RANT: Has anyone ever talked to a child?

Friday, September 22, 2023

https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/09/pediatrician-discharges-mothers-kids-after-she-objects-to-gender-ideology/

Pediatrician Discharges Mother’s Kids After She Objects to Gender Ideology

  • “We will not abandon our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion!”

Posted by Mike LaChance Monday, September 18, 2023 at 08:00am 2 Comments

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    My now-former pediatrician installed on the wall of every exam room a “Safe Zone” rainbow triangle sticker with the words “sexual orientation,” “gender expression,” and “gender identity.” Meticulously placed in front of the exam table and at a child’s eye level, it was the first thing my daughter noticed on the otherwise blank walls. She asked me to read the words and tell her what they meant. She was five years old and just learning to read.

    I told the doctor this was inappropriate sexual content on the wall and there will be no talk of this sticker with my daughter, but when my daughter asked about the sticker again, the doctor told her, “it’s about being inclusive.” This confused my daughter even more.

    After a tense disagreement (in another room) about the politics of the sticker, my doctor agreed that it was reasonable to place younger children in exam rooms without the sticker. But she never placed my children in another room or returned my follow-up calls. Instead, a doctor called me and “invited” me to leave the medical practice. It is illegal to discharge a patient without thirty days’ notice in Rhode Island.

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I like to quote Bill Maher, with whom I sometimes agree and sometimes disagree, when he said: “When I was a kid, I wanted to be a pirate. Thank God, nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and pegleg surgery.” — Bill Maher

Having had the opportunity to be around a young boy, I can attest that he can’t tell the difference between real life and fiction.  He, often talks to his imaginary friends and tells me stories that I KNOW can’t possibly be true.  He has a hard time with time, days of the week, writing the number FIVE.  

And, these cult zealots want to explain sex to that age group.  Might as well try and explain Quantum Physics. 

Just leave the child run out of the debate and in the usually capable hands of their living family,

This type of nonsense, jest makes me boild and rant.  

Sorry but this doctor is in the wrong profession.  He should try preaching.   Probably won’t pay as well though.

Argh!

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GUNS: Protect schools with real resources

Thursday, September 21, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/time_to_get_serious_about_protecting_our_schools.html

Time to Get Serious about Protecting Our Schools
By David Huntwork

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Many years ago, Israel faced waves of terror attacks against soft targets. The Israelis responded by seriously hardening their schools and other more vulnerable locations. Much of that added security was in the form of well armed and well trained personnel specifically designated to deter and defeat the type of threats we are now seeing directed at U.S. schools. What we do not see now is anyone successfully targeting or attacking Israeli schools. There are good reasons for that, and we should not be afraid to learn from the hard lessons of others.

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I remember that when the Israelis hardened their schools, they were reported to be using grandparents as “extra security”.  I remember thinking at the time about how smart that was.  Grandparents would willingly sacrifice themselves for their grandchildren.  And, no one would be more vigilant about “school security” than they would be.

As this article suggest, let’s not put an added burden on police but have a real force who’s mission was singularly focused.

Bring sanity back to society.

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RANT: Close to “getting out of control”!

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

FROM FARK:

Intercepted Russian comms show we were a lot, LOT closer to, “This business will get out of control” than the Brits originally admitted 

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Quoting a movie: “This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we’ll be lucky to live through it.” — The Hunt for Red October (1990) by Admiral Josh Painter played by Fred Dalton Thompson

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https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/russian-pilot-shoot-down-raf-aircraft-2022-missile-bbc-mod-b1106925.html?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

NewsUK

Rogue Russian pilot ‘tried to shoot down RAF aircraft in 2022’

  • A SU-27 fighter fired the missiles at the RAF aircraft / AFP via Getty Images

By Matt Watts

1 day ago (NOTE:  2023-09Sep-14)

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 Russian pilot tried to shoot down an RAF surveillance plane after believing he had permission to fire, it has been claimed.

The pilot fired two missiles, the first of which missed rather than malfunctioned as claimed at the time, the BBC has reported.

Russia had said the incident last September when missiles were fired at the RAF aircraft – with a crew of up to 30 – was caused by a “technical malfunction”.

The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) publicly accepted the Russian explanation.

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How many times are “we” going to tempt fate aka nuclear war with foolhardy actions?

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POLITICAL: Just say “no” to Federal Funds!

Tuesday, September 19, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/why_state_schools_should_refuse_federal_money.html

Why State Schools Should Refuse Federal Money
By Sheri Few

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The key to eliminating federal intervention in government schools is to eliminate federal funding.

The time is right for states to wean themselves off the federal dole. Serious conversations are taking place throughout the country about the legitimate and effective role of the federal government in education. But who has a viable plan to dismantle the behemoth?

The “Blueprint to Establish State Control of Education by Eliminating all Federal Education Dollars,” written by United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) outlines the necessary steps to restore state sovereignty for education policy and practice — and it’s achievable.

The Blueprint explains detailed steps to help governors and state legislators develop and execute a concrete plan, and even provides clear evidence as to how educational outcomes can improve.

States can eliminate federal funding in four steps:

1. Analyze education funds by source: federal, state, and local.

2. Conduct a Cost of Compliance Study for federal funds.

3. Identify state programs to replace USED programs.

4. Shift education revenue responsibilities entirely back to the state.

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One approach to generate required revenue could be to establish a state tax called “offset to federal funds” calculated to collect the amount needed. Since most of the federal tax is collected from income taxes, a replacement tax using the same model might be most easily understood by the public.

To keep from sending the federal government the money they previously took and gave back, taxpayers would need a mechanism to deduct this offset from their individual federal taxes. Since the state and local tax deductions were eliminated in the last major tax bill, a special arrangement would have to be made. However, there is benefit to the federal government in this arrangement as the savings from program improvements would be shared with them, since only the replacement funding is deducted.

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Like the mouse that doesn’t understand “free cheese”, so to “We, The Sheeple” need to just say “no” to “Federal funds”.

First off, there are NO “Federal funds”  — EVERYTHING comes from the Taxpayer in one way or another.

(The idea of sending money to the Federal Gooferment and getting pennies on the dollars back tied to conditions NEVER made any sense to me.  Eliminate all the layers and cost associated with it.)

Second, the results of Gooferment Skrules is absurd.

Argh!

Stop it.

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POLITICAL: The President is, or should be, the nightwatchment of resources for “We, The Sheeple”

Monday, September 18, 2023

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/energy_prices_in_america_are_going_to_get_much_worse_than_weve_ever_imagined.html

Energy prices in America are going to get much worse than we’ve ever imagined
September 10, 2023  — Unattributed 

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Joe Biden has seized control of an American asset and is withholding it from the American people to their detriment. He is doing so in service to an ideology that is belied by actual science, and that is fundamentally anti-humanist.

But of course, this isn’t Biden, who is a puppet. This is the Democrat party. If Biden or another Democrat gains the White House in 2024, expect more of the same until we have reverted to a medieval lifestyle that is, in Hobbes’s immortal words, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” The dividing line between then and now is fossil fuel. Yank it out from under us, and it’s all over.

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They are not “his” assets to use to reinsure his political future.

Argh!

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VETERANS: Not sure how many vets would sign up again?

Sunday, September 17, 2023

https://www.theburningplatform.com/2023/09/11/how-the-hell-do-you-think-us-veterans-feel-right-now/

How the Hell Do You Think Us Veterans Feel Right Now?
Guest Post by Kurt Schlichter

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Was I a sucker? I sure don’t want to feel like a sap, but the thought that I may be one arises when I watch this endless parade of patriots – including our last conscious president – being prosecuted for their political beliefs and treated differently under a two-tier justice system as the garbage institutions attempt to quash free speech, and as the alleged president, a desiccated, corrupt, old pervert, generally drives our country into the ground. I defended this?

I did 27 years in our military. I proudly swore to defend our Constitution. Now, I only washed trucks – I wasn’t a war hero like Pete Buttigieg or Da Nang Dick Blumenthal, and I certainly wasn’t killed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and also (I think) Maui like Joe Biden’s non-coke-addled son was, but I showed up. I dressed like a tree, marched around, went where they sent me, and did my job. Don’t get me wrong – it was not all bad. It was fun some of the time, and I got to do a lot of interesting things other people didn’t get to. I got a little money – very little – and I’ve always been intensely grateful for the chance to be an American soldier. And I took it seriously. That oath I took? It never expires. And now I just need to know if I was a sucker for believing all that Constitution and freedom stuff when I raised my right hand.

I know a lot of fellow vets who are asking the same question.

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So, we return to the original question. Was I a sucker for doing what I did? Did I fall for the okey-doke? Was I the mark? Were all of us veterans fooled?

Absolutely not, because the America I chose to defend, and that millions and millions of veterans chose to defend, was worthy of our service and our sacrifice. The unworthy among us have temporarily taken over. The unworthy have gutted our institutions and, as Twitter legend Iowahawk memorably put it, worn those institutions as a skinsuit demanding respect.

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Look at how Vets are treated in comparison to “illegal invaders”.

Look at the VA health system.

Look at “equal justice under the law” when vets get shafted.

All of us vets were betrayed.

Leave no man behind was our code; only to be betrayed by politicians and bureaucrats at their first opportunity.

I, for one, think it’s time to fix this once and for all.

Argh!

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LIBERTY: Would-be law student fights an uphill battle without significant legal help

Saturday, September 16, 2023

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/appeals-court-reinstates-wrongly-imprisoned-students-suit-against-college

Appeals court reinstates wrongly imprisoned student’s lawsuit against college for hiding evidence

  • Would-be law student, acquitted by second jury in 29 minutes, represents himself in civil case. Trial judge repeatedly botched statute of limitations, 3rd Circuit finds.

By Greg Piper
Updated: September 9, 2023 – 11:20pm

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A student who spent 16 months in prison before a second jury exonerated him of sexual assault will get another chance to hold his public university accountable for withholding evidence during his first criminal trial, then refusing to give him a conduct hearing to clear his educational record.

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated most of a trial judge’s ruling that dismissed Darold Palmore’s lawsuit against Clarion University – since renamed Pennsylvania Western University, or PennWest Clarion, after a merger – and officials including the campus police officer who withheld security footage.

The three-judge panel unanimously remanded Palmore’s malicious prosecution, Brady due process, 14th Amendment due process, Title IX, negligence, and breach of contract claims for further proceedings.

The ruling is all the more remarkable because Palmore, a D.C. native who had planned to go to law school after his expected graduation four years ago, has represented himself throughout the two-year civil case against Clarion, albeit with guidance from sympathetic lawyers.

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How is this “fair”?

Where is the pro-bono legal help?  Isn’t that one reason that lawyers have a “bar association”?

Argh!

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RANT: A Constitutional Amendment to end the gerontocracy

Friday, September 15, 2023

https://jeffjacoby.com/27202/the-schoolboy-and-the-gadsden-flag

The schoolboy and the Gadsden flag
by Jeff Jacoby
Arguable
September 5, 2023

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Washington is more of a gerontocracy than ever — no president has ever been older and the median age of the current Senate is 65.3 years, a record high. Though some House freshmen are in their 40s or younger, the median age in that chamber, too, is the highest it’s ever been. McConnell’s brain-freeze episodes, Biden’s moments of obvious confusion, and the tragic evidence of Feinstein’s cognitive decline keep raising questions about the age and health of America’s political leaders. Actually, they keep raising just one question: What do we do about geriatric officeholders who refuse to relax their grip on power?

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The Dead Old White Guys didn’t anticipate that a gerontocracy would occur.

Let’s pick an age  — say full social security age  — for politicians to retire.

If they are in an office when they have that fateful birthday, then they are deemed to have died in office and whatever process is in place for a death is used to replace them.

If they refuse to go, then someone can just shoot them under Marque and Reprisal power.

Argh!

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HEROIC: Heroes act and don’t over-think

Thursday, September 14, 2023

https://scoop.upworthy.com/italian-banker-becomes-real-life-hero-by-catching-3-year-old-girl-who-fell-from-5th-floor-balcony?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter

Man heroically saves 3-year-old toddler by catching her after she falls from 5th-floor balcony

  • The man’s quick thinking and courage saved the life of the toddler and he is being highly praised for his heroic act.

By Shruti Menon
September 7, 2023

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An Italian banker wore the cape of a real-life hero after he saved the life of a three-year-old girl falling from the fifth floor of a building in central Turin. The incident happened on Saturday, August 26, when 37-year-old Mattia Aguzzi was on his way to a bakery with his girlfriend in the morning. “I heard a man scream when he saw the little girl leaning out on the ledge. The little girl kept leaning more and more and climbed over the ledge, she held on only with two arms and her legs were in the air,” Aguzzi narrated the incident to Sky24. He added: “I started yelling at her to stay still and to go back inside but she didn’t hear. When I saw her fall I stepped in the way, closed my eyes and hoped that everything was going to be for the best, I blocked her by cushioning the blow and we both fell to the ground…Initially I didn’t feel any sign of life, then the baby started crying and I breathed a sigh of relief.”

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Great catch!

Don’t underestimate how much risk he himself was taking.

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RANT: Did we used to hang horse theives? Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs”

Wednesday, September 13, 2023

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12496923/Moment-three-women-beat-Asian-man-Chicago.html

Shocking moment three women beat 61-year-old Asian man to the ground with metal pipe before carjacking him in crime-ridden, Dem-led Chicago

  •     The shocking moment three women attacked a man was captured on camera  
  •     Danxin Shi, a rideshare driver, is no longer able to work after his car was stolen  
  •     Footage shows the moment he’s pushed the ground and hit with a pipe 

By Fiona Connor, Senior Reporter For Dailmail.Com
Published: 16:42 EDT, 8 September 2023 | Updated: 16:42 EDT, 8 September 2023

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The shocking moment three women beat an Asian man with a metal pipe before taking off with his car has been caught on camera. 

Danxin Shi, a rideshare driver, is no longer able to work after his vehicle was stolen by the gang about 5:30pm on Tuesday evening in crime-ridden, Dem-led Chicago. 

Footage shows the moment the Chinatown resident, who lives West 22nd Place, parking his vehicle and walking along the street when he is struck with a weapon and shoved to the ground – where he is beaten repeatedly.

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Guess the race of the three “women”?

I’m fed up with crime and adults who are out of control.

While I’m against the death penalty when the Gooferment administer it, I am for the RKBA and what everyone have the ability to defend themselves.  In this case, deadly force was warranted, and that man should have be able to “convince” the young ladies of the error of their ways.

Quoting my sheepdog post:

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“I particularly like unlimited concealed carry. If the criminal regards the general public as sheep to be shorn, then let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock.

Guess which gay to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Pink Pistol and you’re dead!

Guess which woman to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Paxton Quigly and you’re dead!

Guess which brown person to bash? Buzz, wrong, you picked a Massad Ayoob and you’re dead!”

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https://reinkefaceslife.com/2006/11/02/guns-lets-sprinkle-in-a-few-sheepdogs-with-big-teeth-in-the-flock/

GUNS: Let’s sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs” with big teeth in the flock
Thursday, November 2nd, 2006 at 20:26

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