[FoxNews] Alabama legislation signed this month outlaws puberty blockers for children
The Justice Department filed a complaint Friday challenging Alabama's Senate Bill (S.B.) 184, which bans transgender treatments for children.
The DOJ asserts that criminalizing the sexual transition of children is a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment on the grounds of equal protection.
It’s an argument. Whether it is a good argument is a different question.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation this month to outlaw puberty blocking medications for minors. The bill makes it a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison, to prescribe puberty blockers or hormones to transgender children to help in their gender transition.
"S.B. 184 makes it a felony for any person to 'engage in or cause' specified types of medical care for transgender minors. S.B. 184 thus discriminates against transgender youth by denying them access to certain forms of medically necessary care," the Department of Justice wrote. "It further discriminates against transgender youth by barring them from accessing particular procedures while allowing non-transgender minors to access the same or similar procedures."
"Today’s filing is the latest action by the Justice Department to combat discrimination based on gender identity, including unlawful restrictions on medical care for transgender youth," the department went on to boast. "On March 31, 2022, the Civil Rights Division issued a letter to all state attorneys general reminding them of federal constitutional and statutory provisions that protect transgender youth against discrimination."
Ivey signed the anti-puberty blocker legislation a day after state lawmakers passed the bill. Groups immediately vowed to challenge the law in court.
Alabama is the second state to impose a ban on gender-affirming care for minors and the first to impose criminal penalties. A similar measure in Arkansas, which would have banned doctors from prescribing the medications, was blocked by a federal judge.
Ivey also signed legislation prohibiting certain Alabama elementary school teachers from discussing gender identity and sexual orientation matters in school.
The parents of two Alabama children who identify as transgender joined with two medical doctors in suing Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey and other state officials in an attempt to block the state's new law banning cross-sex hormones and so-called "puberty-blocking" drugs for minors.
The parents and doctors – represented by a bevy of left-leaning law firms including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Human Rights Campaign, among others – claim that S.B. 184, which Ivey signed Friday, violates federal non-discrimination law, including a provision of the Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare.
Another reason why the stupid thing needs to be withdrawn by Congress.
Disney restored the gay kiss between Lightyear character Alisha Hawthorne (voiced by actress Uzo Aduba) and another female character
The kiss was previous removed from the film before being reinstated in March after Pixar employees work aa letter to CEO Bob Chapek
Pixar employees accused the company of hiding same-sex affection in their films
The kiss reportedly happens within the first 30 minutes of the film, which was showed at CinemaCon on Wednesday
The restoration of the kiss is due to Disney's ongoing response to Florida's 'Don't Say Gay' bill
The kiss happens between Buzz Lightyear's friend Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) and another female character within the first 30 minutes of the film, which was shown to audiences at CinemaCon on Wednesday.
In addition, at least four recent feature films were altered to appease the views of leadership in China, Russia and the Middle East.
The company has previously kept moments of LGBT affection in its American films, but removed or changed them in its more conservative markets, including in Russia and the Middle East.
The Environmental Protection Agency issued an emergency waiver on Friday
Will allow for the sale of the higher-ethanol gasoline blend= through the summer
White House press secretary Jen Psaki says it will save drivers 10 cents a gallon
It also is an attempt to temper the pace of inflation which has surged to a 16-year high and bring down gas prices that average $4.159 a gallon nationwide
Biden first unveiled the plans to expand E15 sales earlier this month during a trip to an Iowa ethanol plant
Rising consumer prices are seen as a major vulnerability for President Joe Biden's Democratic party leading into the November mid-term elections
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Happily, here in Floridaland, I can pump that crap and top off with no-ethanol gas, which is available just about everywhere because of outboard motors. Yes, it costs more, but I don't have to wreck my 14 year old Jeep motor just because Joe is flailing.
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Ask yourself, where does ethanol come from. Your right, crops are grown to create it. Is the world concerned about a food shortage? The answer is yes! Is Cali and the west suffering a water shortage? The answer is Yes. Water is being pumped to produce ethanol. Stupid Biteone.
Posted by: Papa Cooky ||
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IMPORTANT NOTES:
The scientific jury is still out on whether blending ethanol with gasoline lead to the lower carbon emissions.
A 2011 report by the National Research Council, which is part of the U.S. National Academies, found that it may do just the opposite, and the matter is under (still) official review by the Environmental Protection Agency’s internal watchdog.
A team headed by Timothy Searchinger, a Princeton University research scholar. Projecting worldwide effects of converting large amounts of U.S. farmland to producing corn for fuel rather than for food. The study said that “we found that corn-based ethanol, instead of producing a 20% savings [the reduction required by law], nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years..."
NOT SO CLEAN TO PRODUCE
"Unfortunately, the production of these fuels (Ethanol) creates a major problem due to high level of VOCs (volatile organic compounds), hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), nitrogen oxides (NOx), carbon monoxide (CO), and particulate matter (PM) produced during the production."
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BTW: With the USA already using 5.5 billion bushels of corn to produce the 90/10 gas we use now.
The 85/15 will reduce the corn corp for human consumption by another 2.25 Billion Bushels.
USA farmers are expected to grow 13.6 billion bushels of corn IF we have a good growing season.
13.60 Billion Bushels (BB) grown
7.75 BB used for Gas & Industry.
5.65 BB Used for animal feed and residual consumption.
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Leaving just 0.2 Billion Bushels for export and various other uses. I would say this is cutting pretty close a
OBTW: A reminder of one of my recent postings.
I have been seeing a lot of Wheat planted and harvested here in the Middle Ga. Belt area.
Recently in the Hephzibah Ga area we just saw over a 1000 ac. of great farm land broken up and sold to build Subdivisions.
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The reason Joe is doing these things is that he and his son are being blackmailed. Joe is just trying to protect his son and will plead dementia after he leaves office.
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I suppose the enthusiastic participant could be blackmailed as well...
BLUF:
[Washington Examiner] "Somehow, Durham is saying that he doesn't think the FBI knew who Sussmann was representing, but I just find that hard to believe," Jordan told Just the News founder John Solomon on his Friday podcast.
Sussmann was indicted last September for allegedly concealing his clients — Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and "Tech Executive-1," known to be former Neustar executive Rodney Joffe — from FBI general counsel James Baker.
"Plausible Deniability"
~ Jim Biden to Tony Bobulinski, the Biden Crime Family.
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"Sussmann’s false statement misled FBI personnel and deprived the FBI of information that might have permitted it more fully to assess and uncover the origins of the relevant data and analysis, including the identities and motivations of Sussmann’s clients."
So the FBI was "deprived" of critical information but went after Trump for years anyway..... or until the Durham investigation flipped over a few rocks? No, I don't believe it either.
Oh, so the FBI failed to corroborate or question the Sussmann statements until Durham came along. Yea, ok, got it !
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DHS is an excuse for all kinds of bad stuff. It needs to go away, as muzz terrorism is mostly like COVID, an over-blown threat used as an excuse for lots of things that are unconstitutional and not monetarily necessary as the USA sinks into terminal debt.
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She was practiced at the art of deception... - Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
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Something about her being described as full throated makes me wither.
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.
The kiss happens between Buzz Lightyear's friend Alisha Hawthorne (Uzo Aduba) and another female character within the first 30 minutes of the film, which was shown to audiences at CinemaCon on Wednesday. 
