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Guido Barilla thought he had troubles before with his anti-gay comments....now, rival company Bertolli takes advantage of the situation, and advertises "pasta and love for all!" I wonder what Barilla would think of transpeople??

Are there any Aussie's or Kiwi's here? I'm wanting to find out what I can about the possibility of heading your way instead of Canada, as a bit of a monkey wrench has been thrown into that plan. An Australian woman I met online has a transgender daughter, and has specifically told me that she has a spare room, and that the Australian government would definitely grant asylum. I've been seriously considering it. But I want to get some firsthand input. I do know that Australia is one of the most dangerous places in the world. Not from the people, but the fauna of the country/continent. The myriad of spiders, kangaroos, taipans, and so much more. So that is a concern for me. …

There's a lot of disinformation coming out of Washington about this. But the facts are as obvious as the nose on your face. A woman had stopped on her street. According to the mouthpiece in Washington called Noem, ICE was trying to get their car out of the snow. She is calling the murdered woman a "domestic terrorist". Which is nothing more than deflection as a brain dead monkey can see that the actual terrorists are the ones calling the shots. The woman (Renee Nicole Good) was trying to get home. When she started to move her car, one of the agents saw his opportunity to commit a cold blooded murder and took it. She had pressed her brakes and he opened fire, shooting her …

This is something that has been bugging me for a while now. This is gonna sound weird to most everyone. We all have a dead name that we no longer answer to. We ask people to use our actual name. For me my dead name is Jared. My actual name now is Jennifer. But with the Twitter/X thing I'm torn. I know it's not trans friendly, but I also don't know what to call it. Since the website was built, everyone knew it as Twitter. Now that Elon skuM owns it, and changed its name, what do we call it? The majority of people don't know what X is when you talk about it. They only know it as Twitter. So is Twitter the dead name and we call it X now? I know it's just a website, but …

I started an online petition to get him taken out of the White House. I’m posting it everywhere I can think of. https://chng.it/BCmHzMhfqJ

This kind of 🤬 is the reason I’m praying that Canada will grant me asylum.

I'm in talks with the Canadian government seeking asylum, and once I have the money saved up, I'm going to fly into Ottawa to speak directly to them. I talked with the Canadian Embassy in Washington, and he told me that to seek asylum, I have to actually be in Canada. So I was wanting to see what I could find out from any Canadian members that we have here.

I don't know where else to put this post on the forms, the site doesn't have "General Discussion" as a form category, anyway I'm just a little concern about the inactivity of posting within our community. I have a lot of things to post about.

I don’t know if anyone already knew this, but I just found out that Chuck Norris is HEAVILY bigoted against the entire LGBTQ+ community. He thinks we’re all sick deviants. After finding this out, I am getting rid of everything I have that he is in. I used to love Walker Texas Ranger. No more can I bring myself to watch it. In my opinion? HE is the sick 🤬

There actually is a rare occurrence of justice.😳

We’re looking to get out of town. I can’t live here anymore. I’m a country girl. I grew up on a small stock farm, and living in town has taken a massive toll on me. My depression has steadily gotten worse over the years, as well as my physical health. It has hit from all directions, and I’m completely losing it. I’m about to go out camping until we get a place. There’s a couple places we found, but my number one got sold unfortunately. But the place in second was a close second. I would upload the video I took spanning around the property, but you can hear my music, and it goes well beyond an R rating. I guess I could upload it to my site, and if anyone wants it, jus…

We went to Urgent Care yesterday, and before we left, the head cold that I thought I had was, in fact, pneumonia. So I'm sitting here hacking my head off, feeling like my head's in a vise, and weak as hell. Adrianne is doing what she can to help me out, but she's not a slave. I do what I can for myself, but there's not a whole lot in that list. And to top it off, she's leaving Monday for 2 weeks while she goes on a cruise with her parents. So that's 2 weeks that I'm gonna be alone with this. Sometimes when life throws you a lemon, it also loads limes in a potato gun. Can I just get one week where I'm not sick with something? Apparently not.

I have always loved blacksmithing. Specifically bladesmithing. I had to give it up a long time ago due to circumstances that were beyond my control. Now I've been watching Forged In Fire, and it has brought me back and given me that spark to go at it again. Adrianne bought me a forge for our anniversary. Now I need to find a good anvil, vise, tools (tons of different kinds and purposes), a power press, and a power hammer (Big Blu would be great). I also need to clear out my garage so that I have a place to work in. Once all that is taken care of, and I have the different grades of steel to work with, I'm back in it. I even have a name. I'm going to name it RatLady Forge. …

Whether you have a president, prime minister, or monarchy, what is the proper way to refer to your government leader? Here in the states, we refer to the president as Mr. President. Since we have our first female president/vice president it would be Madam President/Vice President. There is almost always a “proper” way to refer to them that’s appropriate for this day and age. I can’t say I know much of anything about a monarchy, but I would venture to guess that people don’t refer to them as “Your Majesty” or “Your Highness” anymore. With a prime minister, I honestly don’t have a flipping clue. I know Canada has a prime minister, but I don’t know how they refer to him/her.…

I've been feeling like hell for the past week and a half. I took a covid test just now and it was positive. So we're going to be in quarantine for the next two weeks while I get past this. It sucks hose water, but there's not much I can do about it. I got the vaccine and the boosters, so there's that upside. But nothing is foolproof. So I'm going to be resting for the most part of the next few weeks. I had a feeling I was going to catch it at some point, I just didn't know when. I'll try to dip in and out and keep up with things here. But I don't know how much of that I'll be able to do.

Wow. And I thought I had a lot of guns. I'm 100% sure he has modified at least one of those rifles to be fully automatic. Which adds another felony on top of his crimes. Not even the military is fully automatic. They only employ a 3 shot burst. At least with the M16's.

So I know with myself navigating this transition and relearning me it's been a challenging and somewhat lonely experience. That leads me to my question, are there any resources out there that you know that may assist in finding a mentor or even just a pen pal to help support through this journey? Additionally, any ideas that could support those transitioning while incarcerated? I know many in prison that are lost and confused trying to find their way through their own transition.

Why would she do this you ask? Because Lyin' Boebert is more concerned with protecting guns than she is children. She's lower than a snakes belly in a wagon rut. I know it's not LGBTQ+ related, but I still felt this is something needed to be seen by everyone. There is brief strong language in the video, which is why I wanted to share the link instead of embed it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsGczbMkTmA

I gotta say, I never saw this happening. I just assumed they would all die in prison. I have to wonder though, if people should be worried? https://www.yahoo.com/gma/charles-manson-follower-leslie-van-201000979.html

I absolutely HATE the Fourth of July. The booms cause me to have flashbacks. Adrianne is pretty nonchalant about it. Like she either just flat out doesn’t care, or she’s just bored with what I’m going through, as if I’m faking it or something. I have literal brain damage. There’s missing gray matter. The drugs I did when I was younger, and the violence I’ve been through has turned my brain into swiss cheese. Add that in top of not only drug related flashbacks, but also flashbacks to when I was in the military, and I go through a Hell that I don’t even know how to describe. If I could go back in time, I would keep myself from enlistment.

I've talked about this with Adrianne a few times, and she's all for it. Despite being in a wheelchair, I still know how to fight, and feel like I could be a good instructor. It's not martial arts. It's completely different. I won't teach anyone how to use a weapon, but I will teach them how to defend themselves against someone using a weapon against them. I've been in countless fights over the years and the only time I was on the losing end is when 4 cowards jumped me from behind. All that said, I'm sure I could help some people out. I wouldn't set an age limit, but I think I would do best with kids. They're usually a lot more open to taking in information, wherea…

….this video will hit your heart in a good way.

I don’t know who all has heard about this, but a couple days ago a tourist sub taking 5 tourists down to the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean imploded killing all of them. One was a 19 year old kid, and another was the CEO of the company that organizes these deep sea tours. If I remember right anyway. They were reportedly only about 1600 feet from the bow when it happened. They had lost all contact with the surface prior to the implosion. But as they descended there was some kind of unnoticed fault in their submersible and in a nanosecond they were all dead. The pressure at those depths would compress a full grown human into an object the size of a marble. They were all dead…