Gun Free Zone

Netflix has produced its own version of The Baby-sitter Club as an original series.  It’s new for 2020, so it has to be woke as shit.

This was a preview posted on Twitter:

When Bailey comes down with a fever, Mary Anne rushes her to the hospital, where two doctors misgender her. Mary Anne firmly corrects them.

Misgendering is traumatic. This is one of the baseline ways cisgender people can show up for the trans people in their life pic.twitter.com/EyrenC5QDK

— Netflix (@netflix) July 23, 2020

Oh for fuck’s sake.

I have covered this before, a few times.

I don’t care how you want to dress or look.  We live in a free society.

I will say I reserve that mostly for adults and that I am skeptical of trans-children.  It seems that there is too much outside pressure and influence on kids and transgenderism is being overdiagnosed for political reasons.

What I have no tolerance for is woke transgenderism destroying medicine.

The Left destroys everything it touches, including science, and watching it destroy modern medicine is evil.

Baily here is a boy.  Anatomically, physically, he’s a boy.  His chart is right.  His doctor is right to consider him as a boy.  God forbid what happens to him if he becomes an adult transwoman and his chart says “female.”  Worse is what happens to women who become trans-men.

For non-binary musician Rae Spoon, a cervical cancer diagnosis came with an extra dimension of anxiety

But for non-binary musician Rae Spoon, the diagnosis has stirred up another layer of complication.  Spoon, who uses the singular they pronoun, had been in the middle of cancelling flights for a planned tour of the U.K., Canada and Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic when they received a phone call from their doctor saying Spoon had tested positive for cervical cancer.

But the diagnosis was another “shock” altogether, and one that’s been made difficult because cervical cancer is what Spoon calls a “gendered cancer.”

“All of the information I looked up … it’s very hard to find any resources that don’t involve gendering the person who has cervical cancer as a woman,” they said.

We can’t treat women with cervical cancer compassionately anymore because of the exceedingly rare event that someone who doesn’t identify as a woman gets it.

So what happens when Baily comes down with any number of issues that manifest themselves differently in men or are exclusive to males?

If you want to understand just how horrible this is, this is a recent article from the CBC:

Women and science suffer when medical research doesn’t study females
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Medical science has a deadly historical bias problem: until very recently, most studies only included males

Examples abound, said Tannenbaum. “When females are excluded from drug development research, the medications that are developed can result in side effects and even lethal toxicity that affects women and not men.”

This isn’t just about including female subjects into account. There are also important implications for who is doing the research. Analysis has shown that unless female researchers are directing scientific investigations, then the content of the research is less likely to take female biological sex into consideration.

So a doctor can be in a horrible situation where they either give too much or too little medication because the patient’s chart gender doesn’t reflect their biological sex.

In 2015, Mogil showed how males and females use completely different cell types to process pain in the spinal cord.

This has major implications for drug development because if scientists develop a new pain analgesic by trying to manipulate one or another of those cells, then it might not work on half the population. 

I guess it is going to suck for the trans person who gets an anesthetic that doesn’t work because the doctor has to go by the woke rules of gender.

The cognitive dissonance here is killing me.  We can’t recognize that there are real medical effects that are different in men and women, so more medical studies need to be conducted on women to improve medical outcomes, and accept that man and woman are just ways a person can identify are just societal constructs.

I’d also like to point out that someone needs to tell Bialy that there are no pink hospital gowns and that if wearing a blue one is causing trauma, he’s going to need a lot of therapy to fix what is wrong with him.

There are actual reasons why medical gowns and scrubs are blue or green.  Amongst them is that they are opposite to red on the color wheel so blood stands out on them.  A pink gown will hide dilute blood, a blue gown shows it off and alerts the doctor the patient is bleeding.

It has nothing to do with the gender of the patient.

Also, empowering a 12-year-old to lecture a doctor is… Jesus…

Honestly, I’d have loved to see the doctor say “after four years of college, six years of medical school, and twenty years of practice, you can shut the fuck up, I have underwear that are older than you.”

That wasn’t the only Tweet on this:

Mary Anne’s friend Dawn gives a thoughtful, educational, and compassionate explanation of trans identity — duh, she’s “from California.” This simple breakdown gives the show’s young viewers a powerful tool to shape their worldview. Maybe the children really are our future pic.twitter.com/zb0pJ4JJsP

— Netflix (@netflix) July 23, 2020

No, actually, gender identity is not like hand preference at all.  We have a good idea of what causes hand preference and that it is genetic.  Gender identity, the secondary sex characteristics they publicly express, very different than hand preference.

My mother-in-law is left-handed.  When my son was little he held his fork in his left hand so we thought he might be left-handed too.  As he got older and started to draw it became clear that he was a normal right-handed person like his parents and not sinister like his grandmother.

My mother used to be left-handed, but the nuns as her Catholic school beat that out of her with a ruler.  She went on to win penmanship awards with her right hand, so in fact, that can be changed.

Not to mention, people generally do not suffer disphoria because they are left-handed and want to be right-handed, or vice versa.

Lastly, what does it mean that she knows this because she’s from California?  Her education is shit because they fill her head with woke garbage and not facts?  Or that the writers in California think they are better than the rest of us?  Probably they mean the latter but it’s definitely for the former.

Now, I’m not going to cancel my subscription to Netflix, because there is so much good stuff on it.  But I’m not going to show this shit to my kids.

Who I really feel bad for are the teens who think they are trans and think that they should lie to their doctors about their genders instead of being responsible.

Left-wing activists bring a stack of Bibles to burn in front of the federal courthouse in Portland. pic.twitter.com/lYWY0x8n8P

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 1, 2020

It is disgusting, but also a protected right under the First Amendment.
Of course, if they want to impress me, they will have to do the same with a stack Qurans.

Waiting.

I better grab me a comfy chair.

From the Hartford Herald (Ky) November 18, 1914.

I knew that the Klan assholes would also be known as Regulators and Knight Riders, but I had never heard about Possum Hunters before. Nice to know that they would inflict come to your property and inflict violence if you were not thinking the way they said it was the correct one. Sounds so familiar, doesn’t it? Let’s continue:

“Hey! They had guns and would not allow us to do what we wanted! NOT FAIR!”

There is a reason why Gun Control was one of the most important things Jim Crow laws achieved. The ability of flagellate and kill people without fear of losing blood or life was outmost for the keeping of power.

And as an extra, same newspaper issue:

It still happens, but it is rare to see an investigation, much less indictments for the same thing.

Blind squirrels and broken clocks and all that…

Violent protesters lighting fires and using violence in Portland should wear @realDonaldTrump buttons. That is who they are helping.Progressives in Portland need to call them out, including the Mayor. ReTweet please. Don’t allow violent people help @realDonaldTrump

— Lanny Davis (@LannyDavis) July 27, 2020

Yup.

From The Hill:

Poll: Majority say they are concerned about rising crime in US cities

A majority of Americans say they are concerned about rising crime in U.S. cities, according to a new Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released exclusively to The Hill on Monday.

Seventy-seven percent of respondents say they are concerned that crime is rising in the nation’s cities, while 46 percent of respondents said they were concerned about rising crime in their own communities.

“At the same time they see an increase of violence and crime and are concerned that prosecutors are not prosecuting the crimes — they blame the protests and the high unemployment when asked what is responsible for the spike in violence,” said Harvard CAPS/Harris polling director Mark Penn. “They also single out social media for being used to coordinate violence and in their view not doing much to curb it.”

Seventy-seven percent of people polled.  Keep in mind that these polls are usually Democrat-heavy, so it’s probably higher than that in reality.

Blue cities run exclusively by Democrats are being overrun with riots and seeing the biggest spikes in violent crime.

It is Leftist activists and Democrats on social media who are egging on the protests.

The more mayors like Wheeler, Durkan, de Blasio, and Lightfoot let their cities go to shit, live on national TV, the worse it makes the Democrats look.

All Trump needs to do is stick the landing.  The Democrats are handing him a victory on this, please, dear God, don’t let him fuck that up.

From The AP:

Prosecutor: No charges for officer in Michael Brown’s death

St. Louis County’s prosecutor announced Thursday that he will not charge the former police officer who fatally shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, a dramatic decision that could reopen old wounds amid a renewed and intense national conversation about racial injustice and the police treatment of people of color.

Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell’s decision marked the third time prosecutors investigated and opted not to charge Darren Wilson, the white officer who fatally shot Brown, a Black 18-year-old, on Aug. 9, 2014. A St. Louis County grand jury declined to indict Wilson in November 2014, and the U.S. Department of Justice also declined to charge him in March 2015.

This officer has been investigated, charged, and failed to be indicted by a grand jury three times.  The third time in the middle of the BLM zeitgeist.

I think it’s safe to say, he didn’t murder Michael Brown and that the shoot was justified.

Civil rights leaders and Brown’s parents had hoped that Bell, the county’s first Black prosecutor who took office in January 2019, would see things differently.

“My heart breaks” for Brown’s parents, a somber Bell said during a news conference. “I know this is not the result they were looking for and that their pain will continue forever.”

What is up with St. Louis and transparently biased prosecutors?

“The question for this office was a simple one: Could we prove beyond a reasonable doubt that when Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown he committed murder or manslaughter under Missouri law? After an independent and in-depth review of the evidence, we cannot prove that he did,” Bell said.

But, he said, “our investigation does not exonerate Darren Wilson.”

The state and federal government failed to convince a grand jury that Wilson did something bad, three times.  Three times.  THREE FUCKING TIMES NO INDICTMENT.

Brittany Packnett Cunningham, a Ferguson protester and educator who has become a national voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, said she is pained “that there is still a gaping wound” for Brown’s family. She said she knows that the system must change.

The Rev. Darryl Gray, a leading St. Louis activist, agreed that the system is at fault, not Bell’s investigation.

Scott Roberts, senior director of criminal justice campaigns at Color Of Change, a national racial justice organization, said in a statement that Bell’s announcement “perpetuates a criminal justice system that fails Black communities by allowing police to operate with impunity.”

It can’t be that it was a good shoot.  Nope.  It’s the system.

In the midst of all the other social unrest, this is just going to add to it.

Brace for more riots.

Anybody who knows about how the Chinese train their Olympians knows that this is how China creates all of it’s professional athletes.

The thing to note is how blindsided the NBA was that this would be released.  They knew.  Of course they knew.  The just didn’t think ESPN would say it out loud.

It’s  perfectly clear that social justice isn’t about caring about the oppressed.

It’s hard core anti-American Leftism.

Millionaires and billionaires who plan in and own NBA franchises spend so much time criticizing Americans but don’t say a peep about China where they make their money because they are not going to criticize the Chinese Communist Party and risk the loss in income.

These people hate you and are moral cowards.

I want to run for Congress.  It’s time that we impose a 99.9% corporate income tax on pro sports and stop protecting their trademarks.

Also, if these people care so much about slavery that they want to take down statues of Washington and Jefferson because they owned slaves, it’s time the  government impound all good manufactured by slaves overseas.

Every pair of Nikes and piece of Chinese made NBA merchandise should be seized at the docks and impounded.

We can’t have American companies supporting slavery.

If they want social justice and virtue signaling while  siding with the CCP, they should pay for it.

From October 1914 and WWI was just getting started.

This was one tidbit of information I did not know.  I even found a photo of a colorized postcard depicting a team of dogs with what appears to be a Maxim in tow.

And a bit of search turned out this:

The dogs used to pull the machine guns were Belgian Mastiffs, this strong breed were more than capable of drawing the 60lbs weight of a Maxim gun.  At the time it was not uncommon for dogs to be used as pack animals in Belgium as they offered an efficient and economical alternative to expensive horses.
The dogs were able to pull the machine gun carriages that also carried some of the gun’s ammunition, weighing up to 200lbs, for long distances. They were quite capable of keeping up a 4 or 5 mile per hour pace over a long distance on a good road.  The relatively cheap cost of pack dogs compared to horses, along with their relative lack of maintenance – with no need for horse shoes etc, made the dogs an excellent option.  They also offered a much lower profile than that of a pack horse, allowing them to stay close to the guns ready to move under cover when in action, and were much easier to handle without the need for specially trained troops.

Historical firearms – BELGIAN MACHINE GUN DOGS

And that is one more thing I know.  Interesting, but WWI changed how warfare was fought in so many way, we are bound to find strange things to our modern understanding.