IS THIS WHY transgenderism is exploding in American public schools?

I would consider gender 'transition' drug treatments as a possible culprit in the increase in trans violence as seen in the Hale case, but I blame public schools and the increasingly strident government teachers unions for the startling increase in gender dysphoria in the schools. I saw the beginning of that 'your child is now my child' attitude way back in the 1980's when my children were in school.

I didn't like it then, and fear it today Thank God parents (and some states) are fighting back. The only solution to my mind is to take away funding from public schools and return it to the students/parents to spend as they choose on education.

MSNBC: You don't have to be white to be a White Supremacist. You don't even have to identify as white.

BIDEN IS AN IDIOT (AT BEST): White supremacy is the most dangerous threat facing America.

DON SURBER writes on why the boycotts are working.

WOKE AND NEUROTIC: The new ugly Americans.

YOU HAVE TO WONDER how brazen the Biden White House has to lie before mainstream media reporters would be offended at having even their room-temperature (Celsius, not Fahrenheit) intelligence insulted. Wonder no more.

WATCH AS SEN. JOHN KENNEDY [R-LA] asks the 50 trillion dollar question.

SPRING 2023, WEEK 11. This week we begin at the pond, looking across toward the creek entrance and the fountain. All the foliage has filled in and the summer green coloring has returned.

Looking up at our house, the ground cover (brush) has taken over and probably will remain as weedeating on that slope is killing. At least this year we will finally have a decent view of the pond itself throughout the summer.

Last week I wished for the orange/red flowers to return. They did -- at least the first batch did. I'm hoping the ones on the other side will decide to flower as well.

And now back to my standard sequence of views. Here's the pond from the house. Compared to last week the tree crowns have finally filled it. A little darker green by next week maybe, but summer seems to have arrived.

Another small digression; the roses along the fence line which we were concerned might have frozen have recovered and are blooming nicely. The iris have popped up, are growing rapidly, but are yet to bloom. Maybe soon....

Now back to the fire pit. We've put in two 'vegetable' barrels; one tomatos, one cucumbers. They appear to have settled in well. The picture is a bit dark because the tree canopy in the adjacent lot has finally filled in.

Finally we leave you with a view of the lower terrace where the half-barrel planters have finally begun to show their contents. We have ferns planted along/beneath the retaining wall that are beginning to be visible. I'd like to have more but they're damned hard to transplant.

Until next week then, which will be our last for this year.

PHYSICIANS? Y'all better heal your ownselves.

As academic medicine begins to recognize and examine racism as the root cause of racially disparate health outcomes, we need curricula for training physicians to dismantle the systems that perpetuate these inequities.

You've gotta be freakin' kidding me!

I wish I could say that I'm surprised, but after nearly three years of watching our 'public health' community -- CDC, NIH, etc. -- self-destruct in narcissistic insanity, I can only be happy that I'm old enough that I won't live long enough to be treated by these future medicos....

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IS TO PROGRESSIVES as the crucifix is to vampires.

AMMO GRRRLL SLICES BOLOGNA: Live every day like it’s your last!

ELECTRIC VEHICLES: the wave of the past.

IF GOV. DESANTIS IS WHO I THINK HE IS, there will be consequences.

HYPOCRISY MAKES FOR STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Vox report on egg inductry practices flies in the gace of the Left's abortion and gender rhetoric.

A CAMPAIGN OF DELIBERATE INTIMIDATION: Democrats are threatening to remove security funding for Supreme Court.

Read the whole thing, including all the links. As Instapundit correctly noted, the Democrats aren't even thinking about making indimidation deniable, they're being outright threatening. Don't let them.

Congress should use its power of the purse to remove all security fromall Deep State administrative agencies. Let them fly steerage, and drive EVs....

COMRADE BERNIE [SANDERS] wants government to steal all the money you make over this amount.

As usual Bernie picks a number above the amount he has plans to 'earn'. This time, however, he is unusually optimistic about his earning potential....

On a somewhat related note (see tweet), Indian Business Gurus had this thought in the comments:

Funny thing about income tax is that billionaires hardly have any income. Majority take low salaries, have most of their wealth in stock and borrow against their shares to fund their lifestyles.

Which, I think, is largely true. Wealth isn't taxable (yet), and interest paid (with limits) is deductable.

DETROIT CONSIDERS making downtown a gun-free zone.

Legal guns, that is; illegal ones, not so much.

ANDREW F. PUZDER: The Biden economy and how it could be fixed.

It's not just the illegals (see below) who are better off under the Biden administration; it's our very own legal wastrels. Click the link to see.

AN EXCELLENT QUESTION: "What is citizenship worth if you can get better benefits by being illegally here?"

SPRING 2023, WEEK 10: Surprisingly, while this year has been much more volatile, we're still pretty much on track compared to previous years. Here's today's view of the pond from our back deck.

The only real difference from last week is that the greens are 'greener' as the leaves in the upper reaches of the trees are filling in. As is the ground cover which has most emphatically sprung.

It's much the same with the view of the firepit and barn area. The upper reaches of the trees are filling in fast, and new growth has finally pushed out the dead leaves from the tree next to the fire pit.

Finally, topside the gap across the road from our driveway has begun to fill in. We're planning for some shrubbery/flowers in the flat area so the backup cameras on our cars will have something to see when turning into the road....

Meanwhile, down at the pond everything has filled in and greened up. I'm hopeful that we'll still have some blossoms as we did last year, but that little project seems to be held up. The grass on the dam is going gangbusters, though; it's time soon to take the lawn mower down.

Finally finally here's a view of the house from down below showing the need for stair maintenance, brush cutting, and mowing around the perimeter of the pond.

Next week, then.