People United Means Action
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From The Guardian: “Afghanistan has quietly passed a law permitting Shia men to deny their wives food and sustenance if they refuse to obey their husbands’ sexual demands, despite international outrage over an earlier version of the legislation which President Hamid Karzai had promised to review. The new final draft of the legislation also grants [...]
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Raise your hand if: Anyone ever treated your husband’s opinion as more important, serious, or valid than yours. You’ve ever read a story about the rape, torture, murder of a little girl and saw yourself, your daughter, or your niece in the picture. You’ve ever realized that people wanted you to sit down, shut up, [...]
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Secretary Clinton to Travel to Goma to Speak Out Against War Rape From the New York Times: “On Tuesday, Mrs. Clinton will fly to Goma, in the heart of the battle zone. The city was nearly overrun by rebels last year and is situated in a bowl of beautiful but treacherous green mountains, making it [...]
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Obama just delivered a pretty speech in which he said stereotypes are bad and it’s better to look forward in peace than to look back in anger. Bravo. I think he stole a page from my local second-grade teacher’s curriculum book. Yes, the whole thing was tripe with a dash of blame America for the [...]
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Why can’t there be an advertising firm that actually writes ads appealing to this sensibility: I honestly think an advertising firm with this Sarah Haskins person as creative director could make millions. When advertisers try to capture the drudgery of housework they get it all wrong — they turn the WOMAN into the drudge not [...]
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Frequently Asked Question: “Can I be a Puma if I’m a Republican?” Answer: Who you vote for or how you like to think of yourself politically is up to you — this really IS a free country. I can’t say that a person who is registered as a Republican can’t be a Puma. Of course [...]
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Louise Down at Free-US-Now has THIS story about girls in Afghanistan being poisoned for going to school. Yesterday my second grader was excited to tell me about the book Three Cups of Tea. Her librarian described the story of the book and its author who “built a school for children at the top of a [...]
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Wow. Bqueen linked in comments to this trailer for the new documentary “Generation M.” Watch the trailer, then go view the whole movie by clicking HERE. I’m downloading it now to watch with the whole family. This should be required viewing for every parent in the country. Copying Tennessee Guerilla Women, I’m pasting this descripton [...]
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Who you gonna believe? Robert Gibbs or your own lyin’ eyes? Reporter: Did he bow or didn’t he? Gibbs: No. Yeah, right. * * * * * * David Brooks says, “Obama likes to talk about the future because that’s where all his accomplishments are.” Heh. No Fair! scream the O Movement Minions — they [...]
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I knew there was something not right about the original photos of those jokers. Turns out the fourth objective of the G20 Goofy Looking Men Who Run the World Summit was missing from the background screen. Luckily dwp was able to find an unbowdlerized image of the Meeting of the Pricks, er I mean Penises, [...]
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