Oh, My. More Unsettled Science

This appears to be more prevalent in science than truth. How many other cases of pay to play money for nothing research? Maybe we should look at the studies on Al Gore's chakra again? You know, we'll call it energy research and get lots of government money.

Fraud In The Social Sciences

The more you manipulate your data (and there are lots of ways to massage your data so that it shows what you’d like, even without knowing you’re doing it), the more likely you are to come up with a publishable result. Peer review acts as something of a check on this, of course. But your peers don’t know if, for example, you decided to report only the one time your experiment worked, instead of the seven times it didn’t.

Fraud. Plain and simple. And the state of science today.

'No Label' Party Will Label 'Haters', Already Has

This is from a story in the Columbus Dispatch in which the reporter goes to great lengths to 'report' on the moderate nature of the new Coffee Party No Labels Party. Yeah, laughable comes to mind, but one has to decide whether its the story, the reporting or the subject.

Moderates gather under No Labels

Prominent politicians taking part in launching No Labels included New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent; Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, a Republican; and U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow of Michigan and Evan Bayh of Indiana, both Democrats. The group has raised more than $1 million in an effort to establish chapters in all 435 congressional districts and on college campuses.

If Charlie Crist is a Republican then Madonna really is a virgin. Who could quibble that Michael "Mr Salt of the Earth" Bloomberg and Debbie "Cash for Clunkers" Stabenow are moderate? Poor Evan Bayh, always looking to fit in, but never liberal enough for his liberal friends. 

Yeah, a party that refuses to say who is funding it is moderate. A party that includes disaffected Republican losers is moderate.

Did someone say moderate?

Nah, no one would be that bought dumb.

How Much Ballot Fraud Will It Take For The MSM To Write About It?

It's been happening it seems forever. Ballot fraud. As with most crime there has to be an investigation, then the process of finding whether there is guilt or innocence and then an acquittal or conviction. The final decision is always after the election. Voter disenfranchisement (a term that means different things to different people) be damned. The election stands. Political pros know they can always find dupes to commit the crime and they know that only the little people take the fall in most cases. In ballot fraud the odds are in their favor and has a bonus of big future rewards for them.

There is a difference now.

The difference is an electorate that has had enough and with recording technology to verify the fraud. Voters are doing the job the media and government are refusing to do.

When will the MSM get outraged? What will it take?

Chicago
Florida
Military
Pennsylvania
Nevada
New Jersey
North Carolina
Dallas
Where ever ACORN or its clones exist
Harris County, Texas
Philadelphia
Arizona
Colorado
Washington state
New York
Kentucky
Illinois
Ohio

This is a list that will grow in the next week or so. Then there will be, somewhere, a list of places where ballot fraud was successful in that it wasn't caught. There is also a list to be compiled that shows ballot fraud in precincts all over the country whether it is in big cities, towns and villages. This list will show friends trying to "help" friends, unethical campaigns, nursing homes residents having their votes changed or their votes being made without their knowledge, illegal voters hoodwinking election officials and on and on.

There is a pattern. When will it be exposed in the manner it should be exposed. When will the nightly news shout it, newspaper headlines boldly state the shame of it and government officials and courts demanding investigations? It won't happen, at least not by these groups who appear to be complicit in it.

As it has always been in America, good things happen when good people, not government nor compromised news outlets, make it happen. Time to get to work

Rangel Wrangling Like A Greased Pig To Get Out Of Bind

I'm sure none of this has anything to do with the fact that his ethics committee's trial is to start this Thursday.

Rangel, ethics committee in last-minute bargaining

If they can't find Charlie Rangel guilty they would've let Charles Manson walk.

Health Care 'Reform'; Enjoy The Fraud, You're Paying For It

Patient Billed for Liposuction as Medical Theft Rises (Update1)

Yep, more Obama Trope and Change.

Even Obama Doesn't Know The Cost Of Health Care "Reform"

Even the Administration’s Chief Actuary at HHS cannot provide cost analysis of latest Democrat health spending bill before the vote
Chief Actuary: ‘I regret that my staff and I will not be able to prepare our analysis within this very tight time frame, due to the complexity of the legislation.’

Figures. Hey, if you still have checks, you must still have money, right?

Raising The Deficit And Abortion Funding Are In The HCR

Take away the gimmicks and look at legal and legislative precedent and you have a bill that is a lie.

CBO Confirms That Without Accounting Gimmicks, Obamacare Adds to Deficits

Yes, the Health Care Bill Does Allow Abortion Funding

Crafternoon Revolution For Laura Mitchell At UCD

My, how does one have time to actually find time for a quality education while attending UCD even if one is a 5th year student?

Let's look at just the beginning of the 5th year in the life of Laura Mitchell, Women's Studies major, revolutionary and leader/spokeswomyn/generally busy student.



We are excited to announce that the LGBTRC is planning its first Queer Leadership Retreat to take place from January 22-24th 2010! Some of the objectives of the Queer Leadership Retreat include:

- Empowering LGBTIQ students
- Building community
- Providing a safe space for students to develop leadership skills
- Developing strategies for consciousness-raising within
our various communities
- Setting community goals
- Educating ourselves and raising awareness about issues
w/in the community

The retreat will include workshops and team-building activities, as well as academic resources and an alumni panel. The retreat will provide a unique opportunity for students to network, learn, and share their own knowledge and experiences. We hope that you can take part in planning the retreat and/or by attending either as a facilitator or participant.

Bisexual Awareness Week

Beyond the Binary is an LGBT Resource Center annual awareness week dedicated to educating about and celebrating non-monosexual, and many other intersecting, identities. Events during this week include a social visibility kickoff, keynote speaker, panels and workshops, Safe-Zone training, and a Bi Visibility Project closed non-monosexual discussion. For more information, please contact Laura Mitchell at lmitchell@ucdavis.edu.

Beyond the Binary 2010
 Schedule of Events:

Monday, January 25th
• Bi 101: 12-1PM @ The LGBTRC
This workshop will go over the basics of bisexuality and nonmonosexuality and will include a review of terms, an overview of basic issues, and a facilitated discussion. This will be a safe space for getting those questions answered!

• Art Reception: 3-7PM @ The King Lounge (MU)
This exhibit will bring together artists from across the community to celebrate our many experiences in a provoking and empowering collection of perspectives. Artists will be present during the reception to discuss their work and food & drinks will be provided.

Tuesday, January 26th
• Safe Zone: 12-3PM @ The Mee Room (MU)
Safe Zone is a three-hour training designed to raise awareness and discuss ways to make the spaces we live and work in more welcoming and safe for LGBTQ people. After completing the training, you have the option of receiving a sign to designate your space as a Safe Zone.
To register e-mail slatkinson@ucdavis.edu or call 530.752.2452.

• Keynote Speaker, Sonia-Melitta Diaz Montoya: 6-7:30PM @ The King Lounge (MU)
Sonia-Melitta Montoya is a proud bi queer femme womyn of color, fierce Xicana womynist, first generation/transfer college graduate, daughter/granddaughter of mine-mill smelter & farm workers' and labor union organizers, and a survivor. She will give a talk on her intersections of identity and how her experiences have shaped her love, passion, and commitment working with underrepresented/marginalized communities to dismantle all forms of oppressions.

Wednesday, January 27th
• Biphobia Makes me Blue: 11AM-12PM @ The Garrison Room (MU)
This workshop will start with an introductory group discussion, then will divide into two groups: nonmonosexuals and allies. The nonmonosexual group will focus on understanding and challenging internalized biphobia. The allies will further discuss what it means to be an ally to nonmonosexual people.

• That’s So Bleep: 1-2PM @ The LGBTRC
This program is designed to raise awareness of the relationship between hate speech, prejudice, and oppression. The program analyzes the roots of hate speech and strives to dissolve the bigotry evident in the 21st century in order to unify and rebuild communities through words and actions.

• What It Is That We Do: 4PM-5PM @ Garrison Room
Looking "beyond the binary" gives us a chance to learn about other forms of sexuality. For many people, BDSM - bondage, discipline, dominance/submission, and sadomasochism - offers a different and compelling way to express love, lust and affection. Through consciously and carefully playing with power, control, and even pain, some lovers find themselves closer and more fulfilled. Come learn about the practices, language, hearts and minds of happily self-proclaimed "perverts" and see if you find out something surprising!

Thursday, January 28th
• BIPOC (Bi People of Color) Workshop: 11AM-12PM @ The Moss Room (MU)
Come and join us for a workshop full of celebration, affirmation, and appreciation of bisexual people of color! This workshop will include a facilitated discussion about the issues that effect bisexual, nonmonosexual, queer communities of color.

• Non-Traditional Relationship/Family Structure: 4-5PM @ The Garrison Room (MU)
Just like homo- and heterosexuality are only two of a vast number of sexual orientations, so also are "coupled" and "single" only two of a vast number of ways to relate to loved ones. Monogamy doesn't work for everyone, and many people have chosen to negotiate different kinds of commitments with their loved ones, including open (non-monogamous) relationships and polyamory (being openly, consensually in love with more than one partner at the same time). Please join us for a discussion about the many ways that people come together and make families of every kind imaginable!

• Student Performance Night: 7-9PM @ The King Lounge (MU)
Enjoy a combination of student and professional performances celebrating bi identity! Performance art will be embraced as a form of resistance and resilience. Expect a range of artistic forms, such as music, dance, theater, literature, and the visual arts. Food & drinks will be provided.

Friday, January 29th
• Crafternoon: 3-5PM @ The LGBTRC
This week’s Crafternoon will look beyond the binary system of the family tree to create art that acknowledges the many diverse forms of family and the families we build around us. Crafternoons is a weekly social and crafting event; new craft projects are taught each week and all supplies are provided.

• BiVis Closed Meeting: 5-7PM in the Righteous Babes Lounge (WRRC)
This discussion is a safe space for people who identify with nonmonosexual identities such as pansexual, bisexual, omnisexual, fluid, or questioning to share our experiences and thoughts. We have been meeting for two years! What do we want the next year to look like?

Intersex Awareness Week

Intersex Awareness Week is one of the four educational weeks the LGBT Resource Center plans annually. If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact Maribel Gomez at buggomez@ucdavis.edu. See below for the schedule of events for Intersex Awareness Week 2010.

Monday, February 22nd
Intersex 101 - East Conference Room (MU), 5:30-6:30PM
A basic introduction to the history and importance of intersex issues. Answers to frequently asked questions regarding the intersex community. No background knowledge is necessary - everyone is welcome.

Tuesday, February 23rd
"XXY" Film Screening - Young 198, 6-8PM
Alex is a 15-year-old intersex person form Buenos Aires who lives secluded with her parents in a fishing village in Uruguay. At birth, her parents decided not to have her operated on in order for her to choose her own gender, meanwhile raiser her as a girl. Her parents keep her hidden away at a coastal town amongst the dunes of the shoreline, buying time before they must decide on a life-threatening operation. Refreshments provided.

Wednesday, February 24th
That's So Bleep - LGBTRC (University House Annex), 12-1 PM
This program is designed to raise awareness of the relationship between hate speech, prejudice, and oppression. The program analyzes the roots of hate speech and strives to dissolve the bigotry evident in the 21st century in order to unify and rebuild communities through words and actions.

Thursday, February 25th
Re-defining Body Image for All Genders, LGBTRC, 12-1PM
- A collaboration of both Intersex Awareness Week and Celebrate your Body Week -
Bring your lunch and join us for an informal discussion, co-facilitated by Jezzie Fulmen and Lindsey Brooks from CAPS. Together, we will redefine the historical definition of body image by discussing what body image means for you and celebrating the diversity of body types.

"Yellow is for Hermaphrodites: Mani's Story" Film Screening LGBTRC, 4-6PM

A documentary film that traces the life of the intersex activist Mani Mitchell. Frances Grant wrote in the New Zealand Herald: "The documentary's strength comes from the fact that it is nearly all told in Mani's own words. Strong and articulate, she traces the momentous changes in her life that led to self-acceptance and lack of fear in drawing attention to her ambiguous appearance...[it] is a courageous and unsentimental account of a person who has confronted and overcome extraordinary pressures and exclusion." Refreshments provided.

Safe Zone, 7-10PM (please register for location details)
Safe Zone is a three-hour training designed to raise awareness and discuss ways to make the spaces we live and work in more welcoming and safe for LGBTQ people. After completing the training, you have the option of receiving a sign to designate your space as a Safe Zone. To register email slatkinson@ucdavis.edu or call 530.752.2452.

February 4 -
Repost Press Release: Study-In Students Set Library Agenda, Chancellor Forced to Follow

February 24 - 26 -Joe Goode Performance Group - 29 Effeminate Gestures

Friday, February 26th - Students Reclaim UC Davis Library By Holding Teach-Ins, Lectures, Film Screenings In Weekend-Long Protest

Every Friday - Crafternoons, LGBTRC, 3-5PM
This week's Crafternoon we will have an affirmation and decorating activity using eggs! Crafternoons is a weekly crafting and social event on Friday afternoons from 3-5pm at the LGBTRC; supplies and abundant crafting knowledge provided, you bring the creativity. New craft projects taught each week, everyone is welcome!

Closed Session, Righteous Babes Lounge, WRRC, North Hall 5:30PM-6:30PM
A safe space for intersex-identified people to have discussion and find support.

Ongoing student activities:

Internship Program
Interested in joining the LGBT Resource Center Staff?

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT) Resource Center Community Intern Job Description
2010-2011 (Academic Year)


Job Description

• Serve as a community liaison for the diverse Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Questioning (LGBTIQQ) community.

• Work to create an open, safe, inclusive space and community that promotes learning, discovery, and scholarship about gender and sexual identities.

• Work collaboratively with other community centers (WRRC, SRRC, CCC, etc).

• Serve as liaison to students, student organizations, faculty, Ethnic Studies Departments, administrators, and staff to maintain communication and flow of information.

• Work with various campus student interns and leaders (ie: Culture Day Interns, ASUCD, Gender and Sexuality Commission, SRRC Interns, PAC’s, MIP Interns, etc.).

• Serve as a representative to promote the mission and goals of the LGBT Resource Center.

• Outreach to campus and community groups through tabling, planning programs, conducting training, etc.

• Assess, address, educate about, and advocate for the issues and needs of underrepresented and underserved communities.

• Implement and deliver programs on various community issues and topics that support the mission and goals of the LGBT Resource Center and promote retention of LGBT students.

• Write reports on programs and activities.

• Work with the career staff, other interns, and volunteers in planning, implementation, publicity, and evaluation of LGBT Resource Center programs.

• Opportunities to attend national, regional, and state-wide conferences/meetings.

Crafternoons

Crafternoons is a weekly social and crafting event that runs from 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. on Fridays. New craft projects are taught each week, and all supplies are provided. We encourage folks to stop in and check out the event. Crafternoons are a great way to meet people and de-stress at the end of the week! For more information, contact Laura Mitchell.

March 1 - LGBT Resource Center Vandalization press conference
center intern Laura Mitchell came to the lectern and announced that some students present, possibly closeted gays and lesbians, were uncomfortable with the news cameras, which were rolling as she said, "The media needs to leave – right now," Mitchell said. "We're respectfully asking you to pack up and go."





March 4 - Get arrested




How does she find the time to get a quality education in Women's Studies?

UPDATE: Webutante has a post that dovetails nicely.

It's Official. It's Over For Obama. Tea Party 1 - Obama 0

Make the U.S. more like the UK. It's finally out in the open. The Obama Administration wants us to be them. If this was elementary school one upsmanship, there'd be no fight because somebody would be laughed off the playground.

White House invites Tea Party members to challenge it on transparency issues
“I would be thrilled to make this a type of political competition ... to see who can be more radical in their openness, in their data distribution models ... trying to prove to the citizens they can run a better government,” said McLaughlin, a former executive at Google.

He also said he would be “delighted if Republicans started pushing out great open-data models like the Conservatives have in the U.K.”

R not. M 2. R not. M 2. No I'm not. Yes you are.

Harry Reid's Shell Game To Thwart The Will Of The People

NRO has a piece explaining how Harry Reid can screw the people and throw his personal ethics down a hole

Tomorrow night at 8 p.m., the Senate will vote on a “Motion to Proceed.” If Senator Reid succeeds in getting 60 votes allowing the debate to proceed, then that is a filibuster-proof majority. This could very well clear the way for Reid to employ other procedural moves that allow him to substitute his massive bill into another shell bill and call for a vote on final passage, which requires only 51 votes to succeed. In other words, success on the Motion to Proceed would open up the opportunity for Reid to force a vote on health-care reform before any pro-life amendments or substitute bills could be offered.

Reid knows his bill hasn't a chance of passing unless he uses backroom tactics such as described above and, as reported in the press, that Landrieu accepted an outright bribe to get her yes vote tonight.

Personally, I wonder how Reid can sleep at night knowing that he is ushering through the largest abortion bill ever. He states that he is pro-life, which flies in the face of what he is attempting. He must love power more than he loves his God. Just like Pelosi. Both, hypocrites.

The USS(R) ACORN Is Sinking & The Left Cries 'McCarthyism'

Besides all the current investigations, past guilty declarations, videos and past employees ratting out ACORN, the left is saying that this is just one more example of hate and leveling charges of 'McCarthyism.'

Good Lord, I wish they'd widen their vocabulary. At least it wouldn't be so boring. They'd still be lying, but they'd be more interesting.

ACORN not only deserves to lose all funding, it should be disbanded and the leadership indicted.

Of course, the the Left will whine GITMO and replay all the Free Mumia crap because facts aren't facts, they're just inconvenient.

When Will ACORN Have To Repay Money Back To Government For Fraudulent Practices

Voter fraud, alleged money laundering, and racketeering and now videos showing ACORN workers counseling law breaking and assisting in organized fraud by an illegal entity.

When will ACORN be forced to return ALL federal, state and local monies they have received to commit these actions?

I hope they get a good lawyer. Say, like a return of Obama to represent them.

If Democrats are left in charge, ACORN won't have to return anything or worry about anything. In fact, the Democrats will not only continue to fund fraud, but will increase their support.

More Acorn Voter Fraud Comes to Light
Congressional Democrats still want the group to be eligible for federal money.

Maybe they first step in cleaning up this mess is to remove bureaucrats and Democrats, but I repeat myself, that knowingly support ACORN.