Saturday • January 18 • 2025
Vol.XVII • No.III
Manchester, N.H.
Sometimes I spend too much time on Treehugger. Well, after all, it’s sometimes a great place to sharpen my arguments against authoritarianism, eco-socialism, and neo-aristocrats that decided that their Enviro-Nirvana MUST be achieved regardless of what you and I think about their end point and ESPECIALLY how they want to drag us to it. And yes, it will be more than just kicking and screaming on my part during the entire process.
But it can be fun at the same time, so I bring the stories back here. And Lloyd had a rant about this penny-ante game that does absolutely nothing but got under his skin because it triggered him (reformatted, emphasis mine):
This Useless Game Spotlights the Roadblocks to Fixing Our Cities
“SIM NIMBY” is the most useless game ever … which is exactly the point.
And here’s where I got to add to my vocabulary:
There’s no shortage of nicknames for people and their building opinions. There are the NIMBYs who say, “Not in my backyard!” There are the BANANAs who say, “Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything.”
Those I knew. Here’s the new one AND it isn’t just this “game” (SIM NUMBY)
And there are even the CAVEs who are “citizens against virtually everything.” These types show up in droves at public meetings to oppose bike lanes, intensification, transit, and many of the changes we need to get people out of cars or create much-needed housing, particularly of the affordable kind. They are particularly powerful in California.
NIMBY Bingo has been around for years, but Steve Nass and Owen Weeks, advertising copywriters in Brooklyn, now bring us SIM NIMBY—a play on SIM City—with 54 commonly heard NIMBY quotes. (Turn down your sound before you try it.)
Unlike SIM City, you can’t actually build anything, ever. You click and click and every time, you get the same popup message: “ERROR. CAN’T BUILD IN NIMBYVILLE.” You’ll also receive a hilarious quote such as, “Housing is a human right! Just why does it have to be here?”
And what REALLY drives Lloyd nuts (and people like him):
We talk about green building and many cities have developed greener building codes, but the single biggest factor in the carbon footprint of our cities isn’t the amount of insulation in our walls—it’s the zoning. it rarely gets changed because … you CAN’T BUILD IN NIMBYVILLE.
People like Lloyd don’t like it that “uneducated and uncaring” (and unwoke) people don’t want to change. They seem to “like things the way things are”. Like the reaction that local folks are having when developers want to turn their towns upside down and are using the tools that NH Gov. Chris Sununu game them in trying to do what the Obama HHS was doing – overriding local control and zoning that locals like to make NH turn into NY via workforce housing and other such “changes”. So like Baby Huey, Lloyd isn’t happy with his “opposition”. He quotes a report and makes it clear he doesn’t like that “others get in their way”:
The pro-density nonprofit California YIMBY recently covered a study about how NIMBYs and these ridiculous statements actually do make a difference. They wrote: “Comments made at public hearings do matter, but tend to be made by unrepresentative voices, resulting in planning outcomes that entrench elite preferences.”
The people making comments are generally whiter, an average of 21 years older than the median resident. California NIMBY concludes that “the findings suggest that policymakers and planners should closely examine the role of the public hearing in planning.”
Handy NIMBY bingo card. pic.twitter.com/JRKjirn56g
— Martyn Schmoll (@martynschmoll) April 12, 2019
Well, you can see the attitude. GraniteGrok fought the Agenda 21 back 10 or so years ago. Same condescension then as it is now. I bring it up now because Lloyd, 4 months later, showed it when the first commenter (with whom I cross swords a lot of times) left a retort (emphasis mine):
jim heameach: This article sets a new bar in its contempt for and mockery of local democratic control. This is a good example of why many people see environmentalists as wealthy elites who’s preferences ride roughshod over the democratic wishes of the local people. And it does not escape notice that once again “professional environmentalists” are doing the bidding of wealthy developers in fighting against local democratic control ( you know the people you mock with terms like BANANA, NIMBY).
We’ve spent a bit of time a decade fighting the snootiness of the professional planners towards we who settled in our towns BECAUSE of the “look and feel” of those towns. Enamored of these professions know-betters, we weren’t – so I guess that’s why I’ve held onto this post since September.
Jim is right – the Elite Enviros against the Normal folks that make up the bulk of the town. Lloyd’s simple answer said a LOT even if it was just three words long:
Thank you, Jim
I didn’t like that answer BECAUSE I took it to be condescending, so I left this. REALLY – “Unrepresentative voices”(quoting what Lloyd quoted):
“Comments made at public hearings do matter, but tend to be made by unrepresentative voices, resulting in planning outcomes that entrench elite preferences.”
We have these “highly educated and credentialed” planners here in mostly rural NH that act like every little hamlet be zoned like cities. They get upset when folks tell these planners to buzz off as they (the residents) LIKE the character and the “look and feel” of their town and that the planners come SECOND to actual residents.
>> preferences ride roughshod over the democratic wishes of the local people.
The planners still have yet to learn that while suggestions are fine, trying to ram them threw over the complaints of the residents WHO PAY THEIR SALARIES is not earning them “warm fuzzies“.
The problem, like everything at Treehugger, is that there is little empathy of “not them”. They really do expect folks like us to just roll over and accept them and their ideas as just being better than you and yours. It’s “Utopia by Slices” only they are the only ones with the knives making the slices.
Democratic process – I may not always like the results but voting, especially here in NH, on town stuff is the stuff of legends and tradition. WE get to decide and frankly, annoying people “not from heah” that want to change “heah” like they had it “back theah” need to be loaded into the U-Haul and helped to go BACK to “theah”. And folks like Lloyd and the professional planners should realize that they are only a few voices that are no better than the rest of us.
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When it was obvious that Tom Brady was leaving the New England Patriots, I predicted he’d become a Los Angeles Charger. That team needed a quarterback and had just moved to L.A. where it would play in the world’s greatest new football stadium.
Brady is a native Californian, and L.A. is a great place for supermodel wives.
But Tom went to Tampa instead.
Not being all that close to Brady, I’m not privy to all the factors that took him to the Sunshine State instead of the Golden State. But I’ll guess that TAXES influenced his decision. You see, Florida—like New Hampshire—has no state income tax. California has a state income tax of around 13%.
Contracts can be complicated. Brady reportedly earned a base salary of “only” $1,120,000 in 2022. But that doesn’t count a “signing bonus” of $28,880,000 and other perks. So let us just round down his total annual compensation package to $30 million. So 13% of that is about $4 million. That’s what would have gone to California in state taxes. In Florida, Tom could keep that $4 million.
Hello Tampa Bay Buccaneers!
So sports agents now factor in state taxes when negotiating for their clients. The Lakers have to pay LeBron James over $44 million a year because if he played in Florida, he’d take home more pay from a $38 million contract than he would from a $44 million contract in California.
This brings us to Massachusetts, which has long had a state income tax, along with numerous other levies that we don’t have in New Hampshire. In November, Bay State voters approved a “millionaire surtax,” bumping up the state income tax from 5% to 9% for the “affluent.”
Red Sox outfielder Kiké Hernández recently signed a one-year $10 million contract. The Boston Globe reported that he was surprised and displeased when he learned of all the money he’d now be sending to Beacon Hill.
“Well [expletive] me!” said Hernández over the phone. “This is news to me. My financial guy hadn’t told me. As soon as I hang up with you, I’m reaching out to him.”
Sports agents will now have to ask for extra Red Sox money for their clients—like they already do now in California to keep contracts competitive with those issued in Florida or Texas. So Red Sox ticket prices will go up. Fans will pay the millionaire tax, not the players!
Other states, mostly blue Democrat states, have also passed “millionaire” taxes. But New York ended up losing revenue when countless millionaires then moved to Florida.
Blue states like Massachusetts, California, New York et al. are stuck. Illinois is especially screwed. Dems love to grow government. But public sector pension liabilities are overwhelming these states. Unlike the federal government, states can’t print money.
Consider that retired UMass President Billy Bulger has an annual pension of over $270,000. He and other fat cat public retirees in the Bay State must be paid. And Granite State sports fans help to pay them indirectly whenever we buy inflated tickets.
It’s a cautionary tale. Like the above states, N.H. will be screwed if we elect the big government types who thump tubs for broad-based taxes so they can hire more public sector types who vote Dem. It worked politically in California, Illinois, etc. But those spending chickens will come home to roost.
Tom Brady made a good move in choosing Tampa—where he immediately won a Super Bowl.
Granite Staters can make good choices with their votes—so we don’t end up with blue state blues and then echoing those sentiments so eloquently stated by Kiké Hernández.
“Well [expletive] me!”
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A retired Sports Management professor, Rep. Mike Moffett of Loudon chairs the House Committee on State-Federal Relations.
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Donald Trump was right about the risks of Germany relying on Russia for energy, and now they need to burn a lot of coal. Muppet Greta and the other climate muppets staged a protest at a town that will be leveled because … Donald Trump was right.
Related: Why Would Germany Dismantle a Wind Farm to Expand a Coal Mine?
This fact is missing from all the reporting, as is the fact that Greta’s arrest – which they did report – was staged.
LMFAO Greta literally staged being arrested for the cameras.
pic.twitter.com/qGNurU0lrO— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 17, 2023
Feel free to wonder why German police would cooperate with a climate-muppet photo-op or who approved that. It suggests the protest and arrests were agitprop (for the WEF cabal?), and if so, what will Germany get out of it?
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Once again, a round up of what teachers and school administrators are doing to your children and ACTIVELY going “shhhh – it’s our secret!”. As always, some reformatting and emphasis mine
The removal of staff-worn LGBTQ badges is being demanded by a number of parents from central Ohio who are suing Hilliard City Schools in federal court because teachers are engaging in “intimate sexual conversations” with pupils as young as 6 years old.
In the case, Ohio Republican Council of Clubs‘ attorney Joshua Brown said he represents parents who claim activist instructors are conducting private conversations with their children about sexuality and mental health while keeping those conversations hidden from parents.
“The schools do not have the right to withhold information from parents for any reason. Especially when it involves mental health. When you are denying parents the knowledge their child is having mental distress, you are literally robbing the parents the opportunity to show their children, unconditional love,” Lisa Chaffee, director of Ohio Parents Rights in Education and one of the eight plaintiffs in the lawsuit said.
Indoctrination anyone? This is taking kids out of the hands and responsibility of parents. Seriously, calling themselves out as being LGBT missionaries? How more blatant can you get?
And not only should the courts be the ones deciding that teachers, staff, and School Boards are in the wrong but Legislators should be as well. After all, they control the money (and the Left set this precedent years ago):
Many Americans despair of reforming the culture of higher education. But a substantial majority of college students attend public institutions, and these schools are subject to state law. If legislators are determined to restore free speech and academic freedom, there’s a lot they can do. In cooperation with the Goldwater Institute, we’ve developed model state legislation based on four reform proposals:
• Abolish “diversity, equity and inclusion” bureaucracies. These offices work actively against norms of academic freedom and truth-seeking, advance primarily political aims, and fuel administrative bloat that raises costs and exacerbates student debt. Administrators at public institutions should maintain official neutrality on controversial political questions extraneous to the business of educating students. Leave compliance with federal and state civil-rights laws to the university counsel’s office.
• Forbid mandatory diversity training for students, faculty and staff. Even when DEI officials claim their training is “voluntary,” it’s often required for faculty who wish to perform basic extracurricular roles, such as serving on hiring committees. Typical diversity training includes unscientific claims about “microaggressions” and “implicit bias” and rejects the basic American principle that everyone should be treated equally. It indoctrinates an ideology of identity-based grievance, guilt and division.
• Curtail the use of “diversity statements” as a means of political coercion. These serve as litmus tests in employment processes to exclude applicants who don’t adhere to critical race theory and other radical beliefs. Although the Supreme Court has long held that requiring loyalty oaths in public education is unconstitutional—as are other forms of compelled speech—universities increasingly require that applicants state their belief in the importance of DEI, cite prior personal efforts to promote DEI and pledge to integrate DEI into their teaching. Applicants for many positions have been eliminated on the basis of diversity statements alone and many universities condition their hiring decisions on the applicant’s ideological conformity.
• End racial and other identity-based preferences. The Supreme Court may do this in a few months anyway by holding that racial preferences violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, in the case of public institutions, the 14th Amendment. Regardless of how the justices rule, discriminating based on race, sex, ethnicity or national origin is antithetical to universities’ basic missions. Outlawing admissions and hiring based on these characteristics would curtail universities’ efforts to evade a mandate against them from the high court.
These straightforward reforms would go far in pushing back on some of the negative trends that have afflicted higher education—without intruding on curricula or other aspects of academic life. They would free faculty and students alike to explore intellectual ideas without fearing the thought police.
While this was written concerning “higher education” (college, university level), this DIE movement has transmographied itself down to lower and lower grades in education. And we know who are the “water carriers” are for this. However, for all of the “local control” that is yelled from the rafters here in NH, most school districts receive quite a bit of State monies as well (just look at your tax bills).
Education should be just that – not roping people into the ideological fray. At each and every point, legislatures should be looking at not just the Law already in place (and here in NH, Education Rules) and find out where local Districts are finding/inserting their own loopholes HOPING that ordinary people wouldn’t notice.
Like what I’ve been doing for the last two years in working to remove unconstitutional and CODIFIED policies that, if they were to get into the court system (where school districts fight extremely hard to keep from happening – you know, that “lack of standing” schtick even though its OUR children!), should be and are being shot down around the country.
Parents, too, ought to be complaining to their legislators and putting pressure on them. Especially over having to pay for that “mandatory diversity training for students” bit. It used to be “voluntary, then it was one class, then a couple of classes. Each of those classes, I will hold, do NOTHING to prepare one for being a citizen or for a job unless your goal is to be yet another DIE parasite that brings little in the way of value (go ahead, challenge me on that!). However, they are a MASSIVE profit center and make no mistake – even schools are going to hoover up the bucks if they see them laying on the ground. Remember: from movement to racket. It’s now to that latter stage.
Education is out of control in a lot of areas and every time somebody comes up with yet another fad, our education system moves that much further away from its main mission – academic rigor and teaching.
I found another paper by the same authors (Illya Shapiro and Christofer Rufo). While copyrighted, I feel safe using this under “Fair Use”:
Abolish DEI Bureaucracies and Restore Colorblind Equality in Public Universities
The absurdity of the status quo can be illustrated by way of a simple counterfactual: Imagine a world in which UC Berkeley had an administrative division, funded at $25 million per year, whose sole purpose was to train students, faculty, and staff in conservative ideology;
Or make it mandatory to take long distance precision rifle classes under the rubric of the Second Amendment? I bet we could come up with a long list of “contra” classes to those of DIE and related ideologies. However, NONE of them should be made mandatory or required to either attend school or work at one.
Gilford is about to send staff to a DIE training class up at Plymouth. Now, how to threaten an action for not being willing to send staff to the complete opposite type of training? Wouldn’t that get their knickers in a knot over a threatened “worldview discrimination” action?
There is a lot to this approach so don’t be surprised if we write about this in later posts. But here’s a quicker one that has LARGE ramifications if you think about it:
JOANNE JACOBS: Bring back the ‘F’ to help students succeed. “If college students don’t do the work, a timely “F” can be useful feedback, writes Louis Haas, a history professor at Middle Tennessee University.”
I received an F or two early in high school, and the feedback that came with them — from my parents — was instructive.
It isn’t about giving out “F” grades – it’s about recognizing excellence and when someone is is deep trouble and won’t ask for help. And yes, for recognizing that some students just don’t care and probably should be elsewhere.
While I never got an F, I did get a D in a math class in high school that I should have aced the first time – and the teacher knew it. Yes, the first time – when Mom found out, I ended up in summer school – involuntarily. Screwed up my entire summer as I had already made other plans. It did teach me a lesson – when you CAN do the work, don’t screw around or screw up – there are consequences to doing so and I learned the hard way. I redid the class in half the time and got the grade I should have the first time. Lesson was learned.
Sidenote: bring back the old A-F grading system. Gilford shifted to the new fangled system that no one likes, doesn’t understand, and doesn’t allow (if you’ll excuse me) A to B comparisons. I hate this “competency based” system as there is no competency about it.
And that Equity Movement is proving that Socialism (whereby EVERYONE must have exactly the same outcome regardless of capabilities) is now endangering students futures – badly. We seeing schools in Virginia refusing to withhold National Merit Awards to top achieving students:
…At least 13 Virginia high schools are under investigation after failing to deliver merit awards prior to college admissions, with the state attorney general alleging that the move specifically targeted Asian American students. Following the case against 11 Fairfax and Loudoun County high schools, officials from Prince William County Public Schools revealed two of their schools did not tell 16 students they had earned a National Merit award. Attorney General Jason Miyares condemned the schools’ actions as the state launched an investigation over alleged Anti-Asian bigotry.
The National Merit awards are only given to 50,000 of 1.5million high schoolers who score well on the PSATS – and can help students compete for scholarships, honors accolades, and college admissions.
And here’s the cause
What we’ve found from news reports is that our schools have a maniacal focus on equal outcomes rather than rewarding high-performing students. This effort of withholding academic achievements is hurting the same students school officials claim they are trying to help. pic.twitter.com/4s4Kguw5gk
— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) January 17, 2023
The progressive concept of “equity” is a rejection of the equality of opportunity and a commitment to equality of outcome. Let’s be frank. This is communism, and it’s antithetical to everything the United States of America was founded upon.
No, they aren’t helping ANYONE. Socialism and Equity can only be “accomplished” by lowering standards to the lowest common denominators.
No.One.Can.Be.Better.Than.Anyone.Else. Unless you happen to be the ones making all the decisions.
And we’re right back to where this is being hatched, nurtured, inculcated, and sent out to infect the rest of us just like China infected the world with COVID. A bit long and “bits and pieces” so read the whole thing to see where a college is attacking Free Speech:
…Tenured Bakersfield College history professor Matthew Garrett said he and other faculty members of a free speech coalition were targeted with false allegations after they asked questions during a campus diversity meeting last October. Shortly afterwards, Garrett received a notice of unprofessional conduct by the administration that claimed he had caused “real harm” to students and said he was being removed from the diversity committee “effective immediately.”
In December, vice president of the school district’s Board of Trustees John Corkins made headlines after he lashed out at the group during a board meeting saying the “abusive” and “disrespectful” minority of teachers needed to be “culled,” and taken “to the slaughterhouse.”
…“Many of the faculty quietly tell me thank you for speaking up because we’re afraid to do so,” he said. He described how critical race theory and other racial equity initiatives had become popular after Black Lives Matter drew national attention in 2020.
“Our campus has been really radically transformed in the last two years or so. In the last two years we’ve adopted critical race theory, diversity training, implicit bias training, micro aggression trainings. We’ve adopted racial quotas and preferences, affirmative action-type behavior, we’ve adopted racially segregated classes, we’ve adopted mandated masks, compulsory vaccines, and location tracking software. We’ve got funding going to propaganda webpages you can track through grants,” he said.
…Other professors had raised concerns these social equity initiatives were weakening academic standards, he claimed. “A lot of the faculty are really concerned about the dissolution of rigor,” Garrett said, as academic programs were replaced with social programs focused on “inclusivity, [where] everyone passes.”
And it is happening in our high schools. If you thought that academics can’t get much worse, just wait.
And then there’s the doctors:
The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), in a collaboration with the Fenway Institute, is training doctors and other medical professionals to affirm a young patient’s chosen gender identity. In a training video reviewed by Breitbart News, you can see how doctors are taught to interact with a child who might be experiencing symptoms related to gender dysphoria.
From the report:
During the training video, titled “Talking with a Parent and Child About Gender Identity,” a doctor asks a young child, referred to as Sam, what his gender is. “Can you tell me, do you feel like a boy, like a girl, like both, or like neither?” the doctor asks the young child in the video before adding “There’s no right answer.”
Sam’s dad interjects, telling the doctor how the family has approached the topic. He also says “I don’t know, I think he just wants to be like his big sister.” The doctor doesn’t offer a response to the parent, other than to simply say “Thank you for sharing. I would like to ask Sam.” He goes on to inquire “So what do you say Sam?” The child responds “I’m a girl.”
The doctor asks “How long have you known you’re a girl?” prompting the child to say “I don’t know, but a long time.”
“So when we’re talking about you, would you like us to say he or she?” the doctor asks, with Sam requesting that he be referred to as “she.” The doctor then responds simply “Okay, thanks” before the video comes to a close and displays the MUSC logo.
And Legislators to the rescue!
Breitbart also noted that the university ceased offering hormonal care for children identifying as transgender “after the South Carolina Freedom Caucus began preparing to pursue legislation banning child sex changes.”
And does DIE Training actually do what it espouses it does?
Hardly:
Over the years, social scientists who have conducted careful reviews of the evidence base for diversity trainings have frequently come to discouraging conclusions. Though diversity trainings have been around in one form or another since at least the 1960s, few of them are ever subjected to rigorous evaluation, and those that are mostly appear to have little or no positive long-term effects. The lack of evidence is “disappointing,” wrote Elizabeth Levy Paluck of Princeton and her co-authors in a 2021 Annual Review of Psychology article, “considering the frequency with which calls for diversity training emerge in the wake of widely publicized instances of discriminatory conduct.”
Dr. Paluck’s team found just two large experimental studies in the previous decade that attempted to evaluate the effects of diversity trainings and met basic quality benchmarks. Other researchers have been similarly unimpressed. “We have been speaking to employers about this research for more than a decade,” wrote the sociologists Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev in 2018, “with the message that diversity training is likely the most expensive, and least effective, diversity program around.” (To be fair, not all of these critiques apply as sharply to voluntary diversity trainings.)
If diversity trainings have no impact whatsoever, that would mean that perhaps billions of dollars are being wasted annually in the United States on these efforts. But there’s a darker possibility: Some diversity initiatives might actually worsen the D.E.I. climates of the organizations that pay for them.
And if it is a company that is blowing its shareholders’ money, that’s one thing. Blowing taxpayer money for government workers is another.
And WHY are Public Schools so interested in the sexuality of minors???
A father attended a school board meeting recently to confront educators regarding sexual content found in a book that he says is available to his daughter, age 7. David Todor, whose daughter attends a school in the Waterloo Region District, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, read passages from a book called “The Bluest Eye” a national best-seller readily available on Amazon.
“I can assure you this book has been approved, and it’s accessible to my daughter, the one that’s seven years old by the way … this book is approved … for grade four to five reading level,” the father remarked to the board of trustees.
“He could have been an active homosexual but lacked the courage, beastiality did not occur to him, and sodomy was quite out of the question for he did not experience sustained erections and could not endure the thought of somebody else’s,” the parent read.
“Who’s interested in knowing and affirming, celebrating, my daughter’s sexual orientation?! Why is the school board facilitating child abuse and has these books available in the library?” the father asked.
This evening @wrdsb father David Todor wiped the floor with school trustees who want sexually explicit material available in schools for seven year olds to access.
"Who is interested in knowing my daughter's sexual orientation? Why is the school board facilitating child abuse?" pic.twitter.com/rr0RQehk1n
— Cosmin Dzsurdzsa (@cosminDZS) January 17, 2023
And here are more excerpts:
His attention therefore gradually settled on those humans whose bodies were least offensive — children. And since he was too diffident to confront homosexuality, and since little boys were insulting, scary, and stubborn, he further limited his interests to little girls. They were usually manageable and frequently seductive. His sexuality was anything but lewd; his patronage of little girls smacked of innocence and was associated in his mind with cleanliness. He was what one might call a very clean old man.
And no, this is not new – NH Gov Chris Sununu made this law in NH years ago (contra our NH Constitution which mandated that the State MUST provide the funds to do stuff like this – but didn’t):
NEW FRONTIERS IN MENSTRUATION
When it comes to gender follies, Minnesota Democrats are keeping up with their insane colleagues on the coasts. DFL state representative Sandra Feist has been pushing a bill “that would require school districts and charter schools to provide students in grades four through 12 with access to free menstrual products in student restrooms.” Feist’s bill was approved in committee last year by a 12-4 vote. See Feist’s news clip. The news clip also maps out new frontiers in poverty: “Elif Ozturk, a sophomore at Hopkins High School, said ‘period poverty’ is an issue she’s encountered among classmates.”
Following the 2022 elections Democrats rule the roost in Minnesota. Feist’s bill has a better chance of passage this time around, although embarrassment and ridicule might serve as some kind of a deterrent. I hadn’t noticed that the text of the bill makes no distinction between boys and girls in mandating the availability of menstrual products. When Feist says students, she means all students.
Feist explains (video below): “[N]ot all students who menstruate are female. We need to make sure all students have access to these products. There are obviously less [sic] non-female menstruating students and therefore their usage will be much lower. That was actually calculated into the cost of this.”
Lower usage? Try zero. But they can’t be honest, can they? 2+2=5 with these people – sorry not sorry, boys don’t menstruate. They can’t have periods.
And you can’t be honest.
And once again, taxpayers have to pay for unneeded and ideological socialist bents.
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On Monday, we experienced a cornerstone moment in COVID history. A member of the Public Health Industrial Complex got an unpleasant truth about COVID published in the Washington Post. The Hospitalization and Death numbers were a lie.
There is nothing new or groundbreaking about that. The so-called COVID disinformation cabal has been making that claim since (at least) day 15 to flatten the curve. Skip had a comments brawl about it on Facebook after I shared this cartoon on April 7th, 2020 (not long after NH announced its COVID state of emergency and the lockdowns).
The soon-to-be pro-science anti-disinformation folks lost their minds. How could you say that?
It was easy. The Feds were going to pay hospitals to say they had cases of COVID, and they got more money for each escalation in the death-by-hospital protocol.
Where there is a trough, there will be pigs!
COVID was a cash machine, and Hospitals and Big Pharma do not exist to protect the public interest or health. They are there to make money off them. If the Federal Government was going to hand them buckets of cash with little or no oversight just for saying patients were “hospitalized” or “died” from COVID, they would, and did.
It was an expensive lesson for many with a side of, you’re right. I can’t trust them, can I?
Not everyone was or is on board with that truth, but here comes Dr. Leana Wen, who you might remember as the most honest Director of Planned Parenthood ever. She made it clear that abortion was their core mission and more of it was good for business. They asked her to resign. That sort of honesty isn’t good for business, which makes me wonder what comes next after this.
Two infectious-disease experts I spoke with believe that the number of deaths attributed to covid is far greater than the actual number of people dying from covid. Robin Dretler, an attending physician at Emory Decatur Hospital and the former president of Georgia’s chapter of Infectious Diseases Society of America, estimates that at his hospital, 90 percent of patients diagnosed with covid are actually in the hospital for some other illness.
Dr. Wen, a card-carrying member of the COVID-Cult, has opened a door, and everyone on the center-right has pushed through it to say I told you so, including me, but I’m more interested in why? Why now? Remember, Dr. Wen wrote it, but the Washington Post published it. Why?
The original miscoding had two distinct purposes. Money Laundering and fearmongering. It is why no one “in charge” ever took the flaws of the dysfunctional PCR test seriously. It was never designed to do what it did, but it could be used to aid and abet systemic money laundering and fearmongering.
If you ever visited your state’s COVID dashboard (we shared daily analysis on these pages for months), you knew there was no threat. It was all smoke and mirrors. And while some of that smoke has cleared in recent months, this latest revelation brings what we have known for years into the public sphere for open debate.
Why?
I don’t think Dr. Wen is trying to clear her conscience. What does the COVID-CULT gain? Is this one of many fence-mending admissions now that the Public Health Oligarchy is officially a functioning propaganda arm of the US Government?
They are convinced we can’t take it back, so why not offer up a few sacrificial narrative lambs? I’m open to suggestions, but I will add that the CDC is spending at least a million on an AI project to try and identify medical misinformation spreading “before it happens” so they can figure out how to combat it in advance.
That’s a bit ironic.
HT | AoSHQ
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