FINALLY

someone had the damn good sense to translate this



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i wasn't there. i didn't see what happened

BUT if this is true, we (america) is in deep deep deep shite.

land of the free home of the brave arrested

CCR Attorney Legal Observer Arrested in Arizona Immigration Protests

Contact: press@ccrjustice.org
July 29, 2010, New York and Phoenix – This afternoon, CCR Attorney Sunita Patel was arrested as she was carrying out her legal observer duties at a protest of Arizona’s unconstitutional immigration law, SB 1070. As police began a sweep, Ms. Patel began to take down names of those being arrested and was promptly arrested herself. Witnesses say legal observers were deliberately targeted by police.

Said CCR Legal Director Bill Quigley, “Arresting a young woman of color who is there as an attorney observer demonstrates how irresponsible and un-American the Arizona action is. I fear Arizona is starting to ct like Mississippi in the civil rights days.”............

these pictures are stunning. they are amazing

they are us. they are who we are. they are what made us. please take a few minutes and look at ALL of them
i wanted to post all 70 of them, but of course i'm not going to. PROMISE ME you'll look at them. PROMISE

found at dangerous minds

the pics are at the denver post

General view of part of the South Water Street freight depot of the Illinois Central Railroad Chicago, Illinois, May 1943. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains. White Plains, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Backstage at the "girlie" show at the state fair. Rutland, Vermont, September 1941. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Jack Delano. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

Young African American boy. Cincinnati, Ohio, 1942 or 1943. Photo by John Vachon. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress

i am VERY busy at work.....

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(no no no, i didn't do this)

just when you thought you could go back in the water

Iowa GOP Supports Amendment To Strip Obama’s Citizenship Because He Won The Nobel Peace Prize 

 

By Tanya Somanader  

At its state convention in Des Moines last month, the Iowa GOP adopted a new party platform that includes the repeal of mandatory minimum wage laws, the elimination of the U.S. Department of Education, and even clarification on the definition of manure. Out of the “387 enumerated planks and principles,” Newsweek’s Jerry Adler found the most “startling” section of the platform calls for “the reintroduction and ratification of the original 13th Amendment.”

Adopted in December 1865, the current 13th Amendment of the Constitution prohibits “slavery” and “involuntary servitude” in the United States or any place under its jurisdiction. The Iowa GOP is not trying to overturn this amendment to reinstate slavery. Instead, it wants to reintroduce the “original 13th Amendment” first offered by senator Phillip Reed of Maryland in 1810. The amendment states that “if any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honor” from a “foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen” and “shall be incapable of holding any office of trust.” In receiving only 12 out of the 13 votes needed for ratification, the amendment was never adopted..............

not EVER

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from the ever wonderful

twisted vintage

my kind o' performance! (and there's a GIVEAWAY too!)

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women have always served

and guess what? like it or not, they always WILL serve. it's THEIR choice (and always was their choice). yet it's 2010 and women are getting a wicked raw deal (from the military and it's services). to be fair, the men ain't getting treated so well in many instances too

this is pitiful. 

By Lisa Rein

Washington Post Staff Writer  

About 1.8 million women have served in the U.S. military, and with 245,000 female soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, it's estimated that within a decade, women will make up 16 percent of all veterans.

Yet until recently, some health clinics for veterans did not have separate bathrooms for women. Some doctors who treat returning service members haven't kept up with medical advances on issues from sexual trauma to prosthetics to menopause. Some Veterans Affairs computers still spit out data mistaking female veterans for wives of men who fought.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is turning its resources to women as the government braces for an increasing demand for services from female veterans.

On Wednesday, clinicians, benefits experts, VA leaders and veterans from across the country discussed the department's stepped-up efforts and the need to do more for women...........

pic: A statue at the Vietnam Women's Memorial, pictured in 2002. Women represent 8 percent of all military veterans. (Gerald Martineau/the Washington Post)

this is VERY dangerous ground

i know king george and his merry band of feudal lords and assassins didn't care about the constitution and our rights. et tu barrack? if one is suspected of terrorism i would imagine the feds would have it VERY easy getting a warrant from a judge to tap their email (or phone or snail mail or whatever). VERY easy. there is NO need for this. NONE. almost the very same thing CAN (and is) be done LEGALLY

White House proposal would ease FBI access to records of Internet activity

By Ellen Nakashima

Washington Post Staff Writer  

The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation.

The administration wants to add just four words -- "electronic communication transactional records" -- to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. Government lawyers say this category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user's browser history. It does not include, the lawyers hasten to point out, the "content" of e-mail or other Internet communication.............

pic: Lawyer Stewart Baker said the change would sometimes "mean giving a lot more information to the FBI." (Courtesy Of The Department Of Homeland Security)

mama chula

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i will indeed warn you

this my dears is the stuff of nightmares



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artist at work

from bits&bites

Tattoo artist at work,c.1930
[probably Charlie Wagner,see also]
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i was angry about the spoiler AND NO ALERT

and said so in this posting

The History and Use of "Spoiler Alert"

by Nate Freeman 

 

In her July 14 article about the premiere of the fourth season of "Mad Men," Alessandra Stanley neglected to include a phrase that precedes potentially revealing facts in film and TV reviews: “spoiler alert.” Fans read ahead and the damage was done. A certain string of words made moot a device key to the operation of the “Mad Men” universe—the ignorance on the part of the audience of how much time has lapsed between the previous season and the current one—and she did not give readers the choice of whether or not they wanted to know before the episode aired. The information was placed casually in the middle of a sentence—and so, for some, the fun of the anticipation had been ruined, and something would be taken away from the original viewing experience. Betrayal! Stanley had broken the unspoken agreement.

The outrage was widespread. Matthew Weiner, the show’s creator, told the Hollywood Reporter that he was “shocked” and that  “A lot of people told me they were blindsided by [the Stanley article].” Writing for Variety, Brian Lowry called out Stanley for “ignoring their plea to avoid spoilers—without so much as a word of warning.” New York magazine placed “Alessandra Stanley spoils pretty much everything in the 'Mad Men' season premiere” far on the “despicable” side of its Approval Matrix..................

A L P H A V I L L E: Pastor Shows Serious Interest In Men's Underwear

A L P H A V I L L E: Pastor Shows Serious Interest In Men's Underwear: "Underwear packaging reportedly recalled from Walmart after Cullman pastor’s complaint By Trent Moore The Cullman Times CULLMAN — A local p..."

wtf?

 how scary is this?
Disputed chemical bisphenol-A found in paper receipts

By Lyndsey Layton

Washington Post Staff Writer  

As lawmakers and health experts wrestle over whether a controversial chemical, bisphenol-A, should be banned from food and beverage containers, a new analysis by an environmental group suggests Americans are being exposed to BPA through another, surprising route: paper receipts.

The Environmental Working Group found BPA on 40 percent of the receipts it collected from supermarkets, automated teller machines, gas stations and chain stores. In some cases, the total amount of BPA on the receipt was 1,000 times the amount found in the epoxy lining of a can of food, another controversial use of the chemical.

Sonya Lunder, a senior analyst with the environmental group, says BPA's prevalence on receipts could help explain why the chemical can be detected in the urine of an estimated 93 percent of Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.................

i don't go to target much

not for any reason other than the one that's closest to me isn't really that close AND it's in an odd odd odd location AND the first time i attempted to go there, i accidentally  got on the highway and got wicked lost

now instead of thinking twice about going, i'll think three times. sounds to me like they are firmly on the side of glbt community only when it suits them. they are on the glbt side because they know glbt people spend money (just like everyone else). 

how can one throw money at a candidate who is ANTI equal rights and then say they are FOR equal rights? it simply doesn't make sense TARGET. your true (red) colors are showing now

it's an ap story so i can't print any of it

pic from the story linked below

Target Corp. spending company money on candidates

i tried to find out what he does

nearest i can determine is he is an 'author'. what i'm really wondering is: why would faux 'news' continue to have him on as a guest? why would i wonder that? well a couple of reasons. seems he sprouts forth all sorts of made-up facts AND he also thinks women are steamin' pieces o' shite

 Fox News ‘anti-feminist’ guest calls dating ‘legal prostitution’
 By David Edwards and Stephen Webster

.............Cue Marc Rudov, a self-described anti-feminist and frequent guest on both Fox News and Fox Business. His take: ladies night at local bars is evil because "dating is legal prostitution" anyway. 

Carlson appeared shocked. Her other guest -- Lis Wiehl, who frequently spars with Rudov during Fox appearances -- was not so much. Her response was rather dry: "Get a life."

The pairing seems to be a frequent one for Fox News, which has squared Rudov and Wiehl off 49 times since 2007, according to Rudov's Web site. Virtually all of Rudov's media exposure comes from Fox News and Fox Business, and he's a favored guest of Bill O'Reilly.

Rudov's primary objective in his literature and appearances is to convince men to stop "kissing [female] ass." On his site, he calls the United States a "gynocracy" and offers "coaching" for men with relationship difficulties. He declared during the 2008 primaries that Hillary Clinton lost the male vote because of her "nagging voice" and insists that women actually control 60 percent of America's wealth..............

this is from 2007
On Your World, Mark Rudov falsely claimed "women are equal-opportunity domestic abusers"

here's his wickimedia entry

i'm off to work now

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i love them. lying weasels (no offense to weasels of course)

Right-wing media falsely claim White House "supported" release of Lockerbie bomber

The right-wing media are distorting a U.K. Sunday Times article to claim that the "White House backed [the] release of [the] Lockerbie bomber," Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. In fact, the Sunday Times article right-wing media figures are citing makes clear that "the United States wanted Megrahi to remain imprisoned in view of the nature of the crime." ........

...............Drudge: "White House Backed Release of Lockerbie Bomber." The Drudge Report linked to an Australian article under the headline, "White House Backed Release of Lockerbie Bomber." From the July 25 front page of the Drudge Report:............