The Healthcare Crises Goes Silly

     Is this a sign of how badly healthcare under Obamacare, et al., has degraded? Is it a sign of the degradation of society? Or is it both?

“TriHealth is suing a company known for sexually explicit gag-gifts after receiving one of their products anonymously.

“TriHealth claims the website ‘D—s By Mail’ intentionally or through negligence caused emotional distress to its employees.

“The medical company says phallus-shaped confetti was sent to their White Oak office on Cheviot Road, a family medical practice.

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“The medical company says it was sent the “confetti penises” from the website in a spring-loaded package described on the website as a “bomb.”

“The lawsuit states that when these packages are opened, the phallus shaped gummies or confetti shoot out of the package, into the room, and onto the unsuspecting person who opened it.

“TriHealth claims the website intentionally or through negligence caused emotional distress to their employees.”

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News of the Week (April 7th, 2019)

 

News of the Week for Apr. 7th, 2019


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Firing Line Friday: The Limits of Journalistic Investigation

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

     Considering the ongoing fall-out of the “Mueller Investigation” report and all the insanity fallout therefrom, perhaps might be of interest to see discussion with Woodward & Bernstein of Watergate fame…

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Quick Takes – Whiteness: Racist Felt; Racist Lack of Reparations; Racist Lack of White Privilege Acknowledgement

     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: Oh, those White people…

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     Felt is racist. Yes, felt the material itself, is now somehow racist.

“University of Toronto scholar Stephanie Springgay’s newly published research alleges that there is more to felt, the material, than typically perceived.

“In her paper, ‘”How to Write as Felt”: Touching Transmaterialities and More-Than-Human Intimacies,’ published online in late July by Studies in Philosophy and Education, Springgay suggests that felt, a ‘dense material of permanently interlocking fibers,’ can be linked to racism and capitalism.

“‘[T]his paper addresses “the problem of education” that is predicated on cis-heteronormative White supremacist settler colonial logics that assume knowledge enters from an outside, that is predicated on progress, and that regulates and violently disavows particular bodies,’ it states.

“‘Felting as a posthuman proposition demands that we stop thinking broadly about … education. Instead we need to consider intimate transmaterial touching relations that do not intensify settler colonial mastery over human and nonhuman life,’ the paper adds.”

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Scientific Reproducibility: Same Sex Marriage and the 2D Waifu

     Penguins have been cited as scientific proof that same-sex couples are natural and normal throughout the animal kingdom. Since then, we’ve seen examples of a penguin and even a red panda become smitten with… a 2D Waifu. Since reproducibility is a hallmark of the scientific method, another example of a penguin falling in love with a 2d Waifu to give scientific validity that having a 2D Waife is as valid as same-sex marriage.

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How The Terrorists Won In New Zealand

     After the now infamous “Mosque Attack” in New Zealand, the sad and pathetic excuse of a Prime Minister has given what the terrorists wanted while exploiting the tragedy to snuff out civil liberties and ancient civil rights in order to appeal this modern-day “age of feelz.”

     Not only has, within days, the possession of semi-automatic rifles (with scant few exceptions) suddenly banned, which the vast majority of gun owners ignored and criminals openly scoffed at, was declared to be “just the beginning“.

     And how, this example of the decline and fall of society went out of its way to do exactly what the terrorist wanted them to do, as stated in the madman’s “manifesto“:

“I chose firearms for the affect it would have on social discourse, the extra media coverage they would provide and the affect it could have on the politics of United states and thereby the political situation of the world… With enough pressure the left wing within the United states will seek to abolish the second amendment, and the right wing within the US will see this as an attack on their very freedom and liberty. This attempted abolishment of rights by the left will result in a dramatic polarization of the people in the United States and eventually a fracturing of the US along cultural and racial lines.”

     But, of course, this isn’t just about arms suitable for self-defense (funny how the use of a gun to stop/impede the terrorist attack resulted in not only an excuse to restrict that fundamental human right, but other rights as well), with those not only reporting via internet links newsworthy information, but anyone who dared talk about it outside of acceptable, and controlled, forums being promptly investigated, and even indicted and convicted, for daring to offer anything that opposed the politically correct actions of the Parliamentary DICTATORSHIP that New Zealand is plagued by.

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News of the Week (March 31st, 2019)

 

News of the Week for Mar. 31st, 2019


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Firing Line Friday: The World of LSD

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

     Sometimes a civil debate from someone with a different consciousness can be more illuminating and experiential, with the posibility of mutually opening each other’s minds to alternate possibilities, than any particular mind-altering chemical could be, as is with case of this week’s episode with Timothy Leary.

     A bit of a PSA on LDS…

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Quick Takes – College Wokeness: Queering Non-Humans; Vegan Oceanography; The Unacknowledgeable Discrimination

     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: Give it that old college wokeness!

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     It is almost as if the need to “queer” things knows no boundary… of species.

“The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer Studies Department at Montclair State University offers a 200-level course called ‘Queer Identities in a Transforming World: The Trouble with Normal.’ The class is being offered this coming semester.

“According to the course description, the class will use an array of ‘textual and cinematic sources’ to ‘explore issues such as gender performance, the third sex, transgender issues, intersex issues, the political underpinnings and the transgressive nature of “queer”, the history of queer politics (from AIDS activism to the gay marriage issue), schisms within the LGBTQ political movements, queers and disability, issues of race, class and representation within the queer community, and non-human perspectives on queer.'”

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Connecticut Poised To Make It Easier To Kill The Mentally Ill

     Under the guise of “aid in dying”, Connecticut is considering a bill (HB 5898) that would provide legal cover to doctors who proscribe death to treat illness, provided they dot every “i” and cross every “t”. Worse yet, there is no requirement for a mental health evaluation to be done before the patient takes the death drugs, only that any such evaluation is made when they are requested, and even then a patient could be “steered” by a doctor, hospital, &c..

“Proponents talk of ‘safeguards.’ Nothing can prevent an erroneous prognosis or keep a vulnerable person from subtly being steered. Moreover, the bill’s focus is on the parameters of permissible medical behavior and not on patient protection. Thus, the minimal criteria written into the bill apply only to the prescribing of the lethal drugs, and not to their use. Any mental health evaluation to determine if a person has impaired decision capacity is made when he requests the drugs.

“There is no requirement that a person be evaluated just prior to taking the drugs although mental state can fluctuate widely based on physical factors like oxygen level. It is conceivable that a person could take the drugs during a temporary depression or on impulse. Drugs are to be self-administered but there is no mechanism for insuring that will always be the case. It would be very easy for mistakes or abuse to occur and never be discovered.”

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