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High Bills, And Food Prices Is What A Liberal Agenda Will Give You

Putting food on the kitchen table got more challenging for American households in September, inflation data released Wednesday showed.
The price of food at home jumped 1.2 percent in September, a historically huge gain for a single month and three times the inflation rate recorded in August. Compared with a year ago, the price of food at home is up 4.6 percent, the Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index indicates.
The price hikes are not a reflection of what Fed officials have referred to as “base effects,” meaning data showing a large price jump due to depressed prices in the past. A year ago, prices were also rising quickly, with food at home showing a 4.1 percent increase. Compared with September of 2019, before the pandemic struck, prices of food at home are up 8.8 percent.

The price hikes were spread throughout the aisles of the grocery store, with all six major food group categories registering higher prices. The index for meats, poultry, fish, and eggs rose 2.2 percent over the past month and 10.5 percent compared with a year ago.  The index for fruits and vegetables rose 0.6 percent in September, a larger increase than the 0.2-percent increase reported in August, and is up three percent compared with a year ago. The index for cereals and bakery products rose 1.1 percent over the month and 2.7 percent over the past year.
Some of the biggest jumps on an annual basis:
* Ground beef: + 10.6 percent.
* Steaks: +22.1 percent.
* Bacon: +19.3 percent.
* Pork roasts, ribs, steaks: +19.2 percent.
* Chickens: +17.1 percent.
* Fresh fish: +10.7 percent.
* Eggs: +12.6 percent.
* Peanut Butter: +6.2 percent.
* Apples: + 7.8 percent.
* Ham: +7 percent.
* Baby food: +4.4 percent.
Taking the family out to eat also got more expensive. The indexes for restaurant meals, including full-service and fast-food eateries, rose 0.6 percent in September. The prices of full-service meals are up 5.2 percent compared with a year ago, while prices of limited-service meals—fast food places—are up 6.7 percent.

With prices surging worldwide for heating oil, natural gas and other fuels, the U.S. government said Wednesday it expects households to see jumps of up to 54% for their heating bills from last winter.
Heating bills set to soar as inflation hits energy pricesBy STAN CHOEAP Business WriterThe Associated PressNEW YORK
NEW YORK (AP) — Get ready to pay sharply higher bills for heating this winter, along with seemingly everything else.
With prices surging worldwide for heating oil, natural gas and other fuels, the U.S. government said Wednesday it expects households to see their heating bills jump as much as 54% compared to last winter.

The sharpest increases are likely for homes that use propane, which account for only 5% of U.S. households, but others are also likely to see big increases.
Homes that use natural gas, which make up nearly half of all U.S. households, may spend $746 this winter, 30% more than a year ago. That could make this winter’s heating bills the highest for them since the winter of 2008-2009.
The second-most typical heating source for homes is electricity, making up 41% of the country, and those households could see a more modest 6% increase to $1,268. Homes using heating oil, which make up 4% of the country, could see a 43% increase — more than $500 — to $1,734.
This winter is forecast to be slightly colder across the country than last year. That means people will likely be burning even more fuel to keep warm, on top of paying more for each bit of it. If the winter ends up being even colder than forecast, heating bills could be higher than estimated, and vice-versa.
The forecast from the U.S. Energy Information Administration is the latest reminder of the higher inflation ripping across the global economy. Earlier Wednesday, the government released a separate report showing that prices were 5.4% higher for U.S. consumers in September than a year ago. That’s the hottest inflation since 2008, as a reawakening economy and snarled supply chains push up prices for everything from cars to groceries.
The higher prices hit almost all households, with pay raises for most workers so far failing to keep up with inflation. Average hourly earnings for workers were up 4.6% last month from a year ago.
But higher heating bills will hit low-income households particularly hard.
“After the beating that people have taken in the pandemic, it’s like: What’s next?” said Carol Hardison, chief executive officer at Crisis Assistance Ministry, which helps people in Charlotte, North Carolina, who are facing financial hardship.
She said households coming in for assistance recently have had unpaid bills that are roughly twice as big as they were before the pandemic. They’re contending with more expensive housing costs, higher medical bills and sometimes a reduction in their hours worked.
“It’s what we know about this pandemic: It’s hit the same people that were already struggling with wages not keeping up with the cost of living,” she said.
The biggest reason for this winter’s higher heating bills is the recent surge in prices for energy commodities after they dropped to multi-year lows in 2020. Demand has simply been growing faster than production as the economy roars back to life following the shutdowns caused by the coronavirus.
Natural gas in the United States, for example, has climbed to its highest price since 2014 and is up roughly 90% over the last year. The wholesale price of heating oil, meanwhile, has more than doubled in the last 12 months.
Another reason for the rise is how global the market for fuels has become. In Europe, strong demand and limited supplies have sent natural gas prices up nearly 350% this year. That’s pushing some of the natural gas produced in the United States to head for ships bound for other countries, adding upward pressure on domestic prices as well.
The amount of natural gas in storage inventories across the northern hemisphere is relatively low, according to Barclays analyst Amarpreet Singh, which means there is less of a cushion heading into winter heating season.
Heating oil prices, meanwhile, are tied closely to the price of crude oil, which has climbed more than 60% this year. Homes affected by those increases are primarily in the Northeast, where the percentage of homes using heating oil has dropped to 18% from 27% over the past decade.

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2021/10/13/food-inflation-soars/

https://www.breitbart.com/news/heating-bills-set-to-soar-as-inflation-hits-energy-prices/

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The Doctor Of Common Sense Agrees With Dave Chappelle

We live in a society where the women act more masculine then most men. They are upset at Dave Chappelle for saying “Gender is a fact. Every human being in this room, every human being on earth, had to pass through the legs of a woman to be on earth.” That is a damn fact. Two men or two women can never produce a child.

So why is it that people get upset that he followed the Science and said that a man can never be a women. Just like a you don’t call a Mercedes, a bulldozer. Because the they have different characteristics. But now we live in a society where if you are straight you are almost frowned on. But they turn around and celebrate a man for cutting off his package.

How insane is that? You amputate a body part and they say you are brave and courageous. That was once a way to get yourself a one way ticket to the insane asylum. Dave Chappelle also mentioned Caitlyn Jenner aka Bruce Jenner. He said he was a woman for one year and they gave him an award for “Woman Of The Year”.

How can you when “Woman Of The Year” when you have only been a woman for a year. Technically speaking he is not a damn woman, nor will he ever be. He can not have a menstruation. He does not have ovaries, and he could never produce babies.

This is complete madness and it proves how for these delusional people will go with this madness. They are really mad that they could not intimidate David Chappelle. Because the Gay Mafia attempts to intimidate anyone who disagrees with their opinion, even when it’s based on facts.

So why is it that Gay’s can celebrate coming out of the closet, but if you say I love women, or I thought I was gay but now I’m happy being heterosexual?

I refuse to play these stupid games of tolerance. it’s not hate speech if I say based on science you will never be able to change your gender.

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According To New Reports Anthony Fauci’s Agency Spent Over $1M to Poison Beagle Puppies, Cut Out Vocal Cords so They Couldn’t Bark

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been propped up by the left as a savior throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. If leftists wrote a Marvel superhero movie, former President Donald Trump would be like Thanos, and Fauci is supposed to be some sort of Avenger who saves that day.

The problem with that picture is that as far as I’m aware, Avengers are not supposed to brutally murder puppies and mutilate their bodies.

According to a watchdog group called the White Coat Waste Project, that is exactly what the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases did under the leadership of Fauci.

“Documents obtained by WCW through the Freedom of Information Act show that Fauci’s division at the National Institutes of Health ordered cruel and unnecessary drug toxicity tests on dogs and other animals that cost taxpayers $1.68 million,” the group said in a Tuesday news release.

This follows an August report that NIAID sent $424,455 in taxpayer money to the University of Georgia in September 2020 for research that would infect beagles with parasites so that an experimental drug could be tested on them.

In that research, documents obtained by WCW show at least 28 beagles were set to be infected with the parasites for three months. Afterward, they would be euthanized and their blood would be collected. The research was supposed to be completed by January 2022, but it is unclear whether the beagles were euthanized, according to the Daily Caller.

According to the new report from the Daily Caller, additional animal research took place between October 2018 and February 2019. These experiments reportedly included 44 beagle puppies aged 6-8 months who were given experimental drugs through either injection or force-feeding.

Afterward, WCW said the dogs were killed and dissected, supposedly for “research.”

In addition, NIAID paid for the abused puppies to have cordectomies, meaning part or all of their vocal cords were removed. WCW said Fauci’s division paid for these procedures so the puppies “couldn’t bark in the lab while they were being abused.”

NIAID defended the horrific treatment in its documents by saying the experiments were conducted to “provide data of suitable quality and integrity, in order to support applications to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other regulatory agencies,” according to the Daily Caller.

In July, WCW told KABC-TV that human drugs were being tested on puppies because of a 1930s law requiring drugs to be tested on animals before humans.

However, when KABC reached out to the FDA for comment, the agency said it “requires that an FDA-approved medical product must be demonstrated to be safe and effective,” but “does not mandate that human drugs be studied in dogs.”

This implies that NIAID’s reckless animal testing was conducted by choice, not out of obligation.

The timing of this new information is particularly ironic for Fauci. On Monday’s episode of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Carlson revealed Fauci had candles in his own home depicting himself as a saint.

“Tony Fauci isn’t just the high priest of Fauci-ism. He’s also a true believer himself,” Carlson said.

The very next day, Fauci was revealed to have overseen experiments brutalizing innocent puppies. Somehow, that doesn’t seem to be very “saint-like” behavior.

“People are naming puppies after Anthony Fauci, but he’s actually dogs’ and taxpayers’ worst nightmare,” WCW vice president of advocacy and public policy Justin Goodman told the Daily Caller.

“From poisoning puppies here at home to funding gain-of-function experiments in China, the government’s highest-paid employee has proven he can’t be trusted to spend taxpayer dollars responsibly. With NIH director Francis Collins retiring, Fauci should be the next one to go.”

Fauci Agency Spent Over $1M to Poison Beagle Puppies, Cut Out Vocal Cords so They Couldn’t Bark: New Report

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Demon’s From The Left Mock Fla. Gov. DeSantis’ wife Casey over breast cancer diagnosis and Twitter does nothing

The news that Casey DeSantis, the wife of Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, had been diagnosed with breast cancer was met by an outpouring of sympathy from Democrats and Republicans alike — but was also greeted with sick jubilation and mockery from the darker corners of social media.

Democratic Florida Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, who is running to unseat DeSantis in next year’s gubernatorial election, tweeted: “Our hearts are with Florida’s First Lady Casey DeSantis and her family. We are all praying for you!”

After repeating the message in Spanish, Fried fired off a preemptive warning to would-be trolls.

“If you choose to reply to this tweet, please show some empathy,” she said. “Casey is a mother of three and deserves our support in this difficult fight.”

Her warning appeared to come in response to several politically motivated nasty tweets about the Florida first lady’s battle.

“I feel sorry for Casey DeSantis, not only to get such a horrible diagnosis but also face the prospect of Ron DeSantis choosing between (a) helping protect his wife’s immune system by wearing a mask; and (b) pandering to anti-maskers for his voracious political ambitions,” tweeted Canadian comedian Deven Green, who often performs as the character Mrs. Betty Bowers, “America’s Best Christian”.

“I wish Casey DeSantis well,” wrote another Twitter user claiming to be a “Front line ICU MP”. “I hope she is smart enough not to allow her husband treat her breast cancer with Ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine.”

“Gonna be really hard to offer thoughts and prayers to Casey DeSantis, wife of a man who botched a pandemic that led to the deaths of 55,000+ Floridians,” chimed in another user with the moniker “Death Metal Viking”.

“My prayers go out to the families of the 50,000+ Floridians who have died from Covid because of desantis [sic],” still another Twitter user wrote. “Sorry I’m not wasting them on his wife”.

Some of the more conspiracy-minded social media denizens wondered whether the 41-year-old’s diagnosis was genuine.

“Not sure if it’s a gimmick for pity votes or not,” one wrote in response to a CNN story about the news.

“Can someone check if this is true,” added another user, “cause maybe he’s just looking for some sympathy and extra attention for his presidential run, when his wife miraculously beats the odds and becomes a survival story. When it comes to scum like Ron, I don’t give him the benefit of the doubt.”

In a second tweet, the same user wrote: “If his wife does in fact have cancer, I hope she gets the medical treatment that people like Ron try to keep everyone else from having.”

Casey DeSantis, a former TV host, married her husband Ron in 2010. The couple have three children aged four and under.

“Casey is the centerpiece of our family and has made an impact on the lives of countless Floridians through her initiatives as First Lady,” the governor said in a statement. “As she faces the most difficult test of her life, she will have not only my unwavering support but the support of our entire family, as well as the prayers and well wishes from Floridians across our state.”

While Democratic leaders in the Sunshine State have harshly criticized DeSantis for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic — most notably his insistence that school districts not impose mask mandates — they put politics aside after word of the Florida first lady’s diagnosis circulated Monday.

Florida Democratic Party Chairman Manny Diaz said in a statement that he was “sorry” to hear of Casey DeSantis’ diagnosis and called it “the type of news all families dread hearing.”

“As the DeSantis family goes through this difficult time, my thoughts and prayers are with Mrs. DeSantis, and I wish her a prompt and successful recovery,” Diaz added.

https://nypost.com/2021/10/04/twitter-trolls-mock-desantis-wife-casey-over-breast-cancer-diagnosis/

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Idiot California Governor Newsom Announces First K-12 Covid Vaccine Mandate

Democrat Governor Gavin Newsom (CA) on Friday announced the nation’s first k-12 vaccine mandate for in-person learning.
Fresh off of a rigged recall election, Newsom has gone into overdrive.

The mandate will go into effect once the FDA gives full approval of the shots for their age groups.
Currently, students 16 or older are eligible for the Pfizer jab; children ages 12 to 15 are able to get the Pfizer shot under emergency use.

The Los Angeles Time reported:
In the first such action in the nation, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a mandate Friday requiring all eligible public and private schoolchildren in California to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a policy the state expects to affect millions of students.

The mandate would take effect for grades 7 through 12 the semester following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of the vaccine for children ages 12 and over, according to the governor’s office. Students in kindergarten through sixth grade would be phased in after the vaccine is formally approved for younger children.
The mandate could take effect for students 12 and older as early as January 2022 if there is full federal approval for a COVID-19 vaccine for that age range, the governor said in remarks at a San Francisco school.
“There’s still a struggle to get to where we need to be,” Newsom said. “And that means we need to do more, and we need to do better.”
“This is just another vaccine,” Newsom said. The Covid vaccine will join “a well-established list that currently includes 10 vaccines and well-established rules and regulations that have been advanced by the Legislature for decades.”
Pfizer said the FDA should approve (emergency use) Covid vaccines for children ages 5 to 11 by end of October, mid-November.

California Governor Gavin Newsom Announces First K-12 Covid Vaccine Mandate For In-Person Learning (VIDEO)

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Dumb CNN, and MSNBC Blame Violent Crime Rise On Police, Guns, And Well It’s Complicated

Responding to an FBI report on Monday that shows homicides have increased an unprecedented 30% over the past year, CNN Newsroom host Erica Hill sought to figure out why. Ultimately she concluded that it was the police themselves and guns.

In a segment with professor and criminologist Richard Rosenfeld, Hill inquired about the police: “You noted in some of your findings that urgent action was required in terms of the rates of homicide, saying ‘enacting needed police reforms will be essential.’ Specifically, what type of reforms do you think are essential here?” 

https://www.mrctv.org/videos/cnn-blames-record-raise-homicide-police-guns

Rosenfeld’s answer was two-fold. First, he declared, “One is to increase the accountability of police officers who’ve been shown to engage in serious misconduct, accountability before their own agencies and the law.”

That’s fine, but what does it have to do with the homicide rate? For his second suggestion, Rosenfeld offered the dubious idea of allowing social workers to take over some of the burden:

Secondly, is to move from police departments activities that are better handled by other agencies, being the frontline responder to drug overdose, for example, in most cases that’s not, it seems to me, what we want our police departments to be addressing right now. Other agencies trained in medical emergency services are better able to handle those calls. Responding to the day-to-day problems of the homeless is better done it seems to me in most cases by agencies whose personnel are trained in crisis intervention. So moving from the police department activities better handled by others enables police departments to focus on the immediate and important issue of the increase in violence we’ve seen.

Hill then shifted to guns: “…for the first time in decades the head of the CDC, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, telling CNN exclusively a month ago, when talking about gun violence specifically, that this is a serious public health threat. We know the CDC is restarting some of that funding, some of this research. Will looking at the root causes of gun violence, you think now, make a difference moving forward?” 

Rosenfeld agreed that the mere existence of guns poses a problem:

Absolutely. We have to look at the underlying causes of violence generally, and firearm violence in particular. One clear problem in that regard is the sheer quantity of firearms available for misuse in our society. There’s good evidence that firearm carrying in our major cities went up last year, and as more people carry firearms, more people will be shot and more will die.

That, of course, opens the door for potential gun control legislation, but Rosenfeld dodged that and instead focused on “persistent poverty and joblessness in our most vulnerable communities and in particular those communities that have been hit hard by the COVID pandemic. So, we have to look along those lines.”

Throughout the segment, CNN ignored the simplest explanation: dark blue cities slashing their police budgets and the demoralizing impact of the Defund the Police movement.

This segment was sponsored by Carvana.

https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/alex-christy/2021/09/30/cnn-blames-record-surge-homicides-police-guns