USA Amnesia

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The poor dear was born, just in time to be a witness to history-

Record Coldest year in Ohio - 1917 / Avg temperature 47.10 degrees

The lowest measured temperature in Cincinnati for the last 49 years in December was -13 on December 15, 1917

Cincinnati - The most snow recorded in a single day in December was 11 inches on December 8, 1917.

United States National Weather Service historical Cincinnati December weather data indicates that on December 11, 1917, the
measured high temperature did not exceed 5 degrees Fahrenheit, the lowest high measured in Cincinnati in the past 49 years.

Sandusky- The winter of 1962-63 tied with the winter of 1917-18 as the third coldest on record, with 14 days of below-zero temperatures.

1917-18 the Winter the Ohio froze over

When the largest and most sever blizzard in memory struck in the first week of December, and below zero temperatures invaded
the country from the Rockies to the Atlantic Seaboard, hope for relief dwindled as the Ohio River, reacting to the extreme and
continuous cold temperatures, froze nearly solid from above Cincinnati to the Mississippi and even southward. All tributaries were
locked up tight and Madison was caught in the grip of the most severe winter on record.

No one disputes the ravages the flood during the winter of 1937 brought, but for sheer, enduring misery the winter of
1917-1918 was never again equaled.

http://www.mjcpl.org/historyrescue/timeline/1917-18-the-winter-the-ohio-froze-over

 

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The world's largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century broke out at Novarupta in June 1912, filling with hot ash what came
to be called the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes and spreading downwind more fallout than all other historical Alaskan eruptions
combined. Although almost all the magma erupted at the Novarupa vent, most of it was stored beneath Mount Katmai, 10 km
away. Mount Katmai collapsed during the eruption. Airborne ash from the 3-day event blanketed all of southern Alaska, and its
gritty fallout was reported as far away as Dawson, Ketchikan, and Puget Sound. Volcanic dust and sulfurous aerosol were detected
within days over Wisconsin and Virginia; within 2 weeks over California, Europe, and North Africa; and in latter-day ice cores recently
drilled on the Greenland ice cap.

http://www.avo.alaska.edu/Katmai2012/

 

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Tomlinson Hill

As a small piece of the grand puzzle of race relations and the sentimental weight of ancestry and place, Tomlinson Hill is a
stunning tribute to the importance of understanding the past even as we seek a brighter future.”

TOMLINSON HILL is the story of America, as seen through the microcosm of a small Texas town called Marlin. The film takes
its name from the former Texas slave plantation that at one time defined this region. We trace this story through the eyes
of two descendants – one black – Loreane Tomlinson; and one white – Chris Tomlinson, who independently come back for
very different reasons to find their crumbling community still struggling under the weight of 150 years of class separation.

On the verge of economic ruin or redemption, Marlin’s future success is dependent on the community truly coming together as one.

http://tomlinsonhill.com/

 

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The police then ran around and terrified witnesses by taking away their cell phones and video cameras for “evidence.” The video,
which was shot by a witness named Karina Vargas and has been seen by everyone on KTVU, was also going to be confiscated,
except her train started moving as police attempted to snatch away her camera. The cops obviously did not see the other video
cameras buzzing away.

What went down this New Year’s morning is a very disturbing sight and it has the entire city of Oakland on edge. Adding insult to injury
is the refusal of BART police to acknowledge any wrongdoing. Police Chief Gary Gee says the tapes are inconclusive and he has thus far
refused to even release the name of the police officer who is now on paid leave.

We have also come to find out that the young men along with Oscar Grant were snatched off the train by BART police who did not
know whether or not these young men were involved in any sort of altercation. In short, it could’ve been any one of us
pulled off the train that night.

Oscar Grant, young father and peacemaker, executed by BART police
January 6, 2009

http://sfbayview.com/2009/oscar-grant-young-father-and-peacemaker-executed-by-bart-police/

Director Brings Oscar Grant Back to Life
http://www.ebony.com/news-views/interview-director-brings-oscar-grant-back-to-life-345#axzz2Z2wYNI8O

July 8, 2013

When the life of 22-year-old Oscar Grant was taken before all of our eyes in 2009, many of us remained stunned, outraged
and then, subdued. But not Ryan Coogler. The 26-year-old filmmaker, also a Bay area native like Grant, could not shake the
images of Grant being shot by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle out of his head. He had to tell the story.

What unfolded was a series of meetings with the Grant family, support from actor Forrest Whittaker's production company,
the Grand Jury Prize and Audience award at Sundance, and a two-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.

Fruitvale Station, a film made by Ryan Coogler
Now showing! July 2013

 

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College student from Massachusetts shot, killed by police in New York

October 17, 2010

Danroy Henry, 20, was a Pace University student and varsity football player who graduated from Oliver Ames High School in 2007.

He was shot and killed by police early this morning outside of a bar in Mount Pleasant, N.Y., located about 35 miles north of
New York City, according to police and university officials.

{gsgs comment-The police would not let people go to the aid of their dying friend. But the ambulance crew was sent to take care of a
fake injury that was tacked onto one of the police officers. Grrrrrrrrrr}

Hundreds rally for 'truth' in cop shooting death of Pace student Danroy Henry

November 22, 2010

Several hundred people rallied at the Westchester DA's office Sunday to demand an independent investigation into the fatal cop shooting of a Pace University student.

"We come here to fight for them and the truth," said Channelle Henry, 25, a cousin of slain football player Danroy Henry. "He was an inspiration to many."

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york...th-pace-student-danroy-henry-article-1.452978

 

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PART I

________________

THE ARGUMENT.


THE state of the hireling and the slave the same substantially, the condition hard labor, the reward subsistence; the hireling does not always
obtain the reward his miseries, starvation, vices, brutality, subjection to military service, expulsion from his country; the transportation of the
Negro from Africa to America a blessing to him, instructs him in mechanic arts, in agriculture; the various products of his industry numerous
and useful to the whole world; his improvement not possible in his own country, therefore brought by Providence to this; Abolitionists
denouncers of Providence; their object selfish; the Negro improved by the master’s care only, the Abolitionists do nothing for him; the
superiority of the slave over the rest of his race; his security from want; his education not more defective than that of hirelings in Europe;
his punishments less severe for similar offenses; master’s police more efficient in preserving order and preventing vice.


The Hireling and the Slave
1856
William Grayson

(This is just a few, of the 1500 lines)

Vainly the starving white, at every door,
Craves help or pity for the hireling poor;

But that the distant black may softlier fare,
Eat, sleep, and play, exempt from toil and care

All England’s meek philanthropists unite
With frantic eagerness, harangue and write;

By purchased tools diffuse distrust and hate,
Sow factious strife in each dependent state,

Cheat with delusive lies the public mind,
Invent the cruelties they fail to find,

Slander, in pious garb, with prayer and hymn,
And blast a people s fortune for a whim.

Cursed by these factious arts, that take the guise
Of charity to cheat the good and wise,

The bright Antilles, with each closing year,
See harvests fail, and fortunes disappear;

The cane no more its golden treasure yields;
Unsightly weeds deform the fertile fields;

The negro freeman, thrifty while a slave,
Loosed from restraint, becomes a drone or knave;

Each effort to improve his nature foils,
Begs, steals, or sleeps and starves, but never toils;

For savage sloth mistakes the freedom won,
And ends the mere barbarian he begun.

Then, with a face of self-complacent smiles,
Pleased with the ruin of these hapless isles,

And charmed with this cheap way of gaining heaven
By alms at cost of other countries given —

Like Nathan’s host, who hospitably gave
His guest a neighbor’s lamb his own to save
....

Grant that the Negro is a distinct species, or even a metamorphosed orang, if you will, and what difference does it make to the social effect
of the domestic institution the ultimate ground upon which both moralist and legislator must take their stand in arguing either for or against it ?

We do not prosecute the drover or the cabman because we believe the poor maltreated ox or horse to be our brother, a child of Adam and Eve,
like ourselves, but because this and all other brutality is an evil to society — because it degrades the man who practices it, and increases the
proclivity to crimes injurious to society in himself and others. And we are bound to put down the slaveholders for precisely the same reason,
and not because of a hypothetical cousinhood with his victim, which may or may not exist, etc. Ethnology had better perish as a science than
be swamped by the accession to her ranks of the Legrees of the South." — Westminster Review.

The above extract from the Westminster Review of July, 1854, is a specimen of the fairness and common sense, and of the garniture of slander
self-sufficiency, and arrogant assumption with which the slavery question is commonly treated in England.

It makes no difference, it seems, in considering the subject of slavery, whether Negroes are men or apes. Englishmen are prohibited from cruelty to horses, not because the horse is a cousin, but be-cause "this and all other brutality is an evil to society, degrades the man who practices it," etc. It is on this ground that cruelty to the horse is forbidden among cabmen and drovers, and "it is on this ground precisely that moralist and legislator must take their stand in arguing for or against slavery." This is the reviewer’s position.

But Parliament, to prevent cruelty to horses, does not manumit the horse. The law does not prohibit the owning of horses because the horse is sometimes abused. Because there are, and will be, cruel horse-masters among cabmen, drovers, and gentlemen too, Parliament has not turned out all the horses in England to grass and freedom. Yet, to prevent cruelty to slaves, they insist on manumitting the slave. Can the reviewer explain how it is that the good people of England adopt such different measures in these similar cases, as the reviewer himself admits them to be? Cruelty to the horse "is an evil to society," etc., therefore the law prevents or punishes cruelty to the horse. Cruelty to the slave "is an evil to society," etc., therefore Parliament abolishes slavery. Certainly, the most effectual way to prevent the horse from being beaten in harness is to prohibit his being put in harness at all; as the most certain way to prevent the Negro from being flogged for laziness is to release him from labor altogether. Why not adopt the same way with the horse that they pursued with the Negro?

If the reviewer should be at a loss to explain the cause of those different logical conclusions from the same premises, I would offer a suggestion to assist the inquiry. It is because the horses belong to the people who legislate, and the slaves to a people who were legislated for. The English people own the horses, and a few feeble colonists owned the slaves. The absurdity, therefore, of proposing to manumit horses, to prevent cruelty, is very manifest, but the other absurdity was not seen at all. Reverse the case: let horses hard worked and ill treated be in Jamaica only, and no horses in England, and the philanthropists would have applied all their energies to bring about a general manumission of horses. Mr. Clarkson might have been as zealous and successful with the British Parliament in be half of the horse as he has been in behalf of the Negro.
THE END.

http://antislavery.eserver.org/proslavery/graysonhireling/graysonhireling.html


Rep. Terry England
Georgia House of Representatives

State Rep. Terry England was speaking in favor of HB 954, which makes it illegal to obtain an abortion after 20 weeks
even if the woman is known to be carrying a stillborn fetus or the baby is otherwise not expected to live to term.

If a cow or pig can give birth to a dead baby, then a woman should, too-

“Life gives us many experiences…I’ve had the experience of delivering calves, dead and alive. Delivering pigs, dead or alive.
It breaks our hearts to see those animals not make it.”

 

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Conceived in Liberty, volume 1, chapter 6, "The Social Structure of Virginia: Bondservants and Slaves"
- Murray N. Rothbard

One of the first servant rebellions occurred in the neighboring Chesapeake tobacco colony of Maryland. In 1644 Edward Robinson and two
brothers were convicted for armed rebellion for the purpose of liberating bondservants. Thirteen years later Robert Chessick, a recaptured
runaway servant in Maryland, persuaded several servants of various masters to run away to the Swedish settlements on the Delaware River.
Chessick and a dozen other servants seized a master’s boat, as well as arms for self-defense in case of attempted capture.

But the men were captured and Chessick was given thirty lashes. As a special refinement, one of Chessick’s friends and abettors in the escape,
John Beale, was forced to perform the whipping.

In Virginia a servant rebellion against a master, Captain Sisbey, occurred as early as 1638; the lower Norfolk court ordered the enormous total of
one hundred lashes on each rebel. In 1640 six servants of Captain William Pierce tried to escape to the Dutch settlements. The runaways were
apprehended and brutally punished, lest this set “a dangerous precedent for the future time.” The prisoners were sentenced to be whipped and
branded, to work in shackles, and to have their terms of bondage extended.

By the late seventeenth century the supply of bondservants began to dry up. While the opening of new colonies and wider settlements increased
the demand for bondservants, the supply dwindled greatly as the English government finally cracked down on the organized practice of kidnapping
and on the shipping of convicts to the colonies. And so the planters turned to the import and purchase of Negro slaves.

http://mises.org/daily/6347/The-Brutality-of-Slavery

John Martin of the Montreal-based Center for Research and Globalisation, in a new article, The Irish Slave Trade — The Forgotten ‘White’ Slaves’

100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England.

In 1656, Oliver Cromwell ordered that 2,000 children be taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves to English settlers there.

Mr Martin said the Irish slave trade began with James II in 1625

The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625
required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid-1600s the Irish
were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.”

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-irish-slave-trade-the-forgotten-white-slaves/31076

White Cargo
The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America
Don Jordan
Michael Walsh

http://www.npr.org/books/titles/138...n-history-of-britains-white-slaves-in-america

 

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Derping from the past-

Rick Perry Struggles to answer Question on Abstinence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngiJhmoFKkw

A new teen pregnancy in Texas every 10 minutes according to the University of Texas Prevention Research Center in Houston.

(Abstinence was working ? Abstinence-based education was working ?)

Gov. Rick Perry's Friday afternoon interview with the Tribune's Evan Smith-

Q: Governor, why does Texas continue with abstinence education programs when they don’t seem to be working?
In fact, I think we have the third highest teen pregnancy rate in the country.

Rick Perry: Abstinence works.

Q: But we have the third highest teen pregnancy rate among all states in the country. The questioner’s point is, it doesn’t seem to be working.

Rick Perry: It, it, it works, uhh, maybe it’s the way it’s being taught or the way that it’s being applied out there, but the fact of the matter is,
it is the best form of uh, to teach our children.

Q: Can you give me a statistic suggesting it works?

Rick Perry: I’m just gonna tell ya, I’ma tell ya from my own personal life, abstinence works. And the point is, if, if, if we’re not teaching it,
and if we’re not impressing it upon them, then no, but if, if the point is, you know, we’re gonna go stand up here and say listen,
y’all go have sex, and go have the whatever is going on, and we’ll worry with that, and here are the, here’s the ways to have safe sex,
I’m sorry, call me old-fashioned if you want, but that is not what I’m gonna stand up in front of the people of the state of Texas
and say that’s the way we need go and forget about abstinence.

Q: Respect, Governer, that’s not what the questioner’s asking. The questioner is simply saying, we’re spending money on
abstinence education, we have the third highest teen pregnancy rate in the country — is there a problem, disconnect
between one and the other?

Rick Perry: [Pause.] I don’t know, look, it, it, it gets in line with, uh, it gets in line with other programs that we have that
we spend money on, and do they work 100 percent, or do they work 5 percent, and that’s a bigger and a better issue
than, ‘Well, we have the third highest teenage pregnancy rate.’ Uh, are we, on the amount of money that we’re spending,
are we getting a return on that that is appropriate?

Q: And your belief is that we are?

Rick Perry: I think that those are some dollars that are well spent. For instance, we’re spendin’ dollars to check kids for steroids,
right? And what did we find? Seven? 15? And we spent X numbers of, of a — look, I’m –

Q: And you think that’s a poor expenditure?

Rick Perry: I’m sayin’ that if, no I’m trying to make a comparable here. If that’s a good expenditure, then I would suggest to you
the dollars we’re spending on abstinence education is a good expenditure.

October 15, 2010

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-p...ov-rick-perry-on-abstinence-sanctuary-cities/

 

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1976

Jimmy Carter admitted in an unsolicited comment to two Playboy freelance writers that he had "looked on a lot of women with lust" and had
"committed adultery in my heart many times," strange revelations all the more damaging because they appeared in a soft-porn magazine.

A separate New York Times Magazine interview with Norman Mailer, also published during the general election campaign, added fuel to
the frenzy's fire thanks to Carter's impolitic remark, "I don't care if people say f---."

In an interview published in the November 1976 issue of Playboy magazine, then-Governor Carter talked about the role of religion in his life.
In one part he said:

" I try not to commit a deliberate sin. I recognize that I'm going to do it anyhow, because I'm human and I'm tempted.
And Christ set some almost impossible standards for us. Christ said, 'I tell you that anyone who looks on a woman with
lust has in his heart already committed adultery.'

"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes
I will do--and I have done it--and God forgives me for it."

December 17, 1996

The evening before our final session, then-Playboy editor Barry Golson and I had dinner with Carter's press secretary, Jody Powell, and
we told him the candidate still came across as uptight. Powell said he would get Carter to loosen up.

The next day, as the interview was concluding, Carter was asked, one last time, if his strong religious beliefs would cause him to be
"a rigid unbending president." His reply, in the form of a long, uninterrupted monologue that I assumed reflected Powell's prepping,
stressed that he did not feel superior to others but rather shared their temptations:

"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes that I will do--
and I have done it--and God forgives me for it. But that doesn't mean that I condemn someone who not only looks on a woman with lust but
who leaves his wife and shacks up with somebody out of wedlock. Christ says, don't consider yourself better than someone else because
one guy screws a whole bunch of women while the other guy is loyal to his wife."

He concluded: "I don't think I would ever take on the same frame of mind that Nixon or Johnson did--lying, cheating and distorting the truth. . .
I think that my religious beliefs alone would prevent that from happening to me."

http://articles.latimes.com/1996-12-17/local/me-9919_1_jimmy-carter

{gsgs comment- Jimmy Carter showed the world what kind of man he was. He helped the poor and unfortunate. He was not greedy and corrupt.}

 

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17 Jul 2013

Fukushima-Daiichi

In the past few days Tepco – the Tokyo Electric Power Company – has finally admitted that radioactive water is leaking.

2.46pm on March 11th 2011 when the quake hit

July 23, 2013

Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), operator of the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear power facility, has admitted for the first time
that radioactive groundwater may be seeping out of the nuclear plant area and out into sea.

July 24, 2013

Just when the local fishermen and fisheries cooperatives in Fukushima have decided to start test-fishing whitebait and other fish
this September, nuclear operator TEPCO spoiled the plan when it confirmed on Monday the long-suspected contaminated waters
reaching the sea. The enraged reactions from fishermen were understandable, as the electric company has not yet settled the
issues and problems that arose following the Fukushima power plant disaster two years ago. Some of the fishermen also questioned
the timing of TEPCO’s announcement.

http://japandailypress.com/fukushim...-contaminated-water-reaching-the-sea-2432783/

July 26, 2013

International nuclear experts tell TEPCO ‘You don’t know what you’re doing’

Initially, TEPCO reported that there was an increase in the levels of cancer-causing materials in the groundwater at the plant,
but that they had contained the threat already from leaking outside of the area. But then they backtracked and admitted that
the toxic water has already leaked into the sea, angering the Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) as well as the fishing community
and the locals who are still currently displaced because of the meltdown.

 

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I am glad that they recycle SNL episodes. Watching old skits, refreshes my memory.

Saturday night- Nov. 10, 2012

Depressed and drinking his election loss woes away with a cartons of milk,
(as if they were beer or booze) Mitt Romney is headed to his balcony
to mope. His identical sons try to cheer him up-

"I'm so very angry father," Tag Romney (Killam) said. "I wish I could just punch America in the face. I do, I tell you.
What's next for you father?"

"There's so much I'd like to see and do," Romney replied. "I'd like to see how mayonnaise is made.
I like mayonnaise very much."

http://www.eonline.com/news/362126/...ie-holmes-and-homeland-on-saturday-night-live

Tag- "Father, come and see! Paul Ryan is doing feats of strength!"
Mitt Romney- "I'd like to see Ron Paul carry Wisconsin!"

Other Identical son- "Father, come inside. Donald Trump is doing racist."

Mitt Romney- "hello Carl ROVE." (almost sneering)
Carl Rove- "Could I borrow 300 million dollars ?"
Mitt Romney throws Carl Rove off of the balcony after he hears Carl Rove tell him that he could still win Ohio.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/snl-recap-anne-hathaway-mocks-homeland-mitt-romney-071004739.html

 

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Pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian launched a Kickstarter campaign a few days ago in hopes of raising $6,000 to make a series of feminist-critique
videos about the roles women play in videogames. She ended up getting a bit more than she bargained for: She raised more than $120,000 while
generating wrath among the online hordes, who have been harassing her in the crudest possible terms.

In response to the call for funding for her Tropes vs. Women in Video Games project, the 28-year-old California woman has received an over-
whelming number of negative comments on her YouTube channel (sample entries: “tits or back to the kitchen, bitch” and “fuck off prude” —

More rude remarks are screengrabbed here > http://www.feministfrequency.com/2012/06/harassment-misogyny-and-silencing-on-youtube/

The Wikipedia entry about her has been defaced as well.

Sarkeesian said in an e-mail to Wired. “I knew that delving into videogames might provoke a bit of a misogynist backlash … [but] this level
of organized and sustained harassment, vitriol, threats of violence and sexual assault in response to a project that hasn’t even been made
yet is very telling.”

Meanwhile, in comics, a series of artists —
including Hark! A Vagrant’s Kate Beaton — have done their own interpretations of the new Catwoman No. 0, slamming the racy nature of the heroine’s image.

“brogrammer” culture?

What happened to Dell ? Did this man have something to do with it ?

In an era when women are running two of the world’s largest computer companies — IBM and HP — Dell only succeeded in making itself
look small when it hired an expert in misogynistic humor to MC a partner event attended by Michael Dell himself.

The shindig’s moderator was Mads Christensen, a Danish “inspirational speaker” who did his best to crack up the crowd of about 800
Dell partners and employees with offensive zingers such as: “The IT business is one of the last frontiers that manages to keep women
out. The quota of women to men in your business is sound and healthy,”according to a report from Danish blogger Christiane Vejlø.

Christensen later asked “all (men) in the room to promise him that they will go home and say, ‘shut up bitch!’” Vejlø reported.

Vejlø wrote that she was shocked that a company of Dell’s stature would hire someone like Christensen.

06.14.12

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/05/dell-mads-christensen/

I looked at a site that flipped the trope- Men in "feminine" sexy poses, "feminine" sexy costumes, wearing sexy "feminine" expressions. Many people
contributed drawings and videos. If the man was the steroid type, with bulked out muscles and the ripped look, it looked even sillier.

 

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June 05, 2012

Equal pay for women is about more than just fairness. Women are breadwinners in more than 50 percent of American households, and if they're making less than men do for the same work, families have to get with less money for childcare and tuition and rent, and small businesses have fewer customers. Everybody suffers.

President Obama supports passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act, a comprehensive and commonsense bill that updates and strengthens the Equal Pay Act of 1963, which made it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform substantially equal work. Following Congress's failure to act on this bill today, the President released the following statement:

This afternoon, Senate Republicans refused to allow an up-or-down vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act, a commonsense piece of legislation that would strengthen the Equal Pay Act and give women more tools to fight pay discrimination. It is incredibly disappointing that in this make-or-break moment for the middle class, Senate Republicans put partisan politics ahead of American women and their families. Despite the progress that has been made over the years, women continue to earn substantially less than men for performing the same work. My Administration will continue to fight for a woman’s right for equal pay for equal work, as we rebuild our economy so that hard work pays off, responsibility is rewarded, and every American gets a fair shot to succeed.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2012/06/05/congress-says-no-equal-pay

On June 20, 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a decade’s long battle of litigation between female employees alleging discrimination based on sex and their employer, megacorporate super-chain Wal-Mart in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The ruling is a huge blow to class-action litigators who hoped the case would broaden opportunities for class certification based on bias discrimination claims and to civil rights activists attempting to root out pay inequity based on sex discrimination.

While all nine justices agreed that the plaintiffs could not continue under their claim under Title VII, 42 U. S. C. §2000e et seq., the Court divided over the issue of whether the plaintiffs could qualify as a class under any statute.

The justices split 5-4 down ideological lines, placing all three female justices and Justice Breyer in the dissent as they limited their findings to the Title VII issue. The majority chose to address the threshold issue of whether the plaintiffs, as women working for and discriminated against by the same employer, had enough in common to qualify under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 23(b)(3) as a class in any civil litigation.

Thanks to these five men, it appears the roughly half million women who comprised the class are out of luck, many of whom have faced sexism and misogyny in the forms of lower wages and slower advancement than their male counterparts at Wal-Mart.

The class, which was defined as “all women employed at any Wal-Mart domestic retail store at any time since December 26, 1998, who have been or may be subjected to Wal-Mart’s challenged pay and management track promotions policies and practices;” would have comprised the largest class action suit in history.

Yes, discrimination against women is widespread. It is, in fact, everywhere. But just because something wrong occurs universally, that does not excuse individual actors from acting in bad faith. In this case, the justices are wrong not to hold Wal-Mart accountable.

http://www.tree.com/legal/blog-blog...-for-women-in-wal-mart-class-action-case.aspx

{gsgs comment-So, all these women, who came together, were told to go away, and file individually. On Walmart wages.}

 

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If obama was left unchecked, we would have been in a great depression

Obama is still clueless when it comes to jobs, job creation, and creating wealth/value

Jenn, it would be nice if Obummer were clueless. In that case he might accidentally do something helpful.

He knows exactly what he's doing, he is destroying the US economy.

 

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August 31, 2012

Pity us! We, the many members of the Gruenenthal corporation, are suffering! Those who are too lowly and unspeakable for us to think about,
are getting in the way of our enjoyment of our wealth. We caused Thalidomide birth defects 50 years ago!

It is not our fault that they were too stupid to die, after we poisoned them. It is 2012, not 1962 ! Our company is now worth billions, and that
does not buy us protection from these sniveling whiners.

They torment us with the images of deformed babies that died in pain. They irritate us with complaints about living with the deformities we inflicted
on them. Why don't they commit suicide like der Führer & their parents ? Don't they know they are creating an embarrassment for us ? The money
we spend to compensate these repulsive and needy wretches, could be used to help Germany's economy! They are a burden to their families and their community.

They are robbing Germany of productive workers! Yes, it was us that robbed them of a healthy normal life. Yes, we made an obscene profit on a drug
that should have never been put in the hands of doctors.

Is that any reason to force us to avoid a convenient door, on the side of our company building ? The ugly bronze sculpture of one of our victims,
interrupts our thought processes. When will they let us get on with our lives ?

We have a responsibility to our investors and shareholders! We said we were sorry. Some of the victims lived to be fifty. Old enough to appreciate our apology, and our gesture.

/end sarcasm from gsgs

"On August 31 of this year, Grünenthal CEO Harald Stock announced that his company was "very sorry" for the half-century of silence for thalidomide victims."

http://rt.com/news/thalidomide-victims-apology-dismissed-165/

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/201...alidomide-apologizes-after-more-than-50-years

What birth defects does thalidomide cause?

In 1961, doctors in Germany, Australia and Great Britain noted a significant increase in the number of babies born with severely malformed
or missing arms and legs. These birth defects were traced to the use of thalidomide during early pregnancy, when a baby's arms and
legs begin to form.

The most well-known defect, a severe shortening of the arms or legs with flipper-like hands or feet, is called phocomelia.
Affected babies almost always have defects on both sides and often have both the arms and legs malformed. In especially
severe cases, the babies have complete absence of limbs. The drug also causes malfor-mations of the eyes and ears,
heart, genitals, kidneys and digestive tract (including the lips and mouth) (3, 5). About 40 percent of babies exposed to
the drug die before or soon after delivery (5).

Thalidomide is one of the most powerful human teratogens (drugs or other agents that cause abnormal development in the embryo or fetus).

Taking even a single dose of thalidomide during early pregnancy may cause major birth defects (1).Women should never take thalidomide
if they could become pregnant or if they are pregnant.

http://www.marchofdimes.com/pregnancy/thalidomide.aspx

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

April 26, 2003

A San Fernando Valley high school senior who ran a now-defunct Web site that gave Southern California middle and high school students
a forum for mean-spirited gossip and rumors said Friday that he did not regret the emotional pain it caused but was upset only that free
speech had lost out to the "rule of the mob."

"....called himself a "dweeb -- actually I prefer 'geek,' " said he made the decision this week to shut down the [site of trolls and victims] only after
his family was bombarded by angry e-mails and phone calls, and after public outcry triggered by a local radio talk show threatened his parents' careers.

http://articles.latimes.com/2003/apr/26/local/me-scandal26

Truly Innocent Bystander

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/2-Women-Who-Love-To-Row-Olympic-silver-2927475.php

Innocent Bystander ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63jc4Z5Rb8

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"you are hereby charged with"-

"1. Conspiring to devise plans to subvert the Constitution. 2. Conspiring to levy war, and subvert the Constitution. 3. Conspiring to murder divers of the Privy Council. 4. Providing arms to murder divers of the Privy Council. 5. Providing arms and ammunition to levy war and subvert the Constitution. 6. Conspiring to seize cannon, arms and ammunition to arm themselves, and to levy war and subvert the Constitution. 7. Conspiring to burn houses and barracks, and to provide combustibles for that purpose. 8. Preparing addresses, &c. containing incitements to the King's subjects to assist in levying war and subverting the Constitution. 9. Preparing an address to the King's subjects, containing therein that their tyrants were destroyed, &c., to incite them to assist in levying war, and in subverting the Constitution. 10. Assembling themselves with arms, with intent to murder divers of the Privy Council, and to levy war, and subvert the Constitution. 11. Levying war."

Is history due to repeat itself ? 2015- 2021 will mirror 1815- 1821?