Firing Line Friday: Corporal Punishment

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

     Even those who do not believe in corporal punishment believe that there are some who need to be at least metaphorically spanked. With chaos returning to many public schools under “restorative justice”, let us look back half a century ago when a very different method of correcting bad behavior in schools with William F. Buckley, Jr. discussing the question of corporal punishment with Timothy Hands, Victor O’Dwyer, Kenton Sparks, Peter Newell, C. C. Kuper, and Robert Edwards.

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Quick Takes – Leviathan And The Hidden Transgendering Of Children: The Navy; The Mother In Maine; Bullying The Parent

     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: All Your Child Are Belong To Trans

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

Pictured: “Gender Affirming Care”.

     Is twelve the new eighteen? When it comes to puberty blockers, STDs, and mutilating one’s body, the Navy certainly thinks so!

“[A] Navy Nurse Practitioner in Bahrain giving a presentation to military parents regarding pediatric healthcare policies. The audience was clearly shocked to learn that military parents of children aged 12 or older could not access their children’s medical records online. And children as young as 15 or 16 can make medical appointments for specific issues without parental notification. Those ‘issues’ are, of course, gender identity, pregnancy, STDs, and mental health.”

     The Left used be paranoid about the military “getting” their children through propaganda and brainwashing. Oh the glove is on the other foot now…

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Home Loan Equity: …To Each According To Their Low Credit Rating

     Recently, California moved to charge the well off and even the middle class to subsidize the electricity rates for the poor. Now, the Biden Administration is going to do the same for Home Loans.

“Once again, the administration is prepared to ‘subsidize the losers’ mortgages,’ so to speak, and not in any effort to save the economy or help Americans avoid destitution. The Biden administration’s only goal is to purchase the loyalty of prospective homebuyers who are locked out of the property market by high real-estate prices and rising interest rates — rising interest rates necessitated, in part, by the administration’s reckless spending. And Americans who did everything right are going to suffer, perversely enough, because they did everything right.

“The administration is set to enforce a new rule that will compel potential homebuyers who spent their lives paying their bills on time and building good credit scores to pay more for their mortgages. Why? To subsidize the loans assumed by higher-risk borrowers. Beginning May 1, prospective homeowners with a credit rating of 680 or more ‘will pay, for example, about $40 per month more on a home loan of $400,000,’ the Washington Times reported this week. ‘Homebuyers who make down payments of 15% to 20% will get socked with the largest fees.’

“…

“It’s difficult to understate the perverse incentives this act of bribery will encourage. You’ve spent your adult life borrowing responsibly and paying your bills on time. You’ve saved for years to acquire enough money for a down payment on a home that approaches the rate at which you can avoid a Federal Housing Administration–subsidized loan and the premium it imposes on your mortgage insurance. For all your diligence and hard work, the Biden administration will now punish you only so that consumers who were not similarly conscientious can have access to better mortgage rates and lower down payments. Knowing that, why on Earth would you devote yourself to an unrewarding enterprise like thrift when someone, somewhere will foot your bill regardless?”

     The Left believes those who are well off only got their because they were privileged by systems of oppression, and thus must be punished in order to achieve “equity”… not “equity” as it owning your home and being above water on your loan, but the “equity” that requires inequality of treatment and of results.

     It’s the “equity” argument to lift those at the bottom at the expense of those at the top, which will inevitably fail.

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The Memory Hole Comes For Jeeves And Wooster

     So-called “sensitivity” readers have rewritten various authors from Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, R.L. Stine, and even myriad fairy tales! Now, they are “modernizing” P.G. Wodehouse’s “Jeeves and Wooster” stories to they don’t offend modern snowflakes.

“Jeeves and Wooster books have been rewritten to remove prose by PG Wodehouse deemed “unacceptable” by publishers, the Telegraph can reveal.

“Original passages in the comic novels have been purged or reworked for new editions issued by Penguin Random House.

“Trigger warnings have also been added to revised editions telling would-be Wodehouse readers that his themes and characters may be ‘outdated’.

“One warning states that the writer’s prose has been altered because it was judged to be ‘unacceptable’ by Penguin, a publishing house which enlists the services of sensitivity readers.

“The disclaimer printed on the opening pages of the 2023 reissue of Thank you, Jeeves states:   ‘Please be aware that this book was published in the 1930s and contains language, themes and characterisations which you may find outdated.

“‘In the present edition we have sought to edit, minimally, words that we regard as unacceptable to present-day readers.’”

“Jeeves, what is a ‘cis-het’ and why does that make me an ‘oppressor’.”

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Leviathan Is Kidnapping Children In Order To Mutilate Them

     Four years ago I warned that Leviathan (i.e. the government) is coming to transgender your children. Now, two states—Washington and California—are in the process of authorizing the government to effectively kidnap your child in order to “transition” them with the euphemistic “gender affirming care” (i.e. sterilization and bodily mutilation).

Pictured: “Gender Affirming Care” Providers in Washington and California.

     Washington state requires that youth shelters to report a child’s whereabouts to the parents or legal guardians unless there is reason to believe that the child will be abused or neglected… but not the shelters may refuse to contact the parent if the child is being transitioned… even if there is no reasonable fear of abuse or neglect. SB 5599 reads, in part:

(b) “Promptly report” means to report within eight hours after the person has knowledge that the minor is away from a lawfully prescribed residence or home without parental permission.

(c) “Compelling reasons” include, but are not limited to

(i) Circumstances that indicate that notifying the parent or legal guardian will subject the minor to abuse or neglect as defined in RCW 26.44.020; or

(ii) When a minor is seeking or receiving protected health care services.

(d) “Protected health care services” means gender affirming treatment as defined in RCW 74.09.675 and reproductive health care services as defined in RCW 74.09.875.10

     The child may even be placed in a host home where they can be groomed in private.

(A) “Host home” means a private home that volunteers to 1host youth in need of temporary placement that is associated with a host home program.

(B) “Host home program” is a program that provides support to individual host homes and meets the requirements of (o)(i) of this subsection.

(C) “Compelling reason” means the youth is in the host home or seeking placement in a host home while seeking or receiving protected health care services.

(D) “Protected health care services” means gender affirming 10treatment as defined in RCW 74.09.675

     Not to be outdone, the state of California is removing limits as well. Currently a child age 12 or over can only consent without parental permission to “mental health treatment or counseling on an outpatient basis, or to residential shelter services” if “The minor (A) would present a danger of serious physical or mental harm to self or to others without the mental health treatment or counseling or residential shelter services, or (B) is the alleged victim of incest or child abuse.” California AB 665 would remove that requirement and further allow the groomed child to effectively veto parental involvement.

     The California bill is broader than Washington’s because it isn’t just limited to “gender affirming care”, but allows this to happen for whatever reason the state or child deems appropriate without parents even being notified.

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News of the Week (April 23rd, 2023)

 

News of the Week for April 23rd, 2023


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Right To Work In North Carolina

     Michigan reversed it’s Right to Work law recently. But North Carolina is poised to reverse this on a Constitutional level with H614.

Article I of the North Carolina Constitution is amended by adding a new section to read:

“Sec. 39. Right to work.

(1) The right to live includes the right to work. The exercise of the right to work must be protected and maintained free from undue restraints and coercion. It is hereby declared to be the public policy of North Carolina that the right of persons to work shall not be denied or abridged on account of membership or nonmembership, or payment or non-payment, in a labor organization.

(2) No person shall be required by an employer to become or remain a member of a labor organization as a condition of employment or continuation of employment with the employer.

(3) No person shall be required by an employer to abstain or refrain from membership in any labor organization as a condition of employment or continued employment.

(4) No employer shall require any person, as a condition of employment or continued employment, to pay to a labor organization any dues, fees, or other charges of any kind.

(5) This section does not apply to any lawful contract in force on the effective date but shall apply in all respects to contracts entered into thereafter and to any renewal or extension of any existing contract.

(6) The term “labor organization” as used in this section means any trade union, labor union, or other labor association.”

     As much as we can celebrate the expansion of the Right to Work, we must be vigilant against its contraction.

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Transgender “Gotcha” Question Long Since Answered

Death, Rx

     Matt Walsh, who has recently made the documentary “What is a Woman”, tried to ask a “gotcha” question, specifically how a transgender EMT would respond to a patient with a patient who claims he’s having a miscarriage.

     Sadly, this isn’t a “gotcha” question because the answer in many places is that they’d treat a transgener individual as the gender they identify with and tests/treatments associated with their identified gender.

“The NHS seems to think that someone without a cervix ought to be invited for a cervical exam while someone with a cervix ought not to be invited to have one, because not doing this would hurt a “trans person’s” human rights by not pretending that a female who calls herself a male is still a female or that a male who calls himself a female is still a male.”

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Electric Equity: …To Each According To Their Electricity Consumption

     California is implementing the Marxist idea of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”… when it comes to electricity. Specifically poor people will have their electricity subsidized directly from middle and upper class electricity users.

“Customers for California’s three major power companies — including PG&E ratepayers — can expect to see some big changes in their monthly electricity bills in the coming years as compliance with a new state law begins to unfold.

“PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric, the three major California utilities whose services include electricity, have filed a joint proposal with the state Public Utilities Commission that sketches out proposed changes in monthly bills.

“At present, those bills are primarily based on how much electricity and gas customers consume.

“A new proposal would add a fixed monthly charge that would be based on the household income levels of the respective customers.

“The tradeoff: The three utilities are proposing a reduction of 33% in electricity rates, which means it’s possible that segment of the bill could be less expensive.”

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News of the Week (April 16th, 2023)

 

News of the Week for April 16th, 2023


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