What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Today, Disney’s princesses are a sassier, pluckier bunch. But research has found a surprising trend: Even when they have the starring role, women speak only a minority of the dialogue—and far less than they did in the films of the 1930s and ’50s. Male characters with speaking roles vastly outnumber female ones in every single film.
New research has uncovered a disturbing trend about female characters in Disney movies – Quartz
<facepalm>
“Perhaps it speaks to the hardiness of women,” she says.
heh
Deven Schuko, a high school wrestler from Norton, MA gave up his undefeated record so that Andy Howland, a wrestler from another school with Downs syndrome could have the win of a lifetime.
Norton High School wrestler allows for dream win | Local News – WCVB Home
Good on ya, Devon! Well done, young man. Well done!
“It sounds like it’s a last-ditch effort to get the right-wing constituents.”
Terri Schiavo’s husband on Bush super PAC ad: ‘Disgusting’
Disgusting is right.
Dad Arrested for Taking Daughter’s Phone as Punishment
Wow, what a shit show.
The police officers involved for should be prosecuted for misuse of taxpayer funds and resources and that poor girl is going to grow up to be as big a shit show as her mother.
Take a lesson from Paul Krugman: We don’t have political revolutions. This is a democracy of incremental change.
I have had it with naive Bernie Sanders idealists – Salon.com
No fucking shit.
Two people have been shot and Ammon Bundy is in custody: report
Only 2? It’s because they are white. If they were black they all would have been gunned down a long fucking time ago.
Former “West Wing” actor Rob Lowe blended the lines between political reality and drama on Monday, invoking his character Sam Seaborn on Twitter to criticize Bernie Sanders’ tone in CNN’s Democratic Town Hall.
Rob Lowe invokes ‘West Wing’ against Bernie Sanders – CNNPolitics.com
hmm
The Kremlin calls on the US Treasury to come up with proof after it told the BBC it considered President Vladimir Putin to be corrupt.
Russia BBC Panorama: Kremlin demands ‘Putin corruption’ proof – BBC News
Tit for tat.
The second day of the NYPD officer’s trial continues.
[Miguel Riveria] said that he heard Liang’s partner ask the officer to call in the shooting repeatedly. Officer Salvatore Tramontana said that he didn’t have his gun out when entering the stairwell, and that he immediately began doing CPR on Gurley, taking over from his girlfriend, when he arrived, something that neither Liang or his partner had managed to do.
Source: Peter Liang Trial Continues — NYMag
My gawd….
“Instead of doing all he could, Liang didn’t call for help, he stood there whining and moaning.”
“The NYPD is not on trial,” defense counsel Rae Koshetz told the jury in her opening statement.
Oh my dear, you are wrong. It is the NYPD on trial. Their training, their personnel, and their tactics. It’s their thin blue line. Stand together, fall together.
Police in western India prevent hundreds of women from marching to a temple traditionally open only to men.
Indian women march to temple, demanding ‘right to pray’ – BBC News
hmmm
“A migrant’s life is about documents,” said Lamin, a 17-year-old from Gambia, who was fostered by Frenguelli. “I trust Carla like a mum because she helped me a lot getting my ID. She always encourages me. Without her, my life would be so much harder here in Sicily.”
Africa: Part of the Family – Sicilians Take in Migrant Children – allAfrica.com
humans beings humans. don’t see that too much of that in the news.
Denmark’s parliament on Tuesday adopted reforms aimed at dissuading migrants from seeking asylum by delaying family reunifications and allowing authorities to seize valuables, under legislation that has sparked widespread condemnation. The government insists the law is needed to stem the flow of refugees even though Denmark and Sweden recently tightened their borders — a move that prompted Germany and Austria to turn back new arrivals heading for Scandinavia. After just under four hours of debate, the bill presented by the right-wing minority government of Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen was approved by 81 of the 109 lawmakers present.
Danish parliament approves controversial migrant bill – Yahoo News
sigh…
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said on Tuesday he has placed a hold on President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Food and Drug Administration, claiming he is too close to the pharmaceutical industry to be an impartial regulator.
Sanders blocks Obama nominee to lead FDA, citing industry ties | Reuters
hmmm
“Please, sir, please! This is very serious. My engine is off and I have children and pregnant women.” The desperate plea comes from a rubber dinghy packed with 112 people who set off from the Libyan coast in the hope of reaching Europe.
Africa: How 150,000 People Were Saved in the Mediterranean – allAfrica.com
Jeezus… The humanity.
The Justice Department should limit the types of cases it brings and more nonviolent criminals should be steered toward probation and away from prison, according to task force recommendations designed to cut the federal inmate count and save more than $5 billion.
Task force recommends how to cut US prisoner count by 60,000 – The Washington Post
Well, now!
Paul Hamilton speaks of ‘heartbreaking’ detention by Home Office officials after leave to remain application refused
Dr Hamilton, who graduated from Birmingham in July 2015 after completing a doctorate on Shakespeare’s influence on American literature in the 19th century, was detained on 17 January after immigration officials visited his home in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Asked what was the first sign that something had gone wrong with the application, he said: “When they [immigration officials] knocked on my door and told me they were arresting me.”
He said: “All they had to do was serve me papers and say: ‘I’m sorry your application was rejected – you need to leave the country.’ ”
“The sergeant there refused to process me because he said this was completely ridiculous.* And he got into an argument with the immigration officer that went on the entire afternoon,” Dr Hamilton said.
A Home Office notice given to Dr Hamilton, seen by THE, states that he was detained because “your removal from the United Kingdom is imminent” and “you do not have enough close ties (eg. family or friends) to make it likely that you will stay in one place”.
“The official reason given was that I don’t have family in the area, which is the position every single international student is in…So if you [as an overseas student] apply for further leave to remain, it means that basically they can just arrest you,” he said.
US PhD graduate detained in UK immigration removal centre | Times Higher Education (THE)
Immigration everywhere is so fucked up.
* = at least someone had some sense
Houston grand jury clears Planned Parenthood and charges David Daleiden.
Planned Parenthood anti-abortion foe David Daleiden charged with soliciting fetal organs
Nice.
The blunt headline doesn’t suck either.
Famous Spanish bullfighter, Francisco Rivera Ordóñez, has been criticized on social media after he posted a picture of him training with a bull while holding his baby daughter.
Honestly, I think it is cool that he doesn’t differentiate between his experience as a young boy and the experience of his daughters. I would have assumed that bullfighters were way more all about the machismo than that.
The president cited the potential for “devastating, lasting psychological consequences” from the use of the isolation as punishment
Obama will ban solitary confinement for juveniles in federal prisons – CBS News
🙂
Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement – The Washington Post
Right on!
I mean it took you long enough but right on, Mr. President.
Go’bama!
