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  • The doctor I see for adhd set themselves up as a PCP for insurance purposes, so each visit is just a copay. You can find co-pays from free to $20 on the ACA Marketplace (Obamacare). Just find an insurance salesperson to help you, they are paid by the insurance companies so you don't pay for their help!

    Testing cost me a little more and it wasn't as laborious as this makes it sound. One test was video-recorded while you clicked the mouse whenever something happened on the screen and the other was some questions about your history.

  • Oklahoma state superintendent orders schools to teach the Bible in grades 5 through 12
  • David has cut off foreskins from 3,672 enemies. He is required to have 9,000. How many more foreskins does he need to collect?

    I don't remember if it was actually David or another character from the Bible nor how many foreskins were actually required and I'm not going to give a Bible site the click to figure that out.

  • Why are Republicans/Conservatives embracing fanaticalism these days?
  • The rejection of fanaticism went out the door along with E Pluribus Unum in the 50's when the Christian nationalists forced their religion on the national motto. Then over the next decade black people were lynched and attacked with fire hoses when they were asking for basic rights.

    They also started conversion camps where they emotionally and sometimes physically and secually abuse minors in conversion camps to attempt to change sexual orientation.

    I believe it was Nixon who helped foem fox News to pull the Republicans further right and we've been seeing the consequences of that.

    Basically the fanaticism has always been there, but with the internet and social media, it's easier for them to make their voice heard.

  • What the rise of queer Republicans tells us about America
  • A few years back, some log cabin Republicans walked beside a sports car in the Austin Pride Parade. You could tell exactly where they were because the crowd fell silent as they passed. It was cool hearing the silence move down the street, nobody booed we just ignored them.

    There have been members of the community aligned with the far right for a long time. There was even a hugh ranking gay nazi that worked for Hitler before he outlived his usefulness and IIRC ended up in a concentration camp.

  • Christian nationalists are opening private schools. Taxpayers are funding them.
  • The laws governing public schools should apply to any school that receive public funds. Many private schools would quickly crumble given how chaotic and disorganized I've heard they are from teachers that left working in private schools.

    Segregation should not be allowed in the education system.

  • Texas megachurch pastor resigns after admitting to molestation claims in 1980s
  • Another head of the hydra choped off, how many more heads will grow back?

    I'm sure the megachurch will still be around, question is how many other churches will spring out of its congregation and how many more victims will they all make.

  • 376 boys in blue sat around and let 19 kids and 2 teachers die
  • From one report, they didn't know who was in charge because there were State and local units. So they did nothing while some in charge waited to hear who should be giving the orders. At least that's how I remember it.

  • To fight poverty, some Texas cities gave aid with no strings attached. Conservatives are pushing back.
  • Trump won TX in 2020 by only 631,221 votes. If we have better turnout this year, we could make TX blue! The polls are only busy on the final day to vote, even though we have a 2 week long voting period with the polls open during the same hours as election day during the entire 2nd week of voting. Don't wait until the last day and check if your local polling places are open on the weekend!

    For those in TX, the last day to register to vote is Oct 7.

    Voting goes from October 21-Nov 1, with one final day to cast your vote on Nov 5.

    Applications to vote by mail must be received by Oct 25.

    Check your registration status, local polling locations and hours, important dates, and other election information at the link below.

    https://www.votetexas.gov/mobile/index.htm

  • What's the most basic thing you can't do?
  • Use your knuckles and the space between from left to right. The higher points are longer months.

    The left pinky knuckle is January, the space between pinky and ring knuckle is February, the ring knuckle is March and so on. The left index knuckle will be July and you continue with August being the right hand index knuckle. All the months that land on a knuckle are 31, while everything else is 30 (except 28 or 29 for February).

  • Texas Supreme Court rejects challenge to state's abortion law over medical exceptions
  • Thats interesting, i hadn't heard that before! Looks like Biden received 5,244,103 votes in New York, which is 15,023 less than he received in TX.

    Looks like TX just needs more of the urban population to turnout to cou tractor the red rural parts.

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