Daily Wire reports a story about the “affirming transgenderism is a good idea” being a bunch of hooey.
To summarize part of the story, the study that most pro-trans people depend on is a Dutch study – an environment where there is strict screening for those receiving the surgeries. They have to be adults, mentally competent, etc. This is completely different than here in the states, where kids and/or the mentally confused are socially pushed into mutilating their bodies.
The American approach is designed to reduce “gatekeeping” by entreating clinicians to deferring to patients’ own self-diagnosis. In the U.S., most pediatric patients referred to gender clinics today appear to be females with no prepubertal history of dysphoria and very high rates of mental health problems.
And the follow-up periods for these surgeries is 18 months – whereas it can take ten years for real regret to become a problem.
“Two studies found that the average time to regret is around 10 years—and keep in mind that almost all the data in these studies comes from those who transitioned as adults and were gathered before the ‘affirming’ model and its hostility to safeguards became widespread.”
And the study results have yet to be replicated. Replication is important in affirming scientific findings. In fact, quite the opposite has been the case:
The results of the Dutch studies have still never been replicated, and the only attempt to do so by researchers in the UK yielded very different conclusions. The 2021 British study results actually found increases in “internalizing problems and body dissatisfaction” following puberty suppression, according to one report.
And, like the climate changemongers, when the results don’t fit your agenda, feel free to lie about it:
Another study Turban cited in his article was conducted by researchers at the University of Washington. But in August, it was revealed that the school deliberately withheld information that would damage its reputation and public standing. UW Medicine was caught distorting the results of a study on “gender affirming” care outcomes.
Researchers at UW Medicine found that the use of puberty blockers and hormones didn’t improve the mental health of trans-identified teens, but published a study claiming they did. Internal emails reveal that when the researchers were caught, officials at UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s Hospital advised each other against correcting the misinformation they put out.
So many kids are being mutilated by their virtue signaling parents wanting the latest trophy kid. It used to be they would get a kid from say, Africa. Now they just take their own kids and chop them up. Or dress them in strange ways. Or indoctrinate them into a form of sexuality that violates what we in the Catholic Church call “natural law” – how our bodies are supposed to work.
I despise parents like this. Those children should be getting psychiatric care, instead of having mental instabilities being fed or developed those in whose care they are entrusted.
Personally, those parents are just as unstable as their kids. IMHO, liberalism is codependency writ large. A codependent is one whose view of self is entangled in how others see or act towards them. They are reactive personalities; e.g., “This is the socially desirable behavior, and I want to be socially desirable, so I’ll engage in this behavior.” The idea of not going along with the latest social norms is anathema. Their acceptance of themselves is bound up in the acceptance of others. There is a sense of narcissism in all of this. It’s all about how those folks feel about themselves, not what is best for their childrens’ futures. And these folks, being socially fragile, lash out if their views are challenged.
Karens of the world, unite! Remember the videos of people more than willing to verbally or physically attack those who wouldn’t mask up? Not wearing a mask was a challenge to their propped up sense of righteousness, of how society should work.
Currently, the social agenda norm is sexual perversion of all sorts. It’s the latest “in” thing. So, sacrifice children on the altar of social acceptance. I wonder if/how those families will hold together when the children grow up and realize their fertility was sacrificed so their parents could feel good about themselves?
Of course, this is my personal take, but the news article is well worth reading.
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We got an inch and a half of rain last night 1.53″ to be exact. Much needed BTW.
Mornin’ Gang
You’d think that if they’re composing a picture that shows a Technician Soldering that they’d at least ask someone with technical abilities to edit it. 😉
Well I’m off to the airport for my full body cavity search…..Later,…..
#2
Lol, if you could hold the iron like that, even I might could solder.
Safe travels!
#2 SD:
1) Where is the solder in her other hand? Is she using the solder of her mind or invisible solder or something?
2) IF that iron was actually hot, wouldn’t she be burning the crap out of her fingers and hand right now?
That pic describes leftism well. It is all just an image to push those who are uninformed into believing; if one has any knowledge of the subject the clueless BS screams. The same thing happens in news blogs and news papers all over. The reporter propagandist writes of something about which they have very little knowledge and throws up a pretty good line of BS. Those who don’t know anything about the subject are inclined to agree with the writer; OTOH, those who do know see the screaming BS for what it is. The thing that really gets to me is that there are a whole bunch of people out there who will read one article in the newspaper and recognize it as complete garbage then read the next article in the same paper about a subject about which they have limited knowledge and assume that everything presented is straight up truth?!? Why do so many people believe the next story will be true when the previous one was full of lies?
Says here I’m getting an 8% raise on my SS. Thank y’all!
The C&C opening greeting synopsis, for those who may want to jump over and RTWT. Since I may not cover all of it here. As usual, it all looks interesting..
Good morning, C&C! It’s Thursday and I have a great roundup for you today: the “speed of science” story rapidly builds up steam and races down the track; a new narrative begins crashing and burning; a new Canadian premier calls out discrimination — against the unjabbed; the Saudis expose Joe Biden as a useless hack; Moderna announces a new mRNA drug to treat the old mRNA drug; and AOC hears some hard home truths.
Childers writes:
Yesterday I reported about the Pfizer exec who admitted to the EU parliament that its so-called “vaccine” was never even intended to prevent infection. … The were running at the “speed of science,” whatever that is….
It’s rapidly becoming a bigger story than I thought it would. You might say it is developing at the speed of science…
Whichever, the story has been BLOWING UP…Their best pushback narrative they’ve been able to come up with is that “Pfizer never SAID it would stop infections.” …there is some obscure medical/scientific language buried deep in the footnotes of Pfizers’ clinical trial documents… that Pfizer EVEN SAID the trials weren’t about infection control.
Cue discussion about how the “experts” lied about the 95% transmission prevention of the jab, and how folks gradually reinterpreted this to be 95% reduction in risk. Because truth is malleable. Especially when prison terms and huge wads of cash are involved….
In case the print is too small, Eric claimed an “overwhelming 95% efficacy of these vaccines to PREVENT INFECTION.” Not an “overwhelming 95% efficacy to reduce relative risk.” So the real problem is not what Pfizer did,…
The real problem is how Pfizer lied about it.
Perzackly. Why did they want 75 years to disclose their documents again? And despite the ever growing mountain of evidence and piles of bodies, they are STILL pushing the narrative that the vaccine is safe and effective. I am so tired of seeing those commercials…
More from Childers:
This Pfizer story has — unexpectedly — cracked the narrative’s foundation, exposing the narrative engineers who are writhing around like maggots at the bottom of a neglected garbage can. The news has caused a lot of people — some in political offices — to start asking some hard questions and make some sharp points.
Like, why’d we push vaccine passports, if we always knew the drugs didn’t stop infections? Why’d we fire people…?
/snip
But most importantly: IF ONLY PFIZER KNEW, WHY DIDN’T PFIZER SAY SOMETHING WHEN PEOPLE MISTAKENLY STARTED HURTING FOLKS FOR NOT TAKING THE DRUGS?
Perzackly. When innocent people started to get hurt, persecuted, fired, beaten up… See next story….
Childers C&C:
Danielle Smith is the new Premier (governor) of Canada’s Alberta province. She made news yesterday at her inaugural press conference, where she — remarkably — identified unvaccinated people as “the most discriminated against group that I’ve ever witnessed in my lifetime.”
Next to being a white Christian male, being unjabbed put you into the lowest rungs of society. Untouchable level. Must be punished caste.
Smith differentiated herself from other major Canadian politicians by vowing to stand up for the unvaccinated:
“That’s a pretty extreme level of discrimination that we’ve seen… I want people to know that I find that unacceptable. We’re not going to create a segregated society on the basis of a medical choice.”
We can hope that she is the break in the dam. DeSantis was the first dancing man, and she is the first follower.
Let’s hope that this starts a movement. Childers ends this section of the C&C on a hopeful note:
Black pilled people feel hopeless that nothing will change, because the politicians are all in on it. But not ALL the politicians are in on it. They’re forgetting about the up and coming groups of candidates who are blameless and can all run against the overreach. They’re forgetting about the minority of politicians who opposed vaccine passports and other covid restrictions and are slowly being vindicated. They’re forgetting that, to save themselves, guilty politicians will soon need to start throwing SOMEBODY under the bus to save themselves.
It WILL happen. It’s coming. It’s as inevitable as more myocarditis cases.
I heard this on the radio this morning, and the C&C is now also reporting the news: Biden asked the Saudis to delay their decision on reducing oil production until after the midterm elections.
Because…politics is more important than actually making successful policy.
What’s clear from that statement is that, when Biden visited the Saudis, he didn’t ask them not to reduce the supply. He asked them to only POSTPONE the decision to reduce supply — for ONE SINGLE MONTH. Until after the mid-terms.
In other words, Biden wasn’t trying to lower gas prices for CONSUMERS. He was trying to lower gas prices for DEMOCRATS. For just a month. Then, who cares what happens to gas prices! The sky’s the limit! Go bonkers!
Biden just needed to get past the mid-terms.
Nobody reading this blog will be surprised by this news. But the Saudis just exposed Biden to the entire world as a clumsy political hack. It was a dumb move because it telegraphed weakness, and it was dumb because it gave the Saudis a political weapon to use against Joe, which they just did.
I have a feeling there are going to be a lot of very tired middle fingers by the time Joe leaves office.
Oh, and Childers makes this comparison:
One term to describe what Biden was trying to do is “quid pro quo.” Trading political benefits to get another country to do something for political reasons, rather than in America’s interest is a quid pro quo. That latin phrase probably sounds super familiar, because the democrats used it as the basis for impeaching President Trump.
You could also call what Biden was doing “election interference.” Which some DOJ officials have called “an insurrection.” Just saying.
And….Moderna is working on a new mRNA drug to correct — you can’t make this up — heart conditions. To teach the heart where to grow new blood vessels and stuff. Because there’s nothing like creating a whole new market with one drug to feed the need for your next drug.
Maybe Moderna could make this miracle drug free? Since they helped create the problem in the first place?
If they could convince anyone to trust them and take it? Oh, wait, there’s always New York and California…
But then there’s this little nugget of info:
It sounds like making money off the side effects caused by your previous drug, you moron.
But the good news is, the drugmaker is already working on a fix for the side effects that will be caused by its new heart-fixing gene drug. Chronic explosive diarrhea.
You just can’t make this stuff up.
AOC gets some harsh pushback. Watch the video.
We got rain, so I don’t have to water the garden today. I made a swift tour, picked a few things, and then came inside to clip my goldenrod blossoms and put into a canister. I need to do the same for my leaves.
I also have celery that is now dry and ready to be made into celery powder/salt. I didn’t know it had such a high sodium content.
I got my almonds out of their soak and into my oven to dry. I think I’m going to vacuum pack this batch for storage. Soaking them releases the phytic acid in the almonds, which makes the other nutrients more available. Or so fitness gurus have told me. Either way, I much prefer the crunchy texture after doing this soak-and-dry cycle.
I think I’ll get my next batch of ‘maters going inside Fred.
I was up late, trying to get my Latin homework finished. I’m close on my translations, but still need practice. It’s frustrating to be a word or two off. Dang those word endings! Maybe I should try doing it NOT at midnight or 1:00 a.m.???
Time to treadmill, then I have a bank deposit to make, which means a swing by the thrift store and Aldi’s for mushrooms and pork loin (on sale). I used some of my dried mushrooms in some broccoli last night. So convenient.
The elbow is tweaking big time this morning. We’ll see how I do today. I have Latin class tonight, so I have to get everything done, including dinner prep, a little early today.
WARNING POSSIBLE FEAR MONGERING AHEAD
HatTip GJT
Social Security Announces Biggest Payment Hike in 40 Years: Here’s When You’ll Get It
And medicare is going down
So when are we gonna get?
MsTT @ 9:29
IMHO the pushback isn’t harsh at all – AOC aint listening and likely did not hear a single word.
just my dos centavos
LGB!!
Where’s my free coffee and donuts??
IMHO pretty darned cool video -Travis Tritt and his ‘pet’ young buck
https://truthsocial.com/@TravisTritt/posts/109158467358717208
Squawk – and this announcement comes out right before midterms?
How many votes will this buy, I wonder?
I hope El G’s eye surgery went well. I remember how happy and excited I was for Mom when she had her surgery. For the first time in years, she could actually see stuff!
Then she screwed up the aftercare. After all those years of successfully putting drops in her eyes, and especially after I watched her do it properly after her surgery – I never expected her to lose that eye to an infection. After that horrendous night with the eye specialists doing everything they could to save it, and then watching her jab that bottle right onto her eyeball – my heart just fell. Maybe her diabetes interfered with her ability to feel the bottle tip on her eye. I’ll never know. She could never accept the fact that she was responsible for losing that eye.
I’m sure El G will be more careful.
MY #8 – Only way AOC will EVER hear anyone tell her what’s what is if someone duct tapes her pie hole SHUT and stuffs ear buds in her ears!
*no smiley*
EG OY:
Goof news, EG!
This cracked me up OYonder:
Tedtam
RE: Socialist Security and Vote
That was the first thing I though when I read Tim’s blurb. Something to think about. Really this country cannot afford it. We are $32 TRILLION in debt teetering on collapse. Between the inflation and increased taxes I figure to see a $1.37 increase in my monthly check at best.
WARNING POSSIBLE FEAR MONGERING BEHIND
This is my opinion and has not been fact checked so if someone gitz skeered, oh well.
I think the best thing we can do is first – restrict welfare payments to American citizens. Maybe reduced levels to LEGAL immigrants, if need can be established. Those folks did it right and we can control how many of them enter the country. If charities want to help out illegals, then fine. But I have a feeling that if we cut off the spigot of free stuff, the invasion will be drastically reduced.
And maybe we can get to some financially responsible budgeting.
But, there’s no breath holding here.
Oletimer Lin has this take on the Pennsylvania Senate contest Over Yonder…
Oh yes indeedy…
6 GJT
Even with an 8.7% SS increase, you’ll never catch up with the inflation of the last 18 months. What a scam.
Texpat. #17
Don’t forget the taxes. I have not looked but it seems to me that the increase could also boost SS recipients to the next tax bracket. I could be wrong though.
And Medicaid recipients could lose their benefits
On my #16 above, for some reason the link at “this take” does not show up in a different color… But please click there, you all know that Lin has the best sense of humor among those who EVER followed Hammy’s nest…
Biden’s Labor Secretary proposes to outlaw Independent Contractors. As California has done.
Mharper
If you refresh, you’ll find that your link is normal (purple or blue).
I can make the links orange again if you want
Adam Andrzejewski is an American hero in my book. He started a website from scratch years ago originally as a one man operation. I remember reading about him at the time in a George Will column. He also was the journalist to break the Anthony Fauci financial compensation story in January of this year.
From Andrzejewski’s Substack column:
This is the inside story of how Andrew Andrzejewski, one of Forbes magazine’s most popular columnists ever, was railroaded by the spineless, woke hacks running that formerly respectable publication. The tale really is disgusting.
The weasels running Forbes were so terrified their cocktail party buddies would accuse them of being anti-vaxxers, they were willing to fire one of their most respected and widely read columnists.
Open the Books website
Adam Andrzejewski’s bio
21 Shannon
I was getting ready to post this coverage of the story when you put up the I&I piece.
Here is the Fox Business report on the Democrats’ war on independent contractors.
The Left knows, the Democrats in the House and Senate know and every useless scumbag in the White House knows exactly what the ramifications of this ruling would be. The state of California passed a similar law in 2019 and it has been devastating to hundreds of thousands. They don’t care about the effects on people – they really don’t.
Who pushed hard for this regulation in California ? Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez was the author of the AB5 bill destroying gig income in the state. She is a miserable, lying b*tch.
Oh, and Gonzalez resigned from the state legislature in January of this year so she could take the new job of…
….wait for it…
“California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez (D-San Diego) announced her resignation Monday and said she plans to take over as leader of the California Labor Federation when its longtime executive-secretary treasurer, Art Pulaski, steps down this summer.”
Today is the Miracle of the Sun, one of the most famous events in the Catholic Church. Our Lady of Fatima, “The Lady of the Rosary,” on this day in 1917, provided three children her promised miracle to provide proof to their detractors that she had, in fact, been appearing on a monthly basis to the children. It was her last appearance, and many thousands had shown up – some to see the children debunked, others firm believers in the visions. The sun shone in different colors, spun in the sky, and dived down towards the earth (causing many to fear for their lives). Although it had been raining and everyone and everything was soggy, everything was dried out by the time the sun finished dancing. Over a hundred thousand people witnessed this miracle, and it was documented in the local paper.
These children were about the age of my granddaughters, two girls and one boy. Two of them were taken to Heaven shortly after the apparitions, as the Lady had said. The last one became a nun and died only recently. She provided the Third Secret to the Vatican. This third secret has been the source of many books and movies; the Pope was supposed to make it public in 1960, but decided not to. The consecration of Russia to Our Lady’s Immaculate Heart was also not done as requested – and as She said would happen: “The errors of Russia have spread throughout the world.”
I only wonder how differently our world would look if past popes had done as Our Lady had requested.
As a side note to the Lorena Gonzalez story above, this is how the LA Times characterizes the horrible AB5 bill she shoved down the throats of Californians.
“Gonzalez may best be known for efforts to expand worker rights, most notably her 2019 law to revamp California’s independent contractor rules. That legislation, Assembly Bill 5, led many workers to be reclassified as employees — a fight that sparked widespread criticism of the San Diego Democrat on social media.”
Worker rights ? The workers hate it and never asked for it.
There were at least a dozen lawsuits filed against the state over AB5 and every single one of them was by groups of independent workers. So far, the California courts have been gleeful handmaidens for the powerful labor union mafia out there.
BTW – one of Our Lady’s requests was a Five First Saturday devotion, which I am 2/5 of the way through:
On the first Saturday of the month, attend mass and receive the Lord
Make a full confession, preferably before participating in mass
Spend 15 minutes meditating upon one of the mysteries of the rosary (events in the life of Jesus)
Pray a rosary
***** ******
She also asked that we pray a rosary every day, which I do.
I wonder how different our world, or even just our Church, would be if we all did as She asked.
Texpat
Big Labor (unions) like it because there is a larger pool of potential members.
Big Business likes it because it makes it harder for their smaller competitors to compete.
All Hail the New American Oligarchy.
Tedtam, I looked at the sales from Aldi, and opted for Fiesta’s chicken leg/thigh quarters for $0.77/lb… Since I’ve never attempted dehydrating meat, I decided that I’d try it first on something “cheap”… I’ll need to season and roast the quarters first (or at least roast even if I leave them plain). Sounds like a project to me LOL
I stumbled over this story and had a big laugh.
“A company hoping to help California with its high-speed rail built one in North Africa instead, saying the region was ‘less politically dysfunctional’
The Société nationale des chemins de fer français (SNCF), a French state-owned railroad operator, came to California in hopes of helping the state build a high-speed rail system from Los Angeles to San Francisco but left for North Africa in 2011 because the region was ‘less politically dysfunctional’ than the Golden State.
Within 7 years, they built a functioning high-speed rail system in Morocco, the New York Times reported.
California sought to have the first high-speed rail system in the country, but a new report from the Times showed political disagreement on the train’s route slowed the ambitious project to a near halt — and raised construction costs by billions.”
It has been 11 years since the French bailed out of California. Morocco has had a running, functioning high speed rail system for 4 years now.
California has been trying to build a system since 2008. They’ve now spent $113 billion and haven’t moved a single rail car anywhere.
I don’t buy whole chickens but I checked the price the other day.
$2 / lb.
unreal
Granted, that $2/lb chicken was at the local independent grocery in Sealy – Bill’s Grocery. Bill’s is a sparkling clean, well-run grocery, but he can’t possibly compete on price with the only other grocer in town, Walmart.
Walmart also has a huge Distribution Warehouse outside of Sealy.
HEB has had land on I-10 for a number of years but keeps delaying breaking ground.
Rumor has it that Walmart has threatened the city if it lets HEB proceed it will move their Distribution Warehouse elsewhere.
The excellent education authority Joanne Jacobs:
“The average ACT score hit a new low this year, while the percentage of test-takers who failed all four College Readiness Benchmarks hit a new high of 42 percent. Only 22 percent were ready in all four subjects: reading, English, math and science.
It’s not just the pandemic, said ACT CEO Janet Godwin. Scores have been declining each year for the past five years. But closed schools and remote classes made it worse.”
Plus this report for Larry Sand at AMGreatness:
“Other data showing the efficacy of the class-size hawks comes from Benjamin Scafidi, who in 2017 released the results of a study on the “staffing surge” in public education. The researcher and economics professor found that between 1950 and 2015, the number of teachers in the United States increased about 2.5 times faster than the uptick in students. Even more stunning is the fact that the hiring of other education employees—administrators, teacher aides, counselors, social workers, etc.—rose more than 7 times the increase in students.
Using a narrower time frame, Mike Antonucci, director of the Education Intelligence Agency, adds that between 2008 and 2016, student enrollment was flat, but the teaching force grew from 3.4 million to over 3.8 million, a 12.4 percent bump. Also, during that time period, ‘the number of vice principals and assistant principals grew by 8.3 percent. Instructional coordinators and curriculum specialists increased by 10.5 percent, and there was between 5 and 12 percent growth in the number of nurses, psychologists, speech therapists, and special education aides.’ “
And this item,
“The Jaime Escalante case is instructive. Probably the most acclaimed teacher of our time, his calculus class was extremely popular at Garfield High in East Los Angeles. In 1983, the number of his students passing the A.P. calculus test more than doubled. That year 33 students took the exam and 30 of them passed.
Going well beyond the 35-student limit set by the teacher union contract, some of his classes had more than 50 supposedly “unteachable” students, and the teachers union complained. Rather than submit to the union, Escalante moved on to teach elsewhere. In just a few years after his departure, the number of AP calculus students at Garfield who passed their exams dropped by more than 80 percent.”
#28 Bsue
Aldi’s has had the leg quarters for 59/pound. Now you got me interested in trying to Fred up some chicken.
RE: Walmart vs HEB
I’ve heard that Wal-mart has stymied HEB’s entrance into the Dallas area by buying up potential HEB sites and squatting on them.
I also hear that HEB has managed a workaround and has opened or is opening three stores in the area now or soon. So the story about WM throwing its weight around elsewhere sounds par for the course.
Thinking about our Lady of the Rosary recalled a story I heard from Fr. Calloway, who’s written a book about the rosary and its effects. For example, a priest in Africa whose village and surrounding region had suffered badly at the hand of Boco Haram (did I get that right?) had a vision of sword being given to him. As he put out his hands to receive the sword, it became a rosary and he heard the words “Boco Haram is gone!” He began a devotion to the rosary, and it wasn’t long before the terror group was gone.
There’s also the famous Battle of Lepanto.
Here’s the video where I heard Fr. C describe these events.
Some day I’d like to get his book, but I keep forgetting to order it.
Anyway, I’ve heard him tell the story of going through airport screening and his luggage was tagged for a physical search. The agent found the rosary inside and said, “Oh, we thought it was a weapon.”
Fr. Calloway didn’t say it out loud, but he was thinking, “Oh, you are so right.”
/Catholic chuckle
Tedtam & Squawk
I am not 100% certain, but I believe Social Security COLAs are stuatory law. These COLAs occur every year. Most of the time they go unnoticed because for the last two decades inflation had been holding below 3%.
Our federal government’s fiscal year started on Oct 1st and these types of announcements come out during October. I do not see this as any purposefully act by Dems to garner votes because this is a process they do not control. HOWEVER, I would never put it past a Dem to unscrupulously use this news to bald face lie to a bunch of seniors during a campaign stop at a community center or some direct mail targeted at seniors. If they tried a broader radio or TV spot, they should be called out if they try to take credit for something that takes place every single year regardless of who is in office.
Texmo
You are right. I’d rather the fiscal date for the COLA be moved to be after elections.
But then, it really would become a tool for vote buying.
33 TexMo
Of course they will. A sample:
Low information/low comprehension voters hear “Biden is giving old people a lot of money and little black kids free treats.”
They didn’t directly claim credit, but they don’t have to because the news media are stenographers for the DNC.
Texmo #33
Oh for sure. The vote getting aspect is the amount of the COLA. +-8% raise is unprecedented in modern times, post 20th century. I was listening to two different (SNICKER) news sources and the confetti throwing was off the charts. It reminded me of when i was in Chicago, every park, winter ice skating rink, bus stop, EL train stop, gubment associated works had a “Gift of Mayor Richard M Daley and the City of Chicago” sign attached to it.
I haven’t been particularly surprised over the years at the Left’s assault on the First and Second Amendments and the rest of the Bill of Rights. They’ve been signaling their contempt and hostility for the Constitution for over a hundred years.
What I am shocked about is this kind of thing.
“A pediatrician who was present at the American Academy of Pediatrics conference over the weekend in Anaheim, Calif., posted a disturbing video on Twitter in which Alabama gender doctor Morissa Ladinsky declared that the suicide of a trans-identified teen was a “bold” act.
‘And then the final days of 2014, a local 16-year-old young lady, Leelah Alcorn, of trans experience, stepped boldly in front of a tractor-trailer ending her life,” Ladinsky told the assembled crowd of pediatricians. Parents and activists who believe children should be able to grow into adults without drugs to stop that natural development protested outside the conference.’”
This as well,
“Ladinsky, a pediatrician at UAB Medicine in Birmingham, Ala., lists as her research interests the “impact of faith and community on quality of health for at risk youth including LGBTQ youth living in the Deep South.”
Ladinsky is a proponent of puberty blockers, which can cause brain swelling and blindness, according to the FDA, and permanently stunt growth and the development of secondary sex characteristics, like breasts in girls and the development of the testes in boys. As children grow into teens, she recommends cross-sex hormones, so that girls develop deeper voices, facial and body hair, and boys develop larger breasts.
In 2021, Ladinsky invoked scripture* to state that medical gender transition for teens was the compassionate way to treat gender dysphoria, and to buck against the Alabama Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act that criminalized this kind of treatment for minors.”
* I want to point out this is the true meaning of taking “God’s Name in vain”. When a person uses his Name or Word to justify evil, that man or woman is taking it vain. Morissa Ladinsky is truly evil.
#36 – HoleeSCHMIDT Big Brudda!
I just read that to Barb – She shares my abject HORROR at such E V I L
One pan of chicken leg quarters sprinkled with Tony Chacheres’ and one pan sprinkled with lemon pepper – in the oven for 45-55 minutes… in preparation for “feeding them to Nellie…” to dehydrate… Prayers appreciated LOL
GJT you might be interested in my cousin’s life long obsession with cars. In this YouTube video, he takes a trip down memory lane of all (or most of) the cars he’s ever owned.
At about the six min mark, I make a cameo with my 2002 Trans Am. You’ll here my cousin say we were on a road trip to visit my granddaddy. Those photos were taken in Brownwood. That’s the trip were I brought up Tom Hanks, Band of Brothers, and Hank’s efforts to get a new WWII memorial on the National Mall. I had never seen Grandaddy cry and I had maybe heard him curse once in my life. With tears in his eyes he responded with “I didn’t give up four years of my life to live through that S&%! for a F@#%ing war memorial”.
Y’all enjoy the car show in the video. I’ve had the opportunity to live vicariously through my cousin by either riding along or driving many of those cars.
When I gave a eulogy for my grandaddy at his funeral five years ago, I brought up that quote with the F-bomb. I brought it up in the context that many of those WWII vets internalized all the horror and grief they witnessed overseas. They came home used the GI bill to go to college, went to work, got married, and had children. When I was a little boy, he’d retell funny or humorous stories. As he got older he started to tell some of the more macabre stories.
I’m still upset with myself that I never sat him down for a video interview before he passed away. Even the stories of the events that earned him two Purple Hearts and a Silver Star are starting to get fuzzy for me. I still remember the outline but I know I’m starting to leave out details that told us in the past.
Enjoyed the car vid, Texmo.
Ha! My cousin has already texted me and said he forgot to include a Porche 986 in his video.
My cousin is the master of buying low and selling high. That is how he has been able to own so many cars over the years without losing his shirt and reducing his net worth to something close to zero.
Enjoyed the video TexMo, some really cool cars. My son shares some of his tastes like the BMW’s and Subarus and vettes, me not so much. Saw your mug with the Trans Am. Wife 2 had a black Trans Am, 1978 model. Of course being a late 70’s car it had no guts but it was fun to drive. No AC though! I spoke of that before, she was from Michigan and they didn’t believe you needed AC. Bull!
When she lived up there the Trans Am was parked in the winter, the limited slip differential caused you to slip and slide all over the road.
Buying low and selling at a profit is how my son keeps upgrading his bikes, cars and trucks, he has had nothing like your cousin but he’s decent at it. He is on vette #2 now, 2015 model, whichever C version they call that year.
Today’s Hamousonian
Hey Tedtam – if you’re around… I just got thru deboning & cutting up the chicken leg/thigh meat into bite sized pieces, and it seemed really greasy – think I should rinse it with hot water? Oh – never mind – I just rewatched the video where she baked chicken and picked it off “didn’t bother rinsing”…
I need to find that video to watch m’self. I have a bag of quarters cooking right now.
Well we made it to Midland. Left the farm about 7 Am, drove a little less than 2 hours to North Florida Airport and touched down in Midland about 3:30. Gawd bless Amerika. We were supposed to have a 30 minute layover in Dallas but they had an issue with the equipment so we had time for lunch at a Mexican place. It was pricey but pretty good for airport grub. Oh and we flew out of PC in a 737 dash 8 with NO empty seats. The plane out of Dallas was scheduled to be a 737 700 but got changed to a dash 8 and there were exactly 40 people on board. FWIW; The Dash 8 holds 178 passengers and 700, 128. Oh and these things started out with about 80 seats.
Tedtam – here’s a link
She said that she did her’s at 115 because she doesn’t like to go past that on her Nesco and is afraid the trays will warp. I’ve got mine set at 125 – not the 135 for “leftovers/meals” since the chicken was cooked prior. The chart I’ve got says 155 for meat/jerky… but I don’t want this turned to jerky – I just want it really good and dry… Whatcha think?
As I mentioned in the OC, adults who encourage this trans illness are no better than pond scum. The “time period for regret” is reported to be 10 years (see OC). I wonder how long it’d been between “transition” and suicide by truck for this obviously distressed person?
Yeah, Heidi likes the lower temps. It’s what works for her.
I like my Cosori – Fred has stainless steel mesh trays that ain’t gonna warp. I worry about the plastic trays getting brittle after so many heat/cool cycles. Fred’s metal meshes won’t do that.
Squawk I haven’t said yet, but please keep the Today’s Hamousonian coming. I’ve enjoyed them all.
Yes – I ain’t worried about Nellie cause she’s a Cosori, too… I’m just torn about what temp to use… It’s not like it’s raw chicken – for jerky… I guess I could go up to the 135 for leftovers?
Astros win again.
Peńa and the Big Guy did it again.
Texmo
Thanks, I will
51 Shannon – It was a “nice” game, wasn’t it? Once again, we listened on the “radio” and had the espanol version on TV with the sound off… I wasn’t watching the screen much – but the replays were AWESOME
With ElGordo and Super Dave out, thanks for stepping up with extra content today Tedtam.
I was planning on it, but stuff got in the way.
Radio only for me. Mostly while on the road.
I didn’t start listening until about the 5th.
Game 3 is Saturday.
I wonder if it’s going to be on free TV for us po’ folks?
GO ‘STROS!
YeeeeeeeeHAW!
Shannon, the Astros’ schedule says “TBS”
Harrrumph
Which radio station are y’all listening to the Stros on?
Ditto to Shannon’s Harrrumph on the TBS only TV option.
At least the World Series is on Fox…
Well, if it makes ya’ll feel any better – we’ve had the TV on, on some station that is in Spanish (I think it’s a version of TBS – but we can’t get the English version)… and listening to the radio for the version we understand… Besides, I’m really used to listening to the games on the radio – they’re not quite as obnoxious as the TV commenters.
Texmo
I’m listening to Astros baseball on Houston Sports-talk Radio 790 AM.
Which is an iHeart radio network station.
At home, I use Fay’s phone, WiFi, and play it thru my bookshelf speakers with Bluetooth.
We must have an inversion layer in my area. It smells like refinery air out there.
Tedtam
Current conditions at Hobby include a 10 mph wind from the East.
So I suppose Stinkadena could be wafting your way.
Whenever my side dishes are black beans with a healthy addition of pickled jalapeño slices and pineapple chunks on a bed of cottage cheese, the chances that I’ll ever be able to do the keto diet again become slimmer.
#66 – Capsaicin is excellent for overall health Brother – keep eatin those Japalenos!
So good.
Katfish
The Keto diet is basically meat, eggs, above ground vegetables, and some cheese.
NOTHING ELSE is allowed, except water.
If you eat that way you’ll live forever.
Miserable. But forever.
🙂
I just watched an interesting show on Netflix called “The Minimalist”.
The basic thrust is to jettison all the crap in your house, office, and life that doesn’t really matter. Being an anti-horder if you will.
I have to say that not being a slave to your stuff has lots of appeal.
Edited: There are degrees of minimalizing, and going hard core and living in a storage shed type space doesn’t work well for me. Having the forethought and wisdom to determine what is crap and what has lasting value is the key.
70 Bones
I’m trying to accomplish a modified version of that.
The problem is trying to get people to haul off the “stuff” that is supposedly important to them.
What am I, a free mini-warehouse??
🙂
If you just eliminate the flour, corn, sugar, potatoes and other carbs in your life, you will go a long way to losing a ton of weight and feel a lot better.
It is not complicated. Live on meats, cheeses, nuts and green vegetables. Everybody is different and I eat a little flour and corn meal without any real downside, but it is sugar that does me in and I see the results by the next day. I cannot metabolize it.
Correa not in the playoffs. That one’s gotta hurt.
https://twitter.com/BradeauxNBA/status/1580695220911411201
EG posted this OY an hour ago, in response to my asking if all was going well:
Cute kid.
https://twitter.com/saraiiviera/status/1580675300995649536
73 GJT
I saw earlier that Correa is expected to execute his option to dump the Twins and become a free agent, again, after just one year.
The $35 million he made this year probably eases his pain of no post-season for him.
Looking at his stats, Correa didn’t lose a step in Minnesota.
Astros didn’t either. 😀 😀
Oh, my.
Two of my favorite subjects
I had to have it.
Shannon thanks for the 790AM tip and for mentioning that is an IHeart station so that I can listen to it on my phone. I only have three radios in this house that can pick up AM/FM. One is in a kid’s room, one is a bed side alarm clock that I only use as a clock, and the third is the receiver for my home theater set up. I am so accustomed to playing Spotify through my wifi speakers that I don’t know if I remember how to walk across the room, turn on a radio, and heaven forbid actually turn the dial.
As keen as I am on emergency preparedness, I do not have a battery powered radio that can pick up AM. I should probably rectify that.