This is a local Texas story of a woman who was a Woman Airforce Service Pilot (WASP). I thought it was an uplifting story of what women have done and accomplish….those brave pioneers who “chose” to do the unconventional. Of course the sad part is for years they were unrecognized for their contributions.
A long overdo bill was signed last week and soon they will receive Congressional Gold Medals. We all should celebrate these brave women and salute them when they receive this long overdue recognition. Here’s the link to the article http://www.neighborsgo.com/stories/38907
There was an additional footnote to the article which does not get picked up by this link…but it read: ” Only the Beginning” “Bretherick fell in love with more than the sky as a WASP. When an aircraft engineer asked Bretherick to test a plane, she resisted, because it was the end of her workday. But he insisted, throwing in a dinner date to the terms of the deal. So, she agreed, but not before blasting him with sod grass as he stood behind the aircraft. Her hard features soften for the first time as she remembers her husband of 50 years, and she says, ‘So that was the beginning.’” I love her spunk for “blasting him with sod grass”!
Note- this is not only long overdue- most of these women are no longer alive.
“When it came time for choosing, somehow Barack Obama just couldn’t bring himself to pick the woman who got 18 million votes in his primary, and that seems to be too familiar a story isn’t it?” Palin said at a rally in Henderson, NV on October 21. “How it is for so many American women that the qualifications are there, but for some reason the promotion never comes?
“You’ve got to ask yourself why was Senator Hillary Clinton was not even vetted by the Obama campaign?” Palin continued. “Why did it take 24 years, an entire generation from the time Geraldine Ferraro made her pioneering bid until the next time that a woman was asked to join a national ticket?”
“In the long history of our country, 74 people have held the position of President or Vice-President, and why have the major parties given America only two chances to even consider a woman for either office?” Palin asked. “This glass ceiling, it is still there, but it’s about time that we shattered that glass ceiling once and for all.”
“Out on the stump he talks a good game about equal pay for equal work, but according to the Senate pay roll records women on his own staff get just 83 cents for every dollar that the men get,” Palin said of Obama. “That’s 9,000 dollars less every year that he pays the guys. Does he think that the women aren’t working as hard? Does he think that they are 17 percent less productive?”
“The working women of this country, those who work inside the home and outside of the home, they’re overlooked by politicians in Washington, and Barack Obama hasn’t given us a single reason to believe that he would be any better.”
“I’ve been very, very blessed to have a husband who’s supported me along the way. He’s a great dad who doesn’t disappear at bath time or run from diaper duty, and I appreciate that,” Palin added. “But a lot of women have it much, much harder than I’ve had it. And they need child care, which today can cost some families a third of their household budget. And they need reforms in labor laws that allow greater flexibility in the workplace, including more tele-commuting. And they need a tax code that doesn’t penalize working families.”
“Women of my generation were allowed finally to make more of our own choices with education, with career, and I have never forgotten that we owe that opportunity to women, to feminists who came before us,” Palin said. “The belief in equal opportunity is not just the cause of feminists, it’s the creed of our country — equal opportunity.” ~ Gov. Sarah Palin
Imagine the outrage if men had to endure these posters on the subway walls and buses. Imagine if they were forced to sit with their sons and see them on billboards as they travel down the highways. And imagine the humiliation if they had to explain them to their yound sons as they flooded the commercials on TV during the baseball games and as they turned up on almost every page in magazines at the dentist’s office and when they appeared in half page ad in glossy colors in the Sunday newspapers ads and everday and everywhere and ad can posible be placed! I wonder how fast they would be screaming to have these taken down.
Women need to learn a few things from men. A man would never stand by q2uietly for this type of advertising yet we allow our daughters to grow up on a steady diet of sexualization and humiliation from the moment they are born.
So tell me would your husband allow your son to be subjected to this kind of advertising? Then why does he allow your daughter to be subjected to Victoria’s Secret and worse? Better yet why do you allow it?
See Got 35 minutes Ladies watch this video – “Killing us Softly” to see How they depict women in advertising and no one is shocked at all yet the photos below seem shocking you! They pale in comparison to what our daughters are exposed to daily from the minute they are born till the day they die and is probably the leading reason women are slaughtered daily and beaten and disrespected not only by men but by other women daily . http://4wea.wordpress.com/2009/01/06/got-35-minutes-ladies-watch-this-video
On February 10th at 10AM ERA supporters will meet in Room 207 which is left of the old Supreme Court Room in the Capitol. We will pick up materials, get info and then go personally lobby senators and representatives for the ERA. Please pass the word to your friends who support and come to help us lobby.
The American Association of University Women is having Lobby Day that date and will have lunch in a room in the capitol cafeteria. Lunch cost $10. All are invited to join them for lunch with legislators. We must make reservations so please email me by 9AM this Thursday, Feb.5 if you would like lunch.
Keep up the emails and calls to all members of the State Agencies Committees and your area senators and representatives.
See you February 10!
Berta Seitz, ERA State Director
berta.seitz@att.net
Even if you are unable to join us in Little Rock–
TAKE ACTION!
Contact the Senate and House State Agencies Committee and ask them to support the Equal Rights Amendment.
Arkansas State Agencies Committee
Senate
Steve Faris – sfaris@arkleg.state.ar.us
Gilbert Baker – bakerg@arkleg.state.ar.us Ed Wilkinson – ewilkinson@farmersbankandtrust.cox Steve Bryles – bryless@arkleg.state.ar.us Kim Hendren –hendrenk@arkleg.state.ar.us
Randy Laverty – none given phone 870-446-5005
Bobby Glover – cnhc@juno.com Bill Pritchard – pritchardb@arkleg.state.ar.us
House of Representatives Rick Saunders – saundersr@arkleg.state.ar.us
Lindsley Smith – smithl@arkleg.state.ar.us
Steve Harrelson – steve@steveharrelson.com Eddie Cheatham – cheathame@arkleg.state.ar.us Gene Shelby – shelbyg@arkleg.state.ar.us Ed Garner – garnere@arkleg.state.ar.us
Clark Hall – hallc@arkleg.state.ar.us Donna Hutchinson – hutchinsond@arkleg.state.ar.us Larry Cowling – cowling@arkleg.state.ar.us
Dan Greenberg – Rep.greenberg@gmail.com
Duncan Baird – bairdd@arkleg.state.ar.us
Andrea Lea – lea@arkleg.state.ar.us
Jonathan Dismang – dismang49@hotmail.com
Butch Wilkens – blwilkins46@hotmail.com
Uvalde Lindsey –ULindsey@aol.com
Linda Tyler – tylerl@arkleg.state.ar.us
Karen Hopper – hopperk@arkleg.state.ar.us
Davy Carter – davy.carter@gmail.com Tiffany Rogers – rogerst@arkleg.state.ar.us
Mary Slinkard – no email given
The Senate Rules Committee today heard testimony both for and against SCR 3, a resolution calling on the Missouri General Assembly to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA).
This is the third year in a row I have sponsored the resolution and I wish I could say I am surprised by the intense opposition, but not much surprises me anymore.
We didn’t get enough notice for the hearing to get a large number of witnesses to testify in favor of the legislation. Fortunately, two brave women came to town to testify and I truly appreciate their support.
Although the ERA seems like a no-brainer for the majority of Americans, there were several people on hand to testify against the bill. These organizations all have full-time lobbyists in the capitol, so they were not affected by the short notice. The following groups testified against equal rights for women: Concerned Women for America, Missouri Family Network, Eagle Forum, Missouri RoundTable for Life, Missourians United for Life and Missouri Right to Life.
This is the same group of folks who testify against the ERA every year. They list a parade of horribles that will alledgedly occur if gender equality is added to the Constitution including legalized gay marriage, state-funded abortion and mandatory unisex bathrooms. This year their testimony was limited to the abortion issue, which in my opinion is completely unfounded. Missouri has gender equality in its Constitution and I haven’t seen any lack of abortion regulations passed in this state.
The silliest line of questioning came from Senator Gary Nodler (R-Joplin) who asked whether ratifying the ERA would require the government to spend equal sums on money for ovarian cancer research in both women and men, even though men don’t have ovaries. He asked the same question about women and testicular cancer. I provided an intelligent and accurate response regarding how a court would handle such an absurd case at which point he cut me off with a preposterous rant that started with a reference to the “pregnant man” and ended with the Senator bashing the competence and integrity of judges.
Despite all that, I felt good about today’s hearing. I put forth a commonsense argument that the majority of Americans agree with. The opposition relied on their old standbys — fear and hate — and made no logical argument for defeating the resolution.
In the end I know the Senate will not pass the resolution. I will introduce it again next year and we will go through this circus again and again until we have a legislature that is committed to simple concepts like equality. It took 144 years to secure the right for women to vote. We’ve only been working on ratification of the ERA for 37 years. If we can’t get it done, our daughters will pick up the fight when we are gone.
If you feel passionately about this issue, I would encourage you to contact the members of the Senate Rules Committee and urge them to pass the resolution out of committee, so we can have a full debate on the Senate floor.
Missouri held their ERA resolution hearing in the Senate yesterday. The Committee gave the senator, our newest shero, Jolie Justus, one day’s notice to get her coalition to the hearing. Ironically 7 anti-ERA groups were there and ready to go…. Hmmmmm, I smell a rat in the Senate who leaked this information out to the Phyllis Schalfly’s (Eagle Forum) among others prior to the ERA advocates 24 hour notice. Bastards!
Needless to say they didn’t take a vote yesterday. There is still time to register your support!
Please click on the links below and make phone calls/emails, get this out on Face Book, and feminist bloggers to call these legislators from everywhere and express your views that Missouri’s local issue is of national concern to women! We are watching and we will take note of their support or opposition to our equality in the US Constitution.
These cowards cannot remain in the dark in their opposition to women being recognized as citizens with full rights equal to men. The ERA is not outdated or a has been. The US Constitution and the lawmakers who represent the women and men of Missouri have had 86 years to consider this amendment. Women have been patient long enough! It is time to honor every citizen in Missouri and our country!
America has come a long way since 1982. Women are on the front lines of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan defending our Country and swearing to uphold and defend a Constitution that will not grant us equal rights as Citizens of a democracy??????? How can you promote justice and freedom around the world and not grant it to all citizens here.
We will not be silenced any longer!
Missouri State Senate
Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Ethics Committee
MEMBERS:
Kevin Engler, 3rd, Chairman
Gary Nodler, 32nd, Vice-Chairman
Norma Champion, 30th
Charlie Shields, 34th
Joan Bray, 24th
Tim Green, 13th
Four women a day die in this country. An epidemic? A crisis? Yes to both.
Femicide, woman murdered by the men in their lives.
Since the start of the Iraq war 4,200 Americans have lost their lives. In that same time period 9,000 women lost their lives. MURDERED many times in their own homes in front of their children by the “men who love them”
Many of you will shake your head, continue to read this, say to yourself we need to do something and then do what we have done for far to long….Ignore IT.
BUT I am counting on the many of you who will read this and feel the sorrow of a womans life lost and then feel the rage of why do we continue to allow women to be murdered? Then I will be counting on those of you to join those of us who are saying “Do you hear me now…enough” ?
We label it domestic violence, and slap those over and over again on the hand who commit these “Domesticated Acts.”. First let’s start calling it what it really is Violent Crime, Hate crime, Women Lynching.
Woman are being terrorized, tortured and murdered and there is nothing domesticated about that.
Right now an attempt is being made to end a womans life she is being sexually assaulted humiliated, degraded, denigrated, she is being beaten with his fist or a baseball bat or any household item. She is battered and bruised, bloody nose, black eyes and broken bones. She is being murdered his hands around her throat, a knife to her heart, a gun to her head.
This is happening right now. The man she loves is murdering her and statics show before he murders her or a family member he will have committed a serious of violent crimes. But because he loves her and because he loves her in her home they are going to call it domestic abuse and slap his wrist and send him home so he can love her some more. Until the day he loves her to death.
and this will continue to happen until I, you, us, we stop it.
Do you hear us now? ENOUGH
Join Puma Pac and their efforts to stop Women Lynching.
Join Betty Jean Kling the mother of Denise Richardson who while dying of cancer was beat over the head with a hammer by her husband George Hardwick for her pain medication. The monster was sentenced to 90 days for this horrific act of attempted murder. On Dec 15,2008 George returned home with the intent to kill Betty Jean, Denise and her sister Louisa Rodas with a shotgun. George found Louisa caring for Denise and he shot Louisa in the head.
My friend Betty Jean with two dying daughters is one determined woman. She is leading the way for Louisas Law and she is not shaking her head and ignoring women being murdered.
Betty Jean and Puma Pac are joining voices and saying, no we are yelling Do you hear us now?
Enough.
Join us Please.
Barbara www.pumapac.org
Women Lynching Forum
Please visit my other blog now and read an unbelievable story about a state senator who broke a glass and carved up his girlfriends face- dragged her down the hall and then finally drove past 5 nearby hospitals and out of the county to avoid being recognized. He plead not guilty – seems he tripped and fell into her face! She not only does not want to press charges – her young cousin insists he is not that kind of man either and so he pays 2500.00 bail and drives to Albany and takes the oath of office.
Men lie and get their victims to lie for them after nearly loosing an eye to them- read about their female family members who are too afraid to help. The video tape of him dragging her down the tall tells a better story then he or his victim in the end.
The only thing new about this agenda is that it is Amy Siskind’s Show!
The other founders are just show pieces – a few write pieces now and again but for the most part- This is all about plastering Amy’s face and name all over the net – apparantly she has the media connections and clout and it’s All about Amy!
This not about the millions of women without voices- it certainly was not about my voices as i was banned from her sight for voicing my opinion and how the attempted murder of both my daughters a few nights latter is now being ignored just to punish me! No- Amy is covering Misogyny in foreign lands while 5 miles from her home I have two daughters dying and she holds a grudge!
See the story all over the internet- everywhere but on The New Agenda!
This Monday Night When you chew the fat with Ophelia at 10 PM on Blog talk radio I would love about 300 – 15 second calls to Amy telling her – to keep her agenda – keep it short so she can receieve calls from all the women who want her to know we do not want HER speaking for us- she has not right- and nothing we want to hear from her lips.
Do this for Louisa! Call- 10 PM Eastern.Tell Amy ’shut up’-Mondays 10 pm est Call-in # (347) 324-5942
http://msplaceddemocrat.com/?p=47 Up until tonight I stayed out of the controversial picture of Jon “The Douchebag” Favreau groping a life size cutout of Hillary but I find I can no longer do that. I am disturbed because Amy Siskind at The New Agenda thought Favreau would be taught a lesson if he spent time volunteering at an abuse shelter for women. No lessons just fire him. The whole point of these battered women’s shelters is to protect women and children from abuse at the hands of their husbands or significant others. The sex of these abusers is usually MALE. One piece of advice for Siskind and her kind that think abusers can be rehabilitated by volunteering in a battered women’s shelter, if you have never been abused or visited one of these shelters, just shut up because you have no idea what you are talking about.
For More stories and pictures everyone but The New Agenda is covering this one!
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