MerelyGifted 

Slow down a little, genius - I'm merely gifted.

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black cats don't give you bad luck but hating black cats does in the form of my fists

Should I ever visit Japan, I’m sure I’d have a hard time learning much of the language beforehand.  Tonight I decided the above would have to be one of the phrases I’d master, as an apology for my being yet another typical Western non-speaker of Japanese.  I figure it’s archaic enough in its self-deprecation to be amusing, esp comin’ outta an old lady’s mouth  XD

WOMEN'S LIVES MATTER

This BS fills me with a white hot fury I have rarely experienced. I hate to think what I’d feel were I still of breeding age.

I had to run gauntlets of evil protestors before an abortion, when I went back for the re-check, and whenever I went to that clinic for a yearly exam.

My period was late when I lived near LA, and I visited a clinic for a pregnancy test. I was told the result was negative, but just knew that was untrue. I said so during a ladies’ room discussion w/other “patients.” They were freaked - I mean, can U imagine a clinic’s deliberately lying about such a thing? I pointed out there are plenty of “problem pregnancy” centers, run by religious freaks who try their ahem damnedest to browbeat women into keeping their unwanted pregnancies.

When I went to Planned Parenthood for the termination (I just adore being right so often), nurses there told me that awful clinic did indeed lie to women, in the hopes they’d run out of time to abort!

My mother had an illegal abortion. He was a gynecologist who performed them in his home, because he felt its illegality was what was immoral.

A girlfriend told us about her “trip to New York,” when abortion was still illegal in Michigan. Many women at that time took “trips to New York,” couched as shopping expeditions, if they could afford it.

Joe Biden says he’s “not prepared” to do away with the filibuster, just so we can have laws protecting women’s bodies and lives.

Fuck you, Joe.

None of us endured these things only to allow the next generations to experience the same or worse! Women’s Lives Matter, and we need to have a massive strike a la Iceland, to prove to these evil old men that women are not to be trifled with!

Andrew Fahie is charged with conspiring to import drug into the US and money laundering by the Drug Enforcement Agency

The premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been arrested in a sting operation in Miami on charges of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and money laundering.

The BVI governor, John Rankin, confirmed in a statement that Andrew Fahie had been arrested on Thursday morning, saying: “I realise this will be shocking news for people in the territory. And I would call for calm at this time.”

Court papers filed in Florida alleged Fahie, who was also referred to as “head coach”, was involved in conspiracy to import at least 5kg of cocaine and money laundering between 16 October last year and 28 April 2022.

DEA agents allege in the documents that Oleanvine and Kadeem Maynard agreed with undercover agents – who were posing as members of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel – to set up a meeting between Lebanese Hezbollah operatives and Fahie in order to establish a place to store thousands of kilograms of drugs arriving from Colombia.

The plan offered by the agents was to store the drug, bundled inside 5kg buckets of paint, in the BVI for one or two days before shipment to Miami or New York, the papers said.

Fahie and Oleanvine Maynard were arrested at a Miami airport after being invited by undercover agents to see a shipment of $700,000 in cash that BVI officials expected to receive for their part in the alleged plot, the court papers alleged.  ...