In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
How much has politics in Texas changed over the past fifty years? A lot! Let’s see just what Texas politics was like half a century ago with William F. Buckley, Jr., Frances Farenthod, Beryl Milburn, Ronnie Dugger.
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: For young girls, Abion is perfidious.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Apparently investigating crimes are racist when Pakistani men might be caught and prosecuted… and their victims just young White girls.
“An Asian grooming gang was free to roam the streets and abuse young girls because police officers were told to “find other ethnicities” to investigate, a detective has claimed.
“At least 57 young girls are thought to have been exploited by a paedophile network of around 100 suspected perpetrators based in south Manchester in the 2000s. The gang, mainly comprised of Asian men, hooked their victims on drugs, groomed, and sexually abused them. One girl, aged 15, died after being injected with heroin by a 50-year-old man.”
However, not being White isn’t enough. Sikh girls are also targeted because they weren’t Muslim.
“Gangs of predominantly Pakistani men have been grooming British Sikh girls for decades, according to claims in a bombshell report.
“The study alleges that young Sikh women have been ‘targeted’ by Muslim men who subjected them to sexual abuse.
“The report by the Sikh Mediation and Rehabilitation Team charity found that police ‘recklessly ignored’ complaints – often for reasons of ‘political correctness’.”
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The entire LGBTQ&c. political agenda used the venerable claim to privacy and tolerance, yet is increasingly turning out to be driving and controlled by the nakedest ideological totalitarians. And as most totalitarians need a symbol of their power over you, so the LGBTQ&c. Nomenklatura use the so-called “pride flag” as a symbol of their dominance.
Ernst Röhm was ahead of his time.
The state as co-parent or even primary parent of a child is a concept that isn’t unknown to the West. But is is but fascinating when Western parents praise Communist China for making their children subservient and obedient… superficially to them but ultimately to Leviathan. After all, what kind of person would unabashedly say “I had to accept that my growing belly had become community property”?
“We weighed the pros of the Chinese route (our girls would learn fluent Mandarin and, hopefully, a broadened worldview) and the cons (exposure to Communist Party propaganda and potential social isolation of being foreigners in a group of Chinese students). We took the plunge.”
Meh, what’s a little Commie indoctrination, after all?
“Our stringent government co-parent quickly made its presence felt. The girls’ Chinese kindergarten lectured on us everything, including how many hours our daughters should sleep, what they should eat and their optimal weight. Each morning all of the students performed calisthenics in straight rows and raised China’s red flag while singing the national anthem. Classroom windows were usually kept open to increase air circulation and prevent contamination by airborne illnesses, even during winter, when the kids would attend class wearing their coats.
“We sometimes felt as if our children were on loan to us for evenings and weekends, to be delivered back to school each weekday.”
And how they loved that their little tykes were Leviathan’s Children.
“Over time, the benefits kicked in. Constantly served up moral, history and culture lessons on pulling together for the sake of the Chinese nation, our girls came home discussing self-discipline, integrity and respect for elders.”
And, of course, the parents praised their Commie overlords.
News of the Week for Jan. 29th, 2023
My apologies! Recent real life stuff and responsibilities have unfortunately curtailed posting as of late. I’ll try to adjust and try to post a bit more regularly.
As an apology, here is a live kitten cam.
Colleges and universities have become the fountainhead of wokeness that is increasingly poisoning society. Not just in the classrooms, but it is also the administrations of these colleges and universities which have turned their entire institutions towards the singular goal of wokeness. The Manhattan Institute, via Christopher Rufo, Ilya Shapiro, and Matt Beienburg, have introduced model legislation to stop public colleges and universities from existing to spread wokeness through “Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity” offices and training.
There is a lot that state legislatures can do to reverse the illiberal takeover of higher education through Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI) offices that, ironically, stifle intellectual diversity, prevent equal opportunity, and exclude anyone who dissents from a rigid orthodoxy. Here are four proposals for reforming public universities:
Abolish DEI bureaucracies.
End mandatory diversity training.
Curtail political coercion.
End identity-based preferences.
News of the Week for Jan. 22nd, 2023
In the hopes of encouraging a more civil, and illuminating, discourse, here is another episode of William F. Buckley, Jr.’s “Firing Line”.
Journalists acting as if they are a special protected class or simply better than others is nothing new, as is the actual protection from “shield” laws the allow journalists to refuse to testify in court to protect sources. William F. Buckley, Jr. discusses just how much protection for the press there ought to be with Charles Rembar and C. Dickerman Williams.
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: Live in the pod while paying reparations Gaia, complete with lawyer’s expenses.
First, a little mood music:
Carrying on…
Mother Nature thinks they’ve missed the point…[/caption]
Your purported better know where you ought to live, and they are looking at empty low-density states to build their utopian cities.
“The beginnings of a new, sustainable city in the American desert could emerge within just eight years, according to billionaire Marc Lore, founder of Diapers.com and Jet.com, and others working on the Telosa project.
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“‘Despite capitalism and all its strengths, and the great material progress we’ve made, it’s not perfect,’ he said. ‘So we thought about: Is there another way?’
“Scandinavian countries such as Denmark fund their extensive social services through taxes, Lore said. The full tax rate for an individual in Denmark is 52%, though the effective tax rate is lower in most cases due to deductions.”
Of course this will be post-capitalism.
And of course it will be one of those “walkable” cities dense urban hellhole lovers wax poetic about.
“Telosa will have 36 districts, each of which is envisioned as a ‘15-minute city’: It will take residents of each district no more than a 15-minute walk or a shorter bike ride to reach their daily needs, including offices and living spaces.”
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