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Caleigh Brooks
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Was There a Jewish President?

We have not been able to verify this, but thought it interesting never the less:

On the February, 12, 1809, nearly 200 years ago, a young, poor, illiterate woman from Virginia, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, gave birth to a son in a log cabin built along the banks of the south fork of Nolin Creek near what is now Hodgenville, Kentucky. That baby, who she named Abraham, grew to become one of our greatest and most tragic national leaders.

Abraham Lincoln was a man of great spiritual conviction, yet, and I find this fact fascinatingly instructive, he was the only American President not to have declared himself a member of any particular religious faith. That fact has given rise to a great deal of interesting speculation. In fact, there are those who believe that Honest Abe was Jewish.

After all, his name was Abraham. His great-grandfather was named Mordechai. Lincoln was the only President not to have a formal religious affiliation. He was neither raised in a church nor did he ever belong to a church.

And there's more... the town of Lincoln, in eastern England, from where his ancestors came, has an interesting Jewish history. A Jewish community was established there in 1159.

During Crusader riots, the Sheriff of Lincoln saved the Jews by giving them official protection. St. Hugh, the great Bishop of Lincoln, taught love of Jews to his parishioners. His death was marked by an official period of mourning among Lincoln's Jews.

Rabbi Joseph of Lincoln was a scholar mentioned in the Talmud; Aaron of Lincoln was a financier whose operations extended all over the country. In 1255, Lincoln's Jews were accused of ritual murder. Ninety-one Lincoln Jews were sent to London for trial and 18 were executed. Notwithstanding, the Lincoln Jewish community flourished until 1290 when they were forcibly expelled by edict.

Most Jewish historians assume that all the Jews of Lincoln left in 1290. But could it be possible that some remained, practicing their Judaism in secret... passing the family secret from generation to generation? The more we learn of the secret life of Spanish Jewry following the Expulsion of 1492, the more we must at least consider the possibility of the same thing occurring elsewhere.

When Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, whole Jewish communities sat shivah. Rabbis all over the country eulogized the fallen President. Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the man who created Reform Judaism in this country, began his eulogy with the words, "Brethren, the lamented Abraham Lincoln believed himself to be bore from our bone and flesh from our flesh. He suppposed himself to be a descendant of Hebrew parentage. He said so in my presence."

Lincoln was often questioned about his religious beliefs. Time and again, he told of a special passage from Scripture that summed up his theology. It was the 20th chapter of the book of Exodus he recommended that every American study, learn, and follow. In English it is usually referred to as the Ten Commandments.

Rabbi Jeff Kahn
Temple Har Shalom, Warren, N.J.

Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 2/26/2010 1:25 PM | Add Comment

Blood-dripping Stumps of Amputees in Wheelchairs

[ We're at our wit's end - some of the words in this entry simply refuse to get in line.  Thank you for overlooking these malfunctions.  Technology doesn't always cooperate.  Thank you very much for your patience! ]


 
Who!? would conspire  [a conspiracy]  to set up a secret web, an underground network, of "jails for single moms" throughout a free nation for the sole purpose of sequestering them  [like common criminals - away from the support and influence of family and friends]  and then taking their infants?  The reason for this cold isolation of vulnerable pregnant moms about to give birth was to more easily influence, program, brainwash them out of their babies.  [The 1st rule of brainwashing is "separate the victim from family and friends (mentally and/or physically)."]  Within the confines of this crude segregation, single moms  [and their families]  were threatened with ostracism from their society for daring to give birth while single.  When we heard of this, we were nonplussed to the hilt!  Astonished dumbfounds inquired, "Where does one go when ostracized from one's society?  To hell?  To the woods?  Of what century do you speak!?  What kind of a free nation would allow this?  What kind of small, cold and characterless, barbaric, moneygrubbing, perverted, Caucasian entrepreneurs and religious zealots would conspire to swindle families, tribes, out of their infants!?  Are you sure this occurred in our beloved United States of America?  Our Constitution says every citizen, single or married, has the right to parent his, or her, own child.  We're certain that coercion, duress, and undue influence in all other legal transactions and contracts are against the law!  Why were/are these illegal tactics ONLY allowed in adoptions!?  Come on!  You can tell us the truth.  Was that in the 1800s-1900s when fallen women were forced to wear 'the scarlet letter' on their breasts so the whole society could see who are the sinners?  Like people who get DWIs are forced to adorn their cars with special license plates today?"

{{{ Or, you could call them "reformatories" instead of "jails" if it makes you feel better.  In the dictionary, they're the same.  We checked.  The institutions had various names.  Some single moms were even put in psychiatric wards until they signed on the dotted line - saying it's ok to take their babies.  It's hard to believe this occurred in these here United States of America in the 20th century!  Perhaps it's not so hard to believe - we enslaved African Americans.  We stole land from Native Americans.  We forcibly interned innocent Japanese American families.  We sent our innocent young boys to get killed in our unjust war with Iraq under the guise of Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction.  [What did we tell the families of these young, innocent, dead boys!?  "Oops."]  Let's see?  What else can we be proud of? }}}

{{{ The UTTERLY baffling conundrum, and eternal question is, and shall remain, "How do a couple a' people take someone else's child when most civilized people couldn't, and wouldn't, take a goldfish from another!?  That is the question.  Where does this haughty ENTITLEMENT come from!?  What makes a couple a' people feel that they are ENTITLED to the child of another!?  THE CHILD!  Of another!?  Imagine!?  THE CHILD FROM THE SEMEN, THE BIRTH CANAL AND VAGINA, THE BODY, THE LINEAGE, OF ANOTHER!  Where do a couple a' people get THE AUDACITY to take the child of another!!!?  Who would take the resultant creation from the PERSONAL and PRIVATE sex act of another!?  It's incestuous!  It's sexual abuse!  It's perverted! Especially disquieting and shameful and criminal is taking a child from the vulnerable!?  Well, you ONLY can separate the vulnerable! }}}

[ The following is somewhat of a gallimaufry but then so is the patchwork described - you'll get the picture.  Caution, though, the patchwork is relatively as looooooong as the looooooong years! ]


  • The Ax of Separation Falls
  • An Assembly of Limbless Families
  • Hours Turn into Days, Months, Years, Decades...
  • A Coliseum of Colliding Wheelchairs
  • Innately Docile is Female Youth
  • A Cacophony of Betrayal
  • Remnants of a Lost Child


Blood-dripping Stumps of Amputees in Wheelchairs

What's left after adoption?

< a précis >


Hurry!  Come one, come all!
Take the offspring!
Right after birth is best
Before she changes her mind
While we still have her brainwashed
Groggy from anesthesia
Before she has time to think
Stick the adoption papers under her nose
Go over seas?  No intrusion
Naaaw, let's stay!
Let's just give her a dribble
We'll tell her she can have contact
We'll do a "gentleman's agreement"
We'll fool her!
We could always skip town without telling her
Law's on our side
The putrid stink of a wily plot
You ask how do we sleep at night?
Pretty damned well, thank you
Deserving adopters
There are no adjectives
Simply
Shame on you!

The  ax  of  separation  falls
Dripping, bloody, stumps
Like axed lumber
Big-eyed, blood-drained ashen faces of hoodwinked amputees
Furled brows asking, Whyyyy?
Why did you make us limbless?
Because we are single?
Because we have no troglodytes?
Pardon?  Just an excuse to take the offspring?
You care less if we give birth single?
It was just your disguise... your trick
It was just a ploy?
The avenue by which to extricate the children?
It's big business
Family separation
You came in sheep's clothing
Why do you make us limbless, amputators?
Just for money?
What were you paid for our babies?
And what did you pay for a baby?
Limbless trunks cradled in snugly wheelchairs
Slippin' - n - slidin' in global lakes of tears
From gushing bug-eyed waterfalls
Stubs pushing wheels round-n-round-n-round...
Peddling with one foot
Some with one arm
Some no arms
No legs
Yes, blood-dripping stumps of amputees
Please!  Can you make the bleeding stop!?
Ceaseless, maddening, whirling circles of wheelchairs
No calm ever
Searching ground to sky...
East to west...
Grieving circlers...
On a hasty, desperate, wild-goose chase
Rhythmical bumping of steel against steel
Isochronal deafening silence
Sounds of something stealthily valuable goin' on
Oh-oh, one dares to speak
Where's my baby!?
Where have adoption titans failed?
Staccato clashing, crashing, wheels
I crave for sleep to come
Stay awake!
They took your baby!
How?
By way of intoxicating accouchement, silly!
Incessant rousing jerks and jolts
Like sparking dodgems in ghostly amusement parks
Look at me!
Hollow
Protruding stomach flat
What have you done!?
Empty amniotic sac
Shrieking, clanging, wheels
I want to cover my ears but have no arms
I'm limbless
Make it stop!
Good grief, you whining Pollyanna!
Stop your ridiculous, useless, search!
Ha ha ha ha ha...
Records of your birth are hidden from you
But reserved for who?
Where do they sit?
In Congress?
Ha ha ha ha ha...
They've left town with my baby!
Ha ha ha ha ha...
What happened!?
Quit your sniveling!
Where are OUR children!?  Not yours!
Nature says so!
Limbless, blood-dripping, moms lost together
Blood-drenched wheelchairs
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip...
Hurry!  Push your wheels
Nowhere hurriedly
Yours!?  I don't know!  Where is mine!?
I was groggy!  And, now he's gone!
I was groggy!  And, you took my child!
Listen!  The EMPATHIC plaintive wails of wounded wolves
The nagging jangle of wheels on wheels
Compassionate yowls
Even wolves know it's not right to separate tribes, packs!
Couldn't do it to wolves!  No no no no no...
Wolves'll bite ya' back
Tear your head off
Try it!
Separate baby cub from Mama bear
Scaredy cat
Go ahead!
But watch your fingers!
Watch your fingers?
Watch your head!
Cut your body in half with one bite
Then you'll be limbless
Don't mess with Nature, baby!
Don't mess with God's creation!
Endless endeavor to heal the UNhealable wound
Amaranthine sadness
The waaaaiiiiting...
Will he look for us when he grows?
Not if adoption titans can help it!
Or adopters!
Adopters are the titans!!!
Fill the kids with incestuous guilt
Drowning
Hey, down there!
LOOK UP!
Wide-eyed, anorexic, bug-eyes peering
Sunlight flitting beyond the subterranean grief-filled well
But not for you!
The looooooong years..........

An  assembly  of  limbless  families
Blood-dripping stumps
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip...
Please!  Can you make it stop!?
We'll do anything
Limbless grandmas, grandpas, in wheelchairs
Slippin-n-slidin in pools of blood
Limbless brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews...
Blood-drenched wheelchairs slippin-n-slidin
Black mourning hovers wall-less coliseums
Across the globe
Invisible walls envelope limbless tribes
They've left town with her baby
But... you promised I could see
He's no gentleman!
She's no lady!
You promised we could see
Why did you run?
Hey!!!
Callous, leaden, overcast days
Dark nights of fear
Is he ok!?
Is she ok!?
Titans left out hell would be so caliginous
Whole tribes of blood-dripping amputees
Stupefied mouths agape
Abyssal, yawning, wells of teardrops filling fast
Will we survive?
Cold amputators
Deserted, ostracized, betrayed, hearts bleeding
No calm ever
Searching ground to sky...
East to west...
In circles
Blood-dripping stumps in bumping wheelchairs
Like sparking dodgems of an empty amusement park
Some peddling one foot
Some one arm
Ancestral, tribal, amputees
Hard to imagine!
A tribe of limbless, bloody, amputees
Are you sure!?
What do we tell the siblings?
The relatives?
Why do we say we are limbless?
Why couldn't we hold on tight to family?
Like Sarah Palin
Why disperse us across the globe?
Why separate us!?
Whyyyy?
Ask bloody, limbless, amputees
What's left?
Disgraced tears cascade down well-carved contours
A corybantic cataract
Global society preys on susceptible, well-formed, bodies
Lurching... lurking...
Ambush young pregnant beauty
Here's our chance!
Survival of the Fittest
Darwin's wise theory of unabashed natural selection
He predicted vulnerable amputees
Peddling wheels round-n-round in lakes of tears
Overflowing lakes of blood
Flooding
Clanging, bumping, deafening steel against steel
Rigorous, vigorous and profuse
Hurryyy!
The empty well within
The empty arms without
Longing for sleep to come
Permanent?
Sounds almost good!
How do we reconcile within?
And without?
The loss of a child
The looooooog years..........

Hours turn into days, months, years, decades...
The forever CUT stays centuries
No bandaid for bleeding stumps
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip...
Grief never ends
Oh no!  Believe you me!  Grief is not a slacker
At no time slackens
Does it subside at the sepulcher?
We don't know?
In the next life?
Waiting...
Yearning...
The soft and gentle touch of joyous infancy
Hmmmmm... feels sooooo gooood...
For adopters
Time heals all wounds
Who says so!?
Liars!
Passing in the street...
At a get-together...
Could that be him?
Are those his father's eyes?
Searching faces... features...
Could that be her?
Her nose looks like my nose
She looks like my mom
Oh, my God!
Is that my daughter!!!?
Scanning high...
Scouring low...
Was it her!?
I don't knoooow!
To the sky
And back to hell again
Lost... in leaden melancholy
Looking from well to flitting sunshine
Squinting
Sobbing
Bounteous and bloody gushing waterfalls
Ceaseless drops of water on foreheads of innocence
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip...
Chinese water torture
Wasn't it meant only for war?
Why be at war with us!?
Easier to take your babies
Ha ha ha ha ha...
Say what!?
Insanity
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip...
The drenching sadness
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip...
Titanic teardrops
Flood the globe
Baby thieves will drown... die...
Like babies died
Black mourning
Inhumane
Nefarious
Villainous
Funereal
Ocean of death
The looooooog years..........

A coliseum of colliding wheelchairs
Robbed of spirit                                                       Limbless moms who lost the game
To sharks, con artists, flimflammers, downright thieves
No husbands
No troglodytes to protect expected amputees
We're comin' to getch ya'
Oh, pitiful unmarried breeder
You're a pitiful dumb Pollyanna
Don't be so easy!
You disgust us!
Ha ha ha ha ha...
You're too easy!
2010 - the Paleolithic Age?
We didn't know?
A jungle
Survival of the Fittest
Beautiful moms of Springtide
How dare they be so beautiful?
And single, too!?  We'll have none of it!
We're older, smarter, wiser, devious
We know what's valuable
Don't try to fight us
Yeaahhh, yoooou coooould say we're rapists?
We do rape and pillage villages                                                                                                                     Ravage bodies             
But you gave us an excuse                                                                                                                                       Ha ha ha ha ha                         
You got caught                                                                              
Ha ha ha ha ha
Nature gave you a gift
We have the evidence of your sin - a child
Illegitimate!  You have no right!  We say so!
Repent!  Oh, harlot!
Okay to be a slut...
BUT...
Don't be a single mom in the jungle
Pure ludicrousness
Don't give us an excuse to take your child!
Don't be so kind - ha ha ha ha ha...
Young wide-eyed Pollyanna
Trade ya'
Doom!
Gloom!
For your child
Searching the skies...
Wide-eyed whirling
Exhaustive peddling of blood-drenched wheelchairs
Remember the stumps?
Oh, you've forgotten!  Convenient!
How could you!?
How do you sleep at night?
Pretty damned well, thank you!
You have no right!
We're married
We deserve a child
We followed the rules
Get away from us, vultures!
How to heal the UNhealable wound?
That is the question!
'Twas a filthy bastardized coercion
That's what it was!
Indeeeed!
WHO would take the child of another!?
What kind of person is he and she?
Right fresh from the birth canal
Someone else's cervix, vagina, and vulva!?
Someone else's semen!
Impinge on the ancestry of another!?
What kind of dinosaurs are you!?
And then act as if nothing volatile has happened?
That's strange!  Bizarre!
How do you do that!?
You steal!
What does the mirror say back?
Have you no scruples whatsoever?
Sheer COLD unabashed trickery
Brrrrrrr...
How do you sleep at night?
The putrid stink of a wily plot
Reeks of a familiar stench?
What's that smell?
Ooooh!  Hateful holocaust's brutal echoes
A Hitlerian aura about it... skull and bones... bug-eyed souls
A personal holocaust of single wide-eyed moms
How dare she be so comely?  And children, too!?
We'll have none of it!
She'll damned well wear that scarlet letter
If we have anything to say about it!  You betch ya'!
Adolph Hitler forced children from families, too
For his Hitler Youth
Or, to to jail
Or, even be killed?
Once young, carefree, and joyous
Now anorexic and limbless and bug-eyed
After giving birth to a gift
Not for you!
Hey, Nature says so!
God OBVIOUSLY has spoken!
Don't rewrite history!
The Universe says so!
The deoxyribonucleic acid says so!
It is written!
What more proof do you need!
Don't eerily mess with Nature!
Don't follow Hitler's lead!
Follow Nature rule of law!
Peddling with one foot
Pushing with one arm
Some no arms...
Some no legs...
Awkward blood-dripping stubs steering bloody wheels
The looooooog years..........

Innately docile is female youth
Innocent
Good girls
YOUR so-called bad girls know what to do
Vulnerable
Brainwashed
Naive
OUR descendants IN OUR bodies
NOT YOURS!
Developing offspring
Hormones raging
Not for you, though!
Nature says so!
Oh, deserving adopters!  Not for you!
Self-proclaimed deserving adopters!
Who died and left you boss?
Say what?  Share!?
What'd ya' think we are?  Baby machines!?
Come on, you could have more!
Perhaps not a 2nd time?
You're fertile, Myrtle!
What about secondary infertility?
Why are we explaining our sexual organs to you!?
You have no right to discuss my fertility!
You have no right in be in my fertility!
You have no right in my body!
What kind of pervert are you!?
You incestuous abuser!
Why are we explaining to you?
Who are you!?
Reeks of sexual abuse!
Get away from us, you vultures!
We've heard it all
Can't you see?
Our hands over our ears!
Go away!!!
Now, now, be selfless
Solve society's ills
Go on with your lives
Go to college
Take a few classes
It'll be fun
Keep busy
Get piddling jobs
But...
Raising our children IS our job!!!
The Universe has spoken!
Why are we explaining to you?
You have no right to our children!
The Universe has spoken!
YOUR God has spoken!
Don't think about our limbless bodies!?
Whaaat!?
Can we hear correctly!?
How dare you add insult to injury!?
Go on with your life
Whaaat?
How dare you add insult to injury!?
YOU go on with YOUR lives, amputators!!!
You can't fight us!
We're smarter!
We have more money!
We're organized!
Society's on our side!
In fact, we ARE society!
Don't think about it!
How do we accomplish that formidable feat!?
You did the right thing
Then...
Why does it hurt so much?                                                                                                                                    Well, we're afraid that's simply your problem                                                                                                   Even greenness knows it's not right
The empathic plaintive wail of distant wolves so near
Immoral
Be glad
Unethical
You'll be fine
Trust us!  We're your neighborly flimflammers
eh...
We mean...  We're your friends!
We want what's best for you!
College is for you
Oh, that's priceless!
Come on, hand him over!
Hand over the goods!
Besides...
There' a market
Come on!
Let's look alive
There's money to be made
There's a demand
You supply!
We demand!
Your illegitimate bastard is the product
We say so!
Wake up! 
Oh, beautiful Springtide!  The Universe cries with you!
Move over!
There's billions to be made!
Haven't you heard of "supply and demand"
Economics 101
We've done it so long this way
Don't fight us!
Reeks of slavery!?
Don't be silly
It's been done for years
It's our right!
Be grateful!
The looooooog years..........

A cacophony of betrayal!
It's man's doing!
The Universe didn't acquiese...
to the worse-than-wicked slaughterous enslavement of man
to the worse-than-wicked Nazi Holocaust
to worse-than-wicked terrorism
to the worse-than-wicked bamboozle of single moms
to the wall-less amphitheater of whirling blood-dripping amputees
in wheelchairs
It's all man's evil doing!
And woman's
Slippin' n slidin' in the lakes of combusting teardrops
Yeeeah!  Combusting!
Watch your backs!
Yep, that's a threat! 
Combusting punishment!
May fall from the sky?
From heaven?
From hell?
Ooooooohhh...
And bite ya'
You fooled with Mother Nature!
With God's creation
Blood-dripping stumps
Can? Can, ya' hear the drip? drip? drip? drip? drip?
In your sleep?
The rich drone of deafening despair
The rich staccato clashing wheels searching
Rich, yesss...
Rich with lonely longing
The soft and gentle loving touch of unforgotten infancy
Casual, loving, touch of missed adolescence
The hearty touch of missed adulthood
Wounded puppies
Trembling
Whimpering in harmony
A bug-eyed limbo of empty souls
That YOU created
Not God!
God has spoken!
Through DNA
YOUR fine-tuned orchestration
Your orchestra of sorrow
Can ya' hear it in your sleep?
Drip, drip, drip, drip, drip...
Not much left to chance
Not Survival of the Fittest
But Survival of the Coldest!
Most Treacherous!
Vermin-laden plot of carnivorous adoption titans
Unashamed amputators leave blood-dripping stumps
And never look back once
How cold must they be?
Think they have the right
Callous disregard
Didn't even try to bandage bloody open gushing stab
Watch your backs!
Life-sucking, slurping, chin-dripping laughing leeches
Ha ha ha ha ha...
You can't hurt us!  Society's on our side!
We are society!
Sucking life out of groggy Mommies of Springtide
Ha ha ha ha ha...
Confused and dazed with hospital intoxicants
Ha ha ha ha ha...
Slurping babies from groggy bodies
Ha ha ha ha ha...
Crafty deception...
Ha ha ha ha ha... 
Trickery of the highest order
Ha ha ha ha ha...
Why adopters?
You know what it's like to be childless!?
You know childless desperation!?
You know your heartache well!?
Why do you foist it upon us!!!?
Whhyyyy!
What have we done so bad to you!?
How could you steal ancestry right from our wombs!?
Have you NO shame!?
How do you do that!?
We're stymied!!!
We couldn't do it to you
Why not spend as much helping moms & children?
Not that philanthropic?
At all!  Huh?
No way, baby!
Why not expend as much energy uniting as separating?
No way!  Huh?                                                                                                                                                           Not that selfless?                                                                                                                                                      Like you want us to be?                                                                                                                                            Say what?                                                                                                                           
You say selfless is for fools?                                                                       
Eh, selfless is specially for single moms
Gotch  ya'                                                                                                                                                                           Is that what you celebrate!?  Gotch ya' Day!?
That's what you call it?                                                                                                                                            You say a mouthful, you know                                                
Have you no shame whatsoever!?                                                     
You add more insult to more injury!
You crush!  You're crushers!
You crush more salt in our wounds!
You put your foot on necks' backs and crush
Why adopters!?                                                      
Do divulge more
Why not take in both?  Mom & child?
No way that selfless?
Say what?
Wanna' get paid for your trouble?
Want something to show for your trouble?
That's understandable
Uh?  We think?
Better to give than to receive, oh, christians?
But not for you!  Huh?
Because you're who!?
Rather manipulate Nature?  Huh?
Tamper with God's creation?  Huh?
We caaaan't heeeear you!
Create limbless tribes?
Torn lineages?
PLEASE don't say! "It's God's plan"
PLEASE don't utter hackneyed insults! "There's a reason"
DON'T TAKE OUR BABIES!  AND INSULT US, TOO!
Don't lie!
Have SOME scruples!
How do you sleep at evil night?
Just askin'
Well conceived family separations by expert machinators
Yep!  If you can't conceive offspring?
Conceive machinations
Now, there's a pastime for ya'
Begets ya' the same results
For now
Conceive children
Or, machinations
Conception vs machination
No more!
No more supply!
No more demands on us, fools!
Now you're the fools!
Social media
Watch your back!
You didn't care about us
Didn't even give us a 2nd thought all these years
of having our children that God gave TO US
Now we don't care about you!
Moms, fight hard the random evil
Beware!  Pregnant Springtide
No doubt about it - adoptions are well-machinated
Well-planned
Victims are random
The hunt is on!
What's left after adoption!?
Blood dripping stumps of amputees in wheelchairs!!!
Limbless moms!!!
Bodies of no use but breeding for others
Buried alive
Are heads still protruding!?
Hurry, adoption adorers, more dirt!
What's left?
Live graves!

REMNANTS OF A LOST CHILD....

[ Sweet Dreams ]

Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 1/10/2010 12:30 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Hey! Watch Your #$%* Language, Dr. Phil!

What ever happened to all those secret "jails for unwed mothers!?"  Business was slow?  Forced to close?  Aaaawww!  What're ya' doin' for money these days? Just curious....

    There are quite a few particulars worth noting about Dr. Phil's December 11, 2009, show but many of them allude us after the fact.  We regret not having taken notes.  We didn't because we erroneously reckoned, "We've come a long way, baby!" with respect to the public's knowledge of adoption.  Dr. Phil proved us VERY wrong!

    Phil McGraw is still impassionedly on the side of infertile couples separating natural families and we are on the side of natural families - all extended family members - moms, dads, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, cousins, grandparents....  We're on the side of preserving the natural solidarity of family tribes.  We're on the side of ancestral preservation, the stability and preservation of progeny... how many different ways can we say it so you'll understand and stop it!?  Perhaps we're missing something here?  Keeping families together is perfectly logical to us!  What is not perfectly logical or moral or ethical to us is the DOGGED attempt to break these natural, numinous, UNbreakable unions or ties or bonds bestowed on each of us by Nature, by our Creator!  Can't be done!  Can't break the bond - for it is written!  The historical blueprint is written in the deoxyribonucleic acid  [DNA]  of The Universe!!!

B R A I N W A S H     # 1:

    The disgusting propaganda that stood out most throughout the show is the manner in which Phil McGraw and his adoption attorney-buddies gave it their best shot urging vulnerable single moms to BE SELFLESS - keep the kids a' comin' - for infertile couples to adopt!

    One way they did this is by "brainwash through flattery," such as, selfless, and other adjectives which allude us.  The adjective, selfless, was glaring!  The word, selfless, means unselfish, "having little or no concern or value for oneself," not an attribute at all cherished or respected or revered or propagandized by our society in any other venue but single parenthood.  Odd!?  Good way to make money, though!

     Phil McGraw and his cronies  [the 2 adoption attorneys on the show]  sounded like misogynists.  According to them, single moms must be UNselfish and give away their offspring, as casually as children would give away their toys.  They concurred adamantly that single moms must be selfless and give away their children to others and go on with their lives, which we naturally assume means give away their kids and go to college instead or, perhaps, get a piddling job.

Hmmmmm   ~

     Let us see if we are understanding these generous tips from the self-proclaimed elite?  Single moms should be selfish about furthering their education but UNselfish  [selfless]  about keeping something as valuable and irreplaceable as THEIR CHILDREN?  WHO would even compare the two!?  What kind of an idiot would equate the life of your child - YOUR life - your ancestry, and your progeny, to a few classes - 4 years of college!!!?  People who make money off of these separations, that's who!  Phil McGraw slinkily makes money off of adoption - he needs variety in his shows to stay  [in business]  on the air, and adoption sells; whereas, Phil McGraw's adoption-attorney buddies outrightly and brazenly make money from family separation!  Adoption is a billion dollar industry!

    Phil McGraw has his defense all prepared, though; he'll say his gig is homes for foster kids.  But we know that infertile couples are picky - they want healthy white infants!

~   [Please don't start that s--t about single moms give their kids for adoption because they love them!  Don't insult our intelligence and that of the viewing audience!]

We would like to ask the adoption attorney, D. Durand Cook, who advertises on Phil McGraw's website:  Did Attorney Cook write that come-hither example on his own website of a letter from a mom to her lost child!?  A mom supposedly wrote a letter to her child lost to adoption in which ...she averred that she gave her child away because she loved him....  [Makes all kinds of sense to us!!!]  Clearly, the reason for this type of advertisement filled with shameless lies on an adoption website is to convince vulnerable single moms to "do the right thing and give up your offspring for adoption" and to assure infertile couples and adoptive parents "it's the right thing to do, go ahead, and adopt the offspring of vulnerable moms."  And, if perchance, a mom did, indeed, write such a silly letter to her lost child, we know, "We, human beings, all think and do what we must to survive trauma, especially we delude and lie to ourselves profusely!  It's perfectly natural to summon our 'defense mechanisms' to come to our aid.  It's a matter of survival!"

~   We're also wondering what is the adoption background of these 3 self-proclaimed adoption experts that comprised the Friday, December 11, 2009, show!?  We're curious because we know that mental health professionals and attorneys haven't been heretofore educated about adoption at all.  There haven't been any classes in college, and the moms of yesteryear who have had children crudely ripped from them for adoption via various, methodical, societal trickery haven't begun speaking out yet; no research has been done.  From whence are these guys getting their expertise?  Do they just make it up as they go along!?  [For further edification about "societal trickery," please see other adoption posts in this blogcast.]

~   We ask Phil McGraw and his adoption cronies and all of you who are gungho about adoption:  Which one of your children would you like to give away?  Just as we thought.  You're all for adoption when you're the taker, but not so much when you're the giver!  What makes you think single parents would enjoy giving their children away to someone else?  What makes you think that single moms would be so selfless when you would not be?  We know why you make one set of rules for yourself and one set of rules for the underdog.  You've been ripping off offspring from unsuspecting, vulnerable, single moms for so long - since YOU made fallen women wear "the scarlet letter."  You've been ripping off offspring for so many decades under the guise of the single mom being a sinful, fallen, woman that it has become second nature to you - natural - you think you have the right!  That's why!  And let's not forget, there's the big bucks in it, too!  Adoption is a billion dollar industry!
    The 3 of these self-proclaimed adoption advocates, Phil McGraw and the more vocal of the 2 adoption attorneys attempted to pull of their flimflam by promulgating what a great and heroic and selfless act the separation of a child from his, or her, mom, dad, and extended family members is.  Adoption adorers keep trying to plant, and replant, the adoption seed - they've now resorted to complimenting, sweet-talking, vulnerable young single females, and their families, everywhere into giving their children, grandchildren, nieces, cousins... away to complete strangers - an utterly irrational, unnatural, act.  An act completely counter to what God, Nature, had obviously intended!

    All pregnant women and new moms are completely and absolutely vulnerable because hormones are raging vehemently, and to take advantage of females in this state, to attempt to take the child of a mother at her most vulnerable time is... quite frankly, there are no adjectives to describe how despicable such an act is!  This leads us to believe that a female still in 2010 will not be safe without the marital protection of a husband because the vultures are out there.  We thought we were out of the Paleolithic Age but we must remember troglodytes still lurk!  In the past, vulnerable young, and older, single pregnant females were merely shamed, disgraced, ostracized,  [brainwashed]  out of their children; whereas today young vulnerable moms are still shamed  [brainwashed]  into giving away their children, but they're also complimented, praised  [brainwashed]  into giving their offspring away.  Shame is not working as well as it did in the completely compliant past.  Although, in some religious families, and circles, for instance, shame still works quite nicely, in point of fact.

    Why are the sex acts and reproductive organs of young females, young moms, the business of so many OTHER people!?  So many other MEN!?  Seems incestuous!?  Like sexual abuse!?

     Phil McGraw and his cronies are spreading  THE LIE  that a mom giving away her flesh-n-blood, a member of her tribe, to strangers is some kinda' selfless act.  In truth, a mom giving away her own flesh-n-blood is the weak act of a vulnerable, brainwashed, human being with severely damaged self-esteem!!!  No mom willingly, selflessly, gives away her own child to strangers never to see again, or even with the promise of minimal contact, unless she has being programmed to do so by various societal means, for example, via the shameful and condescending programming  [brainwashing]  of Phil McGraw and his adoption-attorney buddies from their ivory tower.  You won't see Sarah Palin giving up any of her grandchildren any time soon!  Can't brainwash her!  These guys talk about this transfer of human beings from one person to another so lightly - like giving dolls away!  We don't trade our dogs away with such callousness and ease!  In point of fact, we don't give our dogs away at all!  The whole casualness and easiness with which is scary!!!  Sounded like phraseology that Adolph Hitler espoused!  [Retrospectively, the presentation of the content of last Friday's show in an off sort of way seemed like it was fun for Phil McGraw and his cronies when, in reality, they should have been humbled by the sheer nature of the sacred subject at hand - family.  Phil McGraw wasn't  NEARLY  as pugnacious and stern, strict, as he was in his interview with SINGLE mom, Nadya Suleman.  We conjecture you do get more with the sweetness and casual flow of honey....]

B R A I N W A S H     # 2:

    Equally as disgusting propaganda was Phil McGraw's analogizing of a human being needing to know his, or her, ancestry as mere  CURIOSITY.  What is his exact background in the adoption process and adoption loss?  He can do this to them because adoptees inherently have low self-esteem surrounding being allowed to know their personal and private information which every other American citizen casually and naturally takes for granted like God, Nature, had intended.

    Via telephone, a female adoptee on the program shared of her adoptive dad being upset about her having connected with her ancestry.  She wanted the answer to the simple question, "Who am I?"  Her adoptive dad is upset because she sought out this sacred and solemn information that every other human being just simply takes for granted.  Who is the parent  [adult]  in such pervasive guilt trip cases?  And who is the child?  In adoption, in what-Dr.Phil-haughtily-refers-to-as-a-better-life-for-the-child, why do the adoptees  [the children]  have to take care of the adoptive parents  [the adults]?  Phil McGraw wouldn't advocate for this abusive power struggle in any other familial relationship!?  Why in adoptions, in what-Dr.Phil-lordlily-refers-to-as-a-better-life-for-the-child, do the children have to sacrifice themselves - their emotions and needs - for the adults!?  Shouldn't it, by nature, be the other way around!?

    The Reverend Keith C. Griffith, MBE, is of the opinion that "adoption loss is the only trauma in
the world wherein the victims  {adoptees}  are expected by the whole of society to be grateful."

     Human beings are  CURIOUS  about the "special of the day" on a restaurant menu not essential, natural, imperative answers to solemn and sacred questions like, "What is my nationality?  What is my medical history?  Who are my relatives?  Who do I look like?  Do I resemble ANYone in the Universe?  Is ANYone out there!?  Of what race do I descend?  Who are the people that make up my 1st family?  Do I have brothers and sisters?  I wonder who my father is?  I wonder if my mother would want to see?  I wonder if she ever thinks about me?  What was the name given to me by my 1st mom?  WHO AM I!?"  That's some idle, trivial curiosity!  [Thanks adoption adorers!]

     To make a human being, especially a child that you purport to love, feel guilty for seeking the same solemn information that you possess about yourself is despicable and small!  Cheap!  There are no adjectives to adequately describe such a gut-wrenching scenario!

B R A I N W A S H     # 3:

     Phil McGraw and his adoption-attorney buddies falsely and horrifically advertised that "...through adoption  EVERYBODY WINS  and the single moms who give away their kids to others can then merrily  GO ON WITH THEIR LIVES  knowing they  DID THE RIGHT THING... they should be grateful, in fact...," they have repented for the sin of premarital sex.  The casualness and easiness with which is scary!!!  Sounds like phraseology that Adolph Hitler put forth - the parents of his Hitler Youth group were jailed if they didn't comply and give up their kids....

     Where do Phil McGraw and his cronies get the above imbecilic information about family separation!?  Who's educating these guys!?

Hmmmmm   ~

    This is so unfathomable that we must examine, once again, if we are understanding this SELFISH, twisted, logic correctly.  Let us tie this brainwash together.  Let us know if we're wrong.  Phil McGraw and his cronies-in- adoption concurred adamantly that the single mom must  (1) be selfless  (2) give away her baby to a deserving married couple  (3) go on with her life, which we naturally assume means go to college or, perhaps, get a piddling job, instead of raising her child  (4) know that she has done the right thing  (5) be grateful that someone took the kid off her unworthy hands.  From this we conclude, in essence, that infertile couples, gays, other singles... feel entitled to other people's children.  It's like in the animal kingdom - the entitled prey on the weak or vulnerable or young.  Infertile people believe that single young moms should just plainly "...give us one and go in your corner and pop out another litter.  You  CAN  have more!  Come on, spread the wealth!  Share those genes!  Be your brother's keeper!  You're nothing but trailer  [park]  trash, anyway!  You don't deserve a child!" 

    To what, of course, we simply and fervidly ask, "Well?  What if the single mom has secondary infertility!?  Our Creator, Nature, has already given to her the gift of one child!"

     You say what, "Tough s--t!?"

    Well that's a fine how-de-do!

    The Reverend Keith C. Griffith, MBE, is of the opinion that "adoption loss is the only trauma in the world wherein the victims  {moms}  are expected by the whole of society to be grateful."

     The audacity!?  [On behalf of all single moms, past, present, and future]  Vehemently,  WE PUSH BACK!  YOU  give  YOUR  kids away and  YOU  win and  YOU  go on with  YOUR  life knowing  YOU  have done the right thing!!!  YOU be YOUR brother's keeper!

    The audacity!?  What're you guys doing in the personal reproductive organs of our single, young women!?

     The view of family life according to Phil McGraw and his adoption cronies just doesn't  FEEL  right!  Ask any thinking individual!  There are no healthy parents, rich or poor, that would give their children away for a better life!  Not on your life!  And Phil McGraw knows that.  WE'RE WAITING FOR PHIL MCGRAW TO THROW GOD INTO THE ADOPTION MIX!  We know that he's thinking it!  He wouldn't dare throw in religion; although, we know that he'd love to tell single moms what society already thinks, "You have sinned, my child.  God wants you to give the product of that sin to deserving infertile married couples who have followed the rules of society, then you'll be forgiven!  Only then can you, harlot, rejoin society!"  Albeit, in essence, isn't that what he and his comrades are saying behind the "be selfless" trick/facade?  That "be selfless" bit sounds so much like religion, doesn't it?  The whole adoption brainwash is CREEPY!

     Hey!  Over there!  Leave your child, the most valuable thing you'll ever have in life.  You go take some classes, instead, dear!'

By the way   ~

     Adoption attorneys and adoption agencies  JUST  recently started so-called "open adoptions,"  ONLY  because business is slow - no kids!  They even shamelessly call it "a marketing tool!"  In addition, many infertile couples prefer adopting children from the, especially, vulnerable overseas market because the ancestry of the adoptee is further away.  Not much chance of intrusion.  This is not a whim!  Prospective adoptive parents have thoroughly thought through their predation; while, on the other hand, vulnerable, innocent, unsuspecting, moms are being the proverbial "selfless" good girls!  [Thanks Phil McGraw!]

 WHAT AUDACITY IT MUST TAKE   to sit in the ivory tower of Phil McGraw and his adoption cronies and tell single moms what they should do with their lives and the lives of their children!!!?

U N B E L I E V A B L Y   ~

     Phil McGraw and his cronies promise that  SINGLE MOMS WIN  BY GIVING THEIR CHILDREN TO OTHERS!  A PARENT WINS BY GIVING HER VERY LIFE TO OTHERS!???  This logic we cannot grasp intellectually at all because we know that to parents everywhere, their children  ARE  their lives!!!

So   ~

    Since Phil McGraw and his cronies think it's perfectly legal and moral to advertise for adoptive parents to  "keep doin' it"  [adopting]  and single moms to  keep 'em comin'  [supplying the kids], we think it's appropriate and obligatory of us to say that losing a child to adoption is a horrific and painful and unseemly act!  In point of fact, it's worse!  We cannot think of adequate adjectives to describe the personal holocaust of losing a child, as any parent who has lost a child will attest to.  The insufferable grief never ends!  Nor does it subside with time!  Time does not heal all wounds.  "Time heals all wounds" is another idiotic aphorism of our antiquated, Puritanical, illustrious, patriarchal past!  [Thanks idiotic patriarchs!]  If you don't believe us, feel free to ask any parent who has lost a child!  Don't be bashful.

 SINGLE MOMS:     DON'T DIM YOUR OWN LIGHT!  For anybody!  Ever!  [Oprah says so!]

 SINGLE MOMS:     THINK LIKE A MAN & ACT LIKE A LADY!  [Steve Harvey says so!  It's even the title of his new book!]

SINGLE MOMS:     DON'T DO IT!!!  SECONDARY INFERTILITY!?
     
Don't give your child for others to adopt!  There's help out there!  [Too bad adoption titans!]  Hospitals and other organizations provide help and classes even to teenaged single moms so they are able to keep their children and raise them wholesomely.  [These organizations make no money out of separating family members.] 

What if you have secondary infertility?  It's very common!  Where are you going to get your kids, then?  From Phil McGraw!?  ALL parents say that their kids, their families, are their life!  Where is your life, then?  You'll have a childless life.  Are you, then, going to adopt?  Settle on just a career when God, Nature, has given you the gift of a child?  Have some self-esteem about yourself, be there for your child!  Just like a mama cub, protect your child from the vultures!  Take the advice of Sarah Palin to her own single daughter, Bristol Palin, "You'll just have to grow up fast!"

And to that, we add, "You have your whole life to be a kid.  A part of all of us remains a kid at heart, if we're lucky.  And that's good!"  
SINGLE MOMS:     LIVE SMARTLY!              
Why do you think infertile couples spend all of their time, energy, and money to adopt kids or obtain kids through other artificial means!?  Why don't  THEY  just go on with their lives like they're conning you into doing if a childless life is so fun!?  Simply because there is nothing in life that can compare in value to your offspring!  A career?  Money?  Possessions?  If you're gambling on being fertile and being able to reproduce again, don't gamble!  If you are fortunate enough to reproduce, again, after you give your child for adoption, what of the empty hole you have left your future children?  They should not have to live as amputees.  Give your future children the gift of taking all of their siblings, their ancestry, for granted.  Don't allow their sibling to dangle out in left field somewhere!   
SINGLE MOMS:     DON'T GIVE YOUR CHILDREN AWAY EVER!

Adoption, the separation of family members, is a bloodcurdling institution indefensibly up there with mom, baseball, and apple pie.  Adoption must only be employed when children are true orphans and when no other relatives are in sight!  It is never ethical or moral to separate a family to create a family!

 SINGLE MOMS:     KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT!
   
A "gentleman's agreement" is not enforceable by law!  It is only binding as a matter of personal honor!  Beware - the adoptive parent is not always honorable!  

An "open adoption" is done via a "gentleman's agreement."  According to such an agreement, dishonorable, unscrupulous, adoptive parents are allowed to move out of town anytime they like and are not obligated to tell the 1st mom of the child where they have moved.  What good is it, then!?

SEEK LEGAL ACTION  if you find yourself in a so-called "open adoption" which the adoptive parents have reneged on!  Typically, open adoption is done by what is known as "a gentleman's agreement" but, beware, the adoptive parent is not always a gentleman or a lady!  They have expertise in being selfish.  They've fought long and hard to acquire your child.  You must learn to be selfish, also, not as giving as you have been heretofore.  Toughen up, girl!  Don't be so kind!

If you absolutely must physically separate yourself from your child, do not give your child to others without A BINDING CONTRACT!  S---w the "gentleman's agreement!"

Carla, who was admirably on the December 11, 2009, show, is the only natural mom we've ever heard of that is fighting, or has fought, adoptive parents who have callously and cowardly (cheap as s--t) reneged on their promise of an open adoption.  The rest just wait like the heartwrenching, demeaning, spirit-robbing adoption experience has groomed them - to be silent, passive, amputees.

Shame on you selfish and moneygrubbing people!!!

{ We would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Phil and his staff for airing such a program, thus allowing for this chance debate and hopeful edification of the public anent the trauma of family separation.  We feel somewhat uncomfortable about the harshness of this evaluation, critique, as it pertains to our beloved Dr. Phil, but you, as a society, have not listened!  We understand that you are uneducated about adoption loss.  Or, perhaps, you know all about it and just don't care, which quite frankly we think is the case.  YOU  [plural]  just don't care!  You have left us no choice!  We feel bad that we have had to stoop.... }

Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 12/16/2009 7:10 PM | Add Comment

Exchanging Spit in the Days of H1N1 on "The View"

The Incompetency Is Herculean! (And Ubiquitous!)

With the threat of the virulent H1N1 flu, and other formidable and contagious diseases, such as, herpes... spreading like wildfire, we witnessed the following grotesque and shocking anomaly on television.  Over 22 million Americans have been sick from the H1N1 flu since April of 2009.

On November 13, 2009, The View was celebrating Whoopi Goldberg's 54th birthday.  Reality TV personality, Duff Goldman of Ace of Cakes, wheeled out the humungous birthday cake and proceeded to slice and dispense pieces of it to the gleeful onlookers like Whoopi, Joy Behar, Sherri Shepherd....  I believe Stephen King also participated.  What occurred in-between the slice and the handout was the repulsive drawback.  Mr. Goldman licked his fingers vigorously or rigorously (With my far-reaching vocabulary, I have a tough time choosing my words; I want to give them all a chance.).  Mr. Goldman didn't only do it two, or three, times; he did it many times.  He really got in there and reveled in his saliva.  And not just one lick after each handout, but several licks after each cut of the cake, 'round and 'round, entire fingers of both hands sliding, slithering, one at a time, into his mouth and gliding out again, and again, and noone said a word, not even humor or friendly sarcasm from the Goldberg camp.  He was up to his elbows in spit!  My mouth was agape!  Intermittently, I was exclaiming (or do you like the word, "vociferating"?) into the television or to whosoever was within earshot, "HE BETTER NOT DO IT AGAIN?" and he did.  I almost puked!  In fact, I grimace as I write this post!

Undoubtedly, the cake was passed around to SOMEONE after the show; it was huge.  We all know how talk-show hosts like to pass around items to the audience.  As I pictured the girls, and guests, producers, of The View generously offering pieces of the above tainted cake to them, my mind bolted back to the episode of Seinfeld during which the toothbrush of Jerry's girlfriend accidentally fell into the toilet.  Before he was able to inform her that the toothbrush had fallen into the toilet, she was already brushing her teeth with it.  (Gulp!)  Afterward, she attempted several times to kiss Jerry Seinfeld and was baffled by his constant tightlipped grimacing, squirming, and squinching... shaking his head, "No," each time she tried to kiss him.  The staccato manner in which he shook his head and torso was the comedy.

I envision members of the audience emulating Seinfeld, shaking their heads, "Thanks, but no thanks," as employees of The View munificently attempt to foist slices of the tainted cake onto them.

Makes me wonder what Mr. Goldman does behind closed doors?  I cannot recall the last time I saw anyone lick his, or her, fingers, much less a television personality.  (Good thing most little kids were in school; albeit, many, many impressionable tykes were watching with Mommy.)  Whoopi's birthday celebration was not a comedy.  The whole stomach-churning scenario doesn't bode well for the titans of The View!  What if we were all that careless!?  (Dare I say "uncouth"?)  Surely the number of H1N1 flu cases, for instance, would rise catastrophically!  (I have plenty of adverbs vying to be at the head of the previous sentence.  Drat!)

I am continually amazed that anything EVER gets done appropriately anywhere, including, in government, business, academia, hospitals, eateries....  I'm realizing what a real and rare feat it truly is - when something gets done without a hitch.  With the preponderance of inadequacy and incompetency, I marvel that our society actually functions as well as it does.  It's uncanny!  (Or, do you like, "It's mysterious!"?)  I conjecture it is the price we pay for being human (sloppy).  Personally, though, I wasn't raised that way (to be human)!

To combat ubiquitous incompetency, my humble opinion is:  LIVE SMARTLY!  Be your own advocate!  Follow your own intuition!



 

Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 11/14/2009 9:30 PM | Add Comment

Pernicious Prejudice is Alive and Prospering in 2009!

We meander through various venues researching ways in which people are oppressed.  On September 3, 2009, we attended an adoption support group meeting where, in our thirst for knowledge, we inquired as to the thoughts of adoptees when, in their youth, they first realized what being adopted means.  What were their reactions, their thought processes, at this most pivotal time?

An ADULT female adoptee divulged, sophomorically, "... I was told that I'm lucky; I was chosen.  My mom loved me so much that she gave me away...."

WHAT A BLATANT, IDIOTIC, LIE adoptees are told by their adoptive parents!  AN INEXCUSABLE, UNFORGIVABLE, SICK, INSULT!  A LURID SLAP!  What a catty insult to, and disregard for, the millions of families that have needlessly lost children, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins... via adoption.  The ONLY reason that millions of families, tribes, have lost members/loved ones to adoption is because of the disgrace that their "friends" and acquaintances (society) imposed on the families, and single moms, in particular - and, of course, because of money, greed, and envy!

At the meeting, the perspective of a mom who has lost her child to adoption was, "Infertile couples will have to find another hobby.  Single moms aren't going to supply them with kids much longer!"

Economics 101:  Whenever there is a demand, a supply will surely be wangled!

Adoption is a billion dollar industry!  The titans, that includes adoptive parents and prospective adoptive parents (the demand), finagled a way to extract children (the product) from vulnerable families (the supply) and the way that they finagled this feat was, and is, through societal trickery (mores), such as, shame, stigma, disgrace, religion, the threat of ostracism....  The complete family of a single female who had the audacity to give birth to a child was shunned, ostracized, disgraced, stigmatized... hence, pressured into getting rid of the evidence (the product or commodity or child) of brazenly having engaged in the sex act.  Only after giving the "illegitimate" bastard (We didn't say it, your neighbors, your society, said it!) to others is the family accepted back into society, however minimally.  But, this acceptance is only an illusion; they would still be considered forever "trailer [park] trash."  (Don't get mad at us.  We didn't say it, your society says it.)  It wasn't so much that anyone cared really about a single female engaging in the sex act so much; it was the audacity of a child, a reward, a gift, being bestowed on the single mom by the Creator of all of us that was so objectionable and that produced cyclopean envy... when there were so many infertile married couples who followed the rules....  (Well - I take that back - your illustrious society WAS consumed with the sex habits of their neighbors; people habitually counted backwards 9 months from the birth of a married couple's 1st child to deduce whether the couple had engaged in sex before marriage.)

Of course, far too many people still have their hands, and expectations, out - too many people still shamefully and perfervidly attempt to separate vulnerable families - it's easy to pounce on the vulnerable - but the image of Robert Dole, attorney, U.S. Senator, and 1996 Republican presidential nominee, in a television ad encouraging society dismally remains embedded in my mind, he urged, "Come on, gang!  [Wink.  Wink.]  Let's all unite!  Let's get the stigma back into single motherhood!  Let's ostracize the single mom!" 

As recently as August 19, 2009, Bernie Goldberg, 10-time award winning American writer, journalist, and political commentator, told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly that single mom, Nadya Suleman and her 14 children are crap.  They were, perhaps, discussing a television special.

Is this the intelligent, respectful, dignified loquacity of a reputable commentator on primetime television for children to hear or overhear  (overhear banter at the dinner table which they could then take to the playground)!?  What kind of a human being, a professional, would call a mom, and 14 innocent children (gifts from God) - crap!?  Had Nadya Suleman been married, we believe that Mr. Goldberg wouldn't have dared eject his vitriolic prejudice!

Pairs that have had multiple births have been in the news and we haven't observed any venom spewed toward these married couples.

Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 10/18/2009 6:15 PM | Add Comment

Makes Me Wonder What Else They're Not Telling Me?

(((  Shouldn't the Titans Be a Little More With It!?  Educated!?  Research-Savvy!?  Honest!?  )))


The 1st Hispanic Supreme Court Justice is NOT Sonia Sotomayor!

by Norman Cohen, Los Angeles

The media are crowing about President Obama selecting the "1st Hispanic Supreme Court Justice," Sonia Sotomayor.  I have news for the media.

We already have had a Hispanic U.S. Supreme Court Justice!  He was Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice from 1932 - 1938, a Sephardic Jew of Spanish ancestry. 

His father, Judge Albert Cardozo, was Vice President and Trustee of the famous Spanish-Portuguese synagogue in New York City, Congregation Shearith Israel.  Young Benjamin was Bar Mitzvah in that synagogue, and as an adult was proud of both his Jewish and Hispanic heritage.

Congregation Shearith Israel is the oldest congregation in the Western Hemisphere, having been founded in Recife, Brazil ca. 1630 and moved to New Amsterdam (now New York City) in 1654.  Its present location is at 70th Street and Central Park West.  I spent some of my religious and social activity time there as a teenager in the 1950s, when the Rav (the Hebrew word for Rabbi) was the famous Dr. David de Sola Pool.

One thing that surprised me there: the names on the memorial plaques... they were just like my Puerto Rican friends and not at all like my Jewish friends.  Study of this history and culture has become a hobby of mine.

Most American Jews, who are of Ashkenaz origins, neither know of nor understand this important component of the Jewish people:

~ Jews were a major component of the populations of Spain and Portugal for 800 years (700 - 1500 CE).

~ Ladino, the "sephardic Yiddish" based on pre-1500 Spanish, is still spoken by 200,000 Jewish descendants around the world, mainly in Mediterranean regions. 

~ 45 of the 50 most common Hispanic family names are of Jewish origin.

~ All Hispanic given names ending in "el" are Hebrew phrases with reference to G-d, like Gabriel, Emanuel, Rafael, etc.

~ Many Spanish words and names of places are of Hebrew origin.

~ If you represented all Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust by a crowded Dodger Stadium, just those Jews whose family names were Gamboa and Graciano would fill a whole section of box seats.

~ Gamboas and Gracianos are in Jewish cemeteries all over the world... even in Poland, Canada, South Africa, and Israel.

~ That's just 2 Sephardic-Jewish names.

~ A recent analysis of the DNA of 20 statistical samples of men of Spain found that 20% have the Jewish genetic haplogroup, viz. they descend from Jews.

~ The only way that this is possible: there was already massive assimilation of the Jews of Spain in the centuries leading up to the Inquisition.

~ There are organized groups of b'nai anusim - descendants of Jewish victims of Inquisitions in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America who were forced to convert, or who hid and abandoned their Jewishness out of fear of persecution - who are clamoring for acceptance as Jewish returnees.

~ It is estimated that a significant fraction of the Hispanics of the Southwestern USA and Northern Mexico are of Jewish ancestry and don't know it.

But the media would not think of, nor recognize, Benjamin Cardozo as a "Hispanic."  They want a "genuine" Hispanic, certainly not one who was/is also a Jew and was considered a "Great Justice."


Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 9/2/2009 10:30 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

One of the "Most Misunderstood" Subjects in the World!

"In all of us there is a hunger, narrow and deep, to know our heritage, to know who we are and where we have come from.  Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning.  No matter what our attainments in life, there is a vacuum, an emptiness and a most disquieting loneliness!" ~ Alex Haley, Author

"The law must be consonant with life.  It cannot and should not ignore broad historical currents of history.  Mankind is possessed of no greater urge than to try to understand the age-old questions:  'Who am I?'  'Why am I?'  Even now the sands and ashes of the continents are being sifted to find where we made our first steps as man.  Religions of mankind often include ancestor worship in one way or another.  For many the future is blind without sight of the past.  Those emotions and anxieties that generate our thirst to know the past are not superficial and whimsical.  They are real and they are 'GOOD CAUSE' under the law of man and God." ~ Honorable Wade Weatherford, South Carolina Circuit Judge

"Adoption Loss is the only trauma in the world where the victims are expected by the whole of society to be grateful." ~ Reverend Keith C. Griffith, MBE

"Adoption Loss = Death by Adoption" ~ Anna Freud, Famed Therapist and Daughter of Sigmund Freud

( For more quotes about adoption, one of the "most misunderstood" subjects in the world, please see: http://www.adoptioncrossroads.org  Also on the website is a proliferation of esoteric information about adoptees and the moms who lost them, the search for and reconnection of the two, and support of all kinds....  Acceptable terms for moms who have lost children to adoption are: mom, 1st mom, and natural mom.  Referring to a mom who has lost her offspring to adoption as a birthmother is disrespectful - equivalent to calling an African-American the n-word.  No mom JUST/ONLY gives birth to a child!  Young moms are not incubators, baby machines, for infertile couples.  Adoption titans conjured up the derogatory, politically incorrect, term to imply distance between family members, the mother and child, in particular; but also let us not forget the insult to extended family members (What is their gene pool?  Chopped liver?), including, of course, the dad.  Without him, there is nothing!  This distancing of the child from his, or her, family/ancestry makes it easier for infertile couples to extract children from vulnerable moms/families.  It makes it easier for couples to adopt the offspring of others.  Otherwise ~ HOW COULD YOU!!!? )

In the United States (1) Alaska and (2) Kansas have never sealed original birth certificates from adopted adults; (3) Alabama (4) Delaware (5) Maine (just recently) (6) New Hampshire (7) Oregon and (8) Tennessee are the only states that have passed legislation that gives adopted adults unconditional access to their (personal and private ~ nobody's business) original birth certificates. 

For those of you who don't know, adoptees have 2 birth certificates:  the first birth certificate (that is hidden from adoptees) and the amended birth certificate (the fiction).  Often, if not always, the information (birth dates, nationalities...) on the amended birth certificates have been doctored up, have been found to be incorrect; hence, the information was a deliberate lie perpetuated by adoption agencies and adoption lawyers.  For example, one adoptive parent upon meeting the 1st mom decades after the adoption, exclaimed, "You look so young.  We were told by the adoption agency that you were a professional ballerina."  To which the 1st mom replied, "I was 16 years old when I gave birth and lost my child."  So she was hardly a professional ballerina at that age.  She would have had to have been a professional ballerina at 15 years of age then.  These lies are precisely another reason why adoptees deserve (their first/original birth certificates) the right to know the truth about themselves, the truth that the rest of the non-adopted world takes for granted.

Here's a joke for you!  Here's a law for you that's fair!  A law that makes perfect sense, too!  In Ohio, an adoptee whose adoption was finalized before January 1, 1964, according to our illustrious elected legislators, can obtain his, or her, original birth certificate with his, or her, 1st family's name; lo and behold, though, any adoptee whose adoption was finalized after January 1, 1964, cannot obtain his, or her, original birth certificate with his, or her, 1st family name.  Does anyone know in whose moronic Ohioan limbo the original birth certificate is entombed if one's adoption was finalized on January 1, 1964?

Healthy adoptees need to know who they are and from whence they came!  Moms need to know their lost children!  Dads and relatives need to know!  WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND!?

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Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 8/20/2009 12:12 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Fight-or-Flight-or-Freeze!

   I.)    ASSESSMENT
  II.)    HISTORY
 III.)    BIOLOGY
  IV.)    PHYSIOLOGY
   V.)    SIGNAL TO VICTIMS OF ABUSE

I.) ASSESSMENT: The Fight-or-Flight-or-Freeze Response

As the consumption of a drink (or two) is meant to be sporadic and sparing, is meant to help us unwind and relax, so too the Fight-or-Flight response is meant only to help us survive sporadic emergencies.  The drink is not meant to be an all-day, every-day, affair.  The Fight-or-Flight response is not meant to be "on" (as in an on/off switch) every second, every minute, every hour, every day, year after year.  It is not meant to be permanently "on."  We believe that the female (or male victim) victim's Fight-or-Flight response in "on" continually, permanently, throughout the abusive/battering "relationship" with, perhaps, somewhat of a reprieve when the batterer/abuser is asleep.  A modicum of relief may also be obtained when the batterer is at work, that is, if he works.  Without that modicum of relief, the victim would surely crash!

{You say, "Why not escape THEN!?"  For amplification of the complex imbroglio of abuse, please see the entry in this blogcast, entitled, "An Experiment: Why Abused Women Don't Leave!?"}

The human being is not meant to live under the constant threat of danger as are multitudinous battered victims across the globe.  The functioning of a healthy nervous system can be easily derailed by the continual, heightened, state of ALERT that the Fight-or-Flight response elicits!  We are not meant to live under a state of constant tension!  Ceaseless pressure!  Incessant knots in the stomach!  Weight loss!  Maiming!  Deformity!  Broken eardrums!  Tinnitus!  Broken noses!  Cracked and broken limbs!  Damaged Nervous Systems!  Unending worry about when the next blow will hit!  Mental and emotional and spiritual damage!  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other disorders contracted when, and if, the victim escapes the abusive situation!  Alive!?  The young and strong may be able to withstand (take it) the abusive treatment for awhile; but, the damage to the Nervous System will surely manifest itself in coming years.

{To all victims of abuse, "Focus for a moment!  Is an inadequate, cowardly, abuser worth all of the above!?  Your health!?  Your life!?  That's a pretty big sacrifice, victims!  You would give your life for a mentally-ill, inadequate, coward!?"}

II.) HISTORY: Who discovered it?

The Fight-or-Flight response was first introduced in 1915 by Walter Bradford Cannon, an American Physiologist.  He was also Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology at Harvard Medical School.

Walter Cannon's theory states that animals (Humans are animals.) react to threats with a general discharge of the Sympathetic Nervous System, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing.  It is also known as the Fight-or-Flight-or-Freeze response.

III.) BIOLOGY: Where does it come from?

Nervous System is the system of nerves and nerve cells in an animal or human, including the brain, spinal cord, nerves, and ganglia.  It is the center of mental activity and the major communicating system of the body.

Central Nervous System is composed of the brain and spinal cord.

Peripheral Nervous System consists of all of the nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord.  It relays information FROM the brain and spinal cord TO the rest of the body.

Autonomic Nervous System is part of the Peripheral Nervous System.

Autonomic Nervous System has 2 subdivisions: (1) Sympathetic Nervous System alerts the body of danger (2) Unsympathetic Nervous System (also called Parasympathetic Nervous System) relaxes the body.

Hypothalamus is the region of the brain that controls the Autonomic Nervous System and controls the secretion of the master gland known as the Pituitary Gland.

IV.) PHYSIOLOGY: What happens during that split second when it kicks in?

IN EMERGENCIES...

A cluster of magical neurons (nerve cells) in the Hypothalamus signals the Pituitary Gland - attached and ready at the base of the brain - to release elaborate hormones into the bloodstream and sets off a cacophony of miracles needed to survive.

The hormone, Adrenaline, transforms our bodies from a state of tranquility to the alertness of the Fight-or-Flight response; it alerts our bodies, "Produce more energy!"

INSTANTLY...

  1. The tiny muscles IN the blood vessels of the potential victim's heart contract and dilate, faster, faster, open, close, faster, faster - drive more blood.
  2. Heart rate quickens.
  3. Heart pounds.
  4. Blood pressure increases.
  5. Blood vessels UNDER the surface of the skin contract and dilate, open, close, faster, faster... turning the flow of blood AWAY FROM the skin so there will be less bleeding if the victim is cut, or stabbed; as a result, the complexion turns ghostly white.  There is paling or flushing or alternating between the two.
  6. Blood flows AWAY FROM the stomach, intestines, and pancreas, TO the muscles of the (a.) skeleton, TO the muscles in the (b.) arms and (c.) legs, and TO the muscles of the (d.) brain.
  7. Because of the rush of blood TO the brain, butterflies flutter wildly within the body.
  8. Digestion screeches to a halt.
  9. Fat cells supply the blood with more fatty acids.
  10. More sugar is released FROM storage in the liver.
  11. Blood sugar level rises.
  12. Sugar gives a quick blast of energy TO the muscles.
  13. Pancreas produces less insulin so the brain could finagle its share of the sugar entering the bloodstream.  The brain doesn't need insulin to utilize blood sugar.  Other organs do.  Less insulin means more sugar for the brain.
  14. Hair stands on end.
  15. Goosebumps break out all over the body.
  16. Sympathetic nerves stop bladder contraction.
  17. Colon evacuates.
  18. There is inhibition of erection.
  19. Tear glands become more active causing tears to gush from the eyes.
  20. Salivary glands become less active causing the moist mouth to dry up.
  21. Sympathetic nerves provide plenty of oxygen to produce more energy.
  22. Tiny muscles along the airways of the lungs relax.
  23. Bronchi dilate.
  24. The potential victim inhales and exhales quickly, allowing more air to move in and out of the body.
  25. More air is able to flow into the lungs.
  26. More oxygen is able to enter the bloodstream.
  27. Pupils dilate to allow for more light to enter.
  28. Vision sharpens.  There is a loss of peripheral vision (The potential victim only has tunnel vision).
  29. There is a loss of hearing.
  30. Sweat glands excrete profusely.
The human body is miraculous and magical, indeed!  Within each of us is the gift of the Fight-or-Flight response.  It is not meant to be "on" non-stop.  It is unhealthy and dangerous in excess.  We liken the split second Flight-or-Flight response to "the Sympathetic Nervous System being stretched to the limit!"  We analogize the constant tension and abuse of the Sympathetic Nervous System to "a rubberband being stretched to the limit enough times, it will surely brake/break!  The body will surely experience a breakdown!  A nervous breakdown!  A physical breakdown!"

V.) This is A SIGNAL TO ALL VICTIMS OF ABUSE: "GET OUT NOW!  HE (OR SHE) IS NOT WORTH YOUR HEALTH AND YOUR LIFE!  You'll see the REAL heinousness and absurdity of the situation once you're away from it for awhile!"

It's scary!  We know what you're thinking, "HOW!?"

"ESCAPE SAFELY!  PLEASE!  GO TO A 'BATTERED WOMEN SHELTER!'"

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                  Expect Miracles!

And the rest of you ~ DON'T BE COWARDS!  DO THE RIGHT THING!  CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU SUSPECT THAT SOMEONE IS COMMITTING THE CRIME OF ASSAULT ON ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.  CALL THE COPS!!!

{ This entry was excerpted from Keep the Killers Home and The Magical World of.... ~ Copyright: Maria Percic, Author  All rights reserved }



 






Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 8/2/2009 7:30 PM | Add Comment

Kadaffi: [No] Violence Against [These] Women!


Lt. Moammar al-Kaddafi, leader of the oppressive, Islamic, terrorist country of Libya, was born in 1942.  He ruled the oil-rich nation since he came to power in 1969 at the age of 27 when he led a military coup against Libya's pro-Western monarchy.

In 1979, the Carter administration placed Libya on a list of states that sponsor terrorism. 

On April 5, 1986, the Reagan administration accused Libyan agents of placing a bomb in a Berlin disco that killed 3 people, including 2 American soldiers.

In response, 10 days later, on April 15, 1986, United States bombed Kaddafi's terrorist facilities, his headquarters, his military assets, and his home; at least 100 civilians died, including Kaddafi's infant adopted daughter.

In 1988, a civilian Pan-Am airliner headed for New York was bombed over Lockerbie, Scotland; 259 people in the airliner and 11 on the ground were killed.

In 1999, Kaddafi turned over the 2 alleged perpetrators of the Pan-Am airliner bombing, one was convicted.

In 2003, Kadaffi had somewhat redeemed himself by agreeing to give up on his nuclear and chemical weapons programs.

... You get the picture ...
                  
Last month, on June 10, 2009, or thereabouts, Kaddafi visited Italy for 3 days securing an apology; an entourage of 200-300 people accompanied him.  The apology was tantamount to a few billion dollars in reparation for Italy's brutal 30-year occupation of Libya in the early part of the 20th century.  Italy will invest $200 million a year during the next 25 years in infrastructure projects in Libya.  Also, student grants and pensions for Libyan soldiers who served alongside Italians during WWII will be doled out.

This was the Wildman's 1st visit to Italy.  He met with people in his Bedouin-style tent which had been set up in the park of a 17th century villa where he was staying.  He also addressed a group of 700 Italian women from the fields of business, politics, and culture.  He wants to "save European women."  (Hmmmm) 

During his stay in Italy, Kadaffi received the royal treatment; he had 40 FEMALE bodyguards.  Many countries are way ahead of the United States in this respect, and behind in other respects.  Somehow, we just can't QUITE put our heads around an inadequate, cowardly, significant-other physically, or emotionally, abusing these female bodyguards.  We want this same self-preservation (or a reasonable facsimile thereof) taught to our women, and girls, of the United States! 

Were the guards Italian, or Libyan?  That is the question.

The next question is, "WHEN DO WE START!?"




Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 7/13/2009 12:03 PM | Add Comment

Crash Course on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Even those who aren't particularly sympathetic to Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu could get a good measure of knowledge from the following interview with British Television during the recent retaliation against Hamas' shelling of Israel.

The interviewer asked him:  "How come so many MORE Palestinians have been killed in this conflict than Israelis?"

Netanyahu:  "Are you sure that you want to start asking in that direction?"

Interviewer:  (Falling into the trap) "Why not?"

Netanyahu:  "Because, in World War II, more Germans were killed than British and Americans combined, but there is no doubt in anyone's mind that the war was caused by Germany's aggression.  And in response to the German blitz on London, the British wiped out the entire city of Dresden, burning to death more German civilians than the number of people killed in Hiroshima.  Moreover, I could remind you that in 1944, when the R.A.F. tried to bomb the Gestapo Headquarters in Copenhagen, some of the bombs missed their target and fell on a Danish children's hospital, killing 83 little children.  Perhaps you have another question?"

Benjamin Netanyahu gave another interview and was asked about Israel 's occupation of Arab land.  His response was, "It's our land."  The reporter (CNN or the like) was stunned.

Here are overlooked facts in the current & past Middle East situation.  These were compiled by a Christian University Professor. 


BRIEF FACTS ON THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT TODAY:

1.  Nationhood and Jerusalem:  Israel became a nation in 1312 BCE, 2000 years before the rise of Islam.

2.  Arab refugees in Israel began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel.
 
3.  Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had dominion over the land for 1000 years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.

4.  The only Arab dominion since the conquest in 635 CE lasted no more than 22 years.
  
5.  For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital.  Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem, they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.

6.  Jerusalem is mentioned over 700 times in Tenach, the Jewish Holy Scriptures.  Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran.

7.  King David founded the city of Jerusalem . Mohammed never came to Jerusalem.
  
8.  Jews pray facing Jerusalem.  Muslims pray with their backs toward Jerusalem.

9.  Arab and Jewish Refugees:  In 1948, the Arab refugees were encouraged to leave Israel by Arab leaders promising to purge the land of Jews; 68% percent left without EVER seeing an Israeli soldier.

10.  The Jewish refugees were forced to flee from Arab lands due to Arab brutality, persecution, and pogroms.

11.  The number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948 is estimated to be around 630,000.  The number of Jewish refugees from Arab lands is estimated to be the same.

12.  Arab refugees were INTENTIONALLY not absorbed or integrated into the Arab countries to which they fled, despite the vast Arab territory.  Out of the 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the ONLY refugee group in the world, that has never been absorbed or integrated into their own people's lands.  Jewish refugees were completely absorbed into Israel, a country no larger than the state of New Jersey.

13.  The Arab-Israeli Conflict:  The Arabs are represented by 8 separate nations, not including the Palestinians.  There is only one Jewish nation.  The Arab nations initiated all five wars and lost; Israel defended itself each time and won.
 
14.  The PLO's Charter still calls for the destruction of the State of Israel.  Israel has given the Palestinians most of the West Bank land, and autonomy under the Palestinian Authority.

15.  Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship.  Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths.

16.  The UN Record on Israel and the Arabs:  Of the 175 Security Council resolutions passed before 1990, 97 were directed against Israel.

17.  Of the 690 General Assembly resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel.
 
18.  The UN was silent while 58 Jerusalem Synagogues were destroyed by the Jordanians.

19.  The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.

20. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall. 

Is that it?

Posted by Caleigh Brooks at 7/9/2009 1:14 PM | Add Comment
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