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Bombing at Shiite Mosque in Pakistan Kills at Least 56 Worshippers
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Kate Brown welcomes 'LGBTQ2SIA+' kids to Oregon after Texas classifies medical gender transition child abuse
[Post Millenial via Rantingly]'LGBTQ2SIA+'?? YJCMTSU
Oregon’s Democrat Governor Kate Brown welcomed 'LGBTQ2SIA+' kids to Oregon in a video posted to social media Thursday, after Texas classified medical gender transition child abuse.

"To all the LGBTQ2SIA+ children and young people across our United States. I want you to know that you are seen, you are loved, and you matter." This after Texas said that medical transition of children, with cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers, is classified as child abuse.

LGBTQ2SIA+ has come to stand for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, two spirit, intersex, allied or asexual, and more. Brown is regarded as the first openly bisexual Governor in the US.

Brown continued, "And to all Oregon’s youth, especially those who are trans, nonbinary, or questioning, the state of Oregon remains committed to honoring and protecting your right to be yourself."

Brown then attacked Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott following his directive that ordered investigations into circumstances where Texas children had been subjected to "...a wide variety of elective procedures for gender transitioning, including reassignment surgeries that can cause sterilization, mastectomies, removals of otherwise healthy body parts, and administration of puberty-blocking drugs or supraphysiologic doses of testosterone or estrogen."

Brown added, "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to remove trans kids from loving parents is especially cruel. This policy is another iteration of a long and painful history of discriminatory policies targeting our LGBTQ2SIA+ community."

On Wednesday, the Biden administration also pushed back against the order by updating Health and Human Services guidelines and sent a letter to child welfare agencies across the country opposing Abbott’s order.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2022 11:10 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hell awaits Kate Brown, where they'll feast on her for years.
Posted by: Cthulhu of Ryleh || 03/05/2022 12:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Is there no upper bound on their string concatenation? This starting to look like modem noise in days gone by. Whatever happened to good ol' TLAs?
Posted by: SteveS || 03/05/2022 12:51 Comments || Top||

#3  If you got to repopulate Portland, more inbound UHauls than outbound, you got to start somewhere. It's a urban type group.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2022 13:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Is there no upper bound on their string concatenation?

Going to guess in the most common incarnation this one should be on "worst passwords list" with ABCDE, 12345 and QWERTY
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2022 17:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Good place for 'em. Knock yourself out.
Posted by: ed in texas || 03/05/2022 18:52 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Clinton Global Initiative Restarted to Tackle Urgent Needs
[US News via Rantingly] The Clinton Foundation is planning another Clinton Global Initiative — the high-profile gathering of business, political and philanthropic leaders — this September in New York, according to a letter former President Bill Clinton sent to the foundation’s supporters Friday.
"Send money"
Correction: “Send lotsa money.”
The initiative, which began meeting annually in 2005 and boasted speakers ranging from former presidents Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter to celebrity philanthropists like Bono and Ben Affleck, ended in 2016 during former Sen. Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, when questions were raised about the appearance of potential conflicts of interests if donors then had business before Hillary Clinton’s administration.

Bill Clinton said he wants to bring back the initiative because the kind of "cooperation and coordination" it created is urgently needed. "The COVID-19 pandemic has ripped the cover off of longstanding inequities and vulnerabilities across our global community," Bill Clinton wrote in the letter Friday. "The existential threat of climate change grows every day. Democracy is under assault around the world, most glaringly in Ukraine where Russia has launched an unjustified and unprovoked invasion that has put millions of lives in grave danger."
"Send money"
Good lord. Covid, global inequities, climate change, and democracy under assault all in one paragraph? A truly impressive display of verbal efficiency to persuade the easily triggered... to send money.
Posted by: Frank G || 03/05/2022 07:23 || Comments || Link || [19 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Clintons must be low on cash. Resurrection of the family grifting business?
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/05/2022 9:33 Comments || Top||

#2  I take this as Hillary will throw her cast off shoe in the 2024 ring.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/05/2022 9:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Opportunity knocks
Posted by: KBK || 03/05/2022 13:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Hillary has an urgent need for more money. Look out, Joe.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/05/2022 14:32 Comments || Top||


Gee, What Could Putin Possibly Have on Biden That Would Make Joe Keep Buying Russian Oil?
[PJ] In the early days of WWII, as Germany was pounding England in the Blitz, FDR sent supplies to our allies. He gave them U.S. Navy destroyers (small warships especially good for fighting submarines) and eventually dedicated our Atlantic fleet to defending convoys and firing on German U-boats. We were secretly at war with Germany. History refers to it as "belligerent neutrality." U.S. citizens had no idea.

FDR deceived the American people. He campaigned for the 1940 election by saying he would keep the United States out of another European war. Smarter people than I can argue if it was the right thing to do. My point is this: when Hitler was at the pinnacle of his power and military success and was about to break England’s back, FDR did something about it.

Putin has started what some people are referring to as WWIII. Biden’s response has been to join other nations in hitting Putin with some financial sanctions, which have thus far not changed Putin’s game plan.

Biden is also sending, depending on your source, roughly $74 million to Russia EVERY DAY for oil.

Why hit Putin with sanctions if you’re handing him mad stacks for oil? Something is up. Biden could open the Keystone XL pipeline. He could "drill, baby, drill" in the States and tap into what might be billions of barrels of oil, but White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki refers to that idea as a "misdiagnosis."

So instead, Biden is helping to pay for Putin’s war.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2022 01:37 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So much of the current game is deep below the water line. That said the current situation is 1000 times worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/05/2022 3:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Also, no comments by anybody about what the CIA did 5 months ago that freaked the hell out of Putin.
Posted by: 3dc || 03/05/2022 3:19 Comments || Top||

#3  What did the CIA do, 3dc?
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/05/2022 3:36 Comments || Top||

#4  The Biden cartel is just playing the Pakistan model that worked so well for years. Smile, say the 'right' things, and keep dealing with the Taliban Russians.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2022 8:26 Comments || Top||

#5  /\ Yes, the COVID cover has nearly expired. Prolong the current Euro crisis and media cover for as long as possible.

Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2022 8:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Lots. We are buying much oil from Russia since Biden shut down of our energy independence. Now he's releasing oil from our strategic reserves. He is a threat to our security. An impeachable offense?

Gas prices jumped eleven cents overnight. This is one of the greatest contributors to inflation for the average person.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/05/2022 9:45 Comments || Top||

#7  ...and everything. It all has to be transported. The urban class doesn't even give it a moment's thought. It all 'magically' appears on the shelves and in the stores. The effect compounds through the entire economy.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2022 11:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Yes. Shipped oil is less green. Oil in railroad tank cars is less green than pipeline oil.

More religious thinking, ala COVIDianism.

What's the common denominator? Leftist "thought..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2022 11:06 Comments || Top||

#9  But, oil in railroad tank cars lines Warren Boofay's and Charlie Mungbreath's pockets. Then they dribble it out to you know who.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2022 11:08 Comments || Top||

#10  What did the CIA do, 3dc?

Dunno. Certainly don't know if it was the CIA or something else. But Putin has been acting strangely lately.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/05/2022 14:36 Comments || Top||

#11  Seems to be a bi-partisan move in Congress to get a veto proof embargo.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/05/2022 19:06 Comments || Top||

#12  I predict: The gummint political complex wants war. The people just saw COVIDmania die without a whimper. The people will decide "no war." The gummint political complex will be flummoxed.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2022 19:14 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
10% OF US Defense Budget To Be Redirected To Dept Of WOKE
[GovTrackInsider] Bill would create Cabinet-level Department of Reconciliation tasked to “end racism,” with budget at least 10% of Defense Department.

Rep. Al Green and his co-sponsors believe that issues relating to race in America — in areas including policing, wealth disparities, and ballot access — demand a similar 9/11-level “reckoning” moment that calls for another new Cabinet department.

It was introduced in the House on February 9 as H.Res. 919, by Rep. Al Green (D-TX9).
Al is a pomaded pimp. Nuff said
ODDS OF PASSAGE
Rep. Green introduced a prior version in early June 2020, during the peak week of protests over racial inequities and police misconduct in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. It attracted 33 Democratic cosponsors, but never received a committee vote despite Democrats controlling the chamber.

The current proposal has attracted an identical 33 cosponsors, all Democrats. It awaits a potential vote in the House Judiciary Committee.
Typical House of Representatives posturing for the rubes.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/05/2022 05:54 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  Biden administration harvesting the Afghanistan dividend.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/05/2022 8:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Are we going to be able to fight wars if needed. Wokey and brokey don't cut it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/05/2022 9:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Might as well go for broke. From next January, the Democrats will be out of power for many years, despite their election cheating.
Posted by: Angaiper Ulavins1210 || 03/05/2022 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  ^ Will create years of work for "deprogrammers," "clean-up specialists" and so-forth. Cleaning out the military colleges will be fun work.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2022 9:48 Comments || Top||

#5  I'll go in as long as the department is to hunt down wokesters and transport them to their Utopia in a 'stan where they become one with nature. My bet is on cannibalism inside of two weeks.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 03/05/2022 11:15 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ I think you start with cannibalism practicums before shipping them out...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/05/2022 11:17 Comments || Top||


Nancy Was Busy In 2021 Handing Out Congressional Fines
Posted by: NN2N1 || 03/05/2022 05:45 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Worst Speaker in my memory.
Posted by: JohnQC || 03/05/2022 9:36 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2022-03-05
  Bombing at Shiite Mosque in Pakistan Kills at Least 56 Worshippers
Fri 2022-03-04
  Russian Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky Tango Uniform
Thu 2022-03-03
  Russia threatens Finland and Sweden
Wed 2022-03-02
  Libyan Army Kills 26 Chadian Mercenaries
Tue 2022-03-01
  Mexican drug cartel pull mourners from a wake, shoot them
Mon 2022-02-28
  Putin throws MORE ground forces at Kyiv
Sun 2022-02-27
  Day 4: Operational information on the Russian invasion
Sat 2022-02-26
  Day Z + 1. On the outskirts of Kiev
Fri 2022-02-25
  Day 2: Ukrainian Su27 jet shot down over Kyiv as capital comes under attack from 'cruise missiles', Putin's tanks move within 20 MILES of city: Zelensky rages at Biden for leaving his country 'alone', says Kremlin marked him 'target No.1' UPDATED
Thu 2022-02-24
  Putin attacks all over the Ukraine
Wed 2022-02-23
  Breaking: Nordstream 2 contract is canceled!
Tue 2022-02-22
  Russian 'peacekeeper' troops enter Russian controlled east Ukraine
Mon 2022-02-21
  Stray Nigeria airstrike kills 7 children in Niger
Sun 2022-02-20
  AQAP confirms two of their turbans airstruck
Sat 2022-02-19
  Nigerian Army Kills Top Boko Haram Commander, Others


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