Month: October 2021

Source:            https://www.wsj.com/articles/pelosi-sanders-and-the-media-11634757936?mod=MorningEditorialReport&mod=djemMER_h

            If there was any doubt about the arrogance of the so-called “progressive” democrats, and those democrats expecting the media to be in bed with them, it has been resolved by the following quote from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi:

            “Last week Rudy Takala noted at Mediaite:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Tuesday lamented the media’s failure to sell the $3.5 trillion spending bill proposed by congressional Democrats.

‘Well, I think you all could do a better job of selling it, to be very frank with you,’ [she] said at a daily press briefing with reporters, in response to a question about the proposal.”

                Now this comes from the same woman who said Congress would have to pass the Affordable Care Act before any of us, even her own Congressional colleagues, could find out what’s in it, so we suppose this arrogance is no surprise.  Still, it’s news to us that this is the media’s job.  Sad to say, the historical adherence to facts and investigation (by some formerly legitimate outlets, anyway) and not advocacy has gone by the boards, such that you simply cannot trust anymore what avowed progressive mainstream media says and prints, which includes formerly respected publications like the New York Times (all the news that’s fit to print indeed) and the Boston Globe.  Sigh…at least the Globe has good funnies and sports.

Source:            https://oberlinreview.org/25000/opinions/male-workers-allowed-into-baldwin-unsettling-residents/

            Oberlin College in Ohio must be some kinda place.  According to the above article, Oberlin has a dorm named Baldwin Cottage, which “is the home of the Women and Trans Collective. The College website describes the dorm as ‘a close-knit community that provides women and transgendered persons with a safe space for discussion, communal living, and personal development.’ Cisgender men are not allowed to live on the second and third floors, and many residents choose not to invite cisgender men to that space.”

            In case you weren’t aware, “cisgender” means “straight” in the real world, which is a place far indeed from where at least some residents of Baldwin Cottage live.  Oberlin apparently is engaged in a project at Baldwin Cottage to install/replace radiators, so an email went out from the Oberlin “area coordinator for Multicultural and Identity-Based Communities” (wokespeak, indeed) informing residents that radiators would be installed in the coming days. 

            This notice caused one resident, a Peter Fray-Witzer, to write an op-ed to the Oberlin student paper.  He wrote that “I was angry, scared, and confused.”  “In general, I am very averse to people entering my personal space. This anxiety was compounded by the fact that the crew would be strangers, and they were more than likely to be cisgender men. . . . The next day, I waited apprehensively. The workers began installing in common spaces, and I could see immediately that they were all men. It was clear that the College had not made a special request that male workers not be allowed onto the upper floors of Baldwin.”

            Yikes!  The radiator installers were all men, how terrible, what a shock!  Of course, he assumes they were “cisgender,” though that may or may not be true.  We can only assume that since this area is only for women and “transgender” students, that a resident named “Peter” is one of these confused girls pampered by his/her parents who thinks she’s a guy.  Or he’s a guy masquerading as a woman who hasn’t changed his name yet for some reason – hey, as long as he isn’t “cisgender,” right? Well, who knows with these coddled kids? 

            In any event, we’re not sure who else he (or she, or they, or it, or whatever) thought was going to install these radiators – is there an all-female or all-“transgender” radiator installation crew at the College, or even within 25 thousand miles of it, that the College could hire for just these two floors out of the entire campus?  Seems unlikely to us.  And why should the College go through such trouble anyway – rather, this kid should grow up and be the man he pretends to be. He also whines that gee, couldn’t this work have been done in the summer?  Well, if he’d been paying attention to the world he’d know that getting staff for anything these days is a terrible chore and it certainly stands to reason that if the College could have gotten this done in the summer it would have if it made sense logistically. Or maybe they never even thought about it – so what? But the fact is that there’s a bigger world out there than the 2nd and 3rd floors of Baldwin Cottage and neither the College nor the world were created just to cater to the whims and confused “identity” of snowflakes like this. 

Reference:        https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/10/13/magazine/heres-what-doulas-do-how-theyre-fighting-black-maternal-health/?event=event12 

                In an otherwise standard Boston Globe woke but somehwat interesting article, this Boston Globe “journalist” went out of her way to avoid calling pregnant women “pregnant women” in a description about what doulas are and do:

                “Trained in holistic pregnancy and postpartum care, birth doulas guide pregnant people — cisgender women and those of other gender identities — to getting the medical, emotional, and social care they need.”       

                C’mon…

References:        https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/12/health/aspirin-heart-attack-stroke.html; https://www.wsj.com/articles/partisan-science-antiscience-facts-misrepresentation-fauci-lancet-lab-leak-11633960740?mod=hp_opin_pos_4#cxrecs_s

                Over the past 20-30 odd years, we’ve all been told by the “experts” that we all should take a baby aspirin everyday to help ward off heart attacks/disease.  It was a magical and cheap way to promote heart health.

                Guess what?  Now the “experts” say we shouldn’t, not at all.  In fact, the risk of serious side effects “far outweight” the supposed benefit.  According to the esteemed New York Times, the king of “follow the science”

”Doctors should no longer routinely begin prescribing a daily regimen of low-dose aspirin to most people at high risk of a first heart attack or stroke, according to new draft guidelines by a U.S. panel of experts. The proposed recommendation is based on mounting evidence that the risk of serious side effects far outweighs the benefit of what was once considered a remarkably cheap weapon in the fight against heart disease.

“The U.S. panel also plans to retreat from its 2016 recommendation to take baby aspirin for the prevention of colorectal cancer, guidance that was groundbreaking at the time. The panel said more recent data had raised questions about the putative benefits for cancer, and that more research was needed.”

                You should read the Wall Street Journal opinion piece cited above if you want to know what “follow the science” really means, and it does NOT mean to supinely accept what these so-called “experts” say or promote.  Why?  Very simply, science is a process, not an end result with a cold hard solid answer you can rely on.