Wacky Winky Watchers Whacked
The Winky Watchers in North Carolina have been facing increasing pressure to back off on their HB 2 which limits bathroom use to the stalls assigned to the gender assigned to you at birth. For weeks now, various artists, like Springsteen and Pearl Jam, have boycotted the state, disappointing thousands of fans most of whom, I imagine, understand the reasoning, but how many more 3.5 hour concerts does Bruce have in him anymore?
Hundreds, I hope. Thousands.
Knows far too much about bathroom trolls.
Along with paypal and porn, many cities and states have been threatening to boycott the state as well. Austin just started considering the question to boycott both NC and Mississippi. Minnesota banned non-essential state travel to NC and has now said they will send no state college teams there. My own Ohio is considering a similar measure, incongruously right alongside another right wing nutjob bathroom bill. OH Rep John Becker is uncomfortably knowledgeable about the habits of public bathroom predators.
The Federal Gubmint has now dipped its oar in the water, threatening federal education funds to the state because the new law violates the Civil Rights Act of 1964, not to mention common sense, common courtesy and common decency.
“We won’t be answering,” said the Right Wing Speaker.
“Oh yes we will,” said the Nut Job Governor.
Derp.
Yip-pee more math and jobs creation by the snacilbupeR. Only in the pointiest part of their cone shaped heads ….. and “if only” their ‘law’ stands. In their best case scenario, they create minimum wage jobs for TSA style potty patrol pervangelists, while businesses exit, federal funds flee, and lawsuits fly. That’s similar to the Michigan water savings plan; for every $10 saved, $10 million to be spent. Similarly, and for what?
The desire to be mean for no good reason and exchanging at least a million dollars for every dollar ‘gained.’ Every snacilbupeR politician who spouts “fiscal conservatism” deserves repeated gohmert punches for lying.
SnacilbupeR motto: “Ain’t got a problem? We’ll invent one and send you the bill.”
1All the focus has been on the ridiculous bathroom issue; the other parts of these repressive and unconstitutional bills have far reaching impact of hiring and housing availability. More than education funding needs to be held back, all housing and other funds as well.
2On second thought, permit funding to remain for the PUBLIC schools (no voucher thingies)…maybe we can create children who are smarter than their parents.
3I think I will make up a new bumper sticker: “Take out the trash. Vote Democratic “
4Linda Phipps, I agree with you that cutting funding for public schools is never a good idea. However, those whose children are most in need of a good education fled in the ’60s to ‘Christian’ Day schools. Today it is worse, the kids are being home-schooled by the products of the Day schools; parents so illiterate they cannot spell illiterate.
Home schoolers, please don’t jump on me. I know a few home schoolers who do so for many good reasons and are most importantly qualified to do so. A few states even have decent regulations that protect the children. Unfortunately many states allow children to be home schooled for 12 years, and only test for disaster after it has happened, if they test at all.
“States Rights” and the underlying meaning(s) – there’s another topic for you, Primo.
5A [possibly former – we’ll see] friend recently asked for my opinion [then promptly jumped down my throat when I gave it] on the “bathroom bill” of North Carolina.
Do you know what it puts me in mind of? The histrionics men used to get into about the “fairer sex being ogled by all them black bucks.” And we all know what happened next. Billie Holiday wrote a song about how southern trees bear a strange fruit.
Red states do seem to long for the good old days when you could string up people who didn’t look like you or act like you and the state looked the other way. Oh yes, those were the days, weren’t they?
6This hole toilet BS is really BS when you consider that MOST toilets are single occupant locked rooms!!!! Which have been arbitrarily marked as boy/girl, and using one or the other is immaterial to anyone with a brain.
7And considering a girls toilet…it contains individual latched stalls!!! Boys toilets are the worse as they contain a group of urinals that let you compare dick sizes.
This is all so silly!!!!
Nothing to add to the specific conversation. Just want to say I’ve enjoyed reading your articles this week!
8PKM, last I heard, home-schoolers in Virginia had absolutely NO government oversight, though that may be “only” if they claim it’s for religious reasons. The commonwealth couldn’t give a flip if those religious kids can write their names or know that the earth orbits the sun instead of vice versa.
As for “bathroom bills”, I assume that trans people have been using whichever they feel comfortable about for years, and only now have the RWNJs set their own hair on fire about it… as with most things. And they did– was it in Texas? probably– screw an entire LGBT human rights bill because they didn’t want men in bathrooms with little girls, sigh. (No, not sigh– smack hard and restart.)
9PKM, you are right that the snacilbupeR are ever eager to save $10 in order to spend $10 million. But as Deep Throat said, follow the money: the harm from the $10 savings falls on poor people (always, what a coincidence!) and that $10 million is funded by either raising fees on the poor (never taxes on the rich, heaven forfend) and somehow always winds up in the pockets of the already-wealthy.
As for home schooling: it’s really almost a bimodal distribution. There are the nitwits you describe, learning about how Noah left the dinosaurs out and how the War of Northern Aggression still needs to be settled in favor of states’ rights. Then there are kids who are getting challenged to critical thinking and deep learning at levels no longer possible under No Child Left Unbored. I know some of the latter, here in CA – they still have to take the standard tests for competency every 3 yrs or so, and meet with a master teacher from the local school district every month and show a portfolio.
10Rhea, “bathroom bills” are the last ditch attempt by scoundrels to generate fear where there is no cause for concern of any form.
“smack hard and restart” or gohmert punch. Cannot wait for the day these pee-verts and their pervangelist buddies are plowed into the ground. They’re so fond of their annotated dumbassistan versions of the US Constitution, we should rip them out of their ignorant paws and highlight the 14th Amendment before returning their property.
The st00pid, it really burns with those in dumbassistan.
11These “bathroom bills” are only a distraction for the general electorate to keep us from focusing on the REALLY important things happening at the national level.
VOTE!!!
12North Carolina’s AG is a Dem and he refused to defend this abomination in court. So who is gonna answer the feds if the AG won’t? It’s SUPER CHICKEN to the rescu
When you find yourself in danger,
When you’re threatened by a stranger,
When it looks like you will take a lickin’, (puk, puk, puk)
There is someone waiting,
Who will hurry up and rescue you,
Just Call for Super Chicken! (puk ack!)
source: http://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/superchickenlyrics.html
13Here’s some background on Becker! I especially like the last paragraph! It shows to the how world, what a pure and unadulterated idiot Rep John Becker is!
John Becker (politician)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Becker
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
from the 65th district
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 7, 2013
Preceded by Joe Uecker
Personal details
Political party Republican
Residence Clermont County, Ohio, U.S.
Alma mater Xavier University
Religion Christian
John Becker is a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives for the 65th district.[1] He was elected to his first term in November 2012,[2] defeating Democrat Steve Myers with 68.7% of the vote.[3]
Becker has also served as a Republican State Central Committee and Clermont County Republican Central Committee member[4] and is a tax accountant and utility consultant.[2] He is married with one child.[1]
“Becker claims to be the most conservative politician in the Ohio legislature.[5] He introduced bills in 2013 to allow state employees to carry guns on the job in most state buildings and to prohibit law enforcement agencies from destroying firearms confiscated by the police.[6]”
“In 2003, before his election to the legislature, Becker wrote a letter to the editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer pointing out that as Massachusetts had recently allowed same-sex marriage, the federal government to amend the Constitution to prohibit such unions, or failing that expel Massachusetts from the Union.[7] The previous year, in another such letter, he proposed allowing Alaska to leave the Union so that it would be free to produce more oil.[8]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Becker_(politician)
14How unfair of you. Someday being a North Carolina Peckerchecker will be an ancient and honored job.
15Little girls and boys should be escorted to public restrooms by their parents to protect them from Republicans.
16epo, now I’m going to have the Super Chicken theme stuck in my head for days… possibly alternating with George of the Jungle (“Watch out for that tree!”).
17What a pity they don’t pay half the attention to good governing that they do to people’s naughty bits.
18Alaska doesn’t produce oil,per se. Right now generous wingnuts are making the state pay oil companies to take the oil.
http://www.themudflats.net/archives/47155
Shannyn Moore is spot on and is a very good read all the time.
19Does anyone else see even a smidgen of French farce in the NC wink obsession? And no, I have not been drinking.
20maggie, quelle genre and does Alain Badiou qualify as French farce? To my embarrassment my knowledge of French literature is best summarized by considering Robespierre to be an action figure.
21merry: thanks, it’s very nice of you to say. But I’ll be happy to have JJ back!
epo: One of my favorite theme songs. I also use this line all the time “You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.”
Rhea: How about Underdog – another great one to run thru your head for days ooo AH ooo AH ooo AH ooo Ahhhh-ah-ah-ah-ahhhh When criminals in this world appear…
montag: Imagine the job ad:
WANTED – Peckerwood, peckerhead, peckerchecker to stick their nose in other people’s business.
22PKM, oo la la! French farces are infamous for the number of doors!
23maggie, where were you in 2004 as I stumbled through my 4th year of French class? You can probably ascertain from my comments in English that those verb conjugations took me for a wild ride in French. Our poor French teacher often decried that Christina Aguilera could have taught us more. She had a point, at least we may have paid more attention.
Speaking of adversity, anyone local to WI and know anything about Paul Nehlen? He’s challenging Lyin’ Ryan in the primary.
NC, where “men are men” and apparently not to be trusted. Here in NV any intramural bathroom hi-jinks were usually at the hands of the cheerleaders who enjoyed the sport of dragging the occasional lad or two into their lair.
24Laurel and all, I once asked someone who was home schooling her kids if she got all her stuff from the University of Chicago or the University of Kansas. Talk about a deer caught in the head lights. She never did reveal where she got her books, lesson plans and such. Hate to think that she was teaching her kids stuff straight out of her imagination considering what I knew about her.
Incidentally, my hero, the late anthropologist Margaret Mead was home schooled but she had was fortunate to have parents and grandparents who were heavily educated, complete with extra degrees.
25PKM, thanks for the kind thought but I doubt my French could have been any use to you. My family is from bilingual Canada. I knew a French teacher here in my area who was a member of the Academie Francaise who went to Montreal for a holiday and spent most of the time crying whenever anyone spoke to her in French. Remember the reaction Charles deGaul had when he visited this side of the pond? He actually told the Canadians they were very bad speakers. If he had ever met the Cajuns in Louisiana, Dieu only knows what would have happened!
26maggie, never go to Paris. Those rat b@stards pretended not to understand a word of my French. Missed DeGaulle’s visit due to circumstances beyond my control – his death preceded my birth according to HS history class. He was post WWII is about all I know about him. The Cajuns in LA? I understood them a bit better than most of the LA English speakers during the time spent with the Rebel Air Force.
Did see the old news reels of JFK making a doughnut of himself in Berlin. Bet if RFK were here, he’d kick open some stall doors in NC and burn down a few other southern states.
27My friend who wept in Montreal was recognized by les citoyens in France as actually speaking the language better than they did! So there you have it!
At one time I really did want to see Paris, but It wouldn’t be the same for me any more after Charlie Hebdo and the subsequent attack. Furthermore, my piggy bank says non, non, non!
28maggie and PKM, my French is apparently hopeless. The last time I read a French sentence before translating it, our tutor said, “Miss Rhea… I haven’t taught you anything about pronouncing French, have I?” The natural response was, “No, Mr. Tolbert, you’ve been a dead loss in that department,” but it was senior year and he was going to be giving me a grade that grad schools would see, so I refrained. (And he considered himself a Southern gentleman….)
29I continue to be amazed by these self righteous hypocritical lawmakers foistin laws like HB2 on their constituents in North Carolina–They act as if the threat in bathrooms is all about Trans Genders–but is it not instead the threat of Republican Senators like Larry Craig of Idaho playing footsies with the guy in the airport bathroom’s next stall over proclaiming his non gay status to the world–why no mention of the real threat–hypocritical religious zealots inflicting their delusional dogma on others while saying do as I say and not what I do–Good on DOJ for doing their job–and good on everyone boycotting the state until people start to recognize who their elected leaders truly are!!
30Update on the drama from ‘compassionate’ conservative land of the lying. Fox Not the News and the usual suspects are now lying about Planned Parenthood doing sex change operations.
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/05/fox-news-demonizes-planned-parenthood-says
My initial reaction was “so what if they are.” But the truth is, they are not. What they do provide is the needed hormone therapy and medical supervision of hormone therapy. PP doesn’t even provide the hormones. What they provide are the prescriptions for hormones to be filled at pharmacies.
That’s taking our country back alright. Back to the days when we couldn’t help a child born with a cleft palate or club foot because we didn’t have the medical knowledge. Now they want to bury that knowledge at the whims of the pervangelists.
Imagine looking into a mirror and the body did not match your brain assignment. We don’t have to understand or “have the words” to know when compassion is due and leave the details to the patient and medical professionals.
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