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“…Suit claims the feds are following the EPA’s playbook for the Clean Power Plan, which the Supreme Court blocked before a lower court could review it…”
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One of Fauci’s Top Doctors Opposes Vaccine Mandates, Will Debate Ethics at NIH
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USA TODAY asked 1,000 registered voters to “name the single thing that was most important for Biden to do in the next year.”
“Resign/retire/quit” was the top response.https://t.co/qJGnNnlXsa
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) November 8, 2021
Stupid.
So stupid it is difficult to comprehend.
Big media, big corporations, big government seem determined to hire idiots and give them power over normal people.
“It’s almost like ‘systemic racism’ is being used as a shield to protect the failure of leadership to the point that nobody can challenge their decisions for fear of being labeled a racist.”
Because Democrats love democracy lol https://t.co/uR3GYxbQHL
— Hannah Cox (@HannahDCox) November 9, 2021
I believe the 2 months or so between the Biden announcement of the mandate and the OSHA issuance of the mandate were to allow pre-issuance coercion of big business to comply with the mandate. Biden must have been advised that within a week of mandate issuance he would be sued by multiple parties and that the plaintiffs would have an excellent chance at prevailing in the courts. The delay between announcement and issuance was to get some compliance before being shut down. The statement that business should comply despite the court stay is an indication of ideological control of administration policy by far-left bureaucrats. Similar bureaucratic control was on display recently when Biden denied huge payouts to illegal aliens and quickly reversed himself. This administration will be shown by history to be one of the most ideologically driven in the history of our great country. The reason the ideologues have so much sway is the obvious weakness, physical and mental, of the president and his inability to exercise control of his own government.
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Here is a brief excerpt. Much more at the link.
“…The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit yesterday stayed the Biden administration’s brand-new COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private employers, which took effect on Friday, when it was published in the Federal Register. The appeals court said the arguments made by the petitioners—a Louisiana supermarket chain and six employees of a Texas company that makes kitchen ventilation systems—”give cause to believe there are grave statutory and constitutional issues with the Mandate.”
The vaccine rule, which was announced in early September but was not unveiled until last Thursday, gives businesses with 100 or more employees two options: They can adopt a “mandatory vaccination policy” with limited exceptions, or they can require unvaccinated employees to wear face masks and undergo weekly COVID-19 testing. The White House described the mandate as part of a broader effort to boost the nationwide vaccination rate. The aim, it said, is to “reduce the number of unvaccinated Americans by using regulatory powers and other actions to substantially increase the number of Americans covered by vaccination requirements.”
But the federal government has no general authority to protect public health, control communicable diseases, or require vaccination, all of which are primarily state responsibilities. The administration therefore presented the vaccine mandate as an “emergency temporary standard” (ETS) issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which is charged specifically with protecting employees from workplace hazards. As the 5th Circuit indicated, that legal strategy leaves the mandate open to challenge on both statutory and constitutional grounds.
The plaintiffs in BST Holdings v. OSHA, who are represented by the Chicago-based Liberty Justice Center and Louisiana’s Pelican Institute for Public Policy, argue that the ETS exceeds the agency’s authority under the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Even if it didn’t, they say, empowering OSHA to issue such a sweeping order would exceed the federal government’s power to regulate interstate commerce and violate the nondelegation doctrine, which constrains lawmaking by executive agencies…”
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Andrew Branca:
“…By far the most destructive of Grosskreutz testimony to the State narrative of guilt was when he recounted before the jury that at the moment that he was shot in the bicep by Kyle—the moment that his bicep was “vaporized,” to use his own language—his Glock 27 .40-caliber pistol with a round in the chamber was pointed directly at Kyle from a distance of perhaps 3 feet.
All this while he insisted on direct examination that he would never be able to shoot another human being, because “that’s not the kind of person I am.”…
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…Almost as compelling was Gaige Grosskreutz—I remind you, the STATE’s star witness—testifying repeatedly how Rittenhouse only ever shot at people who were actually attacking him, and never fired a shot at anybody who was not, or even anybody who appeared to have begun and attack but then backed of.
Here’s Grosskreutz recounting how Kyle had the opportunity to shoot him as he rushed up, gun in hand, but did not fire when Grosskreutz put the brakes on his rush and put his hands up in the universal gesture of “unthreatening.”…
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…Perhaps as sweet as Grosskreutz’ testimony about how disciplined Kyle was in his judicious use of deadly defensive force only against people apparently attempting to kill or maim him, was Grosskreutz’ testimony about his own tender concerns for Kyle’s well-being while being attacked by multiple deadly force aggressors.
Here’s Grosskreutz testifying that in his opinion Kyle was in genuine physical danger, a danger about which he himself was concerned…
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…Here’s Grosskreutz testifying that he was particularly concerned that Kyle might suffer serious head trauma under the tender mercies of Anthony Huber’s skateboard—in the same day that ADA Binger sought to ridicule the notion that a skateboard could present a deadly force threat.
In fact, Grosskreutz was on record as having told police that he was particularly concerned about the manner in which Anthony Huber was swinging the skateboard with a grip on the “trucks,” the metal fixtures that attach the wheels to the board, and which provides for the board to be struck with exceptional force.
Indeed, so concerned was Grosskreutz by the danger of Huber’s skateboard attack, that he repeatedly shouted at Huber to stop hitting Kyle with the board—yes, that’s his own testimony under cross-examination today…
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…As for the notion pushed by ADA Binger that the men attacking 17-year-old did so in the belief that he was a purported “active shooter,” Grosskreutz put a stake in the heart of that nonsensical narrative when he conceded that even he—the only identified of the attackers on Kyle who could have been so motivated—lacked any reasonable basis on which to come to such a conclusion.
As I noted in my most recent post examining the issues of provocation in this case, an “active shooter” belief that Kyle was an “active shooter” in the absence of evidence consistent with such a perception can only be an irrational, speculative, and imaginative belief . And an irrational, speculative, and imaginative belief of an attacker cannot in any way diminish a defender’s privilege of self-defense.
To allow this to be would be to make every claim of self-defense contingent on the irrational, speculative, and imaginative beliefs of the attacker—and that’s not how self-defense law in general, nor the law in particular, works.
In the context of an “active shooter” perception, for that perception to be reasonable, and not merely speculative, at a minimum there must be evidence of the core characteristic of an “active shooter,” as an aggressor who has or is attempting to shoot multiple people. And Gaige Grosskreutz, naturally, had zero evidence that Kyle had engaged in any such activity…”
The new study contradicts a much larger Israeli study this summer.
“…Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published an “early release” study last week that uses a highly curated population to purportedly show that mRNA-vaccinated people have a much lower rate of reinfection by COVID-19 than naturally immune people, contradicting a much larger Israeli study this summer.
The CDC study concludes: “All eligible persons should be vaccinated against COVID-19 as soon as possible, including unvaccinated persons previously infected with SARS-CoV-2.”
The study analyzed “COVID-19–like illness hospitalizations among adults” across nine states from January through Sept. 2. Because public health authorities portrayed vaccination as the best way to avoid hospitalization, it’s less likely that vaccinated people would seek hospitalization, thus hiding their breakthrough infections relative to the naturally immune.
Attorney Jenin Younes, whose New Civil Liberties Alliance files legal challenges against COVID vaccine mandates, tweeted that the study contradicts a meta-analysis touted by the CDC, which found “no significant difference” in protection between vaccination and natural immunity.
Anyone who has like five minutes can see how blatantly the CDC lies, by comparing this "study" https://t.co/eUS8FOkNEO to this metanalysis https://t.co/8MNvAGHSLH. And then one should begin to question everything the CDC has ever said about COVID-19 (or perhaps anything).
— Jenin Younes (former handle @leftylockdowns1) (@JeninYounesEsq) November 1, 2021
Immunologist Hooman Noorchashm, the medical expert for multiple NCLA challenges, called the study “another teleological piece of propaganda” by the CDC because it excludes the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and likely includes recovered people in the vaccinated group.
Harvard Medical School epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff tweeted that the study has a “major statistical flaw” – falsely portraying hospitalized respiratory patients as “representative of the population” – which renders the odds ratio “wrong.”
Former New York Times journalist Alex Berenson argued the study “is meaningless gibberish that would never have been published if the agency did not face huge political pressure to get people vaccinated.” It’s not even clear enough naturally immune people were hospitalized to reach statistical significance, he said, noting there’s no unadjusted odds ratio…”
Rittenhouse prosecution after witness Grosskreutz admits he only got shot after he drew his gun on Kyle and advanced on him pic.twitter.com/yvzeowUzF3
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) November 8, 2021
Rittenhouse trial should be over immediately. pic.twitter.com/PHZnHS5rD9
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) November 8, 2021
“…In the linked article, Politico repeats the lie that “presidents have little to no control over gas prices.” That used to be true back when OPEC effectively ruled the world. But only twelve months ago, the United States was a net exporter of oil and natural gas. When operating at capacity – which requires the cooperation of the government on a number of fronts – we have more than enough fuel to meet all of our needs. We’re just not doing what needs to be done to get it to all of the places where it’s needed. So yes, Joe Biden has significant (though not complete) control over energy prices.
It’s like we went to bed one night in one of the most dominant energy-producing countries in the world and woke up the next morning in the loony bin. But at least thus far, it appears that most of the mainstream media is once again going to give Biden a free pass and try to place the blame elsewhere. Someone should start a timer and see how long it takes before CNN blames the high prices on Trump…”
#FJB #UGA #secfootball #conservative #letsgobrandon #trump #americafirst @OldRow_Georgia pic.twitter.com/NjJVYGntGI
— Old Row (@OldRowViral) November 6, 2021
And to the bikes:
All but one of the states that filed lawsuits, Iowa, have Republican attorneys general, while Kansas, Kentucky, and Louisiana are the only three of the 27 states with Democratic governors, and Iowa’s governor is a Republican.
ANTIFA/BLM assume the role of Democrat shock troops.
MEDIA ADVISORY
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. #VoterGA to Provide Evidence Showing Many #Georgia Counties Destroyed 2020 Election Records https://t.co/uRolVsMmcO #PublicRecords #FIX2020 #Atlanta #RoswellGA #GaHouse #GaSenate #galeg #gagop #gadems #gapol #atlpol pic.twitter.com/jjZr7F1Hic
— Garland Favorito (@VoterGa) November 7, 2021
