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Dec. 1st, 2011 12:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* Accuser number one in the Sandusky Penn State child rape has had to leave his High School because so many pro-paedophilia bullies were blaming him for Sandusky's firing. Pro-paedophilia teachers would not do anything to help, presumably. (Why else would teachers opt to protect bullies instead of a rape survivor unless they are pro-rape?) I do not understand why there are so many proudly pro-child rape people in that part of Pennsylvania, but I think it is a national shame.
* Police cracked down on protesters in LA and Philly last night. In LA, they destroyed tents, just like in NY. In Phoenix, police pepper sprayed peaceful, unarmed, and unresisting marchers. Mayor Bloomberg of NY was boasting about having his own personal army, the sixth largest in the world. That man creeps me the fuck out. Police in Montreal branded protesters with invisible ink last Friday without the consent of those they did it too.
* Here in Washington, it is written right into the Constitution that the legislature must fully fund education. Long time readers of this blog will remember that a couple of years ago, Governor Gregoire and the legislature decided that constitutional provision no longer applied. Not surprisingly, folks sued to have the constitution enforced. The courts found for those suing. The state government is ignoring the ruling illegally. Today in Seattle, high school teachers and students walked out and held a protest demanding their constitutionally protected funding. A bunch of folks were arrested for demanding the court order and the Washington state constitution be enforced. My bet is that the State government will continue to thumb their noses at the rule of law in this state.
* Michelle Bachmann has demanded that we close the American Embassy in Tehran that has been closed since the hostage crisis of my childhood. *facepalm*
* We closed out the apartment today. The wonderful vacuum cleaner repair folks actually called with the news the vaccuum was ready in the morning (Under budget, I might add, and two days early), so Squirrel retrieved it. I did woodwork and recycling while Greenwick worked more on the kitchen until the vaccuum came. Then Squirrel took some stuff to good will while Greenwick and I worked on the carpet. The last stuff got pulled out, and they took it home while I closed us out with the landlord. I was going to flea fog just in case, but by then it was dark, I was hungry and shaky, and way too tired to figure out the directions.
I will never have to enter the mold factory again. Yay!
I still haven't food my damned router, though a number of other key items have turned up. Without I router, I can't get into one of my email accounts and some key sites I normally read. I am getting close to catching up on lj, but there's this whole other collection of things I haven't dealt with since mid month. *sigh* Tomorrow I focus on key phone calls and a long list of institutions needing my new address. I've been steadily chipping away at the unpacking, though until today, the replacement rate had been approximately the rate of removal. From here on, the progress will be more visible.
Thanks again to Greenwick for invaluable help without which we couldn't manage. 1000 points to Slytherin.
* "Beware! Peruvian mayor warns tap water causes homosexuality:" http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/11/beware-peruvian-mayor-warns-tap-water-causes-homosexuality/
* "The President On LGBTQ Rights:" http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1033117.html
I've said before, that sure, I'd like more, but we got vastly more than I expected regardless of who won the last Democratic primary and general election. No President ever before this has done even close to as much as President Obama has done for us. Yes, only a handful of these things are headline grabbing, but the list of things that make a big, but less glamorous difference in the everyday lives of Quiltbag folks is extensive and genuinely moving. I love that for once, trans folk were not thrown under the bus, and the policy stuff effecting us make things like job search, housing, and travel safer for ordinary trans folk. These are not things that make the news, but they make all the difference in this economy.
Do I still want Marriage equality, the right to pee is safety, the right to emergency medical care if I'm in a car accident, etc.? Hell yes, but that doesn't mean I'm not grateful as fuck for all the other things we got. The sort of things on that list that really only the groups effected generally know about tells me that President Obama must have asked actual LGBT folk what sorts of things they needed to make day to day life easier and safer. It shows me he listened and really thought about those policy changes. It shows me that he actually cared about doing the right thing, because most of those changes, he will generally not get credit for, especially in the straight media.
Thank you, Mr. President, for doing so much to genuinely help when you didn't have to.
* A heart warming, hopeful thing: http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1032856.html
* This is why from Sophomore year on, I always had a single: http://xkcd.com/983/
* Herbivores: http://mock-the-stupid.livejournal.com/3306673.html?style=mine
When I was teaching, I frequently got the question, "If a human is a vegetarian, does that make them a herbivore?" Given the age and level of brain development, this is a perfectly reasonable question. The difference between capacity to eat both meat and plants and the choice to only eat one of those is not all that obvious, and as people starting to develop formal operational thinking, parsing rules into more complex detail is a healthy and normal activity.
Adults without some serious form of intellectual challenge or Autism Spectrum Disorder (in some cases this can make generalization difficult) unable to grasp that multiple types of rhino are still going to be herbivores.... yeah.
* I never thought I'd write this sentence here or anywhere else, but: You can see Southern Sheriffs actually Doing the Right and Ethical thing here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/45503111#45503111
* Police cracked down on protesters in LA and Philly last night. In LA, they destroyed tents, just like in NY. In Phoenix, police pepper sprayed peaceful, unarmed, and unresisting marchers. Mayor Bloomberg of NY was boasting about having his own personal army, the sixth largest in the world. That man creeps me the fuck out. Police in Montreal branded protesters with invisible ink last Friday without the consent of those they did it too.
* Here in Washington, it is written right into the Constitution that the legislature must fully fund education. Long time readers of this blog will remember that a couple of years ago, Governor Gregoire and the legislature decided that constitutional provision no longer applied. Not surprisingly, folks sued to have the constitution enforced. The courts found for those suing. The state government is ignoring the ruling illegally. Today in Seattle, high school teachers and students walked out and held a protest demanding their constitutionally protected funding. A bunch of folks were arrested for demanding the court order and the Washington state constitution be enforced. My bet is that the State government will continue to thumb their noses at the rule of law in this state.
* Michelle Bachmann has demanded that we close the American Embassy in Tehran that has been closed since the hostage crisis of my childhood. *facepalm*
* We closed out the apartment today. The wonderful vacuum cleaner repair folks actually called with the news the vaccuum was ready in the morning (Under budget, I might add, and two days early), so Squirrel retrieved it. I did woodwork and recycling while Greenwick worked more on the kitchen until the vaccuum came. Then Squirrel took some stuff to good will while Greenwick and I worked on the carpet. The last stuff got pulled out, and they took it home while I closed us out with the landlord. I was going to flea fog just in case, but by then it was dark, I was hungry and shaky, and way too tired to figure out the directions.
I will never have to enter the mold factory again. Yay!
I still haven't food my damned router, though a number of other key items have turned up. Without I router, I can't get into one of my email accounts and some key sites I normally read. I am getting close to catching up on lj, but there's this whole other collection of things I haven't dealt with since mid month. *sigh* Tomorrow I focus on key phone calls and a long list of institutions needing my new address. I've been steadily chipping away at the unpacking, though until today, the replacement rate had been approximately the rate of removal. From here on, the progress will be more visible.
Thanks again to Greenwick for invaluable help without which we couldn't manage. 1000 points to Slytherin.
* "Beware! Peruvian mayor warns tap water causes homosexuality:" http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2011/11/beware-peruvian-mayor-warns-tap-water-causes-homosexuality/
* "The President On LGBTQ Rights:" http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1033117.html
I've said before, that sure, I'd like more, but we got vastly more than I expected regardless of who won the last Democratic primary and general election. No President ever before this has done even close to as much as President Obama has done for us. Yes, only a handful of these things are headline grabbing, but the list of things that make a big, but less glamorous difference in the everyday lives of Quiltbag folks is extensive and genuinely moving. I love that for once, trans folk were not thrown under the bus, and the policy stuff effecting us make things like job search, housing, and travel safer for ordinary trans folk. These are not things that make the news, but they make all the difference in this economy.
Do I still want Marriage equality, the right to pee is safety, the right to emergency medical care if I'm in a car accident, etc.? Hell yes, but that doesn't mean I'm not grateful as fuck for all the other things we got. The sort of things on that list that really only the groups effected generally know about tells me that President Obama must have asked actual LGBT folk what sorts of things they needed to make day to day life easier and safer. It shows me he listened and really thought about those policy changes. It shows me that he actually cared about doing the right thing, because most of those changes, he will generally not get credit for, especially in the straight media.
Thank you, Mr. President, for doing so much to genuinely help when you didn't have to.
* A heart warming, hopeful thing: http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1032856.html
* This is why from Sophomore year on, I always had a single: http://xkcd.com/983/
* Herbivores: http://mock-the-stupid.livejournal.com/3306673.html?style=mine
When I was teaching, I frequently got the question, "If a human is a vegetarian, does that make them a herbivore?" Given the age and level of brain development, this is a perfectly reasonable question. The difference between capacity to eat both meat and plants and the choice to only eat one of those is not all that obvious, and as people starting to develop formal operational thinking, parsing rules into more complex detail is a healthy and normal activity.
Adults without some serious form of intellectual challenge or Autism Spectrum Disorder (in some cases this can make generalization difficult) unable to grasp that multiple types of rhino are still going to be herbivores.... yeah.
* I never thought I'd write this sentence here or anywhere else, but: You can see Southern Sheriffs actually Doing the Right and Ethical thing here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/45503111#45503111
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