Hun?

So I have been getting 3 or 4 calls a day from something that the caller ID said "PCH" so after a week of getting "PCH" the only thing that I could thing of was "Publisher Clearing House... but I thought that they went under. So my curiosity got the better of me.

Well it turns out that they say it is an organization that collecting money for police that are victims of assault. But Guide Star didn't have any non-profit by PCH name.

When I searched on the internet, I got:

That opening line is a very common script used in fundraising pitches, especially ones tied to law-enforcement-themed charities—and also by a fair number of questionable or outright scam operations.

A pitch starting with something like “the growing number of assaults on police officers…” is designed to:

• create urgency
• trigger sympathy for officers
• reduce skepticism before asking for money

What it could be

In Connecticut and elsewhere, that wording is often used by groups claiming to support things like:

• local “police support funds”
• officer injury/benefit funds
• police union–adjacent charities (sometimes loosely connected to groups like the Fraternal Order of Police or similar associations)
• “fallen officer” or “public safety” foundations

Why it raises suspicion

That exact style of pitch is also heavily used by bogus telemarketers and door-to-door fundraisers, because:

• it sounds official without naming a specific organization
• it avoids verifiable details early in the conversation
• it leans on a real-world concern (attacks on officers) to build credibility

Quick way to judge what you were dealing with

If you remember anything else, these details matter a lot:

More likely legitimate if:

• they gave a specific organization name (not just “police fund”)
• they provided a mailing address in Connecticut
• they offered a website ending in a known org domain (.org tied to a real group)
• they didn’t pressure you for immediate payment

More likely a scam if:

• it was vague (“support our officers fund”)
• they pushed urgency or guilt
• they asked for gift cards, cash apps, or instant payment
• they refused to clearly identify the department or charity registration

Bottom line
That opening line alone doesn’t confirm legitimacy—it’s a standard emotional hook used by both real fundraisers and scams. In practice, most complaints about “police fund” solicitations come from unaffiliated telemarketing outfits using law-enforcement themes, not actual police departments.

So what out! It maybe a scam!

Cuckoo Award!

Today's Cuckoo Award is going out to the states with straight Pride!

Yeah... the majority gets to gloat over all the discrimination they heap on the minorites!

Several GOP-led states roll out ‘Nuclear Family Month’

Fernando Cervantes Jr.

USA TODAY

June 3, 2026

Several Republican-led states have moved to designate June “Nuclear Family Month” or similar observances, creating an overlapping contrast with Pride Month.

Tennessee was the first to adopt the label this year, followed by proclamations in Indiana and Alabama emphasizing households with a mother, father and children. Supporters frame the observance as recognition of traditional family structures, while opponents say the timing and language amount to political counterprogramming that excludes LGBTQ+ families.

“Homes led by stable parents, a father and a mother, provide children with the structure and discipline necessary to succeed,” Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, a Republican, said in a statement. “In Alabama, we celebrate these hardworking parents that strive for an even better future for their children.”

Yup, like the guy with three wives and five children from them. And he was having an affair with while married to one of them.

Before I came out as trans, I never knew anyone LGBTQ+ and I believe that the lie that they hopped form one bed to another. The first couple that I met were together for 40 years!

Turning Discrimination Laws On Their Heads!

This is so bigoted, and vindictive. It is a perversions of the non-discrimination laws!

Justice Department opens civil rights probe after Giants’ Pride protest

By Scooby Axson

USA TODAY

June 19, 2026

An investigation into Major League Baseball by the United States Department of Justice into possible discrimination against four San Francisco Giants players has been opened after they wrote Bible verses on their hats during the team's Pride Night.

On June 12, three Giants pitchers, Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker, broke MLB protocol by altering their uniforms with Bible verses on their Pride Night caps, which featured a rainbow Giants logo. And another pitcher, Sam Hentges, did not even wear his Pride Night hat. The players received a warning from MLB for violating the uniform policy. 

The DOJ said it was referring Major League Baseball to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a letter written to Commissioner Rob Manfred.

So let me get this straight! They say it is their religious right to discriminate against others... just like they did with in the Jim Crows are. They believed that the Bible said it is okay to hate their neighbors but on 

"The three players expressed their opposition to MLB's pro-Pride orthodoxy," Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said in the letter. "The Civil Rights Act prohibits MLB and its franchises from unreasonably burdening the rights of players with religious objections to serving as the League's vehicle for pro-Pride messages.

So they are hiding the bigoty behind their religion! "Oh it's against my religion to treat everyone equal!"

How many times have you been to a game when it was some "night or other" for Oracle Park some of the other notable ones include:

• Mexican Heritage Night – June 23
• Irish Heritage Night – June 24
• Italian Heritage Night – July 28
• Native American Heritage Night – August 28
• Filipino Heritage Night – September 8
• Fiesta Gigantes (Latino-themed celebration) – multiple dates during the season

So the real question is: Is the DOJ going after all the other "special nights" or are they just going after Pride night, if so isn't that discriminatory? Just about all sports teams have "special nights" even the Hartford Yard Goats have a Pride night!

This is nothing more then an attempt to intimidates sports teams into not holding Pride events.

I am reminded the lyrics from the song "One Tin Soldier (The Legend of Billy Jack)"

Go ahead and hate your neighbor

Go ahead and cheat a friend

Do it in the name of Heaven

You can justify it in the end

There won't be any trumpets blowin'

Come the Judgment Day

On the bloody morning after

One tin soldier rides away

It seems all these religious people forget this...

“He answered: ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’” – Luke 10:27

It seems to me, all these super Christians have failed that command. 

The Department Of Dirty Tricks

Remember Nixon’s bag of dirty tricks? We Trump makes him look like amateur night!

Gerrymandering! Voter purges! Banning mail-in ballots! Voter IDs! They are all designed to rig the elections.

FEC filings confirm GOP meddling in Dem primaries

Two shadowy groups, Lead Left and Real Change, received all their funds from a super PAC that also supports Republicans.

Politico

By Jessica Piper

06/21/2026

A Republican-linked group was the sole funded of two pop-up super PACs that spent more than $4.3 million across a swath of Democratic congressional primaries to support candidates seen as less electable.

Democrats had speculated that the two groups, Real Change PAC and Lead Left, were Republican meddling as they spent heavily across Democratic primary races in Texas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Nebraska and Maine in recent months.

New filings submitted to the Federal Election Commission late Saturday night show both groups got all of their money so far from Conservative Americans PAC, a super PAC founded in 2023 that this cycle has also sent money to the Senate Leadership Fund — Senate Republicans’ super PAC arm — and a host of other Republican groups.

This is why I am against open primaries, they allow voters to vote for the weaker other party’s candidates!

The meddling super PACs, which have spent entirely in open Democratic primaries, have a mixed record so far. In Maine’s 2nd District, state auditor Matt Dunlap — who benefited from a bit over $500,000 in spending from Real Change PAC boosting him and attacking one of his primary rivals — was declared the winner in recent days and will be Democrats’ nominee in a light red seat they are hoping to keep in November.

The Republican’s have made rigging elections an art form!

I Don't Like This!

Big Brother is coming!

They just put speed cameras around town. In the past, I wrote about them, but this time I want to write about the data. Who gets to see it? How do they get to see the data—do they need a subpoena or just cash? How long do they keep it? And most importantly... how many errors does it make? In other words, what is its accuracy? Those are all questions that need answers. We are already seeing ICE and CBP agents getting unfettered access to data in states that supposedly require a subpoena.

But now they have taken it a step further..

Facial recognition tech is coming to a queer bar near you — if it’s not already there
Local media and a digital rights organization are sounding the alarm in San Francisco.
LGBT Nation
Greg Owen

June 19, 2026

A digital rights advocacy group is reupping its call to ban biometric facial recognition technology in bars and other venues serving the LGBTQ+ community after new reporting revealed widespread use of the technology in San Francisco’s Castro District.

This week, Gazetteer SF put a spotlight on the face-scanning technology that’s been hiding in plain sight in multiple Castro venues for over a year.

 

Hart Owen, a guest at Mix bar on 18th Street in the iconic gayborhood, said she was taken aback when she saw the tech stationed at the bar’s front entrance.   

She’d just handed her ID to the bouncer when she was directed to turn and face a small camera before being allowed into the bar.

I don't know if I would want to go to a place that does that.

Why are San Francisco gay bars scanning patrons’ faces?
Guests say the use of facial recognition technology at Castro bars undermines the sense of anonymity and safety that LGBTQ+ spaces have historically provided.

 The Advocate

Jacob Ogles

Jun 12, 2026

 

The use of facial-scanning technology at several San Francisco gay bars has angered many in the LGBTQ+ community. At locations often frequented by people who are not publicly out, the notion of tracking patrons' whereabouts in the very havens sought for privacy raises many alarms.

At least three gay bars in the Castro District have started using Patronscan Guard+, a technology intended to flag fake IDs, according to the San Francisco Gazetteer. But the experience of having a camera turned on every person entering the venues, often without warning, has left many outraged.

Yeah, I would be alarmed too! As a member of a highly persecuted minority, I can't help but wonder: what happens to the data?

Hart Owen told the outlet that she considers the surveillance technology a serious risk to privacy. “It’s really not great to have lists of gay people,” they said.

I can see the pros of it, like spotting a troublemaker. Suppose some "gay-bashers" are making the rounds harassing patrons. Yeah, I can see the benefit there, but only if I have answers to my questions. I would even like to see a sign posted stating their policies, if only to avoid things like this:

New York City’s main sports arena allegedly used facial recognition to stalk & ban a trans woman
She became an obsession for Madison Square Garden’s head of security.
LGBTQ Nation
Greg Owen 

April 22, 2026

 

 

 A transgender fan of the New York Knicks basketball team was tracked over a two-year period using sophisticated face recognition technology at Madison Square Garden (MSG), according to a lawsuit by a fired former security official who worked there. The woman was later banned from the venue.

The suit alleges that Nina Richards (not her real name) became a fixation for the head of security working for James Dolan, the owner of MSG, Radio City Music Hall, and the Sphere, among other venues that use the same surveillance technology. Dolan, scion of former cable TV titan Charles Dolan, also owns the Knicks and the New York Rangers hockey team.

See, this is where having answers to my questions is important:

The lawsuit’s allegation follows news in 2024 that Dolan added the faces of up to 1,500 lawyers involved in litigation against his companies to his facial recognition system at MSG, banning them from the property.

 

[...]

 

 Described by another security staffer as “a very large transgender woman, being a fan,” Eversole determined that Richards was a threat to players and the team’s image. He ordered her to be added MSG’s facial-recognition database and instructed staffers to perform an open source “work-up” on her, based on the images captured by their cameras and other intelligence gathered by security.

Eversole allegedly wanted to keep Richards “away from the players.”

Richards was targeted “because of her gender identity,” according to the suit filed by former MSG security staffer Donnie Ingrasselino.

We need rules with teeth, not just a slap on the wrist. Law enforcement should be required to obtain a search warrant that does not blindly allow database searches. Instead, they should need a specific warrant tied to a particular investigation, not a general warrant allowing them to sift through entire facial-recognition databases looking for matches.

Ownership of the data should rest with the towns, not with a private company that can sell access to the database.

This could lead us down the road to 1984.

So, what do you think?

 

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It Is Always Someone Else’s Fault

Have you noticed that with Trump?

Trump tries to blame Reflecting Pool woes on vandalism, without offering substantiation

AP News

June 20, 2026

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that federal authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he said were vandalizing the Reflecting Pool as he struggled to explain why the $14-million-plus rehabilitation project he launched for the nation’s 250th anniversary seemingly backfired.

Trump said his predecessors had let the pool turn an algae-stained green and that he’d line it with “American flag blue” so it better reflected the Washington Monument. But after the new pool was unveiled, its blue tinge quickly became a familiar green. Workers treated it with chemicals to kill the algae, but then the painted blue lining on the bottom began to peel.

Have you noticed that with Trump?

Trump tries to blame Reflecting Pool woes on vandalism, without offering substantiation

AP News

June 20, 2026

President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that federal authorities had made “multiple arrests” of people he said were vandalizing the Reflecting Pool as he struggled to explain why the $14-million-plus rehabilitation project he launched for the nation’s 250th anniversary seemingly backfired.

Trump said his predecessors had let the pool turn an algae-stained green and that he’d line it with “American flag blue” so it better reflected the Washington Monument. But after the new pool was unveiled, its blue tinge quickly became a familiar green. Workers treated it with chemicals to kill the algae, but then the painted blue lining on the bottom began to peel.

Yup, yup, it was Biden's fault! That’s it. Yeah!

“We’ve had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool,” he posted on his social media site Friday night. “Just like three days ago, they destroyed the grass outside of the Pool, they’ve also done everything possible to hurt the inside surface that was just installed.”

[…]

“We’ve had some real problems with Vandalism at the beautiful Reflecting Pool,” he posted on his social media site Friday night. “Just like three days ago, they destroyed the grass outside of the Pool, they’ve also done everything possible to hurt the inside surface that was just installed.”

So who was arrested? The Washington Post reported:

David Hearn had just finished a loop around Hains Point on Friday as part of a 52-mile bike ride when he swung by the Lincoln Memorial to see the refurbished Reflecting Pool for himself.

Noticing a piece of the new “American flag blue” liner that was partially detached from the pool bottom, Hearn said he reached into the water to see what it felt like. Moments later, as the Bethesda man prepared to leave, U.S. Park Police officers arrested him on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property. He is scheduled to appear in D.C. Superior Court on July 9.

Yup! That’s it.

My theory: as they were vacuuming up the algae, they started pulling up the liner.

I can picture how the pool liner fiasco happened.

A Mar-a-Lago neighbor meets Trump while walking their dogs. In the small talk as they were walking, Trump says, “You know, I have this horrible, horrible algae-infected pool! I just don’t know what to do with it. I want to make it United States flag blue. You know, I think it will look great!”

The neighbor says, “I know a guy who paints pools!”

Smoke And Mirrors

The Trump administration was touting its cuts to Medicaid, saying it was going after fraud—despite the fact that the "fraud" consisted of billing issues, not actual fraud.

Trump administration shares new work requirements for Medicaid recipients

June 3, 2026

NPR Heard on Morning Edition

By Julie Rovner, A Martínez

The Trump administration this week released guidance for states on the work rules many Americans on Medicaid will need to abide by in order to be eligible for benefits on Jan. 1.

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST:

The Trump administration is telling states how to set up work requirements for adults who get their health insurance from Medicaid. That's the program for low-income and disabled people that is funded by the federal government and states. Now, under these new rules, Medicaid recipients will need to prove that they are working, going to school or volunteering at least 80 hours a month. Work requirements were in President Trump's big tax and spending law that he signed last July. That law had a lot of Republican support, and no Democrats in Congress voted for it. Julie Rovner hosts the "What The Health?" podcast. So, Julie, why are Medicaid work requirements such a popular policy for Republicans?

The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) wrote that,

Only a handful of these Medicaid and CHIP provisions can be viewed as addressing fraud, waste and abuse but they account for only 2.5 percent of the gross Medicaid and CHIP cuts.3  States will face significant cost shifts under some of the major Medicaid and CHIP cuts, particularly those restricting state use of provider taxes, at the same time states will face other large cost shifts for SNAP benefits under the law.   

Similarly, the law’s provisions related to the Affordable Care Act’s Marketplace eligibility and enrollment policies do nothing to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse.  CBO estimates that these provisions would cut gross federal Marketplace spending by an additional $213 billion over the next ten years.  This also does not account for interactions and revenue effects.4  Altogether, the gross Medicaid, CHIP, and Marketplace cuts total $1.2 trillion over ten years.  Even accounting for interactions, the net Medicaid, CHIP, and Marketplace cuts equal $1.1 trillion over ten years.

But there are side effects that these cuts will cause. People don't stop getting sick just because they can't afford care. It is not like a night at the movies where you can simply choose not to go. People keep getting sick! They go to hospitals, which are legally required to take all patients, regardless of their ability to pay.

About 110,000 poor CT adults could lose Medicaid coverage

A new definition for ‘medical frailty’ published by the federal government on June 1 may mean fewer people qualify for exemptions to work requirements

CT Mirror

by Keith M. Phaneuf and Katy Golvala

June 17, 2026

With about 110,000 poor adults at risk of losing Medicaid coverage under new federal work rules this January, officials are scrambling to avert a swell in uninsured patients forced to seek care through hospital emergency departments.

And while maintaining preventative care for thousands remains a foremost concern, some officials fear this trend could strain hospitals’ finances — just months after state tax changes dedicated hundreds of millions extra each year to the industry.

“This is the most irresponsible piece of legislation in American history,” state Sen. Matt Lesser, D-Middletown, co-chairman of the General Assembly’s Human Services Committee, said of the Medicaid rules changes enacted last July by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump.

The ramifications of that legislation on states, Lesser added, “are staggering and completely boneheaded.”

The bottom line: insurance costs will soar for the rest of us. How do you think the medical system will pay for the care of those who do not have health insurance?

Trump & Company hawk their cuts, waving the banner of "stopping fraud." But they didn't eliminate the cost of healthcare... they just shifted the bill from the government's pocket to ours.

How Childish!

Can you get more petty then this...

‘A Literal Coverup’: What Is the Kennedy Center Hiding Behind Those Tarps?

Gv Wire

By The New York Times

June 20, 2026

 In the early hours of June 13, in an action that turned out to be news around the world, workers hung massive tarps from scaffolding across the front of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and under court order removed President Donald Trump’s name from the marble facade.

Or did they?

True, the center’s operations chief, Matt Floca, filed a sworn declaration with a federal court later that day saying that Trump’s name had been removed. And true, a New York Times photographer captured evidence through an opening in the tarp that the letter “A” came off. Another photographer recorded evidence of the demise of a “D.”

But in a downer denouement for Trump’s critics, a week later the tarps are still there, prompting some to wonder whether at least some of the letters are, too. As of Friday evening, there was no visual evidence that the letters splashed across the building had been restored to “The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts.”

So are they keeping the tarp up to hide the removal of Trump's name, or is there another reason?