"Special but equal?"Is it possible that some of the wild enthusiasm for “Mad Men” among viewers stems from a yearning for the satisfaction and sexiness of traditional sex roles, including chivalry?
“When I watch ‘Mad Men,’ I think, ‘Wouldn’t it have been great to date a man who knows what he likes to drink, who pulls out the chair, who dresses up and is clean shaven and at least wears a sport jacket?’ It’s sexy,” said Notkin.
“Although in many ways he’s despicable, in certain ways many of us find Don Draper attractive,” Notkin said, adding that the character Joan — the office bombshell — resonates with some female viewers because “we are craving the power of our femininity.”
Ultimately most women want equality with men, and value the increased legal protection from sexual harassment in the workplace of the type dramatized in “Mad Men.”
After hours, though, some of us long for men who can treat us not only as equals to be respected, but as women to be desired — and cherished.
Have we become madwomen to consider anything less?
WED 15 MAY 1940
British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill ("Former Naval Person") pleads for U.S. aid in a personal message to President Roosevelt. Churchill's request is six-fold. First, he requests the loan of 40 or 50 "older destroyers" to bridge the gap between what the Royal Navy has on hand and what is under construction; second, he asks for "several hundred" of the latest planes; third, he asks for antiaircraft "equipment and ammunition"; fourth, he asks that the U.S. continue to provide Britain with steel; fifth, he asks that a U.S. squadron visit Irish ports; and sixth, he intimates that the U.S. "keep that Japanese dog quiet in the Pacific, using Singapore in any way convenient" (see 16 May and 11 June).
U.S. Minister in Uruguay, Edwin C. Wilson, reports to Secretary of State Hull that there has been an increase in "Nazi activities" in Uruguay. He notes "indifference and apathy ... and in certain cases something worse evidenced by the Uruguayan government. The situation, Wilson warns, "has serious possibilities" (see 20 May).
Hillary Rodham Clinton and former President Bill Clinton earned in excess of $25 million for delivering more than 100 speeches since the beginning of 2014, a huge infusion to their net worth as she was readying for a presidential bid.[Even the liberal Bezos Post]
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After she left her post, Hillary Clinton herself commanded huge fees as a paid speaker. She was paid as much as $300,000 to speak at public universities, drawing backlash at times, though she generally donated those funds to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation.
Clinton continued to deliver paid speeches until just weeks before her presidential announcement. Within the last year, she spoke to a scrap metal conference in Las Vegas, a major bank in Canada and the American Camp Association [?] in Atlantic City.
BREAKING: Blue Bell to lay off a third of its workers after listeria concerns halt ice cream production.— The Associated Press (@AP) May 15, 2015Next they'll be marrying their horses or dogs or something! (No one ever talks about marrying or bestiality-ing cats. Why is that?)EUROPE
Luxembourg Premier Is First E.U. Leader to Marry Same-Sex Partner
but didn't really want to type anything, esp. as Ben E. (No relation?) King had just become worm food.Blues legend B.B. King reports he's in hospice at Vegas home
TUE 14 MAY 1940
German troops smash through French lines at Sedan, and move toward the English Channel.
Dutch Army capitulates to Germany.
Grammy-winning R&B singer/songwriter Kelly Price said she went to the CVS at 150 Carson Street in Carson early Tuesday morning at about 1 a.m. to fill a prescription for painkillers she planned to take for a dental procedure, CBS reports. Price posted bout the incident on Facebook, saying this wasn't her usual pharmacy, but that her pharmacy had been out of stock."Imagine my surprise and aggravation when I was greeted with partitions at the drop off window and after flagging down the pharmacist on duty being told that he would not fill my prescription because they don't fill 'certain' prescriptions after midnight because of the neighborhood this CVS store is located in."Carson said she eventually found the manager of the store, who convinced the pharmacist to fill the prescription after about a half hour of arguing. The next day, Price said she called CVS corporate to file a complaint.
"I was offended for anybody that lives in a neighborhood that may not be considered the upper echelon where expensive homes are, or where six- and seven-figure earners live," she told CBS2.
Price said CVS eventually apologized to her Wednesday evening. In a second Facebook post, she wrote about speaking with Henry Casillas, CVS' Area Vice President. She said Casillas apologized about the incident at the pharmacy and told her it was not CVS policy, and that the partitions should not have been at the windows. She said he also informed her that there would be an internal investigation. CVS issued a statement to CBS2 that also said it was not company policy to refuse certain prescriptions after midnight.
Price said in her second post that she was hopeful for a positive change from CVS."It is my hope that no person in ANY community should ever have to deal with unfair scrutiny or denial of service because of where they live, what they look like or how rich or poor the pharmacist thinks they are. Hopefully this will be the beginning of a change in the way this company does business in our communities."
I ask her why growth has been so anemic in this recovery. “It is fashionable for the left to say we need big government to deal with big business. The opposite is true,” she says. “Only big business can survive big government. The answer is less government. The way to [fix the economy] is to level the playing field.”Uh huh. "Level the playing field" by letting corporations run rampant. Some call it a level playing field, looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland to others.
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MON 13 MAY 1940
River gunboat Tutuila (PR-4), stranded on a reef in the Yangtze River off Chungking, China, since 8 May, is refloated.
Dutch Royal Family and government flees to London, England.
Yep. The retarder circuits seem to be functioning above expectations; all candidates either dodged the question/went Reagan or simply ran away. The next generation is here, & it works. Well done, evil G.O.P. scientists!Greenville, South Carolina (CNN) It's a simple question, but one that stops Republican presidential hopefuls in their tracks: Who do you think is the greatest president alive today?
CNN posed the question to several White House contenders gathered here recently at the Freedom Summit, a daylong conference with conservative activists ahead of next year's primary in this crucial early-primary state.
"Obviously the greatest president of my lifetime is Ronald Reagan," said Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal.
"I'll leave that to the people to decide," said Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, which is his guaranteed go-to line for questions he doesn't want to answer. "Certainly the greatest president of recent generations was Ronald Reagan."
"I was a big fan, a very big fan of Ronald Reagan," real estate mogul Donald Trump said.
Ronald Reagan, as you might recall, has been dead for 11 years.
There are reasons why these White House hopefuls are suddenly shy when pressed on their thoughts about the five surviving presidents.
They can't say Jimmy Carter, whose presidency is synonymous in GOP circles as weakness, or President Barack Obama, a man whose legacy they all have spent years trying to vanquish. Bill Clinton is a Democrat and the husband of Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton -- so he's out.
That leaves the two Republicans: George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, father and brother, respectively, of Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida who is preparing his own bid for the Republican nomination. And an endorsement for a Bush could be construed as affirmation for Jeb Bush by proxy.
They also know that if you say George W. Bush is the greatest living president, well, then you're on camera saying you think George W. Bush is the greatest living president, and Democrats will have a field day. In 2008, GOP nominee John McCain didn't want to tie his campaign lasso to Bush, and neither do these contenders eight years later.
That might explain why former Texas Gov. Rick Perry ignored the question completely, walked away and hooted, "Bye y'aaaaall" on his way out.
Or why Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon, paused for several seconds before he just gave up. "I don't know," he said.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum gets partial credit for threading the needle: "Probably a Bush," he said, and then escaped up a wheelchair ramp.
Well, at least almost everyone on the Republican campaign trail can agree: The late Ronald Reagan is America's greatest (previously) living president.
Well, well, are you straight-up admitting that the "troops" were royally dis-served (used, actually) by your allegedly stupider brother, The Shrub? Might as well stick a fork in yourself, J.B., you're done!Jeb: Answering That Iraq Question Would Be A 'Disservice' To The Troops
20 years later, FBI to offer new reward in ‘Sunset Limited’ train derailment
—UPDATEDThe FBI on Friday will offer a new reward for information leading to the conviction of those responsible for a train derailment caused by an act sabotage in Arizona — nearly 20 years after it occurred.
The FBI did not say why the new reward is being offered now to find whoever sabotaged rail tracks in a remote area 70 miles southwest of Phoenix and caused the Amtrak passenger train the Sunset Limited to derail and fall off a bridge at around 1:35 a.m. on Oct. 9, 1995.
The FBI will offer a reward of $310,000, the Arizona Republic reported.
An Amtrak employee was killed and more than 100 of the train’s 258 passengers were hurt. The FBI has classified the derailment as an act of domestic terrorism.
Investigators found four typed letters at the scene of the derailment that referred to the deadly federal government actions at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and Waco, Texas. The letters were signed by the “Sons of the Gestapo” — a group the FBI and observers of extremist movements had never heard of before.
Whoever sabotaged the tracks near Hyder and caused the derailment pulled out 29 railroad spikes and removed a 19-foot section of the track, The Associated Press reported at the time. A wire was used to disable a warning system designed to alert a train operator of a track break.
SEOUL, May 13 (Yonhap) -- North Korea has executed its defense chief on charges of treason, South Korea's spy agency said Wednesday, in the latest sign of a reign of terror by leader Kim Jong-un.
Hyon Yong-chol, the chief of North Korea's People's Armed Forces, was executed by firing squad using an anti-aircraft gun* at a military school in Pyongyang around April 30, the National Intelligence Service said.
Hyon was seen dozing off during a military event and did not carry out Kim's instructions, a senior official of the agency told reporters at its headquarters in southern Seoul.
The spy agency also gave a similar briefing to lawmakers in a closed-door parliamentary session on Wednesday.
Hyon's execution is the latest in a series of public executions in the communist country.
The spy agency said last month that North Korea has killed another 15 senior officials this year.
North Korea has often carried out public executions in what critics say is aimed at instituting a reign of terror to consolidate Kim's grip on power that he inherited upon the death of his father and long-time leader, Kim Jong-il, in 2011.
In 2013, Kim ordered the execution of his once-powerful uncle, Jang Song-thaek, who was accused of treason, a shocking purge that drew widespread condemnation and sparked concerns over possible instability.
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a tour of L.A.’s rarely seen or discussed scavenger community– mostly new immigrants trawling the city’s streets for semi-valuable waste, in this case mattresses left on the sidewalkThe show biz connection may be of interest as well.
In Los Angeles, mattresses left out at curbsides and in alleyways are picked up, put on trucks and brought to mattress recycling centers as part of subsistence scavenging. However, some mattresses also end up in local prop houses and eventually are used as set dressing on films. Once brought into the circulation of objects within the cultural industry of Hollywood, a cast-off and often soiled, ripped and stained mattress attains revalorization through its symbolic role as a functional mattress on screen. Based on ethnographic fieldwork within the film industry, I use the example of a mattress plucked from the street and used in the film Fight Club (1999) to discuss Hollywood as an alternative waste regime.[L.A. Taco]
Can't keep 'em down on the farm forever.[T]he unaffiliated share of the population is increasing among older Americans as well. The Christian share of the population born before 1964 has dipped by 2 percentage points since 2007.
There are few signs that the decline in Christian America will slow. Although some might assume that young people will become more religious as they age, the Pew data gives reason to think otherwise.
“It’s not that they start unaffiliated and become religious,” Mr. Cooperman said. “In fact, it’s the opposite.”
At the same time, every new cohort has been less affiliated than the last, with even the youngest millennials proving less affiliated, at 36 percent, than older millennials, at 34 percent.
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The Pew survey, which included 35,000 adults, offers an unusually comprehensive account of religion in the United States because the Census Bureau does not ask Americans about their religion. Most other nongovernmental surveys do not interview enough adults to allow precise estimates, do not ask other detailed questions about religion or do not have older surveys for comparison.
The report does not offer an explanation for the decline of the Christian population, but the low levels of Christian affiliation among the young, well educated and affluent are consistent with prevailing theories for the rise of the unaffiliated, like the politicization of religion by American conservatives, a broader disengagement from all traditional institutions and labels, the combination of delayed and interreligious marriage, and economic development.
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The researchers looked at municipal codes in 72 cities across the state. Since 2000, the number of ordinances aimed at the homeless rose by 50 percent, with cities finding 288 new ways to target them. “This fourteen year span has already eclipsed the previous forty-five years’ total enactment numbers, and the numbers are continuing to rise,” the report notes. The number of ordinances rose from just 31 in the 1970s to more than 100 in the last four years.Really. Just fuck all you Nazi bastards & parasite landlords to hell. Blah blah blah how you treat the least of you blah blah blah fuck Jesus, Lord of All Talk & No Action too.
SAT 11 MAY 1940
President Roosevelt issues proclamations (1) recognizing the state of war that exists between Germany and Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands; (2) proclaiming American neutrality in the conflict; and (3) restricting belligerent submarines from using American ports and territorial waters, exclusive of the Panama Canal Zone.
British and French troops occupy Curaçao and Aruba, Netherlands West Indies. President Roosevelt announces that these actions are not contrary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Looks like Rep. @NathanBallentin & I are partnering again. This time for @marcorubio. #Day1Supporters pic.twitter.com/Xs6x1cVaY2
— Rep. Neal Collins (@collins_neal) May 9, 2015
FRI 10 MAY 1940
Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The Netherlands and Belgium declare war on Germany.
British troops occupy Iceland.
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain resigns; First Lord of the Admiralty Winston S. Churchill becomes prime minister.
Secretary of State Hull reiterates that the United States will not stand for any country establishing a protectorate over the Netherlands East Indies. Japanese Foreign Minister indicates his country's desire to maintain the political and economic status quo in that region.
And yet, note Ossifer Ruiz (We're guessing.) in the middle a couple of wks. ago:605.90 VISIBLE TATTOOS AND BRANDINGS. Sworn Department uniformed and plainclothes employees, while on-duty, shall not display any tattoo(s) and/or branding(s). Officers shall cover all tattoo(s)/branding(s) by wearing an authorized long-sleeved uniform shirt if in uniform or if in business attire, the business attire shall cover all tattoo(s)/branding(s) with the following exceptions:
If an officer has a visible tattoo(s)/branding(s) that does not extend below the elbow, the officer may wear a black or flesh-colored sleeve or bandage that does not extend below the elbow; and/or,
If an officer has only one tattoo/branding covering an area three-inch square or less that is visible on the arm, the officer may, instead of wearing a long-sleeved shirt, cover that area with only one patch, of a color as close to the wearer�s skin color as is reasonably available. The patch used for this purpose may not exceed three-inch square in size. However, if the tattoo/branding is below the elbow area and connot be covered by a three-inch square skin patch, the officer shall wear the long-sleeved uniform shirt or business attire, as appropriate for the assignment.
The intent is that no tattoo(s)/branding(s) shall be visible and that no more than one three-inch square skin patch shall be visible on each arem. If a sleeve/bandage is used, it shall not extend below the elbow..
The UKIP managed to get only 1 seat for almost 3.9 million votes. To put that in perspective, the Conservatives won an outright majority of 331 seats with 11.3 million votes. And Labour got 232 seats with 9.3 million votes. Another way to look at it is that UKIP got almost as many votes as the triumphant Scots Nationalists and the shattered Liberal Democrats combined.For this we saved Edward, Emperor of India, & his in-bred progeny from Hitler? How would things have been any different had we let them surrender to their Nazi soulmates? Wouldn't have been a dime's worth of difference, that's how different things would have been.
When fascism comes to America it will be waving the flag, wearing a football helmet & skimming taxpayer money for corporate entities. Wait, what do I mean when?TRENTON — When the Jets paused to honor soldiers of the New Jersey Army National Guard at home games during the past four years, it was more than a heartfelt salute to the military — it was also worth a good stack of taxpayer money, records show.
The Department of Defense and the Jersey Guard paid the Jets a total of $377,000 from 2011 to 2014 for the salutes and other advertising, according to federal contracts. Overall, the Defense Department has paid 14 NFL teams $5.4 million during that time, of which $5.3 million was paid by the National Guard to 11 teams under similar contracts.
Obviously a cry for help. I hope the two-yr. is placed somewhere safe, & far away from whatever abuse he's been receiving. Breeder scum.LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - Police say a woman is expected to be OK after she was accidentally shot by her 2-year-old son Saturday night.
The shooting was reported on Sunset Court, off New La Grange Road, around 9:30 p.m. The child was not hurt, according to police spokeswoman Alicia Smiley.
Three people were in the residence at the time, Smiley said. The mother, believed to be in her 30s, was taken to the hospital with injuries that are not expected to be life-threatening.
It is not clear how the child managed to get to the gun. Police are still investigating the incident.
#ToriesOutNow outside downing Street pic.twitter.com/073SlNA74b— Lookalibi (@lookalibi) May 9, 2015Police are getting violent, starting to kettle protestors outside Downing Street pic.twitter.com/xeV0EuM4lr— Shelly Asquith (@ShellyAsquith) May 9, 2015People being detained by police in #London. Can see 5 people in the ground outside Downing Street pic.twitter.com/nqTcrjPKta— Sara Firth (@Sara__Firth) May 9, 2015 |
| An Intercontinental Ballistic Missile is paraded on Moscow's Red Square during a parade May 9, 1965, marking Victory in Europe day. AP |
“If you want the republic to survive, you must say you are not a sheep, you are a shepherd. There are 10 million people that listen to this show. They cannot kill 10 million people in one night. You were born for a reason, and you’re listening to this show for a reason… Prepare for a time when voices like mine or others are no longer heard and yours is the only voice.”Fingers crossed we won't be hearing anything further from his grifting mouth very soon.
WED 8 MAY 1940
River gunboat Tutuila (PR-4) is damaged when she runs aground on a reef and becomes stranded as she shifts her anchorage at Chungking, China (see 13 May).
Americans Not In The Labor Force Rise ToIf called, I shall not lift a finger!
Record 93,194,000 (Tyler Durden/Zero Hedge)
International response to appeal for emergency funds to help millions affected by Nepal earthquake has been slow, UN official says; agency has only received $22 million of $415 million sought - @ReutersIf there aren't enough meteors, asteroids & comets release the incurable plague!
How can one possibly claim to have "lived" (If you can even call this living.) if one has never killed anyone?
— M. Bouffant (@MBouffant) May 8, 2015One of the perks about this made-up holiday is that we get some sweet deals with it, like how throwback Koreatown joint Cassell's Hamburgers will be flipping $0.99 burgers on May 8.Not that I'll be awake in time, but ...
TUE 7 MAY 1940
President Roosevelt orders U.S. Fleet to remain in Hawaiian waters indefinitely as a deterrent to Japan (see 5 July and 7 October).
This is the part (the conclusion) where I peter out, having nothing funny or, really, anything at all, because what the fuck else can I say about any of this rancid garbage that some other buffon hasn't typed twice already?WASHINGTON (KTRK) -- Listeria bacteria was found in Blue Bell ice cream's Oklahoma plant as far back as March 2013. That's according to test results released Thursday by the government.
The company continued to ship ice cream produced in that plant after what the FDA said was inadequate cleaning.
Three deaths are now linked to the ice cream, and the company recalled all of its products last month.
Read the CDC findings (.pdf files):
Brenham, TX facility
Broken Arrow, OK facility
Sylacauga, AL facility
The Food and Drug Administration released results of investigations into Blue Bell's plants in Oklahoma, Texas and Alabama. The most extensive violations were found in Oklahoma, where the FDA listed 16 separate positive tests for listeria on equipment and in ice cream from March 2013 through January 2015.
Blue Bell spokesman Joe Robertson issued this statement regarding the FDA report on positive listeria tests on surfaces in 2013:
"Several swab tests did show the presence of listeria on non-food surfaces in Blue Bell's Broken Arrow plant in 2013. As is standard procedure for any such positive results, the company would immediately clean the surfaces and swab until the tests were negative. We thought our cleaning process took care of any problems, but in hindsight, it was not adequate, which is why we are currently conducting such a comprehensive re-evaluation of all our operations."
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Got my vote then.Fiorina’s appointment to that historic role as trouble hit is not unique. Multiple studies have found that women are far more likely than men to get a chance at the top job when companies are facing significant struggles than when times are good. White men tend to keep control of top positions during smooth sailing, but challenges can make companies feel the need to try to shake things up and try something different, which can mean turning to women for leadership. But that means women are set up with a more difficult job from the get go.
Some are still able to engineer turnarounds. But if they aren’t able to do so and do it quickly, they run the risk of being pushed out of their positions. Female CEOs are more likely to end up forced out of their jobs than men.
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FRI 3 MAY 1940
Greenland, a crown colony of Denmark, seeks U.S. protection, so that Danish sovereignty can be maintained during the German occupation of the homeland.
Editor's note: We're seeing multiple reports of boxing fans around the US having issues ordering the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight on pay-per-view. The issues appear to be affecting multiple providers of cable TV and satellite service.
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Pay-TV can't handle demand for a big PPV event, copyright-infringing livestreams step into the breach. Welcome to media biz 2015
— Andrew Wallenstein (@awallenstein) May 3, 2015Private Jets at Las Vegas airport!!! Wing to wing- airport closed now to private planes #MayPac pic.twitter.com/hj8eIZ71wc
— Liz Habib (@LizHabib) May 2, 2015
More car dealerships #m1oak #MayDay pic.twitter.com/PW9k3MIFiz
— Occupy Oakland (@OccupyOakland) May 2, 2015WED 1 MAY 1940 MAY
Naval Air Station, San Juan, Puerto Rico, is established effective this date, and designated as an activity of the Tenth Naval District. Captain Virgil C. Griffin, Jr., is the first commanding officer.
Police union lawyer on Baltimore officers charged: 'No officer injured [Freddie] Gray, caused harm to Mr. Gray, they are truly saddened by his death. No officer did anything wrong'Except arresting him for a not-crime. And all the lie-filled "leaks". And his inexplicable-by-the-police death while in their custody. Fuck you, "police union lawyer"!
