Jul262022

Episode 574 – A Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day

Even crazy people can be right sometimes.

Gavin Newsom decides to push crazy laws to make himself relevant.

And Joe Biden gets smacked down by the courts.

 

Wise Words from a Nut

I do not like Noam Chomsky. He stands for everything I hate. He is an anti-capitalist, anti imperialist (though I don’t think he knows what that means), a libertarian socialist (what does that mean?) and supports anarcho-syndicalism (supports anarchy but anarchy should have unions, What?).

But he does believe in free speech. He does believe in free press, debate and truth (though his truth is a little suspect). I have read a couple of his books and they are very full of crap and boring. He said this about America when he was talking to Russell Brand last week:

Some things:

  • This guy believes that the Soviet Union has a better political and economic system than we do.
  • This guy hates the Constitution.
  • He hates the United States.
  • The United States is still not as bad as the Soviet Union.
  • I will agree with him on one thing, we are getting there.
  • We are not hearing everything.
    • Ukraine are not the angels the media, including Fox News, makes them out to be.
    • Cuba, Hong Kong, Venezuela: we hear nothing about anymore.
    • No one is talking about the evils of China.
    • The Biden administration wants to change the definition of what a recession is.

This is how we go from a free country to a totalitarian country. It’s rarely fast. It’s slow. Little things are taken away. They’re chipped away. We see that with speech. With gun rights. With religion.  We are encouraged to depend on the government. If we don’t comply, we could lose our jobs, our money, our families, even our freedom. We can go to jail.

We are not there yet. Well, not quite there yet. Canada is.

 

Speaking of a Tyrant

According to Fox News:

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a gun control bill into law that will allow private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, sells, transports or distributes illegal “assault weapons and ghost guns.”

The measure was crafted in response to last year’s Texas abortion ban that prohibits the procedure once a heartbeat was detected and allows private citizens to sue physicians, drivers or anyone else who aids a woman in receiving an abortion for $10,000.

The California gun law would grant $10,000 in damages per weapon to private citizens who sue. Citizens could also be awarded the same amount if they file a lawsuit against someone who illegally sells firearms to people under 21 years of age.

Gavin Newsom is going to get a little crazy now. He is going to try to pass things that are going to be extreme. That’s because he is eyeing higher office like President or Vice President. He seems to forget we have tried to kick him out of office a year ago because he is doing such a terrible job. In fact, he got emboldened by surviving the recall election. He’s got to make a name for himself. That’s why he’s attacking Abbott. That’s why he’s attacking DeSantis. Those are the best governors in the country and he needs to be in the same conversation as these governors to have a chance at higher office.

Of course, he’s not going to show he’s a great governor through his policies. California is a mess.

Anyway, this is unconstitutional and not even logical. It is going to be overruled. No other industry can get sued for their product working correctly. That’s like me suing Ford for a drunk driver driving a Ford hitting me.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/newsom-signs-gun-control-bill-modeled-texas-abortion-law

 

And They Wonder Why They are Going to Lose in November

According to Fox News:

A federal judge has blocked a directive from President Joe Biden’s administration that allowed transgender workers and students to use school restrooms matching their gender identities. 

It also allowed transgender athletes to join sports teams corresponding with their chosen genders.

The directive was blocked by Judge Charles Atchley Jr. of the Eastern District of Tennessee, a Trump appointee, after a coalition of 20 Republican attorneys general sued last year, Reuters reported.

The plaintiffs argued the federal directive clashed with state laws and prevented states from enforcing their own laws that banned transgender school bathroom use.

That is all true. If a state wants to make it that restrooms are available only to the actual sex of the individual than they should do it. I’m sorry but that stuff should be uncontroversial. But, the Biden administration continues to push this crap and I think it could have some serious unintended consequences. There could be a real pushback from some of the Conservative states.

An example may be gay marriage. The ruling in 2015, Obergefell versus Hodges, used the same arguments as Roe versus Wade. It said that gay people had a right to privacy based on the 14th Amendment. The Supreme Court said there was no such right in the 14th Amendment (and there isn’t). That makes Obergefell a bad precedent and a lot of Constitutional scholars have stated this already.

Now, I don’t think anyone is going to overturn gay marriage. The Supreme Court doesn’t have the stomach for it and, honestly, gay marriage just isn’t that much of a controversy unlike abortion. Most Conservatives have a live-and-let-live attitude about it. But Conservatives are finally using the court system, just like the Left did to push their agendas, and this could come to a fight that the Biden administration is spurring on.

Speaking of not knowing that having a penis makes you a man, Lia Thomas has been nominated as the NCAA’s Woman Athlete of the Year. He’s the man that ranked 400th in the NCAA as a man in swimming then decided to be a women and was one of the top ranked females.

Good news, women are beginning to speak up about this.

Another woman who was nominated, Riley Gaines from the University of Kentucky, said:

“Being the real girl in that photo and also University of Kentucky’s nominee for NCAA WOTY, this is yet another slap in the face to women. First a female national title and now nominated for the pinnacle award in collegiate athletics. The @NCAA has made this award worthless.

“This award combines athletic performance with academics, service, and character. What character has Thomas shown other than sheer selfishness and entitlement? The disrespect and disregard for the other female athletes in Thomas’ interviews is eye opening.”

She lost to Thomas in the 200-meter final.

I hope Thomas wins the award. The pushback will be amazing.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/riley-gaines-kentucky-nomiation-lia-thomas-ncaa-woman-of-year
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-biden-admin-transgender-school-bathroom-athletes

 

This Isn’t Science

From the College Fix:

As soon as ancient human remains are excavated, archaeologists begin the work of determining a number of traits about the individual, including age, race and gender.

But a new school of thought within archaeology is pushing scientists to think twice about assigning gender to ancient human remains.

It is possible to determine whether a skeleton is from a biological male or female using objective observations based on the size and shape of the bones. Criminal forensic detectives, for example, do it frequently in their line of work.

But gender activists argue scientists cannot know how an ancient individual identified themselves.

Yeah, I’m not kidding. It gets better. Continuing with the article:

“You might know the argument that the archaeologists who find your bones one day will assign you the same gender as you had at birth, so regardless of whether you transition, you can’t escape your assigned sex,” tweeted Canadian Master’s degree candidate Emma Palladino last week.

Palladino, who is seeking an advanced degree in archaeology, called assigning gender to an ancient human “bullshit.”

“Labelling remains ‘male’ or ‘female’ is rarely the end goal of any excavation, anyway,” wrote Palladino. “The ‘bioarchaeology of the individual’ is what we aim for, factoring in absolutely everything we discover about a person into a nuanced and open-ended biography of their life.”

I gotta say, this well thought out analysis tells me she probably shouldn’t get that doctorate.

The article continues:

She is not alone. Gender activists have formed a group called the Trans Doe Task Force to “explore ways in which current standards in forensic human identification do a disservice to people who do not clearly fit the gender binary.”

“We propose a gender-expansive approach to human identification by combing missing and unidentified databases looking for contextual clues such as decedents wearing clothing culturally coded to a gender other than their assigned sex,” the group’s mission statement reads.

“We maintain our own database of missing and unidentified people who we have determined may be Transgender or gender-variant, as most current database systems do not permit comparison of missing to unidentified across different binary sex categories,” the group writes.

Let me let you in on something: anyone who needs an archeologist to identify him or her probably “identified” as the sex they were. You know why? Because identity wasn’t a thing. Their main goal in life was to eat, not get eaten and reproduce. You know, survive.

This February, University of Kansas Associate Professor Jennifer Raff published “Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas,” in which she argued that there are “no neat divisions between physically or genetically ‘male’ or ‘female’ individuals.”

Raff (pictured) suggested scientists cannot know the gender of a 9,000 year-old biologically female Peruvian hunter because they don’t know whether the hunter identified as male or female – a “duality” concept she says was “imposed by Christian colonizers.”

Raff did not respond to a request from The College Fix to comment.

Some archaeologists push back at the effort to de-gender human remains.

Here’s the problem Leftists have. There are neat divisions. It’s male and female. That’s it. And it has been that way with mammalian life for millions of years.

That is the problem the Left has: science. They are never able to tear apart the big question: we can tell a man from a woman just with bones and DNA. When science gets in the way of the Left, they try to eliminate it. They did this with the “trans” thing. There is no such thing as a trans man or trans woman. A man can never become a woman and vice versa. I refuse to acknowledge the term “trans” because it’s not real.

We need to fight against this ignoring of science.

.https://www.thecollegefix.com/gender-activists-push-to-bar-anthropologists-from-identifying-human-remains-as-male-or-female/