and others working in operating rooms and emergency departments, where fentanyl is routinely administered as a pain reliever.

A little amateur research indicates that medicinal fentanyl is provided in forms that preclude accidental exposure, from liquids to patches to lollipops. It seems that these medical personnel don’t work with street versions of the drug… and I notice that chemical forms of fentanyl also vary.

I searched for specific examples and found this interesting story.

A Guide to Fentanyl Touch Overdoses, Which Do Not Exist

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By Claire Zagorski, 11 August 2021

Once as a paramedic student, I accidentally sprayed fentanyl in my face. It was my first time administering the medication, and a patient with a broken ankle was lying on the gurney in front of me, tensed uncomfortably, when the ambulance hit a curb. My thumb was hovering over the syringe’s plunger. I stumbled. The fentanyl squirted out, streamed through the air and splattered onto my cheek.

The patient got a laugh out of this, as did my trainers. This wasn’t cruel of them; I was fine. I didn’t feel any effects at all.

This makes sense, because fentanyl can’t absorb through the skin very well. (There are fentanyl skin patches prescribed for pain, especially among cancer patients, which work very slowly and use additives to help the fentanyl absorb, but they’re in no way analogous to either liquid injectable fentanyl or powdered illicit fentanyl.) But month after month, we see headlines recounting police encounters with fentanyl that lead to.as the police tell it.sudden, dramatic, near-fatal overdose, often requiring multiple doses of naloxone.

A plausible account, since it doesn’t make Claire look good. But the police aren’t faking it… not when it’s an international pattern… and I’m detecting a lot of deception along the lines of “street fentanyl is safe to touch because liquid fentanyl doesn’t absorb through the skin.”

Deputy David Faiivae of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department recently had one such experience, according to a widely circulated video put out by the department. [GQ: linked above] Faiivae had no direct contact with the powder; he was simply standing in its vicinity. Shortly after being warned by his field training officer to stay back from the suspected fentanyl..Hey dude, too close. You can’t get too close to it..Faiivae fell to the ground. He was given four doses of naloxone, after which he returned to his normal self.

What a coincidence, that he had a panic attack that looked like an opioid OD at the exact moment his training officer was warning him to step away from the opioid.

Perhaps unlike Bill Clinton, the trainee DID inhale?

End segue

But the police officer in San Diego wasn’t the only one to collapse. Officers in Ohio, Arkansas, Massachusetts, California, and North Carolina have also struggled to breathe or fainted after touching fentanyl. Faiivae declined to comment on the incident. The New Republic’s “The Politics of Everything” podcast set out to solve this mystery last month, and it concluded that officers were having panic attacks, fueled by misinformation.

“People are probably familiar with what in the 19th century or early 20th century was called hysteria,” Patrick Blanchfield, an associate faculty member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research who specializes in psychoanalytic theory, told “The Politics of Everything.”

In classic hysteria cases, symptoms present as temporary paralysis, Blanchfield added: “People’s limbs would lock up. They would start screaming, wailing – no apparent reason.”

In modern-day terms, police officers may be experiencing a conversion disorder – when intense stress is converted into physical symptoms, Blanchfield explained. It’s similar to a panic attack.

Blanchfield didn’t think the officers were exaggerating or collapsing on purpose. He believed they were truly scared.

Scared of what? The trainee didn’t have years of pent-up PTSD. There was no indication that the arrest had been violent. And as anybody who’s had to learn a hard field job knows, the presence of a training officer is more of a relief than a stress.

“That suffering is real,” he said.

Your excuse is not, Pat. You could have said “I don’t know.” You could have, being a minor celebrity, probably palmed and sniffed some powdered fentanyl to prove your claims of harmlessness. No doubt a few cops would love to watch the result.

But instead, you actively claimed “panic attacks”. That many police officers, across many jurisdictions and cultures, are having freak panic attacks that respond to Narcan. That don’t resemble the panic attacks caused by poor mental health. Men who trade punches with the insane and clear houses in the dark where bad guys hide with unknown weapons, are traumatized instead by a white powder that you “experts” claim is safe.

You “experts” are lying. I don’t know the cause either… see, it doesn’t hurt to admit ignorance… but I’m not trying to handwave it away, either. Why do you want this topic to go away? so badly that you’ll make obvious lies about it?

Because fentanyl is being used as a population-control method, and the faster it kills, the fewer humans pollute the planet with their existence? I really hope not. But first you globalists said you wanted Earth’s population decimated and now you run the world, so yes, I think you would cull us with deadly-toxic drugs. And then lie about it when police accidentally stand downwind.

Policing is a stressful and dangerous job, so news stories and police reports about officers who are said to have overdosed during drug busts might have led to a contagion effect, in which certain behaviors or actions spread through a group.

“When your whole job is maintaining boundaries, but also those boundaries are unstable and full of contradictions, it’s probably not surprising that people develop conversion disorders and contagion fears specifically, that they seize up or act out,” Blanchfield said.

You know what else people are having panic attacks about these days? Hearing crickets in American embassies.

Havana syndrome: US experts pinpoint origin of mysterious illness in new report

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By Sebastian Kettley, 1 October 2021

Testimony from “US experts” is why I don’t stream Netflix for my entertainment needs.

The mystery illness, which was first reported in Cuba in 2016, has followed US embassy staff and military personnel around the globe. Cases of Havana syndrome have been reported in the US, China, UK, Poland, Russia, among others, and most recently in Serbia. Symptoms include pain, dizziness and reports of a high-pitched metallic sound, which has led some to speculate these were targetted attacks by America’s adversaries.

Okay. Plausible.

Russia has frequently come under fire for its alleged involvement in the “attacks” although no one has ever proven any involvement from foreign powers.

Less plausible. Russia Russia Russia! Gotta push the Narrative!

Earlier this month, Iain Boyd, a Professor of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, claimed weapons harnessing the power of electromagnetic waves could be responsible.

He said: “If Havana syndrome turns out to be caused by weapons that shoot energy beams, they won’t be the first such weapons.

“As an aerospace engineer and former Vice Chair of the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, I’ve researched directed energy.

“I can also personally attest to the effectiveness of directed energy weapons.”

VERY plausible! “Hello, I’m an engineer who has built one of them and tried it on myself. So yeah, they exist.”

You can also buy one. Segue to the Soundlazer website!

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A non-lethal acoustic weapon is a tool or a device that uses sound to immobilize, deafen, threaten, discourage a target or to disperse crowds of people such as rioters. In some cases, they are handy for addressing crowds and for public safety and for transmitting sound over long distances. In many cases, these devices use technologies like ultrasound and infrasound, where the frequencies emitted by devices are higher or lower than what a normal human being can hear. Some of these weapons also use technologies like the directional sound waves, which makes the sound audible only to those that find themselves in that beam.

Cue the mysterious attack on the US embassy in Havana, Cuba, where an attacker used an unknown sound weapon on the employees within the embassy. The attack was inaudible to the people inside the embassy, but the noise caused a lot of damage. Non-lethal acoustic weapons can be a powerful way to control rioters and generally disturb the receiving party.

Out of stock at the moment, alas. Stupid port bottlenecks delaying shipments of ultrasonic weapons so cutting-edge high tech, they’re still California-legal!

End segue.

So, yeah. It’s an open secret that Havana Syndrome is sonic weapons.

No?

In 2020, a study by the US National Academies of Sciences (NAS), Engineering and Medicine concluded more than 130 victims of Havana syndrome have experienced real symptoms.

But with no tangible culprit in sight, the report only served to deepen the mystery.

The mystery illness was explored by authors Robert Baloh and Robert Bartholomew in their March 2020 book, Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Hysteria.

According to the book’s description, Havana syndrome “is one of the most extraordinary cases in the history of science”.

The authors concluded at the time Havana syndrome was not an effort to target US diplomats, but rather a psychogenic illness linked to the mating calls of insects.

Y’know, man… I want them to stop lying… but a part of me would miss the freak show.

And according to a declassified report by the US State Department, their conclusion was right on the money.

The document was obtained by BuzzFeed News and was penned by the JASON advisory group – an independent group of specialists who advise the US government on sensitive matters of science and technology.

The report confirms that “many of the affected individuals describe hearing unusual sounds, and that there are a number of recordings of these sounds”. However, an analysis of these sounds concluded these were most likely mechanical or biological in origin and not electronic. The most likely culprit? The Indies short-tailed cricket (Anurogryllis celerinictus).

The report reads: “The call of this animal matches, in nuanced detail, the spectral properties of the recordings from Cuba once room echoes are taken into account.

“Other hypotheses are also plausible, such as generation by mechanical devices (e.g., a worn pump motor), or structure-borne vibration.”

The report also stated with “high confidence” the reported sounds were “not produced by the nonlinear detection of high power radiofrequency or ultrasound pulses”.

However, the report’s findings seem to contradict the NAS’s 2020 report, which concluded microwaves were the “most plausible” culprit.

The NAS told BuzzFeed: “We are grateful to the JASON Group for their insight, which while coming to no firm conclusions, has assisted us in our ongoing investigation of these incidents.”

Damning with faint praise. “I’m so glad the government spent money on you private contractors in order to make us redundant!” So, they still don’t know what actually caused the sickness but they did hear some Cuban crickets and are certain, CERTAIN that it was NOT a sonic attack.

Which is the best proof you can get, short of being next.

But what’s this psychogenic illness that book talked about? Like you can’t guess by now…

THE REAL STORY BEHIND THE HAVANA EMBASSY MYSTERY

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By Jack Hitt, 6 January 2019

Unfortunate name, that.

An American working at the U.S. Embassy in Havana.some call him Patient Zero.complained that he had heard strange noises outside his home. .It was annoying to the point where you had to go in the house and close all the windows and doors and turn up the TV,. the diplomat told ProPublica. Zero discussed the sound with his next-door neighbor, who also worked at the embassy. The neighbor said, yeah, he too had heard noises, which he described as .mechanical-sounding..…

The outbreak at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba wasn’t the only mysterious illness to pop up in the headlines. Around the same time that embassy officials were preparing to fly home, more than 20 students at an Oklahoma high school suddenly came down with baffling symptoms.uncontrollable muscle spasms, even paralysis. A few years before, a similar incident at a school in upstate New York had caught the attention of the local Fox News affiliate, which sent parents into a panic over the possibility that their children had been stricken by an unidentified immune disorder. But the Cuban mystery, the Trump administration insisted, was different. It was not some environmental mishap, but something far more diabolical.

RUSSIA!

Encouraged by U.S. officials, the media quickly unfurled a story that the mysterious sound was an .attack..an act of war. Some kind of “acoustic weapon” had been secretly aimed at the diplomats, in an effort to reduce them to brain-damaged zombies.

[insert crack about State Department zombies]

The story got told with a side helping of Cold War envy. Private contractors and the Pentagon’s own hip military lab, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, had long been working to develop an arsenal of sound weapons. There had been some limited success with cumbersome devices like MEDUSA (Mob Excess Deterrent Using Silent Audio) and LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device), designed to cause excruciating ear pain to disperse mobs on the ground and pirates at sea. The dream, of course, was to get past such giant blunderbusses to something more portable and powerful, like a Flash Gordon ray gun. But the air force, after some experiments, concluded that any such effort using sound waves would be “unlikely” to succeed due to “basic physical principles.. If someone had developed a portable acoustic weapon, they had leapfrogged well beyond the skill set of a Raytheon or Navistar and into the arsenal of Q Branch from the Bond movies.

Behold the Soundlazer!

By January 2018, some of the government’s own experts had ruled out a sonic attack. In an interim report, the F.B.I. revealed that it had investigated sound waves below the range of human hearing (infrasound), those we can hear (acoustic), and those above our hearing range (ultrasound). The conclusion: there was no sonic cause to the physical symptoms experienced by the diplomats.

The FBI is, of course, renowned for their expertise in theoretical infrasonic weapon development. Pay no attention to that aerospace engineer from flyover country. He doesn’t even have a name.

.Most patients had conventional imaging findings, which were within normal limits,. the medical team reported, noting that the few scattered anomalies could “be attributed to other pre-existing disease processes or risk factors.” The scientists wrapped up their report with a sentence that expressed their bafflement: .These individuals appeared to have sustained injury to widespread brain networks without an associated history of head trauma.” According to one author, the team enjoyed referring to this contradiction as the “immaculate concussion..

With the medical doctors left scratching their heads, and a sonic weapon ruled out by the F.B.I., enterprising scientists continued their search for a sonic explanation…

If you view what happened to the diplomats in Havana as an .attack,. you must look for something capable of producing such an assault. It would have to emit a sound that varied widely from listener to listener. It would have to strike only people who worked at the embassy. It would have to assail them wherever they happened to be, whether in their homes or staying at a hotel. It would have to produce a wide range of symptoms that seemed to bear no relation to one another. And it would have to start off small, with one or two victims, before spreading rapidly to everyone in the group.

As it happens, there is and always has been one mechanism that produces precisely this effect in humans. Today it’s referred to in the medical literature as conversion disorder.that is, the conversion of stress and fear into actual physical illness. But most people know it by an older, creakier term: mass hysteria. Among scientists, it’s not a popular term these days, probably because “mass hysteria” summons the image of a huge mob, panicked into a stampede (with a whiff of misogyny thrown in). But properly understood, the official definition, when applied to the events in Havana, sounds eerily familiar. Conversion disorder, according to the International Journal of Social Psychiatry, is the “rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms among members of a cohesive social group, for which there is no corresponding organic origin..

.Think of mass psychogenic illness as the placebo effect in reverse,. says Robert Bartholomew, a professor of medical sociology and one of the leading experts on conversion disorder.

And writer of the abovenamed book.

.You can often make yourself feel better by taking a sugar pill. You can also make yourself feel sick if you think you are becoming sick. Mass psychogenic illness involves the nervous system, and can mimic a variety of illnesses..

So, there we have it. State department personnel with inexplicable concussions and overdosed police officers responding to Narcan are both faking it. In one-off situations across the planet.

How did this linked lie happen?

The Bidenreich accepted Bartholomew’s Narrative of Havana Syndrome being psychosomatic just a few weeks ago. When journalists were looking for a way to explain away police suffering (apparently) exposure to extra-toxic levels of fentanyl, they decided to use the same Narrative because it had just been officially approved. It was not a good fit, yet better than “all those police departments are lying”… and most importantly, they couldn’t commit a Narrative Violation if they used fresh copy.

Why are police having panic attacks over exposure to fentanyl? Because journalists are so afraid to be original with their lies that given the chance, they’ll use whatever Potato Joe Stalin just greenlighted.

Postscript

One cannot talk about fentanyl in Current Year without paying homage to Saint Floyd of the Choke. Remember Dr. Marino from above? Watch him discredit himself as an ER doctor:

Dr. Ryan Marino Chauvin trial defense rests . after smearing George Floyd with false overdose theory

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By Dr. Ryan Marino, emergency physician and medical toxicologist, 16 April 2021

.I can’t breathe.” Those were the last words . called out repeatedly . by George Floyd, whose death in the custody of police officers last spring was captured on video and witnessed by millions. Derek Chauvin, an officer in that video, can clearly be seen kneeling on Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes. His murder trial this month has reopened never-quite-healed wounds; it has also recycled old and misleading stereotypes about drug abuse and addiction.

Right off the bat, Marino warn us that this is as much about Narrative control as it is medicine.

The defense, which rested its case Thursday, has spent a considerable amount of time discussing Floyd’s drug use. Defense attorney Eric Nelson has repeatedly mentioned drugs, going so far as to suggest Floyd’s death may have been due to an overdose. This scenario has been disputed by Dr. Andrew Baker, the medical examiner who examined Floyd’s body.

“The only reason you keep mentioning drug use is because my client happened to be on drugs at the time!”

As an emergency physician and medical toxicologist (a specialist in how drugs, medications and overdoses affect the human body) who has further specialized in the treatment of addiction and drug use, I spend a significant amount of my time studying, witnessing and treating drug use in humans. I have unfortunately seen many more overdoses . from fentanyl in particular . than I could possibly count. However, I also frequently see misinformation about drugs and drug use, particularly fentanyl, and the people who use them.

Misinformation about drugs… like police suffering accidental ODs that experts are certain cannot happen? Misinformation about… the people who use drugs? “Check your privilege, law-abiding citizen, that there is a junkie!”

There remain competing theories . posited by a veritable parade of medical experts . about what exactly caused Floyd’s death. But what’s very clear to me is that George Floyd did not die from an overdose.

First, while both fentanyl and methamphetamine were detected on autopsy, the levels detected were not high enough to suggest a fatal overdose. Additionally, postmortem drug levels are notoriously inaccurate…

Which is it? Do we know how much dope was in Floyd or do we not?

…and do not reliably reflect pre-death levels, making their interpretation highly subjective. Postmortem fentanyl levels in particular can be extremely inaccurate and falsely elevated.

Oh, I see. The error can occur in only one direction, the one favorable to your argument.

It’s a sign of the times, that I’m comfortable lecturing at an ER doc about his own medical specialization.

Second, we know . we can see . that Floyd was awake, talking and desperately trying to breathe right up until he died. Fentanyl, and other opioids, cause the exact opposite effect. Opioids act on the brainstem, the part of the brain that controls breathing, to suppress breathing. Not only do opioids suppress breathing, opioids also suppress respiratory drive; they take away even the desire to breathe. We commonly prescribe opioids to help people who are dying or suffering from serious respiratory problems to stop them from feeling “air hunger.” In other words, opioids like fentanyl actually prevent people from knowing they can’t breathe and from feeling like they can’t breathe.

Marino is dishonestly considering the effects of fentanyl and methamphetamine individually, when he knows that Floyd had taken both of them together. It’s anybody’s guess which will dominate which organ, when you take uppers and downers at the same time.

Another assertion the defense has made was that drugs like fentanyl gave Floyd superhuman strength. This theory is supposed to justify extreme physical response from police, even though video shows us that Floyd was already handcuffed, in a prone position (which, when forcefully restrained, is also known to impair breathing)…

No. Chauvin’s hold was known to NOT impair breathing. That’s why it was department policy. See how Marino dances between theory and the incident in question?

…and in the custody of four adult male police officers.

Only one of whom was sitting on him. Chauvin was not a big man, either.

What the science tells us, and what health care workers see every day, is exactly the opposite. Opioids are so well known for their calming and relieving effects that the word “morphine” comes from the Greek god of sleep, Morpheus. Fentanyl is one of the most commonly used sedating agents in both surgical anesthesia and for patients on ventilators in emergency departments and intensive care units. Many of these myths about drugs have racist roots, and the defense about “superhuman” strength rhetoric in particular has a long history of racism.

A high-ranking medical doctor just claimed that some of a drug’s known effects on the human body are racist social constructs.

Methamphetamine, too, is a well-studied drug that is also used medically.

It can treat weight loss. Seriously, that’s what Merck said. Given the weight-loss alternatives available, however, it would be medical malpractice to prescribe something so dangerously addictive to somebody with a demonstrated inability to control his appetites. It can also treat ADHD. Again, malpractice given the safer alternatives.

The video and bystander statements are not consistent with a person who had overdosed on methamphetamine, and the autopsy report does not suggest findings of end-organ damage (like a stroke) that typically cause death from methamphetamine overdose. The argument that methamphetamine or other drugs could have worsened an underlying heart condition has also been debunked.

They ARE consistent. That was a flat-out lie. Although Floyd’s labored breathing would be better attributed to the fentanyl. “Floyd didn’t die of an overdose because he didn’t have a stroke or organ failure”, come on, man. You didn’t get through med school by being this stupid.

The objective information that has been made available, coupled with facts depicted on video, clearly refute overdose as the cause of Floyd’s death. This is also what the medical examiner . the expert pathologist tasked with determining cause of death . has stated. We should not let breathless myths about drugs distract from actual facts. And we cannot allow the narrative that Floyd’s death was somehow deserved because he, like about half of all Americans, used recreational substances.

Fentanyl mixed with methamphetamine is not comparable to beer & coffee. We see here in the boldfaced, that Marino cares as much about the possible consequences of the debate, as the merits of the debate.

George Floyd told us he couldn’t breathe; we would do well to remember his words.

Let’s remember Dr. Marino’s words instead: it’s racist to believe that Floyd’s death was an OD.

To celebrate Halloween this year, I shall burn a witch on my blog. Some people think it’s is a dying holiday but me, I’m expecting Halloween to go 24-7 in the near future. If you eat beef while reading this then you can watch her burn at the steak!

BRING FORTH THE SACRIFICE!!! *forklift makes beeping noises*

Sunday .Noire: Meet The Unfit Christian, A Digital Pastor Teaching People How To “Decolonize” Faith One Step At A Time

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By Shannon Dawson, 24 October 2021

Religion and faith can often be a touchy and polarizing subject for people to discuss, especially in today’s world where cancel culture has made it problematic for folks to express a difference of opinion. Mix that in with religion’s strict and often outdated views on secular culture and you have a recipe for disaster.

Um… 

Let.s face it, the church hasn’t always been the most comfortable place for everyone to practice their form of faith freely and without judgment, but there are a select few who are looking to provide a space for people who may not necessarily proclaim or even subscribe to the century-old biblical text that has been born out of European Christianity.

What… fresh Hell… is THIS?!

Enter the Unfit Christian.

Yes, that is definitely an unfit Christian. Squished into Fat Elvis’ old leisure suit, no less.

She.s the pastor or .passuh,. as her digital congregation affectionately refers to her. She is providing a space for people to express, question and practice their views on religion however they see fit. It’s a place where you are welcomed to “decolonize your faith….

In case you’ve ever been mistaken for the New World by a boatload of Puritans.

…and hear different opinions that may challenge your traditional views on the church, gender, class or even sexuality and race.

Or geometry, or gravity, or whoever thought this ovoid astronomical blackbody would be the best choice to show us Euro-Christians the error of our Euro-ways. She just singlehandedly proved our ancestors right about everything from Church leadership to portion size!

“Biblical loopholes and life hacks”? But hey, we’re all LGBT now. Let’s Go Brandon… Together!

The Unfit Christian’s digital chapel has grown to an astounding 20,000 followers on Instagram and nearly 16,000 on Facebook. It’s an achievement the platform’s founder D. Danyelle Thomas never expected when she decided to launch the blog back in 2016, following the sudden passing of her father, who was also a preacher.

That makes her less popular than the Napoleon Dynamite Fan Club, which explains why Central Media is trying to convince the children of God that an 800lb drama queen of sass is a legitimate spiritual authority. She needs all the help she can get to stand on her own!

.When I started, my whole thing was I wanted everybody to know that there was room at the cross for all of us, no matter how different our approach to God is,. Thomas told MADAMENOIRE. .So I’ve always kind of gone with this whole thing that I don’t care if you’re Christian. It’s not the goal. I’m the Unfit Christian because that’s my particular upbringing. But you can be the Unfit Muslim. You can be the Unfit Hindu person or Agnostic..

Move over, Crossfit… here comes Unfit!

Thomas initially launched the Unfit Christian as a way to reframe and make sense of her own ever-changing ideas on faith and Christianity.

I must give points for honesty. “Am I fit to be a Christian? No. Then, I shall become…”

Lookit that, a hashtag that didn’t trend. Unlike her waistline. It must be like having a superpower, being able to fill up Hell with just yourself, except your action figures keep getting bagged with the potatoes.

After setting off for college, Thomas explained that she experienced a crisis with her own faith as she was learning all sorts of information that fell outside of the margins of religious theology she grew up believing. The blog served as a way for her to unravel and document her spiritual rebuilding as well as her views on intersectionality.

Best summarized as ‘banana splits’.

However, over time, Thomas’s sparse blog quickly blossomed into a thriving digital community of progressive church members across the globe. She was shocked to realize there were all kinds of people looking to deconstruct…

Or backfill.

…their traditional views on religious ideology, but Thomas says her goal isn’t to proselytize people or convert them. She hopes to give people the tools to contextualize their own beliefs on topics like homophobia, classism and sexism while simultaneously teaching donut-centered faith ethics.

Oops, that should have been ‘justice-centered faith ethics’. With feminism and frosting!

.I want people to really see themselves and have an experience of God that feels like I don’t just have to take parts [of] me,. Thomas shared of her mission. .I can take the gay part, I can take the trans part, I can take the Black part . all of those marginalized identities that sometimes we feel like we can’t show up with…

It’s the fat identity that keeps you from showing up in Church, Dam Yell. How many double doors do you think we have?!

…I always want to make space and say naw that ain’t true. That’s just someone benefiting from your oppression, so how do we reframe that in a way where your faith and your practice really does see you as a whole..

As a whole lot of ‘Unfit Christian’! Dam Yell is so fat, she needs two Saviors: Jesus and Peloton!

At first glance, you might be quick to call D. Danyelle Thomas a Christian Influencer on social media, but it’s a term she deeply despises.

Ever since that crack about Planet Earth influencing her Moon….

.For me prosperity gospel by any other name is still prosperity gospel, so even if I called myself a Christian influencer, that means at some point I’m using my faith, even if I’m presenting it in a progressive way to influence you to buy a thing or believe in a brand or whatever. It just feels like it still ties us to this system of un-nuanced and un-critiqued capitalism. So many folks, myself included, have poor money relationships with church because we’re told that if we were obedient and paying our tides or if we were giving more in church that we would get the things that we desire. When we present it in a way that money is tied to your blessing, I think we really do a disservice to people..

Move over, theologians! Dam Yell… excuse me, Danyelle… proved that prosperity gospel is bad because it’s capitalist. No need to quote Scripture at all!

What we need is the Gospel of Universal Basic Income! Because it buys a lot of ice cream. God does not exist but comfort food does!

So what does a digital congregation even look like?

I’ll guess Methodists. Their churches are always empty.

The Unfit Chrisitan offers a number of services to her devout followers via her website or Patreon where folks can gain access to her hefty database of devotionals, .shade-throwing. and thought-provoking articles, along with her monthly pre-recorded Q&A lectures based on faith, race, gender and sexuality.

Yep, Methodists.

The platform also offers digital church-goers special services like tarot card readings where Thomas provides people with one on one spiritual guidance and counseling.

Again, Methodists.

.A lot of my clients say It’s like we’re having a private pastoral session,. the Unfit Christian explained. .For me, it’s really about how do I get you into enlightenment with your highest self? How do I get you into a space where your mind, your heart, your emotions, and your spirit feel well?.

With comfort food? Or is that the way to get you into enlightenment with your widest self?

.Everybody is not going to agree with me, and that’s okay… I have to focus on the positive and focus on what my ultimate goal is, which is to challenge people’s experiences with God, and sometimes that’s going to make you uncomfortable..

And at other times, it will amuse the Muses out of us!

Yo mama’s so fat, when she fell I didn’t laugh, but the sidewalk cracked up.

As the Unfit Christian grows…

*snicker*

…Thomas says her role as a digital pastor is something she does not take lightly.

*snort*

.I had such a negative association with the word pastor which is why I rejected it so much because I had gone through Church hurt. I had gone through a lot of pastors who just did not care for and Shepard me the way that they should and the thing is I knew that was the kind of audience I was serving to,. she said. .I knew I was serving an audience of people who had experienced their own disappointment and hurt, and sometimes like downright egregious abuse.all in Jesus. name. I never wanted to take that title on, but it challenged me when I sat down with it one day and I finally realized that people were calling me that because I was a reassociation of good touch for them. They saw me as a good pastor. They saw me as a good leader and somebody they could trust..

We know that women don’t behave like men. A unbelieving man is sometimes reasoned into seeing God but never an unbelieving woman. They tend to, so far as I can tell, see how an ideal woman behaves and tell herself “I want what she’s having.” In normal times, that means having well-behaved kids, a husband who’d die for her and a cozy home where she entertains entire generations of family. In DanYelle’s case, however, it means having seconds at the diner while picking whichever religion will shame her the least for that unbound appetite.

She’s a witch who reads the tarot… but don’t accuse her of spelling.

BURN!

I’ve had an issue with civilization for years, an issue shared by many people: *I DON’T KNOW!* Too much info!

Do you REALLY know how your computer works? How to tell if it’s spying on you?

Are you sufficiently proficient in still-experimental mRNA replication biomechanics and statistical p-value analysis to decide for yourself if the clot shot is a good idea?

What is the metaphysical significance of the Higgs boson being called the God Particle?

Can you do your own small-business taxes?

Will 5G radiation really cook your little buddies? Should a man still wanting kids invest in an EMF cup? Are there real health benefits to wearing a tinfoil hat?

I don’t know and cannot find out except with great effort. Sometimes I get the feeling, that I’m not supposed to find out.

A lot of social media incoherence and high-volume conspiracy theories, to say nothing of clickbait, are the result of people not knowing, and not reasonably being able to find out for themselves, whether decisions that they MUST make are good ideas.

So much information has been gathered in such a short amount of time, that inventors might as well be wizards in ivory towers: coming down on occasion to show us how our lives are about to be improved whether we want them improved or not. The only way you can have an opinion worth listening to, is if you become a wizard yourself. As if you have nothing better to do with your life.

My original opposition to the vaxx had nothing to do with its merits (if any). Why should I have known anything about mRNA research? At the time, I simply noted that the government banned the cure in order to push the vaxx, also, they lied about mask-wearing and Cuomo killed Grandma. Now that I’ve found out the makers of the vaxx created the disease, lie to Congress, torture puppies and will starve me if I keep refusing it, I feel pretty good about my decision. But it wasn’t originally based on medical knowledge.

Into this state of confusion, Wintery Knight made a post about quitting apologetics if the other party tries to skip discussions on the religious implications of cosmological physics. He does good work, so not the most deserving target for a fisking, but apologetics is something that I CAN talk knowledgably about… so here goes.

All emphases are mine, as usual.

THE WORST MISTAKE YOU CAN MAKE WHEN DEFENDING THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW

By Wintery Knight, 26 October 2021

Here are three situations I’ve run into while doing apologetics in the last month.

First situation. I was talking with a lady who is an atheist. I had a copy of .God’s Crime Scene. in my hand, and she asked me about it. I told her that it was a book written by the guy who solved the homicide case that I asked her to watch on Dateline. She remembered . it was the two-hour special on the woman who was killed with a garrotte. She pointed at the book and said .what’s in it?. I said, it has 8 pieces of evidence that fit better with a theistic worldview than with an atheistic one, and some of them scientific. Her reply to me was . literally . .which denomination do you want me to join?.

Do I have this right? WK asked her to watch a documentary of an interesting crime incident… and the next time she saw him, he held a book on linking the story with Christianity? Her response, in that situation, was appropriate. She got blindsided and chose to eject.

Second situation. I was talking with a friend of mine who teaches in a Catholic school. She was telling that she got the opportunity to talk to her students about God, and found out that some of them were not even theists, and many of them had questions. So she asked them for questions and got a list. The list included many hard cases, like “what about the Bible and slavery” and “why do Christians oppose gay marriage?. and so on.

That’s not even apologetics. That’s a Catholic school administration in dire need of an Inquisition purge for sabotaging the faith and trust of children in God. Whatever they’re teaching, it ain’t Christ and it ain’t an accident.

Third situation. Talking to a grad student about God’s existence. I’m laying out my scientific arguments for her, holding up the peer-reviewed papers for each discovery. I get to the Doug Axe paper on protein folding probabilities, and she holds up her hand. One question: “Am I going to Hell?.

Hah!

So think about those three situations. In each case, the opponent is trying to reject Christianity by jumping way, way ahead to the very end of the process. When you do Christian apologetics, you do not take the bait and jump to the end of the process dealing with nitty gritty details until you have made your case for the core of the Christian worldview using your strongest evidence.

That’s not my sense of the situations. All three did the same thing but for three different reasons.

The first one might never have been interested in discussing Christianity. Her thought-terminating statement is reasonably definitive on that.

The second one, the children wanted reasons to continue believing… in the face of formal, established Church authority figures.

The third one was a legit opportunity. Blah blah Doug Axe paper on protein folding probabilities and she cut through it like a boss to ask the most important question of the human condition. She was trying, I daresay, to not fall asleep before reaching the good part.

So, your strongest evidence as a Christian are the scientific arguments, along with the moral argument. Those would include (for starters) the following:

kalam cosmological argument
cosmic fine-tuning
galactic and stellar habitability
origin of life / DNA
molecular machines / irreducible complexity
the moral argument

The problem I am seeing today is that atheists are rejecting discussions about evidence because they think that all we are interested in is getting them to become Christians. Well, yes. I want you to become a Christian. But I know perfectly well what that entails . it entails a change of life priorities.

That list entails Wintery Knight’s listener having an intellect on his level. Those are few and far between. I’ve forgotten more math and compsci than most people will ever know, but I still wouldn’t feel comfortable discussing more than a couple of those topics at the level of “should I drastically change my life priorities?”

My own strongest evidence for Christianity is the self-observable truth that the way people should behave is not the way they do behave. What we Christians call the fallen nature of Man. Does a dog ever struggle to be doglike? But a child must be trained into adulthood and morality! I’m eating a Ding-Dong right now! We need a way to fix this internal flaw… and where did it come from in the first place?

Both of the women I spoke to are living with their boyfriends, and the kids in the Catholic school just want to have fun. None of them wants to believe in a God who will require self-denial, self-control, and self-sacrifice. Nobody wants God to be in that leader position in their lives. Christianity is 100% reversed from today’s me-first, fun-seeking, thrill-seeking, fear-of-missing-out travel spirit of the age.

Don’t whine. This is what you have to work with. It is what IS, whether it should be or not. It is not the duty of the Lost to reach you on your level. It is YOUR duty, apologist, to reach them on THEIRS.

I wish that Smart People everywhere could here me say that. It is YOUR duty to convince me with arguments that *I* understand!

Frankly, the bigger the gap between Christ and this world, the easier apologetics should get. They should want what we have; they should not be beaten into submission by our obviously superior intellects. This is why half the time, my blog reads like a failed manuscript for the Jerry Springer Show, because I want to reach people where they ARE… sitting in the pews of false priests, wondering why their girlfriends are Like That, upset at God for what the devil secretly did in His name.

So, how to answer all these late-game questions? The answer is simple. You don’t answer any late-game questions until the person you are talking with accounts for the widely-accepted data in your list.

Most people lack the intelligence to even comprehend Mr. Knight’s arguments, let alone independently weigh the merits. That is not a slam on most people. Intelligence is vastly overrated today; indeed, some people *cough Vox Day* act as though intelligence is a prerequisite for Christianity. I blame the ubiquity of computers.

Christianity is not only for the smart; it is not even preferentially for the smart. “God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.” 1 Cor. 1:27

These are things that have got to be accepted before any discussion about minor issues like one angel vs two angels at the empty tomb can occur. When we discuss all the basic issues where the evidence is the strongest, then we can go on to discuss issues where the evidence is debatable, then finally, in the last bits before the end, we can discuss these other kinds of questions.

I get it. You are playing to your strengths. That’s solid planning. But you must realize, the only people you will be able to reach for Christ are the ones who feel comfortable discussing esoteric science. A refusal to participate might easily be them being, for no fault of their own, too ignorant to proceed.

I think this approach of not letting them rush you to the end at the beginning is important for two reasons. First, we can get our foot in the door to talk about things that are interesting to everyone, in a non-stressed environment. Everyone can talk about evidence comfortably.

No, Mr. Knight. Your motivation in rejecting a topic change is NOT so the other party feels more comfortable. QED, you are playing to your strengths.

I’ve given up on discussing evolutionary psychology because atheists make arguments that I cannot refute. It’s not that their point is valid; it’s that I cannot know if their point is valid without putting my life on hold for two years until I can fully understand the relevant dissertations and take a trip to the Galapagos Islands for a double-check. They would do better to meet me where I am, in my own comfort range of knowledge, if they are to convince me of anything.

Such are the limits of knowledge upon apologetics: if your knowledge is too abstract and specialized then it’s unreasonable to expect anybody to believe you… and maybe they’ll try to skip ahead or change the topic.

Second, we show that we hold our beliefs because we are simply letting evidence set boundaries for us on what we are allowed to believe. We can’t believe not-Christianity, because not-Christianity is not consistent with the evidence. And you start with the most well-supported evidence, and eliminate worldviews that are falsified by the most well-supported evidence. Atheism actually gets falsified pretty quickly, because of the scientific evidence.

Atheism persists despite the weight of scientific evidence against it. Thus, being right has been scientifically proven to be insufficient.

And that’s where you want to be. Cut off all discussions where the challenger tries to jump to the end and get you to debate the very last steps of your case.

Perhaps a better solution is to not depend entirely upon cosmological arguments that, while true, are rarely convincing. Intelligent design was new in the 90s. It has never been refuted. And yet, it has completely failed to thwart the worship of Evo.

Many people are not comfortable debating topics that even accomplished professionals disagree over. Most people need arguments that affect them personally and offer an advantage over their current situation. Instead of insisting that they play to your strengths (and likely, their self-admitted weaknesses), consider first if they want a discussion at all and then if an alternative approach might work better.

“Why should I bother with Christianity?”

“Because women such as your ex are Satan’s Rubik’s cube… would you like to know more?”

One hears many musings about Civil War 2 these days, but here’s my issue with the concept: you need a government to wage a war. I’m not aware of any instance in history when a group of ordinary guys got together, decided they’d had enough and walked away from their day jobs for months of killing enemy soldiers.

A weekend, sure, but not months. Those guys on the front lines start needing beans, bullets, bandages, and let’s be honest, paychecks and “external motivations” to keep up the pressure.

Thus, I’ve had nothing to do with militia movements but have watched with great interest as certain state governments decide that the D.C. government is crimping their style. NOW we’re talking Civil War 2! In fact, the Bidenreich nearly pulled a Fort Sumter right out of its starting gate:

Biden looks to shut down travel to Florida

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By Kelly Sadler, 11 February 2021

[opinion article]

.I.m going to shut down the virus, not the country,. then-presidential candidate Joe Biden said in October.

Apparently, that’s a lie.

The Biden administration is considering imposing domestic travel restrictions, including on Florida, fearing the spread of coronavirus mutations, the Miami Herald reported yesterday.

Putting the constitutionality of this potential move aside, the bottom line is it’s anti-science and designed to further politicize the virus by pitting red states against blue states.

Putting politics AND constitutionality aside, remember that Fort Sumter was located to control access to Charleston Harbor. The North refused to abandon the fort because it allowed them to dominate harbor access to the newly seceded state. Had Biden erected “military barriers to points of entry to the State of Florida” then the situation would have been the same. Not analogous; exactly the same.

So why even consider something as draconian as a domestic travel ban? And then why specifically single out Florida, and not say, New York?

Because the Bidenreich must have UNITY!

But that was February. Why bring it up now? Because imposing blockades is not the only way to start a civil war. A second way is when two governments demand mutually exclusive loyalties. As one of my readers documented, the Thirst Mutilator just crossed that line!

This is not the same Brawndo as I discussed in a previous post… but stupid is as stupid does.

Letter From Brawndo Chief DIE Officer

Greetings, headcount!

I am happy to report that vaccination levels across America have passed the 70% level needed for us to safely reopen our offices. However, it has come to our attention that 30% of you still require special encouragement to make the right choice. A little starvation will help you understand how much I love you.

We have spent a considerable amount of time evaluating the pros and cons of enacting a vaccine mandate as a condition of office re-entry. Based on current statistics…

He knows. He has to know the truth, saying things like ‘current statistics’.

…vaccination is proven to prevent COVID-19. Since we want to welcome you, and our clients, back to the safest possible working environment, all employees of Brawndo must be vaccinated on or before December 8, 2021.

Some extremely limited exceptions may be made for valid and documented medical or religious reasons.

Why This Is the Right Choice

First and foremost, this decision is about your safety. We know that vaccines are effective… we also have learned that we are better together, especially when working under the same roof…. more than 150 clients and partners are requiring proof of vaxx… additionally, the US federal government recently announced a vaccine mandate.

What makes this hurt isn’t the “get vaxxed or starve” mandate… it’s the “we love you and want the best for you and we’re in this together” wrapping that it comes in. They lie, we know they lie and they know we know. And they lie regardless, just like Orwell called it.

We now proceed to the linked FAQ.

Why is Brawndo mandating vaccines?

Our primary focus has always been the health and safety of our employees. The decision to require certain employees [those who either enter company property or work remotely] to obtain full vaccination status was made after consideration of local, national and global health guidance.

In addition, the US government ordered us to.

I paraphrased that last only for brevity. They actually said that, but with footnotes.

Notice that what they didn’t consider, was state-level health guidance. One guess where this is going… start the popcorn.

What does it mean to be “fully vaccinated”?

At this time…

I must admit the competence of the Great Reset’s psychology. Looking back over two years, it’s been a masterclass in moving goalposts, slow boils and managing expectations. We’ve gone from “two weeks to flatten the curve” to “inject this into your children if you ever want to visit a beauty salon again.”

They were using the term “fully vaccinated” from the very beginning specifically so they could move the goalposts just by redefining a term. No need for new legislation or buy-in. “You already agreed to this” except no, you really didn’t.

Methinks it says a lot about the spiritual dimension of the Plandemic, that its highest levels are grand masters of human behavioral psychology yet completely, hopelessly unable to create anything new. Or to resist the temptation to torture animals and children.

They have near-infinite wealth and power but all that they do with it, is steal, kill and destroy.

If I am vaxxed, will I still be required to mask up and social distance?

Yes, per US federal guidelines.

Because the vaxx is KNOWN to be SAFE! And EFFECTIVE! (at myocarditis)

Is being vaxxed a condition of employment with Brawndo?

No. However, you will not be allowed to work on projects or enter company property until fully vaxxed.

The New Normal is they don’t fire you. They just send you home without pay and forget you exist. Anything else would expose them to a lawsuit.

In other news, companies are having trouble finding people willing to work!

What about State bans on requirements for vaccines, such as Texas?

We will comply with the US federal mandate. We believe that the federal mandate will successfully supersede any contrary State law or pronouncement.

Boom, shots fired!

“We will not obey the State of Texas. We will obey the federal government instead, in expectation that D.C. will bring Texas to heel.”

This, from a company with considerable real estate holdings and numerous employees in Texas… and multimillion-dollar contracts with the State of Texas directly.

You’re up to bat, Governor Abbott. Whatcha gonna do? We the people cannot fight a war. Either you do a thing or Brawndo will be proven right to openly defy your useless, gutless, yellow-bellied Texas. Brawndo just called you out! A company that lacks the courage to fire its own employees, says Texas ain’t shit!

Don’t tell us your response, Governor. Show us. Show the world. The hour is past late.

Fake rape hysteria, often used as a precursor in the illicit manufacture of Narratives, is taking on a disturbingly familiar, pointy shape.

‘Needle Spiking’ of Women in Britain Stirs Alarm Over New Kind of Assault

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By Megan Specia and Isabella Kwai for the New York Slimes, 23 October 2021

NOTTINGHAM, England . Lizzie Wilson was standing in a crowded nightclub Monday night with three friends when she felt a sharp pinch in her back, as if she had been pricked by a needle. Ten minutes later, she was struggling to stand.

Wilson, 18, said she had heard about young women being injected with syringes at crowded clubs and immediately feared she was another victim. Her friends rushed her to the hospital, where she spent hours disoriented and without sensation in her legs.

.Nobody should ever go through that,. said Wilson, a student in her first year of college in Nottingham in central England. .The most upsetting thing is, I could not control anything..

Let’s distill some facts.

1. She’s a barely-legal college freshman.
2. She went to a crowded nightclub… not even on a weekend night.
3. She ended up in a hospital with a drug overdose.
4. The system immediately assumed that Lizzie was a victim because she didn’t admit to experimenting with injectable drugs.

It’s almost as if women get a thrill from putting themselves at risk.

Daddy: “Princess, won’t you PLEASE attend college remotely? 75% of college women end up as rape victims… and that’s only because 25% go trans! It’s not safe! Please don’t make me write these large rent checks!”

Slut: “Daaaaad, how am I supposed to be a victim with you hovering over me all the time?!”

For more than a year, Britain has witnessed a disturbing spate of violence against women. High-profile abductions and murders have stirred a national conversation, inspired vigils and protests, intensified scrutiny of police, and prompted deeper exploration of the misogynistic culture often at the root of this violence.

Let’s call that fact #5: you were supposed to be locked down at home, Barbie. If there’s one bright side to the Plandemic, it should’ve been crimping the style of young harlots in all the ways that her father should’ve been doing. Presuming he even exists and is allowed to be involved in his daughter’s life. Because UK is totally the land of misogynistic culture.

Now come alarming reports, if still relatively small in number, of women being injected with syringes at crowded pubs and nightclubs, in a variation of .spiking,. in which drugs are dropped into someone’s drink, a crime that often targets women. A number of police forces in England are investigating reports of “needle spiking,. including 12 incidents in Nottinghamshire. Police in Scotland are looking into similar reports.

Some who reported being spiked had effects “consistent with a substance being administered,. police said in a statement, much like Wilson’s account.

“Date rape” hysteria used to be a big thing. I still remember when the wheels came off it… almost to the day:

Segue

Controversy Over Student Nail Varnish Date Rape Drug Detector

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By Natalie Ilsley, 28 August 2014

Four students from North Carolina State University have invented a nail varnish that detects common date rape drugs by changing colour.

The all-male group of undergraduates, Ankesh Madan, Stephen Gray, Tasso Von Windheim, and Tyler Confrey-Maloney, aim to combat sexual assault by combining modern chemistry with traditional cosmetics.

The nail varnish indicates the presence of date rape drugs, such as Rohypnol, Xanax and GHB, by changing colour after being dipped in the drink.

“While date rape drugs are often used to facilitate sexual assault, very little science exists for their detection,” the team, known as Undercover Colors, wrote on their Facebook page. “Our goal is to invent technologies that empower women to protect themselves from this heinous and quietly pervasive crime.”

Translation: in an early example of what came to be known as mansplaining, four unsexy nerds thought Barbie being afraid of getting date-raped meant she didn’t want to risk being date-raped.

However, Katie Russell from Rape Crisis England & Wales was critical of the idea, saying that the charity will not support the invention.

“Whilst Undercover Color’s initiative is well meaning, on the whole,” she said, “Rape Crisis does not endorse or promote such a product OR ANYTHING SIMILAR. This is for three reasons: it implies that it’s the woman’s fault and assumes responsibility on her behalf, and detracts from the real issues that arise from sexual violence.”

Kaboom. Enphases mine.

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Female students have made the majority of reports, but some young men say they also have been victimized. Nottinghamshire police say no other offenses, including sexual assault, have been linked to the reports of being injected, and there have been no known arrests for injecting someone; regardless, authorities say they are stepping up patrols and working with local universities and hospitals to investigate.

And they’re giving more funding to “rape crisis” organizations, raising awareness of #BelieveAllWomen and blaming men everywhere for Barbie getting blackout drunk at raves in her first few months away from Daddy’s supervision.

Honestly, it’s ridiculous to believe in untraceable men running around sticking women with untraceable substances, in crowded establishments that check IDs at the door, instead of applying Occam’s Razor to that drunken floozy with needle tracks on her body.

After pandemic restrictions shuttered campuses and night life for months, this school year was supposed to be a fresh start, with raucous nights out that many students see as a rite of passage.

A rite of passage onto the Cock Carousel, interrupted by mystery rapists forcing women to overdose on the good stuff against her will. And then NOT raping her! How rude!

But as these stories . and the fears surrounding them . have spread, young women have called for a boycott of clubs and also launched a petition calling for clubs to be required to search people on entering. To many women, the idea that they could be victimized by someone wielding a syringe at a nightclub is horrifying.

But not horrifying enough to stay home on Monday evening. Don’t listen to what she says. Look at what she does.

.If I didn’t think I could be shocked anymore, if I didn’t think the behavior could get any lower, this is a new depth,. said Sue Fish, the former chief of Nottinghamshire Police, who has long been an outspoken advocate for women’s rights.

Fiona Measham, professor and chair of criminology at the University of Liverpool and director of the Loop, a charity which monitors drug use in nightlife, said that there are a few hundred spiking cases nationally every year and described the risk as “quite low..

Of needle spiking specifically, she said, .It.s not impossible, but it’s really unlikely.” But she said that each allegation needed to be investigated and taken seriously. .I think the anxieties are very real; the anger toward nightclubs is real,. she said.

Which is it, Fiona? Really unlikely or disturbingly plausible?

In recent days, speculative posts on social media about dirty needles and criminal gangs have increased the fears. (Wilson.s doctor said she may have been injected with Ketamine, an anesthetic drug, and she has begun a course of hepatitis shots and blood tests to ensure she hasn’t contracted a disease.)

Female speculation about criminal gangs has been well-established in UK by feral hordes of Muslims. But whence this speculation on needles?

At a recent parliamentary hearing, Yvette Cooper, chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, called for police to review the reports of attempted druggings and compile a comprehensive nationwide assessment to better understand what is going on.

.There isn’t a proactive assessment happening about what the scale is of the problem,. she said, adding, .It.s still seen as the victim’s responsibility to protect themselves..

Not a single arrest has been made, yet Parliament is already hearing testimony. In the land of Victimhood, the demand for villains far exceeds the supply.

But many young people are not willing to wait for assessments. Local groups, under an initiative called “Girls Night In,. have popped up across the country calling for a boycott of clubs next week to raise awareness and demand better protections.

Ally Valero, 20, one of the students who set up the local Nottingham boycott, said the goal was not to signal that women should stay at home. It is intended to send a message to club owners that they must do a better job of ensuring the safety of patrons.

.We want to go out again,. Valero said. “But we want to go out in a safer environment..

Gettin’ some flashbacks to nail polish here.

Primrose Sparkes, 20, who helped launch a similar boycott at Durham University, said that in the past the main factor she considered before deciding whether to go out was whether she had an early morning class.

.Now it.s: Do I feel safe?. she said. .There’s an element of fear that wasn’t there before..

A budding rocket scientist, to be sure. Next time, Daddy, just send your daughter to Twerk U.

On Wednesday, crowds of college students, some dressed in costumes for themed parties, headed out in Nottingham. Several young women said they’ve always been careful about someone spiking their drink but that the prospect of needles was different.

.It.s always been, .Watch your drink; cover your drink,. . said Jocie Mears, 18, who was out with two friends. .You can’t cover your whole body. It’s not our responsibility, it’s the people who are spiking us..

Luis Danton, 20, a student and president of the soccer society at Nottingham Trent University, called the situation “mad” and said the team is planning to join the boycott.

.And a lot of people are scared, if I am being honest,. he said.

Scared of being called a misogynist. CUCK!

Outside the sprawling Pryzm nightclub, students removed jackets and emptied their pockets before walking through a metal detector. The club says it has stepped up searches to reassure customers.

Some 150 miles north in Durham, hundreds of students streamed onto cold cobblestone streets. With concerns heightened, women said they felt safest drinking at bars accessible only to students who have campus cards.

“I’m straddling biology! Studying.”

Students here have been critical of the response to their concerns after the university told them to avoid getting spiked in a now-deleted post on Twitter, calling it victim blaming.

Guess which male instinct is stronger: raping random women in dark alleys, or explaining to women how they can reasonably solve their self-inflicted problems.

At Jimmy Allens, a nightclub in Durham, the wait was unusually long Wednesday as bouncers frisked students and checked their bags . a policy introduced this week. Staff members have also begun wearing bodycams.

.It.s taking people longer to get in, but it’s worth it,. said Darryl Watson, a manager.

The bodycams are to protect the staff from false accusations… not to catch glimpses of creeps shanking barflys with Roofies.

Police in Durham said in a statement that though they were aware of posts online about spiking incidents by injection, they have not received any reports.

Regardless of how widespread the needle spiking is, at the root of the fears expressed by many young women is an awareness of the disproportionate risks they face.

.Women have always done all these sort of things to protect themselves when actually its men’s behavior that needs to change,. said Fish, the former police chief.

“…who has long been an outspoken advocate for women’s rights”, as quoted above. All of this is about gaslighting the Betas while boinking with the Alphas.

Putting the onus on women to fend off an attacker does not solve the problem, she said, adding, .What should women wear on a night out, a suit of armor?.

A bong, a thong and her own private stash of sterile syringes and contraceptives.

I’m sorry. I just mansplained a reasonable solution to Slutwalk Barbie’s problem of not taking responsibility for grossly unsafe and immoral conduct. That was inappropriate.

These attacks aren’t happening. No man, however creepy, is going to risk a dozen life sentences for randomly pricking women in the middle of a big crowd then running away before he gets any chance to actually mount her. Or watch her. Or whatever.

Why, then, are young women now fantasizing about being raped by syringes? And why are tattoo & piercing artists across Western Civilization booked into the 22nd Century?

We in the Manosphere talk a lot about the medical and political consequences of the vaxx… as one would expect men to do… but meanwhile, the act of submitting her body to the death jab may be exciting young women in ways normally reserved for her husband on her wedding night.

Or, the death jab may simply be putting ideas in the heads of immature, feral skanks who need a simple explanation for waking up in a hospital with needle tracks on her ass. “I was, um, rayyyped!”

Don’t worry, the Chinaballs haven’t reached my brainpan yet. They hopefully won’t reach Kristen’s any time soon, either, because she is resourceful and courageous! I found this article by wondering how the Left is reacting to the flood of religious exemptions. Amazingly, all that I found on Lefty news was legit! They’ve been caught by surprise! They forgot to uninstall the system they used to bring Satanism into prisons and now have no defense against their own favorite weapon, the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Behold a better example than Queen Esther!

Ohio mom becomes a minister in a minute, then signs religious exemptions for anti-mask families

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By Connie Schultz, USA TODAY, 17 October 2021

On Sept. 3, the day after her children’s school district mandated that students wear face masks, Kristen Grant became an ordained minister.

She did this through an online site, Universal Life Church. The process takes less than a minute, I discovered. Two clicks, and I was one step away from becoming Rev. Connie. I declined.

Bless you, O Prince of Paperwork! The ULC has been thwarting Luciferan efforts to gatekeep clergy certification for decades now! An unlikely yet accomplished servant of God.

The 37-year-old mother of four in Germantown, Ohio, said she sought the online ordination for one reason. She wanted to support anti-mask parents seeking religious exemptions for their children.

Valley View School District’s religious exemption form requires a signed statement from a “religious official.” Grant, a self-described “Constitutional Christian,. was happy to oblige.

.I haven’t broken any rules,. she said. .I haven’t broken any laws. I did what I was told I had to do..

She’s right! Kristen has not taught Scripture… She has not held authority over men… she’s just beating the bureaucrats at their own game! And by supporting the people of God instead of ruling over them, she’s now more accomplished than half of real clergy.

On this, she’s right. Several school officials bemoaned to me Grant’s willingness to exploit a loophole, but the district set no qualifications for religious leaders. And so here we are.

Here YOU are, Connie… completely PWNED!

Grant is certainly not the first “religious leader” eager to use a self-styed version of religion to defy government attempts to keep children and families safe during this pandemic.

So, why bother talking to Kristen Grant? Why give people like her any attention?

To me, the answer is obvious. She’s having an impact, just like other so-called leaders who are waging wars against science across the country. We can ignore them, and some enjoy mocking them. But we underestimate their growing influence at our peril.

She’s NOT being a leader. The Left needs to believe that she is a leader, that by attacking her they can take ownership of her followers. But we Christians are not like them. Our leader is Christ, and if we allow that title to anybody else, it’s only as a means to achieving Christ’s goals.

It took a while for Kristen Grant to agree to an interview. Online reader comments on a recent Dayton Daily News story about her efforts had rattled her.

.People were saying that I should be arrested,. she said. .One of them said something about me being responsible for other people’s deaths. Let’s hope my child doesn’t get COVID and die. That I was a horrible parent. Attacking my parenting, attacking my religious beliefs, attacking pretty much everything you can attack when it comes to another human being..

Better to have not granted an interview to the media ever, but there was a lot of pressure being put on Kristen. She earned my compliment of courageous.

She does not believe factual reports of rising COVID-19 hospital deaths among the unvaccinated. It’s a scam, she said, to help doctors and hospitals make money through reimbursements for treatment. She believes in a mythical natural immunity and is critical of those who “expect a person to wear a mask to protect you, but don’t take any care of your own body..

She recited a list of vitamins and supplements that are not proven defenses against COVID-19. When I tell her there is no support for her argument, she insists that’s because “anything that is naturally good for you is being censored. You can’t even look up elderberry syrup on Pinterest..

This is false. I Googled “Pinterest” and “elderberry syrup” and immediately found a site with dozens of images.

FWING! went Kristen’s point over her head.

Each of us is more complicated than our current story, and Kristen Grant is no exception. Her childhood was hard, she said; her father died when she was in her 20s, and she has long been estranged from her mother. She was open about how she has been seeing a psychiatrist for anxiety, depression and panic attacks. She cited this as the reason for her refusal to wear a mask. This decision, along with her beliefs about the pandemic, ended her two-decade career as a hairdresser. Most clients, it turned out, didn’t agree with her about this pandemic.

Lockdowns, mandates and snitches might have played a part in that, too.

She shrugs it off.

Like a boss!

COVID-19 is the work of the devil . she said this repeatedly . and while her church attendance in the past was sporadic, she is one of God’s soldiers now.

.You’re not going to change the world by going to church. You’re only going to change the world by being the church. . My calling is to help others and that’s what God wanted you to do: He wanted you to be the church for people who needed it and that is what I’m trying to do..

Kristen is closer to Christ than the Pope is. Not because she’s ordained… because she wants to help the people around her against the work of the devil.

You’ve heard it stated before that feminism is a death cult. Sure, it drives women to hate men and men to cut their wangs off in response, and the birth rate craters as a direct and intended result, but two recent pieces of Commiefornia legislation will prove it like you’ve never seen before! Alas, both were vetoed by Governor Gruesome. I kinda wish he was MORE wicked… we could have had ourselves some fun at wimmin’s expense.

Letters to the Editor: It isn’t ‘nutty’ to allow jaywalking. What’s nutty is driving hulking SUVs

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By Los Angeles Times, 21 October 2021

To the editor: Columnist George Skelton deemed a bill vetoed by Gov. Gavin Newsom that would have decriminalized jaywalking “nutty.” Assembly Bill 1238 was actually sensible, and Skelton’s framing of it from the perspective of a weary “commuter driving home at night [with] enough hazards to worry about” was much nuttier.

Are these people serious?

Segue!

AB 1238

Introduced by Assembly Members Ting and Friedman (Coauthor: Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez), 19 February 2021

Feminist authors… check.

Existing law requires the driver of a vehicle and other specified persons, including a pedestrian, to obey the instructions of any official traffic signal applicable to the person and placed as provided by law…

This bill would exempt a pedestrian from that requirement until January 1, 2029.

They ARE serious! These wimminz tried to legalize pedestrians walking in traffic… defying the very traffic signals put in place to keep them safe!

Existing law prohibits a pedestrian from crossing at any place except a crosswalk… This bill would repeal those provisions until January 1, 2029.

Fried ice, man. First the women wanted flashing lights at crosswalks so we’d see them even better, now they don’t want to use the crosswalk at all.

Existing law declares that provisions relating to pedestrian access do not prevent local authorities from adopting ordinances prohibiting pedestrians from crossing roadways at other than crosswalks.

This bill would remove that authorization until January 1, 2029.

“No government in California shall prohibit feminists from playing in traffic.” Huh. Okay. *Gunner Q turns off his dashcam*

Existing law prohibits a pedestrian from suddenly leaving a curb or other place of safety and walking or running into the path of a vehicle that is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard. Under existing law, a pedestrian who is not within a marked crosswalk or an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection is required to yield the right-of-way to all vehicles so near as to constitute an immediate hazard.

*singing* It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas… everywhere I go…

This bill would, until January 1, 2029, state that an immediate hazard exists [only] if the approaching vehicle is so near or is approaching so fast that a reasonably careful person would realize that there is a danger of collision.

A reasonably careful person would obey those traffic signals so… whatever.

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Since 2010, Los Angeles pedestrian deaths have climbed higher than motorist deaths, despite the fact that many collisions are solely between people in cars. That uptick is due to trends on the driver side, such as increasing purchases of sport utility vehicles, which are up to three times more likely than sedans to kill pedestrians whom their drivers hit.

Penalizing jaywalkers will not keep pedestrians safe. It does the opposite by asserting auto and, by extension, white supremacy. Police in Los Angeles have been known to stalk Metro stations to fine transit commuters, who are more likely to be people of color and low-income than drivers.

Hello, death cult. These people taking the bus are so consumed with envy at car drivers that they wanted a legally protected right to walk into traffic in order to force us “white supremacists” to swerve around them.

That ain’t how it was gonna play out, girl. Two words: cow catcher.

Any serious investment in rail and greenhouse gas reductions requires progressive action to decriminalize jaywalking and place greater responsibility on the drivers of larger, more dangerous cars. Further, journalists should put on the brakes before speeding to a conclusion that reinforces our state’s tired reputation as a cartopia.

Alisanne Meyers, Los Angeles

Interstate 5: It’s not just for port traffic anymore.

To the editor: I can only guess that Skelton never did much cycling. That may explain why he sides with Newsom’s misguided veto of the bill by Assemblywoman Tasha Boerner Horvath (D-Encinitas) to let cyclists treat stop signs as yield signs.

Another feminist with a death wish!

I’ve been cycling for seven decades. In New York, jaywalkers are a constant threat. In L.A., it’s as if drivers can look at cyclists and not see them. And yeah, there are bad bikers on both coasts.

It’s like drivers can’t see us, therefore we should be allowed to get all up in their grill… literally! That’ll teach them to ignore us, when they have to buy a new radiator!

Yet when a vehicle stops at a corner (assuming drivers actually pay attention to stop signs and don’t consider them merely suggestions, which is all too common in post-lockdown L.A.), the only effort required to get going again is a little bit of pressure on the accelerator. When cyclists stop, it’s as if they parked, opened a car door and got out. To get rolling again, they have to get back in the seat and pedal from a dead halt. That takes a great deal more effort than stepping on the gas.

He wants to legalize ignoring traffic signs in order to prevent bicycling from requiring more physical effort than driving? I can’t count the ways that that is wrong, but a prominent one is the pleasant fantasy of two bicyclists refusing to stop at the same intersection at the same time… at right angles.

By vetoing this bill, Newsom makes it clear he’s in the driver’s seat, and not on the bike’s.

Peter Altschuler, Santa Monica

They say I shouldn’t assume xir gender but methinks Peter is a feminist. A lazy one, who rides the bicycle to show he cares about the environment while quietly pining for a truck. “Why should pedaling a bicycle be harder than driving a car? I’m breaking a sweat here, people!”

But because Newsom didn’t want to depopulate his state of his most loyal supporters… negresses riding the bus and entitled eco-bicyclists secretly wishing that their religion permitted internal combustion… he vetoed the righteous wrath of Henry Ford and Isaac Newton.

Several of my friends are getting hit with the vaxx mandates. You know what? I’m willing to do a miniseries on Covid Mandate Horror Stories if my readers are willing to submit (even more) content. Today, let’s slam on “Pastor Bob” from the Cult Of Nice. Context is that “Dennis” asked his longtime pastor for a letter of religious exemption.

Hello Dennis,

I want to first apologize for inserting myself into your present situation related to the Covid vaccine. You need to know that I wasn’t “recruited” into discussing this and this email is from my heart to yours because I love you and have since you were born.

Dennis already has a mother, Pastor Bob.

Now to business. The basis for Christians requesting an exemption stems from the civil rights act of 1964.

Dennis didn’t ask for a history lesson, Pastor Bob.

Dennis, my wife and I are not vaccinated and have no intention of doing so “until” the government makes us. We believe that day is coming and it is just a matter of time. Right now it is using government contracts, soon it might be social security or the tax code, etc. I believe that they will eventually find a way to forcefully coerce the entire country to comply.

Maybe you should do something about that, Pastor Bob. Maybe, when Josef Mengele’s midget clone walks into the room, suspends due process and the rule of law, bans fun and oxygen, and then orders you to submit your body to medical experimentation if you ever want to eat food again, you should DO SOMETHING about that. Writing a letter to the fire department telling them to come to their senses, stop fellating Potato Joe and retain ten-year veteran Dennis in the name of Christ, would be a good start.

If it was wrong for six million Jews then it’s wrong for sixty million Americans!

At a personal level between myself, who cares a great deal about you and your family, and you. I strongly encourage you to give a lot of thought to this issue.

GENUIS! Pure GENUIS, I say! Surely Dennis has not given this matter much thought, if he’s willing to risk his life and family to defy Big Brother!

“Can you help me, Pastor? I can no longer obey the government in good conscience.”

“Of course, my child. Are you suuure? Maybe there’s a way that you CAN obey the government in good conscience? Because ultimately, there’s nothing you can really do about it. We’re helpless, baby. Just let it happen.”

Ohh, you think I was joking just now? Putting words in Pastor Bob’s mouth?

I say this not because of your values because I agree with them 100%. And it is a shame that our government has decided to force citizens to undergo a medical procedure against their will, but that is where we are. If you think about it, the government has a long list of requirements that I disagree with and I have come to view them as “just how life is.”

Cuckservatives have this very strange hang-up: They can’t be serious. They ARE NOT ABLE to be serious. You know the stereotype of Boomers hollering at the television then going to bed? That’s how the Pastor Bobs of this world treat ALL OF REALITY. Nothing is real. Nothing truly matters. Nothing has eternal significance. It’s all a game show and the smart move is exerting minimal effort for maximal gain.

Let’s assume for a moment that Dennis happens to be wrong… that he’s overreacting. His willingness to accept hardship for the sake of what he believes Christ wants would STILL be worthy of eternal reward even if Christ didn’t actually require it. Very few men have the courage and integrity to accept hardships for the sake of conscience. A real priest, like Christ Himself, would recognize that greatness of spirit and encourage it instead of trying to snuff it out with an Eden-esque “are you suuuure?”

Dennis, you are awesome, man, and when this crisis is over, you’re going to like that man in the mirror.

For example, after 9/11 they decided to restrict the entire nation’s ability to travel to “keep us safe.” And life has gone on. I am not sure which issue or at what time the citizenry should say “we have had enough” and refuse to comply.

When somebody sets himself up as a Christian authority despite, by his own admission, having a total inability to recognize evil, it would be kinder to “cash him out” than let him become an accessory before the fact to the devil’s work. Because in Christianity, there are worse things than even death.

Christianity is not a game. Clergy are not given their authority in order to talk about their feelings. My friends are losing their livelihoods because they will not allow our newly Fascist government to poison either themselves or their children, and Pastor Bob DOESN’T KNOW if it’s time yet for civil disobedience.

And he won’t take Dennis’ word for it, that the time is now.

My wife and I…

This is the second time that Pastor Bob gave his wife top billing. I gave him a pass on the first one but now we have a pattern.

My wife and I are not taking the vaccine until they force us, but when that time comes we will. That is because at a medical level we have several doctors in our church who have all taken it and I don’t think they would have if there was a concern medically.

Which is it, Pastor Bob? If you really do trust those doctors then why aren’t you taking the vaxx willingly? Do you have… doubts?

To conclude, Dennis, this is a mess and I feel very bad that you have to go through this. But my prayer is that you remember the adage “pick your battles” and make sure that this is one you should take on. The key word here is “should.”

The key word here is CUCK!

Scene: In the near future, Satan has taken his throne.

“Bend over and take my Mark upon your butt cheek, Pastor Bob!”

“Never!”

“Remember that I pay your salary.”

“Okay, well, I don’t have a choice then. OW!”

My office is always open if you want to talk about this more. In love and peace,

But not in Christ or with a letter of religious support,

Pastor Bob

Post or submit your personal vaxx horror story to gunnerq at protonmail!

This is a case of the Left protesting entirely too much.

News-Illiterate Cops Order Air Hunt for ‘Antifa’ Citing Neo-Nazi Rumors That Triggered Armed Mobs

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By Dell Cameron (for Gizmodo?), 24 August 2021

Screenshots of two rambling social media posts.one from Facebook, one from Instagram.form the sum total of the evidence police used last summer to justify an aerial surveillance operation in North California, records obtained by the nonprofit transparency group Property of the People and reporting by the Guardian show.

I’ll be linking to the Guardian in a moment. Their article was picked up by MSN, Daily Kos, Daily Beast and several other hard-left mouthpieces, all of which had a very curious attitude. Let me demonstrate:

The paper reported Monday on events surrounding the California Highway Patrol’s decision in June 2020 to deploy surveillance aircraft to hunt for an (fake) caravan of left-wing .terrorists,. who were ostensibly on a roundtrip across California, smashing windows and starting fires.

The boldfaced gave me a double take at the byline. An event in June 2020 was covered by multiple news outlets… in August 2021?

The rumored invasion, which failed to materialize but prompted armed displays by right-wing extremists in cities across the Northwest, stemmed from social media posts made viral by an army of accounts claiming “Antifa” was on a traveling rampage.

On the face of it, this doesn’t seem newsworthy. Police get anonymous tips all the time. They rarely pan out but you try anyway because that one time in ten is totally worth it. Highway Patrol kept watch for a specific vehicle and nothing came of it… *shrug*

First, Twitter took action, saying the rumors had been boosted by “hundreds of spammy accounts” as part of a coordinated disinformation campaign. Facebook followed soon after, citing details shared by its competitor. Many of the accounts posed as members of “Antifa” or as official “Antifa” accounts while warning of the caravan’s movements.

Huh? FaceTwit contacted law enforcement and told them to ignore reports of rioters coming in a specific bus? That is NOT how cops do business. “Stand down, police, you don’t need to look for that. Your information is bad. Trust me.”

In reality, the campaign was launched by a white hate group, company officials said, one whose notoriety is tied to 2017’s “Unite the Right” rally; a bloody event staged by neo-Nazis and Klansmen defending the Confederacy, which capped off with a murder.

The Guardian’s new details add a chapter an already bizarre saga about a California sheriff who, in the summer of 2020, also insisted, despite all evidence to the contrary, that a band of anti-fascists were roaming the countryside, mayhem and madness in tow.

Documents obtained by Property for the People offer a singular look at how officers in California’s rural, northern counties.mostly “known for weed farms and hiking and [being] overwhelmingly white,. the Guardian notes.got duped into promoting the same false claims themselves, meanwhile throwing taxpayer resources at a phantom threat that even residents said beggared belief.

What a hatchet job. This is Antifa complaining that police acted on a tip that Antifa was looking for trouble!

Do you have that “protesting too much” feeling yet?

Despite the volume of journalists and law enforcement officials reporting the rumors were false…

Mostly just journalists…

…Humboldt County’s sheriff, William Honsal, refused to back down on the claims, which he promoted via his weekly “media availability” videos. Lost Coast Outpost, a news site covering California’s northwest, documented Honsal’s insistence he’d seen .substantiated, law enforcement reports. about “buses full of people” hurdling toward the state.

A CHP spokeswoman told the Guardian that the agency had received no evidence about possible buses beyond the two screenshots, and said its investigative unit reviewed the social media posts “to evaluate potential public safety issues..

Credible enough for a BOLO, “be on the lookout”.

One of the two screenshots was of an Instagram post that claimed far-left “domestic terrorists” were headed for the small city of Redding in Shastha County; an easterly, three-hour drive from Honsal’s turf. The second, from Facebook, claimed the caravan had paused briefly in Klamath Falls, a five hour drive out of state, before continuing its journal. No photo or video evidence was offered, except for .a grainy image of a small van with “Black Lives Matter” written on the back..

The main reason I scanned several accounts of this was I wanted to see those screenshots. They were nowhere to be found.

The Associated Press, at the time Honsal received the screenshots, was circulating a fact-check saying photos of buses with text warning about “Antifa” being “bused in” to “incite violence and destruction” were fake. The text painted on the buses was photoshopped.

Segue to that fact-check. They’re usually good for a laugh…

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CLAIM: Photo shows two buses emblazoned with “Soros Riot Dance Squad” at a Milan, Michigan, gas station, offering proof that billionaire philanthropist George Soros and far-left militant groups are transporting out-of-town rioters to protests.

Michigan? Are they blaming California for not noticing what was going on just 2,500 miles away?

AP.S ASSESSMENT: False. A photo of two unmarked buses was manipulated to add the words “Soros Riot Dance Squad” to the side of each vehicle. The buses are not being used to transport people to protests; they belong to a local transportation company and are providing a local shuttle service.

Okay, it’s pretty easy to believe that that was a fake. But this Redding incident, so far as I’m aware, there was no goofy comment photo-slapped onto the pics.

Rumors about organized networks of out-of-town anti-fascist rioters descending on cities nationwide have swirled across social media in recent days as citizens continue to protest the death of George Floyd. There is no evidence that Soros or others are organizing such networks.

Those were not rumors. Those were documented facts, that Antifa, BLM and similar organizations will routinely bus in hundreds of professional agitators to ‘help’ with a protest. And yes, Soros is one of their most infamous, and documented, backers.

If law enforcement has a chance to stop one of those party buses in the middle of nowhere instead of downtown, everybody wins except the bad guys.

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Soon reports surfaced of armed vigilantes gathering on city streets, steeling themselves for a showdown with a threat that no one in 800 miles could find.

The link is another far-Left source. I’m strongly inclined to doubt its claim that gangs of white vigilantes played Rooftop Korean across the street from BLM protests, or that they wandered around town in gangs with ARs at port arms. There’s just no way they wouldn’t be arrested for brandishing weapons in public, or at a minimum, their faces doxxed across the Internet. Northern California is still mostly white and conservative but no, nobody does that kind of thing without the usual excitement.

Honsal, still, did not back down.

Good for him!

Property of the People’s executive director, Ryan Shapiro, criticized the highway patrol for engaged in .military-style. surveillance while Honsal and others issued disturbing public announcements based on a threat supported by virtually nothing.

“Military-style surveillance”? This is going farce. Let’s go to the article that launched this pathetic effort to pressure police into not following up on rumors of Antifa activities.

Revealed: how California police chased a nonexistent “antifa bus.

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By Sam Levin, 23 August 2021

On 1 June 2020, a law enforcement official in the small northern California city of Redding sent screenshots of two social media posts to her staff, asking them to investigate.

Sounds like a disgruntled night-shift worker and not, for example, the divisional chief of State Police.

One was an Instagram story. .BE AWARE . I have heard, from a reliable source, that ANTIFA buses with close to 200 people (domestic terrorists) are planning to infiltrate Redding and possibly cause distraction and destruction,. it read.

Spoiler: there were Floyd protests in progress in Redding. You might find that context relevant. Network news did not.

The second, a Facebook post, warned that buses of protesters planning to “riot” had stopped in Klamath Falls in southern Oregon, “but there was no rioting or burning as they decided to move on.” The post included a grainy image of a small van with “Black Lives Matter” written on the back.

Elizabeth Barkley, then chief of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) northern division, which covers rural parts of the state just south of Oregon, asked her colleagues to look into the claims and “notify our allied agencies in town.” Ninety minutes later, another CHP official forwarded the message to officers saying, .The thought is these buses are roaming . looking for events to attend (and possibly cause problems)..

A chief of the Highway Patrol is not “a law enforcement official in the small northern California city”. And for my international readers, Redding is the largest city in Northern California, in Shasta County.

Fifteen minutes after that, a CHP sergeant told a listserv of commanders that “possible ANTIFA buses [are] heading to Redding., adding that the agency’s tactical alert center had been notified. The official said that CHP aircraft operations were now actively trying to locate a vehicle on the freeway. The sheriff of nearby Humboldt county, William Honsal, shared the information with his entire staff, saying, .BOL [be on the lookout] for ANTIFA buses from Oregon..

What?! They didn’t blow off the regional chief of Highway Patrol just because MSN told them to?

The actions of officials in Shasta and Humboldt counties last summer were outlined in internal documents obtained through a public records request by Property of the People, a not-for-profit transparency group, and shared with the Guardian.

They show how officers in these rural counties, known for weed farms and hiking and overwhelmingly white, were swiftly duped by unfounded allegations about “Antifa buses” threatening to “infiltrate” the community as the United States wrestled with the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter demonstrations that sprung up in the aftermath.

The records also show how the agencies. response to those unsubstantiated allegations helped spread misinformation rooted in online conspiracy theories. The files were particularly troubling, experts said, because antifa conspiracy theories have inspired armed rightwing vigilantes to organize in response, sometimes with violent demonstrations.

Show me the bodycount, please. Those “mostly white racists” are not Chicongo monkeys; they do not miss. Ask the Kenosha Kid.

A CHP spokeswoman told the Guardian that the agency had received no evidence about possible buses beyond the two screenshots, and said its investigative unit reviewed the social media posts “to evaluate potential public safety issues.” She noted that Oregon police had raised similar concerns.

.A CHP air unit conducted a short search for the buses; however, they were unable to locate them,. the spokeswoman said in an email, adding that no specific individuals were surveilled, contacted or apprehended, and that no threat was identified. The full extent of the operation is unclear, though the spokesperson said the actual aerial search was brief: .The Antifa bus mission was a 12-minute event..

Conclusion, hard-Left journos got their Freedom Of Information Act request granted, to the effect that aircraft were used to search for those two Antifa Party buses based on what could reasonably be considered an anonymous tip… and nothing came of it. Welcome to police work. It’s very boring when done right.

Why are they making so much noise over this?

The obvious answer would be trying to “train” police to obey Marxist fact-checkers in matters involving the policing of Marxists. I don’t see that happening because the first cop who stands down and lets them through will have his life justifiably ended for everything from incompetence to criminal conspiracy.

It is tempting to also believe that those Antifa buses existed and when the police BOLOs went out, their allies warned them off the highway and tried to run interference for them. For that to be true, however, the buses would have had to be headed for a destination.

A 2 June report from the CHP northern division on “George Floyd protests” said no arrests were made, and noted that all related protests in the region were “expected to be peaceful..

*GunnerQ checks for mostly peaceful protests*

UPDATES: Protests wind down after mostly civil night in Redding

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By Mike Chapman, Alayna Shulman, David Benda, Damon Arthur, Matt Brannon, 2 June 2020

While the initial Redding march in honor of George Floyd was postponed, groups of protesters demonstrated Tuesday night at City Hall and at Shasta County Courthouse. A group that said it was protecting businesses from looting formed outside the Kohl’s store, where the march had been scheduled to take place. That group crossed paths with the George Floyd protesters at City Hall and the courthouse, while police and sheriff’s deputies watched.

Nearly three hours into the protest, Police Chief Bill Schueller came down from upstairs at city hall to mingle with protesters, but declined to take a knee in solidarity.

Meanwhile, police shut down Court Street as protesters and counter-protesters continued to gather in front of the courthouse. The situation got tense between the two groups but people separated them.

On 1 June, CHP and county sheriffs went on (sort-of) high alert for specific buses reportedly carrying agitators. On 2 June, the protests in downtown Redding fizzled out.

Looks like the City of Redding dodged a party bus.

Eureka protests: Arrests, vehicle incidents, law enforcement’s .solidarity.

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By Shomik Mukherjee, 1 June 2020

The city of Eureka is the seat of Humboldt County.

After a weekend of protests brought hundreds to downtown Eureka in rallies against the controversial police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, law enforcement and local activist groups on Monday addressed the chaos.

Across two days, three individuals were arrested, while protesters spray-painted multiple buildings and smashed windows at some locations. One arrest led to a GoFundMe page for bail payments; the fundraiser has over $11,000 in donations at press time.

Law enforcement officials joined protesters on Sunday afternoon to chant with the crowd for justice in Floyd’s case and echoed the sentiment in a public statement on Monday, but a local activist group later called the Sunday incident .trauma-inducing. and “humiliating.”

Others on social media denounced police firing nonlethal rounds into crowds on Sunday [May 31] night.

Separately, a witness at the protest on Saturday said she saw a large truck pushing its way through protesters on the street in front of the Humboldt County courthouse . an experience she called .really, really scary..

On Monday afternoon, Sheriff William Honsal and Eureka police chief Steve Watson issued a joint public statement denouncing Minneapolis police’s fatal arrest of George Floyd.

Looks like a party bus got through to Humboldt County… but maybe not all of the buses? Let me requote something that MSN said earlier: Lost Coast Outpost, a news site covering California’s northwest, documented Honsal’s insistence he’d seen .substantiated, law enforcement reports. about “buses full of people” hurdling toward the state.

Maybe the party buses that he claimed to have seen, were the buses that came down before the June 1 tips? It’s a good bet that many of those agitators were not locals.

Looks like the mainstream media is lying their heads off at law enforcement to prevent them from doing their jobs again.

Looks like the cat’s out of the bag now. I got a new education when my spine went sideways and I began using chiropractors. Turns out, there’s a lot of animosity between Establishment medicine and chiropractic. It’s no wonder! The Establishment has your body all figured out, you see. You’re not a person; you’re a juicebag of hoses and chemical reactions. Thus, all you’ll ever need to be healthy is scalpels and drugs. That’s great if what you need is scalpels and drugs.

But as chiropractors point out, all of that doesn’t help if your problem is NOT scalpels and drugs. How many drugs to heal a pinched nerve or re-seat a bone? Never gonna happen.

Part of wellness is wimminz being New Age and all that. But the chiropractic definition of wellness is the assumption that your body is self-correcting and actively tries to be healthy. Good medicine, then, is helping your body do what it naturally wants to do.

It’s not a perfect solution, of course. If your arm falls off then you need those scalpels and antibiotics. Chiros are willing to admit that, possibly because they don’t want your goop on their hands. But Establishment medicine is remarkably hostile against the idea of wellness. Possibly because chiropractors don’t end up as debt-slaves to the New World Order.

A case in point: the death jab.

Chiropractors being dependent upon neither the Medical Industrial Complex nor invasive methodologies, were immediately skeptical of even the concept of vaxxing away the Coof. Disease is a natural part of life and while that doesn’t mean they’re opposed to curing the sick, it does mean that their way of going about it was enhancing the body’s natural defenses with diet and exercise rather than a cocktail of pharmaceutical patents. And guess what? Sunlight, zinc and Vitamin C DID turn out to be effective!

In gratitude to the dissident-docs for proving them wrong, Pfizer issued a press release admitting defeat and quietly shuttered it doors.

We should have been so lucky.

Anti-vaccine chiropractors rising force of misinformation

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By Michelle R. Smith, Scott Bauer & Mike Catalini, AP, 9 October 2021

PROVIDENCE, R.I. . The postcard covered with images of syringes beckoned people to attend Vax-Con .21 to learn “the uncensored truth” about COVID-19 vaccines.

Participants traveled from around the country to a Wisconsin Dells resort for a sold-out convention that was, in fact, a sea of misinformation. The featured speaker was the anti-vaccine activist featured in the 2020 movie .Plandemic,. which pushed false COVID-19 stories into the mainstream.

The convention was organized by members of a profession that has become a major purveyor of vaccine misinformation during the pandemic: chiropractors.

Yep, an ENTIRE PROFESSION has united against the death jab! Shoulda reached across that isle when you had the chance, hospital administrators! But nooo, you invented ‘physical therapy’ so you could keep billing insurance companies without enriching those back quacks and their good-nutrition hang-ups.

At a time when the surgeon general says misinformation has become an urgent threat to public health, a vocal and influential group of chiropractors has been capitalizing on the pandemic by sowing fear and mistrust of vaccines.

That’s right, wannabe doctors! Obey the authorities who don’t obey themselves…or ELSE!

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US surgeon general cited for being in closed Hawaii park

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By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, 6 October 2020

HONOLULU – The U.S. surgeon general was cited for being in a closed Hawaii park in August while in the islands helping with surge testing amid a spike in coronavirus cases, according to a criminal complaint filed in court.

A Honolulu police officer cited Jerome Adams after seeing him with two men “looking at the view taking pictures” at Kualoa Regional Park on Oahu’s northeastern coast, the citation said. The park in a rural area offers a picturesque view of Mokolii island, known as Chinaman’s Hat for its cone shape.

Now known as Breonna Taylor’s Twat… because rayciss!

Adams told the officer he was visiting Hawaii to work with the governor for COVID-19 and didn’t know parks were closed.

At the time, Oahu parks were closed by Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell in an attempt to prevent crowds from gathering.

A phone number Adams gave the officer is the same number Adams listed on an email to state officials seeking an exemption for Hawaii’s quarantine on arriving travellers.

The email to Adams confirming his exemption included links to rules that were in effect in each of Hawaii’s counties, including the order closing Oahu parks.

.We do not have a comment at this time,. said Kate Migliaccio-Grabill, a spokeswoman for the Office of the Surgeon General said.

We the People weren’t asking for a comment. We were asking for a resignation from a hypocrite caught in the act.

Later Tuesday, Honolulu attorney Lex Smith issued a statement: .During his visit to Oahu, the surgeon general was cited for accidentally violating the mayor’s emergency order, due to his misunderstanding of the law. He has not asked for, nor has he received, any special treatment in connection with this citation, and will respond to it appropriately..

“Hey guys, we have this popular state park all to ourselves! I wonder why nobody’s here and why the gate was locked? Oh well, let’s take some selfies before getting back to imposing emergency plague quarantines.”

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[Chiropractors] have touted their supplements as vaccine alternatives, written doctor’s notes to get out of mandates, donated large sums of money to anti-vaccine organizations and sold anti-vaccine ads on Facebook and Instagram. They have been the leading force behind anti-vaccine events like the one in Wisconsin, where hundreds of chiropractors shelled out $299 or more to attend and earn continuing education credits to maintain their licenses in at least 10 states.

Heehee, they found a way to get continuing education credits for defying the Plandemic! AND it’s a tax writeoff!

Public health advocates are alarmed by the number of chiropractors who have hitched themselves to the anti-vaccine movement and used their sheen of medical expertise to undermine the response to a COVID-19 pandemic that has killed more than 700,000 Americans.

There’s the institutional hostility that I mentioned at the beginning.

.People trust them. They trust their authority,. said Erica DeWald of Vaccinate Your Family, who tracks figures in the anti-vaccine movement. .You go because your back hurts, and then suddenly you don’t want to vaccinate your kids..

Imagine that. Some freak with a massage table does in two minutes what all the world’s PhD.MDs never could and then suddenly, you’re magically compelled to think he knows better than them.

The purveyors of vaccine misinformation represent a small but vocal minority of the nation’s 70,000 chiropractors, many of whom advocate for vaccines. But the pandemic gave a new platform to a faction of chiropractors who have been stirring up anti-vaccine misinformation long before COVID-19 arrived.

“small but vocal minority” = “they’re everywhere!”

The first complaint the Federal Trade Commission filed under the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act was against a Missouri chiropractor, alleging he falsely advertised that “vaccines do not stop the spread of the virus,. but that supplements he sold for $24 per bottle plus $9.95 shipping did. He says he did not advertise his supplements that way and is fighting the allegations.

“They’re everywhere and they’re winning!”

“Nebraska chiropractor Ben Tapper landed on the “Disinformation Dozen,. a list compiled by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which says he is among a small group responsible for nearly two-thirds of anti-vaccine content online.”…

Tapper said he has lost patients, and that Venmo and PayPal seized his accounts. He believes vaccines have no place in what he calls the “wellness and prevention paradigm..

.We’re trying to defend our rights,. Tapper told AP, when asked why so many chiropractors are involved in the anti-vaccine movement.

A standard example of how the NWO prioritizes influential leaders for Convergence.

1. Identify a respected institution (or person).
2. Kill it.
3. Gut it.
4. Wear it as a skinsuit while demanding respect.

Tapper didn’t roll over so the NWO is stuck on Step Two. You just know he refused the Ticket!

Even before the pandemic, many chiropractors became active in the so-called “health freedom” movement, advocating in state legislatures from Massachusetts to South Dakota to allow more people to skip vaccinations. Since 2019, the AP found, chiropractors and chiropractor-backed groups have worked to influence vaccine-related legislation and policy in at least 24 states.

The group Stand for Health Freedom was co-founded in 2019 by another member of the “Disinformation Dozen,. Sayer Ji, along with chiropractor, Joel Bohemier, and Leah Wilson, who co-owns a chiropractic business in Indiana with her chiropractor husband. It says it has an estimated reach of 1 million .advocates.” It takes credit for killing a New Jersey bill in early 2020 that would have ended the state’s religious exemption for vaccines after rallying tens of thousands of residents to send emails to lawmakers through its portal.

The group is currently pushing people to send messages opposing vaccine mandates to lawmakers in states including Iowa and South Dakota. It says it has gathered more than 126,000 signatures on a petition to oppose vaccine mandates for air travel.

Well done, well done, Mr. Bohemier et ux! America DOES still have heroes!

On the West Coast, a chiropractic seminar and expo called Cal Jam, run by chiropractor Billy DeMoss, said in 2019 it raised $500,000 for a group led by one of the world’s most prominent anti-vaccine activists, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Photographs online show DeMoss and others presenting Kennedy with a giant check for $500,000.

Does that sting, Wokies? Tell me that stings, to watch your heroes turn against the Narrative.

Brian Wussow, a chiropractor and vice president of the Chiropractic Society of Wisconsin, later told a state Senate committee that more than 400 chiropractors and 100 chiropractic technicians from Minnesota, South Dakota, Illinois, Iowa and Kansas attended. Based on ticket prices, the event would have generated revenue of at least $130,000.

What’s with the money envy, Wokies? You’re being bankrolled by the entire ‘Murican Empire. Aww, does Satan not believe in paying his employees? But he pwommished!

James Damrow, a third-generation chiropractor in Janesville, Wis., is a member of the Wisconsin Chiropractic Examining Board… He said chiropractors were being unfairly cast as anti-science and .that’s not accurate..

Notice how the Left went about targeting the leaders of this convention, movement, etc. They’re still in the paradigm of “strike the shepherd and the sheep will be scattered”.

Letters to the Editor: Why would anyone take vaccine advice from a chiropractor?

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To the editor: I wouldn’t go to a chiropractor for treatment for an infectious disease, nor would I go to an infectious disease physician to get my back adjusted. (“Anti-vaccine chiropractors rising force of misinformation,” Oct. 9)

Additionally, as a retired pharmaceutical representative, I have far more knowledge and training hours in infectious disease than any chiropractor around.

The better question is, why would anyone take vaccine advice from a drug dealer?

Because he can afford a politician?

Why, oh why would anyone listen to a chiropractor (they are not physicians) on vaccines anyway? I continue to be awed by the stupidity around me.

Cindy Baker, Simi Valley

She’s not just a spokesman for stupidity. She’s also a client!

There’s a medical black market coming. The need is there and the talent has been freshly squeezed out of regular employment. If you find yourself in need of medical services while denied access to a hospital, the local chiropractor might be a good place to start researching options.

He’s been denied the Establishment’s respect since med school.

Hat tip to Computing Forever for linkage. All these headlines have essentially the same content.

express.co.uk: Heart attack: The surprisingly healthy activity that could increase your risk – warning

CNN: Sudden exercise may increase risk for heart attack …

Irishtimes.com: Physical activity may increase heart attack risk, study suggests

All in September 2021. Is this like the FDA’s food pyramid? Did Mum lie to me from childhood about getting fresh air?

Let’s go with the Irish Times’ spin.

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Physical activity may, paradoxically, hasten your risk of a heart attack, a new study suggests.

This is because physical activity may lead to a quicker build-up of plaque, or calcium deposits in the coronary arteries, according to the research.

This finding does not outweigh the many health benefits of exercise, the researchers emphasise.

Regular physical activity is associated with a reduction in the risk of obesity, diabetes, heart attack, stroke and death. But the new research shows that despite these important benefits, people who are very physically active seem to have high levels of calcium deposits in their coronary arteries.

However, it is not clear if exercise may itself be associated with calcification, or hardening of arteries, according to the study published in Heart journal.

What a nothingburger. “Physical exercise does a lot of good, but it can calcify your arteries if you overdo it… maybe.”

To explore the issue further, the researchers studied healthy adults attending for check-ups in South Korea over a six-year period.

Those who were more physically active tended to be older and less likely to smoke than less physically active participants. They also had lower total cholesterol, more high blood pressure, and existing evidence of calcium deposits in their coronary arteries.

Exercise causes aging!

An association between physical activity level and the prevalence and progression of coronary artery calcification emerged over time. Higher physical activity was associated with faster progression of calcification scores.

Experts said the new study may mean that exercise increases the risk of a heart attack, or it may be that calcium build-up is not a good measure of heart attack risk.

Or, it may mean that young people are suddenly having a lot of heart attacks that must be explained without making any reference to the Pfizer Death Jab… because the vaxx is KNOWN to be SAFE… therefore we must look to obscure papers written by people who think kale is healthy for an alternative explanation.

Here’s the link to the actual study…

Conclusion: We found a positive, graded association between physical activity and the prevalence and the progression of CAC, regardless of baseline CAC scores.

The media is obviously using it to generate headlines rather than inform the reader of any new development in cardiac medicine. As is their wont, the media are speaking to manipulate not communicate.

What are they trying to manipulate, you ask?

The Link Between Myocarditis and COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines

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By Colleen Moriarty, 24 June 2021

This is just one of many typical articles that never quite made the mainstream headlines in recent months.

Myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle, is a medical condition you may not have heard much about.until recently. It became a trending topic this spring when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that it is monitoring a small number of cases of heart inflammation that have arisen in young adults not long after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. The side effect is considered important but uncommon.arising in about 12.6 cases per million second doses administered. And now the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced it will place a warning on the mRNA vaccines. It’s important to note that the vaccination is still recommended for everyone who is eligible.

There’s a tiny risk. Not statistically significant. But for no reason, we’re putting warnings on the jab, banning vaxxed pilots from flying and recommending anticoagulants post-jab.

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Two studies published by JAMA Cardiology today discuss adverse effects associated with COVID-19 vaccines… Despite these risks, both research teams continue to advocate for COVID-19 vaccines as the health risks from the virus are far greater than those linked to the vaccine.

Both the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines have regulatory warnings about VITT [vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia] now, and data have shown that women under 60 years old appear to be at a higher risk. Symptoms include intracranial pressure, shortness of breath, lethargy, back pain, abdominal pain, spot bleeding under the skin, and leg or arm weakness, as well as positive test results for heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT). Onset occurs a median of 8 or 10 days after receiving the Johnson & Johnson or AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, respectively.

No current strategies exist to avoid VITT….

Although both AstraZeneca’s and Johnson & Johnson’s adenovirus-based COVID-19 vaccines have been connected with VITT, the syndrome seems to occur at four times the frequency with the AstraZeneca vaccine, according to the researchers. As for the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines, no instances have been recorded with the Pfizer vaccine, but three cases have been connected to Moderna.

The Elites are pushing Pfizer really hard. As with Highlanders, in the end there can be only one.

“Adverse events like VITT, while uncommon, have been described despite vaccination remaining the most essential component in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. While it seems logical to consider the use of types of vaccines (eg, mRNA-based administration) in individuals at high risk, treatment should consist of therapeutic anticoagulation mostly with nonheparin products and IVIG,” the researchers write.

You could just take your chances with the Coof. Or, you could take your vaxx with a month’s worth of anticoagulants. One of these is legal and the other is not. One of these enriches the Med-MIC and the other does not.

One of these will kill you and the other will not.

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The CDC.s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices said that there’s a “likely association” between the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines and reported cases of heart inflammation. This inflammation may occur in the heart muscle (myocarditis) or in the outer lining of the heart (pericarditis).

Per the above segue, there are “no recorded incidents” of this..? They can’t keep the Narrative straight.

The safety group reports that the majority of cases have occurred in people 30 years old and under, mostly in males, and more often than not, inflammation occurred after the second dose of the vaccine.

Stay tuned for the third dose! The experts all agree that this trend will reverse itself because the vaxx is KNOWN to be SAFE.

In May, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Technical (VaST) Work Group, a special panel that advises the CDC, reported that the cases were occurring about four days after vaccination.

At this point, it’s too early to tell what may be causing the recently reported myocarditis cases.

This bullshit is crossing into mass murder territory.

Still, doctors are reassuring patients and families. .This is an incredibly rare event,. says Dr. Asnes. He adds that patients seem to get better quickly. .I think that the most important message at this point is that we are still recommending eligible people older than 12 follow the vaccine recommendations from the CDC,. he says.

It’s too soon to determine if the vaxx is causing heart attacks. But just to be safe, since you’re not at risk or anything, you should… quit exercising!

Health Ministry to consider asking newly vaccinated to avoid working out

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By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, 7 October 2021

Israel is the national case study for Vaxx consequences, since the world neither waited for human trials nor bothered to remember the animal trial outcomes. It seems that extreme xenophobia can lead to extreme levels of in-group trust. After all, if the Palestinians refuse the “Jew Juice” then it’s just got to be the next mother’s milk for the Israeli.

“Is your graphene organically sourced?”

Individuals vaccinated with the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine may be asked to avoid strenuous exercise and other physical activity for one week after receiving each dose due to cases of myocarditis that were detected in a small percentage of vaccinated people, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

In a slide deck prepared for the Health Ministry’s advisory committee for epidemic control and coronavirus vaccines, which the Post reviewed, some health officials in the Epidemiology Division of the Health Ministry are recommending that individuals “avoid strenuous activity for one week after their second dose of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines..

Casual walking, stretching, working while standing and housework would all be acceptable.

The recommendation comes on the heels of a study published late Wednesday night showing that one dose of the Pfizer vaccine increased the risk of heart inflammation . however, cases were usually mild and the majority were among young males.

“The Vaxx causes heart attacks but don’t worry, it mostly only kills the young men.” We have still not reached peak matriarchy.

I wonder. Since the Forever Vaxx is giving the Elites power of life and death over our individual bodies… is it possible that they’ll kill off the menfolk in order to reduce the chances of organized revolt? Imagine a society in which the gender ratio is artificially maintained at 1:10 in favor of women, and the women are culled after they age off the carousel. A sex paradise for the most depraved of the devil’s servants.

It won’t happen, of course. The birth rate is already cratering. If the Elites win then humanity won’t have more than two generations left before dying of neglect and abuse. Who could have guessed that humans would stop breeding after being penned up on starvation wages and only permitted menopausal ball-busters for wives?

But it’s interesting to think about the reindeer games that can be played if Fauci gets to inject any specific person with anything he wants. Beware the day when vaxxes are “individually tailored” to specific regions and persons! It is coming.

.We recommend that everyone, in particular adolescents and young men aged under 30 avoid strenuous activity, such as intense exercise, for one week after the first and second doses,. the slide deck said.

It defined high-intensity exercise as circuit training, vigorous forms of weight training, sprinting and swimming longer distances.

The officials said that high-functioning athletes that would be concerned about losing their conditioning could consider “downgrading their level of exercise” to a low intensity.

Translation: “Shut up and get jabbed.”

A member of the vaccine panel told the Post that although the matter would be discussed at the next meeting, most committee members are currently opposed to it.

I agree that the smart move is playing dumb rather than “you should take precautions against the heart attacks that the vaxx will NOT ABSOLUTELY NOT CAUSE!!!” Less of a paper trail that way.

How do you get rid of thousands of feral cats? According to female city management… you make sure they all get a loving home! Enjoy this deep dive into what happens when women run the city.

Florida city has too many stray cats, officials say. Here’s how they plan to fix the problem

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By Wells Dusenbury, South Florida Sun Sentinel, 12 October 2021

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. . It started with one defenseless kitten wandering in a circle by itself on Lake Ida road.

.I pulled over and picked her up,. said Delray Beach City Commissioner Juli Casale. .She was so tiny, she needed to be fed formula. Once I brought her home and she stayed..

And so it begins, crazy Florida cat lady.

She took in another stray the next year, but one commissioner can rescue only so many stray cats when thousands are roaming her city’s streets.

To limit the growth of “community cats,. Delray Beach is spending $25,000 for a new neutering and vaccination program.

Why more money? You’re the government. You have armed government agents just itching to kill themselves some mammals. And why are you healing animals that you want there to be fewer of?

There are likely between 7,000 and 11,000 stray cats in Delray Beach, said Heidi Nielsen, director of information and outreach for Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League. Countywide there are between 150,000 and 200,000 stray cats, Nielsen said. And if left unchecked, those numbers can surge exponentially and pose health risk to residents.

Just like women in government! How are people still believing that men and women are the same? We let a huge number of women into authority and by total, freak coincidence, the immediate result is our entire civilization going Borderline Personality Disorder… just like your ex!

And why is the birth rate suddenly so low, now that women can pick their own husbands er, male-presenting lovers?

Casale, who’s spearheading the initiative, frequently feeds community cats, which are often malnourished and defenseless. .If we don’t help them, who’s going to?. she said.

I just thought of a cheaper, more effective way to control the kitty population than “more government”: get rid of Juli Casale.

Feral kittens suffer an abnormally high mortality rate of 75% rate, Nielsen said, attributing it to a variety of factors, including lack of food and water, being attacked by dogs or other animals and being run over by cars.

“We must feed and protect the puppies and kitties! Changing the subject, why are there now so many of them?”

Jan Steele, director of Palm Beach County Animal Care and Control, said unchecked growth poses a “huge health risk” due to rabies.

.If you have a large population of cats that does not have rabies vaccination that are continuing to breed, they’re overcrowded and often times not having enough food,. Steele said.

.They’re more susceptible to picking up rabies from the local raccoons because they’re going to the same food sources. If they’re in the same community as humans, you’re putting [people] at risk for rabies as well..

To combat the issue, Delray Beach is adopting a trap-neuter-vaccinate-release (TNVR) initiative. Animal experts use traps to capture stray cats and then transport them to a veterinarian. After being given anesthesia, vet technicians will neuter or spay the cat, provide a rabies vaccine and implant a microchip. The whole process takes roughly an hour, Steele said. Afterward, the cat is returned to its original territory.

In the context of Current Year, that paragraph is more than spooky enough for Halloween. Just change the definitions of “tom” and “vaxx”….

The program is being done in coordination with Peggy Adams and Purrzilla Cat Rescue. Paul Bates, who coordinates the TNVR program for Peggy Adams, said they’re planning on starting around November and are hoping to finish by February.

You’re never going to finish, when sterilizing feral cats is step 3 and feeding & sheltering them are steps 1 & 2.

Wait, what? Purrzilla Cat Rescue?

Between the facilities at Peggy Adams, Tri-County Humane Society and Palm Beach County Animal Care and Rescue, they can do about 200 procedures per week.

In addition to the TNVR program, Steele recommends that crazy cat ladies not be given access to the public treasury.

Oops. Let me fix that.

In addition to the TNVR program, Steele recommends people who have housecats keep them indoors to prevent them from potentially mating with unneutered or unvaccinated animals.

Or to avoid being eaten, one supposes, but perhaps cats aren’t livestock.

She said a good compromise for people with screened-in porches to design a .cat-io. . a patio tailored for a cat.

.Your car has a little kitty door that allows him to go into the screened-in patio, get some sunlight, some fresh air,. Steele said. .It’s lush, but it keeps them in your property..

That’s crazy, cat lady.

In fact, I checked if Juli is crazy. So did a Florida ethics commission.

Did Delray Beach Commissioner Juli Casale Make False Statements To The Palm Beach County Commission On Ethics?

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Decide for yourself! Alternatively, have flashbacks to your ex for yourself.

The ethics complaint stems from Casale threatening [Christopher Mitchell,] a Delray Beach mortgage broker’s business back in February.

The complaint states that at the Greater Delray Chamber of Commerce Candidates Forum at the Arts Garage on February 10, 2021, a visibly intoxicated Juli Casale verbally berated Mitchell about social media posts Mitchell had made regarding Mayor Shelly Petrolia.

There’s a lot of women in this government. Hmm.

Commissioner Juli CasaleCasale allegedly became histrionic and insisted that he stop posting negative statements about Petrolia. Mitchell refused.

He responded by stating he can say and write whatever he wanted. As a result, Casale channeled her inner Joan Crawford and had a Mommie Dearest style meltdown in front of at least 12 people.

At that point, Casale threatened Mitchell by saying: “I can really hurt your business. We’ll tell people not to do business with you. How about that!”

Mitchell perceived this as a direct threat to his business. Mitchell also wrote in his complaint: “This was an obvious threat to my business as a licensed Mortgage Loan Originator and therefore my livelihood. Commissioner Casale has threatened to use her influential position in the city to discourage potential loan customers from working with me or my firm at obvious detriment to my personal income.”

Yep, that’s an ethics violation.

On May 17th, the COE determined there was legal sufficiency to proceed with a further investigation.

As a result of COE.s findings, Casale retained high priced and influencial criminal defense lawyer Scott Richardson.

Unfortunately for the good people of Delray Beach, Richardson was able to convince the COE that the complaint was without merit… Richardson pulled off his victory even with Casale’s refusal to cooperate with the investigation.

.Ms. Casale never refused to cooperate with this investigation. On June 4, 2021, Commissioner Casale’s mother suffered a stroke in Connecticut and was very ill.

Commissioner Casale flew to be with her mother. On June 15, 2021, Investigator Higgs called me to see if Commissioner Casale would agree to be interviewed. I advised Investigator Higgs that I would discuss it with my client. On June 19, 2021, Commissioner Casale’s mother passed away.

Mr. Higgs and I spoke on June 22, 2021; I informed Investigator Higgs that Commissioner Casale’s mother had passed away and that we would revisit the issue at a more appropriate time..

And instead of rescheduling, the ethics investigation was closed?!

The COE didn’t press her for a copy of the death certificate.

This summer, a woman claiming to be Juli Casale’s sister called Chris Mitchell. Mitchell alleges the woman made a cryptic Deep Throat style comment about Juli Casale:

.There is more going on than you know..

The woman then disconnected the call. However, thanks to modern technology, we were able to confirm the phone number the woman called from. The number did belong to Casale’s sister Amy Seaburg.

As a result, we were also able to track down the whereabouts of their mother, Mrs. Simmons. It appears she may not [be] dead.

Yep, that’s an ethics violation. You should read this article for yourself; it pulls no punches and goes where even I’d rather not tread, in covering small-city Florida politics. You will not be bored. Certainly not by the mayor.

Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia On the Offensive Again

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By Randy Schultz, 17 November 2020

Delray Beach Mayor Shelly Petrolia wants to purge a member of the planning and zoning board for saying something that she didn’t like.

Rob Long is that board member. A civil engineer by training, he’s also chairman of the Palm Beach County Soil and Water Conservation District. Like the planning and zoning board, it’s an advisory group.

In that capacity, Long on Nov. 3 sent an email to say that he was “appalled” by Delray Beach’s response to the “alarming discovery” of cancer-causing chemicals.known as polyfluoralkyl substances, or PFAS.in the city’s water supply. He cited a report by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

So that’s what Florida puts in their drinking water. I’d wondered for a long time.

Long noted that the amount of PFAS was within legal limits under Florida’s “lenient standards.” Still, he wrote, the issue should be “cause for concern..

In addition, Long suggested causes for the problem, such as consistent turnover among staffers in related city departments. He also claimed that Petrolia “downplayed the severity of the problem..

Last week, Petrolia brought up the email, after a discussion of the city’s water department and its response to recent problems. Commissioner Shirley Johnson called the email .a disservice to our residents.. Julie Casale, Petrolia’s most reliable commission ally, asked what “recourse” might be available to punish Long. Petrolia said Long .doesn.t belong on our board..

Juli Casale (spelling?) is not an outlier.

Ryan Boylston and Adam Frankel disagreed. Boylston, who nominated Long to the planning and zoning board, said a reprimand or worse would be “an odd precedent to set.” To be consistent, Frankel said, the city would have to review texts and emails from all advisory board members. They serve at the commission’s pleasure, but removal is rare unless members are chronically absent or prove unfit to serve.

From what I can tell, everything in Long’s email with regard to the PEER report was accurate. He could have included the city’s official denial of the group’s finding. But PEER is a credible organization.

The political point of contention is Long’s reference to Petrolia. He based that on a Feb. 4 text message from Petrolia to City Manager George Gretsas, who is now suspended. Petrolia wanted Gretsas to avoid any comments that might “implicate this administration.. As a weak mayor, Petrolia isn’t part of any administration.

Gretsas got sort-of removed from his position due to scandal.

Petrolia said the (reclaimed water problem) .didn’t happen on our watch.” Gretsas has called that a lie, saying that Petrolia knew about the problem when residents first complained in December 2018.

Johnson accused Long of “yelling fire in a theater.” Long responded, .It isn’t a crime to yell fire in a movie theatre if there is a fire. This is an issue that should be taken seriously, and it’s my duty to keep the public informed..…

City Attorney Lynn Gelin said she would “reach out” to Long for a formal response…

One response to Long’s email came from Kelly Barrette. She’s a social media presence in Delray Beach and another Petrolia ally.

.Sounds like you’re running for Mayor, Rob,. Barrette snarked. .Good luck with that!.

This is what happens when women hold the reins of power. They don’t stop being women, whether that means mothering the (legions of) helpless kittens, making up excuses to beat an ethics investigation or most of all, blaming a man for mansplaining a problem that she’s now officially in charge of solving.

Our situation will not improve until men rule over women once again. As God intended, and was denied, from the beginning.