Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: I Bet You Didn't Know This!

Thursday, June 19, 2025

I Bet You Didn't Know This!

Because I sure didn't! I heard rumors but nothing in detail until this...

Under this new law (Once the governor signs it) it will establish a fund to help with medical cost for trans people and also for abortions. This is from the Office of Legislative Research the analysis of the bill, the section important for us is,

§ 5 — SAFE HARBOR ACCOUNT
Creates an account funded by private sources to award grants to nonprofit organizations that provide funding for reproductive or gender-affirming health care services or collateral costs related to these services

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§ 5 — SAFE HARBOR ACCOUNT
Creates an account funded by private sources to award grants to nonprofit organizations that provide funding for reproductive or gender-affirming health care services or collateral
costs related to these services The bill creates the “safe harbor account” related to reproductive and gender-affirming health care. The account is a separate, nonlapsing account of the state treasurer administered by a board of trustees, and must contain funds received from private sources (e.g., gifts, grants, or donations) and earnings on those funds. The bill requires the treasurer to follow certain standards when investing the account’s funds.

Under the bill, account-related administrative costs (for maintenance or disbursements) must be paid from the account itself and not from taxpayer funds, except the treasurer may use available staff resources to administer the account.The board must spend the account’s funds to award grants, in line with policies and procedures it adopts, to nonprofits that:
1. provide funding for reproductive or gender-affirming health care services or the collateral costs (such as travel, lodging, or meals, but not the procedure itself) people incur receiving these services in the state; or
2. serve LGBTQ+ youth or families in Connecticut by reimbursing or paying them directly for their collateral costs to receive reproductive or gender-affirming health care services in the state.
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2025

Do you think that you would see a bill like this in a Republican state?

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Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

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Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
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Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

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Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
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You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

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Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Thursday, June 19, 2025

I Bet You Didn't Know This!

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