Cabin Boy Living

     The Left have long been obsessed with utopian visions of living complete with their amaxophobic fears of the freedom of the car and thus their obsession with “walkable” communities which emphasizes communal living spaces and at most limited personal space. Increasingly, the emphasis has been on dorm or campus style living and lifestyle where there is no personal responsibility yet how hipster utopian living just happens.   But why not go further and encapsulate dense urban living combined with hipster communal spaces like… in a happy fun time cruise ship!

     People like to vacation on cruise ships. They don’t want to permanently live in a small cabin with only those services that others decide to communally provide… with little “non-walkable” options even possible.

     Notice, also, how this looks almost as if it were just a section of the proposed “The Line” city in Saudi Arabia, another dystopian hellscape-to-be.

     Of course, perhaps there is a more appropriate ship analogy to this “Disney Cruise” proposal…

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Massachusetts To Parents: Sterilize Your Kids Of Face Child Abuse Charges

     While some states are banning genital mutilation and hormone replacement therapy of “transgender” kids as being child abuse, states like Massachusetts are doing the opposite and then some.

     The Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth recommends, amongst other things:

  • Treating parents who won’t give their children puberty blockers and other treatments as child abusers
  • Giving LGBTQ&c. kids transitioning out of foster care $1000 a month
  • Giving LGBTQ&c. kids special protections, indoctrinating coaches how it’s no big deal if a “girl with a penis” is no big deal surrounded by naked real girls but two girls who use different pronouns are traumatized by seeing a body like their own
  • Proactively pushing pro-LGBTQ&c. propaganda in schools
  • Pushing intersectionality
  • Secriminalizing sex work and underage sexting
  • Fund “mental health care” in schools
  • Including “community-based” support from a myriad of pro-LGBTQ&c. groups (including those whose acronyms are suspiciously “MAP”)
  • Fighting “heteronormative” social structures
  • Pushing abortion as normal
  • A declaration that “LGBTQ-affirming education begins before a child’s first birthday”
  • Special help for LGBTQ&c. illegal aliens
  • “Climate justice”
  • Creating “all gender restrooms”
  • Mandate “LGBTQ cultural engagement trainings” as well as training on racial equity, ableism, and adultism.

     That last one was a new one for your humble author. It turns out it means a “bias towards adults” and thinking that children aren’t as responsible or capable as adults which manifests in a “system of oppression”, similar to the oppression of racism, sexism, transphobia, &c., especially when it comes to youth/adult partnerships

     The full report can be read here or below:

Massachusetts Commission on… by ThePoliticalHat

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Racial Quotas Are Still Unconstitutional

     Forty-five years ago a much more Left-leaning Supreme Court found that racial quotas were Unconstitutional. California tried to impose such quotas for certain racial/ethnic groups, as well as non-straight people. The federal courts granted summary judgment against California.

     The judgment in full.

Alliance for Fair Board Rec… by ThePoliticalHat

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Segregating Precalculus Classes In Illinois

     Segregation has gone from the bane of Progressive thinking to becoming the very core basis of Progressive thinking.

     Yet another case in point: An Illinois school finds it necessary to segregate “Latinx”, Black, and (presumably) Whites/Asians in the teaching of… Precalculus?

     Whe are they doing this?   Is it really just the belief that different races have different “ways of knowing” and that teachin “White” precalculus oppresses Black and Hispanic students because they are biologically or spiritually unable to grok it? Or perhaps this is an attempt to hide racial disparities in grades and testing by making a less rigorous or otherwise easier and thus less valuable class?

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News of the Week (May 21st, 2023)

 

News of the Week for May 21st, 2023


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Firing Line Friday: Is It Possible to Be a Good Governor?

     In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.

     While much of the focus in politics is on the Presidency, in reality it is the individual states’ Governors who have a greater day to day impact. William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses the ins and outs of being a Governor with then California Governor Ronald Reagan who answers the question “is it possible to be a good governor”?

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Quick Takes – Killing In The Name Of Welfare: Killing The Poor; Killing The Homeless; Killing The Mentally Ill

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: There is a way to have both an expansive welfare state and fiscal responsibility at the same time!

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

Death, Rx

     Somehow that collective right to socialized medicine has become the individual “right” to be killed because that socialized medicine literally the equivalent of crippling and painful terminal cancer or AIDS.

“Once killing the sufferer becomes a societally acceptable means for ending suffering, there becomes no end to the ‘suffering’ that justifies human termination. We can see this phenomenon most vividly in Canada, because it is happening there more quickly than in most cultures. For example, a recent poll found that 27 percent of Canadians polled strongly or moderately agree that euthanasia is acceptable for suffering caused by ‘poverty’ and 28 percent strongly or moderately agree that killing by doctors is acceptable for suffering caused by homelessness.

“Euthanasia mutates a society’s soul. I can’t imagine that being true ten years ago before euthanasia became legal.

“This kind of abandoned thinking finds enthusiastic, albeit not unanimous, expression among secular bioethicists. In fact, two Canadian bioethicists just published a paper in the Journal of Medical Ethics — a prestigious British Medical Journal publication — arguing that ‘unjust social conditions’ justify lethal jabs (euphemistically called MAiD, for ‘medical assistance in dying’). The argument claims that killing is a form of ‘harm reduction.’”

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A Contrast In The Treatment Of Farmers: Texas vs. The Netherlands

     When it comes to farming, ranching, and other related activities that are vital to human civilization, different societies have different ways of approaching this.   There is no greater distinction, perhaps, than the Netherlands (and their E.U. puppet masters) and Texas.

     In the Netherlands, the government, in order to meet European Union dictates, is waging a jihad against farmers:

“The Netherlands has been given the go-ahead to start buying out thousands of farmers’ businesses in a bid to meet the European Union mandate on climate goals.

“Under the €1.47 billion (£1.3 billion) plan, entire farms located near nature reserves could be purchased by the government, with hundreds more farmers compensated for voluntarily closing their operations.

“It forms part of the Hague’s wider strategy for slashing nitrogen emissions in half by 2030 to comply with EU targets.

“…

“Farmers operating near nature conservation areas will be offered 120 per cent of the value of their company if they agree to close their operations and promise not to restart elsewhere in the country or within the EU.

“About 3,000 farmers who are considered among the country’s highest polluting have been identified under the scheme.

“Dairy, pig and poultry farmers will be offered 100 per cent of their company’s value if they agree to close under a similar programme.”

     A smart country would offer these farmers good land at a fair price as inducement for them to emigrate from the 4th Reich.

     In contrast, Texans are poised to affirm a fundamental right to not only farm, but to ranch, engage in timber production, horticulture, or wildlife management! A proposed amendment to the Texas constitution reads, in full:

Sec. 36. (a) The people have the right to engage in generally accepted farm, ranch, timber production, horticulture, or wildlife management practices on real property they own or lease.

(b) This section does not affect the authority of the legislature to authorize by general law the regulation of generally accepted farm, ranch, timber production, horticulture, or wildlife management practices by:

   (1) a state agency or political subdivision when there is clear and convincing evidence that the law or regulation is necessary to protect the public health and safety from imminent danger;

   (2) a state agency to prevent a danger to animal health or crop production; or

   (3) a state agency or political subdivision to preserve or conserve the natural resources of this state under Section 59, Article XVI, of this constitution.

(c) This section does not affect the authority of the legislature to authorize by general law the use or acquisition of property for a public use, including the development of the natural resources of this state under Section 59, Article XVI, of this constitution

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Leviathan’s Parents

Meanwhile, in the Nevada Legislature…

     We have known for a long time that the hardcore statist Left believe that children belong to the state and that only Leviathan should raise them. But even that these days that isn’t enough… now one Nevada Democratic legislator openly pines for the ability to legislate what the parents themselves do!

“Liberal state lawmaker Daniele Monroe-Moreno, who was elected Nevada Democratic Party chair in March, made the comment during a Wednesday committee hearing on a GOP-led school choice bill. Monroe-Moreno defended Las Vegas area public schools—which in 2021 ranked second-worst in the nation—by dismissing criticism of the schools as misplaced “parent input” that she wished she could stifle through legislation.

“‘All my kids went through the public school system in Clark County, and people can say what they want about CCSD—we have some amazing educators in CCSD, and they did a great job with my kids and others,’ Monroe-Moreno said. ‘And a lot of it is parent input. I wish I could legislate what parents do, but I cannot. Had to say that.’”

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All Your Electricity Are Belong To California

Meanwhile, in the People’s Republic of California…

     Ever wonder how California plans to switch to all electric vehicles in the future and support the burden on their electric grid? The solution is easy: They will drain your electric car while it’s at a “charging station”… leaving you potentially stranded!

“The California legislature has introduced a bill that would mandate bidirectional charging capability for all new EVs sold in the state beginning in 2027.

“First spotted by Charged EVs, SB 233 has passed the California Senate Energy Committee and now heads to the Senate Transportation Committee April 25 for further consideration. If enacted, the bill would ensure all new EVs sold in California after 2027 would have the ability to discharge power from their battery packs to assist the power grid, or provide a backup power source for homes.

“‘SB 233 will make EVs more attractive to consumers by enabling them to use their car batteries to power their homes,’ State Senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley), the bill’s sponsor, said in a statement.”

     Oh, it can also provide electricity to not only one’s home, but also to the entire grid itself, as is already done with solar panels on houses’ roofs.

“How can electric vehicles (EVs) assist the aging US electrical grid as it tries to handle the rising demand for electricity during peak load times? The answer is the EVs themselves. Bidirectional charging refers to two-way charging — that means the EV both charges and discharges. Vehicle to Grid (V2G) is a charging technology that allows the flow of energy from the car battery back to the grid — from the vehicle to the grid.”

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