Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Pulled out

Under the Pink!

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LOL

"'It’s funny for women, because journalists pit women against each other,' Amos remarked to Q in 1994, during a joint interview with Harvey and Björk. 'If you think about Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton, they were all much more similar to each other than we are. We have tits. We have three holes. That’s what we have in common. We don’t even play the same instruments.'"

~ http://www.avclub.com/article/tori-amos-confronted-taboos-and-reclaimed-her-powe-210458

O Annalisa

From February 2016:
http://qz.com/624065/a-tip-to-americans-from-an-italian-who-saw-berlusconi-get-elected-again-and-again-and-again/

Hmmm.

"For the Americans who did not agree with Trump’s campaign pre-election and who oppose his political agenda now, it’s vital they avoid the mistakes many Italians made before them.

In short: Americans cannot let America become about Trump."

~ http://qz.com/841049/election-2016-america-has-elected-its-own-berlusconi-in-donald-trump-now-its-about-to-repeat-italys-biggest-mistake/

Yep. I have been failing.

spreadsheet experience

Some say "California is proof"...and others say "How the Electoral College gerrymanders..."and so do others...

All of the states I've lived in (New York, Washington, Virginia, Illinois, California) went blue except for one (Michigan: 47.3% vs. 47.5 %).

Hmmm, interesting how 90.9% of Washington, DC voted for the popular vote candidate.

What's it like to live in a town...

The appeal is...

"He appeals to me and I think he is down to earth and he speaks from the heart and he is not trying to be politically correct. He's just straight-forward," he reportedly said of Trump at the time."

~ http://www.ibtimes.com/malik-obamas-twitter-storm-barack-obamas-half-brother-celebrates-trump-victory-mocks-2444599

Berlusconi-esque???

“What he did was to perpetuate the old system he inherited, which was a clientelist system where meritocracy had no place, and corruption is rife, and people were almost encouraged by Berlusconi not to pay their taxes. Italy was a swamp … and he made it worse,” Dinmore said.

Journalist Iacoboni agreed, saying the lasting impact of Berlusconi was “the cultural idea that you could do anything in your own interests.”

“He legitimised every kind of infraction of rules, going back to his television career in the 1980s. It was as if to say: ‘You Italians like to be gross with women? Well, I say to you, you can do this.’ I think this [idea you can do anything to further your own interests] is much worse than even the legal accusations.”

~ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/21/if-berlusconi-is-like-trump-what-can-italy-teach-america

How did it happen

Elsewhere:

"Commenting on the reaction to her message, Gertrude said she was 'pleasantly surprised that the words of an old lady had been taken seriously.'"

~ http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38133209

Something that needs work

"'It's a Sickness': Letters Calling for Genocide of Muslims Sent to Mosques..."

MAGA

Making
America
Genocidal
Again

????

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Something good

Sometimes when they get to talking (and when they feel respected and listened to), people are better at clarifying things than when they are being reactive and posting inflammatory statements. Sometimes people are much more reasonable than they would at first appear.

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What's wrong

Why is Grandma (Grandpa, Grand-aunt, Grand-uncle) crying?
Grandma was just looking at a video from back in 2016...

http://www.ibtimes.com/clinton-trump-latest-2016-election-results-popular-vote-tally-has-president-elect-way-2451745

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"Real Americans"

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/20/real-americans-vs-coastal-elites-what-right-wing-sneers-at-city-dwellers-really-mean/

"The “real America” amounts to twenty percent of the population. It is hardly representative, and one cannot help but wonder what 'real' means."

"During the Republican presidential primary, Donald Trump declared, 'I love the poorly educated.' They love him back, and now he is our president."

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Oh and best of all, from T. Boone Pickens:

"The 87-year-old Texas oil baron said that he’s “ready to take a chance on it,” and “just in case it’s a mistake, [I’ll] be gone.”

http://fortune.com/2016/08/03/trump-billionaire-backers-list/

Going out with a selfish bang.
No belief in reincarnation?

Ah...nice...

Restorative!

I got to sit down and chat and share some ideas with a thoughtful young man and it was a good reminder that peaceful interactions go a long way...

But who knows?

Maybe this won't happen?

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/11/29/503713772/women-could-pay-more-than-men-for-health-care-under-trump

Maybe he'll just be so busy tweeting something random and...

Yeah...

Berlu-who?

"Italian women have some advice for American women based on their experience with Berlusconi. "

~ http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/can-women-bring-down-trump

Hey benevolence

In an alternate universe people would have cared enough.
We would have elected a better leader.
That would've been GREAT.

She's a beauty queen...

"The sequence is familiar by now: throughout history, women who speak out against powerful men – as Machado did, for instance, in the New York Times earlier this year – have been subject to a backlash. They’re slut-shamed or cast as crazy, as the Anita Hill movie, Confirmation, recently reminded us."

~ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/30/alicia-machado-donald-trump-backlash-smear

"Spencer said it was "ridiculous" and "puritanical" to call Trump's behavior sexual assault, adding, "At some part of every woman's soul, they want to be taken by a strong man." Far-right blogger RamZPaul responded to the Trump tape by saying, "Girls really don't mind guys that like pussies, they just hate guys who are pussies."

~ http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/11/toxic-resentment-women-powers-alt-right

ALSO

Thin = more $$$

(for women)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/lisaquast/2012/08/06/thin-is-in-for-executive-women-as-weight-discrimination-contributes-to-glass-ceiling/#5301730218e3

"a woman’s weight could have a significant impact on her earnings"

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160908084149.htm

"Researchers found even marginal increases in weight had a negative impact on female candidates' job prospects."

Blonde = more $$$

(for women)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/blonde-leaders-sexism_us_57bdd4f5e4b00c67eca12176?bprpb9

"Because the patriarchy, more or less."

For real

Today's message convinces me that this person's priorities are completely screwed up. Tantrum-prone, too.

Monday, November 28, 2016

Silly

Whiskers R We (w/ K. Wiig)

~ old favorite song ~

I can look for more...

Heartbeat Drumsong

Heal and help people

Search: help vets with ptsd

Breathe.

http://wtnh.com/2016/11/11/yoga-based-breathing-helps-veterans-fight-ptsd/

I heard a strange story and I imagined seeing a sad and terrified cartoon face on my popcorn ceiling and so that is my post.

Sunday, November 27, 2016

Up late reading...

Still other work I need to do, still reading...

"I have meditated on that profession of love several days ago from a grown man wielding a bat to threaten us. It called to mind a conversation with my theology students at Fordham about Henry David Thoreau’s essay 'On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,' in which he argues that 'all machines have their friction,' but that 'when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer.' He had in mind the evils of slavery and the American government’s theft of half of Mexico in the Mexican-American War, but it spoke fittingly to this older form of oppression and robbery the Lakota people still suffer, in which even those who love them will still oppose them with a weapon and disrupt their sacred grounds."

~ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/opinion/at-standing-rock-and-beyond-what-is-to-be-done.html?_r=0

Now I must stop.
Goodnight.

Cultural phenomena

I watched a popular video someone made.

Towards the end of the video, a man's voice is yelling at the president-elect's son, "Don't you say redrum." (Another reference to The Shining?)

Now the guy's voice sticks in my head.

Sigh.

Speaking of that movie...

"'Going through day after day of excruciating work was almost unbearable,' Duvall told Roger Ebert in December of 1980. 'Jack Nicholson's character had to be crazy and angry all the time. And in my character I had to cry 12 hours a day, all day long, the last nine months straight, five or six days a week. I was there a year and a month, and there must be something to Primal Scream therapy, because after the day was over and I'd cried for my 12 hours ... After all that work, hardly anyone even criticized my performance in it, even to mention it, it seemed like. The reviews were all about Kubrick, like I wasn't there.'"

~ http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/flashback-shelley-duvall-battles-stanley-kubrick-w450947

It would seem that Broken Masculinity is Punishing.

I'm sorry to say that I think the world is getting worse lately.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/nov/26/jo-coxs-was-followed-by-50000-tweets-celebrating-her-death

Although I've read that the crime and murder rate has actually been going down for years...

SomethingGoodSomethingGoodSomethingGoodSomethingGood

Many good reviews

For these films! Loving and Moana.

Saturday, November 26, 2016

Sensitivity is intelligent

Jesse Morris ~ Sunday Morning

http://archives.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/11/11/rip-jesse-morris-san-franciscos-punk-rock-johnny-cash

http://hellogiggles.com/international-aura-awareness-day/

Today's precious

Good Grief Day
International Aura Awareness Day
National Cake Day
Small Business Saturday

http://www.wheniscalendars.com/november-26-2016-holidays/

So's tomorrow.

What a sports story

It seems so appropriate.

http://thecomeback.com/nhl/blue-jackets-jack-johnson-almost-out-of-the-woods-after-his-parents-bankrupted-him.html

Is this the reason

they teach us about World War II in schools?

It's absolutely appalling that some of the most privileged people on this planet are going on about "precious snowflakes" while others are being threatened with genocide thanks to the stupid narcissism, rantings and lack of accountability of their preferred candidate. Have they taken a look in the mirror? They are the ones acting like "precious snowflakes."

Why do people go abroad to protect this country if they are going to elect an irresponsible man who is going to screw it up?

What an endorsement

He's so great, compared to Castro.
Letters To California Mosques Praise Donald Trump, Promise Genocide

outwardly expressive

morals and messages

and

and

XXXXX

Rainy outing

Interesting response

From a person who "won" by gaming the system...

http://www.mediaite.com/online/what-a-pack-of-losers-kellyanne-conway-blasts-clinton-campaign-for-joining-recount/

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-11-26/clinton-campaign-will-participate-in-stein-s-state-recounts

Oh, it was only a joke...

http://www.snopes.com/ivanka-trump-said-if-donald-trump-wasnt-her-father-she-would-mace-him/

Yesterday was the first of many days...

"From 25 November through 10 December, Human Rights Day, the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence aim to raise public awareness and mobilizing people everywhere to bring about change."

~ http://www.un.org/en/events/endviolenceday/

I climbed online again

I thought...who knew....

"It is my conviction you would understand where those like myself are coming from..."
http://www.washingtonblade.com/2016/11/15/open-letter-ivanka-trump/

It would be like this?

"I wanted to plead with you..."
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/An-open-letter-to-Ivanka-Trump-473568

I certainly did not.

"The Holocaust was woven into each Kushner simcha, reports the childhood friend who recalls how Rae and Joseph Kushner’s triumph over the Nazis as partisans was the thread that bound the generations. Jared and his siblings would recite poems about their grandparents at their own Bar and Bat Mitzvahs."

“‘The Holocaust was very bad, and we’re not happy, we’re sad,’ is how one of the lines might go,' says the friend. 'I think Joseph, who was part of a group of survivors known as the Builders and who literally built the house where Jared grew up, would be very upset if he were alive today, to see his grandson enabling the hate now … I’m speechless.'”

~ http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/.premium-1.755140

BUT

I'm thinking of this again...

"Patton’s other grandfather, as well as his father, were also decorated Army generals. Being 'profoundly proud of their service,' he considered a military career himself, he says. 'But it was also my grandfather, General Patton, who slapped a traumatized soldier in the face for his ‘cowardice,’ and that’s something I’ve struggled with for years.'”

~ http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2016/1115/How-one-of-Gen.-George-Patton-s-grandsons-helps-vets-with-PTSD

Because the grandchildren can be different.

Friday, November 25, 2016

Betterness shared

Support
http://www.npr.org/2016/11/24/503146277/support-pours-in-for-n-y-immigrant-after-post-election-harassment

Site of Resistance
https://www.thenation.com/article/a-majority-immigrant-church-vandalized-with-trump-nationwhites-only-becomes-a-site-of-resistance/

Don't Despair
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/15/dont-despair-trump-sex-discrimination-commissioner-kate-jenkins

Quite Nice

Ida Maria ~ Quite Nice People

Nice people

“Nice people made the best Nazis. My mom grew up next to them. They got along, refused to make waves, looked the other way when things got ugly and focused on happier things than ‘politics.’ They were lovely people who turned their heads as their neighbors were dragged away. You know who weren’t nice people? Resisters.”

— Naomi Shulman, Facebook Post, 2016

~http://fuckyeahdialectics.tumblr.com/post/153498542965/nice-people-made-the-best-nazis-my-mom-grew-up

Sounds that sabotage sleep

At about this time yesterday morning someone set off a kind of panic alarm. It sounded so awful, distressing. It was not normal sirens.

I don't know who did it or why.

Eventually "normal" (like police or firetruck) sirens came and then abnormal siren also went away.

Pain and depression and going to sleep again...
Devalued because of the body you were born in...

(I had a worry about something going on with my body again. But that's not anything terribly new.)

Women I spoke with recently said the year started off so positive and now it feels really dreary...It was enragingly dreary because it feels like people let abusiveness take over.

It's hard to explain a feeling, as if you know other women who could have helped you and they chose not to do so.Why didn't they? Fear, I think. Some went along with whatever their husbands wanted, just to be safe. This has happened before. They told themselves certain things to justify what they did or did not do. They just went along with societal expectations.

Feeling like you've been dehumanized or oppressed by social systems is hard to explain. It's hard to describe it...and even if you find someone to listen...That person might just be like someone at the side of someone suffering...or at the side of someone giving birth...or at the side of someone dying...

When it's wee a.m. hour

I have to remind myself to be more awake and not use the search term "women's health" unless I'm looking for irritability. My phone gave me this. I guess that's creative. The writer was sad about the election too. Well. One is sad. One vows to to "be the change." And then one puts out an article about sex positions with titles like "Stuff the Turkey."

It gets one's mind off this sort of thing:

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/11/if-he-wasnt-my-father-i-would-spray-him-with-mace-ivanka-trump-admits-truth-in-2006/

Otherwise...

http://mashable.com/2016/07/11/reproductive-health-teenage-girls/#Aval9d7.rqqA

Omg it makes the brain hurt so much, so heavy.

I'm imagining this type of conversation going on elsewhere (subliminally).

"Don't let your daughter text that nude pic to that boy; he'll just pass it around to his friends and they'll all be gross about it."

"No, I can't think about it, I'm too busy reading 'Stuff the Turkey' sex tip stuff."

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Thinking back on some stories.

Today I was very interested by the end of "American Indian Wars..." and the beginning of the "Heartland's Opioid Epidemic..."

https://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/to-the-point/american-indian-wars-21st-century-style

I might try to listen to the rest of those.

I also wondered about Gigi (how does she live with this person?)

I do not know.

Coffee thoughts

Tonight's free little cup was the best! I don't have a coffee maker.

http://feastingontjs.blogspot.com/2009/10/trader-joes-joe-exceptionally-smooth.html

Now I'm debating whether or not to go to Starbucks...

OUCH
http://fortune.com/2016/11/22/starbucks-price-hike-2/

OK
http://www.cosmopolitan.com/food-cocktails/a8356934/starbucks-baristas-reddit-thanksgiving-day/

AN OLDER STORY
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/13/us/starbucks-workers-scheduling-hours.html?_r=0

I'll probably stay in and have tea.

Dear society...

GET BETTER!!!

Today I got to work with a group of women on a class project, and we didn't know anything about each other and had never worked together before. We come from very diverse backgrounds and we worked well together. Everyone pitched in. Isn't it a great feeling? It is! We also got off topic and had a consensus about sexism and the election. One of them says she's tired of always being the most feminist one in her family!

And she mentioned THIS ISSUE:

http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/02/29/467959873/teen-girls-and-social-media-a-story-of-secret-lives-and-misogyny

Maybe grandkids can worry about climate

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/11/23/trump-adviser-proposes-dismantling-nasa-climate-research/

Well, if it gives some dads the opportunity to make enough $$ to feel good about themselves again...

An outreach story

"I decided to start by meeting my neighbor."

~ http://lisabelkin.com/the-angry-white-man-next-door/

"G.I. bill" / "...there were people left behind..." / "The average income...was $72,000."

~ http://www.businessinsider.com/why-trump-supporters-dont-want-government-help-2016-11

Vocabularies expanding

http://qz.com/844056/donald-trump-and-the-emoluments-clause-of-the-constitution/

Boo

I thought it was Kellyanne. They're saying it's his son-in-law.
Why are they taking another female role model away from me :-(

" ' My husband’s idea of a date night somehow always involves me looking at a development site ' "

IVANKA TRUMP

~http://www.vogue.com/11739787/ivanka-trump-collection-the-apprentice-family/

Super distracted

Ivanka: "I have a confession to make. It occurs to me that my father may have been entirely proper..." Her husband: "Not now, Ivanka! Your dad just won. This is all going so well." Nikki Haley: "Not now, Ivanka. I'm ready to be a role model."

http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/2520/this-thanksgiving-lets-be-thankful-for-planet-earth/

Herculean cabinet

Could encourage the boss to be more literary. Hmmm. 7 Self-care (not self-catering!) Tips.

Elsewhere...

"(True to form, the entire time I worked there as LP customers would stop me, then walk off when they saw I wasn’t a regular store employee, adamant that apparently the folk whose entire job is to walk the store and know where everything is meant to be couldn’t possibly help them out.)"

~ https://notalwaysright.com/theyre-insecure-security/60848

I might try golf, I thought

Famed Golf Course Pressured to Allow Women

Honestly, I have a side that wants to say...You can stop pretending guys. Really. Just...you can stop.

Especially if you'd rather vote for a sketchy businessman who is also a sexual predator who is lewd about his own daughter.

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Whoosh...the sound of some people quietly existing in privilege bubbles....

~~~~~~

Whoosh...the sound of it's good enough that the wives can be guests...

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Oh, wait...

"Mitt Romney -- the Republican party's presumptive presidential nominee who, in April, had said that he'd admit women if he were in charge of the club -- offered congratulations..."

~ http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/20/us/augusta-female-members/

I guess time did not actually go backwards.

Of this time...

...this was interesting...

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/22/503052632/two-weeks-after-election-day-california-continues-counting-ballots

...the provisional ballots...

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

*****

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7292666M/Melusine

I liked this one

Like Like Like
http://www.vox.com/first-person/2016/11/10/13580582/leslie-knope-donald-trump
Like Like Like

What does

the "now I'm feeling disturbed" scale look like...

https://www.bustle.com/articles/196518-this-new-allegation-suggests-donald-trump-might-have-said-something-super-disturbing-about-ivanka-report

So unsettling

I think the guy in this video is sitting outside a Metro stop next to my old workplace. Maybe. Not entirely sure.

Oh my god. This is the same guy...
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/richard-spencer-speech-npi/508379/

"Blah blah locker room talk. Also, Let's vote against your WWII Grandpa's service to his country."

boy oh boy

"You're Literally Making Stuff Up" - CNN Panel Erupts in Laughter at Jeffrey Lord...

and this guy...

"He brought the Silicon Valley ethos, which values openness and inclusiveness, to a campaign that promised closed borders, trade protection and religious exclusion. He is the scion of prodigious Democratic donors yet steered a Republican presidential campaign. A grandson of Holocaust survivors who serves a man who has advocated a ban on war refugees. A fact-driven lawyer whose chosen candidate called global warming a hoax, linked vaccines to autism and challenged President Obama’s citizenship. A media mogul in a campaign stoked by fake news. A devout Jew advising a president-elect embraced by the alt-right and supported by the KKK."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/3/#2059841a249b

"Kushner’s support extends to Steve Bannon, Trump’s strategic advisor, who had been accused by his ex-wife of making anti-Semitic comments (he denies it) and whose website, Breitbart, has often published articles that dog-whistle racist, anti-Semitic sentiments. “Do you hold me accountable for every single thing that the Observer’ s ever written, like they came from me?” Kushner says. “All I know about Steve is my experience working with him. He’s an incredible Zionist and loves Israel. He was one of the leaders in the anti-divestiture campaign. And what I’ve seen from working together with him was somebody who did not fit the description that people are pushing on him. I choose to judge him based on my experience and seeing the job he’s done, as opposed to what other people are saying about him.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2016/11/22/exclusive-interview-how-jared-kushner-won-trump-the-white-house/3/#2059841a249b

Monday, November 21, 2016

It is a thing to wonder

why anyone would do this for a living

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/for-the-new-yellow-journalists-opportunity-comes-in-clicks-and-bucks/2016/11/20/d58d036c-adbf-11e6-8b45-f8e493f06fcd_story.html

ooooh

not even Nikita
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/03/politics/melania-trump-speech-pennsylvania/
"I'm a full time mother to our son Barron. An incredible boy."

sigh
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/reliable-source/wp/2016/11/20/melania-trump-and-son-barron-will-reportedly-stay-in-new-york-after-the-presidential-inauguration/
"The campaign has been difficult for Barron..."

Interesting

If you Google this politician, you are likely to get lots of pics and a pop-up virus warning (but not so for wikipedia).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikita_Klæstrup

She's very fun.

http://realityportalen.dk/rcarticle/galleri-nikita-klaestrup-amok-til-paradise-premiere/

T-shirt something.

http://politiken.dk/debat/ECE3475989/elitefeminist-jeg-kan-faktisk-ikke-se-feminismen-for-bare-bare-bryster/

zone....

jesus is for you

BernieSanders: “It is not good enough for someone to say, 'I'm a woman! Vote forme!’”

jesus is for me

Hillary Clinton Got 1.7 Million More Votes Than DonaldTrump

jesus is for everybody

pas mal

She seems like she had a nice enough day.

https://twitter.com/IvankaTrump/status/800885263950024704

The U.S. is not allowed to make fun of Britain for having a monarchy anymore.

How nice! How decent!

http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/elderly-couple-will-share-farm-vets-suffering-ptsd/

But also...
I hope they didn't want Mr. Sexual Assault to become president?
Who really knows anymore?

But JOBS

"I need to pay down my credit card debt!" Overheard from across the way. Apartment where single dad lives with parents. Maybe it was him. Single dad has enjoyed blasting jarring misogynist music occasionally. I don't like that because I can hear it from inside my room. At least he doesn't do it all the time. One time he was hanging out with some male buddies and he shouted down the walkway "Hey (whatever his friends name was), have you ever had a bigger dick than I have?" as I was walking past. Then he smirked as I went by and asked it again. When he goes to work, he wears a uniform. I am not sure what it signifies. It makes me think of auto shops. Anyway. He's a dad.

cats...drama...

https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/5e0oqc/my_partner_and_i_recreate_movie_scenes_with_our/

The opposite of the normal advice

That sounds like SO much fun...

http://www.vox.com/identities/2016/11/21/13687948/thanksgiving-politics-donald-trump-family-racism-bigotry-advice-media

if you had it today...

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a50890/kris-kobach-homeland-security-plan-photo/

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/news/a50889/jeff-bridges-is-rooting-for-donald-trump

or for some lighter fare...

http://www.mediaite.com/online/ann-coulter-sticks-her-head-into-trump-transition-by-mocking-nikki-haleys-indian-heritage/

http://www.mediaite.com/online/restaurant-rushes-to-apologize-after-reality-stars-pic-shows-people-doing-nazi-salute-inside/

Hearts and raised bows

Make America Flowers and Crystals

Well I would still like to see Wyoming

"The Electoral College then allocates votes according to a state’s congressional delegation: Wyoming (with one House representative and two senators) gets three votes; California (53 representatives and two senators) gets 55. Those two senators effectively give Wyoming three times more power in the Electoral College than its population would suggest. Apply the same math to California and it would have 159 Electoral College votes."

~ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/upshot/as-american-as-apple-pie-the-rural-votes-disproportionate-slice-of-power.html

Sunday, November 20, 2016

Before & After.

Before Curling Up on bed feeling horrible horrible horribleness growing and pressing down on me and AfterTypingSomethingHorrible weirdly I sort of felt better.

Very Unfortunate Hopefully Untrue MAGA Trigger

Make
America
Genocidal
Again

"During the speech, he said: 'America has just elected a fascist and the best thing that the good people in Ireland can do is to ring him up and ask him, is it OK to still bring the shamrock on Saint Patrick's Day?"

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/watch-senator-launches-stinging-attack-at-governments-reaction-to-monster-and-fascist-trump-35207286.html

"Like [Andrew] Jackson's populism, we're going to build an entirely new political movement," he says.

~ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steve-bannon-trump-tower-interview-trumps-strategist-plots-new-political-movement-948747

"Trail of Tears"

~ http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/11/19/people-greater-than-donald-trump-douglas-chambers/94074808/

"Jacksonianism is not a philosophy. It is an instinct."

~ http://www.toledoblade.com/Keith-Burris/2016/11/09/Keith-Burris-commentary-Donald-Trump-a-Jacksonian-hero.html

Scary Headline...

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/20/502719871/energized-by-trumps-win-white-nationalists-gather-to-change-the-world

Getting to know

Viewpoints.

"Trail of Tears"
~ http://www.clarionledger.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/11/19/people-greater-than-donald-trump-douglas-chambers/94074808/

"Jacksonianism is not a philosophy. It is an instinct."
~ http://www.toledoblade.com/Keith-Burris/2016/11/09/Keith-Burris-commentary-Donald-Trump-a-Jacksonian-hero.html

Ohellointernet

I was there! I've visited!

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/burlington-what-works-green-energy-214463

...yeah...

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-voters-pennsylvania-blue-collar-214466

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/john-mccain-trump-torture-waterboarding-231668

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/the-tea-party-movement-is-alive-and-well-and-we-saw-trump-coming-214469

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Some stories

Say

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2016/11/blackfeet-nation-tribal-leader-elouise.html

Hey

Say

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2016/11/australian-aboriginal-children-stand-in.html

Hey

Say

http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2016/11/squash-rice-salmon-and-frybread-feeding.html
Hey

Vino 4 me

Because

http://www.vulture.com/2016/11/tori-amos-bloodletting-boys-for-pele-rerelease.html

Then

Walk To Dublin (Sucker Reprise)

Crucify

Precious Things

Random wish/hope

Since I had a young man show me the bat clip from The Shining and tell me it's about broken masculinity, I hope the new cabinet does whatever they can to TRULY repair theirs (in a healthy way), and that's including any women that are in it.

Oh, it's still there!

Prayer Plant Time Lapse with Music

I wonder something

I wonder how many Muslims that served in the military...
http://www.businessinsider.com/colin-powell-donald-trump-mike-flynn-emails-2016-9

think this guy's gonna make us great???
http://www.mediaite.com/online/really-important-really-worrying-maddow-scraps-segment-to-earnestly-address-viewers-on-gen-flynn-dangers/

Well, this guy's happy.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-white-pride-20161117-story.html

And these women are happy.

"Kaatz, the Arizona hairdresser, for instance, is dating a black man she expects to marry next April and looks forward to raising their mixed-race children. Wright lives in a multicultural community in the Phoenix suburbs and welcomes the Muslim and black children who scamper through her front yard."

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-donald-trump-american-voices-20161113-story.html

And this guy.

"Trump’s economic nationalism resonated with Emmett Lawson, an African American who fled Cleveland for Orlando, Fla., after losing his job in a steel mill. He blames the North American Free Trade Agreement, which President Clinton signed into law and Trump derides as the worst bargain in the history of creation.

Now, at age 58, Lawson drives a semi-truck hauling housing debris across Florida. “It was bad and Trump exploited it,” Lawson said of NAFTA. “He saw it and spoke about it. That spoke to me.”
Trump is “a business guy,” Lawson said. “That’s the change that’s needed.”

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-donald-trump-american-voices-20161113-story.html

So I guess this is okay.

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/19/502685402/trump-agrees-to-settle-trump-university-lawsuits-for-25-million

22gether

Ida Maria:
I'm Gonna Tell God All of My Troubles
Boogie With the Devils Soul (scream)

It's almost Sunday!

ALMOST
https://www.bustle.com/articles/173684-im-a-christian-feminist-because-jesus-loves-women-and-we-should-too

CHURCH
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/15-christian-women-get-real-about-the-role-of-women-in-the-church_us_56e1dd0ee4b0860f99d84e80

TIME
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/november-web-only/sarah-bessey-feminist-because-i-love-jesus-so-much.html?start=1

$ Decision $

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/dapl-bank-investing-pulled-assets/

Because of some

a sex predator added a wife batterer to his cabinet

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/26/steve-bannon-domestic-violence-trump-campaign-ceo

I miss you, nature walk

I spent some time walking in nature and it was nice to be away from the computer. Away from the internet, I feel more free. When I read the news, I think the way this culture treats women is much better than it was in the past, and yet apparently my expectations are still too high or something. *cries inside*

Go back to trees.
Go back to flowers.
Go back to walking.
Go back to skipping.

Love you, nature.

IRL

A large swathe of the country was coerced into supporting a sexual predator and tax evader who ran a fraudulent university.

He's gathering a group of advisors who seem to be quite fueled by bias and hatred.

Maybe this is just a way for America to show all of it's wounds.

You can gloat about winning because of the electoral college and rail against people's pain by calling them "precious snowflakes" all you like, but in the end that is really not accomplishing much.

But nevertheless, historical.

"'I am,' he says, with relish, 'Thomas Cromwell in the court of the Tudors.'"

~ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steve-bannon-trump-tower-interview-trumps-strategist-plots-new-political-movement-948747

Not like Jesus

Have the evangelicals prayed for Bannon today?

"'Darkness is good,' says Bannon, who amid the suits surrounding him at Trump Tower, looks like a graduate student in his T-shirt, open button-down and tatty blue blazer — albeit a 62-year-old graduate student. 'Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power. It only helps us when they' — I believe by 'they' he means liberals and the media, already promoting calls for his ouster — 'get it wrong. When they're blind to who we are and what we're doing.'"

~ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/steve-bannon-trump-tower-interview-trumps-strategist-plots-new-political-movement-948747

What is to be done...

"Hillary Clinton won at least 1.4 million more votes than Donald Trump, but still lost the presidential contest because her votes came from the wrong combination of states. That's made her one of just five people in U.S. history to win the popular vote and lose the electoral college.

The first three were in the 1800s, and it happened again in 2000 with Al Gore's electoral college loss to George W. Bush. That contest was complicated by other concerns including butterfly ballots and the Supreme Court, making Clinton the first pure victim of the Electoral College in the modern era.

Not surprisingly, the outcome has provoked an outpouring of demands for change."

~ http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/partisan-opposition-electoral-college-may-make-it-harder-change-n686041

American Feelings

Desperate
~ http://fortune.com/2016/11/18/donald-trump-university-case/

Moral
~ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/18/502620122/new-york-attorney-general-says-trump-agrees-to-settle-trump-university-lawsuits

Compass
~ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/us/politics/a-trump-tower-view-of-the-new-boss.html?_r=0

A rich interior world

Believing he's like a British Prime Minister from the last century.

"Lady Thatcher aroused the same bitter hostility because like Trump she was a threat to the establishment's claim to moral superiority."

~ https://twitter.com/newtgingrich/status/799985377704484864

Lady Thatcher
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher

The more things change...

http://time.com/4101290/what-the-legal-battle-over-trump-university-reveals-about-its-founder/

This is an individual who is on his way to becoming the guy who's gonna tweet something.

Sooooo...

In the crazy post-election reality that exists at present...

People Think Trump’s Feuding With “Hamilton” To Distract You From This Other Stuff

If the least qualified person actually gets elected, will some people cope by developing a very rich interior fantasy world for years?

O America

Please do not elect a giant spoiled baby man to run a nation.
Just let him go run golf courses and hotels again.
He's a disaster.

Seriously?

http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/18/politics/mike-pence-hamilton-musical/

Now the Infant we elected President is throwing a tantrum on twitter because Mike Pence got singled out when he attended a showing of Hamilton?

"Our wonderful future V.P. Mike Pence was harassed last night at the theater by the cast of Hamilton, cameras blazing.This should not happen!"

~ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/799972624713420804

"The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!"

~ https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/799974635274194947

The man is a joke as president. It's absurd.

Just thinking of all the people I know who I would never vote for, and yet I'm already convinced they would be a whole lot better at the job.

Seriously, this is who some people think is going to bring needed change to the country?

The misogyny and bigotry wasn't enough to convince them otherwise.
Sexual Predator, Tax Evader, Republican.

"Honey, lets ignore everything else about him and just focus on the party and how mad we were that Romney wasn't elected."

Friday, November 18, 2016

Have you ever asked yourself

Are you masculinist

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pol-alt-right-terminology-20161115-story.html

Do you think this way / do these fit your views?

Q/A

Where are your dads the little girl neighbor used to ask (she no longer does this.)

(Oh, I get it. You mean, where are the dads of America?
Well, many of them were marinating in patriarchal privilege, and so were some of their wives.)

Results: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/donald-trump-building-team-of-racists.html

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/every-terrifying-thing-that-donald-trump-has-done.html

Revisiting...

https://www.bustle.com/articles/195063-21-women-whose-dads-voted-for-donald-trump-tell-their-fathers-how-it-made-them-feel

I wonder what their dads think now?

https://www.thenation.com/article/jeff-sessions-trumps-pick-for-attorney-general-is-a-fierce-opponent-of-civil-rights/

Maybe they are re-thinking...this guy wasn't such a good choice? Or maybe their dads don't read "the liberal media" and don't care if others are bothered...

Golf.

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/17/australias-prime-minister-could-only-reach-donald-trump-by-getting-his-unsecured-cell-phone-number-from-a-golfing-buddy/

"Dear Dad, your vote made me feel that it’s OK to be corrupt as long as you’re not a woman. That a man with no qualifications can beat a woman who’s prepared 30 years for the job. That it’s OK to vote someone in office who stands for hate and bigotry and misogyny, as long as it doesn’t affect you. Your vote has devastated me, because I know that’s not the man you are."

Amber, 30

https://www.bustle.com/articles/195063-21-women-whose-dads-voted-for-donald-trump-tell-their-fathers-how-it-made-them-feel

Could it be?

Maybe so!!!

http://time.com/4574854/how-librarians-can-save-us-from-fake-news/

Street Magic

"Here's a hundred dollars. I owe it to your son."

ThoseLilRabbits - David Blaine Street Magic Part 2

MONEYMONEYMONEY

I think I will check him out...

Happy Birthday, James Welch

https://www.google.com/doodles/james-welchs-76th-birthday

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2016/1118/Google-honors-James-Welch-writer-of-the-Native-American-Renaissance

Someone next door is having a birthday, too.
Happy Birthday To You...

It's a time of reckoning

“Evangelicals in this vote have created a pretty deadly and chilling effect on their witness to Christ.”

~ http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/the-evangelical-reckoning-on-trump/507161/

Like the Bible verses about not protecting the daughters.
That's exactly what this time period feels like.
It's a sad, sad, sad, sad time.

I'd watch

Peter and the Farm

https://newrepublic.com/article/138727/peter-farm-portrait-man-edge

And or also

“'The most important job any woman can have is being a mother,' says Trump."

~ http://fortune.com/2016/10/01/ivanka-trump-ad-women-voters/

Or a supportive wife of a breadwinner with a fragile ego (SOMETIMES).

Or a supportive girlfriend.
Or a supportive daughter.
Or a supportive sister.
Or a supportive...

Some interesting ones...

"Men ages 50-plus supported Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by a margin of 58 to 38, while millennial women supported Hillary Clinton by a margin of 63 to 31 percent."

~ https://www.bustle.com/articles/195063-21-women-whose-dads-voted-for-donald-trump-tell-their-fathers-how-it-made-them-feel

"Hi Dad. Your vote verifies that you are OK with me living in a world where Trump is a role model for success. Trump stands as a reminder that I can be the world's most qualified woman, and still be defeated by the world's most disgusting man. He stands as a reminder that a man can insult and mock every cultural group but his own, and still rise to power. Your vote makes me wonder if you want the world to change for me. Your vote makes me question if you have any concern for people who are dissimilar to yourself."

Dana, 23

~ https://www.bustle.com/articles/195063-21-women-whose-dads-voted-for-donald-trump-tell-their-fathers-how-it-made-them-feel

"Dada: Your vote lets me know that my future isn't your concern. You let me know that as a woman whose career is in fighting for access to safe and legal abortion care — as a woman who had an abortion a month before you cast a vote for a candidate who thinks both providers and patients should be punished for personal health care decisions — I am not a person whose safety or wellbeing you take seriously; that I am not a person you want to protect; that I, the daughter who you raised to challenge the word 'no' and take pride in my strong will and individuality, am not a person who matters to you."

Louisa, 27

https://www.bustle.com/articles/195063-21-women-whose-dads-voted-for-donald-trump-tell-their-fathers-how-it-made-them-feel

"Dear Dad, when you express support for Trump because 'that's how the Church says you should vote,' it tells me that you are so interested in being what you think is a 'good Catholic' that you forgot how to be a Christian."

Theresa, 25

~ https://www.bustle.com/articles/195063-21-women-whose-dads-voted-for-donald-trump-tell-their-fathers-how-it-made-them-feel

"I've never doubted that you love me. Your vote makes me feel like you don't respect me."

Mary Kate, 26

https://www.bustle.com/articles/195063-21-women-whose-dads-voted-for-donald-trump-tell-their-fathers-how-it-made-them-feel

But what is...

truthiness...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/18/how-will-trump-make-america-great-again-truthiness/?utm_term=.f17af08b84ce

really

What a time

In 2008 I had a roommate who told me she wanted to vote for Obama but she had a lot of phone conversations with family who were against him and after talking to them she changed her vote. That happens.

"But mom, I don't want to vote for..."
"Don't think of him that way."
"Listen to your dad."

It's a certain time

A time in which a young man showed me a clip of the bat scene in The Shining and said this culture has a problem with broken masculinity.

Then today, I read this:

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/shelley-duvall-said-filming-the-shining-was-almost-unbearable-w451233

Now is the time for all good men and women to come to the aid of their country...