Homeless Man Identifies As Dog - Demands Housing in Animal Shelter

Regarding "BC politicans are aghast at blatant rights violation": https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/transgender-woman-denied-access-to-women-only-gym 

"People deserve to feel ... affirmed for who they are. Trans women are women — period.”              --- Kelli Paddon, B.C.’s parliamentary secretary for gender equity

News bulletin:

   Homeless Man Identifies As Dog                                                            

When he demanded the Animal Shelter give him free housing in a kennel, the Shelter explained that they only take in homeless animals.

The man sued the Animal Shelter under the BC Human Rights Code for "injury to dignity, feelings and self respect”. 

The Minister of Gender Equity was sympathetic: “Each individual knows their own gender ... uh, species ... best," she explained.

This homeless man has had his self-esteem attacked, say his advocates. (His what? ask skeptics. Wouldn't self-esteem involve working? renting an apartment?)

But "cool"! say animal welfare advocates. This means the Human Rights Code will need to be expanded to become the Human and Animal Rights Code.

Meanwhile, the government plans to table a Bill for the Eradication of Skepticism.

If I lose my case at the tribunal, says Dog-Man, I shall move to England. They have a Gender Recognition Act, under which if you have papers and present yourself as a member of another gender for two years and fill in a bunch of trans-forms, you legally ARE of that gender. Maybe they'll introduce the Species Recognition Act, establishing the same rights for trans-species citizens.

If so, I think I'll become a Corgi. With a bit of luck I might end up at Buckingham Palace, living in the lap of luxury.

 

The Innocent Reporter is an Honest Reporter

"Innocent" means not-knowing (in-nocere). The innocent reporter doesn't know for sure what today's news is or what its importance is. Accuracy in reporting is important, but sometimes reporters imagine facts. They rush into print or online, or quote bad sources.

The "Innocent Reporter" reports headlines in Today's News with an impartial accuracy (hesitant to commit?) so often missing in breaking stories:

A Robbery Might Have Taken Place ...

Crime Statistics Might Go Up ... or down

Someone Might Run For Office ...

Interest Rates Might Go Up, or Down, and we might see recession ahead ... or not

A Child Might Have Gone Missing 

All Travellers Could Lose Any Luggage Any Time

A Dog Might Have Gone Missing

The Pandemic Might End ... or Come Back

The Climate Might Be Changing Faster, or Slower, than scientists-of-varying expertise thought

Possibly-lost Dog Might Have Been Sighted Today, says potential eye-witness

Your Followers Might Not Really Like You At All

There will be Rain, Clouds, Sun, Snow, Hail, Sleet, or Wind Tomorrow

An Asteroid Might Be On the Way ...

        Sorry folks ... I just don't know,

                 your Honest Daily News Reporter

Imagine Life Without the Marginalized

Social commentators fret about the rights of the marginalized, but they are the powerful: socio-political action happens on the margins. Many fashionable contemporary historians re-write history in ways designed to appeal to an audience of "marginalized" groups. We could playfully call this history-product, the companion of journalism's "fake news", the "Fake Olds".

As for the societal activity occurring on margins, who populates these domains?

-- the nameless public that votes well-known leaders into office

-- the nameless school-teachers who shape students' minds (for better or worse)

-- the nameless care-givers and nurses who tend the sick

-- people who drive transport so the movers and shakers can move around and shake

-- people who build roads, bridges and rail for the transport to run on

-- people who put the power lines back when storms knock them down

-- people who grow food, and those who maintain infrastructure through which food gets to masses

Do we know the names of these people on the margins (whatever their race or gender may be) who get central things done, and without whom "the centre cannot hold"? These are the anonymous leaders, the majority whose opinions the elected "leaders" follow. These are the level-headed non-extremists who get things done because they have skills and training, while loud and trendy "influencers" command centre stage "full of passionate intensity" about whatever's politically correct this time.

Thank heaven for the marginalized. The centre wouldn't hold and things would fall apart without them -- as W. B. Yeats poetically explained.

Justice Stew -- the difference between "Social Justice" and the "Just Society" is ...?

Remember when "social justice" had something to do with a "just society"? Now it's linked to other, slippery concepts: identitarian politics and "critical race theory". Does social justice mean social thought control (group think)? 

What then was the Just Society, back in the 20th century when it was the ideal? It was a society in which everyone had equal rights. There weren't separate racial rights, marginalized rights, disability rights, gender rights and so on. They were the same for all -- called "civil rights". 

"Civil" is related to "city" and "citizen", and civil rights developed to keep things fair and non-violent when humanity began massing together in large centres (cities). Spread out in rural lifestyles everyone could be individualistic, dreamy-imaginative, in touch with natural rhythms, or, in a word -- pagan ("of the countryside"). But living with the madding crowd was more of a challenge, in terms of keeping the peace.

So do we still have a concept of civil justice as practised in a Just City? What civil rights would it depend on? Some would be:

Right to free speech

Right to not read speech you don't like

Right to be offended, or to choose not to be offended, by multiple opinions

Right to congregate with soul-mates

Right to walk away

Right to privacy and quietness (un-stalked by CCTV and smartphones, or harassed by noise)

Right to access health care, contraception, and assistance in choosing to die, according to individual choice

Right to access nature, green-space, and the refreshing company of non-human animals

            The right to add to this list -- please do so.

What systems do these rights rest on? 

Government by elected representatives, separation of church and state, an independent justice system, and an uncensored press (and literacy to read it)

What institutions protect those? 

Schools, Science-and-Humanities study, public libraries                     (Can't afford university fees? Many a genius, inventor and leader educated herself using civic public library systems as set up by the self-educated Scot, Andrew Carnegie, and others 

Systems of professional certification in: health care, teaching, conservation, legal services.

Add some attitudinal flavours to this justice-stew, such as open-mindedness, historical perspective, and humanitarian spirit. Blend and serve! 

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Letter To Santa Claus

Dear Santa Claus,

I don't want anything new for Christmas; I just want to stop losing what I already have. Some Favourite Things are disappearing: books in print, clock radios, landline phones, pay-phones, lawns, paper money, folding maps, greeting cards, stamps ... (and the whole Post Office ...)

Instead of hanging a stocking for you to fill I have left a stocking full of things for you to take away: shopping "membership" cards, cellphones, Global Positioning System, CCTV camera, fit-bit monitors, Kindle readers, plastic packaging, cat-leash, meat, and "apps".

Thanks, Santa -- just close the chimney when you leave. 

Shipped off to torture and execution -- the horses of Canada

 

The Canadian Government is "... balancing the need to develop effective and science-informed policies and strategies with the perspectives of stakeholders who are affected by its decisions. Stakeholders will be engaged in consultations, as applicable ...". 

Have you ever heard a more appalling piece of bureaucratic bafflegab by a government? Well yes -- it happens all the time. This one is about why the Gov of Canada cannot stop torturing innocent horses. "Stakeholders" might not like it if they did. Let these stakeholders show their faces, as they watch no-longer-wanted horses forced into a 28 hour flight without food or water to the slaughter houses of foreign customers. 

Yes, the Canadian Government -- friend of the abused -- can't even stop that abuse. 

Some things they really can't stop -- they can't suddenly make climate change go away, or make Russia, Afghanistan and Iran stop torturing people. But how is it they can't even stop themselves torturing innocent horses? Herding them into trucks and planes as live meat ready for butchering. Old racehorses, the winners and the losers, old saddle-horses, show jumpers and rodeo performers -- all now surplus to requirements. 

The question is, why don't Canadians require ethical behavior and decency from their government? The PM's "Mandate Letter" of one year ago to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food included "ban the live export of horses for slaughter". 

So what happened? Oh yeah, that "stakeholder" thing. If you feel you have an ethical stake in non-cruelty, write to your MP, and to the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food: marie-claude.bibeau@parl.gc.ca  

If you need help find some here: https://cpj.ca/writing-a-letter-to-your-mp/  (from Citizens For Public Justice)

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BAD History

The Rearranged-History Institute has a mission: re-frame the past. It should never have happened. A new breed of graduating historians is committed to pretending it didn't, or at least that it happened differently. Committed to equity, inclusion and diversity they are intersectionally dedicated to authenticating new heroes. The old ones will have their statues knocked down.

Statistical data, historical records, documented research, archives, eye-witness accounts by participants at historical events ... these sources are deemed untrustworthy, for they reveal history outside the correct narrative, history that doesn't obey ideological instructions. (BAD History! "Marginalized" groups are very angry with you. They think you hate them, so they consider you Hate-History.)

"We have ways of re-arranging you", they warn. So take cover, History. But take heart -- in a generation or two the re-discovery of your hiding places will launch a thousand new PhD papers. History is nothing if not cyclical.

SEE ALSO:

https://satiricalscene.blogspot.com/2022/06/manufactured-history-can-you-study.html