Good morning.

I was going to post a write about another topic but since Trayvon Martin is still on everyone’s minds, as well as mine, I thought I would post this recent write. I have heard the tapes before of him screaming and begging for his life, so I just cannot listen to the tape another time. It is just heart wrenching.  One can only imagine what the family must go through every time they listen to it.

Was there ever a question who was the screamer? Amazingly yes, people did question. But to me, it is obvious that the person screaming “Help!” for his life, is not Zimmerman. Why would Zimmerman be the one screaming help when he is the one with the gun stalking Martin? Was Zimmerman afraid he would be bombarded with skittles and doused with ice tea? I don’t think so.

Once we knew a gun was involved, and it was – martin was shot dead with the weapon, this would eliminate any question who the “screamer” was.

If I was the killer, in possession of a gun, stalking a boy with both hands full, and neither hand was carrying some sort of weapon to defend against my loaded gun, no scream would ever escape my mouth. It’s just illogical to think any different.

But those that are bigots…those that want to see Zimmerman as the “victim” here will justify anything, as Robert, rt pointed out. They will try to cover up the real truth. I’m just waiting to see doctored photos of Zimmerman with blood gushing out of his head.  No doubt the police will come up with this eventually.  It’s sick and I’m not buying it.

As painful as it is for Martin’s family, I admire their tenacity and tenability in the face of those that would just like to bury this story and be done with it. Another black boy killed – no big deal. But it is a big deal. An innocent life was taken, and his murder needs to be in the forefront of our minds. Martin’s murder cannot be forgotten or laid to rest without justice being served.

I am HOPEing this heinous story will continue to remain in the media, and minds of those who care…and Zimmerman will be arrested.

Trayvon Martin Shooting: Voice Experts Claim Cries Heard On 911 Call Were Not George Zimmerman’s

Before George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin on February 26, a 911 call recorded the voice of someone screaming. Whether that person was Martin or Zimmerman — who police say claimed he was attacked by Martin before the fatal incident — has been an open question since the calls were released by the Sanford, Florida police department. (WARNING: Above audio is disturbing.)

The Orlando Sentinel consulted two voice experts to try to settle the debate, and both came to the same conclusion: The cries could not have come from George Zimmerman.

One expert, Tom Owen, used voice identification software to rule out Zimmerman as the source. From the Sentinel:

“I took all of the screams and put those together, and cut out everything else,” Owen says.

The software compared that audio to Zimmerman’s voice. It returned a 48 percent match. Owen said to reach a positive match with audio of this quality, he’d expect higher than 90 percent.

“As a result of that, you can say with reasonable scientific certainty that it’s not Zimmerman,” Owen says, stressing that he cannot confirm the voice as Trayvon’s, because he didn’t have a sample of the teen’s voice to compare.

Another analyst came to a similar conclusion using different technology.

The voice analysis is the latest piece of information to cast doubt on the narrative, advanced by Zimmerman and his family, that the Neighborhood Watch volunteer was attacked by 17-year-old Travyon Martin. A police video this week showed no blood or bruises on Zimmerman in the aftermath of the incident, while Martin’s funeral director said he saw no signs of a struggle on the teen’s body.

CORRECTION: A previous headline for this story stated that voice experts claimed the cries on the 911 call came from Trayvon Martin. In fact, they only said that the cries did not come from George Zimmerman.

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Readers: I don’t need proof that it is Martin’s voice, but I can’t imagine Martin’s voice isn’t recorded somewhere to make a comparison.

MoveOn: Another horrific example of “just us” justice. Unless you’re “just us” you can forget “justice”.

Halley: Not until you mentioned it. All I found was articles on Trump’s sons for killing elephants as sport, which is just as disgusting.

Clay: I see green…just had to say that because most likely, like so many  other men, you are just envious of our hero Anonz. Tell me, if you were there and “witnessed” Anonz protecting women from men who would not think twice about raping, or torturing or killing again and again and again, why were you not by his side protecting the women? Just as I figured, “a gutless wonder”.

Why is it that the moment men are threatened it becomes “horrifying“? What a wuss. What’s horrifying to me is to think about all of the women that suffer at the hands of men. Can you imagine how horrified the women must be? Somehow I don’t think you do.

This is not just “some mistreatments by a few men” .  Wake up will ya and look around – Read for God’s sake – the rape, torture, murder of women is prevalent in this world.

Let me clue you in because I think you need to be enlightened, “If men weren’t so disgusting…if men weren’t so horrific, brutal, heartless…need I go on?…to women, we wouldn’t need the likes of men such as Anonz (not that there is more than one Anonz – although, we could certainly use a few more real men), to come to our aid in protection of the likes of men that I just described.” Obviously, you’re not or you wouldn’t have just stood around and “witnessed”, you would have done something. But like I said, just another whining gutless wonder.

Readers: I’m done. Your turn. Blog me.

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

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These republicans have no goddamn scruples whatsoever. Their motto: “If we can’t convince you of what we want you to do religiously, they we’ll scare you health wise. If we can’t scare you enough that way, we’ll pass a law that just takes your rights away.” Whatever they have to do to get us to do something they’ll do it. No conscious whatsoever.

9 Lies Republicans Tell About Women’s Bodies

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) apologized Tuesday to Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) for accusing her of lying about the gender breakdown of a contraception hearing panel, but plenty of real lies remain in the debate over women’s health. Some are promoted by Republican lawmakers as they push legislation that limits reproductive rights, and others come from GOP presidential candidates and their surrogates.

1. Birth Control Causes Prostate Cancer.

Last month a New Hampshire lawmaker came up with a new reason the government should not require health insurance companies to provide contraception.

“As a man, would it interest you to know that Dr. Brownstein just published an article that links the pill to prostate cancer?” state Rep. Jeanine Notter (R) asked a male representative at the hearing, the Merrimack Patch reports.

“In the children that are born from these women?” he asked. Notter could not clearly explain the study or how the pill results in prostate cancer.

The study described in the newsletter of Dr. David Brownstein, a physician and holistic practitioner in Michigan, suggests men may ingest estrogen through environmental contamination, not in utero from mothers taking birth control. An author of the study told ABC News, “This is just a hypothesis-generating idea. Women should not be throwing away the pill because of this.”

2. Abortion Causes Breast Cancer.

The New Hampshire House recently passed a bill that would require doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure can cause breast cancer. Here is an excerpt from the bill, sponsored by Notter:

Materials that inform the pregnant woman that there is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer. It is scientifically undisputed that full-term pregnancy reduces a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer. It is also undisputed that the earlier a woman has a first full-term pregnancy, the lower her risk of breast cancer becomes, because following a full-term pregnancy the breast tissue exposed to estrogen through the menstrual cycle is more mature and cancer resistant. In fact, for each year that a woman’s first full-term pregnancy is delayed, her risk of breast cancer rises 3.5 percent. The theory that there is a direct link between abortion and breast cancer builds upon this undisputed foundation. During the first and second trimesters of pregnancy the breasts develop merely by duplicating immature tissues. Once a woman passes the thirty-second week of pregnancy (third trimester), the immature cells develop into mature cancer resistant cells. When an abortion ends a normal pregnancy, the woman is left with more immature breast tissue than she had before she was pregnant.

There is no link between abortions and breast cancer, according to the World Health Organization, the American Cancer Society and other major health organizations. Similar provisions requiring doctors to make the abortion-breast cancer connection remain on the books in other state laws. Alaska, Kansas, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas all inaccurately assert a risk in written counseling materials, according to the Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based reproductive health research organization.

3. Birth Control Is A Sex Pill.

Rush Limbaugh showed he has no understanding of how birth control pills work when he attacked Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown law student barred from testifying as a Democratic witness at a congressional hearing about the Obama administration’s contraception policy. Limbaugh called Fluke a “slut” for needing lots of birth control to manage her sex life.

“She wants to be paid to have sex,” Limbaugh said. “She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex.”

Rick Santorum has also said that contraception encourages a bad kind of sex. Last year, in an interview with the Evangelical blog Caffeinated Thoughts, Santorum warned of the “dangers of contraception:”

“It’s not OK because it’s a license to do things in the sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be. They’re supposed to be within marriage, they are supposed to be for purposes that are, yes, conjugal, but also [inaudible], but also procreative. That’s the perfect way that a sexual union should happen. We take any part of that out, we diminish the act.”

Most women who have had sex have used contraception. Birth control pills — which are taken daily, regardless of how frequently a woman has sex — may also be taken to manage endometriosis, ovarian cysts, acne or other health problems. A recent bill in Arizona proposed penalizing women who use the pill for non-medical reasons.

4. Abortion Industry Is “Selling Abortions.”

A Republican state legislator in Arizona last week wrote in an email to a constituent that she wanted to force women seeking abortions to watch the procedure first.

“Personally I’d like to make a law that mandates a woman watch an abortion being performed prior to having a ‘surgical procedure,’” state Rep. Terri Proud (R) wrote. The constituent responded by email that she was “speechless” and after a baffling exchange with Proud, released the emails to the media. Facing national outrage, Proud issued a statement:

For too long, Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry have placed selling abortions above the health and safety of women. My message to a constituent last week emphasized my concerns with how abortion providers have not been honest with women about the realities of abortion, and the short and long-term risks of this dangerous surgical procedure.

The notion that Planned Parenthood baits women into unwanted pregnancies by providing ineffective contraception then profits off the abortions is nothing new, but it’s as outrageous as it sounds. Abortions constitute 3 percent of Planned Parenthood’s services, and the organization estimates it prevents more than 220,000 abortions each year by providing contraception. Because Planned Parenthood is not allowed to use federal funds for abortions, defunding the program may limit contraception services and result in more abortions.

5. Women Can’t Get Pregnant From Rape.

Just before Idaho’s Senate passed a mandatory ultrasound bill last week, bill sponsor made some startling comments about abortion and rape.

“Rape and incest was used as a reason to oppose this,” said state Sen. Chuck Winder (R). “I would hope that when a woman goes in to a physician with a rape issue, that physician will indeed ask her about perhaps her marriage, was this pregnancy caused by normal relations in a marriage or was it truly caused by a rape. I assume that’s part of the counseling that goes on.”

It wasn’t the first time a lawmaker has suggested that women seeking abortions may lie about rape. Some anti-abortion activists actually believe that rape cannot result in pregnancy. Buzzfeed dug up a series of bizarre statements Republicans have made about pregnancy, rape, juices not flowing and more. Here’s one:

The odds that a woman who is raped will get pregnant are “one in millions and millions and millions,” said state Rep. Stephen Freind, R-Delaware County, the Legislature’s leading abortion foe.

The reason, Freind said, is that the traumatic experience of rape causes a woman to “secrete a certain secretion” that tends to kill sperm.

Two Philadelphia doctors specializing in human reproduction characterized Freind’s contention as scientifically baseless.

According to Planned Parenthood, about 5 percent of rapes result in pregnancy, and providing all rape victims with emergency contraception could prevent more than 22,000 unwanted pregnancies a year.

6. Prenatal Testing Leads To Abortion.

Rick Santorum made prenatal testing a campaign issue last month when he declared the tests are designed to “cull the ranks of the disabled in our society” by encouraging abortions.

“Amniocentesis does, in fact, result more often than not in this country in abortions,” Santorum, who has a severely disabled daughter, said on Face the Nation. “That is a fact.”

In fact, more than 90 percent of amniocenteses tests result in normal diagnoses, and half of fetuses diagnosed with severe abnormalities — about 5 percent of those tested — are aborted, according to PolitiFact.

A campaign spokeswoman for Obama condemned Santorum’s comments as “misinformed and dangerous” and pointed out that the tests help women have safer deliveries and healthier babies.

7. HPV Vaccine Causes Retardation.

Back when Rick Perry was campaigning for president, his rivals attacked him for signing an executive order mandating the human papillomavirus vaccine for young girls, and misinformation quickly spread. Michele Bachmann insinuated that the vaccine causes mental retardation, while Santorum spoke out against “having little girls inoculated at the force and compulsion of the government.”

The vaccine is safe and effective in preventing cervical cancer caused by certain strains of HPV, and Perry’s 2007 executive order, which was overturned by the state legislature, would have allowed parents to opt out of having their daughters vaccinated. Dr. Renata Arrington-Sanders, a professor at Johns Hopkins University medical school, told HuffPost’s Laura Bassett:

“The HPV vaccine has been shown to be safe and well-tolerated based on multiple medical reports that have been submitted through government databases. It’s unfortunate that this particular vaccine is surrounded by a lot of controversy just because it’s been labeled as an STD-prevention vaccine. We have similar vaccines, such as one for hepatitis B, that are also used in a mandated approach and have shown very successful rates with prevention.”

8. Plan B Causes Abortions.

The debate over the Obama administration’s contraception policy has yielded some puzzling claims about birth control and Plan B. House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) addressed the House in February, urging his colleagues to reverse Obama’s mandate for health insurance coverage of “abortion-inducing drugs:”

In recent days, Americans of every faith and political persuasion have mobilized in objection to a rule put forward by the Obama administration that constitutes an unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country. This rule would require faith-based employers –- including Catholic charities, schools, universities, and hospitals -– to provide services they believe are immoral. Those services include sterilization, abortion-inducing drugs and devices, and contraception.

Michele Bachmann called Plan B an abortion pill when she incorrectly criticized Obama for making the drug available over-the-counter — an FDA recommendation the administration and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected last year. “The president can put abortion pills for girls 8 years of age, 11 years of age, on the bubblegum aisle,” Bachmann said at a “pro-life” town hall in December.

Contraceptives, emergency or not, prevent pregnancy. They don’t cause abortions. Plan B works in the same way and with the same ingredients as birth control pills, just at a higher dosage, and does nothing to stop the development of a fetus.

9. Your Fetus Is Just Fine.

The Arizona Senate passed a bill this month to protect doctors from “wrongful birth” lawsuits — effectively allowing them to withhold information that may lead a patient to get an abortion. HuffPost’s John Celock reports:

Sen. Nancy Barto (R-Phoenix) told the Claims Journal that she sponsored the law because she did not want claimants to blame a doctor for a baby born with disabilities. Under the provisions of her bill, a doctor could not be sued for medical malpractice if the doctor withholds information from a mother about a child’s potential health issues that could influence her decision to have an abortion. In addition, a lawsuit could not be filed on the child’s behalf regarding a disability.

Kansas lawmakers have considered similar legislation.

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Please ladies...use your brains. Because if you vote republican, you’re obviously not. With everything we witness, from health care to the war against women, no sane woman would vote republican.

Readers: I wish that Trayvon Martin’s murder was the last of these heinous crimes against young black boys and really any OTW, but it would only be HOPEful thinking, because I so strongly want things to change…for Trayvon’s murder to be a reminder of all the murders of black boys such as Trayvon that have come before him, and the impetus to stop the murders of black boys in the future.

Hmm..It makes me think. If I were an OTW who lived in “stand your ground” states, I would go get myself a gun. And if anyone got in my face, and threatened me in my space calling me a nigger, wetback, (what are those other names you use George, WN?) while invading my legal non-retreating space, I would “stand my ground”, pull out my gun and shoot. And if I  killed the offender, he would not be there to answer otherwise. But I would only do it if I felt threatened. I would not break the law and do it just because I didn’t like white folks. Of course, we all know, if enough white people got killed, the law would change in the proverbial hot minute. Then and only then.

“See Jane notice all of the Senators running down to the legislative house to change that law.”

Ana:  :) I HOPE you make it out here some day.

Steve: No hierarchy. It is the luck of the draw, or timing…or? I wish I could tell you.  Thanks for being persistent.

Social Butterfly:  Thank you for giving recognition to Adrienne Rich. She is most definitely a Wonderful Woman of The World.

Jilan: You’re welcome and thank you for the kind words. And I understand completely why you would feel that way. I feel for you, just as I have moments where I think those same thoughts. May you and yours be safe and well.

Oops I am running late for a session. I’m done flapping mine – your turn. Blog me. 

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

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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Good morning!

Although we all know it to be true, the evidence is clear. Just why did it take over 1 month to release this video evidence that Zimmerman was not injured by Trayvon Martin? And why is Zimmerman still not arrested? Everywhere people are petitioning, gathering and standing strong, fighting for justice and still nothing has happened. This just makes my blood boil.

Trayvon Martin Case: Police Video Shows No Blood, Bruises On George Zimmerman After Killing

Newly released video of George Zimmerman at the Sanford Police Department the night he shot Trayvon Martin to death show the neighborhood watch volunteer without blood on his clothing or bruises on his face or head. His clean-shaven picture seems to contrast with the violent beating he told police he endured at the hands of Martin, 17, who Zimmerman said attacked him from behind.

The video, obtained by ABC News, appears inconsistent with Zimmerman’s recently leaked statement to police that he was in a death struggle with Martin before Zimmerman shot him in the chest in self-defense. Zimmerman told investigators that Martin jumped him from behind, punched him in the nose and pounded his head into a sidewalk, according to a police report first described by the Orlando Sentinal.

In the video, apparently taken by surveillance cameras outside and inside the police station, Zimmerman’s face and head are clearly visible and show no injuries consistent with the kind of fight Zimmerman’s statement described.

Zimmerman, 28, the neighborhood watch captain at the Retreat at Twin Lakes gated community, is seen arriving in a police cruiser. He gets out of the car with his hands cuffed behind his back. Zimmerman is clean-shaven and appears several pounds lighter than in ubiquitous mug shot of him taken in 2005 when he was arrested on a charge of assaulting a police officer.

The video’s release comes amid shifting public perception of Martin, whose baby-faced image has become the face of the so-called “Trayvon Martin movement for Justice” that has captivated much of the U.S. Earlier this week, school officials in Miami released Martin’s disciplinary record, showing that he had been on a 10-day suspension when he was killed. According to reports, school officials found an empty baggy that contained marijuana residue. Meanwhile, some websites have replaced widely circulated family photos of Martin with pictures of him sporting removable gold tooth caps. Other websites have picked seemingly random photos of other youth in questionable or offensive poses and claimed that they are of Martin.

Martin’s family has called the counter-offensive an assault on Martin’s character and a “smear campaign.” Tracy Martin, the teen’s father, told HuffPost earlier this week, “I refuse to let them assassinate my son’s character.” He added: “The question should not be why was he suspended from school, it should be why did this man kill him in cold blood.”

Zimmerman shot Martin to death the night of Feb. 26. Martin had been walking toward his father’s girlfriend’s house shortly after 7 p.m. and Zimmerman spotted him and called 911 to report a “suspicious” person. Zimmerman followed Martin, disregarding a police dispatcher who told him “we don’t need you to do that.” Police said early in the investigation that Martin noticed he was being followed, asked Zimmerman what he wanted, and a physical encounter ensued.

In the recently released police reports, Zimmerman told police he got out of his vehicle to follow Martin, but lost sight of him. As he walked back to his vehicle, Martin attacked him from behind, punched him in the nose, knocked him down and began smashing the back of his head into the sidewalk, police reports say Zimmerman told officers. During the tussle, Zimmerman pulled the 9 mm handgun he carried and shot Martin in the chest, he told police.

Lawyers for the Martin family said Zimmerman was the aggressor. The lawyers said Martin’s girlfriend in Miami was on the phone with him just moments before he was killed. The girlfriend has told ABC News and family lawyers that Martin told her someone was following him. She said she heard someone ask Martin something, then what sounded like someone pushing him. The phone sounded like it was then knocked to the ground and went dead, the girl said.

The funeral director who handled Martin’s funeral said there were no cuts or bruises on the teen’s hands that would suggest a violent struggle or fight.

“I didn’t see any evidence he had been fighting anybody,” Richard Kurtz of Roy Mizell and Kurtz Funeral Home in Fort Lauderdale, told television talk show host Nancy Grace.

Police took Zimmerman into custody after they arrived. He was questioned and released later that night. He remains free as the Seminole County State Attorney’s Office reviews the police investigation and decides whether to file charges. The U.S. Justice Department also is investigating.

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Readers: Zimmerman is a lying sack of shit. Have we given him membership to the LSOS Club yet? Unlike the fact that we’re all waiting for him to be arrested, I’m not waiting to add him to the LSOS Club. Consider it done. Now if we can just get the police to do the same thing and arrest Zimmerman.

Anything to say…blog it.

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

Gratefully your blog host,

michelle

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

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Good morning!

I don’t know about all of you, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Obamacare will hold out. I am HOPEing that Solicitor General Donald Verrilli will have a successful third day.

Take It From Me: Defending Obamacare is Super-Hard

That’s Reid, in the background on the left, wearing a pink shirt, on the night health care reform passed.

Jim: You, me, and most everyone else who reads this blog.

Wendi: Thank you. In answer to your question, “Absolutely”.

Peter: I haven’t been up on this lately. Any thing happen since your last report? Hafa Adai.

Zen Lill: Thank you. It was a fun day that day, and the weather was stellar and hot. I am HOPEing it inspires some sunshine for this goddess because I am damn sick of this rain. Is it raining where you are too?

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

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

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“Though she be but little, she be fierce.” – William Shakespeare Midsummer Night’s Dream 

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Good morning!

Reniqua:  I do HOPE that you are here reading, because this is a venue that talks about race and racism all of the time. I invite you to join us where you will be heard and supported. Here, you’ll meet some real friends who will not shun your concerns, who truly care…people who are living in the real world.

I, for one, hear you.

Don’t give up on Obama. He is not removed from the candidate he was 4 years ago when he gave that stirring speech in Philadelphia.  In my opinion, Obama being in the White House has made it easier to talk about race in America. Well…perhaps easier is not the correct word, but more conversations are certainly inspired and surfacing because he is the president.

I HOPE you don’t mind me saying that I believe you’re just hanging out with a crowd that uses the excuse that racism isn’t that bad because “Hey, how can we all be racist? Look at who is president!” (Stick around and read here, you’ll find plenty of responses :) Your best friend seems to be part of the one third group of white America who isn’t racist but stands around and doesn’t do anything to combat racism. I’ve heard people say similar words before as well. They’re just washing their hands like racism isn’t a big problem, brushing it under the table like it racism is not that big of a deal.

Racism is a big deal. It does exist and has always existed. I realize I am not telling you something you don’t already know; just making a statement. Racism has always raised its ugly head, but now with Obama as president, people are talking about it more. And because of his presidency it has brought out racism in people in the worst way. Just turn on any news channel and you’ll experience how racism is running rampant…anything is said, and everything is done to prevent “that black man” from becoming a two-term president. True colors are shining brightly. And as much as what is said and done is disgusting, I’d rather know the truth, than not know.  It gives me fuel for the fire to combat racism.

Stick with your gut. You thought right about Obama. He is making a difference. And when he is president for his second term, nothing he can’t say or do now, will be held back. Plan on the conversation changing big time. Plan on some kick-ass action. We will all see just how much of a difference he will continue to make.

I, for one, am committed to making sure that happens.

Lastly, you stated it yourself on your website:

“… the people,that have the power to make change, even if they dont always know it.  it’s the power of the people. the power of their voices. The stories from their souls. however,  their voices are often silent. particularly the ones we need to hear from most. people are too scared, too apathetic, too confused or feel they dont have anything to say, i hope to change that in whatever way i can. Whether its silly, simple or sad, everyone has a voice, and usually a good story or two to back it up.” (sic)

Plenty of stories have been shared here. I HOPE that you’ll share yours and continue the conversation here with us.

I, for one, would love it.

PS: Rant and vent –  it is all welcome as well. :)

Readers: That is it for me today. Thoughts? Blog me.

Peace & Love…

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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