Good morning readers:  It seems the topic the day before hit a cord for some of you. I didn’t think that people had a hard time getting in, (because really I have no idea unless you speak up). I just thought that few felt inspired to comment. But I can see that I was wrong. 

To me, it was a rather personal article, but I am delighted that it was thought provoking enough for you to try and write in to broach the subject again. Zen Lill and I had a convo about it the day I wrote it and I remember saying that I didn’t think that many would choose themselves as the one with all of the power, and I was curious to see if I was correct in my assumption. We’re about half and half – Interesting.   

I read my article again and since we are still on the topic of ‘who would you chose?’ l wanted to clarify something that may have been misleading.  When I say, ‘If someone’s going to have all of the control…If anyone is going to have all of the power, my answer would always be in any circumstance, ‘It is going to be me’, it means also that I would have the power to choose for someone else to be in control of a specific situation. I did not state that because I feel that I am all knowing – it did not come from ego – far from that.

I was not comparing myself to leaders of this world nor was I saying that I wanted to be president of the US. As I mentioned it was a personal article and quite broad in the scheme of it.  All of your answers were interesting to me and I’m pleased that although the day before was a lockout, you persevered.

Hey, I’ve got news too: Thanks for the heads up on Heparin.  Readers: Not sure if you read the health info or other such comments that are off topic and somehow get in. But as I mentioned before, I don’t believe in coincidences so if there are any of you with health issues I would pay attention. There is some good advice that gets in here, and quite possibly with you in mind…just a thought.

Hi Linda: Your professor sounds like a pretty amazing and inspiring man. How lucky you and your fellow students are to have a teacher in your lives that gets you thinking and challenges you. I miss that connection that one gets in school between students and their teachers.

I had to laugh about his comment about me. No one has ever called me a bullshit artist before. I find that quite amusing.  - I would love to see a comment from Joseph. So Joseph, if you are reading, how about chiming in sometime?

And how interesting that you would say that he would make a great wise ‘alien’. Why do you say ‘alien’ instead of ‘man’ or ‘human’? Anyway, I’m happy he ‘switched’ many of you.  I was initially for Hillary too but Obama’s got it going.  Hey, congrats on being a straight A student! The column will continue… :)

Hi Nawzad:  I know you have written in before yes? If it was you, I remember the last time you said, ‘Sometimes I dream that you let Madaline loose and she destroyed all the evil men in my country.’  I cannot say that the thought has not crossed my mind. The more I hear and learn about women of the world, the more such thoughts enter.  How to weed out the good is easier said than done but it is possible…it has been done on other planets.  But I can see from your most recent comment that you are upset enough to not care about the weeding process.  And considering the life that you lead daily, (which no matter how hard I try I would never be able to comprehend) and now this recent action…I can understand your comment. 

I had read about the acid throwing and it is horrible. I am really sorry that your sister was one of the victims.  I wish her well….and I wish that I could help, but right now all eyes are open. I can tell you this: You and the women of this world are continually on my mind. My situation is nothing compared to what you endure everyday and yet, at this moment there is not much that I can do to assist but write and enlighten when and if I can. 

Hey George: Thanks for sharing your story. All I can say is I am happy that you said ‘enough is enough’ and you stuck to your gut and held onto your rights as a voter. 

Rezar:  You should be ashamed of the way YOU conduct yourself. 

Hey Jerold: AHahaha! Love the comment. Not sure we’re on the same wave but hey you have the right to say you want to control the world. Cheers!

Shawn: I think the readers have said it all…but I am curious of ‘respect’ and ‘relations’ is who you think it is. 

Hi ZL: ooohh I know how much you like those artifacts :(- Times will change and I’m sure you will have the money to buy more later if you choose :)

Write on! Read on… 

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Okay this is to all you men and women out there, but especially  to men…and for once I just don’t mean white men…I mean ALL men including otw’s – got it? I don’t want to get ripped a new one. This pertains to your health, your safety and the safety of others.  And the reason why I say especially men because men for some reason have a difficult time with this very simple little task. No matter how much I speak about it to friends and family, I continue to get grossed out by the fact that men still refuse to do this and make it a habit.

So what is this simple task?  Something your mother has been screaming about since you were a child and if you haven’t taken on the habit now, your wife or sig other is probably bitching at you too.

It’s time to grow up and WASH YOUR HANDS!  

If this little video doesn’t get you to change your nasty little ways, I am not sure what will and quite frankly, I am going to label you ‘hopeless’.  

My cousin…and I won’t name names because if you have been reading my blog, you’ll remember way back I blogged about a dream that I had which included my beloved grandmother, and shit hit the fan big time in my family….anyway…my cousin (who is male)  who just always has me in stitches, tells me, “Shit man, I not only wash after I go to the bathroom, but I wash my hands before I even get near to touchin’ ‘my guy’!” Amen.

I mean c’mon guys…you’re out doing whatever you do, hands contacting whatever they touch all day long. Too much morning coffee…oopps gotta go take a piss. You unzip your pants, pull out the big guy, coddle him in your hand while you relieve yourself….and guess what? EVERYTHING you touched that day is now on your dick.

And ladies…say you’re meeting your sig other on your lunch break for some afternoon delight…Now I’m not talking about  flings here – if this is a ‘fling’, rubbers should be in the picture…but that’s a whole other story.  We”re talking about a ‘significant’ other…someone you trust and know is ‘clean’.  Are we clear on that? Okay, so moving on….

…You meet your sig other on your lunch break and you want to give him some head….well guess what? You’re not exactly sucking on something freshly showered and clean like you thought you were.  And girls….if you aren’t washing your hands either, and unless you give head and don’t use your hands, (What girl doesn’t use her hands?!)  EVERYTHING you touched that day is now on his dick too.  He might not mind but your mouth might. Kind of makes you think about it huh? Just want to give all my girls out there a heads up – yes that pun was intended. :)

Guys, Girls: Watch the video. Listen to your mother….WASH YOUR HANDS.  

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Hi Zen Lill: Sorry, I did not get it. And not sure why Caroline’s comment got in with all of those url’s and yours did not.

Hey Caroline:  I didn’t get a chance to respond yesterday. As far as the blond thing…Why is it that blonds seem to think that brunettes hate them? I don’t – Most of my girlfriends are blond, not that their hair or skin color for that matter means anything to me.  And why is it that ‘natural‘ blonds always have to publicize that fact that they are ‘natural’  like it is some big thing to be ‘naturally’ blond? I think it’s funny, that’s all. Anyway, it’s apparent you didn’t get my point nor did you feel like addressing my questions. No worries.

Anonz: Happy to hear you are well. Thanks for the heads up the other day. And I will look into your suggestions. 

Readers: Have a good one – I’m gonna go out and have some good ‘clean’ fun myself.  

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Well, I thought I was done with racism for the week but I read an article that just got me so heated that I needed to blog about it again.  This act of racism involves those that preach to us on the weekends if not on a daily basis….Well, they don’t preach to me because I am not a church goer. I am speaking of  priests.   

What is it with some priests?  Obviously no matter how much they hide behind the veil of religion, preaching love and the acceptance of  all, true colors eventually emerge. First priests were boofing young boys…and now, what color are they showing?

Their racist white side. A Greenville priest says that his parishioners should do penance if they voted for Barack Obama.  Rev. Jay Scott Newman, sent a letter to all of his parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, stating that his congregants shouldn’t take communion until they do penance for supporting “the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president.”  Radical?  Interesting choice of words.  Yep that Obama – his ideas are just so radical.   That is exactly how I would describe our president elect – yeah ‘radical’ is the first thing I think of…uh huh. 

The Catholic Church says that abortion is one of five “non-negotiable issues” for Catholic voters and that any church member voting for a pro-choice candidate would be disobeying the church.

Oh I get it…so because Obama is pro-choice, he is considered radical. Hmm…I guess  most of my friends and family are radical then, not to mention the millions of others  living in this country. 

“Abortion is understood as intrinsically wrong, meaning it’s not made wrong by intentions or circumstances, it’s wrong in itself.” Newman told WYFF News 4’s John Eby.

I’ll tell you what’s wrong.  Why doesn’t someone ask the catholic church why they never said that if you were a member of the KKK or some other hate group that you couldn’t take communion? If anyone is going to be labeled ‘radical’ this group should be at the top of the list.  But no, the catholic church didn’t do a thing. But of course it had nothing to do with the fact that the KKK were white supremacists. True colors were flying.  

And why did the church never protest segregated churches? Which to me, is wrong in itself. The answer: The catholic church is racist. Isn’t it interesting that they can take such a great interest in politics when it doesn’t involve discrimination against OTWs. 

The Catholic church is losing ground. Exit polling showed that most Catholics didn’t follow that church teachings this year, with a significant majority voting for Obama.  And the nations Roman Catholic bishops vowed Tuesday in their annual meeting to forcefully (!) confront the Obama administration over its support for abortion rights. Yeah, like Obama is the first person in office to ever to speak about the freedom of women’s rights to choose.  True colors are showing…

The bishops said the church and religious freedom could be under attack in the new administration. Oh you’re so worried about your religious freedom – Yes, Obama is definitely about preventing people from choice of religion.  Please! What about my rights? You know the rights over my own body.  How easily you can take away my rights and be so outspoken about it, yet, when did Obama ever say that you don’t have religious freedom.  If he did, I don’t know about it. So someone please blog me if you have evidence of this. 

“President-Elect Obama wants to make it possible for a minor anywhere in the United States to get an abortion without her parents even knowing about it,” Newman said. 

I agree with Obama and so did 52.6% in California who voted ‘No on Prop 4′.  This is a whole other issue for another time. 

Church leaders have said that they fear that the Freedom of Choice Act, which Obama has supported, would lead to the removal of “conscience clauses” that allow Catholic hospitals to choose not to perform abortions.

Again, it is and should always be a woman’s choice. In my mind, if you are a doctor, you are paid to do your job. If, you’re going to deny women the right to have an abortion because you don’t believe in abortion, therefore you are not going to perform your duties as a doctor, what’s next? Hmm…I’ll tell you what’s already happening.  Young girls and women are being refused access to birth control because of pharmacists “conscience”.  It is a vicious cycle.  You can’t get birth control because someone (pharmacists) says that their “conscience” will not allow them to give it to you. Then you get pregnant because of the obvious, and surprise…you can’t have an abortion either because someone says that don’t believe in abortion. Control. Control. Control. 

Did I say these priests were racists?  Let me add they’re sexists too. More power to Obama.

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Hey ZL: Happy you are back to being Zen Lily :)

Hello An American High school:  It is scary. I don’t want a race war but then I am not a racist.  It is the people who are racist that feel they must do anything they can to prevent OTW’s from succeeding therefore creating turmoil and war. It is any generation that includes people who are racist and they will try to influence any generation that will listen and conform. 

What to do? Good question. Communities need to come together to support the OTW’s and this includes whites who take their freedoms for granted.  This includes whites standing up and fighting against racial discrimination even though they are not directly affected by it. As world citizens we are all affected. It’s about pushing for equality for all, no matter what color, race, or sex. Speak out – don’t be silent.

Your generation has so much power because you are the generation that is the future work force etc. You are the generation that can influence change now by coming together in mixed groups as you have done. I think it’s awesome that you can have your racial clashes because it brings forth discussion and understanding.  And, the fact that in spite of expected clashes you can still hang as a group. You have the desire to do something by the fact that you have inquired. You care and that is the first biggest step. I am inspired by you and your group. I also suggest you click ‘calling all women…’ under the heading ‘Madaline Speaks‘, located in the left column of my blog. It is a good read.  

Peace out….

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As much as I’d like to believe that racism is diminishing in the world, I know that it is just not true.   It is a disease that is rampant and I’m afraid there is not cure except for extermination. It is a disease that may go into remission until something draws it out. Obama winning the election was the catalyst, as racism is showing up stronger. Will it come to extermination at some point, or will the racists wake up and just get over the color of one’s skin?  Unfortunately, I have little faith that it will be the latter.

Doug gave me an article the other day after Anonz made comments about the RNC’s plans to insure that the media focuses on OTW crimes against whites during Obama’s  tenure, and to spend as much money as they can to pit the OTW’s against each other…all in the name of keeping the whites in power and wealth. As I said, racism is a disease and Obama being elected into office was the catalyst for this disease to come out of its remission. It is threatened and it will do anything it needs to do to insure its growth and survival, which means the destruction of anything OTW.

This article focused on events that have been happening around the US since November 5^th when Obama was voted our president elect. Here are only a few of the hundreds that have been reported:

Cross burnings. Schoolchildren chanting “Assassinate Obama.” Black figures hung from nooses. Racial epithets scrawled on homes and cars.

_Black figures were hanged by nooses from trees on Mount Desert Island, Maine, the Bangor Daily News reported. The president of Baylor University in Waco, Texas said a rope found hanging from a campus tree was apparently an abandoned swing and not a noose.

_A black teenager in New York City said he was attacked with a bat on election night by four white men who shouted ‘Obama.’

_In the Pittsburgh suburb of Forest Hills, a black man said he found a note with a racial slur on his car windshield, saying “now that you voted for Obama, just watch out for your house.”

_Four North Carolina State University students admitted writing anti-Obama comments in a tunnel designated for free speech expression, including one that said: “Let’s shoot that (N-word) in the head.” Obama has received more threats than any other president-elect, authorities say.

_At Standish, Maine, a sign inside the Oak Hill General Store read: “Osama Obama Shotgun Pool.” Customers could sign up to bet $1 on a date when Obama would be killed. “Stabbing, shooting, roadside bombs, they all count,” the sign said. At the bottom of the marker board was written “Let’s hope someone wins.”

_Racist graffiti was found in places including New York’s Long Island, where two dozen cars were spray-painted; Kilgore, Texas, where the local high school and skate park were defaced; and the Los Angeles area, where swastikas, racial slurs and “Go Back To Africa” were spray painted on sidewalks, houses and cars.

_Second- and third-grade students on a school bus in Rexburg, Idaho, chanted “assassinate Obama,” a district official said.

_University of Alabama professor Marsha L. Houston said a poster of the Obama family was ripped off her office door. A replacement poster was defaced with a death threat and a racial slur. “It seems the election brought the racist rats out of the woodwork,” Houston said.

In addition, some remarks being reported:

Potok, who is white, said he believes there is “a large subset of white people in this country who feel that they are losing everything they know, that the country their forefathers built has somehow been stolen from them.”

Grant Griffin, a 46-year-old white Georgia native, expressed similar sentiments: “I believe our nation is ruined and has been for several decades and the election of Obama is merely the culmination of the change.

“If you had real change it would involve all the members of (Obama’s) church being deported,” he said.

Change in whatever form does not come easy, and a black president is “the most profound change in the field of race this country has experienced since the Civil War,” said William Ferris, senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South at the University of North Carolina. “It’s shaking the foundations on which the country has existed for centuries.”

Thanks Doug. There were more but too many to list – you get the point. Obama in office is a great thing but unfortunately it is bringing out the worst in racism. And all that being said, not surprisingly Obama has had more death threats than any other president elect, and my guess it will continue throughout his tenure.  

I felt the community coming together during the election process but now I see it was only those in favor of Obama. The racists came together all right but their agenda was totally different. Community in their mind starts with a ‘w’ but ‘world’ is not the word.  And now I am thinking racial issues are going to be even more challenging because the racist whites are feeling threatened and it seems they will stop at nothing to regain the control that they have lost. 

Now anonz has informed us of the cultish ways of the Mormon church. And now the RNC wants to legitimize this faith so that it will be accepted by the rest of America!  You’ve got to be kidding me. I don’t know much about this so-called religion except the widely known polygamy aspects and the ‘keeping down’ of their women – which is disturbing enough.

But to hear that Theocracy is the goal of the leaders of the Mormon cult and that the RNC is backing them in this is downright scary. This is not only a threat to OTW’s but to the women in this country on a level that could be worse than we have ever experienced before.  

Thanks Anonz. I have to think about this and let it all sink in….Readers: do you all realize what anonz is saying or am I the only one that is seeing the detriment in his words? Or am I just thinking the worst? We know how powerful the RNC is. We know how stubborn racism is and just what is capable when racists and sexists are threatened.

Hi Nawzad: In regards to your comment. Thank you for your kind words. I am torn. Sometimes I have that same dream too. You live in a world that could be my reality someday. 

Hi Sherie: I too enjoy hearing from the aliens but they are on their own right now. I’m sure at some point they’ll check in. But I know what you mean…it is fascinating to hear the ‘space talk’. 

Tal, Viv, Gleia:  Anything you want to add here – please comment if you are available. 

Hi Zen Lill:  No worries. I understand. I hope that you are successful in your practice. :)

The turnout of this election has spurred much.  I am disgusted at what I am learning. Comments? Blog me. I got to go. 

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I usually wake up with an agenda of some sort..something to write about. But this morning, there is not one topic that is in the forefront of my mind so I thought I would just chat about whatever is on my mind as it enters my mind.  

However, ‘patience’ might be something to keep in mind while reading my write today since in normal everyday conversation, it is a well-known family characteristic that the chit chat tends to go in many different directions at once. That may happen here as I write contemporaneously with my thoughts.  

I grew up in a family where a mish mash of thoughts, ideas, suggestions etc., gets thrown around the room, and up against the wall creating overflowing laughter and multi dialogue as we passionately talk over each other until one topic grabs our attentions…if only for a few moments. I have to say, that I love it. And really, that I appreciate the openness and warmth. One can only truly appreciate the free-for-all bantering when one finds themselves in a situation where silence is the pink elephant in the room.

Not that I can’t be silent…but why? Especially when I am surrounded by people…even if it is someone I don’t even know. What better way to get to know them than by striking up a conversation. The more silent a person is the more challenged I am. Or maybe I’m just feeling uncomfortable in my own silence that I need to break it. Okay, we’re talking around a dinner table or at a party, not at a funeral. :) 

So this actually happened to me the other night when I went to a party at a restaurant in celebration of Prop 2.  I walked up to the table and realized that not only did I not know one person at the table but that I also felt that I could be the mother of at least 2/3′s of them. The first realization bothered me for a second only because I was looking forward to seeing some of the people that I phone banked with, and the latter not at all. The majority of them I found out were students at UC Berkeley.

I sat down at the corner seat and introduced myself.  There were a few minutes of silence and then the conversation started to flow. I discovered that the young man next to me was married to the woman across from him. Both of them at the young age of 18 enrolled in the Marine Corps with high hopes of travel and making a good living. They met around their second year in their 5-year commitment while they were both studying ‘Arab linguistics.’  ’Oh now this is getting good’, I thought to myself. They fell in love and right after they got married….yep, he was shipped of to his first term in Iraq.  Evidently this young man had mastered the language very quickly and his services were needed to translate in Iraq.  

Boy, did I have a lot of questions then.  First he informed me that when he got to Iraq the language was so different from what he had learned that he needed to re-learn it from the locals for another 4 months before he could begin his work.  

My mind was so curious….And what about the weapons of mass destruction? Oh there were many conversations between him and his comrades – they knew there were none.  

How long were you there? What experience impacted you the most out there? What did you learn about yourself? About the Iraqi people?  Did I feel like I was prying? A bit. But he never once said that he didn’t want to talk about it so I didn’t let up. People interest me. I didn’t want to hear the gory details; I was more interested in his thoughts and how it may have changed his life or his perspective on life.

Everything he told me seemed pretty matter of fact until he started talking about the Iraqi people. Then his face lit up. He said that the people were so kind and helpful to him. That he worked with many of the locals and they were more than happy to assist him in any way they could.

On another note…his wife informed me that her brother had also served in Iraq and every member of his platoon were killed except him and a handful of other men. And when he got home and was in dire need of support – his mind couldn’t handle all that he saw and he started to have seizures – the VA thanked him for his duties and graciously paid 20% of his health bills. Gee thanks, that is so kind of you. After going to court he was able to get them to pay 60%. But now she says that in his present mental condition he does not have the wherewith all to fight for more. So he lives…

How unfair it is that all of these young men and women fight for our country, which they have chosen to do, only to come home to feeling abandoned by their country that they dedicated and risked their lives for. I understand that someone signs up for duty. They are aware of the risks and the atrocities that happen during war time. But…and this is a big but…is it too much to ask for that they be given 100% paid for health care? Is it too much that they be given what ever emotional or physical support is needed to help get them back to a state or normalcy, if even possible?  

My time is over. 

Madaline: I will contact you through our channels.

Readers: Thoughts on anything? Blog me.   I’ll address the commentators tomorrow. Peace out….

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