For at least thirty consecutive years in the lives of most women and girls, reproductive life is economic life.
Will your children be born the year after you begin med school?
Will your children be born the first year after you pass the bar?
Will you be in your ninth month of pregnancy when you take your beauty school licensing
exams?
Will you still be serving drinks when you have to pay a babysitter twice what she was charging
before you had twins?
Will you get to retirement if you are finally back at university when your son has an accident at age twenty-one? By then, you are forty-five,and he needs to be cared for at home for an indeterminate
amount of time. That is, having a child is often a lifetime commitment. So shouldn't a woman make
some money, plan to make some money, for a certain amount of years she has specified for herself?
Don't believe protecting your reproductive rights are different from planning your education and
economic future. Those two spheres in your existence enjoy nearly total overlap, especially if you
care at all about doing well with your education, your children, and your career.
Perhaps even more important than simple reproductive rights, are reproductive health rights.
We will always need our governing bodies to insure we get safe, clean services for whatever health
initiative we choose.
While politicians are so focused on restriction and control- who is minding the real store of whether
safe practices are actually the norm in the reproductive health requests we have of today's professionals?
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Poll Taxes
We don't have Medgar Evers any longer.
We don't have Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We don't have Malcolm X.
So what are we going to do? Our causes, the legacies we had hoped to leave our children, are the aging orphans of the uplift of our own 1 to 3%.
What many sophisticates have decided is this: 'Just go ahead and pay the poll tax. Quit yer whinin'!
I guess the prevailing wisdom of the race disdainers is that if 'you people' want to vote, you will go
ahead and 'show your papers'.
So if the poll taxes take a different shape, and get requested in even more stealthy ways, and grow to
larger and larger amounts of an individual's monthly income, does that mean we should still go ahead and pay, or we don't care about our vote?
I can see how mockery could lead someone to that view. What? Isn't it OK to call out mockery when
it's noticed? I think that should be OK.
I think if we have to wage generations of war and dissent to claim a 500 year old birthright, maybe
we need to think in terms of different papers. Passports are nice. I hear Burkina Faso is nice any time
of the year.
We don't have Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We don't have Malcolm X.
So what are we going to do? Our causes, the legacies we had hoped to leave our children, are the aging orphans of the uplift of our own 1 to 3%.
What many sophisticates have decided is this: 'Just go ahead and pay the poll tax. Quit yer whinin'!
I guess the prevailing wisdom of the race disdainers is that if 'you people' want to vote, you will go
ahead and 'show your papers'.
So if the poll taxes take a different shape, and get requested in even more stealthy ways, and grow to
larger and larger amounts of an individual's monthly income, does that mean we should still go ahead and pay, or we don't care about our vote?
I can see how mockery could lead someone to that view. What? Isn't it OK to call out mockery when
it's noticed? I think that should be OK.
I think if we have to wage generations of war and dissent to claim a 500 year old birthright, maybe
we need to think in terms of different papers. Passports are nice. I hear Burkina Faso is nice any time
of the year.
Minimum Wages
When Republican politicians say they are job creators, and their buddies are job creators, believe
them. They are minimum wage job creators for a few people at a time.
Oh, you meant you wanted a career?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
If that's the case, you'd better be a Republican who votes for Barack Obama. Sorry. Paul Ryan has
already said he thinks the minimum wage should be between 3 and 4$.
them. They are minimum wage job creators for a few people at a time.
Oh, you meant you wanted a career?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
If that's the case, you'd better be a Republican who votes for Barack Obama. Sorry. Paul Ryan has
already said he thinks the minimum wage should be between 3 and 4$.
Manners
Question: When does the more polite person lose a debate?
Answer: When he or she is a democrat.
Question: When does the most polite person win a debate?
Answer: When he or she is republican.
Question: Is it ever good to be soft-spoken during a debate?
Answer: If there is any republican anywhere who wants you to be
soft-spoken during a debate, you must be soft-spoken.
Even vicious Republicans want to be handled with kid gloves.
Answer: When he or she is a democrat.
Question: When does the most polite person win a debate?
Answer: When he or she is republican.
Question: Is it ever good to be soft-spoken during a debate?
Answer: If there is any republican anywhere who wants you to be
soft-spoken during a debate, you must be soft-spoken.
Even vicious Republicans want to be handled with kid gloves.
Women Expanding Their Opportunities
How many one per centers in this country are women? Are half of them women? No. half of them are not women. Half should be women. Women generally have to do twelve or fifteen sustaining jobs in order for the day-to-day of any man who lives in a family to become a billionaire.
A man with a life partner he can trust has a much better chance of sustaining an ever building high
incomes than a man with a lot of girlfriends. In America, we tend to think of that as some sort of very cute heady and romantic fact. In some other countries it is often considered a duty a man can take for granted. Actually, it's neither. Beyonce's life can illustrate this partner value possibility.
A woman who already has money, from earning x million dollars per year, cannot simply put all that
aside to have a child which is just as much her partner's baby as it is hers. I mean, of course some women will be glad to do that. However, there should not necessarily be such an expectation placed
upon a woman available for marriage and a family. Why should a husband who can afford to make
up the difference say to wife, "Honey I intend to make the same money I make each year, or maybe
more- but could you perhaps cut yours by up to half so we can have a child?"
Women should exercise choices beyond traditional divorce possibilities in fashioning marital prenuptials.
Generally, a professional partner, male or female has to get laundry handled properly in a household.
Dry cleaning also has to be managed.
One of the questions I came to love, then hate- 'What's for dinner'?
Groceries have to be purchased. Then they have to be stored. Then someone has to decide which
of them is to be served on what day.
Dishes have to be in place. Flatware has to be ready.
Food has to be rinsed, and kitchenware has to be available for food preparation and for cleansing the services.
Or...reservations have to be made, unless someone is going to pick up or call for delivery of pizza or
Chinese, or whatever.
The rooms in a home set aside for daily living have to be kept clean and comfortable.
Who decides when to reorder or re-purchase the pillows and throws?
Who does the cleaning or manages the paid household helpers?
The road from hundred thousand dollaraire to millionaire to billionaire is long and bumpy.
One partner has to restrict much of his or her day to business climates, finance, real estate, payrolls,
meetings, boards, bottom lines etc.
But I don't know what is for dinner tonight. You figure it out darling. I'm taking investors to dinner.
And by the way, if all goes well, the GOVERNMENT, will of course give us loan guarantees for
much of the investment we're soliciting.
A man with a life partner he can trust has a much better chance of sustaining an ever building high
incomes than a man with a lot of girlfriends. In America, we tend to think of that as some sort of very cute heady and romantic fact. In some other countries it is often considered a duty a man can take for granted. Actually, it's neither. Beyonce's life can illustrate this partner value possibility.
A woman who already has money, from earning x million dollars per year, cannot simply put all that
aside to have a child which is just as much her partner's baby as it is hers. I mean, of course some women will be glad to do that. However, there should not necessarily be such an expectation placed
upon a woman available for marriage and a family. Why should a husband who can afford to make
up the difference say to wife, "Honey I intend to make the same money I make each year, or maybe
more- but could you perhaps cut yours by up to half so we can have a child?"
Women should exercise choices beyond traditional divorce possibilities in fashioning marital prenuptials.
Generally, a professional partner, male or female has to get laundry handled properly in a household.
Dry cleaning also has to be managed.
One of the questions I came to love, then hate- 'What's for dinner'?
Groceries have to be purchased. Then they have to be stored. Then someone has to decide which
of them is to be served on what day.
Dishes have to be in place. Flatware has to be ready.
Food has to be rinsed, and kitchenware has to be available for food preparation and for cleansing the services.
Or...reservations have to be made, unless someone is going to pick up or call for delivery of pizza or
Chinese, or whatever.
The rooms in a home set aside for daily living have to be kept clean and comfortable.
Who decides when to reorder or re-purchase the pillows and throws?
Who does the cleaning or manages the paid household helpers?
The road from hundred thousand dollaraire to millionaire to billionaire is long and bumpy.
One partner has to restrict much of his or her day to business climates, finance, real estate, payrolls,
meetings, boards, bottom lines etc.
But I don't know what is for dinner tonight. You figure it out darling. I'm taking investors to dinner.
And by the way, if all goes well, the GOVERNMENT, will of course give us loan guarantees for
much of the investment we're soliciting.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Truth
Truth doesn't seem to have much value in Republican politics. If someone asks why Mitt Romney is
so blatantly dishonest, one of his supporters asks: "What about Barack Obama?"
Whether or not Romney habitually lies and obfuscates has no meaning in the minds of his supporters.
How does a grown man change his mind every day without being either a liar or a neurotic?
None of his supporters care.
They could care less whether he is open, honest, empathic, interested in the majority of the country,
able to support middle class job careers, intelligent, or knowledgeable about intricate patterns in
world affairs. His supporters only care that he is not Barack Obama.
President Obama, even among many self-loathing black and brown people, was to have been all things to all people, just as scores of black people have had to be twice as prepared in this country to
get half the reward of other groups, for generations.
Expectations for Gov. Romney revolve around one thing, and one thing only. Beat President Obama.
He doesn't have to know anything about science. He doesn't have to know much about foreign affairs.
He doesn't have to understand the strengths or needs of the average American. There does not exist a
requirement among his backers, that his plans for this country be explained clearly or concisely.
He is asked to beat President Obama. Republicans could care less about the honesty he has to ignore
in order to get that job done.
The reverse has not yet become a reality in democratic political life.
What bothers me, is that the closer we get to the election of 2012, the closer we could get to all sorts
of destructive behaviors which present actual dangers to individual persons. If I don't mind lying, all
I need to do is whatever I happen to feel like doing at any given moment, as long as I feel I can lie my
way out of taking any responsibility for my whim.
Showing requested tax returns, kindness to animals, interest in close family, care about how money is
accumulated, aftermaths for those affected by my personal business decisions, caution about my investments in foreign economies, sensitivity about my tax evasion plans, are all unnecessary traits for me if I am to run for President of the United States of America as a Republican candidate.
Surprised?
so blatantly dishonest, one of his supporters asks: "What about Barack Obama?"
Whether or not Romney habitually lies and obfuscates has no meaning in the minds of his supporters.
How does a grown man change his mind every day without being either a liar or a neurotic?
None of his supporters care.
They could care less whether he is open, honest, empathic, interested in the majority of the country,
able to support middle class job careers, intelligent, or knowledgeable about intricate patterns in
world affairs. His supporters only care that he is not Barack Obama.
President Obama, even among many self-loathing black and brown people, was to have been all things to all people, just as scores of black people have had to be twice as prepared in this country to
get half the reward of other groups, for generations.
Expectations for Gov. Romney revolve around one thing, and one thing only. Beat President Obama.
He doesn't have to know anything about science. He doesn't have to know much about foreign affairs.
He doesn't have to understand the strengths or needs of the average American. There does not exist a
requirement among his backers, that his plans for this country be explained clearly or concisely.
He is asked to beat President Obama. Republicans could care less about the honesty he has to ignore
in order to get that job done.
The reverse has not yet become a reality in democratic political life.
What bothers me, is that the closer we get to the election of 2012, the closer we could get to all sorts
of destructive behaviors which present actual dangers to individual persons. If I don't mind lying, all
I need to do is whatever I happen to feel like doing at any given moment, as long as I feel I can lie my
way out of taking any responsibility for my whim.
Showing requested tax returns, kindness to animals, interest in close family, care about how money is
accumulated, aftermaths for those affected by my personal business decisions, caution about my investments in foreign economies, sensitivity about my tax evasion plans, are all unnecessary traits for me if I am to run for President of the United States of America as a Republican candidate.
Surprised?
Rah Dee Dah
If the Republican ticket thinks POTUS is going to lay down because he won't take the bait to call a
Mormon bishop a liar, repeatedly, then they are all sadly mistaken.
Our president didn't take that bait; yet still got compared to boys...liar boys.
President Obama has said he was too polite, and he may have been; but why should he have to take a risk of that sort when it's apparently the job of the 24 hour news cycle to call Romney a liar on so many things, and in so many ways for days and days at a time, all day every day.
The newsy ones who could care less about the political malfeasance in the Trayvon Martin slaying,
will continue to talk about Romney's lies day after day...and thank the Lord they do.
A fifty-something black guy getting aggressive or 'smart' with a sixty plus church official makes the
optics so awful on TV in America, even in a fair debate.
And then tomorrow Veep has the freedom to be ticket attack dog.
He has the skill.
He has the expertise.
He has the experience.
He has the grit.
He has the will, the determination, the chops,and all the facts and figures from both campaigns.
He even has the scariest thing of all...DCCC permission!
Now go on out there Veep, and make that wannabe one with his boss...please, pretty please.
Mormon bishop a liar, repeatedly, then they are all sadly mistaken.
Our president didn't take that bait; yet still got compared to boys...liar boys.
President Obama has said he was too polite, and he may have been; but why should he have to take a risk of that sort when it's apparently the job of the 24 hour news cycle to call Romney a liar on so many things, and in so many ways for days and days at a time, all day every day.
The newsy ones who could care less about the political malfeasance in the Trayvon Martin slaying,
will continue to talk about Romney's lies day after day...and thank the Lord they do.
A fifty-something black guy getting aggressive or 'smart' with a sixty plus church official makes the
optics so awful on TV in America, even in a fair debate.
And then tomorrow Veep has the freedom to be ticket attack dog.
He has the skill.
He has the expertise.
He has the experience.
He has the grit.
He has the will, the determination, the chops,and all the facts and figures from both campaigns.
He even has the scariest thing of all...DCCC permission!
Now go on out there Veep, and make that wannabe one with his boss...please, pretty please.
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