Miracle Occurs, Authorities Confounded
Two prisoners at New Jersey’s only women’s prison have become pregnant after having sex with a transgender inmate. The women had engaged in “consensual sexual relationships with another incarcerated person,” the state’s department of corrections told NJ.com. They were being held at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility at Union Township, about 16 miles west of New York City. The transgender prisoner, Demi Minor, 27, who is serving 30 years for manslaughter, has been moved to another prison for young adults.
Clearly, dad material.
As a result of the pregnancies, the New Jersey Corrections Department said it was currently reviewing the policy for housing transgender incarcerated persons with the intention of “implementing minor modifications.”
Maybe we’re the ones in the mirror universe, where everything is slightly askew.
Via Darleen in the comments.
Also, open thread. Share ye links and bicker.
One has to ask, Y?
One has to ask, Y?
I think we can assume that people who end up in prison aren’t generally known for their decision-making skills. As to the decision-making of the authorities, including the New Jersey Corrections Department, I leave that to the reader.
So there was an X next to his name all along, then?
Miracle Occurs, Authorities Confounded
[ Snort ]
serving 30 years for manslaughter
Wondering what the 30 years were for, I turned to the The Daily Mail to find the following:
Demi Minor, who is serving a 30-year sentence for stabbing her former foster father to death … Minor, 27, complains that she was misgendered and abused by guards …
Imagine my surprise at seeing a news outlet I’m so regularly and so forcefully assured is nothing less than an organ of hateful, racist, homophobic, transphobic, Nazi-sympathising propaganda still finding the time to insert the ‘correct’ pronouns.
And not only that but doing so in these circumstances no less.
Truly, we live in an age of signs and wonders.
The journalists all, both together and separately, decided they should do so, with no direction from their superiors whatsoever.
Apparently, it was also unanimous.
still finding the time to insert the ‘correct’ pronouns.
It does seem unwise to cede such fundamental territory, to bow to the unreal. What follows from that concession will tend towards the absurd.
Clearly, birthing people can also be impregnating people. /s
Does the ‘minor modifications’ referred to mean the short sharp application of two housebricks, perchance?
But I don’t understand. This sort of thing just never happens, according to those extremely trustworthy* trans activists.
*Sarcasm
Maybe we’re the ones in the mirror universe, where everything is slightly askew.
Who knows – maybe something went wrong with the Large Hadron Collider back when they switched it on, and we were sucked into a black hole. It would explain a lot.
“It’s just about being polite…”
?
It does seem unwise to cede such fundamental territory, to bow to the unreal
Just so.
But so much ground has been given over so long that when I’m in a more sombre mood it seems very much that it can’t and won’t ever be recovered at this point.
Not only would you have to reverse a trend that’s been going on decades, but you’d be trying to reverse it with at least half the rest of the population actively blocking your efforts on the grounds that you must be stupid and/or venal and/or evil.
I read that Minor is demanding that only a woman can conduct a strip search. No problem. Just make sure the ‘woman’ is transgender.
Not at all unrelated, as the saying goes, “When they dig him up in 1000 years anthropologists will be able to tell his sex”.
Slow your roll there, Skippy.
You can educate yourself here.
Only a virulent transphobe would not see the violence to the dead this has caused.
that it can’t and won’t ever be recovered at this point.
Some years hence, groups will wonder how “the ancients” lived the way we do…
“It’s just about being polite…”
?
Thing is, I’ve had perfectly civil exchanges with transgender people and the supposedly “non-binary.” No-one got upset. But beyond my routine politeness, no concession to psychodrama was made, and for that matter, so far as I can recall, none was asked. In much the same way that if I were chatting with some hugely overweight person, I wouldn’t generally pass comment on their size.
But when people start demanding that I pretend along with them – which is to say, lie – then I’m not inclined to oblige.
“When they dig him up in 1000 years anthropologists will still misgender him“.
Incidentally I wonder how many dinosaurs have been misgendered.
Are you enjoying the great British heatwave, David? 🙂
I think we can assume that people who end up in prison aren’t generally known for their decision-making skills
I beg to differ. Most people in prison not only are known for their decision-making skills, they are generally in prison because of those same skills.
They are generally not know for good decision-making skills, I will agree.
Are you enjoying the great British heatwave, David? 🙂
I’m faring about as well as you’d imagine. I opened all the windows and now hot air is blowing over me.
In much the same way that if I were chatting with some hugely overweight person, I wouldn’t generally pass comment on their size.
Me, too.
But when people start demanding that I pretend along with them – which is to say, lie – then I’m not inclined to oblige.
That is behind many of the acquaintances that I have chosen to drop. I won’t call them friendships because I eventually learned that my agreement and approval were in effect mandatory.
Me, too.
And yet there are activists who would denounce my comments regarding those civil exchanges as constituting some kind of phobia or hatred. Which is laughable, and pernicious.
Which is laughable, and pernicious.
Emphasis on pernicious. When people behave like that, and show no sign of willingness to engage honestly, I write them off, put them on the “do not render aid” list, and warn others. There is no moral duty to be kind to rabid dogs.
Not only would you have to reverse a trend that’s been going on decades, but you’d be trying to reverse it with at least half the rest of the population actively blocking your efforts on the grounds that you must be stupid and/or venal and/or evil.
Or crazy. Like when I tried to point these things out to my doctor and similar people 30 years ago when it could have been arrested before doing so much damage. Oddly, the funnier things have gotten the harder it is to laugh about them.
This just in: Sun still shining.
This just in: Sun still shining.
Yikes, you’re in the summer temperature range for the southwest US. You’re due to reach what high desert Victorville, CA, is to reach today.
If you have no A/C, time to take in a movie or hang out at a shopping mall.
or hang out at a shopping mall.
The very idea, madam.
This just in: Sun still shining.
Heh. Oh, and here’s some breaking news – occupant of our government’s foreign secretary position – a job which most of us would expect requires travelling to foreign places on government business – has indeed been travelling to foreign places on government business. This is apparently newsworthy:
https://twitter.com/mikeysmith/status/1548376651897061376
Nobody came to his aid.
The very idea, madam
Sometimes we do what we gotta do. 😉
As much as I was born, raised and still live in SoCal, I thought I could pretty much handle the heat and temps even at the 95-100F range.
Then we were in San Antonio, TX, on July 6-8 to watch one of the grandsons graduate from A school as a Navy Corpsman (Ft. Sam Houston).
Holy frijoles, 95 degrees F and 80+% humidity!!
Oh …. Navy grandma brag moment …
Congratulations!
[ Slides half-pint of advocaat along bar. ]
The ice is on the house.
For a limited time.
Congratulations, Darleen.
It’s now 36°C. That’s 97°F for you heathens overseas.
Tomorrow, I’m told, will be a little hotter.
Centigrade:
0: Water freezes
32: Slightly warm
97: You die
98.6: You die
100: Water boils, you die.
Fahrenheit:
0: Frickin’ cold
32: Slightly chilly
97: AKA “Summer” south of the Line of Mason and Dixon (only 91 today, a bit of a cold snap)
98.6: Congratulations, you are normal
100: Welcome to Arizona
212: Water boils, you die.
Clearly Fahrenheit is the superior temperature for humans.
[ Sticks ice cube tray to face. ]
[ Sticks ice cube tray to face. ]
I wonder if those “Absurd Japanese Inventions” books have anything useful.
Today, I was directed with some enthusiasm to these.
Apparently, they’re a thing.
Apparently, they’re a thing.
I first saw those around 2005-2010. Presumably they are more popular now because batteries last longer.
They are generally not know for good decision-making skills, I will agree.
I can’t remember the source, but there was a woman who was in prison interviewing the prisoners. One chap spent much of his time bragging about how good he was boosting cars.
Naturally, the woman asked, “If you’re so good at it, why are you here?”
He fell silent as if this was the first time he thought about it.
[ Sticks ice cube tray to face. ]
No no … ice cubes to zip lock bag, apply to arm pits or behind knees.
apply to arm pits or behind knees.
The inner side of the wrist is also a good spot.
Clearly Fahrenheit is the superior temperature for humans.
Well it was per design. Use the right tool for the job. Dr. Fahrenheit made a very good scale for how heat affects humans. 100 was set at the top end as the standard human body temperature, which coincided with an atypical hot day and zero was chosen such that it would represent an atypical cold day, with the freezing point of water being 1/3 the distance to 100 and comfortable room temperature being the next 1/3 and thus half way twixt water freezing and the top end. Improvements in temperature measurement technology skewed the numbers a bit, but it all made sense. Each Freedom degree being 5/9 of a Communist degree also enables more accurate information without resorting to decimal places. But try explaining that to people today and they look at you like you have two heads.
Come to Bournemouth, where I live:* 86F, 30C maximum today (mostly cooler), and an invariable breeze off the sea. But don’t go down to the beach, because everyone within 100 miles radius of Bournemouth has done precisely that.
*For you foreigners, imagine that that Britain is a triangle: Bournemouth is plumb in the middle of the bottom edge.
they don’t know whether the hunter identified as male or female – a “duality” concept she says was “imposed by Christian colonizers.
Indeed. if the trans advocates want to suppress or soft-pedal or cast doubt upon the determination of sex from skeletal remains, where does this leave the stories about warrior princess graves (here or here for example), where an ideological house of cards (women being badass warriors until suppressed by whiteness/priests/colonialism, and without the aid of modern automation/medicine/hygiene/contraception that opened up traditional male roles to women in more recent times) is built on the objective uncontested foundation of (1) a skeleton was found with a military paraphernalia, (2) the skeleton was female, (3) we can safely say that the skeleton was female.
they don’t know whether the hunter identified as male or female – a “duality” concept she says was “imposed by Christian colonizers.
Curious how the whole mitochondrial DNA lineage thing fits into all this. Or are they going to redefine female as ‘mitochondrial DNA-passers’ or however that whole thing works? If other academics in this and related fields are not going to speak up on this nonsense, I think we should shove it down their throats. No objections because you think you can go along doing your research in peace? No. Sorry Charlie. Stop everything that you are doing and change ALL your documentation and get it up to spec with the latest BS or not one more penny of grant money. We’ll sic the trannies on you otherwise.
It’s all so bloody stupid…obviously. They don’t have males and females in cultures that were not colonized by Christianity? Is that their argument? Seems that would be easy to disprove via the Scientific Method. They are #Scientists, aren’t they?
For cooler temps, head south. Snow predicted for the next few days across New Zealand, and tonight’s low forecast of 0 C in Melbourne…
The perfect solution when you can’t decide to eat or rob someone.
The perfect solution when you can’t decide to eat or rob someone.
And bully them. Invite a crowd of your friends and fellow thugs along to video everyone laughing at you as you make lame, quasi-polite attempts to “reason” with the thieves to not take your stuff. Everyone gets a great, good laugh. Then post it to social media. The proper response for the owner/operator would be to dump the tray on the ground. You’re losing it anyway.