TN General Assembly passes bill prohibiting hosting drag shows in public places where kids may be

The Tennessee General Assembly passed a bill 74 - 19 that would make it illegal for drag shows to be hosted in public venues or in any places where minors might be present.

The bill makes it illegal to host “an adult cabaret performance” where children may be present. Cabaret performances are defined as those featuring “topless dancers, go-go dancers, exotic dancers, strippers, [and] male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest.”

As the bill states, anyone hosting or performing in a drag show where children are present would be hit with a  class A misdemeanor, subject to a fine of up to $2,500 and up to one year in prison. Obviously, it would also include other lewd performances. Any additional violations would increase the charges to a class E felony which carries up to six years prison time and fines up to $3,000.

The Tennessee House passed the bill on Thursday along with HB1, which bans gender-reassignment surgery [aka genital mutilation] for minors. The bill specifically barred “hormone or puberty blockers” claiming to be aimed at helping “gender dysphoric” youth as opposed to waiting for their brains to mature to a point where they can make better life decisions.

Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire — whose investigative reporting in October 2022 revealed widespread abuses at Vanderbilt University’s transgender clinic, leading to a halt on all gender-reassignment surgeries for minors — applauded the decision. Walsh resides in Nashville and is best known for his documentary "What is a Woman?"

“The Tennessee legislature has now passed the bill banning child mutilation in the state. We’re fighting. We’re winning. And we aren’t even close to done,” Walsh tweeted.

Of course it should go without saying that LGBTQ groups condemned the legislation, making the illogical argument that it endangered young people. The Tennessee Equality Project is one such group that makes the argument that if children aren't allowed to "transition," i.e., have their genital mutilated or removed, those kids suffering from gender dysphoria would become suicidal. But if that was the case why didn't the suicide rate spike before it became popular to "transition" kids? So far, it hasn't changed.

“The House took life-saving healthcare options away from trans youth and their families and ignored the 1st Amendment by passing HB1 and HB9. Almost 300 organizations, congregations, businesses have spoken out against them. Governor Lee should veto them,” the group tweeted Thursday afternoon.

It sounds as if the Tennessee Equality Project confused 'life-saving' with 'life-altering.'

Meanwhile, both bills are headed to the desk of Tennessee governor Bill Lee, who is expected to sign them into law.

To date, 15 states have also introduced legislation that doesn't allow drag shows in public venues. This will have an effect on restaurants, bars and public libraries that feature "drag queen story hours."

It's beginning to sound like the ship is turning around to the right, and that's a good thing as I see it.

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BREAKING: NTSB announces cause of East Palestine train derailment

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has completed its preliminary report as to what caused the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. 

The train was carrying chemicals that caused a toxic spill and created an ecological disaster that has until now, been totally ignored by the federal government and national media. For example, it took 3 weeks and a lot of public pressure to get Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to leave his husband and travel to Ohio.

Chickens and fish have died, people have sore throats and rashes, while government officials are claiming that it's okay to drink the water. Rep. J.D. Vance (R-OH) dared them to drink it themselves, but so far they've passed on the offer. Now the EPA has changed their tune and warn residents to avoid well water.

The cause of the derailment, according to the  NTSB on Thursday, was an overheated wheel bearing. And while we can't directly blame Pete Buttigieg for the disaster [who blames former President Donald Trump], we can at least point out how little involvement he was willing to take as Transportation Secretary, and his arrogant avoidance of answering questions by media that's willing to challenge him over his not handling the situation.

“NTSB investigators have identified and examined the rail car that initiated the derailment. Surveillance video from a residence showed what appears to be a wheel bearing in the final stage of overheat failure moments before the derailment,” investigators said.

“The wheelset from the suspected railcar has been collected as evidence for metallurgical examination. The suspected overheated wheel bearing has been collected and will be examined by engineers from the NTSB Materials Laboratory in Washington, D.C.”

The wheel bearing suspected of overheating rose from a temperature of “38°F above ambient temperature” to a temperature of “103°F above ambient” as it passed three monitors designed to alert crews of such conditions.

The train's crew was notified by an automated system to stop the locomotive and inspect the car with the overheated bearing. It did so but it was too late as the train left the tracks before it could be stopped and the vinyl chloride spilled all over the area.

“After the train stopped, the crew observed fire and smoke and notified the Cleveland East dispatcher of a possible derailment,” the NTSB said. “Responders arrived at the derailment site and began response efforts.”

Efforts to put out fires failed over the following two days, and a decision was made to start a controlled burn of the vinyl chloride, causing a toxic mushroom cloud and an ill wind that did nobody any good.

“On February 5, responders mitigated the fire, but five derailed DOT-105 specification tank cars … carrying 115,580 gallons of vinyl chloride continued to concern authorities because the temperature inside one tank car was still rising,” the report stated.

“This increase in temperature suggested that the vinyl chloride was undergoing a polymerization reaction, which could pose an explosion hazard,” the NTSB stated. “Responders scheduled a controlled venting of the five vinyl chloride tank cars to release and burn the vinyl chloride, expanded the evacuation zone to a 1-mile by 2-mile area, and dug ditches to contain released vinyl chloride liquid while it vaporized and burned.”

And on February 23, fully twenty days after the tragedy, Pete Buttigieg, a possible Democratic presidential hopeful for the future, finally got off his butt and visited the area.

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Family of 'gender fluid' ex-Biden official says "it never happened" re: his/her claims

Sam Brinton

The claim made by former 'gender fluid' Biden administration official Sam Brinton was addressed by his or her family, specifically his or her sister, who say that he or she is a liar. He or she was never abused by them or they and is merely mentally ill like many in the Biden administration.

Brinton, who was deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition in the Energy Department’s Office of Nuclear Energy, was charged with two crimes late last year after being accused of stealing luggage in Minneapolis and Las Vegas, according to KMSP-TV.

He or she, they or them, then lost his or her, they or them's job.

Screw it--the dude has balls and I'll refer to him as a male until he can prove otherwise.

Prior to working for the administration, Brinton, who actually does use the pronouns "they/them" to confuse us, was a high-profile LGBTQ+1 activist who opposed conversion therapy. That's a therapy aimed at people confused about their biology/gender or are gay.

In a bogus 2010 video, he claimed he was abused when he revealed his sexual orientation to his family at the age of 11, according to the Los Angles Blade.

To lie about one's own parents this way is what is really deplorable.

“Dad just started punching,” Brinton claimed. “That was the first day that I was sent to the emergency room, because I had ‘fallen down the stairs.’ I was sent to the emergency room about six more times for ‘falling down the stairs’ or ‘tripping on the sidewalk.’ I’m in this constant state of fear.”

“My dad has held a gun up to my head multiple times,” he claimed in a YouTube video labeled “True LGBT Stories.”

Brinton further slammed his family in a 2018 Op-Ed in The New York Times.

Seriously--what a POS to say those things.

“My parents were Southern Baptist missionaries who believed that the dangerous and discredited practice of conversion therapy could ‘cure’ my sexuality,” he wrote.

“The therapist ordered me bound to a table to have ice, heat and electricity applied to my body. I was forced to watch clips on a television of gay men holding hands, hugging and having sex. I was supposed to associate those images with the pain I was feeling to once and for all turn into a straight boy,” Brinton said.

The whole thing is a stack of lies, Rachel Brinton told the New York Post.

“There’s no validity to those claims,” she said, according to the report Sunday.

Sure, Brinton is correct about conversion therapy--it has been discredited and that is a good thing. But it never happened and he just lied.

“First of all, the claims of conversion therapy never happened, nor did my parents abuse my brother or I. My parents and I have always known the truth but we don’t preach to people what the truth is. It’s disheartening because my parents are still being slandered for the past decade because some people believed Samuel’s words,” his sister said.

His mother, Peggy Jo Brinton, also told the Post the conversion therapy story was balderdash.

“I’ve never signed him up to have any conversion therapy and that’s pretty much the only comment I can give on that because he needs to tell his own story,” she added.

“We did not abuse him. If he had been in an emergency room at any time, there would be records … and there are none,” she said.

The Post reported that police in Perry, Iowa, where the Brintons lived, said they had no record of complaints related to domestic incidents.

“I’m not going to judge my brother and I’m always going to love and support him,” Rachel Brinton said. “My mom and dad raised me to love and forgive, to understand and be patient. We are human, though, so we have our tears, but you have to have a bigger heart.”


Parents show sue for slander. This minimizes people that are actually abused if these claims aren’t true.

— Abetterway (@nyhoopcoach) February 19, 2023

The real problem is the fact that so many people, particularly on the Left, believed Brinton's story without ever verifying the facts. The even bigger problem was how the Biden administration hires people based on attributes that have nothing to do with competence on the job. Identity is their main concern and this ought to concern all of us.

The media also holds some blame in this case. They never pressed Brinton to name his therapist, name the hospital where he was alleging to have been treated for the abuse, nor did they follow up to check the make believe 'facts' in Brinton' stories.

It's the old 'people will believe what they want to believe.'

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Buttigieg goes into a 'time out' in middle of East Palestine disaster: asks if he can dox a reporter via photo

Yes we can't

Possibly as incompetent as Kamala Hahahaharris, the so called Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, reportedly snapped a photo of a journalist from the Daily Caller News Foundation after he refused to answer her questions about the East Palestine, Ohio train disaster caused by a derailment of a train while transporting dangerous chemicals. 

She simply wanted to know why he was "taking some personal time" in the midst of this clusterfrack and he responded by seemingly trying to dox her.

The key word here is "transporting," as in "transportation." You know, the thing that Buttigieg is the Secretary of.

The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Jennie Taer caught up to Buttigieg, whose main qualifications for the job is that he's gay and he is married to another man who is also gay. 

She asked him a series of questions about the train derailment and subsequent chemical fires — primarily what he might have to say to local residents who have concerns about the safety and quality of the air and water in their homes. 

Before this Washington, D.C. meeting, Buttigieg has tried to dismiss the disaster by pointing out the fact that there are thousands of derailments every year in the U.S., a fact that adds to his lack of competency, but he's evidently too narcissistic to realize this point.

“I asked Secretary Buttigieg about the crisis in East Palestine and I guess he didn’t like that so he took a pic of me. I’m just doing my job, sir,” Taer tweeted.

She also shared a video of the encounter:

I asked Secretary Buttigieg about the crisis in East Palestine and I guess he didn’t like that so he took a pic of me. I'm just doing my job, sir. @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/HjKNgF25FJ

“Hi, how are you, Jennie Taer at The Daily Caller News Foundation,” she said as she approached the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor who couldn't even get the potholes filled in his town. “What do you have to say to the folks in Ohio — East Palestine — who are suffering right now?”

“Well, I’d refer you to about a dozen interviews I’ve given today,” Buttigieg replied as a way of not answering her question. Then he added, “And if you’d like to arrange a conversation you should reach out to our press office but I’m not going to have that conversation with you just walking on the street.”

[This may be due to Mayor Pete's inability to walk and talk at the same time.]

“You don’t have a message for them?” Taer pressed.

“I do, and I’ve shared it with the press many times today and I’d refer you to those comments,” he said.

“Would you mind sharing it with us?” she pressed.

“No, I’m going to refer you to the comments that I made to the press because right now I’m taking some personal time and I’m walking down the street,” Buttigieg continued to stonewall her because he's a government employee paid by the taxpayers of this country and doesn't have to tell them what he's doing just because he's getting paid by us.

Taer persisted, asking the Transportation Secretary whether he planned to make a visit to East Palestine – and he said that he did intend to go, but then refused to give specifics when she asked when he might be making that trip.

“I’ll share that when I’m ready,” the gay Transportation Secretary said, and then stopped and turned to face her. “Can I get a photo of you?” he asked.

Joe Concha, a Fox News commentator and Media and Politics columnist for The Hill, suggested that the mainstream press’ failure to address the situation was part of the problem.

“This is how elitists who are made uncomfortable act out. Amazing how few members of the press are commenting on this,” he said.

If Buttigieg was a straight White male, he would still be in South Bend, Indiana watching the potholes grow.

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Chicago Mayor Lightfoot behind in latest poll for Feb. 28 election

Chicago's extraordinary [not in a good way] Mayor Lori Lightfoot for some reason is trailing former CEO of Chicago Public Schools, Paul Vallas, who leads the other hopeful candidates with 22% compared to 'Pretty Little Miss' Lightfoot with 17.1% in the poll, the Washington Examiner reported Tuesday.

Along with the pair, two others are in double digits: Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson and Rep. Jesus "Chuy" Garcia (D-IL).

In spite of Lightfoot's incredible ineptitude over her responses to crime, immigration and education, the low-information voters have not counted her out and her poll numbers have improved somewhat. It appears Chicagoans who would vote for her have very short memories.

A February 8th poll from the Chicago Sun-Times, Telemundo Chicago, NBC5 Chicago, and WBEZ Public Radio put Mayor Lightfoot in third place, with Garcia in first and Vallas in second. 

On February 14th, Vallas took the lead in a Northwestern University poll with the Lightfoot in third place. Lightfoot is the only black lesbian in the race so that gives her street creds with the Dems, so don't count her out; count her lucky.

The election is set for Feb. 28. A runoff, if necessary, would be held April 4. 

If Lori Lightfoot wins, Chicago will get the representation they deserve, good and hard.

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Kavanaugh accuser lied, faces criminal charges

'Facts don't care about your feelings'-- Ben Shapiro

One of the three lying women who accused now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault was found to have lied through her feminist teeth during a congressional investigation. Judy Monro-Leighton is being charged with making false statements and obstruction and could face a serious slap on the wrist if the Democrats have anything to say about it.

According to The Beltway Report, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck "Hang 'em High" Grassley (R-IA), made a criminal referral against Monro-Leighton, after she admitted that she "just wanted to get attention."

Imagine that--a person would ruin the career of another individual just to get attention. It says a lot about the "Believe All Women" movement, which only pertained to Democratic women in the first place.

The scumcrumpet also admitted that an anonymous letter she sent to then-Sen. Kamala Harris describing a graphic sexual assault by Kavanaugh and a friend was not written by her, despite her original claim of being “Jane Doe from Oceanside, California.”

When questioned by investigators of the Committee on the Judiciary, she admitted, “No, no, no. I did that as a way to grab attention.  I am not Jane Doe… but I did read Jane Doe’s letter. I read the transcript of the call to your committee… I saw it online. It was news.”

In her statements, she also admitted that she never even met Judge Kavanaugh.

“In short, during the Committee’s time-sensitive investigation of allegations against Judge Kavanaugh, Ms. Munro-Leighton submitted a fabricated allegation, which diverted Committee resources,” Grassley’s letter reads. “When questioned by Committee investigators she admitted it was false, a ‘ploy’ and a ‘tactic.’”

Harris, who was acting [as in make-believe] as a senator at the time, went on to become the vice president without any discipline for bringing the false letter forward without bothering to check its veracity. In fact, not one Democratic senator on the committee took the trouble to investigate when they saw blood in the water.

The good thing is, however, under President Joe Biden, the country is once again coming together . . . except for White people who enjoy watching Black people getting hanged, if you believe that crap.

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Another woman "pulls a Rachel Dolezal" Arab, South Asian Style

Here we go again as another White woman has put on the protective cloak of victimhood and claimed to be an Arab, South Asian woman is spite of her being "as white as the driven snow," and that new white-white paint that was recently invented to keep homes cool in the hot summer sun.

Rachel Elizabeth Seidel, who changed her name to Raquel Evita Saraswati, 39, is the senior inclusion officer of a Philadelphia-based social justice warrior group. She has been lying about her Caucasianacity for years because it's better to be any other color but white, The Intercept reported.

The Muslim activist, who has access to files of the progressive Quaker group’s workers and volunteers, has claimed for years to be of Latin, South Asian and Arab descent.

Raquel's madre, Carole Perone, said that her incredibly White daughter is of British, German and Italian descent.

“I call her Rachel. I don’t know why she’s doing what she’s doing,” Perone told The Intercept. “I’m as white as the driven snow and so is she.”

But with the new racism across the country, being White can be hazardous to one's career and even one's health in certain 'hoods.'

Mama Perone added: “I’m German and British, and her father was Calabrese Italian. She’s chosen to live a lie, and I find that very, very sad.”

Perone said her daughter converted to Islam in high school and for some reason felt compelled to present a different ethnic identity, not unlike women who have their breasts removed and genitals mutilated and claim to be a woman.

The mother shared with The Intercept photos that show Saraswati with a far lighter complexion when she was a child, as well as her Ancestry.com profile. She asked the outlet not to publish the images because that would be like showing photos of Rear Admiral Rachel Levine prior to him calling himself a woman.

What is with all these Rachel's?

Another family member, who asked not to be identified [so as to avoid the LGBTQ+1 community from protesting in front of their home at 3 am because they have nothing else to make themselves feel important] confirmed to The Intercept that Saraswati is White.

Oskar Pierre Castro, a human resources official who helped AFSC hire Saraswati, was told she was a “queer, Muslim, multiethnic woman,” according to the news outlet. 

Being in the "victim class" can get you the jobs, guys.

“In my mind it was, ‘Great, a person of color, a queer person of color, who happens to be a Muslim, it’s a woman, all these things, and someone who seemed to get it,” Castrol told The Intercept.

“I definitely feel conned. … I feel deceived,” he added.

Evidently, "Raquel" is unaware of how the Muslim community views "queer" folk.

If only she also had a physical deformity, or some kind of handicap, like perhaps being a midget, that would be icing on the Halal cake.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for a 'national divorce'

On Monday, Georgia Republican congresswoman  Marjorie Taylor Greene called for a "national divorce." Specifically, she tweeted:

We need a national divorce. 

We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government.

Everyone I talk to says this.

From the sick and disgusting woke culture issues shoved down our throats to the Democrat’s traitorous America Last policies, we are… https://t.co/Azn8YF1UUy

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) February 20, 2023

How can you shrink the federal government when you would have two federal governments or more?

Well at least she didn't specifically attack the Jooooozze this time, but I suspect she just wants more federalism in the nation as it stands.

For a congressional official to call for a cleavage of the USA [that would eliminate the "U" wouldn't it] that itself is un-American and rather weird. Does she know what she's actually saying in terms of how the outcome would change the country?

I say no, a divorce isn't necessary and it's highly impractical in terms of who gets what, such as the military, resources and the like.

All we need to do as conservatives [which MTG is not] is to bide our time and let the Left eat itself. 

All of their attempts to push transgender surgeries in even the youngest of Americans, to attack Christians, to attack White men, to throw the word 'racist' around as an all-encompassing term to mean everything with which they disagree, is not going to last. People are not stupid, or at least not stupid forever. Well, okay, some are, but I have hope that things will get better.

MTG is popular now because she's outrageous, and outrage reminds us of President Trump. But she isn't Trump and she has too many things that make her unelectable for higher office.

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