Friday, September 22, 2023
I read in Time Magazine the story of the 12 year old child that was impregnated by a stranger. She didn’t know what to call it. She was playing in her front yard and a man came down the street forced her around the side of the house and raped her. He went on his way. She didn’t go out to play again. She didn’t tell anyone because she didn’t know what to say. She knew it hurt. She thought it was bad. A cloud descended on her, but that was it. She was getting sick. She threw up. She didn’t know why. Finally, her mother took her to the ER and they learned she was pregnant. This was Mississippi. She was way past any chance of getting an abortion in that state. The closest palce was Chicago, 600 miles away. Her mother didn’t have the means so they did nothing. The girl turned 13. She had the baby.
In this part of Mississippi there is one person who can take care of preganant mothers. She’d like to leave, but she feels she can’t. Northern Mississippi has become an ob/gyn desert. Interns don’t want to come here. They don’t want to become pregnant here either. Who wants to go to a place where you are threatened with prision for doing what you know is best for a patient? The area is bracing for 4,000 more babies being born than before the abortion ban was put in place.
In 18 years look for crime to go up in that area and I’m sure the Republican politicians in that state will wonder why.
Combine this with what Dr. Hotez said about Covid and the anti-vax movement. Areas of the deep south were especially hard hit because people there did not get vaccinated at the same rate as other parts of the country. It is estimated that 200,000 people died needlessly.
And let’s look at “No Child Left Behind,” W’s plan to improve education. The idea was to give schools mandatory tests for students and if the schools flunked they’d defund the school and if would have to shut down. How does this help a school district that is struggling? It doesn’t. Say there are seven schools in a district and they are all struggling. Then one fails the test and is shut down. Where do those students go? To the remaining six schools, which are all ready overburdened. The possibility then exists that those six schools will all fail. Great. Maybe, a better solution would be to go into the seven schools and help them? Just a thought.
Immigration. Why do people keep coming here by the thousands? Because their homes are not safe and there is little opportunity for them. Hey. I got an idea, why not help them in their homeland? Why wait for them to show up at our borders? Just another thought.
Ron DeSantis keeps sinking in the polls. The more people get to know him the more distasteful they find him. Huh. Eat pudding with your fingers, kick the dog, tell a kid eating a popsicle it’s bad for them and he wonders how to revive his campaign? Go to ettiquette school and learn some manners. That’s a start, then go away.
Rudy tried to grope Kassidy Hutchinson on Jan 6th. So she says. I’ll bet Rudy will deny it. Who ya gonna believe?
Fox has got a new chairman, just as bad or worse that the last one.
Just as Fox was never about news so Prager was never a university, but it didn’t stop them from getting over $200M and pretending to be one.
The problem is The Simpsons. Not the show itself, but the fact that so many have taken their cues as to how to act from that show – not realizing it is supposed to be satire, not reality. Fox and Prager are both posers, fore flushers, cons and like Trump are dangerous in that people believe them to be truth and reality.
We are watching what happens MAGA world runs into reality. It’s called prison.
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