While writing my blog yesterday on the Ponzi scheme, I briefly mentioned relationships that are created with inmates. A question had popped into my mind as to whether inmates had access to the internet. So I did a quick google during my write, and came across some very interesting websites.

I found a website , Prisoner Life, that helps connect people with inmates to create a pen pal relationship. It talked about how befriending a prisoner through writing letters, and the affect that receiving  letters has on prisoners. I found out that loneliness is one of the greatest challenges they face each day.

And that Mail call may be the lowest point of their day, if one doesn’t receive a letter.  Communication is essential in the rehabilitation process.  Studies have shown that those inmates who have people on the outside taking an interest in them have a much lower recidivism rate then those who do not. Not surprisingly, women are rarely recidivist, but men have a high recidivism rate.

When I read this, I felt sad and compelled to start up a pen pal friendship with an inmate. Who knows if I ever will….it was just a fleeting thought. Is that crazy or what?

And just a little side note before I end this post. Here is a little didley that I found on the website:

At the end of 1996, 1,571 per 100,000 blacks in the U.S. were incarcerated; this compares to 193 per 100,000 whites incarcerated.

What does that tell you about our judicial system? What does it tell you about racism? Those numbers are over ten years old. I wonder what they would look like today.

Readers:  I would love to hear from any of you that have started a relationship, either a plutonic friendship, love, whatever, with an inmate. What has your experience been like? Blog me. This is such an intriguing topic to me.

Zen Lill: It was good to catch up with you the other day too. How did the fashion show go?

Like you, prison pen pals have always blown me away too. Not because of the writing factor necessarily but because some create intimate relationships, fall in love, and some even get married, while the mate is still ‘in’…. ‘In prison’ that is. :) It is very intriguing to me.

Of course these days with internet dating, and even blogging, one can get to know someone very well through their writing, so it shouldn’t surprise us so much as to why. And when I think of how many people may actually be in prison that are innocent, it makes it less surprising that people will hook up and create a realtionship. Not to say that one can’t fall in love with a serial killer. Not my kind of life mate, but hey, there is evidently someone out there for everyone.

Helen: So maybe it wasn’t such a slow week and my peeps were trying to blog me. Sorry that you couldn’t, and thanks for trying.

Umei: You were obviously successful in posting your article – Thanks for the e-coli alert.

Got to run…Labor day weekend is almost here and I am so looking forward to 3 days of relaxation!

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I hope that everyone had a great weekend!

While getting my mani-pedi on Saturday, the brief comment that the TAO left a few days before about our seas being polluted down to 3600 feet, was something that kept entering my thoughts. What have the mammals done to deserve this?

Then while perusing People Magazine, (the only time I get to read these kinds of mags is when I am being pampered :), I came across a tiny blurb about dolphins, and the 60′s TV series “Flipper”. As a kid, I loved watching Flipper, and even went to a few shows where dolphins ‘performed’.

As I became more of an animal/mammal lover, and more aware, I no longer supported those type of environments that held animals captive. Whenever I read that the circus is coming to town (Barnum and Bailey especially) I send letters to them, telling them exactly how I feel about their ‘treatment’ to the animals. I have read many horror stories of the inhumane ways animals and mammals are treated while in captivity, and it is unacceptable. To me, animals are best left free in their natural environment and habitat.

In fact, I even volunteered for 6 months at the Marine Mammal Center and helped care for sick sea lions that were affected by humans and our carelessness, so that they could return to their natural habitat. It is amazing what a little plastic from a 6-pack can do to our sea life. It was hard work, but knowing that my care helped the mammals to heal and enabled them to be released back out into the sea was worth the cold mornings. And if you have been reading my blog, you know I hate the cold :)

So…this tiny blurb in People Magazine, spoke of a man, activist Richard O’Barry, who has spent his last 40 years of life, advocating for dolphins, recently released his documentary about the plight of dolphins, by the predatory hands of the Japanese. I was not aware of the plight of dolphins in Japan until I read about O’Barry, the dolphin ‘abolitionist’,  and his lifelong commitment to these beautiful, smiling creatures.

Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, here’s a clip of The Cove:

Marine Mammal Specialist, Earth Island Institute

Richard O’Barry has worked both sides of the dolphin street, the first 10 years with the dolphin captivity industry, the past 38 against it.

Working back in the 1960s for Miami Seaquarium, O’Barry captured and trained dolphins, including the five dolphins who played the role of Flipper in the popular American TV-series of the same name. When Kathy, the dolphin who played Flipper most of the time, died in his arms, O?Barry realized that capturing dolphins and training them to perform silly tricks is simply wrong.

From that moment on, O’Barry knew what he must do with his life. On the first Earth Day, 1970, he founded the Dolphin Project, dedicated to freeing captive dolphins who were viable candidates and educating people throughout the world to the plight of dolphins in captivity. He launched a searing campaign against the multi-billion dollar dolphin captivity industry, telling the public what was really going on at dolphin shows and urging people not to buy tickets to see dolphins play the fool.

O’Barry has rescued and released more than 25 captive dolphins in Haiti, Colombia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Brazil, the Bahamas Islands and the United States. His more than 45 years of experience with dolphins and his firsthand knowledge about the methods used to capture and train them has taken him all over the world to participate in lectures and conferences about the controversial dolphin captivity issue. As he knew it would, this created a lot of hostility toward him by those who stood to profit from the continued exploitation of dolphins.

“They’re in this for money. Take it away, and they’ll quit doing this,” O’Barry says and adds: “Dolphins are free-ranging, intelligent, and complex wild animals, and they belong in the oceans, not playing the clown in our human schemes.”

To recognize his contribution, in 1991 O’Barry received the ‘Environmental Achievement Award’ presented by the United States Committee for the United Nations Environmental Program (US/UNEP).

His book ‘Behind the Dolphin Smile’ was published in 1989, a second book, ‘To Free A Dolphin’ was published in September 2000. Both of them are about his work and dedication.

O’Barry is a Fellow National in The Explorers Club, a multidisciplinary society that links together scientists and explorers from all over the world. Each member is an accomplished individual with at least one fascinating story to tell.

In January, 2007, O’Barry became the Marine Mammal Specialist for Earth Island Institute and Director of Save Japan Dolphins coalition: www.SaveJapanDolphins.org

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Readers:  Have any of you seen this movie? The clip has certainly aroused my curiosity,  and I intend to see the documentary. Perhaps, you too are a lover of mammals and your support of them is the answer to the question that you asked yourself yesterday, and hopefully today…and tomorrow….and… :) “What can I do to make the world a better place?”

I know I ask a lot from my readers and I don’t expect for everyone to advocate everything that needs support on this planet. But what I do expect, is that you find one thing and dedicate time in your life to helping that one thing, or one area, that makes your heart sing. I know that when I give my time and effort, it makes me feel like I am contributing to the planet and our environment in a good way,  instead of just taking and adding to the many environmental problems…..giving, gives my life more meaning and purpose.

Al:  I am a bit confused, as maybe you were about my post yesterday. Not sure if you were referring to my age and your pair of drawers :) I was not the writer of the article that I posted under the heading, “The Dream Lives On: Keeping The Kennedy Fire Alive”. It was just something that I found on the Huff.  I liked it and it inspired me, so I posted it.

Enjoy the beginning of your week…

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I didn’t get the chance yesterday morning to watch the funeral of Sen. Ted Kennedy, nor the eulogy that president Obama gave.  But this morning I have been heavily perusing the net watching videos and reading about it, and feeling the sadness and loss, that I am sure everyone in this country is feeling.

There are a few articles that I read but I came across one that I wanted to post. We can talk about what Sen. Ted Kennedy has done in his long career as a senator, as the list is long and impressive and absolutely worthy of the praise and recognition. Kennedy became the ‘greatest legislator of our time’.

But to me, honoring him best would be to carry on his legacy of care and compassion, and the never-give-up attitude.  How can we keep what he was so passionate about alive and kicking? What can we do?

I like this article because it addresses his many accomplishments, but asks of us, how we can take a little bit of what Ted Kennedy did on a daily basis, and make it a part of our daily lives.

The Dream Lives On: Keeping The Kennedy Fire Alive

As Senator Kennedy was finally laid to rest yesterday, the weight of his passing hit me much harder than I thought. I can feel the collective heartbreak of losing the last of our royal line. It is as if the round table has finally been broken, and all the knight’s swords laid to rest. I am 42 years old, and Ted Kennedy was a state Senator longer than I have been alive. My generation has never known anything else but to live under the legacy of the Kennedy’s ‘American Camelot’ influence. How do we pass this flame of public service to our children, and spark the next generation of leaders?

I think Andy Ostroy said it best in his piece, featured on HuffPo earlier this week:

“Ted Kennedy’s contribution to American culture and society can be seen in virtually every historic issue fought in modern American politics, including health care, social security and Medicare, minimum wages, education, immigration, aid for senior citizens, civil rights, voter’s rights, women’s rights, gay rights and human rights. And he accomplished all this as a gentleman and a respected bi-partisan leader, with civility, grace and humor. A larger-than-life Washington character. Sadly, there’s no one to step in and fill his shoes….on either side of the aisle.”

I was sobbing listening to Vice President Joe Biden give the best speech of his life remembering his old friend at the memorial service, held at the Kennedy library. He spoke of the countless times Teddy had been there for him, and for so many. Beyond his historic accomplishments, it was in the ‘little things’ that Senator Kennedy shined his humanity onto all who were in his giant wake and, “makes you want to be better than you are,” as Biden said.

The grief floating around America this week has been palpable. We have spent a lifetime grieving again and again with the Kennedy family through the years of unending tragedies. Losing Eunice Kennedy Shriver earlier this month reminded us what a fiery feminist can do; and her gift of the Special Olympics is as a legacy beyond measure. When Maria Shriver spoke at her funeral a few weeks ago, she said her mother would have pounded her fist at the podium – asking what we did today to make the world a better place.

The tenacity, compassion and drive to champion the under privileged moves me to want to be a better citizen, and a better parent. All of the Kennedy siblings, and so many of their children, are working in public service. We may never see such a family again. They had their faults, their mistakes and their issues, just like the rest of us. But there is one thing they did not do: stop or give up.

Senator Joseph Kennedy, Teddy’s nephew, reflected on this determination at the memorial.

“He was telling me, never, ever, ever, ever give up. You stay in the race. And if people don’t have health care, you stay in the race. If people don’t have adequate housing, you stay in the race. If people aren’t being treated properly you stay in the race,” he said.

In contemplating the death of Eunice and Teddy, I asked my four kids this week, while driving to get school supplies, what we were doing as a family to make the world a better place. The six year old twins slurped their organic juice boxes and gave me a blank stare, while the older ones tossed it around. My 14 year-old son offered up, “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country?” This seemed to be his attempt to show me the full scale of his Kennedy knowledge.

We finally decided the best way they can “give” to their country, is to develop their character. To try their best, to help someone out that needs it, and to be grateful for what we have. The new generation of children will never know the Kennedy influence. Who is their champion now? Who is going to dare us to be the first to fly to the moon? Who is going to stand up and pound their fist, roar like a lion, and make us want to be better? Where is our fire, our sense of competition, our collective conscience that serving the lesser among us is a right and a responsibility?

The answer for leadership is not just in Barack Obama, although he has the potential – it is in all of us. Everyone must do their part. The current first family is laying the foundations to inspire a new generation in big ways, as well as small ones. From planting an organic garden outside the White House, daring to touch the Queen of England, or encouraging American’s to volunteer – the legacy or making a difference does not have to die.

On Memorial Day, the White House offered a call to service, and at the HuffPo, on the right hand side of this page, you can find links for the “All for Good” campaign. Check it out for opportunities to be in service within your zip code as a great way to get your kid’s engaged.

Arianna Huffington wrote a fantastic piece earlier this week, reminding us that the national conversation about helping the least among us needs to remain the center of bipartisan attention.

Right now, Kennedy’s Health Care Bill is on the precipice, just like the Civil Rights Bill, when JFK was shot. Ted Kennedy introduced the first legislation for health care in 1969, when I was two years old. Let’s get it done as a tribute to our favorite family, and revitalize our momentum as a country. Teddy said,

“the dream lives on.”

Let’s all work together to make sure it does.

-Kari Henley, President of the Board of Directors at the Women & Family Life Center Posted: August 30, 2009 09:09 AM. Huffington Post

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Readers:  What if we all made a commitment to ask ourselves every day, “What can I do to make the world a better place today?”, and actually do something that does? How grand life would be….

Do it.

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Once again, business before pleasure. My apologies yesterday for posting two video demos of ‘Six Days In Fallujah”. Last night I fixed it and replaced the first one with a peak at the “Darfur Is Dying” video. I have no idea how I posted two of the same and didn’t notice it until last night. Oops. Maybe it was because yesterday morning before writing my write,  I was feeding Lucy and cracked my head on the underside of the concrete countertop on the up swing. Ouch.  Hmm…anyway….If you missed seeing the video demo, you can see it now.

Hi Mark:  I didn’t see your comment from Saturday until now. In fact I didn’t see anyone’s comment on Saturday after you. Anyway, you are doing nothing wrong. Why the ‘regulars’ seem to not have an issue commenting is totally unknown to me. I appreciate your persistency in trying though. As I have mentioned umpteen times before, it is all the luck of the draw who gets in and who doesn’t.

And as Peter mentioned to Anna, “I don’t think Michelle would want to prescreen every  comment.” You got that right Peter.

So in answer to your question Anna, “No you do not have to clear your articles with me first. Sorry that you and whoever else is having problems commenting.” And no you are not monopolizing :)

On another note, I am was so sad sorry to read your story. It sounds like ‘Sinbad’ was a pretty cool and well loved man, who will be dearly missed.  Hafa adai.

Thanks Helena for posting that article and filling in for health info.

Cathy: My pleasure. This is America and in spite of our big marketing campaigns for non-fat this and zero-calorie that, many people struggle with their weight here. Thanks for helping them out.

Doug: You’re welcome. Let me know if and when you play.

India: Yeah…it made me chuckle. :)

Anonz: Thank you for your comment.  However, it reminded me that I have really not covered much lately on Darfur. A write is in order. Thank you.  As always it is good to hear from you. I’m happy that you are well.

So….onto today’s topic.  Has anyone seen the awesome cover of yesterday’s NY Times Magazine? Not to mention all of the articles inside? The topic? “Saving The World’s Women”. It’s about time the plight of women in the world is the headlining focus, and an issue that needs to be addressed over and over…in our faces daily.

Care.org. has a tag line that is very enlightening:

“As Women….We are half the world, yet we are 2/3 of the worlds illiterate,  yet we are 3/4 of the world’s refugees and displaced people. But together we can change the whole world.”

I read the stats and my eyes well up with tears. And then I read the last sentence: ” But together we can change the whole world”, and I get chills, knowing that it is so true.

And then I see the featured article on the cover: “Why Women’s Rights Are The Cause Of Our Time”, and I smile thinking, “Yes! Finally recognition.”  The present situation of the plight of women around the world and the lack of women’s rights is recognized as a cause that is more important than anything…it is the cause of our time. Bravo! NY Times for recognizing the cause and featuring it on your cover. Thank you for taking women’s right seriously.

More on the mag:

The New York Times Magazine of Sunday Aug. 23 will be devoted to issues confronting the world’s women, especially women’s rights.

The cover features the headline, “Why Women’s Rights are the Cause of Our Time,” the title of an article by Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn. Adapted from their book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, the essay says empowering women can help solve many of the world’s problems, including poverty and terrorism.

“All in all, [the magazine] will be a very memorable treatment of an issue that increasingly is being seen as central to economic development,” Kristof said in a June 30 blog posting. “One of the reasons for this issue – and for Half the Sky – is that there’s growing recognition that if you want to fight poverty and extremism, you need to educate and empower women and bring them into the economy. A country can’t grow and be stable if half the population is marginalized.”

Other items in the magazine spotlight the importance of ensuring women’s access to maternal health care, education and economic opportunities, and the need to eliminate gender inequality in social, cultural and political areas.

Magazine highlights include:

• An interview with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who discusses the Obama administration’s plan to push women’s rights issues on a global scale.

Here’s an excerpt:

Q: In your confirmation hearing, you said you would put women’s issues at the core of American foreign policy. But as you know, in much of the world, gender equality is not accepted as a universal human right. How do you overcome that deep-seated cultural resistance?

Clinton: You have to recognize how deep-seated it is, but also reach an understanding of how without providing more rights and responsibilities for women, many of the goals we claim to pursue in our foreign policy are either unachievable or much harder to achieve.

Democracy means nothing if half the people can’t vote, or if their vote doesn’t count, or if their literacy rate is so low that the exercise of their vote is in question. Which is why when I travel, I do events with women, I talk about women’s rights, I meet with women activists, I raise women’s concerns with the leaders I’m talking to.

I happen to believe that the transformation of women’s roles is the last great impediment to universal progress – that we have made progress on many other aspects of human nature that used to be discriminatory bars to people’s full participation. But in too many places and too many ways, the oppression of women stands as a stark reminder of how difficult it is to realize people’s full human potential.

• An article on philanthropy among women; and

• An interview with Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who discusses what the world would be like if it were run by women.

I have yet to read the issue as I just got light of it this morning. But I’m excited to get online and read the stories later of this aft.   Not every article is on line so if you want to read it all, try to find a copy of the magazine.  It’ll be worth it.

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Everyone knows I support Obama’s health care plan. I certainly make it known here pretty clearly. No plan is going to be perfect; we already know that from past history on almost every bill ever passed. Medicare is far different and much better now than when it first came out in the mid 60′s. And I believe that a new health care system will improve over the years too.

But what is critical right now, is that we change our present health care system and make it affordable and available for all etc., etc. I’m not going to go through what Obama’s plan includes; you’ve been reading, so you know what is in the details.

What I want to talk about today is what has not been addressed in his plan, and although as I mentioned, no plan is going to be perfect, I think there are some important issues that do need to be addressed while we are in the process of changing and improving our health care system.

A friend of mine sent me an article from Natural News: “10 Things That Are Missing From Obama’s Health Care Reform Debate.” I found it interesting. It is another viewpoint on a more preventative and nutritional level- something that has not been discussed much: Addressing the root causes of disease. (Thanks “Zucchini Flower” :)

#1) Ending the FDA’s suppression of natural cures and safe, effective nutritional supplements.

#2) Initiating a real investment in public education to teach people about how to prevent disease with nutrition.

#3) Ending Big Pharma’s monopoly on drug prices and drug patents (not to mention patents on human genes and animals).

#4) Restoring the ability for local doctors to practice local medicine without being controlled from bureaucrats in Washington.

#5) Cracking down on junk food advertising, soda advertising and pharmaceutical ads that convince people to purchase products that will only harm them.

#6) Banning dangerous chemical ingredients that cause diseases in the first place (aspartame, MSG, sodium nitrite, etc.

#7) A real effort to improve school lunches and serve food that’s nutritious instead of food that’s cheap and convenient.

#8) Ending bizarre food subsidies on crops like corn that end up making high-fructose corn syrup the cheapest sweetener for manufacturers to use.

#9) Affirming health freedom for parents who wish to opt out of the current system of forced vaccinations and gunpoint-enforced chemotherapy.

#10) Requiring honest food labeling where irradiated and GMO foods are clearly labeled as such.

I think there is a lot of good stuff here and worth addressing. Maybe a write to your Senators and Representatives is in order if you feel strongly about all of these issues, or even if you feel strongly about some of them. I certainly do.

Need more info? Check this out:

Are you in support of having a health care system that includes nutrition and prevention?  I am! who wouldn’t be? Show your support and Sign the Health Revolution Petition now! You may have noticed that I also posted an icon in the left hand side column in support of this petition. It will be there permanently until health care reform is passed. Let your wishes be known by signing the petition and writing your peeps. Thanks again for all that you do.

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