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It's Not The LGBTQWERTY, It's The Paganism

K T Cat
5/3/2024 2:52:06 PM

 Dig this.AbstractWith the growing acceptance of transgender individuals, the number of gender affirmation surgeries has increased. Transgender individuals face elevated depression rates, leading to an increase in suicide ideation and attempts. This study evaluates the risk of suicide or self-harm associated with gender affirmation procedures...ResultsIndividuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). Compared to the tubal ligation/vasectomy controls, the risk was 5.03-fold higher before propensity matching and remained significant at 4.71-fold after matching (3.50% vs. 0.74%, RR 95% CI 2.46-9.024,[...]

Arresting Hamas Cotton Candy

K T Cat
5/2/2024 7:00:00 AM

 See if you can derive the production process implicit in this video.  School faculty at Fordham University is linking arms to guard the encampment. Just look at them. It really says it all. pic.twitter.com/XSK8URopEc End Wokeness (EndWokeness) May 1, 2024   Here's what I've got.End product: radicalized students who are protesting in favor of a genocidal, antisemitic group who recently committed atrocities on a massive scale.Somehow, the students got to the point where paragliding into a music festival to gang rape women and murder men is acceptable* because the victims were Jews. What led to this?We don't have any data suggesting that the American adult population has a large number of Nazis in it. Our[...]

Colombia and Israel break up

Silvio Canto, Jr.
5/3/2024 5:00:00 AM

                Colombia and Israel break up: Down in Colombia, politics is a very tense sport, and the leftist president is looking for distractions.  So he found one in the Gaza conflict, and a big target in Israel.  This is the story:Colombia President Gustavo Petro.  Click to read:              Colombia and Israel break up - American Thinker https://t.co/N8wXOOcZgL Silvio Canto. Jr. (silvio_canto) May 3, 2024

CalPERS Fail

W.C. Varones
8/4/2023 5:59:23 AM
Despite the awesome bull market this year, CalPERS again missed its return target, earning only 5.8% vs. its required 6.8%.CalPERS has missed its return targets for the trailing 1-, 3-, 5-, 15-, and 20-year periods.When CalPERS fails to make its' required returns, California taxpayers are liable for making up the difference for California's uber-generous public pensions.

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Defunding Minneapolis

B-Daddy
6/8/2020 10:05:46 PM

Which would be the result of actually implementing this whole #DefundThePolice nonsense.  To catch you up:From The Guardian:The Minneapolis city council has pledged to disband the citys police department and replace it with a new system of public safety, a historic move that comes as calls to defund law enforcement are sweeping the US.  Speaking at a community rally on Sunday, a veto-proof majority of council members declared their intent to dismantle and abolish the embattled police agency responsible for George Floyds death and build an alternative model of community-led safety. The decision is a direct response to the massive protests that have taken over American cities in the last two weeks, and is a[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

A new law makes it easier to crack down on bike-lane scofflaws. To the man behind it, its a no-brainer for San Diego.

San Diego Assemblymember Chris Ward points out that for all cities are investing in bicycle infrastructure, 'all of that is undercut if people park there' ...

Forbes Best Employers for Diversity Includes San Diego Companies Vertex, Illumina

Major San Diego companies and institutions have been ranked among Forbes Best Employers for Diversity in 2024.

College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults

Looks like many students are not prepared to be adults. The Daily Beast reports. College Students Need Remedial Classes in How to Be Adults Is 18 years enough time to prepare for the stresses of being an adult? For Americas increasingly fragile college studentsthousands of whom are returning to campus in the next two weeksthe []The post College Students Need Classes on How to Be Adults first appeared on College Insurrection.

You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online?

Not a free college degree though Republican-American reports. How to go to Ivy League schools for free online Ivy League schools like Harvard and Yale come with a lot of prestige. But another thing these famous schools are known for are their high tuition costs. Fortunately, with the popularity of open education and technology, there []The post You Can Attend an Ivy League School for Free Online? first appeared on College Insurrection.

Death to America, Long Live the Intifada: NYPD Reveals Signs Recovered at NYU Pro-Hamas Camp 

Mary Chastain

There is some organization behind this movement. The -- the level of organization that we're seeing in both of these campuses here, and at Columbia, leaflets on how to protest, leaflets on how to committed civil disobedience..."The post Death to America, Long Live the Intifada: NYPD Reveals Signs Recovered at NYU Pro-Hamas Camp first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

Temp Injunction Issued for West Virginia Girls Barred From Competition After Refusing to Compete Against Male in Track 

Mary Chastain

The plaintiffs claimed they applied an unwritten rule known as the "scratch rule," which bars students from competing if they voluntarily scratch themselves from an event, in their decision to prevent the girls from competing again.The post Temp Injunction Issued for West Virginia Girls Barred From Competition After Refusing to Compete Against Male in Track first appeared on Legal Insurrection.