Potpourri

"Unlike the African American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community."

JB

James O'Keefe has filed a lawsuit against the FBI for infringing on his second amendment rights.  He's been listed on the Federal NICS background check program as a convicted felon.  Unfortunately, he's not a convicted felon.   It seems like if folx are going to push for things like background checks as a "commonsense" gun law, then making those background checks as accurate as possible should be priority #1.

The Pakistani High Court ruled that 14 year old Christian girl Maira Shabaz must stay married to the man she says abducted her.  What's interesting about this is that you'll hear certain christians put more effort into criticizing ancient Israel for "forced marriages" and "marrying slave girls", that the same folx will mention something like this.  

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/05/pakistani-court-sparks-outrage-ruling-14-year-old-christian/

In what sounds like the set up for a lawyer joke, we see this.  "A terribly sad story.  Two young and ideallistic lawyers get wrapped up in the BLM protest movement.  In a moment of madness they throw a Molotov Cocktail into an abandoned police car and burn it.  Now they face a minimum of 35 years in federal prison."

1.  I wonder if this was one of those "mostly peaceful" protests we hear about.

2.  I'm not sure that 30 qualifies as "young".

3.  You'd have thought that law school would have covered these sorts of crimes and the potential penalties.

4.  They're "officers of the court".

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/01/882075310/lawyers-charged-with-seven-felonies-in-molotov-cocktail-attack-out-on-bail

"As scholars who study race and social inequality, we know that diversity training suffers from chronically disappointing results.  Recent research even suggests that diversity training may cause more problems than it solves.    The authors of the article are professors at Carlton College, an institution that can charitably be referred to as progressive.

https://theconversation.com/why-diversity-training-on-campus-is-likely-to-disappoint-143644

"We humans, have a fatal tendency to try to adjust the truth to fit our desires rather than adjusting our desires to fit the truth."

Frank Turek

"Jesus turned over the tables in the temple, not in protest of commercial oppression, but in the zeal of right worship."

Dustin Benge

"Atheists routinely confuse knowing what's right with justifying what's right.  They say it's right to love.  I agree, but why is it right to  love?  The issue isn't how we know what's right, but why an authoritative standard of Rightness exists in the first place."

Frank Turek

I'd add to the last that it's not just atheists who have that problem, some christians do as well.  Further, the atheist/materialist worldview is stuck trying to establish an "authoritative standard of Rightness" based solely on some variation of evolutionary theory.