Halloween Decorations

Halloween is my favorite holiday. How could it not be so? The air is crisp, the harvest is home and dressing up your hearth or porch.. Here are some pictures and websites to help you plan your decorations and help you celebrate. 

The Zombie Brain Pumpkin comes from skulladay.com. 

Pumpkins can be carved and they can be painted, etc.

Oil base glossy house paint works the best, especially if you want to put your pumpkins outside on the porch. Oil based paint is durable, glossy and adheres well to pumpkin rind. A decorated pumpkin will last without rotting from Halloween through Thanksgiving. I have even had a painted one last until Christmas without rotting.

Glossy acrylic paint is a good choice if you are working with children. It washes off.  Do not buy small containers of hobbyist paints unless you are only going to paint one or two pumpkins. Go to an art supply store for premixed acrylic paints in a wide variety of exotic colors in a generous size.
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Hallelujah! Judge Pitman's Opinion with Music and Fireworks

The Music appropriately begins with Taps.

Farewell to the Texas Abortion Law.
Text of Order
Art by Favianna Rodriguez

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Texas to suspend the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S., calling it an “offensive deprivation” of a constitutional right by banning most abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state since September.

The order by U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman is the first legal blow to the Texas law known as Senate Bill 8, which until now had withstood a wave of early challenges. In the weeks since the restrictions took effect, Texas abortion providers say the impact has been “exactly what we feared.”

In a 113-page opinion, Pitman took Texas to task over the law, saying Republican lawmakers had “contrived an unprecedented and transparent statutory scheme” by leaving enforcement solely in the hands of private citizens, who are entitled to collect $10,000 in damages if they bring successful lawsuits against abortion providers who violate the restrictions.

The law, signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in May, prohibits abortions once cardiac activity is detected, which is usually around six weeks, before some women even know they are pregnant.

Big Whoop-de-Shit - Asshats on Parade - UPDATE

Some adventurous Reader read this, so I decided to go back and see who I called an Asshat. I wrote this in 2014. Can you tell how much Republicans still respect and protect Texas Women? Purity culture kills Women and Children. Texas has a higher maternal mortality rate than some countries. Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose.  

You can put lipstick and earrings on a hog and call it Monique, but it's still a pig. - Anne Richards, Governor of Texas

According to WHO, unsafe abortion is one of the three leading causes of maternal mortality, along with hemorrhage and sepsis from childbirth.1

The men of the Republican party believe that women and women alone are to be held responsible for the fact that humans have sex.

This ultrasound wand -----> is what the State of Texas and Dan Patrick decided must be shoved up my Bird in order for me to have a safe and legal medical abortion. Dan Patrick is working to stop early medication abortions too.

 

Meanwhile, in the real world, a 13 year old just self-aborted with a pencil in Pennsylvania. The child has been sexually assaulted by a 30 year old SexPig. Is the State going to shove one of these -----> up the vagina of a child like her? How Christian is that? Precisely what did Jesus Christ say that requires this treatment of women?

I wonder how many social workers and child advocates it is going to take to deal with issues like this? Or are young women just going to be forced to birth babies because we cannot make exceptions in time or by law? In Africa, childbirth is the leading cause of death of young women 15-19. Is America going to go there "because Jesus?" And how are we going to pay to enforce all these laws? Bond issues? New taxes?

Mandatory ultrasound is The Law in my State as well. Thanks to Governor Corbett. One and done. Legislatures must not practice medicine. Remember the words of the illustrious and reknowned Drive-By who said "Those who vote Republican will have Republican done unto them."

Rapists, who cannot get their genitals to cooperate enough to rape you, use objects instead: sticks, broken bottles, ultrasound wands and laws. That ultrasound wand is bigger than my second husband's johnson. I am going to throw a party when these guys lose. I got a new slogan: Butt core Corbutt! Yes, I went there. I am so going to Hell.

Some Notes on Right Wing Violence

I go to Raw Story for the comments. This was just hanging out there. I quick put it here. Now I have to go back and see who to credit. It is Wesley Stubbs Sandel.

Homegrown Terrorists Nearly All Right-wing
https://www.theatlantic.com...

Far-Right Groups Are Behind Most U.S. Terrorist Attacks, Report Finds https://www.nytimes.com/202...

Anti-fascists linked to zero murders in the US in 25 years
https://www.theguardian.com...

Right-wing extremists killed 38 people in U.S. in 2019, Anti-Defamation League finds https://www.cbsnews.com/new...

Every extremist murder in 2018 was linked to right-wing terrorism https://americanindependent...

Report: U.S. Right-Wing Extremists Killed 330 People In Last Decade
A new Anti-Defamation League report also finds that an anti-Latino massacre at a Walmart made 2019 the sixth-deadliest for extremist-related violence since 1970.
https://www.huffpost.com/en...

“In the past 10 years when you look at murders committed by domestic extremists in the United States of all types, right-wing extremists are responsible for about 74 percent of those murders,” he said. https://checkyourfact.com/2...

Right-wing killings eclipsed all other extremist-related murders in 2018. The numbers don’t lie. https://www.jta.org/2019/01...

In 2018, Right Wing Extremists Were Behind Every Terrorist Murder Inside US https://mavenroundtable.io/...

All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report https://www.businessinsider...

There were at least 50 extremist-related killings in 2018, according to the report, making it the fourth-deadliest year on record for domestic extremist-related killings since 1970. https://www.businessinsider...

U.S. sees 300 violent attacks inspired by far right every year https://www.pbs.org/newshou...

Right-wing terrorists killed three times more people in US than Islamists in past decade with attacks soaring in 2018, report says https://www.independent.co....

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a report that white supremacists remain “the most persistent and lethal threat” in the country.
https://thehill.com/policy/...

All of the extremist killings in the US in 2018 had links to right-wing extremism, according to new report

https://www.businessinsider...

Right-Wing Extremism Is Still the Biggest Threat to National Security

https://www.gq.com/story/ri...

Right-Wing Extremist Violence is Our Biggest Threat. The Numbers Don't Lie.

https://www.adl.org/news/op...

It’s Time to Confront the Threat of Right-Wing Terrorism

https://www.newyorker.com/n...

Right-Wing Terrorism Has Gone Global

https://slate.com/news-and-...

As Far-Right Violence Surges, Ted Cruz Seeks To Brand Antifa A Terrorist Organization. Last year was the fourth-deadliest in the nation for right-wing extremist violence, according to data from the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.

https://www.huffpost.com/en...

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