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Oh hey there. A while ago I started a blog under my real name and then I just kind of left it here.
Any potential employers, sorry for demonstrating a lack of follow-through.
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A coordinated attack of vehicle bombs on Monday ripped through the perimeters of three hotel compounds known for housing foreign journalists, destroying a nearby apartment building and leaving at least 36 people dead. The bombers hit the Sheraton Hotel compound, which also houses the Babylon Hotel; and the al-Hamra Hotel compound, where The Washington Post bureau is located. Security officials said at least 71 people were wounded. Three of the injured were Iraqi employees of the Post.
Attack targets Baghdad hotel compounds, kills at least 36 - washingtonpost.comI am happy to be wrong, but I think that Iraq is, for lack of a better word, fucked. There will be no return to normalcy.
Posted on January 25, 2010 with 21 notes
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The first week of classes is over, now I actually have to open up textbooks and do class reading. I read a lot of “literature” in college. My books were all novel sized. I’m not used to these big hulking tomes. The last time I had books like this I was using a locker.
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The Future
In 2004 I graduated from Simon’s Rock College of Bard (now Bard College at Simon’s Rock) with a B.A., dual-majored in Creative Writing and Electronic Media and the Arts. I spent a couple years in Tucson, AZ, then moved to Chicago, IL. For the past two years I’ve been temping for City Staffing here in Chicago. The vast majority of their clients are in the loop.
A month ago I decided to become a Registered Nurse. Good pay, positive job growth, and wanting to feel like a contributing member of society are among the top reasons for this decision. First up, a year of prerequisite classes. This semester I’m taking Molecular and Cellular Biology, Statistics, and Medical Terminology. These classes, and the rest of my life, start tomorrow.
Goodbye, life of leisure.
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Illinois is living hand to mouth, paying bills as revenues come in each day, building up cash when special payments are coming due. Cash on hand varies from day to day, sometimes dipping below $1 million, says a spokeswoman for Illinois Comptroller Dan Hynes. The state’s credit rating has been steadily worsening since 1997, with three downgrades in the past 13 months. “The absence of recurring solutions in the next year to deal with the current budget challenges and begin to stabilize liquidity will likely result in a further downgrade of Illinois,” Standard & Poor’s said last month. As credit ratings dropped, the state has to pay more to borrow. The state also has to pay interest on bills unpaid after 90 days, adding further to its costs.
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But, records show, he had already filed a report warning top managers at the federal agency about the reporter’s interest and sharing information about the injured man, a Guinean tailor named Boubacar Bah. Mr. Bah, 52, had been left in an isolation cell without treatment for more than 13 hours before an ambulance was called. While he lay in the hospital in a coma after emergency brain surgery, 10 agency managers in Washington and Newark conferred by telephone and e-mail about how to avoid the cost of his care and the likelihood of “increased scrutiny and/or media exposure,” according to a memo summarizing the discussion. […] Among the participants in the conferences was Nina Dozoretz, a longtime manager in the agency’s Division of Immigration Health Services who had won an award for cutting detainee health care costs. Later she was vice president of the Nakamoto Group, a company hired by the Bush administration to monitor detention. The Obama administration recently rehired her to lead its overhaul of detainee health care.
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Maria had been on hormones for two years at the time of the arrest and therefore placing her in a male prison qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment. The state has a responsibility to protect inmates from violence and a trans woman in a male prison faces an increased risk of violence and therefore they are often placed in solitary confinement.
Maria was placed in solitary confinement where she was denied hormone treatments and thus began to grow facial hair. According to the Washington Examiner she was even referred to as “it”. She was treated no differently than any other person in solitary confinement, despite doing nothing to earn this treatment other than being a trans woman. She was placed on lockdown 23 hours a day and allowed a shower once every three days.Being Transgender In Prison Should Not Equal Torture | Womanist Musings
By the way, there’s a new prison themed bar and restaurant opening in my neighborhood called Lockdown. They want to be a “party destination.”
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In his August 1865 general instructions to the board of Commissioners of Indian Affairs, whose job it was to negotiate the post-Civil War treaties, [Secretary of Interior James] Harlan laid out the principles for the reconstruction of U.S. Indian policy. With specific regard to the indigenous nations who made treaties with the Confederacy, Harlan followed the provision of the July 1862 law that “the benefit of the provisions of a former treaty may be justly forfeited.” He also offered an additional stipulation: “Disloyal Indians are not, by their own bad faith, released from the obligation to perform their treaty stipulation, if insisted on by the United States.
Kevin Bruyneel - The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations, 2007
Wikipedia tells me that James Harlan also fired Walt Whitman while Secretary of the Interior.
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A spokesman for the Iraqi government said the collapse of the case in the US courts would lead to an intensified criminal prosecution of Blackwater through the Iraqi legal system. Ali al-Dabbagh said the criminal suit was already well advanced against the firm, which would not be allowed to restart its private military work in the country. “The government will monitor proceedings against Blackwater in Iraqi courts to prosecute the company and will preserve the rights of Iraqi citizens, of the victims and their families affected by this crime,” he said.
Posted on January 3, 2010 with 14 notes
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The U.S. economy has expanded at a healthy clip for most of the last 70 years, but by a wide range of measures, it stagnated in the first decade of the new millennium. Job growth was essentially zero, as modest job creation from 2003 to 2007 wasn’t enough to make up for two recessions in the decade. Rises in the nation’s economic output, as measured by gross domestic product, was weak. And household net worth, when adjusted for inflation, fell as stock prices stagnated, home prices declined in the second half of the decade and consumer debt skyrocketed.
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