(0541) Morning all.
8. Yet another two-fer-one
First the subject matter … Rogan and Mad Max. MM stated what many of us know … that in South America, Bergoglio was not only saying all religions have merit, he was dabbling in the black arts … so he would have felt quite at home in the corridors of the Vatican with the smoke of satan wafting through them. And as is usually the case … the further you get away from the Vatican, the more pure is the Catholicism, e.g. with Jeanne la Pucelle.
Second in this item is my moan about noise inserted over dialogue, such that it’s irritating.
7. Another two-fer-one item
First, the subject of the item:
Second, what can be written what can’t. Those things yesterday were referring to text, the written word or a url and its text or a particular host … this above though is a sshot. Plus it’s straight reportage, not opinion.
6. A bit of nostalgia
5. DAD at 1030
a) Macron finally leaps into action” […] These two officers, considered close to the far right, co-signed an op-ed in 2021 published by Valeurs Actuelles, based on the blog Place d’armes, denouncing “the disintegration of France” and calling for the possible intervention of the army to “safeguard our compatriots.”
b) How should France solve the problem of unruly Afgans in the streets of Paris?
c) How anti-semitism became a defining principle of the French far left.
d) Some good news…..The ancient Chateau at Glénay, whose first mentions date back to the 12th century, continues to be restored using methods and materials faithful to its rich history.
4. Vital item at TDS today for li’l ole me
… not so much for our patrons and readers, given their career choices.
Professor Fired for Questioning Gender Ideology Wins $1.6 Million Settlement
“Court documents reveal one colleague complaining to another that Dr Josephson was “literally going against the scientific and ethical position of the profession… and getting paid to do it”, receiving the reply: “Definately [sic] agree.” Yet in later depositions, both interlocutors disclaimed any expertise in gender dysphoria and were unable to identify a single ethical guideline he had violated.
Remarkably, senior administrators moved swiftly to placate critics, demoting Dr Josephson to the role of junior faculty just seven weeks after the Heritage Foundation panel event.
For good measure, they also reduced his salary, retirement benefits and academic travel funds. Shortly after the demotion, the Chief of Staff to the Dean of School reassured one irate employee: “We’ve taken care of that,” in reference to Dr Josephson’s presentation.
Over the ensuing months, colleagues continued to belittle and berate him, causing irreparable damage to his professional career and reputation. He was barred from treating LGBTQ patients. He was illegally mandated to use transgender terminology – i.e., language inconsistent with biological sex. He was prevented from discussing gender dysphoria with students, stripped of his teaching duties and even temporarily banned from faculty meetings.”
There’s nothing new in this thing … from the 70s, I saw signs of it, then in 88 came the first signs of a National Curriculum, it gripped even independent schools by 1992, then came the first Ofsted inspections, which completely altered the criteria. They had gone Woke, not good teaching practice.
But if you think that it was only from the 70s that this was happening … well, in 1956 had come Bloom’s taxonomy, with Spock-like thinking on ed psych, along with Piaget and Dewey, very much leftist thinking designed to kill off trad methods which had worked, esp. in Scotland.
I was lucky enough to escape the ostracism as it reached the mental illness stage … in fact, that had been so since my own final years of secondary … all my life I was the final year of the old, before the system changed. Nuff on all that.
