Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

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.

  • Fact

  • Most Consequential 100 days

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    Let me get this straight Donny and his minions are touring that he has had the most consequential 100 days of any President in history…

    I agree but they are looking at consequential as a positive thing. What was the most consequential event to the dinosaurs? the meteor that struck the planet.

    What was one of the most consequential events of World War II? The bombs on here Hiroshima Nagasaki, which caused massive destruction. So I’ll agree that his first hundred days have been consequential, but consequential in a destructive manner, most consequential in destruction of democracy, most consequential in ruining our reputation as an economic power ruining our reputation as a leader in the world. I agree his hundred days have been consequential.

  • Congratulations Canada

    Canadian voters backed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. projects, in a national election strongly influenced by President Donald Trump. As of last night, it was too early to know whether the Liberal Party would win enough seats to form a majority government, but it projected another term for the party. 

    The results are a turnaround from a few months ago, when Liberals looked set to be ousted by the Conservatives amid frustration with soaring inflation, rising immigration and then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s approach to Trump. But the tides turned when Trump imposed tariffs and promoted a plan that Canada should become the 51st U.S. state.

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  • Man who started Catholicism

    Credit: Heritage Images/ Hulton Fine Art Collection via Getty Images

    Peter the Apostle

    Another major New Testament figure, Peter is renowned as the most prominent of Jesus’ disciples. A fisherman initially known by the name of Simon, Peter earned his new name along with a promise he would receive the keys to the kingdom of heaven from Jesus.

    According to the Bible, Peter is the only discipleto walk on water, and was with Jesus for such critical moments as the Transfiguration (when Jesus appeared on a mountaintop in his divine form) and the raising of Jairus’ daughter (when Jesus performed a miracle to bring a young girl back to life). And while Peter attempted to prevent his leader’s arrest, he also fulfilled the prediction that he would deny Jesus three times that night, before atoning by thrice telling the resurrected lord that he loved him. 

    According to the Bible, Peter later performed his own miracles such as the healing of the lame man at the Beautiful Gate, until he too was crucified (upside down) for spreading the gospel of Christianity. Traditionally considered the first pope, Peter is also highly regarded in the church for his close relationship with Jesus, as well as his devotion in spite of his imperfect character.

  • Boom Town

    The U.S. Government Established an Entire Town to Build the Atomic Bomb.

    As part of the top-secret Manhattan Project, the U.S.-led research project aimed at developing an atomic bomb, the United States government constructed an entire town in Tennessee, known as Oak Ridge, in 1942. Oak Ridge was home to multiple factories and other industrial facilities that produced the materials needed to build nuclear weapons. The work being done in Oak Ridge was so secretive that not even most of the town’s residents knew what exactly they were working on. With the exception of a few high-ranking scientists, most people employed in the town’s science and energy facilities were given a set of instructions for how to do their jobs, but were not told the purpose behind the tasks.

  • Laser your Focus

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    This is something I have read and been told a thousand times and honestly trying to put into practice. The world is full of people promoting manifesting which has always felt like pie in the sky thinking, the issue is every thought requires action. Action is always the answer and the problem.

    My thoughts on the topic is that we always seem to get what we spend the majority of our time thinking about, for example if all you think about is being broke and not having enough money that’s exactly what you’re going to have. There is a book that’s been out for a long time called thinking and grow Rich not saying.That just thinking about wealth will make it happen. There has to be action involved, but if you focus on abundance rather than scarcity abundance will happen. It’s taken 58 years for me to realize that I can’t always think about what I don’t have because we all have something that somebody else would love to have some my words of wisdom for today or focus on abundance.

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  • Not secure

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    Second time our Sec of Defense has share sensitive battle plans over an unsecured messaging platform; will this register on the same outrage meter as Hilary’s’ private server ? My guess is it will again be swept under the rug.

    When this haphazard dissemination of classified material causes one of our planes to be shot down and a pilot killed, will this increase the outrage. We’ve already lost a $30 million drone due to information leakage but again this isn’t anything that’s important to this administration because they’re only goal is to dismantle the entire system

    I am tired of hearing the cries from the RedHat militia about the leaks and mishandling of information, even that that wasn’t sensitive at all, for example, a risotto recipe, but sharing flight attacks plans is met with 🫤.

    I can’t wait till the level of outrage on the right is the same against their own as it is against any person that doesn’t look like them.

    

  • Real vs Fiction

    Dwain Northey (Gen X)

    Why are we now in the stupid times? Everyday we have to filter fact from fiction and sadly if it comes from this administration it is delusional fiction .

    1. Donald is not 6’4” 220lb of twisted steel and sex appeal
    2. Signal is not a secure mode of communication for sensitive information.
    3. Not everyone with brown skin is illegal and gang member.
    4. Climate change is real.
    5. Lastly Stupidity is our latest epidemic and it appears that there is no cure.