She kicked a student but it was "without malice" She called students names? She was derogatory about entire ethnicities? And she's been teaching there for TWENTY ONE YEARS? And STILL teaches there? What the everloving fuck is that?
(And thinking a Twitter conversation is private is a whole 'nother level of stupidity.)
Did the queen wear a sarcastic/meaningful broach? I know her choice there is usually pretty purposeful.
Not the brooch but the tiara is made from rubies gifted from the people of Burma. The 96 Burma rubies protect the wearer from the 96 afflictions of the human body (and are believed to ward off the evil that causes these afflictions. So basically, the tiara wards off evil!) www.thecourtjeweller.com/2017/04/the-burmese-ruby-tiara.html
Just a really good chocolate. Bonus if it has something tasty in it like brownie bits or quality chocolate chunks, or caramel.
Storebought - Ben and Jerry's Bob Marley's One Love, which is Banana Ice Cream with Caramel & Graham Cracker Swirls & Fudge Peace Signs.
ETA: Oh, and B&J Phish Food is wonderful.
Safeway has B&J on sale this week for $2.99 if you buy four or more. You local chain might have the same or similar deal going on. Brought to you by my shopping cart today. Forced me to clean out my freezer this afternoon.
And imo there's really no such thing as a bad ice cream. (Well there is but even a bad ice cream is ice cream.)
I'll add butter pecan to the list if it's not in any of the last four pages. But today was gelato day. Mint, vanilla caramel swirl, coffee...
ETA: having read to page three, it makes my heart happy to see that I'm not the only old person. I was old when I was eight and it was my favorite Thrifty ice cream flavor. Fifteen cents for a scoop. (Did I mention in the "Thrifty Ice Cream is sold at Rite-Aid" that I went to e-bay to see if I could buy one of their trigger scoops and they were selling for $100 and more? Or was that on Facebook and nobody here even knows what I'm talking about? Pretty sure it was Facebook but Thrifty Drug store in Cali used to sell the most awesome butter pecan and rocky road ice creams. Maybe because they came in cylinder shapes instead of balls and they used a really cool ice cream "shooter" instead of a traditional scoop. And scoops were only 15, 20 and 25 cents for a single/double/triple.)
Oh the delicious shade of the Royal family. Not just gifting him a book he won't read about a leader he'll never be, but even before that... Let's play "Spot What's Missing" in this picture:
Aw, looking through past winners, Idris supported one back in 2017 that also benefited W.E. Can Lead. A wine-and-painting date. That would be awesome, and certainly less than a quarter mil in cash value. And since apparently some dude that lives less than an hour from me already won a McLaren, the jerk, I guess that means I've got to let my dream go of winning a McLaren for my husband. (Yeah, that's why I wanted the prize. I swear.) No way will two winners in the Seattle area win McLarens. Maybe dinner with Amal and George could be in the cards. lol.
Does that make it CEP? And is it really fun to have to choose between Idris + McLaren or cold, hard cash?
I'm playing and checking out prizes on Omaze (thank you, husband of Amal Alamuddin Clooney for the commercial and also FB for sending me down the rabbit hole with the Airstream and Silverado contest which benefits the Independence Fund. Hey, it's 3:44 a.m. and I've been up for over an hour. What else is there to do at this time of the night/morning?)
So, prizes are pretty awesome for several campaigns (there are about a dozen benefitting some great causes such as The Malala Fund and W.E. Can Lead and The Independence Fund.)
The toughest prize for me: Win a Maclaren 720 S and hang out with Idris Elba as his VIP guest at the premier of Hobbs & Shaw (taxes paid, prize package worth $345,000) or $258,750 in cash (winner responsible for taxes.) Which would you choose?
My brother in law, who is a cop in NJ, named his dog a racist term for a black person. That was nice to hear.
Also,a guy I went to high school with became a cop just to arrest black people and didn't do much to hide that fact though he was fired eventually for.....wait for it.......for illegally targeting black people.
I will tell you right now, this shit starts with the top.The DA and police chiefs set the standards and until more minorities became police chiefs and DAs it will never change.
People are shocked at the racist shit I have seen and it would still blow peoples minds here. It is a fucking disgrace.
In St Louis City and St Louis County we have a newly elected AA female DA and AA Male DA. The female had a list of POs with such tainted conduct that she will no longer accept testimony or evidence from. The backlash has been horrific. I'd say half the city hates her with no real understanding of the situation.
The month before the male DA took office the prosecuting attorneys voted to join the police union.
Getting POC in these positions is important, but I'm not sure how many people want to subject themselves to this kind of reaction.
Holy shit this is appalling. Preemptive measures to deal with POC in positions of authority within the legal system. "Can't fire me because the union will protect me." So the prosecutors can shit on the defense attorneys (who are already working for less money, more cases, fewer supports, less autonomy...) and have the unions defend them if the DAs complain.
I'm wondering how impressed Trump is that he rated TWO anthems: "My Country 'Tis of Thee" when they walked in and then the "Star Spangled Banner" thereafter.
(FTR: God Save the Queen is *not* My Country Tis of Thee, though they do sound alike.)
Cracks me up that the Queen's official gift to Trump is a book:
I'm imagining that they're in the flag of USA *colors* and not actually the US flag design. Because what, pray tell, are the colors of the flag of Great Britain? I'd like to think it's totally a spare copy she had lying around the castle somewhere. Absolute disdain but in an understated way.
I had a pogo stick as a kid, and it never even occurred to me to try to use it as transportation. I could barely get down the driveway without overcorrecting and going the wrong direction!
I have one in my garage that a friend handed down to the girls a few months ago. It's been used exactly ZERO times.
My favorite in elementary school was some old reader story about a spelling bee and the kid got caught by "a rat" in S-E-P-A-R-A-T-E (instead of seperate.)
I always get caught with HARASS and EMBARRASS. Which one has one R and which has two of them??? It took me years to sort that one out.
Wait, isn’t it separate?
Yep. Sorry, it does read weird and backwards. The competitor missed it by spelling sepErate. He got caught by A-Rat. "Always remember there's A RAT in separate" or some such was the old lady's advice in the story. Ah, old school reading. Fun With Dick and Jane. I've always remembered that particular mnemonic, clear back from first or second grade (when we rode dinosaurs to school, as I tell the grands. lol.)
My favorite in elementary school was some old reader story about a spelling bee and the kid got caught by "a rat" in S-E-P-A-R-A-T-E (instead of seperate.)
I always get caught with HARASS and EMBARRASS. Which one has one R and which has two of them??? It took me years to sort that one out.
First, they need to re-examine the security protocol because that took way too long to remove the guy.
Second, I’m sure the guy is a Bernout and fuck all of them. Go snatch a mic from Swalwell or Beto or Moulton, you asshole.
Yeah, the folks blaming Trump and Trumpers need to re-evaluate themselves. This isn't someone screaming about libtards and Second Amendment rights and religious freedom. I (figuratively) kicked someone in the kneecaps for saying most environmentalists were right-wingers and this was obviously someone who voted for Trump.
I'll still never forget the word I lost with in a spelling bee as a kid. I won for my whole school in 5th grade and went to the city-wide one.
"Tapestry." If you pronounce it like TAPP-estry it should have TWO P's.
I misspelled gingivitis at my county. Came in second and didn't make it to state that year. I knew my roots and heard the definition and it was used in a sentence. My dad was a dental technician and I'd heard the word quite often growing up. Yet I still managed to toss a Y in lieu of an I somewhere in there, thinking "Nah, it can't ALL be I's in there." Darn Paul Stetson got it and the next word right.
Same thing happened at state my senior year. I obviously read the wrong dictionary (paperback student edition, I think American Heritage rather than Oxford) and the word was Calescence - which, it turned out, wasn't in my dictionary. I spelled coalescence, knowing it was *a* word but also knowing it was the wrong word because the definition was totally off from that which was given (heat vapors emanating from the sidewalk). Folks in the audience said they could see in my face as soon as I realized I didn't know the word. I still would have misspelled it, thinking "essence." I didn't even make top ten at state. :sad trombone
The words have gotten a LOT more difficult since I was a kid. And I *still* don't think there should be a buy-in.
I saw a cabin for sale yesterday that had an avocado refrigerator. I was actually not surprised given the brown shag and yellow and brown patterned linoleum.
I just want to give you hugs. I am so very sorry. Please reconsider therapy. Msukyankee gave some great advice about finding a different therapist and/or type of therapy.
Who the FUCK is voting for Tim Ryan? I’m assuming some poll out there consisted of only Youngstown OH voters because on his PSA interview, he talked like it was the only city in the country.
And likely folks who want "new blood" and remember his name before Seth Moulton or Beto O'Rourke as trying to get rid of that corporate sellout Nancy Pelosi. Or don't know squat and see him as "moderate" just as they see Kasich as a moderate.
Solidarity, commiseration and all the love to every woman who has had - or had to consider - an abortion. fryjack2
It took me a very long time, almost thirty years to be precise, to be able to talk about having an abortion. And I *still* haven't told my family because they won't forgive me for having one, even thirty-something years later. But I've become more of a believer in "we need to talk..." than in "hiding the shame" about abortion over the past couple years.
I had an abortion when my ex was first disabled. We were having problems before his disability, but when he started seizing and lost his (military) career we stuck through things and did what he had to do to make it work at least through the hardest parts. He lost his job/career and with it the paycheck and the housing and all the benefits, including medical for me and the kids. CHIP didn't exist then (not for another ten years) and we didn't qualify for aid for one reason or another for more than two years. Between a lack of insurance and income, and all the medical, housing and child concerns, I wasn't taking any safe contraceptive measures. But because we were married, we weren't remaining celibate either - and I got pregnant. Our housing situation was tenuous, as was our relationship. There was no way I would be able to remain pregnant while still being able to care for the children we already had or caring for him with all his emotional, physical and neurological issues. So *together* my ex and I decided the best route at the time was abortion. The abortion itself was a simple procedure; the trauma came from the lack of support I had going in and coming out (including, especially, from my ex, who was with me in the decision but not for the procedure itself.) I sometimes wonder "what if..." but I am grateful I was able to make the decision. For many, it would appear to be an elective, since it was my *choice* but in my eyes, then and now, it was necessary for my sanity and for the safety and health of my already-born family.
I'm going to keep all anti-abortion articles here so I don't create 900 threads because that's how this administration and all its rats are working right now. In Texas, they are passing a bill that keeps any government from partnering with Planned Parenthood (or any abortion provider but we know how this works.)
Amid a national debate over abortion rights, Sen. Kamala Harris on Tuesday rolled out a new proposal aimed at stopping some state laws that restrict abortion by preventing them from going into effect in the first place. Harris pledged that, if elected President, she would create a preclearance requirement for "states and localities with a history of unconstitutionally restricting access to abortion," according to a fact sheet released by her campaign. Her "Reproductive Rights Act" would shift the burden away from abortion providers who have to file suit against the states to stop new laws; instead, it would require states to prove their laws are constitutional.
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The preclearance requirement in Harris' abortion policy is similar to the one created in the Voting Rights Act of 1965, known as section 5. The VRA preclearance requirement prohibited nine states and scores of municipalities determined to have a history of discriminatory practices from changing any voting laws without preapproval from the federal government.
Today is gray and drizzly in the PNW. Alexa said it was going to be 70, so granddaughter went to school in shorts and a t-shirt today. We had weather in the high 70s for a couple days last week, with a 20 degree drop overnight. Thankfully, yesterday was gorgeous. Today...typical Seattle winter weather.
And in further reading, unless the laws were rewritten since 2017, the goal (in targeting PP) ends up not only shutting them down, but any hospital that provides abortion services/performs abortions will have to choose between providing abortion services or losing state Medicaid funding.
I just googled abortion providers in Missouri. Planned Parenthood is the only one that came up as a legitimate. The other two (which came up before PP, btw) are Parkville Women's Clinic (which is obviously a PRC when looking at its website) and Thrive! Women's Healthcare (which, before you click on the website link is listed as "Pregnancy Resource Center"). What infuriates me is that these businesses can openly advertise as "women's health" when their primary objective is to be a resource to eliminate or prevent abortions rather than focus on actual health care, and PP, whose primary objective *is* women's health care, cannot advertise as such because they've been so targeted as an "abortion clinic."
And because of TRAP laws, we don't know what these "deficiencies" actually are? Do they provide unsafe facilities? Is their equipment outdated? Are the employees untrained? Instruments unsterilized?
Or is it because the hallways are too narrow? Doorways not wide enough? Paper towels too far from the sinks? Or any other something mandated particularly for this clinic and no other but is not actually relevant to the practice and procedures but merely as an instrument to close it down because "abortions." Because they're willing to let it stay open for "women's health care" that isn't abortions, just like any other Pregnancy Resource Center.
I got a message from a friend who's joined a network of people in access states who are willing to host women in non-access states. I think it's a great and sadly needed thing. But also sadly reminds me of all the underground pages of Hillary supporters on FB because we have to hide who we are and what we stand for.
This is so anger-inducing for me. Trump's supporters make no bones about and lose not one minute of sleep over their views and supporting such a despicable, unethical, misogynistic, racist man.
Yet so many women as you point out felt they had to go underground in their support of Hillary fucking Clinton, still a politician yes but one that would have served this country, the constitution, and the office of the president in at worst not embarrassing way, at best one of the top 3 presidents of our lifetime.
I was coming to add an ETA to this. It's not just about hiding who we are, but it's more about protecting who THESE WOMEN are. Which is even more rage inducing than secret pages because I politically supported someone I viewed as an outstanding, highly qualified candidate.