BBC News – Tragedy of Delhi rape victim seeking better life
Sigh….
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First lady to help promote presidential agenda – CNN Political Ticker – CNN.com Blogs
First lady to help promote presidential agenda – CNN Political Ticker – CNN.com Blogs
What a load of hooey…
The theme is that people ostensibly like her because she stays out of politics. Her approval ratings clearly suggest that keeping up with the latter-day Eisenhower/Disney years thing is working so they might want to stick with that.
As much as I hate having a career woman dressed up as a housewife for a popularity contest you can’t argue with those numbers.
Plus, OFA? They turned it into an issues advocacy organization once before and it was a huge, crashing failure. It burnt out and wasted an army of volunteer who accomplished jack shit. Young volunteers talking to the elderly about Health Care. Do you know what the elderly are afraid of? Young people messing with their medicines. Sigh…. Please utilize the incredible resource that is your army of volunteers better this time POTUS.
President Obama’s address for Inauguration 2013 – CSMonitor.com
President Obama’s address for Inauguration 2013 – CSMonitor.com
hmmmm.
more detailed reaction later….
Tuskegee airmen honored guests at inaugural – SFGate
Tuskegee airmen honored guests at inaugural – SFGate
Be it ever so slow, progress is the beacon that beckons us forward.
Women in Air Force Say Sexual Misconduct Still Rampant – NYTimes.com
Women in Air Force Say Sexual Misconduct Still Rampant – NYTimes.com
The numbers:
“The Defense Department has found that about one in three women in the military has been sexually assaulted, compared with one in six civilian women. About 20 percent of female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan have experienced some form of sexual assault or related trauma, according to the Veterans Administration. “
The military’s reaction so far:
“Air Force Technical Sgt. Kimberly Davis, assigned to Stewart Air National Guard Base in New York, said that after she reported being raped, officers on the base, including one assigned to handle sexual assault cases, conspired to cover up the episode.”
“…Instead of taking action against her co-worker, (a former helicopter mechanic) said, the leaders in her unit sought to discredit her and force her out of the Air Force.”
The verdict: Clearly the United States Military is O.K. is fostering and encouraging a culture of bigotry within its ranks.
Sexual misconduct a major reason behind military commander firings | Fox News
Sexual misconduct a major reason behind military commander firings | Fox News
hmmmmm.
“But Kirby said it’s not clear whether that has anything to do with the strains of the past 10 years at war or simply reflects deteriorating morals among the general population.”
No and no. Deterioriating morals? Cop out, Kirby. That’s a weak,spineless, yellow-bellied cop out.
Why Abortion-Rights Activists Have Been Losing Ever Since Roe v. Wade – TIME
Why Abortion-Rights Activists Have Been Losing Ever Since Roe v. Wade – TIME
Why?
1.) Social conservatives equate women with cattle. They consider them domesticated animals which exist to serve men and procreate on command.
2.) The Left is fractured, ineffectual, shrill and off-putting
3.) The public is often too uninformed and too busy that to see that they are being spoonfed bullshit.
4.) A woman in control of her own body and her own sexuality threatens the egos of insecure men. Insecure being a being a pretty apt description, on a variety of levels, of the men on the far right of the political spectrum.
Arrests of and Forced Interventions on Pregnant Women in the United States, 1973–2005: Implications for Women’s Legal Status and Public Health
Sighhh.
All of the men involved in this should be sold into slavery.
If a woman doesn’t own her own body than these men shouldn’t be allowed to own their own bodies either.
MoveOn founder, Tea Party figure meet – SFGate
MoveOn founder, Tea Party figure meet – SFGate
Granted, it is nice they are doing this.
But….
“this is a fairly new school of political thought, which posits that people can come together to find some common ground without abandoning their core beliefs.”
New to who, the SFGate? Liberals?
WTF….. No, you self-important, arrogant fucks. It is not new. New to your tunnel visioned-thinking or new to the fucking tea party morons maybe but accepting people with different ideologies have something to contribute and common ground is possible is not a new concept, you useless ignorant slugs.
Get your fucking heads out of your self-absorbed asses and take a look at the world around you before you start making any asinine pronouncements, OK? It has been going on since before our government existed. It is how any legislature or parliament functions. It is how things get done.
Have you ever heard of bi-partisanship? I know the GOP leadership pretends not to know about it and you are used to letting the other side shape the narrative but it is a real thing, no matter what Faux News and the assholes at MSNBC would have us believe.
You guys are the intelligentsia? Have you ever read a book or taken a history class? How about stepped outside?
Useless mother fucking losers.
What kind of a day and age do we find ourselves in if not being a judgemental, self-absorbed prick for a few hours is revolutionary? Heaven help us.
Dear President Obama, Why Do You Want to Imprison My Husband for Legally Growing Pot? | Alternet
Dear President Obama, Why Do You Want to Imprison My Husband for Legally Growing Pot? | Alternet
BHO, consistency in message and implementation is just not your bag then, man?
Four years later, feminists split by Michelle Obama’s ‘work’ as first lady – The Washington Post
Four years later, feminists split by Michelle Obama’s ‘work’ as first lady – The Washington Post
Man, I started to like the point of view portrayed here for a bit but they lost me.
The question isn’t would Michelle have more power as CEO or as First Lady.
I’m with the Feminists at the start. Sucks big time to see a successful woman sacrifice her career for her man’s. She shouldn’t have to. It pissed me off to see a Bad Ass Chick put down her briefcase and start doing puff-piece-material work with children in gardens. Nothing against the cause, it just seems a little Bad Ass Chick Lite is all. It’s not beneath her to be interested in the these causes at all. They are good causes. It’s great she’s an involved mom, but the fact that Mom-in-Chief seems to be all that is portrayed of such a talented intelligent woman is beyond disturbing. It’s eery. Downright Stepford.
Once you scratch the surface factional elements show up in any special interest group. Or should I say fractional? If allowed to, these divisons cleave apart momentum and progress like trickles of water carve apart rocks over time. Any group committed to the advancement of their cause should be careful of who they rule out as allies. The author frames the tension thusly,
“By necessity and by choice, a majority of black women have been working outside the home at least since the census began keeping track of their labor in 1972. There has never been a national effort to keep black women at home, caring sweetly for their children.”
It is true that many black women have not had the opportunity to stay home, it is also true that being not having options outside being a Stepford homemaker a bad thing. Peanut Gallery says that division could easily be exploited to promote division very easily. Beware the Man girls!
How Obama is portrayed, “refocuses the conversation around black womanhood and black motherhood away from the welfare queen and into the middle class,” one of the woman quoted says. That’s a good thing and a valid goal.
In my humble opinion, I think there is a larger issue at play than Mrs. Obama’s race in how she is portrayed to the public though. The lovely First Lady of the United State of America in 2013, Michelle Obama, is portrayed as existing somewhere between a Lady Bird Johnson who discovered other uses for plants than beautifying highways and a J. Crew wearing, Target shopping version of Jackie Onassis.
I understand the potential politcal gain here in presenting such an image. I support anything that help Obama be more effective and preotecting the family as much as possible. It just eery.
As a country, as a culture, as a society, this is the mother we envision for our nation? A latter-day Donna Reed? We want the 50’s back? Little girls should aspire to be a non-threatening but impeccably styled stay-at-home Mom? Not where I thought we’d be by now.
Jobs are priority of NH’s Senate Democrats
Jobs are priority of NH’s Senate Democrats
“Sylvia Larsen of Concord said… (Senate Democrats) will work on legislation that helps businesses grow. …Democrats believe that can be done by supporting education, training, innovation and maintaining the state’s infrastructure.
She gave few examples of legislation that will accomplish their goals.”
Nicely done. Concrete examples of how programs supported by Democrats help business. That I’d like to see more of in the news.
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