Omnibus picture thread for Friday, October 11, 2013

[ashling]

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[Aristus]

1. That woman is very attractive.

But why does she look so worried?

[Yavin4]

2. It's the buffed kangaroo that's weirding her out. n/t

[ashling]

3. I forgot to mention,

"The woman" is Senator Kirsten Gillibrand

Strong Enough for a Man, Effective Enough for a Woman

But in unveiling her five-point family and economic policy plan at the Center for American Progress on September 27 in Washington, DC, Gillibrand stressed that almost every part of the plan applies to all workers, not just women. Ensuring families have access to quality child care, family leave, decent (and equitable) wages and pre-kindergarten education would benefit a large portion of the workforce.

Talking about family policy can be a double-edged sword. Gillibrand hasn’t shied away from issues of particular concern to women — she told one reporter, “Sometimes people say, ‘Well, why do you just focus on women’s issues?’ Well, why do you focus on issues that pertain to 52 percent of the population? It’s pretty important.” And yet to assume that family policy is only a woman’s issue is to accept the stereotype that caring for children and family members is women’s work, not men’s, and to allow people to write it off as something that just pertains to the ladies.

Even though, as Gillibrand pointed out in her speech, only a fifth of American households have the ’50s model of a male breadwinner and a stay-at-home mother, US family policy acts as though they all do — and women continue to do a disproportionate share of the caring work. We haven’t kept up with other countries when it comes to family policy, especially paid family leave. And as I wrote recently, true gender equality requires good family policy that encourages an equitable distribution of labor, both at the office and in the home.

http://billmoyers.com/2013/10/09/strong-enough-for-a-man-effective-enough-for-a-woman/

[Aristus]

4. The qualities of intelligence and rationality are indispensable for any Democrat running for office.

But I like it when they are attractive, too...

[bluesbassman]

5. Okay, couple of observations: Why does that 1st pic remind me of GD so much? And the 3rd...

Well, here you go...



BTW, no offense intended to either orangutans or pointers.

[ashling]

6. The difference is that in the pic I posted

the orange one is holding the leash

[bluesbassman]

7. Yeah, and in the one I posted, Cantor's right hand is a prop...

his real hand is in Boehner's back working the mechanism.