A Quick Rant About Rush

Gender specific insults denote low IQ and history of sexual rejection. In short, it makes you an ASSHAT! A gender neutral asshat. The “Rush” issue and the original Church and State issue in this case have been horrifically intertwined when they are in fact completely separate issues.

1960 called, they want their politics back

A few of the most obvious conflated policy questions I see as obvious:

1. Should preventative care be covered for men and women free of charge under our new health care regulations?

2. Should religious institutions with employee health care benefits also have to abide by the new healthcare regulations regardless of the institutions religious dogma?

3. Should our culture passively endorse an attitude which analyzes the content of a woman’s testimony relative to her sexual behavior, and then further reduces her to a vessel for men to transact with sexually?

These are completely independent issues that have been insidiously enmeshed and given a thick coat of cultural shenanigans. To make any rational intelligent case for one position or the other, these issues need to be looked at independently.

Just my 2 cents.

~The Vault

Anonymous Is Ready to Party-Declares Ohio Occupy Festival: Enagaged

The group known as Anonymous has selected one of the longest standing continuous Occupations in the US for a gathering the week before the G8 in Chicago this Spring.

Which Occupy is this you ask? You’ll never guess… Cleveland, Ohio.

That’s right, Cleveland, home of the Browns, the Rock Hall of Fame, and weather bad enough to rival Buffalo, is also the home of one of the longest continuously Occupied Occupy encampments in the United States.

Ohio’s newest claim to fame appears in this video by the group “Anonymous” that surfaced on Social Media late Friday evening with the cryptic lettering “A28-M5CLE“.

A28-M5CLE seems to refer to the dates of an Occupy Cleveland Street Festival starting April 28th. I’m not sure if Occupy Cleveland planned on hosting Anonymous Party Crashers, but for a town that boasts of it’s own “Factory of Sadness”, I can definitely see an Anonymous/Occupy Street Festival being just the ticket to lift Ohio’s spirits. And in Rock and Roll style if history is any indication.

And the political Junkie in me is well aware of the implications for the Occupy movement.

Ohio is shaping up to be the swing state to end all swing states this year, crawling with candidates and the media trail that accompanies them. If you ask me Cleveland has an opportunity to put on one heck of a Festival (Wonder if they’ll have a burning man?) and really create an amazing, inspirational, non-violent, community Festival showcasing Occupy Cleveland.

I certainly hope so, for Ohio’s sake. But I will at least say this, The Anonymous video is certainly a better “tourism promotion” than this Cleveland gem ;D

What do you think? Will it be a beautiful festival of love and community? Will you stop by?
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Up With Chris Hayes – Culture Wars Video 2/11/12

Does birth control matter to you? Have a socially progressive pet issue? Chances are it’s covered in this weeks Up With Chris Hayes.

1960 called, they want their politics back

Most of my regular readers know I watch every weekend (DVR and online baby! I like to get my beauty-sleep!) and I’m never dissapointed by the dissection discussion. It mimics the feel of coffee with friends after college classes. When all the nerds   my friends and I would gather to add to our professors latest insight, or have a running commentary on the economic impact of default student loans over cheap beer at Becky’s.

Long story short, I dig it. What can I say? I’m a fan.

I’ve read a few books based on show guests, and I haven’t been dissapointed yet.

Baratunde Thurston’s How to Be Black was drop dead hilarious.  I listened to it through my audible account while insomnia/packing and guffawed rather loudly a number of times. I was able to grin while packing (no easy feat) and learn a few things along the way, and according to How to be Black I’m well on my way to cafe au lait. (Happy February, lol, Wink Wink @baratunde )

Next on my list is Going Solo by one of Saturday’s guests, Eric Kinenberg.  He sold me when he commented on our culture’s conflation of “Living alone, being alone, and being lonely” .
Huzzah sir, you’re right on point!

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Going Solo- Kindle Edition

–> CAN.NOT.WAIT. For Melissa Harris-Perry’s show next week. She nailed her analysis of marriage, religious controls,  and women’s control of their fertility! She’s such a smarty pants!

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Breaking News: Prop 8 Ruling – Full Text

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Breaking- California Appeals Court rules Prop 8 UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

The court’s website crashed almost immediately after the announcement was made. Coming through as always is the delightful Rachel Maddow, who made this copy available through the Maddow Blog. 

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Maher tells Occupiers to Get a Job

Maher says he find himself “almost in agreement with Newt Gingrich” and tells them to “get a job.”

He has a bit of a point. Throwing a chair through window… That’s more Kristallnacht than revolutionary imo.

 

The groups in heavy media rotation right now are not the basic “Occupier”, the kids with shields, etc are not regular Occupiers, they are a group of Anarchists referred to as Black Block (or more accurately, Black bloc)

Remember when the media was saying all the Tea Partiers are racists and used images of white supremacists etc. at rallies while ignoring the majority?

Tea Party Racism

The mainstream media showed the more racially motivated signage people made, and the minority of Tea Partiers who happened to be racists. A more militant and fringe element was used to paint the entire movement.

I know a number of Tea Party peeps who really bristled at the media’s willingness to lump them together and sell them as a package deal.

I tend to share those feelings when I see media paint the entire Nationwide (Worldwide) Occupy movement with the anarchy brush.

The 2 groups are not mutually exclusive, but painting the anarchists as representative of the whole is inaccurate. Bill should know better.

Damn Strait Romney, We Are the Interrupters! (Video)

Mitt Romney – Mic Checked at Ormond Beach, January 22, 2012.

Mic checked at a rally in Florida, Mitt Romney was “interrupted” with shouts of

“Corporations are not people, We are the people. USA USA USA USA USA USA “

His response, delivered with a furrowed brow, was followed by the trademark Awkward slimey Romney smile, although it was drowned out by the chants of the OWS crowd shouting USA! USA!

“Actually, these are the people…These are the people, you’re the interrupters!…We believe in the Constitution. We believe in the right to speech. And you believe in interrupting. Take a hike!”

Although he surely meant it as an insult, snapping at the OWS protesters “You believe in interrupting” was anything but.

I must say I take that as a compliment.

Isn’t an interruption a good thing from time to time?  

I assert that OWS is attempting to interrupt a runaway train.

Not just the runaway train of GOP idiocy, but the runaway train called America,we’ve all been chained to, seemingly hijacked by the corporate elite from which Romney has emerged. (Swamp thing visual)

In any event, I can’t wait for Romney to come to Ohio in March. (muahhahaha)

Make way for the interrupters Mittens, their voice will only grow louder!

Up With Chris Hayes (Video) Jan. 21, 2012

Chris Hayes

Great show. Probably the best intellectual conversations on MSM today. I was raised on “Crossfire” every night, imo, nothing stimulates the grey matter like defending your position against valid critiques. ♥ it!

Enjoy!

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The Point (Video) Cenk Uygur

Points from Katrina Vanden Heuvel (The Nation Magazine) on Citizens United, Congressional candidate Norman Solomon on a financial transaction tax, and 13-year-old ‘Astrorice’ on ‘slut shaming‘ are discussed by Jessica Levinson (professor, Loyola Law School and blogger at Huffington Post), James Poulos (The Daily Caller and Richochet.com), Rick Ungar (Forbes and Washington Monthly) and Cenk Uygur (host, The Young Turks).

#MegaUpload Retaliation by Anonymous (Video)

Barrett Brown discusses today’s Anonymous attack, #OperationMegaUpload IMO, the timing of taking down mega-upload stinks of a trap, but that might just be my inner conspiracy theorist talking.  (Reading too much Hunger Games makes one paranoid)

If you don’t know what I’m talking about regarding timing, or if you think SOPA is Spanish for either soap or soup, you should checkout this video.