jhbacks

Christian, engineer, dime-a-dozen guitar player, family man, Chiefs fan, libertarian, just a guy.

[jhbacks @jhbacks]

I wonder what rights we’ll be forced to surrender so that our “leadership” and “intelligence agencies” can avoid another Afghanistan.

[Kyle Mann @The_Kyle_Mann]

"It is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. Other vices may sometimes bring people together: you may find good fellowship and jokes and friendliness among drunken people or unchaste people. But Pride always means enmity—it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God."

CS Lewis

#HappyPrideMonth

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Climate change causes the Earth to spin both faster and slower!

Science.

[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

Evidence of global warming:

🌪️ Tornadoes occurring in Tornado Alley during tornado season.

🌀 Hurricanes landfalling in Florida during Atlantic hurricane season.

🌊 Storm surge on the coastline.

🔥 Forest fires in California or western Canada during wildfire season.

🫧 Flooding in the flood plains.

🌨️ More snowstorms during the winter.

🫠 Less snow during the winter.

🥵 Heatwaves occurring during summer when it’s supposed to be hot.

🥶 Arctic outbreaks during winter when it’s supposed to be cold.

🌧️ Too much rain.

🏜️ Too little rain at the same place where they were getting too much rain.

🐻‍❄️ Skinny polar bears.

🍁 Leaves dying in the autumn.

🌎 Earth’s rotation speeding up.

🌎 Earth’s rotation speeding down.

No matter what the happens, it’s always your fault.

This isn’t a serious science.

It’s a laughingstock.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌❌✡️ @sappholives83]

I’m sure you all remember Avery Jackson, the “trans girl” who, at 9, was on the cover of National Geographic in January of 2017. Avery was given the gold standard in gender affirming care: he was chemically castrated and sterilized with “blockers” to hold off male puberty.

Now Avery has come out as “nonbinary” and chosen not to pursue transition, meaning that his puberty was blocked for no reason — but that’s not the worst part. He also identifies as asexual, meaning that he doesn’t experience sexual attraction.

This is undoubtedly the result of the medication used to delay male puberty. The president of WPATH, Dr, “Marci” Bowers, has said on camera that so-called puberty blockers, which are used to chemically castrate sex offenders, chemically castrate the young boys who take them as well, leaving them incapable of arousal or orgasm.

For adult sex offenders, the process is reversible. For boys like Avery, the effects are permanent. He will never feel sexual attraction, or any of the experiences that accompany it. He is also completely sterile; he will never father a child, and his own childhood was spent in the national spotlight. The blockers he was given have also stunted his physical and mental development in irreversible ways. We know from the experiences of other “trans” children that he will never sexually mature - neither physically nor emotionally. All of these things were stolen from him, and he has said that transitioning “ruined my life.”

It’s high time that we stop pretending that children can make an informed decision to transition or take blockers, even if their doctors are honest about the risks and consequences — which most are not.

Blockers are not a pause button. They are not reversible. The intellectual deficits they cause will never repair themselves, and neither will the damage done to the child victim’s body, or to their emotional intelligence and maturity. This will, of course, make it easier to push them into transitioning; ie, to sell them hormones and provide surgical alterations.

Parents like Avery’s, who try to monetize their child’s struggles with gender identity, belong in prison, not on television, and so do the doctors and politicians who were complicit in his chemical castration and sterilization.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

An Inconvenient Truth for climate alarmists:

Al Gore’s dramatic climate warnings shaped a generation — but 20 years later, the data tell a very different story.

Climate-related deaths are down 97% over the past century, polar bears more than doubled since the 1960s, and global burned area has decreased by more than 25% over the past quarter century.

That's hardly a success of climate policy though: fossil fuels still provide 81% of world energy, emissions keep rising, and $16 trillion+ spent on green policies since Gore's movie came out hasn’t changed the trajectory.

A good reminder that panic is a terrible policy adviser.

https://t.co/PHVlqFB3Zg

[Jessica Vaugn @JessicaVaugn]

I’ll never forget how Thomas Massie spoke up for us during the COVID abuse era that red pilled me so deeply, in 2020. I find it impossible to disparage anyone with the courage to say what was so evident at the time, and yet so few in government would speak to defend us.
And yet, the world keeps turning as if what was done to us was at all constitutional. I don’t always agree with Massie on everything, but when I had no representation inside power, he spoke for me.
Power WILL do more heists upon us, and I fear one less voice that will speak up for the rights of the American individual.

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

@EndWokeness The hypocrisy

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

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[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

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[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

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RT to win a signed @Kenneth_Walker9 jersey, hot off the press!

[jhbacks @jhbacks]

@David_J_Bier Gosh, maybe he means he refuses to use the 25 cent coin when dealing with Iran.
Your fatuous comment provides yet again another example of why I stopped supporting Cato after many years of support.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

Free markets allocate resources to those who serve customers best.
Govt. allocates resources to those who lobby best.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Fate loves irony

[Kristen Waggoner @KristenWaggoner]

Sharing an apartment, bathroom, or bed is a personal, vulnerable act of trust. When Brooke’s coach withheld the fact that her housemate was male, he violated that trust and denied her right to consent.

Yet “progressives” are piling on this post, viciously shaming this young woman for her desire to live and sleep in a women-only space.

I remember when we encouraged young women to stand up for their rights. Now the left tells them their discomfort is bigotry—and that they must overcome it so males can feel comfortable in women’s spaces.

Gender ideology is one of the most regressive, anti-woman movements in the modern West.

[Handre @Handre]

The Soviet Union collapsed because central planners couldn't figure out if a nail factory should produce a million tiny nails or one giant nail. Without market prices, they had no clue what people actually wanted or needed. And this wasn't some quirky communist problem—it's the inevitable result of replacing voluntary exchange with bureaucratic guesswork.

Every government program faces this exact same knowledge problem. The Fed sets interest rates without knowing the true time preferences of millions of savers and borrowers. Politicians allocate billions to "infrastructure" without any idea what roads, bridges, or broadband networks create real value versus political photo ops.

But here's the beautiful irony: while bureaucrats stumble around in the dark, every single voluntary transaction in the market reveals precise information about human preferences and resource scarcity. Prices aren't just numbers—they're compressed knowledge signals that no central authority could ever replicate, no matter how many PhD economists they hire.

[Melissa Chan @melissakchan]

“It’s a bit like pronouns except we kill people.” @MightyHeaton is absolutely on 🔥 fire here:

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon: All 39 anti-ICE activists who stormed a church in Minnesota have been arrested

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

Listen to this public school teacher CALL OUT her union boss.

"The president of our union held up the contract for everyone for his own personal gain."

"I essentially begged my union to assist me and they left me on my own."

She's calling on Florida to hold unions accountable.

[Drew Holden @DrewHolden360]

I’m merely asking NY Times to treat the passing of a known terrorist with the same invective as they gave Rush Limbaugh.