Occupy Oakland
Posted by Michelle Moquin on October 27th, 2011
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Good morning!
I just Love the flow of this blog. I find an article about one thing, and it leads to another even more interesting topic. You just never know where the dialogue is going to end up, with the back and forth chitchat that happens along the way.
Alycedale: When I read Abbott’s Article, I thought it was BS. I had no desire to break it down, but I knew someone would. No surprise it was you. And I wouldn’t have expected any less of an analysis from a girl who knows how to intelligently scrutinize a story.
And look where it lead us? Lickin’ pussy – Please pass the dental dam, I’d like to indulge in a little lamb. :)
Ah…Sometimes I wish I was just another reader so I could jump in on the convo and give my personal two anonymously. I don’t have that pleasure, but no matter. I get pleasure that such needed, insightful information is afforded to the girls ( and guys) on my blog.
Thanks Social B for posting the risk of transmission of disease from woman to woman. I will echo the words of Winter. And by the way, I will agree with ZL as well, ‘It is an individual thing”. And in my opinion, you and Alycedale are about as different as two girls could be, at least with respect to the emotional thing. I would expect you to say exactly what you did. And I would expect Alycedale the same same. Aren’t we girls just so perfectly diverse?
Love being a girl…Love the girls on this blog. I am so blessed to be in the blog presence of such wonderful women of the world. ♥
So…wha’at’s up? What’s on everyone’s mind?
I can tell you what’s on my mind. Occupy Wall Street has been gathering nightly in Oakland. Two nights ago a two tour war veteran, Scott Olsen was critically injured by police projectiles. Well, MoveOn beat me to it this morning, but none the less, I’m blogging it anyway. The thugs with guns are at it again abusing their powers. This video footage needs to be seen. And please, take a moment and give your support but signing the petition at MoveOn to stop the police oppression of Occupy Oakland. Thanks.
War Veteran Wounded By Police At Occupy Oakland, Stun Grenade Thrown At Folks Helping Him
This is just insane:
Scott Olsen, a protester who’s done two tours of duty in Iraq and is now involved in Veterans For Peace, was critically wounded during an Oakland police raid by police projectiles. When people tried to help him, an officer lobbed a flash bang grenade right into their group. Olsen is currently hospitalized with serious injuries and is reported to be in critical condition.
If you’re as horrified by this as we are, please sign this petition to Oakland’s mayor and then share this page with everyone you know.
Found on Kresling’s YouTube channel. Originally submitted by Marika S. and Jayne C.
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Readers: What do you think of this movement? I’m glad that people are coming together as a community and speaking their minds; they are discontent, and angry, and they have the right to be. With all that is happening in our country, this revolution is needed. A fire has been lit with the people and it is growing and gaining. I back it. I just HOPE that it stays well organized, focused on the goal, and peaceful. The scene in Oakland two nights ago, with respect to the police brutality was horrifying and upsetting.
Here’s a segment from Rachel Maddow last night discussing just that:
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Peace & Love
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October 27th, 2011 at 8:50 am
Michelle, you are at it early today. You put your post up while I was trying to respond to some from yesterday. If anyone is interested in the dental dams and finger cots, please see my respond under yesterday’s comments.
Have a loving day today all!
/SB
October 27th, 2011 at 10:51 am
Michelle:
The thugs with badges in Oakland are disgusting.
October 27th, 2011 at 11:03 am
Sb, I think you are confusing being emotional with being LED by emotions, two different things really, but I’m pragmatic and emotional. The cots sound good though a little wash up in the middle of a marathon is not so bad either…
Mischa, I think it’s time to present the demands of the occupy movement before it turns into just a drum beating with no real course of action to back it up with. At some point it’ll just become a meaningless exercise if it doesn’t present cohesive options/demand s, sorry For weird typing, I’m on handphone.
spreading the LUV (without the germs), Zen Lill
October 27th, 2011 at 11:16 am
VITAMIN PROTECTION FROM STROKE DAMAGE?
Surely, by now, people are well-aware that when it comes to surviving stroke, time is of the essence. The sooner patients get treated, the more likely their brains will be spared significant damage.
Is it worth considering, then, if you’re at high risk for stroke, that taking a supplement might offer your brain protection ahead of time?
According to the results of a new study from The Ohio State University in Columbus, such a day may be close at hand.
NOT JUST ANY VITAMIN E
The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, looked into whether taking a natural form of vitamin E called tocotrienols (more on that in a minute) might prepare the brain to react better after an ischemic stroke (a stroke caused by a blood clot).
Most strokes (87%) are ischemic. The report, an animal study, used dogs because their brains more closely resemble those of humans than do those of commonly studied animals, such as mice and rats.
For 10 weeks, researchers gave one group of dogs 200 mg a day of tocotrienols and the other group a placebo. Then, while the animals were under anesthesia, they induced strokes in both groups by blocking the middle cerebral artery in their brains for one hour.
Next, researchers conducted imaging studies of the animals’ brains both one hour after and 24 hours after the induced strokes to learn what changes had taken place. What they discovered…
More blood flow. In the vitamin E group, minor blood vessels (collateral vessels) that are a normal part of the brain’s circulatory system became larger in the area of the blockage, enabling more blood flow to continue in that area and protect the brain. This did not happen to the same extent in the control group.
Less tissue damage. Twenty-four hours after the strokes, brain lesions that indicate tissue damage were 80% smaller in the vitamin E group compared with those in the placebo group.
Less nerve damage. In the vitamin E group after 24 hours, the brain’s internal communication network — a crisscrossing of nerves — remained relatively intact at the location of the stroke… while in the placebo group, the network showed major disruptions.
WAKING UP SLEEPING ARTERIES
The senior author of the study, Chandan K. Sen, PhD, professor in the department of surgery, has been researching tocotrienol vitamin E and its effect on the brain for more than a decade.
He says that the brain contains collateral vessels that normally remain dormant. When a person has a stroke, those collateral vessels enlarge and join together to improve blood flow in the affected part of the brain.
Researchers found that the tocotrienol vitamin E essentially helped “wake up” these previously inactive arteries more effectively at the time of the trauma to the brain.
Dr. Sen and his group are now preparing a clinical trial using tocotrienol vitamin E in a group of people who are at an increased risk for stroke.
The participants in this trial will take 400 mg daily of tocotrienol E to see if the vitamin helps prevent stroke or, in cases when stroke occurs, if it helps reduce damage to the brain, as it did with the dogs.
When asked for a recommendation for readers of Daily Health News, Dr. Sen said that he would like to wait for the outcomes of the clinical trial.
But people at a high risk for stroke may want to talk to their doctors about taking natural Vitamin E as we wait for the clinical trial to be completed.
READ THE LABEL
There are two categories of natural vitamin E — tocotrienols (which were used in the study) and tocopherols.
Both types include four subtypes called alpha, beta, delta and gamma. In his research, Dr. Sen uses a mix of natural vitamin E that’s rich in alpha-tocotrienol.
If your doctor advises you to start taking natural vitamin E to help prevent stroke, Dr. Sen says to look for a supplement in a health-food store or online that contains a high percentage of alpha-tocotrienol.
You may notice that many vitamin E supplements contain some tocopherols, as well. This is fine, so long as the tocopherol is natural and not synthetic. Check the label, and if it includes the words synthetic alpha tocopherol — or “dl” instead of “d,” the natural form — return the bottle to the shelf and look for all-natural E.
Source:
Chandan K. Sen, PhD, professor in the department of surgery and associate dean, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus.
October 27th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Social Butterfly:
It is not just a woman “using” her emotions that imply a diminishing of the ability to use the cognitive functions that allow logic to prevail. It would be anyone who gives the nod to emotion over logic.
Your insistence towards claiming that there is some higher plane reached through an emotional venue than a logical one escapes me. It may be that we are having a definition or rather a connotation problem when it comes to the dictionary’s denotation of emotion.
The denotation I found is – any of the particular feelings that characterize such a state of mind, such as joy, anger, love, hate, horror, etc. : fear had become his dominant emotion.
• instinctive or intuitive feeling as distinguished from reasoning or knowledge :
While as you say “we need more caring loving people on the planet, not less.” It is also true that the emotional people(those more inclined to act via emotion that logic) are the chief cause of the world’s problems.
I am fully aware that it is the coldly logical, greedy, racists, bastards that plan the problems that the world has. But it is the emotional people who they appeal to in order to get the power to carry out those devious pursuits.
Most anti feelings directed towards other people places or things come from some emotion or other. Where logic would tell one that race, sexual orientation, sex, etc, etc is not the determinative factor in the hierarchy of the individual, emotions say otherwise.
I realize this is not the kind of emotional behavior you were lauding when you say A woman can be emotional and smart. I even like your admonition that more men need to be like women, i.e., caring, sensitive, loving (aka emotional), not the other way around.
But the reality of it is that is not true. Men are not as emotional as women are. So if women want to compete with a man she has to realize that he will use her emotional place to manipulate her, and their situation. Hence their decisions will not be equal, he will always gain the financial advantage while she is on an emotional fairness channel.
No one is attempting to deprive you of the pride of being capable of great emotion. I am simply pointing out that you may be the fastest person on two feet, but if you don’t check the lights before you cross an intersection, your emotional urge to not slow down could get you killed.
The reason logic has given us great civilizations is because they were balanced with emotional concerns for the needs of that civilization. However, a good parent, relative or friend will always advice logic over emotion because logic can calmly defer to emotion. But a person possessed by particular emotional drive will always defer to that emotion’s lead.
Emotion is not a dirty word. But I advise my daughters to use their heads when in a relationship with someone they feel they are losing their emotional control to.
Alycedale
October 27th, 2011 at 1:03 pm
well said Alycedale…
you all might’ve missed the greatest fears I tossed in – fear of control (loss of it/being controlled) and rejection/being rejected, (case in point, the woman who left her family to go with female lover who moved on 3 years later, her emotions controlled her and her decision making processes and then she got rejected at some level, it ended against her wishes) – there in the succinct nutshell lies the underlying sauce in the sexual realm sometimes…
There are many non-verbal ways of gauging who’s all in ‘emotionally’ and who’s not, though why worry about it, men sure don’t. Grab the experience and emotion of the sensual/sexual/companionable pleasure and worry about all that other ‘are we it’ crap and decisions to ‘take it further’ (where exactly I wonder these days, marriage? really? bc I long for you in the sack?) much later…and remember that infatuation can last 3-5 years so don’t make hasty decisions : ) and that makes the case for having discreet side salad rather than relying ‘emotional’ decision making, it’s the only logical thing to do.
The only issue is getting ‘busted’, most people get overly emotional when their partner is having a side order and throw down the divorce card, I know that most who have done that wish they hadn’t. I think Ad’s hubby’s got it right. let it slide on by and it’ll end on it’s own and if not, well, cie le vie…the problem is, most physical types are married to emotional types (we are all a mix of both to greater/lesser degrees) and can make for moral high ground issues, esp amongst the religious, just sayin’ and I think we should all have a ‘come to jesus’ meeting with our mates re: the monogamous/non-monogamous thing, it seems like pair bonding will always be in fashion but even when you have filet mignon, sometimes you just want a bite of lobster, oui?
Hmmmm, we could review what exactly is meant by ‘…more caring people…’ also but I won’t go there, it’s just a platitude to me, we seem to have lost out humanity so I’m going Ghandi (and possibly commando ; ) in saying that I’ll be the change I want to see in the world, more often than not that is a balance of logic/emotion in action(s).
Luv, Zen Lill – gotta get out of here NOW!
October 27th, 2011 at 1:08 pm
Misch, I think you should comment when you have time, call yourself some cool tag name and join in, it IS your blog after all, you should do exactly as you please (even if you take me OUT in the process) hahaha…I’ve lived through worst ; )
Howie, are you going to answer my question? You may want to answer it via email, could be sensitive info…thanks, and just so you know I can handle the answer : )
~ZL
October 27th, 2011 at 1:36 pm
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October 27th, 2011 at 10:29 pm
The question really is simple…If you could actually change the world…would you? Even to the detriment of your perceived purpose…lose the ego and eliminate the desire for the self, that wanton of your perceived purpose?… would you?
October 27th, 2011 at 11:15 pm
Alycedale – this was great :
“The reason logic has given us great civilizations is because they were balanced with emotional concerns for the needs of that civilization. However, a good parent, relative or friend will always advice logic over emotion because logic can calmly defer to emotion. But a person possessed by particular emotional drive will always defer to that emotion’s lead.
Emotion is not a dirty word. But I advise my daughters to use their heads when in a relationship with someone they feel they are losing their emotional control to.”.
Originally I spoke assuming the audience were consenting mature experienced adults. I certainly wasn’t advocating taking the plunge for someone inexperienced w human behavior.
This part “Your insistence towards claiming that there is some higher plane reached through an emotional venue than a logical one escapes me” helps me see I should
explain that I wasn’t putting one over the other- only giving credence to the emotional aspect – that I feel gets denigrated and cast as a female trait and a weakness. Of course logic dictates survival and protection is foremost.
And ZL – ” Hmmmm, we could review what exactly is meant by ‘…more caring people…’ also but I won’t go there, it’s just a platitude to me” – I looked up platitude.
A platitude is a trite, meaningless, biased, or prosaic statement, often presented as if it were significant and original. The word derives from plat, the French word for “flat.” Whether any given statement is considered to have meaning is highly subjective, so platitude is often—but not always—used as a pejorative term to describe seemingly profound statements that a certain person views as unoriginal or shallow.
In your speak : jus say’n
/SB
October 28th, 2011 at 7:42 am
I know the meaning, thank you, SB, just sayin’ and yep, that statement is on the heap with ‘have a nice day’ said a lot but somewhat lacking in depth/substance. Wanting ‘more caring people…’ is a snice idealistic platitude. I appreciate the head space that it came from, it’s a good thought generally speaking, it’s not a personal knock to you, please don’t take it that way. – ZL
October 28th, 2011 at 9:19 am
We are in 1891:
Despite police assurances that the Whitechapel Monster has struck since November 1888, almost every murder in London’s East End is still hailed as another appearance of the fiend.
So seriously does this affect police work that Frances Coles’ murder site was personally inspected by the Metropolitan Assistant Commissioner (Crimes) Dr Robert Anderson, CID Chief Constable Meville Macnaghten, Superintendent Arnold, Head of H Division CID.
A preposterous array of top brass for one insignificant crime! And all because the press cry up the case irresponsibly to sell newspapers.
AH