Dwain Northey (Gen X)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/naacp-travel-advisory-florida-says-state-hostile-to-black-americans/

Remember the good old days when there were only travel advisories and or ban for, what some would call, third word countries? Well now because of the vile vitriol of one Governor Ron DeSantis the state of Florida, a vacation destination, has received a travel advisory by the NAACP.

The wannabe future President has made the climate so venomous in Florida the anyone who is a part of any minority group does not feel safe in the state. Black, Brown, LGTBQ+, these are all groups that are under attack in the Sunshine State. The majority Republican legislature and their fearful leader has passed laws that make almost everything a jailable offence and the fact that the state has very loose gun laws and a stand your ground law makes it more dangerous than being a blonde female in central America.

Florida residents are able to carry concealed guns without a permit under a bill signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis. The law, which goes into effect on July 1, means that anyone who can legally own a gun in Florida can carry a concealed gun in public without any training or background check. This with their ridiculous stand your ground law, ‘Florida’s “Stand-Your-Ground” law was passed in 2005. The law allows those who feel a reasonable threat of death or bodily injury to “meet force with force” rather than retreat. Similar “Castle Doctrine” laws assert that a person does not need to retreat if their home is attacked.’ Makes it really sketchy to go there.

This in top of the don’t say gay rule and the new trans ruling that just passed.

“Florida lawmakers have no shame. This discriminatory bill is extraordinarily desperate and extreme in a year full of extreme, discriminatory legislation. It is a cruel effort to stigmatize, marginalize and erase the LGBTQ+ community, particularly transgender youth. Let me be clear: gender-affirming care saves lives. Every mainstream American medical and mental health organization – representing millions of providers in the United States – call for age-appropriate, gender-affirming care for transgender and non-binary people.

“These politicians have no place inserting themselves in conversations between doctors, parents, and transgender youth about gender-affirming care. And at the same time that Florida lawmakers crow about protecting parental rights they make an extra-constitutional attempt to strip parents of – you guessed it! – their parental rights. The Human Rights Campaign strongly condemns this bill and will continue to fight for LGBTQ+ youth and their families who deserve better from their elected leaders.”

This law makes it possible for anyone to just accuse someone of gender affirming care to have their child taken from them this would include someone traveling from out of state. This alone justifies a travel ban to the Magic Kingdom for families.

Oh, and I haven’t even mentioned DeSantis holy war with Disney, the largest employer in the state. I really hope the Mouse eats this ass holes lunch.

Well that’s enough bitching, thanks again for suffering though my rant.

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  • Control the Bullets

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    This a repost from earlier this year but with the Trumpublicans anointing a new Speaker that has proclaimed himself the Avenger for the unborn, actually saying that abortion in the cause of many problems to include Social Security and Medicare because abortion killed laborers. Yes he really said that, all those poor fetuses could be cogs in the machine… if they actually survived since he also is apposed to the programs that would help those would be individuals.

    The Right Wing Evangelical Republican Party has had overing turning Roe v Wade since the supreme court ruled on it in 1973 and allowed abortions to be legally performed up to the stage of fetus viability (22-24 weeks). This is the point where the fetus with extraordinary medical intervention has the possibility of surviving outside the womb. The radical right continued to proclaim that the Democrats what to allow abortion even after a live birth… that is completely insane because that is called infanticide which is already illegal. Democrats weren’t even pushing for anything beyond what the law had already stated but that wasn’t what the Republicans were telling their faithful minions.

    Those that oppose abortion in any form are also those that are against funding community programs that would help support these potential children. They don’t care for food stamp programs, head starts, helping families with daycare expenses, none of that. Protect the fetus at all costs, screw the child.

    Well, those people got their wet dream realized in 2022 when the packed Supreme Court overturned the 50-year-old ruling leaving the decision up to the States. Now a woman has practically no autonomy over her own body in the eyes of the law. Many states are imposing very stringent rules, heartbeat laws that they claim there is a viable heartbeat at 6 weeks, the list is to long to articulate.

    Mark Marin has an interesting solution for the Evangelical Right instead of abortion clinic being labeled as abortion clinic they should be call angel factories and they could have priest blessing and baptizing the unborn fetus before they walk in. How could the “Christians” be against that.

    That isn’t really where I am going with this, the law prosecutes the women that get pregnant and never place the onus of that pregnancy where in belongs. No one seems to acknowledge that a penis has to be involved in a unwanted pregnancy. That is a fact there has never been an unwanted pregnancy that there wasn’t another party with a penis involved in. Sadly, that party isn’t the one being called names and having legal actions hurled at them. We need to control a woman’s body but there is never a mention of the other party involved in the pregnancy. Patriarchy has placed the responsibility solely on women’s shoulders they get to spread their seed indiscriminately without reprise but the woman that gets pregnant is called all sorts of degrading epithets.

    So here is my solution and I guarantee that no one will like it and it will never happen. Its my control the bullets plan… kind of my gun problem plan too but that another rant. The plan is for every male child between the ages of 13-16 to have a vasectomy. The procedure is reversable. When that male has established the desire and appropriate maturity and a partner that wants children, he can have the procedure reversed. Get I am controlling the bullets… can’t plant the seeds if the dam is blocking the down stream distribution. This works for both team’s men can still screw around, and women don’t have to worry about being stuck with some bastards child.

     Obviously rape and unwanted contact would still be outlawed…

    Finally, men would have some responsibility in the game… that is exactly why I know my plan will never work.  Any takers on my plan 

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  • Hurtstory alternate History

    Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

      Saw an ad talking about how we need to remember our history and we need to get rid of the woke. So excuse me for being confused but it seems to me that the people that are upset about woke are the ones that are closing libraries, going to private schools, and burning books that depict history in a way that does not elevate certain segments of our society above others.

      History is important to every civilization and of course if they had wars the victors got to write the history. Civics is also important in the way to orchestrate a government and manage a society. If the ad was put on by the Republican Party then it is very hypocritical in context as they are bound that our future does not look anything like our past and Democracy will no longer exist.

      So let’s take a look at some terms so that we are all on the same page. Person means individual, living, breathing, if you cut them they bleed, human, not a corporation. 

      Separation means apart, not together as in may coexist but not in the same system, as religion and government are to be separated. 

      Oath is a promise and breaking that promise is a lie, or in the case of swearing an oath it is perjury, and if you are dumb enough to do that in a court or in Congress you can go to jail for 5 years.

      If you ever had doubt about who wrote the bible, God or man, just think about the passage reference self gratification, Cast thy seed not on the rock but in the belly of a whore. Surely the entity that created humans would not have come up with such a word for someone that may be there to provide relief and or pleasure. Had to be a man and the reason for the name is she would sleep with just about anyone else but him.

      The corporations being classed as persons have allowed the formation of super pacs and big money pushing some of the more unsavory people into political office. If the candidate can raise the money by personal dynamic that is one thing but having an organization that funnels money in the way super pacs do is just not good for the system. There are no checks on the methods used to get the money and none on how it is spent. The only thing you can be sure of is the force behind it is the person that is going to tell the elected official how to vote on what. Needs to go.

      The church and state issue is social suicide. As soon as you let religious leaders of any denomination stick their nose into the business of the people you have a derailment. The religion takes top priority over all else, look at the middle east to prove a point. There may be some sort of leader, puppet, behind the entire farce but the real power is with the Priests. They call the shots, prayer time, law enforcement, punishments for violations of holy orders, and they never run out of orders from God or Allah or whoever. The church schools now are entitled to public funds according to the jerks on the Supreme Court. Stick your nose in and see if you can change anything about the way they do things. Ask to see the tax statement where they paid taxes  on the buildings they occupy and all that, good luck. They still are exempt from that.

      Now when a person is elected to any office in this country, joins the military, or is sworn in as a witness in court they take an oath. If you become a citizen you take an oath. In court you swear to tell the truth, the other times is an oath of allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. In all cases the oath implies that you are being truthful and sincere and not lying about your intentions. So now we have a group of people serving in Congress that took that oath and yet they are working to overthrow or eliminate the Constitution. So they lied and there is a punishment for that, it is 5 years in prison. The question is why have we not had the rest of Congress proceed with making these individuals pay the piper for lying? There can be no doubt that they did lie as they had to take the oath to be sworn in, and now they are trying to do away with the Constitution. If that is not lying then what is? These people want to destroy our way of life for some reason as yet unexplained. The former president seems to be the biggest reason as he seems to have some idea, ???????, that they all have gotten behind, or maybe they just like kissing ass. As any rate all of them need to be sent far away from the halls of power and into the bowels of despair to share in their dream.

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  • Guns Don’t Kill People…FU#@ Y^%!!!

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    Here we go again, mass shooting in Maine and what will we get, ‘Thoughts and Prayers’.

    The worst part of this is the shooter is still at large, is well trained by our tax dollars and has openly admitted to metal illness and the desire to do what he just did.

    We are appalled by the atrocities in Israel and Gaza, but we daily have people in our own back yards gunned down and still we can’t seem to do anything about it. The 2nd Amendment is to many an unbreachable freedom that as Americans have the God given right to have a gun. Fine have a gun but not a weapon of war, not a firearm that has no other intended purpose than to kill people in quantity and efficiently. No one need this type of weapon outside a theater of war… NO ONE!

    Next, we will be told it isn’t the gun, it is a mental health issue. Guess what the United States isn’t the only nation on earth with mental health problems we are the only one with ready access to firearms. I say to every person that says it’s a metal health problem, “Then why don’t we fund mental health, and why is it untenable to think that if someone has metal health problems they should not be in the possession of a firearm?” Strange that I can never get a good answer to that. But the Trumpublicans want to jail Hunter Biden because he lied about a drug addiction and possessed a firearm for 18 days, a firearm by the way that was not used in the advent of any crime.

    Former VP Pence says that the death penalty should be a consequence for shooters, not acknowledging that nearly all shooters in these events either kill themselves or are shot by police. These murderers go on these rampages knowing that their lives are more than likely over, so the treat of the death penalty is redundant.

    The 2nd Amendment is not absolute, and we need to stop acting like it is. The Constitution states that we have the right to Life, Liberty, and Happiness. I say those rights preempt the right to have a weapon that can end my or anyone else’s right to Life, Liberty, and Happiness.

    I know this isn’t going to change, we have a member in the House of Representatives, Steve Scalese, that was shot at a congressional softball game, and he still touts the right to have a gun. He also doesn’t like to acknowledge that a black lesbian police officer saved his life, but that’s another rant.