Sugar Daddy for Governor!

LePage-Thankyou

Some of us at USDemocrazy will be graduating next year and will be “GULP” in the job market at a time of nearly 10% unemployment.

But we think we have found the perfect solution to our job search problem… get our Dads elected to higher office!

Word has it that Maine Gov.-elect Paul LePage hired his 22-year-old daughter in a top position in his administration despite her apparent lack of qualifications. She will make at least $41,000.

It just goes to show… it pays to have your Dad as Governor!

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Looking for roommate for spring 2011 semester.  Room is in a house in Arbutus less than a mile from campus.  Full kitchen and 1.5 bathrooms.  350 per month + utilities and also we have a dog.  If you are interested please email Amanda Pappas at apap1@umbc.edu for more
 information.  
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A few weeks ago I had a minor health scare: an anomaly during a routine checkup that could have been serious but turned out, after 11 days of waiting to see a specialist, to be nothing much. During the period between those two doctor’s appointments, I tried not to dwell on the darker possibilities.  But of course my mind wandered unbidden, and I found myself both exploring my fears and taking stock of my life.  And then, when almost all of my thoughts struck me as clichés, I pondered how clichés don’t seem trite at all when I’m living them.

Here is some of what I mulled over during those 11 days.

I thought about the courage and fortitude shown by people I know who have lived, or are living, with pain and medical uncertainty.  Having had just a taste of it, I recognize how much stronger they are than I felt.

I thought about how generally happy I am with my life now, and how much I would like to continue enjoying it.  Almost nothing has turned out the way I envisioned it decades ago, and thank heaven for that.  I wish I could have more of my friends and family here with me, thousands of miles from where I grew up, but I’m deeply grateful for those I have here, and for the opportunity to do meaningful work as part of a dynamic, caring campus community.

I thought about the story of my life, and how it might read if it ended soon.  The key plot points would be my two giant leaps away from my path-of-least-resistance career trajectories, decisions that have made everything that has followed possible.  And the underlying theme would be how hard it was for me to figure out who I really was, and what I really cared about.  I spent a lot of years struggling to free myself from the web of other people’s (often well-meaning) expectations and the (supposed) givens of everyday life, and to discover my own values and sense of purpose.  My work at self-discovery and self-development is far from complete, but it’s only in the past few years that I’ve really felt good about how far I’ve come.

Finally, I thought about moments that really mattered to me: the often-unexpected instances of real, deep connection with the people around me.  My wife Sharon and my close friends have taught me a lot about how to be myself, and not some version of me manufactured unconsciously in response to my circumstances.  But so too have students and colleagues at UMBC, especially in those in-between moments when our formal roles have faded to the background and our common cares and humanity have mattered more. 

I’ll carry these thoughts with me into the new year.  They imply resolutions for 2011 and beyond.
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Full Title: Check out Pictures from Swimming and Diving's Holiday Training Trip in Florida at the UMBC Dawg BlogBALTIMORE--For the second consecutive year, the UMBC Dawg Blog will host pictures and video from UMBC Swimming and Diving's annual holiday training trip to Florida. 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Full Title: Four Retrievers Reach Double Figures in 60-57 Win Over Loyola in Non-Conference FinaleBALTIMORE�Junior guard Michelle Kurowski led four Retrievers in double figures as the UMBC women's basketball team (6-7) won for the fifth time in its last seven games, defeating cross-town rival Loyola (3-8) by a score of 60-57 in its non-conference finale Wednesday evening at the RAC Arena. ]]> Full Title: Four Retrievers Reach Double Figures in 60-57 Win Over Loyola in Non-Conference FinaleBALTIMORE�Junior guard Michelle Kurowski led four Retrievers in double figures as the UMBC women's... http://www.umbcretrievers.com/release.asp?RELEASE_ID=5908 https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/4160/guest@my.umbc.edu/b76443951afa37a1663b66940646df27/api/pixel UMBC Athletics https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/athletics https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/009/69595c9b99f609d75fbb8232d9bd73d3/xsmall.png?1709304849 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/009/69595c9b99f609d75fbb8232d9bd73d3/original.jpg?1709304849 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/009/69595c9b99f609d75fbb8232d9bd73d3/xxlarge.png?1709304849 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/009/69595c9b99f609d75fbb8232d9bd73d3/xlarge.png?1709304849 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/009/69595c9b99f609d75fbb8232d9bd73d3/large.png?1709304849 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/009/69595c9b99f609d75fbb8232d9bd73d3/medium.png?1709304849 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/009/69595c9b99f609d75fbb8232d9bd73d3/small.png?1709304849 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/009/69595c9b99f609d75fbb8232d9bd73d3/xsmall.png?1709304849 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/009/69595c9b99f609d75fbb8232d9bd73d3/xxsmall.png?1709304849 UMBC Athletics 1 0 true Wed, 29 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Men's Basketball To Host Niagara on Thursday in Final... Full Title: Men's Basketball To Host Niagara on Thursday in Final Non-Conference Tilt of CampaignUMBC will play its final non-conference contest of the season on Thursday, Dec. 30, as the Retrievers host the Purple Eagles of Niagara University. 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New Year Eve is a time for reflection… and Parties!

When reflecting back on 2011 there was one party that got every one’s attention:

The Tea Party.

Despite their sometimes silly costumes and signs, the ultraconservative Tea Party proved they were serious in 2010.

From Florida to Alaska, Tea Partiers bucked the GOP establishment by making sure their candidates were on the ballots of many of the year’s most watched electoral races.  Their new-found political clout garnered media attention all over the country.

The attention wasn’t always positive.  In Delaware, Tea-Party-favorite Christine O’Donnell was repeatedly mocked after being forced to announce she wasn’t a witch.

Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul received bad press of his own when he made provocative comments about civil rights. Eyebrows were raised when some of his supporters physically attacked a liberal activist.

In the end, the group had  highs and lows like any political movement.  While they might be credited with putting Republicans into the leadership of the US House of Representatives, they failed to help them take control of the Senate.

So, the question is: Who will be invited to the Party next year?

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The Don't Ask, Don't Tell repeal was passed by the U.S. House (250 to 175 on December 15) and Senate (65 to 31 on December 18) and then signed by President Obama on the 22nd.  Though not immediately effective, the repeal of the policy will allow LGB persons to serve in the U.S. military.  (Trans and intersex persons are still banned.)


While the Senate had been passing the repeal, they also blocked the vote on the DREAM Act, laments the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.  Virginia Delegate Bob Marshall has already moved to block the recruitment of LGB persons into the Virginia National Guard.

Queers for Economic Justice are not so happy with the partial end to anti-LGBTQ discrimination in the military.  Their thoughts on the DADT repeal, which can be summed up to DADT repeal being not true economic justice for LGBTQ people.  

Anyway, Metro Weekly reports on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which would have prohibited employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (the latter is included in the latest iteration of this act) on a federal level.  It appears that some had decided the DADT repeal required the sacrifice of ENDA, which has not seen motion for a year.  Representative Barney Frank has noted a need for additional education on trans issues.  (Hopefully, this means he will stop being obsessed with trans people's genitalia.)

With no law against anti-gay discrimination in employment, the Forrest County Sheriff's Department in Texas has taken the opportunity to blatantly fire a gay employee.  With the ACLU, the man is suing.  The department points out there is no law against what they have done, while their defense attorney says that there are reasons for the termination outside of sexual orientation.

Media Matters, a media watchdog group, has launched Equality Matters, which will be focused on combating anti-LGBT bias in conservative media outlets.  Equality Matters also asserts that the repeal of DADT was not the final step for the LGBTQ movement: "We believe the big battle is full equality, which is gay marriage."  Marriage equality has been stated to be an inevitability by Vice President Joe Biden.

Meanwhile, the UN General Assembly last week voted to restore a resolution condemning the criminalization of homosexuality.

Sepp Blatter, president of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), had dismissed concerns about Qatar hosting the World Cup in 2022, raised because Qatar has criminalized homosexuality with a punishment of five years in prison.  He said that travelers to Qatar for the World Cup should just "refrain" from sexual activity while there.  He has since given a half-assed apology.

U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that the government will begin the process of wipe clean convictions of past gay sex offenses.  Although gay sex was legalized in 1967, convictions remained on people's records and were required to be disclosed.  Also in the U.K., the Equal Love campaign moves to challenge current marriage laws in order to legalize civil partnerships for different-sex couples and marriage for same-sex couples.  They have taken the issue to the European Court of Human Rights.

Recorded hate crimes rates in Wales are at an all-time high, BBC reports.

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