[NBC] Rep. Nancy Mace, a first-term Republican from South Carolina, introduced a bill Monday to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level, which she hopes will garner more GOP support for the legalization movement.
"This legislation, I believe, has something good for everyone, whether you're a Democrat or a Republican," Mace told reporters outside the Capitol, where she introduced her States Reform Act.
Even though it is legal in 18 states, with medical use permissible in 37 states, marijuana is illegal under federal law.
Universal Basic Income.
Kids masked and staring at screens 12 hours a day including a cornucopia of addictive social media junk & pr0n.
An opioid epidemic that's killing and destroying the lives of millions.
What's a bit of reefer on top of all this dystopia?
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If they are going to catch and release arsonists and school shooters there's no reason for anyone to be in jail for possession of marijuana. Trafficking / smuggling / financing are where the violence is.
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Over the past 10 years, possession of marijuana has been a Federal Crime with essentially no enforcement.
So this is, in practical terms, a no impact bill.
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Trafficking / smuggling / financing are where the violence is.
Controversy over CRT boiled over in Fort Worth, Texas at November 9 meeting
Malikk Austin,
...whose legal name is Edgar Austin ...
51, spoke at Fort Worth Independent School District meeting
Austin, a black man, said CRT is 'something I fight for, for my children'
'We are not our ancestors. I got over a thousand soldiers ready to go,' he said
Austin then repeated the phrase 'locked and loaded' as he was led away by cops
Parents who opposed CRT told Fox News they felt 'threatened' by Austin
In messages to DailyMail.com, Austin denied he was making threats to violence
He said he wanted to convey a message of 'be ready to challenge opposition'
According to his Facebook page, Austin is part of The Brotherhood Movement ...a “2nd Amendment” Black Nationalist militia connected to the Black Panthers and probably Black Lives Matter. They have their own Facebook page full of photos of happy community- and self-improvement projects and images of the three coloured (black-red-green) fist...
A spokesperson for the organization told DailyMail.com he left the group
Images show Austin in tactical gear posing with other armed members of group
Spokesperson for the organization said the group was non-violent
Austin also has criminal record, including three-year prison stint for sex assault
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Yesterday, my wife, who devours the newspaper and internet media, said, "CRT is only a theory taught in college." So this morning, I read her the headline. Ft. Worth is just 30 miles from our home.
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He's part of the Democrats' Armed Provisional Wing.
Merrick Da Ferret and the FB-eye would no more prosecute this fellow warrior than Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein would have sought prosecution for an IRA killer.
#8
Dude, show up with your actual 10 guys 'locked and loaded' at a Texas school and your life expectancy will go negative.
The parental mood right now regarding crap like this is....spicy. People are /very/ serious right now about their kids and protecting them. This sure as hell isn't Stupidfornia.
#9
Watching the Rittenhouse coverage this morning, I noticed some clown on the courthouse steps carrying that black, red and green flag.
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A Far-Left activist in an FWISD Board meeting threatened parents all because they were criticizing CRT. The activist said that he would bring 1000 soldiers and that he will be "lock and loaded" next time. pic.twitter.com/VmqNaQQh10
#11
This is how it gets ruined for everyone. Public schools should have been shut down when they became barrels of fish for disaffected goth shooters. Now, with the off-again, on-again COVID shutdowns, it's time to do away with brick and mortar schools and all theschool board, teaching, administrative and support staff overhead and just issue vouchers that follow the student.
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For those who have not seen it, this is an explicit acknowledgment that the mRNA and rAdV vaccines for COVID are not working well. Bill G is a bit behind the data, as the effectivness of the jabs for preventing disease is also dropping, and not as good as natural immunity. pic.twitter.com/9umnQGg4xt
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I keep reading that the majority of the hospitalized COVID cases were vaccinated.
Before the vaccine most of the hospitalizations were among the elderly and co-morbid. But somewhere around 80% of the elderly have now been vaccinated, and most of the hospitalizations are not among that cohort, suggesting that most of the time the vaccine works well enough to achieve the primary purpose of ending the massacre of our old and sick.
It would be interesting to know what common factors hold among those for whom the vaccine is not working well enough: certain co-morbidities, low vitamin D or other nutrients, excess or lack of certain intestinal flora, something genetic? It doesn’t appear to be race, or we’d be hearing screaming about it. Because the majority of the population has now been vaccinated and/or infected, and most of them have not thereafter needed to be hospitalized. Nor needed hospitalization before, for that matter.
At the moment one of my foster daughters is sick with the thing, following her baby’s infection, and also a 65 year old friend who was sick enough to go to the emergency room, but not sick enough to need a long hospitalization.
Was this friend eligible for monoclonal antibody treatment? Timing on this is always of the essence.
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I keep reading that the majority of hospitalized COVID-19 patients are not vaccinated.
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Also, we don't have accurate numbers for how many died with as opposed to of COVID.
It's isn't the cough that carries you off.
It's the coffin they carry you off in.
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most of the hospitalizations are not among that cohort
I'm on the mailing list for an assisted living/memory care/skilled nursing facility with a lot of residents. They are nearly 100% vaccinated and have been that way since approximately March 2021. Almost no COVID-19 hospitalizations in that cohort since then. They send out email notices of their Covid status weekly. Their staff are not nearly as well vaccinated, and some of the staff flips positive every couple weeks, which means some kind of limitation to outside visitors for some of the units for a while. Even that is much rarer than it was before March 2020. Residents are mostly all getting boosters now.
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Vaccines do work. They don't work perfectly or even as well as we thought they would work.
Nonetheless, as bubba implies, everyone who is above, say 30 should get them unless they have already contracted the disease or for some other special reason. Above 50 and you should also get the booster.
Below 30 is where the CDC says yes and other people say 'maybe'.
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Was this friend eligible for monoclonal antibody treatment? Timing on this is always of the essence.
I don’t know, Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 — she finally texted Sunday to say she won’t be going back to work just yet, but is decidedly miserable, which suggests she didn’t get it. She tested positive ten days ago, went to the ER on the 11th.
[FoxNews] Russia has shot down a satellite in orbit over the weekend, the U.S. Space Command revealed Monday.
The agency, in a statement provided to Fox News, said it is "aware of a debris-generating event in outer space.
"We are actively working to characterize the debris field and will continue to ensure all space-faring nations have the information necessary to maneuver satellites if impacted," the statement continued. "We are also in the process of working with the interagency, including the State Department and NASA, concerning these reports and will provide an update in the near future."
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Just like when China did it, this is a warning. They're saying the US system of satellites is vulnerable, and they don't mind dirtying space with debris because the US depends far more on space than they do.
You know how the US is always "sending a message"? This is the other way around.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Chinese health workers wearing hazmat suits have beaten a corgi to death in the name of pandemic protocols while the dog's owner was undertaking Covid quarantine.
The government officials bashed the animal's head with a crowbar after breaking in to the home in Shangrao in southeastern Jiangxi province on Friday, shocking video shows.
The corgi's owner, named only as Fu, was undergoing compulsory quarantine in a nearby hotel at the time, even though she is negative for Covid and the dog was never even tested.
The killing was the latest example of the horrifying lengths China is going to in order to achieve zero Covid.
Chinese authorities are under pressure to curb rising infections as the Delta variant continues to spread. So far, around 1,300 cases have been recorded across two thirds of the country's provinces.
The killing was the latest example of the horrifying lengths China is going to in order to achieve zero Covid.
Chinese authorities are under pressure to curb rising infections as the Delta variant continues to spread. So far, around 1,300 cases have been recorded across two thirds of the country's provinces.
[The State] A California-based arms manufacturer will open a $9.5 million facility in Greenville and hire 55 people.
S.W.O.R.D. International primarily makes small arms for the U.S. military and law enforcement agencies and was started by Jeremy Elrod, a former Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The company is incorporated in California, and will continue to do the majority of its research and development in its facility in Sparks, Nevada. Key employees will remain there as well.
Greenville will handle some research and development, all sales and customer support, distribution and production.
On the company’s website, Elrod said he started the company in 2010 because, "I was shocked to see the lack of reliability, durability and functionality of our primary small arms system. Loose tolerances, poor materials and antiquated manufacturing techniques made for a sub standard weapon system."
[Breitbart] The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in California reached a record high on Monday.
The statewide average increased to $4.68 a gallon Monday, according to figures from the AAA, Fox 11 reported.
"This new average surpasses the previous record of $4.67 set in Oct, 2012," the outlet continued:
The average price of regular gasoline in California is $1.27 higher than the current national average of $3.41, according to AAA. The average price of a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline in Los Angeles County rose seven-tenths of a cent Monday to $4.672, moving within 3.3 cents of the all-time high.
The average price rose 1.4 cents Friday, according to figures from the AAA and Oil Price Information Service. It is 7.9 cents more than it was one week ago, 20.8 cents more than one month ago and $1.523 higher than one year ago.
In a social media post on Thursday, oil and refined products analyst Patrick De Haan said average gasoline prices in California were at all-time record highs, "beating out both 2012 and 2008 records. $4.68/gal today statewide average":
[An Nahar] Energy giant Shell on Monday announced plans to switch headquarters from the Netherlands to the UK and drop Royal Dutch from its name in a major shakeup that angered the Dutch government.The plan, hailed by UK Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng as "a clear vote of confidence in the British economy" post Brexit, will see Shell switch its tax residence and top executives to Britannia.
The move deprives the Netherlands of its biggest company, which has for more than 130 years been a symbol of Dutch entrepreneurial spirit and is headquartered in The Hague.
"We are unpleasantly surprised by this. The cabinet deeply regrets this intention," Dutch Economic Affairs Minister Stef Blok said on Twitter.
"We are in talks with Shell about the implications of this move for jobs, critical investment decisions and sustainability. Those are hugely important," Blok added.
The Dutch business association VNO NCW said: "This is a huge bloodletting for the Netherlands."
Shell in a statement said the changes were designed to strengthen the company's "competitiveness and accelerate both shareholder distributions and the delivery of its strategy to become a net-zero emissions business".
It insisted that "the simplification will have no impact on" a Dutch court ruling that the company slashes greenhouse gas emissions.
The legal decision this year was a landmark victory for climate activists, while Monday's announcement comes after activist investor Third Point demanded Shell be broken up, bolster low-carbon investment and return more cash to shareholders.
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Got a little too eco for ya, did it?
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Actually, what made me want to post it is the people in the video. Here are the very sort of people the left has no use for, coming together to celebrate heritage, achievement and the sort of fellowship that just ain't happening at a Portland riot.
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^ in other words, they create and build without government. The 'others' only know how to destroy.
Imagine the number of draft animals and time necessary to accomplish the same task. That is, if the weather cooperates in that time period. And all the feed necessary.
Then that farmer could plant other crops where the animal feed had been planted.
[IsraelTimes] American journalist Danny Fenster, who was recently sentenced to 11 years of hard labor after spending nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, has been sprung and is on his way home, says a former US diplomat who helped negotiate his release.
Fenster, the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was convicted on Friday of spreading false or inflammatory information, contacting illegal organizations and violating visa regulations. His sentence was the harshest yet among the seven journalists known to have been convicted since the military ousted the elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in February.
"This is the day that you hope will come when you do this work," Bill Richardson, a former governor of New Mexico and past ambassador to the UN, says in a statement emailed by his office. "We are so grateful that Danny will finally be able to reconnect with his loved ones, who have been advocating for him all this time, against immense odds."
Fenster was handed over to Richardson in Myanmar and will return to the US via Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... over the next day and a half, according to the statement. He has been in detention since he was taken into custody at Yangon International Airport on May 24 as he was headed to the bankrupt, increasingly impoverished, reliably Democrat, Detroit ... ruled by Democrats since 1962. A city whose Golden Age included the Purple Gang... area in the United States to see his family.
[An Nahar] Sri Lanka shut its only oil refinery Monday after running out of dollars to import crude, in an escalating economic crisis that has triggered shortages of food and other staples.The country's foreign reserves had fallen to $2.3 billion at the end of October, down from $7.5 billion when the current government came to power almost two years ago.
International rating agencies have downgraded Sri Lanka's credit worthiness as the economy shrank an unprecedented 3.6 percent last year with the Covid-19 pandemic.
The island's tourism earnings and foreign worker remittances have dropped, sparking an import ban on a host of goods including vehicles, spare parts and spices since March last year.
Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila said it was the first time the Sapugaskanda refinery has been shut down since it was built by Iran ...The nation is noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence... in 1969.
Gammanpila said the country instead planned to import refined petrol and diesel and that the government would save an unspecified amount of money by doing so.
"When we refine crude at Sapugaskanda, we get 37 percent furnace oil and 19 percent aviation fuel and only 43 percent petrol and diesel," he told news hounds in Colombo.
"There is no big demand for furnace oil and aviation fuel so it is better to import refined petrol and diesel which are in high demand," Gammanpila said.
Top Sri Lankan officials have warned of fuel rationing by the end of the year unless consumption is cut drastically.
Sri Lanka's oil import bill was $2.32 billion last year when a barrel of crude had fallen to about $45, but 2021 imports were expected to be about $4.0 billion because of the sharp rise in oil prices in the international market, according to an official report five months ago.
Official sources said the government had been banking on huge loans from Oman and India to finance oil imports, but they had not materialized and negotiations appeared to be inconclusive.
The foreign exchange shortage has already led to rationing of milk powder, sugar, cooking gas and cement.
In a bid to earn desperately needed foreign cash, the central bank last week announced tighter controls on exporters forcing them to covert their foreign exchange earnings within 180 days at official exchange rates.
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has pegged the dollar at 202.99 rupees, but commercial banks have run out of dollars. However, a hangover is the wrath of grapes... on the black market, rates have soared to over 240 rupees to the dollar.
The bank expects the economy to expand 4-5 percent this year with the gradual re-opening of the economy and the roll-out of a vaccine program.
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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.
[NBC] Rep. Nancy Mace, a first-term Republican from South Carolina, introduced a bill Monday to decriminalize cannabis at the federal level, which she hopes will garner more GOP support for the legalization movement.
As if motoring in Georgia wasn't challenge enough, I'm glad to see our Pub legislators have their priorities in order. 
[FoxNews] Russia has shot down a satellite in orbit over the weekend, the U.S. Space Command revealed Monday. 
[Breitbart] The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline in California reached a record high on Monday.
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
...The nation is noted for 
