Good morning readers:  It seems the topic the day before hit a cord for some of you. I didn’t think that people had a hard time getting in, (because really I have no idea unless you speak up). I just thought that few felt inspired to comment. But I can see that I was wrong. 

To me, it was a rather personal article, but I am delighted that it was thought provoking enough for you to try and write in to broach the subject again. Zen Lill and I had a convo about it the day I wrote it and I remember saying that I didn’t think that many would choose themselves as the one with all of the power, and I was curious to see if I was correct in my assumption. We’re about half and half – Interesting.   

I read my article again and since we are still on the topic of ‘who would you chose?’ l wanted to clarify something that may have been misleading.  When I say, ‘If someone’s going to have all of the control…If anyone is going to have all of the power, my answer would always be in any circumstance, ‘It is going to be me’, it means also that I would have the power to choose for someone else to be in control of a specific situation. I did not state that because I feel that I am all knowing – it did not come from ego – far from that.

I was not comparing myself to leaders of this world nor was I saying that I wanted to be president of the US. As I mentioned it was a personal article and quite broad in the scheme of it.  All of your answers were interesting to me and I’m pleased that although the day before was a lockout, you persevered.

Hey, I’ve got news too: Thanks for the heads up on Heparin.  Readers: Not sure if you read the health info or other such comments that are off topic and somehow get in. But as I mentioned before, I don’t believe in coincidences so if there are any of you with health issues I would pay attention. There is some good advice that gets in here, and quite possibly with you in mind…just a thought.

Hi Linda: Your professor sounds like a pretty amazing and inspiring man. How lucky you and your fellow students are to have a teacher in your lives that gets you thinking and challenges you. I miss that connection that one gets in school between students and their teachers.

I had to laugh about his comment about me. No one has ever called me a bullshit artist before. I find that quite amusing.  - I would love to see a comment from Joseph. So Joseph, if you are reading, how about chiming in sometime?

And how interesting that you would say that he would make a great wise ‘alien’. Why do you say ‘alien’ instead of ‘man’ or ‘human’? Anyway, I’m happy he ‘switched’ many of you.  I was initially for Hillary too but Obama’s got it going.  Hey, congrats on being a straight A student! The column will continue… :)

Hi Nawzad:  I know you have written in before yes? If it was you, I remember the last time you said, ‘Sometimes I dream that you let Madaline loose and she destroyed all the evil men in my country.’  I cannot say that the thought has not crossed my mind. The more I hear and learn about women of the world, the more such thoughts enter.  How to weed out the good is easier said than done but it is possible…it has been done on other planets.  But I can see from your most recent comment that you are upset enough to not care about the weeding process.  And considering the life that you lead daily, (which no matter how hard I try I would never be able to comprehend) and now this recent action…I can understand your comment. 

I had read about the acid throwing and it is horrible. I am really sorry that your sister was one of the victims.  I wish her well….and I wish that I could help, but right now all eyes are open. I can tell you this: You and the women of this world are continually on my mind. My situation is nothing compared to what you endure everyday and yet, at this moment there is not much that I can do to assist but write and enlighten when and if I can. 

Hey George: Thanks for sharing your story. All I can say is I am happy that you said ‘enough is enough’ and you stuck to your gut and held onto your rights as a voter. 

Rezar:  You should be ashamed of the way YOU conduct yourself. 

Hey Jerold: AHahaha! Love the comment. Not sure we’re on the same wave but hey you have the right to say you want to control the world. Cheers!

Shawn: I think the readers have said it all…but I am curious of ‘respect’ and ‘relations’ is who you think it is. 

Hi ZL: ooohh I know how much you like those artifacts :(- Times will change and I’m sure you will have the money to buy more later if you choose :)

Write on! Read on… 

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I took a break from the news, partially because I felt so entrenched by it these past many months, but mostly because there are other priorities in my life that have not let up to give me the time to watch and read. It has been frustrating as I feel a bit out of it..but life goes on… 

However, there have been questions that have been going through my mind on a daily basis, and always they are in regards to money.  Just where is this bailout money going and is the average American going to benefit from it or just pay the tab?  I have more to say on this but I’ll save it for another day. 

And then…People are committing suicide over…you guessed it ‘money’ or the lack of it. I was just talking to a friend whose husband works for Chevron and he was on Wall Street last week and the topic was ‘suicide’.  Wall Streeters are committing suicide. Not like the days during the big crash but it is still happening.

I heard this news while I was lying on a table getting a chiropractic adjustment. I was pretty relaxed as you can imagine but this news left me unsettled.  Suicide over the lack of money. It weighed heavy on my mind. All I could think of was, ‘It’s just money.’ Yes we all need it to survive in this world but isn’t life more valuable than money? Maybe I don’t have enough to lose that would make me want to commit suicide. But then I remember reading about the 80-year old, or was it 90? No matter…this woman killed herself because she lost her home – it was all that she had.  So suicide is across the board from the poorest to the wealthiest. I read this while perusing the net this morning: 

Early in November from the Huffington Post:

After learning that he would lose his job at Bear Stearns and not be hired by J.P. Morgan, a 51-year-old employee takes a drug overdose and leaps from the 29th floor of his apartment building. Elsewhere, a futures trader fatally shoots himself after reportedly sustaining huge losses to his personal portfolio. And, thousands of miles away, one unemployed financial manager murders his own family before committing suicide. 

All over the loss of money. What kind of hold does money have over us? Evidently too much if it is going to push one to take their life. When I get a bit frazzled over money, I always break it down. Meaning I look at money and what it means to me.  And it mostly means the ability to have a lot of ‘things’.  Money buys things. The basics: a roof over my head, food in the fridge, cash in the bank for more things’. A life of ‘ease’ if we have an abundance of it.  It also gives us freedoms and the ability to do ‘things’ that we can’t do without the help of money such as helping others who have less than us.  But so much of it is based on our own desire and need for ‘things’. Nothing wrong with owning and having beautiful ‘things’ – I myself, love beautiful ‘things’, and I am grateful for all that I ‘have’.

The issue is when you lose all of those ‘things’, how you feel afterwards.  How much of a happiness investment have you made in purely yourself, or is your happiness investment solely based on what is in your bank account and the materialistic ‘things’ you surround yourself with? Having a tough time keeping up with the Joneses?  The state of the economy can be a very humbling experience for many if you choose, or it can put you over the suicide edge.

I have never lost every ‘thing’  and I do not wish the experience upon anyone or myself.  But if I did lose all that I have, I would hope that I would feel a greater sense of joy like Eckhart Tolle did when he was poor and living on a park bench for a year.  Having no’thing’ and feeling pure joy from life itself.  Now that is living on a totally different level than most of us are accustomed to.  

Considering where I am at in my life these days, I would say that I have a pretty good happiness investment in myself. You?

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Hi ZL:  Yes it was a good ‘catch up’, and always good to laugh – thanks for your time. 

Respect: I have always said that falling in love could be somewhat easy but that it was difficult finding someone to love who loves you back just as deeply. But respect…I agree too that it must be a mutual feeling between two.

Love & Respect: Give it. 

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I was once asked, ‘If anyone is going to have all of the power, who would it be?’ How would you answer that question? Who would you trust? Some people might choose a person that they think would be able to handle the job; someone who they felt would make the right decisions for them. But who would make the ‘right’ decisions?  

Lets play. Let’s say the world was going down…kind of how the world feels currently despite our new president-elect. The ‘power’ is up for grabs, but this person in power is going to decide all of the important decisions in life in regards to the world and the people of the world. If you were given the opportunity to have all of the power, or to give it to someone else who would you choose and why? What characteristics, abilities, strengths, would you want for that person in charge to have? Who would you want to be in control?  Would you feel you were qualified for the job or would you look to find the most qualified candidate, and why? What questions would you ask this person? What would you ask of yourself? What criteria would be considered for you to make a decision?

If someone’s going to have all of the control…If anyone is going to have all of the power, my answer would always be in any circumstance, ‘It is going to be me.’  Why? It’s not that I am power hungry but if anyone is going to make decisions about my life, I am the best qualified. Many people would look for the most qualified person instead of taking on the responsibility and choose themselves. But who would be more responsible than me?  Who has my best interest at heart more than me? I am the only person I can truly trust and if anyone is going to be making decisions that are going to affect my life, I am going to make those decisions.  

‘But what about the rest of the world’, you ask. Who would I trust most to make the right decision for me, let alone for the rest of the world? Me. I trust myself. I trust that I would have the people’s well-being at heart. I know this about myself. Would I trust that someone else would? Considering what I have learned about people in power, the answer is obvious, so I choose me. I mean what makes another persons decision better than my own?  

If it comes down to a few others and me…if anyone is going to make decisions about my life, if anyone is going to be in control, if anyone is going to have all of the power, I choose me.  Ah…yes, with great power comes a great deal of responsibility…but again who would you trust?

Readers: Who would you choose?  

Hi ZL: How goes it? I just have a lot on my mind but nothing that I won’t work out. No pain, no gain. I could just use a little bit more of the latter. :)

Hans: Get over yourself and your narrowminded white thoughts. All of the people of this world are special in their own way. How I wish that we could traverse the universe and meet other beings so that we humans could finally come together and see that there are others even more different than ourselves out there. Maybe then racism would cease to exist, and we would see all humans as world citizens on this planet earth and unite as one. 

Hello AH:  How are you? Well…If there was any chance that you could have that opportunity, I say, ‘Go for it.’ If I had Obama’s ear I would be whispering the same into it. Good suggestion. As far as other measures that could speed up the overall recovery – what do you suggest?  Please share – you know we could use all of the help we could get.

Money: Hang in there.

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Good Morning….In late last night…out early this morning.

This is all you’re getting from me today – chat amongst yourselves annd I’ll see ya on the flip. 

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Well, I thought I was done with racism for the week but I read an article that just got me so heated that I needed to blog about it again.  This act of racism involves those that preach to us on the weekends if not on a daily basis….Well, they don’t preach to me because I am not a church goer. I am speaking of  priests.   

What is it with some priests?  Obviously no matter how much they hide behind the veil of religion, preaching love and the acceptance of  all, true colors eventually emerge. First priests were boofing young boys…and now, what color are they showing?

Their racist white side. A Greenville priest says that his parishioners should do penance if they voted for Barack Obama.  Rev. Jay Scott Newman, sent a letter to all of his parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, stating that his congregants shouldn’t take communion until they do penance for supporting “the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president.”  Radical?  Interesting choice of words.  Yep that Obama – his ideas are just so radical.   That is exactly how I would describe our president elect – yeah ‘radical’ is the first thing I think of…uh huh. 

The Catholic Church says that abortion is one of five “non-negotiable issues” for Catholic voters and that any church member voting for a pro-choice candidate would be disobeying the church.

Oh I get it…so because Obama is pro-choice, he is considered radical. Hmm…I guess  most of my friends and family are radical then, not to mention the millions of others  living in this country. 

“Abortion is understood as intrinsically wrong, meaning it’s not made wrong by intentions or circumstances, it’s wrong in itself.” Newman told WYFF News 4’s John Eby.

I’ll tell you what’s wrong.  Why doesn’t someone ask the catholic church why they never said that if you were a member of the KKK or some other hate group that you couldn’t take communion? If anyone is going to be labeled ‘radical’ this group should be at the top of the list.  But no, the catholic church didn’t do a thing. But of course it had nothing to do with the fact that the KKK were white supremacists. True colors were flying.  

And why did the church never protest segregated churches? Which to me, is wrong in itself. The answer: The catholic church is racist. Isn’t it interesting that they can take such a great interest in politics when it doesn’t involve discrimination against OTWs. 

The Catholic church is losing ground. Exit polling showed that most Catholics didn’t follow that church teachings this year, with a significant majority voting for Obama.  And the nations Roman Catholic bishops vowed Tuesday in their annual meeting to forcefully (!) confront the Obama administration over its support for abortion rights. Yeah, like Obama is the first person in office to ever to speak about the freedom of women’s rights to choose.  True colors are showing…

The bishops said the church and religious freedom could be under attack in the new administration. Oh you’re so worried about your religious freedom – Yes, Obama is definitely about preventing people from choice of religion.  Please! What about my rights? You know the rights over my own body.  How easily you can take away my rights and be so outspoken about it, yet, when did Obama ever say that you don’t have religious freedom.  If he did, I don’t know about it. So someone please blog me if you have evidence of this. 

“President-Elect Obama wants to make it possible for a minor anywhere in the United States to get an abortion without her parents even knowing about it,” Newman said. 

I agree with Obama and so did 52.6% in California who voted ‘No on Prop 4′.  This is a whole other issue for another time. 

Church leaders have said that they fear that the Freedom of Choice Act, which Obama has supported, would lead to the removal of “conscience clauses” that allow Catholic hospitals to choose not to perform abortions.

Again, it is and should always be a woman’s choice. In my mind, if you are a doctor, you are paid to do your job. If, you’re going to deny women the right to have an abortion because you don’t believe in abortion, therefore you are not going to perform your duties as a doctor, what’s next? Hmm…I’ll tell you what’s already happening.  Young girls and women are being refused access to birth control because of pharmacists “conscience”.  It is a vicious cycle.  You can’t get birth control because someone (pharmacists) says that their “conscience” will not allow them to give it to you. Then you get pregnant because of the obvious, and surprise…you can’t have an abortion either because someone says that don’t believe in abortion. Control. Control. Control. 

Did I say these priests were racists?  Let me add they’re sexists too. More power to Obama.

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Hey ZL: Happy you are back to being Zen Lily :)

Hello An American High school:  It is scary. I don’t want a race war but then I am not a racist.  It is the people who are racist that feel they must do anything they can to prevent OTW’s from succeeding therefore creating turmoil and war. It is any generation that includes people who are racist and they will try to influence any generation that will listen and conform. 

What to do? Good question. Communities need to come together to support the OTW’s and this includes whites who take their freedoms for granted.  This includes whites standing up and fighting against racial discrimination even though they are not directly affected by it. As world citizens we are all affected. It’s about pushing for equality for all, no matter what color, race, or sex. Speak out – don’t be silent.

Your generation has so much power because you are the generation that is the future work force etc. You are the generation that can influence change now by coming together in mixed groups as you have done. I think it’s awesome that you can have your racial clashes because it brings forth discussion and understanding.  And, the fact that in spite of expected clashes you can still hang as a group. You have the desire to do something by the fact that you have inquired. You care and that is the first biggest step. I am inspired by you and your group. I also suggest you click ‘calling all women…’ under the heading ‘Madaline Speaks‘, located in the left column of my blog. It is a good read.  

Peace out….

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