News and Views For Friday

New York's Highest Court Weighs Question Of Whether Elephant Is A Person

Some advocates say Happy the elephant should be legally considered a person, and freed from the Bronx Zoo, where she has spent the last 45 years.

She has four limbs, expressive eyes and likes to stroll through greenery in New York City. Happy, by species, is an Asian elephant. But can she also be considered a person?

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/happy-bronx-zoo-elephant-personhood_n_6288f771e4b0cda85db14e45

Biden unleashes dog-role-playing fetishist on key nuclear post

The Biden administration's new top dog at a key nuclear energy agency is an MIT-trained engineer whose sexual fetishes include tying up his partner while he eats dinner and watches Star Trek.

Sam Brinton was appointed to serve as deputy assistant secretary of spent fuel and waste disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy at DOE last month after serving a stint at the gay and transgender suicide prevention organization the Trevor Project.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/biden-administration-installs-dog-role-playing-fetish-advocate-to-nuclear-post

LA lifeguard's pay tops $500,000, investigation discovers

It pays to be a lifeguard in Los Angeles County. So much, in fact, that a government watchdog is sounding the alarm to taxpayers in the California county and beyond.

An investigation by OpenTheBooks.com discovered that LA's highest-paid ocean lifeguard, a captain named Daniel Douglas, raked in a total of $510,283 in total compensation last year, nearly half of which – $246,060 – was from overtime pay. Douglas' base salary is $150,054, and he brought in another $28,661 in "other pay" and $85,508 in benefits to surpass the half-million-dollar mark.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/los-angeles-lifeguard-pay-tops-500000

Trudeau says Tory ‘tough on crime’ rhetoric only tough on Black, Indigenous Canadians

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday that policies the Conservatives claimed were “tough on crime” were “really just tough on Black Canadians and Indigenous Canadians.”

He made the comment during a heated exchange in question period that saw Conservatives accuse the Liberals of planning to “make it allowable for criminals to get house arrest” by repealing policies that broadened the use of mandatory minimum sentences.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8845795/justin-trudeau-conservative-tough-on-crime-comment/

Trudeau push to reduce prison time for criminals convicted of serious gun crimes

The Trudeau government are aiming to reduce the severity of sentences for a number of crimes, including gun offences which the Liberals campaigned on tackling during the 2021 election.

https://thepostmillennial.com/trudeau-to-reduce-prison-time-for-criminals-convicted-guns

The first Americans? First humans to arrive in North America may have lived 30,000 years ago

New evidence collected by Iowa State University researchers suggests humans made their way to North America 30,000 years ago. That would be about 200 centuries earlier than any current scientific and historical records can prove.

https://www.studyfinds.org/humans-north-america-30000-years/

14 Reasons Amerindians Are Not the First Natives of the Americas

THERE WERE multiple peoples and cultures who lived in North America before the primitive Amerinds encountered by European settlers. Some were relatively advanced, and were evidently destroyed and replaced by later-arriving Amerinds. Some of them were evidently (Proto-) European, and Whites may have arrived in America before the Asiatic Amerinds.

https://nationalvanguard.org/2016/07/14-reasons-amerindians-are-not-the-first-natives-of-the-americas/