Craigslist, Backpage, this is a larger issue. This isn't First Amendment, it is a crime.

Just because Craigslist reacted to pressure and now Backpage will probably do the same, doesn't mean the problem is solved. Where one webpage will shutdown the opportunity, another will be found. As distasteful as the idea is, this 'level of advertising' has to be regulated. There really is no other way and makes the merchant profiting from the ads as liable as the advertiser. Money talks, othewise, the entire community to end this criminal content will be chasing themselves forever in a circle. Either a moral society can impose their standards for treatment of children to protect them from crime or it can't.

Sold on Craigslist: Critics say sex ad crackdown inadequate (click here)

August 03, 2010|By Steve Turnham and Amber Lyon, CNN Special Investigations Unit

On a late afternoon in early June, undercover police officers circled a one-story highway motel north of Washington. Inside was a 12-year-old girl who told her mother she was being forced to work as a prostitute.

According to her mother, the girl had started running away from home earlier this year. She found out her daughter was in the sex trade when she saw her in an adult online classified ad. The girl was advertising herself as a 24-year-old with a bogus name. The next time she ran away, her mother reported her missing....


An international effort can and should be mounted, but, guess what, the Third World doesn't have the monies available and now that the First World is in fiscal struggles those monies will not be forthcoming. The fact of the matter is human trafficking works as an income to many in the third world. It is a way of economy, including, ridding the family of a DEPENDENT.

The Backpage Backlash: Nicholas Kristof on ‘Egregious Capitalism’ at The Village Voice (click here)

By Kat Stoeffel 3/27 2:39pm

...In a pair of columns, Mr. Kristof criticized the online classifieds site for maintaining an adult services section, which—like Craigslist’s before it—serves as a virtual agora for prostitutes and their handlers. The more recent piece, published March 17, included a first-person account from “Alissa,” who was sold into sex on Backpage.com starting at age 16.

“Nicholas D. Kristof was wrong about the most devastating ‘fact’ in his Sunday, March 18th, column in The New York Times,” the Village Voice wrote four days later. “According to Alissa’s court testimony, she was 16 in 2003. Backpage.com did not exist anywhere in America in 2003.”...

Unless there are supports to the Third World to facilitate a 'real economy' this will be impossible to stop. The ravages of the Third World have been profound including now the burden of the Climate Crisis that was never their problem in the first place. The human economy of the Third World is just as real as its starvation and drought. How is any country suppose to create a real economy for its people when it is chronically ravaged by First World sins?


Where is THAT morality written into the US Constitution, where Americans are required to address the problems they cause other nations in its consumer habits?

"...and about the legacy of debt we are going to leave our children..." Excuse me? Mrs. 14%

It is my opinion the efforts to save our country from racism is going to take more than Trayvon Martin.

The prejudice has been engrained in our society on many venues. Still today in entertainment for the Right Wing community, Black Men are the 'bad guys.'


What the gun culture has taught us in the USA is that where law enforcement is unavailable there are personal guns. The inner city is as dangerous as remote areas. The inner city has developed a gun culture whereby suburbia was always the place where safety existed.


With segregation obviously evident in the USA, the dynamics to moving the inner city to suburbia has been nearly impossible. So, if the Black Community of the USA wants to move out of the established gun culture of the inner city they have to set up their own segregated suburban communities.


Statistically, there is going to be more crime in neighborhoods with gun cultures and if that is the inner city then there will be criminals of color due to segregation. Segregation breeds this hatred and it is segregation that will foster it.


Crime exists. It is just a fact. The demographics follow incidence of a gun culture. With more guns on the street than ever before in the USA ,crime is going to be notable nearly anywhere. The issue is not skin color it is violence. It is violence at the end of a gun. Guns are not the law, unless a society deems them to be so and with laws now 'designed' to achieve that goal we are all entrapped in the stigma and it will grow like a cancer.


We will fear other now without exception. It is good for business.

Tulsa shootings stir up ugly memories (click title to entry - thank you)

The killings of three black men on Good Friday have locals recalling the race riots of 1921, when African Americans were violently targeted by their white neighbors. Residents say now is the time to make changes.

April 13, 2012, 9:17 p.m.

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times

April 13, 2012, 9:17 p.m.

TULSA, Okla. — In the wake of what locals are calling the Good Friday Shootings, dozens of worried residents from Tulsa's mostly black north side attended an NAACP meeting in the heart of their troubled neighborhood for some truth-telling.

Yes, they were relieved that two men had been arrested in the shootings that left three African Americans dead and two wounded.

They were pleased that the glare of the national spotlight was forcing local officials to work with black leaders. The mayor, local U.S. attorney and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson were present at the first funeral for one of the victims Friday at the north side's Crown Hill Chapel.

But those gathered at the meeting of the National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People noted that crime remained a serious problem. And just look at what else is happening in north Tulsa, they said. Shopping centers closing, schools folding and a cash-strapped city preparing to bulldoze three public parks, one named for a local black pioneer....

Former Senator John Edwards is being trounced by an ultra-Republican state government.

I always liked John as a Senator in North Carolina. He stood up for the average person and sought to protect children in his capacity in the Senate.

Infidelity is unbecoming, but, it isn't criminal.

I am leaving North Carolina after living there for 16 years. I don't believe it is safe under the direction of the current legislature. They are dismantling all the venues of safety for citizens including seeking justice through civil courts when a person is wrongfully effected by circumstances beyond their control and imposed by others.

In Emergency Rooms now physicians have no liability. Yet, we know there are sincere problems that do happen with ERs sometimes. The Republican presence in the state has become overwhelming to decent people and they are offensive in their assault against the moral content of the communities.

That is something the Republicans of North Carolina don't seem to understand. They don't understand that laws can be offensive to a person's conscience. They don't care, they believe a democracy can be used to be oppressive if good people simply because power is out of their reach. So, there are many kinds of moralities and immoralities. The immorality viciously attacking a former Senator is the most egregious of them.

I wish the former North Carolina Senator the best and his family including his youngest daughter and her mother. I wish them peace. I sincerely believe the persecution of John Edwards speaks more to the oppressive nature of the current political tone of the Republicans than is says about the capacity a democracy should have in vengeance of personal choices.

Cate Edwards, (click title to entry - thank you) the oldest daughter of John Edwards and his late wife, Elizabeth, is among the witnesses who may be called to testify in the criminal trial that could send her father to prison for up to 30 years. Her name appeared among a list of dozens of potential witnesses who could be called by the defense team.

A newly married graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law School,  Cate Edwards  recently put her own fledgling legal career on hold to launch an educational foundation in her mother’s name....

Friday the 13th and the hammer falls. I did not alter this image. It is real.

April 13, 2012
1930:00z
UNISYS Water Vapor Satellite of the USA, Southern Canada and Northern Mexico (click title for 12 hour loop - thank you)


Looks like there is going to be some trouble. Hot and cold, when they meet all sorts of stuff happens.


The hammer-like appearance in the upper troposphere is due to a 'piling up' of air. The air came over the continent faster than it moved off into the Atlantic. There is a large air mass just offshore of North America and it is causing this to happen. 


These images are about an hour old. The system in over the Atlantic received a huge hot, wet air mass from the tropics and it is probably heading for the UK and Europe.


There is probably going to be some excitement over the next 24 hours in the USA.

Child Care in the USA as of 2010 (click title to entry - thank you)

Frequently low paid workers have exorbitant child care costs which could be their entire paycheck. So, unless there are fantastic benefits, child care is a disincentive to work and provides no relief from poverty.

Who's Minding the Kids? Child Care Arrangements: Spring 2010 – Detailed Tables (click title to entry - thank you)

Table 6 is about families. It divides the cost study by age of the child. In all these tables if the mother has dropped out of the work force and have no independent income they don't show up on these tables. So, families experiencing prohibitive child care costs to facilitate work don't even show up here.

Table 6. Average Weekly Child Care Expenditures of Families with Employed Mothers that Make Payments, by Age Groups and Selected Characteristics: Spring 2010 (click here)


In this table, for children under six years old, the over all expenditure for child care as of 2010 was 22.1% of the mother's income.


Depending on marital status of this group it can be 24.9%.


Depending on race of this children age group it can be as much as 25.7% of a mother's salary.


Depending on the education level of the mother it can be as much as 36.3% of the mother's salary.


Depending on the age of the mother it can be as much as 24.8% of her income.


Depending on the employment status of the mother it can be as much as 43% for self-employed women.


Depending on the monthly income of the mother it can cost as much as 54.6% of her monthly income.


If the family is poverty level the child care costs for under 5 years old is as much as 60.9% of her monthly income.


These are survival statistics. Women that have to work and have to support their families, like I used to do, pay considerable amounts for child care for their children. There were times when I had to pay as much as 50% of my after tax dollars for childcare with the rest being divided between food, medical, housing, clothing and toys. Toys were always on the  shopping list. They were going to have what their peers had and they weren't going to be deprived. I believe those values can be transmitted across the spectrum of women. Unfortunately, those values are sometimes truncated by poverty. I might add, paying up to 50% of a mother's income for child care prohibits upward movement and the ability to entertain home ownership.


These statistics impact THE WEALTH mothers can accumulate. It is a life long burden and retirement often depends on a good SSI monthly income if the mother was lucky enough to have an excellent paying job. It impacts the children when they go to college and there are few investments to pay for college and the student has to rely on loans and scholarships. 


Having to pay for child care in high levels of percentages of income have an extremely profound impact on the lives of mothers and their children for their lifetime.

The rise in unemployment is due to a stagnating consumer ability to participate.

That consumer is also global and is indicted in trade deficit. The cost of energy through traditional fossil fuels is incredibly expensive and ends up in the pockets of Wall Street and not in circulation in economies, including the USA.


Besides the cost of fossil fuels globally, Europe is still struggling under oppressive economic conditions. So, where the USA economy connects with the global economy there is a stagnant effect. 


The level of business transacted at the whole sale level hasn't changed and that is somewhat reassuring, but, that can change and probably will. The global trend started two months before we realized it two months ago. The global trend was discovered four months ago and it reached the USA two months later.


It ain't over yet.

Small businesses and strong local economies to the extent it can occur is the best option for Americans and acts as a buffer to these downturns.


Buy American and fight fossil fuel energy. THINK DOMESTIC and CLEAN and GREEN ENERGY. The cost of fossil fuels are set by Wall Street on a global basis. There is no amount of USA drilling that will effect the cost of fossil fuels. There is no capacity that can be achieved to reduce its costs. Morally, there is no capacity that should be achieved either, but, the physical ability to actually achieve that is not there. 

...Another government report says a key measure of inflation at the wholesale level stayed level in March. Outside the volatile areas of energy and food, prices in the overall economy rose three-tenths of a percent, which is a bit more than the previous month.

A separate report showed the U.S. trade deficit dropped to the lowest point in four months in February. The gap between what U.S. producers sell overseas and what Americans buy from foreign sources declined more than 12 percent for the month as the volume of oil imports dropped and orders for Chinese-made goods declined....

How does the uber-wealthy Romney pay so little in taxes?

What Romeny and his peer group did in accumulating wealth while saddling the USA's Middle Class with burden is immoral. It is not illegal, but, it is highly immoral.


He used the power of money to reduce his participation in supporting the governments at all levels of the USA. He has cost Americans their jobs while doing it. It is immoral. Just that simple. Why do Middle Class Americans carry a heavier burden for their governments than the wealthy do?


Bush’s tax cuts (click here) gave a 2-child family earning $1 million an extra $86,722 – or Harvard tuition, room, board, and an iMac G5 for both kids. A 2-child family earning $50,000 gets $2,050 -or 1/5 the cost of public college for one kid.

Romeny's low tax rate, (click title to entry - thank you) and how he achieved it, provides an important lesson in how tax laws need to change.

By Robert Reich

Guest blogger 

April 12, 2012

Now that Mitt Romney is the presumed Republican candidate, it’s fair to ask how he made so much money ($21 million in 2010 alone) and paid such a low rate of taxes (only 13.9 percent)....

...The magic of private equity isn’t really magic at all. It’s a magic trick – and it’s played on you and me....

Private Equity like Bain Capital their IPO relatives now running for more money in the Wall Street Exchange. Evidently, enough equity is never enough.

"Bain Capital (click here) Private Equity has raised ten global funds and made more than 250 investments. The private equity activity includes leveraged buyouts and recapitalization in a variety of industries."

"Brookside Capital is the public equity affiliate of Bain Capital. (click here) The principal investment objective of the Fund is to achieve capital appreciation through investing primarily in publicly traded equity securities globally. Brookside employs an experienced team of industry oriented investment professionals to achieve its investment objective. The Brookside team evaluates investments based on in-depth strategic and financial analysis, emphasizing industry fundamentals, competitive position and management capability."


"Sankaty Advisors, LLC, the credit affiliate of Bain Capital, LLC,(click here) is one of the nation's leading private managers of fixed income and credit instruments. With approximately $15.5 billion assets under management as of 1/1/2012, Sankaty invests in a wide variety of securities and investments, including leveraged loans, high-yield bonds, distressed/stressed debt, mezzanine debt, structured products and equities."

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"Absolute Return Capital (ARC) (click here) is the absolute return affiliate of Bain Capital. ARC manages assets in fixed income, equity, commodity, and currency markets to produce attractive risk-adjusted returns while maintaining low correlation to traditional and other alternative investments."

Mitt Romney has made his money on the back of the Middle Class by accumulating wealth at their expense. He has closed down businesses and exported jobs. Is there anything else we have to know about this candidate? There isn't anything else I need to know!

Representative Lieutenant Colonel Alan West states 78 to 81 Democratic Congressional members of the Progressive Caucus are communists.

I think Alan West's comments say more about the leadership in the USA military than it does about his political aspirations.


Alan West was a career military officer for 20 years and had several deployments in Iraq. As an Iraq Veteran of Officer status where does he get the view innumerable members of a governing body of the federal government are lined with communists? Where does that idiotic idea come from? I want to  know if those views stem from his years in the military?


WASHINGTON -- Republican Rep. Allen West (click title to entry - thank you) said he believes 75-plus House Democrats are members of the Communist Party, a claim that echoed Joe McCarthy's unsubstantiated 1950s charges that communists had infiltrated the top ranks of the U.S. government....



I also want to know if the GOP has the same view, including any prospective candidate for President. Currently, Rep. Paul serves with these members of Congress along with West. What does he and other candidates have to say about Rep. West statement?

There is something that has always bothered me about what Texas Governor Perry stated during the debates.

Q: Your state has executed 234 death row inmates. Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?

PERRY: "No, sir. I've never struggled with that at all. The state of Texas has a very thoughtful, a very clear process in place--when someone commits the most heinous of crimes against our citizens, they get a fair hearing, they go through an appellate process, they go up to the Supreme Court of the US, if that's required But in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you're involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed."

As long as the death penalty is a focus. Why is it that murder of an adult does not carry the brevity of any other murder unless there is another crime involved? Why the incremental degree of difference in the Texas law? They have record numbers of executions, but, I found that reality odd. Why is an adult murder not treated the same and execution an exemption?

by Doug Miller / KHOU 11 News

khou.com

Posted on April 12, 2012 at 6:27 PM

HOUSTON—Rev. Jesse Jackson is calling (click title to entry - thank you) for the repeal of all the nation’s “stand your ground” laws and is sharply criticizing the castle doctrine that applies in Texas.

“These laws incentivize vigilantism,” Jackson said. “Take the law into your own hands, kill or be killed.  That’s beneath the civility of a great nation.”

Jackson’s remarks at a Houston church came on the same day as the first court appearance of George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with murdering teenager Trayvon Martin in a racially charged Florida shooting.  Meanwhile, new details emerged in court papers....

Perhaps in Texas any murdered adult is seen as contributing to the act as if incited. Even with that 'institutional doubt' added as a measure in the society in Texas, there is that much of a difference?

Well, we know what will happen after November 2012 when the GOP demands "Stand Your Ground" for the entire country, now, don't we?

Campaign grows to expand Stand Your Ground gun laws nationwide (click here)

• Article by: ERICA GOODE , New York Times
• Updated: April 12, 2012 - 9:54 PM

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• Wisconsin state Sen. Jon Erpenbach, a Democrat, who says the state's so-called Stand Your Ground statute was a substantial victory for the National Rifle Association in the Midwest, where guns have a less central place say than Texas, outside the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., April 4, 2012.

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No one had yet heard of a Florida teenager named Trayvon Martin when a group of Wisconsin Republicans got together last year to discuss expanding a self-defense bill before the state Legislature.

The bill, known as the Castle Doctrine, made it harder to prosecute or sue people who used deadly force against an intruder inside their house. But the Wisconsin legislators, urged on by the National Rifle Association in a series of meetings, wanted it to go further. They crafted an amendment that extended the bill's protections to include lawns, sidewalks and swimming pools outside the residence, as well as vehicles and places of business....


Maybe in Texas murder of an adult carries less brevity of the death sentence, because, anyone can easily own and carry a weapon and it is a matter of the luck of the draw and/or the foolishness not to 'conceal carry.' 


The wild west returns.


Caucasian men in any election cycle will vote to prove their power and strength over reason any day of the week.

I hope Kim Jong Un will see the rocket failure as an opportunity to change the course of his people.

The monies used to build and operate the missile in North Korea was best spent on improving the conditions, health and education of his people. 


He would be admired to change the course of his country to greater benevolence and peace.

I think it was a wise decision by George Zimmerman to change attorneys.

Ridding himself of two lawyers centered on protecting the "Stand Your Ground Law" would have proved to be a liability to him.


I doubt knowing the new attorney was a commentator for Casey Anthony really carries much brevity either.


The point is, George Zimmerman is well represented and there should be confidence in that decision, so the outcomes should be just without question.


I believe the Special Prosecutor is doing excellent work for Trayvon Martin.

By MIKE SCHNEIDER 

The Associated Press

...O'Mara took on the job (click title to entry - thank you) Wednesday, the day that a special prosecutor filed a second-degree murder charge against George Zimmerman, the 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer who says he shot the unarmed teen in self-defense.

Before he was a legal expert at the trial of Anthony, who was acquitted of killing her 2-year-old daughter, O'Mara had a 27-year career pursuing self-defense cases, among others, but none that made headlines beyond the state line. Attorneys who know him used words like self-effacing and deliberate to describe him.

"He is not someone who is going to loud-talk or try to be bossy," said defense attorney Randy McCLean. "I think he comes across as knowledgeable and confident."...

This isn't a made for Hollywood anything. I believe George Zimmerman is taking his actions and his defense with great seriousness.


It was kinda strange, too. The guard standing next to Zimmerman resembled him. It was interesting, that's all. The guard's picture is not above, except for his shoulder.

Real Clear Politics has the President's Job Approval Rating at +0.8

And the Presidential Race with President Obama with a 4.3 point favored.


It is quite a road to November. It should be interesting.

Election 2012: Senate, House & Governor Races (click here)

(Senate, House Races Ranked in Order of RCP Likelihood to Switch Party)

Congressional Job Approval (click here)

It is up from 9 to 13. 

Mr. Hudson of the "Atlantic Wire" has it just right and what I have said for years unending.

John Hudson  

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1:09 PM ET

While military analysts are belaboring the launch's geopolitical consequences, it's easy to lose sight of what North Korea is paying to "monitor weather" patterns. Sometime between now and Monday, Pyongyang will launch its "Unha-3" rocket but it will have cost hundreds of millions of dollars and tons of food to make that happen....

When a country has used it's national resources for building nuclear capacity and looking to the world for sympathy for its people there is hardly any reason to allow such aspirations to continue.

The leaders of North Korea no more suffer for their militarization than those of major countries that have such capacity, but, the people are an entirely different story.

It is way Nuclear Non-Proliferation is paramount to peace and prosperity globally. If there are no nuclear threats and resources can finally be used for the benefit of the people, the world has a real shot at being a reasonably decent place to live. 

...Money Pyongyang is also spending a significant amount of money on the launch that could be going to its people. Today, we found out what he damage is. The Daily Telegraph has gained access to documents that reveal the country is spending $850 million on the launch, which could feed millions of North Koreans. "The cost of the rocket, revealed in restricted documents seen by The Daily Telegraph, would have been able to buy 2.5 million tons of corn of and 1.4 million tons of rice – helping to alleviate poverty for millions." To put those numbers into context, the U.N. estimate for North Korea's entire harvest of cereals this year is 5.4 million tons....

If that ludicrous reality isn't enough, there is the fact if North Korea actually tried to launch against South Korea or Japan, it would prove to do itself more physical damage with radiation poisoning that it could not recover from.

Assad is unwilling to let normalcy return to the streets of Syria.

By Richard Spencer, Ruth Sherlock

7:17PM BST 12 Apr 2012

...Residents of Syria's major cities (click title to entry - thank you) reported a downturn in violence as a ceasefire came into effect on Thursday morning, though there were sporadic outbreaks which both sides blamed on each other.

But Mr Annan backed the major activist groups who claimed the regime had failed to honour its promise to withdraw troops and tanks from towns and cities. He told the UN security council by video from Geneva that he wanted it to authorise its own monitoring mission to supervise the ceasefire

He also challenged the council, including the regime's key allies Russia and China, to issue a formal demand that it comply with the demand to withdraw troops

Russia said it would back the monitoring mission, which has also been agreed by Syria and is likely to be approved by a security council resolution on Friday. The first team of observers might leave by the weekend, according to reports...

Zimmerman is dangerous. I don't believe anyone can dispute that unless every American should be tracking down suspicions with a loaded gun.

...Zimmerman was not arrested at the time because police believed his claims of self-defence, enraging Martin's family and sparking six weeks of mass protests in central Florida and elsewhere.

"I would like to get him out. I need to get him out to assist me in going over all the evidence and preparing our defence," said O'Mara, who met his new client for the first time on Wednesday evening.

"He is stressed. He's tired. He's been through a lot with the way this case has been handled to date. I'm just hoping that his mental health stays well and that we can move forward in getting this case figured out."

Zimmerman has been held in protective custody since his arrest on Thursday, with his brother Robert declaring that the family was disappointed by the severity of the charge....

Ms. Fulton has a right to reconcile her grief in whatever way she like. She lost a son and she cannot conceive of anyone seeing her son in a way that would cause his demise. If she wants to reconcile herself to the fact Trayvon's death was an accident, then so be it. That does not relieve the judicial system of any responsibility for the truth and the fact Trayvon is dead by what very well may be a horrible and liberal Florida gun law. That remains to be seen.

My sympathies to Trayvon parents, they have been brave beyond any expectations through all this. I found Ms. Fulton's words very healing yesterday and I expect that is what she intended. Trayvon had a great mother.

...Earlier on Thursday, Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, said she believed that the shooting was "an accident".

"One of things I still believe in is a person should apologise when they're remorseful for what they've done," she told NBC's Today show.

"I believe it was an accident. I believe it just got out of control and he couldn't turn the clock back."

Mitt Romney opened this subject and there is absolutely no reason to villian of any woman commentator.

The FACTS are completely clear, Ann Romney has lived a life as a wife and homemaker along with being an adjunct to her husband's aspirations.

I think that rounds out the description of her career option nicely.

As per Ann's role with Mitt, he referred to her as the expert at his side on woman's issues and tried to have a spin into the economic doldrums of the country with an adjective of WOMEN in front of this.

The fact is that Ann Romney is no more an expert on the economic dilemma's of the Working Class, Middle Class, Lower Class, Poor or any other CLASS the Upper Class can think of than the moon is made of green cheese.


Some women would envy her position and believe it or not there are those of us that DO NOT.


The fact of the matter is Mitt Romney is a Male Chauvinist and there is absolutely no doubt what so ever about that. He deferred any expertise regarding women to his adjunct in life, his wife. That is the epitome of Chauvanism at its pinnacle. 


Additionally, somehow the 'stay at home Mom' is coined as the 'ULTIMATE WOMAN.' HELLO? When are men and women in the USA going to lose that guilt trip? HUH?


Ann Romney was a 'stay at home, Mom." Whoopee. A woman that contributes to the economic stability and wealth of her family does ALL the balancing acts as Mrs. Romney and more. Women in a career or a job can hold their heads high in the ability to act in more than a role of child rearing and housekeeping and volunteer at the local benevolence enterprise in town.


Women that add to the economic stability and wealth of their families through a career or a job should be highly esteemed in a society that CHRONICALLY discriminates against them. 


Why was the Lilly Ledbetter Act even necessary and why wasn't it achieved until President Obama entered office? 


The economic ANALYSIS of women is not the only deception Mitt Romney is engaged with either. At the beginning of this recession in 2007 the downturn in housing was significant and the GOP did NOTHING while Paulson roamed China on the government's dollar.

The impact at the beginning of the 2008 Great Recession removed large numbers of men from the job market. The construction sector crashed big time and housing sales stagnated. So, Mitt needs to look for FACTS and not SPIN, but, in any of his public addressed all I have heard is political propaganda and not much else. 

Ann and Mitt are welcome to be Ann and Mitt, but, in relating to me and my peers they can forget about it on nearly every venue of life!

Working Women should never be demonized and those that uphold that reality in their female commentary should never be villianized!

As far as pity for her physical trials, then she can walk a mile, because I too am a breast cancer survivor and suffer from a chronic illness. GET OVER IT !

And I raised two wonderful sons ALONE.

The attacks on Hilary Rosen are absolutely no different than the attacks on Democratic women over time.

Ann Romney is typical of the GOP's idea of ideological.


Democratic women have been attacked by the GOP when it comes to being a working mother for as long as I can remember.


Women are SUPPOSE to be dependents to their men and be supportive of their loving darling of a husband. It is why there is no room for gays in the GOP. How can they put forward the IDEALS of "The traditional family" if there are two men or women in the picture.


OLD. VERY OLD IDEAS OF PERFECTION. BIBLICAL, EVEN!


Ann Romney uses Twitter to fire back at Democratic strategist who says mother of five hadn't worked a day in her life (click title to entry - thank you)

BY ALIYAH SHAHID AND JONATHAN LEMIRE

NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Wednesday, April 11, 2012, 5:45 PM

Hours after she was insulted by a Democratic operative, Mitt Romney’s wife on Wednesday launched a Twitter feed and struck back.

The brouhaha was set in motion when Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen suggested Ann Romney has never held a job.

“His wife has actually never worked a day in her life,” Rosen said on Anderson Cooper’s “AC360” show on CNN. 

“She’s never really dealt with the kinds of economic issues that a majority of the women in this country are facing in terms of how do we feed our kids, how do we send them to school and how do we — why we worry about their future.”

Ann Romney’s new Twitter feed — @AnnDRomney — popped up two hours later, along with her sharp response.

“I made a choice to stay home and raise five boys. Believe me, it was hard work,” wrote Romney, 64....

Ah, the modern day Granny, she tweets!


Did Ann Romney go to college or did she move immediately to the Joining Room along with her peers before she was 21 years old?


Ann Romney is so good looking for her age. I am trying to think of her peer group. I don't know, maybe Martha Stewart. NO, no, no, she has a career. Maybe, oh I don't know??? Hmmmm.....


I can't think of one. Ahhhhh, the perils of the ONE PERCENT Granny!


I know one, the Former First Lady, Mrs. "W" Bush. Oh, wait, she was a librarian.