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1 hour ago, Tweety said:

I went paperless and check balances online

But the real point is making you aware of your financial situation, every month. I do the same as you. 

But I hope the course addresses those individuals who have neither a checking or work check automatically deposited. Not having a way to cash checks, independent of a 'fee for service' costs someone so much. 

 

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1 hour ago, londonflo said:

But the real point is making you aware of your financial situation, every month. I do the same as you. 

But I hope the course addresses those individuals who have neither a checking or work check automatically deposited. Not having a way to cash checks, independent of a 'fee for service' costs someone so much. 

 

Agree.  It was more a tongue in cheek statement about "balancing a checkbook".   Teaching kids to be responsible with finances and what the rules are is a good thing.  

 

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So apparently Brown-Jackson didn't want to address what a woman is during her hearing when the topic was transgenderism.  And the people went wild.

Fox's clickbait was "Outrage after...."

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"Wow, our WOKE world has come to this that an educated woman can't even define herself... soon many WOKE brainwashed people won't even be able to define human..." investigative journalist Sara Carter wrote.

I have heard "woke" as an insult but not it means people are brainwashed.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/outrage-ketanji-brown-jackson-tells-senators-woman-bizarre

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“I’d love to get your opinion on that, and you can submit that,” Blackburn continued. “Do you interpret Justice Ginsburg’s meaning of ‘men’ and ‘women’ as male and female?”

“Again, because I don’t know the case, I don’t know how I’d interpret it,” Jackson said. “I’d need to read the whole thing.”

“Okay,” Blackburn said. “Can you provide a definition for the word ‘woman’?”

“Can I provide a definition?” Jackson replied, clearly bemused. “No. I can't.”

“You can’t?” Blackburn replied.

“Not in this context,” Jackson said. “I’m not a biologist.”

“So you think the meaning of the word woman is so unclear and controversial that you can’t give me a definition?” Blackburn said, obviously framing Jackson’s response unfairly.

“Senator, in my work as a judge, what I do is I address disputes,” Jackson said. “If there’s a dispute about a definition, people make arguments and I look at the law and I decide. So I’m not —”

“Well, the fact that you can’t give me a straight answer” — here Blackburn offered a wry chuckle — “about something as fundamental as what a woman is underscores the dangers of the kind of progressive education that we are hearing about,” the senator said.

That’s the point. Set someone up for failure and then point out that they failed. What answer was Blackburn expecting? This question was one in a battery aimed solely at tripping Jackson up; Blackburn then transitioned to a planned question about transgender athletes in sports.

WaPo goes into a bit more detail than Fox News.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/23/remarkable-bad-faith-involved-what-is-woman-attack/?fbclid=IwAR3GHjUHovm6kOZPxILBQ1tgCnUVOtlx5h3gbGuWtEmD9i_rPE7aaBcTKCU

 

I do admit it's a bizarre way of answering.  I might have said "It's not for me to define but the individuals themselves" or something like that.  

Speaking of transgender issues many are having issues with the, as I've heard say "a full grown man" winning swimming championships in the NAACA.  Including DeSantis

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/22/ron-desantis-emma-weyant-not-lia-thomas-rightful-w/?fbclid=IwAR31tuNQhASeoM3o3D9NAGR_vbfZCVDO0rfpVcjkWAS8S5KN2MogBabTksc

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Charlie Kirk was suspended by Twitter on Tuesday for an attack on U.S. assistant secretary for health Rachel Levine, in which he repeatedly misgendered and deadnamed her. 

https://thecharliekirkshow.com/columnists/charlie-kirk/posts/Twitter-suspends-charlie-kirk-for-calling-a-biological-man-a-man

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51 minutes ago, Tweety said:

So apparently Brown-Jackson didn't want to address what a woman is during her hearing when the topic was transgenderism.  And the people went wild.

Fox's clickbait was "Outrage after...."

I have heard "woke" as an insult but not it means people are brainwashed.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/outrage-ketanji-brown-jackson-tells-senators-woman-bizarre

WaPo goes into a bit more detail than Fox News.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/23/remarkable-bad-faith-involved-what-is-woman-attack/?fbclid=IwAR3GHjUHovm6kOZPxILBQ1tgCnUVOtlx5h3gbGuWtEmD9i_rPE7aaBcTKCU

 

I do admit it's a bizarre way of answering.  I might have said "It's not for me to define but the individuals themselves" or something like that.  

Speaking of transgender issues many are having issues with the, as I've heard say "a full grown man" winning swimming championships in the NAACA.  Including DeSantis

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/22/ron-desantis-emma-weyant-not-lia-thomas-rightful-w/?fbclid=IwAR31tuNQhASeoM3o3D9NAGR_vbfZCVDO0rfpVcjkWAS8S5KN2MogBabTksc

In even more news:

https://thecharliekirkshow.com/columnists/charlie-kirk/posts/Twitter-suspends-charlie-kirk-for-calling-a-biological-man-a-man

I wonder how she would handle a sex discrimmination case if she can't decide what a woman is?

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17 minutes ago, Beerman said:

I wonder how she would handle a sex discrimmination case if she can't decide what a woman is?

I wonder if she has a record of this we can look at?

As evidenced by what else I posted, we as a society can't even decide what a woman is.

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As I think about it, I don't know how these days how I would define a woman.  I would probably define a woman who on one that defines herself that way.  

So if a woman has a member, but defines herself as a woman, then I do to.  I confess to struggle a bit with the genderless but if someone defines themselves as neither man or woman, I have to allow that.  

It is not for me to define a persons gender.

 

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17 hours ago, MunoRN said:

I also found those articles pretty concerning, I mean how are schools consenting to gender transitioning medical procedures, hormone therapies, etc, without the parents knowledge, since it seemed like that's what we must be talking about.

When actually what happened was that the school allowed these kids to choose their preferred pronouns and the name they would prefer to be called.

If the 12 and 13 year-old children in these stories didn't feel like they could confide in their parents then it's certainly not up to the school go around the kid and tell the parents.  

I'm trying to wrap my head around the parenting going on here.  Your kid doesn't feel like they can share with you who they feel like they are, so they share that with someone they feel safe sharing that with, and then when you find out then it's the people that showed your child the tolerance they were seeking that you blame?  Maybe you're a *** parent, maybe that's the problem.

It's the Washington EXAMINER - a newspaper of no journalistic integrity.  I'm still waiting for the lesson plan for sexualizing little children.  How on earth can a school change a gender.  This is pandering to the clueless who don't question what they are reading.

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2 hours ago, Tweety said:

So apparently Brown-Jackson didn't want to address what a woman is during her hearing when the topic was transgenderism.  And the people went wild.

Fox's clickbait was "Outrage after...."

I have heard "woke" as an insult but not it means people are brainwashed.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/outrage-ketanji-brown-jackson-tells-senators-woman-bizarre

WaPo goes into a bit more detail than Fox News.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/03/23/remarkable-bad-faith-involved-what-is-woman-attack/?fbclid=IwAR3GHjUHovm6kOZPxILBQ1tgCnUVOtlx5h3gbGuWtEmD9i_rPE7aaBcTKCU

 

I do admit it's a bizarre way of answering.  I might have said "It's not for me to define but the individuals themselves" or something like that.  

Speaking of transgender issues many are having issues with the, as I've heard say "a full grown man" winning swimming championships in the NAACA.  Including DeSantis

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/mar/22/ron-desantis-emma-weyant-not-lia-thomas-rightful-w/?fbclid=IwAR31tuNQhASeoM3o3D9NAGR_vbfZCVDO0rfpVcjkWAS8S5KN2MogBabTksc

In even more news:

https://thecharliekirkshow.com/columnists/charlie-kirk/posts/Twitter-suspends-charlie-kirk-for-calling-a-biological-man-a-man

As you might imagine, I am conducting my ADLs with this Senate hearing in the background.  Frequently, it has my entire attention because it's still cold and snowy outside. Blackburn's line of questions was all about prolife politics and abortion.  Sometimes, after hours of questions ranging from silly to incendiary, the judge has been taken aback by the nature of the questions...that was an example that. 

1 hour ago, Beerman said:

I wonder how she would handle a sex discrimmination case if she can't decide what a woman is?

Don't you think that what is decided by a judge in a discrimination case is whether or not there has been discrimination argued and proved by evidence? 

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So things got interesting.  Cruz tried to make a big deal that Brown-Jackson's children attend a school that teaches critical race theory where she also sits on the board.  Presumably she condones CRT because of this, as it it is important in her judicial practice.  He cherry picked some phrases out of some books to highlight how ridiculous CRT is.

What I mean by interesting is that Cruz's own children allegedly attend a school where CRT is supposedly taught, St. Johnson in Houston.  

He really made a fool of himself, which is familiar territory I suppose.

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A St. John’s class called “Issues of Justice and Equity in the Twenty-First Century” is labeled a “Critical Race Training Course” by the right-wing Legal Insurrection Foundation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/23/cruz-jackson-hearing-critical-race-theory-school/?fbclid=IwAR0XFEuPynzToeVlAzF1dJ_mevb-HEslI8FDFiSuL9wfEbDosHm2K6wJIpM

Fox News reports is typically negatively and does not mention the Cruz questioning.

Their headline reads:   Ketanji Brown Jackson serves on board of school that promotes critical race theory

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"You serve on the board of a school that teaches kindergartners — 5-year-old children — that they can choose their gender and teaches them about so called white privilege."

"This school has hosted an organization called 'Woke Kindergarten' and pushes an anti-racist education program for white families," she added. 

"Your public endorsement of this type of progressive indoctrination of our children causes one great concern when it comes to how you may rule on cases involving parental rights." 

The above is from Senator Blackburn.  I just don't know where to being how ugly this is.  Clearly she's of the agenda that there is no white privilege and racism really doesn't exist and therefore white children don't need to learn about it.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-board-school-critical-race-theory

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2 hours ago, Tweety said:

So things got interesting.  Cruz tried to make a big deal that Brown-Jackson's children attend a school that teaches critical race theory where she also sits on the board.  Presumably she condones CRT because of this, as it it is important in her judicial practice.  He cherry picked some phrases out of some books to highlight how ridiculous CRT is.

What I mean by interesting is that Cruz's own children allegedly attend a school where CRT is supposedly taught, St. Johnson in Houston.  

He really made a fool of himself, which is familiar territory I suppose.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/03/23/cruz-jackson-hearing-critical-race-theory-school/?fbclid=IwAR0XFEuPynzToeVlAzF1dJ_mevb-HEslI8FDFiSuL9wfEbDosHm2K6wJIpM

Fox News reports is typically negatively and does not mention the Cruz questioning.

Their headline reads:   Ketanji Brown Jackson serves on board of school that promotes critical race theory

The above is from Senator Blackburn.  I just don't know where to being how ugly this is.  Clearly she's of the agenda that there is no white privilege and racism really doesn't exist and therefore white children don't need to learn about it.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ketanji-brown-jackson-board-school-critical-race-theory

Listening to them is often difficult.  Democrats were sometimes using a portion of their time to rebut republican points.

Senator Booker used his time to reflect upon the historical importance of her nomination. Judge Brown-Jackson was moved to tears.  

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9 hours ago, Beerman said:

I wonder how she would handle a sex discrimmination case if she can't decide what a woman is?

If the suggestion is that it's easy to legally define what a "woman" is, then feel free to define it and prove how straightforward it supposedly is.

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Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) has said she feels threatened by transgender women, who she alleges are “aggressively replacing” cisgender women in some spaces.

Taylor Greene in a tweet on Tuesday referred to trans women as “biological men,” a term often used by anti-LGBTQ+ activists to imply that trans people are not who they say they are, according to the media advocacy group GLAAD.

“As a woman, I feel threatened because biological men are aggressively replacing women,” Taylor Greene wrote on Twitter. “All of my life, as an American women, I’ve been equal in every place to men, but not anymore.”

 

https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/599427-marjorie-taylor-greene-says-she-is-threatened-by-trans?fbclid=IwAR1EekTuMkccvBH5IiSROo3hNnpZd54b3tQiE2GxRKsPM--DQV8DF-7cRPg

While we're talking about transgendered persons, MTG highlights something I've said for years.  For some reason the majority, be it Christians, be it White males, and now be it cis gendered women get treated and have to fight back when others want to rise up and say "I'm equal too".  Why should women like MTG feel treated by transwomen who just want a chance at equality.  

First of all MTG, you have not been equal to men.  Male superiority during your lifetime has remained intact as evidenced by the poverty gap, the wage gap, the positions of power gap.  Woman have had to fight for their equality.

Second, I find it unfortunate that she's so secure in her equality that she feels threatened when someone says "I deserve a chance too".  

Sports aside, there is no reason to attack Rachel Levine.  

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/11/deep-partisan-divide-on-whether-greater-acceptance-of-transgender-people-is-good-for-society/

I think we are evolving as society and I might be in the minority opinion.  But I do think the ugliness that prevails form the pulpits and from politicians is harmful.  

Study after study shows that transgendered youth are at risk for suicide, murder, depression and other issues.  Acceptance, tolerance and moving towards equality is a matter of life and death.

https://www.hrc.org/news/new-study-reveals-shocking-rates-of-attempted-suicide-among-trans-adolescen

 

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Americans strongly support trans service members being in the military — even as they say trans athletes should compete in sports according to the sex listed on their birth certificates, according to a new Gallup survey.

In the survey, 66% of respondents said they're in favor of openly transgender men and women serving in the U.S. military. But only 34% said trans athletes should be allowed to compete in sporting events that match their gender identity.

The survey, which was performed earlier this month, reflects Americans' "mixed views" on trans issues, Gallup says. The numbers didn't surprise Imara Jones, a journalist who is the creator of TransLash Media.

"Americans are deferential to the armed forces and have faith that if the armed forces set a standard and if people have met that standard, that people should be allowed to serve," she says.

Sports bans on trans athletes, on the other hand, are "a solution in search of a problem," Jones says, noting the small minority of transgender people in the United States.

 

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