[Hello, all. I've finally made the jump to join this community, and am very happy to see it prospering with so many wonderful folks. I'd like to republish my last post on DK, in case I'm banned and it becomes inaccessible. It was originally posted on January 31st. Something tells me it might be worth reconsulting at some point. A few minor edits are included.]
I joined yesterday when my son turned me on to c99 as we talked about DK silencing viewpoints and voices critical of HRC.
As longtime lurker, I read and learn. I'm not here to argue.
There is an important diary up at GOS by Valtin, one of the leading longtime writers about interrogation and torture since the start of the Iraq War. He rarely writes anything there anymore, no surprise, but he has offered an important piece about the recent UN report and the Obama Administration. He suggests that both Clinton and Sanders should speak to the issue and I tend to agree with him.
The Transportation Security Administration has identified the greatest danger to your travel: it's us transgender people.
TSA officials announced a new (and they say, final) rule that sets forth the discrimination we are due and you should be be safer with.
The rule implements the widespread use of body-scan technology which requires a TSA agent to choose a pink or blue button based on the perceived gender of the person traveling through U.S. airports. Transgender people, as a result of the policy’s gender bias, are stopped by TSA agents and forced to undergo pat downs and inspections of genital areas and chests.
Greetings! Apologies in advance for the non-substantive part of this message, but because I am a hopeless & involuntary Luddite, I wanted to convince myself I could learn to post here without mucking it up or worrying about it in future.
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Monday March 6, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: Comrade Debs on the Fantines of Our Day
From this month's edition of the Review, Comrade Debs urges class solidarity and human compassion for the "girls, women who have walked the path of thorns and briers with bare and bleeding feet; who know the ways of agony and tears, and who move in melancholy procession as capitalist society's sacrificial offering to nameless and dishonored graves."
FANTINE IN OUR DAY
By EUGENE V. DEBS
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THE reader of "Les Miserables" can never forget the ill-starred Fantine, the mournful heroine of Hugo's immortal classic. The very name of Fantine, the gay, guileless, trusting girl, the innocent, betrayed, self-immolating young mother, the despoiled, bedraggled, hunted and holy martyr to motherhood, to the infinite love of her child, touches to tears and haunts the memory like a melancholy dream.
Jean Valjean, noblest of heroes, was possible only because of Fantine, sublimest of martyrs.
Fantine—child of poverty and starvation—the ruined girl, the abandoned mother, the hounded prostitute, remained to the very hour of her tragic death chaste as a virgin, spotless as a saint in the holy sanctuary of her own pure and undefiled soul. It was of such as Fantine that Heine wrote: "I have seen women on whose cheeks red vice was painted and in whose hearts dwelt heavenly purity."
The longer I read the "news", the less I am informed and the more I am confused and finally end up with a big headache and getting really physically sick.
1899 -Friedrich Bayer & Co patented acetylsalicylic acid, which it modestly named Bayer Aspirin.
1945 - The spawn of the devil was surreptitiously mixed with a used wet mop, fungi collected from the broken fridge in a college's male dormitory, and a badly edited "do it yourself" book, Egotism for Morons, resulting in the birth of Donald Trump.
COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!
