Really?

The length of your fingers reveals your orientation?

It’s amazing the lengths “researchers” will go to try “prove” their hypothesis.  In this case, anti-Biblical morality activists created a study to reveal that nature doesn’t just spit out male and female humans attracted to their opposite sex, but instead humans whose gender and preferences defy their chromosomes and–if I may–God’s intentions.  Below is the most recent study.
The bottom line is, God loves us all and has a great plan to cleanse us of our sins, and place us on the narrow path that leads to righteousness.
– Brian

MSN.com

How we end up as adults is most likely a result of both nature and nurture. Our genes determine certain things, while our upbringing and experiences have their own impact. Sexuality is one of the factors researchers are curious about – why some people are straight and others are gay, bisexual, or asexual.

According to new research, someone’s sexuality may lie in their hands. The study, published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, found there may be a link between finger length and sexuality.

Researchers from the University of Essex recruited 18 sets of female identical twins, and 14 male, with different sexual orientations. They looked at their hands to determine how “male-typical” or “female-typical” they were. Usually, women’s index and ring fingers are a similar length, while men have a greater difference between the two. It’s known as the 2D:4D ratio.

Results showed the lesbian twin would have more male-typical hands than the straight sister. The gay male twin on average had more male-typical hands than the straight brother, but the difference was not significant.

“Because identical twins, who share 100% of their genes, can differ in their sexual orientations, factors other than genetics must account for the differences,” said Tuesday Watts, from the department of psychology.

You can read the rest here…

 

The Latest California Fad: Forest Bathing

From the state that gave the world tree-hugging, I now bring you the latest in eco-kookiness: forest bathing.   That’s correct, in California’s Sonoma County (best known for its incredible wine) there’s a revolutionary new way to be one with nature, and it must be done v-e-r-y slowly.

Fortunately, it doesn’t involve naked hippies submerged in tubs full of compost.

Instead, forest bathing is about moving through the natural environment as slowly as humanly possible—slower than a sloth on sleeping pills.  In the process one carefully examines everything they come in contact with—absolutely everything.  Examine all twigs.  Inspect all leaves.  If you see an ant, stop and take it in like it’s next of kin.  At a half-dozen steps per excruciating minute, covering 50-yards is about all one should be able to accomplish in a day.

And, of course, there’s a guru ready to guide you for a notable fee.  His name is Amos Clifford and he even wrote a book on the subject.  His $15 paperback is entitled, Your Guide to Forest Bathing.
“The slower you go,” he told the San Francisco Chronicle, “the more you experience.  We’re always in such a hurry to go from ‘here’ to ‘there’ that we never fully experience ‘here.’”

Hmm.

Would you be surprised if I told you Clifford, 63, is a longtime Zen meditation student (and a former mental health counselor) who entered the forest bathing trade about six years ago, adapting it from a similar Japanese practice.  Now this new-ager is raking in the greenbacks.   Clifford has turned his lethargic walks into a cottage industry. He leads $50 forest bathing treks for newbies, and for $3,400 there are forest bathing workshops for wannabe leaders.  In fact, Clifford is in such high demand that he’s flying around the world in jets to tell people they’re moving too fast!

Clifford says forest bathing walks are a series of invitations to “do something,” like “embody awareness” or “notice what you’re noticing” or “talk to a tree.”  Trees, he claims, are very human-like; so much so that he says we all have a twin tree out there somewhere.

“I want everybody to find a tree that’s your twin,” Clifford said.  “Talk to your tree.  Ask your twin about yourself.  Find out all you can from your tree.  Put your hand on your tree.  Take your time to get to know your tree.”

Put your hand on your tree?  I’m wondering how that will fly with the #MeToo movement?  Sounds like potential harassment.

One forest bather told the Chronicle, “My tree asked me why I was so afraid.”

“My tree said it thought that we could grow together,” said another.

One woman observed that the leaves at the top of her tree swayed in the breeze, but that the trunk of her tree did not move, being thick and solid and stuck in the ground.  She called it an “interesting contrast.”  |

I’m calling it a case of someone who may have spent their entire life inside a sanatorium.

Trans-Bathrooms: The Real Story

Everyone is aware of the current hubbub regarding so-called transgender people wanting to use the bathroom that they contend best fits their psyche. Don’t be fooled. This isn’t about lavatory choices. This is a battle for soul of our nation directed by disciples of Karl Marx.

This clash over the loo is old news here in California. Going where no state had ever gone before, three years ago a law was established giving every California public school student the right to not only use the toilet of their choice, but also the locker room and showers of their choosing as well. The law even permits a boy who feels like he’s a girl to join a girls’ athletic team (and vice versa).

In other words John can demand to be known as Jahn, tinkle in the girls’ bathroom between classes, change clothes for gym class and take a shower afterward in the girls’ locker room, and even join the girls’ swim, volleyball, softball, or track team.

As I often say when such insane laws are passed here in California: we’re number one!

Adding a cherry on top of that 2013 law, last month the California Assembly passed legislation requiring all single-stall bathrooms to be open to people of any gender. No doubt it will soon be law. Eventually it will be all restrooms.

Here’s what is really happening.

There’s a bumper sticker I occasionally see in the San Francisco Bay Area proclaiming, Gender is Dead.

The first time I saw it I laughed out loud. I don’t laugh any longer. The LGBT activists’ end goal is not about potty places and locker rooms—they want to obliterate the family.

In a commentary published in The Advocate (which serves the LGBT community), a well-known transsexual (that means body parts have been surgically swapped out) named Riki Wilchins explains that the real goal of this bathroom battle is to kill the notion of male and female altogether. Wilchins contends there should be no gender distinctions in general.

In the eyes of LGBT activists like Wilchins, the notion of only two genders (male and female) is antiquated. Facebook agrees; that’s why they now have 58 gender options available for its users (not kidding).

Wilchins insists that bleeding hearts pushing for bathroom privacy, as well as transgender advocates who insist boys should be allowed in the girls’ restroom, are missing a larger point. The fact that there are even male and female bathrooms reflects that our society is structured in a “binary” way; this must change in order for the full agenda of the LGBT movement to be realized.

Says Wilchins, “Queer activists have been talking about [this] at least since the 1970s of Gay Liberation, even as the movement it spawned has continued to nudge it aside.”

As the LGBT movement focused on redefining marriage it also quietly introduced lawsuits requiring for the law to recognize one’s self-perception (as opposed to biological reality) as truth. Notice that once the Supreme Court redefined marriage, the media focus on the LGBT movement slowly began to shift to battles over gender and transgenderism. So when Barack Obama sent out that letter to every public school in America last month urging them to give universal restroom access to all, it was all part of a devilish scheme.

What we are witnessing is a patient attempt to destroy the concepts of male and female entirely and thus attack the most sacred pillar of society: the family.

And why is the progressive left pushing this anti-family envelope?

Because they want to completely abolish the family.

In the 2nd chapter of his Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx states, “[T]he theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: abolition of private property.”

Once private property is abolished the second step towards pure communism is firmly articulated by Marx with an exclamation point: “Abolition of the family!”

And by the way if you’re wondering what Marx’ third communist plank is, it reads: “abolish countries and nationality.”

It seems we’re sliding towards a brave new world.

San Francisco’s New Outhouse Law

The following is my next column for the The Buffalo Gap News (Texas).  Subscriptions for this monthly paper are $60 a year: subscriptions@buffalogapnews.com

Each summer when I was a youngster in the 1960’s I visited my grandparents in northern Minnesota.  They were humble farmers who still had a working outhouse.  Yes they had indoor plumbing (installed about 1960), but I guess old habits died hard: despite the times, the outhouse remained.  I recall it was a single-stall unit with a simple wooden bench and a round hole with a mysterious dark pit beneath.  Since there was only one bathroom in Grandma and Grandpa’s house, at some point everyone used that single-stall outhouse.

Perhaps the leaders of my city, San Francisco, are becoming nostalgic for the good old days?  I say this because their latest brainstorm is to demand that businesses and city buildings employ single-stall restrooms.

Why?  For privacy you may wonder?

No.  This kooky plan is to allow the City by the Bay to enter the new frontier: bathrooms for all genders—all 58 of them.

I know most of you are now recalling that 6th grade science class where you learned about the two genders, male and female, as designated by the XX and XY chromosomes.  Silly you!  These are the days of Bruce Caitlyn Jenner.  The city of San Francisco believes there are 58 different genders including:

Bigender (a person who fluctuates between traditionally “woman” and “man” gender-based behavior and identities, identifying with both genders)

Genderqueer (a label often used by people who do not identify with the binary of man/woman)

Pansexual (a person who experiences sexual, romantic, physical, and/or spiritual attraction for members of all gender identities/expressions)

Thus to accommodate these 58 varieties (particularly the likes of the three noted above), businesses and city buildings would be required to make single-stall restrooms available to all of them under legislation introduced by Supervisor David Campos.

The measure requires businesses with single-stall restrooms to make sure that at least one is available to everyone on the gender spectrum, not just males and females.

“Equal rights and equal access should apply to restrooms just like everywhere else,” said Supervisor Mark Farrell, who is co-sponsoring the legislation.

I can only imagine what the stick figure signs identifying these restrooms will look like.

Looking back Grandpa and Grandma were way ahead of their time.

 

Bird Brains on Bay Bridge

They may be a protected species but the double-crested cormorants and other birds that call the old Bay Bridge home are fast becoming a $33 million pain in the rear.

As crews disassemble the 10,000-foot-long steel structure where the birds roost, they’ve had to carefully deal with state and federal environmental laws designed to protect the birds.

As a result the take down of the bridge has suffered tens of millions of cost overruns and months of delays.

And the spending is moronic.  For example, Caltrans is spending $709,000 to build 2½-foot-wide nesting “condos” on the underside of the new bridge, in the hopes that the 800 or so state-protected cormorants would move off the old span.

An additional $1 million has been spent to try to lure the birds over to the new bridge, using bird decoys, cormorant recordings and even nests made from recycled Christmas wreaths.

Problem is the birds haven’t budged, so now Caltrans is speeding up the demolition in the hopes of beating next spring’s nesting season because, once the birds start laying eggs, all work has to stop.

What’s more, to comply with its federal permit, Caltrans agreed to send any displaced chicks and eggs to a bird rescue center in Fairfield for foster care until the birds are old enough to be released.

The cost of the speedup is estimated to be $12.5 million.

As part of that effort, Caltrans has placed nets over part of the old span to keep the birds away.  They’ve even requested another  $1.6 million for more netting.

But the birds won’t go away and their numbers are increasing.

So, typical of big government, more money has been spent on consultants hired to monitor the bird population.  They’ve found 533 cormorant nests on the bridge this year — double the number counted three years ago.

Government officials now estimate they may need an additional $17.1 million to deal with the bird problem before it’s all over.

The San Francisco Chronicle estimates that would bring bridge spending on the various protected birds to more than $33 million. Including financing the new bridge will cost taxpayers $17 BILLION.

Cormorants may be protected but they are hardly endangered.  You can’t find a corner of the massive San Francisco Bay without the creatures flourishing.  I say toss their nests into the Bay, deconstruct the bridge, and not a even a slight dent will be made to their numbers.