11.22.05
kinder, kirche, kuche
the USDA Forest Service celebrated its centennial this July 1st; Norway, suprisingly, is also only a hundred years old as well, as of October 30th1.
women here in ameriKKKa, however, have another fifteen years to wait, before the centennial of their right to vote. And not because female suffrage was inadvertently overlooked, and reluctantly included after neglect and delay: women’s right to vote was taken away from them after the founding of our nation….
For a nation which purports to be schooling the world on the whole "representative government" tip, this is an indefensible admission. England, India and Israel have all had elected female heads of state — c’mon, people… India? Hardly the world center of progressive gender politics…
ameriKKKan women had only been permitted to vote for forty-six years when India elected a female prime minister, who would ultimately serve more years as PM than FDR served as President!2
"Old Europe" outpaces US in this regard as well: Germany elects it’s first female chancellor, and even Liberia, not the world’s best example of effective goverment, has elected a female ruler.
yet the big news here is that "Commander in Chief", the TV show about a female POTUS3, has been picked up for a full season… wow: progress…
at this rate, ameriKKKan women will celebrate the centennial of their right to vote long before they’ll get to use it to elect one of their own as President of these United States…
who knows? if we’re actually successful over there, Iraq may elect a woman leader before we do…
- The U.S. was the first to acknowledge Norweigan sovereignty [back]
- Serving from 1966 to 1977, and again from 1980 until her assasination in 1984, she served four more years as PM than FDR served as President (from 1933 until his death in 1945).
[back] - President Of The United States. Ironically, even this fictional female president was not actually elected [back]