Not
Russia
August 29, 2014
Earlier this week, Canada
put out a map labeling Russia as "Russia" and the Ukraine as
"Not Russia."
That's the Canadians, eh?
Yet the map had too many unanswered questions. It
had holes you could drive a tank through, so to speak.
So the helpful Gif Animators here at Hopes-and-Dreams.net
decided to fill in the rest of the map.
That's what this is all a-boot.
Beauty, eh?
Music
Association: Doug & Bob MacKenzie - Take Off
The
Ferguson Dialogue
August 28, 2014
As a representational democracy, the
governments of the
United States -- federal, state, city, and county -- must represent
all its peoples.
Rich or poor.
Black or white.
Everyone.
Stop being afraid of other
humans,
religions, classes, nations, and stop being afraid of speaking out.
Stop being afraid of terrorists because you know that's what they want.
And the
police
must operate
within
the law. They are
not
above the law.
Music Association: Blue
Öyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
Waste
Not, Want Not
August 27, 2014
Music Association: Genesis -
Throwing It All Away
Back
to School
Civil Rights
Dangerous Colleges
August 19, 2014
College should challenge
minds. College should
not challenge legal rights.
Far too many colleges do not treat sexual assault
and rape seriously.
The New
York Times recently reported the story of a freshman at
Hobart and William Smith
Colleges in central New York, who ended up regretting reporting that
she was raped.
That's not a lesson schools should teach.
In May 2014, the U.S. Department of Education
released a list of colleges by state with sexual
violence investigations:
State
Institution
AZ Arizona State University
CA Butte-Glen Community College District
CA Occidental College
CA University of California-Berkeley
CA University of Southern California
CO Regis University
CO University of Colorado at Boulder
CO University of Colorado at Denver
CO University of Denver
CT University of Connecticut
DC Catholic University of America
FL Florida State University
GA Emory University
HI University of Hawaii at Manoa
ID University of Idaho
IL Knox College
IL University of Chicago
IN Indiana University-Bloomington
IN Vincennes University
MA Amherst College
MA Boston University
MA Emerson College
MA Harvard College
MA Harvard
University—Law School
MA University of Massachusetts-Amherst
MD Frostburg State University
MI Michigan State University
MI University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
NC Guilford College
NC University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill
ND Minot State University
NH Dartmouth College
NJ Princeton University
NY Cuny Hunter College
NY Hobart and William Smith Colleges
NY Sarah Lawrence College
NY Suny at Binghamton
OH Denison University
OH Ohio State University
OH Wittenberg University
OK Oklahoma State University
PA Carnegie Mellon University
PA Franklin and Marshall College
PA Pennsylvania State University
PA Swarthmore College
PA Temple University
TN Vanderbilt University
TX Southern Methodist University
TX The University of Texas-Pan American
VA College of William and Mary
VA University of Virginia
WA Washington State University
WI University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
WV Bethany College
WV West Virginia School of Osteopathic
Medicine
Date
Rape Drugs
- Two studies, 2007
Study & 2009
Study, indicate the most common date-rape drug is alcohol,
not Rohypnol or GHB. Yet inventors are creating common objects (nail
polish, plastic
cups, and straws) to detect date-rape drugs. Even armed with
special gadgets, people still need to drink responsibly.
Music
Association: War - Why Can't We Be Friends
225
Jewish Survivors of Nazi Genocide
Condemn the Massacre of Palestinians
August 18, 2014
As they say, “
Genocide
begins
with the silence of the world.â€
225 Jewish survivors and descendents of Jewish
survivors of the Nazi
genocide have signed a letter condemning
Israel’s massacre in Gaza and
calling for an end to the genocide of the Palestinian people. In the
letter, they also speak out against the abuse of their histories to
promote the dehumanization of Palestinians.
The Letter:
As Jewish survivors and descendants of survivors and
victims of the Nazi genocide we unequivocally condemn the massacre of
Palestinians in Gaza
and the ongoing occupation and colonization of historic Palestine. We
further condemn the United States for providing Israel with the funding
to carry out the attack, and Western states more generally for using
their diplomatic muscle to protect Israel from condemnation. Genocide
begins with the silence of the world.
We are alarmed by the extreme, racist dehumanization of Palestinians in
Israeli society, which has reached a fever-pitch. In Israel,
politicians and pundits in The Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post
have called
openly for genocide of Palestinians and right-wing Israelis are
adopting Neo-Nazi insignia.
Furthermore, we are disgusted and outraged by Elie
Wiesel’s abuse of our history in these
pages to promote blatant falsehoods used to justify
the unjustifiable: Israel’s wholesale
effort to destroy Gaza and the
murder of nearly 2,000 Palestinians, including many hundreds of
children. Nothing can justify bombing UN shelters, homes, hospitals and
universities. Nothing can justify depriving people of electricity and
water.
We must raise our collective voices and use our collective power to
bring about an end to all forms of racism, including the ongoing
genocide of Palestinian people. We call for an immediate end to the
siege against and blockade of Gaza. We call for the full economic,
cultural and academic
boycott of Israel. "Never again" must mean never
again for anyone!
[sources:
teleSUR,
Google
Doc,
IJAN]
Some previous Hopes and Dreams articles on
Palestinian: September
24, 2010, May 20,
2011, & December
5, 2011
Music
Association: War - Why Can't We Be Friends
Movie Association: Men In
Black "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous
animals, and you know it."
Cats
Are Diverse
August 17, 2014
Cats are not alike.
The animated gifs above (thanks to the original
posters) show the
beautiful diversity in cats.
Music
Association: War - Why Can't We Be Friends
Rest In Peace
Robin Williams 1951-2014
August
11, 2014
Depression impacts many people.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Phone Number
1-800-273-8255
He was the master of comedy dodgeball. He'd keep
throwing -- rapid-fire
-- something is bound to hit your sense of humor.
Music Association: Beatles -
Help!
Quote Association: this will take some explaining... at one
of his
earliest filmed standup shows, Robin Williams wandered through the
audience, passed near one of those round convex mirrors up in a corner,
and he referred to the mirror as a "People Aquarium."
Nixon
Tweets
August
8, 2014
Richard Nixon would tweet his life if he lived
today.
Nixon would be on Twitter as soon as there was a
Twitter.
Resign from the Presidency? Sure.
Resign from Twitter? Never.
Music
Association: Journey - Separate Ways
