LIVE THREAD 2 : SCOTUS Announcement at 9 PM (EDT)

Thread One ^ | July 19, 2005 | Me

[Mo1]

New thread time

Thread One

[defconw]

This is my last post to you, You are a pest. Go away! You may think you are hot stuff here, but you are not. Go hide until we need the reactionaries again.

[kcvl]

I was just waiting for Eleanor to approve before I made up my mind. /sarcasm roflol!

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For over 30 years, Smeal has been on the frontlines fighting for women’s equality. She has been at the forefront of almost every major women’s rights victory – from the integration of Little League, newspaper help-wanted ads, and police departments to the passage of landmark legislation, such as the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Equal Credit Act, Civil Rights Restoration Act, Violence Against Women Act, Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, and Civil Rights Act of 1991. She has pushed to make Social Security and pensions more equitable for women, and to realign federal priorities by developing a feminist budget. She has campaigned to close the wage gap and to achieve pay equity for the vast majority of women who are segregated in low-paying jobs.

[A Citizen Reporter]

You try to be cute, but you have no substance.

[conservativebabe]

Wow, what did I miss? Hubby and son got back from t-ball practice, dinner, etc, had me away for a while. Are you picking fights?

[conservativebabe]

I was gone a couple of hours also, what'd we miss?

[kcvl]

When violence threatened to close the nation’s women’s health care clinics, Smeal developed FMF’s National Clinic Access Project, which is the largest program of its kind in the nation. The Feminist Majority Foundation has trained over 45,000 clinic defenders in some 26 states in non-violent clinic defense techniques. Smeal was also the chief architect of the Feminist Majority Foundation’s landmark 1994 U.S. Supreme Court case upholding the use of buffer zones to protect clinics, Madsen v. Women’s Health Center.

Smeal has promoted the involvement of young women in the feminist movement. Smeal initiated the Choices Campus Leadership Program, a groundbreaking organizing effort on college campuses throughout the country. This program is comprised of a nationwide network of campus-based feminist activist groups called Feminist Majority Leadership Alliances. Leadership Alliances are based on the Feminist Majority Foundation’s innovative study and action model which focuses on four critical “choice” issues: Reproductive Choices, Career Choices, Leadership Choices, and Saving Choices: Fighting the Backlash. Smeal’s innovative campus program has energized young feminist leaders on hundreds of public and private, two and four-year, large and small college campuses in 32 states and the District of Columbia.

[defconw]

I am not trying to pick a fight but someone who thinks he is a reporter is questioning my credentials. I think that I have established where I stand I am a card-carrying member of the RNC, so I could care less what is being said. Glad to hear from you!

[You Dirty Rats]

We'll be seeing a bigger storm soon -- the "Last Stand of the 'Rats" -- starring the usual gang of idiots in the Senate.

First we'll have hysterical statements by the likes of Box-O-Rox; next we'll have the committee hearings where the NARAL gang and the Feminists will trot out their death-by-coat-hanger nonsense; then we'll have the usual Senate Debate with mindless shrieking 'Rats and solid counterattacks by loyal Republicans; and finally, a vote to invoke cloture. A long, hard ride that makes the Tour de France look like a tricycle ride down the driveway.

Get ready for dozens of Live Threads, Howlin. As they used to say on Batman -- "But Wait!! The worst is yet to come!!" (Like Batman, we'll beat these arch-villains!)

[kcvl]

As President of the Feminist Majority, Smeal shifted women's organizations' strategies on electing women from a philosophy of carefully targeting a few races to the need for recruiting record numbers of feminists to run for political office. Two-awarding videos, Abortion for Survival and Abortion Denied: Shattering Women's Lives, which Smeal co-authored and co-produced, helped reframe the abortion debate by documenting importance of abortion as a global public health issue and the devastating impact of parental consent and notification laws.

Smeal helped lead the campaign to save affirmative action at the national level and to defeat California's Proposition 209. She re-framed the debate by mobilizing women's groups to demand the inclusion of women and provided a compelling analysis of the impact of affirmative action attacks on women's opportunities and sex discrimination law.

Expanding feminist activism to a global level, Smeal in 1997 launched the international Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan to counter the Taliban’s abuse of women, which included edicts that banished women from the work force, closed schools to girls, prohibited women from leaving their homes unless accompanied by a close male relative, and forced women to wear the burqa. Smeal and the Feminist Majority were the first to draw world attention to the Taliban’s brutal treatment of women in Afghanistan. The Campaign helped stop the U.S. and United Nations from officially recognizing the Taliban. Since the fall of the Taliban, Smeal has been leading efforts to increase reconstruction and humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and expand peacekeeping troops outside the capital of Kabul to ensure stability and progress in women’s rights.

In December 2001, Smeal, feminist author and activist, Gloria Steinem, and Ms. magazine joined forces and FMF became the sole publisher of Ms. magazine. Smeal's commitment to achieving equality for women and her vision for Ms. as the voice of the feminist movement brings new life into the 30-year trailblazing history of the magazine. Through this combination, Ms. will continue to be a forum for challenging conventional ideas and a springboard for the development and dissemination of feminist ideas throughout the world.

A variety of well-known publications have acknowledged Smeal's leadership. The World Almanac for 1983 chose her as the fourth most influential woman in the United States; she was named as Time Magazine's as one of the "50 Faces for America's Future" in their August 6, 1979 cover story; she was featured as one of the six most influential Washington lobbyists in U.S. News and World Report. Smeal has appeared on most network news and talk shows including "The Today Show," "Nightline," "Good Morning America," "The Larry King Show," and "Crossfire."

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Duke University, Smeal holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Florida and an honorary Doctor of Law degree from Duke University. Eleanor Smeal has a son, Tod, who is a Ph.D. in molecular biology, and a daughter, Lori, who is an attorney.

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With a face like hers, she doesn't have to worry about birth control.

[conservativebabe]

Sheesh! I would go back and read the posts I missed, but frankly, I have had one to many bloody mary's for that tonight! Too happy celebrating. You just hang tough out there. I've got your back.

[You Dirty Rats]

Oh, that was her face?

[Howlin]

It's going to be slash and burn, for sure.

I hope it's after Labor Day so we'll all be back from summer vacation.

[mississippi red-neck]

Thanks for the correction pukin.

Glad you know who you are.

People who tell others to just vote and then STFU are people I will never get used to.

That's the kind of people I thought I left behind years ago in the Democrat Party.

The blind leading the blind is what has gotten our country into it's precarious position.

Where politicians are concerned I prefer the doctrine of "trust but verify".

[A Citizen Reporter]

"I think that I have established where I stand I am a card-carrying member of the RNC,

FOUL Sorry pal, no matter how many "friends" you pull in, that was over-the-top.

[defconw]

Thank You! I got it for now, but I will always accept help!

[You Dirty Rats]

The new SCOTUS session begins Monday, October 3.

[defconw]

Not for nothing but I am not a "pal" LOL!

[processing please hold]

Kinda hard to tell the difference, huh? :-)

[A Citizen Reporter]

"Expanding feminist activism to a global level, Smeal in 1997 launched the international Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan to counter the Taliban’s abuse of women,"

Well here is something that is going to come back to haunt her.