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Makeup for Pete Hegseth?

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CBS reported this evening that at the direction of Pete Hegseth, the Department of Defense is upgrading the green room attached to the Pentagon briefing room. Understandably, facilities need to be upgraded periodically - even those used by the military.

However, the interesting thing about this report is that apparently we are paying $10,000 to $15,000 to upgrade the green room by adding a make up station - all at the suggestion of Tami Radabaugh,a former Fox News producer who works for Hegseth, and apparently approved by Hegseth’s wife - also a former Fox News producer.

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At last a woman journalist who I agree with entirely.

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This author is Zing Tsjeng writing an opinion piece in the i paper, she points out the victory claimed by feminist activists is pyrrhic and doesn't see the greater picture. Activists on both sides do more damage than good and the bigger picture should show cis gender and trans women joining together to halt the danger to women of all types, shapes and sizes from male predators. Trans women aren't a risk to other women but macho men may be. Let's get rid of institutional misogyny and protect all women and girls, trans variety too.

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Reports on the rule of law

If you feel unsafe or threatened by the current political climate, or if you wish to avoid controversial or disturbing subjects for your own personal mental health, then please do NOT read this post.

All those CAUTION tags are there for a reason.

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UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex

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After seeing and hearing so much hate and gloating on the TV and radio (mostly from women), I'm wondering how they think they will enforce this ruling.

I understand they think it is unfair to female athletes,. I understand that it will stop fully intact perverts going into open female changing rooms exposing themselves and claiming to be trans. Or sick rapist claiming to be trans trying to get into female prisons. Some idiots were using trans as a shield to their disgusting behavior. It was probably things like this that created such a backlash.

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And so it begins……..

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Illegal search and seizure of a U.S. citizen by ICE. This is exactly what we fought against in 1776, and now Trump and his Nazi administration are bringing it back to our country.

This man was born In Georgia and is an American citizen. A judge examined his birth certificate and determined that is is “undoubtably valid”, yet he is still being held in an ICE detention center in violation of his rights as a citizen, as guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States.

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Just to be clear

While I am not overjoyed by the recent swarm of political blogs on BC, I understand that these are interesting times and people need to express their feelings and thoughts about matters of utmost importance to our community and indeed to the wider political realities.

Threads that involve name-calling may be removed, or demoted from the front page but no one is in danger of being suspended or banned for their posted content. This is vital and we need each other.

Hugs,
Joyce

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Fortune Telling

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Visiting my favorite Dr. and extra favorite nurse yesterday. "Bless your heart', yes I used that on my favorite nurse after she brought in several of her friends to see me. "She talks about you all the time and we wanted to meet you." came from the others. Thus, "Bless your heart." used again to my favorite nurse after a couple hugs. Southern slang for those who need to look it up.

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It seems transgender rights are receding in the UK

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I am very sad to see that the UK supreme court is antitransgender and that that well known overpaid hack, JKRowling has funded this discriminatory finding that will set back transgender rights in the UK for a generation. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what transgender is about. Seeing as the current research suggests we are affected before birth should that have the same definition as cisgendered females. This is political with morons like Rowling not seeing the bigger picture.

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A recent blog posting here made me remember a movie……

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That I saw some time back - The American President. In it, Michael Douglas stars as the President of the United States. His character is a widower with a teenage daughter, his wife having died during his campaign. The movie also stars Annette Benning as a professional lobbyist who is hired by an organization to push an environmental bill.

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Welcome to the American gulag……..

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Donald Trump is trying to figure out how to deport US citizens to prison in El Salvador, which is apparently his new American gulag. In a press conference at the White House, his Press Secretary admitted that Trump was looking for a way to revoke the citizenship of naturalized citizens in order to deport them. Apparently he is also working on trying to retroactively revoke the citizenship of people born within the United States in order to deport them as well.

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One of my favorite movie quotes…….

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Is a scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. In the scene, Indiana and his father travel to Berlin just before the start of WWII in order to retrieve his father’s diary. While there, they witness a book burning in the town square, with hundreds of people cheering as the Nazis pile books upon the flames. Indiana’s father, played by Sean Connery, turns to him and says, “My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land.”

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My beloved US Navy becomes just the latest to erase history……

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How the mighty have fallen as the fascist purge marches on. The US Naval Academy posted a list of nearly 400 books being removed from the Nimitz Library as part of Trump’s purge of anything smacking of truth in history or social reality. Amongst the items purged were works by Maya Angelou, as well as books memorializing Holocaust survivors, or books on the history of the Ku Klux Klan or racism.

Here is an excerpt from an article posted online:

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I was watching 60 Minutes this evening…….

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And a story about the Broadway play Good Night, and Good Luck was airing. The show stars George Clooney, and is about Edward R. Murrow and his fight against McCarthyism. During the segment on 60 Minutes, Clooney is recorded telling the cast, "When the other three estates fail, when the judiciary and the executive and the legislative branches fail us, the fourth estate has to succeed.”

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Please be aware of the warnings in the tags I selected. I am referencing and linking some current news reports that are highly disturbing. So if your blood pressure tends to spike at disturbing news, or if you get triggered by the same, you might want to just skip the rest of this post.

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A small victory

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Friends, I don’t often blog about politics. But I am writing about a victory, however transitory and ephemeral it may be, on the subject of transgender bans in the military.

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Funny how the Trump administration claims that hiring should be based…….

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Solely on merit and capabilities - that the most qualified person for the position should be the one placed in that position - yet the most qualified person according to him and his cronies always seems to be a white male as far as the military is concerned. He has already replaced the only two members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff who were not white men, one a woman and the other a black man. Apparently only a lily white, all male staff is qualified to lead the US Military.

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Are your books safe?

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There have been repeated reports in the past of Amazon Kindle stealing money from consumers. As well as Kindle being a proprietary and closed standard for content delivery. The underlying issue is not only restricted to Amazon Kindle, but any and all cloud-based streaming content providers.

Who controls the content that is saved on the cloud? Is it the owner of the content? Or is it the owner of the infrastructure?

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Article About Trump

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From A Veteran Editor of 'Stars And Stripes'

Regulars here will know I’m not a fan of BS and half-measures. Don’t piss on my boots, and tell me it’s raining …

This has been a horrible month for anybody who still cares about America, her place in the world, and her duty to her people.

We are under attack by Donald Trump’s soulless, gutless Republican Party, and the United States of America will never be the same again.

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Road Safety?

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I just ran across this 13 minute video on road safety in Europe (and more specifically the UK) versus the development of electric vehicles at NEWS: UK Bans Cybertruck - 5 Fatal Design Flaws Tesla Can't Fix.

This is more for those techno-geeks and EV geeks out there. So you might like this FYI,

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Fighting back ...

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This is from the USA, but can easily be applied just about anywhere.

The first is a call for https://www.newsweek.com/will-nationwide-economic-blackout-w... February 28th [1]

The second concerns Target 'rolling over' on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion (DEI); also Amazon, Disney, PBS: [4]

https://www.newsweek.com/target-boycott-march-5-40-day-fast-... [2]

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Justice for sale - at a rock bottom price…….

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I have been reading and listening to the news articles regarding the Eric Adams criminal prosecution for the better part of the day today. I live some 150 miles north of New York City, but as a resident of New York State, especially one who lives in the Capital/Saratoga Region, the potential criminal prosecution of the Mayor of New York City makes the news here on a fairly regular basis, as does most state politics.

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Developments on the left side of “The Pond”

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If you are willing to see how Europeans view the current political developments in the United States of America, you might want to the following broadcast posts on YouTube. Be warned that these could be triggering to you, and therefor a risk to your personal mental health. So viewer discretion is advised.

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“I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on……”

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The classic line from Captain Renault in Casablanca, just before he collects his gambling winnings, is a perfect lead in to today’s latest news from the Orange Asshat in Washington, D.C.

Trump today announced that he is firing the director of the Office of Government Ethics, a man who was confirmed by the US Senate in November 2024 and sworn in December 16, 2024 for a five year term - a term that would have lasted completely through Trump’s second term. See the attached news article:

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