Good morning!

I loved the quote that I posted yesterday morning so much that I wanted to recognize Lucretia Mott again today as a wonderful woman of the world in honor of Women’s History Month.

I discovered this gem on Wikipedia, and I wanted to share with all of you:

Lucretia Coffin Mott (January 3, 1793 – November 11, 1880) was anAmerican Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women’s rights. She is credited as the first American “feminist” in the early 19th century but was, more accurately, the initiator of women’s political rights.Early life and education

James and Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Coffin was born into a Quaker family in Nantucket, Massachusetts. She was the second child of seven by Thomas Coffin and Anna Folger. At the age of thirteen, she was sent to the Nine Partners Quaker Boarding Schoolin what is now Millbrook, Dutchess County, New York, which was run by the Society of Friends. There she became a teacher after graduation. Her interest in women’s rights began when she discovered that male teachers at the school were paid four times more than the female staff.

Marriage and Family

On April 10, 1812, Lucretia Coffin married James Mott, another teacher at the Nine Partners Quaker School. They had six children. Their first child died at age five. They had numerous descendants, including some who migrated toTennessee.[citation needed]

Early anti-slavery efforts

Like many Quakers, Mott considered slavery an evil to be opposed. They refused to use cotton cloth, cane sugar, and other slavery-produced goods. In 1821 Mott became a Quaker minister. She began to speak publicly for the abolition cause, often traveling from her home in Philadelphia. Her sermons combined anti-slavery themes with broad calls for moral reform. Her husband supported her activism, and they often sheltered runaway slaves in their home. In 1833, they co-founded the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.

By the 1830s, Mott was gaining considerable recognition as an abolitionist. It was about this time that she and her husband befriended William Lloyd Garrison. A lifelong friendship stemmed from their initial meeting. Mott and her husband became deeply involved in the national abolitionist circle. In December 1833, Garrison called a meeting to expand the New England Anti-Slavery Society. James Mott was a delegate at the Convention, but it was Lucretia Mott who made a lasting impression on attendees.

She tested the language of the Constitution and bolstered support when many delegates were precarious. Days after the conclusion of the Convention, at the urging of other delegates, Mott founded the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. The extensive participation of Blacks tightly bound the actions of the Society to the Philadelphia Black community. This female society was the first in which the voices of free Blacks were heard.[citation needed] Mott herself often preached at Black parishes.
Around this time, Mott’s sister-in-law, Abigail Lydia Mott, and brother-in-law,Lindley Murray Moore were helping to found the Rochester Anti-Slavery Society.

Amidst social persecution by abolition opponents and pain from dyspepsia, Mott continued her work for the abolitionist cause. She managed their household budget to extend hospitality to guests and still donate to charities. Mott was praised for her ability to maintain her household while contributing to the cause. In the words of one editor, “She is proof that it is possible for a woman to widen her sphere without deserting it.”[1]

Women’s political participation threatened social norms. Many members of the abolitionist movement opposed public activities by women, which were infrequent in those years. At the Congregational Church General Assembly, delegates agreed on a pastoral letter warning women that to lecture, directly defied St. Paul’s instruction for women to keep quiet in church.[citation needed] Other people opposed women’s preaching to mixed crowds of men and women, which they called “promiscuous.” Others were uncertain about what was proper, as the rising popularity of the Grimké sisters and other women speakers attracted support for abolition.

Mott was criticized for her leading role in the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, the same gathering that heard the powerful speaking of Angelina Grimké. Some opponents threw rotten produce at their doors. Others gathered as mobs and burned abolitionist books in protest. Mott attempted to include women in the movement by organizing fairs to raise awareness and revenue; many men regarded such activities as frivolous.[citation needed]

World Anti-Slavery Convention

In June 1840 Mott spoke at the International Anti-Slavery Convention inLondon, England. In spite of Mott’s status as one of six women delegates, before the conference began, the men voted to exclude women from participating. In addition, women delegates and attendees were required to sit in a segregated area out of sight of the men. The social mores of the time generally prohibited women’s participating in public political life. Several of the American men attending the convention, including William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips, protested the women’s exclusion. They sat with the women in the segregated area.

Activists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her husband Henry B. Stanton attended the convention while on their honeymoon. Stanton became angry when she could not see Mott during her speech.

Mott was honored when given a throne-like chair from which she could properly view the proceedings. Delegates approached her in groups of two or three to become acquainted. One Irish reporter deemed her the “Lioness of the Convention”.[2] Mott was one of the few women included in the commemorative painting of the convention.[3] Other women included in the painting were all British activists: Elizabeth Pease, Amelia Opie, Baroness Byron, Mary Anne Rawson,Mrs John Beaumont, Elizabeth Tredgold and Mary Clarkson, daughter of Thomas Clarkson.

Encouraged by the recognition at the convention and active debates in England and Scotland, Mott also returned with new energy for the cause in the United States. She continued an active public lecture schedule, with destinations including the major Northern cities of New York and Boston, as well as travel over several weeks to slave-owning states, with speeches in Baltimore, Maryland and other cities, in Virginia. She arranged to meet with slave owners to discuss the morality of slavery. In the District of Columbia, Mott timed her lecture to coincide with the return of Congress from Christmas recess; more than 40 Congressmen attended. She had a personal audience with President John Tyler who, impressed with her speech, said, “I would like to hand Mr. Calhoun [a senator and abolition opponent] over to you.”[4]

Seneca Falls Convention

Mott and Stanton became well acquainted at the International Anti-Slavery Convention. Stanton later recalled: “We resolved to hold a convention as soon as we returned home, and form a society to advocate the rights of women.”[citation needed

However, it was not until 1848 that Mott and Stanton organized a women’s rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York. Stanton noted the Seneca Falls Convention was the first public women’s rights meeting in the United States. Stanton’s resolution that it was “the duty of the women of this country to secure to themselves the sacred right to the elective franchise” was passed against Mott’s opposition. Over the next few decades, women’s suffrage became the focus of the group’s campaigning. Mott signed the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments. While Stanton is usually credited as the leader of that effort, it was Mott’s mentoring of Stanton and their work together that organized the event. Mott’s sister, Martha Coffin Wright, also helped organize the convention and signed the declaration.

Opinions

Mott parted with the mainstream women’s movement in one area, that of divorce. At that time it was very difficult to obtain divorce, and fathers were given custody of children. Stanton sought to make divorce easier to obtain and to safeguard women’s access to and control of their children. The more conservative Mott opposed any significant legal change in divorce laws.

Mott’s theology was influenced by Unitarians including Theodore Parker and William Ellery Channing as well as early Quakers including William Penn. She thought that “the kingdom of God is within man” (1749) and was part of the group of religious liberals who formed the Free Religious Association in 1807, with Rabbi Wise, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Her theological position was particularly influential among Quakers, as in the future many harked back to her positions, sometimes without even knowing it.

American Equal Rights Association

Elected as the first president of the American Equal Rights Association after the end of the Civil War, Mott strove a few years later to reconcile the two factions that split over the priorities between woman suffrage and Black male suffrage. Ever the peacemaker, Mott tried to heal the breach between Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone over the immediate goal of the women’s movement: suffrage for freedmen and all women, or suffrage for freedmen first?

Writing

In 1850, Mott wrote Discourse on Woman, a book about restrictions on women in the United States. She became more widely known after this. When slavery was outlawed in 1865, she began to advocate giving Black Americans the right to vote. She remained a central figure in the women’s movement as a peacemaker, a critical function for that period of the movement, until her death at age 87 in 1880.

Swarthmore

In 1864 Mott and several other Hicksite Quakers incorporated Swarthmore Collegelocated near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which today remains one of the premierliberal-arts colleges in the United States [5].

Organizations

In 1866 Mott joined with Stanton, Anthony, and Stone to establish the American Equal Rights Association. She was a leading voice in the Universal Peace Union, also founded in 1866. The following year, the organization became active in Kansas where Negro suffrage and woman suffrage were to be decided by popular vote.

Death

Mott died on November 11, 1880 of pneumonia at her home, Roadside, in [[Cheltenham, Pennsylvania],]when she was 87. And was buried in the Quaker Fairhill Burial Ground in North Philadelphia. She is commemorated in a sculpture by Adelaide Johnson at the United States Capitol, unveiled in 1921. In 1983, she was posthumously (after death) inducted into the U.S. National Women’s Hall of Fame.

Descendant in like work

Her great-granddaughter, an American then living in Rome, Italy, was feministBetty Friedan’s interpreter there for a controversial speaking engagement.[6]

Biographical Excerpts

• Carl Schurz first met Mott in 1854. He described her in his autobiography published in 1906: Lucretia Mott, a woman, as I was told, renowned for her high character, her culture, and the zeal and ability with which she advocated various progressive movements. To her I had the good fortune to be introduced by a German friend. I thought her the most beautiful old lady I had ever seen. Her features were of exquisite fineness. Not one of the wrinkles with which age had marked her face, would one have wished away. Her dark eyes beamed with intelligence and benignity. She received me with gentle grace, and in the course of our conversation, she expressed the hope that, as a citizen, I would never be indifferent to the slavery question as, to her great grief, many people at the time seemed to be.

• Editorial, Time and Tide (9 July 1926): Beginning with Mary Wollstonecraft in the late 18th century, the feminist movement owed its next big impetus (in the eighteen forties and fifties) to Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony, of New England. It was Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth C. Stanton who organised the first Equal Rights Convention which was held in New York in 1848; and it was Lucretia Mott who laid down the definite proposition which American women are still struggling to implement today: ‘Men and Women shall have Equal Rights throughout the United States.’

AH: Considering I found this on Wikipedia, anything you can add here or adjust if necessary? And since biographies don’t usually get into the intimate personal details of life, and I hear Ms. Mott was quite the looker..anything salacious you can tell us about her? :) Do tell. Thanks. I HOPE you three are enjoying yourselves.

PEACE OUT. HAPPY SATURDAY EVERYONE!

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The focus has been on Japan, on almost every news and media outlet. And probably just like you, my focus has been there too. Everything that you wanted to know about nuclear reactors, but were too afraid to ask, you now know.

So…taking the focus away from Japan for a moment…just what is happening in your neighborhood? I’ve barely had a moment to think about that question. But it’s something we do need to address. We’ve got nuclear reactors in many states in the U.S. And California has them too. In fact we’ve got the most nuclear reactors here than any other country.

Just how safe are we?

This article came across my plate, and what I read, I didn’t like one bit.

At California Nuclear Plant, Earthquake Response Plan Not Required

As the world’s attention remains focused on the nuclear calamity unfolding in Japan, American nuclear regulators and industry lobbyists have been offering assurances that plants in the United States are designed to withstand major earthquakes.

But the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which sits less than a mile from an offshore fault line, was not required to include earthquakes in its emergency response plan as a condition of being granted its license more than a quarter of a century ago. Though experts warned from the beginning that the plant would be vulnerable to an earthquake, asserting 25 years ago that it required an emergency plan as a condition of its license, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission fought against making such a provision mandatory as it allowed the facility to be built.

Officials at Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the utility that operates Diablo Canyon, did not respond to calls seeking comment before the story was published. After publication, a spokesman for the company said the plant does have an earthquake procedure that had been implemented during a 2003 earthquake near the facility, and that staff are trained to respond. The company did not provide further details upon request.

As Americans absorb the spectacle of a potential nuclear meltdown in Japan — one of the world’s most proficient engineering powers — the regulatory review that ultimately enabled Diablo Canyon to be built without an earthquake response plan amplifies a gnawing question: Could the tragedy in Japan happen at home?

Experts who recall how the California plant came to be erected offer a disconcerting answer: Yes. And some are calling for more urgent government action to review safety at nuclear plants across the country.

“What they’re displaying now is exactly what was wrong in the past with the nuclear establishment, which is that they didn’t have their priorities right,” said Victor Gilinsky, who served on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Diablo Canyon debate and agreed with the call for greater attention to earthquakes in emergency plans. “They’re more concerned about the protection of the plants, and installation of further plants, than they are about public safety. The president should be saying, ‘I want every single plant reviewed.’”

Back when the California plant was being finalized in the mid-1980s, local activists and environmental lawyers sued the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in an effort to slow the project, arguing that the clear risks from earthquakes nearby required additional planning.

The case made its way to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., where a 5-4 majority — including current Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and former Clinton independent counsel Kenneth Starr — ruled that earthquakes did not have to be included in the plant’s emergency response plans.

The underlying theory was that the plant’s design, which came after years of planning and geological studies, could withstand any foreseeable earthquake in the area — the same assumption that guided thinking in Japan.

“What they’re saying is that there could be an earthquake, but in no way could it ever cause a radioactive release at the same time,” said Rochelle Becker, who led the San Luis Obispo, Calif., group that first sued the Nuclear Regulatory Commission over earthquake preparedness in the 1980s. “I’m pretty sure we now have evidence that it does.”

A spokeswoman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission confirmed that the Diablo Canyon plant is not required to have an emergency response plan specifically for earthquake-triggered releases because the commission is satisfied that the plant’s structure will be able to withstand an earthquake in the area — calculated as a maximum magnitude of 7.5. But she said that should not imply that the plant lacks an overall emergency response plan.

Officials at Tokyo Electric Co., the operator of Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, said over the weekend that the strongest earthquake they had anticipated was much lower than the magnitude-9.0 quake that struck last Friday.

“That’s a lesson that we ignore at our own peril, because we could be wrong, too,” said Joel Reynolds, the attorney who originally brought the case against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and who is now a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council in California. “It is a story as old as science that we’re always learning new things. We’re always discovering the unexpected.”

Critics have raised particular questions about how a standard emergency response to a nuclear disaster could be complicated if it had been caused by an earthquake, where roads and other surrounding infrastructure would also be impaired.

The NRC spokeswoman said that all plants are required to have an overall emergency response plan in place, regardless of what triggers an emergency. At Diablo Canyon, she said there are sensors to alert employees to shut down the plant if tremors are felt, the spokeswoman said. Then depending on the circumstances, the plant would alert local authorities, who would handle questions such as how evacuations would be handled.

“All our plants are designed to withstand significant natural phenomena like earthquakes, tornadoes and tsunamis,” the commission’s chairman, Gregory B. Jaczko, said earlier this week. “We believe we have a very solid and strong regulatory infrastructure in place now.” He added that the commission would “continue to take new information and see if there are changes that we need to make with our program.”

Michael Mariotte, the executive director of the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, a group critical of the nuclear industry and the regulatory process, said the pushback on earthquake response planning years ago reflects an environment where the industry is helped along by regulators.

“That’s the logic behind a lot of our nuclear regulation, unfortunately, is that it’s designed to accommodate the operation of a plant, and not necessarily the protection of the public,” Mariotte said. “If they acknowledged that an earthquake occurred that damaged the plant, then they’re also acknowledging that an earthquake has damaged the transportation infrastructure, that you can’t get people out properly, that the plant doesn’t work, and then it can’t be approved.”

At the time the Diablo Canyon case was being litigated in the mid-1980s, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the electric utility looking to build the plant had been dealing with more than a decade’s worth of federal and state reviews for the facility. Federal regulators were comfortable with their seismic reviews of the remote coastal area between Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Comments made during closed meetings, later released to the public, showed that some NRC commissioners were concerned that additional public hearings surrounding the emergency response plan and earthquakes would slow the process further.

“One of the things that I think makes me shy away often from hearings is because as soon as we hear the word ‘hearing,’ you see so much time elapse that it maybe over-influences one,” then-NRC Chairman Nunzio J. Palladino, who has since passed away, said at the time. “I do feel that at this late stage, requiring a delay while we wait for a hearing is not in the best national interest.”

When the case involving earthquake response was eventually litigated all the way to the federal appeals court in D.C., which ultimately sided with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the five-member majority noted that there had already been extensive review of seismic activity around the plant.

“We can think of no potential natural or unnatural hazards, regardless of their improbability, that the Commission would not be required to consider,” failed Reagan Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork wrote in an opinion for the appellate court. “That is a prescription for licensing proceedings that never end and plants that never generate electricity.”

The four dissenting judges, including current Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, noted: “The very purpose of the exercise is to plan for the unthinkable eventuality that the design safeguards will not prevent an accident.”

“It defies common sense to exclude evidence about the complicating effects of earthquakes from a proceeding dealing with how to respond to a nuclear accident at a plant located three miles from an active fault, a plant in which seismic concerns dominated the design and construction proceedings for well over a decade,” the justices wrote.

In recent years, the utility that operates Diablo Canyon, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, has recently found another fault line less than a mile from the plant after conducting research with the U.S. Geological Survey. The plant’s original design had accounted for a fault that was farther offshore — about three miles from the plant.

The spokeswoman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Lara Uselding, said the utility has not found evidence that the newly discovered fault line would pose a risk to the plant. The commission is currently reviewing the company’s geological report.

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Readers: The status quo has been “profit over people”. Now we are privy to to the term “protection of plants” over “protection of people”. Just where are our priorities? What is wrong with our society? Why would you ever rule that earthquakes do not have to be included in the plant’s emergency response plans?

You can say it’s not needed…it’s not necessary. But then, our actions, or lack of them, always comes back and bites us in the butt. We are constantly cleaning up our messes because we never quite prepare for the worst. We cut corners for profits and we the people suffer. Katrina, BP Deep Water Horizon, etc. Now Japan. What’s next? Is it too much to say, “Thank you bought and paid for Scalia and Starr for making that ruling”? I don’t think so.

Is it too much to ask that we get off of our lazy asses and do something? Is it too much to ask that we be responsible for our own livelihood, and support the livelihood of all?  I don’t think so. It all starts by getting involved, staying informed, and fighting for what’s right for all? The problem is, racism is always thrown into the mix. Or perhaps I should say racism is why people, (whites) don’t think in terms of “all”.

We have a lot to do in the months ahead of us. Big corporate America is killing us. And the republican party is their partner in crime. They are out to kill us too. And I don’t think I’m being to harsh here. Both of them need to be crushed. They have no interest in the livelihood of anyone but them and theirs: White America.

You could say that we are in a fight for our own survival. What are you going to do?

Robert: I like what you wrote. It’s unfortunate that the people who could convince white America to be proactive instead of reactive, are the ones in power who not only care more about profits than people, but are racist, and only looking out for them and theirs. They are not concerned about all, therefore they can lead the stupid people to follow their own self-aggrandizing agenda, and the people will simply follow in a daze.

If racism is so strong as we know it is, if we are reactive instead of proactive, and if no terrible experience is sufficient enough for us to change our ways, just what needs to happen that will make us change? I have to have faith that something can and will happen. It’s just going to take a lot of effort and everyone must get involved…everyone must care about each other, and start seeing and treating all of the people on this planet as One, as World Citizens. Possible?

I’m done flapping. Your turn.  Blog me.

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Good morning!

I finally caught up on the recent with respect to the “Madison Movement”. All I want to add is “More power to the people – keep it going – Don’t give up the fight.” And in the words of one of the 14, “If you can’t change their opinions, change their faces.” Time to recall Walker.

I love that the community is sticking together. I am so tired of the term “wake-up call” but sometimes there is no better phrase for what has to happen. I just HOPE the people of Wisconsin and the rest of the United States “wake-up” and realize that the Republicans are for profit, not for people. What is happening in Wisconsin is a fine example. The question is, “How many more examples do we need before the people of this country ‘wake-up’?” Okay, for a term I am tired of using, I just used it way too much.

Michael Moore was on the Rachel Maddow show last night discussing the “Madison Movement”. If you missed it, here it is. And if you missed Moore’s inspiring 30 minute speech to the people of Wisconsin, Click here.

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

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Readers: If you live close to Madison, drive there and give your support. This isn’t just a Wisconsin issue. This is the struggle for survival of the middle class.

Anonymous #6: I feel for you – I HOPE that you do not have to go on without her.

Anonymous#8: I too loved your sweet poem. It’s nice to see the words of a woman in this format.

Lea: How are you? Thanks for the post on sharks. Shark finning is so sad and not to mention so painful and brutal for the shark. Another thing that Obama has done for the lovely mammals that we share this planet with. I found the site to sign the petition. In case my readers want to sign the petition too, click here.

Kevin: Oh, so you noticed? :)  I miss my involvement too. I am having a challenging time keeping up with my demanding work schedule, so  I have decided to limit my comments to my readers to 3-4 days per week, specifically M,W,F and sometimes Sundays. And limit my writing an extensive commentary on topic, to Mondays and Thursdays only.

Yesterday I wrote an extensive write, and responded to very few comments to my readers, so I am posting them today, and keeping my topic writing short today. Hence, I will not always adhere to the above  ”blog schedule”, if I am inspired to change it, like I did yesterday. I bet you didn’t expect that long winded explanation did ya? Thanks for “just noticing” and the compliments.

Suzanne: I liked it. Thanks for sharing.

Ethyl: Haha! My words exactly. Conversations may start between two people, but there is always the possibility that others will “jump in”. It is an open forum peeps. No invitations are needed. But don’t be surprised if there is adverse response for “jumping in”, as we have discovered already. :)

Claire: Great cumback.  Love it. LOL.

Claire, Ethyl, and Alycedale: Ooh girls, I so wish I had time to “jump in” on this one. I have to say that Claire and Alycedale...you’ve both got me nodding my head up and down on so many of your points.

Oh, and Alycedale, I am all that…including a piece of ass…a great piece of ass when I want to be. :)

Zen Lill: Loved that movie “Sleeper” I was just talking about it the other day with a client. So…What is happening with those tons of fish that are washing up dead in Redondo Beach? Now they are showing up in Australia. Wha’at’s up? Any inside scoop that you can share?

Blog this piece of ass. :) 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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International Women’s Day was yesterday. A century mark of celebration.  But as I said in my title, for some, the day was no different than any other.

As much as I support International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future, for many it was a disappointment, a sorry celebration…and only a reminder of what little rights women have in some countries…and for some, a slap in the face telling women that there is little HOPE for equality in the future.

While women marched in celebration in HOPE of their future, men continued to paw like the dogs that they are, groping at women and girls in a disgusting sexual-free-for-all: their standard protocol. As if the opposite sex were nothing but objects to be used and abused at will. And no day, not even a day to celebrate women was going to change anything, not their support of women, nor their sick behavior.

As I read on-line the stories of this supposed day of celebration…as I peruse the comments from women who write on my blog, I feel a rage so strong in myself that I too can not sleep. And yet, the rage I feel is not even close to the rage that women who experience this abuse undoubtedly feel.

Reading the comments from Lucas to HUSN addresses the depth of pain and suffering that these women endure, that they feel their only way to salvation and freedom is the death of the men that abuse them.

Lucas: Not to take away from your comment, because it moved me. I truly feel your sympathy and your sadness for these women, so I do not want to diminish your sincere heartfelt words. They have touched me and inspired my next words.

As a man, a man with rights, a white man, who is the stronger sex, and who does not need to worry about being treated less than animals, groped, physically abused, raped, or murdered by women, you could never even imagine what it is like to be a woman living in fear of her life from men. Therefore as much as you sympathize, you can never truly empathize, what it is like to be in the body of a woman.

I do not say this to put you down. I do not wish that you could empathize or women would be just as horrific as men…I would not wish this disgusting behavior on anyone. But I, like the women, and being an eye-for-an-eye kind of girl, should this abuse happen to me, I too would wish for the abuser to experience the exact same pain and suffering that I have.

And being a woman, therefore, when I read the comments from HUSN and Afaf, and Lashkar Gah,  their experiences thankfully may not be mine, but their words resonate  with me, because the only thing different from them and me, is that I was blessed to born in the United States.

I understand your sadness as I too feel it deeply.  But I also feel the rage. So yes, these women wish for a slow painful death to their men because they are living a slow painful life. They are at the lowest that they can imagine being…there is nothing worse. And perhaps some may wish death upon themselves to relieve them of their pain and suffering, when wishing death upon their perpetrators is a wish that may never come true.

Do you blame then for wishing such? I do not.

These women wish for death to their men, not only because they have suffered so deeply, but because they can see that these men will never change, and a slow painful death to them is their retribution, their only recourse, their only HOPE. And no, the white man, the man in power is no help in making an effort to demand that their men change.

So I ask again, do you blame them for wanting death to take their men? I do not.

And when Madaline’s name is spoken amongst these women, I hear my own heartbeat talk to me.

HUSN, Afaf, Lashkar Gah, and all of the other women who suffer at the hands of men: I hear you. You are always in my thoughts…in the forefront of my mind. I have thought many times, “Perhaps it is time”, but I can not release Madaline as you wish at this time.  I am sorry. I wish I could leave you with more inspiring words, but please do not lose HOPE. There will be a day. I can not say anymore.  May you be strong and safe. With love ~ Michelle

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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Good morning!

So….wha’ats up?

It’s Friday and there is lots to flap your lips about. Obviously flappin’ has been happenin’ here, and I am still catchin’ up. I can tell you what’s been on my mind…one thing: Wisconsin. Even in light of Walker’s prank, it didn’t prevent him from getting this far. But did we think that it would? Did we think that protesting would stop him from achieving his agenda? The Wisconsin assembly passed the bill this morning.

Too bad. But do I feel bad?

As much as I supported the protesters in standing up for their rights, because I think society as a whole, we are complacent and lazy, the people of Wisconsin made their decision when the voters voted in a conservative Republican Governor Walker to win, in this past election. Whatever their reason was.

So in answer to my question: Yes and no. I feel bad for those that got their butts to the polls last November, and voted Democrat, and lost. But only a little. And I’ll explain why later. But to those who were lazy and stayed home…to those that didn’t exercise their rights, and even those who did but decided to vote Republican (Why – when you knew this was their agenda!)…No, I don’t feel bad for you.

Why would you vote for someone knowing their agenda…knowing that this was his plan?

You will now have to lie in the bed you made. Unfortunately those who voted Democratic will have no choice but to lie in it also. It’s not fair but that is how it works.

We are all responsible for the ways things turn out even if we voted for what we wanted and didn’t get what we wanted. We can’t just go to the poll,  vote, and call it a day anymore. When our livelihood is on the line and we know a certain party is fighting to take away our rights, casting your vote at the polls is the last thing one does. The first thing one does is to go out for weeks and months prior, informing and inspiring, and partaking in ways that encourages others to cast their vote with you…to do the right thing for all.

Like Robert, when it comes to racism:

It is not the ones that propose that sick s**t. It is the atmosphere that allows them to feel that there will be no repercussion form the rest of the white race for doing so.

So I say,  and I will borrow Robert’s words: It isn’t enough to say, “I’m not a racist” white boy. And then look the other way when his fellow bigot buddy is ranting and spewing racial hatreds.

And it is not enough to just go to the polls and vote Democrat, knowing that some of your neighbors and friends are voting Republican. One must stop standing on the sidelines, and partake in life…get involved. Fight for what you want – don’t just check-mark a box and go on with your day.

And now with Obama as our president one has to get involved even more so because we’re dealing with “racism”. The Republicans want to make sure that Obama not only doesn’t succeed, but looks bad all along the way, so that they can attain their main goal, which is to take over the White House and ensure they have long flowing Republican coattails. And let me remind you, at whatever expense of the American people. Racism is strong.

And in my opinion there is some racism added into the mix when it comes to Wisconsin. Did some of the Republican voters vote in a conservative Republican because they wanted to see Obama and his administration fail, and for their party to be charge? Walker became the first Republican governor in Wisconsin since Scott McCallum in 2002. So there was a Democratic Governor all throughout the Bush years, and now when a Black man is our president, the voters vote Republican.  Hmm…

Another thing to ponder: Do you think that whites would be protesting so much if this bill was only affecting OTWs? Somehow I think not.

Harry made the comment in reference to Cox, but I think it pertains to here as well:

This is what OTWs complain about that we whites don’t do that when the negative attack is made upon them. Here we did it because [sic]I’m afraid) it involved stuff that could hurt white people as well as OTWs.

As Harry pointed out, whites responded this way because hey, guess what? This change is going to affect white people too. Would we ever for a moment think that white people would be protesting over union rights,  if the rights were only going to affect OTWs? We all know the answer is “no”.

But my question is: Knowing Walker is a Republican, and knowing his agenda, people of Wisconsin: Why did you vote for him?

Whether the people of Wisconsin were just lazy and didn’t show up at the polls, or stupid because they were aware of Walker’s agenda and voted him in anyway to support the Republican party, or they are racists, who would to do anything to ensure that Obama failed, I’m sorry to say, they’re getting what they deserve. Or maybe I should say what they voted for. Sometimes we have to learn the hard way.

And it will not be the last time we see the Republicans trying to carry out their agenda. But hey, you guys (Republicans) voted them in and we (Democrats) didn’t do enough to stop them, so we all get to experience the results.

People need to not only be responsible for their decisions whatever they are, but in my opinion, we need to start caring about each other, support each other, and most importantly dump this racist BS. We are all Americans.

But yes, a few bad eggs can ruin everything for everybody.

……….

Readers: I am feeling a tad frustrated. It is getting late and I have been having a helluva time trying to articulate what is on my mind and to do it responsibly so that my words are chosen correctly to convey exactly what I am trying to say. I am done editing.  So I HOPE that I have made some sense.

Blog me your thoughts.

Fran: Thanks for your sweet card. It was such a pleasure to meet and work with such a cool woman. And I am so delighted that you like my blog. I HOPE you’ll continue reading.

Janet: Yeah, so make sure it is not in your toothpaste either.

Emily: Thank you :) I really enjoy all of my readers, but yes, when some readers chime in all of the time, and build a presence here, I get hooked on them, and I start to miss them when they’re not around. Liked the Dress-up?

Speaking of regulars that haven’t chimed in…Helena? Mike? It’s been awhile. Are you still out there reading? Miss seeing your comments here. Even Peter - where’ve you been? – wha’ats up?

Anonymous #12 2/24: Thanks for posting the info about wi-fi. I rarely take my computer out of my house – I prefer to blog in bed. I am not one of those who could study at the beach when I was younger,  nor can I blog at Starbucks or any other place. I love my quiet warm sanctuary at home. And forget banking on-line – no way. Never do it where ever I am, and never will. I’m a tactile girl – love the power of the hand. I pay for things the old fashioned way: one check at a time.

Al: Hi. Rachel is my fave too. Is it okay to call her by her first name? I mean, I had a dream about her the other night –  we were in love and planning on getting married. Funny huh? On another note, I too am so sorry to hear about your brother-in-law. I’m sure you’re giving your sis lots of love and support. I wish her well.

Doug: What a sweet reminder. :)

Zen Lill: Yes, sorry we didn’t connect. I had to shop some stores in SF and decided to do that yesterday. Today I am busy, but let’s try again. If I find that recipe (I thought I had it, but it was a different one) I’ll either post it here or e-mail it to you.

Anna of Guam: That is the question…”When will I come to Guam?” Answer: “I really don’t know but I do know I would love to visit.” Hafa Adai.

Lastly, greed over a great story is surfacing from my “loyal”(?) readers. With all this back and forth about who owns what, that appears on my blog, let me reiterate that all material posted on my blog becomes the sole property of my blog. If you want to reserve any proprietary rights don’t post it to my blog. I will prominently display this caveat on my blog from now on to remind those who may have forgotten this notice.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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

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