Boy, howdy. That's some kinda threatening scary Republican.
[American Thinker}If you search for the name Cayler Ellingson, you’ll get a handful of local stories out of North Dakota about the 18-year-old’s death in what was manifestly a hate crime. What you won’t find is any national coverage. Certainly, there’s none as of the time of this writing. Slowly, though, conservative outlets, including Fox (as of late last night) are picking up on the story. The reason for the mainstream media’s silence is because, at least as of now, the known facts indicate that this hate crime came about because the victim was White and conservative.
According to a local news report about Ellingson’s murder, Shannon Brandt, a 41-year-old White man called the police at 2:35 a.m. to report that he’d hit a pedestrian who was threatening him. He also admitted that he was driving drunk. Later, when speaking to a radio station, Brandt claimed that Ellingson belonged to an unidentified Republican extremist organization. Brandt further claimed that he acted in self-defense because he was afraid members of that group were "coming to get him." In other words, Brandt has his defense in order.
Ellingson, of course, cannot defend himself. However, he was able to provide his mother with some real-time statements about what was happening:
Court documents say just before the crash, Ellingson called his mom and asked if they knew who Brandt was. She said yes, and told her son she was on her way to pick him up. A short time later, court documents say Ellingson called his mom again to say that "he" or "they" were chasing him. It was after the second call that Ellingson could not be reached again.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Tony Soprano is rolling in his grave.
A California law makes it legal to turn human remains into compost
The process involves placing the body inside a reusable container along with wood chips and aerating it to allow microbes and bacteria to do their thing
The law, signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom this week, takes effect in 2027
‘With climate change ... this is an alternative method of final disposition that won’t contribute emissions into our atmosphere,' the bill's author said
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When my neighbor died in a car wreck his instructions were to bury him with no embalming, no casket. Just wrapped in a quilt. He left these instructions with his wife a few years ago. We picked his body up at the morgue, wrapped him in the quilt, loaded him in tha back of a pick-up, and burried him on his property. There were already at least 3 graves there with only rocks for headstones. Since there was already a cemetary there his wife didn't have to go through any red tape.
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Man has been giving deceased loved one proper burials since the dawn of time. It is one of the first measures of civilization. This should show where California is headed.
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#10: Earth First, now that CA's OK'd composting bodies, wasn't he just "ahead of his time"?
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They can't stand being ridiculed. Satire is effective and makes people laugh at them. They know well laughter is the most corrosive to their horrid ideology. That's why they're so into censorship.
#5
he was somewhat pro-trump in 2016 (at least he didn't hate Trump and sought to explain things). I'm amazed they didn't try to cancel Adams back then.
[Breitbart] Doctors avoiding malpractice lawsuits is the reason behind the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) releasing new medical guidelines removing age minimums for children identifying as transgender going through genital mutilation procedures.
As Breitbart News reported, WPATH released its new guidance in early September with lowered age minimums, only to remove “suggested minimal ages for gender-affirming medical and surgical treatment for adolescents” entirely in a correction one week later.
Such “gender-affirming” procedures — a phrase used to camouflage the grotesque nature of many of the procedures — include double mastectomies, female and male genital mutilation and removal, facial feminization and masculinization, hormone treatments and puberty blockers that cause chemical sterilization, and social transitioning (e.g. using “preferred” pronouns and names).
The correction was made with little to no explanation from WPATH, but a Sunday live-streamed annual conference showed the intent was to give doctors the slack needed to avoid malpractice lawsuits.
“We were thinking, and it was scary for me, about the potential uses of the chapter for legal and insurance contexts,” Amy Tishelman, lead author of the new guidance’s chapter on children, said. “What we didn’t want to do was create a chapter that would make it more likely that practitioners would be sued because they weren’t following exactly what we said.”
It appears the non-defined age limitations might give doctors enough legal ambiguity to avoid malpractice suits for irreversibly damaging the bodies of children.
“We wanted there to be some clinician judgment without being at risk for being held in court for not sticking completely to these standards,” Tishelman continued. “So we did write them in a way I think so that there is leeway, that we recommend things, but we suggest that clinicians use their judgment about what to do in therapy situations and assessment situations so that they can use individualized clinical judgment and not face malpractice suits.”
Tishelman was previously at Boston Children’s Hospital, directing their Clinical Research at the Gender Multispecialty Service, which offers services to children as young as three years old and a “full suite of surgical options for transgender teens.”
That ideology is reflected in WPATH’s guidance, which recommends that puberty blockers and hormone treatments can begin at the start of puberty (around ages nine to eleven for girls, and eleven for boys).
WPATH is considered the leading transgender health care organization with its guidance for gender dysphoric individuals being widely used in American, British, and Canadian hospitals. The group also influences health insurance policies and other health organizations such as the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics.
[Scotland] We’ve hand-picked six of the best hotels in Scotland for Christmas and Hogmanay that come into their own at this time of year and will take your festive celebrations to the next level.
When it’s wild and wintery outside, Scotland is one of the best places in the world to get cosy by a roaring fire and spend some quality time with your friends and family over the festive period. And you just can’t beat a traditional Scottish Hogmanay — we’re well known for ringing in the new year with more style and passion than anywhere else.
Here, we’ve hand-picked six of the best hotels in Scotland for Christmas and Hogmanay, incredible luxury destinations that come into their own at this time of year and will take your festive celebrations to the next level this year.
[Garden&Gun] The name, Shenandoah Farms—painted in large block letters on the side of a massive red hay barn visible just as one turns onto the property—is not a misnomer. Despite lying roughly six hundred miles southwest of the Shenandoah Valley, the spread outside Summertown, Tennessee, evokes the nostalgic melody recalling the smiling valleys and rolling river of that faraway landscape: "Oh Shenandoah, I long to see you."
"The name came from my father, who grew up in St. Louis," says Jamie Pfeffer, a principal of the architecture firm Pfeffer Torode who owns the 250 acres tucked into a bend of the Buffalo River with his wife, Laura, and both sets of their parents. "Boy Scouts was always an escape for him, and he used to look forward to events that would take him to the Shenandoah Valley in West Virginia. For him, Shenandoah is the idea of better things to come."
#3
Tennessee ain’t nothing to shake a stick at either. Having traveled this Great Land a lot, there are thousands of beautiful places. Each worth fighting for.
#7
Surprised they didn’t also charge her with attempted murder of the roundabout; i can almost root for her on that front…….
Tossing the whiskey? Clear cut case of alcohol abuse.
#8
Sportsball players, rappers, spouses of politicians...
Imagine the non-compliance!
Any bets on how long until there's an underground industry to bypass it?
Says there that the first practical ones were installed early 80s. I'm guessing day +1 early 80s.
and $60 to $80 per month to calibrate and monitor remotely,
Oh ho ho ho ho.....now there is what really is up.
"There are a lot of ways that safety can be improved that don't involved invading people's privacy. Keeping the data in the vehicle would help address that," Stanley said.
"I hope the regulators recognize the seriousness of this issue and don't mess around with how the information collected is managed by the automakers."
#9
Whenever they put these blocks on a car starting and running, they're putting lives at risk. Woman fleeing an attacker -- gets into car, but it won't start because she has to blow start it first. She's never gotten a DUI, but some bureaucrat's pursuit of an impossible end is going to ruin her life.
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It's easy to bypass, just get someone else to blow into it. I've known quite a few people who have had these machines in their cars, they tend to cut your car off at the most oppurtune times, like say at a red light.
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The passive system is dubious, at best. Dude drunk of tequila in the passenger seat yaking it up with and towards driver, bang shutoff. Drive by that beer spill, lights out. While operating.
The blow in the tube is totally unsanitary for any instance of more than one operator. Remember that fad where breathalyzers were put in bars so patrons could self-test before leaving and everyone was like, "karfing gross"....back in the 90s? Nevermind 'post Covid'.
So that leaves the fingerprint oximeter style spectrum analysis. Which would work until the screen/sensor doesn't for whatever reason, like scratched screen or ocean mist/environmental conditions corroding the sensor. In addition, one would have to be loaded into the system in order for the system to recognize a legitimate driver which would require an upload and confirmation process, something which would be a hassle or worse if there was a legitimate DD pinch driver, something like a chauffeur or valet parking situation, or an actual emergency from an injury or need for a policeman or firefighter to move a vehicle.
Nevermind all the Karen Protocols they'll have to add to prevent driver switching, such as vehicle must be in gear within 10 seconds of ignition/activation, and shutoff if left in Park for 10 seconds no activity. That's your pre-heating vehicle in cold, pre-cooling in hot weather, traffic jams, road construction delays.
In the meantime, all the Pelosi in the world get the Hal Dog 20/20 hack which they could use in court as a defense item, "Sir, my client could not have been intoxicated while driving or the system would not have allowed operating the vehicle. The vehicle is calibrated at the premium $200 per month package."
Its all bullshit bureaucracy legitimizing generating income for somebody's cousin in the name of safety, at the expense of your actual safety. "Alcohol detected - controlled stop begins in 30 seconds. Please pull over." Shit, hope this is a safe Interstate exit...
or
"The prosecutor would like to add to evidence the vehicle breathalyzer report which says here, previous to this accident, that you tried to drive intoxicated for 8 days straight." "Sir, my ex-girlfriend is crazy and she poured gin all over the sensor."
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Remember that fad where breathalyzers were put in bars so patrons could self-test before leaving and everyone was like, "karfing gross"....back in the 90s? Nevermind 'post Covid'.
A buddy one evening blew a 2.3 in one. He thrust his arms in the and said, “I beat my GPA”.
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"Hello! I'm your driverless car,
Also known as 'four wheels and a bar.'
Once you've paid your fair fare,
We can go anywhere
You're allowed to that's not very far."
[ConservativeTreehouse] With most financial media being intentionally obtuse with the Biden economic impact upon Main Street, it is refreshing to see analysis that cuts to the heart of the matter. HatTip to ZeroHedge who provides a link to a great article outlining reality for blue and white-collar working families.
The folks at NerdWallet have taken the inflation date from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) and applied the math to real life. The result is a good encapsulation of checkbook economics and how the Biden economy is painful for the working class.
In total, Joe Biden’s energy policy driven inflation has added $961/month to preexisting expenses. That’s $11,532 a year just to retain the status quo standard of living.
(NerdWallet) – […] In all of 2020, American households spent $61,300, on average. This number includes everything we spend our money on: housing, food, entertainment, clothing, transportation and everything else. In 2022, it stands to reach $72,900, a difference of more than $11,500 if consumers want to maintain the same standard of living. Keep in mind, this is an average, a number that represents an approximation across all Americans, but one that’s exact to a very few. Those who earn (and therefore spend) more will see more dramatic dollar increases. Those who earn less may see less dramatic dollar jumps, but the impact of these rising prices could be more significantly felt. (read more)
If the average household spent $61,300 and inflation is adding $11,500 to the expense, that means we now have to spend 18.7% more just to maintain the current standard of living. That average is in line with what we are seeing in the real world
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According to the Venezuelan military, a private jet (XB-RXG) flying from #Mexico (🇲🇽) to #Aruba (🇦🇼) changed course and illegally entered Venezuelan airspace.
Last US registration:
1980 Rockwell NA-265 Sabreliner 65
Tail Number N465PD SPYGLASS AIR LLC, Jupiter Florida. Issue Date: 3/6/2015, Cancel Date 3/1/2021, Exported to Mexico
Reports say it was destroyed on the ground, and the pictures indicate this as well. So it is not a shoot-down. Possibly caught them in a dirt strip doing sketchy stuff and they didn't pay off the right people.
Spyglass Air, LLC filed as a Florida Limited Liability in the State of Florida and is no longer active. This corporate entity was filed approximately seven years ago on Thursday, January 29, 2015, as recorded in documents filed with the Florida Department of State.
Spyglass Air, LLC has another company listed as an officer. It is not uncommon for one company to hold a position in another company
That company is Pfd Management Associates, Inc. filed as a Domestic for Profit Corporation in the State of Florida on Tuesday, November 27, 2007, and is approximately fifteen years old, as recorded in documents filed with the Florida Department of State.
Curiouser and Curiouser, nice little rabbit hole...
#8
Obviously a Trump era State Department covert op designed to overthrow Madura and incorporate Caracas into his hotel chain vacation schedule and pad MLB rosters at the expense of The Everyday Man, and to deny that is to deny that Chinese wet market food is superior to Panda Express.
[ZeroHedge]
After much bluster and jawboning, the BOJ's repeated verbal intervention attempts to keep the USDJPY below 145 proved to be nothing but one giant bluff, at least for now.
Asian currencies - especially those like China and Japan refuse to tighten in sympathy - were already under huge pressure on Thursday after the Federal Reserve continued to tighten U.S. monetary policy when the Bank of Japan decided to counter the global tightening trend again, and stuck to its ultraloose stance.
The Japanese yen initially toyed with, then decisively weakened past 145 to the dollar, a fresh 24-year low, after the BOJ said it would maintain its monetary policy under which it is buying unlimited quantities of Japanese government bonds necessary to control the yield curve. And since the BOJ is caught in an impossible dilemma, where it can't maintain Yield Curve Control (i.e., unlimited bond buying and thus currency printing) and a stable currency, Kuroda - whose shock and awe QE legacy is on the line, hyperinflation be damned - has again picked to sacrifice the yen which is in free fall this morning, with some speculating it could plummet as much as 147 today unless the BOJ steps in with intervention.
The BOJ announced its decision hours after the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday raised its key policy rate 75 basis points, or three-quarters of a percentage point, to a range of 3.0% to 3.25%, tightening for the third straight meeting, following increases June and July.
The decisions reiterated the widening gap between the Japanese central bank's dovish policy stance and the Fed's hawkish stance, stimulating investors to buy the dollars and sell the yen.
"We are ready to take action anytime," said Masato Kanda, Japan's vice finance minister for international affairs, after the yen crossed 145. "We cannot tolerate excess volatility and disorderly currency moves." But his words this time did nothing to contain the slide, as the is sinking at an accelerating pace, much to the shock of Japanese pensioners who are not only seeing their purchasing power evaporate but are assured of importing massive inflation in the months ahead.
What happens next? According to Jun Kato, chief market analyst at Shinkin Asset Management in Tokyo, the dollar/yen could fall as low as 147 later on Thursday though the pace of yen selling is expected to slow from current levels.
The probability isn’t “zero” for USD/JPY to try its upside at the 1998 high of 147.66 later today, Kato said. “But players largely seem to have digested all the news of Fed and BOJ, and a Swiss rate hike is already factored in to limit much more upside for dollar/yen.”
Commenting on the repeated - and increasingly laughable - warnings from Japan’s top currency official Masato Kanda’s warnings which are aimed at lowering USD/JPY levels, Kato said that actual intervention is unlikely and Kanda’s comments are "nothing more than a gesture without real ammunition in store, as physical intervention can only adjust positioning and pace and will not alter a trend." And once transitory adjustments are made, he expects the USDJPY to continue rising given fundamentals of higher US yields as the Fed makes its hawkish stance clear, adding that if the US yield curve flattens further and concerns grow more strongly about aggressive rate hikes now hurting future growth, dollar/yen may see a peak between 145-150.
Sony Financial Group agreed that there is a possibility of further rate checks by the Bank of Japan, though intervention is unrealistic: “The BOJ has conducted a rate check at 145 yen, so we are aware of that level as an upside potential,” said Juntaro Morimoto, a Tokyo-based currency analyst with Sony Financial. However, since “the gap in monetary policy between the US and Japan is widening, it is only a matter of time before it breaks through 145 yen again.” Ultimately, Morimoto sees probability of Yen at 150 against the dollar a little too far on limited room for US interest rates to rise.
[FreeBeacon] China uses 54 overseas police stations, including in New York City, to hunt down citizens.
China has opened up its latest secret "overseas police service centers" in Chinese restaurants and shops throughout the United Kingdom, the Telegraph reported Wednesday.
The Chinese Communist Party runs 54 police centers outside of China, 36 in Europe alone. One of the two in London claims to be a real estate company, while one in Glasgow operates in a Chinese restaurant.
The expansion of these overseas police stations comes as human rights activists warn that China is harassing political dissidents on foreign soil. Some political exiles say China is misusing Interpol to bring back dissidents, including foreign nationals, the Telegraph reported.
While the stations say they help Chinese travelers with paperwork, researchers have found that they are actually "hunting down and blackmailing Chinese citizens to force them to return home." According to the human rights organization Safeguard Defenders, the centers' activity "is all taking place under the radar," unseen by police and the public.
One Chinese secret police center operates in New York City, the Safeguard Defenders report found.
Officers at a center in Madrid tracked down a man and forced him to take part in "a video call with public security agents and a prosecutor" in China.
The centers also extort people into returning to China by "threatening to cut electricity to the homes of families" and "restricting access to public schools for relatives."
By blackmailing Chinese citizens instead of "following formal extradition proceedings," Beijing lessens Western governments' "scrutiny of its human rights record," the Safeguard Defenders report found.
Britain's Home Office told the Telegraph that "any requests for repatriation of suspected foreign criminals must be made in accordance with U.K. and international law," adding that "illegal repatriation efforts will not be tolerated."
When the Telegraph reached out to one center in London, a worker lied to the paper, saying the police station only helps "overseas Chinese extend their Chinese driver's licenses and arrange required health checks."
The stations are affiliated with the United Front Work Department, a Communist Party organization that has deep ties to the Biden administration. The think tank founded by Biden energy czar John Podesta, for example, has worked extensively with a United Front organization. The president's son, Hunter Biden, helped a United Front Work Department group gain a foothold in the United States, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
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...REALITY CHECK: It would likely take fewer than a dozen warheads to end the DPRK as anything even vaguely resembling a nation. And as Skip Tyler said in The Hunt For Red October, "...they wouldn't know a thing until it was all over."
[10 News] Leonard Glenn "Fat Leonard" Francis, a Malaysian defense contractor who is at the center of one of the biggest bribery scandals in U.S Navy history, has been arrested weeks after being on the run.
According to Supervisory Deputy Omar Castillo from the US Marshals Service, Francis was apprehended Tuesday, Sept. 20 by authorities in Caracas, Venezuela as he attempted to board a flight.
Francis was placed under house arrest in San Diego while awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty in January 2015.
On Sunday, Sept. 4, the San Diego Police Department did a welfare check and learned Francis cut off his GPS bracelet and fled the city.
Many naval officers admitted to giving Francis classified information and steering navy ships to his repair company, called Glenn Defense Marine Asia.
In exchange, Francis bribed the officers with more than $500,000 in fancy hotel accommodations, expensive restaurant meals, and prostitutes. More than two dozen other people have also pleaded guilty or were convicted in the case.
Supervisory Deputy Castillo says neighbors witnessed U-Haul moving trucks outside Francis' home in the days before his escape.
After several health issues, Francis has been on house arrest since 2018 and under the supervision of a federal agency. He was set to be sentenced on September 22.
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I am surprised Venezuela even allowed the arrest to happen on their soil.
Noted: Occurred prior to Trump taking office.
Who was running the DC Swamp during the bribery period?
Hint...Obama/Biden
BTW: Strangely...A person really has to dig to find any MSM articles PRIOR to Sept. 2022 for some reason.
[AlAhram] Egypt's Grand Imam of al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed El-Tayyeb issued a decision on Monday assigning Nahla El-Saidi, the Dean of the al-Azhar College of Islamic Sciences for International Students, as his adviser, making her the first woman appointed to this position in Egypt’s history.
El-Saidi, who was the head of the Development Centre of International Students, will be the Grand Imam's Adviser for expatriate affairs.
"Women are the basis of establishing righteous families and civilised societies. Islam ordained the appreciation and respect of women and that relations between married couples should be based on love, mutual respect and mercy. For a wife is the mother of a man’s children, a keeper of his secrets and a source of happiness," El-Tayyeb said in a tweet.
Egypt has been making moves to empower women and include them in the decision-making process, including through increasing the number of women ministers as well as parliamentarians and in judicial institutions.
El-Tayyeb’s decision comes on the heels of a landmark decision last year by President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi allowing women to work in judicial positions at the State Council and in the Public Prosecution — the two judicial bodies that until recently were exclusively male — for the first time in the country’s history.
El-Sisi’s decision aims to "fully enforce the constitutional entitlement of ensuring equality and non-discrimination in various positions and in all fields," according to a previous statement by the Ministry of Justice.
A few months later, for the first time in Egypt’s history nearly 100 women were sworn in as judges at the State Council in October 2021, one of the country's main judicial bodies, and took a seat on the judicial benches of the independent judicial body in March 2022.
In June 2022, thirty-nine new women judges took the legal oath to assume judicial positions on the State Council, raising the number of female judges at the council to 137.
In August, El-Sisi issued a decree appointing 73 female members of the Administrative Prosecution Authority and the Egyptian State Lawsuits Authority at the Courts of First Degree.
Egypt has included in its Vision 2030 the integration of women’s empowerment principles, and the National Strategy for the Empowerment of Women in the context of the pillars of protection and economic empowerment.
The total number of employed people in Egypt reached 29.9 million in the Q2 of 2022; the number of employed males is 24.8 million, compared to 5.1 million females, according to the Egypt’s Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAMPAS).
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.
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[Breitbart] Doctors avoiding malpractice lawsuits is the reason behind the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) releasing new medical guidelines removing age minimums for children identifying as transgender going through genital mutilation procedures.
[Scotland] We’ve hand-picked six of the best hotels in Scotland for Christmas and Hogmanay that come into their own at this time of year and will take your festive celebrations to the next level.
China uses 54 overseas police stations, including in New York City, to hunt down citizens. 
[10 News] Leonard Glenn "Fat Leonard" Francis, a Malaysian defense contractor who is at the center of one of the biggest bribery scandals in U.S Navy history, has been arrested weeks after being on the run.
