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They said women could never be officers as they could not command and men would never take orders from them.  But the Navy has shown this to be just another fallen shibboleth. 

The Navy's Sailor of the Year awards went to four women -- from left, Cassandra Foote, Shalanda Brewer, Samira McBride and Ingrid Cortez -- for the first time in the fleet's history. The women were also promoted to chief petty officer in a ceremony at the Navy Memorial in Washington on Thursday. (Photos By Dayna Smith For The Washington Post)

By Lisa Rein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 23, 2010

 

The submarine school in Groton, Conn., will include 19 women this year, the first group since the Navy lifted its ban on women serving on submarines.

 

On Thursday, the Navy reached another milestone, when women swept the annual Sailor of the Year awards for the first time.

 

Remember Tucker Carlson of the fabled bow-tie who kept his legs together everytime Hillary was mentioned?  Now he has come out with "proof" that the msm conspired to deprive Hillary of the nomination by suppressing stories of Reverend Wright.

Well he was one of the boyz who turned his back on our cries for help to expose Wright/Obama connection.  By our, I mean the many blogs that kept up a barrage of information to media folk like Tucker and were ignored.  Always seemed strange to me that the media boyz and girlz could read Koz and Huff Puff but could never seem to find Riverdaughter or Alegra or Partizane.

Now Tucker professes to be on the side of the angels in an appearance on FOX this morning as he said Obama stole the Primary from Hillary.  Here's a bit from his rag that he referenced.

The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”

 

UK - just change the names and it sounds much like US.

Mary Ann Sieghart: Women on top? You've got to be joking

For at least 20 years, we have been fed the line that the 'Future is Female'. But the future has always failed to materialise

 

What a depressing week it has been to be female. A psychopathically violent woman-beater and murderer is lionised. A film director who drugs and then sodomises a 13-year-old girl is let off. A famous actor tells his ex-partner she deserves to be "raped by a pack of niggers". And the Catholic Church elevates women's ordination to the same level of offence as child abuse. Thanks, chaps.

just now which urged watching the station at 9AM for revelations that BO stole election from HC.  I was too late to get the whole story - just passing on what I heard.  Couldn't find anything on google  or Drudge which usually are prompt with this kind of stuff.

This may not be the proper use of diary space but don't know where else to put it.  Just wanted to inform y'all that, at least for now this computer that got hacked by malware is now back in business and on all of the internets.

I got a backup disk of the malware program that Hamp suggested  to first run a long search for any evidence of contamination remaining.  Then I asked Gateway for help, They were polite but wanted to charge for their nerds, however they sent a long list of things I could do to find my own way out.

Nearly at the end of the list was "reset internet explorer to default settings".  When I started explorer after following the directions, I arrived, bloody but unbowed back online with my own and favorite computer.  This may come in handy to anyone else out there who has lost internet connection and can find no other cause.

It's doing it all, thanks to the router I got, wirelessly too so now I can enjoy the fresh air while using it.

With any luck, it will still function next time.  Thanks to Hamp, BJ and others for their suggestions. 

Somehow police thought a bedridden grandmother on oxygen posed a threat to their safety.

 

Police Tasered an 86-year-old disabled grandma in her bed and stepped on her oxygen hose until she couldn’t breathe, after her grandson called 911 seeking medical assistance, the woman and her grandson claim in Oklahoma City Federal Court. Though the grandson said, “Don’t Taze my granny!” an El Reno police officer told another cop to “Taser her!” and wrote in his police report that he did so because the old woman “took a more aggressive posture in her bed,” according to the complaint.

 

Lonnie Tinsley claims that he called 911 after he went to check on his grandmother, whom he found in her bed, “connected to a portable oxygen concentrator with a long hose.” She is “in marginal health, [and] takes several prescribed medications daily,” and “was unable to tell him exactly when she had taken her meds,” so, Tinsley says, he called 911 “to ask for an emergency medical technician to come to her apartment to evaluate her.”

 

It's about time this happened and it took a woman to do it. It's payback time and now a rapist can experience for himself what his rape victim feels.

 
(CNN) -- South African Dr. Sonnet Ehlers was on call one night four decades ago when a devastated rape victim walked in. Her eyes were lifeless; she was like a breathing corpse.

 

"She looked at me and said, 'If only had teeth down there,'" recalled Ehlers, who was a 20-year-old medical researcher at the time. "I promised her I'd do something to help people like her one day."

 

Forty years later, Rape-aXe was born.

A brief description of my fun and games with a take-over by, according to comcast, malware.  And a mystery to boot.  Geeks may have some interest and others may take warning.  Comcast called it malware and said it was no problem as they would get me onto a comcast tech who would "get into my computer and conduct a search and destroy mission".

Comcast provides Norton security free and also Fancast, where I was when I met my waterloo.  I'd just paused a tv show I was watching on line to answer the door. When I came back there were pop up warnings all over the screen, generally stateing that computer had been taken over by virus and click here if you want to kill it.

A year ago today, May 9th, 5 baby chicks were hatched in Iowa, flown to Vermont and had their first meal.

About a month later, a new adventure!  They got their first taste of grass in their new tractor.

Left the big house to live in their own special palace.

Took a first free run around the yard -

And enjoyed a communal sand bath - yes, there are 5 chicks in that pileup.

One needs not be a ballet lover to be wowed by the beauty, talent and impossible moves of this couple dancing a segment of Swan Lake.   www.youtube.com/watch

Below - the beast -

The scream: A radar image shows the crater of Eyjafjallajokull in southeast Iceland, which looks like the nightmarish face painted by Edvard Munch

Do you think then maybe by a year from now some Democratic Party bigwigs and money people might be whispering to each other that this arrogant Illinois guy is pulling a Jimmy Carter, constructing a disastrous....

 ...single term that teed up 12 straight years of Republican White House rule?

Well, it turns out, there is another Democrat -- another former senator, in fact -- hanging around now free of political tussles with an enhanced resume burnished on the world stage, thanks to Obama himself.

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61% now think favorably of the former senator and only 35% unfavorably, both numbers improved from the 56% and 40% she had during the Democratic National Convention in late August of 2008.

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By comparison, in the same CNN poll, 57% of Americans now think favorably of Obama, down from 78% just before his inauguration; and 41% now think unfavorably of him, more than twice his unfavorable rating of early 2009.

Clinton's numbers also beat all other both Democrats and Republicans in the new poll.

 latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/04/barack-obama-hillary-clinton-sarah-palin.html

A great voice for strong, independent women, Julia Sugarbaker, dead at 71.  Yes, her kind of woman will truly be missed.  Certainly Dixie Carter inspired many women in this role and gained the admiration of many men.

For a short video of her "defense of her sister" speech - click here

and the season - enjoy!   

March ends today but I cannot let it go without a h/t to another of the many unsung heroes we have been reading about.

Throughout the month, BJ has posted an article about women nearly every day that is well written and informative.  She has brought us light from the dark corners of the world.

My thanks to BJ, this "friend of mine that I don't even know" for all her efforts during this month to show women in a different light. 

This song seemed so appropriate and gave me my subject line.  Perhaps some of you will remember the Andrews Sisters rendition.  Here's a few lines.  You can find the rest here.

Quanta LaGusta

We're on our way (we're on our way)
Pack up your pack (pack up your pack)
And if we stay (and if we stay)
We won't come back (we won't come back)
How can we go, we haven't got a dime?
But we're goin' and we're gonna have a happy time

Cuanto la gusta, la gusta, la gusta, la gusta, la gusta, la gusta, la gusta
Cuanto la gusta, la gusta, la gusta, la gusta, la gusta, la gusta

Sunday, March 28, 2010
Iceland Leads World in Gender Equality. US Ranks #31.

 

 

 Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden and New Zealand 'lead the world in gender equality,' according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap report released by Switzerland's World Economic Forum:

 

[T]he land of glaciers and puffins, population 319,000, is the most gender egalitarian country on earth, with women having closed 80 percent of the gap with men. Finland (2), Norway (3), Sweden (4) and Denmark (7) are in the top ten too, as is New Zealand (5). You could try harder, Spain (17) and Germany (12) — in 2007 you were in the top ten. And O, Canada: 25. Very sad.

  

A Guest comment:
 
Iceland's ranking is so high because the women of Iceland stuck together and went on strike a few years ago. Changes were made.

guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/

or some real, thinking, neat, intelligent people responsible?  Perhaps baby steps but when more women learn to hear how they are thought of, progress may follow.  Sadly now most women support the status quo. 

God Bless A&E TV: they bleeped out the B word from Criminal Minds!
Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 11:50 pm — admin

Folks, tonight we have something to celebrate! I am ecstatic! I got home around 7:45ish, flipped on the tube as I nuked a frozen thing to eat and started to watch a rerun of Criminal Minds on A&E. Now, get ready to toss your hats in the air Mary Tyler Moore fashion: A&E bleeped out the B word!!!!!!!!!! Not once but twice! At first I though my ears had deceived me: "son of a eeeP," ,but then again it came: a bleep as a thug was ranting B word against a woman..."that eep deserved it." I felt something amazing wash over me: respect. A network on television has made the decision to cancel out the B word from society and send a message to humans everywhere: women deserve the same respect that we afford to other humans.

More here - coments are great too.

There has to be at least one skunk at the picnic so while all the joyous shouts go out about how far women have come and how things are getting better, I raise my virtual tail and spray some reality.

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ‘ulterior motive’ … She knew what the Nazi’s plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants.

Rest of the story here.  deadenders.wordpress.com/

Coming, as it were, from people who are not terribly well thought of.  Much of it in agreement with what I've read on this blog.

I found it funny, engaging and erudite - far from the usual news media roundtables.  Loved the Star Trek references - so true and they didn't dump on Clinton - refreshing.

Bill Maher's Real Time panel discusses the apparent inability of Obama and the Democrats to stand and fight for anything, or get anything done. Maher's show returned to HBO last night. The panel: Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, MSNBC Washington Correspondent Norah O'Donnell, and "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane.
 

What are you looking forward to as news that will saturate the weekend -- or NOT.

To start off, Here are a couple that caught my attention:

1. I love golf - used to play it when I was working and could afford it.  I especially love to watch the Tiger.  Now, as the world knows, he is under a cloud and will be making a stab at getting back to doing what he does so well by addressing the media.

Considering that most think his only crime was getting caught, that boyz will be boyz, it is doubtful that he will have to walk the greens with a huge A on his chest.  Great!  I care very little about his personal life.  Up with the game and down with the very unwise cracks.  You won't need a link for this, it will be all over the place.

2. I really do not expect to hear much about this alleged mass murderer because allegedly he didn't kill any of the elite - just his wife and child.  However, I will search for a massive media presentation of the same caliber we've experienced recently.

I just read what reporters write to sell papers etc. 

Below are links to just a few reports of recent shootings by one person of people "who deserved to live". 

I find the Perps all rather similar in the way they are reported, except for one.  Dispassionate reporting of the many vs unbridled hatred of the one.

That one being a woman. 

Student evaluation of Professor Amy Bishop

Scorecard: [out of a possible 4]
No. of Ratings: 34 - Average Easiness: 2.3 - Average Helpfulness: 3.7 - Average Clarity: 3.4 - Hotness Total: 0 - Overall Quality: 3.6

www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp

www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/19/virginia-shooting-multipl_n_428818.html

www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/03/binghamton.shooting/index.html#cnnSTCPhoto

Montpelier, VT: Valentine's Day                                            

Who papers the town in red hearts?
by Caroline Abels

As a newcomer to Montpelier, Vermont, I've often wondered why no one has stood on Main Street during the night before Valentine's Day to find out who the city's mysterious Valentine Phantom really is.

For the past seven years, he, or she--or they?--has crept around the state capital in the dark, taping thousands of red paper hearts to the windows of stores and homes. In the morning, residents wake up to wonder whether they've been "hearted" and marvel at how their humble downtown has been transformed into a street from Candy Land.

What if I hid behind a snowy lamppost at midnight this year to see who's behind all this joy? It'd be like Christmas Eve when I was 6, staying awake to catch a glimpse of Santa. But when I asked my neighbor Wendy to join me, she insisted that she likes not knowing who the phantom is. And when I asked Montpelier's mayor, Mary Hooper, why no one has revealed the Phantom's identity, she talked about people's delight in "having a secret admirer."

But the Phantom admires everyone, doling out hearts to anyone with a window and turning Valentine's Day into a holiday that everybody can enjoy, not just people with a date or a wedding ring. Maybe that's all I need to know about our Phantom, who brings equity to the least equitable of holidays. So perhaps I'll just sleep through Valentine's Eve this year, and hope I'm "hearted" by morning.

www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/2009-01/travel/valentines-day-phantom

as opposed to a talker - one who talks -

www.youtube.com/watch

"Send the men home" -  said Rep. Shea-Porter.  It's about time someone said this.

"We go to the ladies room and the Republican women and the Democratic women and we just roll our eyes," she said. "And the Republican women said when we were fighting over the healthcare bill, if we sent the men home..." at which point she was interrupted by loud applause.  guerillawomentn.blogspot.com/

You can see and hear thisbrave and intelligent woman by clicking on - HERE:

Just wish more of them would speak out like this instead of blindly following behind the idiot, male dominated congress.

HooRah!  Rep. Shea-Porter!

THIS BLAST FROM THE PAST could be said about his entire first year in office.  Go Hillary!

h/t - Alegre