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, ā€˜Florida’s ā€œStand-Your-Groundā€ law was passed in 2005. The law allows those who feel a reasonable threat of death or bodily injury to ā€œmeet force with forceā€ rather than retreat. Similar ā€œCastle Doctrineā€ 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.

ā€œFlorida 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.

ā€œThese 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.ā€

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.

  • Neighbors

    What makes a good neighbor?

    The world is a different place, when I was a kid it was a front porch community now the front of most homes is a garage. People come home go in through garage close the door and hide in their house. I know my neighbor, next door, but we are not friends, we are cordial and friendly but that is the extent of it. My old neighborhood we were friends because of having children the same age and in school together but sadly when you move into an established neighborhood and there isn’t a child connection cordial is usually the way it goes.

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  • Not Built on a Swamp

    Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

    The call has been made over and over to drain the swamp. The swamp is the least of our worries, the overflowing cesspool is a far greater threat. All of the name calling, all of the blame laying, all of the whining about how unfair he has been treated is just so much crap.

      The supporting characters in our Congress need to be removed and ushered into the world where human values come first, not greed, not self importance, not self pity, and certainly not a belief that because you wear a certain hat, or kiss a certain ass you are somehow about the law or the Constitution of the United States. If it means a trip to a cell for an extended period of time, the loss of everything they had thought they were going to receive with the golden parachute, or some fate that we would prefer not to predict, then so be it, but get them out of positions of any influence. From the crap that runs out of the mouths of these people I hope they are not raising children.

      Each and everyone of these people ran on some sort of platform to get elected, unless of course the district they came from paid no attention and just filled in the blank. If that platform does not conform to the nonsense they are preaching then they need to be reminded of it and not in a subtle way.

      As for our National Press Corps, where the hell are the reporters that actually report news? Did all the real news reporters die or are they just hiding?

      News of the day is that a Federal Judge was attacked outside her home this morning by individuals that are loyal to Trump.  We must be living in some sort of place where lawlessness is the name of the game. The record number of places that now have open carry laws for weapons, the number of deaths that can be connected to weapons, the amount of hate speech and disregard for others that is common, makes it easy to believe that every negative emotion of every hate monger in the country has been released as the result of the election of Donald J. Trump.

      We have always had our fair share of bigots, they just have had to keep a civil tongue in their mouth and a lid on their hate. Since 2016 they have had a spokesperson at the highest level of government that has encouraged, capitalized on and exalted negativity for all things civil and decent. Praise has been showered on depots around the world, our normal allies have been shut out or pushed aside for the sake of looking great to people like Putin and the like.

      The tactics of the Mafia or similar organizations should not be tolerated. If they want to play with fire then burn them. Were they just supposed to scare the judge, harm her or worse? Whatever their mission was, let them enjoy the fruits of their efforts. Maybe the next ones that show up will be wanting to take her to have coffee at Starbucks.

  • Safari

    What could you try for the first time?

    Would love to go on a photo safari in Africa or Australia

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  • WOKE

    Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

    This may sound really dumb but for the sake of making a point I will ask the question, which if some people are WOKE does that mean the rest are asleep or just brain dead? We hear of people making a big thing about the WOKE folk and every time we hear that comment it seems someone is putting their foot in their mouth.

      Just like the comment about ā€œTime to get the country back on track and working for the good of the people and stopping the liberalsā€. Well last time I checked they were part of the population as well as the conservatives and should be allowed as much voice and choice as the other side of the street. So let us stop figuring out ways to make one party have more power than the other based on how we can redrawn a map to make sure voting allows an advantage for R over B.

      Fair and equal really should not depend on anything other than you are a citizen of the nation offering the treatment. It is hard to imagine that any emotion affects any particular group differently than it does another, whether that is winning the lottery or suffering the loss of a loved one. We may show emotion differently but it has an affect on all of us. If we are cut, do we not bleed? Blood types do not come with markers for all our differences, or at least I am not aware that they do. 

      What makes us so determined to find fault with one another? Most of that is passed to us by proceeding generations. It is not an inherited condition. Go into a daycare that has a diverse population and you will see the children playing and getting along just fine, especially the younger ones. When they get a little older and can begin to pick up on the biases of the parents then there begin to be problems because children learn from their parents. Do children overcome these issues, they can and oftentimes may if they have enough positive contact and do not see what the parents claim to have seen.

      Each of us deserves to meet for the first time with a clean slate. As that relationship evolves that slate should have at least 2 columns so that the positive as well as the negative are kept track of. Yes the fact is that most of us will keep track of the negative and overlook the positive. The one thing we should remember about this is that the other person is also running a tally on us and we don’t want negative comments either, or at least most of us don’t.

      This goes back to do unto others. Simple concept and a viable concept to live by and yet we look around and we see so much anger, so many people in horrible moods, and wonder why. Is there an easy answer to this problem? Very possibly there is, and that is that fair and equal treatment is not what some are willing to give and other will probably never get as long as we continue to believe that the color of our skin, our religion, our ethnic background, or any one of a hundred other reasons makes us better than our neighbor, it doesn’t, get over it.

  • Don’t be a dick

    What principles define how you live?

  • Saving

    What have you been putting off doing? Why?

    Saving any money for retirement because life always happens every time I get ahead something happens and all goes south so at 56 I don’t know that I’m gonna have time to safe retirement and just hope I don’t outlive the money I already have.

  • Disqualified

    Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

      We are hearing that the 14th Amendment para 3 does not apply to Trump because it has the word support in it and his oath did not contain the phrase SUPPORT THE CONSTITUTION. Isn’t that special, that if a specific word is not included it does not apply to ___.  How many court cases are going to be relooked because a contract did not use the same word the lawyer did in the courtroom. Maybe the time has come to make the piper pay instead of getting away with figuring a way out.

      His friends in the former Soviet Union have been looking for a way to take us down since the Second World War. If we are going to play games with the words we use to protect ourselves from the less honorable of our society we are on the way to the cesspool of despair known as communism or some form of government that provides no freedom for the people living under its rule. 

      The privatization of schools and post offices and everything else that has been overseen by governmental departments means less control of everything because there is less government participation. That is good for the people that want less government involvement in things. It allows more free will of management to set wages, limit benefits, hire and fire without possible repercussions. It allows censorship to be a local issue run by a very few both in the schools and the libraries as well as what can be sent in the mail. It also means less taxes for the rich and if you don’t think that is important look at what happens every time a Republican gets into office. 

      Our country chooses its leaders through elections and those leaders must campaign to get elected. If we treat a campaign like a job interview not a beauty contest then we should get some reasonably decent applicants to serve. This is not to say that good looking people are not capable or can not do a good job, just saying do not pick the person based on a photo, read their bio and listen to what they have to say on important subjects.

      How did we get Trump, well no one listened to him on important subjects, he listened to all the whiny butts and then told them what they wanted to hear. He attacked other people running for office and told lies about them. If he heard or read something that was negative on anyone he repeated it, over and over again. Did anyone hear him say how he would deal with a particular problem or issue? Most likely they did not as he had no solutions to anything he was just gas lighting to the crowd and ā€œtelling it is like it isā€. For the sake of augment he told it the way the most dissatisfied among us viewed it. Why is their view important, because they feel that they are the ones deserving and everyone else, especially anyone of a different color, or different attitude should be kicked to the curb and taught a lesson about who runs things.

      Mr. Trump had no prior experience in politics, yet a good number of people thought he would be a good President, as he proved them wrong. He had a shot at it and did not do well, many others have suffered from the one hit wonder game in politics, so pick up you cards and go home. Why does he feel he should get back in the White House? Is it because his ego can not accept the one tour, is it because he did not steal enough from the treasury? Is it because he had not fulfilled his deal with Putin to sell us down the river? Or was there some other self serving reason for this effort, it is a sure bet that it is not for the good of the United States.