The father of rape victim, Rehtaeh Parsons, has become the target of cyber bullying. He took the online threats seriously after the bully posted that he knew Glen Canning’s face, where he lived, etc.
It’s just mindboggling–this culture that encourages sexual assault and violence against women…
Carol Burris, a highly regarded public school principal, has a piece up exploring the degrading comments directed at opponents to Arne Duncan’s brainless education policies.
He actually states that the Governor of NY, Cuomo, is a “profile in courage”. Bwahahahaha *snort* Yeah, because it takes courage to make children cry from tests that are above their intellectual development level….
He dismissed parents who criticized his policies as “white suburban moms” who thought their little darlings were much smarter than they actually were….because education guru Arne said they were. Someone whom has never taught in school…methinks Arne thinks he’s smarter than he is. Ahem.
Burris also notes the misogyny in Duncan’s comments…labeling women opponents as “hysterical” and “dramatic”. Oh, and “noisy”, to me, equals “uppity” women. Yep. He must be taking his cues from Freud’s playbook, the Diagnostic Manual.
As a side note~~I found a blog on misogyny here.
And on the link for reddit creep shot, this disturbing info on the rape/violence against women culture:
The fiasco comes on the heels of a highly-publicized flap between reddit and Gawker, after Gawker journalist Adrian Chen’s investigation of an infamous user of the subreddit who went by the handle, Violentacrez. According to the The Guardian, that user “set up hundreds of sub-forums where users post links and images including bestiality, rape fantasy, under-age porn and upskirt photos.”
Among the sections that Violentacrez created or moderated were: Chokeabitch, Niggerjailbait, Rapebait, Hitler, Jewmerica, Misogyny, and Incest
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…created by 49-year-old computer programmer and misogynist, Michael Brutsch.
But back to Arne Duncan…what do his comments signify? That perhaps his hatred of public education proponents, mostly women, is part of a hatred of women in general?
And “stay the course”….really? You couldn’t think of something original besides Bushisms? Yeah, because the Bushes have done *so much* for this country and public education with No Child Left a Mind…/snarky to the extreme
Duncan keeps knocking our public school system, especially the individualistic nature of public school before NCLB or Race to the Bottom…while ignoring those folks who made phenomenal contributions to society, from those same individualistic school systems, such as Neil Armstrong, Maya Angelou, Frank Church, Paul Wellstone, Birch Bayh, Dwight Eisenhower, a great grandson of immigrants, who loved art, math, spelling, and history; Gloria Steinem, and any number of musicians who got their start in music programs that included actual instruments, that went on to get private instruction to become great musicians. Same with artists.
If you view Duncan’s video, it is stunning that in the first minute, he talks of John being orphaned at a young age…and he had teachers –-public school teachers–who helped him along his path to become productive. He also was a product of the public education system before NCLB could dull his creative expression, his critical thinking skills, and his own expression of his individuality.
I wonder what his public education teachers think of him trying to destroy those very things in children today with the rigidity of Common Core and Race to the Bottom…?
He mentions that the First Lady had a teacher that told her she shouldn’t aspire to Ivy League schools because it was too good for her. That makes me sad to hear. Is that a reason the First Lady is against public education? I suspect that those who are against public education had bad experiences with teachers…and then project that onto all teachers.
I had some bad teachers, but for the most part, my experience with public education was good. Yes, those experiences with bad teachers were hurtful but the ones who were encouraging when I was discouraged made up for that. And it was an intrinsic thing, too, because I loved learning.
I guess that is where you have to be responsible for your own education…to go on even though they tell you that you can’t. Because, believe it or not, my first class of composition in college, I had a white instructor who, when I asked her about a career as a writer, told me “don’t quit your day job.” So, there you go…
I’m so disappointed…
…really, I am…
…what? You don’t believe me? 🙂
::doing the happy dance::
Child Health has posted a video on the consolidation of the media into the hands of a few. This is a prime example of what happens to Freedom of the Press and the Marketplace of Ideas when the public only hears the opinions of Too Big Too Fails. As the video illustrates, the newsroom editors, TV station editors, and others will decide what the NEWS is…that is why you need to get your news from several different sources with differing opinions…the truth is somewhere in-between.
We used to be the envy of the world for our Freedom of the Press….now we rank 46th in the world.
**edited to correct glaring gaff. Oy.
A clever member of our mercury support group has submitted a pdf of Georgia Tech university testing of his mouthguard for mercury (Hg) contamination. It proves that Hg leaches out of dental amalgams…something we all knew, but the brain-dead FDA will not acknowledge it.
Like the Bayer corporation, this is another example of not holding corporations nor dentists, nor the ADA, or anyone else responsible for what can only be described as a criminal act. People are being poisoned while they look the other way.
Why? Because of $$$ they might have to spend out in lawsuits….can’t have anybody taking responsibility, now can we? /snark
My personal opinion is that every single person who has been made ill by amalgams should be given an automatic disability status until they are able to chelate this stupid poison out of their system and regain their health and ability to earn a living.
DN! had a piece up yesterday on environmentalists being killed for trying to protect the land, air, and water…for all of us.
147 killed in 2012, compared with 51 in 2002…nearly three times as many.
Jose DeSilva (sp?) says what Joe Kane said in Savages— that some poor person will accept the dinero of the corporations and aid in the destruction of the forest. This is how they divided tribe members in Savages–they picked a few vulnerable ones and split the loyalties. Divide and Conquer in action….
As you listen to the video, it is really shocking how this is going on and not being reported. I mean, how obvious is it that these are deliberate acts…an axe in the head of an environmentalist…Penetra being murdered right after speaking out for the environment…and we never hear of this in the lame media? Yet…they are right there to label environmentalists as nuts and whackos who should be condemned.
In what seems like a positive–having wifi in public spaces–perhaps is not so great…?
What if you’re going to the beach to get the hell away from “civilization” and find yet another intrusion of technology in a natural space…??
What if, like me, you’re heavy metal poisoned and react negatively to Electro-Magnetic Fields (EMF) to the point of zapping your strength (think kryptonite), zapping the adrenals, and making you nauseous to the point of wanting to throw up? What if you’re prone to seizures?
I’m sitting here typing this, and the radio keeps giving me feedback….and I’m wondering why the hell is it doing that? Is there a surge of EMF? If so, where is it coming from??
If you’re concerned about this, there are measures you can take to protect yourself from EMF’s.
That has to have been the mindset behind allowing these two to wear ankle bracelets after they had already cut them off once before. All the victims appear to be prostitutes…and that is why the rapists can get away with it for so long, a la green river killer.
“I picked prostitutes as my victims because I hate most prostitutes and I did not want to pay them for sex,” Ridgway said in his confessional statement. “I also picked prostitutes as victims because they were easy to pick up without being noticed. I knew they would not be reported missing right away and might never be reported missing. I picked prostitutes because I thought I could kill as many of them as I wanted without getting caught.”
At least one-third of Ridgway’s female victims were girls and women of color, and the vast majority were under the age of 22. Ridgway, an extreme incarnation of a brutal misogynist, considered killing female prostitutes a “career.” He felt proud of what he did, and thought he was damn good at it.
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It is outrageous that the police still treat these women as sub-human…probably even think they deserve what they get.
As the report explores…would Ridgway (Cano/Gordon/others) been able to get away with this if their victims were of a different class? Would Ridgway and the rest have raped these women if they saw them as human beings–probably sexually abused as children..?
But it’s not just prostitutes that get raped and beaten…we’ve got a problem in this culture with still seeing women as second class. We have a culture that embraces rape and violence against women….and the vulnerable….as I said before, we are all vulnerable at some point in our lives…
When do we stop it? When do we stop applauding the promotion of misogyny and rape?
I found this article to be one of the best I’ve read so far about the connection between diet, allergies, and mental health.
They explore the connection between behavior and diet–something that has been known since the 1940s. They observed during WWII that schizophrenia cases went down in Germany and Holland because grains were scarce.
It is disgraceful that Big Pharma was allowed to trump diet in the treatment of schizophrenia….especially when one realizes the drugs that they have foisted on the hapless mental patient contained antihistamines–an indicator that they knew brain allergies were at the heart of the problem.
I disagree with the concept of neutralizing doses of allergens…it just doesn’t make sense to me to give the allergens to people to help them overcome it. The fact that they don’t have symptoms does not mean they aren’t allergic anymore. In my experience, I didn’t have symptoms of celiac or gluten intolerance that were noticeable–yet I was eating wheat every day. This didn’t mean I wasn’t allergic–it meant that I wasn’t reacting to it because my immune system was not functioning and could not muster a response in the traditional sense. My response after beginning the GAPS diet and now when I am accidentally exposed to gluten proves that allergy.
I’m pretty sure I was tested for wheat allergy by an ear, nose, and throat doctor who looked in my nose, and said I had the tell-tale blue veins of allergies. He knew I was allergic to something…but he couldn’t determine what that allergy was–the traditional tests did not reveal allergies. And yet, here I am, some twenty years later, figuring it out. My immune system was compromised and did not respond to allergens appropriately, even though I appeared healthy. At that point, I had had one dental amalgam in baby teeth, and had been exposed to mercury, lead, and arsenic through coal dust. I had also had mercury exposure through Rho-Gam shots. Plus the toxins from pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers in my food–all known to compromise the immune system.
As the article states, I don’t think mental patients should be given drugs until they are put on an elimination diet. It is nothing short of a miracle how a good diet can restore health and it’s nothing short of criminal to give them drugs that are questionable in their efficacy and many times cause harm.
The article also mentions salicylates. They have popped up on my radar lately, so I thought I’d post a link to a pretty good website on what they are, what they do, and foods that are high in salicylates. **edited to add: here’s the link to the website’s guide to foods that contain salicylates.
This is not good. They say it’s not the Russians, but pro-Russian Ukrainians…but I dunno…
Ukrainians are passionate, that’s for sure, but to seize a police station? That says to me if it is Ukrainians, that they felt confident enough with *someone* backing them to pull such a stunt. *Someone* has to be orchestrating all of this behind the scenes…*someone* whom is power hungry and has a lot to gain.
<sigh>
Meanwhile, I hope my Russian reader is doing okay. I worry that your seeking information may have landed you in trouble….praying for you…
Eagle 
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