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When the government tells you they care about the kids remember this:

We still don’t know who’s in Ghislaine Maxwell’s black book
They’re active working to stop the overturn of Roe v Wade
The FBI harasses concerned parent that don’t want their children groomed in school

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The Narrative Changes Are Just Flying Of The Shelves These Days...

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Not If I Kill You First

A US woman has fatally shot a man who opened fire on a crowd of people with a semi-automatic rifle in Charleston, West Virginia.
Dennis Butler, a 37-year-old with an extensive criminal history, was killed after he targeted a group of around 40 people attending a birthday party.
Police spokesman Tony Hazelett said the woman's quick reaction saved lives and may have prevented a mass shooting.
It comes amid a national debate over guns after a school shooting in Texas.
Butler had driven by the area earlier on Wednesday evening when he was warned to slow down because children were playing.
He returned armed with an AR-15-type rifle and opened fire from his vehicle on the birthday-graduation party outside the apartment complex in the city.
Mr Hazelett told a news conference that the woman who fired back did not have any law enforcement background. She has not been identified.
"She's just a member of the community who was carrying her weapon lawfully," he said. "And instead of running from the threat she engaged with the threat and saved several lives."
The woman remained at the scene after the shooting, and is co-operating with investigators.
Charges will not be filed against her, police added.
Butler was found dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds, police said.
Mr Hazelett said it is not yet clear how Butler obtained the weapon, which he was not legally allowed to carry as a convicted felon.
The shooting comes after a teenage gunman killed 21 people at a Texas primary school with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle that had been purchased legally.
The attack, America's worst school shooting in a decade, reignited the debate over private gun ownership, which is enshrined in the US Constitution.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61615236

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/05/27/thenear-mass-shooting-most-of-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-n2607884

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Ethanol: a dumb idea or a crime — or both.

In 2011, Dr. Indur Goklany wrote that the “iron law of supply and demand dictates” that ethanol production “would almost unavoidably increase global food prices” and exacerbate poverty. He calculated 192,000 excess deaths had resulted from the food-to-fuel switch in 2010.
More recently, a YouTube video declared in its title, ”America Was Wrong about Ethanol." The narrator announces, “We’re going to explain why corn-based ethanol is a dumb idea.”
As would be expected, increased farm acreage has led to more agricultural pollution. The Wisconsin study, published in February by the National Academy of Sciences, reports an increase of three to eight percent in water pollutants. 
An expansion of the RFS only promises more of the same, according to the Wisconsin researchers: “Our estimates imply that for every billion gallons per year expansion of ethanol demand, we would expect a 5.6 percent increase in corn prices; 1.6 and 0.4 percent increases in the areas of U.S. corn and cropland, respectively; and attendant increases in (greenhouse gas) emissions, nutrient pollution, and soil erosion.”
The intended result of this move is to lower prices at the pump, yet just 2,300 of the nation’s 150,000 gas stations, or roughly 1.5%, sell E15 gasoline, according to a White House fact sheet. In addition, ethanol is less efficient than gasoline, reducing gas mileage and so it costs consumers more than conventional gasoline on a per mile basis. 
In his testimony, presented in February to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Lucian Pugliaresi, President, Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. said, “We are heading into a largely uncharted world full of enormous price and energy security risks… Expect failures, cost over-runs and the unexpected.” He recommended the RFS be shaped to “withstand a wide range of future challenges.”
Given the program’s record, better that it be ended.

https://townhall.com/columnists/gregorywrightstone/2022/05/27/ethanol-a-dumb-idea-or-a-crime--or-both-n2607870

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After nixing 50-million-gallon-a-day desalination plant, California demands residents use less water.

California residents were slapped with tighter water restrictions Tuesday two weeks after state officials spiked plans for a $1.4 billion saltwater desalination plant in Orange County amid a season of historic drought.
The State Water Resources Control Board unanimously voted to implement a statewide watering ban for ornamental lawns at businesses and commercial properties as residents brace for a prolonged drought, the driest drought of its length in 1,200 years. Local government will also be required to reduce water use by up to 20 percent.
Despite the dire drought conditions also placing an increasingly unreliable power grid in jeopardy of periodic blackouts, the California Coastal Commission rejected the latest proposal from a major water developer to construct a desalination plant in Huntington Beach. If built, the company behind the project, Poseidon Water, says the plant would make 50 million gallons of drinking water available to residents on a daily basis by next year. After a more than two-decade effort to appease public officials for a green light on construction, the state Coastal Commission unanimously turned it down based on routine concerns over risks to marine habitat and “environmental justice.” The commission argued the energy-intensive process of desalination presented too much of a coastal hazard while raising local water prices.
California, the most populated state with the fifth most coastline of any in the nation, has 12 desalination plants in operation as drought worsens across the western United States. Less than 8 percent of the western U.S. excluding Colorado and Wyoming are under normal water conditions, which are both entirely rated at minimum as “abnormally dry” by the National Drought Mitigation Center.

https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/28/after-nixing-50-million-gallon-a-day-desalination-plant-california-demands-residents-use-less-water/

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1 hour ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Ethanol: a dumb idea or a crime — or both.

In 2011, Dr. Indur Goklany wrote that the “iron law of supply and demand dictates” that ethanol production “would almost unavoidably increase global food prices” and exacerbate poverty. He calculated 192,000 excess deaths had resulted from the food-to-fuel switch in 2010.
More recently, a YouTube video declared in its title, ”America Was Wrong about Ethanol." The narrator announces, “We’re going to explain why corn-based ethanol is a dumb idea.”
As would be expected, increased farm acreage has led to more agricultural pollution. The Wisconsin study, published in February by the National Academy of Sciences, reports an increase of three to eight percent in water pollutants. 
An expansion of the RFS only promises more of the same, according to the Wisconsin researchers: “Our estimates imply that for every billion gallons per year expansion of ethanol demand, we would expect a 5.6 percent increase in corn prices; 1.6 and 0.4 percent increases in the areas of U.S. corn and cropland, respectively; and attendant increases in (greenhouse gas) emissions, nutrient pollution, and soil erosion.”
The intended result of this move is to lower prices at the pump, yet just 2,300 of the nation’s 150,000 gas stations, or roughly 1.5%, sell E15 gasoline, according to a White House fact sheet. In addition, ethanol is less efficient than gasoline, reducing gas mileage and so it costs consumers more than conventional gasoline on a per mile basis. 
In his testimony, presented in February to the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Lucian Pugliaresi, President, Energy Policy Research Foundation, Inc. said, “We are heading into a largely uncharted world full of enormous price and energy security risks… Expect failures, cost over-runs and the unexpected.” He recommended the RFS be shaped to “withstand a wide range of future challenges.”
Given the program’s record, better that it be ended.

https://townhall.com/columnists/gregorywrightstone/2022/05/27/ethanol-a-dumb-idea-or-a-crime--or-both-n2607870

Ethanol plant in north west Tennessee. The tiny dots on the race track are actually rail cars. 

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2 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Not If I Kill You First

A US woman has fatally shot a man who opened fire on a crowd of people with a semi-automatic rifle in Charleston, West Virginia.
Dennis Butler, a 37-year-old with an extensive criminal history, was killed after he targeted a group of around 40 people attending a birthday party.
Police spokesman Tony Hazelett said the woman's quick reaction saved lives and may have prevented a mass shooting.
It comes amid a national debate over guns after a school shooting in Texas.
Butler had driven by the area earlier on Wednesday evening when he was warned to slow down because children were playing.
He returned armed with an AR-15-type rifle and opened fire from his vehicle on the birthday-graduation party outside the apartment complex in the city.
Mr Hazelett told a news conference that the woman who fired back did not have any law enforcement background. She has not been identified.
"She's just a member of the community who was carrying her weapon lawfully," he said. "And instead of running from the threat she engaged with the threat and saved several lives."
The woman remained at the scene after the shooting, and is co-operating with investigators.
Charges will not be filed against her, police added.
Butler was found dead at the scene from multiple gunshot wounds, police said.
Mr Hazelett said it is not yet clear how Butler obtained the weapon, which he was not legally allowed to carry as a convicted felon.
The shooting comes after a teenage gunman killed 21 people at a Texas primary school with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle that had been purchased legally.
The attack, America's worst school shooting in a decade, reignited the debate over private gun ownership, which is enshrined in the US Constitution.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61615236

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2022/05/27/thenear-mass-shooting-most-of-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-n2607884

I have no idea why the media failed to cover this story. 

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1 hour ago, ChuteTheMall said:

I have no idea why the media failed to cover this story. 

I think I know you enough to know you know, dude .... WRONG PERSON WON. If you're a good guy with a gun, the media will make sure you remain anonymous.

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3 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said:

Tried to start a conversation with a neighbor about this   she said "I don;t want to hear about this again"   OK never mind  (Obvious DUMB DEMO)

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