Author: Sarcasticat

Citizens warned about government’s new state-assisted suicide plan

Two weeks ago, the British House of Commons voted in favor of a bill that, according to the BBC, “would allow terminally ill adults expected to die within six months to seek help to end their own life.” The final vote was 330 to 275.

This news immediately turned my mind to the P.D. James novel The Children of Men, published in 1993. In this dystopian vision set in the year 2021, James (who, in addition to being a best-selling novelist, also served as a member of the House of Lords) imagines a future in which the human race has lost the ability to reproduce; the species lurches toward extinction. At the novel’s start, the youngest person on the planet (born in 1995) has just died, a stunning reminder of humanity’s impending disappearance. In the real world of 2024, as fertility rates are dropping around the world and reaching historic lows in both the United States and England, James’s foresight is chilling. But the novel is also remarkable—and eerily prescient—for its depiction of government-sponsored suicide.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inMAiD Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide

Mayor says 1st responders are told to call bomb squad, wear hazmat suits if drone is discovered

A New Jersey mayor told Fox News host Harris Faulkner Friday that first responders were told to contact the bomb squad and wear hazmat suits if they encountered one of the mysterious drones.

The drones have appeared over the sky of New Jersey, in some cases flying in formation, in recent weeks, according to video footage obtained by the Daily Caller. Belleville Mayor Michael Melham told Faulkner he had just received a phone call from his emergency management team before coming to the studio, having received guidance from the state.

“That guidance does say two different things,” Melham told Faulkner. “First of all, if there is a downed drone in our vicinity, we’re immediately to call the bomb squad of our county and second, our fire department has been instructed to make sure they wear hazmat suits.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inDrones, WTF?

European Countries Will Pay Syrian Migrants Cash to Go Home

Europe has millions of Syrians who claimed refugee status on the basis of the Assad family, now some are making the calculation it is cheaper in the long run to make a a single cash payment to go home than keep the guests on social welfare programmes indefinitely.

Austria will offer Syrians a €1,000 ($1,000) cash payment “return bonus” to go home, Chancellor Karl Nehammer has said, stating the clearest reason they had for claiming asylum in the first place has now gone. Kronen Zeitung cites Nehammer as having said in a podcast this week: “We are now helping everyone who wants to return voluntarily. There is up to 1,000 euros for this.”

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inEurope, Syrian Refugees

Canadians wait a record-breaking 30 weeks on average for medical care: study

“Canada’s healthcare system is struggling to provide timely care,” Mackenzie Moir, a study co-author, told True North in an interview. “Long delays for care can result in increased and prolonged suffering for patients, alongside a decreased quality of life.”

He said long wait times for medical care could also lead to a loss of productivity and, in the worst cases, disability or death.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada's incompetent Liberal Government, Health care

End of the Line for Nancy Pelosi: Hip Fractures, Mortality Rates, and Father Time

The good news is, she’s a wealthy, politically-connected woman. All three matter: when you’re wealthy, you have more options; when you’re politically-connected, you don’t wait in line; and women are way better at longevity than men are.

And not just because men are dopey, drink more, and think it’s wicked cool to play with fireworks. (Or play with fireworks while drunk.) There’s a genetic component, too.

There’s a reason why 85% of centenarians (and 90% of supercentenarians) are women. And this reason isn’t purely behavioral.

When it comes to longevity, genetics are king. (Or, more commonly: queen.)

Still, the short-term and long-term outlook for Nancy Pelosi’s political career is dismal. It’s a sad, brutal — and painful — end for one of the most influential legislators in American history. The purpose of this column isn’t to gloat (only a cretin delights in the physical suffering of others), but to be truthful and candid about what happens next.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inHealth care, Leftists - intolerance of political right

Free speech group challenges teacher’s list of banned words: ‘Ohio,’ ‘sigma,’ ‘chat,’ ‘meow’

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has contacted officials at an Iowa school to inform them that a social studies teacher’s list of “banned words” doesn’t pass constitutional muster.

The list, created by a seventh grade teacher at Fremont-Mills Middle and Senior HS, includes terms such as “pimp,” “womp womp,” “Ohio,” “sigma,” “chat,” and “meow.”

Violation of the word ban “automatically results in a thirty-minute detention” for which the teacher already has disciplined “at least ten students,” FIRE notes.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inBatshit Crazy Teachers, Censorship

Ditching NYC insane ‘sanctuary’ laws requires an all-hands war with the local hard left

Great news: Mayor Adams and Trump border czar-designate Tom Homan seemed to reach a real meeting of minds in Thursday’s sitdown.

But can they get the City Council and Gov. Hochul on board with the effort to free Gotham of thousands of “known offender” criminal illegal migrants?

Adams has now embraced Queens Councilman Robert Holden’s call to reopen the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office at Rikers — but city law says no resources can go to assist ICE and bars NYPD and jail officials from reporting any wrongdoers to the feds.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inNew York City, Sanctuary Cities

BREAKING: ABC, George Stephanopoulos to Pay $15M to Trump in Rape Defamation Suit

ABC News and its anchor, George Stephanopoulos, have reached a settlement with President-elect Donald Trump in a defamation lawsuit. The agreement, filed publicly on Saturday, will see ABC News pay Trump $15 million as a charitable contribution toward his Presidential foundation and museum. In addition, the network will cover $1 million in Trump’s attorney fees.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inMedia Bias, Trump Curse Strikes Again!, Trump Derangement Syndrome

Mysterious drones shut down runways of NY airport, causing Hochul to demand feds step in: ‘Gone too far’

The mysterious drones that have been plaguing the skies over the Northeast shut down the runways of Stewart International Airport Friday night, prompting Gov. Hochul to demand the feds step in.

“This has gone too far,” Hochul said in a terse statement Saturday, in which she noted the runway of the Orange County facility was shut down for an hour because of the unidentified aircraft.

Stewart Airport services both commercial and military flights and is adjacent to a New York Air National Guard base, where the 105th Airlift Wing is stationed.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inDrones, New York City

‘Everyone’s demoralized.’ Trump’s climate threats rattle world’s biggest science meeting

Censorship. Funding cuts. Layoffs.

Those concerns loom over the world’s largest conference of climate scientists as they brace for whiplash at the White House when President-elect Donald Trump takes office in six weeks. Trump has recently said climate change isn’t happening, called it a hoax and joked that rising seas would create more coastal real estate — all in contradiction to the work of the 25,000 researchers attending the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting in downtown Washington this week.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inClimate Change, Donald Trump

Canadian charitable giving reaches a 20-year low: study

A new study has found that the number of Canadians donating to charity, measured as a percentage of all tax filers, has declined to the lowest point in 20 years.

The Fraser Institute released this year’s Generosity Index, which measures the proportion of Canadians filing donations to charities in their taxes and the amount that Canadians donate as a portion of their income. The index shows that Canada’s rate of charitable giving is on a continued decline.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inCanada, Economy

‘The Easiest Way to Get Paid Is to Go Round Up MAGA People,’ Bias and Bonuses Drive the FBI

From the labeling of Orthodox Catholic Americans as extremists, investigations into “anti-abortion extremists” as significant national security threats, the raid of Mar-a-Lago, the relentless January 6 witch-hunting, and the onslaught of rhetoric about white supremacy, the FBI appears to be politically motivated agency.

Kyle Seraphin, FBI agent turned whistleblower, contends that the FBI’s transformation was set in motion after 9/11, when the agency was granted sweeping reforms and expanded surveillance powers, which he believes laid the foundation for the politicization that followed.

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by Sarcasticat••0•Posted inFBI