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Tuesday Afternoon

Tuesday Afternoon's Journal
Tuesday Afternoon's Journal
January 10, 2014

Consider this ...

January 9, 2014

playing the victim is classic sociopathic technique. classic.

not surprised that he played that card.

January 6, 2014

President Obama Nominated the Very First Native American Woman For Federal Judge

Diane J. Humetewa, a member of the Hopi tribe and former U.S. attorney in Arizona, has been nominated to serve on the U.S. District Court for the district of Arizona as a federal judge. If confirmed, she would be the first active member of a Native American reservation, and first Native American woman to serve as a federal judge. Not only would this bring more diversity to the federal bench, but Arizona’s prominent Native community will finally be represented in a state that is infamous for ignoring Native issues.

This is a big deal because she is a Native woman from the same Arizona that has become a police state through its insistence on criminalizing communities of color, deportations, and via renegade leaders like Sheriff Arpaio. Arizona is swiftly becoming a state known for its extreme racial profiling regarding folks who look “brown.”

In Obama’s first term he nominated Arvo Mikkanen of the Kiowa Tribe, but Republicans blocked the nomination.

Read more:
http://www.powwows.com/2014/01/04/icymi-president-obama-nominated-the-very-first-native-american-woman-for-federal-judge/#ixzz2pczwE1TI


January 3, 2014

"The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity." Repeat it. Over and Over.

"The opposite to patriarchy is not matriarchy but fraternity."

Wash, Rinse. Repeat.

January 3, 2014

Hello ...

January 2, 2014

not just men. -

when you have two women telling you that you need a dick ... I think that is saying something about the website as a whole.

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