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June 24, 2023

Is Pride Month starting to lose its way?

The Central Issue of our Time?

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There have been some notable developments this week with regard to the World of LGBTQ+. I can't include everything here, but you doubtless remember some of them.

I think that maybe the most momentous has been that Men's Health declared that "If You're a Man Attracted to Women, You're a Part of the Gay Rainbow Now, Too."

As far as I can tell, this leaves straight women as the only people outside the LGBTQ+ "Community". Well, maybe some TERF lesbians who won't have sex with women who have penises will also be exiled.

When they said that this movement was about erasing women, they seem to have been right!

Then there's this: Why lesbians should sleep with men. I'm so confused.

The "community" may be blowing through its goodwill


James Lindsay:

Deliberate provocations are deliberately provocative. But they've burned through almost all of the goodwill of the people.

Some of the Armenians, Hispanics and Muslims seem to have had enough.

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More on deliberate provocations: The Bible is back on school library shelves in Davis County, Utah.

Addressing the school board, Davis School District's Assistant Superintendent of Teaching and Learning Logan Toone said some have thought the Bible's content was deemed to violate the "bright line" rule.

"That's not accurate," he said.

The review committee found that it was age appropriate for high school only, a decision that was "almost immediately" appealed, he said.

"The reconsideration of the Bible today is not an exception to our policy. It is a direct application of our policy as it's written. It's important to note that because of concerns that would exist if we all of a sudden started to create exceptions for specific books that we like or that align with our personal religious perspectives or something like that," he said.

The original review process included several violations of procedure.

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Special privileges of the LGBTQ+ elite:

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Powerline's Ammo Grrrll has SOME THOUGHTS ON PERPETUAL INDULGENCE:

We have had just about all the Indulgence that a civil society can stand. I have lived long and prospered, but I never could have imagined hearing an elected official say that we needed to allow "Room to riot." I never believed that I would see an incurious news-head standing in front of a conflagration and calling it a "mostly peaceful protest."

In the service of the flawed concept of "Equity," racial hucksters noted that ONE group was scoring very high in the commission of crimes. Way back in the early '80s in Oakland, the news-dispensers decreed that they would no longer print or say the race of the perpetrator of crimes. EVEN when they were looking for a perp on the loose! Why? Well, because it might give a "wrong" racist impression. Evidently they couldn't get enough white people to step up to even the stats. And so began the Indulgent Insanity. But even that was not enough to keep folks from getting that "impression."

And it came to pass that if black criminals turn out to be way out of proportion to their numbers in the general population, then the obvious answer is simply to declare that MANY categories of crimes will no longer be crimes! Drugs? Legalize 'em! Shoplifting? Help yourself! Carjacking? You better not even THINK of trying to defend against it. YOU will be the one whose life is ruined. Looting? Bring the kiddies! Don't worry that you are ON CAMERA! Hey, what's a few Huggies and an Air Fryer to The Man? He's got insurance.

Did Society think that turning a blind eye to crime was going to work out well - and especially well for black people? Did people not realize that once you slide down that "Equity" slope, you find yourself on a luge headed for Hell?

What about the abysmal gap in high school graduation rates? Let's just graduate EVERYBODY. Studying is for suckers. Let everybody take exams as many times as it takes - until they "pass." Turning homework in on time, even DOING homework, is so "white" it is in and of itself racist. To get into college, why, we won't have any racist testing at all!

My heart weeps for the Dr. Kings, the Thomas Sowells of this country, and non-genius "regular folks" who just try to raise decent kids, send them to decent schools, enforce a few rules and turn them into men instead of incarcerated or dead losers.

As a Jew, I cannot imagine turning on the television every day and seeing one Jewish gang (The Blood Libels?) vs. another gang (The Crypts?) of promising Jewish young men routinely shooting up weddings, funerals, baby showers, holiday celebrations and each other in truly horrific numbers. Plus a few stray shots into baby carriages, houses with little girls doing homework at a kitchen table, and the like.

At the same time as deviancy is defined downward, and we have decriminalized all but the most egregious crimes for black people -- blowing through a stop sign, going 100 mph, and vaporizing five young ladies is spun by a prominent black woman spokes-disgrace as "a tragic accident" -- we have CRIMINALIZED the most innocent of male sexual advances necessary for the continuation of the species. Lookin' at YOU, #MeToo grifters.

You better not look for over 5 seconds at a female co-worker in some companies. You better not ask for a date more than once if the woman says she "has other plans" the first time. That is STALKING, you toxic male. There are no Statutes of Limitation, no "innocent until proven guilty" on anything a woman accuses you of, unless you are a Hollywood mogul or Democrat. (But I repeat myself.)

Perpetual Indulgence. It doesn't work with raising kids and it doesn't work with preserving any semblance of freedom and justice in a country that has lost its way. It's way past time for a course correction. May the time not be distant.

The reference is to a different Dr. King than you are thinking of.

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Weekend

Steven Hayward:

THE WEEK IN PICTURES: TRANS-BIDEN EDITION?

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Light weekend reading, a sign of hope:

In the U.K., government officials finally discuss openly the problems with gender ideology.

It appears that no government officials were arrested for their words, and no constituents committed suicide because of the discussion.

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Music

Alexander's Ragtime Band, h/t Bird Dog at Maggie's Farm

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Here's one for Buck Throckmorton:

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Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.

This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.

Serving your mid-day open thread needs


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Last week's thread, June 17, Thinking about getting Dad season tickets to some sport?

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