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Conservatives, Lesbian Feminists and Former Transgenders Walk Onto The SCOTUS Steps…
Much as that might sound like the beginning to a punchline of a joke, this is what happened earlier this week as the Supreme Court of the United States began to hear oral arguments regarding whether or not the Civil Rights Act of 1964 applies to transgenders in the workplace.
On one side are the progressive uber-Leftists who are trying to force the transgender agenda down Americans' throats and on the other, we find conservatives, lesbian feminists and former transgenders fighting back against it.
You know an issue is particularly important and major if conservatives and lesbian feminists are fighting ON THE SAME SIDE.
While the Supreme Court Justices were hearing oral arguments inside the High Court, on the steps of the building were demonstrators and protesters on both sides of the issue, each trying to make their case in public.
Walt Heyer is one of these people, making his case against the transgender agenda. And while nutcase Leftists might try and pin him as a transphobe or a sexist or what-have-you, there is particular reason to hear his testimony: he, himself, used to be a transgender woman (biological male to female).
Heyer recounted: "It all started when I was four-years-old and my grandmother started crossdressing me and I enjoyed it very much. But that crossdressing started a confusion within me about who I was. And it was in 1944, before we had any words like gender dysphoria. I was just a confused kid that was being affirmed by my grandmother who actually caused me to have this tremendous confusion, which started this journey to transgenderism."
Heyer said that he uncovered the truth about his life when he began studying to become a counselor: "I wanted to be a therapist. So I studied at U.C. Santa Cruz and realized in studying the books in the stacks that people who identified with gender identity disorder had mental disorders. And I thought we're not approaching this from the right direction. We need to be addressing the co-morbid problems that are causing people to believe they're a different gender. It seems to be compassionate to me to reach out to those people and actually guide them in the right direction and not fill their bodies with hormones and cut body parts off and rearrange everything in their lives so their lives are totally destroyed."
Heyer also has a website called sexchangeregret.com and he says that hundreds of thousands of people have visited it. "Today, we have a worldwide ministry that reaches over 300 million people a year and people now are de-transitioning by the hundreds," said Heyer
In the site, Heyer also recounts what he went through, having had gender reassignment surgery in 1983 but being left unsatisfied and then de-transitioning back to male 25 years ago. He is now happily married for 20 years to a woman, but he recognizes the permanent damage that surgery caused to his body, having to take hormones now to "try to regulate a system that is permanently altered," according to Heyer.
The site also notes the fact that males have XY chromosomes, even those who are transgender women, and that the genes responsible for the determination of sex, SRY, and the genes that determine possible male infertility, AZF a, b, and c, are not found to be abnormal in transsexual people, meaning there is no biological reason for people to be transgender.
If you want to read more of Heyer's testimony, go to this Breitbart News link: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/08/former-transgender-woman-on-sex-change-regret-people-are-de-transitioning-in-the-hundreds/.
Moving on to lesbian feminists, however, we also find another great speech.
The speech was given by Natasha Chart, a feminist writer at FeministCurrent.org, and while her speech was relatively long and I can't share everything she said, here are the main points:
If you wish to read her full speech, here is the link: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/08/watch-feminist-speaks-against-transgender-ideology-i-will-not-submit/.
But what she says is completely right and insanely powerful. I've already noted how feminists get banned from Twitter if they speak out against men in women's sports and other transgender issues. And the risk of transgender bathroom laws, as I have always maintained, is that women are put into the precarious situation where they might be raped or sexually assaulted.
Chart herself noted in her speech: "If a woman complains that a man has dropped his trousers in front of her at a job, the left will shout 'Me Too!' in solidarity, and he'll be cancelled. If a woman complains because he dropped his trousers in front of her at a gym locker, but he says he's a woman, they'll cancel her. Is that kind?"
Basically, transgender bathroom laws, despite their supposed intentions, leave women at risk of being raped or sexually assaulted and without the ability to hold the man accountable because of identity politics (and yes, Chart railed on the hypocrisy of the Left more than in just this instance).
The transgender agenda gives license to rapist and sexually-deviant men to get away with whatever they want and have the Left side with them. Only look at someone like "Jessica Yaniv", the transgender "woman" who is all-too happy to sue a wax parlor because the female worker would not touch his male genitals.
Because of cases like Yaniv, is it really so surprising to see conservatives, lesbian feminists and former transgenders – who discovered the grim reality of what gender reassignment and transgenderism bring someone – fighting on the same side against a highly-dangerous and morally-evil agenda?
I'm not sure if I have stated this previously, as I have said a lot of things at this point in my career, but I have felt for a while that the transgender movement would have to be completely divorced from the rest of the gay movement. It totally goes against gays, lesbians and bisexuals, who by definition affirm the reality of two genders.
If Hegelian dialectics are anything to go by, this antithesis of transgenderism to the thesis of the rest of the gay movement will have to bring about a synthesis, where the two theses collide with one another. I think that's what's happening here, with lesbians and other gay people fighting against the transgender movement. This also is the case for feminism against transgenderism.
Put simply: transgenderism and feminism cannot peaceably coexist. One must abandon key beliefs in order to appease the other and live with it to some extent. If more men enter women's sports because they are wimps and can't win against other men, women's sports will disappear because the women, most of the time, cannot compete against physically-superior men.
There is a reason there is an NBA and a WNBA – a reason there is a men's and women's tennis (though there are mixed teams too, but still).
One of the reasons Serena Williams was so successful is because she has a uniquely man-like physique that makes her bigger, stronger and generally physically superior to many women. And even then, when facing against a man ranked 203rd in 1998, the man destroyed her and then her sister, beating Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2. Despite her physical advantages against women, she is still, herself, a woman and physically inferior to most athletic men. The mere fact that she even said that no man outside the top 200 could beat the Williams sisters is an indication that she didn't think she could beat Carlos Moya, who was the same rank as Serena (no. 5) in 1998, and an indication that she did not believe she could beat a man of her skill range. Despite the similarities in rank at the time, the Williams sisters didn't think they could beat men in their same rank range, such as Carlos Moya, Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras, or even number 199, Lorenzo Manta.
If men and women are not physically different, why wouldn't Serena and Venus Williams have challenged men who were in a similar rank to them at the time?
But regardless, my point is that the transgender movement is very dangerous for society as a whole, not to mention people the Left already victimizes, like women and homosexuals.
It's very dangerous to children, as hormone treatment can permanently destroy children's lives, and it makes absolutely no sense to be in favor of this.
But the hate-filled Left will see none of this logic and change their minds. They think transgenderism is something they must back in order to attain power, even though Obama himself admitted on NPR that his support for transgenderism might've made Trump's election easier.
This is far too dangerous and destructive to be allowed and I hope and pray that God will guide the SCOTUS to the right decision. Otherwise, may God help us.
Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths."
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Author: Freddie Marinelli.
Justice Thomas Warns That Abortion Could Be A Tool For Eugenicists. It Always Was
In recent time, the Supreme Court ruled (7-2, which was surprising), that Indiana had the right to require "medical facilities" like Planned Parenthood to provide dignified burials or cremation for aborted children. And while that is a nice little win for pro-lifers, the Court decided against ruling on a supposedly controversial part of the law that prohibited abortions on the basis of race, gender or disabilities.
Justice Clarence Thomas, after the ruling, said in a statement that while "further percolation may assist our review of this issue of first impression," and that the Court was smart to not rule on this part of the Indiana law, the Court cannot avoid this issue forever.
"Given the potential for abortion to become a tool for eugenic manipulation, the court will soon need to confront the constitutionality of laws like Indiana's. So long as the Supreme Court forces a policy of unfettered elective abortion on the entire country, it ought to at least allow for states to protect babies from unjust discrimination."
He added: "Although the court declines to wade into these issues today, we cannot avoid them forever. Having created the constitutional right to an abortion, this court is dutybound to address its scope."
The Indiana law in question largely focuses on the disabilities aspect, targeting abortions performed for the reasons of a baby having Down syndrome.
The law reads: "Indiana does not allow a fetus to be aborted solely because of the fetus' race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, or diagnosis or potential diagnosis of the fetus having Down syndrome or any other disability."
According to The Daily Wire, "Thomas referenced genetic screening in his concurrence, noting that a baby's gender can be determined by an elective blood test given between 7 and 10 weeks, and that disabilities like Down syndrome can be detected before the end of the first trimester." Thomas said that pairing these screenings with largely unrestricted abortion access leads us to "modern-day eugenics."
Thomas ended by writing: "Enshrining a constitutional right to an abortion based solely on the race, sex, or disability of an unborn child, as Planned Parenthood advocates, would constitutionalize the views of the 20th-century eugenics movement. In other contexts, the Court has been zealous in vindicating the rights of people even potentially subjected to race, sex, and disability discrimination."
All-in-all, I largely agree with what Justice Clarence Thomas is saying here except for two points. One, I do not think it was smart of the Court to pass up on not ruling on this part of the Indiana law. More time given to look things over when they ought to be clear as day allows for other states that do not have a similar law to perform the sort of ethnic cleansing Margaret Sanger often dreamed of.
If one discriminates against someone based on any of these factors at any level, whether that be in business, in school, in sports, or in any other area, that person is punished to some capacity. Not allowing a black person to eat at your restaurant for the reason of his or her race is not allowed under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Nowhere can someone openly discriminate against someone for the reason of race, sex, etc. except in the womb. Let us not ignore the fact that Planned Parenthood disproportionally targets black and Hispanic neighborhoods, with almost 80% of their facilities located within walking distance of minorities. Let's not ignore the fact that 52% of African American pregnancies end in abortion or that roughly 1,800 black babies are aborted every day.
Let's not ignore the fact that babies who are diagnosed with Down syndrome are 60 to 80% likely to be aborted, according to the Guttmacher Institute. And that's just in the U.S. In Europe, Down syndrome is basically non-existent, not because they found a cure, but because they systematically abort babies diagnosed with Down syndrome.
And in places like China and India, unborn girls face a high probability of being aborted. The UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund. Yes, the letters don't match, but that's because they used to be called the United Nations Fund for Population Activities) says that "126 million women and girls were missing in 2010 due to gender-biased sex selection, which can include, for example, excess female mortality and prenatal sex selection."
That last reason they give, "prenatal sex selection" is simply their Leftist way of acknowledging abortion is the cause without actually blaming abortion. But you can plainly see that abortion is at least partly responsible for over 100 million women and girls "missing" (not sure what exactly that is supposed to mean here, but I may have a few ideas).
Countries like India show quite an imbalance in sex ratios, where there are 110 boys born for every 100 girls from 2011-2013. But that is nothing compared to China, which had 115.9 boys for every 100 girls born in 2014.
So throughout the world, abortion is already very much a tool of eugenics. Matter of fact, it always has been! And that's the second point that I don't entirely agree with Thomas. Abortion does not lead to eugenics. Abortion is already a tool of eugenics and always has been.
Let's not forget that Margaret Sanger saw black people as a "weed" to be uprooted and frequently employed Nazi sympathizers like Clarence Gamble and Lothrop Stoddard. And let's not forget that there have been a plethora of eugenics-based organizations, such as the Eugenics Record Office, the National Conference on Race Betterment, and the American Breeders Association.
These racist organizations were so vile that one particular man remarked: "I have studied with great interest the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would in all probability be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock." And that "The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of clearest reason. If systematically executed, it represents the most humane act of mankind."
And just who was this man who viewed American eugenics and abortion as "the most humane act of mankind"?
None other than the leader of the Third Reich, Adolf Hitler. Yes, he absolutely adored American eugenics programs and sought to adopt them into his own German empire.
Margaret Sanger sought to utilize abortion as a eugenics tool long before there was even a Planned Parenthood. She sought to keep minorities, whom she considered "weeds" and "imbecilic" and overall "defective", from reproducing as much as possible.
And given the statistics we see today, that sort of racial discrimination is not only alive and well, but outright THRIVING. We easily see the dreams of Margaret Sanger, Clarence Gamble, Lothrop Stoddard, and Adolf Hitler being carried out by Planned Parenthood and other abortionists throughout the world.
Already, 61 million babies have been aborted in the U.S. since 1973 and 1.5 billion in the world since 1980. Almost 20 million in the U.S. were black.
Justice Clarence Thomas is certainly right in drawing the links between abortion and eugenics, particularly in race-based, sex-based, etc. abortions. The problem is that abortion doesn't lead to eugenics. Abortion IS eugenics. Now, not all eugenics are abortions, but all abortions are eugenics. The reasoning behind the abortions may not sound like eugenics, but at the end of the day, they are.
It's not "women's healthcare" or "liberation" for a black woman to kill off her own offspring (the literal definition of a fetus). It's eugenics, through and through.
And Thomas is certainly right in saying that the Supreme Court can't keep kicking this particular can down the road. Eventually, it will have to face the reality that this kind of abortion is outright discrimination and should be treated like any other kind of discrimination is today.
1 Samuel 16:7
"But the Lord said to Samuel, 'Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart."
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The Left Is A Cult: Former MSM Columnist Would Sacrifice A Bit Of His Life For RBG
Often times in the fake news media, the Left will call us Trump supporters a "cult". Well, now we can clearly see just how much of a cult mindset there exists not within the Right or Trump supporters, but within the Left.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is not getting younger, and that terrifies the Left. The fact that she has now missed a few days on the court for the first time in her entire career as a Supreme Court Justice shows she is not getting healthier either. The Left fears that she will soon either die or have to retire from the court, leaving yet another vacancy for Trump to fill with (hopefully) a conservative judge like Amy Coney Barrett.
Such an instance would mean that Trump gets to pick three justices to the Supreme Court, the first president to do so since Ronald Reagan.
And such an instance would mean that the balance of power would shift further Right from 5-4 to 6-3. Sure, Roberts is a wild card and Kavanaugh seems to be fairly similar thus far, but that new number would make things easier for constitutionality to reign supreme instead of Leftist agendas.
The mere thought of RBG being replaced by a Trump pick is terrifying to the Left. So, former Politico columnist Roger Simon put up the following hypothetical: "If it were possible, would you subtract one day off your life and add it to Ruth Bader Ginsburg's life for one extra day of good health? If just 10,000 people did this, it would add 27 productive years to her life."
Now, of course, such a hypothetical can only ever be just that: a hypothetical. But that still does not mean this is any less cultist.
No, it's not actually possible to subtract one day of your life to give to someone else. That's ludicrous. But the fact that Roger Simon would be willing to do so, and call on others to do the same were this to be possible shows you the sort of mindset these people have.
He's not suggesting to subtract a day of his own life to give to someone who ACTUALLY needs it like a terminal patient. He's not even suggesting he do this for the benefit of RBG as a person. He's only suggesting it out of pure politics. He doesn't want RBG to be replaced not because she's a good person in the Left's eyes, but because she's a useful tool to the Left.
Were this sort of thing to be possible; were he to be able to reduce the amount of days he has in his own life to give to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, he would not hesitate to do it. Beyond that, he even asks if others would be willing to do the same.
Funny enough, I went through his comments (not all of them, but a good number of them) and I did not find a single person who would be willing to do so.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats would be willing to do so. The first comment that I saw read as follows: "Absolutely not, she should have been responsible and stepped down during the Obama administration. Republicans wouldn't have blocked her replacement, they only blocked Garland because of their insane fantasy that the 'Scalia seat' is 'theirs'."
Not really true, as the biggest reason McConnell blocked Garland was because it was during a presidential election that, in case you didn't know, everyone and their grandmother expected Hillary to win. So Democrats would've gotten a Leftist in the Supreme Court had they won.
But that's not the point. This is very clearly a Democrat, but he is not willing to follow in Roger Simon's lunatic Leftist cultist fantasy of giving up some of his life to give to RBG.
Another comment reads as follows: "This is a joke, right? She's had a full life. And if she wasn't so selfish, she would've stepped down during Obama's presidency. Now Trump will appoint another conservative judge."
That one was from a conservative, as far as I could tell, because he ended his tweet with a thumbs up emoji.
Other comments, which really more broadly ridiculed Simon were: "Maybe instead of embracing vampiric forces, the Democrats could just win more elections?" and one that really made me laugh: "God, now they want to redistribute the health."
The point is that most people don't seemingly subscribe to this Leftist cult, even some Democrats themselves. However, there is no denying that such a cult exists. Let's not forget that when Ruth Bader Ginsburg broke her ribs, people on the Left literally offered THEIR OWN RIBS TO HER.
And now that it appears as though RBG's days on the Court are numbered, Simon poses the question of whether people would be willing to give up one day of their lives to give to RBG just so that Mean Orange Man Trump doesn't get another pick?
Were the situations reversed, with a Democrat President and a conservative on the court whose health is deteriorating, we would not be wishing for the literal impossible to keep them around (and Democrats would likely be openly wishing for that conservative's death every day of the week, but that's beside the point).
This is the cult of the Left in a nutshell right here. It's very reminiscent of when Michael Moore put up a Christmas tree decoration of RBG to replace the star over Bethlehem and an angel sitting atop the tree. Like I said then, it was straight up idolatry.
And while there is no physical idol doll to be talked about here, it is not very different from Moore. These people, at least Simon, pretty much worship Ruth Bader Ginsburg. They rely on her to be their savior against President Trump. They hope she can do something, anything to keep Trump restrained. And even if she can't, they hope she can at least hang in there until Trump is out of office so that he can't replace her. Of course, I wonder what they would do if Trump were to get re-elected. RBG might not outlast Trump's presidency.
But that's beside the point. Again, these people basically worship RBG, which is very clearly idolatry. Even if they don't pray to her or anything like that, the fact that she is closer to their hearts than Christ shows their idolatry.
Like I said in my article discussing Moore and idolatry, RBG is merely a mortal. She is human and will eventually die. Mohammed died, Moses died, Buddha died and they are all still dead where they are buried. Christ on the other hand, while He did die, He also rose from the dead because death has no power over Him.
As fanatical as the Left might think Trump supporters might be, it's clear to me and to many other people who truly are the ones who are fanatical.
Jonah 2:8
"Those who pay regard to vain idols forsake their hope of steadfast love."
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Author: Freddie Marinelli.
Ok, class, let's turn our attention to our book, titled: "No, Duh!", where we will find Claire McCaskill, the outgoing Democrat Senator from Missouri, actually admitting that the way the Democrat Party handled the Kavanaugh confirmation process and his sexual assault allegations might've cost her her re-election.
McCaskill recently told NPR that "I don't think my vote [against Kavanaugh] hurt me as much as the spectacle that occurred. There were mistakes made by my party in terms of how that was handled. I don't think that communication [from Ford] to the judiciary committee should have been kept private as long as it was. The FBI deals with a lot of confidential information, and that would have absolved [Feinstein] of the very real perception that this was an 11th-hour attempt to gut a guy."
Okay, there are a good amount of things to go through here.
First of all, I would argue that her vote against Kavanaugh did hurt her an awful lot. Those who voted against Kavanaugh's confirmation (that is, all but 1 Democrat, who just-so-happened to win his race in November) essentially voted in favor of allowing someone's entire career and life be derailed by the simple accusation of sexual assault. No evidence is necessary. No corroborating witnesses need apply. If a woman says a man sexually assaulted her, that guy should be thoroughly punished, evidence be damned.
Almost all Democrats voted for that sort of world when they voted against Kavanaugh (and this includes Lisa Murkowski, who is a supposed Republican. No, she didn't vote against Kavanaugh, but planned to before abstaining). The Democrat Party's mindset was the utter disregard and destruction of due process for the simple reason that they do not like the guy's political leanings.
Second of all, the Democrat Party did not make "mistakes". It was an outright assault on a highly-qualified candidate strictly for political reasons, and their murder weapon was a sloppily-constructed sexual assault allegation, a second, even more sloppily-constructed sexual harassment allegation, and a rape allegation that is so outlandish and unbelievable, it would be found in the fiction section of a library, were it to be written into a book. Granted, the same could be said for the other allegations, but that rape allegation was particularly incredible.
The Democrat Party did not make a mistake when it came to the Ford allegation, since Feinstein sat on it, waiting until the 11th hour to release it. It was a calculated plan of attack. Of course, they still did not have the proof for the claims, but that was not necessary in their minds. With the way the media was going along with it, flat out calling Kavanaugh a serial rapist, evidence was not something they thought they would need. And they came incredibly and uncomfortably close to succeeding too.
Frankly, the only mistake I could see regarding the whole thing was allowing the creepy porn lawyer to release an even more mentally disturbed person to make such outlandish allegations that they practically sunk the previous allegations made.
Turns out that not many people will believe a college-aged woman would attend high school parties in which the boys would regularly run rape trains on the girls and that said college-aged woman would ATTEND SUCH A PARTY TEN DIFFERENT TIMES!
Not to mention that the entire thing pretty much fell apart when Swetnik flat out said she did not remember Kavanaugh actually participating in the raping of girls.
But aside from that, since the main focus was Blasey Ford, whom the Left elevated to the status of a survivor bravely sharing her story (*whispering* after pretty much not telling anyone for about 30 years), one can hardly say that the Democrats made a mistake here. They knew what they were doing and the media was in on it as well. After the test run that was the Iran nuke deal, the Democrat Party figured out they could literally tell the media that JFK was revived using unicorn magic and the suckers would buy it hook, line and sinker.
As a result, they knew that any allegation that the Democrat Party ran with, the media would run with it as well and even more strongly.
Lastly, and just about the only good thing I could say about this woman and what she's saying, I can appreciate the fact that she is admitting that this was an "11th-hour attempt to gut a guy."
I don't imagine very many Democrats, even the ones that have since lost their elections, would be so willing to admit that the Kavanaugh witch hunt was just that. So I will give credit where credit is due.
Unfortunately, the damage has been done. Kavanaugh was so sought after with false allegations that were uncorroborated and unproven that his name will forever leave a sour taste in people's mouths. Despite the fact that there's been no evidence to prove even one of the allegations made, the Left, Hollywood, and Democrat voters will forever see Kavanaugh as a sexual assaulter and rapist.
That's the sort of damage they've caused. Sure, he's in the Supreme Court for life now, but there are a lot of other cases where a man is accused of something that he didn't do and is punished for the mere allegation. In fact, Democrats are trying to challenge a bill that would return due process on college campus, allowing for people accused to be innocent until proven guilty as it works everywhere else in the country.
This is the path the Left wants to take. Their rampant "feminism" has led to the belief that all women, regardless of credibility or even evidence presented, must be believed at all costs. And the only time that doesn't happen is when a prominent Leftist is being accused of it (*ahem* Neil DeGrasse Tyson *ahem*). Of course, in the case of DeGrasse Tyson, and even Michael Avenatti's accusation of domestic violence, the two of them deserve due process and deserve to be seen innocent until proven guilty. That's just the way it works and the way it should work, regardless of political leanings.
But the point here is that those very same people will ignore that if the target is someone to the Right of Marx.
And this double-standard goes farther than sexual assault or domestic violence. Paul Manafort is in prison for things a lot of Democrats have also done, but they enjoy their freedom. Now, Manafort SHOULD be in prison since he did break the law, but so should anyone else WHO BREAKS THE SAME EXACT LAWS!
Hillary Clinton sold 20% of our Uranium supply as Secretary of State, colluded with foreign agents to steal an American election, and wiped a server full of over 30k emails containing highly confidential information. She's currently going on a coughing tour and selling tickets for less than the price of popcorn at a movie theater. And even then, the Clintons can barely sell any tickets. If I had any interest in going, I would buy a ticket and wear a MAGA hat just to tick them off.
But in any case, there exists a painfully clear double-standard in our injustice system (yes, I will call it that until I see some actual justice being served). Those who are helpful and an asset to the Left and the Leftist agenda are allowed to break more laws than Al Capone, while those who are a challenge to the Left, a liability, or even a good sacrificial lamb will be punished to the fullest extent of the law, and simple accusations, regardless of evidence or lack thereof, will be enough for them.
As for Claire McCaskill, she would not have come even close to admitting this had she won her election and especially had the Democrats gotten away with destroying the career and life of an innocent man. Only once the dust has settled and there is no more fighting does she come to accept the fact that this was a last-minute and last-ditch attempt at destroying someone they didn't like.
For the record, I am a little bit surprised that she would admit this, considering she has nothing to gain from it, and I do give her credit for actually admitting this, which is more than I ever expected out of any Democrat, but the sentiment that maybe what they were doing wasn't right shouldn't have come in this late. Kavanaugh's already in the Supreme Court and has been for a couple months now.
I guess hindsight really is 20/20.
James 4:17
"So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."
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Author: Freddie Marinelli.
After about a month (or at least what felt like a month) of smear campaign after smear campaign against Judge (now Justice) Brett Kavanaugh, the dangerous mob rule of the Left has been defeated by sanity and logic.
But just because Brett Kavanaugh is now a Supreme Court Justice does not mean that the Left will simply lay down in defeat. Much like the 2016 Presidential election, they will deem this confirmation illegitimate and have even warned that, should they retake the House, they will impeach Brett Kavanaugh and undermine President Trump, and subsequently, the American people who wanted him confirmed in the first place.
The behavior the Left displayed in the weeks running up to Kavanaugh's confirmation vote was absolutely horrendous, shameful and even terrifying. But what is even more terrifying is the knowledge that this is only the beginning.
This whole thing started with Sen. Diane Feinstein releasing a letter that was sent to her describing a horrible act that was supposedly perpetrated by Kavanaugh. For a long while, that was all people were talking about. The supposed ire that Dr. Christine Blasey Ford went through roughly 30 years ago.
The biggest problem that the Left faced (but tried to ignore until it came back to bite them) is that Ford's claims were uncorroborated. She presented no evidence to prove her claims and no witnesses to corroborate her claims. In fact, the witnesses she names either deny having been there or deny such a party even happening in the first place.
But instead of moving on to something substantial in their fight against Brett Kavanaugh, the Left chose to double down. They didn't just ignore the fact that Ford's claims were uncorroborated, they flat out denied that they even needed to be corroborated.
Multiple Leftists tried to take away Kavanaugh's right to presumption of innocence. They painted him as a rapist even before the most ludicrous accusation, that of Swetnik's, even came up. In their minds, Ford calling him a sexual assaulter made him one. They didn't just ignore logic or sanity. They adamantly rejected both of them.
After Ford came out with her story and seeing how the media and the Democrats reacted, more women tried to come in and achieve something similar. The New Yorker's Ronan Farrow reported a story of Brett Kavanaugh having exposed himself in front of a woman named Deborah Ramirez. That story was also uncorroborated.
But as if either of those uncorroborated stories weren't enough, in came Michael Avenatti with his client, a woman named Julia Swetnik. While Ford did not try to go as far as to say Kavanaugh had raped her (though she said she thought he would have tried to) and Ramirez tried to fan the flames just a little bit with a story of sexual misconduct, not necessarily assault, Swetnik came in chucking a gallon of gas into the fire.
The problem was that, apart from the fact that her story was also uncorroborated, it was also largely incredible. As in hardly anyone with a functioning brain would believe it.
Who would believe a college-age girl would go to high school parties where there would be gang rapes and drugging of girls? Beyond that, who would believe a college-age girl would attend such parties 10 DIFFERENT TIMES?!
But did that actually insane story stop the Left from pushing it? Of course not, because these people are just as unhinged as that story was.
Multiple Democrats roped in Swetnik's accusation along with Ford's and Ramirez's. Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), who largely made a name for herself in this case against Kavanaugh, said: "We already have three credible reports of sexual misconduct by Judge Kavanaugh" when calling for an FBI investigation against the nominee.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said: "We now have three credible accusers of sexual assault."
And Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) issued a press release titled: "Senate Democrats: FBI Must Investigate All Three Credible Allegations of Sexual Assault Against Judge Brett Kavanaugh."
They all deemed Swetnik's ludicrous accusation to be just as credible as the other two. While I would consider Ford's to be somewhat believable to an extent, and Ramirez to a lesser extent, Swetnik's accusation is flat out unbelievable, let alone incredible. Whether you like Brett Kavanaugh or not, you would be hard-pressed to believe a girl would repeatedly go to parties where girls get drugged and raped by a line of boys.
Had it been once, then we could chuck it up to being in the wrong place at the wrong time and having survived something horrendous that one time. But 10? Not even fiction writers would find this believable.
And yet, the Left ran with it. They abandoned sanity and logic in favor of partisan politics. But alas, they failed.
The circus show that they created wound up coming back to bite them. And even Democrats and the MSM have been blaming Avenatti for making things as wild as they were (and they are right to some extent, but not without a share of the blame themselves for running with it in the first place).
They saw what happened in the Alabama special election and thought they could recreate that with Kavanaugh. The problem was that at least some of the accusations against Roy Moore were believable and credible. He DID date a 16-year-old girl (not that it is illegal in Alabama, for some reason). So some of the accusations were at least believable (I won't call them credible because virtually nothing happened after Moore lost, which makes me think it was nothing more than a political hit-job).
But when it comes to all the accusations against Kavanaugh, the most believable one is Ford's and even that is a bit of a stretch to say it's believable. She could not remember the when or where of it and could not remember who drove her home. She remembered the incident in detail but anyone can do that, particularly if they have 30+ years to do it.
And the subsequent allegations became less and less believable until you get to Swetnik who was basically a nuclear bomb directed at Kavanaugh, but likely impacted the Left a lot more.
But the fact that the Left ran with all of them, despite them not being corroborated with evidence, and even going as far as to believe it was up to Kavanaugh to prove his innocence rather than Ford to prove his guilt tells me all I need to know about where we are headed as a nation against the Left.
Like wild dogs, they will bite and maul at anyone and anything. And I would not be surprised if they started to get violent.
The Kavanaugh confirmation process is proof that the Left is ready to abandon any and all sense of morality, logic and sanity. I've said before that Trump's election did not create the Left's insane nature, but rather exposed it. The confirmation process for Kavanaugh exposed something else: the Left is not ashamed of what they are.
They wanted to destroy Kavanaugh and went to any length they deemed necessary. They slandered him and dragged his name through the mud. They targeted him and his family and have tried to utterly destroy his name. A writer for Stephen Colbert even tweeted on the day of Kavanaugh's confirmation: "Whatever happens, I'm just glad we ruined Brett Kavanaugh's life."
That tells you everything you need to know, doesn't it? It wasn't about making sure a woman was heard. It wasn't about defending victims of sexual assault. It wasn't about standing up to a possible sexual assaulter. It was about ruining a man who stands in the Left's way. They wanted to do to Kavanaugh what they want to do to Trump. Only, they thought they could destroy Kavanaugh if they went twice as hard against him as they did against Trump.
Yesterday, it was Brett Kavanaugh. Who will it be today? Or tomorrow? Or Novemver 6th, 2018? Or further down the road?
I recently had a conversation with someone regarding this whole issue. They made the point that this was a war against men that the Left is waging. I made the point that it was a war against conservatives that the Left is waging. Upon further analysis and thought, I could say that it's really both.
The Left hates this thing called the "patriarchy". And within this patriarchy, there exist men of all kinds, even Leftist men. Just the title of a man is enough to be considered part of this patriarchy regardless of your beliefs.
Leftist men like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, George Takei, Bill Cosby, Al Franken and others have been destroyed by the #MeToo movement. As well they should have. What they did was horrendous, particularly Weinstein.
As far as I can tell, the #MeToo movement has destroyed far more Leftist men than conservatives.
It depicts a war against men. Yes, most, if not all of them are sexual assaulters, so there definitely has to be some punishment against them. But the Left has hijacked this movement and aimed its sights at conservatives who did not do anything.
Anyone who is a conservative is considered a sexual assault apologist at best and a sexual assaulter and rapist at worst. The Women's March, another Leftist organization, even went as far as to call Senator Susan Collins a "Rape Apologist" for having voted in favor of Kavanaugh.
So this war the Left is waging, I would say, is both against men in general and conservatives (or anyone who stands in their way, since I would not call Collins a "conservative" even after this).
This is where the Left is going. It's somewhere that, if you have any sense for right and wrong, or any sanity within you, you cannot follow. What they want is a society where they are in control, anyone who opposes them is punished and everyone else submits to them out of fear.
A society where rule of law does not exist, only rule of mob. A society where good, innocent men are disparaged and destroyed just because they are nominated by a guy the Left does not like, or even just because they are men and that's good enough to destroy them. Frankly, aside from key details, I would not be surprised if they had been as savage and barbaric towards Amy Coney Barrett (who I look forward to replacing RBG). She also would have stood in their way and they would have gone to any lengths they felt were needed to destroy her.
Doubtful it would've been with sexual assault allegations given she's a woman, but they would have done something.
And all things considered, I am glad Brett Kavanaugh was nominated by Trump over Barrett. Not because I prefer him over her. In fact, I think she's even more conservative than Kavanaugh and was my favorite candidate out of the list that Trump released. But I am glad Kavanaugh was chosen because this process further exposed the Left for what they are: totally and unequivocally unhinged and deranged.
I'd rather know the enemy I am facing, even if it terrifies me, than be oblivious to my enemy and live in blissful ignorance that would ultimately kill me.
I'm glad we all got to see the Left for the crap that they are. This process has affirmed my belief in voting Republican. Not necessarily because I might like the Republican candidate, but because I absolutely cannot allow a Democrat to win. Not anymore. And while Manchin voted in favor of Kavanaugh, he only did it because he thought it'd help him in November. I thank him for voting the way he did, but will not give him more credit than what is due.
As for the rest of the Democrat Party, I do not see a single one that I would consider sane in any way. At best, maybe Nancy Pelosi, but if I consider her to be the least deranged out of the bunch, that tells me a lot about the Democrat Party.
The good news is that God is always in control and that the Left's recent behavior will likely cost them in the midterms. Only insane people support insane people. And I do not think there are that many of them to vote Democrat. With the WalkAway movement, which likely gained more traction after this, I doubt sane people will vote Democrat.
But I won't count my eggs before they hatch. We are still a month away from the midterms and a lot can happen in that time span. But it would take a miracle for the Left to put out the dumpster fire they have created for themselves. And knowing them, they will not only ignore the fact that they are a dumpster fire, but will flat out reject that there is any other alternative than being a dumpster fire.
Ephesians 6:14
"Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,"
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Author: Freddie Marinelli.
One of the bigger stories for the past couple of weeks has been the accusation of Supreme Court pick Justice Brett Kavanaugh of having sexually assaulted a woman decades ago while he was a teenager and intoxicated.
On the outset, this represents nothing more than a political hit job against Kavanaugh simply for being conservative and for being picked to the Supreme Court by Donald Trump, whom the Left abhors. And while this is accurate, I believe the stipulations for this particular case go well beyond this and highlights a problem in today's world, a problem that Socrates himself saw in ancient Greece: a trend away from logic and into ignorance.
Let's look at what we know from this case. The accuser has refused to come forward and face the man he's accusing, she has passed a polygraph test, but cannot recall with accuracy where or even when this sexual assault even took place, only offering the vague timeline of sometime over 30 years ago. She presents no evidence to support her claims, no evidence to corroborate her claims and the two people she accuses, both Kavanaugh and someone she claims helped Kavanaugh, both have refuted her claims.
Not to mention that her lawyer has even boldly stated that it wasn't the accuser's job to corroborate her story and the accuser herself is a huge Leftist activist who has supported Obama, Hillary and the DNC.
So basically, this woman is saying the soon-to-be-confirmed (yes, I believe he will be confirmed no matter what) conservative Christian judge selected by President Donald Trump, whom the Left vehemently hates, floats a huge claim that she refuses to corroborate or present any evidence of, refuses to even step forth to face the man she's accusing, cannot accurately recall the where or when of this event, and we're just supposed to believe her?
This isn't just an attack on a conservative nominee for the Supreme Court, it's an attack on logic and people's very intelligence.
But it perfectly represents what the #MeToo movement, and the Left overall, are in today's world: feelings over facts.
It doesn't matter that the woman's accusation is incredibly shoddy, in both what she's claiming and the timing for the claims. If it helps the Left in any matter, that's fine. It's this willingness to ignore logic in favor of moving a political agenda that drives closer a comparison between today's America and Socrates' Greece. Socrates feared that ignorance was prevalent and that logic was dwindling. He perfectly understood that civilized society could not survive ignorance. That ignorance turns civilization from a civilized society to a savage and barbaric society devoid of knowledge and logic, doomed to return to a primal form of life.
This is what the Left is doing. The #MeToo movement takes any woman's accusations and takes them to be 100% truthful. It doesn't matter if there is a lack of evidence or if the claims do not appear credible. In their minds, every claim by every woman is credible… unless a woman makes a claim against a top Democrat in the government.
While the Left tries to push the rhetoric that Kavanaugh's accuser is telling the truth and is to be believed, they try to bury the far more credible and provable story that Keith Ellison has physically abused his ex-girlfriend Karen Monahan, despite the fact that Monahan has presented text and 911-call evidence to support her claim.
But since Keith Ellison is a top Democrat representative and key leader in the resistance movement against Donald Trump, the Left utterly ignores the woman's plea.
Much like the double-standard that exists in the justice system regarding Republicans and Democrats (Republicans pay heftily for things Democrats do all the time), there is also a double-standard in the #MeToo movement's unofficial justice system. Any woman who comes forward to accuse a Republican is immediately credible, regardless of lack of evidence or even willingness to corroborate her story under oath, but any woman who comes forward to accuse an important Democrat figure must be silenced.
And it's not like this is anything new. With Justice Clarence Thomas, the Left completely believed Anita Hill's story. With Bill Clinton, the Left tried to destroy the women who claimed he sexually abused them or worse. Anita Hill is considered a hero to the Left and women like Monica Lewinski, Juanita Broaddrick and others are either sluts or not to be believed, despite the evidence they present.
But it's not just that there's an issue of a double-standard. The very fact that there even is such a double-standard at play here highlights the Left's willingness to move away from logic and reason and to complete and utter ignorance.
Not that this should come as any surprise to anyone. I've often said that the Left needs a perpetually dependent base for them to have power. This dependency isn't just financial, but also intellectual. The Left feeds people crap like "we're killing the planet" or "a fetus is not alive" and people eat it up, leading to people continuing to support, vote and keep these deceptive people in power.
The Left's mission is to rule the people with an iron grip. Their desire to bring about socialism in this country only solidifies that fact as true. But things aren't quite so simple. In order to achieve this, a number of things must happen, chief among which is the destruction of logic and wisdom, something that would set us back by millennia.
Think about it, people who regularly and effectively employ logic can recognize the illogical inconsistencies and fallacies of Leftist narrative. The Left REQUIRES people to simply believe their claims and will go to any lengths, most particularly lying, to get people to believe them.
Regarding Kavanaugh's accuser, it's completely illogical to believe her story. She does not present any sort of evidence, does not and will not corroborate her story, does not accurately remember key factors of her story which any ACTUAL victim of sexual abuse likely would, did not come forward about this story until THIRTY YEARS later when her supposed assaulter is about to be confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States and has a history of being a Leftist activist and Democrat supporter.
It's not for any of the first few reasons that the Left believes her. It's because she is useful to the Left that they believe her.
If I were to accuse Senator Elizabeth Warren of having sexually abused me a decade ago, offered no evidence or witnesses to support my claim, offered not even any intention of corroborating my story and have been shown to be a far-Right conservative Christian who is anti-Left, anti-socialist and would vote against Warren were I to live in her state of Massachusetts, the Left would dismiss me as not credible and a liar seeking to perform character assassination on Warren. And they would be right to do so.
But because Kavanaugh's accuser is a devout Leftist who can help the Left in their pitiful resistance efforts, the Left dismisses all the idiocy of the entire accusation.
It does not help further anyone's intelligence, but rather flat out insults them. It marks a threat to logic and intelligence itself for it to be as successful as it is. It should have immediately been recognized as a political hit job and Kavanaugh should be well on his way to getting confirmed as scheduled without any possible or actual delays.
The fact that it wasn't immediately tossed aside like Booker's and Harris' attacks against Kavanaugh is indicative of the problem Socrates faced in Athens: ignorance is taking over and logic and intelligence are being cast aside.
Like I said, allowing for ignorance to take hold of a civilization is to witness the regression of a civilized society being turned into a barbaric one.
James 3:17
"But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere."
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Author: Freddie Marinelli.
During the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, I had chosen to abstain from writing anything about it. Largely because I do not know how long these things usually last and didn't want to upload something in regards to it while it was still going on. However, I feel it necessary to speak about this particular topic on its own.
Aside from the craziness and near coup the Democrats are staging with the interruptions and protests and smearing campaigns throughout the hearing (which will result in nothing more than ammunition for Republicans to use in November) there was a point in the second day of the hearing that China's useful idiot Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) tried to back Kavanaugh into a corner with a question regarding abortion and Roe v. Wade.
Feinstein tried to paint the picture that "a lot of women died" prior to abortion becoming legal and cited some statistics which have since been refuted, saying: "Deaths from illegal abortions in this country ran between 200,000 and 1.2 million… so, a lot of women died in that period."
Feinstein also mentioned Roe v Wade, but Kavanaugh was having none of it. He responded with: "I will tell you what my view now is: It is an important precedent of the Supreme Court that has been reaffirmed many times. One of the important things to keep in mind about Roe v. Wade is that it has been reaffirmed many times over the last 45 years, as you know, and most prominently, most importantly reaffirmed in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992."
Feinstein tried to trap him again by asking him to define "settled law" but Kavanaugh did his best to circumvent the question.
Now, that's as far as I want to get into regarding the whole confirmation hearing. That's really all I need to set up this article. What I really want to talk about is those statistics Feinstein was using.
Like I said, they've been refuted. According to LifeNews, "Actual government statistics prior to the Roe decision in 1973 show nowhere near 1.2 million women (or even 200,000) died in abortions. A 1972 Center for Disease Control report noted the maternal death rate from abortions was 39 in the United States, the year prior to Roe."
LifeNews even points out that "even abortion activists have admitted that the notion of women dying in so-called back-alley abortions before Roe is a myth because most abortions done prior to 1973 were done by doctors whose illegal abortions became legal after that infamous Supreme Court decision."
But of course, they don't expect you to take their word for it. They quote Dr. Mary Calderone, who in 1960 was the medical director for Planned Parenthood and wrote in the American Journal of Public Health that "about 90 percent of all illegal abortions are presently being done by physicians… Whatever trouble arises usually arises from self-induced abortions which comprise approximately 8 percent, or with the very small percentage that go to some kind of non-medical abortionist… So remember… abortion, whether therapeutic or illegal, is in the main no longer dangerous, because it is being done well by physicians."
Even Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a former abortionist and co-founder of NARAL, which itself claimed between 5 and 10 thousand women died every year from dangerous, back-alley abortions, admitted that he "knew that the figures were totally false and I suppose that others did too if they stopped to think about it. But in the 'morality' of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted… The overriding concern was to get the laws eliminated, and anything within reason that had to be done was permissible."
So two different pro-abortion sources have exposed the fact that the numbers Feinstein uses are completely made up, so that's one way to dispute her arguments.
But let's just say that those numbers were true. Let's just say that 200,000 to 1.2 million women died from abortion before 1972. If that's the case, it seems to me like the real problem here is the actual abortions, not the legality of them.
Had those hypothetical women not gotten abortions and instead had come to their senses that aborting their fetuses is effectively ending the life of not only another human being but their VERY OWN CHILD then I'm hard-pressed to believe that they would have hypothetically died, since they wouldn't have gotten those abortions.
Why would a woman get an abortion if they thought there would be a chance that they would end up dying too? It seems like this statistic is more harmful to the pro-abortion crowd than the pro-life crowd.
But either way, true or false (definitely false), this is an argument that goes against what China's employee of the month wants. Either that statistic is true and it highlights the problem of abortion itself, not the legality of it, or the statistic is false and it highlights Feinstein's deceitful nature.
Of course, at the end of the day, it hardly matters when it comes to the confirmation hearing. Feinstein was more likely to sprout wings and fly than she was of voting in favor of confirming Brett Kavanaugh. She was always going to vote against him regardless of his answers. The good news is that he was smart enough to not be straightforward with his answers because there are some Republican traitors who are pro-abortion and would look for any seemingly legit reason to vote against Kavanaugh.
Do you know how we avoid that problem? By flooding Congress with Republicans and get as close to giving them a super-majority as we possibly can.
I, for one, can't wait until Justice Ginsburg retires and Trump gets to pick her replacement.
Exodus 14:14
"The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent."
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Author: Freddie Marinelli.
MSM's Newest Attack Against Kavanaugh: He Preferred Basketball While In College
Ever since President Trump announced his pick for replacing Justice Anthony Kennedy to be Brett Kavanaugh, the fake news media has gone into overdrive to find anything they can possibly use against him.
The result? Brett Kavanaugh is, without a shadow of a doubt, a pretty normal dude.
And in the latest news search for finding anything to say about Kavanaugh, the AP uncovered something incredible: he preferred basketball over politics while he was a student at Yale.
The AP wrote: "In some ways, Kavanaugh was like many Yale students of his time: a product of a high-powered East Coast prep school who majored in history, then Yale's most popular major, and headed for law school after graduating in 1987. Interviews with more than a dozen people who knew him in college and Yale Law School draw a portrait of a serious, but not showy student and sports lover whose drive and competitiveness helped him both on the court and in the classroom."
The Daily Wire also tackled this story, saying: "[The AP] interviewed 'more than a dozen people' to learn: 1) he probably would have preferred to be an NBA player, 2) he belonged to an all-male 'senior society' called Truth and Courage, 3) he wasn't outspoken about his political views, and 4) he keeps in touch with his law-school housemates."
Now, there are a few different reasons I'm talking about this. First of all, this is basically proof of the nature of today's mainstream media. Despite what people on CNN or other fake news media might say about the MSM not being biased as Trump claims, it's stories like these that show that's precisely what they are. This is only one of many stories about Brett Kavanaugh that end up making the guy seem completely normal.
There was also another story about him during a baseball game doing something no one ever expected: enjoying the game.
So no one can honestly tell me the fake news media is not fake news or is not biased. The biggest reason they search so much about Kavanaugh is to look for dirt, much as they have been looking to do with Trump, and have found absolutely nothing.
That's the biggest reason for this article. The second reason is to point out precisely how normal the MSM is making Kavanaugh look, which is the exact opposite of what they want to do.
The MSM wants to make Kavanaugh basically look like a serial killer who's out to take away women's "right" to kill their own children. After seeing all of these stories, the biggest adjective I can use to describe Kavanaugh is simply: normal.
As it turns out, he's not the blood-thirsty monster the media tries to portray him as. He's a normal dude, living a normal life, and who's gotten one of the biggest honors one can receive in the world of judicial law and that is to be nominated for a United States Supreme Court seat.
Whenever someone goes to a baseball game, they tend to enjoy it (unless you're a Mets fan). And in college, or even at any other point in your life, it makes sense if you would prefer to be a basketball player in the NBA than just about anything else.
I know for a fact that, while I love doing what I do, I would absolutely LOVE being a basketball player, playing for my favorite NBA team and trying to win championships, all-the-while earning millions of dollars even if I'm garbage.
People tend to have such dreams of grandeur, and the fact that the AP is saying this is 1) not news whatsoever and 2) completely expected, even for someone back in 1987. If I could be a basketball player in the late 80's and early 90's, I would be, even if I got destroyed by the Celtics, Lakers, Pistons or Bulls.
But there's also a different aspect that's not quite as obvious as the basketball one. The story also mentions that he wasn't outspoken about his political views. That is also perfectly normal, but beyond that, it even makes sense.
Kavanaugh is not a politician. He is not running for a Senate seat or a House seat and has never run for President. He's a lawyer. And yeah, a lot of politicians get law degrees, but Kavanaugh himself likely never saw himself running for office. What he is, in his mind, is a lawyer and a judge.
I know that politics infects pretty much every aspect of people's lives, but it really shouldn't. That's what is ruining a lot of things.
For example, I far prefer watching old t.v. shows and movies than current shows, with some exceptions. Why? Because for the most part, politics play a huge role in shows today, while they were only an underlying topic rarely brought up in shows of the past.
Today, you can hardly watch a show that doesn't feature either a gay character or couple, a transgender character, or overall someone who is adamant in shoving their Leftist views down everyone else's throats.
Like I said, there are exceptions to this. For example, Last Man Standing. That's a show that is heavily political, but it often pokes fun at the topic. You have both liberal characters and conservative characters who often bicker at each other, but you like them all anyway and logic often appears in everything. The liberal character is not overly Leftist to the point he will cross-dress while wearing a pink hat representing the female genitalia and shouting that the conservative character is a fascist.
But the reason it's a good show is because, in my opinion, it depicts a more normal situation in America. Most shows don't offer the conservative side of things. They just feature a family full of Leftists that all agree that Trump is Hitler and conservatives need to die. That's not what America really is. We are more varied and, to borrow the Left's term, diversified than that.
So politics have basically ruined television shows in today's era because they use politics almost 24/7 and take themselves completely seriously. The same thing goes for just about any Hollywood movie today (again, there are exceptions) as well as video games.
This politization of everything has also gotten into practicing, implementing and enforcing the law. Circuit court judges are overextending their authority by forcing Trump to keep DACA, a highly unconstitutional EO enacted by Obama. And why? Because such judges are not judges, but political activists who disregard the laws that they don't like.
The assumption, in the AP's mind, is that everyone has a political belief that they employ at work. Everyone from a Starbucks employee who refuses to serve police or military personnel to even district and Supreme Court judges.
But it shouldn't be that way. Politics shouldn't play into absolutely everything, and clearly, it doesn't in Kavanaugh's job. He doesn't make rulings based on his own beliefs, but rather on what his best interpretation of the law is. Sure, he has beliefs and views and sure, he has certain convictions that almost undoubtedly play into his rulings.
But he's not a political activist. He's not going to ignore the law entirely just to advance his own political agenda. And that's the way every judge should act and is expected to act in a logical setting. There's a reason Lady Justice has a blindfold covering her eyes: a judge is supposed to be impartial. When presented with a case, he/she makes sure it's up to the defense and prosecution to explain why they are right so that the jury can come to a verdict and the judge can make it the official ruling in the court.
When you have a judge that will 100% be against one side or the other, what you have is the opposite of justice. What you have is injustice and corruption.
From what we've seen and heard both from Trump and the media (when they're not calling him a monster) is that Kavanaugh's a perfectly normal guy with strong convictions and integrity. He will rule according to what the law says and according to his best interpretation of the law, not on what he WANTS the law to be.
Now, there can be problems, at times, with trying to use the best interpretation of the law. Naturally, interpretations are entirely subjective and people will naturally disagree on things. It's tricky, but Kavanaugh seems to be the kind of guy to not willingly misinterpret the law and ignore what it says altogether just for his agenda's benefit.
And given what the AP and other sources have shown about Kavanaugh, he seems like your Regular Joe with a Yale Law School degree.
A far cry from the image of the demon the Left wants to portray him as.
Philippians 4:8
"Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things."
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The answer to that question is the exact same answer for the question "what's so wrong about being a black female?", which is: absolutely nothing. And yet, the Left is always the one to bring up race and gender in every issue. They always have problems with someone's skin color.
Earlier this week, President Trump announced the nomination for Justice Anthony Kennedy's replacement for the Supreme Court. Trump chose D.C. Circuit Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a solidly conservative judge who would most likely have a hand in overturning Roe v. Wade if the case is brought up again to the Supreme Court. He just so happens to be a white man. GASP! The horror! How can President Donald Trump select someone who is a member of the majority race in this country?! How could he select yet another white man?!
The thing is that, regardless of who he chose, the Left would have utterly trashed that person, if the Women's March statement opposing the nomination of judge "XX" is anything to go by. Had it been Barrett (my personal favorite), Trump would've been attacked for trying to play the "woman" card and she would've been attacked for "betraying women" for being pro-life.
So, with the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh, the Left is attacking him for everything (even saying he will kill millions of people), including for his race and gender. If you're still wondering if the Left is racist and sexist, there's your answer.
Supposed comedian Stephen Colbert joked about this whole thing, saying that Kavanaugh fills Trump's BINGO card for nomination. He literally pulled out a BINGO card that only had "white guy" squares.
Fellow butcher of comedy Jimmy Kimmel joked: "[Trump] narrowed his candidates down to three but, in the end, Brett Kavanaugh was the white guy for the job."
And it's not just washed-up comedians who are taking a jab at Kavanaugh's race. The New York Daily News attacked not only Kavanaugh's race and gender, but the race and gender of those who support and praise him. "After President Trump picked a man who many believe will be the deciding vote on reversing Roe v. Wade, the White House released a list of praise from 34 members of Congress – all of whom are white men."
I've used this argument before, but I believe it to be effective and relevant, so I will use it again here. Replace the word "white" with the word "black" or "Hispanic" and the word "man" with the word "woman" and you can't help but notice the racism on display.
To better picture it, I'll rewrite some of the aforementioned statements and "jokes".
Picture Stephen Colbert pulling out a BINGO book that only had "black chick" on it. Picture Colbert bashing Trump for choosing a black woman for Supreme Court based only on the fact that the nominee is black and female.
Or how about what Kimmel said? "He narrowed his candidates down to three but, in the end, [Judge XX] was the black woman for the job." I get he's using a pun, so this doesn't have the same effect, but picture Kimmel also attacking the nominee's race and gender.
Or the NY Daily News: "The White House released a list of praise from 34 members of Congress… all of whom are black women."
So, again, I ask: what is so wrong with being white and a man? And don't tell me I'm being a white supremacist sympathizer for defending white men or white people in general. Were people who defended black people before the 60s called "black supremacist sympathizers"? No. And considering it's white people being attacked for absolutely no reason, of course I'm going to defend them. Same way I would defend black people being attacked for absolutely no reason. Same goes for Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, Muslims, gay people, transgenders, liberals, conservatives, atheists, Christians, etc.
It's not right to attack people for no reason. But the most important thing is recognizing just who are the ones attacking people: those who consider themselves "tolerant" and "loving" and "caring".
The truth is they only tolerate you if you agree with them. The Democrat Party's slogan for 2018 and 2020 should honestly be: "Join us in tolerating and loving people who are different or die." Considering their constant (and sometimes violent) attacks against Christians, conservatives and Trump supporters, I'd say that slogan fits them perfectly.
They don't tolerate others. They HATE others. Anyone who is different, who thinks differently from them, cannot be tolerated. Their speech must be eliminated and censored. And when they set their sights on a particular group of people, they don't let up.
Historically, the biggest reason the KKK was formed was not simply to attack and kill black people. It was formed to attack and kill Republicans. When Lincoln freed the slaves, black people had no real reason to vote Democrat, considering they were the ones who fought for their "right" to keep them slaves. So, the KKK formed to attack and kill Republicans and black people were usually Republicans.
Today, while not always necessarily the case, white people are sometimes associated with the Republican Party. And unless they denounce the GOP, like the black people who began voting Democrat to keep themselves out of trouble, those white people will be attacked and/or harassed.
Everything the Left does, historically, is fueled by hatred. They hated black people who would vote Republican (don't misunderstand, they still do). They hate white people who vote Republican, calling them racists. They hate Hispanics who vote Republican, believing them to be abandoning their "brethren" at the border.
Make no mistake, I do not consider a single person who breaks the law to enter the country a "brother" or "sister". And it also speaks to the Left's racism to assume all Hispanics disapprove of Trump's handling of immigration.
It speaks to their racism for them to assume all black people are Democrats. Even more so to assume they MUST vote Democrat.
The truth is that the Left does not tolerate white people who do not denounce their "whiteness" or the GOP. That is why they excuse their prominent Democrats who are white such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren (go ahead and tell me she's Native American, I could use a laugh), etc. They are excused of their "whiteness" because they support the Leftist agenda. Same reason they excuse Al Gore's and DiCaprio's massive carbon footprints. They support the Leftist agenda as well.
Now, in all of this, you really have to ask why they would attack white people. It's not like they have to fill some quota of being racist towards a group of people every other century. Well, the reason they attack white people is because they see it as an opportunity. An opportunity to garner more votes. You see, despite the Left having been the ones to most strongly support slavery and segregation, they've managed to distort history, in their takeover of the education system, to make it seem like it's not the Left's fault, but rather, white people in general. And more specifically, America's fault.
Their arguments and attacks against black people were that they were inferior to the white man. Their arguments and attacks against white people are that their ancestors thought themselves superior to the black man. You see their tricks? It's them who attacked black people but make it seem as though it was generally white people (and even Republicans) who made those attacks.
And so, they attack white people today for the atrocities of DEMOCRATS' past. This is deception at its finest. They are making racism seem acceptable again. For what reason? To create more issues of race so they can continue getting elected. If you lived in the Left's mind, you would believe America is as racist today as it was in the time before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and before the Emancipation Proclamation.
Race relations in the U.S. can't be allowed to improve. For Democrats to be elected, people must be divided. They must be divided in terms of race, gender, class, etc. Black people must blame white people for things Democrats committed. Women must believe men are holding them back. The proletariat must believe the bourgeoisie are taking advantage of them.
This is how the Left wins. But the thing is that facts do not support this. White people do not treat black people the same today as in the past. Men don't have more rights than women do. The working class isn't being taken advantage of by the rich class.
But this doesn't matter to the Left. In fact, these things are nothing but a bother to them. They MUST create division. They MUST attack white people to make it seem as though the Democrats have always been on the side of black people.
It's nothing but a farce.
Regardless, it's always necessary to point out the Left's history of racism that continues to this day. They simply can't help but be racist. It's in their genes.
Proverbs 6:12-15
"A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing."
Author: Freddie Marinelli.
In the realm of politics, there are a myriad of candidates with assets and flaws that people weigh in making their decision. This applies to potential nominees for any cabinet position or Supreme Court Justiceship that the President chooses. And even in a time when the slightest hint of being a Constitutionalist is enough for Democrats to not vote for someone, perhaps the strangest case against someone is what they say on Twitter.
Now, I understand that this can sometimes matter to some extent. The Left has always been worried about Trump's tweets and take it as part of his agenda and what he intends to do. But in the case for 5th Circuit Judge Don Willett, the Left takes it to a strange extreme.
ABC News reported this past weekend that: "[T]he judge's frequent tweeting last year raises questions for some of judicial impartiality. [I]t remains to be seen whether or not his tweets will interfere with any potential nomination."
What are these potential judicially impartial tweets? Lame Dad jokes. Yep. Just Dad jokes.
Here are some jokes ABC News apparently found "troubling" and potentially "disqualifying" of his nomination:
On December 29th, 2017, he shared a picture of cornbread shaped like his home state of Texas with the caption: "When you're tired of cornbread shaped like Colorado and Wyoming."
On December 31st, 2017, he shared a small conversation he had with his kid: "11YO – Daddy, why do politicians talk about Eminem's domain? ME – That's eminent domain. 11YO – Huh? Me – Sorry, you only get one shot."
On that same day, he referenced Rick Astley's song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by tweeting: "People of Earth – in 2018, [I] will never: give you up, let you down, run around, desert you, make you cry, say goodbye, tell a lie, hurt you."
And what is perhaps the dumbest concern actual Democrat Senators had is a tweet from April 29th, 2015 that said: "I could support recognizing a constitutional right to marry bacon."
An actual Democrat Senator, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) asked the judge about the tweet in a Senate Judiciary Committee back in 2017.
Over these past couple of years, I've seen rampant stupidity on the part of elected Democrats, Deep State operatives and fake news media. I've seen unhinged ignorance on the part of Hollywood elites, pseudo-celebrities who are only known for being Twitter morons and athletes parroting the fake news media.
I've seen a lot of fake news articles, stories, reportings and videos. I don't quite know where this story ranks in terms of sheer stupidity, but it's up there.
You really have to wonder how far down these people have to reach down at the bottom of the barrel to see what they can get to attack a potential Supreme Court Justice that Trump might pick.
And perhaps the most pathetic part is that they take themselves seriously when they do this type of thing. They honestly take these kinds of tweets as grounds for making their decision.
It's honestly a strange kind of hatred on display. It's not volatile or aggressive like we're used to seeing; it's more subtle. Just about every Democrat (and stupidly enough, some Republicans) will vote against any nominee Trump selects for the simple reason that Trump likes that person. It doesn't matter if they are uniquely qualified or would do his or her job excellently and uphold the Constitution of the United States in every case. Just because Trump likes that person, they must be destroyed.
In fact, they will also destroy them if they do plan to uphold the Constitution. In their minds, the Constitution is the biggest threat to their socialist agenda and must be rid of or rendered ineffective.
But that's a different topic that I can always talk about at another time. Right now, I simply want to point out the mentality of the Left in who Trump might pick to replace Justice Kennedy.
This very story shows that they will go to any bounds, even if it's entirely ridiculous, to ensure any Trump pick is stained in their eyes and the eyes of the American people – or at least the ones who still watch them and read their content for some reason.
Knowing that, you also have to wonder how squeaky clean this judge's record might be. In these kind of situations, if you are a biased journalist and want to attack a potential nominee picked by the President whom you absolutely abhor, you look at everything they may have done. From corruption to sexual immorality to physical abuse, any scandal will do. But when you don't have that, you reach for anything at all. Apparently, that includes calling into question the judge's qualifications based entirely on tweets that either have absolutely nothing to do with politics or are simply lame Dad jokes that only he will find funny.
THAT is peak pathetic journalism. At least other fake news media is hard-working in the smearing of any right-winger. This is nothing but pathetic and lazy.
But it does show their kind of mentality: attack anyone Trump could potentially choose as Supreme Court Judge for any given reason, even something as ridiculous as lame Dad jokes and push it as legitimate concern for his potential judgeship.
It's always interesting to see how deep Trump Derangement Syndrome goes.
Proverbs 18:9
"Whoever is slack in his work is a brother to him who destroys."
Author: Freddie Marinelli.
Freddie Marinelli and Danielle Cross will bring you the TRUTH that the Left denies you. You'll live a more joyful and victorious life, because the Truth will set you free...
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Closely connected to thought life Willard -by looking at James 3-4 -points out our 'prisons of disorder and vane distraction' to look at how Spiritual Formation should identify our destructive feelings, sensations, emotion.
"The process of spiritual formation in Christ will transform our feelings by grace... a first step is to desire sincerely feelings that lead away from feelings that are contrary to what we understand of God."To deny such feelings would neurosis. Willard points out that when these destructive feelings happen the key question is "How can we deal with feelings?" His answer:
"The answer to these destructive feelings is not to deny that we have them or try to repress them. Â The proper course of action is to replace destructive feelings with others that are good, or to subordinate them intelligently to a rational order so that they become constructive." 92Digging deep into Proverbs Willard goes on to make very clear distinctions between feelings that are good and life enriching, and feelings that are destructive.
- the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (9: 10).
- hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers over all wrongs (10:12),
- a heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones (14:30).
- the cheerful heart has a continual feast (15:15),
- and a cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones (17:22).
The danger as Willard points out is that:
"We do not go at the change the other way around, trying first to root out the destructive feelings. That is the common mistake of worldly wisdom and of much 'religion' on such matters. But we know that life in Christ brings the fruit of the Spirit, and destructive feelings, and actions, will be replaced. Love, joy and peace fostered in fellowship with God simply crowd out fear, anger, unsatisfied desire, woundedness, rejection. There is no longer room for them. Well, perhaps there is for a while, but increasingly less so. (Willard 2002:104)The question is what needs to be crowded out? Let that positive movement take control.
Dallas Willard on Spiritual Formation... 1/9
Dallas Willard on Spiritual Formation... 2/9
Dallas Willard on Spiritual Formation... 3/9

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Surveillance cameras in primary school classrooms – China's latest society and culture news
A summary of the top news in Chinese society and culture for September 28, 2017. Part of the daily SupChina newsletter, a convenient package of China's business, political, and cultural news delivered to your inbox for free. Subscribe here.
"Classrooms are public places. There shouldn't be an expectation of privacy."
"Students are treated as animals while classrooms are used as prisons. If this is the core value of our education, we are doomed."
These two comments (in Chinese) indicate how public opinion is divided over news that a primary school in Jiangsu Province has decided to install surveillance cameras in all classrooms for parents to spy on their children.
The presence of the cameras was disclosed by a parent named Adai 阿骀 on the social media platform Weibo. In a post (in Chinese) published on September 25, the father said that parents of all the students at his son's school had each contributed 100 yuan ($15) to install closed-circuit cameras in all of the school's classrooms. By downloading an app on a smartphone, he said, "my wife and I now can monitor every second of my son's classroom."
The post went viral on Chinese social media with questions raised about whether the installation of cameras without the students' consent was an invasion of their privacy, and whether it is desirable for parents to observe their kids at school in real time. While an online poll (in Chinese) shows that more than 60 percent of parents who participated in the survey disagree with the school's decision, Adai said that in a WeChat discussion group for parents of his son's class, over half of them "were in strong favor of the installation." "My son told me I was the last parent who hadn't yet paid the fee among all the classes of his grade," Adai wrote in a following post. "He asked me to make the payment immediately. Otherwise, he would be treated differently."
This is not the first time that surveillance cameras have been used at educational facilities in China. This summer, school feeds emerged on dozens of live-streaming platforms. With webcams placed in classrooms, parents, along with millions of internet users, are free to observe young students in class.
Lonely men
'My parents say hurry up and find a girl': China's millions of lonely 'leftover men' / The Guardian
Ethnic minorities
For some Chinese Uighurs, modeling is a path to success / NPR
Sex education
New sex education class quickly becomes most popular course at Wuhan university / Shanghaiist
The afterlife of Lu Xun / LARB China Channel
The fast-fading memories of Harbin's migrant history / Sixth Tone
The history behind China's obsession with hot water / Sixth Tone
Chinese tourists handed 30 pages of dos and don'ts when arriving in Singapore / Shanghaiist


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Ernie is back! I'll be interested in what you think of Armada.
New Books and ARCs, 7/2/15
There's a lot of excellence in this stack of books/ARCs that have come to the Scalzi Compound. I imagine you see some stuff you would desire for you own library. Tell me what those might be in the comments!
62 Comments on "New Books and ARCs, 7/2/15"
I picked up a few of those myself at BEA. I'm particularly interested in Storm Rider. That looks great.
I have Armada too, but I think Storm Rider looks beast!
I've really been enjoying the Ancillary series. A really interesting take on Identity.
I am pretty much going loopy over just seeing Armada being in that stack. I've been reading as much gamer-themed fiction as I can lately, and I'm just going nutty waiting on it to be released. I am so jealous you got an ARC of it. #gonnastealit #bwahaha #yoink
Wow! That's one hell of a stack!
Ancillary Justice, Armada, Aurora… There's so many good books there!
The Subterranean edition of Ancillary Justice. I'm still kicking myself for not buying that as soon as I heard about it.
Very excited for the WTNV book! Already preordered from Borderlands Books. It comes out just in time to be a birthday present for myself.
Night Vale!! I'm not a big audio person. I prefer visual input so I'm really looking forward to reading this.
Interesting to see what Night Vale is like in book form. Wish I could have afforded the limited Ancillary Justice.
New Kim Stanley Robinson?!?
ZOMG! Ancillary Justice! Welcome to Night Vale!! Golden Son!!!
Well there's three books that were already on me reading list . Leckie, Cline and Sigler.
Armada, Aurora, and Ancillary Justice!!! Guess I just want to read books that start with "A."
Recently read 'Ancillary Justice', good conceptual background but boring story. Won't pursue further.
Ooh, Ancillary Justice. Excellent book, objectively speaking. Thematically and technically beautiful, one of the best novels I've ever read.
Didn't like the style or the plot, but that's entirely personal. The setting, characters, and themes were excellently done and the writing was technically flawless. Would definitely recommend it to a friend, even though I've enjoyed other books more myself.
YOU HAVE ARMADA! I have to wait weeks for mine! Consider me taunted.
Is there a reason for Ancillary Justice being in this stack? I read it a couple of years ago, before it won Hugo, Clarke, Nebula, Oscar and Emmy awards. Is there new material in this printing?
But, but… how will they do the weather in printed form for "Welcome to Nightvale"?
Aurora set to be released next Tuesday on my calendar to get. Then get Armada the following Tuesday. A good July for my reading. Not for my working. But for my working
But for my reading.. sheesh.
Makes grabby hands for the Night Vale novel, then apologizes.
Judging by the spines (and not counting the bound proof of Occupied Earth), the best-designed of these – the most pleasurable to look at – has to be Subterranean's edition of Ancillary Justice. I hope the body font is well chosen too; I expect to read it someday, and not on a screen.
Ancillary Justice looks good… OMG! I'm clearly I'm a wizard.
Limited edition Ancillary Justice! I suspect that Leckie (along with Scalzi) is a member of the contemporary science fiction trinity…or maybe they are ancillaries of the most amazing sci-fi writing starship!
Gotta be KSR…
BUT JOHN! I have to know the political and social viewpoints of these authors before I decide if I can enjoy their work. What if I read a book by someone whose politics I strongly object to? I simply cannot let that happen so please list all the relevant political and social opinions of each author so that I might know which to read and which to avoid.
ARMADA!!!! And Welcome to Nightvale for my daughter!!! Lucky Bastard! :)
David Levy: your copy will be soggy and full of debris from the sandstorm. Just speak into your toaster and the sheriff's secret police will arrange it. It's the least they can do, considering what happens in the future…
I am eagerly waiting for Armada… what's your take?
Ancillary Justice! Armada! Night Vale!
Never heard of the others, and they're probably awesome, through osmosis alone!! (I hope they're awesome anyway!)
KSR for me :) . (I'm another one not keen on Leckie but no writer can please everyone.)
Ancillary Justice is phenomenal. One of the best, if not the best, novels I have read in the past decade.
Already read and enjoyed the top book (based on the Scalzi Recommendation), and I'm really looking forward to both the new KSR and Armada.
mmmm…new Scott Sigler…I admit to being a total Sigler fanboy, especially his Galactic Football League series. I even wear my Ionath Krakens t-shirt to DragonCon most years.
Ancillary Justice and Armada, without a doubt. Looking forward to both of those! Oooh, and new Scott Sigler too? Damn.
Kim Stanley Robinson! What can I say? He's just great!
If a limited edition is already sold out, then I am guessing Scalzi is not going to affect sales, unless they do another run.


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"Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead." ~ 1989 film Dead Poets Society
As Hollywood says its goodbye to Robin Williams, "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon took time out of Tuesday's episode to remember the Oscar-winning actor. "You would watch him, and you would cry laughing, and you'd think, 'I am never going to see anyone like this human, ever…'"
It is a tragedy that we've lost another actor and comedian to this disease of depression. But this is not something exclusive to Hollywood, it just highlighted by the fact that it was a notable person. As with many diseases it takes the notable person's death and life to realize its devastation and the toll it takes on someone's life and other who surround them.
The tribute quote that Fallon had for Williams, could have come from anyone of us who paid tribute to a close relative or friend whose life was controlled by depression and overcome by suicide.
Perhaps it's not the depression but the tragic means to the end that finds this even more disconcerting. The desperation that one must feel for them to take their life. It's not just actors or athletes or business executives who in their effort to relieve the pain or end the agony that torments their mind, but individuals like sisters and brothers, coworkers and collogues, friends and neighbors. We know them and cherish them. And then we say to ourselves, "I didn't realize how desperate they were, if only I knew. Could I have helped?"
Over the course of the last few months NFPA has posted blogs and published articles (The Journal – May/June 2014) on this despicable disease. Recently, a local Boston newspaper ran this article and this one noting public safety and emergency services persons with noteworthy careers succumbing to depression but means of suicide.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline notes the in 2010 there were 38,364 suicides in the United States. That's an average of 105 each day. Suicide Prevention Resource Center has information at its website and specifically points to public safety servants as one of its targeted audiences.
So now we are aware all too soon again of the tragedy of depression. What are we going to do about it this time?
"O Captain! My Captain!"
-Tom McGowan


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Title explains it, the official and Mayflash Nintendo Gamecube adapter are not detected when using Dolphin emulator running Windows 7. This was fixed with X470 motherboards, don't know about B450 but if AMD could backport this to Ryzen 1st generation motherboards that would be great, and I know Windows 7 is reaching end of life but it would be great if this could get fixed. Here are some references on the topic:
Adapter not detected on AMD Ryzen running Windows 7. · Issue #150 · pbatard/libwdi · GitHub
Emulator Issues #10659: Dolphin not detecting my Mayflash GC 4-port adapter - Emulator - Dolphin Issue tracker
Gamecube adapter not detected on motherboard USB but works through PCIe USB card


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340.070 Award of Posthumous Undergraduate Degree
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