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-Great Cultural Revolution
Remember, parents are not entitled to know their kids' identities-Eau Claire School District Wisconsin
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Woke Wisconsin school district orders teachers not to share their pupil's gender identities with their parents
  • Teachers at Eau Claire School District in Wisconsin were told not to reveal a pupil's sexual orientation and gender identity to parents if they confided in them

  • Staff were told 'Remember, parents are not entitled to know their kids' identities. That knowledge must be earned.'

  • The policy has outraged school board candidates who argue that parents should everything that is going on with their child while at school

  • Board superintendent Michael Johnson says the policy is to ensure students feel safe particularly if they are 'unable to be themselves' while at home
Posted by: Woodrow || 04/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You exist to serve the state. That pretty much sums up the position of authoritarians and totalitarians.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/01/2022 7:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Abuse is OKed at medical facility.
Posted by: Dale || 04/01/2022 8:51 Comments || Top||

#3  You exist to serve the state. That pretty much sums up the position of authoritarians and totalitarians.


Posted by: Warthog || 04/01/2022 10:01 Comments || Top||


Biden administration endorses transgender youth sex-change operations, 'top surgery,' hormone therapy
[FoxNews] That's sooo weird
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Mob Rule

#1  Joe Biden Applauds Transgenderism with Launch of New ‘X’ Gender Marker


Huh, Ah'm an 'XY'.
Wonder why they didn't pick 'Q'.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2022 9:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Pedocrats gonna pedo.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/01/2022 11:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember when Female Genital Mutilation was the worse thing ever?

Now they are lopping tits and chopping balls off children and sewing the leftover bits onto their privvies like the entourage of Xerxes' Tent, all while pumping these children so full of hormones PETA would shit a porcupine if it were done to a cow.

Women don't exist, Men are to be detested, and the only children they want are yours.

And here, The Face of the Democrats and public pedophile calls it virtue.

I knew there would be secondaries after the Don't Rape Kids bill, but WoW.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/01/2022 13:04 Comments || Top||

#4  I prefer the DeSantis approach. Don't cut off children's body parts. Cut off Disney instead - revoke their special privileges in Florida

DeSantis broaches repeal of Disney World's special self-governing status in Florida
Posted by: Thravick Fillmore6665 || 04/01/2022 13:24 Comments || Top||


Economy
Biden administration to release 1M barrels of oil daily from US reserves
[FoxBusinessNews] The national average price of gas is about 62 cents higher than a month ago

The Biden administration will release 1 million barrels of oil each day for the next six months from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum reserve in an effort to combat soaring gasoline prices.

Biden formally announced the move at a White House event Thursday afternoon, saying that his plan would release around 180 million additional barrels from the reserve. That would leave the already-depleted SPR down to around 388 million barrels, the lowest level since March 1984.

The White House said ahead of the president's remarks that "This record release will provide a historic amount of supply to serve as a bridge until the end of the year when domestic production ramps up."

During his speech, Biden also called on Congress to force oil companies to pay fees for unused leases, accusing energy producers of "hoarding" wells on federal lands. He said that companies "sitting on unused leases and idle wells will either have to start producing or pay the price for their inaction."
According to the US Energy Information Administration, in 2020, U.S. petroleum consumption averaged about 18.12 million barrels per day.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2  And you and to bet lots of gang bangers who don't even own cars wind up "winning" those lottery cards?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/01/2022 8:39 Comments || Top||

#3 
Which means, that the Oil will be replaced at $$Higher$$$ cost later.

Someones making $$$$$$$$$$$$$
Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/01/2022 8:43 Comments || Top||

#4  This is like paying down your credit card with a higher interest credit card.

The oil will need to be put back, will cost more and you still are short.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/01/2022 9:15 Comments || Top||

#5  They could have built Keystone and not used it.
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2022 10:02 Comments || Top||


#7  US reserves will be sold to consumers at TODAY's prices, not the original purchase price. Yes of course, there is a middle man.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/01/2022 10:07 Comments || Top||

#8  Seriously? TFP.

"We're going to start WW111, but first lets decommission 20 ships, destroy recruiting, cut troop numbers, give a chunk of Air Force a two month leave, make women do shell humping, have some drag queen galas, and drain the energy reserve."

Isn't this kind of, sort of, like drilling?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/01/2022 11:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Don't ask Joe to make sense. He's a Democrat.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/01/2022 11:52 Comments || Top||

#10  It's like teenagers are making decisions at the White House.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 04/01/2022 13:57 Comments || Top||

#11  Worse. Tiktokers.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/01/2022 16:08 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Democrat Lawyers Object to Durham Asking Potential Jurors if They Have Links to Hillary Clinton's Promotion of Russian Collusion Hoax
[GP] Special Prosecutor John Durham wants to ask potential jurors if they have any links to Hillary Clinton’s promotion of the Russian collusion hoax.

Recall, Hillary Clinton hatched the Trump-Russia plot in 2016 to distract from her emails transmitted over a private server while she was the head of the Department of State.

John Durham wants to know about any links to Hillary Clinton’s promotion of the Russian collusion canard in a questionnaire to potential jurors.

Attorneys for Clinton’s campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann however are objecting to the question.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/01/2022 00:44 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Appears Durham is directly over the target.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/01/2022 1:02 Comments || Top||

#2  A defense lawyer asked me if "My older brother ever got in fistfights?", I said "Yes" and was dismissed from the Jury Pool of a trial concerning an Assault & Battery... Seems Durham has a reasonable question.
Posted by: magpie || 04/01/2022 9:37 Comments || Top||


Is Biden Compromised? Sen. Ron Johnson is 'Suspicious'
Compromised, senile, corrupt, and not terribly bright. But those who wanted him in the White House were willing to lie, cheat, and steal to get him there, so here we are.
[NewsMax] Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Newsmax that as more information comes to light about Hunter Biden's laptop, he has grown "suspicious" President Joe Biden could be compromised.

While speaking to "Stinchfield," Johnson said, "I don't know it for certain" that the information on Hunter's laptop would compromise the president, "but I'm sure suspicious of it."

Why did Biden "waive all these sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline?" Johnson asked. "Why did he cancel the China initiative? There was the Department of Justice investigation initiative into China's stealing our intellectual property at universities; why did he take these actions?"


"So we have no idea," the congressman continued, "what Russia, what China, these other intelligence services, know about President Biden. And we have no idea how that might be affecting his policy decisions.

"But I agree with Tony Bobulinski [Hunter Biden's former business partner] who said that Joe Biden is 'compromised.' I think it's pretty obvious he must be," the senator concluded.
Posted by: Unemble Ebbineter6134 || 04/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats


#2  Where is the SECOND laptop? The one that Hunter said was "stolen by the Russians"?
Posted by: Thusoter Barnsmell7418 || 04/01/2022 1:03 Comments || Top||


#4  ooooooooooh, he's "suspicious". And that's pretty much where it ends. Move along.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/01/2022 2:11 Comments || Top||



#7  "Is Biden compromised?"
Why, yes. Yes indeed. Next question.
Posted by: Hupomotle Jurt9247 || 04/01/2022 16:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Compromised enough to, say, at the behest of the CCP, lift Title 42?
Posted by: Anomalous Sources || 04/01/2022 20:29 Comments || Top||

#9  That's right. We're seeing swarms of them in Arizona and elsewhere, in the hundreds. It's unreal. Truly an invasion.

This is a fucking disaster in the making. I can't believe this administration is screwing around with stuff halfway across the world while this is happening on our border.
Posted by: Boss Poodle5407 || 04/01/2022 20:39 Comments || Top||

#10  But they want that to happen on our border, Boss Poodle5407. They think it A Good Thing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/01/2022 20:56 Comments || Top||

#11  Compromised in the sense of blackmail-able? I wonder how many candidates are allowed to win aren't.
Posted by: James || 04/01/2022 21:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Republican Crackheads Primary Cawthorn
[ArcaMax] RALEIGH, N.C. — Three of North Carolina’s most powerful Republican elected officials are backing a primary-election challenger to U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn.

Cawthorn, a first-term representative from far-western North Carolina, has generated headlines and controversies since before joining Congress after a surprising GOP primary victory in 2020.

But the most recent string of controversies — a series of charges of speeding and driving violations, unflattering comments about the Ukrainian president after Russia’s invasion, and claims that people in Washington have invited him to orgies and he’s seen some do cocaine — represent a breaking point for some.

In particular, the remark about sex and drugs has led to outrage among fellow Republicans, who seemed content to let other controversies surrounding the 26-year-old go.

U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis is backing state Sen. Chuck Edwards in Cawthorn’s 11th Congressional District. In addition, state Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore planned to host a fundraiser for Edwards on Thursday afternoon. Donations of $250 to $2,900 are required to attend the event, according to an invitation. Edwards is one of seven Republicans running against Cawthorn.

"Mr. Cawthorn hasn’t demonstrated much in the way of results over the last 18 months," Tillis told CNN on Wednesday at the Capitol.

The primary is May 17.

Kevin McCarthy, the top Republican in the U.S. House, met with Cawthorn on Wednesday after his sex-and-drug comments alarmed and angered members of the GOP caucus. McCarthy told reporters afterward that Cawthorn exaggerated or lied about the claims, saying he "did not tell the truth."

"I’m very disappointed. I told him he’s lost my trust. He’s lost my trust. He’s going to have to earn it back," McCarthy told Capitol Hill reporters after meeting with Cawthorn. McCarthy did not rule out removing Cawthorn from his committee assignments in his comments.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 04/01/2022 09:20 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He has certainly demonstrated a lack of discipline common to most rookies.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 04/01/2022 11:14 Comments || Top||

#2  "Mr. Cawthorn hasn’t demonstrated much in the way of results over the last 18 months," Tillis told CNN on Wednesday at the Capitol.

What Republican has?

Isn't this another case of flack getting heavier over the target?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/01/2022 11:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Allegations are not evidence. You'd think all the totally made-up crap they put Trump through from the moment he was elected (actually earlier) would cause people on our side to insist of receipts or keep your mouth shut. OTOH, why should we give any less than we have been getting?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/01/2022 12:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Maybe McCarthy is the guy hosting the cocaine and orgy parties? Wouldn't surprise me one bit.
Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed || 04/01/2022 12:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Probably AOC. They say she's a super freak. Give her some ecstasy and she goes all night
Posted by: Shaiting Brown5509 || 04/01/2022 13:38 Comments || Top||

#6  The first rule of Congress-Club is you never talk about Congress-Club.
Posted by: Angstrom || 04/01/2022 17:35 Comments || Top||


Bungling Biden tells families they can save $500 a MONTH by switching to renewable energy: White House issues a correction saying saving is over a year - which is still met with disbelief
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Joe Biden had incorrectly promised Americans they could save $500 a month by switching their homes to renewable energy during his Thursday speech

  • The White House quickly published a correction that makes clear that Americans would actually save around $500 a year, not a month

  • Biden also announced the release of 180 million barrels of oil over six months from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

  • He said record high gas prices had two roots: the pandemic and Putin's war
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2022 08:31 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Maybe they should put him back in the basement so he'll shut up.
Posted by: Chris || 04/01/2022 11:08 Comments || Top||

#2  "If you don't like your utility bills, just go get a gas generator."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/01/2022 11:35 Comments || Top||

#3  He's flailing. The Geico Gecko has more credibility on how much to save by switching.
Posted by: Frank G || 04/01/2022 11:50 Comments || Top||

#4  The ROI on converting your home to solar is 17 years, last time I checked. Not a good investment if you ask me.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebboting9735 || 04/01/2022 13:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Joe spews enough gas each minute to heat a subdivision of homes for the entire winter
Posted by: Elmanter Thavique9579 || 04/01/2022 13:19 Comments || Top||

#6  That's only with the government subsidies, VE9735.

Much longer without.
Posted by: Unomoling Black9931 || 04/01/2022 16:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Had to check, not that I don't trust Skid, but...Bungling Biden as headline...Ouch. Guess they are getting tired of pretending, or just can't hide it anymore.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 04/01/2022 18:05 Comments || Top||


Trump Doctrine 2.0: Former president lays out plan to reverse Biden agenda
Sensible proposals, simple to implement. And exactly the opposite of everything President Biden and the Democrats, backed by their captive Deep State, have chosen to do. Except for the NATO thingy — I don’t know why he brought that up.
[JustTheNews] 45th president says he’s not interested in House speaker's job, and knows what next president needs to do on inflation, crime, the border, Russia and China.

Former President Donald Trump
...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
is laying out a 2.0 vision on how he would make America great again, again, offering Just the News his plan for defeating Joe The Big Guy Biden
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Please make sure Florida Governor Ron DeSantis gets a copy.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/01/2022 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Did I miss something? Where did he say he would not expand NATO into Ukraine?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 04/01/2022 12:03 Comments || Top||


Biden pick for Labor post defeated in Senate -- with three Dems opposing
[NYPOST] President Biden’s nominee for a key position in the Labor Department was rejected by the Senate on Wednesday — with three Democrats joining all 50 Republicans to vote against the pick.

The vote to advance David Weil’s nomination to head up the Labor Department’s Wage and Hour Division failed 53-47 as Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly of Arizona opposed the nomination.

The vote to end debate on the nomination only needed a simple majority to pass.

Weil, who held the same position in the B.O. regime, faced stiff opposition from Senate Republicans, who claimed he would impose overly burdensome regulations affecting small businesses and independent contractors. Business groups had also expressed vehement opposition to Weil, a dean at Brandeis University, for his belief that corporations like McDonald’s should be liable for actions by franchisees.
Posted by: Fred || 04/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1 

It seems that many in the DC Swamp (GOP & LSD) have figured out that Mid-Terms are coming. Those in risky voter positions must find a better voter base foundation for Re-election.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 04/01/2022 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Bonus question: Name 3 Democrats in red states with elections approaching!
Posted by: Tom || 04/01/2022 14:43 Comments || Top||


'Harris' repeated rhetorical gaffes don't just make her look bad - they undermine American diplomacy': Pompeo's ex-speechwriter criticizes Kamala after another bizarre speech on the COVID response in Jamaica
[MAIL] Kamala Harris is facing increased criticism for continued gaffes and inappropriate laughter during public appearances, with one former Trump-era speech writer saying her rhetoric 'undermines American diplomacy' on the world stage.

'America's allies and partners expect our leaders to speak with coherence and clarity on issues that matter to them,' former speechwriter for ex-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo David Wilezol told DailyMail.com in a statement.

'Harris' repeated rhetorical gaffes don't just make her look bad – they undermine American diplomacy,' added Wilezol, founder and president of the ghostwriting firm Seventh Floor Strategies.

During a meeting Wednesday afternoon, the vice president held a bilateral meeting with Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness to discuss the COVID response on the island. In a speech surrounding the meeting, Harris compounded her communication woes by delivering a bit of word salad.

'We also recognized, just as it has been in the United States, for Jamaica, one of the issues that has been presented as an issue that is economic in the way its impact has been the pandemic,' Harris said.

She continued the confusing speech by saying: 'So to that end, we are announcing today also that we will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica that have been essential to I believe what is necessary to strengthen not only the issue of public health, but also the economy.'

Dr. Jonathan Bronitsky, who served as chief speechwriter to then-Attorney General Bill Barr said of the remarks: 'An outside observer can only speculate about the reasons for the declining lucidity of Kamala Harris's extemporaneous remarks––maybe she's distracted, nervous, underprepared, or perhaps some combination of the above.'

'However, what is clear is that her blundering at the podium, combined with Joe Biden's pattern of peculiar behavior and relentless bloopers, is serving only to further fuel fearful suspicion both at home and abroad that the Oval Office is without a chief,' he continued.

Vice President Kamala Harris is yet again facing criticism for gaffes and word salad during public appearances after appearing alongside Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday to discuss the U.S. helping in the island's COVID recovery
Posted by: Skidmark || 04/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Strangely enough, I am actually on Harris' side on this one.

'America's allies and partners expect our leaders to speak with coherence and clarity on issues that matter to them,'

The fewer 'allies' and 'partners' we have, the better off we'll be. Ever since we got into the empire business after 1945, things have gotten worse for us. We start wars we don't understand and don't know how to win. Just look at all the people ready to jump in on the side of literal Nazis in Ukraine.

The only winning move is not to play.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 04/01/2022 5:46 Comments || Top||


Bernie Sanders' Ukraine War Tax: 95% tax on ‘windfall profits’! Boynie says it's a revival of WWII tax on ‘corporate greed’
In which the honourable senator from the little state of Vermont postures for the crazy left wing of the Democratic party, because there is no way that travesty will garner enough votes to pass out of committee.
[CommonDreams] U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday unveiled the Ending Corporate Greed Act, which aims to end corporate price gouging in the midst of multiple global crises by imposing a 95% tax on the windfall profits of major companies.

"The working class cannot bear the brunt of this economic crisis, while corporate CEOs, wealthy shareholders, and the billionaire class make out like bandits."
The bill—spearheaded by Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.)—is inspired by previous windfall profits tax plans implemented during World Wars I and II as well as the Korean War. During WWII, Sanders' office noted, "the tax rate reached as high as 95%, which ensured that companies could not profiteer off the war.".

The Senate Budget Committee chair argued that "we cannot allow Big Oil companies and other large, profitable corporations to continue to use the war in Ukraine, the Covid-19 pandemic, and the specter of inflation to make obscene profits by price gouging Americans at the gas pump, the grocery store, or any other sector of our economy."

In addition to the existing federal tax rate—which congressional Republicans cut from 35% to 21% under former President Donald Trump—Sanders' bill would establish a 95% tax on a company's profits that exceed its average profit level for 2015-19, adjusted for inflation.

The new tax would only apply only to companies with $500 million or more in annual revenue and would be limited to 75% of income per year. Sanders' office estimates that the temporary emergency measure, which would only apply in 2022-24, "coud raise an estimated $400 billion in one year from 30 of the largest corporate profiteers alone."
Posted by: Bubba Fleash3237 || 04/01/2022 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Well, it's not a bad idea. They can and do have a political agenda, and that political agenda can and does including promoting wars for their own profit.

You think Lockheed and Raytheon are in favor of peace? Nobody is that naive.
Posted by: Omomolet Phutch9064 || 04/01/2022 3:09 Comments || Top||

#2  It's a stupid idea. "Windfall" profits grab will kill industry investments and dividends that retirees depend on. Stupid. But let's drag in Raytheon and Lockheed to make the straw man, right?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/01/2022 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  If US corporations hadn't done miracles never seen in the annals of industry, would the US have won the war?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 04/01/2022 7:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Thou shall covet, thou shall bear false witness, thou shall steal - three commandments of socialism.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 04/01/2022 7:55 Comments || Top||

#5  It's April Fools' Day every day of the year for Bernie!
Posted by: magpie || 04/01/2022 9:30 Comments || Top||

#6  How about a 95% tax on wealth held -- directly or through holding companies -- when leaving an elected office? Or even just the inflation-adjusted increase in wealth?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/01/2022 11:47 Comments || Top||



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  Zakir Naik’s IRF banned for 5 years
Thu 2022-03-31
  Moscow announces Mariupol ceasefire to evacuate civilians
Wed 2022-03-30
  Massacre at cockfight in Mexico leaves 20 dead
Tue 2022-03-29
  Trial set for member of IS 'Beatles' kidnap-and-murder cell
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  Mass prisoner exchange planned in Yemen: 1,400 Yemenis in exchange for 823 Saudi-led troops
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  United States is expected to announce plans to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainian refugees.
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