Opinion
By Jeff Childers

03-30-23
Good morning, C&C! Itβs an early one today since I have court this morning. Your roundup includes: the National Hockey Leagueβs immune system begins quietly rejecting βPrideβ month; unattractive cross-dresser sued for wrangling his way into sorority; Supreme Court gets some clarity on its relationship with Bidenβs DOJ; Russian oil sales to EU slowed to a trickle; high-profile open letter calls for halt to AI development; myocarditis study shifts the argument over covid versus jabs; Kentucky lawmakers push through anti-trans bill over governorβs veto; and Dr. Drew eloquently describes official lying.
ππ¬ *WORLD NEWS AND COMMENTARY* π¬π
π₯ The National Hockey Leagueβs woke virtue-signaling might be missing the shot. The Post Millennial ran a story yesterday headlined, βNHL May Cancel LGBT βPrideβ Nights as Growing Number of Players Refuse to Wear Rainbow Gear.β
Are YOU shocked? I was even more surprised than a hockey player who just spit three more teeth into his glove than he thought he had left.
Currently, all NHL teams are required to enthusiastically participate in the so-called βPrideβ nights during βPrideβ month; but some teams are jettisoning the ridiculous-looking, gayly-colored theme jerseys. For some reason. Maybe the players are catching on to the fact the league has fallen through the ice of sanity, plunging them into the testicle-shrinking icy waters of an emasculating ritual humiliation.

But this season, several players invoked their religious beliefs, politely declining to participate in pre-game warmups wearing the βPrideβ-themed jerseys. In an interview with CTV News, League commissioner Gary Bettman admitted, βThis is the first time weβve experienced that, and I think itβs something that weβre going to have to evaluate in the offseason.β
Haha, βevaluate.β
Last Thursday night, Florida Panthers players Eric and Marc Staal abstained from wearing the jerseys citing their Christian beliefs. The pair said in a statement, βWe carry no judgement on how people choose to live their lives, and believe that all people should be welcome in all aspects of the game of hockey. Having said that, we feel that by us wearing a Pride jersey, it goes against our Christian beliefs.β
Beyond the obvious Biblical prohibitions on inter-gender sexual relations, Christians have a bigger problem with the whole concept of βPride,β since pride is the original sin that kicked it all off, the pride of the Great Adversary Satan, who believed that he was just as good as God. βI will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High,β Satan reportedly bragged (Isaiah 14:14), right before telling gullible Eve all about the beneficial effects of fruit consumption for the whole family.
So βprideβ is not too good for Christian believers.
San Jose Sharks goaltender James Reimer also tweeted a carefully-worded explanation for his own decision not to don the rainbow-striped sporting gear:
San Jose Sharks @SanJoseSharks
A statement from Goaltender, James Reimer:

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The article cites several more players and teams who all have declined to participate, some more vocally than others. In response to the growing numbers of players engaging in silent protests, the league is reportedly re-evaluating the program, and even considering canceling it altogether, putting it permanently into the penalty box.
Weβll see.
π¦ In another story you wonβt read in the corporate media, Cowboy State Daily ran a salacious story yesterday headlined βWomen Sue University Of Wyoming Sorority For Accepting Transgender Member.β Itβs on!
Letβs play βone of these things is not like the other.β Can you pick out which βindividualβ is the brand-new, sorority-council-mandated trans member of KKG-UW? You get three guesses:
At some point soon, a court somewhere will be forced to figure out exactly what a woman is. I would opine that the inevitable case will make a mockery of thousands of years of evolving jurisprudence, but letβs wait and see. Maybe a court will surprise us.
Maybe it will be this case.
Artemis Langford, 6β2β, 260 lbs, a/k/a βTerry Smith,β currently lives outside of the sorority house while heβs finishing out his off-campus lease, but has permission to move into the sorority in the fall. Langford often hangs around the sorority house for meals and other βsecretβ sorority rituals and events. The gals alleged in their complaint that Langford frequently sits in the second-floor common area, silently watching the women.
I bet he does.
Once he moves in, everyone reasonably assumes Langford will promptly begin using the showers. The doors to the sororityβs communal showers do not lock, and the main bathroom located on the second floor does not have a private changing area.
The galsβ complaint, filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for Wyoming, argued βAn adult human male does not become a woman just because he tells others that he has a female βgender identityβ and behaves in what he believes to be a stereotypically female manner.β
Ouch! The complaint got even more real:
The Fraternity Council has betrayed the central purpose and mission of Kappa Kappa Gamma by conflating the experience ofΒ being a womanΒ with the experience of menΒ engaging in behavior generally associated with women.
So. Thatβs the question, isnβt it? Are trans-women βreal women,β as hair-sniffing Joe Biden 100% believes, or are trans-women just simulated women, with some men simulating women better than others?
In this case, Iβm sorry to say, and I donβt mean to offend anyone, what we have here is yet another unattractive cross dresser, another poor simulation. But you are obliged to give Langford credit. Even though Langford has only a 1.9 GPA β painfully under the 2.7 minimum required for the ladies β he leapt ahead of UWβs quarterback and the rest of the football team by cleverly wrangling full, unimpeded 24×7 access to the sororityβs shower room, instantly making every other young man on campus insanely jealous.
The complaint alleged that Langford is βsexually interested in women,β and has a profile on Tinder βthrough which he seeks to meet women.β It also said βMr. Smith has, while watching members enter the sorority house, had an erection visible through his leggings,β the suit says. βOther times, he has had a pillow in his lap.β
It got even grosser. The complaint also says Langford took pictures of the women at awkward, unprepared moments at a sorority slumber party. βSmith repeatedly questioned the women about what vaginas look like, breast cup size, whether women were considering breast reductions and birth control,β the complaint alleges. Langford βwas supposedβ to leave the slumber party by 10 p.m. but did not, saying he would leave βafter you fall asleep.β
Thatβs not creepy. Itβs trans rights!
Seriously, I think this lawsuit is terrific, and I applaud the courageous lawyers who filed it and are sure to be having their inboxes filling up with deranged, poorly-drafted death threats. But Iβm not sure about the case. The Cowboy Daily said all the ladies are seeking is to have Langford thrown out, and Iβm not sure that is any kind of relief the court can provide. Still, I have not seen the sororityβs contracts and havenβt done the research under Wisconsin law, so weβll see. Iβll give the lawyers the benefit of the doubt.
Regardless, I would hope the court can help find some way to protect these young ladies of KKG. Itβs a moral imperative. It will also be interesting to see who pops up to defend Langford, and who pays those lawyers.
I think I heard someplace that the βPorkyβsβ screenwriters originally considered this exact story as the first draft plot for their movie, but ultimately threw it out, because they thought nobody would ever believe it.
π₯ The Washington Times ran an eye-opening story yesterday headlined, βU.S. Marshals Told Not to Arrest Protesters Outside Justicesβ Homes, Documents Reveal.β
Can you believe that.
Deputy U.S. marshals assigned to guard Supreme Court justices last year β supervised by Bidenβs DOJ β were instructed to try NOT to arrest anyone, according to documents revealed in a Congressional hearing Tuesday by Senator Katie Britt (R-Al.). The documents flatly contradict Attorney General Merrick Garlandβs previous explicit assurances to Congress that βthreats against Supreme Court justices are taken extraordinarily seriously.β
Which is a nice way to say our top law enforcement official, Grandma Garland, lied to Congress, earning four Pinnochioβs.

The protests of conservative Supreme Court justicesβ homes β including one terrifying break-in β followed the leak of a draft of the Courtβs decision overturning Roe v. Wade. They clearly violated Section 1507 of the US Code which in no uncertain terms criminalizes protesting against a judgeβs home while intending to influence a ruling.
Which is exactly what the protesters were doing. But unlike Congressional tourists on January 6th, the DOJ hasnβt prosecuted anybody.
Earlier this month, Old Lady Garland told Senators that his prosecutors couldnβt bring cases unless the marshals made arrests, and the marshals on the scene βdidnβt thinkβ there was a reason to do that. Now we know why. Thatβs what they were told.
By not arresting anyone, the DOJ has encouraged, if not green-lighted, future protests and invasions of the Justiceβs personal residences.
I hope the Supreme Court is getting the message about their real relationship with Bidenβs DOJ. They might want to carefully consider that, as they hear other cases related to federal agency authority. Iβm not saying the deliberate failure of the DOJ to take them seriously should influence how they decide cases involving Biden. Iβm just saying.
Donβt cancel me!
π The Washington Times ran a slippery story yesterday headlined, βU.S. Supplants Russia as Europeβs Biggest Crude Oil Supplier in Major Blow to Moscow.β
Finally! Some good news in the Proxy War!
According to the Times, in the six months before Russia invaded Ukraine, European imports of Russian crude oil ranged between 39.7 million and 49.7 million barrels, or about 24% to 31% of all oil imports. But the latest EU figures show that in December 2022, the U.S. shot past Russia, providing 34.5 million barrels of oil to Europe, about 18% of the continentβs total crude imports, while Russia only sold them 7.6 million barrels, or 4% of total imports.
The Times implied that Bidenβs sanctions programs are βworkingβ and this reduction of oil sales will finally put Russia on the ropes, for real this time, not like the other times they predicted Russiaβs imminent implosion.
Two days ago, Business Insider ran a story headlined, βRussia Says It Has Successfully Rerouted All the Oil It Would Have Sold to the West to βFriendlyβ Nations.β
But let us not focus on the negative. After all, American oil companies are now selling more expensive oil to Europe and their profits are gushing like geysers. Itβs win-win! The Americans are making money, the Russians are making money, and our European allies, well, okay, maybe not.
But the Europeans donβt seem to mind paying lots more for American oil, because they have the satisfaction of helping save democracy or something. Slava Ukraine!
π₯ Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal ran a sobering story headlined, βElon Musk, Other AI Experts Call for Pause in Technologyβs Development.β
Elon Musk and some less-well-known tech leaders signed an open letter calling for all AI development to be immediately paused.
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βWeβve reached the point where these systems are smart enough that they can be used in ways that are dangerous for society,β AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, director of the University of Montrealβs AI Institute, said in an interview. βAnd we donβt yet understand.β
The open letter urges AI companies to temporarily halt training their computer systems to be any more powerful than GPT-4, the technology released this month by Microsoft-backed startup OpenAI.
βIt is unfortunate to frame this [AI development] as an arms race,β MIT professor Max Tegmark said. βIt is more of a suicide race. It doesnβt matter who is going to get there first. It just means that humanity as a whole could lose control of its own destiny.β
βI donβt think we can afford to just go forward and break things,β continued Mr. Bengio, who shares a 2018 Turing award for inventing the systems that modern AI is built on. βWe do need to take time to think through this collectively.β
Hereβs the link to the open letter in case you want to add your signature: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experiments/.
In the clip linked above, Brian Kilmeade said that AI experts predict the technology will be more profoundly disruptive than the internet and handheld computers like the iPhone. I think thatβs probably right.
I am as suspicious of AI tech as anybody. But it is coming, whether we like it or not. And having studied the history of science (my minor), I see loose parallels to similar worries about industrialization technology in the 1800βs, which were also widely predicted to destroy civilization and put half the workforce on government charity.
While countless legacy industries were destroyed (the beloved example being wooden wagon wheels), just as the rise of streaming services destroyed the record industry and broadcast television, other industries were created along with new opportunities and problems replacing old ones.
The bottom line is, nobody knows. That uncertainty fuels much of the anxiety about AI. Since mankind has survived other disruptive technologies, it will probably survive this one, too. My own concerns involve the question of whether there is an upper technological limit, a ceiling or threshold that will result in an experience like humanity running into a civilizational electric fence of some kind.
It helps a lot to have faith to rely on in these puzzling days, but even for secular folks, cautious optimism is a better strategy than fear. Fear is our adversaries weapon.
Ultimately, itβs a VERY good thing that AI is getting all this attention. It should. Next, we should take just as hard a look at the explosion of genetic experimentation.
π¬ On March 23rd, the Journal of Clinical Microbiological Infection published a meta-study obliquely titled, βCOVID-19βAssociated cardiac pathology at the postmortem evaluation: a collaborative systematic review.β
One of the most common objections we hear in response to obvious vaccine injury is that βcovid causes myocarditis too.β Doctors often trot this lame canard out to justify taking the vaccines even though myocarditis is now officially recognized as a side-effect of the shots. βBut you can get myocarditis from the virus too, so the risk evens out,β they babble semi-coherently.
Its an irrational argument anyway, because serious covid is a risk you can or may avoid, but taking the shots ON PURPOSE is a risk you definitely encounter.
But the researchers of this study conducted a systematic review of 50 autopsy studies and dissected 548 hearts of patients who died of or with covid. They frequently found tissue edema and necrosis, and roughly two thirds of autopsied hearts had detectable covid virus in the cardiac tissue.
But NONE of the hearts had extensive myocarditis as the cause of death. Zero.
This meta-review should end the debate over whether covid can cause fatal myocarditis. Despite finding the virus in heart tissue, the researchers did NOT find it was causing any significant inflammation.
The only new proven cause of heart damage is covid vaccination. So.
π₯ Yesterday, the AP ran an encouraging story headlined, βGOP Lawmakers Override Veto of Transgender Bill in Kentucky.β
Yesterday afternoon, Republican supermajorities in Kentucky easily brushed aside the democrat governorβs veto of a bill regulating transgender issues β including bans on access to βgender-affirmingβ healthcare to restricting bathrooms to biological sex.
The new law:
β Bans all treatment of gender dysphoria in kids.
β Compels teachers to tell parents if a student says theyβre gay/trans.
β Requires students to use bathrooms consistent with their birth sex.
Hereβs a sample from the great new Kentucky law:

Progress.
π₯ For some time now, media doctor Drew Pinsky seems to have been red-pilled (red-injected?) but now he definitely isnβt buying the official Damar Hamlin story. In a recent podcast, through a process of logical deduction, Dr. Drew calculated that Damar Hamlinβs cardiac injury was most likely vaccine induced.
But while the TV doctor was working through the possibilities and ending up on the one nobody wants to talk about, Dr. Drew began thinking about how officials must have covered up for Damarβs vaccine injury, and why they did it, and then worked himself into as close to a state of rage as the mild-mannered doc ever gets.
Dr. Drew said we should be angry too:
You should be beside yourself with anger. You canβt handle the truth? They donβt have faith in your ability to handle βthe truthβ or your ability to handle information as it come in? That is disgusting, personally. I believed my entire career that people can process things, learn things, try and understand things, find sources they can rely on.
But the fact there are people out there who donβt believe you can handle, or you shouldnβt handle, or that itβs too much for you to incorporate into your thinking or that it will cause you to go into some other kind of misinformed state?
Sunlight and truth and information in my experience has NEVER done that for people, never. I worked in a psychiatric hospital for 30 years. Information helped CLEAR peopleβs sense of paranoia, not added to it. So where are they getting these ideas that you canβt handle the truth?
I donβt know. I donβt know.
What happened to Damar Hamlin? Why canβt we ask? Why canβt we know?
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Thatβs the issue, isnβt it? Our officials are supposed to be OUR agents, working for US, and therefore have no right to pick and choose what information we get. Good for Dr. Drew, who has been brave enough to bet his career and reputation that the truth is ultimately the best long-term option.
Have a terrific Thursday! Weβll meetup here again tomorrow morning for another highly-caffeinated roundup.
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