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niyad's JournalThinking about pootie and his newly-demonstrated concern for ruzzian assets,
makes me wonder how much of this is related to the increasing calls for handing over 300 billion in frozen assets to Ukraine.
WTF??? Right in the middle of posting, suddenly the screen blanks, and a new
screen pops up saying, "verifying browser", protected by ezoic. Took about three minutes to watch this litlle green line go around and around in a circle.
Verify my browser, when I am always online, and, in fact, had been actively reading and posting for several hours before that interruption.
The Daily B###&*: Screw your extended warranty. How about you start
making things that last?
*Both a noun and a verb, depending on context.
"To all of you whom I offended in 2023. .
try to improve, so that I don't have to do it again."
HAARP and climate change deniers. On KO's "Countdown" this morning, he
was talking about looney laura loomer and her HAARP diatribe. (For those who have not yet encountered this insanity, in the simplest terms, the HAARP program studies the ionosphere, and is based at the Univ. of Alaska). The loonies have insisted for years that it is a program that controls the weather. KO pointed out that the same people who deny climate change, who insist that humans can do nothing to alter it, are pretty much the same people who believe that HAARP manipulates the weather. (I should probably stop listening at 3 am, I scared my kitty!) Then he said that, if President Buden really controlled this system, wouldn't he have sent rain to end the wildfires, etc.?
We all know that consistency and logic are not in the rwnj's purview, but it is nice to have something so obvious pointed out.
The Daily B###h**: Telling idiots to go to hell is how I relieve stress.
*Either a noun or a verb, depending on context.
As I posted earlier, Jan 10, 1917, the Silent Sentinels began their protest in
front of the White House, demanding Women's Suffrage. I was reminded of the differences in strategy and approaches between the National Woman's Party (NWP), fiunded by Alice B. Paul, and the National American Women's Suffrage Assc (NAWSA), founded by Carrie Chapman Catt. Apart from Carrie's state-by-state approach to securing suffrage, she also believed that, in the pursuit of suffrage, at all times, the women must be genteel, lady-like, decorcous. Alice B. Paul, and others, believed that was getting them nowhere, and seventy some years after Seneca Falls, fifty years after the Civil War, one was inclined to agree.
I think about that in today's political scene. Many Dem strategists and voters, believe we should be well-mannered, polite, never cause a scene, never play dirty. Others believe in a more direct, no-holds barred approach. Which is more effective? When did 19 A pass and ratify after the Sentinels and the most serious push for that Anendment began?
Jan. 10, 1917, the National Woman's Party begins their "Silent Sentinels"
protesrs in front of the White House, demanding that Woodrow Wilson support Women's Suffrage. The NWP (founded by Alice Paul) had determined that the strategy of the NAWSA (National American Women's Suffrage Assc, founded by Carrie Chapman Catt) organization of pursuing Women's Suffrage state by state was wrong, and they were going after a Constitutional Amendment.
Anybody who has seen "Iron Jawed Angels: or the "Bad Romance/Women's Suffrage" music video knows a bit about how the Sentinels were harassed, beaten, imprisoned, tortured, all for daring to denand suffrage and recognition as full citizens. Never forget that that is what the woman-hating pukes, nat-c's, etc, would have us relive.
PNES**Apparently more common in women, therefore we won't bother studying it.
GRRRRRRRRRRR
*PNES- Psychogenic NonEpileptic Seizures.
I just learned about this condition last night. In short, seizures that are not caused by epilepsy, or any other physical medical condition, but, apparently, an emotional cause as one result of trauma of any kind.
A friend was telling me about a friend of his who suffers from these kinds of seizures. Neither of us were familiar with them, so I looked it up. As I was reading about the confusion, the lack of understanding, the lack of testing, the lack of interest, in the medical community, I thought, "I bet this affects mostly women." (See Chronic Fatigue Syndrome CFS/ME). About two- thirds of the way down one of the articles, there it was. "This condition seems to be more common in women." I wanted to scream, but that upsets my kitty.
And, of course, there is the lovely fact that those misdiagnosed with epilepsy rather than PNES get prescribed expensive anti-seizure drugs, rather than therapy. How convenient.
Are any of our therapists here in DU familiar with, treating anyone with, PNES? Any advice or insight into how best we can help this man? Thanks in advance.
Between a medical system that doesn't seem to give a damn about women (see catholic hospitals, heart attacks, etc.), and politicians, judges, xian fundies and other haters who seem determined to see that we die in large numbers, it is a wonder that women are still here.
Day 8 of the year. Mass shootings* SO FAR: 10** Dead: 18. Wounded: 36.
* mass shooting defined as one in which four or more are dead or wounded, including the gunman.
**edited to add a shooting this evening posted by Ocelot.
FIVE of the shootings occurred on New Year's Day. Two of the nine occurred in Baton Rouge.
But hey, we should "just get over it"!!!
WE'RE NUMBER ONE!!!
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