When broken down, it cost taxpayers $481 per employee per day when counting wages and benefits. Overall employees received an average $9,547 in furloughs.
Author: Sarcasticat
Biden’s societal suicide pact
For the past 245 years, a significant portion of the wealth created in the entire world is in some way related to the United States. People across the globe fight to come to the USA — we must be doing something right.
Yet the Biden administration speaks of a desire to fundamentally transform the country. Why would anyone want to fundamentally change a system that has created the freest, wealthiest, most prosperous, and most tolerant people the world has ever seen? To replace it with a system of large, intrusive federal government; limited individual freedom; and high taxes? A system that has never worked in all history — generally ending in poverty, hunger, violence, and death on a massive scale?
COP26: Canada joins more than 100 countries vowing to end deforestation
World leaders promised to protect Earth’s forests, cut methane emissions and help South Africa wean itself off coal at the U.N. climate summit Tuesday — part of a flurry of deals intended to avert catastrophic global warming.
TSA Adds Kentucky Man, Who Sued Agency 2 Days Ago Over Mask Mandate, To Terrorist Watchlist
The Transportation Security Administration appears to have placed a frequent flyer on its terrorist watchlist after he filed suit Tuesday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit in Cincinnati challenging the Federal Transportation Mask Mandate.
Michael Faris, a helicopter maintenance supervisor, is trying to fly home today to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, from a work assignment near Ontario, California. When he tried to check in on the United Airlines mobile app, he received a message that his “reservation requires special handling. Please check in at an airport kiosk.”
Kelly McParland: Can Quebec be a ‘confident’ nation with $13 billion a year in equalization payments?
The general perception of the recent referendum on equalization is that it was all about Alberta and its resentment over contributing more to the program than it receives in return. But what it was really about was Quebec.
More Science!
BREAKING: CDC panel unanimously recommends Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11; the recommendation is now in the hands of CDC director Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who will make the final decision. https://t.co/HCE4b7ezwg pic.twitter.com/UZBDx5uyF0
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 2, 2021
Trust the Science
Trust Your Government
Trust the ScienceSpraying DDT On Children pic.twitter.com/IsQORZVFKz
— Raebo (@Raebo6) November 2, 2021
Globalists Use UN Green Climate Fund to Redistribute Wealth
World leaders are convening in Glasgow for a climate summit meeting beginning on October 31st. This get-together is a follow-up to the 2015 conference in Paris that resulted in the one-sided Paris Climate Agreement. As the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) gets underway, it is worth recalling the prescient words of a former United Nations climate change expert who candidly linked globalist policies to combat climate change with wealth redistribution.
h/t Marvin
Denley: Mandatory vaccination carries its own risks — as Ottawa is discovering
This is a situation where relative harms must be weighed against each other. Compulsory immunization will cut the number of workers available to deliver essential public services, such as health care or policing.
October Gun Sales Second Highest On Record
The number of firearms flying off of store shelves may have slowed a bit compared to the blistering pace set back in the summer of 2020, but gun sales are still well above their historical averages according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The firearm industry trade group has released its adjusted NICS figures for the month of October, and they’re pretty eye-popping.
Here we go again!
BREAKING: ACLU files lawsuit to extend polling hours in New Jersey over 'technical issues' – WNBC
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) November 2, 2021
B.C. cancels some surgeries due to shortages caused by unvaccinated workers: minister
There are currently 3,325 health-care workers across the province who have not been immunized against COVID-19 in violation of the government’s proof-of-vaccination policy for health-care workers, which took effect last month, Dix said Monday.
‘Super polluters’: the top 10 publishers denying the climate crisis on Facebook
Ten publishers are responsible for 69% of digital climate change denial content on Facebook, a new study from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) has found. The outlets, which the report labels the “toxic ten”, include several conservative websites in the US, as well as Russian state media.
BCF didn’t make the list. Sorry. We’ll try harder.
How a change in media business model sparked the Great Awokening: References to racism and white supremacy SKYROCKETED after New York Times erected its paywall and rewarded their paying white liberal readers’ enthusiasm for wokeness
In a guest post on Common Sense with Bari Weiss, Batya Ungar-Sargon – an opinion editor at Newsweek – explained that liberals are willing to pay for content that aligns with their beliefs and it resulted in divisive language becoming more common.
I’m A Twenty Year Truck Driver, I Will Tell You Why America’s “Shipping Crisis” Will Not End
I have a simple question for every ‘expert’ who thinks they understand the root causes of the shipping crisis:
Why is there only one crane for every 50–100 trucks at every port in America?