Thursday, October 22, 2015

I feel sick.

Legislatures must not practice medicine. The clip below begins with Paul Ryan discussing the candidacy of Todd 'legitimate rape' Akin:
Akin is an outspoken opponent of abortion in all cases, including health reasons or in cases of rape or incest and opposes embryonic stem cell research. In a 2008 speech on the House floor, Akin called abortion providers "terrorists" and alleged that it was "common practice" for abortion providers to perform "abortions" on women who were not actually pregnant. - wikipedia
This man Ryan may be two lives away from being President of the United States of America. And he will kill women and hurt children if he can.

In 31 states in the USA, a rapist gets visitation privileges once his sentence is served. That is how caring and serious our country is about sexual crimes. Women have had the vote in America for 95 years, the lifetime of one woman. One of the primary issues taken up by political women from the beginning is sexual crime. Dismissing women's concerns is the primary reason I would never vote for Joe Biden. I am a bipartisan scourge on this issue. The Dalai Lama has said "The world will be saved by Western Women." Let us continue our work.

The rape conviction rate in the USA is 2%. Women do not report rape. I did not report mine. Why? I knew that this was the kind of man who would be seeing to it I received "justice."


https://rainn.org/statistics


Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Ode to Joy by Hong Kong Festival Orchestra - Attitude Adjustment

Beethoven's Ode to Joy always makes me cry. Beauty and greatness can do that to this person everytime. I just stand there like a fool sobbing with joy. I need adjustment like this often. 

Caricatures of Ludwig van Beethoven (1815).

These sketches show Beethoven walking the streets of Vienna in deep thought and with not a great deal of attention to his appearance. The signatures of Beethoven and of the artist - Johann Peter Theodor Lyser (1803-70) - are included on this artwork. See more portraits of Beethoven at Music Ease.

Over the years, Beethoven's Ode to Joy has remained a protest anthem and a celebration of music. From demonstrators in Chile singing during demonstration against the Pinochet dictatorship, Chinese student at Tienanmen Square broadcast, The Concert Conducted by Leonard Bernstein After the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Daiku concerts in Japan every December and one after the 2011 tsunami. - Wikipedia

See one of the other three flashmob performances of Ode to Joy at Sabodell, Spain here, Perhaps the Music People will come out of the Cellar Conservatory and tell us more about this music than I know. I do know the poem is meant to be the music for Friedrich Schiller's poem Ode to Joy.