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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by Michelle
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Impossible Ask
What would your life be like without music?
Imagining a life or a world without music is an impossible task. The brain is designed to turn everything into music even the deaf, dancing sweet to harmonics vibrations so a life, a world without music. I don’t think it’s even something that anyone can imagine.
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Desert Sunrise
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I don’t
How do you celebrate holidays?
Divorced out of a teenager always worked in hospitals I avoid holidays
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Banana Bread
Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail.
The first time I made banana bread, I confuse baking soda with baking powder, which made it taste really bad, but I don’t considered an epic fail. I considered a learning opportunity and I’ve never made that mistake again.
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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
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Tranquility
by Michelle Thompsom
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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 .
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Doggy Dilemma
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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.
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