Below is the cover of TIME magazine. It is a shocking photo of a young girl with a mutilated face, thanks to the Taliban and the help of her husband and in-laws. The story inside tells of Aisha’s attempt to flight and fight for her life, resulting in the cutting off of her nose and both her ears. There is no word to describe this atrocity. “Devastating” just doesn’t cover it.

When I try to get into the minds of the kind of men who commit this kind of devastation, and try to understand how they can be so unmoved, so unfeeling, I of course, can not. It is crazy to think that I could grasp one bit of understanding, when there is no reason for this atrocity to happen – There is no reasoning with men like this. They are something that I am not. Evil, pure evil.

Who could be so cruel to torture and maim a woman? Evil.

The Taliban pounded on the door just before midnight, demanding that Aisha, 18, be punished for running away from her husband’s house. Her in-laws treated her like a slave, Aisha pleaded. They beat her. If she hadn’t run away, she would have died. Her judge, a local Taliban commander, was unmoved. Aisha’s brother-in-law held her down while her husband pulled out a knife. First he sliced off her ears. Then he started on her nose.

This didn’t happen 10 years ago, when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan. It happened last year. Now hidden in a secret women’s shelter in Kabul, Aisha listens obsessively to the news. Talk that the Afghan government is considering some kind of political accommodation with the Taliban frightens her. “They are the people that did this to me,” she says, touching her damaged face. “How can we reconcile with them?”

(See pictures of Afghan women and the return of the Taliban.)

In June, Afghan President Hamid Karzai established a peace council tasked with exploring negotiations with the Taliban. A month later, Tom Malinowski from Human Rights Watch met Karzai. During their conversation, Karzai mused on the cost of the conflict in human lives and wondered aloud if he had any right to talk about human rights when so many were dying. “He essentially asked me,” says Malinowski, “What is more important, protecting the right of a girl to go to school or saving her life?” How Karzai and his international allies answer that question will have far-reaching consequences, not only for Afghanistan’s women, but the country as a whole.

(Watch TIME’s video on photographing Aisha for the cover.)

As the war in Afghanistan enters its ninth year, the need for an exit strategy weighs on the minds of U.S. policymakers. Such an outcome, it is assumed, would involve reconciliation with the Taliban. But Afghan women fear that in the quest for a quick peace, their progress may be sidelined. “Women’s rights must not be the sacrifice by which peace is achieved,” says parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi.

(Comment on this story.)

Yet that may be where negotiations are heading. The Taliban will be advocating a version of an Afghan state in line with their own conservative views, particularly on the issue of women’s rights. Already there is a growing acceptance that some concessions to the Taliban are inevitable if there is to be genuine reconciliation. “You have to be realistic,” says a diplomat in Kabul. “We are not going to be sending troops and spending money forever. There will have to be a compromise, and sacrifices will have to be made.”

For Afghanistan’s women, an early withdrawal of international forces could be disastrous. An Afghan refugee who grew up in Canada, Mozhdah Jamalzadah recently returned home to launch an Oprah-style talk show in which she has been able to subtly introduce questions of women’s rights without provoking the ire of religious conservatives. On a recent episode, a male guest told a joke about a foreign human-rights team in Afghanistan. In the cities, the team noticed that women walked six paces behind their husbands. But in rural Helmand, where the Taliban is strongest, they saw a woman six steps ahead. The foreigners rushed to congratulate the husband on his enlightenment – only to be told that he stuck his wife in front because they were walking through a minefield. As the audience roared with laughter, Jamalzadah reflected that it may take about 10 to 15 years before Afghan women can truly walk alongside men. But once they do, she believes, all Afghans will benefit. “When we talk about women’s rights,” Jamalzadah says, “we are talking about things that are important to men as well – men who want to see Afghanistan move forward. If you sacrifice women to make peace, you are also sacrificing the men who support them and abandoning the country to the fundamentalists that caused all the problems in the first place.”

(See picture s Muslim women leading a soft revolution.)

TIME Magazine Cover Explains What Happens To Afghan Women If ‘We Leave Afghanistan,’ But That Tragedy Is Already Occurring

- Huff Po.

Time Magazine is out with a new cover story that attempts to explain “What Happens If We Leave Afghanistan.” The piece is accompanied by a powerful portrait of Aisha, an Afghan woman who had her nose and ears cut off by Taliban decree after attempting to escape abusive family members. The intense image sets the scene for the crux of the article’s argument — that the rights of Afghan women would be destroyed by a potential settlement between the U.S. and the Taliban.

As Time’s Aryn Baker writes, the U.S looks potentially poised to negotiate with the Taliban in what she calls the “quest for a quick peace.” Though this trade-off could provide some semblance of stability in Afghanistan, a condition would presumably set the table for an eventual drawdown of U.S. troops, Baker argues that it would come at a devastating price for the nation’s women.

Though such a conclusion does raise a number of concerns about the terms of an American withdrawal, it also seems to overlook a variety of tragic conditions that Afghan women currently face, even with the heavy U.S. military and diplomatic influence in the country.

Despite promising rhetoric for women’s rights in the 2004 version of Afghanistan’s Constitution and subsequent legislation, the country has largely resisted implementing any meaningful progress in the treatment of women. In fact, in 2009, amid international protest, Afghan President Hamid Karzai signed a bill that was seen by many as the legalization of rape against women.

Though President George W. Bush repeatedly spoke loftily about the “freeing” of Afghan women following the invasion of the country in 2001, reports and numbers show that success stories more often stand as statistical outliers rather than narrative descriptions of a bettering situation for women.

If the treatment of Afghan women has not improved — and may have even deteriorated — since the American invasion, the question of what happens if we stay in Afghanistan may be just as important a question as what happens if we leave.

In the video below, Brave New Films argues that the idea of Afghan women being free after the toppling of the Taliban is a “false perception,” and that “war won’t liberate Afghan women.” People interviewed in the video maintain that the advancement of women’s rights has been “cosmetic,” and that the actual quality of life for women has not improved since the occupation. In some cases, they argue, the treatment of women has worsened due to an extremely fundamentalist judiciary and the radicalization of a population currently engaged in what risks becoming a state of perpetual war.

Readers: The term “shocking” has hardly a meaning anymore when the “shocking” photo or story has become an everyday experience in this world. And it has. Things can’t get any more “shocking” than they already are. Men can’t get any more evil than they already are.

As you know I write about subjects like this all of the time. What has changed? I HOPE that the world is getting to a better place, that we are making strides, but the evil keeps growing and at times surpassing all of the good that is happening. It feels as if we are sometimes in a race to save the women of the world, before the evil destroys them.

Comments? Rants? Words of HOPE? Blog me.

Herbert: Again, thanks for the update. It would be cool when you do get your x-rays to fill us in so those of us that didn’t get to see this once-in-a-lifetime line-up can enjoy it too, through you.

Debra: You’re welcome. I didn’t include all of the photos from the article as you obviously noticed. I decided to post only one of the men and one of the women. I noticed too that the only other photo was of the women resting. That perturbed me a bit. I am also sure that you do plenty that requires a much needed rest. It would’ve been nice if the story highlighted that part as well.

Joyse: Thanks for the compliment. I can never get enough on this blog because if it weren’t for the positive feedback and the positive outcome from whatever I post and whatever is said, it would be tough for me to continue doing this daily. I want to know that something is working, and my readership tells me that it is.

Carla: Please tell the Columbian drug dealer to stand in line. Somehow, I bet he doesn’t take kindly to waiting. And as far as a machismo experience bringing out the real me…Ha! Tell him this BABE, latin or not, has a voluptuous set of flapping lips, and a bod to match, that should he ever have the pleasure of experiencing the real me, would set him on fire beyond his wildest hottest dreams. Unfortunately right now, tell him to keep dreamin’ – cause that’s all he’s got. :)

So back to you…Good luck with the movie thing. I HOPE that it plays out the way you want it to. Oh and by the way Carla, if you’re selling, I’m buying :)

Hi Rita and Conchita!

Paul: Happy to hear that you were pleased with the outcome. No, I was not there. I would have loved to join all of you but the timing was not good.

Zen Lill: Ah..Yes a cameo role – that’s the ticket. I like that much better :) And although I am a voyeur at heart…love listening and watching others have live sex, no unfortunately I was not there filming. But invite me, and I just may take you up on it. :)

Ruth: I so agree with you.

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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michelle

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During the elections I was pushing hard for Prop 2 to pass, all because of my deep passion for animals and their rights. And as much as I was against Prop 8, I didn’t focus any of my time pushing for a “no”, even though I was an avid supporter at heart of same-sex marriages, and spoke my mind when the subject was broached.

It was assumed that Prop 8 would never pass, not in California – not possible – we are such a liberal state…and the optimist in me believed it to be so. And you know what they say about assuming. I, as well as many others, were shocked at the passage of Prop 8.

But what I love…what I truly love about people is their commitment to matters of the heart. No one gave up….the passion for preventing the passage of this profound prop never perished in the hearts and minds of those affected, and those in support.

In fact, people persevered. Thanks to two lawyers, David Boies and Ted Olson, who pointed out and proved that Prop 8 is “unconstitutional”. Thats right. “Moral disapproval” doesn’t fly when it comes to our rights. Our rights: They aren’t up for vote. That’s the point, our rights are our rights – Period. The people’s perseverance and repudiation (Thanks Rachel for this perfect word) is about to pay off – Okay…maybe I’m getting ahead of myself, maybe I am an optimist, but I have HOPE.

Equality wins in Vaughn Walker’s Prop. 8 ruling

The judge pointed to the considerable evidence that the campaign relied heavily on “negative stereotypes” about gays and lesbians – and to parents’ fears that their children would be more likely to become homosexual if such marriages were allowed.

In recent history, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled time and again, that laws rooted in traditions of bigotry – from segregated schools to prohibitions on interracial marriage – are in basic conflict with the U.S. Constitution.

Also, as Walker noted in his ruling, a state’s obligation is to treat its citizens equally, not to mandate its “own moral code.” He cited the 2003 U.S. Supreme Court 6-3 ruling in Lawrence vs. Texas, which struck down that state’s sodomy law.

Eighteen thousand same-sex couples were married in California during the brief period it was legal, with no discernable damage to the state or the institution of marriage. Five other states and the District of Columbia now issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Societal attitudes are changing, but gays and lesbians should not have to ask to be patient to be treated equally under the law.

Judge Walker has forcefully, and convincingly, laid out the case to end this entrenched and unwarranted state discrimination against gay and lesbian couples.

It ain’t over till it’s over. There will be appeals, and no doubt this will make it to the Supreme Court. But hey, Boies and Olsen have that figured out too:

The Prop 8 case’s winning attorneys — David Boies and Ted Olson — are famous for being at opposite ends of the Bush v. Gore 2000 Supreme Court decision. Boies for Gore, Olson for Bush.

After Wednesday’s ruling, they were asked how they thought they could win at the Supreme Court, should the case get that far. Quipped Boies:

“He’s going to get the five justices who voted for him in Bush v. Gore and I’m going to get the four justices who voted for me,” Boies quipped.

Don’t ya just love it?

Celebrate this moment. But like I said, it ain’t over till it’s over. So please take a moment and support defying Prop 8, ensuring same-sex couples passage to full equality.  It is the least we can do for those that want to be able to marry the ones that they love; a privilege that we as heterosexuals never need to ever think about.

We can love freely. How beautiful is that? Be in support of everyone the ability to love freely. With all that is bad in our world, with all that is wrong….why deny love? I can’t think of even one tiny reason. I HOPE you can’t either.

Here’s an e-mail I received from Human Rights Campaign:

After the first-ever federal trial on whether it’s legal to ban same-sex couples from marrying, the district court ruled that Proposition 8 violated the U.S. Constitution.

This court’s ruling will undoubtedly be appealed, so our struggle is far from over. But it was a tremendous step forward for equality and a critical win.

The two courageous couples who acted as plaintiffs in this suit opened up their lives to months of public scrutiny and helped bring about this victory, fighting alongside the legal team of Ted Olson, David Boies and the American Foundation for Equal Rights. They deserve our gratitude. Will you take a moment to thank them?

Send a quick note of thanks and support – and tell your friends to do the same.

Here is another way to get involved. Today, people in cities across the country will be gathering for peaceful “Day of Decision” rallies to take advantage of this moment and show the broad support for marriage equality among both LGBT and straight Americans. Find out if there’s a rally near you.

This case was a landmark. Over the course of the months-long trial, the plaintiffs introduced substantial testimony and evidence to finally show that Prop. 8 had discriminatory motivations – and that same-sex couples are entitled to equal rights. Because this is a district court decision and will most likely be appealed, it may not have an immediate effect on marriage bans in California or any other states. Nonetheless, it’s a significant moment. It’s a vindication of the grassroots work we’ve done across the country to give every loving couple the same rights – and a shot of momentum to continue that work.

The trial also showed that the other side remains as ferocious as ever. Not content with simply defending Prop. 8, they tried to persuade the judge to stop California state agencies from recognizing the marriages of the 18,000 same-sex couples who tied the knot in the months before Prop. 8 passed.

So without question, the forces of bigotry will appeal this ruling. After the Court of Appeals, this case could very well end up before the highest court in the land – just another reason we must fight to get fair-minded judges like Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court.

We know we will prevail in the end. Because we are on the right side of history and the law. Because public opinion is increasingly in our favor. Because even conservatives like Ted Olson – who argued for the George W. Bush side in Bush v. Gore – share a passion for this cause.

But it will take more sacrifice and more grueling hard work. It will take more people like you standing up for what you believe – and more heroes like the plaintiffs in this case refusing to accept second-class status.

Please send a quick note thanking these couples. Then spread the word.

Thanks for your continued support on this defining issue.

Readers: Please support the power of love and happiness and extend it to all. And of course blog me and spread the love…or whatever else you want to share.

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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While flipping through Vogue Magazine a few weeks ago, a bright-smiled young girl and the catchy title “Brainiac Rising’ caught my eye. I read the article and thought, ‘This girl needs to be the subject of my Saturday’s blog write.”

The young lady I’m speaking of is Sarah Lewis.

(Oops photo just added. I forgot:)

“I’ve always done too much,” Sarah Lewis says in a tone that falls somewhere between self-mockery and pride.

Hmm…Well let’s see….

At thirty years old, with honors degrees from Harvard and Oxford under her belt and on the verge of a Ph.D. from Yale, she has two books nearing completion, and co-curated the SITE Santa Fe biennial, the closely watched art show, this past June.

Okay, this girl can definitely back her words. In fact people are so impressed with her that Rocco Landesman, the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, wants to create a special initiative for her at the NEA in Washington, D.C. She has become a young woman to watch. As her friend Agnes Gund, MoMA’s president emerita, said the other day, “You don’t know what she’ll end up doing—there are so many possibilities.”

As I read I found some interesting things in this article. First let me preface with this:

Awhile ago, and I blogged about it briefly, Doug and I watched a documentary, “Journey of Man”, a special on PBS. – A geneticist, Spencer Wells followed a DNA trail back 2000 generations, 50,000 years and proved that man, the very first man on earth a descendant of the Cromagnum man, started out in Africa.  Then, a group of around 10-20 people from Africa traversed their way through India, Australia, and then to the America’s, (Branching off into separate groups all within a span of 35,000 years) proving from the DNA tracing, that we all originally descended from Africa! We are all related – one big happy family. This should be world news on every headline but you know that once again, people’s religious beliefs and racial prejudices will prevent them from even looking at the evidence.

We know people with the likes of George would never accept this discovery. Whites are descendants from blacks? “No way,” he would say.

Lewis made a similar type of discovery while in the Beineke Library at Yale:

Targeting fresh aesthetic territory comes naturally to Lewis. In her first week at Yale, she found, in the Beineke Library, a photograph of a white woman with “an Afro larger than Angela Davis’s.” Intrigued, she researched it and discovered the now mostly forgotten phenomenon of the “Circassian beauties”: women from the Caucasus Mountain region—where Noah’s Ark supposedly came to rest—with tightly curled blonde or brown hair extending a foot or more from their heads in every direction. P. T. Barnum exhibited a group of purported Circassians in 1864 at his museum on Broadway as the “purest example of the white race.” (An eighteenth-century German physiologist coined the term Caucasian as a synonym for “white in colour,” and he claimed that Circassians were the purest Caucasians of all.)

This was an electrifying discovery for Lewis, who recalls being the only African-American in class during her first six years at the Brearley School, and she made it the subject of her dissertation and first book. “It’s about this ironic arc from white racial purity to what we now associate with black authenticity,” she says. “It’s an opportunity to ask the fundamental question, one we’re still grappling with: Are we really separate from one another? And it offers a resounding no.” Says the legendary Robert Farris Thompson, Lewis’s adviser at Yale and one of the pioneers in charting the African influence on visual arts in the Americas, “Her thesis, as we say in the vernacular, is going to blow hair on the walls of academe—it’s partially about coiffure.”

Interesting huh? I also found this paragraph interesting too:

Born and raised in midtown Manhattan, Lewis says, “I got my interest in art from my mother’s father, Shadrack Emmanuel Lee. When he was in the eleventh grade, he asked where the African-Americans were in the history books and was told that none of them had accomplished enough to merit being there. His pride was so wounded that he quit school and never graduated. He spent his life as a jazz musician and a painter, deliberately putting African-Americans into genre paintings.” His story, she says, “reminds me that art is foundational for life, not just something that enriches or embellishes it.”

How sad that her grandfather never went to school because he believed, because of what he was told, that there were no African-Americans in history books because none of them had accomplished enough to merit being there? I wouldn’t doubt that it was probably a while teacher that told him that. And I’m sure there ere many more teachers who said the same thing. How many other blacks decided to quit school because their pride was wounded? How much potential have we lost in blacks today because of the same reason?

But Back to Lewis:

It was Lewis’s good luck to come of age when history was on her side. Barack Obama was the first presidential candidate to form an arts-policy committee during his campaign, and in 2008, Lewis, then a doctoral candidate and faculty member at Yale, was invited to serve on it. She had impressed a lot of people by then, including Rob Storr, the dean of Yale School of Art. (He taught her at Harvard, and she also worked for him at MoMA.) Being on the Obama committee opened up the whole field of public arts policy to her. Landesman, whom Obama named chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts last year, got in touch with Lewis before he took office, and has been trying to get funding to bring her to the NEA. “I’d love to work with her on a new initiative called Our Town,” he says, “which will focus on showing that the arts can be an important part of neighborhood revitalization, urban renewal, and economic development. She’s so smart and so charismatic, and she has a great way with people—she’ll be a leader.”

I can’t wait to see what this girl is going to do next!  If you want to read the rest of Vogue’s article on Lewis, click here.

And now…

…The votes are in on “The Best Of Zen Lill.” Here are the results.…And the number 1 winner is….with a score of 163 votes….

Number 6!

ZL: No surprise there. Your fave got the most votes. :)

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Hi Kelly: Welcome to my blog. You are now in the know. :)

Anonymous: Do your research and spread the word on your findings.

Guill: A very quirky poem. I like it.

Harold: Thank you for the kind words. I’m so sorry about your wife. From what little you said, you said a lot – it sounds like you had a wonderful partnership.

Sharon: And we should do it a lot more than we probably do.

Have a beautiful Sunday! Oops Saturday!

(my brain just returned to 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

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

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Good morning.

Before I begin my write…first some gratitude…

Doug: I waited to express my gratitude for you till today. Thank you for what you said. You of all people have been the most personally affected by the time I take to write my blog, more than anyone. I want to thank you for being patient with me and my time. I realize that my blog has been the baby of the family, and you sometimes have been treated, for lack of a better word, as the stepchild.

I appreciate the many times you have sat and waited for me to finish my write so that we could go to breakfast or take Lucy for a walk with you. I also appreciate your e-mails informing me of matters that I might not have been privy to, providing fodder for my blog. Thank you.

I am sure that my new consciousness and awareness of action and knowledge hasn’t always made me the most pleasurable person to live with. I have never really understood the full depth of the meaning, “Ignorance is blissful” until I made the decision to not be ignorant any more. It was much easier being ignorant but it so irresponsible.

Readers: Being the type of person I am, knowledge is powerful, but it is also challenging. Being in power has huge responsibilities. Hence the term RHIR: Rank Has Its Responsibilities. The actions that I take on, and the decisions that I make, like many of you, have  a ripple effect. We must all be conscious of our actions, as well as be responsible for them and the ripple effect they may have on others and our world too.

Anyway…enough of that. Let’s get into the meat of it shall we?

I was given a documentary to watch a few weeks ago, which I did watch. And what I saw was the mother of all conspiracy theories that one could imagine. I don’t like the term “mother of all” but in this case I think it is apropos.  As far as calling it a conspiracy theory…from all that I have learned about the white race, nothing surprises me and no alleged conspiracy theory seems to be far from the truth. There seems to be plenty of evidence to back this baby.

What I am going to talk about is Eugenics. I blogged briefly about Eugenics a few years ago. It is something that we haven’t really delved into too much here. I think it it about time we do. In case you are not familiar with Eugenics, this is the definition:

The science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. Developed largely by Francis Galton as a method of improving the human race, it fell into disfavor only after the perversion of its doctrines by the Nazis.

This documentary is called Maafa 21. Maafa 21 is not only about Eugenics, but genocide. Black genocide is the focus, but really it is about genocide of all otws by White America.

Maafa 21 was released a little over a year ago:

In the few months since Maafa 21 has been released, there have been two showings of Maafa 21 to members of Congress, including members of the Black Caucus. Hundreds of copies of Maafa 21 were personally delivered to credentialed members of the NAACP at their recent conference. In addition, several showings of Maafa 21 have been conducted in theatres, churches, and community centers across the nation. There are plans to show Maafa 21 in various locations during Black History Month.

Maafa 21 will show you things the media has been hiding and politicians don’t want you to know. It shows the connection from slavery and eugenics to abortion and black genocide today and is routinely called “stunning,” “breathtaking,” and “jaw-dropping.”

I am quite surprised that I have not been informed of this earlier than now. Perhaps I would not be able to conceive that we as a society, or should I say white America, could be so conniving and  cruel. But today, I think differently. As always I believe that timing is everything; perhaps, now is the perfect time.

Maafa 21

They were stolen from their homes, locked in chains and taken across an ocean. And for more than 200 years, their blood and sweat would help to build the richest and most powerful nation the world has ever known.

But when slavery ended, their welcome was over. America’s wealthy elite had decided it was time for them to disappear and they were not particular about how it might be done.

What you are about to see is that the plan these people set in motion 150 years ago.

Readers: Thoughts? I know there is going to be a lot to say about this trailer. If what you saw is shocking, and who wouldn’t think that the idea of black genocide through the surreptitious vehicle of Planned Parenthood (Margaret Sanger) is shocking, you’ll want to see the entire documentary, and judge for yourself if this is something that could actually be happening. I believe it is. I strongly urge you to find this documentary, buy it, and watch it.

Here’s something else that will be shocking. From what I have learned Germany was the test model for Eugenics. The holocaust was not about the Jews, per se, it was about killing all of the otws. From the very beginning white America was behind it. White America prodded the Germans into sterilizing every single person who was an otw; even the very young.

America entered the war because even though we were in support of what the Germans were doing (Eugenics was our baby! No Punn intended.), we were afraid that the Germans were getting too much power, and that they would take over our part of the control of the otws, and we Americans, couldn’t let that happen. We didn’t want to lose our control of the otws. And it is evident we still don’t.

Sound too insane? Too crazy? Have you heard of the book, “Trading with the Enemy”? You may just want to read it. (Funny when keyboarding the book title I mistakenly keyed in “sleeping”….guess there really is no difference.)

I’ll end with a quote that I found on the Daily Kos:

Trent Franks and the good old days …

by Barbara Morrill

Friday Feb 26, 2010 at 07:02:04 PM PDT

This takes the, you can’t make this shit up, to a whole new level — Trent Franks (R-AZ) on African Americans in today’s society:

“In this country, we had slavery for God knows how long.  And now we look back on it and we say “How brave were they? What was the matter with them? You know, I can’t believe, you know, four million slaves.  This is incredible.” And we’re right, we’re right. We should look back on that with criticism.  It is a crushing mark on America’s soul.  And yet today, half of all black children are aborted.  Half of all black children are aborted. Far more of the African American community is being devastated by the policies of today than were being devastated by the policies of slavery. And I think, What does it take to get us to wake up?”

One has to wonder, as Franks’ curses the Thirteenth Amendment, what other aspects of the good old days does Franks’ pine for?

Good question and one that should be posed to more people than just ‘Franks’. So although he may be pining for the ‘good ‘ol days’ he may not realize how close to the truth he could be when he states that the polices of today are far more devastating than the days of slavery. But my caveat in order to agree with Franks…”If and only If black genocide through abortion is indeed the plan.” According to Maafa 21, obviously it is, and the devastation is designed to be far worse for otws than slavery. What could be worse than devastation by means of genocide, especially when designed so surreptitiously and conspiratorially?

It’s not Friday but I know you want to start flapping. Blog me.

PS. Sorry for the late post, I have been having difficulty not only posting, but posting what is actually written is not showing up. I hope that my entire write is clear and showing up for all of you.

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.

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I got pretty involved in writing my comments on Monday in regards to women. I obviously feel pretty passionate about the plight of women. Although I enjoyed reading your comments, I was hoping to read more comments about some of the scenes from the Sex And The City II movie that I didn’t bring up, but perhaps a few of you who had more to add, just couldn’t get in. 

No big deal, but because it is still on my mind, I just have to briefly touch on one more little thing that bothered me in that movie. I hope you don’t mind. It is a good lead into what I want to end with. 

If you saw it, you would recall the scene where the girls are at the night club drinking and partying it up. Charlotte asks why the belly dancers got to wear skimpy clothing, meanwhile Miranda has been reminding the girls to cover up. She did this at the pool scene that I hinted at in my write the other day. Miranda answered Charlotte’s question telling her that it must be some “belly dancer/nightclub loophole.” Yeah a loophole alright…always a loophole when it benefits the boys. 

Notice how men make the rules: It is okay that women can be uncovered, no burqa, and actually in skimpy clothing, when it is in an establishment that entertains men. Then it is perfectly fine to be sexy and revealing because it is a benefit to the men. But, when a muslim woman is out in public…oh no, you must be covered up, you must not be tempting to the men. That kind of behavior just irks me to no end. 

You remember the Muslim Media Watch - I posted a write from there yesterday. I decided to check in and see if Fatemeh had any comments to say about the movie, and she did. In fact they had an open dialogue between a few girls, that I found quite interesting. I won’t get into it, but if you want to read their take on the flick, click here.

In regards to the nightclub scene though, Fatemeh said, that it was most likely human trafficking. Huh, that thought never even crossed my mind. Fatemah furthermore added: “Their karaoke rendition of ‘I Am Woman’ rings pretty hollow when you realize that a lot of the ‘single women’ in Emirati nightclubs are trafficked sex workers.” 

So this brings me to the conclusion of my write:

End Violence Against Women

Readers: Thanks again for all you do for women. 

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Will: As Kent said to Peter, ‘Be patient’. As the writer of this blog, I reserve the right to post the photos when I feel like posting the photos. :) Don’t fret, you will see more of the lovely Zen Lill.

General Info: Good post. Happiness is a state of mind, and one that can be changed. I can personally attest to that.

Anna: I believe there are always little gems that come out of the mud. This is a good example. Let’s hope there’s a little gem for the beings down under and soon. Hafa Adai.

Zen Lill: Nice. I like that idea. After all, it’s the men’s problem of their lack of self control. What’s shocking to me is the ‘stoning’. I can’t believe that this is a punishment that is around to this day. It is simply barbaric.  And the brutal fact that women have no chance of escaping, while the men do is just unbearable.

Norman: If anyone in a position, such as General McChrystal, who is suppose to take orders from the President of the United States, can no longer take orders, then he should do the right thing: Step down from his position and offer to resign. He is no longer qualified for his position, nor competent.

Ruth: I hope that you hear from Anonz soon and that he is well. 

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.

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michelle

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