Flyers Describe Jewish Influence

A California newspaper reports:

Marin residents awoke to discover antisemitic flyers on their lawns, driveways and streets last week. Now, local law enforcement is struggling to determine whether any crimes have been committed. ...

Reporter’s Note: After much debate, the Bohemian deliberately omitted the names of the antisemitic group and its leader. It is my belief that when the media identifies them, it helps fuel their mission by providing the publicity they desperately desire. As a Jewish person, I am opposed to leading lost souls to the doorsteps of hate.

What is the point of this? The flyers just listed some prominent Jews in the Biden administration. If the police cannot find any laws being broken, then what is the problem?

The flyer was apparently inspired by the Goyim Defense League, a small group with a video channel, Goyimtv.tv.

I never heard of them. It appears that they do not advocate anything violent or illegal. They just put out info, some of which could be described as conspiracy theories.

Disney Wants to Molest your Children

Florida is passing CS/CS/HB 1557: Parental Rights in Education:

Parental Rights in Education; Requires district school boards to adopt procedures that comport with certain provisions of law for notifying student's parent of specified information; requires such procedures to reinforce fundamental right of parents to make decisions regarding upbringing & control of their children; prohibits school district from adopting procedures or student support forms that prohibit school district personnel from notifying parent about specified information or that encourage student to withhold from parent such information; prohibits school district personnel from discouraging or prohibiting parental notification & involvement in critical decisions affecting student's mental, emotional, or physical well-being; prohibits classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels; requires school districts to notify parents of healthcare services; authorizes parent to bring action against school district to obtain declaratory judgment; provides for additional award of injunctive relief, damages, & reasonable attorney fees & court costs to certain parents.

Sounds innocuous. CNN says people are most offended by this:

The bill states that "classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards."

The Disney corporation, and others, are very much against this. That is, it wants perverted sexual propoganda taught to third-graders. Or to other students in inappropriate manner. It announced:

Starting immediately, we are increasing our support for advocacy groups to combat similar legislation in other states. We are hard at work creating a new framework for our political giving that will ensure our advocacy better reflects our values. And today, we are pausing all political donations in the state of Florida pending this review.

So if you pay to watch Disney movies, or attend Disneyland, you are supporting an LGTQ+ agenda to use the public school to brainwash third-graders over their parents objections.

It is a terrible slur to say that homosexuals want to molest kids. The vast majority do not. I am only talking about what Disney and others are openly advocating. Namely, they want to teach third-graders about eccentric sexual preferences.

MSN News:

The “Don’t Say Gay” bill has garnered a lot of media attention and has dominated conversations about LGBTQ rights lately. ...

Caraballo is currently a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic. Before working there, she was a staff attorney at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and a staff attorney at the LGBTQ Law Project at New York Legal Assistance Group. ...

Caraballo said once the bill goes into effect, a major rollback of LGBTQ-friendly policies at schools is likely.

In other words, the LGBT forces have taken over Hollywood, Disney, and the schools, and they don't want to lose any of the gains they have made.

They also hate Russia for not having Pride parades. I have been trying to figure out why Biden so actively encouraged war in Ukraine, and I wonder how much influence the LGBT lobby has had.

Update: The other big LGBTQ political issue is whether trying to change a child's sex should be investigated as child abuse. If someone tried to change your sex as a child, would you consider it abuse? I do think that the psychologists and physicians who are in on this racket should be stopped somehow.

Feminism is a mental illness

The NY Post reports:

South Korea has elected a new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, after a nail-biter of a vote ...

Yoon, the conservative opposition choice, pledged to do away with a government agency devoted to women’s equality ...

The mudslinging has played out in a country deeply concerned with rising home prices and youth unemployment, with both candidates accused of misogyny by women’s groups.

The NY Times reports:

“Out with man haters!” they shouted. “Feminism is a mental illness!”

On the streets, such rallies would be easy to dismiss as the extreme rhetoric of a fringe group. But the anti-feminist sentiments are being amplified online, finding a vast audience that is increasingly imposing its agenda on South Korean society and politics.

These male activists have targeted anything that smacks of feminism, forcing a university to cancel a lecture by a woman they accused of spreading misandry. ...

“We don’t hate women, and we don’t oppose elevating their rights,” said Bae In-kyu, 31, the head of Man on Solidarity, one of the country’s most active anti-feminist groups. “But feminists are a social evil.” . .

Test Scores are Useful to Colleges

Donald Wittman writes:

In November 2021, the Board of Regents of the University of California voted to permanently abolish using SAT and ACT scores as factors in determining admission to the university. The stated reasons are: (1) standardized tests are biased against students from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds (essentially meaning low-income households where the parents do not have college degrees) and (2) the SAT does not substantially improve the university’s ability to predict college grades beyond just using the student’s high school grade point average.

These stated reasons are factually wrong. Furthermore, the Board of Regents displayed a complete misunderstanding of how students were actually admitted before the ban on using the SAT took place.

With regard to the relative importance of the SAT vis-à-vis grades, here are the data published in 2020 by the University of California Office of Institutional Research. In 2015 (the last year the study covers), grades alone explain 13 percent of the variance in first-year GPA, SAT scores alone explain 22 percent of the variance in first-year GPA and when added together, grades and SAT explain 26 percent of the variability in first-year GPA. So, adding SAT scores to grades doubles the predictability of college performance. This is a major improvement.

Next, I turn to the issue of bias. We first need to know what it means for the SAT to be biased against students who are low income and/or have attended high schools that are predominantly filled with low-income students. The SAT is biased against socioeconomically disadvantaged students if the SAT underpredicts their performance at the university. The standard measure of performance is first-year GPA. In over 50 years of testing and in hundreds of peer-reviewed scientific articles, the results are clear—the SAT is biased in favor of socioeconomically disadvantaged students and biased against socioeconomically advantaged students. In particular, if two students have identical SAT scores and grades or just SAT scores alone, the socioeconomically disadvantaged student will have lower university grades than the socioeconomically advantaged student will have. Furthermore, the student from a lower socioeconomic background will have a lower college grade than predicted by SAT scores and grades, while a student from a socioeconomically advantaged background will have higher college grades than predicted. ...

Donald Wittman is distinguished professor of economics, emeritus, at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

So why are the scores being eliminated? It appears to be part of a plan to dumb down the colleges.

Congress Bans Lynchings

The NY Times reports:

WASHINGTON — The Senate unanimously approved a bill that would make lynching a federal hate crime, explicitly criminalizing a heinous act that has become a symbol of the nation’s history of racial violence. ...

Failure to pass such a measure before this year had become a glaring example of the nation’s inadequate response to a crime that has long terrorized Black Americans. The N.A.A.C.P. estimated, based on its records, that Black victims accounted for 72 percent of 4,743 lynchings that occurred between 1882 and 1968.

I am not sure what this law will do. Murder was already a crime.

I just have some questions. If the last lynching was in 1968, why do we need a law now?

Without additional info, that 72% figure is meaningless. Maybe Blacks committed 72% of the offenses that resulted in lynchings.

Race is a Social Construct, Explained

I mentioned that Black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was equating Black rights with lies about Black criminals on a NY Times video. Now has has aa nonsensical NY Times op-ed about defining race:

The other day, while teaching a lecture class, one of us mentioned in passing that the average African American, according to a 2014 paper, is about 24 percent European and less than 1 percent Native American. A student responded that these percentages were impossible to measure, since “race is a social construction.”

Given our country’s history of scientific racism — and all of the horrible crimes and abuses that African Americans have been subjected to in the name of science — the fact that race is a social invention and not a biological reality cannot be repeated too much. However, while race is socially constructed, genetic mutations — biological records of ancestry — are not, and the distinction is a crucial one.

To be fair, we really can’t blame this student for being confused. To varying degrees, we have all inherited a muddled understanding of race, ancestry and phenotype from the Enlightenment

So he complains about race all the time, says race does not exist, and uses DNA to trace racial ancestry.

No Dissent Allowed on Ukraine War

Breitbart reports:

The Slovakian National Crime Agency (NAKA) has warned residents could face 25 years in prison if caught promoting “war propaganda” on social media regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The National Crime Agency (NAKA) reminded Slovakians that the country was in an emergency situation due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent surge of refugees fleeing the conflict.

“Anyone who, in a crisis situation… incites war, promotes war or otherwise promotes war propaganda, is punishable by imprisonment for 10 to 25 years or by a prison sentence of life imprisonment,” the police said, according to Slovakian broadcaster RTVS.

Okay, that is an obscure Eastern European country that was Communist until 30 years ago. Russia is threatening to punish dissenters also. But look at the craziness in the USA.

The NY Post reports:

Former Vice President Mike Pence urged fellow Republicans to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, saying “there is no room in this party for apologists for Putin,” during a speech on Friday night.

Speaking at a fundraiser of the GOP’s top donors in New Orleans, Pence was critical of those in his party who have not condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which has caused the deaths of thousands of civilians and displaced at least 1.2 million people.

“Where would Russian tanks be today if NATO had not expanded the borders of freedom? There is no room in this party for apologists for Putin,” Pence said, according to excerpts from the closed speech obtained by The Associated Press. “There is only room for champions of freedom.”

If NATO were not trying to expand, then we would not have war today. Ukraine would be an independent and neutral country. Russian tanks would be back in Russia.

I am not sure there is room in the party for Pence, as he seems to have alienated all his supporters.

The NY Post also has this report from Ukraine:

Oleksandra Matviichuk, 38, is a human rights lawyer who lives in Kyiv with her husband and two cats. She is head of the Center for Civil Liberties and has been documenting war crimes since Russia invaded Crimea in 2014, work that has increased since Vladimir Putin’s troops entered the country on Feb. 24.

Okay, the cat ladies say that there have been some human rights violations. I do not doubt it.

How New Jersey Forces Homosexual Views on Kids

To be a foster or adoptive parent in New Jersey, you apparently have to repudiate your religious beliefs about homosexuality. And you and the kids may have to attend psychotherapy to make sure you have properly repented.

From a recent court decision:

But three weeks after informing the Lasches that they might be able to adopt the children, Higgins told the Lasches that a couple in Illinois was interested in adopting all five siblings. The Lasches inquired about the prospective adoptive family, and both Higgins and her supervisor, Epperly, stated that they did not know the answers to those questions. Later, in discussing the putative adoption with the foster parents for the other siblings, the Lasches learned that the Illinois couple was "two wealthy gay men with lots of family around to support them and the adoption."

A few days later, Higgins came to the Lasches' home and questioned Foster Child 1 about whether she would change her religious beliefs about homosexual conduct — which she held before meeting the Lasches — if she were placed with another family. About four months later, for reasons that remain confidential, the Lasches and DCPP agreed that Foster Child 2 should be removed from the Lasches' home. ...

The hearing on June 4, 2018, was eventful. The Illinois couple no longer had an interest in adopting any of the five siblings. And the judge indicated that the children needed psychiatric evaluations moving forward.

After that hearing, inquiries about the Lasches' religious beliefs intensified. Later that month, Foster Child 1 came home from a therapy session visibly upset because the therapist repeatedly brought up religion and told her not to feel pressured to follow the Lasches' religious beliefs. When Jennifer Lasche confronted the therapist, the therapist relayed that she and Higgins had previously discussed the Lasches' "ideas about same-sex couples."

As far as I can see, the only actual homosexuals involved were the Illinois couple that dropped out.

Germany Won World War II

Orthodox Jewish law professor Alan Dershowitz rants about the Ukrainian WWII Nazi collaborators, and adds:

The vast vast vast majority of Germans got away with mass mass murder ...

Germany won the war. They accomplished Hitler's goal. Posthumously, to be sure.

Hitler said kill the Jews and we will be richer and more powerful. And they killed the Jews and were richer and more powerful.

Look, the world has to balance.

There were people who took a different view. Morgenthau, the secretary of the Treasury. He said at the end of the Second World War that Germany, for the next 50 years, ought to be relegated to being an agrarian country. ... People should have to live and eat on their own farms. ... German people ... should suffer for 50 years. ...

Germany quickly became the most wealthy and most powerful country in Europe.

So he does not favor punishing Ukraine today for what happened in the 1940s, as opposing Russia is the greater good.

I have never heard this WWII opinion expressed before.

Why Ukraine must be Defended

CBS News reports:

Zi Faámelu was born and raised in Crimea, an area of Ukraine that was invaded and taken over by Russia in 2014. Now the 31-year-old lives in Kyiv, the capital city that has been under Russian siege for nearly a week. She is running out of food and hasn't left her house for days as gunfire erupts outside.

And she says she can't leave.

Faámelu, who is transgender, said that transphobia is pervasive in the city and neighboring countries, and fears that if she leaves, the tension of the ongoing conflict will make her more susceptible to violence. Faámelu was previously a popular contestant on the Ukrainian singing competition show "Star Factory."

It is alarming how many people want war.

Some say Putin is evil, criminal, or a madman. Maybe so, I don't know. Whether he is or not, this war is unnecessary.

The Declining State of the Union

Here is the list of Trump White House accomplishments, as archived here on Jan. 20, 2021.

It is an impressive list. Now that Biden has been President for a year, and he has failures on many fronts, we need a list of the bad things Trump did not do.

Biden has lost one war, and started another. We have high inflation, and product shortages. We are being overrun by foreigners.

All Biden had to do, in the last year, was to declare that Ukraine was not going to be admitted to NATO. Instead, he persisted in trying to get Ukraine into NATO, and kept making statements that Ukraine could join. This looks as if he is trying to start World War III.

Congress Tries to Ban Hair Discrimination

You probably think Congress is preoccupied with concerns about the Ukraine war. Nope.

The Hill reports:

The House fell short of passing legislation on Monday that would prohibit discrimination against people with hair styles associated with a particular race or national origin.

Democrats set a vote on the bill, titled the Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair, or CROWN, Act under a fast-track process used for noncontroversial bills that required a two-thirds supermajority for passage. While the bill clinched a simple majority, 235-188, it did not meet the two-thirds threshold due to GOP opposition.

It's possible that House Democrats will bring up the bill for a vote again later, but under a process where they only need a simple majority to send it to the Senate.

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J.), the bill's author, argued it's essential to formally ban hair discrimination because African Americans are often penalized under workplace and school dress code policies for having natural hairstyles such as afros, braids and cornrows.

"Far too often, Black people, especially Black women and girls, are derided or deemed unprofessional simply because their hair does not conform to white beauty standards," Watson Coleman said on the House floor.

"Our natural hair is as innate a quality of Black people as the presence of melanin in our skin. Discriminating against our hair is no different is no different than discriminating against the color of our skin," she said.

Apparently a lot of Black women are neurotic about their hair. Not sure what that is all about.

Nobody cares about the melanin in their skin, so the analogy is silly.

First we have to get that Black hair on the Supreme Court:

As President Joe Biden prepares to make good on his promise to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court, more than a dozen black female lawmakers in the House of Representatives on Thursday called on him to select a nominee committed to advancing civil rights. ...

"The appointment of a Black woman justice with an established record of working to advance racial justice and eradicating entrenched white supremacy is of the utmost importance in reviving the Supreme Court's credibility," more than a dozen members of the Congressional Black Caucus said.

I thought her job would be to follow the law and decide case. No, it will be to eradicate entrenched White supremacy, whatever that is.

The Russia haters have trying to convince everyone to change pronunciation of the Ukraine capital:

Kiev or Kyiv?

As Russian forces menace the Ukrainian capital and thousands flee, the very least onlookers around the world can do is learn how to say the name of the city under siege.

The short answer is simple: Ukrainians call their capital “Kyiv” (kee-yiv), the spelling, a transliteration of the Ukrainian Київ. The Russian version is “Kiev” (kee-yev).

When I hear gripes like there, I assume that they don't have any real problems to complain about.

Update: The House vote was 220-188 for the Bad Hair Bill. It passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, 2021 by a vote of 23 to 15.

It is hard to take any Black complaints seriously, as long as they push silly laws like this.

Ketanji Brown Jackson may be the wrong person to eradicate White supremacy, since she is married to a White man. Jackson is the name of her surgeon husband. But maybe she can help interpret the legal effect of the Bad Hair Bill! She probably artificially straightens her hair.

More bad race-baiting laws are coming. The Wash. Post reports:

More than three decades after it was first introduced, a House bill that would create a commission to study reparations for Black Americans has the votes to pass, its key champions say.

That broad support, they contend, shows that the idea of reparations has gone from the fringes to the mainstream of American politics.

What Distinguishes Us from Putin

Most of the USA political leadership, and most of the news media, has gone anti-Putin.

Breitbart reports:

“LGBT+ rights” are the most important “values and hard won freedoms” distinguishing “us” from Russian President Vladimir Putin, Richard Moore, chief of MI6, the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, wrote on Friday.

Moore did not specify if his use of “us” was a reference to the United Kingdom, the Anglosphere, or the broader West.

He expressed his sentiments via Twitter, relating his remarks to ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine. He included an acronym from “LGBT+ History Month,” with “LGBT+” for “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans +.”

He wrote, “With the tragedy and destruction unfolding so distressingly in Ukraine, we should remember the values and hard won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin, none more than LGBT+ rights. So let’s resume our series of tweets to mark #LGBTHM2022.”

Moore highlighted an “LGBT+ support group” within MI6 to illustrate his emphasis of “LGBT+ rights” as the primary philosophy distinguishing “us from Putin.”

Pkay, that clears that up.

I believe that homosexuals have full civil rights in Russa. The gripe is that it does not have Pride parades with drag queens.

Trayvon Led to BLM Protests

A recent NY Times promotional video brags:

Imagine Harry Potter Without Its Creator

I guess it is saying that JK Rowling should be canceled for saying women are women.

New NY Times video:

President Obama: Trayvon Martin Made America Confront Its Original Sin | NYT Opinion
The New York Times

Ten years ago, Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, who perceived the unarmed teenager as a threat. He would later be acquitted of all charges in the killing, arguing successfully that he had acted in self defense. These events reignited the conversation about race and justice in America. "The contemporary civil rights movement unfolded directly in response to the murder of Trayvon Martin,” says Henry Louis Gates Jr. in a new Opinion video. Former President Barack Obama argues that Trayvon's death "was the start of America looking inward and in fits and starts coming to terms with what has always been our original sin."

Gates calls it "murder", and others say Martin was innocent.

It includes deceptively edited audio of the 911 call, and race baiting by Barack Obama and Al Sharpton. Another says:

I don't know what this child could have done to be safe, except not be Black. [1:48]

Another said he just bought a snack and went home.

At 1:15, the video mentions Michael Brown, George Floyd, and others as victims of racist murders.

I watched the Trayvon trial, and he was not just returning home. He did not live there. He was on drugs, and suspiciously cutting thru private property. He snuck up on Zimmerman, tackled him, and was brutally pounding his head into the pavement. Witnesses recorded Zimmerman desperately calling for help 15 times or so, while being beaten up. They called 911, but did not intervene. Eventually there was a struggle for the gun, and Zimmerman managed to pull the trigger.

A unanimous jury agreed that it was self-defense.

Michael Brown was also a vicious killer who was shot by his victim in self-defense.

I don't want to blame a whole race for a minority of criminals. That is not the point here. My issue is the NY Times saying:

Trayvon Martin Is Still Making President Obama: Trayvon Martin Made America Confront Its Original Sin

What is the meaning of this? Zimmerman was not White. No evidence of any racism was presented at the trial. America's original sin seems to be a reference to the slave trade, 300 years ago. Nobody is confronting that.

Apparently Obama, the NY Times, and the whole BLM movement are trying to say that it should be acceptable for Martin to do what he did.

It is not. No civilized society can tolerate thugs like Martin. He deserved to die. Anyone who defends him is a horrible person. Any movement inspired by him should be stopped.

Here is a current story:

MIDVALE, Utah (ABC4) – A man is in custody after he told his 4-year-old child to shoot at police while at a Midvale McDonalds Monday afternoon.

Police say Sadaat Johnson, 27, of Salt Lake City, had both his 4-year-old child and 3-year-old child in the backseat of his car when the incident happened.

According to police, around 1:30 p.m., the father got upset when the order he had placed in the drive-thru line was wrong. In response to the incorrect order, the man brandished a gun.

Police arrived on the scene shortly after employees reported the incident and after they asked the man to pull to the front of the restaurant.

Officers say the man was non-compliant after they issued several commands asking the man to get out of his car. Rocket fuel experiment explodes in BYU dorm room

Officers then opened the car door and pulled the man from the car. As they were getting the man in custody, an officer turned back toward the car and saw a gun pointing out of the back window.

The officer swiped the gun to the side as it was fired and realized the person who fired the gun was a child.

Police say the child that fired the gun was 4-years-old.

Witnesses at the scene say they overheard the father tell the child to shoot.

This is what law enforcement has to deal with. The article does not say the race of the man. He could be White, I guess.

Canada to Outlaw Bad Thoughts

The hate crime laws are having trouble finding hate crimes, so Canada is expanding them to include suspicions about future hate speech:

A new bill proposed by woke Canadian legislators allows for pre-emptory lawsuits to be filed on the suspicion that someone will someday engage in hate speech, the Citizen Free Press reported.

The long-dead ‘innocent until proven guilty’ standard has now been replaced by ‘guilty until proven innocent.’

According to Bill C-36, all that is required to pursue legal action against potentially hateful opponents is “reasonable grounds,” which, as evidenced over the decades, courts tend to read very broadly.

It says that “a person may, with the Attorney General’s consent, lay an information before a provincial court judge if the person fears on reasonable grounds that another person will commit (a) an offence under section 318 advocating genocide or subsection 319” inciting hate or promoting hatred.

The bill was written to specifically target those who have been deemed to have ‘privilege,’ and would discriminate against protected classes.

It covers “an offence motivated by bias, prejudice or hate based on race, national or ethnic origin, language, color, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other similar factor.”

War in Ukraine

Russian leader Putin said he wanted one thing: to keep Ukraine out of NATO.

Admitting Ukraine to NATO would mean putting soldiers on Russia's border, and USA and Europe promising to defend Ukraine if invaded. Pres. Biden says that we may admit Ukraine, but we will not defend it with troops until it is admitted.

This is essentially the same as telling Russia to invade Ukraine now, instead of later.

Ukraine is a failed state, and may be better off as part of Russia. USA foreign policy is unbelievably bad. I blame Biden for this war.

Bertrand Russell's political views

Bertrand Russell was a great XX-century intellectual, and he got the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature for his anti-Christian books, notably the 1929 book Marriage and Morals. He advocated eugenics and racial theories:

In extreme cases, there can be little doubt of the superiority of one race to another. North America, Australia, and New Zealand certainly contribute more to the civilization of the world than they would do if they were still peopled by aborigines.

It seems on the whole fair to regard Negroes as on the average inferior to white men, although for work in the tropics they are indispensable, so that their extermination (apart from the question of humanity) would be highly undesirable.

He would later retract this:

Russell would later write "I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environment conditioning. I have had it withdrawn from subsequent editions because it is clearly ambiguous."

I am glad to see someone revise his opinion in the light of new evidence, but it is not clear how his opinions were based on evidence.

I just note now intellectual opinions have changed. His opinions about eugenics and racial superiority were considered progressive and respectable, from 1929 to 1950. Anyone saying such things today would be blackballed from all prizes.

Fred Hoyle was one of the great astrophysicists of the XX century, and would have gotten a Nobel Prize, but was blackballed for his eccentric views. So yes, prize committees will reject someone for views that are out of favor.

Russell was widely praised for being an advocate of Free Thought, but he also tells how he rejected Christianity and free will as a teenager. He also wrote an essay denying the law of causality.

For a great logical thinker, he sure held a lot of contradictory opinions.

Seattle Repeals Bike Helmet Law

Daniel Kriegman, a psychologist and former friend of Harvey Weinstein, writes in Quillette:

In 1986, an article by Robert Longo in Psychology Today stated (without reference to any supportive data or scientific research) that “Most untreated sex offenders go on to commit more offenses, indeed as many as 80 percent do.” That article was then referenced in a manual published by the US Department of Justice. And, on the basis of that manual, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in a 2002 SCOTUS decision that sex criminals pose “a frightening and high risk of recidivism” and that “the rate of recidivism of untreated offenders has been estimated to be as high as 80 percent.” Justice Kennedy repeated the “frightening and high” claim in a subsequent decision the following year.

He goes on to explain that this is completely false, and that the sex offender recidivism rate is lower than for most other crimes.

I am not sure about his analysis of Weinstein, but we need legal policies that reflect the realities of the crimes.

Seattle is repealing a law, just because Blacks disobey it:

In the face of data showing enforcement has been both minimal and has disproportionately affected people of color and those experiencing homelessness, the King County Board of Health voted Thursday to repeal its decades-old mandatory helmet law for bicycle riders. The repeal goes into effect in 30 days.

Here, "people of color" is a euphemism for Blacks. Coloed Asian-Americans have been obeying the helmet law.

The helmet law is a stupid and unnecessary nanny state law, but this is a stupid reason to repeal it.

Sam Harris Talks to a Panel of Trump Haters

Latest Sam Harris podcast:

The Future of American Democracy

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Anne Applebaum, David Frum, Barton Gellman, and George Packer about the ongoing threat to American democracy posed by Republican misinformation and disinformation regarding the 2020 Presidential Election and the attack on the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.

This is all a code phrase for anti-Trump rants from Trump-haters.

The funny thing about it is that, even tho Harris assembled a very distinguished panel, their criticisms were insubstantial. They accused Trump of breaking laws, but admitted that his violations were all trivial and inconsequential. They accused him of being authoritarian, but said that he never used his Presidential power to do what he might have done. They had no significant complaints about his results.

What they did do was to gripe about his style and rhetoric. They were like a bunch of rabbis complaining that a newcomer was not behaving according to their unwritten congregation rules, and not taking their hints to change.

Sometimes I think that Harris is a closet Trump supporter, as makes such silly arguments. At one point Harris made a big pitch for free speech on social media like Facebook and Twitter, and that Trump is the only one who should be banned.

Their main points about Democracy were: (1) Trump has undermined democracy by claiming the 2020 election was stolen; (2) Republican efforts to reform election law may cause distrust in the 2022 and 2024 elections, because of the suggestion that election law needs to be fixed; and (3) Democrats need to reform election law in order to make our elections democratic.

Any pretense to neutrality was gone at this point. They just want election laws to favor their partisan political preferences.

If they really wanted democracy, they would favor elections where all votes are cast, counted, and witnessed on election day. None of the panelists favored that.

Our legal system has gone anti-White, as shown by the conviction of Kim Potter:

Kim Potter, the former police officer convicted in the death of Daunte Wright during a traffic stop in April 2021, was sentenced to 16 months in prison on Friday.

Judge Regina Chu handed down a sentence of 24 months, with 16 months served in prison. The rest of the sentence will be served under supervised release. Potter must also pay a $1,000 fine.

In December, a jury found Potter, who worked for the Brooklyn Center Police Department in Minnesota, guilty of first- and second-degree manslaughter.

During the trial, Potter's team alleged Wright was responsible for his own death. To refresh your memory: Authorities said they pulled Wright over for using an illegal air freshener and then discovered he had an outstanding warrant. Wright tried to drive off as the officers attempted to arrest him, at which point Potter shot and killed him. She testified that she mistakenly drew her gun instead of her Taser.

Defense attorney Earl Gray told the court that Wright "caused his own death." But the jury didn’t buy it.

Potter did not violate the law, as Alan Dershowitz explains. She is going to prison because she is White, and because a violent Black criminal resisted a lawful arrest.

John Oliver pushes Anti-White Propaganda

John Oliver is back with a video on indoctrinating American students with Critical Race Theory.

It is supposed to be comedy, but he mainly gets laughs from a audience trained to laugh whenever he says F*CK, which he says in every third sentence.

He keeps saying "we" as if he were an American, but he says it in a low-class British accent. He is married to an American, and has been in American broadcast long enough to learn an American accent, if he had any talent.

He complains about people quoting MLK on not judging people by the color of their skin. Oliver wants schools to judge by skin color.

He complains about rumors of students using the N-word, but then argues that it is only bad for White people to use it.

He complains that someone once made an argument at a public school board meeting, even tho he did not have a child attending the school.

He says that America must be racist, because some people questioned Barack Obama's citizenship and religion in 2008. (A third of Blacks don't know his religion either -- are they therefore racist? Well, yes, they probably are.)

He complains that many CRT critics say that the theory is incoherent. (Yes, it can be incoherent, and reasonable to be against it.)

He complains that CRT get lumped together with other anti-white ideologies.

Mainly he advocates laws enabling public schools to teach that Whites are evil and racist.

He is a good example of how TV comedy has become Woke propaganda, and is not funny anymore.