Re-blog Attempt: tRUMP

Published February 5, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Hey tRump, take a Valium and chill the f*&k out!

From cornfedcontessa. To help get the big picture!

For those finding it difficult to keep up – here’s a rundown of the week so far. To recap:
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority Business Development Agency.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic Development Administration.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the International Trade Administration.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal Services Corporation.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Fossil Energy.
* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen.
* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.
* On January 20th, 2017, roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers, journalists, and medics.
* On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International Workers of the World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle. He remains in critical condition.
* On January 21st, 2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost entirely of framing himself as the victim of the dishonest press.
* On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.”
* On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news.
* On January 22nd, 2017, DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back.
* On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds international organisations that even mention abortion as a medical option.
* On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially threatening war with China.
* On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.
* On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in.
* On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.
* On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and will hang in the White House press room. The photo is curiously dated January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the largest inauguration-related protest in history.
* On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and contracts.
* On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be authorised and vetted by the White House.
* On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding not only to abortion service providers but to any insurance coverage, including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor of the House for a vote.
* On January 24th, 2017, Director of the Department of Health and Human Service nominee Tom Price characterised federal guidelines on transgender equality as “absurd.”
* On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill that would legalise hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are on roadways.
* On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources.
And today: the wall and a ban on Muslims entering from a large number of countries and the end to accepting Syrian refugees

POWERLESSNESS

Published February 5, 2017 by Nan Mykel

From FALLOUT: A Survivor Talks to Incest Offenders (and Others) by moi:

Herman(2000, 98) remarks that “as guardians of the incest secret, survivors have been warned time and again that they could bring disaster upon their families by revealing what they know. Ironically, the victim of incest has been handed the power to destroy the family, yet the double bind she is in renders her powerless to act.”

DeYoung (1982, 51) cites one victim who said, “Okay, here I am, 12 years old and my father’s screwing me practically every night. If I tell someone he goes to jail, my brothers and sister won’t speak to me, and my mom will have a heart attack or something. But if I let him keep screwing me I’ll go nuts. So what do I do? Tell my folks I need a weekend alone at the Holiday Inn to think things over; or go to the corner bar to have a few drinks and discuss it with my pals? No, I pack up my clothes, rob my piggy bank, stick out my thumb and split. And I keep on splitting every time the cops catch me and bring me home.”

It may very well be that a large number of teenage suicides are youths who find themselves in a similar no-win situation, prevented from even leaving a suicide note , keeping the secret until the end and beyond. “There is no way out, no place to run.” (Summit, 1983, 184). (p. 161)

According to Gaddini (1983, 357), years after the incest, survivors who did not report often wished they had, and those who did report wished they had not.” (p. 162)

BLOGGERS! Whatcha Supposed to Do?

Published February 4, 2017 by Nan Mykel

It seems the world has changed the grammar rules about its and it’s. Literally! So I ignore those. But what’s the protocol for w Still 2 hen a real misspelling is in a Post title or there are a couple of blatant errors? Is it better to ignore them or alert the poster? Yes, I was an English major, but what’s a friendly way to do it or should I just keep quiet?

Reblog: From Markmaynard.com on Betsy DeVos

Published February 4, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Sorry I’m speechless. Re-blogged from Gronda Morin’s re-blog.

Gronda Morin

Image result for photo of betsy devos Betsy DeVos (R)

I am reblogging this publication about the nomination of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary which was posted on 2/4/17 by Mark Maynard. Please contact your Senators to oppose this nomination. YOU CAN FIND PHONE NUMBERS FOR EVERY SENATORS HERE.

Reblog:

This Monday, Betsy DeVos is likely to be handed the Department of Education by those Republican Senators that she’s admitted to having bought off

I can’t say for certain whether or not the dollar amounts indicated on this chart, which was floating around the internet today, are absolutely accurate, but, from what I know about DeVos, and what she herself has said about spending money in order to get politicians to do what she wants, I don’t have much reason to doubt them. Regardless of the exact dollar amounts, we know that DeVos has used her $5.1 billion fortune to pay Republican legislators for their…

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TWO PARAGRAPHS CHAPTER 14: The Fallout

Published February 3, 2017 by Nan Mykel

From FALLOUT: A Survivor Talks to Incest Offenders (and Others) by moi:

While growing up I did feel different from most of my classmates. I was carrying a deep, dark secret , one that had the potential of blowing up my world and the world of my family. That feeling grew until being different from others took on that aura of being worse than others and yet special at the same time. The feelings served to distance me from others, and as an adult one of my challenges has been to let go of this and other distancing mechanisms.(p. 137)

…Gil describes dissociation as a “common occurrence among adult survivors.” (1988, 149) Briere writes that “the presence of depersonalization, derealization, compartmentalization and so on may produce splits or shifting boundaries in the child’s sense of self….in the words of one angry (but articulate) adolescent survivor: “Don’t you understand? There’s nobody inside here to hear what you say. I’m just empty. I just do what happens.”(1992, 46). (p. 141)

FALLOUT

Published February 3, 2017 by Nan Mykel

From FALLOUT: A Survivor Talks to Incest Offenders (and Others) by moi:

Q: How did dealing with incest affect the rest of your life? A: What rest of my life? –Bass and Davis, 1994

The first draft of this book contained no references. It was my experience, my story. Then I realized how easy it would be for incest perpetrators to discount me and my words, especially since they would not want to believe what I had to say. Thus I turned to the research and literature in order to validate my experience and observations, although that decision added years to the project.

The primary purpose of this book is to foster empathy and understanding on the part of offenders for survivors in order to decrease the likelihood of reoffending. This book also has the potential to answer some llingering “whys” for survivors. (p. 133)

ONE PARAGRAPH PER CHAPTER – Chapter 13: Protecting

Published February 2, 2017 by Nan Mykel

From FALLOUT: A Survivor Talks to Incest Offenders (and Others) by moi:

Linda Sanford offers a number of helpful suggestions in her book The Silent Children: A Parent’s Guide to Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse. Especially useful are a number of “what if” game scenarios. She strongly recommends that children be warned about possible molesters at four different levels: stranger contacts, acquaintance contacts, child-care contacts, and contacts with people the child loves (Sanford 1985, 217-69). It is also recommended that prevention efforts include both adult and juvenile predators (Kikuchi, 1995), (p, 124)

ONE PARAGRAPH PER CHAPTER – Chapter 12: After He Returns [from prison] Then What?

Published February 2, 2017 by Nan Mykel

From FALLOUT: A Survivor Talks to Incest Offenders (and Others) by moi:

Family of origin members do not want to believe the perpetrator is really a “sexual pervert,” They want to believe that it was a fleeting anomaly and and that after treatment and/or incarceration he is his “old self” gain. They will often send their own child off for a walk in the park with the perpetrator in order to reassure themselves that their family member is trustworthy once again. Red alert! Red alert! This is an extremely dangerous tendency. Do not put any child in harm’s way as a test! In their deterination to reassure themselves that their beloved transgressor is really a regular guy, family members may cooperate with relapse prevention plans on a a temporary basis only, not a life-long basis, as is required if re-offending is not to occur. One offender who had been in treatment lived acrss the street from a playground. After his release his wife confided that she was not letting him go over to the playground “yet.”….[Unfortunately, there is always the risk of re-offending]. (p. 118)

WHILE THERE’S TIME…

Published February 1, 2017 by Nan Mykel

Who knows what programs will be cut in order to pay for the Mexican wall? A democratic freedom-of-speech-grassroots-outfit like Public Access television could conceivably go on the chopping block. And in my opinion that would be a crying shame.

As a volunteer producer for years, I get choked up just thinking about it. What a wide-open and free canvas for local creativity! What an opportunity for community-building! Strut your stuff, Athens, Ohio! Use of the equipment is free, as is use of the 3-camera studio. This is me on my former weekly show Kaleidoscope, before old age and decrease in word-finding skills curtailed me: (No, I think it’s a different one):

There goes my mind! Catch it!

We have the capability for call-in-shows, skits, “green screen” backdrops, self-editing equipment. With sufficient volunteers we can “cover” League of Women Voter debates, Final Friday art shows, puppet skits, the Horse Pull and Demolition Derby at the Fair, demonstrations and marches, wild life, political discussion shows, turtle feeling, the Homecoming Parade, interviews with elected officials, Junior Producers, the Humane Society, NAMI and Steampunk shows, poetry readings, plus YOUR OWN talking heads show, if that’s your thing! All sows are scheduled several times a week (make that “shows!”)

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ANSWER TO JANUARY 28 QUIZ

Published February 1, 2017 by Nan Mykel

The treatment quiz:

Mary and her husband live on the south bank of a river. Her husband wants her to stay at home and not cross the river to the town. She wants to go to town. There is a bridge across the river, but men have been robbing and killing people who cross the bridge, and Mary’s husband won’t give her money for the ferry. Mary begins saving the grocery money for the ferry and crossing the river to town on the ferry while her husband is away. Finally, she meets a man in town and takes him as a lover. She crosses the river more frequently and he gives her money to get back home. He gets mad at her one day and refuses to give her the return fare home. She asks the ferryman to let her charge the return trip but he refuses, saying it is against company policy. Finally, she crosses the bridge and is killed.

Q- Whose fault is it that Mary was killed? (Answer on Feb. 1).