Category: Anger
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: For many their wallets run dry long before the needs do
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Scottie’s world today
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The roundup is short and late today because my blood sugar went uncontrolled and I was in bed in bad shape most of the day. Ron started talking at 2:30 PM of either calling my doctor or taking me to the E.R. I nixed both options for having something to eat. Story below.
I have been having trouble with my blood sugar coming down in the morning when I get up. It has been around 190 to 225 when I get up this last week. No idea why, my diet has not changed. It has been climbing for a month from my normal morning reading of 120 to 130 to the 160’s and 180’s. This morning it was 244. All week I would take my medications and every hour check my blood sugar again. Until this morning with in two hours it would be back to normal. This morning it did not come down but instead went up.
One hour after getting up it was 258. The next hour it started to come down. It went to 181 and then at 8 AM it hit 133. I figured everything was fine and back to normal. I was wrong. I had breakfast while Ron was shopping at Walmart because I don’t go there. He was going to come home and I was going out with him to the local two grocery stores. Only when he got home I was in trouble. I was diaphoretic, dizzy, confused, tired. Ron did a blood sugar and I was near 300. He gave me some medications, as much water as I would take and I went to bed. He kept checking me. I woke up around noon, checked the blood sugar and it was still in the low 200’s. It was coming down but too slowly. I went back to bed.
At 2:30 it was back to about 150. Ron still wanted to call my doctor but I said let me eat first and then I will. He fixed me a salad and steak, no carbs to speak of, and none of the ones I wanted. After I ate I again got diaphoretic, shaking, dizzy, nausea. We checked my blood sugar and I was down to 80. I was crashing, my blood sugar was going down too fast too far. Ron was looking for the glucose tablets when I grabbed a MT Dew in the fridge and downed it. Then I followed it up with a few cookies. Not smart. Yes it brought my sugar back up and I started to feel great, then my sugar went to high and I got real tired. So I went back to bed. I just got up at 5:30 PM and I am still tried. I wanted to post what I had gotten done on the roundup, then I am going back to bed I think.
Don’t worry Ron will be perched over my shoulder for the next three days watching everything I put in my mouth. He will want blood sugars if I even look slightly wrong. He has already read me the riot act and told me repeatedly everything I did wrong, repeatedly. And then did it again to make one of us feel better. So that was my day, how was yours? Hugs
Where at least three people are known / charged with voting multiple times for tRump. Hugs
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
Oh dear me, the cartoonist giggling so hard at Biden’s approval numbers, claiming they are so bad fail to remember their cult leaders approval numbers on the same day in his presidency were worse than Biden’s. The approval numbers for tRump were 36.4 and for Biden were 43.8 on day 330 of their terms. In case you can not count, that means Biden is more popular than tRump was. So if it is bad for Biden then it was worse for tRump. Hugs https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-approval-rating/
When is some other country going to come over here and solve our problems? I didn’t see anyone stepping in to stop trump or the republican terrorist attacks. Where is the UN? Where has the idea of the US as the world police gotten us? A huge bloated military budget and our own problems at home not addressed. It is time to realize the rest of the world are entitled to make their own choices and they don’t have to do what we tell them nor follow our doctrines. The US is the busybody of the world. Time for us to stop and mind our own business. Hugs
The Build Back Better bill was paid for and the original CBO score based on the bill showed that. No debt. Manchin had said he wouldn’t vote for it if it added to the debt. The Republicans couldn’t use this real score to sink the bill as it was showing the bill paid for. So they demanded the CBO do another score, one that they set the parameters, the rules for. For the new score they added a bunch of things not in the bill to what they wanted scored. That added a bunch of debt. So dishonest. It is like you going to the store with a budget and staying to the budget but at the check out I add a bunch more stuff in your cart you did not plan to buy and then I use that to claim you were over budget. I busted your budget and then use that to claim you shouldn’t get any of the stuff you planned for in the first place. Hugs
A trillion dollar millstone around the necks of young adults. Civilized nations make it possible for everyone to access affordable higher education, because it is considered a right and beneficial to society as a whole, not an opportunity to make big bucks on the backs of struggling students. Hugs
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Trump Supporters DUMBFOUNDED By Vaccine Facts
DeSantis introduces Stop W.O.K.E. Act in new stand against critical race theory in schools
https://www.wesh.com/article/gov-desantis-to-speak-from-sumter-county-wednesday/38524313#
Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke Wednesday fr0m Wildwood in Sumter County.
DeSantis said he is “taking a stand against critical race theory in our schools and in the workplace by calling for the enactment of the Stop W.O.K.E. Act.”
He said he was introducing a new piece of legislation: “Stop Wrongs Against Our Kids and Employees Act.”
“With the rise of this woke ideology is an attempt to really delegitimize our history and to delegitimize our institutions,” said DeSantis. “I view the wokeness as a form of cultural Marxism.”
The Governor said his goal is to block activism like critical race theory from classrooms and workplaces. The Florida Department of Education already banned CRT from K-12 public schools last summer at the Governor’s direction. This new proposal would codify that that ban into state law.
What exactly is critical race theory?
“The easiest way to understand it is that it teaches you to understand your state institutions: the Department of Education, the Department of Corrections, from the perspective of race,” said Dr. Eric Smaw.
Smaw is a philosophy professor at Rollins College and teaches CRT.
“The best analogy is to think about it in terms of gender studies,” he said.
According to the Associated Press, critical race theory is a way of thinking about America’s history through the lens of racism. Scholars developed it during the 1970s and 1980s in response to what they viewed as a lack of racial progress following the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. It centers on the idea that racism is systemic in the nation’s institutions and that they function to maintain the dominance of white people in society.
When CRT was banned in classrooms this summer, all Central Florida school districts told WESH 2 News that they don’t teach critical race theory anyway.
Regardless, the governor has continued to wage a war against the teaching of critical race theory.
“Our legislation will defend any money for K-12 going to CRT consultants,” the governor said. “No taxpayer dollars should be used to teach our kids to hate our country or hate each other.”
DeSantis said the Stop W.O.K.E. Act will give parents “private right of action” to sue if they think their kids are being taught critical race theory. It will also allow parents to collect attorneys fees if they are successful in their suit.
The governor said the rise of “woke ideology” is an attempt to erase the country’s history, referencing the removal of statues in recent years.
“They want to tear at the fabric of our society and our culture,” he said. “They want to delegitimize the founding of the country and the constitution.”
The governor said critical race theory violates Florida standards. He also claimed that people are making a fortune on teaching CRT to schools and businesses.
He said the term “equity” is used to mask CRT and is used by people to “smuggle in their ideology.”
But Aston Mack, a Black Lives Matter activist and founder of Orlando Freedom Fighters, said the Governor’s new proposal poses dire consequences.
“Quite frankly, it’s going to grow up with a lot of black and brown kids disenfranchised for not knowing their history, not having a connection with the past and allowing these repeated patterns and cycles of racism to disproportionately affect them,” Mack said.
The Governor said the legislation would also protect employees from any CRT training at work, though it is unclear how the state will block it from the office.
Mack said this stop sign to CRT is a green light for others.
“It makes those that are already predisposed to racism, so the white nationalists, the KKK members, all of the Neo Nazis, all of them see this as, ‘OK, Florida the place to go.’ That’s where we’re going to be, ” he said. “And that makes our fight tougher because I know I’m going to see them on the street more often.”
Wes Hodge, the chairman of the Orange County Democratic Party said DeSantis’ platform on schools is all politics.
“It’s 100% about getting the Governor into the White House,” Hodge said.
Hodge said that the Governor is staking his claim in the nation’s new political battleground: the classroom.
“This is 100% trying to rally that far right base to get behind him for not only 2022 reelection, but nationwide for a 2024 presidential run,” he said.
While the Governor said he is protecting parents’ rights and workers, Hodge said the anti-CRT proposal is a scare tactic.
“We need to make sure that people realize that they’re being played emotionally to get them to come out to the polls and vote,” he said.
Governor DeSantis said the Stop W.O.K.E. Act will be introduced when the legislature reconvenes next month.
Why does the US turn a blind eye to Israel’s expansion of Squatter-Settlements on Palestinian Land?
https://www.juancole.com/2021/12/expansion-settlements-palestinian.html
Israeli media have been pointing out that the Biden administration in Washington is not too bothered about the occupation state’s illegal settlement expansion. There is little reason to doubt the veracity of the claim. So far, US President Joe Biden has managed to maintain a fine balance between his agenda in favour of the two-state compromise, and his predecessor’s legacy which promotes Israel’s annexation of more Palestinian land.
As long as Biden adheres to the international consensus about the two-state compromise, all he has to do is issue periodic condemnations and look the other way, turning the proverbial blind eye to Israeli settlement expansion. After all, that is what the UN has been doing ever since it recognised Israel’s colonial existence.
“We strongly oppose the expansion of settlements, which is completely inconsistent with efforts to lower tensions and to ensure calm, and damages the prospects for a two-state solution,” said US State Department spokesman Ned Price in October.
This perpetual “concern” can be seen from this statement as saving and perpetuating the rhetoric of two-state diplomacy. Settlements are not opposed because of the dispossession of the Palestinians from their land; that consequence has already been cloistered within the humanitarian agenda. The international community bases its relevance to the issue upon two-state politics, as does the US. Hence the tactic of opposing just one fragment of the entire series of repercussions as a result of settlement expansion and de-facto annexation. Whenever the two-state compromise is mentioned, the Palestinian people rarely feature. It is safe, therefore, to state that the paradigm does not exist to grant Palestinians their rights, but to maintain international interference so that the Palestinians are forever unable to claim their legitimate rights to their land.
Last week, Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz reiterated the Biden administration’s rigmarole. Speaking to reporters in Washington, Gantz said that US officials do not criticise settlement expansion with the same fervour that they speak about the two-state compromise. The US, Gantz said, is concerned mostly with “maintaining a political horizon between us and the Palestinians open, and about not creating a reality that blocks such a horizon from developing.”
Even more telling was Gantz’s statement that that there are “lots of differences between what the US and Israel view as a two-state solution.” Taking into account that the two-state compromise has been declared obsolete and remains relevant only within international diplomacy, any purported differences about which Gantz speaks are purely hypothetical.
If the US does not care about settlement expansion, why would it be concerned about how the two-state paradigm is applied, considering that it is no longer viable and Israel is well on its path to de-facto annexation in any case? If the US and Israel are on the same page when it comes to preserving the Palestinian Authority and its compromised politics (and “sacred” security coordination with the occupation state), there is little difference in terms of the ultimate aim that Israel is aiming for, which is complete control over all Palestinian territory. The US certainly doesn’t seek an alternative reality, not when it is so heavily invested in Israel. It is only that Biden has publicly aligned himself with international consensus, while Israel has been publicly rejecting any political negotiation for a solution, which gives Gantz any reason to claim political divergence with Washington.
The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Monitor or Informed Comment.
Thanks to Homeless on the High Desert at https://homelessonthehighdesert.com/2021/12/15/tilting-windmills/ for the link. There are other good links in the post at the link. Hugs
Arizona Hospitals Warn They May Have To Triage Care
https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-health-arizona-c1b3db28b716c388035ac1e344243717
Banner Health warns Arizona hospitals stretched to limit
Phoenix-based Banner Health is at its most overwhelmed since the pandemic began, leading the company’s officials to issue a warning Tuesday that its hospital system may have to eventually choose who can receive care.
Some of Banner’s hospitals in one of Arizona’s largest health care systems are operating above 100% capacity, said Dr. Marjorie Bessel, the company’s chief clinical officer.
COVID-19 hospitalizations make up one-third of Banner’s hospital patients but there is also an extremely high volume of patients who delayed preventative care or are in the late stages of an illness, she said.
The company has 18 hospitals in Arizona. As of Tuesday, 10 of them were running above 100% of their ICU staffed bed capacity. Five of them were operating 100% above staffed in-patient bed capacity, according to spokesman Corey Schubert.
“We are more stretched now than we have been since the start of the pandemic,” Bessel told reporters. “ICUs are where we are experiencing the most significant strain on our resources.”
Banner has had to postpone medical procedures, new patient visits and non-urgent appointments because of the intensive care unit needs.
Hospital professionals are prioritizing medically necessary surgeries like mastectomies and gall bladder removals. The hospital system — with assistance from over 2,600 travel nurses who travel around the country filling staffing needs — is trying to counter a hemorrhaging of Banner staff nurses who retired, left the field or took non-bedside jobs .
Banner’s modeling predicts that its number of Arizona hospital bed occupancies will escalate and peak in mid-January, Bessel added.
Nearly 90% of Banner patients undergoing treatment for COVID-19 are unvaccinated. Some days, the percentage of unvaccinated COVID-19 patients in intensive care has been 100%. Bessel reiterated that vaccinations were the key to reducing the burden on health care workers.
“My top ask of the community at this time is for all who are eligible to get vaccinated and your booster if you have not yet done so,” Bessel said. “This is the best way to prevent serious COVID illness that requires hospital-level care.”
Banner’s situation echoes other hospitals in the region. Dr. Michael White, of Phoenix-based Valleywise Health, said staff are reporting the same number of COVID-19 infected patients as a year ago. White had hoped that vaccinations would have translated into fewer hospitalizations.
Hospitalizations across the state for COVID-19 overall inched up Tuesday from a day earlier to 2,764 patients as of Monday, according to the Arizona state health department’s coronavirus dashboard.
The dashboard also reported 2,168 additional cases and 203 deaths. Most of the fatalities stemmed from inspection of death certificates going back several weeks.
Since the pandemic started, the state has reported 1,320,748 confirmed coronavirus infection cases and 23,243 COVID-19 deaths.
The delta variant continues to make up the majority of infections. However, Maricopa County Department of Public Health officials said Monday that they identified the newer omicron variant in six people in metro Phoenix.
Tuesday marked a year since COVID-19 vaccines first arrived in Arizona, according to the Department of Health Services.
So far, more than 4.5 million people in Arizona — or 63.8% of the state’s population — have received at least one dose of a vaccine. Over 3.9 million have been fully vaccinated. Of the state’s vaccine-eligible population, 67.8% have received at least one dose.
Public health officials have said that unvaccinated people are 15.2 times more likely to die than those who are fully vaccinated for COVID-19.
Daily cartoon / meme roundup: It is not free stuff, it is using government to serve the people, help the public. The people today have a lower standard of living since the New Deal.
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https://twitter.com/imillhiser/status/1470882713888788480?s=20
https://truth-has-a-liberal-bias.tumblr.com/post/670587423673237504
But, but, but …it was antifa. The entire operation was Trump, the Republican Party, and FOX. They all knew. They all lied afterwards.
Republicans want a Civil War, based on lies and conspiracies, based on promises they will never deliver, just to retain power and destroy elections/democracy. Their violence is premeditated. Their base is incapable of independent thought. The losers have united. Instead of owning their growing defeats, they invent excuses. They blame others.
They knew they were guilty. Then they invented an enemy to blame it on. Republican/FOX fascism, writ large.
They knew. They lied. The Right want their ‘lone wolves’ to attack progressives using FOX propaganda.
Hannity, Ingraham, and Kilmeade think their viewers are worthless. They lie to their faces.
https://twitter.com/GBBranstetter/status/1470377979175968768?s=20
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Misleading right wing media cartoons / memes
The funny thing about the right attack Biden on crime is that the left attacks Biden for being to strict on crime and punishment. Have all the right forgotten the 1994 crime bill sponsored by Biden that led to a jump in mass incarceration. Biden is historically pro-police, pro-prison, pro-hammer down law and order. However turning the US into a police state wont solve the crime problem. Crime may be rising now but is still less than it has been even in the last decade. Crime has been falling steadily. But there are some who stand to gain by turning the US into a police state. Resist their fear mongering. We can do better, again look at other countries, they solve crime problems with out locking up large segments of the population in prisons designed to be punitive and in inhumane. Hugs
The right likes to call any coverage of the Coronavirus hysterical because they work for the profit of big money. A virus that has killed over 800,000 people in less than 2 years and 1% of people over 65 in the country. Think of that. Why would anyone want to ignore that, because it cuts into profit. If you have take precautions it costs profits. So the right wing makes it seem the virus is no problem at all and any one who wants to fight the virus is wrong. Hugs
Maybe if police were not busy oppressing minorities with the Republicans endless war on drugs they would have time to focus on petty theft. Crime rates in GOP cities are the same as those in Democrat led cities. Crime rates in cities that increased police funding showed increases in crime. By pushing this false Fox News inspired narrative, you ignore the true roots and causes of crime. Typical GOP-posturing. Hugs
I’m not sure of the point. Kentucky officials and citizens have been highly complimentary about the federal response to the disaster. And the Biden admin has been begging people to get booster shots. What is Mr. Lester’s beef? Sen. McConnell went as far to praise the speed and effort the President has made in response to the disaster. No mention was made or Covid-19 vaccinations. Hugs
Again the right wing projects. Blame Biden they shout for taking away something Biden worked hard to give you and the Republicans fought every attempt to keep you having. It is extended in the build back better plan that Manchin, Sinema, and the Republicans are fighting to keep from ever becoming law. This is misdirection in hopes of making the people angry at someone trying to help them by the person trying to hurt them. Hugs
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No Zuckerberg is the ET. This reminds me of the twilight zone episode where everyone on a bus stopped at a diner in a snow storm. They were scared a escaped prisoner was mixed in with them. After they all got back on the bus and the bus crashed killing everyone one guy returned to the diner where he announced he was from Mars and they were going to invade, but the cook in the diner laughed and told him too late as he was from Venus and they were already to invade. Hugs
Is Jim Jordan Planning To Kill Us All?
More Florida Trump Cultists Arrested For Voter Fraud
Ron DeSantis continues to threaten to send undocumented immigrants to Delaware
Ron DeSantis continues to threaten to send undocumented immigrants to Delaware
The Governor shied away from questions about 2024 in this segment.Gov. Ron DeSantis continued Monday to float ideas about where he might send undocumented immigrants if the federal government sent them to Florida.
The Governor made his threats on the “Ingraham Angle,” again asserting the state’s position that they should be sent to other places.
DeSantis is putting his money where his mouth is: his proposed budget includes an $8 million allocation for relocating the undocumented.
“Our view is that if they’re going to be dumping, we want to be able to facilitate transfer to places like Delaware. And so we have $8 million in my new budget to be able to do that,” DeSantis said.
This line about Delaware, the home state of President Joe Biden, has been used before.
“If you sent (them) to Delaware or Martha’s Vineyard, that border would be secured the next day,” DeSantis said last week in Jacksonville when unveiling a series of proposals designed to address undocumented immigrants being transferred to Florida.
During the interview, DeSantis sounded as if the flights were still going on, even though he had said weeks back that the migrant flights had ceased.
“Well, actually the Biden administration puts people on planes and flies them into Florida in the wee hours of the morning,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis denounced contractors who may have been part of the flights last spring and summer, saying that Biden’s border policies were “effectively a human smuggling operation.”
Among the proposals DeSantis is advancing is a prohibition of state business with those contractors, as well as potential restitution for money made shipping these people.
DeSantis avoided taking some of Ingraham’s bait.
He sidestepped a question framing his policy push as motivated by 2024 concerns, and also redirected a question about a Washington Post op-ed accusing him of “paving his path to the White House on the backs of vulnerable immigrant children.”
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