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A student at a Pittsburg university wrote about his school’s pronoun policy, denouncing it in an article on Red State. Here is the policy:

Any individual who has been informed of another person’s gender identity, pronouns, or chosen name is expected to respect that individual. Point Park University fosters a community of inclusivity for every member at the institution. Misgendering, continued misuse of an individual’s pronouns, or using an individual’s deadname after being informed of a chosen name could result in a violation of the Policy on Discrimination and Harassment for gender-based discrimination.

So if you call someone by their legal name you can be disciplined. If you use proper English, you will be disciplined. A pronoun is a word that takes the place of a noun. Pronouns exist so that you can refer to an object without having to name it. Having to learn and remember each person’s preferred and personal pronouns completely destroys the need for pronouns in the first place. Why not simply refer to everyone by name?

Still, the nutcases demand that we bow to their demands. Refusal to do so, according to them, is literally violence. Literally. If I refer to someone who looks like a woman by using the pronoun ‘she’- according to the insane left- I am committing a violent act which makes legitimate the use of force in self defense. Check out this clip to see what I mean:

They claim that this is because transgender women (men who claim to be women) who are also black have the highest rate of violence perpetuated against them. This is because of math. Since the number of black men who believe themselves to be women is so small, any act of violence against one of them has a disproportionate effect upon the RATE of violence.

If there are only two cats in my neighborhood, and one is struck by a car, the RATE of cats being struck is 50 percent. If there are 200 dogs in my neighborhood, and 90 of them are struck by cars, the RATE of dogs being struck is 45 percent. That doesn’t mean that cats are more likely to be struck by cars, it means that the one who was struck was a statistical anomaly.

Regardless, that wouldn’t give me the right, if I owned a cat, to declare that driving a car near my cat was an act of violence which allowed me to shoot everyone who drives a car near my house. This is why I remain so opposed to so-called hate crime laws. It should be illegal to commit an unprovoked assault upon another person. It shouldn’t matter WHY I committed the assault. That isn’t how “hate crimes” work. To declare that a person who assaults another because of some characteristic is somehow more heinous than a person who commits the assault for no reason at all is ridiculous and leads to one inevitable conclusion:

It allows any person who possesses that characteristic to use it as a cudgel to subjugate anyone with whom the disagree. “You only disagree with me because you are xxxphobic.” This is what the entire cancel culture has become- using some claimed characteristic as a sword with which to attack your enemies.

The problem here is that there is also only one possible outcome from the course that is being followed here- this all inevitably ends with real violence. One or both sides will eventually move to use actual violence to prevail and eliminate the other.

New Yorker who moves to Daytona hates Florida because it isn’t New York.

Prarie1 commented on my post about housing and rent. He said:

Who would pay that much in rent??? That’s almost double my mortgage for 10 acres with a house and shop.

The explanation? Inflation, the eviction moratorium, investors, and escape from New York. All four of these things are driving an incredible increase in housing prices: both sales and rentals.

• First, inflation. The dollar is simply worth less because you had the government shoveling cash into the economy with a metaphorical front end loader. More cash chasing the available housing means your housing dollar doesn’t go as far.
• Next, the eviction moratorium. Being a landlord now carries significantly more risk than it did before the year and a half that landlords were forced to allow tenants to live in rental properties for free. Many landlords dropped out of the business. The ones who stayed began to raise rents in order to recoup losses caused by the moratorium.
• Then there is the escape from New York (and other restrictive states). After being locked down for months, many people from more restrictive, northern states have figured out that, since they can work remotely, Florida is a great place to buy a second (or even third) home. Taxes are low, housing is relatively cheap, so they are buying up property like you wouldn’t believe. This has the effect of reducing supply, and driving up prices, mostly because they are paying too much for houses without even realizing it, because they still think it’s a bargain when compared to NY prices.
• Then there are the investors. These are large companies who are watching the prices of real estate skyrocket and are buying up entire neighborhoods.

All of these factors are driving prices up to unbelievable levels. I was shocked in October when I did a review of area rental rates so I could adjust my rates for 2022. The average rental price had increased from about $1600 per month to around $2500 per month in just a year’s time. That’s a 56% increase in just a year’s time.

This nurse here in Miami saw a 40% increase in rent in one year’s time, and Miami’s rents were already high, meaning that they didn’t increase as much as some other areas in the state, such as Tampa or Orlando. Here are the cities with the largest growth in rent in the past 12 months, according to ApartmentsList:

1. New York City, N.Y. – 33.5% rent growth
2. Tampa, Fla. – 31.4% rent growth
3. Scottsdale, Ariz. – 31.1% rent growth
4. Orlando, Fla. – 30.1% rent growth
5. Mesa, Ariz. – 29.5% rent growth
6. St. Petersburg, Fla. – 29.3% rent growth
7. Irvine, Calif. – 28% rent growth
8. Phoenix, Ariz. – 27.9% rent growth
9. Glendale, Ariz. – 27.5% rent growth
10. Las Vegas, Nev. – 27.4% rent growth

If rents continue to increase at a rate of 32 percent per year, you can expect rents to double roughly every two years. (a $1,000 rent becomes $1,320 in one year, then becomes $1,745 at the end of year two) This is exactly what is happening.

Buying a house was similar. There are houses in the area that sold for $235,000 in 2019 and just sold again in 2021 for $325,000. The price of the house increased by 38 percent in less than two years.

So if a rent seems unreasonable, that’s because our real estate market is being warped and stretched by government interference. That is having the effect of driving up prices. So what do governments do? Interfere in the market some more, that’s what. Look at what the UK is doing:

Private landlords in the UK will be forced by law to bring their properties up to a set of national standards. Landlords will need a license. If a property fails to meet standards for maintenance, energy efficiency, and a minimum standard for fixtures and fittings, the landlord loses his license. Nearly one in five families in the UK are renters. What do you think this will do to rental prices in the UK when landlords are forced to lay out a large amount of money to meet the new, more stringent standards?

Expect to see a push for this here in the US.

The Constitution defines only two crimes. One of them is treason:

Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.

So if this woman is convicted of what the authorities claim she did, then she should be convicted of treason.

Researching bug out bags has gone mainstream in Ukraine.

I awoke this morning to find an email in my inbox from the Florida Department of Health. In that letter, Florida healthcare providers find a notice that the FDA has revoked the EUA for all monoclonal antibody treatments used in treating COVID.

January 24, 2022
On January 24, 2022, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reissued the emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for Eli Lilly’s bamlanivimab-etesevimab (administered together) and Regeneron’s REGEN-COV (casirivimab and imdevimab) monoclonal antibody treatments, which states these treatments are not authorized for use in any U.S. state, territory, or jurisdiction at this time. The full FDA press release can be found here.

Corresponding revisions have been made to the authorized fact sheets for bamlanivimab-etesevimab and REGEN-COV. These fact sheets are available of the FDA’s website.

As a result of the reissued EUAs, health care practitioners in Florida are no longer authorized to administer these monoclonal antibody treatments to patients, effective immediately. Further, all state-supported monoclonal antibody sites are closed effective immediately due to the abrupt change from the FDA.

Resources for emerging treatments can be found at HealthierYouFL.org. Pharmacies that have received allocations of antiviral treatments can be found at FloridaHealthCOVID19.gov.

The full Florida Department of Health press release can be found here.

This is important, because to this point, monoclonal antibodies were the only effective treatment for COVID.

Politico even recognizes that this is a political decision. The Biden administration has been in a constant state of conflict with the DeSantis crowd for the past few months over the monoclonal antibody treatments. Biden was purposely directing the treatments to states who voted for him, while denying them to states that didn’t.

So DeSantis simply signed an agreement with the manufacturers to buy the drugs directly from them. The the Governor announced in December that the state of Florida would be giving the treatment free to anyone in the state with COVID.

The Federal government claims that the monoclonal antibody treatments don’t work, but that a new pill from Merck does. So, they ask, “Why is Gov. DeSantis more interested in promoting medicines that don’t work than urging people to take vaccines that do?”

To that, I ask: If the monoclonal antibodies didn’t work, then why did the Biden administration cut off supplies to Southern states in order to supply northern states? Just in August, the Feds were saying

“Four different monoclonal antibody treatments have been granted Emergency Use Authorization by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and have proven largely effective at preventing hospitalization and death from Covid-19. The treatment developed by Regeneron, for example, reduced the risk of hospitalization or death by 70% in studies. “

Let me tell you what this really is: We have a President who has a 33% approval rating and obviously cannot run in 2024 with a snowball’s chance of winning the election, even with massive voter fraud. He may in fact, wind up being the first President ever with single digit approval ratings.

So the remaining field looks like this:

For the Democrats, polling indicates that Harris’ approval for President is 35%, compared to Michelle Obama’s 16%, and AOC trailing at 7%.

For the Republicans, Donald Trump would win against either Harris or Biden. That is going to be taken care of with criminal charges. Before 2024, the Democrats are going to convict Trump of something that will prohibit him from running.

If Trump isn’t in the mix, DeSantis received 30%, Pence grabbed 24% and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz nailed 14%. In a race between Biden and DeSantis, Biden has a 42% to 36% lead, but DeSantis is a virtual unknown to voters outside of Florida. Once a campaign begins, he would gain significant support. In fact, DeSantis has been gaining support for months.

Therefore, DeSantis must be eliminated from the race if the Democrats want to tilt the election in their favor. Taking the wind from his COVID sails is the entire point of cutting off monoclonal antibody treatments.

COVID is a political weapon. It has been since the beginning, and will continue to be. The left will stop at nothing to win elections and get more power. They are going to use every tool that they have: biological warfare, violence, and voter fraud. All of it. They will not stop until they have complete and total control of this country.

A Democrat in the Florida Senate is claiming that “someone” stole nude photos of her way back in 2000 and has been disseminating those on the Internet. She wants to pass a new law in Florida that would make it a felony to steal photos from someone’s phone, or to create fake photos of someone.

The bill sponsored by Book, a Democrat, gets its first committee hearing Tuesday. It would strengthen Florida’s revenge porn law by making it a felony to steal sexually explicit images from someone’s phone or other digital devices. It would also make disseminating altered or created sexually explicit images, known as deepfakes, a felony.

Here’s the thing: Ms. Book was 16 years old in 2000, when she claims her nude pictures were ‘stolen’ from her. It’s already a felony for people to trade in nude photos of minors. She is trying to use what happened to her to insinuate that the pictures were taken of her without her permission by her rapist. That isn’t at all what happened. She claims that she has no idea how the pictures were ‘stolen’ from her.

What really happened is that she took the pictures herself, and then freely sent them to someone else. It was that person who disseminated the pictures further. As proof, I offer this article from the Miami Herald, and a quote:

Book — whose name is redacted — complained to FDLE that she had received multiple text messages from an unknown number that included two photographs of the senator “with exposed breasts” and also threatened to “leak the photos to Fox and her career would be over.” Kamperveen also allegedly texted sexually explicit photos that included female genitalia and the portrayal of a sexual act, and asked for $5,000 in gift cards in exchange for destroying the photos. Book told agents that she recognized the pictures of her breasts as those “she had taken of herself and only shared with a close friend.”

So let’s sum up what actually happened: Ms. Book took some nude phots of herself when she was 16 years old. She sent them to a boy she was infatuated with, and that boy didn’t keep the pictures to himself. This is a story that plays out all of the time in high school.

The Internet is forever, and things like this will continue to haunt her for the rest of her life. This is why I was constantly telling my high school students that putting your entire life on social media, and taking these sorts of pictures is a bad idea. The don’t listen. Teenagers never do, because they think they know everything.

Back to Ms. Book. Ms. Book mindlessly took nude photos of herself and distributed them. It was a foolish, slutty thing to do. She now has to live with the consequences of that. That doesn’t mean that she needs to be extorted for money, but the man who tried to use that to extort money from her broke the law. He will be punished for that.

It’s already a crime to be in possession of child porn. It’s already a crime to extort money from others. That isn’t good enough for Ms. Book, who is now a powerful politician, and wants to pass laws that aren’t needed and wouldn’t have done a thing in her case.

Here is the issue that I have with this proposed law: It would make it a crime to possess any picture “showing of the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a fully opaque covering; or the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple; or the depiction of covered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.”

This law goes too far, and it will be far too easy for people to unknowingly fall afoul of this overly broad law. Think about how this picture would be made illegal by this bill:

Here are some of the bills being sponsored by Ms. Book in the 2022 session:

• A bill to allow the defacement of displays of Confederate monuments and flags.
• Add new protections for LTGBQ persons making sexual advances
• Expand Florida abortion rights
• Eliminating the statute of limitations for sex crimes if the victim was under 16 at the time of the alleged crime. This would mean that a person who is 50 years old could accuse you of a sex crime that occurred 35 years ago. (Think Justice Kavanaugh). How hard will it be to establish an alibi or find witnesses in your defense?

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In a side note, Ms. Book also famously voted against 2021’s Senate Bill 86, which requires the state to list college majors that don’t lead to employment. This has lead to degrees like women’s studies and 14th century French poetry being labelled as the waste of time and money that they are.

I will admit that these are anecdotes, but it’s important to listen to the odd facts that we hear. I have heard some really odd stuff over the past month or so, and I figured that I would let you hear a bit of it. The following stories are all from people that I have known for awhile, and are telling me these things on the condition that I make it generic enough that no one can tell who they are. Believe these stories or not, but I can’t give any links or evidence to support them.

I was speaking with a woman from the Dominican Republic recently. She was explaining to me that dozens of her friends were making money in the USA without ever setting foot in the country. They are going online and setting up internet based bank accounts and then filing for COVID related benefits. She says that some of them have made as much as $20K by filing for benefits without ever having been here in the USA. Think of how much money is going out to these kinds of fraudsters.

Another conversation that I recently had was with a business owner who got a PPP loan of over $300K. He played some paperwork games to make it all look legit, and used the money to buy himself a really nice boat. More like a small yacht. No one has asked a question.

A third recent conversation was when I went to a party recently that was filled with cops. Some FBI, some local cops, really a bit of everything. Most were from families that have been cops for generations. I’ve known several of them for 30 years or so. They are ashamed by the political games being played in Washington. One of the agents I met was a 25 year old female agent who was incredibly intoxicated. I knew her dad back in the day. She was recruited because she looks young. Really young, like maybe 13 or 14 years old kind of young. It was odd tossing back shots with a person that looked like a child. Her job is catching pedos by posing as a young teen. Her story was that too many of her arrests were of people who have enough pull to get out of any charges. She told me that she wants out, because the entire thing creeps her out. Not only the whole dealing with predators, but the fact that so many of them have enough pull to get out of it. We are talking political figures, judges, celebrities, prominent businessmen with important connections, that kind of thing.

Disturbing news from the Navy. The Russian navy is conducting exercises involving 140 ships. Nearly all of its Navy is at sea, including an amphibious task force comprised of 7 landing ships left the Baltic a week ago. This task force is capable of putting an entire brigade on the beach. It’s important to note that they are sailing without their AIS transponders active.

The current occupant of the Oval Office is going to blunder us into a national disaster in order to improve his poll numbers.