DonCoquixote
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At Sat Mar 2, 2013, 04:33 PM you sent an alert on the following post:
If they ever wind up in prison..maybe they'll get a taste of their own medicine. Hope they like it.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=412850
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we do not want to advocate prison rape, especially as it offends feminists and thiose of us who worked in the prison system, who know the encouragement of rape has become a de facto punishment
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Look,I can understand if you disagree with me, but at least croak up a syllable explaining why. By the way, if the right wing gets to imprison some of us lefties, as we know they want, they will be the ones laughing at prison rape.
An edict from Her Majesty: Yahoo's CEO betrays her womanhood and workers of both genders
http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/an-edict-from-her-majesty-yahoos-ceo-betrays-her-womanhood-and-workers-of-both-genders-677143/This topic has generated a lot of heat, but I knew I needed to find a feminist perspective on this. here is a sample:
"Soon after the news broke about Yahoo's upcoming new policy, news organizations also started reporting that Ms. Mayer, who is a millionaire many times over, brings her baby to her office. He stays in the nursery, which she paid to have built for him.
That Ms. Mayer can't see the message this telegraphs to her employees -- that her family is more important than theirs -- says nothing about her gender and everything about her willful disconnect from the real-life challenges facing not only those who work for her but also most of the rest of America.
And please, don't get me started on what this says to the millions of single working mothers who live paycheck to paycheck and pray the bottom doesn't fall out of their families' lives."
-things-politicians-will-never-understand-about-poor-people/
http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-politicians-will-never-understand-about-poor-people/A true gem, especially the second page.
Sample:
#1. You Don't Have Real Sympathy for the Poor if You've Never Lived It
No, that didn't come from a politician, but this sure as hell does. That's Linda Sanchez, who is desperately trying to tug at our heartstrings by saying that she lives paycheck to paycheck. On her $174,000 salary. To pay for her multiple homes. Now, I understand that if you live a certain lifestyle and you're a limp dick at finances, it would be pretty easy to burn through that much in a year, but does that make us any more sympathetic? Fuck no, it doesn't. Even as one of the least wealthy members of Congress, she still earns three-and-a-half times more money than the average American household. And 16 times more than those at the very top of the poverty line.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/4-things-politicians-will-never-understand-about-poor-people_p2/#ixzz2M42dkJU3
Hillary 2016: the good, bad and ugly
OK, let me lay all my cards on the table.
I supported Edwards, then Obama. I still have scars from when people I thought were friends called me a sexist, an idiot, and garbage. I would have voted for her if she won in 2008, just as I would do so in 2016. I also realize that if she were put on, she would be carried to the Oval Office, as even the Hillary Clinton supporters will have to admit an Obama is the sort of event that happens once in a lifetime, just as a Hillary presidency would be. The idea of sending another nail through the maggot-infested heart of Anglo-Saxon Patriarchy is appealing in and of itself; call me racist, call me sexist, but as long as the default voice of power is "white male" this country will NEVER live up to it's promise.
SO why does the idea that Hillary is a default scare me? Because like it or not, she and Bill helped tight this country to the right, and they have NEVER shown a hint that they are sorry, or that they would try to right things.
1) The telecommunications act, which allowed Murdoch to rise
2) The repeal of Glass-Steagall, which allowed Wall Street to become a casino, just in before FDR.
3) NAFTA, which not only drained jobs, but made it so that many Mexicans cannot afford Corn.
And let me be clear about something, and by all means hold me to it, if Hillary says that she would fix either of these three: if she would get rid of Nafta, put back Glass Steagall, or review the damned telecommmuncations act, I will do cartwheels, praise her, and become a cheerleader.
Hillary has never allowed the possibility that any of those three were wrong, of course, to quote Bill, "Better to be wrong and strong", except that sooner or later, strong, even that good old red blooded vulgar American strong, becomes weaker than the truth. And let's not even get in to the fact that she is a War hawk. The real scandal of benghazi was not who knew what, it is the fact that we even gave a damned about Ghadaffi when he was not only weak, but actively anti Al Qaida, and one of the few people keeping Fanatics from getting into power. And no Hillary, your threat to Obliterate Iran will hang around your neck, because as much of a tattered rag as the UN is, we do not get to attack countries whose last incursion on our soil was taking the embassy back in the 80's.
Sources: Newtown killer wanted to top Norwegian's toll
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/02/18/adam-lanza-anders-breivik-norway-mass-killer/1929209/So, we know know he was inspired by Anders brevik,
who, as we know, was inspired by the RIGHT WING:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/blogging-hate-anders-breivik-s-roots-in-right-wing-populism-a-776413.html
Yeah, but the right blamed us for being so "godless".
RE: Hagel, you know Bibi is pouring Champaugne tonight
The Elephant in the room is that Hagel was hated because he dared say Israel might be doing a few bad things. You know Tel Aviv is popping champagne tonight.
ash wednesday
Me personally, I always thought that the spring was an awful time to have a period of reflection and self denial. The Winter Holidays serve that better, or the summer/early fall, such as the time of Ramadan. I fully suspect that the Christians wanted to deny people the many ceremonies like the original Easter, or the Celtic "Beltane" times when a sexual indulgence was a sacrament. However, this year, a Lent can be useful.
Americans do not like to reflect; we come from people that act, that react, that say, as F.Scott Fitzgerald did, "there are no second acts in American lives", meaning among other things that we just do not have time to pause and reflect before getting the good lines and scenes. Our Election seasons do not allow for much reflection or even discussion, as it often boils down to whoever simply gets in line and stays in line. Well, this is a time to reflect, to actually think about who we want to be.
I hate to be partisan, but if you notice, the GOP does not like to reflect; they are quite happy with the idea that American lives are go go go go. One might suspect that the reason they pour so much into their jobs and churches is to avoid having to think. I admit, we have had to learn to challenge them, but we cannot lose our ability to say "STOP."
This is the time when opinions can change, or at least be influenced. Notice that even the GOP realized that they better put someone in who looks different than the usual crop, and that they have to at least Think about what they say, and how they say it. WE, in this time, should be trying to place pressure, and influence thought. Come 2015, the talk will all be about who runs against Hillary, but if we truly use this time, to lean people towards the left, and to let them know that this is not some flash in the pan, then we can determine what sort of candidate even a centrist like Hillary will have to be.
Even if you are not religious, you will probably see the value of focus. This is a time to clear our heads and focus on what we need to do, and need to stop doing, so that when the seasons come around, we will not allow the powers that be to forget what we want.
La Cops
La cops may be bad, but in texas, the police have been nationally ridiculed for being the arm of White authority:
http://www.dallasjustice.com/dallascriminallawyerblog/category/corrupt-cops/
http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/corrupt-texas-cops-judges-attorneys-kidnap-child_04252011
http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/racial-profiling-texas-report-shows-significant-disparities-stops-and-searches
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2011/03/central-repository-for-tx-racial.html
and yes, that includes blue little Austin, as the last link shows:
"For that matter, agencies exhibit widely disparate patterns in how they approach searches in general, particularly how frequently so-called "consent searches" are used. At the Austin PD, for example, just 5.7% of searches conducted were consent searches, while at Houston PD they made up 30.4%. "
Wow, when your cops ask for consent to search at a much lower rate than Houston does, that says a lot. 5.7 percent.
As far as schools go:
http://saveaustinschools.com/
Looks like the good schools might not be around for much longer.
The point is not to dump on you, but rather, the BS that Perry is trying to sell. If a guy sitting on his keyboard could find this data, so can an executive who is researching whether or not to move a company to Austin. Ok, we both know the intern will be doing the research, but the fact is there. And the fact is, with all the problems California does have, I know that many of the employees are not going to move to a place where being Gay, Black or Brown means that any cop can harass you and get the approval of most voters.
and while we are talking about schools, let's not forget how Texas is responsible for the dumbing down of textbooks.
http://www.npr.org/2012/06/20/155440679/revisionaries-tells-story-of-texas-textbook-battle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/17/AR2010031700560.html
http://www.nea.org/home/39060.htm
From the post article:
Because the Texas textbook market is so large, books assigned to the state's 4.7 million students often rocket to the top of the market, decreasing costs for other school districts and leading them to buy the same materials.
"The books that are altered to fit the standards become the bestselling books, and therefore within the next two years they'll end up in other classrooms," said Fritz Fischer, chairman of the National Council for History Education, a group devoted to history teaching at the pre-college level. "It's not a partisan issue, it's a good history issue."
When the Washington Post slams you for being too conservative, that is a Black eye. You think executives want their kids being taught that Dinosaurs were the Dragons that walked the earth along with Adam and Eve?
I want both ebooks and hard books
I use a Nook because i know it is backed by barnes and Noble, which means I can go into the store, have a human being fix things, and use the ebook to preview books (The Nook lets you read all books when you are in their cafe, which of course is a clever way to get you to buy coffee and cake, but so what, better there than Starbucks.)
I love hardcover books, I like the fact they are physical objects you own. Ob the other hand, I like the fact that you own Barnes and Nobles ebooks, as opposed to the kindle, which lets you access titles, but never lets you OWN them. I love the feel of books, especially the leather backed, gold trimmed copies that Barnes and Nobles sells (and that Borders never did.) On the other, the Nook is easier on the eyes, letting me magnify text so that my older eyes can see. The nook also allows things like Project Gutenberg, a huge database of free books that are either to old to patent (Plato does not need my money to pay his rent right now) or published by new authors that are using it for free press. Of course, I often buy the books from Barnes and Noble anyway, namely because they designed their ebooks to look and feel like regular ones, taking into account things like fonts and background color. I want my yellow paper and antique fonts dammit, and I get it. I admit, I also defend ebooks because, while I am a book lover (and a former librarian to boot) I will admit that without the Nook, my house would look like an episode of "Hoarders" with all the books I have. On the other hand, I have told my family members that they will have to pry my hardback books from my cold, dead hands, doing my best Charlton Preston voice when I do so.
Marc Oullet
Pardon me,Pardon moi 
It seems like Marc Oullet is a frotn runner to succeed Ratszinger as pope. Can any of you tell me about this guy?
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