(h/t commentor NancyDarling)
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A last-minute reminder from the Rev. Doc. William J. Barber for Balloon Juice readers in North Carolina: Don’t forget to vote tomorrow!
Open Thread: “We Know What A Trojan Horse Look Like”Post + Comments (20)
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(h/t commentor NancyDarling)
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A last-minute reminder from the Rev. Doc. William J. Barber for Balloon Juice readers in North Carolina: Don’t forget to vote tomorrow!
Open Thread: “We Know What A Trojan Horse Look Like”Post + Comments (20)
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Not a whole hell of a lot to say this evening.
The Voice and Eureka, and a couple of practice tests for my next Microsoft certification test.
Rmoney is an intolerable suppository of an insipidly stupid and morally compromised excuse for a human being who must be an embarrassment to his father every single day of his life. He has no discernable value system excepting ‘whatever it takes to get elected President’ which makes him the perfect standard bearer of the non-insane wing of the Republican party. That is all.
by Imani Gandy (ABL)| 66 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads, The War On Women, Women's Rights Are Human Rights
I’ve formed a political action committee the goal of which is to eradicate gender discrimination and inequality. Our first undertaking is the Team Uterati Wiki Project and will involve compiling a complete custom-built database of the 1100+ anti-choice bills that have popped up in states across the country. We are already underway — the Alabama wiki page will give you a taste of what we are doing. Once complete (in July, hopefully) we will use the resulting information to target women-friendly candidates for our support, and to organize on-the-ground activism and GOTV efforts.
Here is our press release:
May 7, 2012 – People Organizing for Women’s Rights (POWR) was created with the goal of uniting women across the nation to encourage passage of the Equal Rights Amendment, Imani Gandy, president of POWR, announced today.
“Most people don’t know that it is not unconstitutional to deny women equality under the law. But, as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia recently pointed out to us, the Constitution does not prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex,” said Ms. Gandy.
“This is why we are seeing a flood of bills come out of state legislatures attacking women. This is why we have to struggle to protect what progress we have made every time election season rolls around. This is why it is still legal to pay women less than men, to discriminate against mothers seeking jobs, and restrict the availability of health care services for women. This is why our bodies become political footballs and bargaining chips whenever other issues are raised. Women are tired of this. We want better for the daughters of America, and we mean to give it to them,” Ms. Gandy added.
About POWR
People Organizing for Women’s Rights (POWR), the first national political action committee (PAC) which leverages social media and other social action tools to combat gender discrimination and inequality at the state and federal level.
Team Uterati (“TeamU”) is a broad-based online community initiative which maintains a complete database of crowd-sourced legislative and other information regarding reproductive rights and women’s health issues nationwide.
The Team Uterati Wiki Project (“TeamU Wiki”) is a community-driven social action tool used by grassroots and netroots activists to combat the ongoing Republican infringement of women’s human rights, and it can also be used by the media to report upon such efforts. The website allows visitors to view legislation state-by-state, including the status of the legislation, its relevance, authors and sponsors, related activism and any organizations involved, giving unprecedented ease of access and transparency to empower ordinary citizens who are interested in this issue.
Together, TeamU and the TeamU Wiki comprise the first major undertaking of People Organizing for Women’s Rights (POWR), and can be found at http://www.teamuterati.com. You can download a PDF version of the TeamU Project Plan by clicking here. More information about POWR can be found at: http://www.powr-pac.org.
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Contact:
Imani Gandy
[email protected]
@AngryBlackLady
(310) 927-2508—
Click here for a downloadable version of this press release.
POWR-PAC Formed to Unite Ladies Nationwide, Pass the ERA
Please take a look at our Project Plan.
Cheers!
POWR-PAC Formed to Unite Ladies Nationwide, Pass the ERAPost + Comments (66)
This post is in: Balloon Jobs, Because of wow.
If you’re not reading the Rude Pundit, well, you’re just missing some of the funniest, most incisive commentary on the correct side of the internet.
Some choice excerpts:
In re Newt Gingrich ending his “campaign for President”:
And so it was that on May 2, 2012, one of the most disgusting, spitting pustules in the vile recent history of the diseased American body politick finally decided that he had had enough of people despising him in public. Yes, Newt Gingrich realized that his quest for the presidency was so quixotic that Sancho Panza would have just stabbed himself in the heart to avoid it.
So, like the complete debased cocksucker that he is, the kind of bloated, herpes-ridden old dude you find in the bathrooms of shitty bars, begging you through the glory hole in the stall wall to let him blow you just so he can feel something akin to being wanted, Gingrich of course ended his campaign with a head-slappingly self-aggrandizing piece of delusional stream of consciousness that seemed more like the rantings of someone who had had acid slipped into his Metamucil.
Also, it’s time for another Balloon-Jobs thread–who’s looking for a job? Who knows about a job opening? What’s out there, and how can we help each other out, and while we’re at it, who has a recent success story? Got a promotion or a new job? Lets hear about it. I’ll go first–if you are unemployed or underemployed in any number of professions, you should definitely be searching and applying at www.usajobs.gov especially if you are a Veteran, or a disabled person, but especially if you are a disabled Vet, even if your disability is not service-connected. Come to work for the best employer there is, the American Taxpayer. Right now, my agency, Veterans Affairs, is preparing to hire a LOT of IT personnel for virtualized work. That’s right–you can make good money working from home supporting a worthy cause, the health and welfare of Veterans. Hell, when I type it out like that, it almost looks like a scam.
Anyway, let’s hear what you’ve all got for and about employment today.
In which I post another diary that boils down to “What He Said”Post + Comments (89)
This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, Assholes
Assorted ninnies and white supremacists are attempting to deface the North Carolina Constitution with anti-gay graffiti via Amendment 1. There’s already no marriage equality in NC, but Amendment 1 is designed to keep same-sex couples in the back of the bus.
Here’s Balloon Juice commenter Jibeaux:
I assume if you’re reading B-J and live in NC that you know about Amendment One. If you’re reading B-J and do not live in NC but know anyone there, please nag them to vote against A1 or dialogue with them about it if they are on the fence. We could be—but are not poised to be—the first in the nation to reject an anti-gay marriage amendment. This amendment would go further than our current statutes and would prohibit recognition of any domestic union other than marriage. If passed, it will throw partner benefits and domestic abuse law into uncertain territory. We need to pull out all the stops on this, if you have any NC stops please get in touch. Thanks for listening.
Also via Jibeaux, a link to an organization that is leading the charge: Protect All NC Families.
Maggie Gallagher’s NOM outfit likes to brag that the anti-gay bigots always win on ballot measures (neglecting to add that many state voters would re-segregate schools if given the opportunity), and the polls don’t look good. But a big turnout by marriage equality supporters could send a huge message. Please do what you can to help.
This post is in: David Brooks Giving A Seminar At The Aspen Institute, Open Threads, DC Press Corpse
This is something of a grand blogospheric circle something-or-other, but via Delong, I learn that Krugman learned from our own DougJ of Jacob Weisberg’s dismay that the aforesaid Krugman had the gall to be both right about lots and lots of stuff — and to point this fact out rather bluntly to those who persist in error.
Krugman’s response is so pitch perfect that I plan to steal it and resteal it and generally beat it to death every time a villager whinges about the terrible rudeness of the great unwashed.
Here it is, start to finish:
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Discuss.
This post is in: Books, Open Threads, Since We Have A Category For Everything Here Is One for Insomina
It’s either too late or too early to post this, but as a result of Kathryn Schulz’s NYMag review, I may have to buy a copy of Till Roenneberg’s book Internal Time:Chronotypes, Social Jet Lag, and Why You’re So Tired…
Among species, we humans are to time what Polish villagers have long been to place: unhappy subjects of multiple competing regimes. The first regime is internal time: the schedule established by our bodies. The second is sun time: the schedule established by light and darkness. These two we share with houseplants and virtually every other living being. But we are also governed by a third regime: social time. That sounds benign enough, like afternoon tea with a friend. But don’t be fooled. Social time is the villain in this drama, out to turn you against health, happiness, nature, sanity, even your own inner self…
Ultimately, though, Roenneberg is more interested in what he calls “social jet lag”: the exhaustion produced by the gap between internal and social time. You can, should you choose, quantify your social jet lag. Simply calculate the difference between the midpoint of your average night’s sleep on a workday and a day off. Say on workdays you fall asleep at eleven and wake up at six: Your midpoint is 2:30 a.m. On weekends, you fall asleep at one and wake up at nine: Your midpoint is 4:30—and you’ve got two hours of social jet lag. You might as well fly from New York to Utah.
Social jet lag, unlike real jet lag, is chronic. Its chief symptom is sleep deprivation, and sleep deprivation is—surely I do not need to tell you this—ghastly. It leaves you with the equilibrium of a despot, the attention span of a toddler, and the working memory of a fire hydrant. It’s one of the few human conditions that can make the characteristics of the tomb—dark, quiet, horizontal—seem unbelievably desirable. Not for nothing are torturers so fond of it…
Adults, too, rapidly lose their equilibrium in the face of even short-term sleep loss. Long-term, it’s associated with depression, diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular problems, and cancer. Your odds of being a smoker rise significantly for every hour of social jet lag you suffer. The World Health Organization recently classified “shift work that involves circadian disruption” as a potential carcinogen. The physiological, in other words, bears out the phenomenological. Sleep deprivation makes us sick, sad, and dumb….
Read the whole review, it’s as amusing as it is depressing. For the last few years, I’ve been unemployed (thank goddess and the Spousal Unit it’s been possible for me to survive without working for a paycheck), so I’ve mostly been able to keep my body’s preferred schedule of sleeping from approximately 6am to 2pm. It’s been my impression that us Non-Standard Circadians are overrepresented among bloggers (as among geeks of all persuasions), but maybe that’s just the fatigue poisons talking…
Apart from me making everyone who didn’t get enough rest (even more) cranky, what’s on the agenda for the start of another week?
Early Morning Open Thread: Sleep on ThisPost + Comments (42)