04 Monday Jul 2022
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#resist, Adam Sommer, Heartland POD, podcast, protest, Rachel Parker, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court, Warrensburg
Previously:
Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)
They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022 (July 2, 2022)
Pro-choice Demonstration – Jefferson City, Missouri – July 3, 2022 (July 3, 2022)
02 Saturday Jul 2022
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#resist, abortion, missouri, protest, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court, Warrensburg
Early this afternoon over a hundred individuals gathered on the Johnson County Courthouse lawn in Warrensburg, Missouri to demonstrate in support of reproductive rights.
They were greeted with supportive car horn honking.
There are a number of such demonstrations scheduled across Missouri over the next few days.
Pro-choice Demonstration – Johnson County Courthouse – Warrensburg, Missouri – July 2, 2022
“Separate Church and State”
“…Abolish the filibuster”
“Someone you love…”
“I support a woman’s right to choose”
“I love someone…”
“Reproductive Rights are Human Rights”
“…Reproductive Rights are Human Rights”
“You will never have the comfort of our silence”
We suspect that’s a warning.
On the Johnson County Courthouse lawn.
Jess Piper (D).
Keep your laws off my body”
Pro choice is not anti-life”
“My body, my choice”
“My private parts should not be up for public debate!”
Here we are again”
“It won’t end here”
No, it won’t.
Previously:
Pro-choice Demonstration – Sedalia, Missouri – June 30, 2022 (June 30, 2022)
They want to believe they’re winning, but know they’re losing again (July 1, 2022)
04 Saturday Jun 2022
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The second annual Warrensburg Pride Festival was held today starting at 11:00 a.m.
The first scheduled event was an all ages drag show. There were well over a hundred people in attendance – including grandparents, parents, families – some with toddlers and infants.
The show included pop and show tunes, along with ornate costumes and theotrical makeup.
Between shows and scheduled events attendees browsed the vendors and food and drink concessions.
Free Mom Hugs!
Registering to vote.
“Love wins”
“I Love My Two Moms”
Registering to vote.
Previously:
Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)
“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians, they are so unlike your Christ.” (June 4, 2022)
04 Saturday Jun 2022
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bigots, drag show, missouri, protest, right wingnuts, Warrensburg
“…One of them told [us] we were going to Hell if we walked in here. [….] replied that was probably so, but you’ll be there serving me coffee when I arrive…”
This morning a group of right wingnuts took it upon themselves to protest outside a scheduled Pride event in Warrensburg.
Name the band:
“…And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men…”
Was anyone forcing people off the street into the event? Just asking.
It’s a G-rated drag show. You know, pop tunes and Broadway musical songs with fancy costumes and stage makeup.
1982. Victor, Victoria. A film about a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman. You know, drag shows. Julie Andrews, James Garner, etc. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning for best musical score.
What’s the difference?
You don’t want to see it? Don’t go.
Otherwise, continue wearing your self-righteous public bigotry with pride.
Previously:
Local busybodies engage in pearl clutching (June 3, 2022)
03 Friday Jun 2022
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A local right wingnut group is all atwitter:
Are random people off the street going to be required to attend?
“…Parents are encouraged to bring ‘Children of ALL Ages’ for the event, and have them stay for crafts and games…” The horror!
Uh, parents’ do that sort of thing. They choose to enjoy musical numbers and theatrical costumes at an event with their family members.
In response to the Warrensburg Pride Festival:
Last year (June 2021):
Free Mom Hugs.
Ally.
01 Wednesday Jun 2022
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Yesterday evening Mark Alford (r), former newsreader and one of several republican candidates in the 4th Congressional District, made a campaign appearance in front of a small crowd on the Johnson County Courthouse lawn in Warrensburg.
Mark Alford (r).
Speaking to the gathering:
There is no difference:
Mark Alford @markalfordkc
President Biden is having to walk back so much of what he’s said about Russia, Putin and Ukraine that he’s starting to look like Michael Jackson doing the “Moonwalk”
[….]
11:24 AM · Mar 28, 2022
That was then.
Mark Alford @markalfordkc
Who ARE rural Missourians?
[…]
7:06 PM · Apr 12, 2022
Mark Alford @markalfordkc
I’d rather be a “MAGA King” than a MEGA failure!
4:25 PM · May 17, 2022
Mark Alford @markalfordkc
Obviously not a Bible scholar.TheBlaze @theblaze
· May 23
The View’s Whoopi Goldberg blasts San Francisco bishop for denying communion to Pelosi: ‘This is not your job, dude!’ [….]
Apparently, he believes he is.
Mark Alford (r) is not interested in your responses:
From Mark Alford’s campaign web site (look it up, if you’re interested):
“We all know that something wasn’t right with the election in 2020. Multiple states circumvented The Constitution of the United States in the name of a man-made virus. We must bring integrity back to our elections!”
“…man-made virus…”
“We must protect the lives of the unborn and be the voice of the voiceless. There are no exceptions; abortion is murder because each life is precious in the eyes of God.”
“We must respect the men and women in blue, those who risk their lives for each of us every day. Our society will fall further into chaos without law and order.”
“The Founders of our great nation knew that to remain a secure and free republic we needed armed citizens. It’s not a suggestion, it’s our right to keep and bear arms, and it shall not be infringed! There is no such thing as “gun violence” it’s “human violence.””
“…each life…” Uvalde, Texas.
“Parents must have a say in their children’s education, and we must stop schools from teaching anti-American propaganda.”
Is arming teachers in the classroom okay? Just asking.
The Venn diagram is a perfect circle:
The republican candidates in the 4th Congressional District primary – from the Missouri Secretary of State web site:
2022 Primary Election
U.S. Representative – District 4
Republican
Name Mailing Address Random Number Date FiledJim (Soupy) Campbell 1228 MEL DOR ACRES
CLIMAX SPRINGS MO 65324 180 2/22/2022Rick Brattin P.O. BOX 920
HARRISONVILLE MO 64701 283 2/22/2022William (Bill) Irwin PO BOX 383
HARRISONVILLE MO 64701 401 2/22/2022Mark Alford PO BOX 1634
RAYMORE MO 64083 423 2/22/2022Kalena Bruce PO BOX 1107
STOCKTON MO 65785 622 2/22/2022Taylor Burks PO BOX 405
ASHLAND MO 65010 682 2/22/2022Kyle Stonner LaBrue 4376 SKI DR
OSAGE BEACH MO 65065 3/29/2022
No difference.
06 Friday May 2022
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#resist, abortion, missouri, protest, Roe v Wade, Supreme Court, Warrensburg
From 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. today a grassroots pro-choice demonstration, organized online and by word of mouth, took place on the Johnson County Courthouse lawn in downtown Warrensburg. Over 100 individuals participated. There was a constant law enforcement presence. Most passing traffic signaled their support by honking their car horns. A few anti-choice individuals shouted what appeared to be unintelligible talking points which were usually meet with sharp retorts.
This was a much younger crowd and mostly female. They are awake and motivated. It would be a big mistake to ignore or discount their activism.
They were fearless.
Woman’s rights are human rights”
“Keep your bans off my body”
“Not your body? Not your conversation”
“…trying to decipher what your little mythical book has to say about these very real political issues…”
“None of your business”
“If my uterus shot bullets…”
“This is not a surgical instrument”
“My body is not your political playground”
“Why does every woman know another woman that was raped, but no man knows a rapist”
“This land is my land”
Several large trucks trolled the demonstration with drive-bys. One truck, with a barely readable sign (“abortion is murder”) and a defaced American flag trailing from its bed made several passes over the course of the demonstration. The occupants were greeted with jeers and shouts about compensation.
“If my uterus shot bullets the government wouldn’t regulate it”
“Why am I fighting for the same rights my grandma fought for”
“Pro-choice is pro-women”
“Break up with your sexist boyfriends”
Two anti-choice counter-protesters across the street were met with a constant stream of heckling.
“I’m with stupid”
“Keep your laws off my fucking womb”
“You do not get to make my choice for my future”
“Abortion is health care”
Observing from across the street:
Keep your politics out of my uterus”
“Keep your politics out of my uterus”
“Keep your laws off my body”
After pro-choice demonstrators took over the northeast corner the two anti-choice protesters, one with an unreadable sign (“baby lives matter” – come on, can’t they think of anything else?), crossed to the southeast corner to stand next to the police. Two pro-choice protestors crossed to the same corner. A police officer tried to move them back across the street. They refused to move (it’s a public sidewalk) and the main body of pro-choice demonstrators on the courthouse sidewalk jeered and shouted from across the street. The police officer eventually relented.
“Protect women’s rights”
“Don’t let men make laws about a woman’s body”
“My body, my choice”
After 6:00 p.m. the remaining demonstrators marched down the sidewalk toward the University of Central Missouri campus.
Previously:
Stare decisis don’t mean shit (May 2, 2022)
Into the streets (May 2, 2022)
Gleeful handwringing (May 3, 2022)
It’s the GOP’s world, now you just get to live in it (May 3, 2022)
Into the streets, part 2 (May 3, 2022)
A statement (May 3, 2022)
Into the streets, part 3 (May 3, 2022)
BREAKING NEWS: Pearl-clutcher clutches pearls (May 3, 2022)
Heartland POD: SCOTUS Abortion Case (May 3, 2022)
Into the streets, part 4 (May 4, 2022)
Into the streets, part 5 (May 5, 2022)
McCullen v Coakley (2014) gently weeps (May 5, 2022)
02 Monday Aug 2021
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anti-mask, anti-vaccine, Board of Trustees, Corona virus, COVID-19, Johnson County Community Health, meeting, missouri, pandemic, Warrensburg
The Johnson County Community Health Services Board of Trustees held a public meeting today at 2:00 p.m. at their offices in Warrensburg. The agenda included a discussion of a health advisory based on recently released CDC guidelines and the rising number of cases in the county.
A somewhat organized anti-mask group, numbering around thirty individuals, attended the meeting. Several took the opportunity to offer public comment.
Anti-mask
Darlene Buckstead, Johnson County Community Health Services Board of Trustees
Johnson County Community Health Services – Board of Trustees – August 2, 2021 – Opening
The board allocates thirty minutes at the beginning of their meetings for public comment. Just go ahead and listen:
Johnson County Community Health Services – Board of Trustees – August 2, 2021 – Public Comment
“…I’m gonna state straight out, there’s no, nobody got a right to tell me to put a mask on. Nobody. Or anybody else. You just don’t have the right…. I do not accept the premise that any of these vaccines work. I do not accept the premise that the masks work. I do not accept it…”
Megan Jaeger, Johnson County Community Health Services Board of Trustees
Donna Stewart, Johnson County Community Health Services Board of Trustees
Johnson County Community Health Services – Board of Trustees – August 2, 2021 – Meeting
I spent about ninety minutes at the meeting in a closed room with several unmasked members of the board and the approximately thirty or so anti-maskers (and, some, by their comments, anti-vaccine). I wore an N95 mask with a good seal, covered by a cloth mask. I don’t know what upset me more – that I was, in all probability, at risk for exposure to COVID-19 or that my IQ probably dropped forty points after listening to their tiresome luddite anti-science drivel.
31 Monday May 2021
Posted in Resist
One year ago in Warrensburg, Missouri:
“Black Lives Matter”
“Black Lives Matter”
“I can’t breathe”
Praying in the street.
“Black Lives Matter”
Has anything changed?
Previously:
Well, most of us (May 31, 2020)
Why is anyone surprised? (May 31, 2020)
George Floyd – Protest – Warrensburg, Missouri – Sunday afternoon, May 31, 2020 (May 31, 2020)
17 Monday May 2021
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Yesterday afternoon around 100 Warrensburg area residents gathered to support their friends and neighbors in the Asian American Pacific Islander community in a march against hate and racism.
Anna Mori.
After the march Anna Mori spoke:
…The first and most important step in solving issues is to show up. And all of you have done that…
…Think about how much potential we lose if we aren’t hiring, electing, promoting, and advocating people because of our assumptions that they are other. And think about the lives lost because of it…
…Find joy in standing up for others. Find joy in learning about other people’s culture and background. Find joy not in helping the oppressed, but helping yourself because we are all the victims of racism from an overall perspective…
Previously:
AAPI March – Warrensburg, Missouri – May 16, 2021 (May 16, 2021)
AAPI March – Rep. Emily Weber (D) – Warrensburg, Missouri – May 16, 2021 (May 17, 2021)