Month: February 2023

Over the last few days there were many news stories I wanted to share. Here are a few I saved open to share.

Tuberville To Block Pentagon Nominees Over Abortion
WI Town’s Publicly-Funded Paper Runs Anti-LGBTQ Ads
LGBTQ+ children in the community have been attacked and are now afraid to go to school or be around other kids. Attacks against adults have risen. But the preacher pushing the hate says it is not a bad thing, he is just telling the truth that "accused the LGBTQ community of "grooming children" and acting in "perverted" sexual behavior."  The article linked paints the community now split as some follow local pastor Ronald Gay in oppressing the targets of his hate and the rest trying to be allies to a frightened group under attack. What a godly leader of the people he is. Hugs
Anti-AP DeSantis Was AP Student Of The Year, Praised AP Courses As “A Gateway To Success In Life” In 2020
IL Governor Condemns Visit By “Hateful” DeSantis
Man Tries To Bring Loaded Assault Rifle Onto Flight
TSA Agents Intercepted Record 6542 Handguns In 2022
Louisiana AG To Keep Satan From Sitting In Libraries
PREVIOUSLY ON JMG: Jeff Landry blocks flood damage funding for New Orleans over the city’s position on abortion rights. Landry advises parents on how to evade COVID protocols instituted by public schools. Landry wins court battle to block workplace protections for LGBTQ state employees. The Louisiana Supreme Court upholds Landry’s win against LGBTQ state employees. Hate group leader Tony Perkins praises “courageous” Landry for his attacks on LGBTQ protections. State Rep. Jeff Landry tries to end LGBTQ studies minor at his alma mater, the University of Lafayette.

And in the above we see the move by the rabid right, by the maga, by the majority of republican office holders to move the country from democracy and freedom from religion enforced in laws to instead install a theocracy where their brand of Christianity is forced on the people regardless of their religious views.   This is no longer a minority in the minority party, these people have worked hard and spent an untold amount of money to get their religious believers in to places of power to enforce their religious doctrines as the US Taliban.    Hugs

Florida Christian College Professor Faces Termination For “Indoctrinating” Students On Racial Justice [Video]
From the linked article: “I see this at the very least as a threat to my academic freedom. PBA is a Christian university. It has a deserved reputation as a politically conservative university. I could somewhat understand if the university had requested a meeting to review my material. I say ‘somewhat’ because, as a full professor with over 20 years of experience at the university, one would think they would trust me,” he wrote. “Indeed, the university has shown me little respect throughout this ordeal. But instead, without giving me due process, they brought their concern over my racial-justice unit with a threat of termination. I also believe that things like this do not happen in a vacuum. There is a reason why PBA is threatening me now rather than five years ago or 10 years ago. PBA is conforming to a toxic political culture, and they are playing a role that is a part of that culture’s script: a role that says, ‘We do not like to have uncomfortable conversations about race.’ There is no place for a role like that at an institution that calls itself a university, let alone a Christian university.”
Notice what the Christian teacher is saying. In 20 years of teaching of the racism and need for racial justice in the US he is facing loss of his job because of the stance of the governor DeathSantis who claims that teaching the truth of US racist history and the ongoing injustice minorities face is illegal ideology. It doesn’t fit his white nationalist views and his attempt to install a regressive 1950s white automatic rule / superiority back into society via the schools. It is true that people that get an advanced education often get their eyes open to the bigotry and narrow mindedness of the limited education they received which causes them to move to a more tolerant and open view of reality / society. Hugs

Gustav2  Joe in NM3 hours ago edited
It is an attempt to control all education in the US. From cradle to college.
There has been complaining in all the churches about how the kids don’t come back to church after college. It didn’t matter before because few conservative RCC and Protestant White Fundies went to college, now both have made it to the suburbs, college is expected.
With few marriages preformed in church (only 20%), the churches have lost another connection with the next generation and they are less likely to return with their own children.
The push for only religious marriages are real marriages and the restructuring of education have one thing in common. The steady decline in church membership. Even the largest denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, is not replacing the Olds that are dying off with Youngs.
Indiana House Advances “Don’t Say Gay” Bill [VIDEO]
Too bad it is against a teachers morals to be nice and use a name or pronoun that a person asks them. I don’t see how it is a moral dilemma or even a religious one. If Robert wishes to be called Bobbie the religious teacher is happy with it, but what if Robert wishes to be called Bohdana or Bonita or Bona which are all girls names in different languages. I just learned that in German the name Boby is a girl’s name. In the US the name Bobby is both male and female as all names should be. If the teacher doesn’t know a names gender association and they use it without malice are they committing a sin? I don’t get this fake outrage at something that is just being nice and respectful. Hugs
Shapiro Host: I’d Rather Die Than Have A Trans Child
Pride Flag Torched Outside Manhattan Restaurant
MTG Lays Out Her Plan To Dissolve US: For Red States, Public School Prayers, Ban Everything Gay, No Dildos
MTG: After The “National Divorce” Democrats Who Move To Red States Will Not Be Able To Vote For Five Years
Utah Gov Blasts MTG’s “Evil” Call For “National Divorce”

AP News: Palestinians: 9 killed in Israeli army raid in West Bank

More cities are excelling at policies on LGBTQ equality even amid hostile legislation, report finds

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

More cities are excelling at policies on LGBTQ equality even amid hostile legislation, report finds

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/12/05/more-cities-lgbtq-policies-state-legislation-hrc/10805262002/

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

Gen Z is driving force among adults identifying as LGBTQ, poll shows. Here’s a breakdown.

Check out this article from USA TODAY:

Gen Z is driving force among adults identifying as LGBTQ, poll shows. Here’s a breakdown.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/02/22/gallup-poll-lgbtq-identification/11309075002/

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

Florida County Bans Book On “Indoctrinating Penguins”

Florida County Bans Book On “Indoctrinating Penguins”

Again it is not about sex, pornography, or protecting children from sexualization.   It is about denying same sex couples, gay people / kids, or that people can have a gender different for their assigned sex from public and society.   It is about erasing an entire group of people from society.    One of the ways the LGBTQ+ gained acceptance was people knew others that were LGBTQ+.   They were family members, they were school peers, they were their friends / doctors / auto mechanics / and so much more that people realized they were not the monsters the haters claimed.   There was no sex in the book about penguins but it gave the impression that same sex couples were OK, it gave kids the idea that same sex couples could be parents, all things that the Christian right maga cannot tolerate.   They won’t allow society to progress past the 1950s as they are not comfortable with people living their lives in freedom or happiness because they demand to force people to live as makes the haters / Christian right live their lives.   Also the military is not happy with these red state hate rules against the gays and trans people along with abortion bans.    It interferes with military readiness as there are many same sex couples, gay people, trans people, trans / gay dependents, and females who want the right to control their own reproductive health.  The military is under attack from the right because they give three weeks no questions asked leave for pregnant people needing to leave state for an abortion.   I wouldn’t recommend a red state try to interfere with the travel of a military person.  The military is going to cut back facilites and tranning in these red states.    Hugs

Pensacola’s NBC affiliate reports:

The Escambia County school board voted Monday night to remove three challenged books from school libraries. The removed books below all contain LGBTQ+ characters. “All Boys Aren’t Blue” is a novel about a boy growing up Black and queer in America. It was available in all high schools.

“And Tango Makes Three” is a real story about two male penguins who raised a chick together at the Central Park zoo. “When Aidan Became A Brother” is a children’s picture book about a transgender boy becoming a big brother.

Dozens of people addressed the board Monday night both in support and against keeping these books in schools. “I am currently embarrassed to be an Escambia County student tonight,” one high school student said.

Read the full article.

Escambia County borders Alabama and is home to Pensacola and a major military aviation training facility.

Paula 4 hours ago edited

They won’t stop until all of us are dead.

DaddyRay  Paula4 hours ago

I won’t stop fighting back until I am dead

Paula  DaddyRay3 hours ago

I agree. I am old, fat, and have some physical issues now. I am not as spry as I used to be but, I can still shoot and fight if I have to.
Sto-vo-kor awaits.

another_steve  DaddyRay4 hours ago

For a pansy I’m remarkably good with a knife.

They come for me or my husband, I stab them in the neck.

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad  Paula4 hours ago

And the Log Cabin Republicans will offer to come up with a fabulous color scheme for the boxcars.

Guestfornow  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad 3 hours ago

In Wisconsin, in leading up to the 2004 anti gay marriage amendment, during debates, Julian appalling said: “I think we have been very good to the gays. We let them live where they want to.” The reply in newspapers and online was: “Think of the money you save in barbed wire.”

There are a good many on the right and Christianity who want us in camps and dead.

Ever notice how if someone on the left says something, the press asks every democrat if they agree. Republicans framed the left with Vietnam war protestors and the press helped associate all democrats. Ever notice the press never asks the right if they agree with things like putting us in camps?

April Smith  Paula3 hours ago edited

As far as Trans kids (and if they get their way here in Oklahoma up to the age of 26) they would rather force them to live in misery and despair and hopefully do themselves in.

Problem solved.

Nic Peterson  Paula4 hours ago

Our visibility is poison. Shit like this tells me they are hungry. Feeding time!

HZ814 hours ago

OMG, they are making a difference. No one in Florida will ever want to queer-out on some no-no zones with these books banned.

Just die already, FL GOP. You love Jesus so much, go see him already.

zhera 4 hours ago

Imagine being scared of a book about penguins.

DaddyRay  zhera4 hours ago

If a book about two male penguins raising a young one can influence someones sexuality then they certainly are questioning their own sexuality and should seek therapy

zhera  DaddyRay4 hours ago

They don’t want kids to realize that a life as gay can be a good life. “Get back in that closet!”

April Smith 4 hours ago edited

I wonder what percentage of these book bigots actually read these books.

1%?

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  April Smith4 hours ago

Books just give you ideas, and make you think, and who knows where that could end up?
Best to just avoid them, I say.

biki  DevilDog2 hours ago

I know several men who are proud of the fact they don’t read anything. If it’s longer than a sentence or two they are done with it. According to them, its not “manly” to read…….

(my adoptive father felt this way.   His ability to read was very limited and he felt boys and men should play hard outside and work hard, then watch sports.  Reading was left only for the stats on the sports page.  The issue was a cause of much misery for me growing up. Hugs, Scottie)

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S_E_P4 hours ago

Banning books about LGBTQ doesnt make those people disappear AND it doesnt make those thoughts disappear.

Ninja0980  S_E_P4 hours ago

It just makes the people feeling those thoughts feel alone.

S_E_P  Ninja09804 hours ago

Which is what the fascists want in the first place

Todd20036  S_E_P3 hours ago

Or they think being LBGT is a choice so if you never show them we exist they’ll never get any ideas

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Gustav24 hours ago edited

“Most of the challenges coming from one specific teacher.”

Yep, that’s how democracies work.

another_steve 4 hours ago

Florida is Ground Zero today for the theofascists’ attempted takeover of America.

(What are all good Floridians and other good Americans going to do about it?)

TnCTampa  another_steve4 hours ago

What can we do… we can protest, we can march, we can sign petitions, we can elect democrats but the red states are not going to stop and as long as they frame it being about parental rights the SCOTUS is going to give them everything they want.

People are going to have to lose a lot before they pay attention and start voting in numbers to make a real difference. 80 million could not be bothered to even show up in 2020

Barry William Teske  TnCTampa 4 hours ago edited

It is not about parental rights.
It is all about stealing power
and controlling what the people see, hear and think.

FULL STOP

 

 

NPR: She found herself cornered in a train station. Then a stranger came to her aid

She found herself cornered in a train station. Then a stranger came to her aid
Cynthia Page was alone in a train station trying to get home from New York City when men surrounded her. She was frightened until another man came and helped her get away from those circling her.

Read in NPR: https://apple.news/AKUfTWM5nS-yfEGOE079Tpw

Shared from Apple News

Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

ONE OF THE BEST MOVIE INTROS OF ALL TIME – IDIOCRACY

Sadly it explains our times. I never watched the movie as stupid slapstick comedy is not my thing and right now I am so limited to what I can spend my time on. So enjoy.

Disgusting New York Times Article DEFENDS J.K. Rowling

I found out by watching this where the terms cis and trans come from. It is science chemistry terms. Trans means across from and cis means not across from but same side. Love listening to smart if jokingly arrogant people. Hugs

Texas School Official Leaves Gun In Student Bathroom

Texas School Official Leaves Gun In Student Bathroom

Everyone said this and worst would happen.   But gun ammosexuals are one orientation pushed hard in red state schools.  The superintendent said there was never any danger other than a kid finding it and shooting someone, which minimizes kids have access to guns and the death of someone by gun violence.   The mistaken idea is teachers or school personnel having guns will make schools safer.   Here we clearly see they do not.    A third grader is an 8 year old and recently we had a 6 year old threaten to kill people with a gun and shoot his teacher.   Really the goal should be to remove guns from schools and keep them out.   A good start to that is to reduce them from society.    Hugs

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Abilene’s NBC affiliate reports:

A 3rd grader in Rising Star found a gun the superintendent left in a school bathroom. Superintendent Robby Stuteville confirms the 3rd grader found the gun back in January and notified a teacher immediately without moving or touching the weapon.

Stuteville walked KTAB and KRBC through the incident, explaining that both he and the school principal open carry on campus. When he was using the restroom, Stuteville says he took the gun off and placed it in a stall, where it was then left unattended for around 15 minutes until it was found by the student.

“There was never a danger other than the obvious,” Stuteville claimed. He then went on to say he was “proud” of the student and commended his behavior after finding the firearm.

zhera 11 hours ago
“There was never a danger other than the obvious,”

 

Wow. So, no danger other than absolute disaster. Don’t worry. Just a child with a gun.

So not only did he forget his gun, but he didn’t notice it for a whole 15 minutes. How much training did he get?

Ron  zhera9 hours ago

As much as the open carry law required…
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Rio  zhera5 hours ago

The Superintendent did NOT notice that he did not have his gun in the holster for those 15 minutes – he only realized it was gone when an 8 year old boy discovered it and brought it to the adults attention. The Superintendent could have not realized his gun was missing for 8 hours !

Gigi11 hours ago

“There was never a danger other than the obvious,” Stuteville claimed.

The obvious danger: Stuteville.

Paula 10 hours ago edited

I’d never even heard of Rising Star, Texas. I had to look it up. It is about halfway between Killeen and Abilene. The entire school district only has 186 students.
Several things I don’t understand here.
Why the fuck was he using a student bathroom at an elementary school? I never use a student bathroom at an elementary or middle school. (female student bathrooms are filthy) I can’t imagine the guys.
The town only has a population of approximately 840 people. What did he need to protect himself from?
Why would he need to remove his gun? The urinal wouldn’t require him to do that.
The toilets in most elementary schools are much smaller than normal for small kids.
His ass would not have fit.
This is stupid. Typical, small Texas town attitude.

Yves R. Mektin  Paula10 hours ago
Why the fuck was he using a student bathroom at an elementary school?

 

Perhaps the Superintendant also has a part-time job as a “youth pastor”?

IamSmartypants  Paula8 hours ago edited

This is the first thing that jumped out for me too. An adult should never be using the kids restroom in school. That feels very off.

Regarding the condition of student bathrooms — my first job out of high school was working as a substitute janitorIn the school district I graduated from. By far the most disgusting place to clean were the middle school girls bathrooms. The boys smelled, but the girls were filthy.

Nearly every day there were used tampons thrown on the walls and floors. They would also kiss the mirrors and leave greasy lipstick marks that were miserable to clean up. One of the women janitors fixed that problem at one of the schools by going into the main girls bathrooms during a class change, dipping the squeegee into a toilet, then cleaning the mirror with it. Girls were howling in horror and it stopped the mirror kissing a for a few years at that school.

Dolphm  Paula7 hours ago

I agree, except for one point. Janitorial staff where I worked when I retired, all said that the women’s bath rooms were the worst!

boatboy_srq  Paula8 hours ago
The town only has a population of approximately 840 people. What did he need to protect himself from?

Them Big City Liebruls coming to take him away in Jade Helm and put him in one of those FEMA camps.

Dolphm  boatboy_srq6 hours ago

It’s not about protecting himself; its a macho pride thing! I think a grown man carrying a gun in a children’s school is probably considered a more acceptable way of letting the kids know that you are a grown MAN, than walking around the school with your cock hanging out of your pants. But then again it is Texas, so…

boatboy_srq  Dolphm6 hours ago

That’s not macho pride; that’s insecurity in their manhood. See: truck nuts, gun racks, gun safes, gated communities, “business appropriate” dress codes, “Eff Your Feelings” t-shirts and MAGA ballcaps.

Dot Beech 🇺🇦 11 hours ago

““This is one of those examples of guns in schools.” Stuteville said. “Regardless of who takes responsibility, they are a considerable danger and one should school their child to be on the lookout for any unusual placement of a weapon or anything out of place.””

Yes, teach your children to watch out for guns everywhere. What a sad fucking life this has turned out to be because of losers like Robby Stuteville.

thatotherjean  Dot Beech 🇺🇦11 hours ago

Or maybe you should just leave your gun at home, in a locked cabinet, and not in the boy’s rest room at your school, idiot?

Dolphm  Dot Beech 🇺🇦7 hours ago

I think it is an example of what can happen when teachers and school administrators carry weapons in a school. While I agree that with all of the shootings that are happening in schools, there is a strong argument favoring armed personnel in the schools, it should be restricted to competent, law enforcement personnel that are well trained in gun safety. I would also argue that law enforcement personnel carrying guns in schools should be better trained and more qualified than the average law enforcement officer in the United States. The United States spends less money training law enforcement personnel that almost every country in the world, and I do not think that is good enough when children’s lives are at stake.

Rio  Dolphm5 hours ago

Except the Uvalde Texas school cops & regular cops proved to the world that current-day cops are too scared to take on a school shooter, therefore, what is the point of having any cop at a school ? And this civilian, older man who is the Superintendent is an example that non-professionals are not up for the job of carrying a gun either. It’s almost like guns are the problem and perhaps we need to do what other countries have done and make the restrictions around guns very intense to avoid a further loss of life.

Houndentenor 10 hours ago

“There was never a danger other than the obvious….”

Translation: we got lucky that the 3rd grader who found the gun didn’t accidentally shoot himself or someone else so we don’t see a problem.

ken_lov 10 hours ago

Texans have no concerns about obvious dangers. It’s the sneaky dangers like drag queen hours that worry them.

 

 

Let’s talk about parents and education….