BIG DREAMS FOR A LITTLE GIRL
Several things happening at once today. Watch the Sotomayor confirmation hearings live HERE or HERE. I’ll be blogging it as much as I can. I forgot to post yesterday an important decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals which is germane to reproductive choice:
“Pharmacists are obliged to dispense the Plan B pill, even if they are personally opposed to the “morning after” contraceptive on religious grounds, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
In a case that could affect policy across the western U.S., a supermarket pharmacy owner in Olympia, Wash., failed in a bid to block 2007 regulations that required all Washington pharmacies to stock and dispense the pills”
Excellent, if unsurprising, news. Imagine if a militant woman-centered lesbian pharmacist refused to stock or fill prescriptions for Viagra.(bwahahahahaha!) What’s next, fundamentalist Christian pharmacists refusing to fill prescriptions to women for pain relief after childbirth because of the Bible’s decree that we suffer “labor pangs”?? Or Muslim doctors refusing to treat women patients?
The unanimous decision by the Court was VERY clear: “that a patient’s right to timely medication supersedes a pharmacist’s personal convictions.”
Amen.
It’s really not that difficult to see that pharmacists like the one in the suit above will NEVER win their cases. Even with conservative judges appointed by pro-life politicians:
“The three 9th Circuit judges found common ground despite differing outlooks: Two conservatives named to the court by President George W. Bush and a liberal named by President Clinton made up the panel.”
The conversation at Violet Socks’ place continues to be enlightening on the subject. Catch up HERE.
I’ll keep this thread as an open thread with a focus on the Sotomayor hearings for a few hours before we get back to the Cap and Trade reading assignment. Apologies for the confusion.
The developing news about Secretary Clinton’s move to excuse foreign diplomats from paying property taxes seems like a minor political scuffle. I don’t think it represents or is symbolic of anything important (the issue certainly MATTERS to foreign embassies and NYC tax collectors, but to the rest of us? not so much.I just don’t read any major political power plays involving obama or the “muzzling” of Clinton in this story.) Looks like Bloomberg is using the media as his megaphone and billy club.
In preparation for our group analysis of the Cap and Trade Bill, I was reading StateofDisbelief’s excellent post on the topic the other day. Wonderful insights in the post and in comments. Here are a couple of links to help us all become minor experts on the subject before we decide to support (or not) this bill.
- What IS emissions trading, aka Cap and Trade?
- What are some of the REASONED objections to Cap and Trade?
- (I don’t agree with all of these, but I believe they are evidence-based objections. Everyone should read them.) Read HERE and HERE for very good criticism so we can make informed decisions.
Right now my old pal (grrrr!) Orrin Hatch is questioning Sotomayor. Herb Kohl, D-WI, asked good questions and she gave reasoned, VERY confident, answers. Makes me predict the right-wing hatchet throwers will whip out the “She thinks she’s ALL THAT” sexist attack later on today. oy vey.
Onward.
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murphy 07.14.09 at 11:42 am
Hatch grilling on fundamental rights. Soto saying she relies on the law. Not willing to make political pronouncements.
Sesssions (R) used up all his time to make a speech.
Hatch: yr decision on Maloney you held that the “right to bear arms is not fundamental.”
tough question.
murphy 07.14.09 at 11:46 am
hatch, “permissive standard for gun control. your decision means that practically any weapons ban would be Constitutional.”
Soto — answering about the specific weapon in question. that’s bs. The point is if the standard for weapons bans is too permissive, ANY ban would be allowable.
she says it WAS a narrow question and they decided the state (NY) had a “rational basis” to ban numchucks.
he wants to focus on “permissive standard”
oops, here comes Ricci.
she wants to focus on “rational basis”
murphy 07.14.09 at 11:49 am
“all nine of the SC justices “disagreed with your handling of the case.” even the 4 judges who decided AGAINST the firefighters.
most say you were bound by precedent. this case involved both “disparate impact” AND “disparate treatment”
“yr decision did not cite any precedent of the Supreme Court or Appeals Court.”
if you WERE bound by precedent, how come you didnt cite any precedent?
BigCatLover 07.14.09 at 11:51 am
I’m glad that they ruled against pharmacists deciding what medication they will and will not dispense. I was not so certain that they would disallow this getting between a doctor and a patient like the insurance companies do by limiting coverage for a treatment.
Repubs will beat Ricci and wise latina woman to death, but hopefully some other questions of a more serious nature will also get covered.
murphy 07.14.09 at 11:54 am
as leahy noted during the break, her comments from a speech 8 years ago really arent germane to confirmation hearings. I think they’ve given up on that line of attack. thankfully.
however, Ricci is fair game. That’s a decision she made and which was reviewed and decided upon by the Supreme Court. I look forward to getting detailed answers about it.
murphy 07.14.09 at 11:57 am
Hatch: was Kennedy wrong to write in the SC Ricci decision that your court failed to use or cite precedent. Was he wrong?
Sotomayor: it was an unusual case. no second circuit precedent.
Hatch: why didnt your court do the research then? if it WAS comlicated/unusual/difficult case, why did you not analyze the issues your self and apply some laws. Why didnt you carefully set a NEW precedent?
(in other words, you’re fudging and hand-waving)
murphy 07.14.09 at 11:59 am
Hatch bringing up that People for the American Way are smearing Frank Ricci because they know he may be a witness.
Soto: says that is REPREHENSIBLE and would NEVER endorse such actions by People for the American Way.
Leahy: In 97 race related cases that Sotomayor has been a part of, she has found against those claiming discrimination 80 times. Seems absurd to say Judge Sotomayor uses race in her decisions unfairly.
murphy 07.14.09 at 12:01 pm
Sessions says Sotomayor is NOT maintstream because she’s 3% more liberal than the Dem congress (i think).
(run for your lives! she’s a rabid left-wing liberal!!)
murphy 07.14.09 at 12:03 pm
Feinstein: Estrada has no judicial experience. Soto answering questions very matter of fact and unprovocative. Gets a A++ for “judicial tempermant.”
defending her Ricci decision. Bader-Ginsburg and Breyer said Soto’s decision was correct and should have been upheld by the SC.
BigCatLover 07.14.09 at 12:06 pm
Feinsein is now making a speech in support of Sotomayor. What do you think of that tactic in a SCOTUS hearing, Murphy. I know it’s done all the time, but is it a proper use of her questioning time? Curious of what your opinion is and I’m not trying to pose a gotcha question.
murphy 07.14.09 at 12:08 pm
feinstein: what’s happening is that this very considered and careful nominee is being characterized as an activist when nothing could be further from the truth.
you’ve agreed with Republican senators 98% of the time. You said your role is to “apply the law as it exists using existing laws to back it up.”
you said “precedence is what gives the law stability.”
that is NOT an activist.
here comes abortion.
SC has said “The law cannot put a woman’s health at risk (looong list of SC decisions).”
this rule seems to have changed since Roberts and ALito came on board. The basic Constitutionality of the statement: “The law cannot put a woman’s health at risk” seem to have gone out the window.
when there are multiple precendents and a question arises are all the previous precedents applicable or should the court start from scratch?
Soto: depends on the facts of the SPECIFIC case. Precedents still hold. The health of the woman still exists as a Constiutional and those precedents must be given deference.
(there will be lots of tea-leaf reading on this.)
murphy 07.14.09 at 12:10 pm
BCL #10 — depends. I think it’s okay bc the American people ARE listening and it’s important for their Senators to sort of make themselves and their alliances/priorities clear.
Feinstein was okay, not too long.
Sessions abused the privilege.
murphy 07.14.09 at 12:12 pm
Feinstein: how do you approach overturning precedent?
Soto: justices should “show humility” when considering the long body of law and precedents.
VERY CAUTIOUSLY when overturning precedent. Stare Decisis means you have to give deference to precedence. Must be a principled approach to overturning.
(here comes Executive Power)
BigCatLover 07.14.09 at 12:13 pm
I think Sessions as the first repub questioner was trying to set the direction of public opinion and so his speech was not unexpected, but it gets tiresome.
murphy 07.14.09 at 12:14 pm
yup, and Feinstein et al deserve the chance to do the same, but agreed: keep it short and sweet Senator Windbags!
BigCatLover 07.14.09 at 12:18 pm
Amzing how different this hearing is from the Bush SCOTUS hearings where the nominees refused to answer most of the questions. They stonewalled alot.
murphy 07.14.09 at 12:19 pm
i was just thinking that BCL. I was too discouraged to pay close attention to Roberts and Alitos hearings (gack!) but it DOES seem she’s being very straightforward.
and she sure sounds solidly in charge of her knoweldge and approaches.
murphy 07.14.09 at 12:20 pm
OT, Tina Brown’s interview about Sec Clinton being “boxed in” or “boxed out” by the obadministration is quite interesting and good but WHY OH WHY does she have to use the sexist “other wife” metaphor? blech.
http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/14/commentary-let-clinton-take-off-her-burqa/
Susie1945 07.14.09 at 12:21 pm
Sorry PUMAs – can’t watch any more of this bloviating BS – she’s gonna be confirmed – these asshole congress critters are just doing what they do best – bloviate – they don’t spend enough time in Congress to do any work – they just talk, talk, talk, talk and not a god damm one of them walks the walk – some of them are just excruciating to listen to – did all they all attend the same school of talk that the o’bloviator in chief attended – what about speaking plain English – do they think we are all so stupid we can’t figure out that they’re all talking and not saying a damm thing???
bbl – going to go read a couple chapters of the latest John Sanford book ‘wicked prey’ – that at least is written in English that actually gives some information – but it’s just a book ……………..
BigCatLover 07.14.09 at 12:27 pm
Another puma had that reaction to Tina Brown’s statement about Hillary being the other wife, but when I read it, my reaction was that she was using it on purpose to describe how sexist Obama is treating her, not that she is acting as a second wife. I thought it was an effective way to make other women shudder at the analogy. It was designed to make people wince. Don’t know Tina Brown so I may have been wrongly giving her the benefit of the doubt.
murphy 07.14.09 at 12:27 pm
Feinstein: Gun free school zones. SC struck down the law saying you cant bring a gun within so many feet of a school.
Soto: specifics of the case and the applicable law. Interstate commerce would have been affected. Unique factual settings.
(looks like Soto is doing the handwaving bullshit that grows from the naive assumption that justices DONT go and look for cases/precedents to use to support the decision they already KNOW they’re going to come to. oh well.)
murphy 07.14.09 at 12:29 pm
i like that interpretation BCL. Tina Brown was most def a VERY strong Hillary supporter. Good friends with Laaaady Lynne deRothschild who ended up openly supporting McCain after the Massacre in Denver.
Shadowfax 07.14.09 at 12:30 pm
I love listening to Diane Feinstein….
murphy 07.14.09 at 12:31 pm
who the HECK is Estrada?
(enough already with the “obama’s confirmation hearings were last november and he sailed through them” joke. it wasnt very funny the first time and it’s REALLY not funny the 4th time, Leahy.)
oy vey.
BigCatLover 07.14.09 at 12:33 pm
Is Sotomayor saying that interstate commerce covered bringing a gun near a school? Huh?
BigCatLover 07.14.09 at 12:35 pm
Estrada is a judge that the repubs (bush) kept trying to get confirmed and the dem controlled congress would not hold hearings on him, I believe. Repubs still mad about that.
murphy 07.14.09 at 1:05 pm
BCL,yup somehow it came into play with that specific case. Sotomayor was consistently focused on the idea that SPECIFIC cases and laws means that broad hypothetical opinions about them are impossible.
which is SORT of true. But nominees since Bork have become quite adept at sidestepping political philosophy questions.
murphy 07.14.09 at 1:10 pm
NYT headline:
“Sotomayor Says Identity Won’t Distort Her Decisions”
DISTORT?? distort? as in: falsify: make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story
twist: form into a spiral shape; “The cord is all twisted”
contort: twist and press out of shape
tinge: affect as in thought or feeling; “My personal feelings color my judgment in this case”; “The sadness tinged his life”
deform: alter the shape of (something) by stress; “His body was deformed by leprosy”
so being a woman (or from a certain ethnic background) is like having fucking LEPROSY??
misogyny is the air we breathe.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/us/politics/15confirm.html?_r=1&hp
DancesWithPumas 07.14.09 at 1:43 pm
“Sotomayor Says Identity Won’t Distort Her Decisions”
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distort as in departure from the wise white male identity standard?
murphy 07.14.09 at 1:54 pm
right, that’s why it’s the air we breathe. women and people of color have “identities.”
white men are the mold and we are the distorters of the mold. and I dont mean mold like the mold in the kitchen.
white men see a reflection of “humanity” in the mirror.
women are a distortion of the mirror’s reflection.
murphy 07.14.09 at 2:15 pm
that’s not what *I* think of course. it’s what we’re taught to think. it’s what white men in this country (and black-brown-asian men in other countries) believe.
it’s not even necessarily EVIL or surprising. Think of it in terms of our national identity. I see myself as an American citizen and view the rest of the world as a deviation (neutral word) from America. What happens in France is happening in an “other” country and its only impact on me is as it relates to my world. America is what I see in the mirror — Europe is a distortion of my mirror.
and that goes the other way too. Europeans see their own countries in the mirror, not ours.
the problem is that in the US, only the men get to hold the mirrors.
HP Boston 07.14.09 at 2:15 pm
I am doubtful we will know anything concrete about Sotomayor after all the loonies in Congress talk the talk.
They will do as they are told and all is a freaking waste of time and money. They do so enjoy badgering and lecturing to women, may all their dicks fall off………
murphy 07.14.09 at 2:16 pm
Sotomayor back on.
watch live on your computer here:
http://www.c-span.org/Supreme-Court-Sotomayor-Senate-Confirmation-Hearings.aspx
murphy 07.14.09 at 2:20 pm
forced pregnancy freaks who scream during hearings do nothing to advance their cause. it turns regular people off.
murphy 07.14.09 at 2:27 pm
interesting. The Dems are calling several civil rights and political witnesses to testify on Sotomayor’s behalf, but NO experts from women’s rights or repro choice groups. At first I thought, well maybe they all stay away from ANYTHING having to do with repro choice so as not to torpedo the nomination one way or another (i know, i know goes to show you how they feel our issues are “distortive”)
BUT then I noticed the Repubs are calling TWO forced-pregnancy witnesses. Remind me again why we’re supposed to view the Dems as champions of women’s Constitutional rights.
http://www.c-span.org/pdf/Witness070908.pdf
DancesWithPumas 07.14.09 at 2:35 pm
Remind me again why we’re supposed to view the Dems as champions of women’s Constitutional rights.
http://www.c-span.org/pdf/Witness070908.pdf
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uhhhh…. Because they paid darned good money to convince us?
Shadowfax 07.14.09 at 2:38 pm
murphy 07.14.09 at 1:10 pm
NYT headline:
“Sotomayor Says Identity Won’t Distort Her Decisions”
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Good to know that we women can’t be held to observe and judge with clarity unless we promise to do so.
Hmmm, I guess that means men like Baracko are naturally clear thinking and honest and don’t need to be asked to make a promise. (Don’t get me started on this one…)
Then again, why is anyone taking NYT seriously in their distortion of the truth? They are still drinking the kool-aid like all the media except maybe Greta…and she is a little too nice in her attacks for my taste.
HP Boston 07.14.09 at 2:53 pm
Ahhhhhhhh FISA!!!! Guns….secrets
HP Boston 07.14.09 at 2:54 pm
Good throw it back at the Congress, they have done a crappy job……..
waterpanther 07.14.09 at 2:57 pm
Sessions says Sotomayor is NOT maintstream because she’s 3% more liberal than the Dem congress (i think).
(run for your lives! she’s a rabid left-wing liberal!!)
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What does that make her? A bluejohn Democrat?
For non-Southerners: “Bluejohn” is skim milk.
HP Boston 07.14.09 at 3:03 pm
Good afternoon!!! You are a short circuit Kyl………bla blah
HP Boston 07.14.09 at 3:08 pm
What does that make her? A bluejohn Democrat?
For non-Southerners: “Bluejohn” is skim milk.
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gee we have herds and herds of Bluejohns in Congress already!!
Shadowfax 07.14.09 at 3:20 pm
Terrorists issue threat against ‘Bruno’ star
Claim Cohen’s homosexual film conspiracy against their jidad group
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=103933
no1what 07.14.09 at 3:51 pm
Where can I get one of these bumper stickers? No, not just one, I think I would like to post them everywhere I am or go.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/07/sign_of_the_times_2.html
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 3:53 pm
If you need a
little break, big laugh, Betty Jean at FreeMeNow! brings a little reality news (never played over and over and in the MSM)The first clip is about his handshake dish on HRC and the 2nd and 3rd his global payback.
Heeeeerrrrsssss!!!…. theyresoooogladtomeetmebecauseimthekingoftheworld!
http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/paybacks-are-a-bitch/
(I really tried to be embarrassed for him… I failed)
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 3:56 pm
no1what 07.14.09 at 3:51 pm
Where can I get one of these bumper stickers? No, not just one, I think I would like to post them everywhere I am or go.
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But is it ‘Lots Of Love’ or ‘Laughing Out Loud?’ !!
LJSNAustin 07.14.09 at 3:57 pm
no1what #44, here it is: http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/item/lol-sticker-bumper/294705969
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 3:59 pm
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 3:56 pm
You’re right. Maybe there would be no question with ROTFLMA (the “O” emblem at the end)
later.
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 4:01 pm
Nice selection though here:
http://shop.cafepress.com/sk/writeinclinton/791
CJK 07.14.09 at 4:07 pm
First, WBD, thanks for that great link! Well-deserved guffaws (a la HRC’s big, raucus laugh!!!). It does my heart good to see this. No, the MSM is not playing this stuff over and over…but should! I have to say, the ‘View’ clip SOMEWHAT restored Whoopi’s image for me. Yes, ‘If you are triumphant, you don’t need to stand on someone’s throat.’ Finally, an intelligent statement from someone on that worthless show. httpp://freemenow.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/paybacks-are-a-bitch/
P.S. No, I didn’t even TRY to be embarrassed for him. He doesn’t deserve it, but does deserve every last international snub he gets. They see him for the total loser he really is, always was and always will be.
no1what 07.14.09 at 3:51 pm
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 3:56 pm
LJSNAustin 07.14.09 at 3:57 pm
I immediately thought ‘Laugh Out Loud.’ If they have a sticker that says that underneath the ‘LOL,’ then I want hundreds of thousands of them!!!
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 4:19 pm
WBD’s link:
http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/paybacks-are-a-bitch/
Yes, good for Whoopi – I agree CJK – image restored somewhat!
I had forgotten how badly BO snubbed Hillary on that occasion – he didn’t even pretend that it was accidental….ughhh
Well, what’s wrong with me – I WAS embarrassed for him? Am, I banished to the corner? My empathy levels are very high – they ARE. OMG, I can’t talk my way out of this!!!
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 4:20 pm
Forgot
CJK 07.14.09 at 4:20 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090714/ap_on_bi_ge/us_earns_goldman_sachs
Okay, if this doesn’t put the Matt Taibbi Rolling Stone article and State of Disbelief’s TC article re Goldman Sachs and Crap n Tax in proper perspective, nothing will. BTW, GS is also a ‘sharia-compliant’ bank. GS received some $10 billion in CPP funds through TARP (yours and my tax dollars), I believe. They are not yet among the firms being sued under the ‘establishment clause’ lawsuit against the feds and AIG, but should be, along with a number of other ‘sharia-compliant’ banks, IMO(e.g., Citigroup Inc., JP Morgan Chase & Co., Bof A Coirp., Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc, Dow Jones & Co. Inc.) Do you suppose any of these monsters will share their windfall profits with the taxpayers whose hard-earned tax dollars helped them out of the economic mess their previous poor decisions created for all of us???
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 4:21 pm
Well, I am embarrassed to admit that I didn’t know these facts:
- As you walk up the steps to the building which houses the U.S Supreme Court you can see near the top of the building a row of the world’s law givers and each one is facing one in the middle who is facing forward with a full frontal view…
…It is Moses and he is holding the Ten Commandments!
- As you enter the Supreme Court courtroom, the Two huge oak doors have the Ten Commandments Engraved on each lower portion of each door.
- As you sit inside the courtroom, you can see The wall, right above where the Supreme Court judges sit, a display of the Ten Commandments!
- There are Bible verses etched in stone all over the Federal Buildings and Monuments in Washington , D.C.
-James Madison, the fourth president, known as ‘The Father of Our Constitution’ made the following statement:
‘ We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.’
- Every session of Congress begins with a prayer by a paid preacher, whose salary has been paid by the taxpayer since 1777.
- Fifty-two of the 55 founders of the Constitution were members of the established orthodox churches in the colonies.
- Thomas Jefferson worried that the Courts would overstep their authority and instead of interpreting the law would begin making law an oligarchy ……
The rule of few over many.
CJK 07.14.09 at 4:25 pm
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 4:19 pm
RemNov, you could never be ‘banished’ here! For me, however, in order to have empathy for someone requires that the person have some degree of humility about them. BO, IMO, has absolutely nada, zero, zilch, zip humility. He is an arrogant, narcissistic, self-centered, self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing, infantile egomaniac. Did I leave anything out??? Oh, sexist, misogynistic, hypocritical, patriarchal, chauvinistic, poor sport…
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 4:33 pm
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 4:19 pm # 51
(I was, too, embarrassed for him)
I just hate like heck to admit it.
See CJK 07.14.09 at 4:25 pm # 55
HP Boston 07.14.09 at 4:37 pm
I was embarrassed for America!
Shadowfax 07.14.09 at 4:38 pm
Speaking of bumper stickers, I wish I had the nerve to put this one on my car and had the income to later repair it from obot damage:
http://www.zazzle.com/vote_for_obama_thanks_asshole_bumper_sticker-128332074008619969
LJSNAustin 07.14.09 at 4:42 pm
OMG, Shadow, the amount of obot damage I would suffer with that one would be enough to make me have to get a new car!
BigCatLover 07.14.09 at 4:42 pm
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 3:53 pm
I watched those tapes of Obama and the handshakes and I really think on the middle one he is introducting someone (our ambassador?) and not trying to shake hands. He seems to be using his hand to present the person in the line. The Saudi Arabian king video, I’m not sure about – they seem to be bypassing him but without sound it’s hard to figure out what’s going on. One man smiles at BO as he approaches him and then shakes his hand. The others walk right past BO and shakes the king’s hand. Not really clear that they were snubbing BO.
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 4:43 pm
CJK – you are too funny (although you may be scowling?)! I agree with the characterization – I hAave e tendency to put myself in other people’s shoes and I (underlined) would have been mortified – misplaced empathy – absolutely
By the way, thanks for posting my next comment on GS – didn’t they change their status in September 2008 in order to be eligible for TARP funds? – gambled with our tax money. It paid off this time what if it hadn’t? Apart from the articles you reference Wikipedia has a good section about them:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman_Sachs
CJK 07.14.09 at 4:45 pm
HP Boston 07.14.09 at 4:37 pm
Yes, HP Boston, any embarrassment I might have felt watching those clips was for America/Americans. Not for BO personally! Like BettyJean said, ‘paybacks are a bitch!’ Why should BO be exempt???
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 4:47 pm
Yes, BigCatLover, I thought exactly the same thing about the Russian handshakes -but wasn’t he in Russia and who would he be introducing him to? Could not identify where they were exactly to form a conclusion about that. Have to go back and check. I appreciate your critical eye!
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 4:48 pm
If only Women had a God and Chisel like Moses… maybe we wouldn’t need a Lobotomist with a Jack Hammer to get the ERA passed.
BigCatLover 07.14.09 at 4:52 pm
WBD
If Obama’s in Russia in that video, then is the guy he’s introducing the Russian president (not Putin, but the other one).
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 4:54 pm
BigCatLover 07.14.09 at 4:42 pm :
“I watched those tapes of Obama and the handshakes and I really think on the middle one he is introducting someone (our ambassador?)”
BCL: I thought so too… but then… I played it again and watch his facial expressions as he makes the hand gestures – it seems that he reluctantly makes the adjustment to “let me introduce you” at the very last one on the clip.
CJK 07.14.09 at 4:55 pm
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 4:21 pm
WBD, remember that the founders of this country/framers of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution came here for religious freedom. Also, remember that the Ten Commandments were/are viewed as a basic ethical framework by Christians, Jews, Muslims, etc. This ethical framework has a long history and has never been exclusive/limited to any one specific ‘religion.’ The article at the link has some basic info. Thanks.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 4:55 pm
Yes, there might not be any car left to repair, Shadow, LSJNAustin ……
depends where you live. Where I am right now I might get some honks of support but either I am too chicken or there is some deep protective voice that tells me ‘don’t even think about it’
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 5:04 pm
BCL: He’s never been the sharpest worm in the bunch when it comes to protocols.
If it were not for the MSM, SCFP, TELEPROMPTER and OBOTS, the whole world would have seen the spitting image of Bush – from all angles from the get-go.
CJK 07.14.09 at 5:08 pm
Shadowfax 07.14.09 at 4:38 pm
LJSNAustin 07.14.09 at 4:42 pm
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 4:55 pm
I can’t remember another time in my life when anyone in this country would’ve been afraid to place a bumper sticker on their car for fear of violent/destructive political retaliation. What has this country come to? I marched and demonstrated back in the late 70s and endured being called names by Neanderthals, but was never ‘afraid’ of any sort of physical retaliation. If this kind of fear is what BO has spawned, should that not tell every American something very sinister about this man, his methods and his agenda??? How can anyone consider him any kind of uniter or leader when this is the kind of reprisal/retaliation and fear he provokes?
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 5:11 pm
Medvedev, BCL. I checked some comments on You tube and they run the gamut from being snubbed, introducing Medvedev to whoever they are and, third, trying to shake hands the first 2 times but then just presenting Medvedev on the last one. Just like us! Other comments could not even be described here..
BigCatLover 07.14.09 at 5:13 pm
RemNov
Thanks for supplying the name, I could say it but when I tried to type it, it kept coming out looking wrong.
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 5:14 pm
Are you inside my head CJK? Incredibly sad but it is true.
Have to leave for awhile. BBL
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 5:16 pm
CJK 07.14.09 at 4:55 pm:
I can understand the history of it all. I am just having a terrible time lately coming to terms with how such “divinely inspired” documents such as the Ten Commandments and The Constitution have conversely been used as the basis for ultimately harming so many.
It’s hard to express, right now.
MK summed it up best – “The Bill of Rights is now my Religion”
Dragonfly 07.14.09 at 5:17 pm
murphy
I’m drinking up your commentary like a thirsty traveller at a bar. I would love to be glued to the tube watching these hearings. Thank you so much for blogging them.
I also LOVED your comparison re the pharmacist case – the lesbian who refuses to stock viagra. That is too good!
On Sotomayor, I am pleased to hear that she is doing so well. Forgive me persephone – I like her. Where is persephone, anyway? Tell her it is summer and she is not supposed to be secluded in Hades right now. Come to the light and blog!
On the Ricci case, it bothers me that Sotomayor is getting heat. We don’t even know who was assigned the case. It is a per curiam decision (all three judges jointly signed off on it), and then 8 judges agreed not to hear it again and just slightly re-wrote the opinion. There is absolutely no hard conclusion one can draw about Sotomayor from that decision.
Re Sessions, yup, I lived in Alabama a while. He drives me crazy. When you were quoting a southern drawl yesterday, I just knew he had to be the speaker. Actually, he made a good move using all his time on a speech. He got to look good to his conservative constituents and he avoided grilling Sotomayor.
Funny about Sotomayor’s stats on the discrimination cases. That needs to be hammered to Sessions and others. If she is ruling against people with race claims most of the time, hello, she is not an activist.
and murphy at 30 -so true. The white male model of “objectivity” is not value neutral
Big Cat Lover, re gun ban. It’s been a long time since that case, which started in Texas. It was Lopez v. something, I think. Have to run or I would research it for you. I think the analysis was (don’t shoot the messenger ha ha) that the gun ban for the school zone was unconstitutional because guns are a part of interstate commerce (economy involves multiple states, money crossing of state lines); accordingly, the state law interfered with Congressional power, and it was overturned.
Now, get this – the VAWA (violence against women act) was supported by all sorts of findings that Congress had the power to enact it because of interstate commerce. Yet it interfered with state’s rights.
So, if kids and women are getting killed, there must be some way to overturn the law, state or federal? Sometimes that is the way it feels.
Okay, love to all PUMAs. Must dart away . . .
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 5:18 pm
Major fight on Fox business right now about Goldman sachs exploiting and profiteering with taxpayers dollars
CJK 07.14.09 at 5:18 pm
RemNov, are you able to receive email at the PUMA PAC Action center? I have a draft that could use some editing if you’re interested. Also, anyone know where webfoot has gone these days?
Murphy, just wondering about PUMA PAC re the Crap n Tax bill. We did do a prowl against it just a couple of weeks ago, no? “Here are a couple of links to help us all become minor experts on the subject before we decide to support (or not) this bill.” Just wonderin’…
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 5:19 pm
Sorry, fight over, I’m not fast enough
CJK 07.14.09 at 5:33 pm
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 5:16 pm
WBD, I understand. I would agree that we should always go back to the Bill of Rights, the basis for equality of rights under the law for all citizens. The problem, IMO, arises from the fact that ‘religions,’ in actuality, are ‘man-made,’ with complex belief systems that have strayed very far from any basic ‘ethical framework.’ For that reason, IMO, more harm has been done in the world in the name of ‘religions’ than just about anything else. I believe the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights (and Declaration of Independence) were framed with an ‘ethical framework’ in mind, and not with any specific ‘man-made’ ‘religions’ in mind (they came here for religious freedom, after all). It just happens that ‘religions’ and their ‘man-made’ belief systems will seize on anything to use at their convenience and whim either as a weapon against those who disagree with their complex belief systems or as an excuse for those who follow them. IMO, if we return to upholding the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, we find clear, strong support for inclusion (not exclusion) of full, equal human rights/civil rights for all citizens. I’m no attorney, so that is just my humble citizen’s opinion…
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 5:39 pm
CJK 07.14.09 at 5:33 pm:
Wonderful way the frame the issue and address my exact conflicts. Thank you for making the effort in response to my post.
CJK 07.14.09 at 5:39 pm
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 5:14 pm
RemNov, if I were ‘inside your head,’ I wouldn’t need to email you anything to edit! But, yes, perhaps we’re on the same page about many things…
CJK 07.14.09 at 5:44 pm
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 5:39 pm
WBD, you are very welcome. I’ve spent a lot of time researching, considering, examining and re-examining such issues, and have come to my own conclusions. I’m happy when my work is able to help others.
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 5:45 pm
By the way, here is a pretty good analysis of Cheney’s role in issue with the CIA and Congress. I don’t know much about the commentator “Jack Rice” but he lays it out on Cheney, Congress’ role in oversight and what it all means for the future.
http://airamerica.com/jackrice/blog/2009/jul/13/cheney-broke-law-jack-rice
Shadowfax 07.14.09 at 5:47 pm
CJK
I can’t remember another time in my life when anyone in this country would’ve been afraid to place a bumper sticker on their car for fear of violent/destructive political retaliation. What has this country come to? I marched and demonstrated back in the late 70s
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Yea, I have thought about that too since January. Obots pull the race card an feel so much anger at anyone that criticizes their messiah that violence to them is justified.
I went to a tea party in an all white little town and some white female obot flipped us all off even though I had Hillary’s name on my sign. I told her to stop being a coward, step out of her car and we could compare notes, she kept fipping me off like I was satan and drove off screaming.
Mindless idiots.
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 5:56 pm
Re: post # 83: It seems to me if they need to examine a Sotomayor to the inth degree on her potential for straying on the “Rule of Law”, the same should apply to the ones that nominate and approve SCJs.
CJK 07.14.09 at 5:57 pm
Shadowfax 07.14.09 at 5:47 pm
Yes, Shadow, that’s the reason the entire city of Denver was on SWAT-like ‘lockdown’ during last August’s sham convention. I went to Denver simply to show my support for HRC and to push for a full, open roll-call vote on the convention floor. To look at the show of law enforcement, turned out in complete anti-protestor regalia, one would’ve thought we were staging a coup in some third world country. It certainly did not look like the America where I grew up…
I received hate mail after returning from Denver, calling me, among other things, ‘a tired old racist dinosaur.’
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 5:59 pm
BBL
Shadowfax 07.14.09 at 6:29 pm
CJk
Yup, I was in Denver too and remember the SWAT boyz well. They were nice to us though and Denver was much nicer than where I live.
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 6:47 pm
I know this also is way off topic:
I posted a response over at TC in response to the Cap and Trade Bill about the potential in the early 90′s to develop hydrogen fuel cell (converted from water, zero pollution) cars and the man that solved the problem of “conversion”, Stanley Meyer.
Engineers who said that, although Meyer had solved the problem (after 20 years of work,) it would bankrupt the US, Arab and World markets dependent upon oil and would never be allowed to be developed.
His technology was also adaptable to supplying energy to homes, etc.
Meyer suddenly died at the age of 57.
Well… look at what Turkish students have now accomplished with $170,000.00 in R&D to build a fuel efficient hydrogen cell car that gets 1336 MPG!
(The cool video of the students actually building is about halfway down the page)
http://gas2.org/2009/07/13/students-build-hydrogen-vehicle-that-gets-1336-mpg/
Think of what what we could have done with the billions spent on bailing out the polluters – resulting in no real solution. The hydrogen fuel cell technology industry could create whole new industries (jobs) in the auto, housing, military, etc.
Below is the story of Stanley Meyer:
http://www.waterpoweredcar.com/equinox3StanleyMeyer.WMV
CJK 07.14.09 at 6:52 pm
Shadowfax 07.14.09 at 6:29 pm
Yes, Shadow, the SWAT boyz were nice to us in Denver, and Denver is a nice city. Of course, one has to wonder how things would turn out these days, with BO now in the WH, if hundreds of thousands of people came to Washington, D.C., to protest the further erosion of our Constitutional freedoms and the now-near-complete bankrupting of our national economy being carried out by this administration…
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 6:55 pm
Bye.
CJK 07.14.09 at 6:57 pm
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 6:47 pm
WBD, which TC thread???
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 7:03 pm
It was 3 or 4 days ago when TC did a thread on the Cap and Trade Bill
I can go find it, if you want.
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 7:10 pm
Here is the TC thread:
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/cap-and-trade-the-answer-to-global-warming-or-another-wall-street-payday/
(I post over there and on other sites under another name)
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 7:20 pm
Ok, bye.
DeadGirl 07.14.09 at 7:22 pm
wha? happen??? did everyone fall asleep at their computer with CSPAN droning in the background??? LOLOL
CJK 07.14.09 at 7:26 pm
Thanks, WBD. Found the comment. Excellent info. I’m no scientist, but perhaps one problem with relying too heavily on ‘water’ as a fuel source is that our planet seems to be running low on water, too! Just sayin’…
CJK 07.14.09 at 7:30 pm
DeadGirl 07.14.09 at 7:22 pm
Hi DeadGirl! I’m not watching CSPAN, so, no I didn’t fall asleep. I’m wondering whether anyone has asked Sotomayor about her work with ACORN and their endorsement of her SCOTUS nomination. It may not be a big deal to anyone else here, but with what I’ve discovered about ACORN/Wade Rathke/Dale Rathke through my research this past year, it’s a big deal to me. I can’t imagine she could be impartial in hearing any ACORN cases that may come before SCOTUS if/when the investigations in 10 states of ACORN for voter registration/election fraud move forward…
HP Boston 07.14.09 at 7:30 pm
Cap and trade another cash cow for wall street…….it is a stacked deck. Whoa to thee who wade into the muck of Wall Street.
DeadGirl 07.14.09 at 7:32 pm
CJK. can you post some links regarding scotus nominee and ACORN connection? If you have posted them previously, I apologize, but I have been away.
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 7:36 pm
CJK 07.14.09 at 7:26 pm
About 70% of the earth’s surface is comprised of water
…when there is flooding, it is caused because of too much water.
…extracting the salt from “salt water” is already solved
…I don’t think it is that we don’t have enough water, it is that we don’t harness the resources in an efficient way. (at least that’s what I’ve read on the subject.)
…It’s one of our greatest resources.
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 7:41 pm
Besides that… we’d better think of something to do with the Polar Cap… now that it’s being reduced to liquid.
Juliette 07.14.09 at 7:43 pm
BCL #20 and Murphy #22
I don’t know much about Toina Brown. Thanks for the info about her supporting HRC and her relationship with Lady Lynn Murphy.
I have to say that I LOVE that she had the guts to call it like it is with clear Islamic references such as the Burka and other wife statement.
Women need to wake up to the fact that Obama is no friend to them. His childhood in an Islamic school and country, and his veneration for the polygamist father who abandoned him and his mother and never supported any of his children should be somewhat alarming to women especially in light of the fact that he has displayed very little in th way of pride in his mother and grandmother who raised him. Hell he didn’t even attend his grandmother’ funeral.
Thank you Tina Brown for not letting the Political correctness plague muzzle you. I get your meaning and I hope Hillary will soon get it too.
Juliette 07.14.09 at 7:49 pm
Correction Tina Brown
Lady Lynn, Murphy
Susie1945 07.14.09 at 7:52 pm
Had planned to watch all-star game tonite – won’t be watching – just heard on the news that fuckin fraud O’bloviator is not only gonna throw out the first pitch but he’s gonna be in the broadcast booth also – isn’t there anything left that the SOB doesn’t have his fuckin’ fingers into???
Guess I’ll go watch them cook on the food network – altho I expect that soon the OMG mechelle will soon be on there – she planted a garden don’t ya know cuz we’re just so into organic foods – fuck the rest of you who can’t afford to buy it or grow it yourself………………….
Swannie 07.14.09 at 8:06 pm
I have to admit that because Sotomayor has the “Mark of the OBEAST ” on her; I was not immediately enchanted with her … and after listening to her for some time today on several different topics , I was struck by several feelings on my part . One I was delighted to see a woman, ANY WOMAN as a candidate and answering questions. You know how children can be touch starved? I wonder sometimes if we are not Femme starved in this testosterone driven patriarchy which we cohabit.
I didn’t find her answers “thrilling or inspiring” , but sometimes almost predictable , and I also found myself wondering if saying one thing and doing another is one of her OBEAST attributes, so will it matter what she says? But I find myself liking her to some degree, and proud to see a woman holding her own with a dignity in such a male domain.
And I also want to add that I find Sarah Palins focus on Cap and Trade and energy refreshing and relevant. I am weary of the “Pilin on Palin ” and the premise put forth that if you support Palin you cannot be a feminist, or you just don’t get it or any of the other far too numerous and left brained logical reasons because ………etc etc
Energy is the focus I find to be the priority that will most deeply affect people where the rubber meets the road . Cap and Trade credits being traded on the market while traders become wealthy and more people poor( which is part of the current administrations plan) is simply a catastophic prospect , possibly ruinous on a global scale, for all of humanity . I find it reassuring that Sarah Palin recognises this. Energy and the use thereof will be what helps takes us into the future on this blue ball. I happily support her on her energy policies. If Sarah Palin had marginalised herself by focusing on other issues , I probably would have just chalked it up to her conservative views and written her off but she has not.
CJK 07.14.09 at 8:21 pm
For DeadGirl, #100:
Reposting from last night’s thread (Thanks to Puma-SF for the comment/link)
Puma-SF 07.13.09 at 11:45 pm
Speaking of ACORN, did you know they endorsed Sotomayor? She also worked at the PRLD and they were a client.
http://www.prldef.org/
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Will also try to re-post/post some links I found last night.
sheila7 07.14.09 at 8:26 pm
Susie1945,
How do you think I feel? I’m here in St. Louis and he is ruining the whole thing for me. All of our highways are shut down around the city and really stringent rules are in place. Noone can leave the stadium and come back because he is here and people had to get down to the stadium 2-3 hours early to get through security.
I left a message on the blog yesterday about BO throwing the first pitch and being in the broadcast booth. I guess you didn’t see it. I tried to save you the disappointment of seeing it tonight.
I just can’t get away from the guy, oh and of course our news coverage had to be taken up with Air Force One landing and showing him getting off the plane. Who gives a rats ass?!!!
Juliette 07.14.09 at 8:27 pm
Hi CJK and thanks for the info on Sotomayor and her involvement with ACORN. I have not given the hearings much attention because it is already a given that she will be confirmed; yet another race card victory for Obama. I don’t really have a firm oppinion about her but I hate to see Obama scoring points with women and Latini just for appointing one of them. And I too remain uneasy with any appointment by O’Burka.
Lets just hope for the best, that is that a Justice Sotomayor will make her decisions as a wise American who respects the constitution of The United States. Sonia Sotomayor will be confirmed and these hearings are just an unfortunate distraction from the evil agenda of cap and trade and Obama’s faux health care bill-shit among many other Obama crimes.
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 8:29 pm
CJK #77
Yes, just beam your draft over Scottie! Seriously, I will check with the action center. Will post later. Is this a Walpin draft? Have not seen webfoot in a few days.
It was just that several times today while I was ‘thinking’ about commenting something, you posted my comment (much more eloquently, needless to say). That’s great because you are way faster and much more familiar with topics than I am.
Headclunker 07.14.09 at 8:35 pm
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 6:47 pm #89
The hydrogen fuel cell has been around for awhile. The main issue is with safety. You are talking about converting water (H2O) to Hydrogen and Oxygen. Boom! So, the issue is using it safely in a cost effective fashion. All alternative energy technologies have definitely been suppressed and blocked by the oil interests. As long as gas and oil is less expensive, they retain their position.
It is the same with solar technology. I just eat my heart out. The Germans have some of the best and the Chinese are currently building a commercial scale plant with it. It still costs more than hydrocarbon energy, but it is catching up. http://www.johanna-solar.com/en/index.shtml
The German Chancellor Kicked BO’s Stinking Butt to the Curb
DancesWithPumas 07.14.09 at 8:38 pm
she planted a garden don’t ya know cuz we’re just so into organic foods – fuck the rest of you who can’t afford to buy it or grow it yourself………………….
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The garden they planted and have been feeding their family, friends, and guests, has been found to have too high lead levels in the soil.
Twas reported in the past week, but can’t recall where I read it.
later…
Headclunker 07.14.09 at 8:38 pm
Hey, here is a Craigslist posting that could amuse a PUMA:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/pol/1270343731.html
BillieJo 07.14.09 at 8:51 pm
Headclunker 07.14.09 at 8:38 pm
Hey, here is a Craigslist posting that could amuse a PUMA:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/pol/1270343731.html
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Nice!
Headclunker 07.14.09 at 8:57 pm
BillieJo,
Hope you enjoyed it. They just pissed me off with all their %$&#!
The Obama Administration is reaching new lows.
Juliette 07.14.09 at 9:01 pm
Swannie #106
“Cap and trade credits being traded on the market while traders become wealthy and more people poor (which is part of the current administrations plan) is simply catastrophic prospect, possibly ruinous on a global scale for all of humanity.”
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Beautifully put Swannie. And I happily support Sarah Palin on her energy policies as well.
Headclunker 07.14.09 at 9:03 pm
Here is some news on the BO BC:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/07/opponents-of-barack-obamas-presidency-claim-small-court-victory.html
Silence Dogood 07.14.09 at 9:03 pm
Sotomayor will be approved, but she spins, lies, and equivocates just like Obama. She will legislate from the bench. And she will favor certain people over others.
BillieJo 07.14.09 at 9:18 pm
I think some of the stimulus $$$ needs to go to sew up Henery Waxman’s nostrils. That guy makes me think of a pig with a mustache every time I see him. Too distracting.
Gack!
BillieJo 07.14.09 at 9:20 pm
Headclunker Hope you enjoyed it. They just pissed me off with all their %$&#!
The Obama Administration is reaching new lows.
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Yup Headclunker, I sure did enjoy it and it gives me ideas as to how to get the ERA info out into the states that need to ratify it…
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 9:23 pm
Headclunker 07.14.09 at 8:35 pm
Thanks for the more technical scientific input.
I did hear back in 2004 from an engineer I knew(that told me about Meyer) that “solar cells” and the material used to produce them were being bought up by Germany as fast as they could be produced – (I can’t remember the materials that are used to produce them). But he was so disgusted that we were not putting the resources, like Germany, into the technology whereas Germany was putting tons of resources behind development.
As for Water Fuel Cells (involving Hydrogen and Oxygen) I hear you that it is a complicated process, but it seems to me that they have known that it is possible?
Also, the same engineer said that even partially incorporating solar cells into automobiles could greatly reduce carbon emissions and produce so many jobs – especially in developing the grid for recharging, stations (like gas stations but solar cell battery exchange or recharge).
Anyway, it is so, so, sad that the energy industry would rather kill us off or break us than give up some of the profits and allow new industry development.
It could probably become, given the chance, not only one of our most proficient industries for jobs, but the energy and environmental standard in less 25 years.
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 9:27 pm
I have not read Alinsky. I have commented a couple of times and read others comments about feeling totally overwhelmed with the rapid fire generation of too many Bills with too many pages and too little time to read them. We are like chickens running around with our heads cut off. Tell me, is it an Alinsky strategy to totally overwhelm in order to effect change or gain power?
I must read the book
Hmmmmm checked him out on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Alinsky
[In Rules for Radicals, Alinsky outlines his strategy in organizing, writing in the prologue,
Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and change the future.]
So, is the present situation, we find ourselves in, due to the Dems desire to accomplish as much as possible during a ‘honeymoon’ period and before BO’s approval index hits minus ten, or to a scary, long-planned and pervasive strategy put into effect by Alinsky’s followers; or both?
Don’t you hate to be so manipulated? To feel so powerless? How to fight back? Keep on keepin’ on I guess.
My profound apologies to those headless chickens who are really familiar with this…
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 9:28 pm
Thanks BillieJo I needed that belly laugh re the nostrils – so bad!!
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 9:39 pm
Hi Dances
– the lead in the garden was reported in the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/02/michelle-obama-vegetable-garden-lead
You have mail in the action center
CJK 07.14.09 at 9:39 pm
Hi everybody. Took a break, and did some research, trying to provide some better links for DeadGirl#100. Though it doesn’t directly address the Sotomayor/ACORN connection, here’s one link to a very interesting article: “10 Questions for Sotomayor.” The writer appears to be an independent thinker (which I appreciate), and the article appears to be well researched. IMO, these are exactly the kinds of questions the Senate should be asking Sotomayor, but isn’t asking! Thanks.
http://thenationalscene.com/confirmation-hearings-ten-questions-sonia-sotomayor/
CJK 07.14.09 at 9:42 pm
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 8:29 pm
Hi RemNov. Yes, it’s a Walpin letter. Will e-mail to the Action Center. I would greatly appreciate suggested edits, which you can feel free to e-mail back to me. Thanks.
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 9:44 pm
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 9:27 pm :
I’ve said this before, but I truly believe that “Rules for Radicals” is loosely based upon “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu.
Although written on Military Strategy – it has been adapted thousands of times including adapted for the corporate world.
It’s one sick read from the beginning to end.
sheila7 07.14.09 at 9:49 pm
BWAAHAAHAA!
My city did me proud. They booed BO at the All Star Game. The first pitch was supposed to be about Stan Musial and the Cardinals and BO wore a White Sox jacket. This was considered very disrespectful to St. Louis. Never mess with the Cardinals Fans!
Here is a link. You have to click on First Pitch on the tabs and it will take you to the mean comments people are leaving on that blog for your enjoyment.
http://www.stltoday.com/#stl-masthead
boogieman7167 07.14.09 at 9:52 pm
O kills TOTUS
http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8078117
wontbackdown 07.14.09 at 10:00 pm
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 9:27 pm :
…and just like Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” The Art of War is confuse and overwhelm your enemies ever-changing misinformation, take no prisoners, everyone is completely disposable.
The Art of War begins with the story of how this great General demonstrates to the Emperor how he creates such loyalty, by cutting off the heads of two of the Emperor’s most prized Concubines for hesitating to “to step” forward at his first command (much to the Emperor’s initial horror – until he realized the value of lesson learned as the others in line quickly obeyed).
The Art of War is considered by many to be the “Bible of Strategy for War”
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 10:03 pm
There’s an interesting, but depressing, graph (predicted jobs lost with and without the stimulus) plotted along with actual jobs lost in BillieJo’s fun link on Crag’s list. A picture is worth a thousand words.
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/pol/1270343731.html
The approval index I see daily -it’s waiting for me in my mailbox every morning.
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 10:10 pm
Thanks WBD, I think I’ll read ‘Rules for Radicals’ first!
I missed your previous comments about “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu. R f R might be a little more palatable than one sick read from beginning to end!!!!
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 10:16 pm
CJK, Dances will forward your letter for me to read – she is such a great Puma!
Hope I can be of help. Seem to remember webfoot having good suggestions for shortening the last one.
Have to take a break – happy blogging everyone
sheila7 07.14.09 at 10:46 pm
Holy Crap! They’ve already scrubbed the site I linked to. Now they cleaned it up a little and have it as a small comment. That didn’t take long. grrr.
simofish 07.14.09 at 11:14 pm
boogie – 129 — how I wish that 2nd prompter would have crashed at the same time.
Puma-SF 07.14.09 at 11:20 pm
Did anybody see the “first pitch”? What a joke!
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/blog/big_league_stew/post/Obama-reps-Chicago-s-South-Side-delivers-first-?urn=mlb,176561
PumaRhythm 07.14.09 at 11:22 pm
Hiya Murphy and Pumas!
CNN political ticker…
“Palin becomes MoveOn target as SarahPac cash haul surges”…
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/07/14/palin-becomes-moveon-target-as-sarahpac-cash-haul-surges/
Have a good night Puma Warriors.
Pumas Rock!!!
simofish 07.14.09 at 11:29 pm
PumaSF — did you notice the guy in the golf cart – looking straight ahead – looks like he forced himself to shake barry the liars hand. I would have said – Piss Off — then again – they would NEVER let my happy ass in the golf cart – I would NEVER make it past the secret service background check.
sheila7 07.14.09 at 11:34 pm
simofish,
the guy in the cart was pissed off because BO didn’t wear a Cardinals jacket, which was expected of him. He’s a jackass. (BO), not the guy in jacket (Stan Musial)
sheila7 07.14.09 at 11:34 pm
duh, not the guy in jacket but in cart
Puma-SF 07.14.09 at 11:38 pm
Yeah BO wore a White Sox jacket and St. Louis fans don’t appreciate crap like that. I didn’t like the way he took the ball from Musial either. What a loser.
Puma-SF 07.14.09 at 11:39 pm
simo: The guy in the cart couldn’t give a rat’s ass about Obama. He got snubbed just like he did in Russia.
sheila7 07.14.09 at 11:40 pm
Hey Puma-SF!
I didn’t like it either, I like nothing about the man though. I am in St. Louis and I can tell you he really rubbed people wrong here tonight. You don’t diss Stan the Man for crying out loud!
Puma-SF 07.14.09 at 11:44 pm
No, you don’t diss Stan the Man. He is baseball royalty. What was with the camera angle? I knew he couldn’t make it all the way to home plate and they made sure we didn’t see it. Do you know anyone who was at the game?
How much did it cost us for him to go and bloviate?
simofish 07.14.09 at 11:47 pm
ok – caught up on the blog and it’s hotter than hell over here — I am not used to this — I should have listened to the Mrs. when she told me to get a furnace and air conditioner – I guess we’re even she wouldn’t listen to me when I told her I needed the 60 inch stove not the 48.
I am going to go slip into a pair of boxer shorts and find a fan !!! Later –
sheila7 07.14.09 at 11:48 pm
I guess they didn’t want us to see him not make it home. I know a couple people who were at the game but I haven’t talked to them tonight. BO got booed though, that was great!
I have no idea what it cost us but people here were pissed because he was here we had closed highways and all kinds of nonsense.
Puma-SF 07.14.09 at 11:49 pm
Boxer shorts? I gotta see this. Send me a picture.
DancesWithPumas 07.14.09 at 11:49 pm
Puma-SF
Exactly!! Stan Musial EARNED his level of royalty too… he was a GREAT baseball player.
obamnarcssist is a rude moronic pompous bag of hot air fraud… what a complete ass… he’s too freaking ego-inflated to even know how emabarrassed he should be.
sheila7 07.14.09 at 11:49 pm
Bye Simofish
sheila7 07.14.09 at 11:51 pm
I had the exact same thoughts DancesWithPumas. He didn’t even know to be embarrassed. Jackass!
Puma-SF 07.14.09 at 11:51 pm
DWP: Exactly! Musial was one of my favorite players growing up. Well, next to all my Giant heroes.
I cannot stand to look at his face. How insecure can he be that he needs all of this attention? I liked that they didn’t say his name when they introduced him. I’m sure that pissed him off.
Fox is talking about Sotomayor’s relationship with the PRLDF.
DancesWithPumas 07.14.09 at 11:52 pm
Simo, I’m sure you’ll find lots of fans after you slip into your boxer shorts!
Puma-SF
bo, the athletic who works out every day couldn’t get the ball to home plate???
BWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA
Puma-SF 07.14.09 at 11:55 pm
HAHA, you made me horse laugh, Dances. Simo better send me a picture.
DancesWithPumas 07.14.09 at 11:57 pm
Puma-SF
Ask her to send a copy to the (a copy?? LOL) action cneter for the Puma PAC Photo Album.
or, maybe the Classics section??
Puma Huma?
Puma-SF 07.14.09 at 11:58 pm
If she doesn’t send it I certainly will.
sheila7 07.14.09 at 11:58 pm
Well, goodnight PUMAS. Off to bed. I’m going to go to sleep thinking about BO getting booed.
:) 
DancesWithPumas 07.14.09 at 11:59 pm
Puma-SF
LOLLOL!!
::::: shssssssssssh:::::
Puma-SF 07.14.09 at 11:59 pm
Night shiela7, and you’re right about the boos. They made me very happy, too.
Puma-SF 07.15.09 at 12:00 am
Hey Dances,
Have you and the Southland Pumas decided who you will support for governor?
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 12:04 am
Puma-SF
Not as a group… northland pumas?
Puma-SF 07.15.09 at 12:06 am
Well, nothing is official but we are leaning towards Meg Ryan. I know, I know, Gavin Newsome but he may have to wait.
I bet simo’s wearing “cute gray” boxers.
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 12:10 am
Puma-SF
I’m telling you this as a friend. I’m telling you this because no one else will. I’m telling you this for your own good, and the for good of your relationship…
ya just gotta stop obsessing about simo in boxer shorts
Puma-SF 07.15.09 at 12:13 am
I know, Dances. She’s already called me a pervert. Thanks for looking out for me.
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 12:16 am
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 12:16 am
Back to work.
Catch y’all next time.
Puma-SF 07.15.09 at 12:18 am
later, good luck with the painting.
simofish 07.15.09 at 12:44 am
All iPhone users. Pay attention. Using safari go to pumapac.org. On the bottom of the screen you see arrows, then the plus sign, then the bookmark icon, etc. Click on the plus sign. You will see an option “add to home screen” – click on this. Now PumaPac is an icon application. Easy to get to !!
Puma-SF 07.15.09 at 1:02 am
How do you do it with a shoe phone?
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:07 am
Simo
Did that just this morning!
Now tell me, is there a shortcut after you refresh a page to go right to the bottom, as opposed to flicking your way there?
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:08 am
Puma_SF
Not painting…
working on figuring this out:
http://www.cafepress.com/DancesWithPumas
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:15 am
Have I mentioned lately that I LOVE LOVE LOVE my iPhone?
BillieJo 07.15.09 at 1:16 am
RememberNovember 07.14.09 at 9:28 pm
Thanks BillieJo I needed that belly laugh re the nostrils – so bad!!
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Seriously Remember, how can anyone take this guy seriously with these two nostrils……………..they freak me out.
http://i259.photobucket.com/albums/hh317/genewunderlich/waxman.jpg
Puma-SF 07.15.09 at 1:16 am
Wow, I am impressed. Great job. What else do you need to figure out?
BillieJo 07.15.09 at 1:18 am
Dances- what does LAMO mean? Laughing at Michelle Obama?
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:19 am
Oh boy…
I need to learn the layout and sections system… where I can have each design on the main page… and then all the products in a section for that design. I downloaded all teh templates… theyre all diff sizes… taking for ever to make each design fit the shapes and sizes of the products. “Sexism” was the easiest.
Oh, by the way, all profits go to Puma PAC.
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:21 am
Billie omg!
I stared at that for teh ongest time and still couldnt figure out what was wrong with it!!! LOL
LMAO ughhhhhhhhhhhhh back to the drawing board
Puma-SF 07.15.09 at 1:22 am
This is one reason why we should all read Carolyn Maloney’s book.
http://freemenow.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/era-action-alert/
BillieJo 07.15.09 at 1:22 am
Yup Simo, it’s hotter than Hell here too, over the hill from you where it’s 15-30 degrees hotter. Ugh……….
Popcycles and cold showers or a dip in the pool.
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:23 am
Billie
By the way, I send in the order for the Puma PAC winning bumpersticker contest… 4 of them.
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:24 am
sizling here too… since thus or friday…humid too
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:24 am
sizzling
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:25 am
I gotta go to bed.
Goodnight Puma Nation!
BillieJo 07.15.09 at 1:25 am
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:21 am
Billie omg!
I stared at that for teh ongest time and still couldnt figure out what was wrong with it!!! LOL
LMAO ughhhhhhhhhhhhh back to the drawing board
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Ooops, sorry I got the letters mixed up, what does LMAO mean?
BillieJo 07.15.09 at 1:28 am
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:23 am
Billie
By the way, I send in the order for the Puma PAC winning bumpersticker contest… 4 of them.
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Awesome, can’t wait to see them. I forgot what the winners were…
Maybe on the next batch we can squeeze in an ERA sticker.
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:30 am
Ooops, sorry I got the letters mixed up, what does LMAO mean?
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oh phewwwwwwwwww
Laughing My Ass Off = LMAO
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:31 am
Billie
How about thinking up a few shart pithy ones… and lets just do it… couldnt handle another contest right now… and tehre’s so much else we need to be working on… ERA primarily and sexist media… and 2010 elections.
Puma-SF 07.15.09 at 1:44 am
Here’s a little local news:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/13/BAO918NG4R.DTL&tsp=1
PumaRhythm 07.15.09 at 3:33 am
Couldn’t sleep..
found this link over in the comment section at the Confluence..
h/t myiq2xu
Yahoo News:
“Prosecutors claim evangelist ‘married’ 8 year old’”
TEXARKANA, Ark. – Evangelist Tony Alamo preyed on his loyal followers’ young daughters, once taking a girl as young as 8 as his bride and repeatedly sexually assaulting her, a federal prosecutor said Tuesday.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090715/ap_on_re_us/us_evangelist_child_abuse
My head is exploding….going to bed.
G’Night Pumas
Notyoursweetie 07.15.09 at 7:14 am
Still not serious
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/potterheads-crossing/
theamericanway 07.15.09 at 7:47 am
1. Seems some booed BO at game last night’s game. It’s mentioned on yahoo.
2. Also:
House bill would make health care a right [and a responsibility]
By ERICA WERNER – 1 hour ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democratic leaders, pledging to meet the president’s goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and the wealthy.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlMpJGn28kqCcgU-aGcYE_ZHW-ywD99EQPSG2
3). Heard on myfoxny.com that singles making $280,00 or more, as well as couples making $400,000 or more will also be paying [for the 'right' of 97% of Americans to have healthcare by 2015].
scarlet 07.15.09 at 10:27 am
PBS Shines, CNN stumbles in Sotomayor hearings
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2009/07/sotomayor_hearings_cnn_fox_msn.html
simofish 07.15.09 at 10:46 am
Morning all — my head is buried in work.
Dances – 169 — not that I am aware of – I will ask – for the next 5 weeks I have a 1 hour Apple training session (every Monday) I will bring this question up — or just ask around.
So glad you love the iphone.
Puma SF — yes, knock the show phone against your head 5 times and that should do it !!
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 10:56 am
simo
your email to me re: iPhone haunted me enough that I just couldnt resist, plus, they had me as soon as they turned it on… and turned it sideways! lol Exquisite.
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 11:08 am
Sorry for the length o fthis, but since pumas are not quite awake, I’ll post it anyway. Email from Marcia Pappas:
National Organization for Women-NYS Tells NY Daily News To Respect
Senator Gillibrand
Statement by Marcia Pappas, President of NOW-NYS
NOW-New York State denounces New York Daily News Cartoonist Bill
Bramhall for his inappropriate and sexist cartoon depicting Senator
Kirsten Gillibrand as a loud mouth in need of gagging. It looks like
the Daily News has a new target for their misogynistic garbage. So what is the message, “Sit down and shut up girls”?
And exactly what is Bill Bramhall’s gripe? Could it be that the Senator speaks her mind, is a strong advocate for the people of New York, and has aspirations for her career? Possibly it’s all of the above.
But the cruel reality is that strong women have an uphill battle,
simply because many cartoonists, comedians, and average guys just can’t handle women who reach for what is rightfully theirs — equality! Some men look at women like Senator Gillibrand as a threat to their masculinity, their careers, and their power bases. But our Senator is in good company, what with her predecessor Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, and a host of other women politicians having endured similar treatment.
Of course, some men are part of the cure instead of part of the
problem. In a October 16, 2006 New York Times article, Bob Herbert
wrote: “A girl or woman is sexually assaulted every couple of
minutes or so in the U.S. The number of seriously battered wives and
girlfriends is far beyond the ability of any agency to count. We’re all implicated in this carnage because the relentless violence against women and girls is linked at its core to the wider society’s casual willingness to dehumanize women and girls, to see them first and foremost as sexual vessels — objects — and never, ever as the
equals of men.”
Bramhall’s phallic symbols send a clear message that women are good for only one thing. And the disrespectful cartoon certainly touches on concerns feminists have had for centuries. What contributes to violence against women is the general attitude about women in general.
Indeed, we of NOW-NYS is pleased with Senator Gillibrand’s standing up and speaking truth to power. We demand that the Daily News show respect for our Senator. And know that our Senator won’t sit down, and won’t shut up, and won’t stand still for the old boys club.
The cartoon can be viewed at http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/index.
Contact the NY Daily New and express your outrage.
The email address for letters to the editor is voicers@nydailynews.com,
or fax to 212-210-1505
LJSNAustin 07.15.09 at 11:16 am
Wow, they actually included Palin’s name! Maybe someone is starting to listen?!?!?!?
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 11:18 am
Marcia Pappas, Pres of NY NOW, has always listened, as far as I know.
The rest… not so much.
scarlet 07.15.09 at 11:22 am
LEGISLATION
HEALTH REFORM BILL – over one thousand pages
&
Government Run Health Care You Vote For It, You Use It – H. RES. 615
&
S. 1261, The PASS ID Act
More info at 411 on the 111 pumapac forum:
http://pumapac.org/forums/411-on-the-111/comment-page-6/#comment-351786 posts 253-255
BigCatLover 07.15.09 at 11:35 am
I think they’ve moved the NY daily news cartoon already. It says the page you were looking for has moved.
scarlet 07.15.09 at 11:42 am
Oops, the writer forgot Palin…
Sotomayor and the Sexist, Racist Media
Posted July 14th, 2009 by Mary Alice Crim
“Hispanic chick lady,” “an angry woman,” “a brown woman,” “this broad.”
Demeaning? Check. Sexist? Check. Racist? Check.
Do these descriptions help the public evaluate Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor as she faces her Senate confirmation hearing? Of course not. Yet the mainstream media have routinely spouted and parroted demeaning, sexist and racist language about Sotomayor instead of providing us with any substantive context or background about the judge.
Whether you’re for or against confirming Sotomayor, descriptions like “Hispanic chick lady” are shameful. The point here isn’t that Sotomayor was negatively referred to once or twice. The point is that this type of sexist media coverage has become a mainstay. And it’s not only about Sotomayor. Coverage of First Lady Michelle Obama’s toned arms or Senator Hillary Clinton’s cleavage has graced the covers of many magazines recently.
Over and over, I have angrily switched off my FM dial while asking myself, “Why does our media system persistently devalue women in positions of power in the United States?”
http://www.stopbigmedia.com/blog/
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Hey, Mary Alice, why did you devalue Palin, a woman in position of power, by not including her in your article? I will not be signing your petition for that reason. BTW, I am not a big fan of Palin at this time.
PumaRhythm 07.15.09 at 11:43 am
Morning Pumas!
Dances #194
Great! they removed the cartoon already.
I was up late last night….I need more coffee.bbl
ps Dances…I love the store you are setting up at cafepress….Nice Site..Great Stuff!!
http://www.cafepress.com/DancesWithPumas
BBL
Headclunker 07.15.09 at 11:44 am
I have not had a chance to verify the following post I picked up on, but it is very interesting:
Major victory for Army warrior questioning Obama’s birthplace
Posted: July 14, 2009
By Chelsea Schilling and Joe Kovacs
© 2009 WorldNetDaily
A U.S. Army Reserve major from Florida scheduled to report for deployment to Afghanistan within days has had his military orders revoked after arguing he should not be required to serve under a president who has not proven his eligibility for office.
His attorney, Orly Taitz, confirmed to WND the military has rescinded his impending deployment orders. …
scarlet 07.15.09 at 11:46 am
It is no secret that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer in this world, but honest journalism is the one place where that is not supposed to happen. The fact is that the only people who can afford to corrupt journalists on their own behalf are the wealthy. And the corruption is going on in elite journalism circles as well as in the blogosphere.
Conflicts of Interest by the Wealthy and for the Wealthy
Unfortunately, the blogosphere—which is a corrective in many cases and is responsible for breaking the case of the Post salons—is actually making this problem far worse. Public relations firms across America are paying bloggers to assume a false identity to write phony posts to support their clients and products. Businesses are also making a point of “seeding” independent bloggers with free swag, in hopes of creating the illusion of unfiltered grassroots enthusiasm.
BusinessWeek reported that blogger Jessica Smith of the blog Jessica Knows received a free Ford (F) Flex for a year in April, including a gas card. In politics, the practice is the same. For instance, during the 2008 election season Patrick Hynes consistently praised John McCain and attacked Mitt Romney without once explaining that he was employed by McCain’s political action committee.
More at:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/07/ta070909.html
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 11:59 am
PumaRhythm,
Thanks for the plug. Still trying to figure out cafepress’s app.!
Btw, any profits made will be donated to PumaPAC.
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 12:22 pm
PumaRhythm
They tried to make it look like they took it down!
The cartoon is up at:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/galleries/bill_bramhall/bill_bramhall.html#ph1
h/t persephone
Interesting… no cartoom on racist shmuck Sessions…
I guess males are allowed to broadcast their barbarianism without serious consequence… so far, anyway.
Would love to a critical mass of women “snap”. I’m quite sure that day is on its way…
sheila7 07.15.09 at 12:41 pm
Hi PUMAS!
Have you seen the story in India where they made the women take virginity tests to get married? Grr.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532743,00.html?test=latestnews
BigCatLover 07.15.09 at 12:42 pm
NY daily news would not let me leave their website to come back here. I had to close out the tab and reenter pumapac from my desktop icon. Anyhow, that cartoon is apparently lampooning Gillibrand’d introduction of Sotomayor going 1 minute past her alloted time. Must have been a slow day in cartoon land.
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 12:45 pm
sheila7 07.15.09 at 12:41 pm
Hi PUMAS!
Have you seen the story in India where they made the women take virginity tests to get married? Grr.
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When I was Istanbul (2000something) the controversy was over seniors high school girls being tested for virginity if they wanted to be nurses.
dipshitpricks
sheila7 07.15.09 at 12:49 pm
DWP #207
WTF! I swear, I get angrier every day about this kind of bullshit. It’s really starting to PISS ME OFF!
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 12:53 pm
sheila
as well it should.
channel the energy toward letters of protest, boycott advertisers/sponsors (and make sure they know youre boycotting)), inform your friends, neighbors, relatives, co-workers to do the same, and work with Puma PAC’s ERA team to get the damned ERA Amendment passed.
Thanks.
PumaRhythm 07.15.09 at 12:58 pm
Dances #204
Oh Sorry Dances…my brain is mush today..
I went back and looked and it does say “moved” instead of “removed”. Thanks!
Thanks for the new link:
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/galleries/bill_bramhall/bill_bramhall.html#ph1
Going to send them an email now and let them know what I think of this ‘Piece of Crap’ cartoon!!
voicers@nydailynews.com
bbl
sheila7 07.15.09 at 1:05 pm
Yep DWP. I know but it gets so exhausting, it’s like nobody cares. I’ve been relentless about informing friends and family about issues and it’s like noone will step outside their comfort zone. The one person in my life who has started to wake up and is also actively trying to make a difference is my brother, of all people, but none of the women in my life.
What do I need to do to join the ERA team?
FLBarbara 07.15.09 at 1:08 pm
Posted on July 15, 2009 by freemenow Did you know that women are not represented in the U.S. Constitution? Marcia Pappas of NOW NYS invites you to Take Action! Tell Congress and President Obama that it’s time!Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney to Reintroduce Women’s Equality Amendment on Capitol Hill Join Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney as she proudly introduces the WOMEN’S EQUALITY AMENDMENT ON CAPITOL HILL!Tuesday, July 21st, at 10 a.m. House TriangleShow your support for putting women’s rights in the U.S. Constitution. We need as many organizations and individuals as possible to join the Congresswoman on Tuesdayto demonstrate the breadth and intensity of our commitment to equal rights. Please bring signs from your state, your home town, or your organization. Invite friends and family. Include your staff and summer interns. Come watch history being made. Lend your voice to the fight for women’s rights! Call of email Congresswoman Maloney and thank her for her leadership: http://maloney.house.gov/index.php?option=com_email_form&Itemid=73 Washington Office: 202.225.7944 phone, Manhattan Office: 212-860-0606 phone
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 1:09 pm
sheila
send a note of interest to actioncenter@pumapac.org, the Lead will contact you within a day or two. Be sure to include your user name in the email.
Thanks!
FLBarbara 07.15.09 at 1:13 pm
http://freemenow.wordpress.com/
Puma-SF 07.15.09 at 1:14 pm
Hillary’s speaking now:
http://www.c-span.org/Watch/Media/2009/07/15/HP/R/20820/Sec+Clinton+Gives+Details+on+Smart+Power+Strategy.aspx
Shadowfax 07.15.09 at 1:16 pm
Petition to Barack Obama (petition to stop Card Check)
President Obama,
I feel it is my patriotic duty to advise you that your victory did NOT give you a “mandate” to impose draconian policies that will dramatically increase the power and money of the Big Labor Bosses.
I wish to specifically advise you NOT to advance proposed policies in Washington that will:
1. DENY workers the right to a secret ballot when voting on whether or not they want to be part of a union…
(snip…)
During the election, you claimed that you wanted to be President of ALL Americans. I hope this includes America’s workers. You can demonstrate this by respecting their rights and by not implementing ANY of the draconian forced unionism policies I have listed above.
http://www.righttoworkfoundation.org/king1.aspx?pid=RR2
(This was linked on Rasmussen)
CJK 07.15.09 at 1:22 pm
Interesting links re Sotomayor.
http://ninthjustice.nationaljournal.com/2009/07/how-ricci-almost.php
http://iusbvision.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/how-sotomayor-tried-to-hide-the-ricci-case-from-her-peers/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124718350736220343.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/vcCandidateFeed1/idUSTRE56B0TN20090712?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
wontbackdown 07.15.09 at 1:53 pm
Do not know if this has already been posted here (or if the “Daily Beast and/or Tina Brown is an acceptable female writer to post on here):
“Obama’s Other Wife”
by Tina Brown
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-13/obamas-other-wife-1/
admin 07.15.09 at 1:56 pm
thanks FLBarbara. good stuff, i KNEW i liked Maloney!
http://maloney.house.gov/index.php?option=com_issues&task=view_issue&issue=269&parent=20&Itemid=35
admin 07.15.09 at 2:00 pm
husband chooses to die peacefully with terminally ill wife rather than live on without her:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/world/europe/15britain.html?em
Susie1945 07.15.09 at 2:03 pm
Hi PUMAs- Dances -love your site – just went over & ordered a bunch of stuff…………………..
Murphy – are we ready to read the crap & tax yet – maybe we should also read the health bill – holy cripes – another trillion or (what the hell’s a few trillion between friends) dollars and nobody gets to keep their insurance carrier and not everybody will be covered…………………the government can’t run shit – look at how screwed up all government run programs are……………….. plus I heard on the news that revenue (ya know those income taxes that come from paychecks??) is down by about 55% – no kidding – since there are no jobs, no revenue comin’g in – where’s the money coming from???? Is it all gonna be monopoly money????
wontbackdown 07.15.09 at 2:10 pm
BTW: Lot’s of stories alluding to Clinton being brushed aside, minimized and frustrated.
On a side note, I broke my elbow 3 years ago and the internal bleeding was very serious. I also had to have it surgically repaired. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Clinton was advised NOT to fly to avoid the potential of blood clots.
Whether Obana “exploited” her absence – wouldn’t be surprised, but who knows, business must go on
She does seem to be frustrated with the “vetting process” for her USAID department.
“At a town hall meeting at USAID this morning, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton complained of a “nightmare” White House vetting process that prevented her from being able to announce the prospective USAID administrator, as she had hoped.
From her town hall meeting on Mon, 07/13/2009 – at the USAID:
“The question that I think many of us have is: When will we be getting political leadership in our agency?” an apparent USAID employee asked Clinton. “And I think we’d also like to hear from you why it’s taking so long.”
“Let me say, it’s not for lack of trying,” Clinton responded, according to the transcript. “We have worked very hard with the White House on looking for a candidate who, number one, wants the job and, number two – I mean, it’s been offered. But most significantly, the process, the clearance and vetting process, is a nightmare. And it takes far longer than any of us would want to see. It is frustrating beyond words. I’ve pushed very hard last week when I knew I was coming here to get permission from the White House to be able to tell you that help is on the way an someone will be nominated shortly, and I was unable – you know, it just was – the message came back, ‘We’re not ready.’”
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/07/13/clinton_complains_of_nightmare_vetting_process
Puma-SF 07.15.09 at 2:12 pm
Murphy, I’m almost finished with Maloney’s book. It is an awesome resource book and should be read by all. I can send my copy to the action center and we can loan it out if you like.
LJSNAustin 07.15.09 at 2:27 pm
murphy #220, tears are streaming after reading that.
CJK 07.15.09 at 2:27 pm
Susie1945 07.15.09 at 2:03 pm
Susie1945, I do love your comments! I think the money will come from Dinars (or whatever the GCC currency turns out to be…) and Renminbis (Chinese currency), as they appear likely to be our new national ‘mortgage’ holders…
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 2:28 pm
Puma-SF
LinkLibrarianLillian approves fo your plan.
admin 07.15.09 at 2:42 pm
new post up, finally.
(we may have to fire that Murphy)
take it upstairs!
bring links!
DancesWithPumas 07.15.09 at 2:44 pm
admin 07.15.09 at 2:42 pm
new post up, finally.
(we may have to fire that Murphy)
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Fire Murphy and you’ll be firing all of us…
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