A Day In The Life Of A Liberal

 

                                        A Day In The Life Of A Liberal

 

This morning I woke up late because my alarm didn’t go off. At first I thought it was because Republicans use so much electricity there wasn’t enough left over for me. Then I realized that the “alarm” wasn’t even set, probably because of systemic racism. Anyway, I quickly showered, ate, and went to the bathroom. (When I go “number two,” I only use two squares of toilet paper, to try to save trees from being murdered.)

I was in a hurry to get to the “Rally to Ban Fossil Fuels.” But my Prius wouldn’t start, maybe due to man-caused climate change. Like, what a bummer! There wasn’t enough time for me to walk to the rally, and there was some snow and ice, making bicycling there kind of dangerous. I would’ve taken a bus, but I’m allergic to the smell of diesel fuel. So, I called an Uber.

Wouldn’t you know it, the Uber driver’s car broke down shortly after he picked me up. The dude said something about a tie rod or something. He said he knew it was in bad shape but that he couldn’t get a new one for six weeks, because of supply-chain issues. Caused by Donald Trump, I bet! Well, now I wasn’t going to make it to the rally, so I walked home, pissed as hell. There is a Starbucks a block from my house, so I stopped in to get a latte. There was a long line at the checkout. The employee said they were short-staffed and had a hard time finding anyone to work, even though the company had significantly increased pay and benefits. I think it might have something to do with colonialism or the Patriarchy, but I’m not sure. I asked they for a Caffe Misto…and got a Caffe Americano instead! Can you imagine?! I was, like, so upset! Who wants a beverage touting American imperialism?! But then I remembered to check my ableism.

 I did complain about the store offering a “Blonde Roast,” however. I even told they that I was going to write a letter to the company telling them that reeks of white supremacy! “Blonde Roast” is non-inclusive and, like, exclusionary. “Brunette Roast” or “Black Roast” would be okay in an anti-racist sort of way. Even a “BIPOC Roast” would be better than a “Blonde Roast.”

When I got home, tried to call the nearest grocery store to see if they had organic Chai tea in stock, but no one ever answered the phone. Damn global warming!

I’m telling you, if we don’t completely do away with fossil fuels by 2030, the Earth will die.

 

 

"Speciesism" A Grave Threat To Life On Earth?

 

In a recent book titled "Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries," University of California-Berkeley Professor Brent Mishler and former UC-Berkeley faculty member Brian Swartz, among others, argue that "speciesism" is a grave threat to life on Earth. Mishler and Swartz state that speciesism “leads to behavior that challenges our future on this planet,” before adding that “[s]peciesism is to species as racism is to race... the problem with speciesism and racism is that they are both scientifically baseless.” There is no basis whatsoever to think that a human being is more advanced than, say, a rat or a deer tick?

Mishler and Swartz go so far as to argue that the very concepts of species and taxonomic ranking, central to the science of biology from the time of Darwin and before, should be removed from biology courses. 

Well, duh! The science is settled: William Shakespeare was no more important than a tarantula, Albert Einstein no better than a rainbow trout.

So-called “philosopher” John S. Wilkins has a contributing chapter in the book in which he courageously asks, “Why do we in the West think that human beings are special?” That explains a lot. Sadly, we are gradually losing that belief. Wilkins snarkily adds: “Since every species is special... what is so special about Homo Sapiens that the needs of humans supplant the needs of all other species?"

Who says, “every species is special?” How can one with an assumedly skeptical, rational, scientific approach lead off with that feelings-laden opinion?

Wilkins then proceeds to argue that the real reasons some rubes have for believing humans somehow possess an elevated or unique moral status are not scientific, but theological and socio-economic, stating: "[H]uman exceptionalism results from modern interpretations of the biblical narratives, economic motives, and sociocultural accidents.”

Yes, well, there is this Einstein Wilkins: “So God created mankind in His own image.” So that would be a theological reason. An economic motive would be that…humans created the economy, I guess. I’m not sure what Wilkins means by a “sociocultural accident,” unless he is referring to himself.

One is greatly tempted to ask Messieurs Mishler and Swartz the following questions, among a great many others: Has any other “species” written a play, symphony, or work of fiction? Did any other species invent the printing press, automobiles, the internet, or hospitals? Paint the Sistine Chapel? Build the Sistine Chapel? Has any other species fully contemplated its place in the universe? Understood the concept of a “universe?” Realized that it couldn’t have created itself and didn’t ask to be born? And recognized, therefore, the necessity of a higher power?

Or even come to believe that “speciesism” is a dire threat to the planet?

 I think we all know the answer to those questions.

But that hubris is probably just another example of speciesism. Right?

 

 

Nations' Leaders Seeing Things That Aren't There?

 

U.S. President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. isn’t the only head of state seeing things lately.

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador recently posted a poorly lit image of a tree and… possibly something in it… to his social media accounts. Obrador wrote that the image was captured "three days ago by an engineer, it appears to be an aluxe." As per the Yucatan Times, aluxes are knee-high "pixies" from local-- especially Mayan-- mythology, and are reportedly tasked with protecting plantations, cornfields, and properties.

The Times noted, "As in all goblin traditions, these little beings are often naughty and play practical jokes on people crossing their domains. Sometimes they take reprisals that become real nightmares, they are said to produce short screams, strong whirlpools and other phenomena when they get angry and some people consider aluxes 'allies of evil.'"

Biden shakes hands with a ghost and “AMLO” thinks he has photographic evidence of the existence of an elf. It is hard to be optimistic when our leaders believe in things like invisible people, UFOs, Bigfoot-- and now “woodland elves-- but not in things like the Bill of Rights, the truth, and the existence of binary sexes.

One thing is for sure, however. As China, Russia, North Korea, Iran-- and wannabe tyrants like Adam Schiff, Rashida Tlaib and Dr. Fauci make clear—the existence of evil, and “allies of evil,” is not in doubt.

 

 

Biden FAA Nominee Can't Answer A Single Aviation-Related Question

 

Phil Washington, once the CEO of Denver International Airport, is President Joe Biden’s choice to lead the Federal Aviation Administration.

According to Fox News, Washington had initially failed to advance last year after concerns about his limited experience in the aviation industry were put forth. We found out why some had misgivings during his recent Senate confirmation hearings.

Sen. Ted Budd (R-NC), a licensed pilot, had seven questions for Washington that one would expect an FAA administrator to know. Instead, Washington managed to go 0-for-7. (The clip of his ubiquitous ignorance has gone viral.)

The first of these queries concerned what airspace requires the use of an ADS-B transponder. These devices are typically combined with a GPS, in order to transmit highly accurate positional information to ground controllers and other aircraft. These “ADS-B Out” transmissions are more accurate than conventional radar surveillance, thereby affording air traffic controllers the potential to reduce the required separation distance between aircraft that are so equipped.

Washington was unfamiliar with this important device-- or the use thereof.

Sen. Budd then asked: “What are the six types of special use airspace that protect … national security that appear on FAA charts?”

Washington replied: “Sorry, senator, I cannot answer that question.”

Sen. Budd: “What are the operational limitations of a pilot flying under BasicMed?”

Washington: “Senator, I’m not a pilot, so…”

(BasicMed is a program that allows pilots to fly without a medical certificate, provided they only fly certain kinds of planes with limited weight, size and passengers, etc.)

Budd then noted that Washington would be overseeing the Federal Aviation Administration, and re-queried him: “So any idea what those restrictions are under BasicMed?”

Washington responded, “Well, some of the restrictions, I think, would be high blood pressure, some of them would be—”

At which point Budd cut him off, saying, “It’s more like how many passengers per airplane, how many pounds in different categories and what altitude you can fly under. It doesn’t have anything to do with blood pressure.”

Budd proceeded to ask Washington if he had any idea what causes a plane to spin or stall.

Washington did not.

He was then asked if he knew the three types of certifications the FAA requires as part of aircraft manufacturing.

Unsurprisingly at this point, he answered “No.”

 (They are type certificate, production certificate and airworthiness certificate, if you’re playing along at home.)

Senator Budd-- in a seemingly unwarranted fit of optimism-- then stated, “Let’s just keep going and see if we can get lucky here,” before asking the final two questions.

They didn’t get lucky, as Washington couldn’t answer either of those queries, either. As you probably guessed.

We cannot be sure if Washington would have been able to successfully answer other, simpler aviation-related questions, such as “Where is the cockpit placed on a typical airplane?” or “What does an air traffic controller do?” Perhaps Washington would have fared better if the questions were, “Can you name two major American airlines?” or “What do we call the person who flies a plane?” Or perhaps not.

George Washington would have had better answers, and the airplane wasn’t invented until 104 years after he passed away.

Kamala Harris as Vice-president, Pete Buttigieg as Transportation Secretary? And now Biden nominates Phil Washington to head the FAA? How will he top this, if, God forbid, he wins re-election in 2024? Will he nominate Joy Behar to be Secretary of State, Rob Reiner to head Housing and Urban Development, Lori Lightfoot to be Ambassador to Ukraine, and the Pillsbury Doughboy to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services?

Due to the Brandon Biden administration’s policies, air travel is sadly becoming ever more fraught with danger. Moreover, one could accurately characterize the entire administration’s reign to this point as a virtual—and literal-- train wreck.

 

 

 

Like Shakespeare? You Might Be A "Far-Right Extremist"

 

The U.K.’s “Prevent” program, ostensibly in place to protect Great Britain from terrorism, has instead been tasked with hunting down “far-right extremists.” (Much like the U.S.’s FBI, DOJ, and military.) What’s more, Prevent recently published a helpful guide to spotting those dangerous right-wingers. Apparently, crazy conservatives can be easily identified by their choice of literature. You see, those people read books like Beowulf and 1984, and also ones by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton. Who knew that works such as these could be “key texts” for “white nationalists/supremacists?”

The U.K.’s Daily Mail recently reported that the television comedies Yes Minister and The Thick of It were also among the “potential signs of far-Right extremism” that Prevent flagged. As was the epic 1955 war film The Dam Busters-- and even “The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare.” (That’s coming down hard on The Bard.)

But that’s not all: a report by Prevent’s Research Information and Communications Unit (RICU) noted that far-right extremists went so far as to promote reading lists on online bulletin boards. My God! And some of these diabolical lists purportedly include books such as The Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Paradise Lost by John Milton, the aforementioned 1984 by George Orwell, and-- brace yourselves-- the poems of GK Chesterton. Moreover, Prevent’s RICU also placed films including The Bridge on The River Kwai, The Great Escape, and Zulu on its “You Just Might Be A Radical Right-Wing Terror Threat If You Watch These Flicks” List.

For my money, Prevent didn’t go far enough. I suggest the following books, television shows, and movies be added to the list of things that likely finger one as an ultra-far-right-wing whack job fascist/terrorist: The Wealth of Nations, Animal Farm, The Federalist Papers, The Bible, The Meat Lover’s Slow Cooker Cookbook, Leave It to Beaver, Father Knows Best, Gunsmoke, The Lives of Others, Maverick, and A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

The books Prevent listed would comprise a list of someone who wants a civilized, liberal, cultured education—and society-- not that of a domestic terrorist. Maybe that is its intent.

The Prevent program is effectively saying that the entire Western canon is problematic or offensive.

And that is offensive…and insane.

                         

 

 

Scientists Propose Phasing Out Terms "Male" And "Female"

 

Certain U.S. and Canadian scientists have officially proposed that the scientific community phase out the musty old terms "male" and "female" from scientific language in order to avoid any appearance of "emphasizing hetero-normative views." Instead, these “experts” want terms such as "sperm-producing" and "egg-producing" to be employed, as they say they are more inclusive. They also approved the use of  "XY individual" or “XX individual” as tolerable alternatives. 

 

Moreover, these ass-hats scientists contend that the terms "man," "woman," "father" and "mother" are "problematic," as are those such as "primitive," "advanced," and "non-native."

Something called the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Language Project put out the new scientific language guidance. The EEBLP is an initiative "founded by a collaboration of scientists in the US and Canada who claim some terminology is not inclusive, and could be harmful,” according to the U.K. Telegraph.

The Project was apparently conceived in February’s edition of the scientific journal "Trends in Ecology and Evolution.” (Check out this month’s centerfold! Want a subscription? Operators are standing by!) According to the Project’s so-called scientists, hateful terms like “male” and “female,” et. al., “are used to reinforce societally-imposed ideas of a sex binary." Isn’t society silly, thinking for Millenia that humans are comprised of males and females? Well, now we know better.

In seriousness, individuals and societies are diminished, not elevated, when people are referred to by their biological functions. You, ma’am, are not a “lady,” a “female,” or even a “woman.” You are no more than an “egg-producer.” And you, sir? Naught but a “sperm-producer.”

In any case, surely even these terms are too specific and exclusionary when men such as Rachel Levine can do nothing other than curl their hair and throw on a string of pearls and proclaim themselves to be women? It’s essentially the same thing as calling someone “male” or “female.” They, too, are exclusionary, bigoted, and hurtful! Literally violence!

Rachel, Lia Thompson, and countless others we now consider “women” still have male genitalia, but they would be apoplectic if someone referred to them as a “sperm-producer.” And we can’t objectively call them “egg-producers”…because they aren’t.

So, if we can’t just label folks “scrotum-sporters” and “boob-bearers,” what term(s) can we employ? I say, if we’re going to dispense with the traditional terms “male” and “female,” why not more accurately and inclusively brand every one of us a “feces-producer?”

Classy? Maybe not. Inclusive? Hell, yeah!

The Left is full of crap, and is trying—and thus far succeeding—to despoil tradition, wisdom, elegance, and beauty. It disdains the uplifting, despises the divine, denies the truth.

It is well past time that we stop the decay-- and put an end to this insanity. To paraphrase a 20^th Century Welshman: Do not go gentle into that dark and endless night. Rage, rage, against the dying of the light!

Thought experiment: would the song “Lady” by Styx be improved if the (mad) scientists’ recommendations were followed?

 

You’re my Egg-Producer of the morning

Love shines in your eyes

Sparkling, clear and lovely

You’re my egg-producer

 

              Or perhaps Billy Joel’s “She’s Always a Woman?”

 

She can kill with a smile, she can wound with her eyes
And she can ruin your faith with her casual lies
And she only reveals what she wants you to see
She hides like a child
But she's always an egg-producer to me

 

              Let’s not be blinded by “science.” Or “scientists.”

                     

                       

 

 

 

 

Wind Turbines Collapsing...Like Faith In The Biden Administration

 

Wind turbines are failing—collapsing—around the world. In recent months and years, turbines in Oklahoma, Colorado, Sweden, and Germany have collapsed. According to a report in Bloomberg, all three of the major manufacturers say that the race to create ever bigger turbines has resulted in manufacturing issues.

Siemens has experienced quality control issues, Vestas has seen project delays and quality challenges, and GE has seen an increase in warranty costs and repairs. Supply chain issues and fluctuating material pricing hasn’t helped, either.

A number of the turbines that have been collapsing around the world have been more than 750 feet tall. The tallest thus far, 784 feet high, fell in Germany in September 2021. This means the turbines are (were) taller than the Space Needle in Seattle and the Washington Monument. Even the shorter turbines that have tumbled to the ground recently were roughly the height of the Statue of Liberty.

Some of the newer turbines stretch to a height exceeding 850 feet and possess blades 300 feet long.  It is true that the bigger the turbine, the more energy it can capture. However, it is also true that the bigger the turbine, the farther it has to fall. And the more likely it is to do so. Imagine what happens to even a smaller turbine’s surroundings when it collapses, and its 12,000-pound blades hit the ground!

Turbines are collapsing. Food processing plants are being destroyed. Egg farms are burning.   Trains are derailing. Spy balloons are overhead, ubiquitous. Inflation and crime are rampant. Our southern border…doesn’t exist. We’ve got a little war going on in Ukraine. Russia is threatening to use nuclear weapons. China is ready to attack Taiwan.

What does the Biden administration have to say about all of this?

This: “Nothing to see here! Everything’s good and getting better! If we can just keep Trump and his supporters out of office, all will be eternally well!”

It is past time for the American people to tell the Biden administration: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, we say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go.”

If we don’t do so, we will all be left twisting in the wind.

               

 

 

 

Biden Makes, Um, Repeated Preposterous Claims

 

To say President Biden has a tenuous relation to the truth is like saying Joy Behar has a tenuous relation to reality. Both are obvious understatements. Biden is a Clinton-class liar. And, of late, he has somehow managed to take his game to another level. He recently claimed—on separate occasions-- that gas prices were higher when he took office than they are now, the exact opposite of the truth, and that he has cut the national debt by $1.7 trillion when, in fact, he has increased it by $3.84 trillion.

I fully expect him to soon say something very much like this:

“When I took office, gas was $13 a gallon, and eggs were $12 a dozen. I’ve spent more than any other president…while dramatically cutting the debt! My predecessor almost got us involved in numerous wars, and I brought peace, tranqw—, transkillit--, um…stability to all! My predecessor gutted our military, but I have rebuilt it! And I stopped the coronavirus just like I foiled Corn Pop! And I can do it again! So, where’s Dr. Bossy by the way? Dr. Mossy, are you here? Flossy? President Harris, how ‘bout you? Well, anyway, you can be sure that, while I’m in charge, no one will be raising the price of flibberrasmusogermatenabees! No, I’m serious. C’mon, man, give me a break! Thank you all for coming, and God bless it, America!” (Looks for a way off the stage, turns in the wrong direction……)

                                                     {FADE}

 

California Attorney Suspended For Misgendering A Convicted Child Molester

 

The attorney who prosecuted a 26-year-old trans child molester has been suspended by Los Angeles D.A. George Gascon. Hannah Tubbs, the convicted child molester, only identified as a woman after DNA evidence linked “her” to a previous crime, according to law enforcement sources. 

Shea Sanna, who had been the lead prosecutor for part of the case, was suspended after being accused of misgendering and "deadnaming" Tubbs, who, speaking of deadnaming, is now also accused of beating Michael Clark to death with a rock in a wooded area in Kern County.

 

Unbelievable. At least I wish it was.

 

Perhaps if the Unabomber had identified as a female and a prosecutor had subsequently “misgendered” and/or “deadnamed” him his case would have been thrown out and the guilty prosecutor disbarred.

 

Sanna claims jailhouse phone calls show that Tubbs was attempting to use gender identity to game the justice system. This accusation apparently made others in Gascon's office uncomfortable, which led to his suspension.

 

Sanna, however, stated: "I was suspended for speaking out against the Gascón Administration. Misgendering Tubbs while informing them that they were being played is just their excuse for the suspension."

Hannah Tubbs has a lengthy criminal history in California-- and Idaho-- under “her” former name, James Tubbs, and allegedly began identifying as female after being arrested in connection with a 2014 child molestation case in which “she” pleaded guilty to attacking a 10-year-old girl in a Denny's bathroom stall. Gascon's office sought to have Tubbs, now 27, placed in a juvenile facility because “she” committed that crime prior to her 18th birthday.

Sanna says that, shortly after sending a tweet critical of former Gascon advisor Alisa Blair’s handling of a different case, he discovered he was the subject of a complaint filed on Blair’s behalf. He told Fox News Digital, "So it wasn’t when I first ‘misgendered’ Tubbs. She did it in retaliation. Part of it, the reason why I’m suspended, is because I called out Tubbs to the administration and said I have recordings of him making up the name, gaming the system, joking about it and the date that it was made up. And I had reports where he's referring to himself as a ‘grown ass man.’" Not a “trans woman.”

Fox News Digital had previously obtained jailhouse recordings of Tubbs explicitly admitting that it was wrong to attack a little girl, but gloating over the light punishment he received anyway. “She” reportedly boasted that nothing would happen to “her” after “she” pleaded guilty, due to the well-known leniency with which Gascon treats juvenile defendants. Tubbs even laughed at the possibility that “she” wouldn’t have to go back to prison or even register as a sex offender. 

(The Fox News story itself, from which I gleaned much of the information informing this post, dutifully referred to the convicted child molester, accused murderer, and alleged “trans woman,” as “her.” I can’t do that. Not in this case, anyway. Not without quotation marks to highlight the absurdity.)

 

 

 

 

"Plantifa"

 

A pair of graduate students at Washington State University believe “the world is facing a looming existential threat caused by exploitative habits and intentional human negligence.”

But enough about the Biden administration.

Just kidding. These students, of course, believe the imminent destruction of the planet is being brought on by Republicans and others who largely purport to believe in—gasp-- capitalism. In a recent Northwest Journal of Teacher Education article, Brandon Edwards-Schuth and Marco Cerqueira stated that they believe “Plantifa” is the best way to prevent the Earth from becoming a living hell. The dynamic duo explain that Plantifa sits “at the intersections of anti-fascism, eco-justice, decolonization, and arts-based curriculum theories.” They wrote: “We feel that education rooted in a Plantifa curriculum can be one potential way for both teachers and communities to use a diversity of tactics to fight climate change and subvert power structures working against environmental justice.”

 

Super. But what is “Plantifa?” What does it entail? Why, it’s nothing less than guerrilla gardening! Optimally to be carried out by entire communities and incorporated into classroom lesson plans! The two “scholars” suggest that students engage in this “subversive and communal eco-justice approach to environmental degradation and inequity,” instead of practicing traditional gardening in “designated flower beds or defined community gardens.”

 

Unlike static, boring old traditional gardening, which fairly reeks of white supremacy, guerrilla gardening entails intentionally “gardening without borders,” i.e. utilizing someone else’s land. Intrepid, anti-fascist guerrilla gardeners, they say, assist “nature in breaking trespassing laws, where it is really the insatiable consumption inherent under capitalism which has trespassed Earth.” Huh?

 

Vacant lots, “derelict land,” and even highway medians are to be targeted by these courageous, anti-fascist horticulturalists, as are any and all other “spaces of eco-potentiality.”

 

Upon completion of their Plantifa assignments, students are to reflect on their experiences and ponder question such as:

“Why is ‘democracy’ as we understand and practice limited to humans, and who, what, or where ought to be included in a democracy?”

“Why are spaces ‘owned,’ ‘private,’ or possess value (or none)?”

“Why is anti-fascism important to our community, our eco-system?”

I have a few different questions, such as “What the hell?” and “Why are leftists’ craniums such intersectional bastions of ignorance and ass-hattery?”

To save the planet we must plant Kale and tomatoes on other people’s land? I’ve heard of Doctors Without Borders, but “Gardeners Without Borders?”

Edwards-Schuth and Cerqueira have hit on all the correct buzz words of the tragically woke, including “anti-fascism,” “decolonization,” “diversity,” “climate change,” and “environmental justice.” (Oh, and “eco-potentiality.”) And, as is typical for leftists, still managed to say nothing.

And what the hell are “arts-based curriculum theories?” And how do they pertain to Plantifa?

“Guerrilla gardening?” Subversively and indiscriminately planting things on land you don’t own is not “rooted in a Plantifa curriculum,” it is rooted in misinformation, ignorance, unjustified arrogance, and utter disrespect for the rule of law.