I woke up this morning and tuned into ‘The Huff’ and the headlines read, “President Obama Sings Order To Close Guantanamo Bay”.  ’Sings’ eh?  I had a vision for a minute of him bellowing out a tune and all the suits behind him singing along as the chorus. I strayed away from the page and came back 15 minutes later to see if the typo was corrected, and it was still there. Nice to know that I am not the only one that flubs up in the editing department.

Then I read a little didley about Obama’s eleventh hour pardon of Osama bin Laden for the murder of more than 2,700 Americans in the fall of 2001. Wow. This man is taking the power of his presidency to the end. But I’m not surprised….I mean the Bush family are friends with the bin Ladens. It was probably a plan all along to pardon him in the end. Bush is no longer President and if action is taken to get him prosecuted he’s going to need all of the friends he can muster up. Who knows, he may need to escape to a country that won’t try to convict him. Plus…I have always believed and still do believe that 911 was an inside job.

Anyway, a White House aide who requested to be anonymous, went off saying how the president was finding closure…blah, blah, blah…and then he said this: “Can you believe this dude (Bush) was actually president for eight (expletive) years? What were we thinking? Seriously, what the (expletive) were we thinking?” Oh and I love this part: Then he began to quietly weep saying, ”May God have mercy on me for my role in the unfathomable travesty that was the Bush administration.” Oh, now you’re begging for mercy. Now that the country is totally fucked up you want mercy. Boo hoo…I feel sorry for you. Where were you when all of unfathomable travesty was happening?  Obviously you hung in there and found it fathomable, otherwise you would’ve done something about it. You had 8 years dude.  

AND…the badmin are still at it. How else can they make Obama look bad and be an unsuccessful president?  Anonz pointed out yesterday that the swearing in was meant to be screwed up to keep the ‘boy’ in his place. What other plans do they have? 

It just goes to show you that the repugnants really do not care about the people of the United States. After everything that has happened over these past months created by the badmin over the past 8+ years, they will still do anything in their power to fuck up this country even more than it is now. And now that Obama is in office they are more inspired to do so – god forbid if a black man pulls this country back together – how will the white man look? I am positive that the way the world is celebrating Obama, is just irking the republicans to no end. Obama not only needs a strong and loyal administration, and support of the people, but he needs to  keep his enemies close.  

As far as me being monitered and spied on – I am aware of their eyes on me. But if they try to manipulate me?….Ha! They’ve already messed with my blog – They try to fuck with my livelihood, they have fucked with the wrong person. My connections are more loyal and more powerful than they can imagine.

As far as Obama…he will succeed. 

Ahh….I need a breather. It is just too early in the morning for me to get all wrapped up in politics…I would rather be wrapped up in loving arms…(hint hint)…come on home baby…

Speaking of…Doug…thank you for your support yesterday. 

Oh…just checked out The Huff  - the typo is now corrected. 

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So how does it feel?  I mean having a new president? I can tell you that I feel that same as millions of others out there….overjoyed!

However, my day yesterday started off not exactly how I wanted it to start. I went to work disappointed that I was working so early and not being able to see and be in the mix of the excitement with Doug, and my friends.  I wanted to watch Obama’s speech and him taking the oath ‘live’. Yes, I knew that I could watch it later on youtube etc., but this was such a momentous time, historical…I wanted to ‘be there’ as much as I could, which meant experiencing it as ‘live’ as I could possibly, without actually being there. 

So off I went to work, expecting to at least watch it online, all of us coworkers excitedly gathered around the computer. But to my disappointment, our computers were not set up that way. I work for a new company and we aren’t even open for business yet, so things aren’t quite ready. ‘Okay’, I thought, ‘I’ll listen to Obama on the radio.’ Wrong. ipods dominate here – no radio. ‘Shit! What do I do now?’ A few of us excited about the speech were really bummed.

To make a long story short, I busily started working till I heard that some electrician in the building had a radio and Obama was 5 minutes into his speech. I quickly went over to the department head and asked her if I could take a break and listen to the speech on the radio. My coworkers were silent. She looked at me, asked me how many hours I was working. I answered her.  She hemmed and hawed a bit and said that if it was more than 10 minutes, I needed to clock out. Yes, I have to admit, it is very humbling to not have my time be my own anymore.  I haven’t had to punch a time clock in, I don’t know how many years. (Maybe I’ll blog about this at a later time.)

And now I am being told that I have to punch out in order to watch one of the most important events in my life. Okay, I can accept that you are corporate and you feel you need to play by the rules (yuch). But c’mon,  this is not something that happens every day. Can you bend a little? This company has no problem celebrating a birthday and having everyone break for cake. Yet, today, at this very moment, we are celebrating a new president – something this world has been anticipating and she can’t give a little more support, create some camaraderie between this new team of employees.  It blew me away. 

How cool it would’ve been if she had just stopped everyone from their busy work and encouraged us to take a break and watch history in the making. If she herself had acknowledged the moment that she walked in that morning, that this was a special day and that if anyone was interested in listening to Obama, she supported us taking the time to do so. Even if she said, ‘I have to have you punch out but please do so if this is important to you because I know how important of a day this is.’  

But no. No such words came out of her mouth. I felt like I was asking her to take a week off with pay. Everyone there felt the uncomfortable vibe, and no one said a word. I eventually walked away to listen to Obama’s speech on this small hand held radio, sitting next to it, a small Gumby-type figurine of Obama that one of the stock guys propped down for effect. It made me laugh as I and two electricians intensely listened while my co-workers missed out. 

I lost a lot of respect for this woman yesterday. I like her still, but her actions revealed more about her that I was not aware of until then. She had an opportunity to shine, an opportunity to create something in this new work environment and she missed the boat. She was playing by the book. Yeah she may have gotten some flack from corporate, if they ever found out that the entire staff stopped working for 20 minutes to celebrate Obama. But I doubt it. And even if she did, how difficult would it be to stand up for her ‘team’ for such an historical event?  Who cares if she voted for Obama or not. In her small-mindedness, she couldn’t see past her own corporate concerns to do the right thing. In her small-mindedness she was thinking of herself, her control position, and not her team. 

In my mind, her actions didn’t reflect ‘unity’, something that Obama is striving to inspire in this country. Her actions created separateness and I feel they will have a bigger impact on her staff than she is presently aware of. Am I being too hard on her? I don’t think so. It is the small, every day actions that create the makeup of our lives. If we are to live in the now, in the moment, then each moment has meaning and purpose.  Each action is a reflection of ourselves and that reflection has an impact on those around us. We have a responsibility to think and make conscious choices and take conscious actions. Enough said.  

In spite of my morning I did enjoy the speech. Our country has a long way to go but I am hopeful and optimistic. And I am inspired to be a better person because I want Obama to be a successful president. He can’t do it all on his own unless we are united and doing our part too. 

So last night, Doug and I gathered with a few of our dear friends and celebrated hope and change…and of course toasted our new president Obama. 

Readers: How was your evening – anything exciting you want to share? Blog me. 

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Zen Lill: I love Ghandi’s quote too. It is so relevant and always will be. And again, you are speaking of unity and doing our part.  I agree. 

Hi Carmen and Maria: You’re welcome. It was difficult doing the research but I learned so much in the process. Enlightening but very disturbing.  More fuel for my fire. As far as Madaline is concerned…I have hope that there will be a better way than elimination. 

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So in my commitment to learn more about the plight of women in South America, I decided to focus my first research on Mexico as promised. What I learned in just a few minutes was shocking.

Mexico City:  Indiscriminate kidnappings and nearly daily Beheadings. Gangs that mock and kill government agents. Wha’at??  Have you heard such atrocities?  Our neighboring Mexico is becoming one of the world’s biggest security risks according to the US Government and some experts…..and the US Joint Forces Command lumps Mexico in with Pakistan as being at risk of a ‘rapid and sudden collapse’. 

“The Mexican possibility may seem less likely, but the government, its politicians, police and judicial infrastructure are all under sustained assault and pressure by criminal gangs and drug cartels,” the command said in the report published Nov. 25.   

It is reported that soldiers and police are outgunned and outnumbered, and drug cartels have responded with unprecedented violence. Mob murders doubled from 2007, taking more than 5,300 lives last year. The border cities of Juarez and Tijuana wake up each morning to find streets littered with mutilated, often headless bodies. This doesn’t sound like one or two when you use the word ‘littered’. Some victims are dumped outside schools. Most are just wrapped in a cheap blanket and tossed into an empty lot.  Many of the bodies go unclaimed because  the relatives are too afraid to say something. 

So it seems that what Alita was telling us is true – not that I doubted her words when she made a comment the other day. I read that businesses have closed because they can no longer afford to pay the monthly extortion fees to the drug thugs. The rich are leaving, heading to the US, and the poor have no where to go, and as Alita said ‘they pay whoever is in charge to live in relative peace.’ I am aware of the drug problems in Mexico, but I had no idea that the cartel had that much control over the livelihood of the people living there.

So what about the women? If the drug cartels have that much control and the government is that corrupt, my guess is the women are being abused too.  When I think of all of the other countries where war, corruption,  and drugs, are the daily activity and major means of making a living, and I think of how the women are being abused, logic tells me that the women in Mexico are too. Carmen wrote in a few days back saying,  ‘Our countries have been corrupted by rich white men who have destroyed the labor unions and forced the people to live in poverty so deep as to make harvesting drugs the only attractive means of making a living. Women here too are raped, forced into prostitution, bartered and sold as one would a car or dog.‘  

This is what I found out: Tijuana is riddled with prostitution. This we know. Sexual slavery is prevalent in Mexico especially in Tijuana where men can cross the border and have sex with girls as young as 8-years old.  This I didn’t know. What is wrong with these men?! Young girls are kidnapped  from their small towns in Mexico and Central America and brought to the notorious red light district ‘Zona Rosa’, just a few blocks from the main tourist drag in Tijuana.  After the young girls work their apprenticeships in Tijuana, they are smuggled through a dangerous corridor that leads them to the US and eventually they end up in places such as New York’s illegal brothels, where they live as sexual slaves.  In a report in 2005, as many as 17, 500 sex slaves are smuggled into the US each year, according to the federal stats. 

One group never made it that far and got busted. This ring of traffickers forced 50 girls to have sex with 300-500 men per day in a field of reeds just north of San Diego. The girls were given a piece of carpet or a towel to lay on, and an egg timer to keep track of their 10-minute sessions. Each man paid $20 for his window of time.  

Are you thoroughly sickened yet? I have more…

If being forced to have sex isn’t enough, these girls are also pimped ‘bareback’ – meaning no protected sex, for a premium price.  And if she’s a virgin? They call them ”cherries” – who are prized for their fresh appearance and their supposed lack of sexually transmitted diseases. But what about the men? Yeah, maybe the girls are disease free, but not for long…what about the ‘Johns’? Who cares what the young girls get as long as the pimps get their ‘premium’ price, and ‘Johns’ get off.  What price do the girls pay to get an incurable disease? Endless suffering or worse, death. 

Could it get any worse if they survive disease ? Oh yes….violence. It is prevalent too…and severe. 

The pimps beat the girls with coat hangers, cables, beer bottles and belts. Many of them are forced to have abortions when they become pregnant and others are given crystal meth and cocaine so they become addicts.

The pimps also threaten to hurt the girls’ loved ones.

“They say, ‘We’ll kill your family.’ If they have babies, they say, ‘We’ll kill your babies,’” said Deputy Sheriff Rick Castro of the San Diego Sheriff’s Department.

So it is quite probable that because the ‘rich white’ men have destroyed the labor unions in Mexico, harvesting drugs and prostitutes is the only attractive means of making a living. If men from the US, described as sex-hungrey tourists, didn’t cross the border to taste the young temptations or indulge in illegal brothels in NY, and the many other paces, would the demand for these young girls be so high that their men would resort to such actions? And what about their safety? Are the police doing anything about it? Nothing. During a recent trip to Zona Rosa, The News found dozens of cops standing by as hundreds of girls sold sex to strangers. The police looked the other way. 

On a side note, I stumbled upon one article on  Mexico’s Beauty Queen, Laura Zuniga. A few weeks ago she was  arrested in the drug-plagued state of Sinaloa with suspected gang members. They were driving in a truck filled with a large stash of weapons, including two AR-15 assault rifles, 38 specials, 9mm handguns, nine magazines, 633 cartridges and $53,300 in U.S. currency. 

Zuniga, Miss Sinaloa, is a former preschool teacher, and when she won her crown this last July she gave an impassioned speech about how society should value women more, especially mothers. Does this woman sound like the type that would be mixed up with drug thugs? Why does this sound shady to me? She sounds like an intelligent woman with a promising future….was she just innocently hanging out with the wrong kind of crowd, or does she just have a thing for bad boys? 

Or perhaps worse….was she being kidnapped and told to keep her mouth shut when they were arrested?  She was with seven men and arrested shortly before midnight when the police pulled over one of two trucks that she was riding in. When questioned, she told the police that she was planning on traveling to Bolivia and columbia with the men to go shopping.  Hmm….at  midnight? Seven men and her? Again….this just doesn’t sound right to me. Who knows what these men were planning on doing with her. She may be linked to one of the drug cartels, but who knows what kind of hold he has over her.  Could she have been kidnapped, and blackmailed…go along or die? For all we know he was pimping her out at a ‘premium’ price. My gut tells me she’s innocent and she was forced to go along with whatever plan they had in mind.

So, how are these women enduring this? I have written about the plight of many women in this world, and like most, they suffer terribly. The victimized girls are reluctant to go to authorities because they feel a crippling sense of shame. Those that are living here illegally, don’t trust law enforcement because authorities in their hometowns either profit from the sex-slave trade or do nothing to prevent it. Yes there are women who go into prostitution but when you’re talking about women or children who are brought in under false pretenses (bogus ads),  that is not voluntary. 

Human trafficking.  The should call it ‘women trafficking’. I haven’t heard too many stories of men being held as sex slaves. The seductive lure of bogus ads that the women are drawn to and answering, are ads directed at women, not to men. 

This has got to change. As always it saddens and hurts me to the core that my fellow sisters around the world are suffering on a daily basis…and it is getting worse. On the one hand I feel that the world is getting more conscious, loving, and accepting….a sense of community and world citizenship…and on the other hand there is more hatred, racism, sexism, separateness, and barbaric actions, especially towards women. The extreme poles are pushing against each other. Who will prevail? 

Readers: What will you do? Comments? I’m listing a few private and government agencies that can help if you know someone who is a victim or you suspect this is happening in your area.

Note: I pulled these from an article that was a few years old. More agencies may now exist. 

Safe Horizon
(800) 621-HOPE

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(866) DHS-2ICE

Covenant House
(800) 999-9999 New York Association for New Americans
(888) 242-5838

Asociación Tepeyac of New York
(212) 633-7108

Latin American Integration Center
(718) 565-8500

New Immigrant Community Empowerment
(718) 205-8796

Urban Justice Center Sex Workers Project
(646) 602-5617

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Hi ZL:  Thanks for commenting. I need to listen to my own advice and be gentle with myself. Thanks for the reminder. :)

Peace out…..

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I have always loved animals and it may sound strange or even cold-hearted when I say that my affinity for them is much stonger than my feelings for many humans. I’m not sure why. I just feel a need to protect and care for those that don’t have a voice in this human world. 

Their love is so selfless…so unconditional…they are so nonjudgemental. They have no prejudices…one does not think that one is better than the other. Yes….there is an order…the food chain, but that is survival and has nothing to do with the differences between the beings. When it comes to killing, there is no hate…only pure animal hunger, brought on by the need to survive. 

And in many cases (thanks to our technology), I have seen two animals love and admire each other in miraculous ways, that in some cases go against their nature and inspire us. The video above is one of these.  Besides their four legs, they don’t have much in common, but what they do share is a loving companionship and genuine care for each other. Oh, how I wish that humans could be so loving and respectful of each other…be in awe of and embrace the differences instead repelling and pushing away. 

Readers: Do you judge others because they are so different from you? How boring if we were all the same. We can not change each other but we can change our reaction to each other. How can you reach out to someone that is so different from yourself, and have a positive impact on their life today? How will you act today towards others that is different than your usual?

My usual is pretty open and accepting. And I need to get back to that. Lately…for me, I have been a bit frustrated in my life. Therefore I am losing my patience with others because I am impatient with myself. I expect a lot from myself, and lately I am expecting a lot from others that maybe is beyond their own aspirations. And of course, those that are closest to me get the brunt of it. I know…these actions/reactions are not fair and it doesn’t feel good to either party.  I am aware and I am working on it by being present, getting conscious when I feel the frustration rise, and changing my reaction. It isn’t always easy…It takes effort….meaning, it takes the desire of wanting to be a better person combined with conscious action. It can be challenging, but hey I love a good challenge. :)

What effort will you make today? Want to share? Blog me. Otherwise…have a beautiful Sunday, and I’ll catch you tomorrow.  

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Good morning….

I slept in late…for once in a very long time. Doug joined me and and I have to say it was delightful to not be in a rush to get up. I needed this. Therefore, I have very little time to be with all of you this morning….as alas…it is another work day. Hmm….

So I decided to post an 8-minute version of Bush’s 8 years. Thank you Keith Olbermann. It is a bit of shock and awe, but at this point…nothing should shock us.  if you haven’t seen it, it is so worth your time, as well as passing it around for all to see.  Yes, peeps that is who we voted in.  We brought this upon ourselves.  

Here’s a few stats from the video:

• We are now 10 trilllion in debt!                                                                  
• Median income down $2000.  
• Unemployment up from 4.2% to 7.2
• The dow down 10,587 to 8,277
• 6 million more now in poverty. 
• 7 million more now without heathcare.

Not to mention Bush’s criminal acts.  Enough.

So what can we do about it now? Prosecute. This man must be prosecuted. If we don’t move toward prosecution, we will have set a precedent that  could take our country to a worse state than it is now.  If Bush isn’t prosecuted it tells the world that some people are above the law. What grounds will a law hold if it is not applied to everyone? Oh…If I were Bush I’d be shaking in my cowboy boots. 

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ZL: Dates?  Oh…you’re getting too far ahead for me. I need to consult. I’ll check in with you tomorrow. 

Hi Riis: How wonderful! I wish I was attending the ceremonies. Please write back in and tell us all about it.

Hello Mahima:  Thank you for being persistant and writing in. I am aware that this movie was very Bollywood and far from the real lives and the plight of women in India. I saw this movie and appreciated it strictly for the art form and the love story. Sometimes one just has to slip into a  dream. Movies tend to do that. And as much as I am drawn to real life movies (do any really truly exist besides documentaries?), I am also drawn to those that give me hope. This was one of those. 

So that being said, I am grateful that you have written in to tell the truth of what really happens…and what real life is, compared to what others want us to see and believe. I am not naive to what you have spoken of, nor did I not question the glossing over of some scenes. I have heard of the burnings and it stuns me knowing that it ever happened in the first place, let alone that it still continues to this day now. 

The more that I learn of the plight of women around the world, the more fuel I have for my fighting fire….the more I want to do. Thank you. 

Hi Doug: This exact subject has been in my blog notes for weeks. Thanks for bringing it up. Hopefully I will get around to chatting about it myself in the next day or so. Oh…so many subjects to write about and so little time. Until then…

Readers:  Here is the website for you to sign the petition to help reverse Bush’s final attack on reproductive-health services.  Women need your support now. Thanks.

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