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Just so you understand how much we appreciate snow, now that we’ve finally had a serious snowfall, I took a day off work yesterday to take Klara out to play in the snow. N is taking a day off today for the same purpose.
I looked up the climate in Greenland, and it’s encouragingly chilly. Are there any places of higher education there just in case it does decide to join the union?
Remember, we are the bad people for being horrified by these stories:
It’s really cute how that ludicrous “103 years” was snuck into the story to obscure how minimal the actual sentences were.
Hussain raped girls for over a decade, with the youngest being only 11 years old. He’s back in the community now.
I have my entire X feed filled to the brim with the obsessively repeated “But why would Elon Musk care about what’s happening in Britain?” Strangely, the same Europeans who just don’t get it thought it was perfectly fine for them to organize BLM events over George Floyd.
There are several trans-identifying men who are serving sentences at the Washington Correctional Center for Women for murdering or raping women.
One of them is Douglas Perry, a serial killer who murdered Yolanda Sapp (26), Nicki Lowe (34), and Kathleen Brisbois (38). He disposed of their naked bodies by dumping them near the Spokane River. He insinuated that he had killed additional 6 women, bringing his suspected victim count to 9. Today, Perry is serving his sentence in a women’s jail.
Another trans-identifying man housed at the Washington Correctional Center for Women is Hobbie Bingham. He was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl. In jail, he sexually assaulted a developmentally disabled female inmate.
Yet another male prisoner at this correctional facility is Nathan Goninan, convicted for strangling a 17-year-old girl. In jail – the same female jail as the other male criminals I discuss here – he raped several women. The jail authorities tried to transfer him to a men’s prison but the ACLU defended his right to stay in women’s jail on human rights grounds.
Christopher Williams, a convicted child rapist, is serving a prison term at the same female correctional facility. He subjected a female cellmate to a campaign of sexual harassment and then raped her.
There are currently 11 trans-identifying men serving their sentences at the Washington Correctional Center for Women. Nine of them are there for violent and sexual crimes against women and children.
An additional 150 men are petitioning to be transferred to the Washington Correctional Center for Women.
Turns out JD Salinger was a health food nut and a practicing homeopath. His understanding of healthy eating was very touchingly American.
He was adamantly opposed to eating anything but nuts, seeds, raw vegetables, and raw milk. Rarely, he’d consent to cheese. Nothing processed, nothing with sugar, and nothing cooked at over 150°F. No coffee. No beverages at all except water. And, incomprehensibly, no tomatoes, not even the raw variety.
The only exception to these rules were popcorn, bagels, and smoked salmon. It would not occur to anybody but an American, and a Jewish American at that, to list these as indispensable and healthier than tomatoes.
This isn’t some incel toiling in obscurity. It’s a guy who’s been given everything you can aspire to on the institutional level:
I guess it’s not equally illegal for everybody in the UK to mention population replacement.
I’m reading Joyce Maynard’s autobiography At Home in the World, and it’s really funny to me how back in the 1970s, being suspicious of childhood vaccinations, trying to grow your own food, conducting childbirth and childrearing outside of the official medical and educational apparatus, and being opposed to the state machine was a lefty thing to do.
Of course, the Left has overtaken the state and the official education and medicine, and as a result, it’s the Right that is now suspicious of it. But healthy eating, healthy child-rearing, and valuing freedom to figure out one’s own worldview has traveled to the Right, too.
Another story in the “how dare we notice” series:
A man who forced himself on a young woman as she walked home alone late at night has walked free after complaining he would lose his job if he went to jail.
Takeaway worker Javed Miah, 23, ambushed the terrified victim in the street before pulling her to the floor and molesting her.The defendant faced jail after admitting sexual assault but was sent on a sex offender rehabilitation programme after pleading he was a ”the sole earner” in his family.
There are people in the UK right now sitting in jail for posting on social media or selling anti-immigration stickers. Yet sexual assault goes unpunished. There’s a sustained, long-term campaign in the UK of not prosecuting sexual offended and instead jailing the people who speak about them.
The British legal system used to be the glory of the world, and look what it turned into. It’s now a political repression apparatus, uninterested in prosecuting even the worst kind of crime.
Today, the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (@RCSLT) published a 5-month long investigation into the fact that its CEO was ‘following’ Tommy Robinson on X.
You read that correctly.
Not that he praised Tommy Robinson. Not that he amplified or re-posted Tommy Robinson. But that he was ‘following’ Tommy Robinson, from his own personal X account.
A sub-committee was established with a barrister appointed to investigate, in order to reflect the “gravity of the situation”.
Even more ludicrous, the investigation found that “on the balance of probabilities it was deemed that this was an accidental follow”.
The outcome? The CEO has been forced to issue a “personal apology for his actions”. In this apology, he has apologised for the “hurt, distress, fear and anger that this caused”.https://x.com/JamesEsses/status/1876285240848580920?t=Y-xXHQlRTQjO75nDr2dW5A&s=19
And after all this, we are told something is wrong with us when we observe that something is deeply messed up in Great Britain.
I follow tons of people I completely disagree with. It helps to stay informed, stay open-minded, know what to expect. I purposefully seek out points of view that are very different from mine. And it’s precisely that openness, that kind of curiosity and inquisitiveness that merits long investigations and groveling apologies.
It should shock everybody’s sensibility that people are made to apologize for social media follows.
Dude, not even I am that autistic.
In these situations, I always wonder, OK, he’s unusual. I’m also unusual, so I get it. But why doesn’t anybody around him gently steer him towards an explanation of the things that puzzle him.
I was, for instance, not very young when I discovered that you aren’t supposed to wear the same clothes two days in a row. It freaks people out. I don’t necessarily get it but I’m glad the information was made known to me.
I was past the age of 30 when the information regarding the activity called “folding laundry” was imparted to me. Since then I learned to enjoy this quaint pastime, but why did nobody bother to bring it to my attention before?
Not a moment too soon, my friends. It’s time for Canada to take its own hard-right turn.
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