Saturday Miscellany

First, Karen Bass, mayor of Los Angeles, has fulsomely expressed her outrage at the shoplifting that has been visited on local department stores.

The results are not very promising. A band of thieves stole thousands of dollars of designer purses at a  Nordstrom Rack in Riverside. 

And, a group of citizens ransacked a Macy’s in Arcadia. They were helping themselves to designer perfumes.

Second, it must have been a slow day at the Justice Department, because noted black supremacist Kristin Clarke, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, filed suit against Elon Musk's SpaceX, for not qualified American citizens over illegal aliens and other asylum seekers.

That’s right, the Biden administration wants you to hire people who have no business being here and who knew nothing about rocket science, over American citizens.

The amusing part is that you have to be a United States citizen to work for the Department of Justice.

Third, reports tell us that child mutilation is becoming more and more prevalent in the United States. These are mostly mastectomies, performed on children under the age of 18. Over the past three the number has tripled, to more than 1,200 a year. 

Fourth, Planned Parenthood is offering free vasectomies to the uninsured. In Missouri, to celebrate World Vasectomy Day it is offering the service through a mobile van called 'The Nutcracker.”

I did not make that up.

But, don’t count virile men out yet. Some of them are now injecting their virile organs with “lip filler” to add girth. I did not make that up either.

Fourth, Daniel Greenfield, of the Sultan Knish blog, reports that the Veterans Administration is not doing a very good job offering cancer treatment for veterans.

Why should this be the case? Apparently, the VA has been using its funds for gender reassignment surgery.

Greenfield reports:

While the VA can’t seem to care for veterans, it is busy offering transgender procedures that include hormones, pre-op evaluation, and post-op care. The VA handles everything from using the right pronouns to storing sperm and eggs, and even hair removal and fake breasts.

Veterans with cancer are not being treated in a timely manner, but those whose mental problems lead them to think that they’re really women are getting fast tracked to castration.

Fifth, more and more New York parents are taking their children out of kindergarten. Rather than see their children indoctrinated in woke ideology, at the expense of math, these parents are relying on private and parochial schools.

Beyond that, parent Lisa Liss wrote in The New York Post, the schools are teaching anti-Semitism and silence. She took them out of the schools. She wrote:

My children are 6 and 9. They have no idea who Christopher Columbus is, but they know how to mix paint to match their skin color.

They’ve never heard the inspirational words of Martin Luther King Jr. in school, but they know he was, in their words, “shot by a white guy.”

My younger child was told to look at the color of his skin and determine if that means he is black or white (as Jews, we don’t identify as either).

He was taught that Black Lives Matter activism is similar to our nation’s historic and commendable Civil Rights movement.

What wasn’t he taught everyday? Math.

Sixth, the American elementary school educational system is a national disgrace. Surely, you knew it. Over at the Powerline blog, John Hinderaker declares it an existential threat to America. It's good to see an existential threat that really is an existential threat:

America’s public schools are almost unbelievably bad, to a degree that poses an existential threat to the republic. That’s the bad news. The good news is that most Americans are figuring it out. Rasmussen finds that a 36% plurality say that our public schools are poor. That is a remarkable finding. A sadly misinformed 9% think our schools are excellent. But that disproportion is revealing. The teachers’ unions aren’t fooling many people anymore.

Hinderaker is more optimistic than I am, but, we will leave it on a slightly positive note.

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