Good morning!

There is an increase in minority voter registration. It’s a good thing if more people want to get out and vote, right? Right, unless you’re the Right…then…not so good – Minority voters are usually Dems.

Here’s the right..um..I mean the write from Think Progress.

Too Much Democracy?

Georgia Republicans Lament Efforts To Expand Voting Access, Try To Stop Them

As November approaches, Georgia finds itself home to a toss-up Senate race between Democrat Michelle Nunn and Republican David Perdue. With such a competitive race, voters are registering at a higher rate than usual and county election boards are taking steps to expand access to the polls. America has one of the worst turnout rates of any developed country in the world, so you’d like to think that everybody would be cheering this news. But some Republican officials are worried that these measures are resulting in the increased participation of minority voters, and that that fact could spell trouble for their own candidates.

Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp is one of these officials. Think Progress’s Josh Israel reports on new audio released by progressive voting rights organization Better Georgia that captures Kemp sharing his frustration over it’s grassroots effort to register minority voters for the election. Here’s an excerpt from the tape:

Democrats are working hard, and all these stories about them, you know, registering all these minority voters that are out there and others that are sitting on the sidelines, if they can do that, they can win these elections in November.

Using the power of his position, Kemp plans to fight back. On Tuesday, Kemplaunched a “voter fraud” investigation into the voter registration effort, which he says he suspects may have “forged voter registration applications, forged signatures on releases, and applications with false or inaccurate information.” (As a reminder, the problem of voter fraud is essentially non-existent.)

Kemp is not the only one feeling threatened. Just the day before he launched his investigation, another Republican, state senator Fran Millar, complained thatvoting is too convenient for black people. One of Georgia’s largest counties announced last week that it will allow early voting on a Sunday in late October and will open an early voting location in a shopping mall popular among local African-Americans. Millar penned an angry response, explaining that “this location is dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches such as New Birth Missionary Baptist.” When asked to stand by his comments, Millar only got more offensive, writing in a Facebook post, “I would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters.”

BOTTOM LINE: Expanding voting access by increasing opportunities to vote and increasing voter registration is something that deserves to be celebrated in our democracy. Instead, some officials in Georgia, feeling threatened by what might happen if more people exercise their constitutional right, resort to name calling and launching specious investigations that are more likely intended for voter suppression than anything else.

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Readers: If we really have one of the worst turnouts of any developed country, we many not be able to change the demographics, but we can change the voting demographic now by just making sure minorities, who usually vote Dem, become the majority at the polls. Voter turnout currently is 38%. That is crazy that we have so little people voting.

A minority bump up at the polls can drastically change the election results. Everyone needs to encourage people to register and vote. Some of you have made comments stating that you need the white female vote to achieve equality (That’s a nod do you Juanita), but that they don’t care about the issue equality. If you feel like you can’t rely on white women, then don’t count on them to achieve equality…do it yourself. Get to the polls and make sure minorities get to the polls…women and men.

It’s happening. Let’s keep it going and defeat those repubs. The time is now.

Thoughts? It’s Friday…start flapping those lips.

Hi, Lois: When I read Morris’ comment I was reminded of a story my mother told me when she was in her late 20′s. My father and her had good friends – he black, she white – and whenever they went out they experienced racism. They couldn’t go into some restaurants, and this was in liberal California. One doesn’t need to imagine what other parts of the world were like, and still are.

Auspicious or not…I love a good love story. Thanks for sharing, Morris. By the way, congratulations to you both for showing us  such a loving and successful marriage. You are both inspirations. xo

Mabel: Yes, big change can come with a demographic change. But I don’t think waiting is the answer. I’m certainly not going to wait. And it doesn’t look like others are either. Did you read today’s write? Debra: I HOPE you read it too.

Paula: I am aways glad the repubs reveal themselves because the more they do the more we know about them, and it isn’t pretty…and we all need to know. I love your conviction. Me too. Let’s keep it going.

Peace Out. 

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Good morning!

A few days ago on the 13th of September, VAWA celebrated its 20th anniversary. Football season is here. And yet, it seems there is more talk about the abusive players, and how the NFL is handling them,  than there is about the actual games.

A write from Think Progress.

Not Just Ray Rice

On The 20th Anniversary Of VAWA, Important Stories On Domestic Violence

Tomorrow marks the 20th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) – the landmark legislation that was signed into law by President Clinton to provide more institutional resources for domestic violence victims. The anniversary comes at a time when the country is engaged in a national conversation about NFL player Ray Rice, his wife Janay, and the NFL’s responsibility to adequately respond to incidences of domestic abuse within their ranks.

Here’s a rundown of stories related to this issue that you don’t want to miss:

• How The Country Has Changed Under The Violence Against Women Act. We have more resources to address and prevent domestic abuse and fewer people are becoming victims of violence. But there is more work to be done.
• Brutally Honest Sportscaster Delivers Powerful Commentary On Ray Rice. James Brown on CBS: “Our language is important. For instance, when a guy says ‘you throw the ball like a girl,’ or ‘you’re a little sissy,’ it reflects an attitude that devalues women. And attitudes will eventually manifest in some fashion.”
• Domestic Violence Kills More People Than Wars, Global Study Finds.Researchers say that violence at home is an overlooked issue that deserves more international attention.
• Gabrielle Giffords: 20 Years After VAWA, There’s Much More Work To Do. Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven’t been updated to address dating partner abuse.
• You Shouldn’t Ask Why Janay Rice Stayed. The people asking that question don’t understand the reality of domestic violence. They should place responsibility on the abusive partner, not the survivor.
• Columbia University Students’ Powerful Display Of Support For A Rape Victim Seeking Justice. Students are banding together to help Emma Sulkowicz, a senior visual arts major who’s carrying her mattress everywhere as long as her rapist remains on campus.
• Domestic Violence in The Times: From Civil Unrest to Spouse Abuse.The term “domestic violence” has appeared in The New York Times throughout its history, but until the 1980s it mostly referred to civil unrest and rioting rather than acts of violence in the home. Its usage has spiked since 2010.
• Nearly A Third Of U.S. Women Have Experienced Domestic Violence.Ray Rice’s violent act has been widely condemned, but it is also all too common: More than 31 percent of women in the United States have been physically abused by an intimate partner at some point in their lives, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Fox News Mocks Victim Of Ray Rice Elevator Assault: ‘I Think The Message Is, Take The Stairs’. Victim of domestic violence who don’t leave after they’ve been abused send a “terrible message,” says Fox’s Brian Kilmeade.

BOTTOM LINE: It shouldn’t have taken a video leaked to the world to make the NFL finally take strong action against Ray Rice. It shouldn’t be forgotten, either, that domestic violence is a problem that extends far beyond the headlines: more than 31 percent of women in the United States have been physically abused by an intimate partner at some point in their lives. And 20 years after the Violence Against Women Act passed Congress, it shouldn’t be forgotten that there is still much more we can do to protect all women from abuse.

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Readers: What is going on? The only way that this abuse is going to stop is when women’s health and safety is made a priority and the consequences of the perp’s actions are serious. How much more leeway are men going to get before this is stopped? It’s so simple. Make the laws so detrimental for the dirty deed doers that they will not even consider raising a hand.

But first we need to get politicians in office that will support women. That is the big push. Because as long as the repubs are in control you can kiss that idea goodbye. They have no intention of supporting women.

Ugh…this is so frustrating that our future lies in our own hands and we aren’t taking control. I sure HOPE women get a clue, support their sisters, and do the right thing when the time comes, or this is going to be a never ending conversation and battle to boot.

I know I am not the only one who is sickened by all of this. What’s your thoughts on all that is going on? Blog me.

Robert I: Are you around? It’s been awhile. I HOPE you’re doing good.

Lucy, ST:  I saw the photo and read the write. :)

Gwen, Lacy: So sorry to hear about your mother, and sister. So devastating. “Yes, he looked liked such a nice church-going man. He always gave to the community. Never said anything bad about anyone…always kept to his own business…blah blah blah.” THAT should be the profile to be suspect of. Wishing you and your families peace.

Carol: Yes, Health Info usually gave out great info. I can’t say I know what happened to them but perhaps now that they have been requested, they will come back and post. (hint hint)

Peace out. 

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Good morning!

Readers: What are your thoughts from Obama’s address last night? What’s on your mind?

This is what’s on mine. From the Wash Po.

I am a 14-year-old Yazidi girl given as a gift to an ISIS commander. Here’s how I escaped.

“Narin” was deeply scarred by her ordeal. (Hassan Haji for the Washington Post)

This is the story told to me by a 14-year-old Yazidi girl I’ll call “Narin,” currently staying in northern Iraqi Kurdistan. I am a Kurdish journalist with a journalism degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia who covers northern Iraq as a freelancer for several international news outlets. I heard about Narin’s tale through a Yazidi friend who knew her. Aside from translating from Kurdish and excerpting her story in collaboration with Washington Post editors, the only things I changed are all the names, at Narin’s request, to protect her and other victims from reprisal; many of her relatives are still in captivity.

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As the sun rose over my dusty village on Aug. 3, relatives called with terrifying news: Jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) were coming for us. I’d expected just another day full of household tasks in Tel Uzer, a quiet spot on the western Nineveh plains of Iraq, where I lived with my family. Instead, we scrambled out of town on foot, taking only our clothes and some valuables.

After an hour of walking north, we stopped to drink from a well in the heart of the desert. Our plan was to take refuge on Mount Sinjar, along with thousands of other Yazidis like us who were fleeing there, because we had heard a lot of stories about Islamic State brutality and what they had done to non-Muslims. They’d been converting religious minorities or simply killing them. But suddenly several vehicles drew up and we found ourselves surrounded by militants wearing Islamic State uniforms. Several people screamed in horror; we were scared for our lives. I’ve never felt so helpless in my 14 years. They had blocked our path to safety, and there was nothing we could do.

The militants divided us by gender and age: One for young and capable men, another for girls and young women, and a third for older men and women. The jihadists stole cash and jewelry from this last group, and left them alone at the oasis. Then they placed the girls and women in trucks. As they drove us away, we heard gunshots. Later we learned that they were killing the young men, including my 19-year old brother, who had married just six months ago.

That afternoon, they brought us to an empty school in Baaj, a little town west of Mosul near the Syrian border. We met many other Yazidi women who were captured by Islamic State. Their fathers, brothers and husbands had also been killed, they told us. Then Islamic State fighters entered. One of them recited the words to the shahada, the Muslim creed – “I testify that there is no God but Allah, and that Muhammad is his prophet” – and said that if we repeated them, we would become Muslims. But we refused. They were furious. They insulted us a lot and cursed us and our beliefs.

A couple of days later, we were taken to a large hall full of a few dozen more Yazidi girls and women in Mosul, where Islamic State has its Iraqi headquarters. Some of the fighters were my age. They told us we were pagans and confined us for 20 days inside the building, where we slept on the floor and ate only once per day. Every now and then, an Islamic State man would come in and tell us to convert, but each time we refused. As faithful Yazidis, we would not abandon our religion. We wept a lot and mourned the losses suffered by our community.

One day, our guards separated the married from unmarried women. My good childhood friend Shayma and I were given as a gift to two Islamic State members from the south, near Baghdad. They wanted to make us their wives or concubines. Shayma was awarded to Abu Hussein, who was a cleric. I was given to an overweight, dark-bearded man about 50 years old who seemed to have some high rank. He went by the nickname Abu Ahmed. They drove us down to their home in Fallujah. On the road, we saw many Islamic State fighters and remnants of their battles.

Abu Ahmed, Abu Hussein and an aide lived in a Fallujah house that looked like a palace. Abu Ahmed kept telling me to convert, which I ignored. He tried to rape me several times, but I did not allow him to touch me in any sexual way. Instead, he cursed me and beat me every day, punching and kicking me. He fed me only one meal per day. Shayma and I began to discuss killing ourselves.

We were given mobile phones and instructed to call our families. Their journey had been almost as hard as ours: They’d made it to Mount Sinjar, where ISIS surrounded them and tried to starve them to death. After five days under siege, Kurdish rescue forces evacuated them to Syria and then brought them back to northern Iraq. If they traveled to Mosul and converted to Islam, our captors had us tell them, we would be released. Understandably, they did not trust ISIS, so they did not make the trip.

On our sixth day in Fallujah, Abu Ahmed and the aide left for business in Mosul. Abu Hussein, Shayma’s captor, stayed behind. Around sunset the next evening, he went to the mosque for prayers, leaving us alone in the house. Using our cellphones, we had contacted Mahmoud, a Sunni friend of Shayma’s cousin, who lived in Fallujah, for help. It was too dangerous for him to rescue us from the house, so Shayma and I used kitchen knives and meat cleavers to break the locks of two doors to get out. Wearing traditional long black abayas that we found in the house, we walked for 15 minutes through town, which was quiet for evening prayers. Then Mahmoud came and picked us up on the street and took us to his home.

That night, Mahmoud fed us and gave us a place to sleep. The next morning, he recruited a cab driver to take us all on the two-hour ride to Baghdad. The driver said he was afraid of Islamic State but offered to help us for God’s sake. We dressed like local women and covered our faces with a niqab, leaving only our eyes visible. Mahmoud gave us fake student IDs in case we were stopped at checkpoints.

Islamic State militants shot Narin’s brother and still hold her sister-in-law captive. (Hassan Haji for the Washington Post)

I had never felt so much anxiety. At each checkpoint, I was sure we’d be discovered. At one – I cannot recall if it was controlled by Islamic State or Iraqi forces – Mahmoud bribed the guards to let us through. We had contacted Yazidi and Muslim Kurdish family friends to help us in Baghdad, and I cannot describe the dizzy sense of relief I felt when we arrived at their house.

In Baghdad, the family friends gave us another pair of fake ID cards that enabled us to board a flight to Irbil, the capital of Kurdistan in the north. I still couldn’t believe we were free until our plane touched the ground. After staying in Irbil overnight at the house of a Yazidi member of the Iraqi parliament, Vian Dakhil, we traveled north to Shekhan, to the residence of Baba Sheikh, the spiritual leader of the world’s Yazidis.

After so much fear for so many days, hugging my dad again was the best moment of my life. He said he had cried for me every day since I disappeared. That evening, we went to Khanke, where my mother was staying with her relatives. We hugged and kept crying until then I fainted. My month-long ordeal was over, and I felt reborn.

But there more bad news to come. That’s when I learned that Islamic State had shot my brother at the oasis. My sister-in-law, a very beautiful woman, is still captive somewhere in Mosul. Now I am trying to come to terms with what happened. I can never again set foot in our little village, even if it’s freed from Islamic State, because the memory of my brother who died nearby would haunt me too much. I still have nightmares and swoon several times a day – when I remember what I saw or imagine what would have happened if Shayma and I hadn’t escaped.

What can I do? I want to leave this country altogether. This country is no place for me anymore. I want to go to a place where I might be able to start over, if that is even possible.

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Readers: These young girls were lucky they were able to escape. Many girls and women are not so lucky. I don’t know what the answer is nor what actions are needed to take out and destroy this disease, ISIS, but I trust Obama and his advisors will do what is necessary to protect the U.S.

If you didn’t get a chance to watch his address last night or would like to read the transcript, click here. 

With respect to Roger Goodell, after reading the writes from the Huff Po, I have no doubt that he saw that second video of Ray Rice punching his then-fiance.

The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that an unnamed law enforcement official sent an NFL executive the video of Ray Rice punching his then-fiancee in April, months before it was released by TMZ. The report contradicts the claims of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that no one in the league office had seen the footage before it became public on Monday.

In my opinion he’s just protecting his own interest. Ray Rice is a big ticket for him…so it all comes down to money. Once again money means more than anything. So what if a woman gets knocked out cold by her so-called loving man. If men will take down a country for money and racism (That’s a nod to you Henry and Wendy) a mere woman is expendable. As usual, sickening.

HOPEfully it will all be revealed soon, but as Chris Hayes mentioned on MSNBC, they’ll try to blame it on some guy in the NFL mailroom who didn’t deliver the video.

Goodell should be fired.

Keith Olbermann said it well:

“You have already forfeited your privilege of resigning because to restore just the slightest credibility to the den of liars, CYA specialists and investigators whose job it is to bury whatever they actually find, the owners and the NFL need to publicly and loudly fire you,” Olbermann said.

Debra: I think about that all the time. Not only with Obama but just about any other OTW, that is held back or limited because of racism. We are such a beautiful diverse country that we could be the leaders in so much more if we just nourished the incredible assortment of brain power that resides in the U.S.

It’s really too bad and so sad that the color of one’s skin gets in the way of being truly a great country. Because if we were truly the greatest country in the world, we would love and cultivate the diversity, and be an inspiration to the rest of the world.

I ignorantly thought that Obama, a black man, becoming president, and doing all that I knew he was capable of accomplishing, would break down racism. Was I wrong. Obama becoming president inflamed racism to rear its ugly head. It is more strong than ever before. Or perhaps I should say, if we ever doubted racism was prevalent in this country, what we have been experiencing in politics and the murder of young black boys, etc., should erase that doubt.

As much as I loathe and am thoroughly disgusted by the racism I witness here and in the world, just because we may not have noticed as much racism before Obama became president, does not mean it did not exist or was as rampant as it is. Ask any black person.

In a way, as much as I am sickened by it, the blatant acts of racism that were always there, just not so obvious as they are now, perhaps needs to be exposed and revealed to the world so that we can be sickened and shocked enough to do something. It is a rough way to bring about change but it may be the only way.

Anything else to add…blog me. 

Peace & Love

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Good morning!

The Juice starts at 1:30 on MSNBC’s video thanks to The Rachel Maddow Show.

Tough ISIS decisions cow Congress as Obama preps national address

Readers: Tune in tonight. It should be very interesting.

Thoughts? Blog me.

Alycedale: Sometimes I just post a write without saying much, kick back, and become curious to see what conclusions my readers come to, what they learn, and who will respond. That being said, it doesn’t surprise me that you were the one to point out the truth. I agree with what you said. The honest truth would have been to title the write: The police caught the cop who allegedly sexually abused 8 black women because the perpetrator picked the wrong woman.” In other words the perpetrator made a mistake and fucked with the wrong black woman, hence he got caught.

I can’t say that I would do the exact same with the cop as you described. I HOPE I am never in that position to test whether I would. What I do know for sure is that my lips would not be sealed. It seems you certainly have inspired the courage of at least one woman to come forth and report her perpetrator, so I thank you for being you and putting it out there.

Peace out. 

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Good morning

This may not be a hot topic for many, but for me, I couldn’t not say something. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, were found guilty today of corruption. 

Bob McDonnell’s actions of attacking his wife, blaming her for taking the bribes, calling her crazy and incompetent, etc., to save his own skin, instead of upholding his so-called family values and sparing his wife of all charges, says it all.

But let me spell it out anyway. What a sick LSOS. (Yes, I have added him as a member in the LSOS Club.) Once again, a blatant and disgusting extreme example of hypocrisy.

I HOPE he pays big time for his crimes.

From The Rachel Maddow Show. The slimy juice starts around 10 minutes into the video.

Wife-dumping defense fails ‘family man’ McDonnell

Rachel Maddow reports on the guilty verdicts in the corruption trial of former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife, and traces the declining arc of McDonnell’s pious “family values” political persona to his legal defense of scapegoating his wife.

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Readers: What do you have to say? Blog me.

Wa: Thank you for posting. Such a sad story of insensitivity of your culture. Wishing you and your peoples my best.

Kazuko: Exactly. We are now greatly feeling the aftermath of Bush. It is scary because this may only be the beginning.

Eli, ML: Your stories are heartbreaking. I am so sorry that both of you and your sisters experienced so many years of abuse.

On another note…Goodbye, Joan Rivers. You broke the barriers down and paved the way for women. Thanks for all the laughs. May you RIP.

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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