Another not so photogenic meal which turned out yummy.
Mr. C is off to Dublin again this weekend, so I threw together some quick kimchi jjigae with (frozen) meatballs and tofu. Using closer to this basic recipe, with a few more seasonings added. Since I was using silken tofu, that went in the last 10 minutes or so with minimal stirring. I tried to make a smaller batch, but looks like lunch is covered too đ
That is jasmine rice, since we had more of it left. It works OK.
A hot stew may seem like a strange choice for June, but this is Britain and Iâve also been staying way colder than the thermometer would warrant a lot. Pretty welcome tonight. *wry smile*
Breitbart reporter Katie McHugh was fired from the right-wing website after tweeting a series of racist remarks following a terrorist attack in London over the weekend, CNN first reported Monday.
Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow reportedly announced McHughâs departure to staff on Monday.
McHugh caused an uproar after tweeting on Saturday that âthere would be no deadly terror attacks in the U.K. if Muslims didnât live there.âÂ
The tweet prompted immediate backlash for its historical inaccuracy and for its explicit bigotry toward Muslims.
Several Breitbart reporters told CNN on Sunday that they found McHughâs remarks âappalling,â âterribleâ and âdumb.â Read more (6/5/17)
that post i made a while back asking cis people about their experience of their gender identity is getting bounced around yet another ring of TERFS and so far my favorite comment is âroachpatrol is a man, right?â based on someoneâs conclusion that only a man could assume that women enjoy being women
TERFS: We are miserable being women! Being woman is pain! Everything about being a woman is bad!
Trans women: But actually we feel like thereâs something wonderful about being female and we strongly feel that we are women and we love it when the world acknowledges us as women.
TERFS: You are lying! No one could ever want to be a woman! And since men are evil, and no one could possibly want to be a woman if they could be a man instead, you must be scamming us so you can infiltrate our ranks and spy on us for the patriarchy!
Trans women: Huh? That makes no sense.
TERFS: You donât need to make sense! Youâre men! Men are just born evil for no particularly good reason! Men are born to hate women and make them suffer!
Trans men: We disagree. We donât hate women or want them to suffer and we feel that we are men.
TERFS: Oh, poor honeys, you hate being women so much you want to be men! We understand perfectly. Thatâs normal for being a woman!
Cis women who are not TERFS: No itâs not.
TERFS: No one asked you.
TERFS: Also, we are completely 100% pro woman! We are the only pro women people on the planet! Every woman who claims she actually likes being a woman has a false consciousness! Being a woman is pain and suffering and awfulness and the only way to solve this is to commit gendercide against men because men are the root of all evil! If you donât hate men and you donât hate being a woman, itâs just because youâre too stupid to understand how the patriarchy has brainwashed you into being happy with being enslaved!
The rest of feminism in general: How is a stance that says that being female makes you inherently miserable and this cannot be changed as long as men exist and so weâd basically have to wipe out half the human race for women to ever be happy a pro-woman stance?
TERFS: FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS! shut up, brainwashed slaves of patriarchy!
Please share; we are in serious need. We are both disabled and on a fixed income. While Mum is on disability, the payout is minimal, and $200 is taken out for Medicare. She was a nurse and was forced to retire due to severe osteoarthritis and losing the fingers on her left hand due to a bloodclot.
I have severe ME/CFS and fibromyalgia that leaves me stuck on the couch several days out of the week. I was fired from my job for this reason. I am looking for editing work, but itâs difficult with my health. I am ineligible for SSDI, but can apply for SSI once I have a diagnosis from my GI doc and see a neurologist for my severe neuro problems (presyncope, muscle spasms, severe tremors and shaking). ME/CFS isnât taken seriously by the government – nore diagnoses help. I use a wheelchair most of the time. Unfortunately, I canât afford the neurologist because I owe her $30 and bills come first.
Any donation helps. Even $1. Really. If you canât donate, sharing means so much.
We are unable to pay now for my mumâs absolutely critical seizure meds, our pain pills, and Nexium for me, which allows me to eat – Iâm only 100 pounds. Bills are looming. I get food stamps (which doesnât cover necessary gfree foods for my Celiac disease the whole month); my mum does not. We do food banks, Church charity, United Way. Weâre still struggling. Please. Please, help by reblogging, or if you can donating.
So, we were robbed today. My mother keeps a stash of cash in a secret spot. Itâs all from donations. Today, maintenance had to come in while Mum and I went to my surgeon appointment. Just now, my mother went into her room for the first time since we got home. The spot was disturbed. We lost the entire hoard: $350. We know who did it. However, the co-op manager is a tool, and maintenance guy has been here ten years. Heâs also pulling in a lot of money working here, while we wallow in poverty. In any case, I have a feeling that since we canât prove it, itâll be ignored. What precious jewellery we still own (mostly heirlooms; weâve pawned everything else) is accounted for, but we still have to count our pain pills. I am so angry I canât think. We TRUSTED him. And now we have almost no money.
Please, PLEASE, share. I also have a PayPal account: hansonp@uwindsor.ca you can share. And if you can, please donate, even $5. We have almost no money now. We are beside ourselves. I had to fight to get those donations we lost, and weâre freaking out.
We will now be utilising a lock box and a better hiding spot. Like under a pile of dildos.
Well, somebody is getting some good out of that âcat lodgeâ. The roof, at least đ˝
Itâs starting to get a little dark out there now, but Mirrors doesnât care. Heâs been spending at least half his time lounging on the handy kitty sun deck whenever itâs not actively raining, since the weather has been warmish lately.
We had a fun/absurd national moment watching Comey testify today, but now thatâs over and as citizens thereâs basically nothing we can do to affect the Russia investigation (unless youâre plotting a honeypot mission to Mar-a-Lago in which case: godspeed, heroines). But we CAN do something about (one of) the other terrible thing(s) happening, which is Mitch McConnell wrangling the ACA repeal through the Senate.
Remember when the House passed a monstrosity of a health care bill and we were all sure it was DOA in the Senate? Reports suggest not much has changed in the Senate version of that bill which, even though it doesnât exist yet (or does and is being kept under wraps), good olâ Mitch has taken steps to fast-track (skipping committee and going directly on the Senate Calendar for a vote). Ben Wikler has put out the all-call; if you prefer your action on Twitter, this is the link.
â> We need another sustained public outcry against taking a health care bill to the Senate floor that bears any resemblance at all to the House bill.
HEREâS YOUR TO-DO LIST:
1. Program the Capitol switchboard # into your phone:Â (202) 224-3121
2. Make as many calls as you possibly can every day. Set a phone reminder.
3. Recruit friends from these states to call. ALL reps need their phone lines tied up, but these reps could be the swing votes.
4. Ask for the Health Legislative Assistant for your senator. Here are their names! TELL YOUR STORY. Or your dad/grandma/sister/friendâs story. Healthcare touches us all. Itâs their job to listen to this stuff specifically.Â
5. Go to your local Congressional office:Â demand to be seen, wait there, take photos and videos, post them online. Donât wait to see the wave of action to be inspiredâstart the wave yourself. Everybody can be a hero every day in the Age of Trump.
6. Get creative! Get tambourines and a bullhorn. Make loud signs. Bedazzle your jean jacket with âSave the ACA.â Or just pick up the phone. We are all GLOBALLY EXHAUSTED, and it hasnât even been 5 months. But we have the power to make enough noise to break through the insanity out there [& in our brains] and make sure health policy remains humane, and represents the best of America, not the worst.
HELLO EVERYONE!!! MY GOD WEâRE SO TIRED, BUT PUTTING IN WORK ACTUALLY HELPS US BE LESS TIRED, OR AT LEAST THE SAME TIRED IN A GOOD WAY. MITCH MCCONNELL STILL WANTS TO FAST-TRACK THE AHCA THROUGH THE SENATE WHICH WILL LITERALLY KILL MILLIONS OF PEOPLE. Inform him, his colleagues and allies that that would be a mistake.
Coordinated effort for people to call their Senators on June 14 – Dem or GOP – to protect ACA. In general, I recommend trying local in-state offices before the DC office.
This this this.
Congress has reported that their call level has dropped to pre-election levels: a few dozen scattered calls a day.
Flood those offices. If youâre in a swing state, call to say that blocking the AHCA is important to you, and tell them why. (A sentence or two is fine: âI have a condition that wouldnât be covered under it,â or âmy sister was never able to get insurance before the ACA,â or whatever.)
If youâre in a red state, tell them youâre appalled at your senatorâs voting record, and you want them to AT THE LEAST insist on a full committee review and open discussion of the AHCA – especially the costs!
If youâre in a blue state, or your senator is solidly against the AHCA, call to thank them for fighting the good fight.
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