jmdrake
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That seems less relevant than all of the times George Zimmerman was arrested before and after being acquitted for killing Trayvon Martin. And George Zimmerman's attorney was arrested for soliciting perjury. Seems he was pressuring a 9 year old rape victim to lie in order to get his client off. So yeah. I could care less about the crimes of Jordan Neely's uncle. His uncle was carrying a knife. I'd like someone to provide evidence that Jordan was carrying a knife at any point the day he was killed. And I'm not saying that to be snarky. If I was Daniel's attorney and someone brought me this story I'd politely tell them not to waste my time. Even Jordan having a knife on some other day might be admissible if Daniel knew about that and thought Jordan might be carrying that day. (Then again, taking a knife wielding assailant to the ground is very dangerous and possibly suicidal.) Same goes for all of the "Here's Jordan Neely punching out women" videos. Did any of that factor into Daniel's mental calculus on that day?

Blaire is self described as "a transwoman who rejects gender ideology and trans activism."

Blaire White's real name is Blaire White. People change names all the time. That's even in the Bible. What were the "real" names of Abraham, Israel and Paul? As for pronouns, in English "you" is gender neutral. I never got that "My pronouns are" thing. If you're taking to me I don't expect you to say "him." If I'm not around and you're talking about me, well I hope it's good. It's only an issue when there are three or more people talking and you say something about someone to someone else. For trans people I avoid using pronouns altogether. In other word's "Blaire" is my pronoun for "Blaire." And I generally don't call people "sir" or "ma'am" especially if I'm not sure. One irritation for me as a naturally born, and still am, male is that sometimes people who don't know me call me "ma'am" on the phone or over intercom systems. I don't at all think I have a female voice and nobody that I've ever asked about this thinks that, but somehow that comes across over electronic signals. That happened to me yesterday at McDonalds. I work an IT help line as my main job and sometimes I have callers with female sounding voices but typical male names. (I haven't had the reverse yet as far as I can recall). Maybe you consider this "caving in" but my position is "What's the point?" What do I gain from trying to look up the name of someone just so I can call that person by a name that person never uses now? I feel different about people I knew before transitioning. If I have strong memories of you as "Joseph" those memories are not tied to "Josephine." Interestingly enough you see Jacob and Israel used interchangeably throughout the Bible, but Abraham and Paul are never called by their "dead names" once their names were changed. Anyway, from a spiritual perspective I look at how Jesus treated the woman at the well. When He told her "You have five husbands, and the man you are living with is not your husband" it was clear he was neither condemning her as a person nor condoning her lifestyle. He acknowledged what was going in her life while He was offering her a much better life in every possible way. When she asked Him a direct theological question, worship in Jerusalem or in the mountains of Samaria, Jesus was direct but again not confrontational and ultimately offered something more. "You Samaritans don't know what you worship. Salvation is of the Jews. But eventually this Jerusalem/Samaria place of worship thing won't even matter because God is a Spirt. He's everywhere and He wants worshippers in spirit and in truth." Recently High School Musical star Joshua Bassett took flack from the left for joining a conservative church that supports "conversion therapy." Now here's the funny part. Joshua is openly gay. Note I didn't say "was" openly gay. So even though there were no "rainbow flags" at the church signally they accepted his lifestyle, he felt comfortable joining. I think Jesus approves of that. The Bible says "By beholding we become changed." If Josh isn't comfortable enough to come to a church that upholds Biblical standards then how is he going to behold Jesus long enough to change?

Folks seem intent on starting WW 3. Am I the only one curious as to why the Polish air force uses English? https://halturnerradioshow.com/images/2023/06/01/Poland-Weapons-Moldova-3.jpg

That's your interpretation. I've heard the lichen explanation and lichen are not mushrooms. They are fungi and algae growing together. But...okay. If your point is there are more analogies that can be drawn than just the slingshot, fine. As a child I learned to identify two edible mushrooms that grow in the southeast, puffball and inky caps. To this days those are the only wild mushrooms I'll mess with. (I haven't seen an inky cap in years but I usually find a puffball somewhere.) Puffballs look like loaves of bread. A young amanita (VERY poisonous) looks like a puffball but upside down and when you cut it open it's hollow with a toadstool like mushroom in the middle. When a puffball gets old, if you step on it then it will release a "puff" of spores. Inky caps are small, grow in bunches, have gray stems and black gills underneath the gray caps. Inky cap Puffball

CCR?

It is pretty sad state of affairs that Christianity has embraced the "Woke" ideology.

Not wanting to derail this thread but I am interested in picking mushrooms. There is a lot of hype about safe mushrooms and I know nothing about identifying any mushrooms. I would appreciate a simple way to be able to at least identify and pick some safe mushrooms. Maybe consider starting a mushroom thread. Thanks.

Didn't NY just sign an anti discrimination law regarding Fat People? I think it has something to do with not being able to charge more for fat people. What will happen one day when food is rationed? Will fat people get bigger rations?

I disagree. In todays society the woke agenda will prosecute anything whether legal or not and judges and juries are eager to convict and or award huge sums of money. When they take down Musk, it will be the biggest monetary damages in the history of the world.

IMHO Musk is an asset.

LGTBQLMNOP and every other kind of Pride is respected except White Pride.

I saw this on PBS back in 2007. I can't find the video but I found a synopsis stored as a word document: https://pressroom.pbs.org/-/media/Files/doc/2/22nd-century.ashx 22nd CENTURY “World Wide Mind” Wednesday, January 17, 2007 8:00-9:00 p.m. ET

Yeah....that wasn't my point. My point is that it's not that conservatives haven't embraced the "T" yet. Trump embraced Kaitlan Jenner about the same time he brought the rainbow flag into the RNC. Conservatives have a problem with the "P" (although they might go with "M" now). The current backlash is literally about protecting women and children. The bathroom fight wouldn't even be a fight if it were transwomen that actually looked like women going in there. (Don't ask don't tell). But when you've got full bearded dudes in heals going in? Yeah that's a problem. There are a few pushing against "gender affirming care" for adults, but most states just want to stop that for kids. Edit: And yeah I get it. There are those on the left who will keep pushing for MAP rights. I'm just addressing what's triggered the backlash from consevatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_Man/Boy_Love_Association ILGA controversy Main article: International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association § Controversy and loss of UN consultative status In 1993, the International Lesbian and Gay Association (ILGA) achieved United Nations consultative status. NAMBLA's membership in ILGA drew heavy criticism and caused the suspension of ILGA. Many gay organizations called for the ILGA to dissolve ties with NAMBLA. Republican Senator Jesse Helms proposed a bill to withhold US$119 million in UN contributions until U.S. President Bill Clinton could certify that no UN agency grants any official status to organizations that condoned pedophilia. The bill was unanimously approved by Congress and signed into law by Clinton in April 1994. In 1994, ILGA expelled NAMBLA— the first U.S.-based organization to be a member—as well as Vereniging Martijn and Project Truth, because they were judged to be "groups whose predominant aim is to support or promote pedophilia". Although ILGA removed NAMBLA, the UN reversed its decision to grant ILGA special consultative status. Repeated attempts by ILGA to regain special status with the UN succeeded in 2006.

Always seemed like WWII was such a big war. Hmm only lasted a few years.

Are we sure someone who is pushing for brain chip implants can be trusted? https://rumble.com/embed/v1lupmb/?pub=4

It's not about the letters. It's about actions. People don't want to see children screwed up. There are transgenders who have come out against kids transitioning and there are drag queens who have come out against drag queen story hour. People forget that up until 1994, there was a "P" with the rainbow coalition and it didn't stand for "pride." In 1994 Clinton pressured pride groups to dump NAMBLA. Had that not happened there probably never would have been pride month in the first place. Please see:

Bizarre but not unprecedented. Hitler had his night of the long knives. Stalin had his purges. Mao had his cultural revolution. Biden has already is prosecuting black socialists who dare speak against funding the Ukraine war as "Russian agents." This story is odd because antifa/BLM was all about "F the police" and...well...this group is attacking expansion of the police. So from that perspective it makes no sense. Then again...if the dems expand gun laws someone has to be ready to go door to door.

Actually I'm glad you posted a separate thread. Information like this if vital not just because it's the most effective way to push back but also because this reiterates the fact that many people who are against child transitioning are motivated by concern as opposed to hate. If an 18 year old wants to jump off a cruise ship into shark infested waters that's on him. If a 13 year old wants to do that...well at the very least the rest of the people on the ship shouldn't help and applaud.

So he was dared to do it and did it. That's why they like having 18 year olds to sign up for the military. That's also why people under 18 shouldn't be making the decision to whack off body parts just because they feel like it.

H/T to Anti Federalist.

One can only hope. That's already happened in the U.K. The Tavistock clinic got sued... The British Health Services shut down Tavistock's gender clinic. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-62335665 Anti Federalist, thanks for posting this. I'm adding it to the "Abused, confused and misused transgenders" thread.

That's sad if that was true especially if he didn't want to take the shot. I had a good friend from college who kept arguing with me on Facebook over the vaccine. I caught COVID and fully recovered. She died in her sleep of unknown causes.