Ron installed a great light on a dimmer. The four lights swivel and go up and down. Great range of motion. He plans to paint all the outlets, covers, wall fixes in my picked out colors.

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

Ron has been working in all the electrical outlets he thinks I will need and some are hard to wire up

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

Why Can’t We Scoop All the Plastic Out of the Ocean?

Lots of people want to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, and plastics have a huge impact on ocean environments. But marine wildlife are already adapting to our plastic waste, which means cleaning it up isn’t as simple as just… cleaning it up.

Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him)

Cartoon: The Time Before Gender Ideology

Cartoon: The Time Before Gender Ideology

https://amptoons.com/blog/

Many thanks to Ali for this cartoon.   Again a cartoon expresses a lot of information and corrects an old myth with just four panels.   At the web link above you can read the break-down of the cartoon and the thoughts of the artist.  As well as see other thought provoking cartoons.   Hugs

TYT: A Fallen Empire

This is long, and maybe too long for most people.  It took me three days to watch it all.  But it is even handed, it is informative, it is well documented, and it is truly how I and so many feel.   I loved TYT, but about the time Cenk decided to run for office and gave a lot of control over the company / show to Anna, I noticed a shift / change in both hosts and the company direction.  Cenk became very bitter and anti-democratic party, while Anna became overly more assertive on every show.  When Cenk came back so bitter from being what he felt was unfairly treated by the democrats but others felt was him trying to claim a position without doing the work others had done before him Anna started talking over him, interrupting him, not letting him finish his sentences.  But at the same time if he tried to interrupt her she got very vocal about it and wouldn’t tolerate it.  She was now in charge and she wanted the world to know it.  It showed how she felt about her position, she had the authority and say, so don’t disagree with her.  That was very off-putting for me a long time viewer and supporter of the show.   But then Cenk’s constant vitriol against the Democratic Party started to interfere with his reporting on Biden.  Right from the start he wanted Biden to do the impossible and when he did not Cenk couldn’t even give him credit for what he did get accomplish.  Cenk being a bombastic fighter spent two years demanding Joe Biden attack and call out Joe Manchin and pushed for the most virulent attacks on him.   Which would have lost the democrats the control of the Senate and stopped any left leaning judge appointments.  Then Cenk got more bitter towards Biden and other progressive members of congress who did not throw the disruptive bombs he wanted to destroy the party, so he openly attacked the very groups he started along with attacking all progressives.  What crossed the line for me what his attacks on Biden and openly trying to promote primary challengers to him talking up fringe candidates, knowing historically any time a sitting president was primaried they lost, giving the other party the win.  He did not care, his bitter anger was more important to him.  He kept up his now constant attempts to tear down Biden to the point he is doing the work of a republican challenger for president.   I wrote that when I canceled my long time membership, that Cenk was doing the work of the Republican Party in tearing down and maligning Biden.  This hard right turn of Anna’s and Cenk’s weirdly not even willing to listen to any criticism of her was the last straw for me.  He is not even really addressing the issue that Anna made as the start of this problem, and keeps misrepresenting it.   If Anna wants to be called woman that is great, if trans women demand to be called women that is great and everyone would do as they ask.  But there are transmen with parts that medical people need to address and that are on medical forms / question forms.  It was pointed out so often that no one in conversation referred to Anna as a “birthing person” but she still took offense to the term even existing.   She was demanding a medical term to be inclusive not exist because she felt it diminished her as a female.  Total right wing maga fundamentalist thinking.  This is entirely a case of two people drinking their own Kool-Aid on their own importance and getting called out for it.  Their egos have gotten in the way of the work they were doing.  I can no longer support them as they are, and I hope people will watch this well researched and documented video.   Hugs 

Cenk Uyger, Ana Kasparian, and The Young Turks have had a history of scandals and controversies throughout the existence of the network. I want to talk about that history, as well as the events leading up to their recent meltdowns on the podcast circuit and Twitter.

ObGyn: Is Science Anti-Transgender?

And this is what we are thinking for supper

Today for the second day I had another doctor’s appointments.  Yesterday I got my allergy shots, today I saw my endocrinologist.  He was thrilled with my labs, he also was thrilled with my weight loss from a little over 200 to now 185.  It may not seem like a lot but it has made a big difference for me, as I recently said my A1C is down to 6.2.   He also was shocked when I told him my Janumet medication went from $122 for three months to $431 for one month.  He changed that to Metformin which the pharmacy informed me right after the visit would cost me … Wait for it … $1.30 for three months.

Ron and I came up with an idea for supper that we think is neat and cool.   Ron had bought yesterday a French bread baguette and some garlic spread we like.  So we got out a large electric grill out we have, sliced the bread on an angle about a little less than one 1 inch thick, Ron sliced the big ham we had the other day into small slices, and we have trimmed cheese slices to use.  I prefer Munster and Ron likes Swiss.          

I opened two cans of Campbell’s tomato soup and got out crackers.  I got out paper plates but real bowls.  Yes I do not like paper bowls for soup.  Ron has called me over  several times to see if I thought something done this way or that would be OK.  I love it, no matter how this turns out we have had fun experimenting, we will enjoy eating it, and we will have the memory of doing it together.   Hugs.

Oh one of the windows I have been carrying forward the last few days is 78 tabs large.  I have finally managed to get all the other tabs handled, but this one is one of the largest, and it may take me the weekend to deal with.  My plan now is to get up in the middle of the night and try to respond to them all.   Hugs and loves to all, if you have not gotten a reply to your comment and you really think I should, please send it in again, write a new one.   Sometimes older comments go away before I can get to them.  Best to all.  Scottie

I think this is great but no way I can eat it all.

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

More pictures of Scotties Play Time Pink Playing Palace

Ron has not painted the faceplates as he wanted to fix all the outlets before painting them so they didn’t get scratched up during the build. I am so excited. Ron and I picked a great four light adjustable angle lights for the room. There are more shelves and stuff for storage or holding the computer s plus power supplies up off the ground. Hugs

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie

DeSantis Paid $95K To Anti-LGBTQ Iowa Hate Group…

https://www.joemygod.com/2023/08/desantis-paid-95k-to-anti-lgbtq-iowa-hate-group/

Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie