A River's water of thoughts

In my long rant of my life and why I suck, I mentioned I was having issues with my degree program plan.

Here is my letter to the the director of the Publishing Program and currently my boss (Independent Study/Internship in publishing).

( reasons why I should be allowed into the Master of Science in Publishing program )

So do you think I made my case?

Mom thinks that I should be a writer writing novels because of how good this and other papers I've written are.

BUZZ: Daniel Radcliffe Plays a Pothead?

Under the headline "Harry Pothead", Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe's mug is splashed across Friday's front page of a British tabloid – showing him in what can only be described as high-spirited party mode.

In the blurry photo, the actor is smoking what the Daily Mirror describes as a "spliff."

But Radcliffe's rep insists he's not smoking what the paper says he's smoking. "We categorically deny the allegations regarding Daniel Radcliffe published in today's Daily Mirror," the rep tells PEOPLE. "Daniel does smoke the occasional roll-up cigarette, but he was not doing anything more than this. We are considering our position and will be taking all necessary action in relation to such allegations."

The photo of the bleary-eyed Radcliffe, 20, also show him with an elaborate, elongated mustache painted on his face.

Party pal Wadia Tazi, 26, tells the Mirror: "Daniel was laughing and seemed to find it funny. But he didn't really look like he knew what was going on."

The paper says the party took place in a North London high-rise and was hosted by a friend of Radcliffe's sometimes girlfriend, actress Laura O'Toole.

Daily Mirror's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stoned

My car is trying to kill me.

My car is an oldsmobile alero and unlike the Toyotas there is no recall on it.

However, yesterday my mom was driving it and the accelerator got stuck. She put it into neutral and pulled off to the side and was able to drive it home.

I got in it and the fucker revved up to 2rpm while I was in PARK and then when I slammed on the brake it didn't get below 1rpm. I was luckily still in park and thus hadn't crashed into anything.

I turned off the car and came in and told my mom. She test drove it. It was fine. I got into the van (that still has the desk I went to College Station and picked up in August) the shocks are shot on the fan so I have to take it easy. As I got in I noticed that the top to the desk is falling apart and as I was driving it down the driveway it got worse.

This on top off all the other shit going on (i.e. my mental break down and virtual cry a few hours earlier) and the fact I can't take the truck because the inside lights don't work and you don't know how fast you are going, I decided 'fuck it' this this is an omen.

All this bad shit.

I'm not going to go class in which all we are doing is work I can do from home. Fuck it.

So I sent off an e-mail informing my professor of what happened. I might have a used a bit of hyperbole in order to make the situation sound a little more worse.

Oh btw, my car is still smelling like gas. So we know I have a leak somewhere but we can't find out where! In addition to my cruise control and various shorts in my car.

In other words, my car is trying to kill me.

p.s. Mom informs me it did not happen when she was driving but when she was moving the car from drive to neutral to park in the driveway as she was parking it.

Oh well.

I still think my car is trying to kill me.

And thus, tomorrow, on my great 26th birthday, I will driving my car to the mechanic's.

This is real life stuff and for those of who read this or care to read this journal anymore, I thought I should just let you know.

So I'm cutting this.

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I posted this at ontd_p and I got many a horror scream from women who didn't know this actually existed and is something they should KNOW about.

I think we have finally found the female version of a ball kicker story.

Woman's Health Horror: 'My Vagina Fell Out' (November 06, 2009 - Sphere.com - Buck Wolf)

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Thoughts?

I warn you it's a bit graphic and you will scream in horror

A way to prevent ending up like the lady above is kegel exercises and GOING TO YOUR GODAMN DOCTOR WHEN THINGS ARE AMISS!

http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/4543801.html
http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/4544200.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/05/texas.fort.hood.shootings/index.html

It's horrible.

Fort Hood is home to about 60,000 people. It is about the size of a city. It is the world's largest military base.

It happened in the solider readiness center which is the area where soliders get the last medical check-up before shipping out and coming in.

CNN is saying that ABC out of Waco (which is near Kileen) said the shooters named is major Malique Nadal Hassan.

There is 12 dead. 11 are victims. Of those 11 one was a civilian cop contracted as military police. One of those civilian MP's killed the shooter.

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/reports-of-mass-shooting-at-fort-hood/?hp

Update | 7:41 p.m. Given that Thursday’s shooting spree took place at a readiness center, where troops were about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, the subject will certainly turn to combat stress. A description of the work of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, where Major Nidal Hasan, the suspected gunman who was killed on Thursday at Fort Hood, says this:

The Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress (CSTS) addresses both the invisible and visible wounds of war through research, education and consultation. The invisible wounds of war include the mental health consequences of deployment. These can range from normal distress to the treatable mental disorders of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Warrior wounds can also involve health risks such as increased use of tobacco, alcohol and/or drugs that can result in violence to self, spouse and/or children.

Update | 7:22 p.m. Information about Dr. Nidal Hasan posted on a Virginia Board of Medicine Web site includes a note that he saw patients at Darnell Army Medical Center Monday through Friday.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2009/11/05/officials_shooting_suspect_dis.html

Officials: Shooting suspect discussed suicide bombings, other threats online
Thursday, November 5, 2009, 07:30 PM

FROM THE ASSOCIATED PRESS:

Federal law enforcement officials say the suspected Fort Hood, Texas, shooter had come to their attention at least six months ago because of Internet postings that discussed suicide bombings and other threats.

One of the Web postings that authorities reviewed is a blog that equates suicide bombers with a soldier throwing himself on a grenade to save the lives of his comrades.

“To say that this soldier committed suicide is inappropriate. Its more appropriate to say he is a brave hero that sacrificed his life for a more noble cause,” said the Internet posting. “Scholars have paralled (sic) this to suicide bombers whose intention, by sacrificing their lives, is to help save Muslims by killing enemy soldiers.”

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/blotter/entries/2009/11/05/official_fort_hood_shooting_su.html

Official: Fort Hood shooting suspect not dead
By American-statesman staff | Thursday, November 5, 2009, 08:17 PM

Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspect in the Fort Hood shootings, has not been killed and is in stable condition at a hospital, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone said at a press conference at Fort Hood.

He is in custody at an undisclosed hospital, Cone said.

Three soldiers taken into custody after the shootings were released, he said. Investigators believe Hasan acted alone.

“Evidence does not suggest this was a terrorist event,” Cone said.

One of the first people to shoot Hasan was a civilian police officer who was shot but survived, said Cone, who added that earlier reports of a civilian officer dying were incorrect.

Global treaty could throw file-sharers off Internet after ‘three strikes’ (November 05, 2009 - Raw Story - Daniel Tencer)

File-sharers could be jailed under proposed ACTA provisions

Leaked details of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement being negotiated in secret by most of the world's largest economies suggest Internet file-sharers could be blocked from accessing the Internet if they are repeatedly accused of sharing copyrighted material, say media and digital-rights watchdogs.

And the worst-case scenario could see popular Web sites like YouTube and Flickr shut down because of a provision in the treaty that would force them to monitor everything uploaded to the site for copyright violations.

Internet law professor Michael Geist published details of "leaked" portions of the discussions on ACTA on his blog Tuesday, as a new round of ACTA negotiations began in Seoul, South Korea. The US, along with all the countries of the European Union as well as Japan, Canada, Australia and a handful of other countries, are involved in the negotiations.

"The provisions would pave the way for a globalized three-strikes and you're out system," Geist blogged Wednesday, referring to a proposal from copyright holders to have Internet service providers cut off service to anyone accused at least three times of illegally sharing copyrighted material.

"This means that your entire family could be denied [access] to the Internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel," blogged tech writer and digital-rights supporter Cory Doctorow.

Doctorow also noted that another provision being proposed for the treaty would mean "that ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability."

And, as Geist noted in a follow-up article on Wednesday, the proposed treaty could end up seeing file-sharers jailed for sharing copyrighted material, even if they had no financial gain from the transaction.

Geist wrote that the treaty, as currently proposed, would "extend criminal enforcement to both (1) cases of a commercial nature; and (2) cases involving significant willful copyright and trademark infringement even where there is no direct or indirect motivation of financial gain. In other words, non-commercial infringement could lead to criminal penalties."

"The US government appears to be pushing for Three Strikes to be part of the new global IP enforcement regime which ACTA is intended to create -– despite the fact that it has been categorically rejected by the European Parliament and by national policymakers in several ACTA negotiating countries, and has never been proposed by US legislators," writes Gwen Hinze at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

ACTA negotiations were being held entirely in secret until this past May, when the Wikileaks Web site released a 2007 draft proposal.

The Obama administration has resisted attempts to make the negotiations public, though it did make an exemption for a long list of senior executives at major corporations.

In June, the administration announced it would continue the ACTA negotiations started under the previous administration.

ACTA is being touted as an Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. It's not. It's a vastly reaching copyright enforcement law that will be far more powerful, malicious, destructive than DMCA. This treaty is being designed in SECRET by members or people, whom we do not know their names because of "national security" as agents of our government and 40 other nations.

As a citizen of this nation YOU DO NOT HAVE ANY RIGHT TO EVEN LOOK AT THE WHAT THE TREATY IS PROPOSING! As a worker of any big company you do, but you have to sign a non-disclousre agreement in compesation of being able to read it.

Why? Because the Government, Bush and Obama, have deemed this as a National Security necessary secret.

Other Nations have sued or been given a look at the all powerful secrety treat that is still in the works. It's been in the works since 2007. But us? Oh no, we are given the National Security excuse and told that is all we need to know.

Now we know. Now we are pissed and now we are scared. Because now we know, through a leaked document, what this treaty is about to propose.

Have any of you EVER downloaded music, video, images, wrote fanfiction? Because now through ACTA if you have and if you have been given a take-down notice by the propose owners of the copyright material that you have SUPPOSEDLY violated, then after three times your ISP will be ordered by the GOVERNMENT to take away your homesteads internet service.

That's right, your internet service of your instead house/apartment, etc.

That means even if you yourself have NEVER downloaded ANYTHING at all and only use your computer as a means to surf the internt to check your e-mail but your kid or husband has then ALL OF YOU lose your internet.

This is also most likely going to be in addition of some fine for violation of copyright law and even possibly JAIL TIME!

Don't believe me? Think I'm just over reacting to things?

Then read what the experts are saying:

* That ISPs have to proactively police copyright on user-contributed material. This means that it will be impossible to run a service like Flickr or YouTube or Blogger, since hiring enough lawyers to ensure that the mountain of material uploaded every second isn't infringing will exceed any hope of profitability.

* That ISPs have to cut off the Internet access of accused copyright infringers or face liability. This means that your entire family could be denied to the internet -- and hence to civic participation, health information, education, communications, and their means of earning a living -- if one member is accused of copyright infringement, without access to a trial or counsel.

* That the whole world must adopt US-style "notice-and-takedown" rules that require ISPs to remove any material that is accused -- again, without evidence or trial -- of infringing copyright. This has proved a disaster in the US and other countries, where it provides an easy means of censoring material, just by accusing it of infringing copyright.

* Mandatory prohibitions on breaking DRM, even if doing so for a lawful purpose (e.g., to make a work available to disabled people; for archival preservation; because you own the copyrighted work that is locked up with DRM)
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html

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LINKS on what ACTA is:
Lawfont.com: ACTA: here we go again? (Australia)
Lawfont.com: Geist on ACTA (Australia)
Electronic Frontiers Australia (Australia)
InternetNZ alarmed by latest ACTA leaks (New Zealand)
ip-watch.org
WikiLeaks: ACTA search
Wiki Leaks: Talk:Classified US, Japan and EU ACTA trade agreement drafts, 2009
Wiki Leaks: Classified US, Japan and EU ACTA trade agreement drafts, 2009
Petition to Obama - keionline.org
The ACTA Internet Chapter: Putting the Pieces Together
ACTA Negotiations, Day Two: What's On Tap
ACTA Internet Chapter Leak Signals Far-Reaching Copyright Policy
Leaked ACTA Internet Provisions: Three Strikes and a Global DMCA
ISPs Soon Forced to Police Your Internet Behavior?
Secret Anti-Piracy Treaty Turns ISPs into Pirates
EU Breaks Deadlock in Debate Over Right to Internet Access (November 05, 2009 - PC World - Paul Meller, IDG News Service)



That is it. I've had it about these fucking companies influencing laws and governments and getting their fucking way. I've had it.

I'm emailing my congressman. I'm linking to these articles. they have got to know this isn't about piracy anymore this uninforcable and its trying to censor the internet!!

I'm going to write out a long e-mail to my local newspapers.

It is time that we stood up and told these fuckers, no more. Just because I do a little downloading here and there does not mean I am not entitled to my rights as a human being.

this law will make it to where the burden of proof lies on me that I didn't break the law. It is almost impossible to defend against this law. They could say I illegally downloaded music when maybe I just ripped a cd I bought to play music on my computer.

Or about webpages or youtube. They could say that all the film about the Iran Riots and Protests is copywrited and if I uploaded any of it that I'm a pirate.

This, this is fucking insane.

Well we all know how Main's Prop 1 went. 87% of it counted and it went to the YES. I call voter fraud and a recount. Nate said it would be NO by 70%. Something is wrong here.

Oh btw, Main passed the medical marijuna distributing bill. So they get their dope but no gay marriages.

Houston is most likely going to have a gay Mayor.

New York City elected two Asians to office, one citywide as comptroller and the other in Manhattan as councilwoman.

Boomberg wasted a lot of money to get his squeaked by win. Which is pissing off the Democrats because the Democratic Party didn't even campaign hard for their guy.

Washington is about to extend domestic partner benefits to same sex parters. In essence they are getting the separate but equal clause of 'gay marriage' not in name. Nate Silver is suggesting that maybe the GBLT should focus on this a compromise to get the benefits to same sex parterns. But we all know that once it gets passed (Nationwide) it will eventually get challenged in the Supreme Court because separate but equal is unconstitutional in all regards.

It seems that Austin passed it so that it is expanding COBRA+ to domestic partners. Since you know in 2006 Texas made the constitutional amendment where Gay Marriage and Civil Unions are not ALLOWED or RECOGNIZED.

And ALL 11 propositions passed in Texas.

No wonder our system is so damn broken. they our robbing us blind.

U.S. Medical Prices Highest In the World
Posted by: Cathy Arnst on November 02

There is a set of charts flying around the policy blogosphere today that starkly illustrates why the U.S. devotes almost 18% of its gross domestic product to health care spending, while other wealthy nations spend no more than 10% or 11%: Because we pay far, far more per unit of care than any other country.

The 36-page document was put together in September by the International Federation of Health Plans, which represents 100 insurers in 31 countries. It consists of a number of charts that show the difference between what the U.S. pays for any number of medical services, and what other industrialized countries pay.

Tomorrow is election day in some states. Some for Governors others for Mayors.

For us in Texas we have 11 Constitutional Amendments going up for vote.

The Burnt Orange Report has a great lowdown on what they are and what major newspapers are endorsing and their own endorsements.

Me, No on Prop 1-3, Yes on Prop 4-8, No on Prop 9-11.

I know a lot of people support Prop 9 (Open Beaches Act) and Prop 11 (Eminent Domain) but I'm against them. First, 9 is taking people's property away from them in cases of land eroison that cause public beaches to become private property. And 11 is just going to screw up the emminent domain laws more than what it is already is and will not FIX/REFORM them. Not to mention that Governor Goodhair (Perry) and Hutchinson and the Texas Tea Party LIKE it!

And seriously there are some amendments here that are ridiculous. Did Prop 5 and Prop 7 really have to exist? Seriously, couldn't we have made LAWS and not constitutional amendments? I know 7 is to add the National Guard to exempt that already has everyone else added...but couldn't we have just tossed the old amendment out and just made a new LAW that did the same thing?

What about Prop 5? A constitutional admendment to dictate how apprasial boards work in concert with each other?!

And Prop 10?! "Proposition 10 would ... allow members of governing boards of Texas emergency service districts to serve terms not to exceed four years." --League of Women Voters Guide


Austin Chronicle: YES. "But trivial, and this belongs in ordinary legislation, not the state constitution."

El Paso Times: YES. "This would provide more continuity and experience on the boards."

Fort Worth Star-Telegram: NO. "This is goofy. There's no good reason why board members of obscure districts in Harris County should have longer terms than members of the Texas House."

Houston Tea Party Patriots: No Endorsement.

Sen. Kirk Watson's "Watson Wire:" YES. It "would lengthen the term of emergency services district board members from two to four years."

*sighs* *shakes head*

Oh for god's sake why can't Texas do something logical for a change!!!

Can anyone tell what he is singing?

There is something on my roof. I can hear it. It walked across my roof. A drops of something fell in from a leak but there is no rain, no water.

I heard it move from like directly over me across the room, over the kitchen towards anothing room.

It had been making noise for like thirty minutes. So I had enough and got my flashlight and got some shoes on and went outside. I was afraid that the dog would scare it away so I left the dog in the house. I went outside and you could HEAR it moving. It was like branches of a tree smacking across the roof but the wind was still and we cut back the branches.

I thought it might be racoons (as a couple times we hear the noise on the roof and then they appear in the damaged room) but they usually go to the damaged room and not across the whole roof. This was something new.

And it really freaked me out when I heard droplets of rain coming in or dripping as if a little block in the leak had cleared and it just comes in a line and then it drips the rest out. But there was NO RAIN in the sky. There was no DROPLETS either. I could hear it but I couldn't see it! To be fair there is a giant ass piece of plywood blocking me from seeing perfectly in that direction but - oh shit it started again. I moved around a bit of the plywood. still no leak. wtf?

It could be mist...or dew or something....but there is no evidence. Just the drip drip drip sound.

So after a while I went out to see what it was. I could hear it. But I couldn't see anything. It wasn't over the kitchen anymore. So I thought it was on the other room. So I looked around the pitch that I could see of the roof but there was nothing. Still that noise persisted. I should have seen something, right?

So I went to my car and got my big ass black metal cop flashlight - that damn dripping noise is still happening...only slower now. So I got my flashlight and I went around to look at the other side of the other room and still nothing. But still that noise persisted.

I was just about to get off the sidewalk in from of bend driveway (we have u driveway the first entrance is grass and the second is gravel).

Now I'm bit worried as I hear the noise and still can't see anything. What if it is a possum or something? I was trying to look in front me so I wouldn't step in any fire ant beds or snakes or mice.

I saw something in the corner of my eye. I thought it was a leaf in a spider web or something. I turned the flashlight and it was something flying. Okay maybe it's a moth or a butterfly. But it had glowy eyes from my flashlight. That means a bat right? It's a bat, right?

I continue on to look and I see nothing but I still hear that noise. As if something is pounding on the roof or stepping across it or...or scratching it. As if to get inside.

It's cold. 40 something in Texas is cold. I'm all alone in my pjs with two flashlights. Granted one of them could kill a person...or animal but still I'm alone with no real weapon and it's dark as pitch outside. After all it is 5:30 in the morning with the time change since daylight savings is over.

And the noise is starting to get to me and then there is that bat just hovering there in front of me (okay ten or so feet in front of me) just staring at me and it's the morning after Halloween. I freak and take off inside.

No more noise. Except for that damn dripping.

Got any ideas as to what it was?

I friended my mom's cousin on Facebook and I called mom to get a check-up on grandpa. He's doing much better and they think they got all the cancer cells out just awaiting tests to see what type of cancer.

Computer is still making noise. I took the case off and sprayed canned air inside and cleaned most of it up. But it's still making that noise. It does sound better. I have two fans in there plus the ac cooling one. I'm thinking the middle fan is the one making the noise. I just hope this is easily fixable.

My school and work depend on my having access to a computer.

Does anyone know how to save your booksmarks to a portable drive? I copied my desktop, program files and my documents. But I don't know how to save my bookmarks. I have Chrome, IE, FireFox, Safari and Opera.

Now back to the cousin. I posted an update mentioning that I was frustrated/upset about my computer, grandpa, my step-dad being an ass. You know, typical venting stuff hoping that someone will send a virtual hug. Nothing happens, as usual.

But my mom's counsin blabbed about it to my mom and grandma. Cousin mentioned that I was upset. Mom was taken aback and didn't know what cousin was talking about. Cousin mentions that it most likely had to do, since I mentioned it, about grandpa's surgery. Grandma flipped her lid, "she better not have mentioned any of our names on that. I will stop that right now..blah blah blah." Cousin mentioned I didn't mention names. Still grandma upset.

Now I'm trying to figure out how to 'quiet' the cousin from reading my posts. I don't want to unfriend her because she's family and a blabber...but this is one of my conservative members of the family and other four I have on my friends list are quiet and don't say shit so I never expected for cousin to talk about my stuff.

Now I'm worried about all the stuff on my profile. I'm a flaming liberal and mom was laughing that if cousin kept talking about stuff (mom will talk to cousin about not sharing with grandma my posts and we will see if she keeps word and if not...unfriended she will be) that pretty soon I might get asked by grandma if I'm gay because I put a lot of articles and stuff for lgbt rights and stuff.

*sighs*

Not that I care if I'm asked. Which I'm not...at least I don't think so. It's just FAMILY DRAMA with the conservatives. Being liberal is being a minority in my family.

*listens to her computer grind up and down like a fan dying* *sighs*

You know what is so cool? Having our Reps and Senators call out people as characters from our favorite books series.

Homeland Security Committee hearing last Thursday, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) likened Fox News talk show host Glenn Beck to Voldemort, a diabolical character in the Harry Potter series. The hearing focused on the numerous policy "czars" that have been named by President Obama, an issue that has been a frequent topic on Beck's program.

The full article



And of course ontd_p has their spin on things.

Here are some of the better ones.
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My mom went to Kerrville Monday because my grandma was having surgery on Tuesday.

My grandpa had checkups and a colonoscopy a few months back and they removed some pallups(?) and discovered something in his stomach. It turned out to be a tumor so they scheduled a surgery to remove it before it caused cancer.

The surgery was supposed to be early Tuesday morning but because of setbacks, being overrun with other issues and stuff the surgery didn't take place until 5:30pm.

Mom called me and the surgery went good and he went into recovery. This afternoon I called to see how things went. Last night was bad. He was in a lot of pain because of the bloating/gas that they did because of the type of surgery?

Mom and grandma had stayed at the hospital over the night and they got up and walking to help expell things.

I just got off the phone with mom and he is doing better...but still this was major surgery, even if it was done larscoptically, and he is 81 years old. Grandma is staying with him in the hospital and mom went to their place to sleep.

Good news is that my mom's sick computer got fixed by the marine buddy of my brothers AND he's offered to put the ram into my computer if I buy it.

Today our most awesome president ever has signed into law the Matthew Sheppard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Bill.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard_Act

This is what the Matthew Shepard Act does:

It expands coverage of the already existing Federal Hate Crime Law to include crimes motivated by a victim's actual or perceived gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

And

The bill also:

1. removes the current prerequisite that the victim be engaging in a federally-protected activity, like voting or going to school;

2. gives federal authorities greater ability to engage in hate crimes investigations that local authorities choose not to pursue;

3. provides $10 million in funding for 2008 and 2009 to help state and local agencies pay for investigating and prosecuting hate crimes;

4. requires the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to track statistics on hate crimes against transgender people (statistics for the other groups are already tracked).

The Matthew Shepard Act is the first law in the history of the United States federal government to extend legal protections to transgender persons.

People are upset at a comment that Alan Grayson (who lately has been badass at his criticism of the GOP "die quickly" health plan) made a comment a few months back that has been dug up.

He called a woman who had been recently hired to be a lobbyiest for the federal reserve a "K Street whore." Now women are all upset about it because of the connatations that the word has had to women.

But considering who this woman is...I think the definition might be fitting. This woman, Robertson, was the head of the lobbying arm of Enron.

Some are wondering if the blacklash is not due to her being a woman being called a whore but because of what it means to label lobbiests as whores.

Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) took Grayson's remark quite personally-- and for good reason. Shrieking that Grayson "is out of control"-- one of the reasons why so many Americans love him-- she didn't mention that she sits on the Committee on Natural Resources (and it's subcommittee on water and power) and has solicited immense sums of money (thinly veiled bribes) from forest products companies, oil and gas companies, and electric utilities and, coincidentally, I'm sure, always votes in their interests and against the public interest. And if people start calling lobbyists like Linda Robertson whores, how long before they start realizing that the Honorable Congresswoman from Spokane is also a whore-- as are almost all of her colleagues.

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The Maddow tv version.



I just totally love that they were singing the song to the tune of The Sound of Music. The internet is the great equalizer. They make non-violent protesting so popular and powerful. Losing face is a great shame to any business that makes them bow down to our might!

Billionaires for Wealthcare
Billionaires for Wealthcare is a grassroots network of health insurance CEOs, HMO lobbyists, talk-show hosts, and others profiting off of our broken health care system.

We'll do whatever it takes to ensure another decade where your pain is our gain. After all, when it comes to health insurance, if we ain't broke, why fix it?