My plans for the blog 8 24 2024

At the very beginning I goofed and misspoke the name of the blog, referring to my old blog and old YouTube channel instead of Scotties Playtime blog and channel.  Unfortunately I do not have editing software yet, and so I left it in as I would have to dump the entire video and make a new one.  Remember I do not use scripts so I don’t know I could do a new one without a mistake either.  Also remember it normally takes YouTube a day or more to do the CC for videos.    Hugs.  Scottie

Some Headlines I started reading 8 hours ago. Now I am going for a nap. Enjoy.

Read the full article. Hit the link for many screenshots.
“RFK Jr. has falsely said that the COVID vaccine is the deadliest vaccine ever made. What’s your response to that?” the reporter asked. Trump dodged the question and replied, “Well, I’m going to have to see because I haven’t seen him yet. I’m going to see him in a little while.”
“The rent is too damn high, and this is one of the reasons why,” Garland told reporters during a press conference on Friday.
Read the full article. As I just reported, the GOP attorneys general of Texas and Missouri have tried to take down Media Matters for reporting exactly what CBS News just did. Time for yet another lawsuit, Elmo!
Read the full article. Duck! Incoming ketchup!
I’ll post a reminder when the program restarts.
She also took jabs at the Republican opponents. “Trust Donald Trump and JD Vance to look out for your family? Shoot, I wouldn’t let these guys, I wouldn’t trust them to move my couch,” Warren quipped.

“Kamala was protecting families,” she said. “And Donald was scamming students at Trump University and trying to make money off people losing their homes. That is the difference between a criminal and prosecutor”
It was a big night for powerful women.
“You think he understands that when your car breaks down you can’t get to work? No! His first word was probably ‘chauffeur.’ You think he’s ever had to take items out of the cart before checking out? Hell, you think he’s even been to a grocery store? That’s what the chauffeur is for!”
“Then… a man tried to assassinate me. I almost died. But I fought for my life and I survived,” Giffords said. “I learned to walk again one step at a time. I learned to talk again one word at a time. My friend Kamala will be a great president. She is tough. She has grit,” Giffords said. “Kamala can beat the gun lobby.”
Kinzinger said the GOP has “switched its allegiance from the principles that gave it purpose to a man whose only purpose is himself.”
In a roughly 10-minute tirade on Aug. 3, Trump railed against Kemp for not giving into his false theories of election fraud.
He also blamed the governor for not stopping a local district attorney from prosecuting him and others for their efforts to overturn the results. “He’s a bad guy. He’s a disloyal guy. And he’s a very average governor,” Trump said then. “Little Brian, little Brian Kemp. Bad guy.”
A new High Point University/SurveyUSA Poll shows Attorney General Josh Stein, the Democratic nominee for governor, leading Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson by 14 percentage points in North Carolina’s closely watched governor’s race.
Other Republicans have followed suit, spending millions at Trump’s properties in an apparent attempt to curry favor with the former president and signal their allegiance to him to GOP voters.
“She caused the Attack of October 7th. Iran was BROKE – Didn’t have money for Hezbollah!” – Trump, in a 26-post meltdown during Harris’s speech last night.

Let’s talk about non-verbal cues, politics, Walz, and normal….

Let’s talk about Schumer, the filibuster, and 2025….

The True Risk of AI

Like many of us, I grew up with the Lost in Space Robot, Hal, and of course, the T1000.

And, as anyone who has ever seen me around a computer can tell you, I am in no danger of ever creating an AI, much less giving any fair representation of the risks that come with AI. What I can tell you is that images, chat, and other electronically produced media does share a risk that can be co-opted and influenced by our current understanding of AI. This does require us to look closely at what we see on the internet, what we believe is going on in and around our environment, and most importantly becoming a better defender of our personal borders. There is no doubt that the impersonation of human creations is going to effect our lives going forward. Further, there is no doubt that beautiful things CAN be created via AI. Not sure about this one: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/glIzD8CVwrQ

As with everything, new technology brings new fears, new opportunities, new joys, and a new way of life. In regards to the T1000, I’m really crossing my fingers on the “new way of life” part.

Hugs!

Randy

-ps: Scottie, this should teach you to not ask me to post on your blog. roflmao! Sorry, I’m easily entertained.

Yesterday in the news. Thanks to Joe My God for the posts I linked to here. This was my morning reading.

Read the full article. Arizona has the largest Hispanic population of any battleground state
Lindell has been spotted at the United Center wandering around in a fedora to “investigate” gender-neutral bathrooms and peddle his baseless election conspiracy theories. On Wednesday, the pillowmonger got into a verbal altercation with Knowa De Brasco, a 12-year-old activist who was there supporting Kamala Harris.
Read the full article. Watch all of the LOL clips.
Read the full article. Almost all voters register using the state form. As of last month, only 42,000 Arizonans are registered to vote via the federal form.
According to a coming biography, Queen Elizabeth told others that she found Trump “very rude” and that he always seemed to be looking over her shoulder “as if he was looking for someone more interesting.”

The book further claims that the Queen believed that Trump and Melania must have “some kind of special arrangement,” considering his flagrant serial adultery.
Read the full article.
Sentencing will be determined next week.
As you can see below, Reimer’s first arrest last year resulted in a money beg from a major right wing Canadian outlet.
Reimer’s previous non-drag related convictions resulted in sentences totally nearly three years.
Election officials said Arkansans for Limited Government failed to comply with state law primarily because it submitted documentation regarding paid signature gatherers separately and not in a single bundle.

As I said last month, it appears that the office of Secretary of State John Thurston [photo] deliberately withheld the above-cited rule about petition bundling. Thurston was a pastor before entering politics.
I knew he’d knock it out of the park.
“I got a message for the Republicans and the justices of the United States Supreme Court. You can pry this wedding band from my cold, dead, gay, hand. And I’m retaining a lot of water, so good luck with that.” – Michigan AG Dana Nessel, last night.

Testosterone and Pharmacy 8 21 2024

I hate the sound but know of no way to improve it with this mic.  If anyone knows a way let me know.  Ron and I have been talking to getting a Yeti Blue mic or a label mic.  The lighting was off again.  I can not seem to get it right like I used to do when I was in my other office.   Hugs.  Scottie

Trump fearmongering about Harris

Trump Warns Harris Will Give “Everybody Health Care”

 

“She wants to take away your private health care. There are many people in this country who spend a lot of money on private health care.

“It’s the best health care in the world, by the way. But they want to do it. They worked hard to make money and they want to do it under her. You’re not going to have private health care plans anymore.

“And you can be a wealthy person or middle income person and you want to spend on a really good plan, better than a government plan. And you’re not gonna be allowed.

“You’re all going to be thrown into a communist system. It’s a communist system. You’re going to be thrown into a system where everybody gets health care.” – Trump, at yesterday’s disastrous “press conference” in New Jersey.

He is appealing to the selfish assholes who want to deny everyone but themselves of any privilege. ” This is not about me hoarding. This is about you who should not have anything.”

He just openly said that healthcare should be reserved for those who can afford it. He’s too stupid to be coy but that’s just breathtaking.

If you take that argument to its logical conclusion (since timely health care in more than just a few cases literally saves lives), what it obliquely implies is that the amount of money you have in the bank is the measure of your worth as a human and that you don’t necessarily have a right to life.

Guess what. The anti-abortion challenges to EMTALA are also going to destroy EMTALA itself. Get used to being dumped back in the parking lot if you should be unlucky enough to not be able to prove your ability to pay. Too bad if you are brought in without identification or an accompanying family member with the insurance card.

 

Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act.

From Wikipedia🔗 :

… EMTALA … requires hospital emergency departments that accept payments from Medicare [i.e. virtually all hospitals] to provide an appropriate medical screening examination (MSE) for anyone seeking treatment for a medical condition regardless of citizenship, legal status, or ability to pay. Participating hospitals may not transfer or discharge patients needing emergency treatment except with the informed consent or stabilization of the patient or when the patient’s condition requires transfer to a hospital better equipped to administer the treatment.


EMTALA, as a federal law, supersedes state laws that ban abortion. So, doctors who perform emergency abortions to stabilize a patient are protected by EMTALA. Hospitals that fail to do so could face fines or be booted from Medicare.

[with more about cases SCROTUS heard and punted on]

 

Let’s talk about Trump’s attempt to attach Harris to Biden’s policies….

Let’s talk about updates, Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia….