A car dealership in Philadelphia has already lost most of its vehicles less than a week after it opened.

 

City Motors, located in the Mayfair neighborhood in the City of Brotherly Love, is on the brink of closing for good just days after opening. This is because thieves made off with several vehicles it was selling on the early morning of Sept. 27, according to WPVI 6.

 

The outlet reported that a group of criminals broke into the dealership's office on Frankford Avenue during the late hours of the previous day and ransacked the premises. The thieves stole the keys to seven of the 11 cars on the lot and made off with them – including the vehicles' titles. They also broke into an eighth car and attempted to hot-wire it, but in vain.

 

"If we don't recover the cars, we probably won't survive it. It could be the start and the end [of the business] all in the same week," said City Motors co-owner Nathan Kriegler.

 

"We called our insurance company and unfortunately, we only have liability insurance for the vehicles. So if we don't get the cars back, we have no coverage for the vehicles whatsoever."

 

WPVI 6 said police are investigating the break-in and thefts at City Motors. Security camera footage was unavailable, given that the business was so new – the security cameras were supposed to be installed on Sept. 27. Three of the stolen vehicles were later tracked down, with investigators probing if the incident is connected to a string of looting across Philadelphia last Sept. 25.

 

Madison Wittenberg, who handles social media for the company, questioned the thefts: "I mean, what's the point? What is the point of this? Retaliation against something?"

 

For his part, Kriegler is unsure whether opening City Motors in Mayfair is the right decision. He also called on officials in Philadelphia to crack down on crime. The City of Brotherly Love has seen an increase in crime under its District Attorney (DA) Larry Krasner.  

 

"I think if I had the choice all over, I would not come to Philadelphia," said the business owner. "I think a lot of people are feeling that way."

 

Nothing "brotherly" in crime-infested Philly

 

Jesse James of Not The Bee, a sister site of the Babylon Bee, put in his two cents on the issue. He predicted that City Motors won't last in Philadelphia, advising: "Maybe it's best they close up shop. It's only going to get worse."

 

Meanwhile, CBS News reported that 72 people have been charged in relation to civil unrest and the looting of stores across the city. Swarms of thieves looted businesses in the City of Brotherly Love on the evening of Sept. 26 – concurrent with the break-in at City Motors.

 

Krasner and other city officials gave an update on Oct. 2 regarding the chaos in the city. Assistant DA Clint Orem said 67 adults and five minors were arrested and charged, with burglary and theft being the most common charges. Twenty-one-year-old Dayjia "Meatball" Blackwell, who played a central role in the looting spree, was charged with multiple offenses and taken into custody.

 

"A robbery charge, a burglary charge, a theft charge, receiving stolen property – whatever we can possibly apply to this situation, we're going to apply it," said John Stanford, the city's acting police commissioner. "Philadelphia is not going to be the place that you can come and do this type of behavior."

 

According to CBS News, the chaos began hours after a judge dismissed all charges against former police officer Mark Dial. The erstwhile member of the Philadelphia Police Department shot 27-year-old Eddie Irizarry in August, leading to the latter's death. Law enforcement has clarified, however, that the rioters weren't connected to the peaceful protesters who gathered that day to protest the ruling.

 

"The DA and the courts need to make sure these people pay a price for what they did, said Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney.

A longtime volunteer child advocate for the King County, Washington, Superior Court said she was dismissed after refusing to say she would encourage children under the age of 12 to undergo life-altering gender surgeries and hormone treatments. 

A longtime volunteer child advocate for the King County, Washington, Superior Court said she was dismissed after refusing to say she would encourage children under the age of 12 to undergo life-altering gender surgeries and hormone treatments. 

 

The child advocate, who requested to remain anonymous, told conservative radio host Jason Rantz that for the past seven years, she had worked for the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Program, which recruits and trains people to represent the best interests of children between the ages of 0-11. Rantz reported that the child advocate was recently forced to undergo new training after taking some time off and was dismissed after she said she wouldn’t be comfortable supporting a minor who wanted to undergo gender surgery.

 

“I am very disappointed that CASA, whom I have supported for many years, has succumbed to the extreme liberalism that is rampant today,” the volunteer told Rantz on his radio show on KTTH. “I am appalled that an organization that is supposed to protect our most vulnerable, children between the ages of 0-11, would require that its volunteers be willing to advocate for medical intervention that would alter the natural gender of children.”

 

A CASA spokesperson told Rantz that while those who volunteer for the program can choose a specific case, they cannot “refuse to serve a category of children.” 

 

“Among the commitments made by CASA volunteers in their oath is to maintain objectivity, treat all persons with respect, fairness, and courtesy regardless of their human diversity,” the spokesperson said. “CASAs also commit to maintain an active commitment to the child for the life of the case if possible and because each child’s case is dynamic, CASAs can select a specific case but may not refuse to serve a category of children.”

 

The dismissed child advocate said she would never refuse to serve a child who identified as transgender, and she was surprised that her objection to gender surgery caused her to be discharged since she had always chosen the cases she wanted to take. 

 

“I cared about the children I advocated for and put a lot of thought and time into the decisions I made on their behalf,” she added.

 

Washington has pushed to protect experimental gender surgeries and hormone treatments for children, recently passing a law that shelters, or “host homes,” are not required to notify parents of a runaway child if the child claims to be fleeing parents who do not approve of a gender surgery or an abortion. Instead of reporting the runaway child to the parents, the host home is required to notify the Washington Department of Children, Youth, and Families. The state’s Democratic Governor Jay Inslee was sued in August by America First Legal, which is seeking to stop the enforcement of the law allowing the state to hide child gender surgeries from parents.

 

When he signed the bill, Inslee said the law is a “compassionate, developmentally appropriate, and reasoned approach to support these youth as they access gender-affirming treatment and reproductive health care services.”

 

Republicans in the Washington state Senate slammed the bill, saying, “People are overwhelmingly against SB 5599, including many LGBT+ folks. Democrats pass it anyway, allowing youth shelters to hide kids seeking ‘gender-affirming care’ from their parents.” 

 

Court-Appointed Child Advocate Dismissed After Refusing To Support Gender Surgeries For Kids Under 12: Report | Women System (womensystems.com)

by Lee Duigon

October 5, 2023

You have to respect Science for its uncanny ability to discover what it wants to discover. Oh, sure, there are incentives—zillion-dollar grants, enrollment in the ruling elite—maybe even a TV series on PBS. Find out who’s important, who’s writing the checks—and discover what they want you to discover. As easy as falling out of a canoe.

For long, lean years Science tried to discover “the gay gene.” Gee, how would that help any organism to reproduce? Shut up! Today’s politics is tomorrow’s science.

Well, they haven’t yet come through with the highly sought-after Gay Gene, but a few years ago they came up with the next best thing—the ancient grave of a man buried as a woman (so there!). Obviously, it could only mean one thing: that once upon a long time ago, the whole human race was fantastically tolerant of every imaginable form of sexual expression. If that’s not what this find says to you, you’re off the team.

So that’s settled, and we can move on to some of today’s burning scientific issues.

What makes people get fat?

You were going to say, “Too much food and not enough exercise,” weren’t you? Do you honestly think 21^st-century Science would ever be satisfied with an answer like that? Sheesh! Get with it!

According to a study made by I don’t know who, a major contributing factor to the risk of obesity is… wait for it…

“Experiencing discrimination”!

A hundred people filling out questionnaires and looking at slides of tasty snacks can’t be wrong.

And don’t even bother to say what you were gonna say next: “Gee whiz, when people are feeling stressed-out and demoralized, don’t they just naturally reach for comfort foods or sweets? Hasn’t that always been true?”

Shut up, he explained.

At the same time as our wealthy progressive political sponsors anoint “plus-sized activists” as their high priests among the hefty, all the while trying to ban large sodas, they look for a way for you—please excuse the expression—to have your cake and eat it, too. A solution wasn’t long in dawning on them.

Simple! Just initiate some action by government, some “policy,” that will reduce (oops!) or wipe out discrimination against the morbidly obese.

You knew it all along, didn’t you? What is the answer to every woe that flesh is heir to? Put ‘em together, Science and Government, and what have you got? You’ve got Policy! Mandates! Rules and regulations, new ones every day. And this is such an easy one—abolish, through cunningly crafted Policy, all forms of Discrimination against excessive corpulence. Just redesign and rebuild all things to accommodate the plus-sized, censor and punish any contrary opinions, and we’re home free.

Sure, it’ll cost trillions and trillions of dollars to replace hallways, doorways, seats, beds, car interiors [temporary: the long-range plan is to do away with private car ownership altogether] and everything else—but since when has Congress shown even the least aversion to spending public money?

There’s even a slogan ready to hand: “Our jumbo jets are really Jumbo jets!”

It’s big, I tell you. Bigger even than the Green New Deal! Social justice on steroids.

Not a single Democrat will vote against it.

I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and visit, with or without popcorn. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .

© 2023 Lee Duigon – All Rights Reserved

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THURSDAY, OCT 05, 2023 - 06:48 AM

 

The Biden FBI has 'quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump's army of MAGA followers' ahead of the 2024 election, according to prolific (and well connected) anti-war journalist and political commentator, William Arkin, who has previously reported on the FBI's efforts to "Fight MAGA Terrorism."

In a Wednesday Newsweek article, Arkin reveals that the vast majority of FBI investigations into "anti-government" activities are of Trump supporters.

 

 

"The FBI is in an almost impossible position," a current FBI official told Arkin, who added that the agency's stated intent is stopping a repeat of January 6th type incidents (which was riddled with feds), while balancing the Constitutional right of Americans to protest the government "Especially at a time when the White House is facing Congressional Republican opposition claiming that the Biden administration has 'weaponized' the Bureau against the right wing, it has to tread very carefully," the official continued.

Newsweek spoke to over a dozen current or former government officials who specialize in terrorism in a three-month investigation to understand the current domestic-security landscape and to evaluate what President Joe Biden's administration is doing about what it calls domestic terrorism. Most requested anonymity because they were not authorized to talk publicly, were reluctant to stray into partisan politics or feared the repercussions of speaking frankly.

Newsweek has also reviewed secret FBI and Department of Homeland Security data that track incidents, threats, investigations and cases to try to build a better picture. While experts agree that the current partisan environment is charged and uniquely dangerous (with the threat not only of violence but, in the most extreme scenarios, possibly civil war), many also question whether "terrorism" is the most effective way to describe the problem, or that the methods of counterterrorism developed over the past decade in response to Al-Qaeda and other Islamist groups constitute the most fruitful way to craft domestic solutions.

We would note that an FBI whistleblower in March claimed that the agency pressured him to inflate domestic terrorism figures against conservatives, and that the agency created a specific threat tag for pro-lifers "THREATSCOTUS2022" following the leaked Supreme Court opinion on abortion (and not a threat tag for the violent leftists who threatened SCOTUS justices?).

The FBI told Newsweek in a statement that: "The threat posed by domestic violent extremists is persistent, evolving, and deadly. The FBI's goal is to detect and stop terrorist attacks, and our focus is on potential criminal violations, violence and threats of violence. Anti-government or anti-authority violent extremism is one category of domestic terrorism, as well as one of the FBI's top threat priorities," adding "We are committed to protecting the safety and constitutional rights of all Americans and will never open an investigation based solely on First Amendment protected activity, including a person's political beliefs or affiliations."

According to the FBI's data leaked to Arkin, the number of domestic extremism cases has dropped since Jan 6, but that "Sociopolitical developments—such as narratives of fraud in the recent general election, the emboldening impact of the violent breach of the U.S. Capitol, conditions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and conspiracy theories promoting violence—will almost certainly spur some domestic terrorists to try to engage in violence."

So - while the threat that the FBI has encouraged agents to inflate may have fallen, they're on the lookout!

The agency has even created a new subcategory of threats, "AGAAVE-Other," to denote those who are a threat but don't fit into its anarchist, militia or Sovereign Citizen categories.

Introduced without any announcement, and reported here for the first time, the new classification is officially defined as "domestic violent extremists who cite anti-government or anti-authority motivations for violence or criminal activity not otherwise defined, such as individuals motivated by a desire to commit violence against those with a real or perceived association with a specific political party or faction of a specific political party." -Newsweek

Trump or MAGA aren't directly menti0oned in the official description of AGAAVE-Other, however "government insiders acknowledge that it applies to political violence ascribed to the former president's supporters."

"What other name could we use?" said one FBI officer, who added: "Obviously if Democratic Party supporters resort to violence, it [AGAAVE-Other] would apply to them as well. It doesn't matter that there is a low likelihood of that. So yes, in practical terms, it refers to MAGA, though the carefully constructed language is wholly nonpartisan."

Sure anonymous FBI guy... there's a 'low likelihood' that Democrats (the party which the FBI's top brass belong to) aren't causing political violence. Did someone get into Hunter's crack stash?

As The Federalist perfectly notes;

Despite widespread, leftist-led and encouraged riots during the 2020 summer of rage, FBI data says that spikes in domestic violent extremism and domestic terrorism investigations in 2020 and 2021 “show clearly that the main targets of the investigations and cases open were of Trump supporters,” not the people who wreaked billions of dollars of damage on American cities.

Similarly, “assessments,” a shadowy tool used by the FBI to spy on Americans who have political or ideological associations deemed unfavorable by the agency, “more than doubled from 2019 to 2021.”

A drastic rise in politicized probes of Trump voters follows an avalanche of rhetoric touted by President Joe Biden, his White House, Democrats in Congress, Attorney General Merrick Garland, FBI Director Christopher Wray, and other officials who have named the “domestic extremism” often pinned on Republican voters as the nation’s biggest threat.

The increase also serves as a continuation of the Biden regime’s persecution of its number one political opponent and his popular brand of wrongthink ahead of the 2024 presidential election.

Totally 'not weaponized.' 

 

FBI Creates 'MAGA' Extremist Category, Targets Trump Supporters Ahead Of 2024 Election | ZeroHedge

Trump is facing accusations in a New York civil trial that he defrauded investors by massively inflating the value of his properties and inflating his net worth.

 The New York Attorney General's Office is seeking to recover $250 million in addition to permanently barring Trump and company from engaging in any business deals in the Empire State.

“Personal attacks on members of my court staff are not appropriate and I will not tolerate it under any circumstances,” Engoron said, adding that he warned counsel about the issue previously.

“Schumer’s girlfriend, Alison [sic] R. Greenfield, is running this case against me. How disgraceful! This case should be dismissed immediately!!” the now-deleted post read, which also shared a link to one of Greenfield’s social media accounts.

The photo showed Schumer and Greenfield smiling while standing next to each other. Schumer’s arm can be seen high on Greenfield’s shoulder and the two do not seem to be in any kind of embrace. The image has been likened to photos people take with celebrities or politicians.

Screenshots of the post include a comment by Greenfield saying it was taken at a brunch event for the Chelsea Reform Democratic Club Founders. Greenfield also took a photo with US Rep.Carolyn Maloney (D-NC) at that event.

There have been no credible accusations that Greenfield and Schumer have an inappropriate relationship or any relationship at all. Schumer has been married since 1980.

Trump was apparently sharing an accusation made by a conservative account on X (formerly Twitter) that started posting about Greenfield shortly before the trial began. The same account previously accused Engoron of drinking on the job.

It is not clear if the account, which has less than 500 followers, is satirical in nature. It purports to be "applying the 69th Amendment to the internet."

 

Gag Order Issued After Trump Attacks Court Clerk (sputnikglobe.com)

A SoCal doctor was charged with stealing $150 million from the Federal Covid Program. Anthony Hao Dinh, 64, of Newport Coast, is alleged to have stolen the money through filing false claims for reimbursement under the Covid Uninsured Program. His alleged fraudulent claims were from July 2020 to March 2021.

 

The Department of Health and Human Services allows doctors to submit claim reimbursements if the patient did not have insurance and got a Covid vaccine or was tested and treated for the virus.

KTLA 5 reported:

An Orange County doctor was charged with stealing around $150 million from a federal program providing COVID-19 health services to uninsured patients.

Anthony Hao Dinh, 64, from Newport Coast operated clinics in Westminster and Garden Grove. He is a licensed doctor of osteopathy who was an ear, nose and throat specialist, as well as a facial plastic surgeon, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Dinh allegedly stole millions of dollars by submitting claims for reimbursement under the Health Resources and Services Administration’s COVID-19 Uninsured Program.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides claims reimbursement to healthcare providers for testing, treating or administering vaccines to uninsured patients for COVID.

From July 2020 to March 2021, Dinh allegedly submitted false claims for treating patients who were already insured, services not actually rendered, and services that were not medically necessary, officials said.

“As a result of these false and fraudulent claims, HRSA made payments to defendant Dinh, through [his medical] practices, in the approximate amount of $150 million,” according to court documents.

KTLA continued: Officials said this is the “largest fraud scheme in the nation targeting the HRSA COVID-19 Uninsured Program uncovered at this time.”

Five current or former IRS employees in Tennessee and Mississippi fraudulently received thousands of dollars in COVID relief funds to finance lavish lifestyles, according to the Department of Justice.

The five suspects allegedly submitted bogus loan applications to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program in an effort to gain over $1 million in funding.

They then used the loan funds to finance their extravagant lifestyles, such as buying new cars, luxury goods, and personal travel, including trips to Las Vegas, according to court documents.

“The IRS employees charged in these cases allegedly abused the trust placed in them by the public,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “The Criminal Division is committed to safeguarding that public trust and protecting pandemic relief programs for the American people.”

 

SoCal Doctor Charged With Stealing $150 Million From Federal COVID Program - STATIONGOSSIP

 

Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz has been threatening for weeks to start the procedural motions to try to remove Kevin McCarthy from the speakership.

"The one thing I agree with my Democrat colleagues on is that for the last eight months this House has been poorly led and we own that, and we have to do something about it," Gaetz said on the floor earlier this week. "And you know what? My Democrat colleagues will have an opportunity to do something about that, too. And we will see if they bail out our failed speaker."

Gaetz is one of a few hardline Republicans who have tied McCarthy's political fate to a spending fight ahead of a looming government shutdown.

McCarthy wouldn't be in this position had he not agreed to far-right demands to change House rules to make it easier for a single member to offer a resolution to remove him from office. But without that concession McCarthy may not have been able to secure the gavel after 15 rounds of voting at the start of the Congress in January.

How does a motion to vacate work?

Gaetz, or any combination of McCarthy detractors, could at any time introduce a privileged resolution to declare the office of the speaker of the House of Representatives vacant — known as a "motion to vacate." The introduction alone doesn't guarantee a vote, but it would be like firing a warning shot to to the House that it's coming. This is precisely what former Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., did back in 2015 against then-Speaker John Boehner, but Boehner stepped down before a vote was called.

After introduction, a lawmaker would have to go to the House floor and request a vote on the resolution, which would be considered privileged and therefore require a vote to occur within two legislative days. Party leadership can determine the timing of the vote, and it could happen as soon as it's introduced.

The resolution is subject to motions that could ultimately block it from getting a vote. For example, motions to table the resolution, or refer it to committee would be in order. If any of those intermediary steps succeeded, then a vote on the resolution to vacate the speakership would not occur.

If the blocking motions fail, and a vote on the resolution is called, it requires a simple majority of lawmakers present and voting to succeed. If it passes, the speakership is immediately vacated.

This is where Democrats come into play

McCarthy still appears to enjoy the support of the vast majority of the 221 House Republicans. But with a narrow four-seat majority, only a sliver of the GOP conference could vacate the speakership if the 212 Democrats vote en masse to defeat any blocking motions, and then in favor of the resolution to vacate.

Democratic leaders have refused to engage in any war gaming about the vote. "We haven't given any thought to how to handle a hypothetical motion to vacate, because we are entirely focused on making sure that we avoid this extreme MAGA Republican shutdown," Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., said Thursday.

Two senior Democratic aides who asked for anonymity to speak candidly about internal party deliberations said that informal conversations are happening among blocs of Democrats about how to handle the vote, but there is no united party consensus.

The aides said one calculating factor is if the resolution is offered during a government shutdown, Democrats might be less inclined to add to the governing chaos by offering their votes to remove the speaker. At the same time, if Democratic votes are necessary to save McCarthy, there would likely be some negotiations as to what Democrats can receive in exchange for their votes.

Additionally, one of the aides said there is so little regard for McCarthy among Democrats — for his fealty to the far right, his authorization of an impeachment inquiry against President Biden and his actions after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on that Capitol — that it was hard to envision saving him.

“I can tell you I have been in a number of conversations, and I have not heard one Democrat voice any interest in saving Kevin,” an aide said. Another aide noted that Democrats don’t believe they can trust the speaker to cut any deals to win their votes, noting he walked away from the budget deal he cut with President Biden in late May just days after it was signed into law.

No speaker has ever been removed in this manner.

If a resolution were to pass, the House would enter into unchartered waters of making new precedent. Under continuity of Congress procedures enacted after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, there is a list of people who can act as speaker pro tempore in an event where the speakership is vacated. This was created in anticipation of a mass casualty event like a terrorist attack, but it would apply if the speakership is vacated. The irony is that list is written by the sitting speaker — so McCarthy knows who is on the list — and it is kept by the House Clerk and only to be made public in the event of a vacancy.

Three sources with parliamentary expertise, who all asked to be granted anonymity, said that the next immediate order of business before the House would be the election of a new speaker. The speaker pro tempore cannot serve in the line of succession to the presidency so it would be a matter of national security and constitutional prerogative to have a duly elected speaker.

What would be different in this scenario than in January at the start of a new Congress is that all lawmakers are sworn in, House Rules have been approved and committees are constituted. Lawmakers could still hold committee hearings and assist constituents, but the business before the House would be to elect a speaker. As the House experienced in January, this can take days and multiple rounds of balloting until a lawmaker receives a majority of the full House.

How long that could take, or who could replace McCarthy, is hard to predict. Multiple news outlets reported this week that some Republicans have approached Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., should the effort to oust McCarthy succeed. Emmer in turn pledged his support to McCarthy.

 

How the far right could remove McCarthy and why his fate could be in Democrats’ hands - OPB

IMAGINE THAT.

 

Vandalism is becoming almost unavoidable for San Francisco’s restaurants; a new survey shows.

 

Only 3% out of 74 restaurants surveyed said they had not experienced graffiti or property crime in the last month, according to a new survey from the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.

The city has spent $1 million on grants for vandalism relief since 2021, and nearly 800 businesses have received $1,000 or $2,000 grants for graffiti, broken windows, or other vandalism, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

San Francisco’s 311 call center has received 10,000 reports of graffiti on commercial buildings and sidewalks in the last six months, the outlet reported.

Now, the San Francisco Police Department has even assigned an officer to investigate graffiti full-time.

Meanwhile, businesses are suffering, and repairing the damage is expensive.

A pizza shop in San Francisco’s Mission District was recently hit with acid, the owner told ABC7.

“This is acid so you can’t just remove it. They have to replace the glass,” Supreme Pizza owner Leandro Jayme told the outlet. He said replacing even one small glass square costs him $300.

Some restaurants said they gave up, including Shuggie’s, also in the Mission district, which received a grant, but gave up trying to clean up the almost daily graffiti.

Shoplifting is another major problem for the crime-ridden city.

In the past, San Francisco’s stores have geared up with unprecedented security measures to try to deter shoplifters.

Grocery stores, pharmacies, and other retailers have installed extreme security devices and paid for private security guards to combat rampant theft.

Supermarket chain Safeway installed exit gates that require customers to scan their receipts in some of its Bay Area grocery stores. A Walgreens locked its freezers with chains in response to shoplifters hitting the store 15 to 20 times a day, according to an employee.

In 2021, businesses in San Francisco’ Union Square hired private security to combat the “smash and grab” robberies that plagued the area.

Part of the reason for the shoplifting increase is Proposition 47, a 2014 voter-approved law that made the theft of merchandise under $950 in value a misdemeanor that is often not investigated.

Most Californians support changing Prop 47 to reinstate penalties for certain thefts, according to a 2022 poll.

Overall crime in San Francisco is slightly down this year, but certain types of violent crime are up, according to police data.

Murder is up 3% to 40 murders so far. Robberies are up 16% to 2,039 robberies so far. Car thefts are up 11% to 5,038 thefts.

Crime, open-air drug use, and homelessness have caused businesses to flee San Francisco’s downtown, where foot traffic has thinned.

A string of major retailers has recently fled their downtown San Francisco locations. Mall company Westfield, AT&T, Nordstrom, Whole Foods, and two hotels have all shuttered locations in the city recently.

The city’s drug crisis hit a grim milestone last month with a record 84 accidental drug overdose deaths in August, according to preliminary city data. So far this year, a total of 563 people have died from a drug overdose in San Francisco.

Homelessness has only gotten worse since before the pandemic. About 38,000 people are homeless in the Bay Area on a given night, up 35% since 2019.

 

http://www.womensystems.com/2023/09/only-3-of-san-francisco-restaurants.html 

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis criticized former President Donald Trump during an interview Tuesday night, saying that the former president needed to show up to this week’s GOP primary debate to defend his record as president.

 

DeSantis made the remarks during an interview with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham ahead of Wednesday’s debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. DeSantis, who is second place nationally in current polling, will be at the center of the debate stage since Trump is not attending.

“I think it’s interesting that he is not willing to stand on that stage,” DeSantis said of Trump. “I think he owes it to all the voters to show up, defend his record, and articulate what he would do going forward and what he would might do differently. And he’s not willing to do that. I think the voters have a right to hear from all the candidates.”

“I mean, I think we can talk about a lot of the things — he’s running in 2024 on a lot of the same promises he ran on in 2016 and didn’t deliver on,” he continued. “He said he was going to drain the swamp. They didn’t drain the swamp at all. He still defends hiring Christopher Wray, he didn’t fire Wray. He didn’t fire Fauci. He said Mexico was gonna pay for the border wall. That didn’t happen. They started the wall, but we’ve got a lot more to be able to do to finish the wall. He said he was going to eliminate the national debt. They added almost a trillion dollars to the debt in four years, and then remember, he promised to appoint a special counsel for Hillary Clinton, then after the election two weeks later, he’s like, ‘Oh, no, forget about it. That’s what you say before the election, it’s not what you say after.’ So now, he’s saying he’s going to do one for Biden, but he had promised to do that for you in 2016. So I think it’s about, you got to deliver on these things.”

Trump announced back in August that he would not be attending any of the Republican debates, citing voters’ familiarity with his record and his commanding lead in the national polls, which currently stands at around 40 points, according to the RealClearPolitics average.

“Many people are asking whether or not I will be doing the DEBATES?” Trump wrote in a post on his social media platform Truth Social ahead of the first primary debate in August. “ALL AMERICANS have been clamoring for a President of extremely High Intelligence. As everyone is aware, my Poll numbers, over a ‘wonderful’ field of Republican candidates, are extraordinary. In fact, I am leading the runner up, whoever that may now be, by more than 50 Points. Reagan didn’t do it, and neither did others. People know my Record, one of the BEST EVER, so why would I Debate?”

A few days later, he confirmed that he would not do any of debates. “The public knows who I am & what a successful Presidency I had,” he wrote. “I WILL THEREFORE NOT BE DOING THE DEBATES!”

Instead of attending the debate Wednesday, Trump is planning to meet with striking autoworkers from the United Auto Workers union in Detroit, Michigan.

 

DeSantis: Trump ‘Didn’t Deliver On’ Promises, He Owes It To Voters To ‘Defend His Record’ At The Debate - YourDestinationNow

There is no longer any such thing as a “mother” as far as the British General Medical Council (GMC) is concerned.

The English political body has changed its internal policy
to remove all mentions of the word “mother” in reference to its
employees. Instead, from now on, all mothers will simply be called
“parents” to avoid using female-specific language.

The new GMC guidance
stipulates that the term “surrogate mother,” for instance, will now
simply be called “surrogate parents.” The GMC’s maternity document was also changed to state that the “GMC offers maternity to all colleagues going on maternity leave,” including surrogate “parents.”

Concerning the GMC’s menopause advice, this was also changed to
include not just women. The GMC now says it “will work proactively to make adjustments where necessary to support individuals experiencing the menopause,” the suggestion being that men can also experience the menopause.

“The decision by the GMC to obscure the fact that only women have
babies is ideologically driven, medically inaccurate and unhelpful to
women and babies,” complained Heather Welford from the maternity action group With Woman about the GMC’s changes. “It moves away from the drive for plain English and makes medical literature unclear.”

“For medical professionals, the sex of a person is salient to
their health care. Reputable organizations such as the GMC should not be changing language on a population level to pander to ideologically driven pressure groups,” she added.

Female vaginas should now be referred to as “bonus holes,” says Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust

These changes at the GMC come on the heels of other recommendations by pro-LGBT groups to rename female anatomy as well to avoid being female-specific.

Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, as one example, altered its glossary
of terms in partnership with the LGBT Foundation to no longer call
female reproductive anatomy a “vagina,” but rather to instead call it a “bonus hole,” or a “front hole.”

“It is important to check which words someone would prefer to
use,” Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust insists in its “Language to use when
supporting transgender men and / or non-binary people.”

Another change the group made is to add new made-up words like
“microaggressions,” “misgendering,” and “deadnaming” to the lexicon to allow anti-white racists and transgenders to claim “hate crimes”
whenever someone else uses real words and terms that offend them.

“Remember, everyone makes mistakes from time to time,” the guide
goes on to state, adding that it is “important that you acknowledge
them, correct yourself, learn from them, and move on.”

Funded by British taxpayers, Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust was
described in 2019 by Baroness Susan Williams, the then-Minister for
Equalities who is now Chief Whip for the government in the House of
Lords, as one of a number of LGBT groups doing “incredibly important” work within the Government Equalities Office to promote “the advancement of equality in the UK.”

“It’s a concerted effort to ignore the existence of women,” claimed one GMC employee to The Telegraph about the changes. “Well, I am a woman.”

“It’s not appropriate for a medical organization to ignore
biology. They should stick to science. People are worried about putting their heads above the parapet … They are having the organization’s ‘woke’ ideology forced on them. It’s not right.”

“By rewriting its maternity policy to be gender neutral, the GMC
is sending a hostile message to women in medicine,” added Helen Joyce, director of advocacy at the campaign group Sex Matters. 

 

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