The RoanokeSlant

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Wonder no more why Roanoke has a high rate of center city youth crime, shootings and death.
Just browse through the attached article, photos and videos of the Roanoke parents who not only let their youngsters roam throughout Roanoke all night but then go to a city hall meeting and aggressively tell the council that that’s what they want and then wail and point fingers at others when their youngster is hurt or killed out on the street in the middle of the night.
Should not these youngsters be doing homework, studying, involved in family evening time, hobbies and then getting a good night’s sleep to be ready for school next day?
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Murphy Brown Back With Out-Of-Wedlock Babies
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/10/murphy-brown-back-with-out-of-wedlock.html
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Happy Father’s Day
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/06/happy-fathers-day-2021.html
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Roanoke Times:
More attend second Roanoke gun violence meeting, youth curfew unpopular
Expanding and focusing on enforcing Roanoke’s youth curfew were unpopular among those who spoke at Thursday evening’s meeting on youth safety at Patrick Henry High School.
https://roanoke.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/roanoke-city-council-gun-violence-youth-curfew/article_c1025e5a-cf56-11ed-bd0d-6f7dc4aa0eb5.html?utm_source=roanoke.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletter-templates%2Feedition&utm_medium=PostUp&lctg=5025058&tn_email_eh
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Roanoke Mayor Lea Lamenting Crime He Has Coddled
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/09/roanoke-mayor-lea-lamenting-crime-he.html
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Roanoke Crime Benign Neglect
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/03/roanoke-crime-benign-neglect.html
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Roanoke Times Excuses And Enables Roanoke Violence
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/05/roanoke-times-excuses-and-enables.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 2:51 PM

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Has America been reduced to a third-world banana-republic?
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Trump indicted over hush money; first former president in U.S. history to face criminal charges
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/30/donald-trump-indicted-new-york-grand-jury-reports/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=morning&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=morning&bt_ee=XVw%2BRqj0hADEk24%2BsYSGZRbuRI%2F0xLuDY78VtXWegZw
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A Manhattan grand jury on Thursday indicted former President Donald Trump on charges involving a hush money payment in 2016 to adult film actress Stormy Daniels, making Mr. Trump the first former president in history to face criminal charges.
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A spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a Democrat, said the prosecutor’s office “contacted Mr. Trump‘s attorney to coordinate his surrender to the Manhattan D.A.’s Office for arraignment on a Supreme Court indictment, which remains under seal.”
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Manhatten Law & Order?  Really!
Are they Not a Sancturay City for Criminal Felons and the likes of Hillary Clinton and Illegal Invading So Called Immigrants?
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Another major national issue generating disturbing conspiracy theories like:
Are the Democrat Party and their PravdaMedia trying to provoke an insurrection within the US so that they can invoke martial-law and use the military to totally dominate the American People and wipe-out all opposition to their socialistic-fascist ongoing revolution?
Clearly they have installed minions at the highest levels of the military leadership that are totally committed to them.
They have their goon-squads isolating the homes of the SCOTUS.
They have their political hacks in control of congress.
They have fellow-travelers in control of the governments of all the major cities.
Why would anyone be concerned about how all this relates to the security of the nation and our fragile democracy?
Have we been in such internal stress since the ‘War Between The States’?
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Just because Norway had its Quisling, who took over his country in a week, doesn’t mean that could happen here! Does it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidkun_Quisling
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Obama-DOJ-Persecutors: First Va.R.Gov McDonnell Then Trump
It is now clear that what Trump calls ‘the collusion witch-hunt” is a well developed and executed plan duplicating what Obama did to Va. Gov. Bob McDonnell to destroy him thereby inflicting major damage to the Va. RPV, resulting in getting Hillary’s bag-boy McAuliffe elected.
It worked – and the subsequent vindication of McDonnell and the chastising of Obama’s-DOJ-Persecutors by the SCOTUS was inconsequential.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/05/obama-doj-persecutors-first-mcdonnell.html
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Obama Spies In The Trump Campaign – The Real Collusion
It’s now abundantly clear that the Obama Organization including the top leaders of DOJ and FBI were so motivated to stop Trump and elect Hillary that they exonerated Hillary’s felony crimes of exposing Top Secret National Security Materials and they mounted an illegal assault upon Trump’s Campaign by weaponizing the DOJ and FBI and FISA Secret Court.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/05/obama-spies-in-trump-campaign-real.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/06/lapdog-issues-doj-fbi-ig-report.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/08/chickens-coming-to-roost-for-obama.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 12:47 PM

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Police chief: Nashville shooter decided against attacking another school due to ‘too much security’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/28/police-chief-nashville-shooter-decided-against-att/
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Yet again a deranged person has inflicted unimaginable destruction by shooting and killing three young school children and three adults in a Christian School in Nashville.
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Unfortunately political agendas have immediately flourished even before all the family members have had an opportunity to begin the grieving process.
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Sadly, Biden immediately launched into his rote gun-control statements.
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Members of Gender-politics launched into statements focused on the shooter’s he-she status and the implications of this attack in a Christian setting.
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Police indicate there was evidence that the shooter had looked at other targets he-she deemed too protected and chose this venue from that view and not a religious view; although we’ll never really understand his-her warped and demented and violent mind.
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It’s of interest that calls for this to be investigated as a ‘hate crime’ have been rejected.
Not clear how handled if roles were reversed and the victims were transgender persons.
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The Child Sex-Mutilation Tipping Point
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-child-sex-mutilation-tipping-point.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:48 AM

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RACE-BAITING definition | Cambridge English Dictionary
the act of intentionally encouraging racism or anger about issues relating to race, often to get a political advantage:
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Proposed costs of reparations keep rising, with doubts about legality of race-based payments
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/29/proposed-costs-reparations-keep-rising-doubts-abou/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=morning&utm_term=newsletter&utm_content=morning&bt_ee=SBQZi7Qv8NVTGBsj%2FemFb2X2E03VxkS8Zq3VqBu%2BNPJf
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A California task force is on track to recommend a reparations package worth as much as $800 billion to compensate Black residents, but whether such a payout would pass judicial muster is another question.
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It doesn’t matter if writing these checks is constitutional or right or reasonable or valid or justified. What matters is to keep race and slavery and inequality on the PravdaMedia’s front page and TV news every day.
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MLK Day 2022
Unfortunately, instead of focusing on MLK’s message of hope and unity and peace there are many people morphing his legacy into a campaign of negativity and political and racial division.
(p. 118, My Larger Education BTW 1911) - See more at:
http://americanvision.org/5276/booker-t-washington-on-black-victimhood.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/01/mlk-day-2022.html
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Have Reparations Become Ransom?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/06/have-reparations-become-ransom.html
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Ex-NBA star Charles Barkley rips politicians for creating racial division
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/04/barkley-on-racebaiting.html
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The Slavery Crisis Explodes At NYT
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/08/the-slavery-crisis-explodes-at-nyt.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:48 AM

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Perhaps WVa.D.Sen Manchin has some Native American DNA because he certainly has been deceived by the old Washington DC axiom:
Sign this because we swear it will be valid for:
“as long as the sun will shine and as long as the rivers will flow”.
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WSJ: Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Betrayal ........ By Joe Manchin D.Sen.WVa:
Instead of implementing the law as intended, his administration subverts it for ideological ends.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-inflation-reduction-act-betrayal-joe-manchin-debt-ceiling-budget-fossil-fuels-green-energy-dc37738e
America is fast approaching another needless emergency—the raising of the national debt ceiling. This impending crisis isn’t an accident but a result of the inaction of various actors who refuse to confront fiscal reality, sit down, negotiate and make hard decisions for the sake of our nation’s future. While all parties have a responsibility to negotiate in good faith, recent actions make clear to me that the Biden administration is determined to pursue an ideological agenda rather than confront the clear and present danger that debts and deficits pose to our nation.
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Our national debt stands at nearly $31.5 trillion, or close to $95,000 for every man, woman and child, and represents 120% of our gross domestic product.
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When President Biden and I spoke before Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act last summer, we agreed that the bill was designed to pay down our national debt and shore up America’s energy security. It was designed to generate $738 billion in new revenue, with more than $238 billion dedicated to debt reduction, the first serious piece of legislation in more than two decades that the Congressional Budget Office estimated would have done that.
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:47 AM

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How’s Biden-Energy Working Out For You?
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The current state of our domestic energy market under the Biden administration.
Here are the stats:
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Home heating oil prices have increased by 88 percent
Oil prices are up 61 percent
Natural gas prices have increased 51 percent
Industrial electricity prices have risen by 34 percent
The price of gasoline has skyrocketed by $1.15 per gallon, or 46 percent
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https://heartland.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Biden-Energy-Policies.pdf?vgo_ee=uU9by9E9yZrHYHMlDKTluK43d9acSyO1VINb%2FvQsREpO%3AOr8CGyb2AQbUoNg4uhsATU5fUy9yUug9
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And yet half of the country says Biden is doing an OK job!
What are they thinking? Are they thinking?
For sure they will be voting for 4-more years!
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Insanity: doing the same things over and over while expecting a different outcome!
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 11:47 AM

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WSJ: When Big Business Married Big Government
From banking and chips to broadband and pharma, Biden has ushered in a new era of corporate dependency on D.C.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-big-business-married-big-government-biden-handouts-subsidies-chips-banking-svb-bailout-social-policy-59096477
When liberals look back on the Biden presidency, they may hail its greatest accomplishment as ushering in a new era of corporate government dependency. Without fail, and no matter the industry, the administration has hooked businesses on Washington handouts while attaching conditions that put taxpayers and consumers on the hook for leftist policy preferences.
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At his retirement, Pres Gen Dwight Eisenhower warned the country about the emerging military-industrial-complex and the need to ensure that massively-powerful entity did Not jeopardize our Democracy.
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/president-dwight-d-eisenhowers-farewell-address
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The Democrat Party has now extended that dependency entity further to develop the:
BigBusiness—BigGovernment complex as a subservient extension of The Party.
It’s the Golden Rule – He who has the Gold Rules!
And to think that the Democrats are constantly espousing the allegation that it’s the Republicans that are a threat to our Democracy – Really?
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Biden’s administration has been flooded with government intervention into businesses accelerated and enabled by the Covid pandemic and now extended by the latest banking fiasco and further massively expanded by the renewable energy and EV-auto jihad.
The Biden BigBusiness-BigGovernment collective is Not new – it’s been done before in Italy and was called Fascism.
(Fascism is a system of government led by a dictator who typically rules by forcefully suppressing opposition and criticism, controlling all industry and commerce)
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The risk-reward of investing in a business is the most fundamental aspect of our economic capitalist system, which is not perfect; just better than any other system ever devised by man.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/12/roanoke-times-marginalizing-those.html
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Weak spined so called businesspeople who prefer the ‘safe teat of fascism’ to the challenges of capitalism are selling out their companies and our country – a pox be on their houses.
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Obama’s ‘Organizing for Action’ – Mission Accomplished
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/01/obamas-organizing-for-action-mission.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 2:56 PM

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Of all the really bad things that Democrats do when in power it’s to weaponize federal government agencies to go after Americans!
Sending DOJ after parents complaining about school system malfeasance.
Biden-DOJ-FBI Attacks Parents
17 state attorneys general write to Biden and DOJ to rebuke their actions against parents
https://thepostmillennial.com/seventeen-state-attorneys-general-write-to-biden-and-doj-to-rebuke-their-actions-against-parents?utm_campaign=64487
"Your recent action seeks to chill lawful dissent by parents voiced during local school board meetings by characterizing them as unlawful and threatening."
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/10/roanoke-times-parenting-advise-really.html
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Biden’s IRS going after whistle-blowers testifying before congress about malfeasance in the Twitter-government collusion in shutting-down free speech.
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The IRS Makes a Strange House Call on Matt Taibbi
An agent shows up at the home of the Twitter files journalist who testified before Congress.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-matt-taibbi-twitter-files-jim-jordan-daniel-werfel-lina-khan-84ee518?mod=hp_opin_pos_6
Mr. Taibbi has told Mr. Jordan’s committee that an IRS agent showed up at his personal residence in New Jersey on March 9. That happens to be the same day Mr. Taibbi testified before the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he learned about Twitter.
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WSJ Opinion: Matt Taibbi's 'Twitter Files' Testimony
On March 9, 2023, journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger testified before a congressional hearing on the growth of 'a censorship-industrial complex' that violates the right to free speech.
https://www.wsj.com/video/wsj-opinion-matt-taibbi-twitter-files-testimony/CECB5252-9F58-40E2-AD77-281669275C5E.html
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Biden’s Sixteen IRS Infantry Divisions for what?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/08/bidens-sixteen-irs-infantry-divisions.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/08/biden-democrats-give-irs-eight-more.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/08/lois-lerner-your-nasty-foul-mouthed-irs.html
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ObamaCare’s IRS: More Coercion and Intimidation of Citizens
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/01/obamas-irs-more-coercion-and.html
Obama Uses IRS To Harass Political Enemies
Roanoke Times, 5-11-2013, Pg 4: IRS admits it targeted conservative groups.
Lerner, the IRS mouthpiece said: it was incorrect and insensitive and inappropriate. “Really!” – how about criminal!
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 2:56 PM

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‘Unreliable’: Wind power ‘fails on every count,’ Oxford scientist says
https://www.worldtribune.com/unreliable-wind-power-fails-on-every-count-oxford-scientist-says/?utm_source=PMI&utm_medium=deployer&utm_content=&utm_campaign=66262&utm_term=
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Oxford University mathematician and physicist, researcher at CERN and Fellow of Keble College, Emeritus Professor Wade Allison said the United Kingdom is looking at a “disaster in the making” via its over-reliance on wind power.
“Wind power fails on every count,”Allison says, adding that governments are ignoring “overwhelming evidence” of the inadequacies of wind power “and resorting to bluster rather than reasoned analysis.”
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Nationalizing The US Electrical Grid
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/03/nationalizing-us-electrical-grid.html
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War On Current Energy OnGoing
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/03/war-on-current-energy-ongoing.html
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Wind Turbine Media MisInformation
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/03/wind-turbine-media-misinformation.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 2:56 PM

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Good news for children who are the target of malfeasant people who are out to mutilate their physical and emotional birth-given sexual identity.
Across the country states are passing laws making clear that it is a crime to sexually alter a child under 18. It’s unfathomable that ‘new laws’ are required to address this issue – apparently a reflection of the sickness afflicting our society!
Biden's Child Sex-Mutilation Stance Sick
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/03/bidens-child-sex-mutilation-stance-sick.html
What happened to the ‘Hippocratic Oath --- Do No Harm’?
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As Arkansas bans ‘treatments’ for transgender youth, 15 other states consider similar bills
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/08/states-consider-bills-medical-treatments-transgender-youth/7129101002/
Bill 1570, which limits access certain ‘treatments’ for youth younger than 18 years old. The new law prohibits doctors from providing gender confirming hormone therapy, puberty blockers or gender-confirmation surgeries or from referring patients to other health care providers.
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Biden Promoting The Sexual Mutilation Of American Children
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/11/biden-promoting-sexual-mutilation-of.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/04/obama-biden-child-mutilation-mandate.html
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Iowa Lawmakers Pass Transgender ‘Bathroom Bill’
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/madelineleesman/2023/03/17/iowa-bathroom-bill-n2620836
Iowa’s Senate File 482 would require individuals to only use school restrooms and changing facilities that align with their biological sex.
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/03/ongoing-war-on-natural-female-athletes.html
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https://www.aol.com/news/wyoming-bans-transgender-youth-girls-162434600.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 9:44 AM

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The California no-rain climate change has changed! What’s Up With That?
Gavin Newsome apparently got Tanya Tucker to employ the ‘Rain Man’ to solve the ‘current drought’.
Tanya Tucker-Lizzie And The Rain Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIlEFK0KZ6s
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Unfortunately Steinbeck isn’t here to write a sequel to his ‘Grapes of Wrath’ for the latest climate change drought.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/10/todays-grapes-of-wrath_19.html
Perhaps Mother Nature just wanted us to recognize that ‘weather’ is very variable and that climate change takes time like the InterGlacial Period we are experiencing.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/are-we-living-responsibly-in-our.html
Unfortunately today, as in ‘Lizzie’s Rain Man’, the world is full of charlatans anxious to sell you a ‘rain-dance’.
Perhaps a pole-dance is a better investment.
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Record snowpack, nearly full reservoirs: Here’s the state of California’s drought after an epic winter
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/23/us/atmospheric-river-winter-california-drought-climate/index.html
Snowpack, which serves as a natural reservoir that eases the drought, has largely reached an all-time record high. The state’s largest reservoirs, which were recently at critically low levels, have been replenished and are way past its historical averages.
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Amazing NOAA Global Warming Climate Change AGW Announcement 2014
Causes of Calif. drought natural, not man-made: NOAA
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/12/amazing-noaa-global-warming-climate.html
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AGW Global Warming Complicated
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/03/agw-global-warming-complicated.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/02/lizzie-and-obama-rainman.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 9:44 AM

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1. The Post Office
Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, FedEx, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills.

2. The Check
Britain has already done away with checks as of 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.

3. The Newspaper
The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.

4. The Book
You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.

5. The Land Line Telephone
Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes.

6. Music
This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalogue items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies.”

7. Television Revenues
To the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing and commercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it. It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.

8. The "Things" That You Own
Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert.

9 Joined Handwriting (Cursive Writing)
Already gone in some schools who no longer teach "joined handwriting" because nearly everything is done now on computers or keyboards of some type (pun not intended).

10. Privacy
If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway.. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits.. "They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again and again.
All we will have left that which can't be changed.....are our "Memories".
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Sad Reality
Logic is dead.
Excellence is punished.
Mediocrity is rewarded.
And dependency is to be revered.
This is present day America.
When people rob banks they go to prison.
When they rob the taxpayer they get re-elected!
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 9:44 AM

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posted by Lars Hagen  # 7:24 AM

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Government is driving EVs down consumer’s throats and consumers are moving down the ramp like ‘the silence of the lambs’.
Something about the replacement of a market driven economy with a dictatorial government economy --- worked in 1918 in Russia.
Believe – just look how well government is running our economy and schools and cities --- what could possibly go wrong?
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WSJ: Why Ford Can Afford to Lose Billions on EVs
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ford-electric-vehicles-subsidies-fossil-fuels-5d13079?mod=hp_opin_pos_4#cxrecs_s
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Ford Motor Co., which fell on the news that it will lose $3 billion this year on its electric-vehicle business. This is worth noting even if you’re not a Ford shareholder because U.S. taxpayers could end up paying more if the company can’t turn its green business around.

Ford attributes the losses to the growing pains of what is says is a start-up business in the venerable company. The auto maker said it still expects to earn between $9 billion and $11 billion in operating profit this year, though that’s owing to the sales of its traditional gas-powered vehicles. Its gas-guzzling F-Series pickup trucks are especially popular and profitable. Fossil fuels are essentially underwriting Ford’s green business, much as they do in the electric-power industry.

Ford said it will keep investing in EVs and expects to reach an operating-profit margin of 8% by the end of 2026. That will require dramatic changes in consumer tastes as well as whatever efficiencies Ford can engineer in its production process.

Ford can sustain losses on EVs in part because it is benefiting, directly or indirectly, from subsidies up and down the EV supply, production and service chain: battery production, sales to consumers, charging stations and more.
The entire point of last year’s Inflation Reduction Act is to make EV production too big to fail. If consumers don’t want to buy EVs, for whatever reason, the government will keep subsidizing or mandating EVs until they do.
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The EV Revolution
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-ev-revolution.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 2:50 PM

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posted by Lars Hagen  # 2:49 PM

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This university incident clearly demonstrates why our legal system has become a political swamp devoid of judicial ethics and decorum and respect for our free speech heritage ---- and these are our future lawyers and judges!
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Stanford DEI dean on leave after interrupting and confronting federal judge during campus event
https://www.foxnews.com/media/standford-dei-dean-on-leave-interrupting-confronting-federal-judge-campus-event
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The associate dean of diversity, equity and inclusion at Stanford Law School is on leave after she was seen on video not doing anything to stop protesters from shouting down a Trump-appointed federal judge who was invited to give a talk at the school.
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WSJ: Stanford Law Rediscovers Free Speech
The dean instructs student hecklers on the First Amendment.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/stanford-law-dean-jenny-martinez-letter-tirien-steinbach-kyle-duncan-free-speech-51c36461
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Stanford Law School disgraced itself two weeks ago when its diversity administrator let students heckle and shout down federal Judge Kyle Duncan. The school is now trying to salvage its reputation, and it’s making some progress.
In a letter to the university community on Wednesday, Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez issued a defense of free speech on campus and laid out the school’s expectations for civil discourse and legal professionalism.
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 2:49 PM

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It is an ongoing puzzle how politicians enter office with very modest wealth but leave as oligarchs and multi-millionaires while earning modest salaries and living in a very ‘high rent’ neighborhood.
We were all impressed how well school-teacher LBJ did but now the Biden’s have far surpassed him.
Current money revelations are but the tip of the golden-DC-iceberg. With a new Republican Congress the subpoenas will flow and turn into light-beams but with a Democrat-DOJ & IRS there will be No comeuppance, only angst and talk.
Certainly not a topic of note in the Major PravdaMedia – something about a tree falling!
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Hunter, Hallie, James Biden land $1M after Chinese wire payments, House panel reveals
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/mar/16/house-committee-exposes-china-linked-payments-hunt/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=subscriber&utm_campaign=evening&utm_term=evening&utm_content=evening&bt_ee=ojlkBcktOPu2igeCMx6d75ATF0j%2Bu0gX4DaL4xWs8B8mwriZV
President Biden’s daughter-in-law Hallie Biden was among several family members who pocketed payouts after a Hunter Biden associate received a $3 million wire payment from a Chinese energy company, a House committee revealed Thursday.
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Biden family members received more than $1 million in payments over a three-month period after the Chinese wire transfer cleared, according to a memo detailing the payments issued by the House Oversight and Accountability Committee.
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Several payments were also sent to companies associated with Mr. Biden’s brother James Biden and son Hunter Biden in addition to Hallie Biden. An unknown account identified only as “Biden” also received transfers from the company owned by Hunter Biden associate Rob Walker in the months after the $3 million wire cleared in 2017.
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Biden SecretDocs ChinaMoney UPenn
$54M in Chinese gifts donated to UPenn, home of Biden Center
https://nypost.com/2022/04/09/54m-in-chinese-gifts-donated-to-upenn-home-of-biden-center/
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-big-mess-biden-secretdocs.html
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Obama Trying To Bury Biden-Ukraine Malfeasance Probe
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/05/obama-trying-to-bury-biden-ukraine.html
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Joe Biden Brags He Coerced Ukraine With One-Billion Dollars
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/09/joe-biden-brags-he-coerced-ukraine-with.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 5:51 PM

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Clearly the Biden Border debacle is on-purpose and not through some loss of cognitive ability or mistake.
Upon taking office, Biden immediately counter-manned the Trump programs that had reduced the southern border illegal immigration to a manageable level, including building an effective border wall, albeit not completed.
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The Democrat Party and their PravdaMedia are in total support and are ensuring maximum flow of illegal immigration continues.
It appears changes are coming as the 2024 election preparation begins.
Biden has started to make changes to his messaging and modest changes to the process. But there is No indication he will share the Globalization-Motivation for opening the US borders to Millions of illegal people who are making ‘every US town a border town’.
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Roanoke Times Commentary:
Biden’s failed immigration policies have made every town a border town
https://roanoke.com/opinion/commentary/commentary-biden-s-failed-immigration-policies-have-made-every-town-a-border-town/article_988d3c5a-c377-11ed-9991-fb165abb5a67.html
Ben Cline R. represents Virginia's 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House
I recently spent three days visiting the U.S.-Mexico border near Yuma, Arizona, with members of the House Judiciary Committee.
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Having visited the Southern border on two previous occasions, I saw and heard firsthand accounts of the disastrous impact that President Joe Biden’s border policy is having on our law enforcement, Border Patrol, and entire communities in Arizona and throughout the country.
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The Biden administration’s failure to confront or even acknowledge the record levels of illegal immigration have turned every town into a border town.
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Virginia and the 6th Congressional District are not immune to the impact of this inaction and have seen a sharp rise in deadly overdoses from fentanyl, an increase in human trafficking, and a strain on goods and services provided to residents.
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All Of A Sudden Border Better? Really?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/02/all-of-sudden-border-better-really.html
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The Biden Border Boondoggle
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-biden-border-boondoggle.html
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More Biden Open Border Boondoggle
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/03/biden-open-border-boondoggle.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 5:51 PM

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Electric companies started out as local entities and some remain as such.
Some were private companies and some were-are public companies.
Some were swept-up into state entities, some into regional entities.
Most have established physical and management cooperatives intended for power and disaster recovery and backup.
The federal government has exercised significant dominion over the Grid but has not yet “taken over” total operational, management and financial control.
The federal government has deemed itself so competent and accomplished that they have initiated a movement to nationalize the US Grid.
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Grid units have traditionally maintained adequate power generation and back-up capabilities to account for ‘typical emergency situations’, ie: local storms and accidents.
In the event of major disruptions ie: hurricanes, tornadoes, sabotage and power plant outages local units have depended on adjacent regional units to prove back-up and assistance. In most cases, the failures are from power-line distributions and not from the generating stations.
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New News: The government move to so called renewables, solar and wind, while shutting down fossil-fuel and nuclear and some hydro units without maintaining major back-up capabilities, is resulting in the proposal for a smart, flexible, robust national grid that can move power across long distances to balance and back-up local needs.

• Doubters to this approach point out:
• The large power losses in moving massive electric energy over long distances (something about I-squared*R).
• Physical grids may need major upgrades to accomplish desired outcomes.
• The vulnerability of the expanded physical grids to go down for the same issues that are causing the local or regional power outages.
• Very complex command & control algorithms are required to make the decisions to move power from those who have excess solar and wind energy to those in need.
• Computer compromises-hacking and civil and military conflict could seriously emasculate the ‘Interconnected National Grid’.
• Is anyone concerned about the cost for all this?

All this somewhat akin to the current international and national awareness of the issues with Economic Globalism and the major efforts now underway to expeditiously get back to Nationalism and Regionalism.
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As we go forward with the renewable energy initiatives it would behoove us to ensure we have 100% available backup 24-7-365 for our people, government, businesses and military.
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Where will those who are making these decisions today, be tomorrow when the lights dim?  Old country song:
'for you the lights are brightly shining, for me the lights are growing dim'
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 5:51 PM

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The War on Affordable Energy Continues
https://townhall.com/columnists/briangarst/2023/03/15/the-war-on-affordable-energy-continues-n2620608
The Biden Administration’s war on American energy commenced on his first day in office when the president issued seven Executive Orders limiting oil exploration, imposing massive new costly regulations on the energy industry, and rescinding support for the Keystone Pipeline. Americans are feeling the impact of these policies through astronomical prices for electricity and natural gas.
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Under White House policy, the government is putting its fingers on the scales to boost solar and wind power while building every impediment possible to other energy sources.
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In 2022, consumers paid nearly 15% more for their electricity than they did the year prior.
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This war on fossil-fuels is The Major contributor to our run-away inflation and the resultant massive increases in interest rates that now are the major contributors to the failure of two major US banks.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/03/biden-bailing-out-banks-he-broke.html
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2023 Winter Exposes The Energy-Climate Deception
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/03/2023-winter-exposes-energy-climate.html
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Biden OK’s Alaska Oil -- But Not Really!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/03/biden-oks-alaska-oil-but-not-really.html
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Energy: Where’s The Reliability And Affordability?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/03/energy-wheres-reliability-and.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 5:50 PM

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Joe Biden says restricting transgender rights is 'sinful'
https://www.aol.com/entertainment/joe-biden-says-restricting-transgender-154311682.html
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Restricting 'TransGender Rights' Sinful? --- Really?
"Gender-Affirming medical care” – talk about 1984-DoubleSpeak!
Adults can make decisions about their gender and self-mutilation.
Children have no right or basis to make such decisions.
Adults have no right or basis to make such decisions for children.
Promoting child sex mutilation is Not a Right! And it is Sinful!
Castrating little boys and doing double-mastectomies on little healthy girls is an abomination and a crime against humanity.
It’s the kind of thing done by SS physician Josef Mengele in the concentration camps and was declared war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Nierenberg Tribunal.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/josef-mengele
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Where are the ‘Holy Godly’ churches?
Where are the ‘do no harm’ physicians?
Where is Betty Friedan and the NOW girls?
Where are the ‘law enforcement’ protect & defend officers?
Where are the ‘child protection’ social services officers?
Where are the guardians of our judicial system?
Have they all been silenced by the ‘Woke Salem Witch Hunters’?
Is there no one left to speak for these children?
Whatever happened to “suffer the little children Not”?
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There’s a special place in hell for those who are performing these acts upon children and those who are fostering and enabling these crimes against children.
Those standing by and watching will be challenged too.
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Encouraging news:
Lawmakers in more than two dozen states are weighing legislation that aims to restrict or ban access to “gender-affirming” medical care for transgender youth, prompting legal challenges from LGBTQ rights groups that allege the bills are discriminatory.
(How can this possibly require new legislation?)
(Why aren't all 50 states enacting child protection laws?)
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Biden’s Fixation On Children’s Sex Changes
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/05/bidens-fixation-on-childrens-sex-changes.html
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Biden’s US TaxPayer Funded Child Sex Mutilation
How could sex mutilation of children who have not reached the age of puberty or consent be ‘legally’ conducted in the United States in 2022?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/bidens-us-taxpayer-funded-child-sex.html
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Obama’s Legacy Of Sexual Mutilation Of Juveniles
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/02/obamas-legacy-of-sexual-mutilation-of.html
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posted by Lars Hagen  # 9:35 AM