I finally had a chance to catch up with the grand Rev. Ed Trevors. Here are some clips

What I love about this one is that he talks about it is not his job and he doesn’t have the right to force or demand you to live his life, his ways.   Nor do you have the right o demand or force it the other way on him.  He says it is not his job to make you the same religion he is.  He says it is his job to show you the love of Christ in the gospels and if you decide it is not for you or you want a different church he is very fine with it.  He is not charged by his god to make you be the same religion / faith or join his church.  His job is to live god’s love, and by example show you that love.  He says if your faith says don’t do something, then you shouldn’t do it.  But only those who also believe like you, everyone else is free to do it.   What a refreshing thing to hear a religious person say.  Hugs.   Scottie

Utterly Unfit …

Again Ten Bears found and posted a great video that everyone should see before they vote.  Thank you, Ten Bears.   Hugs.  Scottie

Some short videos about trans kids and the harrasment and troubles they face. Anti-trans laws / hater parents do not help

Due to not feeling well and the number of videos, even though they are short so are in foreign languages so I had to use the CC for those, so it took almost a week and a half to watch these and post them.  So I did not include because it caused me to trigger, like the ones where parents beat their gender nonconforming children, to make them be the gender they were assigned at birth.  That is like trying to beat the gay out of a kid, you can scare them into hiding it but you can’t make it go way or change it.  I simply wanted to give those that don’t understand trans kids or trans people a way to see what it is these people are dealing with.  Maybe it will change some people from being haters to being trans supporters.   It only take a few people to believe in a LGBTQIA persons worth to make a huge difference in their lives, maybe even save a life.  I hope people will take their time and watch the videos as I did, a few at a time over how ever long you wish.   If you watch only one, please watch the first one where a trans hater learns that the trans neighbor she like was trans, and well she learned and grew.   Hugs.  Scottie

Get Off My Turf! is a short film about a transgender woman who finds out that her neighbour is transphobic. The film delves into some of the modern depictions of transphobia and explores friendship, solidarity and conflict between two very different women.
SYNOPSIS: Clara is a girl who cannot show herself as she is. There is something that can control her, and forces her to live under a name and appearance that are not real. “I’m not him” will show the harsh reality to which transgender children like Clara are exposed, as well as the strength they have to move forward.
“A trans boy struggles with dysphoria and anxiety as he contemplates a night out with friends.”

So for my theater class, our final was to create a short film. I decided to do a film about a female to male transgender teen. I apologize for the binder, it’s really bad. I didn’t own a real binder. Ignore that please. I hope you enjoy it.
This short documentary about transgender ftm boys was created to bring more awareness to the transgender community. We don’t personally know any mtf transgender girls so please no controversy over the subject. We own all rights to this film except the music, the quote, and the statistic. This is the first film that we’ve produced and we plan on creating more shorts. We hope you enjoy it!! *** The music on this one got louder than the voices, so I turned the sound off and used the CC. Hugs. Scottie ***
A trans themed short film, created by an all trans cast production team. On remote northern Iceland two strangers connect and realize they have a lot more in common than previously assumed.
Young and Trans. Watch this powerful short film challenging the stigma of what it means to be trans today. Let’s come together for a brighter future.
We have been filming transgender boy Kai since he was 9 years old. In this film, Kai is 14 and reflects on coming out and taking hormone blockers. We also hear from Alex, 18 who is also trans and has started taking testosterone. Kai meets with Tayler, 19 and they both visit the Museum of Transology, where founder E-J Scott gives them a tour.

This is 5 years of a 10 year project, filming Kai, as part of a wave of trans youth, who have been given the best opportunity in life, never having to go through ‘the wrong puberty’.

My Genderation is an ongoing film project focusing on trans lives and trans experiences. All our content is created by trans people, about trans people, for a much wider audience. Currently run by Fox Fisher and Owl Fisher.
Come As You Are follows Theo, a transgender female in a conservative household. This film is dedicated to the God of love, regardless of who you are or where you come from
Featuring young trans actors in trans roles, ‘Listen’ honestly and frankly depicts some of the myriad struggles experienced daily by trans children and teenagers, giving a much needed voice to this often maligned section of the community.

Let’s talk about Biden, a little quote, and big subtext….

Let’s talk about generations and a shift….

Eagle Pass, TX Residents Sound Off on the Real “Invasion” | The Daily Show

Eagle Pass, Texas has become the epicenter of the national immigration debate, but who are the real “invaders” of this community? Michael Kosta talks to residents of Eagle Pass who have had it with the right-wing media, politicians, and fearmongering Trump supporters taking over their town and jacking up their hotel prices.

Why US elections only give you two choices

America’s two-party system is widely hated. Very few Americans think the two major parties do an adequate job representing us, and most say more parties are needed. But when it comes time to vote, very few of us actually vote for third-party candidates. Often, this is explained as either a failure of will (we’d have third parties if more people would just vote for them), or a conspiracy (the political and media establishments suppress third-party candidates and ideas).

And it’s not that those things aren’t true. But there’s a much simpler explanation, and it’s the very basic rule governing almost every single one of our elections: Only one person can win. If you’re American, that probably sounds utterly reasonable: what the hell other kinds of elections even are there? But the answer is: lots. Winner-take-all elections (also called plurality voting, or “first past the post”) are actually a practice that most advanced democracies left behind long ago — and they’re what keep us from having more political options.

Even if you’re not sold on the need for more parties in the US, though, scratch the surface of “only one person can win” a little and you start to see how it actually produces perverse results within the two-party system as well. It’s a big part of why the political parties have moved farther apart from each other, and it leaves about half of the country without any political representation at all. Watch the video above to see how.

MTG Rages at U.K. Journo’s Jewish Space Laser Question: ‘F*ck Off’

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-rages-at-uk-journos-jewish-space-laser-question-fck-off

This is what passes as a republican statesperson, an elected official we would want our kids to look up to.  She is a backwards low IQ maga racist bigoted thug.  She is a female tRump, only she is not a coward like he is.   She has no sense of decorum, she thinks being an internet troll in real life is a thing to be proud of, an accomplishment.  She thinks civility and being nice are deviant behavior.  She has the idea that freedom is her being able to tell everyone else how to live, dictating to them what they can or can not do.   What a disgusting person.  Momma’s don’t let your babies grow to be Marge Greene.  Hugs.  Scottie


The MAGA congresswoman had just finished saying that Trump supporters like “the truth.”

The people at Joe My God had some great comments about this.  Sadly I am too tired to post them for you.  Please go to this link if you want to read them.   Hugs.  Scottie

MTG To British Reporter: “Why Don’t You Fuck Off?”

Employers Beg For Help: We Need 9 Million Workers

republicans are racist and culture warriors, white supremacist, so they don’t see that the nation needs immigrant workers, skilled and non-skilled.   They don’t seem to understand just how large this country is.  They think the entire country is just the town or city they live in.  We do not have enough workers to fill all the jobs, and some jobs their superior white people just won’t do.   The other side of the coin is they have made higher education so expensive we do not have the highly skilled workers needed for some high-tech specialty jobs.  We need to bring them in from other countries that subsidize their education systems.   Think of that.  The republicans have attacked the US education system so much they have dumbed down the US education to the point we need to bring in people educated from other countries, or foreigners educated here paid for by their country.   Hugs.  Scottie


 

Bloomberg News reports:

“I can’t have a conversation with any business owner that doesn’t revolve around the fact that they simply cannot find the skilled workforce they need,” says Jay Timmons, chief executive officer of the National Association of Manufacturers.

Some 9 million positions are open across the economy, equal to 1.4 vacancies for every unemployed worker. The worst-affected industries are trying to figure out the best way to make themselves heard.

A trade group for companies in the construction industry is buying digital ads to push for immigration reform. An association that represents makers of heavy equipment is flying members to Washington from such places as North Dakota to beg lawmakers for help.

Read the full article.

 

But Republicans keeps saying immigrants take away jobs from Americans who would gladly do them? So weird. It’s almost like the GOP are full of shit on yet another issue they claim to care about.

Americans won’t do the kind of work that immigrants typically do, for ANY level of pay.

Bingo. That’s precisely why when DuhFascist began to kick out all the migrant workers on farms in FL not a single Republican kid took those jobs. NOT ONE.

 

Have you tried paying them

Red States: Nah we’re just going to gut child labor laws instead.

All I hear from my GQP relatives are about how “no one wants to work anymore.” They still cling to this belief that the three stimulus checks that were given away several years ago (the first two from Trump, I remind them), made everyone quit their job and quit the workforce. I keep asking them — you seriously think people can live on $5000 for years without a job?
But they hold fast — between those checks and all the other freeloading gummint programs, no one has to work anymore.

 

This isn’t a labor shortage. This is Americas 300 year old love affair with cheap labor coming back to bite them in the ass… again!

Conservatives love capitalism … except that part where wages need to increase when demand for labor exceeds supply.

 

Or responded to their application? Some of these employers should take a look at their hiring process. They all expect top-tier talent then make the application process so laborious and tedious to then not even bother with responding once all steps are completed.

Yea. It’s damned hard to find skilled minimum wage employees.

It’s been like that for years, but from what I’m reading it looks like it’s gotten even worse. (Not even sure how that’s possible.) The process for applying for jobs is a nightmare. And so is the onboarding process once you’ve been hired but haven’t started. Some companies outsource the background check. You can get flagged as lying if you said you started on 3/11/19 but really started (according to that company’s records) on 3/12/19. I’m not exaggerating. They’ve made everything as difficult as possible which they got away with for 20 years because there were way more job seekers than jobs. Someone would put up with the bullshit to get a job. Now, not so much.

As for skilled labor, we don’t two generations they had to go to college even if school wasn’t their thing. Electricians, plumbers, etc are retiring and there are few replacements. That crisis is already here, especially in rural areas and small towns.

 

Though this was about Scotland an article I just read was about how small areas over there were paying big bucks to get doctors to move there to practice.

In the isolated community I live in, the doctor they found who was willing to work here does not prescribe birth control to teenagers, nor encourage vaccinations. And those are his least offense beliefs and qualities…

Years ago I applied for a job for which I was more than qualified, and after jumping through a few preliminary hoops, the employer ghosted me. Happily, another application had progressed and I decided to accept that offer (which turned out to be a great opportunity after all). Months later, the first company contacted me to invite me for an interview. I declined and told them why I wouldn’t be interested in working for them.

Sending in a resume only to have to fill out a lengthy and unnecessary set of questions that the resume should answer but satisfies the needs of dolts who mainly work in HR. Then if you’re lucky to pass a phone screen, you interview with people who have no idea how to interview potential candidates and then decide that instead of 2-3 interviews, 7-10 over a couple months is appropriate. And then sometime 6 months later, if they don’t outright ghost you, they send a standardized email saying you didn’t get the job, an application most people would’ve long forgotten about.

Oh, you get an email? I never do. I’ve gone through series of interviews at top level jobs, and never heard back. After waiting several months, I sent them an email, and a few weeks later they tell you they gave the offer to someone else, but they just loved me and would like me to assist in their non-profit mission in any way that I can.
Effing idiots.

The Republican Party is a Russian op designed to bury the world’s last chance at a just social democracy.

Altho I upvoted your comment the entire Scandinavian set of nations are completely functional social democracies. I’ve been to every one of them now.

 

Let’s talk about Biden’s State of the Union….