Still Free

Yeah, Mr. Smiley. Made it through the entire Trump presidency without being enslaved. Imagine that.

Saturday, April 29, 2023

Garvey's Ghost TV: 4-29-2023: All Kinds of Wrong

Rumble:

BitChute:

topics:
8:00: Mehdi doesn't understand math.
12:00: Judge still believes masks myths in 2023.
22:22: No Sabbath Observance for You.
34:00: Weak Christians for child mutilation.
52:58: Trannies in the London Marathon.

Monday, April 24, 2023

Chicago Loses A COVID Case

 

Well the good part about this is:

An Illinois judge ruled that the city of Chicago must rehire and pay back lost wages of unionized city employees who were fired or disciplined for violating COVID-19 vaccination requirements.

Administrative law judge Anna Hamburg-Gal, writing on behalf of the Illinois Labor Relations Board, said that the city "failed and refused" to bargain in good faith with union leaders "over the effects of its decision to implement a COVID-19 vaccine mandate."

And

Affected employees must also be paid back lost wages and benefits with 7% annual interest, according to the ruling.

The part that I have a problem with is the whole 

" the city "failed and refused" to bargain in good faith with union leaders ""

As I argued when I was put under the gun, Under what contract does a Union have to negotiate and prescribe medical care for its members?  Unions negotiate health benefits not actual health care.

My second problem is the fundamental of people being free to agree to and decline medical interventions without any sort of coercion. In particular the right to refuse EXPERIMENTAL medical treatments of any kind without coercion by any public or private entity.

This is THE fundamental issue and it is clear to me that these judges are not interested in this. I think this is because these judges are enforcing the interests of the state as it grows it's power over people in ways that it should never have. The entire "process violation" rulings are just distractions. The fundamental issue needs to be addressed or this WILL happen again.

Saturday, April 08, 2023

CNN and the NewSpeak

As the power of the Tranny lobby grows and the CEI index continues to dictate to various corporations, the newspeak of Orwellian fame continues apace. I have long said and will continue to say that those who oppose the new religion must not use the newspeak or validate it in any way. This example is from CNN (not surprising eh?).


Just looking at the headline we see where CNNs interests lie. An alternate, and much more truthful headline would have been:

Kansas lawmakers override governor's veto to enact pro-woman sports law.

Note that this framing would have put the actual purpose of the law: to protect women in women's sports from men, front and center. Instead CNN shows that in it's world men competing in women's sports, as long as they claim to be a woman, is normal and expected and being against that is The Bad Thing(tm).

So the first lesson here is that whenever you see "anti-trans" you should replace that with "pro-women". In conversation always correct this.

 "Transgender women and girls in Kansas will no longer be allowed to compete on sports teams from kindergarten through college consistent with their gender, after state lawmakers on Wednesday overrode a veto from their governor to enact the restriction."

Again with the newspeak. By identifying males as "transgender women and girls" is again CNN pushing the nonsense. Men have never been allowed to compete in women's sporting events. Using the  New Euphemism(tm) changes nothing. What the law does is make that known fact explicit. Unfortunately such nonsense laws have to be passed because of these militant trannies who will do anything, including murdering children, to get everyone else to affirm their delusion.

Yes, murder children. Know exactly what you're dealing with.

Everyone knows that women's sporting events is not a "gender" in the way CNN is trying to position it. This is the "gender is not sex" argument that the left has successfully used as a wedge to separate people from the fact that 99.9% of the time gender *equals* sex. Everyone knows that women's sports exists precisely because women get trounced when they compete against men and therefore would NEVER win  any sporting competition where men are allowed.

" “It won’t increase any test scores. It won’t help any kids read or write. It won’t help any teachers prepare our kids for the real world. Here’s what this bill would actually do: harm the mental health of our students,” she said."

She can say whatever she wants to. The students who are not trannies are fine mentally. The trannies are sick in the head and they need professional help rather than being allowed to ruin women's sports.

Advocates of such measures have argued that transgender women and girls have physical advantages ​over cisgender women and girls in sports. But a 2017 report in the journal Sports Medicine that reviewed several related studies found “no direct or consistent research” on trans people having an athletic advantage over their cisgender peers, and critics say this legislation adds to the discrimination that trans people face, particularly trans youth.

 The above is an example of why I no longer trust academia and medicine. During COVID we saw that journals actually published junk reports with specific political purposes (ie: kill alternatives to any supposed "vaccine" so that EUAs could be granted). For sport, there is no need for "consistent research". All you need to do is look at the olympic games. Any and all of them. Women  are consistently outperformed by their male teammates. In many cases the slowest male athelete in an event is *faster* than the slowest female in an event. If you need any other proof look below:



Alyson Felix gets completely crushed by a male runner representing Poland. He even starts behind her.

Every time some goofball talks about there is no advantage, you show them this clip. It is a known tactic in this race for slower teams to put a male in with the women in order to see if they can get an advantage.

So any so called "scientific journal" that says that it finds no advantage to males is absolute junk and should be shut down and any references to it in any paper ought to be stricken.

Last week, Kentucky’s legislature overrode its Democratic governor’s veto of a bill that places bans on gender-affirming care for minors, on discussions of sexual orientation or gender identity in school, and on transgender students using bathrooms that align with their gender identity. The move comes after state lawmakers last year overrode another veto by the governor to enact its own anti-trans sports ban.

There is no such thing as "gender-affirming care".  Do not ever use this term. Any time someone uses this term you should say: :" you mean double mastectomies" and castration". And don't say it like your asking a question. It's a fact, state it as such. "gender affirming care" is another euphemism used to lull the public into complacency. It sounds "caring". It sounds "reasonable". It is not. Call it what it is.

I cannot believe I've lived long enough to see liberals go from condemning FGM in Africa and Arabia (that's female genital mutilation which involves the removal of the clitoris and in some cases, sewing the entrance to the vagina shut with only enough space to allow for urination and menstrual flow), to promoting double mastectomies, FGM and MGM for minors.

CNN has let you know where they stand. They are onboard and their use of the newspeak shows it.

Monday, April 03, 2023

The Public Money Tree

 Over the past few weeks I have been reading about the various schemes in NY and NYC to deal with the purported  MTA budgetary problems.  This in addition to the Federal government bailing out failing banks and other schemes. Up to now I had not really taken the concept of small government as seriously as I perhaps should have. COVID changed a lot of that thinking. Better late than never I suppose.

To summarize, NYC, supposedly following London's lead, wants to implement 'Congestion Pricing" in order to support the MTA. 

Think about that.

The scheme is that in order to go into Manhattan below 59th street (allowing exception for those trying to get to the Queens Bridge for the time being), vehicles would be charged EZ PASS style. This money would supposedly be used to close the budget of the MTA.

Think about that.

I've driven in Manhattan and trust and believe that 99% of people who find themselves below 59th street and not down there to gawk at the skyline and take a pleasure cruise. They are usually trying to conduct some kind of business. At least during the day. Usually when I go to NYC, I will either park in Harlem and take the train downtown OR I will park in lower east side and take the train north. I do whatever I can to avoid driving IN mid Manhattan.

So I pay a huge toll to enter NYC. Pay to use the mass transit when I get there. And now they want to ding me when I exit the FDR if I go to lower Manhattan to park. All so I can conduct business. Let's not even discuss what happens if you DO drive into mid-town. You almost certainly have to pay to park. So you get dinged with a huge toll. Then you get dinged for entering Manhattan below 59th street. Then you get dinged to park. Anyone who has paid for daytime parking in Manhattan knows how much THAT can hurt.

All that and you still have not conducted your business.

In some cases all of these dings can add up to about 100 bucks. You do realize there is a tax on that off street parking right? 

All for the privilege of what? Shopping in Manhattan? Eating in their restaurants. Really?

Anyway, that's not the gripe I have. Really. If you're dumb enough or wealthy enough to not care about that tax on your activity and keep spending money in Manhattan when there are alternatives, you go do that. Personally, I'm willing to bypass Manhattan entirely for Long Island. However; the gripe here is the stated mission: To close MTA budgets.

Why are drivers being asked to foot the bill for a service they may not use while having to pay for the services they DO use? If I don't ride the train, I shouldn't have to pay a fare. People who ride the trains aren't expected to pay my toll. If the MTA and/or government is short on funds then why doesn't it rearrange it's finances, including jettisoning things it has subscribed to (translation: programs) in order to pay for the MTA shortfall since it is so dire?

Why not raise the fare on the trains and busses to what would be sustainable. Perhaps people have gotten to used to artificially low prices for public transport and if they actually had to pay what it costs, like drivers have to when they use their vehicles?

How about the MTA get serious about fare beaters on its trains and busses and stop with this racial justice nonsense and poverty nonsense. I grew up poor and didn't fare beat. Ever.

The reason NYS does this is because it views the population as one big money tree. Why be responsible when we can dig into the pockets of the people. 

Money to house illegal aliens who shouldn't be here? More taxes for you buddy.

MTA can't keep within it's budget? More taxes for you buddy.

Even the 'speed cameras" that are all over the city now are taxes. They claim that they reduce accidents and fatalities. I doubt that. I've seen places where they are located. And many of them, it is impossible to DO the speed limit during the day much less go over it. Of course they have that covered as well.

On one egregious example of "more taxes for you buddy" is a speed camera placed on a 4 lane street that runs parallel to and feeds a highway of similar width. The camera was put near a school but that area is usually unused and not populated by students. I know, I attended that school. The area where students DO congregate? No camera. The coup-de-grace was that they dropped the speed limit on this road in order to drive up the amount of speeding tickets since going the previous limit now put you in fine territory.

I've heard of such nonsense in Staten Island as well.

This isn't just a NY thing. California implemented a "Mansion Tax" and is (or is considering) taxing people who have left the state. The federal government has a pending budget in which Biden wants to make a new "tax on the wealthy" to, you know, "make them pay their fair share". Almost everybody accepts this idea of :paying for their fair share" without even asking why the government deserves any of the money in the first place.

How much money has gone to Ukraine? How much to Israel? Yeah I said it. If we have money to hand out to countries and people in this country who do not belong here, then why do any taxes need to be raised?

Back to NY though. Did you know they recently voted on some new Diversity Department(tm). You know who gets to pay for that right? Question: If you have a debt do you take on new expenses? No? Government doesn't work that way. Why? Because you are the perpetual money tree. Nice roots you have there Shame it you got ringed.