The RoanokeSlant

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

Wednesday, April 02, 2025

 

Include Wives – Exclude Wives

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The media all excited over SecDefense Hegseth bringing his wife to official government meetings!
This after Biden actually turned Official Cabinet Meeting over to Jill without any concerns by the PravdaMedia!
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So – who’s the risky wife and who’s the no-risk wife and who’s being irresponsible?
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Did the PravdaMeida ever express concern over Hillary’s total immersion in Bill’s presidential activities?
Albeit she was a little slow in excluding “Maid Service Monica” from the Oval Office.
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Wasn’t Eleanor Roosevelt totally immersed in FDR’s official activities?
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After President Woodrow Willson suffered a severe stroke, wife Edith pre-screened all matters of state, functionally running the Executive branch of government for the remainder of Wilson's second term.
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For many presidents, haven't the First Ladies actually been the real “VP”?
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Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials
Exclusive | Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials - WSJ
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is facing scrutiny over his handling of details of a military strike, brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions.
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Act’g POTUS Jill -- In Charge
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/09/actg-potus-jill-in-charge.html
Steve Cortes, a previous adviser to former President Donald Trump, described Biden as looking 'visibly exhausted'.
He posted: 'Wow. A visibly exhausted Joe Biden just held a full Cabinet Meeting for the first time in 11 months and immediately turned the mic over to his wife. Who is running the country?'
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Head of the table -- head of the government.
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Federal Employee DOGE Modest Cuts

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Contrary to the media hype and Compared to many corporate business down-sizings,  the 2% ‘cuts’ are very modest as are the 3% buy-outs.
Going forward, even doubling these ‘cuts’, would be reasonable compared to private industry history.
Compared to Corporate down-sizing these ‘cuts’ are far from draconian as hyped by the PradvaMedia!
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What We Know About the Trump Administration's Cuts to the Federal Work Force - The New York Times
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Confirmed ‘Cuts’: 49,110 out of the 2.4 million civilian federal workers
Plus 75,000 Buy-Outs
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Percentage Cuts: 49,000/2.4-million = 2% (2 out of 100)
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Percentage Buy-Outs: 75,000/2.4-million = 3% (3 out of 100)

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Hardly noticeable in the parking-lots or cafeterias or lavatories.
Something about 'if a tree falls in the forest'
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Watch: Musk and DOGE Team Answer Questions About Cost-Cutting
Watch: Musk and DOGE Team Answer Questions About Cost-Cutting Drive | WSJ News
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The Real “UnSustainable” Issue is a financial path of government spending and debt far exceeding what our economic system can support!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-real-unsustainable-issue.html
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2% ‘Cuts’ is Reminiscent of the “Where’s The Beef” Girls!
Wendy's - 'Where's the Beef ' Ad (Original - 1984)
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DOGE And The Serengeti
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/03/doge-and-serengeti.html
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Reining In DOGE?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/02/reining-in-doge.html
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Tuesday, April 01, 2025

 

Deporting NonCitizens: DeJa Vu

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Deporting foreign students over Middle East unrest? Jimmy Carter did it first
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
Deporting foreign students over Middle East unrest? Jimmy Carter did it first - Washington Times
It sounds like President Trump, but he is following a path blazed 46 years ago. During the Iran hostage crisis, President Carter ordered his administration to review the status of tens of thousands of Iranian students to determine whether they should be deported.
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We Lost The Recipe For Immigrants!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/05/we-lost-recipe-for-immigrants.html
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Reality Of Mass Deportations Coming Again
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/11/reality-of-mass-deportations-coming.html
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Monday, March 31, 2025

 

Biden’s $100-Million For Transgender Mutilation

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Trump slashes Biden’s $100M (taxpayer dollars) transgender program spending spree
Donald Trump slashes Joe Biden's $100M transgender program spending spree - Washington Times
Every day we are eliminating the extremism of the last four years,” Mr. Trump declared at a White House ceremony, where he warned schools they’d lose federal dollars if they violate the new policy.
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Biden admin pours over $100 million toward transgender research grants, many backfire
The administration continues to pour millions of taxpayer money into university research to advance findings on transgender-identifying individuals, especially youths.
In spite of the administration's commitment to 'transgender care,' research it has funded has shown the adverse impact of such surgeries and hormonal treatments on patients.
Campus Reform | Biden admin pours over $100 million toward transgender research grants, many backfire
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Wyatt Eichholz | Senior Alabama Campus Correspondent
September 28, 2023, 4:29 pm ET
A recent investigation demonstrates that when it comes to endorsing transgenderism, the Biden administration is putting its money where its mouth is.
The Biden administration has awarded over $100 million in federal grants to colleges, universities, and hospitals to fund research into “transgender” medicine, according to a report published by the Capital Research Center on Sept. 12.
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Researchers Parker Thayer and Katie Cagle write that the Biden Administration has spent “over $104 million in payments to initiatives mostly or exclusively promoting, subsidizing, or studying transgenderism.”
Thayer and Cagle point out that despite claims made by Assistant Secretary for Health Rachel Levine that “gender-affirming care” is necessary and safe for youth, these federally-funded research programs “examined catastrophic side effects from the hormonal and surgical transition procedures that the administration insists are supported by overwhelming medical consensus.”
Several of the grants funded research into transgender treatment specifically for children.
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Brits Now Protecting Their Children! Why Don’t We?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/01/brits-now-protecting-their-children-why.html
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“Boy” Beats Girl – Gets The Obama Sex-Alteration Trophy
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/03/boy-beats-girl-gets-obama-sex.html
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Child Gender Abuse
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/12/child-gender-abuse.html
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Biden’s US TaxPayer Funded Child Sex Mutilation
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/04/bidens-us-taxpayer-funded-child-sex.html
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Why Trump Tariffs Must Succeed

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The Trump Tariffs are all about two major issues:
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1) Other countries are and have imposed tariffs on our goods far beyond the tariffs we impose on them thereby disadvantaging our industries and limiting our workforce.
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2) The US has aided and abetted other countries to become the manufacturing and technology entities for most of our goods and materials thereby limiting US high-paying manufacturing jobs and leaving the US with service-type businesses ie:
I cut your hair, you sell me insurance.
This includes many items that were invented here in the US but now others build, test, support and control the products, tools, processes, test equipment, skill-base and intellectual property.
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Much of this ‘benefactor view toward foreign entities’ resulted from World War 2 policies to help other countries recover, including our vanquished enemies to recover, those conditions are long gone.
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These two issues have resulted in a very high-risk economic basis for our country and our people.
Our major avowed adversaries, China and Russia and their associates could economically-blackmail the US or in a physical confrontation they could severely impact our national defense!
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The Obama-Biden administrations totally ignored and in many cases exacerbated the ever increasing threat and risks to our standard of living, opportunities and national defense.
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The US must establish a major solid “America First” economic base to compete with a new-world order of economic and military competition.
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Clearly the EU depends on US for their success going forward and they need to stop their bitching and step-up to a new world reality!
Perhaps Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a wake-up call.
It appears they are responding to the modest 2% budget challenge.
Who’s at 2 percent? Look how NATO allies have increased their defense spending since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. - Atlantic Council
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A touch of US education optimism is the introduction of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math ) in many of our schools.
Would be a nice touch if we could resurrect the technology enthusiasm of the Sputnik age:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/10/sputnik-day-october-4-1957.html
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The Case for Tariffs WSJ
In the global trade revamp, American companies need certainty and protection to outdo their foreign rivals.
The Case for Tariffs - WSJ
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US Schools Failing Our Children And US
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/03/us-schools-failing-our-children-and-us.html
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EU-NATO Hedges on Ukraine
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/03/eu-nato-hedges-on-ukraine.html
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Wednesday, March 26, 2025

 

The Climate Armageddon

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The Armageddon storyline: World's glaciers melting faster than ever recorded
(Note: we’ve only been real-time recording ice data since 1750; a blink of a climate-eye)
Climate change: World's glaciers melting faster than ever recorded
But glaciers have been shrinking pretty much everywhere over the past 20 years as temperatures have risen due to human activities, principally burning fossil fuels.
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The Gore, Kerry, Greta team and their associates are coming unstrung!
The current US administration and public views and attitudes have set ‘man-made global warming religion’ asunder and world energy policy has become “all of the available sources at the best price”.
It’s notable that China has followed that path all along!
As a result, panic-articles on: warming, glaciers, ocean rise and Climate Armageddon are being promoted in and by the GoreMedia.
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Perhaps the public are starting to accept the reality of the earth’s climate cycles and the limited impact man-kind has had on climate.
Perhaps people just want the benefits that a fossil-centric world has provided and are doing ‘convenient things’ while hoping for the bestl!
Perhaps wind, solar and nuclear energies will yet expand and save the world!
Aye Yes: The sheep will then come home, wagging their tails, behind them!
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In the mean-time, some climate observations are appropriate given that the Armageddon people choose Not to share a global historical climate view with the public! Something about mushrooms, dark & poop!
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Note: Click-on Images to Maximize them
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There is global warming and melting AGAIN as the earth is now in yet another natural warming cycle perhaps aggravated by mankind, perhaps not.
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Note that CO2 levels started to increase in 1950 
200-years after the melting and retraction had started in 1750
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The ‘current’ northern hemisphere glacial melting and retraction started circa 1750 and has continued and has accelerated due to natural warming and the reality that as more earth-rock are exposed, the more heat is absorbed and that in turn accelerates the melting.
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Four Northern Hemisphere glaciers all starting their retreat circa 1750 and are continuing at a significant rate.
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Kerry Visits Arctic And Views Results Of Natural Climate Changes
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/06/kerry-visits-arctic-and-views-results.html
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Mother Nature At Work: Glaciers and Cows Calving
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2015/09/mother-nature-at-work-glaciers-and-cows.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/04/glaciers-continue-calving-deja-vu.html
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The Sea Level Has Been And Is Still Rising
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2018/02/the-sea-level-has-been-and-is-still.html
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The 340-feet sea level rise over the past 16,000 years is still progressing with 8-inch rise over the past 145-years that has major variability as large as the total 8-inch rise.
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Again the current Global Warming Alarmists continue to ignore earth’s history and the climate cycles.
Perhaps they might sit-in on the “Ice Age” children’s movies that offers more scientific creditability than does Al Gore.
Ice Age (2002 film) - Wikipedia
And
Ice Age (franchise) - Wikipedia
Five theatrical films have been released in the series:
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Pathetic Weather And Climate Modeling And Outlandish Predictions
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2016/08/pathetic-weather-and-climate-modeling.html
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Tuesday, March 25, 2025

 

D.Ga.HseOfRep Stacey Abrams $2-Billion Big

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Talk about Georgia Peaches:
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$2B to Stacey Abrams: Trump team details government waste, fraud
$100K to a 9-month-old, $2B to Stacey Abrams: Trump team details government waste, fraud - Washington Times
President Biden introduced several rules affecting home appliance use and targeting efficiency standards. As part of that initiative, $2 billion in tax money was handed over in fiscal 2024 to the Power Forward Communities, an organization linked to Ms. Abrams.
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D.Ga. Stacy Abrams Fair Voting Denier
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/11/dga-stacy-abrams-fair-voting-denier.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2020/12/georgia-us-senate-runoff-race.html
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Monday, March 24, 2025

 

Google Censors Hit RoanokeSlant Again

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Google owns and ‘controls’ this Blogger web site.
Yet again their Democrat slanted censors buried in the Google-Blogger team have arbitrarily removed a RoanokeSlant post from the www!
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"This post was deleted because it violates Blogger Community Guidelines. To republish, please update the content to adhere to guidelines."
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In this case it was a post highlighting the real-news that a Bill to ban trans athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams fails to advance in Senate:
Bill to ban trans athletes from girls' and women's sports teams fails in Senate | AP News
The bill was voted Down by the Democrats in a 51-45 vote tally!
That vote was the basis for the post:
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Blogger.com
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com › 2025/03 › democrat...
Democrats Embrace Boys Beating-up Girls
6 days ago — What has happened to the Democrat Party that they have thrown our young women athletes under the bus? Where are Gloria Steinheim and her NOW ...
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Search for the article now returns:
Page not found
Sorry, the page you were looking for in the blog The RoanokeSlant does not exist.
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The AP news basis for the blog item:
Bill to ban trans athletes from girls’ and women’s sports teams fails to advance in Senate
Bill to ban trans athletes from girls' and women's sports teams fails in Senate | AP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Legislation that aimed to bar transgender women and girls nationwide from participating in school athletic competitions designated for female athletes failed to advance Monday night in a divided Senate as Democrats stood united against an issue that Republicans leveraged in last year’s elections.
A test vote on the bill failed to gain the 60 votes needed to advance in the chamber as senators stuck to party lines in a 51-45 vote tally.
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Saturday, March 22, 2025

 

WSJ Plays Word Games With Columbia Univ Malfeasance

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Columbia Univ “Capitulates to Trump” in the hardcopy of today’s WSJ that magically changed to “Yield to Trump” in the online version.
These (Poison-Ivy) schools are so cleaver – too cute by half!
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Why does Columbia and other left-wing universities find it so hard to do the right thing and suppress: violence, abuse of students, anti-Semitism, destruction of property, abuse of education process and violation of laws and codes of conduct? Why indeed!
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Is Columbia Yielding or Capitulating or Giving-In? Does it matter? It’s a distinction without a difference?
Why not just do the right things and save us the alibis and disclaimers and the word-smithing!
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Columbia “Yields to Trump” in Battle Over Federal Funding.
School to ban masks, empower police and rein in controversial academic department
Columbia Gives in to Trump’s Demands. University to Ban Masks, Empower Campus Police and Rein in Controversial Academic Department - WSJ
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Let’s Graduate Separately
Apparently Columbia University is exempt from Supreme Court Rulings!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/03/lets-graduate-separately.html
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Barbarians At Our Gates
Antisemitism on campus surges as agitators take over
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/04/barbarians-at-our-gates.html
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Mayor Adams demands Columbia University help pay for cost of NYPD raid on pro-terror rioters
Columbia University should help pay for cost of NYPD protest raid: Adams (nypost.com)
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March 21 & Still Winter! Where’s Gore Kerry & Greta?

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East facing more wild ‘winter’ weather
The storm taking shape in the East will bring 1-6 inches of snow on the Green Mountains of Vermont, the White Mountains in New Hampshire, and the Adirondacks and Catskills in New York state Thursday night to Friday, Accuweather said.
This is spring? Midwest digs out from blizzard; others brace for snow
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Winter Weather Warnings In 7 States As 20 Inches of Snow To Hit
Winter Weather Warnings In 7 States As 20 Inches of Snow To Hit - Newsweek
The National Weather Service (NWS) has issued winter storm warnings for parts of Oregon, Washington, and Michigan, with forecasts predicting up to 20 inches of snow in some areas.
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Winter weather advisories have also been announced for areas in Alaska, California, Illinois, and Indiana, signaling hazardous driving conditions and potential disruptions across the affected regions.
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US Schools Failing Our Children And US

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A free and successful country depends on an educated, skilled, engaged, committed population and workforce that can compete with the ‘best in world competitors.
We dropped 2-bombs on Japan and they surrendered!
What can/will the Chinese do to us in 2050?
In 2050 will we be speaking English or Chinese?
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What will our ill-educated students do going forward?
Today's jobs require workers to be fluent in reading, writing, math and computer-technology – playing digital games and surfing-the-net will not meet job requirements.
Spending $17-thousand per student per year is Not working.
Having a massive all-powerful teachers union is Not working.
Having a massive DofEd in Washington is Not working.
The Trump Proposal:
Focus on the state/local school system and enable choice.
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K-12 public schools spend $17,277 per pupil.
Nationwide public K-12 expenditures total $857.2 billion.
U.S. Public Education Spending Statistics [2025]: per Pupil + Total
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Eliminate The Massive Expensive Ineffective Dept Of Education
Eliminate the Federal DofEd and send education-$$$$ to the states based on poverty levels and number of students enrolled with bonuses based on outcomes.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/11/eliminate-massive-expensive-dept-of.html
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D.Va.Gov Terry McAuliffe said parents should have no say in their child's education YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zafXDPCDsTU
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/09/mcauliffe-parents-no-role-in-their.html
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Our DisFunctional And Failing Schools
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/10/our-disfunctional-and-failing-schools.html
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Obama’s School Policy – Dumb Them Down Some More
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2011/03/obamas-school-policy-dumb-them-down.html
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Roanoke Times: We Don’t Need Any School Accountability
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/11/roanoke-times-we-dont-need-any-school.html
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Friday, March 21, 2025

 

Canadian Fairness Not

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The media is awash with AntiTrump Tariff Heifer Dust!
Example: it is almost impossible to get Google to display the ‘ongoing’ Canadian tariffs imposed on American goods! It’s all about that bad Trump ‘doing-it-to’ our wonderful neighbors’.
Reality: our wonderful neighbors have been taking advantage of US with a big smile and a ‘Eh’ for a long time.
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The Google ‘Canada Tariff’ Caper
It appears Google is waging a ‘tariff disinformation war’ against Trump.
Googling ‘Trump Canada Tariffs’ will NOT produce any data on the ongoing tariffs Canada imposes on US imports!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-google-canada-tariff-caper.html
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Greenpeace's $660-Million Dakota Pipeline Penalty

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Greenpeace has a history of unlawful acts against their self-defined enemies.
Finally, albeit belatedly, some accountability for mob-gang insurrection and destruction in "the name of doing good".!
Reminiscent of Kristallnacht!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/11/kristallnacht-comes-to-america.html
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Hopefully the current Anti-Musk-Tesla Domestic-Terrorism will result in a similar criminal and civil outcome --- only a whole-lot quicker!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/03/walz-cheerleading-domestic-terrorists.html
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Jury finds Greenpeace at fault for protest damages, awards pipeline developer more than $660 million
Jury finds Greenpeace at fault for protest damages, awards pipeline developer more than $660 million • North Dakota Monitor
The nine-person jury delivered a verdict in favor of Energy Transfer on most counts, awarding more than $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer and Dakota Access LLC.
The case centers on Greenpeace’s involvement in protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and 2017.
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Energy Transfer filed the colossal lawsuit in 2019, accusing Greenpeace of providing resources, including supplies, intel and training, to encourage Dakota Access Pipeline protesters to commit criminal acts to stop construction of the project. The company also claims that Greenpeace intentionally spread misinformation about the pipeline to tarnish its reputation with banks.
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Greenpeace's Dakota Pipeline: Not Green No Peace
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/03/greenpeaces-dakota-pipeline-not-green.html
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Dakota Access PipeLine Protests – Pravda-Media Putting LipStick On A Pig
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/04/dakota-access-pipeline-protests-pravda.html
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DOGE And The Serengeti

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The ‘pruning’ of the Federal Bureaucracy Employees exposes uncomfortable feelings and attitudes on behalf of the ‘rest of us’.
Some are in shock and mourning and in sympathy with those ‘laid-off’’.
Others, especially those who have personally gone through lay-offs and down-sizing. are less sympathetic and appear reflective of the herd just watching one-of-their-own being taken-down.
Clearly there is currently a major effort by the media to personalize the down-sizing as part of their AntiTrump Jihad with no regard to the core economic issues involved.
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Currently the majority of Americans are still in-favor-of continuing the DOGE activity:
Why Many Americans Are On Board With Federal Worker Firings
Some envision bloat and cushy jobs. ‘Let ’em go; get rid of them.’
Why Many Americans Are On Board With Federal Worker Firings - WSJ
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DOGE is going to keep going, Kevin O’Leary says | Fox Business Video
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Reining In DOGE?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/02/reining-in-doge.html
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The Real “UnSustainable” Issue
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-real-unsustainable-issue.html
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Thursday, March 20, 2025

 

Walz CheerLeading Domestic Terrorists

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Tim Walz, Democrat 2024 VP, is openly encouraging anti-Tesla actions on national TV and personal appearances and statements.
Comes very close to condoning terrorist fire-bombing and shooting at Tesla dealerships, Tesla’s on-the-street and parked at homes.
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What is it with Democrats and their violence and fire-bombing and domestic terrorism?
Attorney general calls Tesla arson attacks 'nothing short of domestic terrorism' - ABC News
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Reminiscent of Kristallnacht!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/11/kristallnacht-comes-to-america.html
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Schizophrenic actions given that Musk has been a world leader in the development and manufacture of EV’s and solar and battery and green-technology.
Musk’s rescue this week of two astronauts abandoned by the Biden-bunch was a nice touch too.
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Apparently rooting-out waste, fraud and abuse and helping to stabilize the US economy and manage Metastasized-debt is a big problem to Democrats and Left-Wingers!
And to think – these are the kids of the ‘PeaceNicks’!
Something about nuts and trees.
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Karoline Leavitt talks violence against Tesla, calls out Gov. Tim Walz
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Obama-Biden NASA NoGo! : Trump-Musk SpaceX Go!

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Obama and Biden degraded NASA.
Then Biden abandoned two NASA-astronauts in space.
Trump engaged Musk to do the rescue.
Musk’s SpaceX team are the hero’s!
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Two NASA astronauts return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space
Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams return to Earth after 9 months stuck in space - Washington Times
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Stuck in space no more, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, hitching a different ride home to close out a saga that began with a bungled test flight more than nine months ago.
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Elon Musk congratulates SpaceX, NASA for 'excellent work' rescuing stranded astronauts
The DOGE leader also thanked President Donald Trump, who tapped Musk's space tech company for the job
Elon Musk offers his 'congratulations' after SpaceX rescues stranded astronauts | Fox News
"Thanks to the excellent work of the SpaceX team working with NASA, the astronauts are now safely home. And so congratulations to the SpaceX NASA teams on excellent work," Musk said Tuesday during an exclusive interview on "Hannity."
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NASA Has Lost It’s Way
NASA Says Starliner Astronauts Could Return With SpaceX—Next Year!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/08/nasa-has-lost-its-way.html
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Obama Degraded And Politicized NASA
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/07/obama-degraded-and-politicized-nasa.html
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Tuesday, March 18, 2025

 

Trumping Forward

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Trump says Biden’s autopen pardons are ‘void, vacant and of no further force or effect,’ vows probe of Jan. 6 House select committee
Trump says Biden's autopen pardons are now 'void'
“The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, and many others, are hereby declared VOID, VACANT, AND OF NO FURTHER FORCE OR EFFECT, because of the fact that they were done by Autopen,” Trump posted on Truth Social early Monday morning.
“In other words, Joe Biden did not sign them but, more importantly, he did not know anything about them!” he said of the oldest-ever president and concerns at his age-related mental abilities at 82.
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Yuge Poll Numbers For Trump: President Cracks ‘Right Direction’ Threshold Not Seen Since 2004
The poll also spelled very bad news for the Democratic Party, marking a new all-time low in its approval rating.
Yuge Poll Numbers For Trump: President Cracks ‘Right Direction’ Threshold Not Seen Since 2004
President Donald Trump and his administration hit a major milestone in the most recent NBC News poll, as 44% of Americans now believe that the United States is “headed in the right direction.”
NBC News pollster Steve Kornacki broke down the numbers with “Meet the Press” anchor Kristen Welker during Sunday morning’s broadcast, and he noted that the last president to see a number that high was former President George W. Bush, just months ahead of his re-election in 2004.
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Trump ties for highest approval he’s ever had — as more Americans say US is on right track than any time in 20 years: poll
President Trump ties for highest approval he's ever had — as more Americans say US is on right track than any time in 20 years: poll
That’s despite the stock market selloff last week as Wall Street grappled with Trump’s decision earlier this month to slap 25% across-the-board tariffs on Canada and Mexico as well as a 20% tariff on China.
On many other key issues, voters felt the same way, with Trump’s actions on the border being the most popular — 56% said it was a positive change. On government cuts, 47% said his changes were good, compared to just 29% who opposed.
Even on his handling of the Ukraine war and NATO — policies on which he’s received significant pushback — more respondents said his actions were good (41%) than opposed his actions (40%).
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Voice of “America” – Really?

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Who decides who is ‘The Voice of America’ and what does he-she say?
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Clearly ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN and their derivatives are very different voices than FOX – so who speaks for America?
Based on the last election perhaps its FOX? Perhaps Not!
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For many years the ‘major’ media outlets have been in the Democrat’s pocket and rightly can be referred to as the PravdaMedia.
A key distinction for media is public vs private funding: ie: Soros money vs Musk money vs Tax money.
Example: Is there anyone so naïve that they believe NPR is nonpartisan?
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Perhaps the left-wing government supported media should have made an effort to have at least some visible conservative representation in their programming!
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'Bloody Saturday' at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks
'Bloody Saturday' at Voice of America and Radio Free Asia : NPR
All full-time staffers at the Voice of America and the Office for Cuba Broadcasting, which runs Radio and Television Martí, were affected — more than 1,000 employees. The move followed a late Friday night edict from President Trump that its parent agency, called the U.S. Agency for Global Media, must eliminate all activities that are not required by law.
In addition, under the leadership of Trump appointees, the agency has severed all contracts for the privately incorporated international broadcasters it funds, including Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Radio Free Asia and the Middle East Broadcasting Networks.
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NPR Cans Juan Williams and Free and Open Speech
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/10/npr-cans-juan-williams-and-free-and.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2024/04/npr-taxpayer-funded-leftwing-rag.html
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NYT Confesses To COVID Malfeasance

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New York Times changes its tune on lab-leak theory - UnHerd
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We were badly misled” about the origin of Covid-19. The lab-leak theory was always plausible, we’re now permitted to say; but groups of supposedly neutral and independent scientists colluded to produce independent-sounding denials, so as to make it seem like a fringe position. Now, apparently, we need “an honest conversation” so that nothing similar happens again.
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‘Badly Misled’ – Really? How about we were key partners in the cover-up of the Wuhan-Lab Covid escape into the world with results:
Coronavirus Cases: 704,753,890 ; Deaths: 7,010,681 
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The China-Wuhan-Lab CoronaVirus CoverUp
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-china-wuhan-lab-coronavirus-coverup.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2021/06/chinacovid-origin-coverup-science-at.html
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Sunday, March 16, 2025

 

Democrat's Hill

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Saturday, March 15, 2025

 

Trump Confronts The DOJ

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Trump Confronts The DOJ
Trump blasts Biden’s DOJ: They tried to turn US into a ‘corrupt communist' third world country | Fox News
May have to copy/paste address into search block
Just more PravdaMedia antiTrump garbage
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"Our predecessors turned this Department of Justice into the Department of Injustice," Trump said Friday at the Department of Justice. "But I stand before you today to declare that those days are over and they are never going to come back."
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"There could be no more heinous betrayal of American values than to use the law to terrorize the innocent and reward the wicked," Trump said. "And that's what they were doing at a level that's never been seen before. And it's exactly what you saw with Joe Biden, Merrick Garland and their cronies to do the building over the last four years. They ripped what they've ripped down is incalculable."
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Trump also accused the judicial branch of conspiring with the media, and accused newspapers and TV networks of functioning as a "paid political operative."
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The top of the DC Democrat Political Ongoing Corruption
Chickens Coming To Roost For The Obama Failed Coup Of Trump
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/08/chickens-coming-to-roost-for-obama.html
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Roanoke’s Advance Auto Hit By Change

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Advance Auto Parts to Close All California Locations
The auto supply retailer plans to shutter 136 stores by the end of March amid sluggish demand.
Advance Auto Parts to Close All California Locations | The Epoch Times
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Roanoke’s Advance Auto has been a major success! But, Change is impacting the business in a Big way!
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Self-service is changing the do-it-yourself auto service activity. Spark plugs get changed every 100,000 miles, oil 10,000 miles, grease fittings 10,000 miles, transmission fluid 50,000 miles. And vehicle owners are less prone to do-it-yourself service on more complex and intimating systems.
Also the vehicle engine-transmission are designed for diagnosis by plug-in computer equipment integral to the dealer service.
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All reflective of the New John Deere that doesn’t allow farmers to service their tractors but instead sends ‘transporters’ out to ‘bring-in’ the tractors for dealer service and repair with dealer-only diagnostics and repair parts.
Deere sued by FTC over farmers’ right to repair equipment | Agriculture Dive
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These changes are impacting the secondary market for service and repair and are phasing-out the local repair-guy and parts stores.
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Students graduating from high-school automotive programs must now compete for brand-focused advance training or be relegated to oil-change chain shops.
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The change to hybrid and electric vehicles are magnifying the changes to a whole new level of technology, skill and training and available parts.
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Henry’s Made a Lady Out of Lizzie (1928)
It’s not the old ‘tin can’ that we once knew!
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Friday, March 14, 2025

 

Pi Day

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EU-NATO Hedges on Ukraine

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It’s of interest that the EU Ukraine funding are “repayable-loans” while the massive US funding are “gifts”
US aid to Ukraine provided as grants, not loans: Zelenskyy
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Why Won’t Europe Step Up and Help Ukraine?
Of all the players in this drama, it’s Europe who should be in the driver’s seat. They have 500 million people. And yet, when we look at their expenditures, nine countries out of the 32, 11 years later, have not increased their NATO contributions to 2%.
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They’re also running a $200-plus billion trade surplus with the United States.
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Why can’t they just get together and get an exact, detailed plan of military wherewithal, coupled with a strategy, coupled with a renewed commitment to meet their NATO promises, coupled with an explanation to the American people why they feel that $200-plus billion trade surplus is essential to Europe’s survival and it is not a result of asymmetrical and unfair trade practices?
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Arrogance Goeth Before The Fall
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/03/arrogance-goeth-before-fall.html
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Ukrainian Aid: Trump-Armaments vs. Obama-Chow
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/10/ukrainian-aid-trump-armaments-vs-obama.html
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Bill Clinton Sealed Ukraine’s Fate 1994
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/03/bill-clinton-sealed-ukraines-fate-1994.html
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Thursday, March 13, 2025

 

Floyd County Va Judge Rules

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Note: Floyd County Va is a very rural county in south central Virginia on the North Carolina border.
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Virginia Judge Pauses State’s Return To RGGI During Youngkin’s Appeal - Inside Climate News
A judge in Floyd County Circuit Court ruled from the bench last week that Virginia does not need to return to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, the carbon market known as RGGI, as the state appeals a November decision by the court saying the state must rejoin the interstate effort.
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Judge Designate Randall Lowe’s ruling was a victory for Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin as the decision delays any potential reinstatement of what Youngkin calls a “regressive tax” on Virginians.
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AEP Electric Rate Increases Reflect Democrat Va Laws
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/02/aep-electric-rate-increases-reflect.html
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Northam’s Virginia Don Quixote Ocean Wind-Mills
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/08/northams-virginia-don-quixote-ocean.html
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D.Va.Sen Edwards Worried About Electric Bills – Really?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/01/dvasen-edwards-worried-about-electric.html
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Greenpeace's Dakota Pipeline: Not Green No Peace

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Greenpeace USA faces reckoning over Dakota Access protests with $300M lawsuit
Greenpeace USA faces reckoning over Dakota Access protests with $300M lawsuit - Washington Times
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The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests failed to stop the energy project from being completed, and they could wind up bankrupting Greenpeace USA.
Greenpeace suffered a defeat last week when the North Dakota Supreme Court denied its request to move the trial to Fargo from Mandan, the community that bore the brunt of the months-long protest mayhem.
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Thousands of protesters descended on the construction site near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation starting in April 2016. They …. vandalized equipment, blocked roads, set fires, butchered livestock, threatened workers and tangled with police.
(other than that, they were ‘peaceful -- Really?’)
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Dakota Access PipeLine Protests – Pravda-Media Putting LipStick On A Pig
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2017/04/dakota-access-pipeline-protests-pravda.html
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Sudiksha Another Natalee Holloway?

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Yet another sad story of an attractive college girl leaving the security of “a known group” to go into the unknown alone with a man she just met.
Every parent’s nightmare!
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Person of interest identified in search for missing University of Pittsburgh student who vanished on spring break trip
The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office in Virginia said U.S. investigators interviewed a person of interest at length.
Person of interest identified in search for missing University of Pittsburgh student who vanished on DR spring break trip
A person of interest has been identified in the weeklong search for missing University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, who vanished on a spring break trip in the Dominican Republic, according to an official in the United States.
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Suspect admits he killed Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005, pleads guilty to extorting her mother
Natalee Holloway: Joran van der Sloot admits to killing teen | AP News
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025

 

Democrats & PravdaMedia Laid Rotten Eggs

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Democrats blamed Trump for egg prices only weeks into office completely ignoring the real issue:
The spread of avian flu has killed millions of chickens across the nation (during Biden's term), shrinking the supply of eggs and driving prices higher. The average price for a dozen large grade-A eggs hit $4.95 in January 2025, double the cost from a year ago and surpassing the previous record set in January 2023 (during Biden’s term!).
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Democrats Used High Egg Prices to Attack Trump—Narrative Cracks [WATCH]
The cost of eggs has become a focal point in economic discussions, with critics of President Donald Trump using persistently high prices as evidence of his administration’s economic struggles.
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Egg prices down nearly $2 nationwide, agriculture secretary announces
Egg prices have become a hot button issue for Americans who have become shocked by the skyrocketing cost of the household staple item. Prices were impacted by an outbreak of avian flu, 
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Honey, I Shrunk The EPA

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I also clawed-back $20-Billion of your misappropriated tax dollars!
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Trump’s EPA is smaller, less green and focused on shrinking
EPA terminates Biden admin's green grants worth $20B, Zeldin says
$20 billion in grants awarded by the Biden administration for climate and clean-energy projects, Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Tuesday.
In a video posted to X, Zeldin said $20 billion in U.S. tax dollars were "parked at an outside financial institution in a deliberate effort to limit government oversight, doling out your money through just eight pass-through, politically connected, unqualified, and in some cases brand-new NGOs."
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A good start on a major project!
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Tuesday, March 11, 2025

 

Democrats Holding-Up Little Signs

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REFLECTIONS
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Holding-Up Little signs 1860
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Holding-Up ittle signs again  2025
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Is It Time To Challenge The Race-Baiters?
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2019/07/is-it-time-to-challenge-race-baiters.html
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Counter-Productive Democrat Hate

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Democrats’ hatred of Trump is destroying their party
Democrats did not just lose an election in 2024 — apparently, they lost their minds, too.
Consider, for instance, how they kicked off Women’s History Month — by voting against protecting women and girls in sports, against guaranteeing them a fair playing field.
This is not the only recent foolish move by Democrats. In anticipation of President Trump’s speech to Congress on Tuesday, 22 senators in the Democratic caucus broadcast videos of themselves all reading the exact same script, which starts with the words, “S— that ain’t true,”
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And then we have Democrats’ embarrassing behavior during Trump’s speech. Early on, one of their own, Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), was booted from the chamber for trying to disrupt the president by shouting and waving his cane. Others were more restrained but equally undignified, raising little paddles to signal their disapproval, looking for all the world like spoiled children.
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More shameful, though, was their sullen refusal to applaud or celebrate a young black child who had overcome brain cancer
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Pres. Trump 3-4-25 State of the Union
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/03/pres-trump-3-4-25-state-of-union.html
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Monday, March 10, 2025

 

Will Bobby Kennedy Jr Help Our Health?

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The Democrats and their PravdaMedia have launched a Jihad against Bobby Kenney Jr.
He’s targeted first because he’s a Democrat Party traitor and second because of his unorthodox views on public health priorities and practices.
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His views appear to be consistent with the view that:
Baby boomers had measles, mumps and chickenpox.
Today’s kids have inordinate levels of:
· Autism
· Learning disorders
· Diabetes type-1
· Asthma
· Allergies
· Eczema
· Autoimmune diseases
· Cancer
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All this in-spite-of a much-improved US environment over the past 100-years!
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Why is this happening?
What has changed?
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Perhaps Bobby’s questioning approach to public health will result in new approaches.
Perhaps Dr Fauci’s high-profile leadership during Covid did not serve our public health system well and his pardon further clouds ‘his science’.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2022/08/fauci-leaving-good-news.html
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During a Congressional hearing featuring RFKjr, the Democrat members attacked him as a racist and anti-Semitic and a purveyor of lies.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/07/rfkjr-retaliates.html
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Sunday, March 09, 2025

 

The Google ‘Canada Tariff’ Caper

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Many conservative entities have commented on Google’s “apparent” left-wing bias. This has the ‘appearance’ of another example?
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Over time Canada has levied large tariffs on US goods imported into Canada.
Currently Trump is proposing tariffs on Canada to stir their action on Fentenal Interdiction and ‘leveling the trade playing field’.
“Canada has been ripping us off for years on lumber and on dairy products,” Trump said in an Oval Office address Friday, citing Canada’s roughly 250% tariff on US dairy exports to the country. Trump said America would match those tariffs dollar-for-dollar.
Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada, including 250% tax on dairy | CNN Business
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It appears Google is waging a ‘tariff disinformation war’ against Trump.
Googling ‘Trump Canada Tariffs’ will NOT produce any data on the ongoing tariffs Canada imposes on US imports!
Googling ‘Canada Tariffs on US imports for past years’ will only list many pages of proposals Trump is making on Canada goods as if this is a totally one-way unilateral inappropriate action!
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A ‘competitor search engine‘ returned:
In 2022, Canada imposed various tariffs on imports from the United States. Here are some key points:
The maximum tariff rate on any product was 522.26%.

us canada tariffs 2022 - Search
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Trump's Canada, Mexico tariffs try to 'stop the bleeding' in US economy: UAW chief - ABC News
"Tariffs are an attempt to stop the bleeding from the hemorrhaging of jobs in America for the last 33 years," Fain said, suggesting the U.S. had lost "millions of jobs" since the inception of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994.
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Old Indian Explains Daylight Savings Time

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Saturday, March 08, 2025

 

Korean War Virus Killed Mrs Hackman

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Gene Hackman died at home a week after wife Betsy Arakawa died from hantavirus, (norovirus), authorities say
Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife died of hantavirus, authorities say | AP News
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During the Korean War some US soldiers became deathly ill with a virus near the Korean village of Hantaan.  ie: Hantavirus
The disease was spread through dried dusty mouse feces that were inhaled by soldiers sleeping on the ground.
Hantaan virus - Wikipedia
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Locally: Year’s later hikers on the Application trail were sickened while sleeping in lean-tos along the trail.
NPS Warns of Norovirus Outbreak on Appalachian Trail - Backpacker
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It’s curious that the Hantavirus would be in a $4 Million Santa Fe Ranch
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It’s even more curious that Mr. Hackman lived for a week in the home with his deceased wife’s body.
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Sometimes life is stranger than fiction, even for famous movie stars.
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Friday, March 07, 2025

 

Natural Variations

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Thursday, March 06, 2025

 

Reflections Of Herbert Hoover And Bonus Army

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Trump says DC Mayor Bowser 'must clean up' homeless encampments in the capital
President Trump said the government will be 'forced to do it for her' if Mayor Bowser doesn't remove the 'unsightly' homeless encampments
Trump told DC Mayor Bowser she 'must clean up' homeless encampments within city | Fox News
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Reflections:
In 1932, 43,000 persons, 17,000 were WW-1 veterans, setup and occupied a major ramshackle encampment in DC surrounding the reflecting-pool. They were demanding a war bonus to assist with the impacts of the Great Depression.
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The encampments and protesters were removed by force by US troops led by Generals MacArthur, Eisenhower and Patton.
What a difficult and sad assignment for these Army Officers.
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Illegal Encampments Reflect Back To Bonus Army
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2023/01/illegal-encampments-reflect-back-to.html
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Time To Put Dad Somewhere

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Sound ON  -- click-on Link

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Dad Its Time to Run for Senate | TikTok

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Eagle Goose Contention

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Wednesday, March 05, 2025

 

Pres. Trump 3-4-25 State of the Union


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Pres. Trump 3-4-25 State of the Union
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FULL SPEECH: Trump addresses Congress
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The Democrats behavior at the Joint Address
was disgusting and UnAmerican and
disrespectful to America.
Their fall from grace is pathetic.
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When thy get home to thy kennel tonight
I hope thy mother bites thee!
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Tuesday, March 04, 2025

 

Arrogance Goeth Before The Fall

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Zelenskyy: Why Was He Here?
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/03/zelenskyy-why-was-he-here.html
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Monday, March 03, 2025

 

Where’s The Pork?

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The Real “UnSustainable” Issue
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-real-unsustainable-issue.html
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