The latest update from this past Saturday on the Bush tax cuts:

Senate Republicans Block Middle Class Tax Cut

Readers: If the Republicans don’t go for extending the Bush tax cuts according to what the Dems have been planning for years, (The Bush tax cuts will be extended for the first quarter million dollars of income – Above that? No. ) I for one say “screw ‘em – let them expire for everyone”, and blame the Repubs for raising taxes on the entire country.  Let’s see how people respond to that one if and when it happens. Unless of course, the Dems gather up their balls and do something.

If you have something to say, say it here. Blog me.

Vivian: Congratulations! I wonder how many of my readers are now in relationship with a fellow reader. Too cool. Thanks for sharing your story.

Doug: Heaven is right here waiting for you. :) Looking forward to you coming home today.

Shaun: Hmm…(Sigh) Kinda sucks sometimes doesn’t it? I have reached acceptance on so many levels these past few days. I posted this quote on my computer screen; a quote that is very familiar to many. It has become the thing that I read whenever I am faced with something challenging.

“GOD, GRANT ME THE SERENITY TO ACCEPT THE THINGS I CANNOT CHANGE, COURAGE TO CHANGE THE THINGS I CAN, AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.”

Bob: I like it. :)

Henry: Well said. My eyes are looking at the same thing.  Many people are choosing not to see the truth.

Hi Anna:…long time! How are you? Nice to see you here. Hmmm…Could there be new possible relationships brewing in the near future?  Bai and his friends perhaps? Oops I meant Bai and “her” friends. :) Hafa Adai.

Hi Peter! Hafa Adai.

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

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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The Art Of Hayv Kahraman

I discovered this artist thanks to a new business associate and now friend. (Thanks Melinda!)

Hayv Kahraman, the artist, is a 27-year old girl, a native from Baghdad, who now lives in the US. Drawing in Sumi ink on paper, Kahraman shows us visually through her beautiful art the oppression of women and the ravaging affects of war on women, who are always affected the hardest.

I love her paintings not only because they are simply beautiful works of art, but because they so strikingly depict the atrocities that women endure in real life, and strangely beautifies them with the graceful strokes of Japanese and Arabic calligraphy and art nouveau. One can be drawn to her work simply because they are beautiful only to discover that they are moved by the unfortunate real life story that many of the paintings tell.

Hayv Kahraman

Her impeccable illustrative renderings create stunning but also unsettling, minutely detailed images which prevent us from looking away from tragedies such as rape and honour killings, forcing us to reflect on things that we would otherwise refuse to see.

Readers: I would love to own one (or a few!) one of these days.  Are you as drawn to these paintings as I am? Blog me.

Okay…so it seems that someone is messing with my blog this morning. I am not able to see the comments through admin so I will not be able to hyperlink your comments today.

Hi Larry: Thanks for the update.  You’ve got a great attitude. You may have lost a wife but it seems you have gained two new wonderful relationships with “bennies”. :) Enjoy and good luck making that baby!

Hello Harris: Nice to hear from you! You are welcome, although I personally did not do a thing. It was you and Evelyn, that were probably destined to meet and my blog was the venue, and for that I am happy.

As I said to Evelyn, thank you for including us in your special day! I am excited to meet and spend time with all of you. And “the girls”…I cant imagine what they will be like two years from now – they are growing and learning so much. I bet they will be teaching me many a thing or two. Speaking of two…Two years feels like forever, but I know it will be here sooner than we think. Time seems to be that way lately.  And I am sure that where ever we stay it will be lovely.  Thank you.  I think you  and Doug will enjoy each other’s company- he gets along well with everyone, and I would bet you do too. – Hopefully he can come out early too, so you two can get to know each other. I’ll let Doug speak his gratitude when he chimes in.

I look forward to hearing more from you about the big day as it gets closer.  Oh, PS: I think your wedding plans are giving Prince William and Kate Middleton a little bit of competition – at least here on my blog, you and Evelyn’s nuptials are the hotter topic!  :)

Oh…and love the story of the flapping native tongues going around – what a hoot. I’ll enjoy listening because I definitely will not be able to partake in any conversations. My limited learning of languages does not afford me that pleasure but I will surely get a kick out of the experience. Please give “the girls” a warm hello from me. And I will personally say hello to Ruth because I know she is reading. :)

Zhen-n and Barakii: No worries…no plans to quit. :)

Mary: Love is never wrong unless the two people in love decide it is. Mind your own business. With the way the world is, we should embrace love where ever it is present. And congratulate those that have found each other and have professed their love.

George: See above comment

Sandra and Tiffany: It seems there are more relationships created from people meeting on my blog than I realized. I am delighted for your happiness too. Whoever would’ve thought that my blog would bring so much love? That in itself is a reason to continue writing. :)

And on that note, I am headed back to bed for a little more R & R.  Sending everyone lots of love…

Peace out.

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

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Since there has been so much chat here about cheating and condoms…who’s doing it, who’s donning one, and who’s choosing to opt out (not a good choice), I thought that since it is World Aids Day today, it was important that I show the numbers.

A chart for World Aids Day –  Taken from the animated charts at Aids In Africa

The numbers needed to describe deaths, infections, and orphans brought by AIDS in Africa are too large for us to understand. We can simplify these numbers into abstract models; we can show them in relation to one another; we can chart them, graph them, subdivide them into smaller more tangible numbers. However, we have to accept at the end that we are not capable of grasping the scale in which people of Africa are suffering and dying due to HIV/AIDS.

Diagrams also fail to connect statistics with the real people they are meant to represent. When looking at a chart, it is easy to forget that each number represents a real life, with real family members and friends. A death is not a single unit, but an end of a painful progression of sickness that leaves behind widows, orphans, and demoralized communities.

Despite their weaknesses, diagrams serve an important tool for explaining the complicted dynamics of this monsterous epidemic. Most of the “People Charts” above are generated dynamically based on information stored in an online database. This makes it much easier to update the statistics and keep the site up to date, an especially important feature since the epidemic is in constant motion.

Sources
Most of the statistics presented here, including HIV prevalence, cause of death, and HIV/AIDS models have been obtained through UNAIDS website and World Health Organization’s public online library. Information on drug prices is partly drawn from a report by Doctors without Borders.

Readers: And as usual, President Obama is doing something about issues that are important to us. Just another thing to add to all that he has already done for the American people and the world.

Today, Obama Administration officials and leaders in the AIDS community will speak at a World AIDS Day event at the White House to reflect on the lessons learned and the path forward in the fight against HIV and AIDS in the United States and around the world.  The White House World AIDS Day Event will include keynote remarks as well as a panel discussion with HIV/AIDS researchers and advocates and will be live streamed at 1:30 on www.whitehouse.gov/live.

Throughout his career in public service, President Obama has been committed to fighting HIV/AIDS here at home and around the world.  With the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) as a foundation, the President put forward an ambitious $63 billion Global Health Initiative (GHI) to combat HIV/AIDS, address other health challenges and assist partner countries to strengthen their health systems and build capacity to provide services sustainably.  Through the GHI, the President’s aim is to ensure our programs have maximum impact, as this Administration’s focus is on outcomes, such as lives saved — not simply dollars spent. Since taking office, the number of those on antiretroviral treatment has nearly doubled to 3.2 million – up from 1.7 million in 2008, and under the GHI, the U.S. continues to be the global leader in funding for HIV/AIDS.  The President proposed the largest request to date for PEPFAR for FY 2011.  Additionally, in October, the Administration announced an unprecedented multi-year pledge of $4 billion for 2011-2013 to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.  This pledge represents a 38% increase in U.S. support for the Global Fund, and is in addition to more than $5.1 billion provided to the Fund to date.

Domestically, the Office of National AIDS Policy released the first comprehensive National HIV/AIDS Strategy and Federal Implementation Plan for the United States with three key goals: reducing the number of new infections; increasing access to care and optimizing health outcomes for people living with HIV; and reducing HIV-related health disparities.

Jeffrey Crowley is the Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP)

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Don’t be a number and don’t subject your partner to being one. Thoughts to share? Blog me.

Hi Nancy: Thanks for the compliment, but even more so, thanks for taking a step in the direction of doing something. Much appreciated. :)  ”Half The Sky” is certainly on my reading list. Let me know how you like it.

Pearl: GOAT? How can I not love that acronym, not to mention the definition! Thank you.

Rita: You said it better than I.

Ken: So…I’m dying to know…Did you get asked out on any dates? You know…did the grope get some rope worth pursuing? C’mon don’t hold back now. :)

Brenda: Gosh no. But when I thought no one did, I had to really read and re-read the article again just in case I was missing something. I wanted to see the other side. I mean after all this blog does point out quite often,  and rightly so, how men try to control and hold women down. But I could find no fault this time. I truly thought that this surgeon was being sincere, and I liked his metaphorical meaning, so I made it a point to say so. Anyway enough said. As far as you getting a facelift: Go for it if you ever feel like it. And yes, donate to the SPCA too. How cool. Love you back. :)

Kimberly: Thanks for the kudos. My readers continue to delightfully surprise me.

Scituate Handyman: Well thank you. Please come back and read again.

Vera: You have me cracking up. I wish I had thought of that. You actually got arrested? Please blog me and give us the dope on the verdict.

Zen Lill: Love the story. And ya gotta love the Lucy girl. I certainly do.

Terrance: I know. It’s sick isn’t it.

Larry: Is this the same Larry that has been begging for pics of ZL? You crack me up – Yes, you are keeping your options open aren’t you?!

Peace & Love: “Live it, Give it”…and make sure that you put one “on it“.

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

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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“Women hold up half the sky”

The above is a Chinese proverb and the inspiration behind the title of a book that is now on my must read list, “Half The Sky”, written by my today’s pick for Wonderful Women Of The World,  Sheryl WuDunn, a former New York Times reporter. WuDunn co-wrote the book with her husband Nicholas Kristof, a Times columnist.

In 2009, within one week of publication, “Half The Sky” became a best seller, and went into more than twenty printings in hardcover – the paperback version was released just this past summer.

Book: Half The Sky

Here’s a review that I found written by Martha Nussbaum, who is a professor of law and philosophy at the University of Chicago and the author of “Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach” and other books.

Seeing Women’s Rights as a Key to Countries’ Progress

Women and girls die every day in large numbers all over the world, some from violence, some from what Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, in “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” call the “diffuse cruelty of indifference”: inadequate medical care and other practices that betray a widespread undervaluation of the worth of female life. In this passionate yet practical book, the authors argue that the struggle for gender equality is “the paramount moral challenge” of our era.

It is also a development challenge: unleashing women’s energy, they argue, is a key to economic success. The authors’ stated aim is to “recruit” the reader to join a worldwide movement to end these abuses.

Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn have a tricky problem in presentation. It’s difficult to get people to care about daily abuses like lack of education or undernutrition. People like drama, and many of the worst abuses are hard to dramatize. So, skillful journalists that they are (Mr. Kristof is a New York Times Op-Ed columnist, and Ms. WuDunn, his wife, was for many years a Times reporter and editor), they focus on three problems that offer moving individual narratives: forced prostitution, honor killing and maternal mortality. Along the way they introduce the evidence of other deprivations.

Moving rapidly in and out between particular and general, the authors present gripping stories of individual women (for the most part in South Asia and Africa), emphasizing their resilience and ingenuity, even in terrible circumstances. They then deftly introduce a wide range of data supporting their claims that the abuses they describe are widespread and that they stymie national progress. Their descriptions of female resourcefulness alone make the case that neglecting women’s agency is a huge political and economic error.

The authors nicely combine commitment with caution about what we know and don’t know, what does good and what might not. The many failures of foreign aid are not neglected; the aim is simply to show that recognition can stimulate improvement.

Similarly, their attitude toward sex work is nuanced. Although they favor crackdowns on all sex work as the best means of changing traffickers’ economic incentives, they also present the argument for decriminalization with regulation. The readability of the book should not make one underestimate the care of the analysis.

By locating the problems they describe in the “developing world,” Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn surely paint too rosy a picture of what happens to women in richer countries. There, they say, “discrimination is usually a matter of unequal pay or underfunded sports teams or unwanted touching from a boss.” Tell that to the 18 percent of women in the United States who, according to the authoritative National Violence Against Women Survey, say they have experienced rape or attempted rape. Acknowledging misogyny close to home helps us think better about its sources and possible remedies.

Still, the book is both stirring and sensible. The problems are important, they hamper development, and progress can be made on all of them if the political will can be forged. So, while not denying that solutions ultimately require governments to get involved, the authors focus on the creation of a worldwide momentum toward solution and appeal to readers to join in a wide range of nongovernmental organizations working on gender equality.

There’s one weak chapter, called “Is Islam Misogynistic?” Although the authors ultimately suggest that the answer, at least historically, is “no,” their account of the religious history is too superficial to be useful. Nor do they give a systematic account of the wide range of contemporary movements that are both Islamic and feminist. Along the way, they feed some stereotypes that readers are all too likely to hold.

“Such as,” however, suggests a longer list. The authors have already told us that maternal mortality is a particularly large problem in Sub-Saharan Africa, where Muslims are not in a majority. (The annual United Nations Human Development Report confirms this.)

Their account of forced prostitution highlights the problems of countries that are not predominantly Muslim (e.g. India, Thailand, Cambodia), as well as of some Muslim nations. We’ve been given no reason to suppose that Muslim nations do worse. Later, moreover, the authors praise Muslim-majority Bangladesh as a shining example of what can happen when a nation decides to invest in women and girls.

The gravest problem, one that the authors mention but never treat in detail, is the basic denial to girls of life itself, whether through infanticide, discriminatory nutrition and health care in childhood, or the increasingly common practice of sex-selective abortion. Here the nations of East Asia leap into prominence. The natural ratio of girls to boys at birth is typically taken to be 95 to 100. In Singapore and Taiwan, the figure is 92 girls to 100 boys, in South Korea 88, in China only 86.

These figures reflect only sex-selective abortion, and not deaths after birth from infanticide or differential nutrition and medical care. The overall sex ratio, which does include these deaths, is even more striking: China and South Korea have two of the most unbalanced sex ratios in the world.

We’d have to discuss those figures (worse than those of almost all majority-Muslim nations) before making any responsible statement about which cultures are more or less misogynistic.

In the same chapter the authors make a rare inaccurate statement. “Hindu women in India are more autonomous and more likely to be educated than their Muslim women neighbors.” But the only comprehensive survey of Muslim women in India, the highly regarded 2005 study by Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon, concluded that (adjusting for poverty level, since Muslims are a relatively deprived group in most parts of the nation) the significant differences are regional rather than religious. “Religion per se does not influence the status of women,” they summarize.

Mr. Kristof and Ms. WuDunn, so curious elsewhere, seem unaware of this well-known evidence. In short, why not just confront each manifestation of misogyny where one finds it, rather than play a ratings game that fits too neatly with widespread political prejudices?

This criticism aside, however, this wonderful book combines a denunciation of horrible abuses with clear-eyed hope and some compelling practical strategies. The courageous women described here, and millions more like them, deserve nothing less.

Readers: Perhaps along with me this is a must read to add to your holiday list. And if reading this or the book inspires you to do more for women, join “Half The Sky Movement”. As always, if all of us just do a little more for women, or just do something, how we could change lives and change the world.

“Women aren’t the problem they’re the solution, along with men”

Half the Sky lays out an agenda for the world’s women and three major abuses: sex trafficking and forced prostitution; gender-based violence including honor killings and mass rape; maternal mortality, which needlessly claims one woman a minute. We know there are many worthy causes competing for attention in the world. We focus on this one because this kind of oppression feels transcendent – and so does the opportunity. Outsiders can truly make a difference.

So let us be clear up front: We hope to recruit you to join an incipient movement to emancipate women and fight global poverty by unlocking women’s power as economic catalysts. It is a process that transforms bubbly teenage girls from brothel slaves into successful businesswomen. You can help accelerate change if you’ll just open your heart and join in.

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Not much more to say except I HOPE this write has inspired you. Enjoy the weekend, and as always, I’ll see you back her tomorrow.

Peace out.

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

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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Good morning!

I HOPE Everyone enjoyed a very untraditional Thanksgiving celebration!

Here is an article that shows the hypocrisy of the Right. As if they couldn’t find a better role model for this message to their kids.  It shows the kids that the parents are as full of BS as the message.

Bristol Palin & The Situation Talk Abstinence, Condoms (VIDEO)

The Situation and Bristol Palin have teamed up for a new PSA to prevent teen pregnancy. In the skit, Bristol promotes abstinence while the Situation advocates safe sex.

“I know you’re all about that abstinence thing, but come on, B-Palin, are you serious?” he asks. “You’re not gonna hook up before you’re married? For real?”

“For real,” she says. He goes on to offer her Magnum condoms, which she declines.

Last year Bristol was named ambassador to the Candies Foundation, which aims to educate teens about the consequences of pregnancy.

Bristol received the lowest score on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ Monday night despite having a personal best performance.

Oh and speaking of Dancing With The Stars, Bristol Palin didn’t exactly go out gracefully. My mother who is so into the show, read to me last night what Bristol said during the finale show. Let me just say, it isn’t exactly something I would want to hear from a supposed role model. Just another example of Right-wing hypocrisy.

“Going out there and winning this would mean a lot,” Bristol told the Dancing with the Stars audience during a clip package on the finale. “It would be like a big middle finger to all the people out there that hate my mom and hate me.”

Readers: Yep, she proved it…fruit doesn’t fall too far from the tree. Just like mom, Bristol doesn’t just want to defeat you, she wants to crush anyone who opposes her. I just want to say to her, “Oh, grow up”, but then, as we all know, her mother never did.

If you have anything to say, say it here. Blog me.

Peace out.

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

Aka BABE: We all know what this means by now :)

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