Arizona Supreme Court: Deny Objective Biological Science and Presume the Impossible

     The Supreme Court’s ruling declaring Gay Marriage to a Constitutional right was premised on the Rawlsian presumption that a couple of different sexes was exactly the same as couples of the same sex, and that any point to the contrary was “irrational animus”.

     This chain of (il)logic, then, requires any actual difference be ignored in order to perpetuate the fantasy that there are no biological differences between men and women, particularly when it comes to reproduction. We have already seen the outright denial of objective biological reality with California mandating that if a same-sex couple couldn’t conceive a child naturally between them for a year, than insurance must pay for infertility treatment, despite the obvious fact that two people of the same sex can and will never be able to naturally have a child between them, due to the rather obvious fact that a same-sex couple are physically incapable of conceiving a child naturally between them due to coitus being an exclusively heterosexual act. But because the courts begin with the declaration that there is no difference between same-sex couplings and opposite-sex couplings, the courts must invent impossible fantasies because objective biological reality has been deemed “irrational”.

     Marriage had always been about the coupling of man and woman. This is because marriage was about the family as a basic unit of society, and where monogamy was utilized to provide a stable basis for having and raising children in a safe and optimal environment. Much, if not most, family law involves not just the relationship between the two spouses, but were based on the assumption that any child born within their parents’ wedlock was presumed to be legitimate with the mother being the mother and the father being the father. The same logic can not be applied to a same sex couple because it is biologically impossible for both to be the natural parent of the child!

     The Supreme Court has already ruled that two women can be listed on a birth certificate, despite the fact that the birth certificate had always included by presumption the natural parent of the child. The entire point of establishing parentage by nature of the birth certificate can not apply to same sex couples. These recordings of facts no serve no purpose in establishing actual biological parentage.

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The Real Institutional Bias

     It is an axiomatic statement of faith on the Left that there are institutional privileges and institutional biases that leads society to inexorably grant power to the White “cis-hetero” man with all of unearned privilege and oppression that comes with that. Indeed, rather than be a conclusion, it is the necessary starting point to everything the Left must make up excuses for.

     So, does this Privilege of the Kyriarchs really exist?

     Well… apparently not.

“At MIT and Caltech, the admissions rate for girls is more than twice that for boys. Unless female applicants are far better qualified on average than their male counterparts, this does not reflect admissions decisions being made solely on merit. At one company, an experiment was recently done where the voices of applicants were altered electronically to change their gender during phone interviews. This was done with the intent of counteracting subconscious bias that was presumed to be holding back female applicants. However, the results of the experiment were exactly the opposite of what was expected: Men did slightly better when perceived as women, while women did slightly worse when perceived as men. These results suggest that, to the extent that gender bias exists in the hiring process, it is perhaps in favor of women and against men, not the other way around. It seems that MongoDB has failed to live out another of its stated core values, Be Intellectually Honest.”

     This is why the Left so loudly shouts out any dissent: They don’t want people to “look behind the curtain” and see what is really going on, which is why they increasingly and shrilly rant about being oppressed by “sexism” and “racism” and such. For example, one company’s response to the now-infamous memo by former Google employee James Damore:

“In response to the Google memo, one company saw it necessary to lay down the law for its own employees, setting out a policy that is even more censorious than Google itself. That company is MongoDB, a New York-based database startup employing over 800 people.3 Those who do not work in technology have likely never heard of MongoDB, as their products are sold to other software developers rather than directly to consumers. Yet, the company’s influence is far-reaching; it boasts an impressive array of customers ranging from Google and Facebook to Verizon to The New York Times and The Washington Post.

“The company’s response was set forth in an email sent to employees by CTO Eliot Horowitz and subsequently posted on the company’s web site.”

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On the Las Vegas Massacre

     As has been plastered all over the news and social media, over fifty people were killed, and over five hundred injured (as of posting) in Las Vegas when gunman opened rapid fire from the Mandalay Bay casino on the Route 91 Harvest festival.

     I wasn’t at this particular music festival, but I’ve been to ones where there were even more advantageous places to shoot.

     Honestly, there are so many ways to attack a music festival like that. I’ve heard reports that the shooter had an aviation license, so a plane crash would have potentially done more damage. There are others, but I won’t try openly speculating so as not to inspire anyone.

     This story is new and there are plenty of facts that we don’t know yet, and invariably plenty of “facts” that will end up to not be true.

     Here is some early reporting from Legal Insurrection, Bookworm, and the veritable R. Stacy McCain.

     The /r/guns subreddit is a good source for informed speculation, and elsewhere the unusual circumstances (abet from early reporting) have been noted.

     Also related, the plenty of Leftists are giddy over the shooting, and Hillary beclowns herself yet again.

     Also

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News of the Week (October 1st, 2017)

 

News of the Week for Oct. 1st, 2017


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California Poised to Legally Trip Balls

     If the proponents of a proposed statewide ballot Initiative in California have their way, not only will Californians under California law be able to toke with impunity, but they will be able to trip balls on magic mushrooms

Meanwhile… In California.

“California voters could decide whether the state should decriminalize the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms by adults in 2018. A ballot measure was filed Friday with the state Attorney General’s office.

“The measure would exempt adults 21 and older from penalties of possessing, selling, transporting, or cultivating psilocybins.

“At least 365,880 valid signatures are needed to place the measure on the 2018 statewide ballot.

“Kevin Saunders, a mayoral candidate in the town of Marina, near Monterey, is behind the push.

“…

“‘It’s a natural progression from marijuana legalization,’ he said. ‘I think that we are having an opportunity to lead the discussion.'”

     A little mood music:

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Quick Takes – Institutional Privilege at Colleges: For Illegal Aliens; For Social Justice Warriors; For Woke Engineers

     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: Just give ’em a Pepsi!

     First, a little bit of mood music:

     Carrying on…

     How oppressed can you be when you are not only allowed to flaunt the law with impunity, but actually receive institutional privilege that not even citizens have?

” The University of California Board of Regents recently passed a regulation capping the number of out-of-state students permitted at UC colleges, limiting the total number to 18 percent of the student body on most campuses.

“Yet that 18 percent cap will not apply to students who are in the country illegally.

“The Board of Regents passed the regulation, known as Policy 2109, after California lawmakers threatened to withhold nearly $20 million in public funds if an out-of-state cap was not put in place. Currently out-of-state students constitute 16.5 percent of the UC student body.”

     That’s right, the University of California is discriminating against its own citizens and legal immigrants, in order to give unearned privilege to alien nationals who are not even legal residents of this country.

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Musical Interlude: Star Spangled Banner

     With all of the Sturm und drang over the National Anthem (i.e. The Star Spangled Banner), centered around the whims of elitist sports teams owners, ’tis only seems right to present Jimi Hendrix playing it:

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Canadian Physicians Empowered To Kill At Will

     We were told that euthanasia would only be by the consent of a patient who was not only terminally ill with but months to live but also was in their right mind without duress.

     Then euthanasia was extended to children, the mentally ill, and others unable to consent, which foregoed the requirement of not only desire, but outright consent, for once established as an acceptable medical procedure, doctors were free to use this “treatment”.

     Now, in Canada, a doctor can not only deny life-saving treatment for a person in their right mind who wants it, but actually have that patient, against the patient’s will and with their full mental faculties, outright executed by lethal injection:

“Tonight I am preparing to celebrate a funeral for someone (let’s call him ‘H’ to protect his privacy) who, while suffering from cancer, was admitted to hospital with an unrelated problem, a bladder infection. H’s family had him admitted to the hospital earlier in the week under the assumption that the doctors there would treat the infection and then he would be able to return home. To their shock and horror, they discovered that the attending physician had indeed made the decision NOT to treat the infection. When they demanded that he change his course of (in)action, he refused, stating that it would be better if H died of this infection now rather than let cancer take its course and kill him later. Despite their demands and pleadings, the doctor would not budge from his decision. In fact he deliberately hastened H’s end by ordering large amounts of morphine ‘to control pain’ which resulted in his losing consciousness as his lungs filled up with fluid. In less than 24 hours, H was dead.

“Let me tell you a bit about H. He was 63 years old. He leaves behind a wife and two daughters who are both currently working in universities toward their undergraduate degrees. We are not talking here about someone who was advanced in years and rapidly failing due to the exigencies of old age. We are talking about a man who was undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments. We are talking about a man who still held onto hope that perhaps he might defy the odds long enough to see his daughters graduate. Evidently and tragically, in the eyes of the physician tasked with providing the care needed to beat back the infection, that hope was not worth pursuing.

“Again, let me make this point abundantly clear: It was the express desire of both the patient and his spouse that the doctor treat the infection. This wish was ignored.”

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Yes, It Was Real Communism

     …or at least what inevitably happens when one tries to impose doctrinaire Marxist principles to create that fantasy utopia. Real Communism was tried, but because Communism is contrary to human nature, it inevitably fails.

     Prof. Jordan B Peterson points out the failures of Communism, and the hubris of those who think that it is possible… of only the right (i.e. themselves) person was in charge.

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News of the Week (September 24th, 2017)

 

News of the Week for Sept. 24th, 2017


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