November 17, 2010
The night before last, I took pictures of one of President Obama’s blog posts. The blog post was entitled “Obama’s book for children shows a softer side.”
One of the ads along the side of the page said “The 9mm Won’t Save You: Discover What Self-Defense Masters & The Army Don’t Want You To Know.”
I mentioned more than once on my WordPress blog over the summer that the ad “The 9mm Won’t Save You” kept showing up on blog posts for all of the White House officials. My WordPress blog was destroyed months ago.
I’m curious as to why a blog post that says “Obama’s book for children shows a softer side” has an ad along the edge that says “The 9mm Won’t Save You” if it’s not meant as a threat and a joke.
In the article about President Obama’s children’s book entitled “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters,” it says the following:
“The book allows the president to reintroduce himself to women who, survey shows, have cooled to him since the 2008 presidential elections. A Gallup poll released this month showed Obama’s approval rating among women at 46%--down from 70% in the weeks after he took office.
A survey released this month by Lake Research Partners, a Democratic Polling Firm, shows that only 40% of married women rated Obama as either excellent or good, compared with 59% who judged him as fair or poor.
The White House wants to drive those figures back up.”
To the White House, women are a joke; this administration, with the help of the media, has done nothing but damage women’s rights for almost half a year.
I’m obviously not the only woman who has noticed President Obama’s true beliefs about women and about what women are worth; if the numbers from the poll that the White House cynically publicized along with death threats and more harassment are accurate, a lot of other American women who have probably never read my blogs and who have no idea what’s going on with all of the government, corporate, media and celebrity harassment have nonetheless noticed that President Obama has no respect for women.
“Lake Research Partners,” the article says, right before saying that the White House wants to regain the confidence of American women.
All women are a joke to this President, a joke that he wants to keep laughing at, no matter what it costs him or anybody else.
The night before last, I took pictures of one of President Obama’s blog posts. The blog post was entitled “Obama’s book for children shows a softer side.”
One of the ads along the side of the page said “The 9mm Won’t Save You: Discover What Self-Defense Masters & The Army Don’t Want You To Know.”
I mentioned more than once on my WordPress blog over the summer that the ad “The 9mm Won’t Save You” kept showing up on blog posts for all of the White House officials. My WordPress blog was destroyed months ago.
I’m curious as to why a blog post that says “Obama’s book for children shows a softer side” has an ad along the edge that says “The 9mm Won’t Save You” if it’s not meant as a threat and a joke.
In the article about President Obama’s children’s book entitled “Of Thee I Sing: A Letter To My Daughters,” it says the following:
“The book allows the president to reintroduce himself to women who, survey shows, have cooled to him since the 2008 presidential elections. A Gallup poll released this month showed Obama’s approval rating among women at 46%--down from 70% in the weeks after he took office.
A survey released this month by Lake Research Partners, a Democratic Polling Firm, shows that only 40% of married women rated Obama as either excellent or good, compared with 59% who judged him as fair or poor.
The White House wants to drive those figures back up.”
To the White House, women are a joke; this administration, with the help of the media, has done nothing but damage women’s rights for almost half a year.
I’m obviously not the only woman who has noticed President Obama’s true beliefs about women and about what women are worth; if the numbers from the poll that the White House cynically publicized along with death threats and more harassment are accurate, a lot of other American women who have probably never read my blogs and who have no idea what’s going on with all of the government, corporate, media and celebrity harassment have nonetheless noticed that President Obama has no respect for women.
“Lake Research Partners,” the article says, right before saying that the White House wants to regain the confidence of American women.
All women are a joke to this President, a joke that he wants to keep laughing at, no matter what it costs him or anybody else.
November 18, 2010 @ 5:10 a.m.
I don't need more than 5 pictures for the slideshow; that's why I'm putting 5 pictures there. I will be very glad when "code" is no longer a part of my life; can't wait for it to be over. I have been rebelling against it a lot lately and more and more being literal.
The pictures that I've put in the above slideshow are of a typical White House blog post during the harassment phase of the Obama administration; while stating how important women are to the government, every effort is made to turn that statement into an obvious and insulting joke.
I also disagree with much of what's said at the end of the blog post, even though the person who said it didn't mean it as a joke when she said "Women tend to respond more to the personal, to the micro...."
The attitude that women cannot understand or really be interested in issues that don't revolve around them personally or that are abstract and complex IS a discriminatory attitude toward women. It is exactly that way of thinking about women in everything from business to science to the social sciences that keeps both men and women as seeing women as fully capable human beings who are worthy of respect and who have as much right to live with dignity as men do.
I wonder how anyone who has been watching this situation for the past several months could accuse any of the men who have been involved in the harassment of having had accurate perspective on issues outside of their own lives.
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November 18, 2010
On Page 4A of the November 17, 2010 Burlington Free Press, the first story is called “Pilgrims mark hajj with stoning ritual.” There are two pictures; one with a caption that reads “Muslim pilgrims cast stones Tuesday at a pillar, symbolizing the stoning of Satan, in a ritual called “Jamarat,” the last rite of the annual hajj in Mina near the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The first day of stoning also marks the start of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, or feast of sacrifice, when Muslims around the world slaughter sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of his son.”
The second picture shows a little girl sitting on her father’s shoulder, with her arm outstretched after she has just thrown a stone. The caption says “A Muslim child pilgrim casts stones Tuesday at a pillar in Mina, Saudi Arabia.”
There is also a new “Hometown” section in the November 17, 2010 Burlington Free Press. The Young Writers’ Project published works written by children in response to the prompts “Red” and “Grateful.” Six out of nine of the works published today are about “Red;” the children range in age from 8 to 15. Another work has the word “hang” in it.
Mater Christi School, and Rice High School have both chosen to allow pictures of their students to appear along with the ad “Vermont Meat & Seafood Market.” Mater Christi is a grade school that goes through 8th grade; they are both Catholic, private schools.
The Armed Forces are prominently featured across 4 pages, from the pictures commemorating Veteran’s Day with ads for dentists, Red Tag sales, “Pearl Palooza,” another ECHO/Leahy Center ad with a picture of a martini, and an approaching production of “The Nutcracker,” to pictures of the National Guard with an ad with a picture of a fish right in the middle.
There are more problems in today’s “Hometown” section than the ones I’ve just mentioned.
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This is what the Obama administration is going to be remembered for; it’s going to be remembered for being personally responsible for executions in Iran, for pushing to have pedophilia become socially acceptable, for the destruction not just of women’s rights but of human rights around the world, and for thoroughly abusing the power entrusted to the people in that administration by this country.
I have no children of my own; all I’ve done is protest the situation. What about all of the people who DO have children, and what about all of those children themselves; THOSE are the human beings who are being endangered, far more than I am. If I get hurt, it really will be a disaster for the Obama administration and for all who have participated in my being abused, so every day I feel less concerned about my own safety. I’m not the one who’s in the most danger; all of the people who are being directly affected by the behavior of the administration are the ones who are suffering the most, and who will continue to suffer as long as the government continues to refuse to take responsibility for its actions.
What’s going on in the workplaces of corporations such as Pepsi and Coca Cola? Is there anyone who thinks that the government’s behavior over the past 5 months isn’t changing everything in the business world? I bet that women, minorities and the disabled, just to name a few, are being abused, harassed, threatened, fired and kept from employment and other opportunities in record numbers. If not, they will be, within months from now, but I can't imagine that that isn't already happening or that life isn't becoming miserable for women with integrity and self-respect who work at places like Coca Cola.
Don't Coca Cola and Pepsi have a lot of factories outside of the United States? It's very unlikely that the working conditions in those factories have ever been held to the same standards with which even poorly run factories in the United States have to comply; what do you think is happening to women in foreign countries who work in factories run by corporations that have been part of the harassment? Do you think that their immediate bosses don't know or can't sense what corporate policy toward women is degenerating into? Who's going to know or care what happens to women who live and work in countries where women have already been afforded even fewer rights and dignities by their own governments than the rights and dignities that are being stomped on and denied to American women by our government? How many women do you think have already been coerced and abused in those kinds of places by their bosses in American-owned companies because of what's been going on in the United States? It's as if a worldwide memo has been posted by the U.S. government that instead of saying "Freedom for all" just says "Free for all."
There may not be millions of people reading my blogs, but the people who are reading my blogs have the power to make the world a different place than it’s been trying to be at least since the civil rights movement, and they will succeed; they’re the big bosses, and they will do exactly what they’ve been doing as long as the government keeps doing what it’s been doing.
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November 18, 2010 @ 7:21 a.m.
I have to question the policy that both President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama seem to have of insisting on doing things that don’t make any sense and that are bad for everyone and then firing the people who were following orders as directed, and THEN continuing to do exactly the same things as before while holding everyone but themselves responsible for the disasters that result from their insistence on getting their way when what they want to do is wrong.
How many more people are going to lose their jobs at the White House before the Obamas take responsibility for the decisions that they, the Obamas, make?
(May 16, 2011 I've removed some text that was originally here. I feel that it was here long enough to be read.)
I also can see that Bill Clinton has thrown his support full force into getting the people in Iran executed. He’s had a Google blog post up for at least two days saying that he’s going to have a cameo in the movie “Hangover 2.” It seems to me that he and Hillary Clinton work as a team that way; whenever one of them wants to look like a good guy, the other one shows that really they’re both bad guys; just as bad as everyone else.
Sometimes, Hillary Clinton doesn’t hide her own bigotry about, disrespect for, and aggression toward other women; the other night she had a blog post up about “path breaking work” being done on women’s rights in India with a big ad for a recipe made with cheddar cheese on the blog.
This morning, at 7:24 a.m., Bill Clinton also has a blog post up saying that he’s going to ban Facebook and Twitter use......
Mr. Clinton, stop threatening me. I’m a law-abiding citizen. As far as those executions are concerned, you have no right to make other people pay with their lives for your misguided ambitions; you all have enough money and power and you don’t need more.
I don't need more than 5 pictures for the slideshow; that's why I'm putting 5 pictures there. I will be very glad when "code" is no longer a part of my life; can't wait for it to be over. I have been rebelling against it a lot lately and more and more being literal.
The pictures that I've put in the above slideshow are of a typical White House blog post during the harassment phase of the Obama administration; while stating how important women are to the government, every effort is made to turn that statement into an obvious and insulting joke.
I also disagree with much of what's said at the end of the blog post, even though the person who said it didn't mean it as a joke when she said "Women tend to respond more to the personal, to the micro...."
The attitude that women cannot understand or really be interested in issues that don't revolve around them personally or that are abstract and complex IS a discriminatory attitude toward women. It is exactly that way of thinking about women in everything from business to science to the social sciences that keeps both men and women as seeing women as fully capable human beings who are worthy of respect and who have as much right to live with dignity as men do.
I wonder how anyone who has been watching this situation for the past several months could accuse any of the men who have been involved in the harassment of having had accurate perspective on issues outside of their own lives.
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November 18, 2010
On Page 4A of the November 17, 2010 Burlington Free Press, the first story is called “Pilgrims mark hajj with stoning ritual.” There are two pictures; one with a caption that reads “Muslim pilgrims cast stones Tuesday at a pillar, symbolizing the stoning of Satan, in a ritual called “Jamarat,” the last rite of the annual hajj in Mina near the Saudi holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The first day of stoning also marks the start of the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha, or feast of sacrifice, when Muslims around the world slaughter sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of his son.”
The second picture shows a little girl sitting on her father’s shoulder, with her arm outstretched after she has just thrown a stone. The caption says “A Muslim child pilgrim casts stones Tuesday at a pillar in Mina, Saudi Arabia.”
There is also a new “Hometown” section in the November 17, 2010 Burlington Free Press. The Young Writers’ Project published works written by children in response to the prompts “Red” and “Grateful.” Six out of nine of the works published today are about “Red;” the children range in age from 8 to 15. Another work has the word “hang” in it.
Mater Christi School, and Rice High School have both chosen to allow pictures of their students to appear along with the ad “Vermont Meat & Seafood Market.” Mater Christi is a grade school that goes through 8th grade; they are both Catholic, private schools.
The Armed Forces are prominently featured across 4 pages, from the pictures commemorating Veteran’s Day with ads for dentists, Red Tag sales, “Pearl Palooza,” another ECHO/Leahy Center ad with a picture of a martini, and an approaching production of “The Nutcracker,” to pictures of the National Guard with an ad with a picture of a fish right in the middle.
There are more problems in today’s “Hometown” section than the ones I’ve just mentioned.
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This is what the Obama administration is going to be remembered for; it’s going to be remembered for being personally responsible for executions in Iran, for pushing to have pedophilia become socially acceptable, for the destruction not just of women’s rights but of human rights around the world, and for thoroughly abusing the power entrusted to the people in that administration by this country.
I have no children of my own; all I’ve done is protest the situation. What about all of the people who DO have children, and what about all of those children themselves; THOSE are the human beings who are being endangered, far more than I am. If I get hurt, it really will be a disaster for the Obama administration and for all who have participated in my being abused, so every day I feel less concerned about my own safety. I’m not the one who’s in the most danger; all of the people who are being directly affected by the behavior of the administration are the ones who are suffering the most, and who will continue to suffer as long as the government continues to refuse to take responsibility for its actions.
What’s going on in the workplaces of corporations such as Pepsi and Coca Cola? Is there anyone who thinks that the government’s behavior over the past 5 months isn’t changing everything in the business world? I bet that women, minorities and the disabled, just to name a few, are being abused, harassed, threatened, fired and kept from employment and other opportunities in record numbers. If not, they will be, within months from now, but I can't imagine that that isn't already happening or that life isn't becoming miserable for women with integrity and self-respect who work at places like Coca Cola.
Don't Coca Cola and Pepsi have a lot of factories outside of the United States? It's very unlikely that the working conditions in those factories have ever been held to the same standards with which even poorly run factories in the United States have to comply; what do you think is happening to women in foreign countries who work in factories run by corporations that have been part of the harassment? Do you think that their immediate bosses don't know or can't sense what corporate policy toward women is degenerating into? Who's going to know or care what happens to women who live and work in countries where women have already been afforded even fewer rights and dignities by their own governments than the rights and dignities that are being stomped on and denied to American women by our government? How many women do you think have already been coerced and abused in those kinds of places by their bosses in American-owned companies because of what's been going on in the United States? It's as if a worldwide memo has been posted by the U.S. government that instead of saying "Freedom for all" just says "Free for all."
There may not be millions of people reading my blogs, but the people who are reading my blogs have the power to make the world a different place than it’s been trying to be at least since the civil rights movement, and they will succeed; they’re the big bosses, and they will do exactly what they’ve been doing as long as the government keeps doing what it’s been doing.
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November 18, 2010 @ 7:21 a.m.
I have to question the policy that both President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama seem to have of insisting on doing things that don’t make any sense and that are bad for everyone and then firing the people who were following orders as directed, and THEN continuing to do exactly the same things as before while holding everyone but themselves responsible for the disasters that result from their insistence on getting their way when what they want to do is wrong.
How many more people are going to lose their jobs at the White House before the Obamas take responsibility for the decisions that they, the Obamas, make?
(May 16, 2011 I've removed some text that was originally here. I feel that it was here long enough to be read.)
I also can see that Bill Clinton has thrown his support full force into getting the people in Iran executed. He’s had a Google blog post up for at least two days saying that he’s going to have a cameo in the movie “Hangover 2.” It seems to me that he and Hillary Clinton work as a team that way; whenever one of them wants to look like a good guy, the other one shows that really they’re both bad guys; just as bad as everyone else.
Sometimes, Hillary Clinton doesn’t hide her own bigotry about, disrespect for, and aggression toward other women; the other night she had a blog post up about “path breaking work” being done on women’s rights in India with a big ad for a recipe made with cheddar cheese on the blog.
This morning, at 7:24 a.m., Bill Clinton also has a blog post up saying that he’s going to ban Facebook and Twitter use......
Mr. Clinton, stop threatening me. I’m a law-abiding citizen. As far as those executions are concerned, you have no right to make other people pay with their lives for your misguided ambitions; you all have enough money and power and you don’t need more.