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As far as “can we believe the results of the election” — yes and no.
The “blob” wanted Harris to win AZ. They also wanted to use a proposition to usher in ranked choice voting like CA and AK. The “blob” probably doesn’t really care about the abortion issue — it would likely prefer that AZ didn’t create a right to abortion so that it can continue to use that issue to stoke Dem voters in AZ.
Trump’s margin of victory in AZ is still pretty narrow, and they are still counting. (No idea why the counting is inept and slow.). However, the blob’s desire of a Harris victory is not panning out — I guess that their election fraud has not, so far, overcome determined legitimate voters in AZ — and the proposition results are clearly against the desires of the blob — much more clearly than the presidential race. It may be that this is because all of the voters who do not present proper identification when registering to vote in AZ only get access on their ballots to the three federal races: president, senate, House of Representatives, which means that those voters are ineligible to weigh in on the propositions.
Arizona passed Proposition 139. “Creates a constitutional right to abortion.” — right now the count is over 61% approved.
This was a strange one for me, personally. I learned the word “abortion” in 1984 during the election of Reagan and Mondale. I was a child, steeped in Mormonism, and I was horrified. Abortion still doesn’t sit well with me — I don’t like it — but I see the issue very differently: a woman should be sovereign in her own body, and pregnancy should not cause her to lose sovereignty over her own body. This means that she is in charge of her unborn child and whether or not the child is born. My hope is that we have a society where every woman can know with confidence that she will have the resources and support that she needs for the next 18 years to raise the child. I wanted many children. I stopped at three because I did not feel like I had that kind of support (despite being married at the time) — and it went downhill from there. Fortunately, there are many means of effective birth control available, making it possible for women to make these choices before abortion enters into the picture in the majority of cases. It causes me to look around me at my fellow Arizonans and think, wow, nearly 2/3 of those who vote agree with me on this issue. That is more powerful than the abortion issue being decided by court justices or by any legislature.
PCR
The FBI, CIA, NSA, Secret Service, and Clinton murder machine only have to assassinate four people–Trump, Bobby Kennedy, Tucker Carlson, and Elon Musk–and the country is back in their hands.No — this is Leviathan, this is the Hydra. Make them martyrs and there are others, waiting in the wings. There is a reason why conservatives have been telling themselves parables of lions and sheep.
Yesterday I explained to two of my children that there are bubbles of fascism, of totalitarianism, all over the US. It was the deaths of, ironically, Peanut and Fred that brought me to this conclusion. If the fascists will steal beloved pets and murder so quickly…they will only hesitate briefly (or not at all) before doing similar to humans.
…is there anyone in the country who believes that the democrat party machine will accept an election that doesn’t go its way?
…there are few in the country that are so naive as to believe that the democrat party machine is *not* cheating in the election — especially in the swing states — in a myriad of ways.There was extensive cheating by the democrat party machine in 2020. The DNC halted the legal processes examining the election fraud in order to install Joe Biden. Was there enough *measurable* fraud in 2020 to swing the election towards Trump? It is difficult to know — and then there is the fraud that was difficult to measure the effects of — the Hunter Biden laptop, the concealment of Biden’s lack of mental acuity.
Sometimes, it is best to deal with the misbehavior of others by ignoring it, or just walking away, or avoiding that individual. When that isn’t possible, often the solution is to simply mind one’s own behavior, ensuring that one’s own behavior is in line with personal values, and firmly not being swayed by the bad actor. But when the behavior of the bad actor is such that it creates a situation where “the pursuit of happiness” is impossible, it is necessary to deliberately act, blocking the bad behavior from taking affect, apprehending the bad actor, and/or by removing the individual’s power to act.
That is why Putin invaded Ukraine.
And that is why we cannot just “ignore” the election fraud this time around. The abusers in power must lose their power, and an election is the appropriate, democratic way to do this. If the immediate election results do not overwhelm the election fraud, then it will be necessary to investigate the fraud and find the accurate, actual results. This will, unfortunately, be a painful process because much of the country has been primed to believe that the *investigation* of election fraud is problematic and dangerous, rather than the *election fraud* itself. Much of the country has been deluded by TDS, and truly believes themselves too unworthy to see the cloth that has been fashioned into the emperor’s new clothes. They have been gas-lit into disbelieving their own eyes. They are hoodwinked.
The investigation of election fraud, in and of itself, is *not* dangerous, as long as it is rooted in *truth* — in finding and accurately counting the votes of those who legally have the right to vote and who have expended the effort to get registered and vote. Such investigations are only “dangerous” when the truth is something that those in power wish to obfuscate.
Dr D
What happens if you hear things “It’s raining today” and it’s not true?That happened a couple of months ago. Saw an article when I was opening the Edge browser that stated that a terrible rain storm had grounded flights “right now” at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor airport. There were no storm clouds in the sky. I live about 10 miles from the airport…it can’t rain there and for someone at my home to not see storm clouds in the sky. Bizarre.
It isn’t that the idea of reparations is always wrong, but it is ridiculous that people who never owned slaves be forced to make reparation payments to people who never were slaves!
Reparations would have been appropriate in the generations when slavery was discontinued — if actual former slave owners had compensated actual former slaves for the labor that they had performed. However, the political will to do this did not exist in those generations, so it didn’t happen.
Economic inequality exists for many reasons. It can be due to ill luck as much as due to personal failings. Sometimes, the “fault” will never be rectified. So what? The answer is to move on. Just move on.
As a society, it is incumbent upon us to help out those who are falling behind. The great religions teach this. If we discharge this responsibility well then, as the generations pass, much of the negative fall out from slavery will slowly be erased.
10 and 13 days to tabulate the results of the Nov. 5 election.
It’s an odd combination of lie/not lie. It has always taken many days to tabulate final results — because of ballots taking a while to come in from overseas, etc. However, usually we have results that delineate a clear winner that cannot be dislodged by outstanding ballots before the nation turns in for the night.
When races are tighter, are closer, and being decided by a few thousand ballots, it may be necessary to wait for all of the votes to be counted before declaring a winner. This much is fact.
However, nefarious actors have figured out that if we jury-rig public perception so that public belief is that candidates are neck-to-neck, then we can halt counting, assess where the establishment candidate is at, and shower in a cascade of ballots that are for the establishment-preferred candidate. That is where we are now, with those in charge of ballot-counting in swing states speaking at length and disingenuously about how long the vote count process may take….
Hit piece on RFK Jr
Here’s the thing: I’ve been aware of RFK Jr for around 25 years. The more I found out about him, the more media appearances (of all types) that I saw, the more that he wrote that I read, the more my respect grew. Then he ran for president.
Trump: I’ve been aware of him for about 40 years. His style always got on my nerves. He wrote a book about 20 or 25 years ago — which I read — outlining his political views, and what his positions would be if he ran for president. I liked much of what he said, but not all of it. I found his demeanor in The Apprentice overbearing. In 2016 I didn’t like him for president — I liked Hilary Clinton less, and voted 3rd party. In 2020 I voted 3rd party. I *still* do not like Trump’s bombastic style, but I am impressed with the group of people that he is gathering to advise him and work with him, I find that he comes across as respecting the office of US president, and that he has a good relationship with his kids and grandkids. The family relationships are important — they say a great deal about who a person is, and their values.
Kunstler:
We have entered a new era of antisemitismI’ve been noticing the same thing — although, not in person yet, so far I’ve only seen it online.
I find this deeply troubling.
Anti-immigrant rhetoric is more widespread. But that is based upon Biden Admin. policies, and overtly criminal acts in this country.
The antisemitism is based upon dawning realization that prominent Jews are involved in nefarious plots to control and subdue the rest of us. At the same time, Israel is committing genocide, and it is becoming apparent that the government of Israel has ties to the prominent Jews of whom I spoke.
I worry that the subterfuge of a few well-connected Jews could turn public sentiment against them all again. I hope not. I have good friends who happen to be Jewish and who have no ties to the “prominent Jews” nor to the Gazan genocide. I know that there are Jews that oppose the genocide in Gaza, who oppose Zionism, who want no part in being involved with plots to “rule the world.” I think that now would be a good time for Jews who want no part in genocide or machinations to speak up and make it clear to the rest of humanity that they are distinct from the Jews involved in these problematic enterprises.Well, at least the recent arrival illegal immigrants in Georgia and North Carolina may quickly come to understand the perfidy of the administration that welcomed them in.
Kunstler:
the Obama-Biden-Harris faction of the Deep State blob is anti-Israel and that Israel understands what this means. He says that Benjamin Netanyahu has told “Joe Biden” (or, let’s say, told errand-boys Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan) that if the blob engineers a phony victory for Kamala Harris, he will blow up the oil fields in Iran and the anti-Israel Democrats will have to pick up the pieces.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. I can’t support genocide and war crimes against civilians; I can’t support the policies of the Biden-Harris administration. Nasrallah stated that the solution was one state, with groups living side by side. Eventually, this is what has occurred in the US, with reservations often side-by-side typical US communities. (I’m not suggesting that this system works well, but no one is lobbing rockets back and forth, and everyone is free to come and go as they please.)
At this point, I’m resigning myself to supporting Trump and then complaining bitterly about any support towards Israel in support of genocide and war crimes.Arizona and the 98,000 registered voters in limbo
Both sides sensationalize. This is something that actually makes sense, and the AZ Supreme Court ruled correctly. The 98,000 are ALL people who obtained an AZ drivers license before 1996 AND have renewed it since then. It does not include ANYONE who was not present in AZ and eligible for a drivers license before 1996. Therefore, this problem bears no relation the recent issue of the Biden/Harris letting immigrants in and inducing them to register to vote. Those immigrants may end up getting federal ballots in AZ (because the USSC forced AZ to permit this), but they won’t vote in local AZ elections.
The 98,000 need to comply with AZ law — but they must be given a grace period to bring their voter registration into compliance, and it is not appropriate to disenfranchise them in the upcoming election due to a clerical error.
Of course, since the 98,000 have been adults in AZ for over 30 years, there is a good chance that they may not be voting for Kamala Harris.Dr D:
Diet: Not only did they, they never even try. No recommendations for yoga, diet, lifestyle. They would work in a pleasant minority of cases, and have no side effects. Remember, the placebo effect can be 20% and is higher than many drugs. Why don’t they? How dare they??? I’ve already said: like ZERO patients will actually do and act on them, even said by a doctor. So there’s the seen and the unseen, the speaker and the listener. “Gimme a pill, Doc.” (I want to keep drinking.)People will often do more than we ever expected. My spouse found out a few months ago that his blood pressure was rather high and kidney markers in his blood were elevated to a concerning level.. It freaked him out. I read Malcolm Kendrick’s The Clot Thickens, discussed it with him, and he did his own research. Within a week, he had radically changed his diet, started a first-line blood pressure medication, purchased supplements, and began researching a Chinese medicinal tea for the kidney issues. A month later he had a blood test to see where the kidney stuff was (we’re awaiting results,) and his blood pressure was well into the normal range. He discontinued the blood pressure medication nearly a week ago (this was the plan all along), experienced a few days of blood pressure in the upper range of normal, but already his blood pressure has equilibriated into the middle-normal range for his age — now without medication, only with diet and supplements.
A little over a year ago my father was diagnosed with prostrate cancer, and was contemplating treatment options. I, my sister, and my mother were alarmed and began researching. We quickly determined that a change in diet might stave off any radical treatments (surgery, chemo, radiation.). My mother was willing to change her diet to align with a low-carb diet for my dad. 5 weeks later his levels were tested again, and although he does have prostate cancer (confirmed by biopsy), the indicators suggest that it is nearly dormant. The diet has been in place for over a year, and the levels are periodically checked to make sure that the dormancy remains so that more aggressive action can be taken if that changes.
Often, people will stick to a diet when they see or feel measurable results — because humans like to have control over themselves.
In a few weeks I am going to be teaching a class series at the local retirement community about technologies of the 21st century. Some of it will be “fun and games” — demonstrating technology that is new, such as a robot vacuum, a VR headset, etc. — that most seniors have not experienced. However, as I was speaking with my 91 year old friend, I realized that even she would like to better understand how the technologies of the 21st century are shaping our lives in less obvious ways. I am contemplating how to weave these ideas into the classes, ideas such as: CBDCs, loss of privacy, total surveillance, children who are addicted to smartphones, medical technologies that are essentially driven by “mad scientists,” medical data (and other types) all stored “in the cloud” — and constantly being breached, and how Big Tech and the government are collecting data on all of us for marketing and social control. I don’t want to preach…but I want to open minds to what is going on.
(Some might say that this is useless, but I remember a particular technology class that I did about Android devices, where instruction about how to find the privacy information regarding apps in google play resulted in the class-goers that day coming to the realization of what these apps could do “behind the scenes” — and they were wise enough to realize the nefarious implications without me spelling it out.)
So, if anyone has any topical suggestions, please leave them in the comments today and tomorrow and I will read through them. Thanks much!
Love the Babylon Bee Newsom “ad.”
I guess that newly-minted, unconstitutional law is going to be tested right away!
The Bee is the perfect entity to test it.
🙂Ugh.
Mealworms are tasty treats for hens, and the hens can’t use their infertile eggs, but I find eggs tasty. Why take the hens out of the equation? Especially when hens are cute and fun to keep around. And their dropping help fertilize the garden.DBS
Is there some other way go about it? It’s not actually tyranny (and therefore not truly intolerable) UNTIL it is accepted. Up until then it is only “threatened”, or “feared” tyranny. There’s nothing quite like REAL tyranny to get people’s attention and convince them that it’s the real thing. That real tyranny happens AFTER it is accepted.My hope right now is this observation:
I am fairly certain that the size of the population that has caught on to the deception and tyranny being pulled over on the American people is a larger percentage, a more vocal percentage, than was in Germany as Nazism arose. It helps that patriotism/nationalism in the US is tied inextricably with freedom of speech, et al., and that these freedoms and rights are inimical to tyranny. I suppose that is why the deep state is trying so hard to redefine “freedom of speech” as too dangerous, too permissive, too cruel to the tender-eyed and why bureaucrats are positing that the US Constitution is an outdated scrap of paper.The US Constitution is imperfect, (3/5 of a person!?!) but the intent is clear: it is meant to be a bulwark against tyranny. As long as a sizable chunk of the US population not only thinks favorably of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence, but has some shred of real familiarity with the documents (which should be the case with every person who graduates from a US high school,) it should be very, very difficult for tyranny to take complete hold of the US. Enough of the population will hear what the pols say and think, wait, that doesn’t seem to be in line with what I remember from high school civics and US history classes. I really hate to be relying on run-of-the-mill folks making this realization, but this is not a situation where individuals can stand alone and succeed — look at Gonzalo Lira — and fortunately, there are some people with integrity who are sifting to the top, spreading the rhetoric that will help to jostle the memories of those boring high school classes. (My high school civics teacher had a PhD. Students hated his class. It was a very easy class to get an “A” in. He was very boring. He also knew the material inside and out and was doggedly determined that students were going to absorb the basics of US civics.)
Unfortunately, I suspect that DBS is correct — the tyranny has to be quite obvious — very close to the “point of no return” — before it is realized. For many of us, the pandemic was the moment that we realized that the ever-present tyrannical elements had been emboldened and making broad moves — the masking, stay-at-home orders, the censorship and jabs. For others, they were jostled by the 2020 election, when mountains of mysterious mail-in ballots flipped the results. For some, it has been their shock when liberal institutions have cracked down on protests on behalf of Palestinians — which has been a medium-intensity left-wing cause for decades.
So the clip of the debate above was the first that I saw.
Harris’s performance is good acting. It is believable, plausible. She is feigning emotion well, in all the correct moments. It’s just the right dose of emotion. Every emphasis correctly placed.
But I know it is acting. Why?
Because a debate is not supposed to be well-scripted and well-rehearsed. A debate is supposed to be off the cuff. And I have seen her countless times over the past 5 years in unscripted, off the cuff moments. This performance at the debate was not the Kamala Harris that we know so well, who talks in circles and cackles when she doesn’t know how to get from idea “A” to idea “D.” Instead it was “Kamala Harris, Presidential Candidate (TM).”
However, I can see why the TDS folks (“Orange man — bad!”), the rainbow folks, the I’m-afraid-of-carbon folks, etc., will look at this debate and think, “Ah! Look how perfect ‘Kamala Harris, Presidential Candidate (TM)’ is!” I suppose that they have learned nothing from 8 years of “Obama, Change has come to America (TM),” and Biden. They want to be gaslit, I suppose. They want to believe the liberal fairy tale. Just like they want to believe in Luke Skywalker, Neo, and MLK Jr — before he supported the Poor People’s Campaign. It’s an act. It isn’t real.
Media is the biggest threat
Nice to hear a young person recognize this. Hopefully, in another decade or so, he will have the wisdom to add qualifiers to what he is saying: the legacy media, the mainstream media, the captured media.Don’t throw out the baby with the bath water!
Nod to aspnaz on the OffG article about polio vax campaign in Gaza:
This is a way of reinforcing the overwhelming vitalness of vaccination – even enemies, blowing each other up in a war, will stop to get kids vaccines (before blowing them up). Vaccines are just that important.
It’s yet another bizarre narrative twist that calls into question the true purpose and motivation for the Gaza war as a whole.
Or maybe it’s just a symptom of living in an insane world run by insane people to insane ends.There is no sense here. My pattern recognition is buzzing, looking for the link, but I haven’t found anything that clicks into place…
Tiger “pups”: https://www.today.com/news/tigers-say-bye-mom-dog-raised-them-wbna31541834
I sometimes wonder about these “feel good” videos — I suspect that an overly positive narrative is being spun.
The unusual pairing also solved the small zoo’s financial woes. It sounds like quite a place — reviews talk about tour guides (including the owner) who know the personalities of the animals and a woman who went on her birthday, and was permitted to hold a wolf-pup.
Republican Voters Against Trump
If it barks like astroturf, smells like astroturf, looks like astroturf…
Spouse and I were driving down a well-used road in Phoenix yesterday, and I noticed that there are now Trump signs sprinkled among all of the signs promoting local politicians. None for Harris…and then I noticed ONE for Harris, by Republican Voters Against Trump. I laughed.
Those who read what I comment here have probably noticed that I have a habit of sharing what I see around me, hoping that it benefits others. Here is some more of that.
A week and a half ago my daughter had a nasty sore throat, so I took her to an urgent care to see if it made sense to get her antibiotics. In AZ, the law says that if a patient’s health data is entered into a Health Information Exchange, then the patient (or patient’s representative) may opt-out of the HIE, and this is to be done by notifying the provider. I don’t know fully whether or not these HIEs are a good idea or not (I suspect not), however, I have made it a habit to exercise my right to opt-out of them for myself and the children. Perhaps it is simply a way for me to thumb my nose at the system, or a way to educate people who work the front office of medical offices about what is going on.
I skimmed through the long, boring pages of notices that I was signing that I had received. I noticed a paragraph about an HIE, but saw nothing about the ability nor method to opt-out of the HIE. So I went up and asked the front office staff. They were completely clueless, and looked at me as if I were a crazy person. I went back to my seat, did a little searching on the internet, and found the opt-out form provided by the HIE named by the documentation, and asked the front office staff to print the document so that I could fill it out and sign it. The young woman seemed to agree — and subsequently my daughter was called back for the visit with the provider.
When it was time to leave, I requested that printed form, and discovered that the front office woman seemed to have hoped that I would have forgotten my request — it had not been printed, and now she was refusing to print it. I pointed out that they were in violation of Arizona law. The second front office woman addressed me with a strong attitude, her behavior suggesting that I was crazy and that my requests were inappropriate. Both woman refused to give me the name or contact information for a manager/supervisor. I was angered by this exchange, but decided that I would bide my time and deal with it later. Once home, I found the relevant AZ government website and made a formal complaint about the urgent care office.
Six days later I returned with my spouse (I invited him along, suggesting that it would be “fun,”) bringing the HIE opt-out forms filled out and a copy of the relevant AZ law. A different woman was manning the front office. This woman was equally ignorant of how to opt-out of the HIE, but she put forth a genuine effort to find out, finally scanning the forms, adding them to my daughter’s chart, forwarding the chart to someone that she believed would be able to act on the forms, and when asked for supervisor contact information she provided me the name and contact information for the business’s compliance officer. She provided quality customer service.
In both instances, the front office staff was completely flummoxed by my request, the third one stating that in all of her time of employment with this company no one had ever made this request before. Of course not — the populace has been lulled by EULAs since the 1990s to ignore long pages of legalese, and to simply check a box or sign their acquiescence, completely ignorant of the rights that they are granted under law.
Dr D
What was that about how Ritter is a CIA plant, up to no good because the FBI wasn’t up his -ss yet? And also Gonzalo Lira, clearly a plant and an agent.This is something that I have noticed as well: distrust gets ramped up, pattern recognition goes on overdrive and seems to take over from other high-level forms of thought, and the individual arrives as erroneous conclusions and begins shunning potential allies. Pattern recognition is a very, very useful and important capability of the human mind, but we must remember that just because we perceive human faces in clouds, the moon, the fronts of cars, rocks, etc., does not mean that these objects were created deliberately to look like human faces. (Okay, perhaps cars were, I don’t really know.). Humans need connection with other humans, and when we lack trust we feel anxiety — fear — and fear-driven pattern recognition has a high rate of false positives. (I.e. Michael Yeadon decrying doctors whose careers were adversely affected for prescribing ivermectin for Covid as witting tools of the WEFfers.). We function best when our thought patterns are balanced between various types of cognition, such as (but not limited to) pattern recognition, logic, empathy, emotion, social cues, cause and effect, observation, direct stimulus of the senses, the scientific method, etc.
At the end of the day I remind myself: United we stand; divided we fall. Yes, there is always risk in allying with other humans. We do not know them as well as we know ourselves. (Some do not even know themselves!). However, to stand alone is a greater risk, and assures that those who stand against us can pick us off singly. I plan to vote for Trump. However, the first and only political yard sign I’ve ever placed is in my front yard right now, for Kennedy. I’ve decided to keep that sign in place. The only other yard sign for the presidential race on this street of 20 homes is for my neighbors to the north. It is for Harris. I find myself scratching my head — the woman is ex-military and her husband likes to hunt, it seems both would be put off by a restriction on personal firearm ownership. Bizarro-land.
Phantom voters vid…
…I had a computer client who, in the mess of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis, had a financial setback and ended up living at his commercial property for about 4 years. Would such an individual be seen as a “phantom voter?”
Regarding Catholic Charities…although I’ve never sought help from them, I had a friend years ago who had done so, who shared her experience. They sent someone to the home to assess the family’s needs, brought food to them (rather than requiring the family to pick it up — very difficult for households without cars,) and can provide help with rent and utilities. Simply defunding Catholic Charities will send ripples of pain throughout those at the bottom of the economic heap. The answer is to simply require documentation of citizenship in order to register to vote, and for the federal government to permit the states to verify eligibility.
Oroboros
School tax money going directly to *all* parents? No!My sister is using AZ’s ESA money to school her 6 kids. She is dedicated, has a very supportive husband who works long hours, and she tutors dyslexic kids (many who are paying via ESA as well) on the side. I currently have a piano student who pays via ESA. I support the ESA program, and it is MOST DEFINITELY not for all families.
Both of my sons are technically autistic, and one was prone to violent outbursts when he was younger. Working with the public school was a challenge…but I physically could not have schooled my children and supported them financially simultaneously. There is great value in dedicated teachers who become experts in their field.
Just this past Sunday my sister was talking about an ESA, home-schooling family that she tutors that she is thinking about dropping because the mother habitually cancels and reschedules tutoring. The teens in this family don’t get up until midafternoon each day. My sister says that the older two took to reading easily, but the next two did not, and the mother just threw up her hands and stopped trying to teach the next two kids to read. After years, she finally engaged my sister’s services to help the younger two.
There were problems with accountability of how families spent ESA funds…so the AZ government decided all supply purchases must be backed by a curriculum. Families are letting ChatGPT write the “curriculum.” Purchases of curriculums are being denied because they weren’t submitted with a curriculum! ESA purchases are easier with Amazon than with other retailers, so ESA families increasingly make all supply purchases from Amazon.
A “micro-school” (which is what it is called when a “teacher” starts a tiny school with 10 students) is not going to eat up the full funds from 10 students. First of all, most families are not stupid enough to do this, they also want to spend the funds on other educational, enrichment a activities — music lessons, swimming lessons, drama, dance, tumbling, karate, etc. Next, most micro-schools have to rent space (hopefully a space where it is legal to have a school — sometimes they get shut down for neglecting that part.). Much of the time, none of the micro-school teachers are accredited, you’re lucky if any have a college degree. Do the teachers know how to think critically? Or are they just parroting a different set of life-rules than are commonly found in public school? Of course, schools need supplies, and now the teacher may be able to eke out a meager living from 10 students once all of those issues are accounted for — but it is doubtful.
Like I said, my sister is immersed in that world. She loves it. She sees the “good, bad, and the ugly” of the home-schooling movement. It is a very good option for some. We also need public schools.
@ Orobouros
We could probably debate the details of feminism….
For me, Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is relevant. A married woman, mother with children, is treated like a doll by her life, and she leaves. I had a part-time Mexican nanny for my kids for a while, many years ago. She was astranged from her first daughter for three decades because she fled a bad marriage.
I did not. I gradually took the reigns of power in my flailing marriage, and used the systems that exist to protect those with less physical power to eject my ex from the home. I kept my house; I kept my children. I couldn’t prevent the state from insisting that the children spend half their time with their emotionally abusive father for seven years until my daughter had carved her anguish onto her body — but I prevented him from increasing it to 100% of the time, mitigated the effects as best as I could, and got her out once she fully found her voice on the issue.
To me, the path that I have followed — one that many women before me and after me follow — is feminism. It is inextricably linked to the indisputable fact that I am physically weaker than men and that I can bring children into the world, that I take on a sacred role to raise them the best way that I can, and that I don’t hesitate to ask for assistance to do it when my own efforts are not adequate to the task.
Feminism is not taking a man’s role, nor pretending to be a man. It isn’t placement on a security detail without having received proper prior training. Those women are hollow and do not know themselves. I can live for myself and be the mother that my children need. It is knowing that my son will be bewildered on his first day of college if he doesn’t know where to go, and setting aside several hours on a Monday morning to ride the train with him to ASU, together sorting out the building acronyms, room numbers, campus map, and walking the path from class to class. (Some may say I should have left my son to figure it out…but his therapist identified him as very, very likely high-functioning autistic many years ago, and I knew from years of observation what he needed in order to be comfortable on his first day of university.). His first day went very well this week. He was confident. He realized many of his peers were half lost, trying to find their way. He knows how to avoid that situation.
The article on the RNC trying to get 41,000 AZ voters disqualified leaves out some pertinent details. This one adds some back in: https://www.azfamily.com/2024/08/20/republicans-ask-supreme-court-block-40k-arizona-voters-presidential-election/
The Epoch Times article doesn’t explain who the 41,000 are. The azfamily.com suggests that they are largely service members, students and Native Americans who did not have birth certificates when they registered to vote.
Um.
Registering to vote in AZ does not directly require a birth certificate. It does require documentation of citizenship…and many those forms of documentation originally required a birth certificate. For example, the AZ law can use a drivers license or valid passport as documentation of US citizenship…most people aren’t carrying around their birth certificates, but do have some sort of state-issued document that asserts citizenship. Once a resident has an AZ drivers license or state identity card, the opportunity to register to vote — or change party affiliation — is presented each time the individual is, for example, registering a vehicle or applying for state aid. Since the individual’s citizenship isn’t changing, the only requirement at those junctures is documentation of current address.
Federal law has required AZ to register to vote those who attest US citizenship but have not bothered to provide documentation. So AZ is printing separate ballots for these individuals that only include federal races. The RNC is trying to also prevent those folks from voting in the federal races.
While I have no desire to block any Native American grannies or uncles who have never held an AZ drivers license nor identity card and never received state aid, neither SNAP nor Medicaid (both of which require proof of citizenship,) and are also not in possession of their tribal documents (which are also accepted,) I imagine that the individuals who lack all of these things must be difficult to find.
Here is the list of acceptable documents to register to vote in AZ local elections:
Arizona Driver’s License/Identification Number: If you have a valid Arizona driver’s license or nonoperating identification card issued after October 1, 1996, you should provide the license/identification number in Box 9 on the Arizona Voter Registration Form or register online at http://www.servicearizona.com. A.R.S. § 16-166.If you do not have an Arizona license you may need to provide one of the following documents to establish proof of citizenship: A.R.S. § 16-166.
Your Indian Census Number, Bureau of Indian Affairs Card Number, Tribal Treaty Card Number, or fill in your Tribal Enrollment Number in Box 10 on the voter registration form.
A photocopy of your U.S. naturalization documents or fill in your Alien Registration Number in Box 11 on the voter registration form.
A legible photocopy of your birth certificate and supporting legal documentation (i.e., marriage certificate) if the name on the birth certificate is not the same as your current legal name.
A legible photocopy of the pertinent pages of your U.S. passport.
A legible photocopy of your Tribal Certificate of Indian Blood or Bureau of Indian Affairs Affidavit of Birth.They don’t even require an official copy of a birth certificate! A photocopy will suffice!
As far as students and service members…why are they leaving home without their birth certificates? Obviously, if they want to vote where they are, and won’t be getting a local drivers license then they need to look up the local rules about voter registration, acquire the pertinent documents, and get registered. This is 2024 — it isn’t hard to call up a parent, say: Hey, can you snap a photo of my birth certificate and send it? and then print it out for the required photo copy. Nor is it terribly difficult to request a new copy of a birth certificate if lost. I turned 18 the second week of my freshmen year of college, about 2 months before the presidential election. I registered to vote at my then-address and voted. If it is important to people, they will do it.
However, the timing of this is problematic — students and service members may decide that they don’t care about local politics and only want to vote in federal elections. They may have deliberately registered as “federal only” and not bothered to provide documentation, as it wasn’t required. To disqualify their registration shortly before an election disenfranchises them, and is inappropriate. If the rule is to change, the 41,000 should be notified that they need to provide citizenship documentation, and be given sufficient time to provide it. This is the problem with bad laws — they create unnecessary headaches later on.
I’ve never been all that fond of Trump, however…
Sometimes it is the need of the people and the exigencies of the situation that creates the leader, as much as the inner integrity of the individual.I hope that Trump surrounds himself with a better team for a second term as President. With the right team and a desire to do right for the American people, he could accomplish many good things in a second presidential term
Price Gouging
In the video, the students have been clearly propagandized to have a viewpoint that is in opposition the viewpoint often expressed by news and, more recently, Kamala Harris. Real life is more nuanced.
The generator situation — what the man did, driving in generators to sell at double retail — was moral. The man deserved to be compensated for his costs and time. (To skirt laws about price gouging he could have sold them “at cost” with a delivery charge.) If a store possessing generators in the location of the hurricane doubled their prices — and not due to increased costs, but just because people would buy them at the higher price, the morality becomes more murky. “Price gouging” generally — not in the face of an emergency — is more likely to occur in a monopoly/oligopoly situation, and often involves government regulation. For example, the Boston Tea Party because tea was an important commodity and the British Crown had granted a monopoly to the East India Company and placed a high tax on tea. Also, prescription drugs and the patent system leads to Big Pharma to price gouging.
The debate is mischaracterized when it is seen as black and white, “to price gouge or not to price gouge.” The students are being led to a black and white view that is different from the black and white view of the current MSM. Try educating students to THINK, not to parrot.
enemy infantry is made up of NATO special forces from the United States, Britain, France, and Poland alongside the NeoNazis of Ukraine
We’ve really got to get these loonies out of office, disempowering the cabal behind them, before Putin loses his cool.
Price Gouging
In the video, the students have been clearly propagandized to have a viewpoint that is in opposition the viewpoint often expressed by news and, more recently, Kamala Harris. Real life is more nuanced.
The generator situation — what the man did, driving in generators to sell at double retail — was moral. The man deserved to be compensated for his costs and time. (To skirt laws about price gouging he could have sold them “at cost” with a delivery charge.) If a store possessing generators in the location of the hurricane doubled their prices — and not due to increased costs, but just because people would buy them at the higher price, the morality becomes more murky. “Price gouging” generally — not in the face of an emergency — is more likely to occur in a monopoly/oligopoly situation, and often involves government regulation. For example, the Boston Tea Party because tea was an important commodity and the British Crown had granted a monopoly to the East India Company and placed a high tax on tea. Also, prescription drugs and the patent system leads to Big Pharma to price gouging.
The debate is mischaracterized when it is seen as black and white, “to price gouge or not to price gouge.” The students are being led to a black and white view that is different from the black and white view of the current MSM. Try educating students to THINK, not to parrot.
@ JB-JB
It may be that my clients trust me more easily because I am a woman, and not a man. But I don’t think that is it.
Over the last 15 years I’ve received several phone calls from clients in one stage or another of a scam — usually pretty early on (I am called, rather than the number on the screen.). For some, the fact that I am paid makes it more likely that they call me. For others, it makes it less likely — not wanting to incur the cost — I am called because my fee for a quick phone call is much less than the headache of a scam. With family, the hesitation may just come from “not wanting to create an inconvenience” and “saving face.” Elderly, non-dementia types might spot a door-to-door scam easily, but fall for an online scam because their internal “scam filters” were developed for a different era.@ jb-hb
Thank you for the thoughts about avoiding online scammers. My dear 91-year-old friend and client was very nearly scammed a couple of weeks ago, so this is on my mind. It was, of course, the “microsoft” scam, website screaming at her, etc. She was on the phone with them for an hour before they went after her banking information — then she hung up the phone and called me. When I accessed her computer I saw that someone else was remoted in and was in the process of copying the username and password for her bank account out of a passwords file. I had decided not to charge her for computer help any longer, in light of all of the help that she has given me and my kids over the years…but I have found that then she doesn’t feel as free to call me when I don’t charge her. So she and I have decided that I will charge her again (but at the same rate…she doesn’t need to know that I raised my rates for all but 3 of my clients.) It is better that she pay me for helping her with her technology than running the risk of being scammed, although I was happy to help her without remuneration.
I thought about the protections that you were suggesting, and it occurs to me that there may be some much simpler ways to accomplish nearly the same thing. Are you familiar with OpenDNS? It is a DNS filtering service that has been around for a long time — I was first made aware of it about 16 years ago. It looks like the service is still free for home use. A router can be configured to use it. Another option would be a Firewalla box — although the one that I have is sometimes buggy. (It also may simply be that I haven’t made the time to figure out what was up with it, lol. Firewallas also make use of OpenDNS.)
I would hesitate greatly to move an elderly client from Windows to any version of GUI Linux — the elderly often struggle greatly with change. Case in point: My friend recently purchased a laptop, and since the Microsoft Office software packaging was lost in the move to the retirement community a few years back, her daughter and I decided to use a seat her daughter’s multi-license Ms Office on the laptop. During this debacle with fake “microsoft” support scammers, the scammer activated the new version of Microsoft Outlook. My friend has used Outlook for probably about 25 years or more, but she is accustomed to how it looks on her PC, using software from 2010, configured to appear roughly the same as it was 25 years ago. The “new” Outlook was bewildering. I toggled Outlook back to the original, and Microsoft wanted to know the reason why…I explained that the owner was a 91-year-old woman who was not interested in changes in how the software looked!
So…
There are some that say that the elites of the world are controlled by Jewry, and they tend to condemn all those of Jewish descent as bad.
And, I was looking at some items that Dr. John Day had put up a few days ago, which delves into secret societies, luciferianism, ritual child abuse, MKUltra, etc.
Honestly, what is accused of those purported to be at the heart of both of these is pretty similar. The details might diverge, but the idea of some sort of totalitarian government where the plebes like their servitude runs through both of them. I do find it ironic that the Nazis are a part of the second set, and were intent to murder Jews.
So, which is it? Are we ruled by satanists? Are we ruled by powerful Jews? Are both branches in cahoots with each other? Are they two sides of the same coin? Are they diametrically opposed to each other, and we, (“the plebes,”) simply caught up in the maelstrom of their great battles? I don’t want to have anything to do with any of it. It’s a bunch of nonsense masquerading as cosmic reality. If I buy into the “I hate Jews” trope am I actually furthering the cause of the satanists? If I buy into the pizzagate stuff am I supporting the Zionist project? I don’t have any answers, and I doubt that I have any special knowledge. At the end of the day, I want to live my life with my family and good friends, providing services to my clients, being delighted at the antics of our pets, growing food in my yard, and gradually adjusting my home to better serve our needs. So, I don’t want to “own nothing” — if Western Civ means that I must own property in order to live this way, then I am contented with the costs and responsibilities of property ownership and all that entails. I find it infuriating that there are secret groups trying to manipulate human civilization to their own ends, leaving broken human lives in their wake. I don’t know how accurate the accounts of nefariousness are of those at the top of Jewry and the satanists…however, I have enough experience in the world to understand that there is definitely more going on than meets the eye.
@ formerly t-bear
*sigh*
There *are* people who are born with unclear/ambiguous gender.
I’m reading a little between the lines, but it has been clearly stated that both xy “female” boxers are “not trans” and yet have xy chromosomes. While I have no details, there I suspect that these individuals may have xy but have been born with undescended testicles and no penis, and were deemed “female” at birth. However, since birth, the hormones associated with the Y chromosome have asserted themselves sufficiently that these individuals have clear advantages over women with xx chromosomes.As far as the xy “female” boxers, it may be that they are disadvantaged when compared to an average xy clearly male boxer. I don’t know. However, considering the inherent danger of injury to xx female boxers, I believe that it is clear that xy “female” boxers should not be competing with xx female boxers. Let the xy’s duke it out together. I am also okay with all of the unclear, mixed, “non-binary,” folks competing together…but, quite frankly, there aren’t so many of them, and there may not be much of an audience for that.
Based on what’s being said and not-said about the XY-chromosome “female” boxers at the Olympics, I’m guessing that what we’re dealing with are XY-chromosome individuals who lack the full complement of male physical features. To whit: these individuals were likely seen as female at birth, when only salient physical features are counted. I hope that it causes some important general cogitation about *why* female sports categories exist. Women were not historically called “the weaker sex” simply because men wanted to feel good about themselves. No, it is because human females develop as less physically powerful than human males. Period. (I am reminded of this every time I fail at some physical effort and my spouse says, “Here let me try it.” Almost always I acquiesce and his strength suffices where mine did not. Sometimes I decline his offer, and try it a different way, because I need to see if I can find a way to make it work on my own. — or because I fear that he will break it. And, sometimes, because he is so accustomed to applying brute force that he does so without thinking it through first, he puts in his effort, the item does break, and then he has to repair or replace it.). Perhaps we can return to a sane place, where instead of trying to erase the differences between men and women we can appreciate them and enjoy them. Men and women are different — but we don’t need rigid cultural rules about gender roles, we can let individuals work out the details of their lives. However, in sports, we need to narrowly define women.
And…I found out that the gendered changing/restrooms at the city pool are officially non-gendered despite their traditional signage. To me, it sounds like a cop-out. I suspect that this policy will remain until a woman or child is assaulted, naively assuming that there was safety and privacy on the side with female signage, and then the city will return to its senses.
Meta wants my birthdate. To protect the children, so they say. So, show me content suitable for children — I don’t care. I use a VR headset for one, singular purpose — an exercise program. I pay for the program. I have no need, nor desire, to be exposed to any content via VR except for that exercise program. I ignore everything on the headset except for that program. If I desire to view any content deemed unsuitable for children below the age of 13, then I will give my birthdate. What is so difficult about this?
Oh, right, I understand. Meta wants to advertise to me…on a system that *I* have paid for, accessing content that *I* have paid for. This is quixotic.
the false climate change agenda and the overall lie that has been drilled into the human brain — it seems to be irreversible. The “smartest” people believe in it.
I used to believe it. I don’t any longer — because I exposed myself to additional data that made it clear that the CO2-leads-to-warming hypothesis was too simple to explain all of the data. Belief can change — but it requires being open to new information and exposure to data that disproves current belief. Totalitarian structures train people to be close-minded and they attempt to control people’s access to contradictory information.
I have pointed out the chemtrails to my children, explained to them that they are not natural, that they are put there by planes, and we don’t know exactly what is in them or why they are there.
There is a sizable part of the population that never believed in the CO2 hoax. I think that the tide is turning on that one.
@ Oxymoron
You have a knack for putting words together!
The gardening references create an interesting juxtaposition of ideas.
And the song graphically represents the angst so many feel against the WEFfers and their ilk.
Although, for me, the level of violence in the song is off-putting…it isn’t something that I would listen to with regularity.In my experience, Christianity is often obsessed with finding examples of “wickedness” in the world and trumpeting about it to parishioners. It is used as a means of proving the need for the existence of Christian churches to the believers. And when the world’s wickedness directly attacks Christianity or Christian stories and symbols, Christian ministers often go into overdrive, decrying this as an attack upon Christianity, admonishing parishioners to condemn the wickedness.
I am conflicted by Christianity these days. I recognize that my own moral compass is strongly rooted in my religious upbringing, while at the same time I reject the traditional dogma. The Left has gone crazy, coming completely unmoored from Enlightenment roots, the Right remembers much of the Enlightenment — but then I see people standing and cheering when DJ Trump suggests year-long prison terms for anyone who burns the flag. (I don’t like the idea of people desecrating the flag, however, it isn’t appropriate to prosecute anyone for it.). We need rule of law and blind justice, not prison terms for anyone from the other tribe that behaves in ways that we don’t like.
