http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:33:58 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:33:58 [div class="excerpt"]My father explained that the world requires men only to be responsible and accountable for their thoughts, their feelings and their actions. Women, he suggested, are always permitted to blame others for what they think and feel and do. My mother, he explained, would maintain her... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/130 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:53:56 Many years ago, my then SO and I went to the rodeo. Before you give me grief, I hate the rodeo and so did then SO. I think we went to see if it was as bad as we remembered it from our childhood. It was.

During the rodeo, a "bucking bronc rider" was thrown, got his foot caught in a stirrup, was dr... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/129 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:21:29 He wanted to be on the World Stage.

Early in the reports from Norway, there was a thread in LBN in which someone noted he didn't want to be a 'martyr' as he didn't die rather than be peaceably arrested. That statement got me to thinking.

He didn't want to die; he wanted the attention of the in... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/128 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:34:12 First, I want to thank whomever you are who donated a star to my name. I appreciate it very much. If you care to reveal yourself and get kudos (or disdain; I'm an 'acquired taste'. ) from the board, please do. If you prefer to remain anonymous, know my thanks are not lessened because I do not know w... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/127 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 23:42:41 [b]President Obama succeeded where bush failed.[/b] This is the message to pound out. [b]The Democrats succeeded where the repubs failed.[/b]

I've read here, over the years, the frustration that the 'right' gets their message out and that the 'left' has such difficulty. Reading this board and new... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/126 Fri, 06 May 2011 13:25:06 Haiti's ex-dictator Duvalier charged with corruption; freed by prosecutors

PORT-AU-PRINCE - Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier Tuesday left a courthouse here after being questioned by prosecutors, but had to remain at their disposal, his lawyer told AFP.

"He is free, but h... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/125 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:08:10 Haiti prosecutor files charges against 'Baby Doc' Duvalier for corruption, theft, misappropriation of funds - Reuters

edit: looking for good link. will update or reply when found.

skynetbreaking
bbcbreaking
breakingnews
bbcworld
timesnewsdesk

all reporting but no links yet

couple of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/124 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:53:32 [div class="excerpt"](Reuters) - Haitian authorities will question former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier to determine whether he should be prosecuted for stealing from the treasury during his rule, a senior government official said on Tuesday.

"He will be questioned and he will remain a... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/123 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:14:59 Sorry, guys. I'm mostly keeping my updates in my other thread but the spin in this article hurt my eyes, knocked me off my pins, or something. That it's from NPR makes it more heinous to me. This is also in my other thread but I decided this needed its own place as well. Ewwww.

[div class="exc... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/122 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:47:45 [div class="excerpt"]MEXICO CITY — Haiti’s former dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, huddled with his advisers at a Port-au-Prince hotel on Monday, a day after his stunning return to the country he ruled for almost 15 years, as the nation waited for his next move.

Supporters said Mr. Duvalier, who i... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/121 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:45:11 'Baby Doc' Duvalier back in Haiti after long exile

– 46 mins ago
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitian national television says former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier has returned to the country.

The stunning development caught the nation off-guard in a moment of political crisis. Duvalier... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/120 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 20:59:18 Thank you!

I enjoyed, okay, I'm not sure enjoyed is the right word; the video was very powerful as are the words and her voice.

Now, I'm going to go put my post to which you replied in my journal, so I can be sure to have this whenever I need to be reminded. I would feel awful if all your har... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/119 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:32:18 Apparently, there is a middle-class flight from Venezuela counting in the 10s of thousands or some such.

Interestingly enough, the CIA Factbook (hardly a friend of Chavez, I'm pretty sure) says:

Net migration rate:

0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
country comparison to the world: ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/118 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 19:01:01 back as far as about 2008 with one article with a date of 1998 that seems to have been taken off the 'net.

I've found its use with regards to President Obama and against the leftists since about 2008. I really don't want to link to those sites here. Some of them are pretty ugly.

Apparently, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/117 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 18:56:01 I had a book review to do for a class in Women's History in the US. The book I chose was about Irish immigrant women who had come to the US. One of the chapters was about the social workers in New York and how they viewed "those" women.

Social workers of that time were middle-class white women ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/116 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:19:39 He saw a UFO, he's an older man married to a younger woman, he looks like a Keebler elf, and he can't get elected president, and in spite of the co-sponsors signing on to many of his bills, he doesn't work well with others.

That's why I must spend as much time as I can posting at DU telling every... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/111 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:16:51 If you don't like the phrase "Health Insurance Reform," take it up with the White House.

[div class="excerpt"][link:www.whitehouse.gov/health-care-meeting/republican-ideas|Republican Ideas Included in the President's Proposal]

It’s clear that the American people want health insurance reform. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/112 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:26:13 [div class="excerpt"][h4]THE ARISTOCRACY OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY; Aristocratic Tendencies of the Democratic Party--The Contest between the Patrician and Plebeian--The Patrician War--Its Natural and Inevitable Result--Reverdy Johnson's Letter--Its Statements and Misstatements--The Final Overthrow of ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/113 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:17:53 This crap is not new. It is not from what we now call the r/w. If anything, it comes from those who have always, currently do, and will always, support the status quo, benefit from the status quo, and as such, will continue to promote the status quo and help to perpetuate "the existing institution... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/114 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:09:29 don't quite match what the "study" reported?

Here's the [link:www.bradley.edu/academics/las/psy/facstaff/schmitt/documents/Jonason-Schmitt-2009-DarkTriad-STM.pdf|link to the .pdf of the "study"]

The Participants:

[div class="excerpt"]Two hundred and twenty-four [b]psychology undergraduate s... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/110 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:32:59 We can escalate a war or we can leave a country in chaos (because, yeah, escalation isn't chaos?!)? That's it? No other options?

What if we spent as much money to build hospitals, schools, and infrastructure? We could even keep some of the troops there as bodyguards for the builders. We could... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/109 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:27:03 :evilgrin:

Oh, you're gonna love some o' these.


[link:hoydenabouttown.com/20070414.431/anti-feminist-bingo-a-master-class-in-sexual-entitlement|Antifeminist bingo 1]

[link:hoydenabouttown.com/20080218.1460/antifeminist-bingo-2|Antifeminist bingo 2]

[link:www.flickr.com/photos/aphie/354... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/108 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:02:18 useful idiot to show people the differences between feminismS and women-in-power. So many seem to equate one with the other.

FeminismS come in many different categories regardless of what rushbo, his ilk, and their (un)suspecting audience may propagate to and through the media and to (un)suspect... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/107 Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:02:49 [div class="excerpt"][h3]Malalai Joya: The woman who will not be silenced[/h3]
But she says: "Dust has been thrown into the eyes of the world by your governments. You have not been told the truth. The situation now is as catastrophic as it was under the Taliban for women. Your governments have repl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/105 Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:18:09 "below basic prose literacy." It's only 36 million when defined as "below basic document literacy" and it's 66 million when defined as "below basic quantitative literacy."

From: [link:nces.ed.gov/NAAL/PDF/2006470.PDF|this .pdf link] from
U.S. Department of Education
Institute of Education Scie... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Cerridwen/103 Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:40:56