I got into a deep conversation in regards to the world this morning and unfortunately I could not pull myself away so therefore it interrupted my world. But hey, the info was worth it. So instead of writing an article or posting something of interest, I’ll just chat it up and say a few things that I want to say.

Norman: I can’t imagine the stress of having a loved one in the hospital and not being able to visit and support, let alone be with the one you love while they pass. It is just so cold and inhuman. I’m sorry that you had to go through that experience.

Lin: Thanks for writing in. I am sorry to hear that the people of Tibet are not being supported by the Chinese, but I am not surprised. As usual, when it comes to Tibet, the Chinese’s response remains the status quo. Thank god for the monks.

Ricky: I was just discussing that new Arizona law this morning. Once again when it works in the favor of the whites they see no problem implementing such a law. But don’t ever try it use it against their own kind or they will come back kicking and screaming.

Fay: Me too but we can’t leave it up to god to do all of the work. I’m praying that the people who believe in Obama will step up to the plate too.

June: Thanks for the reminder.

Anita: No worries. Thanks for your persistency and for the article.

Howard: In regards to your blog comment yesterday about those transactions that bet the bonds would fail: I was just listening to NPR the other day, and only caught the end of that exact story (Of course this was before the fraud charges against Goldman Sachs). It was about the Magnetar Hedge Fund that made millions of dollars when the housing market collapsed: An obscure hedge fund called Magnetar offers new details into the world of collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) and how the instruments cost investors billions while yielding a payday bonanza for Magnetar. And that’s the irony. What Magnetar did appears to be legal.

NPR came up with a snazzy show tune called, “Betting against the American dream”. Catchy tune; unfortunately sad, all too true.

Bet Against The American Dream from Planet Money on Vimeo.

The only way that the whites will stop their ‘white’ collar crimes, the crimes that ruin our country and far exceed the impact that other crimes, such as drugs, have on our country, is if Obama makes the punishment for these ‘white’ collar crimes more severe. If those that are so greedy knew that their crimes would put them in jail, and they could no longer hide behind their corporations, only then would the evil stop.

ZL: To answer your question, I will ask you a question: Why should saving a house come before health care, and people dying? 10 times, perhaps even 100 times, more people need health care than those that are losing their homes.  And people are losing their homes too because they can’t afford to pay for their health and homes; hence, all of their money is going towards their health bills.

And what if the housing/banking market was resolved first? What then? Then all of those people needing to cover their health bills would have to resort to pulling money out of their homes to pay their health bills, possibly putting them back in the same position of having to choose whether they save their homes or their lives. It’s obvious which one they’re going to save.

I agree with you that having hospitals get paid via taxes dollar is not the best fix for people without health insurance. Not only has it been done for years but it also just plain doesn’t work, which is one of the reasons why we needed it to change. It’s easy to say that those without health care can just go wait in line at harbor general or whatever hospital in your area, when people who can afford health care, have it – but it will be those same people who bitch that their tax dollars are paying for the uninsured, if health care didn’t pass.

In my opinion, the logical thing to do first was what Obama did: Get health care passed.

Oops, I am way late…got to run.

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.

Peace out.

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michelle

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The elections in Sudan continue, and if you haven’t been keeping up to date, the elections were extended two days because of ballot issues. But from what I have been reading from the alerts, there are still serious flaws in the balloting process – a free and fair election seems nonexistent with the current president in charge. Here’s an article I found written by a native Darfuri:

A Darfuri Perspective on Sudan’s Dubious Elections

April 13th, 2010 by Niemat Ahmadi

And here’s the latest Election Alert:

Day three of voting continued much as that of the first two days. As noted yesterday, the National Electoral Commission (NEC) extended voting an extra two days so polls will now close on Thursday, April 15. There were continued reports of serious flaws in the balloting process, particularly as it relates to the voter registers, where many voters are finding it difficult to locate which polling place they are registered at. This appears to be particularly true in South Sudan, where by some estimates, some polling locations have had less than ten percent turnout. According to one report by Reuters, at one polling station in the southern town of Torit, there were 1,323 registered voters, but only 29 (or 2%) successfully made it to the poll on the first day.

Opposition leaders such as Sadiq al-Mahdi, of the Umma party described “what is happening now [as] … chaos,” and stated that the election has turned from a celebration into a funeral. Along the same lines, Yasir Arman, who withdrew as the presidential candidate of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) called for the dissolution of the NEC citing “huge mistakes.”

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, heading the Carter Center election observation mission, said that “there will be serious faults in the election, there is no doubt about that, which we’ll assess later on,” and described the election as an “unavoidable step in [the] process,” towards the referendum on southern independence. The State Department described the elections as an “important milestone,” as Special Envoy for Sudan Scott Gration is on his way back to Washington. Both Carter and Gration were sharply rebuked yesterday for their supposed support of the elections in a press conference by opposition parties boycotting the elections.

For the third consecutive day, there were no significant reports of major violence, although four UNAMID peacekeepers have gone missing in Darfur, highlighting the continued lack of security in that region.

Burt: I have a feeling Obama is going to run into a lot of ‘empty’ offices that are posing as regulatory systems in place, that will be quite shocking. On a better note, I think he had some great success at the Nuclear Security Summit yesterday:

Obama and President Dmitry Medvedev of Russia today sealed a new nuclear arms reduction treaty, which entails a considerable new reduction of the strategic missiles each side has deployed, The Washington Post reports.

Another success to add to his plate. I’m sure we’ll get some words, to say the least, from the party of no.

Peace out.

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This was e-mailed to me to post, because the person who tried to post it was not able to blog it here.

Saturday, April 10, 2010 (AP)

Dead Yemeni child bride tied up, raped, says mom

By AHMAD AL-HAJ, Associated Press Writer

(04-10) 06:39 PDT SHUEBA, Yemen (AP) –

A 13-year-old Yemeni child bride who bled to death shortly after marriage was tied down and forced to have sex by her husband, according to interviews with the child’s mother, police and medical reports.

The girl’s mother, Nijma Ahmed, 50, told the Associated Press that before her daughter lost consciousness, she said that her husband had tied her up and forced himself on her. “She looked like she was butchered,” she said about her daughter’s injuries.

Elham Assi, 13, bled to death hours after she spoke to her mother and just days after she was married to a 23-year-old man. She died on April 2 in the deeply poor Yemeni village of Shueba, some 200 kilometers northwest of the capital. Her husband, Abed al-Hikmi, is in police custody.

The practice of marrying young girls is widespread in Yemen where a quarter of all females marry before the age of 15, according to a 2009 report by the country’s Ministry of Social Affairs. Traditional families prefer young brides because they are seen as more obedient and are expected to have more children.

Legislation to ban child brides has been stalled by opposition from religious leaders. There has been no government comment over the case. The girl — one of eight siblings — was pushed into marriage after an agreement between her brother and her future-husband to marry each other’s sisters to avoid having to pay expensive bride-prices — a common arrangement in Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East.

According to police notes from the interrogation of the husband, he was upset because he could not consummate their relationship and felt under pressure to prove his manhood.

Assi’s mother said she also tried to persuade her daughter to have sex with her husband so as not to shame the family.

Al-Hikmi took his young bride to a nearby medical clinic, asking a doctor there to administer her tranquilizers so she would not resist his advances. The clinic said it refused.

Al-Hikmi then obtained performance enhancing pills, according to the police interrogation, and that night completed the act while she screamed.

The next day, he returned to the same medical clinic carrying Assi because she could not walk.

“I told him not to go near her for at least ten days,” said Dr. Fathiya Haidar. She said Assi’s vaginal canal was ripped.

A forensic report obtained by the AP showed that Assi’s injuries were much more extensive, including extensive tearing around the vagina and rectum, suggesting that there might have been additional intercourse after the clinic visit.

Her mother said she visited Assi later that day, where she found her daughter fading in and out of consciousness.  ”She whispered in my ear that he had tied her up and had sex with her violently,” she said. “I said to her husband, what have you done, you criminal?”

She said al-Hikmi told her that the young bride was just possessed by spirits and said he would take her to a folk healer to cast them out.

Hours later, Assi was dead.

“She asked me to stay beside her,” her mother said.

The practice of marrying young girls is widespread in Yemen and has drawn the attention of international rights groups seeking to pressure the government to outlaw child marriages.

“Early marriage places girls at increased risk of dropping out of school, being exposed to violence, abuse and exploitation, and even losing their lives from pregnancy, childbirth and other complications,” said UNICEF’s regional director Sigrid Kaag, in a statement Wednesday condemning the death.

A February 2009 law set the minimum age for marriage at 17, but it was repealed and sent back to parliament’s constitutional committee for review after some lawmakers called it un-Islamic. The committee is expected to make a final decision on the legislation this month.

The issue of Yemen’s child brides received widespread attention three years ago when an 8-year-old girl boldly went by herself to a courtroom and demanded a judge dissolve her marriage to a man in his 30s. She eventually won a divorce.

In September, a 12-year-old Yemeni child-bride died after struggling for three days in labor to give birth, a local human rights organization said. Associated Press Writer Diaa Hadid contributed to this report from Cairo.

Copyright 2010 AP

Readers: What is the deal with men? How is sex enjoyable when you’re making someone else suffer for your pleasures? This isn’t just rape, which is bad enough, where the man could care less about the woman or child. This is a man who is married to this child…a man who is sharing his life with this child and this is how he treats her. It is just simply disgusting.

What this says is that men really don’t care about women, and I’m not just talking about men in the Middle East. Our country, too accepts this kind of behavior, this so-called ‘culture’. “How?”, you may ask. Well…as I’ve pointed out before, this says a lot about the western man because they continue to do business with these countries even when they know that these countries treat their women badly. Only if something horrific is done to someone in our country do we make noise about it. Otherwise who cares what happens to these women in these countries? –  I want my oil, or whatever goods I need.

What does that also say? It also says that if we had oil or something as valuable as oil in our country, some men wouldn’t hesitate to treat the women here badly if it meant more money in their pockets. When it comes to money, to men (not all), women are not only considered second class citizens but second even to a commodity. Again, disgusting.

Thoughts? Blog me.

Helen: Thanks and I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do.

Roger: Thank you for being so open. Reading the books made me think so I am grateful that I could pass that knowledge along to you. I do hope that whatever was started for you continues and you end your path of destruction, and decide to choose a path that is more friendly with life. I wish you the best.

Madhu: Thank you for your comment. I am not very familiar with Kumbh Mela but I do know it is going on presently. How exciting. I would love to accept your very generous offer, and if it were at all possible I would take you up on it. I have always wanted to visit India.

Manorama: As I mentioned to Madhu, I would love to come if I could. Thank you too for the kind invite. I wish you both a beautiful and enlightening gathering at Kumbh Mela.

Cindi: I know your story is not an uncommon one. I too am sorry for what happened to you and your family. The atrocities that whites’ commit are never ending.

Emily: I like that one.

Doug: Thank you. I always appreciate and look forward to your support.

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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Good morning.

Topics tend to be all over the place when it comes to my blog. I am sure we can all agree that this blog is a place to learn. At least it is for me, and I wouldn’t doubt you too. Lots going on this morning from chats about Immigration reform, and the racist whites in full foam whipping up the base into a frenzy. Love that visual Mike – thanks,  to the tragic news of the plane crash in Poland, killing the president and many top military and civilian leaders – my heart goes out to the families and the people in Poland – and last but not least, not to mention the night before the elections begin in Sudan.

The forum is open for discussion on these, and of course as usual, anything else you want to chat about. Speaking of Sudan, if you didn’t sign up for the latest election alerts, here it is:

ELECTION ALERT #1

With less than 48 hours to go before polls are scheduled to open in Sudan on April 11, ominous trends continue to underscore that the election will not meet international standards of credibility.  On Wednesday, the major opposition party in northern Sudan, the Umma party, announced it was withdrawing all of its candidates, dealing another critical blow to the election’s credibility following the decision of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) to withdraw its presidential candidate and parliamentary candidates in Darfur late last week.  Additionally, many SPLM parliamentary candidates in northern Sudan have withdrawn, apparently against the wishes of some of the SPLM leadership in Juba.

Yesterday, US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice expressed concern about the situation on the ground in Sudan and suggested that a slight delay in the election could be supported by Washington.  However, there is no sign that the National Electoral Commission expects to delay the elections (although a decision could come as late as the evening of April 10). Former President Jimmy Carter arrived in Khartoum on Thursday to head the Carter Center’s election observation mission, expressing his regret that a number of parties were boycotting and that he “hope[d] that the elections would be fair and honest, at least for the participants [still] in it.”

Finally, there have been reports that two opposition party leaders in Darfur have been detained, but were later released. One of them reports that the security agents targeted them for signing a statement urging all Darfuris to boycott the elections.

TAKE ACTION:

Please call Secretary of State Clinton today and encourage her to ensure that the upcoming Sudanese elections do not legitimize a genocidal, corrupt government and instead reflect the true will of the Sudanese people.

Call her today at:

1-800-GENOCIDE

Thank you!

Howard: I liked the article. Thanks for posting. Vitamin D just keeps coming up doesn’t it? As I mentioned, my blog is so informative. It isn’t just the articles that I post, but thanks to you and my other readers, we all get a huge lesson in a variety of topics. I just love it. Oh…and yes, you broke it down quite nicely, thank you.

Barry: Loved the story and so surprised I hadn’t heard of it before being a Bay Area girl. What a wonderful and thoughtful gift to give to the poor and elderly in SF. I drive by Broderick St. all of the time when I am headed to my PO Box. I’m kind of excited to check out “Zygmunt Arendt House”  when it’s complete.

Kent: I too love the diversity of America and I too see it as an enrichment of the brain pool. And we all know….well, maybe not the racists… we can use a little enriching in this country.

Readers: I feel I haven’t had much to say lately, or much to personally contribute, but I’ve been enjoying the dialogue so much – keep it coming.

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.

Peace out…

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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The elections in Sudan begin on Sunday and it doesn’t look good, and that is putting it lightly; it is downright disturbing. Will the people of Sudan be able to express their political will without government obstruction? The Answer is ‘No.’ Will they be able to safely go to the voting booths or will they be met with media harassment and impediment at the polls? From what I have read, the latter is to be expected for the people of Sudan and even more so for the Darfuris. The president promises ‘free and fair’ elections (uh huh), but we all know with conditions such as they are, a ‘free and fair’ election does not exist.

Readers: If you want to be a part of helping the people of Sudan by demanding that Omar al-Bashir is prevented from using the results of a rigged election to legitimize his genocidal regime, sign up to receive important alerts about the election.  So when action needs to be taken, you’ll be the first to know, and you can do your part to help.

Here’s an e-mail that I received showing you how to sign up for the alerts.  I signed up and I am planning to take all the action that I can to help the people of Sudan. Will you do the same?

Dear Michelle,

Beginning Sunday, Sudan will hold multi-party elections for the first time in nearly 25 years, but as we all know: this vote will not be free, fair, or even credible.

With your help, we’ve been working to make sure that the US Government and our international allies don’t let Sudan’s fraudulent elections legitimize indicted war criminal Omar al-Bashir. That’s why we’re inviting you to join our Election Alert Network – a group of concerned activists who want to stay informed about next week’s vote and take action on behalf of the Sudanese people.

Sign up to receive important alerts about the election in Sudan.

We will be collecting and analyzing information about the election throughout next week, and will send you regular updates along with the most recent news stories from Sudan.

In the past two weeks, many opposition parties have withdrawn their candidates for President, or have announced they are considering doing so. In addition, many SPLM candidates have withdrawn from north Sudan, including Darfur, at all levels. Just yesterday, the European Union recalled its election monitors from Darfur.

We will keep you updated on developments like this and provide opportunities to take action. No matter what happens during the election, the activist community must be ready to respond. I hope you will sign up for our alerts and take action to help raise awareness about this important moment for the people of Sudan.

Save Darfur Coalition

We are blessed with political freedom, freedom of speech, and freedom of association, even though there are those who try to prevent us from exercising those freedoms. Let’s do what we can for those who don’t have the freedoms that we do, and need our help. Let’s do what we can to fight for ‘free and fair’ elections for Sudan. Thank you.

Mike: More evidence that we are living in a fractured society, split in two: The bigoted whites against all others, who will do anything to divide and conquer until all that is left is white America.

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.

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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