Category: Economics / Economy / Income / Financial
Let’s talk about a debt ceiling poll….
Republican: “There Are Upsides To Child Abuse Deaths”
“A Republican state lawmaker in Alaska stunned his colleagues this week by making the case for the potential economic benefits of fatal cases of child abuse. State Rep. David Eastman’s comments went viral after he spoke at a hearing concerning traumatic childhood experiences and how they affect the child over the course of their lives.”*
The two screens I have been trying to get to
Hello everyone. Here are the screenshots of the stories I want to read and then I have a story to tell everyone. Notice the open tabs. 
But what I really want to talk about it four days ago a woman I have done computer work for in the past. She knew I had pulled back from helping people during Covid but she had hired someone to help and things were worse and now she couldn’t even get online and her computer refused to respond to the keyboard. She said she did not know who to call and I said I would help. I went to her home and I got angry at the story she told me. She was being scammed. A couple years ago during Covid her old computer died and she wanted to just get an inexpensive computer to do her family genealogy hobby and a couple other things, but she really did not spend much time on it. The couple is in their 80s. The computer person sold her a really old poor laptop, A Toshiba Satellite L505D-S5983. I came with windows 7 so the computer person sold her windows 10 at a profit. Then the computer person set the computer up with an anti-virus. I looked up the company and it has a good reputation, but one thing I noticed was the product was sold as a business product so covered a lot of computers in your business setup. I noticed the price was reasonably low for that kind of deal but again the company had good reviews and ratings. When I was telling the woman this she asked me the price and I told her, a little over $33 dollars. From the look on her face I knew something was wrong. The computer person she had bought the computer from who set it up was charging her over $50 dollars for the security software. Also the woman paid a fee to the computer person so that if the computer had an issue the computer person would fix it but again a cost, a reduced cost because of the repair deal but still a cost. Then because of the problems the computer person let slip that they had remote access to the computer and complete control over it. The woman who called me was angry and upset, she did not want this and know what to do. She was being legally scammed which she stopped any business relationship with that computer person because if I couldn’t repair her computer she would replace it or just go without. I explained to her I could reset it and get her functions back while removing the remote control set up the other person had installed. I explain the computer had a small AMD dual core processer so was going to be easily over loaded and that was why after starting the keyboard seemed not to be working because the computer simple need a lot of time to get to the new commands. There was too much happening at start up that was set up by the other computer person and the remote software, plus the security software was set to do complete scans and do updates when the computer started taking all the resources. Yesterday Ron and I got the laptop and accessories she wanted me to fix. Before I connected it to my systems, I backed up the data on the computer to two different separate drives. After making sure it was backed up I reset windows still offline. That took all day yesterday. Then this morning I went through the settings and privacy of the system, and only when I was sure as I could be I connected it to my set up putting it online. I then reset windows from the cloud. The download was quick but the computer is stressing to install windows and is at 26% moving very slowly.
It makes me angry that people think nothing of taking advantage of older people who live in an old mobile home park just trying to have something when everything costs so much these days. I ask why someone would try to milk these people of their very few dollars. I told her I would do my best to take care of their computer needs like I did before Covid. But they have had enough and are selling their home. The hurricane Ian really frightened them. I am investigating if windows defender is a good option for a security system anti-virus software. Hugs
Let’s talk about divorce, nationally….
ONE OF THE BEST MOVIE INTROS OF ALL TIME – IDIOCRACY
Trans lawmaker calls out GOP hypocrisy on school sports in moving speech
Del. Danica Roem at a 2017 White House protestPhoto: Ted Eytan/via WikiOut transgender Virginia lawmaker Del. Danica Roem (D) shut down opponents of transgender students participating in school sports by calling out the hypocrisy of conservatives who say they want to protect girls’ sports.
“When we want to deal with the idea of how do we support women athletes, how about we show up to their games?” she said.
Roem was speaking against H.B. 1387, a Republican bill that would ban transgender students from participating in school sports as their authentic selves, effectively banning many of them from participating in school sports. Del. Karen Greenhalgh (R) said the bill is needed to “encourage” cisgender girls to participate in school sports.
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The news you care about, reported on by the people who care about you.“Similarly gifted and trained males will always have the physical advantage over females, which is the reason we have women’s sports,” she said, defending her bill.
Her rhetoric echoes that of Republicans across the country over the past several years: girls’ school sports need to be saved from transgender girls, and only transgender girls, not from a lack of interest from local communities, sexual predation, and harassment, or bullying girls face for participating in school sports.
Prominent Republican politicians have claimed to have saved girls’ sports, despite never showing any interest in girls’ or women’s sports except when they could attack transgender girls for wanting to participate.
Roem wasn’t having it.
“How about we pay them equally?” Roem said, calling out income inequality between women’s and men’s professional sports.
“How many times have any- any of you here gone to a girls’ basketball game followed by a boys’ basketball game where the girls’ game starts at 5 or 5:30 and the boys’ game starts at 7 or 7:30, and you saw the gym get packed right in the very end of the fourth quarter of the girls’ game because so many people were there excited for the boys’ game, regardless of how competitive, regardless of the skills, regardless of the rankings of the girls’ team?” Roem asked her colleagues.
“If we want to support female athletes, then show up to their games! Fight for equal pay for them! But at the same time, to beat up on trans kids because nine trans kids last year wanted to play sports, we’re now going to affect a policy for more than 1.2 million students?”
FRC Attacks Pope Over Call To Decriminalize Gay Sex
This is great. The short post details his upset and anger at a lot of religions being accepting of gay people. Many have come to the idea that the sin is the sex act not the person’s orientation, and some sects are allies and supportive of gay people and same sex relationships. But you see this interferes with their grift of raising money from bigots, mostly older religious people who are sure gays being allowed to exist in society will anger the god of all things to the point he will destroy or hurt the entire country including maybe them. If most churches catch up with the modern era, well the people won’t be told how bad and evil it is so they won’t give up their merger social security check or make the big donations these hate groups have come to depend on to keep them living well. Think of the fund raising pitches they have lost recently. They can not raise money on stopping abortion after the SCOTUS gave a completely religious ruling on the issue. They fund raised hard to stop same sex marriage before the congress and Biden signed into law the Respect for Marriage Act with every pitch saying they could stop it if you gave just another donation. But of course, they failed again. Now Brian Brown has another pitch about the gays he is pushing to grift more money. That is not to say these people are not dangerous and that they don’t still have a lot of inflance on the right with the republican leaders. Bigotry and fear raise a lot of cash and gets votes. And both the republicans and the fundamentalists / evangelical religious groups do want to wipe the LGBTQ+ out of society to install their religious doctrines into laws to regress the US society back to the past and keep it there. Simply put their comfort zones and what they can deal with is 70 or 80 years old, and their holy book is stuck in the deep past of 2,500 years ago. They can not accept the modern age when their all knowing god only knew what was accepted by a minority 2,500 years ago. Hugs.
