Gang-rape, killing of Indian woman sets off debate about need for country to change - The Washington Post

“She has become the daughter of the entire nation.”

“To change a society as conservative,

traditional and patriarchal as ours,

we will have a long haul,”

said Ranjana Kumari,

director of the Center for Social Research.

“It will take some time, but certainly there is a beginning.”

Gang-rape, killing of Indian woman sets off debate about need for country to change - The Washington Post:

The country remained in mourning Monday, two days after the 23-year-old physiotherapy student died from her internal wounds in the Singapore hospital where she had been sent for emergency treatment. Six men have been arrested and charged with murder in the Dec. 16 attack on a New Delhi bus. They face the death penalty if convicted, police said.

“She has become the daughter of the entire nation,” said Sushma Swaraj, a leader of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.

***

Son's a Son Until He Gets Him a Wife

Daughter's

a 

Daughter

all

Her

Life

Bastard Man-Son

12 y.o. - Crucifixion

Sum of His Parents

in

His Father's Absence

Sincerely believe:

Referring to his mother Mary as the Holy Spirit;

recognition of Joseph as his father figure.

With "X" being the Jesus egg from Mary's ovary;

Whoever it was giving Jesus his "Y" chromosome not being important.

Instead of  "the daugher of an entire nation,"

we had the son of an entire nation (known world).

A Pony’s Death Draws Notice to Medication in the Show Ring - NYTimes.com

A Pony’s Death Draws Notice to Medication in the Show Ring - NYTimes.com: “People are realizing that it’s O.K. if horses are a little fresh and a little happy,” Ms. Winkel said, adding, “Why don’t we take a little more time and train these horses properly and educate their clients and give them better horsemen skills, other than to bring out a needle and a syringe every time we have a horse show.”

Chocolat (2000 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

'You told me. Remember?

"Something has to be done, Serge."

You did , didn't you?'

~(Serge)~

"People could have died.

You want their blood on your hands?

On--on my hands?"

~(Reynaud)~

"Should I go to Pere Henri and ask for forgiveness?"

~(Serge)~

"Listen to me, Serge.

Listen very carefully.

You must leave this village at once...

and never return."

~(Reynaud)~

"Why would I leave my home and my cafe?"

~(Serge)~

"Because I'm evicting you, that's why!

What you have done puts you beyond anyone's help...

beyond my help, anybody's help!

Now get out!

Unless you will tell the police what you've done! 

Get out!  Get out!  Get out!"

~(Reynauld)~

Chocolat (2000 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Chocolat (French pronunciation: ​[ʃɔkɔla]) is a 2000 romance film based on the novel of the same name by Joanne Harris.  Chocolat tells the story of a young mother, played by Juliette Binoche, who arrives at the fictional, repressed French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes with her six-year-old daughter and opens La Chocolaterie Maya, a small chocolaterie. Her chocolate quickly begins to change the lives of the townspeople.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It was also nominated for eight BAFTAs, and four Golden Globes. It won a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Plot

Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche), an expert chocolatier, drifts across Europe with her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol). In the winter of 1959, they travel to a tranquil French village that closely adheres to tradition, as led by the village mayor, Comte Paul de Reynaud (Alfred Molina). Vianne opens a Chocolaterie just as the villagers begin observing the forty days of Lent, much to the chagrin of Reynaud. Vianne, who wears more provocative clothing, does not go to church, and has an illegitimate child, does not fit in well with the town's people, but is nevertheless optimistic about her business. Her friendly and alluring nature begins to win the villagers over one by one, causing Reynaud to openly speak against her for tempting the people during a time of abstinence and self-denial.
 

One of the first to fall under the spell of Vianne and her confections is Armande (Judi Dench), her elderly, eccentric landlady.
 

Vianne also develops a friendship with a disturbed woman, Josephine (Lena Olin), who is a victim of brutal beatings by her alcoholic husband Serge (Peter Stormare). After a particularly brutal blow to the head, Josephine leaves her husband and moves in with Vianne and Anouk. As she begins to work at the chocolaterie and Vianne teaches her craft, Josephine becomes a self-confident, changed woman. Under the instruction of Reynaud, Serge seemingly changes into a better man and he asks Josephine to come back to him. Finally happy and fulfilled, Josephine declines. A drunken Serge breaks into the chocolaterie later that night and attempts to attack both women before Josephine, in a moment of empowerment, knocks him out with a skillet.
 

As the rivalry between Vianne and Reynaud worsens, a band of river gypsies camp out on the outskirts of the village. While most of the town objects to their presence, Vianne embraces them, developing a mutual attraction to the gypsy Roux (Johnny Depp). Together they hold a birthday party for Armande with other village members and gypsies on Roux's boat.
 

After the party, Vianne, Josephine, and Anouk all sleep on the boats, where Roux and Vianne make love. Late that night, Serge sets the boat on fire where Josephine and Anouk are sleeping. Both escape unharmed, but Vianne's faith in the village is shaken.  After the fire, Roux packs up and leaves with his group, much to Vianne's sadness.

***

I loved this movie.  It clicked in so many ways with me on a personal level. 
 

But...

it was the dialogue between Reynaud and Serge after the fire catching my attention the most.
 

Reminding me how surprised the Romney/Ryan campaign was learning,

after the election,

how one of their biggest block of voters taken for granted stayed home election day...

the angry white male voters.
 

 This past October while my mother and sister were visiting, 

my sister wanted to check out some estate sales while here;  

feeling a little bit nosey, even deciding to check out a garage sale 

located 

extremely wealthy West Pace Ferry area of  Atlanta.

Two things I noticed immediately as we drove by all the huge homes with expansive/well manicured front lawns:

 

1. Only one Obama/Biden sign among a sea of Romney/Ryan campaign signs stuck in these lawns near the curb of the street.
2. On that beautiful sunny afternoon, there being more Hispanics per square mile working those lawns 

than
Conservatives

living that whole neighborhood!

Maybe these peckerwoods are finally catching on

how

the Republican elites

have been plucking their string; tricking them into doing their dirty work.


I don't care how high, wide, or deep a wall is built along the Mexican border;
you are not going to stop Hispanics from finding our borders' weak spots
as long as
they know there will be jobs waiting for them once here.

 Wealthy conservatives
always
claiming they will have to lay off workers
if
their taxes are raised.

They certainly are
NOT
going to lay off the Hispanics  maintaining their lawns as they are already doing the job for less than anyboby else willing to do the same job.

Certainly
NOT

about to do their own lawns themselves...

either!

The logic of House GOP intransigence | NJ.com

The unruly House Republicans who emasculated Speaker John Boehner as the country flirts with fiscal havoc might've seemed like they were doing their best "Lord of the Flies" rendition.

 

 

But last week's mayhem had a certain logic -- the logic of politicians wanting to keep their jobs.

The logic of House GOP intransigence | NJ.com: In the staunchly conservative districts that most House Republicans inhabit, playing ball with President Barack Obama on taxes and the debt means tempting a primary opponent in the next election. The threat of a challenge from the left that might come from digging in, on the other hand, is almost nonexistent for most members.

As a matter of pure political self-interest, the post-election debate within the GOP about how to broaden the party's appeal and avoid another Romney-esque debacle in four years is irrelevant in this quarter of GOP politics. For the overwhelming majority of House Republicans, the largely white, resolutely conservative electorate that Mitt Romney relied on -- excessively, as it turned out -- is all they need to ensure reelection.

 

The polarization was exacerbated by the just completed, once-a-decade redistricting process. Both parties -- but particularly Republicans, who swept control of statehouses across the country in the 2010 conservative wave -- redrew district lines to shore up House members politically.

 

When all was said and done, 109 Republican seats and 67 Democratic seats were made safer.

 

But House watchers say it's also owed to three consecutive wave elections from 2006 and 2010, which had the effect of sweeping out moderate members from both parties who occupied swing districts. When the next Congress convenes in January, it will contain just a handful of Northeast Republicans. The ranks of conservative Blue Dog Democrats, meanwhile, have been decimated to just over a dozen members -- down from more than 50 in 2008.

 

"The greatest motivator for a member of Congress is to keep their job, and I think primaries have become a bigger concern over the last two cycles," Chocola said. "If a district is worried about raising taxes, the member is going to take note of it."

Still, some question whether Republicans may be oversensitive to the potential political fallout from voting to raise taxes. Last week, Harper Polling surveyed Republican voters on whether a candidate who signs a no-tax pledge, such as the one advocated by conservative activist Grover Norquist, should ever violate that pledge. A less-than-overwhelming 47 percent said the pledge should be followed.

McCleary, who oversaw the poll, said the results illustrated there are also political risks for Republicans who appear overly intransigent.

"You run either risk," he said, "not compromising or violating the pledge."

 

 

Recorders Court: Judge Weintraub & Judge Withers

Judge Jonathan Weintraub

Jonathan Weintraub is an attorney with thirty-three years of experience in the fields of governmental, local and municipal law, litigation, land use and corporate law.

His legal practice includes seven years as the County Attorney for DeKalb County, Georgia, five years as an attorney and County Attorney for Gwinnett County, Georgia during the period when it was the fastest growing county in the United States, five years as general counsel to the Etowah Water & Sewer Authority in Dawson County, Georgia and individual representation of businesses, governments and homeowner associations throughout the North Georgia area. In his early years he clerked at the Supreme Court of Georgia and in the Magistrate’s Division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.

Currently, in addition to practicing law, he serves as a judge, pro hac vice in the Recorders Court of DeKalb County.

He is a member of Peachtree Road United Methodist Church.

Judge Jonathan Weintraub

Dekalb County Recorders Court on December 18th, 2012, started off with Judge Weintraub.  

Shortly after he called my name and motioned me to the bench, he was approached by Officer Lorena.

"OH! I must excuse myself from this case," 

he said as he turned in his chair and got up to leave the room.

"May I ask, WHY you must excuse yourself from this case,"

I asked before he slipped out the door behind him?

He pauses, turns slowly to face me with his eyes wide, then says quietly,

"Because I've walked in front of  your house."

"Why would you have WALKED in front of my house, 

your honor?  

Do you live in my neighborhood,"

I then asked?"

Angrily he replies,

"I"M EXCUSING MYSELF FROM YOUR CASE!"

Then leaves the courtroom.

***

Now this woman who takes Judge Weintraub place...

CHIEF JUDGE NELLIE WITHERS

One

Amazingly

GOD DAMN BITCH!

No doubt in my mind she came into the courtroom with a predetermined conclusion/agenda!

I couldn't get a word in edgewise to my defense.

We even had a terse exchange where my title is concerned.

I insisted she show me the same respect I was required to show her 

and 

call me,

"Dr. Avery,"

instead 

of 

"Mr. Avery."

She complied eventually but made a disgusted face every time she said,

"Dr. Avery."

That was not just disrespectful to me but 

to 

ALL VETERINARIANS.

Finally gave up trying to defend myself and plopped the syllabus 

from 

Supreme Court of the United States case 

SNYDER v. PHELPS

on her bench; to which she angrily knocks off her bench with the back of  hand back in my directions.

"Don't slam anything on my bench like that," 

she says angrily!

Anyway, 

she ends up eating crow once realizing I was arguing constitutional rights 

and

asks for the syllabus back so she could make a note of the case.

All five citations are now lumped together to be heard together February 19th once I file motion to appeal.

***

My plan now at this point'

 to seek the help of ACLU, an environmental organization, as well as an atheist organization...

taking advantage 

of 

George Robert Gary, Sr., ThD celebrity status as a nationally known pastoral consultant as well as the celebrity status of my distant cousin Micheal Avery Ross, Blue Dog Democrat poster child of the Democratic opposition to ObamaCare.

Despite me referring to myself as atheist,  

what the three of us have in common is the fact 

I've never stopped being Methodist

as 

stuff put in our heads when a kid never really goes away.

I once read:

atheist are more likely to be environmentally conscience than the religious because to us...

this is it, this is home...

there is no better other place!

My plan also, 

to try embarrassing Dekalb County into admitting willful accessory to Charles Bliss's crime 

of 

VIOLATING the GREEN LAWS

Mysticism, Internet fuel Mexico’s Maya ‘Armageddon’ fears | Firstpost

Mysticism, Internet fuel Mexico’s Maya ‘Armageddon’ fears | Firstpost: When dawn breaks on Friday, according to the Maya Long Count calendar, it marks the end of the 13th bak’tun – an epoch lasting some 400 years – and the beginning of the 14th.

This fact would probably have languished in academic obscurity had not a young Maya expert named Michael Coe written in the 1960s that to the ancient Mesoamerican culture the date could herald an “Armageddon” to cleanse humanity.

Since then, the cult of 2012 has snowballed.

Obama under gun control pressure amid new details of Newtown assault | World news | guardian.co.uk

"I don't think the founding fathers had the idea that every man, woman and child could carry an assault weapon.  I think the president through his leadership could get a bill like that through Congress, but at least he's got to try."

~(New York mayor Michael Bloomberg)~

Obama under gun control pressure amid new details of Newtown assault | World news | guardian.co.uk:

Barack Obama is under intensifying pressure to take the lead in a campaign for greater gun control following the disclosure by police that the Newtown gunman used a semi-automatic assault rifle equipped with "numerous" high-capacity magazines holding hundreds of bullets to carry out his massacre of young children.

Connecticut state police confirmed the identity of the killer on Sunday as Adam Lanza, 20, and revealed that he carried out his dreadful killing spree of 20 six- and seven-year-olds and six adults in Sandy Hook elementary school using a Bushmaster semi-automatic assault rifle. Lanza also carried several high-capacity magazines each holding 30 rounds, with police confirming they found hundreds of bullets at the scene.

Lanza also carried several high-capacity magazines for the Glock and Sig Sauer handguns that he brought with him to the school, said lieutenant Paul Vance of the Connecticut state police. He used one the handguns to kill himself, said Vance, who also confirmed that he had killed his mother Nancy before going to the school.

The emerging details explain how Lanza managed to kill so many people in a relatively short period, believed to be under 10 minutes, before police arrived.

New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and leading US senators pressed the president on Sunday to tell Congress to reinstate a ban on assault weapons which are common to almost all recent mass shootings in the US, including Friday's tragedy in Connecticut.

"I don't think the founding fathers had the idea that every man, woman and child could carry an assault weapon," said Bloomberg. "I think the president through his leadership could get a bill like that through Congress, but at least he's got to try."

The debate has also widened to include questions about treatment of the mentally ill, another factor common to most recent mass killings in America. Joe Lieberman, another Connecticut senator, called for a national commission to examine America's gun laws and mental health system as well as the role violent video games and movies have in mass shootings.

Pro-gun rights politicians have gone to ground. NBC's Meet the Press said it had invited the 31 senators, Republican and Democrat, who openly oppose stricter gun control laws to appear on the programme with Bloomberg and Feinstein. None accepted.


The National Rifle Association, the largest and most influential of the gun rights lobby groups, has been similarly silent since the massacre.

***

"The only thing that 

stops 

a bad person with a gun 

is 

a good person with a gun."

SANDY HOOK

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

MASSACRE

"Politics 

is 

the art of postponing a decision 

until 

it is no longer relevant."

Police find good evidence on motive for Connecticut school massacre | Reuters

Police find good evidence on motive for Connecticut school massacre | Reuters: The adult woman found at the secondary crime scene was related to the shooter, a police news release said, and many media outlets have reported it was the shooter's mother, Nancy Lanza.

POLICE INVESTIGATE THE GUNS

Nancy Lanza legally owned a Sig Sauer and a Glock, both handguns of models commonly used by police, and a military-style Bushmaster .223 M4 carbine, according to law enforcement officials who also believe Adam Lanza used at least some of those weapons.

"We're investigating the history of each and every weapon and we will know every single thing about those weapons," Vance said.

Nancy Lanza was an avid gun collector who once showed him a "really nice, high-end rifle" that she had purchased, said Dan Holmes, owner of a landscaping business who recently decorated her yard with Christmas garlands and lights. "She said she would often go target shooting with her kids."

***

Couldn't help but notice the similarity of Nancy Lanza's home/property

to 

that of the "Useless Green Acre Faggots" living next to mine.

Did they cut down all their trees 

as part of

  this so called "prepping" for "doomsday" scenario?

Judge Derek Johnson reprimanded for claiming body can 'shut down' rape | GlobalPost

"I'm not a gynecologist, but I can tell you something. If someone doesn't want to have sexual intercourse, the body shuts down. The body will not permit that to happen unless a lot of damage in inflicted, and we heard nothing about that in this case."

 

"That tells me that the victim in this case, although she wasn't necessarily willing, she didn’t put up a fight."

Judge Derek Johnson reprimanded for claiming body can 'shut down' rape | GlobalPost:

 

 

DeKalb CSB Visit # 3

Officer Cobb

Chemical Nurse Specialist Lana Chase, Vicki Jacobs RN

I fail to understand why they are so resistant to parking in my driveway?

What's a brunette's mating call?

"That blond bitch done yet?!"

What's a blond's mating call?

"Next!"

***

This is Vicki Jacobs third visit to my house only this time she bring chemical nurse specialist Lana Chase with  

her.

Again when asking exactly why are they here, 

keep getting the same vague answer of being sent by someone higher up who keep receiving complaints.

Without being any more specific about the complaints, I'm am clueless as to what I should tell them or even where I should begin.

End up jumping all over the place topic wise, appearing incoherent and hyperspeech, causing them to believe I should be on medicine as well as seeing a  mental health specialist.

I said sure...

but only if I can record my sessions; uploading them to my blog.

Also...

 I'm not paying for it.

Totally unimpress with Lana Chase.  

Far too quick to her conclusion what was best for me while making no serious effort understanding my longtime goals.

Ended up telling them:

"If this is the best you can do, might as well stop wasting our time with these visits."

Then Mrs Chase ends our meeting saying the main objective of this meeting was determining if I had any homocidal or suicidal tendencies.

She had decided I did not.

How funny!

And these medicines they keep wanting to put me on have been known to cause just that.

***

As an afterthought,

wish I had been able to observe/hear 

Chemical Nurse Lana Chase's reaction 

to 

this cartoon.

State Court of DeKalb County: Waste of My Time Round Two

***

At least the Restraining Order has expired.

Believe it's time for me to start going back to church.

Maybe the charges can be dealt with faster on a Methodist forum?

***

fo·rum

 

 [fawr-uh m, fohr-uh m] 

noun, plural fo·rums, fo·ra 

1.

the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairsand a place of assembly for the people.

2.

a court or tribunal: the forum of public opinion.

3.

an assembly, meeting place, television program, etc., for the discussion of questions of public interest.

4.

the Forum, the forum in the ancient city of Rome.

Mike Ross (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

ABEL LIVES?

Mike Ross's mother is second cousin to my father, Charles Denson Avery, M.D.

He now calls home the same church me and my father grew up with.

The Blue Dogs and Health Care

On June 19, 2009, Ross made clear that he and a group of other fiscally conservative, moderate Democrats, known as the Blue Dog Coalition, were increasingly unhappy with the direction that health-care legislation was taking in the House. They claimed the health care reform bill was being written behind closed doors without their input and that the proposals being consider fall short in reducing costs and increasing efficiency, outlining only a fraction of what will be required to achieve a product that does not add to the deficit. Ross cited, among other things, provisions that major health-care companies also strongly oppose. Ross was the guest of honor at a special "health-care industry reception," one of at least seven fundraisers for the Arkansas lawmaker held by health-care companies or their lobbyists this year, according to publicly available invitations. According to Ross's Federal Election Commission Disclosure Report, which every candidate must file quarterly, eight percent (8%) of his total campaign contributions have come from the health care industry in the last election cycle (2007-8).

Ross was thrust into the national spotlight on July 21 when he and a group of seven Blue Dog Democrats on Energy & Commerce bucked their party's leaders and brought the committee mark up process of H.R. 3200, America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, to a halt. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman postponed meeting publicly to discuss the health-care legislation to negotiate with the Blue Dogs, meeting privately with Ross and other members of the so-called Blue Dog Coalition, conservative Democrats who sit on the committee and could join Republicans and vote down a bill they don't like since the panel has 36 Democrats and 23 Republicans.

After days of back-to-back meetings and intense negotiations into the night, four of the seven Blue Dog Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, led by Ross, said they resolved their differences with Chairman Henry Waxman of California and were able to force House leadership to agree on several provisions, namely that the full House would not vote on the legislation until at least September so lawmakers would have time to read the bill and listen to constituents
.

Other concessions won by Blue Dogs, which drew immediate opposition from liberals in the chamber, would shave about 10 percent from the health care overhaul's $1 trillion, 10-year price tag, in part by limiting subsidies to people who are not insured. The exemption for small businesses would be doubled so that only businesses with payrolls greater than $500,000 a year would be required to offer insurance or pay a tax equivalent to 8 percent of their payroll.

Because many Blue Dogs, especially Ross, had serious concerns about the bill's potential harmful effects on rural doctors and rural hospitals, the group forced House leadership to accept that the government would negotiate rates with health care providers instead of using Medicare rates in any so-called public option.

President Obama praised the efforts of the Blue Dog Coalition in a statement issued after the agreement was announced: “I'm especially grateful that so many members, including some Blue Dogs on the Energy and Commerce Committee, are working so hard to find common ground. Those efforts are extraordinarily constructive in strengthening this legislation and bringing down its cost,” the President said in a statement. However, some of the concessions to Ross set off a revolt among members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, who said they feared that the public insurance plan was being weakened. “We do not support this,” said Representative Lynn Woolsey, Democrat of California, co-chairwoman of the progressive caucus. "It’s a nonstarter."

After Congress' August recess, Ross announced that he could not support a bill with a Public Option. In a letter to constituents, he claimed that "An overwhelming number of you oppose a government-run health insurance option, and it is your feedback that has led me to oppose the public option as well." However, a Research 2000 poll, commissioned by the left-leaning group Daily Kos, found that a majority of his district actually supported a Public Option. While a poll from the University of Arkansas only found support for the public option at 39 percent. Ross ultimately voted against the Health Care Reform bill that passed the House on November 7, 2009 In January 2011, Ross was one of 3 Democrats to vote with the unified Republican caucus for the repeal of the recent health care reform law.

In 2011, he co-sponsored HR 3, the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act.The bill contained an exception for "forcible rape," which opponents criticized as potentially excluding drug-facilitated rape, date rape, and other forms of rape. The bill also allowed an exception for minors who are victims of incest.

Mike Ross (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: 2014 gubernatorial campaignRoss was considered a potential gubernatorial nominee for the Democrats in 2014. In November 2010, Ross said that his interests lie in Arkansas, not in national party politics and that "it's no secret" that he'd want to help lead the state "at some point in the future." He said that he does not know if that will be in 2014.

On July 25, 2011, Ross announced that he would retire from Congress at the end of 2012. As for possibly running for Governor of Arkansas in 2014, he said "Whether I run for Governor in 2014 is a decision I have not yet made and won't make until sometime after my term in this Congress ends. But I do know if I was re-elected to the U.S. Congress next year, my term in the Congress would overlap with the Governor's race. I believe it would be impossible to successfully run for Governor here at home, while effectively carrying out my congressional duties in Washington."

In May 2012, Ross announced that he would not run for governor in 2014. Instead, he plans to become senior vice president for government affairs and public relations at the Little Rock-based Southwest Power Pool.

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas's 4th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2001
Preceded by	Jay Dickey
Succeeded by	Tom Cotton (elect)
Arkansas State Senator
In office 1991–2000
Personal details
Born	(1961-08-02) August 2, 1961 (age 51)Texarkana, Arkansas
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	Holly
Children	Sydney, Alex
Residence	Prescott, Arkansas
Alma mater	University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Occupation	Former Small Business Owner
Religion	Methodist