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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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.
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F word
If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?
I would love to give up the F word but due to the pandemic of stupid in the world it is one of the only words that adequately portrays the feeling of frustration I have.
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Einstein the Prophet
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Tranquitity
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Grudges
Are you holding a grudge? About?
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Travel…
Daily writing promptShare a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home.
The question ambiguously asked the question ‘from home’… That is a blanket statement that presumes that you went to a destination and then returned to a point of origin.
I have been all over the United States, Hawaii & Alaska, Canada, Europe, Great Britain, Mexico, Belize, and Jamaica. Some of those were on vacation but many of them were because I was relocating to that particular location. When I was in high school we moved to Germany so that wasn’t technically ‘travel’ because I did not return to the destination I have originally departed from. My mother is British so I have been in England a number of times but we were living in Germany so it wasn’t a far trip because from Germany to England is actually closer than New York City and Richmond VA.
I traveled all over Europe when I was there on the Euro-Rail (trains) but again the distance is relative because Europe is relatively compact compared the the U.S. .
Everyone reading this is now asking if I am ever going to answer the question.
Honestly I furthest I have travel and returned to a point of origin was from Phoenix AZ no Nova Scotia Canada. My in-laws have a rustic house on the east coast of Nova Scotia. I is beautiful and quiet and the fresh Atlantic seafood is amazing. I was there in the summer so the temperatures were very pleasant, I am fairly curtain that a winter trip would not have been as enjoyable.
Thanks for tolerating my rambling that barely got to the point.
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