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White House: Fact Sheet: Not Alone – Protecting Students From Sexual Assault
One in five women is sexually assaulted while in college. Most often, it happens her freshman or sophomore year. In the great majority of cases, it’s by someone she knows – and also most often, she does not report what happened. And though fewer, men, too, are victimized. The Administration is committed to putting an end to this violence. That’s why the President established the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault on January 22, 2014, with a mandate to strengthen federal enforcement efforts and provide schools with additional tools to combat sexual assault on their campuses.
"To anyone out there who has ever been assaulted: You are not alone. We have your back." —President Obama: NotAlone.gov #1is2Many
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 29, 2014Today, the Task Force is announcing a series of actions to: (1) identify the scope of the problem on college campuses, (2) help prevent campus sexual assault, (3) help schools respond effectively when a student is assaulted, and (4) improve, and make more transparent, the federal government’s enforcement efforts. We will continue to pursue additional executive or legislative actions in the future. These steps build on the Administration’s previous work to combat sexual assault. The Task Force formulated its recommendations after a 90-day review period during which it heard from thousands of people from across the country — via 27 online and in-person listening sessions and written comments from a wide variety of stakeholders.
1 in 5 women is sexually assaulted while in college. That's unacceptable. Here's how we're taking action → go.wh.gov/dVx1tU #1is2Many
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Office of VP Biden (@VP) April 29, 2014On Tuesday, we are launching a dedicated website – www.NotAlone.gov – to make enforcement data public and to make other resources accessible to students and schools. On the website, students can learn about their rights, search enforcement data, and read about how to file a complaint. The website will also help schools and advocates: it will make available federal guidance on legal obligations, best available evidence and research, and relevant legislation. Finally, the website will have trustworthy resources from outside the federal government, such as hotline numbers and mental health services locatable by simply typing in a zip code.
More here
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Vice President Joe Biden speaks about the release of the First Report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, in the South Court Auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex in Washington.
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USA Today: Biden: Colleges Must Step Up To Prevent Sexual Assault
Vice President Biden said on Tuesday that the USA’s colleges and universities have a moral responsibility to “step up” efforts to prevent sexual assault on campuses. Biden’s remarks follow the White House Task Force to Prevent Students from Sexual Assault’s release of a series of recommendations late Monday, which detail the administration’s plan to improve reporting by universities and colleges of sexual assault incidents as well as bolster efforts to educate students about sexual and gender-based violence. “I understand all the excuses and I understand all the rationale …but colleges and universities can no longer turn a blind eye or pretend rape or sexual assault doesn’t occur on their campuses,” Biden said. “I understand that the good guys [that] report feel like they may be damaging the reputation of their schools. I get it. But it doesn’t matter. We need to provide survivors with support and we need to bring perpetrators to justice.”
"We need to send a message to victims everywhere -- we’re here for you...you’re not alone." – VP #1is2Many http://t.co/7JchwWmVkM
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Office of VP Biden (@VP) April 29, 2014The administration also announced that it would launch the website NotAlone.gov where enforcement data will be published and begin a push to require colleges and universities to conduct “climate surveys” to better understand how frequently incidents happen on campus but are not reported to authorities. “I challenge every college and university if they are really serious about protecting students to conduct anonymous surveys,” Biden said. “They have a moral responsibility to know what is happening on their campus.” the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights released released a new guidance document on students’ rights and schools’ obligations under Title IX, which require colleges and universities that receive federal funds to investigate claims of sexual assault and provide a timely and impartial grievance procedure to resolve those claims. Notably, the guidance extends Title IX protection for the first time to claims of discrimination based on gender identity.
More here
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Vice President Joe Biden consoles Madeleine Smith after she recounted her story of being raped while a student at Harvard University
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The White House’s 1 is 2 Many website. You can access a plethora of resources that help combat sexual violence
thank you @VP Biden for supporting survivors on colleges, holding perps & institutions accountable. #sayNOMORE ow.ly/whLMa
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Mariska Hargitay (@Mariska) April 29, 2014POTUS, @VP, Daniel Craig, Benicio Del Toro, @DuleHill & @SethMeyers on putting an end to sexual assault: youtu.be/xLdElcv5qqc #1is2Many
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 29, 2014****
THIS is a BFD: notalone.gov launched today, @TuftsUniversity 1st school found out of compliance w/Title IX yesterday. #1is2many
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Meg S (@theowlry) April 29, 2014Visit notalone.gov for data, information, and resources for fighting sexual assault on your campus. #NotAlone #1is2Many
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D Wasserman Schultz (@DWStweets) April 29, 2014****
Too many women and men are sexually assaulted in college. We must put an end to this violence. → go.wh.gov/dVx1tU #1is2Many
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Office of VP Biden (@VP) April 29, 2014FACT: 1 in 5 women is sexually assaulted while in college.
RT if you agree that's unacceptable → NotAlone.gov #1is2Many
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 29, 2014****
The statistics can't be ignored. #1is2Many http://t.co/S2BjzNODDd
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Together We Can (@StopAssaults) April 29, 2014Here's how President Obama & @VP Biden are building on the progress we've made to prevent sexual assault → go.wh.gov/dVx1tU #1is2Many
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 29, 2014****
One in 5 women is sexually assaulted while in college. It’s time to end this epidemic. #1is2Many notalone.gov
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Sen. Barbara Boxer (@SenatorBoxer) April 29, 2014Today, we're launching NotAlone.gov to make resources on sexual assault prevention accessible to students and schools. #1is2Many
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 29, 2014****
A welcome change we can believe in: feminist President @BarackObama stands with students to combat #campussexualassault. #NotAlone #1is2Many
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(@sfpelosi) April 29, 2014Today, we launch NotAlone.gov to make info on sexual assault prevention accessible to students. W/ 2 girls in college: #1is2Many
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Cecilia Muñoz (@Cecilia44) April 29, 2014****
Worth sharing: NotAlone.gov launched today to help students and schools access sexual assault prevention resources. #1is2Many
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Alex Wall (@Alex44) April 29, 2014Thx to @BarackObama's @WhiteHouse Task Force, #NotAlone protects students & informs them of their rights: notalone.gov #1is2many
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Miriam Joelson (@MiriamJoelson) April 29, 2014****
Exciting day: Release of @WhiteHouse recs to address Campus Sexual Assault! #1is2many #NotAlone #TitleIX endsexualviolence.org/news/naesv-app…
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NAESV (@endsxlviolence) April 29, 2014"It's up to all of us to put an end to sexual assault. And that starts with you." —President Obama: youtu.be/xLdElcv5qqc #1is2Many
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The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 29, 2014****
Hollywood's Leading Men Star in Powerful PSA About Sexual Assault bit.ly/1u0WSmw #1is2Many
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Marisa Peacock (@marisacp51) April 29, 2014solid spot from @BarackObama and the @WhiteHouse: youtube.com/watch?v=xLdElc… #1is2Many
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Ladrodoe (@dj_Ladro) April 29, 2014****
"We have your back. I’ve got your back." Reading through the new & important resources on notalone.gov #1is2Many
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Trish Garrity (@TGarrity) April 29, 2014New PSA from @BarackObama says it simple: If she doesn’t consent – or can’t consent – it’s a crime. umurl.us/6dwW #1is2Many
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Tim Wolfe (@UMPrez) April 29, 2014****
It is so important to get everyone to care about preventing sexual assault! youtu.be/xLdElcv5qqc #1is2Many #NotJustAWomensIssue #GoBiden
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Hasti Namaki (@Namakiki) April 29, 2014Great PSA by the @WhiteHouse. youtu.be/sTHNAwCU-bk
#1is2Many #SexualAssaultAwarenessMonth #SAAM2014
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Bryan Paz (@BryanPaz_) April 29, 2014
The Obama Diary 
Swoops in unannounced?
Hey magapie. Congrats!
🙂 Helloooooooo magapie!
Hellllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Oh, you’ve out-L’ed and O’ed me Magapie!
Congrats magapie!
Good evening all
Thanks Nerdy. This is a subject close to my heart. Can’t say enough about it to help women.
Me too. I know far too many victims.
Thanks, Vetivera24.
Just ignore me…I’m just testing wordpress smileys
ROFL!!!!!!!
Chips, I’ve got way too much time on my hands this evening. 🙂
LOL, I know the feeling Donna, like that day I spent an hour changing the color of the comment box from pink to green to blue to …. oh, I think I’ll play again…
Oh No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do you get those smileys?
http://jannekevandorpe.com/2014/03/19/secret-new-wordpress-smileys/
Thanks!
Thanks! I’m so dumb, I didn’t realize we had to type ‘code’ in order to get them. Now I know.
Dumb, huh? 😕
➡ http://en.support.wordpress.com/smilies/
🙂
Thank you too! 🙂
Trying to do this 🙂
Hey, Is there a list of them somewhere? I can’t find my old link.
http://en.support.wordpress.com/smilies/
Got it! Thank you dear! 🙂
This is a tremendous PSA campaign. Simple and direct, I hope it goes viral. Please, let’s do all we can to help this cause.
I had the responsibility to investigate these kinds of campus incidents at one point in my career in higher ed and I must say it was very challenging and depressing. Although I worked hard to make a point of instituting reforms, I always felt victims never got the protection they needed and deserved. We have to continue to work to change that.
“…..And while official Israeli policy may still be guided by the rule of law and some inherent sense of decency, one also cannot deny the ascendance in recent years of chauvinistic and even racist attitudes toward “the other” – including Palestinians and blacks – among increasingly powerful ultra-right wing and religious elements. They may shun the word apartheid, but its essence resides in their hearts.
Kerry is likely to come under heavy criticism for his statements from both Israel and its Jewish supporters. And even though it may indeed have been inappropriate for an American Secretary of State to publicly drop the A-bomb in a wide forum – even one ostensibly closed to the press – the denunciation of Kerry won’t make the problem go away. Rightly or wrongly – in fact both – the apartheid label hangs over Israel’s head like Damocles sword, a threat that grows with every day that the occupation perseveres.”
“Carefully coordinated, entirely spontaneous bursts of outrage ensued, not only from Republicans and Israelis, but also from Democrats. “Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and any linkage between Israel and apartheid is nonsensical and ridiculous,” tweeted Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer of California. I will dissent from Boxer’s critique, both because I believe that Kerry is a pro-Israel secretary of state who worries about the Jewish state’s future, and because I myself have used the word “apartheid” not only to describe a possible terrible future for Israel, but also as a way of depicting some current and most unfortunate facts on the ground……..
Jeffery Goldberg, quoting his own column from 2004:
A de-facto apartheid already exists in the West Bank. Inside the borders of Israel proper, Arabs and Jews are judged by the same set of laws in the same courtrooms; across the Green Line, Jews live under Israeli civil law as well, but their Arab neighbors — people who live, in some cases, just yards away — fall under a different, and substantially undemocratic, set of laws, administered by the Israeli Army. The system is neither as elaborate nor as pervasive as South African apartheid, and it is, officially, temporary. It is nevertheless a form of apartheid, because two different ethnic groups living in the same territory are judged by two separate sets of laws.
I suppose this passage makes me an enemy of Israel, in the same way Kerry is an enemy of Israel, and in the same way that the former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (who is also Israel’s most decorated soldier) is an enemy of Israel, because Barak has also warned about the dangers of the status quo: “As long as in this territory west of the Jordan River there is only one political entity called Israel,” he said in 2010, “it is going to be either non-Jewish, or non-democratic. If this bloc of millions of Palestinians cannot vote, that will be an apartheid state.”………
Awesome post.
I should have added sexism to the struggles against racism and classism in my piece yesterday, but that’s for another post.
So many ills, so little time.
Teach your sons, teach your sons, TEACH YOUR SONS. (While I try like h*ll with mine 🙂 )
Thank you.
Yessssss!!!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely. That’s where it begins. Unfortunately too many women are blamed or what they wore or how much they drank but it is never a survivor’s fault. It is always the rapist who did wrong by committing a heinous act.
Also, we must not forget that many men are also sexually abused and they don’t report these atrocities due to shame. So men and women need to behave like decent human beings and understand that no means no.
“Bundy and Sterling represent an ugly corner of contemporary American life, but it is one that is entirely invisible in recent Supreme Court rulings. In the Roberts Court, there are no Bundys and Sterlings; the real targets of the conservative majority are those who’ve spent their lives fighting the Bundys and Sterlings of the world. Chief Justice John Roberts has made a famous utterance on the subject of race, and it’s a revealing one. The remark came in a case in which the Justices addressed perhaps the most celebrated precedent in the Court’s history: Brown v. Board of Education. In that decision, in 1954, the Justices ruled that segregated public schools were by their nature unconstitutional.”…….
….The majority engaged in the same kind of blame-shifting in a recent case, Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action. In response to an earlier Supreme Court decision permitting some forms of affirmative action at the University of Michigan’s law school, voters in the state passed a constitutional amendment barring any use of race in admissions. It was as if the Justices in the majority and those in dissent were writing about different countries. Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion suggested that the debate over affirmative action should and could take place in a genteel, controversy-free zone. “In the realm of policy discussions the regular give-and-take of debate ought to be a context in which rancor or discord based on race are avoided, not invited.” (Yes, it “ought” to be, it just may be that it isn’t.) Kennedy said that the rights guaranteed by the Constitution include the people’s right to “try to shape the course of their own times and the course of a nation that must strive always to make freedom ever greater and more secure.” Apparently, this noble endeavor includes banning affirmative action. In her dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote about a country where the Bundys and Sterlings still hold considerable sway……
The vile words of the rancher and the basketball tycoon showed just how right Sotomayor was. Even if her colleagues insist otherwise, racial discrimination, far from being ancient history, is as fresh and new as the latest alert on your phone.”
and my first thought was dessenters were Thomas and Scalia; of course I was right…
Chips or UT can you release a comment from spam for me? TY
I don’t know peoples feelings about the death penalty, but I for one am not a proponent. As a Hindu and the reason I’ve been vegetarian my whole life is we don’t believe in killing animals as a source of food, but the killing of human beings… for whatever reason via death penalty makes me sick.
Found you and freed you LP!
TY kindly ……….
Thanks LP I’m not a proponent either. I think it’s a heinous act.
I can’t describe my stomach right now. I feel sick, Donna!
This is just horrible. I am sickened by what has just taken place. Geesh!!!!!!!
Torture.
Exactly! Calling Eric Holder!
Cruel and inhuman punishment … we need to get rid of the death penalty in our country!
Exactly!
I’m against it too, always have been and always will be. It is barbaric, imo.
LP, I agree with you and find this barbaric beyond words. Other civilized countries survive just fine without the death penalty. That any person should have to go through a botched execution like this is unspeakably outrageous. It should not be happening in the 21rst century.
Here’s more reaction to this awful event.
Hoping that blue states with death penalties (looking at you, California) abolish this barbaric penalty now.
Red states are beyond hope; so many innocent people have been slain by some states.
I don’t believe in the death penalty either, LP. There have been too many cases after serving many years in prison or even after they were executed that they were exonerated. I, also, believe that minorities are more likely to receive the death penalty in sentencing.
That PSA is excellent!
10 years ago when my daughter went to college, this was a big story in the news. I can’t remember what specific incidents were involved, but ‘rape on campus’ was all over the news. Many colleges were hiding their rape statistics, and discouraging girls from reporting. The college my daughter decided on, Bowling Green State in Ohio, was very proactive. They published their statistics and had ‘rape phones’ (so-called by the students) all over campus which could be used to make a direct call to campus security. A girl could call because she was feeling unsafe while walking the campus, or for an escort from her dorm to the library for late night studying, for instance. We were told all this at her campus visit. I was very impressed with they way they were upfront about the matter and the systems they had put in place to deal with it. It’s shameful that this is still a big issue 10 years later. So glad that PBO has stepped in to take charge of it. Is there anything he isn’t thinking about and working on? I have the impression he is working like a whirlwind to get everything done that he sees needs doing between now and 2017.
LL glad your latest essay is up on TPV. The wider dissemination it gets, the better!
It’s quite nice being able to post on two blogs.
I want you posting at the Washington Post or NYT!
Aw, Chips, you make me blush. Sweet thing.
I second that, Chips! It would also be great to see LL’s pieces in the L.A. Times.
Carolyn,
I’m always so impressed at how sunny your outlook is, even though you reside in a state run by crazy people.
Maybe tonight’s event will be the last straw for the sane in your state to decide to look at the facts, which are that Dems know how to govern and GOP don’t.
Thanks Arapaho. In order to survive happily, I HAVE to look at what is good. When we moved here, the state was not like this…..it wasn’t like California or Washington or Massachusetts….but we had some good governors, not crazies. Also the state legislature was pretty well divided, not preponderantly far right Republican.
I wrote Mary Fallin tonight and told her exactly what I think of her and this decision and action. I told her to stop humiliating this state and resign. She will never see my email, but I had to say it.
On the good side, we are not alone in our standards and beliefs here. Things WILL change……maybe, as you suggest, this will be a low point that will wake some people up.
You all probably know why this place is so important to me.
Carolyn,
Thanks for writing to your governor and speaking forcefully about this miscarriage of justice.
Congrats on 1st magapie!!
Knew you would create a very special thread acknowledging the outstanding leadership of President Obama and VP Biden in their quest to ablate violence against women, NW. And, you did just that. Thank you!!!
Gold Star Post!
Thank you soooooo much!
Thanks, Dudette.
Urge all of you to read every word of this ….
“UKRAINE will not forgive this.
Say what you like, but I myself am terrified when I think about the fact that, for the second month in a row, Ukraine is waiting an ARMED MILITARY INVASION from fraternal Slavic Russia. For the second month, it is preparing for war. For the second month, it is frozen in anticipation of the funerals of its sons whose mothers are freezing at every phone call for the second month. Having already received zinc coffins with its officers from Crimea, killed by RUSSIAN SOLDIERS, Ukraine has passed the psychological threshold and recognizes that in the event of war it will fight, and fight to the death.
And yet, even knowing that mortality rates among its men will be unavoidably massive in this war, Ukraine is ready for it, ready to die but not to surrender….
Myself, I’m afraid because I’m aware that, this time, Ukraine will not forgive us.
Right now, we are passing the threshold, when a country that was our brother for hundreds of years is about to turn away and distance itself from us forever. When, before our very eyes, we are turning from brothers, neighbors, friends into a people that Ukrainians are READY TO FIGHT TO THE DEATH. They really are willing to die so that they will not have to live with us anymore.”
More at the link in the tweet ….
National Security official believes Maidan brawl ordered by Russian special services
http://euromaidanpr.com/2014/04/30/national-security-official-believes-maidan-brawl-ordered-by-russian-special-services/
No doubt about it. Fits precisely with the intercepted correspondence and conversations that have been published during the past 10 days.
OMG Bob! That journalist just broke my heart!
Bob, this is heartbreaking and especially so coming from a Russian reporter. War, death, generations of hatred, unimaginable loss and pain all due to the megalomania of one man. Putin could have stopped this at any time, but he put his ambitions, his will and his pathological needs above countless human lives and unmeasurable suffering. I don’t understand this level of moral depravity and I would not have believed it possible in this day.
Agree with you both, Layla and Jackie.
As you note, Jackie – “War, death, generations of hatred, unimaginable loss and pain all due to the megalomania of one man.” – Unfortunately, Putin received considerable guidance from GWB, Cheney, Rumsfeld & others, as has Assad and other ‘modern day’ tyrants.
Humanity still has not learned the lessons of history. Inequity, greed and power are a lethal cocktail.
I used to be in a women’s “study group,” (kind of like a book club but we didn’t always just read books). One month we were reading about rape. There were maybe 15 of us in the group, and at least 3 of them (can’t remember exactly but at least 3) revealed that they had been raped. I was astonished, but now I realize that it’s not uncommon.
Did anybody check it out? Anything new since the earlier annoucement?
Yes, dudette. Detailed answer down thread.
Ha!!!! Laughing at he bonhomme you inserted!
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#Modesty, Layla! 🙂
#AlwaysChipsAlways 🙂
he was in the pool!! 🙂
I am physically ill over that torture that took place in OK tonight!!!!
So am I. The Governor of OK has a lot to answer for….
THIS.
SO sick and tired of RW desire for violence as the answer to every problem.
I hope the Justice Dept is aware!!!!! Heads should roll over this
That is the reaction of any sane person donna – horrific – beyond speech – beyond real – Can only hope this throws “legal murder” into the scrap heap of history.
Pretty sure this isn’t the first time this has happened, sad to say. Sometimes it’s the only way things ever seem to change – when they can’t get any worse.
MANY years after Her Greatness gave Ike the boot. (Has LL done a Tina night? I probably missed it….)
Love Tina – then and now!
I saw her in a concert here in Ottawa quite a while back; she was incredible!!
Never had the opportunity, but great for you!
I saw Ms. Tina in the mid-80’s when she was launching her come back. She was the opening act for Lionel Ritchie and she was fantastic….Lionel Ritchie not so much. I remember seeing Tina Turner in the 70’s on teevee and she danced across the stage on one leg…it was something to behold.
Beyoncé at the Kennedy Honors …honoring Tina Turner….
She’s Simply The Best!
Come to think of, that describes our great President too! 🙂
I saw her in the mid-80’s when she launched her come back. She was the opening act for Lionel Ritchie at The Forum in Inglewood, CA. Ms. Tina was fantastic…..Lionel Ritchie not so much.
Simply the best, that is what I love to tell the haters about FLOTUS.
http://twitter.com/benl_19/status/461316942658535424
Dudette, I watched Doc Rivers press conference.
The big takeaway for me is a point he made several times: The emphasis on the players response to Donald Sterlings remarks is misplaced, said Doc.
The players received the offense.
Why is the burden of a response laid on them—was Doc’s question.
Coach Rivers was effusive about Adam Silvers handling of this outrage and optimistic that the NBA owners would make sure the Clippers are sold.
Doc Rivers looked drained and sad. How he will get his team ready tonight, well we will see. Doc predicted that the team will be getting tremendous support from the crowds at the Staple Center tonight and I think he is right on that.
Michael Powell from the NY Times had been tweeting that the Clippers team missed an opportunity to make a big statement at their last game. A pretty strange opinion. Making the story about a player failure rather than the owners despicable character.
I think Doc Rivers may have been responding to that type of commentary.
Which goes to show my point from yesterday. It’s not up to the oppressed to solve oppression.
Yes, LL. Same point.
Adam Silver took the full weight, though, didn’t he? Commisioner Silver apologized to the players, founders past and present as the representative of a League that had tolerated a monster in its midst.
Thanks for the info on the press conference Vicki. I agree with you and LL. It’s not up to the oppressed to solve oppression. That goes for bigotry, that goes for perpetratators of violent and/or sexual assault, that goes for emotional abusers too.
If ever a politician should be banned for life it is the Governor of Oklahoma – this lady FORCED the execution against the ruling of the Courts – I hope she is prosecuted for what she has done.
Rachel discussing the issues now.
She over turned the ruling of the courts to force this execution – she should be removed from office – imagine if PBO refused to accept a SCOTUS ruling!
Fallon is an evil woman cloaking herself as a Christian when it suits her. She exudes evil.
She was eager to take a life for political ideology?
Make she get what is coming to her.
She and Rick Perry are in the same category. When is her term as governor done?
She is up for re-election this year. I think she was 1st elected in 2010.
It is time for her to go. I forget that this is Oklahoma, the state trying to ban marriage so that same sex couples can not be married. Shameful!!!
May …….oops
She’s not getting in love on Twitter … except from a few fellow haters ….
New post.
http://theobamadiary.com/2014/04/29/a-tweet-or-two-52/
She is a disaster for her state & the country – complains that the legislature won’t vote to repair infrastructure under her funding guidelines – while she signs into law reductions in income tax. The mind boggles – perhaps at the voters more than the toxic governor.
Well I don’t think POTUS enjoyed the basketball game. The Bulls lost to the Wizards, so the Bulls season is over. I never thought the Bulls would do very much without Derrick Rose. Sorry POTUS.
I think he’s just happy to be home, safe and sound with FLOTUS, the girls, Sunny, Bo, First Grandma, etc. 🙂 🙂
As usual, I am too late to post on the last thread, but here’s my comment on the outstanding PSA on the previous thread.
This is the most mind-blowing and effective PSA I’ve ever seen (as I recall, perhaps I’m forgetting another PSA) and seems inspired by Will.i.am’s 2008 “Yes We Can” campaign video for Senator Obama, only with famous faces.
Proof that Campaign 2014 is well underway by the Obama Administration. This calibre of work takes time to script, produce and edit. Valerie Jarrett talked to Zach Galifinakis six months before “Between Two Ferns” aired.
The Obama Administration has to be the most disciplined and strategic ever. No question they are the best at planning and executing action to fulfill promises which Joe Biden and Barack Obama have made to this country.
The despicable MSM/Koch attempt to shame OUR PRESIDENT on foreign soil (taboo before a Black man became President, a man who actually gets his goals accomplished despite roadblocks by the incompetent and fractured GOP) and the pathetic GOP are left with nothing to campaign on except for #Benghazi!, a successful ACA and, of course, their ace in their sleeve, bigotry.
MSM and GOP have no clue how far behind the Obama team they truly are.
This PSA also reminds me of the “Brother’s Keeper” initiative which was ignored (right?) by the MSM and emoprogs, an initiative that NO OTHER PRESIDENT in US history could have done.
Yet MSM have nothing but criticism for the most successful Administration since FDR (who managed to do so under the most trying conditions ever, although his tenure was of course longer than 8 years).