No masks needed but folks, put your face shields on. Cat puke INCOMING!!!

Southern California Restaurant Claims It Will Only Serve Unvaccinated People

When the catch of the day is COVID-19

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By Ross A. Lincoln, 26 July 2021

Careful there, Mr. Lincoln. You wouldn’t want to mock yourself.

A restaurant in Huntington Beach, California has added a brand new catch of the day to its menu: COVID-19.

Huntington Beach regularly turns up as the dissident bastard of Los Angeles-area city governments. I’ll never live in L.A. again but if God disagrees, look for me there.

That’s thanks to an absurd, and highly dangerous new marketing gimmick the restaurant has adopted…

Meaning either dissent against the government or quoting the Godfather trilogy.

…the claim that all patrons must prove they have not been vaccinated against the illness that has killed more than 600,000 Americans.

No, it was six MILLION dead. Oops, wrong lockdown.

So, how do we vaxx-dissidents prove a negative to each other? Aside from acting healthy & nonmagnetic.

The restaurant, Basilico’s Pasta e Vino, has demonstrated a repeated opposition to public health during the pandemic. It declared itself a “mask-free zone” in 2020, wrapping the policy in patriotic imagery. But the restaurant is now expanding this trolling campaign with signs declaring that simply being vaccinated is “treasonous, anti-American stupidity.”

That’s not trolling, doofus. That’s a policy statement. Also, the truth.

According to the Los Angeles Times, the restaurant isn’t actually checking vaccination status…

“They aren’t letting us in! I guess they actually are but they’re still thought criminals!”

…but the owner, Tony Roman, is opposed to the idea of vaccine mandates or the possibility of more lockdowns to stop the spread of COVID-19. In a statement to the times, he insisted that resistance to life-saving vaccines is a “missile of defiance” in the name of “liberty.”

No misapplied scare quotes either, please. These lockdowns and social-distancing, Fascist “guidelines”… note the correct use of scare quotes… are putting restauranteurs out of business left and right. I am pleased to see at least one restaurant owner seeing the obvious and responding rationally.

Meanwhile, states with lower numbers of vaccinated citizens are seeing three times as many COVID-19 cases as states with higher vaccination numbers. And as of today, 611,000 people in the U.S. have died from the illness.

Because the CDC mandated falsifying PCR tests to make vaccines look healthy. The sensitivity is REQUIRED TO BE CRANKED UP if they know they’re testing a Morlock. Excuse me, an un-fully-not-a-vaccine-ated person. It doesn’t roll off the tongue.

The restaurant is also selling t-shirts that say “Leave the vax, take the cannoli,” a reference to a line from “The Godfather” in which the thing left behind — in that case, a gun — was a murder weapon. The metaphor makes little sense of course, since vaccines prevent death, rather than cause it.

Mr. Lincoln, you need the vaxx like you need a hole in your head. eh, never mind.

A female postdoctorate at the University of Spoiled Children makes the case that instead of coursework, universities should simply cash those checks and tell her what to think.

College can still be rigorous without a lot of homework

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By KC Culver, Senior Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Southern California, 28 June 2021

How hard should it be to earn a college degree?

A good question, but also a wrong question. What matters is that you gain the skills and knowledge, not whether the process hurts like that one dentist who skimps on Novocain. I’ve seen good educations come out of Podunk Universities and I’ve also seen… Harvard.

When the book “Academically Adrift” appeared in 2011, it generated widespread concern that college was not effectively educating students and preparing them for today’s world. Among other things, authors Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa claimed that most colleges were not rigorous or demanding…

Yes.

…in part because college students were not reading and writing enough in order to build their critical thinking skills. But is it really how much work students are assigned that makes college rigorous and helps them learn?

Oh, Barbie, the truth is worse.

[tangent] I was teaching math to a college kid a few years back; he was doing local community college for an Associate’s before transferring to a more expensive college for a Bachelor’s in Civil Engineering. I had him apply to the University of Southern California, aka the University of Spoiled Children, because they specialize in political dynasties and professional sports. Such universities have a problem: the kids of all those powerful donors, to say nothing of the jocks, are as stupid as bricks, which means the degrees they grant cannot be high-quality. Not unless ringers are brought in to up the IQ which, if it’s a private university, means giving huge scholarships to legitimately bright kids. Whatever it takes to make George Bush IV look smart.

My student got a full ride scholarship to USC… an ordinary kid from the backwaters of California… because he promised to make their “curriculum” look good. The curriculum that produced this very postdoctoral fellow writing to complain about too much paperwork! Try harder, my apprentice. [/tangent]

So, that’s where colleges are these days. They launder as many grants and loans as they can and if anybody gets edgy-crated in the process then kewl beans. There’s so much easy Fed money flying around that they don’t even compete for students… unless like USC, they’re so mind-numbingly expensive & exclusive that they need to rent their fresh blood.

As a scholar of higher education, I have taken a close look at college students. academic experiences and outcomes for several years. Some people define rigor as how many pages a student reads or how many pages a student writes. But in a 2021 peer-reviewed study that I published with colleagues John Braxton and Ernie Pascarella, I found that if they do that, they might miss key elements of what it takes to help students develop critical thinking skills and become lifelong learners. They also might create an unnecessary burden for students who have other demands on their time.

You’re missing the point of college, Barbie. It doesn’t matter what you do there. The college gets paid regardless. I don’t know who coined the phrase “lifelong learning” but my money is on a college loan officer.

In education, academic rigor tends to be defined in two different ways: as a workload that is demanding and difficult or as learning experiences that challenge and support students to think more deeply.

That.s why my study examines each definition of rigor . workload and academic challenge . in terms of helping students develop critical thinking skills. The study also looks at those definitions of rigor in relation to two related dimensions of lifelong learning. One is reading and writing for pleasure, and the other is the habit of thinking deeply and critically about things.

Barbie, nobody cares if your degree in whatever is rigorous. Neither would anybody care if your degree in civil engineering is rigorous. They only care if your bridge collapses.

Actually, that’s the exact point she’s making so I’ll be quiet and let her finish.

The study included about 2,800 students who attended one of 46 four-year colleges in the U.S. between 2006 and 2012. These students took part in the Wabash National Study of Liberal Arts Education, which was a large, longitudinal study of how college experiences affected outcomes associated with a liberal arts education. They completed surveys and tests at three different points during college: at the beginning of their first year, at the end of their first year and at the end of their fourth year.

In these surveys, students reported their course workload, including how many books they read, pages they wrote and hours they spent studying for class. They also reported how much their courses challenged them to engage in higher-order thinking. Faculty ask students to practice higher-order thinking when they ask challenging questions in class and give assignments that ask students to analyze information or form an argument.

Here.s what we found.

In the first year of college, higher-order thinking was related to an increase in both dimensions of lifelong learning: reading and writing for pleasure and the tendency to think deeply. Higher-order thinking was not related to development of critical thinking skills. Workload was not related to students. critical thinking or either dimension of lifelong learning.

Across four years of college, higher-order thinking was related to an increase in students. critical thinking skills and both dimensions of lifelong learning. Workload was related to only one dimension of lifelong learning: reading and writing for pleasure. This relationship was driven primarily by the amount of reading students did, rather than the amount of writing they did or the amount of time they spent studying.

Perhaps most importantly, my study suggests that students learn important critical thinking and lifelong learning skills because of challenging class experiences regardless of the workload. In other words, college can help students be better critical thinkers and lifelong learners without requiring them to spend a lot of time studying.

Not bad, not bad. She correctly discovered that a heavy workload is not needed for the average college experience. But neither is a light workload, or any workload, save for the need to look busy.

But… one problem, Barbie… I’m a math nerd.

Nobody learns math without lots of practice.

I haven’t looked at this Wabash study for the details. I don’t need to. I simply know that no amount of proper, guided thinking can turn a man into a mathematician. Or a coder. Or a chemist. Or a historian. Or a theologian. Or ANYTHING THAT MATTERS. You gotta earn it.

The proven-here theory that modern education is not hampered by a lack of study-time is proof that education is not happening in the modern college. Congratulations, Barbie, for being educated enough to prove that your education is not, in fact, any kind of education.

This study has implications for how courses and colleges are assessed as being rigorous. It also has implications for how faculty teach, as it suggests that they should create courses that engage students in higher-order thinking, rather than asking them to complete long reading and writing assignments.

These implications matter particularly for students from low-income backgrounds, who are more likely to work full-time during college. Low-income students are also more likely to commute to campus and have family responsibilities.

If you can’t keep up then don’t step up. You’ll just waste money.

Because of these responsibilities, students from low-income backgrounds often have less time to dedicate to homework compared to students from wealthier backgrounds who live on campus and who don’t work as many hours.

This could be easily tested by having no homework and only a couple tests. I’ve had classes like that. The vibrants didn’t do well then, either. Not that there were enough rising ghetto stars in differential equations for a properly scientific investigation. Science can’t test what isn’t detectable.

If campuses want students from low-income backgrounds to graduate at the same rate as their peers, then it is important that these students have a reasonable workload in their courses so that they don’t have to choose between college and their other responsibilities.

If colleges were smart, they’d do REAL apartheid with separate classes for unvaxxed white nerds and vibrantly pansexual, low-income Marxists. The nerds would happily accept cheaper tuition if, in return, they allowed the University to credit the tranny twinks in their curriculum statistics.

I don’t generally dump on the Boomer generation but this article is a worthy exception. The concept of reverse-mortgages instead of gifting the family home to one’s children is abominable… but this…

5 ways to cash in on your life insurance policy while you’re alive

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By Erika Giovanetti, 20 July 2021

Sponsored by Credible – which is majority owned by our parent, Fox Corporation, and is solely responsible for its services.

They’re not trying to scam you. They’re Credible!

Life insurance provides your loved ones with financial security in the event of your death…

Man, that was a long time ago. When a man was the family breadwinner, life insurance made sense. In the modern age of easy, his-fault divorce and CEO Barbies, not so much, although I did have a dismemberment policy for a time. This advertisement’s target demographic is obvious.

…but you may be able to cash in on your policy while you’re still alive.

You can take it with you! Even your life insurance! Why should anybody benefit from your death except you?

Whether you need a lump sum of money to pay for college or you need money for a down payment on a house, tapping into your life insurance policy can help you meet your financial goals.

Disingenuous. College kids don’t have valuable life insurance policies but those snowbird homes don’t buy themselves.

If you’re in the market for life insurance with living benefits, it’s important to understand how it works. You can compare life insurance policies on Credible’s online financial product marketplace.

1. Tap into your policy’s living benefit riders

Some types of life insurance come with policy additions, referred to as “riders.” These riders may offer living benefits that apply if you meet certain criteria. Here are a few examples of living benefit riders:

• • You’re diagnosed with a chronic, terminal, or critical illness . You may be able to withdraw up to 80% of your policy proceeds to cover health care expenses through illness riders.
  • You need long-term care . Nursing homes, hospice care and end-of-life services are extremely costly. Long-term care riders can help you cover these expenses.

AKA dismemberment insurance against not being able to work anymore. If easy divorce didn’t ruin the material benefit of this then universal basic income is about to.

2. Take out a loan from the policy’s cash value

A life insurance policy loan uses the cash value of your plan as collateral. Since you’re borrowing money from yourself, life insurance loans:

Don’t require a credit check

Have relatively low interest rates

May offer flexible repayment terms

Plus, the loan isn’t technically income, so it’s tax-free.

Now we’re talking Boomer! It’s tax-free because you’ll be dead when the bill comes due!

3. Make a withdrawal from the policy

In addition to borrowing from your life insurance policy in the form of a loan, you may be able to simply withdraw from your policy’s cash value.

For reasonable, Credible fees.

4. Surrender the policy to receive the accrued value

5. Sell your life insurance policy to a third party

The biggest drawback, though, is that you won’t have life insurance coverage. This leaves your beneficiaries without a payout when you die.

We’re used to it. Generation X. The ‘X’ is for ‘latchkey’ but we’re too proud to complain, so Generation X we be.

Meanwhile, a company that calls itself Credible is standing by to help you screw your kids, er, ‘beneficiaries’, for the last time. You can’t make this up.

By all means, Boomers, activate your own life insurance policy and ensure that your only legacies are debt, abandonment and slavery. Brag to God In Heaven that if any of your children survive as free men in their own country, it will be no fault of yours. Let me watch.

If Churchians actually read their Bibles then they would have noticed that Moses wore a veil in order to comfort the people around him. Kinda humorous that it hasn’t happened yet. They would use that story to shame us the unmasked, then cry when we explained WHY Moses wore a veil. If they’re still capable of shame.

I don’t like following headlines anymore. It’s all Covid this and controlled opposition that, and the New World Order’s latest no-shots-fired victory. None of my blog readers are in a position to do anything of worldly significance and this more likely comes from God than any human agency. There’s a story that God wants to tell and if there be no other comfort, at least He’s telling it as quickly as He can.

How does one find the speakeasies? I got money for any businessman who likes income more than snitching for Science, but the question of how to advertise is a serious one. The college kids manage somehow but I can’t tolerate the Socialism long enough to blend in.

Remember those Dilbert cartoons in which Dogbert and the World’s Smartest Garbage Man (cartoonist Scott Adams’ self-cameo) discussed reality as a choice of perception? That never made sense to me. With gaslighting being the journalism profession’s New Normal, however, it makes more sense. All the available information is inconsistent and overwritten to the point at which your personal biases do as much to figure out truth as traditional methods such as predictive capability, pattern recognition and, well, tradition. That must be the point of all the misinformation; not merely to confuse, but to allow people to define “truth” for themselves.

Then again, when such confusion didn’t exist it was merely an existential justification for lying. Actually, it still is. Unless you have Father God for a North Star of Integrity.

One of my tricks for reading behind the headlines is when stories that shouldn’t be significant, are significant. Take that Surfside Condo collapse in Miami. Color me shocked that a shoddily-built apartment complex in a region notorious for real-estate corruption eventually collapsed from delayed maintenance. But not only has it been a news story for over a month, Israel flew in a damage-control team to “assist”. I suspect that a few of those apartments were safe houses for Epstein-type agents because no way do two nations care this much about that little.

Sooo, what IS up with the UFO reports? Don’t give me no Roswell aliens, they gotta obey the laws of physics just like everybody else. Either it’s the lamest headfake since tabloid Elvis (and I don’t know what they might have been distracting from) or waaay too many people at the Pentagon are diving into the occult. This story doesn’t help:

Policewoman Reported Being Chased by .Drone., Turned Out to Be Planet Jupiter

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By Jack Montgomery, 17 July 2021

A Scottish policewoman who believed she was being chased by a drone was left red-faced when she fled back to her station, where senior officers told her the pursuing object was in fact the planet Jupiter.

The Glasgow-based officer, who has not been named but has reportedly served with Police Scotland for two years, called law enforcement on the public 101 number while on duty to complain that an object in the sky was “following her” along the M8 motorway, and that, despite her best efforts, she .couldn.t lose it..

She didn’t even use her radio? She must have had one because she was on duty while driving on a motorway. This sounds like a serious break with reality. Cops routinely get fired for much less disturbing conduct than this.

The call handler advised the policewoman to return to her station… She was found standing in the police yard with her hood up trying to hide from the “drone” and pointed out the bright white dot in the sky. They told her it was Jupiter, which is often visible on a clear night.

Say hello to a drug test, Glasgow’s Finest.

.The story is the talk of the steamie at her station. Nobody can quite believe it. She was very alarmed and spooked that she was being followed by a drone,. said a police source quoted by the newspaper.

.Everyone was quite concerned so you can imagine the red face and embarrassment felt when it was pointed out that the bright light following her was a planet millions of miles away,. they added.

.This is going to haunt her for years..

What? NO!!! She’s still employed? They’re protecting her identity?!

Police Scotland appeared to confirm the incident in an official statement, with a spokesman explaining that “Officers quickly established there was no criminality and were able to reassure the woman involved..

They extended the pussy pass all the way to handwaving away a psychotic break with reality! In a cop! I know my ancestral homeland has been on the skids for a long time but dayumn….

To celebrate this Friday, let’s do some fat shaming! (Read: eye bleach warning.)

.FOCUS ON DOING WHAT FEELS GOOD.: TIKTOKER SHARES HER JOURNEY TOWARD FINDING JOY IN MOVEMENT AMID EXERCISING DISORDER RECOVERY

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By Alex Lasker

Had to fix the title for her. She’d accidentally called this an “eating disorder recovery” and as you will soon see, it’s nothing of the sort.

For Hannah Fuhlendorf, exercise used to be an excruciating endeavor.

See?

For people of a certain size, breathing is an excruciating endeavor.

.[Exercise] was a tool that was used for self-punishment and bodily control,. the 29-year-old certified counselor, who has a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling, told In The Know. .There was no pleasure or joy in any part of it, and yet, it occupied a huge amount of space in my life and took up a lot of my time, energy and resources..

Remember, kids, anything worth doing gives you a dopamine hit!

Fuhlendorf, who has struggled with eating disorders in “varying degrees of severity” from the time she was eight years old through the age of 25, says that for those 17 years of her life, exercise represented nothing to her “except a path to thinness..

Exercise leads to thinness.

Thinness leads to a good husband.

A good husband leads to healthy children, a happy family life and a meal ticket through the imminent apocalypse.

Exercise: JUST DO IT!

.Like a lot of people, I grew up in a home and in a culture that expected thinness from me,. she shared. “But when it became clear during my childhood that my body sits at a higher weight than was expected of me or acceptable to those around me, disordered behaviors began..

“Disordered behaviors began”? If the article hadn’t already admitted it, that phrase would be a smoking gun that Hannah got a psychology degree in making top-quality excuses for eating too much and exercising not enough. Look at her blue hair in that pic! She could be her own thesis!

Over the past four years, Fuhlendorf has been working toward recovery, which has allowed her to rediscover the joy in movement and to untangle exercise and its many benefits from toxic diet culture and the pursuit of thinness . and she has brought TikTok along for the journey, under the handle @hannahtalksbodies.

The relationship between diet culture and exercise is a notably complex one that can take those struggling with weight-loss-obsessed mindsets years to understand and break free from, even with the help of a medical professional.

Specifically, a medical professional with dyed-blue hair, an entitlement complex and Daddy issues that she manages with intentional morbid obesity.

I’d say that Hannah must have gotten that advanced degree in clinical mental health counseling from a box of Cracker Jacks but we all know that a quart of Haagen-Dazs is more likely.

Although a lot of people exercise for a multitude of positive reasons, some people, particularly those struggling with disordered eating habits, may use it as a means to punish themselves for eating “bad” or indulgent foods or as a potentially harmful bid to change their appearances, rather than a means to benefit their bodies, minds and overall health.

It’s true! I eat lots of pizza but stay thin via weight lifting, hiking, biking, swimming and more hiking. Okay, okay, ‘thin’ might be pushing it. I’m kinda ripped from all the weights.

Clearly, I am harming myself with body-image issues.

.People with eating disorders frequently only engage in the most exhausting, highest impact forms of exercise,. Fuhlendorf explained. .The word “exercise” may as well have been swapped with “torture” for me, and that’s true for a lot of folks in eating disorder recovery..

Hannah, you’d break a sweat just getting through your front door. And I do mean “through”. Turning sideways won’t help you.

Fuhlendorf.s view toward exercise and movement started to change in 2017 when she began seeing a therapist who practiced Health at Every Size (HAES), an approach that aims to eliminate stigmas against weight, respect size diversity and improve access to health care for everyone.

Fuhlendorf is a waddling example of why socialized health care is a bad idea. Why is my tax money comforting that lardball in all of her ovoid glory?

Her new therapist’s focus on the idea that health can be attained separately from thinness, was game-changing for Fuhlendorf.

.She was a major part of my recovery journey,. the TikToker said of her therapist. .She helped me understand the reality of my eating disorder and provided an alternative perspective that I didn’t even know was possible. A life at peace with my body, not pursuing thinness was something I didn’t even think was an option for a fat person..

Her therapist gave her permission to quit!

After discovering HAES, Fuhlendorf set out on the daunting path of mending her relationship with physical movement . a journey that began with a mental reset and some much-needed rest.

.What I knew for certain was that exercise, in the way I knew it, was not safe for me, and I needed to be very protective of my recovery,. she explained. .So for almost a year, I took a break; I abstained from doing anything I considered “formal exercise.’.

For Fuhlendorf, this meant canceling gym memberships, unfollowing nearly 100 fitness influencers on social media, and deleting diet and workout apps off of her phone. The experience, she says, was nothing short of liberating.

.For the first time in 17 years, I felt like I could breathe,. she recalled. .I felt like I was actually participating in my life rather than just enduring it..

Except for the gym memberships, that was good. Her smartphone and social media habits were only enabling her sedentary lifestyle so getting rid of them was smart.

She DID get rid of the smartphone and social media, right?

Sigh.

As her recovery [from exercise] progressed, Fuhlendorf says she began to discover the types of movement that made her feel joy rather than pain . she began to fill her time with things like stretching, swimming, dancing, yoga and boxing, instead of the punishingly difficult high-intensity workouts that had left her scarred.

Only two of the five are actual exercise and even then, I’m not sure about swimming. Is it still exercise when you can’t sink and can’t feel cold?

Is it still exercise when you’re too fat to move? Exactly what were those high-intensity exercises? Was boxing not high-intensity?

Four years after first entering a period of recovery from her eating disorder, Fuhlendorf has successfully been able to adapt her exercise routine to include whatever feels good to her body at the moment.

But she’s still fat.

.To this day, I swim and box and dance and move my body however and whenever feels best,. she explained.

But she’s still fat.

.I have zero rules for frequency or intensity. It is all about my enjoyment. Period. I have found that to be the most impactful change in my relationship with movement. If I don’t like it, I don’t do it..

Yo Mama’s so fat, there’s a half moon every night.

Fuhlendorf still finds herself staying out of conventional gyms as much as possible . finding that they tend to be “rife with fatphobia and disordered behaviors. . and avoiding workout machines that reveal the number of calories a user has burned, which can be triggering to those who are prone to feeling they need to earn their food by burning it off.

Fatphobia, yes. Disordered behavior, no. Gym rats aren’t the Fuhlendorfs who pay therapists to lie about the health benefits of bulging those bulging bulges of fatness. “You can be beautiful at any size!” no.

“The Peloton triggered me!”

.I don’t take classes where the instructors talk about weight loss or make fatphobic remarks,. she added. .I don’t put myself in any spaces in person or online where the intent is to change or shrink my body at all. I still have to be very protective of my mental health..

The truly fun part of mocking Social Justice Warriors is that they can’t help but to mock themselves at the same time.

To anyone looking to improve their own toxic or harmful mindset surrounding physical movement, Fuhlendorf recommends taking a break from exercise and consulting a trusted therapist or physician. Most importantly, listen to your body and what it needs before diving into any new type of regimen.

Regimens such as biodiesel rendering! America’s fat population is like a second Strategic Oil Reserve.

“Focus on doing what feels good, not what you think makes a workout a “good workout..

That’s what I just did. Shaming fat people feels good!

It’s been a longrunning debate whether Chinaballs was intentionally or accidentally released from the Wuhan lab. This astonishingly tone-deaf article by a credentialed expert suggests… BOTH!

We work with dangerous pathogens in a downtown Boston biocontainment lab . here’s why you can feel safe about our research

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By Ronald Corley, Director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories, 14 July 2021

With a title like that, somebody is playing life on hard mode today! Especially since this article was surely prompted by that biocontainment lab incident in downtown Wuhan.

Microbiologist Ronald Corley has gone to work every day throughout the pandemic as director of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories. Within this secure lab facility in Boston, scientists study pathogens as diverse as tuberculosis, Ebola virus, yellow fever virus and Zika virus.

Courageously risking his life for !science! from behind a desk at the top of the org chart.

A newly emerging or reemerging human pathogen is detected somewhere around the globe every 12 to 18 months.

Ohmigawd Coof is MUTATING!!!! just like every disease always does and always has.

Infectious diseases don’t respect borders. Because of the global economy and unprecedented mobility, everyone on the planet is vulnerable to potentially devastating infectious diseases that may have originated halfway across the world. In this age of high-speed travel, we are as little as 36 hours away from any outbreak.

Maybe we should close our borders, if only for the sake of medical quarantine? Especially with China and India, which are by far the most frequent sources of “newly emerging pathogens”? Maybe we should try avoiding diseases instead of learning all about them.

In the lab, researchers can safely test new diagnostics, therapeutics and vaccines. The more scientists learn about these new diseases, the better prepared we are for the ones that will come after.

A better way to be prepared for an outbreak is to remove all women from positions of authority so they won’t freak out over the need to assume measured risks. Knowledge in the hands of government is like wisdom in the hands of a fool: a pretty thing to be flaunted but not used.

This is where labs like the NEIDL, and our stringent safety measures, are important. I feel safer from infection working in the NEIDL than I do in my apartment building.

That sounds like a roommate problem.

We know what we’re working with in the lab and how to keep ourselves and others safe. But outside, I don’t know who I might pass who could have a transmissible pathogen, including the coronavirus.

Definitely a roommate problem. Although I would hazard a guess, that he’d notice if the person next to him was hacking up tuberculosis or bleeding Ebola from the eyes.

This is not to say that there is no risk working within the laboratory . there is.

Which is why you DO NOT STORE AND WORK WITH LETHAL, CONTAGIOUS DISEASES IN THE MIDDLE OF A MAJOR CITY!!!

In California’s agricultural valleys, they have this concept of agricultural quarantine. Any disease that spreads to a new farm’s worth of livestock can do massive damage, so the farms are intentionally isolated, workers live on site and they go through cleaning regimens when they come back from vacation or supply runs.

Director Corley respects the health of his fellow humans less than a Mexican migrant respects the health of his chickens. But not to worry! Corley is CERTIFIED!

But we minimize it through a series of safety measures . including building systems, laboratory design, personal protective equipment, training and safety protocols . that have been tried and tested in laboratories across the world.

Except the safety measure of social distancing. Oopsie.

Our biosafety manual sets the standards for all work with biological material in the NEIDL….

Overview of biosafety rules omitted.

What does containment look like with these safety strategies in place?

Everyone undergoes annual background checks, medical clearances and training. Only cleared staff can enter the building alone.

None of that prevents the spread of disease. It doesn’t even prevent the spread of Chinese espionage.

There are limited ways into the space, one for pedestrians, and one for vehicles, like delivery trucks. Entry requires access via biometric or card access or both, and screening by security. Access controls limit staff members to entering spaces where they have permission to work, based on their training, clearances and biosafety protocols. A network of security systems and closed-circuit cameras monitors the facility.

Just like the Burger King across the street!

Entering laboratories requires that workers don the appropriate PPE for the area. Within the labs, we know what pathogen we are working with and how it is being used and are confident staff are following the safety measures required to keep them safe. This ensures the safety of others in the building as well as the surrounding community.

Importantly, the biosafety practices ensure that each pathogen we’re studying is restricted to the appropriate spaces. Researchers work at biosafety cabinets that sterile-filter the air before releasing it back into the lab.

Infrastructure is better than Burger King but none of it needs to be located in a dense urban center where a single failure can be catastrophic.

What kinds of regulation and oversight are there?

Synopsis of 574-page book of oversight regulations omitted.

What would happen if something went wrong?

An important aspect of safety is making sure everyone knows what to do in an emergency. Three trainings per year involve first responders from the city as well as from Boston University. These are done as either live drills or tabletop exercises with experts walking through what an emergency would look like. Afterward we review how we did and develop plans for improvement.

No, no, we aren’t talking about strokes or the Heimlich maneuver. We’re talking about you walking to work one morning and noticing that a rat on the sidewalk outside your lab is dead of hemorrhagic fever. What do you do? You file paperwork…?

At Boston University, we post all laboratory incidents, including those at the NEIDL, on a quarterly basis to ensure that we remain transparent in our activities. Depending on what went wrong, we may also report to the BPHC and the CDC.

That’s right. We can trust your biolab to operate inside a major city because you’ll tell everybody when you fuck up. Despite the obvious incentives to not tell everybody.

Look, when a plague escapes confinement in an urban center, there’s nothing that CAN be done. China was tyrannical enough to lock down entire cities and it didn’t help. But if your lab is physically isolated with a disciplined workforce then a lockdown can work.

Which brings us to the million-casualty question:

Why place these high-security labs in urban environments with lots of neighbors instead of the middle of nowhere?

Scientific research is a communal activity, and advances happen in places where diverse expertise is concentrated. It’s no different for research on emerging pathogens. Research on pathogens relies on faculty with expertise in not only the pathogens themselves but chemistry, engineering, stem cell biology, structural biology, immunology and more.

Biocontainment research also requires facilities engineers, safety professionals and security personnel. You can find personnel with diverse experience and expertise in metropolitan areas that are already home to biomedical research.

If they’re willing to come to USA all the way from Pajeet-istan to work in a biocontainment facility then they’re willing to travel twenty miles outside of urban centers and maybe live on campus, too. Behold, concentrated expertise! And frankly, if they’re coming from Pajeet-istan then they need to go through medical quarantine regardless. It would be awkward yet convenient, if your sparkly new diversity hire brought the next plague into your city.

Science can’t happen unless a Chicomm plant, an African bioterrorist and a Yankee politician collaborate at a wine-tasting next door to the BSL-3 biolab.

The original permitting process of the NEIDL mandated a comprehensive risk assessment [that] concluded that it’s as safe, or even safer, to have such a facility in an urban environment than in a rural or suburban environment.

You just lied to America, Director. Come to think of it, telling the truth was never one of your guidelines. Their purpose, as you stated in this article, was to reassure people. Truth is often NOT reassuring… therefore not a guideline.

.Near misses. have occurred at these kinds of labs within the U.S. and Europe. A near miss might, for example, involve glove tears and a potential exposure to a pathogen during laboratory work, but these have never resulted in any community infections. At the NEIDL, we intend to maintain this track record.

QED. His real concern is his own reputation. Not safety. Just the perception of safety.

Everything that Director Corley said in this article indicates he’s the kind of bureaucrat who would do that, to wit, violate the principle of safety with the justification that he followed all the safety rules.

That is why bureaucracy is evil. It offers a false morality, one that clumsy and careless humans can easily keep. It is good to follow safety procedures and better to know why those procedures exist. Not to protect your lab’s reputation; to protect the innocent. The principle says to house dangerous diseases where there are few people to be infected. But the rules don’t require it… so….

So long as Director Corley can’t be fired, it’s really not his problem if Bostonian Swine Flu becomes a thing. Thus, placing the biolab where it can function most cheaply (and importing diversity hires from around the globe) is worth the sacrifices that other people may have to make.

I tried to substantiate my suspicions of NEIDL being more concerned about the appearance of safety than actual safety. Guess who I found? Barbara “Doctor of Public Welfare” Ferrer, the health Nazi of Los Angeles.

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In a discussion whose outcome may determine if Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) will conduct research involving pathogens such as the Ebola and Marburg viruses, speakers for and against research at BioSafety Level 4 (BSL-4) faced off last night at a lengthy Boston City Council hearing on a proposed ordinance to ban that level of research in the city. The ordinance was put forth by Councilman Charles Yancey, who told the standing-room-only crowd that he feared that BSL-4 research could pose a serious risk to the health and safety of the community.

While Yancey and several opponents of BSL-4 research tried to persuade the city council to support the ban, proponents, including Barbara Ferrer (SPH.88), director of the Boston Public Health Commission (BPHC), and M. Anita Barry director of the BPHC Infectious Diseases Bureau, argued that reliable safety precautions have been put in place. Representatives of the biotech industry also spoke in favor of BSL-4 research, maintaining that banning BSL-4 research would inhibit the growth of life sciences research in Boston.

Ronald Corley, NEIDL associate director and a BU School of Medicine professor and chair of microbiology, emphasized the promise of a research lab that can bring together expertise in many disciplines, such as chemistry, microbiology, and engineering.

.The great discoveries in science these days are coming from these kinds of multidisciplinary efforts,. he said. .The University’s mission is educating the next generation of scientists.” Corley said the mission of NEIDL is to develop vaccines, diagnoses, and therapeutics for emerging infectious diseases. .The NEIDL is not going to produce biological weapons, and it is not going to do classified research,. he said.

No gain-of-function research? This article is dated April 2014. It was October 2014 that the CDC outlawed GoF research after multiple biolab screwups, which was considered technically not bioweapon research. Probably just as well that NEIDL never went level-4.

Opponents of BSL-4 research at the hearing argued that safety studies of the lab conducted by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were inadequate, and that NEIDL was constructed in “an environmental justice community” without sufficient dialogue with residents. …

Construction of the $200 million NEIDL facility was completed in September 2008, but controversy and litigation have kept much of the building’s 192,000 square feet of laboratory space closed.

So, they built the facility without asking the locals if they were comfortable living next to a biolab, then they tried to justify their fait accompli existence by claiming that their safety procedures guaranteed that nothing could go wrong.

I consider the point proven, that Director Corley is a bureaucrat with little concern for human life.

You may have seen in the headlines, that Rev. Dr. Bernard Randall of Trent College was reported to a counter-terrorist organization for peacefully speaking one time against the LGBT agenda in the name of Christ. You may not have heard, that he’d been reported two years ago and only found out when he discovered the memo in his file while preparing a lawsuit concerning his termination. Buckle up for the freakshow!

.My world fell apart.: School chaplain accused of terrorism over LGBT sermon says he won’t be silenced

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By Anugrah Kumar, 5 June 2021

A school chaplain who was fired from his job and reported to the government’s counter-terrorism watchdog for delivering a sermon questioning the school’s LGBT policies says in a media interview that his world “fell apart” after he was accused of being a terrorist.

More specifically, after he LEARNED he’d been accused of being a terrorist:

The Rev. Bernard Randall, 48, told Premier Christian News that he discovered that he had been referred in 2019 to the counter-terrorism watchdog, Prevent, as he was going through the documentation related to the disciplinary action over his sermon at Trent College, a Church of England school.

Is that some kind of private-sector counterterror organization?

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The UK.s terror watchdog has called for an independent review of the government’s flagship anti-radicalisation strategy, Prevent, over concerns that it is sowing mistrust and fear in the Muslim community.

Okay, it’s a government program after all.

The programme, particularly its duty on schools to spot and report signs of radicalisation in pupils, has become a “significant source of grievance” among British Muslims, encouraging “mistrust to spread and to fester., said David Anderson QC, the independent reviewer of terrorism laws.

I’m warning up to this group.

In his written submission to the home affairs select committee inquiry into the government’s counter-terrorism strategy, he also raised concern that elements of Prevent were “ineffective or being applied in an insensitive or discriminatory manner..

An organization dedicated to early detection and neutralization of political threats is acting insensitive and discriminatory? Wouldn’t that be its job?

.It seems to me that Prevent could benefit from independent review,. wrote Anderson, who has no authority to conduct such a review.

He continued: .It is perverse that Prevent has become a more significant source of grievance in affected communities than the police and ministerial powers that are exercised … The lack of transparency in the operation of Prevent encourages rumour and mistrust to spread and to fester..

The watchdog’s concerns were echoed by expert witnesses who gave evidence to the select committee inquiry at the House of Commons on Tuesday.

Raheel Mohammed, the director of Maslaha, a social enterprise that works to improve conditions in Muslim communities, called for a review of Prevent in schools, warning of its stigmatising impact.

The programme was stifling schools from openly discussing and safely addressing issues around extremism, creating an atmosphere of fear, and failing to equip teachers with the skills and training to act on signs of radicalisation in pupils, he told the group of MPs.

.Prevent is seen by many educators . [and] by many in the [Muslim] community as being a blunt instrument,. said Mohammed. .What it’s doing is stigmatising whole communities.”

Well, well. Prevent, a UK government organ of all things, is actually doing its job of countering imported Islamic, excuse me, “home-grown” terrorism! Did somebody say “Never again, Rotherham”?

AND they did their job in regards to Dr. Randall, exonerating him in short order. Although sending him a celebratory fruit basket might have been in order, seeing as the memo wasn’t passed on:

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.It.s not as if [school officials] sat me down and said, .This is what we feel we have to do.. I found that, as it were, by accident and all of a sudden, my world falls apart because I’m being accused of being a terrorist, which is just about the worst thing you can accuse anybody of in our society on the basis of I knew not what. It was just extraordinary,. Randall is quoted as saying.

What happened two years ago, to prompt this reporting? And why is he being fired by school officials now, two full years after they implicitly accused him of being a terrorist weaponizing the children at their boarding school?

He was dismissed from school for gross misconduct and reported to the counter-terrorism program after he told students, aged 11 to 17, that they were not compelled to “accept an ideology they disagree with.” He also told the students that they could make up their own minds about gender identity and sexuality.

In the 2019 sermon, he referred to a new LGBT-inclusive curriculum at the school because a student asked him to talk about it, he says.

The teaching material from the “Educate and Celebrate” curriculum was adopted after a visit by Elly Barnes, founder of Educate & Celebrate, an LGBT education charity. The material aims to “equip you and your communities with the knowledge, skills and confidence to embed gender, gender identity and sexual orientation into the fabric of your organization..

Sometimes you need special glasses to recognize a xeno in a skinsuit and sometimes, you don’t.

Making homophobia history

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By Sue Learner, 26 October 2010

‘I’ve had pupils say ‘Miss, you are trying to turn us gay’ and I ask them, ‘do you turn black during Black History Month or Turkish during Turkish month?’” Elly Barnes, a music teacher at Stoke Newington school in north London, is used to tackling such questions. Prompted by seeing homophobia around her in school on many occasions, she now runs Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) History Month here every February.

“My focus is eradicating homophobia from all schools and educational establishments by giving staff the confidence and resources to do it, along with demonstrating good practice and changing opinions under the banner of ‘educate and celebrate’,” says Barnes, who is the diversity course leader.

At the first session, Barnes briefs teachers, PGCE students and an educational psychologist on current policy and equal opportunities. Then she moves on to the part many teachers dread and fear . teaching children about LGBT.

Florence, aged 12, tells the class about the first wedding she went to. “It was a gay wedding and they were called Andrew and Eric, and I wanted to be a bridesmaid, but I had only known them for two years.”

Barnes asks them what they know about the words lesbian, gay and bisexual. Josiah, aged 11, brings up the issue of religion, saying: “The pope opposes homosexuality, but I don’t know why, as I think everyone should have free will.”

Kids that age should not be taught anything about sexuality, let alone anti-Christian perversion.

Nine years later and being finished with London’s public education system, she moved on to Anglican boarding schools to corrupt the children there. Exactly one man opposed her efforts, not even harshly, and…

Over the five years, she has had only a handful of complaints. “A parent complained after her son told her he had seen a film at the school that showed two men kissing. I told her we are an inclusive school and it is part of the curriculum,” says Barnes.

I wonder if that parent was also reported to the authorities as a terrorist, the way she reported Rev. Randall.

What was it he said, anyway? That triggered her so hard?

A school sermon by Bernard Randall: Competing ideologies

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By Rev. Randall, 10 May 2021

Despite the date of this article, this is reportedly the sermon Randall gave that prompted the terroristic investigation.

I have a theory about Brexit. It seems to me that people who voted to leave the European Union voted for largely political reasons . to do with democratic self-determination; and people who voted to remain did so for largely economic reasons . to do with prosperity and jobs. Of course I’m simplifying here…

No, you’re being wrong. Brexit is globalism vs. nationalism. Politically, economically, demographically, monetarily… it’s a decision of whether England should even exist in ten years.

…and both sides claim to consider both, but it seems to me that which set of ideas, which ideology, takes priority determines which way many people voted.

And so the problem with the often very heated and unpleasant debate ever since the referendum, is that people haven’t managed to cope with there being two competing sets of ideals . two ideologies. Now when ideologies compete, we should not descend into abuse, we should respect the beliefs of others, even where we disagree.

There has been another set of competing ideals in the news recently. You may have heard of the protests outside a Birmingham primary school over the teachings of an LGBT friendly “No Outsiders” programme. In a mostly Muslim community, this has been sensitive, because many parents feel that their children are being pushed to accept ideas which run counter to Islamic moral values. Many in that community are concerned, even angry, that their children are having an agenda, an ideology pushed on them, which is in conflict with their religion.

Dude… Revered… that’s exactly where the Muzzies would be with respect to Christianity if you clergy offered even a whiff of opposition.

And in our own school community, I have been asked about a similar thing . this is one of the requested topics, and the question was put to me in a very particular way . .How come we are told we have to accept all this LGBT stuff in a Christian school?. I thought that was a very intelligent and thoughtful way of asking about the conflict of values, rather than asking which is right, and which is wrong.

Epic Fail, especially for a clergy teacher of children at a boarding school. Disobedience against the True and Living God is not a “conflict of values”.

So my answer is this: there are some aspects of the Educate and Celebrate programme which are simply factual . there are same-sex attracted people in our society, there are people who experience gender dysphoria, and so on. There are some areas where the two sets of values overlap . no one should be discriminated against simply for who he or she is: that’s a Christian value, based in loving our neighbours as ourselves, and God making humankind in his image, male and female, and himself loving everyone equally. All these things should be accepted straightforwardly by all of us, and it’s right that equalities law reflects that.

Randall, why did you trying to find moral equivalence with the intentionally Satanic, child-corrupting programme founded and still operated by a militant, child-molesting dyke? Or maybe the better question, why were you surprised that she turned out to have a totalitarian streak in her?

But there are areas where the two sets of ideas are in conflict, and in these areas you do not have to accept the ideas and ideologies of LGBT activists. Indeed, since Trent exists “to educate boys and girls according to the Protestant and Evangelical principles of the Church of England,. anyone who tells you that you must accept contrary principles is jeopardizing the school’s charitable status, and therefore it’s very existence. You should no more be told you have to accept LGBT ideology, than you should be told you must be in favour of Brexit, or must be Muslim . to both of which I’m sure most of you would quite rightly object.

That sounds very familiar to an American Christian whose churches fear jeopardizing their tax-exempt status.

Now I don’t know about the faith of the person who asked me to talk about this topic. I don’t think he would say is religious, though I may be wrong, but I am aware that there will be a good few in our community who will have been struggling, if they feel they are being told that they must accept ideas which run counter to their faith . or indeed non-faith based reasoning about the world. So I want to say to everyone, but especially to those who have been troubled, that…

…You can be confident that we worship Father God of Truth, the Creator of Life. Thus, you should defy all who hate Him with joy in your heart and courage in your step. For you are the redeemed and righteous of mankind, and the wicked will surely be exposed and condemned.

…you are not obliged to accept someone else’s ideology. You are perfectly at liberty to hear ideas out, and then think, .No, not for me..

There are several areas where many or most Christians (and for that matter people of other faiths too), will be in disagreement with LGBT activists, and where you must make up your own mind.

What demon-sucking gutless cockroach made YOU a reverend, Randall?

So it is perfectly legitimate to think that marriage should only properly be understood as being a lifelong exclusive union of a man and a woman; indeed, that definition is written into English law.

Christ likes monogamy because English law says He should. But only as an ideal, of course… we wouldn’t want to offend the other faith groups, including the atheists:

You may perfectly properly believe that, as an ideal, sexual activity belongs only within such marriage, and that therefore any other kind is morally problematic. That is the position of all the major faith groups . though note that it doesn’t apply only to same-sex couples. And it is a belief based, not only on scripture, but on a highly positive view of marriage as the building block of a society where people of all kinds flourish, and on recognizing that there are many positive things in life more important than sex, if only we’d let them be. This viewpoint is recognized by many people as extremely liberating. And it’s an ethical position which could also be arrived at independently of any religious text, I think.

It is, actually. Broken families in general and fatherlessness in particular have been conclusively linked to all kinds of social ills, thus even a devout atheist can understand the critical importance of patriarchy. So then, you Anglicans rebelled against not just God but sanity and science too, when you let that depraved Jezebel wolf into the childrens’ henhouse.

You might be concerned that if you take the religious view on these matters you will be attacked, and accused of homophobia and the like. But remember that religious belief is just as protected in law as sexual orientation…

So that’s how Randall managed to be surprised at Barnes’ passive-aggressive attack. He thought they were peers, arguing philosophical points of no eternal significance. But no, the people who sanction sexual perversion never had the slightest intention of also protecting Christianity.

You can’t protect the darkness and the light at the same time.

…and [remember that] no one has the right to discriminate against you or be abusive towards you. Remember too that “phobia” words have a strict sense of extreme or irrational fear or dislike, like arachnophobia, fear of spiders, or triskaidekaphobia, fear of the number thirteen . well there’s nothing extreme about sharing your view with the Church of England, established by law, and of the majority of the world’s population who belong to these faiths.

A Christian, if he is attacked, can remember that this world hates him because it first hated his Savior. He can remember that he has a home in God’s Heaven where moth and rust and BLM do not destroy… and if God is very kind, he can look to his friends to support him through the hard times.

But Randall? We should’ve guessed from his being declared not-a-terrorist by this fallen world that he is no Christian.

So, all in all, if you are at ease with “all this LGBT stuff,. you’re entitled to keep to those ideas…

…and entitled to denounce even the weakest opposition as worse than Hitler!

That is how the child-grooming militant lesbian was able to vomit her lies and perversions directly into the Church: because leaders like Randall are groveling, quisling, “be true to yourself” morons.

Here’s another horror story, excuse me, success story of how education EMPOWERS women.

AITA for telling my sister not to bring her kids over so much?

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By Anonymous Bay Area feminist, 30 June 2021

I (25F) recently graduated. The city I live in has a shortage of apartments–I could technically afford an available one, but that would mean I would have no extra money for anything but the bare basics.

That rules out New York City. They have a surplus of apartments, albeit sill unaffordable. Thus, the Gay Area of Commiefornia. Nowhere else breeds feminists of this purity.

While waiting for a more reasonable place to open up, I have moved in with my parents, who own a house within reasonable commuting distance.

I know why she’s not eager to live with her parents: she’s in her prime skanking years.

My older sister (32F) has three children: 6M, 3F, 1F.

Probably got both a BA and MRS in college.

We aren’t very close, as her entire identity since her oldest was born is “SAHM.” She usually brings her kids over several times a week to visit and/or have my parents babysit while she goes grocery shopping or other errands. I’m not really a kid person–don’t plan on having any myself, and I can tolerate hers in small doses. Before, when I lived on campus, this wasn’t really an issue. Now, however, I feel like I never get a break from kids. My parents don’t allow them in my room, but when they’re here I can’t go out and relax in the living room since they’re in there. My room is fairly small, and I don’t like being cooped up in it all day when they visit. Yesterday, when my sister picked up the kids, they decided to stay for dinner, which meant I had even less time without them. I asked my sister if she would limit their visits to a max of twice a week while I’m here, in order to respect my needs. She got extremely angry at me and accused me of selfishly preventing her kids from seeing their grandparents. AITA?

You’re worse than an asshole, Skankie. You’re a success story.

That’s probably an advanced degree you got there, to judge from your age. For six years you attended Feminist U and here you are: strong, independent, wearing pants, ready for your man-career, emancipated like women rarely have been in human history…

And you’re completely unable to tolerate the existence of your nephew and nieces because they remind your biology of what you’re sacrificed for a life in the rat race.

I noticed that you never referred to them as family. They were always “the children of your older sister”.

I noticed that despite it being your parents’ home, you are giving them orders and venting angrily when said orders are not followed. Prepare to pay rent in the near future, ingrate!

I noticed you spitting through your teeth at your older sister being happy as a mother while you twerk your way through the local Tinder offerings. No chance you’re a virgin.

I noticed… that you are a SUCCESS STORY of everything degenerate about our society. Congratulations. You paid attention in school. It shows. It really does.

Now get a cat and die alone, unless it really would kill you to eat dinner with your extended family. Leave your parents to dote on their grandchildren in peace.

I bet that word stings.

It only takes a single story of a feral woman cashing out a husband to inspire a thousand bored wives. Let’s see if the reverse is true, also!

Texas judge denies US citizen due process rights, sends her before Islamic Sharia tribunal instead

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By Phil Shiver, 7 July 2021

A judge in Texas earlier this year effectively denied a U.S. citizen her constitutionally protected due process rights, choosing instead to order her to appear before an Islamic tribunal where her testimony is considered inferior. And when her lawyers sounded the alarm . the judge doubled down.

Oh noes! Sharia law is making inroads even in Texas! How could this happen?

The woman, Mariam Ayad, was attempting to exercise her legal right to a divorce last year when her husband, Ayad Hashim Latif, revealed that on the day of their wedding in 2008, she had signed an Islamic prenuptial agreement to have all matters regarding the marriage and divorce be decided according to Sharia law.

Oh. That’s how. She’d agreed in writing to Sharia arbitration and the judge… that horrid, nasty judge… was forcing her to honor the agreement. Don’t judges know that it’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind?

[Collin County District Judge Andrea Thompson] . in complete disregard of both federal and state law . ruled that the prenuptial agreement is binding, without taking testimony from the wife.

OUCH! A female judge ruled that a prenup is binding!

The strange case serves as an example of the incompatibility that exists between American law and Islamic Sharia law and the clash that can occur when the two systems are juxtaposed.

What’s especially unacceptable in this case, according to Mariam’s lawyers, is that a U.S. district judge would force an individual to undergo arbitration in accordance with a foreign legal system contrary to the laws of the country of which she is a citizen.

This article is as much author’s opinion as reporting, which I’m fine with. We’re all biased and I prefer that inevitable bias to be obvious. But Mr. Shiver is entirely wrong and it’s way past time for women who demand male privilege, to be held to male standards of conduct.

If you voluntarily agree to arbitration by a foreign power then it is proper that you not be allowed to use a more favorable system when the times comes.

Let me quote it again:

“The woman, Mariam Ayad, was attempting to exercise her legal right to a divorce last year…”

Wifey got bored, filed for divorce, expected to get that pesky prenup thrown out–always happens, right? Not this time!

Mizz Ayad is FUBAR.

In absence of relief, Mariam will now be required to settle her divorce matters with the Islamic Association of North Texas in front of the Muslim clerics who view her testimony and evidence as carrying half the weight as a man’s.

This would not work for a smarter sex, if that smarter sex would just ignore its little head.

New NASA radiation standards for astronauts seen as leveling field for women

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By Anil OzaJun, 29 June 2021

A blue-ribbon panel has endorsed NASA.s plans to revise its standard for exposing astronauts to radiation in a way that would allow women to spend more time in space.

“If it’s not safe for women to be astronauts then we need to redefine ‘safety’.” Thus disproving any correlation between education and wisdom.

A report by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released on 24 June encourages NASA to proceed with its plans to adopt a new standard that limits all astronauts to 600 millisieverts of radiation over their career. The current limit is the amount of radiation that correlates with a 3% increase in the risk of dying from a cancer caused by radiation exposure.a standard that favored men and older astronauts whose cancer risk from radiation was lower. The proposed standard would limit all astronauts to the allowable dosage for a 35-year-old woman.

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This means that at the low end [of the 3% standard], a 30-year-old woman could be exposed to no more than 180 mSv throughout her career; at the upper limit, a 60-year-old man could endure up to 700 mSv before being grounded.

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The future of female empowerment never glowed so brightly. Not dying of radiation sickness is male privilege!

The changes are in line with current data and puts women on an equal footing, says Hedvig Hricak, [age 75,] a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and chair of the committee that wrote the report. .There’s no evidence for significant gender difference in the radiation exposure, and associated risk of cancer,. she says.

Her pic is textbook Karen. Her lies are textbook feminist.

The new standard comes as NASA gears up for renewed exploration of the Moon and, eventually, a mission to Mars. The change should remove gender from the list of factors used to decide who gets chosen for those missions, says Paul Locke, an environmental health expert at Johns Hopkins University who was not on the committee. .Women will not be penalized because they are, under the old model, at higher risk,. he says.

They had to go outside NASA to find an expert who sees no problem with confining men and women in zero privacy for months on end on a dangerous trip lasting longer than nine months. I’m not even talking pregnancy, I’m talking about men going for a walk without a space suit just to end the nagging.

Francis Cucinotta, a biophysicist at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, doesn’t agree with the report’s backing of a single dosage level. Instead, the former chief scientist for NASA.s radiation program thinks equity should come in the form of equal risk rather than equal dosages of radiation.

.[It] sounds like they’re just going to ignore the science and try to make it comfortable for everybody,. Cucinotta says, arguing that age, sex, and race affect an individual’s risk of developing cancer and should be factors when determining the amount of time astronauts can spend in space. .When they’re selected to be astronauts, there’s a lot of things where it’s not equal.it.s based on performance capability. But they’re not applying that model here..

Cucinotta would stick with the 3% increase in the risk of dying of cancer. For a Mars mission, which is expected to expose astronauts to 1000 millisieverts, he proposes raising that maximum risk to 5% after conducting research on countermeasures and weighing genetic markers that lower an astronaut’s risk of developing cancer.

He’s both correct and smart enough to frame his objection in terms of equity rather than “this is stupid”-style mansplaining. *sigh* Like me.

Although a mission to Mars is not planned for another decade, NASA also wants to improve how it tells astronauts about the risks. In particular, the agency proposed using a stoplight, color-coded system.using green for those at lowest risk, yellow for those with higher risk, and red for those that would exceed the lifetime radiation limit. Any astronaut on a mission expected to exceed the proposed limit would be asked to sign a waiver.

Is radiation exposure not already covered under the “let’s strap you to a pile of explosives built by the lowest bidder, light that candle and see what happens” waiver?

Ann Bostrom, a risk communication expert at the University of Washington, Seattle, who served on the committee, worries such a system may not be able to convey such complex information. .Sometimes if it’s too simplistic, it causes people to overlook nuances that they would otherwise see,. Bostrom says. .So [NASA] really needs to test this..

That makes two women who served on the committee to redefine safety so that women could pretend to be men. I want a group photo. *checks* Heavily paywalled, but this link to the first chapter…

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8 of 16 are female AFAIK. None of them are employed by NASA but Georgetown and Harvard are represented. Here’s the Georgetown chick, Alejandra Hurtado De Mendoza:

Before & after what, I’m not sure. Left pic is Linkedin, right pic is researchgate. Maybe there’s two different AHdeMs? I’ve started to get paranoid about using Linkedin.

Cucinotta and others worry astronauts don’t have the perspective to make an informed decision to accept the likely health risks of their next mission. But Scott Kelly, [a former astronaut that spent nearly an entire year in space,] who was exposed to 240 millisieverts of radiation during his 20-year career.which translates to a 1.4% increase in his risk of developing cancer.pushes back.

.There are so many factors in whether you get a fatal disease,. he says. .You’re accepting a lot of other risks by flying in space, and this one is not the biggest..

This is not about risk. This is about female empowerment. This is girls wanting to play with the boys and the boys lying to her about the consequences in order to appease her… exactly Original Sin. But not to worry! Experts are developing a brave new form of birth control to help women handle the additional risk that doesn’t exist!

…Which will protect womens’ reproductive organs from both hard radiation and accidental groping from lonely men not allowed to use porn. News flash, tits: if you’re going to Mars then your reproductive organs are no longer needed. Indeed, the last thing you want is to have a baby upon reaching orbit. It’s about a nine-month trip, yes?

That’s the Astrorad radiation shield, if you’re interested. Not the military preggo-simulation aid for men. Remember, as quoted above by the chairwoman, .There’s no evidence for significant gender difference in the radiation exposure, and associated risk of cancer,” But the space community developed the Boobie Rad Shield anyway because reasons.

I close with an article from the Atlantic on Scott Kelly. Turns out, he has a twin brother astronaut and was intentionally kept in space to study the consequences of long-term weightlessness. Which involved genetic changes that no amount of lead shielding can prevent:

What a Year in Space Did to Scott Kelly

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By Marina Koren, 11 April 2019

In the debate over whether human beings should set off to other worlds beyond Earth, one of the most compelling cons is this: Our bodies don’t like it.

Few people know this better than Scott Kelly, the NASA astronaut who spent nearly a year on the International Space Station from 2015 to 2016. Like other astronauts, Kelly served as a test subject in the study of space travel’s effects on the human body. Unlike other astronauts, Kelly has an identical twin, Mark, an astronaut himself. This gave researchers an uncommon opportunity to monitor the two brothers as they lived in two very different environments.one on Earth and the other 250 miles above it.

According to their results, published Thursday in Science, Scott experienced a number of changes that Mark did not. Most of those changes went away after Scott returned to Earth. The long stint in space, the researchers say, produced some unexpected changes.but did not lead to any clinically significant health differences. …

Some of the most intriguing changes occurred at the chromosomal level, in the protective bits at the ends of chromosomes that make sure they replicate properly when cells divide. These caps, known as telomeres, are known to shorten as a result of stress. Researchers expected to see this change in Scott. Instead, the astronaut’s telomeres lengthened. .You might at first think, Oh, this is great. He’s going to live longer,. Susan Bailey, the Colorado State University professor who led the telomere research, once told me. “But the opposite side of that coin is always that it also increases cancer risk, because one of the very first things cancers do is turn telomerase on to maintain telomere length so they can essentially be immortal..

Most of the telomeres bounced back after Scott returned to Earth, but he now has more short telomeres than he did before his mission. In general, this puts someone at greater risk for quicker aging, Bailey said.

Researchers found some surprises in Scott’s gene expression. On Earth, changes in gene behavior occur in response to shifts in routine activities, such as sleep and diet, and Mark’s gene expression changed as well. But the changes to Scott’s gene expression were distinct, and scientists were stunned at the number of changes they recorded, especially in mitochondrial genes, which help the body produce energy, and in genes related to the immune system. More than 90 percent of these genes returned to normal when Scott came back. (This doesn’t mean, researchers are careful to note, that the rest are somehow .mutated,. as some news reports erroneously suggested last year.)

Researchers also detected changes in the mechanism that cells use to control gene expression, but they were too tiny to matter by the time Scott came back.

.We don’t know yet if these changes are good or bad,. explains Christopher Mason, a geneticist at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York who led this part of the research. .This could just be how the body responds. But the genes are perturbed, so we want to see why and track them to see for how long..

We don’t know what space will do to our bodies long-term, but we do know that the presence of a goddess, I mean, commissar, that is to say, feminist is absolutely essential for any new accomplishments in SPHESSS!!!

I get annoyed at people who claim that China is a success story that should be emulated. This attitude is particularly noticeable among the alt-right, who are prone to praising China for pushing ethnic nationalism. The same nation that forced the One Child Policy on its own people? Those ethnic nationalists?

Turns out, China is not so different that MGTOW isn’t happening there, too. They call it “lying down”.

Some Chinese shun grueling careers for ‘low-desire life’

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By Joe McDonald and Fu Ting, 3 July 2021

BEIJING (AP) . Fed up with work stress, Guo Jianlong quit a newspaper job in Beijing and moved to China’s mountain southwest to “lie flat..

Guo joined a small but visible handful of Chinese urban professionals who are rattling the ruling Communist Party by rejecting grueling careers for a .low-desire life.” That is clashing with the party’s message of success and consumerism as its celebrates the 100th anniversary of its founding.

CCP: “The toil of the peasants has made us strong! Yay us!”

Guo: “Life isn’t fun anymore. I’m going to enjoy life while I’m still young enough to enjoy it.”

CCP: “Get back on our plantation, you selfish prick!”

Beware the society in which being selfish is a privilege.

Guo, 44, became a freelance writer in Dali, a town in Yunnan province known for its traditional architecture and picturesque scenery. He married a woman he met there.

.Work was OK, but I didn’t like it much,. Guo said. .What is wrong with doing your own thing, not just looking at the money?.

That’s a profound insight that should not be profound. The New World Order is attempting to create Homo Economicus, a breed of humans that measures everything… even happiness… in terms of money. I suspect homo economicus is a consequence of hypergamy, of always looking to trade up, always scrounging for that +1 regardless of whether what you have is good enough.

It is an attitude that, like women, cannot be happy with what it has. Not even if it be a mansion.

.Lying flat. is a “resistance movement” to a “cycle of horror” from high-pressure Chinese schools to jobs with seemingly endless work hours, novelist Liao Zenghu wrote in Caixin, the country’s most prominent business magazine.

.In today’s society, our every move is monitored and every action criticized,. Liao wrote. .Is there any more rebellious act than to simply “lie flat?’.

This happens every single time that tyranny does. The Elites confiscate all the rewards of hard work then wonder why men aren’t motivated anymore. The Elites attempt to reverse that trend by lying to the men of vague future rewards then wonder why the men start lying back at them.

Beware the society in which lying is a privilege.

It isn’t clear how many people have gone so far as to quit their jobs or move out of major cities. Judging by packed rush hour subways in Beijing and Shanghai, most young Chinese slog away at the best jobs they can get.

Still, the ruling party is trying to discourage the trend. Beijing needs skilled professionals to develop technology and other industries. China’s population is getting older and the pool of working-age people has shrunk by about 5% from its 2011 peak.

What do the men need? Does China care about them? *crickets*

.Struggle itself is a kind of happiness,. the newspaper Southern Daily, published by the party, said in a commentary. “Choosing to “lie flat” in the face of pressure is not only unjust but also shameful..

The trend echoes similar ones in Japan [GQ: the herbivores] and other countries where young people have embraced anti-materialist lifestyles in response to bleak job prospects and bruising competition for shrinking economic rewards.

For all the bad consequences of telecommunications, the devil’s behavior has rarely been so… visible. He steals, kills, destroys, then rages at his victims no longer building and breeding.

Simultaneously, the devil has never been so trusted and loved. It is very frustrating for us Christians.

Official data show China’s economic output per person doubled over the past decade, but many complain the gains went mostly to a handful of tycoons and state-owned companies. Professionals say their incomes are failing to keep up with soaring housing, child care and other costs.

Sounds familiar.

In a sign of the issue’s political sensitivity, four professors who were quoted by the Chinese press talking about “lying flat” declined to discuss it with a foreign reporter.

Another possible sign of official displeasure: T-shirts, mobile phone cases and other “Lie Flat.-themed products are disappearing from online sales platforms.

So very familiar.

Urban employees complain that work hours have swelled to .9 9 6,. or 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week.

.We generally believe slavery has died away. In fact, it has only adapted to the new economic era,. a woman who writes under the name Xia Bingbao, or Summer Hailstones, said on the Douban social media service.

SO VERY, VERY FAMILIAR!!!

Some elite graduates in their 20s who should have the best job prospects say they are worn out from the “exam hell” of high school and university. They see no point in making more sacrifices.

.Chasing fame and fortune does not attract me. I am so tired,. said Zhai Xiangyu, a 25-year-old graduate student.

I’m tired, too. I can never afford a home or family of my own, not that I’d ever want to wife up a Commiefornia girl. All the savings I’ve built up will soon be stolen away by inflation, identity theft or God knows what. There’s no winning move. Why try? Serious question. When the thieves and locusts are smashing in your windows to rob you at noon, why?

Is it so terrible a fate to enjoy what you can, while you can, before the unavoidable consequences hit?

Some professionals are cutting short their careers, which removes their experience from the job pool.

Xu Zhunjiong, a human resources manager in Shanghai, said she is quitting at 45, a decade before the legal minimum retirement age for women, to move with her Croatian-born husband to his homeland.

.I want to retire early. I don’t want to fight any more,. Xu said. .I.m going to other places..

That sounds like a woman going MGTOW but really, she’s just monkey branching from a demanding husband to a more charitable one. Must be nice to have options like that.

Thousands vented frustration online after the Communist Party’s announcement in May that official birth limits would be eased to allow all couples to have three children instead of two. The party has enforced birth restrictions since 1980 to restrain population growth but worries China, with economic output per person still below the global average, needs more young workers.

China’s going to win the future because they’re pro-Han ethnic! Belt and Road and Will to Power! Yet they’re still killing their own future, just not as swiftly as before.

Minutes after the announcement, websites were flooded with complaints that the move did nothing to help parents cope with child care costs, long work hours, cramped housing, job discrimination against mothers and a need to look after elderly parents.

Read: not enough feminism. That’s probably why CCP is still killing their own kids: to free up the women to wage-slave for them.

Xia writes that she moved to a valley in Zhejiang province, south of Shanghai, for a .low-desire life. after working in Hong Kong. She said despite a high-status job as an English-language reporter, her rent devoured 60% of her income and she had no money at the end of each month.

She rejects the argument that young people who “lie flat” are giving up economic success when that’s already is out of reach for many in an economy with a growing gulf between a wealthy elite and the majority.

.When resources are focused more and more on the few people at the head and their relatives, the workforce is cheap and replaceable,. she wrote on Douban. .Is it sensible to entrust your destiny to small handouts from others?.

A woman can “lie flat” without taking an economic hit because she can always get married and make her finances her husband’s problem. For men, that’s rarely the case and we really do need to give up economic… and marital… success.

Guo impressed me that he could go MGTOW and still get married.

Guo, the writer in Dali, said he puts in more hours as a freelancer than he did at a newspaper.

Oh. That doesn’t quite sound like MGTOW.

But he is happier, and life is more comfortable: He and his wife eat breakfast on their breezy sixth-floor apartment balcony with a view of trees.

.As long as I can keep writing, I’m very satisfied,. Guo said. .I don’t feel stifled..

Regardless, I’m happy for him. All men should be so lucky.

A handful who can afford it withdraw from work almost entirely.

A 27-year-old architect in Beijing said she started saving as a teenager to achieve financial freedom.

.From last September, when I saw all my savings had reached 2 million (yuan) ($300,000), I lay down,. said the woman, who would give only the name Nana, in an interview over her social media account.

Nana said she turned down a job that paid 20,000 yuan ($3,000) per month due to the long hours and what she saw as limited opportunities for creativity.

.I want to be free from inflexible rules,. said Nana. .I want to travel and make myself happy..

Uh-oh. We know how HER story will end: with cats and Nigerian princes!

I don’t really mind that the Navy decided to cancel railgun development but their given reason is disturbing.

Navy ditches futuristic railgun, eyes hypersonic missiles instead

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By AP, 1 July 2021

The Navy spent more than a decade developing the electromagnetic railgun and once considered putting them on the stealthy new Zumwalt-class destroyers built at Maine’s Bath Iron Works.

But the Defense Department is turning its attention to hypersonic missiles to keep up with China and Russia, and the Navy cut funding for railgun research from its latest budget proposal.

“The railgun is, for the moment, dead,” said Matthew Caris, a defense analyst at Avascent Group, a consulting firm.

The removal of funding suggests the Navy saw both challenges in implementing the technology as well as shortcomings in the projectiles’ range compared to hypersonic missiles, he said.

The Navy’s decision to pause research at year’s end frees up resources for hypersonic missiles, directed-energy systems like lasers and electronic warfare systems, said Lt. Courtney Callaghan, a Navy spokesperson.

Those two programs are not equivalent.

Railguns are ballistic and require a nearby physical presence. Missiles are guided and potentially unlimited range. Different roles, different intended operating environments, etc.

[Railgun] technology was close to making the leap from science fiction to reality in the 21st century with the testing of prototypes.

Which suggests that the railgun program was doomed. Cancel the project at the moment that working prototypes are demanded? What a coincidence.

I think we Americans (in a world in which we’d want a militarily strong USG) should bring back the battleship. It would be a more cost-effective solution than missile frigates for lower-intensity Naval conflict and offshore support. Railguns make sense for that because they don’t need gunpowder stores and the Navy nuclear program was great until we handed it off to Latrina.

For war against a peer/rival, our submarine fleet is already a proven solution.

Certainly, we need something to replace the aircraft carrier with, something that we could (politically speaking) afford to lose. Too Big To Fail is a concept for Wall Street thieves, not military deployments.

But there were a number of problems, including the range of about 110 miles in testing. A Navy vessel could not employ the gun without putting itself within range of a barrage of enemy missiles.

110 Miles is awesome for a ship-mounted gun, especially if accurate. Our previous record was, what, 35 miles?

This speaks to the insecurity and megalomania of our leaders. They don’t want accountability. They don’t want risk. They crave deniability, omnipotence and not needing help from potential dissidents. Pushing a button to launch a cruise missile in the dead of night against any spot on the planet? Textbook Deep State. Parking a ship offshore where it can be photographed unloading on them goat farmers? Absolutely unacceptable.

Now then, what’s this about keeping up with China and Russia?

They’re developing hypersonic missiles to kill our carriers with. Cruise missile salvos are too expensive for sustained conflict but ideal for one-shot surprise attacks against an enemy with Too Big To Fail mentality. USA doesn’t need that kind of missile. We already have (ahem) aircraft carriers for long-range projection of force. If we’re going to keep up with the Jonses then hypersonic missile defense would be sensible.

We already know that our imposter-leaders are not aware of the outside world. They literally fenced off reality as soon as they stole the election and since then, have been living entirely within the theaters of their solipsist, scheming minds… people so insecure, egotistical and guilty-conscienced that they want to hide behind face masks forever.

So, naturally, when the Military-Industrial Complex decided they needed more funding for their Forever Wars, they spooked D.C. into thinking that we needed to keep up with Russian-Chinese military tech. Never mind that their naval tech is specifically and obviously intended to Pearl-Harbor our trademark carrier groups. If we don’t have carrier killers of our own then the Russians will win!

And in the process, they got permission to cover up their inability to produce results for a half-billion-dollar investment. Not that the railgun program is a total writeoff:

This is a picture of Superman: the Ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain, a roller coaster park in Los Angeles. It’s a Navy railgun, an attempt to build a replacement for the steam catapult that our carriers use to launch aircraft. The Navy couldn’t get it to work so in a rare moment of creative salvage, they sold the plans to the roller coaster industry.

Six Flags built it then brought in NASA and other eggheads to solve the magnet-synchronization issues. They succeeded. Our F-14s are still launched with steam but for an unreasonable entry fee, you can be electromagnetically launched into a full 8 seconds of weightlessness!

Information gleaned during testing will be retained in the event the Office of Naval Research wants to pick up where it left off in the future, she said.

Bon voyage, paper trail!