ANTI-SEMITISM: New York police say they are investigating this as a hate crime.
FAUXTUS: CLICK https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1733259355347144791 [:04] to hear President Dementia brag about how we’ve invested “a billion, three hundred million trillion, three hundred million dollars” in high speed rail.
GENTLE ENOUGH FOR A BABY: Slick enough to move a 220-ton historic house. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbRNcexTtM4 [2:01] to see the story.
GET WOKE. GO BROKE: On Dec. 5, 2023, several Ivy League college presidents participated in a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing regarding anti-Semitism on college and university campuses amid the war between the Jewish state of Israel and the terrorist group Hamas.
House GOP Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y. – photo) asked if students calling for the genocide of Jews would be considered harassment or bullying under the schools’ codes of conduct.
The presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and Massachusetts Institute of Technology both said calls for genocide would only be investigated as possible harassment if they were “directed, and severe, pervasive.” The president of Harvard said they would have to cross into “conduct” before they would be actionable.
During the past week, wealthy donors to these universities have announced they are withdrawing support. The losses are adding up to tens of millions of dollars. On Saturday, Liz Magill resigned as president of U Penn.
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/university-presidents-say-calling-for-jewish-genocide-doesnt-always-constitute-harassment-5542208
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/major-donor-cuts-100-million-donation-for-university-of-pennsylvania-after-presidents-testimony-5543627
- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/stefanik-takes-victory-lap-over-resignation-of-upenn-president-liz-magill-one-down-two-to-go/ar-AA1lhPuw
- https://notthebee.com/article/penn-president-resigns
PORN: CLICK https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1732536604802089165 [18:04] to hear Michael Knowles report on undercover research into some of the executives and employees of the world’s largest pornography site (Porn Hub, aka Aylo) talking about grooming young people with gay and trans sex. CLICK https://twitter.com/arden_young_/status/1732422651950612937 [7:40] to see more of the undercover video. Full disclosure: I didn’t watch much of these, because I’m out of brain bleach.
- https://notthebee.com/article/watch-undercover-video-shows-top-prnhub-scriptwriter-talk-about-inserting-trans-and-gay-content-into-mainstream-prn-in-order-to-convert-straight-young-men
- https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experimentations/201803/4-ways-porn-use-causes-problems
SICKLE CELL: The FDA has approved the first ever gene therapy treatment. The treatment requires doctors to remove cells from a patient’s bone marrow, edit the gene for sickle cell, and then reproduce and infuse billions of the modified cells back into patients. While not a cure for the disease, it is hoped the one-time treatment will alleviate symptoms for a lifetime. But don’t cheer too fast. Currently, the treatment costs several million dollars per patient.
TEXAS: The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily halted a district court’s order that granted a pregnant woman the right to an abortion despite the state’s strict abortion ban. The court did not rule on the merits of the case, but said it would consider the matter further and issue a more comprehensive ruling at a later time. The 20 week fetus has been diagnosed with Trisomy 18, a condition that causes multiple structural abnormalities. Doctors say it has no chance of survival after birth, which is not strictly true.
Trisomy 18, also known as Edwards syndrome, is the second most common trisomy behind trisomy 21 (Down syndrome). It occurs in 1 in 5,000 live births and it is caused by the presence of an extra chromosome. Half of all babies born with Edwards syndrome die within the first week, and only 5% to 10% live beyond the first year of life. Those that survive require special care.
Former Senator Rick and Karen Santorum’s daughter, Bella, was born with Trisomy 18. The photo above was posted recently on Karen’s Facebook page. I believe Bella is now 15 years old.
- https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/texas-supreme-court-halts-pro-abortion-order-by-lower-court-5544174
- https://www.medicinenet.com/trisomy_18_edwards_syndrome/article.htm
- https://www.liveaction.org/news/bella-santorum-doctors-incompatible-life-12/
VAXXX: A study entitled “Blaming the unvaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic: the roles of political ideology and risk perceptions in the USA” was published in BMJ’s Journal of Medical Ethics in June 2023. In it, researchers examined the risks and benefits associated with the COVID-19 vaccines and compared them with public perceptions.
They found that excessive fearmongering by both government and media led to both risks and benefits being grossly misunderstood by the majority of Americans. They designated the widespread blaming of the unvaccinated “scapegoating” rather than “a justified response to a social threat” because it was “driven by fear or based on unfounded or inaccurate facts.”
For example, 35% of US adults believed that at least half of COVID-19 infections require hospitalization; at its peak, it was reckoned to be less than 5%, but was probably lower since a lot of people had such mild cases that they didn’t show up in the statistics. The risk is now much lower, since the most deadly Wuhan strain is extinct and the current variants are much milder.
Researchers also found a huge political divide with regard to accurate risk vs. benefit knowledge and willingness to blame the unvaccinated for extending the pandemic and “killing” people. Those who voted for Biden were twice as likely to scapegoat those who chose to refuse the ‘rona jab as those who voted for Trump. This was true regardless of whether the refuser had recovered from COVID or had never had it at all.
This study did not look into the consequences of scapegoating on the unvaccinated, but noted that “scapegoating can subject people to ostracism, discrimination and, in extreme cases, even violence and persecution.”
- https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2023/06/09/jme-2022-108825
- https://www.igor-chudov.com/p/the-unvaccinated-were-unfairly-scapegoated
WOMEN’S SPORTS: A boy who says he is a girl won an Irish dance competition for girls under 14 in Dallas last week and is now headed to the World Championships. In April 2023, he competed against the boys and came in 11th.
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