The RoanokeSlant

This file is a US personal journal of commentary of examples of the Roanoke Times and Liberal Media Slant...... lbhagen@aol.com

Friday, January 31, 2025

 

Media’s Selective Nazism

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The PravdaMedia have and are trying to diminish and tarnish Musk at every twisted opportunity.

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Their latest disgusting malignment is labeling Musk a Nazi based on a photo of him pointing his hand/arm out at an object.
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It’s of interest that others, like Hillary and Kamala, were not held up to scorn for their “pointing's”!
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How did the US media loose it’s way from fair and balanced and American?
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Darn That Global Warming In Roanoke

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Thursday, January 30, 2025

 

Passenger Plane Crashes With Military Helicopter Over DC

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Prayers and Condolences go out to all those lost and their loved ones.
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Plane collision near Washington, DC
What we know about the passenger plane collision near Washington, DC | CNN
Officials believe there are no survivors after a passenger plane on approach to Reagan National Airport near Washington, DC, collided Wednesday night with a US Army helicopter midair, sending both aircraft into the Potomac River below, a DC fire official said.
First responders have recovered 27 bodies from the plane and one from the helicopter, Fire and EMS Chief John A. Donnelly said at a news conference Thursday morning. There were 64 people on board the plane and the three soldiers in the Army helicopter, according to DC Mayor Muriel Bowser.
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Trump did not wait for the Democrats and their Pravda-Media to blame his 10-days in office for the crash --- instead ---- Trump pointed an accusing finger at Biden-Buttigieg for dummying-down FAA hiring criteria with egregious DEI-criteria that he read verbatim at the podium from the FAA regulations.
Criteria so shocking that it’s difficult to imagine that anyone hired under those criteria are actually in any control tower in the country!

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Trump blasts DEI in wake of DC plane crash | FOX 5 DC
President Donald Trump said – admittedly without evidence – that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are to blame for the horrific crash between an American Airlines jet and an Army helicopter that killed 67 -people.
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Trump, speaking at a news conference Thursday, began by expressing his condolences to the people who lost their lives, but quickly transitioned to a more combative tone and bashed the Biden administration’s diversity efforts at the FAA.
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Trump took ample time during the press conference to bash the Biden administration, including former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. Trump said Buttigieg concluded that the FAA’s workforce was "too white," and that his diversity efforts "run it right into the ground," even using profanity at one point to describe the former transportation secretary.
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Wednesday, January 29, 2025

 

DeepSeek: David And Goliaths

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A Chinese Scientist-Programmer developed DeepSeek AI Program that performs the AI functions of Nvidia at a small fraction of the cost and complexity!
This reality has sent a shock wave through the AI technical community and an earthquake through the dozen AI stock market entities!

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Reminiscent of the IBM PC impacted by 'little-Apple' in 1984:
Apple's ‘1984 Superbowl Ad’ (only 41-years ago) publically focusing on IBM!
Click to View the Video (sound on):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R706isyDrqI
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How China’s DeepSeek Outsmarted America
AI startup developed a top system by relying on inexperienced engineers and a loophole in U.S. export controls
How China’s DeepSeek Outsmarted America - WSJ
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Conventional thinking held that developing leading AI required loads of expensive, cutting-edge computer chips—and that Chinese companies would have trouble competing because they couldn’t get those chips. DeepSeek defied those predictions with a resourcefulness that led to a $1 trillion bloodbath on Wall Street and is spurring Silicon Valley to rethink its approach.
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DeepSeek’s Rise Exposes Nvidia’s Weakness
A new Chinese AI model threatens to diminish the need for Nvidia’s most-expensive chips
DeepSeek’s Rise Exposes Nvidia’s Weakness - WSJ
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DeepSeek Scrambles U.S.-China Tech War
The U.S. tried to slow China’s tech advances, but DeepSeek showed how hard that is
DeepSeek Scrambles U.S.-China Tech War - WSJ
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AI On The Bleeding Edge
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/01/ai-on-bleeding-edge.html
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Monday, January 27, 2025

 

AI On The Bleeding Edge

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China’s DeepSeek has sparked a deep freakout.
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WSJ: Stock Market Today: Nvidia Stock Sinks on China DeepSeek AI Threat — Live Updates
The Chinese artificial-intelligence upstart has trained high-performing artificial intelligence models cheaply—and without the most advanced gear provided by Nvidia and others. That has pulled the rug from under global companies riding the AI wave, including chip makers, infrastructure suppliers and power stocks, as investors question the outlook for AI spending.
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Nvidia fell 15%, wiping out more than $400 billion in market value and weighing on the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite
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How to win without an economic war of attrition!
China’s DeepSeek Reflection Of First A-bombs!
Drop 2 bombs -- demand surrender!
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Saturday, January 25, 2025

 

RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP

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Given our 1st and 14th Amendments to the Constitution, it seems strange that a Presidential proclamation would be necessary to restate those amendments in 2025.
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Clearly the abuse of freedom of speech occured during the trauma of the Covid Pandemic. Propagated by the media and apparently instigated by the ‘public health system’.
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It’s also clear that the 51 Heads of our Intelligence Agencies were not truthful in slandering Trump during his run for reelection.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/01/no-clearance-no-consulting-jobs.html
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It’s sad that our senior security officers and our media, that is supposed to be committed to fair, balanced and honest reporting, needs to be reminded of their responsibilities.
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Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship – The White House
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Presidential Actions
RESTORING FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND ENDING FEDERAL CENSORSHIP
EXECUTIVE ORDER January 20, 2025
Section 1. Purpose. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution, an amendment essential to the success of our Republic, enshrines the right of the American people to speak freely in the public square without Government interference. Over the last 4 years, the previous administration trampled free speech rights by censoring Americans’ speech on online platforms, often by exerting substantial coercive pressure on third parties, such as social media companies, to moderate, deplatform, or otherwise suppress speech that the Federal Government did not approve. Under the guise of combatting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation,” the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate. Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society.
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Sec. 2. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to:
(a) secure the right of the American people to engage in constitutionally protected speech;
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Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship – The White House
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Birthright Citizenship Not For Illegal’s

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The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States.
The Fourteenth Amendment has always excluded from birthright citizenship persons who were born in the United States but not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.”
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Protecting The Meaning And Value Of American Citizenship – The White House
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Trump Administration view:
To be ‘birthright’ citizens, one must be born to a “Legally Resident Person” Not to an ‘Illegal Alien’.
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Up to 250,000 children born to illegal migrants in 2023: preliminary report | Fox News
which accounts for about 7% of total births in the U.S. that year.

Furthermore, it appears that more children were born to illegal immigrant parents than to legal noncitizens.
Although not yet available, the group says that the 2024 numbers are likely to be even higher given the surge of illegal immigrants into the country under the Biden administration.
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Obama Removes The Allegiance Commitment From Citizenship Oath
(so much for the "I pledge allegiance to the United States!)
Reflect on Teddy Roosevelt's definition of what it means for an immigrant to become an American!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/07/obama-removes-allegiance-commitment.html
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El Paso Border Is Not Ellis Island
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/06/el-paso-border-is-not-ellis-island.html
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The Open-Borders, Sanctuary, Anti-ICE Democrats Won
(but they didn’t win the 2024 election!)
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/07/the-open-borders-sanctuary-anti-ice.html
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Ocean Rise And The Ceiling

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Norway’s Incredible Ship Tunnel Plan Is Back On Track
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Norway's ambitious Stad Ship Tunnel will provide cargo and passenger vessels with a safe and efficient route through one of the most challenging stretches of the Norwegian coastline.
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The Stad peninsula projects into the Norwegian Sea, creating treacherous conditions for maritime traffic due to its relentless weather and unpredictable currents. Norway's innovative response? Carve a mile-long tunnel directly through the peninsula.
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It’s interesting that Norway has such a bipolar view of climate and ocean rise.
Norway is a Major developer of oil and natural gas while priding herself in renewable energy utilization while hawking the Gore-line.
Apparently Norwegian oil and gas doesn't result in CO2.
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A key decision for this Stad ship tunnel will be: ‘how high to make the tunnel ceiling for ship clearance’!
Given the focus on sea-level rise due to CO2 global warming:  How high before the ship-tunnel is unusable?
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The Danish-Swedish tunnel has similar limits and based on its design it's sea-level-life may be very short -- or maybe not!
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The Swedish-Danish Tunnel
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/11/good-news-bad-news-is-wrong.html
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Wednesday, January 22, 2025

 

Liberal Ministers Still Peddling Left-Wing Politics

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Politicizing ‘the pulpit’ is inappropriate no matter who does it!
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Abraham Lincoln was asked (ostensibly by a Democrat reporter)
“If God was on our side”?
He Replied: “The question is Not If God is on our side –the question is:
Are We On God’s Side?”
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Pastors, conservatives unleash on Episcopal bishop for 'weaponizing' the pulpit against Trump
'Desperate': Pastors, conservatives lambaste Episcopal bishop for 'weaponizing' the pulpit against Trump | Fox News
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The Washington, D.C., pastor who delivered a liberal sermon during a church service attended by President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance is facing fierce backlash from fellow pastors, as well as critics on social media for "weaponizing" the pulpit instead of promoting unity.
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"Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde is the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. She's the first woman to hold the position. She was given a great honor today, a chance to unify America around a Christian message at the dawn of a new administration. Instead, she disgraced herself with a lecture you'd hear on CNN or an episode of The View. What an embarrassment," Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk posted to X.
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Duke Religious Expert Finds Faith In Decline And It’s the Conservative’s Fault -. 2011
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/10/duke-religious-expert-finds-faith-in.html
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During the 1970’s the left-wing elements of the Christian Church, spearheaded by New York’s Riverside Church, alienated scores of parishioners by the tone, tenor, content and intensity of their anti-war crusade. This clearly alienated very large numbers of veterans of WW2, Korea, Vietnam and their families, friends and associates, including myself who up to that time had been a faithful member, Deacon and Elder.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

 

No Clearance No Consulting Jobs

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Trump revokes security clearances of 51 intel officials who signed discredited Hunter Biden laptop letter
The officials include former director of National Intelligence James Clapper and former National Security Advisor John Bolton
Trump revokes security clearances of 51 intel officials who signed discredited Hunter Biden laptop letter | Fox News
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President Donald Trump pulled the security clearances of more than 50 national security officials who said Hunter Biden’s laptop had "all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation."
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A total of 51 former national security officials released a public letter in 2020 claiming that even though the laptop did not have "any evidence of Russian involvement," it looked like a "Russian information operation."
The letter came after the New York Post reported they had emails showing Hunter Biden coordinated for Joe Biden to meet with a top executive at Ukrainian energy company Burisma months before pressuring Ukrainian officials to oust a prosecutor investigating the company.
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Hunter’s LapTop ‘Its Back’
The NYT Now Admits the Biden Laptop -- Falsely Called "Russian Disinformation" -- is Authentic
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/03/hunters-laptop-its-back.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/10/biden-and-hunter-inc-pay-to-play-r-us.html
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Joe Biden malfeasance in his own words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXA--dj2-CY

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Jan 6, 2021 DC Protesters: Trump Commutations & Pardons

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Trump Commutes some Jan 6th defendants to time-served with conviction record intact.
Trump Pardons most Jan 6th defendants to time-served with conviction record expunged.
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GRANTING PARDONS AND COMMUTATION OF SENTENCES FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES RELATING TO THE EVENTS AT OR NEAR THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL ON JANUARY 6, 2021
Granting Pardons And Commutation Of Sentences For Certain Offenses Relating To The Events At Or Near The United States Capitol On January 6, 2021 – The White House
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This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years and begins a process of national reconciliation.
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Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed Jan 6 Capitol protester was shot and killed, by a Capitol police officer, while crawling through a front window.
No action was taken for this reckless action that normally would result in charges of manslaughter.
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Ashli Babbitt $30 million ‘wrongful death’ suit gets Court green light
Ashli Babbitt $30 million ‘wrongful death’ suit gets green light | Judicial Watch
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DC ‘Riot Reality
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/03/dc-riot-reality.html
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Trump 2nd Inauguration 1-20-25

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Trump Speech Reflective of:
Marc Antony:.. Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;. I come to bury Caesar (Biden), not to praise him.

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President Donald Trump's second inauguration address
Putting America First
President Donald Trump's second inauguration address [FULL SPEECH]
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INITIAL RESCISSIONS OF HARMFUL BIDEN EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND ACTIONS
Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House
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Biden pardons Fauci, Milley, Jan. 6 committee ahead of Trump inauguration
Joe Biden pardons Mark Milley, Anthony Fauci, Jan. 6 committee members
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Biden issues preemptive pardons for Trump critics and Biden family members
Biden issues preemptive pardons for Trump critics and Biden family members | CNN Politics
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Saturday, January 18, 2025

 

TIKTOK China’s Trojan Horse

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TikTok Ban: Supreme Court Upholds Law Barring App From The U.S.
Latest TikTok Ban Updates: Here’s What We Know As Deadline Nears
The Supreme Court sided against TikTok on Friday, upholding the law forcing the app’s sale or ban in the U.S. on Jan. 19 while President-elect Donald Trump signaled he may try to intervene.
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Friday, January 17, 2025

 

Trump Skips Frost On Rose Garden Inauguration

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I Never Promised You A Rose Garden
Lynn Anderson - Rose Garden (Music Video)
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About 120 million people could experience subzero temps soon. Where the cold will be worst. - The Washington Post
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Trump’s inauguration to be moved indoors | CNN Politics

President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will be moved indoors, he announced Friday, due to dangerously cold temperatures projected in the nation’s capital.
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Special Guest Seating:
Gore, Kerry and Greta will be seated in the Rose Garden
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California’s Ongoing Psychosis

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The ongoing fire-devastation and impacts upon the people involved is reminiscent of wartime.  The remediation will take years to implement, and many lives have been permanently altered.  Unfortunately, much of the California leadership have been a major disappointment and well deserve scorn.
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Official handpicked by Mayor Bass to oversee LA Fire Department put on leave over alleged bomb threat
Official handpicked by Mayor Bass to oversee LA Fire Department put on leave over alleged bomb threat | Blaze Media
Man appointed by Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass to oversee public safety in Los Angeles has been on leave for nearly a month in connection with a bomb threat made against Los Angeles City Hall.
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Insurers’ Rule Change Puts (All) California Homeowners on the Hook for L.A. Fire
The spiraling cost to rebuild could overwhelm the California Fair Plan, the decades-old, government-created insurance safety net
Insurers’ Rule Change Puts California Homeowners on the Hook for L.A. Fire - WSJ
A little-noticed rule change last year by California’s insurance regulator will likely shift a large chunk of the cost of the Los Angeles wildfires to homeowners across the state.
Pushed by insurers, the change puts California homeowners on the hook to pay directly toward the cost of rebuilding from very large disasters through even fatter insurance bills—whether they were exposed to the L.A. fire or not.
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Newsom Has a Permitting Epiphany
The Governor waives environmental rules to assist rebuilding from the wildfires. Why not for everyone?
Newsom Has a Permitting Epiphany - WSJ
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Sunday waived the state’s environmental laws in areas affected by the fires to expedite rebuilding. Wonderful, but that raises a question: Why not ease regulations for all projects if the rules are such a barrier to development?
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California Inferno Was ‘Preventable.’ Blame Malfeasance of Newsom, Bass for Catastrophe.
Blame for Catastrophic Calif. Wildfires Lies With Newsom, Bass
And so put it all together, whether it’s a deliberate policy to not store water, not preserve water. Last year was one of the wettest years that we’ve had. We’ve had three out of the last four years have been very wet. We had a huge snowpack. We had rivers that were running in 19th-century fashion, but out to the sea to save the delta smelt.
So, it was a total systems collapse from the idea of not spending money on irrigation, storage, water, fire prevention, force management, a viable insurance industry, a DEI hierarchy. You put it all together and it’s something like a DEI-Green New Deal hydrogen bomb.
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California's Shock & Awe Reality
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/01/californias-shock-awe-reality_15.html
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Thursday, January 16, 2025

 

Virginia Democrats Enable Trans-Women/Men

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Why do Democrats vote to: enable girls to be legally hurt by boys, diminish girl’s sports, and expose girls to males in their locker rooms and showers? Why indeed?
Do these Democrats not have daughters and granddaughters?
Where is Gloria Steinem and her friends?
And why does the left-wing liberal-media cheer them on?
Is the end-game a UniSex society?
Apparently Therapy is available to achieve that goal:
“Prioritize your mental health. Get convenient and affordable therapy with BetterHelp. NSLS Members: get 50% off your first month of therapy.”
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Virginia GOP leaders call for ban on trans women in women's sports
Virginia’s top Republicans joined hands to call on the General Assembly to keep transgender women – who they called “biological males” – out of women’s sports.
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The defeat in a state Senate subcommittee likely means the full education panel will kill the bill and similar measures.
VA: Bill to bar trans women from women's sports fails test
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Democrats Destroying Girl’s Sports And Mutilating Minors
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/08/democrats-destroying-girls-sports-and.html
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Altered Boys Beat Girls – It’s The Obama Legacy
Martina Navratilova following Sunday's controversial op-ed, in which the tennis star called transgender women who compete in women’s sports “cheats.””
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/02/altered-boys-beat-girls-its-obama-legacy.html
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

 

California's Shock & Awe Reality

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California’s massive and devastating wild-fires of Jan 2025 is reflective of the 3rd Reich’s Blitzkrieg of Poland in 1939; a rolling total devastation without mercy or reprieve.
The moderating news is the limited number of casualties compared to prior fires.
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WSJ: How the Left Turned California Into a Paradise Lost
Gavin Newsom promised to ‘Trump-proof’ the Golden State. If only he’d fireproofed it instead.
How the Left Turned California Into a Paradise Lost - WSJ
After the November election, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced his plans to “Trump-proof” the Golden State. How about fire-proofing? Los Angeles’s horrific fires are exposing the costs of its progressive follies, which even wealthy liberals in their Palisades palaces can’t escape.
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Start with its environmental obsessions. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power in 2019 sought to widen a fire-access road and replace old wooden utility poles in the Topanga Canyon abutting the Palisades with steel ones to make power lines fire- and wind-resistant. In the process, crews removed an estimated 182 Braunton’s milkvetch plants, an endangered species.
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The utility halted the project as state officials investigated the plant destruction. More than a year later, the California Coastal Commission issued a cease-and-desist order, fined the utility $2 million, and required “mitigation” for the project’s impact on the species. This involved replacing “nonnative” vegetation with plants native to the state. You have to chuckle at the contradiction: California’s progressives want to expel foreign flora and fauna but provide a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
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WSJ: California’s Wildfire Climate Excuse
Gov. Newsom tilts at carbon emissions, not fire mitigation.

California’s Wildfire Climate Excuse - WSJ
This ignores that California’s climate has long been variable with dry years following wet ones. The nearby chart from the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment shows precipitation in the state going back 130 or so years. There are wet and dry spells. The last couple of decades have had more dry years, but then so did the 1910s and 1920s when carbon emissions were far less than they are today.
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WSJ: End of a Climate Delusion
Amid California’s fires, voters wake up from the dream that green pork is a solution.

End of a Climate Delusion - WSJ
Here’s another concept: Climate change can exist and yet be an insignificant variable. In Southern California’s Mediterranean climate, anytime 100-mile-an-hour winds start blowing embers toward densely packed housing developments, a conflagration is certain. The only answer then is to have the manpower and resources ready to put fires out as quickly as they start.
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2019 Stop WildFires With Fire-Breaks
Roanoke Times, 7-20-2019, Pg N&W 1: Trump Admin proposed plan to slow wildfires by clearing swaths of land.
https://www.roanoke.com/news/nation/wire/plan-to-slow-western-wildfires-would-clear-strips-of-land/article_0c09fb96-2dbe-518b-88b9-711701e620fb.html
“The Trump administration is proposing an ambitious plan to slow Western wildfires by bulldozing, mowing or revegetating large swaths of land along 11,000 miles (17,700 kilometers) of terrain in the West.”
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/07/stop-wildfires-with-fire-breaks.html
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Pacific Palisades Reservoir Offline And Empty
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/01/pacific-palisades-reservoir-offline-and.html
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LA Fires & Roanoke Floods: Fish Won! People Lost Big!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/01/la-fires-roanoke-floods-fish-won-people.html
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Privatizing Firefighting Again

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Reflections of ‘Paladin: Only Have Hose Will Travel’
Johnny Western - Ballad of Paladin Have Gun Will Travel
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Back to the future:
As fires become more frequent and expensive, some insurers pay for private firefighting crews
Wealthy Homeowners and Their Insurers Turn to Hired Help to Fight L.A. Wildfires - WSJ
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When former Olympic gold-medal sprinter Michael Johnson heard the Palisades fire was heading his way, he knew his multimillion-dollar hillside home in Malibu, Calif., was in danger.
Johnson didn’t simply dial 911 as others in the wildfire’s path did: He turned to his private firefighting system for protection.
Johnson pays about $5,000 a year to lease the system, a pump-and-hose apparatus that can draw large amounts of water from his swimming pool to help fight the progress of wildfires and backstop the city’s municipal firefighters and hydrants.
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Just as Johnson and his wife started hosing down their property in hopes of preventing any embers from igniting, a man sent by the system’s supplier, Fire Defense Service, showed up to help them. The Johnsons soon evacuated, believing they would never see their house again. But the man from Fire Defense stayed behind to help protect their house and a neighbor’s who was also a client.
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Back to the future:
When the "Great Fire of London" occurred, which devastated much of the city and led to the establishment of the first fire insurance companies, who then funded their own fire brigades to protect the properties they insured from future fires; essentially creating the link between insurance companies and dedicated firefighting teams.
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In US in 1800’s ‘fire marks’, were metal plates attached to buildings to indicate that they were insured and protected by the indicated 'privately paid' fire brigade.
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No Democrat Skepticism For Bobbie

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Democrats are ‘worried’ that Pat Bondi, Trumps pick for AG, is too close to him as President! Really?
They didn’t have a problem when Jack Kennedy chose his brother to be his AG! Talk about close!
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Hypocrisy -- your name is Democrat!
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Bondi faces a skeptical reception from Democrats at confirmation hearing over her loyalty to Trump
What to know about Donald Trump's AG pick Pam Bondi as she faces questioning on Capitol Hill - Washington Times
Bondi, a former Florida attorney general who was part of Trump’s legal team during his first of two impeachment trials before the Senate, encounters a skeptical reception from Democrats concerned by her perceived loyalty to Trump.
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Sunday, January 12, 2025

 

Pacific Palisades Reservoir Offline And Empty

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Pacific Palisades reservoir was offline and empty when firestorm exploded
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It Keeps Getting Worse: L.A. Water 'CEO' Makes Unbelievable Salary and Claimed 'Equity' Was Top Priority – RedState
For starters, Quiñones is being paid $750,000 a year plus a housing allowance to operate as the "CEO" of LADWP.
She “has the skill set and leadership experience to advance the department into 100% clean energy by 2035,” the mayor said at the time.
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One of the primary drivers of the devastation has been a lack of water due to unfilled reservoirs in Los Angeles County and unmaintained, failing infrastructure that caused fire hydrants to run dry. As RedState reported, the Santa Ynez Reservoir was taken offline for maintenance during wildfire season, a decision that has turned out to be catastrophic.
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Gov. Newsom cut fire budget, Cal Fire funding by $100M months before lethal California fires | Fox News
The budget, signed in June and covering the 2024-25 fiscal year, eliminated $101 million from seven "wildfire and forest resilience" programs, according to an analysis according to an analysis by the state's Legislative Analyst's Office and reported in Newsweek.
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LA Fires & Roanoke Floods: Fish Won! People Lost Big!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/01/la-fires-roanoke-floods-fish-won-people.html
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Gore’s AGW UVa-Prof Michael Mann To Pay-Up

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Mann Ordered To Pay National Review Over $500K
Censors Lose Again: Mann Ordered To Pay National Review Over $500K
It was a bad week for those on the left who try to censor their opponents. First, Meta announced it would ditch the fact-checkers who think they are entitled to be the final arbiters of truth and censor anyone who dissents. Now, the media’s favorite professor of climate alarmism, Michael Mann, has been forced to pay nearly $600,000 in legal fees to National Review after a frivolous lawsuit that alleged they defamed him.
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National Review’s editors wrote on Friday, “For more than eight years, the climate scientist Michael Mann harassed National Review through litigation over a blog post — until, eventually, the First Amendment brought an end to his attack. This week, a court in our nation’s capital ordered Mann to pay us $530,820.21 worth of attorney’s fees and costs, and to do so within 30 days. It is time for him to get out his checkbook, and sign on the dotted line.”
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SOME OF THE FACTS BEHIND THE PROF. MANN CONTROVERSY
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/03/roanoke-times-supports-foia-process-for.html
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Global Warming Cover-up Continues Unabated
Mann became famous. He became famous as part of the ClimateGate Scandal in which Emails clearly showing that the Global Warming Academics had been “cooking the books”. Mike Mann was specifically named in these intra-academic exposes.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-global-warming-cover-up-continues.html
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Thursday, January 09, 2025

 

LA Fires & Roanoke Floods: Fish Won! People Lost Big!

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The horrendous Jan 2025 California fires and Roanoke’s ongoing floods intersect via the endangered species act and the refusal of government leaders to take required actions to safeguard persons and property in preference to 4-inch long minnows.
In Roanoke Va. the snail darters prevented a Roanoke River renovation from solving a major ongoing flooding problem resulting in a 73-million dollar Roaoke River Bank Beatification instead of flood control.
In California the little Delta-Smelt fish resulted in major river waters being sent out to the Pacific instead of being impounded and used for green-irrigation and fire suppression along with failure to remove dead and down vegetation with controlled burns.
The so-called-environmentalist won; sanity and responsibility and people lost big in ongoing wild-fire events.
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Thousands of homes burned in Palisades, Eaton fires; more days of fire weather ahead, Jan 9, 2025.
Five people have died, more than 2,000 structures have burned and at least 130,000 residents are under evacuation orders because of the wildfires burning across Los Angeles County.
Southern California wildfires burn thousands of homes; fire weather ongoing - Los Angeles Times
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Reflections:
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Brown And Obama: Water For The Delta Smelt – People And Food Not So Much, 2015.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/05/brown-and-obama-water-for-delta-smelt.html
the current California Drought in which supposedly intelligent leaders have released massive amounts of reservoir water into the ocean to satisfy a totally inconsequential fish (to whit the Delta Smelt).
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Cal D Gov Brown Placing Delta-Smelt Above Fire Fighters  Aug 2018
“The Trump administration believes the state’s stringent environmental protection policies are hampering efforts by firefighters to fight the largest fire in state history.
In a tweet sent Monday, President Trump said water that can be used for fires in California is “foolishly” being diverted into the Pacific Ocean.” 2018
The directive asks the federal agency to “make clear” that water can be used as necessary to fight the fires, even if they impact endangered species.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/08/cal-d-gov-brown-placing-delta-smelt.html
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California Wildfire Malfeasance 2018.
Roanoke Times, 11-15-2018, Pg 1, 6: Search on for victims of wildfires, in ‘Paradise’ death toll stands at 56, many missing
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/11/california-wildfire-malfeasance.html
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WildFire Reality: No Preemptive California Fire Containment Aug 2018
Let’s just keep listening to those know-it-all know-nothings who claim to be environmentalists but who really are just charlatans selling their own brand of false reality with no responsibility, accountability or liability!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/08/wildfire-reality-no-preemptive.html
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Brown And Obama: Water For The Delta Smelt – People And Food Not So Much
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/05/brown-and-obama-water-for-delta-smelt.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2014/02/lizzie-and-obama-rainman.html
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Trump Supports People 2020 – Obama, Brown and Newsom Chose Smelt
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/02/trump-supports-food-obama-brown-and.html
misuse of junk-science was also used here in Virginia, to deny Roanoke from achieving real flood-control, in favor of the snail-darters and log-perch in the Roanoke River.
In addition to chronic flooding, the latest adverse consequences of this so called ‘flood control’ boondoggle are the costs and pain of removing homeowners from their homes and demolishing their dwellings.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/03/roanoke-flooding-disaster-and-media.html
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Cal rain vs CO2
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/06/californias-gerry-brown-carrying-agw.html
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Santa Ana Winds Driving California Wild-Fires For 5,000-Years
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/10/santa-ana-winds-driving-wild-fires-for.html
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California Still Burning 2020
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/10/california-still-burning.html
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Canada Forest Fire Smoke Reaches NYC June 2023
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/06/canada-forest-fire-smoke-reaches-nyc.html
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Sunday, September 13, 2020
Munch’s Scream Relived In Oregon, California, Washington States
More than 85 major fires are burning up and down the West Coast, from Oregon, Washington to Southern California.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/09/munchs-scream-relived-in-oregon.html
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Roanoke’s Snail Darter
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/11/roanoke-flooded-again-thank-snail.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/04/roanokes-absurd-endangered-species-act.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/03/endangered-species-acts-personification.html
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Sunday, January 05, 2025

 

Tragic Terrorist Attack in New Orleans

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The Tragic Terrorist Attack in New Orleans
Was dwarfed by The Tragic and Pathetic
Malfeasance of the New Orleans Leadership and
The Yahoos At The Press Conference Boondoggle
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Reflections back to Katrina 2005
Still Stuck on Stupid in New Orleans
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2006/01/still-stuck-on-stupid-in-no.html
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Youtube
LIVE: Louisiana Gov. Landry, FBI hold news conference on New Orleans New Year’s Day attack
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Quote of the century:
New Orleans Police Chief "after" the attack:
Gee, I didn't know we had portable anti-vehicle barriers available in our warehouse.
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Observation: Someone is placing coolers on the street, just like they did in Boston.
FBI seeking information about coolers in New Orleans attack | Crime/Police | nola.com
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Thursday, January 02, 2025

 

Go Nuclear Young Man – Go Nuclear

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Reflections: Go West Young Man – Go West -- Horace Greeley,
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The current conversion of our electrical grid system from a highly reliable central mix of sources to an intermittent supply of dispersed solar&wind is causing large electric users to seek independent modular nuclear generators dedicated to their own needs and demands.
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Some may compare this to the ships and submarines in use since the Nautilus, however, it’s not clear how dispersed private industry systems will compare to the US Navy stewardship of this technology.
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Clearly the debacle and gross malfeasance of three-mile-island and the Chernobyl disasters are a stark reminder of how unforgiving and far reaching nuclear mistakes can become.
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Why tech giants such as Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta are betting big on nuclear power
Why Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta are betting on nuclear power
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Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta are among the most recognizable names exploring or investing in nuclear power projects. Driven by the energy demands of their data centers and AI models, their announcements mark the beginning of an industrywide trend.
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“What we’re seeing is nuclear power has a lot of benefits,” said Michael Terrell, senior director of energy and climate at Google. “It’s a carbon-free source of electricity. It’s a source of electricity that can be always on and run all the time. And it provides tremendous economic impact.”
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Brits Now Protecting Their Children! Why Don’t We?

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Apparently the British love and honor their children more than we Americans do!
The British are protecting their minor children, under 18, from sexual mutilation!
Why don’t we? Are we not a civilized nation? Apparently Not!
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Suffer the little children Not, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven! Matthew 19:14.
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The ban on giving puberty blockers to under-18s questioning their gender identify is to be made permanent, Health Secretary Wes Streeting has announced.
Streeting told MPs he was making the temporary ban introduced in May indefinite across the UK, following a consultation and advice from the Commission on Human Medicines - calling the way the drugs had been used a "scandal".
Puberty blockers: Indefinite ban to be introduced
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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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Child Gender Abuse
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/12/child-gender-abuse.html
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Child Gender Management – Suffer The Little Children Not
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/06/child-gender-development-suffer-little.html
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More Media Sea Level Conjecture & Heifer-Dust

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WaPo:
Why seas are surging
What one tide gauge reveals about America’s climate future
Why sea level rise is skyrocketing across the U.S. South - Washington Post
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Marine Science:
Graph ‘allegedly’ showing sea-level rise from 1 to 4-mm/yr along the US East Coast.
U.S. East Coast Sea Level | Virginia Institute of Marine Science
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Reality:
Seas surging? 9-inches per 100-years!
Measuring sea surf to 1 to 4 millimeters?
Note: this number (1) is 1-mm wide!
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There must be a literature prize for authoring ‘exciting news’ about sea-level rise.
Clearly sea-levels have been rising and falling for thousands of years:
Approximately 340-feet over the past 16,000 years. Really!
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Approximately 9-inches over the past 100-years. Really!
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News Flash: We are in an InterGlacial Period!
That means it’s warm and ice & snow are and have been melting.
It’s been done many times before! Really!

http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/04/earth-day-4222024.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/04/more-goreite-agw-glacial-propaganda.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/04/glaciers-retreating-again-daja-vu.html
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Along the US East Coast, and in many shore lines around the world, more significant than sea-level rise, is the Shore Line Falling called Subsidence.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/09/the-scientific-american-not-very.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/sealevel-reality-or-politics-your-choice.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2012/06/sea-level-rising-for-20000-years-and.html
‘Subsidence’ is due primarily to plate-Techtonic’s. Those areas ‘Appear’ to have increased ‘sea-level rise’; somewhat like standing in a sinking boat and concluding that the lake is rising.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/sealevel-reality-or-politics-your-choice.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/07/agw-alarmists-and-goreites-youve-got.html
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Suggestion: Stop publishing one-sided, embellished and biased stuff and focus instead on realistic data that in reality are very variable with lots of contradictions and in witch the causes vs. effects are very complex.
Note for the student: get a grip, the earth has been very cold and very hot before and sea levels have varied many hundreds of feet without any contribution by mankind.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/08/its-warm-hello-we-are-in-interglacial.html
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