Sunday, November 11, 2018

Sarah Silverman: Lucky I Don't Have to Wear Hollywood Star on My Clothes

Sarah Silverman, after receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame earlier that day, told Bill Maher she is “very lucky” she doesn’t have to sew a Jewish star to her clothes under the Trump administration.

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/416055-sarah-silverman-im-very-lucky-i-dont-have-to-wear-a-jewish-star?fbclid=IwAR0JejAD-cpU-BL-m2xt-kC4siMYD0cJn-37d5b560O9ZcCJOaGkvD9PnCw

Catholic Church Sends Predator Priests to Minority Neighborhoods

People lower on the hierarchy receive more of what is undesirable. And they are less likely to be successful at challenging the top.

Catholic Church leaders in Los Angeles for years shuffled predator priests into non-English-speaking immigrant communities. That pattern was revealed in personnel documents released in a decades-old legal settlement between victims of child sex abuse by Catholic priests and the Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Now clergy sex abuse victims throughout California are working to get the release of more data to discover how wide-spread the practice of hiding abusers in immigrant communities really was.

 https://www.npr.org/2018/11/08/665251345/immigrant-communities-were-the-geographic-solution-to-predator-priests?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=202909&fbclid=IwAR2uIyzFSTlv_yAgu15hTgESspFtzevFo8okRc1pLKo3CU1jdZzrPoQVBVk

Saturday, November 10, 2018

Mississippi Man Fired Because of Wearing Racist Shirt to Vote

The Regional One Health hospital in Memphis has fired an employee after an image of the shirt he wore to the voting polls went viral. Clayton Hickey wore a shirt with a Confederate flag and a noose to go vote this week.


Good for the hospital in realizing that “Regional One Health holds employees to a high standard. We are committed to upholding our mission to provide compassionate care and exceptional services to all,” the statement continued. “This includes fostering a safe and protected work and care environment for all. Behaviors contrary to these principles are unacceptable and will not be tolerated."

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/415903-hospital-fires-mississippi-man-who-wore-shirt-with-noose?fbclid=IwAR10dEzZl72Ueii-W8D0ky3Nr7UuRTwIHcMRETeIl-ztWu7a3NQdYABPBgc

Hate is Not a Mental Illness

In an article in Psychology Today, Amy Barnhorst MD states that we are diagnosing incorrectly if we think that the mass shootings are caused by mental illness. Instead, we should be focusing on guns.

In the study of hierarchies, we know that whatever applies to the top group is assumed to apply to everyone. So if angry white men are shooting people they don't know, then they must be mentally ill. But girls and women who are mentally ill aren't doing this, so obviously the mental illness is not the problem.

Angry white men who want to remain on top of their hierarchies are the issue, and they will do whatever it takes to stay there.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-crisis/201811/hate-is-not-mental-illness?fbclid=IwAR3gGcG5HEpGR12XcCCGta81Fk_69a_sQkhiIHgwP2dz8wHqPfT4si3rsv4

GOP Has to Cheat to Win Georgia Governor Race

Maybe it is the sign of the times of the GOP losing support, which would be a good thing for the demise of hierarchies, but it appears that in the Governor's race in Georgia, Brian Kemp would not have been able to win if he had not used his Secretary of State office to rig the election in his favor.

According to an article by Van Jones, here are the top eight moves by Kemp made in an attempt to give him a victory, in a fashion that in any other country, the UN would be investigating:

Overseeing the election he ran in,
Purging voters from the rolls,
Closing polling places,
Disenfranchising voters,
Sowing voter confusion, 
Creating long lines with too few voting machines, 
Forcing voters to use provisional ballots,
Refusing to secure elections.

The top of our hierarchies will do anything to stay in power.
 
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/opinions/dont-let-brian-kemp-steal-georgias-gubernatorial-election-van-jones/index.html

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

All 19 Houston Black Women Running for Judges Won

A local judicial race in Houston, Texas brings even more great news: All 19 black women who ran for various judicial seats in Harris County won their races last night, marking the single biggest victory for black women in the county's history.

Keep those hierarchies cracking up!!!

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/19-black-women-running-judge-181400986.html?fbclid=IwAR1C_G86gYmAKxpulhHLnhS8t6IL_a0KahD0bUupl74qF7_xzi8cLj0UXx0

Black Sheriffs Elected in Seven Largest North Carolina Counties

More good news on election day, hierarchies cracking all over the place!!

North Carolina's seven largest counties – Buncombe, Cumberland, Durham, Forsyth, Guilford, Mecklenburg and Wake – all elected black men to their county’s top law enforcement positions. Five of those counties – Buncombe, Cumberland, Guilford, Durham, Forsyth – did so for the first time ever.

Issues of racial profiling, advancement of minorities and immigration played a part in the campaign.

http://pulse.ncpolicywatch.org/2018/11/07/black-sheriffs-make-history-in-sweep-of-seven-largest-nc-counties/?fbclid=IwAR2CmT1CdsjVMOONzZA0lJMFNdn5iX0yDJ_JqMaimY3FzL9IGJOyX644Yj4

Rainbow Wave - LGBTQ Candidates WIN!

Mor LGBTQ candidates ran for office this year than ever before, and more than 240 ― an unprecedented number ― won their primaries. On Election Day, several of them made history, including the first openly gay man to be elected governor; New Hampshire’s first gay congressman; and a Native American lesbian who won a House seat in Kansas, becoming the first queer person to represent the state in Congress.

Hierarchies breaking down everywhere!!!  Read all about the victories here:


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lgbtq-midterm-elections_us_5be29707e4b0dbe871a49ea0

Keb Mo and Rosanne Cash - "Put The Women in Charge"

Make your day and keep your spirits high with a wonderful new song by Keb Mo and Rosanne Cash, "Put the Women in Charge."

Great beat, and wonderful representation of the female energy, that they say is "Magic" and will "Raise the Vibration" of the world.

Watch at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FciQeRGYFlw

Boy Scouts Sued by Girl Scouts – They Think They Can Have It All

The Girl Scouts of the USA has sued the Boy Scouts for trademark infringement.

In a typical move of people who think they are on the top of the hierarchy and deserve anything they want, and that they represent everyone, the Boy Scouts recently launched a campaign only for their organization called "Scout Me In." It's the exclusive, generic use of "Scouts," without a gender marker, that the Girl Scouts object to.

"Such misconduct will not only cause confusion among the public, damage the goodwill of GSUSA's GIRL SCOUTS trademarks, and erode its core brand identity, but it will also marginalize the GIRL SCOUTS Movement by causing the public to believe that GSUSA's extraordinarily successful services are not true or official 'Scouting' programs, but niche services with limited utility and appeal," the complaint reads.

https://www.npr.org/2018/11/07/665308785/girl-scouts-of-the-usa-files-suit-against-boy-scouts-of-america