The Bureau of Land Management is planning a truly boneheaded move, angering some conservationists over the affects to herd populations and migration routes. From Field & Stream.
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently released a draft plan outlining potential solar energy development in the West. The proposal is an update of the BLM’s 2012 Western Solar Plan. It adds five new states—Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming—to a list of 11 western states already earmarked…… [read more]
Ramon Perez came to court last month ready to fight the tickets he’d been handed by Brookside police, including one for rolling through a stop sign and another for driving 48 mph in a 40 zone.
He swore he’d seen the cop from a distance and was careful as he braked.
“I saw him and we looked eye to eye,” the Chelsea business owner said. “There’s no way I was going to run that stop sign.”
When he got to court Dec. 2, he saw scores of people just like him lining up to stand before Judge Jim Wooten, complaining of penny-ante “crimes” and harassment by officers. He saw so many people trying to park in the grassy field outside the municipal building that police had to direct traffic.
He figured there was no point.
“I saw the same attitude in every officer and every person,” he said. “That’s why I hesitated to fight it. They were doing the same thing to every person that was there. They own the town.”
Perez, it appears, was right.
Months of research and dozens of interviews by AL.com found that Brookside’s finances are rocket-fueled by tickets and aggressive policing. In a two-year period between 2018 and 2020 Brookside revenues from fines and forfeitures soared more than 640 percent and now make up half the city’s total income.
If the Alabama AG had any balls and wasn’t part of the corruption, he’d be all over this. This is certainly reason enough to have cameras constantly rolling when you’re driving, and especially during interaction with cops.
It’s a shame when it has come to this. City government is corrupt, and cops are their armed agents for collection. But the cops know what they’re doing, and they’re culprits as well. If it weren’t for the fact that they can so easily find evil men to enforce their policies, the city would be powerless.
Hey, how about pastors in Alabama taking on the evils of government in a sermon series? Spineless cowards with no balls, you say? Rather talk about pretty butterflies and love all around?
The very first sentence is an admission of the utter failure of every fraudulent infringement Feuer — and the L.A. government he has been a prominent part of for decades — have mandated by diktat in the name of “gun safety.” Not only has the state of California attained the highest “gun laws” grade from both the Brady Campaign and the Giffords gun-grab groups but Feuer and every person he submitted his latest citizen disarmament scheme to has built a powerful political career on Second Amendment subversion.
If their edicts really did work, why is there “increasing gun violence”? Isn’t proposing new prohibitions not only a masked admission that none of them have, and that the violence monopolist will never have enough until they have it all? And what do we call those whose control is total?
Violence has been around since the fourth chapter of the book of Genesis, and will be with us until the Lord returns. The fault isn’t the implement.
The implement could be rocks, sticks, hammers or pitchforks. No one addresses the root cause because they don’t believe in God, the only one who can solve these problems.
The solution is found in family and church, when those institutions bow their knee to King Jesus. The solution to problems almost never is founded in the state. The state only makes things worse.
Mike laments the fact that the NRA has done good and could do good again.
I remarked in comments “Support for the NFA, support for the GCA, support for the Hughes Amendment, support for the AWB, support for UBC, support for red flag laws, support for the bump stock ban. They’ve been doing bad for years and years and years. And if people like Meadows are left around, it’ll be just as corrupt as it is now. NRA = the most powerful, most well connected, most well funded gun control organization on earth, as they always have been.”
A newly released study from Brazil of over 150 thousand subjects found that regular prophylactic use of ivermectin “was associated with significantly reduced COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and mortality rates.”
The largest ivermectin study to date was conducted in Itajaí, Brazil, between July 2020 and December 2020. It recently passed rigorous peer-review and was published this week, Dr. Pierre Kory noted on Twitter.
Background: Ivermectin has demonstrated different mechanisms of action that potentially protect from both coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and COVID-19-related comorbidities. Based on the studies suggesting efficacy in prophylaxis combined with the known safety profile of ivermectin, a citywide prevention program using ivermectin for COVID-19 was implemented in Itajaí, a southern city in Brazil in the state of Santa Catarina. The objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of regular ivermectin use on subsequent COVID-19 infection and mortality rates.
Researchers invited the entire population of Itajaí to enroll in the program and compiled baseline, personal, demographic, and medical information on participants.
In the absence of contraindications, ivermectin was offered as an optional treatment to be taken for two consecutive days every 15 days at a dose of 0.2 mg/kg/day. In cases where a participating citizen of Itajaí became ill with COVID-19, they were recommended not to use ivermectin or any other medication in early outpatient treatment. Clinical outcomes of infection, hospitalization, and death were automatically reported and entered into the registry in real time. Study analysis consisted of comparing ivermectin users with non-users using cohorts of infected patients propensity score-matched by age, sex, and comorbidities. COVID-19 infection and mortality rates were analyzed with and without the use of propensity score matching (PSM).
The results showed a 6.6 percent infection rate for non-users of ivermectin, and a 3.7 percent infection rate for regular users of the drug, a 44 percent reduction in the COVID-19 infection rate.
There was also a 56 percent reduction in the hospitalization rate for ivermectin users (44 versus 99 hospitalizations).
The most striking result was the difference in the mortality rate. Of the subjects who were infected, those who regularly used ivermectin had a 70 percent reduction in COVID-19 mortality.
This is why big Pharma doesn’t want you to have it. It’s effective, it’s cheap, it’s well tolerated, and it’s safe. But it isn’t patented, and doesn’t fit the transhumanist narrative with drugs and experimental treatments injected into humans by witchdoctors throwing chicken bones over their left shoulder and uttering incantations.
It’s also the way India stomped out Covid.
Reminder: The FDA doesn’t want you to have it, and state boards will pull the license of doctors who prescribe it.
The debate over firearm ownership remains one that will likely never find common ground in the United States. To supporters of the Second Amendment, it is a right guaranteed by our Founding Fathers, while gun control advocates would like to put greater restrictions on the ownership of firearms. Yet, in recent decades the debate over gun control has become a hot button political issue, one embraced by lawmakers on both sides.
On Tuesday, Republican Rep. Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) of Kentucky – a noted supporter of the Second Amendment – tweeted a simple but direct question, “What pro Second Amendment legislation do you want the House to pass when Republicans retake the majority?”
The response was immediate, with many gun rights groups and supporters calling for the abolishment of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and even the repeal of the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA).
No, no, no, no and a thousand times no. My rights are guaranteed by God, not the founders. The founders created a covenant, which upon violation, justifies dissolution of the contract altogether.
Men of good character want to abolish the ATF because it is an unconstitutional abomination. Men of good character want to repeal the NFA because it is an infringement on God given rights.
