Category: Food

What in the fuck is going on

How far the down in the gang thug chaos are the republicans wanting to go?  Attacking the defenseless simply because they already have nothing and nowhere to go.   What happened to bettering society, making things better for everyone?  These people only want to make it great for them, the rest are for exploitation and amusement.  This country, the US, had a brief resurgence of enlightenment and now in the last 8 years, especially the last 3, the right wants to tear it all down, destroy anything good or enlightened in the country.   They mock decency and act like they are superior for being cruel.   I am at a loss these days what is driving these people.   I have seen them before, in my childhood.  I thought they were going extinct, yet here they are within inches of full power over everything.   Hugs.  Scottie

The bill would at the same time enhance penalties for drug use (specifically fentanyl, as it is their go-to talking point at the moment), and making it a felony to run away from the police…

Just anything that is observed among those whose living situation is so desperate, and basically saying it is illegal for anyone from a minority community to be fed up with this shit..

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Also, considering the rate of LGBT+ homelessness compared to the general population. 5% of the youth population in general, yet accounting for 25% of homeless youth. I consider the Bill to be specifically targeted at LGBT+ people.

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Considering the above. Some bigoted parents could disown their kid, kill them, and claim it was homeless trespass?

Gay couple sells restaurant after enduring years of torture from MAGA neighbors

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/01/gay-couple-sells-restaurant-after-enduring-years-of-torture-from-maga-neighbors/

Notice that the gay couple were there first.  But you know how tolerant and easy to get along with maga Christians are … only if they get their own way all the time.  Otherwise they are violent self entitled gang thugs who can not be talked to, reasoned with, coexisted with.  Look how tolerant these people are of LGBTQIA kids and people who are a different non-white skin tone, that is how they want communities and businesses to be run also, totally intolerant and aggressively unaccepting demands they be removed from the public.   Hugs.  Scottie.  

A slew of dirty tricks marked the MAGA family’s reign of terror, and the couple couldn’t take it anymore.
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Gay couple sells restaurant after enduring years of torture from MAGA neighbors
The Front Porch Market and Grill in The Plains, VAPhoto: Screenshot DMV Adventures

Gay restaurant owners William Waybourn and Craig Spaulding have hung up their aprons.

The longtime married couple have sold the restaurant they founded several years ago, the Front Porch Market and Grill in The Plains, VA. The new owner will change the name and try to make a fresh start with the restaurant’s combative Christian and MAGA-loving neighbors, Mike and Melissa Washer, who did their best to drive the gays next door out of business — and succeeded.

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MAGA couple caught throwing rat in gay-owned restaurant’s property as part of a long war

They’re trying to get their gay neighbors’ restaurant closed by any means possible.

“In the end, the decision was easier to make than I expected,” Waybourn told The Washington Post, which detailed the years-long feud — instigated by the Washers not long after they moved into the neighboring property — last July.

News of the Christian couple’s dirty tricks and clinical obsession with making their neighbors’ lives miserable brought Waybourne and his husband support from around the world.

“On some level, I know I am disappointing many people, especially those who have stood by us these past three years, many of whom I have never met from places I’ve never heard of,” Waybourn explained.

But he said he knows that for his own health and well-being, and for his adopted town’s, he needed to step away from the toxic environment that the MAGA-loving Washers had created.

For the longtime gay rights activist, who proudly flew a rainbow flag from the restaurant’s porch since it opened, there was no compromising with people who planted a rat by his back door and then shared a picture of it with the local health department. Incessant complaints over garbage, deliveries, parking, noise, Covid mandates, permitting, no-trespassing orders on both sides, and a lawsuit followed.

Restaurant employees reported Mike Washer had called the owners “f****ts”.

The Washers were MAGA bullies, and there was no stopping them.

Last summer, Waybourn was knocked back with a mild stroke, revealing the toll the Washers’ campaign was exacting.

For a few months after that, things quieted down.

But in November, after the Washers’ son was elected to the Board of Supervisors, a fresh round of harassment came The Front Porch’s way. The restaurant’s so-called Christian MAGA oppressors were relentless.

“My presence became so personal with the Washers that removing myself would give the new owner and the restaurant a fresh start,” Waybourn concluded.

The couple sold the Front Porch at the end of December.

Waybourn describes the restaurant’s new owner, chef and restaurateur Shawn Malone, as “very laid-back.”

Malone has a five-year lease on the building from Waybourn and Spaulding, with an option to buy. Plans are for the new business to open in February under the name Bistro at the Porch. 

Waybourn hopes Malone can set the restaurant — and the relationship with his neighbors — on a new course. “I don’t think he’s going to personalize the Washers’ antics as much as I have.”

“I just can’t continue to have the emotional turmoil of owning a business that I can’t enjoy,” Waybourn said.

Netanyahu Spits In Biden’s Face With Latest Comments

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just said the quiet part out loud, in complete rejection of what the Biden administration has been trying to accomplish while at the same time taking all the money & aid the U.S. has been providing.

War in Gaza takes heavy toll on children

By my dogs that love gravy … damn, damn, damn, fucking bastards, goddamn swear word swear word.   I can not even think of enough vile words to say about this.  This is a sickening example of how the Israeli government see the Palestinians, including children.   I watched a video this morning of an Israeli government official justifying this mass slaughter and genocide saying they were not causing it, Hamas was.  They hit us (why because we were mistreating their people) hurting / killing 1,200 hundred of our so we can kill over 23,000 of them 10,000 of them confirmed children, and force the others to live in worse conditions than abandon animals.  Oh, and Israel took over a university / school system in Gaza, used it as their headquarters, “interrogated” Palestinians there, then proudly blew it all up, so no Palestinian could come back and someday be educated there.   That is a war crime.   All of this is.  

13 year old children trying to be the parents of 7 siblings because their parents are dead, with only other refuges to help.  They have nothing, and Israel gloats over this.  I am angry.  Hugs.   Scottie

 

As Israel presses on against Hamas in Gaza, children there are facing growing misery. Richard Engel reports on a 13-year-old who is now raising his seven siblings after his parents were likely killed.

Apartheid is alive and well in the land. A Comment by Suze Hartline

I am way behind in reading and replying to comments.   But I am supper glad I saved them for getting to when I could.   This comment from Suze is outstanding.  I will first post the link she left it on, then her comment.   Hugs.  Scottie

NBC NEWS: WATCH: Kids sell food and drink on the streets of Rafah to help support families

SUZE HARTLINE
I have visited Palestine twice….both in the early 2000’s. Kids were on the streets of Ramallah and Raffa everyday selling whatever they could for tourists spare change. I bought street food (falafel) for about ten kids one day…garnered a LOT of interest from Israeli police who seemed to think it was a strange activity. Those kids watched out for me though and led me to some truly wonderful shops where I could easily bargain. I made it a priority to purchase food every day in a Palestinian area to bring back to my hostel or hotel. On my last day in Rafah I was saying goodbye to a few kids and a funeral procession started down the street. One of the kids, a boy of about six, grabbed my hand and pulled me into a shop. I asked if he was okay and he said “missy, you stay off street, men are angry. I keep you safe” That little boy, if he has survived is a man now and I wonder about him every day. I get that Israel is all about their “homeland” but frankly it is the Arabs homeland too and they are treated like fourth class citizens. Apartheid is alive and well in the land.

No end in sight as Israel-Hamas war hits 100-day mark

Media call this a war.  It is not.  It is a slaughter, it is a state-driven terrorism with the goal of genocide, against a people with no air force or anti-missile technology to help them.  They are sitting ducks in a pen, nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, no way to fight back.  The Gaza civilians, women and children are not Hamas, they have no weapons to fight with.  All they can do is suffer and die.   Israel tries to justify it saying they were attacked, Hamas started.  One boy hits another boy doesn’t give the struck boy the right to kill the other boy’s entire family and neighborhood.  Israel lies about allowing food and other aid into Gaza because it is about causing as much hurt, pain, and destruction as possible.  The Israeli government think they are above any attempts to stop them and have the right to do what ever they want to anyone they like.   We need to show them they are wrong.   Hugs.  Scottie 

With the Israel-Hamas war entering its 100th day, there is growing international concern about the increasing civilian death toll in Gaza as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vows to continue the assault. Meanwhile, vigils were held in Israel in support of those who remain held hostage in Gaza. Charlie D’Agata reports.

100 days of Israel-Hamas war: AP looks at conflict’s impact on the region

Over 23,000 Palestinians dead, about 11,000 are children, most of the rest are women.  There are an estimated 2 million people homeless and displaced, with no shelter or food in the winter cold and rain.  Israel said it won’t stop, it says it will continue what it is doing all through 2024.  Their plan is for an incredible dense small area reservation tightly controlled by Israel, which hopes to force the Palestinians to become so desperate they will either overwhelm the Egyptian border or die off and leaving until there are no Palestinians left.  Israel has said they are working to force deport the all Palestinians from Gaza and the West bank.  This is a land grab genocide by Israel.   Different officials in the government admit it.  Bibi brags about knifing the US in the back as he has demanded more money, he laughs as he claims he prevented any attempt to form a two-state solution.  He is as racist against Palestinians as republicans are toward brown people.  Hugs.  Scottie

Now 100 days old, the latest Israel-Hamas war is by far the longest, bloodiest, and most destructive conflict between the bitter enemies.

Gov. Abbott says Texas isn’t shooting migrants because Biden ‘would charge us with murder’

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/abbott-migrants-shooting-remark-18603280.php

The law he touts that would allow local police to arrest people they “think” are not here legally and a local judge gets to order their immediate removal.   Guess what that means in reality?  Arrest all brown people, charge them, quickly send them to Mexico at gun point … learn later they were here legally, or maybe even citizens.   Ah who cares, they republican leaders get their nice white straight cis ethnostate where they are complete rulers over how people live.   Hugs.  Scottie.

The third-term Republican responded that the state is using “every tool that can be used, from building a border wall to building these border barriers.” He also touted the new Texas law empowering state officials to remove people from the U.S. who they suspect of being in the country illegally. 

“… the new deportation law, which is set to take effect in March and threatens to upend longstanding precedent leaving immigration enforcement solely to the federal government. The law would allow any law enforcement officer in Texas to arrest migrants accused of unlawfully entering the state from Mexico and empower judges to order their removal”. 

By Benjamin Wermund,Washington Bureau
 
 
 
 
Department of Public Safety troopers stand guard over migrants in a detention area Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass as a surge of migrants push across the border.

Department of Public Safety troopers stand guard over migrants in a detention area Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2023, in Eagle Pass as a surge of migrants push across the border.

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WASHINGTON — Gov. Greg Abbott says Texas is doing everything to stop border crossings short of shooting migrants because the Biden administration would “charge us with murder.”

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“We are deploying every tool and strategy that we possibly can,” the governor said in an interview with conservative commentator Dana Loesch. “The only thing that we’re not doing is we’re not shooting people who come across the border because of course the Biden administration would charge us with murder.”

The comments came during an appearance on Loesch’s show last week in which Abbott was asked what he believed was the “maximum amount of pressure” he could implement to secure the border.

The third-term Republican responded that the state is using “every tool that can be used, from building a border wall to building these border barriers.” He also touted the new Texas law empowering state officials to remove people from the U.S. who they suspect of being in the country illegally. 

READ MORE: Gov. Greg Abbott responds as NYC adds restrictions on buses bearing migrants from Texas

The clip was aired on Loesch’s program again Thursday without the line about shooting migrants. A version of the audio was also posted on social media by Heartland Signal, a progressive radio show based in Chicago. 

Abbott said Friday that he was asked to point out where he was drawing the line on what the state can legally do to secure the border.

“I pointed out something that is obviously illegal,” Abbott said. “It’s that simple.” 

The comments come as the Biden administration has sued the state to stop a slew of Abbott’s border security efforts, including the new deportation law, which is set to take effect in March and threatens to upend longstanding precedent leaving immigration enforcement solely to the federal government. The law would allow any law enforcement officer in Texas to arrest migrants accused of unlawfully entering the state from Mexico and empower judges to order their removal. 

Abbott also has strung miles of razor wire along the border and deployed a wall of buoys in the Rio Grande, which the Biden administration is also fighting to have removed in a separate court battle. 

But Abbott still has faced pressure from some conservatives to do more, and some in the GOP have called for the use of deadly force to stop suspected traffickers. Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged as much during a campaign stop in Texas last summer, saying those breaking through border barriers and displaying “hostile intent” should “end up stone-cold dead as a result of that bad decision.”

The Texas Department of Public Safety last month found no wrongdoing by agency officials after six troopers working for Abbott’s border security initiative alleged mistreatment of migrants last summer. 

The complaints included an email from a DPS medic describing “inhumane” treatment of migrants he witnessed while deployed in Eagle Pass. The email said troopers had been ordered to push small children and nursing babies back into the Rio Grande and told not to give water to asylum-seekers even in extreme heat. The agency’s inspector general found that most of the incidents raised by the troopers did happen, but concluded that DPS officials did not violate law or agency policy. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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By Benjamin Wermund
 

Benjamin Wermund is the Washington correspondent for the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News. He can be reached at ben.wermund@houstonchronicle.com. He covers the Texas delegation and the many ways the state and its leaders shape national politics and policy. He’s a Texas native and a diehard Spurs fan.

Texas Gov: We’d Shoot People Crossing The Border But Then The Biden Admin Would “Charge Us With Murder”
Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️3 days ago

That the Governor doesn’t consider murder a bad thing…
Should concern ALL Texans.

He trafficks humans w/out criminal liability…
He drowns humans w/out criminal liability…
He uses razor wires on humans w/out criminal liability…

Almost as if he’s above the law, himself.

Other Michael 3 days ago

So, no ethical or religious concerns over killing people struggling to survive, just don’t want to go to jail. Way to Christian there, Greg.

evanedwards3 days ago edited

People like Abbott are precisely the reason why laws exist. He has no moral compunction against murder, but luckily realizes it could land him in prison.

 

An update on Scotties life.

Like everyone, I always have the best of intentions.  I planned this weekend for getting to comments and putting away old saved tabs.  But fate and my memories get in the way.  And right now I hurt badly.  Not asking for sympathy, I just want to explain if I end up late on doing what I said I would.   

This last week I have fluctuating between active memories of my abuse including the feelings as it was happening, to being very depressed and not wanting to even get out of bed.  So I went from if I sleep having nightmares to not being willing / able to sleep to when sleeping not being willing to get out of bed to function.  Plus Friday I had my allergy shots, had a bad reaction had to take Benadryl, and while tearing my skin off went to bed early.  

This morning is an example.  I went to bed at 4 pm yesterday (remember having a bad allergy reaction and taking Benadryl)  telling Ron I wanted to get up at 6 pm.  But when he came to me then, I said I was not ready to get up.  He understood.  Since I opened up to him more about my abuse he understands some of the moods I have and me trying to hide in being distracted.  I woke at midnight but couldn’t bring my self to get up.  I laid there watching the clock, the thoughts in my head fighting with each other.  Some telling me to get up and do computer stuff, the other voices told me to stay in bed, ignore everything, maybe sleep.  A couple of times I did sleep for a few minutes until the dreams turned bad, and I woke up agitated.  Once Ron woke me asking if I was OK because I was having a bad dream about my abuse and verbalizing it.   At 2 am, I reminded my self of my promise to get up and work on comments.   At 4 am, I told my self the outside cats needed to be fed and cared for.  Finally at about 5 something I forced my self out of bed but mostly because my stomach was hurting due to lack of food (something I knew all too well and was triggering on its own which caused its own bad feedback loop in my head.   As an adult in a restaurant I would order far more than I could eat, and it took Ron a long time to teach me how not to do that.  At home I would cook for far more people than the two of us could eat.  When Ron would cook I would fill my plate with far more than I could eat.   Only after I told him how I had been denied food, hospitalized and went clinically dead from being starved and was suffering malnutrition for long periods of my childhood did he understand.  If my grandfather had not grabbed me and taken me to the ER I would not be here.) and plus my bowels needing relief.  

I got up and was doing well, I feed and took care of cats, I did other chores and went to town on the computer stuff I needed to get done.  But yesterday the water was off for most of the day, so we didn’t wash the dishes from yesterday.  So about 10 am I started washing dishes, cleaning up the kitchen, and washing the more dishes.   Also pre-making the coffee for morning.  For some reason that whole thing took me until 2 pm!   During that I had to take extra medication, and now I am having a vodka cola drink.  

All this to say, I am going to concentrate on current comments while saving posts so that by morning they won’t disappear.  I will work as long as I can (Ron has already been asking me what I want for supper as he knows how tired I am and wants to make sure I eat before going to bed) doing the comments and will save those I don’t get to for tomorrow, which should be a slower day.  I saved all the comments from the last few days so if you left comments know I will answer them, I really love that you commented.  Thank you.   It just has been a struggle for a few months with my memories, emotions, and my body.   Hugs, loves, best wishes to all.   Scottie

15 Red States Say F*ck You To Hungry Poor Children

15 Red States Say F*ck You To Hungry Poor Children

What more can I say.  The republican dream, force poor women to carry every conception to full term / birth, but once born they ignore those same babies in poor families.  They wipe their hands of them, ignoring their needs.  They don’t want to give them medical care, food, schooling, and other “luxuries” but they do want to force them to be Christian.  They do believe in spending money to force schools to display Christian religious texts.  Yet they are desperate to remove any media supportive of anything not cis straight 1950s socially accepted, and to deny necessary, possibly lifesaving medical treatment for kids who have gender identity issues. Hugs.  Scottie

The Washington Post reports:

Moving beyond efforts to block expansion of health care for the poor and disabled, Republican governors in 15 states are now rejecting a new, federally funded summer program to give food assistance to hungry children. The program is expected to serve 21 million youngsters starting around June, providing $2.5 billion in relief across the country. The governors have given varying reasons for refusing to take part.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said she saw no need to add money to a program that helps food-insecure youths “when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.” Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) said bluntly, “I don’t believe in welfare.” Other states declining to participate are Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming.

Read the full article. 

 

 
Max-1 🔫+cult(R)=☠️a day ago

Pro-life now includes starving the children.

Southeast PDXer a day ago

Republicans have repeatedly shown voters their true colors, and yet those voters keep backing them. It boggles the mind. Especially when those same Republicans quote things like what’s attributed to their religion. Except they forget their Jesus preached about helping those in need. Because f*ck those people, right?

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  Southeast PDXera day ago

Jesus preached about helping those in need

Not White Republican Jesus.

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Stogiebear  Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊a day ago

“Suffer the little greenbacks to come unto me.”

Qntino773  Southeast PDXera day ago

Morally bankrupt Republicans are just setting up the deplorable conditions so their inbred wealthy donors have a cheap form of entertainment watching us all suffer.

Ruaidhrí Ó Domhnailla day ago

I’ll bet Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen (R) believes in Federal farm welfare.

Southeast PDXer  Ruaidhrí Ó Domhnailla day ago

You are correct! According to this website, PIllen Farms took out almost $1.4Million in PPP loans. It’s unknown if they were forgiven or not.

Todd20036 a day ago

How many of those affected parents will still vote red to make the libtards cry?

clay  Todd20036a day ago

How many of those affected parents won’t vote?

The_Wretched  claya day ago

A bunch as they are poor and have a differentially hard burden with travel, documents, staying registered and access to polls.

vap a day ago
Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said she saw no need to add money to a program that helps food-insecure youths “when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.”

 

It cost $2 million and you have a 1.8 billion surplus you ghoul.

BensNewLogin a day ago

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) said she saw no need to add money to a program that helps food-insecure youths “when childhood obesity has become an epidemic.”

it makes perfect sense when you understand that kids that don’t have enough to eat are fat.

Dazzer a day ago

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: There’s something in Conservative/Republican philosophy that viscerally hates children and young people.
They’re psychopathic in their determination to make life worse for young people.

Randy503  Dazzera day ago

Other people’s children, that is.

Todd20036  Randy503a day ago

If their own kids were LBGT, they’d throw their own kids out of the house too

It happens

Longpole  Dazzera day ago

Making sure all fetuses are born ensure their supply of torture entertainment.

Refugaya day ago

These Governors are all good Christians – at least they’ll be proud to tell you so.

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  Ed Meillera day ago

They’re the pro-forced birth party. Precious gifts until they’re born, then the little leeches are just a drain on the system. Why don’t they go out and get jobs?

Sarah a day ago

The party of “I got mine, fuck everyone else.”

Kelly Lape a day ago

How dare poor hungry kids think they deserve money that could be better used by the mega wealthy with more tax cuts.

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  Kelly Lapea day ago

Those private planes don’t buy themselves.

Ron Johnson a day ago

Todays GOP- Cruelty really is the point.

Jon  Lakeview Boba day ago

If they could figure out a way to personally profit from the program, they’d be in favor of it.