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    Is it true that lawmakers in Florida are considering banning teaching about mensuration in elementary schools until the 6th grade or something?

    That's....bizarre. Mensuration isn't sexual nature and some girls actually do start seeing their periods before the 6th grade.

    Personally, I think there should be more discussion on this with young girls and not less. I mean, this is something that most girls are going to experience, so why the "hush-up"?
    Always puzzled at what teachers are supposed to teach kids…as opposed to parents.

    One of my sisters taught primary school, and some of kids needed help with “dining manners” (to put things diplomatically), and not unknown for some kids not being toilet trained when first attending school.

    Have to say my own preference…which I never expect to see in U.K… is schools to stick to academic factual subjects, certainly no religious instruction, and impose just necessary codes of behaviour to allow their classmates to study in peace.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Username taken View Post
    Is it true that lawmakers in Florida are considering banning teaching about mensuration in elementary schools until the 6th grade or something?

    That's....bizarre. Mensuration isn't sexual nature and some girls actually do start seeing their periods before the 6th grade.

    Personally, I think there should be more discussion on this with young girls and not less. I mean, this is something that most girls are going to experience, so why the "hush-up"?
    Maybe they're worried that if boys hear about it they're going to want to do it themselves, since kids are so very easily influenced in these matters and all?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Username taken View Post
    Is it true that lawmakers in Florida are considering banning teaching about mensuration in elementary schools until the 6th grade or something?

    That's....bizarre. Mensuration isn't sexual nature and some girls actually do start seeing their periods before the 6th grade.

    Personally, I think there should be more discussion on this with young girls and not less. I mean, this is something that most girls are going to experience, so why the "hush-up"?
    Without trying to take a side here...

    That is right around when they gave us the talk in grade school back in the day.

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    Well, what do you know. Overturning Roe is affecting more than just women seeking abortions. Never would have seen that coming.

    Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies as doctors flee over abortion ban

    An Idaho hospital has planned to stop delivering babies, with the medical center’s managers citing increasing criminalization of physicians and the inability to retain pediatricians as major reasons.

    Bonner General Health, the only hospital in Sandpoint, in the north-west of the state, announced on Friday it would no longer provide labor, delivery and a host of other obstetrical services.

    The more than 9,000 residents of Sandpoint will now forced to drive 46 miles for the nearest labor and delivery care, the Idaho Capital Sun reported.

    In a statement, the hospital said the decision to eliminate the obstetrics unit stemmed from the “political climate” in Idaho.
    Hospital officials are hoping to keep obstetrics services available until 19 May, but said it largely depends on staffing. New patients are no longer being seen at the hospital, effective immediately, while current patients are being offered alternative referrals.

    Since the supreme court in June eliminated the nationwide abortion rights that Roe v Wade established, states with total abortion bans have passed laws with the threat of prison time for doctors who perform abortions in violation of state law.

    The supreme court decision legalized an Idaho state ban on abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The state is the first to pass a copy of Texas’s controversial bill. Idaho is also one of six that prosecutes doctors for providing abortion, CBS News reported.

    In August, the justice department filed a lawsuit against Idaho for its near-total ban on abortions, with doctors in the state writing in a court brief that physicians were often forced to choose between violating the state ban or federal healthcare law, the Associated Press reported.

    The implications of the ban is driving doctors out of the state, the Bonner hospital’s press release said.

    “The Idaho legislature continues to introduce and pass bills that criminalize physicians for medical care nationally recognized as the standard of care,” the hospital’s statement said.

    “Consequences for Idaho physicians providing the standard of care may include civil litigation and criminal prosecution, leading to jail time or fines.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by AnakinFlair View Post
    Well, what do you know. Overturning Roe is affecting more than just women seeking abortions. Never would have seen that coming.

    Idaho hospital to stop delivering babies as doctors flee over abortion ban
    Malicious Compliance.

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    https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime...ng/ar-AA18V3lj

    DALLAS (CBSNewsTexas.com) – A Thomas Jefferson High School student survived after getting shot in the arm while in the parking lot late Tuesday afternoon.

    Dallas police said the student was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

    Students that were on campus during the time of the shooting went back inside after Dallas ISD police and DPD officers secured the scene.

    After law enforcement officials determined there were no additional threats, students were dismissed. No arrests have been made.

    Dallas ISD has canceled classes on Wednesday for Thomas Jefferson High School and Walnut Hill International Leadership Academy. Meals will still be distributed from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

    Classes will resume Thursday with additional police presence.

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    https://www.axios.com/2023/03/22/flo...-gay-expansion

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's (R) administration is moving to prohibit classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender identity for all grades.

    Driving the news: The proposal expands last year's Parental Rights in Education Act — dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by critics and doesn't require legislative approval, per the AP.
    So I guess it wasn't really about 'young children' after all, huh.

    Anyone who pushed that bogus line of bullshit gonna cop to it?

    Of course not.

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    Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) likes to make a big show of his hostility towards the mainstream press. He most recently made that clear at a February roundtable when, between a panel of libel lawyers and critics, he complained about journalists advancing “narratives” designed to “attack” him and denounced the landmark 1964 Supreme Court decision New York Times v. Sullivan for enabling the media to “find a way to smear you.” A month later, the Republican-led state legislature introduced a bill seeking to roll back press freedoms seemingly based on his complaints.

    DeSantis has spent much of his time since he took office as governor in 2019 claiming that the mainstream media treats him unfairly—not unlike former president Donald Trump’s constant cries of “fake news.” At the same time, a coterie of local right-leaning outlets have sprung up around Florida, reporting on state politics from a DeSantis-friendly perspective. And the governor appears to have harnessed their congeniality to produce favorable coverage for his administration.
    This 'DeSantis complains and the legislature tries to deliver' sounds very much like the old fascist concept of 'working towards the furher'. Extremist bills will be concocted and introduced to vie for DeSantis' authoritarian approval.

    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/t...-right-resumes

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    So Uganda's passed a bill that makes it feel like the antiWakanda...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vakanai View Post
    So Uganda's passed a bill that makes it feel like the antiWakanda...
    Remember the same groups backing the bill in Uganda are backing the don't-say-gay bill here, leaving no doubt about what their long term plans are and what the 'freedom' they want to restore actually is.
    For the past two years or so, the world media has been talking about anti-LGBTQ bills in Uganda. Variously called the “Kill-the-gays” bills, they have taken various shapes over the last few years. In their latest form they increase penalties against homosexuality in Uganda to life imprisonment for “aggravated homosexuality,” and up to seven years in prison for a person who “aids, abets, counsels or procures” anyone to engage in homosexuality. HIV/AIDS counseling would count in that second category, as would simply declaring one’s own homosexuality or that one thought it was acceptable.

    Yesterday, Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni, signed the bill into law. Given his statement that the bill was a fight back against “social imperialism — to impose social values of one group on our society,” and the strong reaction of the United States and other Western governments against the law, most reporting (like the CNN link above) presented this as a case of a conservative country battling back against imperial Western-imposed liberalism. This is the same language Vladimir Putin has used to justify his own similar anti-LGBTQ laws.

    The truth, though, is far darker, and implicates American evangelicals directly in the writing, funding, and promotion of these policies worldwide. Uganda provides an instructive example of how Western preachers have engaged in Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East to promote murderous policy they can no longer advocate for openly at home.

    “The Family,” also known as “The Fellowship,” is an ultra-secretive politically powerful Christian evangelical organization that runs, among other things, the National Prayer Breakfast and a group home in Washington, D. C in which many Republican Senators and Representatives live. In March 2009, American anti-gay activists, including representatives from The Family, traveled to Uganda to promote anti-gay legislation there. They recruited David Bahati, a Ugandan MP, to join The Family, and The Family’s president referred to him as the family’s “key man” in Uganda.
    https://nyulocal.com/uganda-ratifies...s-89420c7f7906

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    https://apnews.com/article/biden-app...69ff1dc1a0dca8

    Biden approval dips near lowest point: AP-NORC poll
    Approval of President Joe Biden has dipped slightly since a month ago, nearing the lowest point of his presidency as his administration tries to project a sense of stability while confronting a pair of bank failures and inflation that remains stubbornly high.

    That’s according to a new poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which shows there have been modest fluctuations in support for Biden over the past several months. The president notched an approval rating of 38% in the new poll, after 45% said they approved in February and 41% in January. His ratings hit their lowest point of his presidency last July, at 36%, as the full weight of rising gasoline, food and other costs began to hit U.S. households.

    In recent months, approval of Biden had been hovering above 40%.

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    Show of hands if you're surprised:

    Trump’s ‘arrest’ prediction proves to be a highly lucrative move


    Early Saturday morning, Donald Trump jolted the political world a bit by declaring, by way of his social media platform, that he’d be “arrested“ on Tuesday. It wasn’t at all clear why in the world the former president made such a prediction and it was apparently based on his impressions of media accounts.

    We now know, of course, that the Republican’s projection wasn’t true. If Fox News’ new report is accurate, his prediction was, however, quite lucrative.

    None of these details have been independently confirmed, though The Washington Post had a related report, which wasn’t about fundraising, but which noted in passing that Team Trump raised “over $1.5 million since Saturday, a person familiar with the matter said.”
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    It was on this day in both 2015, as well as 2016, that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled Rob Maness, a failed candidate for U.S. Senate from Louisiana in 2014 and for Governor of Louisiana in 2015 who drew a fair share of notoriety for airing a political ad where he showed his worthiness for being a senator by honest-to-goodness wrestling a live alligator. And during the 2014 primary, Maness challenged Senator Mary Landrieu by claiming that she would still support slavery if the issue was voted upon, while declaring in another speech that racism and prejudice in America were over and that the nation had become “color blind”. It was puzzling to hear Maness argue against the Affordable Care Act, as the crux of his argument was that “healthcare is not a right because it has to be taken from another human being and given to you”, which makes no sense whatsoever. Adding into his bizarre candidacy, Maness also decried the government for issuing farm subsidies, even though he himself had been collecting them for years. It seems unlikely Maness will ever win election if he doesn’t set his sights lower than the U.S. Senate.

    It was on this date in 2017 that “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled former Florida State Senator Alan Hays, who served six years after reaching office in the 2010 Tea Party Wave. In his six years in office, Hays developed a reputation for submitting absolutely bonkers bills, including but not limited to one he spewed out in July of 2014 that insisted conservative filmmaker (and convicted felon) Dinesh D'Souza's "America" should be required viewing for all high school students, the time he tried to nullify the Affordable Care Act, or the fact that he once passed out fliers in the Florida State legislature decrying Islam as "a threat to the United States" and that during his efforts to try and get Florida to pass an unnecessary ban on Sharia Law, that he compared his measure to being like a "vaccination against a disease". Which shows that not only is he Islamophobic, but he doesn't quite understand how vaccines work. After court-ordered re-drawing of the Florida state legislature's electoral map, Alan Hays didn't think he could be re-elected to his seat in the State Senate, and instead ran to become the man who would oversee elections in Lake County, Florida. Because Florida Republicans have such a good track record of not stealing elections, right? And it's not like Hays has ever stated his own paranoid opinion that a lot of Hispanics in Florida vote illegally. Oh wait, he did in 2011.
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    On this date in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” published its first profile of Justin Humphrey, a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives from District 19 who just reached office for the first time in 2016 with 52% of the vote, and almost immediately popped up on our radar as an anti-abortion fanatic. This is not only because he is one of 19 sponsors of a bill, HR 1004, proposed in the Oklahoma state legislature that would direct every public official in Oklahoma to exercise their authority to stop murder of unborn children by abortion, because wow does that fly in the face of the Roe v. Wade ruling and contain inflammatory language… but it’s not even the most extreme statement Justin Humphrey has made on the issue.

    It's still no small feat to stand out among anti-abortion loons in Oklahoma. Honestly, there were 18 other co-sponsors of the bill we just mentioned. What makes Justin Humphrey special enough to warrant our attention?

    Well, it might be that he volunteered his opinion that “men should have a say” because pregnant women are “hosts” once they’ve been “irresponsible” enough to have sex and get pregnant:
    Now, if you are a sane person, you just read that and are trying to process if it sounds more like something out of “The Handmaid’s Tale” or Ridley Scott’s “Alien” saga. But that’s the mental state of being of Humphrey, who’s saying out loud what you might suspect a lot of anti-abortion Republicans think like.

    But days after making that statement, Humphrey unflinchingly sponsored legislation, HB 1441, that would require a woman to get the father’s permission before seeking an abortion, which neglects that a paternity test can’t confirm who a baby’s father is during a pregnancy without risking a miscarriage or developmental defects to the fetus. So really, any random guy could stake claim to being the “father” and stop an abortion. Also, the Supreme Court struck down a similar law in 1992 that passed in Pennsylvania’s state legislature, so the legal precedent was this would be overturned as unconstitutional almost immediately.

    Of course, Humphrey claimed, without proof, to be on the receiving end of threats after all this utter dickery during his first six weeks on the job.

    While we were hoping that with only 52% was all he managed in 2016, and prior to that election, Democrats held the seat from District 19 for over a decade, that maybe Humphrey would be a “one and done” legislator, we regret to report that he managed to be re-elected with 68% of the vote in 2018. This rejected villain from A Handmaid’s Tale broke his hip shortly after his re-election, and while he was laid up in bed, had over $40,000 worth of cattle stolen from him, Justin Humphrey won another term in office in 2020 on the benefit that both the GOP Primary election and general election were straight-up canceled for his seat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, and he returned to the legislature to sponsor sensible bills like OKLAHOMA SHOULD ISSUE BIGFOOT HUNTING LICENSES.

    We are not joking, and this crytpid-hunting loon isn’t either.

    Tourism is one of the biggest attractions we have in my House district. Establishing an actual hunting season and issuing licenses for people who want to hunt Bigfoot will just draw more people to our already beautiful part of the state. It will be a great way for people to enjoy our area and to have some fun.
    He noted how the town of Honobia in southeast Oklahoma already has a Bigfoot festival each October so the hunting season would ideally line up with that event.
    Having a license and a tag would give people a way to prove they participated in the hunt. Again, the overall goal is to get people to our area to enjoy the natural beauty and to have a great time, and if they find Bigfoot while they’re at it, well hey, that’s just an even bigger prize.
    The lawmaker specifically noted that he doesn’t want people to actually kill Bigfoot — instead he hopes to include language for his bill to secure at least $25,000 for the first person to capture the beast.
    A lot of people don’t believe in Bigfoot, but a lot of people do. Just like some people like to go deer hunting, while some don’t.


    Again, this Sasquatch obsession… this is the third time we’ve profiled a Republican who’s looking for the missing link in the wilds of their district, from Congressman Tim Burchett in Tennessee, and former one-term Congressman Denver Riggleman. Just… this is the sort of thing they’re doing during a pandemic, where people are struggling to earn money that’s barely a living wage. What the f*** happened to the Republican Party? We know they were always corrupt and racist, but when did they go into a full breakdown where they sound like they’re cribbing notes from X-Files episodes?

    Anyway, given Justin Humphrey’s already-established dumb-assery, it will probably not come as a surprise that he started attacking the LGBTQ community in April of 2021, specifically saying that transgender people “have mental illness. The local media followed up on his disgusting comments, and of course he didn’t apologize, he instead clarified what a bigoted ***hole he is, saying:

    Now, you might think, "Well, he has terrible opinions about women and the LGBTQ community... but at least he hasn't said anything too racist..."

    A month after his comments about transgender people, Justin Humphrey went out to talk about banning Critical Race Theory (that no one was teaching anyway) and during debate about it, compared the Black Lives Matter movement to the Ku Klux Klan.

    Justin Humphrey got to run for re-election to a fourth term in 2022 unopposed, and was thus allowed to return to the legislature and continue his attacks on the LGBTQ community, voting for a bill to ban gender-affirming care for minors. This putz is not term-limited until 2028.
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    Steve Greisen, a Christian filmmaker (barely) known for "Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution" and "Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution II" as well as "The Gentle Bear Man of Emo" (WTF?) pleaded guilty to a criminal attempt to solicit online sex w a minor. He will spend 5 yrs in Colorado’s supervision program for sex offenders.

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