A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
[guest post by Dana]
As we are all well aware, March is Women’s History month. Here is President Obama’s proclamation.
In part,
As women fight for their seats at the head of the table, my Administration offers our unwavering support. The first bill I signed as President was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which made it easier for women to challenge pay discrimination. Under the Affordable Care Act, we banned insurance companies from charging women more because of their gender, and we continue to defend this law against those who would let women’s bosses influence their health care decisions. Last year, recognizing a storied history of patriotic and courageous service in our Armed Forces, the United States military opened ground combat units to women in uniform. We are also encouraging more girls to explore their passions for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and taking action to create economic opportunities for women across the globe. Last fall, we finalized a rule to extend overtime and minimum wage protections to homecare workers, 90 percent of whom are women. And this January, I launched a White House task force to protect students from sexual assault.
Clearly, there is much to disagree with and debate within the proclamation. Not all of us play gender politics, and not all of us see these changes as a positive for our country. Also, it’s important to note that the progress cited in the proclamation is not necessarily being accurately reflected.
In the interest of brevity and because a picture is indeed worth a thousand words, I will simply say that I choose to be grateful for what others dare not dream about. And I don’t need one month of the year federally designated as a reminder.
(Photo via American Digest)
–Dana
I think it’s worth approximately 10,000 words, Dana.
Colonel Haiku (f4b9a2) — 3/23/2014 @ 1:25 pmAnd Preezy Obumbler needs to set a better example and pay Female White House staff members as much as he pays the males. Money where yer mouth is Preezy.
Colonel Haiku (f4b9a2) — 3/23/2014 @ 1:28 pmDana – Where’s my sammich?
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 3/23/2014 @ 2:04 pm“The first bill I signed as President was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which made it easier for women to challenge pay discrimination.”
Except in the White House.
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 3/23/2014 @ 2:06 pmThey would challenge it, if they had given up on ever having a political job in the future.
askeptic (2bb434) — 3/23/2014 @ 2:11 pmi like how food stamp made it to where sexual assaults on campus won’t be a problem no mores
he’s so goddamn awesome
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/23/2014 @ 2:24 pmWhat do the wimmins expect from a nihilist Crack Whore, empathy?
gary gulrud (384f70) — 3/23/2014 @ 2:30 pmMy grandma and mom where typical white women.
mg (31009b) — 3/23/2014 @ 2:36 pmWorked hard and played hard.
were
mg (31009b) — 3/23/2014 @ 2:38 pmCelebrate Diversity!
Perfectsense (4d5c72) — 3/23/2014 @ 2:43 pmWe had a Rape Culture until teh One was elected!
daleyrocks (bf33e9) — 3/23/2014 @ 2:50 pmWow! Another Obama speech full of leftist hyperbole, catch phrases, exaggerations, half truths and full blown lies.
Let’s just consider Dana’s example paragraph.
“As women fight for their seats at the head of the table” Other than the usual bull shit, meaningless leftist phrase what on earth does “their seats at the head of the table” mean? What table? What doe it even represent?
“the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, which made it easier for women to challenge pay discrimination.”
I believe that’s code for “enhancing the grievance industry to broaden the lawsuits lawyers can cash in on for my friends at the ACLU”.
“Under the Affordable Care Act, we banned insurance companies from charging women more because of their gender” Typical lie. Women were never charged more “because of their gender”, they were charged more because the actuary’s note they use more health care services. Women also pay less for car insurance for the same reason. Is the leftist asshole gonna raise their car insurance rates?
“and we continue to defend this law against those who would let women’s bosses influence their health care decisions”. Really? so now a person is banned from “influencing” another person? I can try and “influence” any damn thing I want as long as I don’t “force” someone to do something against their will. Like Obama’s doing to me with the ACA. That’s not “influence” Obama, that’s force. Lyin’ pig.
“We are also encouraging more girls to explore their passions for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics” Why? You don’t like the career choices “girls” make Obama? You know better what they should study and which fields they should enter? My God, you are one arrogant idiot!
“and taking action to create economic opportunities for women across the globe” Across the globe? Now our taxes are supposed to create opportunities for some idiot in Somalia? Or Crimea? Hey asshole, women “across the globe” aren’t your concern. Women here are. And even they aren’t your concern, you daughters are, not mine.
“Last fall, we finalized a rule to extend overtime and minimum wage protections to homecare workers, 90 percent of whom are women.” If 90% of them are women, don’t you think it’s time for a program to encourage “boys” the “explore their passions” in this industry? I mean since women are the majority and all.
“And this January, I launched a White House task force to protect students from sexual assault.”
I am stunned to hear that under your administration of the last five years students had been unprotected from sexual assault. My Gog man, what have you been doing, playing golf? Go forth and protect the students by all means since so far you have apparently failed to do so.
These leftists are so stupid and just so damn predictable.
Hoagie (511e55) — 3/23/2014 @ 2:50 pmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhZe7eZK4dw
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 2:57 pmOr 9.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 3:01 pmI’m not making light of the situation. It sucks.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 3:06 pmMeanwhile, in the real world, women are now more likely than men to earn a college degree at every level from associate to PhD, while college-age men are something like seven or eight times as likely to be in prison as their female counterparts. Also, the unemployment rate for males age 18-25 is consistently 3 to 5 percentage points higher than the unemployment rate for females in that age group.
But hey, it’s young women who are really in crisis, right Mr. President? Is it because you won two-thirds of the 18-29 women’s vote in 2012 that you are so furiously pandering to them?
JVW (9946b6) — 3/23/2014 @ 3:16 pmMaybe it’s because guys in the US are more likely to get kicked out of school got pointint their fingers.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 4:36 pmI doubt more women go to college in Pakistan.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 4:37 pmPointing. My fault.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 4:38 pmIs there an American History Month?
Kevin M (dbcba4) — 3/23/2014 @ 4:51 pmI doubt more women go to college in Pakistan.
If Obama wanted to highlight the difficulties that women face in Muslim-dominated countries, that might be very instructive. But of course the dictates of multiculturalism and the leftist fetish for the Third World don’t allow for anything but the mildest form of criticism of those types of practices. Instead, it’s those meanies who won’t force Catholic colleges to hook up their 30-year-old law students with birth control pills who are the real bad guys.
JVW (9946b6) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:00 pmChild brides and honor killings. I like our way better. Unwed fifteen-year old moms on welfare. Way more progressive.
nk (dbc370) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:19 pm==If Obama wanted to highlight the difficulties that women face in Muslim-dominated countries, that might be very instructive.==
Yeah. And just how in heck would that help Democrats in America get elected?
elissa (ffcbfb) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:20 pmwomen are just so crucial if the breathtakingly successful experiment we call america is to continue to prosper and thrive
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:30 pmhee i made myself giggle
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:30 pmActually, you’re not wrong, pikachu, but not the way they intend, Life of Julia, will never get you where you want to go.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/24/us/politics/us-intelligence-officials-believe-snowden-is-working-with-russia-lawmaker-says.html?_r=0
narciso (3fec35) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:35 pmus intelligence officials have the credibility of smegma
really really dishonest smegma
like the kind of smegma that lies ALL the time
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:41 pmWell as with Edward Lee Howard, Snowden seems to have found a nice fit, under SORM’s watchful eye,
narciso (3fec35) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:47 pmof course Howard might have been a distraction from Ames or Hanson,
@ JVW,
Dr. Phyllis Chesler, a strident feminist who [o]nce lived in a harem in Afghanistan…but survived, escaped, and learned about gender and religious apartheid long before the Taliban, and has spent her adult life fighting against all manner of gender degradation and apartheid in third worlds, had a similar thought,
I would submit that this is true of our current administration, (predominantly male) as well.
Dana (9a8f57) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:49 pmConsidering that his other job qualification is towel boy at “Svetlana’s Hostel with affordable quarter-hourly, half-hourly, and hourly rates”, it’s a pretty safe bet that he is giving Russia’s spies his all. McDonald’s won’t hire him because he’ll steal the french fry coating recipe.
nk (dbc370) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:50 pmEdward Lee Howard was a fuddy duddy whereas Mr. Snowden looks comfortable in even the more challenging Brooks Brothers ensembles
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:51 pmwell maybe not Svetlana’s
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ex-russian-spy-hots-snowden-article-1.1389534
narciso (3fec35) — 3/23/2014 @ 5:57 pmthey would make very pretty babies i think
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/23/2014 @ 6:00 pmDana, Dr. Chesler sounds like my kind of strident feminist.
JVW (9946b6) — 3/23/2014 @ 6:09 pmit really deserves MST3K level snark’
http://therightscoop.com/presidents-weekly-address-more-money-for-working-gals/
narciso (3fec35) — 3/23/2014 @ 6:12 pmYes, JVW, I think she would be. I tried to link to her website in my previous comment, but for some reason, I can no longer link or hyperlink. So here’s her link: http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/about/biography
Anyone know why linking function ceases to work?
Dana (9a8f57) — 3/23/2014 @ 6:13 pmLet’s see if linking function still works with Internet Explorer. It doesn’t with Firefox that I’ve been using lately.
Even with IE, the highlighted text gets eaten and I get a URL with verbiage. I have to carefully take out the verbiage while preserving the tags after the quotation marks of the URL and type in the hypertext I want.
Looks like a link in the preview.
nk (dbc370) — 3/23/2014 @ 6:23 pmIt works.
nk (dbc370) — 3/23/2014 @ 6:26 pmcovers several of these categories:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/03/pikes_pickets_and_scams.html
narciso (3fec35) — 3/23/2014 @ 6:37 pmAs nk says, Dana, hyperlinking doesn’t work on Firefox. It works fine on Safari and Chrome if you are a Mac user.
JVW (9946b6) — 3/23/2014 @ 6:58 pmFrom Dr. Chesler’s site:
Yep, here is the sort of strident feminist that we can work with (to quote my favorite strident feminist, Margaret Thatcher). I’ll have to Google her name to confirm that TPM, Kos, The Nation, and the rest of them hate her. I’m assuming they do.
JVW (9946b6) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:01 pmMe too. Much as I dislike a country that could elect Obama, I don’t think I wasted 20 years defending it.
I didn’t do this.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/US_Navy_100514-N-4776G-005_A_harbor_patrol_boat_assigned_to_Naval_Security_Force_Bahrain_conducts_a_patrol_mission.jpg/800px-US_Navy_100514-N-4776G-005_A_harbor_patrol_boat_assigned_to_Naval_Security_Force_Bahrain_conducts_a_patrol_mission.jpg
I supported them once. On the JMAST.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:16 pmIt was just called the MAST back then.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:18 pmMobile Ashore Support Terminal.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:23 pmHarbor defense.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:23 pmWe didn’t do anything. We sat around in meetings saying, “we’re not going to get any work done if we’re just going to have meetings.”
Government work.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:27 pmWe sat around in meetings saying, “we’re not going to get any work done if we’re just going to have meetings.”
Sadly that’s a huge problem in the private sector too, at least in my experience.
JVW (9946b6) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:32 pmFortunately nobody knew that.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:36 pmhttp://riversidebusinesscoach.com/2011/07/feeling-lonely-call-a-meeting-more-from-the-world-of-meetings/
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:38 pmWe did actually do stuff. Occasionally.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:40 pmHunt for downed airliners. That sort of thing.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:43 pmSpeaking of which;
https://twitter.com/ChicagoPhotoSho/status/436510145258848256/photo/1
narciso (3fec35) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:43 pmUK has a female genital mutilation hotline.
Man calls hotline to request procedure for daughters.
“In another [case], a suspect contacted an FGM helpline to request the procedure for his two daughters after misunderstanding the purpose of the service for victims.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-26681364
SPQR (768505) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:44 pmWhy am I not surprised?
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:50 pmFrom the article:
The thought of this thing disgusts me.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:54 pmIf it’s real that’s quite a scary photo narciso. Gov’t enforced news blackouts are always so interesting when they’re “outed” by citizen journalists.
elissa (3b31fc) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:54 pmIt’s an old pic, I believe it’s from Valencia, which is one of the strongest resistance outposts.
narciso (3fec35) — 3/23/2014 @ 7:57 pmWhat do you mean? The picture is old?
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/355/cache/child-bride-husband-yemen_35581_600x450.jpg
Here’s a new one.
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 8:08 pmSorry, the one from Venezuela,
narciso (3fec35) — 3/23/2014 @ 8:12 pmThread confusion. narciso and I are talking about a Venezuela pic that narsiso linked above, steve.
elissa (3b31fc) — 3/23/2014 @ 8:12 pmBack on the topic of War on Women, Dana Loesch is all over Rep. Jan Schakowsky for her ACA lies related to womens’ health. (That’s daleyrocks’ beloved congresscritter.)
http://twitchy.com/2014/03/23/please-apologize-dana-loesch-blasts-shameful-lie-by-illinois-rep-over-obamacare-anniversary/
elissa (3b31fc) — 3/23/2014 @ 8:33 pmDana,
As mentioned above, you can’t use the Patterico.com link code with the Firefox browser. You can use the link code with another browser, or you can use Firefox and manually type in the HTML link code. It’s a pain but I like to use Firefox so that’s how I do it.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 3/23/2014 @ 8:41 pmAm I good?
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/23/2014 @ 8:52 pmeres muy bueno senor 57
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/23/2014 @ 11:03 pmyou’re kinda high maintenance though
happyfeet (8ce051) — 3/23/2014 @ 11:03 pmDana Loesch is all over Rep. Jan Schakowsky for her ACA lies related to womens’ health. (That’s daleyrocks’ beloved congresscritter.)
We should have a contest for Patterico commenter with the worst congresscritter. daleyrocks has Schakowski, I have Henry Waxman. Anyone have Jerrold Nadler, Nancy Pelosi, Alan Grayson, or Debbie Wasserman-Schultz? Any Barbara Lee constituents out there? Anybody live in Jesse Jackson Jr’s former district?
JVW (9946b6) — 3/23/2014 @ 11:32 pmWilliam Delehunt
mg (31009b) — 3/24/2014 @ 12:25 amFricken democratic turd.
There is a book– rough title is Too Many Women , so little time — written by a feminist, hard core Bill Clinton worker and supporter. Signed up in one of his programs after he was elected to go to 3rd world country and help women. What she realized is , it was all for show. The US gov. doesn’t understand the problem and cant solve it. Worth reading, sorry I couldn’t find the title.
SDHarms (f76bf1) — 3/24/2014 @ 3:59 amSo Many Enemies, So Little Time: An American Woman in All the Wrong Places Paperback
by Elinor Burkett
SDHarms (f76bf1) — 3/24/2014 @ 4:07 amhttp://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Revelation-20-13/
I’ll try to work on that,
Steve57 (4507bb) — 3/24/2014 @ 4:18 amBut, but, but, multiculturalism!
It’s completely raaaaacist and Islamophobic of the prettier Dana to have written this, and I thoroughly denounce her!
The far-left Dana (3e4784) — 3/24/2014 @ 4:52 amWhat’s wrong with having child bride,
The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 3/24/2014 @ 4:56 amAlong with a little on the side?
You shouldn’t knock,
The way that we rock,
‘Cause we have one heck of a ride!
Debbie Dubious, but I’ll be moving,
narciso (3fec35) — 3/24/2014 @ 4:57 amWe should have a contest for Patterico commenter with the worst congresscritter
I win, hands down. In order: Rostenkowski, Blagojevich, Emanuel, Yates, Schakowsky, Lipinski, Quigley.
nk (dbc370) — 3/24/2014 @ 5:12 amRepresentative Matthew Cartwright (D-PA-17), in the middle of the pack as far as the Democrats go, which puts him to the left of every Republican. He’s as much of a non-entity as someone can be and still be a congressman.
The Dana misrepresented by a Democrat (3e4784) — 3/24/2014 @ 5:24 amnk wins this thing hands down,
The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 3/24/2014 @ 5:29 amHis reps are a series of clowns!
But he chose to live there
In an area where
Repubs get to do nothing but frown!
But … f***ing, you see, and the young girls. Judges want to f*** young girls. Juries want to f*** young girls. Everyone wants to f*** young girls!”
Nobody sexualizes young girls more than the West. Beams and motes. We need to clean up our own house, too.
Roma*n* Polans*k*i (dbc370) — 3/24/2014 @ 5:35 amwe’re in the best of hands;
US intercepted no comms by Russia leaders, military on Crimea plan; concern Moscow knows how to counter to US tactics http://on.wsj.com/1oRIKZj
narciso (3fec35) — 3/24/2014 @ 5:41 amDa. Or should that be “Duh!”
Felix Dzerzhi *n* s *k* y (dbc370) — 3/24/2014 @ 5:45 amIt doesn’t have to be high-tech. The late Osama bin Laden had no internet connection, and did all of his communications via courier. With supersonic jets in their service, the Kremlin could get orders to the military near Ukraine quickly enough.
The historian Dana (3e4784) — 3/24/2014 @ 6:15 amRommel tactics. The commanders on the field have been given their objectives, carrying them out is their responsibility without further guidance from high command necessary. And the situation is not all that fluid in the first place.
Felix Dzerzhi *n* s *k* y (dbc370) — 3/24/2014 @ 6:32 amNot to mention that the media is providing minute by minute updates on the takeover to the whole world.
nk (dbc370) — 3/24/2014 @ 6:36 amAncient Israel had child grooms. Compare 2 Chron. 36:5 with 2 Chron. 34:1.
Michael Ejercito (906585) — 3/24/2014 @ 6:58 amComment by DRJ (a83b8b) — 3/23/2014 @ 8:41 pm
As mentioned above, you can’t use the Patterico.com link code with the Firefox browser.
I can. If fact, I can only do it with the Firefox browser. It doesn’t work with Internet Explorer. (at certain locations, not this one. Here I think it doesn’t work at all, but I havent tried it enough.)
Sammy Finkelman (798a49) — 3/24/2014 @ 8:28 amComment by JVW (9946b6) — 3/23/2014 @ 11:32 pm
Anyone have Jerrold Nadler,
I do. Since 1992.
Sammy Finkelman (798a49) — 3/24/2014 @ 8:29 amComment by SDHarms (f76bf1) — 3/24/2014 @ 3:59 am
What she realized is , it was all for show.
Well, a lot of what Bill Clinton did – and Jimmy Carter too – was just for show. They were both big liars.
That doesn’t prove you couldn’t actually do something about whatever you are concerned about.
Sammy Finkelman (798a49) — 3/24/2014 @ 8:31 amDRJ & Sammy,
I manually typed in the HTML code and it still won’t work. I double checked and JAVA script is enabled. I’m on Firefox, so perhaps I’ll have to switch to IE.
Dana (9a8f57) — 3/24/2014 @ 8:37 am78/80 They could also have direct landlines, although they probably are using something encrypted broadcast at radio wavelengths that the United States and Ukraine can’t intercept anyway.
What’s bad here is not taking into account that you can’t eavesdrop.
Not hearing something should therefore not be used an argument that nothing is being planned.
Russia could also have used some deception tactics, deliberately allowing certain things to be overheard.
Sammy Finkelman (798a49) — 3/24/2014 @ 8:39 amComment by Dana (9a8f57) — 3/24/2014 @ 8:37 am
I manually typed in the HTML code and it still won’t work. I double checked and JAVA script is enabled.
Not working after this is typed in would seem to indicate a problem at Patterico, because in that case it is obviously been sent. And if you made a mistake, you would see the whole thing probably.
I noticed a few long URLS (plain, not as part of a hyperlink) sometimes won’t post. Maybe there’s a problem with very long URLs. You can try making them shorter first.
I’m on Firefox, so perhaps I’ll have to switch to IE.
You can open up a separate window just for this.
Sammy Finkelman (798a49) — 3/24/2014 @ 8:42 amI’m sorry that didn’t work for you, Dana. This has gone beyond my technical abilities but I wish you luck in figuring it out.
DRJ (a83b8b) — 3/24/2014 @ 10:39 amIn an area where
Repubs get to do nothing but frown!
Comment by The Limerick Avenger (3e4784) — 3/24/2014 @ 5:29 am
Illinois does not have Republicans. http://politics.suntimes.com/article/chicago/kirk-protect-durbin-relationship-not-stump-oberweis/mon-03242014-533pm
Meh, I should have voted for the Greek mob loanshark, not the North Shore closeted gay-boy. What was that election in Louisiana with the “Vote for the crook, it’s important” bumper stickers?
nk (dbc370) — 3/25/2014 @ 6:00 amAin’t it the truth. http://www.saysuncle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/hz6NBlVl.jpg
nk (dbc370) — 3/25/2014 @ 6:04 amChild marriage, gay marriage, polyamorous marriage, … some people just hate others’ sexuality.
ErisGuy (76f8a7) — 3/26/2014 @ 4:20 am