It is the mandated truth in academia that, before the Age of Discovery and the subsequent colonization by Europe of most of the world, non-Western peoples and civilizations were utopias, at least as compared to the subsequent era of colonization, with post-colonial problems blamed uniform ally on colonialism which is considered an unalloyed evil.
Anyone who dares to suggest that there were some benefits of colonialism will be condemned and attempts will be made to silence them. Case in point: Portland State University political science Professor Bruce Gilley.
After ramming down the “background checks for gun transfers” bill, SB143, which requires expensive background checks for any transfer outside of scant few exceptions (as well as record keeping), the Nevada Legislature and Governor SleestakSisolak, continue to attack the fundamental rights protected by the 2nd Amendment.
SB120 allows the government to take away your firearms for up to a year at a go even if you have committed no crime. This allowance for “emergency” protection can be lodged by a wide number of people, including in many cases people who used to live with the person being targeted, or a relative of a relative, including a child’s other parent even if the child is a grown adult and has nothing to do with the “high-risk behavior”, or a police officer.
And what is some this “high-risk behavior”? It could be whatever a police officer decides it is, or simply getting a bit too drunk, even if a firearm is not involved in any way shape or form, or whatever conduct the court considers is “relevant”! Most disturbing of all one of the explicitly mentioned “high-sirk behaviors” is when one has purchased or aquired any firearm and had “[a]quired a firearm or other deadly weapon within the immediately preceding 6 months”.
That’s correct. Merely acquiring or buying guns can not be a legal justification for taking your guns. And this emergency order can be ordered in absentia without the person targeted ever knowing. It is frightening to think that a right protected by the Bill of Rights can just be taken away without even the accusation of committing a crime.
A couple of years ago, a penguin at a zoo (names Grape-kun), became enamored with a 2D character of a penguin-girl from the anime show “Kemono Friends”. Your humble author at the time noted that if “gay” penguins were “scientific proof” that same-sex coupling was valid, then having an “anime waifu” was now valid and otakus should be considered a protected class.
Now another example from the animal kingdom has arisen, in this case from a red panda.
Grape-kun was patient zero. It's spreading. We're turning endangered animals into weebs. pic.twitter.com/luTyd2FsjJ
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: No let doubleplusungood.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Ah, college is a place that embraces insanity like “gender studies” or “critical Whiteness”, but can’t stand the old school cops of Alex Jones’… fan.
“If you want to know why Bradley Shear is pushing Congress and the states to crack down on social-media snooping by colleges and universities, ask the lawyer about the Alex Jones case.
“One of Shear’s teenage clients was denied admissions to a prestigious college after the admissions officer ask him why he followed the InfoWars conspiracy theorist on Twitter, according to Shear.
“The student didn’t interact with Jones or himself promote conspiracy theories – he simply followed a controversial personality.”
What’s scarier than someone who listened to Alex Jones? CAPITAL LETTERS!
“Staff at Leeds Trinity’s school of journalism have also been told to ‘write in a helpful, warm tone, avoiding officious language and negative instructions’. Some blasted the move as ‘more academic mollycoddling’ of the snowflake generation. An ‘enhancing student understanding, engagement and achievement’ memo lists dos and don’ts – with ‘do’ and ‘don’t’ among words frowned upon.
“Course leaders say capitalising a word could emphasise ‘the difficulty or high-stakes nature of the task’.
“The memo says: ‘Despite our best attempts to explain assessment tasks, any lack of clarity can generate anxiety and even discourage students from attempting the assessment at all.
“‘Generally, avoid using capital letters for emphasis and ‘the overuse of “do”, and, especially, “DON’T”.'”
Guess what one Women’s college thought was beyond the pale and must not be accepted? If you guessed “women“, then collect your prize!
“A women’s college recently changed its admissions policy to accept applicants who either live or identify as women while no longer accepting women who now identify as men. The college has refused to comment on this new policy.
“Stephens College, a private school in Columbia, Missouri, has decided to change its definition of womanhood for the first time in its 185-year history. The new policy states the college will ‘admit and enroll students who were not born female, but who identify and live as women.’
“On the flip side, the new policy states that ‘the College will stop admitting and enrolling students who were born female but who now identify as men or who are transitioning from female to male.'”
The popularity of medicalhomicide in the Netherlands is well known. However, the sheer numbers of dead Dutchmen due to euthanasia is staggering: ¼ of all deaths in the Netherlands is caused by doctors intentionally killing off their patients!
“As people got used to the new law, the number of Dutch people being euthanised began to rise sharply, from under 2,000 in 2007 to almost 6,600 in 2017. (Around the same number are estimated to have had their euthanasia request turned down as not conforming with the legal requirements.) Also in 2017, some 1,900 Dutch people killed themselves, while the number of people who died under palliative sedation – in theory, succumbing to their illness while cocooned from physical discomfort, but in practice often dying of dehydration while unconscious – hit an astonishing 32,000. Altogether, well over a quarter of all deaths in 2017 in the Netherlands were induced.”
Even excluding the 1900 Dutch who killed themselves (it is not clear if a doctor was not involved at all), this number is comparable to the number of people killed by guns in the United States for the same year (2017), of 38,600 to 39,733. What’s worse is that the suicides by gun in the United States are about 24,000, is only 60% of the total medical suicides in the Netherlands. When considering the fact that the United States currently has about 18 times the population of the Netherlands, Dutch doctors are nearly 30 times more likely than American guns to be the cause of suicide. Even taking into account all deaths by gun, an American is less than 6% as likely to be killed by a gun than someone from the Netherlands is to be killed by a doctor.
This means that there is but one choice to save lives in the Netherlands: Band Dutch doctors and replace them with privately owned firearms. It’s for the children, dontchaknow…
According to the British police, the only thing more important than hunting down thought criminals and ignoring gang rape is to crack down… people who buy hammers and other such tools. Why? Because only a terrorist would buy a hammer!!1!
One of the fevered dreams of Leviathan is to assume parental control of children in lieu of the parents, who are only to be tolerated to the point that the state’s de facto totalitarian control is not yet absolute. In Scotland, for example, children now have a “super-guardian” that supercedes parents. Even in the United States of America, some feel that the government is being generous by considering the inclusion of parents at all when it comes to children.
Now, Oregon is considering an emergency law to “study” having the states’ “licensed health care providers” investigate families:
“The Oregon Health Authority shall study home visiting by licensed health care providers in this state. The authority shall submit findings and recommendations for legislation to an interim committee of the Legislative Assembly related to health care not later than December 31, 2019.”
While this seems at first a vague and not necessarily an indicator of government intrusion into the family, this bill fits in with the Oregon Governor’s rather far reaching plans:
“Gov. Kate Brown has established her budget proposals for the coming two-year period, 2019-21, and they include a focus on behavioral health (addictions and mental health), investing in the health of children and Oregon’s Coordinated Care Organizations; a uniquely Oregon approach to blending a wide array of health services under one umbrella.
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“One of the governor’s priorities that he’s most excited about is the beginning investment in a six-year program to create universal home visits for new parents. When the program is complete, every new parent — this includes adoptions — would receive a series of two or three visits by someone like a nurse or other health care practitioner. The visits could include basic health screenings for babies; hooking parents up with primary care physicians; linking them to other services; and coordinating the myriad childhood immunizations that babies need.”
“Government agents monitoring the homes of law-abiding parents who have not been accused of a crime without a warrant is an unconscionable violation not only of parental rights and individual liberty but also a trampling of the Fourth Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Constitution.
“The parental right to familial self-determination has long been the constitutional standard, dating back to Pierce v. Society of Sisters in 1923 when the Supreme Court threw out an Oregon law requiring all children to attend public school. ‘The fundamental theory of liberty upon which all governments in this Union repose excludes any general power of the State to standardize its children by forcing them to accept instruction from public teachers only,’ the justices wrote. ‘The child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.'”
Inch by inch, the Leviathan loving Left lurches towards becoming a literal nanny state.
In the ever accelerating race to create human-animal hybrids, researchers have now created sheep-human embryos!
“Researchers in 2018 achieved a new kind of chimeric first, producing sheep-human hybrid embryos that could one day represent the future of organ donation – by using body parts grown inside unnatural, engineered animals.
“With that end goal in mind, scientists created the first interspecies sheep-human chimera in February, introducing human stem cells into sheep embryos, resulting in a hybrid creature that’s more than 99 percent sheep – but also a tiny, little bit like you and me.”
Further:
“Although it’s still a long way off, organs produced in interspecies chimeras could be one way of producing enough supply to meet demand – by transplanting, say, a hybridised pancreas, from a sheep or pig, to a desperate patient.
“For the transplant to work, the researchers think at least 1 percent of the embryo’s cells would need to be human – meaning these first steps demonstrated in the sheep are still very preliminary.
“But, of course, upping the human ratio in the chimera mix also inevitably increases ethical qualms about the kind of creature being created, ostensibly, for the sole purpose of having its essential organs harvested.”
