Motley Moose – Archive

Because now that’s it’s over in Boston, we need cute critter pix.  Imho.  

Photo credit: Margaret Bourke

Jan F and others and I are bringing you mooselings the news, whether you like it or not!  

I tend to look at newspapers’ web sites around the world and country.  Use links from my twitter feed sometimes.  Lots of twitter tonight.

20 Photos That Change The Holocaust Narrative

PopChassid.com, h/t to Little Green Footballs

Victims. Helpless. Downtrodden.

That’s the narrative that’s been spread about Jews for the last 70 years since the Holocaust. We’ve embraced it to our detriment. We can’t seem to address antisemitism without running to the world and screaming that we’re being persecuted, rather than standing up strongly in defiance, aware of our own inner strength.

The Holocaust has scarred us, a yetzer hara (sneaky bastard of a voice in our heads), that keeps trying to tell us how we are defined by our past, controlled by events that happened to us, instead of using those moments as points of growth.

This came up in a local column today.  

Capitol police call citizen

Elise Lazar, who lives in Salt Lake County, called Sen. Orrin Hatch’s Salt Lake City office March 25 to inquire if the senator would be in town over spring break and if he scheduled any town hall meetings.

The receptionist asked why she would want to know that. Lazar said she had concerns on certain issues that she would like to discuss with him and she had friends who might want to attend the meeting as well.

Ms. Lazar was contacted by Capitol Police.  

But the next day Lazar received a call on her cell phone from the Capitol Hill Police in Washington, D.C., telling her they had received a complaint about her from Hatch’s office and that they felt she might be a suspicious person.

My new representative is Chris Stewart, who seems to the right of Glenn Beck.  How do I make my voice heard?  

Here is your latest open news thread.  Each unique commenter will be rewarded with an easter photo.  

Given the ages of Nelson Mandela, and Pete Seeger, I know we will not have them with us much longer.  And of course we never know how much time we really have left.  I am touched not only by the two great men I mentioned, also this woman here:  

Viola Liuzzo, Ally

At age 35 Liuzzo, a high school dropout, trained for a career as a medical laboratory assistant at the Carnegie Institute of Detroit, 1961-62. In 1963, to further enhance her education, she enrolled in classes at Wayne State University.

Liuzzo was also active in local efforts on behalf of reform in education and economic justice. Twice she was arrested, pleaded guilty, and insisted on a trial to publicize the causes for which she was an advocate. Evans said of her friend, “Viola Liuzzo lived a life that combined the care of her family and her home with a concern for the world around her. This involvement with her times was not always understood by her friends; nor was it appreciated by those around her.”

In 1964 Liuzzo began attending the First Unitarian Universalist Church of Detroit, two blocks from the Wayne State campus, and, through Evans, became active in the Detroit chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). That same year Evans and Liuzzo drove to New York City to attend a United Nations Seminar on civil rights sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA).

Liuzzo’s spiritual journey included putting hands to work. Unchurched as a child, she had converted to Roman Catholicism when she married Jim. Drawn to Roman Catholic mysticism for a time, she was later interested in Protestant evangelicalism. She sought personal relationship with a God active in the events of human history and herself wanted to make a difference in the world. At First Unitarian Universalist Liuzzo found a faith matching both her ideas and her longing to be of service. She became a full member on March 29, 1964. Many members of the church had been Freedom Riders. Daughter Penny attended the young adult group’s discussions.

I met this woman, who had an ordinary life and chose to do incredible things, during Melissa Harris-Perry’s show yesterday.  I encourage you to watch this segment.  It is empowering.  

One of my favorite women.  Photo: me.

Jan F, Laura and I are bringing you NEWS.  Please use as an open new thread until the next “All The News” is posted.

FEATURE ARTICLE

The Triggers of Economic Inequality

Bill Moyers.com; Troy Oxford and Lauren Feeney

In recent years, the rich have seen their wealth grow dramatically while the poor and middle class have basically flatlined. It’s no accident, argue Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson in their book Winner-Take-All Politics. The infographic below, which draws from Hacker and Pierson’s book, explains how our politicians – on both sides of the aisle – fell under the spell of corporate dollars and re-engineered our economic system to favor the wealthy. The dark green line shows the income trajectory for the top 1 percent since 1970, while the light green line shows the bottom 90 percent. Click the orange triangles to learn about critical turning points that helped create the skewed system we have today.

This is the most amazing chart, illustrating the path our country took to today’s inequities.  Social/economic/etc.  Please visit this site and explore.  Also, how can we make this better for all of our citiizens and everyone who lives in our country?

Violets in the rain, under the rosebushes, my front yard.  

Milky Way Panorama from Mauna Kea

Image Credit & Copyright: Wally Pacholka (TWAN)

There’s more including a view of the Southern Cross.  The Big Picture is amazing.  

JanF and I are endeavoring to bring you the news.  She will update in comments, probably, once or twice a day.  I will not post a new diary until Thursday, as we are crazy-town here in Casa jlms during Lent, which is 3 more weeks.

cross-posted in orange.  

Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, by Stefano in SE Idaho on flikr.com

JanF and I are going to give you news clues.

This is your open news thread through Sunday night.

I get stories from my twitter feed, or I look at various web editions of newspapers (in English) around the world.  

Book Cliffs, Flickr user trosier. East-Central Utah, south of the Uintas and north of I-70.

Enjoy the view.  The valley below is scheduled for fracking, which may not only impact the now-pleasant view, but contaminate the water in Lake Powell (and Lake Mead).  

Even More Book Cliffs photos.

JanF and I team up to bring you news.  Here is a big handful for Sunday evening.  See you with a fresh diary mid-week.  

notes: bombing in abbas, afghanistan? kenya elections?  

 

This is NOT from Glacier National Park.  It is nearby, and perhaps tweeted by a BLM person or a State Park person.  I wish I had better attribution, I readily admit to nabbing this from the twitter.  

UPDATE:  commenters have identified the photo as Mendenhall Glacier in Alaska. So my twitter-radar was way off.  I do have taking my kids to Glacier NP on my mind, and son and I are reading Ice Station Zebra.

Jan F and I are bringing your this Open News Thread!  Watch for updates in comments!  I’ll track this through Thursday, probably.  Week is kinda busy ’til then.  

I did find a little bird:



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