The Tide Has Turned On Trans

 Dig this from the White House. Here's a few snippets of content from that web page.

Introduction

Section 1.  Policy and Purpose.  Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions.  This dangerous trend will be a stain on our Nation’s history, and it must end.

Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding.  Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization.

Accordingly, it is the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called “transition” of a child from one sex to another, and it will rigorously enforce all laws that prohibit or limit these destructive and life-altering procedures.

Bureaucratic Actions

Sec. 5.  Additional Directives to the Secretary of HHS.  (a)  The Secretary of HHS shall, consistent with applicable law, take all appropriate actions to end the chemical and surgical mutilation of children, including regulatory and sub-regulatory actions, which may involve the following laws, programs, issues, or documents:

(i)    Medicare or Medicaid conditions of participation or conditions for coverage;

(ii)   clinical-abuse or inappropriate-use assessments relevant to State Medicaid programs;

(iii)  mandatory drug use reviews;

(iv)   section 1557 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act;

(v)    quality, safety, and oversight memoranda;

(vi)   essential health benefits requirements; and

Legal Actions

Sec. 8.  Directives to the Department of Justice.  The Attorney General shall:

(a)  review Department of Justice enforcement of section 116 of title 18, United States Code, and prioritize enforcement of protections against female genital mutilation;

(b) convene States’ Attorneys General and other law enforcement officers to coordinate the enforcement of laws against female genital mutilation across all American States and Territories; 

(c)  prioritize investigations and take appropriate action to end deception of consumers, fraud, and violations of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act by any entity that may be misleading the public about long-term side effects of chemical and surgical mutilation;

Anticipated Results

Every major insurer and medical group is going to get out of this business immediately. All of the kids who've been abused by the trans lunatics are going to be left on their own to find the drugs they need to continue their charade. There are going to be a whole bunch of desperately unhappy people out there, not least of all the ultra-progressive parents who allowed this to happen to their children. They're screwed.

Below, Helen Joyce brilliantly analyzes the situation as it stood a week ago. Now that President Trump has taken a sledgehammer to the trans insanity, no amount of hopeless fighting is going to save the people who ruined their children's lives nor will it save the activists who encouraged it. The victims of the sexual degenerates who pushed trans, the kids who had their bodies poisoned and mutilated, are about to confront the reality of what has happened to them. 

Helen didn't anticipate an attack on the trans illusion of this magnitude. That mirage has now vanished.

Thank God for President Trump. In his inauguration speech, he said that he believes he was saved by God from the assassin's bullet in Pennsylvania. I'm inclined to agree.

That’s going to be some earth shattering truth for some people. #LiberalismIsAMentalDisorder @Nicoletta0602 pic.twitter.com/Tj57193htl

— Leave it better than you found it (@AuburysNavy) July 11, 2023

Deep In A Catholic Bubble

 ... a leftist, Catholic bubble, that is.

This twerp has hit the news lately, fussing about the United States enforcing its laws.

The U.S. Catholic Church feels it has to speak out on President Trump's immigration policies, "which we see as going against some of the basic tenants of our faith, frankly — the fundamental right of every human person that need to be respected, no matter their origin, no matter… pic.twitter.com/ZkVk2cgD4D

— CBS News (@CBSNews) January 23, 2025

Just in case you didn't want to click on the "more" button, and I don't know why you would, here is the full text of the post, giving even more vapid commentary from that airhead.

The U.S. Catholic Church feels it has to speak out on President Trump's immigration policies, "which we see as going against some of the basic tenants of our faith, frankly — the fundamental right of every human person that need to be respected, no matter their origin, no matter their situation," says Bishop Mark Seitz, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' committee on migration. Seitz also says Pope Francis "certainly is paying attention" to the administration's actions.

Of no particular importance to the bishop are the interests of black Chicagoans. Respecting them isn't really his concern.

One of my favorite Thomas Sowell quotes seems to be utterly foreign to the good bishop.

Life In A Bubble

I don't see how you can come to any other conclusion than that the bishop and his bemitred cronies have no idea at all that trade-offs even exist when it comes to the illegals. Every one of these interviews that I've seen with the progs that dominate our cadre of bishops reveals a complete illiteracy when it comes to the legitimate concerns of American citizens. You can see that in the way the USCCB got mercilessly dragged in the replies to this post.

Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Migration, issued a statement regarding Executive Actions that will “subject vulnerable families and children to grave danger.”https://t.co/yxr5Igh4jt pic.twitter.com/u22QEEcGGr

— U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (@USCCB) January 22, 2025

Here are just a handful of the replies that raise reasonable objections.

Where was the concern when the bishops of these countries from which these illegals came had no impact on the exodus?  Where was the concern with the USCCB about rapes and trafficking of these individuals by drug gangs and criminals enriching themselves?

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Do you care about the grave danger of making the trip to get here? How about the vulnerability of the 300,000+ kids who are missing. This appeal to emotion is played out. Send them home.

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Stop gaslighting us. That is emotional and psychological ABUSE.

Catholic teaching DOES NOT require adherence to a political party’s solution to a problem, and it is a MORTAL SIN to pass rash judgment on a person’s intentions the way +Seitz does here. Just because we do not agree with how the Democratic Party wants to handle the migrant crisis DOES NOT mean that we dehumanize migrants. Stop this or we will #defundusccb and fulfill our obligation to support the Church through worthier causes. 

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Any Catholic who supports open borders, including the pope, is complicit with the rapes, human trafficking, drug importation, enrichment of drug gangs, criminal and terrorist infiltration and deprivation of Americans of well paying jobs. PF is a hypocrite: (includes X post describing how the Vatican is cracking down on illegals attempting to enter Vatican City)

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What about our families? The non-criminal ones?

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I've heard NOTHING from these guys over the 350,000 missing children & raped/murdered women. I have heard about blank checks for money laundering where the money is being kicked back to govt helpers. As the Catholic NGO there said, "we no longer regard ourselves as "catholic"

It goes on and on and on in the replies. No response from the USCCB has been forthcoming and there's no reason to think one will ever come.

Then there's this.

Just think, the USCCB gets both the moral orgasm of "helping the less fortunate" and a massive tranche of sweet, sweet cash. It's a win-win!

Just on its face, it sure looks to me like the bishops have surrounded themselves with people who think just like they do. It's worth noting that the airhead from CBS in the top video doesn't raise any of these issues so he, too, must be living in a progressive bubble.

In short, every person needs to be respected and treated with dignity except for Americans who need to shut up, open their wallets and stop being bigots.

Bonus Data Point

Catholic Charities of Louisville, KY wanted to get in on the payouts and so they did.

Administration for Children and Families grant (2022)

Amount: $298,308

Recipient: Catholic Charities Of Louisville Inc

Purpose: Common Earth Gardens (helps refugees find land to grow food)https://t.co/0zTOKvwU5h

— RandoLand.us (@RandoLand_us) January 24, 2025

Once You Lose Your Media Monopoly

 ... the jig is up.

In England last year, a fellow by the name of Axel Rudakabana walked into a children's Taylor Swift-themed dance party in Southport and began stabbing kids. He killed 3 and wounded others. The British news media posted pictures of Axel after the attack that looked like this.

He was described by the press as a Welsh Christian who sang in the local Church choir.

Riots ensued as the British public assumed it was another Muslim terror attack. The authorities denied it and even jailed some people for posting hateful things to social media.

Recently, Axel's mug shot was released. He really looks like this these days.

The authorities found Muslim training and indoctrination materials aplenty in his car and at his home. He was exactly what the bigoted, white supremacists said he was. The authorities and the press knew the situation almost immediately after he knifed those girls. The jailed "hate speech" folks have not been released.

This all works so long as you have a media monopoly and the press act as your Praetorian Guard. Once that falls apart, your are exposed for the anti-white bigots and corrupt, progressive authoritarians you are.

Meanwhile, here in the States, PBS claimed Elon gave the Nazi salute.

They were immediately dragged into oblivion on X because it was plain for all to see that Elon had said "my heart goes out to you" as he was making those gestures.

Ok, so this is the new 'fine people' hoax.

Elon giving a 'Nazi salute.'

So I'm going to arm you with the facts. Bookmark this. Download it. He literally said "my heart goes out to you"

That was the intent of the gesture.

Do not accept the gaslighting and the lies. pic.twitter.com/V48zJEqd9B

— Steve Skojec (@SteveSkojec) January 20, 2025

Again, this only works if you have a media monopoly and can control the social climate.

All of the accusations of racism, homophobia, transphobia, islamophobia, science denialism and whatever else the progs have been using to silence us for years only work if there is no apparent groundswell of popular opposition. Once we gained the ability to communicate freely, thanks to Elon and Trump, the power of the progressives dissolved into nothing.

The fact that they're still trying to peddle this "he was a Welsh choirboy" and "Elon gave the Nazi salute" rubbish shows they have not yet adapted to the new reality where they will have to interact with us as equals instead of intimidated subordinates.

It's Not Judgmental To Quote The Law

Let's say you were fairly well-versed in the Federal and state criminal code. If you had a close friend who you knew was embezzling from his company, would it be judgmental to go to him and let him know his actions were illegal and when he was caught, he was going to face some serious penalties? Of course not. It would be an act of affection, an act of love for the guy.

Did you invent the law or simply report on it to your friend?

From a Catholic point of view, the moral law is the same thing. People do not invent it, they discover it just like we discovered physics, chemistry and math. Through scripture, revelation and logical deductions, we've discovered the moral law that was written, not by man through a legislative process, but by God when He created the world.

In his excellent book, The Great Good Thing, Andrew Klavan discusses his conversion from atheism to Christianity.

Then, in my atheist reading, I came upon the writings of the Marquis de Sade. It marked a watershed in my thing. Nowadays, “the divine Marquis” is sometimes depicted as a naughty rogue who enjoyed what the British call “a bit of the slap and tickle,” a libertine who brought a needed dose of sexual freedom into a pinched an hypocritical era. That’s not how I saw him at all. Sade–from whom we get the word sadism–was a violent psychopath who brutally tortured servants and prostitutes for his own pleasure. (When even the French imprison you for your sexual practices, you know you’ve crossed the line!) He was also a philosopher of genius.

Sade understood that if there is no God, there can be no ultimate morality. There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. Unlike Freud and other atheists, though, Sade followed mad Hamlet’s logic with unswerving honesty. Without morality, he said, we are only responsible to our natures, and nature demands only that we pleasure ourselves in any way we like, the strong at the expense of the weak. “Nature, mother to us all, never speaks to us save of ourselves… prefer thyself, love thyself, no matter at whose expense,” he declared. And then, with wonderful wit, he added: “Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.” All of this, he illustrated with graphic passages of pornography depicting tortures, rapes, and murders in a way intended to sexually arousing. And his work is arousing. It’s also repulsive. And to my eyes, it’s evil.

Here, at least, however, was an atheist who outlook made complete logical sense to me from beginning to end. If there is no God, there is no morality. If there is no morality, the search for pleasure and the avoidance of pain are all in all and we should pillage, rape, and murder as we please. None of this pale, milquetoast atheism that says “Let’s all do what’s good for society.” Why should I do what’s good for society? What is society to me? None of this elaborate game-theory nonsense where we all benefit by mutual sacrifice and restraint. That only works until no one’s looking; then I’ll get away with what I can. If there is no God, there is no good, and sadistic pornography is scripture.

But the opposite is also true. That is, if we concede that one thing is morally better than another, it can only be because it is closer to an Ultimate Moral Good, the standard by which it’s measured. An Ultimate Moral Good cannot just be an idea. It must be, in effect, a personality with consciousness and free will. The rain isn’t morally good even though it makes the crops grow; a tornado that kills isn’t morally evil–though it may be an evil for those in its way. Happy and sad events, from birth to death, just happen, and we ascribe moral qualities to them as they suit us or don’t. But true, objective good and evil, in order to be good and evil, have to be aware and intentional. So an Ultimate Moral Good must be conscious and free; it must be God.

So we have to choose, Either is no God and no morality whatsoever, or there is morality and God real.

Either way makes sense, if you’re speaking strictly about logic. I didn’t reject Sade’s outlook on logical grounds. I rejected it because I found it repulsive and I knew it wasn’t true just as I know that one plus two always equals two plus one, though neither I nor anyone else can prove it. So, too, I know that a Nazi who tortures a child to death is less moral than a priest who gives a beggar bread–and that this is so even in a world that is all Nazis everywhere. In the chain of reasoning that took me finally to Christ, accepting this one axiom–that some actions are morally better than others–is the only truly non logical leap of faith I ever made. Hardly a leap really. Barely even a step. I know it’s so. And those who declare they do not are, like Hamlet, only pretending.

After reading Sade, I abandoned atheism and returned to agnosticism.

Emphasis mine.

What Andrew is describing is the realization that there is a universal, objective moral order created by something above Man. That is analogous to the universal, objective legal code that governs American society. It is not judgmental to quote the legal code to your friend. It is also not judgmental to quote God's law to your friend since in both cases, you are not interpreting or inventing anything, you are simply reporting facts to him. There is no judgmentalism involved because there is no judgment.

Here is a snippet from the text of the California Penal Code covering embezzlement.

Every officer of this state, or of any county, city, city and county, or other municipal corporation or subdivision thereof, and every deputy, clerk, or servant of that officer, and every officer, director, trustee, clerk, servant, or agent of any association, society, or corporation (public or private), who fraudulently appropriates to any use or purpose not in the due and lawful execution of that person’s trust, any property in his or her possession or under his or her control by virtue of that trust, or secretes it with a fraudulent intent to appropriate it to that use or purpose, is guilty of embezzlement.

Quoting that is not judgmental.

Now, one could argue that the Catholic Church is making things up from whole cloth. That is a fair argument, but it is still one that requires logical proof and logical refutation of the entirety of evidence the Church can muster on its behalf, evidence that is more than just scripture and revelation. 

You cannot replace a model of reality with nothing, but you can replace a model of reality with something better. Your "something better," however, will require you to prove that it's better.

Getting back to the point of this post, my fundamental argument against most accusations of "you're being judgmental" as a Catholic is that reporting the reality of God's moral law does not involve any personal judgment at all.

Now, if I decide to throw rocks at you because you have sinned in some way, that is an act of judgment and expressly forbidden by the Church, unless it is part of Caesar's* law, in which case the secular law takes precedent.

As long as I'm not throwing rocks, this takes a whole bunch of "don't judge" off the table.

I'm ambivalent about your recent behaviors, but Cat disapproves and is letting you know.

* - Or Trump's law in our case. These fascist dictators are pretty much interchangeable.

A Surreal Exit

This might be the weirdest thing I've ever seen come out of any White House.

There was a Democrat senator who posted something similar as well. Community Notes whacked all three of them with something on the order of this:

The Archivist of the United States, charged with officially publishing ratified amendments, has confirmed that the ERA was not ratified and based that analysis on binding legal precedent. 

There is no 28th Amendment. 

What is going on here? The president, vice president and some senators are talking absolute nonsense about the constitution and ... crickets? I've seen a couple of stories about it, but the story is not the amendment, it's the gibbering.

They're going out the door babbling like madmen and the reaction from the press is one of boredom. It's all so surreal.

First, Don The Hijab

 I saw this on X and had to comment on it.

“We should prosecute this… but what we mustn’t do is smear an entire group of people”

Ayesha Hazarika says Elon Musk's comments were “disgusting”, and while we need ask questions on grooming gangs without “fear or favour”, we “must not attack all Muslims”#bbcqt pic.twitter.com/il3slPgn8Y

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) January 16, 2025

First, there's the issue of the grooming gangs. For all intents and purposes, they were Muslim men who groomed and gang-raped British white girls. Elon pointed that out and it's got the multiculturalists' knickers in a twist.

Still, that's not what I thought of when I saw her ranting about it. If she wants to yap at us like this, then it might be more genuine to do it wearing a hijab with her male guardian standing behind her. If she says anything he doesn't like, he's allowed to smack her across the head, hard.

About ten minutes like that might change her mind, if not her hairstyle.

Brushing Away Fire Insurance

First of all, let's deal with the chimera in the room -Global Warming Climate Change had nothing to do with the catastrophic fires in Los Angeles this week.

There has been no appreciable change in SoCal rainfall in the past 175 years. That's a 1st order indicator of climate right there.

Now let's get on to what's scary for those of us living in this deep blue insane asylum this week: homeowner's insurance. Dig this edited snippet from X.

I began practicing law in the 80s. Since then I've litigated insurance related issues all over the country, including my share in California. This  situation is going to hit hard nationally - maybe even internationally.  The ultimate consequences will be staggering.

Insurance companies can't afford the risk of bad governing and poor planning. If government chooses to focus on things like DEI, cultural competency, and LGBTQ hires -  as opposed to maintaining a razor sharp emphasis on things like infrastructure, including reservoir systems, water flow, fully staffed and well trained manpower, fire houses, pumps, etc. (you can't focus on both) - who bears the risk? Everyone, including insurance companies. Insurers can hardly afford the inflated costly rebuild materials in California anyway, but moreso it's the excessive regulations that compound the cost of a rebuild AFTER a loss.  No sane enterprise, insurance related or otherwise, wants to be in a forced marriage with low level incompetent bureaucrats manning the desks of a local municipal codes department.

Working through the maze of regulatory bureaucracies that is California comes at incomprehensible costs to people who simply want to put up a building.

Not only that, California regulations aggressively cap premiums and require approval of all rate hikes and in some situations may be required to participate in pooled payouts for disasters that the government-run home insurance program (FAIR) can’t cover.

So buckle up. This is going to cost you.

Having built and remodeled houses in California, I know he's right about the regulatory hurdles in construction. They were bad for us, but are far worse along the coast where the big dollar damage happened. That's not the part that's scary. 

FAIR is the state-run, as in deep-blue California-run, insurance that became necessary when several large insurers fled the state after the last round of screwups by the progs. FAIR is very expensive and has almost no reserves. $200M is what I recall seeing. The losses from these fires are on the order of a hundred B. 

No problem, right? The state is on the hook for that, right? Wrong.

Any insurance company operating in the state of California is liable for the losses suffered by FAIR. Every insurer operating in CA is manacled to that corpse. They are all going to pay which means we are all going to pay and then ... what?

Well, the sane ones that still operate in the state will leave. There just isn't any money to be made insuring 7+ figure assets in an environment of gasoline and match-flinging meth-heads. Or, to be more accurate, dry kindling, high winds, lazy and incompetent political leaders, tens of thousands of crazed addicts and environmental regulations that prevent the accumulation of water and the removal of fuel.

Where is that going to leave California residents? It's going to leave us at the U-Haul parking lot. Hopefully we can get out before all the insurers do.

Our governor, Gavin Newsom, doing what he does best.

The Leaders in LA And California Don't Know How Anything Works

 ... stated here by the owner of the LA Times.

If You Can't Protect Your Daughters

 ... then how are you going to protect Islamic women in the UK?

More to the point, why are you even talking about this?

I've seen quite a bit of talk about Islamophobia in the UK following the glaring sunlight suddenly shining on the Muslim rape gangs, mostly thanks to Elon Musk. This conversation between Piers Morgan and Gad Saad is a good example of it.

Discussing Islam with @piersmorgan on @PiersUncensored. pic.twitter.com/z6GVWuRyWC

— Gad Saad (@GadSaad) January 9, 2025

It's all so much balloon juice because the Muslim rape gangs are still operating.

Paedophiles are still grooming and abusing children 'in every city around the country', the police officer who brought down one of Britain's most dangerous sex rings warned today.

Simon Morton, a former senior detective for Thames Valley Police, has said that abusers are still operating in plain sight and 'influencing and arranging others to do the same thing'.

Mr Morton's led the Operation Bullfinch investigation that saw 24 men of mainly Pakistani origin jailed for a total of 250 years child sex offences in the Oxford area - but he warned today: 'The guys we couldn't catch are still out there'. 

There are countless stories like the two below where the white, British fathers of white, British girls got in trouble for trying to rescue their daughters from rapists of diversity.

'I was put in a police car and taken away.'

The father of a Rotherham grooming gang victim tells GB News how he was arrested twice when trying to rescue his daughter from an abuse den. pic.twitter.com/x3hIU4HvX0

— GB News (@GBNEWS) January 8, 2025

John in Lancashire says his daughter was gang raped by Pakistani groomers in Oldham when only 13-years-old.

"I phoned the police, a police constable told me to let it go, otherwise I'll get arrested for being racist."

"This goes higher and deeper than any of us can imagine." pic.twitter.com/CNR1A2bLgZ

— Talk (@TalkTV) January 8, 2025

Those are all horrific enough, but what truly blew me away was a conversation about the Sharia courts operating all over England and how this is hard on Muslim women. I can't find the video now and I want to go to the gym, but this is the article that lays it out for you.

Britain has become the “western capital” for sharia courts with men able to end their marriages by saying “divorce” three times.

An investigation by The Times also discovered that polygamy is so normalised that an app for Muslims in England and Wales to create Islamic wills has a drop-down menu for men to say how many wives they have (between one and four). The app, approved by a sharia court, gives daughters half as much inheritance as sons.

The number of sharia courts, also known as councils, in Britain has grown to 85 since the first began operating in the country in 1982.

Muslims from across Europe and North America are increasingly turning to Britain’s sharia courts, which operate as informal bodies issuing religious rulings on marriage and family life.

About 100,000 Islamic marriages are believed to have been conducted in Britain, many of which are not officially registered with the civil authorities.

What blew me away was the utter lack of proportion and practicality in the discussions of Islamophobia and the plight of Muslim women.

YOU AREN'T PROTECTING YOUR OWN DAUGHTERS. NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO WORRY ABOUT MUSLIMS.

The rapes are still going on and they're so indoctrinated into diversity and inclusion that they are actually concerned with how the perpetrators feel.

I have a suggestion. Why not have the NHS supply Viagra to the rape gangs? I mean, can you imagine the shame if Mohammed, having just left a different rape gang where he banged 3 British whores, joins his mates for a gang-bang of different British whores and then he can't get it up? Talk about embarrassing! His friends might think he was gay and stone him to death right there on the spot! We can't have that. Won't someone think of the Muslims?

Then there's the practical aspects of the situation. If you live in one of the towns where the rape gangs operated and you realize that your Muslim neighbors all knew it was going on, but said and did nothing, just how does Piers Morgan think you're going to react to them? What kind of attitude will you have to your Muslim neighbors?

Finally, the conversation about the Sharia courts focused primarily on protecting Muslim women. In these courts, a Muslim woman can be forced into a marriage if her male guardian agrees to it. She doesn't get a choice. My goodness, that's awful! Those marriages are not valid in England. We need to help the Muslimah escape that situation.

Just how in the world are you going to do that? How are you going to protect her from the violent retribution of her community when you can't even protect your own daughters from them?

Not to worry, all that matters is diversity. Once we have enough of it, we will be stronger.

Rejoice, DEI consultants! After being raped, Sharon is pregnant with Ahmed's baby. Soon we will have more diversity!

How Many DEI Consultants Can Dance On The Head Of A Burning Pin?

It blew my mind to hear that there was no water coming out of the fire hydrants during the Palisades fire this week. I know California is mismanaged, but that's simply insane. Others have dealt with the horrors elsewhere, what I want to explore is how the Elites that run California do not, as I have ranted many times on this blog, know how anything works.

First, here's a staggering video from the LAFD.

LAFD Assistant Chief Kristine Larson:

"Am I able to carry your husband out of a fire? He got himself in the wrong place." pic.twitter.com/BofTVr6dWP

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 9, 2025

If she can't carry your husband out of a burning building, that's his problem? And on what planet do I want to see someone responding to my emergency that looks like me? This is DEI and Social Justice taken to it's logical extreme. Projected feelings of various marginalized groups who don't actually have those feelings trump performance.

Meanwhile, the mayor of LA directed citizens to URL if they need information. No, really.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tells residents that if they need emergency help or shelter it “can be found at URL.”

What?!

This is the perfect picture of the incredible levels of incompetence ravaging Los Angeles right now. pic.twitter.com/Hbsu9fERbw

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 9, 2025

Wow. Luckily, the LA fire chief likes to eat carpet, so we have that going for us.

Not everyone is incompetent, however. Sal Mercogliano, the guy who runs the outstanding What's Going On With Shipping YouTube channel, posted this on X, explaining why some of the hydrants ran out of water.

One needs to understand that water towers are typically filled during low water usage periods (largely at night). The filling line is substantially smaller than the discharge.

Pressure on the hydrants and to homes (which is the same line) is caused by the weight & gravity of the water. 

As homes are burned, all the water connections to the home are opened (sinks, toilets, washers, etc). So you start draining water as you lose each house.

You eventually get to the point where you can sustain the system and run out of water.  

What is needed is a way to shut the towers off from the primary system and have a secondary fire system that is routed to several strategically located fill points for fire apparatus.

You can then fill the tanks and have water for suppression.

But that cost $$$$.

Of course, Sal does not work for the government of California. They would no doubt despise him as he's one of those dirty, little people who worked with their hands.

Having acknowledged that trade-offs have to be made in the design of the water system and allowing others to go nonlinear about the horrific performance of the progs who run CA, I'd conclude with the following.

If you aren't going to provide water, for whatever reason, you simply must keep the fires from starting in the first place. That means aggressive maintenance of the scrub brush. You cannot allow the fuel to build up, no matter how many Schlumberg's Reticulated Voles buy the farm. If you aren't going to provide water and you don't ruthlessly remove the kindling from the area, you're going to get what we've seen this week - parts of Los Angeles burned to the ground.

The Comanche Revisted

Three more data points. The first seems to come from Sweden.

Oof. No, I didn't look up the studies, but I've seen other studies for real that show the same thing from several different European countries.

The second is a snippet from a conversation between Jordan Peterson and Piers Morgan. Jordan's solution, an international symposium on Islam, is typical Jordan for those rare times when he makes a mistake - useless eggheadery, but within the conversation is the staggering stat that in some British towns where the industrial-scale rape of white, British girls was being done by the Muslim men, about 1 in 7 Muslim men were participating. 1 in 7? That's insane. Everyone in the Muslim community knew about the rape gangs. Everyone.

Jordan Peterson: “40 out of the 50 muslim countries are authoritarian hell holes."

He is not wrong.

Watch Peterson educate Morgan about islams incompatibility with Western democracies:

pic.twitter.com/tRtimkE1zx

— Rebecca Mistereggen (@RMistereggen) January 7, 2025

The last is this story from a divorced father describing his unsuccessful efforts to keep his autistic daughter out of the hands of the local Muslim grooming gang.

Exclusive: Jez, the father of a Pakistani rape gang victim, reveals that the grooming gangs still exist and have spread to the South of England.

Jez details how the police refused to acknowledge his autistic, 17-year-old daughter being abused by older Pakistani men was a crime. pic.twitter.com/LVXzgdP0Jg

— Turning Point UK 🇬🇧 (@TPointUK) January 7, 2025

Don't you think he had better things to do with his life than try to protect his little girl from a pack of imported savages?

It's analogous to the problem faced by the settlers on the frontier dealing with the Comanche. It was enough for them to try to support their family by dry-dirt farming, plowing behind a mule, building nearly everything by hand and preparing nutritious, locally-sourced, sustainable, organic food. At some point in time, they lost interest in trying to figure out if the paleolithic savages nearby were going to steal their livestock, burn their farm to the ground, rape their women and kill them or not. Sufficient unto the day is staving off starvation and avoiding freezing to death. They didn't need to add the Comanche, Apache or similar brutes for whom stealing, raping and murdering was both recreational and career-enhancing.

It is impractical to expect the general populace to spend their time and energy managing an alien culture whose attitude towards infidel women is akin to wolves sizing up lambs. In the end, the solution the locals will choose may well be efficient and callous.

There's also a cost-benefit trade-off to the accuracy of the civilized guy's assessment. If the (Muslim, American Indian) is a ruthless savage and you incorrectly classify him as (moderate, peaceful), your women get raped. That's going to bias the assessments in a strongly negative direction. All the finger-wagging in the world from the protected, pampered multiculturalists isn't going to make a difference.

Summarizing with a self-quote, from this post comes this final section.

Sarah Hoyt, Revisited

Going back to the Instapundit post by Sarah that motivated my dive into Comanche history, this quote keeps coming to mind.

(After a deep dive into African history), what became very clear to me is that whenever civilized (in this case defined as post-tribal) humans collide with tribal humans, tribal humans lose. (The tribal people) use the techniques that work in between tribes, imagining that their adversaries are also a tribe:

They start off with unimaginable massacres and horrible evil in the belief that this will cause the adversaries to back off... (T)he more atrocities they commit the more they aggravate the anger of the civilized people.

The civilized hold back, afraid of committing atrocities, and the tribal humans commit more atrocities, and act like victors, while doing truly horrific things.

And then at some point the post-tribal people lose it.

What comes after is usually horrific and causes college social studies majors to cry centuries later.

Not All Sicilians

Wife kitteh's first husband was Sicilian. If I recall correctly, his parents were first generation. They still have close ties to Sicily.

Some of his family members were in organized crime, mostly running gambling rings and other minor odds and ends. Everyone in the community knew who the Big Tuna was and what he did.

Now dig this description of just a sliver of the horrors and moral cowardice of the industrial-scale gang-rape of white British girls that has been going on for over a decade in England.

Social workers were intimidated into silence. Local police ignored, excused, and even abetted pedophile rapists across dozens of cities. Senior police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the name of maintaining what they called “community relations.” Local councilors and Members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from the parents of raped children. Charities, NGOs, and Labour MPs accused those who discussed the scandal of racism and Islamophobia. The media mostly ignored or downplayed the biggest story of their lifetimes. Zealous in their incuriosity, much of Britain’s media elite remained barnacled to the bubble of Westminster politics and its self-serving priorities.

Among the Sicilians, everyone in the community knew who the Big Tuna was and what he did. The Big Tuna and his buds ran the numbers racket out of the back of their dry cleaning business. They didn't organize the gang-rape of thousands of girls.

One night in Oldham in 2006, for example, a 12-year-old girl named “Sophie” entered a police station and reported that she had just been molested in a graveyard by a man named “Ali.” A desk officer told her to come back with an adult when she was sober. Two men accosted her in the police station. Joined by a third, they raped her in their car. When they dumped her on the street, she asked a man named Sarwar Ali for directions. He took her to his home, raped her, and gave her money for bus fare home. A man named Shakil Chowdhury pulled up in his car and offered to take her home. He abducted her and took her to a house where he and four other men repeatedly raped her.

It beggars the imagination to suggest that Muslim men raping 200,000 white British girls over more than a decade was concealed from the Muslim community. If it wasn't concealed from the journalists, the politicians and law enforcement, it most certainly didn't come as a surprise to the Muslims themselves. Those white girls must have stuck out like sore thumbs in the Muslim sections of town.

In any army, the majority of the members are not in combat arms. Most of them work in logistics, transportation, administration, maintenance and other support roles.

I guess we shouldn't judge a military based solely on the actions of the few guys who pull the triggers.

It's unjust and bigoted to suggest that she has any awareness of the artillery barrage going on at the front.

Bonus Data Point

So the cops knew, but the next-door neighbors didn't?

Did you know the police shut down two operations that identified a disproportionate number of Pakistani Muslims engaged in organized crime for fear of being called racist. Baldy and Crazy were two of those scumbags.

I'm in Cornwall at the moment but can send you details when I…

— Kenny Smith (@KennySmithHP) January 6, 2025

The Cuyahoga Grooming Gang Scandal

The true extent of the Pakistani gang-raping of white, British girls is now coming to light. The numbers are staggering with some estimates as high as 200,000 British girls having been raped by the Muslims over more than a decade. It was systemic, purposeful, organized and the authorities knew about it at the time.

I've got a few things to say about it which you might not have seen anywhere else. The first one is how the West's university system poisoned the culture to the point where the deliberate coverup of the Pakistani rape gangs wasn't just possible, but inevitable.

With apologies to Ohioan, the analogy that came to mind was the Cuyahoga River in the 1960s. If you don't know the story, industries along the river would dump their toxic wastes into the it, poisoning everything downstream. The climax of the adventure happened when the river caught fire in 1969. I vaguely remember the newscasts and my parents discussing it. As a child, I couldn't understand how a river could burn.

But burn it did.

En fuego.

That's where the West is right now. Marxism has captured our education system and it classifies everything into oppressor - victim categories. If your group has done well, it's because you're an oppressor. If your group has done poorly, it's because you've been victimized by the oppressors. Everything the oppressors created was created to maintain their power and keep their victims down. Art, music, literature, science, mathematics, whatever it is, if it came from white people, it's a tool of oppression.

You can be a conservative anywhere in the West or, more specifically, a Tory in England and you still carry this toxic classification tool with you, often subconsciously. The grooming gangs may have operated in places locally managed by Labour, but they happened under a long period of Tory national rule.

The reason I say covering for the grooming gangs was inevitable is because almost everyone coming out of university and, by definition almost, this means everyone in a position of power, can't help but see the Pakistanis as natural victims and white Brits as natural oppressors. No evidence is required because evidence is garlic to the Marxist vampires*.

And so the Tories brought in more and more and more Muslims, members of a faith that see unbelievers as easy meat, particularly when they aren't covered in black potato sacks as Allah intended.

I know that we're supposed to reflexively exhibit a "not-all-Muslims" spasm, but I don't see the need to do that as will be explained in a future blog post.

We have 1500 years of experience with this and it almost always goes in the same direction. See also: Nigeria. See also: Lebanon.

It was completely predictable that the Pakistanis, who have a particularly virulent strain of Islam endemic to their culture, would have a cadre of members who ended up gang-raping as many white British girls as they could get their hands on.

Thanks to the Marxists having captured our education system and poisoned the culture with their unreasoning hate of Western culture, it was also completely predictable that everyone downstream of their poison would make excuses for the victims of white oppression taking their justifiable revenge on the little, British, white girls.

Note: In this post, I've chosen not to link to any of the court testimonies that have been released lately. They're worse than you can possibly imagine and easy to find with search. If you do go read them, understand that you aren't looking at a single set of gang-raping Pakistani Muslims, but a template for a hundred or so gangs spread out across the length and breadth of England.

200,000+ little girls were raped and we let this happen because, thanks to the poisonous effluent downstream of our universities, we felt sorry for the rapists.

* - Hey, you try to write stream-of-consciousness rants almost every day and not mix your metaphors.

Email Purgatory

Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I got an email address with our local Internet provider, RoadRunner. They were then bought out by Spectrum. The email address is still there, but it's ability to interact with email apps on my PC has gradually degraded to the point that I can only get to it by webmail.

Webmail is a special kind of hell with Spectrum. Unlike gmail, everything goes so very, very slow and you're constantly afraid of something breaking down. Having an address book is out of the question.

My nom de plume, KT Cat, has a gmail address which works fine, but I don't want to give that out and share the knowledge that I'm some kind of crazed, neo-Confederate, judgmental, Catholic lunatic. I mean, I am all those things, but I don't want it generally known.

I'm looking for an email address that has a decent chance of surviving a decade or so, one that can be used with Thunderbird. I absolutely despise M$FT Outlook. My old email client, Eudora, died long ago, too. Oof.

Anywho, whatever suggestions you might have would be welcome.

A scene from the good old days when I could use Eudora to get my RoadRunner email.