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What Dakinikat said about Stealing Home:
Archive for the ‘Humanism’ Category
Set the Date: August 18th?
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminist Majority, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanism, Justice, LGBT, Politics, tagged California, Judge Walker, Proposition 8, Same Sex Marriage on August 12, 2010| 4 Comments »
SacBee is reporting that Judge Walker has lifted the temporary stay on the Prop 8 ruling, paving the way for same sex marriages to resume as early as August 18th. Pending further legitimate action on the dark side, those souls who have already applied for their licenses could be married before the end of the month.
See:
http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2010/08/judge-declines-to-issue-stay-o.html
Status of Arizona’s S.B. 1070
Posted in Congress, Human Rights, Humanism, Justice, Politics, tagged Arizona Immigration Law, Bolton, S.B. 1070 on July 27, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Update – ABC Reports that Judge Bolton has blocked key provisions of S.B. 1070, however, several measures of the law will go into effect today. See:
Arizona Immigration Law Judge Puts Hold on Key Provisions
The ACLU has reported that back to back hearings were presented on Arizona’s new immigration law, and sides presented to Judge Bolton.
The law is now under judicial review. See:
Have We (They) Learned Yet?
Posted in 51 Percent, Communications, Feminism, Feminist Majority, Humanism, Justice, Politics, women, Women's Rights, tagged 331%, Liberal, Obama Vilsack, Older Workers, Shirley Sherrod, Unemployment, Van Jones on July 21, 2010| Leave a Comment »
It’s always nice when people agree with and say exactly what you think; especially when they say it so well over at the Confluence:
My $0.02 on Shirley Sherrod
By Wonk the Vote
UTube and all the other media videos deserve the same scrutiny as your local grown fruit.
Ask these questions: WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, HOW, and WHY!!! if you can’t answer those questions, you don’t know what you are watching. If you don’t know what you are watching, you can’t make a decision. That sure as heck means you don’t go riling people up and firing them cause, you, Freda, are suffering from information deficit syndrome.
Now, you’d a thunk all those gal’ durned Harvard Grads would know that stuff by now.
Either, they really are a bunch of doofuses, or ?
Try this on:
1) As Wonk alludes, we are a long way from realizing the ageist and misogynist elements of this story. WHO, right now is being asked to take early retirement, or let go in the greatest numbers? Who as a group has earned the highest salary in the last few years, and thus has the greatest impact on the bottom line? If you can’t remove someone because of tenure, what other tactics are used? This is a long running storyline.
2) Liberals, and I am one, should spend a little time pondering a pattern of dispensability of the more liberal political elements and civil rights “Old Guard” on the part of the Obama administration. Van Jones wasn’t the only other example. In case you still don’t get it. Obama is NOT A LIBERAL! He is not on your side. Whatever is wanted must come from you and your actions.
More Gulf Spill News from Dahr Jamail
Posted in Congress, Disaster, Environment, Health and Food, Humanism, Justice, Nature, Politics, tagged BP Oil Spill, Dahr Jamail, Erica Blumenfeld, Gulf of Mexico on July 20, 2010| Leave a Comment »
100719 – Monday Ketchup
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Communications, Congress, Environment, Health Care, Human Rights, Humanism, Justice, Nature, Politics, women, tagged Border Security, CA, California, Carte Goodwin, Epidemic, Gray Panthers, Gulf OIl Spill, Immigration, indentured labor, National Ocean Council, Ocean Policy Task Force, Pertussis, Unemployment, Unfair child labor, Vaccine, Whooping Cough on July 19, 2010| Leave a Comment »
If you haven’t yet done so, The Gray Panthers urge you to SPREAD THE WORD to reinstate and extend unemployment insurance and contact you Senator TODAY:
In Unemployment Benefits Extension, a Logistical Headache for States
Overtaxed State Agencies Struggle to Keep Up
By ANNIE LOWREY 7/19/10 6:00 AM
[People seeking unemployment benefits wait in the lobby of an Employment Development Department office in California. (EPA/ZUMAPRESS.com)
On Tuesday, the Senate plans to vote on a federal extension of unemployment benefits, blocked by Senate Republicans for an unprecedented two months. The swearing-in of Carte Goodwin, the temporary replacement for the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), will give Democrats the crucial 60th vote to overcome a GOP filibuster and restore unemployment insurance to 2.5 million Americans….]
For more on Carte Goodwin try HERE and HERE.
The DOL has published a list of products we all want to think twice about purchasing. However, as you read the list you will see some of the difficulties in following through on this kind of a determination. Take cotton for example; Benin, Burkina Faso, China, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan are on the no-no list. Where did your last tee shirt come from? Do we have anywhere near enough inspection? See the list HERE:
ILAB News Release: [07/19/2010]
Contact Name: Gloria Della Clarisse Young
Phone Number: (202) 693-8666 or x5051
Release Number: 10-0914-NATUS Labor Department publishes updated list of products made with forced or indentured child labor
[WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of International Labor Affairs today announced the publication of a final list of products that federal contractors must certify under Executive Order 13126 are not produced with forced or indentured child labor. The list will appear in the July 20 edition of the Federal Register….]
As an older adult, around age 55?, my father had Whooping Cough and let me tell you, it wasn’t fun. It is very hard to breath during the coughing attacks. He thought that he had been vaccinated as a child, leading us to believe that the vaccine had lost effectiveness. Check with your doctor about vaccines. Personally, if I were traveling to CA in the future, I’d check with my doctor about getting the vaccine as well.
Vaccine urged as whooping cough epidemic grows
By Bobby Caina Calvan
Published: Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 – 12:37 pm
Last Modified: Monday, Jul. 19, 2010 – 1:02 pm
[State health officials today urged more Californians to get vaccinated for whooping cough, as the disease grew to epidemic proportions…]
http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/19/2900460/vaccine-urged-as-whooping-cough.html
Border security and Immigration reform are two separate issues. The former is used as a ploy to prevent the latter from happening. Ruben Navarrette shows how the two issues rotate around each other:
Politicians posture over U.S.-Mexico border
Ruben Navarrette Jr.
[“What do you mean I’m out of money?” says the bumper sticker. “I still have checks left!” In the immigration debate, some folks use the same logic to raise the issue of border security.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/29/EDAP1E6NQ5.DTL
You may remember that President Obama issued an Executive Order on May 22, 2010 directing the institution of a “ National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling”. The Commission released it’s final report today. I guess it will be my evening read:
Final Recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force Announced
Posted by Phil Larson on July 19, 2010 at 02:23 PM EDT
Obama Administration officials today released the Final Recommendations of the Ocean Policy Task Force, which would establish a National Policy for the Stewardship of the Ocean, Coasts, and Great Lakes (National Policy) and create a National Ocean Council (NOC) to strengthen ocean governance and coordination.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans
Sunday Outrages
Posted in Communications, Disaster, Environment, Health and Food, Human Rights, Humanism, Indigenous, Nature, Politics, tagged BP Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Haliburton on July 18, 2010| 1 Comment »
Truthout has published a photo essay by independent journalists on the current state of the Gulf. The photos and statistics continue to stun. If we want to change our future, the time is now:
The Source of Our Despair in the Gulf
by Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld
Pennsylvania, Abortion Rights, and?
Posted in 51 Percent, Communications, ERA, Feminism, Feminist Majority, Health and Food, Health Care, Humanism, Justice, Politics, Women's Rights, tagged Abortion Rights, New Insurance Pools, Preexisting on July 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
On my travels through FaceBook today, I came across an astounding announcement over at the National ACLU site. It isn’t yet on their webpage. It said:
ACLU Nationwide: BREAKING: Obama shockingly adds abortion coverage ban to new insurance pools for women with pre-existing conditions. More soon.2 hours ago
http://www.facebook.com/aclu.nationwide?v=wall&story_fbid=142916209053423
Looking for any source, I found two.
Earned Media, a rightist site reported:
Administration Reiterates That No Federal Funds Will Be Used for Abortion
“Despite Claims by Republican Groups, High Risk Pools will not pay for Abortion”
Then there was NARAL:
Pro-Choice America Speaks Out!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 15, 2010
Statement on Obama Administration Policy Excluding Abortion Coverage from High-Risk Pools
[Washington, D.C. – Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL Pro-Choice America, called the Obama administration’s decision today to exclude abortion coverage from newly created high-risk pools wrongheaded and inexplicable….]
http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/news/press-releases/2010/0707152010_obamaexcludeabortionhcr.html
Bemusedly, I looked for any announcements from the White House, but there was only one up to the time of this blog, an Executive Order on March 24th.
Now I don’t know about you, but I thought it was pretty clear from the Order in March, even if you didn’t grasp all of the nuances of the Patient Protection and Affordable health Care Act, so recently in our memory, that existing conditions for women were never part of the final deal. That’s just one more reason the Act was so heinous for women. In March, over at the Confluence, people were having this kind of discussion about it.
RH Reality check had the best discussion of today’s debate HERE.
So, what is with these groups? Are they really so slow on the uptake? Or is something else going on? If Nancy (I don’t believe in abortion, but I run NARAL and spent big bucks to get Obama elected and drop kick Clinton) is screaming, it must be about something else? Koolaid withdrawals? The start of a new battle?
Hey what do I know, I’m just one of those low information working class voters, with dial-up. Someone out there in blog land, enlighten me.
No enlightenment thus far. Maybe it’s as mundane as basic “Velveteen Rabbit” legaleze. It’s not real until you rub it’s fur off and pull its eyes out, and the PA kurfluffle is a first test. If that’s the case why not present it like that instead of pretending it’s some new horribleness?
SACBEE Says No Leaks!
Posted in 51 Percent, Disaster, Environment, Health and Food, Health Care, Humanism, Justice, Nature, Politics, tagged BP, Cap, Gulf OIl Spill on July 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
SacBee is reporting HERE, that the BP gulf oil cap has stopped the oil gusher in the Gulf. No news yet on the permanency of the cap, but so far so good.
Nader Org. Summer Reading
Posted in Communications, Environment, Feminism, Finance, Humanism, Justice, Nature, Politics, War, tagged Ralph Nader, Reading on July 10, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Ralph Nader’s blog site has put up a a summer reading list. In best Nader fashion, they appear to be books that will inform you and add to to your personal defense arsenal of knowledge and citizenship. I’m putting them on my list;
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- FDA – Recalls
- VH Foods Inc. DBA Outside The Breadbox Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Egg and Milk in "Bread Crumbs"
- Spring & Mulberry Issues Voluntary Recall of Mint Leaf Date Sweetened Chocolate Bar Due to Possible Salmonella Contamination
- Food Business Karison Foods & Snacks Inc Recalls ‘PANJIRI’, ‘ALSI PINNI’, ‘PUNJABI PINNI’, ‘BESAN LADDOO’, and ‘NO SUGAR ADDED BESAN LADDOO’ Due to Undeclared Milk Allergen
- Diva Fam Inc. Announces Voluntary Recall Of Sea Moss Gel Superfood Products Due to Possible Health Risk
- Modern Warrior Recalls “Modern Warrior Ready” Dietary Supplement Due to Undeclared 1,4-DMAA and Aniracetam, as Well as Tianeptine, Which has Not Been Approved for Supplement Use by the FDA.
- HerbsForever LLC Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Wheat in HerbsForever brand Dietary Supplements
- Gusto Group Inc. Recalls Shrimp Paste (Klong Kone) ‘'454 G. (1 LBS)’ and ‘910 G. (2 LBS)’ because of Possible Health Risk
- Anthony Trinh, 123Herbals LLC (123HERBALS.COM) Issues Nationwide Recall of Silintan Capsules Due to the Presence of Undeclared Meloxicam
- Carrot Top Kitchens of Bridgeport (formerly Redding) Issues a Class II Recall of Hummus Containing Undeclared Sesame
- Primavera Nueva Inc. Issues Voluntary Recall of Select 4-Count Tamales Because of Possible Health Risk- Revised to Include Roasted Pumpkin & White Cheddar, a Seasonal Item
- consumer Product Safety Protection
- Agrish Adult Portable Bed Rails Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Entrapment and Asphyxiation; Violate Mandatory Standard for Adult Portable Bed Rails; Sold on Amazon by Agrish Direct
- DR Power Equipment Reannounces and Expands Recall of Leaf Vacuums Due to Laceration Hazard; New Remedy Available
- Infant Innovations Recalls BabyBond Retractable Safety Gates Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death to Children from Entrapment; Violates Mandatory Standard for Gates and Enclosures
- The Kalencom Corporation Recalls SARO Braided Crib Bumpers Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Suffocation; Violates Federal Crib Bumper Ban
- Marcus Adler Glove Recalls Julie and Judah Pajama Pants and Shorts Due to Burn Hazard; Violates Mandatory Flammability Standards for Children’s Sleepwear
- NFSVLB Baby Bath Seats Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death to Children from Drowning and Entrapment; Violate Mandatory Standard for Infant Bath Seats; Sold on Amazon by NFSVLB
- Rattan 6-Drawer Dressers Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Tip-Over and Entrapment; Violate Mandatory Standard for Clothing Storage Units; Sold on Amazon by Rattan
- Sangohe Adult Portable Bed Rails Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Entrapment and Asphyxiation; Violate Mandatory Standard for Adult Portable Bed Rails
- Vasicar 18-Drawer Dressers Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Tip-Over and Entrapment; Violates Mandatory Standard for Clothing Storage Units
- YOLAAH Adult Portable Bed Rails Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Entrapment and Asphyxiation Hazards; Violate Mandatory Standard for Adult Portable Bed Rails
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