The ghosts of Sherlock Holmes and Phyllis Diller pass around a street corner in Washington DC and meet a woman of critical intellectual mass... (posted earlier, edited 3/17)
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Jervon Hicks, a life coach for CRED, said that African American kids were dying by murder, by gunfire in Roseland, Chicago, at such a brutal rate that in order to view dead friends he'd need a “drive-thru mortuary.” 3/10 - C-Span “Jan 1, 2018 - Chicago police count fewer murders in 2017, but still 650 people were killed. ... Chicago saw nearly a 16% decline in murders in 2017 from the previous year, according to statistics released in the early hours of New Year's Day.” - CNN “Chicago CRED (Creating Real Economic Destiny) was created in 2016 by Emerson Collective, a social impact organization founded and run by Laurene Powell Jobs, along with former U.S. Education Secretary and Chicago Public Schools CEO Arne Duncan.” Wendy Jones and Roger Jones run CRED's Youth Peace Center.* – Chicago Cred/ * Emerson Collective Please see Carbuncle Moon post of 10/12/17: The Northern Ireland Effect... Please give to the NAACP: 4805 Mt. Hope Drive/ Baltimore, Maryland 21215/ 410-580-5777/ and: The Police Protective Fund: P.O. 1084/ Schenectady, New York, New York 72301/ 877-343-2477 Lilith, Adam's first wife, was made from the same stuff as Adam and in the image of God. Later, possibly, slandered by a second wife, or her ex-husband wanted to get even about the Garden of Eden fiasco (which he blamed on Lilith and not the second wife), and so, um, over time, she was called, ah, er, a demon by the uninformed or, uh, by liars. (a version posted earlier/ edited 3/18 & 5/13)
a version posted: 10/20/2017: “Intangible captivity: The potential for a new Canadian criminal defense of brainwashing and its implications for the battered woman”: The self-defense argument that might entail violence in response to brainwashing to eliminate self, belief, intellect, sense of right and wrong, inflicted by the cruel actions of a sexual predator by psychological and physical torture. The psychological destruction of a sense of being and the brainwashing and terrorism that, “Evokes fears of losing self-control, of being used and dominated by another, and of losing one’s very identity.” - Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice: Beyond the Canadian definitions of "intangible captivity" there are forms of electronic hypnosis, conditioning, and brainwashing that achieve the same results in a victim: the destruction of self, a sense of being and free will… Where does the crime of psychological attack and its response lose its responsibility for reaction from a victim and the acts of a victim to then become the result of criminal behavior by the victim, and not the behavior created by brainwashing, torture, conditioning, and psychological training? Please see: Electronic Friggin Banshees in the short story section of this blog. posted earlier...
Yesterday was International Women's Day. - Google a version posted: 11/4/2016 (this version edited 3/18/18):
19.3 million women and 5.1 million men have been stalked in their lifetime... 1 in 5 women and 1 in 71 men are raped in their lifetime... - National Coalition Against Domestic Violence/ National Sexual Violence Resource Center Approximately 85 percent of domestic violence victims are women... 15 percent are men... Approximately 32,000 women will be "impregnated against their will" by rape yearly... In 31 states: "rapists can sue for custody and visitation" rights... A woman's chance of being raped in a U.S. college is 1 in 4... A Native American woman's chance of being raped is 1 in 3... 3 women are killed in the U.S. by intimate male (ex-) partners a day... - Huffington Post added: 11/17/16: "One in 9 girls and 1 in 53 boys under the age of 18 experience sexual abuse or assault at the hands of an adult." "From 2009-2013, Child Protective Services agencies substantiated, or found strong evidence to indicate that, 63,000 children a year were victims of sexual abuse." - RAINN/Abuse and Incest National Network Please give to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence/ One Broadway, Suite 210/ Denver, Colorado, 80203/ 303-839-1852 “I’m gunna become a lesbian, and, uh, join a crew -- of ten -- lesbians going to the Planet Uterus -- but I’ll be the only one with a penis.” (posted earlier) A feminist.
(posted earlier) Ms. McTavish
By Kevin O’Kendley (2013) Darlene McTavish jumped in a cab: her twenty-two-year-old Harley was in the shop, she’d dropped it on an icy corner a week earlier, fortunately she hadn’t been injured but the bike had been pounded. When the taxi glided to a stop in front of FitzGerald’s Grocery Emporium the cabbie said: "Six smackeroos." To Darlene's surprise the meter was double-jointed or two-faced showing separate prices for males and females. The fare for women was $6.00 and the ticket for guys, $4.62. Darlene grumbled: "What the? Where in the Constitution does it"-- “Ahem. Pardon me? That’s just the way it’s always been,” inscrutable with hoodie eyes the cabbie explained briskly, “ask anyone, missy." Missy? Darlene took a deep breath, a brilliant calming technique learned from her YWCA Lamaze lessons. Though mystified as to why it was cheaper for a man to ride in a cab than a woman Darlene still shelled out a fair tip: two bucks. Inside Fitzy’s it was the same thing, the same inflammatory mystery lurked behind every price tag: milk was $4.00 for women and $3.08 for men, coffee $7.00 for women and $5.39 for men, and then the kicker, the final flipping insult, Tampons were $5.00 for women and $3.85 for men! Tampons?! Ahhhhh-- Despite being outraged -- her little clam shell ears were fire-engine red (a real warning sign) -- Darlene gently -- breathing in and out -- asked the mustachioed cashier with the pug-lumpy face, "What's going on? Y’know this is unfair -- un-American. It's flat out wrong." The cashier shrugged, and said with no small kindness, "Sorry, ma'm, but on the average women make seventy-seven cents for every buck a man makes in this country -- you do the math." -end- Edited 3/5: In 1923, Alice Paul and (Crystal Eastman)* "drafted and began campaigning for the ratification of an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)" for women. In 1958, Dwight Eisenhower became the first president to endorse the amendment. Though, over the years, the Equal Rights Amendment has come close to ratification it remains unratified to this day. - source: The Smithsonian's History of America in 101 Objects by Richard Kurin/ * Wikipedia Ivanka Trump might be able to get this amendment through the White House, and on to Congress... It will take 38 states to sign the amendment, to give women Constitutional equal rights under the law, including equal pay in the work place... - a source: Roberta W. Francis, ERA Education Consultant, Alice Paul Institute Founding Chair, ERA Task Force, National Council of Women’s Organizations "You know, um, what Kim Jong Oooon or any other friggin dude does in the privacy of her or his home is her, uh, his business however for the sake of anecdotal story telling we’ll describe a situation wherein, uh, after being rebuffed by his wife, Jennifer Lopez -- repeatedly -- Kim Jong Oooon had a lascivious dream, and, uh, in the dream he was that movie star, ah, Zach Galifianakis, a guy Oooon’s wife’s crazy about. However, durin a subsequent rigorous act of dream love with Kim Jong Oooon as Mr. Galifianakis, er, Oooon’s wife cried out, ‘OOOoooon. OOOoooon. Oooooon my love’ -- 'I knew it,' ol Kim Jong Oooon says, 'Even though she was with Zach Galifianakis she called my name.' Of course Oooon is now emboldened and, ah, gains some small measure of comfort. That night Kim Jong Oooon goes after Jennifer Lopez. He’s standing by the bed, wearin -- well we don’t want to know what he’s wearin -- he smiles seductively and suggestively at his, um, mate of many many years. Well, fellas: Jennifer Lopez took one look at her husband, knew exactly what he wanted and said, ‘You must be dreaming.'”
Please support the National Organization for Women: 1100 H Street NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20005/ 202-628-8669 This is Women's History Month: The year women achieved the right to vote in the following countries: 1893 New Zealand (the first country to give women the right to vote) 1902 Australia 1906 Finland 1913 Norway 1915 Denmark 1917 Canada 1918 Austria, Germany, Poland, Russia 1919 Netherlands 1920 United States 1921 Sweden 1928 Britain, Ireland 1931 Spain 1934 Turkey 1944 France 1945 Italy 1947 Argentina, Japan, Mexico, Pakistan 1949 China 1950 India 1954 Colombia 1957 Malaysia, Zimbabwe 1962 Algeria 1963 Iran, Morocco 1967 Ecuador 1971 Switzerland 1972 Bangladesh 1974 Jordan 1976 Portugal 1989 Namibia 1990 Western Samoa 1993 Kazakhstan, Moldova 1994 South Africa 2005 Kuwait 2006 United Arab Emirates 2011 Saudi Arabia - infoplease Women's History Month, 2018, begins on Thursday, March 1, and ends on Saturday, March 31. - Google “A govmint statistician figured if he took his clothes off and a woman wouldn’t honk his, uh, male appendage she was a lesbian -- So, lissen -- lissen -- he determines that 51% of the town adults are lesbians, including his wife. So, ah, the gross exposure and lack of adequate stimuli of the, uh, specific subject brought about conclusions that were predicated on faulty criteria. The conclusions were accurate within the context of the, uh, the vehicle of judgment, the man with the, ah, misguided and misinformed wee wee. However in truth the statistician’s findings proved only that the women of the town had good sense, including the guy’s wife. Thusly, 51% of the population of the town adults were sensible, which in a small way was a comment on the remaining 49% -- y’know if you believe in statistics that is.”
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