Wow....we are quickly becoming the world's laughingstock.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2023/01/11/usc-will-no-longer-use-the-word-field-over-racist-origin/[/URL]
Sickening. but par for the course these days with this administration, MSM, Corporate DEI, Global ESG initiatives and WEF agenda.
It's all about Power & Control. These efforts are simply a means to that end for the Elite.
The comment section of the Post article is a great read. Here's one:
[URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2023/01/09/biden-administration-reportedly-weighing-national-ban-on-gas-stoves/[/URL]
Well seems that this is a misunderstanding as the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is not part of the Administration. Of course they may have put someone up to this to see how it played in Peoria, which was like a loud & smelly fart in church...
[HEADING=2][SIZE=7]Ban Gas Stoves? Just the Idea Gets Some in Washington Boiling.[/SIZE][/HEADING]
The nation’s top consumer watchdog agency raised concerns about indoor air pollution from gas stoves. A political firestorm ensued.
WASHINGTON — Concerns raised by the nation’s top consumer watchdog about the health hazards posed by gas stoves have triggered a sharp rebuke from the oil and gas industry and its Republican allies, inserting a common kitchen appliance into the middle of partisan politics.
Critics were pushing back hard on Wednesday against recent comments made by Richard Trumka Jr., a commissioner of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, that his agency might take some regulatory action in the face of growing research that links gas stoves to pollutants that harm both human health and the environment.
“This is a hidden hazard,” Mr. Trumka said in [an interview with Bloomberg]('https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-09/us-safety-agency-to-consider-ban-on-gas-stoves-amid-health-fears') on Monday. “Any option is on the table. Products that can’t be made safe can be banned.”
Those words were echoing around a Wednesday breakfast meeting of the American Petroleum Institute, where the oil and gas industry and its supporters in Congress had gathered to discuss the upcoming legislative agenda.
“Gas stoves are very important and we need to understand what’s being proposed and why,” said Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a Washington Republican and the chairwoman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, who was at the breakfast.
Mr. Trumka had tried to quell the firestorm on Monday. “To be clear, C.P.S.C. isn’t coming for anyone’s gas stoves,” he [wrote on Twitter]('https://twitter.com/TrumkaCPSC/status/1612553459462721536?s=20&t=8e9Mzjf2fm4PqLogOxtDdw'), adding that any regulations would apply to new products.
At [an October meeting of the commission]('https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/Commission-Meeting-Minutes-FY-2023-Operating-Plan_0.pdf?VersionId=wiJw89I902pxZ_6C.Zz08whJ6l6.9fo5'), Mr. Trumka wanted the staff to begin writing rules regarding gas stoves but could not get support from the other four members. Instead, the commission agreed to obtain input from the public.
A White House spokesman, Michael Kikukawa, said President Biden does not want to prohibit gas stoves. “The President does not support banning gas stoves,” he said. “And the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which is independent, is not banning gas stoves.”
But Republicans remained outraged, with Ms. McMorris Rodgers promising to scrutinize the Consumer Product Safety Commission. “We will do oversight,” she said, adding that she questioned some of the newest research linking gas stoves to asthma.
At least one Democrat joined the fray. “This is a recipe for disaster,” Senator Joe Manchin III, Democrat of West Virginia, [wrote on Twitter]('https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1612903995605147649?s=20&t=iNQ4NLAousGgon4Cn3ApCw') on Tuesday. “The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their dinner. I can tell you the last thing that would ever leave my house is the gas stove that we cook on.”
Mike Sommers, the president of the American Petroleum Institute, said a ban on gas stoves was “not going to happen.” He predicted a backlash from homeowners across the country. Gas stoves are used in about 35 percent of households nationwide, or about 40 million homes.
“People love their gas stoves,” Mr. Sommers said.
Researchers have increasingly documented significant indoor air pollution and negative health impacts from gas stoves.
A study published in December estimated that gas-burning stoves are responsible for [12.7 percent of childhood asthma]('https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/1/75') in the United States. Gas stoves emit nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide and fine particulate matter when they are turned on, sometimes at levels that exceed guidelines from the Environmental Protection Agency and the World Health Organization. They also release other harmful air pollutants that are known or suspected to cause cancer, and can even [leak those chemicals]('https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/20/climate/gas-stove-benzene-california.html') when they are turned off.
The debate over proposals to limit the use of gas in homes because of its impact on climate change and public health has grown since 2019, when Berkeley became the first city in the country to ban gas hookups in most new homes and buildings. Since then, [dozens of cities in California]('https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/16/climate/gas-stoves-climate-change.html') and across the country have enacted similar ordinances that target not just gas stoves, but other appliances like gas-fired furnaces and water heaters.
On Tuesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York proposed that the legislature phase out the sale of fossil fuel heating equipment in existing residential buildings beginning in 2030 and require new residential and commercial buildings be all-electric by 2025 and 2030, respectively.
When it comes to gas bans, Republicans have been the loudest critics and 20 Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed laws prohibiting such bans. But in most households in those red states cook with electric stoves, not gas, according to [a 2020 analysis]('https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=53439') from the Energy Information Administration. States with the highest percentage of households that use gas for cooking are controlled by Democrats and include California, Nevada, Illinois, New York and New Jersey, according to the analysis.
A stream of Republican lawmakers attacked Mr. Trumka and the Biden administration on Twitter for even contemplating restrictions on gas stoves. “Unelected bureaucrats should not have the type of power to even consider such an action,” [Representative Gary Palmer, Republican of Alabama, wrote]('https://twitter.com/USRepGaryPalmer/status/1612837533657825281?s=20'). “It is time to rein in the Biden administration and their continual desire to control American’s lives and decisions.”
On his Fox News television show, Tucker Carlson featured a restaurateur who spoke about how his costs would go up and productivity go down by using electric stoves. “This will destroy our industry,” the restaurant owner, Stratis Morfogen, said.
The new climate law passed by Congress last year includes $4.5 billion for states to provide rebates to consumers for the purchase of electric appliances, including stoves.
The safety commission has not initiated any proceedings to ban gas stoves and is “not looking to ban gas stoves,” the agency’s chairman, Alexander Hoehn-Saric, said in a statement on Wednesday morning. In the spring, the commission will begin to seek public comment on gas stove hazards and potential solutions for reducing risks.
“Research indicates that emissions from gas stoves can be hazardous, and the C.P.S.C. is looking for ways to reduce related indoor air quality hazards,” he added.
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Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley, suffered a "medical emergency" Yahoo Entertainment can confirm and is currently hospitalized. [TMZ]('https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/12/lisa-marie-presley-rushed-to-hospital-cardiac-arrest/'), which broke the news on Thursday, claims she went into full cardiac arrest. Lisa Marie allegedly regained a pulse at the scene after being worked on by EMTs before being rushed to the hospital. It's unclear what her condition is at this point.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/doctors-say-men-are-getting-more-vasectomies-amid-abortion-restrictions-nationwide-184026694.html[/URL]
[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/lisa-marie-presley-hospitalized-after-suffering-medical-emergency-212132856.html[/URL]
Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of singer and actor Elvis Presley, suffered a "medical emergency" Yahoo Entertainment can confirm and is currently hospitalized. [TMZ]('https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/12/lisa-marie-presley-rushed-to-hospital-cardiac-arrest/'), which broke the news on Thursday, claims she went into full cardiac arrest. Lisa Marie allegedly regained a pulse at the scene after being worked on by EMTs before being rushed to the hospital. It's unclear what her condition is at this point.
Was she vaxxed?
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Good inflation news via producer prices falling 0.5% in December.[/TD]
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[HEADING=2]Germany Allows Ukraine ‘Preparatory’ Training on Leopard Tanks[/HEADING]
(Bloomberg) -- Germany hasn’t made a decision to allow the sending of Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, but will allow other countries to train Ukrainian soldiers on the vehicles.
"Germany won’t stand in the way if other states act like us, especially with regard to the possible preparatory training on these tanks,” new defense minister, Boris Pistorius, said Friday after a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at the US airbase in Ramstein
The step to allow training doesn’t “pre-conclude” any possible decision on provision of the German-made tanks, Pistorius said. “But we are preparing ourselves for every possible case.”
At the same time, he stressed that a request by some countries to send Leopards to Ukraine wasn’t discussed at the Ramstein meeting.
Pistorius, sworn in as defense minister on Thursday after his precedessor resigned, also ordered a full evaluation of the number of Leopard tanks in the German army.
A decision about possibly sending main battle tanks to Ukraine could come within the next few days, he added.
I don't know if it's the Iron Cross on its turret or just the overall look of it - but that's one mean looking piece of armor.
We're paying migrants when they come here,
We're financing a war that's not ours,
Yet our infrastructure has reached the end of it's functioning life,
No money for nurses and teachers,
Etc, etc, etc
Anyone else think this is assinine?
What's the phrase, "charity starts at home"?
We're paying migrants when they come here,
We're financing a war that's not ours,
Yet our infrastructure has reached the end of it's functioning life,
No money for nurses and teachers,
Etc, etc, etc
Anyone else think this is assinine?
What's the phrase, "charity starts at home"?
the nurses strike was settled but they and teachers are underpaid
there is an infrastructure bill
We financed many wars of aggression including ww2 (before we were even in it)
migrants get a welcome to America care package if the reach the finish line after 2000 miles 8-) and one of millions of unfilled jobs
“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://nypost.com/2023/01/21/nyc-fire-sparked-by-lithium-ion-battery-kills-injures-10/[/URL]
[HEADING=2]Sen. Lindsey Graham said he's 'tired of the s*** show' and that the US and Germany should send tanks to Ukraine: 'World order is at stake'[/HEADING]
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[*]Sens. Lindsey Graham, Richard Blumenthal, and Sheldon Whitehouse were in Kyiv on Friday.
[*]After meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Graham urged the West to send tanks.
[*]"Putin is trying to rewrite the map of Europe by force of arms," Graham said.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham urged the US and Germany to send tanks to the Ukrainian military during a visit to Kyiv on Friday, as Western defense officials meeting in Germany failed to agree on sending the weapons.
The South Carolina Republican visited Ukraine along with Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. The three lawmakers, who have been supportive of sending additional aide to Ukraine, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
"All three of us, one Republican and two Democrats, share the same goal — for Ukraine to drive the Russians out of Ukraine. To achieve that goal, the Ukrainian military needs tanks," Graham said during a [press conference]('
') after the meeting and on [Twitter]('https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1616538165392670746?s=20&t=36z852dAWGZeQcWgZCOJew'). "I am tired of the shit show surrounding who is going to send tanks and when are they going to send them. Putin is trying to rewrite the map of Europe by force of arms. World order is at stake."[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.yahoo.com/news/sen-lindsey-graham-said-hes-022836275.html[/URL]
Whose in charge? Need a hint?
people are stupid...they even took animal de-wormer for covid...they need a med for STUPID
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