Yesterday, the holiday being over, I was happy to find some real stories and cutting edge videos. I mean fluff is nice, but activists cannot live by flull alone. And I don’t mean to imply that today’s posts are completely fluff-free, by any means. I also made the last few cartoons missing to get us to the end of September. What I didn’t get done that I wanted to was to change the toner cartridge in my printer. I’ve had it for 2 years and was still working on the original cartridge that came with it – which was not even a full size. So I’d say it’s time. Hopefully today.
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Crooks and Liars – Bias, Theocracy, And Lies At The National Prayer Breakfast
Quote – The prayer breakfast is, we’ve been told, an ecumenical, nonpartisan event for leaders of every stripe, run by prayer groups in the House and Senate. None of that is true. The National Prayer Breakfast (NPB) is not run by Congress. The Family controls it, uses the breakfast for its own ends, and can do so thanks to the bipartisan fiction maintained by its remaining Democratic allies…. [T]he breakfast itself is overwhelmingly a production of The Family. The event’s only significant financial backer is a well-known, right-wing theocrat.
Click through for more (not the full story as that is not yet completely known.) It simply boggles my mind that actual people of faith (as opposed to those who use religion as a source of power, successfully or unsuccessfully)do not “get it” that mixing religion and governmen only cheapens both. And probably tarnishes religion even more than it does government.
AP News – It’s a girl, and a boy: Buttigieg celebrates 2 babies
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Chasten and I are beyond thankful for all the kind wishes since first sharing the news that we’re becoming parents. We are delighted to welcome Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg to our family. pic.twitter.com/kS89gb11Ax
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) September 4, 2021
Click through if you like. The tweet really says it all.
The 19th – How abortion restrictions like Texas’ push pregnant people into poverty
Quote – About half of people who get an abortion live below the federal poverty level, and the majority of the women who took part in the research, known as the Turnaway Study, were low wage at the start. (No nonbinary people or trans men took part in the study, and there is very limited data on outcomes for the LGBTQ+ community.) The consequences of being denied an abortion plunged those women deeper into poverty, said Foster, the lead author of the study and a professor at the University of California San Francisco.
Click through for more about the study. IMO, the bottom line is that a pregnant person who wants a child, wants to love and nurture it, has the mans to love and nirture it, and has no health issues with her own body no with that of the zygote/empryo/fetus will deliver that baby. But without all of those conditions, forcing the baby to be born is doing no favors to the baby. Nor to the community.
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If your printer is still printing, I would NOT change the cartridge. I’ve even gotten a few more prints by taking out a cartridge the printer said was “empty” – give it a few shakes – and put it right back in.
Bias, Theocracy, And Lies At The National Prayer Breakfast
It’s a girl, and a boy: Buttigieg celebrates 2 babies
Not only is that great news in and of itself, but you just KNOW it’s going to piss off all those faux GQP christianists!
How abortion restrictions like Texas’ push pregnant people into poverty
Not that any card-carrying “I-Go-Mine-Screw-You” repubican would care.
Food for Thought
Don’t mean to steal your thunder, but would rather have it posted twice than not at all. This is truly nauseatingly disgusting:
That original cartridge was conservativelt expected to last two months, not years. I’m confident it’s well and truly dead. Bothe my eyeseight and my mobiity (or thelack of both) deserve better. I got the new one in successfully – the printer yelled at me, but it works anyway.
Sounds like you have a busy day in store. Hopefully your new toner cartridge will go in with no problem(s). Enjoy your day, and Thanks! for post, Joanne.
Cartoon: I was still in the military at the time…but still. ugh!
C&L: Holy Moly! I did not know about this at all, thanks for the memo.
AP: They will make wonderful and loving parents, I can see the love in their eyes…how sweet!
19thNews: Dark ages…how profoundly depressing/stressful for those women! and for the future!!
FFT: I can’t even imagine that…how sad! for all. Kids, teachers and parents.
THIS JUST IN “The Texas abortion snitch website has been shut down yet again by another Domain provider EPIK, because they said it violates it’s terms of use. THIS is EPIC !” ~ Brooklyn Dad ~
2. “Congressman Bennie Thompson, who chairs the January 6th Commission is considering bringing Trump before Congress to testify publicly.” ~ House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ~
3. “I miss being proud of where I live. *Texas*.” ~ anon ~ *”I hear ya.” pb
4. “If Covid vaccine refusers are turned away @hospitals and doctor’s offices, is that ethical? It’s called Triage. You treat the one most likely to survive.” ~ Rick Steele~
5. Q – “Donald Trump is going to write a book of all books. Will you buy it when it’s published?” A – “No, I have enough toilet paper for the time being.” ~ Garth Voight ~
TJI #1 – I’m not familiar with EPIK, but it arrears this is like being kicked out of a whorehouse for morals that are too loose.
TJI #2 – Whatever he thinks best. Trump won’t tell any truth, he will distract by steamrolling lies, and his base will love it. Captain Queeg’s testimony was only revealing because the judges were sane.
TJI #3 – I’m susceptible to that wish too. But if one looks at it hard, it becomes less important, I suspect.
TJI #4 – Triage is complicated, certainly. But I’m less concerned about doctors (and nurses) who are exhausted and trying to keep going making ethics errors than I am about hospital administrators who tend to be all about the bottom line doing so.
TJI #5 – Garth may want to rethink that if the MAGAts push us into another lockdown.
TJI #2 – I would encourage Chairman Thompson to move from “considering” to “HELL YES!”
Cartoon: Not a day, I care to be reminded of.
C&L: That’s insane…I was unaware of it not officially being held by political leader.
AP: Congratulations to them both. I heard about them yesterday from an email I got from People Magazine. They both are so happy and proud of their two precious babies. I wish them the very best.
The 19th: Shameful what the rotten governor in texas has done. Heartless bas*ard. Going backwards.
Food for Thought: Sad reading what the kids have to face with their foolish parents throwing threatful acts of violence at their teachers and other school officials for wanting to take care of their kids.
You sure have been busy coming up with more articles for us to enjoy. Appreciate it.
Glad you got your printer ink taken care of.
Hope the rest of your day went well.
Take care. Thanks Joanne
I agree with the cartridge advice Nameless gives you: shake the cartridge a few times to loosen the toner that has settled and you can print a few more pages. Time is not the factor for replacing it if you use the printer regularly, but the number of printed pages is.
Cartoon: That’s when Republicans learned they can get away with anything.
C&L: Why doesn’t it surprise me that a prayer event that shouldn’t take place in Congress if there is a separation of church and state is based on bias, theocracy and lies. And you can bet on it that all Republican hell would break loose if a Democrat should suggest ending the practice.
APN: Congratulations, Pete and Chasten.
19th: Texas, and in its wake many other red states, are well and truly returning to the dark ages.
FFT: I shudder to contemplate it, but chances are a shootist would be an anti-vaxxer/anti-masker too.
Does “about once every two months” count as regularly? Somehow it doesn’t feel like it.