I am so fucking pissed

I often don’t feel well or have mind fog. Sometimes l get busy or for some other reason I need to take extra medications. Strong amounts of morphine, muscle relaxers, others. Everything makes my mind foggy. Plus last year I had a TIA ischemic event that messed with my ability to think and even speak properly. Also sometimes I just don’t feel up to dealing with other blog posts and even comments.

So I developed a system of saving open chrome pages of posts or comments in tabs, and building tabs up in different days windows. Sometimes I end up with 6 or 8 open windows saved with over 400 tabs in them combined. Over the last 6 or so weeks I had 8 open windows with over 60 to 80 tabs each. I could even close them and shut down the computer, as long as I did not clean the history.

I have three utility programs that are set to be run manually that clean the entire computer, including the internet browsers histories. Set to be run manually. Well one of those updated this morning. I never thought much of it, it happens a lot automatically. This time it bit me hard in the ass. See this time it reset my clean the browsers settings to automatically when closed. I needed to do some updates and restart the computer. No problem as I could close the tabs and then when the computer updated and restarted I could just reopen the saved tabs. I let the updates happen and restarted the computer.

When the computer restarted, I noticed CCleaner running. That seemed strange. I realized why when I opened chrome, opened the history to restore the more than 6 weeks of saved tabs full of comments and posts to find … everything gone! WTF. I checked the history on other devices, it was there, but the history for Play Blogger was gone. Damn it all to …

Seems when CCleaner updated, it changed the cleanup settings to automatically when closed. When I closed the browser windows the program cleaned the history.

I will try the hardest way to do comments, by going back through the admin board. But if you did leave an unanswered comment in the last 7 weeks, please let me know, I can look up the post to see the comments. I am so frustrated. And just want to forget the entire thing and go watch videos and play Halo. Hugs. Scottie

Under The Cover Of The Super Bowl, Bombs Fell On Rafah

Utah Speaker Appeared At Far-Right “Patriot” Event

Utah Speaker Appeared At Far-Right “Patriot” Event

The goal is to make the state Christian controlled enforcing church doctrine with laws, then move that same thing to the federal level. Force the entire country and everyone in it to be their brand of Christianity. “Patriot Academy,” a far-right group that offers “biblical citizenship” training programs that encourage the Christian nationalist belief that government should be run according to Christian values. They forget how this works in the Islamic countries that are theocracy. There can no divergence from rules written by warlords in the deep past. It stops all progress of the modern age. Science must conform to what was known then, same with medical advances. It retards, slows, regresses society while the rest of the world moves forward. In the US due to religion, stem cell research was made mostly illegal. The rest of the advanced world kept finding ways to solve medical issues with stem cell treatments. Those treatments wealthy US legislators that past the laws against that research use when they need that treatment. Hugs. Scottie

Utah Speaker Appeared At Far-Right “Patriot” Event

February 13, 2024 Christianists, Republicans

The Salt Lake Tribune reports:

Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz, who has made increasing trust in government a focus of his tenure as a legislative leader, is giving conflicting reasons for keeping his calendar of speaking engagements from the public after speaking at a Christian nationalist event last month.

In January, Schultz was a featured speaker at an event sponsored by “Patriot Academy,” a far-right group that offers “biblical citizenship” training programs that encourage the Christian nationalist belief that government should be run according to Christian values.

Rick Green, who headlined the event, is a close ally of pseudo-historian David Barton, who claims the authors of the U.S. Constitution did not intend for the separation of church and state and wanted to create an explicitly Christian country.

Read the full article.

Utah House speaker spoke at a Christian nationalist event. Now Legislature says they have no record of his public calendar. https://t.co/gHI3q1pUDr
— The Salt Lake Tribune (@sltrib) February 13, 2024

JWC 13 hours ago

The poor persecuted evangelicals All upset because we won’t allow them to shove their shit down our throats

Dark Qiviut13 hours ago

Speaker Schultz isn’t sorry for speaking at the Christofascist event.

He’s sorry for getting caught.

Doug105 13 hours ago

kaydenpat 13 hours ago

Does this matter for a party which has fully embraced White Supremacy?

LeeGP13 hours ago

I really hate how these people have commandeered the word “patriot” and drained it of any real meaning.

Posthumously LeeGP12 hours ago

And “Christian”. And “freedom”. And “liberty”.

NPSTL Posthumously10 hours ago

I like JCF’s term “Christianist” for these people who claim to be Christian but don’t recognize the Sermon on the Mount. They refuse to read that squishy “red letter” stuff (those who don’t have any familiarity with the Bible, the words uttered by Jesus are often highlighted in red, at least in older Bibles).

Todd20036 Posthumously12 hours ago

And family and parental rights and states rights

Jim LeeGP2 hours ago

Nowadays, *patriot* means TERRORIST .

Doug105 13 hours ago

Nic Peterson13 hours ago

A devout Mormon should be very wary of christian nationalists.

danolgb13 hours ago

I like to remind the commenters at the Deseret News that Evangelical Christians ultimately don’t think that Mormons are the right kind of Christians and when they’re done needing the Mormon money machine, the Evangelicals will cast them aside too.

Tim 🇺🇦 Nic Peterson13 hours ago edited

You’re right Nic, Mormons are only considered “christians” since Romney ran against President Obama. The mormons don’t acknowledge Jesus Christ as the savior, blah, blah, blah, just yet another “prophet” of god. Christianists can turn on them as quickly as they adopted mormons.

They like moving goalposts to get their way.

cowboy Nic Peterson13 hours ago

It doesn’t seem to hurt the devout Mormon Mike Lee.

I can’t think of a more christian nationalist than when he compared Trump to BoM hero Moroni. But I’m glad to add: most of my Mormon neighbors/friends laughed out loud when they heard about this comparison. And yet, Mr.Lee was reelected. (sigh)

Doug105 13 hours ago

Close enough,

Todd20036 13 hours ago

I remember listening to evangelicals claiming Hitler was an atheist

Oops

Doug105 Todd2003613 hours ago

Even were that somehow true, all Nazis were required to be christian.

This image had gotten me a 3-day Facebook ban, last time I posted it, no allowance for educational use.

Tennessee Approves Bill Allowing Anybody To Refuse Officiating At Same-Sex Weddings Because Of Jesus

Tennessee Approves Bill Allowing Anybody To Refuse Officiating At Same-Sex Weddings Because Of Jesus

Another attempt to exempt “Christians” or anyone who wants to discriminate against the gays from laws requiring equal treat of everyone. It says that if you don’t like the gays or the trans, you can just not do your job, regardless of the fact that is what your job is. Think about how horrible these laws are, think of what they are trying to accomplish. They send the message that Christians are the most privileged highest level of person in society, automatically. It also sends the messaged that the LGBTQIA, especially the gays and trans, are the lowest of the low in society. The goal, to drive the society / public back to the 1950s, erasing all the equality and advancements in tolerance / acceptance. The goal is removing the gays / trans from public view and this is done by denying them equal treatment under the law. If you think these laws sound OK try rewording them. It is OK not to serve or do your job is you believe it is wrong for black people to be married, or mixed races marriage. You can refuse to do your job and not take pictures of a wedding because it has a Jewish person and a Catholic. You can refuse to cater a weeding if the people getting married were once married before and now are divorced. If you think the examples are wrong then it is wrong to do this to gay or trans people. If you think the examples are correct then you are saying everyone gets to know and judge everyone else and screw the people you dislike or hate. This is simply hate made in to law driven by religion. Laws in a secular country are by definition not religious edicts, they are civil. If you want religion to rule you need to move to a theocracy. Notice a theocracy is not a democracy. Hugs. Scottie

February 13, 2024 Christianists, Republicans

The Tennessean reports:

Hours after a bill allowing marriage officiants to decline to solemnize weddings if they have moral objections received final passage from lawmakers, a vibrant crowd rallied on Capitol Hill advocating against a slate of bills aimed at placing new restrictions on Tennessee’s LGBTQ community.

Senate Bill 596, which would allow officiants to decline to perform weddings, passed the Tennessee Senate without debate along party lines on Monday evening. The bill passed the House last year, and will head to Gov. Bill Lee for his signature.

Sen. Mark Pody, R-Lebanon, who sponsored the bill, told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee this month that the goal of his bill is to provide clarity on whether officiants are required to perform marriages.

Truthout reports:

The bill wouldn’t just apply to wedding officiants and religious leaders — it also amends Tennessee Code Section 36-3-301, which applies to public government officials, including county clerks who handle marriage licenses. The legislation would allow those individuals, too, to refuse to “solemnize” a marriage based on their own religious convictions.

It’s unclear whether Republican Gov. Bill Lee will sign the bill into law. Lee has signed a slew of anti-LGBTQ bills since becoming governor, including one allowing state-funded foster care agencies to legally deny LGBTQ people the ability to serve as foster parents. Since 2015, more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ bills have become law in Tennessee.

Pody has appeared here many times for his attacks on same-sex marriage. In 2016, he sought to “nullify” the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling.

In 2017, he sponsored a bill calling for Tennessee to defy Obergefell entirely, and literally fled protesters at his press conference.

In 2019, he filed the “Tennessee Natural Marriage Bill” that would void same-sex marriages, something he says God told him to do.

In 2020, he filed a fourth attempt to make the bible the official book of Tennessee. In 2021, he filed a bill that would allow fathers to block abortions by their partners.

Senate Bill 596, which would allow officiants to decline to perform weddings, passed the Tennessee Senate without debate along party lines on Monday.
https://t.co/Q79xCYNjSi
— Tennessean (@Tennessean) February 13, 2024

JoeMyGod Mod12 hours ago

“In January 2021, Pody paid for a group of Tennesseans to attend the ‘Stop The Steal’ rally that ended with the attack on the US Capitol.”

weshlovrcm12 hours ago

He’s against same-sex marriage; therefore, YOU can’t have a same-sex marriage. YOUR “religious beliefs” will be decided by HIM!

Friday weshlovrcm11 hours ago edited

I really hate these Christians over that. They say it’s about ‘religious freedom’ but never mind *my* religion when they try to keep imposing more Christian hegemony with government power.

Dark Qiviut12 hours ago

I wonder if the anti-gay nutball conveniently handwaved the fact that one Tennessee city had to retract their anti-gay/anti-trans/anti-queer ordinance and fork over $500,000 of taxpayer money to the ACLU and other LGBTQ civil rights groups last week.

Tennessee City Made to Repeal Discriminatory Law and Pay Pride Organizers $500,000

https://www.them.us/story/t…

Rather than help Tennesseans, he wants to spread hate and waste taxpayer money to codify it.

Should this become law, I hope those who sue him and the state win and get a nice payday.

Bruno12 hours ago

So that whole Kim Davis thing…acting like it never happened?

kladinvt 18 minutes ago

Then can’t all business owners then refuse service to anyone with different beliefs than themselves?

Jack Frost 12 hours ago

The bill wouldn’t just apply to wedding officiants and religious leaders — it also amends Tennessee Code Section 36-3-301, which applies to public government officials, including county clerks who handle marriage licenses.

Cool, I hope these do refuse to handle homo marriage licenses, they can get sued to high hell and the gays will get a nice little payout.

Sounds good to me, keep it up religious bigots, its taxpayer money you’re handing right to the gays.

Roma Krelian Jack Frost12 hours ago

Yeah. Drag them to federal court. Fuck Tennessee.

Jack Frost Roma Krelian12 hours ago

Its the only way to win against them.

Turtle73 Jack Frost12 hours ago

How do you intend to collect this nice little payout?

There’s only one way to get a Republican to honor the Constitution. A lawsuit ain’t it.

Jack Frost Turtle7312 hours ago

Oh, we’ve already got Kim Davis, this will just go the same way.

These states, repeatedly, pass unConstitutional laws and they lose in court. I guess its time for TN to give it a try.

They’ll lose at every court this is tried in, the fed law is clear on this. Its why this jackasses other legislation has failed.

San_Ban Jack Frost3 hours ago

Beer guy and the Handmaid say hold my beer.

StarGmom 12 hours ago

Another good Christian, shitty human

Gregory In Seattle StarGmom12 hours ago

In his circles, there’s little difference.

Bungee11 hours ago

Dark Qiviut12 hours ago

There’s no hate like far-right, Christianist “love.”

Swamp Yankee12 hours ago

Every day they keep gaining more and more ground.

Jack Frost Swamp Yankee12 hours ago

Yep. We need a major shift in democratic circles to come up with fresh new ideas for how to combat these people. Current Dem leadership is not putting the work in at either the fed or state level while the GOP has a massive ground up base of support.

How we’ve not even gotten grassroots level on this is infuriating.

Hell, some Republicans still go unopposed in elections, that should never happen, ever!

Let’s talk about Mr. Rogers, commercials, and themes….

Liberal Redneck – MAGA and Russia, Sittin’ In a Tree….

Purdy wild how Russia went from 80s bad guy to your Pappaw’s absolute fave, ay?

Israel Commits Mass Atrocity During Super Bowl

Discussing the latest in the so-called “conflict”, including the latest from The White House on where President Joe Biden is on this.

Some more Majority Report clips

Anti-Trans NYT Article Gets It’s Facts Horrendously Wrong

Erin Reed, author of the Erin In The Morning newsletter on SubStack, discusses the state of anti-trans legislation moving its way around the country in 2024.

Erin Reed then joins, diving right into the busy 2024 in state-level anti-trans legislation in the US, first parsing through the media’s insistence on emphasizing bigoted and misinformed perspectives – as seen in the New York Times’s recent piece by Pamela Paul – and how the arguments seen in those texts are perfectly reflected in the statehouse hearings in red states.