Why Are Cuckoofornia Taxes So High And Getting Higher?
BECAUSE WE ARE ON THE VERGE OF BUYING TAMPONS FOR DUDES!
(Women can continue to buy their own fucking tampons, as the rest of us did -- but yes, the bill that would cover all those "men"struators would cover the ladies, too.)
Alice Seeley writes at Campus Reform that A bill in California would require public universities to provide free menstrual products to students -- regardless of what sex they are!
"California recognizes that access to menstrual products is a basic human right and is vital for ensuring the health, dignity, and full participation of all Californians in public life," the text of AB-367 states.The bill continues, "California has an interest in promoting gender equity, not only for women and girls, but also for transgender men, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming people who may also menstruate and experience inequities resulting from lack of access to menstrual products."
Introduced by Assemblymember Cristina Garcia, who represents California's 58th district, AB-367 would cost the California State University System between $750,000 to $800,000.
...In addition to public universities, the bill would also apply to secondary schools.
Consider this: "California recognizes that access to menstrual products is a basic human right..."
In contrast, here's Philip Barlow, Consultant neurosurgeon, in a letter to the British Medical Journal, "Health care is not a human right":
The Tavistock Group has invited comments on its document on shared ethical principles. I would challenge its first major principle--that health care is a human right.A human right is a moral right of paramount importance applicable to every human being. There are several reasons why health care should not be considered a human right.
Firstly, health care is difficult to define. It clearly encompasses preventive care (for example, immunisation), public health measures, health promotion, and medical and surgical treatment of established illness. Is the so called human right to health care a right to basic provision of clean water and adequate food, or does everyone in the world have a right to organ transplantation, cosmetic surgery, infertility treatment, and the most expensive medicine? For something to count as a human right the minimum requirement should surely be that the right in question is capable of definition.
Secondly, all rights possessed by an individual imply a duty on the part of others. Thus the right to a fair trial imposes a duty on the prosecuting authority to be fair. On whom does the duty to provide health care to all the world's citizens fall? Is it a duty on individual doctors, or hospital authorities, or governments, or only rich governments? It is difficult to see how any provision of benefits can be termed a human right (as opposed to a legal entitlement) when to meet such a requirement would impose an intolerable burden on others.
Thirdly, the philosophical basis of all human rights has always been shaky. Liberalism and humanism, the dominant philosophies of Western democracies, require human rights. Religion requires a God, but this is not in itself evidence of God's existence. Most people can see some advantage in maintaining the concept of civil and political rights, but it is difficult to find any rational or utilitarian basis for viewing health care in the same way.
To propose that health care be considered a human right is not only wrong headed, it is unhelpful. Mature debate on the rationing and sharing of limited resources can hardly take place when citizens start from the premise that health care is their right, like a fair trial or the right to vote. I suspect that the proponents of the notion think that to claim health care as a human right adds some kind of weight or authority to the idea that health care, and by extension healthcare professionals, is important. A more humble approach would achieve more in the long run.
And here's my friend, barrister and author Helen Dale, on "natural rights" in Standpoint Mag:
If John Locke is the father of the US Constitution and John Stuart Mill and Adam Smith the fathers of British approaches to governance, then Australia's dad is Jeremy Bentham, the bloke who described natural rights as "nonsense upon stilts". He rejected the idea of natural or divinely given rights preceding the establishment of state authority, arguing that rights are creations of law, and without government there are none. Rights, in other words, come from states. The contrast with John Locke is immediate and obvious: for Locke, individuals and their rights come first, and government comes afterwards. The state for Americans is a bottom-up creation where citizens transfer to it by social contract only so much authority as is strictly necessary for mutual benefit and protection.
Been giving this some thought lately, vis a vis the WHO constitution from 1948, and I think the take Helen presents is right on. Though humans have evolved morality that leads to reciprocity and generally not just murdering people in the street every time they toss a few sharp words your way, rights are creations of law and require government.
I'm for less government rather than more, but I'm for government that protects life, liberty, and property rights -- and lets people smoke pot or whatever and allows consenting adults to trade sex for money (or cows, horses, Ferraris, or whatever).
Hey, I have to wipe my ass, as do all men and women, trans or not. Do I get tax-free bum roll?
Kevin at August 4, 2021 10:35 PM
When's the last time you were charged money for TP in a dormitory bathroom? I dunno what college you went to but TP was included in the tuition at mine....
NicoleK at August 5, 2021 3:43 AM
You wouldn't be buying tampons for dudes. "Transgender men" are women, the fact that they would like to be men doesn't mean they don't menstruate.
NicoleK at August 5, 2021 4:28 AM
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TP was one of the most stolen items on campus when I was in college. The college converted all its bathrooms to those industrial-sized rolls to deter theft. And yet, you'd still see people walking out of campus buildings with giant round items poorly concealed in their backpacks. You'd visit someone's off-campus apartment and find a giant roll of TP sitting on the bathroom sink or toilet tank. Their refrigerator would be full of meal plan pudding cups. Money not spent on TP was available to be spent on weed.
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Perhaps the solution is to organize bathrooms and other private spaces based on plumbing and not on men/women labels. Each room would then be organized, designed, and equipped with the items specific to the physiology of the expected user.
I don't know what signage one would use in such a paradigm - the appropriate medical terminology seems crude for the outside of a door, but "danglies" and "non-danglies" seems childish.
And, yes, that's what the entire men/women organizational paradigm was based on, but we seem to have created a society that now regards those labels arbitrary and emotion-based rather than biology-based.
Conan the Grammarian at August 5, 2021 4:59 AM
"Why Are Cuckoofornia Taxes So High And Getting Higher?"
Asked and answered!
Basic human response when asked if they want something "free": Sure!
Radwaste at August 5, 2021 5:00 AM
"When's the last time you were charged money for TP in a dormitory bathroom?" ~NicoleK
It is part of the bill for the dorm. When you eat at a restaurant the stocking and cleaning of the bathroom is also part of your food bill. These things aren't free. They just aren't itemized.
Ben at August 5, 2021 5:24 AM
And yet, they keep electing democrats.
Trust at August 5, 2021 6:04 AM
> Basic human response when
> asked if they want something
> "free": Sure!
Like, protection from infectious illness?
Crid at August 5, 2021 6:25 AM
> and lets people smoke pot
> or whatever and allows consenting
> adults to trade sex for money
Were these trades conducted on your front lawn — and as you describe the conditions in the neighborhood, the might change your mind about that.
Crid at August 5, 2021 6:34 AM
Well, to be fair, the California GOP doesn't offer the voters much.
The last gubernatorial candidate the California GOP offered with any serious chance of winning was Dan Lungren, and that was in 1998.
The California GOP tends to favor ideology over practical governance. As a result, its candidates seem farther and farther out of touch with California voters with every election.
Gray Davis beat Lungren 57.9% to 38.4%. While a moderate who should have appealed to both sides of the aisle, Davis was a bland politician who radiated incompetence and was subsequently removed from office in the 2003 recall election that put Schwarzenegger into office.
Schwarzenegger, Davis' successor, though marginally Republican, was not the state GOP's first choice. He was more socially liberal than the state party preferred. Once the "Ahnuld" train left the recall station with a full head of steam, however, the party jumped on board.
With widespread ranked choice voting in California's local elections, the Republican politicians have little chance of achieving the mayoralties and other statewide offices that make them viable candidates for governor and the party is left with stunt candidates (e.g., Caitlyn Jenner or Larry Elder).
Kevin Faulconer, former mayor of San Diego, may be the party's last chance to get a serious political candidate into the governor's mansion, but he's more socially liberal than the state party prefers, so his party support will likely be lukewarm at best.
The big problem, however, is not so much the governor, but the legislature, which has been dominated by big-spending lefties for years. The state's gerrymandered districts ensure Democrat domination of the legislature with the state's GOP meekly accepting the crumbs of a few locked down districts that the Democrats throw to it.
Add in plebiscite voting that allows legislators to shirk their governing duties and avoid taking positions on controversial issues and you have a state essentially governed by public emotion, enacting short-term solutions to long-term problems. And that is what's wrong with California.
Conan the Grammarian at August 5, 2021 7:04 AM
If media keeps telling you there's no problem just right wing lies, unless you physically see it, it's not real.
If you're in San Fran you are hours away from the Mexico boarder, you don't see it. Have to just accept what MSNBC says. anyone else is a liar.
Hell can't even get people to believe hospitals 5 blocks from them aren't swamped. Won't visit those death traps to see themselves.
This is why school boards were lost to the racist junk, even if some parents found out. Parents are a fraction of the voters, most voters won't hear of the problem if media lies or covers it up.
Joe J at August 5, 2021 8:21 AM
"Like, protection from infectious illness?"
Hey, it's OK - being you isn't contagious. Even those chicks that "dig" you don't suffer lasting symptoms!
Radwaste at August 5, 2021 8:39 AM
Non-responsive. You don't mind when others die. It's hard to admire that, Raddy.
Crid at August 5, 2021 10:55 AM
Well, more shit you make up. Expected.
Wad those knickers more. It's how everyone will know you care so much more!
Radwaste at August 5, 2021 11:43 AM
You're transparent.
Have you discussed this with your doctor?
Is there any authority, any pool of learning and achievement anywhere on the globe that you'll respect more than your Fox TV daydreams?
Crid at August 5, 2021 1:14 PM
All real rights boil down to the right to be left alone. Anything else you obtain from another person is a trade or a gift, not a right.
Rex Little at August 5, 2021 4:32 PM
IJS— Sometimes, it's an infection.
Crid at August 5, 2021 6:06 PM
Gerald Ford: "A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have."
The problem is too many people think that only the first part of that quote applies to them and that the second part applies to other people.
charles at August 5, 2021 6:12 PM
Chris Chan probably has an opinion on this.
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at August 5, 2021 6:50 PM
Well, Crid, to continue off-topic because this is about you, really, consider that the CDC has just advised against booster shots for medical professionals until a far larger number of the masses in the distance can get vaccines. And that may not be on Fox, but I don't know because I don't watch it. That's yet another thing you've made up on your own.
So yes, it is possible to have an unapproved level of protection - depending on whose approval you seek.
Got Moderna, Pfizer, AND J&J yet? Why not? The Delta (Theta, etc.!) variant is still coming to GET YOU.
You may continue to wet yourself. Hard to imagine you're not in this picture.
Hope your cats are not bored of your presence.
Radwaste at August 6, 2021 7:04 AM
Back on topic: Health care CANNOT be a "right", even as we continue to fail at defining what a "right" is.
Colloquially - and this is easy to see when talking about children's "rights" - a right is anything we think somebody should either a) not have to defend against, or b) be able to pursue without hindrance... but so many clamor to have people forced to provide for them that the entire labor force could be perverted to serve invented charity and serve signalled, not real, virtue. The line to receive this would be endless and an economy-killer.
Radwaste at August 6, 2021 7:11 AM
Tldr— you haven't talked to your doctor.
Crid at August 6, 2021 7:28 AM
The virus is endemic now. We will be dealing with it and the mutations for the next hundred years. Some sanity needs to prevail.
Isab at August 6, 2021 7:44 AM
Did you talk to your doctor?
Crid at August 6, 2021 8:18 AM
Did you talk to your doctor?
Crid at August 6, 2021 8:18 AM
Yes. I have. Some indications are that the Pfizer is about 30 percent effective against the delta mutation. Effectiveness is going down as infectiousness goes up, but lethality is dropping as well. Getting more like regular flu every day. In fact the tests don’t seem to be able to distinguish between the two, as well as being very unreliable and inaccurate. (30 percent minimum false positives and false negatives)
Isab at August 6, 2021 10:22 AM
Your doctor said these things to you? They have the odor of harshly-selected internet fatalism.
"Minimum"? Cites.
Crid at August 6, 2021 10:33 AM
Your doctor said these things to you? They have the odor of harshly-selected internet fatalism.
"Minimum"? Cites.
Crid at August 6, 2021 10:33 AM
She reads all the studies. I can do that was well, but at one time she was a medical research scientist at Mount Sinai.
Maybe your problem is Crid, that most of the stuff you are reading is both heavily politicized, and filtered through 24 year old journalists, not to mention suppressed by major news sources who didn’t start cheerleading for a vaccine solution until after Trump was out of office.
They are making a lot of money stoking this panic, and the political power is just gravy.
The virus is endemic. Ask any professional medical source, not currently benefiting from the crisis. If they are honest they will tell you that.
I can post some cites later one at a time. But they may be secondary sources. I don’t have access to the paywalled stuff.
Isab at August 6, 2021 10:47 AM
I don't see that anyone has a right to not be exposed to other human beings in public, whatever risk that entails. What you have is a duty to create your own protections. You don't want to be exposed? Stay home. Don't lick doorknobs. Avoid skin contact. Try to convince sick people to stay home. You want to minimize the risks of being exposed? Get vaxxed. Wear your mask. Or a moonsuit for all I care. Become bubble boy.
What you should NOT have is the right to control others.
When large groups of people get together and try to decide that an individual should be attacked for not doing what they want (like getting vaccinations or wearing masks), it tends to become a witch-burning exercise.
ruralcounsel at August 6, 2021 2:02 PM
Thanks, Isab, but I'm not looking to you for guidance with my 'problem': I don't like what you read, either.
So your MD told you to skip the vaccine? Remarkable.
Crid at August 6, 2021 6:33 PM
Because, obviously, it didn't happen. Your sources are transparently self-selected and self-flattering. Everyone else can't handle your realkeeping, because incentives?
Crid at August 7, 2021 12:34 AM
Thanks, Isab, but I'm not looking to you for guidance with my 'problem': I don't like what you read, either.
So your MD told you to skip the vaccine? Remarkable.
Crid at August 6, 2021 6:33 PM
Where did I say that? I’ve had the vaccine. So has my doctor. She’s not wearing a mask. I’m not wearing a mask. I’m done. I am no longer concerned about who has and has not had the vaccine. Anymore than I am concerned about who has and has not had the flu shot.
I may get the booster if it gets me back into Japan, but somehow the Japanese still don’t think that the vaccine actually prevents you from transmitting Covid, so they are quarantining everyone anyway. I wonder where they got that idea?
What I am and always have been concerned about is government authoritarianism in pursuit of nebulous and ill defined objectives.
We need to revisit this in about four years. Cooler heads need to prevail. Something has happened that put you very emotionally close to this issue.
Isab at August 7, 2021 7:57 AM
Isab, it is age related decline. He can't control himself emotionally. He can't read and understand actual source data. While it is sad to see it happening that is just how life is.
Ben at August 7, 2021 11:41 AM
You two are not "data" types.
Crid at August 7, 2021 1:53 PM
https://nworeport.me/2021/07/30/gibraltar-iceland-see-massive-covid-spike-despite-over-90-of-population-vaccinated/
Isab at August 7, 2021 5:52 PM
"You two are not "data" types."
You aren't.
Meanwhile, the Delta and Lambda variants are here, you're not vaccinated against them (you criminal, you!), and the CEO of Pfizer apparently was denied travel into Israel because he's not vaccinated.
I do not know if he's one of the many who have fought off the disease easily.
Too bad he's not trying to come into the US from Mexico- he'd be waved right in.
Perhaps your angst would be better assuaged fighting your government's willful disregard of, perhaps conspiracy to violate, 8USC1182.
Radwaste at August 8, 2021 6:46 AM
Delete that part about the CEO of Pfizer. Turns out, that was misrepresented. False.
Radwaste at August 8, 2021 8:49 AM
Talk to your doctor, Rad
Crid at August 8, 2021 7:54 PM
Crid at August 8, 2021 7:55 PM
Gog will recognize the sentiment: "There's a seeker born every minute!"
Crid at August 8, 2021 7:58 PM
This is so fucked up: You and idiot buddies resist vaccination, so a variant thrives and continues divergence, and you smugly say: Look! Variants! The only explanation is bloodlust.
Crid at August 9, 2021 7:03 AM
Not merely the foundation, but the very foundation!!
!!!!
And you're going to smirk:
Did you ever, ever in your life take a science class?
Crid at August 9, 2021 9:24 AM
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