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Oct. 6th, 2011 01:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* RIP Steve Jobs. It is pretty much impossible to imagine what the world would be like now without him. It's not that many people in a generation you can say that about and mean it in a positive way. Whether you''re Apple or IBM, he'll be missed.
* The family of Jamey Rodemeyer, the 14 year old boy harassed to death recently has asked that people make donations in his name here: http://crisisservices.org/content/
* A poll of people with incomes of six figures or more, shows 65% want millionaires and above to pay taxes as high as everyone else's (The Buffet Rule). 67% of Republicans also want the Buffet rule. 87% of everybody else want that. Republican law makers vow to p[rotect Millionaires and billionaire's super low tax rates. after all, those who have the most should obviously pay the least since iyt's bad for the economy and the country as a whole.
* The chairman of the fed has come out in favour of occupy Wallstreet, because we need real regulation and a sane tax policy to get the economy going. Republicans continue to stand in the way of all of these things because raising the capital gains tax to the same level that the middle class pay on earnings from work and sane regulation to create economic stability constitutes "class warfare" even though not doing it looks a lot more like class warfare of the 1% against everyone else.
* As of last week, NYPD has started arresting children and reporters for trying to cover the protests. After all, a free press is dangerous to Wallstreet interests, so clearly we should treat reporters as dangerous criminals for trying to film news items.
* How is it we have all these policemen with time and inclination to randomly assault unarmed, peaceful protesters, and to arrest a couple thousand people who aren't breaking any laws, but we don't have any to arrest the folks at Bank of America who are outright stealing houses to which they are not entitled? It seems to me the criminal enterprise that is Bank of America is significantly more dangerous to society than a bunch of people standing around singing "Where Have all the Flowers Gone?". Just saying.
* "Principal Assaults H.S. Student for Pro-Gay Shirt:" http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/10/04/Principal_Assaults_HS_Student_for_ProGay_Shirt/?utm_source=feedburner
In case y'all are curious, students, while denied full free speech in matters such as commercial slogans, pro-drug slogans, alcohol or tobacco references, and the like, their right to POLITICAL speech is as absolute as it is anywhere in our society. Whether it's a peace symbol, a black arm band, or a pro LGBTQ rights slogan or symbol, it counts as protected political speech according to the supreme court. (The only political speech that can legally be abridged when it comes to slogans or symbols on student's clothes is that advokating violence. in other words: rainbow triangle? Legal right to free speech. "Kill the gays"? aAbsolutely not protected.) I suggest criminal charges for the assault against the Principal, and a civil suit against the district over the mistreatment and abridgment of rights. No school can afford to pay out big lawsuit money these days, so it's one of the best ways to force a change in staff behavior and school culture.
This sort of thing is reprehensible obviously, but it's also illegal and should be treated as exactly that.
* I was meant to run an errand and apartment hunt today. I woke up shaky and having serious trouble with my legs. all of the above are way dangerous will me in that condition, so I gave up and slept some more. I really need to get my shit together tomorrow. i had to lock the cats out again today. I came out to find vomit everywhere and my sewing machine is broken, so my attempt to do mending was an utter failure. can i have a do over on today?
* I watched nearly all of the Prohibition documentary, despite them airing it at random times on random stations. i did not get to see it in order and I missed an hour aprox out of the total of sixish. It was excellent the way Mr. Burns' work generally is. what i particularly liked about it, was that it started with early temperance movements of the 19th century, which gave it a scope and context very few other attempts to cover the same issues do. I knew a lot of the things in it, but having grown up on the east Coast, the information on the west coast trade was almost entirely new to me. How Seattle that the guy running the west coast trade was an ex-cop who managed a near monopoly of alcohol importation from Canada with hardly any violence. He said money wasn't getting killed for, and ran it like a business using bribes and contacts rather than guns to supply the whole west coast. I love the Pacific northwest. There were also a lot of details about repeal that I'd either never learned or never put together coherently, and the usual charming first hand accounts. While I have all sorts of family history accounts of major historical events that my family lived through over the centuries, my family was not much effected by Prohibition, by being mostly teetotalers, or a glass or mug with dinner types. Being quiet, head down working class types, they simply went without for the duration for the most part.
Anyway, I heartily recommend Mr. Burns' documentary if you are interested in all about American History and politics. A lot of the demonize immigrants and POc stuff behind the Christian Right's support of dry laws still continues in modern politics to this day, as does the underlying debate about the role of government in American life.
* "Yeah Herman, It's My Fault :" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/10/yeah-herman-its-my-fault.html
* "So let me make this abundantly clear once again.: It's past time we stop using the oppressor's language to describe our lives. We do not live a trans 'lifestyle', we live trans lives:"
* "An Open Letter to the Clothing Industry About Diversity:" http://www.alreadypretty.com/2011/10/an-open-letter-to-the-clothing-industry-about-diversity.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+alreadypretty+%28Already+Pretty%29
* The family of Jamey Rodemeyer, the 14 year old boy harassed to death recently has asked that people make donations in his name here: http://crisisservices.org/content/
* A poll of people with incomes of six figures or more, shows 65% want millionaires and above to pay taxes as high as everyone else's (The Buffet Rule). 67% of Republicans also want the Buffet rule. 87% of everybody else want that. Republican law makers vow to p[rotect Millionaires and billionaire's super low tax rates. after all, those who have the most should obviously pay the least since iyt's bad for the economy and the country as a whole.
* The chairman of the fed has come out in favour of occupy Wallstreet, because we need real regulation and a sane tax policy to get the economy going. Republicans continue to stand in the way of all of these things because raising the capital gains tax to the same level that the middle class pay on earnings from work and sane regulation to create economic stability constitutes "class warfare" even though not doing it looks a lot more like class warfare of the 1% against everyone else.
* As of last week, NYPD has started arresting children and reporters for trying to cover the protests. After all, a free press is dangerous to Wallstreet interests, so clearly we should treat reporters as dangerous criminals for trying to film news items.
* How is it we have all these policemen with time and inclination to randomly assault unarmed, peaceful protesters, and to arrest a couple thousand people who aren't breaking any laws, but we don't have any to arrest the folks at Bank of America who are outright stealing houses to which they are not entitled? It seems to me the criminal enterprise that is Bank of America is significantly more dangerous to society than a bunch of people standing around singing "Where Have all the Flowers Gone?". Just saying.
* "Principal Assaults H.S. Student for Pro-Gay Shirt:" http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/10/04/Principal_Assaults_HS_Student_for_ProGay_Shirt/?utm_source=feedburner
In case y'all are curious, students, while denied full free speech in matters such as commercial slogans, pro-drug slogans, alcohol or tobacco references, and the like, their right to POLITICAL speech is as absolute as it is anywhere in our society. Whether it's a peace symbol, a black arm band, or a pro LGBTQ rights slogan or symbol, it counts as protected political speech according to the supreme court. (The only political speech that can legally be abridged when it comes to slogans or symbols on student's clothes is that advokating violence. in other words: rainbow triangle? Legal right to free speech. "Kill the gays"? aAbsolutely not protected.) I suggest criminal charges for the assault against the Principal, and a civil suit against the district over the mistreatment and abridgment of rights. No school can afford to pay out big lawsuit money these days, so it's one of the best ways to force a change in staff behavior and school culture.
This sort of thing is reprehensible obviously, but it's also illegal and should be treated as exactly that.
* I was meant to run an errand and apartment hunt today. I woke up shaky and having serious trouble with my legs. all of the above are way dangerous will me in that condition, so I gave up and slept some more. I really need to get my shit together tomorrow. i had to lock the cats out again today. I came out to find vomit everywhere and my sewing machine is broken, so my attempt to do mending was an utter failure. can i have a do over on today?
* I watched nearly all of the Prohibition documentary, despite them airing it at random times on random stations. i did not get to see it in order and I missed an hour aprox out of the total of sixish. It was excellent the way Mr. Burns' work generally is. what i particularly liked about it, was that it started with early temperance movements of the 19th century, which gave it a scope and context very few other attempts to cover the same issues do. I knew a lot of the things in it, but having grown up on the east Coast, the information on the west coast trade was almost entirely new to me. How Seattle that the guy running the west coast trade was an ex-cop who managed a near monopoly of alcohol importation from Canada with hardly any violence. He said money wasn't getting killed for, and ran it like a business using bribes and contacts rather than guns to supply the whole west coast. I love the Pacific northwest. There were also a lot of details about repeal that I'd either never learned or never put together coherently, and the usual charming first hand accounts. While I have all sorts of family history accounts of major historical events that my family lived through over the centuries, my family was not much effected by Prohibition, by being mostly teetotalers, or a glass or mug with dinner types. Being quiet, head down working class types, they simply went without for the duration for the most part.
Anyway, I heartily recommend Mr. Burns' documentary if you are interested in all about American History and politics. A lot of the demonize immigrants and POc stuff behind the Christian Right's support of dry laws still continues in modern politics to this day, as does the underlying debate about the role of government in American life.
* "Yeah Herman, It's My Fault :" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2011/10/yeah-herman-its-my-fault.html
* "So let me make this abundantly clear once again.: It's past time we stop using the oppressor's language to describe our lives. We do not live a trans 'lifestyle', we live trans lives:"
* "An Open Letter to the Clothing Industry About Diversity:" http://www.alreadypretty.com/2011/10/an-open-letter-to-the-clothing-industry-about-diversity.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+alreadypretty+%28Already+Pretty%29