Political Correctness Is Often Incorrect

     

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Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
--Arnold Schwarzenegger

A recent tweet states: "Denver Police warning parents to be on the lookout for pot-laced candy this Halloween."

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Paul Rodney McHugh is an American psychiatrist, researcher, and educator. He is University Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the author, co-author, or editor of seven books within his field.

Dr. Paul R. McHugh

Dr. Paul R. McHugh, the former psychiatrist-in-chief for Johns Hopkins Hospital and its current Distinguished Service Professor of Psychiatry, said that transgenderism is a "mental disorder" that merits treatment, that sex change is "biologically impossible," and that people who promote sexual reassignment surgery are collaborating with and promoting a mental disorder.

That seems logical and sensible to me. It just makes more sense than does the current 'politically correct' belief that all one has to do is state that he or she is transgendered (even sub-teen children) and then is allowed to use a rest room intended for the opposite sex.

California governor signs bill allowing ‘transgender’ students to use opposite sex bathrooms and locker rooms.

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Did You Know . . .?

Barbara Walters was born in the same year as Anne Frank.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

On this day in 1989, the deadliest earthquake to hit the San Francisco area since 1906 struck at 5:04 p.m. and lasted for 15 seconds. The quake measured 7.1 on the Richter scale, and its aftermath was witnessed on live television by millions of people watching the third game of the World Series of baseball between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, held at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. The tremor hit moments before the start of the game, and sportscasters were soon performing the duties of news anchors as they reported on the resulting pandemonium in the stadium. The earthquake killed a total of 63 people, while more than 3,000 others were injured and more than 100,000 buildings were damaged.

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WORD FOR TODAY

minim [MIN-uh-m]
noun
1. the smallest unit of liquid measure, 1/60 (0.0167) of a fluid dram, roughly equivalent to one drop.
2. Music. a note, formerly the shortest in use, but now equivalent in time value to one half of a semibreve; half note.
3. the least quantity of anything.
4. something very small or insignificant.
adjective
5. smallest.
6. very small.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS

Marshall Bruce Mathers III

(born October 17, 1972)

Eminem is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter, and actor.

Mae Carol Jemison

(born October 17, 1956)

Mae Jamison is an American physician and NASA astronaut. She became the first African American woman to travel in space when she went into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour on September 12, 1992.

George Robert Wendt III

(born October 17, 1948)

George Wendt is an American actor, best known for the role of Norm Peterson on the television show Cheers.

Margaret Ruth "Margot" Kidder

(born October 17, 1948)

Margot Kidder is a Canadian-American actress. She appeared in a wide range of films during the 1970s and 1980s such as Sisters, Black Christmas, The Great Waldo Pepper, The Amityville Horror and Heartaches. She is best known for her role as Lois Lane in four Superman movies opposite Christopher Reeve, beginning with Superman in 1978.

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A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
--Christopher Reeve

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The first paragraph in a news item from the online Minneapolis Star Tribune made me do a double-take, shake my head in disbelief, and then read the complete story.

Here is that paragraph: "A Colorado civil rights panel has ruled that a suburban Colorado Springs school district likely discriminated against a 6-year-old transgender girl when it prevented her from using the girls' bathroom at her elementary school."

Wait a minute. How in the world can a six-year-old child possibly know which sex he or she is? Biologically, if he has a functioning penis, he is a boy, and must use the Boys restroom. Also biologically, if she has a functioning vagina, she is a girl, and must use the Girls restroom. Otherwise, any and all of the other students in the school can use the restroom of their choice. If challenged, all any student has to do is declare himself or herself a member of the opposite sex no matter what is biologically indicated. If then not allowed to use the restroom of choice, this (in our litigious age) becomes a matter of discrimination.

That's how I see it.

LINK to story

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While walking on the sidewalk alongside Speedway Blvd. early Tuesday morning, I espied in the scrub, at the base of a tree, what appeared to be a plastic fork sticking in the earth.

On closer inspection, I deduced that the small space might have been constructed by one of the homeless folks who frequent the area, perhaps building with stones and a plastic fork a temporary shrine of sorts.

Or a dining room.

Of course, I've been told that I have a vivid imagination.

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TRIVIA

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

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HISTORICAL EVENT

With a string of pop hits in the mid-1960s that began with the career-defining "I Got You Babe" (1965), Sonny and Cher Bono established themselves as the most prominent and appealing married couple in the world of popular music. Sonny and Cher projected an image of marital harmony that a lot of people could relate to -- an image not so much of perfect bliss, but of a clearly imperfect yet happy mismatch.

Mr. and Mrs. Bono traded on that image professionally for a solid decade, even several years past the point that it was true. After 13 years together, Sonny and Cher were legally divorced on this day, June 26 in 1975.

Their daughter, Chastity Bono, changed her name to Chaz Bono and, using hormones and other pharmaceuticals, physically changed her gender from female to male.

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WORD FOR TODAY

transgender
adjective
appearing as, wishing to be considered as, or having undergone surgery to become a member of the opposite sex.

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CELEBRITY BIRTHDAYS


Eleanor Jean Parker
(born June 26, 1922)

Eleanor Parker is an American actress. Her versatility led to her being dubbed Woman of a Thousand Faces, the title of her biography by Doug McClelland.

By 1946, Parker had starred in Between Two Worlds, Hollywood Canteen, Pride of the Marines, Never Say Goodbye, and played Mildred in the remake of Of Human Bondage.

Parker's most famous screen role is probably that of Baroness Elsa Schraeder, the second female lead in the 1965 Oscar-winning global success The Sound Of Music

Christopher Eugene "Chris" O'Donnell
(born June 26, 1970)

Chris O'Donnell is an American actor. He played Dick Grayson/Robin in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, Charlie Simms in Scent of a Woman, Finn Dandridge in Grey's Anatomy, Peter Garrett in Vertical Limit, and Jack McAuliffe in The Company. O'Donnell stars as NCIS Special Agent G. Callen on the CBS crime drama television series NCIS: Los Angeles.

Jennette Michelle Faye McCurdy
(born June 26, 1992)

Jennette McCurdy is an American film and television actress and country pop singer-songwriter. She is best known for her role as Sam Puckett on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly and is currently reprising her role in the spin-off series Sam & Cat. She has also appeared in a number of notable television series, including CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Malcolm in the Middle, Lincoln Heights, Will & Grace, Penguins of Madagascar, Zoey 101, True Jackson, VP, Law and Order SVU, Medium, Judging Amy, The Inside, Karen Sisco, Over There and Close to Home.

Peter Lorre
(June 26 1904 - March 23, 1964)

Peter Lorre was a Hungarian-American actor. Lorre caused an international sensation with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M (1931). He later became a popular featured player in Hollywood crime films and mysteries (in particular with Humphrey Bogart and Sydney Greenstreet), and, though frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner, became star of the successful Mr. Moto detective series.

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A lot of parents never speak to their transgender kids again; that's not the case in my family.
--Chaz Bono

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