Rape is horrifying and messy, and sometimes it’s easier to disbelieve that it happens at all. But that option isn’t open to victims of rape and sexual assault.
Denying rape means believing that victims are lying. It means denying their humanity and worth. And it’s a denial that has been made far too easy by thousands of years of habit.
From <https://www.vox.com/2016/5/1/11538748/believe-rape-victims>
Amen!…No, really Amen!
You just don’t realize how many bigots there are in the world until something like the Respect For Marriage Act (RFMA) comes up. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed this bill that would require the federal government to recognize the validity of same-sex marriages in the U.S. In my opinion, the bill doesn’t go far enough, but that’s a discussion for another day. Suffice it to say that I fully support the RFMA and am only saddened by the fact that we need to pass a law to give people the right to be who they are, to love whomever they choose. Like everything else, there is a political divide on this issue, but nonetheless, 47 Republicans in the House actually voted for the bill, and at least four Republican senators have expressed that they will vote for it when it reaches the Senate floor.
Wouldn’t you know…
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Richland Ave. and 682 intersection
I don’t do jabberwok
I don’t do jive
If I don’t do rap
I’m hardly alive.
That tree, it’s me
But no longer thrive(s).
Reduced to talking to myself, eh?
What shall I say?
Waving at you from this post,
while putting jam on my toast.
Ouch, a
grouch,
I know.
I JUST GOT A NOTE from my internet provider. It’s 27 pages long (!!!), about the new “agreement.”
Tempted to quit,
Throwing a fit
No way
Hose!
If I don’t see you agin
Say hi to my friends.
Written in my petticoat
on a slow boat
to the edge of the world,
sail unfurled.
Gotta run
It’s been fun….
Funny how nothing is so blind as our own mirror. I have been railing against the concept that we force more babies to be born at the same time we are cutting services to them. (Of course, most of them will be persons of color, so more servants?) And at a time of increased automation? Oh well, apparently we won’t be around for the climate denouement.
I just realized that cutting funds for training staff in group homes for the intellectually disabled includes cutting training, staff (and wages) for staff in the gradual closing of long term care for the severely disabled. One of my kneejerk responses is, “Oh well, not likely they’ll live to find a cure for cancer.” Sigh.
Then I realized (the mirror part) that under my own nose the quality of care available to my significantly disabled youngest daughter has degenerated. No one’s to blame except those robbing Peter to pay this Paul and that one and that one, too….That Christian nationalist and that conservative, and that….too.
From <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_rob_Peter_to_pay_Paul>
OOPS–Out of date message?
How embarassing… Must have been above the former president’s radar. We’ll watch….
P.S. I know I’ve got my sides mixed up, but I’m not in favor of any wrecker of history….Besides, some of mine are those who were misled by the times, like some good people today.
From the NY Times:
I hope there’s not a catch…
Don’t know how to do this for sure:
Drinking sunset in a cup
til sunset
O where
did sunrise go?
Link to Twiglet 288 from Nan Mykel
Well said and well quoted.
In case you misssed it, Heather Cox Richardson describes the highlights of the July 21 hearing of the Jan 6 Commission. The House GOP continues to ridicule the hearings as partisan, but so far almost everyone who testified is a Republican. The two who testified last night were working directly for Trump.
Highlight of the hearing: Senator Josh Hawley running to escape away from the mob he encouraged with his fist in the air. Sprinting, really. The hashtag that quickly appeared on Twitter: #JoshHawleyIsABitch. And this is the guy running on a “platform” of reviving masculinity.
When the chips are down, Josh Halley runs away.
Then there is the fact that there are no White House logs that day; the White House photographer was told not to take pictures of the most important day of Trump’s term; the Secret Service deleted text messages.
Funniest moment of the hearings: Trump recording…
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…Or was it a millipede? Poor thing, he didn’t have a choice as to how many legs he was born with. For unscientific reasons I am afraid of those many-legged creatures.. If I was a good Christian I might feel guilt, but I still do. There but for the grace of God go I discussion as follows from How to Get to Heaven and other Google results:
The origin of the saying there but for the grace of God go I is unknown, but it has been in use since at least the 1700s. It is sometimes shortened to there but for the grace of God or but for the grace of God.
However it is expressed, there but for the grace of God go I is a statement of humility and gratitude that acknowledges one’s own sinful nature and the need for God’s grace. One of the earliest attributions of the saying is to John Bradford, an English Reformer, who supposedly said it as he watched people led to execution for their crimes. In a sense he was saying, “That could have been me but for God’s grace.”….
In a way, the attitude of “there but for the grace of God go I” is an antidote to judgmentalism. When we see someone who is down and out, who is suffering hardship, or who is reaping unpleasant consequences, we can respond in two basic ways. We can say, “He deserves it and should have made better choices,” or we can say, “There but for the grace of God go I.” The first response is what Job’s three friends ultimately chose; the second response shows empathy as we acknowledge the kindness of God toward us and extend that kindness to the one in trouble.
HEY, NO FAIR? I can’t turn all preachy when I’m an agnostic? Just watch me! A centipede or millipede? Was he baptized? But didn’t Jesus say something about blessing a sparrow, tho I can’t remember just where–One might say about our former president, “There but for the grace of God go I…?” Doesn’t mean you wouldn’t get washed down the sink, but it would be with empathy.
NEWSFLASH: Someone has suggested we solve homelessness by shooting the homeless. It’s being described as a joke, but funny ha-ha? (It was Joe Rogan on his podcast), according to Google and many others.)
What if a white woman was raped by a black man and became pregnant?
It’s mind-blowing, the path laid out by Republicans. Do you think they all might have caught covid of the brain? Poor dears. And here I was getting angry with them….
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