Category: Health / Healthcare / Illness / Vaccines

Saddly it has happened that …

I tried from the time I got up, every minute that I could stand to sit in my chair before the pain drove me out to my bed or to at least move.  But still I am 2 days behind on the notification bell of blogs I follow and more important … My beloved comments.  I simply have run out of steam.  Ron brought me a supper of a huge roast beef / gravy sandwich which he admitted he knew was far too much for me.  He then cut it in half and added a few of the fried sliced potatoes, which are grand when hot, not such when cold.  Yes he loves me but he is on a kick to try to get me to eat more, which I don’t want.  He can eat as much as he likes, I never judge, but he seems driven to get me to eat more all the time.  In our last A1C tests his blood sugars were high while mine were very low.   Oh well.   I am not judging as next time it could be reversed. 

But the point is I have run out of steam.  I am tired to the point where every other key I hit seems to be the wrong one.  I need rest, the medications, pain, and the other stuff have had their say.  Love each one of you but sadly it ends here for today.   Good news, I will see you in the morning.  Normally the pain drives me from bed by 3 or 4 am so I might catch up then.  Hugs, loves. Scottie

ALT RIGHT A.I.?

I am so tired right now having not slept last night, but I wanted to post this as I felt it was important.  This is a direct diversion of every search to the Republican agenda presenting in the best most convincing light.  Pushing project 2025.   So much for a neutral only the facts’ news AI media.  Seriously a bot designed to push pro-fundamentalist republican anti-choice regressive view points?  Is it deliberate? We people that love our democracy and progressive country better get engaged and vote, or we lose it all.  The wealthy owner class wants us to return to the guided age, when only businesses had a say, government had no power, and workers were slaves to be worked to death for profit.    Hugs.  Scottie

Microsoft’s A.I. bot copilot has been produced some strange results lately that make it seem like it may have been trained by alt right bros.

Why Another Trump Victory Will Be A NIGHTMARE

This very quickly went to being a right vs left talk about abortion and even teaching girls on how not to become pregnant.  Again I ask why it is so vitally important for the fundamentalist Christian maga right to prevent young girls learning how to keep from getting pregnant or learning sexual educations about their bodies !!!!   Hugs.  Scottie

QAnon/GOP Arizona Rep: If Slutty Women Want Birth Control, They Should Put Aspirin Between Their Knees

QAnon/GOP Arizona Rep: If Slutty Women Want Birth Control, They Should Put Aspirin Between Their Knees

Wow how do these rejects get elected?  Sex is the fault of the woman?  That is not how it works.  Tell him it takes more than a woman to make a baby.  Guys are taught to want sex all their lives, and from puberty they’re told not to masturbate but to find a girl.  But girls are property of daddy and they are told not to have sex to preserve their value.   WTF.  If boys / men get to enjoy sex, why can’t girls / women?  Hugs.  Scottie

 

March 9, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists

 

The Arizona Mirror reports:

A bid to make birth control a right in Arizona that was a top policy priority for Gov. Katie Hobbs has stagnated in the Republican-controlled legislature and is likely dead.

Sen. Sonny Borrelli, the No. 2 Republican in the state Senate, responded to a question about whether he would oppose future efforts to restrict access to emergency contraceptives by saying that women wouldn’t need contraceptives if they weren’t so promiscuous.

“Like I said, Bayer Company invented aspirin. Put it between your knees,” he said, implying that, if women hold aspirin between their legs, they won’t be able to have sex and risk pregnancy.

Heartland Signal reports: 

Borrelli’s comments echo those made by late Wisconsin pastor and former GOP mega donor Foster Freiss. In 2012, while Freiss was the head of a super PAC that backed Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, Freiss contended that women putting aspirin between their knees was a cheaper alternative to contraception.

In 2001, Borrelli plead guilty to a domestic violence charge. His then-wife’s child told police he witnessed Borrelli rapidly punch his mother three times in the mouth before shoving her to the ground.

Borrelli said he only plead guilty to keep custody of his children, and he later blamed his wife for the incident, claiming she was having a “stress-induced meltdown.”

Borelli, an election denier, first appeared here in 2021 when he and several other Arizona lawmakers spoke at a QAnon convention organized by a man who had just approvingly posted a link to a neo-Nazi film. We heard from him again last year when he tried to force Arizona to discard all voting machines.

 

Ninja098012 days ago

Yet no talk about men controlling themselves, fancy that.

Bluestocking  Buford12 days ago

None of these yahoos make even the slightest effort to encourage men to take more responsibility for their own sexual behavior even though men are usually the ones who are more sexually eager due to the influence of testosterone (and even then, using that as an excuse really only goes so far!). They don’t even bother encouraging men to use condoms more often even though condoms actually have many advantages over most female forms of birth control. Condoms are relatively reliable when used correctly, aren’t difficult to find, aren’t difficult to use, don’t become less effective if you gain or lose weight, don’t cost much, don’t have any potentially dangerous side effects, don’t have any restrictions for age and/or existing health conditions, don’t require administration or authorization from a licensed medical professional, and don’t require much advance planning like most female forms of birth control do — and they have an double advantage in the sense that they help prevent the transmission of STDs.

Karl Dubhe IV12 days ago

It’s amazing the number of people who refuse to believe that sometimes things go wrong. That’s why abortion is healthcare, not every fetus is viable. Some of the ones that are born, don’t survive either.

Todd20036  Karl Dubhe IV12 days ago

It’s not about whether abortion is health care or not

It’s about whether women have any rights or not

Franciscan  Todd2003611 days ago

It’s about whether men should dictate to women whom they don’t even know how to manage their personal life. It’s about whether women can get pregnant without the assistance of “promiscuous” men.

Franciscan  Todd2003611 days ago

It’s about whether men should dictate to women whom they don’t even know how to manage their personal life. It’s about whether women can get pregnant without the assistance of “promiscuous” men.

Sister_Bertrille  Karl Dubhe IV12 days ago

As we saw in Texas in the case of Kate Cox and her ectopic pregnancy, it doesn’t matter. They don’t consider anything to be life threatening.

Lizard  Karl Dubhe IV12 days ago

And every time, it’s none of their fucking business. I get what you’re saying but there’s also nothing wrong with having sex.

Todd20036  Lizard12 days ago

It’s none of their business. And a clump of frozen cells is not a child

And a rapist is not a legitimate father

But to the MAGAts, women are inferior to men

Just as gays are inferior to heterosexual and blacks are inferior to whites

Randy503  Karl Dubhe IV12 days ago

What’s amazing is that most of the anti-abortionists think women are sluts who get what they deserve.

Karl Dubhe IV  Randy50312 days ago

Until it’s their wife, sister, or daughter that needs one. Those are moral abortions, of course.

Franciscan  Karl Dubhe IV 11 days ago

The Christian religion is apparently based on the premise that women are by definition sluts, since Eve in Genesis disobeyed God and accepted advice from a serpent.

jimbo65 12 days ago

Oh the aspirin between the knees bullshit again. Only thing these sexist fucks hold sacred is their access to Viagra.

What, me worry?  jimbo6512 days ago

Indeed. If these christian freaks really believe that it’s all up to the gods, then they should ban drugs like viagra.

paganheart  What, me worry?12 days ago

I am still waiting for the day that a pharmacist refuses to fill any prescriptions for Viagra or Cialis unless the man is wearing a wedding ring, or produces a marriage license, or signs a sworn affidavit saying they will use the drug only to have sex with their wives. I want to see the heads of a few right-wing males explode.

Todd20036 12 days ago

This is where we are. We are staring down American fascism

It’s here. It’s already a foot hold in the red states

It’ll come to the blue states if the federal government falls

Uncle Mark’s Luck Charms ☘️ 12 days ago

“But honey, I’m feeling romantic. This is your 30th headache this month. Why don’t you use that aspirin between your legs to make your headache disappear.”

*wife thinks a divorce attorney would do a better job at making her headache disappear.*

Uncle Mark’s Luck Charms ☘️ 12 days ago

15 years ago, this Neanderthal would have been sent back under his rock, but Trump/MAGA has emboldened their misogyny, allowed them to use their “religious freedom” to spew this garbage in the public square, and encourage even more wackos to spew their hateful, medieval views

Wash Rinse Spin Dry Fold12 days ago

INCOMING RANT

How is forcing women to continue with an unwanted pregnancy not an economic concern?

I can’t wait for these old white, white haired men and women who agree with them to die out but I know there is a crop of them right behind on the conveyor belt.

Contraceptives a.k.a. birth control are not just prescribed for birth control.

Here again we have elected officials who know nothing about the medical field making laws regarding women’s bodies that they know nothing about. Here again we have one of these old dinosaurs yapping about women not needing birth control if they weren’t promiscuous.

Lizard  Wash Rinse Spin Dry Fold12 days ago

Someone will pay for those unwanted babies! Just not them. You know, after they’ve killed off SNAP and other social safety net programs.

Buford 12 days ago

Funny how they get away with ignoring the fact that it takes two people to be promiscuous when making a baby… and funny how nobody points out that, if women must be forced to endure a pregnancy, men should at least be financially responsible for that same pregnancy.

 

 

Some old ones I won’t get to do long posts on.

Mighty Christian of this first one.  Good old republican Christian concern and caring.  Hugs.  Scottie

FL Senate Passes Bill Banning Worker Heat Protections
Read the full article.
The bill’s author, state Sen. Jay Trumbull, previously appeared here for his successful bill allowing medical professionals to refuse to treat LGBTQ patients. Last year, he authored a bill allowing businesses to sue to block local LGBTQ rights ordinances and other regulations.
DeSantis Gets Huge Loss In “Don’t Say Gay” Settlement
Of note, the lead attorney in the lawsuit is Roberta Kaplan, who is best known to most as E. Jean Carroll’s attorney. Kaplan was also Edith Windsor’s attorney in the landmark Supreme Court ruling on DOMA.
US Spy Agencies Fear Briefing Trump Upon Nomination
Trump Hit With Huge Bill In Failed Steele Dossier Suit
Kremlin Launches Multiple US-Based Fake News Sites
Navy Demoted Ronny Jackson After Trump WH Probe
Read the full article. Per the report, Jackson continues to call himself a retired admiral even though he was demoted to captain.
MTG Refuses Johnson’s Call For Decorum During SOTU
DeSantis To Sign Bill Requiring Permit To Sleep In Public
Secret Male Christian Group Plots “National Divorce”
This is quite a story and as you’d expect a portion of their ideology centers against LGBTQ people.

OK with this first batch I am trying to reduce the 74 posts window I have open.  I have to start shrinking these windows.  That means I can not go deep in depth on each thing I think is important to share.  So for a few days I am going to shotgun a bunch of older stuff out.  Do I expect everyone to read all of them?   NO!  What I hope is people see story titles that interest them, open them, and follow the story which is what I do.  So expect a few more of these as I clear out old tabs.  Hugs.  Scottie

The Decision

Speaking at the School where NEX BENEDICT was Killed

It was crazy to listen to the mothers of the school talk about rampant bullying that the school is doing nothing about.

White Evangelicals and Race | Belief It Or Not

Are Christians against Racism?

Tick Med

Tick Med

Thank you Personnelente for the link.  This is grand news for those who live in where ticks lurk. Like the article says, if we can do it for our pets, why not for humans. Hugs. Scottie

DeSantis Gets Bill Requiring Permit To Sleep In Public

DeSantis Gets Bill Requiring Permit To Sleep In Public

By my dogs that love gravy they are talking concentration / prison type encampments surrounded by guards with prison like rules.  Basically no freedoms that all adults enjoy.  Plus the Republican Party is seriously going all in that homelessness harms home values and harms tourism / the attractiveness of the state for businesses / people moving to the state.  Those conditions, funded by the counties, include clean restrooms, running water, security on premises and bans on drugs and alcohol. They must also be located in places that don’t impact the value of nearby properties.   The legislation accords with a stated desire of the Governor to have camps with restrictions on what occupants can do and “help” available, in efforts to include what he has called “judicial scrutiny.”    DeathSantis has long wanted to institutionalize that he terms undesirables.   Right now it starts with the homeless, but soon who else is going to be put in camps or other style forced confinement?  The poor?  Trans people?  The entire LGBTQIA?  What about those who don’t follow the correct and proper god?  Like all these culture war type laws it is deliberately written very vaguely so that it can be interpreted as strongly as the most extreme person would want to take it.  The same vagueness held true for how a homeless person would get a permit for outdoor camping.   Basically the law gives permission / compelling these localities to round up the homeless and put them somewhere.   Detain them, jail them, just hide them from the good more well off people of society.  One last thing.  This was written by a right wing think tank, it is legislation they want to use in every red state.  Just like the anti-trans laws / don’t say gay laws Florida will be the test place to see if it will pass, because Florida is run by a crazy maga governor.   If it passes here, they will try pushing it everywhere.  Democratic Sen. Jason Pizzo, who contended Tuesday that a “think tank” wrote the legislation.   Hugs.  Scottie

March 6, 2024 Politics, Republicans

 

Florida Politics reports:

The Senate has passed a House bill creating a new financial obligation on localities by banning homeless people from sleeping in public, setting the stage for a Gov. Ron DeSantis priority becoming law.

The measure from Rep. Sam Garrison (HB 1365), passed by a 27-12 vote after being substituted for the Senate version, would ban counties and municipalities from permitting public sleeping or public camping on public property without explicit permission, compelling these localities to round up the homeless and put them somewhere.

The Governor, who has suggested institutionalization should be brought back, said mental health help for the unhoused is “important,” but that he didn’t want “Sodom and Gomorrah” style homeless camps.

Read the full article.

S EQ 11 days ago

Well they are building and funding more for profit prisons. You need people in those prisons in order to make money. Problem solved.

Gigi11 days ago

Democrats: People are living on the street. We need to build affordable housing.

Republicans: People are living on the street. My wealthy donors don’t like seeing poor people in public. Homeless people need a permit to be homeless. If they can’t pay the fine, toss them into one of the many for-profit prisons owned by my wealthy donors.

Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊  Gigi11 days ago

Caitlyn Jenner’s suggestion was to bus them out to the desert and have them camp there, instead of near the beaches.
No food, no water, no sanitation, but hey, they’re homeless. I guess they’ll adapt somehow?

Gigi  Ščŏŧŧ Ċ – 🇺🇦 🕊11 days ago edited

Republicans want to do this to trans people. She thinks she’ll be okay because she’s rich.

RealityBass 11 days ago

Ron says mental health help is “important,” but weirdly he has not seen fit to fund it.

Sam_Handwich 11 days ago

““Sodom and Gomorrah” style homeless camps”

That sounds simultaneously fun and biblical, a rare combo.

Dan M  Sam_Handwich11 days ago

I fully understand that sodomy comes from Sodom, and I understand what sodomy is. But what do we get from Gomorrah? Gomorrahmy? And what the hell is that.

Heartless S_O_B11 days ago edited

Mr. DeSantis, from me, fuck you,
The only difference between Nazi Germany an Florida, is the weather.

I hope his last sound is a scream

SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad11 days ago

Got to keep those private prisons full. At least the homeless will get food and a roof.

NPSTL  SkokieDaddy – wiener dog dad11 days ago

Only for mandatory labor. No labor, you get only a single bowl of oatmeal once a day. He can please his constituents by bringing back literal slavery.

lattebud 11 days ago

So, living on the street becomes a crime that will lead to one losing their freedom. They will be shocked when the read the headlines about a mass casualty shooting incident when law enforcement went to enforce this law.

Stultus 11 days ago

Think they will go after the rich white kids passed out drunk, sleeping in public, during spring break?

NPSTL  Stultus11 days ago

Of course not. However, the number of highway patrol officers assigned to the Spring Break week is increased, in order to keep the- ahem – darker elements away.

Ann Kah  ThewolfIam11 days ago

Or this: (from Mock Paper Scissors)

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letinstar11 days ago

It should also be a crime for assholes pretending to be taller by wearing 5 inch lifts.
I can hardly wait for the day when Bootsy and his never ending cruelty comes to a very painful end.

clay 11 days ago

“…compelling these localities to round up the homeless and put them somewhere.”

But, apparently, that “somewhere” must be on private property which would have to be compensated by the state local government. See, pro-business. /s

amy cuscuriae11 days ago

The law applies to all equally. Rich man and poor man alike must have a permit to sleep in public.

Shy Guy  Karl Dubhe IV11 days ago

It’s a famous quote, satirizing the purported “equality”.

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