Archive for September 2010
MW: The Truth, As I See It
Posted by: chatblu on: September 30, 2010
- In: Democratic Values | Economy | Government | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Politics | You Tube
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Greetings from Sunny Soggy South Florida. It’s been raining now for about the last eighteen hours, and the storm is still 4-6 hours out. We’re told that we are fortunate that TS Nicole more closely resembles a monsoon (and we do believe that last part) as it carries the bulk of rain to the east, rather than [...]
Activist Wednesday: The Revolution Will Not be Televised
Posted by: madamab on: September 29, 2010
- In: Civil Liberties | Class Warfare | Democratic Values | Economy | Feminism | Government | Media Tripe | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Politics | Propaganda
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Widdershins, there are only three days left till the One Nation Working Together march on Washington. As a reminder, here is the URL for the home page: http://www.onenationworkingtogether.org/page/s/join-the-movement Although many of the groups who are sponsoring this event are of the very far left persuasion, as noted in the comments yesterday by comrades Beata and [...]
MW: A Woman’s Place
Posted by: chatblu on: September 28, 2010
- In: Class Warfare | Democratic Values | Gay Rights | Government | Hillary Clinton | Human Rights | misogyny | Morning Widdershins | Open Thread | Politics | Women | You Tube
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(H/T to Fredster for the inspiration for this post.) A letter from Susan B. Anthony wriiten at the turn of the 20th century is going up for sale. In this letter, Miss Anthony avers that “women are the pets of society”, and that “pets are not equals”. Oh, Susan, you don’t know the half of it. [...]
Morning Widdershins: The Haps
Posted by: madamab on: September 27, 2010
- In: Current Events | Feminism | Gay Rights | Healthcare | Israel | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread
- 37 Comments
Time for another short post, everyone – am giving a presentation on my work at my old firm today. Wish me luck! First, a little action. On Friday, we discussed NOW and the new, extremely restrictive abortion care guidelines that the “pro-choice” Obama Administration has come up with for the high-risk insurance pools mandated by [...]
Lazy Sunday: Absolute Disasters
Posted by: chatblu on: September 26, 2010
- In: Morning Widdershins | movies | You Tube
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H/T to Fredster for this tiny sub-genre: disaster movies that are so bloody awful that they’re almost funny. While we will accept any movie whatsoever that’s an epic disaster, I have done some thinking and figures out some that are true to his request. Here are my fave five: (1) Atomic Twister (2002): OMG! An F5 twister [...]
MW: Finally Home
Posted by: chatblu on: September 25, 2010
After nearly four decades of labor on the part of gay men and women, Florida’s Third District Court of Appeals has struck down the state law banning gay adoptions. The court stated unequivocally that there is no rational basis for denying adoption rights to qualified people. All of this mess began in the late 1970′s [...]
Feminist Friday: NOW Takes Another Step Forward
Posted by: madamab on: September 24, 2010
- In: Civil Liberties | Class Warfare | Feminism | Gay Rights | Human Rights | misogyny | Morning Widdershins | Obama | Open Thread | Patriarchy | Politics
- 55 Comments
As we have seen for the past ten shameful years of both Republican and Democratic rule, neither the elephants nor the donkeys are willing to advance women’s rights or LGBT rights. The Republicans have a long history of being against both causes, and their new “Pledge to America” contains the following language on page five: [...]
MW: Adult Supervision Required
Posted by: chatblu on: September 23, 2010
- In: Media Tripe | Morning Widdershins | Politics | Propaganda | You Tube
- 58 Comments
What in the world is going on with both of our political parties? They midterms have turned into a sideshow. First, Newt Gingrich echoes Dinesh D’Souza Forbes article entitled “Obama’s Problem With Business”. In this article, D’Souza calls Barack Obama, Sr. a “Kenyan anticolonialist”, and defines the concept of anticolonialism as follows: “Anticolonialism is the doctrine that rich [...]
Activist Wednesday: Are You Ready to March?
Posted by: madamab on: September 22, 2010
- In: Class Warfare | Education | Feminism | Gay Rights | Government | Healthcare | Morning Widdershins | Open Thread | Politics | Propaganda | Snark
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By now, we’ve all heard about the various marches that are going on in the next few weeks. We’ve got One Nation Working Together on October 2nd, which appears to be solidifying into quite an effort – if you go to the home page, the first thing you’ll see now is a signup form for [...]
MW: Death and Taxes
Posted by: chatblu on: September 21, 2010
Ah, yes. The two inescapable facts of life: death and taxes. For a number of months now we have been treated to articles, commentators and pundits ranting on and on about the demise of the Democratic congress. Who knew that the Republicans in the form of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell would hand them their [...]
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