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Obama made a speech this week, where he called for media companies to censor even more people in order to combat “disinformation.” He claims that disinformation is a “threat to our Democracy” and wants tech giants to have even more power to combat it.

The First Amendment is a check on the power of the state. It doesn’t apply to private companies like Facebook or Twitter, any more than it applies to editorial decisions made by the New York Times or Fox News. Never has. Social media companies already make choices about what is or is not allowed on their platforms and how that content appears. Both explicitly through content moderation and implicitly through algorithms. The problem is we often don’t know what principles govern those decisions.

Barak Obama

Pretty ironic coming from the guy who told us “if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.“

A school district in Maryland has been forcing teachers to display progress pride flags in their classrooms. Lets be clear on what these flags symbolize.

• Black and brown represent people of color
• Pink represents the traditional color for baby girls
• Light blue represents the traditional color for baby boys
• White represents the lack of gender, a gender beyond the binary, or people who are transitioning
• Red represents life
• Orange represents healing
• Yellow represents sunlight
• Green represents nature
• Blue represents serenity
• Purple represents spirit

Sounds like the flag is based in spiritualism and race. So if this flag is to be allowed, why can’t the KKK flag be displayed? Or perhaps the Christian Flag?

Stetson University is raising $250,000 so they can hire a Ukrainian faculty member and offer four scholarships to Ukrainian refugees. There are a few things wrong with this plan, starting with the fact that it is illegal.

First, stating that you are going to hire a new faculty member, and that the faculty member must be from a particular country violates the law. The Civil Rights Act states that it is illegal to discriminate against someone because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or age. That means telling someone that a position is open only to those from the Ukraine is against the law.

The next problem with this is more obvious. The claim from Stetson is that the $250K is to fund a one year scholarship for four Ukrainian students. Doing the math, it costs $62,500 a year to attend Stetson University?!?!

According to this website, ten years after their initial enrollment, the average graduate of Stetson University earns $45,400 a year. According to this website, the average high school graduate with no college earns $38,792. That means a 4 year degree from Stetson University will cause a person to earn $6,608 more per year, on average.

It will take 38 years of working to break even from what it cost to earn that degree. You will be 60 years old before you begin to see any real benefit from attending Stetson.

A local news station published the engineering report from the incident where a child was killed on an Orlando thrill ride. Scribd has since removed it. I have the text from the report, and I will publish it here, so that it will be archived.

This reminds me of the movie “Idiocracy.” We have people who are poorly educated that are making adjustments to complex machinery with no idea how it works. This is because we are busy teaching CRT and SEL instead of math. The ride won’t work unless the light is on, so we will make adjustments to ensure that the light comes on: problem solved.

Brawndo has what plants crave.

An Orlando station has been running with the story about Florida rejecting math textbooks for teaching other subjects like CRT and SEL instead of math. In the comments, this is where the debate has gone:

I’d like to see what the passages were that were rejected. Culturally Responsive Learning just means including topics that include a wide varied of cultures. Its been known for a long time for math to be more white centric. Standardized tests for instance use examples that are not culturally diverse. There is absolutely nothing wrong with CRL.

JustJenJen

Math is racist. LOL. If I have two apples, and someone gives me two more, how many do I now have? It doesn’t matter what race you are part of, you now have four apples.

My Reply, which actually got more downvotes than upvotes

The debate rages on from there, but JustJenJen keeps making the point that black students doing poorly on standardized tests is prima facie evidence that the tests are racist. This is a fallacy that is pretty widespread amongst the left. As far as the left is concerned, if something harms a black person or deprives a black person of something that they want, that thing is then inherently prejudiced.

This is known as “equality of outcome” or equity. This is different from “equality of opportunity” or simply equality. This entire concept is the basis of their communistic ideology, which is in itself just a grift.

Reality and the universe don’t work like that. Just ask the kid who died in the Orlando thrill ride. It seems that the ride had an interlock that would not allow the ride to operate if the restraint harness wasn’t closed with less than a 3 inch gap between the harness and the seat. This interlock wasn’t allowing large passengers to ride, and was an inconvenience. So the operator of the attraction adjusted one of the seats so that it would allow the ride to operate with as much as a 7 inch gap. Once the ride was in operation with this large rider, the physics involved expanded that opening to as much as 10 inches, allowing the rider to slip through to his death.

Engineering is nothing more than applied math, and math can be an unforgiving bitch. Math doesn’t care what race you are, math is math. You can’t simply cancel math because black people don’t understand it.

I like bacon cheeseburgers, cheesesteaks, loaded nachos. Who doesn’t like a good barbeque? Some smoked brisket? Or a good old fashioned tailgate party. Soyboys, trannies, and avocado toast munching liberals, that’s who.

Apparently, if you enjoy “dude food” you are a misogynist. You hate women and their salmon and broccoli dinners and are destroying American families. You should be ashamed of yourself.

A guy is following your wife home. She calls to have you wait outside for her arrival. If you stand in front of the guy’s car with your phone out, he will run your ass over, breaking your back before driving away.

Or you can be out front with a weapon (open carry is legal on your own property) like an AR308, which will punch through that little shitbox of a car. All I know is that I wouldn’t be lying in a hospital, disabled.

Many on the left are in an uproar because parents in Florida now have a right to know what books are being used in schools, and can have inappropriate books removed from the school library.

When I was a high school biology teacher, my school had selected and used the Glencoe Biology textbook. Did that mean my school district was censoring and violating the free speech of other publishers? Of course not.

So the fact that the state has rejected large numbers of textbooks because they are inappropriate doesn’t mean that the publishers are being silenced. They are free to print all of the books they want. Florida schools just aren’t buying them, and that isn’t censorship.

So back to the complaints of censorship from the left. They complain that books like The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison are being “banned.” Read this passage from the book, and you will know why. The following passage describes a father raping his daughter:

The confused mixture of his memories of Pauline and the doing of a wild and forbidden thing excited him, and a bolt of desire ran down his genitals, giving it length, and softening the lips of his anus. Surrounding all of this lust was a border of politeness. He wanted to fuck her – tenderly. But the tenderness would not hold. The tightness of her vagina was more than he could bear. His soul seemed to slip down to his guts and fly out into her, and the gigantic thrust he made into her then provoked the only sound she made – a hollow suck of air in the back of her throat. Like the rapid loss of air from a circus balloon. Following the disintegration – the falling away – of sexual desire, he was conscious of her wet, soapy hands on his wrists, the fingers clenching, but whether her grip was from a hopeless but stubborn struggle to be free, or from some other emotion, he could not tell. Removing himself from her was so painful to him he cut it short and snatched his genitals out of the dry harbor of her vagina.

Like the last “banned” book I reviewed, “Lawn Boy,” this book is not appropriate for any school to have in its library. I’m not saying that the book should be outlawed. I’m saying that schools shouldn’t use tax dollars to make it available for children. I don’t care how many Nobel literature prizes the author has gotten.

In yesterday’s post on the MSM, I touched on the use of Ketamine. The first I heard of it was about 20 years ago when Ketamine made the news as a date rape drug. A couple of years later, we started using it in our EMS system.

I found that Ketamine is a useful drug for conscious sedation (for short painful procedures, like pacing or extrication) where pain needs to be controlled but the patient remains conscious, with the airway intact. It’s also very useful for intubations where you don’t need to make the patient unconscious.

Ketamine doesn’t have much of an effect on blood pressure, heart rate, or respiratory drive.

Seriously, Ketamine is one of my go to drugs for a wide range of patients.

They don’t get anything right. I guess they assume that all of their readers are ignorant. From this article:

They found over a pound of ketamine, also known as “Special K.” It is used as an opioid.

Ketamine isn’t an opioid. Not even close. I’ve given it to dozens of people. I have given opioids to hundreds, if not thousands, of patients. Not the same. So you can ignore this part, too.

“The term ghost guns can be misleading because it implies that they are not traceable and can’t be tracked or serialized which isn’t the case,” he said.

Then why has the left and the MSM (redundancy alert) gotten their tits in a knot over them?