Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Girls for Gender Equity
girls do rule…
kinda quiet today.
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 01/17 at 11:26 AMHello Expendables...from wintry Astoria.
JOS: It’s me, you, and the crickets in here, huh?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/17 at 11:41 AMA little something for when RMJ arrives:
http://tinyurl.com/23gfgsPosted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/17 at 11:42 AMthat’s right…
here’s something from the “no shit” category:
Posted by JOS on from Oak Park 01/17 at 12:01 PMThanks for that, Mickey. You do know how to put a smile on my face. Yes, it is time to unite in support of WC./////I like the photos on the front page. I am sure that they put a smile on a lot of faces.
Hi JOS...how’s it going? It is 18 degrees here right now. There is snow to be shoveled. Over 35,000 without electricity. This time I was lucky. I never lost power.Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 01/17 at 12:07 PMJOS #4… I agree the dems will not do anything. They will continue to sit on the fence and offer non-binding resolutions and a lot of hot air but no action. Hillary says we should send more troops to Afghanistan. Her trip to Iraq produced some photo ops that can be used in her campaign. Obamamamammaamma is being portrayed as an alternative...an alternative to what? How about an immediate withdrawal of all troops and civilian contractors from all foreign bases. That would be an alternative.
I’m on my way out now. News says it is minus 5 wind chill right. If you don’t hear from me soon, send in a search team. (Just kidding. I’m tough.)
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 01/17 at 12:19 PMCold here again today, and ice all over...I’ve turned hothouse fleur and stay indoors.
I see the 2006 winner icon now, MZ. Proud of you.
RMJ, your delicate kindly self would get zero points handicap in an all-in cage fight if I was making the odds. Don’t mess with the delicate, they’ll take ya out.
I’ve been re-reading Fatherland by Robert Harris and have rwally enjoyed it. A thriller about an SS man breaking the unknown story of the Final Solution...in 1964...while President (Joe) Kennedy runs for re-election on a platform of detente with the Greater German Reich.
It’s still hard for me to imagine this book became a bestseller, because the general Murrican would be completely confused by the way the story tells things that didn’t happen just like they did happen and we’re supposed to go along with it! Bet most of ‘em who bough the book gave up a little ways in when they could no longer make the effort of imagination to picture a place that never was.
Hmmm...I seem to be both cynical and curmudgeonly today. More coffee!
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 01/17 at 12:35 PMHello again, everyone. In a futile attempt to connect all of the above to today’s main post, perhaps the girls in the GGE program will be better equipped to deal with provocative novels, overhyped candidates, and media withhunts. Whaddya think?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/17 at 12:49 PMThese girls actually rule. I’m not sure what earlier generation feminists would have made of them tho…
Posted by sk on from 01/17 at 01:07 PMI’m all for gender equity, Mickey. And that quote by John Maynard Keynes is excellent - you really have got a knack with quotes.
Hi, JOS, Rosemarie, sk and Mudge - it is early morning in Daylesford (5:45am, to be precise) but seeing I only got a few hours’sleep last night, I thought it might be better to ‘arise’ but not shine.
Be well, all you expendables!
And Rosemarie#5, the day before yesterday, a quarter of Victorians lost power but not Daylesford and surrounds - in this case, the power failure was due to the heat.
Posted by Helga Fremlin on from Daylesford, Australia 01/17 at 01:45 PMGender equity, or parity as I would say, is impossible without media savvy, MZ. The Keynes quote is applicable, I fear, to all forms and species of human interaction in hierarchical situations.
Helga, I am very glad you’re not without power when it’s 100F-plus! That’s killing heat. Austin will barely make it above freezing today, which is very weird for a city that’s on the same latitude as Cairo....
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 01/17 at 01:58 PMI like the new animated gif--
and all the articles and posts have been a pleasure to read this week, as usual.
Posted by Robert B. Livingston on from San Francisco, California 01/17 at 02:32 PMGGE Rules!: One of the crucial books I’ve read about gender, religion, and ‘civilization’ is Barbara Mor’s “The Great Cosmic Mother.” (Don’t mind the title; I understand it was a publisher override.) A combination of writing styles, she clarifies how and why feminine influences have been crushed since Western monotheism appeared. There’s lots of contemporary application, too. My only caveat is that I take a dim view of American feminism - there’s no use in replacing one dysfunctional hierarchy with another.
That said, let’s hear it for unadorned, strong, perceptive, wonderful women. A friend wrote her master’s thesis in English on how “madness” was symbolic of independent women in 19th century lit.
On my university health record, next to “race” I wrote ‘human.’
Captcha sez “led.” http://tinyurl.com/lfdbb
Posted by Zenprole on from Urth 01/17 at 02:38 PMUnder former “Liberal” PM Pierre Trudeau the federal government set up the
“Status of Women Canada, an agency which promotes gender equality”
Regarded by conservatives as a “slush fund for left leaning groups who don’t vote Conservative” the current Neo-conservative government immediately gutted funding for this agency along with other federal programs that fell under the above right wing descriptive.People wondered why they would do this when the federal government was left a near 14 billion dollar surplus in the federal budget from he previous “Liberal” government.
Unfortunately the budget surplus has long since been spent on Un-Canadian efforts such as occupying and hunting humans in Afghanistan for “Operation Enduring Freedom”.
(Since “re-branded” as a “NATO” war.)Also notably gutted - “The Court Challenges Program” which funded equality and language-rights groups to challenge federal laws.
The Neocons declared that the program cuts reflect the priorities of “working families”.
Whatever the #### that means.creepy captcha sez “program”
Posted by Youngfox on from Neocanada 01/17 at 03:40 PMIt’s surprising to me to read the words from Keynes as he himself advocated that under certain “conditions” capitalism and free enterprise can benefit all.
And, I enjoyed reading your interview, Mickey.
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Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/17 at 04:12 PMsuggestion:
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Even captcha sez: coming
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 01/17 at 04:22 PMWell if he is “the king”...
BTW: Happy B-Day Muhammad Ali!
http://tinyurl.com/yqt72fPosted by Youngfox on from y'know 01/17 at 04:29 PMHi All...I’m happy to see so many great comments and also today we are blessed with a Mudge Report here, 2 of them.
Zen #13...I, too, take a dim view of the feminism movement as it has been carried out. Many times a movement turns out to be just a lot of hype for those who are in it. Does anyone know anything about the White Ribbon Movement? I think that it might have started in Canada and is now in the news here. Sounds great on the surface but in the news last night, one of its supporters also happens to be one of the State Officials who has an official policy of mistreating women.If the dems sponsor a non-binding resolution on the war does that mean that the voters who voted for them can now call the election results non-binding. What a farce!
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 01/17 at 06:43 PMWhat do you plan to do with your 5 minutes? The big hand is on the eleven....Just 5 minutes to go....
“We foresee great peril if governments and society do not take action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and prevent further climate change” - Professor Stephen Hawking
Posted by RMJ on from Churchill 4 Prez Hdqts 01/17 at 06:54 PMWell, MZ, I don’t know about anybody else, but if I’m gonna be in a royal court, it’s gotta be the Condom King’s.
Speaking of reports...I finally have a training schedule for the new gig. I’ll train starting Wednesday next. Rah!
And not a minute before time, either. These folks have taken more than a week to get to my references, all two of them, and both of them locals. Festina lente is their motto, it would seem.
Gurg. Non-binding resolutions, faugh. War on Iraq, fie. Not one of these yahoos in Congress has clue one about what use to make of the power their constituents invested in them. The absence of a clue has, as it ever will, resulted in the presence of a lobbyist’s dream: a malleable vacuum.
I love my country, but my Government not so much.
Posted by Mudge on from Austin, Texas 01/17 at 08:14 PMIf Mickey’s the King, would you and I be Knights, or maybe arch-dukes or something?
Hi everyone, just got home, haven’t read much yet…
Posted by James on from Hell's Kitchen 01/17 at 08:39 PM
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