(Haven’t joined Puma PAC yet? What! You’re missing out on all the fun! Do it now — easy, free, and we NEVER share your info or spam you. Promise. Join HERE, and welcome!)
I’ve received a couple of thought-provoking emails since the story of Obama dressed as Superman Feminist on the cover of Ms. Magazine broke late Friday night. And in case I didn’t mention this, in addition to the blatant absurdity of calling obama a feminist, what were the editors of Ms. Magazine THINKING using superman imagery? Gloria Steinem’s most famous quote is, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” I don’t love Steinem and trust her about as much, but wha!? huh? Playing to silly fantasies about being SAVED by a SUPERMAN?? No wonder so many feminists are still choking on their coffee today.
Ah well, but that brings me to the point. A very smart person I know thinks the end is near for the Obama Girls and the Screaming/Fainting Women Fans. (Lord, I hope so. It’s EMBARRASSING to watch grown women swoon over such a goof.) She says that times are going to be tough for everyone in the next couple years, but they’re going to be a LOT HARDER for women. More layoffs for them, less work and contracts in the often make-shift or flex-time jobs they now hold in order to ALSO take care of their children. More women leaving the workforce voluntarily and trying to squeeze by on one paycheck rather than pay for daycare, do the Both-Parents-Working-Full-Time-Crazy-Dance, and keep dreaming about Easy Street. So they’ll go back to the minivan and the laundry room and the grocery store, and . . . pretty soon it will hit them: Loneliness, Listlessness, and Depression.
Puma PAC’s agenda has changed since November 4th. As Hillary Clinton said, elections have consequences. Obama will be sworn in and will be president for at least four years. An unready and untested glamor boy? Yep. A cheater with ties to the dirtiest players in politics? Yep. An unprincipled competitor who used the race card whenever he was periodically down and let the sexism do its own work for him? Yep again!
But I watched and read at the liberal BOIZ blogs for the first seven years of the Bush Administration, and there is NO way I want us to become like them — a bunch of boring, screaming juvenile boys spending HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS coming up with cruder and more violent descriptions of ways to humiliate George W. Bush (most of them involving rape, chainsaws, and other rusty objects — to give you a picture of the level of discourse.) They were the perfect picture of political impotence. It was somewhat cathartic to log on and read people make fun of W., but seriously — BORING! and meaningless.
So, we’re not going there. Our job is to view obama with the skeptical eye that every president deserves. There was very little chance that we’d ever participate in the worship-ceremonies that have taken over most of the liberal blogs — but here’s the thing. Just as the liberal blogger BOIZ became echo chambers of mindless Bush hate, now they’ve become echo chambers of mindless obama love. Same coin, different side. Still mindless.
We have better and more useful work to do, and time is on our side. Forget the stalkers, the hate sites, the pond scum of the so-called liberal blogosphere. It doesn’t mean ANYTHING. At the end of the day, they are hoarse and spent from stewing in their own crappy juices, but they only amount to about 10,000 votes in a national election. It wasn’t the denizens of Wankit or Democratic Underbelly that won the election for obama. It was Chris Matthews, Wall Street, and George W Bush who won it for him.
The nasty screamers will always be among us. Our job is to OFFER A BETTER ALTERNATIVE to what passes for liberal commentary and political action today.
- To be better than Move On
- To be better than NOW
- To be better than Josh Marshall and Kos
- To be honest, principled, interesting and relevant
Hard times for women mean it’s more important than ever that our political agenda has official champions in Washington D.C., and it means WE need allies. More women and men who will demand that the administration and 111th Congress protect our interests and further our goals. When times are really tough, more women are murdered in their homes. More children are abused and neglected. I have very little faith that obama will be a champion for us. The Ms. cover is profoundly insulting to all the women and children who face stark poverty and increased violence in their lives in the coming years.
What does protecting our interests mean?
- Keeping the forced-pregnancy crowd at bay
- Passing the Ledbetter and Fair Paycheck legislation
- Hands OFF Social Security
- Wider safety net for single parents
- Keeping religious fundamentalists of ANY stripe OUT of our politics
What does furthering our agenda mean?
- Reforming the Primary Election process
- Improving the reporting and auditing processes of the FEC
- Passing the ERA
- Making sexist and misogynistic discourse in our national media TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE, in the same way that racist commentary is now totally unacceptable
Our name is People United Means Action. It’s not Party Unity My Ass — never has been, never will be. Some accuse us of being strictly a “women’s” group (as if that would be a bad thing). But, nope — we’re not. We’re a people’s group — a voters’ group. It turns out that most people AND most voters happen to be women. Women run Puma PAC. A woman founded it. Women (and a handful of men) fund it. Women aren’t people too, for goodness’ sake. Women ARE the people. Period. Women ARE the voters. Period.
As more groups and voters join us, as we add to our successes (yes, they are small to begin with — but so are we!), AND as the social fabric gets weaker and more shabby in the next four years, thousands, and then tens of thousands more will join us.
The election is over. We came together because of sexism, Hillary Clinton, and a corrupt primary process. We’re still here because the sexism is. Because the corruption is. Because there are still no leaders, no champions, no Supermans ( no matter WHAT Ms Magazine says ).
We’re going to have to save ourselves.
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murphy 01.12.09 at 10:39 am
And don’t forget to vote today if you haven’t yet. Once a day from every computer. It’s good for you. Like fiber!
for The Confluence:
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-liberal-blog/
for Nice Deb:
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-small-blog/
for Uppity Woman:
http://2008.weblogawards.org/polls/best-new-blog/
(if you dont want to vote for Nice Deb — that’s fine. Anyone but the horrid rumproast.)
DancesWithPumas 01.12.09 at 10:58 am
Thank you for your post, Murphy!
It’s inspiring!
The entire time I was reading it, I kept thinking: Murphy’s ON! Murphy’s ON!
I’ve printed it and will read again later (I’m at wack right now).
Thanks again.
Alice Rodham Puma 01.12.09 at 11:00 am
WOW! Great Post / Rallying Call Murphy!
I haven’t said it for a few days but PUMAs rule!
bmw60 01.12.09 at 11:06 am
Thank you for that great post and I hope we ALL remember why we’re here… not to snipe at one another, but to be supportive of each other and that all here need to inspire one another. Life is good if there are loving supportive people in our lives and for some of us this may be the place where we recieve most of that. Our voting block must be united and our affirmations positive. Thank You Murphy! You are an Inspiration to me!
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 11:07 am
But I watched and read at the liberal BOIZ blogs for the first seven years of the Bush Administration, and there is NO way I want us to become like them — a bunch of boring, screaming juvenile boys spending HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS coming up with cruder and more violent descriptions of ways to humiliate George W. Bush (most of them involving rape, chainsaws, and other rusty objects — to give you a picture of the level of discourse.) They were the perfect picture of political impotence. It was somewhat cathartic to log on and read people make fun of W., but seriously — BORING! and meaningless.
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AND IT NEVER CHANGED A THING! AND IT NEVER WILL!
murphy 01.12.09 at 11:08 am
Glenn Greenwald tries to keep teh BOIZ honest, but I’m not sure even a million words and 6 separate UPDATES will be enough.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/01/11/centrism/index.html
hint: obama will be taking his cues from dick cheney.
surprise!
obama’s not a liberal!
shocking!
astra14 01.12.09 at 11:20 am
Hi,
I’ve been lurking here for awhile and decided to jump in. Please make room for me in the tent. I’ve already written to MS about the inaugural cover and I’m ready to continue fighting “Because there are still no leaders, no champions, no Supermans…We’re going to have to save ourselves.”
A good, and very true article, Murphy.
MileyEast 01.12.09 at 11:23 am
I agree with a lot of what Murphy is saying and will assume she’d add, “And we need to keep our humor.” I’ll take a laugh right now. Sweet, knowing, bitter, give it to me.
And I think the new Ms. makeover was appropriately skewered at Third Estate Sunday Review yesterday:
http://thirdestatesundayreview.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2009-01-11T06%3A25%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=8
It really is the direction they went to.
MileyEast 01.12.09 at 11:27 am
One more thing. If you’re contact Ms. expect spam e-mails. Back in April when Ava and C.I. revealed the inner-office e-mails at Ms. (calling Hillary the c-word and other things), I e-mailed to complain and got a reply. I then got spammed with their weekly calender and with everything under the sun.
murphy 01.12.09 at 11:31 am
ooh — I missed that MileyEast. Do you have any links?
p.s. are you a Miley Cyrus fan?
p.p.s. HP — you said it Sister.
Deb55 01.12.09 at 11:34 am
THANK YOU MURPHY!!!
NO GREATER words have been spoken! It WILL take women standing up for ALL women, not D.R. or I, just women with a common goal. And you are so right, things are going to get worse for women and children, I am afraid, and once again we will get short changed. We are the only ones who can make our voices heard…So Thank you again for a WONDERFUL post,a must read..twice..and save for future inspination.
…Back later…
Pat Johnson 01.12.09 at 11:36 am
murphy: Perfect summarization! Thank God that there are sites out there devoted to analyizing what passes for “truth” these days. We may be a lot of things but we are not stupid. It’s what happens when you pass up the Kool Aid offerings and instead make do with a cup labeled “commonsense”.
Keep up the inspiration. It is refreshing to sip from the same cup!
prplvette85 01.12.09 at 11:37 am
Thanks Murphy! You inspired me yet again. I already voted again this morning from home and work.
Well, they are at it again:
Land mines ahead for Hillary
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090112/pl_politico/17334
Here’s a little quote from the article
“Nobody’s fonder of huddling secretly with a close-knit, tight-lipped clutch of advisers than Hillary Clinton. And she’s been huddling plenty in recent days, gaming out defenses to possible attacks against her husband while synchronizing her policy positions with Obama to avoid embarrassing public disagreements on Iraq, Iran and Israel.”
“If they hit her on any personal stuff or on the Bill s—t, she’ll hit the ball out of the park,” said a longtime adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity.
“She’s far more concerned with the substance,” the person said. “This is the re-emergence of the non-political Hillary. The most discomfort is where she and Obama disagree — the ‘you’re naive’ stuff. She can’t show up the president, she can’t appear like she’s trying to formulate her own foreign policy.”
prplvette85 01.12.09 at 11:45 am
Bill Ayers to speak in Florida. Republican students are going to protest. Maybe some PUMAS might want to join in!
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/national_world&id=6599109#bodyText
January 12, 2009 (TALLAHASSEE, Fla.) — Vietnam War-era radical and Chicago professor Bill Ayers is scheduled to speak at Florida State University, an invitation that has rankled area conservatives.
Ayers, a member of the Weather Underground, was mentioned repeatedly during the presidential campaign for his ties to President-elect Barack Obama.
Obama and Ayers both served on a Chicago school reform board and a foundation board. Obama has denounced Ayers’ violent past and said Ayers was never involved in his campaign.
Republican students plan to protest at Monday’s talk. State Rep. David Rivera called the invitation “a disgrace.” A conservative blogger sent university leaders an online petition.
clintondemocrat 01.12.09 at 11:46 am
Good morning PUMAs Im glad that we are all still here and together, too. I spent a lot of time on this blog this weekend. The Howard Dean firing just flipping thrilled me to pieces and the MS magazine made me go “wtf”? Watching the party begin to try to put some resistance to “his oliness” made me get ready to pop the popcorn and watching the governor of the state that obama’s from get impeached over Obama’s senate seat just made me LOL.
It’s back to the real world, again.
I accomplished something very very important to me yesterday. I rallied the party base (which knows that Tennessee Democrats are in deep shit) and I got them to Agree to march as DEMOCRATS in the MLK parade. I had to make one major concession, to at least extend the Olive Branch and see if the Obamites would walk with the party before we set up separate groups in the parade. Much to my chigrin and surprise they accepted. So, this was one of those moments where I had to put ahead the ultimate goal of making sure that this day was about more than Obama and letting people see that this is the Democratic party and to stop the perpetuation of the Obamacratic party. Im proud that the party will be there.
My party chair wrote me a very constructed piece about warming to the Obama people and asked me to join their group. I sent her a short and to the point email back that I do not share common ground with them and i will not participate in their tactics of threats and intimidation of elected Democrats in order to pass the Obama agenda but that this exercise by me was because i believed that our party should be there and included that it was more than Obama.
I need to be off, now because as a Democrat who is now watching even the most ardent of Hillary supporters go down the Obama path without much resistance or question, is very draining.
Many of you have left the party and have made vaild arguments for doing so. Somehow I still believe in our party. Having watched the Deaniacs (who are largely responsible for this far far far left wing agenda making it into the party) infiltrate the party and get elected to positions and set up local Dem parties in county after county across the country so that no one in local leadership could question Obama without having a slew of people pouncing on them as racist and stuck in the past, I believe it is very very very important for people like me to continue to be there and question and push when appropriate and just be a silent force when necessary.
I am a PUMA in that i stand for EVERYTHING that Murphy wrote in her in post this morning and that makes me feel good. We have to fight sexism. We have to work to reform the Dem party primary process (Im clueless as to how to do it, because if Terry McAuliffe couldn’t do it as a party chair, I don’t know what to say about us), We need good candidates and i believe in candidate development and support. What Tucker Carlson said about women making up the majority of voters who just choose to overwhelmingly elect men to office is unbelivable. We must find women to run, run ourselves, and support those women. That requires finding women in both parties in all walks of life because a single woman (nor a single man) can unite, just because of their gender, a voting bloc large enough to get elected.
Anyway, im off for several days. Take care PUMAS.
Clintondemocrat out
murphy 01.12.09 at 11:47 am
sounds like a pro to me prplevette.
how they translate:
“Nobody’s fonder of huddling secretly with a close-knit, tight-lipped clutch of advisers than Hillary Clinton. And she’s been huddling plenty in recent days, gaming out defenses to possible attacks against her husband while synchronizing her policy positions with Obama to avoid embarrassing public disagreements on Iraq, Iran and Israel.”
into:
“She’s a crazy bitchy monster who is also a paranoid control freak”
is what it’s ALL about.
You see, I don’t think they hate her BECAUSE she’s a woman. They hate her because she has power. Little people with little egos ALWAYS hate people with power.
the problem is that our sexist culture makes it perfectly acceptable to use misogynistic attacks against ANY woman, esp women with power, and that is extremely damaging to the rest of us.
Hillary is a millionaire power player. The sexist attacks harmed her professionally, no doubt about it — she would have been president absent them — but the real, lasting damage is to the rest of us.
Sexist attacks, like racist attacks a generation ago, are EXTREMELY effective. That’s why bigots use them.
It’s not like the creeps at our stalker hate sites have anything substantive against us. So, since they’re allowed to, they call us names and make fun of how we look, how we talk, what we wear.
all of which discourages and embarrasses us — how could it not? we’re human.
emme 01.12.09 at 11:51 am
Completed Saturday’s Ms. Magazine PROWL this morning (apologies for my lateness).
murphy 01.12.09 at 11:56 am
it’s never too late to prowl emme.
good job!
prplvette85 01.12.09 at 12:04 pm
Murphy, I agree with everything you said. The sentence I found most interesting is this one
“She can’t show up the president, she can’t appear like she’s trying to formulate her own foreign policy.”
As we Pumas already know, Hillary doesn’t have to say a word to show him up. He is not even in the same class as Hillary. And we already know….He never had a foreign policy. Wasn’t it he himself who stated he would surround himself with advisors to help with foreign policy? I forget his exact words.
words…..just words
murphy 01.12.09 at 12:10 pm
good stuff from RD this morning, as per:
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/monday-separation-anxiety/
Irlandese 01.12.09 at 12:13 pm
Hooray!!! ERA, let’s get r done!!! Murphy, you’ve hit the bulls-eye with this post…I’m feeling inspired and optimistic again. Thanks!
PUMAbear 01.12.09 at 12:14 pm
Amy Siskind wrote an editorial at The Beast criticizing their (I think) Wonder Woman cover. But not the Obama cover. She was instantly swarmed by Obots calling feminist ugly and sexist. So they were waiting to ambush her.
Obama is the grandson of slaves? I guess that takes care of the BC issue. How can an investigative news agency get away with such a HUGE lie? Obama spent most of his campaign courting the white vote with endless reminders of his WHITE heritage but with MLK day around the corner he’ll reinvent himself again as an AA and deny knowledge later.
DancesWithPumas 01.12.09 at 12:15 pm
“She can’t show up the president, she can’t appear like she’s trying to formulate her own foreign policy.”
Like junior high when girls have to pretend their not smarter than boys. The equivalent of walking three steps behind. Hiding ones power and brilliance in order to make the other appear to shine. Same ol’, same ol’.
“As we Pumas already know, Hillary doesn’t have to say a word to show him up.”
Like comparing a doctoral candidate with a sixth grader.
DancesWithPumas 01.12.09 at 12:21 pm
“Obama is the grandson of slaves?”
Slavery ended before Obama’s grandparent were born.
Aside from the fact that his maternal grandparents are caucasian, and his paternal grandparents are Kenyan.
Just like them to minimize the atrocity that was slavery and use it as a public relatons campaign. What an insult to African Americans, and Mrs. Obama, who really is a descendant of slaves.
Have they no shame?
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 12:24 pm
I hope all pumas are having a wonderful afternoon!
I *love* this post murphy!! yay!!!
monap 01.12.09 at 12:28 pm
Great article Murphy. You’ve said it all for us.
At first I thought it was all about getting Hillary elected – then as my eyes opened in horror I realized it was more than that – it was the lack of respect and dignity afforded women in this country. We may not be around to see a woman elected President, some of us are not that young anymore, but we, the feminists of the 60’s and 70’s are mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. If nothing else, this election has pointed out clearly that we’ve come a long way baby but we’ve got a longer way to go – and it looks like there are few people willing to pick up our torch – thank God for PUMA – and we have to continue to work as hard as ever. Not having the ERA is absurd – those who said we didn’t need it – we had the rights anyway – take a look at the past few months.
admin 01.12.09 at 12:32 pm
exactomundo Monap. being a bit slow, our haters have yet to pick up on the fact that it hasnt been about Hillary for a long time.
Did you all know that our left sidebar is a treasure trove of linky goodness? Daily Quotes, Prowls, and links to must-reads around the Pumasphere?
Yep — check it out!
Or if your fingers are too tired this morning from all the flipping-of-the-bird you’ve been required to do all weekend, I herewith present them to you, my Dear Readers.
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NotYourSweetie tries to keep up with the Joneses
Take Your Political Compass Test
mlhath 01.12.09 at 12:32 pm
Murphy:
Thank you for this post. It is absolutley right on. You, HeidiLi, and Riverdaughter help keep us all sane.
admin 01.12.09 at 12:32 pm
that was cool!
hee-hee.
admin 01.12.09 at 12:33 pm
oh snap, Kat — is it afternoon already?!?
good to see you girl.
scarlet 01.12.09 at 12:45 pm
‘Atlas Shrugged’: From Fiction to Fact in 52 Years
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html
sistermoon3 01.12.09 at 12:47 pm
hate bush, like bush it doesnt matter to me whatsoever, but today as he was giving his last press conference I kept waiting for the “uh ummmmmms” and didnt hear a single one. But, unfortunately, for the next i guess what 4 years we will be bombarded with “Uh” “Ummmm” from mr and mrs pres, hope you enjoy it.
admin 01.12.09 at 12:49 pm
i liked uppity’s rendition of the last press conference:
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/president-bushs-final-press-conference/
but, I’m with ya sistermoon3,
uhhh, well Look! uhh, ahm, uhhh . . .
admin 01.12.09 at 12:50 pm
i’m afraid to click on that link scarlet.
think we can raise enough money to buy an island and have our own secret community like Galt’s?
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 1:17 pm
oooOoooOoh color…I like seeing pix in the comments section.
scarlet #31
Thanks for the article. My bf is currently reading Atlas Shrugged and he keeps telling me that “everything happening now is like in the book”…
So, I am looking forward to reading it. I know all about it already, but it’s on my never-ending book list. BF has also been ranting at me to read the Fountainhead for years now. Oh, and my late grandmother told me to read The Virtue of Selfishness, so I have a lot of Ayn Rand to read.
@ #34 “admin”
I would *love* to have our own Galt’s Gulch!!
admin 01.12.09 at 1:21 pm
kat in your hat,
BLOCK THAT METAPHOR!
(i’m hiding under the table with my arms over my head trying to keep that metaphor from poisoning my beautiful mind!)
Read Rand, it’s best to read her when you’re still young, like you. Then you have plenty of time to find out how many things she’s dead wrong about.
Rand has a BAD superman complex. She’s also a relentless snob. But she writes a FINE potboiler, and she’s not afraid to poke liberals in the eye with our own hypocrisies and inconsistencies.
ok, done being condescending.
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 1:29 pm
lol! I think she’s cool. I haven’t read anything yet, so it’ll be fun. Hope I can pick up some good things from it (even if I disagree with some themes).
Oh, and RBO had something sort of on her just a few days ago:
“John Galt Meets Winnie-the-Pooh”
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/batchelor-john-galt-meets-winnie-the-pooh/
And I am starting to see more Ayn Rand style (art deco) graffiti/ posters in Manhattan, kinda like this: http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a15/ashrose572/ayn_rand_stamp-1.jpg
So, anyway–I’ll read her stuff this year and see what the fuss is about.
BigCatLover 01.12.09 at 1:31 pm
I read Atlas Shrugged forty years ago but I have never gotten over the scene where the lead character (a female) has sex on the dirty floor of the train station to represent a woman who is too busy to get into a relationship. Can you imagine how dirty a train station floor is? But the book did predict alot of things we’re seeing now; namely, the incompetent have been running the country.
admin 01.12.09 at 1:36 pm
you meant to add “into the ground” at the end of your comment bigcat.
BigCatLover 01.12.09 at 1:37 pm
Correct.
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 1:51 pm
lol. uh oh, there is sex in the book? SOLD. I’ll def. read it now. lol…jus’ playin’
This is *totally* off topic, but I wanted to share misc links:
What I am going to try to make for dinner tonight, looks really easy: http://blog.cooklikeyourgrandmother.com/2008/08/bruchetta-pizza.html
WikiHow: http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page (use search at top right to learn how to do anything)
Etsy: http://www.etsy.com/index.php (place to buy and sell all things handmade–I think it’s probably 99% women artists and entrepreneurs, maybe get something unique here)
la la la…
bbsoon. xo
Mary Puma 01.12.09 at 1:53 pm
Murphy – I really like today’s post. Your words hit home…
Uppity Woman 01.12.09 at 1:53 pm
….Clapping loudly.
mountainsong 01.12.09 at 1:55 pm
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 1:17 pm
Ayn Rand is/was a very insightful author. In addition to the books you list, there is a small book by her, entitled, “Anthem” which tells what we have to look forward to when individuality is outlawed. And about a young couple’s escape. There is a part where they see their reflections of themselves in a puddle of water; the first time in their lives hat they have even seen what they look like. Scary to think such a day could come, here. But, I’m sure Oblowsit will give it his best try.
mountainsong 01.12.09 at 1:56 pm
BigCatLover 01.12.09 at 1:31 pm My how time flies~~~it was 1963 when I read those books.
webfoot 01.12.09 at 2:02 pm
astra14-welcome
Murphy-excellent post
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 2:08 pm
Okay Pumas we are here NOW, we will not allow any of this shit to happen!
Let us all vow to pass the ERA torch, if we never do anything else let’s do that!! When we accomplish that everything else will be easier. We will have a little power, I am not expecting great things, the road will be as rough as ever, we have lost the loud voices of the past. Even my old voice has diminished. But I get really loud when I drink and laugh!
I can’t wait to drink with Murphy and Pat Johnson, we will keep Murphy in stitches.
murphy 01.12.09 at 2:10 pm
yay HP!
(got lost in your town Saturday, but eventually found my way, and the nicest tire-repair-man in the world got me back on the road for $12 bucks!)
p.s. PROWL incoming! Check your inboxes.
TrishInCanada 01.12.09 at 2:12 pm
Excellent thread Murphy, I was smiling so big when I read it, yup yup we have several missions and several more goals, wooohooo we’re gonna be busy and productive and people are going to take notice. Cause we have the power!
Headclunker 01.12.09 at 2:21 pm
Great FEC article from the American Thinker on Post #27 on the FECK obama Forum, Thanks to Kat.
How about a Prowl?
PUMAbear 01.12.09 at 2:22 pm
As much as I dislike BO, disliking him is not enough to go along with a lot of the right wing historical amnesia and quasi religious “end times” demagogury that always goes unchallenged.
The US, the richest most powerful nation in the world, has not been an innocent bystander to what is now going on in the world. At times it was a slave nation, and imperial colonial power. The US has overthrown duly elected demo governments, sponsored insurgencies and death squads costing millions of lives,sponsored Iraq’s eight year with Iran, armed the Taliban DESPITE their treatment of women. Much has been written about this but everything forgotten in the rush to incinerate millions of muslims,secular and religious.
It was the US that refused to accept fleeing Jews in WWII. And Muslims who treated them with respect in the age of Columbus. 4o nothing is so simple.
I am a liberal standing by liberal principles not just anti Obama. (Hat’t my rant–unded because I am typing on a blackberry
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 2:23 pm
Prowl done…call to be made.
Murphy I am so happy you have your tire fixed.
My good neighbor ploughed our garage driveway(we have 2 drives) so that my handy man got to the garage to inflate my tire.
Good to have a man with a garage and a lift in it and an air compressor. He is getting worn out but I get to inflate him!
murphy 01.12.09 at 2:27 pm
lol!
murphy 01.12.09 at 2:28 pm
excellent comment PumaBEAR — thank you.
mkp651 01.12.09 at 2:30 pm
Great post Murphy!
Prowl is done and already getting some return emails. Off to check them out. Have a nice day all.
annier78 01.12.09 at 3:02 pm
This post is wonderful Murphy. I’ve lurked for a while but you’ve convinced me to join.
emme 01.12.09 at 3:24 pm
Completed today’s FEC prowl.
clintondemocrat 01.12.09 at 3:25 pm
Murphy,
Thank you so so so so much for going through the files and truly getting to the heart of the numbers that O turned in for finances. I spent HOURS going through delegate counts and calculating for each congressional district basically how many voters were represented by each delegate and how off the delegate numbers were to the actual percentage. This kind of stuff takes a HUGE amount of time.
I added into my email that O got his 30 minute infomercial at bargin basement prices. I wish I had time to go back and do those calculations again but considering it was prime time, I remember when I calculated, that it should have cost him about 30 million dollars to do that commercial, not 5. So I just added a comment in there about the commercial.
Anyway, thanks for your work on this.
Now, Im really really confused about where I stand in this party. Because the chairwoman, whose very concerned about getting these Obamites into the party to work, is “proud of me of growing up and putting my anger aside”
I don’t know what to do right now and I don’t want to respond to her email, because it will be just a back and forth kind of thing. I want to be a force within to remind people, not for them to think I’ve “grown up” and “gotten over it.” Hell I haven’t gotten over Al Gore and now, even worse, I think th
bqueen 01.12.09 at 3:28 pm
Murphy #20
I read RD’s post and it made me sick to my stomach. This is/was the comment I left:
I have so little time to respond, but in reading this 2 things stand out for me:
1. “He identified so closely with the struggle to overcome that even *I* was touched when I saw that sea of humanity in Grant Park.”
I do not believe that Obama himself really identifies with the “struggle to overcome”. If he did, he would not have screwed his primarily black constituents time and time again in Chicago.
Obama WAS identified (i.e. sold by Axelrod) with this identification.
How easy is it to be “swept up”, forsaking all we KNOW to be true, when thousands, are jubilant was taught painfully to us IF we reflect on the 3rd Reich.
2. Re Etheridge “But she, like a lot of people who make their money in front of adoring crowds, has to watch what she’s saying.”
Etheridge will undoubtedly remain a very wealthy woman to the end of her days unless she signed some ill-wrangeled contracts. Royalties, ESPECIALLY song writing royalties, ensure wealth. There is no excuse whatsoever for Etheridge’s blind and idiotic endorsement of the horrible, blood-stained Rick Warren. Her endorsement was aired a day or few days apart from a lesbian woman being gang-raped in San Francisco: a screaming loud message for all women; a scream of despair in the lesbian community.
The fact that Melissa sang at the DNC convention singing a medley which included songs EXCLUSIVELY written by MEN is up to her and can be her privately reasoned little sell-out. Imagine if she had sung “What About Tomorrow” and thrown Hillary just a tiny bit of recognition?
But there is no excusing her gushing endoresement of Killer-Warren with “I mean that the crowd can turn on her and regardless of her sexual orientation, Ethridge is a cross over singer.”. Etheridge’s lesbian fans have always been loyal. THAT part of the “crowd” would never turn on her. Unless of course, she turned on them.
And besides, going back to recalling the 3rd Reich: Are we, those who are given the privilige of a platform and a voice in whatever respect, ever mindful of how others will react? Do we buckle and bend because someone “might turn on us”? Or do we take that gift, that platform, and stand upright, doing what’s right, facing the tomatoes or whatever is hurled our way??
We’re not talking about some trivial thing Etheridge did. We are talking about her gushing over and selling to the public an officer of the Reich.
bqueen 01.12.09 at 3:30 pm
should have formatted like this:
I read RD’s post and it made me sick to my stomach. This is/was the comment I left:
I have so little time to respond, but in reading this 2 things stand out for me:
(see above post)
bqueen 01.12.09 at 3:33 pm
Or do we take that gift, that platform, and stand upright, doing what’s right, facing the tomatoes or whatever is hurled our way??
Murph, you do the above and I thank you for that!
murphy 01.12.09 at 3:35 pm
thank you Clintondemocrat, but the thanks go to the FECK Obama Team, not me.
headclunker
trishincanada
MKfromLA
PumaBEAR
actioncenter
danceswithpumas
as well as the dozen or so Pumas who sent notarized, certified, official letters of complaint to the FEC.
YAY FECK TEAM!!
KerryLINY 01.12.09 at 3:37 pm
Excellent missions these:
-Keeping the forced-pregnancy crowd at bay
-Passing the Ledbetter and Fair Paycheck legislation
-Hands OFF Social Security
-Wider safety net for single parents
-Keeping religious fundamentalists of ANY stripe OUT of our politics
What does furthering our agenda mean?
-Reforming the Primary Election process
-Improving the reporting and auditing processes of the FEC
-Passing the ERA
-Making sexist and misogynistic discourse in our national media TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE, in the same way that racist commentary is now totally unacceptable.
I have one more to add:
Making all women all over the world realize that a huge cieling placed over us was one of religious beliefs where it is virtually hard to perceive other women leading us in worship or in our spirituality (there is no way belief will not indirectly transfer into political disposition and that is why the glass cieling is a feature of the most religious countries and areas of the Western World).
I hope everyone will join in the above constructive note. We are not trying to sabotage the presidency or the country simply for the sake of that once Jan 20th is here. Where we have disagreements with policies and practices, we are clear and direct in how we highlight and seek redress to them.
murphy 01.12.09 at 3:37 pm
very nice bqueen. very nice.
“Are we, those who are given the privilege of a platform and a voice in whatever respect, ever mindful of how others will react? Do we buckle and bend because someone “might turn on us”? Or do we take that gift, that platform, and stand upright, doing what’s right, facing the tomatoes or whatever is hurled our way??”
murphy 01.12.09 at 3:40 pm
but the fabulicious BostonBoomer has a great post up now:
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/still-riding-the-wave-or-crashing-on-a-rocky-shore/
dcinlasvegas 01.12.09 at 3:57 pm
Hi everyone! I don’t post much but I read every day. Ran across a quote that I think really fits today’s topic: “I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.” – Mary Robinson
bqueen 01.12.09 at 3:57 pm
Here are some great suggestions from Care4all, a commenter at TGW
(I ESPECIALLY like #3!! altho 4 is strong too):
3. Nominate the Ms. Magazine issue for NOW’s Media Hall of Shame.
http://www.now.org/issues/media/ …suggestion.html
4. Boycott Ms. Magazine and any products they advertise. Let the advertisers know you will be boycotting their products.
5. Perhaps most importantly, can all of the like-minded women’s organizations get together, write a press release, and sign a letter from all? This would send a powerful message if a number of women’s organizations and groups were involved and spoke together in one voice.
Care4All | 01.11.09 – 6:18 pm | #
lisa 01.12.09 at 3:58 pm
You’re a great cheerleader Murphy. Love the article.
AniEm 01.12.09 at 4:01 pm
This was a great post. The “so-called liberal blogosphere” are like gargoyles surrounding the castle of the “one”. It is time to ignore this very destructive and abusive group and get on with our own mission and our own accomplishments. Supporting women has to be first on the list given the crises this country is facing and the lack of integrity among our political “leaders” and the stupefying hucksters of the media.
bqueen 01.12.09 at 4:01 pm
in re-reading, my quote should have included “stones”:
facing the tomatoes, stones or whatever is hurled our way??
That would have carried with it the implication of stoning, which can happen in all kinds of ways. Thanks for your support, Murph!
murphy 01.12.09 at 4:03 pm
aniem — ayup.
thanks Lisa (I think, :>* )
bqueen — excellent ideas! I’ve forwarded them to the appropriate teams. thank you!
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 4:13 pm
Prowl Complete!
BillieJo 01.12.09 at 4:16 pm
Prowl done. Fantastic job FEC team and awesome PUMAs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BillieJo 01.12.09 at 4:17 pm
Beers and Pina Coladas all around for our great FEC team!!!!!!!
headclunker
trishincanada
MKfromLA
PumaBEAR
actioncenter
danceswithpumas
miau 01.12.09 at 4:19 pm
Hi,
Can someone compile and keep updated a list of firms, organizations and products that we should boycott? It’s hard to keep track of all of it.
It could be posted on this site like a handbook.
scarlet 01.12.09 at 4:25 pm
Monday, January 12, 2009 at 03:20pm BY Sam Teller
Your Call to Service: A Video from Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama just recorded a video to tell you more about President-elect Obama’s call for a national day of service to “Renew America Together.” Take a look:
http://pic2009.org/content/home/
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 4:26 pm
miau 01.12.09 at 4:19 pm
Action Center ……..Boycotts posted!
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 4:29 pm
Your Call to Service: A Video from Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama just recorded a video to tell you more about President-elect Obama’s call for a national day of service to “Renew America Together.” Take a look:
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Puke!
bqueen 01.12.09 at 4:33 pm
Scarlet #75:
Please give a heads up when sending us to an official Obama site! Damn. My IP address recorded again! I’d rather see the vid anywhere else where it’s not directly affiliated with Big Brother. I’m sure it’s a lovely video though…
BillieJo 01.12.09 at 4:39 pm
Murphy and the New ERA team, you have mail.
BillieJo 01.12.09 at 4:41 pm
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 4:29 pm
Your Call to Service: A Video from Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama just recorded a video to tell you more about President-elect Obama’s call for a national day of service to “Renew America Together.” Take a look:
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Puke!
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Gack!!!!!!!!
Anyone want to report on the video that has seen it so the rest of us don’t have to vomit?
bqueen 01.12.09 at 4:44 pm
Here is Ann Coulter defending Sarah Palin and truthtelling (video):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgrHqzmYNwk
BillieJo 01.12.09 at 4:44 pm
No drama today, what the heck Blago……..put on yer jumpsuit and give obie a few more gray hairs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 4:47 pm
BO and Mo should clarify MEN only..women are much to busy to volunteer!
Let the men get in line….ha ha no one in Obot land ever volunteers. They are all waiting for the GIFTS, they ain’t gonna do no labor!
BillieJo 01.12.09 at 4:50 pm
This woman is only gonna volunteer to take obie down in any way I can.
I am out to punish that crook for what he did to Hillary and what he will continue to do to all of us.
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 4:52 pm
BillieJo 01.12.09 at 4:44 pm
No drama today, what the heck Blago……..put on yer jumpsuit and give obie a few more gray hairs!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Me thinks the MSM has been told to NOT report to much BLANGO!
I want B-l-a-n-g-O, b-l-a-n-g-O, b-l-a-n-g-O oh blango is his name O!
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 4:53 pm
(passing along link)
“Obama climate czar has socialist ties”
“Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama’s pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for “global governance” and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.
By Thursday, Mrs. Browner’s name and biography had been removed from Socialist International’s Web page…”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/12/obama-climate-czar-has-socialist-ties/
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 4:56 pm
“Advisers say Obama preparing to close Gitmo”
“WASHINGTON (AP) – President-elect Barack Obama is preparing to issue an executive order his first week in office—and perhaps his first day—to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, according to two presidential transition team advisers.
It’s unlikely the detention facility at the Navy base in Cuba will be closed anytime soon. In an interview last weekend, Obama said it would be “a challenge” to close it even within the first 100 days of his administration.
But the order, which one adviser said could be issued as early as Jan. 20, would start the process of deciding what to do with the estimated 250 al-Qaida and Taliban suspects and potential witnesses who are being held there. Most have not been charged with a crime…”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D95LQOGG0&show_article=1
turndownobama 01.12.09 at 4:58 pm
Okay, here’s what I sent Paterson through his site at
http://161.11.121.121/govemail
Topic: Women’s Issues
Subject: NO CK; Maloney or Gillibrand or Cuomo okay
CK is not qualified as a legislator or as a feminist (she backstabbed Hillary). Maloney, Gillibrand, and other qualified feminists are available. Cuomo also has a good record on women’s issues (and supported Hillary).
CK would be a puppet for Obama and Ted Kennedy. The US needs qualified, independent-minded Senators, not elitist dynastic puppets.
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 4:59 pm
from uppity woman:
“Obama to Dean: Nice plan, k thx bye.”
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/obama-to-dean-nice-plan-k-thx-bye/
from RBO:
“Howard Dean? Where’s the 2004 “Dean Dozen” now?”
http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/howard-dean-wheres-the-2004-dean-dozen-now/#comment-6879
DancesWithPumas 01.12.09 at 5:01 pm
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 4:56 pm
“Advisers say Obama preparing to close Gitmo”
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At wack (© kiyh) can’t click your link. The article I read this morning said obama was looking to create a terrorist court, where evidence obtained through torture would be admissible.
So much for setting an example for the rest of the world… well, it would set an example, a bad one.
oneilma 01.12.09 at 5:01 pm
Murphy,
As usual, a great article. Let’s keep positive. This reminds me of an address Noam Chomsky gave after the election, reminding us that nothing was won easily. We’re energized and we can make a difference.
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 5:03 pm
“Bush will seek $350B bailout if Obama asks”
Bush:
“I readily concede I chucked aside my free-market principles…”
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=upiUPI-20090112-102044-8306&show_article=1
DancesWithPumas 01.12.09 at 5:04 pm
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 4:26 pm [edit]
miau 01.12.09 at 4:19 pm
Action Center ……..Boycotts posted!
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Posted where?
It isnt at actioncenter@pumapac.org
turndownobama 01.12.09 at 5:07 pm
PUMAbear 01.12.09 at 12:14 pm
Amy Siskind wrote an editorial at The Beast criticizing their (I think) Wonder Woman cover. But not the Obama cover.
========================
No, she was criticizing the Obama cover. She praised the Wonder Woman cover and contrasted it with the Obama cover to show how Ms and other old femininst groups had gone downhill.
It’s a very good article.
DB: The Outrage over Ms. Magazine’s Obama Cover
[On the first cover of Ms Magazine] A giant figure of Wonder Woman strides across the landscape, while the caption proclaims, “Wonder Woman for President.” No small irony that, four decades later, when a real live wonder woman ran a tight race for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton was mysteriously absent from the cover of Ms. Nor did this real live wonder woman have the full support and endorsement of many of the women’s groups that had sprung from the second wave of the women’s rights movement.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-11/how-feminism-became-the-f-word/
Comment link at the bottom. Requires login/registration. We’ve had alerts here below.
stoney42 01.12.09 at 5:08 pm
BillieJo
Been out of the house all day.
Did not receive an ERA team e-mail. My addy is:
camahhi at gmail dot com
Will check later
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 5:10 pm
from American Thinker:
“Give Us ‘Change’ in Congressional Fundraising Abuses”
“Three kinds of political fundraising money laundering help keep congressional bulls in power. One is direct colleague-to-colleague contributions, whereby one representative uses “hard” money donated to his campaign to make a hard money contribution to his colleagues. “Hard” money contributions are capped by federal election law at $2,300 per recipient per election for the 2007-08 election cycle (soon to be adjusted for 2009-10), as shown on this Federal Election Commission chart.
….
A second, more egregious kind of political money laundering is in the form of a loophole left by the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law ban on “soft” money (unlimited contributions to national political committees such as the Democratic National Committee, the Republican National Committee, or the House and Senate committees of both Republican and Democratic parties).
….
The third kind of political money laundering is what are called leadership PACs, which are political action committees formed by Members for the express purpose of spreading money around to colleagues.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/give_us_change_in_congressiona.html
scarlet 01.12.09 at 5:13 pm
LATEST E FROM MICHELLE. THE LINKS ARE TO OBAMA SITES.
scarlett —
One week from today, on January 19th, Barack and I will join thousands of people all across the country for an extraordinary day of service.
I recorded a short video to tell you more about this important effort. Please take a minute to watch it and sign up to host or attend a service event near you.
Volunteers of all ages and backgrounds are committing to renew America together, one community at a time.
Whatever service activity you organize or take part in — cleaning up a park, giving blood, volunteering at a homeless shelter, or mentoring an at-risk youth — you can help start this important journey. But this is about more than just a single day of service, it’s the beginning of ongoing commitment to your community.
Monday, January 19th, is also Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Dr. King taught us to live a life of service, and he led by example. He once said:
“If you want to be important — wonderful. If you want to be recognized — wonderful. If you want to be great — wonderful. But, recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s a new definition of greatness.”
Barack and I will be volunteering in Washington, D.C., our new home. I hope you’ll join us by taking part in this national call to service in your community:
http://www.USAservice.org/calltoservice
It will take ordinary citizens working together with a common purpose to get this country back on track. This national day of service is an important first step in our continuing commitment.
Now is the time to remind all Americans what ordinary people can accomplish when we stand together.
Thank you,
Michelle
P.S. — If you are already planning to be in Washington, D.C. for the Inauguration, text SERVE to 56333 to receive information about service opportunities in the nation’s capital. Or you can learn more here:
http://www.USAservice.org/calltoserviceDC
murphy 01.12.09 at 5:17 pm
welcome astra14, #7
hi dcinvegas!
welcome kellyLINY and annieR and miau!
thanks oneilma — yep — elections DO have consequences. For our movement, I believe the consequences will turn out to be very good.
for the obots? not so much.
bqueen 01.12.09 at 5:35 pm
#97 scarlet:
“But, recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s a new definition of greatness.”
Does this mean Mo & Bo are our servants??
Or is this what it’s all about: “…GIVING BLOOD…”
murphy 01.12.09 at 5:43 pm
billie jo — got the email, I LOVE it!!
sent you email back.
Cinie 01.12.09 at 5:58 pm
What Murphy said.
Yeah!
bqueen 01.12.09 at 5:58 pm
As of today Louisa has been in a coma for 1 month.
Light a real candle if you will, or a virtual one here:
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/enter.cfm?l=eng
DancesWithPumas 01.12.09 at 6:13 pm
kat
““Obama to Dean: Nice plan, k thx bye.””
lololol
Gotta hand it to Uppity!!
http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com/
murphy 01.12.09 at 6:16 pm
Please welcome a wonderful new addition to our blogroll,
drumroll . . .
Puma Eyes! by a long-time Puma!
http://pumaeyes.wordpress.com/
check it OUT!
TrishfromCanada 01.12.09 at 6:17 pm
I’d like to clarify the “grandson of slaves” discussion, not that I’m supporting CNN and its dribble, but the article did not say Obama was a grandson of slaves. The man they were interviewing is a grandson of slaves.
Just keeping the facts straight.
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 6:19 pm
DancesWithPumas 01.12.09 at 5:04 pm
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 4:26 pm [edit]
miau 01.12.09 at 4:19 pm
Action Center ……..Boycotts posted!
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Posted where?
It isnt at actioncenter@pumapac.org
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4th one down says boycotts in action resources, the only boycotts I could find. re the view and Oprah………
Nijma 01.12.09 at 6:45 pm
For anyone who doesn’t want to leave their IP at the inauguration website, here is the direct YouTube link to the Michelle video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeNgjXPZkrM
Don’t forget to clear your YouTube viewing history after. Google is not known for protecting privacy.
Volunteerism is an interesting issue for women. In my mother’s generation, it wasn’t considered okay to work outside the home unless it was volunteer. But if your work isn’t paid, is it valuable? If it is valuable, shouldn’t it be paid? And if you are independently wealthy enough to volunteer your time, are you then taking work away from people who desperately need paid jobs in order to eat?
Nijma 01.12.09 at 6:47 pm
Oh, and in the opening to the video you get to see the spiffy INAUGURATION LOGO!!!!! How cewl is that?
HP Boston 01.12.09 at 6:49 pm
Charity begins at home, I volunteer there…………
kat in your hat 01.12.09 at 6:54 pm
@ #108
MO seems a lil different in this “if you can’t take care of your own house…” vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1qZMBE9Gc
bqueen #103: Did it!
Dances #104: I know, that made me laugh too!
ok, dinner time.
(bbl)
murphy 01.12.09 at 7:05 pm
not yet Kat!
Daily Pig posted, take it upstairs!
you know — links go up, bad vibes stay down.
Lin4Hill 01.12.09 at 7:11 pm
Hi PUMAs, Prowl done to FEC. FECK Team—you are amazing.
Murphy, your post today is refreshing.
PUMAbear 01.12.09 at 7:14 pm
Turndown,
I thout Amy’s article was a good one, I didn’t trac with the whole message though. Was just amazed at how soon her message was swarmed and trashed by Obots.
normapapuma 01.12.09 at 9:24 pm
Murphy,
Getting caught up-Voted on blogs today.
Great post. Thanks! I think it’s almost time to donate again!
Tilly F 01.13.09 at 8:23 am
I’m grateful for the post and the comments. Also, I thought I saw an idea/plan here for a curriculum package that would be directed (esp) at junior-high and high-school kids, one that would address civil and human rights to include the evil of misogyny. We cannot afford the luxury of having the only American “sin” be slavery and its historical impacts.
It is time to bury the idea of Bro’s before Ho’s, which is only slang for “Race trumps Gender”. Why should it?
Is there some kind of “Suffering Scale”? And women need not apply?
MileyEast 01.13.09 at 12:21 pm
Replying to Murphy. Just saw your question about links. It’s in a group piece at Third this week:
http://thirdestatesundayreview.blogspot.com/2009/01/ms-pathetic-fold-tent-please.html
And I thought I could pull it up from there. No. Jim explained why in his note http://thirdestatesundayreview.blogspot.com/2009/01/note-to-our-readers_11.html
“Where are the links? We already got a call on that from one of Dona and my classmates who meant to Ava and C.I.’s stuff. Our regular readers know what we’re talking about. And they know how to find it without the links. But, in case you missed it, Ava and C.I.’s “TV: 2008, the lows and really lows” contained an acknowledgement that they’ve been repeatedly ripped off by one person. Ava wanted that in there or it wouldn’t have gone in there. She’s damn sick of it. (C.I. could care less about the rip-offs and feels they’re cheap copies who just embarrass themselves.) But grasping how someone (we all know who) would love to, for example, talk about Michele Kort or about the Donna Brazile article, we decided not to make it easy for a theft to occur. And, for the record, I (Jim) agree with Ava. I’m getting damn tired of Ava and C.I. working their asses off here and Monday or Tuesday someone stealing their insights and their jokes and attempting to pass both off as original work. If this continues, we may start calling it out with the name of the person doing it.”
From a piece Ava and C.I. wrote back in July “TV: Gossip Girls and Barack’s Bitches” http://thirdestatesundayreview.blogspot.com/2008/07/tv-gossip-girls-and-baracks-bitches.html
“The US had a chance at having the first woman president and where was Ms? (The bulk were passing back and forth e-mails of sexist quotes about Hillary and, yes, cartoons of her. They were laughing about it. They were agreeing with it. So when they now try to play like they’re offended by the cartoon cover of The New Yorker, they look like hypocrites and we may be publishing some of those e-mails here; however, readers of Polly’s Brew should check their inboxes this morning because four are republished in that today.)”
My aunt gets Polly’s Brew and I may have read the actual e-mails there but Ava and C.I. have written about it a lot and that’s probably why I have trouble narrowing down my Google search to find it.
As for Miley. We had four Heathers in my third grade class. The teacher went with Miley due to my last name. I was luckier than another Heather who just got called “Big Heather.” I don’t think any 3rd grade girl wants to have “Big” in front of her name if she’s taller than the rest of her classmates.
Tilly F 01.13.09 at 8:57 pm
You know, I’m fairly bright, prob. slower geekwise than most on this blog, but since I have no idea what you’re talking about #117)(even after checking the links), and I’d still like to support this blog, do you have another jg blog I could subscribe to?
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