October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

 This is not a good morning when you read an article such as this:

China: Toddler Run Over Twice, Over A Dozen Passersby Ignore Her (GRAPHIC VIDEO)

Horrifying footage of a 2-year-old girl in China being run over by two separate vehicles and left to die by passersby has stirred outrage throughout the country, with CNN reporting that security footage of the incident has led the nation of 1.3 billion people to do some collective soul-searching.

According to Shanghaiist, the two-year-old, who has been identified as Yueyue, was run over on Thursday outside of a hardware market in Foshan in southern China’s Guangdong province.

Security camera footage shows a driver in a white van hit the young girl, apparently crushing her under the weight of the front wheel. The driver pauses briefly, but then continues to drive forward, running over her with the back wheel.

The following video shows more than a dozen passersby walk, ride motorbikes or drive past the young, bleeding girl without stopping to help. They clearly notice the badly injured child, as some motorists swerve to avoid her body. After three people walk past, a different truck runs over the young girl again.

WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO BELOW

Shanghaiist reports that seven grueling minutes passed before a trash collector picked up Yeuyue’s body and alerted her mother so that she could take the child to the hospital.

According to The Telegraph, Yeuyue suffered injuries to her head and has to use a ventilator to breathe. She is reportedly in critical condition in intensive care at a hospital in Guangzhou.According to AFP, the toddler is in a coma and doctors do not expect her to survive.

Yeuyue’s tragic story was Monday’s most popular story on Sina Weibo, a Chinese microblogging service, Shanghaiist reports. CNN’s Enuice Yoon explains in the video below why the footage has gripped the nation’s attention:

“Many people are discussing what they perceive as a loss of morality in Chinese society,” she said to Erroll Barnett. “…some observers have been pointing out that China education system really has failed here, that it’s failed to emphasize and reinforce the need to respect human life at a time when 1.3 billion people all clamoring and rushing to climb up the economic and social ladder.”

The Telegraph‘s Peter Foster offers another explanation of what could have led so many people to walk past the young girl without stopping to help:

Others blamed China’s compensation culture for the apparent show of callousness, recalling a famous 2006 judgment when a Good Samaritan who helped a woman get to hospital was wrongly ordered to pay her compensation.“They didn’t ignore the girl, they just didn’t dare help her,” said one comment among many that said that Chinese law had helped create a fear of intervening.

 The Washington Post references an editorial in China Daily from January that calls for a law to protect Good Samaritans from liability.

Earlier this year, a 22-year-old woman riding her bicycle in China’s Zhejiang Province was killed after being hit by a three-wheeled vehicle. Four subsequent vehicles ran over her, and while several of the vehicles’ drivers stopped, none waited for help to arrive, ChinaSmack reports.

WARNING: The following footage contains graphic content:

Readers:  Where is the love and compassion? Where is the humanity? Since when has suffering a personal loss meant more than the loss of a human being? That is the problem with our society. We’re so concerned about our loss that we have become numb to the feelings of and care for others. But this video shows what happens when we care less about each other. It doesn’t take much thought to know that if we all cared more about each other we would all be looked after…we would all be cared for.

What happened to “Love thy neighbor”? Obama is trying to do this with his health care…with his jobs act. But people are only focused on their needs and could care less about the needs of everyone collectively. Throw in racism, and you can see why we are where we are.

As sickening and as shocking as this video is, it is very representative, and symbolic of how the world is today.  It says it all. I am just disgusted by it. No words can describe what I feel. If you have words, blog me.

Peace & Love…

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 October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Good morning!

Social Butterfly: No need to make such a promise. The article you posted was worth the length. Thank you for taking the time to include such an important women’s health issue.

Anita: I couldn’t have said it better. No one is going to be more concerned about women’s health than women.

That being said, we women, and concerned me who truly care about women, need to continue to fight for our rights, and not stand for this to happen. We can see where priorities lie when it comes to men and the women that follow their lead, lead us. Their priorities are not women’s health and well-being. Their priorities are playing politics with women’s health and privacy. 

And once again, the republican’s middle name is “hypocrite”. How can you call a bill ”Protect Life Act”, when this bill allows doctors and hospitals to “exercise their conscience” by letting pregnant women facing emergency medical conditions die? (!)

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Patricia: Welcome to my blog. Happy to hear your new view of FOX. I look forward to more of what you have to say.

Hello AH:  That story made me chuckle. How’s life?

Emily:  That was cute.

Tim: With respect to Human Events, my thoughts exactly.

Al: Thank you. Nice to see you back here. I HOPE all is well with you.

As always….I’ll check back in tomorrow.

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 October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Good morning!

Readers: This backs what I was telling you the yesterday about the lying sack of shit.

Soaring Suburban Poverty Catches Communities Unprepared

EDGEWATER, Colo. — Before the unraveling, Selena Blanco and her family felt secure in their hold on middle class life in this bedroom community just west of Denver. She and her husband both held professional jobs in industries that seemed sheltered from trouble, his in technology, hers in health care. Together they brought home $100,000 a year, enough to allay concerns about paying the bills, let alone having to ask for help.

But over the last two years, both have lost their jobs. Her unemployment check ran out in the spring, leaving them to subsist on his jobless benefits alone, about $1,500 a month.

The Blanco’s shattered fortunes have supplied them an unwanted new status, one they share with millions of suburban households in a nation previously accustomed to thinking of suburbia in upwardly mobile terms: They are poor.

They are officially so according to the federal government’s definition, which sets the poverty linefor a family of five at an annual income of $26,023 or less. It is viscerally true when one sees how Blanco, 28, now spends her day. She takes her four-year-old son to a county-operated Headstart program, free preschool for the poor. She forages for clothes at thrift stores. She scrounges for coupons to keep her family fed.

“We were doing well,” Blanco says, dabbing at reddening eyes with a tissue, trying to make sense of events that contradict her understanding of what is supposed to happen to people who work, save and provide for their children. “My husband and I would go out to eat without even thinking about it. We bought shoes. When I needed a bra, I went to Victoria’s Secret. Now we’re like, ‘Which Goodwill is having a sale?’”

They have applied for food stamps and the cash assistance program familiarly known as welfare, crossing a previously unimaginable threshold: For the first time in her life, Blanco — a self-possessed, confident, intelligent woman who still carries herself like someone who used to work in an office — has entered the ranks of those in need of public assistance.

“It’s a horrible feeling,” she says, tears staining her face. “There’s pride. I don’t show my kids that we’re hurting, but it hurts me. It makes me feel like I’m failing as a parent. It’s embarrassing.”

Despite the typically urban associations evoked by talk of poverty in America, Blanco is the face of an emerging segment of the nation’s poor now growing faster than any other. Though cities still have nearly double the rate of poverty as suburban areas, the number of people living in poverty in the suburbs of major metropolitan areas increased by 53 percent between 2000 and 2010, as compared to an increase of 23 percent among city-dwellers, according to a Brookings Institution analysis of recently released census data. In 16 metropolitan areas, including Atlanta, Dallas and Milwaukee, the suburban poor has more than doubled over the last decade.

The swift growth of suburban poverty is reshaping the sociological landscape, while leaving millions of struggling households without the support that might ameliorate their plight: Compared to cities, suburban communities lack facilities and programs to help the poor, owing to a lag in awareness that large numbers of indigent people are in their midst. Some communities are wary of providing services out of fear they will make themselves magnets for the poor.

In the suburbs, getting to county offices to apply for aid or to food banks generally requires a car or reliance on a typically minimal public transportation network. The same transportation constraints limit working opportunities, with many jobs potentially beyond reach and would-be employers reluctant to hire people who lack their own vehicles.

These basic difficulties are now exacerbated as states and local governments cut services and lay off staff in the face of budget shortfalls. Growing numbers of the new suburban poor face the risk of slipping through the cracks, sinking into a state of dependence on public assistance just as aid is diminishing.

“You’re seeing communities that have seen really rapid increases in their poor populations, and they don’t have the infrastructure to deal with it,” says Elizabeth Kneebone, a senior research associate at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. “The safety net is already stretched really thin, and it’s patchier in the suburbs. These providers are dealing with incredible increases in demand at the same time they are seeing their funding cut.”

POVERTY EXPANDS

The growth of the suburban poor was underway before the Great Recession, a reflection of how increasing numbers of Americans from across the socioeconomic spectrum have been gravitating to suburban communities: first, in search of better schools and remove from urban life; more recently, because jobs have been shifting there, attracting the affluent and the working poor alike.

By 2000, some 49 percent of the American poor already lived in suburban communities, according to work by Alan Berube and William Frey at the Brookings Institution.

But the recession substantially accelerated this trend in some suburban communities by assailing the incomes of previously middle class households, significantly elevating rates of joblessness, delinquency and foreclosure.

In the Chicago and Detroit metropolitan areas, their suburbs last year claimed the distinction of holding more poor residents than the cities, according to Berube and Kneebone’s analysis of census data. In both cities, the percentage of suburbanites living in poverty now exceeds 13 percent.

In the Las Vegas area, where a housing boom gave way to a bust, eliminating thousands of jobs in real estate and construction, nearly 15 percent of suburban residents were poor last year, up from about 10 percent in 2007 when the recession began. In southern California, 17 percent of suburban residents in Riverside, San Bernadino and Ontario were impoverished, a jump from about 12 percent in 2007.

Suburban-based social service agencies have been swamped. A survey of non-profit social service providers in suburban communities in the Washington, Chicago and Los Angeles metropolitan areas, conducted in 2009 and 2010 by researchers at Brookings, found that roughly nine in ten were seeing increased numbers of people seeking help compared to the previous year. Many had suffered cuts in financial support, prompting them to lay off staff and place needy people on wait-lists.

“In many communities, there just aren’t the organizations needed to provide job training, counseling or emergency assistance,” said Scott Allard, a political scientist at the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration and the lead author of the survey. “Poverty is a recent phenomenon.”

One key piece of data from the survey underscores the corrosive effects of suburban poverty on the American identity: Nearly three-fourths of the suburban non-profits were seeing significant numbers of people turning up who had never previously sought help.

“Growing up here, things were good,” says Blanco. “Now, you talk to people at the PTA, in the school cafeteria, and people are struggling. At the grocery store, people are going in only for what they need and not for what they want. You see people driving Lexuses and BMWs, and now they are in line at the food bank. Everyone is hurting. Everyone is looking for a job. We’re middle class in the suburbs, and now we’re hurting.”

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Anna Of Guam: Wonderful news. I can’t believe that if anyone really loved their child that they would continue to smoke in their car. It is disgusting and so inconsiderate, not to mention, that the cigarette smoking adults are stealing years off of their child’s life.

Robert: The  pharmaceutical industry absolutely abhors anything to do with keeping us healthy through supplements, and refuses to acknowledge that they do. Hence these rigged studies. They only care about selling their drugs, and keeping us needing them for the rest of our lives. When ever I read a study on any supplements, herbs or anything natural, I always look to see who is doing the study. If the research and/or study is done by the pharmaceutical industry, and the outcome is negative, I know that it is probably a lie.

DSCC: We need to keep a close eye out on this. This could be disastrous for Obama.

Janet: Unfortunately people do believe. Which s why we have to continue to deflect the lying sacks of shit.

Justin: From what I read, it looks like you got your wish.

Time to sign out. Happy Friday Everyone! Start flapping…blog me.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

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 October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

So…Obama’s Jobs Bill has the support of independent economists. They said it would grow the economy significantly and put people back to work. These are not Obama’s words; they are the words of these independent economists. No other jobs plan has that kind of support from economists. No plan from Congress. No plan from anybody. It is a jobs bill with the kind of proposals that democrats and republicans have traditionally supported. A bill that is entirely paid for.

I know I am repeating what Obama is saying, but I think it is worth repeating.

So…sounds good right? Yesterday was the day that we found out where every Senator stands on this job bill. So…did the Senate do something? Did they pass the bill? They did something alright. But in case you haven’t heard,  the Senate didn’t pass Obama’s Jobs Bill.  Surprised? I was HOPEful, but no, I am not surprised.

Obama Jobs Plan Voted Down By Senate

WASHINGTON — The Senate rejected President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill on Tuesday night, a move that was expected and clears the way for the White House to refocus on pressuring Congress to pass smaller pieces of the package.

The Senate voted 51 to 48 on a procedural motion to begin debate on the bill. Despite falling short of the required 60 votes, Senate Democratic leaders were at least able to save Obama face by securing a simple majority of Democratic support.

Two Democrats, Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Jon Tester (Mont.), sided with Republicans in opposing the motion. A handful of other Democrats who had concerns with the bill, including Sens. Jim Webb (Va.) and Joe Manchin (W.Va.), voted to proceed to debate but with the understanding that they would have voted against the bill itself.

“The things I support in this bill are outweighed by the things I can’t support,” Tester said in a statement after the vote. “It is an expensive, temporary fix to a problem that needs a big, long-term solution.”

Obama’s bill was a mix of tax cuts and new spending aimed at spurring job creation in the short term. It included $270 billion in payroll tax cuts and other tax relief, along with $175 billion in new spending on roads, school repairs and other infrastructure projects, as well as an extension of unemployment benefits and aid to local governments to prevent impending teacher and police layoffs.

During floor remarks before the vote, Webb said he couldn’t support the bill because of its proposal to offset costs by raising taxes on the wealthy. The bill includes a 5.6 percent surtax on households earning more than $1 million as a way to pay for the package. Obama’s bill originally proposed raising taxes on people with an annual salary of $200,000, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) upped the income level to bring reluctant Democrats on board with the offset.

Webb said the real problem is that the bill would tax people’s ordinary income versus capital gains, where he said most wealthy people make their money.

“The present proposal looks good at first glance, it sounds good on a TV bite, but in all respect to the people who put it forward, I do not believe it’s smart policy,” Webb said. “It does not go where the real economic division lies in our country.”

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), who typically votes with Democrats, called Obama’s proposal “a kind of mini-stimulus” that he said is less likely to give the economy a jolt than the $787 billion stimulus package passed in 2009.

“To me, what we’ve got to do is restore confidence of people in the business sector to invest. That’s what’s missing in our economy,” Lieberman said. “I know [Obama's jobs bill] has been put forward with good intentions, but I don’t think it does the job.”

The president has been campaigning around the country for weeks in an effort to sell the public on the need for Congress to pass his jobs bill. But given the political reality that neither the House nor the Senate ever had the votes to pass it, he has also less enthusiastically been endorsing the idea of lawmakers acting on smaller pieces of it.

“Tonight, a majority of United States Senators voted to advance the American Jobs Act,” Obama said in a statement after the Senate vote. “But even though this bill contains the kind of proposals Republicans have supported in the past, their party obstructed the Senate from moving forward on this jobs bill.”

“We will now work with Senator Reid to make sure that the individual proposals in this jobs bill get a vote as soon as possible.”

Moving forward, the political calculus by the White House is clear: press for votes on pieces of the bill with strong appeal to the middle class, such as tax cuts for small businesses and aid to keep teachers and police officers on the job. As the 2012 election comes into focus, the White House is prepared to tar anyone who opposes those provisions as a defender of tax breaks for millionaires.

“With each vote, Members of Congress can either explain to their constituents why they’re against common-sense, bipartisan proposals to create jobs, or they can listen to the overwhelming majority of American people who are crying out for action,” Obama said.

House Republican leaders, who have already said they won’t bring up Obama’s plan for a vote, welcomed the bill’s failure as a sign that bipartisan negotiations on pieces of the package can now begin in earnest.

“The Senate’s rejection of the President’s jobs bill proves once and for all that there isn’t sufficient support on either side of the aisle for his all-or-nothing approach,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said in a statement. “With millions of people out of work, I hope that the President will put the brakes on his campaign-style speeches and work with Congress on areas where there is bipartisan support to spur economic growth and get people back to work.”

“Now it’s time for both parties to work together and find common ground on removing government barriers to private-sector job growth,” Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said in a statement.

House Democratic leaders accused Republicans of standing in the way of job creation.

“Republicans – in the House and Senate – continue to delay and block action on this critical measure, refusing to address Americans’ top priority: jobs,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said in a statement.

Liberal groups also had harsh words for the bill’s detractors.

Senators who voted against the motion to begin debate on the bill “should be ashamed of themselves,” said Wade Henderson, president and CEO of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

“It’s long past time for Congress to take the steps necessary to get our economy working by helping to create the good paying jobs that Americans depend on to support their families and their communities,” Henderson said in a statement. “The Senate had a chance to do so today, and it failed miserably.”

Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, said those senators “turned their backs” on more than 14 million unemployed Americans. “At a time when so many American families are hurting, it is truly unconscionable to play politics with their lives and our economy,” she said in a statement. “There is no excuse for blocking this bill.”

For now, however, the White House and Senate Democratic leaders are already moving on to Plan B: mapping out which pieces of the bill to break out and hold individual votes on. A Senate Democratic aide told The Huffington Post to expect those votes to take shape during the week of Oct. 24.

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Readers: I agree, there is no excuse for blocking this bill. Did your Senator pass the Jobs bill? We know the republicans are still the party of no,  - no surprise there – their obstructionism continues. But two dems sided with the republicans: Sens. Ben Nelson (Neb.) and Jon Tester (Mont.).  No doubt, blue dog dems. If you’re from these two states, these are two names to remember when re-election comes around.

Thoughts? This is the place to speak and be heard. Blog me.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Good morning!

I am so excited to post today’s topic, and give recognition to three wonderful women…

Nobel Peace Prize Winners 2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee, Tawakkul Karman

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, peace activist Leymah Gbowee, and human rights activist Tawakkul Karman have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Prize Committee lauded their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and women’s rights to fully participate in peace-building work. The three recipients were announced today in a ceremony in Oslo, Norway.

From the Nobel Peace Prize official website:

“It is the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s hope that the prize to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkul Karman will help to bring an end to the suppression of women that still occurs in many countries, and to realise the great potential for democracy and peace that women can represent.”

Karman, a 32-year-old mother who heads the human rights group Women Journalists without Chains, has been a leading figure in the protests against Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh. “She is known among Yemenis as ‘the iron woman’ and the ‘mother of the revolution,’” the Associated Press writes. “A conservative woman fighting for change in a conservative Muslim and tribal society, Tawakkul Karman has been the face of the mass uprising against the authoritarian regime of President Ali Abdullah Saleh.”

“I am very very happy about this prize,” Karman told the news service from a protest tent in Sanaa. “This prize is not for Tawakkul, it is for the whole Yemeni people, for the martyrs, for the cause of standing up to (Saleh) and his gangs. Every tyrant and dictator is upset by this prize because it confronts injustice.”

“With two civil wars, an al-Qaida presence and 40% unemployment, what else is President Saleh waiting for? He should leave office now,” she told The Guardian.

Johnson Sirleaf, 72, is a Harvard-trained economist who became Africa’s first democratically elected female president in 2005.

Sirleaf was seen as a reformer and peacemaker when she took office in Liberia, a country ravaged by civil wars that is still struggling to maintain a fragile peace.

Sirleaf is running for re-election this month and opponents i have accused her of buying votes and using government funds to campaign. Sirleaf denies the charges.

The committee cited Johnson Sirleaf’s efforts to secure peace in her country, promote economic and social development and strengthen the position of women.

“We are dancing,” Bushuben Keita, a spokesman for Mrs. Johnson Sirleaf’s United Party told The New York Times. “This is the thing that we have been saying, progress has been made in Libera. We’ve come through 14 years of war and we have come to sustained peace. We’ve already started dancing.”

Gbowee, head of the Women Peace And Security Network, was honored by the Committee for for mobilizing women “across ethnic and religious dividing lines to bring an end to the long war in Liberia, and to ensure women’s participation in elections.” Gbowee brought together Christian and Muslim women against the power of Liberia’s warlords.

“I know Leymah to be a warrior daring to enter where others would not dare,” Gbowee’s assistant, Bertha Amanor, said to the AP. “So fair and straight, and a very nice person.”

The prize is awarded by a five-person committee chosen by the Norwegian parliament, lead this year by Thorbjoern Jagland. Speculation had swirled over who would receive the prize, with Jagland telling the Associated Press that the prize would be given to something “obvious” that he considered “the most positive development” in the world right now.

According the official Nobel Prize website, today’s presentation marks the 92nd time the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded since 1901.

When Alfred Nobel died in 1895, part of his last will and testament requested the distribution of his fortune as prizes for “the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.” Last year’s winner, Liu Xiaobo, received the award for his struggle for human rights in China. President Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize the previous year for his efforts in international diplomacy.

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Readers: Three Wonderful Women of the World! How delightful that the Nobel Peace Prize winners of 2011 are all women! I am not surprised, just simply thrilled. Can you imagine? We have three women that are so amazing that just one couldn’t be chosen as the winner, so this prestigious award was divided between the three of them!

It just goes to show you that women are doing wonderful things for this world…and for the lives of women now and in our future.  They deserve the great recognition that they are receiving. And I take great pleasure in honoring them as Wonderful Women of the World.

Change.org: Done.

Richard Denison: Thanks for posting. However, It would be helpful to my readers next time, if you posted the link to your site.

Hey Mike: The sickness never seems to end. How are you?

Carrie: Thank you for the kudos.

I have more to say but Doug and Lucy are calling, so I’ll end my write and comment to the rest of you that I want to address tomorrow. Have a wonderful Saturday everyone!

Blog me. Peace out. 

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