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Kearns Community Blog
Getting Personal with Personal Statements
"I want to save the world one day…"
Each year thousands of ambitious undergraduate students sit down in front of a blank word document and endeavor to explain who they are in less than two pages. Graduate applications are often pretty strict affairs but the personal statement is your chance to be creative, interesting, expressive, and personal. This can be a daunting task but one that must be approached with a couple of deep breaths and a dose of reality. The creativity implicitly encouraged in the essay does not include fictitious prose and flights of fancy. A personal statement is not an opportunity to create a fictional super-student who doesn't exist. Instead it is a chance to show the graduate school selection committee that you have an interesting perspective to contribute to their program; that you have experiences that ensure your success in graduate school; and that your commitment and enthusiasm will likely sustain you through the trials and tribulations of a graduate program.
Graduate school selection committees tire quickly of the unrealistic career goals of Sally Student and Norman Notebook. Although it is a wonderful sentiment, it is unlikely that a Ph.D. in English is meant to prepare you to solve world hunger, stop global warming, and realign the Earth's axis. Phrases like "I want to make a difference" and "I want to help people" are vague and overused. It is more realistic and reassuring to a committee to explain how your work may contribute to ongoing efforts to some particular end. For example, the English student who wishes to solve world hunger may propose research into late 20th century west African literature on agricultural strikes and what it implies about the politics of food distribution. Reading this a committee member would have the impression that the student has thought critically about how they can contribute to current efforts, not single-handedly solve issues of hunger.
It is also a good idea to explain why you became interested in a particular profession, but it can distract from your point when you express indefinite and unrealistic career goals in the process. For instance, many students will cite the unfortunate passing of a family member as motivation for entering a medical profession and express a desire to "never let this happen again." As Don Asher put it in Graduate Admission Essays "such sentiments reveal a lack of sophistication…a lack of understanding the harsh realities and tough decisions that go with a career in medicine." Although this is certainly a worthy cause, it reads more like fantasy than a grounded understanding of the profession. Application readers don't expect students to have such lofty goals and often view them as naïve.
Graduate committees are more interested in learning about how certain experiences have made you grow and how you would like those experiences to contribute to a realistic career path. Long before you get to the point of applying for graduate school I would suggest you research the likely careers of graduates from your chosen academic field so you know if it is what you'd like to pursue. If you cannot articulately express what you'd like to do with a particular degree, the application readers will realize that you haven't even taken this fundamental first step and will question the entirety of your application. Give them something realistic upon which to base their evaluation of your application…and let it be a surprise if you go on to save the world.
Douglas Flowe
May 2013
About the Author
Douglas Flowe was the Graduate Recruitment and Retention Specialist in the David T. Kearns Center.


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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton commemorated Human Rights Day by presenting the Eleanor Roosevelt Award to four American human rights defenders for their contributions to the promotion and protection of human rights both in the United States and abroad. This year's honorees -- Professor Louis Henkin, Alice Hartman Henkin, Wade Henderson, and Sarah Cleto Rial -- were selected for the extraordinary work they have done to improve human rights, both at home and abroad. During the awards ceremony, Secretary Clinton said:
"I also want to begin by recognizing the brave men and women around the world who are being persecuted, jailed, or tortured today as we speak for promoting human rights and freedom. We remember them every single day and among them is the Chinese writer, Liu Xiaobo, who has now been awarded this year's Nobel Peace Prize. Liu was not there, as you know, to accept the prize, and nor was his wife nor anyone related or connected to him because he is serving an 11-year prison sentence on charges related to his peaceful advocacy for human rights and democracy. And we continue to call for his release, and today, we call for the release of a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
"In Cuba, the determined women of Damas de Blanco have endured harassment, beatings, and arrest as they march every week, as they once again did yesterday, in support of their husbands and sons who are longtime political prisoners. In Zimbabwe, activists have been arrested, abducted, or beaten after calling attention to human rights abuses and the plight of the poor. And unfortunately, I could go on and on. And there are so many places where we don't yet see the realization of the rule of law and the recognition of the basic freedoms that are universal.
"These rights that are being denied people are written plainly and simply in the Universal Declaration, because Eleanor Roosevelt stood for a basic principle. The language of a document intended to be universal had to be so clear that anyone could understand it. And if you read, as I do, international treaties and agreements -- you know that the fact Eleanor succeeded was nothing short of a miracle. So I hope that people around the world, including those of us in our government, will celebrate this day by rereading the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and reconfirming our commitment to work in any way we can to make good on its promise, which includes the immediate and unconditional release of all prisoners of conscience.
"In the past two years, I have traveled literally hundreds of thousands of miles, visited 77 countries, and have advocated for human rights everywhere from Azerbaijan to Uzbekistan. And the array of issues that we are working on seems to broaden as we grapple with problems that were not on people's minds when the declaration was drafted.
"Now of course, Eleanor Roosevelt and the other drafters understood that human rights means much more than just political freedom. She wanted to honor the inherent dignity and value of the human being, which to her meant equal rights for every man, woman and child; freedom from want and fear; the opportunity for every person to develop his or her full God-given potential. And it is up to us to harness these ideas to meet the challenges that we now face. So therefore, we must speak out when people are not free to vote or practice their religion; when girls are trafficked or married against their will; when boys are forced to become child soldiers.
"This year, our diplomats have worked on food security and the need to nourish all babies in the first vital 1,000 days of life. We've worked on internet freedom, international disability rights, ending sexual violence as a tool of warfare, diffusing ethnic tensions, and so much more. And we are particularly focused on helping those who are on the front lines in their own countries. And we try to think very hard about what strategy will help and not just get us a headline or get us attention, because that's not the goal. The goal is to make it possible for people who are very brave, in ways that many of us cannot even imagine, actually realize their full freedoms."
You can read the Secretary's full remarks here and more about the honorees here.
Related Entries:Looking Back at the First Human Rights Day and International Human Rights Day
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"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
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"Intense feeling too often obscures the truth."
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Don't be infected by war fever
To the editor:
I choose not to be infected by war fever. I have not hopped on any bandwagons since I was a very innocent and naive child and I will never do that again.
Each one of our tax dollars ought to be used, if we believe in kindness and social progress, to better conditions for our own citizens and largely within our own borders. We obviously do not have the resources to fix the world according to our ideals. Righting all wrongs within our own society would seem to be challenging enough. Why this diversion from looking at our own realities?
Please remember, Mr. President, as you "weigh options," that many of us voted you in in order to make more feasible the creation of a world in which the U.S. would cooperate within the family of nations and not function as an out-of-control, high-on-hormones teenager on the world stage. God help us.
I have lived and worked in a city where sarin gas was being used by a religious cult against the people and the "powers-that-were" (Tokyo, 1995). MOST of us residents survived the terroristic acts and the fear that they engendered, and the government eventually figured out exactly who was responsible and has brought almost all of those people in for punishment. Thank goodness no foreign power tried to help sort out that mess.
There are still those of us around who believe in the idea of national sovereignty. It is still a very popular notion in many areas of the world.
Eisenhower was so wise in these matters. We ought to sport t-shirts carrying his pronouncements and advice. And Carl Sandburg was also very wise. When I lived and worked in Tokyo, I read his poem on World War III to my adult students in class one evening as the rockets were beginning to blare with the launching of the first Gulf War. These well-educated and well-traveled young adult students were in a state of shock, stunned that this country that they liked so much and whose language they had already taken the trouble to study for many years would use its resources in this way.
Again, God help us.
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Craig, Great job! Let me know when you will be mass producing those.Scott D.
That table doubles as an earthquake shelter. You don't half ass anything. Nice work!
super BA craig! did you think about routing an edge to rest the peel on so you can drag skins straight off the table to the peel? i've seen that in a lot of videos of pizzerias where they prop the handle on the oven.bill
Fantastic Craig. That is truly something to be proud of. Don
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This is Boston -- Quincy, MA -- May 6th, 2013
This was an absolutely amazing show. It really was. I still can't get over how much fun I had last night. The untiy of the hardcore scene was really shown last night, everyone came out and fully represented Boston. Nothing but good vibes all night, no meathead bullshit, just everyone enjoying the music they love. All the proceeds for this show went to the One Fund, a charity set up for the Boston marathon bombing victims. The show sold out, and a bunch of money was raised off raffle tickets for some cool prizes. Overall an incredible night for a worthwhile cause.
The first band to play was Sexcrement. I hit a ton of traffig going down there, so I got there during their set. (I live north of Boston, and Quincy is south of Boston, so I had to drive through all the rush hour traffic... took me more than twice the time it would have if there was no traffic). The line to get in was kinda long, and the door was moving really slow, so I got in after Sexcrement finished. I've seen them a few times, but they are always fun so I was hoping to catch them again. No biggie though.
The next band to play was Insult. They are a really cool hardcore punk band that plays short, fast songs. Just the kind of punk I like. This was my second time seeing them, and they ruled just like last time. Not too much crowd activity, since people were still coming in. Still a really fun set. After Sexcrement and Insult I didn't really know any of the bands that well up until Dropdead (except Doomriders, who I had listened to briefly and enjoyed), so I wasn't too sure what I was getting into until then. I was excited to check out some Boston bands I had never seen though!
The Revilers came on and I could tell right away I was going to like them. They played a rock n roll punk sound in the vein of Motorhead that is right up my alley. Really fun to listen to. Although I had never heard them before last night, I am a fan now and will be checking out more of their material.
I bought a Dropdead t-shirt, which I've wanted for some time, and a cool poster of the flyer for the event. Then left for a bit to grab a snack and an energy drink, and came back to find that Alpha and Omega were onstage. Since one of the bands (For the Worse) dropped I think due to a member being in rehab, A&O were added, which I didn't even realize. I only heard the last song, and they were pretty uneventful hardcore. I had heard pretty good things about them, but they didn't do much for me from what I heard.
New Lows was next, and they were a hardcore band with a crazy lead singer. The crowd was really into them, but they were just okay to me. Not bad, but not too great either.Worth watching though!
Up next was Wrecking Crew, a hardcore band that had reunited for this show. Obviously a ton of people wanted to see them, cause the crowd when wild the whole time they were onstage. They put on a really entertaining performance. Tons of energy, and people were singing the lyrics and crowdsurfing the entire set. I somehow didn't really know about them, but they were awesome.
Wrecking Crew setlist (from setlist.fm):
Wild Mustangs
Guts and Glory
1000 Yard Stare
Tied Down
Doomriders is a band I had listened to a few times, and I liked what I heard. I am not overly familiar with their material, but I was looking forward to seeing them. They played metal/punk/rock n roll with a bit of a stoner feel, and the songs came across real well live. They crowd was really into them as well, with tons of crowdsurfers and people singing the lyrics. This was one of the most active crowds I have seen in a long time, it was cool to see people so into these bands. Doomriders is another band I will definitely be looking more into.
Dropdead was one of the main reasons I had to be at this show. For anyone unfamiliar with them, they play really intense punk/powerviolence, and they are one of my favorite punk bands. I just love everything about them; the music, the lyrics, what the stand for. I was right up front for their set, braving the crowdsurfers and moshers (I think since they aren't a hardcore dancing type of band I was able to be in the pit for them I like to mosh but can't hxc dance at all) The singer made some comments about animal rights, not eating meat, the power we have, and that we shouldn't let the government control us. Not preachy in any way, but if you disagree with those causes it may seem that way. I support all those causes so I loved it. Just an awesome set all around. Oh and they had the drummer of Siege come put at the end to do a couple songs, including "Drop Dead."
Slapshot played next, and the crowd was really into them. Stagedivers, crowdsurfers, moshers, and tons of people screaming into the microphone. They are hardcore legends in Boston, so getting to see them was a pretty awesome expreience. The way the place was set up was that the cieling at the front of the stage was pretty low, maybe only 6-6 1/2 feet high. So, a pretty big hole was put in the cieling by stagedivers, which had dust and plaster falling from it lol. Also, there were pipes that people were hanging from! Security tried to put an end to that, which they basically did, but the crowd was out of control. Slapshot did a few Stars and Stripes covers, and the crowd was loving it. Really fun.
Slapshot (from setlist.fm):
Back on the Map
No Friend of Mine
Watch Me Bleed
Old Tyme Hardcore
I've Had Enough
Shaved for Battle (Stars and Stripes cover)
Chip on My Shoulder
Step on It
Hang Up Your Boots
Skinheads on a Rampage (Stars and Stripes cover)
Converge closed out the show, and holy shit are they an intense live band. As soon as they kicked in, everyone forced their way forward to get close to the stage. I was in the middle of the floor, but was quickly pushed to the side to make room for hardcore dancers/moshers and people that knew all the songs by heart. It was okay though, watching the crowd go nuts from the side was an awesome experience. The band sounded amazing, and the entire performance was just so chaotic. Absolutely insane. Converge is closing out the last day at Maryland Deathfest, and I will absolutely be there. What an amazing way to end an incredible night that I will not soon forget.
Converge setlist (from setlist.fm):
The Saddest Day
Dark Horse
Eagles Become Vultures
Aimless Arrow
Bitter and Then Some
All We Love We Leave Behind
Sadness Comes Home
Axe to Fall
The Broken Vow
Last Light
Wolverine Blues (Entombed cover)
Here's some cool pictures (I didn't take these, obviously): http://www.flickr.com/photos/futureb...7633423517953/
5/21 Weekend Nachos
5/22 Hellshock
5/31 Rotten Sound
6/2 Venom inc
6/18 Deceased
6/24 Sleep
7/8 Nuke
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Converge opening with the The Saddest Day.
I would have lost my shit.
01/07 -- Slave to the Grind Festival
01/21 -- Alcest
Doomriders set:
New Lows set
Insult set
Converge set
Dropdead set
Wrecking Crew set
Slapshot set
Revilers set
5/21 Weekend Nachos
5/22 Hellshock
5/31 Rotten Sound
6/2 Venom inc
6/18 Deceased
6/24 Sleep
7/8 Nuke
Slapshot is playing down here for the first time next month. Can't wait to finally see them.
5/4 Queensryche
6/11 Obsessed
Man I would of been dancing and diving all day.
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This page is under development and is NOT a complete listing of all Jay County family history resources available in the Genealogy Division at the Indiana State Library at this time. As new Jay County family history resources are added, this page will be updated.
Birth Records
Delayed Births
Records Issued 1941-1978
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
WPA, Index to birth records, 1882-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42u
Death Records
WPA, Index to death records, 1882-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42u
Marriage Records
Marriage Affidavits, 1863-1890
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Marriage Applications
Vol. 1-7; 1905-1923
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Marriage Records
Vol. A-M, 1-11
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Bertram, Rex W.. Jay County, Indiana Marriages 1837-1865. [2003].
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42be
D.A.C., Marriage Records. . . 1844-1853. [1958]. 70pp.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42j
DAR, Marriage records. . . 1837-1844, 1854-1865, 1866-1883, 1884-1886, 1887-1889, 1890-1892. [1953?-1975]. 6 vols. (Vol. 1 also includes estate records, 1838-1847 and church records, 1852-1885).
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42d
Jay County Genealogy Society. Jay County Marriages Book "C" "D" "E"... [2004]
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42mi
WPA, Index to marriage records, 1850-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42u
WPA, Index to supplementary record, marriage applications, 1880-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42u
WPA, Index to supplementary record, marriage transcripts, 1882-1920.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42u
Deed Records
Deed Indexes
Grantee, 1836-1901
Grantor, 1837-1901
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Deed Records
Volume A-U, 1-56, 1837-1921
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Mortgage Records Index
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Sheriff's Deeds
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Tax Title Deeds
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Probate Records
Index of Papers 1, Probate Court, 1850-1968
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Partition Records
Vol. 1, 1853-1872
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Probate Complete Records
1841-1852; 1854-1859
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Probate Index, A (not dated)
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Probate Order Books
Vol. A-B, 1-26
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Will Records
Will Records
Vol. A-E, 1846-1920
MiCrofilm, Second Floor
Cemetery and Church Records
Heavilen, George E., [Cemetery records. . . ]. [pt. 1] Gillead cemetery, Balbec, Indiana. [1942]. 2pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 Juncat. no. 1
Indiana Junior Historical Society., Whitaker or Winters cemetery, Knox township. . . [1969]. 16pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 Juncat. no. 2
Indiana Junior Historical Society., . . . cemetery records, Zoar Cemetery. [1976]. 4pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 Juncat. no. 3
Indiana Historical Society, [Cemetery records. . .]. [pt. 1] Kunce cemetery. [1945]. 3pp.
Genealogy Division, p.f. 977.201 J42 no. 1
Burials in West Grove Cemetery, Penn township, Jay County.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42b 1982
[Cemetery records. . .]. East Jay Junior High School History Club and others. [1979]. [33pp.]
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42c
DAR, Bible records . . . church record of St. Paul's Congregation German Reformed Church. . . 1954-62. 2 vols.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42da
DAR, Partial list of tombstone inscriptions from cemeteries. . . [1955?-1957]. 2 vols.
Genealogy Division, 977.201 J42dp
Franklin (Strock), Jay and Phyllis. Salamonia Cemetieries... East Park - West Park - Grandview 1840-2000. [2001].
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Indiana Junior Historical Society. East Jay Junior High School, Old Salamonia cemetery. . . [1978]. 10pp.
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Selman, Kathy. Boundary Cemetery: Boundary City, Pike Twp., Jay County, Indiana.
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The Public Eye, Fall 2009
A Look into the "Queer Asian" Community
Queer Asian Compass: A Descriptive Directory of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBTQ) Asian American, South Asian, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Organizations
By the National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance, July 2009. (PDF)
"Queer Asians" are a minority within minorities. As this report explains, "LGBTQ individuals are invisible in mainstream AAPI communities, and AAPI individuals are marginalized in mainstream gay communities." By surveying 34 queer AAPI organizations about their composition and work, this network makes a vitally important contribution to both the groups and their potential funders.
Two-thirds of the groups are multigender, a decided shift from unisex groups of previous years. Few have paid staff. Only three have youth programs. Just under half are unincorporated, without nonprofit tax status, which is a severe limitation for building out the infrastructure of the movement. Groups are centered on the East and West coasts, with West Coast groups largely native born and East Coast groups reporting to be two-thirds immigrant. Only one third have non-English language materials.
The organizations provide social and service networks for people coming out, and also support asylum seekers with letters to immigration officers. Some members were reportedly professionals in their home country who overstayed tourist visas to stay here.
Many of the organizations reported needing greater leadership. Often potential leaders are reluctant to step forward in case their visibility puts jobs or citizenship in jeopardy. Another issue is that the native born LGBTQ community has not reached out to non-English speaking Americans, including AAPIers, creating a rift of ignorance between the two groups. The groups surveyed also generally reported tension in balancing social and political activities. Yet the report reveals a need for a more comprehensive campaign for immigrant rights. – Jaime Coyne
Changing the World of Women and Girls
Equality for Women: Where do we stand on Millennium Development Goal 3?
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank, Washington D.C., 2008 (PDF)
Starting from an understanding that that gender inequality is both unfair and economically inefficient, the authors examine whether and how countries are funding and pursuing improvements in women's status and labor force participation. Gender equality is Millennium Development Goal 3 that emerged from the international community's Millennium Declaration in 2000, and this 350-page "midterm" report evaluates progress toward "a world in which women and men work together as equal partners to build better lives."
Concretely, the goals include increasing gender equality in education, the ratio of literate females to males, the percentage of women in wage employment in the nonagricultural sector, and the proportion of women working in national governments.
Eighty-two of 122 countries achieved the official midterm target of equality in primary and secondary education, but 19 countries, including 13 in Sub-Saharan Africa, are unlikely to reach this aim even by 2015. Girls from tribal, ethnic or linguistic minority groups are the most disadvantaged in achieving gender equality.
To explain the sharp differences in labor force participation rates among countries, the authors examine the link between economic development and social barriers. "In poor countries, female participation is high and women are concentrated in farm employment or family enterprises. Increases in incomes move women out of the labor force, both because of income effects and because of social barriers to women working for pay. At high levels of development, women begin to move into white collar employment as their education levels rise."
One key indicator that the authors acknowledge is missing from the study is women's access to reproductive and general healthcare, and an analysis of how that influences their access to education and the paid labor force. This is an important gap that limits their policy suggestions.
Beyond changing laws, institutions and policies, the authors emphasize the "need to change cultural norms, traditions and day to day practice," suggesting that governments offer families financial incentives to change their behavior towards girls. – Maya Burns
David Horowitz: Slanting the Facts about Education
Facts Still Count: An Analysis of David Horowitz's One-Party Classroom
By Free Exchange on Campus
David Horowitz claims in One-Party Classroom that only liberal ideas are taught in college classrooms – generally by incompetent professors with ulterior motives that are evident in their course syllabi. This report debunks Horowitz's arguments by exposing how he omits and changes data, takes information out of context, or is just plain wrong.
"Much of One-Party Classroom is the equivalent of researching a dissertation in chemistry using a 19th-century alchemy textbook as source material – and then misquoting it," write the authors. To start with, he looks only at selected courses at 12 elite universities that posted syllabi online, and then misuses what he finds. In his allegations against University of California Santa Cruz professor Bruce Larkin, for example, Horowitz uses an outdated edition of the course syllabus and misquotes it to make a statement about Iraq into an entirely different statement about al-Qaeda.
Horowitz loves looking at course reading lists. But he neglects to mention books on the lists that would display diverse perspectives. Horowitz slams University of Southern California professor Douglas Becker for teaching a course using three "leftist propaganda" texts, but forgets to mention four other course texts from differing perspectives.
In questioning a faculty members' teaching abilities, he doesn't seem to do even cursory research into the person's experience. For instance, he criticizes University of Missouri at Columbia sociologist Srirupa Prasad for teaching a course on women's health without any knowledge of medicine. In fact, Prasad had published four articles related to public health and once taught in the University of Wisconsin's Department of Medical History and Bioethics. – Jaime Coyne
An Unequal Recession
Race and Recession: How Inequity Rigged the Economy and How to Change the Rules
Applied Research Center, Oakland, Calif., May 2009. (PDF)
This report tracks the stories of two dozen people of color from ten states and uses supporting data to illustrate patterns of racial inequality within the current economic crisis. The strength of this report is in looking at historical inequity to understand how people of color are experiencing the economy now.
Even before the latest downturn, the unemployment rate for people of color was higher than that of Whites. For this reason, Blacks are said to face a "permanent recession." In 2008, 16.3% of Blacks and 15.2% of Latinos, but only 8.7% of whites, were underemployed, meaning they are working but are forced into part-time jobs because full-time work is not available.
To reveal discriminatory hiring, the report follows the story of Tanya Alina, who reported that an employee warned her she wouldn't be hired by the boss because he was looking for "young, white, eye-candy girls." Criminal records are a huge impediment to employment for all races but especially for Blacks. "Being black in America today is just about the same as having a felony conviction in terms of one's chances of finding a job," the report argues.
Companies marketed the subprime loans that caused such economic upheaval to people of color who otherwise would be eligible for prime rate loans, one part of a long history of discrimination in housing. These loans start with a few lower interest payments and then escalate to high payments that many people cannot make, leading to foreclosure. In the case of a Mrs. Mallory, a 63-year-old Black woman, her payments jumped from $500 to $1600 a month after six payments, an amount impossible on her $960 a month income.
Among the report's recommendations: use Racial Equity Impact Statements during policymaking, raise the minimum wage, create universal healthcare, and bar criminal records questions from job applications – Jaime Coyne
Getting Ahead with the Green Economy
Job Opportunities for the Green Economy: A State by State Picture of Occupations that Gain from Green Investments
By Robert Pollin and Jeannette Wicks-Lim, Political Economy Research Institute, Amherst, Mass., June 2008. (PDF)
Last issue we reviewed a report warning that green jobs don't neccessarily pay high wages. This 12-state study identifies just which relatively high-paying jobs would grow if we challenged global warming by investing in: retrofitting buildings to be more environmentally sound, mass transit, energy-efficient automobiles, wind power, solar power, and cellulosic biomass fuels.
The answers are not always what you'd expect. The report estimates there are currently more than 500,000 jobs called "production helpers." These are not the inventors or designers, but the individuals who do much of the paperwork and processing necessary to produce the technology. PERI argues these jobs will likely become much more complex, resulting in specialization and, more jobs, as well as higher wages. Even industrial truck drivers will be in higher demand, with over 1.7 million employed in the states studied, earning roughly $12-$14 per hour, as will be needed to transport materials for different green projects throughout the country. Indeed, most growth would be in existing job types. --Kris Coombs
Human Rights at Home
The Power of Justice: Applying International Human Rights Standards to American Domestic Practices
By William Schulz, Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C., June 2009. (PDF)
This report tries to explain why progressives have not fully embraced a "human rights" framework, and how doing so would further their domestic campaigns. It argues that one major reason for this is the failure of the UN Human Rights Commission and Amnesty International to support and recognize African American freedom struggles in the 1960s. The UNHRC thought that critiquing U.S. policy towards African Americans constituted a breach of member-state sovereignty, while Amnesty International focused primarily on "traditional political rights, such as the 'freedom of belief'." Reframing domestic "civil rights" as international "human rights," Schulz contends, can provide new avenues for progressives to advance their agenda. And respecting international standards domestically would further American foreign policy goals by insulating it from charges of hypocrisy. For example, discriminatory practices towards Muslims make "it easier for Al-Qaeda to characterize the United States' response to terrorism as a 'war on Islam'." – Stas Moroz
Reference: http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/v24n3/index.html


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On the occasion of the anniversary of Iran's disputed presidential election, Secretary Clinton released the following statement:
"When the Iranian people determined last year that their government had denied them their right to free and fair elections, thousands of Iranian citizens poured into the streets to protest peacefully. The Iranian authorities responded to their citizens' call for accountability and transparency with violence, arbitrary detentions, dubious trials, and intimidation. One year later, many political prisoners continue to suffer in jail, some facing death sentences for expressing their opinions. Other civil society activists in Iran are not in prison, but they face other forms of persecution. Over the past year, many of Iran's most accomplished journalists, academics, and activists felt they had no choice but to leave their homeland.
"The Iranian government's denial of the fundamental freedoms and rights accorded to its citizens in the Iranian constitution and international treaties to which Iran is a party has drawn broad international condemnation. As President Obama said when he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize, it is the responsibility of all free people and free nations to stand with peaceful reform movements seeking the rights that are our common birthright.
"The United States once again calls on the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran to meet their obligations to their own people and to the international community by respecting the rights and dignity of their citizens and by fully upholding Iran's international obligations. We also call for the immediate release of all imprisoned human rights defenders, including Shiva Nazar Ahari, Narges Mohammadi, Emad Baghi, Kouhyar Goudarzi, Bahareh Hedayat, Milad Asadi, and Mahboubeh Karami. We ask the Iranian authorities to release the three American hikers, detained without charge for almost a year, and to provide information on the status of Mr. Robert Levinson, who disappeared in Iran in 2007.
"The United States reaffirms its commitment to engage with Iran on all issues in pursuit of a negotiated diplomatic resolution, on the basis of mutual respect and mutual interests. But we also will continue to speak out in defense of basic human liberties and in support of those around the world who seek to exercise their universal rights."
Zharkov in USA writes:
I avoid posting on this blog because it is such a waste of time, but this message is for foreign consumption as our own government is too slow to act on it.
The US government could do much more, although they haven't the expertise to cap British Petroleum's crude oil leaks, they could do far more to clean up the mess by declaring it a national environmental emergency, which it is. As Russian scientists have noted, eventually the oil slick will become an international emergency as the oil moves north in the ocean currents toward fishing grounds near Norway and Portugal.
The president might request an emergency bill from Congress to allow every oil company to keep, for free, all the crude oil they can skim from the Gulf, as payment for their trouble.
BP would lose millions of dollars because they failed to have enough equipment to do that job. That would be BP's fault alone.
The rest of the world's oil companies should seize the oil in the Gulf under the legal doctrine of treasure trove, which means, whoever finds lost treasure in the open sea can keep it. The leaked crude oil is definitely "lost" to BP.
So it's free oil for every oil firm in the world. All they have to do is come and scoop it up and sell it.
Of course a free enterprise solution will be rejected by the US, so it will be up to other nations to figure out what they will do when the oil slick reaches their shores.
I suggest they prepare to intercept the oil when it passes the US maritime border, take as much as they can, and if they can't sell enough to cover the cost, send their bill for cleanup to British Petroleum.
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ENTERPRISE SHALL BE BUILT To go there where no man has gone before
Saman B. in Iran writes:
What difference dose it make who is coming to preside, if you refer the initial election of Iranian in April/1/1979 you can't find a logical title on the elective list, I just saw it in archives video, under of this index, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC [YES] [NO]; admittedly all of that morons fingered [YES].
I don't blame some of them because they'd been brainwashing.
I don't care! I born one year after that, the elections are tool for regime to govern so propaganda for the world and hobby or necessity for most of Iranian; election seal on the Iranian identity card is a main voucher to live without this seal they might be reject to university or governmental engage,etc.
I believe that the Tory and reformist so elections are null poetry.
Thank You
Flavius in Virginia writes:
The administration has not been forthright enough in their support of the anti-government forces in Iran. It is a great blemish on our present foreign policy.
When the President won his Nobel, he should have dedicated it to all those who died, were injured or imprisoned in their fight for their country.
Zharkov in U.S.A. writes:
Iran should be at the bottom of the list of America's worries. Nearly one quarter of the world's food chain is in the process of being contaminated by British Petroleum.
The US government relying entirely on BP to stop the leak is as foolish as if Stalin had sent only one soldier to fight the German Army.
All of the world's oil companies should be concerned and involved in this cleanup mess.
Congress should decline permission for offshore oil drilling to every oil company which had equipment for oil cleanup but refused to help in the Gulf.
Every one of the world's oil companies should be granted a permanent Letter of Marque authorizing them to seize and sell all oil leaked into the ocean, in the Gulf or wherever else it may be found.
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can we watch LIVE when the first iranian Vassel with Humanitarian aid will approach Gaza please?
Alfredo in Minnesota writes:
The same will happen in Venezuela, next September on the 26 we vote for the new National Assembly, and the Electoral Authorities are well known chavistas, plus, they are using Smartmatic machines to count the vote, while everybody knows they commit fraud.(Smartmatic was sued in Philippines)Venezuelans want manual counting, please help us sending international observers, and watch closely, specially after 4:00 pm, when votings is supposed to end and is when data is changed to make chavistas win. Why do the US continues to buy oil from Chavez regime? Irans dictator's best friend.
Kenneth E. in Canada writes:
The only man to bring a semblance of order and at the same time raising the standard of the Venezuelan people is Hugo Chavez Frias elected President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Not only is he loved by the masses, he has brought to his people a way of life that they never knew before.
The OIL which belongs to the Venezuelan people is now used to make their lives very comfortable. Iran with the Shah the favourite puppet of a foreign power kept the people destitute, their only choice was a revolution, albeit a bad one. Perhaps the People of Iran can throw off the Ayatullahs and return to REAL form of democracy, not foreign control.


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Working on access to OK Slip Falls
INDIAN LAKE – The state closed on the 2,800-acre OK Slip Falls and Blue Ledges tract in April, but because access is limited, people are being discouraged from going to see a majestic and little-seen 250-foot-tall waterfall.
The state hopes to change that in the coming months.
During a tour of the lands on Thursday, state Department of Environmental Conservation Regional Forester Tom Martin said the state is working on a stewardship plan that could be completed in the next four to six weeks.
"Currently, there's no public facilities," Martin said. "We haven't identified parking or a trail or done any signage yet, but staff is working on a stewardship plan, and we hope to have it in front of the (state Adirondack) Park Agency this summer, which will provide some early and limited public access."
Once the plan is completed and trails are built, the public will get to see some very unique lands. The tract is home to OK Slip Falls and also contains the Blue Ledges, rock walls that are made of billion-year-old Grenville marble. The wooded ledges offer views of the Hudson River valley.
"The view down the Hudson when you're on top of Blue Ledges looking upstream, it is stunning. It is unbelievable. It is so beautiful," said Connie Prickett, who is the spokeswoman for the Adirondack Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, which bought this and many other tracts from the Finch Pruyn timber company in 2007 and is selling much of it to the state.
The other notable views from up high on the property come from around the OK Slip Falls gorge, which is where Martin, Prickett and DEC spokesman Dave Winchell led a group of about a half-dozen journalists.
The journalists hiked to two viewpoints that are accessible due to past use and bushwhacked to another. All three offered great views of the waterfall, which will likely be a big draw for hikers.
To get to the views of the falls, this group rode in a van on a road that goes all the way to OK Slip Pond, for about a mile into the property. From there, the group hiked about another mile on sometimes soggy logging roads.
While the access road was perfect for this excursion, it doesn't appear it will be open to the public in the future. The one-lane dirt road starts from state Route 28, between Indian Lake and North Creek, and goes to the Northern Frontier Camp on OK Slip Pond. The private boys camp owns 168 acres around the pond, some of which is in a conservation easement owned by the Conservancy. None of the camp's land is open to the public for any purpose.
"I'm not sure what the legality is of the public walking on that road," Martin said. "We're not encouraging the public to use it just because of all of the vehicle traffic from in and out of the camp."
The road is so tight that cars can't easily pass each other on it. Martin said the camp makes it one-way during weekend periods when children came and go.
Martin said an option for accessing the property may be to extend the Whortleberry Pond Trail, which is located near Indian Lake off of state Route 28.
"I assume that our stewardship plan is going to provide for parking and access trail to OK Slip initially, and then things like additional trails, additional access points and things like that, I suspect, will wait until the (unit management planning) process," Martin said.
The unit management planning process will start once the classification hearings are finished.
The Park Agency is scheduled to hold eight public hearings around the state on the classification alternatives for several new tracts totaling 47,000 acres of Forest Preserve land in the central Adirondacks, including 23,000 acres of former Finch, Pruyn and Co. timberlands. The first public hearing is at 6 p.m. June 12 at the APA offices in Ray Brook.
The state bought the OK Slip Falls-Blue Ledges tract from the Conservancy, which had bought it from Finch, Pruyn as part of a 161,000-acre deal in 2007. The Conservancy sold more than 90,000 of those acres to a Dutch pension fund for logging, with conservation easements sold to the state. Another 69,000 is going to the state for Forest Preserve.


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PRINCESS ANNE, MD – (Dec. 12, 2013) – The verdict is in — "The Visionistas," took first place in a hospitality department facilities design competition that awarded them a $2,500 cash prize from the Town of Princess Anne, Somerset County and Baxter Enterprises Inc.
Students competing in three teams had 20 minutes each to pitch their marketing plans on branding Princess Anne as a historical and cultural tourism destination to a panel of judges.
One student, Julio Caceres, was so nervous he backed into a light pole while parking his car prior to the start of the competition.
"Don't let stress get to you, or you'll run into a pole," he said with a roll of his eyes.
For the winning team, it was all high-fives when they exited their presentation.
Nyshea Holloday of Washington, D.C. said she was nervous at first, but teammate Samantha Lord of Cambridge, Md. was confident, "We rocked it."
"I had to build excitement within me, so that (the judges) could see we were excited and they would be too," Shannon Wilson of Waldorf, Md. said. "The biggest challenge was satisfying all clients' needs, because they all have the same end goal, but different perceptions."
Danny Thompson, Somerset County's economic development director, saw the event as a "way to have fresh ideas (for county tourism) and to be a mentor to these up-and-coming entrepreneurs." He said it was an excellent opportunity for the university, town and county to work collaboratively.
Thomas Baxter, owner and operator of Delmarva McDonald franchises, described the competition as a chance "to work with the community and give back."
"We've had a long-term relationship with UMES and each and every project we work on with the various schools, we learn something that we can use in our business," he said.
The project was tied to the Town of Princess Anne being awarded a $502,000 Community Development Block Grant this past spring to renovate the historic Washington Hotel on Somerset Avenue as an anchor business for downtown. Students were challenged to come up with business, financial and marketing plans to include the Main Street business district and other attractions in the county as part of the appeal of the area as a tourist destination.
"There is a lot of potential here," said Ian Fleming, innkeeper of the Robert Morris Inn in Oxford, Md. "It is a town that has a long-range plan that incorporates some attractive elements."
Fleming is slated to operate the Washington Hotel following renovations and a re-opening sometime in 2014. Ownership will eventually be turned over to him.
"I love it. Working with young people energizes you—it's infectious," said Brenda Benton, Princess Anne Town Manager. The town, she said, wants to build the "Town and Gown" relationship with the university and sees this "as another bridge for the two."
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Blog and story commentsPosted Tuesday, February 17, 2009, at 9:34 AM
We have gotten a flurry of complaints in the past few days about various blog and story comments, and I've probably killed more comments in the past week than in all the previous months we've had story comments. I don't know what has brought some of this on, but there are a few things we need to make clear.
There have been far, far too many personal attacks in recent weeks. Much of this can be attributed to two or three specific commenters, at least two of whom have been warned that they are in danger of having their accounts terminated. This forum is for discussion of issues, not for personal attacks. If you have to call someone a name to make your point, then you either don't have a very good point or you don't have the skills to defend it logically. Come back when you can debate and discuss like an adult.
Many of you are familiar with the term "troll," but some of you may not be. It refers to someone who deliberately starts arguments on an Internet message board or forum, not because they actually want or expect to change anyone's mind, but just because they like doing so. If you believe someone to be a troll, ignore them. Period. Any other response is just going to encourage them.
Enforcement of our Terms of Service ( http://www.t-g.com/help/legal/ ) is, at least in part, complaint-driven. There is no possible way we could read every comment as soon as it's posted, which would be a 24-hour-a-day job. The fact that we haven't deleted a comment doesn't automatically mean we agree with it, approve it or want it to remain. It may just mean that we haven't seen it and that no one has called it to our attention. We've had several people take us to task for not having removed this comment or that one, when in fact we hadn't even seen the commment in question.
By the same token, we sometimes have people ask us to remove comments that aren't out-of-bounds. Just because someone disagrees with you doesn't mean their message should be deleted.
It goes without saying that any time we delete a comment or warn someone about their comments, they immediately assume that it's because we're biased towards the other side of whatever argument is taking place. It's not.
Use of the T-G's comment forums is dependent on compliance with our Terms of Service. We welcome a vigorous discussion, but we ask our commenters to behave as if they were adults.
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I guess my info on how to receive the Tennessean was offensive to some. (smile)
-- Posted by titansfan on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 9:46 AM
Go to McDonald's and ask them to hand out Burger King coupons and see how far you get. (smile)
-- Posted by Jicarney on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 10:24 AM
titansfan, please e-mail me.
-- Posted by Jacks4me on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 10:30 AM
Just had to rib you about that one, no biggie. I didn't even give it a thought when I posted anything on here. Guess I just never really looked at it as a competition or anything, I always read the TG cause it is my local paper.
-- Posted by titansfan on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 11:15 AM
Hear you loud and clear. I have been throughly scorned. Respectfully yours, Troll
-- Posted by truckindaddy on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 3:32 PM
When we volunteer to do these blogs or to comment on them, we probably should expect some negative feedback.
-- Posted by michaelbell on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 4:15 PM
We all should use some courtesy and common sense.
Anything less hurts everyone who enjoys a vigorous exchange of ideas.
All it would take is a few rude people (ork or not) to deprive everyone of knowledge,stimulating interaction and the chance to make a difference by speaking their mind.
Some places refuse to let folks speak when they have legitimate points to make.
Should we reward the TG for taking a chance on us by convincing them that we're more surly than savvy?
-- Posted by quantumcat on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 6:25 PM
"you're going to be sure to have more things reported so long as Brian Mosely uses the Times Gazette as a Republican talking point's bulletin instead of something informational and legitimate.
-- Posted by in the garden on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 3:53 PM"
I figured that was your purpose here, to spout off the "Liberal talking points".
Seriously though, there are plenty of blatantly liberal publications out there masquerading as "newspapers" with "journalists". It is a refreshing change to have a newspaper with both liberal and conservative journalists rather than one that is totally slanted.
-- Posted by Thom on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 6:57 PM
It would be nice to see you put a different journalist on this topic of immigrants John.
Why let one person single-handedly discredit your newspaper by reporting biased and factually inaccurate garbage? He should AT LEAST mention that Tyson employs 1,300 people in Bedford County and a majority of those are BEDFORD County natives... Accurate reporting seems to escape your staff.
-- Posted by nascarfanatic on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 9:49 PM
in the garden - Actually, the content of some comments that you've left on the T-G site mean you're a liberal in my opinion...pro-abortion=liberal, voted for Obama=liberal. I've got no problem with liberals. I've got several friends that are and we have some very in-depth conversations. The difference is that they're not the type of liberals that get offended by being called what they are. That would be as stupid as me being offended by being called a conservative. If that offends you, then I am sorry that you are so easily offended.
As for Brian's "open bias" goes, objective journalism is an extremely rare thing anymore, or have you never read any of the major newspapers around the world?
-- Posted by Thom on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 11:04 PM
When I was younger I always saw myself as Liberal I have always been pro-choice, pro-gay marriage always thought those who could not help themselves needed our help. I thought the elderly deserved more than they ever got out of life. I protested war and marched to protest the Vietnam war. But the definition of Liberal has changed over the years..I do not like to be classified as a Liberal any more it seems the Liberal does not look into the future of Americans or the American way of life. They do not see the harm in the things they push. They do not see we are losing our freedom by letting the government control our very lives. They seem to be the new age Robin Hoods..taking from one group to give to another. I can not condone anything that hurts my country so with that consideration I feel I am no longer a Liberal. When someone cares more about the mussels in the bottom of a lake than they do about families having water..I am not a Liberal. Although I do not consider myself a conservative either because I still hold some of those Liberal views from the past..maybe I just grew up and realized if we do stand beside our brother and sister Americans and our Country then who the heck will?
-- Posted by Dianatn on Tue, Feb 17, 2009, at 11:50 PM
Liberals,fundamentalists,conservatives,etc. have been reduced to empty stereotypes.
In reality,people aren't limited to a pre-programmed" party line."
They have the wit and will to shape the groups they belong to as much as those affiliations influence them.
They can make sure there's no disconnect between their values and the labels they wear by changing to fit whatever definitions the world tries to impose on their lives or they can walk away from any thing that doesn't match their needs and perspectives.
"Liberals" who have common sense and morality and "conservatives" who are open-minded and open-hearted don't need to run off when they find themselves being recast as villains.
They can dig in and let the other guys run off.
Why should the negative crowd co-opt whatever they like and affect how those things are viewed?
If that's allowed,the rest of us might take over the KKK and Nazi party and turn them into the affirmative organizations they were before their corruption.
Maybe,some of us could infiltrate Satanic cults and introduce critical thinking and agape' the way the enemy has tainted so many do-gooders' groups with stridency,apathy,hypocracy and muddled thinking.
Whether we defect and turn to something that fits our beliefs or seek to restore former glory,we can't let disillusionment and cynicism cause us to abandon our ideals.
They're still valid and will remain so whether we work for them from the right side of the spectrum or the left.
-- Posted by quantumcat on Wed, Feb 18, 2009, at 4:20 AM
Excellent point quantumcat . . . I consider myself moderate because I see both the good and the bad in both liberal and conservative ideology. I do not believe in abortions but I have no problems with gay marriages. I prefer to take the facts at hand and make my own decisions and not float along on political party lines or rhetoric.
-- Posted by jaxspike on Wed, Feb 18, 2009, at 7:01 AM
You guys really crack me up...this blogs explains why some comments got cut and asks that you turn the other cheek and be adult and some of you turn it into a forum to continue to disagree about "liberal and conservative ideology" and "biased reporting" among other things.
Wow....We all have opinions and it's good that everyone has a place to voice them, but please don't allow your disagreements to grow so overwhelming that the commenting will have to be cut off completely.
For example recently, I am glad Dave Lodge became a citizen and it is nice to see people he doesn't know congratulating him. I like to read other peoples comments, even if I do not agree with them.
Make your opinions known, but please be respectful of what others think and say.
-- Posted by brown eyed girl on Thu, Feb 19, 2009, at 12:24 PM
There's a problem with your suggestion,in the garden.
If the paper stifles its reporters' less popular comments and won't print any of its readers' views,then how are we to know what dangerous ideas are festering in our community?
How do we find out about the level-headed folk and the knowledge they posess?
I despise the boring and distasteful bickering and absurdity that show up in our blogs sometimes but I'm willing to endure the heat rather than lose the light.
If we didn't have the comments here,how would folks know of you or the rest of us?
(Maybe Marilyn Ewing could give us a "Round Table" or "Capital Gang" but we'd lose our "secret identities" in the process.)
The breadth and depth of what the T-G offers may not suit everybody but it has managed to irk a few people of all mindsets.
(That has to mean they're doing something right.)
I hope the journalists do spend their time keeping us informed.
I hope we can continue to comment so they know we're paying attention and have our own ideas.
(We can keep one another honest.)
As for the advertisers,the ones with good products and services would want to approach customers with intelligence and high standards.
The ones who want gullible pawns won't appreciate a paper or its readers that might examine a product (or an idea) before they buy it.
If that kind of vendor boycotts the T-G for harboring thinking people,they deserve to fold due to lack of business.
The fact that some banal,unimpressive,disjointed and irritating statements appear shows that the Times-Gazette isn't doing too much censoring of what we post.
The fact that a number of especially foolish and hateful comments never see the light of day shows that the paper has no intention of letting a few troublemakers deny the majority of readers a voice.
We might wish that the paper would do more to keep us from being stupid in public but that might deny folks some important truths,as well.
If we show our support for fair and incisive reporting and are good stewards of our right to comment,then,perhaps,our paper won't devolve into a bland shopper or a tabloid based on bread-and-circuses.
-- Posted by quantumcat on Thu, Feb 19, 2009, at 1:03 PM
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Skip to comments.If Women Ran the World
Posted on 05/22/2013 2:46:23 AM PDT by rhema
Writing for The Atlantic in September of 2012, Hanna Rosin argued that the hookup culture so prevalent on college campuses and in the lives of young adults is an engine of female progressone being harnessed and driven by women themselves. She wrote:
To put it crudely, feminist progress right now largely depends on the existence of the hookup culture. And to a surprising degree, it is womennot menwho are perpetuating the culture, especially in school, cannily manipulating it to make space for their success, always keeping their own ends in mind.
For college girls these days, an overly serious suitor fills the same role an accidental pregnancy did in the 19th century: a danger to be avoided at all costs, lest it get in the way of a promising future.
In other words, women have succeeded in becoming the men they hated.
Earlier this month, during her annual campaign fundraiser called The Ultimate Womens Power Lunch, Democratic Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois prefaced her introduction of Planned Parenthoods Cecile Richards with the declaration that humanity is at a crossroads on this small planet and that our survival as a species is dependent on women taking charge, taking the world in our own hands.
If forensic psychologist and mens rights activist Helen Smith is correct, Schakowsky and her friends may have their hands full of the world, and sooner than they think. In her upcoming book Men on Strike, Smith offers up statistics and her own research to suggest that men are consciously boycotting marriage, fatherhood, and the American Dream because they feel beaten down by politically correct preferences and practicesin school, in the workplace, and in society in general. If the women want the world and all the power, the thinking goes, they can have it; the men will simply retire to whatever man-caves they are permitted.
Smith suggests that after several decades of giving particular attention and encouragement to female students, with good results, it may be time for schools and society to pay attention to the males, and to observe what has happened to those boys less-celebrated, who are now men feeling left behind and lonely. In a recent column for the New York Times, Ross Douthat cited troubling statistics: The suicide rate for Americans 35 to 54 increased nearly 30 percent between 1999 and 2010; for men in their 50s, it rose nearly 50 percent.
The sexual revolution promise that women could have it all has always been oddly paradoxical: It encouraged women to find their best selves by aping men and conforming to traditionally male valuations of worth and relevance. Mistaking the word equal for the word same, these hookup feminists have become precisely the shallow, insincere, career-fixated, people-users that early feminists decried. From spare button-down shirt in the office, to meaningless sex, Don Draper has not disappeared; he has just changed his name to Donna. Women replace men, but the storycontra Schakowskystays the same.
Schakowskys hope for a world led by women is also challenged by Mary Eberstadts just-released book How the West Really Lost God. Eberstadt challenges the accepted notion that faith supports marriage and the family, asking whether it is not actually the other way aroundthat the forming of families leads to faith.
Eberstadt makes the case that through committed human love we find God, and that this is particularly true in the transcendent experience of parenthood. The utterly new love that enters the world through childbirth leads us to acknowledge something that is greater than ourselves, and worthy of our gratitude.
Bit by bit we can see in such meditation the beginnings of an intuitively resonant account of how Christianity (and likely other religions too) really waxes and wanes in the world. . . . The Christian story itself is a story told through the prism of the family. Take away the prism and the story makes less sense.
Parents are the most fundamental defenders of life; they will die for their childrens sakes. Disrupt the family and you disrupt life, but not death. Death goes on. Our increasingly secular society sanctions abortion and euthanasia and battles to celebrate sterile unions that cannot naturally populate the world. We are in dissolution, so lonely that we are killing ourselves, so earth-bound in our thinking that we throw people away.
Gender politics have so confused us that the complementarity of the sexes has become a quaint notion, but Jan Schakowskys conceit is that we may save the species by putting one sex in charge of the whole world.
And people of faith are told they are gullible.
Gender politics have so confused us that the complementarity of the sexes has become a quaint notion, but Jan Schakowskys conceit is that we may save the species by putting one sex in charge of the whole world.
And people of faith are told they are gullible.
Women have always run the world:
Woman's World
I have always felt that women, in consort with men (in a family type of structure) are a positive and "civilizing" influence, in that they bring out the best in men.
Also true, in my opinion, is that women on their own can be just as venal and corrupt as men.
Women want the world???
Let 'em have it - and good luck to 'em.
They'll need it.
Nothing would change, women are just as greedy, conniving, petulant, arrogant — just some in different ways.
It's hard to find a benevolent dictator be they Men or Women.
What is not generally known (and undoubtedly suppressed by leftist feminist journalists) is the fact that since women have gained jobs in many areas of business responsibility, the amount of embezzlement by female employees has rise precipitously. Statistics from various gov. sources say the ratio is 2-1 female to male in cases of embezzlement over large sums, but other sources put the number of women being the offender at 75-80%. The typical offender is a single female in her mid to late forties given complete authority over funds for businesses or charity orgs and such.
I became aware of this phenomenon about ten years ago while reading the paper at work. It seemed every other week I'd read about an embezzlement case involving large sums of money. Virtually every offender was female. One case in recent years involved the female mayor of San Diego who stole millions of dollars intended for a public charity.
Since males are usually the offender in the great majority of other crimes, was this crime of greed the one area where women outperformed men? It appears so. My wife really became irritated when I mentioned this phenomenon to her, and she, of course began railing about all the crime men commit. Which is true: men easily lead women in virtually every other area of crime you can mention. But the canard that women are guiltless/blameless perfect angels who will lead the world to utopia is undermined by the fact that many women will steal you blind if put in positions of power.
The great taboo, the veritable mastodon in the room, is that whatever societal 'advances' Western women have made since the caves are the direct result of the chivalry and doting forbearance of men.
Spanning the gamut from angelic to loathsome, women can be the most captivatingly awesome of creatures, or they can be Hellary!, or any of the countless variants between.
In our eternally mysterious yearning for their company, and in deference to their infinite idiosyncrasies, men routinely supply and refresh the various clubs used to beat us into seeming PC impotence.
Wimyn seem to think they want to wage war on men and rule the world, when the reality, absent that chivalry and forbearance, is that they wouldn't last a day.
</give a damn>
She nails it!
Hollywood would portray them as evil businesswomen in movies and TV series, responsible for all the woes of the world by their greed and indifference to (fill in the blank)
In sitcoms and commercials, women would also be the butt of jokes, the dumbest members of the family, old-fashioned, bigotted, inferior to even pets and houseplants.
Some great comments here.
I'd take a Margaret Thatcher in a heartbeat.
Maybe Palin or Bachmann? But the last thing I want is a token woman (like the token black we have in office now). No more affirmative action candidates.
I didn't know those statistics, but immediately after reading this thread, I saw one about an IRS employee embezzling them for four years. Female? Yup. Started once she was given an IRS credit card. Bought all sorts of things from cosmetics to Ginzu knives, then forged the receipts given to her superiors.
Interesting points,
It is certainly like that here in Maryland, single +divorced women many unmarried with kids #1 issue is themselves.
We have a woman running the most powerful nation on earth - Valerie Jarrett.
Look where that's gotten us
It's more like a man will choose to become civilized in order to attract and hold onto a good woman, and have children he is sure are his.
Take away the rewards of being civilized, and men will eventually cease to value civilization. If marriage turns into Russian Roulette, where the guy stands to lose his assets and his children at whatever point the wife decides she's "unfulfilled" and needs to "find herself" (with a succession of bad boys), and men will lose interest in marriage.
Women are also fooling themselves about the rewards of a career, thinking they can postpone marriage and kids until they are in their thirties, and a good man will come along at whatever point the woman decides she's ready. I got news for the ladies: men will not be attracted to your career as much as you think they will.
I think a good percentage of thirty-something men (perhaps most) would be more attracted to a 22-year old waitress who is pretty, in good shape, has an affectionate personality, and has a high libido than to a thirty-something executive who has none of the above qualities.
Rush's undeniable truth of life -
that modern feminism is about giving unattractive, harpylike women access to the mainstream of society.
Valerie Jarrett is a woman?
I thought she was one of those alien lizard people from "V".
.. and the way that's overtly encouraged is nicely delineated in #12 above
Powerful. So well written.
This woman agrees on both points.
Hmmm...That is an interesting hypothesis you put forward. It does indeed seem, anecdotally, that it is usually women. Several cases come to mind, right now.
Makes sense to this girl (who does not, BTW, want to rule the world).
Have my Nomex laid out right over there on the table, and am somewhat surprised to have not needed it so far .. then again, it's early yet d;^)
She certainly fits the bill doesn't she?
> We have a woman running the most powerful nation on earth - Valerie Jarrett.
Look where thats gotten us
You beat me to it...: )
Wouldn't bother me too much if Palin unseated her plus she's a lot easier on the eyes.
There are two structures of social hierarchy in this world: familes (with the extreme of tribalism) and government. Break down families and you have induced a demand for government.
If women ran the world, a major war would occur every 28-30 days.
I don't care who unseats her just so long as they aren't commies.
Sick and tired of commies! ugggggh!
What women lack in the capacity for the direct physically brutal violence of which men are capable, they make up for with their own capacity for viciousness, backstabbing, and dishonesty. Kipling was wrong; the "female of the species" is not more deadly (as a direct, unconstrained confrontation will show) ... just different. At their worst, men and women alike can be spectacularly ugly. It's called "original sin". Pick up a Bible and read all about it.
Civilisation (IMO) is the result of cooperative action between men and women (individually and in larger groups) trying to minimize the bad and accentuate the good. The so-called "battle of the sexes" is a direct assault on civilisation.
And all the men would go on a hunting, fishing and camping trip when it did.
Among Plains and Rocky Mountain tribes, this was precisely what happened. If they were lucky, when they got back, the wives would merely have beaten up on each other and nobody was seriously injured or dead.
I can imagine. In the close confines of a nomad camp, women would "synchronize" pretty quickly. I bet the braves would have kept bug-out bags packed all the time...
If you read the Bible, Old Testement law had the Women's tents where they went during that time.
My bride at first thought that was horrible, and then realized it would mean the husbands weren't around to make them mad.
Like the Children of Israel, many of these Tribes were displaced from their homelands and/or escaping slavery.
Just as one example, the Siouxian tribes lived in the Ohio River Valley before moving into the Plains. The Mandan branch pretty much took up farming where they left off because they moved to a remote area of the country (Missouri River Valley of present North Dakota) where they were left alone for the next 3-4 centuries.
The main body of the Sioux, on the other hand, took up the nomadic hunter-gather lifestyle because they took up closer and more desireable lands in modern day Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota where they were constantly being displaced by more aggressive tribes (such as the Chippewa) moving west.
That's a mistake.
Men in power have never ripped women's sex organs out for fun and politics. Women have. Read Robert Graves and some of the other scholars of pre-Indo-European Europe, or "Old Europe". There is a lot of dark stuff locked up in women, and the Communist International wants to use it.
When men have maltreated women (rape, murder) they've tended to die ignominiously. Not so the ancient priestesses who destroyed men on their altars on Midsummer's Night and at the end of the lunar year -- at the close of the ill-omened 13th month.
But don't go by me. Go on, read. It'll make your hair gray .... unless you're a woman with a hidden flavor for sadism, instrumentalism, and cruelty. Read up. Get a load of what The Grrrls have in store for you.
Yeah, there's one significant drawback to that approach. They might reconsider fairly quickly.
Amen, Brother!
To all: You've not met any intellectual women have you?
They do exist, contrary to popular belief... I know because I've had the privilege of working with them.
What popular belief, Benny? I've known more female Ph.Ds than men.
Do you then suppose that a PhD better qualifies ones capacity to reason? Do you think this capacity could differ depending on whether an individual is male or female?
Perhaps I should be clearer about this: The popular consensus in academic and political circles [more specifically areas with greater influence] tends to be that women lack competency (hence your image and associated comment) and therefore the practical intellectual (systemizing) ability to lead solutions-based practices (e.g. research).
It is true that many women tend to hold qualifications [particularly PhDs] in soft science subjects (if science at all). Thus, unless you have been working at Los Alamos [etc] I cannot conceive that, at least statistically, you have either a.) known many men. Or b.) known many women. Or c.) are particularly well-travelled outside of the U.S.
I am not interested in banter with you; I am interested in how you arrived at your conclusions.
- Benny
Uh oh, looks like RC got under your skin a little bit with his Benny quip.
Any chance that youre a brittle liberal troll?
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