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Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
09/24/09

In reply to Is Supporting Women And Girls Just Another Fad?
I read this and I'm beyond proud of the young ladies in my women's choir. Today they decided to hold a series of bake sales in October to raise money for uniform blouses, but want to make it a "Pink" campaign by giving 1/3 of our profits to the Komins Foundation. They're also going to begin making pink paper cranes to sell in local businesses, where purchasers can put their name or the name of a loved one on the crane and hang it on a mobile frame.

If that didn't make me burst with pride, they then turned the conversation to domestic violence and asked if we could sing at the county vigil. A friend of mine wrote a beautiful song about DV which is very moving and not only do they want to do this, they want to have a poster campaign at school educating their peers about abusive relationships!!

I could have kissed every single one of them. They are precious, and they are our future.
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netfe
09/24/09

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what i don't understand is why are women and children combined together as the same issue? yes, women do have children, andyes they are both relativly wick but the issues are so far a part. empowerment for women shold goal to a change in society all together. cause honstly until women will stand for themselves and demand what is naturlly theirs,we can't really do much. i don't know how it could be done, unfortenatly. probably through education. but leaving education for corprations is not a good idea anyhow. depressing. sigh.
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Agumen
09/24/09

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'But does that mean the corporate world really cares about women and girls?'

The corporate world doesn't care about women. Nor children. Nor men. Companies are seperate legal entities, they are seperate organisms designed to function only for the purpose of making money. Everything, including human well-being, tends to falls by the wayside in pursuit of this goal. The fact that decent people work at corporations doesn't matter, the corporate structure prevents them doing too much good. So no, of the course the corporate world doesn't care about women and girls.

As for the 1% of development money going to women, I doubt they mean 99% are going to men. Surely 80% or some such is wrapped up in charitable projects that don't end up giving money to end-users - ie. building a well to supply a village fresh water.
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Treeless
09/24/09

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The good thing is, once women and girls get a taste of empowerment, they start realizing what they deserve and are more likely to seek it, find it, demand it. Sometimes, fads leave some worthy things behind.
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Flackette Goes Retro
09/24/09

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The conflation of women with children always makes me stabby. I see why they're doing it, but stabby nonetheless.

And caring about the condition of 51% of the world's population should not be a fad.
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Bunsen Honeydew
09/24/09

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It may be a fad in many cases, but let's please acknowledge that Hillary Clinton has been championing and working for women and children's rights since her time in law school. Her speech in Beijing in 1995 about women's rights had a huge impact around the world. I know the Clintons have their faults, but please don't lump their foundation's work for women in as a fad.
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Alys Brangwin has a huge talent
09/24/09

@Bunsen Honeydew: Indeed. I have a lot of respect for her.
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SarahMC
09/24/09

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I hope not, but I am suspicious. Now that more people realize that empowering girls benefits non-girls too, they're on board. Hmph.
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Hooplehead
12/09/08

In reply to Rod Blagojevich: Putting All Republi-Scandals To Shame
My first reaction to the Blagojevich story was "I can't wait to hear Megan take this sleaze apart." My second thought was that it sounded like a story straight out of the Wire. This guy makes Clay Davis look good!
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Saltine
12/09/08

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Is it wrong that a little part of me is like yay its Chicago's time to shine and be in the spotlight? Suck it New Yorkers, you think you know what corruption is like with prositutions? You dont even know what corruption is, our governor has more corruptio nin his little pinkie than goody two shoes elliot spitzer ever could. We have a pres. elect and a scandal being reported internationally, WERE NUMBER 1!
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Saltine
12/09/08

@saltine: Chicagoans, at least this one, have inferiority complexes I think.
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Lymed
12/09/08

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Is it me, or does he look like Dubya in a wig in that picture?
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vamusical
12/09/08

@Lymed: At the gym I was just thinking that he looked like Sean Astin (Rudy, Sam from Lord of the Rings) with dark hair, but not in this picture. He's not squinting enough here for him to look like dubya.
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Sophie needs to study...damn
12/09/08

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And the transcript...the guy is so literal in his bribes. Where's the coded language? The long pauses? The *wink wink* and *nudge nudge*? My God, man, even corner drug dealers use coded language for their transactions!
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Saltine
12/09/08

@Sophie needs to study...but isn't: I think his lawyers might be able to claim not full mental capacity. For him to do this I think that he ha to be either insane or have an IQ below 70. Im being a little snarky but not really, my mind cannot wrap around how dumb this was, in fact I know of drug dealers who had a below 70 IQ who were smarter than this.
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Lymed
12/09/08

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Sometimes you just need to watch a kitten eat broccoli to feel better

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midwesternmom
12/09/08

@Lymed: OMG! Tiger the twelve-toed cat loves his dilly beans. Of course, he eats them with dignity and panache. If panache is catode for "a cloud of food around his head."
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PilgrimSoul
12/09/08

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I just... I feel like this corruption lacked imagination which is really unforgivable. Where's the Indecent Proposal? Why aren't there ANY Russian mobsters involved? Had this guy never heard of Nixon and the need to be paranoid about your phones? The mind boggles.
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sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
12/09/08

@PilgrimSoul: For real! Where's the fun in a scandal without sweaty meth-fueled sex with a rentboy?
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Saltine
12/09/08

@PilgrimSoul: Honestly I kept feeling this is a scheme hedy, I mean hedley , Lamarr could have concocted but he would have been smarter. I mean he knew his phones were tapped and still he talks about this over the phone?

He really needed to be paranoid, the thing that might bother me the msot, and this is really showing my true Chicago heritage, is not that it was so blatantly corrupt (though that is plenty horrific), but it was just so very stupid. I just expected the governor of a state to be smarter than your average drug dealer in talking about things on the phone. I was wrong.
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TNT Freckles McGee
12/10/08

@PilgrimSoul: Well - among other people, the horse racing industry and labor unions were involved - so there MAY be Russian mobsters somewhere in that mix!!
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supremecourtjester
12/09/08

In reply to Rod Blagojevich: Putting All Republi-Scandals To Shame
He's the fourth governor of Illinois to be indicted in recent times. Illinois is the only state where the the State Pen has a governor's suite.
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Sophie needs to study...damn
12/09/08

@supremecourtjester: Classic.
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BlowJoy
12/09/08

@supremecourtjester: Welcome to Illinois.
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TNT Freckles McGee
12/10/08

@BlowJoy: Welcome to Crook County
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pax
12/09/08

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Also: As a NYC teacher, I say PLEASE take Randi off our hands.
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