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Hekate's JournalGranny Weatherwax said it best: "What's he ever done ... I should hurt him so?"
Esme Weatherwax, witch and midwife, is called to help when a cow has kicked a pregnant woman, and when she arrives, discovers that the mother can be saved, or the baby, or neither, but not both. And the midwife has a suggestion:
‘I’d better go and put it to John Ivy, then,’ she said.
She’d barely moved before Granny Weatherwax’s hand locked on her arm.
‘He’s no part in this,’ she said.
‘But after all, he IS the–’
‘He’s no part in this.’
In the end, Granny decides to save the woman, because there is ‘too much damage’ to the child and trying to save him could’ve killed his mother. And then the midwife returns:
It was doubtful that anyone in Slice would defy Granny Weatherwax, but Granny saw the faintest gray shadow of disapproval in the midwife’s expression.
‘You still reckon I should’ve asked Mr. Ivy?’ she said.
‘That’s what I would have done…’ the woman mumbled.
‘You don’t like him? You think he’s a bad man?’ said Granny, adjusting her hat pins.
‘No!’
‘Then what’s he ever done to me, that I should hurt him so?’
Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum
Of course, Alito would have burned her at the stake.
When inflation & lagging wages for men really started to bite, women had entered the workforce
… in large numbers already. It was the wages of married women, long considered secondary in the family budget, that propped up the middle class as long as it did.
Right you are that more than one child completely erodes family finances: childcare and diapers and formula are incredibly expensive.
One thing I never see factored in is the destruction of public schools, with the twofold push to homeschool and/or send the kids to private schools. Who homeschools? Mothers.
The pandemic shutdown put the religious right agenda on steroids: get the moms out of career jobs and back in the home where they belong, get the kids out of public schools and into a homeschooling setting where mom is the full time teacher, divert taxes away from K-12 public schools.
And if women cannot reliably control their fertility….
TY, JohnSJ. I read the Jezebel article but in the horror of the day could think of no coherent reply
I have spent decades defending the comprehensive work of Planned Parenthood from right wingers — it is horrible to see the attack come from the left. Is this last season’s “Planned Parenthood is Establishment” trope rearing its ugly head? With added “moneygrubber”?
Jezebel could have promoted the work of other groups without mentioning PP. She could have given a boost to other groups without minimizing and even tearing down PP.
An organization that began over a century ago with its founder going to prison for teaching women how to avoid unplanned pregnancies, now finds itself once again just trying to survive.
The PP doctors, nurses, office staff, and escorts have been putting their own lives on the line in this war ever since Roe — they have been murdered, maimed, doxxed, and their children stalked to and from school by RW fanatics.
And somehow they are in it for the money?
I have to stop. 
Thank you, again.
Moses Tubman/ Women's Rights Altar
Today I lit the candles at the altar I created when Alito’s opinion leaked. I just sent a photo to the artist, my sister, and my oldest friend, with the message:
My Moses Tubman Altar
Calligraphy by LK Levine
Righteous Justice by Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ferocity by The Morrigan
Actually, I am really REALLY tired of being asked "what if" a Dem had committed a heinous crime
Let’s just take it as a given that Dems DON’T.
Then let’s just take it as a given that Repubs will LIE about Dems NO MATTER WHAT WE DO.
Thank you for your consideration.
Depends on where you are. I grew up on O'ahu, where the sands are from white coral...
If you look closely you can see ground up shell as well. All very white. On the North Shore one time I happened on a spot where the wave action seemed to sort the broken shells by size, and one gradient was composed of puka shells, the last bit of a cone to wear away.
(This is fun https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sand.html )
There is one beach on Hawai’i called Black Sand Beach, which is all ground-down lava rock, with some glittery volcanic glass inclusions.
Sand on the California coast is mixed, and again depends where you are. Very long ago I visited a relative down by Oceanside, where the sand was dark gray, as were the smooth rocks and pebbles that composed the beach. I was enchanted by the sound they made as they tumbled about, and how beautiful the wet rocks were.
I’ve been in two places where the beach was all pebbles of quite beautiful stones: white quartz, yellow jasper, red jasper, granite, and so on. One was on Crete, and the other in San Luis Obispo county.
I visited a cousin on Vancouver Island once, who had a home by a beach of incredible rocks, some huge as VW vans — so many there was not much sand to be seen. He said the variety was due to them all being carried along by the last glaciers, and ultimately deposited on that coast. I’ve always wanted to get together with a geologist and ask for a rundown on my collection (all portable size).
A bureaucracy runs the department(s) responsible for maintaining the buildings/infrastructure...
Back it up just a little. Who left those doors and windows unreinforced in the first place?
A bureaucracy runs the department(s) responsible for maintaining the buildings/infrastructure...
Bureaucracies run on paper (or electronic equivalent). There is an Architects division, count on it. There is a Congressional committee, count on it. There is probably a Commission, because of public interest. There are plans, blueprints, work-orders, and change-orders.
Every one of the entities has a list of employees, a list of members. They are public records. Find them. Find the plans. Find the work-orders, find the change-orders. Find the signatures.
There is most certainly a paper trail.
At this point we know there had to have been infiltrators. They can be found.
Hell’s bells, I know all this and I was only the Secretary to the County Public Works Director. My old boss would have been all over a scandal like this, and heads would have rolled. He did not suffer fools or their bullshit. RIP Chuck W, you were a public employee who gave me faith in the system.
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