September 3, 2022

Canada's most watched nightly news anchor lets her hair go gray, gets fired. 🔥 Firestorm ignites

The firestorm over the firing of a gray-haired female news anchor in Canada

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-09-02/lisa-laflamme-gray-hair-women-workplace

This summer, Canada has been rocked by a case that is ostensibly about a woman’s right to choose whether to dye her hair.

She isn’t just any woman. She is Lisa LaFlamme, the news anchor who, for the last decade, has been the face of the most-watched nightly news show on Canadian television.


LaFlamme is to Canadians what Barbara Walters or Katie Couric once was to Americans. She is 58, a 34-year veteran of the industry, wise, razor-sharp and quick to create a sense of intimacy with viewers — part Hoda, part Yoda.

In June, LaFlamme was unceremoniously dumped from her role at CTV, allegedly because of “massive changes to traditional broadcasting” in Canada. But across the country, a different narrative quickly took hold: LaFlamme’s boss at CTV’s parent company, Bell Media, had allegedly demanded to know who approved the decision to “let Lisa’s hair go gray,” and soon after that, she was dropped.

Journalists accused CTV of being a toxic workplace, Canadians rallied behind LaFlamme, Twitter and the rest of Canadian news media kept the story alive — and soon it took on a life of its own, a marriage of Samson and Goliath. For Bell Media, it is the stuff PR nightmares are made of, and the company, which has denied the allegations of sexism and ageism, has been in a state of continuous damage control.



https://www.msnbc.com/know-your-value/business-culture/firing-canadian-news-anchor-reportedly-due-gray-hair-sparks-controversy-n1298579


Firing of Canadian news anchor, reportedly due to gray hair, sparks controversy
Lisa LaFlamme said she was “blindsided” and is “still shocked and saddened” by CTV News’ decision to let her go.




Firing of Canadian news anchor, reportedly due to gray hair, sparks controversy
Lisa LaFlamme said she was “blindsided” and is “still shocked and saddened” by CTV News’ decision to let her go.

The firing of Canadian news anchor Lisa LaFlamme from CTV News has sparked controversy online and companies to make statements on aging.

LaFlamme, who was chief news anchor and senior editor for the station, was let go after 35 years at CTV, according to an Aug. 15 release. Prior to serving as an anchor, the 58-year-old was a national affairs correspondent.


“With an unfailing commitment to delivering the stories that matter most to Canadians as part of Canada’s leading news team, Lisa has deftly guided viewers through both turbulent times and celebration, and we wish her nothing but the best as she begins a new chapter," Karine Moses, senior vice president of content development at news for Bell Media, said in a statement.

In a video posted to Twitter Aug. 15, LaFlamme announced her departure, saying she was "blindsided" and is "still shocked and saddened" by the decision.

September 3, 2022

It's a cult, kids. It's just a cult.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1565565440146939904

September 2, 2022

Palin loss sets off alarm bells for GOP strategists: report

https://www.rawstory.com/sarah-palin-donald-trump/

Sarah Palin's surprise loss to fill the U.S. House seat representing Alaska this past week has set off alarm bells among Republican Party strategists who are looking beyond the state's ranked-choice election for clues to her collapse in the state where she briefly served as governor.

According to a report from Politico's David Siders, a close look at how Alaskans voted -- particularly their refusal to list Palin as their second choice after fellow Republican Nick Begich III -- is a sign that being a Trump Republican not only doesn't carry the day but also may be a hindrance.

As Siders wrote, "In an election that could spell disaster for pro-Donald Trump hard-liners in states across the midterm electoral map, only about half of the voters who supported a more traditionalist Republican, Nick Begich III, as their first choice in Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting system marked Palin as their second pick."

Adding, "Her defeat was the firmest evidence yet this year that at least some Republicans may be turned off enough to vote the other way in the midterms and potentially, beyond," he continued, "The problem for the GOP is that Palin is far from the only lightning rod on the ballot this fall. In swing states like Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan, pro-Trump Republicans who beat more establishment-minded Republicans in primaries will now be confronting a general election electorate that rebuked Trump in 2020."



According to pollster Ivan Moore of Alaska Survey Research, the GOP leadership should have read the room when a poll showed she only had a 31 percent favorability rating which Moore claimed clearly showed she was "unelectable."

September 2, 2022

The Anglican Church's 'Kick in the Guts' to Gay Parishioners (Episcopal in USA)

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/01/world/australia/anglican-church-homosexuality-new-zealand.html

Divisions over the acceptance of homosexuality have proved intractable both on a global level and inside even liberal-leaning countries like New Zealand.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Craig Watson has spent his life searching for a church that accepts him fully as a gay man. After having left the Baptist church, Mr. Watson thought he had found it within the famously progressive Anglican faith in New Zealand.

Then came what Mr. Watson called a “kick in the guts.” In late July, Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and global leader of the Anglican Church (known in the United States as the Episcopal Church), affirmed as church policy a 1998 statement that rejects “homosexual practice as inconsistent with scripture.”

“We are looking for allies,” Mr. Watson said, “and they are not an ally.”

Divisions over the acceptance of homosexuality have raised doubts about whether the Anglican Church can remain united, a conflict that has played out both on a global level and inside even liberal-leaning countries like New Zealand, where some Anglicans have broken away to preserve traditional teaching.

These tensions have pulled at the Anglican Church, which has 85 million members worldwide, for decades. In 2003, the U.S. Episcopal Church consecrated V. Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest, as bishop of New Hampshire. American Episcopalians underscored this departure from convention in 2015 by permitting same-sex marriages.

September 2, 2022

Trying to Sell Your Old Peloton Bike? So Is Peloton.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/business/peloton-resale-inventory.html

Trying to Sell Your Old Peloton Bike? So Is Peloton.
As its business slumps, Peloton is trying something new: selling its bikes to “value-minded” customers. It faces stiff competition.
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When Steve Edwards Jr. bought a new Peloton bike in 2020, his life looked pretty different. He had just received a stimulus check from the federal government and was spending most of his time at home. But lately, busy with an infant son and an in-person job at his family’s grocery chain in Little Rock, Ark., he and his wife barely use the bike.

“We used it a ton during Covid,” Mr. Edwards, 27, said. Now, though, “we use our free time to do things other than working out.” After tucking the bike in a corner of the living room, he moved it upstairs to a spare bedroom. “We have not utilized it enough to warrant the space it takes up,” he said.

Mr. Edwards posted his Peloton for sale on Facebook last week, offering the bike, along with weights, two sets of shoes and a mat from Peloton, as well a sheet of plywood he bought to stabilize the bike on a carpet, for $1,300. (Mr. Edwards said he had spent more than $2,000 for the entire package from Peloton, including delivery.) He has not gotten any interest from potential buyers so far.

Peloton has offered a cautionary tale about quickly changing consumer habits. At the height of the pandemic, its business soared as gyms shuttered and Covid restrictions kept people at home. But many who bought Peloton bikes at their peak popularity are now returning to gyms and busy schedules, and some are regretting what might be their most expensive pandemic-era purchase. Sites like Facebook, Craigslist and eBay are flooded with posts offering used Peloton bikes, shoes and weights.

September 1, 2022

Dennis Pragers very anti woman article is a shocking hatefest against womwn

Went viral on twitter

https://twitter.com/barefootboomer/status/1565099188911841285?


https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/30/women-are-disproportionately-hurting-our-country/

It’s true that females are not inclined to violence or predatory sexual behavior as men are. But this hardly means that girls and women don’t have to learn to control their natures. On the contrary, as I have been telling parents for many years now, they need to teach their daughters to control their natures just as much as they teach their sons to do so.

Specifically, girls have to learn to control their emotions.

Just as the male sexual drive and violent impulses can overwhelm their conscience and their ability to think and act rationally, emotions can do the same thing in girls and women: overwhelm their conscience and their ability to think and act rationally.

However, it should be obvious that at least two generations of parents—especially among the well-educated—did not teach many of their daughters to control their emotions and think rationally.

The result is that women are disproportionately active in doing damage to our society.

The most obvious example is education. American schools teach less and indoctrinate more than ever before. Big-city public (and most private) schools are damaging young Americans to an extent and in ways no one imagined just a few years ago. Young children are prematurely sexualized—they are, for example, exposed to “Drag Queen Story Hour” in class and in local libraries from the age of 5. These feature a man dressed as a woman reading and dancing for them.