Moreno has been the victim of several travesties at the hands of government. While his girlfriend was the one who was actually asasulted and thus bears the vast majority of the resulting trauma herself, the secondary trauma of watching another person, especially one who you deeply care about, be sexually assaulted is also very real and not to be dismissed. While the impact that the assault undoubtedly had on Moreno is not the reason that the assault was wrong, it is one of the outcomes of it. After Moreno’s girlfriend faced the trauma of being sexually assaulted and Moreno faced the trauma of watching it happen, both then were subjected to false arrest by the assailant. And now, Moreno must undergo further victimization at the hands of a government that sees fit to deport him (and his girlfriend faces the secondary victimization of watching it happen while she deals with her own trauma from the assault).
This case is about how we treat sexual assault because Moreno’s girlfriend never should have been assaulted, and Moreno never should have had to call for help at all. As has been admitted, Marcus Jackson should have never been admitted to the police force, due to a history of giving women reason to fear him. It’s about how we treat sexual assault because most who are victims of sexual assault are too afraid to report it. It’s about how we treat sexual assault because fear of police and the (repeatedly proven to be!) reasonable belief that police officers will usually stand by each other before standing by justice means that police officers feel free to both commit sexual assault with impunity and use their state power as a means to hiding their crimes. It’s about how we treat sexual assault because apparently not even 911 operators can be expected to give a shit when such an assault is reported.
Susan G Komen For the Cure has announced that it will stop funneling money to Planned Parenthood, ending a years-long partnership between the two organizations that provided mammograms and related services to low income women. But what accounts for the Komen Foundation’s sudden change of heart? Surprisingly, it seems that the pressure may not have come from external sources, but from within the Foundation itself.
The Susan G Komen Foundation’s official line is that they didn’t end their relationship with Planned Parenthood in response to relentless bullying from pro-life groups, but because the family planning organization is currently under investigation by Congress. They have a rule, you see, that bars them from contributing to organizations that are under investigation at the local, state, or federal level.
This guy is enough to make you barf up your bacon bagle. What a worthless TeaBagger who’s OD’d on his own excessive ego. His contract with the overwhelming majority of Republicans in Congress is equivalent to black mail. His note-signing minions promise to never raise taxes. When they even think of doing so, Norquist raises holy hell with them. Born with silver nitrate in his mouth, as the spoiled brattchild of a Polaroid bigwig, Norquist throws his weight around like he’s Mr. Big. Republicans who can’t think for themselves and who walk in lock step with orders from above, are easy prey for Norquist. Yet now he’s raised the bar higher with his threat that Republicans will Impeach President Obama if he doesn’t extend the Bush Tax Cuts. He thinks he has Obama on the defensive because cutting the program that extended the taxes of the wealthiest Americans, will also cut the taxes for everyone else as well. So Norquist thinks it’s a safe bet that Obama will bail, and he feels confident in his threat. Let’s hope the president keeps his promise NOT to extend the tax cuts for the wealth, yet seeks legislation to extend it for the rest of America.
Think about this when conservatives talk about cutting back on spending to feed, house and educate human beings or others shout about the sky falling when deficits fly sky high.
A highly influential conservative leader is already considering an impeachment strategy against President Obama if he wins re-election.
Grover Norquist of Americans For Tax Reform told National Journal that if Obama is re-elected and refuses to re-authorize the Bush-era tax cuts for millionaires, “Obama can sit there and let all the tax [cuts] lapse, and then the Republicans will have enough votes in the Senate in 2014 to impeach.
When will anyone else on the center-to-left get the gumption to stifle these assholes?
Healthcare shouldn’t be managed under a system that attempts to maximize profits for insurance companies and their CEOs and stock holders. The U.S. healthcare system is becoming impossible under the current fee for service system, which is due to insurance companies managing our healthcare decisions with profit as their bottom line.
U.S. healthcare reform: insurance companies shouldn’t manage our healthcare
Video: Dylan Ratigan, Howard Dean, and Charlie Kolb, president of the Committee for Economic Development discuss the U.S. healthcare system.
via: leftish (from the video above):
(via underthemountainbunker)In the United States, an MRI scan is $1009.00In Britain it’s $187.00…
He Used To Be My Congressional Representative...
Now, from Federal Prison, he endorses Newt Gingrich.
This tells the story better than a reporter does.
ketchupstan Gets Schooled in recent American History
What the hell does this article have to do with Reagan?Reagan was mentioned in the article. I highly suggest doing some reading about Latin American history in the 80s because you can’t understand…
Simply put, each time that you drive by a stadium that an NFL or MLB team plays in, imagine each seat filled with a mestizo or indiginous campesino in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras or Nicaragua who lived in abject poverty, had no health care and knew hunger. That campesino was raped or tortured and last murdered because they were pawns in The Cold War; but most likely it the behest of United States foreign policy that paid for the training and materiel that killed them.
Don’t forget to put 4 Roman Catholic missionaries and an archbishop in the owner’s box.
Take a long, hard look at that fucking stadium. Ronald Reagan and every American who stuck their heads in the sand, who would rather follow a pied piper instead of looking at themselves for who they are, unfamiliar and complex, promoted these atrocities or just didn’t want to be bothered to stop it thus leading to a seat that could otherwise be filled by a poor campesino in that fucking stadium.
But people close to Paul’s operations said he was deeply involved in the company that produced the newsletters, Ron Paul & Associates, and closely monitored its operations, signing off on articles and speaking to staff members virtually every day.
“It was his newsletter, and it was under his name, so he always got to see the final product. . . . He would proof it,’’ said Renae Hathway, a former secretary in Paul’s company and a supporter of the Texas congressman.
The newsletters point to a rarely seen and somewhat opaque side of Paul, who has surprised the political community by becoming an important factor in the Republican race. The candidate, who has presented himself as a kindly doctor and political truth-teller, declined in a recent debate to release his tax returns, joking that he would be “embarrassed” about his income compared with that of his richer GOP rivals.
