The man accused of opening fire during a mass shooting at the Columbiana Centre mall in Columbia has posted bail after a hearing Sunday afternoon, WLTX-TV reported.
A South Carolina judge announced that Jewayne M. Price, 22, would be granted a surety bond of $25,000 and be required to wear an ankle monitor, the television station reported. He must also have no contact with anyone involved in the incident and must stay away from the shopping mall, according to WLTX.
Hey at least law enforcement is taking an interest unlike the Antifa rioters who they have no interest in prosecuting in the Northwest.
I predict that it won’t even take a week for him to be forgotten like Frank James. Doesn’t serve the narrative.
SHREVEPORT – There is a bill in the Louisiana House of Representatives that would “allocate up to 25,000 acres of Louisiana offshore waters to be leased from the State by private, green energy companies to manufacture and build windmill turbines as an alternative to coal and natural gas production.”
Restrictions have kept lease limits to 5,000 acres which apparently is scaring wind farm investors away. Proponents of HB 165 say that the 25,000-acre limit greatly expands potential for investors to come in and build wind farms in the Gulf of Mexico.
Wind turbines are huge structures. A single wind turbine requires a great deal of real estate, even in the Gulf.
Although most Gulf of Mexico wind energy projects will eventually be built in federal waters, HB 165 co-author Rep. Joseph Orgeron “says the exploratory pilot projects will be built in state waters closer to the coast. Louisiana’s less-populated coastline allows more development within the 3 nautical miles of state waters that extend from shore.”
Chris Alexander, an attorney and conservative activist in Baton Rouge writing for The Hayride calls HB 165 “a monstrosity.” Citing several red flags in the bill, he says:
It would allocate up to 25,000 acres of Louisiana offshore waters to be leased from the State by private, green energy companies to manufacture and build windmill turbines as an alternative to coal and natural gas production. The first red flag in the bill is that it removes all legislative oversight and places plenary authority in the State Mineral and Energy Board to award any lease if it deems, in its sole discretion, that the lease is in Louisiana’s best interest. Why would the bill vest this enormous power in any board while removing traditional legislative oversight and accountability? Any objective observer would necessarily be suspicious of such a provision.
The bill also removes the traditional requirement that a minimum dollar amount and minimum percentage of revenue to be produced be advertised by the board as a minimum requirement for granting the lease. No legislative oversight, and no requirement of minimal revenue creation. What could possibly go wrong here?
My first thought when I read about this development was “what happens in a hurricane?” Apparently there is a plan for that in that the turbines “feather in” their blades and wait for the storm to pass. Uh, sure. There is even discussion of floating turbines that can be hauled in prior to a storm.
My second thought was about migratory birds. It is common knowledge that the Louisiana Gulf Coast is a critical stop for over half a million shorebirds from 28 species migrating back and forth each winter. With our wetlands already in danger and providing less and less territory for the birds to refuel, how many will also be lost to windmills? Collateral damage, says Erik Johnson of the Audubon society:
There are worse threats to birds. House cats, for example, are blamed for killing about 2.4 billion birds each year. Automobiles knock out 200 million more, and pesticides poison at least 2.7 million birds each year in the U.S. “Wind energy will really be a drop in the bucket by comparison,” Johnson said.
My next thought was about the shrimpers and fishermen who have relied on the Gulf waters for generations to make a living. Since the Cajuns began arriving in Louisiana in the late 1700s, they have been shrimping and fishing these waters to make a living. These are people devoted to the land, people who won’t leave it no matter the worst hurricane, people who survive and who have battled the elements and the oil companies and the diminishing coast just to keep their livelihood viable. And now these fishermen have to worry about wind farms:
But the Gulf is also the source of 70% of the country’s shrimp. Of the more than 200 million pounds of shrimp netted in the Gulf each year, much of it was caught in the waters off the Louisiana and Texas coasts. These prime fishing waters happen to overlap with the areas of the Gulf that have the greatest potential for wind energy development.
Between the transmission lines laying on the sea floor, the turbines destroying nets, and the narrow navigational paths between turbines, the fishermen are concerned.
The agency has promoted the idea that wind farms won’t be any worse for fishing than the 3,500 offshore oil and gas structures already in the Gulf, not to mention 27,000 miles of underwater pipelines, most of which are inactive or abandoned.
[Acy Cooper of the Louisiana Shrimp Association] agrees shrimpers are accustomed to the Gulf’s industrial obstacle courses, but it doesn’t mean they like it. The introduction of offshore wind infrastructure increases navigational challenges.
HB 165 was approved without objection in the House Committee on Natural Resources and Environment last month and was moved on to the Senate where it will first be considered by the Senate Committee on Natural Resources before moving on to a full Senate vote.
Finally, I would be remiss if I did not make known another fact that the proponents of HB 165 would surely rather you not know: Roughly 70% of the rare earth elements that are essential to the construction of wind turbines will be produced and harvested in China. How many Louisiana voters believe that we should become even more dependent on a foreign country for our energy needs, particularly a sworn adversary?
If the environmental concerns don’t bother you, further dependence on China should.
All around was gloom and gray. Countless souls wandering seemingly lost as he joined the endless stream of the thong.
In a few moments all changed. he was enveloped by men, dozens of them, excited, enraptured. All of the gloom of Shoel melting away at the very sight of him. They turned to each other sharing their happiness Praising God with all the excitement of men who knew their exile would soon be ended.
Joseph remembered seeing this joy once before, the night his son was born and smiled knowingly.
I’m not quite sure when progressive indoctrination replaced actual civics here in the United States. I’m not sure anyone is because this transformation was gradual and stealthy. In an attempt to research that point for this article I searched for the following phrase on Google: “when did social studies replace civics.” Here is the most informative quote the anti oracles at Google provided:
Until the 1960s, it was common for American high school students to have three separate courses in civics and government. But civics offerings were slashed as the curriculum narrowed over the ensuing decades, and lost further ground to “core subjects” under the NCLB-era standardized testing regime
The response was just what I expected. The transition began in the 1960s, when the Marxists began their transformation of the United States from a Constitutional Republic into a socialist democracy. When I started grade school in the late 1970s the class was called social studies but civics was still at the core of the subject. When I ended grade school it was more social studies and less civics. That trend continued through my high school years. When I attended the University of Massachusetts real civics was difficult to find.
The NCLB mentioned in the quote is the abbreviation for No Child Left Behind, one of George W. Bush’s crowning achievements. Until Obama’s Common Core came along it was the worst thing to ever happen to American Public education.
It is extraordinarily safe to say that progressive indoctrination is now completely out of control here in the United States, at all levels. It has infected all subject. It has taken so many different forms, all of which are meant to turn every single student into an ignorant, unquestioning, and obedient slave. The political left does not want educated free citizens. The more ignorant, immoral, and unhappy we are the easier it will be for the Democrats to control us and all aspects of our lives
This quote from a Benjamin Rush Essay written in 1786 provided the inspiration for my article this week. It appeared in my Facebook news feed in the form of a meme shared by the Atlas Society.
Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights, and where learning is confined to a few people, liberty can be neither equal nor universal.
James Madison wrote something very similar in a letter in written in 1822.
A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
My favorite founding father, Thomas Jefferson, wrote this to Charles Yancey, 6 January 1816.
if a nation expects to be ignorant & free, in a state of civilisation, it expects what never was & never will be. the functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty & property of their constituents. there is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves; nor can they be safe with them without information. where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.
Unless the American people seize back control of our entire educational system real soon, we will no longer be a free country.
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