Some news items offering perspective on the events of the day: Links 1, Aug. 17, 2019

1. An Alaskan Women’s Shelter Is Sued for Turning Away a ‘Man in a Nightgown’

(Would this be a Pakistani in typical Islamic dress, or did Yaniv make it to Alaska somehow?)

It was a cold Friday night in January when Sherrie Laurie, director of the Hope Center — a Christian homeless shelter in downtown Anchorage, Alaska — was called down to the floor to deal with a disruptive “man in a nightgown” who was “very inebriated, with a big gash down his face.” Laurie recognized the man, whom she had seen in men’s clothing before, she tells me by phone. Though the individual professes a female gender identity, he was over six feet tall and “very large.” And Laurie was in no doubt about his sex.

Laurie explained that it wouldn’t be possible for him to stay the night — he was intoxicated and in clear need of medical attention. She called him a cab to the hospital and paid the fare herself. The individual left on good terms. When he showed up the next day, Laurie explained that check-in wasn’t until 5:45 p.m. (On Saturdays during the day, the Hope Center is staffed by volunteers and therefore is only open only to those who have checked in the night before and have undergone breathalyzers and bag checks.) Again, he left without an issue.

 

Though the Hope Center serves both men and women during daytime hours, its overnight facilities are reserved for females only. And, then, only women who are sober and who have been determined to be non-threatening. 

(“In doubt about his sex”.)

2. The EU’s latest assault on internet freedom

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One of the EU’s key concerns, as the briefing makes clear, is the lack of EU-wide rules and regulations covering what people can see and say online. The fight against online hate speech, for example, is said to be ‘expensive and inefficient across the Single Market’. There are also no EU-wide rules on online advertising, nor does the EU have oversight of online services as a whole.

 

The prescription? EU regulation of the internet. EU law should cover the ‘entire stack of digital services’, from internet service providers (ISPs) and social media to search engines and cloud services. ‘Uniform rules for the removal of illegal content such as illegal hate speech’ need to be made binding across the EU, says the briefing. Online advertising, including political advertising, should come under EU control, too. And there must be a ‘dedicated regulatory structure to ensure oversight and enforcement of the rules’.

3. In Iran, women who dress as men to go to sporting events are jailed. In the West, men who claim to be women can compete in sporting events against women, usually winning as many places at the top as there are men, pretending to be women. Iran’s position, which is equally odious, is actually less crazy.

4. When was this video shot? I don’t think they make cameras this crappy anymore. If this is recent Farage, it would do us all well for him to release a good quality clear copy of this or similar sentiments as soon as possible.

5. More on the Philly shooter:

(So the religious ‘bruise on the forehead level’ muslim who shot 6 police officers in Philly, lived near, or was part of a local mosque that had such virulent anti-police rhetoric that they post public flyers for an anti-police rally.)

6. Nolte: New York Times Admits ‘We Built Our Newsroom’ Around Russia Collusion Hoax

New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet accidentally admitted to the whole wide world that for two years his far-left newspaper was “built” around spreading a hoax.

When I say “accidentally,” what I mean is that he likely didn’t know he was being secretly recorded and that his remarks would be made public.

 

He also admitted the Times’ staff is loaded with left-wingers “who cheer us when we take on Donald Trump, but they jeer at us when we take on Joe Biden.”

Yeah, there’s a real shocker.

 

Slate somehow got a hold of a recording of a company-wide meeting Baquet held with his left-wing staffers, and it is an illuminating look, not only at the fall of the Times’ own credibility, but how the news media in general has been infested with entitled, left-wing cry-bullies who only want to see the media used — not to inform the public — but to propagandize left-wing causes.

 

What I mean is that the whole reason for this meeting was to placate a newsroom full of babies who are still pouting over that one time the Times did not slam Trump in a headline.

 

 

Thank you Coram Deo, Richard, Tania Groth, MW., M., and everyone who sent in materials today. 

All who contribute to this site, please try and paste any links on the Portland events as they happen in the Contributor’s links post for today. I think this is going to be a big day in Portland. ANTIFA is at a crossroads. To fold under defiance, or to ramp up the violence to a lethal level. And given the history of communists, we know which fork they usually take.

Top 5 crazy in US schools

Killing Free Speech in Canada. An important article from Gatestone Inst. 

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9 Replies to “Some news items offering perspective on the events of the day: Links 1, Aug. 17, 2019”

  1. 1.

    The bulling of woman
    They can’t let them be,
    The slavery of islam
    Or make them Mommy.
    And then there’s impersonators
    Those prancing with glee.
    The bullying of woman
    For identity.

  2. I do hereby predict that today’s much-touted conflict between “Antifa” and “The Proud Boys” is going to be one big fat anticlimactic nothing due to the fact that “Antifa” are a bunch of cowardly backstabbers who wouldn’t get into a fair fight if their lives depended on it. Antifa likes to wear a mask and come rushing out of the crowd throwing punches only to dissolve back into the crowd before anybody punches back. They are dishonorable cowards and will not make their presence known today in Portland because they know they might have to act like actual men if they do. Stay tuned for ‘nothing’…

    • My concern Chris, is it is precisely cowards who start the killing. In fact it is cowardly to impute attributes on others in order to justify abhorent treatment of them. The ANTIFA and general leftist “nazi-painting”, to coin a phrase, onto normal liberals, (Jeffersonian) is intellectual cowardice that will lead to the kind iof cowardice you describe. Like the Bike Lock wielding prof that hid behind a line of girls to crack a fellow’s skull then hide behind the girls again.

      He could have killed that man. And one of these days they will. And then what happens is on them. But your estimate does not contradict mine. It is their cowardice that will have them start killing us.

      • Their cowardice will also lead them to start hitting the soft targets, unarmed civilians, and using terror tactis such as car bombs rather then hit the hard targets of armed police. Some of them seem to understand that once the kinetic portion of the civil war starts they will be going up against people who are well trained in the intelligent use of violence.

        When the organic animal byproduct hits the fan the violence will be (mainly) in the big cities and their suburbs although there are some indications that people are checking to see what the small towns are doing to prepare for a mass shooting. There is nothing concrete in the way of evidence just a few things that seem suspicious.

  3. Killing free speech in Canada—Canadiansnneed to sign the petition on ActforCanada to allow Max Bernier to participate in the debates. One may also check out the list of candidates and what riding they will represent. I am happy to see someone is running for PPC in my riding.

  4. Hopefully Canadians will sigh the petition —We still live in a democracy. Gather ye rosebuds while you may, old time is just a flyin. The same sweet face that smiles today, tomorrow may be dyin.