Author: Marissa

bookmark_border“Elon Musk is trying to access your personal bank and tax data”

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Sen. Adam Schiff recently stated: 

“Elon Musk is trying to access your personal bank and tax data. The world’s richest man should not and cannot be able to snoop around your personal finances. Period. End of story.”

This response by a user called Chaotic Good is spot on:

 
 
 
 
 
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Personally, I find it rich that Schiff would complain about Musk being able to “snoop around” people’s personal data when he and his party demanded that people be required to provide personal medical information in order to be allowed to work, attend school, eat at restaurants, work out at gyms, or attend public events. This demonstrates a great deal of hypocrisy, lack of logic, and moral inconsistency, in my opinion. Why does Schiff care about people’s privacy now, when Musk is allegedly violating it, after he and his party spent years actively violating people’s medical privacy and personally insulting anyone who objected to these policies as selfish, irresponsible, ignorant, ridiculous, and stupid?

Also, it’s a bit puzzling that Schiff feels the needs to point out that Musk is the world’s richest man. Musk’s economic status doesn’t have anything to do with which data, if any, he should be able to access. Therefore, there really isn’t any reason to mention this. It’s almost as if Shiff thinks that being the world’s richest man is inherently something negative, and somehow makes Musk inherently bad and untrustworthy.

What Schiff should be saying is: Governments, companies, and other institutions should not and cannot be able to require people to undergo medical procedures. Period. End of story.

That is what is important. That is what is worth being outraged and upset about. Not Musk’s access to data.

bookmark_border“Faith Lift” column about Christopher Columbus

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Check out this positive article about Christopher Columbus – a rare thing in today’s society. Written by Canadian pastor and columnist Rob Weatherby, it outlines six types of danger that Columbus faced and triumphed over: the risk of encountering sea monsters and/or falling off the edge of the earth (both considered serious possibilities at the time), the risk of violent storms, the risk of running into a wind-free spell and getting stuck, the risk of encountering rival Portuguese explorers, the risk posed by hostile native tribes, and the risk of mutiny by his own crew.

As the author points out, these factors “underscore the immense courage of Columbus.” Sadly, to many people in our society, courage such as that which Columbus displayed, is not valued. Being remarkable, standing out, and doing magnificent things is not valued. Instead, the only thing that is valued, for so many in our society, is compliance, sameness, and mindless conformity. That is what is motivating the atrocities that have been committed against Christopher Columbus over the past five years.

bookmark_borderLight in the darkness

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Things have not been great for me lately. Life has felt heavy and dark, for various reasons. I am sick and tired of the cruelty, the nastiness, the self-righteous intolerance, and the hypocrisy of so many people. I am sick of being condemned as “cruel” and “un-American,” by the very same people who have spent the past five years unleashing an avalanche of shocking cruelty. I am sick of pompous lectures about the importance of diversity and inclusion by the very same people who have waged a merciless campaign to obliterate all diversity from the earth and to ensure that people who are different from the norm cannot feel included anywhere. I’m sick of words being used to mean the opposite of what they actually mean. I’m sick of people brutally attacking those who have done nothing wrong and then calling their victims cruel. I am sick of it, and it is taking a heavy toll on my mental health. 

But I’m not making this post to write about all of the things I’m sick of (although I’ve ended up writing quite a long paragraph about this topic). I’m making this post to draw attention to a few things that have brought a smile to my face in these dark times. Hopefully these things will bring a smile to your face as well:

 
 
 
 
 
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bookmark_borderMy open letter to Gov. Youngkin regarding HB1699

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Unfortunately, bigots and bullies in the Virginia legislature – who believe, apparently, that everyone who is different from the norm should be obliterated from existence – passed a bill known as HB1699. You can read about this disgusting, unconscionable, and immoral bill here. (I guess I don’t make reading about it seem very appealing when I describe it that way, but describing it with milder language would be inaccurate.)
I wrote the below email to Governor Glenn Youngkin, encouraging him to veto this bill:
Dear Governor Youngkin:
I am writing to respectfully ask that you please veto bill HB1699. This bill is mean-spirited, cruel, discriminatory, and hurtful. I am on the autism spectrum, and my special interest is history. What makes history so important to me is that it includes stories and perspectives from a wide array of different people. Confederate history is part of history. People who fought for the Confederacy deserve to be honored just as much as anyone else does. Their stories deserve to be told, and their history preserved, just as much as anyone else’s. It is unconscionable that, after years of the most brutal and vicious attacks imaginable on Confederate historical figures, a bill would be introduced that would hurt lovers of Confederate history even more than we have already been hurt. Bill HB1699 would personally hurt me as an autistic person who loves history. It’s beyond upsetting that a bill such as this would even be under consideration. Please, please veto this horrible bill.
Sincerely,
Marissa
I highly encourage you to do the same. You can contact Governor Youngkin by…
Email: glenn.youngkin@governor.virginia.gov
Phone: (804) 786-2211
Or mail:
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 1475
Richmond, VA 23218

bookmark_borderTrump signs executive order withholding funds from schools that require covid vaccine

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On February 15, President Trump signed what is perhaps his most awesome executive order yet. It withholds federal funds from schools that force their students to receive the covid vaccine.

According to the text of the order on the White House website:

“It is the policy of my Administration that discretionary Federal funds should not be used to directly or indirectly support or subsidize an educational service agency, State educational agency, local educational agency, elementary school, secondary school, or institution of higher education that requires students to have received a COVID-19 vaccination to attend any in-person education program.”

Trump’s order correctly points out that people should be “empowered with accurate data” and “left free to make their own decisions accordingly,” and that “threatening to shut them out of an education is an intolerable infringement on personal freedom.”

This really shouldn’t be a revolutionary concept. The right to make medical decisions about one’s body is the most fundamental right that there is. And vaccine mandates violate this right. It’s completely unacceptable for any school, employer, or organization to require a medical procedure.

With this executive order, Trump has decided that the federal government will step in and defend people’s rights from schools that would violate them. This is exactly what the federal government should be doing. In fact, it’s what the federal government should have been doing all along.

Despicably, the Biden administration attempted to use the power of OSHA – the Occupational Safety and Health Administration – to force all companies with 100 or more employees to implement vaccine mandates, thereby violating the rights of their employees. This is the literal opposite of what the government should have done. The government should have banned companies from violating the rights of their employees, not required it. Now, under the Trump administration, the government is moving in the direction of what it should have been doing all along. It is punishing institutions that violate people’s rights, thereby providing a deterrent from doing so.

I can’t think of a more important or worthy use of the power of the federal government, than to enforce people’s rights to bodily autonomy. So thank you, President Trump, for standing up for the fundamental right to decline medical intervention.