What a day! All day, interruption after interruption. I keep trying to finish what I left from yesterday, but either Ron needed me or there was a crisis here and then there. I did not even take a nap or break for lunch. I just got Ron ensconced in his recliner with a pillow under his leg. His knee is still bothering him, but instead of taking a week off to rest it, he tried all morning to work on getting the white board up in the pink palace. But all he was doing was aggravating his knee and hobbling more and more again. I have been there, I understand the need to do stuff and yet being betrayed by your body. But I also know that the injury / body part won’t heal if you insist on using it. So now to the blogs. For supper we are having soup and sandwiches, I picked tomato soup. Ron wants grill cheesed, but I may have to make them as he really can not stand well. I would be happy with regular subs on hoagie rolls and sliced meats. Hugs. Scottie
Again Ten Bears has found a great video to watch. This one is shorter than the last and details quickly a bunch of the malfeasance trump committed. Hugs. Scottie
I thank Ten Bears for posting this. It is an important to view. It shows clearly how racism and bigotry of the republicans are harming national security. Chris Hayes makes it clear just how racist Sen Tuberville is.He doesn’t want mixing races in the military, but instead wants the best of the best. Well the way he says it is clear he thinks the best of the best are white. I found the view very informing and interesting. Hugs. Scottie
My endocrinologist switched me from Janumet, a diabetic medication that got too expensive, to metformin which is basically the same drug without the new part that lets the drug company charge way more. I take one in the morning and one at night. This change plus my eating less these days has for the last several months caused my blood sugar to go too low. This week it has happened three times. Normally in the morning, because at night I normally take 25 units of long acting Lantus insulin. During the day I take a fast acting insulin with meals. That I adjust on a sliding scale, and my last prescription lasted almost a year instead of three months because I am keeping my blood sugar low by cutting out sweets and sugary breakfasts. And again I eat a lot less, and a lot more salads.
The reason I had to go on to insulin was my blood sugar was high when it was being taken care of by my primary care who seemed clueless about diabetes. Plus I was not serious about my diet and ate too much. When I started seeing the endocrinologist as soon as I told him I take steroid injections every few months, he informed me that pills won’t work against steroids, that takes insulin itself. And for the first week after getting the injections I have very high blood sugars, but not as high as they used to go. In the past I had 300 and 400 blood sugars. My doctor wants it no higher than 178 and no lower than 80. Now that first week I am in the 170 or 180s normally.
Now to the low blood sugars. For over a week I have not had to take any fast acting insulin or only 2 units. I eat and before the next meal check my blood sugar again and it is still low. Yesterday I did not have lunch, which is normal. I prefer to eat mid-morning and late afternoon. But before supper I got really shaky so I checked my blood sugar and it was below 80. I was going to have some chips, but Ron had my salad ready and was working on the burgers. I decided to have the salad. It tasted good, I used a mixture of Ranch and Red Wine Vinaigrette. I recently learned it was almost like Creamy Caesar. It was a medium size salad, and was not taking me long to eat it, and as I got near the end I went into Hypoglycemia .
Some of the symptoms of low blood sugar are below. There is one I did not see but happens to me, I get very tired and sleepy. I am unable to stay awake and will pass out.
How you react to low blood sugar may not be the same as how someone else with low blood sugar reacts. It’s important to know your signs. Common symptoms may include:
Fast heartbeat
Shaking
Sweating
Nervousness or anxiety
Irritability or confusion
Dizziness
Hunger
As I was near the end of my salad, I got the above, except I was not irritable but was very confused. I struggled to my feet, I knew I had to get to my bed right away. As I left the Playtime Pink Palace, I said to Ron I was going to lay down for a while, maybe a half hour. He saw I was diaphoretic, but did not realize it was so bad. I got to the bed, struggled up on it (we have a storage bed with a very thick / large Purple mattress. Between the height of the bed plus mattress, it is 35 inches high. It comes up to my hip bone. I normally have no difficulty getting in but Ron is short and he uses a single step stool to get into bed.) I slept for hours, waking about 9:30 pm. I remember Ron coming in once to ask if I was OK, but I don’t remember what I said. Ron told me last night and again this morning he goofed, he missed how bad I was. How low my blood sugar was and I was too confused to understand or tell him. I should have taken sugar or a glucose tablet. So yesterday I had taken no insulin during the day and last night after talking with Ron he told me not to take my nighttime insulin nor my nighttime metformin. This morning, my blood sugar was only 91. It is acceptable but remember I am not to go lower than 80. So I won’t take insulin this morning, as we are having hard-boiled eggs. I should have had pancakes but that I would have to cover so I will stick with the eggs and toast. Hugs
Non-Binary Teen Awarded Over $300K After Suing School over Being Misgendered and Bullied
Lior Onaly-Kelsey filed a lawsuit in 2020 alleging that their school district didn’t do enough to prevent the bullying they experienced at elementary school
Ask what is the goal of the people trying to remove diversity, it is to return to a horrible time in the past where some people had all the rights and authority while others are powerless having no rights. Do we really as a country want to regress to the point these people want? They basically want all social and scientific / medical / social progress to stop and regress to a time before other people but them had standing in society and the most you could do for medical issues was to pray, same with economic issues just pray them away. But one thing they don’t want to return to is the taxes on the wealthy and corporations, just the regression of equality and equal rights for non-white non-cis non-straight people. We have congress people trying to deny diversity ion the military and fighting to keep bases named after confederate leaders who fought to keep blacks as slaves. Remember a large portion of the military is minority including black. We have republicans led states trying to teach kids that slavery was beneficial to black people. An example of how horrible racism is. Might as well say that childhood sexual abuse is OK as long as the kid is not killed and allowed to go to school. Anyway this is our country now, pushed hard to a right wing authoritarian racist bigoted intolerant society by a few very wealthy hateful people funding a lot of media and republican politicians. Hugs
More than 300 Turpin High School students participated in a walkout on Wednesday to protest the cancelation of Diversity Day earlier this month.
Students gathered at Heritage Universalist Unitarian Church, located right next to the high school, holding signs calling for promotion of diversity within the Forest Hills School District and to empower students.
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The walkout occurred at Heritage Universalist Unitarian Church on May 18, 2022 adjacent to Turpin High School. Students held signs and chanted, “Do better Forest Hills.”
The walkouts occurred on the scheduled date for Diversity Day, May 18.
For several years, Diversity Day has been held in the district — which is 90% white — to highlight cultural and racial issues for junior and senior students. But earlier this month, the FHSD school board voted 4-0 to put the event on hold, stating that the event would no longer happen during school hours, use school resources or be paid for by taxpayers. Then, the school district announced its cancelation.
“At this time, FHSD staff have determined they will not be able to organize an event that meets the newly instituted board expectations before the end of the school year, so it will not be rescheduled for this year,” Forest Hill School District Communications Coordinator Josh Bazan said in a statement.
Board member Leslie Rasmussen abstained from voting on the issue, saying board members “interfered” with the event citing “critical race theory and social justice” as their reasons for its postponement.
Four of the board’s newly elected members ran together on a platform opposing critical race theory.
Students react
On the day Diversity Day was supposed to be held, multiple students passed a megaphone to each other to give speeches and to lead chants. Claire Mengel is a senior at Turpin High School. They thanked the community for the support it’s provided students, but expressed disappointment the walkout had to take place because the “(school) board has failed us.”
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Turpin High School senior Claire Mengel led the walkout on May 18, 2022. They will be will be addressing the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on Thursday to discuss “ongoing efforts to prohibit discussion in K-12 classrooms about American history, race, and LGBTQ+ issues.”
“We should not be here because the board should be doing their jobs and the fact that we’re here is incredible, but it is also disappointing because we should be in school doing what we’re supposed to do as kids,” Mengel said.
Johnny Wettengel is also a student at Turpin High School. He thanked the students for making their voices heard and to show the school board that they’re “doing a bad job” at representing students.
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Turpin High School student Johnny Wettengel said the Forest Hills school board is “doing a bad job” at representing the students during a walkout on May 18, 2022.
“We are here, all of us, to show them that we support diversity in our school district,” Wettengel said. “We are here to show them that we won’t just sit down and let them cancel events that matter to us. We are here to show them that diversity isn’t political, it’s human.”
Mengel said the event’s cancelation adds another level of stress to a district dealing with a “mental health crisis,” but the community’s support has helped during a tough time for students.
“Even though the board has power in this situation, the community is standing together and there is so much more support than I’ve seen anything negative about this,” Mengel said.
On Thursday, Mengel will be addressing the U.S. Congressional Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The hearing will focus on “the ongoing efforts to prohibit discussion in K-12 classrooms about American history, race, and LGBTQ+ issues, and to punish teachers who violate vague and discriminatory state laws by discussing these topics.”
It is great to see sane people in blue states standing up for equality for people in the US. Republican led states ignore medical science, instead they prefer to trust tradition and religion as the basis of their laws. If the rest of the country did this we would still have slavery and be using prayer for medical treatments. Instead of banning progress in understanding they should welcome new advancements. But every day shows they are further out of touch, their religious views wrong, and their desire to return to a past where they were comfortable, in charge, and understood the world / society they lived in. LGBTQIA people exist including also kids. Yes young kids know and have sexual feelings and gender identity. Cis straight people want to deny that yet they can never point to the time they choose either. Hugs
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the measures a day after issuing a controversial veto that was criticized by LGBTQ advocates.
Gavin Newsom during the San Francisco Pride parade in 2017.AFP via Getty Images file
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills Saturday aimed at bolstering the state’s protections for LGBTQ people, a day after issuing a controversial veto that was criticized by advocates.
The new laws include legislation that focuses on support for LGBTQ youth. One law sets timelines for required cultural competency training for public school teachers and staff, while another creates an advisory task force to determine the needs of LGBTQ students and help advance supportive initiatives. A third requires families to show that they can and are willing to meet the needs of a child in foster care regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
“California is proud to have some of the most robust laws in the nation when it comes to protecting and supporting our LGBTQ+ community, and we’re committed to the ongoing work to create safer, more inclusive spaces for all Californians,” Newsom said in a statement. “These measures will help protect vulnerable youth, promote acceptance, and create more supportive environments in our schools and communities.”
The governor also signed legislation that requires schools serving first through 12th grade to have at least one gender-neutral bathroom available for students by 2026.
The law was spurred by a Southern California school district that instituted a policy requiring schools to tell parents when their children change their pronouns or use a bathroom of a gender other than the one listed on their official paperwork. A judge halted the policy after California Attorney General Rob Bonta sued the Chino Valley Unified School District. The lawsuit is ongoing.
The governor’s bill-signings came after Newsom vetoed a bill on Friday that would have required judges to consider whether a parent affirms their child’s gender identity when making custody and visitation decisions.
Assemblymember Lori Wilson, a Democrat who introduced the bill and has an adult son who came out as transgender when he was a teenager, was among the LGBTQ advocates who criticized the governor’s decision.
“I’ve been disheartened over the last few years as I watched the rising hate and heard the vitriol toward the trans community. My intent with this bill was to give them a voice, particularly in the family court system where a non-affirming parent could have a detrimental impact on the mental health and well-being of a child,” Wilson said in a statement.
Newsom said existing laws already require courts to consider health, safety and welfare when determining the best interests of a child in custody cases, including the parent’s affirmation of the child’s gender identity.
The veto comes amid intense political battles across the country over transgender rights, including efforts to impose bans on gender-affirming care, bar trans athletes from girls and women’s sports, and require schools to notify parents if their children ask to use different pronouns or changes their gender identity.
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs three new bills into law to strengthen the state’s protections for LGBTQ people. Newsom: “California is proud to have some of the most robust laws in the nation when it comes to protecting and supporting our LGBTQ community, and we’re… pic.twitter.com/TLuJM7tMdB
We can’t wait for our Florida house to sell so we can move California. What a wonderful change it will be. I expect we will actually need some time to de-stress and de-traumatize from trying to live here.
I left Florida and moved to Massachusetts. The first time walking around near Harvard and MIT and hearing someone performing Shakespeare on the street and having two people in a cafe almost come to blows over a mathematical theorem instead of over drugs, the first time passing an open field and seeing someone with an easel painting the landscape instead of circling on a quad tearing it up…
It’s a whole different world when you escape to someplace more blue.
Last year I left SW FL for SW GA. Stable blue congressional district and 2 Dem Senators. I grew up in the South so no adaptation problems. I am glad I got out of the toxic swamp FL has become.
Assuming we have a country in another 5 years, that is when he will make a run. Pete will also make a run as well and he will have the federal seasoning he lacked that last time. We have some young and very good people coming up over the next few years. Katie Porter is another one they are scared shitless of. Eric Swalwell, Ted Lieu, and AOC are all very capable and message well. There are of course a slew of others from across the country but all of the above are young and well regarded in general and absolutely hated by the right (that is a good thing).
An Ohio high school football coach resigned Monday following his team’s use of racist and antisemitic language during a game last Friday, the school announced https://t.co/9eSA1VyJhA
Boy, it sure would be embarrassing if someone quoted the Florida curriculum standard, which explicitly states that “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” ( https://www.fldoe.org/core/… )
Or, at least it would be to anyone with a conscience.
My heart weeps for all the beautiful trans folks out there, especially the younger ones, just trying to live their lives with some dignity and respect and maybe a little joy, and they’re constantly barraged by crap like this from crap like this.
In 12 countries around the world, people can be put to death for having a same-sex relationship, while in 66 states private, consensual same-sex sexual activity is criminalised, according to the Human Dignity Trust.
“Transgenderism, especially in kids, is a mental health disorder.” — Vivek Ramaswamy. This is false. Being transgender is not a mental health disorder. Many transgender people experience gender dysphoria, or psychological distress as a result of the incongruence between their sex and their gender identity. Gender dysphoria is a diagnosis in the psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders and can be given to children, adolescents or adults.
I feel for the transgender children in America who have to listen to Vivek Ramaswamy and the Republican presidential candidates telling them they have a "mental disorder" and don't know the first thing about their lives. Shameful demagoguery.
18 House “Republicans” voted today against an amendment that would have defunded drag shows and pride month events at the Defense Department. Time to name and shame:
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