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.

  • So you bought a Corvette

    The Dick measuring contest….

    Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

      The big hype of the Trump pitch is to Make America Great Again, and in the process has brought about a situation that demonstrates a lack of moral strength or even civil decency at least by most of the elected members of the Republican Party. Why do I say that? Well they are willing to let the government be shut down because their ego driven, school yard bully leader is being prosecuted for crimes he has committed. These are not made up, they are crimes, some of which he has been involved in doing for years.

      Then we have the gallant legislators in the state of Texas that declare a found guilty AG innocent because he is a Republican, for some such reason. It would not be good enough if he were anything else and I am sure there are plenty of people in Texas prisons that would like some of that kind of justice given to them. Will these moral individuals be so generous with some woman that leaves the state to get an abortion?

      Then we have the state of Florida and all the less admirable things going on there. The Governor argues with a black man over what should or shouldn’t be taught in school while ignoring a group of NeoNazis parading near him. Suing Disney World and attempting to take over their operation because they hold a different view on people with different sexual preferences. Has no use for so many things, most things that don’t kiss his ass. Sends bus and plane loads of people to other cities, notably ones run by Democratic Administrations, because he thinks he is funny when all he is is a pain in the butt.

      The reputation that has been presented to the United States since the campaign for the 2016 election has left us with the rest of the world wondering if we have all become toxic. Are we welcome in other parts of the world? At one time everyone thought of us as uncouth and vulgar and it would seem that we are slipping back into that mold.

      If you have never been to Washington DC and you decide to go do not expect the gleaming city on the hill. The subways are filthy, the streets aren’t much better and everywhere you go someone will attempt to hit you up for money or pick your pocket. That was my experience. At least I was happy to leave. 

      Some of the people that have been elected to Congress prove that they should not have been considered for the position as they are unqualified to do much of anything other than possibly be naked and afraid. We really do need to elect people that have the nation’s best interest at heart, not the party, not their state, and certainly not their own. There is nothing wrong in helping all those entities in turn but the nation should come first.

      For the crop fools that are holding court and making all the threats about shutting down the government I will leave you with a poem.

       May Bleeding Piles posses You, and Corns grow on you feet,

       May Crabs as big as Horse Flies Crawl on Your Balls and Eat,

       And when You’re Old and Feeble, A SyphiliticWreck,

       May Your Spine fall through your Ass and Break Your F—ing Neck

  • Tranquility

    by Michelle Thompsom

  • Stress

    Share a lesson you wish you had learned earlier in life.

    Many things don’t matter.

    Stress has to fit into 2 categories to actually put any effort into keeping that stress.

    1. Is there any action you can take to change the outcome.

    2. Will you life be different tomorrow if it doesn’t turn out the way you hope .

  • Doggy Dilemma

  • Consequences

    Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

     There is an item that keeps coming up about how controversial it would be to put a former President in jail. So let us take this in context of history, the English hanged a King, the Russians put an entire Royal Family in front of a firing squad, and the French beheaded an entire Royal Court.

      We are afraid we will upset a few of his followers if we jail him for violation of court orders. Death has not been offered as a punishment for his crimes, death has been offered by some of his followers to those that are willing to go against him. So maybe if your leader is willing to suggest that is a way to save him from prison, kill the witnesses, then let’s use death as a way to keep him and his followers out of prison. 

      We are the only nation on earth that has screwed around with this for three years. Most other countries would have had this matter settled by the end of January 2020 and the only thing left to attend to would have been funerals. 

      Even if he is able to run for reelection, spare us, if he does not win his loyal followers are threatening civil war to get him back in office. That is one of the reasons those other nations made sure there was no one to rally around, without that they are a lot of gas, not much ass or maybe it is the other way around.

      Why are we putting up with this, because a single man with a very fragile ego that cannot stand to lose lost. He was willing to commit Treason to secure his ego and the nation and possibly the world has suffered for it. 

      It would be nice to see our Legislature actually do what they are elected to do and stop the crap over the pimple on the gnats ass.

  • Food

    What are your favorite types of foods?

    I eat to live not live to eat, I enjoy lots of different kinds of foods and am always up to try something different.

  • Food

    What are your favorite types of foods?

    I eat to live not live to eat, I enjoy lots of different kinds of foods and am always up to try something different.

  • Viable Option (?)

    Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

      There is debate over whether the 14th Amendment article 3 can disqualify Trump from office. The language in that statement is more clear and concise than the language in the Bible and the Supreme Court has no problem believing the Bible. 

       Why do we have to go through all this nonsense of indecision? Oh, that’s right we may upset a portion of the population that has a thing for being lied to, crapped on and generally f===ed over. Don’t believe me just ask all the people that are on trial with him about what a great person he is.

       This is really about saving a nation from going down the tubes. We are being attacked in various ways by some of the more ruthless nations and the last thing we need is to have someone in the WH that is willing to hand over our nation for personal gain. He started to do that on his first term and he will continue if given the chance, as for all those that profess going to war if he is not put in office they deserve whatever fate is handed to them.

       The fact that the social media used and accepted as truth by so many has been hacked by the Russians and the Chinese. World domination is the point of all this BS. We were able to govern our own nation and help others do the same, the ones that seem to have problems doing such things are more interested in taking over every nation for as yet unknown reasons.

       If the idea is to own it and control it and the reason is because it is beautiful or unique then we must remember that it is unique because the people of the region make it so and that will all change when controlled by outside powers.

       The use of social media by Trump to create problems for all that have and that could be involved in his ultimate downfall is absolutely vindictive in an attempt to get people to target the prosecutors, judges and witnesses that have amassed the evidence against him. I understand he doesn’t want to go to jail, what I don’t understand is why anyone of his followers thinks it is worth a trip to jail or worse to go and attempt to intimidate these people. 

       The police should make an effort to track down any and all for those actions be it a text message or a drive-by shooting and put that person in jail and see if their great leader comes to their rescue. It is highly unlikely as he seems to be only interested in saving his own hyde and no one elses, sons, wife, friends (?) if he has any or any one else.

      As for the idea of putting Mr. Trump in jail for violation of court orders, why not. If we end up with a riot over the situation that means you have a full house and maybe some very sorry folks by the time the smoke clears. Before any of you get high and mighty about this there is a question you need to answer. Will any of you stand up for anyone else, the hungry, the homeless, the sick, the wrongly accused, if you won’t why are you on this wagon? At the end of the day all the others mentioned will be grateful, Trump will only find a way to steal something else from you.

  • Wish I could.

    How often do you walk or run?

    Eighty percent of people who have multiple sclerosis (MS) experience problems with walking within 10 to 15 years of the onset of the disease . Unfortunately I am one of the 80%.

  • Leader

    Do you see yourself as a leader?

    We have a shortage of leaders we have managers that do not understand the concept of leading. I was military and so was my father (NCOs) trained to lead by doing not telling, in business today they want managers not leaders that’s why I working for myself.