Category: Religion / Religious / Theocracy
FL Surgeon General: It’s Up To Parents Of Unvaxxed If Children Should Attend Class During Measles Outbreak
And this scammer con artist who has been accused of falsifying the results of a “vaccine injury risk” study along with being debunked by the large medical organizations, is taking the political way forward rather than protect the children by telling parents the best thing they can do is get their child vaccinated. If you are anti-vaccine think about this, the only children at risk are the unvaccinated! What does that tell you! Hugs. Scottie
The Daily Beast reports:
While measles cases are popping up across the country, nowhere has been hit as hard as Manatee Bay Elementary School in Weston, just west of Fort Lauderdale. There, a single case reported Thursday spiraled into a half-dozen infected students by Tuesday evening. John J. Sullivan, a spokesperson for Broward County Public Schools, said the school underwent a deep cleaning and was safe for vaccinated students to continue going to class this week.
Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo wrote a letter Tuesday that urged the parents of unvaccinated students to keep them home until the school is confirmed to be rid of measles entirely. He said the infectious period would likely be over by March 7, and that the district would provide materials to keep the students learning while they’re physically away from school.
Read the full article. According to school officials, around 11% of the students have not gotten the traditional childhood vaccinations. Ladapo, as most of you surely know, is infamously anti-vax and has been accused of falsifying the results of a “vaccine injury risk” study.
The surgeon general is supposed to be a public safety officer.
What the hell is this guy doing in this position?
MAGA loving Ron DeathSentence.
The answer is…(drum roll)…Florida!
As much damage as he can, while he grifts,
Collecting a no show paycheck.
Two or three of them. He got a couple university positions in the bargain for an income of around $430,000.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, this outbreak is in Weston, which is ranked a few slots below Palm Beach as Florida’s seventh-wealthiest city.
In January 2024, Weston home prices were up 90.9% compared to last year, selling for a median price of $3.1 million.
Almost like science never happened except that: He. Knows. The. Science. And. Chooses. To. Ignore. It.
“until the school is confirmed to be rid of measles entirely”
I’m curious, since he doesn’t trust scientists to say what will help fight measles, who does he trust to say the school is confirmed to be rid of it? An exorcist?
He’ll bring the pink-haired prophetess in. If she doesn’t know, no one does.
And they’ve already decided that childhood diseases are no big deal. Never mind that measles can cause encephalitis, blindness, sterility…
Natural Herd Immunity did this…
Of course there is no natural immunity to something your immune system hasn’t contacted, so naturally, this happens.
It is said the sheep follow the Shepherd…
Yet no one discusses that it is the Shepherd who eats the sheep.
A right-wing family moved to Russia to escape ‘LGBTQ, trans,’ but now they’re ‘ready’ to ‘get out’
The patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family of 11 had had just about enough of gay people in his country. “We didn’t feel safe for our children there in the future anymore,” father Arend Feenstra told Russian media. “There’s a lot of left-wing ideology, LGBTQ, trans, just a lot of things that we don’t agree with that they teach there now, and we wanted to get away from that for our children.”
Yeah, if there’s one place that’s just not safe for kids, it’s Canada. Russia would be soooo much safer.
So Arend (and wife Anneesa) sold everything they had to move to sunny Russia and raise eight of their nine kids with “orthodox” values. They also gladly took donations on their social media platform from fellow right-wingers, all so they could live in Vladimir Putin’s wonderland. Russian officials assured them that they would work with them to get them established, and even help them get a farm. They did all of this just three weeks ago; long story short, they lived happily ever after.
Except they didn’t.
First, according to the family, the Russian bank where they moved the proceeds from selling their farm and belongings? It immediately froze their assets. The amount of money seemed suspicious, Arend states in a Feb. 9 video. I guess it would, since so many Russians outside of Putin’s circle are dirt poor. As a result, the family didn’t have money to live on—apparently those nice Russian officials offering to help them had disappeared.
Since no one in the family speaks Russian, they’ve also had a bear of a time trying to argue for their money—because Russia doesn’t require any bank, or any business, to hire English translators. In the meantime, they discovered that Russia is a pretty damn miserable place to be right now.
TikTok user Ukrainian.Networking translated a Russian Federation Reported Media story in a snarky post.
The ending of this story is just too hilarious😂😂😂 #ukraine #ukraine🇺🇦 #supportukraine #standforukraine #ukrainian #ukrainewillwin #slavaukraine #russiaisoccupant #glorytoukraine #tiktokukraineofficial #ukrainewillresist #heroyamslava #russia ♬ original sound – Yuliya in UkraineThe Russian reporter noted that Anneesa spoke her mind in a since-deleted video on the family’s “Countryside Acres” YouTube channel.
“I’m very disappointed in this country at this point. I’m ready to jump on a plane and get out of here. We’ve hit the first snag where you have to engage logic in this country and it’s very, very frustrating.”
Hoooo boy. They just arrived and already she’s insulted Russia. Now, I’m not saying Russia doesn’t have freedom of the press, but it’s really just freedom to praise Putin and the country he controls. Anything that resembles criticism in Russia is NOT taken as kindly as it is in our godless Western dystopias. I’m also not suggesting that Russian officials paid the family a visit to remind them of where they are, but I will point out that Arend quickly posted an apology video to the Countryside Acres channel, saying that his wife misspoke and they’d deleted the video.
In that video, he reiterated that no, Russia is really, really great (subtext: “Please don’t push me out of a window”) and he spoke of his hope to resolve the issue with the bank. Commenters weren’t so sure, or kind. They pointed out that the bank will likely never release their funds and it is more likely that he will be recognized as a foreign agent.
At this point, I’m not sure the Countryside Acres farming gig is going to work out. Patriarch Arend should have agreed to be used as a tool for Russian state media. I mean, if you are going to be a Russian Asset, might as well go all-in.
I’m willing to bet that living in a country that grants gay people basic civil rights might not be looking so bad now. I was wondering if the family is desperately trying to split, so I looked up how difficult it is to leave Russia. According to the BBC, you can leave “as long as you have money and have not been called up to the army.”
Even if only for his kids’ sakes, let’s hope Arend’s only lost his money.
And I’ll end with this charming reprise of a German eurodisco tribute to their new home, originally released in 1979. (English lyrics here)
“Welcome to Moscow!” At least the song is catchy.
Comment Award goes to Laughing Gravy: “I’ll bet back home they used to whine about immigrants who don’t know the language, who have no money, who expect the government to hand them a house and a job, and who complain when they don’t get everything they want.”
Editor’s note: An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that the Feenstra family has six children; they have nine. That version also said that Anneesa voiced discontent with Russia in an interview with a Russian reporter. Her statements were made in a since-deleted Countryside Acres YouTube video, which was cited by the Russian reporter.
Oklahoma Schools Chief Rants About Latest Ranking Of US Presidents: Our Kids Will Learn That Trump Is Great
It is a cult, the party of tRump, the maga thugs. This guy is a white supremacist Christian nationalist who wants to turn public schools into church right wing indoctrination camps, force everyone to live by his church doctrines, and teach racist stereotypes are real facts to children. Slavery was good, blacks are violent, bringing them to the US to learn Jesus was a good thing for them, type shit. The problem is the governor who got elected is the same and proclaimed the state a Christian state dedicated to Jesus, meaning anyone of a different faith or atheist don’t matter and can just leave or go to hell. He sees nothing wrong with the idea of the governor pushing his god / church doctrine on everyone. So this is who hired the trash above, and tried to give him two high level state jobs to push Christianity. Hugs. Scottie
“Guess who’s last? President Trump. This is a great example of the radical woke college professors and what they’re trying to teach our kids. They want to tell our kids that every conservative president was terrible and every left wing president was amazing. In Oklahoma, we’re going to make sure that our kids understand that presidential greatness is based on how the country performed while presidents were in office. And not based on what a leftist, woke college professor says makes a great president.” – Oklahoma education superintendent and avowed Christian nationalist Ryan Walters.
Walters recently hired Chaya Raichik of Libs Of TikTok infamy to help oversee Oklahoma’s public school libraries. He is widely expected to run for governor when Gov. Kevin Stitt is term-limited out of office.
“In Oklahoma, we’re going to make sure that our kids understand that presidential greatness is based on how the country performed while presidents were in office.”
Because how well the country’s doing was a sign of God’s favor of our president? Dipshit believes there are no business cycles, no outside factors, so transition time or costs.
That doesn’t augur well for Bush, Hoover or Trump. Obama, FDR, and Biden are evaluated, in part, on how well they rescued the economy from the ditch
What, like historians are going to pay attention to when the store shelves were actually empty, when housing construction ground to a halt?
A comment on a conservative site:
“Don’t read any book on the early history of the United States first printed after 1920.”
(That said, presidents absolutely can make things better or worse!)
The economy created fewer jobs in Trump’s first 3 years than in Obama’s final 3 years.
Hey, Ryan!
Even Republican historians put Trump at the bottom of the list.
“In Oklahoma, we’re going to make sure that our kids understand that presidential greatness is based on how the country performed while presidents were in office.”
That’s funny. In his MAGAt circles, I thought that presidential greatness is based on how many pussies you grab ’cause you’re a star and they let ya.
Trying to talk facts to a cultist…
West Virginia GOP Passes Deranged Bill That Could Put Librarians in Jail
https://newrepublic.com/post/179132/west-virginia-republicans-house-bill-librarians-jail
West Virginia GOP Passes Deranged Bill That Could Put Librarians in Jail
State Republicans are taking the war on books to the next level.
JOSHUA LOTT/THE WASHINGTON POST/GETTY IMAGESThe Republican-controlled West Virginia House of Delegates has passed a bill that could see librarians facing jail time.
House Bill 4654 passed the chamber Friday by a vote of 85–12, along party lines. The bill would remove criminal exemptions for schools, public libraries, and museums that distribute or display “obscene matter” to a minor, even if the minor’s parent or guardian is present. Any employees of those institutions found guilty of giving minors obscene matter can face fines of up to $25,000, up to five years in prison, or both.
The incredibly short piece of legislation gives no indication of how the new rules would affect paintings or sculptures that feature nude figures, or books that include descriptions or definitions of sexual conduct. Obscenity laws are incredibly hard to enforce, because definitions of obscenity still largely come down to individual interpretation.
As a result, there will likely be more reports of obscenity, made by people who are either more conservative or just nervous about accidentally breaking the law. And since libraries and public schools often operate on very tight budgets, they are unlikely to have the budget to fight a surge in lawsuits.
“It is going to cost our counties and our librarians when these matters go to the court system,” House Minority Leader Sean Hornbuckle told The Parkersburg News and Sentinel. “Because this is still vague, I’m scared.”
“This is a very dangerous bill.”
House Minority Whip Shawn Fluharty warned that the legislation could inspire many lawsuits over books that staff members don’t even realize are problematic. “The librarians on staff might not know if a book has obscene matter in it or may or may not have shown it to someone, but because it was in the facility and it was sitting on a shelf, it could still be prosecuted,” he said.
The bill has now been sent to the state Senate, which the GOP also controls (along with the governor’s office).
Republicans across the country have increasingly sought to ban books, claiming they are protecting minors from seeing inappropriately sexual content. But most of the books being pulled from shelves tend to discuss race, gender, and sexuality.
Seemingly innocuous texts have also gotten caught up in the fray. School districts in Florida have pulled the dictionary from library shelves for including definitions of sexual conduct and have drawn over children’s picture books.
JFC!!! The main reason I’m alive today is that I figured out I was gay and OK from library books! I was 14 so I guess I was a minor. 50 years ago!
Me too. The book that saved me was entitled “Society and the healthy homosexual” by George Weinberg. That book was my lifeline to sanity.
That’s why the bigots want those books outlawed.
They want LGBT kids to hate themselves.
Apparently, they’re not getting enough of that outward and inward hate in church.
Obscene = LBGTs exist
Tennessee Gov Signs Bill Allowing State Officials To Refuse To Perform Same-Sex Marriages Because Jesus
The bill’s author, state Sen. Mark Pody, has appeared here many times for his attacks on same-sex marriage. In 2016, he sought to “nullify” the Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling.
In 2017, he sponsored a bill calling for Tennessee to defy Obergefell entirely, and literally fled protesters at his press conference.
In 2019, he filed the “Tennessee Natural Marriage Bill” that would void same-sex marriages, something he says God told him to do.
In 2020, he filed a fourth attempt to make the bible the official book of Tennessee. In 2021, he filed a bill that would allow fathers to block abortions by their partners.
Let’s talk about West Virginia and books….
Texas Hospital Refused To Treat Ectopic Pregnancy
An Ectopic pregnancy is not viable, ever. I am not a doctor but I looked up and read 5 papers done by medical professionals to find out where the idea comes from that an ectopic pregnancy could be brought to term, or as one Florida state legislator claimed surgically moved to the proper place. Turns out that the idea comes not from a medical provider but from a political organization well, well, well. Who would have guessed. Hugs. Scottie
Scientifically, there is no debate – treatment is the best option. An embryo implanted outside the uterus has virtually no chance of surviving to birth. In a few rare instances, we have seen embryos grow for 12 to 13 weeks before they die due to insufficient hormone and nutrition supply. But when left growing that long, the embryo becomes large enough to rupture the patient’s fallopian tube, causing abdominal hemorrhage and even death.
Still, some people argue that intervening is immoral, comparing it to termination of a viable pregnancy. An opinion article published recently on The Federalist spread misperceptions about ectopic pregnancy management and potentially stigmatized women who seek care. The author, who has no medical training, suggested ectopic pregnancy care is unnecessary – a conclusion she based on “data” from sources such as an outdated medical opinion from the early 1980s and a political/religious magazine article.
The piece was scientifically refuted in a Vox article two days later, including a statement by the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists that ectopic pregnancy “cannot result in the survival of a baby and entails a very substantial risk of maternal death or disability.”
A week later, The Federalist published a public apology article, in which the author admitted to misinterpreting scientific data, using incorrect medical terminology, and pushing a biased agenda. The entire episode highlights the dangers of spreading false health information and potentially exposing women to emotional and physical harm.
https://utswmed.org/medblog/truth-about-ectopic-pregnancy-care/
The Washington Post reports:
Kelsie Norris-De La Cruz tried not to cry as the doctor in the emergency room delivered one of the most frightening diagnoses a pregnant woman can receive. The 25-year-old college senior was told she likely had an ectopic pregnancy, a highly dangerous condition where the embryo implants outside of the uterus. Without immediate treatment, the fallopian tube can rupture — and the patient can die.
The law that has prohibited abortions in Texas since Roe v. Wade was overturned now explicitly allows doctors to treat ectopic pregnancies. But when doctors at Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital evaluated Norris-De La Cruz last week, they refused to terminate the pregnancy, saying there was some chance the pregnancy was still viable, Norris-De La Cruz recalled.
Read the full article. A different hospital performed the procedure, telling her that she likely would have died if she’d waited much longer.
Pregnant women.
I have been in theatre for a number of terminations of Ectopic Pregnancies.
All terminations are stressful for the patient, but an ectopic termination is heart rending ….the pregnancy is normally wanted and to see the effect on a potential mother of putting an end to her dreams of a child is impossible to convey and the guilt is beyond belief …But these patients have the support of their loved ones to help them get through the worst days of their lives …..Now imagine forcing these women to undergo this procedure out of state – far from their families and those who can support them potentialy alone …..
These people are MONSTERS.
I ran across a patient already in shock on arrival at the ER. Burst ectopics bleed terribly.
She survived.
Yet due to the infection of a Ruptured Ectopic, she could have severe consequences to her health for yers!
Not merely monsters, evil incarnate.
This is the outgrowth of blind faith in myth, the rejection of science, and an overweening lust for power and control.
And they might not have time to travel out of state. Women are going to die.
That’s what happened in Poland, and what led to their right wing nutjobs getting kicked out office.
I’d rather see us kick our RWNJs to the curb without anyone having to die, though.
When a woman’s life becomes secondary to a failed pregnancy…
I have to keep reminding myself this is the 21ST CENTURY
The legislators who voted for SB8 are the ones who should be charged with attempted murder.
Our side needs to adopt as our motto: When they go low, we punch back. Hard, and with no mercy.
Dead mother, fine. Removing a non viable fetus threatening the mother, UNFATHOMABLE! Fuck tex-ass!
Libs of TikTok’s Chaya Raichik Threatens to Sue Critics Blaming Her for Partial Role in Teen’s Death
Stephen Miller Is Excited
Again Ten Grain at Mock Paper Scissors has written an important post every one should see and understand. This is what these cult maga want, they are complete racist bigots. Notice that they never talk about stopping immigration from Europe or Canada. tRump once whined that we needed more people from Norway to move here, but I ask why the hell would they? They openly praise the idea of concentration camps for the undesirables, which means anyone who is not white straight cis and Christian. Hugs. Scottie
