The Stolen Lives Of Little Women
Posted by Michelle Moquin on February 11th, 2009
Hello Taloquan: Good to hear from you, and I’m delighted that you were finally able to post a comment. And thank you for turning your sister onto my blog. I read the article that you posted and I found it very interesting and inspiring. Thank you for sharing. What surprised me the most was the following statement:
“The Muslim world population is 1.4 billion people. By the middle of the century, one out of four people will be Muslim. … [There are] 57 Muslim countries today. Think of the number,” Ahmed said. “America — as a superpower, as a world leader — needs to be able to interact in a positive way with one-fourth of the world’s population.”
I hope that for the rest of your time here you will also love it, and that America lives up to your expectations as a world leader. There are fair people but as you know we have a long way to go as a society. I love your optimism and I am hopeful too.
Domi! It is such a delight to see a comment from you. (Readers: Domi and I have know each other….well I was going to list the years but instead I will just say, since our early high school years, and she is a dear friend. And the most fun – she always has me laughing :) It is such a rarity that I get a comment from an old pal. I know that you read and I appreciate you chiming in. I hope that you’ll hang around for awhile and comment again.
Hey Zen Lill: Yes, wouldn’t it be great if all of those ‘white is right’ers ( love that term) could just be popped into another body, OTW of course, and see how it is to live with racism and such? How enlightening that would be. Of course they might loathe themselves so much that they would commit suicide. Hmm….we might be onto something…..Oh I am bad, so bad. Spank me.
Cyndi: I was hoping that we would get a response from Taloquan in regards to your question. I read that article just yesterday too and it was so disturbing. I had a challenging day myself yesterday but when I read this, I realized once again, that my challenges are nothing compared to the lives of so many women, muslim and other, and what they endure on a daily basis.
And it all starts at a very young age.
Zaranj: Thank you for writing in. I know how difficult it is for women like you to write in knowing the repercussions should you be discovered. I just saw that video of the young girl, 8 years old, who was forced to marry a 47 year old man. I am posting it below so that my readers can view it too.
Readers: As shocking as it may seem, it is legal for girls to marry as young as age 10. These are just young girls forced to grow up way too quickly and take on a life that they don’t desire, to put it mildly. What does it say about a man, who wants to marry a child? What does it say about a father who is willing to give up his young daughter knowing what her future holds? I agree with Zaranj. They are sick pedophiles who use religion to satisfy their disgusting sexual needs.
These women really have no voice and the young girls certainly don’t. At a very young age, an age where children are so impressionable, the young girls learn that they have no say in their own lives; they have no choices. The young boys learn that they can do anything they please. They see how their fathers treat their sisters and mothers etc. and they develop the same behavior patterns. The young girls are basically sex slaves to the men and then they grow up and have such horrific experiences such as the story that Cyndi posted. Am I wrong?
Zaranj: I think about the women in this world daily. I know that thinking doesn’t do much for you. I try to enlighten my readers as I become enlightened myself. I am torn about how to handle your request and the requests of so many others like you.
Doug: You surprise me….nothing to add?! :)
Barbara: You’re welcome. As always I wish that I was writing on subjects that were more pleasurable, but unfortunately that is the way that it is on this planet. I can stick my head in the sand and pop up only to see the good but what good would that do? I did that for many years but the shit will still float to the surface whether I choose to see it or not. I choose to so that I can be of service in any way that I can.
In regards to your white girlfriends, why not bring it up yourself? Maybe they want to talk about it but they just don’t don’t know what to say. Maybe when the topic is about women they can feel a camaraderie, but when the subject is about something they can’t relate to, maybe they feel in adequate and at a loss for words. Maybe they have no idea how much it hurts you. How about taking a risk? it sounds like you have a great support of women in your office. I’m sure that if they knew your feelings they would respond to your needs. I hope that I am right.
Carl: I hear ya and I hope for that too.
Readers: I wanted to discuss the Stimulus topic, but this morning was not the time. I am sure it will be discussed again on my blog, but feel free to chat amongst yourselves on this or the above. I need to go.
Peace out and always….
Gratefully your blog host,
michelle
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February 11th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Ooofff, when I read Cyndi’s comment I felt nauseated and un-Zen (felt like kicking some arrogant male ass actually). How can this continue and everyone stands back and calls it ‘their culture’ no, that’s not ‘culture’ it’s criminal abuse of a child. It is enough to make me want Madaline to go in and teach the men a lesson and remove the ‘filth’ (well put). Rather than annihilate men though, I think we should go for conversion, let them be women/young girls with no choices for a day or a year, might change things some…
…and I can only add that I agree, Misch, no matter what challenging things I’ve got going on I try to remember that women the world over are dealing with this kind of major bullshit, and I think of them often, but correct, thinking doesn’t change it, HOW do we go about DEMANDING better treatment for our global sisters??? I give $’s to a few international women only charities but that’s such a minor part of this issue. Any ideas, anyone?? and yes, men I am addressing you also, women are your mothers, sisters, wives…if you don’t care now, you had better start caring…or else ; )
Hey Doug, yeah, you’re speechless? How’d that happen??!
Ciao, Zen Lill
February 11th, 2009 at 8:56 pm
The bush administration has burrowed many of his political appointees to career positions. This will enable the RNC and the bush boys to continue to continue to have their hands on some policy issues.
But the big problem is they will have access to information concerning many areas of secret and sensitive issues. They can sabotage President Obama’s plans on so many critical endeavors by leaking or manufacturing false information about these endeavors.
Reagan used such a burrowed employee to leak the invasion of Iran by US soldiers to Iran to foil Carter’s attempt at re-election. Many soldiers died, the hostages remained to be tortured, and much secret information was lost because of it. Iran doesn’t trust America because they know that politics in America makes it suspect since they have seen it betray its own to get elected.
It has already begun to happen to President Obama. One day after he signed an executive order to close Guantanamo the New York Times ran a front page story detailing how a released detainee from that facility had gone on to help head a local al Qaeda affiliate in Yemen.
Then, last week, word came from the Associated Press that “three senior Pentagon officials tapped by the Bush administration to oversee detainee policy at Guantanamo Bay remain on the job despite President Barack Obama’s order to reverse course.”
These burrowed political appointees at the Pentagon would have access to information regarding legal cases against detainees, documentation of interrogations, and intelligence on detainees admitted to and released from Guantanamo. They will use their positions to leak false information with just enough facts to make them look authentic. Their purpose being to make the President look stupid, inept, native, or dangerous to America’s security.
The bush boys have given orders to the burrowed political appointees(BPAs) to work against the President at every opportunity and to keep his cabal informed of all of the President’s actions. The BPAs have been placed in just about ever career position in the Executive Branch. I discovered this in investigating who ordered the hit on me.
On another issue. it should come out in the Congressional grilling of the banks. I pointed out that some of the financial institutions were in the business of selling insurance on the payment of mortgage loans that they did not have the intention of paying should the loans fall into default. To sell insurance on something you do not have any intention of paying if a loss occurs is fraud.
All the Attorney General needs to do is to order the collection of the emails between these institutions. He will discover many correspondences between their officials laughing about the obscene amounts of money they were collecting everyday that they were collecting. Towards the end there were many emails speculating on how long they would be able to continue to collect before the bottom fell out.
Zen Lill do not feel bad about your loan. Unless you are a derivative expert, you too could have been conned by the method used to divide up your loan into many slices and sell them to 10 to 20 different buyers. Each transaction inflated the value of your property and they were insured for a default that was hoped for by the crooked buyer and never intended to be paid by the crooked seller.
(When both crooks met simultaneously, the melt down occurred. People like me began to take our money out of our money market accounts to the tune of about a trillion dollars. The Fed closed down the system and issued a $250,000 guarantee to every deposit in the bank. And you native folks thought that was done to protect your little assets.)
On the other side, some scammers were buying their slice counting on the insurance to pay for a loan that they knew the mortgagee couldn’t possibly pay off because of structuring the loan with interest only payments that the mortgagee could afford only to have a balloon payment or higher monthly payments to follow when payment on the principle plus the interest was demanded.
These were not buyers trying to get homes they could not afford as is being portrayed by the pundits and ill informed media. They were just scammed buyers.
My Sweetness you were close to seeing me before that committee if the repubs had gotten their way. But since they are more greedy than they are smart a few dollars spread among them solved that problem.
If I may say in the days before the accident I was a head turner when i entered a room full of ladies at many a function. Intermission at the New York or San Francisco ballets come to mind as particular pleasures. Alas, today without my mask I would frighten a dog.
There will truly be a silver cloud in every lining if I can accomplish the same effect from my enemies on the battle field.
Anonz
February 11th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
I think that American women have way too much freedom. God says they should obey the man of the house. What happen to the oath to honor and to obey when women marry a man. They have bastardized the oath.
Women act like they are our equals. They act like the niggers. It was our elders who dropped the ball they gave the jungle, sand, swamp, raghead, and slopped eyed niggers the vote. The next thing we knew the bitches got the vote.
I am a catholic who believes that a woman is like a nun, we are the priests, bishops, cardinals and popes. We are God’s chosen. It is our duty to civilize the niggers,and to teach our women how to be good wives. The nuns know their place. They are married to God and they are subservient to the priests.
Michelle, Zen Lill and the rest of you women who purport to be equal to men are going to burn in hell. Your place is to have the babies we implant in you and to walk a respectful place behind your man. Get thee behind me woman. I will call you if I want something from you.
George
February 11th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
My father spends so much time ranting and raving about abortions. My mother is so against it that she disowned my sister because at a Thanksgiving dinner 4 years ago my sister, her favorite daughter, got up and announced that she had had an abortion when she was 19, sixteen years ago then.
Mother asked her to leave her house. She hasn’t spoken to her since. She has been angry with my father for about 3 years since she found out that he is leaving the bulk of his estate to that sister. I have long suspected that he was the father of that child that my elder sister had aborted. I think she blackmailed him into leaving her 65% of his estate.
I hate her for using her body to get what rightfully belongs to the five of us. Mother is livid. She says that if she out lives father she will might change the will. Presently she feels that she is honor bound as his wife to respect his wishes.
How can I get her to speak up for her rights? She cowers so to our father. My two brothers and other sister also find it difficult to disagree with father. They are content to accept the 25% (he is leaving 10% to the church) he is leaving us.
Our father’s estate is worth 11 plus million dollars. I would have him shot for a whole lot less than the 65% we are losing. But, I can’t bring up the subject less I risk losing my share of the 25%. Could you send Madaline to help.
Beam my elder sister Cathy up. She is so full of her self that she would make a great warrior woman. Then father would be forced to split that 65% with the rest of us. Or you could have Madaline drop him off on some fiery planet. He seems to think that everyone else is going to hell, so he should feel right at home on one of those real hot planets.
I am tired of waiting on them to pass. So you could get Madaline to take mother too. She worships father so she wouldn’t be too happy without him.
Gina
February 11th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
Anonz
Now we have those moles to deal with, it seems that the RNC will do anything to undermine the President. They are only interested in their own convictions of who should be in charge of America and how it should be governed.
Perry
February 11th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Anonz
You are a fucking traitor. I hope they get you.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
Whenever I read stories like this, I think to myself “Is this really America?”
I mean….how is it possible that someone from the previous admin can “burrow” into a position that the new admistration cannot remove?! That is preposterous! Esp when it has to do with something as sensitive as Guantanamo.
Repubs make me sick!
February 11th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
I have to admit that this story and others about Petraeus’ leakage of false stories and accounts of military generals trying to undermine Pres. Obama are very disconcerting.
I would not put anything pass Bush or his loyalists.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Ah! Burrowed! What a nice, harmless word: Burrowed! Why not call them what they are: Traitor or Subversives? I always said that the biggest problem to Obama would be those who are prepared to do whatever is necessary to undermine his administration. However, the best way to handle these Traitors is to pull their security clearance, if they can be connected with any leak. Once you pull their security clearance, they are useless. Alternatively, work around them by creating new inner circle in department where they would be on the outer circle. They know only what they are meant to know. Problem solved.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
I have to admit that this story and others about Petraeus’ leakage of false stories and accounts of military generals trying to undermine Pres. Obama are very disconcerting.
I would not put anything pass Bush or his loyalists.
February 11th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Petraeus is a military person. Treason is a millitary offense. Insubordination is an offense. Petraous and others dicussing efforts to undermine the commander in chief is a high crime of treason. planning a political coup against him.
I have about 95 % faith in Obama, the 5% is his weakness to reach towards his enemies.
That will not work and hopefully he will realize that. their is no coming together with the ones that are determined you fail.
Farley
February 11th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
American Heritage Dictionary
Treason:
1. Violation of allegiance toward one’s country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one’s country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies. 2. A betrayal of trust or confidence.
February 11th, 2009 at 10:04 pm
Gina you are one sick woman. What would make you believe that Michelle would order Madaline to help you get your hands on your father’s money.
Has it ever occurred to you that maybe your father left the bulk of his estate to Cathy because she appears to be the only one of you with balls.
Mary
February 11th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Anonz
If you could only see someone other than Zen Lill. I am sure that many female readers would open up to you. I am not putting Zen Lill down. I think she is smart woman. But you could expand your horizons with a nod to the rest of us.
Belinda
February 11th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Anonz
Aren’t you afraid that you will be snuffed out by the bush loyalists? Please give us a little hint as to what you look like. I have been pouring through pass archives looking for a description. I need to put a face to the heat you bring to my dreams
Debbie
February 11th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Farley
I’m proud of President Obama for holding his ground. Yes, he is trying to make good on his promise of bipartisanship. I agree with you though, bipartisanship may have to take a back seat to getting on with doing what he feels is right for the nation.
The repugs will never get behind helping the nation at the expense of their getting reelected.
Trish
February 11th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
The goal of bipartisanship is to get the ENTIRTY of Congress working toward a common goal of the the betterment of American, not Democrats working toward Democratic goals and Republicans working toward Republican goals. Isn’t that why we elected them in the first place. Regarding Stimulus Packages, TARP, etc, no one can say for sure what will work and what will not. What bipartisanship can provide here is a balanced view and a wider range of approaches, some of which may work, some may not. On balance, tax cuts have not proven a great stimulus, except for a very small segment of the economy. Perhaps a different approach to tax cuts might involve payroll taxes, providing immediate relief to both employer and employee. A spirit of bipartisanship might eliminate some of the finger-pointing and counterproductive labeling. Barring that, screw the Republicans.
February 11th, 2009 at 10:35 pm
Damn can a girl get a word in. I been trying for almost an hour. Michelle I hope you get the entry part of your blog fixed. What’s a girl got to do to get in?
Gina, you need a shrink. And you are going to need a lawyer if you keep trying to solicit murder on the web. Why are you so jealous of your sister? I told my mother about my having had an abortion. She told my father and he ordered her to disown me.
My brother came to my support and they told him he was risking his immortal soul. But they did not disown him. What is the difference from having an abortion and in condoning others having an abortion,
Well my sister who also took my side was disowned by both our parents. She said that she didn’t know if she could have an abortion but that believed that I had the right to make my own decision as to what happens to my body. They told her that she was a demon and to never come to their home again.
Stevie
February 11th, 2009 at 11:16 pm
The repugs were against adequate funding for education. Why? Maybe it’s because they’re scared sh**less that Americans will get a proper education and be able to better decide who to vote for in 2012. If they continue backing retards like Pallin, the US is in serious trouble. The pathetic lack of education in America is very evident when you have people refer to Pallin as intelligent. My lord, folks, she’s as dumb as a doorknob. Then again, some support her because they’re racists like her and will never get used to the idea of a black man in the White House. Their black hatred must be destroying their brain cells. He, he!
February 11th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
I didn’t say that. Why not use your own name.
stevie
February 11th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Sevie
Please forgive me. I’ve been trying to get in for about 30 minutes. I keep getting this is a duplicate statement. I am going to try to enter in your name.
So the Democrats finally managed to get 61 willing to vote yea. This pre-occupation with a filibuster-proof vote is ridiculous. There’s no mention in the Constitution of the filibuster. It’s merely a loophole in the Senate rules, and outside of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” it seldom accomplishes anything worthwhile. The Senate MUST enter the 21st Century, change the rules to eliminate the filibuster (the so-called nuclear option) and start getting legislation PASSED with a simple 51 votes. Enough is Enough!