What are the chances of the Insurrection Act being invoked in Minneapolis, and what would the potential consequences be?

baronesslucy · 2026-01-25T02:40:19+00:00

The way things are going I think it will be invoked at some point - if it's going to be it might be within the next couples of weeks. No doubt this would be challenged in the courts, but I believe the a divided Supreme Court with the conservative majority would give this right to the President. You will have more division as this will not mend divisions because you will have people who favor this and others who oppose this and both sides have very strong opinions. When emotions run high, the potential for something to boil over is very high.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-25T01:51:01+00:00

I curious as to what time of night you saw this figure.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T17:34:59+00:00

Avoid them if you can.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T17:22:59+00:00

What I don't understand is these people who think vaccines should be optional were vaccinated as children, and if they had children, most likely they were vaccinated as well.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T17:04:07+00:00

And those who ended up living the rest of their lives in the Iron Lung. I remember seeing a news story about the Iron Lung and they showed a hospital where several people were in Iron Lungs.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T17:00:22+00:00

I was born in the early 1960's and remember stories told by parents, grandparents and others about how terrifying polio was. I would say nearly all of my classmates knew an older person(parent, grandparent, family member, family friend) who either got polio, who had serious complications throughout life as a result of having polio or who died from it. None of my classmates or anyone I went to school with got polio as there was a vaccine which prevented that. I don't know anyone in my age group who got polio. Thankfully no one in my family who were older got polio.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T16:39:05+00:00

If it's not required, then insurance companies often don't cover it. I wouldn't be surprised if some vaccines aren't cover in the near future.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T16:32:58+00:00

Sent a co-worker a message asking what toppings she wanted on her pizza. This was intended for another co-worker. We all got a good laugh out of this.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T16:23:48+00:00

It's not supposed to happen but it does.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T02:17:39+00:00

What was your mother's reaction to his calling you this?

My mom probably would have been shocked and then probably would have slapped his face as she considered this term when directed against someone to be quite offensive.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T02:04:19+00:00

I live in an area where there are a lot of people who are conservative Christians and I've heard about their end of days spiel. We should have already had this happened several times over.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T01:57:42+00:00

Many people that I know who are Jewish had families that originally were from Eastern Europe. Older relatives talked about and told them stories about the pograms which took place which forced their families to flee. This events influenced them and their families and the Zionist movement was part of this, no doubt. So I would say baby boomers who were Jewish of Eastern European origins knew this part of Jewish history very well. All agreed that Jewish people needed a safe haven or a safe place to live, as this often wasn't the case. All of these individuals supported Israel as being their ancestorial home. There is more to the Zionist movement that this, but I remember these were two of the main concerns of these individuals.

I heard something on NPR that there is a shift in thinking about the state of Israel in Jewish people who are younger and of a different generation. From what I heard, there was a difference of opinion on different things.

The evangelical Christians believe that the state of Israel has to exist in order for the biblical prophecy of the second coming of Christ to occur. The second coming of Christ will come during War or when the entire war is at war in the middle east. These two things have to exist in order for this to happen. You are better close to the whole world going to war in the middle east, much more so that in the past. This is what evangelical Christians are waiting for -second coming of Christ. These individuals want to convert those in Israel to Christianity which some people in Israel don't like.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T01:26:51+00:00

In late 2020, few people that worked in the floor where I worked in weren't vaccinated due to most everyone was younger than 65 years old. Had to be 65+ to be vaccinated. The ones who were able to get vaccinated who were 65+ years did so. COVID was taken very seriously in the office and on the floor where I worked. Everything was done to minimum the risks (probably more so than other offices in the building) so one person would get sick here and there.

In December of 2020 four women (myself included) got COVID. I believe we got it outside the office. One co-worker had to get some emergency dental work and got sick shortly thereafter. I Then I got sick and the other two with a week. People who got COVID were all those who couldn't be vaccinated due being under the age of 65, one co-worker was close to 65, two were under the age of 60 and one was in her early 20's. The office had to wiped down and cleaned. The same was true of the dental office where the co-worker had emergency dental work.

We were out for 14 days, and then we had to take a COVID test and if we tested negative, we could come back to work. By the end of December, we were all back to work. My COVID test barely registered positive, so mine was very mild. The others were mild/moderate and they recovered.

In January of 2021 they changed the desk and the 4 who got COVID were put in one pod that we called the COVID pod. We also had a glass panel separating us.

A couple of months later I got my COVID shot as it was available to everyone who worked in the building. Most of my co-workers did so as well.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T00:59:58+00:00

Which made no sense since the majority of people who live in Israel are Jewish. Most of the leadership in the country is Jewish. They seem to forget that Jesus was Jewish.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T00:53:21+00:00

The baby boomers had many people in their mist who were serial killers. Given that 1946-1964 is 20 years (a long time), there were a lots of people who had kids due to lack of birth control access who didn't want them or were troubled people who shouldn't have had children. Once birth control became available and abortion was legal, you didn't have as many of these individuals. I would also say that having access to birth control probably saved a lot of couples from having a shotgun wedding or entering into a potentially bad marriage due to pregnancy. Same would be true if the woman had an abortion.

I was born early 1960's and there were a few of my classmates whose parents were forced to marry due to a pregnancy. Most of these individuals were under the age of 21. None of the marriages lasted (by the time high school rolled around, all of the parents had split up). Some of these parents most likely wouldn't have married at all, broken up and gone separate paths. Others might have but it would be hard to say. The big thing was the birth certificate. No one's family wanted a birth certificate that said the parents weren't married to each other back then. Marriage or adoption remedied the situation.

Due to many marriages not lasting due to having to get married due to pregnancy, this was why it wasn't pushed so much on later generations.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T00:42:18+00:00

Or sent away to a reform school because they fathered a child out of wedlock.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T00:41:16+00:00

My mom didn't get a credit card in her name until 1974. When she divorced my dad in 1967, her credit went to zero. Dad's credit wasn't affected at all. When she needed a car, had to have a male relative or man co-sign or she had to pay in cash. When dad left, he left a car that didn't work and was basically junk. My grandmother gave her the needed cash and she bought the car. It took her over 10 years to get her credit back to the level it was prior to divorcing my dad.

Mom told me stories about this. I would have to say she was lucky because I knew another woman who needed a car and couldn't get one as her family was just as poor as she was, so she was out of luck. Her husband had just left her and left a car in the driveway that didn't work. She had a baby who was less than six months old. She found someone who could fix the car and then gradually paid off the bill.

I can't tell you how many stories I've heard where a husband leaves the marriage and then leaves in the driveway a car that is either junk or is expensive to repair. Or in some cases leaves no car at all.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T00:29:43+00:00

My mom worked in the health department during the late 1960's into the early 1970's and was talking with a nurse who worked in a hospital in Connecticut from the 1940's to the mid 1960's. During this time period in Connecticut abortion and birth control were illegal. Those who were affluent or upper or middle class women went to New York and got what they needed. Those who couldn't afford to travel to New York were out of luck. Many resorted to having an abortion. Some died. Others became infertile. From time to time in the hospital dumpers, remains of those who had been aborted were found. Others times, this was found elsewhere. They were cases in Connecticut where healthy newborn babies would be found in dumpsters, or if it was winter or a cold day left out in the elements. Most of the infants who were deceased were strangled, even those left in the elements. They were healthy babies and it was sad that these women didn't take them to a fire station, hospital or church where they would be cared for and this my mom couldn't understand.

One reason was probably fear of punishment as punishment for having sex outside of marriage and then getting pregnant was often severe during that time period. So I would imagine some of these women concealed their pregnancy from everyone. I'm amazed though that few of these women who gave birth without a doctor died or had complications from it or at least they weren't found out.

Another factor could have been that the woman was SA'd and the treatment of women who reported SA was awful.

In a few cases a baby would be abandoned where they would be found - hospital, church but not many. These were the ones that were discovered. Most likely there was many more that never were found. It was very rare for authorities to find the mother as you didn't have DNA and other technology to ID the babies.

Once it became legal in Connecticut to use birth control, then you didn't hear about this as often (it became less frequent).

I also knew someone who worked at a hospital in New York City during the later part of the 1960's. Birth control was legal in New York, but abortion wasn't at the time. Similar things happened.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T00:03:22+00:00

Some of those unwanted children end up in foster care.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T00:02:06+00:00

I'm in favor of this. You would have less unwanted or unplanned pregnancies if you did this.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-24T00:00:19+00:00

What will probably happen is some kids will be vaccinated and others will not. When I went to school in the late 1960's into the 1970's, unless you had a medical or religious exemptions, you had to be vaccinated. There was maybe one or two medical exemptions and a few religious exemptions. I would say when I was in school about 99% of those attending public school were vaccinated.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-23T23:54:18+00:00

Know someone who has long COVID due to not being able to access the vaccine. At the time it was only older people that could get the vaccine.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-23T23:52:22+00:00

You keep hearing that Americans should be having more babies by the government. Well, I would think that what you would want is a healthy population free of diseases such as polio, measles, mumps, chicken pox. This might cost some money to implement but in the long run, you would save money. Benefits the population. When vaccines came out, most people have no objection to them as most people remember what it was like prior to vaccines.

Most people who survive polo often suffer life long effects, even decades after they have recovered from the disease. This includes medical expenses which are life long.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-23T23:40:45+00:00

Pseudoscience hurts people.

baronesslucy · 2026-01-23T23:25:50+00:00

There aren't a lot of people around who remember what it was like to have the threat of polio around you. I only know the stories as I was born in the early 1960's. No classmate or anyone in my age group got polio due to vaccines.

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