Children are being traumatized by rainbow flags and posters of multi-racial children holding hands, say trustees of the Conroe Independent School District (CISD) of Texas. The trustees now want more strict rules around classroom displays.

Even though the district already has a policy prohibiting political displays unrelated to curriculum, CISD trustee Melissa Dungan said she wants a more restrictive “crackdown” by trustees on such displays, KTRK reported.

Duggan said “a number of parents” had contacted her about “supposed displays of personal ideologies in classrooms.”

“I wish I was shocked by each of the examples that were shared with me, however, I am aware these trends have been happening for many years,” she told her fellow trustees at a recent meeting.

When asked about these “trends,” Dugan mentioned a first-grade student who was reportedly traumatized after seeing a poster of people of different races holding hands. The traumatized child, according to Dugan, had to change classrooms.

It was the result of having multiple pastors tell me, essentially, the same story about quoting the Sermon on the Mount, parenthetically, in their preaching — "turn the other cheek" — [and] to have someone come up after to say, "Where did you get those liberal talking points?" And what was alarming to me is that in most of these scenarios, when the pastor would say, "I'm literally quoting Jesus Christ," the response would not be, "I apologize." The response would be, "Yes, but that doesn't work anymore. That's weak." And when we get to the point where the teachings of Jesus himself are seen as subversive to us, then we're in a crisis.

We're still going to let them tell us that their religion must determine how we apply laws though, right?

Let's listen to Emmet Cohen and Cyrille Aimee!

You're welcome.

At the Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman, AL- home of the in-laws.

Here are a few pictures of a large collection of miniature Catholic folk art works done by a Benedictine monk in the first half of the 1900s. It's all made with donated materials like dishes and figurines and jewelry, shells, bits of glass, tiles, cement - whatever he could get.

There are many small scenes that duplicate churches or shrines from around the world , and then large sections dedicated to Rome and the Holy Land.

Quite a sight.

In recent years, research showed that many professionals consider their work to be socially useless. Various explanations have been proposed for the phenomenon. The much-discussed “bullshit jobs theory” by the American anthropologist David Graeber, for example, states that some jobs are objectively useless and that this occurs more frequently in certain occupations than others.

Let's listen to Mulatu Astatke!

You're welcome.

Sinéad O’Connor, acclaimed Dublin singer, dies aged 56 – The Irish Times

I remember seeing her in 1990 at a lovely outdoor venue. When she sang Nothing Compares 2 U, the place was absolutely silent.

In April 2022, the United States joined a growing list of countries that allow for a third gender option (“X”) in passports. This policy also allows transgender applicants to self-select their gender as “male” or “female” and removes the requirement to provide medical documentation if their gender does not match other identification documents. The change also effectively permits any U.S. citizen (not only those who are nonbinary, intersex, or gender-nonconforming) to opt out of sharing their gender by choosing an X.

I believe this means Republicans now have to boycott Xitter.

The Ayn Rand Institute, named for conservative philosopher Ayn Rand, received a [COVID relief] loan of between $350,000 and $1 million, which it called “partial restitution for government-inflicted losses."

“It would be a terrible injustice for pro-capitalists to step aside and leave the funds to those indifferent or actively hostile to capitalism,” Ayn Rand Institute board member Harry Binswanger argued in May, stating that the organization would “take any relief money offered us.”

Loan Amount
$713,100

Amount Forgiven
$721,697
Includes any accrued interest

A creepy anti-government shmibertarian jerk tank got $713K in free money. Talk about horrible injustice.