I read the text of AB2943 so you don’t have to… and noticed right away that the bill begins by justifying itself with statements from organizations such as the American Psychiatric Association. The typical statement says conversion therapy is based upon prejudice against LGBTs, seeks to propagate that prejudice and offers false hope that curing sexual perversion is possible. (That last bit enabling consumer protection laws to be applied. That’s as sensible as a doctor saying “I might be able to cure your cancer but the treatment might hurt and not work, therefore I’m not allowed to treat you”.) But these organization themselves previously believed homosexuality to be abnormal until pressure from LGBT organizations changed their policies.

Translation, the justification for AB2943 is a massive circular logic loop of LGBTs forcing organization to say there’s nothing wrong with being LGBT, therefore it’s okay for LGBTs to force organizations to say there’s nothing wrong with LGBT. I’ll fisk some of the highlights.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2943

(a) Contemporary science recognizes that being lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender is part of the natural spectrum of human identity and is not a disease, disorder, or illness

This one’s just a lie but it needs to be exposed. Not listed among the assenting organizations of “contemporary science” is the Center for Disease Control.

http://www.cdc.gov/msmhealth/STD.htm

“Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) have been rising among gay and bisexual men, with increases in syphilis being seen across the country. In 2014, gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men accounted for 83% of primary and secondary syphilis cases where sex of sex partner was known in the United States. Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men often get other STDs, including chlamydia and gonorrhea infections. HPV (Human papillomavirus), the most common STD in the United States, is also a concern for gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men. … Gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men are 17 times more likely to get anal cancer than heterosexual men. Men who are HIV-positive are even more likely than those who do not have HIV to get anal cancer.”

Contemporary science, specifically contemporary social science, assumes the existence of a category called “normal”. LGBT is not what normal humans do–the plug goes in the socket, not the toaster, for 98+% of us. Therefore, LGBT is abnormal. That is a purely scientific statement.

(b) The American Psychological Association convened the Task Force on Appropriate Therapeutic Responses to Sexual Orientation. The task force conducted a systematic review of peer-reviewed journal literature on sexual orientation change efforts and issued a report in 2009. The task force concluded that sexual orientation change efforts can pose critical health risks to [LGBTs]

I found that report. http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/therapeutic-response.pdf

This quotation from page 54 will suffice for the casual reader: The appropriate application of affirmative psychotherapy is based on the following scientific facts: Same-sex sexual attractions, behavior, and orientations per se are normal and positive variants of human sexuality … There are no empirical studies or peer-reviewed research that support theories attributing same-sex sexual orientation to family dysfunction or trauma

It’s a work of hopelessly biased academic fraud. Given that sodomy is healthy, are efforts to end sodomy healthy?

(d) The American Psychiatric Association published a position statement in March of 2000, stating [among other things]: anecdotal reports of “cures” are counterbalanced by anecdotal claims of psychological harm.

Make up your mind. Are anecdotes trustworthy or not?

(g) The National Association of Social Workers prepared a 1997 policy statement, stating: .Social stigmatization of lesbian, gay and bisexual people is widespread and is a primary motivating factor in leading some people to seek sexual orientation changes. Sexual orientation conversion therapies assume that homosexual orientation is both pathological and freely chosen. No data demonstrates that reparative or conversion therapies are effective, and, in fact, they may be harmful..

If homosexual orientation is freely chosen then there would be no market for conversion therapy. But there is, proving that homosexuals themselves believe it is not freely chosen, so their advocates deny freedom of choice to LGBTs in order to claim LGBTs have no choice.

(i) The American School Counselor Association issued a position statement in 2014, stating: .It is not the role of the professional school counselor to attempt to change a student’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Professional school counselors do not support efforts by licensed mental health professionals to change a student’s sexual orientation or gender as these practices have been proven ineffective and harmful..

We professionals are incompetent at solving the problem, therefore any attempt to solve the problem will be proof of professional incompetence.

(l) The Pan American Health Organization, a regional office of the World Health Organization, issued a statement in May of 2012, stating: .These supposed conversion therapies constitute a violation of the ethical principles of health care and violate human rights that are protected by international and regional agreements.” The organization also noted that reparative therapies “lack medical justification and represent a serious threat to the health and well-being of affected people..

You can trust Big Brother because Big Brother doesn’t trust you. Does a Catch-22 count as circular logic?

(q) California has a compelling interest in protecting the physical and psychological well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals.

That what conversion therapists want, to. California is protecting LGBTs from those who want to protect LGBTs. Does California have a compelling interest in protecting the physical and psychological well-being of back pain sufferers from chiropractors? Scoliosis victims are normal people!

Sacramento’s real compelling interesting is that homosexuals aren’t born. They’re recruited, most often through homosexual child abuse. Conversion therapy is a direct threat to recruitment… to the enduring sexual violation of the innocent.

The reason for AB2943’s very existence is fradulent.

Commenter Hmm found an interesting article about the latest mass killing in Toronto. (Sigh, I can’t tell the difference between a terrorist attack and a slut who dropped her smartphone. It’s all driving on the sidewalk.)

http://dalrock.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/st-george-and-the-dragon/#comment-267682

Actual article for discussion http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/25/what-is-incel-movement-toronto-van-attack-suspect

“Hours before the Toronto van attack, a post on the Facebook profile of the chief suspect declared that “the incel rebellion has already begun, we will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys..

The message has brought new-found attention to the so-called incel movement, one of the stranger offshoots of the “alt right., and led to calls for the attack to be recognised as an act of far-right terrorism.”

What is ‘incel’? Explaining the cryptic Facebook message allegedly left by Toronto attacker

The post reads in full: .Private (Recruit) Minassian Infantry 00010, wishing to speak to Sgt. 4chan please. C23249161. The Incel Rebellion has already begun! We will overthrow all the Chads and Stacys! All hail the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!.

Frankly, it’s a lot of hot air over a special-needs Sperg who, according to Turd Flinging Monkey, once tried suicide by cop with a toy gun. But the pundits are wagging the dog so there are some profitable comments to be made.

First, calling “incel” a movement is like calling irritable bowel syndrome a movement. It’s only true in the absolute most technical sense of the word. Nobody volunteers for involuntary celibacy but if you find yourself there, you can connect with guys having the same problem.

Second, the incel forums don’t offer solutions. MGTOW is a solution. PUA. MRA. Some religions. We’re the people who internalize our incel status in order to gain control over it. They are the people who externalize incel status. Just like the Antifa student activists I sometimes hear howling at the moon, they are people who find power and pleasure in nurturing grievances against society. It doesn’t even matter what the grievance is. Your women won’t hump me! They don’t hire enough blacks! Somebody clubbed a baby seal in Nepal!

Third, it’s cruel to force intelligent men to live without licit sex… but self-destructive to force stupid men to live without sex. A guy who can’t think his way out of his problems is likely to fight his way out instead. Can you be honestly surprised that violence is the result when you back into a corner a man for whom violence is the only clear solution?

Men are breaking under the strain of modern life. The dimmer bulbs like Minassian are the first to pop but it’ll get worse, when highly intelligent yet frustrated atheist men finally accept that the only way they’ll get sex or attention is to take it by force.

It won’t be me. I’m Christian. God has promised to reward me should I endure a sexless life and it’s a comforting thought. Father will repay me for “the years that the moths have eaten”. Atheist men have no such hope & comfort. Great work, you Christ-hating fools. Your own people become your enemies even as you pursue our destruction.

For the incel men reading this, I can tell you as a fellow incel that things will improve. Your body throttles down beginning around age 35. There will come a time when you wouldn’t accept sex if you were offered a perfect 10. There are two tricks to getting here. One, don’t get discouraged. Try to keep clean of immorality like porn—you’ll fail repeatedly, this is normal, just keep trying. And two, do something else. Sex isn’t everything. Nurturing grievances is a common alternative to sex because it engages your emotions almost as strongly… but keep looking. You want a healthy alternative, not a murderous alternative.

At a minimum, go hit rocks with a stick. It feels surprisingly good when you’re in a foul mood.

This is a remarkably good military science-fiction series I discovered through random sampling at the bookstores in my area. Humanity is well into the early stages of exploring and colonizing the galaxy thanks to the invention of Broadcast technology–basically stargates. The unified government is still headquartered on Earth and is patterned after the United States Constitution with two exceptions. One, all planet representatives must be native to Earth, creating a ruling class. Two, the military keeping the galaxy under Earth’s control uses cloning. (Much better implemented than Star Wars’ Clone Wars.) Life is stable, prosperous and as things turn out, incredibly fragile.

Not all soldiers are clones. Some are orphans, raised alongside the clones to perpetuate the illusion that clones are real people, too. (Clones are kept loyal by being programmed to die if they realize they’re clones.) The protagonist is one such orphan named Wayson Harris, newly graduated from Marine Corps basic training with top marks and then mysteriously deployed to the ass end of nowhere.

A fairly typical setup. This ain’t Shakespeare. But the genius of the series lies in its execution and believable characters. A minor interplanetary incident quickly snowballs into World War Galaxy. Heroes and villains emerge, the heroes with believable flaws and villains with believable motivations. The goals and behaviors of various factions are relevant to modern events yet kept at a sufficient distance to never take political sides. There are no heavy-handed monologues or political strawmen in the series.

There is a lot of action and the author Steven Kent does an excellent job of using the action to drive the character development, the high-quality opposite of what one normally finds in military sci-fi. The scale runs from Harris coming to terms with not only being a clone, but a model of clone that was discontinued for heinous war crimes, to fat cat politicians who end up fighting a nightmare Nemesis that shares their “winning justifies everything” morality. Add to that shifting alliances, technology employed in space-opera fashion, interesting moral issues and an astronomical bodycount: indeed, it’s almost as if the series ends because there is nobody remaining to die.

Through all the twists and treacheries, the series is kept on track by Harris’ inherent decency. He’s not blind to the fact that he’s often led by criminal scum and struggles with resentment–he attempts to retire at one point–but he’s a Marine and there’s fighting to be done, and ultimately Harris becomes an unlikely savior of humanity.

Most surprisingly, THERE ARE NO FEMALE WARRIOR PRINCESSES IN THE ENTIRE SERIES! Unheard of today. There are only a couple female characters and incredibly, the women behave like women.

The series is actually 10 books long but trust this reviewer and pretend the last three don’t exist. Kent obviously wrapped the series up at #7 and then was offered a bushel of money for three more trips to the well.

The books are easy reads. Only the first one attempts to be philosophical (Plato’s Republic), after which the author wisely gives up and proceeds with the good stuff. But the series isn’t mere war-porn, either, because the characters and plots are simply that memorable. And no kung-fu princesses!

I’ve been waiting to cover Sacramento’s latest effort to ban Christianity because the real story is not Sacramento. They’ve been banning Christianity for years and the Church has yet to give the first damn about it. Humanity is fortunate if the Church even notices its own persecution. That’s the real story: how the Church will react to what could effectively be a direct ban on Christianity.

The answer thus far: David French.

David French, David French, David French. That guy is quoted more than the law in question (Assembly Bill AB2943). Who is David French? Some guy who talked about it on National Review.

Lots of people are talking about the bill so why is French the bad penny that keeps turning up? Occam’s Razor says the Church is taking its cues from National Review.

This is an established character trait of Baby Boomers. When television was limited to the Big Three networks and newspapers weren’t yet mouthpieces for Reuters and Associated Press, people became loyal to their preferred source of info. (To the point of literally arguing at the television.) But there’s no excuse for such info-loyalty today. Sane people don’t choose who to blindly trust. Willfully ignorant people who don’t want the responsibility of being human do.

I hate to think that the national priorities of every church organization in USA is dictated at least partially by the content of William Buckley’s secular, controlled-opposition National Review. But it does explain a lot.

Me being a lifetime Californian who is not dependent upon others for my beliefs, let me give the straight facts about Sacramento’s shenanigans: the Church here banned the Bible years ago. When I was a kid, people brought Bibles on Sunday. There were five Bibles per pew for those who didn’t. Watch your step or you’ll trip on a Bible.

Today, no Bibles in the pews. No hymnals. Nobody brings their own. It’s all projected on the screen. Why object to the banning of Bibles when your church no longer uses them?

Sacramento banned professionals from helping people heal their sexual damage years ago. The Church didn’t care. Why does it care now that we’re banning amateurs? If they were okay with not trusting professionals then they shouldn’t trust amateurs, either. Answer, they still don’t care. This is just a little theater in case somebody asks an uncomfortable question.

The ultimate fallout, assuming this gets implemented, is that all churches will be pleased to universally adopt the NIV Bible translation, that is, the feminist Not-Inspired Version and continue worshiping Boyfriend Jesus and his inclusively pansexual parent-deity. Because if they choose any differently, they’ll be sharing a prison cell with Bubba the Untreated Homosexual. Or worse, they’ll have to start paying taxes on their income.

Any church that won’t directly involve itself in politics is a church that doesn’t give a damn about what the politicians do.

It’s a sign of the Information Age that good answers have become less important than good questions. I had time this weekend to ask the Internet some very pointed questions about current events… and a name came up.

We begin with Commifornia’s non-deployment of National Guard to secure the Southern border.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-california-national-guard_us_5ad8e14de4b03c426dac788b?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000313

A comment I prepared elsewhere that took on a life of its own.

This is the fire in which we burn: Humans are self-perfectible. The only things holding us back are some inefficient and hurtful habits. Once the brave new set of habits are adopted, everybody will be perfect and happy. But some people don’t want to adopt the new habits. We need a strong authoritarian power to force good habits upon those holdouts. Any failure in this plan is proof that we didn’t get rid of the holdouts fast enough because we personally have already been perfected, so the failure could not possibly have been our fault in any way.

Behold the Hegelian triple synthesis of arrogance, blindness and Daddy Issues.

The freight train of sanity is rolling on the tracks with a much-belated load of common sense. The anti-American San Diego Union Tribune reports:

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/immigration/sd-me-sanctuary-vote-20180417-story.html

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 Tuesday to support the Trump administration’s lawsuit against California over so-called sanctuary laws that the state passed last year to limit its role in immigration enforcement.

Wow, butthurt dishonesty right off the first paragraph. Sacramento is OUTLAWING immigration enforcement for ALL governments, corporations and private citizens in California.

The county will file an amicus brief at the first available opportunity, likely if and when the case moves to a higher court on appeal, said Supervisor Kristin Gaspar, chairwoman of the board.

The board voted in closed session after 45 minutes of public comment in which most speakers in the packed chambers urged the supervisors to vote against supporting the lawsuit.

Margaret Baker, who lives near the border, told the board that backing the lawsuit will discourage immigrants from reporting crime.

David Garcias, president of the San Diego chapter of the union that represents county government employees, told the supervisors, .I believe you’re on the wrong side of history. This will affect your legacy..

The first people to speak in the article are social justice warriors who refuse to acknowledge the crime of tresspass. Illegal immigrants don’t want to report crimes they know about in fear they’ll be punished for the crime they committed? Yeah, kid, connect those dots.

The three supervisors who voted to support the lawsuit said it was about public safety.

.We’re talking about people who are crossing the border illegally, coming into this county and committing a crime and them being let loose probably to commit another crime,. said Dianne Jacob, supervisor for the district that covers East County. .That creates a public-safety issue and creates a problem in our neighborhoods..

She worried about terrorists crossing the border illegally, she said.

.This is a different day than it was 20, 30, 40 years ago,. Jacob said. .That’s why it was important for us to stand up, as controversial as it was..

Gaspar said San Diego was safer before the new laws, specifically Senate Bill 54, went into effect. SB 54 limits the ways in which local law enforcement officers can interact with federal immigration officials.

.The status quo was safer in San Diego,. she said, adding that now immigration officers make more arrests out in the community because they can’t make those arrests at jails. .The best place for ICE to be is in the jail and not out in the community..

During the announcement of the vote, Gaspar showed printouts of emails she received from each side of the debate. The stack of emails criticizing her for considering support for the lawsuit was not much thicker than a legal pad. The stack of emails asking her to support the Trump administration’s legal challenge was more than a foot tall.

Gaspar, Jacob and Supervisor Bill Horn, who represents the northernmost part of the county, voted to support the lawsuit. Supervisor Greg Cox, whose district covers the South Bay, voted against it. Supervisor Ron Roberts, who represents central San Diego, was traveling abroad and did not attend the meeting.

Cox said immigration issues need to be solved in Washington.

Cox is right, actually–border control is unquestionably a Federal responsibility–but it’s an act of treason to intentionally interfere with Federal efforts. Greg Cox is a traitor to the United States for trying to shelter foreign criminals within U.S. borders.

.The board’s vote is a largely symbolic move that will create fear and divisiveness in our region…

The Third-World-immigrants-at-all-costs politician thinks creating division in society is a bad thing? And if it’s only symbolic then why do you care? Because it creates fear and division, you say? Then it’s not symbolic. Classic Gamma doublespeak. “You’re a powerless nobody who should shut up because you influence people!”

..waste taxpayer funds…

Immigration enforcement is something that only government can do effectively. It is why we pay taxes in the first place.

..and create distrust of law enforcement and local government within many communities,. Cox said.

Suck a dick, Cox. You want a nightmare scenario: an illegal immigrant going to law enforcement with confidence to seek protection from legitimate residents of the country.

The Department of Justice filed the lawsuit against California at the beginning of March over three laws.

Mr. Trump, you’re killing me. Stop working within the system created by the Deep State for the Deep State’s protection. Start giving your enemies perp walks in handcuffs to military custody in Gitmo.

SB 54, the law that received the most publicity when it passed, allows officers to turn unauthorized immigrants over to federal immigration enforcement agencies only if they have committed crimes listed in the legislation. It says local police cannot participate in task forces that are focused on immigration enforcement.

It also requires the California attorney general to set policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement at public schools, libraries and hospitals.

Like I said at the beginning: Sacramento is outlawing cooperation with Federal law enforcement even for private citizens.

Assembly Bill 103 prohibits local governments across California from adding new contracts with the federal government for civil immigration detention or expanding old ones. It also requires the California Attorney General’s Office to monitor conditions in existing immigration detention facilities in the state.

Obstruction of justice, anybody? Bueller?

AB 450 prohibits employers from voluntarily allowing immigration officials into non-public areas of the workplace unless the officers have judicial warrants. It also requires employers to notify employees about upcoming immigration inspections.

Treason, anybody? “ICE is coming! ICE is coming! Hide the criminals! I’ll stall them by demanding paperwork!”

Several critics of the lawsuit cited a January 2017 study by UC San Diego professor Tom Wong, published by the Center for American Progress, that found crime rates are higher in non-sanctuary counties. (Asked about the study, Gaspar declined to comment, saying she hadn’t seen it.)

It’s true. “Our crime rate dropped the instant we decided illegal immigration is no longer a crime!”

About a dozen people who spoke in support of the lawsuit told supervisors that the sanctuary laws were an overreach of state power and were concerned that they would inhibit the federal government from deporting people with criminal convictions.

Stella May told the board that “the laws act to protect criminal illegals..

She used the example of Kate Steinle, a case often cited by President Donald Trump and his supporters in arguing for tougher immigration restrictions. Steinle, 32, was fatally shot by a man who had been released from a San Francisco jail a few months earlier and had several previous deportations.

I don’t like how opposition to illegal immigration relies heavily on “they might commit other crimes, too”. It reeks of female morality (seek safety) when it should be masculine (seek justice and impartiality). Eh, it’s getting the job done. For now.

Cyrus Hojjaty, a 25-year-old Las Vegas resident whose family is from Iran, said that California’s policies were “embarrassing” and “disgusting.” He said his parents “did it the right way..

He worried that his state’s border with California would mean those policies have an effect where he lives.

.You go to Europe, they’re being flooded with non-whites,. he said.

Even the Iranians see the problem. Why can’t whites?

.This proposal is only about fear and hatred,. Neal Jos? Wilkinson, a priest at a Barrio Logan church, told the crowd outside the building. .We need law enforcement to protect all of our people, regardless of immigration status. If they’re not protecting all of us, they’re not protecting any of us..

The Catholic Church is a major driver of illegal immigration into California. I’m informed this is not a Vatican-endorsed priority… but it is endorsed by the U.S. Council of Bishops.

I don’t think much of people who believe Ortho/Catholic denominations are the good guys. We all have dirty laundry these days. The ability to hide it is a negative, not a positive.

The increasing calls for USA’s breakup are frustrating. When in human history did appeasement ever work? “Too many migrants have moved in here. Let’s let them keep the land, farms and factories they’ve seized; we’ll fall back and draw a new border.” Of all the potential solutions I’ve heard, rewarding evil by formally ceding resources strikes me as the absolute worst, most cucked-up one.

Three points:

First, the welfare state. Do you believe that the parasites will let the taxpayers walk away? That they’ll learn to feed themselves just because they have to? Of course not. The Dindus would swarm the next border in the same way they swarmed the last.

Drain the welfare swamp and the parasites will leave voluntarily. No concessions needed.

Second point, what would happen if California seceded? Would the women in your neighborhood stop voting and quietly return to the kitchen? Would your schools flip around the day the Left Coast quits? As for California, once it went bankrupt (overnight) it would simply swear fealty to Communist China. The reason people want California gone in the first place is its communist leadership so it’s a natural and inevitable matchup. China would then have a powerful foothold in North America. Would that improve your situation?

Don’t reward our treacherous leaders by green-lighting their best-case endgame. Arrest them for treason, obstruction of justice, mass child abuse and the many other crimes they have committed.

And third point, the collapse of national identities and boundaries is not happening in a vacuum. It’s a globalist plot for one-world government, which obviously will only be appealing when civilization everywhere is so messed up that centralized despotism looks like a good idea. A united USA remains a potential threat to that plot. A patchwork of mutually hostile tribes is begging for conquest. Possibly literally. There’s already enough calls in society for a strongman, er, “solutions” to take charge and make our problems go away to reaffirm the truth of being careful what you wish for.

The “Nation of Bob Jenkins, population: his wife and kids” will not be a speedbump to the New World Order. Instead of grabbing our own slices of the pie while we can, let’s try to keep the pie together… if only to spite the social engineering utopians.

Or as Christ said to the Church at Thyatira, “hold on to what you have until I come”.

Parkland, Florida is getting farcically ridiculous.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/parkland-teacher-left-his-loaded-handgun-in-public-bathroom

A teacher at Parkland, Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High.who said he’d be willing to arm himself at school to protect students.has been accused of leaving his loaded handgun in a public restroom, where it was picked up and fired by a drunk homeless man. The Miami Herald reported chemistry teacher Sean Simpson told deputies he left his gun by accident but, by the time he realized, the homeless man had already found it and fired the Glock 9mm at a wall. Simpson said he was able to grab the gun away from the homeless man, Joseph Spataro, who was later charged with firing a weapon while intoxicated. Simpson was arrested and charged with failing to safely store a firearm and posted a $250 cash bond, but reportedly faces no disciplinary action from the school, where 17 people were killed by a teen gunman on Feb. 14.

Ah, guns, those little rascals! They always run off when your back is turned or pants are down! This incident sounds just a little suspicious. Let’s look at the original article:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/article208653029.html

Not the most normal sight: a gun left in the bathroom stall.

But that’s exactly what went down on Sunday in a men’s room at the Deerfield Beach Pier. …

On Tuesday, the Broward School Board unanimously rejected the state’s new program to arm school staff, part of a new law the Florida Legislature passed after the Feb. 14 Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school shootings that left 17 students and educators dead.

Boldface mine. Could the motive possibly have been more obvious? Don’t quit your day job, Simpson, although the fact that you still have your day job teaching at Parkland School post-massacre after negligently arming homeless bums is damning.

My personal-use email has been with Yahoo for a long time. I just logged in today and discovered Yahoo is now part of a multimedia conglomerate called Oath. This is Oath’s way of saying hello:

How we collect and use data.

We.ve updated some of the ways we collect and analyze user data in order to deliver services, content, relevant advertising and abuse protection.

This includes: analyzing content and information when you use our services (including emails, instant messages, posts, photos, attachments, and other communications), linking your activity on other sites and apps with information we have about you, and providing anonymized and/or aggregated reports to other parties regarding user trends.

No, I do not approve of being data-mined into oblivion every time I use the Internet for anything, even though you’re now being nice enough to practice informed consent: you inform and expect me to consent.

Key Points in Terms of Service

We.ve added a mutual arbitration clause.

Hopefully, disputes will never be an issue, but in the case of one, this allows a third-party arbitrator to help us resolve them. We’ve also added a class action waiver. These provisions are an important part of our relationship with you, so please read them carefully.

No more testifying before Congress for you, Big Brother?

We.ve specified the legal entity that provides each service to you.
For some services, this may be a different entity than the entity that previously provided the service. We’ve also reserved the right to transfer the providing entity for each service in the future.

MGTOW… urge… rising…

If you are using our Services on behalf of a company, business or other entity, or if you are using our Services for commercial purposes, we’ve added an indemnity provision, which requires you and the entity to protect us against certain legal actions.

What… the… frick… Dude, I will not protect you from a parking ticket let alone prosecution for electronic fraud via my day job. You should’ve thought twice about how you “collect and use data on other sites and apps”.

New York law now governs and New York, New York is the designated forum.

New York City was the second least reassuring choice of legal arena you could have chosen. Only D.C. would’ve been worse. San Francisco would have been better, if only because I would’ve had the option to go Female Persian Muslim on your lunch hour.

I DO NOT CONSENT!

So, what e-mail provider do you guys use? I find myself in urgent need of a virtual relocation.

Christ told us that if the End Times would not be shortened that nobody would survive. The California state government is obliging Him: the Golden State’s death spiral is tightening into a tornado.

http://www.sacbee.com/news/article208343779.html

SACRAMENTO, CALIF.

Another trip to the bottomless well of Charisma Magazine. “In Wake of Recent Sex Scandals, Do Churches Actually Discipline Members?”

http://www.charismamag.com/spirit/church-ministry/36467-in-wake-of-recent-sex-scandals-do-churches-actually-discipline-members

More than 8 in 10 Protestant senior pastors say their church has not disciplined a member in the past year. More than half say they don’t know of a case when someone has been disciplined.

“It’s one of the topics that churches rarely talk about,” said Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research. …

McConnell says in general, church discipline would apply when offenders refuse to acknowledge their wrongdoing, persist in it or are no longer qualified for leadership.

Sounds like a workable standard. So, church is apparently full of people who don’t acknowledge their wrongdoing or if they persist in it, aren’t confronted. Did someone say porn? The ordinary guy doesn’t acknowledge it because he knows it’s wrong but doesn’t have an alternative. Clergy don’t confront the persistence of porn because the only Biblical alternative will, to put it mildly, inconvenience their daughters’ plans for med school and Justin Bieber.

According to the phone survey of 1,000 Protestant senior pastors, 16 percent of pastors say their church has disciplined a member in the last year. That includes 3 percent in the last month, 5 percent in the last six months and 8 percent in the last year.

More than half (55 percent) say no member has been disciplined during their time as pastor or before their tenure. Twenty-one percent say a member was disciplined three or more years ago. Five percent say there was a case of discipline in the last two years.

Pentecostal (29 percent), Holiness (23 percent) and Baptist pastors (19 percent) are most likely to say a church member was disciplined in the past year. Methodist (4 percent) and Presbyterian/Reformed (9 percent) pastors are less likely.

Overall, about half of evangelical pastors (49 percent) and two-thirds of mainline pastors (67 percent) say they don’t know of a case where someone was disciplined at their church.

LifeWay Research also asked pastors about the process of discipline. Few churches say the responsibility for discipline lies solely with the pastor (8 percent), church elders (14 percent), trustees or board members (4 percent) or church deacons (1 percent).

Half (51 percent) say two or more groups must agree. Eighteen percent say there is no formal discipline process.

Pastors of churches of 100 or more attenders (17 percent) are more likely to say elders alone handle discipline than churches with 99 or fewer attenders (11 percent). African-American pastors (21 percent) are more likely than white pastors (6 percent) to say the pastor alone is responsible for church discipline.

Mainline pastors (24 percent) are more likely than evangelical pastors (15 percent) to say their church has no formal discipline policy.

What you’re looking at is the tyranny of low expectations. Of course there are few grounds for church discipline when you, the average member are expected to do no more than sit on a pew, sing a few songs, maybe participate in communion or baptism on an opt-in basis. You’re barely noticed when you arrive at church and barely noticed when you depart. For what could you possibly be disciplined, when you are trusted with nothing?

On April 17, the county of San Diego is scheduled to vote on whether to join the Federal lawsuit against California’s sanctuary state law. Supervisor Dianne Jacob is spearheading the vote and expects it to pass on a 3-2 margin.

http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/jacob-calls-supervisors-join-trump-suit-against-state-over-sanctuary-law-sheriff-warns-forcing

Opposing this vote is a serious dirtbag of a San Diego County Sheriff, Bill Gore. Remember way back in 1992, the Ruby Ridge standoff between the Weaver family and the FBI? Bill Gore was the agent who wrote the rules of engagement for that fiasco that allowed the shooting of a woman armed with an infant. He, along with four other agents, refused to testify before Congress by invoking 5th Amendment rights against self-incrimination.

Next, remember way back in 9.11.2001? Oh yeah, baby, the 9/11 hijackers. The 900-page Congressional report on the hijackings faulted Gore, special agent in charge of the San Diego FBI office, for negligence. Gore defends himself:

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/aug/10/nation/na-fbi10