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Breaking the Silence; Children's Stories
Breaking The Silence; Children's Stories
[can be viewed in it's entirety] www.AngelFury.org
This powerful PBS documentary chronicles the impact of domestic violence on children and the recurring failings of family courts across the country to protect them from their abusers. The one-hour special also features interviews with domestic violence experts, attorneys and judges who reveal the disturbing frequency in which abusers are winning custody of their children and why these miscarriages of justice continue to occur. This Documentary is a part of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights lawsuit (Dombrowski v US) in conjunct with other National Organizations on behalf of Battered Mothers and Battered Children Nationally. Entire Petition here: http://www.stopfamilyviolence.org/ocean/host.php?folder=3&page=468 ‘An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.”-Gandhi www.AngelFury.org
Good morning! Wow, now block quotes can be used. Fancy...
Off for a busy day. Good day to all.
High spirits for a battler who’s low on delegates
And then there was Wednesday night’s airborne bourbon swig in front of reporters on her plane, with Mrs. Clinton holding court for the diminishing press pool accompanying her
Fernando Suarez, a reporter for CBS News who has been traveling with Mrs. Clinton’s campaign since October, asked her if she had ever been to Mount Rushmore before her visit there earlier in the day. Mrs. Clinton said she in fact had.
“Before you were born,” she added, looking at Mr. Suarez, who is 29, and noting that “I did a lot of things before you were born.”
She swirled the bourbon in her glass and nodded mischievously.
“And thank god you weren’t around,” Mrs. Clinton continued. “Or I wouldn’t have enjoyed any of them.”
Yeah I really want this person to be my Pres. Seems like we have had enough of this BS already.
When we do have a woman Pres, and we will, I certainly want one who my granddaughters can look up to, and it certainly is not Clinton.
My granddaughters ages 17 and 12 are very smart young women, you know who they admire? Michelle Obama. I am so proud of them.
Link to NYT Article
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24885309
- Why does the toolbar come and go? one of the mysteries of life!
By Monica Smith on May 30, 2008 9:57 AM EDT
The stupidity of dignity
By Huron John on May 30, 2008 8:21 AM
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Because...
By rich^kolker on May 30, 2008 8:40 AM
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I think it's maybe related to a well of insecurity.
By Monica Smith on May 30, 2008 9:05 AM
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The worthy question! How (why) that happened, that “the world's scientific powerhouse, reach a point at which it grapples with the ethical challenges of twenty-first-century biomedicine using Bible stories, Catholic doctrine, and woolly rabbinical allegory”? I think neither anti-intellectualism (ignorance) nor organisms’ natural behaviors/ instincts, are the causes. Those rather are consequences. Consequences of the economical conditions people live! That’s where the causes are – it is in the ECONOMY and the RULES by which it is functions.
... us ALL to the bridge:
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=26194
First Published 2008-05-30
Obama: First Global President?
For the first time Americans have a rare opportunity. They have a chance to elect a man as President whose vision and leadership is sought not just by many Americans, but most of the World, says Muqtedar Khan.
Commentators across the globe cannot wait for Obama to become the next President of the United States. Whether it is friends across the Atlantic or even those whom we consider as our enemies, are hoping that Obama will take residence in the White House come January 2009.
Like a vast majority of Americans, the world too cannot wait to see the back of President Bush. His policies have made the world tired of and disillusioned with the United States.
The Promise of Obama
But providentially, we still have an ace in the hole -- the 'promise of Obama'. It is hovering tantalizingly on the horizon.
At home he is seen by Americans as a candidate who transcends not just partisanship but also politics. He is poised to bring about change not just in the government but also in the manner in which government does its business. He is determined to become a unifying force - reaching out not just to opponents at home but also to enemies abroad. But most importantly he has awakened a political responsibility in millions of American youth who for decades have remained indifferent to politics.
His personality is a composite bridge. He is both white and black. He is native as well as foreign. He is at once young and mature. The black Obama carries within him the echoes of America's disempowered margins. The Harvard Law alum Obama personifies the white elite. The Hussein in his name acknowledges that things which appear to be foreign - like Islam -- are also native to America. Even his association with Rev. Wright is quintessentially American. It is a bridge to America's dark past from where ghosts still come to haunt the present.
Obama is surreal. He is like a customized bridge designed specifically to bridge every divide threatening to tear America apart today.
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To comment on the topic, let me suggest that the American attitude towards children is rather schizophrenic. Children are considered to "belong" to their parents who have a property right that seems to supercede many others. That's why, when the children are to be removed, parents must be provided with counsel, just as if they were in jeopardy of being deprived of their liberty--i.e. in danger of being sent to prison.
Then there's the complication that criminal violations have long been considered an insult to the state; not to the victim of a criminal act. How this plays out in the case of children who suffer assault is that minors are not considered to be part of the state, so there's no state interest that's being challenged. When you add that to the property right of the parents, there's a double impediment to the state doing anything.
On the other hand, recognizing that children are going to be part of the state in the future, the state has a prospective interest in their proper nurture. But, that's complicated by the fact that a particular child's potential service or contribution is an unknown. So, there's a preference for parents to make the necessary investment and let the state take a wait and see attitude to determine if a particular child is likely to survive.
In other words, there's a preference for parents to invest in the bearing and rearing of children for the benefit of society as a whole, preferably without the society having to provide any support. Then, to add insult to injury, people who don't bother to reproduce and invest in the next generation pass themselves off as virtuous. Then they wonder how come some people who reproduce and invest conclude that they're entitled to derive some personal benefit--even if that just means venting their frustration by beating the children.
Bottom line. I don't see how society can claim an interest in the children, if it is unwilling to support their production, rearing and training.
Immigration has been part of the problem, but not as you might think. A steady flow of young adult immigrants whose reproduction and nurture was "paid" for on another continent, has made it possible to stint on investing in the native born. Even now, the "best and brightest" from other nations are lured here to make a contribution, making it less important that the native born's talents are fully exploited.
North Americans didn't use to be so short-sighted. It's clear that the African population that was imported into North America encountered conditions that allowed them to flourish while those imported into South America kept dying off and needed to be replenished. It's a shame that the twenty-first century off-spring of that population are faring increasingly less well now--in terms of general health, education, longevity and productivity.
Human rights extend to little humans too. You are born into a condition of the right to be treated with respect.
Yes, but, the law doesn not always recognize human rights. That's why there's been an effort to get a commitment to human rights and equal rights. Civil rights are only those associated with participating in the civil society--in our case, a democracy.
The rights of children are ephemeral. Just take a look at the number of children who are
expelled from schools and more because of something they said. That was true even
before the advent of Homeland Security which has provided law enforcement agencies
with threat-discover lessons.
How to rein in persons who are fixated on domination, that's the question of our century.
As Jed Report so aptly puts it.
Isn't it a bit ironic that Bill Clinton is going on and on about the the popular vote when he's the first president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916 to have been re-elected without achieving a popular vote majority in either of his elections?
In 1992, he won 43.01% of the vote. In 1996, he won 49.23%.
In 1912, Wilson won 41.84% of the vote. In 1916, he won 49.24%.
Data from Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections.
So why in the hell is he going around pimping the popular vote theroy?
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Seems like I'm getting the toolbar all the time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-hurowitz/mccain-on-the-plane_b_104285.html
Glen Hurowitz
McCain on the Plane
Posted May 30, 2008 | 11:19 AM (EST)
When the Senate is about to vote on a provision affecting the oil companies, John McCain has a certain favorite place he loves to be: his wife's private jet.
McCain has been "on the plane" for vote after vote that would have shifted billions in taxpayer subsidies from oil companies towards the clean energy and efficiency technologies that could free us from the grip of $4 a gallon gas and a climate in crisis.
Check out what Sierra Club president Carl Pope's account of one of McCain's many missed votes.
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still don't buy your ninteenth century argument that humans are pre-destined to be ruled by the caste they are born into, that economy trumps basic human conditions that include other cultural, language, or hereditary influences, or the possibility of being a free agent
I encourage all to participate in the voting for the Netroots Nation scholarships... it would be wonderful to send our very own bloggers, eh?
Jessica, mataliandy, and Terri in Tokyo have applied. In addition I support a young lady whom I've known since she was a wee one...
http://democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/3-jessica-falker
http://democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/18-liane-allen
http://democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/68-terri-macmillan
http://democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/12-gail-schnitzer
http://democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/3-jessica-falker
http://democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/18-liane-allen
http://democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/68-terri-macmillan
http://democracyforamerica.com/netroots_nation_scholarships/12-gail-schnitzer
that doesn't mean that it isn't incumbant upon the recipients of the trickle, to resent trickled on economic theory; and act to change the currrent system of tricklers and tricklees
just that some supernatural destiny doesn't force a direction to the struggle
- Allen Greenspan didn't act to regulate the paperization of junk mortgage derivatives
By Phil Specht on May 30, 2008 11:53 AM EDTjust that doing his job would have dis-advantaged Republican re-election chances and the Fed is an arm of the Republican Party just like the National Rifle Association
you can bet a correction will be forced on Obama in his first term
and just in time to bottom out at the midterm elections
which is why the can is being kicked down the road
perhaps it might be useful to differentiate between the virtual economy and the real economy. Certainly, economists have worked over-time to restrict themselves to the virtual economy which, for example, appears to grow whenever the turnover of money is accellerated.
But, it that's the case, then the downturn of the virtual economy suggests that the
condition of the real economy is even worse. Which is actually what health and education
and incarceration statistics tell us.
http://www.miamisunpost.com/052908politics.htm
Obama Si! Castro No!
Barack Obama makes his move
By John Hood
If anybody would’ve told me that one day I’d live to see a black Democratic presidential candidate ride into town and address the Cuban American National Foundation, I’d’ve said they were loopy. Had they then gone on to predict not just a rousingly warm welcome, but a nearly unanimous consensus between the foundation membership and said candidate, I would’ve told ’em to take two aspirin and call me in the morning.
But such was the case last Friday, when a man named Obama blew into the Intercontinental Hotel and addressed a luncheon crowd that 10 years ago might never have even given him a place at the table.
I tell ya, foundation founder Jorge Mas Canosa must be rolling in his grave.
But this is not your papi’s CANF, and the reason it isn’t has a lot to do with ex-CANF Executive Director (and former Miami-Dade Democratic Party Chairman) Joe Garcia (who’s running to unseat stalwart hard-liner Mario Diaz-Balart), and current CANF Chairman Jorge Mas Santos, son of the founder, who’s not only determined to restore the foundation to its former glory, he’s determined to do so with some good ol’ fashioned common sense.
Chairman Mas, delivering what almost amounted to a campaign speech (the cat’s a natural), cited his father’s sit-down with Yeltsin and the subsequent “massive scaling down of Soviet subsidies” which resulted from the talk to illustrate the futility of continued silence.
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Mostly, though, Prez Barack would support “bottom-up growth through micro financing, vocational training, and small enterprise development” and embracing “the Millennium Development Goals of halving global poverty by 2015.”
“[M]y policy towards the Americas will be guided by the simple principle that what’s good for the people of the Americas is good for the United States.”
Still, it was Cuba that was most on the minds at this luncheon, and Cuban-Americans who seemed most heartened by what just may amount to an end to a half-century of failed policy.
Of course, after all was said and promised, Fidel couldn’t resist poking his beard into the soufflé and on Monday the shadow dictator weighed-in with a kinda back-handed endorsement of Obama, calling him “the most progressive candidate” in the presidential race, a remark which surely must’ve given great comfort to those who’d rather stay stuck behind their cold, hard line.
What’s remarkable is that those fogies don’t get that Castro said what he said because an Obama win would be the worst thing that could happen to his crumbling regime.
Just ask the people.
The new AG is more of an Administration toady than Gonzales and I thought that bar was set pretty high. revelations of McClellan won't bring a new Special Prosecutor
I would want to read what originally men of principle like Tom Ridge or John Ashcroft have as a take on Scottie
http://democracyforamerica.com/blog_posts/25422-dont-lump-these-guys-in-with-the-rest-of-them#1200474
sorry, link box won't load
Apropos of Monica's oft-repeated mantra, a comment from TPM:
Six months ago the polls "predicted" Clinton vs. Guliani for the nomination. And yet we are to beleive that polls taken more than 6 months out for the general are valid for....what exactly?
The obsessive compulsive need to know the future before it happens is quite disturbing and leads to a huge waste of effort and a great deal of inattention to what can in fact be controlled--the present.
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