Author: Blazingcatfur

The Girling of the Boy Scouts Erases Men

The Boy Scouts of America has a Chief Diversity Officer & Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion. The organization requires all Eagle Scouts to earn a badge in diversity, equity, and inclusion. It admitted girls to its program for 11- to 17-year-old boys in 2019 and changed the name of that program from the Boy Scouts to Scouts BSA. The word “boy” has been routed from the organization’s promotional materials and replaced with “youth,” as in: “For more than 100 years, Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values found in the Scout Oath.”

Do the girls want coed scouts? How about the guys? I have my doubts.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Is Janet Napolitano Fit to Investigate the Attempted Assassination of Donald Trump?

Recall her record as DHS boss and president of the University of California, not to mention the Anita Hill hearings.

Department of Homeland Security director Alejandro Mayorkas is assembling a 45-day “independent security review” of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13. For this task Mayorkas selected:

Chief David Mitchell, the former superintendent of Maryland State Police and former Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security for the State of Delaware; Mark Filip, a former federal judge and Deputy Attorney General to President George W. Bush; Ms. Frances Townsend, former Homeland Security Advisor to President George W. Bush; and former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. Her stint in that job gives the people cause to wonder.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Ohio is the battleground for America’s future The nation needs a new economic consensus

Ohio is a startling place for an Englishman. There are flashes of familiarity, of course: the low grey skies, unfashionable cities and place names: London and Portsmouth, Oxford and even Mansfield. Yet the longer you are there, the more you feel its Americana: the scale of suburban wealth and segregation, the presidential monuments and out of town shopping malls.

Ohio is America in many respects: a land of race and religion, LeBron James and the Tafts. And it is the epicentre of the new democratic world we are about to enter: the home of J.D. Vance and the Rust Belt rebellion. Ohio is the state that voted for Barack Obama, twice, and then for Donald Trump, twice. It’s a place that was once a swing state and could be again — but isn’t.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inUSA

Stop blaming police racism for the Manchester Airport incident

The story of the Manchester Airport incident has taken some dramatic twists and turns.

Last week, video footage emerged of a Greater Manchester Police (GMP) officer kicking a man in the head. The details of what exactly sparked the altercation are still murky. It seems like two brothers – Fahir and Amaad Amas – were meeting their mother at the airport. Prior to landing, an argument broke out between her and a male passenger on the plane. In the terminal, things escalated and a fight started between the passenger and the brothers. Police officers then quickly became involved.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

ANALYSIS: In Northern Ontario, peril for Liberals, opportunity for Conservatives, NDP

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre opens a week of campaigning for votes in Northern Ontario on Monday with a rally in Fort Frances, Ont., in the riding of Thunder Bay—Rainy River, a region that a small-c conservative candidate has not won since 1930.

The incumbent MP for the riding, a Liberal and former emergency room physician Marcus Powlowski, is not surprised at Poilievre’s chutzpah, looking for enough votes in a riding to do what no leader of a conservative party has done in 90 years — namely, win over the voters in this vast riding, which includes the Fort William part of Thunder Bay, Atikokan, Rainy River, and Fort Frances.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Liberal MP dismisses speculation about Freeland’s political future as ‘whispers in the shadows’

OTTAWA — A Toronto Liberal MP dismissed the ongoing chatter about Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s political future as “whispers in the shadows” and compared it to sports commentators looking to fill airtime during the off-season.

James Maloney, a former Ontario Liberal caucus chair, came to Freeland’s defence on Monday during a housing announcement.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Majority of Canadians agree immigrants not doing enough to assimilate

Muslim cultists pray to their idol in a Toronto street

Canadians are divided over the country’s record-high immigration quotas, with more than half saying new residents are failing to assimilate, according to new federal data.

“Half of Canadians, 51 percent, agree immigrants need to do more to integrate into Canadian society,” said in-house research by the department of immigration. “Just under half of Canadians, 46 percent, agree Canada should focus on helping unemployed Canadians rather than looking for skilled immigrants to fill labour shortages.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corporate Welfare Class, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Gunman at Trump Rally Was Often a Step Ahead of the Secret Service

Text messages, obtained exclusively by The Times, indicate that some law enforcement officers were aware of Thomas Crooks earlier than previously known. And he was aware of them.

Nearly 100 minutes before former President Donald J. Trump took the stage in Butler, Pa., a local countersniper who was part of the broader security detail let his colleagues know his shift was ending.

“Guys I am out. Be safe,” he texted to a group of colleagues at 4:19 p.m. on July 13. He exited the second floor of a warehouse that overlooked the campaign rally site, leaving two other countersnipers behind.

This is starting to look as if it was allowed to happen.

h/t patthedog & Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome

Ford Seeks Patent for Cars That Monitor Other Drivers’ Speeds, Reports Them to Police

The United States Patent and Trademark Office has published a patent for Ford Motor Company that would allow the manufacturer to build cars that are capable of tracking other drivers’ speeds and send the information to local law enforcement.

The patent for the “speeding violation responder system” was posted on July 18 after Ford filed for the certification in 2023.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", "Surveillance Society"

New DND strategy warns Canadian military’s approach to artificial intelligence ‘fragmented’

Canada’s defence department and military are approaching the implementation and use of artificial intelligence in a “fragmented,” unco-ordinated manner, says a newly prepared federal strategy.

The long-awaited overview of how to deal with rapidly evolving machine-learning technology is being met with mixed reviews by some high-tech and civil society experts who had been expecting more clarity on where the country stands and how far it’s prepared to go.

The strategy is candid, saying neither the Department of National Defence (DND) nor the Canadian Armed Forces is “positioned to adopt and take advantage of AI.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada