There have been quite a few immigration posts here lately, and most of them have resulted in some heated conversations.
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I've only owned Fords, my parents have only owned Fords, my grandparents have only owned Fords. We are the kind of brand loyal family a corporation like Ford dreams of.
That's why I found it so troubling earlier this month when it seemed the company had caved to the right-wing American Family Association (AFA) by committing to pull all Jaguar and Land Rover vehicle ads in LGBT publications.
Earlier this week, Ford execs met with representatives from the nation's leading LGBT groups. After the meeting, Ford recommitted itself as a company promoting diversity and inclusion. Not only will Ford continue to advertise its Jaguar and Land Rover brands in LGBT publications, the company will advertise all of eight of its brands in these publications, something the company has never done before.
Ford has long been a leader in providing benefits to LGBT employees and their partners and supporting LGBT community and advocacy organizations.
Ford should be commended for rejecting the hateful mission of the AFA and maintaining Ford's leadership as one of the most supportive corporations for LGBT employees and consumers.
Even if the decision came down to money, LGBT purchasing power still won out, right-wing extremism lost, and the Blue Oval tradition will continue in my family.
"Student Loan Rates Set to Increase in July- Consolidate Now!"
"Reduce Your Monthly Payments"
"Record Low Rates Won't Last- Consolidate Today!"
These are some of the lines in the countless emails and letters I receive weekly telling me I need to consolidate my student loans- Before Its Too Late!
I know it is a good idea to consolidate, and I want to, but I don't trust anyone to give me the unbiased information I need. These banks and loan companies sending me the letters- I can't trust them because they are trying to sell me something. My financial aid office- They side with these banks over students any day of the week. The New York times College Section- Not a word of advice. The Princeton Review- They send out their sponsors/advertisers biased mailings under their name. Suze Orman- The supposed unbiased financial expert has a history of appearing in ads for companies that she is supposed to be giving unbiased advice on.
So unless you have the time and energy to hunt unbiased information down, meet with several lenders to see who is telling you the truth, know enough not to get swindled, or even know that rates are set to increase in July, you will probably end up paying a lot more for your student loans.
Oh yea...and you also have to find a job, a place to live, buy furniture, make new friends, and adjust to life after college...all the while worrying about your student loan payments a month after you graduate.
And who does this hurt? Not the wealthy. They don’t have student loans to begin with. And if they do, mommy and daddy might pay them, or the family accountant can take care of it all.
It hurts the graduate from a working family. The people who scrimp and save to make it by each month. The people who don’t have accountants, don’t now in depth information on interest rates, don’t own stocks, and many never even made it to college. But their kid worked hard to go to school, took out their own loans, and amassed a huge debt which they now have to pay back.
That is who it hurts. And not one person seems to want to change it.
The site was created for a class and was meant to be a parody. Papasian acknowledged using Wal-Mart's graphics on his web site but said he believed he could use the images as part of a parody.
I targeted the Foundation's website because I thought that it was appropriate to challenge the idea that Wal-Mart is a big benevolent corporation. They do serious damage wherever they go, and when they work to undo a very small portion of it, they pretend its charity and we should be grateful to them. I think that idea really insults our intelligence, so I made a parody site that was more honest about the way Wal-Mart operates.
Wal-Mart has tried to shut me down, and the result has been a lot of attention to the case and the site. My hope for the future is that a lot of this attention can get focused on Wal-Mart and the things that Wal-Mart and other large corporations do to the communities they operate in. My site took a couple days of work to launch. The real effort is still to come- and it'll start by convincing people that Wal-Mart is dangerous to communities and working people everywhere.
The site was taken down briefly to be modified and was recently put back up with the word “censored” over images Wal-Mart targeted. In a release, Papasian says he will document all of his experiences with the big box retailer on his site.
Princeton isn't the only place tackling the filibuster issue. Last week, students at Howard University joined forces with People for the American Way to bring a Filabuster-A-Thon to the campus.
The event featured BET's Jeff Johnson, President of People For, Ralph Neas, professors, and representatives from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
Find out more about the flurry of filibuster activity here.
It seems as though David Horowitz is exploiting his pie in the face incident for money. In a message to supporters, Horowitz says he was "physically assaulted by a group of leftists" at Butler last week. He called the students juvenile delinquents and said, “This type of thuggish behavior is being encouraged by radical faculties that regularly deride conservatives and conservative students, expressing their bilious hatred of President Bush in the classroom that is tacitly condoned by school administrations that tolerate these acts!”
He urges his supporters to donate to his cause based on the pie throwing. "These students and their academic consorts are underscoring our point -- and they’ve taken to violence in response to the success of our National Campaign for Academic Freedom!"
He closed his message by saying, “There should be ZERO tolerance for this type of thuggery against campus speakers whether they are Pat Buchanan or Noam Chomsky! But leftists on campuses don’t feel that way, so we must continue to press our case for an Academic Bill of Rights for our colleges and universities from coast to coast.”
He is doing exactly what we were worried about…exploiting the pie incidents to push his Academic Bill of Rights.
Instead of throwing food, Campus Progress has a list of things you can do to combat right wing speakers that is 100,000 times more effective than throwing food…I promise!
We all know Rush Limbaugh can’t be taken seriously, but his latest attack on college students is unfounded and outrageous.
Here is what he had to say about Al Gore’s cable TV network on his April 12 show:
"When does he start up this stupid little network? August? Yip yip yip yahoo. You know what Gore said about this? It's going to be liberal. It's going to reflect the point of view of young people.”
"What the hell is that, Al? What the hell is the point of view of young people? Blow jobs, that's what they're doing out there. They're out there getting oral sex all day long, that's what they're talking about."
He also referred to Gore's venture as “a BJ network” and “the oral sex channel.
Later in his show Limbaugh apologized, sort of. "I am going to apologize not for saying what I said, but I'm going to apologize if it offended anybody," he said. "I never apologize for what I say, but if some of you were offended by a graphic term involving actions committed by Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, that have now spread to America’s high schools, I apologize."
"I meant to say 'oral sex' throughout," he went on to say, "but the guttural term escaped my pouty lips in a moment of pure, unbridled passion. The staff was so stunned and so scared today they didn't dare hit the delete button, the deedle button, and so it got out there. My reaction is, somebody go ahead and turn me into the FCC. I'll be honored to be fined. It's just another government agency with its hand in my back pocket, so go right ahead."
The U.S. permitted the referral of the crimes in Darfur to the International Criminal Court last night, after an amendment was added that exempts Americans from the tribunal's jurisdiction.
The Bush administration has been vehemently opposed to the ICC in the past, but does this mark a turnaround in policy? Probably not.
Anne W. Patterson, the deputy United States ambassador to the United Nations, told the New York Times, "We decided not to oppose the resolution because of the need of the international community to work together in order to end the climate of impunity in Sudan."
While the passage of the resolution is good for the international community, it is yet another example of the U.S. separating itself from the rest of the world with the "We're better than you so the rules don't apply to us" attitude of the Bush administration.
CNN reports that rabid conservative Pat Buchanan was doused with salad dressing yesterday at Western Michigan University.
The news site reports that "Buchanan's visit had evoked controversy on campus because it fell on the birthday of the late Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez. Buchanan favors tighter controls on immigration."
Apparently the student yelled, "Stop the bigotry", before flinging the liquid on Buchanan.
This comes just two days after another conservative, William Kristol was hit with a pie at an Indiana college.
It seems as though some progressives are fed up and are treating conservatives like the clowns they are.
The message to conservatives coming to college campuses...wear a raincoat or face the consequences!
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