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11/13/13: Women's Rights Activists finally go "On Offense". The seeming collapse of public support for the Tea Party after the shutdown debacle, seems to have given liberals some semblance of backbone. They may finally be realizing that if all you ever do is resist the advances of the Right, you are still retreating.
Alan Grayson is one who has always understood this, I think. Now Barbara Boxer and others are getting with it, introducing the Women's Health Protection Act—"historic legislation that aims to end the relentless attacks on women's essential reproductive health by extremist politicians".
Sign on here - they want your support.
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11/12/13: Very interesting article on TomGram, on the disastrous difference for the
Spy-ers, between Omniscient and Omnipotent - the Spy-ees can get them back!
"There’s never been anything quite like it. The slow-tease pulling back of the National Security Agency curtain to reveal the skeletal surveillance structure embedded in our planet (what cheekbones!) has been an epochal event. It’s minimally the political spectacle of 2013, and maybe 2014, too. It’s made a mockery of the 24/7 news cycle and the urge of the media to leave the last big deal for the next big deal as quickly as possible.
It’s visibly changed attitudes around the world toward the U.S. -- strikingly for the worse, even if this hasn’t fully sunk in here yet. Domestically, the inability to put the issue to sleep or tuck it away somewhere or even outlast it has left the Obama administration, Congress, and the intelligence community increasingly at one another’s throats. And somewhere in a system made for leaks, there are young techies inside a surveillance machine so viscerally appalling, so like the worst sci-fi scenarios they read while growing up, that -- no matter the penalties -- one of them, two of them, many of them are likely to become the next Edward Snowden(s)."
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11/9/13: Fatally shot for being a young black woman -
Last Saturday, Renisha McBride got stranded after a car accident in a suburban neighborhood in Detroit. Her cellphone battery was dead, so she went to the nearest house and knocked on the door, planning to ask for help. Instead, unprovoked, the owner of the house fatally shot her in the head.1
It seems like nothing could more blatantly lead to an arrest. But here's the thing: Michigan is one of the 30 states that has a "Stand Your Ground" Law.2 Like in the case of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin in Florida, gun-owners in Michigan are allowed to "shoot first" if they feel someone poses a threat.
In this case, Renisha's killer is claiming he shot her in the face by accident, because he thought she could be a burglar. He has not been arrested.
You can read more, and sign a Petition for justice, here.
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11/6/13: Does Lindsey Graham know better than your Doctor?
Danielle and Robb Deaver were "over the moon" about Danielle's pregnancy until her water broke at 22 weeks. They were heartbroken to learn their baby would not develop further or survive, but that heartbreak was compounded when doctors told them they couldn't end their nightmare and induce labor because their state bans abortion after 20 weeks. Doctors had to wait for Danielle to get sick or for the baby to die before they could do anything. When baby Elizabeth was finally born, she survived for only 15 minutes.1
Senator Lindsey Graham is planning to introduce a national bill this week that criminalizes abortions after 20 weeks.2 When politicians introduce these inhumane bans on abortions, they are tying the hands of doctors who want to help couples like the Deavers. Less than 2% of abortions occur after 20 weeks, and many of them are for heartbreaking reasons that no one should ever have to face.3
Texas, North Dakota, and Arkansas have all passed 20-week abortion bans this year, and so has the House in Congress.4 If we don't make a stand against Sen. Graham's bill in the Senate, more states will be emboldened to pass these inhumane laws. We have to make sure that conservatives everywhere know we won't stand for this.
Tell the Senate: You have no right to legislate our medical decisions. Enough with the attacks on women. Block Graham’s inhumane and extreme abortion ban bill.
Hi all -
I'm turning over a new leaf - believe that if you can!
I've realized I'm spending too much time and space on this 'ere Blog, on relaying interesting contemporary stuff about issues. (Even though I absolutely love it!) So from now on, I'm going to restrict myself to things that relate to my main theme of "The War On The 60s".
However, since there are so many good things to read, which I love to share with you... I'm going to post just brief links to stuff I want to alert you to, and update it as we go along Life's Merry Way.
For instance, this seems pretty timely - Numero Uno:
How "ObamaCare Cancelled Your Plan" is really an Insurance Co Scam to Rip You Off
Numero Dos: Former House Speaker Denied a Texas Voter ID
Numero Tres: you remember how the Romans figured out that the way to keep the ignorant masses quiet was to give them "bread and circuses"? Well, of course the modern equivalent is the quasi-religion of mind-numbing team sports. Read how the NFL rips off Taxpayers here.
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