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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.
Of course we have no idea what you've done. But given the energy with which you tear down...
… Meghan and Harry, you’re kind of obligated to let us know.
As for being a “fan,” I just don’t like seeing people slimed for trying to get on with their lives with the resources they have. I don’t see them grinding the faces of the poor into the dirt. They have certain resources, which I certainly don’t — she knows the film industry, for one thing. He was brought up to do a stint in the military and perform charitable works and show up.
I also wasn’t a “fan” of Harry’s mum, but the way she died was public and horrible. In my life at the time I was doing a midlife stint in grad school, and keeping godawful hours. I’d come into the kitchen for another cup of coffee about 2am and turn on the little tv on the counter. One night, there was the death of Diana.
In the nights and days that followed, I learned more about her charitable work than I ever had before — and I realized something. The shy young woman who had once described her intellect as “thick as a brick” — the despairing woman who divorced a prince — the glamorous woman of means who could have spent her life jet-setting — somehow had found a way to do good in the world.
Diana used what she had: her charm, her warmth, her ability to bring many cameras to the scene. Mother Theresa’s orphans, children dying of AIDS, children losing limbs to landmines — all of them got a good turn in the spotlight and attention was paid to their causes thanks to her. And she meant it. The photo ops were for them.
You’re off this thread if I’m not mistaken, but I have a good idea of what you’ll say next time we meet. I’m sure you despise Diana, too. Frivolous woman who only went to finishing school and couldn’t hack it as a prince’s wife. Clothes-horse. Yadda yadda.
Screw that. Sure I have a soft spot for this little family. I look at Meghan and think: California career girl. I look at Harry and think: better use sunscreen in California, you redhead. And good luck to you both.
Maybe. Several days ago I hunted for the old one that MinMan produced -- and couldn't find...
…exactly what I remembered. I was born in 1947 and am the big sister (I was pressed into diaper service at age 6, and was proud of being thought so responsible) meaning I remember a lot of things first hand.
Anyhow, I couldn't find the “real” recipe, and am glad MinMan did. What I did find was people tweaking the recipe to reduce the sweetener (wrong — mother’s milk is sweet because babies need the sugars) and scolding comments from wet-behind-the-ears doctors who thought homemade was actively dangerous and that the only acceptable substitute for mother’s milk was something expensive produced in a factory.
I understand the desire to have something nutritionally perfect. My gods do I understand that. I also understand the desire to go natural and breast feed — I did LaMaze births and I nursed my two kids for 13 months each.
But here’s the dirty little secret about the wave of going natural in the 1970s: we can’t all do it, and if I had had any kind of supportive advice whatsoever I could have been spared 2 years of mostly agony from cracked nipples and clogged ducts. I was determined as hell to do the right thing — and it never got better for long.
My babies grew plump and healthy and came out smart as anything — but I am here to tell you that my Mom’s babies also grew plump and healthy and came out smart as anything on the homemade formula from canned milk she used, after she was actively discouraged from doing what came so naturally to her, which was breastfeed.
There are indeed babies who can’t digest cow’s milk, and there are other gut conditions and medical conditions as well — they need the factory-made formulas all the time, and god bless them.
But I would say the majority of infants will be more than adequately nourished by the very same recipe in the OP. Boil the water, use clean bottles and nipples — store in the refrigerator at once. Give the baby pediatric liquid vitamin supplements. And for gods’ sake don’t think you are harming your child permanently.
When I answered “maybe” to your question it’s because I really don’t know what alternatives folks are coming up with these days to try to cheaply achieve something as complicated as the expensive brand name items. A chemistry set, right? Or the (expensive) items in a “health food store.” I just know fads come and go and I’d be wary.
Resume what you’re comfortable with when the shortage eases, and all the best to you and your little one.
Here's more: To Safely Browse the Web
By an IT professional with 47 years experience in the industry
Namely Mr. Hekate, who does not want to get involved with DU, but his ears pricked up and next thing I knew I had these notes handed to me. 
Look up the Tor Browser at https://www.torproject.org/download
but make sure you aren’t prompted to accept new security certificates.
See the Surveillance Self-Defense site
https://ssd.eff.org/en/module/how-use-tor-macros
If you want a safe operating system on a USB stick that leaves no traces, download Tails (which includes Tor) See
http://tails.boum.org/about/index.en.html
For more tips, including what to take to protests
https://ssd.eff.org/en#index
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