Tiger Woods' multiple extramarital affairs have cost his sponsors billions, reports NPR. Meanwhile, Golf Digest has suspended Woods' column, and AT & T is the latest corporate sponsor to dump the unethical lying and cheating golf pro.
Jezebel reports that in America hope is on the decline. I think this means that despair is on the rise.
After word got out that the Salvation Army's Angel Tree program was reserved for the children of documented citizens only, the outcry was so loud that the Salvation Army announced that henceforth it would permit Santa to visit even the children of undocumented parents. Still, it happened. And other charities are continuing the shameful practice. This is NOT progress:
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin are very nearly tied in the poll for most admired woman. Hillary wins at 16% to 15%. Among Independents, the women do tie, 14% to 14%.
Women who have worked at Outback Steakhouse for 3 years or more since 2002 are eligible for a cut of the $19 million. They just have to fill out the forms.
Apparently only men can be the center of attention in parades and receive adoration and acclaim for taking care of the children. Sheesh.
Anne Kornblut has a new book, which I'm going to have to read: "Notes from the Cracked Ceiling: Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin and What It Will Take for a Woman to Win." According to the Washington Post, the book explains why women lost.
Before adjourning for the holidays, the senate refused to confirm six of Obama's nominees, including the solidly progressive Office of Legal Counsel nominee Dawn Johnsen and Department of Labor Solicitor Patricia Smith.
Here's the ultimate in objectifying women. An ad campaign in India by Redtape Shoes portrays men selecting women out of closets and vending machines.
Another day, another campaign promise that Obama can't recall ever making. Now President Obama says: "I didn't campaign on the public option.""Essentially . . we're going to set up a public plan that all persons and all women can access if they don't have health insurance. It will be a plan that will provide all essential services, including reproductive services."
After the Tiger Woods sex scandal broke, Swiss watchmaker Tag Heuer told the world that it was dropping poster boy Tiger Woods.
The moral of this story is: don't expect to have your life saved by an emergency medical worker if you get sick while they are on a coffee break. This is so sad:
Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) joined Howard Dean and many others on the left when he expressed his disappointment over the Obama Administration's failure to lead in health care, or failure put up even a minimal fight for the public option.
Apparently there are now 60 votes for the senate's health care 'reform' bill. Ben Nelson is on board because he got another compromise on abortion and because he got a hefty bribe of money for Medicaid in his state, but not in my state, nor in anyone else's.
Women have a long history of posing as men in order to earn a living or pursue a dream. Women have passed as men in order to play jazz, publish books, fight in wars, and be free from sexual assault and compulsory marriage.
Gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman is way out front in California's GOP primary race. It will be interesting to see if Whitman gets hit with the same barrage of sexism that tried so hard to derail Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, but right now that's not her big problem. After spending 20 million on her campaign, the former eBay CEO continues to face quite a battle getting women to pay attention:
The 30 Democrats who voted against the prescription drug importation amendment -- which would permit Americans to get affordable drugs from Canada -- include John Kerry, Harry Reid and Chris Dodd. Only 17 Republicans voted against the amendment. See the full list of Turncoat Dems here. The traitorous Democratic senators voted against affordable prescription drugs for Americans in order to protect Obama's behind closed doors deal with Big Pharma.
Ian Welsh has penned an excellent post that summarizes the demoralized state of America and gives Obama's his due credit. If Obama were honest, he'd use Ian Welsh's post for his State of the Union speech, but he's not.
Harry Reid could have waited longer to permit a vote on the life-saving single payer amendment, maybe Christmas day would have worked for him?
Now why would Democrats -- the party that swore it fully supported the right to import unbelievably cheap drugs from Canada -- lead the way in killing the drug importation bill? After all, the Dems told us that it was only the Evil Republicans who stood in the way of giving Americans easy access to affordable prescription drugs. Yeah, it was only the Evil Republicans who stood in the way of universal health care too, except our Democratic president forgot to even ask for it.
The U.S. Senate has rejected a plan to import low-price prescription drugs from Canada. And that would be because the millionaires in the U.S. Senate have no need of cheap drugs. So the millionaire senators decree that ordinary Americans don't get cheap drugs either. After all, tax payers and big PHARMA support the prescription drug habits of the U.S. Senate. As a former Canadian resident, I have to confess that when it comes to accessing health care and prescription drugs, crossing the border from the U.S. to Canada feels like crossing the border out of hell:
So much for the public option and the Medicare buy-in. Joe Lieberman does not approve. Now that we know that Joe Lieberman is in charge of the senate's Lieberman Health Care Reform bill, Dr. Howard Dean says the smart thing to do is kill the damn bill:
This piece from Germany called "Poor America" could easily be titled: "Pity America." Anyone who doesn't pity the people of America has not been paying attention to the sham of a health care reform debate conducted by America's self-serving leaders.
Here's a creative response to the worldwide patriarchal tradition of expressing contempt for girls and women by shaming boys and men with taunts that they are like girls. Some men respond by dressing themselves in women's mandated clothing. Better late than never. [Watch the video: We are all Majids]
