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New voices are speaking out against “the ever-ready molders” of the transgender-affirming world out to change adolescent minds. Recently, Chloe Cole, a 19-year-old young woman who was pressured to undergo transgender surgeries, challenged a social media video by Neil deGrasse Tyson, the populist astronomer and science personality. Although a legitimate astrophysicist, Dr. Tyson’s public proclamations and videos are not always from his area of scientific expertise. In fact, they aren’t always scientific. In this particular video, Tyson asserted, in favor of gender ideology, that “no matter my chromosomes today, I feel 80% female, 20% male. I’m going to put on...

“Boys are boys from the beginning. Girls are girls right from the start.” No, those aren’t the words from a tweet banned for “hate speech” — though they could be. They’re prophetic lines from none other than Mister Rogers, who put the immutable truths to a tune decades before the trans craze.Resurfaced in a recent TikTok, the clip shows Fred Rogers, host of the classic children’s show “Mister Rogers Neighborhood,” singing his ditty “Everybody’s Fancy,” which goes:Boys are boys from the beginningGirls are girls right from the startEverybody’s fancyEverybody’s fineYour body’s fancy and so is mineGirls grow up to be...

Mr Rogers talks about gender Mr. Rogers talks truth about gender and if he was around today and said this on his show do we even have to guess he would be banned, censored, shut down for promoting "hate speech"?

Welcome to the weekend and here we are. I am your currently sober drunk host. Day 369 Of The Dictatorship Of CPVID-19, Day 369 Of America And The World Held Hostage To Vaxx Or Not To Vaxx That Is The Question? President Trump endorsing vaccination against COVID-19 this week. Bue he kept a secret until the end of last month. Trump himself was vaccinated at the White House at the beginning of January but we only learned about it when the CPAC speech happened February 28th. One can point out that Mr. Trump needed anti-vaxx support for his political agenda...

Lloyd Vogel a is hard-nosed magazine reporter who makes the movers and shakers of the world flee.He asks the tough questions that undercover corruption. He finds out what the politicians and the businessmen are reallydoing behind closed doors. In other words, he’s the type of journalist no one wants to talk to.But then Vogel is given a nightmare assignment – interviewing Fred Rogers of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood fame.“You hired me as an investigative journalist. I don’t do puff pieces,” he tells his editor at Esquire.His editor, though, won’t relent.“I think this could help you, Lloyd,” she says, referencing his view...

Hollywood’s living saint playing America’s one true hero: What we can learn from the Hanks-Rogers niceness summit in the new film “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.” ___________ (snip) -- Directed by Marielle Heller (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) and out Friday, it’s a sensitive portrait of an unlikely friendship. Lloyd doesn’t get the whole Mr. Rogers schtick. But spending time with him, being a direct, in-person benefactor of the icon’s surprisingly workmanlike investment in other people’s well-being, he’s convinced. They forge a bond that is nothing short of profound. Along the way the film illuminates some truths that are...

VIDEO Although Mr. Rogers, Fred Rogers, is today widely admired, what would his standing be among liberals if they found out he was a big Trump supporter?

Hearts around the world were warmed earlier this year when Sony Pictures released its first image of Tom Hanks suited up for his role as Fred Rogers in the upcoming movie about Rogers’ incredible life of gentle love for children. Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers is an equation hardwired to explode hearts around the world with delight, so this movie jumped to the top of a lot of people’s Most Anticipated Movies of 2019 lists. And now, it has a title. > Yep, the movie will be called It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. That makes a lot of...

TriStar Pictures has landed worldwide distribution rights to the Mr. Rogers biopic “You Are My Friend,” with Tom Hanks attached to play the iconic TV personality. “Diary of a Teenage Girl” director Marielle Heller is helming the pic from a script by Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster. “I’m thrilled to be making ‘You Are My Friend,'” Heller said. “The script knocked me out with its message of kindness and its exploration of the human spirit. As a mother, I am so inspired by the teachings of Fred Rogers and as a human I am in awe of his life’s work....

Donald Trump has launched a new ad for television highlighting his controversial campaign as he charges into the new year. "He's calling for a temporary shutdown of Muslims entering the United States, until we can figure out what's going on," a narrator explains in the 30 second TV spot, titled "Great Again."

[snip] For one serendipitous weekend he was Mr. Rogers’s actual neighbor. [snip] He asked about the young man’s job at MTV and got him talking about his parents’ divorce two decades earlier...an MTV senior vice president with a shrine of Mr. Rogers mementos above his desk...a self-described “PBS mind in a jump-cut, sound-bit MTV world.” Mr. Rogers listened, then offered, “I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex,”... [snip] He took that suggestion to heart after Mr. Rogers’s death in 2003, teaming up with his brother, Christofer, 43, a television editor, to...

The fact that Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is a “good family man” is why he has gained traction recently with voters, according to radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh. “My guess [why Santorum’s popularity is rising] might have to do with the fact that it’s now widely known that Santorum is a loving, devoted father,” Rush argued. A recent Washington Post/ABC News story stated that Santorum is winning more support from Republican women and is “less unpopular” among Democrat and independent women than his GOP rivals Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich despite his views on abortion, contraception, and prenatal screenings...

Fred Rogers saw it coming and knew it could be a problem. A group of psychologists released a study this week that found today's college students are more self-centered and narcissistic than those of previous generations. In part, the researchers pointed to overindulgent adults for raising children to believe they are "special" no matter what they do. Mister Rogers, of course, wrote the seminal song on this subject in 1967 -- the lyrics say "You are my friend, you are special." The researchers didn't blame Mister Rogers in any way. But the late, great pioneer of developmentally appropriate children's television...

There goes the neighborhood. Late last year, the final original episode of Mister Rogers's show aired on PBS. After 30 years of entertaining little hearts and minds, Fred Rogers put away his sneakers for the final time. The show continues in reruns, but Mister Rogers's retirement reminded me how much I miss our visits. When my daughters were preschool age, I welcomed the cardigan-clad Presbyterian minister to our home almost every day. Or more accurately, we were invited into his house and, by a short train trip through his living room wall, into the Neighborhood of Make Believe. There I...

I never thought the day would come when I would admit to missing Mr. Rogers. But here it is. Fred Rogers died Thursday. Bummer. Back when I was a cop, I used to come home from work and watch "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" with my kids. Not at first though. Initially, I refused to believe that anyone, never mind kids with the attention span of a weasel on meth, could sit through two minutes of "Howdy, Neighbor." But mine did. In the beginning it was a fight. I would come home depressed and surly and say, "Let's watch 'Masters of the...

Fred Rogers woke up every morning at five o'clock and prayed for nearly two hours for people he loved. He loved so many people—and so many people loved him—that I could never imagine the form his prayers took, but I knew that he prayed for me, and for my wife, and for members of my wife's family whom he had never met and whom he knew only through what I had told him in my phone calls and e-mails. I had written about Fred for Esquire in 1998. People were always amazed when I said that Fred and I had...

Fred'Mister' Rogers Dies of Cancer at 74 PITTSBURGH (AP) -- Fred Rogers, who gently invited millions of children to be his neighbor as host of the public television show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" for more than 30 years, has died of cancer. He was 74. From 1968 to 2000, Rogers, an ordained Presbyterian minister, produced the show at Pittsburgh public television station WQED. The final new episode, which was taped in December 2000, aired in August 2001, though PBS affiliates continued to air back episodes. Rogers, who died Thiursday morning, composed his own songs for the show and began each episode...

Fred Rogers dead at 74...no other info yet.prisoner6

<p>PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania (CNN) -- Television host Fred Rogers, better known simply as "Mister Rogers," died Thursday after a brief battle with stomach cancer, according to a spokeswoman for his production company.</p> <p>Rogers, 74, died at his home in Pittsburgh. He is survived by his wife Joanne Rogers, their two sons and two grandsons, according to his Web site.</p>