All of the following are related to each other:
Had a distasteful comment last night from a troll saying that the news that the maniac in Pittsburgh was a white-supremacist, misogynistic, violent, uneducated barbarian somehow reminded him of Puma PAC.
Yeah, right Mr. Blue Eyes (kind of a storm-fronty username, no?), a website and political action center that champions the rights of lesbians, victims of man-attacks, and fights women-lynching, sexism and misogyny in the media and voter suppression in the democratic party has LOTS in common with right-wing dimwits who believe 9/11 was an inside job and that Jews secretly run the world.
Zoinks! The reading comprehension level of boys and young men in the U.S. has REALLY gone downhill. No wonder American girls are total ass-kickingly dominating their ritalin-addled, coddled, fat butt brothers. The gender gap in college is now 58% girls to 42% boys. That’s HUGE. The gap is so wide now that colleges are forced to give affirmative action to boy applicants in order to maintain even a semblance of parity in their undergraduate student bodies. (Raise your hand if you think white dudes are going to start screaming “reverse discrimination!!” in defense of their (smarter, more focused, and better prepared) sisters and daughters.)
And speaking of girls vs. boys, here’s an interesting statistic. Guess how much fatter the average American man is today than he was in 1970? About 20lbs heavier. Women, on the other hand, have stayed almost exactly the same since at least 1907. The average adult woman in this country is 161 lbs., the average man is 191 lbs. 40 years ago he was a lithe 174 lbs. Fatsos. (hint to the social scientist geniuses: perhaps middle aged women’s supposed lack of interest in sex has a LOT to do with how fat and ugly their husbands have become. Nah! Couldnt be THAT, right? Women only care about LOVE when it comes to sex . . .)
The diet/fitness/nutrition/plastic surgery racket in this country is a SCAM. Throw away your bathroom scale and turn off the TV — it’s all a lie.
And Taggles linked to this tragic story about China. First they abort the female fetuses because of boy-child-worship in their primitive culture, then they end up with WAAY more boys/men than girls/women in the country. Which leads to:
- Girls being kidnapped and forced into marriage by families with power.
- Girls being kidnapped and sold into prostitution to “service” the excess young men who can’t find wives.
- Little boys being kidnapped and sold to families who have no sons.
There are 119 boys for every 100 girls in China. That’s a HUGE imbalance. In the United States it’s 105 boys for 100 girls.
And everyone’s talking about this QUIZ where you find out whether you’re more female or more male. Try it, it’s fun!
Oh, and North Korea launched a missile; there have been eight mass killings by men in the United States in the past few months; and the burning, beating, and terrorizing of women in the Muslim world continues unabated.
Remind me again about how KRAZY and MANIACAL women get when they are pre-menstrual; how they let their “emotions” rule their actions and they snap — blowing innocent people’s brains out, kidnapping and raping little boys, and starting wars. What? Women DON’T do these things? But what about PMS? I heard that was some powerful, ugly mojo.
Testosterone is a powerfully damaging force. It’s true that 90% of men are able to (mostly) control it during their lives and don’t ever kill anyone. But the difference is that 99% of women repress whatever capacity for physical violence they have. In statistics, 9% is a very big number and a very big difference.
It’s time we started treating violence for what it is: a pandemic that only affects men and puts ALL of us in mortal danger.
{ 118 comments… read them below or add one }
murphy 04.05.09 at 1:23 pm
Had houseguests and entertained a family from Spain this weekend (lovely), so sorry for being somewhat AWOL.
I’m still scratching my head for turning out more male than female. . .
catarina 04.05.09 at 1:30 pm
great post, murphy.
ps that quiz-fugeddaboutit!
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 1:33 pm
No need for head scratching. That test is based on sexist stereotypes. Catarina is correct: fugeddaboutit!
goandersen 04.05.09 at 1:36 pm
Just taking into account the Females who took this quiz, your choices are the same as 42% of the Females!
If instead we compare you to the Males who took this quiz, your choices are the same as 48% of the Males!
Wow! Did you know that apparently you are much more like our Males than Females in most of your choices?
Must be the Beer, Sharks and Showers. LOL!
atypical 04.05.09 at 1:38 pm
I remember reading a long time ago that in wartime, more boys than girls are born. I just googled it and find that there seems to be a difference in these non-wars we’re now having:
http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/200803/the-returning-soldier-effect-iii-are-more-boys-being-born-
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 1:38 pm
Murphy: Looks like your time “in Spain” certainly did not undermine your wit humor and focus…based on this thread..
Bravo bravo…now I am going to look at tennis.
bbl
goandersen 04.05.09 at 1:39 pm
Murphy,
The males in the quiz are gay. LOL!
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 1:42 pm
Maybe Murphy is a butch-of-center dyke trapped in a heterosexual fem-bot body?
goandersen 04.05.09 at 1:43 pm
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 1:43 pm
Let the identity crises begin.
Sunshinelvr 04.05.09 at 1:44 pm
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 1:28 pm
“hope hides out in the souls of all who dare to see the truth and pursue it no matter where or when!”
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what a profound statement!
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 1:46 pm
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 1:42 pm
Maybe Murphy is a butch-of-center dyke trapped in a heterosexual fem-bot body?
_______________________________
completely plausible theory there Dances…well done!!!
goofsmom 04.05.09 at 1:48 pm
((((Murphy))))
So glad to see that you join the unique’s club on that test…
Saw that you are busy this weekend… Do you want to set a time for Monday???
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 1:53 pm
Murphy~~~~
“Had a distasteful comment last night from a troll saying that the news that the maniac in Pittsburgh was a white-supremacist, misogynistic, violent, uneducated barbarian somehow reminded him of Puma PAC.”
Would you let me have that trolls email addy, Pretty Plz??? LOL
Mine has been resolved, I’m ready~~~ LET the games begin!
Sunshinelvr 04.05.09 at 1:44 pm
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 1:28 pm
“hope hides out in the souls of all who dare to see the truth and pursue it no matter where or when!”
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what a profound statement!
INDEED!!!!!!!
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 1:46 Apparently, there is *way* more to Murphy that I knew~~~already!!!!
murphy 04.05.09 at 1:54 pm
that’s right — we’re a select club goofsmom!
(yes, same time tomorow?)
Girls are becoming as good as boys at mathematics, and are still better at reading
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11449804
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 1:54 pm
Hiyas, goofsmom !
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 1:55 pm
Saw that you are busy this weekend… Do you want to set a time for Monday???
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Yes!!! Please. And set the time BACK at least three hours. ‘ppreciate it.
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 1:59 pm
Gemini’s ruling planet, Mercury, must be in Goofy…can’t seem to help myslef.
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 2:00 pm
murphy 04.05.09 at 1:54 pm
“*Girls are becoming as good as boys* at mathematics, and are still better at reading”
Boys need girls far more than girls need boys. I don’t know about *better*, (yet, I think girls are) but that is so.
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 2:02 pm
amen, mountainsong. And boys and men can’t take girls and women anyplace
theywe don’t already know how to go.goofsmom 04.05.09 at 2:05 pm
((((Dances and Mountainsong))))
HI… ROFLMAO…. Mercury in Goofy… LOL LOL….
Murphy,
You got it…
pigpaws 04.05.09 at 2:05 pm
Tell me again who the media want you to believe is the ‘party of the rich’?
We know about opensecrets.
Let’s look at some on Barak O’Chavez’s cabinet. You know, the same people that say in the public that Wall Street is evil and it needs to be taken over by them, but behind the scenes…
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123879462053487927.html
- Top White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers received about $5.2 million over the past year in compensation from hedge fund D.E. Shaw, and also received hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees from major financial institutions.
A financial disclosure form released by the White House Friday afternoon shows that Mr. Summers made frequent appearances before Wall Street firms including J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers. He also received significant income from Harvard University and from investments, the form shows.
- David Axelrod, the president’s top political advisor, reported in his form that he will get $3 million over the next five years from the sale of his two media consulting firms, ASK Public Strategies, LLC and AKP&D Message and Media. In addition, Mr. Axelrod took a salary of $896,776 last year from AKP&D and reported $651,914 in partnership income from the two companies.
In total, Mr. Axelrod reported assets valued between $6.9 million and $9.5 million. Mr. Axelrod’s clients were mostly political campaigns, including those of Rep. Patrick Kennedy, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. He also reported receiving money from large corporations such as AT&T Inc., Comcast Corp. and the nuclear energy company Exelon Corp.
- National Security Adviser James Jones reported $900,000 in salary and bonus from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as well as director fees from a number of corporations. He received, for example, $330,000 from Boeing Corp. and $290,000 from Chevron Corp.
- Gregory Craig, White House Counsel, reported receiving a salary of $1.7 million last year from Williams & Connolly, the high-powered Washington law firm where he had been a partner since 1999.
- White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers collected a $350,000 salary from Allstate Financial as president of the social networking division, as well as $150,000 in board fees from Equity Residential, a real estate investment trust in which she also holds at least $250,000 in stock. She also collected $20,000 in board fees from Blue Cross Blue Shield. Other assets reported in her checking account, stock investments, and mutual funds total at least $2 million.
- Valerie Jarrett, assistant to the president for intergovernmental affairs, lists a $300,000 salary and $550,000 in deferred compensation from The Habitat Executive Services, Inc., in Chicago.
Ms. Jarrett also disclosed payments of more than $346,000 for service on boards of directors that reflect her political ties, and work in Chicago real estate and community development.
She was paid $76,000 last year for service as a director of Navigant Consulting, Inc. a Chicago-based global consulting group with governmental clients. She received $146,600 for service on the board of USG Corporation, a building materials manufacturer, and $58,000 to serve on the board of Rreef American REIT II, a real estate investment trust based in San Francisco. The Chicago Stock Exchange, Inc., paid her $34,444 to serve on its board.
- Deputy National Security Advisor Tom Donilon earned $3.9 million as a partner at the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where his clients include Citigroup, Inc., Goldman, Sachs & Co., and Obama fundraiser and heiress Penny Pritzker.
- Carol Browner, assistant to the president for energy and climate change, disclosed earnings of between $1 million and $5 million from lobbying firm Downey McGrath Group, Inc., where her husband, Thomas Downey, is a principal. She states $450,000 in “member distribution” income, plus retirement and other benefits from The Albright Group, a lobbying firm whose principals include former Secretary of State Madeline Albright.
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 2:12 pm
Reminder
This Sunday night, The Puma PAC Matriarchy Club will be discussing:
THE JEANETTE RANKIN BRIGADE: WOMAN POWER?
by Shulamith Firestone
You will find the article posted in our PUMA PAC “The Matriarchy Club” public forum http://pumapac.org/forums/the-matriarchy-club/
Our Sunday evening discussion starts at 6:30pm PDT, 9:30pm EDT.
If you’d like to join us, please send an email to actioncenter@pumapac.org
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Discussion take place in our private forum –
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The Puma PAC Matriarchy Club is organized to educate and enlighten our members, and ALL visitors, about the history of feminism.
See you there!
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 2:15 pm
I am a happy person. But I will be ever so much happier when, not if, the day comes that women everywhere attain self-realization and understand their true nature and BELIEVE IN THEIR OWN WHOLENESS!!!! Life *is* an evolution to the attainment of that which already is.
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 2:17 pm
mountainsong
I will be happier when MEN understand the true nature of women.
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 2:18 pm
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 2:02
I *hear* that!!!
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 2:19 pm
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 2:17 pm
mountainsong
I will be happier when MEN understand the true nature of women.
*sigh*
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 2:20 pm
Yes. I just believe that when a woman believes in herself, it no longer matters what men understand or do not.
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 2:21 pm
Like, we are only responsible for and to ourselves. This is liberation.
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 2:22 pm
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 2:20 pm
Yes. I just believe that when a woman believes in herself, it no longer matters what men understand or do not.
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I’ll have to ask President HR Clinton what she thinks about that.
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 2:23 pm
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 2:17 pm
I will be happier when MEN understand the true nature of women.
________________________
wow Dances kinda early in the day to be talking fairytale bedtime stories don’t ya think????
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 2:24 pm
Invalid
Murphy will probably delete your comment without comment since it includes the racist term “fairytale”.
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 2:26 pm
lol, that’s ok, my point was made….
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 2:26 pm
pigpaws 04.05.09 at 2:28 pm
What has everyone been saying about Bush and the Patriot Act? Anyone?
New bill would grant Obama unprecedented cyber-security powers.
Lets see he has taken over the banks, the car companies, he’s working on the energy sector, he is working on taking over the health industry, and now he wants the internet. To plant with his people.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Bill-Grants-President-Unprecedented-Cyber-Security-Powers-504520/
The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 introduced in the Senate would allow the president to shut down private Internet networks. The legislation also calls for the government to have the authority to demand security data from private networks without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule or policy restricting such access.
The headlines were all about creating a national cyber-security czar reporting directly to the president, but the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 introduced April 1 in the U.S. Senate would also give the president unprecedented authority over private-sector Internet services, applications and software.
According to the bill’s language, the president would have broad authority to designate various private networks as a “critical infrastructure system or network” and, with no other review, “may declare a cyber-security emergency and order the limitation or shutdown of Internet traffic to and from” the designated the private-sector system or network.
The 51-page bill does not define what private sector networks would be considered critical to the nation’s security, but the Center for Democracy and Technology fears it could include communications networks in addition to the more traditional security concerns over the financial and transportation networks and the electrical grid.
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 2:29 pm
whew… just finished a 24 oz tank of coffee… gotta get moving… my body is racing of its own accord.
ciao for niao, bella pumas.
hillstheone 04.05.09 at 2:37 pm
Murphy I love cinie’s website, thanks for turning me on to it!
http://cinie.wordpress.com/
p.s. she’s got a great essay on there, “Why I am PUMA,” gotta love it.
gay gal 04.05.09 at 2:43 pm
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 1:42 pm
“Maybe Murphy is a butch-of-center dyke trapped in a heterosexual fem-bot body?”
Wow that’s even more interesting that a gay male trapped in a lesbian body. I see she has gone AWOL again. She is probably taking the test over and over again.
pigpaws 04.05.09 at 2:47 pm
I will be happier when MEN understand the true nature of women.
That will happen the day women accept the true nature of men and stop trying to change them into women.
Regarding the theme of the post, society needs to stop drugging boys for being boys.
And while men are more violent than women, women do have a part in society’s woes. Seventy-five percent of men in prisons have no fathers. You cannot blame that all on the men. Boys need their fathers.
Out-of-wedlock births is a huge burden on society in every possible aspect. There is a cost to ‘sexual freedom’ and it is enormous.
No matter how hard you try, you can not get away from physiology/biology.
hillstheone 04.05.09 at 2:47 pm
Headline comment: this one says “Fed indictment alleges new heights of corruption,” which describes the story fairly well. However, in yesterday’s NY Times I think the same story headline read “Web widens in Fed indictment,” thought that was odd…
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iUGfqZ20EDMMrpprQv0pkbvxWb3wD97BOO280
Fed indictment alleges new heights of corruption
“If the allegations are true, it is the epitome of hypocrisy. It’s very sad,” said Brad McMillan, a member of the Illinois Reform Commission appointed by the state’s new governor.
“He ran on a platform to clean up Illinois government, and at the time he’s making those speeches he’s engaging in the same kind of unethical behavior he was condemning,” said McMillan, head of Bradley University’s Institute for Principled Leadership in Public Service.
Blagojevich, 52, was arrested in December on a host of charges, including the allegation he schemed to auction off the appointment to Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat. He was impeached and booted out of office in January, a first in the long history of Illinois corruption.
By one count, Illinois has seen 1,000 public-corruption convictions since 1970. Five former Illinois governors have been prosecuted during the past 44 years.
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 2:53 pm
The rag Times-Picayune today pasted in a two inch notice from the Associated Press next to a huge ad for whatelse..more smaller and better(?) cell phones …assuring “great” coverage to the following item about YOUR…OUR…MONEY…
(Page A-18)
“Price of bailout up, estimate finds”
Washington–Bailing out the financial sector will cost taxpayers $167 BILLION (my emphasis) more than orgiinally anticipated according to a Congressional Budget Office estimate.
The original figure in January was $189 billion but it is now
$356 BILLION (me again!) –$152 billion more for 2009 and $15 more next year the CBO states in its March report updating the budget and economic outlook.
The CBO raised its projection because yields have increased. on securities issued by the bailed-out financial institutions under the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program.
-30- (dinasour code for end of story)
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 2:56 pm
39pigpaws: Huh? Boys and girls definitely need their fathers..now where is that place unknown to only women where they are hiding all of those absent fathers???
And unless I missed something out there in the world…it still takes mostly two to tango and make a baby…so looks like one part of that two still hangs around with the child…where is the dude?
gay gal 04.05.09 at 2:58 pm
“Seventy-five percent of men in prisons have no fathers. You cannot blame that all on the men. Boys need their fathers.”
Wow, when I watch an interview or show about a serial killer (majority male) and I hear them say, “Grandma said she would cut off my penis if I wet the bed” or “My mom had sex with men in front of me” or “My dad abandon me and left me with a whore of a mother”, I normally say “Oh, poor thing”.
If such as this was the reasoning, most of sexually abused or emotionally abused women, which is the vast majority of abuse, would have become serial killers a long time again. I call BS on that one, Pigpaws.
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 3:01 pm
pigpaws: #39 is truly unreal to me. So please tell me what is the true nature of man…If one were to use your post as a beginning…I would say it is to play and run…to the next play..and then…whatever..the next play is and …go to jail.
According to the tacit logic of your post..Dats da true nature of men…I never said …it…your post does.
pigpaws 04.05.09 at 3:03 pm
A few more thoughts regarding the theme of this post that a friend pointed out –
1. Flip that around and substitute female in place of male. Misandry is not a made up word.
2. Let’s completely ignore all of the sex-based differences in learning styles between boys and girls, given that the current teaching method favors female brains
3. If it was a dude talking about being disinterested in sex w/ his fat wife, he’d be crucified.
Agreed. As a teacher, I know the second one well. As a mother of a son, he does better with a male teacher or a female one who appreciates and understands the differences.
gay gal 04.05.09 at 3:12 pm
“Agreed.”
No. But if you don’t want to talk about what you brought up anymore, I will hang with that.
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 3:18 pm
45pigpaws:1. Flip what around? The only problem with placing the women in the jails is that is not who are in the jails…so your friend’s and your flip there is unconnected to reality outside the mind.
Therefore the flip isn’t worth a frazzlin flip because it is not based in reality…outside your friend ‘s and your minds…a la
Descarte: I think therefore I am…unfortunately for him and both of you here…the next part of that thought is also not true in reality…what I think is real…not just inside but outside the brain…Descarte forget that reality does not consist only in what one thinks and one can think anything one wants but by that action does not mean that that thought in anyway enbodies anything outside the brain who thought it.
2. And what might that style entail and why ignore all of the sex based differences if, in fact, you say that the current teaching method favors female brains. If we do what you suggest in the first part of your #2 and “forget” then it does not matter logically what you say in the second part of #2.
(logically!)
3. Really? Guess you haven’t had on the TV for 40 years as I have. Crucified? by whom? And when did that happen?
Glad your son has found male or female paying attention to him…would that more have done that over the years with girls.
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 3:25 pm
pigpaws: Now as everyone probably knows here ..pigpaws..I can go on all day with you on the logic here…but I suggest as gaygirl that you bring us another of your most often wonderful finds in the world…rather than having me here teach you logic.
Yes..I am intense here…but it is the thought not you with which I am intense. Please do not confuse the two…dear pigpaws …for I appreaciate and have said it often your diligence in research. I simply reject all of this misguided logic.
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 3:39 pm
correction to nunmber 47: Descarte forgot that reality…
And now I have moved on…
murphy 04.05.09 at 3:43 pm
if it was a dude talking about not wanting to have sex with his fat wife he’d be crucified?
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
murphy 04.05.09 at 3:45 pm
isnt it fascinating though that the (at least) $40 BILLION dollars we spend on weight-loss every freaking year has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to reduce the average weight of the average woman?
Talk about burning up money!
Why do we pay for products that make us feel ugly?
http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/advice/20040113a1.asp
taggles1 04.05.09 at 3:47 pm
Twisted…….
say it aint so pigpaws! say it aint so you believe this:
And while men are more violent than women, women do have a part in society’s woes. Seventy-five percent of men in prisons have no fathers. You cannot blame that all on the men. Boys need their fathers.
Codswallop TRIPE! And confusing as hell too…..
LJSNAustin 04.05.09 at 3:59 pm
pigpaws #45, just what “current teaching method” are you referencing–the one that “favors female brains?” I’m a teacher, too.
taggles1 04.05.09 at 3:59 pm
well if anything murphy it has helped us remain a constant 161 lbs, while the men continue to bloat.
status quo as far as the patriarchy goes!
LJSNAustin 04.05.09 at 4:01 pm
murphy #50, double BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 4:03 pm
pigpaws 04.05.09 at 3:03 pm
points 1,2, and 3…..this folks (sorry have to use that forbidden word)
is what happens when one chews up and swallows whole manufactured TALKING POINTS!!
Some one call me when Zee does her blog review tonight, this is one I have to see the reaction to….. in the immortal words of our founder ” BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 4:07 pm
oops “chews up and swallows whole”, makes about as much since as the conclusions that were given in the post I was referring to….
sorry,
gay gal 04.05.09 at 4:09 pm
If we were really showing our Resurrection from Female Crucifixion today, we would caption the picture of those pregnant men that Murphy linked to.
http://blogsimages.skynet.be/images/000/433/742_Funny_Fat_men.jpg
murphy 04.05.09 at 4:10 pm
this is a neat site I just came across while looking for relief organizations for Afghan women.
http://www.wikigender.org/index.php/New_Home
it’s a women’s wiki.
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 4:13 pm
gay gal 04.05.09 at 2:43 LMAO @ Murphy taking quiz over and over again. hahahaha
NOP~~I really must write again, but I have that weekly womens meeting I go to this aftenoon.
murphy 04.05.09 at 4:14 pm
this Afghan woman says No Thanks to Obama’s War . . .
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/02/03-13
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 4:15 pm
mountainsong: Whenever you can…I always enjoy your communications.
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 4:15 pm
taggles1 04.05.09 at 3:59 161 lbs ? Shit, I’m 165~~~but I’m also 5’11″ Oh, well~~C’est la vie~
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 4:15 pm
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 4:15 pm TY
murphy 04.05.09 at 4:15 pm
meanwhile . . .
“ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to a crowded Shiite mosque just south of the capital on Sunday, killing at least 26 people. It was the third suicide attack in Pakistan in 24 hours, in a sign that the Pakistani Taliban are overwhelming the nation’s security forces.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/world/asia/06pstan.html?hp
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 4:18 pm
Last week we had 55 women and I was honored that they asked me to chair it, but I heard this week there will be more than 60 and it’s someone else’s turn to step up. The recession/depression seems to be causing an influx of women desperate for answers.
I’m happy I get to share about PUMA before and after these meetings.
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 4:20 pm
AND~~~it’s a beautiful sunshiny day, finally; I got my car fixed at last, and I’m gonna put the top down and let my hair blow in the wind!!! Yippee,skippy!!
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 4:28 pm
mountainsong: Long live convertibles!
Seattlegirl 04.05.09 at 4:29 pm
Great post. I am still lurking around!
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 4:33 pm
Seattlegirl: Read in the paper today that a crawfish supplier had just shipped 80lbs of live crawfish to Seattle..wonder where they are roaming..not for long…must be a NO Katrina soul…LOL
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 4:34 pm
100+ lbs of live crawfish were shipped to Denver…watch for them roaming across the mall downtown…
Seattlegirl 04.05.09 at 4:36 pm
I think we have crawfish in some of the lakes around here already.
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 4:36 pm
Murphy: The article by the Afghan woman certainly reveals the underbelly of so much not said about that country and women there…
Seattlegirl 04.05.09 at 4:38 pm
By the way, on the topic of violence against women, Seattle has had another massacre yesterday, this time the woman/mother is living but her husband shot all the kids then himself.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008989322_webapkillings05m.html?syndication=rss
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 4:39 pm
Seattlegirl: You need some crawfish nets..can’t do much with a string..if you are hungry!!!
That crawfish etouffe that a neighbor brought me were the first of the season for me..and now I am thinking of boiled crawfish…
Ok..I will stop thinking and talking about them.
catarina 04.05.09 at 4:39 pm
someone please direst me the Pumapac forbidden word list
didn’t know there was such a thing have a feeling I’m in deep s**t.
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 4:44 pm
catarina: If you were in deep s@@t ..Murphy would have already noted its levels…don’t you think?
atypical 04.05.09 at 4:51 pm
BO shilling for Turkey (cooperation with Muslims) to become part of the EU. Sarkozy tells him to butt out.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090405/pl_afp/euussummitturkey_20090405194905
taggles1 04.05.09 at 4:53 pm
Well, this is certainly girl vs. the boys:
US watchdog calls for bank executives to be sacked
Elizabeth Warren, chief watchdog of America’s $700bn (£472bn) bank bailout plan, will this week call for the removal of top executives from Citigroup, AIG and other institutions that have received government funds in a damning report that will question the administration’s approach to saving the financial system from collapse.
Warren, a Harvard law professor and chair of the congressional oversight committee monitoring the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (Tarp), is also set to call for shareholders in those institutions to be “wiped out”. “It is crucial for these things to happen,” she said. “Japan tried to avoid them and just offered subsidy with little or no consequences for management or equity investors, and this is why Japan suffered a lost decade.” She declined to give more detail but confirmed that she would refer to insurance group AIG, which has received $173bn in bailout money, and banking giant Citigroup, which has had $45bn in funds and more than $316bn of loan guarantees.
Warren also believes there are “dangers inherent” in the approach taken by treasury secretary Tim Geithner, who she says has offered “open-ended subsidies” to some of the world’s biggest financial institutions without adequately weighing potential pitfalls. “We want to ensure that the treasury gives the public an alternative approach,” she said, adding that she was worried that banks would not recover while they were being fed subsidies. “When are they going to say, enough?” she said.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/05/useconomy-regulators
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The Obama better not throw Elizabeth Warren under the bus!
NewOrleansPuma 04.05.09 at 4:59 pm
taggles1: I would not immediately conclude that Elizabeth Warren is not riding in the bus and simply turning the wheel a bit for the owner of the bus…
atypical 04.05.09 at 5:24 pm
A young family friend who is waiting to adopt a Chinese baby sent me this link about Chinese boy children being kidnapped:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/world/asia/05kidnap.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 5:30 pm
catarina 04.05.09 at 4:39 pm
someone please direst me the Pumapac forbidden word list
didn’t know there was such a thing have a feeling I’m in deep s**t.
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Huh??
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 5:36 pm
pigpaws 04.05.09 at 3:03 pm
Agreed. As a teacher, I know the second one well. As a mother of a son, he does better with a male teacher or a female one who appreciates and understands the differences.
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I thought you said you are an “Englishman” the other day… within the past 4 days.
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 5:39 pm
gay gal 04.05.09 at 2:43 pm
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 1:42 pm
“Maybe Murphy is a butch-of-center dyke trapped in a heterosexual fem-bot body?”
Wow that’s even more interesting that a gay male trapped in a lesbian body. I see she has gone AWOL again. She is probably taking the test over and over again.
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LOL LOL!!!
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 5:44 pm
Yep. Yet again it’s all the women’s fault that boys don’t have fahers. Yep, all teh men in prison didn’t have the benefit of a father. Let’s overlook all the status and privileges conferred upon boys and men, for no other reason that they were born with weenies.
No one is trying to change men into women…whatever the hell that means. Most are just trying to turn them into human beings.
Also, please cite studies where teaching methods favor girls. And, please don’t overlook the ones that invalidate your statement.
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 5:46 pm
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 5:30 pm
Huh??
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I think that was in reference to me saying that I was going to use the forbidden word “folks” …..
I have used “fairytale” and “folks” today…I’m such a radical..
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 5:50 pm
LOL
Invalid…
anarchy is busting out all over. It must be Spring!
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 5:58 pm
Dances,
Pffffffft, talk to me about spring when my front and back yard are not covered in that fricken white stuff… I swear I’m going to go back to using aerosol hair spray if things don’t start thawing out around here!!!
gojoyknocks 04.05.09 at 6:04 pm
gojoyknocks 04-05-09 at 7:08am
I always suspected I’m a homosexual male trapped in a female body.
gay gal 04-05-09 at 11:26am
Hey, that’s always been my line!
gay gal, You’re sexually attracted to men?
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 6:10 pm
gojoyknocks 04.05.09 at 6:04 pm
lmao, if she says yes…. that explanation is going to get sooooo complicated!!!!
taggles1 04.05.09 at 6:12 pm
I am awaiting the answer too….
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 6:13 pm
lol
gay gal 04.05.09 at 6:16 pm
I also an Englishman!
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 6:16 pm
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 5:58 pm
Dances,
Pffffffft, talk to me about spring when my front and back yard are not covered in that fricken white stuff…
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The only white stuff in sandy eggo is stored on the beaches… they call it “sand”.
You have an open invitation… and if you decide to move in, we’ll get bunkbeds for you and prplvette. Flip a coi to see who gets to be on top.
(lol)
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 6:17 pm
coin…not coi (koi?)
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 6:21 pm
awwww, as great as flipping fish for bed positions sounds, I have to live here to make the kinda of living I do, but I’d be up for a thaw out visit one day maybe??!!??
P.S. nice save gay gal!!
gay gal 04.05.09 at 6:24 pm
Well, it is complicated. The label was actually given to me by my gay male friends. Too much information. But, yes, I am attracted to men, but feel no need to practice it. Just have no adoration of them.
gay gal 04.05.09 at 6:41 pm
Oh, scratch your heads all you want.
taggles1 04.05.09 at 6:42 pm
are you a gal tho?
gay gal 04.05.09 at 6:49 pm
Yes, I am a gal. Emphatically.
Swannie 04.05.09 at 6:52 pm
This is a great post… real investigation needs to be done about the crimes done by men and dangerous testosterone levels .
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/119291158/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
There is some evidence that points to the need for further investigation .
taggles1 04.05.09 at 6:52 pm
okie dokie then! ha! LOL
taggles1 04.05.09 at 6:59 pm
No We Won’t tonight at 8pm est, if you are so inclined. Should be a good one! Don’t want to miss. Larry the puma pac pig award recipient Summers, the G two O’s in Europe, AKA EurObama Tour, Presidential Commission on Women and Girls………
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/no-we-wont
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 7:03 pm
Reminder: Following No We Won’t
The Puma PAC Matriarchy Club will be discussing:
THE JEANETTE RANKIN BRIGADE: WOMAN POWER?
by Shulamith Firestone
at 6:30 PDT /9:30 EDT tonight
You will find the article posted in our PUMA PAC “The Matriarchy Club” public forum http://pumapac.org/forums/the-matriarchy-club/
More info at comment #23
gay gal 04.05.09 at 7:10 pm
I can’t meet tonight, Dances. I forgot to say something earlier. We have a date with friends and the Standford women’s basketball game. The game won’t be over until 7:00pmish. I do like this reading though.
TerryDo 04.05.09 at 7:18 pm
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murphy 04.05.09 at 1:23 pm
Had houseguests and entertained a family from Spain this weekend (lovely), so sorry for being somewhat AWOL.
I’m still scratching my head for turning out more male than female. . .
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Ah Murphy, don’t stress out, the answer may lay in the possibility that you don’t like chocolate and thus chose apple pie and possibility you prefer beer instead of wine… Or some other male female obvious choice. I was surprised they did not ask us to chose between ( blue or pink)
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 7:18 pm
GayGal
No problem.
Go Stanford!!
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 7:22 pm
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 6:21 pm
awwww, as great as flipping fish for bed positions sounds, I have to live here to make the kinda of living I do, but I’d be up for a thaw out visit one day maybe??!!??
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No “maybe” about it! Absolutely.
taggles1 04.05.09 at 7:29 pm
I’ll be swinging by!
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 7:33 pm
cool
KarenWI 04.05.09 at 7:36 pm
Hmmmm…. so 8 look like supermodels huh? LET ME AT those 8!!! Those “barbie doll” women are ruining it for the other 3 billion of us!!! Those 8, by the way, probably are more “plastic” (and I don’t mean in their wallets, but in their BODIES) than the “birthday suits” they were born with anyway! In that way they are more like the “Barbie Dolls” that they emulate than just in looking like them!
DancesWithPumas 04.05.09 at 7:39 pm
KarenWI
YOu have one hell of a nerve showing your face in here.
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 8:02 pm
Crap~~58 women showed up today and they still insisted I chair. I did and I was a good girl and only cried twice~~once when a woman talked about her son getting killed and the other was a young native american woman who is scared to death cuz she has just been diagnosed wwith *endo* and may need a hysterectomy.
I needed to lighten my mood after the meeting so I went to see my hairdresser to get my eyebows done ( I can’t see them good enough to do my own anymore) While I was there, (roflamao) a young bodybuilder guy of 28, who had been talking to another woman/hairdresser, started hitting on me. I said, “Sorry, I’m not into men like that”. What was so funny was my hairdresser says, “You’re kidding!! Ya wanna go out to the club with me Wed?”
hahahahaha
mollymcbutter 04.05.09 at 8:03 pm
I just saw the video of the last sighting of the latest little girl that’s missing. She’s just hopping and skipping along, her little purse over her shoulder. Happy as can be… without a care in the world. It brought tears to my eyes to even try to imagine what may have happened in the next few minutes of her life. I hope there will be a happy ending but we know that hardly ever happens. Heartbreaking.
invalidresponse 04.05.09 at 8:03 pm
Don’t forget Sheri’s radio show on NOW!!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/NO-WE-WONT/2009/04/06/NO-WE-WONT
mountainsong 04.05.09 at 8:10 pm
mollymcbutter 04.05.09 at 8:03 Darnit! That makes 3 times today. There is just too much of it happening and I feel overwhelmed by it all sometimes.
murphy 04.05.09 at 10:35 pm
toe tappin’ tunes posted, take it upstairs!
Juliette 04.05.09 at 10:38 pm
I like men. Lets not make this a haters website please. I really try to direct people to puampac, but posts like these will just scare people away.
Can we try to get Madame Secretary Hillary Clinton to block Obama’s nomination of Haraold Koh for State Dept. Legal Secretary. This would be a much more constructive use of energy than declaring women better than men.
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