I am ashamed that the nation I wonder served to protect is pushing this genocide. Hugs
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/03/us-and-israel-seek-to-ship-gazans-to-african-nations/
Best Wishes and Hugs,
Scottie
News and information
I have allergy shots this morning. Here is some news to look over. Hugs
NBC NEWS: Schumer says he won’t block GOP funding bill amid Democratic divisions over shutdown strat egy
Schumer says he won’t block GOP funding bill amid Democratic divisions over shutdown strategy
Schumer relented one day after he vowed Senate Democrats would thwart the “partisan” measure, saying the “chaos” of a government shutdown would be a worse option.
Read in NBC News: https://apple.news/AVSInLwNIRVCb9_EucIsboA
Shared from Apple News
Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie
If SB21 passes in Delaware it is going to have a massive negative impact on Millions of Americans!
Peace & Justice History for 3/14
March 14, 1879 Physicist and peace activist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany. The Nobel Prize winner opposed militarism and became a champion of nuclear disarmament. Though he supported the development of the atomic bomb out of fear that Germany would develop it first, he warned in a 1944 letter to the Manhattan Project’s Niels Bohr: “When the war is over, then there will be in all countries a pursuit of secret war preparations with technological means which will lead inevitably to preventative wars and to destruction even more terrible than the present destruction of life.” Read more |
| March 14, 1934 The National Civil Liberties Council was founded in England, principally to monitor the policing of protests. Renamed Liberty in 1989, it has campaigned to protect and promote rights and freedoms for over 75 years.  About Liberty’s history The organization today |
| March 14, 1970 During a second attempt by Native American activists to claim Fort Lawton (about 50 miles south of Seattle, Washington), 78 were arrested for entering the site.United Indians for All Tribes was demanding the city give the unused facility to Native Americans for use as a cultural center. One week earlier about the same number had been arrested for occupying what had been declared federal surplus property. The Daybreak Star Cultural Center is now operating on the site.  Indians demonstrating at Fort Lawton Background The Daybreak Star Cultural Center Recent pictures of the center |
| March 14, 2004 Opposition Socialists scored an upset win in Spain’s general election three days following the Madrid train bombings. The conservative government had joined the U.S.-led coalition that invaded Iraq the previous year though Spanish public opinion was overwhelmingly opposed to it. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and his party, Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE), had opposed the Iraq War and Spain’s involvement. The coordinated bombings, which left 191 dead and 1600 injured, were the worst terrorist attack in Europe aside from the downing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. Thoughtful article on the bombings and the political situation in Spain |
https://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistorymarch.htm#march14
OT, Nancy Beiman Post
(Then see “Furbabies” )
Healthy cartoons by Nancy Beiman
Readers asked for them. Read on Substack
here’s a little image from an upcoming cartoon. Mrs. Oldman makes a joke.
The story line starts today, March 11. (snip)
May You Have Pi(e), and a Great Pi Day!
It’s fun to observe. For instance, my local grocery store sells all their bakery pies for 3.14 (which is a bargain on some of them.) I like to buy 3, and then put them in the store’s breakroom. I started that several years ago; they said someone would eat them if they were in there, so I did it, and brought home an apple pie. Now I do it each year, because it’s fun to observe with pie. I bet everyone knows someone who’d like some pie today!
If you work with people who enjoy math, and especially if you work with learners of math, well, have a great time today! It’s Friday, it’s Pi Day, and a fine day to play with pi and with the rest of math, too!
You can even make a pie. Enjoy the day!
(This car photo is my favorite!)
Celebrate Pi Day with Chocolate Cream Pie March 14, 2012
About Michael Knowles; It’s a Couple of Years Old, I Missed It Then, So Here It Is In Case Others Missed It, Too.
This publication is not one that I read, except when items like this are brought to my attention by publications I do read, so there’s that, too.
Conservative who called for ‘transgenderism’ to be eradicated played queer character in student film
Michael Knowles, who used his CPAC speech to call for the eradication of ‘transgenderism’ from public life, also reportedly appeared in drag in 2016
Abe Asher Tuesday 21 March 2023 17:23 EDT
Michael Knowles, The Daily Wire commentator who called for “transgenderism to be eradicated” from public life at CPAC last month, reportedly starred in a student film as a queer character and dressed in drag in previous years.
The Daily Dot reported on Monday that when Knowles was in college at Yale University in 2012, he starred in a student film entitled The House of Shades. In the film, which runs just over 15 minutes, Knowles plays a queer man who seduces another young man at a nightclub he belongs to.
Near the end of the film, which is available on YouTube, Knowles’ character confesses that he has feelings for the man. A friend advises him not to get caught up on him. The unearthing of Knowles’ portrayal in the film comes after the same outlet reported that he had dressed in drag on at least two occasions in 2016 in a racist portrayal of Sen Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts.
Ordinarily, Knowles’ performance in the student film would be unremarkable. But the Daily Wire pundit has aggressively argued in recent years for the upholding of traditional gender roles and strictly heteropatriarchal sexual mores, calling gay marriage “the most radical political shift our civilization has ever embraced” and attacking drag shows.
Knowles defended himself from charges of hypocrisy in a tweet on Friday. (snip-MORE he’s an arrogant little human, and hypocritical.)
Too tired and too discouraged.
My own doctors have been pushing for 8 years that I need a neurologist. It got much worse after I had my stroke in 2023. But I put it off. But I have seen Ron decline. I admit that the string of numbers I need to put in due to two factor authentication. I need Ron to read them to me, or I have to keep refreshing them as I can’t remember the numbers. I also am dyslexic on numbers. I have never been able to spell but also numbers are not my friends.
But while my doctor has said I need a neurologist due to the lost of strength on my left side due to my stroke, and the ever increasing tremors, and while I have a standing order for an MRI on my left shoulder due to a spasm that my doctor thinks tore my rotator cuff. I put it off. Glad I did.
Ron has been failing mentally for years. I took over the bills a decade ago because he said it was too much for him … I have seen the writing on the wall. Now at 70 I have to often remind him of things, make sure he puts appointments into the calendar. He will open food and walk away leaving it on the counter, he struggles to understand why some of his lapses upset me, always promising to do better … then repeating it.
When it comes to construction issues he is spot on, but now on cooking he comes to me confused. When Ron met me and moved in I had eggs and hot dogs in my refrigerator, it was all I knew how to cook, he taught me all I know. Now he comes to me confused asking what I think we should do. To be clear he understands he is losing memory and time and it terrifies him. He has begged me that if he ever has Alzheimer’s that I will kill him. But he is simply forgetful. I have to get up and check the security system after he goes to bed, but also I have made my own mistakes in my nighttime pills when I am exhausted. I am not sure where this is going to go. I did not think the problem was as bad as this doctor did, but when Ron told me the tests he took … I couldn’t pass them either. We are older people. So … Hugs
Wonkette Has It All Right Here
All the tabs (links) of things that should be read, plus commentary as only Wonkette can provide!
Time To Defund Your Public School! Tabs, Thurs., March 13, 2025 by Rebecca Schoenkopf
Morning news roundup and things to read! Read on Substack
Explaining the House’s funding bill. It has something to do with John Travolta and Nicolas Cage wearing each other’s faces. House Democrats actually all voted (except one schmuck) against it, and then they yelled at the Senate like so:
- House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY): “It [the bill] is not something we could ever support. House Democrats will not be complicit in the Republican effort to hurt the American people.”
- Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), ranking Appropriations Committee member: “This is Republican leadership handing over the keys of the government, and a blank check to Elon Musk and to President Trump.”
- Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA): “It [Senate Democratic votes] would be a capitulation to the Trump style of democracy, which is the movement of democracy to dictatorship.”
- Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY): “If the government shuts down with a Republican House, Republican Senate and Republican president, it will be solely because the Republicans have moved forward with a terrible, partisan, take-it-or-leave-it bill.”
What did the Senate do? Presumably I will find out before I finish writing this tabs! (The Fucking News)
What the Senate did, if they ever fucking vote on it before I turn this goddamn laptop and go to bed, goes here!
Time to defund your public school! (CNN)
Trump’s economic excuses: stupid and lying! (Paul Krugman)
The FBI is demanding Citibank freeze accounts for Habitat for Humanity, United Way, New York state tax department, and a bunch of statewide climate investment banks, like for instance Michigan Saves. So that’s are you fucking kidding me! (Citibank filing)
Child genital exams without a parent’s consent, West Virginia? “It also says that all intersex people are ‘either male or female’ but does not give a basis for assigning a sex to them.” Oh, word? Word. (LGBTQ Nation)
Six federal agencies are investigating the two trans girl athletes in Maine. (Pro Publica)
I have not even a single clue what this means or how it would work, but the Department of Housing and Urban Development wants to crypto … ??? (Pro Publica)
Sacrificing “critical safety functions” at the FAA, upside down smile emoji. (The Atlantic archive link)
Tesla owners, Polestar will give you $20,000 to not be a Tesla owner anymore. (Polestar)
Faine Greenwood went to Canada’s Gaspe Peninsula and would like to show us all the pictures. We are all super fucking sorry about all this, Canada! (Little Flying Robots)
That’s right I’m still hounding you to buy the pizzas. Detroit Public Schools is working on the assumption we’ll have budget cuts next year of between $30 and $80 million for just our district. You help me fund the girls’ Detroit public elementary school, and I help you eat delicious fucking pizza, mailed right to your door. Buy the fucking pizzas everybody. They’ll FedEx em right to your door. Pizzas. (Pizzas.) This motherfucking pizza ad will be up all month. (snip)
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