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Opening a Country With a Closed Mind (Betty Bowers)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Patricia Apr 27. 1 Reply 3 Likes

Today, against the better judgment of just about EVERYONE with a brain and hard data supporting them, Georgia is going to open back up for business, including hair salons, bowling alleys, and … GYMS??? Perhaps the biggest Petri Dish of them all? …Continue

Tags: coronavirus, COVID-19, Brian Kemp, Donald Trump, America’s Best Christian

Do As You’re Told!

Started by Patricia. Last reply by Grinning Cat Apr 26. 8 Replies 4 Likes

Spreading this around……As someone with a Masters in disease control, you can only imagine the sheer hell on earth that Facebook is for me at the moment.From Chantelle who has impressively made the leap from bath bomb retailer to consultant…Continue

#NeverBiden is the New #MAGA! (Betty Bowers)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Joan Denoo Apr 14. 9 Replies 4 Likes

Apparently there is a new hashtag out there: #NeverBiden. Now, I’m not much of a hashtag follower, but it would seem as though America’s Best Christian, Betty Bowers IS … and she’s not at all happy with the point of view represented by the…Continue

Tags: #MAGA, #NeverBiden, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, America’s Best Christian

Thou Shalt Stay the Hell Home! (Betty Bowers)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Plinius Apr 10. 4 Replies 3 Likes

Never let it be said that Mrs. Betty Bowers, America’s Best Christian, is a scofflaw as it comes to the whole “shelter-in-place” order … ESPECIALLY when she has such a FABULOUS place to shelter in! Problem is, she sees way too many other…Continue

Tags: virus, corona, shelter-in-place, , , America’s, Best, Christian, , , Betty, Bowers"

Stay at home order

Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Ruth Anthony-Gardner Apr 6. 5 Replies 2 Likes

Not only should the Federal government issue the “Stay at home” order, but all medications should be negotiated through the nation and health care should be provided to all inhabitants, citizens or not. From where will the funding come? From those…Continue

Tags: socialist, profits, capitalist, free, speech.

AOC Flips the Religious Freedom Argument on Its Head (NowThis)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Loren Miller Mar 31. 6 Replies 4 Likes

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may not be an atheist, but as it comes to the issue of State / Church separation, she has just surprised the daylights out of me (most pleasantly!) with a very powerful statement she has recently made regarding the behavior…Continue

Tags: separation, religious freedom, church, State, AOC

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Comment by Joan Denoo yesterday: Ian, I envy you the sound of bees in trees and shrubs. We have no blossoms in the forest, except for the coniferous. That pollen bothers many members of my family.

Michelle and I are going to see The Plant Man tomorrow to get some things that I am not starting in the greenhouse. We will have blossoms and only in pots. Laura wants the Boreal forest left unchanged. We have White Fir (Abies concolor), red fir (Abies magnifica), a few Deodar cedar (Cedrus deodara), and a few Ponderosa Pine (Pinus ponderosa.)

Comment by Joan Denoo yesterday: Oh! Ian, that is bad news indeed, gutting out basic progressive values! I hope the Left-wing gets some energy going to put a stop and reverse the trend. The older I get, the more I believe in universal access to:

education, health care, workers’ compensation, public transportation, child care, care for the elderly, strong trade labor unions, collective bargaining rights for workers, freedom from discrimination based on differences of: ability/disability, age, ethnicity, sex, gender, language, race, religion, sexual orientation, and social class.

In all probability, I will not see these things come to our government; there is hope for yours.

Comment by Patricia yesterday: Lisa is my granddaughter, who married a pastor, son of a pastor. My daughter is the one who married a bybull thumper, & got brainwashed into it all, & their 5 kids are all soaked in it. Lisa is the eldest.

We keep the topic closed at all times since I told them years ago it had to be that way if I was to remain civil.

We never see the grandkids or the gr,grandkids, so ”making it work” is not on my plate.

Manitoba is a long way from here anyway, & a very occasional email is the sum total of contact with Lisa.

Comment by Joan Denoo yesterday: That is an outstanding idea, a private birthing center. Having a baby in a pool sounds interesting; I’ve heard of it and would like to learn of her experience.

I don’t envy you the challenge of a daughter married to a religious family; I know you have what it takes to make it work.

Comment by Patricia yesterday: Lisa wasn’t in a hospital, she went to a private birthing center & had the baby in a pool.

No, she & her husband moved to Manitoba where he got his own church, & his family is in Alberta, & of course her parents are here in BC. I guess it would be some fellow worshippers who’d likely offer to help.

Lisa & husband also have Liam, their 20 month old.

Comment by Ian Mason yesterday: I came home from a brisk jog today to discover that I could hear the flowering hedge outside the flats as well as smell it. I don’t know how many bees there were but it sounded like they were having a good time.

Comment by Ian Mason yesterday: Joan, re. the government in DK. It’s just a milder version of everywhere else. The right wing has a few years where they cut, cut and cut. Then comes the nominally left wing that does nothing to reverse the situation. Large swathes of property have been sold off to ‘investment companies’ for asset stripping. The state vaccine facility was sold to a Gulf sheik for way under the market value last years despite protests and the newer Social Democrat government is making no attempt to get it back. There is still some residual opposition, enough to force governments in a vaguely green direction and the xenophobic nationalists took a hammering at the last election so things haven’t degenerated to the same extent as the USA. Actually, I think Trump’s antics help the liberal/left over here. People are flabbergasted and don’t want to end up in the same situation so the orange buffoon is good for something after all.

Comment by Ian Mason yesterday: Going home the same day is now standard procedure in Denmark and given the number of ‘hospital infections’ that have multiplied over recent years it’s probably not a bad idea.

Comment by Joan Denoo on Saturday: Under the circumstances, home is surely a safer place to be than a hospital. She can stay in touch with her physician if she has concerns about herself or their baby. Does Lisa have someone who can help her with lifting and doing routine chores and keep an eye on her during these first few days?