Uvalde

 https://www.facebook.com/uvaldepd/posts/2020447201321960

Gas prices and Biden

Here's an update on the dirty tricks Creepy Joe Biden is using to drive up the price of gasoline to force you to use less.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-fossil-fuel-blockade-onshore-drilling-leases-oil-gas-russia-11646409502

Last month a federal judge slapped down the Biden Administration’s inflated “social cost” estimate for greenhouse gas emissions. The Administration’s estimate captured all of the potential harm from carbon emissions globally over three centuries—yes, centuries. They threw in everything from property damage to health harms and war.

Biden officials were furious at the judge’s decision because they planned to use this grossly inflated social cost estimate to support restrictions on fossil fuels—from stricter fuel-economy rules to methane emissions curbs for oil and gas production. Now they can’t, so dozens of rule-makings are stalled.

But here’s the kicker: The White House budget office says the injunction has caused it to halt permitting work on at least 18 wells on federal oil and gas leases in New Mexico and new lease sales. The White House is blaming the judge for what it was already doing or, rather, not doing.

Interior has been slow-rolling oil and gas permits since Mr. Biden took office. A judge last June struck down the President’s leasing ban on federal land and ordered Interior to hold quarterly leases as required by law. Only in November did Interior finally hold an offshore sale. Then green groups sued, and a liberal judge blocked the sales. The Administration hasn’t appealed.

Still, Mr. Biden hasn’t held an onshore lease sale and is the only President in at least two decades not to have done so in a given year. Approvals for new liquefied natural gas terminals and expansions are also sitting at the Department of Energy and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, according to the American Petroleum Institute.

Sabatini and Lehmann

 Lehman is the person who actually fired Sabatini.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/62471f85d2216812c1b5565e/t/62658b9df119917020046a58/1650822046518/Complaint.pdf

Ruth Lehmann, Ph.D.

25. Dr. Lehmann earned her undergraduate degree and a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Dr. Lehmann was elected as the Director of the Whitehead in 2019 and formally succeeded the prior Director in July 2020.

26. After taking over as the Director of the Whitehead, Dr. Lehmann held a dinner for many of the female investigators and trainees at the Whitehead, including Dr. Knouse. Dr. Lehmann stated during this dinner that she intended to “clean-up” the boys’ club at the Whitehead, or words to that effect.

27. Dr. Lehmann has publicly expressed the view that she believes that there is a lot of “sexism” in science.

28. During a presentation at the Whitehead, Dr. Lehmann shared that she had unsuccessfully tried to “oust” a male professor at a prior employer. Dr. Lehmann’s statements made it clear that she was proud of these efforts and was frustrated she did not succeed.

29. Though Dr. Sabatini supported Dr. Lehmann for the position as Director of the Whitehead, a position that Dr. Sabatini had been asked to consider but had turned down, she expressed animosity and hostility towards him after her appointment.

30. One example of this is an interaction that Dr. Lehmann and Dr. Sabatini had at a Whitehead retreat in the fall of 2019, which Dr. Lehmann attended as a guest before she took over her official duties as Director. During a dinner at the retreat, Dr. Sabatini asked Dr. Lehmann what she thought of the scientific presentations she had seen by Whitehead scientists at the retreat. Instead of responding professionally, Dr. Lehmann stared at Dr. Sabatini and asked in a hostile tone “What? Do you want me to tell you that you gave the best talk?” This comment was so unexpected and upsetting to Dr. Sabatini that he recounted it to several of his faculty colleagues at the Whitehead and other institutions.

homeless

 https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-people-give-the-homeless-a-place-to-stay/answer/Clare-Farquharson-1

Tracey Wilkinson with her son Pierce Wilkinson

In March 2016, mother-of-two Tracey Wilkinson had seen Aaron Barley shivering and trying to keep warm in a cardboard box outside of her local Tesco. Unable to just walk on by, she offered to drive Aaron to the council offices to help him get a place at a hostel. Although he was now in a hostel, he still had little money or food, so she organised his breakfast and dinner every day. 

Sometimes this would be by inviting him over to her home to eat dinner with her family. Aaron said: “I just need somebody to give me a chance. I need somebody to give me a lucky break.” So her husband, Peter Wilkinson, found him a job in his manufacturing firm and he was then able to move into a flat of his own.

Unfortunately, he took drugs and went off the rails. Managers reported high levels of absence and aggressive behaviour. He was let go, which then resulted in him being evicted from his flat. Mr Wilkinson found him asleep on their driveway so the family decided to try and help him again. They organised council housing for him, and paid for his accommodation themselves whilst this was being set up. He was even invited to spend Christmas Day with the family in their home. Afterwards, Aaron wrote Tracey a letter addressed ‘to the mother I never had’.

In March 2017, a year after they had first met, Aaron crept back to the Wilkinson family home. The family’s CCTV showed that he laid in wait for several hours. Mr Wilkinson, as usual, left to take the dog for its morning walk. As usual, the back door was left unlocked (it’s a very safe area (usually)) for this short period of time. This was when Aaron Barley struck. He stabbed Tracey and her 13-year-old son, Pierce, to death. When Peter Wilkinson returned 25 minutes later, he too was violently set upon. Unlike his wife and son, he was lucky enough to survive.

Peter Wilkinson later explained (after a long recovery in hospital): “He said ‘Die, you bastard’ as he stuck the knife into me. I said to him after he’d stabbed me, ‘Aaron we tried to help you’, and he stuck the knife into my stomach and said ‘Die, you bastard’.”

Aaron Barley then stole the family car and crashed it a short distance away, where he was arrested by the police.

This was a major news story immediately.

Lydia Wilkinson, Peter and Tracey’s older child, was away at university. She found out about the tragedy by seeing it in the news, realising that it was in her hometown, and then realising that it was her home that was being pictured! She said she was warned to expect the worst and that for a while it looked like her dad wouldn’t make it and that she would be left completely alone.

Lydia Wilkinson

Peter Wilkinson (right) with his children Pierce and Lydia

To this day the motive remains a mystery. After all, the family had genuinely tried hard to help. However, the week before the killing, the family had decided to stop paying Aaron’s mobile phone bills. It is speculated that this may have been a trigger.

Aaron Barley has shown no remorse. He said his only regret was that he did not succeed in killing the father, Peter Wilkinson.

Aaron Barley

Undoubtedly, he had had a terrible start in life. He was the product of incest. His mother and father were niece and uncle. He spent his childhood in numerous homes. But none of this can excuse the planned cold-blooded murder of those who had tried hardest to help him.

“I wish my wife had never set eyes on him” - Peter Wilkinson.