Speak your mind even if your voice shakes
by Debra
Well it wasn’t as easy as I thought it might be.
For some reason the import doesn’t work so I have to move each post over and in the process am losing the comments. 🙁
Will have to fiddle with feeds.
But I do like wordpress and I like the way the layout is coming so bear with me and try not to trip over the boxes.
by Debra
Progressive;
Meaning #2: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties
It would be wonderful to think that progressive women and progressive men are working towards a similar goal in which equality for all is one of the founding principals.
Unfortunately just as in other times of “progression” many men have change in mind just not change that requires anything from them.
In the French Revolution, women’s republican clubs demanded that liberty, equality, and fraternity be applied regardless of sex, but this movement was extinguished for the time by the Code Napoléon.
With regards to family, the Code established the supremacy of the husband with respects to the wife and children; this was the general legal situation in Europe at the time. It, however, allowed divorce on relatively liberal basis compared to other European countries, including divorce by mutual consent.
In our own progressive communities there are examples of men who just don’t get it.
They don’t get how sexist comments affect us all, they still have beliefs of female promiscuity (when was the last time that term was used on a man) they show demeaning pictures of women as if they are being clever, in short they display an ignorance unworthy of someone who would take on the mantle of progressive.
by Debra
Much has been said about Belinda Stronach, not a lot of it nice. Some have said that insults against her should not be taken as insults against women or as a reflection of how the conservative party views women.
I beg to differ.
Here are some quotes from tories and reformers, now the reformatories;
“Pass the tequila, Sheila, lay down and love me again.”
– John Crosbie
“Slut.” William Kempling to Copps
Stronach”whored herself out for power.” Tony Abbott
“She sort of defined herself as something of a dipstick, an attractive one, but still a dipstick.” Runciman
There are many more but I wouldn’t want to belabour the point. [Read more…] about Dogs, frat boys and the sad state of Parliament
by Debra
Credit to skdadl of pogge for coming up with this idea
the pome only has to be four lines long (minimum), but it must mention the Court Challenges program at some point.
Here is my attempt;
SWC, CCP, like so many birds the acronyms fly by
The hunters sit intent on death
Progress, they say, has drawn it’s last breath
I need you again progress sighs
Mourn their blindness, then organize
Tag to progressive bloggers reading this!
by Debra
Tories and their supporters must be so proud
Reg Warkentin is challenging the military pension act’s “gold diggers clause,” but his legal battle is in jeopardy after the federal government cut a program that funds human rights court challenges.
Reg Warkentin married Hilde when he was 62. Because he was older than 60, she will not get his military pension when he dies.
“Virtually we’ve been cut off at the knees,” he said. “Unless somebody comes up with more money, this thing will never get to the Supreme Court.”
The clause in Section 31 of the Canadian Forces Superannuation Act says a woman who marries a veteran who is 60 or older cannot receive her husband’s military pension if he dies.
Good thing that was nipped in the bud! [Read more…] about Court Challenges Program
by Debra
the same company that has more than one of these types of charges against it
The United Healthcare Insurance Company, a unit of UnitedHealth Group, will pay $3.5 million to settle charges that it defrauded the federal Medicare program, the Justice Department said yesterday. United Healthcare ”knowingly mishandled” phone inquiries from Medicare beneficiaries and health care providers, then made false reports to the federal government about how it handled the calls, the department said in a news release. The activities took place for five years ending in 2000, the government said. United Healthcare did not admit wrongdoing in reaching the settlement. UnitedHealth’s press office did not return a phone call. A former United Healthcare employee began the case in 2001 by filing a whistleblower lawsuit, in which the Justice Department intervened.
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