A lesson for life

        In reading the book of Jeremiah, specifically chapters 27-29 this morning, I noticed that one could almost boil down his message to "You can do this the easy way, or you can do it the hard way, but the outcome will be your exile in Babylon."  It strikes me as applicable in any number of areas; there are times when you can do things the easy way, or the hard way, but the end result--aside from the trouble of going through the process--will be about the same.

On Harris and the filibuster

Further cementing her position as a "lawyer where nobody can quite figure out how she passed the bar", Vice President Kamala Harris has endorsed an end of the filibuster "just for abortion rights."  She figures she can get 50 Senators plus a Vice President to vote for a federal law protecting abortion.

Beyond the reality that ending the filibuster in any number of areas increases the temptation to do so in others--making things easy is a genuine temptation for any legislator--you have the reality that the reversal of Roe is a return of abortion law to the states, and hence a federal law that would override state laws prohibiting certain aspects of abortion would run into the exact same Constitutional issue that led to the overturning of Roe.  It is the 10th Amendment, noting that powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved by the states.

Really, by the logic Harris uses, the federal government could produce a law that would legalize all murder.  Hopefully we have jurists who are ethical and smart enough to stand against these stands of Harris that ought to have kept her off the bar. 

Say what?

Gun control groups, including the Brady Center, Giffords, and others, are apparently making the claim  in a Supreme Court case involving the state of Tennessee that somehow, making children transgender will reduce gun violence.

This, in a case involving the state that had Audrey Hale, transgender youth, shoot up an elementary school--and four months prior to the law taking effect?   Seems there is a wee little problem with their logic, to put it mildly.  Tennessee did indeed have a school shooting by someone who considered herself transgender in a time when reassignment procedures were legal in Tennessee.  (OK, she was 28, too, so she still had access to these procedures if she'd wanted them...)

I guess there probably is some reality to the notion that if you castrate a lot of boys, sooner or later you're bound to drop testosterone in one boy that will decide not to shoot up his school because of reduced aggression, but with about 40 school shootings per year, you're talking about castrating 50,000 young men for every school shooting prevented.  Seems like just a bit of overkill!

Plus, those who watch the "trans mafia" realize that some pretty vicious aggression from trans advocates is quite routine.  I'm not quite sure we can assume--as our ancestors in the 19th century did--that removal of male attributes will reduce male aggression.