Occupy 90210 protesters will gather more than a mile from the home of a daytime drama TV show producer’s mansion Wednesday night when President Barack Obama visits the home for a $35,800-per-ticket fundraising dinner.
The group will gather at Will Rogers Memorial Park — which is indeed in the Beverly Hills 90210 ZIP code — to protest what they call the “corrupting role that Big Money plays in politics.”
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“While Obama dines at a $35,800 a plate fundraiser in the home of a 1% TV producer, we will be one and a half miles away occupying Will Rogers Memorial Park,” according to the Occupy 90210 Facebook page.
Obama’s fundraising campaign in the run-up to the 2012 election in November is expected to shatter records. The fundraising effort in LA will benefit the Obama Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee for Obama’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee.
“The buzz is that Barack Obama will have the first billion dollar campaign expenditure,” said NBC4 political analyst, Sherry Bebitch-Jeffe.
The Occupy 90210 event also serves as a fundraiser to support Hunger Action LA’s Veggie Voucher Program.
90210 is Spoony’s backyard. No word yet on which event he’ll be attending.
The prospect of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential nominee in 2008 was “pretty terrifying” to actress Julianne Moore, who plays Palin in HBO’s upcoming Game Change movie about the 2008 campaign, but not because she feared Palin’s policies. Instead, the self-described “longtime liberal” dreaded Palin might allow the GOP ticket to win: “I really felt like, ‘Oh my gosh, the Republicans might have this election’” since “she was so electrifying.”
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Moore explained how she recognized Palin’s political appeal:
Here’s a woman who’s a parent, who’s an actual working mother, who worked her way up from local government, who was definitely middle working class, married to a commercial fisherman….She was incredibly relatable, she was attractive, she was young; she was speaking to a wide portion of the population that didn’t feel that they’d been noticed or seen or heard.
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“I would say, as a registered Democrat and longtime liberal, I think that I speak for a lot of women when I say that when [Palin] burst onto the scene, the way that she did that was pretty terrifying because I really felt like, Oh my gosh, the Republicans might have this election,” Moore recalled of her first perceptions of Palin back in 2008. “She was so electrifying as a figure, it kind of blew everyone away.”
At last, some honesty.
The freak-out over Sarah Palin began within hours of the announcement that she had been selected as John McCain’s running mate. All the supposed reasons for the freak-out came later.
Is it just me or has the media been kinder to Sarah the past few months? Now that she’s no longer a potential candidate for this cycle they have no vested interest in tearing her down.
If (when) Mittrick Romneysantorum loses to Obama in November, will that make Sarah the front runner for 2016?
A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious.
The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips, and apple juice did not meet U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day.
The Division of Child Development and Early Education at the Department of Health and Human Services requires all lunches served in pre-kindergarten programs — including in-home day care centers — to meet USDA guidelines. That means lunches must consist of one serving of meat, one serving of milk, one serving of grain, and two servings of fruit or vegetables, even if the lunches are brought from home.
When home-packed lunches do not include all of the required items, child care providers must supplement them with the missing ones.
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When the girl came home with her lunch untouched, her mother wanted to know what she ate instead. Three chicken nuggets, the girl answered. Everything else on her cafeteria tray went to waste.
“She came home with her whole sandwich I had packed, because she chose to eat the nuggets on the lunch tray, because they put it in front of her,” her mother said. “You’re telling a 4-year-old. ‘oh. you’re lunch isn’t right,’ and she’s thinking there’s something wrong with her food.”
While the mother and grandmother thought the potato chips and lack of vegetable were what disqualified the lunch, a spokeswoman for the Division of Child Development said that should not have been a problem.
“With a turkey sandwich, that covers your protein, your grain, and if it had cheese on it, that’s the dairy,” said Jani Kozlowski, the fiscal and statutory policy manager for the division. “It sounds like the lunch itself would’ve met all of the standard.” The lunch has to include a fruit or vegetable, but not both, she said.
Wingnuttia has their collective knickers in a knot over this story. At first I thought that this was just some overzealous school employee misunderstanding policy. A lunch inspector for sack lunches? Seriously?
But this problem originates quite a bit higher on the food chain:
The state regulation reads:
“Sites must provide breakfast and/or snacks and lunch meeting USDA requirements during the regular school day. The partial/full cost of meals may be charged when families do not qualify for free/reduced price meals.
“When children bring their own food for meals and snacks to the center, if the food does not meet the specified nutritional requirements, the center must provide additional food necessary to meet those requirements.”
It’s all the fault of those damn nanny-state Progressives, New Dealers and Great Society Liberals. Back around the beginning of the 20th Century them Progressives got laws passed in every state making education mandatory for childrens until they were at least fourteen.
At first kids were on their own as far as lunch. Most either walked home (five miles through the snow, uphill both ways) or brought their lunch to eat. Some just went hungry. The first school lunch program started in Milwaukee (a hotbed of progressivism) in 1899. The idea spread and in 1946 New Dealer Harry S.Truman signed the National School Lunch Act which provided free or low-cost lunches to school childrens.
Listen to the video above and you will hear Fox News commentator Liz Trotta say that women in the military are complaining that they have been “raped too much.”
How much is too much? I would say once is too much.
Trotta’s remarks arose during her Feb. 12 commentary on the Pentagon’s plan to allow women to serve closer to the the front lines. Women in the military have campaigned for this change. Because of the nature of war now, women essentially are serving in combat roles without combat training and yet they are denied career advancement and better pay because they technically are not allowed to serve in combat.The Pentagon’s new rules mostly catch up to the realities of the battlefield while keeping the ban on women serving in combat in place. Advocates for women in the military had hoped for more.
Trotta went on to say that the military is now spending $113 million a year to address sexual assault in the ranks — spending she says is unwarranted because women in the military should “expect” to be raped. The U.S. military has seen at 64 percent increase in violent sexual assaults since 2006.
I can’t imagine another employer, government or private, who would tell female employees they should not expect the same safety protections and civil treatment as male employees.
If the military wants to stop rape and sexual assault they should adopt the guidelines in the chart below. If that doesn’t work they should aggressively investigate and prosecute rape allegations and send the perpetrators to Ft. Leavenworth for extended periods of time.
