Brain Fried

While it was 55 degrees this morning I went for a crisp walk. While I'm mostly reading books these days I do still listen to books while walking. That's controversial but I still do it.  I use only one ear bud, telling myself I'll be able to hear anyone coming up behind me, not, but I kid myself that way.

Currently I'm listening to A Man Called Ove, a book I can highly recommend.
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I've decided some Americans are brain fried. I see the subject of transgender bathrooms is in the news again. Since I'm having such a hard time understanding why so much media time is being devoted to this subject I decided perhaps there was something important about transgender people that I've missed throughout my 74 years. If something bad is about to get me I certainly want to know about it. How do you know you're in the bathroom with a transgender person? I've never seen one that I know of, but then I don't go around looking under the doors of bathroom stalls.

I decided I'd better check into this so I went to my first source of all knowledge Wikipedia, and looked up the term transgender. I discovered there was a lot I didn't know about the subject, and I was able to determine that I'm in no danger from using a bathroom with a transgender person.

I'm at a total loss to know why Senator Ted Cruz is so panicked that a transgender person might enter a bathroom his little girls are using. I suppose I would counsel him to stand at the bathroom door and check the genitalia of all persons entering and see where that gets him.
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Tomorrow I will be calling the cardiologist's nurse to report on Bob. Not sure exactly how that's going to go but I have to give it a try.

He doesn't share my idea of how you weigh when you're dealing with fluid retention. He prefers to weight on at least two sets of scales so I've eliminated that problem by hiding our second set.

One time he will weigh wearing shoes, jeans, billfold, keys, and belt.

Next time may be underwear only.

Sometimes it's socks jeans, billfold, keys, and belt.

Other times it's socks and jeans.

Accuracy is not a word in his vocabulary.

Dumb and Dumber

I could be amused by some of the nonsense going on today if not for the pain it causes people.

Have you been keeping up with the latest "Religious Freedom" legislation that's been signed into law in North Carolina and Mississippi? Mostly this legislation is about giving religious people the freedom to discriminate against persons different than themselves.

"The new law bars people from using public restrooms that don't align with the sex on their birth certificates - a measure proponents say protects privacy but critics describe as a thinly veiled attack on transgender people."

Now how do you suppose these states plan to carry out this law? Who's job is it to check people entering restrooms to be sure they're in the right one? Does this mean you'll be barred if you can't present a birth certificate?
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In Indiana Gov. Mike Pense (R) signed a controversial bill that would block women from seeking abortions based on medical diagnosis. You can read about it in this article. The woman would be required to notify the state should she chose to terminate her pregnancy, regardless of the medical diagnosis.

The governor's office this week has received several calls from women describing the details of their period.

"I need to get a message to the Governor that I am on day three of my period.  My flow seems abnormally heavy, but my cramps are much better," one woman called to say.

The law apparently includes in the reporting requirement, "some women on their periods may unknowingly expel a fertilized egg and thus have a miscarriage and be potentially liable if the egg is not correctly disposed of."  (I'm thinking this surely cannot be true.)

One comment on this article was "Women in Indiana should mail their used tampons to the governor."

I thought this comment was right on target, "So let me get this right - these are some of the same people that push back because we want to close the "gun show loophole" which they insist violates their 2nd Amendment rights; yet these same people want to violate a woman (& her family's) right to terminate a pregnancy because the fetus has mental/physical/developmental disabilities?!? So is the governor going to pay for the upkeep and maintenance of the women that will now be forced into carrying the pregnancy to term?!?"
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This is a case of dumb and dumber. It's beyond me why conservative lawmakers are so obsessed with all things sexual.