ACTION: TIME TO TURN UP THE VOLUME!

Contact Info In Links (Left Side Bar) (0.00 / 0)

If you lose track of this particular post, I've included the earlier post with this contact info among the USE THESE LINKS menu on the left side menu bar.  Second one down.

USE THE INFO GUYS!  We can't sit on our duffs and expect things to just happen magically.  We have to MAKE THEM HAPPEN.

Invest in Women - Change the World
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by: Alegre @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 13:40:50 PM CDT

i wrote (0.00 / 0)

and suggested some poll questions. But, we're just girls, and the guys run those places.  Is anyone else watching MadMen?  The more things change, ...?  

Hillary - alternative energy

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by: anna shane @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 14:38:49 PM CDT

I'm also a fan (0.00 / 0)

But I'm finding on a certain level this sexist division is being portrayed as "the good old days."

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by: izarradar @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 14:41:04 PM CDT

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if only (0.00 / 0)

it's so alive and well, what's different is that some of us think it's over. I got the first season, don't have tv stations, so I can't see the new season.  We are more sophisticated.

I remember those times, I was 12 when Kennedy was elected, or almost twelve, and my dad was a professional, worked for a large corporation, and my parents had those cocktail parties and the creepy guys would try to grope me and my sister.  The beginning of the sixties was no different than the fifties.  Didn't even know there was a whole world of color out there, that saw right through it. No one told me, I had to figure it out.  They were innocent times, sort of, when white guys could make a fortune selling their souls.  Thank dog for the rolling stones.  

And the food, white bread, those restaurant scenes are painful, even sound like they used to sound, the tomato juice cocktail before dinner, i was waiting for the veal parmesan and the iceburg lettuce salad with canned peas and thousand island.  And the 'a woman alone' phrase, that threw fear into married ladies' hearts. Now that some of us can make a reasonable living and aren't considered whores for being divorced, that's a good change. I had a little friend when I was ten, and her mother was divorced and cleaned houses for a dollar an hour, and the other mothers talked about her, with pity and with fear. She exhausted herself, and she had grown bitter.  it was the isolation and the prejudice and the way 'women's work' paid too little.  House cleaners make a living wage now.  

And our diversity, the multi-culture part of now that was not then at all.  And the way they would talk, racist, sexist, out loud, it was socially acceptable, and so mean-spirited and ugly. As a kid I heard it that way, I think lots of us did.  

times have changed, but not enough.  

Hillary - alternative energy

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by: anna shane @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 15:14:26 PM CDT

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In a way (0.00 / 0)

this show works against us.  I think there are many people who say, "Look, see, it's better now.  If that's sexism, well, we don't have that any more, so what are those angry feminists talking about?  Women have it all now, and they're still bitching."  IMO.

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by: izarradar @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 15:32:28 PM CDT

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they'd say it anyway (0.00 / 0)

and since it is better, we have more power to punish them. They'd better watch out, this HIllary reaction is just a taste of what's to come. This world needs some humanity injected back, it's not all about profit and power grabbing.   A lot of women have become activist around HIllary's 'handicap,' and we're not about to shut up. The blog world used to be mainly men, but it's woken us up, and I don't think many of us will go back to sleep.  Guys fuck things up, and they get enabled by women in denial who think they're special, not like the rest of us mere women.  But there are plenty of girls who like girls and see the big picture, quite a few right here.

Welcome girls and feminist guys.  put your thoughts out right here, at Al's place.

Hillary - alternative energy

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by: anna shane @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 15:53:07 PM CDT

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Hey Alegre (0.00 / 0)

You've been challenged over on Confluence. :)

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by: cwaltz @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 15:48:49 PM CDT

Yeah I Know! (0.00 / 0)

I had to take the kids shopping for school clothes and still need to feed them and get my daughter over to a sleep over.  I'll fire something up as soon as I get back ;o)

Invest in Women - Change the World
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by: Alegre @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 16:35:18 PM CDT

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Clark has been told "there's no reason... (0.00 / 0)

for him to come to Denver".  (See Steve Clemons article - also No Quarter.)

F*&K YOU, OBAMA.

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by: CoyoteCreek @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 17:41:51 PM CDT

I concur, CoyoteCreek. (0.00 / 0)

Or as the Rush Limbaugh listeners say, "Ditto."  Or even, "Mega-dittoes."  (I know this because I read Al Franken's book, "Rush Limbaugh is a Big, Fat Idiot and Other Observations.")

Seriously, this is yet another pointless and stupid move by Barack Obama that shows how low his political I.Q. is -- and how arrogant and entitled he feels.  To blow off a highly decorated four-star General for any reason is wrong; for this reason is totally unacceptable!

There's no excuse for this, DNC.  None.

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by: LSekhmet @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 17:46:07 PM CDT

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Expecially when you have zero... (0.00 / 0)

credibility in terms of national security and the military.

Obama is just plain stupid.

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by: CoyoteCreek @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 17:56:58 PM CDT

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and Charlie Rangel (0.00 / 0)

will not be given a speaking slot.  Hope he and Clark are mightily pissed.  That BHO sure is a guy you can believe in.

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by: Sharyn @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 18:35:22 PM CDT

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Jesse Jackson's Out Too n/t (0.00 / 0)

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by: Alegre @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 18:56:51 PM CDT

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Wes is short. He'll fit under the bus. (0.00 / 0)

hell, he's already under the bus - obama slid out on him when he said getting shot down by the north vietnamese didn't actually qualify as executive experience. and he was right. pilots don't supervise anyone.

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.

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by: campskunk @ Sat Aug 16, 2008 at 19:25:08 PM CDT

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did my e-mails, I can't get to RD from here (i'm at work)-they block me (0.00 / 0)

WHAT is the CHALLENGE,

I love our challenges.

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by: sammorg @ Tue Aug 19, 2008 at 10:46:19 AM CDT