Alabama, You've Done It Again, Part the IV

[AWRTR]

When I read posts like this, it just reminds me of how much I sometimes feel like I'm missing out. I've been agnostic for a very long time. I neither hate nor love religion in general. My wife and I married almost 3 years ago and I dutifully follow her every Saturday night to mass. I read the creed, I sing the hymns and I even help take up the collection from time to time. I enjoy the experience, but when I start allowing myself the luxury of maybe....possibly trying to believe, every inch of my psychology rises up and fights like hell.

Since it's the Lenten season, I'm think maybe I can find something from Aquinas that perhaps I missed all those years ago in college. That was the advice recently offered to me as Aquinas has been known to make very rational arguments for the existence of God. I know there will never be found a smoking gun that proves conclusively that God exists (that's where the faith part comes in, which is another problem.) Still, I'm open to testing myself. I may look into RCIA when it starts up again after Easter.

I've enjoyed reading and watching debates and lectures by William Lane Craig. He's a Christian apologist that I've found to be very compelling. His book Reasonable Faith is worth a read.

 

[NationalTitles18]

Republicans acting in sheer panic at finding themselves on the wrong side of a threat to extreme popular in-vitro fertilization treatments are making grand gestures of nonsense, unable to escape the fact that their own anti-abortion fanaticism makes their claims of support for IVF untenable. Irin Carmon, senior correspondent for New York Magazine, discusses the situation with Alex Wagner.

 

[jthomas666]

Putting this in a couple of threads cause it could go in either...

Tuberville: Secure the border because immigrants ‘know nothing about God’

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville says America must put God back into the country and the government, and right now the government isn't honoring our "Judo" Christian values. The Alabama freshman Republican, a Christian nationalist, also says God cannot be put back into this nation currently because...

www.rawstory.com

 

[jthomas666]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765755835139989862

House Bill 238 would introduce a $10.64 tax on every prescription filled in the state.

The bill, championed by Representative Phillip Rigsby of Huntsville, sailed through the committee on Wednesday, despite the burgeoning outcry from various quarters, including the Alliance of Alabama Healthcare Consumers (AAHC). This body has vocally criticized the bill, highlighting its numerous shortcomings and the financial strain it will impose on the state’s populace.

Rigsby's a pharmacist. More to the point, he's a pharmacy owner.

Another point of contention is the bill’s potential to weaken consumer protections. By restricting the state’s ability to probe into allegations of fraud, waste, and abuse, HB238 could inadvertently shield unethical practices within the pharmacy industry, to the detriment of Alabama’s consumers and insurers.

Ah!

Always
Be
Grifting

 

[Chukker Veteran]

Rotten to the core right out in the open.

 

[TexasBama]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765755835139989862

House Bill 238 would introduce a $10.64 tax on every prescription filled in the state.

Alabama doubling down to ensure they remain in last place for health outcomes.

 

[TexasBama]

Putting this in a couple of threads cause it could go in either...

Tuberville: Secure the border because immigrants ‘know nothing about God’

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville says America must put God back into the country and the government, and right now the government isn't honoring our "Judo" Christian values. The Alabama freshman Republican, a Christian nationalist, also says God cannot be put back into this nation currently because...

www.rawstory.com

Tubberville is spare parts

 

[dtgreg]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1765755835139989862

House Bill 238 would introduce a $10.64 tax on every prescription filled in the state.



Rigsby's a pharmacist. More to the point, he's a pharmacy owner.



Ah!

Always
Be
Grifting

Can't raise taxes on the timber barons to equal what they pay in Georgia. Nope. That'd be Communism.

 

[92tide]

Alabama doubling down to ensure they remain in last place for health outcomes.

prayer is the only medicine

 

[NationalTitles18]

Will Alabama voters ever wake up and smell what republicans are shoveling?

 

[92tide]

Will Alabama voters ever wake up and smell what republicans are shoveling?

no

 

[CrimsonNagus]

I don't understand everything about health care but, I'm not sure this bill is a bad thing. These few post on Reddit make me scratch my head. Maybe the narrative be presented by the media right now is wrong. Sounds like it is trying to help small pharmacies survive and not get crushed by the big boys like Walmart and CVS. I haven't read the bill but these folks claim to have read it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntsvilleAlabama/comments/1b9t971/_/kty98dp
https://www.reddit.com/r/MobileAL/comments/1b9tacd/_/kty0lwk

 

[TexasBama]

I don't understand everything about health care but, I'm not sure this bill is a bad thing. These few post on Reddit make me scratch my head. Maybe the narrative be presented by the media right now is wrong. Sounds like it is trying to help small pharmacies survive and not get crushed by the big boys like Walmart and CVS. I haven't read the bill but these folks claim to have read it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HuntsvilleAlabama/comments/1b9t971/_/kty98dp
https://www.reddit.com/r/MobileAL/comments/1b9tacd/_/kty0lwk

It's not a tax per se, unless you consider a business subsidy a tax. This causes, in the end, insurers to pay an additional $10.64 for every Rx filled in Alabama that's not Medicaid (Medicaid already pays this). So, at some point you'll see an increase in insurance or Part D cost as a result.

So, everybody that pays for insurance will ultimately pay for this, for the pupose of small phramacies bottom line. Suboptimization.

 

[TexasBama]

Alabama official calls for firing of transgender Space Camp employee after parent speaks out

“We would like to assure parents, teachers, and the public that the safety and security of Space Camp students is our number one priority."

www.al.com

 

[NationalTitles18]

Alabama official calls for firing of transgender Space Camp employee after parent speaks out

“We would like to assure parents, teachers, and the public that the safety and security of Space Camp students is our number one priority."

www.al.com

So far there is no evidence of even the appearance of anything improper happening.

So why at this point call for firing the employee if they do not want to punish the employee simply for being themselves.

 

[JDCrimson]

Medical Properties Trust is an Alabama-based private equity. It's not enought that we gut our own hospitals, we need to do it across the nation...

MPT: Plundering America's Hospitals

 

[Jon]

I sincerely hope we lose our entire recruiting class, football, Basketball, all of it

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signs DEI bill into law: What the ‘divisive concepts’ ban will do

It is not clear whether the law will force some state colleges, which support a combined $16 million in diversity spending, to lay off staff.

www.al.com

 

[jthomas666]

Whitmire: Why was an Alabama library director fired? Read between the lines.

Autauga-Prattville Library Board chairman gives conflicting answers to what should be a straight-forward question.

www.al.com

 

[jthomas666]

Also...

Trussville Library board announces decisions on 41 challenged books —…

The Trussville Public Library Board meeting Monday night was packed with over 100 people wishing to speak out about books in the children and teen…

1819news.com

 

[jthomas666]

and finally...

Alabama pulls out of American Library Association

The Alabama Public Library Service has officially voted to not renew its membership with the American Library Association.

www.wsfa.com