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Weatherman Fired After 33 Years on the Job for Refusing Vaccine, Goes Out with Legendary Final Words
The Western Journal ^ | September 20, 2021 | Jack Davis

Posted on 09/20/2021 11:45:50 AM PDT by Hostage

With a prediction for very stormy weather ahead for the nation he loves, meteorologist Karl Bohnak signed off last week after being fired for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

Bohnak had served as the weatherman at Michigan’s WLUC-TV for 33 years, according to The Washington Post. Gray Television, WLUC’s parent company, instituted a vaccine-or-else policy that went into effect on Wednesday.

“I am sad, but, to borrow a quote from a famous ballplayer, ‘I’m the luckiest man on the face of the earth’ because I had a dream as a kid to be a weatherman.

“That dream came true and to top it off, I got to broadcast weather for one of the most challenging, beautiful spots in the United States. As an added bonus, the people I broadcast to all across Upper Michigan were so kind and encouraging,” he wrote.

But a cloud has fallen over the land of the free, he wrote.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Michigan
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To: Hostage

Corporate America has become an federalized and weaponized extension of the communist state to deprive us of our rights.


21 posted on 09/20/2021 11:58:41 AM PDT by Manic_Episode ( “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.”)
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To: Hostage

Awesome! Just awesome! A real patriot. An informant couldn’t write that. In fact, an informant would probably have to get one of his kids to write something for him.


22 posted on 09/20/2021 12:00:11 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Hostage

I got the Regeneron, the lady working there told me that if you get the Regeneron you must wait 90 days before getting any of the vaccines. She also said you can come back in 2 months and get the Regeneron again.

That’s my work plan, they have started talking about requiring the vax.


23 posted on 09/20/2021 12:00:22 PM PDT by VastRWCon (Fake News")
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To: Hostage
It is also my right to choose the medical options I feel are right for me. I have authority over my body.”

No, you don't, unless you want to kill a baby.

24 posted on 09/20/2021 12:00:39 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Hostage

I hope he does run for office. We need people like him.


25 posted on 09/20/2021 12:01:09 PM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president)
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To: Hostage

I’ve lost out on 3 jobs for not getting the shot. Bad on me? Time will tell.

With all the lies that Fauci, the doctors and hospitals have been caught spewing, it’s hard for me to believe anything anymore. Every hospital is overflowing with the ‘unvaccinated’. The ‘unvaccivated’ are dying. I’m not trying to downplay their deaths, but in the few articles of covid porn that I’ve read, where the deceased says they wished they’d received the shot, pretty much all of them show a person that fits the definition of one that is most vulnerable. I don’t know.

Israel and the UK are dealing with insane numbers and their countries are almost 100% vaccinated.

But, when you have a virus that someone can get. They get tested at Walgreens or a Doc In A Box. They come up positive and are told to go home, rest, drink Pedialyte, take Tylenol and call back if symptoms worsen. Then, there’s no follow up to see if they’re still positive. I’m having a hard time with all of this.

I don’t know how many of you do the Twitter thing with any regularity. I only go on there if I want to see something that is in another article. But, some of the liberals on there are absolutely insane. It makes you wonder how some of them function in life.

I guess, at the end of the day, some time in the future we’ll be finding out just what these shots have in store for the folks that got them. My mom still deals with issues after getting one.

Will, as some have suggested, the shot cause your immune system to be so compromised that the coming flu season will be disastrous?

Is it true that those that took the shot can’t donate blood?


26 posted on 09/20/2021 12:04:13 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: miserare

The man is a hero.

They are rare but they do exist.

“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.”


27 posted on 09/20/2021 12:04:29 PM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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To: Soul of the South
Where are the voices from the Republican Party that claims it is the party of individual liberty and conservative values.

Telling, isn't it? They are all talk, and on this issue won't even do that. No question that our political parties see the Constitution as a fair weather document.
28 posted on 09/20/2021 12:05:11 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Hostage

What happened to the left wing, baby killing, pro abortion mantra of “My body, my choice”?


29 posted on 09/20/2021 12:06:54 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (Without potatoes, life has no meaning......)
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To: Hostage

Bfl


30 posted on 09/20/2021 12:08:14 PM PDT by The FIGHTIN Illini (Wake up fellow Patriots before it's too late)
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To: Hostage

Saw where employees at General Dynamics took and stand and said no we will not take the Vax...Company backed down.


31 posted on 09/20/2021 12:09:32 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: kosciusko51
I’m going to save this for my work opus.

What is a "work opus?!"

"Opus" is already the Latin word for "work," so "work opus" would mean "work work."

Regards,

32 posted on 09/20/2021 12:10:42 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Soul of the South
-- Where are the voices from the Republican Party that claims it is the party of individual liberty and conservative values. --

"Claims" being the operative word. Cheap and insincere talk. The GOP is just as elitist and globalist as the DEM party. Two competing gangs fighting over who controls the neighborhood.

33 posted on 09/20/2021 12:12:00 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: Hostage

a cloud has fallen over the land of the free ~WLUC Weatherman Karl Bohnak Fired After 33 Years on the Job for Refusing Vaccine

Tagline worthy, so I’m posting it on the tagline thread

https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3992415/posts?page=206#206


34 posted on 09/20/2021 12:12:18 PM PDT by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Manic_Episode
-- Corporate America has become an federalized and weaponized extension of the communist state ... --

Fascism.

35 posted on 09/20/2021 12:13:14 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: alexander_busek

Opus in Free Republic sense. Basically saying, “I’m out of here!”

See https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3788781/posts for an example.


36 posted on 09/20/2021 12:13:46 PM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Hostage

A freedom fighter. Hero. God bless him.

We ALWAYS win when anyone fights the good fight of faith and freedom.

37 posted on 09/20/2021 12:14:17 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Hostage
Full statement from Facebook:

Today, it is with a heavy heart, I announce after over 33 years, I am no longer employed at TV6.

I am sad, but, to borrow a quote from a famous ballplayer, “I'm the luckiest man on the face of the earth” because I had a dream as a kid to be a weatherman. That dream came true and to top it off, I got to broadcast weather for one of the most challenging, beautiful spots in the United States. As an added bonus, the people I broadcast to all across Upper Michigan were so kind and encouraging.

Thank you for watching.

I am leaving TV6 because the station's corporate owner, Gray Television, has mandated vaccination against COVID-19 for anyone entering a property owned by the company. Since I chose not to take one of the shots, I was fired. Many of you have taken one of these injections, and that is absolutely your right. It is also my right to choose the medical options I feel are right for me. I have authority over my body.

I have decided against the vaccine option, first and foremost, because the manufacturers of these injections have absolutely no liability if injury or death occurs after the shot. I asked myself, would I buy brakes for my vehicle if the brake company had no liability if the brakes failed? No! So, I will certainly not allow a medicine in my body from a company that does not stand behind its product.

Now, if the risk of death from COVID would be significant, I might take a chance and get injected. However, for a normally healthy adult not housed in a nursing home or not suffering from serious comorbidities, the chance of surviving COVID is well over 99 percent. I will take the chance and go without a shot. I choose not to risk serious side effects.

The abrogation of our liberty and freedom under the guise of a pandemic is very disturbing to me. Hopefully, whether you lean right or left, you are concerned about what has occurred the last year-and-a-half. I just wanted to go about my business, “live and let live”, and keep my mouth shut. But this act by the federal government through corporate America has brought me to a crossroads. Our way of life, our freedom and liberty, is collapsing before our eyes.

Many of you have served in the U.S. military or you know friends, relatives and family members who have served. It's a strong tradition here in the U.P. They have served, and some have given their limbs and even their lives to preserve our freedom and liberty. It's time to wake up to what is occurring here in America and across the world. We are being bludgeoned with fear, I believe, in an effort to control us. Eminent doctors, virologists and epidemiologists who post facts contradicting the “official” accepted narrative regarding COVID are being censored; some are losing their jobs. It's time to honor those who served. For me, I honor them by saying “Enough! I have the right to choose—we all do. If we do nothing, we will lose that right.

One last thought—a distillation of a portion of Jefferson's masterpiece, the Declaration of Independence: “When tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” Those who love America and the freedom and liberty it stands for, must speak up. Hopefully, it's not too late.



38 posted on 09/20/2021 12:15:38 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: Hostage

Slo Joe is bringing us vaccine mandates for the holidays!


39 posted on 09/20/2021 12:16:06 PM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Thunder90

>Gov Whitmer is trying to extend the vaccine and mask mandate to all Michigan employers.

Link?


40 posted on 09/20/2021 12:16:15 PM PDT by No.6
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