Tax-Funded Uterus Transplants

Since there has yet to be a successful uterus transplant into an XY chromosome male body insurance won't cover the estimated $300,000 cost. According to "Patient-Centered Transgender Surgical Care," a recent article in the American Medical Association (AMA) Journal of Ethics, the cost should be borne by taxpayers.

Authors Timothy Murphy and Kelsey Mumford argued that "Transwomen lack the inherent ability to bear children that XX females have. This may cause them to experience psychological dissonance in a way that undermines their health and well-being. Their lack of a uterus is an obstacle to full participation in the social goods attached to a woman's identity."

Admiral Rachel Levine, Assistant Secretary for Health for the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) who grew up male and fathered two children, pointed out that "not having the experience of bearing and giving birth to a child from my own body denied me full participation in what it means to be a woman. It is gratifying to see that the AMA is cognizant of this hardship and is advocating for its resolution."

Dr. Marty Makary, a surgeon, professor, and medical commentator at Johns Hopkins, expressed disappointment that "the AMA is wasting its energy on an impossible mission. As all physicians know, a person must be born female to have eggs that carry her DNA. Any uterus that is transplanted into another person carries the DNA of the organ-donor. The more important transgender issues are the rising number of health complications reported by those who have undergone sex reassignment surgery and hormone therapy. What's the regret rate after transition surgery? What's the long-term complication rate of hormones?"

Levine called Makary's position "remarkably insensitive. He elevates the egg-producers over those of us who had the misfortune to be born male and had to deliberately choose to be women and endure all the hardships and public scorn for making the transition. If it costs only $300,000 to give transwomen a uterus I say this is a small price to pay for the equality to which we are entitled under the law."

Illegal, Inhumane Imprisonment

Ryan Samsel was one of the persons arrested for rioting in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. He has been accused of serious crimes--including insurrection and assault--but has yet to be tried, much less convicted, for any of them. Two-and-a-half years later he is still behind bars.

Judging from pictures of him in his cell, the conditions are appalling. The dimensions of his cell are nine feet long, three feet wide, and eight feet tall. All the surfaces are concrete. There are no windows. There is no bed--only a two-by-six foot mat on the floor. There are no blankets. His only clothing is a pair of boxer's underwear. There is no toilet--only a bucket is provided for bodily waste excretion. He alleges that he has been roughly treated and occasionally beaten by the prison guards.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga) called the treatment of Samsel and others "illegal and inhumane. According to the Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution, those accused are entitled to a speedy and public trial. Some of them have had neither. It's long past the time they should've had their day in court. In the meantime, the living conditions for these defendants are among the worst I've ever seen."

In response to Greene's concerns, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md) observed that, "while the living conditions of persons held in penal facilities is of concern we shouldn't minimize the threat people like Samsel pose to the survival of our democracy. Inasmuch as the penalty for insurrection could be death, an indefinite term of pretrial detention might be viewed as a merciful postponement of that day of reckoning. Likewise, harsh prison conditions strike me as a minor inconvenience compared to the execution these enemies of our democracy deserve."

US District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who has overseen a number of cases against Jan. 6 rioters and is currently assigned to preside over the upcoming trial of former President Donald Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021 events at the US Capitol was unmoved by the treatment of Samsel, calling it "a good fit for the crimes he has committed. The real tragedy is that the man who instigated those crimes is still a free man when he should've been in an adjoining cell since that fateful date."

Biden's Use of Aliases Debated

This week, evidence has emerged indicating that Joe Biden used at least three aliases in the influence-peddling schemes of the Biden family and their foreign "clients." In addition to the previously known "Big Guy" alias, it seems that "Robert Peters," "Robin Ware," and "JRB Ware" were also used.

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky) asserted that "the most likely reason for using a false name in a business transaction is to conceal the identity of a person engaging in a criminal act. This is why we are requesting the National Archives to include the false names used by President Biden in these business transactions when they search their records."

Presidential Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called Comer's request "an unprecedented invasion privacy. Just because a person is the president of the United States doesn't mean he loses all his rights to privacy. It is shameful that the Republicans are using the then Vice-President Biden's efforts to spare President Obama from embarrassment as an excuse to smear his reputation."

"What the Press Secretary neglects to mention is that Viktor Shokin was in the midst of investigating the Burisma energy company when Vice-President Biden intervened and demanded he be fired," Comer said. "Joe Biden himself clarified the reason for Burisma's payments to the Bidens when he publicly boasted of withholding the aid President Obama had promised to Ukraine unless Shokin was fired. That combined with the aliases is a pretty convincing admission of guilt by President Biden."

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) brushed aside Republicans' "obsession with government corruption," insisting that "historically, voters have accepted a little bit of corruption as the necessary price of electing Democrats to govern America's biggest cities for generations. That's why they don't care about the few extra bucks ending up in President Biden's pocket. They know they will get their share when he cancels their student debt and redistributes wealth from the rich to them. That's why polls show that more than 60% of voters don't want Trump to defeat the Democrats in the 2024 general election."

San Fran Too Dangerous for Feds to Come to Work

Crime in San Francisco is so bad that federal employees in the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building have been told to work from home. The area nearest the building has become a haven for illegal drug dealing. Citywide, homicides are up 21%, robberies are up 14%, and motor vehicle thefts are up 13% since the beginning of this year.

Cheryl Campbell, an assistant secretary with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) gave the stay at home order, saying "we thought things were bad having to dodge piles of human excrement, avoid stepping on used syringes, and fending off persistent panhandlers, but the surge of violent crime in the city makes it too risky for anyone to have to run this gauntlet just to get to work." Asked how long the stay away order would be in effect, she said "barring the extremely unlikely odds of a Republican mayor and city council being elected I'd have to say forever."

Pelosi herself blamed the surge in crime on "the failure to permanently outlaw assault rifles. We passed a ban in 1994, but it expired in 2004. Now anyone can legally get these dangerous weapons. President Biden has asked us to reenact the ban and make the companies that manufacture and sell these rifles liable for crimes committed with these guns. Maybe we can't get the guys who pull the trigger, but if we can bankrupt their suppliers we can make a dent in the unauthorized use of deadly force."

Strangely, there was no decrease in murders committed with assault rifles during the ten years they were banned. It may be that people intent on murdering someone aren't deterred when their preferred gun is outlawed. But at least law-abiding people were scared off from buying these weapons for self-defense. And bankrupting gun manufacturers and retailers will ensure that those needing guns for self-defense will be out-gunned by criminals who obtain their firearms illegally.

The situation in Chicago may be even worse. Police have been instructed to not interfere with armed robberies because it is too dangerous. Chief of Police Larry Snelling explained that "qualified officers are too scarce and expensive to risk losing them in gunfights with armed criminals. The safer and more efficient option is for people not to venture outside their homes after dark. To try to encourage criminals to cooperate with this plan we have asked that they confine their shooting sprees to the hours between 9 pm and 9 am. That way most of the murders will be of people too foolish not to stay indoors after dark."

Hawaii Bureaucrats Make Fire Disaster Worse

The worst fire disaster in America's last 100 years was made worse when the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) refused to allow access to water to fight the conflagration on Maui Island for more than five hours while the fire leveled the town of Lahaina. M. Kaleo Manuel, a Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner and DLNR's deputy director for water resource, insisted that "a discussion about equity must precede as decision to divert water resources from a previously approved distribution to an unplanned so-called emergency." By the time the water needed was approved for firefighting the blaze had grown so big that the fire had completely surrounded the water release valves--preventing any water from being used to douse the flames.

Meanwhile, over at the Maui Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) administrator Herman Andaya refused to sound its sirens to alert the population to the oncoming firestorm "because the sirens are intended to be used to warn of tsumanis. I was afraid that upon hearing the sirens people would seek high ground, which was the direction from which the fire was coming." However, when he was reminded that the Maui County website lists wildfires among the hazards for which the statewide warning siren may be used, he argued that his plan to send our texts to cell phone users "was more efficient." A flaw in his reasoning was that most of the cell phone towers were already destroyed by the fire--preventing the transmission of the texts to most of the cell phones that were called.

In related news, former President Obama reassured his admirers that "neither I nor any member of my family were ever in danger from the fire since we were vacationing at my estate in Martha's Vineyard at the time. Our mansion in Hawaii is on a different island. So it too was spared. My real peeve is with the cheapskates who only offer their thoughts and prayers for those who did suffer from the disaster when they should be offering their cash."

In a similar vein, Aquaman star Jason Momoa chastised "insensitive tourists who were enjoying their Hawaii vacations while Lahaina was burned to the ground." He urged "others to cancel upcoming trips to the islands out of respect for those killed or bankrupted by the disaster." James Kunane Tokioka, director of business economic development and tourism in Hawaii, pointed out that "the revenue from tourists is crucial to the health of our state's economy and a vital source of the funds that will be needed to rebuild much of what was destroyed by the fires."

Dems Try to Sell Bidenomics

This week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said "the 63% of Americans who disapprove of how President Biden is running the economy are wrong. They personally might not be doing very well, but that is mostly their own fault because those who are working with the President are doing very well. The Bidens have raised themselves out of the working class to become millionaires. Dr. Anthony Fauci has increased his net worth by over $300 million over the past few years."

Former Clinton administration Labor Secretary Robert Reich seconded Yellen's take, saying "it's a Goldilocks economy. Hourly pay is up by 12% since Biden took office. I'll tell, you I've been watching and participating in economic policy for at least 30 years, and I don't recall an economy that was this good."

Unfortunately, inflation is also up by 16% since Biden became president. This leaves workers with a net decrease of 4% in real purchasing power. The prices of energy, food, transportation, mortgages and rents have all skyrocketed. Malls are floundering. Retail chains are shrinking. Vacancy signs are proliferating on main street and at strip malls. Americans are paying $700 more each month on living expenses than they did two years ago.