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Irreconcilable differences

SJSU women’s volleyball team, Fall, 2024. Brayden “Blaire” Fleming wearing #3 at far left, seated.

We should give a significant measure of thanks to Brayden Fleming, the male volleyball player who claimed to be a girl named “Blaire”, for inspiring the courage of the real women on volleyball teams, as Mr Fleming’s presence on the San José State University women’s volleyball team got the players from several Mountain West Conference to choose to forfeit rather than play SJSU. Real women had to make personal sacrifices to protest males horning in on their sports. This caused enormous publicity in the fall of 2024, as the presidential election was coming up.

Then some of the SJSU players stepped up as well, suing their coach and the school for accepting and allowing a male on their team. Though Mr Fleming was good enough with his deception that even his teammates didn’t know he was male, something pretty impressive considering athletic locker rooms and shared accommodations on trips to away games, the University knew, as LGBTQ Nation reported that he “has been compliant with NCAA requirements for testosterone levels throughout this entire period, and has never violated the requirements.” The University wouldn’t have been testing his testosterone levels regularly, for three years, if they hadn’t known.

It was also revealed that SJSU concealed from players being recruited that there would be a ‘transgender’ player on the team.

As we reported here, seven of the thirteen SJSU players with remaining eligibility — Mr Fleming’s eligibility had been exhausted — entered the transfer portal, and the current roster, accessed on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, shows only six players.

Former Lia Thomas teammate calls out Democrats still fighting for trans athletes in women’s sports

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I check Bluesky so you don’t have to! They can't handle the truth!

One of my morning self-assigned ‘duties’ is to check my two favorite sites, William Teach’s The Pirate’s Cove, and Robert Stacy McCain’s The Other McCain. I have been using Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — and recently Bluesky to publicize my friends’ articles.

That seems to have angered a Mr Alan G Nixon — or so I assume his name to be from his Bluesky address — of New South Wales, who has the hashtag #ClimateActionNow in his Bluesky bio. He reposted my Bluesky skeet publicizing one of Mr Teach’s articles with a #BlockList hashtag, a method of encouraging his roughly 1,100 followers to not see my skeets, because the anti-global warming climate change activists are too much Special Snowflakes™ to handle anything in opposition.

They can’t handle the truth, but, more than that, they can’t handle what they believe to be true being challenged. Continue reading →

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Former Penn women’s swim team members are finally speaking out Told to "STFU" when the Democrats held power, now they can shed anonymity to tell the truth!

This site has fairly thoroughly documented the case of Will Thomas, the former male swimmer for the University of Pennsylvania, who then decided that no, he wasn’t a man guy, but a woman. With the suspension of so much of life due to the COVID-19 panicdemic — not a typographical error, but spelled exactly the way it should be — Mr Thomas had a year off to ‘transition’ into a woman, through testosterone suppressants and female hormone supplements, though he hadn’t been castrated had any ‘gender reassignment surgery’ at the time.

Had the story ended there, Mr Thomas, now calling himself “Lia,” nobody other than his friends would have noticed or cared. But nope, the story didn’t end there: Mr Thomas decided that he wanted to compete on Penn’s women’s swim team, and the University, which does have biology courses, professors, and even its own medical school, allowed it. As we previously noted, some of the real women on the swim team were unhappy with this, but the team members had been ‘strongly advised’ to say nothing to the press, and only a couple of team members did speak to the media, under the condition of anonymity.

Why anonymity? The first swimmer to speak out said that she feared for her ability to find employment after being graduated from college for sharing her opinion about a transgender teammate, a fear the University pushed.

That was late 2021, and Joe Biden was just beginning his term in office. The Democrats controlled both Houses of Congress, and the silliness that girls could be boys and boys could be girls was politically ascendant, even if the fans in the stands didn’t see it that way.

It seems the American people didn’t see it that way, either. Donald Trump and Republican candidates raised the issue of fairness to women, and the American people responded by electing Mr Trump, and giving the Republicans an additional four seats, and the majority, in the Senate. British writer J K Rowling, herself very politically on just about every other issue, sent out the tweet shown above as President Trump was signing an Executive Order to try to keep males out of women’s sports.

Three of Lia Thomas’ swim teammates at Penn sue the school, saying inclusion of the trans athlete violated their rights

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Credit where credit is due!

I had never heard of Olivia Julianna before Thursday morning, when I saw this tweet from “Bad Hombre.” Naturally, there were many, many responses along the lines that a hunger strike would do her a lot of good.

But, good decent researcher that I am, I decided to look a bit more deeply, and Google searched her, finding her Twitter account. I wanted to see if she had actually declared a hunger strike until USAID is restored. An admittedly cursory look didn’t find anything like that for her, though she does have other social media channels I did not see.

But I did find this from Miss Julianna, in which she tweeted:

I’m actually down 50 pounds because I can’t afford to eat in Trump’s economy 🙁

That’s pretty amazing! The Trump economy caused her to lose 50 pounds! And, given that Donald Trump had been President for only 16 days when she tweeted that, on February 5th, that’s pretty amazing. Way more effective than Ozempic. Continue reading →

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A Philadelphia story 13-year-olds trying to steal a car

It was a brief story, totally Philadelphia in nature:

Two 13-year-old boys were shot in Southwest Philly while allegedly attempting to steal a car, police said

The shooting occurred shortly before 6:15 p.m. in the alleyway between the 5900 blocks of Windsor Avenue and Belmar Terrace, police said.

by Robert Moran | Tuesday, February 4, 2025 | 7:20 PM EST | Updated: 9:34 PM EST

Two 13-year-old boys allegedly attempting to steal a vehicle were shot by the owner during a confrontation Tuesday evening in Southwest Philadelphia, police said. Continue reading →

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Our #FreedomOfSpeech is different from that of other countries, and we thank the Lord for that! We need to defend our freedom of speech against the left who would restrict it

What would happen to you if you tore up and burned a copy of the Holy Bible on the steps of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan? What would happen to you if you dropped a Crucifix into a jar of urine, and photographed it, claiming it to be art?

There would be people claiming that you were a religious bigot, who ought to be thrown in jail, but you’d actually face no legal charges. Some people might think you were headed straight to Hell, but no one would actually try to send you there.

What would happen to you if you participated in, or perhaps even led, a protest March in support of Hamas or the Palestinians in New York or Washington or foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy Philadelphia? As long as the protest march was peaceable, there might be some hecklers shouting from the sidewalks as the protest march passed, but you’d not be facing any charges. If you were in the country illegally, now that Donald Trump is President — it wouldn’t have happened under our previous President or Kamala Harris Emhoff, had she been elected — you might get sent back home, but that’s it. And if you are young and pretty, NBC News might even publish a celebratory glamour photo of you!

But, if you lived in Sweden, legally, you could be charged with a crime. Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee legally granted protection there, was charged with incitement against an ethnic group over the 2023 burning of a Quran, and was due to be sentenced Thursday morning. Continue reading →

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Jenice Armstrong is all kind of sadz. Target, which already has plenty of 'diversity' in their company, is ending their 'DEI' program

My far too expensive Philadelphia Inquirer subscription. I could use a senior citizen’s discount right about now.

As I look at thinning the herd on some of my subscriptions, I note that I am paying more for The Philadelphia Inquirer than for The New York Times and The Washington Post, both of which are better newspapers. But, not only am I more connected to the City of Brotherly Love, the Inky does provide some unrivaled entertainment!

I’m going to miss shopping at Target

Now that Target has announced a rollback of its diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, I don’t know if I’ll ever step back inside.

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You in a heap o’ trouble, boy

Thanks to Stacey Matthews, who has been writing as Sister Toldjah for twenty years now — she ‘outed’ herself from her anonymity when a stalker ferreted out her identification and was getting ready to publish it — on RedState, I found this gem, from The Sacramento Bee:

Darrin Bell, Sacramento-based comic strip creator, arrested on suspicion of child pornography

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Killadelphia

It’s been a while since I posted a “Killadelphia” article, but it seems that the City of Brotherly Love, despite a dramatically reduced homicide rate the past couple of years, still likes seeing blood flowing down the gutters.

North Philly teen killed in shooting was a student athlete who had the highest SAT score at Samuel Fels

Another teen, an 18-year-old whom police did not identify, was fatally shot hours earlier on the 6100 block of Vine Street, police said.

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