by Lee Duigon
November 9, 2023
We hear a lot about “invasive species”—that is, plants and animals that now live in places where they don’t belong: usually because humans brought them there. Pythons in Florida, walking catfish, “murder hornets” out West—and buildings and hills festooned with creeping kudzu.
Usually it’s insect pests. Remember “Japanese beetles”? My mother used to pay kids a dime for every quart jar they could fill with Japanese beetles plucked from her floribunda rose hedge, which the insects were devouring.
But it’s not always insects. Colombia has an invasive species problem on quite another level.
A drug lord, shot to death by police 30 years ago, bought four hippopotami to show off his wealth. He got erased and the hippos got away. Finding the nearby wetlands to be fully up to hippo standards, there are now 160 of them.
What to do? It costs $10,000 apiece of sterilize a hippo, apart from the risk of being killed. Hippos in Africa kill more people per year than any other animal. What if you only think you used a powerful enough sedative?
They could capture the hippos (not as easy as it sounds) and ship them to other countries. But what if no one wants them?
Or they could just shoot all the hippos and then find out what makes the rest of the world hopping mad. Murdering Israeli families, this fallen world will tolerate—even applaud. Shooting down 160 hippos—you’d never get away with it.
Doesn’t look like this invasive species is going anywhere soon. But there is another one that makes hippos look like stuffed toys. This species has invaded the world of competitive martial arts, especially judo and jiu-jitsu, and has come very near to wiping out women’s judo altogether.
The North American Grappling Assn. created a women’s division, and women liked it. But this year there was an invasive species in it: “trans women,” aka “men.” The matches weren’t fair, and women quit the sport in droves.
NAGA had to act quickly, and did: no more men allowed in women’s judo tournaments. “Trans women” would have to go back to competing with other men. It remains to be seen whether the women will come back.
Trannies and their fanatical sponsors and supporters are at war with God’s Word. “Male and female created He them” (Genesis 1: 27). Far Left Crazy hates that verse. Their delusion has spread around the world like kudzu. They start on children’s minds in kindergarten and keep it up through college and beyond.
We are not just talking about a failure to produce a next generation of human beings if everybody gets sucked into “gender affirming care.” Better we should take our chances with the hippos. We are also talking here and now: turning children and teenagers into lifelong medical patients, to say nothing of the permanent damage to their psyches.
And dare I say “souls”?
I have discussed these and other topics throughout the week on my blog, http://www.leeduigon.com/ . Click the link and enjoy some posts while you’re waiting for the hippos to make it to Florida. My articles can also be found at www.chalcedon.edu/ .
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