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Remains of the Day, 6-20-07
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1. Is the importance of family dinner a myth?
2. If you suffer from travel anxiety, or are married or travel with someone who does, read this.
3. A feminist dvar torah (especially for those who might remember back to when I had to write one). Thanks Mom in Israel. I look forward to sharing it around here.
4. Some things, all superwomen have in common, regardless of religion.
5. How many conversations are going on around the globe that sound like this one – the post AND the comment, a conversation, remember what that is?
Sleep so hard that you don’t you remember your dreams.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:31 pm June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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Remains of the Day, 6-20-07
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1. Is the importance of family dinner a myth?
2. If you suffer from travel anxiety, or are married or travel with someone who does, read this.
3. A feminist dvar torah (especially for those who might remember back to when I had to write one). Thanks Mom in Israel. I look forward to sharing it around here.
4. Some things, all superwomen have in common, regardless of religion.
5. How many conversations are going on around the globe that sound like this one – the post AND the comment, a conversation, remember what that is?
Sleep so hard that you don’t you remember your dreams.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 7:31 pm June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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New local political pundit segment for television hosted by…Tom Coyne?
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Former Brook Park Mayor Tom Coyne, whose drunken antics in 2004 gave local news stations their most sensational footage in years, returned to the airwaves Tuesday.
No, he wasn’t found passed out in a suburban driveway with his pants down. That’s old news. He returned fully dressed and with credentials as an WOIO-Channel 19 political commentator.
Coyne is the lead anchor of a segment called “Politics” that airs during the station’s 5 p.m. hour on Tuesdays and replays during the weekend. Coyne will share the spotlight with various local pundits.
“We are going to have real discussion about things,” he said. “We are going to talk about race, we are going to talk about money and we are going to talk about power and politics.”
Some suggestions: make it available as a podcast and/or with a transcript. Because right now? The WOIO website has no RSS for politics, period. Just local, sports, entertainment, health, business, investigative and editorial.
I couldn’t find any mention of it on the WOIO website, but it’s a pretty visually hard to navigate place. I might have missed it or not searched well enough.
Looking forward to hearing who they choose as the “various local pundits.” Will there be any bloggers in the batch?
Update: Wendell likes the Tom Coyne thing. Or so he blogs.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:58 pm June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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20
Carnival of Ohio Politics #70
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Wow – #70. And Lisa Renee did a fantastic job. Special thanks to the new blogs on the block that submitted. I hope I get completely swamped next week, seriously. Great reading.
I wonder what I have to do to plan on getting the editorial rights to #100. Actually – I’d rather get Paul back to do that one. Gotta go write an email…
By Jill Miller Zimon at 4:33 pm June 20th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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More on Netanyahu’s imminent divestment powwow in DC, no inaccurate info on Ohio
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1) From Stratfor:
U.S.: Netanyahu To Visit
June 19, 2007 16 32 GMT
Israeli opposition leader and Likud Party Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to leave for New York on June 19, where he is to discuss applying increased financial sanctions against Tehran to halt the country’s nuclear program. Netanyahu is to meet with a financial official to request freezing or withdrawing state pension funds invested in Iran worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He also is to meet with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Party presidential candidate Fred Thompson in Washington, D.C.
The massive spread on the topic in last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal says the Bush Administration is opposed to such moves. But with meetings with Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton and Fred Thompson? Now what?
Talk amongst yourselves, because there ain’t no news on this yet anywhere.
2) Update: From Ha’aretz. Now we get to understand a bit more – NY has been more successful in pursuing divestment at the state level. But it makes me curious to know if my state rep. and Ohio HB 151 sponsor Josh Mandel sought out Netanyahu to come to Ohio – would it have made a difference? I doubt it, but I wonder.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 1:24 pm June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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New local political pundit segment for television hosted by…Tom Coyne?
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Former Brook Park Mayor Tom Coyne, whose drunken antics in 2004 gave local news stations their most sensational footage in years, returned to the airwaves Tuesday.
No, he wasn’t found passed out in a suburban driveway with his pants down. That’s old news. He returned fully dressed and with credentials as an WOIO-Channel 19 political commentator.
Coyne is the lead anchor of a segment called “Politics” that airs during the station’s 5 p.m. hour on Tuesdays and replays during the weekend. Coyne will share the spotlight with various local pundits.
“We are going to have real discussion about things,” he said. “We are going to talk about race, we are going to talk about money and we are going to talk about power and politics.”
Some suggestions: make it available as a podcast and/or with a transcript. Because right now? The WOIO website has no RSS for politics, period. Just local, sports, entertainment, health, business, investigative and editorial.
I couldn’t find any mention of it on the WOIO website, but it’s a pretty visually hard to navigate place. I might have missed it or not searched well enough.
Looking forward to hearing who they choose as the “various local pundits.” Will there be any bloggers in the batch?
Update: Wendell likes the Tom Coyne thing. Or so he blogs.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:58 pm June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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Carnival of Ohio Politics #70
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Wow – #70. And Lisa Renee did a fantastic job. Special thanks to the new blogs on the block that submitted. I hope I get completely swamped next week, seriously. Great reading.
I wonder what I have to do to plan on getting the editorial rights to #100. Actually – I’d rather get Paul back to do that one. Gotta go write an email…
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:33 pm June 20th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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20
Jerusalem Post: WRONG on Ohio in announcement of Bibi coming today to see Cheney re: Iran
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Jerusalem Post gets this article dead wrong re: Ohio and its legislation to divest its pensions from companies with ties to Iran. I hold our own MSM responsible because, as I’ve pointed out on this post’s references to the MSM not covering Gov. Strickland’s meeting with CAIR, the MSM has ignored the tabling of HB 151 as well.
And the JPost article is the result.
Is that the result that Ohio wants? Is that the result that our governor wants? Or is this misinformation carefully fed by the failure of our own state’s newspapers and other news sources to cover the defeat of HB 151??
Netanyahu may be coming, but Ohio has NOT passed HB 151 OR legislation requiring or even making it a law or resolution that the pensions must divest from holdings with ties to Iran. The bill is tabled and the pensions have an agreement in writing with the Ohio House. That’s it – to my knowledge.
Anyone who has more info should be, you know – PUBLISHING IT.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 12:09 pm June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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20
New local political pundit segment for television hosted by…Tom Coyne?
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Former Brook Park Mayor Tom Coyne, whose drunken antics in 2004 gave local news stations their most sensational footage in years, returned to the airwaves Tuesday.
No, he wasn’t found passed out in a suburban driveway with his pants down. That’s old news. He returned fully dressed and with credentials as an WOIO-Channel 19 political commentator.
Coyne is the lead anchor of a segment called “Politics” that airs during the station’s 5 p.m. hour on Tuesdays and replays during the weekend. Coyne will share the spotlight with various local pundits.
“We are going to have real discussion about things,” he said. “We are going to talk about race, we are going to talk about money and we are going to talk about power and politics.”
Some suggestions: make it available as a podcast and/or with a transcript. Because right now? The WOIO website has no RSS for politics, period. Just local, sports, entertainment, health, business, investigative and editorial.
I couldn’t find any mention of it on the WOIO website, but it’s a pretty visually hard to navigate place. I might have missed it or not searched well enough.
Looking forward to hearing who they choose as the “various local pundits.” Will there be any bloggers in the batch?
Update: Wendell likes the Tom Coyne thing. Or so he blogs.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:58 am June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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20
Carnival of Ohio Politics #70
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Wow – #70. And Lisa Renee did a fantastic job. Special thanks to the new blogs on the block that submitted. I hope I get completely swamped next week, seriously. Great reading.
I wonder what I have to do to plan on getting the editorial rights to #100. Actually – I’d rather get Paul back to do that one. Gotta go write an email…
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:33 am June 20th, 2007 in Politics | Comments Off
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More on Netanyahu’s imminent divestment powwow in DC, no inaccurate info on Ohio
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1) From Stratfor:
U.S.: Netanyahu To Visit
June 19, 2007 16 32 GMT
Israeli opposition leader and Likud Party Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to leave for New York on June 19, where he is to discuss applying increased financial sanctions against Tehran to halt the country’s nuclear program. Netanyahu is to meet with a financial official to request freezing or withdrawing state pension funds invested in Iran worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He also is to meet with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Party presidential candidate Fred Thompson in Washington, D.C.
The massive spread on the topic in last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal says the Bush Administration is opposed to such moves. But with meetings with Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton and Fred Thompson? Now what?
Talk amongst yourselves, because there ain’t no news on this yet anywhere.
2) Update: From Ha’aretz. Now we get to understand a bit more – NY has been more successful in pursuing divestment at the state level. But it makes me curious to know if my state rep. and Ohio HB 151 sponsor Josh Mandel sought out Netanyahu to come to Ohio – would it have made a difference? I doubt it, but I wonder.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:24 am June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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Jerusalem Post: WRONG on Ohio in announcement of Bibi coming today to see Cheney re: Iran
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Jerusalem Post gets this article dead wrong re: Ohio and its legislation to divest its pensions from companies with ties to Iran. I hold our own MSM responsible because, as I’ve pointed out on this post’s references to the MSM not covering Gov. Strickland’s meeting with CAIR, the MSM has ignored the tabling of HB 151 as well.
And the JPost article is the result.
Is that the result that Ohio wants? Is that the result that our governor wants? Or is this misinformation carefully fed by the failure of our own state’s newspapers and other news sources to cover the defeat of HB 151??
Netanyahu may be coming, but Ohio has NOT passed HB 151 OR legislation requiring or even making it a law or resolution that the pensions must divest from holdings with ties to Iran. The bill is tabled and the pensions have an agreement in writing with the Ohio House. That’s it – to my knowledge.
Anyone who has more info should be, you know – PUBLISHING IT.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:09 am June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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More on Netanyahu’s imminent divestment powwow in DC, no inaccurate info on Ohio
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1) From Stratfor:
U.S.: Netanyahu To Visit
June 19, 2007 16 32 GMT
Israeli opposition leader and Likud Party Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to leave for New York on June 19, where he is to discuss applying increased financial sanctions against Tehran to halt the country’s nuclear program. Netanyahu is to meet with a financial official to request freezing or withdrawing state pension funds invested in Iran worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He also is to meet with U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, Democratic Party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Party presidential candidate Fred Thompson in Washington, D.C.
The massive spread on the topic in last Thursday’s Wall Street Journal says the Bush Administration is opposed to such moves. But with meetings with Dick Cheney, Hillary Clinton and Fred Thompson? Now what?
Talk amongst yourselves, because there ain’t no news on this yet anywhere.
2) Update: From Ha’aretz. Now we get to understand a bit more – NY has been more successful in pursuing divestment at the state level. But it makes me curious to know if my state rep. and Ohio HB 151 sponsor Josh Mandel sought out Netanyahu to come to Ohio – would it have made a difference? I doubt it, but I wonder.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:24 am June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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Jerusalem Post: WRONG on Ohio in announcement of Bibi coming today to see Cheney re: Iran
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Jerusalem Post gets this article dead wrong re: Ohio and its legislation to divest its pensions from companies with ties to Iran. I hold our own MSM responsible because, as I’ve pointed out on this post’s references to the MSM not covering Gov. Strickland’s meeting with CAIR, the MSM has ignored the tabling of HB 151 as well.
And the JPost article is the result.
Is that the result that Ohio wants? Is that the result that our governor wants? Or is this misinformation carefully fed by the failure of our own state’s newspapers and other news sources to cover the defeat of HB 151??
Netanyahu may be coming, but Ohio has NOT passed HB 151 OR legislation requiring or even making it a law or resolution that the pensions must divest from holdings with ties to Iran. The bill is tabled and the pensions have an agreement in writing with the Ohio House. That’s it – to my knowledge.
Anyone who has more info should be, you know – PUBLISHING IT.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:09 am June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 4 Comments
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Remains of the Day, 6-19-07
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Training news:
1. The White House Project revamped its website and I have a call later this week to assist in planning training sessions in Ohio. I’m totally psyched, and hope I can help. Please remember, this is a non-partisan organization that:
aims to advance women’s leadership in all communities and sectors, up to the U.S. presidency. By filling the leadership pipeline with a richly diverse, critical mass of women, we make American institutions, businesses and government truly representative. Through multi-platform programs, The White House Project creates a culture where America’s most valuable untapped resource—women—can succeed in all realms.
To advance this mission, The White House Project strives to support women and the issues that allow women to lead in their own lives and in the world. When women leaders bring their voices, vision and leadership to the table alongside men, the debate is more robust and the policy is more inclusive and sustainable. By supporting women and the values that allow women to succeed—the full range of health options, security platforms that utilize all our resources, economic stability for all—we work to create an equitable culture.
2. Emily’s List is doing Political Opportunity Program training in Columbus, July 10-11. Although I have a self-imposed moratorium on running for anything other than a mom who can survive motherhood (and who am I kidding – that’s a race that never ends) until my youngest child has his bar mitzvah (don’t worry anyone – I’ll be 50 – 50 I say, when that happens!!!), I may very well try to sneak into this training anyway. I’m big on researching before I do anything – so six, seven years? That sounds about right between now and when I would run for…room mom of the year.
3. And, although mentioned elsewhere already, State Treasurer Rich Cordray’s Teacher Academies are rumored to be full and with waitlists. The nearest one to Cleveland is June 27 at the Cuyahoga Valley Career Center in Brecksville. I’d hoped to be able to be a fly on the wall but I’m not sure that’s going to happen. We’ll see – original reporting and all. His office is also offereing Women and Money training and there’s one at Tri-C in August.
And in other news:
4. The PD’s book review of Connie Schultz’s new book is here. She dominated my day in the best way possible. Too much to write but let’s just say that if it weren’t for me, literally, Joseph Beth in Lyndhurst wouldn’t have put her book out on display until June 26! I love when tenacity gets me somewhere. I bought the book, she wrote a very brief but very generous acknowledgement of me in the book, I really like the book so far and it saved me from being bored to tears while waiting in a 50 minute line to pick up my kids. How very “Life Happens” kind of thing, I think. I’m predicting a minimum of five printings.
5. Expertvoter.org. Check it out. I got the link from another Ohio blog – I apologize for no longer knowing which one.
6. All kinds of crap going on like this. Come ON. Damn but people want to oversimplify issues that otherwise defy simplication. Drives me nuts. SO lazy.
7. From another source to which I no longer have the backlink: 100 words every high school grad should know – oh wait – it’s Jeff Hess of Have Coffee Will Write. I knew between 85 and 93. I think. Which means I probably really know about 75-80.
8. Cleveland Law Library blog had three posts that caught my attention:
-Ohio Supreme Court takes its time making decisions. What I want to know is how this compares and what is the load. What should the length of time be?
-I feel a little guilty about this, but not much. And I have no clue as to how it’s come to be this way. But active attorneys in Ohio have to pay $50 more, while, I know, because I got a letter last week, that inactive attorneys can stop filing a document we’re otherwise required to file. Again, I have no clue as to why these changes were made. I just know that I never want to have to take the bar again, thank you very much. That more money is needed to discipline attorneys, oy…
-And perhaps of great interest to the greatest range of readers: The Sixth Circuit has upheld a lower court ruling that people who send email have a greater expectation of privacy than might otherwise be thought. There is sure to be some conflict of laws issue with this ruling.
9. In news I can support, money for skilled nursing has bipartisan support, including the support of my state rep, Josh Mandel. Phew.
10. In line with Gov. Strickland signing the Ohio Adoption Credit Bill today, The Thicket at State Legislatures posted about how states overall are dealing with adoption laws.
Boy am I tired.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 3:06 am June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 2 Comments
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20
Country music: 20 mins of what men do
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So, just for comparison’s sake, from about 6:10am until roughly 6:30am, these were the songs on the Country Music channel (CMT) today:
-first, they were all by male groups (and yesterday’s, at that time, were two women – I wasn’t on that channel the whole time yesterday, so I can’t say for sure if it was all women one day’s time and all men the next day – just a guess, but very possibly coincidence – is there a playlist somewhere? I’m so television-challenged);
1) Okay – the first song I surfed into was by Bucky someone – I think it was the guy who was in the Shania Twain video a couple of years ago, when she did two versions of the same song, something called Party for Two maybe? Oh – it’s Billy Currington – I looked it up. Okay – it wasn’t Billy (or Mark McGrath, from Sugar Ray). It was Bucky Covington and the song was A Different World, but it didn’t have Lisa Bonet in it. The song and video were about how life used to be, it’s not like that anymore, no more drinking from garden hoses. Melodic, slow, green. Fine. Nothing about knocking up anyone, aborting anyone, leaving anyone etc.
2) The next song was by Flatrock someone or other (but I’m having a really hard time tracking it down – I don’t keep a pen and paper on my treadmill) and this one, well – here’s the male’s side: I am so full of regret, I should have told you so many things, and while the music and lyrics play, we cut back and forth between the guy singing (kind of like a Chris Penn looking guy but when Penn was young) to a young woman throwing up in the bathroom, clutching her stomach and then visiting a grave and crying at the very end.
Looks pretty obvious to me: he gets her pregnant, he didn’t stick by her, she chose to have an abortion, now everyone is miserable.
And, as some comments have indicated, there doesn’t ever seem to be an emphasis on the why did we do it but rather than regret of not keeping the child.
3) Dierk Bentley. What a name. Sounds like a adult movie star name, you know, if I knew what those might sound like. He just sang about Down the Road I Go – he said that about 100 times I think, but I didn’t count, and it’s about being “free and easy.” No cares, a few women hanging and clapping and so on.
4) Okay – I can’t remember the name of the band or guy lead singer, but this one was the one with the most story line that I saw. A guy is in a lazyboy chair in front of a frat house with a beer while he sleeps. Something about how he had to drink a lot when he saw his ex-girlfriend and got smashed and doesn’t remember anything and, oh well, that’s life and by the end of the video, he is up with the lead singer looking rather drunk and clapping and honking around.
So – two songs by women yesterday about pre-marital sex and keeping babies. Four songs by men today about a) how life used to be and isn’t anymore b) how he should have told the woman he loved her and then maybe she wouldn’t have had an abortion and c) do whatever you want and have a good time.
I can’t make any judgements. I’ll have to watch more I guess. 
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:43 am June 20th, 2007 in Politics | 5 Comments
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