Women do care about whether or not they are pregnant.
Women do care about the times when they might become pregnant. Pregnancy has a direct affect on a woman's economic life. Surprise!
Childbirth has a direct affect on a woman's physical presence and agility. Duh. She needs both those things to do a job.
Modern adult women enjoy autonomy. These women also feel they have a right to autonomy.
Modern women can only function at work with maximum autonomy.
They, therefore, need some control over having to leave work to bear a child, then find childcare.
Women in America get more breast cancer than men. When a woman completes her cancer
tratments, insurance companies dump her from their rolls, even if she goes back to work.
Every single girl in America has to know as soon as possible: control your reproductive life to the
very limit of help available to you in this world, because your reproductive health
is your overall health. You may be equal to a man; but you are not a man. A man has no organ
comparable to a womb. You are the persons who house wombs!
Furthermore, your reproductive events, are often your children...from the moment they begin
to exist. Take care of them in whatever way you feel is best for you, and for them.
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Have A Cup Of Coffee
Why are you teas so loathe to embrace Mitt Romney?
He is the best you've got.
Your minds are closed, peoples. No light gets in.
The peoples you admires is quite like you.
Your acceptance of science is like the grammar I've begun with in this piece. Your acceptance
of a possibly permanently multi-layered society is skewered.
People who are not like you are not to be scorned, or reviled, or punished.
People who believe we have to "live and let live" aren't convincing to you.
You've therefore rendered yourselves unfit to serve in the general population.
For instance, a young woman, Sandra Fluke, attempted to do her duty as a citizen when she
sought to bring perspectives of women in our general population, as a woman of our general
population, to the Congressional ear. She was not heard, or given a chance to speak by a tea
party darling. Later, she was publicly reviled by another tea party mouth. Even later, our
president phoned Sandra Fluke to congratulate her on her attempt to bring the voice of ordinary
people to their representatives, because as it turned out, she attempted to speak to a particular
in the Affordable Care Act. According to right-winged politics, President Obama had no reason
to show pride in Ms. Fluke's expression of her citizenship. How would the right wing even be able
to tell? Right wing politics judges every single thing by how much the right wing extreme wants, or does not want, whatever is happening at any given point in time.
Mitt Romney will serve to court even the most rigid tea party atherosclerotic ideation.
Have you met Herman Cain? He could not have gotten up to speed on foreign affairs quickly
enough to keep America safe, either in our patents, or our persons.
The Tea Party also came up with Governor Rick Perry, who is equally unqualified; but he wasn't
evil enough to Latino youth to get a tea stamp of approval. He made the additional mistake of
bowing to the preventative science of the HPV vaccine.
Michelle Bachman couldn't get her facts straight about our history, or the current rights of
LGBT citizens in American society.
Rick Santorum would never allow an education to cloud his judgement of other peoples' lives.
Ron Paul believes the U.S. would have been safer and a greater country if all the states had
simply adopted slavery. Retro much?
Newt Gingrich wants child labor laws to be what they were in 18th century Britain ... non-existent. Well, they came into existence because non-existent wasn't working well, you
unenlightened ones.
The 2012 race has other Republicans contending for the presidential nomination. Not one of
them proves extreme enough to have the base of the party even want them in debates.
Some Republicans decided not to engage extremes at all, or to engage them as minimally as possible. No way will they subject themselves to the public ridicule of being reasonable people
in an unreasoning fray.
They may keep quiet, doing as teas insist. They may leave their elected positions. They may
become democrats.
Amazingly, this country produces scores of college graduates who have gotten degrees without
having learned much, and without having been broadened one iota. What's worse, these people
are often terribly proud of having pre-teen thought patterns as twenty-somethings. They prop
themselves up to positions of authority, doing all in their power to take the remainder of us down with them.
We are lucky our president has been enlarging our gifts, even our geographical ones. He met
with President Felipe Calderon of Mexico, jointly with Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada
in order to nurture the world idea that our three countries represent North America as a whole.
I find that heartening, because one of our great strengths as a nation is that we have such an
expansive land mass with powerful, rivers, lakes, and acres of arable land. If we remain true to our potential, we will always be powerful. We have to educate ourselves to be able to manage vast, vast resources in a world clamoring for them from all parts of our planet.
Yet not one tea seems to get the hint that our country has progressed, and must continue to progress. Our country won't be healthy or thrive from the regressions they seek. Regression takes
time and resource we cannot afford to spend on becoming backward, while the remainder of the
world goes forth onward and upward.
Tea Party people are the same sorts of people exactly who threatened to jail Galileo for not
admitting aloud, that the sun revolves around the earth. He was old. He did it because he had to
do it for his own safety. Think how long the world had to wait to get out of that very backward mindset.
Mitt Romney has at least had some general population ideas in his lifetime. Be glad, tea people, that he is at least willing to spout the furors you espouse. Not a great many people with moderate backgrounds are willing to do that; and as you know, nearly ten of every ten of you are unable to contend outside small, narrow, cloistered mobs.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
A Predator
I listened to Trayvon Martin's screams once again, finally, this week.
The first scream was different than the others. He seemed to be calling out: "Stop!"
I realize the child was being attacked, because that scream wasn't natural for someone who is
angry at being followed; and the first scream didn't seem to be calling for "Help!' That came later.
I've had a gun pulled on me, and I've talked to soldiers. Trayvon's scream wasn't natural for
someone who has suddenly seen a gun. The human tendency is to freeze, especially if the gun is up close.
The thought enters a frightened mind right away: 'make no sudden move', unless the subject of a threat thinks there is time to run. Even then, the person in danger doesn't take time to muster a
scream first.
When one listens to the two lady witnesses who say the police were not interested in their statements, those ladies say they approached the killer, in so many words, to distract him, or interrupt him. These two ladies say they went outside a bit after hearing the shot which stopped the screaming, even though they were terrified about doing it. They seemed moved by a horror they could detect from a window in the house where they lived.
One of the women says the killer had planted one foot on either side of the child's body, was
crouching low over him, and was pumping on his back with both hands, as Trayvon lay face down in the grass. She says she had to ask him three times if someone needed help. At one point, she saw the young man's foot move, though she admits she couldn't tell what caused that.
She related that it wasn't until after her third inquiry, the man distracted himself enough to tell her to "call 911". There may have been air in the child's lungs before the killer continued to press
on his back. Do predators need to kill one person twice? Or to desecrate a victim's body?
On Current TV's Stephanie Miller Show, the two women were asked if this murderer may have
been attempting to administer some sort of CPR. Both women nearly jumped into the camera
with the most enthusiastic and certain "No" one could imagine in a serious interview.
I have to imagine the police left the child's body unattended for so long so that any evidence
could decompose, and/or become compromised.
I imagine most of those in the police department who knew the truth, wanted to cover it up.
The awful part of that is: some of the possible facts alluded to would have been best first discovered in court, not in public.
The funeral director, when interviewed, says he saw no signs of a fight. That seems to indicate
the predator pinned the young man immediately, because a healthy seventeen-year-old will
fight for his life and limb, if no nearly 200 lb man is straddling him.
The statement the killer made on audio tape, "They always get away," seems to mean now "they", the hunted, always get away from HIM. He had no perception Trayvon had committed some crime from which the young man needed to escape.
When this predator reported people to the police, he was likely setting a stage for his vile proclivity. He always reported young black males.
We have to go back to the beginning, to distinguish what Trayvon's different screams were telling us. What was happening to Trayvon to cause his very first scream?
When did he ever see the gun we assume killed him?
Isn't it safe to assume if he hadn't seen the gun, he would have kept moving? There seemed to be nothing about this killer capable of interesting this young person. Reportedly, phone records show Trayvon was talking to his girlfriend.
What was happening to the young man when his screams began? The family's funeral director has said if he had seen defensive wounding, he'd have covered it. What was happening to Trayvon while his last screams were being heard? What caused the killer to shoot?
Why was the child face down in the grass?
Why was the killer so far from where his car was parked when he killed Sabrina Fulton's son? What sort of ambush did this killer pull off, so that Tracey Martin's son didn't have a chance to get defense wounds?
What is it about the crime or the killer making police and prosecutors so determined to avoid
a proper fact-finding investigation/prosecution? How is one murderous individual his own
police enforcer, his own grand jury, his own lawyer, his own prosecutor, his own judge ,his own trial jury, and finally, his own personified acquittal? Stunning!
If we can do that with murder, we can do it with, theft, embezzlement, battery...a host of heretofore criminal offenses. We say what we fear, we act, we walk away. Civilization? Not.
May Trayvon Martin be graced with the remainder of the deserved future those who love him want for him now...the ability to rest in peace.
The first scream was different than the others. He seemed to be calling out: "Stop!"
I realize the child was being attacked, because that scream wasn't natural for someone who is
angry at being followed; and the first scream didn't seem to be calling for "Help!' That came later.
I've had a gun pulled on me, and I've talked to soldiers. Trayvon's scream wasn't natural for
someone who has suddenly seen a gun. The human tendency is to freeze, especially if the gun is up close.
The thought enters a frightened mind right away: 'make no sudden move', unless the subject of a threat thinks there is time to run. Even then, the person in danger doesn't take time to muster a
scream first.
When one listens to the two lady witnesses who say the police were not interested in their statements, those ladies say they approached the killer, in so many words, to distract him, or interrupt him. These two ladies say they went outside a bit after hearing the shot which stopped the screaming, even though they were terrified about doing it. They seemed moved by a horror they could detect from a window in the house where they lived.
One of the women says the killer had planted one foot on either side of the child's body, was
crouching low over him, and was pumping on his back with both hands, as Trayvon lay face down in the grass. She says she had to ask him three times if someone needed help. At one point, she saw the young man's foot move, though she admits she couldn't tell what caused that.
She related that it wasn't until after her third inquiry, the man distracted himself enough to tell her to "call 911". There may have been air in the child's lungs before the killer continued to press
on his back. Do predators need to kill one person twice? Or to desecrate a victim's body?
On Current TV's Stephanie Miller Show, the two women were asked if this murderer may have
been attempting to administer some sort of CPR. Both women nearly jumped into the camera
with the most enthusiastic and certain "No" one could imagine in a serious interview.
I have to imagine the police left the child's body unattended for so long so that any evidence
could decompose, and/or become compromised.
I imagine most of those in the police department who knew the truth, wanted to cover it up.
The awful part of that is: some of the possible facts alluded to would have been best first discovered in court, not in public.
The funeral director, when interviewed, says he saw no signs of a fight. That seems to indicate
the predator pinned the young man immediately, because a healthy seventeen-year-old will
fight for his life and limb, if no nearly 200 lb man is straddling him.
The statement the killer made on audio tape, "They always get away," seems to mean now "they", the hunted, always get away from HIM. He had no perception Trayvon had committed some crime from which the young man needed to escape.
When this predator reported people to the police, he was likely setting a stage for his vile proclivity. He always reported young black males.
We have to go back to the beginning, to distinguish what Trayvon's different screams were telling us. What was happening to Trayvon to cause his very first scream?
When did he ever see the gun we assume killed him?
Isn't it safe to assume if he hadn't seen the gun, he would have kept moving? There seemed to be nothing about this killer capable of interesting this young person. Reportedly, phone records show Trayvon was talking to his girlfriend.
What was happening to the young man when his screams began? The family's funeral director has said if he had seen defensive wounding, he'd have covered it. What was happening to Trayvon while his last screams were being heard? What caused the killer to shoot?
Why was the child face down in the grass?
Why was the killer so far from where his car was parked when he killed Sabrina Fulton's son? What sort of ambush did this killer pull off, so that Tracey Martin's son didn't have a chance to get defense wounds?
What is it about the crime or the killer making police and prosecutors so determined to avoid
a proper fact-finding investigation/prosecution? How is one murderous individual his own
police enforcer, his own grand jury, his own lawyer, his own prosecutor, his own judge ,his own trial jury, and finally, his own personified acquittal? Stunning!
If we can do that with murder, we can do it with, theft, embezzlement, battery...a host of heretofore criminal offenses. We say what we fear, we act, we walk away. Civilization? Not.
May Trayvon Martin be graced with the remainder of the deserved future those who love him want for him now...the ability to rest in peace.
Everyone Stay In The Race: Put In Paul Ryan!
Republicans, for some reason, don't understand they don't know whose taxes pay what.
I think they should keep talking nonsense.
Romney and Ryan have been verbally giving our president all their own attributes of bullying, dividing, pretending, "mischaracterizing". Whatever dishonest thing they do, they wait thirty
seconds, then accuse the president of it. Nice. Who among us is dumb enough to fall for that?
If the Republican primary contenders all stay in the presidential race, they will definitelyall talk more nonsense, because they can't talk sense.
Lately they seem to attempt saying ridiculous things, but using our president's mannerisms.
Good luck. Only Barack Obama is Barack Obama. The remainder of you look like somatic
mimics. Perhaps you do because that is all you ever can be.
Baby boomers are growing old quickly. We aren't going to all be here when Social Security
gets in trouble. At that time, a lot of people will be paying into it if we can streamline jobs and
keep people wanting to work.
Not that many people will be collecting it in thirty years.
Of course, if everyone is permanently ill because our health care throws people off a cliff, then
Social Security will have to be there more for those who cannot work.
Paul Ryan's budget will be great to run against because it is based on a static population... a
little way of thinking I like to highlight as WRONG.
Republicans want to be able buy all the people all the time. I guess it could be that way in America; but we don't come cheap.
Households have debt.
Companies have debt.
Countries have debt.
Paul Ryan wans to cut the heads off the poor to push the debt from 14 trillion to 10 trillion.
Romney thinks that's 'marvelous'. Maybe because we...
Don't need no revenues ( if we)
ain't got no heads.
I think they should keep talking nonsense.
Romney and Ryan have been verbally giving our president all their own attributes of bullying, dividing, pretending, "mischaracterizing". Whatever dishonest thing they do, they wait thirty
seconds, then accuse the president of it. Nice. Who among us is dumb enough to fall for that?
If the Republican primary contenders all stay in the presidential race, they will definitelyall talk more nonsense, because they can't talk sense.
Lately they seem to attempt saying ridiculous things, but using our president's mannerisms.
Good luck. Only Barack Obama is Barack Obama. The remainder of you look like somatic
mimics. Perhaps you do because that is all you ever can be.
Baby boomers are growing old quickly. We aren't going to all be here when Social Security
gets in trouble. At that time, a lot of people will be paying into it if we can streamline jobs and
keep people wanting to work.
Not that many people will be collecting it in thirty years.
Of course, if everyone is permanently ill because our health care throws people off a cliff, then
Social Security will have to be there more for those who cannot work.
Paul Ryan's budget will be great to run against because it is based on a static population... a
little way of thinking I like to highlight as WRONG.
Republicans want to be able buy all the people all the time. I guess it could be that way in America; but we don't come cheap.
Households have debt.
Companies have debt.
Countries have debt.
Paul Ryan wans to cut the heads off the poor to push the debt from 14 trillion to 10 trillion.
Romney thinks that's 'marvelous'. Maybe because we...
Don't need no revenues ( if we)
ain't got no heads.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Current TV
I saw Kathleen Madigan on the Stephanie Miller show of Current TV.
She is a comedian/comedienne, and hilarious, but movingly thoughtful.
Kathleen summed things up, even before this weekend, when experts reported the cries for help on
the 911 tape during Trayvon Martin's murder-execution were not in the voice of the killer.
Kathleen said: "Help, help! I have a gun!"
What is so scary is that...the light left in the day did not dissuade this animal of a killer.
The lack of brush or other cover did not dissuade this murderer.
The person of an unarmed youngster did not dissuade this killer.
Being in the sight line of several homes did not dissuade this perpetrator.
The youngster's cries for help did not dissuade the craven intent of the criminal.
The voice of true authority did not dissuade him.
All of that was rather worse than an attack of a previously loyal pit bull.
How did the child wind up face down in the grass?
If witnesses are honest, why would the creature straddle the boy once he was down, then push
on his back? Was this his punishment for getting suspended from school?
Asking these questions is ever so painful. We should never have to ask them for weeks and weeks
unless we are asking our courts.
Trayvon tried so hard to stand his ground.
I guess no one in America can do that unless he or she is armed.
Yet no one warned us to prepare for the blood of lambs.
She is a comedian/comedienne, and hilarious, but movingly thoughtful.
Kathleen summed things up, even before this weekend, when experts reported the cries for help on
the 911 tape during Trayvon Martin's murder-execution were not in the voice of the killer.
Kathleen said: "Help, help! I have a gun!"
What is so scary is that...the light left in the day did not dissuade this animal of a killer.
The lack of brush or other cover did not dissuade this murderer.
The person of an unarmed youngster did not dissuade this killer.
Being in the sight line of several homes did not dissuade this perpetrator.
The youngster's cries for help did not dissuade the craven intent of the criminal.
The voice of true authority did not dissuade him.
All of that was rather worse than an attack of a previously loyal pit bull.
How did the child wind up face down in the grass?
If witnesses are honest, why would the creature straddle the boy once he was down, then push
on his back? Was this his punishment for getting suspended from school?
Asking these questions is ever so painful. We should never have to ask them for weeks and weeks
unless we are asking our courts.
Trayvon tried so hard to stand his ground.
I guess no one in America can do that unless he or she is armed.
Yet no one warned us to prepare for the blood of lambs.
Herman Melville And The New World
Bartelby was a scourge; but Mahatma Gandhi was a hero for all time. And Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. changed all politics, art and literature, first in all of western civilization- and then for the entire world, forever and ever.
The right wing in this country just so would that it were not so, and want to re-institute unjust law.
Life does bend the arc of the universe in direct proportion to how and when our artists advocate
for us, or how much they activate on our behalf. A simple non-action, a principled well-aimed preference not to react, can at times fuel and empower the best representatives of humankind to speak up for us all.
Life does imitate art, then. Poets really are the legislators of the unacknowledged world.
The unacknowledged world cannot legislate the poet, save that it takes our poets so very long
to come forth, materialize in thought, word, deed, or of course, in non-deed.
Yes Herman, the Leviathan goes down hard, taking the best of the just down with him.
And our late twentieth century enlightener, Mr. Faulkner, was mistaken, unless it was his narrator who was in error.
Brutes believe Dilsey is enduring. Those of us who love her know that instead she is...waiting. Her mind is active with small offerings, acknowledged every now and again when she is among friends,
of all the justice which will somehow, someday comprise her future and that of her progeny in some
generation she hasn't as yet been able to name.
The right wing in this country just so would that it were not so, and want to re-institute unjust law.
Life does bend the arc of the universe in direct proportion to how and when our artists advocate
for us, or how much they activate on our behalf. A simple non-action, a principled well-aimed preference not to react, can at times fuel and empower the best representatives of humankind to speak up for us all.
Life does imitate art, then. Poets really are the legislators of the unacknowledged world.
The unacknowledged world cannot legislate the poet, save that it takes our poets so very long
to come forth, materialize in thought, word, deed, or of course, in non-deed.
Yes Herman, the Leviathan goes down hard, taking the best of the just down with him.
And our late twentieth century enlightener, Mr. Faulkner, was mistaken, unless it was his narrator who was in error.
Brutes believe Dilsey is enduring. Those of us who love her know that instead she is...waiting. Her mind is active with small offerings, acknowledged every now and again when she is among friends,
of all the justice which will somehow, someday comprise her future and that of her progeny in some
generation she hasn't as yet been able to name.
Alexis Goldstein
If nothing else ever gets generated from our Occupy movement, the attraction the movement
has/had for Alexis Goldstein, has been a monumental paradigm shift for moving financial heft
from the amoral world of finance without regulatory public protections, to a world which
includes questions of economic moral responsibility. This newer world presents with the power
of an intellectual and moral curiosity which can be used to enforce the fortitude of character in
finance responsibilities.
finance responsibilities.
Alexis is as much a U.S. treasure as is Elizabeth Warren.
Now that we finally have a new jobs bill (since 3-27-12) Alexis asks us to question ourselves on
how much that bi-partisanship is costing us.
For one thing, should a one billion dollar company be exempt from Security and Exchange
Commission filings for five years?
Now, if I do get a job, why would I want to invest in a billion dollar company if that's
considered too small to be regulated? I need 'small' redefined.
Now, if I do get a job, why would I want to invest in a billion dollar company if that's
considered too small to be regulated? I need 'small' redefined.
Another point Alexis raises is this: Congress had no reason in this jobs bill to approve extra help
and funding for tech star-ups. According to Ms. Goldstein, venture capital already flows into
tech start-ups at high rates of speed. I have to care about that, because money and credit are not
floating in some bottomless pit. If rich start-ups are getting the financing, how can I get a decent
credit card which will have a stable rate? I cannot because the real investment of time and money
is in companies whose future is considered "new" in the business world for at least five years. I
may get a great introductory rate on a card or loan; but that rate is not going to outlast the
questions in the investments of new start-ups. I will have to cover that uncertainty in my higher
than should be necessary new interest rate.
than should be necessary new interest rate.
I won't encourage students in my family or my community to believe their Pell Grants will be big
enough or stable enough to empower them to invest in post high school education. Perhaps part-
time college has to be more popular?
Education is more than worth a student's time; and yet how are we to keep faith in its funding?
Apparently, a thing called crowd funding is also a part of finance needing regulation. Crowd
funding is essentially an Internet call for "angel" stranger investors in new businesses. Critics say
federal regulators need to make sure buyers know a lot about the company before investing. Of
course that would mean these companies would have to file a great deal of publicly decipherable
information and projections about their likelihoods of success, to my way of thinking, in order
to be considered transparent. If I understand what public protectors are asking for,
companies hiring anyone to pump up their product reputations, must publish a lot
of information about the products.
The new products are so new, and the new regulations are so in flux, that the average citizen,
including me, will take some time to understand what is needed so that (according to Wall Street
lingo) 'our faces don't get ripped off''.
Thank you Alexis, for informing us, as one of the relatively small group of people in this country who
actually values doing that. And thank you, Chris Hayes, for helping to magnify Alexis' work in these
areas. Your Up With Chris Hayes on weekend mornings is a great seminar.
Thank you Alexis, for informing us, as one of the relatively small group of people in this country who
actually values doing that. And thank you, Chris Hayes, for helping to magnify Alexis' work in these
areas. Your Up With Chris Hayes on weekend mornings is a great seminar.
Hopefully, Alexis can add to her group every Saturday afternoon at 2pm in Union Square.
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