Three Holidays This Weekend!
Tomorrow is Constitution Day.
On September 17, 1787, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention met for the last time to sign the document they had created. We encourage all Americans to observe this important day in our nation's history by attending local events in your area. Celebrate Constitution Day through activities, learning, parades and demonstrations of our Love for the United State of America and the Blessings of Freedom Our Founding Fathers secured for us.
The National Constitution Center will be observing Constitution Day on Monday. In case you needed a reason to take some kids out of school for a special learning experience. Some adults could use a little education about the Constitution, too!
Which part of the Constitution seems most endangered to you right now?
Today is Mexican Independence Day.
This celebration is characterized by the performance of "El Grito de Dolores" -- "grito" meaning battle cry -- inspired in the early morning of Sept. 16, 1810, when the Catholic priest Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang the bells of his parish and called on the Mexican population to take up arms against the Spanish authorities in a fight that would last 11 years.
I'm seeing Halloween stuff in the store. Constitution Day and Mexican Independence Day decorations? Not so much.
My Spanish is not very good, but El Grito de Dolores sounds to me a lot like "the cry of struggle and suffering" or something like that. And the start of an eleven year war sounds kind of grim. Maybe that's why Cinco de Mayo is more popular in the USA. Shorter battle.
Anyway, there may be something to learn from the Mexicans' declaration of independence from Spain that could be applicable today. What do you think?
And yesterday was Salvadoran Independence Day. Even less recognized.
Today is the second day of Rosh Hashanah. So Happy New Year to all the Jewish members of The Horde, lurkers and other Jewish readers!
Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is one of Judaism's holiest days. Meaning "head of the year" or "first of the year," the festival begins on the first day of Tishrei, the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar, which falls during September or October. Rosh Hashanah commemorates the creation of the world and marks the beginning of the Days of Awe, a 10-day period of introspection and repentance that culminates in the Yom Kippur holiday, also known as the Day of Atonement. Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur are the two "High Holy Days" in the Jewish religion.
Rosh Hashanah 2023 begins on Friday, September 15, 2023, and ends on the evening of Sunday, September 17, 2023.
A holiday which could inspire reflection for a lot of people.
California Is Confused
San Francisco may not have been the best environment for Colin Kaepernick, who now wants to return to slavery for the NFL:
California and National Issues
Sometimes I think that the California legislature is trying to help Gavin Newsom seem presidential by working with him, and sometimes I think they are trying to help him by acting crazier than him. They have been busy.
Second Amendment
BetaCuck4Lyfe alerted us to this story yesterday in a comment thread:
California lawmakers want US Constitution to raise gun-buying age to 21.
California lawmakers have approved a resolution proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom calling for a convention to add an amendment to the U.S. Constitution related to gun control.
In June, Newsom proposed a 28th Amendment, which would raise the minimum age to purchase a gun from 18 to 21, require universal background checks, institute a reasonable waiting period for all gun purchases, and bar civilians from purchasing assault weapons.
Newsom's proposal, approved Thursday, faces a difficult road ahead. Amending the Constitution requires either two-thirds of state legislatures to call for a convention, also called an Article V Convention or amendatory convention, or a two-thirds majority vote in both houses of Congress . .
Ambitious.
COVID
California quietly disavows medical misinformation law before courts can strike it down
California's COVID-19 medical misinformation law, which threatens the licenses of doctors who deviate from a fluctuating "scientific consensus" in conversations with patients, got a frosty reception in front of trial and appeals courts this year.
Signed into law by Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom nearly a year ago, AB 2098 may not exist by the time judges get around to deciding its constitutionality.
A provision to repeal the law was apparently added to Senate Bill 815, which makes changes to the Medical Board of California, in late August or early September with the legislative session winding down. Nobody seems to know, or is willing to say, how it got there.
They still seem to want to interfere in the patient/doctor relationship, however.
Travel
Via J.J. Sefton: California Officially Gives Up on Travel Bans to Conservative States
Newsom must travel after all.
A lot of people are avoiding travel to San Francisco. For this reason and others.
LGBTQ etx. issues
Gavin Newsom faces slate of transgender bills targeting parental rights
California's legislature has taken major steps to institutionalize hiding child transgender identity from parents in a slate of bills headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom's (D-CA) desk.
One or both houses of the Golden State legislature have overwhelmingly passed five separate bills aimed at both hiding childhood proclamations of transgender identity from parents and punishing them for not "affirming" the child through social and medical interventions.
Will Newsom act as a presidential-type "voice of reason" here, or not? The bill he signed and promoted last year is not a hopeful sign. It affects parents in all states.
Last week's bill:
BREAKING: The California legislature just passed another insane LGBT bill.
SB 407 requires Foster families to sign a document demonstrating their understanding "that sexual orientation, gender identity and expression can evolve over time" and provide "all services to LGBTQ+ children."
Basically, it requires foster parents pledge allegiance to the rainbow flag cult in order to be a part of the state's foster system and essentially bans parents with Christian conservative views.
That "evolve over time" bit bears some thought.
Who is fighting back?
The woman in this interview, Erin Friday, a mother and attorney, has started an organization to help parents surprised by the "evolution" to a trans identity in a child. Her own daughter decided that she was pansexual after a lesson about the "genderbread person", then her identity changed to trans. Mom helped her come back to reality.
Erin Friday's daughter was introduced to gender identity ideology in a comprehensive sex-ed class in seventh grade. "The seed was planted after that class," Friday says. "And in fact, all of her friends, there were five, sat in my front yard saying what their new labels were."
Friday says she was "alarmed by the language that they were using, including 'pansexual,' which is not a term that 11-year-olds should know."
The mother began looking into what her daughter was learning in school and was struck by the fact that other adults were not also questioning the teaching of gender ideology to middle schoolers.When her daughter said she was "transgender," Friday began taking decisive steps to rescue her from transgenderism. She took her daughter's phone, put her in a new school, and tried her best to surround the preteen with the truth about who she was as a female.
It was not easy, but Friday says, as a parent, "you have to be strong enough, your love for your child has to be strong enough, to take their vitriol." After about a year and a half, Friday's daughter stopped claiming a transgender identity.
Today, through the work of the parental support group Our Duty, (OurDuty.group) Friday is helping other families navigate through gender identity ideology.
There is a nice break-out of topics under the video at the YouTube link. She has been testifying against various bills in California, and notes that each bill is a stepping stone to the next. The first one she testified against concerned secrecy by insurance companies when parents paid for adult childrens' mastectomies, etc.
Other notes: More school counselors are now a bad thing in California due to ideological capture. It is safer to protest transgender issues than it used to be. The internet is dangerous to kids.
Weekend
There a new interview up with Thomas Sowell. If you have some time this weekend.
And a little history lesson:
Music
Any other states have more songs written about them than California?
Hope you have something nice planned for this weekend.
This is the Thread before the Gardening Thread.
Thinking a Second Time
Here's the link to last week's thread, September 9, Come Back, Australia!
Topics included the effects of social media on young people, the degradation in scientific journals as it related to gender studies and "green energy" and some people who are starting to fight back. Incidentally, even the Australian government seems to be coming around to some nuance concerning COVID boosters. Compared to our own government.
The last comment of last week's thread was by madmike.
A friend just returned from a month driving around Australia. He was last there just before the Covid fiasco. He said the changes there were astonishing in that short period. The Australian people seem to have completely caved to the gay and trans ideology with free speech under greater attack than even the UK or US. It seemed to dimish the further he got from the large cities but was still present in some ways until he was in very small towns.
Really sad. I have a cousin near Sydney but haven't been there in over 20 years. I was contemplating a trip until I talked with my friend, probably won't waste my time now.
I wonder if the changes have been faster in Australia or Canada? This is creepy.
Weird that Canada is moving ahead so forcefully with transitioning kids while most of Europe is backing off "affirmative care" due to lack of scientific support for its safety and efficacy.
O Canada!
Don't be like California. Australia, same advice.
Comments are closed on last week's thread so you won't ban yourself by trying to comment on a week-old thread. But don't try it anyway.