Pipe Up

May 15, 2012

Ugh. Don’t remind me. Being forced to a ‘recorder solo’ in front of classmates in elementary school was pretty much the worst.

Because, let’s be honest, the epitome of being a “cool” kid at that age didn’t exactly go hand-in-hand with playing the recorder.

Anybody have a particularly embarrassing recorder story from those awkward elementary school years?

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May 10, 2012

When Obama endorsed marriage equality…rainbows! smiles!

Ha….I love this! A real Mean Girls classic.

“I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy…”

whenobamaendorsed:

… the interwebs exploded and it made me, so, so happy.

Here’s a visual quote I created for my organization’s website after yesterday’s big announcement from Obama:

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Filed under: marriage equality obama same-sex marriage lgbt SEIU unions

April 26, 2012

Automatically the greatest Tumblr blog ever :) Go union kittehs!

classwarkitteh:

Verizon workers came to the rescue of a cat trapped in a tree with a cable-wire noose in New York. Can they gets a fair contracts?

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Filed under: unions labor unions fair contract cats LOLcats cat memes class warfare inequality workers working people Verizon

April 26, 2012

Remember back to 2005 when the VAWA reauthorization passed by unanimous consent? Yeah….yet another sign of the vitriolic bipartisan times we’re living in. (Sigh).

think-progress:

31 Republican men voted against the Violence Against Women Act in the Senate today. All 5 Republican women voted for it.

Surprise.

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Filed under: waronwomen women republicans violence against women act vawa war on women senate

April 25, 2012

It seems the concept of a “joyride” is lost on this one. (sad)#dogsofinstagram (Taken with instagram)

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April 11, 2012

A breaking news addition to Obama’s list…..

6) He can’t say for sure what his ‘position’ is on fair pay for women.

During a conference call held earlier in the morning, a Romney aide was unable to answer a straightforward question about the former governor’s position on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009. “We’ll get back to you on that,” the aide replied. (And…a new hashtag is born that’s now trending in DC: #WellGetBackToYouOnThat)

Although the Romney campaign has since somewhat clarified his stance on whether or not he support equal pay for women, I do not consider attempts to pivot back to Obama’s alleged “war on women” to be a sufficient or satisfactory response.

Lily Ledbetter expresses best how I feel in a statement the Obama campaign issued this morning on her behalf while the Romney camp was floundering:

“If [Mitt] is truly concerned about women in this economy, he wouldn’t have to take time to ‘think’ about whether he supports the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act.”

More about why Romney’s claim that President Obama is waging the ‘real’ war on women is absolutely ridiculous on Daily Kos. One thing’s for sure: it’s not hard to understand why the Republican party is facing such a huge gender gap. Women voters deserve much, much better than this.

barackobama: