Global Warming causes teenage girls to become painted ladies.
Exploiting someone's misfortune to advance a political agenda? I report, you deride...
LONDON (AlertNet) - At the intersection of two of the world's most vulnerable groups – children and women - adolescent girls may end up bearing the biggest burden of climate change impacts, according to a new report.
While recent research shows that women and children deserve special attention in climate change legislation, “girls often fall out between both camps,” according to Kanwal Ahluwalia, a co-author of the study and an expert in gender-equality policy with Plan UK, a children’s charity.
In many countries, women’s relatively stifled freedoms put them in harm’s way when it comes to climate change, she said.
Climate change “very clearly exacerbates those inequalities,” Ahluwalia said. “We’ve seen time after time how women and girls are affected disproportionately.
The researchers sat down with girls between ages 13 and 18 from cyclone-prone areas of Bangladesh and drought-prone parts of Ethiopia to discuss issues including global warming, disasters and education.
..as if cyclones and drought are some relatively new phenomonon...
They found that when their families are stressed, girls are often pulled out of school to allow their mothers to go to work, or to get jobs themselves to help support their families - in some cases as prostitutes, particularly if the family’s survival is threatened.
There it is people, you may or may not have heard it here first, it's not poverty that forces these poor girls into prostitution, it's...all together now...Global Warming (or properly, Global Warming Induced Poverty) and as we all know there was no poverty before Global Warming...or prostitution for that matter... oy fucking vey, I know I don't need to tell you this gentle reader, but nearly every sad, unfortunate condition mentioned in this article has been going on since time immemorial, long before our collective consciousness was "raised" as regards Global Warming. These parts of the world were impoverished as recently as the '70s, (which is "recently" compared to time immemorial) when we were supposedly turning our fragilely balanced eco-system into a giant walk-in beer cooler, but I digest...read on..
“I know two girls who were raped going to fetch water. When you go far and there are not many people around, it happens,” said a 16-year-old girl from Ethiopia interviewed in the paper.
Like Bernstein, the authors of the Plan UK report emphasized the need for legislators to make sure these most vulnerable groups are accounted for in climate change planning and preparation.
Now, said Hawrylyshyn, is “our window of opportunity to get it right.”
"Now" of course being the usual 10 years. What if we over correct and plunge the earth into an Ice Age? These poor unforunate girls will still be forced into prostitution as a means to keep their clients warm in a horrible new climate paradigm...but at least they won't have to go as far for water...look for a profusion of STOP GWIP stickers next time you're in your favorite food co-op buying an 11 dollar tomato...
Will we soon be blaming this on Global Warming as well? May as well throw it in the mix as it does involve a teenage girl. And of course, don't forget to follow it on shitter.
Further evidence that hair plugs hurt:
Vice Parsdent "Joe" Quayle..
Teabaggers are terrorists:
Vice President Joe Biden joined House Democrats in lashing tea party Republicans Monday, accusing them of having “acted like terrorists” in the fight over raising the nation’s debt limit, according to several sources in the room. Biden was agreeing with a line of argument made by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) at a two-hour, closed-door Democratic Caucus meeting.
“We have negotiated with terrorists,” an angry Doyle said, according to sources in the room. “This small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.”
Biden, driven by his Democratic allies’ misgivings about the debt-limit deal, responded: “They have acted like terrorists.” But wait! There's more!
The plot thins:
Vice President Biden's team denies he used the word "terrorist" to describe the Tea Party during a closed-door meeting with House Democrats angry about the debt ceiling deal.
"The word was used by several members of Congress," said Biden spokeswoman Kendra Barkoff. "The vice president does not believe it's an appropriate term in political discourse."
Biden himself denied it in an interview with CBS News, telling anchor Scott Pelley, "I did not use the terrorism word."
Politico and other news outlets, citing unnamed sources, reported that Biden did echo the word during a heated discussion in which Democrats denounced the deal because it didn't include new tax revenue.
...oh no, this is quite the tenses....
Bulls or Bears?
Full Nudal Frontity on Wall Street:
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Some artists got naked on Wall Street during a performance art piece — and then they got arrested. Two men and a woman were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct Monday morning outside the New York Stock Exchange. Artist Zefrey Throwell organized the 5-minute piece, which he said was a social critique of Wall Street and involved dozens of volunteers acting out the motions of people at work. He said it was a rehearsed performance “with the very specific aim of public education.”“The arrests happened at the end of the performance after everyone had already put on their clothes on, oddly enough,” he said. Throwell, a 35-year-old from Manhattan, said he had not intended to provoke any confrontation with the police. “I have much bigger fish to fry, that being the financial institutions of the U.S. and the world,” he said.
...I have to throw at least one picture in per post as I am incapable of reading...
As always, The Onion delivers.
Takin' Care of Business:
Michelle Turner Overdrive: A No Vote on the debt ceiling:
...deliver unto me this fair maiden, accompanied by a flagon of your most select wine and a tray of your finest meats and cheeses...like the fist of an angry god thus I would smite, like the fist of an angry god....
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