I blog for the same reason I think some times. It is an itch I just have to blog to scratch. Hugs. Scottie
As I have written about before this is simply a move by Christian nationalists in the military and government to force everyone to conform to their religious beliefs and desires. This is again to return to the 1950s when it was normal for Christianity to seem like the dominant religion of the majority of people in the country. The reasons stated make so sense for the purpose claimed as Belle points out. This is a minority fundamentalist / evangelical believers trying to force their rule and beliefs onto the majority. Hugs
Sam and crew go over Graham Platner’s win and his interview with Mika Brzezinski Scarborough on Morning Joe. Amoung the jokes about her interview they go over his acceptance speech. I am personally satisfied he has answered all the questions. I love his line “… if you give me the chance I will be a senator for the people who cannot afford to buy a senator”. I am a progressive and a believer in DSA policies. Graham Platner is not the perfect person who is flawless and unlike many his flaws are out in the open, not hidden behind a facade of fake religious politeness. He is a populist. I am not looking for religious leaders in our lawmakers, I am not expecting someone who walked blamelessly through life, that they way only one person did and his name was Jesus. I am looking for someone whose policies help the lower incomes and the public at large, not the privileged few. I am looking for a congress and White House filled with people who do not think elected office is their golden ticket to personal wealth and authority over others. Real people screw up and those that ask and work for a second chance should be given a chance to show they deserve it. In my opinion Platner has and does shown he deserves his forgiveness. Plus people look at Graham’s past are not looking at Collin’s past or even Mika who started dating Joe when he was still married. To me a lot of these people going on about Platner’s past seem to hold him to a different standard than they themselves are held or republican canidates are held. Hugs.
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For me it is self harm. The constant pain my body is in and painful memories want me to cause the pain I can control, which releases endorphins, causing temporary easing of the mental torture I feel all the time now. But I don’t, and I won’t. Not now, not this minute, not this hour, not this day, not … as long as I can say not. I promised Randy back in 2014 I wouldn’t start doing it without telling him first. I have held to that promise. Hugs. Scottie
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Ukranian soldiers advancing. That cat looks like it will personally take care of Putin as soon as the word is given.
For me the interesting part of the story is not the jerk politician that can’t even answer questions nor find a good reason not to but the fact that the republicans are again attack the social safety net that a majority of lower incomes depend on for survival. The social security amount most get is not enough for more than a basic subsistence living with no real quaility of life. It is a hame and injustice that the wealthy refuse to pay their share of the tax which would fully fund it and instead want the little that the people get cut so that they can have more wealthy they don’t need and will only back to increase their over the top wealth. Hugs
Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie
They predetermine a crime because it fits their narrative and then they go looking for evidence of wrong doing. Even asking people to make it up so they have an excuse to create an investigation. They want the public to get used to the idea that only republicans win elections and any democratic win is fraud or election rigging. They want to normalize minority one party rule in the US to facilitate the authoritarian fascist take over. Hugs.
Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie
I am at the allergist waiting after my shots. I had posted something about the take over of CBS by a right wing billionaire who has installed a person to make sure that all stories reported on have a positive bias towards tRump and the administration or pushes their talking points. It is not a news source anymore it is a media arm of the tRump political machine formerly know as the Republican political party. Hugs
Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie
At a D-Day celebration, Secretary of Defense Pete Kegseth claimed that today a different dangerous ideology is storming the beaches of European countries, and he listed them. Kegseth is a die hard white supremacist Christian nationalist who is trying to enforce a Christianity only policy in the US military to the point military members can no longer have atheists on their dog tags. So aside from Kegseth implying the Allies had a dangerous ideology which I guess the Nazis would have agreed with as Sam and crew discuss, the dangerous ideology he is demanding Europe stop and repel is Islam and the dangerous men are Muslims. Hugs
Another sitting congress person who is bought and owned by Israel to the point where he is adamant that Israel was not breaking the Leahy law on the use of military weapons. How did we the people let so many of our congress people be owned by foreign governments? Oh yes it was citizens united. That was one of the SCOTUS rulings that made bribery legal because the majority of right wing justices on the courts were taking bribes from wealthy people. Hugs
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