...in Texas, mind you...then I feel safe in saying that, as a country, we are finished: "Update: Judge Orders Texas Father to Pay $5,000 a Month So His Ex-Wife Can 'Transition' Son James Into a Girl Named 'Luna'" .
Adjudicated child abuse, that's what this is.
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That's a horrible story.
I'd hope I'd go to jail before I'd aid and abet that bit of child abuse.
An 8 year old shouldn't be given the decision on what to have for dinner much less to change his freaking gender.
Of course, it's not the child's decision, it's the horrible mother's decision.
Just horrible.
I'd go on strike and lose all my property and savings before paying a cent :(
In other insane news,
New Zealand announces ‘Mandatory Quarantine Camps’
Judge Mary Brown sounds like the kind of judge the citizens ought to consider recalling. And that mother should be put in a mental facility.
The judge ought to be tarred and feathered. And the "mother" should be dealt with decisively: as Sydney Greenstreet said in The Maltese Falcon, "legally, if possible, but in any event, expeditiously".
I just watched The Maltese Falcon last week. Lots of wonderfully clever lines in that one.
The one I watched last night was a bit of a "downer": Mr Jones, about the Welsh journalist (and "former" advisor to PM Lloyd George) Gareth Jones, who exposed the Holodomor to the rest of the world. It was filmed in a dreary, muted color palate, which served the subject matter quite well. Our old favorite villain, NY Times Pulitzer winner Walter Duranty, is portrayed as a sinister, and really quite depraved, propagandist for Joseph Stalin, slickly deflecting any questions about the source of the money for "Uncle Joe's" rapid industrialization. The famous "You've got to break a few eggs..." quote seemed like exactly what he would say. Yeesh.
It's really well made, and suspenseful, but one of those films I admire but probably won't watch again. I'm not entirely sure where I "heard" about this one, but I think it was mentioned at Ace's a couple of weeks ago.
One annoying thing they did, although certainly added to the authenticity, was that virtually everyone was speaking under their breath, as if someone might be listening in. And with the accented English, making it hard to understand at times. OTOH, when they spoke in Russian, there were subtitles. There's a bit of a twist at the end I didn't see coming, but probably should have (no spoilers).
Spiny: thanks for the mini-review. I'd heard that it was good, but now I'm going to make a point of watching it.
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