More schadenfreude on my popcorn, please.

I.m a teacher headed back to school next month. It’s going to be traumatic.

htt ps://co.chalkbeat.org/2020/7/29/21345927/im-a-teacher-headed-back-to-school-next-month-its-going-to-be-traumatic

By Autumn Jones, 29 July 2020

Last week, the Colorado district where I teach announced schools would return August 18 for a hybrid of in-person and remote learning. That means that teachers must face the reality of walking into a school building where little of what we were taught about being a teacher will apply. We will be expected at school five days a week, teaching alternating groups of students while also providing remote instruction for those learning from home.

It is bound to be a shock . one that we’ll be absorbing just as many of us are coming to terms with the upheaval caused by the emergency school closures of March 12, 2020.

But… teachers are salaried, not hourly. Her summer vacation was six months long this year.

We are about to encounter a teacher mental health crisis of massive proportions. In the crucial conversation about how we make things right for our students . and we must . we cannot disregard the well-being of educators.

Autumn’s hair has every reason to be concerned about her mental health, being frizzy enough to defy a perm. But the rest is not unusual. The concave nose indicates openness and spontaneity, compared to the convex, “hawk” nose’s shrewdness. Eyebrows thicker on the inside are “visionary” as opposed to “managerial” so she’s probably not that good with paperwork, but handling kids seems a fine fit for that personality.

A little upper eyelid is showing on each eye, meaning she’s emotionally balanced towards the outside world. Chin is not masculinized.

She has a receding jaw… while I can’t normally tell from a frontal selfie, that overbite is suggestive. Such people tend to be highly ethical, meaning they follow their beliefs closely. She isn’t baring enough of the upper gum in this smile for me to think her main belief is ego but I can believe it’s a short trip.

Conclusion, she could have been a normal woman, liking kids and enjoying life spontaneously. But she wandered off the straight path, probably the cock carousel, until like her hair she became tightly wound and fraying at the edges. School politics probably didn’t help. Chinavirus certainly didn’t.

In this moment, our school leaders should be asking: What is being done to support the emotional needs of the teachers? Do they sleep well at night? Are they equipped with the psychological tools to return to an unfamiliar-looking building where they, in turn, are expected to be the emotional and academic cheerleaders for their students? What happens when, instead of getting the virus, we see educators experience anxiety, panic attacks, or stress-induced ailments? Do schools have the necessary supports in place to care for the mental health of its educators?

Normal human beings don’t call schoolteachers “educators”. That’s bureaucrat talk.

I would love to see our schools provide teachers with a mental health day…

They’re called Saturdays.

…debriefings with counselors, dedicated meditation spaces…

Sorry, tits, we already turned that into a lactation room.

…and “break cards” that teachers could use to call an administrator or a member of the support staff into their classroom . no questions asked . should they need time to recenter.

Because even on a normal day in a normal year, teachers are overwhelmed. Heck, I cried in front of 35 seventh-graders on a day when their challenging dynamic proved too much for my well-versed classroom management skills.

Last year’s difficulties pale in comparison to the coming year’s expectations.

I am facing a compounding difficulty in planning for the classes I am supposed to teach . robotics, multimedia, yearbook, and graphic design. When I look through the lesson plans I created for these classes last year, I see things like group work, partner activities, hands-on building, shared classroom materials, exploratory learning, icebreakers, flexible seating, flipped instruction, and Jolly Rancher Fridays.

Boo-hoo. I have to place building foundations in exactly the right place or I’ll get sued for eight digits, all while writing legal documents and training the new guy. Your Jolly Rancher Fridays do not stack up against my failing retaining walls.

I’m not completely unsympathetic–my church fed me to the seventh graders then refused to support my efforts to remove the bad apples, so I know exactly the kind of breakdown she’s describing–but the reason she’s stressed has nothing to do with kids or viruses, and everything to do with school administrators.

Don’t blame the kids, Barbie, or the kids might think the problem is their fault. It is not.

I have to rethink every single one of these things through the lens of .don’t touch, don’t share, don’t get too close..

Then don’t do it. Do what has worked for you instead and when administrators complain you’re spreading the Spanish Flu of 1918, tell them you aren’t going to change. Maybe they’ll fire you and maybe they’ll back down… either will reduce your stress load. Many teachers have been NOT fired over much worse.

Give your students the gift of a normal childhood.

Every assignment will be individual. Most of what I’ve learned about classroom management and responsive education goes out the door. The high fives and handshakes upon entering, for example. The tennis ball that we pass around when we’re taking turns speaking. The use of proximity to corral an off-task student.

Again, give your students the gift of a normal childhood.

The most traumatic part for me is not whether or not we are in the physical school building; it is that students won’t be able to act like children and teachers won’t be able to act like educators . at least not in the traditional sense.

When she’s right, she’s right. And here, she’s totally right.

Try telling a kindergartener that he can’t be on the playground with his friends. Try telling a middle schooler that she can’t swap scrunchies with her girlfriends (and, yes, scrunchies are back). Try telling a high school student in a P.E. class that he can’t play basketball because it’s just too risky to share a ball and guard other players. Try telling an aspiring engineer that she can’t use the classroom materials to build the robot she had been developing.

Autumn’s complaint is fully legit. What is stressful about the coming school year is not that sixth graders will act like sixth graders. It’s that SIXTH GRADERS WON’T BE ALLOWED TO ACT LIKE SIXTH GRADERS.

COVID-19 has nothing to do with medicine. It has everything to do with population control. It is the most malevolent piece of social engineering since the Khmer Rouge declared “everybody is now a farmer. Empty the cities at gunpoint”.

No teacher knows how to handle these scenarios. There was nothing in my bachelor’s or master’s programs that prepared me for this. Nothing in my student teacher training or my four years of leading a classroom. And if we experienced teachers are floundering, imagine what a first-year teacher must feel like right now.

We menfolk know how to handle this: all the rope in Texas and a big oak tree. Punishing simple violence is wrong because some violent people are the good guys. But women can’t see this. It’s really not their job to see when a leader of society needs a stretching for child cruelty.

How did this come to pass? The extermination of fathers. No father worth the vertebra in his spine would tolerate his child being treated worse than a lifer on Death Row. But fathers are no longer allowed in their childrens’ lives.

I wish I could say, .I have a solution!. or that I even have the faintest idea of how things will play out in the coming months. What I do know is that teachers are going through a really hard time as they face the uncertainties and attempt to help their students deal with this moment, too. There’s not exactly a “Returning to School in a Pandemic” guidebook for students or teachers.

Teachers need your friendship, your love, and your encouragement now more than ever. They need to know that they are heard and that their fears are valid.

I have a solution! Teachers need to go back to their husbands. This problem was created by women replacing their husbands with the State, so the solution is to replace the State with husbands… restoring God’s natural order for society. Everything else is, to use the medical term, palliative care.

The problem is not that female rebellion had consequences. The problem is female rebellion.

Teachers may not be able to conquer as much curriculum as in years past, and the ways they teach may be limited . not by their own creativity, but by the safety protocols in place. They also may need the option to step out of the classroom, collect themselves and begin again (see: “break cards.). Understand that they still love your children, our children, and want the best possible education for each and every one of them. Presume positive intentions.

Autumn, if you loved those children then you wouldn’t treat them like disease vectors. In fact, it would be enough to love your husband. He could give you the strength to do what needs to be done.

They also need to know that you will support them in whatever decisions they make. For some, returning to the classroom is going to be too much, and that is OK. Don’t crucify them for honoring their mental health. For others, a really tough day in the classroom may mean that they can’t muster the energy to go to your social event. Don’t hold it against them.

Also, please be cautious when posting your opinions about the return-to-school on social media. It can be a volatile place and, of late, a toxic space of politicization. Recognize that active listening instead of active shouting may be in everybody’s best interest.

Pray for teachers. Please pray for me. There’s a long road ahead, and we teachers need all the help we can get.

I pray you “ed-zoo-caterers” would put down your boxed wine and cats, quit complaining and repent on your knees to God and Husband for opening school-sized doors for the wicked to come in and rule over you. The window for repentance is closing swiftly.

If there’s one reason to distrust the modern medical profession, it’s their fear-mongering us over a disease so lethal that most people need a blood test to know whether they’re sick. If there’s a second reason to distrust the quacks, it’s what qualifies as “peer review” these days. On that note, CHICKS IN THONGS! Let’s review some peers!

H/T Adam Piggott.

Costa Rica has… mountains.

Doctor Geisha, excuse me, Doctor Kesia. She already makes me feel better!

EYE BLEACH! That was a vascular surgery patient, not a vascular surgery doctor. My bad. Dayumn, even the SI swimsuit issue is showing the fattening effects of the summer lockdown.

No, no, I’m serious. What we just did was peer review.

Prevalence of unprofessional social media content among young vascular surgeons

Journal of Vascular Surgery
Volume 72, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 667-671

Sourced from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S074152141932587X

“Presented at the Forty-seventh Annual Symposium of the Society for Clinical Vascular Surgery, Boca Raton, Fla, March 16-20, 2019.” Nobody noticed at the time, of course, because nobody goes to a symposium at a Florida resort to stay indoors and discuss paperwork.

Objective

It has been demonstrated that publicly available social media content may affect patient choice of physician, hospital, and medical facility. Furthermore, such content has the potential to affect professional reputation among peers and employers. Our goal was to evaluate the extent of unprofessional social media content among recent vascular surgery fellows and residents.

Best. Dissertation topic. Ever.

Methods

The Association of Program Directors in Vascular Surgery directory was used to compile a list of graduating vascular surgery trainees from 2016 to 2018. Neutral Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts were used to search for publicly available information. All content was screened by two separate investigators for prespecified clearly unprofessional or potentially unprofessional content. Clearly unprofessional content included: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act violations, intoxicated appearance, unlawful behavior, possession of drugs or drug paraphernalia, and uncensored profanity or offensive comments about colleagues/work/patients.

What’s wrong with drinking outside work? You wouldn’t want a doctor who can’t unwind.

Potentially unprofessional content included: holding/consuming alcohol, inappropriate attire, censored profanity, controversial political or religious comments, and controversial social topics. Descriptive data were compiled and Fisher exact test was used for categorical comparisons.

Uh-oh. I don’t suppose the authors were Christians looking for heretics and nobody tried to define what the boldfaced meant. This might have been a witch hunt rather than a chick hunt. Epic backfire if so, however, because notice they also included “inappropriate attire”. Which meant girls being PRETTY in swimwear!

This is Erica Mitchell, the only female co-author. Glossy hair is nice but I see a lot of masculinization in her face. Angled eyebrows, hooded upper eyelids, flattened lower eyelids, a jawline feminine in adolescence but since bulked out with proto-jowls and a lower lip thicker than the upper lip. Prominent cheekbones indicating social dominance. Not sure what her pencil neck indicates other than frailty.

I find confirmation in her parting her hair for transitioning to a “Karen” haircut. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of that hair is a wig, considering this pic was taken in a studio. Conclusion: ball-busting feminist dyke.

Results

Omitting statistical analyses.

There were 480 vascular surgeons identified. 325 (68%) were male, 456 (95%) held MD degrees, and 115 (24%) were integrated (0 + 5) vascular surgery residents. Of these, 235 had publicly identifiable social media accounts across all platforms.

Assuming all wimminz were on social media, only one-quarter of men were dumb enough to have easily traceable social media accounts. Not bad.

Sixty-one (26%) account holders had either clearly unprofessional or potentially unprofessional content. Eight accounts (3.4%) contained content categorized as clearly unprofessional: obvious alcohol intoxication in three Facebook accounts and uncensored profanity or offensive comments about colleagues/work/patients in one Facebook and five Twitter accounts. Potentially unprofessional content appeared in 58 accounts (25%) and included holding/consuming alcohol (29 accounts, 12.3%), controversial political comments (22 accounts, 9.4%), inappropriate/offensive attire (9 accounts, 3.8%), censored profanity (8 accounts, 3.4%), controversial social topics (6 accounts, 2.5%), and controversial religious comments (2 accounts, .9%).

Let’s do all of them at once!

There was no significant difference in unprofessional content across sex, training paradigm (MD vs non-MD), or residency track. However, there was more unprofessional content for those who self-identified as vascular surgeons.

Conclusions

One-half of recent and soon to be graduating vascular surgery trainees had an identifiable social media account with more than one-quarter of these containing unprofessional content.

Hello, wimminz!

Account holders who self-identified as vascular surgeons were more likely to be associated with unprofessional social media behavior. Young surgeons should be aware of the permanent public exposure of unprofessional content that can be accessed by peers, patients, and current/future employers.

Not really permanent when most of the female vascular surgeons want to attract a husband rather than practice specialty medicine in a very unstable workplace.

This is a postcard of what Dalrock called “female territory marking”.

Sexism is alive and well when the competence of vascular surgeons is judged by what they wear on holiday

htt ps://www.independent.co.uk/voices/doctors-bikinis-medbikini-journal-vascular-surgery-sexism-women-clothing-a9642026.html

By Harriet Hall, 28 July 2020

This is Harriet Hall. I hope her preferred pronouns are weirdo, ugly and fake.

Straight off the bat, I might as well admit that I’m not an avid reader of the Journal of Vascular Surgery…

Weirdo.

…but I’d be tempted to make a wild assumption (.ass., I know… .you and me.) about its typical contents: veins, arteries, lymphatic vessels and ideas backed up by scrupulous peer-reviewed research with which to maintain the respective healthy functioning of each.

Which is why I was surprised to read about a study published in said esteemed journal on something quite different: the “prevalence of unprofessional social media content among young vascular surgeons.” The study claimed to be concerned with the impact a surgeon’s public social media account might have on their professional reputation and a prospective patient’s choice of surgeon. What resourceful use of scarce scientific funding.

The journal was obviously getting low on publishable content. Complaining about the death rates from being shut down to reserve hospitals for plague carts that never showed up, however, would have been politically incorrect, so instead they tried to focus on the politically incorrect behavior of individual dissidents.

Only for the effort to be derailed by Doctor Karen getting catty against the pretty girls.

The scientists involved, from the Boston Medical Centre and Salem Health Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, compiled a list of 480 graduating trainees and screened their publicly available social media activity, taking into account any “clearly unprofessional content” including unlawful behaviour and profanities about colleagues, as well as any “potentially unprofessional content” including .holding/consuming alcohol., discussion of any “controversial topics” and “inappropriate attire.” The latter was categorised as “pictures in underwear, provocative Halloween costume and provocative posing in bikinis/swimwear.. Six out of seven of the study’s authors responsible for defining what was “inappropriate attire” behaviour were . and I’m sure this comes as a huge shock . male.

Both sexes are interested in detecting inappropriate attire. Men to enjoy it, pretty women to model it and ugly women to punish it.

This is what happens when you put women into STEM. Wimminz gonna wammin.

In response to the publication of the research, female surgeons began sharing photographs of themselves across social media wearing bikinis using the hashtag #MedBikini. .I am a woman in medicine who loves to travel to tropical locations and dress accordingly,. captioned one. .I will not wear my white coat and scrubs to Hawaii..

Cute, but she comes with a blue check mark and $250k in student loans. Pass.

Other women began sharing the sexism they.d experienced at work, contrasted with the professionalism experienced by their male colleagues. The journal has since apologised and pledged to take .resolute steps to improve our review process and increase diversity of our editorial boards.. But that’s not really the point, is it?

Hastily making apologies after the fact is rather less effective in tackling diversity than simply not operating in a sexist manner in the first place. A lack of “diversity” also feels like a feeble attempt at an excuse when we’re talking about half of the population.

Good point. Apologizing for hating on alcohol and bikinis is one thing. Promising to set it right by exterminating the whiteness of the organization is quite the non sequiter.

Although only 20 per cent of surgeons in the UK are women, a figure that drops to 8 per cent for vascular surgeons, the journal’s review board is clearly not representative of the profession, let alone aspirational or attempting to lead change, given their response. Even if there weren’t many female peer reviewers available for this paper, you.d hope that by now men at the top of their professional careers would be capable of understanding that categorising women on the perceived “inappropriateness” of their clothes isn’t really the done thing anymore. It’s not as though we’ve kept it quiet that we’re been judged more harshly than our male peers for the last 2,000 years.

Ah, the gnashing of ugly Karen’s teeth. “Although only 8 percent of vascular surgeons are female, they should have let us women be in charge!”

It.s more than just a case of tokenistic representation. Not having women at the top of medicine is a significant contributing factor in the dismissal of female health issues, with conditions such as endometriosis often taking years to be correctly diagnosed. Female pain is not equal.

Female health is so dramatically overfunded in comparison to male health that this isn’t funny. The idea that white men hoard all the resources simply because white men are at the top is pure projection of what women will do given the opportunity.

Women don’t want power and money in order to apply it to something. They want power and money as ends in themselves.

The study into bikini-wearing surgeons is not an anomaly. Employers just can’t seem to leave the matter of women’s clothing alone. Just last week an employment law firm released a study that found a third of women to have been asked to dress in a more sexually appealing way or put more make-up on for video calls while working remotely, as if dealing with a pandemic and the lion’s share of the childcare wasn’t enough to be dealing with right now.

Sex sells, Karen. Deal with it. Oh, right, you’re an ugly trannie weirdo who no longer has the ability to be sexy. No husband. No babies. No home except that cubicle at a British tabloid that you thought would be empowering. It’s a, ahem, *pretty* good picture of Hell.

When men enter the workplace, they might shave and iron their shirt, but they don’t worry if their forearms might provoke a sexualised outburst from a colleague or if their visible kneecaps could disenchant their boss to promote them.

Men spend many hours in the gym building up the kind of muscles that women can’t keep their hands off of. We LIKE female attention but you witches…

Meh, I can’t continue. Women in bikinis these days are gold rings in pig snouts. This is all about the weaponization of female sexuality, not a drop of which is for men to actually enjoy. At least, enjoy being the point of Barbie paying for med school with a Pornhub account.

What happens when a stadium isn’t allowed to have spectators? It puts mannequins in the seats instead. What happens when store mannequins don’t have “derrieres” that fit properly in the seats? It uses sex dolls.

Sex dolls with boobs big enough to be visible from the field!

SKorean soccer team accused of putting sex dolls in seats

htt ps://apnews.com/ab87492351eb6ed6fc7012bbe5b9fc74

The leaders of a South Korean soccer club might be feeling like boobs after they were exposed for using sex dolls to make an empty stadium look full of fans.

FC Seoul placed 30 mannequins around its stadium for a game against Gwangju FC, adding signs of life to stands void of spectators because of the coronavirus pandemic. The Seoul club said in a statement it believed the figures were ordinary mannequins.

I could support a New Normal of D-cups and 0.8 hip ratios.

The action on the field must not have been that great. People watching quickly noticed that some of the fake fans wore clothing advertising sex toys and that many of them were especially busty. As the BBC noted, pornography is banned in South Korea.

Translation, flat-chested Korean wimminz who didn’t care about the ball game quickly noticed their competition for the Ex Games!

.We had tried to add some fun in the no-spectator match,. FC Seoul said in a statement, according to The New York Times. “But we have not checked all the details, and that is clearly our fault.” The Associated Press said the team expressed “sincere remorse..

Remorse about being caught… but I can’t be angry about their fibbing this time!

The team said it was assured by the doll supplier that the figures weren’t sex products. FC Seoul didn’t explain why it chose Dalkom, a company known for sex dolls, for the job.

Boys will be boys. Good show, FC Seoul!

This could catch on. My local restaurants are already putting giant stuffed animals into seats to encourage social distancing… and staff is already wiping them down between customers anyway… AND there’s no risk of false rape accusations!

This is a topic I’ve been having suspicions and hearing stories about: the COVID scare is killing more people than the COVID itself. Even before accounting for government cooking the books.

https://www.studyfinds.org/u-s-death-rate-soaring-but-more-than-a-third-are-not-caused-by-covid-19/

By Chris Melore, 5 July 2020

Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth and Yale universities say the nation saw over 87,000 more deaths than the average for March and April. The report finds COVID-19 is directly responsible for only 65 percent of those fatalities. In 14 states, including California and Texas, more than half of the excess deaths were tied to a cause other than coronavirus.

Lead author Steven Woolf says some of these deaths may reflect medical officials under-reporting COVID-19 cases.

No. Not when they get, last I checked, $13k every time they report COVID.

The heart disease graph is alarmist because the spike is mostly NYC not a full state. (Cuomo scared his people to death?) The increases for states is statistically significant but not so world-ending. Exception for Alzheimer’s in New Jersey?

So, reductions in medical care availability led directly to increased deaths. It was not acceptable for Fauci & Friends to be wrong on their death-toll predictions by three orders of magnitude.

Woolf believes there could be another reason for the dramatic rise in non-coronavirus deaths: the pandemic’s impact on society has been just as devastating.

.A third possibility, the one we’re quite concerned about, is indirect mortality . deaths caused by the response to the pandemic,. explains Woolf, the director emeritus of VCU.s Center on Society and Health. .People who never had the virus may have died from other causes because of the spillover effects of the pandemic, such as delayed medical care, economic hardship or emotional distress..

Compared to January and February averages, diabetes deaths rose by 96 percent in those states. Deaths tied to heart disease (89%), Alzheimer’s disease (64%), and stroke (35%) also saw disturbing jumps. The study adds deaths in New York City due to heart disease and diabetes both rose by over 350 percent during that time.

Researchers believe fear of getting infected with COVID-19 is keeping many people from seeking proper medical care. The study adds patients in the hardest hit areas may not be getting enough care because local hospitals are overwhelmed with coronavirus cases.

.We can’t forget about mental health,. says Woolf. .A number of people struggling with depression, addiction and very difficult economic conditions caused by lockdowns may have become increasingly desperate, and some may have died by suicide..

Another article:

htt ps://heavy.com/news/2020/07/florida-covid-19-death-rate-by-age/

The State of Florida also releases detailed daily statistics of Florida COVID-19 deaths here. It includes the county, whether the person had recent travel, and whether they were a Florida resident. Here is what the statistics show:

It shows a normal picture: the young get sick the most because they’re the most socially active but it’s the elderly who actually die. No amount of social engineering is going to change that.

4,242 deaths from 266,119 infections is a 1.6% fatality rate, for a state famous as both a retirement destination and a resort. The hospitalization/death rates for children is zero but that won’t change their New Normal of socially isolated schooling this Fall.

Still no hard data on suicide rates.

Now that physical churches and public hymn-singing are banned as disease vectors, we should focus on the good side of virtual Christianity instead of defying evil!

3 benefits of online church vs. church in person

https://www.christianpost.com/voices/3-benefits-of-online-church-vs-church-in-person.html

By Greg Stier, Christian Post Guest Columnist, 18 July 2020

Stier is founder & CEO of the poorly defined Dare2Share Christian speaking organization. Bio from its website:

Greg.s commitment to mobilizing teenagers to reach their generation for Christ is rooted in the transforming power of the gospel. Raised in a violent, inner-city family of body-builders, he never had a dad and never felt like he measured up because his biceps weren’t big enough! But one by one, he saw his tough, urban family of “thugs” come to know Christ. And that ignited a passion in Greg to see all lost people come to know Jesus.

Living just minutes away from the scene of the 1999 Columbine High School shootings in the Denver area, the tragedy triggered a pivotal turning point in Greg’s career. Following those events, he resigned a pastorate at a church in Arvada, Colorado, to pursue Dare 2 Share (D2S) full-time. Since then, Greg and the ministry of D2S have impacted the lives of hundreds of thousand teenagers across the country, motivating and equipping them to relationally reach out to those who don’t know Jesus with the gospel message of hope.

I see red flags in his fatherlessness, lack of self-confidence and most particularly, his failing to overcome those two handicaps prior to becoming a pastor living in the same metro area as a violent scandal that didn’t personally affect him.

His face shows a lot of emotional stress & defensiveness. Overall, an excellent background to produce the kind of Cuckservative Christian who sees religion as an emotional crutch and nonjudgmental father figure… which is not what fatherhood is about, frankly. Daddy’s favorite word is “No”.

On to the article.

Our family normally attends Red Rocks Church here in the great state of Colorado. But, for the last few months, “attending” has been “logging in” and watching the church services online.

While there are some churches in our state that have started to meet in person again (with limited numbers), our church has chosen to continue to meet online for awhile longer. After all, online viewership is through the roof!

In retail, switching to a virtual storefront is referred to as a “last gasp”. That will remain true for churches of a religion whose deity mandates in-person meetings and laying hands on each other. But yes, forcing your in-person customers to use your social media does create a brief surge in social media usage, until they wonder why they’re paying you full price for what they can get at an “Internet discount” elsewhere.

Thankfully, not all churches are quietly. embracing their obsolescence. Behold California outperforming Colorado!

Segue

https://www.christianpost.com/news/3-churches-sue-california-over-singing-ban-say-it-violates-1st-14th-amendments.html

Three California churches have filed a lawsuit against Gov. Gavin Newsom and several state health officials for a ban on singing during church services, arguing that it violates the First and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court in Redding by a team of lawyers from the American Center for Law and Justice, Tyler & Bursch, The National Center for Law and Policy, and Advocates for Faith & Freedom.

Redding is in northern California, the part that keeps trying to secede but can’t because Sodom somehow gets a veto. Gov. Newscum has even gotten into the habit of threatening to withhold grant money from local governments there if they disobey his dictats. Not a peep from criminal justice types about such blatant extortion.

.Let me be clear, the State does not have the jurisdiction to ban houses of worship from singing praises to God,. Robert Tyler, partner at Tyler & Bursch, LLP, said in an ACLJ release.

Preach, brother!

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit were listed as Calvary Chapel in Ukiah, Calvary Chapel Fort Bragg and the River of Life Church in Oroville.

.Singing in church is a biblical mandate,. Kevin Green, pastor of Calvary Chapel in Fort Bragg, told the Los Angeles Times.

If your church doesn’t care that much then your church ain’t salt nor shit.

In new guidelines issued on July 1, in the face of rising COVID-19 cases, public health officials in California said singing and chanting in houses of worship must not happen because the activity posed a threat to public health.

.Even with adherence to physical distancing, convening in a congregational setting of multiple different households to practice a personal faith carries a relatively higher risk for widespread transmission of the COVID-19 virus, and may result in increased rates of infection, hospitalization, and death, especially among more vulnerable populations,. health officials said in the new guidelines document.

.In particular, activities such as singing and chanting negate the risk reduction achieved through six feet of physical distancing. *Places of worship must therefore discontinue singing and chanting activities and limit indoor attendance to 25% of building capacity or a maximum of 100 attendees, whichever is lower,. they advised.

Baptism? Banned. Communion? Banned. Jesus? Racist. We must have six feet of separation! because five feet would be chaos and none at all, divine.

…A report from the Skagit County Public Health Department in Washington state published by the CDC in May showed how quickly the coronavirus spread after a choir practice became a “superspreader event” for the virus that infected 86% of attending members and killed two of them.

It’s all about the infections for the Children of the Lie, not about the actual harm done by COVID. The choir incident, as in “one single incident”, was also before effective treatments for Wu Flu had been developed… and banned by the same people screeching fear at us.

End segue

Of course, there’s nothing like meeting together as a church family. From fellowship in the lobby to worship in the sanctuary to going out for lunch afterwards to gathering together during the week for small group, there’s something about the in-room experience that can never be truly and fully duplicated online.

But, instead of whining about what we miss attending in-person church services, the Stier family has chosen to play the advantages of experiencing church online.

The most reliable indicator of a Cuckservative is his habit of undermining his own arguments. He can’t tell which argument will hurt a POC’s fee-fees so he hedges everything.

Then the POCs get offended anyway. As if their goal is to hurt you and cause trouble.

Here are three Big Benefits of attending church online:

Big Benefit #1: We get to roll out of bed, log on and experience church with little effort.

*checks* Christian Post is not a known satire site.

Sure, there have been a few Sundays we have missed online services since COVID-19 struck. Once in awhile, one of us has to watch the service at a different time. But, more often than not, we have watched Sunday morning services together as a family since this whole pandemic started. One of the reasons is that it’s so darn easy just to tune in and watch.

How often do you get to watch church in your pajamas? How often can you go and refill your coffee right in the middle of the church service without someone glaring at you? How often can you lay down on the couch during the second point of the sermon?

Online church is easy.

*double checks* Christian Post is not a known satire site.

Nothing makes Jesus more proud to claim you as a follower than watching you publicly brag about how little effort you make on His behalf.

Big Benefit #2: We often have amazing conversations during the sermon.

I love it when my two teenaged kids ask questions like, “What does he mean by that?” or “Where does the Bible say that?” or “Is that really true?” or anything that forces us as parents to open the Scriptures and dive in. One of the great things about online services is that you can put them on pause and get into a conversation about what is actually being taught right at that very moment.

Okay… that’s a valid point… I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop…

Of course you can have those conversations after regular in-person church services in the car ride home too. But by the time you leave the sanctuary, say your goodbye’s in the foyer and walk across the parking lot to get to your car and rush off to lunch, the questions/comments you may have had during the sermon most likely have been forgotten.

*thump* Ahh, there it is. God’s church does not make sufficient allowances for illiteracy and short attention spans! When I was a kid, I carried my own Bible to church, looked stuff up while the pastor was speaking, which he footnoted while he spoke anyway, and if I remembered the main verse next Sunday then I got a piece of candy.

Big Blessing #3: We leave with an action plan for the week.

God forbid you have to run your own life.

Discovery Bible Study has a list of questions that they encourage every person in their Bible studies to ask and answer. It’s all designed to lead to, what they have nicknamed, “Obedience based Bible Studies.” After all God calls us to “be doers of the Word and not hearers only” according to James 1:22.

Scripture doesn’t care if your wife goes topless to Virtual Church but if her head isn’t covered then she’s not a “doer of the Word” and neither is her husband.

In that spirit, we all answer three questions every Sunday after the sermon is preached. Here they are:

1) What did you learn (or what were you reminded of) from today’s sermon?

Black Lives Matter!

2) How are you going to apply what you learned this week?

3) Who are you going to tell (either what you learned or about Jesus)?

Because the sermon is so top-of-mind for all of us these are easy questions to ask and answer on the spot. After we have gone around the circle and answered these questions we finish with a family prayer for strength to live out what we have learned and that God would give each of us the opportunity to share the gospel with someone that week.

You moron Stier, first you let your church close because the State ordered it then, what? You go around telling people that Jesus is God? Your own actions demonstrate that the State is a more important god than God Himself.

Heck, I was sharing the gospel of “Come to Jesus, avoid His Church” years before you Cucks agreed with the devil that the Church was a non-essential charnel house. Guess what? Nobody wants to follow a god who can’t save himself or police his own followers.

It’s disgusting to read about this chucklehead logging into social media to have his week planned out for him by a pastor. What’s he being instructed to do that would be any different from his normal behavior? Were he Charismatic, I’d forward him the memo that he’s not significant enough to warrant weekly supernatural marching orders.

As if anybody sane would want to be that significant.

While we can’t wait to get back to normal church services (especially the post pandemic ones where hand sanitizer and masks are no longer needed or encouraged) we are making the most of our online time as a family.

Then DON’T WAIT. Do it now, you whoreson CEO evangelist! Oh, but perhaps you aren’t yet tired of showing up to “Sunday morning services” in your unshaven birthday suit?

Apply these three to your online viewing experience and you can enjoy these big blessings as well!

The big blessings of listening to Priest-King plan my week while I eat Cheetos in my underpants!

Continuing the running joke of AI vehicle drivers is the inevitable story of a drunk using AI to avoid a DUI. He manages a twofer!

Tesla on “Autopilot” hits police vehicle which hits ambulance, driver possibly drunk: police

htt ps://www.mercurynews.com/2020/07/14/tesla-on-autopilot-hits-police-vehicle-which-hits-ambulance-driver-possibly-drunk-police/

Police are probing possible drunk-driving in the case of a Tesla driver in Arizona who said he was using the Bay Area electric car maker’s controversial “Autopilot” system when his sedan smashed into an unoccupied police vehicle, which then hit an ambulance.

The crash occurred Tuesday on an Arizona highway, according to the state’s Department of Public Safety. .We can confirm the driver indicated to troopers the Tesla was on autopilot at the time of the collision,. the department tweeted, adding that the 23-year-old male driver was being investigated for driving under the influence.

At first, I thought this was an open-and-shut “ooh, pretty lights!” kind of crash where an intoxicated driver sees the flashers and instinctively moves towards the light at the end of his tunnel vision. But it’s possible the SUV was over the yellow line enough to confuse an autopilot.

The police sergeant who had driven the department’s SUV was not in it at the time of the crash, and the ambulance occupants were not hurt, the department said. The Tesla driver was hospitalized with serious but not life-threatening injuries, police said.

Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment. After a fatal 2018 accident involving a Tesla on Autopilot in Mountain View, the Palo Alto company said that “Autopilot can be safely used on divided and undivided roads as long as the driver remains attentive and ready to take control,. the National Transportation Safety Board noted in a report. In a 2018 blog post, Tesla claimed Autopilot makes crashes “much less likely to occur,. arguing that “No one knows about the accidents that didn’t happen, only the ones that did..

The boldfaced is such an obvious design failure that you know this tech is being pushed by the Elites wanting to cull the human population. Which is better: a human driver, or an expensive computer driver that the human must hover over at all times to retake control in an instant? Exactly what labor is being saved by this labor-saving device? It’s like letting your six-year old sit in your lap while you drive on the freeway except without the happy memories of Baby’s First Ticket.

This isn’t the first time Tesla tried & failed to exterminate humans.

Segue

Tesla.s Big Problem: Excessive Automation

Tesla.s Big Problem: Excessive Automation

Since the invention of the assembly line, manufacturing has continued to improve its capacity for production. Robots and automation have slowly been pushing the human worker out of the factory.

But, there must be a tipping point where machinery can no longer replace the human worker.

It seems that Elon Musk may be reaching that tipping point… Elon Musk’s Tesla factories have fallen victim to over-automation.

According to Timothy B. Lee, as reported on arstechnica.com, there are experts who draw parallels between Musk’s desire for a faster line to, .GM’s automation efforts in the 1980.s. At the time, GM was being led by chairman and CEO Roger Smith and faced rising competition from Toyota and other foreign car makers. Smith had a vision for a “lights out” car factory where robots would do the bulk of the work, allowing GM to produce cars more efficiently than anyone else..

What happened in that GM plant was the first evidence a fully automated line was not a good idea:

.As the assembly line tried to gain speed, the computer-guided dolly wandered off course. The spray-painting robots began spraying each other instead of the cars, causing GM to truck the cars across town to a fifty-seven-year-old Cadillac plant for repainting. When a massive computer-controlled “robogate” welding machine smashed a car body, or a welding machine stopped dead, the entire line would stop. Workers could do nothing but stand around and wait while managers called in the robot contractor’s technicians..

GM spent billions of dollars on robotics in the 1980.s, but there was never a return on that investment. While today’s robots are more sophisticated, it is clear adding robots and AI must be done incrementally to achieve the best results.

In early 2018, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, confirmed automation had been slowing Tesla’s Model 3 production. Musk admitted humans, not machines, were the solution.

Tesla.s CEO said one reason Tesla has failed to reach promised production volumes was due to “excessive automation.” When asked whether robots had slowed down production, Musk replied, .Yes, they did . We had this crazy, complex network of conveyor belts . And it was not working, so we got rid of that whole thing..

The production under performance has delayed customer deliveries. Musk had to take direct control of the production line in April, even pulling all-nighters and napping at the factory.

.We were able to unlock some of the critical things that were holding us back from reaching 2,000 cars a week. But since then, we’ve continued to do 2,000 cars a week,. he said.

Simultaneously, Tesla is facing negative publicity due to a fatal crash of one of its Model X SUV.s that was using the firm’s Autopilot mode. The crash is just one of the problems facing the company.

Tesla is manufacturing an unexpectedly high ratio of flawed vehicles and parts, according to several employees, leading to so much rework and repair that its factory in Fremont, California, cannot handle all the issues.

End segue.

As an industrial designer I knew once put it, “humans are simultaneously the weakest and the most adaptive link in any system”. We can’t do any one thing as well as a task-specific machine but without us, complexity and chaos will rip the system apart.

So, if the driver is paying attention… but he’s plastered drunk… who gets the DUI? BigCorp or Bubba?

Crashes involving Tesla’s Autopilot driver-assistance system have sparked multiple investigations by the federal safety board. The agency found a Tesla driver’s over-reliance on the automated system was a factor in a 2016 fatal Model S crash in Florida, and determined that in 2018 in Mountain View, Autopilot steered a Tesla Model X SUV into a Highway 101 barrier, a collision that caused the driver’s death.

After another fatal Florida crash, between a Model 3 sedan and a truck in March 2019, the agency blamed the driver’s over-reliance on automation and Tesla’s design of the Autopilot system as well as “the company’s failure to limit the use of the system to the conditions for which it was designed,. it said in a report.

The report noted that after the 2016 Florida crash, which involved a collision between a Tesla and a truck, the agency recommended that Tesla and five other car makers using automated systems develop technology to “more effectively sense the driver’s level of engagement and alert the driver when engagement is lacking..

Great. So instead of you driving your car, your car nags you to pay constant attention to her. New for 2022, the Ford Honeymoon!

Harvard just released its new “Terms and Conditions” for living on-campus this coming academic season. TL;DR they keep your soul in a little jar but at least there’s no fine print.

Fall 2020 Residential Community Compact

htt ps://dso.college.harvard.edu/files/dso/files/community_compact-6_5_20.pdf

Harvard College aims to provide a residential environment that enables student
learning and provides a safe place for students during the public health emergency
occasioned by the global COVID-19 pandemic.

Harvard College is also guided by public health practices and will promote shared
responsibility among all members of the residential community . students and live-in and other residential staff included.

In order to make an informed decision about residency, it is important that all
students who are invited to return as part of a cohort or who plan to petition to
return to on-campus housing in Fall 2020 read, understand, acknowledge, and agree
to the rules and guidelines that will be in place in the fall. These rules and guidelines may be updated and revised as we receive additional guidance from the city, state, and federal governments.

Students residing on campus in Fall 2020 will be required to sign the residential community compact: (or their parents/guardians if under the age of 18) Because COVID-19 infects individuals by spreading across and within close community networks, it is essential that every one of us in the residential community enters into a shared obligation and commitment to act prudently, safely, and in accordance with public health directives.

It doesn’t spread via close community networks. It does spread via unwashed hands but that’s no longer good enough to justify the Narrative. Let me take a moment to say that California’s Governor Newscum closed my gym… again… because according to him, requiring me to wash my hands and have my temperature taken upon entry, wash my hands and all weights every single time I put them down and wash my hands again upon exiting the gym, all while wearing a face mask and staying six feet away from everybody, has proven insufficient for containing the virus. Either he’s a total liar or all containment efforts are doomed to fail. Either way, it’s time we revoked the Pandemic Privilege card.

But I digress. The point here is that this socialist experiment has no brakes. No justification. What’s coming is simply Harvard U’s vision of the imminent socialist utopia.

As a Harvard College student,
– I understand that the College has adopted the following requirements to promote the collective well-being of our community, and specifically the students, staff, and faculty in residence or working in residences during this time period.

“I understand that everything demanded of me is for my own good, regardless of my personal beliefs.”

-I acknowledge and agree that these rules and guidelines may change as life on campus and public health guidance across the country evolve and as new testing
and tracing methods emerge, and I agree to abide by any new rules and guidelines promulgated by Harvard for application in the residential setting.

Yo college kids, the first rule of signing a contract is knowing what you’re agreeing to. This is so loosely worded that Harvard could use you as an involuntary test subject for medical experimentation so long as it “promotes the collective well-being of
our community”.

If you don’t want to be a guinea pig then you can stop right here. But let’s be honest, you were already too stupid to attend classes online from your parents’ home… the classes are all going to be online anyway.

Required Testing, Education, and Contact Tracing
– I will participate in frequent routine COVID-19 testing as directed by the College and will undertake daily wellness checks using the Crimson Clear app. I understand that
students will not be billed for testing.

– If I test positive for COVID-19, I will share truthful information with the contact tracers about others who may be at risk.

Notice that you must report your entire social life if you “test positive”. Not even if you actually have it. Wouldn’t it be funny if a “computer bug” made everybody’s first test a false positive and everybody had to enter all their childhood friends into a database?

Self-isolation, Quarantine, and Preventative Health
– If I am found to have been in contact with someone who has tested positive, I will comply with all self-quarantine protocols.

There is one single reason to attend Harvard and it’s not the academics. It’s the opportunity to socialize and network with the future leaders of American government. This one step is a killshot to building that kind of social network.

Also, goodbye fraternity life. Eh, they’d mostly been moved off-campus already. Toxic masculinity, y’know, yet somehow chicks keep finding their parties.

-Unless for health reasons the vaccine is contraindicated for me, I will receive the seasonal flu vaccine when one becomes available at University Health Services.

And so the involuntary medical experimentation begins. “We don’t have a COVID vaccine yet so until we do, we’ll use the flu vaccine.”

That illustrates the integrity and knowledge base of our top disease experts PERFECTLY.

Physical distancing, face coverings, and behavioral requirements
– I will wear a face mask or facial covering in any areas outside of my suite (i.e., any public areas, including hallways, laundry rooms, dining halls, and public spaces in
other campus buildings).

This means the shared bathroom, too. Respiratory infections are going to skyrocket.

– If any in-person gatherings are allowed at a future time…

Why would ANYBODY pay money to live on campus under these rules? There is literally no point. You’d have better socializing opportunities in the city jail.

– If any in-person gatherings are allowed at a future time, I will follow all current, posted guidelines at Harvard University, in indoor or outdoor settings, and I will neither host nor attend any gathering that exceeds the maximum number indicated.

– When accessing dining services, I will only dine in the location assigned to me. If I need accommodation for special dietary needs, I will work with the Accessible Education Office.

QED: city jail is the better choice.

Travel
– I will remain in the immediate area for the fall semester. If I must travel during the fall semester, I will notify my Resident Dean and comply with any return policies or directives, which may include testing and quarantine.

-I will not have guests in my residential suite [including family].

– I will only access my own residential building and will not access other residential buildings.

This IS jail!

– In the event that Harvard College determines that public health conditions warrant de-densification of campus…

They’re already restricting themselves to 40% capacity. One assumes the six-foot social distancing rule has no exception for walls?

…I will prepare for and fund my own personal travel home or will work with the Office of Financial Aid, as needed.

Translation, Harvard can unilaterally breach your housing agreement and stick you with the consequences. This compact is so completely one-sided that lawsuits are inevitable.

I will not pity the fool but will hope he wins.

Community Accountability:
– Any alleged violations of this compact will be reviewed by a Community
Council, which will have authority to remove a student from campus. More
information about the Community Council will be disseminated in August.

Not even a university administrator? You have to sign this before you know who will enforce this?

Overall, I like this compact. If only Harvard decides, on Day Two of the Fall semester, that students are not permitted to leave campus as a new health measure, we will have de facto incarceration of an entire future generation of Deep State microtyrants along with a complete digital record of whose asses they kissed up to during their “grooming” years.

Oh, hey, um… how do students attend church if no in-person meetings are allowed?

One the one hand, professional sports needs a hard reset. On the other hand, a world without ANY sports would be the poorer. For better or worse, pro athletics has long been a cultural staple of American life and I’m not eager to see it get Cancel Cultured at the same time as the entire rest of American history.

Why COVID -19 Outbreaks in College Sports Are Scary as Hell

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-covid-19-outbreaks-in-college-sports-should-scare-you?ref=home

By Emily Shugerman, Gender Reporter, 12 July 2020

Like I said, HARD RESET.

“COVID-19 outbreaks in college sports are scary as Hell” because for the first time in their sheltered, overpaid, unproductive lives, the cost of their next meal is telling overprotective, hysterical Karens to sod off. As predicted by Christianity, most men would rather die.

Gene Taylor thought he was playing it safe when he allowed preseason football practices at Kansas State University to start on June 15. It was two weeks later than some other teams had started practicing.a significant setback in the hyper-competitive Big 12 conference. Every athlete was quarantined for at least a week after they arrived, then tested for the virus. Those who tested negative underwent daily temperature checks and questioning before they could work out. For the first week, it looked like the team had pulled off the impossible: Not one player tested positive.

But a few players showed up late, either because they were freshmen or transfer students, and weren’t tested until the Friday before. The athletics department told them to isolate themselves until the following Monday, when they would get their results back. But college students are college students, and two of them didn’t listen. One player went to a birthday party over the weekend; another went to play video games in an apartment with eight to 10 other people.

Good for them. They aren’t putting their lives on hold for a do-nothing disease.

.That’s when it started to spread,. Taylor told The Daily Beast in an interview this week..We had two more, and then we had six, and then we had eight..

On June 20, after 14 student-athletes tested positive for the coronavirus, the school suspended football practice until at least July 14.

That’s “tested positive”. Not “symptomatic”, “sick” or least of all “dying on a respirator”.

.The worry for everybody is, how do you protect these kids?. Taylor said. .We can’t put them in a bubble, they are going to go back to their apartments and dorm rooms..

He added: .It’s going to be a bumpy road for college football..

“If it save JUST ONE LIFE from testing positive for a disease so deadly that it INFECTS MILLIONS OF PEOPLE then we must exterminate all fun in the world!”

In many ways, it already has been. In the six weeks since the NCAA allowed colleges to start preseason training, at least nine schools have suspended practices because of virus outbreaks on their teams. More than 50 schools have reported one or more cases in the athletics department, and over a dozen have reported more than 30. The Big 10, Pac-12, Atlantic Coast, and Patriots League conferences have all made significant changes to their season schedules, and 14 schools have cancelled them altogether.

Of course, sports teams aren’t the only places on campus where coronavirus can spread. (The University of Washington was recently commended for “staying ahead of the coronavirus” after no new athletes tested positive for a week, despite the fact that at least 117 people living in the school’s frat house had tested positive days earlier.)

That’s the smart move. Spread the virus now, college kids, or you’ll be locked down and quarantined indefinitely “for your safety”.

But experts say the results of preseason training contain clues about what we can expect when hundreds of thousands of students return to the 60 percent of U.S. campuses that are restarting in-person education this fall.

These athletes, some experts say, are essentially canaries in a very contagious coal mine.

“I think [these outbreaks] tell us more about what may happen when we get thousands of students back on campus than just what’s happening on athletic teams,. said Zachary O. Binney, an epidemiologist at the Oxford College of Emory University.

Specifically, NOTHING. A mild bug running through a very healthy population… less the grievance studies department… oh, okay, I understand now and their worry is legitimate. If severe lockdowns and behavior modification tricks can’t protect healthy athletes from exposure then they can’t protect the morbidly obese vegans with Human Immunodeficiency Virus, either.

Good news, feminists! You’re about to become a REAL victim! How fortunate that you have trained your lives for this moment!

.In a group that is interacting a lot with one another, this virus spreads quietly,. he added. .We’ve seen this happen on college campuses with summer sports workouts, and I think there is reason to believe that we may see something similar in the fall..

George Floyd protests = summer sports workouts?

The first team to suspend practice this summer was the University of Houston, which temporarily paused workouts on June 12 after six students on various sports teams tested positive for the virus. (Players at Arkansas State University, Auburn, Texas Tech, Boise State, Florida State, the University of Central Florida, the University of Alabama, and Clemson University others had already tested positive, but the teams elected to continue practicing without them.) Taylor’s team at Kansas State was next, followed by Austin Peay and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.all before the beginning of July.

Then, on June 20, at least a quarter of Louisiana State’s football team was quarantined after being potentially exposed to the virus. According to Sports Illustrated, 30 of the team’s 115 players either tested positive for the virus or were found to have been in contact with someone who had. Some of the players were quarantined after going out to nearby nightclubs, where more than 100 patrons had tested positive.

The contact tracers have apparently been starting with the colleges. Baby steps, I guess. It would be a sharp learning curve to start with the Bundy Ranch bunch.

Still, the NCAA continued with its plan to let schools start mandatory workouts as early as July 6. (At the time the plan was announced, NCAA Football Oversight Committee Chairman Shane Lyons said he thought the association had “landed in a very good spot..) By July 8.two days after mandatory workouts were allowed to start.three more schools had suspended practice.

The NCAA correctly realizes that the cost of preventing the spread of C-Virus will be its continued existence.

One of the schools, the University of North Carolina, reported 37 positive cases in its athletics department in less than a month. In an interview with the News and Observer weeks earlier, head football coach Mack Brown had hinted that the team was having trouble, and seemed to question whether the game could be played safely.

.The young players had a player-led practice the other day and I asked, .how did it go?. he said. .One of them said, .Not very good.. Nobody knew how to social distance and play..

Which is it? Risk a few small boils or live in a HEPA-filtered basement for the rest of your life? I’m having flashbacks to the media crying over Death Row inmates dying of COVID. What part of “natural causes” do you not understand? The “nobody gets out of life alive” part?

.We’re all trying to do what’s right [by the government], we’re trying to be safe [from the government], but we’re trying to [keep our jobs] get our questions answered,. he added.

It.s not that sports are necessarily more dangerous for the spread of the virus than other on-campus activities. In fact, many athletic departments are taking more precautions than will be in place for the general student population.including weekly testing, daily temperature checks, and regular symptom screening. It’s just that the athletes were the first to confront the inherent safety risks of coming back to campus.

Dean L. Winslow, an infectious disease expert at the Stanford University School of Medicine, noted that the LSU players appear to have contracted the virus at bars in town, not at practice.

In this grand contest between Nanny-state tyranny and young adult hormones, my money is on the latter.

He emphasized that the most important factor in virus spread is not cleaning or hand washing, but the small particles that linger in the air when people congregate indoors.

That’s yet another lie from yet another infectious disease “expert”. Cleanliness in general and hand-washing in particular is THE PRIMARY way to prevent the spread of ALL diseases.

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https://www.change.org/p/board-of-supervisors-reinstate-dr-dean-winslow-to-santa-clara-valley-medical-center-2

On August 12, 2013, Dr. Dean Winslow, a respected Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases physician, Stanford Affiliated Clinical Professor and U.S. Air Force colonel was abruptly fired and escorted from Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Although there was no official reason given for his termination, Dr. Winslow had spoken out against recent management decisions that negatively impacted patient care and work conditions. We believe he was fired for exercising his right to free speech in his efforts to advocate for our patients and the staff who care for them.

You don’t have a right to free speech against your employer.

Dr. Winslow has dedicated his life to serving the poor and disenfrancished and to training the next generation of doctors. He started the first AIDS clinic in Delaware shortly after the start of the epidemic. For nine years, he served as the Chief of the Division of AIDS medicine and director of the PACE (HIV) Clinic at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, a public teaching hospital, before being elected as Chair of the Department of Medicine.

Most of the infectious disease experts pushing the Chinavirus narrative are longtime AIDS activists. I want to give them a pass because AIDS was where all the infectious-disease money was in the Eighties and Nineties but it’s getting hard to believe they aren’t Sodomite activists working together. Especially with pictures like this one:

I don’t mind him posing with young Afghan boys in his medical office… except one of them has his hand on Winslow’s lap and very close to that sidearm, too. Not a pic I would use for a petition to reinstate me after telling off the hospital director.

Note that Santa Clara is in the California Gay Area.

Dr. Winslow is also an Air Force flight surgeon who has received numerous medals for flying combat missions in Afghanistan and Iraq during 6 operational deployments since 9/11.

End segue.

“It’s nothing specific to sports or sports facilities,. he said. .It’s really just the amount of time spent indoors with large numbers of people..

But sports teams do provide one of the most clear-cut examples of what’s pushing colleges to rapidly reopen: political considerations and financial concerns. Republican governors eager to reopen their states have egged on athletics, allowing stadiums to open up as early as last month and declaring that all professional sports teams are welcome in their states. In Georgia, Gov. Brian Kemp has been pilloried in the press for saying residents should wear masks so they can have a football season.

Problem: COVID-19. Solution: quarantine Republicans. Hmm.

And while Trump has yet to speak out about college sports, some of his most ardent supporters are demanding the season move forward.

Pre-crime is the law enforcement tool of the future.

In an interview on Fox News, former Notre Dame coach Lou Holtz.an early and vocal Trump supporter.compared playing sports in the pandemic to the storming of Normandy: .[The soldiers] knew there was going to be casualties, they knew there was going to be risk, but it was a way of life,. he said.

At the same time, colleges are bleeding money due to the pandemic. For larger institutions, a canceled or even reduced sports season could be a significant blow to their bottom line. According to the U.S. Department of Education, colleges made $14.8 billion off of athletics in 2018, the last year for which data is available.

Texas A&M, one of the top-earning schools, made $192.6 million from its teams in 2013 alone. (Head football coach Jimbo Fisher recently praised Gov. Greg Abbott’s decision to reopen stadiums, telling a local radio station he thought the school’s season would be “pretty close to normal..)

Perhaps because of this, some student-athletes have started advocating for their own protection. In mid-June, as UCLA athletes started pre-season practice, 30 football players signed onto a document saying they did not trust the school to act in their best interest. Among other things, they requested the presence of a third-party health official, protections for anonymous whistleblowers, and a guarantee that each player could decide whether or not to play without fear of losing their scholarship.

Come on, dude. You already made the decision to sacrifice your long-term health to be a chemically-fueled sports god for a decade.

.The decision to return to training amidst a global pandemic has put us, the student-athletes, on the frontlines of a battle that we as a nation have not yet been able to win,. the players wrote, in a letter obtained by the Los Angeles Times. .We feel that as some of the first members of the community to attempt a return to normalcy, we must have assurances that allow us to make informed decisions and be protected regardless of our decision..

Cowards. You don’t get assurances. We do not live in a reality of assurances.

Their concerns may not be too far off base. While many schools have promised not to revoke students. scholarships if they don’t participate this season, several have also required them to sign a waiver releasing the school from liability if they choose to play. A Southern Methodist University waiver obtained by the Dallas Morning News requires players to sign 11 different times, agreeing to “voluntarily assume all risks related to the COVID-19 virus. and waiving their right to litigation.

Ohio State University has asked players to sign a similar document, called “The Buckeye Pledge,. requiring them to adhere to safety protocols but also to acknowledge that they may be exposed to the coronavirus during play. (Gene Smith, Ohio’s athletic director, told ESPN the pledge was more of an educational document than a legal one.) Just this week, the school announced that it was pausing voluntary workouts due to a virus outbreak among student athletes.

It can be an educational document without a legally binding signature… yes?

Rather than have players assume this risk, or assume it themselves, some schools have elected to cancel their seasons altogether. Bowdoin College and the University of Massachusetts Boston were among the first to cancel their seasons in June, followed by the College of New Jersey, Pratt Institute, Williams College, and Morehouse. In the largest such announcement to date, the presidents of all eight Ivy League schools said this week that they would be cancelling their seasons, too.

The presidents of all eight Ivy League schools kept their jobs after this announcement. Victory!

Also this week, the Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences announced that they will allow only in-conference games this fall, reducing the need for long-distance travel and helping to promote more universal testing. The Atlantic Coast Conference is reportedly considering a similar move, while the Patriot League, a conference of smaller Northeast schools, has shortened its season and put restrictions on travel.

In a video for the NCAA released last week, PAC-12 commissioner Larry Scott sounded anxious about what the season would hold.

.I think what we’ve seen over the last few weeks gives us reason to be concerned that when campuses open up, there could be real spikes and pressures on the health-care system,. he said, noting the rising case counts across the country. .From my perspective, that’s really the biggest risk to college sports in the fall.”

And yet, like the soldiers at the Battle of Normandy, some teams are still charging ahead.

Author Emily dishonored those soldiers by comparing the Normandy invasion to contracting a generally asymptomatic virus.

After a 14-day pause, Kansas State athletes have arrived back on campus, in hopes of starting up practice once again.

Asked why it was so important for college athletics to continue, Taylor said the question was better suited for the student athletes.

.When I talk to our athletes, these guys have been dying to get back and working out and preparing,. he said. .These kids just want to play..

He added, .They love the game of football..

*GQ collects his bet on young adult hormones.*

Do you resent every moment spent wearing a face diaper? Do you sympathize with George Floyd’s “I Can’t Breathe” for all the wrong reasons? Does blocking out human facial expressions make you feel emotionally disconnected from your fellow man? Good news! There is an alternative!

I’ve been field-testing some plastic face shields that finally arrived in the mail.

Protective Plastic Splash Face Shield – Assembled – REUSABLE

This company makes name tags but when Chinavirus lockdowns hit, retooled to make these plastic face shields. That’s the kind of initiative I like to see in a business. I got a couple and spent the weekend wearing them on errands in urban Commiefornia to test both their effectiveness and acceptance. Where I live, there’s not a single business that does not religiously enforce WHO restrictions, complete with Commissar Karens at the grocery entrance, so the testing has been thorough politically as well as practically.

Unlike the above picture, I did NOT wear a cloth mask underneath the shield. A couple commissars stared at me a little but none complained. I wore the mask to my local gym, the hardware store, the grocery, a couple fast-food restaurants (for take-out) and a trip to the beach.

Good points: YOU CAN BREATHE IN THIS! There is no feeling of suffocation at all. Nothing touches your face except the headband. It will fog a little, down where your breath hits it (there was considerable humidity) but it never reached the point of obscuring vision.

Face coverage was excellent. I’d worried that they would be either too open to the sides to count as a face covering or too enclosed for easy breathing, yet both concerns proved to be unfounded.

The headband is surprisingly comfortable. I have little head hair yet it never slipped, not even when I was grunting out sets of heavy weights at the gym! I pushed myself until the condensation from my breath was raining down this sucker, yet never felt like I was short of breath and it never slipped.

You can also wear glasses with this. My cloth mask makes my glasses fog up.

A surprise bonus is I wasn’t able to touch my face while wearing the shield. That’s how disease really gets spread, y’know, and most people touch their faces many times without even noticing. Face shields prevent that entirely! Be sure to use this as a selling point if/when a Karen calls you out for not wearing a CLOTH mask.

Bad points: The plastic material is the same stuff as the stiff, clear name tags that you wore at large conventions and similar occasions in your past life of America as a free country. No surprise, given the company’s heritage. Thus, it’s not the ideal material for this application. It will blur your vision a little (lots of tiny scratches) and it’s not durable enough to handle wind or mishandling, but honestly you aren’t paying enough for that (current price is $18). Polycarbonate face visors will set you back several hundred dollars.

They are reusable and easily cleaned, however, so with a little care they should last until the plastic roughs up too much for good vision. Probably a month or two of regular use.

Conclusion, for indoor work, running errands and visits to the gym, this allows you to comply with quarantine guidelines* without having to spend your summer filtering oxygen through sweat-soaked bacteria gardens. For outdoors work, however, they lack the sturdiness to survive rough handling and the elements.

*Quarantine guidelines subject to change hourly with no notice or relationship to reality. Plastic face shields prevent kissing political ass.

Amid rising frustration with middle-manager-for-the-State clergy, the Colson Center helpfully reminds Protestants that their pastor has a Divine Right to Rule.

Pastor or Parrot? Lessons from the Coronavirus Pt. 11

https://breakpoint.org/pastor-or-parrot/

By John Stonestreet and Maria Baer, 7 July 2020

Because Christian theology is best served under female oversight.

Pastoring is always a difficult job. I can’t think of another job, in fact, in which someone is hired to do one thing (typically, lead and disciple God’s people) but evaluated on a completely different thing (namely, growing the audience and the budget).

That should have been John’s first clue that pastors aren’t doing their job.

Pastoring would not be difficult if pastors practiced discipleship, that is, training their replacements. When I train a new guy at work, I want him to eventually not need me anymore so I can play video games and Internet porn while he makes me a bushel of money. Something like that, anyway. I train new guys to do my work, not to cheerlead while I martyr myself at 80 hours per workweek.

But pastors, they insist on doing it all from the Sunday sermon to marriage counseling to visiting the sick to defying unlawful government. If they would simply teach a layman to help with the hard tasks then their stress levels would drop considerably.

That’s layMAN, nota bene, not co-author Maria Baer. Seeking help from female clergy/theologians will make the pastor’s job much harder than simply taking a hit for God’s “no wimminz in pulpits” rule.

Pastoring during coronavirus seems even more unenviable. Zoom stock might be way up as the new preferred platform for corporations and schools, but there is no digital substitute for the sort of face-to-face work pastoring requires.

Masks are anti-Christian because they interfere with how God made us. Our faces are the primary method by which we express emotions (hence my interest in physiognomy as a predictor of emotional states). It’s possible to show emotion by voice or pantomine but it’s much harder, less efficient and it’s simply not how God wired us.

If masks were medically necessary then wouldn’t people wear them voluntarily? Why not just let the people who want to risk getting sick, risk get sick? The reason opposition to mask-wearing is a thing is because Normies are getting upset with having to wear masks EVEN WHEN STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. They ask if masks actually work for blocking viruses and get told “Maybe they do, now obey your New Normal masters!”

That is not hygiene. That is social engineering. Effort to twist human nature into a shape not Created by Our Creator.

When to close down was a tough decision. When to reopen is even more difficult. If pastors choose to strictly adhere to state guidelines, they will upset people. If they ignore or relax those guidelines, they upset others.

They upset anti-Christian government officials to whom pastors have no loyalty. Separation of Church and State, remember?

Also, the Karens who love them.

In almost every church I know of, pastors face a no-win proposition right now.

The siren song of incompetent leaders is that nobody cares about them. It’s true! A real leader would solve the problem instead of wishing for an easy out.

That plus their enthusiasm for wearing face diapers makes it easy for me to see Church leaders as faceless, subhuman cogs in the New World Order. Not caring about them has never been so easy!

But perhaps I’m being unfair. After having chased off everybody but geriatric Baby Boomers, modern churches are basically day trips for nursing home invalids who expect to die at any moment. I cannot dispute that the strict nursing home guidelines would be appropriate… guidelines such as “forced acceptance of confirmed disease carriers” a la New York City.

That’s the kind of scum you pastors are now taking orders from.

In addition to navigating a global pandemic, pastors must also deal with our already intense and only intensifying cultural firestorms.

Poor clergy. They thought they’d found the perfect sinecure then once installed in the seats of power, unexpected events demanded real acts of leadership & courage from them. Small wonder that they can’t obey the China Health Organization quickly enough.

While we all must navigate the issues of race, sexuality & gender, criminal justice, political divisions, and other markers of our fallen human nature that dominate this cultural moment, pastors face expectations that many of us don’t. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this phrase on social media recently: .If your pastor doesn’t preach about X from the pulpit this Sunday, it’s time to find a new church.” Same phrase, but the X changes with the headlines.

Don’t get me wrong. As the true account of the human condition, the Bible has this quality of universal relevance. Pastors should make the connection between the timeless truths of Scripture and our particular context, both in their preaching and in their leading. There are times that to not address something from the pulpit is to be louder than addressing it, and churches that never address controversial issues risk giving their people the impression that the Bible is our own personal, private collection of encouragements rather than the personal, public and true account of the human condition.

It is a poor shepherd who blames his flock. Where did the little people acquire this “my way or the highway” attitude? From the pastor. Here’s a thought: ALLOW DISSENT IN YOUR CHURCH. Give some pulpit time to competing ideas and philosophies. Don’t smack them down afterwards, either, just allow people to speak their mind when they have something to say and let people decide for themselves. Maybe then your church won’t split every time somebody gets a funny idea.

At the same time, the loud demands placed today on pastors to not only hold but to articulate our approved opinions reveals more about us than about our pastors. After all, if we are confident our pastor is called by God and entrusted by Him to lead us into His Word and His will, that leaves little room for making demands on what he teaches.

Why is Protestant Stonestreet spouting a Vatican belief? Is this not exactly what the Reformation was all about?

The average pastor can’t lead the way out of a paper sack, to say nothing of being supernaturally appointed an infallible Priest-King by God Himself because congregants are too stupid to live by their own wits.

Also, our loud demands that a pastor “talk about subject X,. almost always means “say specifically what I want him to say about subject X.. But that also means we’re not really looking for a pastor or a teacher anymore. We’re looking for a parrot.

To misquote Jesus, “They want you to be a parrot because you first wanted them to be parrots.”

Now we get to the crux of Stonestreet’s complaint:

The demands pastors face can range from mountains to molehills, but, in too many cases, they are treated the same. To bring up the most common elephant in the sanctuary today, everyone has strong feelings about masks. I do too. But being asked to wear a mask in church by pastors seeking to comply with civic authorities or protect the health of parishioners is not a matter of orthodoxy. This is not a sufficient cause of outrage or of making demands for our pastor’s compliance. And it’s certainly not worth leaving a church over.

John, if you loved God then you wouldn’t fear death. You would let the congregants decide for themselves what health measures they should take. But no, Pastor gets to make health decisions for everybody… and what a coincidence that our Dear Leaders courageously decided to tiptoe the Christ-hating, Christ-banning government guidelines!!!

“No more singing hymns until the government gives permission” IS ABSOLUTELY A MATTER OF ORTHODOXY! No more Communion, the State says! No more baptisms! This is NOT OKAY!

Keep in mind that pastors are called to shepherd specific congregations. Though the big cultural issues are always relevant, each community and each congregation find themselves in a specific time and place (as Paul told the Athenians) with specific people and circumstances all orchestrated by God. For example, a church connected to an addiction recovery center, as is the home church of a colleague, will be made of people with specific needs and challenges that others may not have.

And a church connected to Planet Earth has the specific need of obeying the World Government, er, World Health Organization, in all matters religious?

What is really at stake here is that we all need to foster a proper ecclesiology, (that.s a $.50 word for the doctrine of the church). When we view church like we do so much of 21st-century Western life, as consumers, we’ll see church as a place to be entertained or affirmed, in our feelings and in our views. That, rather than a fidelity to Christ and His Gospel, is what’s driving so much of the entitlement we feel, and pastors face.

For two full generations now, the organized Church has refused to be a benefit to the people of God. We are “consumers” only in the sense that some of us think church participation should benefit us, not merely the credentialed inner circle and the NGO charities they approve of.

I predict Stonestreet will find his new ecclesiology in Rome. He already floated the concept of Divine Right to Rule.

Every church and every Christian, of course, ought to expect and demand that pastors preach the true Word of God with passion and courage. We ought never allow a pastor to abuse his power or his position in exploiting the congregation.

Still, we ought never demand that our pastor never disagree with us.

Strawman. Nobody demands that his pastor NEVER disagree with him.

The holy willingness of a pastor to say what’s true is only matched by the holy willingness of Christ followers to hear what we may not like. And again, don’t leave a church over a mask.

The holy willingness of a modern pastor to preach the Gospel is totally eclipsed by his loyalty to the Christ-hating American governments.

And thank God, even the remainders in the pews are noticing “I Can’t Breathe”.

The Leftist media is on the warpath against churches reopening. Here’s their latest faulty accusation:

Medical examiner: Teen who died from COVID-19 attended large church event days before death

“Carsyn Davis, who died on June 23, is one of the youngest people in Florida to die from the virus.”

https://www.nbc-2.com/story/42330647/medical-examiner-teen-who-died-from-covid19-attended-large-church-event-days-before-death

By Evan Dean, 6 July 2020

LEE COUNTY, Fla. – The 17-year-old Lee County girl who died from complications of coronavirus was at a church event with 100 other kids two weeks before she died, according to the medical examiner’s investigative report into her death.

THE CHURCH INFECTED HER!!! *hyperventilation* IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYBODY WHO GOES TO CHURCH!!!

Carsyn Davis, who died on June 23, is one of the youngest people in Florida to die from the virus.

Physiognomy: genus Social Justice Warrior, species Trigglypuff.

The Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner Department, which put together the report, said Davis had a “complex medical history” with a number of health problems. In a GoFundMe page for Carsyn’s family, her mother wrote that Carsyn battled cancer and a rare autoimmune disorder from an early age.

Slow yer hyperventilation. Like most non-elderly victims, this young girl had enough preexisting conditions to disqualify her from ever purchasing life insurance.

The ME.s report said on June 10, Carsyn attended a “church function.. NBC2 has confirmed it was a youth church event hosted by First Assembly of God in Fort Myers. The medical examiner reported Carsyn was “with 100 other children. She did not wear a mask. Social distancing not followed..

Hard truth: everybody is going to get this disease. There will be no vaccine and frankly, no vaccine is needed now that the disease is well-understood and treatable.

Assuming you aren’t a cancer survivor with an autoimmune disorder.

From June 10 through June 15, the report said Carsyn’s mother, a nurse, and her stepfather, a physician’s assistant, prophylactically treated her with azithromycin, an antibiotic.

Don’t blame the church because it let kids play. Blame the parents’ medical malpractice of using an antibiotic to treat a viral infection. Their jobs mean they should have known better.

Did you catch “stepfather” in that? Carsyn is a child of divorce. That’s a risk factor, too, for just about everything.

But on June 13, she developed symptoms: a headache, sinus pressure, and a mild cough. The report said her family thought she had a sinus infection.

I’m now confused. Which is it? Did they start treating her the same day for exposure to Wuhan Whoop or did they think it was a sinus infection while all the headlines talked endlessly about SARS-Cov-2? Or were they already treating her for a bacterial infection when Chinavirus came along?

Carsyn.s symptoms persisted, and on June 19, the medical examiner reported Carsyn’s mother noted she looked “gray” while sleeping. Her mother discovered her oxygen levels were low, so she gave Carsyn some of her grandfather’s oxygen.

Supporting the medical malpractice idea.

The report said her parents also gave her hydroxychloroquine. In June, it was revoked for emergency use by the FDA, after being touted earlier in the pandemic.

That’s news to me. So, the only permitted treatment in USA will cost $3k per treatment from Gilead BigCorp. instead of $3 like everywhere else in the world.

*checks* The HCQ was “unlikely to be effective” and “had serious side effects”. I heard “we canceled President Trump’s recommendation now that he’s busy with reelection”. And yes, I fully believe that Federal health officials would endanger the lives of every human being in North America in order to make somebody they didn’t like look bad. That’s why they wanted power in the first place.

If they administered HCQ as competently as they did antibiotics… *shrug*

Carsyn was then admitted to the pediatric ICU at Golisano Children’s Hospital, the report said, and she tested positive for COVID-19. Her parents declined intubation.

On June 20th and June 21, she was given plasma therapy. A day later on June 22, she was intubated — but serious problems persisted.

Carsyn was taken to a children’s hospital in Miami for more extreme measures, but ultimately — on the afternoon of June 23– she was pronounced dead.

An autoimmune disorder made that fate nearly certain anyway. She was probably lucky to get 17 years of life.

NBC2 spoke with Pastor David Thomas at the First Assembly of God Church on Monday. He said the church did take precautions to keep kids safe during the June 10 event. Thomas said if kids weren’t practicing social distancing, that was their decision. He said the church wasn’t going to be policing the event.

A valid point. What are we going to do, imprison children in solitary confinement out of fear that they’ll play with each other? Some of the school reopening plans I’ve seen are exactly that.

NBC2 tried asking the church more questions, but we’re still waiting for a response. We stopped by the Davis family home Monday to ask about the report, but we were asked to leave the property.

Smart moves on both sides. Pastor Thomas would have done even smarter to NEVER talk to the media.

First Carsyn had bad parents–note they intentionally misspelled the name “Carson”–then she had an autoimmune disorder, then cancer, then apparently an eating disorder, then she played with other kids at church, then she died of a disease that almost no children have yet died of.

Obviously, all church activities must be permanently banned for the health of humanity. We sicko Christians let our children play without masks!

I’ve been busy at work so this is a quick one. This guy’s story is nothing special but his appearance is… fascinating.

Hate Hoax: Oregon Politico Jonathan Lopez Admits He Wrote Racist Letter to Himself

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/08/hate-hoax-oregon-politico-jonathan-lopez-admits-he-wrote-racist-letter-to-himself/

Jonathan Lopez, an unsuccessful local candidate in Umatilla County, Oregon, has confessed to penning an anonymous racist letter to himself last month, police revealed this weekend.

Lopez, who is of Latino heritage, claimed to have discovered a letter addressed to him filled with racist slurs on June 23, which reportedly included the warning that he and other “Mexicans” were “not welcome here,. according to KEPR-TV. However, he has now fessed up to being the author of the hateful message, the East Oregonian reports.

.The time spent on this fictitious claim means time lost on other matters, not to mention it needlessly adds to the incredible tension that exists in our nation today,. Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edmiston told the newspaper.

.Our investigation has shown that Mr. Lopez wrote the letter himself and made false statements to the police and on social media,. Edmiston wrote. .The end result is a verbal and written admission by Mr. Lopez that the letter was fabricated..

It’s a legitimate hate crime and I think he should be hanged for it together with all the other Not-Sees. Or in his case, Cannot-Unsee-s.

He said the case would be forwarded to the Umatilla County District Attorney’s office for review for initiating a false report, a Class A misdemeanor in Oregon.

Lopez shared a picture of the letter to his Facebook page and has since deleted it. .Don’t waste your time trying to become anything in this county,. it said. .[W]e will make sure you never win and your family suffers along with all the other f.king Mexicans in the area!.

In his comments on the purported hate mail, Lopez claimed that he “holds no resentment for whomever wrote this..

It’s true!

.I.m just simply heartbroken for the lack of knowledge, education, and respect missing,. he stated. .I pray for you and wish you prosperity in your life..

Sounds legit. If I had his level of self-respect… falsifying a hate crime against myself because nobody liked me enough to give me the worldly power I deserve more than the natives… I’d be heartbroken, too. Not to mention his “knowledge” suggesting he could possibly get away with this.

Lopez lost a primary election for a seat on the Umatilla County Board of Commissioners in May 2020.

Attempts by The Associated Press to reach Lopez were not successful. He told the East Oregonian that he meant to speak with Edmiston about racism in Umatilla County and use the letter as an example of the type of racism people experience.

Pathological liar confirmed, no need for face reading.

Behold Missouri’s first post-police application of law enforcement! *popcorn*

19-Year-Old Allegedly Beaten at St. Louis MetroLink Station While Unarmed Guards Watched

https://www.breitbart.com/crime/2020/07/04/9-year-old-allegedly-beaten-at-st-louis-metrolink-station-while-unarmed-guards-watched/

By Katherine Rodriguez, 4 July 2020

Breitbart, I know you’re all lawyered up for obvious reasons but when the beating was captured on camera you can drop the “alleged”.

A 19-year-old woman was allegedly assaulted and beaten by another woman at the Forest Park-DeBaliviere MetroLink Station in St. Louis, Missouri, on Thursday.

CATFIGHT!!! Yee-haw!

Not only did bystanders refuse to intervene during the attack; two unarmed security guards patrolling the area did nothing to help the situation either, KTVI reported.

The incident is under investigation by the Bi-State Development Agency, but an early conclusion from the investigation was that the guards should have done more to help.

Dalrock’s Law: “Feminism is the assertion that men are evil and naturally want to harm women, followed by pleas to men to solve all of women’s problems.”

Yes, the guards being paid minimum wage to be bored, legally neutered crime deterrents should have risked their lives during a POC-alypse to interrupt what, for all they knew, was a civil-rights-protected expression of love between two POC lesbians.

Metro President and CEO Taulby Roach said the guards, who are not armed, should have de-escalated the situation and will likely need further training.

There is no evil in socialism. There is only “insufficient education”.

Bi-State Commissioner Derrick Keith Cox said the problem is the agency paid a million dollars to receive bad advice on how to make the public transportation system safer.

After this story will be the corruption story that is motivating Cox to say what he just did in that paragraph.

Meanwhile, choose your doom, President “Roach”:

A. Replace the guards with small, female, nonthreatening counselors who update their Woke psychological theories more frequently than Windows 10. Watch in horror as they “present themselves” to avoid getting killed like women have done since cavemen were grabbing ponytails.

B. Allow all white men to carry firearms and redefine manslaughter to “post-natal abortion”.

C. Train & equip the guards to actually fight crime and pay them enough to risk their lives on behalf of ungrateful random strangers. Maybe give them badges after they swear oaths to protect and defend.

One of the suggestions they received from that study was to take away guns from security guards and only arm police officers.

Might as well, if they won’t be allowed to use them. It’s the same reason that I 1. don’t carry concealed and 2. intend to watch passively the next time Diversity climbs up somebody’s vulnerable ass.

Cox said with that put into practice, the gun ban leaves guards with very little to protect themselves or anyone else. Roach, however, said that guns in a situation like this would have made it worse.

Pay a gorilla like me $50 per hour and let us use batons carte-blanche, and we will be like a cleansing wave of crime-Febreze over your transportation network.

Gun-free zones or areas where there is no armed law enforcement in place can cause a spike in violent crime. Orlando’s “Pulse” gay bar was a mandated gun-free zone by state law, yet it was home to one of the deadliest mass shootings in this country’s history.

A 2019 study from the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) showed that 89 percent of mass shootings in the 21st century took place in gun-free zones.

Interesting that they pulled the Pulse shooting out of thin air. The link that probably motivated that is coming up.

Meanwhile, I’m hearing a lot of support for my Plan “B”.

Here are the guards. Stock uniforms costing $15 apiece at:

https://www.uniformswarehouse.com/shirts/high-visibility-shirts/two-tone-polyester-polo-shirt-with-reflective-stripes-and-with-id-yellow-navy.html

It seems that St Louis Metrolink has implement new security arrangements and/or leaderships in August 2018, August 2019, December 2019 and March 2020. Here’s a pic; you get one guess who is the constant between all the transition teams.

Physiognomy first impressions: The white-shirts are smiling only because they’re supposed to, Grey Suit is out of his depth and Meltface in the black suit is the CEO and a male feminist.

Seriously, look at Grey Suit. His coat isn’t even buttoned right. Who wears a suit without a tie? I once wore socks with sandals and I know better than to wear a suit with no tie.

*checks* I’m having trouble identifying most of them, high turnover in Metrolink management doesn’t help, but “Meltface” Taulby Roach is indeed President and CEO of Bi-State Development.

Let’s look at the context of Metro security.

‘We Had To Do Better’: Metro Transit Leaders Discuss New Security Strategy

https://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/we-had-do-better-metro-transit-leaders-discuss-new-security-strategy

By Evie Hemphill, 4 March 2020

Ideally dated.

Taulby Roach has made the safety of the St. Louis region’s transit system a major focus since becoming president and CEO of Bi-State Development 14 months ago. Just last week, he and other area leaders gathered to mark the culmination of two years of study and planning aimed at improving safety on buses and light rail lines. They touted the creation of a four-prong “systemwide security strategy” aimed at reducing “the rate and perception of crime” on transit, among other commitments.

Bi-State also recently selected private security firm GS4 for a three-year contract, and has a new plan in place for a bigger police presence on MetroLink, as reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

“There’s no question that in a public asset like this, what I need is engagement and people who care about it, and what we’d been hearing for months is that we had to do better,. Roach said. .So really, the tasking was clear [when I took over]. And so I tried to bring some clarity to that tasking and [to] rally our forces and work with, of course, our colleagues and to do a better job. We’re on the precipice of that, and I’m really excited about it..

Roach is undoubtedly a male feminist. Mass transit is not a public asset, particularly when people are afraid to use it for good & structural reasons, except to utopians who think heaven is forcing all the tribes and races of men into close proximity until they joyfully miscegenate into a brown goo with no history, culture or even identity to call their own.

Kevin Scott, director of public safety for Metro Transit, also participated in the conversation. He outlined the planned changes, which he summed up as a strategy of “staunch collaboration..

.We.ve taken a look along with our partners . police partners and all of our stakeholders . at what can we do to make the system better. And what people really want to see on our system is a visible security component that positively engages our ridership to ensure the quality of that ride..

Security guard concierges? Okay but then they won’t be bouncers or coolers.

When Fenske asked what that will look like, Scott described it as .a layered approach, where you have a solid visible layer of contract security..

.The Metro Transit security specialists will be the core of that layer and represent the brand and corporate interests,. he said. “And then you have the law enforcement component.

.And so what we’ve done in devising this new deployment is we’ve focused on what our clear roles and responsibilities are. So everybody’s not going to be policing the system. The two major visible components of the layered security approach will be securing the system, and we’ll work more collaboratively with the police to actually police that system when we need to bring them in..

Roach got his “visible security component”, trained to “positively engage our ridership” despite the handicap of face masks blocking the expression of emotion… and now they’re complaining that that their carnival-style “ride quality” operators weren’t operators in the paramilitary sense.

G4S Secure Solutions is based in Florida but owned by a Danish company… your basic globocorp conglomerate setup. Interesting, the Pulse Shooter mentioned above was a G4S security guard whose company had falsified his psychiatric records.

Omar Mateen’s driver license photo. An excellent example of sanpaku eyes indicating derangement.

Segue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G4S_Secure_Solutions

Under Florida state law, for him to work as an armed guard the company was required either to make a full psychiatric evaluation of Mateen, or to administer a “validated written psychological test”. The test administered was the updated Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI-2), a test used for job screenings and court cases requiring those subjected to it to agree or disagree with statements such as “My soul sometimes leaves my body” and “Once in a while I think of things too bad to talk about.” Carol Nudelman, the psychologist listed on the character certification submitted by G4S to the state said she stopped working for the company in 2005 and denies ever having met him.

G4S said Mateen was not interviewed by a psychologist, but rather, a psychologist evaluated the results of a standard test used in job screenings, and his test was evaluated by the firm that bought Nudelman’s practice: Headquarters for Psychological Evaluation, owned by Dr Joanne Bauling. G4S said this was a “clerical error.”

On September 10, 2016, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services fined G4S $151,400 for providing inaccurate psychological testing information after it found the psychologist whose opinion was necessary to permit Mateen to carry a weapon was not practicing as a screener. Between 2006 and 2016, 1,514 forms were submitted erroneously listing Nudelman’s name. Mateen’s form was among those investigated.

The company was unaware of Mateen’s sealed and expunged juvenile arrest record for misdemeanor battery. Although they verified his employment they took Mateen at his word that he was fired as a Florida corrections trainee for failing to report due to a fever. He was actually dismissed for skipping classes, falling asleep in class, and asking two days after the Virginia Tech shooting if a classmate would tell if he brought a gun to class. Also during his time as a trainee, a fellow trainee said he threatened to kill everyone at a barbecue after his hamburger touched a piece of pork, and he was escorted from the property.

I did not know that about the Pulse shooter. Anyway, this has nothing to do with the St. Louis guards who prudently did nothing while enjoying two black chicks fighting to exhaustion for the amusement of all.

End segue.

On to the corruption backstory.

Despite opposition, Bi-State CEO gets OK to negotiate a possible takeover of troubled Loop Trolley

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/despite-opposition-bi-state-ceo-gets-ok-to-negotiate-a-possible-takeover-of-troubled-loop/article_01c348a1-8600-5feb-927b-dff44d8907c7.html

By Nassim Benchaabane, 11 December 2019

ST. LOUIS . The executive board of Bi-State Development voted Tuesday, despite fierce opposition, to negotiate a possible takeover of the financially strapped Loop Trolley.

The trolley opened in November 2018 after years of construction and delays. Since then, ticket sales and farebox revenue have lagged significantly as the line operated on a limited-hours, four-day-a-week schedule with just two of its three cars in service.

The 2.2-mile streetcar line… is set to close Dec. 29 after a series of operational and financial setbacks. Operators say more funding is needed to keep the trolley open until spring, when they hope all three cars could provide full seven-day service.

This has every sign of a pork-barrel project. Government-orchestrated “community infrastructure” built too slowly after extensive cost overruns requiring even more money… usually debt instruments and/or earmarked Federal funds… and once it’s built and opened, nobody wants it. The smart move is to shut it down but that would be unacceptable because:

CEO Taulby Roach pitched operating the trolley for the next four years with nearly $1.1 million left over from federal grants, and said he had preliminary approval from federal transit officials.

Closure could mean defaulting on some of the $36 million in federal aid that was part of the $51 million needed to build the line and make related street improvements. Roach said default would jeopardize Bi-State.s ability to secure federal transit dollars in the future.

.Being known as a region that does not have the political will to complete projects is a very damaging assessment,. Roach told the board.

Such pure motivations. This is all about milking public funds to the maximum extent possible.

The Bi-State board, which governs MetroLink and Metro buses, voted 6-3 to approve Roach’s request and have him return to the board by February with a more detailed proposal to take over the trolley from its nonprofit operator, the Loop Trolley Co.

Roach had planned to submit the preliminary report to the board in a closed session, following advice from the board’s legal counsel, but the board voted to keep the discussion open to the public after fervent opposition from board members Justin Zimmerman and Derrick Cox.

I like Bi-State Commissioner Derrick Cox. He started out a local radio personality.

The pair, two of the board’s five members representing Illinois, and board Vice Chairwoman Aliah Holman, of St. Louis, voted against the takeover. They said Bi-State should focus on MetroLink security, route expansions, staff pay and other issues.

.This is not something that we have been asked for by the general public and yet there are so many things we have been asked for by the general public,. Holman said.

Cox said St. Clair County residents wouldn’t want Bi-State tax dollars to go toward a project in University City, and doubted a trolley shutdown would affect Bi-State.s federal funding.

.That.s just a hypothetical out there to get us to say yes,. he said.

Roach said St. Louis County Executive Sam Page, St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson and St. Clair County Board Chairman Mark Kern asked him to examine a takeover, if it could be done without additional local funding.

Translation, it’s an excuse to import earmark Federal dollars.

.I think it really deserves close study,. Kern said. .We are a region and while we certainly expect our friends in Missouri to think regionally when they look at issues, we must do the same things for them..

Page said he would keep an eye on the negotiations. Krewson, through a spokesman, called it a “positive step..

Remember that Roach’s allies are Mayor Krewson and Executive Page. Note that Krewson is mayor of St. Louis, Missouri, but Kern’s county is in Illinois. This is hella suspicious. This corruption could go Federal.

On Tuesday, Roach said the Loop Trolley needed about $240,000 more a year to operate. The estimate included conservative predictions about Loop Trolley ridership and a full service schedule that would help integrate it into the region’s transit system. He said he hoped more funding for the trolley would be generated over time from increased tickets, fares and revenues from the special sales tax district that helped fund the line’s construction.

No, no, no! Shut ‘er down, Clancy, she’s pumping mud!

Roach, Krewson, Page, businessman Joe Edwards and University City Mayor Terry Crow comprise the sales tax district’s board. Roach said Tuesday that he would resign from the board if Bi-State takes over the Loop Trolley.

And on THAT final note… one month later…

You Paid For It: Bi-State CEO discusses allegation of conflict of interest over bail out of Loop Trolley

You Paid For It: Bi-State CEO discusses allegation of conflict of interest over bail out of Loop Trolley

By Elliot Davis, 21 January 2020

ST. LOUIS . You Paid For It Investigator Elliott Davis catches up with Bi-State President/CEO Taulby Roach to question him about accusations of conflict of interest [in his negotiations over the Delmar Loop Trolley].

Roach is advocating bailing out the Loop Trolley that’s stopped running because of money woes and because of low ridership.

But some Bi-State Commissioners didn’t learn until a recent meet that the CEO not only runs Bi-State but he also sits on the Loop Trolley Board of Directors. Mayor Lyda Krewson and County Executive Sam Page are also on the Trolley Board and have advocated saving it.

Remember Roach’s allies? The members of the Trolley Board are trying to steal, er, “appropriate” funds from other budgets to finance their brand-new-yet-failed side project.

CEO Roach says he recuses himself when it comes to voting on issues involving the Trolley. He also says he’s checked with lawyers and they’ve given him the all-clear.

If you need lawyers to review your behavior for criminal activity…

But St. Louis County Councilman Ernie Trakas says he doesn’t like the looks of this deal where Taulby Roach is wearing two hats, one as head of Bi-State and the other as a board member of the Loop Trolley.

He says it looks like a conflict of interest.

It *is* a conflict of interest. Who is Roach’s lawyer, Saul Goodman?

Roach had a new announcement about his new plan for the Loop Trolley. His first plan called for Bi-State to take over, own and run the Loop Trolley. Now he says Bi-State would just manage the trolley for 4 years.

“I didn’t do anything wrong but now that you noticed, I’ll scale back my plans.”

Bi-State Commissioner Derrick Keith Cox who didn’t like the first plan texted Elliott tonight saying he didn’t like the second one either.

The Bi-State Board of Directors will meet Friday morning to talk about whether to bail out the Delmar Loop Trolley.

Definitely some friction between Cox and Roach. Good on Cox!

The ultimate fate of the Trolley hasn’t been determined. No doubt that the Wuhan Whoop lockdowns put it on indefinite hold.

Okay, fine, it’s yet another portrait of Democrat corruption. Why care? If you listen to the linked video, after the attack video is played Cox is shown demanding answers from G4S and… from Roach. It was real quick, at the 1:33 mark. He’s leveraging the incident against a known Corruptocrat.

I am not amused. Glad I am that Cox is fighting corruption but blaming security guards for not doing what they were told to not do is also dishonest. They’re going to get fired for being put in a no-win scenario. Were they supposed to be nice or violent?

This is what happens when you do evil that good may result.