The Climate Shakedown

President Obama is currently attending COP21, the climate conference in Paris.

Looking at this photo I'm reminded of the Russian cultural attitude regarding smiling. If a person smiles for no reason, Russians take him for an idiot.

I don't think Obama is an idiot, but I believe that he thinks everybody else is. He said that America is partly to blame for climate change, saying, "the United States of America not only recognizes our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to do something about it."

This climate conference is nothing more than a massive, retributive wealth transfer from developed nations to developing nations. The developed world has colonized and exploited the rest of the world, and now we are going to pay for our sins. Obama is downsizing America's prosperity to demonstrate his post-colonial sensibilities. It's pure virtue-signaling.

Indian Prime Minister Modi is demanding that any carbon emission reductions be matched by "billions of dollars of investment by the developed world into helping poor countries make the transition from fossil fuel to cleaner forms of energy." Canada is on board, promising $2.65 billion to help developing countries fight climate change.

Administration spokesmanCBS News anchor Scott Pelley did his part to keep the bandwagon rolling on tonight's evening broadcast. Pelley touted the results of a New York Times/CBS News Poll on the Environment.

I hate polls almost as much as I hate fake fact-checking organizations, because they disguise their bias.

The main takeaway from the poll is its assertion that two-thirds of Americans believe the United States "should join an international treaty requiring [us] to reduce emissions in an effort to fight global warming." Astonishing. The result is based on a telephone poll of 1,030 adults, but isn't broken down by party.

There is an article in The New York Times promoting the poll, and it claims that "a slim majority of Republicans remain opposed." Based on what sample size? Why would a poll claim to represent Republican and Democrat voters not disclose what proportion they represent?

Because the sample size is heavily skewed Democratic. I call shenanigans. The New York Times is polling their own subscribers.

No More Baby Parts

The psychopath that shot up the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood is reported to have told police after his arrest, "No more baby parts." If this report is true, and that's a big if, his utterance is a Christmas miracle. It would be even more miraculous than the possiblility that the shooter didn't injure one person at this clinic.

Why miraculous? Because a deranged person using a gun at an abortion clinic is the best Black Friday value the activists could hope for. They all have their wish lists, and what they long for most is The Perfect Victim.

The Revelation of The Immaculate Victim allows the radical left to elevate and exalt the moral authority of the victim. This merely requires the victim belong to a protected class. But it also requires an assailant that checks off the boxes of patriarchy: White, male, Christian, hetero.

Someone shooting up an abortion clinic is my worst nightmare, and I anticipate each new revelation with dread. I'm still working out why. Perhaps a gunman loose in an abortion clinic represents the id that exists in my consciousness. Perhaps because a mass murder at a Planned Parenthood would allow abortion activists to portray people with the sincerest and most absolute pro-life ambitions, as deranged and unhinged.

Or, perhaps because this shooting rampage will lead to abortion activists and their allies attempting to reduce core freedoms like speech and self-defense. Indeed, Planned Parenthood Regional CEO Vicky Cowart said in a statement that "the continued attacks against abortion providers and patients... is creating a poisonous environment that breeds acts of violence."

Cowart is contending that pro-life rhetoric is causing violence. To which, I would contend that it is the abortion providers' business model itself which breeds acts of violence.

Nevertheless, when I heard the report that the shooter uttered the phrase, "no more baby parts," I shuddered. It reinforces Cowart's point, that it is the reporting of Planned Parenthood's sale of fetal tissue that caused someone to snap. Not the actual practice of selling fetal tissue. To the abortion activists, that question has been asked and answered, and the American people condone if not endorse the practice.

Perhaps, then, the dispositive statement of this madman will serve as a double-edged sword. If it cannot be dismissed as cartoonish lunacy, then it indicates a somewhat rational mind. The American public is once again going to hear about fetal tissue sales by the biggest abortion provider in the universe. Planned Parenthood wanted that issue to disappear, and it did. Now that practice, and the barbaric procedures we do for no medical reason are going to be up for debate, once again.

The abortion industrial complex should hope that this killer pleads insanity, or is found not competent to stand trial. What if, despite his horrific and unjustified acts, what if he gets a long, televised trial, and the defense is allowed to portray him as a person not without sensitivity and thoughtfulness? What then?

Then, the abortion industrial complex and their allies may regret their rush to label him a "domestic terrorist." The radical left loves to portray terrorists like Hamas and the Taliban as "just another man's freedom fighter." This is not a sentiment that I share, but judging from what I saw on Twitter, some do.

In the meantime, I would recommend Planned Parenthood make themselves a hard target. Security doors, ballistic glass, armed guards, panic rooms, and armed staff. Abortion should be safe, right?

Blaine's Axiom

When someone cites the Bible, or Biblical history, to make a political point, they will invariably offend. The President does this all the time. Last year about this time, Obama made a speech promoting immigration by citing the Nativity story of Joseph and Mary.

"This Christmas season there’s a whole story about a young, soon-to-be-mother and her husband of modest means looking for a place to house themselves for the night..."

This is just one example of President Obama wielding his "faith" as a cudgel to shame Christians into supporting his executive decision to claim "prosecutorial discretion" over six million illegal aliens.

Obama has used Luke 12:48 to justify higher levels of taxation, quoting only the part that part that reads "unto whom much is given, much shall be required." This is taken so out of context, it makes me wonder if there is some progressive compendium of Biblical quotes out there, ready to be brandished in a policy scuffle.

The most egregious example of this sophistry is when a progressive mockingly asks, "What would Jesus do?"

This tactic and the deployment of the Nativity story were in the air during the Saturday broadcast of KFI 640's Mo Kelly radio program.

"You complained last week about Starbucks not putting snowflakes and the inscription 'Merry Christmas' on a coffee cup. Remember that? This week, as opposed to last week, you're adamantly against middle eastern refugees finding refuge in America. You know, that place, that every single week you allege is a Christian nation.

And next week, right after Thanksgiving, you'll officially start celebrating the birth of the middle eastern child born to a middle eastern couple fleeing persecution and seeking refuge. Am I missing anything?"

I understand that to be a successful talk radio host, you have to be provocative. I tweeted at radio guy when I got home.

@MrMokelly If you really think Mary and Joseph were "fleeing persecution" I suggest reading a Bible.

— Matt Blaine (@chillblaine) November 22, 2015

To his credit, he replied.

@chillblaine Actually they were. A woman having a child not by her husband would have resulted in death. Yes, do read a Bible.

— Mo'Kelly, Inc. (@MrMokelly) November 22, 2015

@MrMokelly That may be, but that wasn't the reason Mary and Joseph went to Bethlehem.

— Matt Blaine (@chillblaine) November 22, 2015

@chillblaine "The reason" is a distinction without a difference. Denying access to Syrians is the issue, not the reason they want to come.

— Mo'Kelly, Inc. (@MrMokelly) November 22, 2015

A distinction without a difference.

Excuse me, but twisting the Nativity story to justify your political outcome is pretty offensive. I feel the same way about the Westboro Baptist Church and their misguided belief, so this is not purely a political tactic. It is pushback against persons who claim to be able to see into someone's heart and see not principle, but fear.

Nobody gives a fuck about the Starbucks cup. Well, not me, anyway, not when the oldest Christian outposts are being wiped out due to Obama's perfidy. All anyone commenting about the Starbucks cup is trying to say, is look, another example of Christianity being mocked and marginalized out of the public square.

But that's ok, Christians turn the other cheek. Until they don't.

Blocked By DeRay

DeRay McKesson blocked me on twitter today. I don't like the block feature, period. It's censorship, though the perfectly legal kind. I don't block people, I mute them. I checked my sock puppet account to make sure he wasn't tweeting threats at me from behind the block.

Threats are the least of reasons to be wary of DeRay. He has actual blood on his hands.

The tweet of his that brought me out from lurker status was his incitement of harassment of the mayor of Minneapolis.

Where is Minneapolis' @MayorHodges? Protestors went to her house and she ain't home. And she surely ain't at the protest.

— deray mckesson (@deray) November 19, 2015

Minneapolis is currently under siege because of a police officer-involved shooting of yet another "unarmed black man." If a person tries to wrest a police officer's weapon, isn't a more accurate description in order? Maybe, arm-aspiring? Arm-envious?

The report that infuriated the protesters the most, and which has not been confirmed, is that Jamar Clark was shot after he was handcuffed. Now that would be news, were it true. But it is procedure to handcuff suspects under arrest even if they have been shot.

I tweeted at DeRay that I didn't think Martin Luther King, Jr. ever tried to incite mobs to harass and intimidate. But that is how he operates.

All these protesters who show up with their figurative torches and pitchforks are the dispensation of mob justice. They are about as well informed as the toothless, enraged villagers storming Dr. Frankenstein's castle in search of the monster. To a man, DeRay included, they are all useful idiots.

And they are getting people killed. Eleven hours ago, yet another police officer was assassinated. Officer Ricardo Galvez was murdered while sitting in his patrol car. Where are the protests, candlelight vigils and tent cities erected in his name?

It's not just police officers getting killed. Baltimore protests have led to attenuated policing and an all-time high murder rate per capita, of nearly 49 per 100,000 residents. That's Venezuela-level dysfunction.

DeRay McKesson went to one of the top liberal arts colleges in the country, Bowdoin. What he majored in there is anyone's guess. My guess is African Studies. Apparently his erudition is at a high enough level to be invited to Yale University, where he lectured on the virtue of looting. His thesis?

"The mystifying ideological claim that looting is violent and non-political is one that has been carefully produced by the ruling class because it is precisely the violent maintenance of property which is both the basis and end of their power."

The violent maintenance of property. In other words, you do not have the right to defend your property with force, and therefore, you don't have the right to your property.

I'm glad that the G.O.P. doesn't have to pander to the black vote. It's less a race problem with the G.O.P. than it is a political problem for black people. They have gone all in on one party, and someone will have to rein them in eventually. So unleash them on the Democratic Party. The Democratic Convention begins July 28 in Philadelphia. Mark your calendars.

Demographic Suicide

Women in the World (@WomenintheWorld) is a feminist organization affiliated with the New York Times. Together, they are tweeting out the news that the operant conditioning of women in England and Wales has been a success.

In England and Wales, women 35 and over bear more children than women under 25: https://t.co/yH3bSW3yNl pic.twitter.com/eBxt01FsbJ

— Women in the World (@WomenintheWorld) November 18, 2015

Women are postponing child rearing until they are established in the business world. But these women aren't going to hit the pause button on their careers and have a bunch of kids. Chances are, they are going to have one, two at the most.

A woman's fertility has already dropped off the table by thirty-five. These are riskier pregnancies, too, with much higher complication rates for mothers and babies.

The article notes that the birth rate for women over thirty-five has almost doubled. Since older women have fewer children, what must have happened to the birth rate for women under twenty-five?

If you guessed that birth rates for women under thirty-five have collapsed, you would be correct. Birth rates for this group have "dropped by nearly two-thirds" since 1968. That is catastrophic.

But the feminists and their media advocates will blunder cheerily on. They have conquered the business world, and made men obsolete.

If you want an example of what boys of the future will be like, take a look at the lad featured in the new Barbie advertisement.

For the 1st time in Barbie’s glittering pink history, a boy is featured in one of her ads: https://t.co/GloQU1lbF7 pic.twitter.com/aBAWcjGM1b

— Women in the World (@WomenintheWorld) November 18, 2015

This is the inevitable result of boys being raised by their mothers, and indoctrinated by the state.

We'll Make Great Pets

Local CW television affiliate San Diego 6 is running a teaser for tonight's broadcast, a story about a most unusual Christmas gift for dog people. The gift? Neuticles, surgically implanted testicular prosthetics for neutered dogs.

Is it television ratings sweeps week already?

Neuticles "allow pets to retain their natural look, [and] self-esteem." If we can now reliably measure pet self-esteem, then we have officially run out of problems to solve. If we could ascertain a pet's self-esteem, I'm "positive" that it goes down after this procedure.

Have you ever seen the look on a dog's face when you dress them up in a silly outfit? That's shame and confusion. They know that they have become an object of ridicule. Now imagine they wake up one day, wearing a cone collar, and their balls have been replaced by something inanimate and plastic. Replace your dog's testicles with Neuticles and he will spend the rest of his life wondering what he did wrong.

It's interesting that industry and culture try to find ways to replace essential things that are removed. It is in this vein that Neuticles are symbolic of Western culture. The emasculation of males begins at a very young age. Nearly twenty percent of American boys are diagnosed with ADHD before they even get to high school. Many of them will be treated with medication.

This medication is to get them to behave more like girls, so they can sit still in class. This is, in effect, a chemical castration.

Western society as a whole seems to have a castration fetish. The feminist movement has been subject to a hostile takeover by radical lesbians like Sally Kohn and Hilary Rosen, and by misandrists like Amanda Marcotte. This is because women like this believe that men are basically like women, only without the vagina. People like this are proud of their gender abolitionism.

For proof of America's feminization, look no further than President Obama, with his ambiguous sexuality. His wife holds placards reading #BringBackOurGirls, which has to be the most impotent display ever. And it's not just a feminization of society, we also see masculinization of women. The most powerful cultural story of the weekend was Rhonda Rousey being shut up by Holly Holm.

Progressives in general and feminists in particular despise any displays of masculinity by men. They believe the patriarchy is useless because they think they have outlawed war. To them, we have eliminated all possible outside threats, and the only existential threats to them are within their own society.

You can't even display a pair of bull testicles on your pickup truck anymore.

First Annual Christmas Gift Guide

With Christmas right around the corner, I wanted to share some ideas for thoughtful gift-giving. A gift should always convey the sentiment that it was carefully chosen for the recipient. I have always considered gifts that are practical to be extra special, for they carry intrinsic value in addition to the affection they bear. Take my word for this, that the best possible bestowal is currency.

If second best is what you're aiming for, why not consider vagina dentata? Yes, teeth for your vagina.

My gift to the gentle reader is this set of images, which you cannot now unsee. You're welcome!

I'm going to get one for each of my sisters, because I care deeply about them, and would do anything to keep them from being raped. This particular vaginal dentata is called Rape-aXe, and it can be inserted just like a tampon. It does require a visit to the doctor to have it removed, however.

Maybe I should get two for each of my sisters, now that I think about it. Sometimes rapists go for the butt. Nothing says "I love you sis" like getting her a set of cock-ripping teeth for her twat and anus.

This gash-stuffer is a must-have stocking stuffer. It looks pretty comfortable to walk around in, too. Rape-aXe is rumored to be developing a sport version that women can wear while exercising.

I wonder if it comes with a warning label. What if a woman wears this to discourage date-rape, and some poor fella winds up with a penis shredded like string mozzarella? Women who plane wangs would have to prove that they withheld consent.

And I'm sure that any guy who gets his noodle caught in one of these things will be in a forgiving mood. Nothing shoos away a would-be rapist like pruning his dongle.

On second thought, forget all this. If there is a woman that you love and want to protect, buy her a firearm that she can legally conceal on her person.

University of Missouri President Tarred and Feathered

University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe has resigned. "I have asked everybody to use my resignation to heal," Wolfe said. Wolfe was under pressure to resign because black students thought he was insufficiently sensitive to the fact that racism exists.

Graduate student Jonathan Butler went on a hunger strike on November 2. Butler's feelings were hurt by incidents in which black students were called racial slurs. Also, by the elimination of subsidies for graduate student health insurance on August 14. The subsidies were restored a week later. Butler's letter also addressed the removal by MU of two weeks' worth of contracted clinical hours to Planned Parenthood.

In other words, Jonathan Butler is an aspiring activist, hoping to follow in the footsteps of Deray and Shakedown Al Sharpton. He will say anything to arouse sympathy for his cause, including alleging that Wolfe "doesn't acknowledge our humanity."

The pressure for Wolfe to resign became too great when the football team went on strike. The scrutiny reached a fever pitch when faculty began walking out on classes.

Once the faculty came out on the side of football players and Butler, it became kind of a labor conflict. It could be thought of as Taco Palace employees going on strike because one of their suppliers refused to deliver chicken. The football players are the chicken suppliers.

The university could have broken the back of this strike and sent a message to social justice maggots all over the land. Because if the chicken supplier refuses to bring chicken, Taco Palace can just get another supplier. Or stop supplying chicken altogether. Raw chicken can be perfectly substituted for other raw chicken, just like linebackers can be found anywhere.

They should have warned that the scholarship players participating would have their scholarships revoked.

Liberal arts professors walked out on the job, and that actually created another opportunity to break the strike. One gender studies professor can easily be substituted with another gender studies professor. Or, they can just decide to stop supplying gender studies programs altogether.

This is reminiscent of the protest movement of the 1960's. There were sit-ins at universities back then, and for awhile, the universities tolerated it. Then they started arresting people. Now all those protesters want to have their anti-authority moment. The university relented when they should have pushed back, and the students will use the opportunity to keep pushing the boundaries.

Slave Leia

Social justice parasites have claimed another scalp of contrition. "Slave Leia" is being airbrushed out of the group photo, and erased from the Star Wars mythology. This is because the character is "problematic" on two levels: The depiction of Leia as a slave, and the depiction of her as a "damsel in distress."

I'm curious why Feminist Frequency hasn't critiqued Carrie Fisher's Leia portrayal. Seems they never critique popular culture outside of video games. Feminist Frequency produced an entire video entitled Tropes vs. Women - Damsels in Distress. Slave Leia should have been a suitable topic. That is, if the issue that feminists have with the character were valid in any way.

The fact is, "Slave Leia" doesn't fit the "damsels in distress" cliche. To quote Feminist Frequency, the damsel construct "disempowers female characters and robs them of the chance to be heroes in their own right. They exist only to further the story arc of the male character.

But "Slave Leia" is anything but "disempowered." In Return of the Jedi, Leia impersonates a bounty hunter named Boushh to infiltrate Jabba's sanctuary. After she is captured, she is chained and imprisoned by Jabba. Then, Leia literally uses her chains of oppression to strangle Jabba.

"Slave Leia" should be a feminist icon.

What this seems like to me is a politically correct gesture being made to people who are afraid to parent their children. Seeing an action figure at a toy store, or in a comic book, could be made into a teachable lesson. Parents should actually look forward to such teachable moments, and savor them when they come. So much parenting is done via mainstream culture. Parents should appreciate the rare chances they get to explain to their children difficult issues like human bondage, using their own words.

Why not reframe "Slave Leia" into something else? "Slave Leia" is just shorthand used by hardcore Star Wars geeks. She could be called "Prisoner Leia." Goes to the brutality of the Hutt regime. And what the fuck is a Hutt, anyway? Not human, that's for sure. Why not think of Jabba being so alien that he keeps people as pets. "Pet Leia" has a nice ring to it.

It's not like SocJus has a problem with slavery being depicted in Star Wars. If they were, they would be working to remove young Anakin Skywalker from the mythology. Anakin and his mother were slaves, too.

It's especially rich that Disney is giving in to pressure to erase "problematic" characters and themes. Disney property ABC shows a program, Scandal, which routinely features extended scenes depicting torture. ABC Family aired a program mainstreaming transgenderism, called Becoming Us. Anti-Christian homosexual advocate Dan Savage has an ABC production of his own.

So spare me the notion that Disney is just promoting healthy or wholesome entertainment. They are just another media company infected with cultural marxists, continuing the cultural push toward normalizing pathological behaviors.

Does Abortion Guarantee Gender Equality?

I noticed this sequence of tweets from The Corporation. The abortion industrial complex and their listservs are nurturing the idea that abortion is a pre-requisite for gender equality.

THIS. → Gender equality is not possible without abortion: https://t.co/oomvsAREmR @TheNation @KathaPollitt

— NARAL (@NARAL) November 4, 2015

...and...

Gender Equality Is Not Possible Without Abortion https://t.co/9UWtkLlw3d by @KathaPollitt via @thenation

— RH Reality Check (@rhrealitycheck) November 2, 2015

Both tweets link to a Katha Pollitt article in The Nation. Pollitt is aiming for her third star in The Corporation, and it is not possible to attain such heights without asserting that pro-life advocates want to make all abortion illegal. That's demagoguing the issue, and with the rising number of abortions done with medication, impossible to control.

Anyway it's worth thinking about what, exactly, makes gender equality possible. Certainly, a woman who is able to delay motherhood gains the freedom to pursue career goals. But there are lots of ways to delay motherhood without abortion. Anyone who suggests abstinence is ridiculed off the stage. However, abstinence is just one piece of keeping sex in the realm of the procreative and sacred.

Adoption is another way to delay motherhood. It is curious to see an article intended as an olive branch to the opposition, not even mention adoption. Who will take care of these children? Americans will! Americans are the most generous society on earth. In fact, I will share with the reader that I had a dream two nights ago where I went with my wife to the adoption center, and we longed so much for a child to love, that we were going to take home an older child. The demand is out there!

But what I really wanted to think about is the issue of gender equality. Abortion may facilitate gender equality, but only in the short run, and then, only on a micro level. Because gender equality is really a political and cultural issue. Women having the power to vote is the true source of gender equality.

Abortion has consequences for political power. Demographics is destiny. Western women who delay motherhood are lowering their aggregate fertility. The result is diminishing political power, and eventually, replacement by a faster-reproducing population.

Maybe the faster-producing population will share the same political values, and maybe they won't. The consequences in the United States will be somewhat delayed, because we are a constitutional republic. But all the democracies in Europe are parliamentary. The invading population won't need outright majorities to affect the political process.

What does The Corporation think will happen to "gender equality" when European countries reach critical mass of Muslim immigrants? The choices available to women might have been a two-or-three generation anomaly. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Is Terrible For Black Americans

Few things irritate me more than an entertainer using their celebrity to amplify political opinions. Especially when those opinions differ from mine. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a freak who used to be good at basketball, and got paid a lot of money. In the spirit of charity and service, he has given nothing back and mentored nobody. But he wants everybody to know that he truly cares about blacks in America.

There are fewer than five hundred players in the NBA. A young black male has a better statistical chance to be struck by lightning than achieve NBA stardom. Yet our culture worships NBA players and encourages youths to aspire to Kareem's level, without asking them to be realistic about the long odds they face.

In this way, worship of NBA stars is something like worship of rap stars: a form of idolatry that fuels pathological behaviors. Young black people should be encouraged to aspire to the level of morality that makes a career as a brain surgeon possible.

All this is a long-winded way of saying that Kareem should shut his noise-hole about Ben Carson. Kareem wrote an article for Time declaring that a Carson presidency would be bad for black Americans. Why? Because "a president who flounders helplessly in office ... would perpetuate the stereotype that blacks can’t be effective CEOs, quarterbacks and leaders."

Apparently Kareem doesn't keep up with current events! Maybe he missed the story about how three hundred thousand veterans have died while on waiting lists for treatment. That Kareem is unaware of malfeasance and incompetence on this scale is understandable with the media embargo on any stories that reflect badly on President Obama.

Kareem also takes Carson to task for Carson's views on homosexuality, calling them "remarkably unscientific." I don't give a fuck what Carson thinks about homosexuality, because it is irrelevant to whatever executive capacities he may possess. Kareem evidently believes the "science is settled" on the issue, but I don't think so. Besides, Kareem belongs to a religion that hucks gay people off tall buildings, for fuck's sake.

Kareem also questions Carson's scientific judgement about the climate hoax consensus. Kareem says that Carson is feeding into the "black stereotype of someone who’s too confused or frightened by all that complicated science so he or she ignores it, clinging to superstitions or religion." Actually, Carson is practicing a higher form of logic than Kareem's appeal to authority, and it's called skepticism.

Kareem again fails the logic exam when it comes to black poverty. Kareem rides the poverty-is-"perpetuated-by-institutional-racism,"-bandwagon. The single biggest correlations for poverty are the age of the mother when the child is born, and the absence of both parents. That cultural phenomenon is taboo. So is the fact that a black person who even tries is criticized for "acting white."

Kareem cites the United Nations as his authority for declaring the United States is institutionally racist, even more so than in the Jim Crow era. Who did the United Nations ask to testify to this racism? Among others, the Trayvon Martin Foundation.

Kareem's article is just a fancy way of calling Carson an Uncle Tom.

Not All Discrimination Is Bad

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has reached a determination whether a biological male can have unrestricted access to the girls' dressing facilities. Conclusion? If you are little Township High School District 211, he she they can.

OCR has arrived at this peculiar decision using circular reasoning. They begin with the Inclusion Clause in the Book of Equality. "All students deserve the opportunity to participate equally in school programs and activities." This is taken as gospel and nobody is allowed to dispute this, even though it is illogical and requires a strained interpretation of Title IX.

Title IX states "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

A dressing room is not an educational program, and while dressing is an activity, it is not one that depends on federal largesse.

OCR's other logical error is using a distorted version of the verb, "to be." "The district, they said, "continues to deny a female student the right to use the girls’ locker room." OCR found it convenient to substitute the truthful "male student who identifies as a female" for the demonstrably false "female."

It is somewhat understandable why OCR would want to protect the transgender student. Although there has never been an incident of a transgender student being attacked in a dressing room (if there were, it would have been wall-to-wall covered), it could happen. Actually, transgender people are a much greater danger to themselves, because they are basically people walking around with an undiagnosed mental illness.

Even if protecting that one student from the threat of violence is a noble goal, what about protecting the sixty or seventy girls in the locker room from unwanted looks? Couldn't one of them sue for creating a hostile educational environment? Oh, right, the circular argument above foreclosed that. A girl can't face sexual discrimination from a girl.

There should be school activities that are exclusionary. Otherwise, women's sports teams could be forced to open to participants who "identify" as female. A clever school might load up their women's soccer team with boys, and win championship after championship. The only reason this hasn't been tried is that nobody gives a fuck about women's sports.

The fact that nobody gives a fuck about women's sports is the whole reason Title IX came down. Colleges were offering athletic scholarships to male students, but female students didn't merit them as much. Maybe a worthwhile experiment would be to to sue any school that denies an athletic scholarship to a transgender person, or denies a spot on their preferred team after they accept the scholarship.

It's not just sports teams that practice discrimination. Should the atheist after-school club deny admission to an evangelical? Should the campus #BlackLivesMatter club be able to exclude whites? What about forcing the local GLAD chapter to accept a Mormon missionary?

Bottom line is if OCR wants the school to make a reasonable accommodation, then OCR needs to cough up enough money to build a unisex dressing room.

Oh, right, they can't.

Christianity Today

Are we witnessing the decline in relevance of Christianity today? A recent Pew survey showed that the percent of affiliated Christians in the United States declined from 78.4 % to 70.6 % between 2007 and 2014. Does this mean the United States is becoming a secular country? Perhaps this decline is directly correlated with various church efforts to become more "inclusive."

A magazine addressed to a Reverend So-and-So was delivered to my office last week. Called Christianity Today, the magazine cover is protected by a jacket with the following blurb: "People are tired and frustrated with the constant bickering about issues in our culture. Christianity Today provides a platform that is ... reconciliatory. There can still be disagreement, but it's disagreement with love and civility." Signed, Samuel Rodriguez, President NHCLC.

NHCLC stands for National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. One of NHCLC's vision statements declares their desire to "edify a multi-ethnic, trans generational firewall against moral relativism, spiritual apathy, cultural decadence." That is all well and good, but how does your moral relativism stack up against your belief that "the conservative movement stands at a crossroads on immigration. It’s time to act now."

Christianity Today is cover-to-cover moral panic about racism, sexism, and homophobia. An article on racism talks about unconscious racial bias, amidst police "shooting unarmed [black] teenagers." Studies show that "newly released white felons experience better job hunting success than young black men with no criminal record."

Another article about race, entitled, Dear Pastor, Can I Come To Your Church? consisted of an experiment designed to prove that evangelicals are racists. The authors sent hundreds of emails to churches all over the country, pretending to be a Christian family moving to a new city. The letters were signed with white names (Taylor, Murphy), black names (Jamaal Washington, Tyrone Jefferson), hispanic names (Garcia, Hernandez) and asian names (Li, Kim).

The experimenters found that there were racial disparities in number of responses. Whites received the most responses, followed by blacks, then hispanics, then asians. Conclusion? "Mainline Protestands' pursuit of racial justice at the societal level appears not to trickle down to interpersonal behavior." Science-y! Nobody wants to be called a racist, in fact it could cost you your career. You wouldn't want to go that church, it's racist.

The final insult in the magazine was an article called, Understanding Gender Dysphoria. Subtitle: The leading Christian scholar on transgender issues defines the terms and gives the church a way forward. This article is an attempt to mainstream acceptance of giving teens and pre-teens hormones and sex reassignment surgery. Because they happened to be born male but with a female brain.

If this is the way forward, then empty out the pews. Morality is all relative and nothing is absolute. Civility is fine but it is always preached by those in cultural ascendance. Jesus never talked about civility. He talked about how the tree that bore no fruit should be cast into the fire.

I only got halfway through the issue of Christianity Today, so I'm not sure I will be signing up for three more free issues. I can already guess what the topics will be. Declining Female Attendance: Should Your Parish Sponsor Abortion Doula Apprenticeships? Or maybe, Become An Inclusive Church by Holding Homosexual Weddings.

Gloria Steinem's Grisly Dedication

Abortion fanatics are swooning and squeeing over the book dedication in Gloria Steinem's latest book, My Life on the Road.

The dedication in @GloriaSteinem’s new book is incredibly moving: https://t.co/yMLyPbgFaW @Buzzfeed pic.twitter.com/nqHRNInvTT

— NARAL (@NARAL) November 1, 2015

"Gloria Steinem's dedication page for her new book had me in tears." Charles Clymer @cmclymer
"Teared up at the dedication of Gloria Steinem's new book." Caitlin Frazier @caitlinfrazier
"The first book dedication that almost made me cry." Neta Alexander @netalexander

Wow, it's unanimous! It makes me want to weep, also. But not in gratitude. More like the hot anguished tears of a hundred million stars. An entire galaxy of stars, extinguished.

As far as book dedications go, it's not quite as heinous as those by Bill Ayers. He dedicated Prarie Fire to Sirhan Sirhan. Or Saul Alinsky. He dedicated Rules For Radicals to Lucifer. But Steinem's dedication is pretty gross.

Many people dedicate their books to their spouses. Lots of people dedicate books to their children. Steinem is childless, so that dedication would be impossible. Not only does she lack a child to honor with a book dedication, she lacks a blood heir. When she dies, her estate might as well go to the government. She may have succeeded at being a feminist, but she failed at being a woman. She was put on this earth to be fruitful, and her fruit is bitter. Every single cell in her body had but one directive: copy itself, and pass on its genes.

I wonder what her child would have accomplished? Maybe her child would have written a book, or solved a big problem, or just had an unremarkable life. Her child was never given that chance, because Steinem's ambition was more important than the inconvenient life she mothered.

Steinem's unborn child didn't merit mention in her book, but Steinem's book will one day fade to dust and be forgotten. Yet somewhere in the celestial cosmos, in a form known only to the creative energy, is a book of life. The book of life will endure forever, and remember the tiny stolen soul.

When my mother went into hospice and eventually passed away, she was surrounded by her children and grandchildren. Who will attend Steinem's final lonely hours? Her literary agent?

Engaging An Abortionista

Had a Twitter engagement about abortion the other night. I want to record the tweets as a way to acknowledge what I'm doing right. It all started with a NARAL tweet.

I notice one thing in common with every argument made by the abortion absolutists. Someone like me who opposes abortion is never given the honorific, "pro-life." Fine, would a pro-lifer call an abortionistas "anti-life?"

@NARAL Abortion fanatics are scrupulous about only one thing, and that is always avoiding the word "life."

— Matt Blaine (@chillblaine) October 31, 2015

My trolling picked up a little fish, who replied:

@DarthWeiner75 @amacarthur @NARAL freedom from government intrusion is fine. What we have is government sponsored and tax payer coerced.

— Matt Blaine (@chillblaine) October 31, 2015

@amacarthur @chillblaine @NARAL No taxpayer money is used for abortions. It's been illegal for a good long time. Dishonest much?

— No Comment (@DarthWeiner75) October 31, 2015

It's exciting and challenging to get a live one, once in a while. That Medicaid pays for abortions is beyond dispute. That the abortion industry finances its advocacy behind the veil of tax-exempt 501c(3) is also indisputable. At this point I knew I was dealing with an individual who deceives himself, and he projected that dishonesty onto me. Someone that well defended in their core belief will not be moved by any argument. A person's core values are like their pets. They will defend their pet vigorously, to the end, no matter how mangy, toothless and rabid.

At that point, I decided just to solicit his opinions, and if possible, point out any evident contradictions. The last thing I considered was changing his mind. Experience is the true teacher.

@DarthWeiner75 @amacarthur @NARAL do you believe that a fetus is a human being?

— Matt Blaine (@chillblaine) October 31, 2015

@DarthWeiner75 @amacarthur @NARAL Is there any restriction on abortion you would find reasonable? 20 weeks? 24?

— Matt Blaine (@chillblaine) October 31, 2015

@DarthWeiner75 do you believe a father should have any say whether a woman he impregnates gets an abortion?

— Matt Blaine (@chillblaine) October 31, 2015

There wasn't a single response by this anonymous person that I didn't anticipate.
"Not my place to tell any woman what she can or can't do."
"Women have a right to personal and medical independence. A right to privacy."
"It has the potential to develop into a human being. It's not one until full developed."
"My personal opinion is once the 3rd trimester starts, and procedure should be to save mothers life."
And finally,

@chillblaine You're not going to win this. You're simply wrong.

— No Comment (@DarthWeiner75) October 31, 2015

I don't see how possessing the moral high ground could be considered losing. I would have enjoyed going back and forth awhile longer, but I was a bit put off by this tweet. It is a clear indication that he was getting uncomfortable.
At this point I decided to wish the gentleman a good night. He left a lot of openings that I was eager to explore, such as his opinion that a man has no right to a fetus that he has fathered. I wonder if he considers it fair that the father has the legal responsibility to the child once it is born, but not before. There were plenty of areas worth investigating, if done in a patient and understanding manner. He wasn't having it.

When I looked at his account today, it became apparent how effective my approach was. As they say, achievement unlocked. He blocked me, and went back to his hugbox. I pray he never finds out how really wrong he is.