Will Australia say no to genital mutilation?

September 23rd, 2009

In some places in the world women are still legally butchered via the act of circumcising the clitoris (genital mutilation)

According to yahoo news Immigration Minister Chris Evans said he was “willing to consider directly intervening ” in the case of Grace Gichuhi, 22, and Teresia Ndikaru Muturi, 21 two Kenyan women who fear they will be circumcised if forced to return home.

They have been in Australia since July last year after attending the Catholic World Youth Day and have exhausted their avenues under Australian law to apply for asylum here as our current laws do not offer them protection.

I can not believe that the word “consider” was even used!

Gichuhi said her mother had been killed by members of the Mungiki sect for refusing to have her clitoris cut off, and she also feared death in the crude operation.

“They use a knife. Just a knife, no medicine,” she told Fairfax newspapers.

“They circumcise you and maybe you die.”

Muturi said she was sold for 10 cows to marry a 70-year-old man and would also be circumcised against her will if forced to return.

Yet the Australian government is still “considering” what to do about it?

In my opinion it is easy – these girls are here, these girls need protection and Australia needs to give it to them. What do YOU think?

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In an ideal world!

September 22nd, 2009

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According to my youngest sons (aged 6) school principal we would have teachers who speak correct English teaching our classes  “in an ideal world”
- but we don’t!

I removed my son from his school today because his own teacher (a truly wonderful dedicated teacher) has been away sick – and the replacement was not in my opinion suitable.

Not only does this teacher have personal hygiene issues (to put it bluntly she smells of wee and BO) not only did she scare my son by repeatedly shouting at the class (5 and 6 year old children) she can not even correctly pronounce the word “ask” (it is NOT “axed”) and again shouted at my son and told him to “sit down and stop interrupting” when he questioned her on it.

Now don’t get me wrong – I am 100% supportive of teachers. Unlike my husband (he feels they are under worked and over paid) I think they are over worked and under paid (mostly) and completely unappreciated.

It is GOOD teachers I support though – and not everyone is suited to teaching.

Is it too much to ask that our primary school teachers (you know – the ones who are hired to teach our kids the basics) can speak, read and spell at a primary school level?

I think our kids deserve it – what do you think?

Just an update on this one. (March 2010)

Our school has (thankfully) not hired that relief teacher again (several parents started taking their kids back home again when she was there so they got the message – their issue was her shouting though not her speech )
I feel someone with such poor skills should never have been hired in the first place!

Unfortunately there is still an issue with the standard of teaching in Australian schools (I shall write again on that topic another day) It frustrates me – our kids deserve a good education, good teachers need better conditions and wages – and bad teachers should not be in the class room.

It has been pointed out by a couple of bitchy commenters that my English skills are not perfec

(if it offends you so much there is a back button at the top of your screen – move on) .

I am aware of this – but I am not hired to educate children!

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RIP Christian Rossiter ‘right to die’ man dead

September 21st, 2009

According to yahoo news Christian Rossiter, the Australian quadriplegic who recently won a landmark court case allowing him to refuse food and water from his nursing home died Monday. his brother Tim said he succumbed to a chest infection.

“I thank all those who have made Christian’s life, in his final years, as comfortable and as dignified as possible,” Tim said in a statement.

“Death I suspect comes as quite a relief for Christian,” Rossiter’s lawyer, John Hammond, told Seven Network television. “I think Christian will be remembered as someone who was very brave and took up a fight which will give a lot of people comfort.” Hammond said the ruling was not about euthanasia, but about giving people the right to refuse treatment if they are dying.

He was finally granted the right to refuse food and hydration after having to take the matter to court. I was so glad for him when he won, but so sad that we still live in a society where people are not allowed the right to a painless death at the time of their choosing rather than being left to suffer.

I do not know if  Christian would have chosen euthanasia had he the right to do so, but I feel ashamed that he did not get to make that decision for himself.

I can only imagion that euthanasia would have been a “nicer way to go” than starving and dying of thirst.

A while ago I had the heartbreaking experience of holding my best friend in my arms while the vet gave him a leathal injection to end his suffering – my dog was dying of cancer and whilst I could have had a few more weeks with my old friend I chose a peacful pain free death for him, rather than watch the cancer destroy him day by day while he suffered in pain.

Why do I not have the right to assist my human loved ones or to support their choice in this same way?

I hope one day euthanasia will be legal – what do YOU think?

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A pedophile living on YOUR street?

September 16th, 2009

What would YOU do if you had children, nieces and nephews, grand kids, friends with kids that visit etc and you found out you had a convicted pedophile living on YOUR street?

Would you accept his right as a paroled prisoner who had served his term  and been released to live among you – or would you, knowing the statistics of sex offenders that reoffend ( and this is a hard number to pin down – I have read estimates of anything from 10% to 95%) be filled with fear for those you care for and feel anger that the government will do nothing to stop it?

I know I would fall into the second category.

Thankfully Convicted pedophile Dennis Ferguson hasn’t moved into MY street, but he has moved into one in  the suburban area of Ryde in Sydney’s north-west.

The NSW housing minister, David Borger, has asked  Justice Action, a prisoner support group to convince him to move from the area after admitting he did not have the power to insist that Ferguson be relocated.

But the fact remains – where to put him anyway? He has previously been run out of communities in Queensland. Who would want him on THEIR street? Not me!

I don’t care if he is likely or not likely to re offend – the fact is he could, that there IS a chance – be it tomorrow or in five years time he just might offend again as he has repeatedly in the past.  So why the hell is he considered  fit to be released into the general population?

We are talking about a man who served a 14-year jail term  for attacking , kidnapping and sexually molesting three young children for three days. A man who failed to complete a rehabilitation program or even admit his guilt and then went back inside for breaking parole terms and taking a job that exposed him to children!
According to www.mako.org.au He was also charged and taken to court  for allegedly sexually assaulting a five-year-old girl at her home in Dalby, west of Brisbane, in November 2005.  Judge Botting granted a permanent stay on the proceedings based on evidence put before him by Ferguson’s defense team that pre-trial publicity about his past convictions would make it difficult to find an objective jury.

Where can a monster that was convicted of 19 charges including kidnapping, sodomy, gross indecency, indecent dealing and carnal knowledge go, I sure as hell don’t want him around my kids!

We protect the insane from hurting themselves or others. We lock mentally ill people up that are a danger to the community – so why not sexual predators? Why does he have a right to live among us?

He thinks there is nothing wrong with having sex with children!!!! WTF?

It is not up to the community to punish this man – it is up to the government to protect the community – and they should be doing it NOW not after another innocent gets hurt.

What do YOU think?

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Trust and husband number 23!

September 16th, 2009

Trust is such an important thing in any kind of relationship.
Anyone who shares my life knows how important it is to me, Id rather suck up any negativity and deal with it rather than be lied to … even if the intentions are well meant.
I have forgiven those who have betrayed my trust in the past – but that has been highly conditional on trust being regained (and the severity of the betrayal ). I have no place in my life for people I do not trust and it seems that Wook Kundor feels the same way!

According to http://au.news.yahoo.com the 107-year-old Malaysian woman says she is ready to marry for the 23rd time because she fears her current drug addict husband might leave her for a younger woman.

she told the Star newspaper: “Lately, there is this kind of insecurity in me,”

“I realise that I am an aged woman. I don’t have the body nor am I a young woman who can attract anyone.”

“My intention to remarry is to fill my forlornness and nothing more than that,” she said.

Now if this plucky woman at 107 isn’t willing to settle for a relationship with a man she doesn’t trust I say why should any of us (men too!)

It is so easy out of fear, security, money, dependance, lonelyness etc to stay in a relationship that is unhealthy – and without trust how can it be?

To me trust is as important as love, friendship (and great sex) in a relationship – what do YOU think

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Patrick Swayze dead

September 15th, 2009

Patrick Swayze,star of movies such as  Dirty Dancing, Ghost, Road House, Point Break, Donnie Darko and more died Monday after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

“Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” his publicist, Annett Wolf, said in a statement Monday evening.

March 2008 brought the sad news that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of pancreatic cancer.

Despite all efforts this finally has claimed his life leaving behind his wife Lisa who he met at the age of 19.

RIP Patrick Swayze!

It is so sad when we have to say goodbye to those we love or care about and that includes those we look up to but have never met.
What do YOU think?

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Elton John Adopts baby?

September 14th, 2009

Well not yet he hasn’t – but he will if he gets his way.

Singer Elton John claims he wishes to legally adopt a 14-month-old boy from an orphanage in Ukraine.

Elton John visited the country with his Aids foundation where he performed ‘Circle of Life’ for the kids at the orphanage.

Later, at a press conference, he announced that he would like to adopt one of the children, a cute toddler who resides at the orphanage.

What do YOU think?

*Quick update – it turns out that Elton is “too old” and married to the “wrong sex” to be considered for adoption

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Playboy Huge Hefner to divorce

September 13th, 2009

Huge Hefner with assets of more than $43 million, excluding Playboy stock and property, aged 83, has filed court documents seeking to divorce former Playmate Kimberley Conrad, 47, (with whom he has two sons) last week citing irreconcilable differences.

Celebrity website TMZ.com obtained the documents that state the pair were married in July 1989 and have been separated since January 1998.

Hefner lives with several “girlfriends” including 19-year-old twins and stars in the TV reality show The Girls Next Door.

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Huge Hefner – the ultimate “Dirty Old Man” may appeal to some women – but I could not see me living that lifestyle and sharing my lover (cringes at the thought of going to bed with him) with dozens of other girls.

What do YOU think?

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The pros of prostitution – make it legal?

September 12th, 2009

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I believe prostitution should be legalised world wide for consenting adults. I believe a woman (or man ) has the right to put a price on his or her sexual services. I believe a willing adult client has the right to purchase them.
I think it is stupid that governments can dictate what we do with our bodies and that includes “renting them out”

I am not talking about naive girls being forced by pimps or sexual slavery or selling children here, I am not talking about fucked up drug addicts or women being coerced into prostitution. I am talking about the right for a woman (or man) to do what she wishes with her body.

Prostitution serves its purpose in the fact that it services a part of the community that are needing social, sexual and human contact that might other wise miss out. Of course the industry also caters for those who seek a no complication sexual encounter too, as well as those who wish to explore, learn and add to their sexual experience.
The shy, the old, the unattractive, the disabled, the time poor and the lonely all find comfort when without such services they would still go without and they are branded in some circles as monsters for it.

On the other side of the coin many a bright intelligent attractive woman has funded other wise unobtainable education “on her back” and I personally know one woman who was a “working girl” from the age of 24 – 31 when she retired with a property portfolio worth 1.8 million – set for life on 7 years work . She also studied and left the industry with a degree in psychology.
I know of women who have paid off mortgages and traveled. I know some even work while married and raising children, some times they decided to, to keep the house, pay the school fees and enjoy a decent life. Many work part time to top up their income as teachers, nurses, or so they can afford to be stay at home mothers for most of the week.
These women have a right to do their job without stigma and without legal persecution.

I do think prostitution comes with its risks and not everyone is suited to the industry. I DO NOT recommend anyone seek employment in the sex industry for many reasons (Maybe a post for another day) but I DO support the right of any adult who wishes to, to be able to do so legally and safely.

I think  prostitution should be legalised world wide for consenting legal adults. What do YOU think?

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She stole his heart

September 12th, 2009

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Love must have sent him stupid -  Stephfon Bennett, 20, who has since been charged with aggravated robbery returned to the scene of the crime to ask out the victim Diana Martinez .

She was robbed when three men pointed a gun at her head and stole her purse and a friend’s wallet while they were parked in front of her apartment in Ohio. Luckily for Dianna and her friend a neighbour threatened them and the fled.

They didn’t all stay gone though, Dianna recognized Bennett less than an hour later leaning against a banister overlooking the parking lot. He asked if she had a boyfriend and then asked her out. She kept him talking while  a relative called 911.

The other two robbers are still at large but Bennett  is held at the Franklin County jail on $100,000 bail.

Dumbest crook this month? What do YOU think?

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