Now they say origin of the swine flu might be
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Origin of Mother's Day.
Published on Friday, August 26, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
Mother's Day in Crawford
by Medea Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis
When Cindy Sheehan marched into Crawford, Texas to ask President Bush why her son died in Iraq, it was Mother's Day. Not the Hallmark-infused, soft focus, breakfast-in-bed Mother's Day that shows up on the calendar in May. This was the day that Julia Ward Howe envisioned when she created Mother's Day in 1870 as a time for all the mothers who lost their sons in the Civil War to protest the senseless violence.
Howe's Mother's Day Proclamation begins:
Arise then... women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Cindy Sheehan has risen up against the senseless violence of this war in Iraq, and countless women and men have risen up with her. The numbers at Camp Casey continue to swell, and support pours in from all corners of the globe. While George Bush says he feels Sheehan's pain but must get on with his life, Sheehan's supporters are uprooting themselves from their lives-often at great personal sacrifice-- to vigil beside her in the hot Texas sun. Tired of seeing our soldiers and countless Iraqis die in an unjustified war, millions of Americans-especially mothers--are joining Sheehan's revolution of the heart. And in the process, they're exposing Bush's own heartlessness for refusing to meet with a grieving mother, and more tragically, for needlessly putting our sons and daughters in harm's way.
Those in the smear-Cindy camp have told Sheehan, in no uncertain terms, that she should go back home, where she belongs. But Sheehan has followed Julia Ward Howe's imperative:
As men have often forsaken
the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great an earnest day of counsel.
Sheehan's hoped-for day of counsel with Bush may never arrive. But another sort of counsel is taking place, the sort that Howe imagined:
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace.
This is precisely what is happening at the vigil in Crawford, Texas. Women are running the camp itself, organizing Sheehan's schedule, holding women's circles to share their grief and hope, writing letters appealing to Laura Bush, and strategizing ways to broaden and deepen this movement for peace.
During the Vietnam era, the anti-war movement was fueled primarily by students. Today, the anti-war movement is being fueled largely by mothers. Look at some of the organizations that have been created in the last few years: CODEPINK: Women for Peace, Gold Star Families for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Raging Grannies. All of them reflect a mother's intense desire to not only shield her children from harm but to stop her children from doing harm to others.
Again, we hear the voice of Julia Howe.
We, the women of one country,
Will be too tender of those of another country
To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
In a recent statement urging Americans to listen to Cindy Sheehan, Elizabeth Edwards said, If we are decent and compassionate, if we know the lessons we taught our children, or if, selfishly, all we want is the long line of the brave to protect us in the future, we should listen to the mothers now. Thanks to Cindy Sheehan, the mothers have arisen. Thanks to Cindy Sheehan, the world can't help but listen. Hopefully, George Bush is also hearing the message.
Medea Benjamin and Gayle Brandeis are members of CODEPINK: Women for Peace, a group that has been actively involved in the vigil in Crawford, Texas. Medea Benjamin is co-founder of CODEPINK, founder of Global Exchange, and nominee for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize. Gayle Brandeis is the author of The Book of Dead Birds, which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change.
Swine Flu
I've heard of bird flu. I've heard of swine flu. I've definitely heard of human flu. But bird flu, swine flu and human flu all wrapped up into one? How did that happen? Something fishy here? It sounds more like a manmade laboratory recipe instead of nature's course.
Sure is a good thing that Novartis was awarded a $487 million dollar contract on January 19, 2009 (the day before Obama became President) to develop 150 million "cell-based pandemic influenza vaccines", just in time for the current "pandemic" that coincidentally occurred three months later.
Too bad that it began in Mexico, considering that some Americans already hate Mexico and Mexicans since this will all be blamed on them.
Good thing for Cheney though. He warned us (just a couple weeks ago) that Obama couldn't keep the country safe. Will he say, "I told you so" now?
Doesn't this all seem rather convenient in a sadistic, evil kind of way? Could it be an act of terrorism or just something to help boost the economy)?
Swine Flu
I won't blame this on Obama (although I have plenty of bones to pick with him), but I strongly suspect that there is a whole mountain of information that we are not being given about this situation. I also believe that our dear VP gave us a very good piece of advice. I am not sure about the information that we are not being told, but I strongly suspect that things are far more serious than we know.
Anne
ROFL..someone actually called me a swine...(sm)
You want to know what's even funnier than that? I've had the absolute honor of talking to some people on this board about religion/faith. What we have had is a conversation where we are not arguing like cats and dogs, but rather trying to understand one another. They probably disagree with about 99.9% of my beliefs and vice versa, and yet we are still able to communicate in an intellectual manner. The impression I get from them is that they are secure in their faith, so much so that they are willing to discuss it like rational human beings. As a result of this conversation I have decided to once again study religion, not just christianity, but others as well in an attempt to come up with some kind of logical answer.
Yesterday I went to go get some books. So far I've gotten a Bible, the Qua'ran, suggested reading from a mormon who worked at the store, and I have another book to find today....(christian book stores aren't open on Sundays).
When I got home yesterday I was thumbing through these books. At random, the first thing I read in the Qua'ran was a line that I interpreted as -- If others don't want to believe in Allah, they will never believe in Allah, and basically one should just leave them alone. That may well be the most sensible approach from any religion I've ever heard! You know what? In retrospect I can't think of the first post by someone on this board who claims to be Muslim who has interjected his/her religious beliefs into politics. --- Maybe some of the christians on this board should go to the book store. You never know, you might actually learn something.
You're casting your pearls before swine
If anyone knows about swine odor, it's Senator Harkin! nm
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Leave my swine odor project alone!
If you're trying to equate someone having food with knowing why pigs stink, I can't follow you. This is a burning question that has gone unanswered for far too long. And when we've spent that money, we're going to fund the question "Is the Pope a Catholic" - another conundrum that has plagued mankind for centuries.
Leave my swine odor project alone!
If you're trying to equate someone having food with knowing why pigs stink, I can't follow you. This is a burning question that has gone unanswered for far too long. And when we've spent that money, we're going to fund the question 'Is the Pope a Catholic?', 'Does a bear you-know-what in the woods?' - and other conundrums (or is it conundra?) that have plagued mankind down through the centuries.
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