Russell Lee in Ouray, Colorado, September 1940:
"Store building. Ouray is the center of a gold mining region and is developing as a tourist center."
"Store buildings at Ouray, Colorado."
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Coming soon to the Uray Theatre: Laurel and Hardy in A Chump at Oxford.
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CTV News Vancouver has reached out to the billboard company, Pattison Outdoor Advertising, for comment.
Before the billboard was removed, Kirby-Yung, who is cisgender, said she would like the billboard to come down and to see allies speak out about it.
“I'd love to see it come down. Ultimately, I would love to see a really strong condemnation from the community, and I mean our collective community not just within the trans community. But, you know, people who are allies and supporters (of trans rights).”
Was there ever a group in all of history that's suffered as much outright abuse as the trans community?
lly enforced measures in Europe. Sweden had the mildest measures: no lockdown or school closures and only moderate measures of social distancing. Yet Spain now has the worst second spike on the Continent and Sweden none at all.
There are many variables that affect the long-term progress of the disease, including the population’s state of health and age balance. But one thing that does not seem to affect it is government policy.
The reason seems tolerably clear. People can spread Covid-19 before their symptoms appear — and even if they have no symptoms. So isolating known cases is always too late. Whatever distancing measures you take, short of shutting everyone indefinitely in a box and feeding them through a tube, the virus will still spread, but more slowly.
The only way of eliminating Covid-19 is to achieve widespread immunity. That requires either an effective vaccine or a build-up of resistance through exposure to the disease. A safe and effective vaccine is a fast route to collective immunity, but we have no idea how long it will take to get one. Without it, we are condemned to take the slow route through exposure to the disease. The more time we buy with our distancing measures, the longer that will take. Christmas? Easter? One year? Two or three? For how long can we suspend human civilisation?
Collective (or “herd”) immunity is routinely condemned as a heartless policy. But that is just a comfortable evasion. Collective immunity is not a policy. It is not something governments can choose to adopt or discard. It is simply a description of how viral epidemics burn out. You do not need to be an epidemiologist to understand this. You just need to read the material that the epidemiologists have provided to governments and apply a reasonable measure of logic, judgment and scepticism.
Of all the ways of buying time, legal coercion is the most inefficient. Legal coercion is indiscriminate, whereas this virus discriminates. It attacks the old and clinically vulnerable. Across Europe and the UK, the upsurge of infections is heavily concentrated among healthy people under 50.
The increasingly absurd health secretary Matt Hancock gets cross about this being pointed out. But, with a handful of exceptions, the infected young will experience only mild symptoms or none. What matters is not infections but hospital admissions and deaths, which have increased relatively little, both here and in other European countries. This suggests that, while the young and healthy are getting on with their lives, the vulnerable are sheltering themselves. It is happening spontaneously.
What is more, it is exactly what ought to be happening. People are making their own judgments, guided by their own vulnerabilities and their own tolerance of risk. The result is a far more discriminating approach than the government’s regulatory blunderbuss. Left to themselves, people can manage this virus better than Boris Johnson and Hancock because they can fine-tune their precautions to their own situation and that of the people around them. Taking the decisions out of their hands and imposing one-size-fits-all measures is despotic and ineffective….
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Ah that's sad. The great Toots of Toots of the Maytals died yesterday, aged 77.
Reggae could tend to be on the heavy side sometimes, with all the Rasta Back-to-Africa Slavery-Days stuff, but Toots was always happy.
Pressure Drop, obviously:
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Even when he was jailed – for marijuana possession, a charge he always denied – he could come with up with the joyful sound of 54-46 Was My Number.
Or Monkey Man – for producer Leslie (King) Kong.
reported a tenfold increase over five years of patients asking him to do ‘reverse’ surgery.
"Meanwhile, academics who talk about detransition, and consider researching it, are vilified and persecuted as ‘transphobes’, and risk their careers and livelihoods. This is not only wrong, but unethical. I still believe that the courts are the best place to have established the right to research what has become a controversial topic, and to make a precedent to protect free speech and democratic principles. That is why this case is so important." James Caspian, Free Speech Matters
The case was reported by the Times in February last year:
Mr Caspian, 59, is a psychotherapist who has spent his career working with transgender people and became alarmed by reports from clinicians that the number of reverse gender reassignment procedures was on the rise. He initially had his research proposal into the phenomenon accepted by the university.
When he sought to widened the scope of the research into the people, particularly young women, who regretted gender reassignment but stopping short of reversing it, Bath Spa said his proposal would have to be resubmitted and sent to the ethics committee. The committee rejected it, citing the risk to the university’s reputation of permitting “politically incorrect” research.
“Engaging in a potentially politically incorrect piece of research carries a risk to the university. Attacks on social media may not be confined to the researcher, but may involve the university,” it said. “The posting of unpleasant material on blogs or social media may be detrimental to the reputation of the university.”
Back then Caspian was aiming to take the case to the High Court. Now it's escalated:
My lawyers have applied to European Court of Human Rights, since the Court of Appeal refused, on technical grounds, to grant a hearing for my case against Bath Spa University for preventing my research into gender detransition.
He's appealing for funds.
Jessica Krug is the academic who resigned after admitting that she'd lied about being black and was in fact a "white Jewish" woman from Kansas City, to general shock and horror.
Meghan Murphy's take – Jessica Krug is the natural result of identity politics:
I can’t help but be amused by the anger and condemnation expressed by the very woke, aghast that someone would take on an identity not their own in order to acquire status and leverage in a world that judges one’s words and actions based not on their value, but on their proclaimed identity. Today, a man who claims to be a woman is said to suffer infinitely more than an actual woman, on account of “cis privilege.” A white woman, of all people, how dare she, must sit down and shut up, as she is too high on the privilege ladder, as defined by the woke. If she is middle class, she may as well drop dead.
I am further amused when it comes to the obvious questions around why it is appalling for a white person to adopt the identity of a person of colour, but not for a male to insist he is female because he prefers a dress to pants or because he enjoys the sense of power he feels waltzing into the women’s change room, knowing that if any woman dare protest, he is completely within his rights to accuse her of a hate crime.
The very same people who believe women like Krug and Dolezal should be tarred and feathered, who complain that to identify as something you objectively are not constitutes “gaslighting” and “violence,” will, with a straight face, insist there is such a thing as a “female penis” and that “men menstruate too.” Not only that, but these very same people would not hesitate to cancel a friend or colleague who dare ask what the difference is between a white person who claims to be black and a man who claims to be female.
There are of course differences, as Murphy goes on to note. Sex is straightforward: you're either born male or you're born female. Race is far more complex. You'd think, then, that a case of claiming to be a different race than you actually are might be more deserving of sympathy than claiming to be a different sex. But, well. … it clearly ain't so.
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According to the “Foundation for Preserving and Promoting the Values of the Sacred Defense,” an affiliate of the Iranian Armed Forces’ General Headquarters, during the eight-year war with Iraq, more than 33,000 high school students were killed, 2,853 were injured and 2,433 were taken prisoner. According to a report by human rights organization Child Soldiers International, “boys as young as nine were reportedly used in human wave attacks and to serve as mine sweepers in the war with Iraq.”
As one analyst puts it, the “exceptionally high ratio of dead to wounded (in a conventional war between professional armies the number of wounded is higher than the number of those killed) reflects the children's lack of military training: They were used as cannon fodder in human-wave attacks launched by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against the Iraqi forces.”
No figures are available for the number of religious scholars who volunteered to walk across minefields holding keys to heaven, but I'm guessing it's somewhere around zero.
There was much talk recently of the Supreme Leader's sister Kim Yo Jong being promoted as one of the key figures in the North Korean hierarchy. For a while she did appear to take on some extra responsibility. My view was that, being family and all, she was promoted for a brief spell while the Kim Jong-un underwent some kind of surgery, but – being a woman in a deeply chauvinistic culture – was quietly shuffled to the back when the Fat Man returned.
Now, according to the Daily NK, she's handling the traditionally woman-friendly education brief:
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, Kim Yo Jong, recently ordered changes to the “Greatness Education” curriculum at the country’s preschools and the new curriculum was handed down to preschools nationwide on Aug. 25, Daily NK has learned.
“Greatness Education” is aimed at cultivating loyalty and trust toward North Korea’s leadership among the country’s children. According to a source in North Hamgyong Province earlier today, preschoolers aged five and six used to spend only 30 minutes a day learning about the childhoods of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il.
Only 30 minutes a day?? Clearly room for improvement there.
The updated curriculum, however, now has them spend a total of one and a half hours on “Greatness Education”: One hour is spent learning about the childhoods of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, while another 30 minutes is devoted to learning “revolutionary” music from the leaders’ childhoods.
“What is being taught in Greatness Education has changed somewhat,” the source said. “The amount of time spent on the Supreme Leader [Kim Jong Un]’s childhood is now twice that spent on the Suryong [Kim Il Sung] and the General [Kim Jong Il]’s childhoods.”
According to the source, the updated curriculum tells preschoolers that when Kim Jong Un was just five years old, he was a bright child who “rode a yacht, did target practice, and liked to read.”
Rode a yacht? That'll resonate with North Korean kids.
In accordance with the new curriculum, brochures about the Supreme Leader required for the Greatness Education classes were sent from the central government to the preschools, but there are also new costs for “sprucing up” classrooms for Greatness Education, the source said.
“Many parents are consequently wondering to themselves whether it might be better just to teach their kids at home,” he added.
