Some changes long past time due

As the title suggests I am making some changes to the way I deal with blogs I enjoy, comments, and email.  I have always signed on, quickly looked at the bell notifications, then got enough read / answered that if more poured in I wouldn’t miss too much.  Then I would do other things like email.  Often during this time or if I was not well I lost everything in the bell notification as it only allowed so many.  I was constantly missing comments, which in truth is more important to me than other things online.  Not sure why it has taken me to come to this change, except that if I am comfortable with something, I am the perfect frog in the pot of the hot water.  Now the water is hot enough I am forced to jump out of it.  

I love the blogs I follow, and I hate being rushed in reading them.   But comments on my blog have to come first.  I love them, I adore them, I am willing to put in the extra effort for them.  I do not want to miss any more of them.  So here is the change.  

What I did this afternoon works for me.  I had to do some other things and when I signed back on I was pissed that all my caught up stuff was no longer caught up, and I lost stuff.  What did I lose?  I don’t know, that is what bothers me.  So I went to the top of the bell and worked down finding every comment and replying.  Then when I got all them answered I went back to the top of the bell and got the new comments.  

Going forward when I get up and sign on, start all my systems, I will start at the bottom of the bell notifications looking for comments.  I will move up the list replying to comments.  Then I will check my email and answer that, something I have not really done since … well at least a decade ago.   Then I will go back to the bell notification and start reading all the grand blogs from the people I enjoy hearing their thoughts and leaving my own on.    During this I will go back to the top to check for comments.   If during this your blog drops off the bell notification list I am really sorry, I do love reading your blogs, but the list has gotten too long, my health is not well, and I just get too upset not keeping up.   To the point I keep hundreds of open tabs, I think the count right now I keep open is near 500.  I doubt I will ever get to them, answer them, or post them … some are news articles I wanted to post, but I save them with a hope.  I will be going through them catching the comment left two or three months ago, then delete the windows.  I just looked I am keeping tabs of blogs or comments from 3 months ago hoping to somehow get to them.  It is past time to stop pushing and punishing myself.  Ron is at his wits end on this.  I set my alarm and got up at 3 am to start today.   Yes I have to take breaks, and go lay down, I can only sit for five or ten minutes at a time, so I am up and down and laying down up at the desk, standing walking, sitting, going back to bed … I am exhausted and my health is failing, and Ron says one of the reasons is I feel driven by the stuff online.  I just am recovering from a stomach virus causing me to vomit all day yet when I could sit I was at the computer.  When my body drives me to bed I do it from my phone and tablet.  I read news and post it.  I put a keyboard on my old tablet to answer comments from there.  It is not the best but it works. 

So I am sorry if I miss your blogs.  I am sorry if you post something really grand I think needs to be shared.  I have to back off.  I have to set priorities.  I have gotten myself into a rut, pushing far past what my medications can hold until I am in tears trying to deal with stuff.  I fall asleep at my desk after telling Ron I am going to bed.  Then we argue about it.  

Anyway everyone gets the point, I am just flogging the dead horse and making my self out to be a martyr at this point.  That is not the case.  Sorry if I give that impression, but reading over this I feel I have.  None of what I do is anyone else’s fault.  I do it because I enjoy it and love it. These computers are my ability to move outside the walls of my home, to connect with a larger world.  I am addicted to it.  But like any addiction it is hurting me, so I need to curb it.  For example right now I just got up and walked around the kitchen because my right hip, the first hip I had replaced back in 2004 is burning, hurting, killing me so badly I am having to finish this sitting sideways.  What people don’t know is that how I do a lot of my online posts and comments.  I do a few minutes, get up and move, do more, go lay down, take more medications, get back to the computer.  Ron says my exercise regiment is how much I have to keep moving to help the pain in my hips and back.  

So let us all hope this gives me the chance to answer any comments without missing them.  Please keep them coming, I love hearing other peoples thoughts and ideas.  Plus as Ron says there is a bit of argumentive streak in me from the time I spent soaked in the bile and vitreol of the adotptive family.   Hugs.  Loves to all.  Best wishes to those who understandably don’t want to be hugged I was there once myself.  Scottie

The Barber Who Shaves His Clients’ ⚽⚽ | Secret Services | Channel 4

In fitting in with today’s theme of the human body is great, good, and need only be covered when cold, I offer a video on manscaping.  Many people will ask what is that.  It is the removal of body hair from men.  Some men don’t like the look or feel of body hair.  Plus some people have such a large pubic bush you can’t find their penis.  I don’t like a lot of body hair because the man who adopted me and his kids were abusing me, he had lots and they were growing body hair.   Since I started on testosterone I started seriously growing body hair everywhere.  I look like a walking fur mat, like Chewbacca.  I hate it.  Ron shaves what I can not reach. 

You ask where did I first learn of cutting your armpit and public hair.  When I was doing work a special forces reservist training weeks.  I got an award for it.  I was sitting there listening to these big rugged hairy southern and midwestern men talking about removing their body hair.  I timidly asked why.  They explained that one thing they are taught is to not smoke, bath with scented soaps, wear deodorant or basically do anything to cause an odor when on missions.  That included cutting body hair especially armpit, butt hair, and the pubic hair because they hold and create odor.  I started doing it and have all my life.  If you have stinky pits, try removing the hair.  One thing, if you are not use to being defurred, then don’t take it all the way off, leave a very thin layer as when you shave it tight it can itch growing back.  That said I can now keep my pits and crotch totally clear with no grow back itch, I guess my body grew use to it.  I imagine women who shave all the time have the same thing.  Great video, they blur the man parts out sadly.  But the guy still had a nice body.  Hugs.  Scottie, 

Sometimes you need a tidy up down below too… Rodney is a barber by day, but by night he’s a manscaper – and he’s tidied up the hair down below of over 200 clients to date. This is Secret Services – a series exploring alternative ways in which young people are making money.

Sweden’s parliament passes a law to make it easier for young people to legally change their gender

https://apnews.com/article/sweden-vote-legal-gender-law-minimum-age-9cfb3c6879ae03c3187f520eed308377

One of the anti-trans haters go to things is that the European countries are reversing themselves on pro-trans beliefs.  It is all selective misinformation and ideologically driven attempts to deny the progress in medical science / understanding over nearly 50 years.  Their goal is to roll society back to when the LGBTQ+ had no representation nor equality.  It is entirely to create the idea that trans kids / people and their best medical practice is wrong and shouldn’t be.  But this article again shows they are incorrect.   Just so those who are denying the progressive trend for trans rights in the European countries, a quote is below.  Hugs.  Scottie

Elias Fjellander, chairman of the organization’s youth branch, said it would make life better for its members. “Going forward, we are pushing to strengthen gender-affirming care, to introduce a third legal gender and to ban conversion attempts,” Fjellander said in a statement.

Last Friday, German lawmakers approved similar legislation, making it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official records directly at registry offices.


 

A view of the Swedish Parliament as lawmakers vote on the new gender identity law, in Stockholm, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The Swedish parliament passed a law Wednesday lowering the age required for people to legally change their gender from 18 to 16. Young people under 18 will still need approval from a guardian, a doctor, and the National Board of Health and Welfare. The government of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has been split on the issue.(Jessica Gow/TT News Agency via AP)

A view of the Swedish Parliament as lawmakers vote on the new gender identity law, in Stockholm, Wednesday, April 17, 2024. The Swedish parliament passed a law Wednesday lowering the age required for people to legally change their gender from 18 to 16. Young people under 18 will still need approval from a guardian, a doctor, and the National Board of Health and Welfare. The government of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has been split on the issue.(Jessica Gow/TT News Agency via AP)

BY JAN M. OLSEN
Updated 12:17 PM EDT, April 17, 2024
 

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The Swedish parliament passed a law Wednesday lowering the age required for people to legally change their gender from 18 to 16. Those under 18 still need approval from a guardian, a doctor and the National Board of Health and Welfare.

No longer required is a gender dysphoria diagnosis, defined by medical professionals as psychological distress experienced by those whose gender expression does not match their gender identity.

Sweden joins a number of countries with similar laws including Denmark, Norway, Finland and Spain.

The vote in Sweden passed 234-94 with 21 lawmakers absent, following a debate that lasted for nearly six hours.

Sweden Democrats, the populist party with far-right roots that supports the government in parliament but is not part of the government, opposed the law.

Jimmie Akesson, leader of the Sweden Democrats, told reporters it was “deplorable that a proposal that clearly lacks the support of the population is so lightly voted through.”

But Johan Hultberg with the Moderates of Sweden’s conservative prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, called the outcome “gratifying.” Hultberg called it “a cautious but important reform for a vulnerable group. I’m glad we’re done with it.”

Kristersson’s center-right coalition had been split on the issue, with the Moderates and the Liberals largely supporting the law while the small Christian Democrats were against it.

Peter Sidlund Ponkala, chairman of the Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex Rights, known by its Swedish acronym RFSL, called the law’s passage “a step in the right direction” and “a recognition for everyone who has been waiting for decades for a new law.”

Elias Fjellander, chairman of the organization’s youth branch, said it would make life better for its members. “Going forward, we are pushing to strengthen gender-affirming care, to introduce a third legal gender and to ban conversion attempts,” Fjellander said in a statement.

Last Friday, German lawmakers approved similar legislation, making it easier for transgender, intersex and nonbinary people to change their name and gender in official records directly at registry offices.

In the U.K., the Scottish parliament in 2022 passed a bill allowing people aged 16 or older to change their gender designation on identity documents by self-declaration. It was vetoed by the British government, a decision that Scotland’s highest civil court upheld in December. The legislation set Scotland apart from the rest of the U.K., where the minimum age is 18 and a medical diagnosis is required.

Trump Aide Promises Ban on Pornography in 2nd Trump Term

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-aide-promises-ban-on-pornography-in-2nd-trump-term

Why oh why are these people so scared of sex?  Did they fail to get any as teenagers?  Still failing to get some?  Sad.  Then somewhere I read it was all about increasing the white baby count while stopping any brown people from coming into the country.   See I guess the plan is banning abortion, ban contraception, ban porn to keep males super horny with pent up need … causes early marriage and kids.  Doubt it, see Utah.  But it gets worse.  These guys want to deny women the right to vote and ban divorce making them dependent on men again.  Hugs.  Scottie


Project 2025 operative John McEntee also supports abolishing the 19th Amendment

Former Trump aide John McEntee promised a ban on pornography was coming in the United States in a recent interview with Daily Wire host Michael Knowles. McEntee had a senior position in the Trump White House and is a key contributor to the infamous Project 2025, a collection of policy proposals

to transition the United States to Christian nationalist authoritarianism in the first 180 days of Trump’s second term. 

“You bring up the elephant in the room,” McEntee told Knowles, “which is a stain on not only society but the entire dating culture as well, which is pornography. Whenever America bans that, which will be happening at some point, everyone will be much better off.”

The Project 2025 plan specifically lists a ban on pornography stating, “[Pornography] is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.”

“The minute that goes away, this country will flourish,” McEntee told Knowles.

McEntee was Donald Trump’s former personal aide but was fired from the White House over a gambling debt issue that prevented him access to a security clearance. Trump hired McEntee back in 2020 and made him director of the White House Personnel Office.

In that role, McEntee was instrumental in drawing up the policy proposal for Trump’s immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan right after Biden won the 2020 election in order to throw the early days of Biden’s term into chaos. McEntee’s plan was not implemented, and Biden withdrew troops from Afghanistan in August of 2021.

After leaving the White House, McEntee received seed money from billionaire tech investor, and Trump supporter, Peter Thiel to create a dating app for conservatives called “The Right Stuff.” McEntee subsequently gained a large following on social media promoting the dating app with short videos reciting pithy MAGA talking points while out at restaurants.

In the interview with Knowles, McEntee, now the CEO of a dating app, also said he was “rethinking the 19th Amendment,” which gave women the right to vote, after being shown a TikTok video about feminism. 

EXPLAINED: Why TERF-In-Chief JK Rowling Is Celebrating Trans-Care Review Findings | Erin Reed | TMR

This interview points out some of the flaws in the Cass Report, and how Cass herself was a known anti-trans person who had worked with DeathSantis and his administration.  Talk about asking the fox about the hen house security.   The people who wanted a badly done report on trans care / trans kids choose a known anti-trans person to do it.  Erin Reed is a trans person who is very well versed in trans issues.  The video is not long, about 14.19 minutes long but very informative if you know someone who is an anti-trans hater who often says well look at the UK and those places they are stopping care, or someone who likes to refer to the Cass report.  Hugs.  Scottie

Journalist Erin Reed, author of the Erin In The Morning newsletter on SubStack, discusses the recent gender identity review by the National Health Services (NHS) in the United Kingdom.

Erin Reed and Emma then jump right into the background for the UK’s recent Cass Report on transgender care, stepping back to briefly cover the rise of transphobic activism in the UK at the end of the 2010s, and the major policy impacts it had despite fringe following, including the NHS-sponsored ‘independent’ and ‘unbiased’ review by Hillary Cass. After giving some background on the evidently not-so-unbiased Cass herself, Reed parses through the clear failure of the report itself to live up to these supposed standards, actively excluding both trans voices and experts on trans care from the report, relying on outdated and fraudulent statistics (compiled by notorious homophobes nonetheless), and repeatedly requiring absurdly high standards for trans care – standards not met by the vast majority of both adult and pediatric care – while rarely substantiating any of the claims about the supposed dangers.

Texas Woman In Legal Peril For Out-Of-State Abortion

A bunch of fundamentalist theocracy states have started having police and even private citizens patrolling to spot pregnant women on roads connected to the border.  They take the information of the car or woman, and check when she comes back if she is still visibly pregnant.  If not, an investigation can be initiated.  Right now this is not getting a lot of publicity and the theocratic states want to keep it that way.  Let the public know that these people see the Handmaids Tale as a how to guide book.   Hugs.  Scottie


 

The Washington Post reports:

As soon as Collin Davis found out his ex-partner was planning to travel to Colorado to have an abortion in late February, the Texas man retained a high-powered antiabortion attorney — who court records show immediately issued a legal threat.

Now, Davis has disclosed his former partner’s abortion to a state district court in Texas, asking for the power to investigate what his lawyer characterizes as potentially illegal activity in a state where almost all abortions are banned.

Davis’s petition was filed under Texas’s Rule 202 by Jonathan Mitchell, a prominent antiabortion attorney known for devising new and aggressive legal strategies to crack down on abortion.

Read the full article.

Mitchell appeared here in 2022 for his lawsuit seeking to block insurance coverage for PrEP medications because they “encourage homosexual behavior.”

Also in 2022, Mitchell filed six separate lawsuits seeking to dismantle LGBTQ rights, including the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling.

 

Headline should be “Abusive, Controlling Man Upset Woman Doesn’t Want His Baby.”

Aborting my baby
What lovely way of saying how much she hates me
She’s aborting my baby
what a lovely way of showing what she’s thinking of me
I can see it, your face is scowlin’
I can see it in your eyes, I’m happy you hate it🎶

The words devout and christian should be placed between controlling and man. That makes it god’s honest truth.

We overturned the Runaway Slave Act quite a while ago.

 

And now we’ve become a nation of slave states and free states.

That’s not an exaggeration.

Forcing a person to use her body against her will (even in pregnancy, even to sustain a life) is slavery.

And the GOP is still disgruntled about it.

I don’t know much, but I know this: Any woman who votes Republican in November for any candidate running for any position is out of her fuckin’ mind.

True. My crazy religious sister is voting R consistently because Jesus and god. She is 100% anti-abortion, and that’s one of the reasons why god chose Trump as president, you see.
She is 65 and “pure”, which means she has never stained herself with sexual relations in her entire life, so getting pregnant isn’t going to happen. Pregnancy is only for nice married women, and if you aren’t a nice married woman, you are a damned whore who gets exactly what she deserves.
Yes, she is out of her mind, which is exactly why she votes republican.

Not to mention it violates the constitution. Texas cannot criminalize behavior in a state where that behavior is legal. It has no jurisdiction in Colorado.

Until SCOTUS says that they do.

That is exactly why this investigation is being done. To get this case before the SCROTUS and have them rule TX or any other state banning abortions can prosecute their citizens for getting an abortion legally elsewhere.

Their novel characterization, from what I’ve said in other cases, is that the “crime” occurs in Texas when they procure the plane ticket or bus ticket or make plans, etc.

I don’t believe any texas court has signed on to that shit yet – but that’s their argument AFA

 

Missouri tried to do something similar, but in a different context: “That fetus is a Missouri citizen and we are protecting the life of that citizen from being taken outside of the state to be killed.” SMDH

 

If they’re going to claim that a fetus counts as a citizen of Missouri, then they logically need to stop issuing birth certificates and start issuing conception certificates. At least historically — especially since a child was not guaranteed to survive birth — a baby was only considered a citizen once it was born.

Claiming that a fetus somehow counts as a citizen poses an additional legal problem in the sense that it potentially opens the door to a pregnant woman potentially being charged with manslaughter for miscarrying even though her miscarriage wouldn’t necessarily have anything to do.with what she did or failed to do.

Prevailing precedent on the right to interstate travel would, in normal times, make such a notion laughable…but with this SCOTUS, these are not normal times.

 

This!!!

Hey Texas, you know how you discriminated against a trans cheerleader from a blue state that has laws against it? Well that blue state will sue you.

You’re totally cool with it, right?

I’m pretty sure the US Supreme Court already gave its blessing to the Texas law.

Not this one, as far as I know. You may be thinking of the “bounty” law – but I’m willing to admit if I’m wrong.

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My version is on a T-shirt, but I like YOUR version better!!!

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NH Rep Objects To Child Marriage Law Because “Ripe And Fertile” Underage Girls Might Opt For Abortions

If you go to the link, you will see one state representative claimed he started having relations with his wife when they were 16 and they did not need input from anyone else.   He then claims that he considers they were married from that point, even though they did not get legally married until they were adults.   Which says a lot of about his mind set.  Seriously, nothing in the bill prohibits what he and his girlfriend did.  They had teenage sex.  They did not get married then.  The bill says girls can not be forced to get married if they are minors.  Period.  Because if there were loopholes people who want an as the article says one representative described minor girls as a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved.   He sees girls / women as breeding stock.  Just something to carry the man’s issue to term.  Hugs.  Scottie


 

The New Hampshire Bulletin reports:

The New Hampshire House passed a bill Thursday raising the legal age of marriage to 18, sending the legislation to Gov. Chris Sununu’s desk after years of advocacy. Senate Bill 359, which passed 192-174, states that “no person below the age of 18 years shall be capable of contracting a valid marriage, and all marriages contracted by such persons shall be null and void.” Under present law, that age is 16.

Rep. Jess Edwards argued that taking away the possibility of marriage could lead more 16- and 17-year-olds to abortion. “If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option, when we do this to people who are a ripe, fertile age and may have a pregnancy and a baby involved, are we not in fact making abortion a much more desirable alternative, when marriage might be the right solution for some freedom-loving couples?” he said.

Read the full article.

 

Someone search that fuckers browser history.

Look for hidden partitions on his hard drive. He has probably named it Daddy’s Little Sluts.

Wtf?!? What America needs a group of 16yo girls having babies sounds very Gilead. I’d check this guys hard drive at home

Soooo…this creep believes that fertility is the only requirement for marriage. Someone hide that poor, Ohio 10 year-old impregnated rape victim from this deviant codger.

A “ripe, fertile age” – really? Normal people haven’t referred to others like this since about the seventeenth century.

16ty Century is where the Reichwing wants to take us all.

 

You mean, before the upstart, rebellious American colonies declared independence from the King of England?

Speaking of which… I’m sure all those Reichwingers in the US celebrate July 4th, commemorating our throwing off a real, visible tyrant and dictator. Interesting that they not only accept, but would have us submit to, an invisible dictator! And he’s the One Special Invisible Dictator who may not be questioned!!

NO THANKS!!

“looking for Groomers, LOOK NO FURTHER” Thank you for saying that out loud.

Caps are my addition to the quote

He really wants women to be chattel. And 172 state representatives voted against the bill. That’s scary.

The GOP wants to shrink the government to the size that will fit in a Fallopian tube.

Probably wants to do away with no-fault divorce, too.

Teen wives can’t legally hire a divorce attorney. Edwards said he would write an amendment to the bill to allow underage wives to hire divorce attorneys, but he didn’t actually do that.

Don’t know if you saw this earlier, different state, but…

NPR: Pregnant women in Missouri can’t get divorced. Critics say it fuels domestic violence

Destonee requested she be identified by only her first name. She says she still lives with abusive threats from her ex-husband. She couldn’t end her marriage because Missouri law requires women seeking divorce to disclose whether they’re pregnant — and state judges won’t finalize divorces during a pregnancy.

. . . and the state won’t fund enough safe-house shelter beds.

“If we continually restrict the freedom of marriage as a legitimate social option,”
– like 2 men or 2 women?

There is no “rape/incest” exception for abortion but there is a “mistress/daughter” exception.

Rep. Jess Edwards voted against any exception for rape or incest, but changed his mind to allow for abortion in the case of non-viable fetuses, because he “doesn’t think the government should play Solomon between a live woman and dead fetus.” < eyeroll >

Fucking old goat actually thinks 16 year old girls are salivating over musty old balls like this dude clearly has. Hopefully by the time these young ladies turns 18, they’ll run far far away from NH.

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Some videos from Naughty Nana DUZ

Lara Trump, as co-chair of the RNC is the equivalent of putting the fox in charge of the hen house!
🛑 SURPRISE at the END 🛑
*Apologies* if I offended anyone. Sometimes, my stroke brain isn’t in step with my mouth 🙃
*Sensitive* KRISTI NOEM She has a new book out, and this video is about one passage about a sweet young dog named Cricket!!

Ladapo: Mask Wearers Just Like To Hide Their Faces

Read the full article.

Ladapo first earned national infamy for a 2020 press conference outside the Supreme Court with insane nutbag Dr. Demon Semen, who says that women get STDs by having sex with demons in their dreams, that drag “opens portals” to demons, and that Biden and Pelosi “downloaded their brains to the internet” and are now “demonic clones.” Lapapo has been accused a falsifying a study on COVID vaccine side effects and of lying about his history of treating patients at UCLA. He last appeared here in January 2024 when he called on the public to refuse all COVID vaccines.

When asked to wear masks to help the country deal with a worldwide pandemic, the maga hate groups claimed they wouldn’t do it because they can’t breathe wearing masks.  The went to school board meets and ranted and screamed at the board about it.  Yet now those same Proud Boys, Three Percenter’s, Oath Keepers, and the Nazi protesters marching in the streets who call themselves Patriot Front all wear face masks to avoid being identified and lose their jobs.  If they think they represent so much of the country as they claim, why not be open about what complete morons and jerks they are.  This is another reason DeathSantis and racist governors in some red states are outlawing any Diversity, Inclusion, and Equality programs so white people can be open racist bigots to fellow workers without getting reprimanded or facing consequences for their actions.   Hugs.   Scottie

 

None of this surprises me anymore. It’s like we are living in the preface to a dystopian science fiction novel.

wait. you mean this isn’t The Stand in slow motion?

 

With Randall Flagg on trial in lower Manhattan

“Some people are still afraid and think that masks are going to help them, which is total nonsense.”

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be nice. all those people pictured wearing mask are dead now from breathing their own exhales. /s

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“Part of the reason seems to be that some people like to hide their faces,” Ladapo said on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.

Kinda’ like the Proud Boys.

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