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Dirt Bag of the Week 9/29/15 Rep. Jim Jordan

In Dirt Bag of the Week on September 29, 2015 at 9:03 pm

Republican Congressman from Ohio; Jim Jordan spoke to Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards in a way that he probably speaks to most women in his life. It felt familiar, he worked it well. His bully tactic in public was an obvious attempt to entrap Cecile into tripping over her words and flustering her.

Why would he have to bully and fluster someone to trip up there words?
This reminds me of the kind of tactics mentally and psychologically abusive partners and parents use when battering someone. Rep. Jim Jordan, chairman of the House Freedom Caucus seems to have the tempo down rather well.

Here is a thought: find out what federal monies are used and where. Speak to the people before you with respect and understand that a woman’s reproductive rights are never, ever, ever your business. Ever.

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Obama to Stand Up for the Homeless

In Earth Offenders on September 29, 2015 at 3:49 pm

This was taken about halfway up the block on the east side of Broadway, between 79th and 80th Street. It's at the north end of the "Filene's Basement" store on the corner, and it's a place where I've often seen homeless people holding up a sign that asks for assistance... With very rare exceptions, I haven't photographed these homeless people; it seems to me that they're in a very defensive situation, and I don't want to take advantage of their situation. But something unusual was happening here: the two women (who were actually cooperating, and acting in tandem, despite the rather negative demeanor of the woman on the left) were giving several parcels of food to the young homeless man on the right. I don't know if the women were bringing food from their own kitchen, or whether they had brought it from a nearby restaurant. But it was obviously a conscious, deliberate activity, and one they had thousght about for some time... What was particularly interesting was that they didn't dwell, didn't try to have a conversation with the young man;they gave him they food they had brought, and promptly walked away. As they left, I noticed the young man peering into his bag (the one you see on the ground beside him in this picture) to get a better sense of the delicious meal these two kind women had brought him... ********************** This is part of an evolving photo-project, which will probably continue throughout the summer of 2008, and perhaps beyond: a random collection of "interesting" people in a broad stretch of the Upper West Side of Manhattan -- between 72nd Street and 104th Street, especially along Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue. I don't like to intrude on people's privacy, so I normally use a telephoto lens in order to photograph them while they're still 50-100 feet away from me; but that means I have to continue focusing my attention on the people and activities half a block away, rather than on what's right in front of me. I've also learned that, in many cases, the opportunities for an interesting picture are very fleeting -- literally a matter of a couple of seconds, before the person(s) in question move on, turn away, or stop doing whatever was interesting. So I've learned to keep the camera switched on (which contradicts my traditional urge to conserve battery power), and not worry so much about zooming in for a perfectly-framed picture ... after all, once the digital image is uploaded to my computer, it's pretty trivial to crop out the parts unrelated to the main subject. For the most part, I've deliberately avoided photographing bums, drunks, drunks, and crazy people. There are a few of them around, and they would certainly create some dramatic pictures; but they generally don't want to be photographed, and I don't want to feel like I'm taking advantage of them. I'm still looking for opportunities to take some "sympathetic" pictures of such people, which might inspire others to reach out and help them. We'll see how it goes ... The only other thing I've noticed, thus far, is that while there are lots of interesting people to photograph, there are far, far, *far* more people who are *not* so interesting. They're probably fine people, and they might even be more interesting than the ones I've photographed ... but there was just nothing memorable about them.

It has been exactly a year since the U.N. Human Rights Committee (HRC) condemned what Republicans claim is a “very exceptional” country for its hateful practice of criminalizing homelessness. The HRC labeled America’s treatment of its homeless, millions whom are veterans, “cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment,” as well as “a violation of America’s obligation to adhere to international human rights treaties.” Along with the condemnation, the HRC-conducted review drove the international organization to demand that America comply with a treaty on human rights that it ratified 1992, and to take corrective action to be in compliance.

This week, the Obama White House took a giant step toward corrective action to force communities to halt the “cruel, inhumane, and degrading” treatment of people who do not have shelter. Last month the Obama Administration argued that these vile local ordinances that criminalize American citizens for being too poor to afford shelter was unconstitutional. The Administration filed a brief in federal court arguing that criminalization violates the Eighth Amendment’s protections against cruel and unusual punishment.

Quote from article on PoliticusUSA here

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Dirt Bag of the Week Christmas 2013

In Dirt Bag of the Week, Fox News, Social Politics on December 26, 2013 at 11:36 am
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Faux News Hard Hitting Opinion “News Anchor”

Megyn Kelly makes our final Dirt Bag of the Week for 2013.
Racially profiling not only Santa Claus but Jesus Christ as being ‘white’. I personally love watching privileged folks of any ethnicity completely lose their grasp on reality; but when it happens to a blonde bobble head.. it makes it so much sweeter.

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