Month: May 2024

RepubliCON (BEST OF …This One Bears Repeating!) | Christopher Titus | Armageddon Update

An older one, but still spot on.  Hugs.  Scottie

Let’s talk about Trump’s primary performance polling problems….

2024 GOP Senate Primaries: Arron Kowalski – Candidate for U.S. Senate

Arron Kowalski is running against incumbent Sen. Deb Fischer in Nebraska’s GOP primary race for Senate.

Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center

A CNN investigation has uncovered the horrors of a shadowy detention facility where Palestinian prisoners are blindfolded, handcuffed and forced to wear dirty diapers. Watch Matthew Chance’s full report.

AFP NEWS: Fierce battles rage across Gaza as U.S. calls for postwar plan

Fierce battles rage across Gaza as U.S. calls for postwar plan
Israeli troops fought Hamas militants in multiple battles across the Gaza Strip, forcing new waves of Palestinian mass displacement, as Israel marked a sombre Independence Day on Tuesday.

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Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

We all have that little girl’s bloodstains on our fingers

Last Week in the Name of God …

I thank Ten Bears for this.  When I first heard of it I couldn’t find anything to post.  Then when I saw Ten Bears’ post, I was too tired and stunned to post it.  So I waited until I could deal with it.  Just like the food workers in the WCK clearly marked trucks with the Israeli military giving the OK for their route, the rescue people here had permission to go to the girl, then they were killed.  The reports from hospitals in Gaza witnesses said the IDF were targeting anyone in scrubs, the workers and medical people avoided being near a window and changed clothing before leaving the building.  Israel’s goal has long been the extermination of all Palestinians and any support group for them.  Any Palestinian male over 10 is considered Hamas by Israeli troops.  Finally Biden is doing something, but it is far too little and long too late.  Too late for all the dead Palestinian adults and all the dead Palestinian children.  I watched an Israeli spokesperson angrily complaining no one seemed to care about the 100+ soldiers they lost in this war, but he had no remorse for the more than 40,000 dead civilian Palestinians, claiming that there have been very few civil casualties, that they were all Hamas or civilian combatants.  Hugs.  Scottie

Louisiana moves to make abortion pills ‘controlled dangerous substances

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/13/abortion-pills-louisiana-controlled-substance/

You can not give into to these fundamentalist people.   They see any attempt to compromise with them as a chance to take even more rights away.  They are driven to return the country to a distant past where women had little to no rights.  A time when women were not even allowed a credit card in their own name, they had to have their husband or father’s permission or co-sign major purchases.  Doctors would talk to the husband about the wife’s medical problems instead of the woman.  They crave a return to when it was legal for a man to rape his wife, forcer her to please him sexually against her will.  The really see women as only house keepers, child birthing, child raising, and sex objects to please men.  Women are not people to them, women do not equal men in their world.   Sad.   But also these states no have the idea that because the president is a democrat their state doesn’t have to follow the laws and rules the administation makes.  Nope they have decided that red states are superior and above the federal government.   Never mind the constitution claims otherwise, these are republicans who claim to love the constitution yet violate it at will.   Hugs.  Scottie 

Someone possessing the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice could be prosecuted and sentenced to prison.

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May 13, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Mifepristone is one of the two drugs prescribed for medication abortions. Louisiana lawmakers are moving to put it, along with misoprostol, in the same category of drugs as opioids and depressants. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty images
 

Louisiana could become the first state in the country to categorize mifepristone and misoprostol — the drugs used to induce an abortion — as controlled dangerous substances, threatening incarceration and fines if an individual possesses the pills without a valid prescription or outside of professional practice.

 
 

Legislators in Baton Rouge added the provision as a last-minute amendment to a Senate bill that would criminalize an abortion if someone gives a pregnant woman the pills without her consent, a scenario of “coerced criminal abortion” that nearly occurred with one senator’s sister.

A pregnant woman obtaining the two drugs “for her own consumption” would not be at risk of prosecution. But, with the exception of a health-care practitioner, a person helping her get the pills would be.

 

Louisiana already bans both medication and surgical abortions except to save a patient’s life or because a pregnancy is “medically futile.” Lawmakers just rejected adding exceptions for teenagers under 17 who become pregnant through rape or incest.

 

The amendment would list mifepristone and misoprostol under the state’s Uniform Controlled Dangerous Substances Law, which regulates depressants, opioids and other drugs that can be highly addictive. It elicited a strong reaction from more than 240 Louisiana doctors, who called it “not scientifically based.”

“Adding a safe, medically indicated drug for miscarriage management … creates the false perception that these are dangerous drugs that require additional regulation,” they wrote in a letter sent last week to the bill’s sponsor, Republican Sen. Thomas Pressly. They noted misoprostol’s other critical uses, including to prevent gastrointestinal ulcers and to aid in labor and delivery.

 

“Given its historically poor maternal health outcomes, Louisiana should prioritize safe and evidence-based care for pregnant women,” they urged.

 

The amendment, written with guidance from Louisiana Right to Life, was added after the Senate unanimously passed S.B. 276 in mid-April. The measure is awaiting a final vote in the House before the session ends June 3, with little opposition expected.

“As Senator Pressly has stated, the medical community regularly uses controlled substances in a myriad of medical situations, including emergencies,” said Sarah Zagorski, communications director for the antiabortion organization. “The use of these drugs for legitimate health-care needs will still be available, just like all other controlled substances are still available for legitimate uses.”

 

The pending language appears to open yet another front in the country’s bitter battle over if and how women can obtain an abortion. Attempts to curtail medication abortions — which now constitute more than half of all abortions in the United States — are part of legislative agendas not just in deep-red Louisiana but in many Republican-controlled statehouses. And in March, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in a case brought against the Food and Drug Administration by a group of antiabortion doctors seeking to limit access to mifepristone.

 

Pressly did not respond to repeated requests for comment, but in a statement released by his office, he explained that he was seeking to “control the rampant illegal distribution of abortion-inducing drugs” in Louisiana. He said abortion medication “is frequently abused and is a risk to the health of citizens.” By including the drugs on the controlled-substances list, he added, “we will assist law enforcement in protecting vulnerable women and unborn babies.”

His connection to the issue is in part personal. During public testimony in April before the Senate Judiciary Committee, his sister recounted how her then-husband surreptitiously gave her an abortion drug in 2022 when he brought her breakfast for St. Patrick’s Day. They were separated, but Catherine Pressly Herringsaid she had learned she was pregnant with their third child and he had agreed to marriage counseling.

 

After she noticed him serving her “cloudy water,” she said she started having “intense cramping.” Doctors were able to stop the process so that the pregnancy could continue. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail. Under Pressly’s bill, a perpetrator would face a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $75,000 fine.

 

“Through our knowledge of other stories, and from the testimony of local centers in Louisiana caring for women in these situations, the abuse of abortion pills is not isolated to Herring’s situation,” Zagorski said Saturday. “It is very simple for a man to pose as a woman to order these pills online without a prescription, even for a minor, and then to pressure a woman to take the pills.”

While doctors say Herring’s experience is deeply troubling, they remain concerned that her brother’s proposed solution would make mifepristone and misoprostol even harder for Louisianans to get for reasons having nothing to do with abortion. Misoprostol is prescribed for treatment after a miscarriage, for example, and to help stop postpartum hemorrhage, one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in the state.

 

“To OB/GYNs, this is very worrisome,” said Neelima Sukhavasi, an OB/GYN in Baton Rouge and a fellow with Physicians for Reproductive Health. “There’s no one that would endorse what happened to his sister. But this is a safe medication that has many important lifesaving uses. It’s not addictive.”

 

Misoprostol is also taken to soften the cervix during labor, biopsies for cancer and placement of IUDs. Sukhavasi said she is concerned that Pressly wrote the amendment without consulting physicians or enforcement agencies.

Nimra Chowdhry, senior state legislative counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights, echoed those concerns but in harsher terms. She accused abortion opponents in Louisiana of misrepresenting the safety and efficacy of the two drugs — a manipulation “in pursuit of blocking people from care.”
 

This ultimately “turns back the clock on modern medicine,” she said.

Abby Ledoux, vice president of communications at Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, is worried about the “far-reaching” consequences because of the drugs’ other uses.

There are “real questions,” she said, “about what it would mean in practice to open the controlled-substances list like this, including what aspects of state law legislators think manufacturers would follow, even locally.”

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Emily Wax-Thibodeaux is a National staff writer who covers national news, with a focus on gender issues and social movements for the America desk. She is an award-winning former foreign correspondent who covered Africa and India for nearly a decade. Twitter

Meet the Bug You Didn’t Know You Were Eating | Deep Look

The cochineal is a tiny insect deeply rooted in the history of Oaxaca, Mexico. Female cochineals spend most of their lives with their heads buried in juicy cactus pads, eating and growing. After cochineals die, their legacy lives on in the brilliant red hue produced by their hemolymph. Dyes made from cochineal have been used in textiles, paintings, and even in your food!

OK, Democrats Have ONE Criminal! Bob Menendez Trial Set To Begin Today | Christopher Titus

Former Trump Aide Boasts Of Giving Counterfeit Bills To Homeless So That They Get Arrested When Using Them

Former Trump Aide Boasts Of Giving Counterfeit Bills To Homeless So That They Get Arrested When Using Them

No wonder tRump and this guy got along with each other.  He is a scumbag.  People with nothing he gives less then nothing to them, then claims it makes him feel good.  WTF.  This guy is a Project 2025 leader and they are all about taking the US back to 1840.  Hugs.  Scottie 

May 13, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump cultists

 

“So I always keep this fake Hollywood money in my car so when a homeless person asks for money, then I give him like a fake $5 bill, so I feel good about myself, they feel good. And then, when they go to use it, they get arrested so I’m actually like helping clean up the community. You know, getting them off the street.” – Former Trump aide and Project 2025 leader Johnny McEntee, in a TikTok video posted by the The Right Stuff, the MAGA dating app he founded in 2022. McEntee appeared here last week when he vowed that porn will banned during a second Trump term.

JoeMyGod Mod17 minutes ago

Watch the clip for the full smarmy boastfulness.

Dr. Pryor 17 minutes ago edited

He probably deducted the “donations” as a charitable expense

greenmanTN a day ago

If true, he’s guilty of passing counterfeit money and he just admitted it in a recording. I can’t imagine that he won’t be investigated by the Treasury Department or whatever body handles counterfeiting.

So either he’s lying to own the libs or he’s about to get to the “find out” stage of fucking around.

Dwight Williamson  greenmanTNa day ago

The Secret Service

unsavedheathen  Dwight Williamsona day ago

Formerly a department at DOJ, now under the umbrella of DHS.

Mow  greenmanTN21 hours ago edited

I can’t believe I’m gonna say this, so please forgive me.. film money is distinctly different than counterfiet money. It’s designed to avoid being considered counterfeit (it needs to be a percentage bigger or smaller so it *can’t* be legally considered counterfiet money and the artwork is slightly different). Countefeit money is designed to pass as the real thing; Hollywood money isn’t. That’s going to be his counter argument if he gets hauled up for this, I’d stake a good penny on.

Having said that, ths is unfathomably cruel. A store clerk or a police officer probably wouldn’t know the difference, so the poor person is going to suffer. If justice is real, whether he argues he’s handing out monopoly money, the intent is to cause harm, and he should have the book thrown at him.

*edit*

I just saw Doggy Daddy’s comment below, so thankfully it makes the first half of this moot.

ECarpenter  greenmanTN18 hours ago edited

These guys really don’t understand why the rest of us find their actions horrific. It’s not that they refuse to be empathetic with other humans – they can’t, it’s not possible for them.

It’s not a decision – they’re unable to understand what we mean by the words “cruel” or “heartless”. They hear the words – but they don’t mean the same thing to them. To them, “cruel” means “something the bleeding hearts don’t like”, not “this is a horrible thing to inflict on another person”.

Which is why we need to set up a gated and locked community for them, perhaps on a big chunk of federal land in the West, where only people who have no empathy live, and they can work it all out together. Send them food, let them get incoming internet, and leave them to it

Rex a day ago

Cruel – check
Mean Spirited – check
Cold Heated – check
Entitled – check
Evil – check

Checks all the MAGA boxes

Octoberfurst  Rexa day ago

It makes me wonder how many right- wing morons clicked like on his video?They probably thought that was a real knee-slapper. To me this ranks right up there with Governor Kristie Noem bragging about shooting her puppy.

Halou a day ago edited

If I remember correctly, George Floyd was summarily executed by police for, allegedly, passing a fake $20 bill.

So it is only fair this idiot gets equal treatment, no?

Just a doggie daddy 🐾🐾 🌈 a day ago

Lock him up!
“Can you go to jail for giving someone fake money?
Even a first-time counterfeiting charge can result in a misdemeanor or felony and some jail time. Prosecutors can charge individuals with forgery if they possess or use counterfeit items with the intent to defraud another person. It can be as simple as using fake money or as complex as counterfeiting an official seal.”