Friday, April 09, 2021
Moral hypocrisy!
From the web:
"Gee, let’s keep churches closed, hey let’s keep murdering babies, no-bail and no requirement to look for a job or work for “assistance “!
Wonder why we’re in a helluva mess.........just sayin!"
Morally Corrupt Activism is at the Heart of Black Lives Matter - America Out Loud
Morally Corrupt Activism is at the Heart of Black Lives Matter - America Out Loud
"...The third reason I am against Black Lives Matter is that the entire organization is based on a false narrative, as I will show below.
How many of the people who are a part of the Black Lives Matter movement have taken the time to find out if the assumptions the movement is based on are true?
Is there an epidemic of unarmed black men being killed by the police in our country?
There is a database we can use to check that assumption.
The truth is that the police killed 1,003 people in 2019.
250 were black (about a quarter of the total), and 405 were white (about 40% of the total).
55 were unarmed, and of those, 14 were black (about a quarter of the total), and 25 were white (about 45% of the total).
As a percent of the population, African Americans are over-represented in police shootings, both unarmed and otherwise, but then African Americans are also over-represented in the crime statistics.
According to FBI statistics, African Americans commit 52% of all violent crimes...Read all.
Justice Clarence Thomas fires a warning shot at social media companies over free speech - TheBlaze
Justice Clarence Thomas fires a warning shot at social media companies over free speech - TheBlaze:
Thomas carefully considers whether social media companies should be afforded legal protection by the government outlined in Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, and laments that the current case doesn't allow for the court to address the issue fully.
Teaching, preaching hate!-----Campus Reform | Theology prof: 'Dear God, please help me to hate White people'
Campus Reform | Theology prof: 'Dear God, please help me to hate White people'
"A seminary professor — who teaches at a university with a “Baptist identity” — wrote a prayer in which she asks God to help her “hate White people.”
“Lord, if you can’t make me hate them, at least spare me from their perennial gaslighting, whitemansplaining, and White woman tears,” she prays.
Chanequa Walker-Barnes is an associate professor of practical theology at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, which claims a Baptist identity.
Her oration was published in A Rhythm of Prayer: A Collection of Meditations for Renewal.
“Dear God, Please help me to hate White people,” opens the prayer. “Or at least to want to hate them. At least, I want to stop caring about them, individually and collectively.”
“I want to stop caring about their misguided, racist souls, to stop believing that they can be better, that they can stop being racist,” she continues.
“I am not talking about the White antiracist allies who have taken up this struggle against racism with their whole lives,” Walker-Barnes clarifies for the Creator of the universe.
“No, those aren’t the people I want to hate.”...Read all.
History for April 9
History for April 9 - On-This-Day.com
Hugh Hefner 1926 - Publisher
- 1682 - Robert La Salle claimed the lower Mississippi River and all lands that touch it for France.
- 1770 - Captain James Cook discovered Botany Bay on the Australian continent.
- 1865 - At Appomattox Court House, Virginia, General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Confederate Army to Union General Ulysses S. Grant in the parlor of Wilmer McClean's home. Grant allowed Rebel officers to keep their sidearms and permitted soldiers to keep their horses and mules. Though there were still Confederate armies in the field, the war was officially over. The four years of fighting had killed 360,000 Union troops and 260,000 Confederate troops.
- 1867 - The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty with Russia that purchased the territory of Alaska by one vote.
- 1942 - In the Battle of Bataan, American and Filipino forces were overwhelmed by the Japanese Army.
- 1945 - National Football League officials decreed that it was mandatory for football players to wear socks in all league games.
- 1959 - NASA announced the selection of America's first seven astronauts.
Thursday, April 08, 2021
Report: China detaining Christians in windowless 'transformation' facilities, using 'brainwashing' to get them to renounce their faith - TheBlaze
Report: China detaining Christians in windowless 'transformation' facilities, using 'brainwashing' to get them to renounce their faith - TheBlaze:
Chinese officials are detaining Christians in windowless "transformation" facilities and using "brainwashing" to get them to renounce their faith, Radio Free Asia reported.
RFA said it spoke to a member of a Christian house church who asked to be identified by a pseudonym — and "Li Yuese" told the outlet he was held for nearly 10 months in a facility run by the Chinese Communist Party's United Front Work Department after a 2018 raid on his church.
Guns used in mass shootings in the U.S. 1982-2021
Guns used in mass shootings in the U.S. 1982-2021
"...Guns used in mass shootings in the U.S. 1982-2021--Published by Statista Research Department, Mar 23, 2021
Handguns are the most common weapon type used in mass shootings in the United States, with a total of 143 different handguns being used in 95 incidents between 1982 and March 2021.
These figures are calculated from a total of 121 reported cases over this period, meaning handguns are involved in about 78 percent of mass shootings...Read all.
Univ. of Pennsylvania professors discuss media’s alleged anti-black bias
Univ. of Pennsylvania professors discuss media’s alleged anti-black bias
"...Annenberg School for Communication Dean John Jackson Jr. ...“We often only are able to translate racial dynamics into representations that are hard and fast — good guys over here with white hats, and the bad guys over there with black hats on full time,” the dean said. The media has been part of creating “racialized violence, racial segregation, [and] racial stereotypes.”
- At a virtual event this past Monday, several University of Pennsylvania academics chatted about the prevalence of racial bias in the media.
Both Miller and Jackson Jr. noted that since networks are “largely controlled by white men,” they have substantial influence over what Americans see and hear. Jackson said we “must dismantle” the bias which been “built in, [and] serves powerful constituencies and serves institutional inequalities.”...Read all.
Yes, it's The Bee...or is it?-----Slim Jim Takes A Stand For Body Positivity With New Full-Figured Jim | The Babylon Bee
Opinion: Stop harming our children, follow the medical facts
Opinion: Stop harming our children, follow the medical facts
- The forced isolation of adolescents through COVID guidelines should be withdrawn immediately as a national policy to protect our youth from the severe epidemic of suicide that is far more dangerous to youth than is COVID.
"On March 20, 2021, some 10,000 people engaged in a London rally protesting the severe COVID lockdowns of schools, businesses, restaurants, bars, and even playgrounds. I was particularly struck by a sign carried by a woman that read “Stop Harming Our Children”.
As a busy psychiatrist who has been hearing of growing numbers of adolescent suicides from acquaintances of patients and friends, the extent of this reality was brought home by a March 25, 2021 report from Boston Children’s Hospital.
It states that between July and October of last year there was a 47% increase, over the same time period the year before, in adolescents needing to be hospitalized for suicidal ideation and attempts...Read all.
Why Young Adults Are the Most Frightened of COVID | Intellectual Takeout
Why Young Adults Are the Most Frightened of COVID | Intellectual Takeout
...nearly half of Americans between 18 and 34 are concerned about returning to a normal social life after the pandemic.
...The contrast is noteworthy because it’s widely understood that young people are far less likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID. But how less likely?
...Nationwide, research from the Heritage Foundation shows that adults aged 25-34 account for less than three thousand of the official 565,000 COVID-related deaths in the U.S. (Many of these deaths, it should be noted, are linked to comorbidities.)
This data should come as no surprise. Nearly a year ago, Stanford University’s Dr. John Ioannidis noted COVID's infection fatality rate is “almost zero” for people under 45.
An Inverse Relationship
All the official data point in the same direction: young people have the least to fear from COVID-19. Yet the YouGov poll also shows they are the most afraid.
This is odd. As influencers noted on Twitter, the level of comfort people feel in returning to normal life is inversely correlated to their level of actual risk.
This invites an important question: why are young people more afraid?
One obvious answer is young adults might simply be unaware their risk of serious illness is low.
As I recently noted, Americans in general are wildly misinformed about the risk of hospitalization from COVID-19, with roughly a third of Americans believing the chances of being hospitalized with the virus are 50 percent. (In actuality, it’s closer to one percent.)
..Read all.
- Nearly 3 million Americans are being vaccinated against COVID-19 each day, but the “return to normal” may not be as close as many hope.
...nearly half of Americans between 18 and 34 are concerned about returning to a normal social life after the pandemic.
...The contrast is noteworthy because it’s widely understood that young people are far less likely to be hospitalized or die from COVID. But how less likely?
...Nationwide, research from the Heritage Foundation shows that adults aged 25-34 account for less than three thousand of the official 565,000 COVID-related deaths in the U.S. (Many of these deaths, it should be noted, are linked to comorbidities.)
This data should come as no surprise. Nearly a year ago, Stanford University’s Dr. John Ioannidis noted COVID's infection fatality rate is “almost zero” for people under 45.
An Inverse Relationship
All the official data point in the same direction: young people have the least to fear from COVID-19. Yet the YouGov poll also shows they are the most afraid.
This is odd. As influencers noted on Twitter, the level of comfort people feel in returning to normal life is inversely correlated to their level of actual risk.
This invites an important question: why are young people more afraid?
One obvious answer is young adults might simply be unaware their risk of serious illness is low.
As I recently noted, Americans in general are wildly misinformed about the risk of hospitalization from COVID-19, with roughly a third of Americans believing the chances of being hospitalized with the virus are 50 percent. (In actuality, it’s closer to one percent.)
..Read all.
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