News of the Week (October 20th, 2019)

 

News of the Week for Oct. 20th, 2019


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Firing Line Friday: The Republican Party and Mr. Nixon

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

     In the previous two Firing Line Friday posts, the wipeout, on the Presidential level, of the Democrats in 1984 was subject to a pre-emptive post-mortem. ‘Twould be interesting to contrast with such a similar pre-emptive post-mortem with then RNC Chairman George Bush.

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The Hydra of Equity: Silent and Venomous

     The Modus Operandi of the Left consists not of bold and open fighting, or judicial/executive overreach that succeeds due to the Right meekly acquiescing, but rather of a death of a thousand cuts wherein organizations influence and change, sub rosa of course, the fundamentals upon which society rests, meaning that those aforementioned overreaches or seemingly bold actions is not the fighting, but the victory celebration.

     These organizations support and reinforce each other both directly as as “stand alone complexes”, giving the illusion of a broad consensus, which is underscored further by a dearth of non-Left wing organizations involved on this level of influence and interaction. Together, these groups and organizations form a hydra, such that if you bring one down, a plethora of others will spring up while the rest of the extant heads are unaffected, with successes not only in deep-blue cities in deep-blue states, but in conservative states and locals as well. This is especially troubling when the real life example of the implementation of the Left’s Eschaton Immanentizing plan known as “equity”.

     “Equity”, as has been described before, is neither equality under the law, equality of opportunity, nor even the equality of results; it is the belief that some people benefit from unearned privilege by means of systems of oppression that pervade though every aspect of society, and that the only way to achieve true equality, it to not only treat people unequally, but aim for an inequality of outcomes where the designated oppressors end up with less in order to compensate from the institutional privilege they have from the systems of oppression which arises as if it were some mystical miasma of malfeasance to be combated, even to the point of “equity” being seen as integral to “real” democracy since people can not have an “equal” say unless those with institutional privilege are handicapped in order to negate the intstitutional power they are alleged to have. Such a thing can not be disproven, and thus can be perpetually invoked as a justification.

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Nevada Legalizes Torture Killing Patients with Dementia

     Being starved and dehydrated to death is a horrible and agonizing death, as many a British child knew before succumbing to the Orwellianly named “Liverpool Care Pathway”. Now in Nevada, a diagnoses with Dementia can bring down such a death sentence.

     SB121, passed this year, would allow an advanced directive, in the case of dementia, to not only refuse medicine and treatment, but to be denied food and water:

“2.The form for end-of-life decisions of a power of attorney for health care for an adult with any form of dementia may be substantially in the following form, and must be witnessed or executed in the same manner as the following form:

END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS ADDENDUM STATEMENT OF DESIRES

(You can, but are not required to, state what you want to happen if you get very sick and are not likely to get well. You do not have to complete this form, but if you do, your agent must do as you ask if you cannot speak for yourself.)

……………….. (Insert name of agent) might have to decide, if you get very sick, whether to continue with your medicine or to stop your medicine, even if it means you might not live, ………………… (Insert name of agent) will talk to you to find out what you want to do, and will follow your wishes.

If you are not able to talk to ……………….. (insert name of agent), you can help him or her make these decisions for you by letting your agent know what you want.

Here are your choices. Please circle yes or no to each of the following statements and sign your name below

[…]

4. I want to get food and water even if I do not want to take medicine or receive treatment.     YES     NO”

     Purportedly, one can reverse or negate any such declaration in the future by simple verbal command. However, this form is explicitly for dementia, and is signing over power and making a living will if dementia was indicated, thus leaving the patient legally incompetent to decide for themself if they choose to have food or water or not!

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News of the Week (October 13th, 2019)

 

News of the Week for Oct. 13th, 2019


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Firing Line Friday: What’s Ahead for the Democrats? Part II

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

     In 1984, President Reagan won every state except Minnesota (and the District of Columbia), though the Democratic Party was still dominant in the House of Representatives and on the state level. In this two-part episode, Buckley, along with guests Mark J. Green, Murray Kempton, and Richard Brookhiser examine the prospects of the Democrats in June of 1984.

     Here is Part II:

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Quick Takes – Transing Toddlers: Illinois Toddlers; California Sex Ed Gidelines; NEA President Pitching to Kindergartners

     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: “Your child belongs to us already”

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Children will be made woke, at the earliest possible time, before parents have a chance to really teach their children the whys and wherefors.

“To get a sense of what all Illinois public schools must begin teaching children starting next year, one can look at curriculum developed this summer in Illinois’s Evanston/Skokie School District 65, as well as Advanced Placement history classes. Scholars noted AP products were given a decidedly leftist, identity politics slant in recent revisions. These classes educate the nation’s top third of students and for many are the last history classes they ever take. Especially well-educated and high-income parents trust them as a way to get their kids a leg up on college and thus life.

“Yet they are rapidly being corrupted by leftist ideology. Schock noted that she was teaching LGBT-themed materials before the Illinois law passed because the College Board integrated it into AP history classes in recent revisions. “Schock teaches about the 1969 Stonewall riots for LGBTQ rights in New York City, feminism, and Latino and American Indian rights movements as part of the description of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. She spends a class period on each topic,” reported the Daily Herald.

“This means that even in states that have not mandated LGBT curriculum, bright students are likely to be exposed to it through AP classes, which also influence non-AP curriculum. The Stonewall Riots are also taught to elementary school students as part of LGBTQ+ Equity Week curriculum being taught this week in District 65, a north Chicago suburb.”

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Death of Europe

     Nowhere is the suicide of Western Civilization as advanced in its euthanistic orgy than in Europe. From guilt and hatred of borders to social justice, identity politics, and intersectionality, Europe is moribund. If any of Western Civilization is to be saved, the autopsy must begin while the patient is still alive. Just such an examination is undertaken by Douglas Murray, in this Uncommon Knowledge interview by Peter Robinson.

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Punishing Thoughtcrime

     Do you believe that men are biological males, women are biological females, and one can not change that? If so, congratulations with being legally “incompatible with human dignity”, you doubleplusungood thoughtcriminal.

“Dr. David Mackereth worked as a disability assessor for the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). Last year, the department fired him after being questioned by an employment agency official about how he would handle clients who asked to be referred to as members of the opposite sex.

“Belief in Genesis 1:27, lack of belief in transgenderism and conscientious objection to transgenderism in our judgment are incompatible with human dignity and conflict with the fundamental rights of others, specifically here, transgender individuals,’ the ruling declared.

“‘Without intellectual and moral integrity, medicine cannot function and my 30 years as a doctor are now considered irrelevant compared to the risk that someone else might be offended,’ Mackereth said in response to the ruling.

“‘This is an astonishing judgment and one that if upheld will have seismic consequences not just for the NHS and for Christians but anyone in the workplace who is prepared to believe and say that we are created male and female,’ CLC chief executive Andrea Williams responded in a press release. ‘It is deeply disturbing that this is the first time in the history of English law that a judge has ruled that free citizens must engage in compelled speech. Here Judge Perry has ruled that Christianity is not protected by the Equality Act or the ECHR, unless it is a version of Christianity which recognises transgenderism and rejects a belief in Genesis 1:27.’”

     Not only is this a case of compelled speech that violates one’s conscience, and a compulsion that requires one to lie (or at least a Hobson’s choice), but it is a condemnation of the belief itself. In other words, the doctor who was fired was guilty of thoughtcrime.

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News of the Week (October 6th, 2019)

 

News of the Week for Oct. 6th, 2019


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