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03-15-2023, 09:10 PM
Yes, Biden is actually coming for your gas stove...
BTW, there's a fun link where you can tell the government what you think about this proposed regulation. I submitted a few choice words for their review.
BTW, there's a fun link where you can tell the government what you think about this proposed regulation. I submitted a few choice words for their review.
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03-16-2023, 07:06 AM
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Yes, Biden is actually coming for your gas stove...
BTW, there's a fun link where you can tell the government what you think about this proposed regulation. I submitted a few choice words for their review.
BTW, there's a fun link where you can tell the government what you think about this proposed regulation. I submitted a few choice words for their review.
You guys over at the dept of ENERGY have any actual ENGINEERS on board there? How about people with just a smidgen of technical education, like the basic ability to convert units like a high school student. Energy is energy.
Table 1 commits the very grave sin of mixing units to mislead the public. 1,204,000 BTU = 352 kw-hr. Report that. 1.7 times more energy used, BUT its used for direct heating. Where does electricity come from? Well in this country if its not from an atom being split its more than likely from coal or natural gas. Natural gas has the best efficiency so we will use that figure of 50%. so for a fair comparison, that 207 kw-hr figure needs a 50% increase in the ACTUAL AMOUNT of energy used. So that's 414 kw-hr equivalent or 1,412,627 btu. Or put another way a 17% increase. Opps! that's MORE than my gas stove if you are checking. And we have not even begun to speak about transmission losses.
The dept of energy should be ashamed for even publishing this garbage and for its rank incompetence. Its 'regulations' like this that 'benefit americans' that make me ashamed of my government.
Table 1 commits the very grave sin of mixing units to mislead the public. 1,204,000 BTU = 352 kw-hr. Report that. 1.7 times more energy used, BUT its used for direct heating. Where does electricity come from? Well in this country if its not from an atom being split its more than likely from coal or natural gas. Natural gas has the best efficiency so we will use that figure of 50%. so for a fair comparison, that 207 kw-hr figure needs a 50% increase in the ACTUAL AMOUNT of energy used. So that's 414 kw-hr equivalent or 1,412,627 btu. Or put another way a 17% increase. Opps! that's MORE than my gas stove if you are checking. And we have not even begun to speak about transmission losses.
The dept of energy should be ashamed for even publishing this garbage and for its rank incompetence. Its 'regulations' like this that 'benefit americans' that make me ashamed of my government.
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03-17-2023, 11:53 AM
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If Biden Gets His Way, Using Correct Pronouns Could Be A Human Rights Violation
BY: CHERISE TRUMPMARCH 17, 2023
President Joe Biden’s Department of Education plans to enact new rule changes to civil rights law this May that would end free speech as Americans have known it.
The changes would inject gender ideology straight into the heart of Title IX of the Civil Rights Act by erasing the Supreme Court’s long-standing distinction between protected speech and punishable conduct.
In its 1999 ruling in Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, the Supreme Court held that expressive activity such as speech can only constitute harassment when it is “so severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive” that it can no longer be considered pure speech and is more properly viewed as actionable conduct. In the process, the court emphasized that single instances of speech — no matter how offensive to the listener — do not rise to the level of harassment.
The Biden administration is purposefully muddying the waters between mere speech and harassing conduct specifically to force the use of pronouns and gender-affirming language. Under the proposed rule, students and faculty can violate Title IX simply for refusing to use someone else’s “preferred” pronouns.
Ideally, investigations involving Title IX are mindful of First Amendment protections and proceed according to the American standard of due process that a person is innocent until proven guilty. Title IX has typically been reserved for incidents of sexual assault or harassment. Under the Biden administration, however, students and faculty could be reported for mere speech. By coercing and compelling speech, this administration will set legal precedent ablaze and steamroll arguably our nation’s most foundational principle.
In the U.S., the First Amendment protects a very wide range of speech and, therefore, actions that demonstrate political messages. The highest court in the land has ruled that the **** Party of America’s march through Skokie, Illinois, and the burning of the American flag are protected forms of speech.
What’s really going on here? The administration, spurred on by power-hungry college administrators, seeks the destruction of freedom of speech by other means. It wishes for us to become Canada. In the Great White North, the alleged misuse of pronouns is not just illegal, it is a “human rights violation.”
Following a drawn-out court battle in the Canadian justice system, the court told a Canadian father that he had to stop referring to his own daughter as a girl because his daughter identified as a boy. The father rightfully refused to comply with the court order, and in May 2021, a warrant was issued for his arrest.
He had originally sought mental health help for his daughter, but by the time of the litigation, she had already been “transitioning” for two years. The father was jailed as a criminal.
In 2016, Canadian professor Jordan Peterson refused to use transgender pronouns and condemned Canada’s bill C-16, legislation that codified gender ideology into Canadian law. Now Peterson is facing the governing body of the College of Psychologists of Ontario, which is threatening to pull his psychology license if he doesn’t undergo social media “re-education.”
During the Canadian trucker strike of 2022, a Polish-Canadian pastor was jailed for 51 days for just speaking to the convoy.
Canada’s totalitarian actions even extend to political opponents. In 2021, Maxime Bernier, leader of the People’s Party of Canada, was arrested for attending an anti-lockdown event in protest of Canada’s authoritarian lockdowns. Bernier warned that Americans should not take their freedoms for granted.
The United States boasts a rich, intrepid history of protecting and enforcing both the natural and legal rights of its citizens. Despite that history of liberty, there’s a rapidly growing desire on the left to control myriad forms of speech, everywhere and at all times.
This trend is readily apparent across the country. From college campuses to corporate offices, and from social media platforms to bookstores, speech is increasingly under attack from leftist elites. And there’s still much more damage that can be done.
With Title IX enforcing gender ideology, what will happen to students who disagree with this dangerous dogma? What will happen to students who believe in basic biology, namely the notion that there are two sexes, that a man can’t become a woman, and vice versa? What will happen to students who have traditional values and remain true to their faith?
The answer is alarming. Under this butchered version of civil rights law, these students will be vulnerable to an array of punishments, including suspension and even expulsion. They will be treated as lawbreakers. And inevitably, they will be vilified in the left-dominated public square, crushing professional dreams and aspirations. Either comply or face the social guillotine.
Biden is confused about a lot of things. You would hope he would at least know the difference between Canada and the United States.
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/17...hts-violation/
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03-19-2023, 07:43 PM
Clearly, we are no where near being out of the woods yet.
World’s number one tennis player Novak Djokovic to miss Miami Open due to vaccination status
https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/18/tennis/djokovic-vaccine-miami-open-tennis-spt-intl-hnk/index.html
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03-19-2023, 08:56 PM
Wonder what Fauci would say...
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03-20-2023, 02:22 PM
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That time you did bad drugs before a show:
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/statu...70176813940742
and by bad drugs I mean a vaccine that doesn't do anything but poison you...
https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/statu...70176813940742
and by bad drugs I mean a vaccine that doesn't do anything but poison you...
when are we going to solve climate change?
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03-20-2023, 08:30 PM
What do you suppose is the more important story? The one involving the stripper from six years ago that even Michael Avenatti tweets is a nothingburger? Or foreign coercion of a sitting president? Insert brush-off comments here:
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03-20-2023, 09:38 PM
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If it actually does happen, then the important story will be the fact that the DOJ is prosecuting a six year old hush-money payment made to a prostitute, rather than anything relevant to the fairly serious crimes which the present administration seems to be complicit in.
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