International Women’s Day
Posted by Michelle Moquin on March 9th, 2010
International Women’s Day was yesterday. I’m embarrassed, being that I am such a supporter of women, that I didn’t realize this special day until yesterday after I posted my blog. My apologies to all of the women out there.
It seems that I get so caught up in the abuse and second class treatment of women, by men (not all men), that I neglected to step back and take a break, realize this special day, and honor those same women that I speak about and support. But I will say, one day isn’t enough…not even close.
I found this article that I wanted to share with you:
Admit it or not but we are living in a paternalistic society where males rule over females. Some communities have women seen as less people than men with less rights and privileges.
However, in celebration of the International Womens Day 2010, all men are set to give recognitions to all women in the world for their outstanding contributions in every aspect of the society from politics and business to fashion world.
International Womens Day is an annual celebration which is very similar to Mother’s Day celebration. Men are seen giving gifts, admirations, and flowers to their mothers, girlfriends, wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and to all women in the world.
In celebration of International Womens Day 2010 in the US, President Barack Obama delivered a speech at theInternational Womens Day reception highlighting several contributions of women in the history of America despite the existing inequalities between men and women including statistics that show “how women just earn 77 cents for every dollar men make; how one in four women is the victim of domestic violence at some point in her life; how women are more than half the population, but make up only 17 percent of the seats in Congress, and less than 3 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs.”
In addition, he also mentioned one of the very first law that he signed which was pro women – the Ledbetter Bill – which gave equal salaries for those women who can do the same work as men do.
Men and women are created equal by God. We are all human beings which deserves respect. Often we value women less than men because of the paternalistic nature of the society but through this International Womens Day 2010 celebration, people are (sic) ought to recognize that men need women and that they should be given equal rights and priorities in this world.
I have issue with the second sentence in the first paragraph: “Some communities have women seen as less people than men with less rights and privileges.” Helloo…wake up. ’Some communities have women seen‘? Like the second class treatment of women is some small community issue? And how are women seen as less than men? As if it is an opinion and not a fact. Women aren’t ‘seen’ as less people than men, they are treated that way!
How about saying: “Some countries treat women as less people than men with less rights and privileges.” Now that is a fact, and if we want to be totally truthful, you would say, “Countries treat women as less people than men with less rights and privileges.” Because I don’t know of any country that treats women as equals in every way to men. Do you? If you do, blog me.
I also have issue with the last paragraph, especially with the sentence “Often we value women less than men because of the paternalistic nature of the society…”
paternalism |p??t?rnl?iz?m|nounthe policy or practice on the part of people in positions of authority of restricting the freedom and responsibilities of those subordinate to them in the subordinates’ supposed best interest : the arrogance and paternalism that underlies cradle-to-grave employment contracts.
That sentence is so matter of fact. How easily one can describe a woman’s place in society in one simple sentence, as if it’s no big deal that women are treated and considered this way. Let’s give women a day…give them a day where we can recognize, revere and respect them- just a day though.
‘Paternalistic’ may be our present society but is it the ‘nature’ of the society? Is it inevitable, unavoidable? No, this was and is a grand creation, scheme if you will, well thought out, by men. There is nothing ‘natural’ about women being labeled in our society as ‘subordinates’ to men…there is nothing ‘natural’ about men ‘restricting our freedom and responsibilities’…there is nothing ‘natural’ about a man deciding a woman’s fate by claiming that he is acting ‘supposedly’ out of her ‘best interest’. We all know that our best interest is not considered at all, otherwise men would heed our needs. Men, not all, think mostly of themselves, and revere and respect mostly other men.
Ok…stop me before I get off on men, on a day (more than one:) that I want to revere women.
Let me just add, that I actually have issue with the entire article. Even in an article honoring women the individual can’t tell it like it truly is. The revealing part is this article was written by a woman. Just where is the passion in the support and admiration for her sisters?
Here’s a story that not only gives us a perfect example of men treating a woman as a ‘subordinate’ and ‘restricting’ her ‘responsibilities’ and ‘freedom’ to learn, but more importantly of women supporting women. This story is about a woman who didn’t give up because of the encouragement and support of another woman.
Sometimes, if we’re very fortunate, we meet the one person who will forever change the course of our lives. Working in the Planning Unit of the Ministry of Education in Malawi I met mine.
I met Nwanganga Shields, a Nigerian woman who was heading the World Bank team that was working on the Education and Health programmes in Malawi. I could not believe that this African woman had so much power; every time she sent a message that she was bringing her team to Malawi everybody in the Ministry was running around preparing for her visit.
She requested that I work for her, and with every meeting she gave me more challenging work–including me in the studies and giving me more responsibilities on the ground.
One day she said to me, “If you are doing this work without training then you need to go to graduate school.” She found a place for me at the George Washington University at the School of Education. The battle now was to convince the men in the Ministry to let me go.
She noticed that when we had meetings, I was always sent to go and inform the kitchen to bring the tea. One day as I stood up in the meeting she asked me why I was going to call for the tea when I needed to contribute to the meeting. She said this is the last time you are doing tea duty, you have a degree and you are going to graduate school. She asked the meeting if anybody had an objection, everybody was quiet. She said she would take it as agreement since nobody had objected. Nwanganga is an African woman and she knew that there was no agreement, the men around the table were just shocked and stunned.
After she left, I was called and informed that I would not be going to graduate school at the George Washington University — I was devastated. I believed I wanted an American education because I wanted to be like Nwanganga Shields, fearless, confident, knowledgeable and proud to be African. In all the time I knew Nwanganga, and even though she was married to an Irishman, I had never seen her put on western clothes! She was so proud to be African, even though her views and attitude were completely western.
I was so crushed to be calling Nwanganga to tell her that I would not be taking my place at George Washington as planned. I should have known this fearless, determined woman would not be stopped. Nwanganga immediately sent me to the British Airways office where she had a ticket to America waiting for me.
It took a month after I arrived, but she managed to convince the Ministry to allow me to start school. She helped me find a place to stay, she got me a tutor to learn even basic skills like keyboarding, and she got me a job at the World Bank so that I could continue to work on research projects.
Every time I was homesick or discouraged she would invite me to her house and cook me African food and remind me that it was important that I succeed for the sake of other Malawian women who had never been given the same opportunity because of the assumption that they couldn’t do it.
She not only inspired me to strive to be like her, she inspired me to fight to open doors for other women.
If this one woman had not made that decision to fight so that I could go to graduate school I would have never left Malawi. I owe that one woman my education. Because of her I have educated my own children, and because of her my daughters do not think they might go to graduate school, they know they will. And because of this woman, every time a woman tells me that she wants to do something and there is a stumbling block in front of her, I start looking for solutions right away.
Nwanganga showed me that you should stop at nothing to open a door for a fellow woman. My way of saying thank you to her is helping other women the way she helped me. I took the job as Head of Raising Malawi Academy for Girls because it gives me the opportunity to do for hundreds of girls what Nwanganga did for me.
What an opportunity, to be able to say thank you to Nwanganga over and over again.
I hope that one day, when Raising Malawi Academy for Girls is open she will come to Malawi and speak to the girls in the school and give them the same inspirational talks she gave to me.
To women: I recognize you. I revere you. I respect you. I love you.
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March 9th, 2010 at 9:22 am
The Real Scoop on Coffee and Caffeine
JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH
Harvard Medical School
So you worry that coffee could harm your health? Relax. Studies suggest that, when consumed in moderation — meaning two to four eight-ounce servings daily — coffee may in fact be good for you.
It is not clear whether the benefits come from coffee itself or its caffeine. Even decaffeinated coffee may have some caffeine, and there is limited research on other caffeinated beverages, such as tea. Per cup, coffee has about 100 mg of caffeine… black tea has about half as much. Studies show that coffee may…
Reduce risk for some cancers. An analysis of nine studies found that drinking two cups of coffee daily lowered liver cancer risk by 43%. Coffee also may protect against colorectal cancer.
Help prevent diabetes. Among 200,000 study participants, those who drank four to six cups of regular or decaffeinated coffee daily were 28% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than people who drank two cups or less daily.
Possible reason: Chlorogenic acid, an antioxidant in coffee, slows sugar’s release into the bloodstream.
Protect memory. In a study of 7,000 seniors, women who drank more than three cups of caffeinated coffee or six cups of caffeinated tea daily had less memory loss than women who drank two cups or less.
Prevent gallstones. In a study of 80,000 female nurses, drinking two or more cups of caffeinated coffee daily cut gallstone risk by about 20%.
Why: Caffeine may aid the digestive fluid bile, reducing formation of cholesterol crystals that become stones… and stimulate gallbladder contractions, flushing away crystals.
Lower Parkinson’s disease risk. In the nurses’ study, women who drank one to three cups of caffeinated coffee daily were 40% less likely than nondrinkers to develop Parkinson’s, a movement disorder caused by loss of brain cells.
Improve physical performance. The amount of caffeine in two to five cups of coffee boosts endurance… helps the body burn fat instead of carbohydrates… and eases muscle soreness.
Reassuring: Coffee drinkers are no more likely to have heart attacks or chronic high blood pressure than nondrinkers. Coffee oils can raise cholesterol, but paper filters remove these oils.
Coffee doesn’t appear to increase risk for ovarian or breast cancer. Some women say coffee worsens premenstrual syndrome and fibrocystic breast disease (benign breast lumps), but research does not support this.
Cautions: Both regular and decaf coffee can cause digestive upset. Caffeine can trigger migraine or cause insomnia. Animal studies suggest that at high doses, caffeine may weaken bones by blocking calcium absorption.
Moderate amounts of caffeine do not impair fertility or cause birth defects, but consuming more than 200 mg daily may double miscarriage risk — so limit caffeine to 100 mg per day while pregnant.
interviewed JoAnn E. Manson, MD, DrPH, a professor of medicine and women’s health at Harvard Medical School, and chief of the division of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, both in Boston. She is one of the lead investigators for two highly influential studies on women’s health — the Harvard Nurses’ Health Study and the Women’s Health Initiative. Dr. Manson is the author, with Shari Bassuk, ScD, of Hot Flashes, Hormones & Your Health (McGraw-Hill).
March 9th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Congradualations is in order for the first woman to receive an Oscar for Best Director. CONGRADULATIONS Kathryn Bigelow!
Minnie
March 9th, 2010 at 9:24 am
Who are the people who would buy the soul of another person? They would be the same people who would traffic in slavery, unless they bought the souls to set them free.
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(03-08) 20:33 PST WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) –
The rare spirits that went under the gavel at a recent online auction in New Zealand weren’t aged brandies or hard-to-find liqueurs.
Instead, two glass vials purportedly containing the ghosts of two dead people sold for $2,830 New Zealand dollars ($1,983) at an auction that ended Monday night.
The “ghosts” were put up for bidding by Avie Woodbury from the southern city of Christchurch. She said they were captured in her house and stored in glass vials with stoppers and dipped in holy water, which she says “dulls the spirits’ energy.”
She said they were the spirits of an old man who lived in the house during the 1920s, and a powerful, disruptive little girl who turned up after a session with a spirit-calling Ouija board. Since an exorcism at the property last July led to their capture, there has been no further spooky activity in the house, she said.
The auction attracted more than 214,000 page views and dozens of questions before the winning bid, Trademe auction site spokesman Paul Ford said Tuesday. The name of the winning bidder was not released.
Woodbury said that once an “exorcist’s fee” has been deducted, the proceeds of the spirit sale will go to the animal welfare group the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
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However, being the buyer is from New Zealand, a land with a history of genocidal acts perputrated towards the indigedous people of New Zealand, I would suspect that it is a person not adversed to trafficing in slavery.
Lucy
March 9th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Another white man in Congress is being discovered a hypocrite. Eric Massa has a record of voting against gays issues. Yet, he resigns for propositioning a male aid.
I’m begining to conclude that the average white man in the USA is no different that the England. They are latent homosexuals. That is the reason they are so openly anti gay. They are trying desperately to divert any suspicion that they could be gay.
I am looking suspiciously at my husband who never misses an opportunity to disparage gays. If thou protest too much, it may be because you are supsect.
He fits the profile because is almost violently against abortion. Is it a secret envy of a woman’s abliity to have a baby, or a hatred of women so that he has to come up with a way of punishing women without being suspect of hating women, or is it just a means of acting out his hatred of women?
He has all the symptons of a man in doubt of his masculainty.
Betty
March 9th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Mickey, You need reality courses. No way is Zen Lill a real person. She is intertainment provided by Michelle and Doug to push their blog. So is Anonz, Howie and those aliens.
My friends love reading the comments, but we don’t take the characters to be real.
Get a clue man.
Kate
March 9th, 2010 at 9:26 am
Hafa adai
I like that Guam is now trying to reduce the effect of family connections on the jobs one can get on Guam. Right now if you don’t have some family connection, it is very difficult to get fair treatment in any government job.
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Guthertz Bill Would Ensure Family Ties Are Revealed In GovGuam Procurements
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Guam – Sen. Judi P. Guthertz today introduced legislation that would further screen familial ties in all procurement actions by government of Guam officials.
?Sen. Guthertz, Chair of the legislative Committee on Ethics explained that it is important to ensure the public trust by disclosing family ties to the first degree inclusive of in-laws. The legislation also encompasses familial disclosure of a minimum of three generations and expands to adopted and step-members of individual families. The second term lawmaker said that full-disclosure would illustrate procurement actions are on the up and up.??Read Guthertz Bill 340
?“Broadening this specific provision of the ‘Ethics in Public Contracting’ section of the Guam Procurement Law is critical to diminish any undue influence in government spending. As well, we need to close any technical loopholes in order to promote credibility in government,” stated Guthertz. She added, “The people of Guam need to know and trust that public officials are judicious with expenditures.” ??Bill 340-30(COR) comes after lawmakers unanimously supported Sen. Guthertz’ call for more public accountability by persons who enter into contracts on behalf of the people of Guam. Last November Gov. Camacho vetoed the Bill 209-30. The measure, now Public Law 30-79, requires compliance of the government’s Financial Disclosure Act by all persons that sign or agree to binding contracts that require government funds. Sen. Guthertz and her colleagues unanimously voted to override the governor’s veto in January.
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I hope this is a start towards focusing on the other government job influences.
Peter
March 9th, 2010 at 9:27 am
First they scare you, then they show you how to make money from the scare.
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Profit from Obama’s Anti-Reagan Policies
Dear Fellow Conservative,
President Obama didn’t attend the 20th Anniversary celebration of the fall of the Berlin Wall last November (he had another “date night” with Michelle, I believe). But if he had attended, I think I know what he would have said.
Turning to former Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev (who actually did attend), Obama would have declared, “Mr. Gorbachev, rebuild this wall!”
Indeed, I sometimes suspect that Obama’s sole approach to any policy problem is to ask himself “What Would Reagan Do?” and then do the opposite — while expecting the same results. So, for instance, Obama thinks that by raising taxes, increasing spending, and weakening the dollar he can restore prosperity just as effectively as Reagan did by cutting taxes, slashing spending, and strengthening the dollar.
Well, he’ll find out soon enough that he can’t. But in the meantime, what about you and me? How can we protect ourselves financially as Obama takes his wrecking ball to the entire U.S. economy?
To begin with, we have to face reality: In an age of soaring taxes, near-zero interest on savings, and the looming threat of hyperinflation, we can no longer afford to be passive with our money. We must take active measures to grow our portfolios through profitable investments and to protect it from the IRS.
That sounds difficult, I know. But it doesn’t have to be — if you get the right kind of financial advice from someone you can really trust. And if you don’t happen to know someone like that — well, fortunately I do.
His name is Mark Skousen — the brilliant free-market economist (with a Ph.D. and 26 books to prove it) whose award-winning investment newsletter, Forecasts & Strategies, has been steering subscribers to steady double-digit annual profits for nearly 30 years, through booms and busts and everything in-between.
In fact, Dr. Skousen is virtually alone among today’s investment advisors in having predicted — two years before, with the words “We clearly are headed for fiscal disaster” — the bursting of the credit bubble in 2008 (unlike the Wall Street whiz-kids who were too busy playing in their subprime-mortgage bubble-bath).
Not only that, but Mark Skousen’s record clearly shows he was equally ahead of the curve in having predicted — and shown his subscribers how to profit from — nearly every major other market trend of the past three decades, including:
• The Dow’s 2009 rebound to 10,000 — which he predicted in March — when the Dow was below 7,000
• The credit collapse of 2008
• The tax-cut-fueled recovery of the middle Bush years
• The tech-stock meltdown of 2000
• The quadrupling of the NASDAQ in the ‘90s
• The market crash of October 1987
• The Reaganomics-fueled boom of the early and middle ‘80s
How does he do it? Dr. Skousen, you see, is that rare sort of investment advisor who can not only size up a particular company or stock on its own individual merits, but who can also see it in the context of broader economic and even geo-political trends (skills he honed as a CIA economist earlier in his career).
Nowadays, with our out-of-control federal government making and breaking companies — even entire industries — with a wave of its legislative and regulatory wands, you simply can’t risk being an investor without the kind of big-picture analysis that Mark Skousen brings to each one of his individual investment picks.
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Sincerely,
Laura Ingraham
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One could almost feel sorry fot the nuts. Nah.
Mike
March 9th, 2010 at 9:28 am
Telephone Trick to Avoid Awkward Calls
John Featherman
lydial allows you to leave someone a message on his/her cell phone without talking directly to him. Just call 267-SLY-DIAL (267-759-3425), listen to an ad and enter the cell-phone number you want to call. You will be automatically connected to the person’s voice mail. Slydial’s phone number is a Pennsylvania number, so you will be charged for a call to Pennsylvania. If you would rather not listen to an ad, you can pay $4.95 a month, or $29.95 a year, for premium service. http://www.slydial.com
interviewed John Featherman, privacy consultant, Philadelphia.
March 9th, 2010 at 9:28 am
The republican party is encouraging OPEC and other oil suppliers to the USA to increase their price of a barrel of oil as much as they can. The republicans are trying to influence the Nov elections by having the voters be upset by extremely high gas prices.
The local investors are so happy about the potential profits that their patriotism has been lost to their greed. Look for huge increases at the pump.
Yes, I will make a killing. But your fight is with the snakes you elect to represent you not with me. I am only the recipient of the benefits of your reasons for electing those republican scoundrels.
Anonz
March 9th, 2010 at 9:29 am
Science is finally reporting that it is the social economic status of the person that determines whether he gets Alzheimer’s disease. Duh!
White America has been hiding what they knew all along. That is that most illnesses that OTWs get more often than whites is based on racism. Whites limiting the opportunities OTWs have in the financial sector contributes to their not being able to get the same health benefits whites do.
Hence OTWs suffer more high blood pressure and heart disease. The other obvious reason is that the bigoted and racists societal pressures cause more high blood pressure and heart disease in OTWs.
If whites had to contend with the anger and anxiety that results from in your face racism and harassment OTWs have to contend with on a daily basis, their blood pressure would be high to. And whites would suffer from all the illnesses that result from high blood pressure and constant exposure to stress too.
Robert
March 9th, 2010 at 9:30 am
There will be an incident on the Big Island of Hawaii if the US does not do more to get the America’s in line and if they continue to amass huge forces in the area.
Ori
March 9th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Mom, thanks for all your help. I was really scared for a moment or two there. I ran into this article. I want to share.
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Fish oil: The ultimate brain booster
It could be the biggest mental health breakthrough in generations — millions of Americans spared dangerous psychotic meds by simply getting more fish oil.
Researchers looked at 81 people between the ages of 13 and 25 who were showing some of the early warning signs of schizophrenia: paranoia, suspicion, belief in magical powers, and changing sleep patterns.
They gave 41 of these patients fish oil for three months… and the rest a placebo.
One year later, only two of the 41 fish oil patients (5 percent) became full-blown psychotics, versus 11 of the 40 (28 percent) in the placebo group.
The study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry was a relatively small one, so it’s still early… but the results so far are encouraging enough that I’m sure Big Pharma’s drug pushers are already experiencing some mental disorders of their own.
The research doesn’t suggest that a schizophrenic might benefit from fish oil — although it wouldn’t hurt to add some, since we all need these fatty acids for so many other reasons. But it does show that many of the people at risk for this condition might be able to dodge that bullet it if they simply boost their omega-3 intake.
Researchers believe the people who suffer from these conditions may have a problem with the fatty acids in their brains — and that the omega-3 fatty acids in fish oil could help undo the damage.
If it holds up to further study, it would be a huge leap forward. Some 2.4 million Americans take powerful, dangerous and even deadly antipsychotic drugs to deal with conditions like schizophrenia.
And yet the real solution may have been swimming in plain sight all along.
You can bet Big Pharma will fight this tooth and fin — so expect an all-out effort to discredit this research. After all, people on meds for these conditions are usually lifetime customers, and they’re not going to give up that easy cash without a fish fight.
In other words, take the next wave of research on this with an extra grain of sea salt.
Speaking of these great fatty acids, just last week, I mentioned a new study that found people with the lowest levels of fish oil in their diets had the highest risk of dental disorders. (Read “How fish oil helps the mouth.”)
Where the researchers behind that study found that fish oil appears to lower the inflammation the leads to oral health problems, the authors of a new study found that these fatty acids can also fight the bacteria that live in your mouth.
That study, published in Molecular Oral Microbiology, finds that even low doses of omega-3 fatty acids can inhibit bacteria such as Streptococcus mutans, Candida albicans, and Porphyromonas gingivalis — better known to you and me as disease-causing nasties.
If you’re not eating fish yet, get started — and if you don’t like seafood, pick a good high-quality fish oil supplement. With its benefits on the heart and circulation and new research showing how it can help both your mouth and mind, it’s a fatty acid that could truly boost your head-to-toe health.
evelyn
March 9th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Hafa adai
Peter let’s check on all the Search and Rescue missions Guam’s Coast Guard is doing. What are they really searching for?
I know that they are finding some people and boats to rescue, but if I were on the sea 24/7 ostensively to rescue the endangered, I would occasionally find a victim or two.
This is way more concentration than our budget should be able to afford. So what really is going on out there?
Howie does the cat have your tongue? Has the government gotten to you? Did you lose one of your pair?
I see all the banter about Anonz, but do the girls have a point? Are you ranting about a man who puts his body where his mouth is while you hide behind shut lips?
I haven’t heard a peep out of you about What is going on on Guam in a week? Step up we need a visible pair exposed on the blog.
Shit Peter is followed when he takes a piss break at work. But he persisrts. I’m not an Anonz fan, but the girls in Dafrur seem to have witnessed some sort of bravery on his part.
I’ll admit that I wouldn’t have the balls to do that in a foreign country, but I’m willing to risk a little harassment by my government to get the world out that we need to be more diligent.
What’s your story?
Danny
March 9th, 2010 at 9:38 am
Michelle
You do so much for women. We can always count of you to give us the benefit of the doubt. While so many women are competing to be the one who is most understood by men or to be the one woman that men get alone with, you steadfastly listen to women and stand by them.
Your story is about such loyalty, and respect for women.
Loni
March 9th, 2010 at 9:43 am
Michelle
I am tired of women who rush to explain the man’s side, as if she will be more important because she is the one woman who can interpret the man’s point of view for us.
We women get enough articles about men and their problems. When they are just sexual dogs, we have to sit through bullshit about them going to sex therapy. If a woman does the same thing she is just a whore.
I know that if I go to your blog, I will never have to read an apologist argument for the terrible behavior of some man. Thank you for being a woman’s woman.
Kelly
I am tired of women who rush to
March 9th, 2010 at 9:45 am
Anonz when you write I get wet.
March 9th, 2010 at 9:48 am
3-year-old Reese :
‘Our Father, Who does art in heaven,
Harold is His name.
Amen.’
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March 9th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Amihan Says:
March 9th, 2010 at 10:00 am
Hafa adai Virginia, your article about the phony Guam beer claims to make money. Greed will exploit anything for money.
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“It’s a local brand, not brewed on Guam, but we’re creating it for our island, for our visitors as something they can take with them to their families off-island in Japan and Korea,” Castro said.
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Hello, if it is not brewed on Guam it is not Guam beer. Putting a label on it saying Guam’s brand does not give it any connection to Guam. Hey, I’m from Guam. I now reside in Sacramento, CA.
So why don’t grab some of this dirt in my backyard and brand it Guam’s dirt. Maybe I could sell it to people who visited the island but forgot to get a souvenir.
Greed is a sickness that needs to be stamped out.
Amihan
March 9th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Ori, as I have written yesterday, the Crystal you seek is not on this planet. It was left on Mars eons ago. If lives were taken in Hawaii, it would be done in vain.
You are correct about America not putting enough pressure on what we call South America –particularly Chili and Argentina. Hillary Clinton acting as our Secretary of State, has been pleading with these Nations to join the pact, but they do not fear or believe in an Alien presence on Earth and do not believe in the powers they have — Being able to cause Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tsunamis and Weather disturbances.
Military forces are amassing huge forces in the area of the Trench. Perhaps they are fearful of Aliens not keeping their word and do not want to be caught without any Military in the area — even if they are incapable of harming any Aliens. It gives them the illusion that they are protected. Please do not harm Hawaii. They are innocents and should not be held responsible for the inactions of other Nations on this Planet.
Hafa adai Danny. No one has gotten to me. I have not lost any balls either. The banter about Anonz is just that . . . Banter. I do not see him being able to help the situation near Guam in any way no matter how much of a Billionaire he may be.
Do you know that Anonz is even real? Have you seen him fighting? I am real, but I am disabled and about to have a tumor removed which may be cancerous, as well as being a Diabetic on Insulin.
I am not a Billionaire Mercenary. I bring you information about what is happening because I have an Alien friend who makes me aware of these events.
What do you want from me? I have my own problems and Guam is not at the top of my list.
Is a Journalist writing about a War supposed to fight in it? Why can’t you just leave me alone or I will not report anything to anyone. I do this as a public service.
Now you have my story. Do you feel stupid Danny ?
HOWIE
March 9th, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Kate #5. I am sorry to burst your bubble, but Zen Lill, Al, Howie and even Carr are as real as can be. I should know — I am Howie and Al is my Roommate. Carr has been my Alien Friend for over 30 years.
Al and I have been blog friends with Zen Lill for over 2 years now and we are real friends.
You can believe anything you like, but do not call me imaginary entertainment and do not tell Mickey to “Get a Clue Man”.
Where are you from? I like your expression — “Get a Clue Man”. you sound South African to me. I am just curious.
HOWIE
March 9th, 2010 at 2:54 pm
Mischa, I love the story, the second one, I can’t stand it when women write between the lines garbage aimed at approval from the entire audience.
kelly, I said that same statement about women would be labeled a dog whore if they acted like Tiger Woods, and he gets to apologize and get therapy, oh please, get…bent! He’s just freaked that he got caught.
Kate, I assure you, I’m real. Mischa (and Doug, too) is an off blog pal as well as here in blogsville, as Howie stated, he and Al are my ‘real’ friends via this blog, two years of fun interaction.
Mickey has a clue, several in fact, how about you get one? : ) Mickey, all your guesses about me are correct ; )
Gotta roll, time to pick up my kid, she’s real, too and needs a ride home!
Luv, Zen Lill
March 9th, 2010 at 9:21 pm
Howie
I can’t understand why a person with your obvious intelligence would be against Anonz. Recent polls say 55% of the public trust the republicans when it comes to national security. Only 33% trust the democrats.
What has Anonz been telling you? He and his cronies are making a fortunate out of sending our boys and girls to die for wars the republicans started for money.
The guy is saying that stupid white people are fucking up this country and he is just making money off their stupidity. White America is the most gutless bunch of chicken hawks in the history of the world.
They are easily manipulated by the republicans with their scare tactics. White men in general are little dick, closet homosexual, gutless, xenophobic racist, misogynist, war mongering, chicken hawk hypocrites.
Anyone of those adjectives lends itself to huge potential profits in the hands of skilled manipulators. The republican are skilled manipulators. They are making a fortune for their owners.
Obama is tell the ignorant bastards that they are scamming them and they don’t care as long as they continue to be told that they will continue to receive preferential treatment from all levels of government.
White men are pathetic when it comes to sex and homosexual concepts. The white male anchors are entranced with Massa’s story about being naked in a shower and arguing with a naked Rahm Emanual.
Watch their performance as they tell the story. They are all giggly. The closet door creep open as they speak.
In walks Anonz a real man. He sees the profit potential. He recognizes that if he doesn’t fleece the greedy, little dick wonders someone else will. So he does.
You get angry with the messenger. His message is stop the game. But if you don’t I will fleece you because you can’t afford to sit at the table with me. If you could, you don’t have the temperament to beat me. You are girlie men.
Can’t you just hear Anonz saying that? So Howie don’t kill the messenger. Take the flock of white men outside and shoot the bastards. The world will be better for it.
My father is a judge on the federal bench. He is a complete racist asshole. I met and married a Japanese man in law school. We have been married for seven years.
Not once has that bastard acknowledged our marriage or three children. Yet he sits on a bench which decides the faith of all americans. That is the position of this country. Run or more accurate run into the ground by bigoted white men.
Men who gave tax credits to corporations to farm out all the jobs out to India, china, and the rest of the world that has cheap labor.
White men. Yet, you rail at Anonz. What is he supposed to do? Close his eyes to the profit being made by white men scamming other white men. I say take the bastards to the cleaners.
My mother has lived with a man that has never considered her opinions worthy of serious consideration. My mother took a failed company that she inherited from her drunkard of a father and turned it into a billion dollar company.
My father is the beneficiary of her money whose political contributions bought him a seat on the federal bench. This is a man who wouldn’t make a good traffic court judge. But he got appointed because of the money and his racist attitudes and abortion views.
Those views are as hypocritical as the rest of his values. He offered me one million dollars to about my child by “that fucking chink.” A million dollars of my mother’s money. And my husband is Japanese not Chinese.
Anonz you have my support. I hope you make a killing on the increase at the pump we will undoubtedly get.
Marlene
March 9th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
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March 9th, 2010 at 9:53 pm
Hi Marlene #22. I am only aginst Anonz because of his attitude toward the 96% of lessor means who are controlled by people like Anonz. He tells us “He Owns Us” and that may be so, but doesn’t need to be constantly rubbed in our faces.
He has told us what to do to try to change things and I totally agree with that. We must take control of who we vote into office so they work “For the People” and not for Special Interst Groups and Corporations, such as the ones he owns. Anonz admits that he will continue to take all our money as much as he can get and rubs it in a bit too much.
I don’t like to be told that he owns me. It is only my money that he owns. He is fortunate to be one of the Elite Billionaires in this World but where is he helping with this massive amount of money?
I do not believe that he is a knight in shining armor while he is sucking us dry. He has made himself a legend in his own time and people tend to respect people because of their Net Worth == as if they were Royalty. They are not. A person is judged by what is in their heart — not by their bank accounts. That is my only qualm with Anonz. Not jealousy, not envy, just believing that wealth only counts here on Earth. On other Planets it means nothing.
He thrives on conflict yet he is capable of causing that very same conflict and profiting from all involved. Does this make one a Hero? I don’t think he is any better than anyone else.
As far as “Killing the Messenger,” I have experienced much of that on this blog yet Anonz can do no wrong. I comment here coming from a different place. It is not ALL about wealth.
I am not the only one who believes this. The Beings that really count think it is not very important.
HOWIE
March 10th, 2010 at 8:27 am
Nicely put Howie, nicely put.