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NIMBY! Don’t build your damned solar farm next to my neighborhood!

Lexington/Fayette County, Kentucky, was one of the only two, out of 120, counties in the Bluegrass State to cast a majority of their ballots in 2020 for Joe Biden. The good people of Lexington — the city comprises the entire county — gave 90,600 votes, 59.25% of the total, to Sundowner Joe, compared to 58,860, or 38.49%, to President Donald Trump. That was a slightly higher percentage for Mr Biden than the Commonwealth’s largest city/county, Louisville/Jefferson County’s 58.87%.

So, with so many, many people on the liberal side of the political spectrum, you’d think that Lexingtonians would support Mr Biden’s policies, right? Continue reading →

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Sometimes you just have to be an [insert slang term for the rectum here] to do things right.

My good friends at The Philadelphia Inquirer have, as we have previously noted, been giving OpEd and other space to those criticizing Mayor Cherelle Parker Mullins’ harder line on the open-air drug markets and junkies sleeping on the streets in Kensington.

Well, here they go again!

Drug deaths and overdoses plague Philly jails, raising concerns about plans to step up Kensington arrests

Since 2018, 25 people have died drug-related deaths in Philly jails, where drugs are widely accessible. As the city plans to arrest more drug users in Kensington, that has compounded safety concerns.

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A good news update: three #Antisemitic Columbia University deans permanently removed from their jobs

We reported, five days ago, on three Columbia University deans who were suspended for anti-Semitic texts during a panel discussion titled “Jewish Life on Campus: Past, Present, and Future,”. Now comes better news. From The Washington Post:

Columbia puts deans on leave after texts evoking ‘antisemitic tropes’

University leaders took action after learning of messages sent during a panel discussion on Jewish life on campus.

by Susan Svrluga | Monday, July 8, 2024 | 12:53 PM EDT | Updated: 4:07 PM EDT

Columbia University has permanently removed three administrators from their roles and placed them on indefinite leave for texts sent during an alumni weekend event about Jewish life on campus. Continue reading →

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A hospital, supposedly an institution of science, wants trained health care professionals to be ‘educated’ that girls can be boys and boys can be girls? There are some things which are just mutually exclusive

Sometimes it seems as though today’s political left think that the coed gang shower scene from Starship Troopers is the only important thing. That, of course, and the very-dear-to-the-left idea that ‘transwomen’ are real women, and absolutely Must Be Accepted as such.

Riley Gaines Barker is a former University of Kentucky swimmer who was required to share a locker room with Will Thomas, the male-who-claimed-to-be female swimmer named “Lia” for the University of Pennsylvania. Mrs Barker is married, to a man, so it isn’t as though she has never been seen naked by a man, but I am reminded of a scene in Blue Bloods, in which fictitious New York City Police Officer Edit Janko, who had previously been victimized by frathouse boys who stripped her and posted nude pictures of her, said that she’d never received any complaints about her nude body, because she previously had gotten to choose who got to see it. Mrs Barker obviously chooses to be seen nude by Louis Barker, because she married him. That doesn’t mean that she chooses to be naked in front of any other man.

Does your wife choose to walk around naked in front of other men? Continue reading →

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The part the media didn’t mention Sometimes kids notice things that adults think they don't..

I do spend too many hours on Twitter — sorry, Elon Musk, but I refuse to call it “X” — and occasionally use Facebook, though not for politics, but I’ve never created a TikTok account. One of the people I follow on Twitter is Chaya Raichik and her wildly popular Libs of TikTok, where she made a name for herself by checking through TikTok and reposting to Twitter the most inane and insane things that the left were posting there.

So, while I haven’t checked out any of these things, this story in The Philadelphia Inquirer greatly amused me:

Malvern middle schoolers created more than 20 TikTok accounts that impersonated teachers and posted inappropriate content

Great Valley Middle School students set them up to impersonate, and demean, staff members.

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Philadelphia’s war on the city’s poor

Philadelphia is one of our nation’s oldest cities, founded by William Penn in 1682, and legally incorporated in 1701. An old city, built up rapidly before the rise of the automobile, it has a lot of residential areas built primarily for working class people. Now the city is cracking down on modern living in older neighborhoods.

PPA began cracking down on sidewalk parking and five other offenses. The results are in: There’s plenty of bad behavior.

Enforcement officers have been writing tickets in all neighborhoods in the city, though the violations are more prevalent in denser areas such as Fishtown, North Philadelphia, and South Philadelphia.

by Thomas Fitzgerald | Monday, July 1, 2024 | 5:00 AM EDT

Space is tight on the streets of Philadelphia, and some people seem to consider parking on the sidewalk or blocking an accessible curb cut as a necessity that harms nobody. Continue reading →

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Blaming other people for your failures

Caitlin Clark and Connor McCaffery. From her Instagram page.

Caitlyn Clark is the basketball phenom from the University of Iowa who topped Pete Maravich’s career NCAA scoring record, and has twice led her team to the NCAA’s women’s Final Four. The number one draft choice by the WNBA’s Indiana Fever, she is doing well, though not scoring at the same kind of pace as she did in college, because in the pros, all of the other players are good.

Miss Clark has had a rough rookie year, being greeted by the more physical play that all of the WNBA players encounter. The publicity she received has been celebrated by many, as well as trashed by many, frequently with the racist overtones that she only got the attention she did because she’s white, decent looking, and sexually normal. That overlooks the fact that other white, good-looking, and heterosexual WNBA players before her, such as Breanna Stewart and Sabrina Ionescu did not have the same popularity as Miss Clark; there must be some other factor involved. At any rate, Miss Clark is the rising tide that has lifted all WNBA boats, as league attendance and revenues have jumped, and, after Miss Clark’s shoe contract, a few other WNBA players got them as well.

But this is the silliest take of all:

UFL Blames Caitlin Clark For League’s Poor Attendance Numbers

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#Antisemitism at Columbia University How can educated administrators be so calm and complacent about it?

My old Bible, using an Israeli ₪20 note as a bookmark.

Catholics the world over have just completed a series of liturgical readings from the Gospel of John, and Gospel readings at Sunday Mass now come from Mark. But the Gospel of John is disturbing in its language, with its frequent reference to “the Jews.” From the foreword to The Gospel According to John, The New American Catholic Bible:[1]© Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, 1970. This has been the Bible I’ve had and used since the 1970s, purchased sometime between 1976 and 1978, and is the one pictured at the top of this … Continue reading

The polemic between the synagogue and the church[2]At the time. John is believed to be the last of the Gospels written, with editing into its final form being completed between 90 and 100 AD. influenced Johannine language toward harshness especially by reason of the hostility toward Jesus manifested by the authorities — Pharisees and Sadducees — who are referred to frequently as “the Jews”.

Yes, I wince at some of the readings from John, even though I know the real meanings of the language used.

I attribute a significant amount of anti-Semitism among Christians to just such language, and I hate that. Jews are our religious forebears, and the hostility of some, hopefully few, Christians toward Jews is simply wrong. Sadly, the tradition of anti-Semitism seems to be festering again. From The Times of Israel:

In newly revealed texts, Columbia deans discuss Jewish student ‘privilege’ and ‘$$$$’

US House panel probing antisemitism at universities publishes exchange between administrators who called Hillel official a ‘problem’ during May event on campus

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↑1 © Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, 1970. This has been the Bible I’ve had and used since the 1970s, purchased sometime between 1976 and 1978, and is the one pictured at the top of this article. It is a true hard-cover publication, but the spine is broken, and a couple of forward pages are missing. I broke down and bought a newer, larger-print Bible several months ago, because it’s easier for me to read.
↑2 At the time. John is believed to be the last of the Gospels written, with editing into its final form being completed between 90 and 100 AD.