Barack Obama has brought International prestige and acclaim to the United States with the winning of the Nobel Peace prize. While the prize was shocking to many, if the citizens of United States would close their eyes and remember why they voted for him they would realize that he deserves and earned the Nobel Peace Prize. I can not say that I necessarily agree or even know clearly the rationale of the Nobel committee for awarding the Nobel Peace prize to Barack Obama but I can articulate why I think he deserves the prize.
Barack and Michelle Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize for first of all being able to transcend themselves. In a world that frequently says you can’t and in a country that had never had a President of color The Obama’s said “Yes We Can”. They said Yes We can and Did. Barack Obama did not come from a two parent home with Daddy throwing him up to the sky every night, Barack Obama even mentions that he comes from a home where people may have told him they were scared of black men because he was raised by his caucasian grandmother. President OBama’s history and his subsequent accomplishments are a beacon of light to every child around the world who experiences controversies and problems in their lives. The ability of Barack Obama to overcome himself and his environment is a world class accomplishment, Nobel Prize worthy because one of the hardest things for people to do is to overcome themselves. Many great thinkers have written about this Napoleon Hill, recitations of the words of Jesus and others.
Barack Obama deserves the Nobel Prize by helping to prove to the world that the United States is not full of racists who hate black people and that the notion that an American Dream is possible for all is a reality not a notion for whites only. In a sociology class I learned about the third generational theory that all European racial groups who come to the United States can meld into the fabric of the United States and eventually become white or plain American, whereas people of color Asians, Blacks, Latinos, were subsequently out of luck and could never really melt because of their race into an American characteristic. Barack Obama and the United State shattered this myth by voting for him as President by actually implementing the words of Martin Luther King “not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”. The various races of the United States gave Barack Obama a mandate. Barack Obama was not a president installed by force, given to the United States by some International Super Power he was democratically elected by the American people who said that we don’t care about race anymore just someone willing to work for our interests.
As for the significance of Barack Obama post election we the American People seriously hope that he will use the slogan YES WE CAN to solve our problems as well as take the attitude of YES WE CAN to the world and help solve their problems. As for what has gone wrong with the Presidency up to know, by and large Obama and the Democrats refuse to ignore the voices that did not elect them. The only way Obama can keep his promises is to ignore the voices of dissension and keep a straight path and fulfill his promise.
While the United States faces amazing obstacles that the president inherited from the previous administration, unemployment, foreclosures, bank closures, and social upheavals the president of the United States has demoted himself to the President of Chicago, winging him up is Oprah Queen of the world. One wonders if the bid for the Olympics is a true desire for the city of Chicago or just a power play to see if Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama can be crowned King and Queen of World Influence.
While Oprah and Barack seek to be anointed King and Queen of the world ie. First Black President of the United States and Richest Black woman in the world , one wonders why the concept of solving very real problems in the city they call home is one challenge that they seem not to be too interested in solving. Currently Barack Obama seems to be not too interested in solving Americas problems but getting the Olympics to Chicago, just like he did not seem to be too interested in solving Chicago’s problems but being president of the United States .
The Quest for the Olympics seems to be very fake and shallow when there are young men and women beating each other to death on the streets of Chicago.
The quest for the Olympics seems to be a facade when a cold winter is approaching and there are individuals who may not have heat to heat there homes in Chicago or in Barack Obama’s case the United States.
These are problems that effect all cities not just Chicago but these are problems that Chicago seems not to be interested in taking care of. To the King and Queen of the World the very real problems of Chicago do not exist for they are essentially saying to the poor of Chicago “LET THEM EAT THE OLYMPICS”
Finally the caveat in the Chicago quest for the Olympics is that they are not that major of a city. For some of the Olympians this will be there first and only trip to the Olympics. Honestly now where would you want to be in the summer of 2016 in the mean streets of Chicago or on a Sunny beach in RIO. Ask the fallen flight of RIO to Paris where they would have rather been. RIO to PARIS. Straight Shot………..
I have been discussing the Chris Brown and Rihanna beating in a vacuum without knowing the true facts of the incident. There are several things that I have said that have been just wrong and uninformed. Honestly I have been taking my information concerning Chris Brown and Rihanna from the Television Media and not the online media blogs, newspapers etc that I take political news from. However I corrected this today by just being nosy and wondering about the 39 year old woman that it is alleged that Chris Brown had an affair with I found out that the Chris Brown and Rihanna incident is horrific. If everyone is speculating that Chris Brown will one day kill Rihanna the honest truth is he has already attempted to kill her. With that let’s begin the list of what really happened so we can have an intelligent conversation with children about the incident. Every parent in Boston should be ashamed that 50% of their teens believe that Rihanna is at fault for what happened to her.
Here are the supposed Facts that Show Rihanna was in no way responsible for what happened to her.
Fact #1 Chris Brown is Guilty of Attempted Murder
The following two sources are stating that Chris Brown left Rihanna in the middle of the street unconscious bruised and battered.
“He put his hands around her neck and, according to the insider, said, “I’m going to kill you!”
According to the source, the 20-year-old “Disturbia” singer told police that she lost consciousness, and when she awoke, Brown had fled.”
New York Daily News It was the first time she hit the town since cops found her battered, alone on a dark street and willing to identify Brown as her attacker the morning before the Grammy Awards.
According to the E! Online source, “He reportedly exited the car and tried in vain to find the keys, then grabbed Rihanna’s neck and began choking her, saying, ‘I’m going to kill you!’”
There are no gray areas here. If Chris Brown choked Rihanna until she was unconscious and left her in the middle of the street unconscious. He thought he killed her and left her there. This is without a doubt attempted murder. While LA is famous for letting women get killed by superstars ie. Phil Spector and the Actress Lana Clarkson. Rihanna is a huge superstar and the charges of attempted murder should have been attached to Chris Brown’s name.
Fact # 2 Rihanna tried to get out of the car, Chris Brown pulled her back in and beat her.
I am guilty of saying the following about Rihanna could have gotten out the car. According to a New York Daily News report Rihanna did get out the car Chris Brown pulled her back in and beat her.
“They started to argue. She got out of the car. He wanted her to get back in, so he grabbed her. She pulled away. That’s when she’s told people he hit her.”
The Daily News source explained: “She got out of the car. He wanted her to get back in, so he grabbed her. She pulled away. That’s when she’s told people he hit her.”
“If Brown did hit Rihanna early Sunday morning, it might not have been the first time. According to TMZ.com, the 20-year-old pop star told police that Brown had abused her before the weekend attack that reportedly left her bruised and bloodied and that the violence was getting progressively worse. “
Us Weekly magazine also quoted unnamed sources close to Rihanna who claim this isn’t the first time Brown’s beaten and bruised her.
” The problem with that, Greta — well, there are several, but one of them is she told cops he did it to her before and it was escalating violence”
Fact #4 Rihanna is suffering from Battered Wifes Syndrome. “
We all blame Rihanna for going back to Chris Brown but she is suffering from Battered Women’s Syndrome. This syndrome can ultimately end up in her death as it almost did the night of the Grammys. There is no where to go but down. If Rihanna stays with Chris Brown and he’s not locked up he will eventually kill her.
Resources for reading up on battered women’s syndrome can be found here:
Finally I’ve done a paper on the Battered Wife syndrome and the thing that any person needs to know is if a person hits you once in a threatening manner they will hit you again.
I am finished with this issue. I can only pray now.
Hello Phillip recently because of you I had to stop open comments to my blog. This is something that I don’t believe in. I believe that anybody who wants to comment can. However I had to delete your comments because they were so full of lies.
In addition your wife proceeded to make comments also, by that time I was holding comments for moderation. Because of this your wife’s work url was revealed. If you all continue to write negative comments to the blog. I will have to fax the comments to her employer and request that their employees cease commenting to my blog. Furthermore in your wife’s comment she mentioned that what has to be paid is such a small amount. If it’s so small then why don’t you pay it. It’s not so small now since you’ve missed 4-5 months though. ” PAY IT”
With that said I am releasing comments to no-moderation because frankly I don’t want any-ones information emailed to me. I want people to be able to make totally anonymous comments.
This started because Phillip Smith you have not paid child support. You have not paid child support for the last 4-5 months. No one seems to care that you have not paid. Usually by now a court date would have been established like it has been for the last several years but this year someone has dropped the ball and is letting you get away with not paying.
I find it rather strange you are not paying. Your daughter in San Diego is now 19 and you no longer have to pay child support for her so you should be able to handle this child support payment to your son.
If individuals are looking for background on this issue, please refer to this blog entry
Furthermore Philip Tracy Smith I left a message with your mom that your son had Pnemonia two weeks ago and noone from your family could call and see if he’s OK. This is pathetic that you can comment to my blog but you can not enquire about your child. Let’s refer back to what your mom said when I met you she said you were a nice guy and asked me to please be nice to you. Your family can’t even inquire about a child with their blood, yet they are asking a 23 year old women to take care of a 43 year old man. This is disgraceful.
Furthermore, when your son was ill when he was little my mother was at a supposed friends house and she said you called this friends house who you had met at your sons christening. I did not believe her until I saw where your wife worked. I know this friend has gotten jobs at this place for many of her relatives especially the ones she pulled strings for to get them into undergrad and then medical school after they flunked out of a famous military academy. So if you see this mutual friend tellher I said hello becsue I’m pretty sure she pulled the strings to get your wife this job.
You know I insist on airing my dirty laundry on this blog as it relates to Philip Tracy Smith. It is not how Philip Tracy Smith of Ellenwood Georgia has treated me it’s how he has treated our son in many ways.
As I stated in a prior post Philip Smith originally of Valejo California called his mother and asked her to tell me he was a decent person because I did not have much interest in him. Mrs. Smith told me a 23 year old woman the her son a 43 year old man was a decent person. What she failed to tell me was that he had a daughter that he was not supporting, I had to find that out while going through his mail, mail he encouraged me to go through because he wanted me to know everything about him. What she did not tell me was that when Phil was 17 he and his mother took his girlfriend to an abortion clinic and her parents never found out. This is what he told me when I told him I thought abortion was disgusting.
His mother on his encouragment told me that he was a nice person and asked me to be decent to him and then he nor his family can be decent to my child. I called and asked if they would relay a message to him that it was very important that he pay child support this Christmas since he has never paid child support in December he always skips November, December, January, and February and then we go to court in March.
Well, when I called his house because I have always been cordial to his family to ask that they tell him to pay his saster Karen said: Don’t bother my mother about this this is between you and Phillip. Well I had not meant to bother anyone I just wanted a message delivered to my child’s father that he needed to pay child support for Christmas. I was a little taken aback considering my parents are very generous grandparents and know that Philip Tracy Smith has not paid. I suppose even though his mother told me that her son was “decent. She did not care to deliver a message regarding her grandson to her very very decent son.
You know there are some other things that I may wish to say like that he was fond of wearing pink shorts to Piedmont Park and sitting where the homosexuals sit but I won’t say that.
The other day a dear friend called me and said I’m coming to Atlanta for my fraternity meeting. We started to talk and I suppose he remembered that my sons father was in the same Fraternity he was in and he said I know he pays child support, he’s a Morehouse Alpha. I had to say no he does not pay child support. No one seems to want to make him pay child support and since Barack Obama has been elected he has not paid child support and probably won’t.
In Georgia we know that if there is a Democrat in office men are not going to support their children. I remember we had a Democratic Governor in Georgia and the child support workers were losing files, could not find a non paying father and were generally nonfeasent, misfeasent, and malfeasent.
In my case if anyone sees Philip Tracy Smith of Ellenwood, Georgia, a non-payer to at least two children one in Texas and one in Atlanta supposedly who owns a staffing agency and writes up mortgages and who’s license should be suspended please tell him to pay child support.
Furthermore if you want to know how I hooked up with him. I told him when we were thinking about dating that he just did not seem to be the sort of person I was interested in because he had a lot of problems. What did he do? He called his mother and had her tell me that he was a good person, he just had problems, but was a decent individual.
In addition I left him for talking about a woman who was just a friend too much. He slept outside of my door all night and asked for forgiveness. Who is he married to know? This woman. He is a certified rat.
Years later he’s not paying child support, though his Frat brother is sure that he is or should be and he’s not.
Finally as the senate looks to confirm Eric Holder as head of the Department of Justice who might also be a member of this fraternity, I’m not sure though my friend insisted on naming a long line of frat folks to me on the phone he did not mention Holder so he’s probably not; in any event all women should be mindful that Holder might be prepared to have the justice department look left while deadbeat dads refuse to pay child support.
This has been one of the strangest Christmases for me. Instead of riding around buying video games this year I actually had to go into another section and buy other things for my children this year. This has created an untold crisis in my life hah hah, not really funny though, when my daughter requested a bike I went into Toys R Us in Lithonia and purchased a simply gorgeous bike for her that had to be assembled. I asked the counter lady well can I leave it here until Christmas Eve, an adamant no I received, so instead of picking the bike up in 24 hours I picked it up in 48 hours and boy was I glad I did because I did not bring the bike home. As they brought the bike to the floor the first thing I noticed was that the tires were dirty, then as I got closer I noticed that there was dust all over the bike and the tires were flat. I told the man who brought it to me, this bike is used. No he said it’s not used. I looked at the handle bar and the black plastic part of the handle bar had a dent in it. I then looked down and the place between the kick stand and bike chain had some terrible gook in it, it had so much gook in it that I reached my finger in it and could rub it all over the toys r us counter. Oh no I said you’re going to have to give me a new bike not an old one. Just to make sure that I was not loco I walked to the back of the store and looked at the display bike, the tires were hard and not soft and the tires were clean. The mystery was clearly solved,they were not giving me a new bike; they were trying to give me an old and groddy bike to take home and put under the tree. This was a cruddy take back bike. The man who brought me the take back bike and had told me the bike was new came up to me and told me that he realized that the bike was old and that he could not tell the difference because he was raised by his grandparents and only knew what a used bicycle looked like but for some reason he know knew what a new one looked like since I had walked to the back and saw a new one. He agreed to assemble a new bike immediately unfortunately this did not happen because the man who assembled the bikes walked up to me and told me that he was “not” going to assemble another bike because it was time for him to get off. The bringer of the bikes guy then asked me to come back the next day and gave me a ten dollar refund for the assembly fee. When I returned home I saw my daughter had been taken out by her grandmother to get her hair fixed. My mother had taken her to Ricks Styles and Cuts. My mother and I had a conflict I was partial to Dominican hairstylists because of the texture of my daughters hair, but my mother had a thing for Ricks. As I walked in the door I started screaming, my daughters hair which is passed her shoulders when straightened from her curly box of hair was straightened to an upper neck bob. I also noticed that it looked mighty thin. When the Dominicans fixed it, it was fluffy and full. The one thing the Dominican said to me when I left her to fix my daughters hair is I will treat her like she’s my own daughter and she did. As I looked at my daughter who had gone to Ricks I continued to scream not talk but just screamed. I had braided my daughters hair for three years so when she hit middle and high school her hair could be down to her elbows. I would take it out for two weeks at a time in three month increments so that it could rest, it was in the resting period and my mother took her to a hairstylist who had just cut it off. Well my cousin came to pick up my daughter and they returned home the next morning and I started screaming more because my daughters hair had reverted to it’s curly state and the reason my daughters hair had appeared so thin when I first saw it was because the hairstylist had chopped off all of the back of my daughters hair and let the top hang down over the back of her head. I was floored. I was in Christmas Hell. At this point my daughter could not get all of her hair in a bow to the back of her neck. Honey I said it’s going to be a doo rag day for you and wrapped her head up in a scarf. Luckily she has a very beautiful face and looked great. She looked so great that while we were in Wal-Mart an apparently mildly retarded patron walked up and said that ones a girl, you don’t even have to look for her earrings.
As for the bike I had tossed and turned all night and made the decision that if Toys R Us gave us a wrecked bike we really could not trust them to assemble a bike for us. We went to Target, they were out of bikes, then we went to Wal Mart and though the first Wal- Mart did not have a bike we could use. They were sold out of 20″ bicycles for boys and girls. We went to our Lithonia Super Center Wal- Mart and they had a bike a wonderful bike that was already assembled that we took off of the rack. Less Christmas Hell but still mournful of my daughters hair, I think the hairstylist at Ricks Styles and Cuts needs to be put in jail, she’s done worst to my daughter than Micheal Vick ever did to a dog, but Hey That’s Life.
Erykah Badu Sings Southern Gurl – Every Black Girl Has A Vote and Every Black Girl Deserves to Be Respected Despite what CNN and Newsweek says
I have learned something about Anderson Cooper, whenever the producers of his show decide to air something controversial or distasteful that he does not want to be associated with he manages to not be on his own show Anderson Cooper 360 and hands the dirt bag to Soledad Obrien who as far as black people go will say anything distasteful, stereotypical or just plain out rotten about black people that she thinks will make her career. Well the last Anderson Cooper showed Soledad at her best in stereotyping Black Women. I also had to wonder as I watched the piece if Soledad had just swam across from Cuba, as she seemed totally unaware of the strides that black women have made outside of being someones wife. I had to wonder if Soledad had ever heard of Dr. Condeleeza Rice, on leave from Provost of Stanford University and current Secretary of State. The world has, but alas poor soledad must be suffering a language barrier. I am still wondering why she hasn’t done a piece on Hispanics yet, I think Latin America is having a really rotten drug war that’s resulting in a loss of lives. I would be interested in seeing this issue covered. I am concerned that the drug war may come over the border.
In any event, last night the gremlin resembling Soledad Obrien did a piece on black women and how Michelle Obama will elevate black women and how they the world sees black women and how they see themselves. As a women maybe ten years younger or more than Soledad Obrien, I had to think that her piece was hackneyed and not very current. As usual Soledad Obrien’s information was totally biased and badly researched. The miltimedia headlights included “Medea” and some other man who dresses as a woman in the piece, big fat women rolling around the screen, and children hollering. Evidently the producer of the piece is not aware that Medea is a man. The producer is also not aware that Tyler Perry tries to highlight Medea’s positive qualities and Medea is a satire on African Americans. It’s not a stereotype but almost a look at the past and maybe while some of us may not be like that “anymore” or have ever been like that, we may need to be like this in some ways is Tyler Perry’s message is. If anyone is familiar with the literature of Lindon Hills by Gloria Naylor who writes fiction on black class and status issues, they will notice the thread of Linden Hills a book by Naylor in Perry’s Work. Naylor essentially says in Linden hills by having the rich people live at the bottom of the hill and the poor at the top the higher they (Striving blacks) climb, the further they fall in terms of morals, family life,relation to God etc. I think Tyler Perry tries to draw the same parallel. Unless you have an extremely low IQ I don’t think that Perry expects viewers of his movies to think that his movies are real life and MEdea is a real woman.
Soledad had one Newsweek pundit saying society stereotypes black women as street walkers and drug addicts. The show also gave statistics on black women and obesity. She also conveniently mentioned blacks and skin color and how Michelle Obama’s dark skin would raise the esteem of dark skin people. She mentioned Beyonce and Hallie Berry as sex symbols and said we had no dark skin sex symbols. I think Angela Basset, Janet Jackson, Alliyah, Erykah Badu and Rihanna qualify for me as women who are brown or do not have traditional European features. I think girlfriends, produced by Kelsey Grammar who was a McCain supporter presents a multi colored cast of sexy African American women. Finally Soledad did an interview with Faye Waddeldon and said that Michelle Obama elevates the possibility of what black women can do. Personally while having a law degree and a job is commendable, as a woman I respect women who go to the top of their professions not who just perform the act of acquiring , for Barack or Michelle Obama even a brief before the Supreme Court would have earned a tremendous amount of respect from me. As for Faye Waddledon I remember Faye Waddledon from when I was ten years old, Pre-Cosby. The world has changed a lot in those years. Has she done any new research in twenty years she’s still saying the same thing she said twenty years ago. HUH”"”"”"”"”"”" I suppose Condoleeza Rice was not the first female National Security adviser and the first Black Female Secretary of State. Black Women have already been elevated and the Republican Party did it. The same people attacking black women are the same people who attacked and are attacking Sarah Palin. They hate women. They do not love Michelle Obama, they are attempting to compensate for her lack by attacking black women. They are attempting to build her up by comparing her with a social problem. All I want Michelle to do is comb her hair, put on a suit, and keep her children’s hair neatly combed and done at all times. This is not rocket science, the women who are the targets of CNN’s piece do it well all the time, maybe they would be more suited to the role of First Lady rather than a Harvard trained Attorney. Michelle’s job is First Lady (WIFE) lets just pray she can take care of her ceremonial duties without a hell to Oblivion dress on, let’s hope she knows how to be a good wife and mother if she can do this she would have met the criteria for the job of First Lady. There is no degree requirement for First Lady!
In the the year 2009 America will be celebrating a ground breaking event, it’s first Black President. Unfortunately what CNN has failed to realize on a recent report on Michelle Obama and how she breaks the mold of Black women is that this historic election of a black man in the white house was done step by step and partially shattered by the positive media examples of black women and men in the media. Personally I believe the presence of a smart articulate black woman such as Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice was critical to Barack Obama becoming President. When the United States had no idea what was happening in the Bush Administration Condi, Secretary of State was able to explain to us in a graceful, feminine, kindly way what was going on in the world. In the Bush administration Condi was our light.
In any event the most ground breaking thing that a black women did this year for me was make a video. I am a horror buff. I just love the movie Silent Hill as well as Hostel. So when I saw the following video by Rihanna since I rarely see black people in a horror genre I was thrilled.
This is ground breaking to me (it says something about please click on a link thanks, I have not clicked on the link and do not know where it leads, as far as this blog is concerned please do not click on anything other than the youtube play icon.):
When my twelve year old first learned that Barack Obama had become president, he was flabbergasted, he asked me, should I go out and take drugs? Should I advocate Baby Killing and have my future girlfreinds have abortions? Is this what it’s going to take for me to be successful in life. Personally I wondered the same thing, it does seem like the drug addicts, abortion ladies, and alcoholics seem to be winning the game of life. Unfortunately what the economy has shown us is their wins mean a net loss for the United States in terms of quality of goods, innovations, intelligence and creativity. Lack of integrity, falsity, and immorality are wrecking our economy.
I explained to my child that just because things or people are popular this does not mean that these things are ordained by God. After the election I explained to him about Hitler having a mandate also, and what resulted from his mandate was the holocaust. I further explained to him that just as the news reported that the United States was experiencing economic distress during our election cycle, Germany was experiencing economic hardships and voted in Hitler. I further explained to him that if it’s a choice of losing your house and voting for a pro-life issue when you would never dream of having an abortion, or voting for a coke sniffer then most people are going to vote for the person on the party ticket they think will help them personally, and the Republicans had not quite convinced the majority of the United States that earns less than $40,000 that they would be there for them, the Republicans got stuck at $250,000 with Joe the Plumber and they seemed to be against the economics of a whopping 90% of the population so Obama won. This seemed like a good answer at the time. It satisfied him for two weeks.
Then he had to ask again, how could God let a baby killer be president of the united States. I have to admit that the term baby killer is not too strong a word when Barack OBama advocates abortion in the ninth month of pregnancy. My personal oppinion is if the baby is alive then C-section or induced labor is the answer and there is no such thing as aborting a baby who’s in the womb at month 9. In any event I had to explain to him that the Bible states that only a remnant of individuals will go to Heaven. This means an insy weensy bit I explained to him. I further explained to him that this is the weensy bit of people that The Bible and God felt were truly Godly. I explained to him those people who knowingly voted for Barack Obama knowing his abortion policies probably will not see God. I explained to him that God also spoke of Churches that were not preaching the word of God and the leaders of these Churches and their flocks probably would not see God either. The bible discusses False prophets and any leader of a church that calls Obama or the Obama’s Godly will most likely not see the Heaven that the bible speaks about. My son saw the flock of Ebeneezer Baptist church rejoicing when Barack won the election. I had to explain to him that this was not a Godly church even if it was the church Martin Luther King Jr. grew up in, Martin Luther King said not by the color of our skin but the content of our character. Obama has severe character flaws, I told my son that Obama’s mother had been an athiest and what we learn in the first couple of years of life according to some psychologists is who we are, if Obama could carelessly advocate abortion at nine months then this was most likely because of his upbringing. Finally I said that Obama was the result of an unplanned pregnancy and his mother may have told him many times I wish you were never born, you destroyed my life, as Obama said his daughters lives would be messed up by an unplanned pregnancy. Obama may have a secret wish to not be in this world despite his successes and may wish that his mother would have aborted him even at nine months.I told him I loved him and that the goal that he should have in life is to develop a personal walk with God. He should not be influenced by the evil in the world but should try to walk in the footsteps of Jesus.
I have a friend who used to go around quoting Ravi Batra. It was a mantra. Every conversation was injected with his economic theories and beliefs. I was so inundated with talk of Batra. I finally read the book my friend let me borrow. I liked this book because every idea was fresh and it was full of theories I had never been exposed to. Batra talked about economic cycles and the types of groups that would control the cycle. Some economic cycles were controlled by what he termed aquisitors, people from the business cycle, and others were controlled by other types of groups it’s been a long time so I don’t exactly remember all the groups. However there was one theory about a particular group that made me catch my breath in shock and think “say it isn’t so”. This was the theory that when economic cycles are controlled by intellectuals sexism and discrimination rises and the life chances of women are more challenging. I had not given this theory much of a thought until I observed how the Obama campaign and now administration in waiting has treated women. I would use the term short. The Obamites treat women short. They make a crazy comment and then act like its no big deal. However it is.
Obama’s embrace of various characters who have been mean and rude and put women down is actually quite disappointing. For a man who’s awfully committed to abortion rights even saying that if a baby lives during a third term abortion to seek medical care for a child born alive that you can touch, feel, has all of his toes, and fingers, etc. would interfere with a woman’s right to choose. He has shown a lack of indifference for men who say nasty things about women. His associates and his choices indicate that his passion for abortion is not particularly for women but for men who don’t want babies. While I love his family and think they are beautiful, his passionate support of abortions always makes me question how many babies did he abort to get to this family ten, twenty, thirty, one hundred. His passionate support of abortion at any costs casts his beautiful family into the farce category for me. In other words the one area where Obama says he supports women seems to be awfully self serving.
The areas where Obama could have made a significant impact and difference in the lives of women in doing something symbolic and life changing for women such as choosing Hillary Clinton for the VP slot was not done and by not choosing Hillary Clinton he showed a remarkable callousness towards the feelings of women. While some would argue that they had a rather nasty primary fight, if the goal is to be as successful as the Clinton Administration who were rumored to have despised Al Gore but chose him anyway because they thought he would help them win the presidency then Obama is not headed in the direction of compromise for the good of the contry. Even though Obama did win the election the choice for VP of a man who dropped out of the election first show’s a startling unwillingness to do what’s best for the country, but to do what’s best for his ego. In other words the woman Hillary Clinton was the best qualified for the slot but Obama chose Biden who dropped out of the race early for his ego. Not only did he choose Biden a man who stroked his ego for VP. He chose Biden a man who had shown a remarkable animus towards women. [see my blog entry on Biden, I remeber how he treated Anita Hill].
As I read about possible Treasury Secretary candidates, I was a little taken aback to see that Larry Summers was leading the list considering that he said “women were not genetically equipped to excel in Science and Mathematics. I was not particularity surprised that Obama would put this man as a major adviser on his campaign with his views towards women because I had given up on Obama after seeing the Palin wink commercial.
A commercial that I equated to the equivalent of a Willie Horten ad. Willie Horten was a criminal that the republicans used in an election to scare people into voting for George W. Bush in 1988.
Willie Horton Ad
After seeing the Palin ad, a Horten ad with different names and different circumstances. An ad that was directed to a woman with five children and was the leader of a state. I was pretty convinced that Obama and his administration will not be woman friendly so hearing the news that Summer’s a top Obama adviser thought women were not genetically disposed to math and science was not surprising.
As I began to think about Summers I remembered also that he was also that guy who could not get along with the Harvard University Faculty and had to resign as President of Harvard. I felt a strong sense of deja-vu as I read this and thought about one person I read about who kept being shuttled from the presidency of one company to another and being let go with a multi million dollar parachute. This analogy fits Summers. When you hang around with people from a certain group they are going to keep giving you high level positions whether you are emotionally equipped for them or not.
It is ironic that the first “Black” President of the United States is a sexist.
You know all of the nonsense attacks against Sarah Palin in the last days of the campaign may backfire. I am serving the media notice if you continue to attack Sarah Palin and her family in the last days of the election your darling Obama will lose. I keep changing my mind on who to vote for because of the negative campaigning of the campaigners or their surrogates and the media is the surrogate of Obama.
As for the RNC purchasing Sarah Palin clothing, I say Kudos for the Republicans for recognizing what Palin needed and giving it to her. Too many times money and clothing are barriers to a woman achieving. I think the Republicans more so than the democrats have always showed a willingness to see beyond a lack of and work with it. Case in point Suze Orman, and I ‘m not sure the people she dealt with were Republicans, but she said the following or something to the effect of the following (abridged version); I marched into Merrill Lynch after they had taken my money, and I demanded that they give me a job, the manager at the firm said OK and gave me some money to go and purchase some clothes because he said my clothes were inappropriate. This is the Republican way. They are not going to let a lack of keep a valuable team member from being the best she can be. I say Kudos to the Republican Party.
The second issue is Palin’s family traveling on Alaska. The people of Alaska knew Governer Palin had five children when they elected her. I love seeing her family together. It’s so “American”. I know every time she takes her family with her whenever she represents Alaska as Governor this helps the citizens of Alaska. Finally most of the people reporting this most not realize that Alaska has a lot of money. They treat their citizens very well. I knew someone who came to Nashville to go to college from Alaska. Alaska paid her full tuition, she also had enough money left over to pay for an apartment and still had extra. I think the media needs to leave Alaska alone. They have a good thing going.
Finally I would like to mention that early in the primaries, the Obama’s children were at some sort of coffee shop or coffeehouse in an early state and I saw the camera pan over to one of the Obama’s children and their hair was not combed and sticking straight up in the air. I thought to myself boy if elected is this what we are going to send overseas. This is going to get embarrassing, maybe some campaign money should have been used to comb their children’s hair. I don’t think the world thinks that uncombed hair is self sacrificing, it makes the world wonder if America is too poor to get their leaders children’s hair hair combed. (I only saw this once, and it was flashed on very quickly) The RNC made sure this never happened to them. One could argue that we are dealing with different textures of hair but I had to give Cindy Mccain Kudos when she presented her obviously black daughter with her hair “laid”. Most people do not have the mind to know what to do with a “colored” girls hair but Mrs. McCain knew. She also knew to dress every member of her family well and has maintained very high standards for herself in her appearance. This is one example that every first lady I’ve ever seen has done, is maintain a decent appearance. If Michelle Obama can not do this if her husband is elected; I hope people don’t think that this is how the average black person maintains their appearance. Michelle has been doing better lately but I think my example for how a high powered black woman maintains herself would be Condi Rice. I know Condi has handlers but she looks great all of the time so I’m pretty positive she knows how to use a curling iron, and possibly put in her own perm, with Michelle Obama I’m not so sure. I think she should learn to love wigs.
I think one thing most people can agree on is that democrats try to claim the lead on being concerned about people in general. They have made this their niche. The world barely knows that Cheney rose from steel worker and union man to Vice President of the United States. Meanwhile in the democratic party, unless you are black these Horatio individuals barely arise. The same thing applies to helping people. As Obama expounds on the poor and the downtrodden, his brother sits behind shanty curtains looking as if he and his child barely get enough to eat. There is a saying Charity begins at home. As the democrats speak about how low the Republicans are and how awful they are to individuals. The current sitting president has initiated record setting initiatives to help the world in their various issues as it relates to women, children, and AIDS.
The VP nominee for the Republican party Sarah Palan is a member of an organization Feminists for Life that embodies their concern for women of all social stratas. While they do not subscribe to the Feminist issue of abortion, they do subscribe to women friendly issues such as equal pay for equal work, are against violence towards women, and many other issues that draw a common thread between women.
Palin may be a formidable foe for OBama in it that she is an actor and and initiator not just a bag of wind. I have not failed to notice that every promise that Obama has made he has gone back on. Obama promised to allow a roll call vote for Hillary Clinton by state. This never materialized, instead there was a back alley deal where Hillary Clinton gave all of her delegates to Obama. I know that this could not have been Hillary Clinton’s idea. All of the promises that have been made by Obama I am sure that they are “Just Words” and will not be kept. Trust me Obama is for sell.
Everyday I grapple with who to vote for in the upcoming Presidential election. As an African American far gone are the concerns that I am voting for someone because they are solely African American. I know if I vote for someone, its because I think that they can best represent my interests and those of the country. Personally I seek a reduction in mindless, ill conceived police and authoritarian harassment that I experience in my own community. As noted in this blog I was falsely accused of taking a pair of glasses I purchased from Vision Works and took into the store to get fixed. As I sit here now the receipt for these items sit beside me now. In my heart I honestly believe that I was falsely accused not because the store worker believed that I had taken the glasses but because she felt she had the power to intimidateme by having the store security block my car in and keep me from leaving the mall.
I say this to say that when I think of voting for a Republican their cries of law and order reek of a totalitarian regime where individuals can at will be stopped at the whim of anyone. In addition the vast erosion of rights that have occurred under the current Republican Baby Bush are appalling and have all but nullified the constitution. It would seem pretty clear that Barack Obama would be the smart choice.
However, there are issues that I have with Obama. It is being revealed that Obama is turning out to be an almost pathological liar, egomaniac, and backstabber. Seeing the way the presidential election is playing out is like watching a beautiful woman (eva braun in the movie caligari) seduce a group of men with her flattering words when what really lies inside is an evil heart. We are used to politicians lying but Obama has taken it to a new level.
As I watched the past presidential candidate conversation, I was especially struck by one lie. The lie was that Obama did not support partial birth abortion. I knew that this was a blatant lie as I heard him utter the words. I had read a letter by Michelle Obama calling partial birth abortion a simple medical procedure between a woman and her doctor. The letter is here. When I spoke with a friend who is an Obama supporter about this letter. Their response was that Michelle wrote the letter Barack did not. “Whatever”
In any event the portion of the presidential conversation that totally shocked me was when Barack Obama was asked to say something truthful that he wanted voters to know and he said essentially that there would be no reduction in energy costs and Americans were going to have to learn to conserve energy and basically swallow it. This struck a sharp discord in my head because the main reason I am voting for anyone is to get some energy relief which John Mccain said that he would provide in some form or fashion and Obama may intend to provide it but still expects us to pay high prices which I am sure the American people do not want to do. After hearing this statement, I put Obama in the rich and climbing category and became convinced that the oil industry is going to arrange to get to him a mysterious cash donation. However still I was not totally for Mccain, what kept me tuned in was the absolutely awesome clothes his wife wore , a shallow reason but it’s the truth. What repelled me were the republican surrogates and thei9r extreme views. I don’t care who marries who. I do believe if anyone has sexual relationships with someone for years and lives in the same house and attends social events with this person they are entitled to legal rights like a spouse. In the case of the dissolution of a relationship assets should be equally divided and support should be paid if one person supported the couple. There were some other issues that disturbed me about Republicans but they are too numerous to name. Finally since I am prolife the deal breaker with me for John McCain came when I heard he was choosing a pro-abortion running mate. I thought I may as well choose Obama.
However Obama is rapidly fading as an option as it is being hammered into me what he did as it related towards babies. A series of videos and articles that I’ve read have convinced me that I want no part of Obama and while watching the video below, it almost looked like the people who were supporters were evil demons from hell and after viewing the video my first thought was I would be embarassed to see my face or my hand holding an Obama sign. The video follows:
This blog posting is dedicated to the Usher the singer and his New Family!
Was your first child conceived under the following circumstances?
Lyrical Highlights of Make Love In Da Club as Sung By Usher Raymond
Refrain Repeated over and over throughout the song is the following:
I wanna make love in this club eh
in this club eh
in this club eh
I wanna make love in this club eh.
in this club eh
in this club eh
in this club yeah
You see you searching for somebody that’ll take you out and do you right.
Well come here baby and let daddy show you what it feel like.
Above translated
“We’ve talked and you’ve told me that you want to meet a nice guy that will treat you decently”
You know all you gotta do is tell me what your sipping on (sipping on)? Eh
And I promise that I’ma keep it coming all night looooooooong.
Above Translated
“I’m pretending to hear you and will possibly make you think I’m a nice guy as indicated by “eh”but what I’m really going to do is get you drunk so that I can get in your panties.
Have you ever made love to a thug in a club with his sights on, 87 jeans and a fresh pair of nikes on. On the couch, on the table, on the bar, on the floor.
you can meet me in the bathroom, ya you know im trained to go.
“I don’t need to translate this”
You might just wanna give me a kiss, we can keep touching like this
I know you scared baby, because you don’t know what we doing.
It’s ok, you can touch right here, keep doing that girl and I swear.
I’ma keep doing it to you non-stop.
And I dont care, who’s watching watching watching watching watching Oooooh In this club on the floor
Baby lets make love
“No need for Translation”
In this club Ehh YeY Hey Hey
Thats right in the front in the front in the peak of the day Hey
In the back Hey In the side Hey
In the front Hey
Left, right Oh crank that Hey
Translation
“ ‘he words In this club Ehh YeY Hey Hey,’ indicate that someone is saying that this is ludicrous. You can’t possibly mean have sex in a club , The following words indicate yes, whereever, whenever as well as describe what the singer plans to do with his penis with the women in question, personally I’ve seen the video and the women type casted for the video would not possibly do what’s described unless and a big unless there was an exchange of money, that type of women in my humble opinion is not going to lay on the floor in a club and give it away for free, even to Usher, Luda, or -50. ”
End of Lyrics
I have the following words for Usher Raymond just because you have ruined your life by getting a married women ten years your senior with four children pregnant which lead to the dissolution of her marriage and your marrying her resulting in your first born child and her fifth born child. Definitely nothing close to a virginal birth for your child, this does not give you the right to sing lyrics that can result in unplanned pregnancies for young women and responsible young men, I say responsible to indicate that there are some men who if they have sex with a stranger in a club who might give the women he had sex with his real name, phone number, address, tell her where he works, and where he was born etc. so that if the women in question does get pregnant or an STD she knows where to find him. However, I really don’t believe that this song was written or sung for this type of man. This song is for men who want to get off and leave and never see the women again and not get caught. This song is written for men who will give a women a fake name, fake phone number, and fake address. Finally if the women is dumb enough to have sex in a club with a stranger, she’s probably dumb enough or drunk enough to end up pregnant and or diseased and have no clue as to who the father is of her child or what kind of disease she may have.
Trust me if a young woman wants to know what will get a normal man and I’ve spoken to a lot of woman with wonderful marriages and I am not one of them. The bottom line from every woman I’ve met with a good long lasting marriage is don’t sleep with a man before you are married. This is true, I know from experience that if you don’t have sex with a man, if you barely kiss him but continue to date him and be nice to him he will ask you to marry him. Unfortunately, men if a woman barely kisses you after dating for months , you should not ask her to marry you because the bottom is she does not really like you, and no I did not marry this person because I did not like him. But it works!!!!!!
Finally I am an Atlantan and this artist hails from Atlanta this is essentially a southern worldview. This is probably why the majority of men that I’ve dated and the man that I did eventually marry was from California. Though Snoop Dog is from Southern California and we know it never rains in Southern California, give me a sensual seduction anyday over a roll in a nasty southern corner. WEST COAST ROCKS
Several leaders at the UN World Food Summit asserted that some of the hunger problems in their countries were not due to a lack of food, but a lack of income possessed by their citizens to afford food. They asserted that this phenomenon is causing not just a hungry world but a violent world fueled on by storefront visions of food by a starving populace unable to afford sustenance. This situation has been caused and fueled on by free trade and capitalism. Many rural inhabitants of poorer countries seeing the bright lights and big cities of their urbanized centers have abandoned their countries old practices of self sufficiency through self production of food and other items and rely heavily on the promise of a job at an urban center and the income to purchase what they may have normally made, or grown in their rural homesteads.
According to John Thavis of the Catholic News Service quoting a paper produced by the Vatican:
“long-standing subsidies to agricultural producers in richer countries have artificially kept down the international price of food products and thus discouraged farming in poorer countries. The result has been large-scale abandonment of local agriculture and increasing urbanization. Today, most poor countries are net importers of food, making them highly vulnerable as prices continue to rise.”
”The mindless liberalization mentality at the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and among my fellow economists misses the fact that food is a biological necessity as well as a commodity,” said Peter Timmer, a visiting professor at Stanford University’s Program on Food Security and the Environment.
The world’s developing countries have increasingly started to depend on a steady flow of food from multinational food producers which is at the whim and the mercy of natural forces. Several years ago according to Stokes the assumption of the world was that hunger would be stamped out by world trade and production however due to various reasons the opposite has happened and the world now faces a crisis of starvation.
Stokes, furthermore discusses the fact that the rise in food prices does benefit some poor producers and farmers of food, however turns around and penalizes poor people in the same region who are not food producers.
The solution many people advocate is arming poor people with a hoe and seeds and placing the power of food production and self sufficiency back into the hands of the starving people around the world.
This is just one aspect of the world hunger issue which has many causes.
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says a federal prosecutor has been assigned to look for ways to help tackle the problems associated with polygamy in Southwestern states. In a letter sent Monday to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, Reid says the justice department can strengthen efforts to combat crime within polygamous groups. “
The Nevada Democrat says he’s also asked top state and federal law enforcement officers in his state to get involved.
Johnny Glines of KUTV is reporting that the Attorney General of Utah, the seat of Mormons has threatened FLDS with jail time if they bring their illegal activities to Utah. Flines Reports that the Attorney General has said the following:
In a live 2NEWS interview at 5 p.m., Shurtleff called Jessop a “liar” and threatened him saying, “we put Warren Jeffs in prison here, and as for the rest of them, we will too.”
“I’ve got a word for Willie Jessop, that lives in Utah, and is defending this, and says that it isn’t going on. He’s a liar,” said Shurtleff. “If you come here to Utah and think you can wed underage girls; you’ve got to think again.”
Furthermore, Jessop, one of the FLDSleaders says the nation is in agreement with their actions of marrying twelve year olds as revealed in pictures of another FLDS leader in an intimate picture with a yonggirl, and DNA tests may confirm that this leader has impregnated four girls when they were between the ages of twelve and fourteen. Jessop said the following: “Clearly the nation spoke tonight,” said Jessop. referring to the decision to return the children back to the FLDS ranch.
I am a registered voter and last year I helped to register over three hundred voters, while I am not allowed to discuss political issues while registering voters. I seriously doubt that the majority of the folk that I registered last year support spiritual marriages to young girls, incest, and rape. I believe the attorney general of Utah, they are liars.
It seems pretty clear to me that the residents of the Zion Ranch are as guilty as HELL as it relates to these young women. First of all if they were even on the Ranch when Warren Jeffs was separately and at different times marrying two twelves year olds, and two fourteen year olds they are guilty of a crime. According to Kovach and Johnson of the New York Times,
“Investigators said family marriage records seized in the April raid of the group’s compound, the Yearning for Zion ranchin Eldorado, Tex., suggested that the sect’s leader, Warren S. Jeffs, had “spiritually” wed at least four under-age girls, two of them 14 at the time, the other two 12. “
This seems pretty clear to me that if a whole commune sits back and allows one man to “connect” with four underage children then this is crime. The argument offered that parents and the courts can give permission for these marriages is bogus. He’s already married. Polygamy is illegal. So any other way he connects to these children is rape or statutory rape. Since the admitted living situation is communal living where on the ranch no child belongs to the parent the belong to the ranch, then when spiritual unions occur on the Ranch then they are all accessories to the crimes of molestation, and rape.
It has been reported that the men of the ranch go away and send money to the ranch for their child brides. If this is happening across states lines this is trafficking in children. This is clearly illegal under Federal statutes and I am seriously questioning in my mind whether FLDS receives money from men who want child brides, furthermore the very act of recruiting members who join and pay for a child bride is human trafficking to me. I don’t know what the supreme court of Texas calls it but it looks illegal if it’s not.
Finally, in the FLDS case I am heavily questioning the role of corruption in this case. I am also aware that the FLDS has threatened political officials with some sort of massive voter takeover with their 300 votes and to overthrow and run the local government out of town which it has been reported they’ve done in other places. Miguel Bustillo and Nicholas Riccardi of the Los Angelos Times write:
“The town also was abuzz over an anticipated mass voter registration by the FLDS. Hours after the court first ruled against the state, two members of the sect walked into the county clerk’s office and requested 300 voter registration forms, a potentially tide-turning number in a county with 1,800 voters.”
Everyone has the right to vote but when voting is used to intimidate a town because a commune is performing illegal acts. This is reprehensible. This is why the town, state, and Federal government must do their jobs in prosecuting these individuals for their acts against women and children.
There is still a big question mark on what the role of corrupt politicians, corrupt judges is. I seriously suspect that certain men in Texas are receiving money or child bride favors for protecting this prostitution/mistress ring. Furthermore, some media outlets are providing a platform for the FLDS which almost appears to be a commercial for this type of lifestyle. I even observed on commentator trying to put words in the mouth of a FLDS women he was interviewing when she was about to get caught in a lie. The lie was no members of the FLDS were not welfare recipients but he helped her clean up this lie. It was totally awful. I wonder if higher up in this media organization plan to take a trip to the Zion ranch soon or other FLDS locations and get a spiritual bride that their wife probably does not know about.
I have tried to avoid blogging about the Texas Polygamy case, the case where 400 children were taken from the FLDS ranch. I am far from the perfect parent, to emphasize this, let me inform you of what’s going on in my house these days.
My daughter is refusing to get her hair combed. Every time I touch it she screams and runs away. Well yesterday I had to take care of an urgent matter with a friend and I had to take my daughter and her uncombed hair out the house. I noticed upon her getting in the car that she had not put her shoes on, and I said a silent thanks to God that she would not try to get out of the car because she had no shoes. Well I was the one who ended up with egg on my face yesterday, as we were waiting for my friend to take care of her issue, my daughter hops to the front of the car and begs me to go into the very nice building that we are in front of. She has tied matching bath towels to the bottom of her feet and says she’s made herself some shoes. At this point I am afraid that she’s going to bolt for the door and run in the place in all of her nappy headed bath toweled feet glory. I say no honey and tell her your hair is not combed, and bath towels on your feet are not shoes. At this point I think it is a good time to mention that the lady at the local hair supply place has given my daughter the name of Flavette after Flavor Flav because after leaving Ross department store with a fluffy pink bathrobe one day, my daughter put it on, refused to take it off and walked around pompously, earning her the name of Flavette. I managed to keep her from running in the building but I knew when we were about to stop for gas that I would not be able to keep her out of the convenience store. She ran in. I tried to wait it out so I could pretend she did not belong to me, but she took too long and I became worried so I went into the gas station to check on her and saw her at the counter. I was very tempted to go to the back of the store and pretend that I had not seen her but relented and stood in line to pay for the gas and hoped that she would ignore me. She was having a discussion with the cashier and told him she did not have enough money. The man hollered did any one havethirty-four cents that they could give this little girl. I immediately piped up with she’s mine and refuses to get her hair combed, was told not to come in the store with bath towels on her feet and is not allowed to get anything. It must not have soaked in, a lady said I have 34 cents. I repeated myself. My daughter left the store with no candy, and when we finally did get home she asked me to comb her hair. In addition my daughter’s main goal in life is to be a movie star she was born on Clint Eastwood’s and Brooke Shield’s Birthday, which was sort of ironic because Clint is my former husbands favorite movie star and he was fanatical about Clint and football. Football season was what clinched the fact that we no longer wanted to be together. In any event, my daughter was born on Clint Eastwood’s birthday, May 31 and this makes her a Gemini. So you can get a clue of what I’m dealing with, the following celebrities are Geminis:Naomi Campbell, Angelina Jolie, Sir Laurence Olivier, Stevie Nicks, Henry Kissenger, Josephine Baker, Tupac Shakur, Pam Grier, Marilyn Monroe, John Rivers, Prince, Miles Davis, Austin Powers, Sandra Bernhard, Lisa Left Eye Lopes, Melanie “Scary Spice” Brown, Donald Trump, Johnny Dep, and Paula Abdhul, I think I ‘ve named enough names for you to understand why the attendant at the local gas station asks me every time she sees my daughter is she still bad, because my daughter in her younger days used to manage to lay out in the middle of the outdoor gas station screaming, hollering, and kicking if I did not buy her a treat. Yes in her younger days she was bad, picnics where I hoped to network were spent prying my screaming daughter away from the attractions, because well the picnic was over and the people were trying to pull down the kiddie attractions. In any event she is bad, she is a BADDDDDDDDDDDASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSlike the list of Geminis on the list above. Finally she is also a literal genius in math and language arts. She scores at the top of the percentiles.
I also hesitated to write about the FLDS because I am an awful housekeeper. I can’t get anyone to do anything in my household. Since our dishwasher decided to die I hand wash dishes, we have the circulon brand of pots, it’s the starter set but let me tell you circulon is much better than calphalon, I bought a calphalan muffin pan and baking sheet and after about four uses calphalan was no longer non-stick. I have had cirulon for about 6 months now and it’s still amazing. In any event we have the circulon starter set which has two sauce pans a little one and a big one. The other day I washed the larger sauce pan three times because every time I washed it my son would come and use it, it’s like he was waiting for me to wash the pan so he could mess it up. Finally I just gave up trying to cook what I was going to cook a twenty five cent box of macaroni and cheese with tuna and peas dumped in it with plenty of butter and pepper. I say all this to say I am a terrible house keeper. However my son is a good son, he is a sagittarius so he displays the male Sagittarius unique characteristic of ass kissing and being an ass-hole at the same time, in any event several famous male sagittarians are Brad Pitt, Donahue, John F. Kennedy Jr, Jay-Z, Bruce Leee, and Samuel Jackson.
I hope it is understood why I would hesitate to discuss the FLDS case. I have tried to ignore it but the final straw was seeing a photo on the Nancy Grace Show of their leader marrying and deeply kissing a girl that appeared to be no more than ten at their apparent wedding. I thought how disgusting I just knew that the Texas Supreme court was going to overturn a lower court decision to return the children back to the ranch; but they did not and are sending the children back to the ranch with the understanding that some limitations can be imposed and decisions can be made on a case by case basis. The problem for me is that Jetts is a deity to them and when your deity is shown molesting a child, this must follow that FLDS members have no problem molesting children since this is the man they worship, he’s on the wall of their compound. Children are therefore in an inherently dangerous situation by being there. This view is fully expored in this CNN Commentary by Sonny Hoskins.
Furthermore the Supreme Court ruling that prepubescent children can be returned to their families is just not in line with current law which states that child sex offenders can not be around children period. If they will molest an 11 year old with her period it’s also likely that they will molest a womanly looking seven year old. It is my strong opinion that the children should not be returned unless the women agree to move off of the ranch and not leave town and this is a condition I think the Supreme Court will uphold as a condition of their getting their children back.
My big question in this issue is”Where are the Feminists who say they work for women’s rights?”; Where is Gloria Allred, the big time Feminist? Are we only to see them when it involves an abortion issue, a woman hollering rape against a celebrity or a big name figure. For me personally this is a feminist issue, one that they should be financing, sending attorneys to and watching very closely. What happens with FLDS will affect all women and girls. It will also determine the direction our country is taking in regards to women’s rights. FDLS is fundamentally arguing that a woman does not have the right to her own body, her own Chasity and can be given to a man at any time. FDLS is arguing that women and girls are at the mercy of men and have no option and choices. Feminism will be a failure if feminists do not step in to make sure that young girls are protected and not left bare foot, pregnant, trapped and option-less in a world with so many possibilities. This is a case where people who call themselves feminists should descend on the state of Texas and provide financing to take this case to the U.S Supreme Court if nescessary. This case prevents far more of a threat to women then the right to an abortion. The FLDS case threatens every woman in so many fundamental ways, such as the right to even have a child belong to you, the right to property , the right to vote etc.
****According to the Chicago Tribune A state stutute can not be appealed to the U.S. Supreme court; I am sort of questioning this because some of the men putting the children in danger live beetween states, therefore making it a Federal issue; but I am not an expert.
Clinton lost me after the RFK comment. While there are several reasons that she could have made the remarks, one being it had such a profound effect on her when she was twenty years old it’s constnatly in the back of her mind, and it is a unique case on terms of what to do. I still believe the comment was a wishful thinking gaffe. Obviously the Clinton Donors must be engaging in wishful thinking according to the San Francisco Chronicle, donors are still raising money for Hillary Clinton. They hope that the rules will be broken.
You know I have had sympathy for Hillary Clinton’s cause and do believe that the voters of Michigan and Florida should have been heard. However, if voters are not allowed to vote in either state I beleive it should remain status quo. The bottom line is if the voters really wanted a revote they would have demanded one and the excuse that Barack Obama and his suopporters were not open to a revote should not have detered anyone. This would have been the fair thing to do and maybe it can be done but the voters should be heard in the right manner. However barring a revote the rules shoulstand as is. I weebled and wobbled on this issue however I remebered a tic tac toe game that I played with my daughter when whe was in first grade. I made the mistake of showing her how to win first and then olaying tic tac toe with her. When two people know how to play this game usually noone wins. However my daughter came up with a new rule so she could be the winner she took her pencil and drew a C with three of her X moves and said I won. I made a C. For several weeks we would play and she would continue to make a C and I would tell her that she had not won but she refused to hear me. Finally, I redused to play with her because of this she did not care she preceeded to play with herself after that. As for me when it first happened I thought “wow” if I would have known that another way of winning was to make a c between the boxes I may have considered playing that way then again I may not have played at all.
Lately, I’ve been thinking about this tic tac toe game and I know realize that though the rules made by Dean are stupid. Each candidate agreed to the rules and prepared their campaign by the rules and to change them would be cheating.
You know I am not a member of the religious right. I was raised Christian and my most vivid experiences with religion are in the rural Virginia community of my grandparents at vacation bible school and Sunday School. What I remember most is not bible verses are endless Gospel Songs, but what is most vivid in my mind about this rural Virginia Community and religious experience is that people were just good to each other, they were good to me and they taught me to be kind. My Grandparents had the type of house that I could consider a lighthouse, anyone in pain or in trouble could count on my grandparents and their children to be the helping hand. Likewise in Georgia our house has become the house that people “strangers” come to when they are in trouble, when they need food, when they are evicted, when they need money, when they need to use the phone, and one night when a man was mugged on the street next to mine a man said he knocked on over ten doors for help until he reached our house and we opened this door. As I said at this point in my life I am not particulalry religious, I am not a loyal church goer and may never become one but from my early experiences with goodness I have come to the conclusion that there is a circular nature of right and wrong and my moral code is basically what goes around comes around, if people are mean to you be good to them because it will all comes back to you. This is why I am against abortion, because literally for me it does not feel right, it feels evil. In order to ascertain if my feelings are shared by persons of different backgrounds I have had the “abortion” discussion with people of different backgrounds. I have spoken with muslims and hindus who believethe practice is horrible. The muslim woman I spoke to was especially vehement that Allah was against abortion. After speaking with a couple of folks I realized that my abhorrence to abortion was legitimate and probably is anti to most world religions in the world with the exception of a satanic cult.
Virginia has stroke down the ban on partial birth abortion. According to this Washington Post blog. Virginia has deified a Supreme Court decision banning late term abortion, which upheld the following and stated the following:
The federal law defines partial birth abortion as the following:
“An abortion in which the person performing the abortion, deliberately and intentionally vaginally delivers a living fetus until, in the case of a head-first presentation, the entire fetal head is outside the body of the mother, or, in the case of breech presentation, any part of the fetal trunk past the navel is outside the body of the mother, for the purpose of performing an overt act that the person knows will kill the partially delivered living fetus; and performs the overt act, other than completion of delivery, that kills the partially delivered living fetus. (18 U.S. Code 1531)”
The Washington Post has a past article that defines partial birth abortion as the following:
“It involves partly delivering the fetus and then crushing the skull to make removal easier. It is this procedure that Congress made a crime. Opponents say it is a form of infanticide, because the fetus could be viable at the time. It made doctors who perform such surgery subject to up to two years in prison.”
While the states may not prosecute a physician for performing a partial birth abortion. It is my assumption that if a physician performs this procedure they may not go to state prison but they will go to Federal prison because it is against Federal Law.
The presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife have raised funds and even sent out an “abortion letter” highlights of the letter discussing a procedure that makes up less than ten percent of overall abortions were that women need to have the right to partial birth abortion because, denying them such a right affirms societies right to pay women less, beat women and give them substandard all around the world. You know Catholics are against ll forms of abortion but their good works all around the world are legendary. Barack Obama in this run for president does not even support Universal Health Care for all women, does not support lowering the gas tax for families and women so they can support themselves and their families. At this point in the fame it has not become clear what the motives are for supporting partial birth abortion so ardently, is it because it’s 1. a procedure Barack Obama has paid for in the past or 2) A procedure that Michelle Obama hs had in the past and needs to keep legal to assuage her guilt and the 10% of the 90% of individuals (abortion ladies as Anne Coulter calls them) that have participated in the procedure or 3) Is it a political tactic to show how loyal they are to what Anne Coulter calls the Church of Liberalism. I have no idea why Obama supports these people or this cause but the Virginia defieance of the Supreme Court Decision and Federal Law lets me know that a snowball will live in flames before I ever vote for Barack Obama and if things continue as they are Hillary either.
Finally in my disgust let me tell you what really goes through my mind about liberals. I think the price of gas is do high because the liberals are plotting to save the environment and want to reduce emissions so they have jacked the price up so hat only folks with shiny new low emissions cars can drive for leisure. I watched moveon accuse George Bush of blowing up the world trade center. However, Barack Obama is open friends with liberals who have admitted to plotting to blowing up buildings. In essence I believe that the liberals could have engineered this whole horrible economic catastrophe we are going through so they can get elected.
In the above link democratic politico, Larry is absolutely positively positive that the ticking whitey time bomb video exists. He offers proof that he thinks that the video exists because Barack Obama goes so far as to call people “low class” for releasing videos of Michelle Obama. However Michelle is relevant we can’t have her plotting with Bin Laden’s many wives on how to blow up whitey now can we.
In any event I have heard Barack Obama say personally that he likes to appeal to casual voters that may not vote or usually do not vote. Statistically, the people who hardly ever vote are by social scientists considered the low class or the underclass and are not in the position to spread a video around the Internet. These are just the facts. Because of this I have to ask since a large part of people who are considered statistically low class are his constituents, What’s wrong with being low class, and does he have a plan to eliminate the low and the underclass once he gets in office since they are obviously never far from his mind whether he’s referring to the rural classes or the poor. What is this guy Marx or something. He show’s an incredible class consciousness that is totally unamerican.
I am quite surprised that the media has not mentioned the “low class comment” but this shows their deep seated bias against honest and fair journalism.
Star Jones comments regarding Barbara Walters are absolutelyhilarious. After the political sex scandals we have had this year and all of the politicians who have minimized the female party in the affair as “mistakes” I am surprised Barbara Walters did not at least wait a year to let this book out of the closet.
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blackhippychick: I think I'm torturing the orchids repotted it cause the roots were hanging out internet told me they needed small pots so put it back in
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Barack Obama’s Administration’s top Contender for Treasury Secretary Continues on with the thread of Sexism of the Obama Campaign
In politics on November 8, 2008 at 8:14 pmI have a friend who used to go around quoting Ravi Batra. It was a mantra. Every conversation was injected with his economic theories and beliefs. I was so inundated with talk of Batra. I finally read the book my friend let me borrow. I liked this book because every idea was fresh and it was full of theories I had never been exposed to. Batra talked about economic cycles and the types of groups that would control the cycle. Some economic cycles were controlled by what he termed aquisitors, people from the business cycle, and others were controlled by other types of groups it’s been a long time so I don’t exactly remember all the groups. However there was one theory about a particular group that made me catch my breath in shock and think “say it isn’t so”. This was the theory that when economic cycles are controlled by intellectuals sexism and discrimination rises and the life chances of women are more challenging. I had not given this theory much of a thought until I observed how the Obama campaign and now administration in waiting has treated women. I would use the term short. The Obamites treat women short. They make a crazy comment and then act like its no big deal. However it is.
Obama’s embrace of various characters who have been mean and rude and put women down is actually quite disappointing. For a man who’s awfully committed to abortion rights even saying that if a baby lives during a third term abortion to seek medical care for a child born alive that you can touch, feel, has all of his toes, and fingers, etc. would interfere with a woman’s right to choose. He has shown a lack of indifference for men who say nasty things about women. His associates and his choices indicate that his passion for abortion is not particularly for women but for men who don’t want babies. While I love his family and think they are beautiful, his passionate support of abortions always makes me question how many babies did he abort to get to this family ten, twenty, thirty, one hundred. His passionate support of abortion at any costs casts his beautiful family into the farce category for me. In other words the one area where Obama says he supports women seems to be awfully self serving.
The areas where Obama could have made a significant impact and difference in the lives of women in doing something symbolic and life changing for women such as choosing Hillary Clinton for the VP slot was not done and by not choosing Hillary Clinton he showed a remarkable callousness towards the feelings of women. While some would argue that they had a rather nasty primary fight, if the goal is to be as successful as the Clinton Administration who were rumored to have despised Al Gore but chose him anyway because they thought he would help them win the presidency then Obama is not headed in the direction of compromise for the good of the contry. Even though Obama did win the election the choice for VP of a man who dropped out of the election first show’s a startling unwillingness to do what’s best for the country, but to do what’s best for his ego. In other words the woman Hillary Clinton was the best qualified for the slot but Obama chose Biden who dropped out of the race early for his ego. Not only did he choose Biden a man who stroked his ego for VP. He chose Biden a man who had shown a remarkable animus towards women. [see my blog entry on Biden, I remeber how he treated Anita Hill].
As I read about possible Treasury Secretary candidates, I was a little taken aback to see that Larry Summers was leading the list considering that he said “women were not genetically equipped to excel in Science and Mathematics. I was not particularity surprised that Obama would put this man as a major adviser on his campaign with his views towards women because I had given up on Obama after seeing the Palin wink commercial.
A commercial that I equated to the equivalent of a Willie Horten ad. Willie Horten was a criminal that the republicans used in an election to scare people into voting for George W. Bush in 1988.
Willie Horton Ad
After seeing the Palin ad, a Horten ad with different names and different circumstances. An ad that was directed to a woman with five children and was the leader of a state. I was pretty convinced that Obama and his administration will not be woman friendly so hearing the news that Summer’s a top Obama adviser thought women were not genetically disposed to math and science was not surprising.
As I began to think about Summers I remembered also that he was also that guy who could not get along with the Harvard University Faculty and had to resign as President of Harvard. I felt a strong sense of deja-vu as I read this and thought about one person I read about who kept being shuttled from the presidency of one company to another and being let go with a multi million dollar parachute. This analogy fits Summers. When you hang around with people from a certain group they are going to keep giving you high level positions whether you are emotionally equipped for them or not.
It is ironic that the first “Black” President of the United States is a sexist.