"If he's got time to fight against Disney, I don't know why he wouldn't have time to safeguard marriages like mine."@PeteButtigieg reacts to some GOP senators saying they will vote against a bill that is meant to codify protections for same-sex marriage. @CNNSotu #CNNSOTU pic.twitter.com/Le9OSepeW6
— CNN (@CNN) July 24, 2022
… The proposed rule issued by the Department of Health and Human Services seeks to clarify that discrimination on the basis of sex includes decisions regarding “pregnancy termination.” This comes as the federal health department has already pointed to federal civil rights laws — including portions of Obamacare — to caution pharmacists about denying access to medications that can be used for abortions.
Health-care organizations that receive federal funding would also be barred from discriminating against gender transitions and other services that have increasingly become the target of state legislative battles and litigation. Officials also stressed that the new federal anti-discrimination language covers a patient’s sexual orientation and gender identity.
“I think most Americans are familiar with their rights to be free from discrimination — but too often, there are some communities who don’t have that freedom to exercise their rights to access care,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra told reporters Monday. “We want to make sure that whoever you are, whatever you look like, wherever you live, however you wish to live your life, that you have access to the care that you need.”
The proposed rule strengthens a provision, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, that was crafted during the Obama administration but weakened by his successor and has been the subject of extensive litigation. The proposal has also become part of the Biden administration’s strategy to ensure access to abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade…
New letter from Biden’s physician: “His symptoms have now almost completely resolved.”https://t.co/IUGIRGRE1G pic.twitter.com/UbxL1GBEDT
— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) July 25, 2022
Watch Merrick Garland turn into Samuel L. Jackson before our very eyes pic.twitter.com/t9x0Ych19L
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) July 25, 2022
I hear what you are saying. And, yes, the data is compelling. Cassandra has been right literally every time she has made a prediction. War. Famine. Rights rollbacks. (A phrase that makes it sound as though maybe the rights are part of a nifty sale rather than a horrible violation of the contract you thought you had with society!) Whenever she has said anything — “Don’t let that horse into the city! It’s full of armed soldiers!” or “If we don’t do anything about the climate, it will get worse” or “Susan Collins, do not take what Brett Kavanaugh just said as reassurance that he doesn’t want to overturn Roe v. Wade” — I have been forced to admit, in retrospect, that she has been absolutely on the money, every time, like that Masonic eye thing that is on the back of all the dollars…
And, yes, once again, Cassandra is trying to warn us. She thinks something terrible will happen and wants to tell us so that we can prepare, just as she told us in the past about Donald Trump not accepting the results of the election, or the horrifying consequences of state trigger laws about abortion, or the dozens of other things she has been right about. Now, given her track record, you might say: Let’s hear this lady out!
But I have to say: What are the odds that she’s right again?…
Who are you going to believe — me, a guy telling you that the Supreme Court has probably done all that it wants to do and there is no chance that it will come for Obergefell v. Hodges next, or Cassandra, a literal prophetess who has always been right and is screaming that I am wrong? I know only two things about Cassandra: She is a hysterical woman to whom we should not give the time of day, and she has been (technically, in only the strictest, most literal sense) right about every single thing that she has predicted so far. Also, her predictions are so depressing! I don’t want to live in a world where what Cassandra says is true, even though, technically, I guess, I do live in that world right now…
Baud
I thought I was above the law.
Suzanne
Another good piece to read: How The Fight To Ban Abortion Is Rooted In The ‘Great Replacement’ Theory.
OzarkHillbilly
The solution to that particular conundrum is well within your abilities to solve.
Baud
@Suzanne:
Slight tweak to say “upon my loins” and I think we have the official campaign slogan for Baud! 20XX!
brantl
@Baud: It worked for Stumpy; everything was about his loins, according to him.
Baud
I don’t know what Willis is responding to.
satby
Anne Laurie, you and I must have almost the same Twitter feed.
I love that Daily Show clip. Trevor Noah has turned out to be a far batteries and comedian than Jon Stewart.
Baud
Oh, they’re making a movie about those Thai boys trapped in that cave.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
SFAW
@Baud:
Phew! I was dreading that you would say “I AM the Law!”
ETA: Not to be confused with “I Am The Way,” of course
lowtechcyclist
@Suzanne:
“Great Replacement” theory is of course an abhorrently racist belief. But beyond that, I don’t see how the idea even works.
Because of the effects of centuries of economic discrimination in America, it’s going to disproportionately be women of color who won’t be able to afford to travel to a place where they can safely get an abortion. Seems to me they’d be hastening the Great Replacement they’re so afraid of.
germy shoemangler
Bloody Bill Kristol wants John Legend to run for president
Spanky
@satby:
I smell autocorrect!
satby
@Baud: he was responding to this tweet by the WH. He’s quite the “messaging” critic. I follow him, but he’s really a bore on that subject.or
Edit: because my kindle has just completely gone off its meds.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
And without pants, your loins will be on full pub(l)ic display!
Baud
@satby:
Thanks. I kind of agree that tweet isn’t great. Not sure Willis’s suggestion is better. It has its own problems.
ETA: Constantly talking about messaging is boring though. How about just message the message directly to your followers rather than trying to school other people’s messaging all the time.
germy shoemangler
@satby:
Typo in the tweet. “Peson”
I used to see that all the time during the trump admin.
satby
@Spanky: oh fuck me, yes. As I mentioned in my reply to Baud, now it’s not even logical autocorrect, just random bullshit with the same number of letters. It should have read “far better host …”
Baud
@satby:
Autocorrect plays Wordle too.
germy shoemangler
germy shoemangler
Baud
@germy shoemangler:
The Japanese really like their short poems.
O. Felix Culpa
@satby:
Hehe. Normally I’m pretty good at figuring out what was meant before autocorrect stepped in, but that one had me baffled. :)
satby
@Baud: agree violently. Communication is hard because even a flawless delivery depends on the receiver or the loop isn’t closed. And in mass communication, you have to try to “message” all levels of receivers. You think you can say it better, restate it and move on. Be a helper.
germy shoemangler
@Baud:
The poets were dying otherwise they would have had more time to add words.
satby
@Baud: but I don’t.
Baud
@satby:
Me either.
JML
Glad to hear Biden is responding well to treatment. My brother-in-law the nurse tells me that Paxlovid stuff is the real deal (he works in a semi-rural hospital where it’s COVID all the time) and knowing it’s out there as a treatment method brings a little extra peace of mind.
satby
Math is extra hard for the homeschooled.
germy shoemangler
The price of fancy feast chicken pate has doubled.
If you can find it!
OzarkHillbilly
@germy shoemangler: How’s the taste?
SFAW
@satby:
Well, to get you started: the answer to today’s Wordle is:
“pneumonoultramiscroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.”
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: 😍😘
satby
@SFAW: 😜 Thanks! Hard pass.
Total props for finding that word though.
SFAW
@satby:
Baud was being modest, by the way: He actually plays it, and got today’s in one try.
SFAW
@satby:
I’d like to see TFG try to pronounce it.* More out-takes than Carter has pills.
* Just kidding. The less I see of his disgusting visage and form, the better.
ETA: But “finding that word”? It’s a pretty common word, most people use it at least once a day.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: Perhaps autocorrect meant to say “lions.” Because lions would be useful right now
Geminid
@satby: Voice-to-text can be even worse. I once had a customer who was pleased with a chimney repair and texted me to send her my invoice as soon as possible. But it came out “please forward your ass ASAP.” I texted back that I had to keep my ass with me.
satby
@JML: yes, it does. Though even my sister in the nursing home just went through a bout barely needing anything but OTC cold and flu stuff. She tested positive on a Friday evening, so had to wait until Monday morning to have Paxlovid proscribed, and by then was pretty over the symptoms anyway. Fortunately.
satby
@SFAW: @Geminid: I love morning threads.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
Followers? I have followers??
I can only say the same things but so many times before I get bored with hearing myself say them. So yeah, messaging matters to me: I’d like to hear someone with a bigger megaphone than I have say those things, so I don’t have to.
OzarkHillbilly
Hillbilly’s Rule #1 in robbery avoidance: Don’t advertise. Never occurred to me to add, “especially on the internet or TV.”
The picture is coming into focus…
Yeah, I think it’s safe to say he and Jesus are not on a first name basis.
SFAW
@Geminid:
Unlike Mrs. SFAW, who keeps hoping her ass* will go away.
* Meaning me, of course
Baud
@lowtechcyclist:
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: I saw the news about the robbery and wondered what kind of preacher has $1million worth of jewelry lying around
SFAW
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Baud was wondering where his loins are.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
“That’s Mr. Christ to you, sir.”
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
What exactly are you into that you need lions right now?
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
Clearly you need a better religion. ;-)
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: Politics?
No offense meant to your loins of course, Baud
Geminid
After days of hot, humid weather, greater Stanardsville, Virginia is overcast, cool and drizzly this morning. A hint that Autumn is on its way.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I would have said, “The type of preacher who plays on a pro football team.” but obviously enough I am wrong about that.
@Baud: Myself, I wouldn’t bother him.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
You know all those conservative Christians who are always complaining that they’re being persecuted? How about we add some lions and an amphitheater to the experience?
germy shoemangler
@OzarkHillbilly:
My cat swears by it.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
My loins wanted me to tell you, No worries.
@lowtechcyclist:
Nice. You’re now my top choice for Secretary of Entertainment and Persecutions.
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
“The ‘H’ is silent.”
germy shoemangler
@lowtechcyclist:
amphitheater is not in the budget. The lions were expensive.
dollar store parking lot works just as well.
satby
@Geminid: woke up to a blissfully cool 59° this morning. All the windows open to bring in the cool air before it gets too warm later.
@lowtechcyclist: I like your solution on that!
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: Looks like God set it up for the robbers to relieve that crooked preacher of his jewelry. Mysterious ways, etc.
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: Did you get any rain? I heard on the radio this morning that there is a flash flood warning in St. Louis because they got 6-12″ of rain in the past day! Meanwhile, the Great Oven continues in this part of the country. I looked at the temp data for July for us, and it’s brutal – highs over 90º every day since July 2nd, six days in a row of highs over 100º broken up by a high of 97º yesterday. It’s supposed to be over 100º again today, and then for the next week there is a chance of rain every day with highs in the 80’s. This is just insane weather.
SFAW
@Geminid:
After about a week of 90-plus temps here in central MA, the day is starting out reasonably cool.
So, of course, today is the day the A/C guy is going to be here to fix the system. Which has been out, and about which I called almost a month ago.
germy shoemangler
Soprano2
Well this story is a nightmare. Gotta give NPR props, they aren’t letting up on telling the horror stories that are a result of restrictive abortion laws.
cliosfanboy
We need lions to protect us from the face-eating leopards 🐆.
Ken
I could swear this exact line was used in a comedy (possibly Blackadder?) by a medieval doctor, to which someone responded “But he’s dead.”
Anyway, thank goodness Biden’s coming through OK.
Ken
KILL CASSANDRA!
Betty Cracker
Baud
All this talk of Cassandra made me want to see what Hillary was up to.
She’s also pinned a tweet thread from Sen. Chris Murphy “messaging ” Biden’s accomplishments.
Ken
Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious…
(Sorry, but I subscribe to Mark Twain’s theory that the best way to get rid of an earworm is to
infect someone elseshare it.)Spanky
@Geminid:
[SNORT!]
Yeah, right.
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly:
G&T’s Rule #1 in robbery avoidance: don’t own $1m worth of jewelry.
N M
@lowtechcyclist: I say to Baud, “gird them, please, for the love of the FSM, gird them, sir!”
Immanentize
@Ken: you broke the margins
eclare
@Soprano2: Just about the same here in Memphis. I have lived here eighteen years, and I have never experienced a summer that has been this consistently hot and dry for so long. High of 99 today, slight cooling on Thursday. Maybe some rain. I feel sorry for the farmers in the Delta.
Ken
@Immanentize: Sorry, it’s past the edit time. Maybe a front-pager can fix.
(I’m surprised mine broke it, but not the original. Something with the blockquote, I guess?)
SFAW
@Ken:
Great. Now I have Dick Van Dyke’s “Cockney” accent in my head. You bastid.
Feathers
@Suzanne: Also need to realize how much of it, especially the no exceptions for life and health of the mother, is rooted in Catholic doctrine. The pregnant person has had the chance to live in accordance with God’s will and confess their sins, so they have the chance to go to heaven after they die. The child they are carrying, being unbaptized, will not go to heaven if they die. Thus the child has every priority of being brought into the world so they can be baptized, even at the cost of their mother’s life. Mom had her chance at salvation shouldn’t fear death anyway, being a good Catholic. And if she’s not a good Catholic? Sorry, we make the rules.
This is why, growing up, I had friends with deeply devout mothers who refused to give birth at Catholic hospitals. Also why we need to get rid of religions running hospitals.
Suzanne
@lowtechcyclist:
That’s why they’re working on criminalizing interstate travel.
The nutcase right hates educated liberal white women, too. They have a special hatred for them (us) because they (we) now occupy roles in society that mediocre white men used to easily access. And thus, they (we) are not controllable via the traditional means. Women having status, money, power, and education is a problem for them.
Ken
@SFAW: The good news is that it worked for me — I don’t have the earworm. Find someone you can share the song with.
Denali
I love this thread. That is all.
SFAW
@Suzanne:
Your comment is depressing, not least because it’s so true.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I just saw a weird online ad for Barbie accessories that showed a plastic dog. You press on the dog’s back and three puppies drop from its belly. Does Ron DeSantis know about this?
SFAW
@Ken:
There’s no one I hate that much. [OK, in fairness, the song is pretty good. But the spoken accent — oy vey.]
Soprano2
No doubt this is true. Republican women are fooling themselves.
HinTN
@eclare: Summer of 1980 it was 100 degrees by 1000 every morning for over two weeks in July. That was the summer we were putting board and batten siding on the cabin. Had to start st dawn and wrap by 10 every day or we’d have died.
Soprano2
So, today in “LOL so predictable” I saw a friend on FB who has been consistently criticizing Biden for rising gas prices post a meme that “gas prices aren’t falling, they’re still $2.10 too high”. I have no idea what this is supposed to mean, maybe that prices should be what they were when Trump left office. One of the comments on that post was that “falling prices are about supply and demand, it has nothing to do with Biden”. Well, I went off on them a little bit about how predictable it was that while blaming him as long as prices were going up now that they’re going down they’ve “suddenly” discovered how supply and demand works, rather than crediting Biden for the falling prices. Good grief…
Suzanne
@SFAW: The rise of assortative mating is one of the biggest social changes since Roe v Wade that I don’t think gets enough attention. It has changed and stratified family formation, and it is no accident that it has occurred simultaneous with an increase in the rates of interracial marriage and women now outnumbering men in higher education.
Assortative mating has changed who is available to whom. And men who don’t bring a lot to the table in terms of money or status now find that their marriage prospects have decreased relative to 50 years ago. They want to use force of law and economy to make white women marry them and have their babies.
Another Scott
Pete is good. It must be exhausting to have to fight these battles constantly. :-(
In other news, ScienceAlert – OMG! Regular naps will kill you!!11ONE:
(Emphasis added.)
Hmm…
Seriously, being able to look for correlations in large datasets is a good thing. But come on, it’s not hard to talk about the results in a clear way. Napping isn’t risky; having issues that make one want to nap frequently/excessively (like smoking, daily drinking, being male, having low income, having insomnia, etc.) is risky…
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Soprano2
@HinTN: I keep telling people that this summer reminds me of 1980, and that’s not a good thing. I had to drive 20 miles to work at 4 o’clock with no air conditioning. This was when I was in college. Here in SWMO the summer of 1954 is legendary – that’s when we established our all-time highest temp of 113º.
Suzanne
@Feathers:
Oh for sure, but religion has largely been about patriarchal control forever. “Catholic doctrine” is not a thing that has ever existed outside of patriarchy. Men have wanted to control women long before the Catholic Church wrote it down.
eclare
@Feathers: When my mom was pregnant with me in 1968, she made it known under no circumstances was she to be taken to a Catholic hospital. We weren’t Catholic, but she knew what their priority was.
Soprano2
@Suzanne: I have always thought families should be traced through the woman, because there is never any doubt who the mother of a baby is.
satby
@Feathers: Catholic doctrine originally followed Jewish law in that the life of the mother was paramount (at least until viability), and I was still taught that as late as the 70s in Catholic nursing school. No idea how or when that got so perverted. I’m in no way a practicing Catholic, but I definitely learned a far different version than what came along later.
Also, if the parents wished, even stillborn babies were baptised. All Catholics have the power to baptize. We all know my Italian aunt probably baptized her Jewish grandchildren in her kitchen sink the first time she babysat each one.
Kathleen
@satby: Blocked him a long time ago. Professional Dem Haters are boring and predictable.
Steeplejack
“Gift” version (non-paywalled) of Alexandra Petri’s column. Should work for everybody. Let me know. I thought I could give articles to 10 people per month, but now I think it’s 10 articles.
eclare
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That’s weird. I recently read that Barbie is coming out with a Jane Goodall version of the doll. I loved Barbie as a kid, but all she had were Ken and her Dream House!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Soprano2: Cinda Chima’s Seven Realms series has a queendom instead of a kingdom for that very reason.
O. Felix Culpa
@Betty Cracker:
This is excellent, as in very well done.
eclare
@HinTN: I remember hearing about the summer of 1980! Luckily that was the summer I went away to camp for July in a cooler climate.
But yeah, the legend of that summer lives on.
Barbara
@Soprano2: For me, it was the summer of 1988 — I lived in an unairconditioned walk-up, converted row house in Baltimore, on the second floor. It was so hot for around two weeks in July that I used to walk my dog to the ATM vestibule a block away and stand in the air conditioned alcove for a while, just to cool off. It broke after around two weeks.
This summer has not been that bad for us, here in the Metro DC area. A few days above 95 is pretty much expected, and they have been punctuated by enough rain and temperatures in the 80s that the grass is still really green even without watering. But I understand that is just a bit of random luck for us.
eclare
@Soprano2: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Ralph Waldo Emerson.
HinTN
@Soprano2: That summer was the exclamation point on a crazy weather year for us. The previous winter there were 20 days where it didn’t get above 0 °F and nights went to -20 °F. That cabin was freezing cold!
Steeplejack
Redacted. Satby ahead of me.
satby
@Steeplejack: Oh, thank you!!!
HinTN
@Steeplejack: He’s right, it’s stupid.
HinTN
@HinTN: Ha ha, responded to a now redacted comment. Time dilation hits the innerwebs.
Kathleen
@Steeplejack: It’s 10 articles. I share several articles throughout the month on Twitter.
Edmund Dantes
@Another Scott: did they also check for sleep apnea in the group that has a lot of the same symptoms of lots of naps? Weird it’s not in the list.
Ohio Mom
@Soprano2: Some cultures do operate on matrilineal descent, including traditional Judaism: you are Jewish if your mother and maternal ancestors is/was, even if you did not live a Jewish life — say, your ancestral family was forced to convert. This was based on it always being possible to know the mother, the father, not so much.
Modern American Reform Judaism, in response to increasing intermarriage, declared that which parent is Jewish doesn’t matter, you are Jewish if just your father is, IF you grow up practicing Judaism.
This has served to make the rift between Liberal and Orthodox Judaism deeper, to which I say, Good, I’d just as soon not have anything to do with those antediluvians.
@OzarkHillbilly: Ah, creating and founding your own church, even if it’s only a sparsely attended storefront operation, the tax dodge available to ordinary nobodies.
There’s probably a ratio describing down-and-out neighborhoods and the number of um, unaffiliated, one-of-a-kind congregations.
Another Scott
@Soprano2: “Never” is too strong a word. Human biology is complicated!
Lydia Fairchild:
Cheers,
Scott.
Steeplejack
@Geminid:
“Hint of autumn”?! It’s just the rain cooling things off. Now 75° here in Seven Corners, but back up to 90° on Thursday.
WaterGirl
@Immanentize: was it Ken or the original SFAW comment? I need to know which one to fix.
edit: never mind, it occurred to me that I could just look at this thread on my phone, which i never do unless I am stuck somewhere waiting for something. fixed now.
Another Scott
@Edmund Dantes: I don’t see it in the web page for the journal article (article is paywalled).
No wonder the popular press reporting is getting the causality wrong:
They’re massacring the word “causal” there.
Grr…,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Ken: yes, the blockquote indents so you have fewer characters to work with.
Subsole
@Baud: Does it matter?
It’d be another variation of “Dems are doing it wrong”, no matter the subject.
SFAW
@WaterGirl:
Mine seems to be showing up OK, and I didn’t get a “Your comment doesn’t effing work, numbnuts” message, so I’m thinking it’s Ken’s.
Rekoob
@Steeplejack: Since you’re around, greetings from Lewes! I’m slowly getting settled in and am exploring the region. Perhaps we can meet for a Dogfish Head IPA on one of your Rehoboth visits.
Subsole
@lowtechcyclist: Logic is…not…a primary skillset for these people.
Or even a tertiary one, come to that…
SFAW
@WaterGirl:
Well, there are certainly plenty of characters here.
Ohio Mom
@Another Scott: Chimerism has something to say about the fundamentalist religious belief that the embryo is ensouled.
Does Lydia Fairchild have two souls, hers and the one belonging to the twin she absorbed during her development in her mother’s womb?
Ken
@WaterGirl: I guess there’s a non-breaking space too, or it would have broken after the comment-link. Ah well, live and learn.
Paul in KY
@germy shoemangler: That was profound.
Paul in KY
@OzarkHillbilly: God has set it up so I can fleece poor gullible folk and I’m going to do his will…
Priase Jeebus!
wenchacha
@Feathers: Very true. There is also the issue of the Lord not blessing a country which allows abortions and gays and premarital sex. Why, He might send Hurricane and tornadoes and fires and plagues. We won’t believe in the plagues, except for gay ones.
MinuteMan
@lowtechcyclist:
Wait for Phase II where the Sordid Six come for contraception.
Steeplejack
@Rekoob:
Hello! Would love to hear the details of your move and current situation. I was just talking about you with my brother last week. He and his ménage decamped to Rehoboth Beach for the summer, and we were talking about the difference between “visiting” and “living there.” I mentioned that you had been talking about moving there and were investigating locations.
I have no firm plans to go down there at the moment, but if I do perhaps we can get together.
Uncle Cosmo
@germy shoemangler: Just out of grad school the only job I could score was as a TA running 4 recitation sections of Sadistics for Sociology Majors, one right after the other from 8 AM to noon on Fridays.
I tell you this to note that on days when I was proctoring a midterm, I would collect the papers while the first section was exiting through the back door, then open the front door to confront the terrified faces of the 9 AM section, and before I’d let them in I’d announce something on the order of
& adjust for all subsequent sections. Probably couldn’t get away with that theze daze, but…
VOR
Yeah, he needs to use that money to buy a private jet. You know, as scripture clearly states. ;-)
Miss Bianca
@Suzanne:
Ewwww. That’s all I got to say about that.
Uncle Cosmo
@Geminid: One of the nonlinear effects of “global warming” comes from increased evaporation, which produces higher levels of water vapor in the atmosphere, which promotes cloud formation. More cloudiness during daytime hours means more sunlight is reflected into space, lowering surface temperature; but more cloud cover at night traps the infrared radiation from heated surfaces that would otherwise escape into space.
FTR anyone who’s been paying attention and thought a bit about it understands that the real coalmine-canary of AGW isn’t daytime highs but nighttime lows. Here in Baltimore the highs aren’t all that different from a couple of generations back (I fondly recall one from late June 1988: 104° F). But it used to be possible to sleep comfortably at night, for all but the nastiest 5-10 days of the summer, with nothing but a fan in a screen window drafting through the house. These daze there are maybe 5-10 nights every summer when AC is not required for sleep.
Dalai Rasta
Is it okay to post a pet bleg? My Noel had to have surgery to remove a mammary growth on her belly, and my mother and I have had a lot of financial trouble recently.
We got displaced from our home after Hurricane Ida, and we’ve been living out of a hotel room for the last nine months. FEMA paid for our room through March, but since then they’ve told us that they’ll only give us rental assistance. The problem with that is that my mother uses a wide-base wheelchair, and none of the rental properties in our area have proper accommodations for her.
As a result, we’ve been using what remains of my father’s death benefits while repairs are being completed on our home, while both our insurance and FEMA claiming that those repairs are the other’s responsibility.
Despite this entire mess, our only priority at the moment is Noel, and we’re hoping that the lab work on her doesn’t give us any more bad news.
Bobby Thomson
@Baud: doesn’t really matter. He’s gone 100% troll