Are Your Children Sick?

We've noticed this.

...When Fauci came into office in 1968 about 6% of Americans had chronic disease including obesity, neurological, allergic, and auto-immune diseases. By 1986, 11.8% of children had chronic diseases. By 2006, that number had risen to 64%. That’s Fauci’s track record. He claims that he’s protecting Americans from infectious disease but he rarely talks about chronic disease which is much more devastating than infectious disease. 

 Childhood vaccines have gone from 1 to 3 to 72 doses of 16 vaccines that are mandated today....

It's slightly unfair to call this "Fauci's track record."  After all, he's merely the Walter to Pharma's Jeff Dunham, except there's nothing funny about their act. 

Rest easy, Fraudci.  There will never be a serious investigation of this "co-incidence."  And we all know why.

UW-Madison Faculty Parade, Part 3,284

When they're not quite wacky enough to get a post at any U of California campus, UW-Madison will hire them.

...During a Mar. 6 panel discussion, professor Sami Schalk of the University of Wisconsin-Madison gave an account of an epiphany she had while researching disability studies. Before conducting this research, she did not think of herself as disabled. After, however, Schalk realized “there was a part of [her] that knew” she had a disability, similar to her self-realization that she was queer....

 ...“So I took this [disability studies] class, and it blew my mind. Just fireworks going off in my brain … I had spent so much time thinking about race and gender and class and sexuality, and I had just not been thinking about disability with the same critical lens,” Schalk said of her first experiences encountering the discipline in college....

Her new self-understanding was actually an epiphany!

 ...“I had to grapple with my own privilege within the disability system, because at the time I didn’t understand myself as disabled,” she continued. She then added, “[T]here was a part of me that knew, just like there was a part of me that knew I was queer."

Schalk did not specify in the panel discussion in what way she considers herself disabled, though in her book on the subject, she writes that she is "a person with depression, disordered eating, chronic pain, and anxiety," and thus is "unquestionably disabled."...

Uh-huh.

 

Next Time Someone Quotes Foucault.....

Sophisticates, such as Yale and Hahhhhvahhhhd grads (and the cabbage-patch sophisticates of Georgetown, the U of Wisconsin, and any UC campus) often quote Michel Foucault because........because.  He's a Communist 'philosopher', after all, and he advocated for the abolition of prisons.  Apparently a lot of District Attorneys believe in him because they're abolishing prisons by abolishing prison terms, which is a distinction without a difference.

Anyhow.

...Two years after Foucault wrote ‘Discipline and Punish’, the book described by many defunders as the founding text for the prison abolition movement, he signed a petition calling for legalizing sex with 13-year-olds. This was not a one-time event. Foucault had signed another petition “calling for the freedom of three men accused of sex with boys and girls between age twelve and fifteen” as part of his vocal activism on behalf of legalizing the act of molesting children.

Foucault’s interest in prison abolition for pedophiles was not strictly objective. A decade earlier, he had been sexually abusing eight-year-olds in Tunisia.

“They were eight, nine, ten years old, he was throwing money at them and would say ‘let’s meet at 10pm at the usual place’” a former comrade related. “He would make love there on the gravestones with young boys....

Where "make love" is nice-nice for "RAPE."

Foucault defined what we now call "narrative."

... A structuralist in theory, Foucault left behind a philosophy that posits that the circumstances in which ideas are constituted are integral to our understanding of them.

 Ideas in important areas of society such as art, literature, science, and education had been developing rapidly since the Enlightenment. He assigned this shift to a change in discourse. Discourses, together with the social practices, forms of subjectivity, and power relations within a society at a certain time, constitute knowledge itself. Knowledge is the way of speaking, learning and understanding at a given time in history.

 When discourse changes, new ideas in areas ranging from pedagogy to jurisprudence are given force, overtaking old ‘legacy systems’ with earth-shattering and often regular success....

(Read "narrative" for "discourse.")

He is accurately called a "deconstructionist" because his system of understanding preferred "deconstructing" those 'legacy systems' which we refer to as traditional norms and mores.

Now you understand why he deconstructed?  He was justifying his own horrific practices.

Boy-rapist and idol of today's Soros DA's.  Hmmmmm.

EV's Need Subsidies To Sell

 What a shocker this is.

The global electric vehicle (EV) market is reeling from one of the most dramatic collapses in monthly sales to date, with Rystad Energy Research showing that only 672,000 units were sold in January, almost half of December 2022 sales and a mere 3% year-on-year increase over January 2022. The EV market share among all passenger car sales also tumbled to 14% in January, well down on the 23% seen in December.  --quoted at AOSHQ

The Ace posting has lots of other goodies which--taken together--are a laugh riot.  Spontaneous combustions, accidents which require totalling the car, being locked IN to the car due to low battery, and gloriously enormous cash-burn by EV maker Rivian.

All to please the goddess Gaia and to push dollars into AlGore's friends' pockets.

+Listecki Delivers Body-Slam to Fr. Connell

This was no mere slap on the wrist.

Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, stripped a priest of his faculties to hear confessions after the priest publicly endorsed a bill that would force Catholic clergy to break the seal of confession. ...

...The archbishop denounced the priest’s position and declared the seal of confession absolutely inviolable, admitting of no exception. Reaffirming Church teaching, Listecki unequivocally stated, “Such assertions are gravely contrary to the definitive teachings of the Catholic Church about this sacrament.  The Catholic Church firmly declares that the sacramental seal of confession is always, and in every circumstance without exception, completely inviolable. The Archdiocese of Milwaukee fully assents to this fundamental tenet of the Catholic faith.” 

Lamenting the disquieting effect caused by the priest’s statements, the archbishop informed the faithful of the diocese that he was stripping Connell of all faculties to hear confessions and grant sacramental absolution, a disciplinary measure that holds even outside the archdiocese.  ...

You guessed it!!  Connell was ordained by the disgraced +Rembert Weakland, OSB, whose legacy lives on to bedevil Milwaukee Catholics with chaos.  (See post below.)

Chaos: Coming to a Country (and a Church) Near You

H.E. Thos. John Paprocki delivered a speech to Chelsea Academy.  Here we find this nugget and fearsome warning:

...Given my patron saints, you might not be surprised to learn that my favorite movie of all time is the 1966 classic, “A Man for All Seasons,” which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, about the life of Saint Thomas More, played by the British actor Paul Scofield. The screenplay was written by Robert Bolt. In one particularly pertinent scene as it relates to the theme of my topic for this Chelsea lecture, Thomas More is having a conversation with his predecessor as Lord High Chancellor, His Eminence Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, the Archbishop of York. Cardinal Wolsey is seeking More’s help in drafting a letter to the Holy See regarding the desire of King Henry VIII to divorce the Queen, Catherine of Aragon, so that he could marry Anne Boleyn.

Challenging More’s reluctance to help, Wolsey says, “You’re a constant regret to me, Thomas. If you could just see facts flat on, without that horrible moral squint, with just a little common sense, you could have been a statesman. . . . Now explain how you as Councilor of England can obstruct those measures for the sake of your own, private, conscience.”

Thomas responds, “Well . . . I believe, when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties . . . they lead their country by a short route to chaos.”ⁱ The implication is that conscience, by contrast, will save the world!...

The number of U. S. politicians and high-level bureaucrats who have forsaken their own private consciences for the sake of their public duties is very large, indeed, but the headliners are ex-Speaker Pelosi, FBI Director Wray, AG Garland  and 'President' Biden.  (I assume that Wray and Garland actually have a conscience.)

So if you've thought that this country is more chaotic than it used to be, say, in the '50's, you're undoubtedly right.  Don't doubt yourself on this one.

By the way, there's another very important subtext here.  Bp. Paprocki has been having a not-well-disguised duel with Cdl. McElroy over the topic of "conscience," too.  That's not a surprise, given that Francis I gave +McElroy the red hat and Francis I loves chaos.

Pray.  And Buy More Ammo.

Children's Hospital: Al's Run 'Not Inclusive'

One is entitled to ask 'What the Hell is the matter with these people?"

After 45 years and $22 million in the bank, Children's Hospital foundation has dumped the Al's/Briggs & Stratton charity run.  This comes after Children's has gone whole-hog into child mutilation (a/k/a 'trans surgery.) 

...The Briggs & Al’s Run & Walk was created when McGuire decided he wanted to do something for the kids of Children’s Wisconsin. McGuire later approached Bill Dwyre, former sports editor of The Milwaukee Journal, and suggested the creation of a community event.

The end result was a race to benefit the hospital that started at Marquette’s campus and ran through downtown Milwaukee. The first event, called the JournAl’s Run, took place Sept. 30, 1978. It cost $5 a person, $10 for families and $100 for corporations, but many more donations were made and the 3,500 registered runners raised $20,000.

“Originally we were planning in the neighborhood of 800 runners that first year, but we ended up with 4,000,” McGuire said in the book "The Milwaukee JournAl's Run." ...

Lots of people, lots of fun, and a lot of money for Children's Hospital.

Not good enough.

Children’s Wisconsin said that it was going to solicit feedback on how it could create new and more inclusive events that could possibly replace the run in the future.

Ditch your contributors, push 'trans.' 

That's a helluva way to run a hospital.

Warning!!

 

How to Vote for Impact

Z-Man reduces all that "how to vote" to simple rules.

...Politics, at its most basic, turns on accurately identifying the enemy. Friends may turn out to be unreliable or stupid, but the enemy is always the enemy. The surest way to identify your enemies is to look for those who demand that you place your interests second to those of some alien group of political actors. For example, the people telling you that Ukraine should come before your kid’s school or that you must impoverish yourself in the name of climate change. Those people are your enemy....

 ...In the end, the simplicity of the Carl Schmitt formulation is the place to start when looking upon the looming election circus. First identify your enemies, then look for anyone that promises to harm them. The goal of politics is always to harm the enemy and profit your cause....

 He is not advocating 'harm' in the physical sense, of course.

DeSantis Was TOLD What To Say....and He Did

Looks like Ron DeSantis knows who his masters are (hint:  one of them is 'Five-Wives Fox").

So DeSantis flipperty-floppertied on his Russia remarks, "being clear" that Putin is a war criminal and saying that Russia's takeover of Crimea in 2014 was "wrong."  He didn't mention that Crimea was the property of Russia since Katherine the Great, but that was not in his script from his masters.

So he read what he was told to read.

That brings up another question:  does DeSantis "clarified" think that there IS a vital national interest in the Ukraine situation now?  Or does he not?

Have his masters told him what to say yet?

SCOWI "Justice" Opens Flap, Inserts Size 12

Here's an example of Democrat/Union/Abortionist-elected "judges."

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Jill Karofsky labeled allegations that a sitting judge seeking a seat on Wisconsin’s highest court has been accused by two people of using the “N-word” an “enormous distraction,” even though one says Janet Protasiewicz used the racial slur to refer to black parents involved in Children’s Court....

Protasiewicz-of-the-Crazy-Eyes, a mean drunk spouse-abuser and gold digger, has NEVER denied the accusations.

But "Justice" Karofsky did, without having bothered to speak to the accusers (yes, TWO, and yes, NOT anonymous.)

What did you expect?  Measured, evidence-based judgment?

US Catholic Bishops Act Catholic!

The only thing to do, really.

The United States Catholic Bishops have issued guidelines banning surgical and chemical intervention aimed at exchanging “the sex characteristics of a patient’s body for those of the opposite sex.”...

...“Catholic health care services must not perform interventions, whether surgical or chemical, that aim to transform the sexual characteristics of a human body into those of the opposite sex or take part in the development of such procedures,” they declare....

There's a reason for that.

 ...The interventions advocated by many as treatments for “gender dysphoria” or “gender incongruence” do not respect “the fundamental order of the human person as an intrinsic unity of body and soul, with a body that is sexually differentiated,” the doctrinal note states, and thus Catholic healthcare services must not perform them.

The bishops recall a fundamental tenet of the Christian faith that “there is an order in the natural world that was designed by its Creator and that this created order is good,” and therefore, we are called “to respect it.”...

One notes that--pace Cdl. Cupich--the Bishops refer to "an order......designed by its Creator....[which] is good."  That means that there is such a thing as a "disorder," something which +Cupich would rather not discuss.

They did their job, the Bishops did.  Deo Gratias!

Tucker Says What We All Know

Sefton quotes Tucker Carlson regarding the impending Trump arrest:

...“What happens when the Department of Justice decides that its goal is not justice but protecting the ruling class at all costs? . . . Think about that. People are still going to demand justice. The desire for justice is an inherent human desire. We are born with it. But if there’s no neutral place to do it, some people will decide they’re going to have to do it themselves. Now, we don’t know exactly what that’s going to look like, but we can say for certain it’s going to be really ugly.”...

No kidding, Tucker.  Really?

Yellen: Nope!! No Discipline!! Nope!!

Because Yellen made an extremely stupid unforced error the other day, saying that 'only the Big Banks will have deposit protection,' she had to "fix" her mistake.

So she blew an even bigger hole in the Titanic.

...on Tuesday Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen tore it up by announcing a de facto guarantee of all $17.6 trillion in U.S. bank deposits. Regional bank stocks rallied, but it’s important to understand what this moment means: the end of market discipline in U.S. banking.

“Our intervention was necessary to protect the broader U.S. banking system,” Ms. Yellen told the American Bankers Association convention. “And similar actions could be warranted if smaller institutions suffer deposit runs that pose the risk of contagion.”...

Apparently it is a requirement that to join the Biden Administration, you must be terminally stupid.

Prove me wrong.

Whoa!! Paying a Lot for Harvard Law-Degreed Help???

This will be a fun series to read.

Here's the opening shot:

Elite law schools have become training academies not so much for effective and competent lawyers, but instead for militant transformational radicals with a law degree.

Mainstream consumers of legal services, otherwise known as paying clients, would be shocked by the evolution that has taken place in the nation’s elite law schools. Instead of producing lawyers capable of helping clients, these schools now turn out leftist activists who are most competent at using transformational designs to upend centuries of legal traditions and institutions, including, ultimately, the U.S. Constitution itself.

This problem isn’t new. But the shocking behavior at Stanford by rude, belligerent proto-totalitarian students shouting down a federal judge laid bare this rancid evolution for everyone to see.

The next generation of lawyers at these schools isn’t focused on learning contracts, torts, civil procedure, and evidence as much as they are learning how to destroy treasured American institutions such as tolerance, liberty, and free speech....

That's the very-large-scale story of the old Arthur Anderson Consulting biz.  Companies which didn't know better but thought AA was god hired AA (computer programmer) "consultants" who couldn't spell COBOL to save their lives, much less hit the PF key and finish a program correctly.  The client's  programmers taught those kids how to write code, while the client company paid AA $100/hour for the kids to learn.  One helluva racket!

Some people never learn, do they?

Something for Republican Poohbahs to Think About

 Nice little gem of wisdom here from Z Man:

... Most voters are not like most Republican politicians in that they do not negotiate with themselves. They vote for the candidate they like, not the candidate that a conservative commentator swears will be acceptable to the Democrats. Even if their preferred option has no chance in the general, most voters will go for the guy who speaks to them. It turns out that most people are decent and honest, not scheming weasels....

He's right, you know.  Especially the last three words.

Will California Screw the Other 49 States?

 President Sponge-Brain Shits-Pants may have condemned 49 States to the Hell of California.

California’s proposed rules to dramatically limit emissions from heavy-duty vehicles could effectively result in a nationwide ban on the sale of new diesel-powered heavy-duty vehicles, thanks to a “backdoor” in the Clean Air Act, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation Monday.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will approve California’s proposed rules, which would obligate all new heavy-duty vehicles — including shipping trucks and delivery vans — sold in the state after 2045 be fully electric or hydrogen-powered, The Washington Post reported Monday, citing three individuals familiar with the agency’s plans. New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Massachusetts, Washington and Vermont have all committed to following California’s lead on this issue, a move which experts told the DCNF was tantamount to a nationwide ban...

If you don't understand that all this "green" stuff is put in place to demolish the US as an economic--and military--power.  It has zero basis in any sort of science other than the 'science' of enriching the flim-flam artists pushing the poison and the venture-capitalist sharks who finance stuff that does not work such as windmills and sun-catchers. 

With regard the Californicate plan:

...The Truck and Engine Manufacturers Association, which represents a coalition of more than 30 truck and bus manufacturers, has argued that the new rules would force customers to delay the purchase of new vehicles due to increased costs for electronic [sic] heavy-duty vehicles, according to the Post. In turn, this would incentivize truckers to leave less efficient cars [sic] on the road for longer, hindering the environmental benefits, the group argues....

First, it's horrendously expensive to purchase electric or fuel-cell trucks. That grocery-inflation you've seen?  Not going to stop.  Actually, every. damn. thing. you purchase will be more expensive because every. damn. thing. you purchase moves on a diesel truck, including the guns and ammo.

Second, the expense of purchasing these trucks will be delayed for as long as possible by the truckers.  As a marker on price, note that full-electric school buses run about $300K each, and they do not need much more than 60 miles' worth of battery charge for their routes.  But while truckers delay the purchase, all that "green" happiness ..............is not happening. 

Interstate trucks DO need more than a 60-mile charge, which brings up another serious problem:  when a battery truck runs out of battery, the full-charge time will be at least 3 hours (perhaps 6 or more.)  Who's going to pay the driver for that 6 hours--and the next one?  And there's this:  think the time-sensitive goods on that truck will still be "on-time"?

Finally, and even more critical: where the Hell is the charging infrastructure?  It's almost impossible to plan out a long-distance electric-car trip, and car chargers aren't going to do much for HD trucks, are they?

Being Californicated will not be much fun.    

Throws His Toy Across the Room, Blinken Does

Having a hissy-fit is no longer the sole province of teen-aged girls.

Antony Blinken claims that a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire "would violate the UN charter." For a professional warmonger who calls himself a "diplomat," I guess it's consistent for him to declare that peace is illegal.

Or maybe Blinken IS a teen-aged girl who trannied?  Who knows?

Someone Best Silence the Polish

We all know that the Poles hate the Russkies, and for good reason.  Katyn Forest is only one--and perhaps the least bloody--of the reasons.

In the Good Old Days, Poland had some military throw-weight.  Think Jan Sobieski.  These days? not so much.  But that doesn't stop them from running their mouths in a fashion near-identical to the way NeoCons and their Congressional stooges (Liiindseeeeeeeey! Graham, and some moron from Texas named McCaul, inter alia.)

The trouble with that is this:  Poland is a member of NATO.  This dipwad "diplomat" is committing NATO when he uses "we" in his spittle-flecked nutties.

If Poland wants to play rough with Russia, fine.  The US does NOT have a vital national interest there, any more than it does in Ukraine.  Poland should draft Graham and McCaul into their army and send them into the octagon.

Otherwise:  STFU.

Who's Yo' (Nutbag) Mama??

This guy's theory is dead-nuts on.

It ought to go without saying that no toddler has ever gone to a drag show of his own volition—at least if for no other reason than that toddlers do very little on their own....

 ...the real culpability lies with the parents who drag their unsuspecting children into the lion’s den of rainbow activism.

More specifically, it’s the mothers. Even more specifically, it’s white activist mothers whose participation in the LGBT craze is essential to their escape from the oppressor class and their tumble into the society of the future...

One is tempted to ask 'What is the percentage of single mothers in this group?' because that, too, would be a useful bit of knowledge.