I wake up now, and the clock says 3 AM. I know it means "4 AM," and I doze for an hour. When it says "4 AM," I get up, because I know it means 5 AM. This will go on for a week or two.
Yeah, George, it's funny how I keep looking at the clock all day. Well, not so funny -- I am a "controlled alcoholic," and I'm always looking for 5 o'clock PM. Like it says in the Book, my hat's off to me.
Yes the number of comments at this usually quiet time in the morning shows I'm not the only one affected by this idiotic and wholly unnecessary time change.
Congress has discussed eliminating daylight savings time for decades but has been unable to pass any legislation to fix it. The same people who claim the wisdom to send our children to war are so stupid and incompetent that they can’t fix daylight savings time.
In 2022, the Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act (which makes daylight savings time permanent, ending the twice-yearly time change), but the House can't seem to get it together.
Personally, I'd prefer standard time. But we're already on daylight savings time most of the year (since the time change has been pushed further and further into winter from both ends), and it's going to be dark in the early morning and the early evening *regardless* of what the clocks say.
I mostly care that they just pick one or the other and stick with it. They *know* that the time changes causes real harm--an uptick in accidents, for example. It always disrupts my body for at least a week, regardless of which direction the clock goes.
I remember in the early 70’s, during the first oil embargo, the Nixon administration did eliminate standard time so the sun would set later and save electricity for cities - kids got hurt going to school in the dark though - lots of accidents
Yes-- all you change haters- it has been tried and failed. Personally-I really needed it this week! Had a doozy of a work week last, plus had contractors showing up at 7:30 every am! I'm getting too old for this!!
Winston Churchill did serve during it btw. He first really made his name during it.
So Kemi Badenoch is now the leader of the Conservatives (something I am very pleased about). Several people on the Far Left including Labour MPs vented their frustration (and it must be said rampant jealousy) at the outcome. Some Labour MPs were indeed gracious, but Dawn Butler who at one point considered herself a far more powerful politician than Kemi was not. Butler has gone backward while Kemi has made history. Butler deleted her re-posting of the tweet and Labour are not taking it further. Kemi for her part is used to this sort of vitriol. It is what the strategic essentials do when their grift is exposed and part of her reason for joining the Conservatives during university. Her remarks in her first Sunday interview as Leader of the Opposition show that she is well aware of how the political game is played and what the media are up to. She is quite willing to pull back curtains and expose the inner workings. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/calls-for-labour-mp-to-lose-whip-over-kemi-badenoch-racism-post-lm7n8bqgb or https://archive.ph/DundG
The RSPB have had to settle with a former and well-respected employee after they ousted him for spurious reasons rafter accusations of ‘treating a Syrian colleague like a slave’ emerged. The RSPB is another institute which is unfortunately infected with DEI excess. I suspect this is because of ‘white guilt’ and ‘be kind’ mantras and not really understanding the legal implications. This allowed certain people to conduct a ‘witch hunt’ to try to create their own power base. The RSPB has hopefully learned a costly lesson. NB: my youngest knew the employee in question and liked him as my youngest had volunteered on Coquet when he was in high school. He helped foster my youngest’s interest in conservation and ornithology. My youngest was confused about the accusations and v relieved to discover that they were baseless. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/03/rspb-mutiny-manager-sacked-unfounded-coquet-island-morrison/ or https://archive.ph/bjAeG
I too wish the IOC who knew about this result back in the summer of 23 had acted. He deserved a lot of counselling and help for something which must have come as a huge shock. It is well passed time to return to cheek swab testing and then in the interests of humanity offering counselling etc if things like this do occur to the affected person.
Agree. We make people weigh in for weight classes in sport, if we're to have female and male sports categories, we should have a way of verifying the participants have sorted themselves correctly.
There is a v simple procedure called a cheek swab test. It is non-invasive but despite female athletes overwhelmingly wanting the test to continue, the IOC decided to abandon it in the early 2000s.
The testing can be held on file for a lifetime. And if disqualifications happen based on the cheek swab test, further testing can be done etc.
One of the things that the Left seems very focused on is never, EVER 'hurting the feelings' of anyone who they consider 'oppressed.' This is what's behind their desire to excuse *any* behavior by someone in an 'oppressed' group, no matter how horribly egregious that behavior is.
Most of us learned the lesson at some point as children that 'feelings' don't alter reality or excuse bad behavior. It is mind-boggling that the Left is stuck in such a juvenile mode of thought.
Seems very unfortunate for the male boxer, and he must have had a rough time emotionally. That said, it’s doubling down on the misfortune to allow him to beat up actual women.
Yes, I think it is possible to have compassion for the male boxer as it would have been a shock. The IBA and IOC should have immediately offered counselling etc, but held a v firm line about the disqualification. One can be compassionate without permitting the crossing of boundaries, particularly when those boundaries are there to protect other people from being disadvantaged.
Michelle, I always appreciate your run-down of news reports, but I especially appreciate this introduction to the web site Reduxx. I've bookmarked the site so that I can continue to read their stories promoting "a truly pro-woman, pro-child safeguarding" point of view. Thank you!
They do seem to get the stories and have done the due diligence on them as well (it is important to keep a healthy degree of cynicism about some of the allegations ... even though generally when investigate further the story tend to have some merit)
The women's volleyball team out west that has an actual male playing--who is hurting opponents on purpose--is another example. He's just a man who has declared himself a woman--which is totally outrageous. Yesterday I confused who the coach was that blew the whistle on how damaging this ongoing business has been to the women ON his team as well as his opponents--she is the coach of the male's team. Basically, a male has colonized a female volleyball team. But this stuff is going on in many nations now. There are males on--I think--a female soccer team in Australia, for instance.
I know some call it a Men's Rights Movement on steroids. They prioritizing the feelings of a male (often with mental health issues) over that of females who end up losing because of physical differences.
Mental illness can be an explanation, but it should not be used as the excuse which condones abusive behaviour. Female athletes deserve our compassion as well.
I think much was going on under the radar which people did not realise -- this was part of the design from what I understand.
The #BeKind mantra was anything but kind, it was cute authoritarianism. Asking for something which seems reasonable but really isn't.
I also think because of shifting baselines, as a society, the West had forgotten what the early wins for women's rights were and why they came about (ie sex-segregate prisons and indeed pregnant women not being forced to work down mines)
I find it cosmically unfair that the UK manages to have both Margaret Thatcher and Kemi Badenoch as female conservative leaders, and so far no capable US woman has emerged to hold that mantle.
I also wish the US would produce capable and competent female conservative leaders on a national scale. One of the reasons why I was attracted to the Republican party in the early 80s was that they were supposed to promote women based on their capability, rather than on being someone's wife or daughter (or mistress).
I recently watched the Falklands play which came out in the early 2000s. It is easy to forget how strong Thatcher was and how resolute. She was ready to negotiate but also not afraid of using the big stick. There were many who wrung their hands about the situation.
I have read Sharron Davies Unfair Play -- the main raison d'etre of the IOC is to avoid embarrassment to the IOC. So the testing regime is a joke basically.
They just want a quiet life and their noses pushed firmly in the trough.
While I like Tulsi, she was up until just a few days ago, not a Republican, and I've never heard her take the on the mantle of conservative. Also, she's not yet reached the pinnacle of the party. Not holding my breathe, but she definitely has the gumption to get there if she so desires, but yet she still would not be a traditional conservative.
Yes, but I am def. NOT a trad. conservative (just a fiscal one!) I'm all in favor of strong, sane women in leadership. They don't all need to be like Thatcher! (who I greatly admire BTW!)
I visited the Army Museum in Chelsea and was enchanted. Also several times at the Imperial War Museum. Sadly, I will not be visiting London again anytime soon given the stench of the Starmer regime and its threats to arrest Yanks who dare speak our minds on line.
Hopefully he will have alter to course. The FSU are on the case. They are taking Bridget Philipson to court over her decision to axe the Free Speech bill. They now have over 20k paying members.
The Army Museum has been redone but remains hugely interesting. I spent a few hours there back in June 23. They have a good exhibit on the Cold War now. However, they missed something my grandmother noted -- before the Berlin Wall, there was sand between the two parts of Berlin. And the East German guards were shot if any footprints were discovered in the sand on their shifts.
I did like the newer version, but Kiplings version rang true as well. The US threw off the old king long ago, and yet we seem to still be haunted by his spector.
I've thought alot about the alpha male (or female) leader thing and it seems somewhat inherent to our biological survival responses to tend to submit to the biggest, most powerful and ruthless asshole. Smaller tribal groups were often able to meditate this dynamic through multiple social checks and balances. The western world has attempted to balance this tendency towards tototalitarianism through codified laws protecting individual rights. But I think the veneer of civilization wears thin at times and deeper, older patterns rise to the surface.
Yes and I think that is why we have a tendency to default to that style of leadership. Problem is there is often a very thin line between doing the necessary for strong leadership and group protection and turning into a genocidal dictator. In my opinion, one of the purposes of a moral code or religion, is to help maintain the clarity of where that line should be.
The "thin line' is called civilization. That's why strong males were willing to grant rights to weaker females and why we have laws that govern our social relationships. People fail to realize how thin and tenuous is that line. And how their playing with the rule of law can lead to a catastrophe. Which is why the Democrats are so dangerous.
We are always so much closer to the loss of civilization than we allow ourselves to believe.
And we don't seem to realize that crime is, in fact, a symptom of civilization loss--individuals deciding that the rules of civilization don't apply to them.
Perhaps the most egregious thing the Left has done is to carve out exceptions to civilized behavior for their own selected groups. But a two-tier society--where one tier is required to be civilized and the other is not--cannot endure. It has to trend toward the breakdown of civilization altogether.
That’s a fascinating comment and insight RMW. I have some alpha appearance but tend to surround myself with even bigger stronger men. Never really thought about it quite this way before.
There was an interesting long running baboon study about this years ago. Apparently baboon society is normally very violent and stressful and generally dominated by the biggest and baddest and meanest asshole baboons. However a very unusual accident happened during this particular study where all the top alpha mean males were killed by disease tainted meat at a local dump where they alone were allowed to feed, (Ie the troop leaders kept the less dominant baboons from feeding at this prime spot). So when all the top alpha males were killed, it left only sub alpha and female baboons in the troop. The social dynamic of the troop then changed quite dramatically. The group became much less heirarchial, more supportive and sharing of resources. and interestingly when several outside the group, young free roaming males tried to reinstate the old top down big mean alpha boss baboon dynamic, the other baboons ganged up on them and literally 'sat' on them and forced them to submit to the new dominant social behavior of sharing. I haven't kept up with the research on this, but at the time this was unheard of behavior for a baboon troop.
And...LOL...now our dominant females of the white, wealthy type have totally run amok. I'm always going to argue that we have to have gender balance--or things go nutty. Witness the Catholic priests with too much power. Or the female nuns with too much power over young girls in their care in Ireland. The two genders can balance each other--but I suppose there has to be some equal distribution of power to make that happen. I know this is a big, big issue and that I'm truncating it.
For certain a clear and sustainable balance of power within a culture, leads to better outcomes both between the 'sexes' as well as within governments and major institutions. I think we just went the wrong way round about it. When I tune in energetically, it feels like a lot of desperate people, in positions of authority, of both sexes, who do not actually feel empowered within themselves, are fighting over whatever 'scraps' they can grab and hang onto and the rest of us are just collateral damage. Of course their desperate fear of not having enough love, power, money, prestige, respect or whatever, is now pushing the entire world off into the abyss.
I'll repeat here what I just said on TFP. Since "Tail Gunner" Joe McCarthy's failure, the media has sought one one Party rule and have just about achieved it.
So true. Because of his thuggery, the truth of communist infiltration of our government was buried. Which was to the benefit of the Left, which countenanced and secretly cheered for it. Let us not forget that the Soviet Union for whom they were working, was led by the homicidal maniac Josef Stalin. Some "loyal opposition."
God, do I ever miss you on TFP. Kevin too. I'm starting to feel like a traitor still being there. Anyway, it's somehow always the "yoots," as Pesci would say, that "go" Left. It's that "Change" thing I think. At least that's true today. None of us knew what we were doing, so "they" have to change it. Except, my daughter never sends back the check.
I find that the FP has changed beyond repair and not for the better. I've scanned their latest a few times and the garbage they now offer by Lake, Savodnik and others is just not worth it. I canceled as a protest but they don't seem to care. So why should I? Bari's original venture seemed courageous and different but she turned out to be a hypocrite and more interested in growing the Weiss family business. And they will continue to ban me if I were to return because they can't countenance criticism.
I had to stop myself from using the word "Jap" on there today -- "they" sufficed. Because, they have become "Cancel" people, as well as unable to countenance criticism people. Well, I'll let it run out. Make do with the kindred spirits on Jotting.
Yes Sir, and don't forget "The Best Years of Our Lives." That was the truest version of American life, in a movie. I watch it again and again, for all the reasons, not least of which is to see Fredric March do that only half excused burp. And God, do I love those three women, back when they really were.
My dad said "Jap," and I never called him on it because he had fought them.
But he did have a very racist mouth...which was odd, because he never, ever treated people that way. And he did not limit his racist mouth to non-white people. He had a friend that he always ribbed for being 'a Swede.'
Ha-ha!! Michael when I read that you almost used the word "Jap", I first thought you meant the acronym for "Jewish American Princess"! Now that might've gotten you in even more trouble over there!!!
I still skim the Formerly FP daily, but so far there's nothing to make me want to give them any of my dwindling pile of discretionary cash. I'm learning to live with reading the comments but not being able to comment myself.
I'm enjoying the JiP community WAY more! I'm toasting you with a Diet Coke & an nod to Celia--LOL.
Thinking, Bruce. Biden had dementia probably before he was elected in 2020. So, without a strong leader, lots was done in the shadows that put us where we are today. More and more corruption all over the place. How to dial that back with the destructive media in place????
Almost undeniably so. The cabal covered it up because they needed a willing dupe. There are dark forces at work and the sooner we all understand that the sooner we can go about repairing it. Trump has some chance of doing that and he is hated by the elites precisely because he was one of them who ended up loving his country more than his ruling class peers. The media is particularly demonic because they are controlled by these same global "elites." Their talking heads are just useful stooges who have sold their souls for 30 pieces of silver.
I think the media has revealed itself as the Rmperor with no clothes and is wholly irrelevant at this point. So it matters not what they say. Particularly among the "yoots".
But what are their sources of information? ICBW but I do not think many young people rely on traditional media. And social media is just the wild, wild west.
One party rule certainly makes the Media’s job easier. No wasted time analyzing complex issues, more time for cocktail parties. Pulitzer Prize winning NYT writer Walter Duranty, who lied about what Stalin was doing and partied nonstop in Moscow, is their prototype.
The very first act of the Biden/Harris Cabal was to use the FBI and other spooks to try to censor Americans. Think on THAT when you enter the voting booth tomorrow and ponder whether to install a Putain in a Pantsuit and her ChiCom slavering running mate in our Executive Office. Ponder too, that if Trump is now "Hitler" and a threat to "our democracy" why he exhibited not a whit of dictatorial acts in his previous four years. And think on what agenda is being advanced by those who wail these lies.
Bruce - Just want you to know I put a one sentence rejection of oliver wiseman on TFP this morning, and so far have gotten 32 "Likes." That's kind of a high in Likes, for me. Possibly we may win this thing.
They do seem to have limited Ollie's posts. But, in the end, TFP is a lost cause. I won't waste more time on it. Now if I can just stop looking at the top comments!!!
Unlike the editors and writers of the Formerly FP, 99.9% of the commenters are center and right. Kinda interesting, huh? The day is young, and you'll probably have 100 likes by tomorrow.
Thanks Celia. Learning more about our history is always a good thing. A few years ago I stumbled upon the movie My Boy Jack. It was a very moving movie, the true story about Kipling losing his only son in WWI. His poem by the same name is powerfully sad
First I’d like to thank Kate Cahill (whom I called Pam in my pre coffee blur) for her comment yesterday calling my metaphor miscue more poetic than the original. While perhaps facially correct (pun intended veil v vale), I always appreciate correcting, particularly if it involves poesis. As to today’s poem/lyric, it’s a classic example of how occasional pieces, while often prisoners of the moment, can be reinterpreted effectively for future events. The poem, while trapped in its era (The Boer v English conflict seems almost quant compared to the horrible history that followed in South Africa) makes an amazing modern song because its themes of ruling class oppression remain relevant. Finally, I’m in a Holiday Inn Express (cue the jokes) and the TV is on Morning Joe, which I haven’t watched in years. Tonight I’m heading to a friend’s daughter’s Sweet 16 party where I’ll be reminded that Mika’s juvenile facial expressions, Scarborough’s unfair pettiness, and the grifting pervert guests (including Al Sharpton, Rick Wilson, etc) reveal that n the end, many Leftists remain on the edge of seventeen forever
Awww shucks Ken! Thanks for the shout-out!! I like the name Pam, so may decide to use it as one of my pseudonyms, but I'll have to change the last name to something catchy like Coram, Shorham or Duran-Duran! When I was a delinquent in my younger days one of my fav. fake names was "Shasta Canasta"! Have fun at the Sweet 16. I'm sure no one will be as juvenile as Mika!!!
“Watchers ‘neath our windows “. They’re already at it. If Harris wins, we will need to be watchful of what we say, or who knows what punishment might be wrought? A visit from the IRS, as was done to Matt Taibbi?
Perhaps it’s time to realize that there will always be “kings” and their accompanying aristocracies among us, and always have been, always will be - a natural human phenomenon.
It doesn’t really matter what you call them: Czar, Fuhrer, Caesar, Chief, Pharaoh, Sultan, or President; and they all come with an entourage and an army.
They all take your money and they all provide you with services; to primarily protect you from others like yourself.
The only thing that matters is how tyrannical / totalitarian / authoritarian they are (and the coercive tools that they have at their disposal)
I think we Americans, in the personage of “founding fathers” used to know this.
Our founders certainly knew this, which is why they tried to come up with a form of government that would be as minimally susceptible to totalitarianism as possible. But I think they were also deeply aware that everything depended on whether Americans would uphold it. Ben Franklin famously told a woman who inquired what form of government the framers of the Constitution had come up with, "A Republic, madam, if you can keep it."
I am reminded of the story of Israel demanding a king (in 1 Samuel). Samuel warns the people of the authoritarian power they will be subjected to, but the people reply,
"Nay; but we will have a king over us; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles."
Whenever I read that, I can't help thinking of the mom replying to a complaint that 'everyone else is doing it': "Would you jump off a cliff if everyone else was doing it?"
Scanned TFP crap this morning--I can still read comments. Here's a treat from Eric W, who often posts the actual news that Ollie ignores: "I know a lot of people that subscribe to TFP aren't fans of Dave Smith b/c of his views on Israel and Palestine, but you simply can't dismiss this guy when it comes to how he drops truth bombs on the establishment like it's 1945 Dresden. Please take 3 minutes out of your day to listen to this."
I wake up now, and the clock says 3 AM. I know it means "4 AM," and I doze for an hour. When it says "4 AM," I get up, because I know it means 5 AM. This will go on for a week or two.
Me too.
you guys are well ahead of me! I woke at 7 said it was really 8 and ended up splitting the difference and getting up at 7:30!
When I go to bed, I don't look at the clock.
When I wake up, I don't look at the clock.
I have no need to know the time,
it will pass and it won't rhyme.
Yeah, George, it's funny how I keep looking at the clock all day. Well, not so funny -- I am a "controlled alcoholic," and I'm always looking for 5 o'clock PM. Like it says in the Book, my hat's off to me.
I unplugged the digital clock in this hotel room and stil woke up at 420 😳
I always unplug those things. it's such a harsh, penetrating "red.' like their flag.
4:20 or 4/20 ?
You would have liked living in the Ottoman Empire, in that regard - interesting how they resisted clocks.
Our dogs know better. Mine were giving me the stink eye at 4:15pm yesterday, even the one who isn’t food motivated 😂
Cats are easier (esp. middle-aged ones) they are just happy to find warm humans under the covers to plop on top of!
Yes the number of comments at this usually quiet time in the morning shows I'm not the only one affected by this idiotic and wholly unnecessary time change.
I despise the time change system, although I complain less in autumn because I get my hour back.
I love standard time. Hate the fake daylight savings time. Fall winter months are the only ones I feel rested.
Congress has discussed eliminating daylight savings time for decades but has been unable to pass any legislation to fix it. The same people who claim the wisdom to send our children to war are so stupid and incompetent that they can’t fix daylight savings time.
Ain’t that the truth!
In 2022, the Senate passed the Sunshine Protection Act (which makes daylight savings time permanent, ending the twice-yearly time change), but the House can't seem to get it together.
Personally, I'd prefer standard time. But we're already on daylight savings time most of the year (since the time change has been pushed further and further into winter from both ends), and it's going to be dark in the early morning and the early evening *regardless* of what the clocks say.
I mostly care that they just pick one or the other and stick with it. They *know* that the time changes causes real harm--an uptick in accidents, for example. It always disrupts my body for at least a week, regardless of which direction the clock goes.
I remember in the early 70’s, during the first oil embargo, the Nixon administration did eliminate standard time so the sun would set later and save electricity for cities - kids got hurt going to school in the dark though - lots of accidents
I remember going to school in the dark during that period!
Yes-- all you change haters- it has been tried and failed. Personally-I really needed it this week! Had a doozy of a work week last, plus had contractors showing up at 7:30 every am! I'm getting too old for this!!
I believe the current iteration is to keep DST permanently, yes please.
Here, here!
The world has LONG outlived the usefulness of the now idiotic time changes.
The question is, why can't we get Congress to fix time once and for all?
For the same reason we can't get Congress to fix anything; we don't bribe them.
Me, too. It takes some weeks to reorient. I wish they would leave the time alone.
The Boer War is complicated. Lots of nuance.
Winston Churchill did serve during it btw. He first really made his name during it.
So Kemi Badenoch is now the leader of the Conservatives (something I am very pleased about). Several people on the Far Left including Labour MPs vented their frustration (and it must be said rampant jealousy) at the outcome. Some Labour MPs were indeed gracious, but Dawn Butler who at one point considered herself a far more powerful politician than Kemi was not. Butler has gone backward while Kemi has made history. Butler deleted her re-posting of the tweet and Labour are not taking it further. Kemi for her part is used to this sort of vitriol. It is what the strategic essentials do when their grift is exposed and part of her reason for joining the Conservatives during university. Her remarks in her first Sunday interview as Leader of the Opposition show that she is well aware of how the political game is played and what the media are up to. She is quite willing to pull back curtains and expose the inner workings. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/calls-for-labour-mp-to-lose-whip-over-kemi-badenoch-racism-post-lm7n8bqgb or https://archive.ph/DundG
The RSPB have had to settle with a former and well-respected employee after they ousted him for spurious reasons rafter accusations of ‘treating a Syrian colleague like a slave’ emerged. The RSPB is another institute which is unfortunately infected with DEI excess. I suspect this is because of ‘white guilt’ and ‘be kind’ mantras and not really understanding the legal implications. This allowed certain people to conduct a ‘witch hunt’ to try to create their own power base. The RSPB has hopefully learned a costly lesson. NB: my youngest knew the employee in question and liked him as my youngest had volunteered on Coquet when he was in high school. He helped foster my youngest’s interest in conservation and ornithology. My youngest was confused about the accusations and v relieved to discover that they were baseless. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11/03/rspb-mutiny-manager-sacked-unfounded-coquet-island-morrison/ or https://archive.ph/bjAeG
Sometimes real life can appear to be the start of a murder mystery – in Edinburgh, Halloween revellers picked up what they thought was a prop, but which turned out to be the decapitated head of a pensioner who was killed in a freak accident with a bus. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/public-urged-not-to-share-graphic-images-of-edinburgh-bus-death-plrzn0gfv or https://archive.ph/7nUpu
Because the UK media is attempting to hedge its bets on the US election, even the Times has published pieces about the Democrats’ progressive policies fail to chime with the ordinary voter like this op-ed. https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/democrats-undermined-by-radical-agenda-t3phhv9qv or https://archive.ph/aatdQ
Valencia continues to be a mess. Yesterday the King and Queen of Spain were pelted with mud and rocks when they attempted to tour the stricken area. https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/spain-floods-royals-pelted-with-mud-as-anger-erupts-fblrwxrtm or https://archive.ph/Enafk
And I am v glad the UK has already done the time change thing. It takes awhile for my cats and dogs to work out...
And this is breaking news about the Algerian Olympic boxer -- as the report into his chromosomes etc has now been leaked. https://reduxx.info/algerian-boxer-imane-khelif-has-xy-chromosomes-and-testicles-french-algerian-medical-report-admits/
What a surprise! NOT.
I was not surprised. The blood relation thing about the parents also does not surprise me.
While I'm glad that this much is now somewhat settled (perhaps the naysayers will now concede? Too much, I know), I'm not in favor of how it happened.
I too wish the IOC who knew about this result back in the summer of 23 had acted. He deserved a lot of counselling and help for something which must have come as a huge shock. It is well passed time to return to cheek swab testing and then in the interests of humanity offering counselling etc if things like this do occur to the affected person.
Agree. We make people weigh in for weight classes in sport, if we're to have female and male sports categories, we should have a way of verifying the participants have sorted themselves correctly.
There is a v simple procedure called a cheek swab test. It is non-invasive but despite female athletes overwhelmingly wanting the test to continue, the IOC decided to abandon it in the early 2000s.
The testing can be held on file for a lifetime. And if disqualifications happen based on the cheek swab test, further testing can be done etc.
One of the things that the Left seems very focused on is never, EVER 'hurting the feelings' of anyone who they consider 'oppressed.' This is what's behind their desire to excuse *any* behavior by someone in an 'oppressed' group, no matter how horribly egregious that behavior is.
Most of us learned the lesson at some point as children that 'feelings' don't alter reality or excuse bad behavior. It is mind-boggling that the Left is stuck in such a juvenile mode of thought.
But it makes them feel so holy!
No AP, as noted above, there are just plain males being inserted into women's teams.
Seems very unfortunate for the male boxer, and he must have had a rough time emotionally. That said, it’s doubling down on the misfortune to allow him to beat up actual women.
Yes, I think it is possible to have compassion for the male boxer as it would have been a shock. The IBA and IOC should have immediately offered counselling etc, but held a v firm line about the disqualification. One can be compassionate without permitting the crossing of boundaries, particularly when those boundaries are there to protect other people from being disadvantaged.
The culprits here are the officials imho.
I think his status should never have gotten this far. His issues must have been known for a long, long time.
Michelle, I always appreciate your run-down of news reports, but I especially appreciate this introduction to the web site Reduxx. I've bookmarked the site so that I can continue to read their stories promoting "a truly pro-woman, pro-child safeguarding" point of view. Thank you!
Reduxx is well worth a read. They do work v hard to shine a light on these sorts of stories.
Good old fashioned investigative reporting.
Reduxx is my go-to source for news stories about bad trans behavior.
They do seem to get the stories and have done the due diligence on them as well (it is important to keep a healthy degree of cynicism about some of the allegations ... even though generally when investigate further the story tend to have some merit)
The women's volleyball team out west that has an actual male playing--who is hurting opponents on purpose--is another example. He's just a man who has declared himself a woman--which is totally outrageous. Yesterday I confused who the coach was that blew the whistle on how damaging this ongoing business has been to the women ON his team as well as his opponents--she is the coach of the male's team. Basically, a male has colonized a female volleyball team. But this stuff is going on in many nations now. There are males on--I think--a female soccer team in Australia, for instance.
There are far too many examples of this.
I know some call it a Men's Rights Movement on steroids. They prioritizing the feelings of a male (often with mental health issues) over that of females who end up losing because of physical differences.
Mental illness can be an explanation, but it should not be used as the excuse which condones abusive behaviour. Female athletes deserve our compassion as well.
I keep forgetting swimming...
It has all just gone much further than I realized.
I think much was going on under the radar which people did not realise -- this was part of the design from what I understand.
The #BeKind mantra was anything but kind, it was cute authoritarianism. Asking for something which seems reasonable but really isn't.
I also think because of shifting baselines, as a society, the West had forgotten what the early wins for women's rights were and why they came about (ie sex-segregate prisons and indeed pregnant women not being forced to work down mines)
So much for women's rights, eh?
I find it cosmically unfair that the UK manages to have both Margaret Thatcher and Kemi Badenoch as female conservative leaders, and so far no capable US woman has emerged to hold that mantle.
I also wish the US would produce capable and competent female conservative leaders on a national scale. One of the reasons why I was attracted to the Republican party in the early 80s was that they were supposed to promote women based on their capability, rather than on being someone's wife or daughter (or mistress).
I recently watched the Falklands play which came out in the early 2000s. It is easy to forget how strong Thatcher was and how resolute. She was ready to negotiate but also not afraid of using the big stick. There were many who wrung their hands about the situation.
"Don't go all wobbly on us, George......"
The Wets were called that for a reason.
I loved the Spitting Image sketch of her ordering at a restaurant -- 'I'll have the red meat.'
Waitress: 'The vegetables?'
Mrs Thatcher 'They will have the same.'
LOL!!! Too effin funny!! Thank you for that much needed laugh!
Would the IOC have really alerted their woke agenda? Doubt
I have read Sharron Davies Unfair Play -- the main raison d'etre of the IOC is to avoid embarrassment to the IOC. So the testing regime is a joke basically.
They just want a quiet life and their noses pushed firmly in the trough.
We have Tulsi. Hoping for great things from her in the future.
And Kim Reynolds!
Tulsi Gabbard
While I like Tulsi, she was up until just a few days ago, not a Republican, and I've never heard her take the on the mantle of conservative. Also, she's not yet reached the pinnacle of the party. Not holding my breathe, but she definitely has the gumption to get there if she so desires, but yet she still would not be a traditional conservative.
Yes, but I am def. NOT a trad. conservative (just a fiscal one!) I'm all in favor of strong, sane women in leadership. They don't all need to be like Thatcher! (who I greatly admire BTW!)
I think she would do better NOT being a traditional conservative.
Candace Millard's account of Churchill's heroism and escape from captivity during the Boer War is a must read.
Btw - I am enjoying your tale of the mercantile viscountess.......
Churchill possessed incredible amounts of raw courage. In the end, it enabled him to do what had to be done to stop Hitler.
A number of years ago, the Army Museum in Chelsea had a good exhibition on the young Churchill. It was quite something.
And I am pleased you are enjoying the tale.
I visited the Army Museum in Chelsea and was enchanted. Also several times at the Imperial War Museum. Sadly, I will not be visiting London again anytime soon given the stench of the Starmer regime and its threats to arrest Yanks who dare speak our minds on line.
Loved the exhibit at the IWM that preserved his actual bed and desk. I smoked Punch cigars for a while in his honor
Hopefully he will have alter to course. The FSU are on the case. They are taking Bridget Philipson to court over her decision to axe the Free Speech bill. They now have over 20k paying members.
The Army Museum has been redone but remains hugely interesting. I spent a few hours there back in June 23. They have a good exhibit on the Cold War now. However, they missed something my grandmother noted -- before the Berlin Wall, there was sand between the two parts of Berlin. And the East German guards were shot if any footprints were discovered in the sand on their shifts.
The Stasi literally got away with murder. Our FBI here are hoping for the same.
I suspect you already know this -- but didn't you say one of your children was in Barcelona? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/04/barcelona-extreme-danger-red-alert-torrential-rain-flooding/ or https://archive.ph/qJ8dF
Leslie Fish is awesome! Seems the same ole bs going down with a brand new face, over and over. When will we ever learn?
We haven't learned in thousands of years, why would we learn now or in the future.
History rhymes - Mark Twain.
I did like the newer version, but Kiplings version rang true as well. The US threw off the old king long ago, and yet we seem to still be haunted by his spector.
I've thought alot about the alpha male (or female) leader thing and it seems somewhat inherent to our biological survival responses to tend to submit to the biggest, most powerful and ruthless asshole. Smaller tribal groups were often able to meditate this dynamic through multiple social checks and balances. The western world has attempted to balance this tendency towards tototalitarianism through codified laws protecting individual rights. But I think the veneer of civilization wears thin at times and deeper, older patterns rise to the surface.
Maybe. But in times of crisis, a strong leader is needed to end the cacophony and cut through the gordion knot.
Yes and I think that is why we have a tendency to default to that style of leadership. Problem is there is often a very thin line between doing the necessary for strong leadership and group protection and turning into a genocidal dictator. In my opinion, one of the purposes of a moral code or religion, is to help maintain the clarity of where that line should be.
The "thin line' is called civilization. That's why strong males were willing to grant rights to weaker females and why we have laws that govern our social relationships. People fail to realize how thin and tenuous is that line. And how their playing with the rule of law can lead to a catastrophe. Which is why the Democrats are so dangerous.
As you say that line can be too easily bent and broken. Especially in tumultuous times such as these.
We are always so much closer to the loss of civilization than we allow ourselves to believe.
And we don't seem to realize that crime is, in fact, a symptom of civilization loss--individuals deciding that the rules of civilization don't apply to them.
Perhaps the most egregious thing the Left has done is to carve out exceptions to civilized behavior for their own selected groups. But a two-tier society--where one tier is required to be civilized and the other is not--cannot endure. It has to trend toward the breakdown of civilization altogether.
remember the Woody Allen flick "Bananas"? The Fidel like guerrilla leader becomes a totalitarian dictator shortly after the revolution is won?
That’s a fascinating comment and insight RMW. I have some alpha appearance but tend to surround myself with even bigger stronger men. Never really thought about it quite this way before.
There was an interesting long running baboon study about this years ago. Apparently baboon society is normally very violent and stressful and generally dominated by the biggest and baddest and meanest asshole baboons. However a very unusual accident happened during this particular study where all the top alpha mean males were killed by disease tainted meat at a local dump where they alone were allowed to feed, (Ie the troop leaders kept the less dominant baboons from feeding at this prime spot). So when all the top alpha males were killed, it left only sub alpha and female baboons in the troop. The social dynamic of the troop then changed quite dramatically. The group became much less heirarchial, more supportive and sharing of resources. and interestingly when several outside the group, young free roaming males tried to reinstate the old top down big mean alpha boss baboon dynamic, the other baboons ganged up on them and literally 'sat' on them and forced them to submit to the new dominant social behavior of sharing. I haven't kept up with the research on this, but at the time this was unheard of behavior for a baboon troop.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC387823/#:~:text=Through%20a%20heartbreaking%20twist%20of,died%20between%201983%20and%201986.
That is fascinating!
And...LOL...now our dominant females of the white, wealthy type have totally run amok. I'm always going to argue that we have to have gender balance--or things go nutty. Witness the Catholic priests with too much power. Or the female nuns with too much power over young girls in their care in Ireland. The two genders can balance each other--but I suppose there has to be some equal distribution of power to make that happen. I know this is a big, big issue and that I'm truncating it.
For certain a clear and sustainable balance of power within a culture, leads to better outcomes both between the 'sexes' as well as within governments and major institutions. I think we just went the wrong way round about it. When I tune in energetically, it feels like a lot of desperate people, in positions of authority, of both sexes, who do not actually feel empowered within themselves, are fighting over whatever 'scraps' they can grab and hang onto and the rest of us are just collateral damage. Of course their desperate fear of not having enough love, power, money, prestige, respect or whatever, is now pushing the entire world off into the abyss.
I think you are onto something! The people involved really do give off a vibe of being desperate to cling to their power, no matter what the cost.
We may need more “Mild Mondays” every day.
Ain't that the truth!
If the Empty Pantsuit of Destruction "wins," we'll need the "Xanax Daily"!
I'll repeat here what I just said on TFP. Since "Tail Gunner" Joe McCarthy's failure, the media has sought one one Party rule and have just about achieved it.
So true. Because of his thuggery, the truth of communist infiltration of our government was buried. Which was to the benefit of the Left, which countenanced and secretly cheered for it. Let us not forget that the Soviet Union for whom they were working, was led by the homicidal maniac Josef Stalin. Some "loyal opposition."
God, do I ever miss you on TFP. Kevin too. I'm starting to feel like a traitor still being there. Anyway, it's somehow always the "yoots," as Pesci would say, that "go" Left. It's that "Change" thing I think. At least that's true today. None of us knew what we were doing, so "they" have to change it. Except, my daughter never sends back the check.
I find that the FP has changed beyond repair and not for the better. I've scanned their latest a few times and the garbage they now offer by Lake, Savodnik and others is just not worth it. I canceled as a protest but they don't seem to care. So why should I? Bari's original venture seemed courageous and different but she turned out to be a hypocrite and more interested in growing the Weiss family business. And they will continue to ban me if I were to return because they can't countenance criticism.
I had to stop myself from using the word "Jap" on there today -- "they" sufficed. Because, they have become "Cancel" people, as well as unable to countenance criticism people. Well, I'll let it run out. Make do with the kindred spirits on Jotting.
Too much Victory at Sea and Saturday afternoon movies such as Guadalcanal Diary and A Wing and a Prayer.
Yes Sir, and don't forget "The Best Years of Our Lives." That was the truest version of American life, in a movie. I watch it again and again, for all the reasons, not least of which is to see Fredric March do that only half excused burp. And God, do I love those three women, back when they really were.
My dad said "Jap," and I never called him on it because he had fought them.
But he did have a very racist mouth...which was odd, because he never, ever treated people that way. And he did not limit his racist mouth to non-white people. He had a friend that he always ribbed for being 'a Swede.'
Ha-ha!! Michael when I read that you almost used the word "Jap", I first thought you meant the acronym for "Jewish American Princess"! Now that might've gotten you in even more trouble over there!!!
I'm with you Bruce.
I still skim the Formerly FP daily, but so far there's nothing to make me want to give them any of my dwindling pile of discretionary cash. I'm learning to live with reading the comments but not being able to comment myself.
I'm enjoying the JiP community WAY more! I'm toasting you with a Diet Coke & an nod to Celia--LOL.
LOL- you have the Mills College daughter right?? Don't hold your breath!!
You said it, sister! But thank God she's quit politics and Buddhism.
Thinking, Bruce. Biden had dementia probably before he was elected in 2020. So, without a strong leader, lots was done in the shadows that put us where we are today. More and more corruption all over the place. How to dial that back with the destructive media in place????
Almost undeniably so. The cabal covered it up because they needed a willing dupe. There are dark forces at work and the sooner we all understand that the sooner we can go about repairing it. Trump has some chance of doing that and he is hated by the elites precisely because he was one of them who ended up loving his country more than his ruling class peers. The media is particularly demonic because they are controlled by these same global "elites." Their talking heads are just useful stooges who have sold their souls for 30 pieces of silver.
I've always wondered how much they paid Bernie Sanders to fade into the sunset.
Another house and an extra million.
That's a lot of moolah for a supposed communist.
I think the media has revealed itself as the Rmperor with no clothes and is wholly irrelevant at this point. So it matters not what they say. Particularly among the "yoots".
But it does matter Lynne M--my children stand testament to how it matters. They all have TDS--and they are smart people.
But what are their sources of information? ICBW but I do not think many young people rely on traditional media. And social media is just the wild, wild west.
Luckily, my two sons are somewhat conservative, with one living in enemy territory (Hays County).
My daughter in law however has done drunk the Kool Aid, didn't even want to watch "Blazing Saddles" because it was too racist.
her loss!!!
heartbreaking!! and unfortunately true!!
This is what has bothered me- the unasked question— how can we be given an answer if no one asks the question- literal indifference.
The question is who knew & how long… etc.
I learned more about people in general in the days after the first debate. Elder abuse, corrupt media & just no bar.
Thank you Celia for making this particular Monday *mild* 🙏
One party rule certainly makes the Media’s job easier. No wasted time analyzing complex issues, more time for cocktail parties. Pulitzer Prize winning NYT writer Walter Duranty, who lied about what Stalin was doing and partied nonstop in Moscow, is their prototype.
The very first act of the Biden/Harris Cabal was to use the FBI and other spooks to try to censor Americans. Think on THAT when you enter the voting booth tomorrow and ponder whether to install a Putain in a Pantsuit and her ChiCom slavering running mate in our Executive Office. Ponder too, that if Trump is now "Hitler" and a threat to "our democracy" why he exhibited not a whit of dictatorial acts in his previous four years. And think on what agenda is being advanced by those who wail these lies.
Bruce - Just want you to know I put a one sentence rejection of oliver wiseman on TFP this morning, and so far have gotten 32 "Likes." That's kind of a high in Likes, for me. Possibly we may win this thing.
They do seem to have limited Ollie's posts. But, in the end, TFP is a lost cause. I won't waste more time on it. Now if I can just stop looking at the top comments!!!
Unlike the editors and writers of the Formerly FP, 99.9% of the commenters are center and right. Kinda interesting, huh? The day is young, and you'll probably have 100 likes by tomorrow.
Until he gets hit with the ban hammer!
Thanks Celia. Learning more about our history is always a good thing. A few years ago I stumbled upon the movie My Boy Jack. It was a very moving movie, the true story about Kipling losing his only son in WWI. His poem by the same name is powerfully sad
First I’d like to thank Kate Cahill (whom I called Pam in my pre coffee blur) for her comment yesterday calling my metaphor miscue more poetic than the original. While perhaps facially correct (pun intended veil v vale), I always appreciate correcting, particularly if it involves poesis. As to today’s poem/lyric, it’s a classic example of how occasional pieces, while often prisoners of the moment, can be reinterpreted effectively for future events. The poem, while trapped in its era (The Boer v English conflict seems almost quant compared to the horrible history that followed in South Africa) makes an amazing modern song because its themes of ruling class oppression remain relevant. Finally, I’m in a Holiday Inn Express (cue the jokes) and the TV is on Morning Joe, which I haven’t watched in years. Tonight I’m heading to a friend’s daughter’s Sweet 16 party where I’ll be reminded that Mika’s juvenile facial expressions, Scarborough’s unfair pettiness, and the grifting pervert guests (including Al Sharpton, Rick Wilson, etc) reveal that n the end, many Leftists remain on the edge of seventeen forever
Awww shucks Ken! Thanks for the shout-out!! I like the name Pam, so may decide to use it as one of my pseudonyms, but I'll have to change the last name to something catchy like Coram, Shorham or Duran-Duran! When I was a delinquent in my younger days one of my fav. fake names was "Shasta Canasta"! Have fun at the Sweet 16. I'm sure no one will be as juvenile as Mika!!!
Looks like Rudy got it right—yet again.
This was written when?
What’s that about history repeating itself?
Great post.
“Watchers ‘neath our windows “. They’re already at it. If Harris wins, we will need to be watchful of what we say, or who knows what punishment might be wrought? A visit from the IRS, as was done to Matt Taibbi?
That's the thing that scares me most right now.
Or the pet snatcher/killers on the word of someone cough Monica Keasler of Longview TX cough out for nastiness
I know!! Too tragic!!
Latest election news: Did you all hear about P'Nut over the weekend?
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/new-york-arrests-pnut-the-squirrel-raccoon-cops-raid-f6acd97a
https://nypost.com/2024/11/03/opinion/freedom-versus-authoritarianism-only-its-the-reverse-of-what-kamala-harris-has-been-saying/
This is hands down the most bizarre election ever. Aptly concluding with the biggest news being garbage and animals dying as casualties.
Yeah, that was outrageous. Our government at work. And of course they had to kill the squirrel. You can’t make this stuff up.
"Nothing here is guessed at, random or untrue—
Swings the wheel full-circle, brims the cup anew.
Nothing here unproven, nothing here is hid:
Step by step and word for word—so the old Kings did!"
IOW:
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
And/or:
Socialism didn't work because it wasn't done right.
The stupid can be forgiven for being stupid. The intellectual cannot.
Perhaps it’s time to realize that there will always be “kings” and their accompanying aristocracies among us, and always have been, always will be - a natural human phenomenon.
It doesn’t really matter what you call them: Czar, Fuhrer, Caesar, Chief, Pharaoh, Sultan, or President; and they all come with an entourage and an army.
They all take your money and they all provide you with services; to primarily protect you from others like yourself.
The only thing that matters is how tyrannical / totalitarian / authoritarian they are (and the coercive tools that they have at their disposal)
I think we Americans, in the personage of “founding fathers” used to know this.
Our founders certainly knew this, which is why they tried to come up with a form of government that would be as minimally susceptible to totalitarianism as possible. But I think they were also deeply aware that everything depended on whether Americans would uphold it. Ben Franklin famously told a woman who inquired what form of government the framers of the Constitution had come up with, "A Republic, madam, if you can keep it."
I am reminded of the story of Israel demanding a king (in 1 Samuel). Samuel warns the people of the authoritarian power they will be subjected to, but the people reply,
"Nay; but we will have a king over us; that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles."
Whenever I read that, I can't help thinking of the mom replying to a complaint that 'everyone else is doing it': "Would you jump off a cliff if everyone else was doing it?"
That's also the category of "be careful what you wish for".
Scanned TFP crap this morning--I can still read comments. Here's a treat from Eric W, who often posts the actual news that Ollie ignores: "I know a lot of people that subscribe to TFP aren't fans of Dave Smith b/c of his views on Israel and Palestine, but you simply can't dismiss this guy when it comes to how he drops truth bombs on the establishment like it's 1945 Dresden. Please take 3 minutes out of your day to listen to this."
https://x.com/MAHAalliance/status/1852802883198112202
This video is a treat for you today!
Thanks Louisa! Wonderful!!