Ten Years Post “Cheating” – EPautos – Libertarian Car Talk
More On Charlie Kirk, The Qatar Strike and the Russia’s Netcentric Military Doctrine
A Common Trait Among Mentally Disturbed Women: Deviant-ated Septum
Some Catholic Schools Adding Armed Response After Annunciation Shooting – Bearing Arms
We betrayed Russians in 1945. We’re doing it again in 2025. :: Jeff Jacoby
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Ranstad believes the gunman used a high-powered rifle during Wednesday’s shooting.
“I don’t think it was an AR, the crack had too much base in it, not a crack like an AR,” he said, claiming it was either from a .308 bolt action or a 7.62 x 39mm.
He called on investigators to check local gun ranges for any unusual activities in the weeks leading up to Kirk’s murder.
“Any bloke can go to the range three or four times and make that shot. I would start looking at range time if I was police,” he told the outlet. “They should get all the videos, who’s got what rifle and who isn’t properly trained so don’t know how to control their blood pressure and adrenaline.
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Paratattein (παρατάττειν) “Form the line!” — attributed to Leonidas to prepare his men for battle at
<< in reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk >>
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{tip of the old tin foil hat to <Stephen E. Phelps Jr.> for sharing!}
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1A3MmpKyce/
True Stories
Dolly Parton once walked into a boardroom full of men in rhinestones and heels — and walked out owning her own masters. The executives thought she was a naïve country girl who’d sign anything. Instead, she quietly bought back her publishing rights, a move so rare at the time that even industry sharks didn’t see it coming. Decades later, when Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You” sold 20 million copies, the checks went to Dolly. She didn’t just write the song — she owned it.
That’s the paradox of Dolly. She leaned into the dumb-blonde jokes, the wigs, the over-the-top curves — and used them as camouflage. People underestimated her, and she liked it that way. Behind the glitter was one of the shrewdest business operators in music. She built Dollywood in rural Tennessee, turning her home into a tourist empire. She funneled money into children’s literacy programs, giving away more than 200 million books. And she did it all while letting the world laugh at her “backwoods Barbie” image.
The kicker? She admitted the caricature was intentional. “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap,” she quipped. The hair, the nails, the laugh — they were her armor, her Trojan horse. She could sparkle her way past prejudice and still walk out with the contract that made her untouchable.
Even Elvis tried to own her. When Colonel Tom Parker demanded half the rights to “I Will Always Love You” for Presley to record it, Dolly said no — sobbing in her car, heartbroken, but unyielding. It may be the single most profitable “no” in music history.
Dolly Parton’s story isn’t about a country diva in sequins. It’s about a woman who weaponized underestimation, sold the world a joke it wanted to hear, and laughed all the way to the bank — while handing out books to children on the side.
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Way back when, in the 70s, some of my friends were playing a game. I think it was called “Facts in Five”? One of the challenges was to name the smartest person you knew of. My wife assured everyone that she had my answer cold. “Einstein”! Nope, I had written down “Dolly Parton”. She went nuts and the entire group. I explained that she was the shrewdest business lady and the most charitable. I knew of Dollywood and her book donations.
This story reminded me of that game and added some details about Ms. Parton IDK.
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After Charlie Kirk’s Murder, Politicians Can Back Away From the Brink, or Make Matters Worse
J.D. Tuccille | 9.11.2025 3:00 PM
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The Young Democrats and Young Republicans of Connecticut issued a joint statement denouncing the murder.
“What happened at Utah Valley University this afternoon is unacceptable,” it reads. “We reject all forms of political violence. There is no place in our country for such acts, regardless of political disagreements.”
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Finally a little bit of sanity returns to politics.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/quotes/
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Nehru: Think of what you can do by living, that you cannot do by dying… What do you want?
Gandhi: That the fighting will stop. That you make me believe it will never start again.
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This quote is preceded. By a line, something like, “I will fast until the violence stops to atone for my part in stoking it”. Something like that. It’s seems that ALL politicians need to take this example and tone down the posturing.
No one should be stoking the flames of violence for any reason. Certainly not for their political gain.
Argh!
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NJ to maintain COVID-19 vaccine access despite new federal restrictions
By: Dana DiFilippo – September 10, 2025 12:22 pm
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The New Jersey Department of Health has authorized pharmacies and pediatricians statewide to give COVID-19 vaccines to anyone 6 months or older, a move meant to protect access to the shots after federal health officials last month announced new eligibility restrictions limiting them to people over 65 or with other health problems.
Acting Health Commissioner Jeff Brown issued an executive directive Monday denouncing the “unfounded and unsupported barriers” the federal Food and Drug Administration created in rolling back vaccine access.
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Let the lawsuits begin!
Does the law preempting suing Big Pharma still have any effect?
If I was a Doctor or Pharmacist, then who’s directions do you follow?
If I was the Insurance Companies, then I’d warm the lawyers. This is going to be a giant mess.
Argh!
Remember “informed consent”?
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“Conspiracy theorists underestimate the ingenuity of the past and overestimate the competence of the present.” — Fred Anderson
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The Official 9/11 Narrative Is a Lie
9/11 changed the course of history, but most Americans don’t know that fateful day’s real story. The establishment’s narrative is a complete lie.
Will we ever get the “truth”? I doubt it.
Some of the factoids that I find persuasive:
Sorry but the official report is a “fairy tale”!
IMHO
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The mRNA Reckoning Has Begun
Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
Sep 03, 2025
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They may harm future generations.
Infant mortality, declining for 30 years, reversed sharply in 2021 shortly following mass mRNA uptake in childbearing age women. Babies born years later are now dying at a 77% excess rate
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This to me is the single biggest STOP sign on mRNA “vaccines”.
Remember they redefined the word “vaccine” to cover mRNA. Bait and switch?
Who can forget Thalidomide? The birth defects showed up in the NEXT generation.
At the very least, to cure basically a bad “cold”, we’ve made ourselves “lab rats” for Big Pharma.
It seems that regulatory capture has run its course, and that the “death sentence” is in order for Big Pharma. And Nuremberg trials for the politicians, bureaucrats, Pharma executives, doctors, and any medical personel found complicit in this “medical disaster / time bomb”.
Argh!
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Tina Peters’ Open Letter to President Trump from Prison One Week Before Her 70th Birthday
Guest post by Martel Maxim
Dear, Dear Mr. President,
As I sit here in this cell (and notice I didn’t say “my cell” as nothing I have here is mine and can be taken at any time), I’m reminded to be grateful and how blessed we are as a nation, as well as how fragile liberty is.
I am grateful for the multitudes praying for you, this country, and I am humbled to say for me as well.
I long for the day I can be free to continue to fight for the foundation of our society:
Free, fair, transparent elections.
One week from today on September 11th, I will be 70 years old. Never in my life of 35 years of marriage, a business owner for 32, home schooling my two children, with a Navy SEAL son and a marine husband, did I ever imagine I would end up in prison for following the law and doing what was right.
This should scare every citizen of this country. It shows how close we have come to losing this nation and our liberty that so many before us died to protect. But God chose you Mr. President, and each one of us that will rise up and answer the call.
Your good friend, Peter Ticktin, has requoted my standards for those that have once been close as a part of the story in my life. I’ve always said “if one could be swayed by four things: money, power, position, or fear, they can be compromised. What you do when no one is looking defines your character.”
When I used to speak to audiences about the globalists and compromised ones that wish our great nations demise, I would often say “everyone can do something. There are more of us than there are of them. They can’t get us all.”
One day when I was telling my story of not knowing if I would die from the lung cancer that took a third of my lung, I looked up to heaven and said “Lord, if this is my time I’m ready…but you know my prayer!”
I then repeated my life’s prayer to him which is:
“Don’t let me leave this earth until I’ve accomplished everything you sent me here to do.”
At that split second, I knew I was going to live. He has more for me to do. That was in 2016, the same year I walked door to door talking to anyone and everyone for you tirelessly from morning until night. And when it got dark outside, I’d be helping others on the phone calling for the vote.
As a business owner, I knew we needed you to become our president. I never wavered, even when there were 17 candidates. God has his protection over you, as you know, and we are all grateful you took his call. He prepared you for this, and he has prepared me for this.
Nevertheless, I’m ready to be released because the midterms are close. I feel like a racehorse held back by the starting gate. We don’t have much time. We cannot allow the continued selection of governors, secretaries of state, attorneys general, and fraudulent passage of blils and laws because of the voting machines I exposed. I want to finish the job we started.
I cannot allow Jena Griswold to be the attorney general of Colorado, or crooked Phil Weiser to be the governor, and many more need to be displaced in this state, country, and in many nations across the world because the voice of the people has been stolen.
The rally cry of God’s chosen people to stand up and step forward has never been greater.
Please set me free to champion that call to the people. Use my voice, the reason they put me in prison, to be the clarion call. I didn’t raise a Navy SEAL for nothing.
I love you, your family, and this great country.
Thank you.
Gratefully yours,
Tina M. Peters
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I think this lady has been “railroaded” by politicians and bureaucrats. I chipped in. Will you?
<<impressive hand written letter>>
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Words matter
The fight against labeling long-term streaming rentals as “purchases” you “buy”
Scharon Harding – Aug 29, 2025 5:51 PM
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Words have meaning. Proper word selection is integral to strong communication, whether it’s about relaying one’s feelings to another or explaining the terms of a deal, agreement, or transaction.
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Often, streaming services like Amazon Prime Video offer customers the options to “rent” digital content for a few days or to “buy” it. Some might think that picking “buy” means that they can view the content indefinitely. But these purchases are really just long-term licenses to watch the content for as long as the streaming service has the right to distribute it—which could be for years, months, or days after the transaction.
A lawsuit [PDF] recently filed against Prime Video challenges this practice and accuses the streaming service of misleading customers by labeling long-term rentals as purchases. The conclusion of the case could have implications for how streaming services frame digital content.
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I think the “high water mark” is when we bought CDs with the belief that we could always have the content.
I got burned buying content on cassettes and 8 tracks. Then having to buy the “content” when the player were sent to the technology equivalent of the Google Graveyard.
This is just another instance of the same fraud all over again. And again. And again.
If they said “buy”, then they have stuck themselves with a “deal” they had no intention of fulfilling. To me, that’s fraud!
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August 29, 2025 › Agency Capture › Censorship/Surveillance › News
Toxic Exposures
Breaking: Federal Court Reopens Case of 24-Year-Old Who Died of COVID Vaccine-Induced Myocarditis
by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D.
August 29, 2025
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FDA had approved the Pfizer Comirnaty vaccine on Aug. 23, 2021 — and his second dose on Sept. 17, 2021.
However, the hospital gave Watts the emergency use authorization (EUA) Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, not the licensed Comirnaty shot, because the DOD didn’t make the FDA-approved vaccines available to the public.
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According to the lawsuit, the DOD “capitalized on a quintessential ‘bait and switch’ fraud,” using the fact that Comirnaty was FDA-approved to bolster its claims that the Pfizer-BioNTech EUA vaccine was “safe and effective,” misleading the American public in the process.
COVID-19 vaccines are classified as a “covered countermeasure” under the PREP Act. The act prevents anyone injured by a vaccine that was authorized during a public health emergency from suing the vaccine manufacturers or those who administer the vaccines.
However, there’s one exception — if the person who was injured can prove that the vaccine maker or the person who administered the vaccine engaged in “willful misconduct.”
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Bottom line: The man is dead and only by quirk does the issue come before a judge.
Who in their right mind would EVER allow Big Pharma to have such an immunity free of liability?
This has been one big mess brought to you by the Gooferment paying off their donors in Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and Big Hospitals.
Informed consent goes out the window when there is Big Bucks to be made.
The Gooferment is immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.
This is an exhibit for that,
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Vaccine-Autism Link Ascertainable By Case Studies
John Leake — Aug 29, 2025
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Likewise, Dr. Jon S. Poling, (formerly at the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital) and and Dr. Robert Zimmerman were not imagining things when they published their paper, “Developmental Regression and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in a Child with Autism” in which they described the case of Hannah Poling (Dr. Poling’s daughter).
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Though it was initially concealed from the public, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims acknowledged that Hannah Poling’s profound autism had indeed been caused by the battery of vaccines she received at the age of 19 months.
The extraordinary intrigue and skulduggery of the U.S. government’s conduct in the Poling case is presented in our new book, Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology, and Reality.
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Why hasn’t this been more widely know? Money! Big Pharma is legally immune to lawsuits. Time to revoke that immediately.
All the politicians, bureaucrats, corporations, executives, doctors, and researcher should be made PERSONALLY responsible for this disaster.
I empathize with the poor baby and her family. This should be headline news any time the word vaccine or autism is mentioned.
At the very least, there needs to be a reasonable interval between shots.
Argh!
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https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html
Typepad is shutting down
August 27, 2025
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We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025.
What Does This Mean for You?
After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available. Your account and all related services will be permanently deactivated.
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Luckily I chose WordPress and dabbled in Google’s Blogger.
Sad to see these “old” favorites going down. Hope someone saves their content.
:-(
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‘The Hope Is That You Will Eventually Quit’: Experts Reveal the Signs That You Are Being Quietly Fired Are you a target of this passive-aggressive management tactic? Here are the signs.
By David James Aug 14, 2025
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A passive-aggressive form of management is making headlines: quiet firing, the practice where bosses make working conditions so unpleasant for an unwanted employee that the person leaves on their own accord.
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3. Being left out of meetings. Being cut out of communications and planning for upcoming initiatives is the biggest red flag that you are being quietly fired, the experts told USA Today.
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… … keep a record of everything — save emails and request feedback in writing, and keep all of this documentation on a personal computer. As the experts point out, quiet firing isn’t necessarily illegal, but it is if it is tied to discrimination or workplace retaliation.
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<< Maybe I should begin a thread on “Job Employment Self-Defense”?>>
With all the emphasis on AI and “replacement by H1B’s”, the average “salaryman” (to steal a Japanese concept) should be on alert and taking steps to secure their continued employment (i.e., a steady paycheck).
My old advice still has value:
Success for your generation is: (1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt; (2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — they can’t take it away from you; (3) a NON-OFFSHORABLE white collar job in order to save big bux; (4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber; (5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open; (6) a free time hobby that generates income; and (7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), now there is a new survival imperative.
(8) creating value both inside your current job and outside of it as well.
INSIDE, might take the form of careful observation of the bureaucracy around you and what could be eliminated, condensed, transformed, or enlarged. Don’t be afraid that you will be eliminated. If you find it out, then someone else will too. Be motivated.
OUTSIDE, it could be taking your dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) to another employer or competitor. You should have all YOUR stuff duplicated off-site lest you get surprised and walked out.
<<When I was on Wall Street brokers used to keep a “shadow book” at home. Often then they were fired and walked out, they were contacting old clients before the Firm had even a replacement in place. One fellow’s wife was his at home admin assistant and started before he was even out of the building. That’s being prepared.>>
In summary, remember that the alternative to being “Quietly Fired” is “Quietly Quitting” aka being prepared and executing your pre-departure actvities.
Forewarned is forearmed. (Or is it FOUR armed?)
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Sudden deaths, incapacitations soar among COVID-jabbed airline pilots: report
Doug Mainwaring — Mon Aug 25, 2025 – 4:22 pm EDT
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“Something happened in 2021” that has jeopardized air travel safety, according to a disturbing report by Dr. Kevin Stillwagon, a retired airline pilot and immunology expert.
Mounting evidence points to the COVID-19 vaccinations that airlines, acting under pressure from the U.S. government, mandated or otherwise coerced their cockpit, cabin, and ground crews into taking.
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You don’t have to be an epidemiologist to look at subsets of the population and draw reasonable inferences.
Pilots dying and incapacitated in far larger numbers than the historical average.
What fact can we “tease out” of just that single factoid?
It’s reasonable to blame the Covid 19 “vaccine” and just on that basis alone stop allowing it. Certainly not mandating it or even recommending it. Maybe some careful investigation MIGHT need some testing. But there would have to be a lot of safeguards and planning for adverse impacts.
Similarly we can see from the Amish that there is some connection between autism, which is virtually nonexistent in the Amish community (as is obesity), and something we, in the general population, are doing. First thing that comes to mind is vaccination.
Based on that alone, we should be suspending most if not all vaccinations until we establish safety as a prime directive.
Remember the Nuremberg requirement for informed voluntary consent for ALL medical actions!
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Trump v. Leftist Crime, Homelessness, & Poverty
Aug 25, 2025
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We also discussed the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, a chemical disaster covered up by Governor Mike DeWine’s Ohio EPA. Environmental scientist Scott Smith’s tests revealed dangerously high dioxin levels, contradicting the EPA’s claims of safety. Rather than investigate, the EPA surveilled Smith, tracked his movements, and shared his personal information, including photos of his dog, among 50+ employees. This aligns with reports of manipulated soil data by Norfolk Southern and the EPA, shielding corporate liability at the expense of public health. Rumors of intentional derailment and political profiteering persist, though hard evidence remains elusive, just more conspiracy theory… or something like that.
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Certainly hasn’t gotten much attention. And, why the Gooferment’s emphasis and attention on ane critic?
Surely there must be one honest independent journalist with a chemistry lab connection that can establish some evidence? Or will this be like countless other disasters that have been “swept under the rug”?
Do we have to wait for the bodies to pile up like with the Covid mRNA “vaccine” or the hospital is filled with babies suffering from Thalidomide birth defects?
Hope not!
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15031627/Canada-euthanasia-newborn-BABIES-disabled.html
Terrifying new details of Canada’s advancing assisted suicide laws… including push to euthanize newborn BABIES
By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, US CHIEF REPORTER
Published: 10:02 EDT, 25 August 2025 | Updated: 10:25 EDT, 25 August 2025
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Canada’s assisted suicide laws have continued rapidly expanding in recent years, with a group of doctors now pushing for disabled newborn babies to be euthanized.
The demand for euthanasia is so high that doctors who provide it cannot keep up, according to a new report by The Atlantic.
Assisted dying, legalized in 2016, now accounts for about one out of 20 deaths in Canada, far surpassing countries where it’s been legal for longer.
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Canada’s road to allowing euthanasia began in 2015, when its top court declared that outlawing assisted suicide deprived people of their dignity and autonomy. It gave national leaders a year to draft legislation.
The resulting 2016 law legalized both euthanasia and assisted suicide for people aged 18 and over, provided they met certain conditions.
They had to have a serious, advanced condition, disease, or disability that was causing suffering and their death was looming.
The law was later amended to allow people who are not terminally ill to choose death, significantly broadening the number of eligible people.
Critics say that change removed a key safeguard aimed at protecting people with potentially decades of life left.
Today, any adult with a serious illness, disease, or disability can seek help in dying.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_return_of_eugenics.html
The Return of Eugenics
By Robert Weissberg — August 25, 2025
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If one word is guaranteed to enrage the woke mob, it is eugenics, a term conjuring up images of Hitler, the Holocaust, white supremacy, and sterilizing the feeble-minded. Yet, despite the odium surrounding “eugenics,” it is, paradoxically, making a comeback thanks to medical advances, not the rise of right-wing ideology. Vast sums are currently being invested in firms to promote eugenics, but the term “eugenics” is never uttered.
Recent newspaper stories recount how parents employ cutting-edge scientific advances in genetics to have the best possible children while avoiding deadly genetic defects like cystic fibrosis. A New York Post story – “Silicon Valley Parents Spend Thousands to Screen Embryos in Search of ‘Baby Geniuses’” — recounted parents spending upwards of $50,000 to screen embryos to discover one with the best genes for intelligence prior to fertilizing it, and then via In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) implanting it in the woman’s womb. The Post story mentions two intelligence screening start-ups — Nucleus Genomics and Heraslight — both funded by major Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
A particularly successful illustration of this new eugenics is Orchid Health headed by Noor Siddiqui with thousands of clients thanks to its 100 U.S. clinics, a figure that doubled from the previous year. Given the complexity of human genetics, Orchid Heath’s claims to use as few as five cells from the mother’s embryo to develop a “polygenetic risk score” to predict a child’s future chances for some 1200 single-gene disorders plus more complex polygenetic illnesses such as bipolar disorder, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. According to its mother, one of Elon Musk’s children was from an embryo screened by Orchid Heath and, at Musk’s request, the embryo was screened for intelligence (the firm does not usually screen for intelligence but will do it on request).
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As gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I find this deplorable. And, interesting that two stories come to light on the issue from different authors and perspectives.
Are we so full of hubris that we can be like the ancient Aztecs, who sacrificed children to appease their “gods”. What “god” are we appeasing?
Often I see uplifting stories about “disabled children” who grow up and have “good” lives.
And, how do these babies give their “informed consent”? Or those with confirmed “mental illnesses”?
Sorry but this is murder or maybe even genocide when you take into account abortions!
My favorite analogy or metaphor is what if we are killing the “golden child”?
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2010/02/26/political-right-to-life/
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My greatest fear is that we will kill “the Golden Child”. In Will Crowther’s Colossal Cave Adventure game, if you killed the bird in Cave #7, you never could proceed past the snake in Cave #11. (Although it was funny to see smart engineers trying “stuff” when it was impossible to proceed.) What if the potential person that’s killed is the next Salk who will cure cancer, the next Hawkings who will explain the Universe, or the next Mother Teresa who will comfort untold number of sufferers?
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If we “believe” that all humans have “rights”, and we can argue about when those rights INURE to any person (i.e., conception; birth; when they can assert them; when they can fight for them), when does our civil society recognize those rights?
Sigh!
Otherwise we are nothing more than talented savages existing in a “might makes right” world.
The Nuremberg Code is a set of ethical principles for human experimentation established after World War II, emphasizing the necessity of voluntary consent and the moral obligation to protect human subjects in research.
And today’s medical professionals are transgressors and should be hung too.
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