Protect OUR Children_Act 1738

I was called yesterday to turn to the OPRAH show and watch what was one of the most appalling shows I'd ever seen. I will add the link as I cannot speak on it too much, the subject matter greatly disturbs me and it is difficult to write or speak about. However I URGE you, please do not turn away...

http://www.oprah.com/article/oprahshow/20080911_tows_predators

The statistics surrounding Child Abuse in the form of Pornography, Molestation, and Rape in this country is inhumane and ridiculously ALARMING. People, or shall I say individuals (because I can not classify this type of entity as a human being) are using the internet to trade child pornography like baseball cards and that is just the tip of the iceberg. The picture Oprah stands before enclosed here shows how just ONE image can spread throughout the United States in 24 hours! These images are REAL and the age range begins with infants! Please help me, help yourselves, and more importantly help our children. No child should suffer this. There is something you can do right now and time is of the essence.

To assist our law enforcement agencies in increasing the necessary funding to bring these horrible individuals and their acts to an end. Write to your senator at www.senate.gov and URGE them to vote YES to ACT 1738. This is a bi-partisan legislation that has absolutely nothing to do with either party. I've already done it and I've added the link as a favorite to make sure I write everyday, everytime I think about it until September 26th. I will then follow up to see what has been done and will now frequent this site to write my Senators more often. It's so simple and takes a minute of your time. Oprah's even got a template letter waiting for you and only needs your name at the end. Please do this for our children.

For once in my life, watching this show and learning these statistics makes me finally understand the person who might feel that this world is just too evil to bring a child into. May no one have mercy on these individuals when they are caught, they deserve something far worse than death and with this, I have no problem passing judgement.

Peace!

The REAL in Reality - TV!

Okay, I admit. I watch Reality TV. One of my favorites is Big Brother 10, http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_brother/. The half-million dollar candidates this year are:

Jerry - 73 years old retired marine, and he's in the final three! Damn, how did that happen? Usually it's the old who gets the boot first on these things so that the youngins can be left to make out and have their "show-mance"...by they way, he's the same age as McCain, except his teeth aren't as yellow...

Libra - the sister who left her 4 month-old newborn twins and 4-year old daughter for a summer sequestered in the Big Brother house. People gave her so much flack on blogs it's unreal! Me, Millennium Mommy - I have mixed emotions:

1) It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to be on TV. The camera comes on and you're in a trance, and it's all about the lights, camera, action! Not to mention, we're talking $500,000 dollars on the line. And her husband and mom are a great help and supporting her dreams all the way.

2) But leave my babies? My newborn twins at 4 months? I don't think so.

Life is too short - and once you make the decision to be a mommy, nothing but nothing else matters your life must PAUSE, period. Unless it's life or death, why would a mom choose to leave her babies at such a vulnerable age? I guess I really don't have mixed emotions at all, I couldn't and wouldn't do it...but I'm not judging...maybe she just had a huge bout of postpartum depression?? Back to the candidates for a half million bucks...

Ollie - Howdy Doody brother - literally, a preacher's son from Iowa who had a "showmance" with the blond-haired April. He was so smitten, he slept on his game in the beginning and got played like a sucka in the end. I was SO embarrassed for him!

Then there's the Hooter's girl, the Portuguese real estate woman with crazy attitude, a couple of frat boys and then the gay rodeoman (uuuuh - yeah I said it). Renny - the wild hairdresser in her 50's from New Orleans who wears glitter on her eyelids! Another millennium mommy if I ever saw one. There were a few others but who cares - do you?

That's why I love these shows. I know most of them are tired and scripted, but when the camera is on you 24/7, there's no way you can be "on" all the time. And that's when it happens, the moment when the character slips out of the performance and gives you the real. It happens all the time and it's those moments that make it all worth while. REAL LIFE DRAMA - someone else's - just enough to let you slip away from your own for a moment. It's addicting.

The one thing I don't like about these shows is that the network and producers have the final call. They cut and paste everything together to create their own show! It's really the miracle of editing that we're watching and not necessarily the crazy antics of real folks gone wild. Keep that in mind when you're watching these things.

I don't want to bore you with details about a show that you may or may not even watch. The point of the matter is, when you want to get away from the thoughts in your mind, we all know the most mindless thing to do is to watch TV. The millennium has taken the boob tube to a whole new level giving us Reality TV and way too much of it. But it's my thing, a world away from my own Reality. Hey it beats rubbing those stupid stress balls or hitting the bottle (although that can be fun too).

Peace - millennium mommy

Election '08

I'm following the election, but not really...it's too nerve-wracking. I'm a liberal really, a FREE spirit, but I'm voting for OBAMA all the way. Honestly I'm nervous, is it going to happen? Is this the year we really make history? I don't even want to put the negativity out there, but God help me I'm so nervous. I don't even want to speak on it. As the time grows nearer, perhaps I'll reach out to it more. Right now, I just want to sit back, imagine and enjoy the beauty of it all. The Hope that change gon' come.
Peace
OK, I'm just going to say this and that's it - someone said the Republican Convention looked like a KKK rally. I laughed, but when I turned to CBS...hmmm. There were bowling pins everywhere (red necks). OK that was mean - I shall not judge a man/woman for their outward appearance. By the way, I was mad when my husband mentioned how it looked like they were partying at the Democratic convention, and how republicans were going to say, "see what's gonna happen when we let him up in there?", but then my face turned red when I saw a man literally jamming to the music afterwards. Somebody told him to put his hands in the air and wave 'em like he just don't care. Who does the cameraman work for? Get that camera off him!!
However - it must have been the same cameraman who filmed at least 3 people being escorted off the premises at the Republican convention for protesting - HAH!
As a mother and a woman - I find it difficult to understand why any woman, much less Palin would be on that side?
Is it me or is it extremely hypocritical for the conservative party to spout such liberal views on Palin's pending grandmother-hood? Her daughter is 17 and they all seem to think, "well she's a mom and she's going through struggles that all American mothers go through. She's real! God bless America!" Are they serious? And then on the other extreme, there's a candidate who's got so much that he doesn't know how many homes he owns?! Is he keeping it real? Does he believe he understands what the typical American family is going through right now? The newspaper shows him looking at the flat screen in his kitchen while standing in front of a few bottles of water on his kitchen sink that the maid probably sat there for him. I'm disgusted.
OK, now I've too much, for now.
Peace