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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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.
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Michelle Thomson 5 days of Sun Rises
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Same word
What’s your favorite word?
The word I would like to stop using is also my favorite word.
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Revenge Politics
Dwain Northey (Gen X)
Now the RED HAT GOP is practicing revenge politics by starting an Impeachment Inquiry of Joe Biden. They have pretty much admitted that they have no grounds for an Impeachment, so this inquiry is a fishing expedition. Everything they say they have is made up bluster and even the people that their hearings have interviewed did not pan out with the damaging information that they hoped they would get.
The GOP spent 7 million of dollars and had 33 hearings of Hilary Clinton to prove absolutely nothing even admitting that they only did it to hurt Clinton. Now they are attempting the same level of nonsense with Biden.
The petty vindictive bullshit, the democrats Impeached Trump (twice) over obvious, provable offences so the radical right is going to impeach Joe Biden because… “well we don’t have anything, but we’ll find something.” That’s what they say the inquiry is for to manufacture evidence of a made-up charge. They are trying to ‘Minority Report’, this administration by simply fabricating imaged crimes.
They want to hold Joe guilty for the crimes of Hunter, crimes I might add that the GOP would never charge any other person with. They accuse him of interfering in Ukraine by having a prosecutor removed to help his son and benefit Burisma. It was the world court that help remove the corrupt prosecutor not Biden and his removal was actually a detriment to Burisma.
They screamed witch hunt over all the actual crimes of Trump now they a starting a witch hunt that there are no witches to hunt.
Fuck it let them try guess they don’t remember what the outcome of Impeaching Bill Clinton of a consensual BJ.
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Honesty
What are you doing this evening?
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Dog Sense
What personality trait in people raises a red flag with you?
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Day that changed Everything
Terrible Anniversary
Dwain Northey (Gen X)
September 11, 2001, was a day that changed everything. Americans never knew a world of terror that other nations live with but on that day, terror was brought to our shores, and we could not ignore it anymore. 9/11 became more than the number that you would call in an emergency, it became a place in time that a generation would remember exactly where that where on that fateful day, much like 11/22/1963 or 12/7/1941, 9/11/2001 would become another reminder if tragedy.
This day everything changed, Airports became more secure, before 9/11 TSA wasn’t a thing. Long lines at Airports became the new normal, line that a generation have always know. 9/11 plunged the U.S. into a 20-year war, a war against people and countries that had no part in the atrocities of 9/11. Our war was against an idea, not a nation, terror had come to our shores and in reactionary retaliation we took terror to Iraq and Afghanistan. Our military might toppled Sadam Hussan and the infrastructure of Iraq and eventually killed the master mind behind the 9/11 attacks Osama Bin laden while ravaging a country that has seen war for hundreds of years Afghanistan.
The terror of 9/11 still lives with us with home grown terrorist and lacks gun laws, we fool ourselves that we can stop terror at the boarder or that it has a brown face… we can’t and it doesn’t.
Remember the tragedy…don’t replay it.
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Never going to happen
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Hero Worship
We to often put professional athletes on a pedestal because they can catch or throw a ball, these individuals make millions of dollars for playing a game, something most of us would love to do. Often these idolized athletes are in reality really shitty people, some make efforts to give back but not enough of them for the opportunities and fortunes they have been given.
A few in the past have used their notoriety to advance a cause and those are the ones I respect.
Billie Jean King had spent the 1960s and early 1970s campaigning tirelessly for parity for women in sports, and in 1972, she turned her focus toward helping to pass Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in all federally funded school programs, including sports.
Muhammad Ali the heavyweight champion lost his title when he refused induction into the military during the Vietnam War. On April 28, 1967, reigning heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali refused induction into the U.S. military. “I claim to be exempt as a minister of the religion of Islam,” he said.
Many called Ali a coward but he stood up against an unjust war and was stripped of his title because of it but he didn’t back down.
I respect these to for the stand they took and using their gifts for the common good.
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Sad to Say
Really don’t know how to relax… I just try to not take life so seriously.
Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void 
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