I guess all the info below happened after the hiatus I took on August 26th . However, I see that my last Richardson post is still up on Daily Puma. So maybe Alessandro will supplant it with this. (more…)
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Tying up Loose Ends: Bill Richardson
Posted in 51 Percent, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Federal Grand Jury Probe, Pay for Play, Richardson on November 14, 2009| 3 Comments »
Berg V Obama, et al Affirmed
Posted in 51 Percent, Election, election reform, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Berg, Lawsuit, Obama on November 13, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The FEC reports that the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, on November 12th, affirmed Pennsylvannia’s Court decision regarding Berg V Barack Obama, et al. For all the documentation regarding this, go HERE.
Lest you have forgotten, this case attempted to present evidence regarding Obama’s ineligibility to run for and serve as president, However, the lower court determined that Berg was not personally injured, and therefore had no standing to bring the suit.
Having taken a brief gander a the appeals court’s opinion, as a non expert, it looks like Berg’s suit was a mess. See what you think.
Get your shot!!!
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, The New Agenda, women, tagged NIHI, Solano Co. Cat on November 13, 2009| 1 Comment »
If you haven’t got your H1N1 shot yet and you aren’t allergic to eggs, go get your gal-durn shot. If you are allergic to eggs and don’t have medical insurance with which to get medical advice, contact these people:
Solano County CA. has now confirmed the death of a six year old. A forty-year old man died recently, 80 people have been hospitalized and we have had one school dismissal. Maybe that doesn’t seem like much in a population of more than 400 thousand. Why do you want to be one of the lucky ones that got it?
Then, there is this, a now confirmed case of H1N1 in a cat. If yours aren’t feeling well, get it checked out.
A Marin County Cautionary Tale
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Rape, Sexual Grooming, Sexual Predators on November 12, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Previously titled “A Marin County Ghost Story”. (what can I say; I was tired, this sounds better.)
Long ago in a faraway place called Marin County, I took a job selling Champion motor homes. My husband and I hadn’t been married that long, maybe 3 years. We had two toddlers. Money was tight. Because we were living in SF at the time and had only one car, my husband, who had met the man and found me this job, drove me there for what was supposed to be the first day of many, with idea I would take the bus back, a trip of at least an hour.
As many of you more savvy people might anticipate, after my husband left, the sexual innuendos began. So well ok, the guy is a jerk. It was the 70’s, free sex was all around, and I was 22. Pretty much for the entire day the sexual advances continued. I’m thinking I’ll just handle it and not come back. The lot closed and others left, one coming to say goodbye with an odd look.
It was time for me to go and catch the bus. He blocked the entrance to the motor home I was in. He was friendly, but blocking the entrance saying it’s too far to take the bus and he is going to give me ride home. So now the question, do I attempt to push by the guy or will this get worse? The lot was dark, my husband was an hour away, it was before cell phones, and he wasn’t going to let me in the office to make a call. He was pretty insistent at this point that we should have sex.
It was all so friendly and calm, it was the 70’s and sex wasn’t a big deal, HIV/AIDS wasn’t known yet. Even so, I didn’t want to have sex with this asshole. Was it better to keep it calm and friendly or could it escalate? So I made a bargain. I gave him a blowjob. Yes, it was still sex, but I didn’t have to get naked, I didn’t have to lie down. He didn’t touch my body. I could have bitten him, and run out, but in the 70’s in Marin County, in the dark, I might not have made it anywhere whole.
Afterwards he took me home. The next day he called my husband and apologized to him, not me. ( Had he thought my husband was offering me up?) I wouldn’t talk to him. He tried to tell my husband that he had a good wife and family and didn’t know why he did this. (Meaning he did it more than once?) He wanted my husband to feel sorry for him. In thinking about it, this incident may be one reason why I prefer to drive myself places.
Today in 2009, a lot of us, including me, would handle this kind of thing differently. However, even when we do our best to protect ourselves, there are times when we just don’t recognize the pattern until it is too late.
Why am I telling what will certainly be an icky story for my granddaughter to read? The answer is that I never told my older daughter. Now, as she is beginning a sexual harassment lawsuit against her former employer, I realize I have left out some important information to pass on. We are strong women; we can survive just about anything.
However, don’t assume a sexual harasser can be managed. You shouldn’t have to. Just because you make it one day or the next doesn’t mean that if an opportunity arises a predator will refrain. After the second time you have to say no, start a journal. Complain to Human Resources. Don’t think sexual grooming happens only to children. If a sexual predator attempts to groom you and fails, don’t assume he will just leave you alone. Expect retaliation. The jails are full of people, mostly men, who are incredibly personable and have spent most of their years planning how to get you, and are very patient. Don’t manage, do what it takes to stop it. Whatever that is.
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The Silent Majority: Adult Victims of Sexual Exploitation by Clergy
EMOTIONAL ABUSE in the workplace.
Communication Tactics Used By Sexual Predators To Entrap Children Explained
Veteran’s Day 2009, and NNAHM
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, tagged Alaska, Arlington, baskets, CA, Endangered Sites, ethnobotany, Fairfield, Ft Hood, Homeless Vets, Indigenous, Keith Little, Library of Congress, Mills College, National Native American Heritage, National Park Service, National Trust for Historic Preservation, New Hampshire, Obama, parade, Patriot, Peterboro, Tammy Duckworth, weaving on November 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
WAPO is commemorating Veteran’s Day, with an article on Tammy Duckworth and the new generation at the VA.
Today’s Christian Science Monitor’s article discusses new attempts to help homeless vets. I have to say I don’t think there has been this much Federal activity in this direction since Governor Reagan. You may remember him. He’s the one that did so much in aid of the population’s growth in CA when he shut down thousands of hospital beds as a cost cutter.
President Obama was busy speechifying at Arlington, as he did yesterday in Fort Hood, Texas.
New Hampshire’s Peterboro, the company that has been making USAn made baskets since 1854, is offering a few patriotically themed baskets in celebration of Veterans Day. You know the ones; they make picnic, pie and bicycle baskets.
My hometown is having a parade in just a few minutes, and I’ve been searching for my display flag, the one my mother gave me, all day. I haven’t been able to find it since we packed a few things into storage.
Elsewhere around the Bay area, these VA events are happening.
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On Oct 30 Barack Obama proclaimed November as National Native American Heritage Month. (NNAHM)
Indigenous peoples in Alaska are giving informative lectures on various tribes and nations.
As well, in Alaska, the Juneau Empire is featuring daily, a different member of the Juneau native community.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation is taking applications for their 2010 list of Endangered Native American Places.
The Library of Congress has put together an interview and web page on Keith M Little, Navajo code talker during WWII.
The National Park Service has nicely featured in their National Register of Historic Places, properties relating to “American Indian Heritage Month”.
Mills College, in Oakland, CA is commemorating the month with various activities. The next will be an evening of music and dinner on November 19th.
WaterturtleWeaver has a new 2010 ethnobotany calandar on sale, that looks scrumptious! The project was a cooperative effort including well known artist-ethnologist Deborah Small and photographer-weaver Rose Ramierz.
Happy Birthday Abbie!
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Abigail Adams, Feminism, First Lady on November 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Born this day, November 11th, 1744: Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States, March 4th, 1797- March 4th, 1801.
Maria Mayer
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Maria Mayer, Nobel Prize, Physics on November 11, 2009| Leave a Comment »
On this day November 10th, 1963, Maria Mayer became the first American woman and second woman ever, to win the Nobel Prize in Physics. Her working life was indicative of the strictures many women have suffered toward achievement in a male dominated field.
So, I sent this To BusinessWeek(updated)
Posted in 51 Percent, Children, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, LGBT, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged BusinessWeek, Cancian, Children, Haskins, marriage, Minority Rights, Poverty, Women's Rights on November 10, 2009| Leave a Comment »
The Debate Room over at BusinessWeek has posted this debate topic:
Low-Income Women: Get Married
-Update-
Someone over at NewsWeek finally did publish my comment, so I am removing it here. However, it’s still worth a look to SEE what was posted in their “Debate Room” this week, suggesting that low-income women should get married as a way out of poverty.
What do you think?
Women’s Equality Day
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, voter reform, women, tagged 19th Amendment, Bella Abzug, Equality Day, ERA, Nixon, women on August 26, 2009| Leave a Comment »
What are you doing to celebrate? August 26th, 1920 was the day women in the United states obtained the right to vote. The 19th amendment, introduced in 1878 and establishing suffrage for women, took 42 years to become law. In 1971, after Bella Abzug’s introductory legislation, and a bill passed and signed into law by President Nixon, the day was proclaimed as Women’s Equality Day. Without yet having achieved the ERA, the term “Equality” can only be applied in the narrow sense, as it relates to voting rights. However, certainly women and men everywhere can celebrate this day, today, as the great leap forward it represents.
090720 – Monday Ketchup
Posted in 51 Percent, Feminism, Great American Women, I Own My Vote, just say no deal, Politics, PUMA PAC, The New Agenda, women, tagged Afghanistan, Algae, Apollo, Bolden, Bowe Bergdahl, CA budget, Cherokee, Festival. NC, Frank McCourt, Garver, Indigenous, Moonwalk, NASA, Native American, Sci Fi, Space, Spacewalks, Taliban, The Blob, Walter Cronkite on July 20, 2009| Leave a Comment »
Footprints and trails.
What Quaker Dave SAID:
We won’t come close to what this felt like again until we touch Mars, or the next planet, or the next system. Even then, with the wonder of those events yet to arrive, they will be points on a continuum.
In the mean time, while humans are floating through the atmosphere of the Gods, we have the wonder of the first African American man to lead the NASA agency: Charles Bolden, and a woman, Lori Garver, as Deputy Administrator.
SacBee is reporting here this evening that California’s solons have, amazingly, reached a budget agreement, HERE.
Lest you get your hopes up, it still has to be ratified by legislature. I haven’t seen it yet; I have no idea what they came up with. They are hoping the plan’s ratification will give them the credit they need to acquire short term loans and avoid the IOU’s they have been reduced to.
We lost another pioneer this week, Walter Cronkite.
In addition, we lost a wonderful writer, Frank McCourt.
We are thinking of this MAN. We hope he returns soon.
In the fifth year of a growing tradition, North Carolina Cherokee hosted tribes from far-flung places including origins in Hawaii, Mexico, Peru, New Mexico, British Columbia, Oklahoma, and Arizona.
FESTIVAL HONORS HISTORY, HERITAGE, ART
[CHEROKEE, N.C. – Traditions, history and cultures collided as indigenous tribes gathered for the fifth annual Festival of Native Peoples, with a special Indian Art Market Preview on July 16, at the Cherokee Indian Fair Grounds….]
http://nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2187&Itemid=0
We witnessed the return of the Blob, last seen in 1958, HERE. Since it was last dropped off in the Artic, it probably wasn’t too much of a swim to Alaska after all that global warming.
Do we sci-fi people know our stuff or what?
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- FDA – Recalls
- Fran’s Chocolates, LTD. Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Hazelnuts in Fran’s Pure Bar AlmondMilk Chocolate 46% Madagascar Plant-Based Product
- Direct Source Seafood LLC is Recalling Frozen Raw Shrimp Because Product May Have Become Contaminated with Cesium-137 (Cs-137)
- PlantBased Innovations Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Almond in H-E-B Dairy-Free Coconut Yogurt, Strawberry Flavor
- A.S.K. Foods, LLC Issues Allergy Alert on Undeclared Soy in Publix Rice & Pigeon Peas
- Primavera Nueva Inc. Issues Voluntary Recall of Select 4-Count Tamales Because of Possible Health Risk
- Boss Dairy Farms Voluntarily Recalls Retail Mild Cheddar Cheese Because Of Possible Health Risk
- MediNatura New Mexico, Inc. Expands Voluntary Nationwide Recall of ReBoost Nasal Spray and to include ClearLife Allergy Nasal Spray Due to Microbial Contamination
- StuffbyNainax LLC Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of MR.7 SUPER 700000 Dietary Supplement Due to the Presence of Undeclared Sildenafil and Tadalafil
- So Delicious Dairy Free® Salted Caramel Cluster Frozen Dessert Pints Voluntarily Recalled by Danone U.S. Due to Potential Presence of Foreign Material
- White Castle Frozen Food Division Recalls Frozen 4-Count Cartons of Original Sliders Due to Undeclared Milk and Soy
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- Amp Fit Recalls AMP Smart Fitness Machines Due to Laceration and Serious Injury Hazard
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- Pedego Electric Bikes Recalls Fat Tire Trikes Due to Fall and Laceration Hazards
- Furnulem 8-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 Furnulem
- TopHomer Pool Drain Covers Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Entrapment and Drowning Hazards; Violation of the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act; Sold on Amazon by TopHomerUS
- Currey & Company Recalls Electra Chandeliers Due to Impact Injury Hazard
- 17 Stories Furniture 18-Drawer Dressers Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Tip-Over and Entrapment Hazards; Violates Mandatory Standard for Clothing Storage Units; Imported by Shenzhen Jinhongzhen Technology Co
- ANNQUAN Brand Power Strips Recalled Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire; Sold on Amazon by Hefei Juyuan Sporting Development
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