Third world country

 We as the United States of America have fallen to 3rd world status.

The SOTUS - lead by liars and political  shills -  handed down a Ruling repealing Roe .v Wade  - Now this ruling turns back the clock about 100 years,, ok 50 years - it assured a women's right to reproductive services  including abortion- essentially her right to choose. Many states followed suit - these states had legislation ready to go - awaiting the SOCUS ruling. These states not only banned abortion, but banned it in what are horrific circumstances- namely rape and incest.  YOU MUST BE FUCKING KIDDING ME !

Will this stop abortions ?  NO - of course not.  Just listen to these same assholes telling us banning guns won't stop gun violence.  Why the hell would banning abortions stop them ?? It's won't - what it does stop is SAFE abortions, and Health care for women....  It will mean death to many women who chose a "back room " abortion- and die from the procedure. It will mean doctors can't treat women for a variety of issues, that will result in them dying, or at least their health being compromised.. What about birth control  ?? and the DayAfter Pill = will that be banned also...  Several Justices have hinted that Same Sex Marriage , LGBTQ Rights are all on the table that may be removed. And this will only be the beginning of rights that will be removed..... OH and you can bet that Justice Thomas won't be in favor or throwing out Virginia .vs Loving - That is the case that essentially  made interracial marriage legal.  

I have unfortunately heard some equating this Roe ruling to the Covid Vaccines - Not the same thing folks - It WAS your Choice to not get Vaccinated - you just did not like the  consequences of that Decision. This removes the Choice for a women.   and hold the phone ..All you fuckers that are or were in favor of this ruling - are not in favor of National health care that would give pre and post natal care to women.. you are not in favor of paid leave for parents , Paid pre/post  school assistance, School lunch programs , Free education opportunities, or any other god damn thing that might help these children. You are so concerned about them before they are born ,,, but after - Fuck them - they are on their own!

and What about men ??? No responsibility in this ??... we have the technology today to know who the father is via DNA testing.  They need to have a stake in the game... Pay for the mothers health care up to and thru delivery, pay 1/2 of the costs of raising that child - IF they are not in a family situation where they already are. Pay for education for the child, food,  medical care, housing, etc etc, etc - even if they are not involved in the child's life. 

We are sliding into 3rd world status - essentially we are at the top of the list of industrial nations. Hopw the hell can we be behind, Turkey, Korea, etc, - I'll tell you why - I bet that most of that statistic is made of low income women, women of color...  that will be totally adversely  affected by this ruling. 

And let me get this straight,  there are between 600k and 900k abortions in this country every year... the cumulative data in the past 50 years is average of 1 million per year - or 50 million more people added to this country - a million a year, that we have no health care , child care, education plan, for ... 

There will be women traveling to other states for abortion services.  and if that is outlawed , think about these more simple things....  You go to another state to shoot off  Fireworks,  and come back to your state  and are arrested for doing that..   you drive 75 mph in a state that allows that and come back to get a speeding ticket in your state... you go to a state to smoke pot, and return to your state and are prosecuted for it ..... I could go on  but you see where I am headed...  and listen - who would be telling your home state why you traveled to that other state ??? YOU telling them ?? NO ??  So you agree that your state officials have to capacity to call your doctor  and ask that question - Why did  this person "miss patient" come to your office ??  really that's ok...??  Yea - that won't get abused !! We are screwed  !!

I lay this a bit at the feet of the People that SHOULD have voted for Hillary - those Democrats and liberals that did not like her.... that were maybe Bernie Sanders supporters that stayed home instead of voting for Hillary .... and let that Urine Soaked LIAR, Fascist Insurrectionist, win that election,,,and them mold the courts to his tyranical vision....  one election mattered - and we were too short sighted to see it. may that never happen again.... the GOP have not won a popular vote presidential election in decades but are in power enough to do this to our country,..... WAKE the HELL up !

I have no words

 Are you serious  ???

The Texas GOP voted yesterday to ... Well - I'll paste it in for you, right from the 2022 Platform 

2020 Election: We believe that the 2020 election violated Article 1 and 2 of the US Constitution, that 1582 various secretaries of state illegally circumvented their state legislatures in conducting their elections in 1583 multiple ways, including by allowing ballots to be received after November 3, 2020.We believe that 1584 substantial election fraud in key metropolitan areas significantly affected the results in five key states in 1585 favor of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. 1586 We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph 1587 Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States. We strongly urge all 1588 Republicans to work to ensure election integrity and to show up to vote in November of 2022, bring your 1589 friends and family, volunteer for your local Republicans, and overwhelm any possible fraud.

And they voted against Women's right to choose, wanting to ban ALL abortions, 

They voted against any rights for the LGBTQ community. 

They are talking about Seceding from the Union... ( I might then be in favor of building that Wall at the Northern border of the state and keeping THEM from entering OUR country !!) 

Our country is going down the tubes and we are standin by watching it like its not happening...

 Let's move on - If you are watching or following the Jan 6th committee hearings, you are seeing - laid out in public view - the Planning and Execution of an attempted COUP in the United States. There could not be a clearer picture of what is went on , who was involved .....   You are not in  a right mind of you think that this DID NOT Happen - IT fucking happened....  Even though many of those involved - especially those that participated in the Insurrection - have been arrested, charges, Found or Plead Guilty to charges , including "Seditious insurrection"   ...

There is screaming that this is not a bi-Partisan committee - do they think we forgot that Mc Carthy STOPPED republicans from participating !!?? They think that YOU are that stupid.

Did they forget that Dumps people had the opportunity to testify and tell their story , but chose to defy the subpoenas and NOT testify.

Dump wants "Equal time"   and I would think the committee would jump at the opportunity to have him testify UNDER OATH - not in Tweets .... but he would never do that... not under oath. 

Now - get this for the FOX entertainment folks - they are not carrying ANY of the Public hearings,... None.. they actually put on one of their shows WITHOUT commercials - losing about $500k to $1 million in revenue = so that you would not change channels during the commercial breaks !!  

I wish I could live another 50 years to see how history remembers this - I hope it remembers who were the True Patriots and who (the GOP  that sat silently , Dump and his hence men ) were the Insurrectionists. 

say What ?!?!?!

 

So - hold the phone,,,

Republicans have voted against - Infrastructure improvements, Healthcare, Child Care, Universal Pre-K education, Lower prescription drug costs, Social Security, Medicare, Medicade and Lowering taxes for middle/ working class,,, 

And they say they wont help Ukraine because they are too busy helping the American people 

D they really thing that Americans are that Stupid ?!?!?!

Not good news...

Reflecting on the Cuban missile crisis, President John Kennedy once warned that nuclear powers “must avert those confrontations which bring an adversary to a choice of either a humiliating retreat or a nuclear war.”

The showdown with Russian President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine does not yet mirror the one-minute-to-midnight brinkmanship that brought the Soviet Union and the West to the cusp of Armageddon in October 1962.

But Kennedy’s superpower logic is resounding poignantly as Putin gets backed into a corner by the strategic disaster of his war, Ukraine’s heroic resistance and an extraordinary multibillion-dollar allied conveyor of arms and ammunition.

There is no real consensus on what Putin might do if he’s desperate. While he doesn’t share Washington’s logical and accurate view that he’s losing the war, there’s no indication he’s suicidal and would risk a full-scale nuclear confrontation by testing Western resolve.

Several senior US officials have publicly voiced the fear that Putin might reach for tactical, lower-yield battlefield nuclear arms as an alternative to a humiliating defeat in Ukraine. There was some relief on that score on Tuesday, when Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told a congressional committee that the US view is there is not “an imminent potential for Putin to use nuclear weapons.” And the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Scott Berrier, said that assessment also encompasses tactical or battlefield devices.

But it’s hardly alarmist to consider the possibility. Putin has proved himself a ruthless leader with little compunction about causing mass casualties. He razed cities in Chechnya and unleashed his forces on civilians in Syria. His war in Ukraine has featured merciless shelling and bombing of residential areas, schools, stations and shelters, and apparent war crimes by his troops. Thousands of his soldiers have died. And Putin has already used weapons of mass destruction – for instance, targeting Russian defectors on British soil with radioactive elements and nerve agents – with zero regard for civilians, according to the UK government.

Russia’s willingness to threaten the use of nuclear weapons – in a way that the Soviet Union rarely did during the Cold War – to terrorize Western publics is, meanwhile, underscoring the kind of advantage the world’s most fearsome arsenal can bring to rogue states that want to forestall the possibility of Western intervention.

To begin with, Putin is not eyeing the exits. While the war is an economic, military and strategic disaster for Russia, the Kremlin leader dances to his own logic. If he can’t control all of Ukraine or topple its government, creating vast human and material destruction that prevents Ukraine from functioning as a normal economy and punishes its aspirations to join the West may be enough – and could act as a deterrent to other ex-Soviet orbit states.

That’s perhaps one reason why Haines suggested on Tuesday that the Russian leader was “preparing for a prolonged conflict in Ukraine, during which he still intends to achieve goals beyond the Donbas.” But she warned the mismatch between Putin’s military capabilities and his ambitions meant that he could be forced back into that dangerous corner – and lash out.

“The current trend increases the likelihood that President Putin will turn to more drastic means, including imposing martial law, reorienting industrial production or potentially escalatory military actions to free up the resources needed to achieve his objectives as the conflict drags on, or if he perceives Russia is losing in Ukraine,” Haines said.

From Stephen Collison

Quick hits

 Seems that you can lie your way onto the SCOTUS with no repercussions...   You lie in your confirmation hearing and there is no recourse. You fashion your answer and statements in a way that you know will get you confirmed (while winking to the Conservative Right) - and then when the very case that you lied about get to the Court you vote the way we all know you would from the beginning, confirming that that vote was the very reason that you were nominated and confirmed in the 1st place. 

Putin's war in Ukraine is escalating,.. the Ukrainians forces are mounting a Defense that we did not think possible.. but the end game will be ----- I don't know what...  Further invasion into other countries thereby escalating the war into Europe ??  Maybe we have run out of luck when it comes to Nuclear war...and Putin thinks that he can win a nuke war ....

While I don't like  looking at the Baseball standings until after 50 games.... I have to say the Yanks are playing far better than I thought,,, they are in 1st in the AL east a couple of games ahead of Toronto... and they have the 2nd best record in B-Ball....  BTW what is going on in  Boston, while I'd say it's early ,, and the each team needs to play the others in the division many many many more times... the Sox are 10 games back ...  11 on the loss side in back of NY,,, and while you can WIN more - the loss side is important,, cause you can't lose less..  and they are a minus 23 in run differential... so gotta score more runs - duh !!  

Whats with the weather - like ever day is near freezing here in the North East - 33 this morning... and windy, rainy all the time. The forecast looks better this week,, but we will see..

Are you (and I hope I'm not) one of these people that simply want to point out things that are what you  say are "wrong"...  and don't want to hear what the solution might be. You use Speculation on what is gonna happen,,, and how it affects EVERYONE ,, not just you ,... you are highly concerned about others (yea Right)... and oh - you are not a  "Complainer" .... no not you,... except that is all you are doing - even though you must know that what you are saying has been thought about by the person you are bitchin to,,, and to continuing to go on and on and on - with the speculation,, and your solutions that you knwo can't be implemented,,, and yea you are sooooo much smarter than everyone else..... do us all a favor,,, and just STOP !!  We get there is an issue,,, we and everyone else is working with what is in front of us. 

YEA - I Don't IT ! 

Andrew John Hozier-Byrne

Known professionally as just Hozier

Tuesday - and terrible thoughts

 So - It seems that the older I get and the more I hear about ,, and see the affect my poor parenting skills had on my children, the worse I feel about it..

Although they are attempting to use humor to highlight how bad I was,,,, I can see that it affected them in their lives,,,, truth be told I can see that they are FAR better parents to their children than I was to them....  It is clear that they have issues in their adult lives that came from my fucked up methods of parenting them,.  It certainly makes me concerned - sad - that I fucked up their lives in that way,,, I kinda wonder if others have the same feeling - that their  parents did the same to them,,, is that inevitable  ??  OR is it me  - Ugh - not a great feeling........

To the other side of that coin - kinda - I see them as amazing parents - yup they struggle I'm sure - It is hard rearing a child or 2 or 3 ,.....  but they seem to never miss a teaching moment. Things are NOT just a truck - It's a red truck,,, with how many wheels???  and Who is driving ???   It's pretty cool to watch .....

And the damn Grandkids are WAY WAY smarter than I was or my children were at the same age !!!

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We  re - re re watched thePBS = Ken Burns special on Country music,,,,, the next to last episode - "I don;t think hank done it this way"    Thats a Waylon Jennings song,,, nut describes the episode - where Jennings, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Dolly Parton, Hank Jr, Johnny Cash,  Merle Haggard - all bucked the system,  and made their  music - their way - and  were extreemly successful in doing it ...  It's really a good 2 hours.  

Dolly with he biggest hit,,, Waylon with a song that details his struggle with  Nashville - look for any Emmylou harris song,,, and you will - as Rodney Crowell says - fell like you were  "touched by and Angel. "

George Jones (Possum) biggest hit....

And Hank Jr's tribute to Waylon Jennings - Outlaw Reward,,