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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • The rules read like a fucking committee got together to compromise on shit.

    Chairman: ok, so I hear one side wants them excoriated to save their souls. And the other side says they’re just humans who want to be saved by the Jesus. Can we agree on low key shunning?

    Its new rules, in addition to expanding on an existing rule that prevents transgender people from being baptized, also prohibit transgender people from working with children or serving as priests or teachers.

    The church’s handbook states that those “who transition away from their biological sex at birth are welcome to attend sacrament meetings” and participate in “many other ways”. It also encourages these individuals and their families to confer with local leaders regarding their church participation. The new guidelines, however, significantly limit such participation.

    The policy now states that members who have transitioned in any way — whether that transition is social, medical or surgical — cannot stay at youth camps overnight and may only use single-occupancy restrooms at church meetinghouses. Alternatively, a “trusted person” must be stationed outside the restroom to keep others from entering when a transgender person uses a restroom that aligns with their personal gender identity.









  • (Verse 1) Well, I was ridin’ the range, just me and my truck, Through the dust and the tumbleweeds, out of pure luck. She was shiny and new, with a mind of her own, My trusty old partner, on the wide open road.

    (Chorus) But my self-driving truck, she’s got a heart of steel, Left me in the dust, for another man’s wheel. She don’t need no cowboy, to tell her what to do, My self-driving truck, found herself someone new.

    (Verse 2) We’d roamed through the deserts, and over the plains, Through the storms and the sunshine, the joy and the pain. But she up and left me, without a goodbye, Now I’m just a lone cowboy, under the big sky.

    (Chorus) Oh, my self-driving truck, she’s got a heart of steel, Left me in the dust, for another man’s wheel. She don’t need no cowboy, to tell her what to do, My self-driving truck, found herself someone new.

    (Bridge) I guess I never thought, that she’d leave me this way, With a mind of her own, she chose her own way. Now I’m stuck here alone, with my old boots and hat, Just a cowboy in the sunset, where the memories sat.

    (Chorus) Yeah, my self-driving truck, she’s got a heart of steel, Left me in the dust, for another man’s wheel. She don’t need no cowboy, to tell her what to do, My self-driving truck, found herself someone new.

    (Outro) So here’s to the highways, and the roads that we roam, To the self-driving trucks, that find their own home. I’ll keep riding solo, through the wind and the rain, Just a cowboy without his truck, but I’ll never complain.









  • In his dissent, Kavanaugh countered that federal law does “not support the Court’s decision.” And more broadly, he continued, “the extra federal money that the Court today green-lights does not come free.” If Congress does not increase the overall funding for Native American health-care programs, he wrote, Thursday’s ruling will shift more of that funding from less affluent tribes – which are less likely to run their own health-care programs – to wealthier ones. Congress’s other option, he added, would be to “substantially” increase funding for all Native American health-care programs, “thereby drawing money away from other vital federal programs or requiring additional taxes.”