For my second post at the Moose, I’d like to offer a detailed, thoughtful political treatise I hope you all will enjoy and carry near and dear to your heart as you fight the good fight over the years.
Hah! Yeah right.
To everyone who ever said that President Barack Obama simply would not win re-election without their sage political advice and ANGRY COMMENTS IN ALL CAPS, I offer the following:
In the immortal words of Nelson Muntz: HA HA.
Today, Myrlie Evers-Williams will become the first woman and the first layperson to deliver the invocation at a presidential swearing-in ceremony. Just as the use of Martin Luther King Jr’s bible is symbolic of the civil rights struggle in this country, Mrs. Evers-Williams is herself a living legacy of that struggle, which continues.
Far too many young Americans do not learn this history, nor make connections to the past as part of where we are today and what the future holds for us as a nation.
Today’s KosAbility diary is written by the funny lady Clytemnestra. Here’s the link: http://www.dailykos.com/story/…
If you missed last week’s offering on post-polio syndrome, I regret to inform you that parts of the diary were plagiarized, a first for our group. The writer has been banned and the post removed.
Clytemnestra, on the other hand, is completely original – in more ways than one!
A hero left us yesterday Thursday.
Photo credit: The Birmingham News/Tamika Moore
James Hood, one of two African American students determined to attend the whites-only University of Alabama, has died at age 70.
In 1963, Mr. Hood and Vivian Malone defied Alabama’s racist governor George Wallace, and a racist power structure and populace, to avail themselves of the right to a public college education.
Stigma is a more complicated concept than one might initially guess upon mere casual consideration. Definitionally relatively simple, the causes, mechanisms, and consequences of social stigma are myriad and complex. You can find stigma, of one sort or another, most anywhere you look. Stigma will thrive in society wherever ignorance or fear or hatred of that which is “different” are acceptable mentalities. The tendency to stigmatize, label, and set certain groups/individuals apart from the rest of society as “other” is, to an extent, human nature. The need to categorize people, places, and things is normal — it’s just a function of how our brains work. We run into problems, however, when we begin allowing categories and labels to exclude and define people.
President Obama was sworn in to start his second term in the Blue Room by Chief Justice Roberts who used a notecard this time to avoid any errors. Just a bit of trivia: once POTUS is sworn in again tomorrow today at the public ceremony he will be only the second president to be sworn in four times.
Happy Sunday, Bombers.
What is your favorite cookbook? What is the best recipe in it? If you could only watch one TV channel, what would it be? Do you collect anything (besides dust)? Mac or PC? What is your perfect outdoor temperature range? On a scale of 1 – 10, with 10 being the highest, what is your skill level with programmable electronic devices?
Twitter Stream:
Of course I’m mad. How would you feel if all your Lance Armstrong Beanie Babies wereworthless?
— Fishgrease (@Fishbooom) January 19, 2013
I want to see a spinoff of #Undercoverboss where they make shamed executives clean bathrooms and try to live on 8 bucks an hour.
— Jesus Christ (@Jesus_M_Christ) January 19, 2013
@toure If only the dinosaurs had AR-15s then they wouldn’t have gone extinct from that asteroid.
— Jason Crawford (@jasncrawfrd) January 19, 2013
@toure If only our soldiers had assault weapons…we wouldn’t have lost so many in war..
— Don Siler (@BlackiusMaximus) January 19, 2013
VICTORY! The President is finally wearing flat front pants! OMG! #NoPleats #Progress
— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) January 19, 2013
Most homophobes are secretly gay. However, most arachnophobes are not secretly spiders.
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) January 19, 2013
Five people “freedomed” in the arm, leg, hand and side by liberty projectiles at three separate gun shows today.
— David Waldman (@KagroX) January 20, 2013
So #GunAppreciationDay was a blast. I hope Rick Santorum’s upcoming #UnProtectedSexAppreciationDay goes just as well.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 20, 2013
GOP says mental health care not gun safety will prevent deaths. So why are they are turning down Medicaid expansion? eclectablog.com/2013/01/what-y…
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 20, 2013
#GunAppreciationDay doesn’t hurt people. The people who think guns need appreciation do.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 20, 2013
I am a space buff. I discovered science fiction when I was eight years old. I have been convinced since then that we are not alone.
Make sure you let your peeps know where to find you!
The first briefs will be filed in Edith Windsor’s challenge to Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), United States v. Windsor, on January 22. Edith “Edie” Windsor is an 83 year old widow from New York. She met Thea Spyer more than 40 years ago; they started dating after two years and got engaged shortly thereafter. During that time there was no possibility of two women marrying: it was during the era of the Stonewall riots, and right around the time that two men attempted to get married in Minnesota, only to have their case, Baker v. Nelson, reach the Supreme Court and earn a one-sentence summary dismissal before any arguments or briefing.
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