BLUF: [Daily Caller] Gaines described her own experiences speaking out against men on women’s sports teams, stating that she had drinks poured on her, glass bottles thrown at her, and she’s been spit on. She also mentioned death threats, people showing up at her house, and drones flying above her house.
"I’ve been assaulted and held for ransom for four hours when these protestors demanded that if I wanted to make it home to see my family safely again, I had to pay them money. The list goes on," Gaines said.
Gaines directed attention to the comments on her original social media post to exemplify the "blatantly obvious" reason why women are "scared" to speak out. She said that "the threats, the risks, they’re very real, and I’ve seen them play out."
"Let’s just read a few of my favorites," Gaines said as one comment appeared in front of her on screen. "This one says, ’I hope you get hung by your pubes and kicked in the jaw so you choke on your teeth.’"
"This is a classic tactic of what they like to do," Gaines continued, showing a second comment. "’If this young woman hurts herself, I blame you.’ Basically telling, putting the burden of someone else’s internal torment on us, as young women and girls, and telling us that we will have blood on our hands for simply saying the truth.
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She is a very brave and determined young woman. A good portion of those she is opposing are spiritually enslaved to darkness. The idea of torturing her in that peculiar way is not normal human thinking. May God protect her.
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[Federalist] Democrats’ Marxist takeover of America’s education system is rearing its ugly head on an almost daily basis, and the latest stories out of Illinois are further proof of it.
On Thursday, Parents Defending Education reported that students attending the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) orchestrated a protest and walkout on Dec. 8 demanding harsh punishments for individuals who have "bias incident reports" filed against them. According to the academy’s website, anyone from IMSA students to alumni and visitors can file on-the-record or anonymous reports alleging incidents of "bias" committed by other IMSA community members. The reports are then investigated by school staff such as the chief human resources/equity officer and/or the director of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
A driver faces DUI charges after a crash involving a Secret Service SUV that was providing security to President Joe Biden's motorcade in Wilmington, Delaware, according to a report.
A Wilmington Police spokesperson identified him as James Cooper, 46, of Wilmington, The New York Times reported.
The president and First Lady Jill Biden had just left his campaign headquarters in Wilmington about 8 p.m. Sunday when the crash took place.
After the crash, the sedan allegedly attempted to flee into another closed intersection.
The Secret Service released a statement on Sunday saying there was "no protective interest," meaning the crash was accidental and not any attempt on the president.
The president and the first lady were not hurt in the incident.
Colorado was most affected by addiction, particularly with vaping and drugs
In worldwide rankings, the US was named the top country with drug addictions
Colorado scored the highest in terms of addiction as a whole, with a fifth of its people 'excessive' drinkers and 21 percent using illicit drugs.
The Mile High state - which has some of the country's most lax drug regulations - was given an addiction score of 6.95, according to the analysis of federal data.
Montana and Alaska took second and third place for overall addiction, followed closely behind by Louisiana and Ohio.
The report used federal data, including surveys from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) and the National Library of Medicine, to calculate the percentage of residents in each state who were affected by common addictions.
The researchers also looked at the countries with the highest rates of addiction. Latvia took first place, particularly for alcoholism. Latvians consumed 12.2 liters (412 ounces) per capita. This is roughly the equivalent of 2.6 bottles of wine or 4.9 liters of beer weekly.
The report, conducted by online pharmacy Universal Drugstore, gave each state and country a score out of 10. This was an average of the percentages of people addicted to vaping, smoking, drinking, or using illicit drugs.
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In Tim Dorsey's Serge Storms novels, a convenience store chain in Florida called Addiction World figures prominently. One of their core products is a 96 oz. refillable beverage called the Thirst Mutilator...
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^ That was me. Seems cookies getting lost is happening a lot. Pr4olly the latest Windows Insider build is to blame, not the site.
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Wife and I hand out food and used warm clothing for those that look truly homeless.
If we see a person begging with a neatly written sign smoking a cig... we just keep going.
Because if they afford $7+ for Cigs they ain't hurting that bad.
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Smoking in public places, particularly restaurants and office buildings, was outlawed many years ago in California. Most Californians these days see tobacco as being socially unacceptable. But now it seems like everywhere I go I smell pot. Alcohol has no stigma attached to it.
But then we have San Francisco and LA where fentanyl and other formerly illegal drugs are in effect now legal with devastating results.
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And that's how it starts.
[FoxNews] Officials have opened a tuberculosis investigation after a person with an active infection was reported to have been on dozens of elementary and high school campuses in Nevada’s most populous county, according to the Associated Press.
The person in question, who has not been publicly identified, was believed to have been on 26 Clark County School District campuses and a training site before discovering the TB diagnosis, AP reported.
The Southern Nevada Health District also released a list of affected schools on Friday and notified people who were believed to be in close contact with the person.
The district said individual notifications were happening at 17 campuses for possible exposures, but no exposures had been identified at eight campuses so far, according to the AP.
[WeatherDotCom] NBM probabilities of exceeding 1" of precipitation are in the 90 to 100% range, with probabilities of exceeding 3" of precipitation in the 35 to 60% range in the Sacramento Valley and 75 to 95% range over the mountains. WPC projects precipitation amounts ranging from 1.5" to 3" in the Valley, with 2.5" to 4.5"+ inches over the foothills and mountains late today into Wednesday.
This could lead to slick travel conditions, ponding of water on area roadways, and minor nuisance flooding of poor drainage areas.
As this is a relatively warm system, snow levels look to remain
around 7000 to 8500 feet Monday-Tuesday...
--------- Reservoir levels are well above normal in California today as they haven't been drawn down completely from last winter's massive snowpack. However, this year's snowpack accumulation is off to a very slow start.
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Reservoirs are near full, yet they're still gonna make us drink toilet water. And yes, it's been raining pretty hard today.
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If you live downriver from a major city, you ARE drinking recycled water. Demand the best filtering and live with it
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[HotAir] Last month 23-year-old Sheynnis Palacios won the Miss Universe competition becoming the first ever Nicaraguan contestant to win the crown...."It came as a surprise, and triggered spontaneous expressions of delight in the country," said Elvira Cuadra, a Nicaraguan sociologist who lives in exile in Costa Rica.
"Since 2018, Nicaragua has lived in a police state," said Cuadra. "Lately they haven't even allowed religious gatherings. But when Sheynnis won, people took to the streets with their national flags, singing the national anthem.""...Ordinary Nicaraguans, who are largely forbidden to protest or carry the national flag in marches; took advantage of the Saturday night Miss Universe win as a rare opportunity to celebrate in the streets.
Their use of the blue-and-white national flag, as opposed to Ortega's red-and-black Sandinista banner, didn't sit well with the government.
"Ortega has a problem," said Arturo McFields Yescas, a former Nicaraguan ambassador to the Organization of American States who resigned and denounced the Ortegas last year.
"What he can't control, he robs or destroys, he said. "The baseball or boxing champions, for example, have to pay tribute to the regime. If they don't, they become targets. Sheynnis has something; she came from the bottom, she doesn't owe anything to the dictatorship; and that makes her someone dangerous."...
"People lost the fear," Mr. McFields said, "and that's the part that scared the dictatorship the most."
Honestly, I think Ortega has reason to be afraid. He's a shriveled up socialist dictator and Palacios is none of those things. If this becomes the societal equivalent of a beauty contest, Ortega doesn't have a chance in hell.
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Weaponized beauty pageants. I am doubtful that Ortega’s downfall will come at the hands of Maybelline mascara, Vaseline shined teeth and a bikini bottom held in place by super glue.
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The problem Ortega has in Nicaragua is they've stolen pretty much eveything there is to steal.
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^ Yes, but he still has those dreamy aviator shades
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12/18/2023 10:40 Comments ||
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He brings us quality Tex-Mex food items.
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"What they he can't control, he the leftists robs or destroys, he said. Sheynnis Trump has something; he came from the bottom, he doesn't owe anything to the dictatorship; and that makes him someone dangerous."
At least Sheynnis isn't an authoritarian threat to the complete cosmos.
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[FoxNews] 'Environmentalists fueled by China are promoting policies that would increase our dependence on China': energy expert.
A climate-focused nonprofit with significant operations in Beijing has wired millions of dollars to fund climate initiatives and environmental groups in the U.S., according to tax filings first obtained by Fox News Digital.
While the Energy Foundation's financial filings indicate that the group is technically headquartered in San Francisco, a Fox News Digital review determined that the majority of its operations are conducted in China with a staff that boasts extensive ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Its recently filed tax form show the group, which refers to itself as "Energy Foundation China," contributed $3.8 million to initiatives in the U.S. like phasing out coal and electrifying the transportation sector.
"The Energy Foundation's ties to China are both extremely disturbing and reprehensible," Tom Pyle, the president of the Institute for Energy Research, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "These environmental organizations, the recipients of this money, are, in essence, sacrificing our national security and empowering China."
"We are the richest energy nation in the world with respect to coal, oil and natural gas," he continued. "And yet the Biden administration and the environmentalists fueled by China are promoting policies that would increase our dependence on China, which controls all the minerals and materials needed for batteries and wind and solar, and curtail our production of oil and gas here at home."
According to its financial filings, the Energy Foundation's grant revenue declined 30% year over year to $56.7 million in 2022, but its grant contributions to outside groups and initiatives worldwide increased to $52.1 million, up 27% compared to last year.
Among its more than a dozen grants in the U.S. last year, the group wired $900,000 to the Rocky Mountain Institute, a Colorado-based think tank that has engaged the White House on climate policy and advocates phasing down fossil fuel reliance and net-zero policies. The group also funded a study in 2022 highlighting the dangers of natural gas-powered stovetops, which ultimately led to calls for bans on the appliance.
The Energy Foundation sent another $480,000 to the Washington, D.C.-based International Council on Clean Transportation, which advocates for widespread EV adoption and policies decarbonizing the transportation sector broadly. It also wired grants — one to the University of Maryland and another to the Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs — worth a total of $450,000 and earmarked for projects to phase out coal power reliance.
It further sent $375,000 to the Natural Resources Defense Council, a group founded as "America's first litigation-focused nonprofit dedicated to making dirty industries clean up their pollution" and which has filed dozens of legal challenges pushing far-left green measures. Through its legal efforts, the NRDC has opposed domestic fossil fuel drilling, coal plants, the Keystone XL oil pipeline and critical mineral mining projects.
And the Energy Foundation contributed $350,000 to Harvard University, a grant earmarked for "outreach to build a clean energy future."
"The Energy Foundation's grant-making is almost exclusively focused on making it hard to produce energy and move it around here at home," Pyle told Fox News Digital. "These organizations have little to do with the environment and everything, almost everything, to do with advancing this redistribution agenda."
"If they're successful, they'll make America weaker and China stronger," he said.
The group — which, according to its 2022 financial statement, leases two office facilities in China under operating leases that have terms through April 2024 — has significant ties to the CCP.
For example, Energy Foundation CEO and President Ji Zou previously served as the deputy director general of China’s National Center for Climate Change Strategy, an agency within the Chinese government’s National Development and Reform Commission.
Liu Xin, who heads the group's environmental management division, previously served in a high-ranking role at the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau. And Ping He, the program director of the group's industry program, worked for eight years at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a leading state-run research institution.
The revelation of the Energy Foundation's extensive funding for U.S.-based climate initiatives comes amid an ongoing congressional probe led by House Natural Resources Committee Republicans over the CCP's growing influence on the American environmental activist movement. The panel has probed a series of nonprofits with ties to China.
"For years, the CCP has used U.S. nonprofits to influence American public opinion and policy decisions," a Natural Resources Committee aide told Fox News Digital. "The vast and well-funded CCP nonprofit influence machine is particularly focused on promoting Chinese energy interests and weakening America’s competitiveness."
"Sadly, radical eco-activists in America do more to advance the interests of the CCP than promoting commonsense energy and environmental policies in the United States," the aide added.
Another flight integration test for an Iranian payload?
[GEO.TV] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... has fired a short-range ballistic missile, condemning US-led military activities and viewing the arrival of a US submarine in South Korea as a prelude to nuclear war.
The missile, launched towards the sea off North Korea's east coast, covered approximately 570km (350 miles) before landing in the ocean, as reported by the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
Amid warnings from Seoul and Tokyo about potential missile tests, including long-range intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), the launch raises tensions in violation of UN Security Council resolutions.
In response to the launch, South Korea's JCS stated, "North Korea's recent ballistic missile launch is a clear violation of the United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... Security Council resolution, which prohibits the use of ballistic missile technology and scientific and technological cooperation."
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[Hot Air] Arlington National Cemetary is hallowed ground.
Its history is tied to both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War—the Arlington Estate was originally created as a tribute to George Washington by his adopted grandson, and by an odd quirk of fate, Robert E. Lee wound up temporarily possessing the property at the outbreak of the Civil War. The federal government seized it for military purposes, and it became the site of our most prestigious national cemetery.
The Civil War was, by far, the most deadly war in our history, with over half a million American deaths. At the turn of the 20th century, Congress agreed to intern Confederate soldiers at Arlington and allowed the erection of a monument that became known as the "Reconciliation" monument
...that’s the one created by sculptor Moses Ezekiel, a Virginian who was the first Jewish cadet at the Virginia Military Institute, fought on the Confederate side, and asked only to be buried at the foot of what the fashionable artist considered his crowning achievement...
a celebration of the country coming back together.
After the George Floyd riots, the federal government decided to take down monuments with a connection to the Confederacy and to eliminate anything that could be interpreted as celebrating, justifying, or acknowledging the Confederacy as anything other than evil. As part of this effort the "Reconciliation Monument" was put on the chopping bloc.
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The George Floyd pandering continues on in fire and forget fashion. Now we will nuke reconciliation and move back into Reconstruction. As to who is doing this, it is petty woke tyrants that don’t understand how many swing state voters that they continue to alienate.
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They're tearing down a monument titled "Reconciliation". That's a tell folks.
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#1, you will never find out.
It is a nameless, faceless bureaucrat somwhere out there who is very good at covering her tracks.
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Words fail in an effort to condemn this craven insult to our past dignity. This is despicable most of all because it places the communist/race rot dead center in Arlington, centerpiece of reverence for our Honored Dead. Now tainted with cheap theatrics to appease the perpetually offended minority that demokrats need to constantly fellate in hopes of remaining on the entitlement-voter plantation!
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General Joshua Chamberlain (Colonel at Gettysburg and the stand at Little Roundtop, wounded severely several times in the course of the war) was given the charge of receiving the formal surrender - his account:
"At such a time and under such conditions I thought it eminently fitting to show some token of our feeling, and I therefore instructed my subordinate officers to come to the position of 'salute' in the manual of arms as each body of the Confederates passed before us.
"It was not a 'present arms,' however, not a 'present,' which then as now was the highest possible honor to be paid even to a president. It was the 'carry arms,' as it was then known, with musket held by the right hand and perpendicular to the shoulder. I may best describe it as a marching salute in review.
"When General Gordon came opposite me I had the bugle blown and the entire line came to 'attention,' preparatory to executing this movement of the manual successively and by regiments as Gordon's columns should pass before our front, each in turn.
"The General was riding in advance of his troops, his chin drooped to his breast, downhearted and dejected in appearance almost beyond description. At the sound of that machine like snap of arms, however, General Gordon started, caught in a moment its significance, and instantly assumed the finest attitude of a soldier. He wheeled his horse facing me, touching him gently with the spur, so that the animal slightly reared, and as he wheeled, horse and rider made one motion, the horse's head swung down with a graceful bow, and General Gordon dropped his swordpoint to his toe in salutation.
"By word of mouth General Gordon sent back orders to the rear that his own troops take the same position of the manual in the march past as did our line. That was done, and a truly imposing sight was the mutual salutation and farewell.
"At a distance of possibly twelve feet from our line, the Confederates halted and turned face towards us. Their lines were formed with the greatest care, with every officer in his appointed position, and thereupon began the formality of surrender.
"Bayonets were affixed to muskets, arms stacked, and cartridge boxes unslung and hung upon the stacks. Then, slowly and with a reluctance that was appealingly pathetic, the torn and tattered battleflags were either leaned against the stacks or laid upon the ground. The emotion of the conquered soldiery was really sad to witness. Some of the men who had carried and followed those ragged standards through the four long years of strife, rushed, regardless of all discipline, from the ranks, bent about their old flags, and pressed them to their lips with burning tears.
"And it can well be imagined, too, that there was no lack of emotion on our side, but the Union men were held steady in their lines, without the least show of demonstration by word or by motion. There was, though, a twitching of the muscles of their faces, and, be it said, their battle-bronzed cheeks were not altogether dry. Our men felt the import of the occasion, and realized fully how they would have been affected if defeat and surrender had been their lot after such a fearful struggle.
Those who were killing each other just the days before had greater grace then hate mongers have today.
[Washington Examiner] Ohio abortion providers are asking a judge to strike down the state's "heartbeat" law, which blocks abortion at around six weeks of gestation, in light of the new abortion-expanding constitutional amendment that voters approved last month.
The amendment went into effect on Dec. 7 and guarantees access to abortion for any reason as long as a physician signs off on it.
Chief advocates of the abortion amendment, which include the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the ACLU of Ohio, filed an amended complaint to their already active challenge to the heartbeat law, asking a judge to consider the suit in light of the new amendment. Ohio's six-week law and similar proposals in other states are often described as heartbeat bills because they ban abortion after the point at which a doctor can detect a fetal heartbeat.
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The marketing of the Amendment was a good example of the leftists engaging in taqiyya, strategic lying. They adopted a moderate tone, but their real aim was on demand late term baby dismemberment with a side hustle of selling the baby parts. They will legally fight all abortion restrictions in the Buckeye State going forward. The result will be exposure of their real agenda like a tranny in the Rose Garden. The response will be an alternative amendment at some future point once the city folks discover the eugenics part of the leftist agenda. Note - the pendulum will not swing the other direction soon.
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[BLAZE] A former pope contender has become the first-ever cardinal to be prosecuted in Vatican's criminal court.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu was convicted of embezzling millions from the Vatican.
Judge Giuseppe Pignatone read the verdict on Saturday in a Vatican courtroom, which sentenced Cardinal Angelo Becciu to 5 ½ years in prison.
Prosecutor Alessandro Diddi boasted that the guilty verdict "showed we were correct."
Becciu's lawyer, Fabio Viglione, said he would appeal the sentence.
The BBC noted, "Becciu, 75, was the most senior Vatican official ever to face such charges and once seen as a papal contender himself."
In September 2020, Becciu, resigned from the Vatican's secretariat of state after being implicated in a financial scandal. Pope Francis accepted Becciu's resignation.
Becciu reportedly oversaw a multimillion-euro investment in a $380 million luxury property in London.
NBC News reported, "In the end, he was convicted of embezzlement stemming from the original investment of 200 million euros in a fund that bought into the London property, as well as for his 125,000 euro donation of Vatican money to a charity run by his brother in Sardinia. He was also convicted of using Vatican money to pay an intelligence analyst who in turn was convicted of using the money for herself."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Daily Caller] Gaines described her own experiences speaking out against men on women’s sports teams, stating that she had drinks poured on her, glass bottles thrown at her, and she’s been spit on. She also mentioned death threats, people showing up at her house, and drones flying above her house.
...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
[Washington Examiner] Ohio abortion providers are asking a judge to strike down the state's "heartbeat" law, which blocks abortion at around six weeks of gestation, in light of the new abortion-expanding constitutional amendment that voters approved last month.
