Glad I could be on Curtis Sliwa's show last night.
I don't see what that show on Cottage Life Television about remote places has to do with cottaging.
"The Made in Toronto Takeover" is now on CHRY-FM. Wow, a whole 30 watts of power!
IHeart Radio now has a feature where people can record messages on their phones and send them to their favourite IHeart Radio stations. "Wow, this automated, repetitive playlist broken up by ten-minute commercial breaks is really something."
The Babylon Bee
Kindergartener Granted PhD In Biology After Correctly Distinguishing Boy From Girl
U.S.
March 24th, 2022 - BabylonBee.com
GAFFNEY, SC—Multiple five-year old witnesses confirm that their teacher, Miss Whifflestrom, dropped the class gerbil in awe after hearing brilliant young kindergartener Timothy correctly describe boys as having a penis and girls, a vagina. Within hours, young Timothy had been granted a PhD in Biology.
“We hereby grant the intellectual phenom, young Timothy Swanson this honored PhD in Biology for his work in clearly differentiating the subtle variations between Homosapien boys and girls,” said the chairman of the American Council of Biology PhDs, while handing a certificate to the young boy who only hours ago was sticking crayon shavings up his nose.
“Timothy is wrong. Gender is far more complicated than the binary reproductive differences associated with nearly every living creature on the planet,” said four-star admiral and U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health, Dr. Rachel Levine, while sticking crayon shavings up her nose. “All of the sciences prove its fluidity. Don’t ask for proof right now, I’m very busy crushing the aspirations of half of the American population rather than deal with my own disorder. Busy busy busy.”
News of the kindergartener’s ability to define both a boy and a girl eventually reached our nation’s leadership, who immediately shortlisted him for nomination to the United States Supreme Court.
At publishing time, a shocked Miss Whifflestrom reportedly sat on the class lizard after hearing the brilliant revelation from little Suzy, who said people should be judged by the content of their character, not the color of their skin.
National Review
How Replacing Biological Sex with Gender Identity Harms Children
By KERI D. INGRAHAM
March 22, 2022 6:30 AM
‘Gender identity” was once just a fringe concept of postmodern philosophy. Today, it’s regularly causing real-world harm to children and teenagers (particularly girls) across the country in sports, schools, and even youth camps.
One glaring example is what recently happened to fifth-grade girls from Weaver Elementary School in Los Alamitos, Calif. Without any warning to parents, two biological males were placed as counselors at Camp Pali in San Bernardino. The counselors spent three nights in the same cabins with the girls (these males instructed the girls to use they/them pronouns). When questioned about the controversial move, Emmi Teige, assistant director of Camp Pali, confirmed it. “Per California law, we place staff in cabins they identify with” was her justification.
One might think this shocking incident in California is an outlier. Yet in reality, it’s only the latest example of the new reality in K–12 public education. Gender identity is taking precedence over student well-being and safety across the nation. For example, in Loudoun County, Va., a 15-year-old skirt-wearing male student who was allowed to select the school bathroom of his choosing sexually assaulted a female student. Transferred to another school, the boy sexually assaulted another girl. Adding insult to injury, not long after the incident, the National School Board Association labeled parents such as the father of one of these girls, who spoke out against transgender and other radical policies at school board meetings, “domestic terrorists.”
The blatant promotion of transgenderism has infiltrated schools without parental consent and at the expense of academic learning. Gender-identity school policies and practices are becoming widespread. And curricula, books, videos, and activities promoting the transgender ideology are used with students as young as five. It’s common, moreover, for these materials used with students to contain sexually explicit content.
One example of transgenderism indoctrination is the common use in lower-elementary-school classrooms of the Gender Unicorn and Genderbread Person. These resources employ an endearing character (unicorn or gingerbread man) to guide young children through self-selecting their gender identity, their gender expression, the gender they’re physically attracted to, and the gender they’re emotionally attracted to. Each option — even their “sex assigned at birth” — includes the following categories: women/men, feminine/masculine, and “other.”
Parents are intentionally left in the dark by school personnel about the sexual content taught. Often, parents find out about the inappropriate content only from their children, who are confused and distressed about what they have been taught at school.
For example, the Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) forbids teachers from communicating with parents concerning the claimed or coerced gender identity of their child starting in kindergarten unless the minor (as young as five years old) gives consent. In a total disregard for parental authority, school personnel are bound to secrecy concerning the acknowledged (and often dramatically celebrated) claimed gender identity of these boys and girls.
Furthermore, OSPI asserts that “a student’s age and grade level ‘should never be used to justify delaying or denying a student’s gender transition.’” The school culture has children questioning and discussing with one another what gender identity they plan to select. Consequently, one Washington State teacher shared that, of her students this year, six have changed their gender identity, and four others have “changed their appearance to resemble the opposite gender but have not announced it.” The intentional secrecy that schools employ to circumvent parental awareness and authority is increasingly alarming.
This preoccupation with gender-identity indoctrination is, moreover, at odds with the reality of biological sex and has several harmful long-term effects on children.
First, the crowding out of academic learning, which is already deficient, by inappropriate sexual classroom content is educational malpractice. It breeds confusion and insecurities, causing lifelong negative consequences, such as mental-health issues. In fact, a recent study indicates that the harm to children from being exposed to sexually explicit material and pornographic content can include poor “mental health, life satisfaction, sexual behavior and attitudes, and pornography-viewing patterns in adulthood.”
Second, this indoctrination fuels identity confusion in students, as it conflicts with their biological reality (think of the Gender Unicorn and Genderbread Person).
Third, bathroom self-selection, non-binary cabin counselors, and males in female locker rooms and on sports teams are not only violating the privacy of girls but also placing their safety at risk.
Fourth, promoting or providing access to gender-blocking hormones and body-change surgeries to children and teenagers adds irreversible damage, including sterilization, to the psychological and emotional abuse of children.
Finally, those states and districts that forbid the disclosure of gender-ideology discussions and that conduct a gender-“transition” plan without parent consent nor communication are not only damaging children but also driving a wedge between parents/legal guardians and their children. Schools label parents who do not affirm their child’s claim to be a gender other than their biological sex as unsupportive. School personnel then quickly and persistently claim that these children are in immediate danger by their “unsupportive” parents and at imminent risk of suicide. In California, for example, public schools have guided students through what to say to trigger child-protective services to remove their parents’ rights so that the minor can obtain hormones and body-change surgeries without parental consent and cost.
What can parents do about these gender-identity practices, teachings, and deceitful policies? The first step is to get informed. Talk to your child and their friends, contact teachers, principals, curriculum directors, and district leaders.
The next step is to share what you hear and see with other parents. Inform the school board, state legislators, and others holding power about what is occurring. Let your voice be heard. Vote for school choice and candidates who support parental empowerment.
Parents should also demand educational transparency. Thanks to parents speaking up, bills requiring statewide curriculum transparency in K–12 public schools have been introduced in 19 states. These require public schools — which, after all, are funded by the taxpayers — to make publicly accessible a list of resources used in the classrooms. This move to enhance transparency recognizes that parents have a right to know ahead of time what content will be taught to their children, especially when it’s of a sexual nature. And parents must be given the option to opt their children out.
We need continued vigilance about what is being taught. While curriculum-accountability systems are critically important, they aren’t a foolproof safeguard against teachers using their classrooms (instruction time and beyond) to promote gender ideologies with their impressionable, captive audiences.
In many cases, gender-identity teaching is woven throughout the school day regardless of the subject — sometimes without using any formal teaching resources. For example, in Oregon, schools bypass the requirement to notify parents of gender identity and sexual-content teaching by requiring parental communication and opt-out allowances only for health classes while giving schools free rein to promote the ideas in other classes.
Finally, many may choose to select an alternative learning environment for their students — as parents nationwide are doing. In Washington State, 39,000 children were pulled from public schools in the span of twelve months (between October 2019 and October 2020).
All of this leads to one crucial point: We need universal school choice, provided through public policy, now. Parents need to have the authority over how and what their children are taught. By placing funding with families — not the education system — all parents would be afforded educational options. It’s essential that parents are empowered to protect their children from political agendas and radical practices that are causing long-term harm. It’s an issue of defending parental rights and ensuring authentic accountability by schools entrusted with their children’s education.
I like that drunk driving psa where the woman keeps replaying the phone message.
Surprised to hear an advertisement for a podcast on CJBQ.
A lot of the shows on CBC Music work better on demand due to the diverse musicality of their content.
A young child singing songs with their mother encouraging them in the background. Songs included: "Jesus Loves Me"; "Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer" and "The Farmer in the Dell."
A kid repeatedly yelling "I'm finished!" and playing around with the tape recorder. His mother came in and flushed the toilet. Later:
"Do you want fries with your grilled cheese?"
"NO!"
"Do you have homework tonight?"
Younger Brother: "I have homework, to make a drum."
Mom: "To make a drum?"
Later, the boys were fighting about something. Mom dealt with the problem
Cool CBC's "Street Cents" is returning to Tick Tock and other online video platforms.
Hadn't thought of Dayo Ade (Degrassi's BLT) in years. Then I heard he won something. Cool.
Rick Mercer's memoir is full of errors. I mean, how do you get away with saying Saddam Husain was the leader of Iran?!
Best wishes to Big FM Kingston's Sideshow as he battles COVID.
Kudos to WABC's Frank Morano for having Russell Benson on to present a different perspective on the war in Ukraine.
Picked up Froggy 97 Watertown today.
Happy belated fortieth birthday to Steve Kearns of The Wolf Peterborough.
Speaking of which, glad someone from Stirling won the Elimination Game.
Seems like David Foot is still providing colour commentary for Belleville Senators games even though I thought he left radio
