Common Sense
How did we allow the government to tell us stuff we knew did not make sense – and we complied with our reticence?
How did we get to a point in our culture and logic where we remained silent in the face of foolhardy balderdash?
How did we allow those toxic people in our society to threaten us to the point of restraint when we might question or express skepticism about redefining and changing basic, undisputable facts?
For example: males can get pregnant. Here’s a quote from the Well-Wisp website: While biological males cannot become pregnant, discussions around gender identity complicate this subject further. Transgender men—individuals assigned female at birth who identify as male—may retain their reproductive capabilities if they haven’t undergone certain surgeries or hormonal treatments. Consequently, some transgender men can conceive if they still have functioning ovaries and a uterus. This reality emphasizes that gender identity isn’t solely tied to biological sex. Society’s evolving understanding of gender has led to broader conversations about family planning and reproductive rights for all individuals, regardless of their assigned sex at birth.
So, interpreting the gobbly-gak word salad above, a biological female who thinks she’s a male can get pregnant. Ergo, men can get pregnant.
First of all, the best guesstimate of “transgenders” is that there’s one half of one per cent of people in the US of one gender who feel like they are the other gender. I have no problem with anyone who thinks they are the opposite gender from their birth. I also have no problem with anyone who thinks they are the reincarnation of Genghis Khan.
Where I, and I assume ‘we,’ have a problem is when we’re expected to think that a transgender male is not a woman.
Think about it. We need a 2025 Presidential Executive Order to confirm that there are two sexes – male and female.
Common sense.
It’s the ability to exercise logical judgment. It is the most obvious and practical course of action that most reasonable people would take in any given situation.
Fact: Biological males are generally stronger with more stamina than biological females.
Knowing this, our Congress added to our civil rights laws what’s now commonly called “Title IX” which requires schools and colleges to provide as many athletic opportunities to females as they do for males.
The Biden administration reinterpreted Title IX to allow transgender women (biological males) to compete with females in sports activities. Common sense screams that that interpretation is fundamentally unfair to women athletes and was not the intent of the law.
Common sense.
Allowing 10-15 million illegal immigrants to cross our country’s borders without vetting and by simply uttering the word ‘asylum’ is not a logical border policy.
Common sense.
Hiring and/or promoting individuals (employees) based on their skin color or sex or sexual orientation, and ignoring those who have the desired talent, ability and determination is not logical if the employer is interested in success.
Common sense.
Tolerating employees who do not come to work at the designated place of operations is not logical if production is important. Apparently, it wasn’t important to the last administration as yet again we need an EO to get federal employees to come to work.
Going further. Freedom of speech is a constitutional right for US citizens. Censorship, or the redaction of speech, flies in the face of that right. Some of our self-appointed, political elite tell us they need to protect us from misinformation and disinformation by limiting that right to those they would determine as not worthy of free speech.
Free speech and popular agreement are not mutually exclusive. I have the right to express my opinion and disagree with the opinions of others without suppression.
BTW, did you notice the use of the terms ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation’ were never used to shut down expressions until in recent years?
But I digress.
To sum it up, the point is simple.
We, the people, have hopefully learned the lesson.
For a short time we mistakenly allowed – by our silence – some people to tell us we did not have the basic ability to perceive, to understand, and to judge things without any specialized knowledge.
In other words, the” woke” enacted their contentions and perceived our silence as agreement. A mistake on their part.
Just like we know not to touch a hot stove, or hammer our thumb, we know there are two sexes, that borders define countries, and that landing a job means we go to work.
We know common sense when we see people exercise it, and when people don’t.
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Have a great and prosperous week.
Hug somebody.
References:
https://wellwisp.com/can-men-get-pregnant-yes-or-no/
https://helpfulprofessor.com/common-sense-examples/
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This week’s trivia question is: What was the third country to get the atomic bomb? The answer to last week’s question re: the world’s fastest bird: Peregrine falcon. The peregrine is renowned for its speed. It can reach over 200 mph during its characteristic hunting stoop – high-speed dive. It’s found in all ice-free land masses of the world except New Zealand. They are very successful in urban areas because they like having nests in tall buildings and having plentiful prey on pigeons and ducks. Females are slightly larger than males, weighing just under 2 pounds with wing spans up to 4 feet. While falconry is still practiced in many countries, it remains an important part of Arab heritage and culture. Breeding farms are found in the UAE, Qatar and Saudi Arabia.
The California Secretary of State has OKed a petition drive aimed at putting the state’s secession from the United States on the ballot in 2028.
President Trump’s recent EO attempt to end birthright citizenship has the expected lawsuits challenging it. It’s past time SCOTUS rules on this controversial issue as outlined in the 14th Amendment. It’s been a practice in this country, the only nation in the world recognizing any baby born on its soil as a citizen.
A major factor in the continued increase in the price of eggs is the bird flu. Since February 2022 a hundred million birds have been infected and have been culled to prevent further spread. Apparently, the virus, H5S1, made its way into dairy cows last year and 67 humans have been infected. The current strain cannot be transmitted between humans, but the concern is that it may mutate and become so.
House Republican leaders are getting on board the DOGE wagon by outlining potential spending cuts of up to $3T, including capping Medicaid, eliminating many environmental regulations, changing energy policies, and lowering the cap on student loans. They are also considering work mandates for recipients’ access to the federal largess.
Do you have $8M lying around? If you do you can buy a 30-second ad during the Super Bowl next Sunday. Will we see the Budweiser Clydesdales?
President Trump put a week-long freeze on all government grants to entities other than individuals and families last week. He and Elon Musk want a little time to evaluate spending. At the same time the President offered an 8-month buyout to 2 million federal employees. Half of them haven’t come to work regularly anyway since COVID, so it would seem if most took the severance pay, the loss would have little effect on services. 2 million is two-thirds of the bloated civilian federal employment total, and we’re borrowing money to pay them.
America’s largest pork producer, Smithfield Foods, went public last week. Possible investment when P/E ratio comes down.
The Quinnipiac University survey released last week showed a 57% unfavorable rating for the Democratic Party, while the Republican Party held a 45% unfavorable one. 31% had a favorable rating of Democrats – 43% for Republicans. Surprised? I’m not.
An MIT spinoff, Emvolon, has developed technology to turn waste into green fuels. Maybe it’s another alternative answer to those of the climate change creed. Let’s capture and use the gases we produce rather than turning out the lights. That would be a positive approach based on our ability to innovate. One can only imagine what we’d could be doing if we had spent the trillions of the past few years on “capture” of the so-called negative emissions of fossil fuels.
Hopefully Punxsutawney Phil will not see his shadow this morning.
