This evening's music features jazz trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong. Enjoy!
Bettie Boop/Louis Armstrong - I'll Be Glad when You're Dead You Rascal, You
I have never really been comfortable with designating the truly Bad People on the intertubes, "trolls."
When I was a kid, which I confess was back in the last millennium, trolls were short, hairy, needle-nosed creatures, perpetual grumps who seemed to be eternally afflicted with vicious hangovers, which caused them to menace goats who clip-clopped too loudly upon the planks of bridges laid over watery troll wallows.
Growing to love this tune, especially the lyrics.
This evening's music features blues piano player and singer Mercy Dee Walton. Enjoy!
Mercy Dee - Red Light
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| 4 is the second squared number |
| 4 is the smallest squared prime |
| 4 is the only even squared prime |
| 4 is both 2 dooubled and 2 squared |
| A number is divisible by 4 if its last two digits are divisible by 4. For example 1632 is divisible by 4 because 32 is divisible by 4 (4 x 8 = 32) |
| A Tetrahedron has 4 sides and 4 vertices. It is the simplest Platonic solid. |
Researchers at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law published a new study in the December issue of the SAGE Journal Research and Politics. The study, Transgender inclusion in state non-discrimination policies: The democratic deficit and political powerlessness, was written by Andrew R. Flores, Jody Herman, and Christy Mallory.
Transgender people—people whose gender identity or expression is different from their assigned sex at birth—and their allies advocate for the inclusion of gender identity or transgender in state non-discrimination policies. These policies generally proscribe discrimination in employment, housing, and public accommodations. Courts and administrative agencies have determined discrimination against transgender people is a violation of existing statutes, but there remain efforts by advocates to seek policies that explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of transgender status, which are often the result of legislation going through the political process. A pluralist understanding of the political process theorizes that a majority coalition of minorities can offer social groups policies they support. This rests on the presumption that a majority coalition of minorities should rule. Any indication to the contrary may suggest a democratic deficit, whereby more than a majority is necessary for policy introduction. We find that there is a substantial democratic deficit regarding the inclusion of gender identity or transgender in employment non-discrimination policies. On average, state support for the policy must be 81% in order for the state to have a policy reflecting such sentiment. This leaves substantial implications for the political powerlessness of transgender people in the political process.
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Monday January 3, 1916
From the International Socialist Review: Ralph Chaplin on Joe Hill's Funeral
In the latest edition of the Review, Fellow Worker Ralph Chaplin offers this account of the funeral of our martyred rebel songwriter which was held in Chicago this past Thanksgiving Day, November 25th:
JOE HILLS FUNERAL
By RALPH CHAPLIN
Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump, December site stats and music by The Pretenders.
Outrage Follows Saudi Arabia's Execution of Nearly 50 Prisoners
Saudi Arabia—recently chosen to to head a key United Nations human rights panel—on Saturday executed 47 people convicted of "terrorism," including at least four convicted of offenses related to political protest.
Incoming Mayor Jim Kenney has denounced the Mummers group Finnegan's Wake for its attack on the transgender community...and specifically Kaitlyn Jenner.
Kenney called the signs carried "bad" and "hurtful" and said that the Philadelphia transgender community did not deserve "that form of satire."
