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Catholic women's college reverses decision to allow transgender students after public outrage | Blaze Media

Catholic women's college reverses decision to allow transgender students after public outrage | Blaze Media: 

A Catholic women's college in Indiana apologized for saying it would allow male students who identify as women to enroll and announced that it had reversed its decision after public outrage.

Most Americans would agree with this!

 

Data Brokers, Advertisers, and Governments: The Market for Your Personal Information - Intellectual Takeout

Data Brokers, Advertisers, and Governments: The Market for Your Personal Information - Intellectual Takeout - Walker Larson 

"A few years ago, I tried to find out what kind of information data brokers had stored about me...

• Aboutthedata.com, at least in its initial incarnation, leaves out many data elements that Acxiom markets to its corporate clients — intimate details like whether a person is a ‘potential inheritor’ or an ‘adult with senior parent,’ or whether a household has a ‘diabetic focus’ or ‘senior needs.’
• ...They maintain massive databases about us, with information ranging from marital status to education level to things we’ve purchased...
• Just recently, it’s been revealed that the U.S. government uses the pop-up notifications on our phones to read our messages. Why are they spying on our personal conversations? And what else are they doing to access our personal data that we don’t yet know about?..

Juanita Broaddrick on X: "This should make your blood boil every time you watch it...

Juanita Broaddrick on X - Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut
"This should make your blood boil every time you watch it.

The Bidens are the worst vermin to ever inhabit the White House. - From Simon Ateba

Civilizational Jenga - by Glenn Harlan Reynolds

Civilizational Jenga - by Glenn Harlan Reynolds 

• ...What makes me sad now is the ongoing game of Civilizational Jenga that our ruling class is playing. One by one, they’re withdrawing the supports of civil society, in a process that will inevitably lead to a collapse. They’re taking what was a very robust society, and consuming all the safety margins, bit by bit.
• What really makes me sad is that while some of the people involved – let’s call them “the morons” for convenience’s sake – are doing this out of shortsightedness, cupidity, or sheer partisan bloodthirstiness, I’m increasingly convinced that there’s a contingent at the top that knows exactly what it’s doing, and is fine with it.

Roger Kimball gets at it in a recent piece:

“This is the same old trick,” Trump said when he got the news that the Colorado Supreme Court voted 4-3 to keep him off the primary ballot for the 2024 presidential election.
Oops. Sorry. I got my papers mixed up. That was actually Abraham Lincoln in 1860 when he got the news that some Southern states had voted to keep him off the ballot. Eventually 10 states did so.
So here we are again....

...The thing about Civil Wars is, they don’t come from the bottom up.
They come from the top.

• And looking at who’s on top today, and what they seem to want, makes me sad.

#1 This day 1974-----Helen Reddy - Angie Baby (1974)

The Most Memorable Ad You'll Watch This Christmas Stars a Man in His Shed By Becca Lower

The Most Memorable Ad You'll Watch This Christmas Stars a Man in His Shed By Becca Lower
In just over two minutes, the story of a man puttering around in his tool shed will reduce many of us to a sobbing mess. 

• So, here's your warning in advance: have that box of tissues at the ready!...

And while this last story isn't about a holiday ad, our Andrew Malcolm recently wrote a column about a related topic-- the special bond between children and their grandparents. He shared memories of his own grandmother, right after Thanksgiving. Enjoy! 

When Grandma Arrived for That Holiday Visit

Merry Christmas, RedStaters!

"...tribunal finds...

 

Report: NYPD Overtime Pay for Subway Police Jumps from $4M to $155M

Report: NYPD Overtime Pay for Subway Police Jumps from $4M to $155M: 

Overtime pay for more New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers in the city’s subways reportedly jumped significantly between 2022 and 2023.

City records apparently show an increase from $4 million to a whopping $155 million, the Gothamist reported Thursday.

Canadian Journalist, Who Pushed Vaccine Mandates and Concentration Camps, Dead At 33

Canadian Journalist, Who Pushed Vaccine Mandates and Concentration Camps, Dead At 33 - Sarah Arnold

"A Canadian journalist who pushed for people to get the COVID-19 vaccine and its million boosters suddenly died at age 33...
He was known for advocating the use of vaccine passports and draconian mandates. 

• He also called for the firing of anyone who refused the jabs.
• Vandaelle argued people who defied the government’s orders should be arrested and taken away to concentration camps...

AM Fruitcake

 

History for December 24

History for December 24 - On-This-Day.com 

I.F. Stone 1907

• 1814 - The War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent in Belgium.
• 1818 - Franz Gruber of Oberndorf, Germany composed the music for "Silent Night" to words written by Josef Mohr.
• 1865 - Several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, TN, called the Ku Klux Klan.
• 1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower supreme commander of Allied forces as part of Operation Overlord.
• 1968 - Three astronauts, James A. Lovell, William Anders and Frank Borman, reached the moon. They orbited the moon 10 times before coming back to Earth. Seven months later man first landed on the moon.
• 1979 - Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in support of the country's Marxist government.

The way we were-----How the First World War Created the Middle East Conflicts (Documentary)

Where to Move to Escape World War III

SOLAR FARMS WILL BECOME THUNDERSTORM and TORONADO INCUBATORS and MAGNETS.

Lynn Chu | Facebook - Robert Fleisher

• AN INTERESTING CONCLUSION… SOLAR FARMS WILL BECOME THUNDERSTORM and TORONADO INCUBATORS and MAGNETS.

As more & more counties get more solar farms.....From a STEPHENVILLE resident, George Franklin:
I should start by telling you what bonafides I have for writing this. I am a retired aerospace engineer. A literal rocket scientist if you will. I worked on MX (Peacekeeper) Space Shuttle, Hubble, Brilliant Pebbles, PACOSS, Space Station, MMU, B2, the Sultan of Brunei's half billion dollar private 747 with crystal showers, gold sinks and 100 dollar a yard coiffed silk carpets. I designed a satphone installation on prince Jeffry's 757. I did all of the design work for the structure of Mark 1V propulsion module currently flying on at least 3 spacecraft that I know of. Some of the more exciting projects I have worked on are not shareable. I am also am FAA certified glider pilot and FAI certified gold glider pilot. I fly both full scale and model sailplanes. I am Microsoft certified and ComTIA A+ certified.
SOLAR PANELS are at best about 20% EFFICIENT.

They convert almost 0% of the UV light that hits them. None of the visible spectrum and only some of the IR spectrum. At the same time as they are absorbing light they are absorbing heat from the sun. This absorbed HEAT is RADIATED INTO THE adjacent ATMOSPHERE. It should be obvious what happens next. When air is warmed it rises. Even small differences in ordinary land surfaces are capable of creating powerful forces of weather like thunderstorms and tornadoes. These weather phenomena are initiated and reinforced by land features as they are blown downwind. It is all too obvious to me what will happen with the heat generated by an entire solar farm. SOLAR FARMS WILL BECOME THUNDERSTORM and TORONADO INCUBATORS and MAGNETS.
Solar panels are dark and and they emit energy to the space above them when they are not being radiated. This is known as black-body radiation. Satellites flying in space use this phenomenon to cool internal components. If they didn't do this they would fry themselves.
So solar farms not only produce more heat in summer than the original land that they were installed on, but they also produce more cooling in winter, thus exacerbating weather extremes.
So I conclude with this. THERE IS NOTHING GREEN ABOUT GREEN ENERGY except the DIRTY MONEY flowing into corrupt pockets.
There is no such thing as green energy. The science doesn't exist. The technology doesn't exist. The engineering doesn't exist. We are being pushed to save the planet with solutions that are worse than the problems.

Two UFO possibilities

Two UFO possibilities - Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays 

1. UFOs are real, and the government has wreckage and alien body parts. Alternately, the entities are spiritual beings or early humans who somehow hide, or maybe humans from the future. or... 

2. Numerous credible-sounding witnesses risked their reputations to spin an absurd set of similar-sounding lies. And all of the pilot sightings and instrument readings and videos of objects are glitches, mistakes or lies. 

Which one sounds more likely to you? 

Here's the answer....

On Biden's FIRST DAY!

 

Newt Gingrich: Dems are dangerously close to causing this disaster

The Cult of Darkness By Edward Hudgins

The Cult of Darkness By Edward Hudgins 

• “Energy is not for conserving; it is for unleashing to serve us, to make our lives better, to allow us to realize our dreams and to reach for the stars, those bright lights that pierce the darkness of the night.”

"Since early men ignited the first fires in caves, the unleashing of energy for light, heat, cooking, and every human need has been the essence and symbol of what it is to be human. 

• The Greeks saw Prometheus vanquishing the darkness with the gift of fire to men. 
• The Romans kept an eternal flame burning in the Temple of Vesta. Our deepest thoughts and insights are described as sparks of fire in our minds.
•  A symbol of death is a fading flame; Poet Dylan Thomas urged us to “rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

Thus a symbol of the deepest social darkness is seen in the recent extinguishing of the lights of cities across Australia and in other industrialized countries, not as a result of power failures or natural disasters, not as a conscious act of homage for the passing of some worthy soul, but to urge us all to limit energy consumption for fear of global warming.
This is not the symbol of the death but, rather, of the suicide of a civilization...

Lunch video-----“a costly second fiddle to renewables”

"The press corps in the United States has degenerated to a point where they make the old Soviet Pravda look like serious journalists.

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David Burge on X: "One cannot help be reminded of Hitler and his ruthless reign of smaller government"

David Burge on X: "One cannot help be reminded of Hitler and his ruthless reign of smaller government"

Classic angry, racist democrat elitist.

 

Opinion: How Unchecked Power Corrupts Government and Higher Education - Illinois Review

Opinion: How Unchecked Power Corrupts Government and Higher Education - Illinois Review - John F. Di Leo

"...What happens when the tax collectors exceed their authority and harass the innocent? 

• Remember what the IRS did to Tea Party groups a decade ago, for example.

What happens when agencies blow past their charters to regulate more than they were established to control? 

• Remember that the EPA was created to reduce actual pollution, and today it’s upending the world to control the harmless CO2 we exhale.

What happens when federal judges violate their oaths of office, and issue rulings in direct opposition to the law, because they can’t resist abusing their lifetime appointments to inflict their political philosophy upon the rest of us? 

• Consider the many judges who threw out 2020 election lawsuits on technicalities in order to keep real evidence from being presented, so the candidate of their choice could undeservedly move into the White House?

In thousands of examples like these, the executive and judicial branches have been unfettered for generations...

Good advice ignored...so far.

 

Useless Squish McConnell Slams Trump Using Dem Media Lie About 'Immigrants' STEPHEN KRUISER

Useless Squish McConnell Slams Trump Using Dem Media Lie About 'Immigrants' - STEPHEN KRUISER

"...Euphemism has long been one of the most powerful weapons in the leftmedia arsenal for the creation and perpetuation of narratives...

• More recently, Democrats and their flying monkeys in the mainstream media have guided the transition from "illegal immigrants" to "undocumented immigrants" to "immigrants" and to, finally, just plain "migrants."...

One of the ways that they change the aforementioned public discourse is by getting a generous assist from idiot Republican elected officials, especially the ones in Washington.
..The most recent and irritating example comes from the Head Squish in Charge in the United States Senate, Mitch McConnell.

The New York Times: When Mitch McConnell, the top Republican in the Senate, was asked about former President Donald J. Trump’s now-standard stump line claiming that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” Senator McConnell delivered an indirect but contemptuous response.

#1 This day 1953-----Rags To Riches - Tony Bennett

Heartbreaking Israeli Ad Campaign Asks Americans: Are the Kids Coming Home for Christmas? - The Messenger

Heartbreaking Israeli Ad Campaign Asks Americans: Are the Kids Coming Home for Christmas? - The Messenger - Peter S. Green

• Kfir Bibas, the redheaded baby who became Hamas' youngest hostage, is the face of a new Times Square billboard meant to remind the U.S. about those still in captivity in Gaza 

"The face of the Israeli baby boy, taken hostage by Hamas on Oct. 7, is staring down at pedestrians from a giant Times Square billboard this Christmas, along with the words: “Are the kids coming home for Christmas?”
The billboard is part of a new Israeli government advertising campaign meant to keep awareness high of those who remain trapped in Gaza...

The democrat party is the traitorous arm of the CCP?!!