wish people would read this especially Mastrino, Oz, Walker, Steele, Supreme Court Justices who decided to leave the issue to states giving them power to discriminate based on gender
https://www.yahoo.com/news/10-common-pieces-abortion-misinformation-201844621.html
The article KathleenG commented on
https://www.yahoo.com/news/south-carolina-woman-forced-carry-191000869.html
Secret wrote:
There is zero guarantee that a pregnancy will be perfect. Best to not chose to breed or to get sterilized if you believe in abortion.
Lord help us. What if a couple wanted to have a child? Why do you pass judgement and believe you have a right to force a woman to bear a dead fetus?
B-Doggie
Dear KahteenG and the rest like you,
Operative word is choice.
I admire the woman who raised her twin daughters ~ two heads in one body. I admire they grew up to become teachers. Grosses me out. Two distrubing to be in a classroom with two headed teacher. Did they teach the same subjects? Take turns talking? Or did one stay silent in the other's classes? I admire parents that raised a baby born with no limbs. She grew up to become a psychiatrist. She could do most things without help except for getting out of bed. (I suppose the same would be for bathing, she used pen-like thing held in her mouth to operate wheel chair, and other things. She did not gross me out. I thought her too heavy for me to pick up, so declined the job. I admire parents who raise disabled babies and children. They did not have such testing when I was pregnant. I worried the entire 9 months, during the first one, wondering if my baby would be born healthy. I do not remember worrying so much with the other two. Maybe I had more pressing problems than to spend worrying about my future newborn's health. All three were healthy.
I do not know that I had it in me to raise a baby with 1/2 a brain or 1/2 a lung or no limbs. Who would have paid for the multiple operations needed to keep a baby with defective heart alive? Not my husband for sure, he barely provided for his wife, one, two, three children. St. Jude's Children's Hospital?
KathleenG, the others like her, the Rigid Religious Right, the pastors, ministers, priests, politicians are not offering to take in the disabled babies. Nor are they offering financial aid to the parents. How many carseats do today's families need to buy. Three different sizes? I would never have been able to afford them when my babies were born.
CHOICE! Let the mother have choice. Liberty. She knows she is unable to care for, to afford extra medical expenses, what do these forced birth people advice? Give the defective infant up for adoption? Good luck with that.
Most parents wishing to adopt want infants, healthy infants. Used to be healthy white babies. Black boy babies were the least adopted. Some will settle for adopting older toddlers; the older the child becomes the less likely they are to become adopted.
In order to adopt an infant that requires multiple surgeries, the future parents need to have enough money. And enough time for caregiving or to pay for quality round the clock caregivers.
KathleenG's friend was to have been born dead, but was just "developmentally ill." (I think she meant disabled?.) 67 years ago the friend's mother would have had no choice but to give birth. Her Mother might have loved the baby unconditionally. I know mothers of autistic children who have problems loving them unconditionally.
I also know parents who beat their children for minor infractions. Can not imagine them caring for a disabled baby/child/young adult. Some have been arrested after locking disabled children in cages and otherwise abusing them. CHOICE! CHOICE! CHOICE!
Self-righteous KathleenG comment
Doctors are fully aware that an ectopic pregnancy is not an abortion, and state law has similarly recognized it. (The fertilized egg is in the Fallopian Tube, not the uterus fyi It cannot get nutrients etc.)
Doctors still might have been able to help the baby. So many people are told the baby will not have a good quality of life so kill the bab Often, a baby diesinutero if its life cannot be sustained. I fear people will kill babies in the 8th and 9 months and upon birth because its allowed, not because it is really needed. My 67 year old friend was supposed to be brain- dead basically, but the doctor's were wrong. Yes, she has hydrocephalus her whole life and she worked 10 hrs per week at a school for developmentally ill children. She is lovely and she said today, they would end her life in utero. She smiles and says, "Surprise! I may have struggles, but life is from God."
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I would do well to stop reading Yahoo articles, and thus, comments. I am spitting nails.
Mastraino says all abortions are murder, life begins at conception. Just because doctors do not consider ectopic pregnancy to be abortion, Mastriano and Oz and other politicians and religious leaders do. They are no exceptions. I wonder what state she is referring to? Mastriano promises ban on all abortions.So if a woman's ectopic pregnancy aborts itself where is the exception?
Already women have had to leave their home state to get treated for miscarriages, Where is the exception? Maybe those woman had miscarriages due to doc trying to transplant the blastocyst or embryo?.Will attending doctor have to report that a pregnancy terminated? Is that not considered aborted?
Why do physicians have to report abortions in the first place? Does not that violate HIPPA?
I looked up diesinutero, having never heard it; no such word. I guess bab is a babe typo?
How do we save America from the former president that says he has to do it again?
What is wrong with the United States of America?
An Arizona judge is allowing armed guards at drop boxes. Is not armed guards voter intimidation. That is just wrong. Are Democrats putting armed guards outside of drop boxes and polling places? Are Democrats threatening poll workers? Did any Democrat place illegal drop boxes? Do Democrats want to ban all abortions?
No, and no, and no again. This is DJT's America. He did not 'make America Great Again.' He took us back to at least the 1950s.
Goodbye female liberty. Hello White Supremacy. Goodbye environmental protections. Hello corruption at highest level of government.
I read some Yahoo Comments on a clip of President Obama where he asked does truth matter anymore. Overwhelming anti Obama comments that were well liked. 83 Likes vs. 3 Dislikes. Long comments blasting Obama's supposed lies. And praising the Lying King.
Campaign Promises not fulfilled are not lies; they are intentions. Years ago I read a well-researched article stating that most Presidential campaign promises are met. They were listed: Clinton promised this, Bush promised that, and so on.
A lie is claiming President Obama was not born in the U.S. of A. Saying there was massive election fraud is a lie. It was proven a lie over and over again. Yet those fools commenting on the short video clip believe him, and not the truthful Obama.
I am so downhearted. How do we save America from that?
Too bad no one reads my blogs. Someone would comment: we are not a Democracy, we are a Republic. Others would reply, we are a Democratic Republic. Or something like that. I opt for democracy, a government of, for and by the people.
Others will say we are a capitalist country or socialist democracy. The definitions of both words show little difference. I think of democracy as freedom, and republic as ruled. We are a bit of both.
Democratic might also be related to unbiased; which movie shall we go to, a show of hands, please.
Before this constant bickering over Democracy vs Republic, I viewed republic as meaning a country. In the same manner when I was in elementary school and learned "all men are created equal," I thought "men" meant "human beings."
Oh me. Older I realized they did mean men. White men. Not natives on the land, not women (or little naive girls,) or slaves. I understand the concept but we are not created equal. Some, born without limbs, twins joined at heads or two heads on one body. If you are born to wealthy parents you are less equal to one born in poverty.
If you have two intelligent parents, you will likely be created more intelligent than a child born of less intelligent parents. And so on.
Michelle Park Steel's name was on some of those GOP drop boxes. State said they are illegal; drop boxes are monitored and regulated.
Michelle Park Steel's political campaign ads attack opponent Jay Chen of being a China operative, indoctrinating U.S. school children in Communism. He teaches Chinese language.
Do GOP voters think if a school teaches Italian they are recruiting fascists? Or if they teach German they are training students to become Nazi's? If a teacher teaches Spanish they are advocating fascism?
She is pandering to White Nationalist racists and other assorted bigots. DJT talked about draining the swamp? She and his other trump pets need to be drained.
These candidates are a reflection of who we have become. They believe there are red states, blue states, not a United States of America.
The audacity to have a biracial brown skinned president. GOP will stoop to no low to win elections. Republican voters want to destroy democracy.
https://www.ocregister.com/2020/10/11/unofficial-ballot-drop-boxes-popping-up-throughout-the-state-worry-elections-officials/
Ballot Boxes
Orange County is GOP or at least that was the impression I got after the 2016 election. But there could have been fraud involved due to use of these non-official drop boxes placed by GOP.
I have said for years that DJT is guilty of the things he accuses other of doing. Stolen election charges because he knew GOP cheated to give him the win?
GOP says the drop boxes they place are legal, because of a law in CA that others can drop off ballots for them. Like my daughter being able to place my mail-in ballot in a drop box. She could have if I waited until election day, but I can only imagine the line to get inside the building to drop it off myself. So I mailed it.
I am sure that is what the CA law intends. Not having a GOP drop box placed in front of a black church, then picking the ballots. As they say, one needs not be a rocket scientist...
The Handmaid's Tale: Gilead took over the United States, forcing fertile woman to bear children with men whose wives were not able to conceive. For a variety of reasons ~ pesticides, industrial waste, polluting water supplies, the air, caused more deformed babies and miscarriages. Birth rates were also down due to abortions. Non white population was overtaking white population. They could not let that happen.
Blacks were either shipped back to Africa or sent to work in agriculture ~ the fields. Photos were shown of Jewish people, smiling, happy, aboard ships being sent to Hebrew counties, like Israel. Rumor had it, after photo op, they were drowned at sea. Likely non-white citizens were also drowned at sea.
I am slow but sure. GOP and DJT are for White Nationalists. Whites scream that the U.S. white population is being overrun by minorities. There fear is becoming a minority themselves. Oh, if only!
Thus, like the book's Gilead, the GOP hopes to force white births by banning abortions. I have been saying they are ignorant. They do not know anything about non-viable pregnancies. Maybe they are just misogynists.
Some complain that allowing abortions is the government's way of reducing black population. It can not be both ways. If one goes state by state, one sees a whole lot more white abortions than black. Now I am confused. Are the white men discriminating against minorities by banning doctor assisted abortions?
Yes, some women politicians, are also anti female liberty. I fear for democracy if these election deniers, trump pets win elections. Especially Mastriano and Oz and Ron Johnson and Michelle Steel to name a few.
I may have read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood many years ago. My non-reading daughter asked me if I ever read it. As soon as it was announced that Roe v Wade was overturned, my reader daughter mentioned the book. She talked about at other times as well. After Roe v Wade went bye,bye, women protested, dressing as handmaids as depicted int he novel. I did not know there was a movie and TV show.
Aside: my cable box died. Guy installed new one and gave me a new remote. Instead of two, I now have one. I wanted to see if I lost NetFlix and Amazon Prime my son-in-law set up on the TV. I could not get the remote to move along the row of options. I did something and got stuck on channel 50, remote not doing anything. Enough. Suffice it to say, I was not able to watch TV unless I wanted to watch channel 50.
I put batteries in my Samsung remote. After much frustration, my TV was back to normal. Except the remote still would not navigate to NetFlix. Too late, I resigned myself to channel surfing until bedtime. I now have Amazon Prime, and wanted to set up my own account. Maybe I will try later with my Samsung remote. Or ask son-in-law to help.
Bottom line, was not able to watch the show. Do not know if I really want to. The series, I read, deviates form the novel a bit. The sequel, The Testament, has a two week waiting list at my library on Kindle. The autobook was available but I do not do audio books. I tried to put a hold on it, but Kindle kept telling my e-mails did not match.You have to enter it twice. Aargh, no difference.erased and started over, "do not match," slowly read and read again each letter and said duck this shit.
Life imitating art.
KTVU-TV, a Fox News affiliate in Oakland, reported that DePape was wearing only his underwear when he attacked Paul Pelosi. They later retracted that statement.
DePape was arrested wearing shorts. I know I had read that about the underwear, but never found an article that referenced it. Now I know why.
Lock mentioned in a prior post was one of those commenters that insisted that DePape was a called prostitute. The underwear story will probably be around and believed for years to come.
Sad.
Some people who comment take opinion articles (or opinionated talk show hosts) as news.
This CNN opinion article includes news. I have already read about President Obama's speeches at campaign rallies. Several weeks ago I had a knock on my door from campaigners. I wondered who let them in the building. They asked if I was registered to vote, what my most important voting issue for me.
Roe v. Wade I likely shouted. They were probably sorry they asked, inching away from door to talk to the next person. They did learn that I was an Independent, that I might as well change to Democrat because I will never choose a GOP candidate ever again. I stopped voting for them years ago due to their now realized desire to overturn Roe v Wade.
Polls show that voters biggest concern is Inflation. I am guessing those polls are factual, due to my habit of reading comments on articles. But I am with Obama. Do you want freedom? First they came for women's rights, then they came for transgenders, then lesbians and homosexuals...
...now is not a good time to be reading The Handmaid Tale. Do not know if I read it previously; I got to the part at the Wall, abortion doctors hanging by hooks. I am at the part describing how things happened. "Machine gunned Congress." Oh, my, Capitol Building riot instigated by the sitting president.
Barrack asks: Who will fight for your freedom? I already know that the trumpets will say The Don. The guy who wants a family dynasty ruling much like what the colonists revolted against. I want to cry. I guess I can save my tears for mid term election results. Especially here in Pennsylvania. How I wish I was physically able to go back to Long Beach.
I was wondering where the wheelchair brigade spends their nights now that the library was torn down. Oops wrong blog for that one. The Senate candidate is anti-female liberty. He will probably win due to his opponent's stroke. I hope I am wrong. If that worse anti freedom guy wins for governor, I told my daughter I have to leave the state. Hence my pondering wheelchairs in Long Beach.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/opinions/obama-closing-message-midterms-obeidallah/index.html
Will they come after the unhoused? The elderly? Muslims? Refugees? You?
It is taking all my willpower not to sign in to Like or Dislike or to comment on outrageous comments on that Elon Musk/Twitter article.
A poster has no idea who Q anon is. Yet he is an authority on facts. Someone called him on it: either you are lying or out-of-touch. Admitting not knowing makes him look stupid. His belief in the Paul P. conspiracy theories puts him on the stupid side anyway.
Some one who uses Lock as their moniker claims to be an Independent. His posts mark him as a Q follower. Um, my son once told me he did not believe man landed on the moon; a hoax; he gave me reasons. I looked into it online. LOL his reasons came straight from a conspiracy site. And I still find assassination of JFK suspect. I was never convinced that 911 was not an inside job. We are both Independents. I never asked, just suspect Libertarian. I lean Green.
I guess I am judging Lock too harshly. Nah. I will not go searching the rest of his comments.
I need to share this one from Brian:
Oh to answer your question, about the same time the liberal left Lap Dog media decided that the only narrative to the news was their side and stopped reporting FACTS about what "actually happens"!! This is what you get when you have "bias" for ONE party over another...funny thing is most of these so called "conspiracy theories" end up later becoming true!!! And recalling what my late father said to me as a child, "Never believe the things you hear and only half of what you see!"!!! And trust me the Democrats STILL think the media is all for them, but new sources of news ARE coming to light, and they paint a very different picture!!! Basically the internet HAS allowed folks like never before, and what the media might tell you on the national stage, is usually pretty different in the home town of those of us who "live here"!!! Example, locally to me, I live in a town that was voted "Coolest Small Town in America" by a media outlet.....reality is, it is a small town, filled with drug addicts, and zero job opportunities!! Does that sound cool to you? But I live here because it is cheap.....and if I was able to work (I am disabled) I could find a job 40 miles away pretty easy enough!!
I wonder what conspiracy theories came true? He said "most of them." See why my willpower is being tested?
What small town? Do we take your bigoted word for that? Wonder if he believes FOX news is for Democrats? LOL
I recall when internet news started reporting that home foreclosures were up under G. W. Bush. Locally I started seeing foreclosure signs in my city showing up at the end of Clinton's terms of office. Some truth to his statement on local vs. national news.
His father said? Oh my that is well-known quote. Do not believe everything you read, nothing that you hear, and only 1/2 of what you see. I used "I am from Missouri, the show me state," about trust. I am not from Missouri.
https://www.facebook.com/mediabiasfactcheck
Media Bias Fact Check on Facebook
Long ago when I did a search, I learned that The Don never said "I love the poorly educated." So I used to correct people who repeated it. Oh, my, I was wrong. I can not stand to listen to his voice and his repeating words and sentences and grandiosity. How many times about how many things has he said "no one is more xxx than me" Puke.
"We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated. We’re the smartest people, we’re the most loyal people, and you know what I’m happy about?"
Of course, peeps took that quote out of context.
Link to text of speech and video. (since I did not listen to speech, I am assuming the transcript is accurate.
https://qz.com/623640/i-love-the-poorly-educated-read-donald-trumps-full-nevada-victory-speech
I should probably stop believing fact checkers. LOL
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/04/russian-trolls-tried-distract-voters-music-tweets-2016-0
Russian Trolls
People often comment "troll" or "bot." I guess I assumed Russian Trolls used bots to spam comments. Silly me. I never much thought about it. The back and forth bickering annoys me.
The real sheep calling others sheep. Intense hatred of liberals. Dissing conservatives. Hatred of racists. Bigots. Parrots passing off thoughts or opinions as their own. TDS, free rent in your head, woke (stfu will ya) and so on. The falsely attributed statement that T said he loves the poorly educated. (oh, wait, there is a transcript of a full speech, maybe he actually did say that?)
Since I do not use Twitter Russian trolls can not fill the newsfeed with music. The quoted names shows they were trying to reach young voters or old gangsters ie: people who like rap music. (Apologies to non-gangsters who still listen to today's awful rap music.)
Free Whitey is a username on Twitter.
When Twitter first arrived a homeless lady internet friend asked me to join. I declined. Who would want to read my news? What news did I have to share? She hitchhiked around the country, got picked up by truck drivers, invited to stay with people, usually female, until she decided to move on. She had news (or adventures) to share. How that small site has grown.
Articles sometimes shares a Tweet. Sometimes I can read responses, such as these from Fox & Friends regarding outrage that Cornell University kicked Jesse B Waters off campus. I happened upon it when searching to find out if Cornell News was reputable. I will share the article I wanted to verify in another post.
Free Whitey's profile photo is what is used as a Confederate flag. He wrote:
Columbia and other commie colleges are just so loving and open. NOT. They all gave us PC-ness, globalism, hate
Did he see the headline? Cornell?
I can not read anymore. The Don said liberals are thin skinned. A bit later someone parroted "thin skinned." And they claim they are not sheep? Too sad. Liberals are commies, liberals are <insert whatever hateful adjective.> Conservatives, however, are denied freedom of speech. Going to Boycott the overpriced university. (How does one do that? Stand outside holding sign, "I boycott?"
The students were too busy marching with BLM and Do Not Say Racist. <insert 4 letter word starting with F, rhymes with duck>
Finally: (*I forgot to copy username) congrats, to Cornell for standing up to the biased network of fox news
The person allegedly kicked off campus was interviewing students. When asked about the campus vibe a student said "we are very diverse." He was then asked why 96% of campaign donations from teachers went to Democrats. Maybe because they are intelligent? Could be that they knew the zero political experience Birther was going to be a disasters for the U.S. of A.
His trumpets still love him. Inflation, gas prices, open borders. COVID and Russia invading Ukraine are responsible for inflation, high gas prices. Oil companies' profits, anyone?
At one time the Don said (tweeted?) that it would be good if Russia and Saudi Arabia withheld oil barrels ~ would be good for OIL COMPANIES. But his faithful fans still think he is for them? Cornell professors are much smarter than myself, so they likely came to same conclusions I did.
The Elon Musk tweet came from an unreliable Santa Monica Observer website.
"The publisher of the website, David Ganezer, unsuccessfully ran for the Santa Monica City Council in 2010 and 1988, according to the Santa Monica Daily Press. He is a registered Republican, voting records show."
Confirmation bias: the tendency of people to favor information that confirms or strengthens their beliefs or values and is difficult to dislodge once affirmed.
I believe the info about Ganezer without bothering to fact check it. Actually The Santa Monica Observer was deemed "unreliable source" by fact-checking website Media Bias/Fact Check. I am trusting Media Bias/Fact Check. Or I assume that website is, what did Cruz say, the epitome of fake news?
Before NOBODY commented on the article, people showed their bias towards Musk buying Twitter. Yeah, me too. As someone put it: giving Russian disinformation access. Not to mention the Lying Twitter King, aka: con-man, help to spread his real fake news. I guess Truth Social is not working for the former guy.
Where was I? I had to go back to check; the article was published by NBC news. Another aside peeps always be ranting about Yahoo leftist bias, when Yahoo is just sharing news articles the same as Google, AOL, and such. I guess I would trust NBC news to be a reputable source of news.
"Delete you account!" "Musk now has a goldmine of info." "The info will still be there if you delete your account." "They already have a goldmine of info from other sources." "IP address, Facebook, I never had Twitter....blah, blah, blah."
Along comes NOBODY to change direction of conversation. To be fair, the article did mention Musk replying to Hillary Clinton Tweet. The article did not have a screen shot of the tweets. Musk quickly deleted his response that linked to the Santa Monica Observer article.
Clinton Tweet:
"The Republican Party and its mouthpieces now regularly spread hate and deranged conspiracy theories. It is shocking, but not surprising, that violence is the result. As citizens, we must hold them accountable for their words and the actions that follow."
Now I will Google Media Bias/Fact Check to verify it is a reputable source of info.
A Yahoo comment conversation on article about Elon Musk deleted tweet telling false narrative about Paul Pelosi attack.
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Funny how quick things can flip in this country. That is, while we still have one.
NOBODY
The country was just fine until WOKE turned everything upside down.
Ray Chapman replying to NOBODY
Woke didn't turn 40% of the country into blithering fascists who believe in conspiratorial lies and base their political philosophies on hate. They did that all on their own, with the help of Trump and other demagogues.
Kathi replying to Ray
Oh yes they did. They can't get over themselves. Trump lives rent free in all your heads and you can't get over it. It has nothing to do with Republicans it has everything to do with you left wing "fascists". You are beyond "WOKE". You have destroyed the country.
Marie Charvat replying to NOBODY
you nmean until tRump turned everything upside down....- don't bother people with your alternative facts just because you cannot fact the real facts
Darlene replying to Marie The one sided "State" media is what turned everything upside down! Pay attention!
First assassination in my life was a Democrat, JFK. Bobby Kennedy, a Democrat.Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I presume another Democrat. No proof that those murders were committed or condoned by Republicans. Surely a person who identified as Democrat would not have killed those men. Malcolm X probably did not vote, and his killing was reportedly done by his own Muslim people. Off topic. The comments blaming Democrats for politically motivated violence irked me.
Whatabout Democrat Gabby Giffords? She survived the point blank gunshot wound to her head. It was politically motivated. Judge John Role, Republican, was killed on that same day, January 09,2011. The killer was deemed mentally ill. He was motivated by hatred of government, so perhaps not simply violence against Democrats.
Also killed that day at the open-air event was Christina-Taylor Green,
Her mother, Roxanna said: "As young as she was, Christina-Taylor talked about getting all the parties to come together so we could live in a better country," Green told ABC News. "She was going to Giffords' event to ask questions about how she could help and to learn more about politics in our country."
"She was proud of her country and wanted to know more about the political process..."
"All I want is awareness and change, just like Christina would."
"Things like this should never, ever happen again, I want there to be a stop for the violence and hatred and all the bashing of politicians isn't not helping, and it's not working."
The 9-year-old was elected Student Council President. (I did not know that students that age had Student Councils.) Being born on September 11, 2001, motivated the child to become interested in a future in politics. Four others also died in that attack.
Roxanna Green most likely thinks about her daughter every time there is another mass shooting, especially of school children. One never gets over the loss of a child. Yet she must relive that horrid day every time another senseless shooting happens; relive it every time she hears a politician spew hatred.
"Things like this should never, ever happen again, I want there to be a stop for the violence and hatred and all the bashing of politicians isn't not helping, and it's not working."
