My dogs that love gravy, have these people learned nothing over the last 30 years.    The ones pushing to hit kids are old people trying to claim the days of their youth were the best ever.   it is like saying medicine and science has not progressed in 30 years improving our social understanding.   Now if he wants that in schools, what does he do to the captives in his jail?   These guys like this sheriff are thugs, and they want to treat kids like they are prisoners.  You shouldn’t have to be scared of violence in schools.    There are as the video says ways to discipline kids and control gatherings without resorting to draconian measures.    I am really tired of these people wanting to regress the country back to a time they felt more comfortable and in charge.    Hugs

A sheriff in Florida has signaled his support for spanking students. Ana Kasparian and Ben Gleib discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live

Read more HERE: https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3p47…

A Florida sheriff says the reason his county’s school district has struggled to address behavioral problems among its students is because kids aren’t scared to “have the cheeks of their ass torn off” for causing trouble in class.

But Sheriff Wayne Ivey, of Brevard County, promised that with the help of the school district’s newly elected conservative leadership, which ran on the promise to end so-called “woke” policies in its schools, these students will no longer go unpunished.

“[Students are] not worried about getting in trouble,” Ivey said, announcing a new disciplinary code during a press conference held in front of the Brevard county jail Monday.

“They know nothing’s gonna happen to them. They know they’re not going to be given after-school detention, they’re not going to be suspended. They’re not going to be expelled or like in the old days they’re not gonna have the cheeks of their ass torn off for not doing right in class.”

Justice Department asks judge to hold Trump team in contempt over Mar-a-Lago case
The request came after months of mounting frustration from the Justice Department with the former president’s lawyers.

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Drag Queens Are Fearing For Their Lives As Right-Wing Extremist Attacks Intensify
Weeks after five people were killed at a Colorado Springs gay bar, drag performers are weighing how to keep their community safe.

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Hey, Sex Ed Teachers: Not All Students Are Straight And Cis
These researchers developed a tool to help teachers create a more gender-diverse, queer-inclusive sex education.

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Yes it can happen here. The Christian nationalist and the Christian right wing MAGA thugs such as the Proud Boys are pushing hard to enforce a motility code of dress on the public right now. They attack and shut down drag queens reading stories to kids, kids stories to kids, because of a religiously motivated dress code!

I went to bed very early last night due to blood sugar, I have been awake all night, been up all night. Going to take a nap and get with everyone later, I have a feeling there are som people still wanting to argue about trans people … for what we’re it is worth. Hugs

Indonesia bans sex outside marriage as its parliament passes sweeping new criminal code
Indonesian lawmakers unanimously passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside marriage, as part of a tranche of changes that critics say threaten human rights and freedoms in the Southeast Asian country.

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Court Implodes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Defense (and the Errant Judge Who Bought It)
On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit finally put to rest the special master nonsense that Donald Trump set in motion late August, when he persuaded U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon to interfere with the FBI’s investigation of his illegal harboring of classified and other presidential records at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida. Special Counsel Jack Smith can now proceed apace with the investigation.

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As most of you know already I freaked out when the first message appeared asking, “What are you wearing”?   I tore my computers apart looking for a problem that was not there.   I changed passwords and instituted two form authentication.   I wrote a post on it and a lot of you told me you had it also.   So I wrote word press support.  

The first response I got was clueless.  

Thank you for contacting WordPress.com support. I’ll be happy to help you out! 

In the editor when I am creating a post the first block under the ”Add title’ has weird messages in it. Day before the message was ‘What are you wearing’, this morning it says ‘What are your feelings about eating meat?’

This is very unusual, we’ll do everything we can to help you with this problem.
Does this happen when you create a new blog post? Or does it appear in an old one?
Can you share the name and the link to the post where this happened?
Can you also take a screenshot of the post with the message and send it to us?

 I did that.    Yesterday I got a response that cleared it up.  

Carol M. (Automattic)

Dec 4, 2022, 14:25 UTC

Hey there! Happy to help. 

I only noticed it about three days ago now. But I contacted several WordPress bloggers and they say it showed up on their write / create a post page before mine. Everyone assumed it was from WordPress. One blogger said the code implies it is a placeholder. I have included a picture of what I am talking about in this reply. I don’t see any unusual activity, and the blog seems to be working fine. If this is something WordPress added I wish they had told people

This is indeed just a placeholder, and it was something we did, your website is safe.
I understand your concern and apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions, we’ll gladly assist you.
Let us know if there’s anything else we can do to help!

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I wrote this back

Scottiestoybox

Dec 4, 2022, 18:15 UTC

Hello Carol. It really would have been great if WordPress had bothered to tell people. See I tore my two computer systems down when I couldn’t find where it was coming from. In the process I lost a 1TB hard drive and the recovery potion of an SSD. Plus I have to say I don’t want it on my page when I go to create a post. The first one I seen was “What are you wearing?” and as a sexual assault survivor that is pretty damn scary. My question now is there a way to remove it so it doesn’t ever show again! If so please do so! Thanks.

Best Wishes,

Scottie

This morning I had this in my email.   

Shaun (Automattic)

Dec 5, 2022, 03:34 UTC

Hello there,

We’re very sorry to hear the difficulty this has caused. 

The idea behind the feature was to help people with inspiration for writing blog posts but I have passed this feedback on directly to the team behind the feature. 

Right now the new blog writing prompt that appears in the editor can’t be removed. You can certainly overwrite it or leave it and won’t appear on your page when you publish the post.

You can turn off the notifications this feature has also added by heading to your notification settings here – https://wordpress.com/me/notifications

It’s also possible to stop showing the writing prompt on the My Home of your WordPress.com dashboard by clicking the 3 dots in the top right corner of the card which shows it and then clicking “Hide daily prompts”.

Thank you again for sharing this feedback on this and we’ll relay this to the development teams immediately. 

Thanks again for getting in contact.

Best, Shaun

Happiness Engineer @ WordPress.com

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There is it, days of wasted effort, lost productivity all so WordPress can play around more with the product.   The first people made it worse by not even understanding what was going on.   Hugs

Trump Demands America Rip Up the Constitution, Make Him President
“Attacking the Constitution… should be universally condemned,” White House Deputy Secretary says, alongside the rest of the sane world

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Hello All. Short story, all computers down, rebuilt one typing this on, the guys trying to rip out old shelves accidentally destroyed water heater, went to home improvement store to get new one now 7 PM no water, told no water until morning, James very upset, Just got told James wants to keep going until water, I think he is punishing himself, Because the guys are working so hard and upset i ordered pizzas, but I am not hungry at all, main computer down not sure when can get it back, the restore drive got corrupted, after 9 hours had to dump it, and now the secondary drive is wiping which I really did not want but the main SSD drive was corrupted so I had to delete it, I hope I can fix it all. The WordPress on my phone and tablet won’t work unless I download their app which I don’t want to do. I think that is an extortion screw job. Refused to let me sign in on my own blog kept asking me to download app. Good news is I have plenty of hard drives and I have ways to make all these work. I was worried about losing the recovery partition but when I reached out to Dell they talked me though how to re-download and force install the recovery partition. There is a reason you go with companies like Dell, they work to make sure their computers keep working. Mine is a 2017, they could have just blown me off, they didn’t. OK so I wont be getting to things or posting, and I wish I could say I was goofing off. Love all of you and it should show because I was more worried about getting back on my blog to interact with you all than the fact that when removing a rotten shelf in the shed a piece of wood brook the vales off inside the tank. Again James feels bad and wanted to pay for a new tank at about $700. Both Ron and I refused, it was an old tank and everyone can have an accident or mistake. James being who he is (and I love him with all my heart) is driving himself still feeling he is at fault. Not sure when I will be back fully on line again for the blog, I an upset that I was almost caught up with comments … oh well a pipe dream no to Be. Love you all, I will post as I can, there is so much hate and vitriol against gay and trans kids / people right now I have to wonder if that is why my blogging computer got hit. Strange, porn sites are not an issue but going to right wing media sites or posting on the idiocy of the rabid right gets my computers attack constantly. Most of them are caught by the security, but there are times … Think of the school board meetings, this is the cyber equivalent. How I figured out this one was every time this morning I went to post instead of the URL I was posting I got "what are you wearing" It was on every post. I could remove it but had no idea where it was coming from. I happened on both computers. Oh and daily I was getting all these emails asking me to OK my subscription to this dating site or that other porn site, and what is more disturbing is the ones to different churches and such OH well. be back to all of my wonderful online friends as soon as I can being both computers up safely . Hugs and loves. Oh for those that feel squeamish about my virtual hugs disregard them and instead best wishes.

Hugs and Best Wishes,
Scottie