The Massachusetts Department of Education has issued a new directive for schools in the handling of
transgendered students, including allowing them to use whichever restroom they choose.
“Transgender students who are uncomfortable using a sex-segregated restroom should be provided with a safe and adequate alternative, such as a single ‘unisex’ restroom or the nurse’s restroom,” the 11-page directive reads.
The directive also states even though some students may feel uncomfortable with sharing the same sex-segregated restroom or locker room as the transgendered student, the “this discomfort is not a reason to deny access to the transgender student.”
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The directive also requires that all transgendered students be allowed to participating in gender-specific activities that he or she identifies with.
“A student who says she is a girl and wishes to be regarded that way throughout the school day and throughout every, or almost every, other area of her life, should be respected and treated like a girl,” the guidelines stipulate.
If you have a problem with any of this, you must be... disordered.
Get it?
You see odd things at times and you shake your head and move on... but this?
I guess, if I weren't some old fuddy dud, that I'd see something here that is supposed to be beautiful.
I'm afraid I don't. Instead I see something here that is just freaking weird maybe even sick.
Sigh.
H/T tip to Doug Johnson over at Wizbang.
I saw this over on Facebook, read through it quickly and found myself slowly reading it again, and again.
What follows, by Daniel Greenfeld over at Sultan Knish, is an indication of the evil that is being foisted upon us by those purposed in selling a lie as truth and convincing the listening to buy that truth.
Sadly, it's being bought into by too many, and this because too many have lost sight of what truth really is:
Daniel Greenfeld, in part:
The fake is being overlaid on the real, like men fighting on top of a board with a movie of a train
passing by in the background to give the impression that they are fighting on top of it. Such cheap trickery defines our media environment where reporters barge into events and badger the participants into playing along with their movie. Or they just play the clip of actual events and frame them so that everyone hears their version of what is going on.
There's Godzilla and we know he's real because we can see Tokyo in the background. There's the latest media narrative and we know it's real, because we can see Tampa in the background as some blow-dried buffoon does breathing exercises before commencing to tell us that the Republican Party, which supports things that would have made Ike and Ron have coronaries, has gone so far to the right that it might as well be a Godzilla of reactionary running dog capitalism.
This is our shoddy virtual reality with a CNN or MSNBC logo planted on top. There is you still sitting on your same old couch, watching Chris Matthews yelling himself hoarse about racism, because racism is our virtual reality. It is the world that we are supposed to live in and Chris' job, for which he receives some 5 million a year, is to convince us that we are living in it.
"Racism," Chris yells at the screen, like the idiot shaman of some stone age tribe, and those dull-witted enough to believe him nod knowingly, because it makes them feel as if they know something. And in a world where nothing is real, knowing something makes them feel a little less confused. They don't understand why the prices are suddenly so high and the bank won't give them a loan-- but they can understand that Republicans are bad people and somehow responsible for it.
Some 70 percent of Barack Obama's Twitter followers may be fake, but why quibble at such numbers. The people who decided to make Obama popular did so through constant repetition that translated into the peer pressure of the trend. Obama became a trending topic and everyone followed along because in an unreal world, you follow the unreal leader.Obama is fake, his popularity is fake, but it's also real, because fake is now the ultimate reality. The purveyors of fakeness have demonstrated their ability to transform the unreal into the real through manufactured consensus. By insisting that something unpopular was popular often enough, they made it popular. And by insisting that something popular is really unpopular, they did the opposite.
The Solomon Asch study showed that people will change their correct answers to conform with the wrong answers that are being given by others. The false consensus has operated on that same paradigm, convincing people of two lies. The first lie is that the wrong answer is the right answer. And the second lie that everyone else has already agreed that the wrong answer is correct.
Doing all that is impossible unless people lose touch with the real. The wraparound nature of the media has made it so that the unreal never goes away. The unreal is so pervasive because it has so many outlets and we are all wired into one or more of them. If the unreal doesn't get into your head one way, it will do it another way. The viral virus adapts because its designers are intelligent. And most of all they are persistent. They aren't just malicious or in it for the money, though both those things are also true, they believe. They are missionaries and their goal is to convert you into fodder for their malicious money machine.
If you read nothing else today, read the rest of Greenfeld's piece, then pass it on.
There is much at stake, so much at stake.
Really.
Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime
Obama pays tribute to Neil Armstrong the only way he knows how, by making himself the center of attention.
Can you say narcissistic?
It's all about you again isn't it Mr. President?
Directly from Obama's Tumblr page:
Neil’s spirit of discovery lives on in all the men and women who have devoted their lives to exploring the unknown—including those who are ensuring that we reach higher and go further in space. That legacy will endure—sparked by a man who taught us the enormous power of one small step.—President Obama on the passing of Neil Armstrong
Occupy protester weds in a gay marriage... with a warehouse:
On Sunday, 29 Jam [sic] 2012, Babylonia Aivaz married a warehouse at 10th Ave and Union St.in Seattle. About 30 people attended to wish the couple well. Mrs. Warehouse, a professional Occupy protester, said that it was a gay marriage because the building is a woman. Occupy Seattle protesters wanted to reclaim the warehouse as community space, lest it be demolished and replaced by an apartment building in which real people might live.
Alas, Mrs. Warehouse is now a widow, since the building was in fact demolished by crass governmental officials who did not celebrate her love, and has now informed the Seattle City Council that she’ll be marrying the Yesler Terrace neighborhood near the Central District.
I won't ask how the marriage was consummated but do wonder if Mr. Warehouse left anything to his bride.
I also wonder how unique her in-laws might be. Instead of a weird uncle in the basement, my guess is that the weird uncle would be the basement.
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