They’re protesting ALEC in Chicago as I type…the tweets are keeping tabs on what is going on. Badass Teachers Association is there. Others have reported rough treatment by Chicago Police.
https://twitter.com/aaroncynic/status/365556308516151297/photo/1
I saw this a few days ago and wanted to get it posted.
Let’s pick this story, as reported, apart, shall we?
As someone says in the comments, this wasn’t a “heckler” this was someone speaking the truth. She is a voter, she has every right to call him on his criminal behavior.
“You’ve got little kids here” Is he kidding me? He puts his penis out in cyberspace, and he’s now worried about cuss words in front of kids?!
And then…the word that will piss off even the most even-tempered woman who is speaking her mind….he tells her to “relax”. Grrrr.
Then he accuses her of putting on “a show”….degrading her opinion as less than valid. She’s just out for attention instead of speaking out publicly. Where else would she be able to voice her opinion to his face? In some structured town hall meeting? I think not.
See…politicians just can’t handle all that freedom.
Anyway, back to the Weiner saga, this part of the story was disturbing:
“Oh, take is easy. Lighten up. You put your show on. Why don’t you beat it? Beat it!” Mr. Weiner shot back, strutting in front of his sign-holding volunteers.
“Beat it?” Ms. Borock, incredulous, said back.
Several men to the side yelled encouragements for Mr. Weiner.
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This just sent chills down my spine. Several men to the side yelled encouragement for Mr. Weiner. Kind of like a verbal gang assault. Bullying, anyone? And they wonder why kids bully?
And then Weiner just dismisses her after she tells him that she voted for him. Just plain dismisses her instead of humbling himself and apologizing for his behavior.
But one would have to admit to himself that his behavior was unacceptable and even criminal.
I still don’t believe Weiner has done that:
Not long after, Mr. Weiner seemed to revel in the sparks. “I love how crazy I make some people,” he said, grinning.
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He still thinks it’s a joke.
…or more commonly known as the jellyfish.
It’s the animal of the month on my Ocean Conservancy calendar. It’s really quite beautiful in these photos.
Doing a check of the internet, I don’t see where it is endangered, although one site mentions that jellyfish are getting caught up in fishing nets, so the potential is there.
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In other marine news, a small whale was left stranded for thirty minutes while trainers stood on the sidelines. Another whale tried to help, but could not. You can hear people screaming at the trainers to do something. (Warning: it’s tough to watch)
Their excuse was that there was lightening in the area….so, you know, it’s okay to leave this animal that you took from the wild (or bred in captivity) stranded so it might possibly die from dehydration or lightening strike…?
This is why we have no business imprisoning these animals.
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Diane Ravitch has a blog on the Badass Teachers Association:
I didn’t know what they meant when I searched for G4s –it came up a security agency and had many links including Israel. However, when I searched for Gates and prisons, voila.
So I’m trying to wrap my brain around this, because Gates had invested in Monsanto, which purchased Blackwater/Xe…
…..so I’ve read several different sites that claim Monsanto did NOT buy Blackwater. Stay tuned…jury is still out.
Whether Monsanto owns Blackwater or not, it is still a reprehensible corporation, and owning prisons?
Yeah…this would not have been possible if we didn’t have state governments privatizing state services like prisons…
Do you get the theme here? Privatizing schools, privatizing prisons, cornering the biotech market and bullying farmers….
I found this on Cascade Investment, which is owned by Gates and family. More stuff here
Well, now. Didn’t expect they would do it. I seriously thought that Limbaugh was entrenched and nothing short of him murdering someone would they cut the strings. I’m happy that they are cutting off the hate-filled blather. Who are they going to get now to bang the drum for the rightwingers…?
I just hope they aren’t replaced with more hate-filled blather by someone even worse than Limbaugh and Hannity.
(hat tip to Diane Ravitch)
Well, now, teachers may be the nation’s punching bag right now….but this one isn’t down with this predator’s actions. As she said, she would have lost her job if she had done what Weiner did. Not only that, she would be in jail.
Thomas at Yes Means Yes! has a blog up on the criminal activity of Anthony Weiner that is not being prosecuted. As someone says in the comments (on Melissa McEwen’s blog)–if Weiner had exposed himself to someone on the subway, he would be charged with a crime. And this happened after his first mea culpa–after begging forgiveness and of course, people wanting to give him a second chance…
…but this is Anthony Weiner, I’m-special-because-I’m-a-politician who has a likable personality….so he will skate by the city jail.
Granted, it is hard for women to confront someone whom has crossed boundaries….we aren’t raised that way. And, the point was raised that someone in a position of power, be it political or business, can make serious trouble for a woman who stands up for herself.
**edited to correct ADD moment of attributing quote to Lisa Weiss that was the teacher Nobles. Sorry. Chelating…so ADD is worse…
One of the commenters here called the absence of real oppositional parties the “Uniparty”. …yep.
See…the Dems really believe in the Fourth Amendment and the rights of the American public to be let alone…
bwhahahahaha *snort* bwahahahaha…
Don’t blame me. I voted for Ralph Nader in 2000. The first time in all the years that I had been voting that I wrote a candidate’s name on the ballet. Of course, now Indiana has changed to the computerized system so a voter wouldn’t be able to just write in a candidate. Supposedly, they have paper ballots at each voting station, but this voter was not told there were paper ballots available, not even when I voted early, nor were there any paper ballots visible so that one could ask for it.
They changed the law so that one had to have 2% of the general votes cast for the Secretary of State in the previous election. Note the deadlines were repeatedly pushed back in order to diminish the ability to gather signatures during summer events where crowds gather…
I found this page absolutely fascinating. I had no idea that we had other candidates to choose from, as the write in candidates were not on the electronic ballot. And being without access to media (no TV antenna in the community room at the time), nor did I have more than an hour per time from the library’s internet computers…so information was limited, as are most poor. And I would venture a guess that even with cable TV, many middle class were also ignorant of this–funny how the nooz just doesn’t seem to get around to covering important issues like this….they’d rather scare you into getting a vaccine that will likely cause as much harm to your body as any good or tell you not to take Vitamin E because some bogus *study* says it’s bad for you…pfft.
(I was going to take a break from blogging, but this is so compelling…)
One of the jurors in George Zimmerman’s trial, the only minority, spoke out on the verdict. Democracy Now! explores how the case was mishandled by the prosecution AND commentary on the juror’s misgivings about the verdict.
From Maddy’s own statement, she says she thought that they had to let Zimmerman go because they didn’t have clear evidence that he intended on killing Trayvon that night. But that is a murder charge, not manslaughter. Manslaughter is different from murder by intention, as the attorney states in the DN! interview.
I also think Maddy was intimidated into giving in–because she states she was holding out to the end.
And please, can we stop complaining about jury duty? You can’t complain about verdicts if you’re not willing to do your civic duty and serve on jury duty.
….aren’t normally associated with heavy metal music…but they are now, even if it is symbolic. What a wonderful way to build a bridge. Perhaps Israeli fans and Palestinian fans will both attend concerts …and find that they’re not that different, after all…?
One can only hope….
…hands across the aisle…
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