The Religion of Peace
Iran launched an attack against Israel over the weekend using missiles and drones -- the largest drone attack in history. (Yes, even bigger than the one launched by Egypt against Megiddo in 1457 B.C.) It was for an attack Israel denies they were responsible for and it severely injured a 7-year-old girl and caused 31 other minor injuries or panic attacks. The world waits for another shoe to drop. The Bee reports that Biden has retaliated against Iran for the attack by attaching a note on the pallet of cash we're sending to Iran saying, "Please do not use terrorism."
Banning the Constitution
In an oddly outlandish way, Colorado is working to ban guns. Most states already ban automatic weapons, but they're trying to ban semi-automatic weapons, too. However, the Supreme Court left Illinois's semi-automatic ban in place, so maybe we don't really need that pesky ol' 2nd Amendment anymore. Or the 1st. I bet there's a lot of our Constitution we can eliminate at this rate.
The State of Honesty
The state of California is suing the city of Huntington Beach (yes, California) because voters there want to require voters to identify themselves and California absolutely denies the need to have people identify as valid voters. Wait ... what? The state says it is "blatantly and flatly illegal" to require people to have ID. I mean, what could go wrong if you just ask people to tell you their name and address at a polling place? Californians are all invariably honest, right?
Fingers Pointing Back
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Jackson (You remember her ... she couldn't define "woman") is warning that her conservative colleagues failed to show "reason and restraint" when they allowed Idaho's ban on youth transgender care to be enforced. Mind you, most of Europe has stepped back from encouraging such "care" and the most recent studies find little scientific support for it ("reason"), so I would consider Jackson's position as unreasonable and unrestrained.
Shooting the Messenger
Senior NPR editor Uri Berliner resigned after he released an essay to The Free Press about how NPR has aligned with liberal bias exclusively and lost the public's trust. NPR responded, "No we haven't." The Bee went on to say they assured us that they always strive for a range of opinions from the slightly communist to the very communist. Without satire or sarcasm, it all seems sad to me. Uri said he wanted NPR to do better, and NPR would have none of it.
Gun Control
The report is out that the military has tested an automated aircraft in combat with a human-flown opponent. The test, they said, was successful and offered the "potential for autonomous air-to-air combat." Now, I don't know about you, but to me giving weapons to AI and expecting them to follow orders and to exercise moral judgment is just an impossible notion, knowing that the programmers cannot be expected to do either themselves. AI can be beneficial in certain applications, but arming them is not a good idea.
America's Great Universities
You may have seen that the president of Columbia University answered questions from Congress about antisemitism on the campus (amid 100's of arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters at Columbia University). What you may not have read was reported by the Bee when the president accidentally gave the Nazi salute while being sworn in for her testimony.
Must be true; I read it on the Internet.
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The Bee may have been using satire there, but that is basically Bidens position. Just out there wagging his finger saying "No" with that knowing smile that they're just being rambunctious and don't really mean any harm.
Do they mean semiautomatic rifles or all semiautomatic guns? They used to say all they wanted to do was ban all those scawy wifles, but clearly they want all our guns, they're just willing to do it piecemeal.
I also heard of another state that is going to require voter ID for local elections but not for federal. It's like they're just telling us exactly what they are planning and hoping, voter fraud for the President is alright.
I still can't believe we've lost so much common sense that it requires "studies" to tell us that pumping children full of hormones and hormone blockers is bad for their bodies and minds.
I thought speaking "truth to power" was a good and brave thing to do.
I get the argument for autonomous fighters, but the costs seem to me to outweigh the benefits by a mile. How do you train a computer to understand moral judgment?
It is odd that these people are so opposed to those colonizers the Jews, without realizing that if the Muslims they are screaming for want a global caliphate, one were the world is all Muslim, all converted by the point of the sword. But then, they've proven repeatedly that idealogical colonialism is a good thing in their eyes.
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