Stories & Opinions Worth Knowing but Maybe Not Quite Threadworthy, 5/8

[SVPete]

The thread title is pretty self-explanatory. I'll do one story, one post, just to make quoting easier.

Texas school district hid sexual assault of 6-year-old

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/08/texas-school-district-hid-sexual-assault-of-6-year-old-n549182

Students at a Plainview, TX Elementary School won’t be going to class on Monday. The South Elementary School is being closed temporarily due to teachers claiming to feel threatened.

Why, you might wonder, would they feel that way?

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that the School administrators, teachers, and School District officials were covering up the fact that a first-grade student was forced to perform a sexual act on another student IN CLASS and the act was recorded on an iPad.

The iPad was seized, the “inappropriate” recording was viewed by the adults, child services investigated, and the incident was swept under the rug. It wasn’t until the little girl had recurring nightmares and refused to go to school that her parents got involved and began protesting the school.

Nobody had told them what happened to their daughter.

Piecing together from the article, apparently several bullies forced the girl to do it. In a classroom. And took video using a school iPad. I have several questions:

* WTH and WTH (Where and What) was the teacher doing?!

* Were all the bullies first graders? If not, what were boys several years older doing in the same classroom as first-graders?

* Given how PSs typically divide grades, the oldest in a typical elementary (= not a "middle school") would be in 4th or 5th grade. 10 or 11 or 12 year-olds are into oral sex? WTH?!

* The teacher(s) did nothing. The on-campus educrats did nothing. The district educrats did nothing. The teacher(s), on-campus educrats, and district educrats told the poor girl's parents nothing. That is a lot of "educators" who should be spending time in prison or jail and forced into an involuntary and permanent career change.

[SVPete]

RFK Jr.’s Popularity Reminds Us That Democrats Endorse Conspiracies

https://lidblog.com/rfk-jr-s-popularity-reminds-us-that-democrats-endorse-conspiracies/

During the final years of the last decade, Democrat lawmakers arrogantly claimed to be the “party of science” and thus be trusted as experts to safeguard us through a public health crisis. If the facts of COVID-19 didn’t shatter this absurd presumption, RFK Jr. does.

Kennedy is a devout conspiracy theorist. His war against vaccines long preceded the mRNA shots that liberals have worshipped for nearly three years. He was a proponent of a notorious study that failed to establish a link between the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine and autism. Even as this was refuted, RFK Jr. remained unconvinced. He then persisted in aberrant claims that vaccines are how an “injectable chip” or “subdermal biometric tattoos” into their subjects.
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Kennedy’s list of mentally unhinged statements is endless.

According to RFK Jr., his father was not assassinated by a Palestinian terrorist on live television — which even gunman Sirhan Sirhan admitted. ...

Kennedy once promoted an anti-science view that 5G cell towers are designed to “control our behavior” and called for the Koch brothers to be imprisoned “at the Hague with all the other war criminals.” As a true environmental nut job, he believes “corporations which deliberately, purposefully, maliciously and systematically sponsor climate lies should be given the death penalty” and once called for jailing those skeptical of climate change hysteria.

He also dabbles in presidential election denial, accusing Republicans of engaging in “a wide range of illegal and unethical tactics to fix the election” in 2004.

I've been calling RFK Jr. a fruitcake, and his anti-Covid-vaxxery is a small part of why I say that.

[SVPete]

A Chance Event 1 Million Years Ago Changed Human Brains Forever

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-chance-event-1-million-years-ago-changed-human-brains-forever

Like treasured recipes passed down from generation to generation, there are just some regions of DNA that evolution doesn't dare tweak. Mammals far and wide share a variety of such encoded sequences, for example, which have remained untouched for millions of years.

Humans are a strange exception to this club. For some reason, recipes long preserved by our ancient ancestors were suddenly 'spiced up' within a short evolutionary period of time.

Because we're the only species in which these regions have been rewritten so rapidly, they are called 'human accelerated regions' (or HARs). What's more, scientists think at least some HARs could be behind many of the qualities that set humans apart from their close relatives, like chimpanzees and bonobos.
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Like this scarf, a big difference between human and chimpanzee DNA is structural: large chunks of the DNA's building blocks have been inserted, deleted, or rearranged in the human genome. So human DNA folds differently in the nucleus compared with the DNA of other primates.

A "Chance Event" made a significant improvement in human brains? A "Chance Event" that has no known parallel among other species? Might this "Chance Event" in fact be a design change?

[dutch508]

A Chance Event 1 Million Years Ago Changed Human Brains Forever

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-chance-event-1-million-years-ago-changed-human-brains-forever

A "Chance Event" made a significant improvement in human brains? A "Chance Event" that has no known parallel among other species? Might this "Chance Event" in fact be a design change?

That's what the Summarians said.

[Eupher]

RFK Jr.’s Popularity Reminds Us That Democrats Endorse Conspiracies

https://lidblog.com/rfk-jr-s-popularity-reminds-us-that-democrats-endorse-conspiracies/

I've been calling RFK Jr. a fruitcake, and his anti-Covid-vaxxery is a small part of why I say that.

I never paid much attention to RFK Jr., believing the entire "Camelot" utopia associated with the Kennedy family just more garbage shoveled out by the Dems. I do believe, however, that in some manner the family is both blessed and cursed.

When Daddy Joe Kennedy made his money as a stock swindler, occasional mob guy/liquor dealer during Prohibition and then later as a sycophant of FDR - who most definitely was a fascist - that started them off. Joe Jr. was killed in a training accident during WWII, we all know about JFK and RFK and the greatest anti-woman Kennedy of them all - Ted.

The family is despicable and probably carries an entire series of crazy strands of DNA.

[SVPete]

Oh Yeah, That First Amendment Thing: Biden's HHS Backs Down On Harassing Catholic Hospital

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/05/08/oh-yeah-that-first-amendment-thing-bidens-hhs-backs-down-on-harassing-catholic-hospital-n1693517

The Biden regime hates traditional religion and the Catholic Church in particular because of its strong stance against the centerpiece of the Left’s secular religion, abortion. However, Old Joe and his henchmen are not exactly marching confidently from victory to victory. In a tremendous indication that there is still hope for America, the Department of Health and Human Services has backed down from its demand that a Catholic hospital in Oklahoma put out its sanctuary candle, which signifies the Eucharistic presence of Christ in the Church. Biden’s handlers discovered, to their shock and sorrow, that there are still Americans who care about religious freedom and will defend it.

Assault Candle Ban fail.

[Old n Grumpy]

Every one involved in the sexual assault coverup should be fired and prosecuted  both criminally and civially