Bill’s commentary:

“This is insane!  So if I determine that my personal pronouns are “piss on you” and “bite me”, that makes me a felon because some snowflake locked away in a closet sucking “his/her/its/they/them” thumb is uncomfortable?”

A bill moving through the Democrat-controlled Michigan State Legislature would make it easier for prosecutors to bring felonious “hate crime” charges against dissident speech.

The possible implications for preachers, school administrators, teachers, parents, politicians, and citizen activists have alarmed conservatives concerned about the effect the bill may have on free speech.

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Bill’s commentary:

“Funny thing how money “moves” like this!  Just look at California versus Texas and Florida?”

In 2022 Norway’s third richest man, Kjell Inge Røkke, announced in an open letter to shareholders he was moving to Lugano, Switzerland.

“My capital will continue working in Norway,” wrote the fishing magnate turned industrialist who launched his empire four decades ago with a 69-foot trawler he bought while saving money working on ships off the coast of Alaska.

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Bill’s commentary:

“Ooops! But I have just one minor question. If the US Treasury backstopped ALL deposits in the US banking system …who backstops the US Treasury?”

When federal regulators stepped in to backstop all of Silicon Valley Bank’s deposits, they saved thousands of small tech startups and prevented what could have been a catastrophic blow to a sector that relied heavily on the lender.

But the decision to guarantee all accounts above the $250,000 federal deposit insurance limit also helped bigger companies that were in no real danger. Sequoia Capital, the world’s most prominent venture-capital firm, got covered the $1 billion it had with the lender. Kanzhun Ltd., a Beijing-based tech company that runs mobile recruiting app Boss Zhipin, received a backstop for more than $900 million. 

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  1. Pronouns on steroids. A parent in Loudoun County, VA, at a school board meeting responded to all this silliness by telling the school board. “If you insist in pronouns, you can call my daughter, “Queen”, my son, “King”, and you can call me “Master”. It was worth admission.

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