News of the Week (October 17th, 2021)

 

News of the Week for Oct. 17th, 2021


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Firing Line Friday: The Carter Years: Power and Principle

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

     With inflation, increased scarcity of goods, and a humiliating foreign policy, the Biden administration is quickly morphing into a second Jimmy Carter term (give or take a killer rabbit). Let us look back when, in the aftermath of the Carter Presidency, William F. Buckley, Jr. discussed the Carter years with Zbigniew Brzezinski.

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Quick Takes – Cops & Criminals: Gunfight In Portland; Defunding The Police In Austin; Abolishing The Police In Minneapolis

     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: All the cops are criminals; all the sinners saints

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     No one needs the cops… until the shooting starts.

“An actual gun battle broke out on the streets of Portland Sunday during an attack by antifa against street preachers and Proud Boys, but why be surprised?

“…

“Antifa was standing by.

“Sunday’s antifa assault included threats and reports of snipers on rooftops.

“Antifa forward-deployed equipment near the area of the planned downtown rally, which was later changed. The second location was also attacked by antifa.

“And in the end, a gunfight broke out on the downtown streets and that’s when the police bothered to show up.”

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Bioengineering And Robots Converge: Confluence To Cyborg Catgirl

     While technology to create fembots and gynoids progresses, the advancement of bioengineering is also advancing towards the same ultimate goal of genetically engineering catgirls for domestic ownership in robotic, or cyborg, form.   Specifically, the ability to grow the brains for cyborg catgirls has gone from mere organoids to a more complex structure that involves nerve connectivity with other organs, including eyes.

“Small blobs of human brain grown in a dish have been coaxed into forming rudimentary eyes, which respond to light by sending signals to the rest of the brain tissue.

The pairs of eye-like structures create tissues similar to those in real eyes, including a round lens, which normally focuses an image, and a retina, the patch of tissue at the back of the eye that senses light.”

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University of San Diego To Prospective Faculty: DIE Or Else!

Meanwhile, at the University of San Diego…

     The far Left have long ago taken over higher education, despite venerable remnants, and are in the process of fortifying their positions by requiring all prospective faculty to declare support for their DIE agenda (i.e. “diversity”, “inclusion”, and “equity”). Unsurprisingly, California universities have been serving as the West Coast vanguard for this. The University of San Diego is not one to be left out of this mandatory profession of the woke faith.

“Candidates must submit: Letter of application, include reference to the cluster(s) of interest, curriculum vitae, teaching statement and a sample syllabus, research statement and a sample of scholarly or creative work, diversity statement, in which you address A) your values with respect to diversity, equity, and inclusion; B) your experience working with minoritized populations and/or on issues that disproportionately affect diverse populations, and C) your plans related to diversity and inclusion in your teaching and research and contact information for three references.”

     Less than a decade ago, such statements were not even mentioned to just a perfunctory commitment to “diversity”. Now, universities and colleges are demanding that prospective faculty profess their “values” in support of the “Diversity”, “Inclusion”, and “Equity” agenda, which while sounding innocuous at a glance is in reality oppression that they decry but with roles reversed.

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The Attorney General Mobilizes To Defend Wokeness

     Attorney General Merrick Garland has decided to defend all of America from what he considers our greatest threat: Parents who don’t want their children indoctrinated into wokeness.

“Citing an increase in harassment, intimidation and threats of violence against school board members, teachers and workers in our nation’s public schools, today Attorney General Merrick B. Garland directed the FBI and U.S. Attorneys’ Offices to meet in the next 30 days with federal, state, Tribal, territorial and local law enforcement leaders to discuss strategies for addressing this disturbing trend. These sessions will open dedicated lines of communication for threat reporting, assessment and response by law enforcement.

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“According to the Attorney General’s memorandum, the Justice Department will launch a series of additional efforts in the coming days designed to address the rise in criminal conduct directed toward school personnel. Those efforts are expected to include the creation of a task force, consisting of representatives from the department’s Criminal Division, National Security Division, Civil Rights Division, the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, the FBI, the Community Relations Service and the Office of Justice Programs, to determine how federal enforcement tools can be used to prosecute these crimes, and ways to assist state, Tribal, territorial and local law enforcement where threats of violence may not constitute federal crimes.”

     Of course, no actual threats are cited. It’s almost as if Garland is less worried about actual terroristic threats than he is to the threat to Critical Race Theory from parents who oppose the indocrination of their children. Why, it’s almost as if he has a personal interest in the teaching of Critical Race Theory.

     Oh, wait, he totally does! His son-in-law runs a company that sells Critical Race Theory materials!

     Is anyone surprised that one of the Nomenklatura stands to personally benefit from their abuse of power?

     Thank you, Mitch McConnell, for keeping this man off the Supreme Court!

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News of the Week (October 10th, 2021)

 

News of the Week for Oct. 10th, 2021


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Firing Line Friday: Proposals for Welfare

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

     It can seem that the Left in America has been perpetually winning all battles to some. The idea of a European Welfare state where everyone gets free stuff would not politically fly in today’s political environment, but half-a-century ago it was what America was seemingly heading towards and it was heavily debated over by William F. Buckley, Jr., Richard Skinner, Margaret Young, Jeffrey Stafford, and then Gov. Jimmy Carter (who was, relatively, a moderate in the Democratic Party).

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Quick Takes – Deadly Harvest: Harvesting Organs… From The Healthy… and Denying It To The Mentally Disabled

     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: Harvesters of death and sorrow

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

Death, Rx

     Euthanasia by means of ripping organs for the condemned bodies has become so normalized, that it’ll be considered malpractice to not kill.

“Now, organ harvesting after euthanasia has become so normalized within the medical intellegentsia, that an American Medical Association publication, JAMA Surgery, had a letter debate — not about the propriety of killing and harvesting, but about whether the kill should begin at home or in a hospital.

“Two doctors say that ‘organ donation after euthanasia starting at home’ (ODEH) is the way to go:

‘The patient is only sedated at home, which marks the start of euthanasia in legal terms but is medically only intended to remove consciousness while vital functions are maintained and secured. Coma induction and the start of the agonal phase [killing] subsequently take place in the intensive care unit after farewells at home and transportation [to the hospital].’

“Their debaters says, no, start the homicides in the hospital:

“‘A guideline for ODEH should be developed, including instructions for physicians on how to act if the condition of the patient deteriorates during transport. In the ODEH case presented by Mulder and Sonneveld, noradrena line was given to maintain adequate blood pressure during transport to the hospital. This could be interpreted as violation of an important principle of organ donation after euthanasia, namely that the euthanasia and organ donationshould be at all times handled as 2 separate entities.’

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Shoelaces Of Wokeness

     Yet another sad example of a teacher who is supposed to teach instead being an indoctrinator who indoctrinates.

     Always knew there was something sinister in those aglets…

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