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Picture of the Day for April 19, 2015: Looking Back at a Time When Republicans Supported Labor and Unions
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Tagged Labor, Labor Unions, Picture of the Day, Republicans, Young Republicans
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Picture of the Day for April 17, 2015: Mitch McConnell and the Minimum Wage
Posted by Elaine Magliaro
At a secret meeting of elite donors convened by the Koch brothers, McConnell laid out his plan for shrinking the federal government and whined about having to vote on minimum wage bills. (The Nation-August 26, 2014)
Posted in Conservatives, Government, Political Science, Politics, United States
Tagged ALEC, Congress, Minimum Wage, Mitch McConnell, Picture of the Day, Republicans, US Senate
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Political Cartoonist Mark Fiore Looks at Religious Freedom and Gay Commerce (VIDEO)
Posted by Elaine Magliaro
Mark Fiore:
What do you do when you sign a law that is perfectly fine and simply safeguards Religious Liberty for All in the great tradition of apple pie and God? Why, you urge your state legislators to revise it and make it acceptable to all those meddling outsiders who just don’t understand the wisdom of your legislation! Or at least that’s what you do if you’re Indiana governor Mike Pence.
Religious Freedom and Gay Commerce
Posted in Animation, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Democracy, Documentrary Films, Equal Rights, Fundamentalism, Government, Homosexual Rights, Humor, Political Science, Politics, Religion, Rock and Roll, Short Video, Society, States, United States
Tagged Indiana, Mark Fiore, Mike Pence, Political Cartoon, Republicans
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Stateside Oklahoma: Training Documents for the Reserve Deputy Who Killed Eric Harris Were Reportedly Falsified
Robert Bates
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By Elaine Magliaro
Tulsa World reported this morning that supervisors at the Tulsa Sheriff’s Office were ordered to falsify training records for Robert Bates, the reserve deputy who accidentally shot Eric Harris with a gun instead of a Taser on April 2nd. The State Medical Examiner said that Harris was shot in the right axilla. He died after being transported to the Tulsa hospital.
Eric Harris
Sources told Tulsa World that the falsified records gave Bates “credit for field training he never took and firearms certifications he should not have received.”
Tulsa World said, “At least three of reserve deputy Robert Bates’ supervisors were transferred after refusing to sign off on his state-required training, multiple sources speaking on condition of anonymity told the World.”
Tulsa World reported that the sources’ claims were “corroborated by records, including a statement by Bates after the shooting, that he was certified as an advanced reserve deputy in 2007.”
Posted in Law Enforcement, Local Government, United States
Tagged Oklahoma, Reserve Deputies
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“Nude Descending a Staircase” by X. J. Kennedy: A Famous Poem about a Famous Painting
By Elaine Magliaro
I enjoy reading poems that were written about works of art and literature–especially fairy tales. The following poem written by X.J. Kennedy has been a favorite of mine for decades. It was inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s famous painting Nude Descending a Staircase.
Note: X. J. Kennedy is a man of great wit. He has written some wonderful–and humorous–poetry for children. In 2000, he was the recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.
“Nude Descending a Staircase”
by Marcel Duchamp
Excerpt from Nude Descending a Staircase
BY X J KENNEDY
Toe after toe, a snowing flesh,
a gold of lemon, root and rind,
she sifts in sunlight down the stairs
with nothing on. Nor on her mind.
We spy beneath the banister
a constant thresh of thigh on thigh;
her lips imprint the swinging air
that parts to let her parts go by.
Click here to read the rest of the poem.
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Tagged Marcel Duchamp, National Poetry Month, Nude Descending a Staricase, Painting, X. J. Kennedy
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Picture of the Day for April 15, 2015: The Republican Guide to Female Anatomy
Posted in Anatomy, Biology, Conservatives, Equal Rights, Health Care, Humor, Political Science, Politics, Religion, Reproductive Rights, RNC, Society, United States
Tagged Picture of the Day, Republicans, Sexism
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Georgia Conscience Clause: Walmart Pharmacist Refuses to Fill Prescription for Woman Who Suffered a Miscarriage
By Elaine Magliaro
A Georgia woman named Brittany Cartrett was about five weeks into her pregnancy when she suffered a miscarriage recently. In order to avoid health problems that could be caused by her miscarriage, Cartrett’s doctor gave her two options: “an invasive ‘dilation and curettage’ procedure which would surgically remove the contents of the uterus, or a pill that would have the same effect but would be less invasive. She opted for the second option.”
The doctor told Cartrett that she should take the medicine that he prescribed for her because it would help her “to pass naturally” so that she wouldn’t “have to go the more invasive route.”
Dilation and curettage (also called D&C) is when a doctor removes tissue from the lining of a woman’s uterus. Dilation (“D”) is a widening of the cervix to allow medical instruments into the uterus. Curettage (“C”) is the scraping of the walls of the uterus.
The drug that Cartrett’s doctor prescribed for her is called misoprostol, which expels the contents of a uterus. It is used to treat abortions as well as incomplete miscarriages.
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