Time Immortal

The Curt Jester notices an odd thing indeed in the election results in the United States:

I find it strange that all of the pro-life measures lost and that all of the anti-same-sex marriage measures won. Somehow their is still some idea of what marriage means, but the preciousness of life is another story. Washington State now has doctor assisted suicide like Oregon. So all we need to do is have California join in and we can call it the Kevorkian Coast or simply the Death Coast. In Michigan voters approved ESCR (supported by a Catholic Governor Jennifer Granholm). Modern liberalism means more dead people. If you don’t get them at the beginning of life you can always catch them when they get old or sick. The endless pursuit to make the distance from cradle to grave to be zero. Modern feminism says “Give me liberty and give them death.”

This will only become more true if president-elect Barack Hussein Obama pushes to see made into law things like FOCA, when he takes office in January.

Update: Welcome, Steynians!

You can read about it here, O Reader.

Extraordinarily lifelike characters are to begin appearing in films and computer games thanks to a new type of animation technology.

Emily — the woman in the above animation — was produced using a new modelling technology that enables the most minute details of a facial expression to be captured and recreated.

She is considered to be one of the first animations to have overleapt a long-standing barrier known as ‘uncanny valley‘ — which refers to the perception that animation looks less realistic as it approaches human likeness.

Researchers at a Californian company which makes computer-generated imagery for Hollywood films started with a video of an employee talking. They then broke down down the facial movements down into dozens of smaller movements, each of which was given a ‘control system’.

The team at Image Metrics — which produced the animation for the Grand Theft Auto computer game — then recreated the gestures, movement by movement, in a model. The aim was to overcome the traditional difficulties of animating a human face, for instance that the skin looks too shiny, or that the movements are too symmetrical.

“Ninety per cent of the work is convincing people that the eyes are real,” Mike Starkenburg, chief operating officer of Image Metrics, said.

The video is a tad blocky, as is almost always the case with YouTube content, but the technology on display is insane. Image Metrics has done something amazing here — pushed further, this will be an amazing breakthrough in digital character animation.

And of course, parents aren’t to be informed about which gender their child decides s/he “really” is.

Forget everything you learned in kindergarten about the difference between boys and girls. According to Gov. Schwarzenegger and the California Legislature, schoolchildren can now choose their own sex.

I’m not talking about choosing “sexual behavior or sexual preferences.” Kids are going to be taught that they have the right to completely ignore their physical anatomy and choose the status of being “male” or “female.” [ ... ]

In October, California Senate Bill 777 was signed into law. Senate Bill 777 eliminates Education Code 212, which currently defines “sex” as “the biological condition or quality of being a male or female human being.” And worse yet, SB 777 redefines the term “gender” for all schoolchildren by adding Education Code 210.7, which will read: “‘Gender’ means sex, and includes a person’s gender identity and gender related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth.” In short, this redefinition of gender states that you are what you choose to be regardless of your anatomical make-up.

Damnnable biology and anatomy…how sexist is nature? By causing children to develop sexual characteristics within the womb, thus denying them their right to choose that gender when in kindergarten, nature inflicts catastrophic damage on each and every child’s psyche, gender identity, and self-respect.

The Los Angeles Unified School District has already adopted policies allowing boys to use girls’ restrooms and locker rooms —- and vice versa!

Oh, yes…that isn’t going to get abused, is it?

This is agenda, pure and simple, and can have either or both of two intentions behind it. The first — and more dire, in my opinion — possibility is that this half-baked idea is being encouraged by homosexual lobby groups seeking to indoctrinate and recruit more children into the homosexual lifestyle. The second possibility is that this is a concerted effort by the California government and a collection of various interest groups to break down all sexual codes of ethics, to encourage children to engage in experimental sexual escapades with little or no regard to age or gender of participants.

I mean, hey…why not give boys and girls the opportunity to strip down in the same locker room? Who would ever worry that they might take the opportunity to hook up for a quickie? What could possibly go wrong in this paradigm?