Monkey

I went down to the cat adoption place. Came back empty handed.

If you can give me some advice, 2 issues…

1. The cat I really liked, “Monkey” is a female 4 years old. She’s a grump. Smelled my hand forever but hissed when I tried to pet her back. Very cautious. The people said she would need time to adjust and is a cat who will tell you when “enough is enough”

…..

When I first moved to California from Florida I lived with a girl with a long hair cat. I was terribly allergic.

Thinking that was 15 years ago and a long hair I hope that I’m not allergic to all cats all the time…….

so…..

2. I picked up the teenager (well, 8 month old - on his way to being a teen) I don’t want a cat that young. But he was sweet and I held him close. I feel like my cheek is breaking out in bumps.

So, I’m asking for advice. Basically I think this may be a no-go for me at the moment. Wondering if there is hope??

Meow!

As I understand this, its a new media experiment in self-support.

Online ‘Shaming’ a New Level of Cyberbullying for Girls : NPR

One online trend 16-year-old Temitayo Fagbenle finds disturbing is something she calls “slut shaming” — using photos and videos to turn a girl’s private life inside out. Temitayo reported this story as part of the Radio Rookies program at member station WNYC.

I just listened to this on my drive home. Brought to you by OUR youth: “Radio Rookies” These kids are reporting what’s happening at their schools.

After the loud news (in reference to never forgetting the silent ones) of the rape of the Indian student, then that horrible video of the very youthful full-blown misogynist in Steubenville, OH…

I am so overwhelmed and reminded that rape, slut shaming and the basic position of women in our modern society has not advanced.

The girl is bad, the guy, ah - he’s OK.

Yes, many of us have good jobs and are able to compete with men, AND have experienced wonderful sexual freedom. But do not forget, for many people its still the same. Good girls v. bad girls.

That men, our sons, neighbors, fellow human beings subscribe to this still is unacceptable.

This is right here in our neighborhoods. Right here.

I cried listening to this on the way home. Frustration and a bit of hopelessness.

pocho.com

Tijuana was a welcoming destination for Jewish refugees who fled Europe, Asia and the Mideast looking for a better life. This is one family’s story.

This is from Lalo Alcaraz.

Enjoy, it’s wonderful.

(did he miss cap Rosh Hashanah? I left as he posted)

worldnews.nbcnews.com

South African authorities on Thursday invoked a legal move seldom used since the dying days of apartheid in order to charge 270 striking miners with the murder of 34 co-workers who were seen being shot dead in a hail of police bullets earlier this month.

Prosecutors have filed papers using a measure called “common purpose”, arguing the miners were complicit in the killings since they were arrested at the scene with weapons.

Legal experts said the move will likely collapse when a court hearing bail applications for the 270 near the mine resumes sessions next week and lambasted prosecutors for inflaming a tense situation by seeking a mass indictment that will eventually be rejected.

Shitty situation. All over protests for a barely-living wage. Mining=maybe the worst job in the world.

rippdemup.com

Three days before Independence Day, Milton Hall died in a fusillade of police gunfire outside a strip mall.

He had been arguing with officers in a parking lot next to a shuttered Chinese restaurant when he was shot, in full view of passing motorists and while he was holding some sort of knife. Saginaw County Prosecutor Michael Thomas said later that the squad of police confronting him opened fire “because apparently, at this point in time, he was threatening to assault police.”

Thomas’ office and the Michigan State Police are investigating Hall’s death. Saginaw Police Chief Gerald Cliff said Hall was “known to be an assaultive person” with “a long history” of contacts with law enforcement, “not only with police from our department but with the county.”

Hall’s cousin, Mike Washington, acknowledged Hall had been jailed for minor offenses like vagrancy in the past, but, “He was not violent.” And Hall’s mother is growing impatient with the probe and questions why police opened fire so furiously on her son, whom she said was mentally ill.

“It appeared to be a firing squad dressed in police uniforms,” Jewel Hall told CNN from her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico. “There was another way. They did not have to kill him. He had not done anything. He was not violent. He was not a murderer. He was not a criminal.”

Youtube Video

Watch the video. Unacceptable.

The website I saw the video at is not CNN who purchased the video. I have no idea about this website, but looked at it, it seems legit and on point.

Whatever. This is happening in our country so often. If there wasn’t video, we would never hear a word about it.

(Oh, when I filed this under “crime” it’s not meant to mean Milton’s, it’s meant to be the PD)

Goodbye Pussycat

In the 1960s, by then a successful copywriter at Foote, Cone, and married to David, who had become involved in film production (he was working for Darryl Zanuck as a story editor at 20th Century-Fox), having been hired away from Cosmopolitan Magazine where he had been their story editor, he suggested to Helen who had been a single girl well into her 30s – considered in those days well on the way to spinsterhood – that she write a book about her experiences as a single woman supporting her family and looking for a man.

The result was ‘Sex and the Single Girl,’ a title David had also suggested. It sold in the millions, and Helen became very famous. She was now married, and much of her time was being taken up personally responding to the thousands of letters she got from women all over America, single and married, seeking advice.

This is such a good read, with great photos. Enjoy!

gawker.com

Alabama’s draconian anti-immigration law has appropriately cleansed the state of brown-skinned immigrants, but has its enforcement gotten out of control? The recent arrest of a non-Hispanic, German Mercedes-Benz executive suggests that it has.

The unnamed executive, who is a manager with the car company, had been visiting Alabama on business and driving a rental car when police stopped him for not having a tag. He had his German identification with him, but when asked to produce a driver’s license, the man told the officers that he didn’t have one. He was arrested and charged for being foreign in Alabama driving without a proper ID—a violation of Alabama’s newish immigrant law—and released only after his colleague showed up at the dungeon where he was being kept and showed police his passport and other foreigner papers.

frumforum.com

Back in 1993, there was a piece of ground that computer billionaire Michael Dell needed to connect his new house near Austin to city water mains. Dell neglected to appreciate the land’s importance. But Perry did discern it. He bought the land for less than $120,000 – then sold it to Dell two years later for a $343,000 profit. Uncanny. True, some detractors have wondered whether the sale was entirely on the level:

Texas Democrats have repeatedly questioned the sale over the years, in part because Mike Toomey – an influential lobbyist who would later become Perry’s chief of staff – closed the deal for Perry while Perry was out of town. Perry has always maintained he didn’t know that the land would be so valuable to Dell when he purchased the property.

Perry repeated similarly shrewd investments again and again in the years ahead.

Look at this transaction from the 2000s. A Texas real estate developer sells land to a Texas state senator – the senator who happened to represent the development’s district. The state senator sold the land to Gov. Perry. Gov. Perry then sold then land – back to the real estate developer’s business partner. Perry scored a profit of $823,000. Tidy. And how remarkable that Perry and his state senator friend could see a value proposition that the two professional real estate developers overlooked.

So it goes through investments in stock, load, and energy properties. Perry just kept seeing things that other people apparently didn’t.

Even more impressive: how Perry managed to find the time. There he was, governor of the second biggest state in the country, creating jobs from morning to night. Yet somehow he also was able to scour the vast landscape of Texas for under-appreciated little parcels of land with the potential to triple or quadruple in value in just a few months.

Geraghty is right. Not “dumb.” Another word, perhaps.

I’m updating this page, as I just noticed my subtitle failed. The beginning of Duncan Hunter’s downfall was the San Diego Union Tribune finding out his purchase of a 900K Del Mar home for 300K. They won the Pulitzer. But this was a long time ago and Perry seems teflony.