Let the truth be known

[SalesServiceGuy]

Re: Let the truth be known

Great news for Small Business Owners from Joe Biden:

.... teenager posting. Reported.

[Phil B.]

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.... teenager posting. Reported.

More liberal censureship
You seem to be on a mission.
Care to state the objective?

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[Phil B.]

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.... teenager posting. Reported.

How would you like someone from another country , telling you how to live in your country?
I know I haven't, I just stated what I mentioned above.
Leave me to my life. Don't try to make me conform to your countries rules if they aren't the laws of my land.

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[SalesServiceGuy]

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How would you like someone from another country , telling you how to live in your country?
I know I haven't, I just stated what I mentioned above.
Leave me to my life. Don't try to make me conform to your countries rules if they aren't the laws of my land.

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... spoken by the most immature teenager in CTN history who can rarely go a day without making rude comments.

[bsm2]

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The great Texas climate catastrophe is heading your way



The Green New Deal has come, believe it or not, to the state of Texas. How's it working out so far?
Well, the good news is all that alternative energy seems to have had a remarkable effect on the climate. Sunday night, parts of Texas got the temperatures that we typically see in Alaska. In fact, they were the same as they were in Alaska. So global warming is no longer a pressing concern in Houston.
The bad news is, they don't have electricity. The windmills froze, so the power grid failed. Millions of Texans woke up Monday morning having to boil their water because with no electricity, it couldn't be purified.

The ironically named Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which oversees the grid, had no solution to any of this. They simply told people to stop using so much power to keep warm. So in Houston, hundreds of shivering Texans headed to the convention center like refugees to keep from freezing to death. Some Texans almost certainly did freeze to death. Later this week, we'll likely learn just how many more were killed as they tried to keep warm with jury-rigged heaters and barbecues and car exhaust.



That happens every time when the power goes out; even advanced societies become primitive and dangerous, and people die. We've seen it happen repeatedly in California for years now, rolling blackouts in a purportedly First World state that is slipping steadily into chaos.
But who saw that coming in Texas? If there's one thing you would think Texas would be able to do, it's keep the lights on. Most electricity comes from natural gas and Texas produces more of that than any place on the continent. There are huge natural gas deposits all over the state. Running out of energy in Texas is like starving to death at the grocery store: You can only do it on purpose, and Texas did.
Rather than celebrate and benefit from their state's vast natural resources, politicians took the fashionable route and became recklessly reliant on so-called alternative energy, meaning windmills. Fifteen years ago, there were virtually no wind farms in Texas. Last year, roughly a quarter of all electricity generated in the state came from wind. Local politicians were pleased by this. They bragged about it like there was something virtuous about destroying the landscape and degrading the power grid. Just last week, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott proudly accepted something called the Wind Leadership Award, given with gratitude by Tri Global Energy, a company getting rich from green energy.
So it was all working great until the day it got cold outside. The windmills failed like the silly fashion accessories they are, and people in Texas died. This is not to beat up on the state of Texas -- it's a great state, actually -- but to give you some sense of what's about to happen to you.



Here's President Biden last month:
BIDEN, JAN. 27: In my view, we’ve already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis ... That’s why I’m signing today an executive order to supercharge our administration['s] ambitious plan to confront the existential threat of climate change. And it is an existential threat.
"Climate crisis", "existential threat", "ambitious plan". You hear those phrases a lot and you'll notice that they are all suspiciously non-precise. So what do they mean for you? Will they mean higher energy prices? For starters, gas prices are already up, in case you haven't noticed. Electricity will follow. Higher costs hurt the weakest, inflation always does, but it's worse than that. Green energy inevitably means blackouts. Someday that may change as technology progresses, but as of right now and given the current state of technology, green energy means a less reliable power grid. It means failures like the ones we're seeing now in Texas. That's not a talking point, that is true. It's science. So of course, they're denying it.
Here's our new climate czar taking a quick break from spewing carbon in his private jet to lecture the rest of us about a topic he personally knows nothing about: Private sector jobs and how more windmills are going to generate tons of them:

The current Power outages in Texas is from Natural Gas issue and Nuclear power issues. Only 13% percent loss is from the Wind Generators.

Try a real news network next time
Your Welcome

PolitiFact | Natural gas, not wind turbines, main driver of Texas power shortage

I see You only believe in Science when you can twist into something untrue.

[Phil B.]

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... spoken by the most immature teenager in CTN history who can rarely go a day without making rude comments.

Oh did you report me again.
Go ahead keep it up.
IDGAF

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[slimslob]

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... spoken by the most immature teenager in CTN history who can rarely go a day without making rude comments.

You must be talking about yourself. You are the one of the liberals constant making rude and insulting remarks on the political threads.

[BillyCarpenter]

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.... teenager posting. Reported.

Now that you've reported me, can you please tell me how a hiring a woman to lead the Small Business Admin is gonna help my small business? Let's say that Biden hired a trans woman, what would that do for my small business? Or if he hired a person that likes to have sex with both men and women...how would that be for my small business?


Personally, if he's gonna hire a woman, I'd prefer a blonde with a nice ass & big tits.

[bsm2]

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Now that you've reported me, can you please tell me how a hiring a woman to lead the Small Business Admin is gonna help my small business? Let's say that Biden hired a trans woman, what would that do for my small business? Or if he hired a person that likes to have sex with both men and women...how would that be for my small business?


Personally, if he's gonna hire a woman, I'd prefer a blonde with a nice ass & big tits.

When you marry one let us know

[BillyCarpenter]

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When you marry one let us know

Tell me if this makes sense to you, little buddy.


Let's say that you need open heart surgery and you're looking for a doctor. You're given the number for a heart doctor and you call them. You then ask the doctor about her qualifications. The first thing out of the doctor's mouth is: "First, of all I'm a woman."


Now, I don't know about you, but that doesn't exactly give me the most comforting feeling in the world. And this bitch could be a trans. I might need to see some proof before I let her operate.

[bsm2]

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Tell me if this makes sense to you, little buddy.


Let's say that you need open heart surgery and you're looking for a doctor. You're given the number for a heart doctor and you call them. You then ask the doctor about her qualifications. The first thing out of the doctor's mouth is: "First, of all I'm a woman."


Now, I don't know about you, but that doesn't exactly give me the most comforting feeling in the world. And this bitch could be a trans. I might need to see some proof before I let her operate.

How do YOU know the doctor's a Man? You better check

You better check all your customers too If your not to busy at the public restroom patrol checks

[BillyCarpenter]

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My race (white) is under a vicious racist attack by extremist liberals. What is the best course of action to fight back against this vicious racial attack?





NYC public school asks parents to 'reflect' on their 'whiteness'



"The 8 White Identities,"
The curriculum, written by Barnor Hesse, an associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University in Illinois, claims, "There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities.







A New York City Department of Education official told The Post that some parents at the school, which caters to sixth- through 12-graders on the Lower East Side, first shared the material with staff.



The principal then disseminated it to every parent "as part of a series of materials meant for reflection" and as "food for thought," the official said.

"The document in question was shared with the school by parents as a part of ongoing anti-racist work in the school community and is one of many resources the schools utilizes."
Northwestern University associate professor Barnor Hesse presents an "ethnography of whiteness" in the ranking list.

[Copier Addict]

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My race (white) is under a vicious racist attack by extremist liberals. What is the best course of action to fight back against this vicious racial attack?





NYC public school asks parents to 'reflect' on their 'whiteness'





"The 8 White Identities,"
The curriculum, written by Barnor Hesse, an associate professor of African American studies at Northwestern University in Illinois, claims, "There is a regime of whiteness, and there are action-oriented white identities.







A New York City Department of Education official told The Post that some parents at the school, which caters to sixth- through 12-graders on the Lower East Side, first shared the material with staff.



The principal then disseminated it to every parent "as part of a series of materials meant for reflection" and as "food for thought," the official said.

"The document in question was shared with the school by parents as a part of ongoing anti-racist work in the school community and is one of many resources the schools utilizes."
Northwestern University associate professor Barnor Hesse presents an "ethnography of whiteness" in the ranking list.

Awwwww, poor Billy. Better go sit in your "safe place". Don't forget your blanky

[BillyCarpenter]

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Canada takes another step towards communism:











A decade ago, as part of his stand-up act, a Canadian comedian began telling a joke about a disabled young singer. This is how that joke ended up in front of the country's top court.


Jeremy Gabriel was born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, a genetic disorder that can affect facial bone structure and, in his case, caused severe deafness.


Despite this, he fulfilled his dream of becoming a singer, performing for public figures from songstress Celine Dion to Pope Benedict XVI - all before he reached his teens - and achieving minor celebrity status in his home province of Quebec.


In 2010, a popular Quebec comedian, Mike Ward, known for his dark and edgy comedy, put together a 90-minute stand-up act.


Alongside the thorny issues of race and religion, it targeted what he called the "sacred cows" of the province's celebrity star system, people who in his view were for various reasons - too rich, too powerful - seen as out-of-bounds for mockery.


The repercussions of that show have been followed for almost a decade in Quebec and will culminate on 15 February, when the lengthy legal battle over a joke Ward told about Gabriel in that act will be heard by Canada's Supreme Court.




He also takes on Gabriel, who'd by then become known in the press as "Petit Jeremy" and who had released an album and autobiography.


The bit about Gabriel had Ward describing how he'd mistakenly believed the boy's condition was terminal, and eventually tried to drown him. He also joked about Gabriel's appearance in relation to his disability.


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On the page or in court documents, stripped of Ward's delivery, it can be hard to see why the audience laughs, but they do, and heartily.


Ward chides them: "I didn't know how far I could go with that joke. At one point I said to myself, you're going too far, they're going to stop laughing. But no, you didn't."


The show was performed live over 200 times between 2010 and 2013, with copies sold online.


Gabriel first came across Ward's jokes about him in 2010, when he was 13 and starting high school. Already bullied, he says Ward's act added fuel.


"I couldn't go a day without being told one of his jokes," says the now 24-year-old.


He felt targeted due to his disability, and began to withdraw socially and thinking seriously about suicide. But Gabriel's family never reached out directly to the comedian about it.


"Due to the nature of the jokes, due to what was being said, we thought we wouldn't be taken seriously," says Gabriel.


Then in 2012, they heard Ward on a popular news programme discussing the joke.


"Comparing himself to a cocaine addict, he said that he needs to make jokes that go too far," court documents state.


That's when the family filed a human rights complaint.


When Ward's case was brought before the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal - a specialised court that handles cases related to discrimination or harassment under the provincial rights charter - the comedian lost.


The tribunal found he had "exceeded the limits of freedom of expression" and that his joke was discriminatory on the basis of disability.





The court's "intention is not to restrict creativity or censor artists' opinions", said the ruling, but "comedians, like any citizen, are responsible for the consequences of their words when they cross certain lines".


Ward had already decided that if he lost, he'd seek to take the fight to Canada's top court.


"Comedy is not a crime," he said in a statement after the Court of Appeal decision. "In a 'free' country, it shouldn't be up to a judge to decide what constitutes a joke on stage."


He said the crowd's laughter "already answered that question".


Ward has said he is refusing to pay the damages "not for myself, but for the young comedians, the comedians of tomorrow", arguing it's fundamental to the craft that comedians be allowed to take risks.


And he contends because Gabriel was a public figure, he was open to satire.


Gabriel argues: "It's not because you're a public person that you no longer have any rights."


"A line has been crossed - I firmly and strongly believe that," he adds.


Many comedians, in Quebec and elsewhere, have rallied behind Ward. Just For Laughs, the world-renowned Montreal comedy festival, hosted a show a few years ago to help him pay his legal costs.


The support comes amid concern in stand-up comedy circles that it's found itself pulled into the debate around political correctness, free speech, censorship, and cancel culture.


There's a fear of a chilling effect on comedy.


Michael Lifshitz is a Canadian comedian born with Multiple Congenital Musculoskeletal Abnormalities and uses stand-up to educate people on disability.


When the case first made news headlines, he used to joke "I'm going to sue myself for the jokes I make about my disability, because I'll admit, some of my jokes are not politically correct."


He says he doesn't want to be treated differently due to his condition - even if that includes it being the butt of a joke - and sees the case as a lost opportunity for changing social attitudes around disability.


"I'm not sure how a court case really moves the issue of inclusion forward or prevents other people from becoming victims of bullies," he says.


He sees it as a slippery slope.


"I think it's a dangerous precedent when the court says what you can and can't say - that should be left to the court of public opinion."


Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing, Gabriel says both sides in the case have dug in.


"I think it's important to stand up for what you believe in. I think that's what I did and I think that's what Mike Ward did" when he decided to continue to fight the tribunal decision, he says.


"I also stick to my beliefs that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequences."


On his end Ward has quipped in the past that if he loses this last round, he'll "move to Syria, or Saudi Arabia, or some other country that respects free speech as much as Canada".


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Canada takes another step towards communism:











A decade ago, as part of his stand-up act, a Canadian comedian began telling a joke about a disabled young singer. This is how that joke ended up in front of the country's top court.


Jeremy Gabriel was born with Treacher Collins Syndrome, a genetic disorder that can affect facial bone structure and, in his case, caused severe deafness.


Despite this, he fulfilled his dream of becoming a singer, performing for public figures from songstress Celine Dion to Pope Benedict XVI - all before he reached his teens - and achieving minor celebrity status in his home province of Quebec.


In 2010, a popular Quebec comedian, Mike Ward, known for his dark and edgy comedy, put together a 90-minute stand-up act.


Alongside the thorny issues of race and religion, it targeted what he called the "sacred cows" of the province's celebrity star system, people who in his view were for various reasons - too rich, too powerful - seen as out-of-bounds for mockery.


The repercussions of that show have been followed for almost a decade in Quebec and will culminate on 15 February, when the lengthy legal battle over a joke Ward told about Gabriel in that act will be heard by Canada's Supreme Court.




He also takes on Gabriel, who'd by then become known in the press as "Petit Jeremy" and who had released an album and autobiography.


The bit about Gabriel had Ward describing how he'd mistakenly believed the boy's condition was terminal, and eventually tried to drown him. He also joked about Gabriel's appearance in relation to his disability.


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On the page or in court documents, stripped of Ward's delivery, it can be hard to see why the audience laughs, but they do, and heartily.


Ward chides them: "I didn't know how far I could go with that joke. At one point I said to myself, you're going too far, they're going to stop laughing. But no, you didn't."


The show was performed live over 200 times between 2010 and 2013, with copies sold online.


Gabriel first came across Ward's jokes about him in 2010, when he was 13 and starting high school. Already bullied, he says Ward's act added fuel.


"I couldn't go a day without being told one of his jokes," says the now 24-year-old.


He felt targeted due to his disability, and began to withdraw socially and thinking seriously about suicide. But Gabriel's family never reached out directly to the comedian about it.


"Due to the nature of the jokes, due to what was being said, we thought we wouldn't be taken seriously," says Gabriel.


Then in 2012, they heard Ward on a popular news programme discussing the joke.


"Comparing himself to a cocaine addict, he said that he needs to make jokes that go too far," court documents state.


That's when the family filed a human rights complaint.


When Ward's case was brought before the Quebec Human Rights Tribunal - a specialised court that handles cases related to discrimination or harassment under the provincial rights charter - the comedian lost.


The tribunal found he had "exceeded the limits of freedom of expression" and that his joke was discriminatory on the basis of disability.





The court's "intention is not to restrict creativity or censor artists' opinions", said the ruling, but "comedians, like any citizen, are responsible for the consequences of their words when they cross certain lines".


Ward had already decided that if he lost, he'd seek to take the fight to Canada's top court.


"Comedy is not a crime," he said in a statement after the Court of Appeal decision. "In a 'free' country, it shouldn't be up to a judge to decide what constitutes a joke on stage."


He said the crowd's laughter "already answered that question".


Ward has said he is refusing to pay the damages "not for myself, but for the young comedians, the comedians of tomorrow", arguing it's fundamental to the craft that comedians be allowed to take risks.


And he contends because Gabriel was a public figure, he was open to satire.


Gabriel argues: "It's not because you're a public person that you no longer have any rights."


"A line has been crossed - I firmly and strongly believe that," he adds.


Many comedians, in Quebec and elsewhere, have rallied behind Ward. Just For Laughs, the world-renowned Montreal comedy festival, hosted a show a few years ago to help him pay his legal costs.


The support comes amid concern in stand-up comedy circles that it's found itself pulled into the debate around political correctness, free speech, censorship, and cancel culture.


There's a fear of a chilling effect on comedy.


Michael Lifshitz is a Canadian comedian born with Multiple Congenital Musculoskeletal Abnormalities and uses stand-up to educate people on disability.


When the case first made news headlines, he used to joke "I'm going to sue myself for the jokes I make about my disability, because I'll admit, some of my jokes are not politically correct."


He says he doesn't want to be treated differently due to his condition - even if that includes it being the butt of a joke - and sees the case as a lost opportunity for changing social attitudes around disability.


"I'm not sure how a court case really moves the issue of inclusion forward or prevents other people from becoming victims of bullies," he says.


He sees it as a slippery slope.


"I think it's a dangerous precedent when the court says what you can and can't say - that should be left to the court of public opinion."


Ahead of the Supreme Court hearing, Gabriel says both sides in the case have dug in.


"I think it's important to stand up for what you believe in. I think that's what I did and I think that's what Mike Ward did" when he decided to continue to fight the tribunal decision, he says.


"I also stick to my beliefs that freedom of expression is not freedom from consequences."


On his end Ward has quipped in the past that if he loses this last round, he'll "move to Syria, or Saudi Arabia, or some other country that respects free speech as much as Canada".


Related Topics

It will be interesting to see where this ends up.
I don't understand the " communism" reference, but other than that it is interesting.