Gov. McCrory: Myths Vs Facts On “Transgender” Bathroom Law

By William Teach March 26, 2016 – 4:36 pm

Of course, facts do not really matter to Progressives, it’s all about the feelings. Oh, and patronizing an interest group. Here’s what I got in my email (not using the blockquotes, for brevity)

Here’s what the New York Times, Huffington Post and other media outlets aren’t telling you about the common-sense privacy law we signed this week. 

1. Does the new bill limit or prohibit private sector companies from adopting their own nondiscrimination policies or practices?

  • Answer: No. Businesses are not limited by this bill. Private individuals, companies and universities can adopt new or keep existing nondiscrimination policies.

2. Does this bill take away existing protections for individuals in North Carolina?

  • Answer: No. In fact, for the first time in state history, this law establishes a statewide anti-discrimination policy in North Carolina which is tougher than the federal government’s. This also means that the law in North Carolina is not different when you go city to city. 

3. Can businesses and private facilities still offer reasonable accommodations for transgender people, like single occupancy bathrooms for instance?

  • Answer: Yes. This bill allows and does nothing to prevent businesses, and public or private facilities from providing single use bathrooms. 

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 26, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a world flooding from too much carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is The First Street Journal, with a post on ending the solar welfare for the well to do.

There’s also another photo below the more tag, which I uploaded but considered a bit too risque after reflection. Any recommendations for next week’s theme?

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NRA Arms The Cute Little Buggers In Fairy Tales Rewrite

By William Teach March 26, 2016 – 11:29 am

This one comes via Jenny North at Victory Girls Blog

The NRA has rewritten childhood classics by inserting armed protagonists – the children have guns! And predictably, some “well-meaning” gun grabbers are not happy:

Critics accuse the NRA of undertaking a “campaign to arm children.”

“The NRA continues to stoop to new lows in the hopes of shoving guns into America’s youngest hands,” Dan Gross, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, said in a statement.

The gist of the modern twist on the fairy tales is that the children involved have been taught gun safety and are able to protect themselves from evil witches and Big Bad Wolves. The two fairy tales that have been transformed in stories supporting the Second Amendment are Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood (NRA versions at the links).

Looking back on these stories, even sans firearms, they are quite terrifying! Small children lost in dark woods, with no food or heat, perhaps even abandoned by their parents, and facing insurmountable odds against cannibal old ladies and ravenous wild animals. That alone should be reason enough for trigger warnings galore! But giving a gun to a child is supposedly a new low.

Ms. North makes a good point. Those fairy tales are terrifying for children, or should be. Many of them are simply parables meant to teach children, and creating that situation of fear worked, for the most part. And the NRA version removes the typical messy ends for the bad guys in the stories

The NRA rewrites also exclude any horrific demise of the antagonists – the witch is locked up and taken away, and the wolf is taken away by the huntsman, not stuffed with rocks after being cut open. No one gets eaten or burned alive. The new stories are far more benign than the original versions.

This is all about pushing for responsible gun safety at a young age. Of course, leftist gun-grabbers would prefer to leave the population unarmed, dependent on Government to show up after the crime.

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Billings Incorporates ‘Climate Change’ Into Good Friday Cross Walk

By William Teach March 26, 2016 – 7:36 am

Why, yes, Warmists do manage to infiltrate their insane message of planetary doom into everything. Now they’ve managed to include it into a Good Friday cross walk, and, no, I won’t lay off religious leaders who buy into the claptrap of Hotcoldwetdry

(Billings Gazette) Jesus was condemned to die Friday afternoon just outside the Yellowstone County Sheriff’s Office in downtown Billings.

Simon of Cyrene was recruited to carry Jesus’ cross next to Stella’s Kitchen and Bakery. Jesus died on the cross in the alleyway near the Downtown Billings Alliance, and then rose from the dead on the steps of Billings First Church.

During the second annual Stations of the Cross Sacred Walk, about 35 people representing three faith traditions walked downtown, stopping at points along the way to recall Christ’s journey of suffering toward his death on the cross, and then his resurrection.

They switched up who was holding the cross and read scripture, the Good News. And then it all went pear shaped

Woven into the script were snippets from “Laudato Si,” Pope Francis’ encyclical on the environment.

“We’re centering on the Passion of Christ, and in that passion we’re working to understand or listening to understand the tragedy of climate change in our time,” said the Rev. Steve Gordon, pastor of Mayflower Congregational Church, as he walked down First Avenue North.

In the same way Jesus Christ suffered on Good Friday, the Earth suffers today, added Sister Mary Dostal, founder and one of the directors of Angela’s Piazza.

At the third station, Kim Harris, of First Church, read out loud that Jesus fell three times in the Way of the Cross, and with each successive fall, he grew weaker and struggled to get back on his feet.

“People who suffer most from climate change disasters are those who are poor already and have little recourse to defend themselves or to get back on their feet,” she said.

Good news! The “solutions” to solving Hotcoldwetdry will negatively affect the lives of the poor in many ways while doing virtually nothing to solve the problem the Warmists say exist.

That said, they do have a point about over-consumption and over-use of resources, which is a real environmental issue, just not a ‘climate change’ issue. Strangely, most Warmists refuse to give up their over-consumption lifestyles.

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Bummer: San Francisco Mayor Bans City Employee Travel To North Carolina Over “Transgender” Bathroom Law

By William Teach March 26, 2016 – 7:17 am

Islamic terrorism? Out of control government spending? A continual increase in government control over our private lives? Debt over $19 trillion dollars (yeah, the news hasn’t mentioned this as of late)? Sexual assaults from “refugees” and illegal aliens? Black people killing each other at high rates? These are just a few things that liberals do not care about that are important. Instead, Liberals are super concerned about things like a law that restricts local governments from requiring that people who say they are opposite sex but aren’t biologically are allowed to use opposite sex bathrooms, changing rooms, and showers, and they will fight supposed discrimination with discrimination

(Fox News) San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee said in a statement Friday he doesn’t want any city workers to travel to North Carolina unless necessary in wake of its legislation which blocks anti-discrimination for gay, lesbian and transgender people.

“We are standing united as San Franciscans to condemn North Carolina’s new discriminatory law that turns back the clock on protecting the rights of all Americans including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals,” Lee said in the statement.

“Effective immediately, I am directing City Departments under my authority to bar any publicly-funded City employee travel to the State of North Carolina that is not absolutely essential to public health and safety.”

https://twitter.com/WilliamTeach/status/713460331117469698

How many San Fran city employees travel to NC yearly on the government dime? Seriously, this will affect what, one, maybe two visitors to our state from San Fran? Bummer.

“McCrory’s reckless decision to sign this appalling legislation into law is a direct attack on the rights, well-being and dignity of hundreds of thousands of LGBT North Carolinians and visitors to the state,” Human Rights Campaign President Chad Griffin said in a statement. Civil liberties groups pledged to push for repeal and were weighing legal options.

Really? How many people are out there who really “self identify” as the opposite sex for real? It’s darned sure not hundreds of thousands, and this affects regular gays and lesbians not at all. But, this is the kind of issue, minor and inconsequential, which sends Liberals into apoplexy.

Don’t forget, in the name of tolerance, liberals are the most intolerant people on the planet. All because local laws cannot be passed that allow confused people to use the bathroom of the opposite sex legally. But, this will all blow over in a couple weeks, and everyone will forget about it.

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If All You See…

By William Teach March 25, 2016 – 1:00 pm

…is a wonderful field that could be turned into biofuels for cars Other People shouldn’t be allowed to drive, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is 90Ninety Miles From Tyranny, with a post on the consequences of illegal immigration.

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Easter Is A Reminder That Hotcoldwetdry May Be Our Greatest Sin Or Something

By William Teach March 25, 2016 – 9:28 am

You didn’t think the Cult Of Climastrology would skip Easter, did you?

Easter is a reminder that climate change may be our most deadly sin

I’ve never been strong on belief. Sin, virtue, damnation, eternity; none of it has had me altogether persuaded. But one question I can’t walk round. Is climate change proof of sin? Not punishment; evidence. Is it final, irreducible proof (for us diehard boneheads) that that the seven deadly sins are exactly that?

Easter bears this question aloft like the sword from the lake. Easter is the loveliest of the religious festivals; nuanced, paradoxical, hauntingly mysterious. It has always been a seasonal turn-point, a “thank god” moment in Australia as temperatures fall back into the realm of the tolerable. But last month’s news of a catastrophic climate-change spike – making that thermal relief increasingly improbable – underscores Easter’s other role, as a profound and magical moral mnemonic. In short, voodoo.

Our ongoing inertia on climate change suggests that the problem is deep; not at root technical or political but spiritual, a direct consequence of the seven deadly sins run every bit as wild as the carbon we spew into the air. Easter, properly understood, is still the best antidote but its healing powers (since we’re in Harry Potter land here) are neutralised by the patriarchal corporation – the church – that holds it captive.

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And, yes, the insanity continues in the op-ed, and even includes a drawing of melting chocolate bunnies.

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Star Ledger Victim Blames And Shames In Wake Of Brussels

By William Teach March 25, 2016 – 7:17 am

The Star Ledger is one of the leading papers in New Jersey, and one of the primary sources for news and opinion at NJ.com. Obviously, they are vastly left leaning, and are very upset post-Brussels

Religious bigotry after Brussels: Still not ok.

After the horrifying attacks in Brussels, leading Republicans are rushing to advocate policies motivated by malice against Muslims and a hunger to appear tough. That’s both predictable and dangerous.

We have Ted Cruz calling for a resumption of NYPD spying on Muslim Americans, and Donald Trump talking about the need for religious tests and torture.

These ineffective, extremist solutions will only make matters worse. They will push us further in the direction of Europe, where anti-immigrant sentiment has helped terrorist recruitment to flourish.

Got that? They’re blaming the victims, who have had to put up with increases in crime, sexual assaults, demands for Islamic law to be practiced in Belgium and other EU nations, and terrorist attacks, and have been concerned over violent Muslims infiltrating the nations with all the “refugees.” The SLEB is blaming the citizens of the European countries for being concerned about the threat from radical Islam, rather than blaming those who practice and shelter radical Islam? This is known as “victim shaming.”

On Wednesday, [Trump] told Piers Morgan that there is “very little assimilation” of Muslims in European cities like Brussels. Their communities are “absolutely not reporting” suspected terrorists, he said, and need to “open up to society.”

All true. The heavily immigrant neighborhood in Brussels where the Paris attackers lay low has become a refuge for the Islamic State, made worse by a widespread distrust of law enforcement that has bred a code of silence. Think of our own inner cities, where gang members thrive because of a fear of police and snitching.

Again, blaming the victims, rather than the bad actors.

Look at the ugliness that erupted in Bridgewater and Basking Ridge, where Muslims who had lived in town for years, served on the school board or even as mayor simply tried to build a mosque where their families could worship and were rejected.

I’ve got one word for the SLEB: Rotterham. Look it up. That is what happens when misplaced Leftist diversity, multiculturalism, and tolerance go wrong.

Yes, we need to find better ways to deter terror attacks like the one in Brussels. But turning on people like them is not the solution.

It’s an interesting dynamic. Left wing rags like the Star Ledger are quick to blame all legal and responsible gun owners when there is a mass shooting (usually by someone not legally eligible to own a gun, and often by a left winger), yet, when there is a terrorist attack by someone proclaiming they are doing it in the name of Islam, well, we cannot even ask questions. We cannot say that this is being done in the name of Islam. And the victims and those concerned about the spread and threat from radical Islam must be blamed and shamed, rather than wonder what is going on with Islam, and how this can be stopped from within.

These same left wing sites are quick to complain about victim blaming and shaming on most other issues, but, they protect radical Islam. For which the Islamists thank them. They are Useful Idiots.

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NY Times Very Upset Over NC Law Refusing “Transgenders” Access To Opposite Sex Bathrooms

By William Teach March 25, 2016 – 7:00 am

I was wondering if the NY Times would jump into the debate over the just passed and signed North Carolina law that restricts cities from passing laws that allow people who feel they are the opposite sex from using opposite sex bathrooms, changing rooms, and showers. They didn’t disappoint, and, they seem more upset about this than over Islamists spreading their hate through violence in an attack that killed dozens, including Americans, not too mention the hundreds hurt

Transgender Law Makes North Carolina Pioneer in Bigotry

Officials in Charlotte, N.C., spent more than a year carefully considering and debating an antidiscrimination ordinance that was passed in February to promote the city’s culture of inclusiveness. State lawmakers quashed it on Wednesday by passing an appalling, unconstitutional bill that bars transgender people from using public restrooms that match their gender identity and prohibits cities from passing antidiscrimination ordinances that protect gay and transgender people.

Citizens of Charlotte were appalled at the passage of the bill allowing men and women pretending to be the opposite sex to go into areas that would put them in contact with their children in an inappropriate manner. The editorial does forget to mention how this law is in any way constitutional, but, then, the NY Times also thinks that gun confiscation is Constitutional, so, there’s that.

That threat exists only in the imagination of bigots. Supporters of the measures have been unable to point to a single case that justifies the need to legislate where people should be allowed to use the toilet. North Carolina is the first state to pass such a provision.

So, we’re to wait till there is a case? Liberals love to trot out the “won’t someone think of the children” talking point, yet, in this case, they won’t think of the children, show shouldn’t be exposed to people pretending to be the opposite sex in their bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing rooms.

Under the law, people in North Carolina are required to use public restrooms that match the gender on their birth certificate. Transgender people in the state can request to have their birth certificate changed only if they have had gender reassignment surgery. Many transgender people cannot afford surgery or choose not to have it.

Well, that’s their problem, is it not? Why should the children be exposed to Someone Else’s problem for idiotic far left patronizing beliefs?

North Carolina could face serious economic repercussions from the law. It can expect a backlash from leading employers, a potential cut in federal education funding and lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the law. American Airlines, which has a hub in Charlotte, and PayPal, which recently announced it would create 400 jobs in the state, are among several companies that have already criticized the law.

At the end of the day, though, this kerfuffle will drop out of the public conscious, and the companies will forget their apoplexy in favor of making money. Furthermore, why no link about the constitutionality? Probably because there is nothing unconstitutional, by either the state or federal constitutions, that bars the state from restricting cities from passing laws that allow people to use the opposite sex bathrooms and such due to their beliefs.

Mr. McCrory, who is running for re-election, may have assumed the bill would help him in a tight race against Attorney General Roy Cooper, a Democrat who called the measure shameful. “Not only does this hurt North Carolina families, but it hurts our economy as well,” Mr. Cooper said in a video message. Voters should reject the candidate who made the state a pioneer in bigotry.

The law protects citizens, including children, from having to deal with opposite sex people in their bathroom. Said transgenders are a tiny, tiny, tiny minority, while there are lots of children. Oh, and we have a saying here in North Carolina: if you don’t like the way we do things, I-95 goes north and south, as does I-85. I-40 goes west. Pick a direction, and mind your own business.

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Delicate Snowflake Advises Dumbing Down STEM Course For Women

By William Teach March 24, 2016 – 5:11 pm

What is it about Liberalism that makes them think that women and minorities are incapable of meeting the standards laid out? When it comes to voter ID, Democrats think Blacks are too stupid, poor, and incompetent to obtain a proper ID. Then we have this, as found by National Review’s Katherine Timpf

Female Researcher: We Must Make STEM Courses ‘Less Competitive’ to Be More ‘Inclusive’ of Women

A doctoral candidate at the University of North Dakota published a paper suggesting that we should make Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses more “inclusive” of women by making then “less competitive,” which is about the most sexist thing I’ve ever heard.

“There is an opportunity for STEM courses to reduce the perception of courses as difficult and unfriendly through language use in the syllabi, and also as a guide for how to use less competitive teaching methods and grading profiles that could improve the experience of female students,” Laura Parson wrote in the paper.

In other words:

Women are so fragile that a syllabus with “unfriendly” language would be enough to scare them out of pursuing the careers they would otherwise want to pursue. Men can handle taking a course even if a syllabus makes it sound “difficult,” but women cannot because they are weaker and less confident.

Oh, and, use “less competitive teaching methods” because women, unlike men, just cannot handle the pressure of competition, which is also why we should probably stop these professors from grading on a curve, too:

The “paper” is all about feminism and wondering if STEM is gender biased. I have to wonder how all the other women who enter STEM disciplines get by. Oh, right, most are not hothouse flowers who need to be protected by the big heavy hand of Government and Liberalism to get by. Seriously, Liberals are so patronizing in thinking women cannot get by on the merits, and need everything minimized.

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