In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
With President Biden announcing a “Climate Crisis” with promises of exeutive actions, and Europe, once again, suffering a heat wave without most people having air conditioning, let us look back nearly half a century ago and discuss the hysteria over an ecological crisis with William F. Buckley, Jr. and guests, Barry Commoner, Gerald, Cormick, Arthur Resnikoff, and Susan Wedenmeyer.
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 — Question: Is the Left stupid or evil? Answer: Yes.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Funny how it is the Left who think of non-Whites, specifically Blacks, as… dogs.
“Academics recently applauded a Social Psychology Quarterly study purporting to show a disparity in the time dogs were adopted based on racial associations with the animals’ names.
“‘White’ names, according to the study, resulted in shorter adoption times compared to ‘Black’ names.
“The correlations were largely concentrated around pit bulls, ‘a breed that is stereotyped as dangerous and racialized as Black,’ according to the study.”
This is a push in some parts of Florida to grant “rights” to Gaia, including creeks, marshes, and lakes. Orange County in Florida passed a “Right to Clean Water Charter Amendment” which granted rights to “nature”… despite this being illegal under Florida law. Unsurprisingly, a judge in Florida has struck this silly law down.
“A judge has struck down an Orange County charter amendment overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2020 that was aimed at protecting the rights of nature.
“The amendment had spawned a lawsuit designed to block a housing development in fragile wetlands. The suit claimed the development would violate the wetlands’ right to flow freely.
“But Judge Paetra Brownlee dismissed the suit, reasoning the charter amendment was preempted by state law. The 2020 Clean Waters Act, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis on June 30, 2020, includes a provision that bans ‘local governments from recognizing or granting certain legal rights to the natural environment or granting such rights relating to the natural environment to a person or political subdivision.’”
The only way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discrimination between people based on race. The veritable Daniel Hannan explains why treating people as racial collectives will never end racial discrimination.
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
With Russia getting frisky with Poland and Lithuania over the Suwałki Gap which separates the Kaliningrad Oblast and Russia’s puppet Belarus, especially since growing opposition from Eastern Europe to Russia’s war in Ukraine, let us look back at when Poland stood up to Russia (i.e. the old U.S.S.R.), as William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses the Polish challenge with John Lukacs.
“Keaton Crull was born in June with Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 0, a disease that causes progressive muscle degeneration with no cure. Doctors have told his parents, Kyle and Jennifer Crull, Keaton won’t live much longer, but the Crulls aren’t ready to give up.
“However, Keaton could soon be pulled off life support without their approval.
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“‘If we knew that there was no chance of him ever having quality of life, then no, we wouldn’t continue on, but because there is a chance that he could have quality of life, we want to at least try to give him a chance at the Zolgenama and see,’ Jennifer Crull, Keaton’s mother says.
“Zolgensma is a one-time medication used to treat SMA. The Crulls say the cost is around $2 million.
“When asked if the Crulls’ insurance would cover that, Kyle told us, ‘We’re in an argument now fighting about that.’
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“And currently, the Crulls currently don’t have a say in their son’s treatment.
“‘They took custody of him on… I want to say the 22nd (August),’ Kyle says.”
People seem to be noticing a trend of schools with books made available to children that are too smutty and inappropriate to talk about between adults at a school board meeting?
Yet again, this time in Florida, we see a school board member shut down a parent from doing nothing more than quoting from a book, that the school has made available to kids, because… children might be listening?
UNREAL. A dad says he’s gonna read from graphic books available to children in school and gets shut down by @oneclayschools board before he even starts because it might be against the law to read from these books in front of children.
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
With “red flag” laws being a topic of current debate, particularly with the focus on mental health and preemptive actions against potential killers, let us look back on when William F. Buckley, Jr. discussed with Joe McGinniss, Seymour Halleck, and Robert Sadoff the question of psychiatry and the law.
