This Thanksgiving, between expressing our thanks that we haven’t become a socialist country (yet), and enjoying some tasty turkey, let us eschew politics for at least one day while we enjoy the company of kith & kin.
Here are refugees from North Korea enjoying a Thanksgiving Dinner.
The government has increasingly put the “loco” in in loco parentis. Leviathan has increasingly assumed that all children are not under the aegis of their parents, but that parents are simply allowed to raise Leviathan’s children. Now, the city of Washington, DC has decided that parents who organize “play dates” for their children, with some basic common sense ground rules for behavior, must beg permission first from the government.
“Back in the 1970s, a group of parents got together to create an informal playgroup for toddlers in DC in a spare room of a local church. Over the last 40 years, groups of parents and their two-year-olds have enjoyed these three-hour playgroups, which children can attend up to three days a week. The playgroup is staffed by parents of the kids who attend, and they take turns watching the children. There is no paid staff.
“… ‘Some DC government officials now are trying to regulate the program, which they contend is an illegal child-care facility.’ The Office of the State Superintendent of Education investigated the playgroup cooperative in early September and issued a statement saying the group is violating child care facility laws and must get a license to operate.”
Canadian born voice actress, Tara Strong, got into an argument with her Uber driver, who is anti-Leftist, going so far as to use the excuse “we were born here” (despite her being born in Canada)…
Being oblivious to the Streisand Effect, Tara Strong wants you to really, really know that you shouldn’t be paying attention…
This is the email I got #AOCody pic.twitter.com/7KWjjDBjrP
— Anime Outsiders (@animeoutsiders) November 13, 2018
News of the Week for Nov. 18th, 2018
It seems that more and more industries are being overrun by “Social Justice Warriors” who end up destroying companies and dominating professions like lords of the flies, especially when it comes to popular media.
Case in point comes from insider information via someone who was blacklisted from American animation studios for not playing around with the laze and destructive idiocy that degenerated Western animation in America to nothing more than badly animated social justice morality plays.
Aggressive bullying while claiming to be the victim is a tried and true method that needs to be stopped before it begins.
In the wake of the 2018 election results, there are two conflicting narratives concerning what the outcome of the results really mean. To wit: Either the GOP wasn’t “MAGA” enough and that the voters punished the “establishment” candidates, or that “MAGA” was toxic to the moderate Republicans and independents, who shunned the Trumpified GOP.
Indeed, the early responses to expanding in the Senate buoyed the idea that Trump and the Democrats frothing in the mouth over the Supreme Court helped the GOP bigly. However, those Senate gains turned out to be only two (and at least one) seat, which is a very poor result considering that the Republicans held almost no seats to begin with and nonetheless lost two seats that they had won in the Obama wave of 2012. Until 2020 elections are over, we are likely to see a “holding pattern” with every side doubling down.
The horror show that is socialism continues unabated in Venezuela. A sixty-fold increase in the minimum wage seems like a socialist workers paradise… aside from the fact that a 833,997% increase in consumer prices far exceeds even the 149,000% hyperinflation rate. That the one source of income, their gas company Citgo, might be seized from them certainly underscores the tenuous nature of civilization itself in Venezuela.
The result of this economic miracle? Starving children and a surge in suicides. Yet some still wonder why millions of people are fleeing this “socialist paradise”! At least Venezuela has one booming export: Infectious diseases like malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, dengue, and tuberculosis.
And what does the government of Venezuela do to solve these crises? Silence dissent via assassination.
News of the Week for Nov. 12th, 2018
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the day that the guns that roared during the “Great War” fell silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Though begun as “Armistice Day,” Veterans Day has expanded in the United States as a day for all those brave men and women who fight to keep us free.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, let us remember they who risked everything for freedom even despite the follies of their political leaders., including their very lives.
100 Years ago on the 11th day of the 11th month of the 11th hourhttps://t.co/NPX9IDiKta
— The Political Hat (@PoliticalHatToo) November 11, 2018
Genetic editing of embryos is illegal in many countries. However, the land of 猫耳, Japan, is now set to allow editing of genes in human embryos:
“Japan has issued draft guidelines that allow the use of gene-editing tools in human embryos. The proposal was released by an expert panel representing the country’s health and science ministries on 28 September.
“Although the country regulates the use of human embryos for research, there have been no specific guidelines on using tools such as CRISPR–Cas9 to make precise modifications in their DNA until now.
“Tetsuya Ishii, a bioethicist at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, says that before the draft guidelines were issued, Japan’s position on gene editing in human embryos was neutral. The proposal now encourages this kind of research, he says.”
While manipulation of human embryos for reproduction would be restricted under the guidelines, such restrictions would not be legally binding.
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