08/26 Open Thread - Womens's Equality Day in the US
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WOW! Just think about it, women get to be equal for one entire day, ain't that something? Well, at least it would be something if they actually got to be fully equal in all respects, even if only for one lousy day, but, alas, it is a fiction like so many other things we celebrate. It is an admirable goal, full equality for women, and it is nice that this may have some sort of inspirational effect, but it also has a somewhat distressing and depressing effect, knowing that the idea is annually dangled out there to taunt women and their supporters and sympathizers.
In 1970, a new feminist movement lead a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality. NOW's Betty Friedan articulated 3 principal goals for the strike, free abortion on demand, free childcare, and equal opportunity in the workplace. SO, how's 0 for 3 sound so far? However, the inimitable Bela Abzug did talk arch liberal Richard Nixon into issuing a Presidential proclamation declaring August 26 to be Women's Equality Day, so that's at least something. Thank you Bela, thanks, Dick.
The sorry truth is that women aren't even close to achieving full equality, especially not nationwide. There are large swaths of the country where women aren't even free, let alone equal. Self ownership is a hallmark of freedom, that and personal sovereignty. Women, in much of the US, have neither, and cannot even remotely be considered to be free. To speak of their equality is laughable. At this point in time, it doesn't even seem to be a likely eventuality.
Be that as it may, the US is not noted for its honesty in its slogans and self-descriptions, so we may as well just accept that such a holiday exists, in the same fashion as the Declaration of Independence claimed that all men are created equal, except for Indians, enslaved persons, assorted others and, of course, women.
It is pretty clear that we are not yet remotely close to achieving women's equality, and, if I may, I have a suggested solution to propose, yet another march:
WorkersWomen of theworldUS unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.
On this day in history:
1346 – Though greatly outnumbered, the English won a horribly lopsided victory over the French at Crecy. Because of this stunning victory, the war only dragged on for 107 more years, and, in the end, led to a French victory.
In 1542, Francisco de Orellana finished crossing South America from Guayaquil to the mouth of the Amazon River and the Atlantic
1767 – Jesuits all over Chile were arrested as the Spanish Empire suppressed the "Society of Jesus"
1768 - Captain James Cook set sail from England aboard HMS Endeavour.
1789 - The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France, proving yet again that talk is cheap.
1791 - John Fitch got a US patent on the steamboat.
1883 - The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa began its final stage
1920 - The 19th amendment to US Constitution took effect, giving women the right to vote. Et Voila!, women's equality, non? Heh.
In 1942, the Ukrainian police and German Schutzpolizei deported 2,000 Jews to the Belzec extermination camp after exterminating roughly 500 of them on the spot, mostly children and the sick.
1970 - Leaders of the "second-wave feminist movement" led a nationwide Women's Strike for Equality. I surmise that a full on prolonged national strike by all women and all of their allies might accomplish something, probably martial law, unfortunately. Every woman in this country needs to go (re)read Lysistrata.
1980 brought us the glorious Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing, wherein one John Birges, who placed the bomb in Harvey's Tahoe eventually received a sentence of life in prison, as opposed to the illustrious heroes of the FBI, who, instead of first removing it to a safe place detonated it in place, unshielded, after adding an additional C-4 explosive charge and received no punishment whatsoever.
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2011 – The Boeing 787 Dreamliner received certification from the EASA and the FAA.
Some people who were born on this day:
The very idea of true patriotism is lost, and the term has been prostituted to the very worst of purposes. A patriot, sir! Why, patriots spring up like mushrooms!
~~ Robert Walpole
1676 - Robert Walpole, scholar and politician
1728 - Johann Heinrich Lambert, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, logician
1736 – Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, mineralogist and geologist
1740 - Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventor, developed a man carryng hot air balloon.
1743 - Antoine Lavoisier, chemist
1865 – Arthur James Arnot, engineer and inventor
1873 - Lee de Forest, engineer, invented the triode
1874 - Zona Gale, novelist, short story writer, and playwright. Pulitzer winner.
1880 – Guillaume Apollinaire, author, poet, playwright, and critic
1882 - James Franck, physicist
1901 - Jimmy Rushing, singer and bandleader
1904 – Christopher Isherwood, author
1906 - Albert Sabin, physician and virologist
1918 - Katherine Johnson, physicist and mathematician
1920 – Brant Parker, illustrator (wizard of id)
1935 - Karen Sparck Jones, computer scientist
1937 - Don Bowman, country singer and songwriter who wrote wildwood weed
1940 - Vic Dana, dancer and singer
1940 - Nik Turner, musician and songwriter
1941 - Chris Curtis, drummer and singer
1943 - Dori Caymmi, singer, songwriter, arranger, and guitarist
1944 - Maureen Tucker, singer, songwriter. and drummer
1946 - Valerie Simpson, singer and songwriter, half of Ashford & Simpson
1949 - Leon Redbone, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1960 – Branford Marsalis, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
1966 – Shirley Manson, Singer, songwriter, and actress
1971 – Thalía, singer, songwriter, and actress
Some people who died on this day:
“To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds,”
~~ William James
1666 – Frans Hals, painter and educator
1723 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, microscopist and biologist
1865 - Johann Franz Encke, astronomer, think Encke's gap
1910 - William James, psychologist and philosopher
1958 - Ralph Vaughan Williams, composer
1972 - Francis Chichester, pilot and sailor
1974 - Charles Lindbergh, pilot and explorer
1981 - Lee Hays, singer, songwriter and weaver
1989 - Irving Stone, author
2004 – Laura Branigan, singer, songwriter, and actress
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Make your own luck day
Motorist consideration Monday
Women's Equality Day, Heh
Today's Tunes
Women's Equality Day
John Fitch
Krakatoa
Jimmy Rushing
Don Bowman
Vic Dana
Chris Curtis
Dori Caymmi
Maureen Tucker
Valerie Simpson
Leon Redbone
Branford Marsalis
Thalia
Ralph Vaughn Williams
Lee Hays
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Open Thread, Womens Equality, Krakatoa, Lee de Forest, Albert Sabin, Mo Tucker, Lee Hayes, William James, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Leon Redbone
Comments
“Cherry Lips” — Shirley Manson / Garbage
Song supposedly originally conceived as a shout-out to J.T. LeRoy (Laura Albert)…
Good morning lotl. Very intresting video and song.
Thanks.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning...
Equality is often promised, but rarely delivered.
A nice 65F this AM, so better get on with garden chores while it's nice.
Thanks for the OT and all the music!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Yeah, LO, 65 sounds like gardening weather.
It's headed for 89 here, which means low 90s in our back yard. Definitely NOT gardening weather, but the tomatoes should love it.
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Big Kitty is watching (Bad Cattitude / El Gato Malo)
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/the-censorship-and-surveillance-state
The surveillance control freaks
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are getting a bit ham-handed, going after platform chiefs
trying to blame the ills of society on everyone but themselves
how to get de-platformed: publish an opinion contrary to the
rulers' propaganda and back it up with facts. They hate that.
Truer words, as they say.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thank you Q
for the truth expressed, directly and poetically in a nutshell.
Thanks lotl, good article. Looks like an interesting source.
The problem, of course, is that we lack our own untouchable network and are hence always at risk.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Women's equality is
is a mythical idea.
Oh, well, so is democracy.
So is US currency.
I am getting one kid back to Texas, after getting cooperation trom the Ok reservation cops, and now have another kid being held by it's Mom in violation of custody orders here in Tx.
Tx. cops are refusing to help, but my judge will damn well order them to do their job.
It's Monday.
gaahh!!!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc. Seems like you've got
enough on your plate at the moment. Seems odd that the reservation cops, who could give you jurisdictional hassles, don't, while the Tx cops who can't argue jurisdiction give you grief, but Tx has always had its share of fiefdoms, iirc.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
When cops do not want to work, they
use the fall back excuse: This is a civil matter.
Except it is now a felony. You'd think they would be happy to arrest someone!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
So how do you embed this fourteen-second video?
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/iopGrocdURtrf8x4/
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
What is the thing with the hands?
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
I think they're just proud of their AIPAC money
they just sort of "rock on" and then pass it to the next video. The last video is revealing.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
The Annual Global Happiness Index
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This year's World Happiness report finds there’s been a slight dip in happiness year-on-year as economic and political clouds loom overhead. Happiness is still higher that the lows during the pandemic years. Seventy-one percent of those surveyed across 30 countries describe themselves as happy, higher than the August 2020 figure of 63%, but lower than the 2011 figure of 77%.
Looking at the long-term trends, Türkiye has seen the biggest decline in reported happiness since 2011 (down 30 percentage points), while Spain has seen the biggest increase during that time (up 7pp). In 2024, the Netherlands is the country where happiness is highest, with 85% describing themselves as happy. At the other end of the scale, Hungary and South Korea (48%) are the least happy.
China has been riding at the top of the Happiness Scale in recent years. But not anymore!!! China has vanished from this year's report. Someone doesn't want the people of the world to notice that a Communist country could be the "Happiest Place on Earth."
See the Tweet, below:
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IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
Maybe the Dems will create a Joy Index
as part of a revival of this old institution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strength_Through_Joy
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
happiness is a warm gun
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Like all polls done nowadays, mostly BS for some agenda unknown.
What makes you happy?
You're right.
The results of One single poll are BS.
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However, One poll that is repeated yearly in many countries across many decades .... is Dynamic Data. The combined Dynamic Data from several key indicators can give us an important glimpse into the likely future.
At the moment, not much makes me happy. The operating system in this country is tainted and broken. There's nothing here that I would fight to keep. But I still see doors to alternative worlds if I want to leap into the unknown.
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
Such a thing cannot be possible, ergo the data is
wrong and needs to be eliminated. Very typical.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
It wasn't long ago when that sort of deceit
....would knock me off balance. The boulder I'm trying to push up this damn hill would get just a little heavier.
That all has fallen away, now.
I can even empathize with the petty panic of Western leaders and NGOs. Soon the time will come when the only useful weapons in their arsenal will be history revision, data manipulation; gaslighting, and book burning. (The Federal government has already started to look like the Wizard of OZ.)
IMAGINE if you woke up the day after a US Presidential Election and headlines around the the world blared, "The Majority of Americans Refused to Vote in US Presidential Election! What Does this Mean?"
Hi Pluto
As we all know, a lot in life is relative, and the measurement of happiness is certainly relative. I’m sure we would all have other questions to ask, and varied criteria to gauge by.
Does anybody use Telegram to follow RT, Sputnik,
or other "sites" or "sources".
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
never have unless in a post somewhere
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tunnel gram is like face plant and other mediums of like process
doubt the world will end if these info harvesters cease to exist
better to live unharnessed as my old pony used to intone
Thank you el
You have such a wonderful and well-lived voice for the masses, men and women. And your playlists are always a treat. I was totally mesmerised by Hilary Hahn and Mo Tucker and the Velvet Underground.
My pleasure. Thanks for reading and for the compliments.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --