Bummer: At Least A Dozen GOP States Considering Parental Rights Bills

By William Teach April 11, 2022 – 10:30 am

Have you noticed that, for the most part, articles and opinion pieces on the Florida “don’t say gay” bill have dried up quite a bit? For one thing, Democrats do not want to be called groomers. They saw what happened in Virginia and almost happened in New Jersey, and do not want to give people a reason to vote GOP, since Democrats are against parental rights and for teaching children these unhinged, immoral, insane sexual policies. They do not want parents seeing the state of so many crazy teachers

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1513046467333689344

Do you want this person with obvious mental health issues teaching your child?

Not just Florida. More than a dozen states propose so-called ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills

First Florida. Then Alabama. Now, lawmakers in Ohio and Louisiana are considering legislation that mimics the Florida law. And Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says he’ll make a similar bill a top priority at the next session.

Across the United States, at least a dozen states are considering new legislation that in several ways will mirror Florida’s new controversial law, referred to by some opponents as “Don’t Say Gay.”

The specific details regarding the bills vary between states. But overall, they seek to prohibit schools from using a curriculum or discussing topics of gender identity or sexual orientation.

And polling says they are popular, especially with parents. And even with a large chunk of Democratic Party voting parents. Hence why so few are talking about it now, and there are so few articles

“The institutionalization of these bills is an overt form of structural transphobia and homophobia, and it goes against all public health evidence in creating a safe and supportive environment for transgender, nonbinary, queer, gay and lesbian youths and teachers to thrive,” Arjee Restar, assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Washington, told NPR.

Young kids aren’t anything at that age. Just kids. If a little girl is being a tomboy or a boy is playing with dolls, it doesn’t mean they should be transitioned. It just means they are kids. The only way they identify as something else is if they’re groomed to be. Leave the kids alone, if they feel differently later in life then the parents can have the talk. Not teachers. But, see, Democrats and their schools think they own the kids.

Idiot leftists are asking on Twitter if Conservatives are OK with banning the teaching the Bible (the talking points memo went out), and, yes, it is. It’s been against the rules for hundreds of years in public schools, because teaching religion has no place in school. That’s for the parents to decide. And if Democrats want to continue hiding what goes on in schools from parents, telling parents they have zero input, it’s not going to go well for Democrats. Hence, why the subject has become rather quiet in the news.

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Climate Cult Scientists Are Unhappy About This Whole Debate Thing

By William Teach April 11, 2022 – 7:00 am

See, in science, there’s no debate, right?

We Are Wasting Time on These Climate Debates. The Next Steps are Clear.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, which was released last week and which we co-authored with many colleagues, offers hope for limiting global warming.

But there is no time to waste. And wasted time includes time spent debating issues that divert us from our most important priorities right now.

Unfortunately, debates about distant future decisions and future uncertainties are distracting advocates, policymakers, researchers and the public from their shared, near-term goals. At best, these disputes give observers — especially policymakers and their advisers, who are trying to make tough short-term decisions during a global energy security crisis — a misleading impression that experts disagree about effective steps to decarbonize energy systems. At worst, these disputes can stall progress by delaying policies and incentives that would accelerate clean energy deployment.

Rather than getting mired in these debates, we should focus on credible commitments to public policy, private investment and innovation.

Steven Davis, Chris Bataille, John Bistline, and Inês Azevedo are tired of all that icky debate stuff. I guess they’re used to every “scientist” in their circle agreeing with them 100%, so, they want the people who can pass laws that force citizens to comply with the UN IPCC dictates. Here’s an idea: let’s force all the UN IPCC scientists to comply first. No more fossil fueled vehicles or airplane trips. No more fancy big homes, just tiny ones. No meat. No clothes or shoes made with fossil fuels. And so forth. See how they make out.

Anyhow, lots of blah blah blah, till

Rather than getting distracted by distant and likely irreducible uncertainties, let’s focus on what matters: deploying clean technologies we know we need, implementing a coherent climate policy, laying the groundwork for future progress and creating a just transition that shares the benefits of a sustainable energy system.

Those are political decisions, not scientific one, and they can all piss off.

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Priorities: Brandon To Crack Down On Ghost Guns

By William Teach April 11, 2022 – 6:45 am

This is simply a deflection from the problems plaguing America, an attempt to whip up his foaming at the mouth moonbat base

Biden expected to release rule on ghost guns in days

The Biden administration will come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule — aimed at reining in privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes — as soon as Monday, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.

Completion of the rule comes as the White House and the Justice Department have been under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths and violent crime in the U.S.

The White House has also been weighing naming Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney from Ohio, to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, the people said. Biden had to withdraw the nomination of his first nominee, gun-control advocate David Chipman, after the nomination stalled for months because of opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate.

For nearly a year, the rule has been making its way through the federal regulation process. Gun safety groups and Democrats in Congress have been pushing for the Justice Department to finish the rule for months. It will probably be met with heavy resistance from gun groups and draw litigation in the coming weeks.

The devil’s in the detail. How many ghost guns are in private hands who are not criminals? What happens if it turns out that the majority used in crimes in Democratic Party run cities by minorities, and they’re being prosecuted more? We all know the actual crime statistics involving crimes with firearms, shootings, and murders.

The rule is expected to change the current definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun.

Pieces of firearms are not firearms. A guitar body is not a guitar till you’ve gotten all the pieces and assembled it.

In its proposed rule released last May, the ATF said it was also seeking to require manufacturers and dealers who sell ghost gun parts to be licensed by the federal government and require federally licensed firearms dealers to add a serial number to any unserialized guns they plan to sell.

The rule would also require firearms dealers to run background checks before they sell ghost gun kits that contain parts needed to assemble a firearm.

I’m just wondering, do they actually have the statutory authority to do this? One would think this is the type of thing that requires the duly elected Legislative Branch, not the Executive. But, hey, since Congress often abdicates their responsibility to be the law makers by passing laws that are overly broad and give the Executive way too much freedom to make laws themselves.

A second question would be “what else is hiding in the rule that will have consequences for law abiding gun owners?”

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 10, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is a horrible, evil, not good air conditioning unit which should be forbidden for Other People, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The Lid, with a post on some interesting Hunter Biden emails.

It’s straight up bikini week.

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Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

By William Teach April 10, 2022 – 9:54 am

Patriotic Pinup Gil Elvgren

Happy Sunday! Another great day in the Once And Future Nation Of America. The Sun is shining, the geese are honking, and baseball has started. This pinup is by Gil Elvgren, with a wee bit of help.

What is happening in Ye Olde Blogosphere? The Fine 15

  1. Climate Scepticism discusses why teachers get away with teaching green rubbish
  2. Green Jihad notes a wind energy company pleading guilty to killing bald eagles
  3. Greenie Watch features green disaster prognostications that failed
  4. Jo Nova covers un-vaxxed Australians who are denied leaving the country
  5. American Greatness discusses what’s going on at a racially sensitive “restorative” school
  6. Chicks On The Right covers hundreds showing up to protest Disney’s radical leftist agenda
  7. Cold Fury notes that if it walks like a groomer and talks like a groomer….
  8. Dissecting Leftism discusses those who do not want to give up their COVID powers
  9. Geller Report notes how much money DeSantis has raised
  10. Gen Z Conservative covers Obama being upset by Other People’s Free Speech
  11. IOTW Report features Chipolte bringing in a chip making machine
  12. Jihad Watch wonders why 2 Muslims were pretending to be DHS agents and getting close to the Secret Service
  13. Legal Insurrection discusses Dems paying people to close the enthusiasm gap and nag their friends
  14. Moonbattery highlights body cams backfiring on Black supremacists
  15. And last, but, not least, neo-neocon covers the results of the Whitmer kidnapping trial

As always, the full set of pinups can be seen in the Patriotic Pinup category, or over at my Gallery page (nope, that’s gone, the newest Apache killed access, and the program hasn’t been upgraded since 2014). While we are on pinups, since it is that time of year, have you gotten your Pinups for Vets calendar yet? And don’t forget to check out what I declare to be our War on Women Rule 5 and linky luv posts and things that interest me. I’ve also mostly alphabetized them, makes it easier scrolling the feedreader

Don’t forget to check out all the other great material all the linked blogs have!

Anyone else have a link or hotty-fest going on? Let me know so I can add you to the list. And do you have a favorite blog you can recommend be added to the feedreader?

Two great sites for getting news links are Liberty Daily and Whatafinger.

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Democrats Seem Rather Upset Being Called “Groomer”

By William Teach April 10, 2022 – 8:20 am

Sure, a few Beltway Boob Republicans have argued that it’s not quite proper to call them Groomers, but, really, it’s a great single word to describe what the Democrats are doing with their unhinged, insane sexual education of minors, especially those who haven’t even hit puberty yet. If they want to call the Florida bill “don’t say gay,” we’ll call them groomers

‘Groomer’ debate inflames GOP fight over Florida law

“Groomer” is the new favorite term being used by far-right commentators and activists to describe opponents of Florida’s Parental Rights in Education law, sparking outrage among LBGTQ advocates who say that it is a smear that feeds into a trope casting members of the community as pedophiles.

The Florida bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis week, which opponents have decried as the “Don’t Say Gay” law, prohibits instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity from kindergarten through third grade.

“Groomer” started to gain traction as a term around the time the Florida legislature passed the bill last month. Those on the fringes argue that opponents of the Florida law and other similar measures are enabling children to be primed for abuse by allowing such instruction to push them to question their gender identity.

Fringes? Most Republicans believe that teaching children this stuff is ripe for abuse, even if it’s not teachers sexually assaulting children. Just teaching them these very adult topic, advocating for and pushing the children into these types of adult life changes can cause many problems for the children.

A spokesperson for DeSantis, Christina Pushaw, tweeted last month that the legislation “would be more accurately described as an Anti-Grooming Bill.”

A segment from Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday talking about gender education in schools was titled “Doom & Groom.” In another early March segment, Ingraham said that public schools have become “grooming centers for gender identity radicals.”

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has also embraced the descriptor. “Anyone who opposes anti-grooming laws like the one in Florida is pro-child predator. Stop sexualizing children,” she said in a tweet.

The loaded term, which is widely used to describe child sexual abusers who are priming their victims, enrages LGBTQ advocates and allies who say that it is painting teachers and advocates as pedophiles. They suggest that it feeds into a false stereotype that LGBTQ people prey on children.

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1512293714319663106

If LGBTQ is enraged, perhaps they shouldn’t advocate for teaching this stuff to pre-pubescent children. They shouldn’t be discussing all their own sexual beliefs with young children. Really, a goodly bunch of these nuts shouldn’t even be school employees, as they look utterly unprofessional. Not all, mind you. But, there are plenty, which keep showing up in videos.

“It’s not only infuriating, but alarming, that the right has chosen to score political points by misusing the term groomer,” said Deb Hauser, president of the sexual education organization Advocates for Youth. “Grooming is an important concept for understanding the prevention of child sexual abuse. It’s disgraceful to see the term being applied to people who are working to keep our children safe and our classrooms and communities inclusive of LGBTQ+ students and families — especially when LGBTQ+ students remain vulnerable to bullying and discrimination in schools.”

Hey, perhaps they shouldn’t have started calling the “don’t say gay” bill. Better yet, perhaps they shouldn’t be teaching this stuff in schools. Along with plenty of their unhinged straight Comrades in the Democratic Party.

Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, executive director of GLSEN, an organization advocating for LBGTQ inclusivity in K-12 education, said that “the presence of LGBTQ+ supportive educators and affirming curriculum is critical to ending the harassment of LGBTQ+ students, who currently experience higher rates of sexual assault and harassment than non-LGBTQ+ peers.”

In other words, indoctrinating young children. Ie, grooming. THey can be upset all they want: the majority of parents approve of the bill, and do not want their children taught this stuff. Even Democratic Party voting parents.

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Responding To ‘Climate Change’ Wrong Way Is Worse Than Doing Nothing Or Something

By William Teach April 9, 2022 – 3:00 pm

This just goes to show that no good deed goes unpunished

Responding to Climate Change the Wrong Way Is Worse Than Doing Nothing

electric vehicleIn the 1980s, the government of the United Kingdom introduced financial incentives to promote plantation forestry. Landowners were encouraged, via tax breaks, to cover seemingly “unproductive” peatlands with uniform stands of trees for timber harvest. As a result of this policy and others, about 80 percent of UK peatlands were degraded or destroyed. “It was a disaster from a climate change perspective, as well as from a biodiversity perspective,” says Peter Smith, a soil and climate scientist at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.

Peatlands are critical landscapes for greenhouse gas storage, explains Smith. They are sinks of undecayed organic matter, holding onto millennia of carbon dioxide and methane that would otherwise be in the atmosphere. When the UK’s peat was drained and planted with trees, the land went from carbon sink to source. It was an environmental mistake, like so many, made in the name of maximizing profit. And it’s one that the UK’s government vowed to correct and not repeat. Yet, as recently as 2020, the Forestry Commission allowed peatland to be drained for tree planting.

Of course, they weren’t planting the trees to Solve Climate Change. It wasn’t even for the environment. It was simply for more trees, using unproductive land.

And it’s a mistake that’s been replicated elsewhere. In Indonesia, for example, US biofuel policy meant to reduce carbon emissions led to the transformation of peatland into oil palm plantations and mass carbon release. Somehow, a land-use shift known to increase atmospheric greenhouse gas was deployed with the specific intent of doing the opposite. Of course, it backfired.

Now, palm oil was meant to Do Something about ‘climate change’, and it wasn’t just the U.S. doing it. Not mentioned by the Sierra Club is that it led to massive defoliation, wildlife habitat destruction, and eradication of wildlife, including the intention hunting of Orangutans. This was Warmists trying to do something and not thinking about the consequences.

There are two ways for us to productively respond to climate change: mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation means reducing the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere to limit warming. Adaptation, on the other hand, is changing something about our behavior, society, or environment to accommodate the alterations wrought by climate change. For people and biodiversity to thrive, we need both strategies. Yet both can go very wrong.

And, in Warmist World, it is Government that must force this on citizens.

Centuries of putting out fires on landscapes that coevolved with fire has left a buildup of fuel waiting to burn, making western wildfires much worse in recent decades, says David Calkin, a wildfire and forestry researcher for the US Forest Service. “Climate change accelerates the consequences from that.” More warming means more fires, which brings on more suppression and, in turn, even more fires.

No, a slight increase in global temperatures doesn’t do a damned thing. Poor forest management policies do.

Just as fire suppression can be a short-sighted response leading to even bigger, long-term challenges, so too can infrastructure projects like sea walls, which have hard climate limits. If sea level rise or storm surges exceed sea wall capacity, as is likely under continued warming, the barriers quickly become expensive failures. In Manhattan, construction on a controversial sea wall began late last year. Initially, the coastal protection plan was meant to emphasize wetland restoration over fixed barriers, but the final outcome will be a six-mile-long wall that local residents say exacerbates existing inequality by leveling their neighborhood greenspace.

Amplified injustice is a hallmark of maladaptation, says Lisa Schipper, a climate change and human development researcher at Oxford University and an IPCC author. It’s also a devastating outcome when climate change already poses the biggest threat to already marginalized people in the US and globally.

And, we’ve jumped to the inequality stuff, because this is not about science, but, politics. Grievance politics, for one.

If they really want to do something, support nuclear power. How will all these EVs be powered in the Real World? And practice what they preach.

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If All You See…

By William Teach April 9, 2022 – 1:00 pm

…is an old style radiator which requires coal to heat it up, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Virtual Mirage, with a post on Russia threatening Finland if they join NATO.

Doubleshot below the fold, so, check out Weasel Zippers, with a post on even Democrats wanting Trump back in office.

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Texas Gov Abbott Sends Buses To Border To Pick Up Illegals

By William Teach April 9, 2022 – 10:30 am

Remember, Abbott promised to take these illegals in his state and ship them to D.C. and drop them off. This is the first step

Texas begins dispatching buses to the border to transport illegal immigrants to DC

spite houseTexas has dispatched buses to the southern border to retrieve illegal immigrants after Gov. Greg Abbott said this week that he planned to send those released in his state to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Within the last 24 hours, the Texas Division of Emergency Management (TDEM) has dispatched an unspecified number of buses to small Texas communities that are said by officials to be overwhelmed by an influx of migrants placed there by the federal government.

“In the last 24 hours, TDEM has dispatched buses to areas where communities have expressed concerns about the federal government dropping off migrants and has the capability to send as many as is necessary to fulfill the requests from mayors and county judges,” Seth Christensen, chief of media and communications for TDEM, told Fox News Digital.

Christensen also said the majority of areas in the state that expressed concern over the large numbers of illegal immigrants being placed in their communities now say the federal government has “stopped dropping migrants in their towns” since Abbott’s announcement.

It will take a lot of buses, since each one only holds about 40 people. But, the logistics of the buses, how long it takes, feeding the illegals, and so forth is meaningless in the face of the optics of dropping them off in D.C. Drop them off right near the White House and Capitol Building. See how Biden and his illegal aliens invasion supporting Comrades like it.

Will Biden try and stop the buses before they get to D.C.? That would be illegal, would it not? Will Biden deploy forces to keep the illegals from getting off the buses? Illegal. Heck, if he tries, drop them off in Biden’s hometown in Delaware.

The question now is “is Texas picking up the illegals and putting them on the buses to ship to D.C.?” I guess we’ll know within a few days.

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French Clergy Join The Cult Of Climastrology

By William Teach April 9, 2022 – 7:15 am

They now worship something other than The Word Of God and Jesus

French bishops urge ‘integral ecology’ in response to climate change

France’s Catholic bishops have stepped up calls for an “integral ecology” to protect the environment while also warning citizens not to “expect a savior or messiah” after the first round of presidential elections April 10.

“Our Western societies are aware their remarkable development has taken place at the cost of other world regions — that their race forward in growth has been possible only by polluting or destroying other spaces,” Archbishop Éric de Moulins-Beaufort of Reims, France, president of the French bishops’ conference, said April 8 at the close of the bishops’ plenary meeting in Lourdes.

“We must dare to denounce the structures of sin, and proclaim that other ways of human living are possible. … We are not condemned to behave like predators, sowing death and desolation on the earth,” the archbishop said.

His appeal came as French voters prepared for the first round of the presidential election April 10, in which President Emmanuel Macron faces a strong challenge from far-right leader Marine Le Pen.

Interesting. They’re taking the side of Big Government, rather than freedom, personal choice, and not being forced to follow the dictates of a doomsday cult

Archbishop Moulins-Beaufort said a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released April 4 highlights the need for “drastic change in modes of consumption, production, transport and heating.” (snip)

“The love of Christ urges us to be close to distant brothers and sisters who are the first to suffer the impact of climate change, to be close to all forms of life, rejoicing in our interdependence,” said the archbishop, who was reelected for a second term during the plenary.

Of course, they now want to drag Jesus into their cult

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